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® Ex-Kian Leader to Have Operation in Hospital At La Porte.

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oners who have legal actions pending in any court.

Doctor Called to Jail

Stephenson’s ailment first was brought to the attention of the Parole Board by Dr. J. D. Sturdivant, Noblesville, who was called to . attend, the prisoner while he was in jail at Noblesville during a hearing on the court action a year ago. ‘Dr, Sturdivant’s diagnosis was that Stephenson was “suffering from gallstone colic.” Dr, W. P. Woods, Evansville, also examined Stephenson in the fall of

1939 at Noblesville. : “1 itive he was suffering fro ystitis, with stones,” Dr. Ww: said at that time.

Advises Operation

He also examined Stephenson at the Prison last summer 4nd: made the following report: “It is my opinion as a surgeon, and I have been making a specialty

Probe Opens in Air Collision

|about. 250 feet apart, the Guard ‘plane burning.

cinit, police and Hoosier Airport officials were on the scene immediately.

the dead lieutenant, received the call at the airport and immediately tnotified her husband. He went to to the scene, returned to the airport, and verified. by phone that| the wrecked Guard plane had been piloted by his son. plane was afire when he was at the| scene, he could not identify his son’s

Mr. Shank said today. plans for a newspaper career of his own accord when I started teaching him to fly. When he got the National Guard appointment 52 get Army aviation training, started at Love field, Texas, Gy oe I was an aviator during the World War,

Killing Young Guard Flier And Two Others.

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Magny persons living in the vi-| heard or saw the crash and

Mrs Robert F. Shank, mother of

Because the

body. ‘Had Great Dreams’

“Bob and I had great dreams,”} “He dropped

“He. preferred to be in the Na-

of surgery for the last 25 years, that Mr. D. C. Stephenson should be operated upon and should have the gall bladder removed in order to remedy the diseased condition that now exists.” Dr, A. T. Jones, until recently a

physician at the State Prison, re‘ported last.Oct. 21, that Stephenson had “pathological gall bladder; probably with calculi.”

Dr. Bowell fo Assist

ing together at the airport.

have been avoided by either pilot. Although neither of them expected any other plane to be in the vi-

tional Guard “because he had his heart set on coming back here to help me train other boys to fly, when he wasn’t on active guard duty. I was proud of his flying ability and both of us were looking forward to a lot of enjoyment work-

“Perhaps the accident could not

Dr. Bo Bowell, La Porte, who will assist in performing the operation, examined Stephenson Nov. 12 and sent the following report to the Gov-

ernor:;

cinity, it looks as if Bob and both fellows in the other plane were looking in the wrong direction. Both pilots apparently were maneuvering for a landing at our airport and were intent as they looked in that

wanted to do that.

with ‘me, all when he wanted to.

happened.

“He was having the time of his life when he was killed. It hap-|§ pened so quickly and so completely, I'm sure he never even knew what

Flaming wreckage of the National Guard. plane in which Lieut. Robert Shank Jr. died.

what he wanted in it. He went to college when he wanted to and he left college to learn to fly when he |; He joined the |} Guard and went to an army flying school and came back here to work |§H

port in 1928 and is its president and general manager.

-“So I have no regrets.” . Mr. Shank started the Hoosier Air-

The National Guard investigation |

[FOR HOME eri

Unit Expected to Begin Functioning by Dec. 15 To Replace I. N. G.

Organization of an Indiana Home

{Guard to replace the National

Guard when it is called into service in January got under way today with the naming of five regimental

and 12 battalion commanders.

The officers, all members of the National Guard or Reserve Corps group, will receive Home Guard commissions. from Governor M. Clifford Townsend immediately. Adj. Gen. Elmer F. Straub, who announced the appointments, said. The battalion commanders will

iname the captains of the four com-

panies ynder their command, and the captains will name their own first and second lieutenants. All appointments will be subject to Bp. proval of the Governor.

I | would be completed and the Home

= | Guard functioning by Dec. 15.

The company captains will serve

= their own recruiting officers and

ach company will have about 55

‘men.

Enlistments will be voluntary and there will be no pay unless the units should be called into active service.

Enlistment in the Home Guard,

will not keep an individual from being drafted, Mr. Straub said. It will. be recommended that the Guard units drill twice a week in the National Guard armories for the first three months and once a week thereafter. Rifles ‘and machine guns for practice will. be pro-. vided by the Federal Government.

