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The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
Horse Cop
Charles Riddle, Detective
and Politician, Bonded
by ConStabuIary Body,
Saw HoIdup.

NEYSTERY Of the deputy sher-
4VA if courtesy" badge, No. 46,
which Charles L. Riddle, county
politician, wore when he un-
knowingly witnessed a filling sta
ton holdup, was fully solved to-
day when it was learned Riddle
is a horse thief detective, bonded
to the extent of $1,000 and privi-
legged to carry a firearm, accord
ing to records.
a revolver was said to be in
in Riddles pocket Monday night
when he drove into a filling sta
ton in West Indianapolis while
a holdup was in progress. Honking
his horn in demand for "Serv-
ice" Riddle made no use of the
revolver. the courtesy badge No.
46, and his horse thief detective
agencies for halting a
bandits activities.
As chairman of the Fourteenth
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ward, and is seen frequently in
the company of county politicians.
He Is regarded as a lieutenant"
in the Coffin political organiza-
ton.
TT is said Riddle queried the
u bandit on, why the attendant
couldn't give some service" The
bandit, however, was retreating
from the scene Of his crime and
gave no answer.
Riddle was not aware of the
robbery until he rescued the at
tended from the confines of the
lavatory.
The deputy sheriff badge Riddle
wore carried no authority, ac-
cording to Sheriff George L.
Winkler, as Riddle never was
given a deputy's oath OF Office.
and was pro1ered the tin" by
Winkler as a salute Of political
friendship. Former sheriff Omer
Hawkins is said to have given
Riddle his first @deputyship.s
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
WOOLLING IN RACE
Seeks Democratic N0mina-
ton as County Treasurer.

Frank F. Woolling, realtor, 4825
Washington boulevard, today filed
for the Democratic nomination as
Marion county treasurer in the May
primary.
He was the party's nominee for
the t~easrer's post in 1920 and led
the ticket.
Woolling is president Of the Indi-
annapolis Home Builders Association,
former president of the Indiana
Democratic Club, chairman Of the
Washington township Democratic
organization, member Of Oriental
lodge, Scottish Rite, Murat temple
and the Indianapolis Athletic Club.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
JUDGE IS CONVICTED
VitaIe Ruled Off Bench by
Appellate Justices.

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NEW YORK, March 13.-The
appellate division of the supreme
court decided today that the official
conduct of Magistrate Albert Vitale
in one Of the instances raised by
the New York Bar Association
renders him unfit to continue on
the bench.
The verdict was announced after
the five justices deliberated in their
chambers more than an hour fol-
lowing final arguments by attorneys
for both sides.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
FUNERAL SERVICES SET
West Side Publisher to Be Buried
at Terre Haute Friday.

Franklin Paul Cox, 42. editor and
publisher of the Enterprise, West
Indianapolis community newspaper
who died Tuesday at his home, 1850
Oliver avenue, will be buried in
Terre Haute Friday after services
there at 10 a. M.
Born in Putnam county, Mr.. Cox
had resided in indianapolis five
years. He is survived by the widow
Mrs. Jennie E. Cox, three small
sons, his father and two brothers.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
LINK SENATOR
TO STATE AID
COAL SCANDAL
WiSehart Orders Probe of
0verpaymentS Made
to Mitchell SoIon.
DESCRIBED AS FARMER
Report of Trustees Shows
Sherwood Sold Fuel
at SITS a Ton.
DESCRIBED AS FARMER

