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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
City Grocers Accept Code
International BreWing Co.
to Get Last State Permit

After much pickering the twenty
second and last beer manufacturing
permit VIII go 10 the International
Brewing Company, indianapolis, it
was indicated by Paul Fry, state
excise director. today.
The company. stock of which was
placed on the market Thursday.
viii occupy the old Lieoer brewery
1900 Madison avenue. A recent fire
there caused Al Feeney. state safety
director, TO investigate it as a posi-
ole arson case.
Feeney said today that his in
vestigation report will disclose that
no arson was discovered. and all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Severed Hand of Man Is
Discovered at City Home

Mrs. Leona Bray walked TO the
front porch of her home at 1904
Pierson street today. and literally
froze with horror
A piercing scream broke from her
throat.
There. on the porch before her.
lay the hand of a man. cut of at
the wrist with long. pointed finger
nails. resembling those perhaps of
the mythical Dr. Flu Manchu.
Over Mrs. Brays shoulder peeped
Mrs. Robert Buell.. also of the Pier
son street address. who also
screamed. Miss Buell. called police.
Police arrived at the scene, con-
fiscated the hand and started their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28

concerned in the investigation will
De given a clean bill OF health.
Rehabilitation of the brewery was
begun under the Home Brewing
Company, Of which John j. OAR
mody was president. Failing to pro-
cure a permit the property was
transferred 70 the International
company.
Fry said today that he believed
the property should operate and
indicated that the last permit under
the law Will go there. Other re-
quests are pending. he said. includ-
ing one received this morning for
the old Madiscn brewery, at Madi-
son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

investigation. II seems that Mrs.
Bray has a pet bulldog. Patsy, 3
months old, and Patsy just has be-
gun TO learn 10 explore.
Patsy came across the hand some
where on the north side, and de-
cided the prize was too good for
any place but home So home the
prize went
I'm never going on that porch
again. proclaimed Mrs. Bray. for
fear I'll see the head that goes with
that hand
The hand. that of a white man
was an exceptionally large one. po-
lice said. They said it was about
a month old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Patience Wins
Catches Fish After Six
Weeks Angling; Happy
Though Only Carp.

DATIENCE has been rewarded.
Il even though the reward is
only carp
Persistently, for six weeks Mrs.
Leo Lewis. wife Of a city garage
employe, living at 2l4 North
Rural street, has fished in Bran
DIVINE creek. In that time she
used two 48-pound sacks of
doughballs as bait. with never a
fish TO snow for her efforts.
Thursday night, still on the
Job, she felt a powerful tug on
her line A moment later an
eight-pound carp Topped on the
bank beside her and she went
home rejoicing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
MEMORIAL TO BE HELD
Bar Association to Hold Services
Honoring Charles Orbison.

Memorial services for Charles J.
Orbison. former superior court
judge, who died Thursday morning
IN Los Angeles Will be held at IL
Saturday by members OF the Indi-
annapolis Bar Association.
William C. Kern, association sec
rotary, announced that services will
be held in superior court one. the
room formerly occupied by Mr.. Or
bison as Judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
KILLED IN FALL
OUT OF WINDOW
Percy Nicholson Suffers
Broken Neck in
Tumble.

Falling from the window of his
room, twenty feet above the side
walk. Percy Nicholson, 81, Of 24O
East Ninth street. Apartment. 90
was killed instantly early ecday. His
neck was broken in the fall.
Police were told by the son. James
Nicholson, that the father had gone
to bed before midnight.
The elder Nicholson slept on a
couch in front of a window. and it
is believed that, in an effort % get
some air, he tumbled backwards
from the window.
Nicholson was a World war vet
eran.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
MISS DUNN REGAINS
WOMEN'S GOLF TITLE
Defeats Mrs. P. G. SkiIIern,
5 and d, in Finals.
Complete details on sport page,

