Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1939 — Page 1
FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight; local thundershowers tomorrow; not much change in temperature.
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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 136
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NOLANTO TOUR ~ ALL PROJECTS IN WPA PA PROBE
q ‘Have’ the Fac Facts Under --- Consideration,” Says U.S. Attorney. DEAD. “ENDS IMPROVED Property Owners Face Quiz ‘In Areas of Unsanctioned - Development. U. s. District Attorney -Val Nolan
today began a personal inspection of WPA projects in Marion County
on which reported irregularities |- have been probed by WPA investi-|
gators. He was accompanied by Richard Thompson, head of the WPA Division” of Investigation for Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and ~ Missouri. Meanwhile, wo Congressional investigators, George J. Shillito and Matthew - J. Connelly, continued ‘their own investigation and will ‘report their findings to a House of Representatives subcommittee.
‘Have Facts,’ Says Nolan
Mr. Thompson came here from Chicago and conferred with WPA officials this morning before calling
-upon Mr. Nolan. Among the proj-|
ects in which irregularities were reported and which were to be inspected by Mr. Nolan were Walnut Mills, Homecroft and Derbyshire subdivisions, and the Ritter Ave. construction. “I have the facts under consideration with a view to determining whether any Federal statute has beerr violated,” Mr. Nolan said. _ “Meanwhile, the community should not be prejudiced against improvement or against owners of the property upon which the improvements were made. “It is entirely possible that there is no violation of any Federal statute. If Federal statutes have been violated, the facts will be presented to the Federal Grand Jury. If no Federal offense has been committed, then I shall close the files.”
Ruling Made by Harrington
H ‘there should be any Federal . prosecution, it is. believed that it}. would. center: about a regulation made July 12, 1938, by Col. F.. C. Harrington, then assistant WPA national administrator and now the administrator. This regulation stated: “Projects involving extension or improvement of streets and utilities in relatively undeveloped areas are ine'igible if a substantial proportion of the property abutting on the proposed improvement is in the hands of a real estate firm or small number ‘of individuals.” Mr. Nolan said that in the Walnut Hills subdivision, the WPA had improved Barth Ave. and Grube St. at a cost of $5114. The records show, Mr. Nolan said, that one man owned 41 of the 48 lots which were platted, and had dedicated road areas to public use. The WPA excavated and graded Barth Ave. making an 18foot gravel roadway, and excavated and graded Grube St. making a 12foot roadway. A sewer constructed by WPA in the Homecroft subdivision also will be inspected. Mr. Nolan said the WPA spent $11,831.58 in labor on .- this project before construction was stopped June 9 this: year.
Maynard Ave. Cost $4371
The extension of Maynard Ave., which was not platted, cost the | WPA $4371.73 for excavating and grading, and $4451 for building concrete sidewalks, curbs, gutters and driveway entrances, he said. "Mr. Nolan said the avenue led to a.dead end in open country. He said Loretta ‘Ave. and Fable Ave. were improved in the Derbyshire addition. Fable Ave., he said, ends in the middle of an apple orchard, and the streets built by WPA at a cost $6705 “served no existing structures.” John K. Jennings, State WPA administrator, said:. “I. have ‘no authority to discuss any matter under investigation. "It is in the hands of the WPA Division (Continued on Page Three)
CHANGES THE VOGUE; SHOWERS FORECAST
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 68 10am "am... 71 11 a.m... 8a m... 74 12 (noon). 9am... 9 1p m....
81 83 85» 86
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“with all these changes going around—Europe, Thanksgiving and the like—it’s better we fall in line, don’t you think?” comments the weatherman. .- So, after three days of partly cloudy, he looks over his list of Presidential decrees and states
imply: - “Thundershowers tomorrow.”
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REDUCE PERIL AT CROSSINGS
New Flashers Ordered on South Side as Part of State Program.
