Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1940 — Page 9

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ePirAria Costa Rica; 14—There. are ‘several ‘thousand ‘people in Hiss, Neb new banana town in the west-coast jungles of Costa Rica.” Yet there are no streets, There are no roads away from it. There are only two autos, both owned by the air-line com- : panies to run air-express packages the quarter mile to the airport. Passengers usually just walk down the railroad. There is a “lane” of native stores along the railroad track. And. on either side is a com- - pound—big houses ‘built. around a large square, like an athletic field. One compound is for the native workers. The other is for United Fruit’s “first-class” employees—the Americans, the English, the Germans, ~The auarisis of both natives and whites are built up high off the ground; the ground floor is really where the second story should be. Underneath is nothing but air, and that’s the point—build ’em up high so air can get underneath. The houses are built of redwood brought from California, because redwood is fairly termite-proof. The houses are spacious, and nicely furnished, and the

- roofs extend far out past the windows—to keep out

the sun in dry season, the rain in wet season. : = 2 =

All Transportation by Rail

» At one corner of the compound are. frame buildings filled with desks. At them sit fruit-company executives—managers, engineers, draughtsmen, bookkeep= ers, agricultural experts—college men, most of them, self-exiled to the tropics to raise bananas, and liking it. So far there are only half a dozen white women in Parrita—the town is so new that most of the white employees have not yet brought their families from San Jose or Limon, . There are about a dozen children, and every morning they pile into. the strangest school bus you ever saw. It is a Ford ts car, with an" open-air bus

Our Town

{IN CASE THE QUESTION ever comes : USoand sooner or later it will—you ought to be prepared to ‘know that because of an Indianapolis boy and his fast ball, the distance between home plate and the Pilcher box was increased by 1014 feet (from 50 to 60% feet, to be exact). Amos Rusie was born in Mooresville, but he picked up the game of baseball in Indian.apolis. Just when and how he did it isn’t any too ‘certain, but there is a legend, vouched for by tHe late Gavin Payne, that the kid started out as an outfielder on a scrub team made up of boys living in the neighborhood of Sturm Ave. This much is certain, however: Back in the Eighties, Rusie played with the Grand Avenues, a semi-professional team belonging to the City League of Indianapolis. And it was during this period, in 1887, that he pitched an exhibition game against a team of professionals, made up mostly of players of the Indianapolis club. On that occasion, Rusie mowed them down with a fast ball as wild as it was blinding. John T. Brush saw that game, rubbed his eyes, and right than and there signed up the rookie. Rusie was 17 at the time.

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He Was a Bit Wild

Because of his lack of control and a disposition to issue too many bases on balls, Rusie was sent to the Burlington (Iowa) club for seasoning. It was there, in 1889, that he received word from Mr. Brush to report in New York immediately. After a goshawful trip of two “days and two nights in a day coach, he arrived in the Big City. Next day he was put in to pitch for Indianapolis against the Giants. He was 6 feet tall and weighed every bit of 225 pounds. Amos put over some fast balls the like of which had never been seen—certainly not in the East. Sure, he won his game. A couple of days later he licked the Boston club by a score of 7 to 6 (a case of his old trouble, too many bases on balls). The next week he pitched in Philadelphia. The Phillies didn't get as much as a run. The following year, in 1890, Rusie was Sold to the Gispis. along with the whole Indianapolis team, a

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—In. his Lincetn Day .+ address at Buffalo, Rep. Bruce Barton said: “We ‘are met here to honor the memory of an American “*who was ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed—and did not

* know it.” And in a Lincoln Day address at Omaha, Herbert Hoover said, “The outstanding problem in the United Stafes is unemployment.” Between those two quotations lies the story.of the transition

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in America from Lincoln's day -

to ours.

In Lincoln’s time, the matter of having a job or not having a job was up to the individual. If he was any good, he got a job. If he wasn’t, he didn’t. Lincoln freed the slaves, and he was a long time coming around to that idea. Interest in the individual then was negative. Free the slaves? Yes. But whether men . obtained - work or not, or whether there was ‘work to be had, was none of the Government’s business.. .

