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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-26
CHAPTER THIRTY-FouR


THERE were three men around
Il the desk. F. M. Travers was
hunohed forward, arms folded and
resting on them. His face was
ruddy, his chin set and determined.
They were in Travers' office. The
man at his right would have been
recognized in any legal gathering
in the city-Kelsey Mccormick,
chief counsel for several important
corporations, including the Travers
real estate organization. Facing
both of the others was Stanley
Cromwell.
Several sheets of paper were
spread before them. Travers
glanced at the sheets, then shrugged
distastefully. The picture of Nor
ma Travers came to view and he
reached forward and turned it face
down.
"It's-it's more than I expected"
he said thickly.
Neither of the others spoke.
Travers turned to Cromwell.
There's no doubt about the au-
thenticity of this thing?" he de-
manded
"Oh, absolutely none! That's a
copy from the files at headquarters
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
$4,000 LOSS
IN PLANT FIRE
Serum Company Damaged
at Lebanon.

By United Press
LEBANON, Ind, April 22.-Loss
estimated at approximately $780,
900 was sustained in a fire near
here early today which destroyed
the main building Of the Pure
Serum Company.
The cooler room, Office, laboratory
and serum valued at several thou
sand dollars, were destroyed.
A barrel of tar became overhead
ed and exploded. Pipes carrying
ammonia burst, filling the rooms
with fumes which prevented fire.
men from entering the building.
The plant is the only one in In
diana with federal government in
spection, and was owned cooper
atiyely by 5000 farmers.
Two large feed barns, the power
plant and garages were saved.
The plant is located about eight
miles from Lebanon.
Directors are located in several
portions of Indiana, and could not
all be reached Immediately to de-
termine whether the plant would
be rebuilt. 1t was expected that
they would be assembled in meet
ing this afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
FEDERALS MASS
AGAINST REBELS
Honduras Troops Guarding
American Citizens.
Copyright. 1881. BY united Press

tNopYElRnVs 1901, Dy OnltSo FISSSl
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras. April
22.-Thousands Of government
troops were concentrating today in
the Cortes region of northern Hon
duras to repulse revolutionary at
tack.
The government ordered full pro-
lection for the large colony Of
United States citizens at La Lima,
in the Cortes zone.
San Pedro Sula appeared to be
the chief immediate objective of
the rebel forces, whose activities
shifted from the coastal region with
the arrival of three United States
Warships.
There has been fighting of a
minor character-principally near
Tela and Corozito-in the last
eighteen hours. The government Of
President Vicente Mejai Colindres
announced that loyalist troops had
been victorious in each clash, rout-
| ing the rebels with some casualties
With the cooperation Of the
American legation, the government
declared a neutral zone" existing
around San Pedro Sula, where all
messages indicated heavy fighting
was expected within a few hours.
The American legation will ask
the revolutionary leaders to respect
the neutral zone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
SERVICE STAR
GROUP FORMING
Civic Groups Are Selecting
Award Committee.

Civic organizations of the city
selecting their member of the
committee to name that individual
or group of individuals, not exceed
ing five, deemed worthy of receiv-
ing the "Star of Service medal for
outstanding services to the city of
IndianaS&liS during 1880.
First meeting of representatives
Of fourteen civic organizations to
make the selections was hell at the
Athenaeun1 Tuesday night.
Each civic organization is to have
a representative on this award COM
n1ittee and the mayors Office also
will be represented.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
GET TAX CUT, THEN
ASK HIKE IN RATES

the high court refusing to review
the matter.
In the interim, citizens COM
planned that the water was not fit to
drink and the company, upon COM
mission advice, installed devices to
Eliminate this condition.
High rates and bad water still
remain the basis of the city'S COM
plant. Recently the company al
most obtained a compromise valua-
ton settlement with the city coun-
Gil. But the matter remains in the
hands of Commissioner Ellis.
The commissioner pointed out to-
day that valuation for taxation and
rate making should differ only in
the matter of intangibles valued by
the commission. These include Ego
ing value, cash capital and sup
plies" Under supplies, $11,671 was
added by commission engineers to
the $707,891 audit.
Last year the company's tax val
uation was $516, 400, so this year the
board increased it $23,60O. But the
company insists that rates be based
on 81, 100000, and that the minimum
monthly payment be raised from the
present SLIGO to 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
VincenneS Water Company
Case Now Is Before
Commissioner.

