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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
RJDECRAZED NEGRO SHOOTS GIRL AND 2 MARION COPS
ABANDONING OF
ELECTRIC LINES
BEING OPPOSED
MartinSviIIe and CraWfords-
vile Striving to Retain
Car Service.

Proposals to abandon service on
two divisions Of the Terre Haute.
indianapolis & Eastern Traction
Company will be discussed at two
hearings this week.
At Martinsville today a hearing
is in progress on a proposal to end
service on the line connecting that
city With indianapolis. and Thurs
day a hearing will be held at Craw-
louisville on proposal to Junk the
line between Charlottesville and IN
diapspolis.
Not only Martinsville residents.
but those of Mooresville, BROOKLYN
and other points are expressing OPP
position to abandonment to Jere
West, member of the Indiana pub
lie service commission. conducting
the hearing.
Forty employees of the division live
In MooreSville, and it is estimated
that $4,000 is paid them each year
in wages, which the business men
are loath to lose. 1t is also pointed
out that five cars daily carry mail.
Loss of taxes to Morgan county
is also another item listed by OPP
ponents of abandonment.
A hearing on the plan to abandon
the Charlottesville division will open
at 10 a. m. Thursday.
In opposition to abandonment.
special committees of the Chamber
Of Commerce and city council will
appear at the meeting, backed by
a delegation Of business men of the
city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
RILEY DAY TO
Be OBSERVED
81st Birthday Anniversary
to Be Celebrated.

Eighty-frst anniversary Of the
birthday of James Whitcomb Riley
will be celebrated with a public
ceremony at 1920 a. m. Tuesday
at the Riley home on Lockerbie
street.
Meredith Nicholson, author and
friend of Riley's, will address several
hundred school children at the cere-
monies.
Hugh NICK. Landon, president OF
the James Whitcomb Riley Memo
rial Association, will preside at the
ceremonies. A program will be pre-
sented by pupils from School No 9.
Announcement was made today
that all school children of the city
would be admitted at D. m. Tues
day for a tour of Lockerbie home
without charge. Special arrange
ments have been made to care for
children visiting the home.
Riley died in 1916 He would have
been 81 years old Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
HOTEL VICE CHARGED
Ogden Asked to Investigate
Conditions in City.

Attorney General James NJ. Og-
den was appealed today to investi-
gate Indianapolis hotels in his role
of vice crusader.
The appeal came from Charles
B. Clifford, 1920 Chester avenue,
Cleveland, o., who stated in let
ter to the attorney general that he
is a former resident here.
"DcIbtless you do not remember
me, although you should" the let
ter states. Ogden admits he doesn't.
Enclosed were two phamplets de-
scribing hotel vice conditions which,
it is alleged, corrupts bell boys and
sometimes the entire staff. Hotels,
many Of them the more prominent,
have become the home of booze
parties and commercialized vice, it
is alleged.
Gifford's letter alleges that hotel
conditions described prevail in In
dianapolis and throughout the
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
ARSON BLAMED
IN THIRD FIRE
Factory at New Albany
Burns With 100000 Loss.
BIZ Tnited Press

BIZ Crited Press
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Oct. G.
Increased guards were placed about
several New Albany factories and
retail places today as authorities
pronounced the third fire within a
week, which caused 100000 loss to
the Wood Mosaic Company plant, to
be of incendiary origin.
Loss within the past few days has
exceeded half a million dollars, and
it. is generally believed that all fires
were inCendiary.
Harmon Young, night Waterman
at the mosaic plant, reported to po-
lice an hour before the fire was dis
covered, that he had been shot at
while passing from one building to
another. An inspection of the plant
at that time REVEALED nothing wrong.
Police believe a f1rebug, perhaps a
disgruntled workman, to be respon-
sible. They had a report that man
had attempted to set fire to Indiana
Veneer Panel Company plant Sun
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
BUILDING WILL
COST 100000
Work Is Under Way on New
COCa-CoIa Plant.

