Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1939 — Page 4

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I DIE IN STATE AUTO CRASHES: § TRAIN KILLS 1 §

John P. Torian, Shortridge Graduate, Victim of Wreck In Tennessee.

Bight persons were killed in Indiana auto and train accidents, and one Indianapolis man was killed in a Tennessee auto accident over the week-end There were 10 accidents dianapolis, but ne one was injured seriously. John Potter Torian, son of Dr. and Mrs. Oscar Noel Torian, 1802 N. Talbott Ave. was killed when his car went into a ditch and burned between Sewanee and Chattanooga, Tenn.

2 Die .in Aute Truck Crash

~ Two persons were Killed their car struck a truck They were W. C. La Duke and Edna Coolev. Mr. La Duke was believed to be the operator of a tavern near New Albany, but Miss Cooley's residence was not known. The accident occurred on a curve on the French Lick-Paoli road five miles east of French Liek. Near Veedersburg the body of Paul Booe, 31, a WPA worker of Veedersburg, was found next to the Nickel Plate Railroad tracks. Fountain County Coroner Wisher Mvers said he apparently had been hit by a train. Eli Mize,

27-vear-old

when

a farm laborer of near Liberty, was found dead on U. S. Highway 27 near Liberty, apparently the victim of a hit-run dnver, Waiter Wilkinson, mond, was injured Matthews when a car in which he was riding, driven by his brother, Edward J. Wilkinson, 21, skidded on loose gravel and struck a utility) pole. He died in a Marion hospital. | Edward was uninjured Pedestrian Is Killed Bert White, 41, of Russiaville near Kokomo, was

28, of Richfatally near

killed Saturday

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DRIVE TIGHTENS IN PITTSBURGH

30 persons, 17 F 17 Firms and One Union Technically Admit lllegal Tactics.

Times Special PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 11.—The| Department of Justice's anti-trust! drive in Pittsburgh, where a Grand Jury investigation of the building | industry has been going on for eight | weeks, has now resulted in a second staggering blow to contractors and |

union leaders accused of conspiring to maintain high prices through| bid-rigging, collusion, threats and | other methods. The first blow came when 55 elec-

‘trical contractors and corporations |

| and | cians’

three leaders of the Electri-| Union were indicted on charges of defrauding the Covers ment through illegal restraints connection ral building

i projects.

combination and conspiracy”

The second takes the form of a far-reaching anti-trust suit, | signed to break up an “unlawful in the|

heating and ventilating fields.

30 Individuals Named Thirty individuals, 17 corporations

land one A. F. of L. union, named

| tices outlined in the suit.

| their guilt,

as defendants, have agreed to a consent judgment perpetually enjoining them from the illegal prac-

While not technically admitting the defendants prom-

|ised not to perform hereafter any

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The first lesson Scheol 20 pupils had te learn today was where

their classrooms were, Pleasant Run Parkway, cost S225.000. same neighborhood.

when he was struck by a car driven ——

by Stanley E. Stover of Berrien Springs, Mich. at the intersection of Indiana Highway 26 and U. S sr near Kokomo John Foulke, 91, a longtime Richmond resident, was injured fatally Saturday when struck by a car} driven by Geneva Reid of Richmond. He was once business manager of the Richmond Palladium and presently was associated with two sons in operation of the Foulke Manufacturing Co Edridge Bidwell, 63, of Black Oak. was burned fatally at Gary when his

car burst into flames after a collision 35% Mazie T Gibbs was jy

with a car Gibbs, 48, of Gary. unhurt.

Torian Shortridge Graduate Mr.

driven by Mrs Mrs.

Torian was an actuary

surance Co. in Chattanooga. Dr. and Mrs. Torian and Thomas Hendricks, a close friend of the victim, left for Sewanee by auto. Services and burial will be there. Mr. ' Torian was a graduate Shortridge High School University of the South, Sewanee He took a masters degree at University of North Carolina, did post-graduate work at Columbia University.

STARLINGS REPULSED BY RICHMOND STORES

Times Specinl RICHMOND, Ind, Dec merchants declare that the battle against starlings bag.” Harassed by

11. —T.ocal they have in the

hordes of the birds, the merchants’ latest strategy is to tie several feet of string to paper bags which contain corn or beans and then attach them to building cornices The bags wave in the] wind, scare the starlings away. The | only objection, say the merchants, | ic that the birds aren't frightened far enough away that their cries can't be heard.

