Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1939 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and tomorrow; possible thundershowers this
VOLUME 51—NUMBER 92
5 SHOT, STATE PRISON PLOT FOILED
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TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1939
Rope Skipper a Casualty
Times Ph h Barbara Davenport . . . one of eight children hurt a
8 Children Hurt
Here During Play
Safety Warning Sounded for Other Youngsters; Boy's Leg Broken at Leap Frog. Vacationing Indianapolis children are hereby notified that one may be injured in the following ways at play: A bor mav have his leg broken while plaving leap NHrog. Demonstrator: Donald Myers, 6, of 2449 Hover St, who was taken to City
Hospital. A girl may injure her arm if she falls while skipping rope.
strator: Barbara Davenport. §, of} 1428 St. Paul St. who was to be BRITAIN FEARS
X-rayed today at City Hospital,
A bhov mav cut himself if. while carving a knife, ie attempts to jump a hedge and falls. DemonOrders 406,000 Territorials people are, one may injure someone | And Home Fleet Placed unintentionally. Victim: LeRoy | . Bennett, 13, of 1382 W. 21st St, who| ON Emergency Basis.
WwW. 20th St, who was treated at City Hospital. Throwing Stones
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strator: Eston McGune, 18, of 870 Rv throwing stones, where other
was siruck in the eve at the 26th St. beach and (aken to City Hospital. By UNITED PRESS Thougliless people somtimes! Great Britain sought today to throw broken giass behind park Settle its Far Fast difficulties quickbushes where it remains as a Dy se WAY. Jor extresih hazard to children who may hide nary precautions Spainst » tw Eurebehind them In games. Vietim pean EALUSOY he thats SH Harry Jones, 8, of 613 Shelby St. | » ho a. ae who was injured at Willard Park. |. The gravity with which the BritDoor gla ss may break from the ish Government views the prospects bag th LAE dems 3 < me eon, | Presumably on the German: strator: Leon Harris, 4 of 136 Ta- LOliSh border—was indicated by disis closure that the War Office had rotified 406000 men of the Terri{torial Army to be prepared for a [possible emergency. The British home fleet's maneuvers also were advanced a month especially if one falls off. Demon- {4 put the warshivs on emergency strator: Robert Rollins, 9, of 321 W. status in August. Antiaireraft units 16th Place, who was taken to City have A on Shebist guard, air . : [raid “blackouts” have en intensiHOpile) So0ny TO RoR i fied and aviation maneuvers will be Small boys may get hurt, of CAUSE held in July. some one else to, if they play in| But the European precautions places reserved for older people. were iargely designed to prepare in Victim: William Brooks, 24, of 220 advance for emergencies such as N. Hlinois St, who dislocated a caught Britain napping last Aushoulder as he twisted In a dive at gust and the Far Eastern clash at Willard Park to avoid hitting small bov. He struck the pool wall mediate A young fellow where he is going. Washam. 8. of 820 Harrison St. who tlement. was wool-gathering on the sidewalk! Following expression of hope fou in the 1200 block S. Bast St, and (Continued on Page Three) walked into a utility pole, cutting ——— his scalp. He was taken to City] Hospital.
coma Terrace, whose left arm was treated at City Hospital.
Roof No Playground A roof is not a good piaveround. |
international trouble,
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Two-vear-old Billy Preston was 9 traveling without a map today at his home, 1255 Madison Ave, and wound up in the bathroom. He immediately locked the door. 5 Mrs. Mima Preston and her 1312 year-old daughter Lois had been with him a moment before and now : believe the baby is quicker than the
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Broun Clapper ...... Comics Crossword . .. Curious World 17 Editorials .... 12 Fashions .... 9% Financial . .. 1% Flapper Fanny 29 Flynn i2 Forum .. «32 Gallup .... . 15 Society Grin, Bear It 19 Sports ... 14, 13 | singing In InGpls. ... 3 State Deaths. 13igyp, 2
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should watch largely because of difficuity in find- | Victim: David ing a basis for negotiating a set- |
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BOARD TO SEEK
LEGAL TEST OF PARK METERS
Plans Installation of Trial Machines in Limited Downtown Area.
COX CANCELS HIS RULING ON TAX AUCTIONS
Reverses Himself After Case
Is Reopened on Plea of County Officials.
CITY PARLEY CALLED REALTORS MAY APPEAL |
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Action Follows Advice of | Corporation Counsel | To ‘Go Slow.’
Of Legislature, Judge Holds.
