Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1939 — Page 4
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M'NUTT ALOOF, BUCKNER SAYS
Relates Talk With Hoosier In Philippines Over Bond Redemption.
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NEW YORK, June 27 (U. P).— The names of prominent personages of the Philippine commonwealth including President Manuel Quezon to High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt dotted the testimony of handsome William Buckner Jr. today as! the young broker defended himself against charges he headed a huge bond fraud. The playboy financier, who faces a possible 87 years in prison if he is convicted conceded that he did not have much luck with any Philippine officials in his plan to obtain redemption of Philippine Railway bonds. The Government contends Buckner and his four co-defendants rigged the market so they would clean up on the bonds, a maneuver that allegedly cost investors one mil- | lion dollars. In the Philippines he said he spoke with former Senator Hawes of Missouri, Mr. McNutt, President Quezon, Felipe Buencamino, a legis- | lator and codefendant, and had correspondence with Jose Bonto, chairman of the railway committee of
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the Philippine assembly who suggested a compromise might be reached. : Senator Hawes, he said, introduced him to Mr. McNutt, but had no other part in the matter because he wanted to be paid and because cf his poor health. Mr. McNutt also eliminated himself as a possible factor by asserting immediately that there was nothing he could do. Buckner said.
STATE EMPLOYEES GET CHECKS TODAY
FIGHT PLANNED BY BEECH GROVE
Attorneys May Seek State Supreme Court Ruling on Magistrate Law.
Attorneys for Beech Grove resiAll Pa ss Jeceim Sr [dents seeking a magistrate court June salary checks today, five 4a¥Siqajq today they will appeal to the ahead Of schequis, The prepayment State Supreme Court if Circuit
of checks was necessary, State offiCourt Judge Earl R. Cox tomorrow
cials explained, because of the closing of the fiscal year accounts. carries out his threat to declare the new state magistrate law uncon-
stitutional. Within a few hours after 49 Beech Grove residents petitioned for the setting up of a new traffic court, {Judge Cox declared he would rule {the law unconstitutional and refuse {to appoint a magistrate. { The new law provides that Circuit | Court Judges appoint two such $s} | judicial officers in each county. Under the Act, the magistrates { would have exclusive jurisdiction in {traffic cases and original jurisdic- | tion in criminal cases involving fines 'up to $500 and jail sentences up to i six months. When the Act goes into effect Fri-
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Everythi ng From Electric Razors to Goats on Block
By JOE COLLIER Four goats changed hands in three minutes at the Horse Market where auctioneers had just finished selling a lot of household furniture. The goats looked a little frightened and no wonder. Men were slapping short lengths of rubber hose on wooden walls to emphasize some sort of language that always ended up in the word “sold.”
BRIDEGROOM DIES |ttoneers started selling muies. When OF BULLET WOUNDS
the mules were sold the men started selling horses. When the horses Charles Arthur, 34, said by police to have been shot five times by his
were sold they quit. People gathered up the things [bride June 21 at their home, 437 E. New York St, died at City Hospital
they had bought—everything from saddles to bridles to cots to electric razors. And every Monday, today rain or shine, holiday or not, a large oii up of customers gathers at this Mrs. Audell Arthur, 24, who was rte market, Kentucky Ave. and married to the victim June 13, has {been held in jail under $i000 bond [the Belt Railroad where, from all !since the shooting on charges of |vagrancy and assault and battery. Police said she signed a statement
one can hear, the customer is althat she shot in self-defense after
ways wrong. 'a drinking party.
Auctioneers wheedle and even scold the buyers when they are rea
Iuctant to buy. Sometimes they act ES RIT A A actually astonished when no one will ‘PROWLER ESCAPES IN ‘PAJAMA CHASE’
bid more than, say $39, for a mule. Then some one will come out with one like this: “Now folks,” he'll say, “it doesn’t] make any difference what's in the! When he awakened to find 2 /hox rm going to sell. I'm not even {prowler in his room at 826 N. New gine to tell you.” {Jersey St., early today, Roy Hardy, a.
sss. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Horse Market Bustles
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MAYOR TO GE DATA ON WATER FINDINGS TODAY
McNear Letter Declares ‘Misleading’ Statements Have Been Made.
A rough draft of Judson Dickerman’s findings in his study of the Indianapolis Water Co. property was to be submitted to Mayor Sullivan probably this afternoon. The Federal Trade Commission utilities expert said he had not made arrangements yet to meet the Mayor but expected to have the typing of his report completed this morning. The report is to be used by the Mayor's committee of City officials in deciding on the proposed purchase of the company by the City.
Reveals “Protest Letter”
Meanwhile, C. W. McNear, Chicago investment broker representing the C. H. Geist Estate in negotiations for sale of the company to the City, made public a five-page letter to Mayor Sullivan calling attention to what he termed “misleading” statements “from apparently misinformed sources.” He told the Mayor that a report that the estate had offered to sell the company to any private party or company, including “Eastern capitalists,” at a price lower than that offered the City, was “absolutely untrue.” He also contradicted statements that bonds for the purchase of the company would be sold by the City without competition to favored individuals.