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bd APPROVED FOR BUTLER DIPLOMAS

Degree applications of 64 Butler University students who completed their work in the 1939 summer session, were approved today by the board of directors and faculty.

Bache! or of science degrees in business i y i r Bas1 Cohen. lor of arts degree in the Coilege rts and Sc iences was awarded t n, Mildred Esther Haag, S. Ledbetter Maz v nthon echeior of in that college. the college ol education “the hachelor of sci ience degree Jear retia Cooper Baird, Mar que. 1 Baker, Thomas Sher ‘man Baker Mary Smoot tties, Margaret McRoberts Bergen. Freda June Bolley, Barbara Brandon. S. Giadvs Byers, Cecil Pauline Carvey Ruth Frances Cradick, Helen Prigg Darwin, Pearl Dav, Hazel Rhodes Duncan, and David P. Eader Other stude Louel a Mae

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is receiving degrees include oreman, Kathryn Jane Fox raham. Vernice Lutitia Hale, Alice Jane ho sler, Leone Lutitia Hankins, MaxHill, Eleanor Brita Johnson. Louise n Keith, Vernice Alma King, Pearl Korb, Cathryn Matrha KuemHerman Francis Lane, Gertrude Mahoney, Grace McCafferty, Alma Beckman McGugin. L. Ethel McKinsey, Irene Mae Lvons, Louise McGugin, Charlotte Mu phy Mary L. Newkirk, and Melissa G

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ng bachelor of science deCollege of Education are Minnie Bee Parsons, Genevieve Marion Pos . Eugene Anthony Presti,. Ruby Reed, El zabeth Marvy Reid dith Eilen Robbins, Margare J. Ruth Mar tha Ellen Salisbury Charles a oagwal d Schmoe, Lena Leah Schmoll Catherine Alberta Snyder, Ravel 1 Summers, Iva Marie Thornton, Tinder, Bernice Snyder Waltz, Villis White, and Estelle M., Williamson Wanita Burris | Bailey received a bachelor of music degree in the _College of Educati ion

KILLER 1S HUNTED AFTER $18 MURDER

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 11 (U. ).—A bandit who killed an aged factory worker during a robbery which netted approximately $18 was sought today by police, two davs after the body of George D. Otstot. 60, was found in a garage-work shop! at the rear of his home, Mr. Otstot's head had been heaten with a blunt weapon and his jaw was broken The weapon with] which he was beaten was not found. | Coroner Donald Grillo said Mr. | Otstot had been dead about 15 hours when his body was found Mr. Otstot had planned to sleep in his work chop while the home in which he lived with Mr. and Mrs Melvin Smit h, was fumigated.

LIMESTONE FIRM TO DEMOLISH MILLS

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 11. — The Indiana Limestone Co. plans to demolish three stone mills here and four at Bedford to end payment of taxes. Most of the mills have been out of operation since 1927. They were | purchased by the company originally at a cost of approximately $2.000,000. Bloomington officials estimate that the city will lose $50.000 in taxes annually after the mills are tom down

ON ARTS PROGRAM

The Progressive Arts League of Indianapolis will sponsor a lecture and concert at 8 p. m. today at the YW.C A The concert will be given by the Taliesin String Quartet, The quartet will play Brahms A Minor Quartet. All members of the Indianapolis Symphony, they are Mark Kondratieff, Irving Illmer, Julian Salkin | and Sam Sciacchitano. Kenneth Cameron, English pro-| fessor at Indiana University, will | talk on “Shelley's Answer to Pres- | ent -day Pr ‘oblems.”

They entered the brand new building at 1819 South Drive, for the first time. Tt replaces the much less imposing old school in the

Mh | equal to 20 per cent of the

dents include Wilbert Fisher,

The structure

FILE FOR CCC SOON,

GOTTSCHALK ASKS

Indianapolis youths planning to enroll in the Civilian Conservation Corps in January were advised today by Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Welfare Administrator, to file their applications as soon as possible, Atotal of 6500 Hoosier youths now are enrolled in 28 state camps, and they are sending more than] $130.000 monthly to dependents.| Since the CCC program began in 1933, more than $11,000,000 have been earned to aid dependents by Hoosier enrollees, Mr. Gottschalk said.

