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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
GRAND JURORS ARE
NAMED BY BAKER

made speed in obtaining the high
jury possible. Grand Jurors are:
John P. Caldwell, 1853 Knox street
maintenance man: Harold H Wells e1o
Fairfield avenue, insurance man; Harry
E. Weier. AIS East Forty-third street
piano-tuner; Ralph Burge, R. r. Q Roy
4s4, farmer: Virgil r. De Long. Clermon+
carpenter, and Lycurgas Carroll. R. r -
Box 20 G, employe of Indianapolis Power
and Light Company
A panel of seventy-f1ve men were
called for service on the petit Grim
lnal court jury and ten veniremen
were accepted before the panel was
exhausted. Failure to report for
service cut the panel down to an
proximately sixty veniremen inter
viewed by Judge Baker. The petit
jurors selected for dut ware:
Henry c. Blume. 34l9 East six+aar..
street; Walter Cohen. Maywood; Jasner
Booher. R. r. 10. Box 234; wilIisr,
Dobson, 1915 North New JERSEY street.
Charles W. Buennagel, R. R. 10. Boy 400.
Rufus J. Dearborn. 400 Otterbein avenue:
George G. Cornelius. 22I4 North NJ
Jersey street; Clifford Christian. $40 park
avenue; Ernest H. Cook. R. RI 10 Boy 1oe
D. and Charles R. Bullman. R. R. 10 Roy
s4s. N'0A
The two remaining jurors will be
selected from absentees on the orig
inal panel and from an additional
panel to be called.
Excuses from service ranged from,
sickness" to my wife's going to
have a baby"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Records of Frank P. Baker
Studied by New York
yudqe. Officer.

The probation systec Of the
Marion county criminal court was
being studied today of one Of the
Oldest bars of justice in the nation
the courtof general sessions of
New York City.
Investigation of the system was
being made by Judge Cornelius Col
Inns of the New York sessions court
and Frederick Levy, the courts pro-
baton officer, to the courtroom of
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. :.
Judge Collins and Levy are tour
ing principle cities Of the nation
probing probation departments and
their activities on behalf of the Ma
tlonal Probation Society and COM
mite of the general sessions court
OF New York City.
Judge Collins is chairman Of the
sessions court committee. The COM
mittee is composed of three OF the
nine judges of the sessions court.
In New York City the court Of
general sessions is similar 70 Mar
ion county's superior courts. It's
origin dates back to colonial days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Complaint of Resident in
RavenSWood Brings
Sheriff'S Order.

Insomnia now plaques White
river region as far as Ravenswood,
but residents of the riverside COM
munity north of Broad Ripple are
not complaining that the heat at
night is the cause.
Chickens, house dogs, humans, all
are awake when more fortunate
Hoosiers are batting their forty or
more winkS nightly.
No, it's not the heat, wrote Ed
Hunter, Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce secretary, to Sheriff
Charles (Buck) Sumner today. It's
racing motorboats.
The clatter of the fast little craft
skipping White rivers wavelets be-
tween Broad Ripple and Ravens
wood is constant during daylight,
Hunter explained, adding a personal
description gained from his own
residence on the river bank.
After sunset, though, the roar is
heard as the motors burn gasoline
far into the night.
Most disturbing" Hunter told the
sheriff.
The sheriff suggested coast guard
stations or seaplaneS to halt the
annoyance, and then ordered his
deputies to stop the moonlight rae
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
BUTLER BOARD
MEETS TO NAME
COLLEGE HEAD
Or. w. S. Athearn Urged as
President Choice to
Succeed Alley.