Construction is underway for the
new two-story building of the Coca
Cola Bottling Company, 800 Massa-
chusetts avenue. The building, with
equipment installed, will cost ap-
proximately 100000
A garage has been erected and
now is in use as general offices of
the company pending completion of
the new structure.
Work on the main building began
Sept. l and will be ready for use
March l.
The structure will have terra
Gotta front and basement, in adj
dition to the two floors.
Rubbish and Hunter are the
architects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
Aged Man Dies

COLUMBUS, Ind, Oct 6.-Mark
NJ. Morgan, rs, formerly ner-
chant at Lafayette and 1ndianap-
oils, died in the county hospital
here following a two weeks illness.
He came here nine months ago to
make his home with an adopted
daughter. Mrs. Robert Barnaby.
Besides Mrs. Barnaby, he leaves two
other daughters. Mrs. Mao Buyer,
Lafayette, and Mrs. William Elliott,
INDIANAPOLIS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
MOUNDS PARK
WILL PASS TO
STATE SYSTEM
Transfer Ceremony viii Be
Held Tuesday at
Anderson.
Bv Times Special

BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, Oct. 6. -
Mounds park near here will be
transferred to the state Of Indiana
Tuesday to become a part of the
state park system.
Evans w. Woollen, Indianapolis
banker and first vice-president of
the Indiana Historical Society, will
be the principal speaker at the pro-
gram of dedication, beginning at 1
p. m. His subject will be "Monu-
ments of Indiana's Past"
James j. Netterville, Madison
county historian, will preside. Arthur
w. Brady, who was receiver for the
former Union Traction Company of
Indiana, which once owned the
park, will speak on 1.-THE History of
Mounds Park and the Mound
Builders"
Acceptance by Governor
Wilson Newton, president of the
Madison county board Of commits
sioners, will present the deeds for
the 256-acre tract as the representa-
tive of the county. A speech Of ac
ceptance on behalf Of the state will
be made by Governor Harry G..
Leslie.
Richard Lieber, director of the
state department of conservation,
will speak on Indiana's parks.
The park contains what is re-
garded as one of the most important
prehistoric earthworks in the state.
Located on the high ground over
looking the west fork of White river
less than three miles northeast Of
Anderson on state road ST, is a great
circular mound and smaller earth
heaps are recognized as highly i'm
portant in the states history.
Purchased by County
For many years the mound area
was the property of the traction
company which has maintained an
amusement park Madison county
has purchased the entire area.
Mounds Park is the first Of the
prehistoric monuments of the state
to pass to control of the department
Of conservation.
With the general awakening Of
interest in the early history of
America, it has been predicted that
the park within few years will be
an important mecca for sightseers.
An illustration of the largest
mound in the park is given in S. G.
Shetone's book, "The Mound
Builders"
Great forest trees surrounding the
mounds and growth from them
pove the great Antiquity of the
earth works. The largest mound
is in the form of a perfect circle
with an opening to the south inclos-
ing another equally perfect circular
mound. The entire diameter Of the
circle is 1874 feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
WOMAN is TRAIN VICTIM
Suicide Theory Discounted in Death
of Miss Marie Ostheimer.

A patient in Kneipp sanitarium
for nervous diseases at Rome City
for five days, Miss Marie Ostheimer,
80, daughter of Louis Ostheimer,
1905 East Michigan street, was
killed by a Pennsylvania railroad
freight train near the sanitarium
today.
She was walking across the tracks
and apparently did not hear the
train. Coroner Harold Shew dis.
counted suicidal theories, and said
the tragedy was an accident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
CLEAR 0AKIE OF LINK
TO W0MAN'S SUICIDE
Toledo Coroner Changes Mind
About Quizzing Young Actor.

