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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-11
BUSINESS NEWS

The public is keenly anxious for
news. 1t is hungry for anything
new, any kind of development at
fecting peoples interests. This
hunger for news does not include
merely big public and world events.
The hunger for local news and hap
penings is quite as keen.
One form of local news for which
the public is hungry, is for informa-
ton of what is going on in the stores.
The public wants to know what mer-
chants have reduced prices, what
ones are having special sales, what
ones have specially good values.
Such facts are a form of news that
excites as much interest as a sensa-
tional event. Concerns that adver-
tise the developments that take place
in their stores, find the public hun
cry to see these notices.
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-11
%5eGR

THE MAN who invests no thought
OF effort in the welfare of his COM
munity, can't expect that community
to return him any dividends in the
form of increased prosperity ana ad-
Vantages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
WICCINS LANDS
IN JAIL AGAIN
Chuck Is Arrested After
Downtown Melee.

Still groggy from the caress of a
hammer on his skull, Charles Fred
erick (ChucN Virgins, 81, heavy
weight pugilist, reposed on a steel
bunk in city prison today for an
other instruction against law and
order.
Chuck was led to jail Sunday
night from Illinois and Maryland
streets where police say he and
Anzel Williams, 80, of 3015 Kenwood
avenue, thrilled a handful Of non
paying customers with a duel of
knuckles and auto tools.
From Anzel he sought to collect
a loan to another member of the
Williams clan.
q I'm broke, and I need the
dough- the fighter argued.
Three little words. Anzel's reply
YVES easy to understand.
The melee was short. Anzel's
hand held a hammer as he was
jerked from his auto, and the
weapon thudded against Chuck's
Uranium, ripping open the scalp, po-
lice were told. Anzel ran to neigh
boring drug store.
Police arrested both on assault
and battery charges. Chuck will
appear before Municipal Judge Paul
G. Wetter this afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
LESLIE SNUBS
AID COMMISSION
Leaves City Before Farley;
Opposed to Findings.

Governor Harry G. Leslie today
took a direct slap at his own state
aid school commission by absenting
himself from the statehouSe after
having arranged for a conference
with the commissioners to discuss
their findings.
Last week the commission decid-
ed to report in favor of the So-called
Jones-Lindley plan for state flnan-
cling of minimum school costs.
But Leslie is opposed to the plan.
Today he was not on hand to hear
the report.
When Chairman Arthur Sapp of
the state-aid commission arrived
from his home at Huntington early
today to attend the meeting he was
left warming chair in the outer
officeof the Governor.
Finally, L. o. Chasey, secretary
to the Governor, announced that
Leslie is out Of the city and twill
not be back before Wednesday,"
Tired of cooling his heels and
getting the point" Sapp adjourned
to inform the other commission
members that the meeting with
the Governor was called OFF.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
Rich Ne70Sboy'
Slain by Bomb
Mailed as Gift

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. Stony May, an
immigrant who became known as
"the millionaire newsboy," died to-
day of injuries received when a
powerful bomb, concealed in a box
which he believed contained a
birthday present, exploded in his
hands.
May, who would have been 81
Tuesday, was injured fatally, and
his son Eugene, 10, was hurt seri-
ously when, urged by Eugene, the
father decided to open his birth
day present." received by parcel
post, ahead Of time.
The box was delivered last Thurs
day. 1t was thirteen inches long
and three inches square. 1t bore the
label of mail order house.
1t was so arranged that when the
lid was lifted the explosion was
set off.
May owned a number of news
stands, all in select locations. He
also was money lender and signed
bonds for many men under arrest.
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Pep Club Aids

Pep and the pepper-box was
spilled profusely in the "Clothe
a School Child for Christmas"
campaign today, when the Pep
Unlimited Club, which broad
casts over WFBM, joined the
movement.
Were on our way TO clothe
one child and soon thereTl be
two" declared Don Hastings,
conductor of the club, as he
completed today's broadcast
plea for funds.
Contributions are being re-
ceived from club members who
listen in daily from 7::30 to 0
a. m. Money should be sent
to the Pep Unlimited Club. in
care of WFBM.
Names Of donors to the club
will be printed in The Times.
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MOTHER JONES BURIAL
WILL BE HELD TO-DAY

tribute to the memory of Mother
Jones at a special service.
she who has faced many courts
now has appeared before the Great
Tribunal and for the first time has
received a verdict of untainted JUS
tice and love-" said Mcguire.
She is beyond the bark of the
machine gun. She is out of danger
from the bludgeon of policemen. No
longer can courts and their injunc-
lions touch her."
Six veteran miners who survived
the Vergen riots more than thirty
years ago were pallbearerS today at
Mother Jones funeral. Her grave
was near that of Ihree of the eight
miners who Were killed during
that riot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
JURY SELECTION
IN PRYOR DEATH
CASE STARTED
Indicate Choosing of Trial
Group viii Require
Week at Least.