“Our National Task

Today, as Mr. Hoover says, “Our national task is to restore productive jobs for these nine million men and women.” What was accepted in Lincoln's day as an individual matter, now has become a public responsibility. If men cannot find work, the ‘Government must feed them. The significant thing is the recognition of public responsibility. That is a compfratively recent development. Only in modern times has unemployment been recognized as a public problem, a condition in which the com- ' munity had an interest. The word “Unemployment” itself is listed in the Oxford English dictionary as going back only to 1880. Apparently the conception

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday —Vesierdsy afternoon was a fairly busy one. First of all, the Society of Sponsors, who are holding their annual meeting here, " came .to tea. Then, at about 5:30, the members of - the American Youth Congress Assembly, who had been ’ a holding their final meetings all ~ day, came to tea. I have never seén a more appreciative group and was impressed by their interest in the White House and their admiration of the new Lincoln portrait hanging in the state dining room. So many people pay no attention to their surroundings, and it was interesting to note how wide awake and appreciative these youngsters were. : I feel that their program for g work is good. It calls for coun- : ells to survey for jobs in different localities and to * open up as many new opportunities as possible, as + well as for a method of keeping before communities %- the situation in which great numbers of young people : find themselves. This is a constructive program. Of this method is the way by which they hope to , show | that, until jobs are available to young ‘people. who are ready and willing to work, the American Youth Act must fill the gap. The act provides, among other things, for a permanent National Youth

By Ernie Pyle

body built wits it, and mounted on steel wheels. It runs on the railroad track; and takes the children 15 miles to school, over at Quepos, % In every direction from Parrita extend the banana

farms. Here and there, amidst the solid flat green of the banana ‘fields, is a clearing with a large empty square in the center, and four rows of houses forming the sides. Here live the natives who do the work. There are already eight of these little sub-towns in this new banana land. All these little settlements are connected by a narrow-gauge railroad. All transportation is by rail. Donkey steam®engines haul long trains of gravel, and of bananas, and of workmen, back and forth and all around the vast plantation. And for individuals and foremen, dozens of littie scooters--really nothing but engine-driven hand-cars—rattle up and down the tracks, ® 8 =

How to Clear a Jungle

There are some 7000 men at work in ‘this new land of bananas. In only a year and a half they have 8000 acres planted. ey will clear and plant at the rate of 5000 acres a year, and will hit 23,000 acres before they stop. It costs $400 to put an acre into bananas. I've seen jungle before, but .I've never seen jungle like this. From the air it looks as though it were a dense growth of small shrubbery. But when you get in it—why, the trees tower 100 feet into the air, and often they are six and eight feet through. It is sickening to see these giants of the forest lving there helter-skelter on the ground, just rotting. But the fruit company can make no use of them. The

wood is soft—no good whatever for building. And for |

pulp, I suppose it would be too expensive to get out. Back of the clearing crew, the fallen debris of great trunks and branches and weeds lies six feet deep. They set banana plant right down among. the debris. And in a few months the new bananas have grown and risen clear up above the fallen logs, and in another few months all this debris has rotted away. That is the way of the jungle—fast growth, short life, and lightning decay after’ death, |

By Anton Scherrer

story I've o slroads told. (It was Fred Clark's contribution, remember?) That same year, Rusie set an. all-time record for the National League by striking out 345 batters. That same season he set another record that still stands—276 bases on balls. In the next four years Rusie pitched 224 games and won 132. By this time people were wondering how to stop the Indianapolis boy. Finally, in 1893, they hit on a scheme., The pitcher's box was moved 10% feet farther away ‘trom the batter, It didn’t hurt Rusie’s pitching a bit because by this time he had perfected a line of curves which needed just that additional distance to give the ball room to break.

8 2 8 “World's Greatest Pitcher’ In 1895, Rusie was going like a house on fire. Lillian Russell asked to be introduced to him; the Hoffman House Bar ‘created a Rusie cocktail; Weber and Fields ran a Rusie skit, and little boys "all qver. the country saved up their pennies to have enough (25) to buy a pamphlet, “Secrets of Amos Rusie, the World's Greatest Pitcher: How He Attains His Incredible Speed on a Ball.” It was the year, too, he was christened the “Hoosier Cyclone.” Two years later, in 1897 when he was 27, Rusie was billed to pitch against Chicago. Bill Lange, a fast man on the bases, was the runner on first. Rusie watched him out of the corner of his eye and, with a quick trick throw, caught Lange cold, Soon as he had Lange put out of the way, Rusi¢ realized that something had snapped in his arm. He was never the same after that. The Giants kept him through the seasons of ’98 and ’99 and then sold him to Cincinnati. The first two games he pitched he was knocked out of the box. It was the end of Amos Rusie, one of the grandest if not the greatest pitcher

that ever lived. Frank Bowerman who caught both|

Rusie and Mathewson for the Giants once told Joe Kelly (who told me) that Rusie was the better of the

* two pitchers.

