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BLAZING GUNS
END FLIGHT OF
POLICE DUARRY
Alleged Child Accoster Is
Shot; Bandit Suspect’s
Auto Riddled.
Guns blazed throughout Indian
apolis over the week-end, with
disastrous results for alleged bandits
and criminals.
Shot in the left hip when he fled
from a policeman Sunday afternoon,
Jacob E. Rowe. 26. of 1675 Belle-Vieu
place, is held today at city hospital
on vagrancy charges. He is alleged
to have made insulting remarks to
two girls, 12 and 13 years old. When
approached bv Patrolman Hod Eller,
of world series fame as a Cincinnati
pitcher in the ‘‘Black Sox” scandal,
Rome fled and Eller fired a shot
which brought down the fleeing
man.
A police squad in charge of
Sergeant Leo Trautman riddled an
automobile driven by Herman H.
Rhude, 21, of 234 Blake street, with
bullets in a chase Saturday night.
Rhude suffered severe wounds to
his right leg when he ran into a
barb wire fence after he leaped from
his disabled automobile at Tenth
street and Belmont avenue and
started to flee on foot.
Companion Held
Joseph Troy, 27, of 541 West Mer
rill street, a companion of Rhude in
the car, is held on a vagrancy
charge, while charges of driving un
der influence of liquor, speeding,
reckless driving and resisting an of
ficer were lodged against Rhude.
Police say descriptions of the two
talley with those of two bandits who
slugged George Cox. 36, of 56 South
La Salle street, and robbed him of
$9 at Camp Sulllivan park Sat
urday night.
Using two empty guns, a red
haired bandit staged four holdups In
twenty minutes Sunday night. Sam
Louis. 1123 East Washington street,
grocer, resisted the bandit and took
away both his guns in a fight. The
gunman struck the grocer on the
head with a gun butt and fled, leav
ing his unloaded weapons and his
cap.
Stages Four Jobs
Previously he had taken $35 from
Ray C. Guiler, 1424 North Euclid
avenue, in holdup of an Indian fill
ing station at State and Southeast
ern avenue; $25 from John D. Rob
erts, 27, of 1714 Oxford street, Shell
filling station attendant at State
avenue and Washington street; and
$9 from Harry Cripe, 34, ot 1312
North Olney street, proprietor of the
Do-Nut shop, 1026 East Washington
street '
Cecil Johnson, 23, was arrested
Saturday night charged with being
the third member of the trio alleged
to have looted the Fishers National
bank of $9,900 on Feb. 24.
James Ryan and Wilbur Ferguson,
who were sentenced to serve ten
years each for bank banditry in the
Hamilton county court and who now
are in jail at Noblesville. are al
leged to have implicated Johnson in
the holdup. Johnson denied guilt
when arrested. He will be turned
over to Noblesville officials.
Claim Robberies Solved
Robbery of fifteen safes and scores
of stores and theft of fifty auto
mobiles ’n northern Indiana will be
solved with arrest of three Wabash
men late Saturday night. Lieutenant
Bridges of the state police declared
today.
The men. Jesse Millican, 27;
George Coon, 22, and Herbert King,
30. were arrested in Millican's auto
mobile parked in front of a Wabash
restaurant and the car contained a
kit of burglar tools, officers declare.
The three were turned over to offi
cials of Niles, Mich., for trial on
charges of robbing the safe of a gen
eral store there.
Elmer Smith, 1045 River avenue, j
was charged with carrying concealed j
weapons and William Barger. 515
West Ray street, with possession of
liquor and vagrancy after Tony
Solotke. Junk yard operator at 544
6outh Missouri street, reported two
men attempted to hold him up. J
Solotke is alleged to have identified
Barger He yelled when one of the
men flashed a gun, Solotke told po
lice, and the men fled.
ASKED PUBLICITY DEATH
*Pnt Me on Front Page,* Plea as
Rich Youth Drowns Self.
Bv United Prret
NEW YORK. April 7.—“ Put this
story on the front page,” read a
note left in a car parked on the
Peekskill Bear Mountain bridge.