Investigation into the payment to
State Senator John &. Sherwood
(Rep., MitchelD of SITS ton for
Indiana coal, said to have cost ap-
proximately $I,75 ton at southern
Indiana mines, for use at the Bry-
antsville state aid school in Spice
Valley township Lawrence county,
was launched today by Roy P. Wise
hart, superintendent Of public in
Struction.
WiSehart announced that Harry
Kirk, state aid auditor, will go to
Mitchell personally to look into the
township trustees expenditures III
the matter.
IF excess payment for coal was
made. we will deduct the amount
from the state aid given that town.
ship at the next audit" Wisehsrt
asserted.
Spent for Essentials
Our job is to check expenditures
and see that the state money is
spent for teachers and essentials
in these poorer districts. We will
not stand for overchargeS whether
made to a senator or any one else.
I'VE are working to eliminate the
deficit and we can nos do 1t by per-
mitting carelessness or worse"
That Sherwood sold thirty-five
tons of coal to the school and was
paid $27I .25, is shown by the annual
report OF the township trustees
published Jan. 80.
According to his own announce
ment for reelection as senator from
Lawrence, Martin and Orange coun-
ties, Sherwood isn't in the coal busi-
ness, but is a farmer.
The announcement, carried in the
Bedford Daily Times Feb. 10, was
accompanied by an editorial indorse-
ment which said of him:
''He is a successful farmer who
lives in this county on the farm he
owns. He is an active member OF
the farm bureau and while in the
senate Away was the member to
whom the farm bureau took It's
problems"
The latter statement appeared a
surprise to those familiar with the
1929 senate session.
Sherwood was not looked upon as
farm bloc leader, but as hold
over from the KuKlux Klan era.
The coal he sold the school had
to be hauled four miles, 1t is re-
ported. This is the same distance
as the coal hauled to the Kings
Ridge school In the same township
There, payment of $3.50 ton was
made, according to the trusteeS' re-
port.
This price is as high as Is paid
for Indiana coal sold during the
winter in indianapolis.
Average $3.50
The average price was sI.7b at
the mine and the freight to Mitchell
was said to be $1.05, making tbs
wholesale cost of Hoosier mined
coal there $3.50.
These figures are all to be checked
by Kirk, according to Wlsehart.
A township trustee racket" re-
ported is the selling OF jobs TO
teachers. This also is TO be investi-
gated, Wisehart declared.
Governor Harry G.. Leslie early
learned in his state-aid investiga-
ton that much of the blame for the
unpaid teachers end similar plights
could be traced 10 the door of the
inefficient trustees.
He ordered Wisehart to continue
investigation along this line.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
PeriLs Of G0LfNq

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GLENDALE, Cal, March I3.-
Thirteen year-OId Frank Oakley
was showing his brother Johnny,
IL. the correct golf stance.
Like this, Johnny, see?" Frank
explained. Johnny leaned for
ward to watch his older brother
swing. The iron head of the club
struck Johnny in the left eye,
putting it out.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
Fatal Kindness

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NTHITE PLAINS, N. y March
w 13.-Unwilling to intrust the
care of her fourteen cats, three dogs
and ten birds to any one after her
death, Mrs. Laura Dunk, local pet
fancier. provided in her will that
they be chlorofOrmed.
The death sentence will be carried
out as stipulated in the will, which
was filed with DR.. S. K. Miller as
"executioner. Mrs. Dunk, who died
las week, left a $4,000 estate.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
BLOlCS ont O TOnSiJ

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill, March l3-
Physicians wouldn't believe this here
until they looked, but for all that
Howard Frick. University of Illinois
student. is minus one Of his tonsils
and an operation had nothing to do
with 1t.
Frick, while practicing on a trum-
pet, said he blew so hard trying to
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
KINGS OF INDUSTRY
BOOST DRY LAWS
AT HOUSE HEARING
Traffic DriUe

Automobiles parked in city
streets at night without lights
will be the object of a police
drive ordered today by Police
Chief Jerry E. Kinney.
Because cars without lights
constitute a traffic hazard, he
declared, the law providing
that tail lights must be dis
played from q half-hour after
sunset until half-hour before
sunrise, will be enforced strict
ly in the future.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
PARTS OF BODIES FOUND
Coroner Keever Starts Investigation
in Connection With Discovery.

Parts of three bodies were dis
covered today on the Fall creek en-
bankment, a half mile west Of
Tenth street and Indiana avenue.
Coroner Charles II. Keever started
an investigation in connection with
the discovery and said he believed
some one had performed an autopsy
and had attempted to throw the
parts of bodies in the creek.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
Terrific Cold Spell

81 JHitCd PrtSS
HONOLULU. T. H, March 13.-
II Honolulu had its coldeSt day in
tventy-one years Wednesday, and
practically no one knew it.
The mercury dropped to a low
temperature Of SGT degrees yes
terday morning. Only once before
had the weather been as cold" as
that. when in February, 1909, a
temperature of 500 degrees was re-
corded.
But cold weather after all is COM
parative. and the tourist population
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
L0. Don't Be LOlU

BV RitCd Press
CHICAGO. March 13. - After
washing windows in a loop sky
scrapper all day, Charles Stnstrom
started washing those in his own
second flood apartment. He fell
because he had neglected to use
his safety strap. He probably
will recover.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
HURT IN TRUCK CRASH
City Man Is Injured When Bakery
Car ColIides With the Engine.