Directors Of Butler university met
this afternoon to act on the rec
commended appointment of DR.. w.
S. Athearn of Washington as presi-
dent Of the university.
A committee named to select a
successor to DR.. r. J. Alley, who be-
came president emeritus on July 1,
submitted to the directors its re-
port urging that DR.. Athearn be
given the post.
Mindful of the great expecta-
lions in an educational way for the
capital city of Indiana" says the
report, land believing we have
found the man with the necessary
energy, ambition and capacity to fill
the needs Of the hour, we unani-
mously recommend the election Of
Mr.. Athearn to the presidency"
The report is signed by william
G. Irwin, chairman; Arthur v.
Brown, Clarence l.. Goodwin, Ems
ley w. johnson and Hilton U.
Brown.
"AS dean of Boston university
school of religion and social service
for eleven years, and prior to that
as professor Of pedagogy and edu-
cation in several established insti-
tutions, Dr. Athearn demonstrated
profession qualities of high degree
and unusual executive ability" the
committee reported.
1t also was recommended that
Dean j. w. Putnam be requested to
serve as acting head Of the institu-
ton until the president-elect takes
Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
BAN NIGHT RACING
ON WHITE RIVER
He Was Mad

By United Press
CHICAGO, July John
Graft, 43, owner of a large
apartment building, has con-
fessed, police said today, that
he attempted to bomb an
elevated railway terminal be-
cause trains there made too
much noise and drove the
tenants from his building.
Mine Of my tenants moved
out because the trains made so
much noise that they couldn't
sleep nights" Graft told police.
Il complained by letter to the
elevated company, but nothing
was done about it.
II decided to bomb the
terminal to call the matter a
little more forcibly to their
attention"
A black powder bomb ex-
ploded on the tracks, smashed
train windows and alarmed
the neighborhood. Two other
uneXploded bombs were found
In the yards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
DRUNKEN DRIVER
WAR is STARTED
Mayr Orders Chief CARROT
to Open Campaiqn.

Grover CARROT, chief of state po-
lice, today was ordered to open a
drive on drunken and reckless driv-
ers by Frank Mayr Jr., secretary OF
state.
The order came as the result OF
an injury to patrolman William De
Mont while directing traffic near
Michigan City Sunday. De Mont
was struck by an alleged drunken
driver, suffering leg fracture.
Mayrs instructions were to be
given both new and old state police
at their district meetings today.
In addition, beats Of patrol
men in each district were to be as
signed and central reporting sta.
ton selected for each district.
Meetings were to be held as fol-
lows: First district, fremont; Sec
ond, Lagrange; fourth, Bluffton;
fifth, Connersville; sixth, Columbus
seventh, French Lick; eighth, Vim
cennes; ninth, Lafayette and tenth,
Indianapolis.
Meeting Of the third district will
be held in Peru Thursday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Daughter Wants to Wed!
What's a Parent TO Do

CHICAGO July THE wealthy socially prominent Fred w
~ RadcfeS announced today they have forgiven their 1yer-od
daughter Grace for clipping that she won't
be spanked. - -
But Grace evidently honeymoon with husband
Edward Jones' 90 whom she married Monday Crown Point Ind
could be reached
She visited home ceremony and left almost
Immediately, repeatedly
paddle The that forgiven came from Mrs
Radcliffe
told that she get married when she reached
49, the mother said but she apparently to wait the
month remaining until birthday"
Grace and Eward attempted to eope Point
Chicago but police interviewed before
The girls father attempted present son-nlaw sent
to prison and later obtained Injunction restraining
visiting, telephonng writing to Grace.
Mrs Radcliffe allowed the to continue secretly
said today she believed the Young
couple s high school
classmates for bridesmaids whom having former
occasion -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

Our street sweepers have to
work the downtown streets early
in the morning before traffic
starts" Winship said.
''Then, after the stores open,
some one comes along and spoils
everything by sweeping a lot of
trash off the Sidewalk On to the
nice clean street."
Winship said he had received a
letter from w. E. Balch, Mer-
chants Association manager, prom
Using to seek cooperation from
association members in enabling
the street cleaners to feel their
efforts are not entirely wasted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
IS LAID TO
24-YEAR-OLD FEUD
Rich Game Warden Is Shot
Down by Same Gun That
Slew Brother.
By United Press