Which leaves me only to tell that Amos Rusie is still alive. - Up until six years ago he ‘was running a chicken farm near Seattle. In 1934 an automobile ran over him. He lay unconscious for four days and nobody thought he would live, but he pulled through all right. He still has a flock of chickens, but now he lets somebody else pick up the eggs. According to my way of figuring, Amos Rusie will be 70 years old sometime this year.

By Raymond Clapper

of tmemployment as a public problem coincides with the rise of modern industrial life. Only in the late 1880’s did the collection of unemployment figures begin. British labor unions soon developed regular unemployment reports. In 1893 some Swiss munici-

palities began setting up unemployment-insurance

funds. Before 1912 no country in the world had a

national system of unemployment insurance. Britain |

started hers then. We got around to it under

Roosevelt. Even while Mr. Hoover was Presient, we began to move toward some assumption of responsibility. He advocated modest public works as an eco pie balance wheel, and through the RFC and in other ways began using the Government to rll private industry in order that there might be re-employment. He was still reluctant about relief and at first tried to consider it a strictly local responsibility.

Responsibility Recognized

We have moved rapidly since then, practically in one leap. Throughout the numerous Republican Lincoln Day addresses runs the expression by speakers that a number of the changes introduced in the last eight years must stay, although modifications ‘ are -recommended. In a recent Gallup Poll 59 per cent of the Republican voters canvassed said the party should be more liberal than it was in 1836. A year or two ago I. heard a large industrialist testify before a Senate committee that he had been compelled to drop 30,000 employees suddenly in the 1937 collapse. In some- localities his plants were the chief source of employment. Neither private industry nor individual resourcefulness could meet such a situation. That incident illustrates, in a small way, why these questions, ignored and unrecognized in Lincoln’s time, have become primary matters of public concern now; and are finally recognized as such by leaders in both parties.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Administration with a much larger grant of money, $500,000,000 in fact, to give both vocational guidance and training and work at prevailing wages on public projects to all’ unemployed young people. In the evening I went to speak to the Monday Evening Club, a group of people in Washington who are concerned with civic betterment, and who have worked a long time on improving conditions from various angles. This morning, I had a swim before a rather late breakfast. ‘I feel, because I have no more official engagements in Washington until March, that I have already begun a holiday, even though there will be two days at the end of this week when I shall be working ‘very hard—one in Tallahassee and one in Daytona Beach, Fla. I don’t suppose that tomorrow and Thursday in Ithaca, N. Y., will be, on the whole, a period of rest and inactivity. I want to remind people who are interested in the progress that women have made, that Feb. 15 will be Susan B. Anthony’s birthday. It seems to me that, in the words of Rheta Childe Dorr: “... Every woman who holds a job, who goes to college, who is a lawyer, doctor, scientist, teacher, as well as every woman who

. votes or holds office, owes to Susan B. Anthony a debt

of gratitude that can never be paid.” Sometimes we forget how rapidly changes have come about for women and how much progress has

2000 ALUMN EXPECTED AT MANUAL FETE

Graduates Coming From All Parts of Nation for * 45th Anniversary.

The 45th ahmiversary of Manus) Training. High School will be held

~|Saturday at the school with alumni

converging on Indianapolis from all parts of the country, to take - part| in the annual celebration. Last year alumni attended from as far away as Texas. This year it appears that the prizes for longdistance attendance will go to Mrs. Beatrice Sherman Kelly, secretary to a New York publisher. E. H. Kemper McComb, school principal and long-time teacher there, estimates the attendance at about 2000. He said there are about 750 persons expected at the dinner which will high-light the affair. Festivities will commence during the afternoon when alumni will register at the library. Graduates and guests will assemble at dinner at 6:15 p. m. at the school cafeteria and will be greeted by Mr. McComb and Arthur Madison, Alumni Association president.

