The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-11
The City
in Brief

City school officials are to visit
five cities in northern Indiana next
week to inspect portable schools Of
a type suggested for Indianapolis.
Those who Will make the trip are
A. B. Good, D. T. Weir, H. Frank
Osler and w. A. Hacker.
Poison found in the stomach of
Mrs. Hattie Ritter, 33, Of 1418 Cruft
street, who died suddenly Wednes-
day night, probably will result in
suicide verdict, Deputy Coroner o.
H. Bakemeier announced today.
Mrs. Ritter was found unconscious
on the bed at her home by her
husband, Morgan Ritter. She died
without regaining consciousness.
Edward Burchard, II, and Ed
ward Abousamra, 18, both of. Ft.
Wayne, accused of violating the
! Dyer act, were given a hearing be-
fore United States Commissioner
Howard Young and bound over to
the federal grand jury under $1,000
bond. The boys are charged with
/ having stolen a car at Pontiac,
/ Mich, and driven it to Indianapolis.
Otto c. Ross, city sanitary board
member, today urged citizens and
/ gardeners to take advantage OF the
/ free sludge at the city sewage dis
posal plant for flowers, trees and
shrubs. The city plant is southwest
Of the city.
Seventy alumni and undergradu-
ate members Of Rho chapter, Sigma
Chi fraternity, attended a sixty
fifth chapter university dinner at
Butler Campus Club Thursday
night.
Motion pictures of Camp GridIey
and cruise of the Indiana units of
United States naval reserve on the
u. S. Hawks will be shown at
tonight in Cropsey hall, public
library.
Ralph f. Thompson, insurance
man, addressed the Indianapolis
Garage and Repair Shop Associa-
| TONS April meeting at the Cham
ber Of Commerce Thursday night on
Garage Insurance"
Judges in an indianapolis Power
and Light Company essay contest
on What Electrical Appliance Is
/ Most Useful in the Home" an
nounced Thursday are: Harmon
Smoke, Junior Chamber of Com
merce secretary; King Cady, Indi-
annapolis Times advertising repre-
sentative, and A. B. Terrence, In
dianapOlis Star advertising man.
Adaptability of the recently de-
veloped crankless engine to the
automobile was discussed by the In
diana section, Society Of Autonlo-.
tive Engineers, meeting at the
! ClaypOOl Thursday night. E. S. Hall
of the Mitchell CrankIess Engine
| Company, New York, spoke on
Round Engines and led in dis
cussions.
Several state-aid school districts
have more high schools than those
that are self supporting and town
ship trustees are largely to blame
for the state aid school plight, re-
port filed by the state board of
accounts with Governor Harry G,
Leslie discloses.
A suit for the collection of $4,000
damages for injuries received in an
auto accident in May, 1926, was filed
in the federal court today by Cliff
ford Casey of TallapooSa, Ga,
against John M Mueller and Eva
Mueller, his wife, of Richmond, Ind
The accident occurred on the road
between Richmond and Indianap-
oils.
Seventy eight persons have been
named on a committee indorSing
denomination of Prosecutor Judson
L. Stark, j. Carl Vandiver, attorney
and campaign director for Stark,
said today. Executive committee
members include: William H. Remy,
former prosecutor; Senator John L.
Niblack, Harvey w. Grabill and
Frank A. Symmes, attorneys.
Consolidating under the firm
name of Metcalf, Mahan & Mahan,
to engage in shorthand reporting of
courts and conventions, Norman E.
NTetcalf, James B. Mahan and Will
liam j. Mahan announced today that
offices Of the firm will be located at
1O07-1007 Fletchers Savings and
Trust building.
Financial report of the Indian
apolis Street Railway Company for
February, filed today with the pub
lie service commission, showed re-
ceipts of 1925, ,75908, a decrease of
S53, ,392.67 from February, 1929. Def
cit of ST 1,947, 1868, carried over from
January, was increased to $2O16,-
456.99.
The mems club of st. PauIs Epis-
copal church will be entertained at
its monthly dinner this evening
in Lumley tearooom, 1884 North
Meridian street, by the Yip-Yap en-
tertainers from the Master Music
/ School.
TaurenS T. henderson. candidate