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JUNE 17, 1933_
ACTIVE CHURCH
WORKER DIES
AT HOME HERE
Mrs. Marietta Mahurin, 72,
Prominent in Irvington
for Years.
Following a long illness, Mrs.
Marietta Mahurin, 72, active in
church work in the eastern part of
the city several years, died Friday
night in her home, 936 Eastern
avenue.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 Monday in Mt. Olive church,
twenty miles south
of Terre Haute.
The body was ta
ken to Terre Haute
today and is being
held in the Thom
as funeral home
of that city. Bur
ial will be in Mt.
Olive cemetery.
Mrs. Mahurin
was born in Vigo
county, July 9,
1860. She was mar
ried to Madison
F. Mahurin, Dec.
6, 1882. She came
to Indianapolis
Many years ago.
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Mrs. Mahurin
She was a member of the Hillside
Christian church.
Survivors are four sons, Claude
B. Mahurin. with whom she lived;
Clyde A. Mahurin, Indiapapolis;
Vernon L. Mahurin. St. Louis, and
Ray R. Mahurin, Salt Lake City,
Utah; one daughter, Mrs. Bdith
Hess, Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs.
Anna Meyers, Lewis and Mrs. Leona
McNabney, Riley, and five grand
children. The husband died thirty
two years ago.
Former School Head Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice S.
Boyer, 85, former principal of School j
69, and teacher in Indianapolis pub
lic schools forty years, were to be
held at 3 today in the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Jordan, 5155
Central avenue. Burial will be in
Crown Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Boyer, a resident of Indian
apolis sixty-three years, died Fri
day in the daughter's home. She
retired from school work eight years
ago.
Survivors are the daughters; two
sons. Can-oil C. Boyer, Las Vegas,
Nov., and Leonard L. Boyer of At
lantafi, Ga„ and three grandchil
dren.
Mrs. Fannie Mossier Dead
Following an illness of several
months, Mrs. Fannie S. Mossier, 60,
lifelong resident of Indianapolis,
died Friday in her home, 129 Hamp
ton drive.
Funeral services will be held at
10 Sunday in the Indianapolis He
brew Congregation Temple, Tenth
and Delaware streets. Burial will
be in the Indianapolis Hebrew Con
gregation cemetery.
Survivors are the widower, Jesse
J. Mossier; a daughter, Mrs. Sidney
I. Ruben, Ft. Wayne; a son, Liebert
I. Mossier, Syracuse, N. Y.; a sister,
Mrs. Essie M. Solomon, Indianap
olis; a brother, Jesse S. Solomon,
Cleveland, 0., and three grand
children.
Lifelong Resident Taken
Mrs. Fannie W. Morrison, lifelong
resident of Indianapolis, born in a
house at Massachusetts avenue and
Pennsylvania street, where the K. of
P. building now stands, died Friday
in her apartment at the Spink-
Arms.
Funeral services wil be held at 10
Monday in the Christ Episcopal
church, of which she was a mem
ber. Burial will be in Crown Hill
cemetery.
Survivors are two brothers,
Charles H. Wood and Frank G.
Wood; two nieces, Mrs. Margaret
Auchincloss, Redlands, Cal., and
Mrs. Howard M. Gay, Indianapolis,
and a nephew, John G. Wood of
Detroit.
William A. Callahan Passes
William A. Callahan, 58, of 2131
North Illinois street, a resident of
Indianapolis twenty-eight years,
died Thursday in the city hospital.
Survivors are three sisters, Mrs.
Helen Prinze, Mrs. Margaret Daugh
tery and Sister Claude Joseph of
Rockaway Park, N. Y.
Funeral services will be held at
8:30 Monday in the Harry W. Moore
funeral home, 2050 East Michigan
street, and at 9 in the SS. J*eter and
Paul cathedral, of which he was a
member. Burial will be in Holy
Cross cemetery.
Civil War Veteran Claimed
Funeral services for Gary Martin,
Civil war veteran, and member of
the famous Persimmon brigade, will
be held at 11 Monday at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Fred P. Rusch.
3035 North Capitol avenue. Burial
will be in Crown Hill cemetery.
Mr. Martin died Friday in the
daughter's home. He had been a
resident of Indianapolis sixty years.
He was a member cf the Joseph R.
Gordon post. No. 281. G. A. R., the
University Park Christian church,
Knights of Pythias and Maccabees.
