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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21

{ r a g G d Y n e a r
Lawrence Tues
day a + tie r n 0 o n
raised the auto
traffic death toll
in the county to
l33 this wear.
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Professor Wright also attacked
the general property tax for school
support as an unjust and antiquated
system.
National Congress, Topic
Feature of the convention, which
opened Tuesday, will be reached to-
night with the address of Mrs. Hugh
Bradford, national president, at the
annual banquet at the Claypool.
Mrs. Bradford, Sacramento, Cal,
a member of President Hoover's I'M
employment commission, appeared
on the convention program at the
SEVERN this morning, cJnducting a
question box.
Tonight she will discuss 1.-THE Ma
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers and the White House Con-
gress."
Other speakers and their subjects
at the morning session today in
cluded Mary L. Mathews and Ruth
Patterson, 1.-THE State Program of
Work" DR.. Edna Hatfield Edmond
son, 1.-THE National Conference on
Parent Education" and Bertha
MedSker, Juvenile Protection for
Every Child"
Travelling Libraries Urged
Mrs. j. G. Todd, study course state
chairman, discussed Study Courses
of the Indiana Congress of Parents
and Teachers" at the study course
luncheon today.
Speakers Tuesday urged elimina-
ton of detrimental environment to
protect city children, and establish
ment of travelling libraries for chill
dren in rural communities.
Petty gambling at carnivaIs and
bazaarS, lotteries and raf1es in
stores adjacent to schools, poorly
selected magazines, roadhouses and
cabarets were among dangers to
children cited by Mrs. S. M. Myers.
Indiana has 43,721 persons 10
years of age or older who can not
read or write any language Mrs.
Homer j. Miller, South Bend, past
president, told the convention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
zONING PERMIT
PROVOKES EAST
SIDE RESIDENTS
Appeal From Boards Order
May Be Carried Into
Courts.

Property owners, aroused by the
zoning boards permitting the erec-
ton Of one-Story bungalow type
brick office building at the south
west corner of East Tenth street and
Drexel avenue, indicated today they
might seek redress in the courts.
A large delegation appeared be-
fore the coming board Tuesday OPP
posing the permit, granted to Frank
A. Throop.
The board, which previously de-
MED Throop a permit, turned a deaf
ear to the delegations complaints
that the building was to be erected
in a district zoned exclusively for
residences.
This speculation in property at
the expense of resident property
owners is all wrong" the attorney
for the property owners informed
the board.
I'VE spent some time Investigate
ing this section and found that
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nearby are other business houses
and decided that one more can not
hurt the property values in that
neighborhood," explained J. w.
Anterior, board member. who pre-
sided at the hearing.
The board denied the request of
William T. Ayres, apartment owner,
for permission to erect storerooms
on q lot at the northeast corner of
East Washington and Wallace
streets.
Permit was granted Mrs. Frank
j. Lair to remodel a double house
at 2l6 East Forty-ninth street, into
a four family apartment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
NATIONAL CHIEF
WILL ADDRESS
Pr. CONGRESS
Mrs. Bradford to Give ADJ
dress Tonight at Annual
Banquet.

''The day of the small, expensive
township unit of school administra-
ton is past, and it must 60" Pro-
fessor w. w. Wright, Indiana uni
vyorci&xy S11J laIo
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Reception and Degree Work
Scheduled Tonight by
PoCahontaS.

