Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1939 — Page 24

Page PDF (10.13 MB)

Back to issue view

CRT ST AIT ARETE -

TC AMAGI AT PN

oh~

THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1939

MANY QUIZZED IN MURDER OF

NAZI ATTACHE

International Complications Possible in Mysterious N. Y. Bludgeoning.

NEW YORK, Dee. 7 (U.P) —Authorities rounded up all the friends of Walter Richard Pngelberg, murs dered secretary of the German Cone sul General, today hoping to lear whether his slaver had been motivated by personal or political hatred, The brutal bludgeoning of the Nazi official confronted them with all the elements of a fictional mur-| der mystery, d case fraught with possibilities of international compli-! cations, Police announced today that 15 of his friends, associates and neigh- | bors had been unable to give them | any information of value. The case was listed as having an ‘open motive, with robbery definitely out.”

Found Shlain in Bed

5 Herr Engelberg was found beaten |

to death in his bed at his Brooklyn home shortly after 1 p. m. yester-| day. Medical examiners said he had been dead at least 24 hours Because he was in bed, clad in a nightshirt, it was believed he was slain Monday night or early Tues day. Detectives sought geven or eight men who had shared the five-room | two-story house with him at dif. ferent times during the past year The hed in a room adjoining that in which he was slain had been slept in recently. Dresser drawersy and the closet, empty, were open in the second bedroom, indicating that its occupant might have packed hurriedly, The back door of the house was unlocked, the Kev on the outside Herr Engelberg was unpopluar in the neighborhood, Neighbors were suspicious of him and several reported that a trailer containing radio sending and receiving equipment had been parked in front of the house last summer,

FBI Denies Inquiry

Neighhors told police that two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had questioned Herr Engelberg last August after receiving a complaint from his next-door neighbar, Fred E. Fuller. But the FBI denied that such a complaint ever had heen made Detectives learned that no woman ever had been seen to call at the house, but that Herr Engelberg fre. quently had had men visitors, some of whom arrived in expensive automobiles,

Officials in Berlin

Decline Comment

BERLIN, Dee. 7 (U. P). Official quarters declined today toe comment on the murder of Walter Engelbere. Other authorized quarter: said no statement could be made pending receipt of Mall dastails

HENRY WESP 1S DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Henry Wesp, employee of the Jessup & Antrim Ice Cream Co, died vesterday at his home at Homeplace after a long illness. He was 76. | He is survived by his wife, Har-| riett; four daughters, Miss Helen Wesp, Mrs. Ruth Downs, Mrs. Margaret Fohl, Mrs. Catherine Thomas, Mrs, Mary Deens, and one son, John A. Wesp, Services were to he conducted today

Locations

Orville Ewing, Pritchett, Cola, artist, and his “menagerie” caused several temporary traffic jams and a furry among candid camera fans today as they traveled through Indianapolis on their way to next The goats, Elibabeth and Friday, fornigh the milk: Jerry, the Ox, pulls; The group left

year's New York World's Fair,

Shanghai, the rooster, does nothing, and San Dimas, the watch dog, does little more,

the San Francisco Fair last June,

QUIZ SUSPECT IN 2 HOLDUPS

Found Hiding in Closet; Local Man Finds Home Ransacked.

A aspect who wag eaught five minutes after the robbery of two men and a woman in an B° North St. coal company office was ques tioned by police today in connection with two holdups and an at. tempted holdup The suspect was found late ves. terday in a closet of a house nn Highland Ave, His arrest followed the holdup of Maurice Summers, manager, his wife, Alice, and Wil. liam Plymate, a bookkeeper, in the office of the Co-Operative Services, Inc, 1020 E. North St. The bandit obtained $24 Accused in Second Police charge that earlier in the day the suspect held up Mrs. Sue Brown in her grocery at 441 N, Highland Ave, and robbed her of $1, They charged also that the same suspect was frustrated in the at. tempted holdup of Donald Curtis in a filling station at 1101 BE. Miehigan St When lee R. Stout returned to his home at 2931 Guilford Ave. last night, he found it had been ransacked. Burglars also entered the home of Ernest Ginn, 2063 Tacoma Ave Auto owners reported the syphoning of gasoline from their ears parked in Toledo St, 200 block, and Douglas St. 200 block, Two vouths are held as suspects. Cab Driver Rohhed William Rogers, 1208 Pleasant St. A taxi driver, reported that a bandit held him up on N, New Jersev St. 1600 Block, but obtained only 20 cents Three boys grabbed her purse containing $20 as she was walking in College Ave, 2000 block, Mrs. C. A. Donegan, 667 EB. 21st St, reported. Stockyards officials asked police to investigate the disappearance about a week ago of 12 hogs valued at $1800

SUPREME FASCISTS MEET ROME, Dec, 7 (U. P.).-Ttaly's Supreme Fascist body is expected tonight to agree on a program of definite action to oppose the spread of bolshevism in the Balkans. The Fascist Grand Council meets for the first time in eight months

