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PROFIT TAX BILL T0 BE FINISHED THIS WEEK-END

T Hoosier Guardsmen Fall in at Wisconsin Camp

WOMAN ADMITS TAVERN SLAYING DENIED IN 1337

Faces Court

‘MONDAY, AUG. 12, 1940

FUNERAL TODAY | FOR L. A. DOWNS

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Committee Merlsers Predict

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DETROIT BOY WINS ‘SOAPBOX DERBY’

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SPARTA, Wis., Aug. 12 (U. P).— The largest concentration of regular and National Guard troops since (1918 was encamped in the northern sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota today for lessons in modern, | mechanized warfare, | Almost 65.000 troops, most of them jguardsmen from Illinois, Indiana, | Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, { Michigan and Wisconsin,

{to Camps McCoy and Wi illiggns in Wisconsin where the Second Army maneuvers for 20 days under the direction of Lieut. Gen. Stanley H. (Ford. Infantry,

a mock battle between and Sixth Army Corps

jaration for {the Fifth Aug. 24-27 At Little Falls, Minn, 45,000 troops | of the Seventh Corps Area were en- | gaged in their first “battle —a blitz(krieg seige of Duluth. The invad-| ing Blue forces were reported in| theoretical control of rail forces in} and advancing {faster than the defending Red units maneuvered into position. | The Red Army was superior mebut lacked the numerical strength of the Blue forces.

Gen. Marshall Visits

‘Troops in Northwest

FT. LEWIS, Wash, P).—Gen. George Chief of Staff of the was en route East

Aug. 12 (U. C. Marshall, U. S. Army today foll lowing |

lan inspection of nine Fourth Army encampments square miles of

scattered over 900 the Pacific west, He said that he was pleased with the conduct the 41000 troops Army, but he that some regiments were so short that "by the time cooks and other services are assigned, we have few men left as fighters.” War games in which the Fourth |Army will participate open [row night. Gen. Marshall that Congress

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‘as 1S our immediate War Department has the necessary machinery to hans the increased personnel hich would result from passage of | the National Guard and Selective | Service Acts,” he said.

PAUL LINDNER RI RITES TO BE TOMOROW

Funeral se: for Paul Lindner, retired baker, who died Satat St. Francis Hospital, will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow Blasengym Funeral Home. Burial be in Washington Park. He was 76 Mr. Lindner lived at 1911 E. Mary-

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Members of Company G, 151st Indiana Regiment of the National | G Guard, heard the command when they detrained at Camp McCoy, Wis, | today. They are a part of the 5000 guardsmen from Indiana who began intensive training at the north country post.

| “Fall in!”

Mae Is Angered as ‘Husband’ Sues Agent for Alienation

{ i { | HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12 (U. P) — { Mae West said today with an angry | | glint in her eyes that James Tim- | According to Mr. Wallace, he and ony, her escort at film colony af- | piss West were married at Milwaufairs, “has been my business man- gee in 1911. She had been regarded ager and nothing else.” las a spinster in Hollywood until | | Frank Wallace, a vaudeville actor } three years ago when the marriage | who claims to be her husband. sued | records were accidentally discovMr. Timony for $105,000. Mr. Tim- | lered. Mr. Wéllace went to court ony, he charged, persuaded Miss and had himself declared her legal West to leave him and live as his] husband. Miss West denied “ever (Mr, Timony's) common-law wife. | knowing the guy. Miss West was not sued, but she To Mr. Wallace's charges that Mr had plenty to say: { Timony took Miss West away from “I was very interested in seeing him and advised Her to deny the the picture in the paper of Wallace | marriage, she replied: and his ‘business aids’ who turned | “As far as Jim Timony is con- | out to be a dog, a dancing partner, | cerned, suing him is silly, as he has | a lawyer and a manager. It was a been my business manager and {good shot of the dog. { nothing else. I'm a bit tired, “At last it gave me an opportu- ever, of being a springboard for this nity to see what Wallace looks like. | person Wallace—I wish he'd find a Wallace is evidently a persistent new angie.” suitor. The next thing I know, he| Mr Timony said the charges were will | suing me for breach of] ridiculous.”

State Deaths

{ ANDERSON-—-Mrs. Ethel Stages, [ NR vitor: Husband, John

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Charles G. Zimmerman, a litelong|. CRANTORDSVILLE £4 resident of Indianapolis, died ves-| CROTHERSVILLE—Mrs terday at his home, 1106 Reisner

Survivors: Husband, Mrs, Amanda Huckleberry (St. He was 73 and for |

| promice, or for alimony, or for being a success.”