Alumnus Explains View

Manual has long had an “esprit de corps”: superior in many ways to that of other Indianapolis: high schools, its graduates claim. Located on the City’s South Side, it was, in the words of one of its former students, for an education for most of us.” “Consequently,” the alumnus said, “we were interested in getting the best grades we possibly could. Academic excellence chme out of the pupils and not from pressure by the school’s administration.” As a result of this sustained .interest, it is claimed, members of the various classes at Manual have kept closer together than at some other schools. Because many of the graduates ‘did not attend college they were better able and more likely to maintain the social contacts they made in high school, graduates poin* out. Alumni will be seated at the dinner according to classes and fiveyear groups will have special re-

unions. . Prizes to Be Given

The Class of 1910 will be greeted by a class committee including Hiram Seward, Harry Yates, Emma Doeppers, Lyn Hudelson .- and Will Remy. TFhey will show letters and pictures of class members. There will: be prizes for class members— those married longest, and most recently, those with the largest family, the oldest grandchild, the most grandchildren, the most children graduated from Manual, and who has come farthest for the reunion. Veteran teachers have been invited as special guests. They include Mr. and Mrs. McComb, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. H. Moore, Mrs. Bertram Sanders, a retired mathematics teacher; Mrs. Charles Dyer, retired teacher; Henry Schell, who used to teach Latin; Miss Arda Knox, retired in September; Miss Emily Helming, now on the Butler University faculty, Miss Anna Locke, retired English teacher, and Paul C. Covert, who was shop head for many years. Other classes to have special re-: unions are those of 1895, 1900, 1905, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930 and 1935.

vaudeville program will be presented at the school auditorium. At its conclusion Oral Bridgford, Manual basketball coach, will pre--sent his 1940 City champions and Raymond Van Arsdale will present the State cross country winners.

Officers to Be Elected

The group will divide for two dancing sessions, one jitterbug and one more conservative, at the boys’ and girls’ gymnasiums, respectively. Mrs. Robetta Brewer is in charge e|of all arrangements for the celebration. Seating will be in charge of Miss Anna J. Schaefer, Alumni Association = secretary. Kephart| Linson is in charge of the dance committee. Class of 1910 arrangements are being directed by Mrs. Coral Taflinger Black. Decorations and table arrangements for the class are in charge of Miss Garnett Foreman, Mesdames Bertha ‘Maschmeyer Lipp, Irene Reuter Ooley, Dorothea Krull Kuhns, and Elsa Nessler Lohss and Herbert Jose. The following slate will be" presented ‘for election to Alumni Association offices: Ray Wakeland, president; F. Elbert Glass, first vice president; Miss Margaret Cornell, second vice president: Miss Schae-

fer, secretary, and Mr. McComb, treasurer.

DILLON PAYS $370 FINE FOR GAMBLING

Thomas Dillon, 744 S. Capitol Ave. who at first planned to appeal his conviction on ‘gaming charges imposed in Municipal Court recently, changed his mind Yesterday and pald a fine of $370. pecial Municipal - Judge Russell J. Ryan, of Superior Court 3, convicted Dillon on charges of operating a gaming house and being a common gambler and imposed fines of $200 and $150. Dillon filed notice o ris bo Criminal Court a few ut yesterday dismissed he Taques:. y arles Duckworth, 36, Brookville Road, was fined $50 b Jud in the. same case. y Ee Bran

URGES EARLY FILING OF U. S. TAX S. TAX BLANKS

Filing of nels fan tax returns before March 15 will enable UE Te to avoid the “annual national headInternal Ro Sw Collector of venue said last a WIRE broadcast. Right iy “The taxpayer who files his return early is assured of more rapid clearance and assistance than cairjon be offered the man who waits until

been made toward their ‘participation as persons in the life of our mation,

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| County officials and leaders of both

Following the dinner a five-act|jine.

|0IL FIRM EMPLOYEES

give first aid assistance to traffic

Candidates From Zionsville And Garrett Up for Election Feb. 29. Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 14— Either Miss ‘Virginia Austin of

| Zionsville or Miss Barbara Van Fleit.

of Garrett will reign as queen of the 1940 junior prom at, Indiana University. They have been selected. from an ‘original ‘field of nine candidates to complete in the election Feb. 29. Miss Austin, whose hair is light

four candidetes as the “coalition” candidate of Greek letter societies.