Delegates to the great council of
Pocahontas degree, auxiliary to Red
Men, will be welcomed tonight at
an informal reception in the Deni-
son parlors.
Degree work to be given by a
team from Dayton, o., will be fol-
lowed by dancing. A banquet at
the Y. M. C. A. for past great and
present great chiefs of the order
will precede the reception.
Formal opening of sessions by the
ladies of Pocahontas at 9 Thursday
morning in the K. of P. hall, will
be followed by business meetings.
Elections and installation of Off
GERS are to be held late Thursday
afternoon. High officials to be ad-
vanced are:
Mrs. Josephine Casady, Anderson to the
office of great instructress. succeeding Mrs.
Clovie c. Nicholas Indianapolis: Mrs. Bes-
sic Meadows, present great pocahontas. to
great prophecies; Mrs. Goldie Greenlee,
Sulphur Springs. incoming great poca-
hontas: Mrs. Lucy Cuskaden. st. Paul.
Ind. great wenonah. and Mrs. Lillian c.
Ross Of Shelbyville. great keeper of records.
Mrs. Ross has no opposition.
Candidates for other offices are:
Minnehaha Mesdames Gertrude
Schmink. Indianapolis; Lizzie Brownlee.
Terre Haute: Nellie Jeffries. South Bend
Great keeper of wampum-Miss FIeurv
Gutafel. Rushville; Mesdames Louise Hale.
indianapolis; Louise Brewer. Elwood: Liz
zie Bair Richmond
Mrs. Nellie Whiteford of Aurora
and Mrs. Falger, Frankfort, are
candidates for great trustee.
Installation this afternoon of
newly elected officers of the I'm
proved Order of Red Men closes the
two-day meetings of the sixty-sec-
ond great council of Indiana. Off
GERS to be installed by William H.
of st. Louis, official rep
resentative of the great incohonee,
are:
Russell H. Evans. Spencer. great prophet:
w. Irving Pryor. Worthington, great
sachem: Steve L. Smith. South Bend,
great senior sycamore; E. C. Seabrook, New
Albany. great Junior sycamore: Frank l..
Flanagan, Columbus. and Arch H. Hobbs
Of Muncie. great chief of records.
Hobbs has held the office of great
chief of records for seventeen years.
D. N. Lewis of Lebanon and AL
fred Prick of Indianapolis were
elected great trustees: Prick was
selected to fill the vacancy caused
by election of Cory Seabrook to
great junior sycamore.
Adoption degree work was given
oy Spencer degree team at Conan
che hall, 1902 West Morris street.
night. Several hundred
delegates attended ceremonies which
included induction of candidates to
degree by a Connersville
staff and presentation of the chiefs
degree by combined Comanche and
ConnerSville teams.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
CONTRACTORS TO MEET

Delegates from indianapolis and
from southern Indiana will attend
the district meeting of the Sheet
Metal and Warm Air Heating Con-
tractors Association Friday night
in Red Mems hall at Columbus.
The meeting, sponsored by the
state association, will be open to
non-memherS as we'll as member
contractors, manufacturers, jobbers
and statesmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
NAME 5 DEMOCRATS
FOR TREASURY JOBS
Sexton Chooses Executive Aids; rs
to Get CIerkships@

Names of the five executive assist
ants who will succeed a like num-
Der of Republicans in the office of
the county treasurer when Timothy
P. Sexton, Democrat, succeed Clyde
E. Robinson Jan. l, have been an
nounced.
Twenty-Five clerks and stenogra-
pliers also will be changed on that
date. The appointments, however,
have not been completed.
Those named are: Fay Wright to
succeed Orville Harris as chief dep
uty; Miss Sarah E. Henzie to sue
coed Roxie Sharp as first assistant
deputy; Frank Ballman to succeed
L. H. Henderson as second assistant
deputy. John M. Cain to be cashier
instead of Walter Barney, and
Charles a Singer to- be chief clerk
of the Barrett law department, sue
-ceeding j. M. Hillman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
FATHER OF NINE SPARED
Convicted of Blind Tiger, Man Is
Given Mercy by Court.

Because poverty is just around
the corner and the stork is on its
way, Lee Brannon, els Warren ave-
nue., father of nine children, con-
victed of blind tiger, was given a
chance today.
Municipal Judge Pro Tenn. Sol o.
Bodner sentenced Brannon to $50
days at the state farm and fined
him 500 and cost, but suspended
the penalty when informed by
police that the family of nine faces
restitution. Raiders found a half
gallon of mule in the Brannon
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
NIGHT COURSES OPEN
Crispus Attacks Still Receiving Stu
dents, Says Principal.

Registration in the night school at
Crispus Attucks high school still is
open. according to announcement by
Russell A. Lane, acting principal,
today.
Glasses have been in progress for
two weeks, and attendance in all
courses is large. says Lane.
Subjects taught are auto me-
chanics, woodwork, history civics,
algebra, geometry. English, pipe or
gan, chorus, Spanish, French, Ger
man, Latin, sewing, bookkeeping,
typewriting and shorthand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
Comedy to Be Given by Auxiliary

