Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1940 — Page 2

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.Dealer Asks Declaratory Judgment on New Year's Day Rights.

The State Alcoholic Beverage Cozanission is expected to file in Circuit Court this week an answer to the remaining sections of an inJunction suit seeking a declaratory judgment as to rights of liquor dealers - to serve beverages on New - Year's Day. Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox last Friday refused to enjoin the Commission from barring New Year Day: sales, but told the plaintiffs, a Terre Haute tavern owner and a Vigo County Liquor Dealers’ Association official, to proceed with the

part of the suit'asking for a-declara-tory ‘judgment. Although the suit failed to lift the

1940 New Year’s ban, the plaintiffs, |

Raymond F. Cassel, tavern owner, and Pierce Calton, executive secretary’ of the Wabash Valley Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association, arelooking ‘to Jan. 1, 1941, in seeking the judgment. Judge Cox denied the junction on the. grounds that the plaintiffs lacked a “capacity to sue” in such a case and no interpretation on the law was handed down. A hearing on the declaratory judgment plea probably will not be held for another month because of delays through the filing of intermediate motions in the action.

DOUGLAS BEGINS NEW JOB NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U. P). — lewis ‘'W. Douglas, former Federal Director of the Budget, today began his duties as president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, succeeding David F. Houston, who

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trustees. Mr. Houston had been president since 1927.

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Rochester, and Mr. White. Meeting at the Claypool Hotel,

Maurice Samuel, author, lecturer and. traveler, will be the principal speaker at the Indianapolis Zionist district meeting at Kirshbaum Com‘munity Center at 8 p. m. tomorrow. | He is noted as an interpreter of ‘ Jewish life to the English-speaking B world: - Mr. Samuel, who has traveled extensively, was educated at universities in/ England and France. +» As an author, he has contributed a -series of original studies including “You. Gentiles,” “I, the Jew,” “What Happened in Palestine,” and “Jews on Approval.”

WARREN TWP. QUIZ PLEDGED

Lewis Says Inquiry Will Be Made Into Alleged Pact By Trustee Thomas.

The January term Grand Jury in Criminal Court yesterday will make a thorough probe into an alleged preelection agreement entered into hy the Warren Township Trustee, Prosecutor David M. Levis said today. Mr. Lewis said, however, that it would be at| least a month before the matter could be taken up.

Jury last August, but no report was made at that time. Under signed in July, 1938, Trustee Henry M. Thomas promised to “consult and abide with the advice of Fred Rubin and H. N. White, jointly, in all matters pertaining to this campaign, and results thereof, as including all appointments and letting of contracts as Trustee of Warren Township.” Mr. White, 6570 E 10th st., and Mr. Rubin, 5825 Oak Ave, were Mr. Thomas" campaign managers. They have explained that the Rte was merely intended to relieve Mr. Thomas of pressure for patronage

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In 1924 Congress passed a law entitling veterans to a bonus and midnight, last night, after four extensions, was the deadline for filing applications for adjusted compensation. Approximately 120 persons filed applications last night at the office at the Veterans’ Hospital, according to James C. Fuller of the office. - Those who have not filed applications will. not receive compensation unless additional legislation is enacted by Congress, Mr. Fuller said.

WOMAN HELD FOR LETTING BABY DIE

FOWLER, nd, Jan. Jan. 3 (U. P)— Mrs. Helen M. Berry, 24, was held today without charge pending a grand jury investigation after her

{alleged - confession to Prosecutor

Douglas Elwood, Sheriff Ralph Hampton and State Police Detective Paul [Rule that she permitted her fourth child, born Christmas Eve, to die by lack of care. Mrs. Berry has two sons and one daughter, | the eldest 8. Mr. Elwood said her husband had been dead four years. He said she gave birth to the baby without the aid

of a physician.

BETTY PARKER DIVORCED HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 (U. P).— Screen Actress Betty Parker, who married Charles L. Pope, a business agent, last Aug. 25, had a divorce from him today. She told Superior Judge Ruben Schmidt that during the three months they lived together Mr. Pope habityslly came poe at 4 a. m. sand once slapped er

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Farm Board to Reorganize

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A. M. Schuh, Senretury of Newton County Fair . . .« gives attentive ear to Miss Clem Legg of Chicago, WLS show booker.

the Indiana Association of County and District Fairs this afternoon will: hold a forum on problems confronting their. members. L. B. Clore of Franklin, Ind., will discuss “County Fairs—Then and Now.” Mr. Clore was the first national corn king from Indiana.

The association also will elect new officers for the year. From 4 to 5:30 p. m., the United States Trotting Association will elect Second District representatives to the board of directors. Governor M. Clifford Townsend : will be the principal speaker at a banquet to be held at 7 p. mi. - A floor show will follow the banquet. Dates for fairs in the four state circuits were set yesterday and group meetings were held by fair officials. Talks were given by Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Hassil Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau president and S. B. Scott, Johnson County farm agent.