Sorority, a member of the year book, Daily Student and’ Bored Walk staffs, co-chairman of the Associa-

ber of the Pleiades and Y. W. C. A. Miss Van Feit, also a brunet, was selected to represent the Independent. Students’ Association. She is a member of the Women’s Athletic As-

the Home Economics Club. The prom will be held on a March’ date yet to be selected. This is the first year that either ‘the Independent or coalition factions ever have had more than a single entry each. Last year’s queen was Joyce Cole, Wolcottville, an Independent.

race were: Independents, Lucilla Hall, Rosa Doerflein, Margaret Gommel, Janne Steele and Bernice Schneider. Coalition — Dolores Miller, Chi Omega; Anne Louise Cole, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Marjorie Heidenreich, Delta Gamma.

sociation, the the Y. W. C. A. and

(Brunet ( One of Two) Will Reign: as Queen

brown, was selected from among

She is president of Delta Delta Delta

tion ‘of French Clubs and a mem-.

Other candidates in this year’s’

z Of Junior Prom at Indiana University

Miss Virginia Austin (left) and Miss Barbara Van Fleit . . . one will

wear a

crown,

REGISTRATION DRIVE OPENED

County Aids and L and Leaders of Both Parties Seek to + Avoid Rush.

A campaign to get thousands of voters registered properly before the May 8 primaries has been started by

political parties. County Democratic Chairman Ira P. Haymaker said precinct committeemen and ward chairmen throughout the County have been instructed to help residents in their districts get registered properly. Earlier, County Republican Chairman Carl Vandivier announced his party workers also.were getting their supporters registered ahead of time. Thousands of voters who have been disfranchised by failure to vote in the last two elections, persons who have changed addresses since the last election and women who have been married are: required to re-register. County Clerk Charles Ettinger {said his staff is ready now to make all registration changes and urged voters go to the Court House now and avoid the rush. near the dead-

Branch registration offices will be set up throughout the County be Ween March 15 and April 3, he Ss The Jeadiine Tor registrations will be April

IN FIRST AID COURSE

The last of a series of first aid educational meetings being conducted by the Indian Refining Co. for its employees will be held at 7 p. m. Tuesday in the Hotel Lincoln. The program was started by the company to qualify its employees to

victims. A representative of the U. S. Bureau of Mines will be present at the last meeting to conduct final examinations. Those passing the tests will receive certificates from the Bureau.

— EDITOR DIES NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (U. P.)— F. E. Murphy, publisher and editor of the Minneapolis Times-Tribune,

died, early today at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel of a hears attack.

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“| State Senator from Marion County.

'Twasn't Eh That Won the Ladies in 1880

The profusion of lace and the quantity of hearts or roses on a valentine were not the means by “that sweetest of creatures” could tells how much ' her mustachioed swain cared for her in the 1880s. All she had to do was to turn over the valentine and look at the price on the back. It was nearly always there, that being the custom in those days, say officials of the Central Library who have placed a large number. of oldfashioned valentines on exhibit. And some of the boys spent quite a bit for the valentines in those days, too. Not 15 cents or a quarter, say Library officials, as: they show their collection of valentines, bearing 75 ‘cents, $1 and $1.25 marks. "The oldest valentine in the exhibit ‘was made in 1852 and is owned by Miss ‘Evelyn Sickels, head of the library schools department. Among the more valuable valentines is a collection of a dozen‘ comic valentines of the World War era helonging: to Mrs. George P. Meier, 3128 N. Pennsylvania:. St. The valentines bear drawings by John T. McCutcheon, Kin Hubbard and Gar Williams and verses by George Ade.

JOHN 0. LEWIS SEEKS STATE SENATE SEAT

John O. Lewis, Indianapolis attorney and former deputy county clerk, has. announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for

Mr. Lewis, who is 40, has his offices. at 423 Indiana Trust Building. He is a graduate of the Indiana Law School and has practiced law 14 years. He announced he favors restoration of state officers ‘to their constitutional positions and responsibilities,” tax reduction by eliminating waste and extravagance, elimination of a large niimber of useless boards and commission, removal of state institutions frcm the political spoils system, and separation of the legislative, executive and judicial departments of government.’

