Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1939 — Page 10

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SENTENCE OF DEATH

THX COLLECTION

~ OFF $3,000,000

State Reveals Diop in Year:

County Receipts Nearly . $500,000 Less.

: Gross Yncomc Tax collections in Marion County during 1938 were

“nearly $500,000 less than during]

the previous year, it was disclosed . today. . Figures made public by the Gross “Income Tax Division also revealed =that llections throughout the State ~in the same period. Figures Show Drop . Collections Marion County last year were $4,910,164 as com‘pared with $5,385,175 during 1937. -Of last| year’s total, $247,318 was ‘from the deficiendy tax and $65,5.278 was from penalty and interest, “the report showed. The total collected in the State during 1938 was $19,880,102, as compared with $22,958,724 during 1937. The 1938 collection was slightly under the 1936 collection, which was $19,942,597.

The State's share of welfare ||

costs in| Marion County, based on the final appropriations for this year, wil be $1,234,689, the report revealed = Of this amount $499,050 will be for old age assistance,

sistance | to dependent children in «custody of relatives, $109,130 for personal services, and $259,119 as provided by the Special Reimbusement of the General Assembly Act

of 1938. : Loss Is $2,147,025

On the “profit and loss” sheet the report discloses that Marion County has a gross income tax loss of $2,147,025. During 1938 a total of $4,910,164 was paid in Marion County while $2,763,139 was returned to the County. Of this latter amount schools in. Marion County received $1,528,450 and $1, 234,689 was for

‘CHEATED’ 31 YEARS

TRENTON, N. J.,, Aug. 1 (U. P). —Another anniversary was past today for 80-year-old Archie Herron, pipe-smoking “hermit” of New Jer_sey State Prison who killed a man 31 years ago and escaped the electric chair through the death of another. Herron, who spends 18 hours a day in his cell and mingles no more than he has to with other convicts, gave no sign yesterday that.he knew it was the anniversary of his imprisonment. He smoked a little, dozed a little and read a little, just as he has every day since July 31, 1908. On July 15, 1908, Herron killed the Rev. Samuel B. D. Prickett of New - Brunswick and a few days

pped more than $3,000,000)

for the public. g ernment Reports in the Chamber

law. The 47-page booklet contains numbers of hundreds of Statc and

To Talk on Gold Fields—The diamond and gold fields of South Africa will be discussed by Basil Holt, Knoxville, Tenn., at a Kiwanis Club

meeting tomorrow noon at the Columbia Club. Mr. Holt was born

time. Nurse to Study at Harvard—Miss

nurse in the State Public Welfare Department's Crippled Children’s

graduate study at Harvard Medical School. She has been granted an extended leave beginning in September. Miss Johnson received the scholarship, provided from Federal funds, through. the -Crippled Children’s Division.

Butler Meeting Is Today—Dr. D. S. Robinson, Butler University’s new president, is to meet with members of the Men's Council, fraternity heads and advisers and other officials of men’s groups at a dinner meeting today on the Butler Campus. General fraternity problems for the coming school year will be discussed.

3 5 SX oo , Miss Margaret Monce, 41t N. Delaware St., sorts the 1000 directories of State and Federal offices in Indianapolis which have been printed The directories, being distributed by the office of Gov-

sent through the mail unless requested because of the new franking'

and lived In South Africa for some; Hazel Johnson, traveling orthopedic ;

Division, will spend a year in post-|

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of Commerce building, cannot be

names, office addresses and phone Federal officials.

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A three-hour ¢ourse in the History of Education te be taught by Prof. Henry M. Whisler has been added to the curriculum of the post-summer term at Butler University. Other courses will be offered during the session in the departments of botany, education, history and political science; soci-

‘mander; . |vice commander; Ray W. Druding, - ladjutant; George ' Poppa,"

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Legion Post 361 Elects—The Hugh Copsey Post 361, American Legion, has elected officers for 1939-40. They Henry Marks, commander; | William O. Harper, first vice comWillard J. Kelsey, second

finance officer; George Burkhart, ' service; Little, historian, and Walter. A. Wells, sergeant-at-arms, . Chairmen for the coming’ year include Forest Marsh, athletics; Mr. Herberg, boys’ state; Arthur Perry,

of the Legion; Mr. Kelsey, C. M. T.

will be held Sunday at Tipton. Park,

| Tipton, Ind. A basket dinner will be | served. All branches of the family | are invited and should contact F. E.{}.