In the waters of the Hudson, 155 feet
below, the body of Gifford Kellogg,
19. son of Royal S. Kellogg, wealthy
pulp and paper man. had disap
peared after a spectacular leap in
full view of many passing motorists
who were angry because his car was
blocking traffic.
MARIE PREVOST HOME
Bp United Pr,'*t
HOLLYWOOD. April 7.—Marie
Prevost. film actress who underwent
a major operation at the Hollywood
hospital two weeks ago. today was
back in her home planning a visit
to court.
She will petition to have her last
name, Harlan, dropped. The actress
was married to Kenneth Harlan in
1924. and divorced three years later
Man Dies on Dance Floor
By United Prrtt
PRINCETON. Ind.. April 7—Ben
6kelton, 30. Princeton Democrat
linotpye operator, died suddenly of
heart 'attack while he was dancing
with Virginia Felty at the Masonic
Jffinple here. He told his dancing
partner that he was “getting a little
diny” and dropped to the floor. He
died soon afterwr rd without regain
ing consciousness.
List Foreign Telephone Users
Service
COPENHAGEN. April 7.—An in
ternational telephone directory, list
ing 30,000 European subscribers
who talk from one country to .-
Others, will make ite appearance
here in June. It is the third edi
tion of the “Annualre Telephonique
Internationale.”
Cal Buys ‘Humble Home ’
' ' :
Here is the “modest place with a little land” which Calvin Coolidge
has bought for a residence at Northampton, Mass. So the former
President described this picturesque, sixteen-room house, “The
Beeches,” which is surrounded by almost nine acres of land and laid
out with an outdoor swimming pool, two tennis courts and numerous
flower gardens.
Regarded as one of the show ’.aces of Northampton, it once was
reported to have been sought as a lome by Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh. The sale price was reputed l > have been approximately $40,000.
TWO END LIVES
WITHGAS, 6UN
Despondency Blamed for
James Beeler Suicide.
Shotguns and gas were means
chosen by two Indianapolis persons
to end their lives Sunday.
James Beeler, 64, of 4426 Scho
field avenue, leaned a shotgun
against his bed, pressed the trigger
with a stick, and ended his life. He
had been in ill health and despond
ent since the death of his wife last
August.
A son, Clarence Beeler of Pitts
burgh, two brothers, R. L. Beeler
of Fortville and W. H. Beeler of
Newport, and a sister in California
survive him. Professor Dale Beel
er of the Butler university faculty,
is a nephew. Funeral services will
be held at 2 Tuesday afternoon
from the home.
Mrs. Matilda Ritz, 60, of 3331
North Meridian street, ended her
life by asphyxiation at her home
Sunday, turning on burners of a
kitchen range. She is survived by
three sisters, Mrs. C. P. Brant of
Indianapolis, Mrs. Elizabeth Rupert
of Kane, Pa., and Mrs. Alice Shriver
of Ambridge, Pa.
Mrs. Rebecca Mclntosh. 21, of Ft-
Benjamin Harrison, was in a serious
condition at city hospital today
after swallowing poison at the Trac
tion Terminal station Sunday. She
refused to give any motive for her
act-
INDIANA SOLONS ASK
MORE VETERANS’ AID
Senator Robinson Leads Request for
Hospital Beds Boost.
Bit United Press
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Senator
Arthur Robinson (Rep., Ind.) and
several members of the Indiana con
gressional delegation appeared be
fore a house veterans’ sub-committee
today to request veterans' bureau
hospital facilities for Indiana.
Under present plans Indiana
would receive an appropriation of
$500,000 'lor construction of a 150-
bed veterans’ hospital.
Robinson recommended the capac
ity be increased to at least 500 beds,
saying there were many more than
that number of disabled Indiana
veterans now being cared for out
side the state.
Representative Hall. Marion, Ind.,
spoke in favor of his bill providing
construction of a 300-bed hospital in
Marion.
Two other bills under considera
tion were introduced by Representa
tive Ludlow, Democrat, of Indianap
ois, asking construction of a 150-bed
hospital, and Representative Elliott,
Republican, of Connersville propos
ing 500-bed facilities.