Comedy to Be Given by Auxiliary
Brookside auxiliary of Brookside
chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will
give a comedy, What Ann Brought
Home Friday night at the East
Tenth street community house un-
der the direction of Mrs. w. S.
Holmes. Members of Brookside lodge,
F. and A M, and the East Tenth
Street Methodist church also will be
in the cast.
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~ S~NJ N|AA NACAN
gates to the Indi-
ana Congress of
P are n t S a n d
Teachers conven-
ton here today.
From very
angle that we
m ay view the
small unit of ad-
mi nj S ira tion,
there is but one
conclusion, if we
are to consider
educational eff
cheney and fnan-
cial economy - it
m uSt GO" he
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day te n o o n
raised the auto
1AI traffic death toll
in the county to
1873 this year.
Jordan, retired government en-
ploye, formerly of Fl. Benjamin
Harrison, drove his auto on to the
Big Four crossing on Franklin road
into the path of a train bound from
Cleveland, and travelling at about
sixty miles an hour. The autos
motor stalled
Mrs. Jordan saw the onrushing
train, and was attempting to get
out OF the car when the crash oc-
cured.
T.. M. Brennan, Lawrence station
agent, who witnessed the crash. said
Jordan, &c, had stalled the motor
OF his automobile several times
previously while crossing the tracks.
On one occasion, Branam said. Jor-
dan stalled the car on a traction
track nearby, escaping death only
because the motorman managed to
stop the car before reaching the
crossing.
Auto Broken in Two
Force of the impact broke the
automobile in two, and it's wreckage
was scattered along the right of way
for several hundred feet. Bodies of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan were mangIed
Witnesses told deputy sheriffs
that the locomotives whistle had
been blown for the crossing
Charles Chamberline, 1862 North
La Sale street, engineer, said he
applied the brakes and brought the
train to halt about two blocks
from the crossing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan had lived in
Lawrence for many years. Sur
Vivors are a brother, Chris Jordan
OF Greenwood and a sister, Mrs.
Bray of Mooresville.
Two men we're injured seriously
when a truck, under which they
were working, Jared loose from
jack and fell on them when struck
by an automobile on the Brookville
road near Ritter avenue.
The injured are William Woods.
81, and Claude DoddS, 81, both of
Cincinnati. Dodds' right leg was
crushed and Woods sustained severe
body bruises. Both are at city hos
pital.
Two Injured in Crash
When a truck in which they were
riding collided with an automobile
at Twenty ninth street and Shriver
avenue, George Muir, 30, of 1910
Shelby street, and Rudolph Magin
of the Broadmoor Country Club, oc-
cupants, were injured. Albert Ali
son, 419 East North street. driver of
the automobile, was arrested on
charge of assault and battery.
Joe Goock, 81, Negro. of PAIL
Northwestern avenue, was injured
internally when a truck on which
he was riding swerved from the road
and overturned Tuesday afternoon
at Cornelius avenue and Hampton
drive.
Joe F.. Bird, Negro. of 1921 West
Twenty-fifth street, the driver, was
not injured.
Mrs. Bessie Tovey, 1888 Washing
ton boulevard, suffered injuries to
her right side when an automobile
she was driving crashed into an
other driven by Milton Harp, %, of
2722 North Harding street, at Fifty
eighth street and College avenue.
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Air Mail Saves, Ralph Capone

By LHtCd PfCSS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. - Air
mail saved Ralph Capone, brother
of Alphonse, from going to Jail. An
appeal for a writ of certiorari in his
income tax case had to be filed with
the supreme court before 4:3O p. m.
An airplane did the trick.
Nogales international., 1931-07-11
Lindbergh Teaches Geography

The projected flight Of the Lndberghs to Japan
and China a1ouses considerable interest, and Will
make few citizens check up bit their know
ledge of geography.
For example, it will seem strange to some that
the flying colonel may leave New York flying al
most due north to Greenland, and skirt to the east
of the North pole on his way to Japan! Or, again,
that course slightly northwest, towards Hudson
Bay is being considered It will pay us to get new
slant the shape Of the world and try to plot cours
es on a round globe instead of flat map.
-O-O-O-
Uplifters will not enjoy heaven much because
they will have nobody to work on.
A St. Louis man who advertises saxophone to
trade for shotgun mas probably received anony-
nous warning
Advertising may be al wrong, as some pessmists
assert, but there are many hardheaded business
who will tell you that it pays them,
After wedding the garden one may get that kink
out of his back by whitewashing the ceiling.
neighbor who has no other claim to distinction
boasts lot about his tough beard.
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Bananas In auor

