Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1939 — Page 28
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TRIO ACCUSED OF MAIL FRAUD T0 FACE TRIAL
~ Mrs. Donnell and Two Men Go to Court Monday in Alleged Swindle.
The trial of three persons indicted in an alleged $640,000 Indiana mail fraud “swindle ring” will open in Federal Court Monday. The defendants are Mrs. Ethel Pitt Donnell, 3715 N. Meridian St.; John K. Knapp, 2703 Washington Blvd., and Edward J. Hartenfeld, of
Henderson, Ky. and Chicago. Ajlish Ave. will sponsor a three-act| gto ;
fourth defendant, Robert Beckett, 5520 College Ave., has pleaded guilty. He will be sentenced when the trial ~ is completed. According to U. S. Attorney Val - Nolan the alleged ring took $640,000 from 200 Indiana investors. Mrs. Donnell has been named as an officer of four companies through which operations allegedly were carried on. Mr. Beckett was sales agent.
18 Separate Charges Listed These companies are the Green River Valley Coal Co., Indianapolis; - and the Green River Valley Terminal Co. of Indianapolis and Evansville, both Indiana corporatons; the Chicago, Ohio & Mississippi Transit Co., Henderson, Ky. a Delaws corporation, - and the American _ Terminals & Transit Co., Henderson, Ky. a Kentucky corporation. Mr. Nolan said that operations covered by the indictments, which make 18 separate charges of fraud, took place from 1932 to 1937. Most of the investors were widows and aged persons, he said, some of whom lost their life savings. Mrs. Donnell at the time of her arrest charged the indictment was a “Securities and Exchange Commission frameup.” The SEC, she said, had investigated the transactions involved in the indictment and “found nothing wrong.” Note Trading Charged Mr. Nolan said Mrs. Donnell was president, director and treasurer of the Green River Valley Terminal Co.: secretary-treasurer . of the American Terminals & Transit Co.; vice president, treasurer and director of the Green River Valley Coal Co., and vice president, treasurer and director of the Chicago, Ohio & Mississippi Transit Co. Mr. Nolan said investors were traded promissory notes of the Green River Valley Terminal Co. for building and loan stock, which was immediately sold on the market, some for 80 cents on the dollar. Among the victims who lost life savings, Mr. Nolan said, was a woman who appeared before the Grand Jury in a wheelchair. A local woman who turned over $23,000 is now in a charity home, he said. Two charwomen investe& $17,000 and went back to Ireland thinking they would.get $100 a month for the rest of their lives, he said. When they received no money, friends topk up a collection to send them back to investi-
Shortridge Seniors Elect—Walter
Freihofer has been elected Shortridge senior class president. Ann Bishop was named vice president; Susan Alvis, secretary; Fred Maynard, treasurer, and Joseph Goldsmith, Annual editor.
P.-T. A. Sponsors Play — The P.-T. A. of School 82, at 4800 Eng-
comedy, “Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar” in the school auditorium at 8 p. m. today. Children’s Theater and Radio School members will participate.
Mrs. Homer Thompson is the P.-T. A. president.
The Indianapolis Railways annovnced today that because of rail repairs it will substitute bus service on the Butler University branch of the Ilinois line at 34th St. after 8 p. m. tomorrow and all day Sunday. Busses will follow the regular streetcar route. Passengers will be given free transfers 34th ang Illinois Sts.
Lodge Honors Old Members— Hosbrook Lodge 473, F. & A. M,, of New Augusta will honor its old members at an open meeting at the lodge room at 8 p. m. Tuesday. Guests will include Otto M. Cox and Claude M. Jacoby, deputy grand master,
Presbyterians to Elect—Oflicers for 1940 will be elected by the Men of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church on Dec. 1. The presidential post already has been filled by Dr. Robert W. Blake, named recently.
Bell Worker for 30 Years—Henry C. Bearry, Indiana Bell Telephone Co. pay station collector, today became eligible for a gold emblem recognizing 30 years continuous service with the Bell System. He already had nine years experience in telephone work when, in November, 1909, he joined the Central. Union Telephone Co., predecessor to the Indiana Bell. His first job was as a lineman for the Whiteland Telephone Co. Mr. Bearry has been a member of the Telephone Pioneers since 1928.
Takes I. U. Medical Center Post— The appointment of Dr. Arthur P. Echternacht as roentgenologist at the Indiana University Medical Center was announced today by Dr. W. D. Gatch, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Echternacht, a graduaie of Butler University and Washington University at St. Louis, has been a radiologist at the medical center the last year. Dr. Gatch said the appointment further strengthens the medical school’s facilities for teaching in the field of X-ray.
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EXPECT TOWNSEND RULING NEXT WEEK
| Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox .|is expected to ru'e next week on v the abatement plea to an injunction : suif against the Townsend Na- : | tional Recovery Plan. which yesterday during ‘a hearing was termed “a $5,00C,000 money-making Re scheme.” The charge was made by Harvey Polley" Prints Shown — Frederick| H, Smith, Covington, Ky., attorney
Polley of Indianapolis is exhibiting; who as leader of a Kentucky Townfour prints in the Third Annual Ex- Send Sis. Hled suit here last June hibit of Miniature Etchings at Chi-| 0 Prevent the national organ zacago. Mr. Polley has been Be times tion from refusing to seat the Kenwinner of the first prize at the tucky delegation at the national Hoosier Salon at Chicago and- re- sonvenflon. cently had a first in oils at the In- e national organization filed diana Artists’ Club show. The ex-|® Plea in abatement se<king to halt hibit will continue through Novem-| ‘the injunction. The hearing yesber and will show works by 40 ar- Jerday was held on the abatement; In a suoplementary action Mr. Smith sought to recover $42 paid for delegate fees of 21 members and for approximate'v $1000 traveling expenses of sending the Kentucky delegates to Indianapolis.
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Pupils to Present Play—Roll rooms 6 and 7 of Tech High School will present a play “Station YYYY” by Booth Porkington, Dec. 1. Members of the cast are Myra Wilson, Wooden Wieland, Phyllis Wilcox, Barbara Sims, Roy Richards, Robert Seegar, Martha Jane Shirley and James Ratcliffe. Miss Clara Ryan is director, Miss Thelma Adams is supervising the costumes and John Simpson is in charge of makeup.
PALESTINE MILL BURNS
WARSAW, Ind., Nov. 10 (U. P.. —Fire of undetermined origin last night destroyed the Palestine flour mill at Palestine. seven miles southwest of here. The loss was estimated at $20,0C0.
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HOBOKEN, N. J., Nov. 10 (U. P.).—The Duchess Bavaria, sister-in-law of the Dowager Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, said today it was “a great pity Hitler was not blown up” in ‘the beer hall bombing of Munich Wednesday. Arriving on the Holland-Amer-ican liner Veedam, the Duchess predicted that a revolution in Germany would end the European war. “It’s a great pity Hitler was not blown up. It would have been a wonderful thing for the world,” she said, adgding “there will be other times.” )
STATE FAIR MAKES
PROFIT OF $55,656
The net profit of the 1939 State Fair was $55,656, the State Board of Agriculture announced today. Gate receipts, concessions, exhibit space and carnival rights yielded $364,317. Expenses were $308,661. The Board fixed Aug. 30 to Sept. 8, inclusive, as dates for the 1940 Fair.- Its annual reorganization meeting will be held Jan. 2 and 3. ~~
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.).| A study of the problem is bein —The Administration may ask|completed by Army ° procurement Congress to remove the competitive experts. Their report will be sent’ bidding requirements on Army air-|to Assistant War Secretary Louis.
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