Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1939 — Page 2
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CITY'S "39 TOLL UP TO 25 WITH SCHAAF DEATH
Landscape Architect Killed As Car Hits Bridge; Traffic Officer Hurt.
The 1939 traffic death toll in Indianapolis stoed at 25 today. The latest victim was Paul C. Schaaf, landscape architect and seed store owner, of 3632 Salem St. He was 35. Mr. Schaaf was killed almost instantly yesterday when his new car crashed into the concrete abutment of the bridge over the White River at College Ave. A motorcycle patrolman who crashed while chasing a speeder was among nine persons injured in 16 other overnight traffic accidents. Hit-and-run drivers were sought after four accidents.
Climbed From Wreck
Mr. Schaaf was driving alone. Several bicycle riders said that they saw him climb out of the wrecked auto and then drop dead. His skull was fractured and both legs, neck and jaw were broken. The engine was pushed back into
the car more than a foot by the;
impact.
Louis C. Wilson, vice president of
A. J. Wichmann & Co, Inc, in-
vestment firm, was Killed in an
identical accident at the same place two years ago.
Mr. Schaaf was a graduate of
Arsenal Technical High School and was a member of the Meridian treet Methodist Church.
Leaves Wife, Two Children
He was the proprietor of a garden|
seed store at 3819 N. Illinois St. He had served as assistant administra- | tive inspector for the U. S. Depart- | ment of Interior. He is survived by his wife, Esther; two children, Paul H. 14, and Pa- | tricia Ruth, 9; his mother, Mrs. | Minnie Schaaf; a sister, Mrs. Frank | J. Billeter, and a brother, Norman, all of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held 10 a. m. Monday at the Flanner &| Buchanan Funeral Home. Dr. Logan | Hall, Meridian Street Methodist Church pastor, will officiate. He will be assisted. by the Rev. Edward Sausamann, Broadway Evangelical Church pastor. Burial will be at Crown Hill.
Crashes Into Barricade
The injured policeman was Clinton Myers, 35, of 142 W. 324 St. While pursuing a speeder northeast on Kentucky crashed into a barricade at the Belt
Railroad crossing. which is being!
reconstructed. He was cut on the head and received back injuries. He was taken toe City Hospital. Leon Surenkamp, 10, of 1643 Eng- |
lish Ave, and his brother, Richard, !
were injured siightly when the bi- | c¢ycie on which they were riding double was struck by an auto on! Jefferson Ave. near Beville Ave. Police said the car was driven by Robert Middenburg, 24. of 43 N. Jefferson Ave.
NEW MILK BOARD MEMBER NAMED -
One new member was appointed | and three were reappointed to the! State Milk Contrel Board today by Governor Townsend. The new member is Frank H. Tip- |
pey, of Marion, who will replace | Glen L. Morgan of Westville, July 1. Those reappointed were W. W. Ross of Terre Haute. O. J. Stunkard| of Brazil, and Guy L. Robert of In-| dianapolis. Wright Humerickhouse State milk administrator
MEETING TO ARGUE ARTS OR THE AX?
Proposed cuts in the Federal |_ WPA arts project are to be discussed at a meeting Monday at 8 p- m. at Cropsey Hall at the Central | Public Library. The meeting is to be yogi! by the Progressive Aris Leagu Indianapolis and the topic is to on “Which Way Creative America— The Arts or the Ax?” Mrs. Barbara Hunt is to be the principal speaker. Others Species] to talk are William Petz, state rector of the Federal Music el David Rubens, head of the John| Herron Art Institute sculpture de-! partment; Mrs. Mary Garner, di-! rector of the Bureau of Women and |
is the
Children of the State Labor Divi-,
sion; John D. Ewbanks, religious education director at the Senate Ave. Y. M. C. A. and Mrs. H. P. Willwerth, West Side leader for the Indianapolis Community Fund.
WARNS OF DROP IN DECENT DWELLINGS
SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 24 (U.
P.).—“The number of decent homes now available to low income Jens lies is at the vanishing point.” Robert W. Kelso, president of or housing conference at Detroit, Mich., told 200 delegates at the Midwest Architectural Conference at the University of Notre Dame yesterday. Dr. Kelso urged architects to “acquire a lively social consciousness” and to work toward elevating living conditions of many Americans who now live “amidst a vermin-infested misery.’ The conference, which is being attended by authorities of national prominence, cpened yesterday and will continue through today.