| DU OWtIGU ETc6S L
CHICAGO, July IA belief that
Earl Eldredge and his wealthy
brother, Charles, were victims of a
feudist enemy who shot them down
twenty-four years apart with tire
same gun and on the same island
retreat, was strengthened today with
the exploion of the only real clew
authorities had found.
Charles Eldredge, retired attorney,
owner of a forty-eight-acre island
near Richmond, Ill, a former state
legislator and game warden for three
northern Illinois counties, was found
shot to death on his game preserve.
Not far from the body was found
a revolver with which Earl Eldredge
was killed in 1907 and which Charles
had carried ever since, in the hope
that someday he might turn it upon
the slayer of his brother.
Two theories were advanced in
the Staying Of Charles. One was
the same as that advanced in 1907
in the killing of his brother. It was
that he surprised a poacher, dis
armed him and was then attacked
and lost his life in fierce struggle
with the man he had arrested.
The second theory was that the
Staying of Earl Eldredge was the
result Of feud and that the slayer
knowing of Charles desire for
vengeance, feared Charles had
found his trail, ambushed and shot
him after attacking him and secur-
ing the gun.
There's something back Of it,
something deep and mysterious and
threatening" declared Captain Hall
Carr of the state police, who sent
his men into the investigation be-
cause Of the fact Eldredge was
former representative and a state
employee at the time Of his death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
SUMMERS HAND
BROKEN AGAIN
Doctors, Instead of Jaw of
Opponent, to Blame.

They've got bracelets on Sheriff
Charles L. (Buck) Sumner of Mar
ion county.
But the bracelets aren't the regu-
lation kind of handouts at which
Houdini scoffed. In fact the brace
let's aren't plural if courthouse Wis
itors today saw the right, the
mighty right, hand of the sheriff.
The hand that landed on one Ira
Holmes, attorney, is encased in wire
splints with the index finger jailed
in wire.
"Just had 1t broken again." said
the sheriff laconically.
Nope, didn't hit any one. It had
slight break (and he failed to add
from his melee with Holmes) and
the doctors in order to make it
mend properly we're forced to break
it again" Sheriff Sumner explained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

Down Forty-second street they
journed, the crowd still in pursuit
and growing larger all the time.
The robots luminous eyes stared
straight ahead. His gloved hands
rose and fell. His shoes clack-
clacked on the sidewalk.
Then to the right, directly into
the lobby Of the Republic theater
where Billy Minsky, the man who
brought burlesque back to Broad
way, is featuring Mile. La Pisch
from Vichy." Professor Buckley
guided his mechanical doll into
the privacy of an ante room and
stood him up in the corner.
THE professor f1shed in his
L pockets and brought forth
cigaret which he handed to robot,
Tiny Dunn. Tiny took it and sat
down in chair.
"Hot, amt it? he suggested.
"You take heat, it's a funny thing.
Now here it's been raining and so
hot I couldn't hardly keep the
perspiration back. Humidity, you
might call it."
Tiny Dunn revealed that he has
been a mechanical man for some
thing like ten years and he never
has met his beat. He never hal
caughed or sneezed during the
long minutes of dead pan acting.
His hinges, as he calls them, never
have failed to squeak. And he
figures that nine out of ten people
who see him in action consider
him definitely to be made out of
wood and metal.
DROFESSOR BUCKLEY, ia.
Il nous for his illuminated
shirt front, which has served to
advertise everything from whisky
and burleSque shows to pigs
knuckles and sauerkraut, spoke.
'You might say" he suggested
with great dignity, that this is
the greatest advertising stunt I
have ever seen. Billy Minsky got
me to do it for him and the
crowd comes right in to the show,
drawn by ineffable curiosity as to
this inscrutable man, so to speak"
The professor explained that
Tiny keeps his dead pan for
twenty-two-minute stretches, aid
ed and abetted by system of
makeup which takes flfty-five
minutes to apply.
BILLY Minsky," said the profess
sor, lis so unalterably intrigued
by this man that he already has
started to teach him the rudi-
ments of poker. Billy figures that
if he can keep that dead pan
with him in a poker game, he
can mop up"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Depression Makes Job of
Selecting Veniremen
Easy Task

Andy repression" and the "un.
employment situation" makes the
job of getting grand and petit juries
in the Marion criminal court an
easy job.
A grand jury was obtained by
Judge Frank P. Baker today after
interviewing twenty taxpayers out
Of panel of CITY.
Unemployment and slack times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
AND WHAT A NAM!
King of Robots Goes Cracking On
BY III. ALLEN SMITH
United Press staff Correspondent