Charles Sharp, SCOT East Wash
ington street, was injured today
when the Purity Baking Company
truck. in which he was riding. driven
by Albert Curl, SO, Of 365 South
Sherman drive. colided with fire
truck from Engine House II, at
Washington and Noble streets.
SHARP was taken 70 hts homss
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
Illinois Professor Is Dead

BU Nftfd Press
URBANA, Ill, March 13.-Profes-
sor Stephen A Forbes, Sc, professor
emeritus and chief of the state
natural history survey, died here to-
day. Death was due to Inflammation
of the bladder.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
Rum-arkdble Story

Bv United Press
BUFFALO. n. Y, March 10
Floyd Metcalf, "a. became a boot
logger so he could earn enough
money to complete his studies Tor
foreign missionary work, he said in
court. Metcalf was arrested last
June while running liquor across
the Niagara river. He pleaded guilty
and was fined $50
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13

reach a high note that one of his
tonsils came out. Doctors said it
was possible, but not probable
Frick, with one side of his throat
sore, replied that he didn't care
whether they believed him or not.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
BLISS OF KISSES FADES
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CHICAGO, March 13.-The
romance of the Kisses has
broken up in court. Mrs. Anna
Kiss sued Frank Kiss for di-
vorce on the grounds that he
beat her.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
CRUSHING PROVES FATAL
Fan of Metal Shafting ON Head
Kills John Edwards.

John Edwards, 72, of 2151 North
Harding street, died at the Metho-
dist hospital Wednesday night from
injuries he received when a piece
of metal stafting fell on his head
and shoulders at the Evans Milling
Company, 100 West Michigan
street, Wednesday afternoon. Ed
wards was employed at the milling
company.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
FILM STAR RECOVERING
Anna @. Nilsson, Tossed From
Horse, Soon to Walk Again

Horse, Soon to Walk Again
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LOS ANGELES, March 13.-Anna
@. Nilsson, screen star, was report
ed nearing recovery today from the
hip injury which has kept her in
a. hospital bed since she was thrown
from horse two months ago.
An X-ray examination indicated
the actress probably will be able to
walk again within the next two
months, as free from lameness as
when the accident occurred.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
NEW PLANET REPORTED
World Believed Found Beyond Or
DIT of Neptune.

BIZ United Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March 49,
Discover yof new planet beyond
the orbit of Neptune was reported
through the Harvard observatory to-
day.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
ALCOHOL KILLS PASTOR
Prohibition Opponent Said to Have
Brooded over Troubles.

BrOOded over Troubles.
BIZ United Press
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, March
13.-Hymns and prayers for their
pastor who died from acute alco-
holism were a part of the program
Wednesday night at the weekly
prayer meetings of st. Matthews
Lutheran church here. The Rev
Frederick j. Melville. pastor, had
been known as a vigorous opponent
of prohibition. Friends said he had
been brooding over church trouble
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
JOB SITUATION BETTER
Illinois c. of C. Claims Reduction
in Unemployment.
Bu United Press

BIZ m1ted PTe38
CHICAGO, March 13.-Un-
employment in Illinois has been re-
ouced between and 10 per cent
during the past month, according to
a report the Illinois Chamber Of
Commerce sent today to President
Hoover.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
FIGHT REVISION OF LAW
West Virginia Salons Convene 10
RecOdify Statutes.

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CHARLESTON, w. Va, March l3.
"A bitter fight was believed in
prospect as the West Virginia legis-
lature convened In special session
here late today TO resume considera-
ton OF complete recodification Of
state statutes.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
FEE EPAyMENT
ADVANCED AS
SIGN SOLUTION
Lone Dues Collection May
Solve Problem of
Traffic Squads.
MOTORISTS ARE PERILED
Revenues May Be Trans
ferred, Safety Board Is
Told by Chambers.