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Thompson, 14. Sur

Irwin, Surviv-

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{ Banister, Mrs. Lona Jarvis 40 years! Dee Bridges: son, James Ezra i . | ter, Raney Janes. [was a butcher at the Kuhn Market. | EVANSVILLE — Mis, {He retired in 1936, | meyer, 70 Survivors: : | sisters, Miss Mary Mr. Zimmerman was a member and Mrs. Magdelene Utz; | George: and Daniel Bohn of Assumption Church and Maple | Ss s. H. C. Brinkmeyer and Mi Ir em ‘Camp, Modern Woodmen of Amer-| GREENSBURG—AU ust Ebbing. 77 itvivors daughters, Mrs. Anna Clark a ica. Funeral services will be at| Mrs. Elizabeth Warfield; BROTHEL and 8:15 a. m. We sdav =i? n dnesdayv in the Grin | NEW CASTLE— John

steiner Funeral Home and at 9 Dalighiere. 3 Former vi a. m. at Assumption Church. Burial Mat bel Ringsinger. Nis will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. RUSHVILLE Amos Chest vens 6% Mr. Zimmerman is survived by his! Ernest McCrory and Mrs gaughers. Sirs wife, Mrs. Augusta Letz Zimmer- lifford and William, sister, Mrs. Charle man; two song, George Zimmer-!

(Sup pbell; brothers B rn and Frank | Joseph William Littrell, 88. Surwi Chase, daughter, Mrs. Bertha Casey man, Thdianapolis, and Carl Zim-| Nisy Sula Curt merman, Cincinnati, and a daugh-| (ter, Miss Louise Zimmerman, Indianapolis

Sommerville, 60, and 5¢ Survivors Somme rvilie, Mrs Ernest Evans, and

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SHELBY VILLE Stephen Dodd. 86. Sur-

| vivor Wife

SHELBYVILLE Survivors: son, George Ogden; bald and Mrs. Anna Ferleman; | Ed Ferleman

SWEETSER—Mrs. Fihel Ambrose, a member of the yivors: Husband, Alva; sons, r and Goldie; ‘daught ers of the Daughters of! Gretta and Phyihs Ancil: father, George

i Os ; broth , ity, who had been assigned to| Qivalti brothers, Hayy, Fadi and Curtis | St. Vincent's Hospital for 14 years, | Hazel Sehultz. Mrs. Viola Schindler? Mis ‘died in the hospital Saturday. She| Goldie Juday and Mrs. Hattie Rawlings. was 81. | WABASH—ILouis B. Hopkins, 68. Sur ivors: Wife, daughters, Misses Florence | Sister Ambrose was the former and, Margaret Hol kins; mother; brother (Margaret Connly. She was born| 7 and Robert lin England, was brought to this | country in childhood and joined the | Community when 20. She was a nurse in Army camps at Chickamauga and Jacksonville during the Spanish-American War. She later was assigned to hospitals in Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago.; | Puneral services will be held at|at his home, 1129 S. Senate Ave. 5 m. tomorrow in the St Vin- Mr. Shea came *here from Paris, 4 y . ” : 1 cent's Hospital Chapel. Burial will| ll. He was a boilermaker oe in Holy Cross Cemetery. then a boiler inspector for

(roads, his last employment being Mrs. Dorothea Gail Rauh

|with the Pennsylvania Railroad. | Mrs. Dorothea Gaii Raul, 4222 Church. | Schofield Ave, died Saturday in| Survivors are his wife, Josephine, | Methodist Hospital. She was 27. | Indianapolis; two daughters, Mrs | Mrs. Rauh was born in Indian-| R. L. Stevens and Mrs. Earl Way- | apolis. She was a graluate of St.| mire, both of Indianapolis; two sons, John's Academy and a member of| Carl J. Shea, Indianapolis, St. Joan of Arc Church. She was! Joseph Shea, Pittsburgh; two stepemploved in the bookeeping depart- sons, Cyril Peters, Indianapolis, and ment of the Capital Paper Co. James Peters, Los Angeles, and two Survivors are her husband, John grandchildren. K. Rauh: her mother, Mrs. John Funeral services will be held Rothert. Rellefontaine, ©O.: her Wednesday at 8:30 a. m. at the father, Leo Greenen, Terre Haute; Feeney & Feeney Funeral Home a brother. Paul Green®. Indian-/and at 9 a. m. at the church. Burial |apolis, and her grandparents. will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. | Funeral services will be held at] 8:30 a. m. tomorrow in the home| Mrs. and at 8 a. m. in St. Joan of Arc | Church.