Survivors besides the daughter, are
a son, Harvey B. Martin, Indian
apolis. and a sister, Miss Cora L.
Martin, New Albany.
Former City Man Dies
Word was received here Friday
night by relatives of the death of
Charles Youngman. 76. retired In
dianapolis butcher, in his home at
Denver Friday.
Mr. Youngman operated a butch
er shop on Washington street near
Oriental street many years.. He was
a member of the German Butchers
Society of Indianapolis fifty years.
He went to Colorado about twenty
seven years ago. s
Arrangements for the funeral
services and burial which will be in
Indianapolis, have not been com
pleted.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Anna Youngman; a daughter, Mrs.
Clara Tamm; a son, Charles D.
Youngman; a sister. Mrs. Otto G.
Rassman, and a brother, Daniel
Youngman, all of Indianapolis.
PICKPOCKET IS ROUTED
Pursued by his victim. Andrew
Grow. 455 Centennial street, a
Negro pickpocket dropped $34, which
he had taken from Grow at Illinois
and Washington streets.
Grow, about to board a street car,
felt a touch in his pocket. Turning
he saw the Negro and struck at him.
The Negro fled, pursued by Grow
and Ira W. Frankfourth. 1120 North
Senate avenue. He was caught at
Muskingum and Court streets, but
broke loose and fled again.
Morrissey Starts Third
Year as Chief—Still Single
Police Chief Mike Morrissey i inset) and his secretary, Albert H.
Schlensker.
Prefers to Be Called ‘Mike/
Boss of City’s Cops
Makes Known.
• Started today on his third year as
police chief, Mike Morrissey, refused
to say whether he will continue to
remain single.
He confided that most of his
friends call him “chief,” though he
prefers "Mike” or “Red.”
"I'll always be ‘Mike’ and ‘Red,’ ”
Morrissey explained. "But I won’t
always be chief.”
Morrissey’s office was all cluttered
up with anniversaries Friday. In
addition to his anniversary as chief,
it was the first anniversary of Al
bert H. Schlensker as Morrissey’s
secretary, and also Schlensker’s
birthday.
Reviewing police work of the last
Water Cos. Lawyers Pound
at Experts’ Testimony
The City
in Brief
Cash box of the Indiana Film
Transit Company. 220 Osage street,
was looted of S3O Friday night by a
burglar who entered through a side
window and crawled over the top
of a locked cashier's cage.
The National Americanism Com
mission of the American Legion to
day issued appeals to Legion posts
and departments in the vicinity of
reforestation camps to hold a patri
otic program and exhibition drill at
the camps July 23.
Informal summer frolic of Sigma
Alpha Tau fraternity will be held
Sunday night in the main ballroom
of the Antlers. Jimmie Nicholson
and his Polka-Dot orchestra will
play.
Leo M. Gardner, attorney for the
Indiana financial study commission,
will address the Rotary Club at
luncheon in the Claypool Tuesday
on the Indiana financial institutions’
act.
Officers of ihe division freight
agent of the Pennsylvania railroad
will be moved from room 908 Odd
Fellow building to room 1202, New
City Trust building, June 19, ac
cording to announcement of H. A.
Koch, division freight agent.
Preserve the flag above special in
terest was urged by James M. Og
den, former attorney-general of In
diana, in a speech before the Ex
change Club at the Washington Fri
day.
Classes in regional geography and
economics will be given at the Cen
tral Y. M. C. A. night school be
ginning June 21. The course will
be for regular high school credits
recognized by the state board of
education. The courses will be held
over an eight-week period.
William Sharp, 56, of 943 Massa
chusetts avenue, suffered severe cuts
on the face and head and body
bruises when he fell while painting
a house at 1215 Deloss street. He
was taken to city hospital.
While putting away some dishes
at his home, 453 Highland avenue,
Friday, George Whitley fell, cutting
his right arm. He was treated at
city hospital. \
Cigarets, cigars and chewing gum
valued at $25 were stolen from the
lunch room of Harry John, 3900 West
Vermont street, early this morning,
after thieves had pried open a rear
window. „
A lawn fete will be given Tuesday
night at Thirty-fourth street and
Sherman drive, by the Thirty
eighth Street Civic League. Music,
games and prize contests feature
the evening entertainment.
OPEN ICE CREAM PLANT
Indianapolis Concern Has Daily Ca
pacity of 1,000 Gallons.