Miss Elizabeth Dunn of Indian
aoplis. ex-state champion. won the
Indiana womens golf champion
ship today at Highland course. de-
feating Mrs P. G. Skillern, and 4.
in the title match.
Miss Dunn won the last five holes
in succession. after reaching the
turn all even with the defending
champion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Faint Smell Is Warning
DOG FINDS LOST PURSE
Sl59 Recovered by Fl. Wayne Teacher
Because of Collie.
Bgtnifcd Press

NH NTTFN T-FfNN
FIT. WAYNE. Ind. July 2S.-A
purse containing sl5eS3. lost by
Miss Grace NJ Brennan. school
teacher. was returned to her after
it was found by dog.
The school teacher called at the
home OF Mrs. William Hohnhaus
during a house toulouse canvas in
search OF the money and discovered
that Shep Collie owned by the
Hohnhaus' had found the purse and
carried it into the back yard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
HELD FOR GRAND JURY
Watch Repairer Is Charged With
S315 Embezzlement.

EDWARD HOPKINS, whose address
was given as a downtown hotel. to-
day was bound over to the county
grand jury on charge of embezzle-
ment
A watch-repairer. Hopkins is
charged with failing to return
eighteen of the many watches
turned over TO him for repair. Total
value Of watches was listed at s375.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28

The COWS that drank water
from that creek-better call
it a ditch-died.
The motor car that took its occu-
pants past that quite pastoral"
scene caused the death of those
cattle.
1t killed them as swiftly. rs surely
as if it had struck them travelling
at seventy miles an hour and had
been incarnated into fast passen-
ger train
Cyanide. Is Verdict
II killed them that ycu might
ride by and admire them grazing
and drinking in ditch CT death.
Chemists lifted test-tubes at eye
slant, looked. tested. and re-tested
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
WIFE'S PLEA SAVES
HUSBAND FROM JAIL
$40 Weekly Wage Only support for
Family, Mother Tells Court.

Plea of his wife that his $40
weekly wage was the salvation of
her and her two children today
saved Charles Idlewine, 80, of 1880
Churchman avenue. from fines and
sentences on a series of charges
growing out OF wild ride in a bor-
rowed car.
Municipal Judge Sheaffer dis
missed counts of vagrancy and reck-
less driving. suspended fine on a
drunkenness charge, and suspended
a Jail sentence on a charge of OPP
Grating an auto while drunk.
Testimony showed that Idlewine
Wednesday hit two cars in the vi.
cinity Of McCarty street and Vir-
ginia avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
HEN MOTHERS QUAIL
Nest Is Found in Field Near Coon
in Ohio Town.

GAINESVILLE. o.. July 28.-This
bantam hen is not particular about
the kind of babies she mothers. The
hen. owned by Robert Serrell, II
has been mothering a brood of five
chickens and twelve baby quail, the
latter found in nest the hen pre-
empted in a field near her coop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
LETS DOWN BARS TO
DRAUCHT BEER Sale
Fl. Wayne Judge BaIkS at
Keg Brew Sentence.

BIZ United Press
Fl. WAYNE, Ind, July 28.-City-
wide sale of draught beer appeared
probably today after Judge Bert A.
Pagan baked at sentencing August
Hoffman when he was arrested for
selling key beer The case was taken
under Amusement.
AS a result, it was said. many
dealers were planning to sell the
draught beer as soon as arrange
ments could be completed.
City Attorney William Freuchte-
NIGHT intimated that those selling
draught beer would not be molested
as long as they had a state Ncense
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Output Near Normal
FINDS $500 IN CABIN

Tourist Camp Operator Returns
Sum to Losers After Hard Search.
By United Press
PECOS, Texas. July ga mid
dle-aged eastern couple have reason
to be thankful for the westerner's
proverbial honesty. When w. w.
Rossman was cleaning one of sew
eral camp cabins he operates. he
found strong box containing
$500. With some difficulty he
found the couple who had occupied
the cabin the night before and re-
turned the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
GROWS SMALLEST BUSH
Tiny Rose Plant Cultivated by
Oregon Woman.

nW ' NfffN IffNf
PORTLAND. Ore July 28.-Con-
tender for the prize for the small
est blooming rose bush iii America
is Mrs. Ruby Nichols of Portland.
She boasts of two bushes, four
inches and four and one-half
inches high, having eleven buds
between them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Don t Bite!