At present the state has no vet
erans’ hospital facilities.
BROTHERS END LIVES
Two Cambridge City >lcn Commit
Suicide in Few Months.
Times special
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., April 7.
—Following closely the fate of his
brother, who shot himself to death
a few months ago, Samuel Uelrich.
69, took his own life by poisoning at
rhe home of his son. Park Uelrich,
near here. The aged man was for
merly road supervisor of Jackson
township. 11l health is stated as
the cause of the act, Three months
ago. his brother. Willard Uelrich,
town marshal and city park super
intendent of Cambridge City, took
his life in a tool house at River
side cemetery. He leaves his widow,
the son. three grandsons and one
granddaughter.
PRESIDENCY OFFERED
Detroit Pastor Considers Call to
Valparaiso University.
Bu United Press
VALPARAISO. Ind.. April 7—The
Rev. O. C. Kreinheder, pastor of
St. Andrew's church. Detroit. Mich.,
has been elected president of Valpa
raiso university. He has taken the
call under advisement and will lay it
before his congregation for decision.
Dr. W. H. T. Dau, first president
of the university under Lutheran
control, retired last year.
Former Postmaster Dies
Bv Times Special
SPENCER. Ind.. April 7 —O. T.
Dickerson, former postmaster here,
founder and first president of the
Three Quarter Century club, is dead
at St. Petersburg, Fla.
CITY HAIL TO KEEP
‘HANDS OFF’ POLICY
Mayor Opposes “Machine” Politics
in Ward Club Address.
“The city hall will take no pa it
in the primary election campaign, I
do not want a city hall machine and
there must be fairness to all candi
dates, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan
declared at the meeting of the Tenth
Ward Democratic Club Saturday
night.
Sullivan and Mayor Jack Edward
of Marion were introduced to the
500 persons present by Louis Wol
verten, club president.
Edwards predicted Marion county
wall go Democratic because the peo
ple want a change of county as well
as city administration.
FIGHTS CHAIR DEATH
Sexson to Appeal Sentence
on Murder Charge.
By Times Special
BOWLING GREEN, Ky., April 7.
—Ben Sexson. alias Ben Orville, of
Indianapolis, will appeal a sentence
of death in the electric chair at the
Eddyville penitentiary for murder
of J. Robert Kirby, Smith’s Grove
(Ky.) bank president. Death sen
tence was passed Saturday by
Judge N. Porter Sims, with June 27
set as the date.
Judge Sims gave Sexson until
May 26 to file exceptions.
Sexson is alleged to have been a
companion of Richard McNeese
and Elmer Grayson, both of In
dianapolis, in holdup of the Oak
land (Ky.), bank, the shooting of
Kirby being an incident of their
escape. Grayson is serving a life
sentence and McNeese was killed
by a Chicago police officer, who
wounded Sexson, when the two at
tempted to kidnap him.
DEMOCRAT IS NAMED
FLOOD PREVENTION AID
Frank L. Schneider Appointed to
Post by Board of Works. ""
Frank L. Schneider, 1933 Dexter
avenue, Democrat, was appointed
junior aid in the flood prevention
department today by the board of
works. Schneider was recor unended
by Clarence I. Wheatley, councilman
and Democratic worker.
Russell Barnes and James Todd,
Republicans, were discharged from
posts in the same department.
The works board approved the
$9,600 contract for fire and police
protection for Woodruff Place after
trustes agred to pay the town’s share
for street improvement costa.
AFFLICTION HIS SAVIOR
Bandit Suspect Disproves Charge by
Wooden Leg.
Bv United Press
LOS ANGELES. April 7. A
wooden leg saved Harold Esbolt, 23,
from trial on robbery charges when
he was arraigned in municipal court
here.
The defendant had been identified
by a filling station attendant as the
bandit who ran to his automobile
after looting the station cash reg
ister.
Judge Louis Russell dismissed the
charge when Esbolt demonstrated
that he could walk only with a de
cided limp.