Plant of the Swart & Love Ice
Cream Company, new Indianapolis
concern, was opened today at 3901
East Washington street^
The plant has a capacity of 1,000
gallons of ice cream daily. Equip
ment is installed in glass partition
rooms, and every process of manu
facture is open to public inspection.
A retail store occupies the front
portion of the plant.
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
Lonnie Jenkins. 2R40 Cornell avenue.
Oldsmobile coach. 91-013, from rear of
2540 Cornel: avenue.
Harry Britt. 512 East Thirty-eighth
street, Chevrolet ioach. 49-251. {rom :n
front of 512 East Thirtv-eighth street.
Consignment Sales Companv, 1030 North
Meridian street. Ford roadster, from 1030
North Meridian street
BACK HOME AGAIN
Stolen automobiles recovered by police
belong to:
Arthur Franklin. 1723 Boulevard place.
Essex sedan, found in rear of 2433 Indian
apolis avenue, stripped of four wheels
and four tires.
Buick sedan, no license plates, no cer
tificate of title, motor No. 1577412. found
in rear of 2700 North La Salle street.
W. C. Royer. 3226 North Cap'tol avenue,
Cadillac sedan, found in rear of 950 North
Meridian street.
two years, Morrissey declared ‘‘big
time” gambling almost has been
abolished in the city; new filing
system installed at police headquar
ters; new Bertillon room; improved
police radio and detective office, and
new- “show up” room.
Morrissey considers substitution
of rubber slapsticks for wood maces,
was a step forward.
“And I took the police department
off its feet,” Morrissey continued,
explaining that only fifteen men are
on foot in the downtown district,
while many have been placed in
radio squad cars.
Asked what he considered the
disagreeable features of his job,
Morrissey said;
“Being asked to fix traffic stick
ers, attending safety board meetings,
filing charges against fellow offi
cers ,and dealing with newspaper
men.”
Case to Be Resumed on
Monday; Evidence Is
Attacked.
Expert real estate witnesses for
the public service commission Mon
day will resume their defense in
federal court of depression price
valuation of Indianapolis Water
Company real estate in the com
pany’s suit for higher rates.
The trial has developed into a
battle of expert testimony with
water company witnesses valuing
the land at $3,806,679, and defense
witnesses claiming it is ■worth only
$1,427,227 on the basis of present
day values.
Company attorneys relentlessly
pounded away at defense testimony
Friday in an effort to show that
the state’s witnesses greatly had un
derestimated true value of the land.
During the cross-examination of
R. B. Tuttle, commission realty
witness, Joseph J. Daniels, company
attorney, elicited admission he had
appraised the lands he viewed on
the basis of subdivisions, in w’hich
he has had extensive experience,
giving no consideration to their
possible use for business purposes.
Sales Are Cited
When Daniels cited sales of vari
ous tracts of land at much higher
prices, the witness said these would
not affect his judgment.
Sales cited by Daniels included
the present Showboat site, pur
chased in 1926 for $6,500 an acre;
new Indianapolis Broadcasting Inc.
site, purchased several months ago
at $1,200 an acre, and others.
Tuttle had appraised two nearby
water company tracts at S3OO and
SBOO an acre.
Attacking Tuttle's average valu
ation of $45.50 an acre for the com
pany's 4,854 Oaklandon reservoir
project tract, Daniels asked if his
judgment would be affected by the
fact that an adjoining forty-acre
tract had been sold in the last few 7
days for SBS an acre.
“I’d like to examine that pur
chaser's head.” Tuttle exclaimed.
Might Have Been Considered
The witness admitted that had he
known of the sale, it might have,
been considered w'hen he made his
April 1 appraisal, but said it would
not affect his figure now 7 , unless he
knew rr.Qre details about the land
and the transaction.
On redirect examination, he testi
fied that his son had purchased a
farm similar to land in the Oak
landon tract for $75 an acre, and a
few months ago had turned it back>
to the former owner, after paying
one-third of the purchase price, be
cause the land’s value at that time
was less than SSO an acre.
He said he had appraised the
lands for subdivision purposes as he
felt they w 7 ere best suited for these
purposes.
Verdict in Mystery Death
of Athlete Still Awaited
Two Probes Apparently
Never Completed; New
Quiz Is On.