Toledo Coroner Changes Mind
About Quizzing Young Actor.
BIZ United Press
TOLEDO, Oct. SACK Oakie
screen comedian, was free today of
the possibility in connection with the
suicide of Mrs. Marion Lowry in her
apartment last Thursday morning
after returning from a partv at
which the screen star was guest.
Coroner Frank G. Kreft told the
United Press Sunday night he would
not request Oakie to return here to
explain his mountaineering With
the 30-year old woman, since be was
convinced Oakie oriy was a casual
acquaintance and could not throw
any light upon the case.
Oakie had been asked Saturday
by the coroner to make sworn
statement regarding details of the
party.
A formal verdict of suicide was re-
turned in the womans death today.
concluding the Investigation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
JobIess Man Tries Suicide

bW LHfEeG FTeS8
SHELBYVILLE. Ind, Oct. &C.
L. Hobbs, 20, was out of Job with
no prospects of getting one. He was
also practically pennileSs. He de-
cided he needed change of scenery
so he and Mrs. Hobbs left their
home in New Palestine and drove
northWard in their automobile.
When they reached Shelbyville the
automobile engine sputtered and
stopped. Hobbs, a garageman when
working. investigated. The gasoline
tank was empty. So was his pocket
hook. but where it should have been
he had q revolver. He sfst himself.
he VIII recover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
BROWN TO TAX FARLEY
Highway Chief to Confer With Ohio
GROUP on Levy.

Director John j. Brown of the
state highway commission will go to
Columbus, o., Wednesday to confer
with an Ohio legislative committee
and a committee from the Ohio
State Chamber of Commerce on pro
posed tax law changes in that state.
Brown formerly was chairman of
the Indiana state tax board and
created a reputation as tax
authority.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
Upset Not Serious IF
System Gets This Help

When you're out-of-sorts, head
achy, dizzy, bilious, with coated
tongue. bad breath, no appetite or
energy-dont worry. It's probably
constipation.
Take a candy Cascaret tonight
and see how quickly your trouble
clears up. NO more headache; no
gas on stomach or bowels. Appe-
tite improves; digestion is encour-
aged. Take another tomorrow
night and the next night. Get
every bit Of the souring waste out
OF your system. Then see how
bowel action is regular and com
plete.
Cascarets are made from cascara.
which doctors agree actuaIIv
strengthens bowel muscles. Ten
cents at all drug stores.-Adver-
tisement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
CITY HEADS STUDYING
STREET CAR PLANS
Mayor Sullivan to Call Farley of
Aids Within 10 Days.

Within ten days. Mayor Reginald
H. Sullivan expects to call a con-
ference of the works board, city
controller and corporation counsel
for consideration and discussion of
the insult plan for rehabilitation of
the indianapolis Street Railway
Company. he said today.
Copies of the reorganization pro-
posal, as announced last week
through Ealsey, Stuart g. Co., re-
organization managers, are being
studied by Mayor Sullivan, William
L. Elder. controller; Edward H.
knight, corporation counsel, and
board of works members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
SCHOOL MEN TO MEET
Nine Cities to Be Represented at
Nashville Tuesday.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ ItWeS Special
NASHVILLE, Ind, Oct. ga
meeting of the School Mems Club,
composed of principals and teachers
in schools of nine central Indiana
cities, will be held here Tuesday.
Superintendent Clemments Of
the Nashville schools is arranging
the program, which will include
selections by old time f1ddlers. A
president and secretary will be elect
ed during the session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
HUNT KNIFE WIELDER
Negro Is Sought in Connection
With Stabbing of Former Officer.

Police today sought Fred Primus.
1914 Yandes street, on charges of
assault and battery with intent to
kill. drunken driving, in connection
With the stabbing of Patrolman
Martin OBrien. suspended police
man. following an auto accident
Saturday
Primus' car is said to have COL
hded with OBrien's, driven by his
son. The other motorist, a Negro,
stabbed O'Bren. The policeman
was one Of eighteen Indianapolis
police indicted recently on federal
charges of conspiracy to violate
LIQUOR laws
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
LAFAYETTE BUS LINE
PLEA Is PRESENTED
Three Petitions for Route Pending
Before Commission.