How to get rich in the utility
business by simple arithmetic was
demonstrated dramatically at the
Statehouse today.
Upon evidence of Indianapolis
owners of the Vincennes Water
Company, the "true cash value" o.
the plant and properties of the
company at Vincennes was set for
taxation at $4,000 by the state
tax board.
Almost simultaneously, the com
pany filed petition with the public
service commission asking for rate
increases based on a valuation of
$1,500,000.
This petition, filed by Attorney
Clyde Jones, former member of the
public service commission, was en-
tered as a cross petition in the
matter of the petition of the city
Of Vincennes for rate reductions.
Commissioner Howell Ellis, who
has the case in hand. announced
today that he will hold separate
hearings on the two petitions at the
Vincennes city hall, May IL.
We will consider the rate increase
petition and the rate decrease
petition as separate actions, he
stated.
Engineers for the commission have
completed an audit of the company
properties and set the value, as
"replacement-new deprecated at
$707, S91. This forms the basis of
rate making and should represent
the "true cash value" Of the prop
critics.
This would mean, Of course,
considerable increase in taxes paid
by the company to support the CITY,.
county and state.
Officers Of the VincenneS Water
Company ere Charles A. Edwards,
president; George H. Alexander,
and Benjamin Perk,
secretary treasurer. All are from
indianapolis. Former state sena-
tor, William H. Hill. Vincennes, is
attorney for the company.
After purchasing the property at
a cost less than half of what they
sought for a rate base, they we're
to charge rates on $725,000
and this valuation of the public
service commission was upheld by
Judge Robert G. Baltzell of federal
district court here.
Appealed to the circuit court Of
in Chicago, the valuation
was boosted by judges there to ST.
1000. Efforts Of the city of VIM
to take the case to the
United States supreme court failed,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
HAWKS CRACKS
EUROPEAN MARK
Flies From London to Rome
in Five Hours.
By United Press

ny CtttLtU 1ftoS
ROME, April 22.-Captain Frank
Hawks, American flier, arrived al
11:48 a. m, after a record break
ing nonstop flight from London tt
Rome, and took off again on his
return flight at 1:41 p. m. He re-
quired only five hours and twenty
two minutes for the fight from
Heston airdrome, london, to Rome
about 900 miles
The former record for the Lon
don-Rome flight was twelve ano
one-half hours, held by Commander
Charles E. Kingsford-Smith. Hawks
reduced it by seven hours ano
eight minutes-more than half.
Colonel Giulio Martucci, repre-
senting the air ministry, and
Major Nullo Rengareschi, command
er of the airport, congratulated him
Hawks said he had averaged TIA
miles an hour on the flight here,
despite the fact he encountered I'M
favorable weather.
II had to fight wind and rain all
along the route" he said.
He seemed highly pleased with
the success of his flight. A cordial
reception was accorded Hawks by
Italian flying officers, at whose mess
he lunched. He distributed many
autographs at the request of his
hosts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
DEATH CLAIMS
ALBERT ]. BALL,
C. A. R. LEADER
Past Departmental Com
mander SuccumbS in La
fayette Soldiers Home.

Albert ]. Ball. 68, past depart
mental commander of the Indiana
G. A. r., died today in the soldiers
home at Lafayette, Ind. it was
learned by state G. A. r. head
quarters at the statehouse.
The c. A. r. and the Masonic
order will off1ciate at the veterans
funeral Friday afternoon at $3.50 in
the Flanner and Buchanan mortu-
airy. Burial will be in Crown Hill
cemetery.
Mr.. Ball was we'll known through
out the state in C. A. r. work and
at state encampments. He lived in
indianapolis until two and one-half
years ago when he moved to the
soldiers home.
Was In Kentucky Volunteers
Mr.. Ball enlisted in Company E,
Second Regiment, Kentucky volun-
teers, at the start of the Civil war
He was active early in the war in
Kidding the Ohio river valley of
guerrillas and Confederate stragglers
who were preying on the country
side.
He was in campaigns in West
Virginia, took part in the battle OF
Shiloh and siege of Corinth. He
was with Sherman on his famed
march to tae sea-"
He lived in Noblesville, Ind, after
his marriage in 1884 to Miss Anna
E. Blocker. After holding various
county Offices in Hamilton county
he entered the railway mail service.
Elected Chief in 1928
He resigned from the mail service
in 1911. Real estate and insurance
business occupied the later years of
his life. He was a member of the
George H. Thomas post of the c.. A.
r. and named commander of that
post in 1912.
In 1918 he was appointed assistant
acknowledgement of the department
of Indiana and in 1923 was elected
department commander Of the state.
The closest relative surviving is
Mrs. Minnie Gaitree, a cousin, of
Marietta, 0.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Four Get Terms of One
Year to Life in IIli-
noiS Court.
BIZ UnitedPress