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Barney Connett is shown in the hatch of an 11-foot midget submarine he has remodeled and with which he expect§ to cross Lake Michigan in less than 10 hours and 50 minutes. prevented the attempt June 22, and Mr. Connett put back to port to “submarine disaster.”
Stormy weather
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~ GOVERNOR ACTS T0 CONSOLIDATE TAX COLLECTING
Appoints Committee of 15 to Draw Up Plan for Central Office.
Action toward consolidation of all tax and fee collecting units of the State Government into one huge department was started today by Governor Townsend. A committee of 15 Legislators, businessmen and State officials was appointed by the Governor to draft a working plan under which all licenses would be purchased and taxes paid through one central office. 15 Collecting Units Now
At present there are more than
| 15 State divisions collecting reve-
nues. Appointment of the study committee was provided in a resolution passed by the 1939 Legislature | which recommended steps be taken at once to co-ordinate revenue collections as an economy move.
Meeting Is Like 500-Mile Race], With Barkers Putting on Steam
Florida Campaigns for 1940 Conclave With Girls |, And Flags; Denver With Cowboy Band.
ORE than anything else the Townsend convention resembles a
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13 NEW DETOURS! MAKE TOTAL 37
Eight in Shale | Lifted as
boy band which distributed paper
Result of Completion Of Construction.
now in effect to 37. Completion of
ed in lifting of eight old detours.
Detours now in effect are: Ind. 3—From Charlestown t ne Blocher, 30 miles over Roads 62 and se and south of Markle 6! .niles over gravel and Ins Ais. Ind. 5—South of Warren 2 wiles over | county oad and city streets Ind. 9—South cf Ind. 5s. 18 miles over Roads 48, 7 and 9-W Ind. 13—From Indianapolis to Noblesville, 27 miles over city streets. Roads 231 and 22. (Truek route over Keystone 62d and 63d. Ind. 13—Starts in Indianapolis and Ind. 431—Open tc local traffic from Indianapolis fo Marion County line); and from Madison- pant County line north 7 miles over grave | Ind. 8 rrom 42 one line to U. S. 41, (1112 mile re gra In 21 he st of Marion, ial 13 and Ail ma nd. 26—From Middletork tq U. 8. 31, mites over fogs 29. 35 and 31: rnd dear Je L Ind. 13. %'2 miles over gravel road. nd. 32— From Dover to Lebanon. 10 | mites hh Sy gravel: and just west of An n, 3'2 miles over gravel ard
10 miles over
Sayement S. 33—S:utheast ol Goshen, 3 miles over county road; and from U. S. 6 and lon. 13 miles over Roads 8 and 213. . 3&_From Speedway to Indiananolig, a ! ns a over bitumjnous road und U. S.
8. 38—Just west of 'ndianapolis. pas- | onses cars and trucks under 10 feet Die about !* mile over U. 40 and avel—Trucks 10 feet about 10 Miles over U. 0 and county line road. nd. 33—From HaeeTiionn east, 212 miles ores bituminous road nd. 39—From “ S. 40 te Clayton, 3'% miles. Sver oil m From’ Terre se north 5 miles, over gravel and pavem { Ind. 42—From 1 mile west ot Cunot to Ind. 43, 12'% miles over gravel and Ind. 43. Ind. 44—From Shelbyville to Rushville, 23 Vi over Roads 28 24% and 3. Ind. 45—From Rockvort to Dale 28 wiles Bg Roads 65 and 24% 46—From Bloomington to Nashville, 2% miles over Roads 45 and 1 . 55—Fast of Newtown, about 5 miles {ov n RATT and bituminous. Ind. 56—From U. S. 50 to Ind. 48 0 mi over Roads 48 1 ght 46 57—Between Ersk and Ind. €4, 53 ies kt er Ind. 64 and TW S. ¢ . —East of Ind. 67 7 grater na, To of Bedford. grav
Sea Pron Tha. WY ‘to Dale, 19 miles over Roads 161 and 68. and west of Ind. 128. 7 miles o er Ind. 250 and Ind, 129. Ind. 120—From Orland to U.S. 27, 21 | im over Roads 327. 20 and 27 ls ie 135—From Ce south, 13 es over Roads 144 and i 156—Southwest of Patriot. about 31% mes over ciled road. 218—Near Warren, about 1 nile over er road. U 8 224—PFrom Ind 1 to Maglsy, 7 {miles over Ind. 1 and gravel and in and leest of Decatur. 2'2 miles over city streets and county road
JUDGE TO SPEAK AT NANGY HANKS’ GRAVE
| Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of Ju-|
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over
miles over 13'2 miles
venile Court, will speak July 9 at!