Whether the song about bananas which delighted
many and nearly drove others to distraction few
years ago, had anything to do with it not, do
not know, but the fact is that the banana has be-
come increasingly popular of late.
During one month 08,767 punches Of bananas
received at the port Of New Orleans alone from
Central America.
Yet the banana is not indigenous to this henlis-
phere but is thought to have originated in India
where Alexander the Great subsisted his troops on
the fruit as long ago as 327 B. c. It is said that the
banana was first brought to the New World by a
Spanish priest in 1916. From that beginning great
industry has grown and continues to grow
Composed Of five per cent alOumen, nearly 20
per cent sugar and pecose and IA per cent water the
banana has considerable nutritive value and has
long been the principal food Of millions in tropical
and sub-tropical countries. Now it is eaten almost
everywhere
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"Charity covers multitude Of sins" Only until
the muck rakers get busy.
Sometimes genius takes the form Of being able
to cash in on other peoples IDEAS
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First Semester
At ~" Ending

With the first semester Of the an
nual summer session at the Univer-
sity Of Arizona drawing to- a close
today, indications are that record
second semester enrolment will be
experienced. A great ma jority of the
students now in attendance plan
to continue their work and this
number will be supplemented by ap-
proximately 100 new students.
Second semester registration will
be held July 13 and an entirely new
curriculum will be offered. The sec
ond semester will close August IS,
leaving three weeks internlission be-
fore freshman week of the regular
session in the fall.
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Federal Civil
Appointees To
Be Finergprinted

WASHINGTON, D. c., July TO-
All persons appointed from now or
to positions in the Federal classified
civil service will be fingerprinted.
The prints Will be filed with the
Civil Service Commission at Wash
ington as part of the record of the
appointee.
While it is true that the primary
purpose of the fingerprinting is to
protect the Federal service against
the entrance of criminals, the filing
of his fingerprints with Govern
ment agency may conceivably be of
real value to the individual at some
time when positive identification be-
comes necessary.
Because Of it's association with
the detection of crime, there is some
popular prejudice against finger
printing It is believed, however,
that this prejudice will disappear
when the taking and filing of fling
erprints becomes more general and
is better understood
It should not be assumed that be-
cause an applicant for Federal civil
employment has gone wrong at
some time in his life he is forever
barred from employment by the
Government. Each case of this kind
coming tor the attention of the Civil
Service Commission is considered on
its merits and if the applicant is
shown to have made an earnest eff
fort to atone for his mistake, he is
given every consideration
The Civil Service Commission
simply wants to know the facts. The
employing departments are entitled
to have the facts. Fingerprirlts help
the Civil Service Commission to els-
tablisn the facts.
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to cash in on other peoples ideas.
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Heat Affliction Serious

The heat wave which gripped almost the entire
nation for more than week. leaving in its trail
death and suffering to men, beasts and crops, is
phenomenon of nature little understood.
Already word is received Of possible crop fail
ure, which may again blight the welfare OF farmers
in some states Surely, agricultural people have
suffered enough in the past decade without having
to face natural disaster against which they cannot
prepare Themselves
The relief Of agriculture, meaning the farming
families continues grave problem, yet to be solved
Back Of the distress and worse than anything else,
is thA fate Of millions of American children being
horribly punished in an economic vice that maintains
its hideous grip
Santa Cruz county farmers have been blessed as
there has been considerable rain in this county,
Nogales international., 1931-07-11
Caring For Veterans

While there are many claimants whose demands
are yet to be carried through by the Federal Govern
ment the activity Of the Veterans Bureau during
the past year shows that the Government is accomp-
lishing worthwhile results in relieving World War
veterans
During that period more than s793,OOOO0O was
loaned on adjusted service certificates result of
the special law The regular work Of the Bureau in
cluded determining insurance benefits for more than
10000 beneficiaries, disability and retirement al
lowances to over 100000 veterans the disqualification
Of $4,000 in three hundred and ten hospitals besides
$4,000 treatments outside Of these institutions and
physical examinations for more than 100000 men.
The American people, as Congress has repre-
sented them have acted generously and literally in
caring for the veterans Of the World War.
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to unemployment as an issue around
which to rally, including the tariff
for the old battle-Cry. This will be
the important decision of the party.
The dry and wet discussion has not
reached such an acute stage within
Republican ranks, although there
are reports of an effort being made
to stir up politicians in the eastern
states for wet plank. However,
generally, ardent drys consider the
Republican party certain to be a.
ligned on the dry side. ~
~
Stafford Stafford Armory build
ing nearing completion
Aguila Several claims of Aguila
Mining Co. being developed.
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[EAPER
HANGS SELF