The states battle to send Err
nest Pryor to the electric chair for
allegedly poisoning his young wife
in his Martinsville home last Au-
gust, got under way today in GRIM
tnal court as prosecutors and de-
tense attroneyS began examining
prospective jurors.
The 32-year-old prisoner, whose
case was venued out of Morgan
county because of alleged local pref
udice, has attempted to establish
an insanity defense to the charge
that he administered arsenic to his
wife, Carrie Thelma Pryor, on Au-
gust 10, to conSummate q romance
with the wife's cousin to collect
5000 insurance.
Consume Entire Morning
The defense consumed the entire
morning in questioning four of
twelve Jurors seated tentatively.
Questions were along routine lines,
with jurors being asked if they
would be prejudiced against an in
sanity defense. The four who were
questioned said they would not be.
A second venire of seventy five
prospective jurors was ordered
drawn this morning by Collins.
Twenty-Five of the, venire will re-
port Tuesday morning for examina-
ton, and the remaining fifty will
appear at the afternoon session.
Examination of taleSman No. 1 by
the defense this morning required
an hour and ten minutes.
With Judge James A. Collins on
the bench, only twenty Of seventy
five persons summoned were in the
courtroom this morning for exami-
nation as jurors.
William R. Ringer, prosecutor, as
sisted by William Bray, Morgan
county prosecutor, indicated selec-
ton of the trial body will require at
least a week.
Difficulty in finding jurynen not
averSe to the death penalty is ex-
pected to be encountered.
Pryor II Examined
Pryor last week spent one day in
the psychopathic ward at city hos
pital after Collins granted a request
Of the defense attorney to have the
prisoner examined for indications of
insanity.
If results of the examination are
not as anticipated by the defense,
an alibi will be presented attempt
ing to show that arsenic discovered
in post norton of the body Eas
due solely to poison content of the
embalming fluid.
Pryor was arraigned shortly after
the crime in Morgan circuit court
and pleaded not guilty to first
degree murder charge. He is said
to have signed a confession.
The state will contend that Pryor
put arsenic into water that the wife
drank, in order that he might be
free to marry the other woman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
Hourly Temperatures

the Christmas Clearing House.
Don'tl Don't make a child
happy and warm for Christmas
and the New Year in school.
But if you do believe, as they
believe in Santa Claus, in peace
on earth, good will to men," then
you'll ignore these "don'ts" and
be one Of those who are giving
to make some child a little hap
pier and a little warmer in i'm
poverished times
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Names of Donors on Page 2.

A RAINCOAT was his over
"A coat. Tops of his mothers
cast-off hose were his stockings.
He had no cap. His shoes were
withered into leather thongs.
AT least, that was Buddie early
today. but by noon he was a
man-boy. He Strutted. for he
had two pairs of shoes. His head
Struggled against a sheepskin
coat collar. and was topped with
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Commute Death
Sentences OF
Five Traitors
ByUnited Press

BIZ United Press
MOSCOD, Dec. 8-The death
sentences imposed on five Russian
technicians accused Of plotting with
foreign powers for war of inter
vention on Russia, were COM
muted today by the xix, central
executive committee of the Soviet
Union) equivalent to the parliament
Of other countries.
The death sentences were com
muted to ten years Imprisonment
The three other accused men, who
had been sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment, were given commu-
tation to five years imprisonment.
In extending clemency, the xix
said the proletarian state does not
desire revenge on beaten and dis
armed enemies.
The communications brought to an
end one Of the strangest cases in
modern political history, in which
the eight defendants damned them
selves unreseredly, comforting to an
extensive plot to sabotage the in
dustrial and economic progress Of
Soviet Russia and deliver her into
the hands of foreign powers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
life CREATED
IN TEST TUBE
BY SCIENTIST
Unnamed Thing May Solve
ong-Sought Secret,
Thinks 'ctor.
MOVES AND BREATHES
Cell, Born Without a Par
emf, Waits Verdict
of Experts.
MOVES AND BREATHES
RM United prese