the 168th annual pilgrimage to the grave of Nancy Hanks, Abraham
‘Lincoln's mother, at Boonville, it was announced today. | Richard T. James, Deputy Secre{ayy of the State, also is to speak. Y. Heuring, editor of the Winslow Dias will be teacher at the | Sunday School class in the morning land William B. Carleton, Boonville Enquirer editor, will give the eulogy at Nancy Hanks’ grave.
LAST OF MIAMIS IS DEAD AT WABASH
| WABASH, Ind, June 24 (U. P). —Funeral services will be held to- | morrow at Lafontaine for John Newman, 94, last of the real Miami Indians. President Otho Winger of Manchester College and author of a book dealing with Newman's place {among the Indians, will be in charge of services. Mr. Newman is survived by a son, Walter, with whom he lived, and a SsugHIen Mrs. Eliza Lee of Marion.
MAN HANDS BABY TO NURSE, THEN FLEES
combination State Fair and 500-Mile Race. around outside the Cadle Tabernacle, buy refreshments and newspapers or sometimes snooze on the grass. Weekly and pass out paper hats printed with slogans plugging the
construction work last week result- | women delegates.
| an ordinary copper scouring pad, | slit
Delegates wander
Barkers hawk the Townsend
Plan. ” 2 8 Rivalry between the cities seeking the 1940 convention is growing. Pretty girls are being used by the Florida delegation to pass out small American flags to which are attached streamers reading “Florida in '40.” The Denver unit brought a cow-
fans. They read “It's Cooler in Colorado.” The flags and fans are what the delegates wave when
| they put on a cheering demonThirteen new detours were estab- | lished on Indiana highways during] the last week, bringing the total!
stration. 2 = 2
HE “Hat of Tomorrow” is being worn by one of Florida's She has taken
it through the middle and made a turban.
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A California delegate’s car carries banners reading, “Who said Congress killed the Townsend Plan? Hell, we haven't even started.” Another boasts, “A flock of Congressmen will soon be jobhunting.” ”n ” = IFTEEN crates about the size of a small ice-box have been put along the wall in the press room. Today they will be opened and the contents distributed at $1 a copy. The boxes contain copies of Senator Downey's (D. Cal) book, “Pensions or Penury.” 2 8 = CROSS the street from the Tabernacle is a stand where “practical” souvenirs can be purchased. They are “Townsend Utility Plates.” The chinaware is Security — Employment — Prosperity” around a center designed of quaint old-fashioned figures in quaint old-fashioned figures in pastel colors.
Legislators charged that the cverlapping of tax collections under the | present system is wasteful. Study Group Members Members of the study committee {are: { Senator Floyd Garrott (R. Bat- | tleground), Rep. Ed Stein (D. | Bloomfield), Senator Eugene J. Payton (D. South Bend), Rep. Paul Brady (R. Muncie), Alex Gordon of the Brotherhood of Railway | Trainmen, Anson Thomas, Legisla- | tive director of the Indiana Farm Bureau. | Harold 8S. Vance, Studebaker Corp. board chairman; Clarence A. | Jackson, Gross Income Tax Divi- | sion director; A. C. Ketchum, State Budget. director; Edward Brennan, chief of the State Accounts Board; Attorney General Omer Stokes Jackson: Secretary of State James | M. Tucker; State Auditor Frank | Thompson; State Treasurer Joseph Robertson, and Edward D. Farmcr. deputy Accounts Board Examiner, who is to be the executive secretary.
PETERS REPORTS ON WIDE HOUSING LACK
LAKE WAWASEE, Ind, June 24 (U. P.).—An acute housing shortage in nearly every Indiana community was reported to the annual outing of the Indianapolis Home Builders Association last night by R. Earl Peters, Indiana FHA Director. He said the shortage and the availability of ample mortgage funds make substantial revival of the construction industry possible.
Ts “hE rg TIMES The Indiana Political Scene
Purge to Put ‘Deserving Democrats’ In More State House Jobs Charged
Bier
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Ralph Gates
COUNTIES SEEK
Group Seeking 0. K. For Projects.
and road improvements. Expenditure of
van County's
expenditure. Other proposed during
proval, are: improvement.
improvement. Ft. sanitary sewers.
vate public library.