By Cntted Press
NEWTON. H., April %. - Four
Terre Haute men, charged with
burglary and larceny in the rob-
berry of the home of A. S. Calvin,
wealthy real estate dealer here sew
eral months ago, pleaded guilty in
Jasper circuit court and were each
sentenced to from one year to life
in prison. Lee Horn, also OF Terre
Haute and held on the same charge,
elected to stand trial.
Those sentenced were George
Burkebyle, Forest Marts, Herschel
Luthe and Harold Shelburn.
Six men entered Calvin's home
here in January, beat him into I'M
consciousness, tied his wife to a
chair. and escaped with $4,000 in
jewels. Within an hour officers at
Robinson had stopped the automo-
bile in which they were fleeing.
While the men were being trans
ferred to a police car, another auto
mobile crashed into the group and
two men escaped.
Long, one Of the fugitiyes, was
arrested later, and the other was
never apprehended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
WIDENING APPROVED
Sixteenth Street Project
Gets City Action.

Resolutions for widening anc
paving Sixteenth street from the
alley east Of Illinois street tc
Northwestern avenue, at an esti-
mated cost of $4,000, was approved
by the works board today.
The board on Monday confirmed
similar resolution for Sixteenth
street from Delaware street at Illi-
nois street, at an estimated cost of
$37, 100. The street is to be widened
and paved, providing a f1fty-four
foot roadway.
The half block west from Illinois
will be delayed because Of refusal
of owners of the Chislett property
northwest corner of Illinois and Six
teenth streets, to sell to the city suf-
ficient land for the widening, re-
curing court action to condemn
the property.
The board ordered plans and
specifications for Strengthening
Fifty-second street at the Monon
railroad, sought by the keystone
Civic Association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
SET RECORD IN
ANNUAL DRIVE
TO CLEAN CITY
Volume of Dirt Collected
Doubles Total of
Last Year.

indianapolis today was undergo
ing the most extensive facial" in
its history as the result of the
wholehearted cooperation of the
public in the annual two weeks
cleanup, paintup campaign.
The volume of trash being COL
lected, more than double that COL
lected in the same period last year
has made it necessary for the city
sanitary department to split its
forces into several groups.
The regular force has been aug
nlented by more than 200 joblesS
men provided by the Indianapolis
made work" commission. "A num-
Der of extra trucks and trailerS and
teams and wagons have been added
to the regular equipment.
Group Collects Ashes
Truly Nolen, sanitary board col
lections superintendent, reported
one group of workers is collecting
ashes and trash piled in alleys fol-
lowing the regular ash collection
schedule.
Two other groups, composed most
Iy of made work. employees, have
been started cleaning debris from
vacant lots, yards of empty houses
and alleys.
One group was started in Broad
Ripple, working south to Washing
ton street between the Monon and
city limits on the west
Another was started in West In
dianapolis south of Washington
street ard is working east.
Two Weeks to Finish
It will take two weeks for the
two gangs to complete their work
Nolen said. He asked citizens tt
refrain from notifying his Office 0.
unclaimed lots until after the clean
up gangs have passed their sections
citizens we're asked to collec
trash and place it in alleys, leaving
the roadway clear. Where there
are no alleys, the street curb ma.
be used.
All trash should be placed in con
tainers in order to facilitate worl
of the collectors, but where this il
not possible, it should be neatly
piled at the sides of the alley.
Making Garden Sites
Cleaning of vacant lots not onl.
is aiding in beautifying the city, blu
is providing many potential sites TO
gardens for the citys unemployed.
The cleanup campaign is being
sponsored by the Chamber Of Com.
merce fire prevention committee
Frank E. Gates is general chairman
Virgil T. Furgason, fire proven.
ton division chief, reported citizens
were cooperating whole-heartedly
with 1remen making inspection OF
homes.
Many calls have been received
from citizens asking that jobless
men be assigned to them to clean
yards and to make improvements
and repairs about homes. These
men may obtained from the In
dianapolis employment bureau, city
state employment bureau and the
veterans employment bureau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
EASTERN STARS
OPEN TWO-DAY
MEETING HERE
Leslie Makes Address of
Welcome at Annual
Lodge Session.

