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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
PAGEANT is CLIMAX
Event Tonight Closes Rec.
reation Program.

A pageant, "This Land of Ours
featuring songs, dances, and cos
tunes of all nations, will be pre-
sented at 1880 tonight in Brook
side park.
-Four hundred children from
thirty-five Fairgrounds will take
part in the event-grand finale of
the city recreation program for the
summer.
Solo numbers will be given by
Virginia Brewer, Opal Longest, Eve
Ign Longest, Betty Erwin, Blossom
Jane Degischer, Helen Fischer, and
Phil Parsons.
H. w. Midd1esworth, Mrs. Norma
Roster, and the various playground
superintendent, are in charge of
the pageant.
Loud speakers will carry the pro-
gram throughout the crowd, ex-
pected to be several thousand. The
event will be staged just east of
BrookSide community house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
THEY TELL Me

Otto G. Fifeld, when he was sec
rotary of state, which were loudly
inveighed against.
The latest of the meetings of
license distributors was held
Wednesday and it is interesting to
note that Immediately after the
PROSECUTING efforts the agents gath
cred in Democratic state headquar-
tiers, which some claim is the seat
of the Paul v. McNutt campaign
for Governor, to discuss the per-
suasive efforts used to induce them
to join the Mayr forces.
But as the secretary of state re-
peatedly has declared: 81 am max
ing no move toward obtaining the
Democratic nomination for Cover
nor"
It is cinch that all his efforts
will be in vain if he does not vote
with his fellow Democrat, Floyd E..
Williamson, state auditor, to GUST
Frank Caylor, Indiana's most ex-
pensive statehouse custodian and a
protege of Governor Harry G. Les
lie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
COPS LUCKY TO
AVERT DISASTER
Kingpin Is Gone From
Wheel of Emergency Car.

The lucky star that shines over
policemen and newspaper reporters
cleaned it's best today.
Nearly every day of the year the
police emergency, bearing its load
of officers and reporters, roars from
the alley on the north side of head
quarters, Sometimes it leaves only
once and then there may be dozen
runs during the day.
Thursday was an exceptional day.
Not once did crime reports call the
heavy touring car from the garage.
This morning, however, one run
was made and when the car was
parked in the garage, mechanics
began checking it.
The kingpin in. the right front
wheel had disappeared.
There is no explanation of this
mechanical defect.
But there is plenty of conjecture
among reporters and emergency car
police officers of what might have
happened if that wheel had left the
axle while the car was speeding
sixty or seventy miles an hour.
The discovery of the faulty wheel
may lead to regular inspection of
emergency cars, police officials in
dicated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
SUSPECT FREE.
BOOZE SEARCH
RIGHT DENIED
Judge Rules Warrant for
Nuisance Doesn't Permit
Hunt for Liquor.
BEER FOUND IN CELLAR
Man Taken in Dope SWOOp
Is Turned Over to
u. S. Officers.

Sustaining contention of Ralph
Spanr, attorney, that a nuisance
warrant permitted no search of a
home for liquor, Municipal Judge
William H. Sheaffer today dis
missed blind tiger charges again
Herman Chandjfe, R. R. 7, Box 108,
one-time big booze racketeer here.
After federal agents raided two
narcotics sources here last Friday
a police squad under Lieutenant
Dan Cummings and deputy sheriffs
went to Chandjie'S lavish home west
of the city, presumably in search of
another dope supply.
In the basement we're found eight
bottles Of beer, many empty bottles,
and several charred oak kegs, all
empty but disseminating an unmis-
taxable odor of liquor, officers said.
Freed by Judge
Today, sustaining a motion to
suppress evidence, Judge Sheaffer
liberated Chandjie, alias Herman
Miller, who told police at the time
Of the raid he was through run
ming liquor" and explained that the
charred oak barrels as receptacles he
purchased for his mother to make
Sauerkraut.
Don Carson, arrested on blind
tiger charges during the dope and
liquor raid on the Edwards hotel
a week ago, was dismissed from mu-
nicipal court, to be turned over to
federal officers, who hold a warrant
charging prohibition law violation.
Dismissal for the same reason was
made in the case of Horace Leon
ard, 331 North Blackford street, also
charged with blind tiger.
Held to Grand Jury
Jess Pope, Negro, s45 West Michi-
gan street, was held to Marion
county grand jury under $1,000
bonds on grand larceny charges.
When police searched his home
for liquor several weeks ago, they
report that they recovered a bag
stolen few days before from an
auto owned by Frank Mayr Jr.,
secretary of state.
George BatSo, SAT East Market
street, charged with operating a
lottery and gift enterprise, was dis
missed because of lack of evidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
HIGH COST OF
COUNTY ROADS
STIRS ATTACK
State Will Be Urged to
Stop Commissioners
Plan to Hike Levy.
$4,000 WASTE SEEN
Excessive Amount Will Be
Paid for Gravel,
Opponents Say.

