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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
DELEGATES ASK
HIGHWAY ALONG
LAKE MICHIGAN
Worlds Fair Road Urged
Before Commission by
Calumet Boosters.

Large delegations from northern
Indiana towns and cities are sched-
uled to appear before the state
highway commission this afternoon
to urge the commission construct a
200-foot Chicago worlds fair high
way along Lake Michigan.
The plan is to have the road
ready for the Chicago fair in 1888
and to loop the lake completely,
running through the states of In
diana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis
consin.
Mayors, aldermen, county commits
sioners and other leading political
and civic lights are expected to ap-
pear. A. P. Melton Dem, Gary
member of the commission, has al
ready declared he favored the
project.
South Bend, Mishawaka, Ham
mond. Gary, East Chicago and all
the Calumet district would be COW
cred by tho route.
This morning a delegation head
ed by S. o. NIosier, Georgetown, ap-
peared to urge re-routing Of State
road 81. Dearborn county was head
ed by Charles A. Lowe.
Director John J. Brown OF the
state highway department an
nounced that the commissioners will
not consider the $1,750,OOO contract
for the 1891 cement supply today.
Bids are still being tahulated, he
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
RECEIVER is ASKED
ChevoIair Motors, Inc, Is
Defendant in Action.

Appointment of a receiver for the
Chevolair Motors, Inc, Tenth street
and the canal, manufacturers of air.
plane motors, was asked in a suit
filed Tuesday in probate court by
the BoEm Aluminium and Brass
Corporation of Detroit, Mich.
The suit alleges that there is no
market for airplane motors and that
the concern is in imminent danger
of insolvency.
Assets of the company were esti-
mated at $4,000. The Detroit Com
pany is owed $3,072, the petition
AYERS.
Otto A. Keuhrmann, secretary
treasurer of the company, expressed
surprise when told that the petition
had been filed.
Stocks and tools that we have on
hand are worth many times the
amount Of the claim. I can't under
stand the action unless it has been
taken by Mr.. Chevrolet, who is in
Detroit now" he said.
Arthur Chevrolet is president and
general manager of the company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
CAB ORDINANCE
FATE DOUBTFUL
Council, Operators Can. Not
Aqree on Provisions.

Future taxicab regulation by the
city was in a chaotic condition to-
day as the city council prepared tc
meet to reconsider the proposed or
dinance for more rigid regulation.
The council, after hearing argu-
ments from cab operators Monday
night, is expected to strike out sew
eral proposals in the ordinance to-
night, meeting in committee of the
whole.
Since neither cab operators moi
council members have agreed or
what is needed in way of regulation
what will be done is doubtful.
One section in the proposed ordi-
nance, aiming at curbing laWless-
ness in the cab business, requiring
drivers to reveal their character
records for five years prior to ap-
plying for licenses, looms as one
possible outcome of tonight's
session.
Nearly 100 small cab owners are
opposing stringent supervision of
taxicab stands.
Opponents attacking the soon
venience and necessity provision
in the ordinance that would give
city officials power to decide, after
a public hearing, whether a new
cab company should be organized.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
BUTLER MAY
Be REINSTATED
School Association to Act
on Petition Soon.

Prospects for reinstatement Of
Butler university in the North Cen
trail Association Of Colleges and
Secondary Schools today appeared
bright as action on Buffers petit
tin was promised by Friday.
j. W. Anterior, Butler financial
secretary, late Tuesday received q
telegram from Dean j. w. Putnam,
who with President Robert j. Alley,
is attending the associations an
nual meeting in Chicago.
Putnam said action had been
promised Friday and that the COM
mittee members appeared to receive
the petition favorably, holding that
Butler practically had met all re-
quirements for reinstatement.
The association dropped Butler
from the accredited list a year ago
when it was charged athletics had
assumed a magnitude too great in
proportion to size of the institu-
tons endowment.
Criticism was made that George
(Potsy) Clark, athletic coach, was
being paid a larger salary than DR..
Alley and smallnesS of the endow-
ment and lack of certain library IA
cilities also were cited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
FILE SUIT
TO KILL PAY CUT