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 8.-Ths Chicago
Tribune in special dispatch from
Cleveland said today "the secret of
life for which science has been
searching for years, may lie in test
tube in the biological laboratory of
the Cleveland clinic foundation over
which the noted scientist, DR.. w. C.
Grille, is the guiding genius"
Penetrating to a slight degree
the wall that has been erected
about what may be one of the most
startling of scientific discoveries. ("
the Tribune said, "a reporter was
able to catch glimpse Of an I'M
named thing" that may verify GER
tain radical scientific theories con-
corning the nature of the force
called life.
This promise might be fulfilled. !"
the Tribune said, IF the creature
that is said to live and breathe in
the biologists test tube, a thing
without parents and reputably born
III defiance of all accepted and
recognized processes of procreation.
does not disappoint its human
creators"
Allied Closely to Electricity
The Tribune story said that the
reported discovery might reveal
that the force of life is closely allied
to electricity, "if indeed it is not
electricity as man knows it."
The story said that one unnamed
person connected with the expert
ment admitted reluctantly that
something approximating life" has
been produced and that something
amazing and revolutionary has
taken place there"
The experiment was described as
follows:
brain tissues taken from a fresh
~ killed animal were reduced to
ashes electrically. From the result
ing substances certain salts and
other elements wer, obtained. To
this substance W ADDED protein
and perhaps some other elements
and chemicals. The whole was
treated electrically.
Before the eyes of the astonished
scientists there appeared thing
with characteristics Of living cell
or protocol.
Susceptible to Narcotics
"The thing possessed the power
of locomotion. 1t also possessed
and utilized the power of procrea-
ton by fision or cell division. It fed
on the protein in the test tube, con-
Stunning it as other unice1lular ami
mails do their nouriShment.
I'm addition, 1t was found that the
thing was susceptible to narcotics,
becoming dormant when subjected
to certain drugs and later recover
ing.
ut was declared that owing to
the care taken in the experiment
no living thing could possibly have
entered the ingredients of the con-
coction."
The Tribune quoted DR.. William
E. Lower, an assistant of DR.. Grille,
as expressing the opinion that the
latter would lay his facts before
the meeting of the American So
ciety for the Advancement of Sci
ence which meets in Cleveland
Christmas week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
.SHUN HOOVER PLEA
$60,000,000 Drought Re-
lief Bill Is Favored.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Chair-
man McNary of the senate agri-
cultural department today favorahly
reported to the senate a bill to pro-
vide $60,00O,OOO for drought and
storm distressed farmers.
President Hoover had tried to linn
it the appropriation to $25,00OO0O.
McNary had expected to ask i'm
mediate consideration for the
drought measure, but instead he
moved that it be placed on the
calendar. 1t will probably come up
TUESDAY,.
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By United Press
MT. OLIVE, ILL.,, Dec. 8.-Coal
mines of this section of Illinois were
closed today as the miners trooped
into Mt. Olive by the hundreds to
attend the funeral Of Mary
(Mother) Jones. who spent most of
her long life battling for the rights
of laboring men.
Several thousand persons, most of
them miners. walked Sunday past
the bier of Mother Jones, whose
body was brought here from Wash
ington.
Several hundred of them, all who
could be packed into the l. o. Q. F.
hall at one time, heard the Rev.
Father j. R. w. Mcguire of st.
Viator college, Bourbonnais. Ill, pay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08