Despite hints of foul play, a
coroner s verdict has not been re
turned in the case of Von Donald
Taylor, 31, of 925 Leland avenue,
former athlete, who was found in
jured fatally in front of his home
March ll
That a verdict has not been filed
was revealed today after three
separate investigations o r the case
apparently never were completed.
According to stories told police
after Taylor was found, he and his
wife and another couple had
engaged in a so-called ‘friendly'’
argument during a bridge game at
the Taylor home.
Mrs. Taylor has told authorities
that her husband had been drinking
and after the Ralph Smocks, the
other couple, departed, Taylor fell
and later struck her. She says she
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FIVE ARE SHOT
IN LAFAYETTE
STREET DUEL
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Two Bandits Are Wounded;
Three Policemen Felled
by Bullets.
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Frank Byrd, 29, Indianapolis, bandit
suspect; j. Wesley Wilson, 43,
patrolman; James McDonald, 26,
patrolman; Paul Klinker, 30, patrol
man; Paul Roby, 14.
The suspects’ companion said she
was Ruth Edgar, 18, Frankfort, and
claimed to have known Byrd and
Sanders for about a year.
Police went to Freeman lake,
Monticello, Friday night and ar
rested John Richardson, 45, Frank
fort, who had been staying at the
resort w-ith Byrd, Banders and the
girl.
Battle Downtown
The shooting took place across the
street from the courthouse, less than
a block from police headquarters,
when officers attempted to question
the suspects in a doctor’s office.
Byrd. Sanders and Miss Edgar
stopped at the Wabash valley sana
tarium Friday to obtain medical at
tion for an infected scar on Byrd’s
side. The physician on duty said he
could give no assistance, but recom
mended a doctor in Lafayette. Then
he tipped off police.
Captain Edgar Hill and Patrol
man F. C. Goldsberry were sent to
the office of Dr. F. A. Loop in the
Lafayette Life building, where Byrd
was being treated.
Captain Is Disarmed
When the officers appeared, Byrd
and Sanders both drew guns and
disarmed Captain Hill. Goldsberry
bolted and ran downstairs to warn
McDonald, Klinker and Wilson, sta
tioned at the entrance to the build
ing.
Close behind Goldsberry were the
tw'o suspects. As they went through
the door, they opened fire on the
patrolmen, felling three
It was then that Harry Huston, a
spectator, went into action. He took
a submachine gun from one of the
wounded officers tfnd started blaz
ing aw T ay at the two men.
As they fled down a side street,
Huston w-ent to the second floor of
the Life building and poured out a
stream of lead which felled them
both.
Miss Edgar had been sitting in
the car throughout the shooting, but
none of the bullets struck her. The
Roby boy was nearly three blocks
away when a stray bullet him him
in the ankle.
$2,300 Found in Pockets
In the pockets of the two gun
men police found $2,300 cash, be
lieved to have been obtained in fill
ing station holdups in Indiana and
adjoining states.
Miss Edgar said she had been
traveling from city to city w-ith the
men since August. She said neither
worked, but that they alw-ays had
money. Hotel keys from Chicago,
Indianapolis, Nashville and other
cities were found in the car, along
with guns and ammunition.
The trio had been staying at Free
man lake for the last week. Rich
ardson had been camping w-ith
them, police learned. He is lore
man of a cabinet w-orks at Frank
fort and is said to be related to
Byrd and Sanders. Police planned
to question him at length today.
The desperate battle which the
two gunmen put up indicates they
were w-anted somew-here on serious
charges, police said.
Publishers Oppose Tax Law
By United Press
EVANSVILLE. Ind„ June 17.
Opposition to the state gross income
tax law as applied to new-spapers
w-as voiced by southwestern Indiana
publishers at a meeting here of the
Pocket Publishers’ league. The
league named a committee of three
to join other organizations in the
fight.
Three Doctors to Parley
Three Indianapolis doctors, W. P.
Best, J. E. Holman and F. L. Hos
man, will have prominent parts in
the sixty-third annual convention
of the National Eclectic Medical
Association convention at Chicago,
June 27-30. Dr. J. M. Billman, Sul- |
livan, Ind., also is on the program. I
Meyer-Kiser Fund Report
Ordered by Circuit Judge
Cox Wants More Light on
Handling of Funds by
Liquidators.
Detailed reports of funds handled
by liquidating agents of the Meyer-
Kiser bank is being prepared by or
der of Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox.