YORK. July IA mechanical and legs creakng
dsmay they back stalked through
Square today propelled by Charles Henry Buckley the
electric shirt 'front.' who has carried the title of Count Of
for thirty years.
crowd OF children followed creaking
ROBOT watching his observing
which Buckley inkered with through
back of the coat.
Better put some oil on him. mister!" a newsboy.
"Hes no machine" voiced skeptic a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
JAIL SUSPECTS
AT PENDLETON,
BAKER URGES
Governor Leslie Asked to
Confine Witt, Hamilton
for Safe Keeping

Describing them as desperate
characters" Criminal Judge Frank
P. Baker today asked Governor
Harry C. Leslie to place Louis E.
Hamilton and Charles Vernon Witt,
alleged slayers of Lafayette Jack
son, in the state reformatory pend
ing their murder trial In Lebanon
this fall.
According to authorities, efforts
might be made to stage break at
the Boone county jail or gang VEN
geance might result in attempts to
free the murder suspects.
In his letter to Leslie, Baker said:
IT feel that the defendants should
be kept either in the Marion coun-
ty Jail or in the Indiana reform
atory until their cases are tried, as
there is more danger of escape from
the Lebanon jail. I feel that great
caution should be taken, as these
men are desperate characters"
Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner
said that Sheriff Wilbur Small of
Boone county would agree to the
prisoners being kept in the Marion
county Jail. Sumner said they will
remain here until he received ex-
ecutive orders for their removal.
Trial, previously set for next
Monday in county criminal court,
was transferred to Boone county on
change Of venue petition of Ira
M. Holmes, defense counsel.
The men are alleged to have shot
and MORALLY wounded Mr.. Jackson,
head of the Standard groceries, in
his store at 419 East Washington
street, May q.
Prosecutor Herbert Wilson today
went to Lebanon to seek an early
trial for the murder suspects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
IT'S TIME TO QUIT
Three Reasons Enough for
Throwing Away 'Chute.
By United Press

By United Press
KENOSHA, Wis, July 7.-Harold
Hansen quit parachute jumping to-
day for three reasons. They are:
l. On his first jump he landed in
front of a bull with near disastrous
results.
2. On the next jump he barely
cleared trolley wires and landed in
front of a train. Only inches sepa-
rated him from death.
8. On the third (and last) Jump,
his parachute collapsed fifty feet
from the ground and both his ankles
were broken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

Acting on the complaint of
Judge Lockyear, the board prob
ably will direct preparation of an
ordinance prohibiting use of large
Fourth devices.
Fire Chief Harry VosheIl asked
the board to include in the pro-
posed ordinance a section pro-
hibiting use Of fireworks in some
sections of the city, especially
downtown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
BACK FROM MARS!
Falling Rocket DrazCS Kick

possible trace Of the huge rocket
today
In exclusive story Saturday. related the rnored
lad cIng1ng to the rocket as he tore through
In exclusive to the
Locyear OF the state appellate Buckingham place com
Fourth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
PROBATION CHIEFS
TOUR LOCAL COURT

During the stay of Judge Collins
and Levy in the city they are be-
ing shown the operation of the
county'S system by the Rev. L. A.
Trip. criminal court probation Of
ficer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
ASK FALL MANDATE
U. S. Attorney to Sue for
Jail Commitment.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July limited
States District Attorney Leo A.
Rover said today government coun-
sci would appear before Justice
Bailey in District of Columbia SUI
preme court at 10.15 a. m. Thurs
day to ask for mandate commit
ting Albert B. Fall to jail.
Fall, former secretary of interior,
was sentenced to a year in jail and
a 100000 fine for accepting a bride
from E. L. Doheny, Los Angeles
oil operator, in connection with the
lease Of the Elk Hills naval oil re-
serve.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
TALK ACKNOWLEDGMENT
results of UnconstitutionaIity Topic
Of IrvingtOn Club.