Dillan, secretary, 3340 N. Meridian

Levi P, Moore, member -of the Indiana Board of Agriculture and publicity manager of the Indiana State Fair, is in San Francisco, Cal. visiting the International Exposition for suggestions for the Indiana Fair opening Sept. 1. Fair officials here said that Mr. Moore will attempt to get several championship swine entered for the Hoosier Fair. All entries in the swine division must be in by Aug. 16.

Shake Reunion Sunday—The annual Shake family reunion. will be held next Sunday at Christian Park. Relatives and friends are invited. The all-day program, begin-

dinner and games. Chester Shake, Lafayette Heights, Ind. is the president, and Mrs. Mildred Shake, Lafayette Heights, the secretary-treasurer,

Club to Welcome Pastor—Townsend Club 48 is to hold a homecoming reception for its president, the Rev. R. M. Dodrill, Broadway Baptist Church pastor, tonight at 7:30 o’clock. The Rev. Mr. Dodrill has been in Atlanta, Ga., attending the International Baptist Conference.

Gene Godfrey and Hartman Egger, youthful manvfacturers of archery tackle here, never heard of anyone killing an alligator with a bow and arrow, so they set out today to try it. Equipped with their own best archery tackle and a canoe bound to the top of their old-model coupe, the youths left their respective homes at 5733 N. Delaware St., and 3347 N. Capitol Ave., with the Okefenokee Swamp on the Suwanee River in Georgia as their destination. “We are going to try to kill

{C.; John T. Taylor, graves regis- |. 24 tration. Delegates to the state convention 1 are Arthur T. Miller and Mr. Marks|'! with Mr. Harper and William Tea- |" garden as alternates.

| Newkirk Reunion Sunday—The| .|27th annual Newkirk family reunion

BERKELEY, Cal, rent 1 ~Thousands of years of antiquity were shaved off the glaciers of the Sierra Nevada mountain range here on, the

Pacific Coast when Francois E.

tthes of the U. S. Geological Survey told the Sixth ific Con-

remnants of ancient “ice age” glaciers but a new crop ‘horn as late~as 4000 years ‘ago. irge. glaciers ‘of the Pacific

Nor west have survived from the

- | Pleistocene or, ‘ice age epoch of

about 10,000 years ago, Mr. ‘Matthes

gress here today that they are not |

Serious crime To has “been

"declining gradually since 1930, the

Council of : Social Agencies reports. Last year, critiie reached. a low point of 6191 class one offenses: ‘as ‘compared with 9904 ‘in "1930. “Youth crimes also are lessening, it ‘was’ Teported.

SNAKE TOO FRIENDLY WILBUR, Wash., Aug. 1 (U.P). —Mrs. Melvin Novotney was washing clothes when she felt something thumping one of her feet. Looking

down, she saw a large bull Soake

coiled around a leg of machine and moving its head he and down on her foot.

TAX PAYMENTS RISE|

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. P)— —Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced today that '$197,640,069 in deficiency income tax |} assessments were made during the fiscal year ended June 30, an increase of 16 per cent for the year. This ‘was exclusive of penalties and interest. It represented: the largest amount of deficiency assessments for any year since 1931. The Treasury, Secretary Morgeng |thau said, refunded $34,616,121, an increase of 18 per cent over the

; preyious fiscal year.

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“Trees” Will Be Subject at Y. M. C. A.—Dr. R. H. Turley, University

State Deaths

ANDERSON—Miss Elizabeth Hobbs, Survivors: Brothers, Jesse, Frank. . Ellen Boots, Survivors: Hus-

later heard Judge James J. Bergen | order his execution. ° A succession of reprieves postponed the execution and finally, in

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| "injuries supposedly received when

1909, Judge Bergen ordered an indefinite stay “pending further orders.” Shortly thereafter Judge Bergen died, and under the then

could be signed only by the justice who presided at the trial. Ever since Herron, though still under sentence of death, has been waiting for nature to accomplish

what the electric chair, through a [*°}

technicality, was prevented from

TREE FALL DUE TO BULLET

VISALIA, Cal, Aug. 1 (U. P).— Examining Porfirio Barajas, 9, for

he fell from a tree, hospital attendants were amazed to find a bullet lodged at the base of his brain. They said the youth evidently had been struck by a stray bullet, which caused him to fall