CSAIAO4AS lOA
Before Commission.
A third petition to establish a bus
line between Lafayette and Indian
apolis was filed today with the pub
lie service commission by Jack
Schott, Indianapolis.
Hearings now are underway be-
fore the commission for abandon
ment of the r. H, I. G. E. inter
urban line from Lafayette to In
dianapolis.
The commission is considering
two other petitions for permission
to begin bus service over the same
route. The Greyhound Bus Com
pany and Ward B. Hiner, for the
Red Ball Transit Company, are the
petitioners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
PAGEANT TELLS HISTORY
Cast Of 400 to Make First Appear
ance at Sullivan Tonight.
Bu Times Special

Bu Times Special
SULLIVAN, Ind, Oct. San his
torical pageant Of Sullivan county
depicting changes in the period
from 1912 to the present will be
given its first presentation here at
7:30 this evening and repeated at
the same hour Tuesday. A stage
half block long will be used.
The cast Of 400 contains persons
from 6 to so years of age. Winner
Of q pageant queen contest will be
announced tonight.
The Chamber Of Commerce and
Business and Professional Women's
Club are sponsors Of the pageant. :
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06


inal Hayes of the New York diocese
officiating. He will arrive here
Tuesday morning from New York
in the private car of George Nc
Donald and will go directly to
Notre Dame. University officials will
escort him about the campus and to
st. Mary's college for inspection
tours.
In the long list of Catholic lead
ers who will attend the dedication
rites will be Gilbert Keith Chester
ton, Englishman of letters, who will
give a six weeks course of lectures
at the university.
The Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell,
president of the university points
out that the new building fulflls
a need for expansion in that branch
of the university that has been long
felt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
PROBATION PRAISED
AS PRISON REFORM
Extension of Parole System Urged
by Wickershaw Agent

Extension of the parole and pro
baton system are outstanding
needs of Indiana penal institutions,
according to Winthrop D. Lane of
New York, who is here conducting a
survey for the Wickersham commits
sion appointed by President Hoover.
Several penal institutions of the
state already have been visited by
Lane. He pointed out that many
more parole agents are needed in
field work and that adult proha-
ton is in its primary stage in this
state.
Lane is a native of TT. Wayne and
the son of the late Chester T. Lane.
for many years principal Of the
old TT. Wayne high and manual
training school
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
POPULATION LISTING
SUIT Is OVERRULED
Houston Loses in Effort to Block
Atlanta Census Move.

AAOASOCA A@OSCS al 6AAOAS w AIAOLh
Atlanta Census Move.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-Judge
Frederick L. Siddons today over
ruled in district supreme court the
application of the city of Houston,
Tex, to intervene in the suit of
Atlanta, Ca, which is seeking to
have its population listed as $780,
instead Of the 27O.367 figure re-
ported by the bureau.
Siddons said he did not see hos
Houston interests would suffer in
any way by Census Director William
M. Steuart's refusal to recognize
greater Atlanta" in official census
tabulations.
Houston's objection was based on
the fact that listing of Atlanta at
the larger figure would displace it
as second city of the south.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
BLUE LAWS EVADED
Show, in Two Towns, Uses Ruse to
Defeat Sunday Ban.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
ORANGE, N. j., oct. 6.-Twelve
hundred persons we're packed into
one section of the Palace theater
here Sunday while 900 seats, on the
other side of the auditorium, re-
manned unoccupied.
This condition was made reces-
sary by the fact that the town of
East Orange, in which half the
theater lies, has a law against Sun
day movies. The town of Orange
recently revoked its Sunday blue
law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
SEEKS $4,000 FROM
RAILWAY FOR INJURIES
Indianapolis Brakeman Files Suit
for Fall From Box Car.

Vaughn M. Jennings, Indianapo-
lis, brakeman, today filed suit for
$4,000 damages against the Indian
apolis Union Railway Company for
permanent injuries allegedly growing
out of a fall from a box car at the
East street railroad crossing a year
ago.
Jennings charges fellow employees
with neglecting to throw a switch,
causing a fsst-moving car on which
he was standing to crash into 10
connective. He was thrown to the
ground, sustaining extensive body
injuries, he alleged. The suit was
filed in superior court one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
Flames Destroy Garage and Truck

EIdmts DtsLIOy UdLd5b dIIu IIuCA
A two-story garage and a truck
we're destroyed by fire of unde-
terInined origin at the w. D. HUFF
man pickle plant, 800 West st. Clair
street Saturday night. Loss was
5000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
DUTY BEFORE FREEDOM
Negro Awaits Sheriff's Return Be
fore Leaving Jail Oh Bond.
BIZ Times Special