The 1882 Marion county free
gravel road budget, by which coun-
ty commissioners are preparing to
make. huge road expenditures in the
face of high tax rates, will be ap-
pealed to the state tax board.
Intention to appeal the COM
miSSionerS' budget proposal was an
nounced today by Harry MieSse of
the Indiana State Taxpayers ASso-
citation.
The state board is the only organ
ization which can prevent commits
sionerS from raising the road levy
y cent above that outlined by
Charles Mann, county road super
intendent.
so far they have failed to give
me copy of the budget, but I I'M
Aderstand they intend to spend
$500 needlessly on a county black
top road scheme. This association
IS going to stop Them" MiesSe de-
clared.
Charge Fund Waste
The Taxpayers Association is
scanning carefully charges by John
E. Shearer, minority commissioner,
that "the board turned a deaf ear
to Mann'S suggestion that the coun-
ty buy gravel from local pits next
year at 20 cents a yard and stop
paying the exorbitant price of 80
cents to gravel companies"
With 10000 yards to be purchased
in 1882, Mann's proposal, if followed,
would save the county about $4,000
on its gravel bills, it is said.
Inclination of Commissioners
George Snider and Dow Worries to
go on allowing gravel companies fat
contracts was suggested by their
cutting from the budget a $2,1OO
item, asked by Mann to buy a scrap
er to remove dirt from local gravel
pits" Shearer stated.
Marion county is said to have
more local pits than Fountain coun-
ty. In that county the road SUI
perintendent is paying as low as
1914 cents yard, it is reported.
Calls Spending Reckless
Shearer estimated that Snider
and Vorhies, majority board mem
bers needlessly would spend $4,000
for roads, according to their plans.
They ask $188,5O9 to build roads
in 1882, compared with $149,595.
estimated by Mann, and despite a
balance of $4,000 in the 1881 road
fund.
Taking into consideration this
balance and lower material costs,
Mann said he could built more
roads in 1882 than in 1881 for less
money.
Commissioners asked $37, 900 more
for tar and patching material than
last year. The tax board cut this
item from $4,000 to $4,000 in
1890.
They propose to build thirty miles
of tar-gravel roads, regardless of
protests from over burdened tax
payers and other county officials
pledged to an economy program,
Shearer charged. Commissioners ask
a 1-cent levy for roads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
RETURN SUSPECTS HERE
Two Charged With Auto Banditry
Are Brought to City.

TWO men charged by police with
robberies of motorists on suburban
roads in the northeast part of the
city, were returned from Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, and charged with rob-
berry today.
They are: D. w. Roberts, 26, of
6416 Bellefontaine street, and Rich
ard Patton, "a, of SPOT College ave-
nue.. In their possession when cap
tured in Tennessee, according to de-
tectives, was an auto stolen from
c. D. Hoyt Jr., 5157 North New
Jersey street, in holdup north of
White river on College avenue about
l Sunday morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
BY BEN STERN