Harry Dunn be inundated to pay
monthly salaries on the $1O,0OO-a-
year basis, the suits charge that the
council illegally cut the salaries to
$1,000, and that the action was
without effect"
Defendants are Dunn and County
Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson. The
suits ask that Robinson be man
dated to honor salary checks on the
$4,000 basis.
Judges are Joseph r. Williams,
superior court two: John w. Kern,
room one; William r. Pickens, room
3; Clarence E. Weir, room 4; Rus
sell Ryan, room five; Criminal
Judge Frank P. Baker; Probate
Judge Smiley N. Chambers, and
Juvenile Judge John F.. Geckler.
Under an act of the legislature,
the state pays $4,000 of each judges
salary, and the county the $1,000
balance. The latter figure was es-
tablished by the county council in
May. 1927, according to the suits.
Attorneys for the judges were
Fred G. Cause, Ralph Kane and
Howard Young.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
BY DANIEL Nj. KIDNEY

Governor Harry G.. Leslie spent
$4,118.75 for a board of accounts ex-
animation of state armories built
under the holding company plan,
permitted two years to elapse in
making the examination, and then
neglected to submit the report to
the 1881 general assembly.
These facts were brought to light
by an audit of expenditures from
the Governors emergency contin-
gent fund today. The heavy ex-
penditure, without result, is listed
as simple item:
"ArmorieS investigation. SAILS. -
1t is but one o many items
which served to exhaust the fund
Of 100000 a year. The only emer-
gency expenditure, however, where
life and limb was involved was
$1,000 given to aid the stricken
miners families in the Linton dis
aSter.
No Drought Relief
The major emergency of drought
relief brought forth not a nickel
from the Governors emergency
fund.
Leslie took charge of the armories
investigation when it was provided
for by statute in the 1929 general
assembly The statute carried an
emergency clause. which did not
mean that the INVESTIGATION should
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Chief PROBES
POLICE LIQUOR
CASE EVIDENCE
Judge Suggests Quiz on
'lnexcuSabIe Failure to
Produce Alcohol.

Alleged discrepancies in testimony
of police officers in a recent crimi-
nal court liquor case were the sub
ject of a probe opened today by Po-
lice Chief Jerry Kinney.
Kinney announced he had opened
an investigation after receiving
further facts" Safety board mem
berS indicated they would not insti-
tute a probe.
The quiz was started on sugges-
ton of Judge Frank P. Baker, who
charged the police officers with "in-
excusable failure" for inability to
produce evidence against William
Harrington, 227 South Grace street,
charged with transporting liquor.
Harrington was acquitted by a jury
and the officers, who said the liquor
was destroyed by court order, were
unable to say whether they had
confiscated grain, sugar or wood
alcohol, used in radiators"
Officers in the case are Jacob
HudginS, Alex Dunwoodie and
Dalin Judd. Kinney indicated that
he would call them before him in
the next few days. Kinney prob
ably will report the findings of his
investigation to the safety board.
In the court trial, officers testified
they learned the liquor had been
destroyed on order of Judge Clifton
R. Cameron. Cameron said the
liquor might have been destroyed
by accident"
IT don't see how the officers can
be held responsible when the evil
dence was destroyed on order of a
judge" Charles Myers, safety board
president, stated today.
Kinney, however, said he had
been presented additional informa-
ton" revealing discrepancies in the
officers testimony that would be
the basis for his investigation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
MAN GIVEN a FINES,
SENTENCE AT ONCE

Blind Tiger, Traffic Charges
Pressed; Speeding Count Dismissed.
Every man may have his day in
court but Clarence Dicks, 300 Shep-
ard street, had an exceptionally
busy one today in the municipal
court of Judge Paul G. Wetter.
Dicks was fined on four charges
and one charge was dismissed
against him.
He was fined $500 and costs and
given thirty days in Jail on a
blind tiger count; SIS and costs on
a reckless driving charge; 81 and
costs on two counts of no driving
license and no license for his
motorcar. A speeding charge was
dismissed by Judge Wetter.
He was arrested on the blind
tiger charge on March 10, and on
the other charges on March IS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Liquor Term Suspended

30 sntC8 NpecldT
COLUMBUS, Ind, March 49,
When Sheriff j. w. Foust attempted
to handcuff Herschel Helms of
Helmsburg, whom he arrested at a
dance hall west of here, Helms
broke from his custody and ran. The
officer, however, soon re-arrested
him and also arrested Clarence
Barnes, Helmsburg. Both were
charged with intoxication and Helms
with possession of liquor. Each was
fined $40 and costs amounting to
$40 on the drunk charge, and Helms
was fined 500 and costs making
$3.50, and given a thirty day
sentence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
YOUNG WIFE SUICIDE;
HUSBAND GRIEF CRAZED
Tries to Take Gun From Deputy
Sheriff to End His Life.