HOSPITAL AID PLAN IS ADOPTED BY 130

The Emplovees Benefit Association of the International Harvester Co., with more than 1900 empnlovees here, has adopted a hospitalization - henefit plan. Under it, emplovee-members will receive benefits of $4.50 a dav, up to a maximum of 31 davs, when confined in a hospital. The plan is effective Jan. 1. An emplovee-member is to contribute 12 cents a week or 52 Sets a month, depending on wheth s paid weekly or monthly. The ¢ oT will contribute an ae

contributions. While the $4.50 daily limited to 31 days for an disability, if an ee | was hospitalized for another cause, | he would again be entitled to $4.50 a day for a maximum of 31 davs. In addition to the dailv benefit, employee-members will be reimbursed up to $30 in any one hospital confinement for operating room and other charges.

venefit Ri

SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS RE-ELECT PRESIDENT

Bert Nightenhelser, Westfield, to-| day began a new term as president of the Indiana State Association of School Bus Drivers, He was re-elected at the annual meeting here Saturday. Vice presi-| Muncies, east section of the state; Conrad Kite, Clinton, west; Ervin Irwin,

| Columbus, south, and Fred Straver, OLD FRIEND BY PHONE fence.

Newla an !

Harry renamed

north. was

Goshen, opto. asurer. "The drivers adopted a resolution to support home rule candidates and another against affiliating with any labor group.

DIES OF HEART DISEASE

MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 11. — William Henry Summers, a former City Councilman, is dead here of heart disease. He was 69. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a brother, Frank, of In-

[fused to supply labor to any con-

of the illegal acts charged against them. This development revealed a new | line of strategy in the Government's trust -busting crusade, progressing simultaneously in 15 key cities, against restraints which have muffled a long-anticipated building

boom.

Government attorneys filed in Federal Court a stipulation of facts which obviated the necessity for a| trial. The consent judgment Wes came effective immediately. Tt included not only leading contractors but also the A. F. of L. Steam-Fitters’ Union, all its officers, executive committeemen and members, and the union-owned United Heating Co. The purpose of this company, the Government charged, was to underbid—with financial loss, if necessary —any outside contractor who attempted to operate in Pittsburgh without joining and paying fees to a “voluntary code” organization set up by contractors and the union.

Closed Door Charged

The stipulation of facts put both sides on record as admitting: That the contractors operated under a closed shop contract with the union. While the union has re-

ctor not a member of the “voluntarv code” organization, with the Purpose of closing Pittsburgh's outside competition. Sonat the ‘voluntary code” colTe For its members a fee of] of one per cent of cona over $250. That all but PWA hids were submitted to a bid depository and there | “opened, tabulated and made available to” all other members of the ‘voluntary code,” with the objective of preventing free competition and keeping prices high. | That the union authorized use of ! funds from its treasury to absorb operating losses of the United Heating Co. in its repressive campaign against outside COnUBCWIS. =

w GITY ORDERS PAVING FOR CONGRESS AVE.

A picture of a street sO muddy (that residents frequently walked in | mud up to their shoetops was described to the Works Board today

by a group of Congress Ave. prop‘erty owners. Thev appeared at a

| publie hearing on the proposed pav- |

ing of the street, G. W. Cockrill, 405 Congress Ave. requested the Board to confim a resolution to pave the thoroughfare between Boulevard Place and Indianapolis Ave, Acting on the plea, the Board or- | dered the street paved with concrete at a total cost of £10842, with a cost to each abutting property owner of 3. 31 a Hnesl foot

DR. PHELPS VISITS’

Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale University took time out before his| Town Hall lecture here Saturday to| call up his old friend, Mrs. D. M.| Parry, Golden Hill, when he learned she was too ill to aitend . | In years past, Dr. Phelps had often been a guest at the Parry home. A son, Maxwell Parry who was killed in the World War in an airplane crash in Francd, was one of his most brilliant students at Yale University, nad Dr. Phelps had been very much interested in him. A play wntten by Mr. Parry was produced on Broadway.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

New School 20 Opens Today IBUILDING TRUST Resigns D. A. Ry MHALE SAYS 1 Society Teac ‘he wy STATES IN EAST :

| last

|C a shotgun at

farm

SUPPORT MNUTT

| disclosed

First Choice ce After F. D. ‘. Is Claim Made as Tour Is Concluded.