T OOKING you straight in the
IL eye, Frank Mayr Jr., tells
Questioners that he has not made
one move toward obtaining the
Democratic nomination for COVER
nor in 1892"
His gaze not wavering an iota
Maye says that he has told none
of his subordinate department heads
to make any effort toward getting
the nomination for him.
And then he adds: II am not a
candidate for Governor"
If so, then why do state police
department heads and underlings
attend every picnic and rally held
in the state to lead the cheering
when Mayr's name is mentioned
and thus outvie the applause &C
corded acknowledged contenders?
Is the question asked
Evidently the secretary's depart
ment heads are not aware of the
denial, for within the last month
automobile license distributors have
been brought to indianapolis to at
tend conference called for the
avowed purpose, according to James
Carpenter, license department head,
of inStructing them how to sell Ii
cense plates.
+
Following the morning sessions
the distributors are assembled at a
luncheon.
Some of the agents complained
that they did not have an oppor-
tunity to enjoy their food, because
it seemed that at each table was
seated one man who invariably
brought the discussion around to
gubernatorial possibilities and de-
voted much time to praise of Mayr.
These tactics are reminiscent of
the state police gatherings held by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

THE gang business hasn't been
so good this week in the par
ish. There have been no killings,
no bombing, no boys and girls
waylaid on lonely streets at nights.
The children play happily on
the sidewalks in early evening.
Mothers, wiping their hands on
their aprons, stand on their front
stoops and gossip.
And Father Canning, six-foot
tau and red-headed, squares his
shoulders and prepares for an
other night Of cleaning up that
parish-single- handed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-The boy
~ he was only 19-lay in the
gutter, dying of knife wounds.
The priest was on his knees at
his side, administering the last
sacrament.
The boy smiled wanly.
They got me this time, father, "
he mdrmured.
His eyelids fluttered shut. Gang
land had claimed another life.
The priest stood up, 6 feet Of
Irish muscle and sinew. His red
hair seemed redder than usual.
Grim lines were etched about the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

mouth of the Rev. Matthew Can
ming.
I've been in this parish two
months" he said. Il have given
the last sacrament to twelve muir
dered men. There we're five kill
ingS last week. How can 1 sleep
at night. hearing the crack of
pistols and knowing my boys and
girls are there on the street? If
the police won't help. I'll clean up
this parish single-handed, God
helping me, or I won't live to re-
greet failing my trust!"
THAT was just one week ago.
L Every night, since then,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

Father Canning, pastor Of the st.
Charles Borromeo church, has in
vaded speakeasies and underworld
dives around Cypress street and
Roosevelt road to confront hard
faced toughs.
do you want to get tough, or
are you going to get out peace
ably?" has been his query.
Father Canning once taught
boxing. Father Canning is six
feet tall. Father Canning has red
hair.
Wen go, Father the hood
lunS have answered.
Well, get out and stay out"
has been the priests only retort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
NEWS ASSOCIATIONS
BAN LOTTERY INFO
Sweepstakes Data to be Cut from
Firms Wires.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Arch
Coleman, acting poStmaster-general.
today announced that the United
Press, Associated Press and Inter
national News Service had agreed
with the poStoffice department to
refrain from carrying on their wires
news Of sweepstakes lotteries.
These news associations hereafter
will not distribute to their members
and clients matter relating to
sweepstakes lotteries, either in
stories or photographs, just as they
Away have refrained from handling
matter relating to the numerous
ether kinds of foreign lotteries pa
tronized by players in this country.
by this action, these organiza-
tons make easier the task of this
department, which must exclude
from the mails, as the law directs,
newspapers which carry matter re-
lating to these lotteries"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
CRIME COST IN
CITY IS BELOW
U. S. AVERAGE
City Taxpayer Spent $4.05,
Compared to Nations
$5.47.
SOUTH BEND is LOWEST
WiCkerSham Report Shows
Prohibition liked Levy
So Per Cent.