SEEKS TO AID PIGEONS
Cleveland Woman Wants to Share
Part of Expenses for Home.
Bv Unite l Press
CLEVELAND, April 7. Mrs.
Jacob Stroyne is willing to share
part of the expense if city or county
officials will take steps to provide
shelter for the pigeons of public
square next winter, she declared
today. Mrs. Stroyne has been feed
ing pigeons on the square for the
last thirteen years.
Doctor to Be Guest
Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer, director of
the division of child hygiene of the
Indiana State Board of Health, will
be the guest of the American Child
Health Association in ’Washington
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Warships Sent for Queen’s Body
By United Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 7.
Four warships will proceed to
Swinemuende, Germany, to convoy
the body of Queen Victoria of Swe
den across the Baltic to Stockholm
for funeral services here Saturday
afternoon.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
OVERPAYMENTS
FOR STATE AID
ARE REVEALED
Errors Totaling $22,690 in
Kirk Accounts Laid to
Bad Bookkeeping.
Errors in the bookkeeping and ac
counting of Harry Kirk, state aid
auditor in the office of superintend
ent of public instruction, caused
$22,690.63 In overpayments to state
aid school townships.
This was disclosed today by the
filing of the field examiners’ report
on Kirk's books with Lawrence F.
Orr, chief examiner of the state
beard of accounts.
The report previously had been
presented to Governor Harry G.
Leslie. It was made by William P.
Cosgrove and A. D. Walsh, field ex
aminers.
Paid Back Salary
Besides the excess payments, the
report discloses Kirk paid himself
SIOO for back salary without author
ization by the state budget com
mittee.
Roy P.- Wisehart, superintendent
of public instruction, declared today
that when the state budget commit
tee authorized a $25 monthly salary
increase for Kirk, Sept. 25, 1929, it
was agreed to make it effective for
June, July, August and September
of ‘hat year.
Eudget committee minutes disclose
that it was to be effective Oct. 1,
Cosgrove stated.
Wisehart said he will obtain
budget committee approval for the
back payments or Kirk will deduct
the SIOO from his next salary
voucher.
Wisehart Explains
Wisehart also explained that In
all but one instance, the excess pay
ments in state aid disclosed in the
report have been deducted in the
spring payments to the townships.
He admitted that the errors were
due to bad bookkeeping and ac
counting.
The largest single item was an
overpayment of $3,902.41 made to
Marion township in Lawrence
county.
There were overpayments in
thirty-two townships of twenty
counties, the smallest- being $6.66
paid Highland township in Greene
county.
$3,876 to Owen
Among the larger overpayments
were $3,876.22 to Owen township,
Warrick county, where Cosgrove said
Kirk forgot to deduct a former pay
ment.
Others were Rising Sun township,
Ohio county, $2,586.86; McCameron
township, Martin county, $1,035.78;
Scott township, Harrison county,
$1,827.73; English township, Craw
ford county, $1,519.20: Knightsville
township, Clay county, $1,050.45.
In the one instance where over
payment has not been deducted the
township has filed no state-aid re
port, Wisehart explained.
SETS FIRE TO AUTOS
Three Blazes to Cars Do
but Slight Damage.
A firebug set three automobile
fires, all with slight damage, early
today.
At 4:15 a. m. firemen extinguished
fire in an auto owned by Earl
Wright, 1216 Beecher street, in
Wright’s garage. At 4:31 a. m. they
returned to the same address where
an auto owned by Carl Wade was
blazing. Loss on both cars was
about SSO.
At 4:43 a. m. a fire company went
to 1237 Laurel street, where a car
owned by Gordon Hurley had been
set on fire. Damage was slight.
FACES PRISON TERM
IN HALF-PINT CASE
City Man Loses High Court Appeal
From Liquor Connection.
Because he was driving in the
city with a half pint of white mule
parked in the seat of his automobile,
John F. Grose, 41, of 2064 West
Twentieth street, faces a one to
two-year term in the Indiana state
prison and a SIOO fine for violation
of the Wright "bone dry” law.