Safety Board members decided to- | Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox (today reversed himself in the con-
day to test both the legality and Y | practicability of parking meters | A |totenl delinquent tax auction through installation of the devices
in a small section of the downtown area. The decision followed an opinion | ‘by Edward H. Knight, City Corpora- | | tion Counsel, that legality of the Jt | meters is sufficiently doubtful to justify carrying a test case to the Indiana Supreme Court. | | Board members. after hearing his| John T. The reversal struck a new pinion, decided to meet with City | bezzling monev from the Green- at I RI o I a tli | Councilmen and Works Board mem- | ; . ” ; dealers who had sought to utilize a (bers within the next few davs and thwh State Bank Where he Nos [previously untested auction ‘arrange introduction of an ordi-| cashier for years, waived exami- apg buy for as little as $3 a parcel nance authorizing the experiment. nation before a U. S. Commission-
Designates Two Streets er in the Federal Building here
| The test meters would be placed] thilag SN Was Wohi te the Dele on both sides of Alabama and Del-| eral Grand Jury under $10,000 (aware Sts. from New York St. to| bail. He could not make bail and | yashingt; | w j rat | wang en SY de Safety Board] was lodged in the Federal row at | In his four-page order, Judge Cox member, said he felt that both mer.| {he Marion County Jail. Hunt is declared: chants and motorists were in favor alleged to have embezzled $39.603. | | he property statute in quesof using the devices as #8 means of | He is 36, is married and has a [tion does provide for a sale of deimproving traffic regulation ana family. llinquent tax property by auction. safety. | en 2. There is a total mability on
In his opinion, requested by the ‘the part of public officials to comBoard last April, Mr. Knight held! ply with the law's requirement. that the meters could be used only | 3. If adhered to, the law cannot
for traffic regulation and not as speak the spirit nor the intent of a revenue-raising system. His report, based on a long study of ordinances in other states where parking meters have been used, rerShe nuen that if the Council should pass an ordinance for in- : alsin of meters, the City should Committee Accepts Change wait until the high court has ruled bows § : | in ’ test case before actually in- Eliminating Board of 'delinquencies in Marion County will stalling any of the meters. [in a short time destroy the necesLists Other Rulings [sary functions of government,
He pointed out that at least four states, including Oklahoma and! WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P) | Texas, have upheld parking meter —The Senate Appropriations Com- | ordinances, while the Alabama Su- mittee today rushed the $1.735.000.preme Court has held such an or-/ 000 relief bill to the Senate floor | dinance invalid. (after three hours’ deliberation in | “There is sufficient doubt as to an effort to meet Friday midnight | how the Indiana Supreme Court deadline on WPA funds. | ‘would rule to merit a test case in| With the Senate legislative mathe matter,” Mr. Knight said. chinery idling pending its action. “Above all things, we should go the Committee accepted most of the slowly” [changes in the House bill recomBoard members delayed action on mended by the subcommittee, {his report until later in the day. | These included: Several years ago, when the sub-| 1. Elimination of the three-man ject of regulating parking by meters administrative board in favor first was discussed here, the City 2 single administrator. Legal Department decided the| 2. Return of $125000000 of WPA meters were illegal on the grounds funds allocated by the House to the that the streets belonged to the pub- PWA. lic and the public could not be| 3. Continuation of [charged for their use. [theater projects with the proviso | Last April, the Safety Board de- that they must have local sponsorcided to seek a new opinion. ship. “Since that earlier ruling.” Board, The most important new provision |
: | President Leroy J. Keach comment- adopted by the Senate Committee ed, “many state supreme courts Would require that the contribu-|
| have decided the parking meter is tions of local sponsors in each state! GROSS TA 8 ATTLE
legal.” average 25 ner cent of the total cost |
sell 1000 parcels of property to a |eroun of real estate dealers. The ruling, another the nine-month-old dispute, sus-
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[comply with the 4-year-old auction Times Photo. law.
Hunt, accused of em- blow
land upon which thousands of doilars in taxes are delinquent, Attorneys for realtors said they might appeal to the State Supreme Court, Summary of Ruling
‘under the law is “but a gesture and
der the law.”