Racketeers alreay have ia
ken advantage Of the apparent
whole hearted effort OF the
city to lift itself out Of the
depression.
According 10 Francis Wells,
Indiana recovery director. rack
eteers representing themselves
as employees Of The Indianapolis
Times and other local newspa-
pers. telephoned city merchants
today. offering 10 furnish re-
productions Of the NRA eagle
and other recovery emblems for
specified sums Of money.
The indianapolis Times
wishes to inform its readers
that the recovery emblems may
be secured only through federal
government channels. The en-
blems and other literature. in
GLIDING posters and stlckers.
Will be distributed az the post
office when employers return
their signed compliance papers.
Reproduction Of any OF The
federal recovery emblems. ex-
cept by special permission from
Washington. is expressly for
hidden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
FINED IN AUTO MISHAP
Two in Car Which Hurtles En-
bankment Tried in Police Court.

Two men, whose car carried them
over the bank Of Fall Creek at
Maple road after they had con-
stunned 80 beer in a roadhouse. re-
ceived minor fines today in munich
pal court four.
The men were found the night Of
July 10. after their car. OF 1926
vintage, had slithered down thej
embankment.
Bernard Reister, 1881 Prospect
street, was fined 81 and William
Phillips. AT North Alabama street.
paid the court S. for the adventure
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
TAGS MENJ0U GAMBLER
Wife Asks Divorce: Saws Actor
Liked Play For High Stakes.

hW JHITfu TffkS
LOS ANG ELES. July 2s.-
Kathryn Carver. screen actress
Thursday denounced her film huS-
band, Adolphe Menjou. as a man
who gambleG for high stakes, as she
filed petition for temporary
alimony pending settlement of the
divorce action she brought wednes-
dav.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
GOLF BALL KILLS BIRD
Club President Brings Down Crea-
ture With Long Drive.
By United Press

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, July %.
Harris Gholson, president of the
Holly Springs Golf club, shot a
birdie the other day. 1t was a
sparrow that dropped dead when hit
by Gholsons drive as it flew along
about twenty-five feet above the
golf course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Deadly Waste From Manufacturing Plant
Flows Through Ditch Into Big
Blue, at Newcastle
Once-Favored Pools for Angling and Swim
ming Now Are Taboo; Warning Is
Sounded by State.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times Stan Writer

Motor skim state highway skrting the Big Blue
river Newcastes southern border
Look Mother Isn't that pretty Look at those cows
down by the creek Look Mother, They're drinking" calls
naive miss to her parent in the cars tonneau.
Quite pastoral scene Daughter Quite. she adds
she adjusts ognette to watch the that shifts from
view with the pacing motor of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Chicken Was Gold Hcarder

BURR OAK. Kan. July 28-Per-
sons are not the only geld hoard
ers. One of La Verne Ayres' chick
ems had three fair-sized sold mug
gets in its gizzard when dressed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
BALB0 HOP Is DELAYED
Unfaverable Weather Reports Fore
stall Return Sea Flight.


SHOAL HARBOR, Newfoundland,
July 28.-Unfavorable weather re-
ports from the other side Of the At
lantic delayed General Italo Balbo's
air squadron from taking of today
on a mass flight across the sea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
FAST BROKEN BY BEER
State Couple Drinks Brew, Eats
Pretzels After IL DAYS Minus Food.

BERNE. Ind, july pa 17-day
fast by Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Bruchy
was broken here Thursday when
police and health officers persuaded
the couple TO eat some pretzels and
drink some beer.
Bruchy, barely able TO talk when
officials went to investigate the case,
explained that the couple had eaten
nothing since July 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28

This is the fifth of a series of
stories on pollution of Indiana
streams. Saturday the story Of
Big Sugar creek. once the favor
lite fishing haunt of General
Lew Wallace, will be told.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
1000 TO GET COUNTY ROAD JOBS:
CITY PLANTS PAY R0LLSBO0STED
Stutz Announces Increase
of 10 Per Cent or More
in Factory Pay.
INDUSTRY ON UPGRADE
Improvement in Personnel
and Business Shown
by Times Survey.