A $1,000 holdup at the Fountain
Square theater this morning
marked the continuation of a week.
end of crime here in which bandits,
yeggs and burglars staged a series of
robberieS. state cracking, kidnapings
Of motorists, smuggling and petty
thievery that netted them thousands
Of dollars of loot.
While police made desperate ef-
forts to catch up with weekend re-
ports of outlawry, j. - Murray. %,
of 1918 Prospect street, assistant
manager of the Fountain Square
theater, sat in his Office on the
mezzanine floor of the theater this
morning preparing to take the
weekend receipts to the bank.
Just then a lone bandit walked in.
Answering commands enforced with
gun, Murray opened the safe.
took out the cash boxes, placed
them on a chair and the bandit
filled his pockets.
Loot Is Over $1,000
Then Murray was forced to crawl
under a chair and the bandit
walked out, went downstairs to the
main floor and thus to the street,
Murray related to police. His de-
parture was unobserved.
Murray described him as about 81
years old, wearing brown over
coat A similar description was
given by Walter Walters. porter,
who saw the man enter.
The loot was in excess of $1,000,
all cash, 500 of it in half dollars.
Blowing a safe in the grocery
operated by Frank Lindner. 1926
College avenue, safe crackers early
today obtained $1,803 Lindner
found the blasted safe when he
opened the store.
The thieves forced entrance to
the store by battering door be-
tween the store and a garage in
the rear after smashing the lock on
another door Of the garage.
Safe crackers pried open the doors
Of two safes in the Kenwood Tire
Company, Delaware and Walnut
streets, early today, obtaining more
than $75.
Drag Safe to Basement
One Of the safes was dragged
from the company office to the
basement from which SIS was
taken. Another large safe was pried
open and loot stolen, G. w. Sparks,
4544 Guilford avenue, manager, said
he could not estimate the loss.
A car belonging to Mrs. Spf -
was stolen by the thieves from the
company garage.
Police today held two men in
connection with the shooting OF
Enoch Yount, SO, grocer at Oil
Congress avenue, Saturday night.
Yount was shot in the shoulder, but
was not hurt seriously.
Frank Thomas, 1862 West Twen-
ty-sixth street, was arrested Sunday
morning and Jack Adams. alias
Newman Adkins, 412 East Walnut
street, was taken into custody early
today, both on vagrancy charges.
In the room Adkins occupied was
clothing resembling that worn by
one of the bandits. Young and a
clerk in the store identified him,
police said.
Fires Rock at Bandit
The bandits obtained only 81
from the store register, but fired
when Yount hit one of them with
a large rock that was on the
counter.
Forced to the curb while waiting
for traffic light at Southeastern
and STATE avenues, Thomas Scan
Ion, 1925 North Meridian street, was
robbed Of $317, valuable papers and
a revolver early Sunday by two
bandits. The bandits forced him
out Of the car, robbed him and then
ordered him to drive on, he told po-
lice.
Jewel1y valued at 1.4O0 and sl20
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a cap with ear-fiaps. His hose
were new and heavy ribbed.
A crowd of men stood around
him. They had given him the
new clothing. He admired the
shoes, smoothed the sheepskin
collar with his chapped hands.
He danced a jig. Hearts of the
crowd of men danced a jig of
happiness, too
For Buddie is just one of the
eighty-five boys and girls chosen
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"kick" out Of it, and you don't
think city children are wearing
flour sacks for underclothing and
going to school in cold raincoats,
then
Don't call the "Clothe-a-Child"
editor of The Times and ask for
a boy or girl to care for before
the Christmas school holidays
begin
Don't let him give you the name
of a child found to be worthy by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08

up to noon today by men and
women Of Indianapolis in the
"Clothe School Child" for
Christmas of The Times.
CTEADILY the roll of clubs,
~ lodges and individuals recog-
MIXING the need Of warm clothing
for the city's youth has mounted.
i want to help, but l can't
afford to clothe one child" phoned
one woman" What shall I do?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
Film Firm Showing Profit

BIZ ntted Press
WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. g.
Warner Brothers Pictures Company
Inc, is operating at fairly good
profit and is optimistic Of the fu-
ture, Abel G. Thomas, secretary, de-
clared at the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the company today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
CIVIC LEAGUE WILL
STUDY INSULT PLAN
East Side Society Also to Discuss
WOman's Prison Removal.