A survey of 11 Eastern states has! that Paul V. McNutt, |

| Federal Security Administrator, will |

Ibe | nominee,

Striking at D. A. R. policies with which she did not agree, Mrs.

Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist |

and widow of a former New Hampshire Senator, resigned in | Washington from the Daughters of the American Revolution and

from editorship of its magazine. | | i

: POLICE STYMIED IN KILLER HUNT

Questioning Fails Fails to Solve Grocer’s Murder; Drug | Store Holdup Foiled. |

| Police appeared stalemated today!

lin their hunt for the bandit who

fatally wounded Chester Ross ol 7, during a holdup Saturday at Mr. Witt's grocery, 1430 Brookside Ave. Ballistics experts said rifling marks on the bullet that killed Mr. Witt do not correspond with those | on bullets fired by a 26-year-old Col-| umbus, Ind, man who wounded a 67-vear-old Southport drug clerk Saturday evening. | Questioning of also failed to clear

several suspects up the slaving.

Alone in Store

The drug clerk, John W. Jenkins, was alone in the pharmacy operated by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mar- | garet Smock, when a shabbily| dressed man entered and ordered a soft drink. “I thought he was just one of the farmers living nearby,” Mr. Jenkins | said today as, his head swathed in| bandages, he sat in his home in Southport. Suddenly, the bandit drew a volver from his belt and ina money, Mr. Jenkins said. The clerk, a former special po-

|liceman in Richmond, grabbed a gun {from under the counter. As he did

so, the bandit opened fire, the bullet piercing Mr. Jenkins’ cheek. | Mr. Jenkins and the bandit exchanged several shots, shattering the cash register and glass in showcases. Finally, one of Mr. Jenkins’|

| shots went through a showcase and

struck the holdup man in the leg. The bandit hobbled out of the store,

[climbed into a taxicab and fied.

Police Establish Blockade

Mr. Jenkins refused to leave the | store for medical attention until deputy sheriffs and a City Hospital | ambulance arrived. The Sheriff's office immediately notified City and State Police, who were given a description of the cab and set up blockades on all principal streets and roads. Fifteen minutes after the Sheriff's office received a description of the get-away car, Patrolmen Frank Dailey and Robert Kelly sighted the | cab at 11th St, and Capitol Ave. jane arrested the suspect, who had, ntered a nearby tavern. “He was held on a vagrancy chutes | ey signed a statement admitting! pharmacy holdup attempt and oo Bre holdup of a pharmacy on n City Hospital. The cab driver was held for questioning.

Obtain $105 at Grocery

Several other week-end holdups were being investigated by police. Two men held up Charles Connor, proprietor of a grocery at 221 N, Richland St., obtaining $105. John Trees, operator of a general store at 1301 Bates St, was struck on the head by a blond vouth in a holdup attempt last night, William Doere, 3168 N. Senate Ave., Apt. 35, taxi driver, was robbed of | $5 by two passengers yesterday. | A 19-year-old youth was arrested | night after he went te City Hospital for treatment of gunshot | wounds. Earlier, Mandas Marshail, 72, watchman for the Domestic Coal | 0. 326 W. 13th St. reported firing a prowler who was pulling boards from the company’s | HOOSIER COLT APES | MRS. O’'LEAR' LEARY'S COW

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, ee. | 11.—A colt on the Edward Quillen | farm, seven miles northwest of here, lashed out with his hoofs] while tied in the barn and knocked | a lantern off a nail on which it was hanging, starting a fire which razed the barn. | An adjoining tool shed 16 tons of hay, five tons of straw and several! implements were destroyed. |

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| Pennsylvania, | Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, |

Democratic Presidential |

if President Roosevelt | | does not seek a third term, Frank | [M. McHale, Mr. McNutt's cam- | |paign manager, said today. | “My tour of the East during the | {last two weeks indicates that Demotratic organizations are going | stronger every day for Mr. McNutt,” |Mr. McHale said.