Collection of ng-dellnquent
| loading-zone fees from downtown
business firms today offered q
means Of financing the erection of
stop signs to safeguard traffic on
through streets.
Smiley N. Chambers, assistant
city attorney, who has advised the
safety board in its scramble for
some $1,000 with which to buy the
stop signs, gave the opinion today
loading-zon revenues legally may
be transferred for that purpose.
This suggestion was contained in
an article in The Times Tuesday
pointing out that lack of the stop
signs, which should have been
erected by the Slack administration
was imperiling the lives and prop
erty of motorists. Two serious acci-
dents last weekend at an unmarked
through street intersection served to
focus public attention on the prob
lem the Sullivan safety board has
pondered without solution for two
months.
Lack of the stop signs not only
is a serious menace, but persons
injured in accidents at the unmarked
intersections have no recourse in
court against the city, Corporation
Counsel Edward H Knight held to-
DAY.
City Not Liable
1.-THE city is not liable for dam
ages in caseof this kind" he said
THE erection Of stop signs is a
governmental function and the neg
ligence involved in an accident is a
question of fact between the motor
lists involved.
There would be cause for dam
ages against a driver if it could be
proven that there was negligence, -
Knight declared. Because a per-
son is driving on a preferential
street it does not mean that he has
right to ignore other motorists. u
In the two recent accidents at
New York and La Sale streets. out
of-town motorists drove onto New
York street not knowing it was a
through street.
Because of a deficit in the general
fund, the safety board has no
money available for purchase of
stop signs on preferential streets
designated in December, 1923, by the
former council. The $1,000 ap-
propriated last year for the pur-
chase reverted to the general fund
Jan. l after Joel A. Baker, former
purchasing agent, disagreed with
council on the source from which
the signs were to be bought.
Few Payments Made
That the city has failed to COL
lect thousands of dollars due it from
downtown business houses for load
ing zones was disclosed when Al
bert F. Meurer, former city coun-
Gilman. refused payment of a 81
fine for parking in restricted
zone. Meurer will be tried April 3.
The traffic code which designated
the through streets required an an
nual rental fee of $50 for the first
eighteen feet of a passenger or
loading zone and $40 annually for
each additional foot. Few have paid
the fees, little or no effort has been
made for collection, and records at
city hall are inadequate, investiga-
ton disclosed.
1t is conceded generally the un-
collected fees would more than pay
for the stop signs needed through
out the city. The traffic code re
quires" the safety board to erect the
signs. clearly legible from a dis
tance of at least 100 feet along the
street interSecting with the thru
rtraaF
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
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DO r I'll A n D, Ore,
March 13.-A mans

March 13.-A mans
heart which beat
thirty-nine hours after
he ceased breathing had
stopped today and Adrian
CRANKY, 29-year-OId mill
hand, is dead.
CRANKY, suffering from
a brain tumOr and uncOn-
sciOus, had been unable to
breathe since early Tues
day, but his heart action
continued normal until he
died late Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
Yes-And No

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HICAGO. March 13.--AD
absent minded bandit held up
three women in an apartment.
taking fur coats and jewelry worth
Se.25O. When the women turned
from facing the wall they dis
covered he had forgotten his
rexelyex. a.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
CITES CANCER SUCCESS
Beneficial Effect Obtained In 1906
Cases, Says Doctor.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 13.-Bene-
fetal effects from his treatment of
1906 cancer cases was claimed at q
hearing before a senate commerce
subcommittee today by DR.. w. B.
Coffey, chief surgeon Of the South
ern Pacific hospital in San Fran
cisco.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13

swan al Waikiki beach unconscious
of the fact that native old timers or
Kaminas, as they are termed, whose
blood was thin from a lifetime spent
under warm Hawaiian skies, were
khivering beneath heavy top coats.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-13
CHARGE EMBEZZLEMENT

Cashier of 28 Years Is Accused of
Stealing $4,000.
BIZ United Press
WILDER, MINI, March 13.-W
G. Melchow, cashier of the Farmers
State bank for twenty-eight years.
was arrested today on charges of
embezzling S24, 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-24
Pledge Support for
Communist Bill for
Unemployed Relief

HAVERHILL, Nov. 21.-Employed
and unemployed workers packed the
hall to capacity here this afternoon
to hear Comrades Wynne, Soderberg
and Reinstein explain the program
Of the Trade Union Unity League
for the unemployed and employed
workers. Many workers we're unable
to get in due to the hall being
large enough to accommodate only
$50 workers. The police we're there
in plain clothes for the occasion.
Comrade Reinstein explained the
Bill for Social Insurance to be intro
duced in Congress by the Commu-
mist Party and called upon the work.
ers to organize and get behind the
agitation for this bill. He pointed
out why, under the present system,
unemployment will be a permanent
problem. The workers pledged sup
port for the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-24
EAGLE WORKERS
FIGHT WAGE CUT
Factory Committee
Has Speakers Thurs.