Annual two-day convention Of the
Order Of Eastern Star. grand chap
ter of Indiana, formally was opened
this morning at Murat temple with
an address of welcome by Governor
Harry G. Leslie.
Invocation was offered by Dr..
Lewis Brown. rector of st. Pauls
Episcopal church, after which Mrs
Frances E. Curtis. worthy grand
niatron, gave Tribute to the Ira
Yelling Bible"
Fifteen hundred delegates are at
tending the convention. Special
honor guest today was Mrs. Emma
Chadwick, Seattle, Wash, most
worthy grand matron.
Election of officers and appoint
ments of committees were ma Tor
items Of the business meeting this
afternoon.
Annual dinner of Order of East
ern Star State Secretaries Associa-
ton will be held in the ClaypooI
at 6 tonight
Memorial services will be con-
Quoted tonight by grand officers as
sisted by w. P. Motsinger and Mrs.
Ruth Tooley of Indianapolis, Mrs.
Stella Howard of Nfonon and Law
renee Strickland of Hedrick. A,
concert by the Girls orchestra of
the Masonic home in Franklin will
follow services.
Sessions Thursday will consist OF
reports Of committees, special an
nouncements and installation of
newly elected officers.
Fourth annual ball, given bv
worthy matrons and worthy patrons
of the eleventh district, Order Of
Eastern Star, will begin at $50
Thursday night in the Columbia
Club ballroom.
Officers of the past appointive
grand order, reelected at the sec
ond annual dinner Tuesday night at
the SEVERN, are Mrs. Lola r. Kee~
nan OF indianapolis, president;
Mrs. Amy Fitzsimn1ons of TT. Wayne,
vice-president, and Ms. Carrie Lee
Jones Of west Newton, secretary and
treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Don t Be Rude
Victim of HoIdup LamS
UntactfuI Bandit
With Brick.
u ENNETH KIDwELL. "a. Of

G1NNG4h h1OW ELL, "a, OF
IN 20 North East street, isn't
one to argue with a gunman when
a pistol muzzle is intruding
against his waistline, but the
bandit who added insult to in
jury early today aroused Kid
wells temperature.
Emerging from a theater on
East Washington street, Kidwell
told police he was accoSted by a
man who asked:
Where are you working?"
I'm out Of job" Kidwell re-
piled.
Come with me and I'll find
one for you" the stranger Of
fered.
In an alley near Ohio and Da-
wilson streets the Samaritan
poked a gun into Kidwell's ribs,
and took So.
''Now. keep walking" he COM
manoed. Kidwell strolled away.
Before he walked fifty feet the
bandit fired a shot, probably to
urge Kidwell's steps. Kidwell
dropped to the pavement, and
when he came up there was
brick in his hand.
The bandit stopped the brick
with his ear. He staggered for
a moment, almost fell, and then
outstripped Kidwell in a race
through the alley. The bandit es-
capped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
CURB GUN SALE is
JUDGE BAKERS PLEA

! Sentencing of Four Negroes Draws
Recommendation for New Laws.
Plea for enactment of law for
bidding the sale of revolvers was
made from the criminal court bench
today by Judge Frank P. Baker as
he sentenced four Negroes to ten
years imprisonment for burglary,
grand larceny and auto banditry.
I'VE have had too many cases of
robbery at the point of a gun and
law should be passed making it
illegal to- sell such weapons" de-
clared Baker.
The four Negroes, Robert Boyce,
Rogert Fuqua, Robert Phelps and
Elmo johnson were charged with
robbing tea room at 1910 College
avenue, owned by Miss Daisy Cas-
we'll on Feb. % and obtaining $349.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Haze a Garden

More than sixty vacant lots,
besides those already given
out, were listed with The Times
Garden Editor today, awaiting
word from needy persons that
they will till them for gardens
to support themselves this sum-
mer.
How will your family eat this
summer? viii they be de-
pendent on public and private
charities, already burdened by
thousands Of other persons
out of work?
Why not give them fresh
vegetables from a garden of
your own? Generous citizens
have offered TO donate unused
ground for that purpose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
PROBE CUBAN KILLINGS