Mrs. Adeline Greenleaf, who on,
September 80 fell from the @
Street bridge and was seriously
injured, was found hanged today
in her apartment at 1925 Six
teenth st. N. w.
The woman had never COM
pletely recovered from the injuries
which she received in the bridge
plunge. At that time she asserted
that she fell from the bridge
when she suffered dizzy spell.
Mrs. Greenleaf left Georgetown
Hospital a week ago today after
receiving treatment for her in
juries. Physicians at that time,
it is understood, warned her that
her condition was precarious, but
she insisted upon leaving.
When Mrs. Greenleaf was taken
to Georgetown Hospital after
falling from the bridge, she de-
scribed herself as Mrs. James
Brown, 40 years old, 1923 Fiji.
teenth ST.. N. w. It was not
until later that police learned
she was the wife of Eric Green
leaf, Of the Sixteenth Street ad-
dress,
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Bookmaker Is Accused of
Doping Race Horses
international Photos

mOnd Jackson, %, were ar.
rested several days ago after
they had approached q groom
in one of the stables racing at
Jamaica and tried to bribe him
to put q sponge in the nOstrils
Of a horse due to rum in q ham
dicap the following day.
They were taken to court and
given six months each on disor-
derly conduct charges. They broke
down and named Meehan, charg-
ing they had been employed by
him at $50 a week each over a pc
riod of two years, their sole work
being to effect "Sponging" or in
lection of digitahs hypodermically
to horses named by Meehan.
Calls 1t frame"
Meehan. charged that it was all
q frame" on the part: Of rival
gamblers to get him in wrong"
When he admitted averaging
better than 100000 a year in
come for several years, and ad-
mitted he had not paid any in
come tax at all on that amount,
Littleton announced that both
Federal and State income tax
authorities would be notified.
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LAPSES
INTO STUPOR .

WEST ORANGE, N. j., Oct. 10
U.N.S0-Thomas A. Edison is
in a stupor and unable to recog-
nize anyone except possibly his
wife, DR.. Hubert S. Howe said
today.
DR.. Howe said that he could
not predict when the stupor might
lapse into the coma which pre-
cedes death. It was the second
day of the stupor and the in
ventor's condition was not, much
changed from yesterday, DR.. Howe
said.
The inventors amazing vital
ity, which has so far sustained
him in his long fight for life,
makes it impossible to predict
how long he can resist the ex-
pected coma. DR.. Howe explained.
During the last "a hours Mr..
Edison ha9 been unable to take
nourishment. His physician re-
garded this as extremely unfortu-
nate, for his weakened body needs
food to counteract the poisons
which. the diseases from which
he is suffering are producing.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 QN.SD .
Jimmy Meehan, race-track book.
maker, one-time partner Of Arnold
RothStein in various Broadway
racketS, was arrested early today
in his rooms in the Hotel Presi-
dent, Manhattan. charged with
having hired two negroes, over a
period of two years. to poison
and sponge" race hores.
Meehan. questioned all night
by Assistant District Attorney
Martin w. Littleton, jr., of Mas
Sau county, admitted his Roth
stein connections, admitted that
his income has been. from $780,
600 a year to several times that
sum for several years, and that
he is barred from New York race
traks by the WestcheSter Racing
Association. but denied any part
in the plot charged by the ne
groeS.
James HartYell. n. and Drum
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MAN, %, CALLED
PATR|C|DE

TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 10 tI.N.S)
Coroner Frank G. Kreft today
was to conduct an inquest into
the death Of Arthur Hill, 81. who,
police said, was shot and killed
by his son, James Hill 25, when
the son found his wife and his
father in a bedroom of the Hill
home at Neopolis, Ohio.
Young Hills wife, Anita, %,
was in a hospital here today re-
covering from a hip wound also
inflicted by her husband, authori-
ties said. The elder Hill was shot
twice in the abdomen and died
last night.
Deputies quoted Mrs. Hill as
admitting that her aged father.
in-law had paid attentions to her.
She was said to have agreed with
her husband on details of the
shooting.