Resumes Original Status Judge Cox's action returned the auction sale issue to its original [position last fall when the dealers filed suit to mandete the County Treasurer to sell them the property, That suit was filed alter officials refused to sell them the property, declaring it would lead to a tax strike,
date suit. Judge Cox at that time ordered the County Treasurer to sell [the parcels under the law as de‘manded bv the real estate dealers, Earl B. Teckemeyer, Claude J. Horn, as trustee, Cyril J. Van Meter, and Howard M. Stanton, trustee. | After an investigation of County records, County officials found the the Federal | oerty had been improperly advertised and a State Tax Board ruling sustained their finding.
| Advocates of the system estimate of WPA projects over the period | that the meters would give the City of a year. an income of from $15,000 to $100,000 SESE a year, at the same time reducing TAKE SAFETY PIN the number of policemen required te check parking. | Trial Area Planned ! The City has received offers from | Seven-months-old Caroline Foust| several meter concerns for free in- Was being re-diapered today at her SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 27 (U. [stallation of the meters. which home, 1456 Hoyt Ave, and »efore P).—A new attack on Indiana's would be paid for over a period of any one could stop her, she put an Gross Income Tax Law was made | time through collections from the open safety pin in her mouth. here today in a suit to enjoin Sherdevices. | Doctors at City Hospital extracted iff William Hosinski and County Safety Roard members have jn- it from her throat with forceps with Clerk Frank Bruggner from serving dicated that if it is decided to in- No damage to the child. Her par- warrants for tax delinquencies, [stall meters, a test of their success ents are Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Foust.! Filed in St. Joseph County Su[would be made in a small portion | ee — — {perior Court, the suit was brought
of the downtown area. {by the St. Joe Valley Food Dealers Approximately 100 cities through- STRIKE 10 CLOSE | Association, the Mishawaka Retail ‘out the country were using the meters to control traffic congestion | LYRIC S AYS 0LSO y
Food Dealers Association and their in their business districts several!
offtcers, claiming to represent 200 dealers in this area. ‘months ago, the International City! | The petition alleged that Sheriff | Managers’ Association reported. | | Hosinski now helds approximately | Most of the cities charge a nickel 1300 warrants for the collection of for an hour's parking. it was founda. Theater to Shut at Midnight | $30.000 in delinquent gross income ‘although in some of the busier seec- laxes and charged that agents of tions, parking is limited to 30 min-| Thursday, He Announces, the tax division have “camped in utes {business establishments to the great | mest coi [detriment of the respective busi | LOCAL TEMPERATURES | The Lyric Theater today an- ness and general health of the pro- | & a. Mm. Nam ‘nounced it will close at midnight prietors.” Tam. 18 PR ( Thursday. Charles M. Olson, the 5
12 y. on | \ 8 1 oy: ‘theater's operating head. said in a 83 9
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. : South Bend Merchants Ask FROM BABY'S THROAT Sheriff Be Restrained.
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[formal statement that the closing!
mo. mn 2pm... | as being made necessary by labor |
. difficulties. He said that the Stagehands’ Union (Local 30, I. A. T. 8. B.) had | notified him officially that it will withdraw its men from the Lyric at| [that time. St,
m “The Lyric cannot afford to meet | With the most ingenious means of
the | the stagehands’ union's demand livelihood since the days of “Sliding Billy” Watson, Sunday afternoon, Reilly slipped and fell In a drug store at 16th and Pennsylvania Sts, before some | half dozen witnesses, it was testi [fied in court.
} The more : louder hed sing and the more water [Of increases,” said « Mr. Olson in| ‘hed turn on. Police couldn't get in his statement. He said that the | withoug, breaking down the door, so Stagehands now are paid $5520 a | ‘they called the Fire Department. | week and that the union is asking | On a 20-foot ladder, Fireman Wil-|an increase to $60.50 a week. He liam Spaulding of No. 17 Engine said that the demands would affect House, climbed through the window. eight stagehands at his theater, Billy had taken off all his clothes that the total number of employees Lis downfall, ‘and thrown them in the bathtub. affected was 52. jury to his ‘When he saw Fireman Spaulding | | hoi
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complained of and |
knee (right)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz, June 3 (U.| A doclor’s examination failed to] “Mummy buy ice cream?” he said, P.) Two passenger-loaded busses | disclose any injury, but Reilly col- | immediately. | collided 15 miles west of here today [lected $37.50 from the insurance
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Law Fails to Reflect Intent
sale issue, setting aside his order to |
chapter in|
tained the contentions of County |officials that they ave unable to
estate Warden Dowd
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’ the Legislature. 0 | 4 Its observance would destroy provisions of budget laws.
er the Jaw ic "Dut a gesture and (DTCRK AL the Prison, State Welfare) "| ROY HUNT, 34, serving 10 years for robbery not an offer as contemplated un- Administrator Thurman Gottschalk { . ;
6. The mounting deficit of tax
{ After a brief trial on the man-
Sliding Customer Called ‘Out’ After Court Inquiry
| He pointed to al but | hanana peeling as the cause of bell that the first fall was legiti- |
| Cn nw inted out a torn trouser leg (eft) Il to unlock the door and called po- he started crving. He was delivered) DOZEN HURT IN BUS crash | further evidence, 19 lice. Two squads appeared. By this to his mother. Billy | and drawing water in the changing the
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
afternoon or tonight.