(Photo, Page Three)
Installation of new flasher signals at Madison Ave, and the Pennsylvania Railroad will start within 60 days, it was announced today. The move has been urged for some time by South Side residents and the City Police Department. Two persons have been killed in 14 acci-
dents caused by ati{omobiles crashing into the. center-of={. the-street concrete Bases. * Crossing lights also will be relocated at Madison Ave. and the Belt Railroad and Southeastern Ave. and the Pennsylvania this summer as the first part of a long-range program by. -the. State Highway Commission to eliminate this hazardous type of signal from Indiana highways. More than 70 new flasher signals
throughout ‘the State with Federal funds allocated especially for that purpose, according to T. A. Dicus, Highway Commission chairman. Also scheduled for immediate elimination are the center-of-the-street signals on Road 12 at Michigan City and Road 56 at Scottshurg, both scenes of numerous accidents this .year. The new signals to be installed this summer will cost a total of $228,000, ‘Mfr. Dicus stated. Similar signals have been :installed previously at 315 crossings and have ‘contributed greatly to reduction of accidents,”; he said. The new signals will ‘be the first installed under the recently issued Federal - regulations which permit railroads affected to purchase materials and place the devices. In the past the State Highway Commission was. required to take bids and award contracts for their. installation.
Death Thumbs A Tragic Ride
IVERMORE; Cal. Aug. 17 (U. P.-~—Frantically, elderly Walter Jenkius attempted to flag motorists ‘who swooped down the Mission Hill road near Livermore. Every few minutes he dashed to. a* nearby creek for water with which to revive his wife, Mrs. Carrie Linscott Jenkins, 64, of Watsonville. On’a vacation trip, Mrs. Jenkins was stricken with a heart attack on Tuesday, and after treatment, she and her husband resumed ‘their homeward journey. As they drove down Mission Hill a tire blew out. Overcome by heat ‘and - excitement, "Mrs. Jenkins fainted. For two hours Mr. Jenkins implored aid of passing motorists, but none stopped. Finally he gave .up. Mrs. Jenkins had died.
By Worry,
CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (U. P). = Laugh and the world laughs with you; worry and you may get arthritis. . That possibility was presented by Drs. Stanley Cobb, Walter Bauer
and Isabel Whiting of Boston in the Journal of the American Medical Association today. “Environmental stress, especially poverty, grief- and family worry,” they said, “seems to bear more than a chance relationship to the onset and flare-up of symptoms of rheu5 | matoid ‘arthritis (an inflammation of a joint, resembling rheumatism). The . relative importance of these factors in the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis can be established only by a much more. detailed ps chiatric
also are scheduled to be installed|
Migrants eat in Franklin jail after series of raids by Sheriff | Nelson W. Pangburn on boxcars and vacant buildings.
Franklin Sheriff Routs
Quest for Jobs in Torato Fields Brings Vag ra
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ncy Charges
mes Photes.
Others heard of the drive and quickly took to the Digheacs for their
| homes or for more hepiavi territory.
Roving Harvest Workers
‘We Don’t Want These Mo
ochers,” He Declares, While
Some Growers Defend Migrants.
By JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer ‘FRANKLIN, Ind, Aug. 17.—Supply and demand in the Johnson County. harvest labor situation virtually was balanced today through the
police powers of Sheriff Nelson W. Pangburn.
With his deputies, he searched
several rows of box cars, a vacant
building and many acres of weeds last night without finding a single can-
didate for ell
FAMILIES EVAGUATE IN ALABAMA FLOOD
Prattville. 1s Under. Water; Trainman Killed
PRATTVILLE, Ala, Ave: 17 (UU,
.|P.) —The business section of this
town of 2300 was under water today and National Guardsmen patroled the Bridge Creek Dam, seven miles north, which was threatening. to crumble. “The flood was general over south and central Alabama. In this vicinity the danger was worst and the first casualty oceurred early today when a Mobile and Ohio work train overturned on a washedout roadbed. The engine and one car plunged 40 feet down an embankment, killing Fireman M. S. Chisholm of Tuscaloosa. The engineer, E. D. Maharry, 44, was injured. ‘The lower section . of Prattville had been. evacuated and: 100 families had moved here from the vicinity of the dam. Autauga Creek had overrun its banks and poured four feet of water over most of the business distric
SCHUTT _ JOINS IN WATER CONFERENCE
Harry S. Schutt, Indianapolis Water Co. president and executor of the C. H. Geist estate, today entered the negotiations for sale of the water company to the City in a conference at City Hall. It was the first time that Mr. Schutt had taken any .part in the negotiations. Attending ‘the : conference were Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan; C. W. McNear, representative of the Geist estate; his attorney, Fred Bates Johnson; Will H." Thompson, Utility District counsel; Joseph Daniels, water company attorney; Joseph G. Wood, City Council president, and City Attorney Michael Reddington. It was believed that the conference was on legal phases of the
proposed purchase of the utility, in-|'
cluding the question of whether purchase of the company by the city would make the city liable for Fed-
eral and state taxes.