AS a resident Of indianapolis,
each taxpayer last year saved $1.42
in his expenditure to combat crime,
figures revealed today as the wick
ersham commission released its re-
port on the comparative cost Of the
fight against crime.
Computing the cost of crime in
each of 300 Of the nations principal
cities, the commission discovered
that the average per capita cost
was $547.
indianapolis spent S1,473213 last
year, or $4.05 per capita.
Other Indiana cities investigated
by the commission pared their ex-
penses for the item of crime even
lower than the capital city, the re-
port disclOses. The per capita fig
ures are based on the 1880 census
compilations
South Bend Is Lowest
South Bend spent only $2.35 per
capita to fight its civic social dis
order, and with that figure ranked
lowest in expenditure in Indiana.
Muncie and FIT. Wayne each took
1922 from each taxpayer for that
purpose, Gary $500, and Hammond
$3.50. Evansville, the metropolis of
southern Indiana, spent a total of
$392,967, or 1894 per capita.
Had prohibition not been an origi-
nator of crime the tax of the 300
cities in the fight to clean it's slate
would have been reduced $34, $50,
or Sc per cent of the total, the fig
ures show.
The tables for costs and prohibi-
tons per cent of those costs were:
Per
Agency. Cost. Prohibition. Cent.
maTshals ss5, 923,915 $25,644,os9 TAI
Prosecution
agencies asssssgs7s sssss 20 20 ss.9
Penal
= institutions 8,48O,5ao a,842,416 45.a
pardon ..... 53,764 1889 69.3
Totals 80. $50, 786, POP $s4. 828. $50 &c
Chicago, headlined bad town of
the world, was fourteenth in the
cities included in the report, on
per capita cost of crime, while the
New Jersey suburban district near
New York led the rest of the nation.
$11.SO in Jersey City
In Jersey City $11.3O was drained
from each taxpayers pockets to
fight off gangsters, thugs and other
criminal hoodlumS.
Boston, staid old mistress of New
England, paid 1864 a seat to stave
off the crime parade.
Washington, D. c., strove for
third honors with, a tax of 1921
on each taxpayer, while Philadel-
phia and Hoboken, N. j., were
fourth and fifth.
In Dearborn, Mich, it cost each
visitor to the tax collectors window
$7.29.
Chicago's YAK was $685.. over
which st. Louis appeared with $685.
for each taxpayer.
Baton Rouge, state capital of
Louisiana, spent only $165 per cap
ita, but Galesburg, Ill, not far from
Chicago, and through which much
of the southern liquor traffic flows,
took the nations record with ex-
penditure of only go cents a person
battling crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
GOVERNORS SON is
QUIZZED ON DEATH

Murray told agents there had
been a party in his cabin, after
which he and some of his guests
had gone to Apud's stateroom. He
said he had left his pistol, which
later was found beside the body CT
Apud, in the dead mans room.
He denied any knowledge of how
the assistant purser might have been
shot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
Three Civil Posts Omen

Civil service examinations for
posts at the new veterans hospital
here and for other vacancies as
they occur were announced today
by postal authorities. Posts open
are: Electrician, fireman and
plumber for duties at the hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
WEALTHY YOUTH KILLED
Grandson of Banks Founder Loses
Life in Auto Crash.

By United Press
TOOLE, Utah, Aug. 21.-Norman
Waite Harris II, %, a grandson of
the founder of the Harris Trust and
Savings bank of Chicago, was killed
Thursday when his automobile,
travelling at high speed, overturned
in ditch near here.
Harris was en- route to San Fran
cisco to take position in the Wells
Fargo bank. After learning the
business, the young man planned
to return to Chicago to work in
the bank controlled by his family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
FAIR is ADVERTISED
WITH $4,000 POSTERS
500 Road Signs and 10000 Caps Also
Are Being Used.


Eighteen thousand posters, 500
metal road signs and 10000 red and
white caps for boys and girls now
are advertising the seventy-ninth
annual Indiana state fair, Sept.
5-12, according to a checkup made
today by Secretary E. j. Barker.
The road signs match those
placed on state roads by the state
highway department and point the
way to the Playground at Indian
apolis.
Caps were distributed throughout
the state to All club members and
other children and the 10000 failed
to meet the demand, Barker said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 2l.-William
H. Murray, son of Alfalfa Bill
Murray, Governor Of Oklahoma, was
questioned today by department of
justice agents in Brooklyn, in con-
nection with the death of Joseph
Apud, assistant purser on the liner
Southern Cross, found dead in his
Stateroom last Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
Ted Cook Is Operated Upon