IUIt LEAVING JaH UtI bUHu'
BIZ Times Special
SCOTTSBURG, Ind, oct. g.
George washington, Negro, indicted
for the murder of Edward Pearson,
Negro, walked out of county jail
here today on $4,000 bond. after
staying over the weekend lust to
help out around the Jail"
When bond was provided Wash
ington refused to leave the jail I'M
til the sheriff returned this morn
ing.
Gotta take care of the prison.
ers and deputy sheriffs," he ex-
planned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
BUDGET APPEALS TO
BE HEARD BY BOARD
Hours Are Set by State Tax Com
mission; Request Wiped Out.

mission; Request Wiped Out.
Hours for hearings on local budget
appeals we're set today by the IN
diana state tax board commission.
The hearings for the sanitary dis
trict and civil city will be held re-
spectively at 10 q. m. and 2 p. m.
Friday.
The board wiped out tax levy
request of 10 cents by the trustees
of the town of Brooklyn, Morgan
county, when it was shown that
the trustees had sufficient balance
to carry on throughout the ensui ~
fiscal year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
OUTING ATTRACTS 800
Walton League Members Have Pro-
gram Sunday at Monticello.
BIZ United Press

gram oumudy ~ NIUHJICEIIU'
BIZ United Press
MONTICELLO, Ind, Oct. g.
Three hundred fifty pounds of fish
and four bushels of potatoes were
cooked Sunday to serve more than
300 Illinois and Indiana Izaak Wal
ton League members, gathered here
for an outing.
Boat racing, surf riding, horseshoe
pitching, bait casting and trap
shooting were included on the en-
tertainment program. H. H. Evans,
Newcastle, president of the Indiana
Fish and Game League, talked on
Waltonisrn in the only speech on the
program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
COPS SHOOT EX-C0NVICT
Wild Auto Chase in Chicago Ends
With Wounding of Fugitive.
BIZ United Press

bW JFILsu F7TsSS
CHICAGO, Oct. GA wild auto
mobile chase through the west side
of Chicago Sunday ended with
police shooting Joe E. Jenek, ex-
convict and parole violator, through
the head. He was taken to the
Brideweil hospital where it was
said he probably would die.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-15

Brenneman, at their home here last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry H. Broadwater
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Brenne-
man attended the funeral of the late
Victor Griffith at Addison, Pa, last
Friday afternoon.
DR.. N. R. Davis, of Grantsville, was
called to Bittinger early last Sunday
morning on account of the serious ill
ness of the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Simon Brenneman.
Mrs. C. E. Ellithorp, wife of Mer-
chant Ellithorp, of this village, while
fishing in Deep Creek Lake last We'd
nesday afternoon succeeded, with the
aid of her husband, in landing a fine
trout that measured thirteen inches in
length. No one in this section has yet
been able to beat that catch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Resh are very
happy since the arrival at their home
of an infant.
A very aggressive red fox, which
had been preying upon young lambs
in this community for some time, was
killed recently by Mortimer burst,
of the Dry Run Settlement, but before
the animal was taken it had killed
seven lambs belonging to Mrs. Charles
| o. Wilt and three from the flock of
Mr.. burst.
Many of our neighbors attended the
public sale of personal property held
on the John Spoerlein farm at Acct
dent Tuesday of last week.
Perry Wilt, of Swanton, was one of
the callers in this village last week.
Mr.. Solomon Moon, of Kitzmiller,
visited his sister, Mrs. Hester Drys-
dale here day or two last week.
A special missionary service will be
held in the Lutheran church of this
village next Sunday evening to which
the public is cordially invited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-15
BITTINGER

Lack of rain for more than week
has resulted in the ground becoming
so excessively dry that farmers COM
plain of much difficulty in preparing
the soil for the reception of seed.
C. M. Railey, one of the recently an
nounced candidates for the Republican
nomination for the Office Of Sheriff,
was a very agreeable caller in this
village one evening last wee'..
Elmer Shawley and family spent
Sunday visiting relatives over in Som
erset county, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Krause and
child, Of near Grantsville, visited Mrs.
Krause's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Simon