Order for the report was issued
by Cox at the close of Friday's
hearing, conducted by attorneys for
Thomas E. Garvin, receiver, and
depositors.
then ran from the house. Taylor
was found near death in the street
several hours later.
Dr. Joten E. Wyttenbach, deputy
coroner, has conducted the county
investigation of the case, but has
not filed a verdict. Today he de
clined to comment on the status of
the case.
The police investigation apparent
ly lagged after the demotion of Mor
ris Corbin, then a detective sergeant,
to a patrolman.
The third probe of the case is
being conducted by a firm of attor
neys representing Taylor's family.
The attorneys told The Times that
their quiz is not completed and tney
probably will awa.t return of the
coroner's verdict before taking ac
tion. /
The estate of the dead man has
been filed in probate court and is
said to consist mostly of insurance.
Examination of the DOdy indi
cated that Taylor either was struck
or fell in such a manner as to cause
a terrific blow on the side of his
head.
FILM STAR IS ILL
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Ruth Chatterton
By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, June 17.—Ruth
Chatterton, film star, is confined to
her home with a serious attack of
acute bronchitis and a nervous
breakdow-n, her physician, Dr. Wil
liam E. Branch, said today.
Miss Catterton returned from
Europe ten days ago with her hus
band, George Brent, and was strick
en the next day. She also was ill
while in Europe and her present at
tack was termed a relapse by Dr.
Branch.
MILKMEN AGAIN
FAILTOAGREE
Townsend Warns That Last
Chance Will Be Given
Next Tuesday.
Joint confmittees of milk produc
ers and distributers in the Indian
apolis area held their scheduled
meeting with Lieutenant-Governor
M. Clifford Townsend today, but no
final agreement was reached on
price stabilization and control.
Townsend, who also is full time
commissioner of agriculture at $6,000
a year, announced that he will draft
a program upon which he expects
them to agree. He set 9 a. m., Tues
day, for the next meeting.
Should the groups still fail to ap
prove. the federal government will
be called in to establish a dictator
ship, it was stated.
Membership of the control com
mittee, methods of hauling milk
from producers and status of inde
pendent producers, nonmembers of
the co-operative associations, are
the three points upon which no
agreement has been reached, it was
said.
The Indianapolis area constitutes
the “milk shed” for twenty-six
square miles about the city.
MORmS SEEKS~DIVORCE
Safety Board Member Files Suit in
Superior Cuort.
Suit for divorce, charging cruel
and inhuman treatment, has been
filed in superior court cne by
Donald S. Morris, vice-president
and trust officer of the Fletcher
Trust Company, and member of the
board of safety .
The complaint sets out that Mor
ris separated from Mrs. Lucie Mor
ris, 524 Buckingham drive, March
14, 1933, after their marriage, June
16, 1906.
Car Turns Over; Two Hurt
Two Indianapolis men suffered
cuts and body bruises Friday when
their car turned over near Brooklyn,
Ind. The two, Richard Pollock, 4o’,
of 321 East Fall Creek boulevard,
and K. J. Maroney, 36, of 1202 Ed
ward street, were brought to city
hospital by Dr. W. J. Stangel
Mooresville.
The court was informed that the
information was not available read
ily, and that its preparation would
“take a lot of time.”
“That’s all we have left in this
trust,” Cox retorted. “There doesn’t
appear to be any money left for
depositors.”
Questioning of former bank offi
cials and liquidating agents will be
resumed Monday by William B. Mil
ler. Saul Rabb, attorneys for de
positors; Walter Myers, attorney for
Garvin, and the receiver.
, Most important information un
covered since start of the hearing
Wednesday was the disclosure by j
Ferd S. Meyer, fromer vice-nresi- [
dent and liquidating agent, that the
receivership trust owns a $545,000
share in assets with a book value
of $902,000, held in the Smetal Cor
poration.
The corporation was formed by
the bank’s officers when slow assets I
were replaced by cash in a forced 1
liquidation over a period es several
years preceding the bank's close
May 11, 1931.
Failure of other banks brought' on
heavy withdrawals, which ultimate
ly drained $4,000,000 in deposits'
from the bank, Meyer said.
FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY
FIRE INSURANCE
AND ALL other KINDS WITH THE
EXCEPTION OF LIFE INSURANCE
RL 7471 148 E. Market St.