Arthritis May Be Caused
Doctors Say
Their conclusion was based on a study of 50 patients with typical rheumatoid arthritis. Thirty-one of the patients, 10 men and 21 women, gave histories of financial stress, “tough times,” “no work,” and ‘on relief,” the doctors said. “These accounts corresponded in point of time with the onset or flare-up of the arthritis.” In 12 other patients ‘the same underlying factors of uncertainty of work and worry about family livelihood appeared but without so much evidences of - relationship between the time of the events and the se-
verity of the arthritis. The remain-|
ing seven cases, including some of the youngest patients, gave no indication of relationship between social hsecurity. ang Brhr is, {he
doctors | pri
It was the third such raid in five days and the only one
that resulted in no arrests. A candidate for jail, Sheriff Pangburn repeatedly said, is a transient withotit ‘visible means of support seeking harvest field or canning factory work in a market that is glutted. Residents Surprised at Fuss
m general, “the. ‘resident’ of John= son ‘County ed surprised that the harvest labor problem had excited any interest outside the county.
The identical situation, apparently no better and no worse, arises every harvest season and a good many farmers say they uns raise a tomato crop were it not for the immigrant field workers.
this year, they said, it is that the tomato acreage was low, the yield disappointing and the crop about two weeks late because of rains.:
Laborers Came Early
Laborers arrived about two weeks early this year, they said, and most of them were broke, as usual. Thus,
thievery. But the “extra help” apparently was in full flight from the Sheriff and other police units, including State Police, which have united into motor patrols that criss-cross the county. “We don't. want those moochers in this county,” Sheriff Pangburn said. “And we're not going to have them. They are responsible for petty crimes that have increased around here in the last few days and when (Continued on Page Three)
Ten Forgotten Drivers Freed
JUST forgot about it.” That was the excuse Patrolman Harry Nolte gave Chief Michael F. Morrissey for failure to appear in Municipal Court yesterday against 10 motorists he had arrested for minor traffic- violations, the Chief declared today. “So far he has not been suspended,” Chief Morrissey said. “If he has no better excuse for it, he probably will be.” Chief Morrissey said that Patrolman Nolte is supposed to schedule | his traffic cases in August for aft‘ernoon hearings, but scheduled yesterday's cases for morning. l The 10 motorists perspired in the crowded courtroom for two hours before it was discovered the arresting officer was not in court and had not signed the affidavits. Five who signed affidavits against themselves pleaded guilty and were dismissed by Judge John McNelis. The other five affidavits were stamped “no affidavits” and the defendants freed.
BANDITS GET $15,000
_ PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17 (U. P.. —Five men armed with sawed-off shotguns held up the Wyoming Bank & Trust Co. in North Philadelphia during the noon rush today and ocaped W with loot estimated at
STOCK PRICES IRREGULAR NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (U.P).— Favorable domestic trade items were offset by an uncertain European situation today and stock ces were irregular. Resistance devel
after an, early. rise. Trading was slow.
_ HOGS UP 25 CENTS Hog prices rose 25 cents at Indianapolis = today with demand strong for light receipts. The to advanced to $6.25. Ve
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there was a good deal of bread box
LGTY TAX
OF $1.29 SEEN
Rise in Center Relief Rate Urged as Basis for _Pay-as-You-Go.
“Budget requests of City department heads may call for a 1940 Civil City tax rate of $1.29, it was learned today. The current. rate. is $1.30. Formal announcement of the City budget requests is scheduled for tomorrow.
However, increased : requests of County and township officials, already .announced, would boost, the Center Township (inside) rate to
ik "1939 Tevy. x “This Center Township rate. is based on levies for the Civil City, School City, County, Township poor relief and the State. The City and County Councils will endeavor to cut the budget items wkich also must be approved by: the: County Tax Adjustment and State Tax Boards.