Crown Point—$184,521 struct storm sewer. La Porte—$11301 for water sewer service. Clinton Township,
buildings.
WPA MILLIONS
Bedford and Sullivan Head
Million dollar WPA projects were being sought today by Bedford and Sullivan County officials for street
$1424684 was asked by Bedford officials to improve streets and alleys and SulliBoard of Commis-
sioners submitted a road improvement program calling for $1,341,343 tentative WPA projects the past week, awaiting state or national WPA apWarrick County—$436,829 for road Orange County—$357,091 for road Wayne—$33,348 for complete Brazil—$1161 to clean and renoLyons—$3099 to clean and renovate Washington Township School. to conand
Vermillion County—$24,823 to improve school
Mighty Mite
the dark hoie and ease Mr. Jack- | son's pain while he remained im-| prisoned for more than 10 hours. Workmen digging frantically also were aided by the piercing light.
of danger’ after resting well last night at City Hospital. Precautions are still being taken, however, to prevent pneumonia.
Sanders St, where the light
stored, said
ago for emergencies.
It was by this light that a City] Hospital interne was able to see in|
is |
of Machine
Used for Cave-in Rescue
A combined generator and motor so small that one man can carry it with ease is given part credit for the successful rescue of Howard Jackson from a sewer cave-in yesterday. When the Fire Department was notified that Mr. Jackson was imprisoned in the ditch at Gent Ave. erator and light was rushed to the scene.
near 21st St.
the emergency gen-
It was purchased primarily for |salvage work where the interior of buildings had been destroyed by
The light is placed on top of lan adjoining building and its rays Mr. Jackson was reported as “out|sent into the hollow building. It has been used more than a dozen times when police have been dragging a river or creek in search |of a body. It was used for the first Chief Frank Braun of the Fire time in the sewer cave-in in saving | Department repair shop at 1024 a life, Chief Braun said. While the machine is used for the equipment was light it also can be used as an elecbought by the department iwo years tric saw, drill and hammer when Ispeed is necessary during a fire.
fire.
HOOSIERS IN WASHINGTON-sy Daniel Kidney
TERRE HAUTE RAID —, — SOMERVILLE, Mas Mass, June 24
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, June oiled P).—A young man, appearing (U. P).—Eleven men were free on greatly agitated, rushed into Somer$500 bond today pending trial on ville Hospital late last night and charges bf illegal betting on horse handed night superintendent Harraces at the Trianon dance hall/riet Gardner a bundle wrapped in a here. blue blanket. Then, without a They were arrested by State and word. he fled.
local police during a raid. Nearly | 75 others, patrons of the establish-
Today, hospital authorities were trying tc locate the parents of a
ment, were released after their | day-old baby girl who was described names were taken. las "doing nicely.” 1
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ASHINGTON, June 24. — Despite sinister surmises to the contrary, Senator Minton (D. Ind.) really was ribbed into making that third term statement by a Washington newspaperman. There was no coaching from Corcoran and Cohen. The New Deal Senator just stumbled nto the widespread publicity which resulted from his saying that Paul V. McNutt will drop his candidacy and his Indiana organization support a third term for President Roosevelt if he chooses to run. Daily for many weeks, William K. Hutchinson, chief of the International News Service Bureau here, has been razzing Senator Minton in the Senate lobby.
His greeting to the junior Senator from Indiana was something like this:
“You sure are in bad shape. Here you are a 100 per cent supporter of President Roosevelt and if he wants a third term you are already pledged to Governor McNutt.” Goaded to exasperation, Senator Minton finally broke down and explained what he conceived to be the setup. That was soon spread throughout the Press Galleries and into newspapers tar and wide. The Senator himself confirmed the exact quotations, which were: “The entire McNutt-for-Presi-
dent in 1940 campaign is based on’
the assumption that President Roosevelt is not going to be a candidate. If the President becomes a candidate, we will be for the President. And that includes McNutt.” Soon Frank M. McHale, McNutt - for - President manager, phoned from Indianapolis, supposedly to tell the Senator that he had talked out of turn. Mr. McHale's own statement to the press neither confirmed nor denied the Minton stand. But when Mr. McNutt was reached at Honolulu last Sunday, on the return trip from his post as High Commissioner of the Philippines, he confirmed the Minton statement in toto. As One commentator added here: “What else could he do?” Senator Minton, meantime, has become quite proud of the tactics which his statement has developed. And “Bill” Hutchinson has quit ribbing him,
» 2 » Rep. Charles A. Halleck, dean of the Indiana
Rep. George Gillie
' gressmen, summed up his reaction to the McNutt-Minton statements as follows: “To a rank outsider, it looks as though they have come to the conclusion that Mr. Roosevelt will be his own successor, or at any rate name him. That means that the New Deal faction of the Democrat Party will dominate the 1940 convention. “Assuming such to be the case, anyone who aspires to the nomination must of necessity, subor-
dinate his convictions to that of President Roosevelt. This may mean a real struggle for control.”