& [There will be no uniforms :unless

the Legislature provides funds for them in the coming session, the Adjutant General said. 55 Men in Each Company

Names of the regimental com-

Mr, Straub said the organization :

Te esse: Livermore Writes, | ‘I Am a Failure’ and Ends Life. NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (U..P.).—

Jesse L, Livermore’s- youthful widow tearfully ‘studied his suicide note]

Last Plunge |

today. It said he had been a “failure.” One- bi time “boy:plunger,” “wizard of Wall . Street,” } “Cotton King,” § winner and loser of four fortunes

and killed himself last evening in the gentlemen’s lounge of a fashionable Fifth Avenue Hotel. The body of the 62-year-old speculator, one of the nation’s: most spectacular market operators, lay in a morgue.

Note Written in Bar The note had been written in the bar of the hotel during the luncheon hour yesterday. Livermore sat at a table and furipusly wrote in his note book while eating lunch. It was addressed to “Nina,” and

signed “Laurie.” It ‘said he was “tired of fighting” and: could “not

Mr. Livermore,

' |go on any- longer.” Full of endear-

ing terms, it asserted: “I ‘am not

worthy of your love. I am a fail-

ure.” When he had finished his lunch and his-composition, Livermore left the hotel, presumably for his office in a nearby skyscraper. During the cocktail. hour, Livermore returned to the bar, had two old fashioneds and went tothe lounge adjoining 6

{the men’s room.

Ten minutes later an attendant saw him in a chair, thought at

TRADE BARRIERS

{Commission Asks That No

“Such Laws Be Passed By Legislature.

The State Legislature was warned _| today | by the Indiana Commission

i on Interstate’ Co-operation against || passage. of any laws that would cres

ate trade barriers with other states. The warning was contained in the annual report of ‘the commission adopted at, its annual conference ab

tion during the last 10 years. : The commission recalled Indiana’s ‘beer importer law which resulted in beer wars ‘with’ Michigan and other states. This law was amended, how ever, in 1939 and friendly relations and. alcoholic beverages trade ‘were restored with the states.

Uniform Laws Proposed

The commission. was to consider several proposals for new laws to conform with uniform ;cqdes. being established irr other states. The uni form laws to be considered were proposed by the National mis sion ‘on Uniform State Laws. : This commission has urged the Indiana Legislature . to enact new ‘laws to conform with the uniform

‘code on the following subjects:

Gun-carrying permits, protection of the flag, bills of lading on intere state shipments, desertion and none< . support of family and statutes, of limitations. ; In regard to Indiana's flag law, the ‘commission found. that it has been violated flagrantly. The law provides that no replica of the flag can be used on any piece ‘of mere chandise.

Want State House Office : The commission also will ask the

“I consider the patient’s condition serious and recommend immediate hospitalization where he can have a complete examination, preliminary to what I believe to be a necessary surgical operation in the gall bladder. In my opinion, the condition is urgent.”

direction instead of looking around them, “It’s odd that when there were only two planes in the air for probably miles around and visibility was good that they should run together.

“I'm No Fatalist’

“But I'm no fatalist. In all my years of flying I've. never believed your number is down for a certain time and place. Bob lived a pretty full life and he got pretty much

manders and the battalion commanders under them follow: First Regiment—Lieut. Col. W. J. Platka, Ft. Wayne. exporter; first battalion, Kenneth A, Parmalee, Gary, second battalion, Robert F. Durbin, South. Bend, former Nation|al Guard officer; third battalion, Glenn W. Overman, Marion, former National Guard officer. Second Regiment — William M. Sailors, Kokomo, electrical applilance firm head; first battalion, W.

Legislature’ to appropriate ‘more money for interstate -co-operation work during the next two years and the provision of office Jisadquaisre for the commission . in | the State House. Prank Finney, chairman, presided at the commission hearing, William Treadway is executive secretary. The commission was created by a 1037 law. E

will be carried out by a board ocmposed of three Guard officers, appointed by Maj. Oliver Stout, commander of the 113th Observation squadron, of which Lieut. Shank was a member. Maj. Stout said he hoped to have the board named today. Investigations also will be conducted by two separate Civil Aeronautics Authority agencies. The| Harold King . . . flying instructor C. A. A. Air Safety Board was ex- at Hoosier. Airport. pected to send a representative here : :

first he was asleep. Then he Saw ood ' triekling ‘from’ a’ wound his head. -

Widow ‘Overcome

"The police called Mrs. Livermore, the former Harriet Metz Noble of Omaha, a “concert singe: She was overcome with grief. The son,| Jesse Jr. established his identification and an autopsy was waived. Livermore had hoped to make a fifth fortune. He began his career when 16 years old and ran $10 info

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UTILITIES WEAK NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (U. P).— Utility shares were weak in an irregular, quiet stock market today.