Bond Tax Rates .Set
Meanwhile, County Auditor Fabian Biemer set proposed direct relief and relief bond tax rates: for nine Marion: County townships on
|estimates of 1940 relief expenditures
given him by township trustees. “The rates, which will be certified | to the -County Tax Adjustment Board, showed increases in Center, Perry and Wayne townships.
poor relief rate, which directly affects the. proposed total rate to be paid by property owners in Center Township, inside Indianapolis, was set at 59 cents. A rate of 36.2 cents was set for direct relief, compared to the current rate of 19.9, and a 22.8 cent rate was set to defray relief bond retirements next year compared to the 1939 rate of 12.1 cents.
Relief Levies Proposed
This rate hike was requested by the Center Township Trustee to put Center relief on a pay-as-you-go
be slightly less than the amount to be spent this year. Besides Center, township relief levies are: - Decatur, 18 cents, down 7 cents; Franklin, 8 cents, down 3 cents; Lawrence, 10 cents, down 4 cents; Perry, 54 cents, up 27 cents; Pike, 1 cent, down 5 cents; Warren, 10 cents, (Continued on Page Three)
HANES ASKS HELP IN
IREVISING U.S. TAXES
Urges Business, Labor and|
Farm Groups to Aid.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U. P)). —Acting Treasury Secretary John W. Hanes today invited industry, labor, commerce, banking, agriculture and the professions to cooperate on a tax revision program. He made public. the text of a letter being mailed today to leaders and organizations in the various improve the revenue system. -- The information he receives, Hanes said, will provide a record of “public tax opinion” for the sub-
Means Committee when it assembles on Nov. 1 to begin a revenue study preparatory to the next session of Congress. The Committee is expected to consider increasing income taxes in the low brackets among other things. Mr. Hanes asked help specifically on a program “which will f improve the laws relating _— indis| vidual and corporation taxes, the tions derived therefrom and
their. collection.” “This is our common problem and a. successful e tion will depend largely on our
standing of the Juestions that con {front both the G and the
- | well.”
The proposed Center Township
basis and eliminate issuance of re|lief bonds. Relief costs for 1940 will
the proposed
fields asking their views on how to|
committee of the House Ways and]
the - administrative procedure in}
toward its ‘solu-|: mutual and sympathetic under-|
VANNUYS SAYS
HE WILL FIGHT F.D.R.FOR "40,
Claims at t Least 15 Other Senators Won’t Support Third Term.
NOTES INDIANA
Pretty Well,” Hoosier Legislator Asserts.
—Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) said today that President Roosevelt probably can ‘cudgel’ a third term nomination from the 1940 Democratic national convention, but that at least 15 Democratic Senators will refuse to support him. Senator VanNuys, a consistent if the President decides against a third term and is permitted to choose as the party’s candidate “one of the political capons,” the Democrats will have difficulty in remaining in power. The Senator said that the only reason he would oppose Mr. Roosevelt “is because of the sacred twoterm tradition.”
‘Last Sacred Tradition’
“If we break down that last sacred tradition the country is gone,” he added. “I can name at least 15: Democratic Senators who feel the same way as I do and. who will do the same thing in their home states as I intend to do.”
sfipport Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt of Indiana for the 1940 nomination. In’ an interview the Senator said the MecNutt campaign “is doing pretty
“ Calls Indiana Split
He said that Mr. McNutt's return to this country from his as High Commissioner of the Philippines will help the Democrats next year in Indiana, where he said exists “a very serious division on’ Roosevelt's policies. .Senator vanNuys said that Mr. 1s | RoOSevelt’s recent message’ to. ‘the Young ° Democrats’ convention means only one thing — “if he
nominated, he intends to bolt.” "«“The President set the precedent for bolting when he supported Theodore Roosevelt, so he can’t very well criticize us for bolting ;away from some of his policies,” he said. “But there's one difference. No one can drive me out of the Democratic Party. I'll fight my battles within the party.” Poy X
BEGIN QUIET DRIVE ON PUNCHBOARDS
‘They Pop ea Now and Then,” Morrissey Says.