Constitutionality of the CONGRESS
Slonal reapportionment act and the
question of what will occur if it is
declared unconstitutional was dis
cussed at the meeting of the Irving
ton Republican Club Monday night.
Edward j. Hecker, James L.
Kingsbury and Fred Dickerman led
the discussion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
ROAD BODY DISCUSSES
BLACKTOP SITUATION
Attitude Toward Injunction Suit,
However, Not Revealed.

The state highway commission
today discussed informally litiga-
ton pending against it in the
fight over blacktop paving con-
tracts.
The attitude of the commission
ers and John j. Brown. highway
director, was not revealed as they
moved from blacktop discussion to
a consideration of routine mat
tiers.
The commission is defendant in
a suit attempting to halt paving of
a road between Huntington and
Columbia City with blacktop, for
which bids we're received without
competition from concrete and brick
interests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
RUM CACHE is FOUND

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, July T.
Workmen unloading a shipment OF
lumber from Canada to yard here
found a strange cache in one car
load 300 bottle of beer and forty
eight bottles of gin. The federal
prohibition Office was notified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

According to his complaint, the
rocket was more than a foot long
and was attached to a six-foot
stick. This is about the size of
the rocket on which the boy was
reported to have ridden to a new
world.
City police, skeptical of the
Mars report, are endeavoring to
link the Lockyear complaint with
the identified boy story in an eff
fort to brand the whole dispatch
from Mars as a hoax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

Professor Buckley smiled and
continued to jigger with the con-
trolls as his mechanical man
gooSe-stepped across Forty-second
street. There, on the sidewalk, it
came to squeaking halt. Profess
sor Buckley felt inside the coat
until he had found the right but
ton and the robot swung to the
left with all the precision of the
wooden soldiers in the "Chauve
SouriS.''
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Apartment Building Sold

b Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind, July IA partly
completed apartment building at
Phillips and Walnut streets here has
been sold to Robert L. Tudor OF
Chicago, by Otto P. Kern, Indian
apoliS, receiver, for $4,000. Short
age of funds caused work on the
building to cease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
WIDOW SEEKS REVENGE
Cries Out in Court Against Lenieney
to Model Boy Killer"

q CHICAGO, July THE widow
Of policeman Edward Smith cried
out in court today against any act
of leniency for 15-year-old Warmer
Cory, the slayer of her husband,
and prevented the model boy
from pleading guilty to a charge of
manSlaughter.
"He committed murder and let
him be tried for murder" she said,
glaring at Warner with hate as
intense as the day she pointed him
out as that model boy killer" at
the coroner's inquest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
PLANS PACIFIC HOF

World War Filler Will Take Off
About Sept. 1, He Says.
BIZ United Press
SAN DIEGO, Cal, July Cap
tain Herbert G. Partridge, former
World war fier, plans a nonstop
hop from Los Angeles to Toxic,
Japan, about Sept. /, it was learned
here today.
Partridge will be accompanied by
a japanese co-pilot, who also will
act as navigator, his manager, Roy
Hampton, said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
SUES FOR HIS PROPERTY
Negro Claims Landlady Confiscated
Personal Possessions.

A crooked cane and four union
suits, safety razors and stomach
pills found their way into municipal
court records today when Walter j.
McMurray, Negro, 4S7 North West
street, filed replevin suit against
Mrs. Anna Smiley, 450 North Black
ford street.
He left these and many similar
articles with her when he went to
a war veterans hospital, McMurray
said. On his return she held them,
claiming board bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Pride Hurt
Street Cleaners Wrath
Is Stirred by City's
Disregard.
EvEN street cleaner likes to
. take pride in his work.

And he doesn't like to see
some one come along half an hour
later and spoil his handiwork, &C
cording to w. H. Winship, city
street commissioner.
Accordingly, Winship has asked
downtown business houses to have
their sidewalks swept either late
in the evening or early in the
morning before the streets are
swept.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
John d. Is 92

BIZ United Press
TARRYTOwN, N. Y, July :.
John D. Rockefeller ST.. win
celebrate his e2d birthday
here Wednesday.
According to plans the
celebration will be simple, with
members of the family present.
The aged flnancier plans u
play golf after breakfast, take
q nap after lunch as usual.
and spend the evening with the
family.