AS vainly as when the deed first
was discovered, relatives Of Mrs.
Clara Bush, 10, and police today
sought a motive that led her to
carry her 3-months-old baby to bed
and then knot a towel around her
throat and hang herself in her home
in DreXel Gardens, southwest of the
city, late Tuesday.
Body was found by her husband,
Clay Bush, when he returned from
work. He notified deputy sheriffs
and then, cra9ed with grief, tried
desperately twice to take a gun
from Deputy Sheriff Pearl Craig to
end his own life.
Both times he was overpowered,
and later lodged in county Jail on
vagrancy charge to insure against
further attempts at suicide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Pay Day Missed Again

81 IimeS Special
MARION, Ind, March 18.-City
employees have had their second
payless pay day within the last few
weeks. Checks we're not paid due
to shortage in the general fund
and the inability to obtain a tax
advance from the county treasurer.
The employees probably will receive
pay checks following the sale of
$4,000 in time warrants Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
FIGHT FOLLOWED CRASH
Motorists Parties to Two Suits
Filed at Anderson.
IN Tinlca Nnccial

By Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, March 1S.-
Charles r. Quinn got the worst of
it when his automobile collided with
one driven by William GayneS on
the Moonsville road, he complains
in two suit filed against Jaynes and
his father John.
One of the actions demands 5000
for damage to the plaintiffs auto
mobile. In the other, Quinn seeks
to recover $500 for injuries alleged
to have been suffered when he was
severely beaten by the driver of the
other car. The attack which fol-
lowed the collision was without pro-
vocation, Quinn asserts.
John Jaynes is made defendant
because he owns the automobile
which was being driven by his son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
PRISONER IDENTIFIED

Two Women Employees of Bank
Brand Roscoe Ray at Muncie.
By Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, March 18-Ros-
coe Ray, alleged bank bandit, has
been branded here by two women
as one of two men who robbed the
Daleville Commercial bank, Dec. 10.
Ray was identified by Mrs. J. N.
Barnard and Miss Margaret Good,
clerks in the bank, who were bound
and gagged by the bandits. More
than $500 was taken.
Ray also has been identified as
one of the four men who robbed
the Albany State bank on Jan. 8.
He denies both charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
BOY SERIOUSLY HURT
Melvin MahOney, 8, Struck by Auto,
Is in Critical Condition.

Condition Of Melvin MahOney. 9.
of AIT South Warman avenue, who
dashed from a curb into the path
of an automobile at Belle Vieu place
and West Washington street Tuesday
afternoon, was critical today, city
hospital physicians reported. His
skull was fractured. Russell Upton,
r. R. II, Box 2S4, the driver, was
not held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Churches to Use Theater

bB fRtcS special
KOKONIO. Ind. March 16.-The
Kokomo Ministerial Association has
agreed to plans to hold a special
Holy week service at a downtown
theater. The service will be held
at noon and viii appeal particularly
to employed persons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
PHYSICIANS HOPE FOR
BOY IN RESPIRATOR
Death Near After Two Weeks Fight
Against Lung Paralysis.

~ CHtteG Press
EVANSTON, Ill, March 49,
Seven-year-old Charles Caughey
who has been making a courageous
fight for life in respirator at St
Francis hospital, was near death to-
day, but his physicians and nurses
still we're hopeful.
Charles had been in the respira-
tor for thirteen days, since his
throat and lung muscles became
paralyzed as a result of diphtheria.
He was improving rapidly until a
few days ago, when pneumonia de-
veloped. With his fever running as
high as LOT and a terrific strain up
on his weakened heart, hope then
almost was abandoned.
Tuesday night, however, Charles
condition began to improve.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
ARGUE ON BOND ISSUE
State Tax Commissioners to Visit
Proposed Decatur School Site.