Willard Mount . . . student pilot - on instruction flight. -

Strauss Says:

STORE HOURS SATURDAY, O til 6

¢/’) ~~ Y

keminding of the

you

Spectacular Values

in the Women's

COATS, 19 +39

Other Sale

Shop! cleared at

groups . «

including FUR-COLLARED - COATS, $49 and $59.

DRESSES, cleared at 9:7:10:13

Dresses’ for.

(they never interest).

SUITS also

every hour of the day. lose their fashion

X XX

sweepingly reduced !

today. It is believed Philip C. Salzman, Safety Board representative in Chicago, will come to Indianapolis for that agency.

Moulton to Aid Probe

It also was reported that Mg]. Charles Cox, Chicago regional director for the CAA civilian pilot training program, would join Harold Strickland, Indianapolis, program director, in investigating the accident. Daniel Moulton, local CAA inspector, at the Municipal Airport, began assembling evidence last night. James Fitzgerald; hostler at the Algonquin Riding Club, saw the crash. He told this story: “I was in the barn and I heard a plane making a funny noise. I ran to the decor and I saw a yellow plane and :a big plane shout 300 feet up. “They collided. There WAL a terrific explosion. The yellow - plane scattered into three parts and the big plane spun around in the air. “They fell in a .garden patch about 150 feet from the club house. Two men in the yellow plane either bailed out or were knocked out and one of them apparently pulled his parachute ring. His chute sort of spread out as he fell. The chute of the other man didn’t open at all. I didn’t even see him fall. “I ran over. .By this time both planes were burning on the ground. The man in the big plane didn’t get out at all. He burned in the plane. “When the planes collided, there seemed to be a ball of fire shoot out of the yellow plane and it went over in the woods near the field. I don’t know what that could have been.” ‘Not Very High’ Earl Meyers, a farmer, living at Tibbs Ave. and 30th St., was building~a fence when the crash occurred. “I heard a crash and looked up and saw two planes had collided. They were not very high above me. I could see one of them was an Army ship. It dropped straight down only a few hundred feet where I was building the fence. “As the plane crashed, it exploded. The wings flew about 15 or 20 feet from the ship. The front of the plane was on fire but not the fuselage. ” Lieut. Shank attended School 75 here and then was graduated from Shortridge High School. He entered the University of Missouri,

Columbia, Mo., and completed his sophomore year in preparation for entering the School of Journalism there. Then he came home, convinced he wanted to be a flier instead of a reporter. The ‘tragedy yesterday came in the middle of plans for the marriage oung: Shank’s sister, Miss Rosema Shank, to Charles Edward Schwartz. Funeral services - for Lieut. Shank will be af 2\p. m. tomorrow at the Conkle Funeral Home and burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Besides the parents and sister, Lieut. Shank is survived by a brother, William Edward Shank. Mr. Mount, who was 26, was a civil Aeronautics Authority flying student, the only married man in the group of 10 youths sponsored in the course by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee. Mr. Mount was a salesman for the Standard Paint & Enamel Co., but decided to make flying his career. He began his training Nov.

to have more time for flying. Mrs. Mdunt Collapses

His wife, Mrs. Esther Mount, is employed by the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. They have a son, Richard Kenneth Mount, who will be 3 on Dec. 6. Last night, Mrs. Mount collapsed after identifying the body of her husband .at City Hospital. “I didn’t want him to fly, I was afraid all the time,” she sobbed. She was comforted by Mrs. Theodosia Mount, 27 N. Chester Ave., mother of the dead flier. “He did it for you and the baby, dear. You know that,” the mother of the dead flier said. Meanwhile, the Mount baby played around the hospital corridor. The Mounts live at 88 8. 11th St., Beech Grove. Mr. Mount was born in Indianapolis and was graduated from Shortridge High School. He was married June 18, 1936, to Miss Nettie Esther Finchum, Beech Grove. Other survivors are his father, James Willard Mount, and a grandmother, Mrs. Charles Hunter, Bedford, Ky. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary and burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Henry E. Ostrom, chairman of the aviation committee of the Chamber

19 and gave up his job in‘ order| _| tee expended on repair of the of-

of Commerce, said that $5000 insurance, provided by the government for each trainee, will be paid to Mr. Mount’s beneficiary. Mr. King was born in New Orleans, La., and had lived in Indianapolis since 1921. He received his training as a pilot at Hoosier Airport in 1928. He received his commission as instructor for non-college youth under the CAA civilian pilot training course several months ago and had instructed three of the trainees yesterday before taking Mr. Mount .up.