Willia am Tomela, ¥ Norman; aughter I S, fr Mary ra ‘Herbey: half-si h half-brothers, Frank and

Sister Ambrose

Sister

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JAMES SHEA DIES: RITES WEDNESDAY

James Shea, a resident of In- | dianapolis for 33 vears, died today

Mary E. Williams

Mrs. Mary E. Williams, 822 Temple Ave, died today at { home following a long illness, ‘Herman Lange [need | Puneral services for Herman| Mrs. Williams was the widow of (Lange, lifelong. Indianapolis resi- | David E. Williams, city fireman, {dent and for 39 years an employee who died in 1929. Two daughters, of the Railway Express Agency, will| Mrs. Charles Crawford and Mrs. be at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow in the Walter Conkle Funeral Home. Burial will|five grandchildren and be in Crown Hill Cemetery with grandson, survive her. Spanish-American War veterans in} Services will be held at 2 pn. charge Wednesday at the Harry W. Mr. Lange was 60 and lived BE) Peace Chapel. Burial will be sy N. King Ave, He died at U. S | Crown Hill. { Veterans’ Hospital yesterday after | ee {an illness of several days. He was la member of William E. English |{Camp, No. 84, Spanish-American

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He was a member of Sacred Heart|

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J. Slate, a son, Thomas E., | great- |

m. | Moore |

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Case Continued Until Aug. 20; Conscience Tortured Her, She Says.

Three years ago Harry Brady was shot and mortally wounded in a tavern at 334 Blake St. Questioned,

Mrs. Opal Grimes Sullivan con- | | vinced police and a grand jury that | the shooting was accidental. Today, alternately biting her nails and drumming her fingers, she appeared in Municipal Court on a charge of voluntary manslaughter {placed early yesterday by police |after her conscience-inspired confession that she shot Brady intentionally | The case was continued until Aug {20 while her attorney and prosecutors confer on the case. She had | nothing to say in court except that | she wanted to co-operate, { Mrs. Sullivan is 28. Almost hys- | terically she called Police Headquarters Saturday night and asked that a detective call at her home, 1214 W. New York St. “I want to tell about a murder |in which I was involved,” she said.

Knew Brady 11 Years

Native of Indiana, Rose From $40 a Month.

CHICAGO, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—A | solemn requiem mass funeral serv. lice was scheduled at Holy Name Cathedral today for Lawrence A. { Downs, 68, chairman of the board {of the Illinois Central Railroad, who | died Saturday. | After the service, the body will *. be taken to New Orleans, La. for “| burial there tomorrow. | Mr. Downs, a native of Greenrastle, Ind., had been president of the railroad for 12 years until high ‘blood pressure and a heart ailment that caused his death forced him to retire to the board chairmanship in 1938. He began his railroad career as a | $40-a-month rodman for the old Vandalia Railroad upon his graduation from Purdue University in 1892 He joined the engineering corps of Illinois Central four years later, then served successively as super|intendent of the Iowa, Minnesota and Kentucky divisions before becoming general superintendent of the Southern lines with head=quarters at New Orleans in 1915. He 1s survived by one daughter, Mrs. John F. Oakley, New Orleans, ” oS v and three brothers, T. A. Downs, Mrs. Opal Grimes Sullivan , . | Princeton, Ry.; J. L. Downs, Cham-

changes story of slaying. | paign, Ill, and J. E. Downs, Terre > = | Haute, Ind .