State tax commissioners will visit
the proposed Decatur township
school site and also inspect the
building plans in deciding upon a
bond issue. size of which has been
protested before the state board.
Pro and con of the building plans
we're argued before the board mem
berS Tuesday with Chairman James
ShoWalter presiding.
Opponents assert that the build
ing program now is too elaborate
and the site and building costs
would mount to more than $250,000.
The township trustees plan paying
$500 an acre for land when good
site could be bought for $500 an
acre, they commended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Farm Term for Parties
By United Press

By United Press
GARY, Ind, March 18.-Kenneth
Hauk, %, former teacher and coach
of Merrillville high school,, was fined
$25 and sentenced to ninety days
imprisonment in the state penal
farm, and Gerald CULLEN, 10, mem
Der of the school basketball team
was given suspended sentence ON
charges of contributing to delin-
quency of several girls. Both were
tried here. Hauk and CULLEN took
high school girls on drinking
parties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
SLAYER DUE TO
DIE IN CHAIR AS
LESLIE YACHTS
Chance Of Reprieve Seems
Lost, as Governor Is
on Vacation.

Once more Governor Harry G.
Leslie will be cruising the Caribbean
while a prisoner Of the state pays
the death penalty without an appeal
TO the supreme court, stay Of execu-
ton or gubernatorial reprieve, il
appeared today.
Just one year ago similar case
arose and the Governor could not
be reached on the yacht to get pos
sible executive clemency.
The man slated for death this
time is Frank Scott, Negro. He is
in the death row at the Indiana
state prison at Michigan City
awaiting electrocution March 26.
Governor Harry G.. Leslie on that
date will be yachting off the Florida
coast under his present vacation
schedule.
Sentenced Nov. "a
Scott was sentenced in superior
court at South Bend, Nov. "a, 1890
for the murder Of Isham Hampton,
Negro, whom he alleged had an af-
fair with SCOTS wife.
The shooting Of Hampton took
place July Is, 1880. Judge Orlo r.
Deahl pronounced the death SEN
tence, first in st. Joseph county in
forty years.
Edwin Sommer. pauper attorney
defended the prisoner. No appeal
was taken to the supreme court.
There were no funds for that pur-
pose.
In Indiana the death sentence can
not be executed until 100 days
elapse. The March 26 date is 129
days afte'- the sentence. It's speed
is excelled only by that Of the pris-
oner executed under similar circum-
stances in 1880.
First to Die in 1881
He was James Britt. sentenced for
a murder growing out of the vote
fraud scandals in Lake county He
had no money, no appeal and no
chance for a reprieVe. 1t was but a
few days over the 100 minimum
when he was electrocuted.
There we're 213 murders in Indi-
ana that year. Britt was the only
murdered to suffer capital punish
ment.
State board of health statistics
disclose there also we're 213 muir
defs in Indiana in 1929 without a
single execution by the state.
Scott will be the first to die in
193l-probably the last.
Reprieve Net Requested
Gaylord Morton, secretary to Les
lie and in charge of prison affairs,
said that he had inquired at the
prison if anyone would be scheduled
to die during the Governors post
legislative vacation cruise and was
told there was not. Later he learned
Of SCOTS plight.
He said today no official request
for executive clemency has come to
the Governors Office. If there should
be one, he will "try and get in touch
with the Governor" Morton said.
The pauper defense attorney said
after the trial he would seek a COM
mutation of sentence, according to
reports from South Bend to the
United Press. The report also states
that he said that he prepared pc
tition for relatives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Council Salary Slash From
$4,000 to $1,000
Yearly Fought.

Eight Marion county judges filed
mandate suits in circuit court to-
day to nullify the $4,000 salary cut
attempted by the county council last
August
Asking that County Auditor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
LAWNMOWER is STOLEN
Its One of the First Signs of
Spring; Loss Is So.