” 2 ® Capitol columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner wrote a devastating criticism of the McNutt candidacy which appeared Thursday night in The Washington Star.
They termed the McNutt-Min-ton third term indorsement “cynical opportunism and shameless pushing.” On the same day, The Philadelphia Record carried a one-para-graph editorial entitled “Add Arguments for a Third Term.” It read: “Paul V. McNutt has announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for President if Roose-
| velt is not a candidate.”
ARRY HOGAN, Ft. Wayne, called on the G. O. P. Congressmen here this week and revived talk of the possibility that he may succeed Arch N. Bobbitt as Republican State Chairman. Rep. George W. Gillie, Ft. Wayne, denied that Mr. Hogan has any political ambitions, however. “As a lawyer and banker, Mr. Hogan is just too busy to fool with the state chairmanship,” Rep. Gillie said. Rep. Louis Ludlow’s victory in earmarking $1,000,000 in the Army bill to train Negro pilots was short-lived. On Wednesday his amendment was accepted in the committee-of-the-whole and on Thursday it was voted out in the House without a roll-call. The amendment was entirely his own idea and not introduced at the request of anyone, Rep. Ludlow explained. » ” » Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind.), the Townsend planner who votes to increase appropriations for WPA and the farmers and against the big armament expenditures, is telling a good story about an Indianapolis businessman who rode back .to the state in the same smoking car with him. It was just after the Indiana Chamber of Commerce banqueted and lectured the Indiana Congresgressional delegation at the Mayflower Hotel here as part of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce convention program. The Indianapolis businessman had enjoyed the spectacle and was expanding on it in the smoker, Rep. Landis says. “We sure did tell those dumb
he expounded and continued on in the same vein. When his talk finally reached a terminal, Rep. Landis introduced himself. “I guess I've been shooting off my mouth too much,” the businessman stammered apologetical-
ly. 2
2 2 Called home to Evansville by the serious illness of his father, Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. was unable to talk on the tax bill in the House this wees. He is a member of the tax subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee and intended to do so. This would have been Rep.
Congressmen where to head in,”
Other Observers Wonder if Governor Is Courting Townsendite Aid.
By NOBLE REED A patronage purge designed to revitalize party lines all over the state for the 1940 campaign was seen by observers today in the recent State House personnel shakeups. Before the end of next week,
more than 350 State employees will have been fired as the result of what Administration officials describe as a general budget emergency. However, some politicians, both on and off the State payroll, claim that some of the jobs will be refilled by “more deserving Democrats” in order to bolster the lines along the weak spots that showed up in the 1938 elections. “Budget reductions will be used to disguise maneuvers to get stronger workers on the payroll,” one observer said. Administration foes also charged that some of the employees fired were hand-picked by the patronage leaders from groups that were a little weak in paying their monthly stipend to the Two Per Cent Club. One State employee was reported to«be in arrears more than $50 in his Two Per Cent dues and was officially “notified” about it. It was said he paid it all a few days after the notification.
The 1940 ballyhoo has shoved from the spotlight the fact that exactly 460 elections will be held in Indiana this fall in which trustees and officials of all towns and cities under 3000 population will be elected. They are held every four years and comprise an important barometer on the status of the ever-shift-ing political winds in the State. Both major parties will be checking them closely for some voting trends applicable to the 1940 campaigns.
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It was a big, red political apple Governor Townsend dangled before the national convention of Townsendites here this week, in the opinion of some observers. “The Governor was barely a scant one degree off the Townsend Pension groove in his speech and was plainly courting that group's support for the 1940 campaign,” one political leader said. With both Republicans and Democrats flirting with the Townsendites, partisan lines suffered a criss-cross complexion in Indiana this week. Republicans were criticizing Republicans and Democrats were warning their own colleagues. The Governor's warning for the Townsendites to “beware of false friends” was interpreted as a slap at some Republicans who courted the pension group in 1938.