Matter ind.
Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice, Indianapolis,
WOMAN HOSTAGE SAVED AS GUARDS OPEN FIRE: WARDENS AID WOUNDED
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» t Three Michigan City Convicts Fail in Dese | perate Bid for Freedom; Welfare | i Worker Prisoner for Two Hours. |
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"® TWO KILLERS, ROBBER TRY BREAK
| 1 ‘Dowd Declares Something Had to Be Done, So a ‘ He Decided to ‘Shoot It Out’; Injuries 1 ¥ Apparently Not Serious.
| MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, June 27 (U. P.).—Prison guards in a blaze of gunfire today rescued a woman hostage ‘seized by three Indiana State Prison convicts in a desperate | ‘escape attempt. » The three convicts, their hostage and the warden's sece
iy retary were wounded in the shooting. 10 BAN The convicts had held the woman, Mrs. Ruth Joiner, Crawfordsville, Ind., a member of the Montgomery County ‘Welfare Board, in the office of the prison physician for | ALL VISITORS roximets two hours under threat to kill her unless they (got “guns and freedom.” pec | Mrs. Joiner suffered a slight Aesh wound in the left ‘shoulder. Gottschalk Acts at Once to, Ed Wetzel, secretary to Warden Alfred Dowd, was | Prevent Any Repetition [shot in the leg. Of Today's Incident. They and the three convicts all were taken to a hospital, | m—— Prison authorities identified the prisoners as: RICHARD SWEET, 26, serving a life term from Parke County on a murder charge. ALPHONSE SKUSEWICH, 20, serving life from St, Joseph County for armed robbery and murder.
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No more visitors will be permitted to tour the Indiana State Prison and Reformatory in the future, as the result of today's attempted
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preg | “We decided something had SAYS SHOOTING to be done to get Mrs. Joiner ‘from them and the only thing OF GIRL SOLVED do was shoot it out.”
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victs were ‘badly done up.” Walking Along Corridor
, : Mrs. Joiner was seized by one of Feeney Claims Confession convicts as she walked down a
In Holdup Blast That (corridor on an inspection tour of
[the prison,
| The convict grabbed her arm | » Shattered Hand. |slashed at a guard who attempted
(to stop him, and hustled her into Sheriff Feeney today announced the nearby office of Dr. Patrick H. that John Harry William Graves, 20, Weeks. The two other convicts
of 841 Greer St, has confessed that | ined Bim in the rush 10 the: af
he wounded Mrs. Rose Mary Miller] Guards so badly in an attempted holdup them: | n | Friday night that her left hand had| “We've got a knife and we'll kill children of their own,” he said.|ig pe amputated. [the woman unless we get out of | "While pleading with them, they| Mpe Miller, who is 20. now is con- | here.” | held a Knife near Mrs, Joiner's yalescing in St. Vincent's Hospital.| While prison officials “bargained,” | throat. She and her husband, Joseph H. Work in all prison shops was halted Shortly after the break was an-| Miller, 764 E. McCarty St. were at @nd the prisoners herded to their Lindbergh Road and Carson Ave. cells to forestall a spread of the
nounced, John J. Klinger, director ‘of the State Division of Corrections, | near Beech Grove, when the shoot- | €5C&pe movement, ing occured. 15 Men Sent
|left for Michigan City to aid the| warden in investigating the break. | The Sheriff said Graves, who is| , | Governor Townsend was out of charged with assault and battery The State Police barracks at the State today, attending the with intent to kill, is a cripple and Chesterton reported that it dise |Council of Governor's meeting in| was acquainted with the Millers. In Patched 15 men and “heavy arms,” (Albany, N. Y. ‘his signed confession, the Sheriff to the prison in response to a radio | At State Police headquarters here, said, he told of having ridden with call (officers declined to reveal any de-| Mr. Miller in the Miller car a few Michigan City police volunteered [tails of the prison break in the ab<|hours before the attempted holdup. help but were told by the wardens (sence of Safety Director Don Stiver | Graves went to the holdup scene office that “the situation is under land Capt. Walter Eckert, jearrying a shotgun wrapped in a control for the present.” | Capt. Eckert, who was driving sweater and hid in a clump of It was the first serious outbreak (from Ligonier to Lake Wawasee, was bushes until the Millers appeared, in the prison since Mr. Dowd bee ‘notified by radio and immediately | Sheriff Feeney said. [came warden a year ago last April ordered a detail of State Police to| He then demanded Mrs. Miller's and began imposing strict regulae« (the prison from the Ligonier bar rings. cautioning the couple not to tions in answer to a wave of criti~ racks. A detail from the Dunes look at him and speaking with a cism which had been mounting [Park had been sent to the prison Negro dialect, the Sheriff said, steadily since 10 long-term inmates