A quiet drive to eliminate punch boards from Indianapolis counters has been started by police, it was learned today. A member of the Safety Board, when asked to comment on the drive, said: “I guess they have been getting a little bold with them” Chief Morrissey said: “Has the lid ever been up?” He added that no specific drive was being made against the boards, but that occasionally officers were reminded at roll call that the boards violated the gaming laws.. This is
NAT
1 | necessary because the boards “pop
up now and then,” he said. ‘The boards, which have both money and merchandise as prizes, are reported to earn about $12 a week for some merchants.
LIFT SQUALUS STERN TO 100-FOOT DEPTH
‘PORTSMOUTH, N. H, Aug. 1 (U. P.).—The three top-most aft pontoons of the submarine Squalus appeared on the surface shortly after 12 noon (Indianapolis Time), signifying that the stern had been lifted about 70 feet to the 100-foot depth.
‘SPLIT’ |
McNutt Campaign Is ‘Doing
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U. P.).
critic of New Deal policies, said that|
Senator VanNuys is pledged to
doesn’t get himself or his choice|
store |
Fair and Cooler
Times Photo. A barometric hangover was all that remained today of 2-year-old Ruth Ann Eastes’ effort to get at the root of the weather problem. Yesterday ' Ruth Ann, burning with curiosity, broke the glass of: a thermometer and swallowed the contents—alcohol. That resulted in a flurry of anxiety and an emergency trip from her home, "815 Eugene. St., to City Hospital. Ruth Ann is fine today, and has turned her attention from thermometers to a rubber ball.
MURPHY PLACED
Attorney General Spoke, But Gave No Praise, Kuhn Testifies.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U. P). —Fritz Kuhn, leader of the Ger-man-American Bund, testified today before the Dies Committee that Attorney General Frank Murphy addressed. a bund meeting in Detroit in 1936.
.Kuhn volunteered this information after clashing repeatedly with the committee over the “fairness” of questions. He said Mr. Murphy, then a can-
was minutes on the “German element in general:” “Did he praise the Bind?" asked Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.). “Naw!” Kuhn replied.
». “Catched On Late”
Before the mention of Mr. Murphy, Kuhn had twice demanded legal counsel to protect himgfrom the “unfair questions” to which he said he “catched on too late.” Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.), committee chairman, then urged mem- . | bers to phrase’ their questions more “|carefully and Kunn agreed to withhold . formal request for an attorney. . He was being questioned principally about discrepancies in his testimony yesterday and statements he made to Committee Counsel Rhea Whitley in an interview last March. Kuhn testified that he favored a united front of organizations similar to the Bund. “You call them Fascist,” he said, “I call them patrictic organizations.” He denied that he wanted to be the head of the group, which would include such other organizations as the Silver Shirts and the Knights of the White Camelia. Mr. Whitley said that in his previous statement Kuhn asserted that (Continued on Page Three)
Lead Police to Loot in Park
WO patrolmen spent this morning turning over stones and sticks in Christian Park and finding an amazing assortment of valuables ranging from old coins to watches and hunting knives. Prompting them in the treasure hunt’ were four boys, 13 to 17, who, police said, took the things from Livingston homes and hid them in the park. Patrolmen Roy Conway and William Rowe followed the boys from stone to stone and stick to stick, collecting hi@iden articles of a total value of about $150. They took the ters and turned them and the alleged loot over tol the detectives for further Joven ation.
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Prisoner, 91, ‘One More’ ’ @G.
DES MOINES, Iowa. Aug. 17 (U. P.).—Marvin T. Grattan, 91, a Civil War veteran serving an 8-year sentence for manslaughter, was freed by Governor George A. Wilson today so he could attend “just one more G. A. R. national encampment to swap yarns with his buddies.” Governor Wilson announced “he €r'| had granted Grattan his freedom so that the white-haired veteran and his wife could leave today for the encampment at Pittsburgh, Pa. “I'm going to grant him a pardon as soon as. it can be arranged,” he said. : Grattan -was convicted of Slaughter for the death Jang
Freed for A. R. Session
Meade when they quarreled over the identity of a jockey. . He was convicted of murder but the Iowa Supreme Court refused to uphold the conviction. At his second trial he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to eight. years imprisonment. In consideration of his age he was taken to the Iowa Soldiers’ Home at Marshalltown and held in technical custody. ‘ He received permission to leave the home yesterday and, with his wife, came to Des Moines to make a direct plea to Governor Wilson and ihe State Board of Pardons at - | their regular monthly meeting. “I suppose I did it for ene
0 tal reasons.” Governor ‘Wilson said.