The first sign Of spring found its
way to the blotter at police head
quarters today.
Lawrence Cox, 1861 North Capitol
avenue, reported to police that a
thief who entered his garage stole
a laWnmower valued at IS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18

in this city for
many a day. He
is the only dog
said to be able
to read his mas
ter's m in d. A
person asks him
a question a n d
it is thought
tr a n sferr e d"
a n d Immediately
answered. In a
recent d e m 0 n
stration for SEN
ator Fletcher at
t h e G apitol,
Bozo added, sub
-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Fire Damages Church

BIZ Times Special
MARION, Ind, March 16.-Fire
starting from an overheated furnace
in the basement caused damage esti-
mated at more than $4,000 to the
st. Johns Evangelical Lutheran
church here. A large hole was
burned in the floor and the interior
damaged by heat and smoke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
FARM RELIEF IS TOPIC
Loan Association Officials Will Have
Annual Meeting.

Farm relief problems Will be dis
cusSed at the twelfth annual meet
ing of directors, officers and secre-
tary-treasUrers of National Farm
Loan Associations in Indiana
Thursday at the Claypool
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Veteran Teacher Dies

By Times Special
NOBLESVILLE. Ind. March 10
l.. M. Brandon, 10, a central Indi-
ana school teacher in the pioneer
days, died suddenly at his home
near here while pumping water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Truck Driver Killed

KENDALLVILLE, Ind, March 10.
The body of Mack Manning, S.,
Kendallville, was found beneath his
light truck where it left the road
and overturned. William Vanett.
Cromwell, found the body, with the
skull crushed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
GIRL SPEAKER VICTOR
Sixth District Title Won by Esther
Conway, MOrTistOwn.
IN Iincs Special


BIZ Times Special
NEWCASTLE, Ind, March 18.-
Esther Conway, student in Morris
town high school, Shelby county, is
the winner of the Sixth district
constitutional oratorical contest held
here. Donald Turner, Connersville,
was second and Marian MAIDEN,
Rushville, third.
Participation prizes were given
Esther Kelso, Laurel, Franklin
county: Melville Watson, Greenfield,
Hancock county; Wilbur Conway,
Newcastle, Henry county; Roland
w. Snyder, Brownsville, Union
county, and Eloise Collins, Fountain
City, Wayne county.
Judge Roscoe G. O'Byrne, Brook
vile, district chairman was in
charge of the contest.
Harold Rogers, KnightStoWn,
Henry county, was the winner of
an essay contest held in connection
with the oratorical contest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
GAS ATTENDANT ROBBED
Two Bandits in Ford Truck Get $40
and Pistol.

Two men in Ford truck held up
Lloyd Murphy, 812 West New York
street, attendant at the O'Connor
Brothers filling station, 951 West
New York street, early today, taking
$50 and a pistol from Murphy's
pocket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
[ngrown Nail
Turns Right Out!
Pain Stops Instantly

'Outgro' is a harmless antiseptic
manufactured for chiropodists. How
ever, any one can buy from the
drug store a tiny bottle containing
directions.
A few drops of "Outgro" in the
crevice of the ingrowing nail re-
duces Inflammation and pain and
so toughens the tender. sensitive
skin underneath the toe nail that
1t can not penetrate the flesh. and
end the nail turns naturally outward
fSfmoSs overnight. Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
DOG IS MIND READER
"Canniest Canine" Adds, Does Card
Tricks for Senator.

WASHINGTON, March 18.-Bozo
is quite the canniest canine seen
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-09
TWO ESSENTIALS OF
SAFE DRIVING

To have goo brakes and to under
stand and use the proper signals are
two Of the principal essentials of safe
motor car driving.
First-Havc your brakes in good
order, always. Periodic inspection will
keep them in good shape, and can be
secured at very moderate expense.
Brakes should be ready to stop the
car at moments notice; they should
not squeak and should be in such
shape as to allow the car to come
smoothly to a quick stop If necessary
Second-Know the proper arm sig
mails. Some motorists do not observe
the traffic regulations for signaling.
Other drivers ON the street should be
informed as To the movement of near
by cars, by the proper arm signals at
intersections, when slowing down or
stopping, when coming from curbs or
turning at corners. Laxness in OBJ
servance of arm signals is cause of
much trouble on the highways.
80 per cent of accidents could be
prevented by observing these two es-