WOman'S Prison Removal.
Study of the insult plan to reha-
bilitate the indianapolis street rail-
way system will be inaugurated to-
night by the East New York Street
Civic League, meeting at ZIG North
Temple avenue, Samuel Harrig,
president, announced.
The league also will discuss back
ing of legislation to move the IN
diana woman's prison outside the
city limits. The institution, located
at Randolph and New York streets,
has been the storm center of contro-
verSy among east side residents for
several years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
BLAST SINKS
COLD SALVAGE
SHIP; IA DIE
Crew Was Near Success in
Task of Raising $6,0OO,-
600 Cargo.
BIZ United Press


BELLE ISLE, France, Dec. g.
The italian salvage ship Artiglio,
nearing success in an effort to re-
trieve some $6,O00000 gold treasure
from the sunken liner Egypt, was
sunk Sunday by deep sea explo-
sion during operations to remove
wreckage of another ship, the
steamer Florence.
Fourteen members of the crew of
the Artiglio were lost, and seven
others injured.
Winter storms had forced the Ar
tiglio to cease temporarily its efforts
to salvage the gold treasure, and
it had contracted with the French
government to remove wreckage of
the Florence, which was loaded with
munitions when sunk eight miles
off Belle island in 1918.
No Warning of Blast
IT don't know how it happened, -
the chief mechanic of the Artiglio,
who was injured, told the United
Press after his rescue Sunday.
Three divers had gone down
Sunday and placed four mines I'M
der the Florence, which lay in the
traffic channel between Quiberon
and the island of Houat.
when they reappeared on the
surface the signal was given. Then
the surface of the sea seemed to
squirt into the air The Artiglio
sank with rocket-like swiftness.
was thrown clear into the warter
and picked up by the crew of the
policeboat Rostro, which was work.
ing about three miles away and
heard the explosion"
Not Sure of Course
The dead included Captain Jacq
Els Bertelotti of the Artiglio, Chief
Diver Alberto Gianni, one of the
men who located the treasure ship
Egypt after months of search on the
bottom of the ocean, and Second
Diver Franceschi.
Authorities here we're not sure
from the story of the survivors as
to the exact cause of the sinking of
the Artiglio.
They expressed the opinion, how
ever. that premature blast Of ex-
plosives used in removing the
wreckage of the Florence had oc-
Cured.
The Egypt, sailing from London
for India in 1922, had vast cargo
of gold in her holds. She was
rammed in dense fog off the French
coast and sank, with loss of about
! 100 lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
ILLINOIS MAN TO TALK
Chamber of Commerce to Hear
Speech by ]. H. Hudson.

j. H. Hudson. manager of the or
ganization service department of the
Illinois State Chamber of Com
merce, will address the annual
meeting of the Indianapolis Cham
Der Wednesday night with the an
nual banquet at $50.
Annual election of directors will
be held all day Tuesday.
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That's eaSyl Scout your neigh
borhood and the organizations
you belong to and then band a
group of men and women together
to clothe one child or as many
children as you feel you can.
NTATCH his or her face as the
warm coat is slipped upon
the shoulders. Why, that grin is
worth pair of stockings alonel
And if you don't think you'll get
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
Police Guard Rioters

By United Press
BOSTON, Dec. 3.-Thirty police
men guarded Suffolk county court
house in Pemberton square today as
twenty-four men and women went
on trial in connection with a Com
munist riot here, Oct. Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08

Don't read this If you already
have done your Christmas shop
ping.
But if you haven't, here's
tip:
There never was a better time
than today. That last-minute rush
hasn't begun. There are lots of
bargains. You can take your time.
Put it off and you'll regret it.
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SKIES WILL Be GRAY
Little Change in Weather
Forecast for City.

With skies somewhat overcast and
temperature this morning near
freezing, little change was forecast
by the United States weather bureau
for the next two days.
Temperature tonight will not sink
below % degrees, it indicated
Throughout the state, skies will be
clear, and there will be little change
in temperature, the bureau prom
Used.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
MOVIE HOLDUP
TOPS WAVE Of
CRIME IN CITY
Lone Bandit Gets $1,000 in
Daylight HoIdup on
South Side.
SAFE IS BLASTED OPEN
YeggS' Loot $1,803 in
Raid on Grocery
Stronghold. :
SAFE IS BLASTED OPEN
CITIZENS CAN HELP

Cooperation of citizens in
stemming the avalanche of
holdups and thefts that broke
over the weekend. was asked
today by Jerry Kinney, police
chief.
Kinney said immediate re-
porting of a robbery or
burglary and accurate descrip-
tons of the perpetrators would
aid police in hunting the
bandits. Prompt reports also
will aid police cruising squads
in getting radio reports, he
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-08
union Trust Made Receiver

Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell
Saturday, appointed the Union Trust
Company as receiver in bankruptcy
&or the Hyde Leather and Betting
company. The court fixed bond at
S115.00O