Investigation Ordered Into Meth
DDS of Major Arsenic Ortiz.
By United Press
HAVANA, April ga govern
ment investigation into the methods
of Major Arsenic Ortiz as military
supervisor at Santiago de Cuba was
ordered today coincident with de-
mands in congress that an inquiry
be made into forty-three unex-
planned killings which occurred in
the region during the regime of
Major Ortiz.
Major Ortiz, who recently came
into conflict with provincial officials
at Santiago, has challenged three
newspaper men to duels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
A Fine Day.!
En- United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, April 22.-Ap-
proximately $4,000 was in the
city Golfers today through the
efforts of two Woodworking
magistrates.
Magistrates Dreyer and
Walsh worked without letup
for four and one-half hours in
traffic court.
When they called it a day
1923 cases had been heard, 532
parkers had paid SIS fines,
many others were fined for
speeding, obstructing traffic
and passing signal lights, and
seventeen persons were in Jail
for from two to three days in
default of fines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
CONFESS
IN $4,000 ROBBERY
Gr0Wing Bright
Rurnitcd Preaa

By United Press
NEW YORK, April e.
Students at Columbia uni
verSity not only are brighter
than their brothers of a decade
ago, but they also are taller
and heavier.
A report shows that the
class Of 1882 averages more
than two inches taller and
several pounds heavier than
the class Of 1922, and that
whereas one-quarter failed at
the end of the first year ten
years ago, only one-twelfth fail
now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
TRAPPED BY PIPES
Plumber Removes Fixtures
to Free Man.

Will j. Throop, 76, of 2434 North
New Jersey street, has not been
well for some time and his wife had
ordered him to inform her each
time he left his bedroom.
But today he disobeyed her and
slipped and fell, in the bathroom.
His yells for help brought Mrs.
Throop who found her husband
entangled among pipes that run
between the bathtub and the wall.
She was unable to free him. A
neighbor called plumber. The
plumber and the neighbor called
police.
Crowbars would not move the
tub, the the plumber removed some
of the bathroom fixtures and Throop
was freed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
DRIVER BOUND TO Jury
City Motorist Charged With Man.
slaughter in Crash Death.

Charged with mansIaughter in
the death of Arthur Cheetom, 1902
East Tenth street, who was killed in
an automobile accident April at
Ohio and Pennsylvania street, Jo-
seph Sturgis, 1910 East Sixteenth
street, driver of the car that
crashed into taxicab in which
Cheeton was a messenger. Tuesday
was bound to tbs Marion county
grand jury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Bandit Gets s11s

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, April 22-Police
are seeking a young bandit who
robbed the East Side Pharmacy
here, forcing the proprietor, Tom w
Hiatt, to hand over $119. The ban
dit, who was unmarked, forced Hiatt
to lie down on the floor while he
made his escape.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
GIRL is AIR STOWAWAY
Discovered in Transport Plane at
Chicago Airport.
By United Press

By Jnitcd FFeSS
CHICAGO, April 22.-Betty Roth,
IS, of Kansas City, became the first
girl stowaway ever brought into
Chicago in an airplane to look for a
Job which she said she "just had to
have"
Miss Roth, wearing a black beret,
a white blouse and a cheap blue
suit, hid in the Mushroom Of a tri-
motored National Air Transport
plane before it left Kansas City
for Chicago.
She was not discovered until the
trip was half completed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
B00TLEGGER SUSPECT
IS HELD BY POLICE
Estranged Wife Gives Information
and Frank Trotter Is Arrested.

Frank M Trotter, IS, of AIS East
Forty eighth street, alleged boot
Logger, who, police say, never
broke a case" was held today for
criminal court trial on a charge of
transporting liquor.
After investigation following in
formation by his estranged wife, po-
lice obtained an indictment against
Trotter and, armed with a capias
Tuesday afternoon, nabbed HIM IN a
downtown bank building.
According 10 evidence, Trotter
had his sedan made so the trick
back would carry twenty-five cases
Of liquor. Authorities were told
that Trotter often made trips to
Florida. loading the car with case
It liquor he bought for SIS and
no and sold for about 500 a case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
william A. Reasoner. New Palestine.
Buick sedan, from New Palestine
Chandler sedan. 34-444. from Ala Massa-
cnusetts avenue.
drive, Chevrolet coach. 74o-012, from Villa
avenue and Prospect street.