Fletcher Ave. Savings & Loan Assn.
Mall Account* | A C M awLal 01 Paid Dividends
Safely Handled IU Cl maißl 018 on Savings for
CHILD HEALTH
FUNDS VITAL,
CITYWARNED
Appropriation Must Not Be
Cut One Penny, Says
Dr. Morgan.
When Dr. Herman Morgan, sec
retary of the city board of health,
appears before the city council in
August he will demand an amount
of money equal to last year's ap
propriation for school health and
pre-school age care, during the
school term to open in September.
"The board of health can not
afford to operate on a penny less
next term,” said Dr. Morgan today,
“Every cent expended for the health
of Indianapolis children is vital.”
Dr. Morgan will ask for $62,000
appropriation for school health and
an additional SIB,OOO for infant and
pre-school age care.
Health Situation Better
“Last year when I presented a
similar budget to the council one
of the members asked if I could not
cut some of the $62,000 item out to
reduce the appropriation,” said Dr.
Morgan. “I told him that it could
be done if he were willing to see
the ravages of diphtheria, scarlet
fever, and other diseases return
with the appalling mortality of a
decade ago.”
Despite economic conditions, Dr.
Morgan declares that the health
situation among school children to
day is better than a year ago. He
attributes this condition to a sys
tem designed to reach and study
the needs of individual children.
“Nutritional classes attended by
more than 1,000 children have been
a big factor in advancing the gen
eral health of the school city,” he
declared.
Kept in Class 12 Weeks
Children found underweight for
their height are taken into the nu
tritional classes for twelve weeks,
where they are watched carefully
and charts kept on their progress.
“When they reach the required
weight, they are given certificates
and sent back to their regular
classes.
Medical efforts in the groups of
children of pre-school age and in
fants were cited as factors which
have put Indianapolis in the upper
brackets of improved child health in
the nation in the last decade.
Nurses and doctors are assigned
to work among the 3,000 children in
kindergartens. These children are
immunized annually against diph
theria, smallpox and other children’s
maladies. They are given dental
care and records are kept of height
and weight.
700 Prize Babies in City
“We had 700 blue and red ribbon
babies in Indianapolis last year,” Dr.
Morgan declared proudly. “That
means that there were 700 infants
who were almost perfect, or had
very minor defects, easily rectified.”
Dr. Morgan said that he would
endeavor to increase the amount
of milk distributed to undernour
ished school children next year.
“The health department dis
penses several hundred quarts of
milk daily,” he said, “and our milk
bill is large. In May the trustees
distributed about 6,000 quarts of
milk daily. That’s a lot of milk.
But, still, it’s not enough. Next year,
I intend to see that every child in
the schools gets a proper quota of
milk.”
POWELL ‘NO BETTER’
Screen Juvenile slill Critically 111,
Physician Reports.
By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, June 17. Dick
Powell, screen juvenile, has shown
no improvement in his fight against
a combination of influenza and
pneumonia, his physician, Dr. Henry
Immerman said today.
His failure to respond readily to
treatment will make necessary his
withdrawal from the cast of “Foot
lights Review,” Warner Bros. First
National studios said.
Powell’s condition earlier in the
w 7 eek became so serious he was
placed in an oxygen tent, and all
visitors, including Mary Brian, to
whom he has been reported en
gaged, w 7 ere barred from his room.
HELD AS PURSE - piCKER
Suspect Makes Error of Following
City Policewoman.
Leonard Poatt, 17, of 1818 South
Delaware street, was very injudi
cious in his contemplated choice of
purse grabbing victims, according to
police, who are holding him on a
vagrancy charge.
Pcatt is alleged to have been the
man w r ho followed Policewoman
Mary Moriarity home two nights
ago and then fled between two
houses at 404 East Minnesota street
when she discovered him. '
Friday night, police nabbed Poatt
coming from between two houses in
the 300 block of East Minnesota
street. He answered the description
of & Palmer street purse grabber
according to police.
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CALLED BY DEATH
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Sumner C. Clancy
DEATH CLAIMS
SUMNERJILANCY
Long Illness Is Ended for
Attorney, Former State
Senator.
A six-month lingering illness
ended today for Sumner C. Clancy,
50, attorney and former state sen
ator, with his death at the family
home, 4198 Carrollton avenue.
