Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1939 — Page 12

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WAIT BALTZELL RULING TODAY IN WPA CASE PLEA

Kortepeter, Derbyshire Face

Terms if Judge Spurns Writ.

New trial motions filed by Carl F. Kortepeter and Gurney G. Derby-

shire, who were convicted Wednesday of defrauding the Government, will be ruled on at 2 p. m. today by Federal Court Judge Robert C. Baltzell. If the judge overrules the motions he then will pass sentence. Kortepeter, former Marion County WPA co-ordinator, and his father-in-law, Derbyshire, were found guilyt of diverting WPA labor to build two roads on the latter's farm north of Southport. The farm has been platted as Derbyshire subdivision. Convicted on 3 Counts

They were convicted on all three counts of indictments which charged unlawful diversion of money appropriated by Congress, unlawful diversion of services acquired under funds appropriated by Congress and conspiracy to defraud the Government. The new trial motions alleged that U. S. District Attorney Val Nolan had made a prejudicial statement in his closing arguments to the jurors in telling them “if you go along with me in this and bring in a verdict of guilty, I promise you I will call a special Grand Jury to hear evidence I now have in my possession.” Claim Private Roads 0. K.'d

During the trial the Government introduced testimony intended to show that Kortepeter approved a WPA project to build two roads on Derbyshire’s property. The defense argued that the project had been approved after the land for the two roads was dedicated to the public use and deeded to Marion County.

CITY ASKS BIDS FOR SALE OF SCHOOL 11

Bids for the sale and razing of one of the city's landmarks, School 11 at 13th St. and Capitol Ave., will be received by the School Board soon, the Board voted last night. The old building has been unused more than 15 years, and Superintendent DeWitt Morgan told the Board there is no possibility of it ever being used again. The building and boiler house will be sold to the highest bidder with the provision they be removed from the site within 120 days. Board members voted a temporary loan of $100,000 from the school building bond fund to the special fund to provide needed cash until the tax distribution next April. The Board accepted a PWA grant of 45 per cent of the cost of constructing an addition at Tech High School. The grant is limited to 45 per cent of $328,725. The Business Furniture Co. and the Indianapolis Office Furniture Co. received contracts for movable furniture for the Milo H. Stuart Memorial Building at Tech on low base bids of $1707.30 and $4739.90, respectively.

ASKS CHAMPAGNE, BEER FOR TROOPS

LONDON, Dec. 13 (U. P) —Sir Frederick Alexander MacQuisten, Conservative, proposed in the House of Commons yesterday that beer and champagne be rationed to British troops. “The ingredients of a gallon of beer cost less than a penny and the ingredients of a bottle of champagne less than half a penny,” he said in response to a question as to the cost. Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, parliamentary) and financial secretary to the War Office, had said that War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha would consider the proposal if details of the cost were supplied.

WILL ON PAPER SACK REFUSED BY COURT

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (U. P).— Burrogate George A. Wingate has refused to accept notes scribbled on a crumpled brown paper bag as the true copy of a well distributing a $1.500,000 estate. It was the second time that a will purportedly left by the late Louise Herle, aged spinster, had been ruled invalid. A third, dated April 7, 1920, had been filed for probate by the late Paul C. Gruver, of Joplin, Mo. Action on this will still i$ pending. The spinster recluse was found dead Oct. 30, 1934, in the dingy, littered basement of her brownstone home, where she had lived in filth and solitude for many years.

FT. WAYNE VOTES HOUSING

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 13 (U. P.) —The City Council last night voted approval of a new 100-unit low cost housing project sponsored by the Ft. Wayne Housing Authority. The project, to be built on a community plan in a 15-acre tract, will house 120 families.

SUCCEEDS WRONG WAY

OMAHA, Neb, Dec. 13 (U. P) — Thomas Flanagan, 26, who was voted the student most likely to succeed upon graduation from high school at Atchison, Kas, in 1933, today was sentenced to three years in . the Men's Reformatory for staging a series of robberies with a toy pistol

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BUSINESS IS URGED T0 BE ‘ON ITS TOES’

Business men must watch everchanging conditions “when they get hold of the ball, run with it,” if they are to succeed. This was the advice given yesterday at the Rotary Club luncheon

|by Henry C. Atkins, president of E.

|C. Atkins & Co., saw manufacturers.

Mr. Atkins said he did not refer to competition, but to the possibil- | ities of businesses expanding by de- | veloping products kindred to their {own. He pointed out that his com{pany had grown from one person and a helper 82 years ago to a plant with more than 1000 workers now by meeting ever-changing conditions. Officers and members of the Tipton Rotary Club were guests.

C. OF C. OFFICERS TAKE OFFICE JAN. 1

Seven directors chosen by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce at its annual election yesterday will take office Jan. 1 for three-year terms. The only new director elected was Stowell C. Wasson, manager of the National Malleable and Steel Castings Co. The other six, all re-elected, were Meier S. Block, vice president of the Wm. H. Block Co.; Louis J. Borinstein of A. Borinstein Co.; Henry L. Dithmer, Polar Ice & Fuel Co. president; Edward W. Harris, Hamilton-Harris & Co. president; A. J. Hueber, president of A. J. Hueber & Co.; James S. Rogan, American National Bank president.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 1939

Hunger Gone, Hitch-Hiker Again on His Way Home

Edward Saul, 32-year-old sign painter, today prepared to continue his hitch-hiking trek back to his home in Allentown, Pa., after a good night’s rest and a big breakfast. Yesterday Saul had his first meal in three days and he wouldnt have had that if he hadn't collapsed while trying to get a ride at W. Washington St. and Lyndhurst Drive. He had hitch-hiked to Indianapolis from Kansas City, Mo. Car aft-

er car passed as he stood at the corner on W. Washington St. Then he fainted. Believing he had been

struck by an automobile, passing motorists called deputy sheriffs, After deputies brought Saul back to consciousness, they learned the real reason for his condition. He was starving. One bystander, James P. Neeley, took Saul to his home at 1005 S. Lynhurst Drive. Saul ate three thick cuts of tenderloin, several patties of sausage, three eggs, a lot of cornbread, and two large cuts of blackberry pie. “Boy, is that home cooking,” the hungry painter said. He then was taken to the Wheeler City Rescue Mission to spend the night.

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LOCAL PUPILS’ WORK IN EXHIBIT OF ART

Six Indianapolis high school pupils, two from Manual and four from Tech, are represented in a display of more than 200 art objects this week at Manual. The display is a part of the 2000

works of art selected for the 12m ACCUSED OF SLAYING KIN

annual Schoiastic National High School Art Exhibition. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 13 (U.

Manual pupils whose work is on|P.).—James Robert Otstot, 22, of

_|South Bend, will be arraigned in display are Alma McKee and Lu City Court today on a charge of cille Brown. Tech pupils are Jo- slaying his uncle, George Otstot, anne Shivey, Jean Draper, Gee Sen |67, last Friday during a robbery Wong and Frances Landrum. which police said netted him not more than $40. Young Otstot was

The exhibit, open to the public, arrested at Louisville, Ky., yester= will be cisplayed until Friday. day.

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