Organized campaigning by the
been sidetracked temporarily pend-
in the Fourth and Fifth Districts. “They're fighting among themselves over leadership right now,” one organization spokesman said. The main factional strife is reported being waged between groups controlled by Ralph Gates, Fourth District chairman, and Ewing Emison, party leade} from Vincennes.
Two new names were mentioned this week for the Democratic gubernatorial race next year. Several Indianapolis Democrats have sent out a ‘“feeler” for support for Mayor Sullivan. A favorite son boom was reported under way in Hammond this week for Mayor Frank Martin of that city. Party leaders, however, said they didn’t believe Mayor Sullivan would consider being a candidate. The party had to draft him to run for mayor last year.
VINGENNES POLICE SEEK 2 ABDUCTORS
VINCENNES, Ind. June 24 (U. P.) .—State and local police are seeking two men here, believed fugitives from the Southern Illinois State prison at Chester, who ahducted an Eas¢ St. Louis, Ill, man yesterday. The victim, E. W. Mahan, was released near Vincennes yesterday on the Illinois side of the Wabash River. He said the men jumped into his car when he was on his way to work and forced him to yield at gun point. He said they made no attempt to harm him and released him with his car and started away on foot yesterday afternoon. One of the men, he said, drove the car across Illinois. The men were believed to be Tony Barker, 58, and M. C. Walker, 49, from the Chester prison.
MILL WHEEL CRUSHES TWO BOYS TO DEATH
BELLEFONTE, Pa. June 24 ww. P.).—A bloodhound from the Rockview Penitentiary here today led to discovery of the bodies of two boys crushed to death in the wheel of the big Gamble mill which pumps water to the Bellefonte populace. Apparently swept into: the grip of the generating wheel by the swift Spring Creek current, which turns it, the boys were badly mangled. They were Robert Quici and Bobby Lenker, both 8, sons of Titan Metal Works Co. employees. Quici was one of 10 children, while Lenker, whose mother is dead, was one of five. Both lived near the water
State Republican Committee has |
ing a factional healing campaign |
CLIPPER OPENS NORTHERN LANE
31,
Including Roosevelt's Secretary, Aboard on Hop to England.
PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y., June 24 (U. P.).—The Yankee Clipper, giant flying boat of Pan-Amer-ican Airways, took off today starting regular airmail service between the United States and England over the northern Atlantic route.
The big flying boat left at 7:28 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), 58 minutes behind schedule. ‘The Clipper is scheduled to stop at Shediac, New Brunswick; Botwood, Newfoundland; Foynes, Ireland, and Southampton, England, a trip of 4,369 miles. Flying time ailowed for the trip is 24'4 hours. Pan-American Clippers have carried mail over the Southern Atlantic route, by way of the Azores, since May 20. The first commercial passenger flight will start Wednesday over the southern route. Twenty observers, including Senators, Representatives and Government aviation representatives, were on board in addition to Capt. Harold E. Gray and a crew of 11. Those making the trip included Senator Chavez (D. N. M.), Senator Lundeen, (F-L. Minn.) ; Rep. Carl E. Mapes (R. Mich); Rep. Clarence Cannon (D. Mo.); Stephen Eagly, White House secretary; R. Walton Moore, State Department counselor; Brig. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, General Headquarters Air Force Commander; Rear Admiral Russell Waesche of the U. S. Coast Guard; Edward P. Warner, Civil Aeronautics Authority member, Clinton M. Hester, CAA Technical Division chief; J. T. Trippe, PanAmerican Airways president, and other company officials.
LISBON, Portugal, June 24 (U. P.).—The Atlantic Clipper, on the return half of a round trip transAtlantic “press view” flight, left Lisbon at 3:02 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) for Horta, Azores Islands, and Port Washington, N. Y.
4 CHILDREN INJURED
AT PLAY, ONE BY GUN
Four children were being treated at their homes today for injuries received while at play yesterday. Susan Billhimer, 2, of 1519 W. Morris St. received a hand injury when she placed it over the muzzle of her brother's air rifle. She was treated at City Hospital. Billy Joe Coons of 320 S. Noble St. struck his head on a brick when he fell while playing in his front vard. He was treated at City Hospital. Richard Blake, 10, of 102 E. Palmer St., wrenched his back while wrestling with another boy in Finch Park at State and Fletcher Ave. June Baldridge, 16, of 1508 Carrollton Ave., was sent to City Hospital when she cut her ankle on a nail which protruded from the side of her scooter.