Mrs. Ruth Joiner, Montgomery Wel- moned heinforcements from nearby State Police barracks wounded slightly when guards convicts while considering the use of tear gas to dislodge |else go through the prison and re- | proven, particular cluded reporters from within the wall but Mr. Dowd told Wants No Repetition there will be no repetition of the communication with the prison dur- Mr. Gottschalk said the three cone Shortly after the conviots were Ss fred Dowd onsthe situation. into the office where the prisoners
| announced here Hunt was shot through the abdomen. Commenting on the seinure of | The shooting occurred after prison authorities had sume fare Board worker, who with Edgar | , ” 0 $nleaun od : | Wetzel, the warden's secretary. was and spent a troubled two hours dickering with the besieged FO at ott sehale. sald: {them from the physician's office. | Prison attaches clamped a strict censorship and exe (formatory unless they have a business there. : : : That goes for welfare workers, as State Welfare Director Thurman Gottschalk, at Indianapolis, Well as mere curiosity seekers, Lu a long distance conversation: “They handled the situation very well up there at Michigan City, but incident. | Mr. Gottschalk was in frequent ing the two hours while Mrs. Joiner (was held prisoner. captured, Mr. Gottschalk received a | preliminary report from Warden Al- | The warden, who with his sec- | retary, are reported to have gone ‘were hiding, and lured them into Se range of the guard's guns, said he | pleaded with them to free Mrs. Joiner because of her 3-year-old | child. | told
said the convicts
Held Knife at Throat “I told them they probably had
earlier. Mrs. Miller took her rings and escaped from the institution in 1933 Mr. Stiver, reported to have been | put them in her mouth, and moved and became the nucleus of the noe [in Anderson, was expected back in ‘his office later in the afternoon. ward him as he had commanded,| Mr. Dowd, former superintendent : the Sheriff said. Graves became of the State Reformatory at Pendle his confession detailed. (Continued on Page Three) Graves was arrested Sunday after | Ne — ————— ered clues that placed him both \. SILVER STOCK up the scene of the crime and in the SNITE HOME AGAIN. NEW YORK, June 27 (U. P.).— store, according to the testimony. REMAINS CHEERF |Reacting to the higher silver price Police on the “injured” victim's —————— UL |shine Mining gained 2 points in an trail, witnesses said. irregular, quiet stock market here (that, on June 17, Reilly had fallen Fred B. Snite Jr, Chicago infantile which would stand to make ine in a downtown department store paralysis victim whose home has creased earnings should the Senate “fron lung” YEAS | trouser leg (left). He was wearing] h wou 9 oh > three years Sunshine is the largest domestio {he same pants Sunday, they added. VS home today from his pilgrimage |5roducer of silver in the country. Lourdes in France : {early afternoon dealings after a de= mate, But the idea seemed so good Shite said he was glad to be home. ¢jine, that he had been carrying a banana | Ba — testified. LONDON, June 27 (U. P) The | Hog prices continued on the upe Judge Karabell called him out on | Evening Standard reported today swing on the Indianapolis markes over to the grand jurg under $2000 Windsor would come to England to for 210 to 220-pound bond. ug live in October. * $7.35 as vealers held s
| away from Graves instead of to-|torious John Dillinger gang. nervous and shot. the Sheriff said ton and considered the outstanding the Sheriff said his men had gath-| ee IN QUIET TRADING The insurance firm set the State |voted in the Senate yesterday, Sune The police said they discovered! NEW YORK, June 27 (U. P).—|(oday. The gain shoved Sunshine, ‘and collected $35 for damage to a peep an |action become law, to 107%, Reilly told Judge Charles A. Kara- the Shrine of Our Lady of ~ Autos and steels gained support in peeling in his pocket ever since, he | REPORT DUKE WILL GO HOME| HOGS CONTINUE GAINS the second slide, and hound him that the Duke and Duchess of today. A.l3-cent gain sent the kers. t6 =e 2 1
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