CRASH INJURIES FATAL TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 14 (U. P.).—Leona Burns, 22, of Terre Haute, died yesterday from injuries suffered when a car in which

i! AC TO ELECT

FIVE DIRECTORS

Board Will Meet N Meet Next Week To Choose New Officers. Resident club members of the

Indianapolis Athletic Club will elect five directors for three-year terms

Monday Voting will be fron: noon

to7p The rd of directors will meet within five days after the election to name officers. Directors whose terms are expiring and who have been reriominated are L. B. Andrus, Paul ©. Ferrel, Samuel R. Harrell, Ralph M. Reahard and Joseph W. Stickney. Other nominees are McFarland Benham, Alan W. Boyd, W. J. Couglin, Dr. P. M. Gastineau, Walter I. Hess, David M. Klausmeye: and Ernest M.: Sellers. Holdover directors are Bowman Elder, Dudley. R. Gallahue, R. C. Griswold, Conrad Ruckelshaus, William H, Wemmer, W, Ray Adams, |P Carl ‘N. Angst, Charles Harvey, W.|. I. Longsworth and George. S. Olive. Present officers are Mr. Stickney, | president; Mr. Adams, first vice president; Mr. Reahard, second vice president; Mr. Wemmer, secretary, and Mr. Elder, treasurer,

EX-CITY CLERGYMAN TO TALK ‘AT DINNER

The Rev.. Frank E. Davidson, South’ ‘Bend, former Indianapolis pastor, will be the guest speaker at a meeting following the. 6:30 dinner tomorrow night at the Third Christian Church. ' His subject will be “What tite Church of Today Should Expect of Its Members.” The Rev. Mr. Davidson formerly was pastor of the Englewood Christian Church. here. He is a trustee of the United Christian Missionary Church:here. He. is: & trustee of the United Christian Missionary Society and chairman of the hoard of commissioners for the ordination of ministers. . For 20 years he has been chairman of the communion service at the national Disciples of Christ conventions.

STARTS PRISON TERM : Fred Johnson, alleged’ leader ‘of Indianapolis marijuana pedcdlers,| today began serving an 18-month term ‘at the Leavenworth, Xas, Penitentiary for selling marijuana.

He was 67.

The clanging, lurching interurbans which have played a major role in the industrial history of Indianapolis soon may be as rare here as a prairie chicken on the plains of the Dakotas. Streamlined busses and trucks, operated more economically with gasoline, are slowly pushing the electric-driven iron monsters | .into the junk piles. : A petition is now on file with the Public Service Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington for the substitution of busses and trucks for the Indiana Railroad’s interurbans now running on the Indianapolis-Ft. Wayne and the Muncie-New Castle lines. . If both commissions grant this petition, Indianapolis, once the center of the gregtest traction system in the world, will be left with only one interurban. line—a 62-mile track from here to Seymour, with service hourly to Columbus and once every two hours to Seymour. Officials of the Indiana Railroad Co. ‘which since 1930 has replaced} interurbans with busses and trucks on approximately 500 miles of iis

she was riding struck a tree and overhyrned. :

customers and more ‘economical for the company. The first step in the abandonment of the Indianapolis-Ft. Wayne and Muncie-New Castle lines was taken yesterday when Judge Herbert E. Wilson of Superior Court 5 granted Bowman Elder, receiver for the Indiana Railroad, permission to petition the Public Service Commission for abandonment of the traction lines. ‘The petition also was sent to the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington because ‘tickets are sold by this line which can be used to travel on other bus lines in other states. »

‘Mr. Elder reported that the Indi-anapolis-Ft. Wayne route showed af deficit of $51,322 in the first nine months of 1939, $47:557 in 1938 and $57,873 in 1937. The line has not made money since 1936, he reported, when a profit of $17,078 was shown. The Muncie-New Castle “line “lost $23,035 during 1938 and $17,883 during -the first nine months of 1939, he said. The '98-mile line between Indianapolis and Bluffton is owned by the Indiana Railroad and the 25-mile

Johnson was sentenced by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell

Bus Era in Indiana Sends Inferurbans Clanging Toward Junk Heap and History

ahd Tease to Mr. Elder. Both lines are a part of the old Samuel Insull utility empire. . The Muncie-New Castle line, 19 miles long, is owned by the Indiana ilroad and serves as a feeder for the Indianapolis-Ft. Wayne line. All three lines are included in the petition, which states they are so mutu ‘interdependent that none could ~ operated without the others, 2 These lines are the last of the old Union Traction Co., known & quar-ter-century-ago as the world’s largest interurban railway. The ‘Indiana Railroad Co. absorbed the Site Traction: Co. in 1930 and the Terre Haute and Indianapolis ‘Traction Co. in 1931. All towns now served by the In-dianapolis-Ft. Wayne and MuncieNew Castle lines will have bus service running on the same schedules as the in ‘bans now do if the petitions ‘are granted, Mr. Eider said. ‘These include Ft. Harrison, Oaklandon, McCordsville, Fortville, a lan. ne, Sprnes e, Yor! ,. Muncie, gr Cowan, Oakville, Mt. Summit, New