McNutt Here Friday

“Our campaign in Pennsylvania, which has the largest number of delegates of any state in the Union, | shows that Mr. McNutt is first choice after the President.” He said Mr. McNutt will be in Indianapolis Friday night to ad- | | dress the Indiana University foot-| ball banquet at the Bipanpeis | | Athletic Club. Over the week-end, Mr. McNutt | | will go to Chicago to attend the] banquet of the Indiana Society. Discussing financial phases of the |

the

her

McNutt-for-President campaign, Mr. | ;

McHale said that individual contri-| butions from Indiana residents are providing sufficient money for cam- | paign activities.

Visit Seaboard States Asked if any “Two Per Cent Club” |

{money was available to his organi-|

zation, Mr. McHale replied: “Absolutely not 1 cent of ‘T'wo| Per Cent Club’ money is being used | in our campaign. It would be illegal | to finance any campaign for al nomination in that way. The states visited by Mr. McHale | and Bowman Elder, Indianapolis | business man and personal adviser of Mr. McNutt. included New York, Delaware, Maryland,

North Carolina, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Mr. McHale declined to comment on the statement made in Washing- | ton by Interior Secretary Harold | Ickes that President Roosevelt had (not given the “green light” to Mr. McNutt's campaign.

GRANDMOTHER HELD IN SLASHING DIES

| KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 11 (U. P.).— | Mrs. Rosetta A. Overholser, 66, in-| dicted on a charge of maiming her 15-year-old granddaughter, died last Inight at her home at Alto, near here. She was released from the | County Jail last week when phy-| 'sicians said continued confinement | would endanger her health, Mrs. Overholser was charged with slashing her granddaughter, Char- | lene Overholser, and with beating| her with a hatchet. She denied all accusations. | |

HINTS BROADER HATCH LAW WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. P.).— Senator Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M) said today that he would ask Congress early next month to amend his “anti-politics” law to cover State

(employees as well as Federal work- |

| Indiana

A flier since her high school days, Barbara KXibbee, Albany, N. Y,, society girl, recently was appointed flight instructor for the Federal pilot-training class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. Above, she dons a parachute for final Civil Aeronautics Authority tests,

JOHNSON COUNTY'S ASSESSOR IS DEAD

| Times Special

FRANKLIN, nd. Dec. 11. —Frank Etter, Johnson County Assessor and [prominent in "Democratic political | circles, died Saturday after an illness of six months. He was 79. Mr. Etter was president of the| Assessors’ Association in 1937. He is survived by a son, twol brothers and a sister.

MONDAY, DEC. 11,.1939

CRISIS IS OVER AT CLEVELAND, MAYOR REPORTS

“Normal Relief’ by Dec. 15, Says Burton; Million for WPA Approved,

CLEVELAND, Dec. 11 (U, P).— | Mayor Harold H. Burton announced today that “normal relief will ba restored in Cleveland” Dec. 15. The Mayor made his announcement after the City Sinking Fund | Commission had approved the sale of $1,000,000 in tax-delinquency

| bonds.

| At the same time, President

| Roosevelt in Washington announced through his White House secretary, |Stephen T. Early, expenditure of $1.248,991 in WPA projects to relieve | the acute crisis in the largest Ohio city. Mr. Barly said Mr. Roosevelt had {approved three projects and that (they, with projects already author= lized in Cleveland, would give ems | ployment for six months to more [than 14,000 persons. Mayor Burton's announcernent | meant restoration of food orders to 8000 single persons and 4000 child less couples whom the Mayor had [cut off direct relief, and restoration | of a one-third reduction in regular food orders to 12.000 family cases. The Mayor said that it would not be necessary to reduce city services or to reduce salaries of City employees.

Critics Connected With

New Deal, Says Bricker

COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 11 (U. P). Governor John W. Bricker remarked at a press conference today that all the critics of Ohio's relief policies “have been connected with the New Deal.”

53-YEAR- OLD MAN IS HELD IN SLAYING

Police today held a 53-year-old man without bond on a vagrancy charge after Frank James, 34, of 445. W. 16th Place, died last night in | City Hospital from stab wounds. James was stabbed earlier in the evening with a pair of scissors after |a fight in his home. He died shortly afterward in an “iron lung” at the hospital.

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