Maurice Samuel, Author, To Address

City Zionists

Mr. Samuel, as a translater, has introduced to -the English-reading public the works of the most important Jewish creative writers, including Chaim Nachman = Bialik, Schmarya Levin, I. J. Singer and Sholom Asch. As a lecturer; Mr. Samuel has maintained an intimate knowledge of contemporaneous world events so that his lectures express a manysided appreciation of Jewish and non-Jewish life -and problems with al their factors—historical, literary, spiritual, social and political.

$100,000 Pitkin Yacht Is Lost

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U. P).— Prof. Walter B. Pitkin, who wrote “Life Begins at 40,” today be-

yacht and told how he spent New Year's Eve on an ice cake in the Hudson River.

Prof. Pitkin began thinking about his boat when he was writing his book. It was designed especially to withstand typhoons, he said, but apparently not fresh water perils. It was built on the principle of a catamaran, with four keels, a square-rigged type of sail modernized by a welded steel mast, two 90-horse power Diesel engines and other paraphernalia which made seamen speak unflatteringly of it. He called it “The Experimenter.” With two frienda Prof. Pitkin took The Experimenter on its maiden voyage up the Hudson Sunday night, but she ran afoul of a floe off Ossining, N.. Y., and sank. Prof. Pitkin and his friends escaped in a skiff and reached another floe. There they spent New Year's Eve, munching sandwiches until 3 a. m. Finally, they sighted a tug and flashed SOS signals with a flashlight.

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COMMITTEE PLANS

DISCIPLES’ PARLEY

Plans for the next international convention of the Disciples of Christ to be held at St. Louis in May, 1941, were discussed today by the convention's program and arrangéments committee at the Hotel Severin. Present were H. B. McCormick,

Cleveland, O., convention president; Graham Frank, Dallas, Tex., convention general secretary; Robert M. Hopkins and Mrs. Ora L. Shepherd of the United Christian Missionary Society; H. B. Holloway, convention transportation secre-

tary; C. O. Hawley, director of uni-

fied promotion; John H..Booth, secretary of the Board of Church Extension of the Disciples of Christ, and Paul Preston, a secretary of the church's pension fund, all of Indianapolis. The Disciples of Christ Church held its last--annual convention in Richmond, Va., in October. At that tige it was voted to postpone the meeting from this coming October, the customary date, until May, 1941,

1600 NEW JURY NAMES I IN BOX

First Panel From 1940 Group Will Be Selected This Week.

The Circuit Court jury box was filled with 1600 new names of pros-| feciive jurors today as required by

es of prospective jurors, drawn last year and which were unuséd up to Dec. 31, were dumped ‘tout of the box yesterday afternoon and burned o: the Court House ‘| steps. : The ceremony was performed by the jury commissioners shortly after their reappointment by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox. The commissioners are M. Bert Thurman, Republican, and Alex Vonnegut, Democrat. The third member of the body is the County Cletk.

Examinations Planned

In reappointing the commissioners Judge Cox expressed the hope that plans could be made to carry out his recommendations and those of the Indianapolis Bar Association for selection of so-called “blueribbon” juries. Under this plan prospective jurors will be examined before their selection, as to eligibility to serve and legal qualifications. However, due the names of the 1600 prospective jurors placed in the box yesterday were drawn from the assessor’s books without previous examination as to qualifications.

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‘The petit jury of 12 members to Court for the first six months of 1940 will be selected today. The six-member Grand Jury was chosen yesterday in Criminal Court. Names from which these two juries were selected were taken from the 1939 jury box list, however. The first jury which will be drawn from the new list in the jury box will be a petit jury for Circuit outs, expected to be named this week.

TWO ARRESTED IN STATION HOLDUP

Two youths, one of whom police vagrancy charges under $5000 bond each in connection with the holdup and robbery of a West Side filling station attendant early today. The men were arrested a few

W. Washington St., attendant at the station at 1702 W. Washington St., was held up and robbed of about $14.

One man armed with a .22-caliber revolver | him up while the other sat in a‘ear nearby. Patrolmen Fred Titus and Willard Haw-

kins, who halted their car in S. Harding St., 100 block, said one of the men was identified by the victim and confessed. Lillian Dickerson, 18, of 2088 Dietz St:; reported that t she was -slugged while walking i imber .Ave., 1400 block last night. She said her assailant ran when she eamed. Jennett Purdue, 1528 reported that two boys unsuccessfully attempted to grab her pocketbook as she stepped to the porch of her home after alighting from a streetcar last night. The theft of a $10 bill from a dresser drawer at her home was reported by Mrs. William Schantz Jr., 5445 E. 10th St.

CAN'T DOWN FINNS, REV. WICKS CLAIMS

Even if Finland is defeated by Russia, she will rise again ‘and assert her independence,” Dr. F. S. C. Wicks, pastor-emeritus of All Souls Unitarian Church, told members of the Indianapolis Rotary Club yesterday. #The Finnish people are strongly democratic, are proud of the fact that they are independent from Russia, an independence given them in 1918, and that their independence has proved unusually successful,” Dr. Wicks said. -

said, “they have no slums, no destitution, and work as a co-operative proposition and exert a definite nationalistic feeling.”

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