Finding of guilt and sentence by
Marion criminal court is upheld by
the supreme court in an opinion
written by Judge Benjamin F. Wil
loughby.
Grose was arrested In downtown
Indianapolis two years ago for a
traffic law violation and the officer
making the arrest found the ha'f
pint on the seat of the car. Al
though he had no warrant, he
placed a liquor charge against Grose
and the court held no warrant is
needed when there is such an ob
vious violation.
RUTH ELDER POPULAR
Aviatrix, Now Mrs. Walter Camp
Jr„ Shining Light in Social Circles.
Bii United Pres*
NEW YORK, April 7—Ruth Elder,
who became a social registerite
when she was married to Walter
Camp Jr„ has become so popular in
elite circles that she has been
chosen for the role of Juliet in a
Shakespearean pageant for a promi
nent charity carnival.
Mrs. Camp, the first woman to
attempt a trans-Atlantic flight,
gained acting experience in Holly
wood before her marriage.
MUNCIE ELKS TO LOSE
Bondholders to Realize 50 Per Cent,
Says Bankruptcy Referee.
Bondholders of the Elks lodge,
Muncie, will realize 50 per cent, Carl
Wilde, referee in a bankruptcy pe
tition filed by the lodge in federal
court, ruled at a hearing today.
Assets were listed at $72,036 and
liabilities at $140,735. Fred Watson.
Muncie attorney, was named trustee
to liquidate the property.
Pastor Missing
Nation-wide search Is under way
for the Rev. Raymond E. Muthard.
above, Presbyterian minister of
Erie, Pa., strangely missing since
last, Dec. 26. The Rev. Muthard is
33 years old, five feet six inches
tall, weighs 150 pounds, and has
brown hair.
PAGEANT SHOWS
SCIENCE TRAIL
THROUGH AGES
Crises in Inventor’s Lives
Depicted Graphically at
Convention.
By Science Service
HOBOKEN, N. J„ April 7.—The
work of engineers and scientists,
generally considered prosaic and
matetr-of-fact, was heralded in
pageantry here by George Pierce
Baker, widely-known dramatist of
the Yale university theater, before
prominent engineers from more than
sixteen countries attending the fif
tieth anniversary celebration of the
American Society of Mechanical En
gineers.
In what probably is the first dra
matic review of the history of engi
neering, Dr. Baker graphically de
picted crises in the careers of the
men whose inventions and discov
eries resulted in the present ma
chine age.
The young and poor George Ste
phenson, pleading before an august
parliamentary committee for per
mission to build a railroad between
Liverpool and Manchester, was
portrayed.
Predicts Coming Day
Amid arguments that the noise
would frighten the farmers’ cattle
and through cries of “Fool!” and
“Idiot!” the undaunted inventor
predicted the day when “it will be
cheaper for a workingman to travel
upon-a railway than to walk on
foot.”
Michael Faraday, finder of many
laws of electricity., gave the true
reason for pure research when he
replied to the woman who, watch
ing a magnetic needle revolve
around a wire carrying a current of
electricity, asked: “Os what use is
it?”
“Madame, what is the use of a
new-born child?” he countered.
Faraday was shown in the pageant
refusing his friends’ aluring offers
of money so that he could stay
in his laboratory and leam more
about electricity.
Business Bargain Crisis
A business bargain is the crisis in
the life of James Watt. The
pageant- showed Watt in complete
despair, his funds for experimenting
exhausted, forming his famous part
nership with Boulton, out of which
came the first commercially success
ful steam engine.
The visit of the New York aider
men to Edison’s laboratory to see If
the new electric lights would be
suitable for street illumination was
chosen by Dr. Baker from the dra
matic career of the aged Inventor.
The pageant also showed Alexander
Graham Bell speaking the first
words ever sent by telephone when
he excitedly called his assistant from
a distant room, “Mr. Watson, come
nere! I want you.”
Incidents *from the lives of Morse,
the inventor of the telegraph, and
Fulton, of steamboat fame, also
were dramatized.
RULES BIDS NOT SECRET
Ogden Holds Public May See State
Figures After Awards.