Bowl

You Can't Beat This! NECKWEAR

Hundreds and hundreds of smart new Neek-

ties. Unusual patterns, rich colors and com: binations. All one price—50¢,

Selected by Men, for Men. Their all-weel linings prevent excessive wrinkling. Full length, silk

They are the

Three Handy

37 No Penn, St Cor, inois & Market, 17 S. Minois

INCREASES SHOWN IN

Red Cross membership eampaign reports today showed that dustrial plants and public institu. tiong had increased their contributiong over last veay The Indianapolis Public Sehools reported 1730 teachers and emplovees had become members, eompared to 16468 in the campaign a vear ago Fourteen industrial plants © ported inereages of from 19 to per cent in enrollments over la year

GETS DOUBLE TERM FOR THEFT, BIGAMY

A 31-vear-ald ex-econviet received a double Criminal Court todav Mrancis BE. Hunter, formerly of mdianapolis, pleaded puilty to gran

d larceny and bigamy charges and was sentenced to one to 10 vears on the first charge and to two to five vears on the second. Hunter was charged in an indietment with forging an automobile title and obtaining $270 from a used car company. His two wives, who police satd apparently did not know each’ other, brought the bigamy charge, One lives in Indianapolis and the other in Peru, Ind Hunter was brought back from Florida to face the charges after an investigation by John Dugan, special mvestigator In the County Prosecutor's office

‘I GOTTA SEE THAT GAME." BROWN SAYS J

HOLLYWOOD. Dee. 7 (U. P).Joe E. Brown, half of his famous wide mouth covered with bandages. pleaded with his doctors todad to get him out of the hospital in time for Saturday's football game in the Coliseum. He was hurt in an auto accident yesterday. Mr. Brown is known as the No 1 football fan of the University of California at Los Angeles, where two of his song used to play on the team. The college even gave him a football “C” and an honored seat on the players’ bench. Saturday is the day U. ©. LIL. A plays Southern California, a game almost cere tain to decide the western Rose representative

» A

> SU SR PR SIR ONE SE

TS Se ET

sentence In

A MAN'S STORE for a MAN'S GIFT

i i ; :

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Artists’ ‘Menagerie’ Treks Through City

Timer Phato

GUILD TO DINE

The More Light Guild of All

GIFTS TO RED CROSS unitarian Church wit gives a

3.Diamond Ring Exclusive Raed Mount a

BAYS URGES UNITY

Timer Special | CGONNERBVILLE Ind, Dee 9--| State Democratic Chairman Fred P| | Baye, in his first campaign address | "here last night since he was in: fured in an auto aceldent a month apo, urged united support to put the Democratic Party back into the hands of the workers [ "The delegater of the next ztate | leonvention will have complete eon[trol of the nominations,” he assert. ed, | The audience, attending a 10th | [District mass meeting, cheered | [when Mr. Baye declared that the t Democrats of diana will zee that Federal Security Administrator Paul V. MeNutt “ix nominated and [elected President in 1040." | | He assailed Republican officials in Ohio for failure to provide =ufMeient funds to remedy Ohia's relief erisis He defended the widely eritieized | Federal spending by declaring it ia pete done for humanitarian purs | poses While great amounts are bes | |ihg spent for destruction sin Euro pean conflicts,

"PASTOR ON WFRM

| The Rev, Harold Hazenfield, pas [tor of the First Evangelical Church, ! will speak on "The Bible and Life”

program at WFBM at 9:30 loc Souls | tonight. inner Mrs,

Mrs. Sidney B. Harty an

Phil Kappes will sing,

Federation of Indianapolis,

Open a Charge Account at ROST'S

IIS

Will U.S. Give y AMONG DEMOCRATS A zor Aid? Finns Wonder

Ry HURERT UEXKUELL United Press KIal Carreipandent HELBINKI, Finland, Dee 7 Finns In the eountryside want to know whether the United States intends to give them anvihing more than moral support, That was the frat question asked me when I rode about 123 miles in

AN open truck from Aabo to Hels

sinki aver the snow bound eountrygide of south Finland.

I had a ehanee to question Finne when we stopped to get the trek out of a diteh, and again when we stopped at a eountry house for a warming glass of s2hnappe,

The triaek we vaed had ecanvae sider to fend off the fey winda, Only A few dave before it had been used to transport bombs from Helsinki to other towns I found an amazing morale and BpIrit among the Pinhs There were no signs of exeitement, hut there

was faith fn the future, regardless of the good or bad news of the mo: |

ment.