VINCENNES RELIEF

SITUATION PROBED

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same ratio of expenditures for 1939. Among the specific charges was one that the Trustee received gasoline in addition to the statutory allowance for traveling expense, amouning to $396.70; that the Trus-

fice building for which the township was paying $50 a month rent, the sum of $511; that questionable items of equipment and supplies such as rugs, electric fans, ‘lawn mower, water hose, electric clock, grass seed, etc.,, amounting to $260, was paid illegally from the poor relief funds;

that medical service claims amount- | ing to $103 for members ‘of the |

family of the poor relief investigator were paid out of township funds. Attention also was directed in the report to alleged failure to obtain proper affidavits from applicants

for relief, to certain materials al- |

legedly converted to private use and

to the qualifications of the investi- |

gator of the poor. Mr. Brennan said claims were paid for medicine without purchase orders signed by the Trustee or the recipient, and that often there was

no other evidence that the medi- |

cines were furnished to poor relief recipients. The report states that Dr. Paul B. Arbogast, Knox County Coronerelect, has made a voluntary refund

of $2813 paid him for house and |

office calls in relief cases. It also states that the BrasseurLee Drug Co. has .refunded $210 representing

ard medicine returned.

Here Is the Traffic Record)

County City Total wasrese 49. BL 91 ses iuen nis 46 85° 131

=—Nov, 28— i | Accidents | Arr

1939 .... 1940 ..

Injured ...

THURSDAY ia COURT

Cases Convic- Fines ie) tions = paid $25 i 38

Violations

Speeding Reckless driving Failure to stop at through street. Disobeying traffic signals Drunken driving All others ..

pS 1

3 4 21

4 5 3 3

Totals ........ MEETINGS TODAY

doe re Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin Communit Civis Clubs, ashington, luncheon, Co: imbia Club, POPhi Delta Theta, luncheon, ‘Canary Cottage, noon ca, a Is au Delta, luncheon, Columbia ey Sigma, lunche Canary Cottage, fe League, luncheon, Claypool Indiana Bar Association, dinner, Clay-

poo 0 p. Trinity § ritualist Chas tin Hotel Washington, 7:48 p prety meeting,

Federatio meeting, ‘Hotel cl mist Club,

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana Raddside Council RI (ote, i 102 m and fun Retina

n ional ard Asso banquet, nants Shards Sliasiation,

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists. are trom uffieia: cecords in the Ceuntv Cours House. The Times therefore. is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Herbert R

5 36. Satasote, "a; TH

of SH SSE sjivanis: I

Paulsne hie.

Arioseph A Price

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cheon at [East

Herman 3 Houchins, 28, Mor aniown. Ind.; The M. alto 25, Biter, altho, ind © T° 0S om S. £ Myr te L. Thomas, 36. © f 506 Bla Sedat + Gotigrie v Pla Ging kept, 36. 1 elle Vieu Place; Juanita Belle, Vie) asic Ta 2 2

. BIRTHS

Twin Girls Charles, Georgia Foster, at City. ° Girls

Robert. Rosemary Allen, at City. John, a Vanderveer, at St. Vincent's. K hs Florence Stegemeier, at Jdethodist. Albert, Pearl Elliott, at 2916 Keystone. Ra, ymond, Theresa ' Myers, at 513 Ed-

wards. Boys Eugene, Marie Bailey, at St. Francis. Ralph, Peachie Payton, at St. Francis. Bernard, Hortense Weimer, at St. Fran-

Harry, Talena Miller, at St. Francis, William, Peral Suggs, at City. ; Kenneth, Betty Hill, at Coleman. - Harold, Alice Planck, at Methodist. Esther Flanagan, at Meth-

Floyd, Pauline Blair, at 2715 Paris.

Raymond,

$152 odist.

DEATHS

Essie Mae Bennett, 41, at City, nephri * Walter Connaughton, 43, ab enhrius tularemia. Amelia Givliano,- 63, at St. Vincent's, cerebral hemorrhage. ? Fernando W. Wagner, 66, at. 746 Addison,

carcinoma, Denzil Hughes, 43, at Central Indiana, pulmonar, oe rculosis. [1 otiong, 54, at 648 N. Sherman Dr., carcinom William H. ®pahrenkamp, 46, at Methodjst, Soronary occlusio a. Cit atric us, a tuberculos v, pulmonaty Caroline ‘Altmann, 80, at 121 E, Ray-

mond, arteri jSnneider, 65, at Central InHelm, "8 at 3030 - he myocarditis, E. Wash argaret .E. McKinney, . 60, at 304 N. YS hier, TY, ot 178 & cer. a ocarditis. . bep~ Frank Foy, cinoma

FIRE ALARMS YESTERDAY

7:28 A. M.—338 Central, paint ware‘house, cause unknown, loss unestimated. M.—2828 Bhriver,” residence, hot coals on flo dm $10 loss —25 Monuinent Circle room, Rm in Christmas wreath, $ oss (Circle Tower). 33:50. P.M

stole

known, $10 loss.