The details of state printing bids
are matters of public record after
contracts have been awarded, At
torney General James M. Ogden
ruled today.
The opinion was written for J.
Otto Lee, clerk of the state print
ing board, who had asked whether
bids on state printing were open
for public inspection after contracts
were let. A discussion over this
point arose following the lats con
trast letting, it was learned.
OPEN TELEVISION "SHOW
World’s First Radio Theater to
Begin Activities Tonight.
By United Press
JERSEY CITY, N. J.„ April 7.
The world’s first radio television
theater will open tonight as part of
a ‘Television week” program. One
station will broadcast the pictures
and two others will carry the sound
on a synchronized device. The pro
gram will consist of speeches and
will feature Secretary of Labor Davis
and Mayor Frank Hague.
BELLEAU WOODS IN U. S.
Section of Famous French Forest
Planted In Chicago.
Bv United Press „ _ ,
CHICAGO, April 7.—A section of
Belleau woods, scene of heroic fight
ing when the American army was
in France, grew in Cook county to
day.
The trees, packed in the soil of
France, were shipped overseas and
set down in a forest preserve Sun
day with military honors.
LASH LAID ON
‘GOFFINISM’ BY
G.O.P. LEADERS
Candidates Challenged to
Define Connections by
Kane, Uhl.
Republican candidates in the pri
mary were called upon by the Citi
zen’s Republican League to take a
public and definite stand upon
Cofflnism.
The question was put by Ralph
Kane. Indianapolis attorney and
chairman of the league, and Al
bert E. Uhl. vice-chairman of the
league and president of the Marion
Club.
“Coffinism, which means bossism,
is the paramount issue in the Re
publican primary,” declared Kane.
“The league will make a deter
mined campaign in behalf of candi
dates who are opposed to the pres
ent state of party affairs and for
the election of precinct committee
men definitely committed to the re
organization program,” the Kane
statement declared.
Coffin, Lieutenants Active
“This week will witness the open
ing of the active primary campaign
in Marion county. From today unt I
the voters go to the polls. May 6.
the candidates will have much or lit
tle to say of t' eir qualifications and
political affiliations. Nominations
are to be made for many important
offices and precinct committeemen
will be elected, who in turn wall se
lect the party leaders to conduct the
fall campaign.
“There is ample evidence at hand
that Coffin and his select group of
lieutenants are more active than
ever in their desperate efforts to
perpetuate themselves in control of
party affairs, whether the Repub
lican voters will it or not.
“There Is ample evidence,” the
joint statement continued, “that
Coffin is director in fact, if not in
name, of the machine that was
repudiated so overwhelmingly by
the Republican voters in the last
city election. With Coffin pulling
the strings behind the scenes, this
discredited machine seeks to retain
its stranglehold on the party’s af
fairs-
Time for House Cleaning
“You must bear in mind that the
spring is the time for a general
house cleaning and not the fall.
“Each candidate must speak for
himself. Silence can be construed as
only one answer—that the candidate
ic allied with the Coffin machine,
but lacks moral courage to say so,”
the ultimatum declared.
The reorganization campaign will
<*£>3n formally tonight, when Merle
Sidener, who leads the citizens school
committee ticket in the city election,
will address a general meeting of
the Marion Club, to which women
are invited.
i. M. BOWEN FUNERAL
SCHEDULED TUESDAY
Stenotype Company Vice-President ;
Dies on Return to City.
Funeral sendees will be held at
2:30 Tuesday afternoon from Hisey
& Titus undertaking establishment,
951 North Delaware street, forj. M.
Bowen, 45, of 3016 East Fall Creek
boulevard, who died at his home
Saturday.
Mr, Bowen was vice-president
and general sales manager of the
Stenotype Company -when it oper
ated in Indianapolis. He returned
to this city recently after several
years’ residence in New Orleans.
Burial will be at Crown Hill ceme
tery. His widow, Mrs. Hazel
Bowen; two brothers, R. M. Bowen
of New York and William P. Bowen
of Los Angeles, and two sisters,
Mrs. W. L. Ferguson of New Or
leans and Mrs. H. R. Buxton of In
dianapolis, survive him.