NEW YORK-Eagle Pencil Co.
workers are organizing against the
threatened wage-cut Their factory
committee calls a meeting in front
of the factory on East 18th St. every,
Thursday noon. There will be a
speaker from the Trade Union Unity
League to advise on the best meth
DDS and tactics.
The Communist Party calls meet
ing at the same place every oMnday
non.
The workers factory committee is
growing, and will be a center of Or
ganization struggle. 1t has issued
leaflets in English and Spanish,
pointing out:
You know how to stop the cut!
When the pay is handed to you less
than the full amount-everybod stop
working and demand the full wages.
If the bosses play tricks and only
give a few of your department the
wage-cut, everybody stop and insist
they get the full pay. All for one,
one for ALL"
Many of the women and girls in
the Eagle Pencil work get as low as
So a week working piece work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-24
,JOBLESS BEATEN
BY JOB SHARKS
Bread Line Owner At
tacks Council Members

NEW YORK-Member of the
Down Town Council of the Unetn-
ployed are being beaten up by a
gang of thugs when they talk unem-
ployment insurance to those applying
at bread line and racketeer en-
ployment agency on an empty lot at
Forsythe and Grand SITS. An Unem-
ployed council member beaten up a
week ago is still suffering from in
juries.
Thursday, Julius Neidech also was
talking in the same way to some of
those there, and was similarly at
tackled, his nose fractured, and given
other injuries. He was treated at the
diSpenSary at Essex and Broome SITS.
The attendant there called up the
papers to tell them of this STORY
but they couldn't consider it news.
At Lafayette St., city fake employ
ment agency the Musteites lectured
the crowd, but they came over to
hear the Down Town Unemployed
Council speakers. Many joined the
council here.
One of the speakers for the Coun-
Gil was carrying a five-day dispossess
notice against himself He is to be
evicted Nov. 25. He showed the evic-
ton papers from the platform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-24
TRAINING SCHOOL
OPENS TUESDAY
Develop New Cadres in
District Two

The second full time training
school organized by the New York
District for the purpose of develop
ing new functionaries and training
present functionaries for better I'M
Outstanding of the fundamental prin-
ciples of Leninism required for ap-
plication to the practical needs and
growing organizational tasks of the
Party in this district will begin on
Tuesday, to last for a period of six
weeks.
The students have already been Sc
lected and the curriculum organized
for intensive study and training
The New York District considers
this training school as one Of the
chief means of developing the new
cadres of functionaries, which is one
of the outstanding tasks of the Party
The last district school, in spite OF
certain shortcomings in selection OF
the best material by the Party units
n organizational weaknesses
showed the practical possibilities OF
such school developing and broad
ening the leading cadres of the
Party. With the experiences of the
last training school, and the work Of
several similar schools in other dis
tricts, the method of the school will
be perfected and the basis laid for
permanent monthly schools in the
New York District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-24
NEGRO WORKER WITHOUT
JOB FOR YEAR TO SPEAK

NEW YORK.--In very successful
meeting yesterday forenoon before
the so-called City Free Employment
Agency" (hardest place in the world
to get a job speakers of the Down
Town Unemployed Council found
great response from the jobless
workers there.
Among those who Joined the coun-
Gil was an unemployed discharged
soldier wounded in the world war,
and given a letter by Congressman
Hamilton Fish telling him, that Moth
ing much could be done for him,
Frank Gregor, a Negro worker I'M
employed year and father of 8 chill
dren made very clear to the jobless
workers at the indoor meeting fol-
lowing the open air speaking that
the unemployed must organize and
fight. Gregor pledged his full sup
port to the Down Town Council and
showed he meant it by volunteering
to speak at the next meeting, Leon
ard and Lafayette ST., today at
10 a. m.
Every day there will be open air
meetings with speakers from the
Unemployed Council at $3.50 a. m. at
tombstone and Jay SITS, Brooklyn.