Reports of lack of discipline and

low morale among Russian troops are welcomed, but also calmly,

I found that a few days of way

had ehanged the face of Helsinki

Apart from the Russian bombings, ae- whieh left ugly poekmarks on a eity [vived by his wife, 1ela; and (we at 8:30 p. m. Saturday in the church, companied by Mrs, H. B. McNeely, [formerly smart in appearance, the sons, Willlam and John Mrs. Eugene Fife will give a review The program, broadeast sach Thurs: populace had gone of Family Portrait, by Lenore Coffee day, iz sponsored 15 IN- and William doves Cowen,

SRR AAA RATA

ous faces,

But a Moment

Steel helmeted by the Church troops walked the streets with seris Saturday at Bhop windows were dence,

More Than

hoarded up and publie parks had been teanaformed inte alr ral trench shelters, Opposite hy hotel window there are four anti=aireraft guna on the rool of a Idur-story building, with soldiers heside them miletly watehing the sky

For rome dava the Finns have heen hroadeasting in the Russian language extracts from the speeches and Writings of Lenin, trving to eons vinee Russian soldiers and workeva that the war against Finland 15 in flagrant eantradietion ta Lenin's political program and ix merely serv. ing the ambitions of Stalin Russian esunter-propaganda says that the Finnish workers are waits ing for the Russian: to deliver” them from (he "eapitalirat regime” of Finland and establish a "people's gavernment.”

H, H. MACONBER, 67, | KENDALLVILLE, DIES

H. H Maconber, president af the [Mint & Walling Manufaeturing ©o,, | Kendallville, Ind, died today in Ohi= cago after a brief iliness

| MY. Maconber, who was a7, 18 srs

Berviees will he held at 2 p.m the Kendallville resis

LER Ti

here's No Carrying Charge

STARTING SATURDAY THIS STORE WILL BE

%_ Open Every Evening Until 9 P. M. |

in Kxelusive ROST Settings!

7A iii

a \ N

A maanificent sel

turing 14

fea Brillant AA

mands nn exclusive Raed Mauntinas, Exceptional

values al

14-Diamond Bridal Set

for Both

Ele

7-Diamond Ring Exclusive Rost Maunting

$4950

7:Diamend Ring Exelusive Rast Maunting

$7500

DS? WATCHES

Smart

WEST

$1475

IS. GRUEN

17. Jewel

$47.50

17. Jewal HAMILTON

$37.50

15. Jewel ELGIN

$33.75 17.Jowel

With 2»

15. Jewel GRUEN

$29.75

| 5.Jawel BULOVA

fi52478

| 7. Jewsl

| 5-Jewal ELGIN

$29.75

17.Jewel HAMILTON

$5() 00

or Hamilton With 268 Diamonds

100.9

COUNTY: PREPARES FOR TAX CAMPAIGN

The County Treasurer (aday began drawing up (ax rate sheets and the OCpunty Auditer began Printing tax duplicates preparatory {6 opening the 1940 spring taxes Paving perioe Referenee sheets eantaining the Aew 1940 (AX rates as certified lash week ta the Treasurer hy the Biata Tax Board are heing Wg A hy the Treasurer's deputies. Tie Treas urey will repeive the fax duplieates from the Auditer Within the nexs {wn weeks Roth oMeea alee are completing the taagk af AlRtribButing tax money collected thie fall The Auditar'a statement of (otal taxes esalleoted in 103d and a report af distribus tion of tax money ta Government Unita 1&2 expeeted Within the nexs {wo weeks

SSR A Complete Optical Serviee

Headaches Nervousness

Dizziness May Be Caused Hy Eyestrain

[| AN [IR {0

A NAIR RAS TRACTION TERMINAL BLDG

LN RR LITT LT (I (

a Nk

BNE CI RENIN EN CI EIESESESNESS CEN ERNE SS

PRBS

Naw FIELD

Jewel

9.78

- NES TNE EN CISTI IAB ER SN

Bulova

mands

Gruen

A Complete Assortment of

PARKER and SHEAFFER

Pen and Pencil Sets Pent. Pencils, Pocket Sets and Desk

ment af styles,

Sets, in & large assorts

Acenrate

fully guaranteed

"ROST SPECIAL"

DIAMOND WATCH

* 17 Jewels * 16 Diamonds * 14: Kt Gold

timepiece,

$3975

| I FAM nat ] - ol yo A fl y Na Jy i

$! Down

Delivers

prices,

DIAMOND LODGE

for Seottish Rite and All Other Lodges At ROST'S vau'll find the largest awsortmeant of Fra Indiana, at consistently moderate

ternal Jewelry in

RINGS

Yellow Gold

$Q75

Men's Cameo Rings

Birthstone Rings Yellow Gold

$1000

25 Chest of Rogers

Silverplate $

71 Pieces—Service

Here's a real Chricimat Ruy!

For 8

Beautiful pattern, a

iluctrated, in handsome Tarnish Resisting Chest, Open 8 charge aceaunt at ROST'S and pay for it $1 o

weal,

No calrying charges ar interest added!

Regular $10 Mantel Clocks

5675

Strikes every half hour, Other clocks at equally low prices,

Electric Razors

$ 7/50

Up Shick, Remington Rand, Rand and Sunbeam Elecstric Razors for AC and DC Current,