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~ ELWOOD—Mrs. George So ondon. 66. Sur-

band, Gerald; . daughter, Elgin Joan, father, Neal Redmon: sisters, Mrs. Oalee Dotson, Mrs; Pearl M. Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Wiseheart: brothers, En, Lon, Joseph and _ Charles Redm Mrs. Dorotha May Clear, 59. Ba Daughters, Mrs. anda Dale, Miss Fay Cigars sons, Bill Roy, Lester; brother, Floyd H Ezey. BOONVILLE—Mrs. Clophia Lutz, 39. Survivors: Husband, Fred; daughters, Betty | Jane, Virginia Lee; son, Howard; sisters, Mrs. Ida Gentry, Mrs. Frank Evitts; brother. Robert, Sylvester, Grant Epper-

CHESTERTON — James B. Lenburg, 79. Survivors: Wife, Helena: daughters, Mrs. Mayme Jentzen, . Gertrude Robbins, Mrs. Anna Prentiss; son, James. CONNERSVILLE—MTrs. Ads LaRue, 69. Survivor: Husband, Philli

vivors: Daughter, Mrs. Ova Funk; brothers, Ted, Roy Sellee; sister, Mrs. Lloyd Devault. EVANSVILLE—Thomas Hubbard, 64. Survivors: Sons, James Marvin, Orville, Robert, Ora; daughters, Miss Ruth Hubbard, Mrs. George Reed; sisters, Mrs. William Hollman, Mrs. Riley Stansberry.

Mrs. Eldora Frances Henn, 64. Survivors: Husband, Charles; daughters, Mrs.

Heights United Brethren Church pastor, will speak on “Trees” at the Y. M. C. A. Bible Investigation Club at 6 p. m. tomorrow at the “Y.” Dr. Oscar Lackey, club president, will ‘ibe in charge.

Incendiary Fire Fails—Edgar Watkins, 821 W. 11th St., reported to police today that someone pried a board off the side of his garage, poured kerosene over his motor car and attempted to start a fire with Inewspapers during the night. The papers were burned but no other

under thé front leg, just where the stomach starts. 1 hope that is right.” Both boys are members of the Indianapolis Archery Club, and both experienced in hunting small game with the bow and arrow. They expect to be gone about three weeks.

Detroit Man to Speak—Charles Baxter, Detroit, will address members of Townsend Club 10 at 8 o'clock tomorrow night at 612 E.

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Geneva Scholz, Mrs. Alma E. Green; sons, Fred H., Gilbert; brothers, John and Charles Marquis; sisters, Mrs. Minnie Runkle, Mrs. Etta Throgmorton. Betty Lou Islage, 7. Survivors: Father. Rufus Oslage: sisters, Misses Charlotte, Bernice and Ruth Burkhead; brothers, Frederick, Irvin. Henry O. Kolkman, 59. Estelle,

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FT. WAYNE—Matthias Feuchter, 76. Survivors: Sons, George, Fred; daughter, Mrs. Rose Toor. : Charles G. Fox. Survivors: Wife, Mary T.; daughter, Mrs. Joseph L. Wyss. Mrs. Elizabeth Schaphorst, 83. Suryivors: , Sons, John, William, Harry; sisrs. Carolyn Young, Mrs. "Louls Bilinenthater; brothers, John, George Ra-

"George M. Mills, 81.- Survivors: Wife, Mrs. Emma Haynes: sons, Scott, Andrew, Ernest; daughter, Mrs. John Brown. ‘Miss Clara C Klenke, . Survivors: Father, Frederick; s , Mrs. Louis E. Spaulding, Miss Henrietta Klenke; brother,

John F. Fuelling, 88. ters. Mrs. Caroline Goeglein, Mrs. Amelia s, Mrs. Bertha Hall; sons, Louis, ' Charles Frederick; brothers, cob, Charles, the Rev. Martin. Fuelling. William O. Lakev. 73. Survivors: daughters Mrs. B, H. K Virts, Mrs. F. F. Wilson, TS. Samuel Simon; stepsons, Myron, Rufus, Wayne Young. GARY~—Robert Wife, Laura; sons, Burr McGhee; brothers, Will, Ghee: sisters, Mrs. . Hosler, Campbell, Mrs. Andrew Murray. HAMMOND-—Mrs. Theresa C. Young. 62. Survivors: Husband, Peter; daughters, Mrs. Mathias Hafner, Mrs. Alden Ketchum, Mrs. Glen Graw. Misses Mildred, Evelyn Young; son. Edward J.; stepdaughter, Mrs. Fred LaBrenz, stepsons. John, Young; sisters, Mrs. Mary Arnold, Mrs. se Emmerling, Mrs. Julia Lawrence; Prothers, Dr. William, Joseph, IL. Harry’ eis MENTONE—John Jenkins, 84. Survivors: Son, Howey; daughters, Mrs. Ruth Bu cci, Mrs. Cora Dutton, Mrs. Hazel Kraatz. NEW CASTLE—Harry R. Smith, 44. Sup. vivors: Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith: daughter, Marilyn; brother, Jack; sister, Mrs. George McCoy. POSEVVILLE-- William Albert Stallings, 80. Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Aleen Hallam, Mrs. George Dilbeck; son, Herman Stallings. 87.