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HOLD ATES FOR ~ | HARVEY ROGERS

Long Identified With Lecal Building and Appraisal Work. gre

Business associates were to pay] He

‘ | (1937) (tribute to Harvey E. Rogers, long |

identified with the building indus- | try, at his funeral services at 2 p. m. . today in the Royster & Askin hi, y 8 Funeral Home. Burial was to be|. On Jan. 6, the day of the shoot. | ing, she was acting as waitress in {in Crown Hill. : . | the tavern she operated with her Mr. Rogers, who was 57, died Fri-| mother, Mrs. Flora Etta Van Stan day in his home at 4030 E. 62d St.| Brady was sitting in a booth He was born " .

in Danville, Ill, and . ; . ys was a graduate of Rose Polytechnic| Claims Brady Slapped Her I'wo regular customers came in

Institute, and she joked with them. Jealous,

| He was superintendent of con[struction for Vonnegut & Bohn, ar- | Brady slapped her. She went to her | room, got the gun, returned to the

$3000.00 hitects, and after 1919 was activ { I P 3 C , i as C e| as an architect and an appraiser, | tavern. Brady was standing at the as rizes bar. She leveled the gun at him

retiring two years ago. Mr. Rogers s "vised and said . . | he Fiotcher “You asked for it, Harry" 9th Children’s National Photograph Contest $500.00

tion of the Fletcher Trust Co.| | Building, the Hotei Severin and! Then she pulled the trigger and | many other buildings in the city. | the bullet entered his ahdomen. He He was a member of the Christian | died Feb. 3 at City Hospital, claim- First Prize Church of Danville and the Indian- | ing the shooting was an accident. ® . |apolis Home Builders Association. | She called police and told them Awarded by at the tme that the shooting was Parents’ Magazine Other Prizes

rel Detectives Paul Taylor and ohn Bevan arrived they said she | on highly emotional and anxious | ~— {to tell about the shooting. They took her to headquarters where she | told this new version of the shoottold Her name was then Mrs. Opal Grimes and she had known Brady | for 1T years. He beat her frequently and because of fear she had agreed to marry him in June of

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Burglars took jewelry valued at more than $1000 and $2 in pennies] from the home of Dr. H. A. Van | Charles M. Campbell, 86, founder Osdol, 43 Hampton Drive, Saturday|of the Hamilton (O.) Daily News night. Dr. Van Osdol told police a|and an author of popular books on rear door was broken open while no| medicine, died yesterday from one was at home, | complications following pneumonia.

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{ Survivors are his wife, Bertha F.; a son, Harvey E. Jr; a daughter, | accidental After Brady died. she Mrs. Kenneth H. Cox, and a sister, | waived preliminary examination beMrs. T. H. Frankenberry, Sharon, fore Municipal Court and the case Pa. went io the Grand Jury, which did { not indict

* Mrs. Viola J. Gross Ready to Stand Trial

$= Mrs. Viola J. Gross. a resident of | Subsequently she married Paul,

the Indianapolis area nearly all her Sullivan and she told police that life, died vesterday at her home a she was dissuaded by him and her if Mrs. Gross lived here for She said she was tortured by her vears, and in 1896 moved conscience and that she was ready years ago. Four children, Mrs. R.| sobbed H. Austin, Mrs. L.. E. Tex, Ronald O., and three grandchildren survive her will be at Crown Hill. In protest against the “views” of |c ol. Charles Lindbergh, which it asRow. Of Polish Organizations today requested the common council to “Col. Lindbergh is entitled to his opinion,” the organization said in a moting the proper defense measures almost all his life. He was a sales- fo. the preservation of the country’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Roberts; two { brothers, Clarence and Roscoe R. { Indianapolis. John W. Wright at the Grinsteiner Funeral Home at p. m. tomorrow. Burial will be pioneer businessman here, He Hoy owned the old Pearl | Cleaning Co. for 15 years. He died Saturday in City Hospital after a | Mrs. Minnie M. Gordon, 3330 Carrollton Ave, a native of Ireland and cent’'s Hospital. She was 63. | Mrs. Gordon was born in Dublin! ¥ |

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| Funeral services for Carl jerts, who died Saturday in his home 2319 N. Gale St, will be held at |p. m. today in the Moore & Kirk | Northeast Funeral Home. Burial will be in Washington Park. Mr. Roberts was 52. He was born

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mile and a half south of Beech Mother last New Year's when she home near Beech Grove to stand trial. all of Indianapolis; Services will be held at LINDBERGH DRIVE serted ‘are inconsistent with the 5 change the name of Lindbergh Drive resolution, “but he should co-operate man for the Horton-Luse Co integrity, instead of promoting his and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Young | Funeral services for John W {in Crown Hill Cemetery. Laundry and later was associatéd | long illness. a resident of Indianapolis for 40 and came to this country when she FITTED “DISHES tor | CL LL CLG ;

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