FIFTH VISIT RESULTS
IN BANDIT’S CAPTURE
Youth Uses Toy Pistol to Rob Cash
ier Four Times.
Bu United Press
CHICAGO, April 7. —Four times
in two weeks a young bandit pushed
a gun through the grill at the Grand
avenue elevated station and robbed
Oscar Harz, cashier, of a few dol
lars.
Today the bandit, John O’Connor,
21, lay in Bridewell hospital with a
bullet wound in his abdomen. Pa
trolman Henry J. Dompke was wait
ing in another cage when the fifth
visit was made Sunday night.
At the East Chicago avenue police
station the bandit’s gun was on ex
hibit. It is a toy, the kind boys use
to explode paper caps.
B 0 MBATTO RNEY’SfH 0 M E
Former Aid of Mayor Thompson
Target of Explosion.
Bu United Press
CHICAGO, April 7.—Bombing of
the apartment home of David Alex
ander, assistant corporation coun
sel in the first administration of
Mayor William Hale Thompson,
threw members of the family from
their beds and badly damaged the j
structure early today.
Alexander, his wife and three
sons, who live on the first floor of I
the apartment building, and two of |
his brothers-in-law, Maurice Ryby i
and Charles Stem, who live on the
second floor, were shaken by the
blast
SCIENTIST-PRIEST ILL
Padre Rivard, Noted for Sun Study,
Unlikely to Recover.
Bu United Prr*x
SAN JOSE, Cal.. April 7.—Father
Jerome S . Ricard, the "Padre of
Rains,” was seriously ill in a local
sanitarium today after a new heart
attack.
The noted priest and scientist has
been in the sanitarium since an
uary. His physicians doubt Is ever
he will return to his laboratory at
Santa Clara university.
Father Ricard achieved fame
through his weather predictions,
which he made after studying sun
spots.
Distance Flier
Colonel Gustavo Leon, above, Mex
ican air ace, will attempt to fly
from Mexico City to Paris, via
New* York, in May. He will fly
alone in a Lockheed-Vega plane,
following the Lindbergh trail
across the Atlantic.
CHANGE TO BE
MADE IN U. S.
RADIO SYSTEM
Legal Chief of Commission
Proposes Changes in
Handling Cases.
Bv United Press
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Reor
ganization of the legal office of the
United States radio commission, in
the interest of more systematic and
expeditious handling of cases before
that body, has been worked out by
Colonel Thad H. Brown of Colum
bus, 0., general counsel for the
commission.
Under the plan prepared by
Colonel Brown, three distinct sec
tions are created, each specifically
under an assistant general counsel.
An administrative section, under
Ben S. Fisher of Oregon w’ill handle
all applications for licenses and all
complaints and investigations in
connection therewith.
Indianapolis Man Named
A hearings and records section,
w'hich will be responsible for all
legal questions arising in connec
tion with commission hearings and
the record thereof, as well as the
preparation of the commission’s
case for hearings, will be under the
supervision of P. D. P. Spearman of
Mississippi.
D. M. Patrick of Indianapolis will
direct the research and drafting sec
tion, which will prepare and have
jurisdiction over all proposed rules,
regulations and general orders of
the commission, the correlation and
indexing of opinions controlling
radio litigation and the compiling
of foreign laws, treaties and conven
tions affecting radio.
Work More Arduous
Colonel Brown himself, as general
counsel, will handle personally or
assign all court matters of the com
mission and will pass upon all mat
ters emanating from the various sec
tions.
The rapid multiplication of cases
before the commission, all involv
ing legal features—whether they be
simple applications for licenses, vio
lation of commission rulings or re
sistance to commission orders—
made a reorganization of the com
pany’s legal machinery desirable to
insure orderly and prompt dispatch
of the commission’s legal business.
NEW CHURCH DEDICATED
Mayor Sullivan Among Speakers on
Program Sunday Night.