Mr. Clancy, member of the law
firm of Clancy & Roller, 811
Pythian building, had practiced
law in Indianapolis for almost
twenty-five years and was a Re
publican member of the state sen
ate from Marion county in 1927-29.
Mr. Clancy was an associate dean
of Benjamin Harrison Law school
and was a graduate of the Uni
versity of Michigan law school. He
was a captain in Company H, In
diana militia, during the World
war and served during the steel
strike at Gary.
He was a member of De Molay
commandery; Calvin W. Prather
lodge. No. 717, F. & A. M.; Cen
tral Christian church, and the In
dianapolis Athletic Club.
Surviving Mr. Clancy are the
widow, Mrs. May Clancy; his
mother, Mrs. Ida Clancy, Indian
apolis; a son, Gordon Clancy, and
two daughters, Eleanor May and
Anna Louise Clancy.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
MURDER CONFESSION
IS BRANDED PERJURY
Prosecutor Assails Story in
in Death Case.
By United Press
SULLIVAN. Ind., June 17.—The
confession that Frank Vanderpool,
38, Hymera, killed two men for
whose deaths he and five others
were arrested, was branded “perjury”
by Prosecutor Rex Bridwell today.
“Defense attorneys are attempting
to try a case in the newspapers after
it had been lost in the courtroom,”
Bridwell said.
The statement, signed by Vander
pool and exonerating five co-de
fendants in connection with the
slaying of Andy Reedy, 60, and his
son, Oral, 28, was released to news
papers two days ago.
It was said the father and the
son were shot by Vanderpool during
a fight over a mortgage foreclosure
suit which the elder Reedy had filed
against Otis Turner, convicted three
weeks ago on charges of murder in
connection w 7 ith the case.
Five Barnes Are Burned
By United Press
LEBANON, Ind., June 17.—A fire
bug was blamed today for the burn
ing of five barns in the same com
munity near Dover, west of here
Two burned Friday on the farm of
E. M. Coons. Tw 7 o others burned
this week on the same farm and
another was destroyed on a farm a
quarter mile away.
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LOW WAGE IS
PERIL, ASSERTS
INDUSTRY‘BOSS'
Pay Must Be Kept in Line
With Prices, Johnson
Tells Coal Men.
By United Press
CHICAGO. June 17.—The danger
of an economic relapse in this
“critical stage of the depression”
unless wages are brought into line
with ascending prices was pointed
out to .the National Coal Association
Friday night by General Hugh
Johnson in his first public state
ment after his official appointment
as administrator of the industrial
control bill.
j Shortly before General Johnson’s
! brief, extemporaneous address was
j relayed from Pittsburgh, a working
code by which the coal industry will
operate under the control bill was
accepted by nineteen of the na
tion's leading operators.
Johnson was flying to Chicago
from Washington for the address
when dense fog forced the plane to
halt at Pittsburgh. Arrangements
| were made for transmitting the ad
: dress by radio and Johnson spoke
without a manuscript.
“The President today signed the
| recovery bill and appointed me the
administrator,” he said. "It is a
responsible position and I accept it
with solemn regard.
“The President also gave the
country his policy governing this
work. The act is a charter of a
new industrial self-government for
this country.
“I think we would have come to
such a step, even if we never had
had a depression. It is the dis
location between what we produce,
and our power to buy and consume,
which makes and prolongs a de
pression.
“What we have here for the first
time is a chance to keep production
and purchasing power in this coun
try more nearly in step with each
other—and they are far out of step
today.
“The President has pointed the
way to prevent this. The idea is
simply that employers hire more
men to do the existing work by re
ducing the working hours of each
man’s week.
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Tomorrow being- Father’s
Day, and because be is the
original “forgotten man” we
are going to devote today's
column to him. It’s all *in
fun.
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ther’s Day because man was
created on the Sixth Day, and
Saturday was Pay Day, thus
making it possible to honor
Father on Sunday.
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pays, but everybody knows
who loses sleep at night try
ing to figure out where to get
it.
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days is that he is suffering from
too much change and rest. The
family gets the change and the
wife gets the rest.
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Modern version of an old
song: “Everybody Works on
Father.”
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bride was given away Mother
wept. Now it’s Father. Another >
mouth to feed.
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“Honor Thy Father and
Mother,” it’s a grand Com
mandment that should be an
instinctive part of every day
life for as we honor our’s so
will our children honor us.
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