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"HUNT MURDER

Police Told He He

Castle, Shideler, . Eaton, Hartford | City, Montpelier, Seysione “Poncta, Bluffton, Ossian and ir

MYSTERY MAN ANDBLUE BLUEAUTO

Searched “Scene of Slaying On E. 10th St.

searching about the filling station at 10th and Wallace Sts. Saturday evening where the proprietor, Fran= cis T. Smith, was slain] the night before, was hunted by police today. Detectives at first believed the man might have been one of their own number, ‘but a check showed that no member of the force was there at the hour. From. the information given po-

|lice about the man’s actions, they

believe he may have been’ searching for the bullet which evidently passed

through Mr. Smith’s body and out the filling" station ‘window. The mysterious searcher was driving a blue automobile, police were informed. 20 Men Arrested

At the same time, police an‘nounced the arrest of 20 men ih a raid last night and said they will be questioned in: connection with the Smith murder and other recent

_|crimes.

Detective Chief Fred Simon said the arrests were made in an effort. to find-one or more of | the three alleged bandits who have been active recently in filling station and grocery store holdups in the City. Detectives also were checking today. on testimony given jat a cor=oner’s inquest yesterday that a woman had telephoned the station twice Friday night Shory after the

| murder.

. Phone Rang Twice

Paul Kervan, 5152 Pleasant Run Blvd., North Drive, the man who found Mr. Smith’s body when he stopped at the station to use the telephone, ' testified that | the telephone rang shortly after he came back from notifying police and that he answered it. “It was a woman’s voice. She* asked, ‘Is this Irvington 0053?’ and I told her I didn’t know, and hung up,” he told Deputy Coroner Carl Mercer. Dr. John Graves, 5263 E. 10th st., who was Summ oves from his nearby office. when Mr. Smith's body ‘was found, testified. that the ‘telephone again began ringing soon after he reached the station and, that the nurse who was assisting] him answered. ' A woman’s voice asked | ‘the same question as in the first call, and when the nurse confirmed the listing, the. caller hung u , saying nothing, the doctor said.

& Tells of Finding Body ;

“Dr. Graves testified he knew of no enemies in Mr. Smith's private life. He said he found Mr. Smith lying on his side, with his hat on and his head in a metal waste basket. He said ‘that he probably had been dead about a half hour. Mr. Kervan testified that, after calling Dr. Graves, he notified police. . ' “Police still are searching a motive for the slaying. A robbery theory lacks ‘several supporting elements. Apparently, police say, the murderer did not obtain any money, as approximately $38 was found on the floor and in Mr. Smith’s pockets. Mrs. Smith, the widow, accompanied by an attorney, obtained Mr. Smith's money, $3892, keys and other receipts at the Coroner's office yesterday.

‘Smoke Shop’ Raided

The raid last night was on a “smoke shop” on E. 25th! St., and 18 men: found there were taken. They were all charged with vagrancy. In addition, Robert Cross, 31, of 2547 Columbia Ave., was charged with violating the 1935 firearms act after ‘police said they found a 38caliber special revolver and three shells. - Two other men were arrested later when they appeared at Police Headquarters to get information on the raid.” They were held on vagrancy charges. All but one were released on their own recognizance. He was held on a vagrancy charge under a $3000 bond.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In what country did Napoleon “meet his Waterloo? 2—1s any particular Indian depicted on. In ad pennies? 3—How many trips did the rescue /chamber | to extricate the survivors of the U. 8. 8. Squalus? 4-In what round was the recent Armstrong:Montanes bout stopped? 5—How many face cards are in a regular deck of playing cards. 6—How many Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court are there? - 7—Where in Europe is the Gota Canal? 8—By what other name is the Na-. tional Labor Relations Act known? 8 8 = Answers | ; 1—Belgium, near the village of Waterloo.

2—No; the head is an | Idealized model. 3—Four. 4—Ninth. 5—~Twelve, 6—Eight. T—Sweden. 8—Wagner Act. :

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