Cites Indiana Law
“Such a statement,” he explained, “not only is untrue, but without excuse as the Indiana law requires that such bonds must be sold to the Dighges bidder at advertised public sale.” He also asserted that while the utility, under municipal ownership, would not be subject to taxes, profits from the waterworks income will be set aside in an amount equal to the company’s present taxes, thus vermitting “an equalization reduction in the City’s tax rates to offset any increase in the rates of the other taxing units required to reimburse them for income now received from the company.” He referred also to opinions on the value of the company “by in-
dividuals who, we believe, have been!
more misguided or ill-advised than intentionally misleading.” One of these he mentioned as the statement that ‘the water company is not worth as much as it was five years ago because the growth of air-conditioning is using up ‘our supply of good well water.’ ” “It is interesting to note that
FREE METHODISTS RETAIN MUSIC BAN
WINONA LAKE, Ind. June 27 (U. P.).—The Free Methodist Church will continue services without music, a vote of the quadrennial conference decreed today. Delegates voted 98 to 61 to continue a 60-year ban against music in their churches.
FLOATING POWER PATENT SUIT OPENS
The “floating power” advertised for cars made by the Chrysler Corp. was the subject of a patent infringement suit which opened in Federal Court here today before Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Rolland S. Trott, Denver, Colo, automotive inventor, brought suit against the Chrysler Corp., charging that it had patented engine mounting inventions based on information he had given them “in confidence.” In the petition Mr. Trott stated that he already had patented the devices and had described them to Chrysler engineers for the purpose of selling them the rights to manufacture and sell the invention. Mr. Trott is petitioning that he be awarded damages and profits accruing from sale of the invention, that the company be enjoined permanently from advertising “floating power” and that all of their patents on the invention be turned over to him.
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1939] STATE ROAD PROJECT BIDS TOTAL $77,613
Low bids received by the State Highway Commission today for resurfacing 82 miles of roads totaled $77,613, which is $19,683 below the engineers’ estimates. The resurfacing projects are in Porter, Marshall, St. Joseph, Fulton, Ripley, Dearborn, Washington and Jefferson counties.
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day, mayor's courts automatically] : : y, d automa yi “ . a en are abolished and jurisdiction of | I ganpled ah i an Ha justice of peace courts in traffic Goce [IM 8 block and a 1a : cases is removed [sy was clad in sleeping clothes. | Ira M. Holmes, attorney for the| At His a Cg SNe mo | petitioners, said he believes the law |S 0 les and asain grappled {is constitutional in that it is pro- with Poy The Rh str ck him vided as a branch of the Circuit|™! x rE 5
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| m————————————————— CHANGES FORECAST IN JAIL PROCEDURE
LeRoy J. Keach, Safety Board | president, said the Board today will order ‘sweeping changes” in pro|cedure at City Prison in an effort to eliminate alleged violations of civil liberties. Last week, Board members ordered investigations into the alleged { 26-hour imprisonment of an Indijana University student on a traffic icharge and the arrest and im{prisonment of an Indianapolis citi{zen on a traffic charge on which he |already had paid a court fine
over again. This Horse Market is owned by J. T. Shroyer and has been operated for many years at the same spot, only and always on Monday. They auction livestock and hay and fence posts and grain—those are the staples. But you might be able to buy fishing worms or can openers, or paint or used Christmas cards—who can tell? One man was trying to sell a mail box. “Who'll give me a dime for a mail box? Who'll give a dime for a mail box?” Pause. “What, no one?” Skillets on Block
“All right, put it in them skillets. Now who'll give me a dime for the lot?” And pretty soon some one
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cents. Hundreds and hundreds of individual deals are made each Monday. The buyers sit in a sort of palcony and don’t say much. Sometimes it’s hard even to see who's bidding what. The bid may be a simple nod of the head. What's got the employees a little concerned about the whole program is next Christmas. It comes on Monday, sale day. They don't think the sale will be postponed or called off just because of that prank cf the calendar. What they can’t dope out is how many customers they'll have.
HUSBAND IN PRISON, WIFE GIVEN DIVORCE
Mrs. Mildred Shedd Duvall, 25, was granted a divorce in Circuit Court today from her husband, Raymond Duvall, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last | week on a murder charge. | | Mrs. Duvall told Circuit Court! {Judge Earl R. Cox that her hus-| {band had “always been in trouble”| |since she met him in grade school
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{dry executive, Clayton C. Potts, in {1937. Mrs. Duvall's maiden name
jof Shedd was restored. The couple was married in 1934.
ACTRESS WILL WED HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 27 (U. P).—Lyn Logan, stage actress, and Alfred Nathan Jr, wealthy New York manufacturer, revealed today they will sail for Hawaii in about two weeks, and be married either before sailing, aboard ship, or in Honolulu.
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TEACHER MAY SAVE JOB BY APOLOGIZING
NEW ALBANY, Ind. June 27 (U. P.).—Helen L. White, 36, a teacher here, can regain her job by publicly apologizing to a pupil whom she slapped before a class, according to a compromise decision of the Floyd County Circuit Court. She had filed a mandamus suit to force the School Board to renew her contract. She was accused of slapping Elsie Lee Sarles, 15, a pupil but said that she didn't know of a School Board ruling forbidding such | action. She had apologized to the girl in the presence of her parents. When she refused to apologize before the class, the Schoo! Board refused to renew her contract.
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