Dodge 3, at 2810 McPherson, car=-|.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Mostly cloudy -tonight and tomorrow; colder. to-

| night, lowest temperature about 25.

6:46 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE ~=Nov. 29, 1930— a deveined 48"

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m. ... 29.88

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 ‘a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1. Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Increasing - cloudiness, colder tonight; Iomorrow Soudy, light snow in north portiol lin Ey natin colder tonight, Ii ortion late tonight; tomorrow ight snow in north, Slightly warmer north and central portion ‘Lower Michigan—Partly S ndy and colder tonight, snow flurries in north portion; tomorrow cloudy, light snow in north and west portions. Ohio—Partly cloudy and colder, much colder in northwest portion, snow flurries in northeast portion tonight; * tomorrow LA cldudiness, somewhat colder in east portion, followed by light snow northwest portion. ight

Kentucky—Partly = cloudy

Sunrise

an tomorrow; somewhat colder th Jo por-}.

tion tonight; colder in ext slightly warmer in extreme west portion tomorrow. . WEATHER IN QTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Westhey Amarillo, ' Tex. .....s.Cleal Te Cloudy Bos to : «.Clou

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H., Young, Lafayette, oHployment manager for the Aluminum Co. of America; second battalion, George B. Dickey, Attica, Harrison Steel Castings Corp. superintendent; third battalion, William C. Cameron; Kokonio, former Guard officer.

thur C. Newkirk, 1669 E. 59th St. Indianapolis, salesman for. the Plumbers Supply Co.; first battalion, Earl W. Drake, Elwood, sales manager of the G. I, Sellers Co.; second battalion, commander yet to be named; third battalion, inactive. Fourth Regiment—Paul L. Feltus, Bloomington publisher; first battalion, Judge J. A. Emmert, Shelbyville; second battalion, Sherman T. ‘Sublette, Columbus school teacher; third battalion, Roger H. Phillips, New Albany attorney. Fifth Regiment — Ferdinand J. Huffman, Evansville, of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co.; first battalion, Herman A. Collins, Terre Haute, former Guard officer; second battalion, Richard E. Meyer, Evansville, of the Interstate Finance Co.: third battalion, at Evansville, inactive. o

SAYS:

Third ' Regiment—Lieut, Col. Ar-

millions. His first fortune was made in 1907 during the “rich: man panic,” in a copper boom. Two years | later he lost those three millions when he attempted to corner the cotton market. He was forced to sell “his yacht and the jewelry of his first wife. In 1912, .he re-entered the market with a borrowed stake and made a fortune in cotton. This lone lasted two years,

Lost in 1929 Crash

He made his third fortune during the Werld -War years, and: his’ name was involved in’ a Congressional committee investigation of the “leak” about President Wilson's peace note of 1918. He sold 80,000 shares of stock short just before publication -of the note and made

,000,

short at: prices well over $1 a bushel. |- But he lost most of it in the 1929 stock crash. In 1934 he went into his fourth bankruptcy, .and - listed

$2,259.212 in liabilities.

- STRAUSS

He was ‘said to have made $20,- ; 000,000 in the 1925 wheat crash by|’ selling 50,000,000 bushels of wheat|. :

WAR VETERAN DIES OF ‘RABBIT FEVER’

‘Walter Connaughton, ‘World War - veteran from Montgomery, Ind, died today at the Veterans’ Hospital of “rabbit fever” he : contracted while hunting. A Veterans’ Hospital official said the 43-year-old veteran was brought to the" hospital ‘last Saturday in a serious - condition . from tularémia. He contracted it through a briar puncture in his hand. One’ other man was reported ab the hospital with the same ‘ailment, although his condition was reported ‘as not serious. Mr. Connaughton: 3 survived by

a. brother, John A., of Knightstown, nd.. ¥ i

MYLES STANDISH DIES LESBORO, 'Mass., Nov, 20 (WU. .P) ~Myles Standish,

lineal 3 oder, i military leader, tied at “work yestere

gay: He was 69.

Ll i al Ware ane

The Oxfords that winter weaiter

‘call for—are stamped “SERVICE” . which means fine Tooking, fine ; Sh fitting and finest botnaing—ond Te “the greatest value that ; : walks in shoe ether"

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