Suryviv Mary Schachter, "Mrs. Eeepeth: ’Rohiman, Mrs. Leo Schlachter; sons, John, Joseph.

SUMMITVILLE—Mrs. Delia M., Powell, 88. Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. William Weaver, Mrs. ‘Albert Miller, Mrs. T. B. Mrs. D. F. Johnson, Mrs. H. H.

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LOCAL DEATHS |

Elisha A. Clark

Services for Elisha A. Clark, former veterinarian and for many years Indianapolis representative of the Hercules Powder Co., will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow at his home, 5800 Bluff Road. r. Clark died at his home Sunday. He was 62 and was chief doorkeeper for the Indiana Legislature for four complete sessions. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Frances A. Clark; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Brock, and a sister, Mrs. Nellie E. Rose, San Diego, Cal. Mr. Clark was a member of the Center Methodist Church, Southport Lodge 270, F. and A. M, and the Sahara Grotto.

‘Carl R. Stauffer

Carl R. Stauffer, World War veteran and former employee of the Ford Motor Co, here, died last night Hospital, He had been a patient there since Feb. 13, 1938. Mr. Stauffer was 42, a native of Pennsylvania, and had lived in Indianapolis since 1919. He was in the Marine Corps during the war, stationed at Paris Island. Mr. Stauffer lived at 730 N. Bradley St. He was a member of Irvington Post, American Legion, 40 and 8, of Brookside Lodge, F. & A. M,,

B.|and the Saraha Grotto. He also was

a member of the Zion Evangelical Church. He was for some time Republican committeeman of the fourth precinct of the ninth ward. He . is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cova, E. Stauffer. Services are to be at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Wald Funeral Home and burial will be in Washington Park Cemetery.

Mrs. George H. Secrist

Services for Mrs. Daisy Howerton Secrist, lifelong resident of Marion

morrow at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary, Burial will be in Crown i Mrs. Secrist, who Was 61, died Sunday at her home, 3354 Guilford Ave. She was the wife of George H. Secrist.

County, will be held at 3:30'p. m. to-|

George H. Shepard

Services for George H. Shepard, Purdue University industrial engineer who died Sunday at Methodist Hospital here, will be tomorrow in St. Lafayette. The American Legion wiil conduct services at the grave, . He is survived by his wife and a son, Andrew G. Shepard, a U. S. Navy man stationed at the New York Navy Yard.

Harry J.| Kleinman

Services for Harry J. Kleinman will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel with burial in Washington Park. Mr. Kleinman, a native of Indianapolis and a woodworker - for many years, was 49. He died yesterday at his home, 1229 N. Kealing Ave. He was a member of the Centenary Christian Church, the Brookside Masonic Lodge and the Sahara Grotto. He was employed by the Weigle Cabingt Co. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Kleinman; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Miller; his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth - Kleinman; a sister, Miss Christine Kleinman, and ‘an aunt, Mrs. Sophia Markley, all of Indianapolis.

Eva Violet Huffman

Private services for Miss Eva Violet Huffman will be held at 3:30 p. m. Thursday at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Crémation will follow. “Miss Huffman, who lived at 147 W. 9th St., died yesterday at Methodist Hospital. Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Allan Karns and Mrs. Grace Favrean, and a brother, A. E. Huff= man, all of Bowling Green, O., and a brother, C. D. Huffman, of Hollywood, Cal.

—— HE DIDN'T BANK ON THAT NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (U.P.)— Francis Bendelari, 62, was arraigned in Tombs Court today as an alleged heggar. In an inside pocket, police found a bank .book with a balance of $2583. Bendelari will be sentenced Friday.

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