“Grattan wanted just one ‘more
3 shane to Swap. yarns with his bua. day.
AT BUND RALLY
didate for Governor of Michigan,
NAZIS PREDICT
DANZIG CRISIS IN TWO WEEKS
f [Poles Seize ze 100 Germéh :
Youths as Spies, Free Leader of Group.
FOREIGN SITUATION
WARSAW--Poles say Germans : seek to alienate U. S. 3
BERLIN — Nazi papers say Reich must have Corridor, too. :
LONDON—Pledge against economic war considered. i 2 ” ”
SHANGHAI— Americans worried at fall of Chinese money.
By UNITED PRESS While Nazi quarters today cone tended that settlement of the Danzig problem is a question of days, Poland arrested about 100 young Germans on charges of espionage and plotting terrorism. Diplomatic activity gathered speed as Berlin observers compared the present status to that of 10 days or two weeks before the Sudeten settlement last year.
There was an open telephone line from Rome to Berchtesgaden, where Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is staying and the Italian press joined Germany's in a campaign of attacking Poland.
Nazi Troops on Move
‘Well-informed sources predicted another meeting shortly between the Italian and German Foreign Ministers, Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop. It was also reported that the summoning of the German Reichstag for a Government declaration was being. considered. The Vatican City correspondent of the Paris newspaper Figarc reported today that His Holiness Pope Pius XII has abandoned his idea of a four-power conference to settle European problems after receiving a’ pessimistic report from the Papal Nuncio to Warsaw, who saw ‘foreign Sinister Josef Beck several days: German oe. were reported active in extensive maneuvers along the Polish frontier while the Nazi press declared that there could be no compromise with Poland, but that Germany must have the Danzig Pree City and ‘the Polish Corridor to the sea as well. The only concession offered to Poland was a free po t on the Baltic in what would be German. territory. x
Charge Polish “Terror”
he press assailed Poland as the aggressor and clamored in detail about “wave of terror” against the German minority in Poland, men=tioning. specifically the arrests in Silesia today. The official German News Agency said that the co-leaders of the German minority, Rudolf Wiesner, a former member of the Polish Senate, and President Jankowski of the union of German workers in Poland, were among those arrested. - The Polish Government said Wiesner had been released but that the 100 or so youths still held were part of an organization “founded by and controlled from Germany for the purpose of espionage and violence.” A report of the German D. N. B. News Bureau said “far more than 1000 persons have been arrested in Upper Silesia. Frontier Is Closed
All the arrests were made in the Upper Silesia region near the German border, which was closed yesteraay when many of the young Germans attempted to flee. - Political quarters in Warsaw suggested that Germany’s tactics are to alienate Poland from her allies, and even from the sympathy of the United States, by portraying her to the world as a “voracious aggressor.” Germany also, these quarters said, is spreading reports abroad of peace (Continued on Page Three)
PIONEER OF STATE'S LOG CABIN ERA DIES
Mrs. Elnora Price, who was bon 90 years ago in the Whitley County log cabin her mother helped build, died. today at her home, 1139 Fletcher Ave. She was born March 21, 1849, the daughter of Conrad and Anna Meyer who came from Germany to
‘| establish their home in sparsely set-
tled northern Indiana nearly a century ago. She married Henry Price in 1873 and they moved to Indianapolis in 1901. Mr. Price died 23 years ago. She was a member of the Emmanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Ladies’ Aid Society. She is survived by two daughters, Misses Lillie and.Clara Price, and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Geiger of Herscher, Ill. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the home and at 2 p. m. at the church.
DIETERICH RETAINED: AS COUNSEL BY HOLT
‘Former U. S. Senator Willism Dieterich of Illinois has been re tained as counsel by Olin R. Holt, former Kokomo Mayor who was convicted in Federal Court here several months ago of conspiracy fo defraud the Government by cof verting WPA labor to private use. “Former Senator Dieterich v appear for Holt when his appeal is > argued before the U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago soon, Disuict a8 Atiaemey Val Nolan 5