Religious institutions of the city
have a definite social and municipal
value, declared Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan, at the dedication of the
new Second Reformed church.
Pleasant Run and Shelby streets,
Sunday night.
Cost of government and ruler
ship is greatly increased by the
minority which never had religious
training, Sullivan said. Albert
Stump, attorney, and Dr. F. W.
Leich of Dayton, also spoke.
Spinal Disease Fatal
Bu United Press
WARSAW, Ind., April 7.—The
fourth death from cerebro-spinal
meningitis occurred in Kosciusko
county when Henry Brubaker, 73,
succumbed to the disease. Brubaker
lived two miles south of Warsaw
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BACK”
.APRIL 7, 1930
WISEHART FILES
PROFIT REPORT
ON COAL DEAL
Fuel Sale to ‘Aid’ School
by Senator Sherwood
Probed by State.
State Senator John G. Sherwood
• Rep.. Mitchell), made a gross profit
of $2.40 a ton on a carload of coal
(thirty-five tons) he sold to Bry
antsville state aid school, a report
made today by Roy P. Wisehart.
superintendent of public instruction,
disclosed.
Wisehart went, to Mrt-ffiell per
sonally to investigate th# joal deal
between Spice Valley township trus
tees, Lawrence county, aiv* tae state
senator, who is a farmer.
Sherwood's wife is p"'ripal of
the school where the cc**" ,as de
livered. Wisehart said.
The following formal report wa
made by Wisehart regarding his in
vestigation:
Hauled Coal Eight Miles
“I have Investigated in detail tac
question of lu.nishing coal t-o the
Bryanisv.llo school for the school
year 1929-1930. I find that Suite
Senator John G. Sherwood furnished
this coal at $7.75 a ton. The coal
was hauled from the Smith Coal
Company yards at Mitchell to Bry
antsville, a distameof eight miles.
This coal had to be loaded at Mitch
ell, hauled eight miles, unloaded into
the Bryantsville school bin. The
upkeep on two trucks and the sal
aries of the drivers had to be paid
out of the $2.40 profit to Senator
Sherwood.”
Denies Klan Connection
Sherwood last week told The In
dianapolis Times that he made
"very little profit” on the deal and
also that he is not now “nor have
I ever been a member of the Ku-
Klux Klan.”
During his 1927-29 senate terms
he usually was grouped with the
Klan element in the upper house.
Wisehart pointed out that in for
mer years the coal had been hauled
from Georgia, Ind., thus reducing
the haulage to five and one-half
miles. Had Kentucky coal been
shipped to Georgia, however, the
freight rate would be 10 cents great
er than the entire delivered cost of
Indiana coal.
Difference to Be Deducted
Governor Harry G. Leslie asked
that all schools burn Indiana mined
coal as an aid to rehabilitation of
the coal Industry and to solve un
emloyment among the miners.
Sherwood says the furnace in the
Bryantsville school will not handle
Indiana coal.
Harry Kirk, state add auditor, set
a maximum delivered price of $6
for fuel at the school, however, on
the supposition that Indiana mined
coal would be bought.
Wisehart announced he will de
duct the $1.75 difference from the
next state-aid paid the school.
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FELT SO WFAK.”
OUT OF HEART
Stronger After She Had
Taken Cardui; Says Nerv
ousness Disappeared.
“About a year ago, I found my
health was giving way,” writes Mrs.
L. E. Jones of Bristol, Va. Mrs
Jones says she suffered from being
very weak.
"When I would walk only a short
distance up hill, my knees would
tremble,” she says, "and I woul<s
have to sit down.
“I was so run-down and tired
I wac all out of heart, and felt
like crying all the time.
"I knew I would have to take
something to give me strength to
keep me going. I read about Car
dui, and the good it had done
others, so I though it might help
me. At any rate it would not hurt
to give it a trial.
"After I had taken the Cardui,
I was so much better and stronger,
and the nervousness had disap
peared. Now I am recommending
Cardui to my friends.”
Experience of many thousands of
users testifies that Cardui helps
women to health.
Get Cardui from your druggist
and try it for your troubles.
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