NEW CASTLE PUPILS TO RENT TEXTBCOKS
Times Special NEW CASTLE, Ind. June 24.— High school and elementary students here may rent textbooks instead of buying them, the School Board decided. The saying to parents was estimated at $15,000 a year. High school students pay $8 a year for their books and grade school books average $6 a year, it was estimated. The rental rate is to be 25 per cent of the cost.
- SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1989
EX-BANKER BETS 21-2 YEARS IN FEDERAL CASE
‘One of Most Flagrant Kites | Have Heard About,
Baltzell Says.
Elmer Kerr, 57-year-old former president of the Commercial Bank & Trust Co., Union City, Ind., was sentenced in Federal Court today to spend two and a half years in prison. Kerr had heen found guilty by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell of four of the six violations of the National Banking Act charged by the Government. He was not fined. Judge Baitzell said he would make no recommendations for parole at this time, but would not oppose any. Before passing Baltzell said: “We have to protect the public against just such things. You should have followed your directors’ resolu= tion not to honor checks of the Moores.”
More Sentences Withheld
John W. Moore and John W, Moore Jr.,, former Continental Credit Corp. of Winchester, Ind., were found guilty of aiding and abetting Mr. Kerr in the violations. Sentencing of them is being withheld until the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago decides on their appeals from conviction of last fall's mail fraud case. Referring to a check overdraft caused by the Moores in Kerr's bank, Judge Baltzell said, “Really it; was one of the most flagrant kites I've ever heard about in a courtroom, You lost, your family lost, and the bank's stockholders lost. This case is a little different than other cases of bankers who took money for their own benefit. But even though your bank was a one-man bank, so to" speak, you as bank president, should have been able to grasp the situation. “The unfortunate part as I see it is that you met with persons with stronger ways of selling their ways of thinking.”
sentence Judge
Believes Term Lenient
With his bands folded in front of him, and with the courtroom filled with friends, Mr. Kerr replied. “Yes. I had too much confidence in the Moores.” George Barnard, Kerr's attorney, asked that the sentence be suspended, but the request was denied by Judge Baltzell, who said: “I certainly feel that I am fixing the penalty very leniently. Until he is taken to prison, probably next week, Mr. Kerr is free under $15,000 bond.” In other Federal cases, Ora Davis was ordered returned to Hammond where he has been indicted for robe bing the Burnettsville State Bank of $415.50 on Feb. 10, 1935.
Two Sentences Suspended
Francis Strang, 20-year-old Tech High School senior, was given a two-year sentence in a reformatory, which was suspended, and he was placed on probation for five years. He lives at 4013 E. Michigan St., and pleaded guilty to forging railroad passes which he used to take himself and girl friends to Sunday School conventions. James Conrad Reinhardt, 22, of Kokomo, pleaded guilty to forging indorsements on WPA checks and was given a year and a day prison sentence. This was suspended and he was placed on probation for three years. Donald Harding, 34; Nathan Levell, 40; and Johnnie Campbell, 27; all of Terre Haute, pleaded guilty to possessing counterfeit half dollars. Harding received a year and a day in prison; Campbell six months in jail; and Lavelle’s sixmonth jail sentence was suspended over a period of three years.
HITCHHIKER SOUGHT IN MICHIGAN DEATH
EAST LANSING, Mich. June 24 (U. P.).—State Police today widened their search for a well-dressed hitchhiker who reportedly made love to the woman companion of the man he killed. The victim was George G. Hall, 50, of Laingsburg, whose body was found late yesterday concealed in brush alongside a rural Central Michigan road. Miss Ruby Doty, 32-year-old friend of Hall, said that Hall was driving her to Pinconning Thursday afternoon when they picked up a
well-dressed, scarfaced hitchhiker near Grand Rapids. Between Fow= ler and St. Johns, she said, the man shot Hall once in the back, and as he died in her arms, took the wheel, She said her captor made love to her, offered her a cigaret, which she refused, fearing it was doped, and tried to persuade her to join him, She reached Grand Rapids on a pretext that she would keep a date with him, she said, and notified po= lice.
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