By United Press
SAN CLEMENTE, Cal, Aug. 81
Proctor F. (Ted) Cook, nationally
known humorist and syndicate COL
umnist. was recovering today after
an emergency operation for acute
appendicitis. Cook has been spend
ing the summer at Laguna beach
with his family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
Rolling Oasis

by DNtkcn FFt68
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-Her-
man Castro is under suspended
sentence today on charge Of
peddling without a license. It's
a police move to enforce the
prohibition law. Castro was
accused of peddling his wares
from a migratory or rolling
speakeasy, a push cart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
GLORIA WON'T MARRY

She Changes Her Mind Now; Tells
Hollywood Something Else.
By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 21.--Gloria
Swanson, the former Marquise De
La FalaiSe Eft De La Courdais, de-
clared today that she does not in
tend to be married again.
Despite the fact that F. Michael
Farmer, Irish millionaire, was a fell
low-traveler on shipboard and train,
Miss Swanson considers him only a
friend, she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
SETS RECLUSF' ESTATE
OhiOan Leaves 100000 to His
Cousin, KendallviIle Man.

Cousin, Kendallville Man.
By United Press
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 81. -
Charles Shredder, Groveport, o.,
recluse, who before his death hid
large sums of money about his
home, left an estate valued at more
than $4,000 to a cousin, Frank
Strater of Kendallville, Ind, ac-
cording to the terms of his will.
Part of the estate was in real
estate. Mrs. Meta NJ. BALI Of Co
lumbus will act as co-executor of
the will at the request of Strater,
whose appointment was postponed
until Aug. 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
AIR ENTHUSIAST SUICIDE
Leon A. Paperno Found Hanged to
Fixture in Office.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 21-The body
of Leon A. Paperno, aviation en-
thusiast, who in 1929 with Captain
Edward w. Brooks attempted an al
titude record, was found hanged to
a bathroom fixture in his Office
Thursday night. Paperno was part
ner in public accounting firm. He
had been dead two days. He ap-
parently was 6 suicide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

90 The Murder in the Arch by
H. w. Higginson CThomas Y.
Cromwell, so. Smooth and sur
prising.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
Sisters Soap Safety

When Margaret
Wallace, II
(left) of 268
Hampton road,
and her sister,
Jane, 10, go
swimming they'll
always nave q
life-Saver with
them.
For Margaret
and Jane are
completing
courses in junior
life-saving at
Butler university
pool. The sisters
seldom swim
alone, with the
result that one
sister always is
a safeguard for
the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
SUB AT ICE BARRIER
Nautilus to Try Moving on Toward
North Pole Tonight.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug.
21.-The submarine Nautilus arrived
at the ice barrier on it's perilous
voyage into polar waters, the news
paper Berlinske Tidende said today.
The dispatch said that Sir HUI
bert wilkins, in command, had de-
cided to try moving onward toward
the north pole tonight, on the most
dangerous phase of the daring
cruise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

90 The Face in the Abyss" by
A. Merritt CHorace Liveright, so
Full of horror, fantastic, swift and
diyerting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

"DiggerS and Builders (MacNIil-
Ian. so was written by Henri Lent
for his 6-year-old son and Mr.. Lent
answers the questions children ask
and 1t is really vivid and instructive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

TOR the mystery story lovers may
Il we mention:
Cd THE Columnist Murder"
by Lawrence Saunders Farar &
Rinehart, so. If you know Broad
way it's yours 1t is the Main
Stem, in person.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

New light on the Wilson admins
tration and on Americas part in
the great war is promised in the
autobiography of william Gibbs
McAdoo which Houghton Miflin
Company announce for publication
this fall under the title of "A Ten
derfoot in Politics"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

For boys and girls of II on there
is by Rocket to the Moon" by Otto
Will Gail (Sears Co. $3.50. It is
thoroughly interesting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21

John c. Moore, the young English
author of Raven Rough" has just
started on a walking trip through
Wales, gathering material for new
book which will cover the country
from north to south.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

NNE of the fall books on the
~ Lippincott list. THE Eagles
Shadow" is by Arthur D. Howden
Smith, who wrote Porto Bello
Gold" Smiths latest adventure
story is of the stormy plots which
centered around Napoleon after. his
exile to st. Helena.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-01-18
SIMPLICITY AND ARTISTRY
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