Boost Of 10 per cent or more in
wages of employees of the Stutz Mo
tor Car Company Of America. Inc.
was announced today at a meet
ing in the Stutz factory. Colonel
E. S. Gorrell, president of the COM
pany, made the announcement, as
serting that he hoped business of
the firm will warrant another in
crease.
Action at the Stutz plant climaxed
series of activities in which q
Times survey showed that several
Indianapolis firms, awaiting en-
forcement of the NRA program, al
ready had increased in business and
anticipated additions to pay rolls.
500 Now Employed
Officials of E. C. Atkins Com
pany 402 South Illinois street. said
500 men now are employed and the
Sergeant-Garke Paint Company. 1913
West Fifteenth street. said a 10
per cent business increase has been
noted from April through June.
The American Leather Products
Company. 1903 West Twenty-second
street, has had an increase in the
last three weeks, and the American
Lead Corporation, 1000 East Twenty
first street, announced an increase in
personnel, 20 per cent boost in six
months business. and said a third
working shift will be in effect I'M
der the NRA program.
Output Near Normal
At the American Foundry Com
pany, 1885 Naomi street. officials
said the output now is near normal.
while the A. Burdsal Company, 2O6
South Capitol avenue, said full
force has been in operation for
three months.
The Barbasol Company. 8l4 North
Senate avenue, dealers in toilet
goods, never felt the depression,
officials said.
Within the last few weeks. the
Link-Belt Company has rehircd III
OF its former employees and an
nounces purchase of raw material
has increased rapidly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
WOMAN HEADS AIRPORT
Wife of Laundry Operator Manager
of Field in East.

REVERE, Mass. July 24.-The
only woman airport manager in the
East is Mrs. Dolly Bernson, wife of
laundry proprietor who manages
Muller Field here. Though an &C
complished aviator with many
hours TO her credit. Mrs. Benson
rarely is seen in flying togs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
Members of Proposed Boa rd to Guide NRA
Drive in Indiana Are Named by Van Mugs
Gray-Clad COurerS of PoStoffice Department Deliver
$4,000 compliance Letters to indianapolis EN-
pOyerS During Day. Planes to Aid Campaign.

While clad coriers the department
an 10000 compliance letters indianapolis
ove-drab airplanes
Indianapolis a Of the state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28

Announcement OF the recon-
mendation to the President of the
state recovery board for Indiana
was made today by Senator Fred
erick Van Mugs at Washington
Members of the proposed board are:
Daniel Wertz, Evansville, lumber
dealer.
Adolph Fritz. indianapolis. sec
rotary of the State Federation Of
Labor
Rudolph Leeds, Richmond, pub
Usher.
Joseph NJ. Cravens, Madison.
agriculturist.
NJ. NJ. Dunbar, Indianapolis
banker.
G. NJ. Leslie, Fl. Wayne, manu-
facturer
Frederick Kroeger. Anderson,
business man.
w. P. Gleason, Gary. industrialist.
Charles Templeton, Terre Haute,
coal operator.
State Towns TO Comply
The board. to serve without COM
pensation, will advise and report
upon the execution of the national
industrial recovery act in Indiana.
Governor Paul " McNutt will
issue the call for the first meeting
OF the board.
Francis Wells. Indiana recovery
director. announced that he had re-
ceiyed pledges of cooperation from
number Of Chambers of Commerce
in the following cities and towns. all
stating that they had held meet
ing or would hold them immedi-
ately:
Decatur, Evansville. Michigan
City. Columbia City Roachdale.
Kendallville, Hartford City, Ham
mond, Columbus, Auburn, Gary.
Batesville, Jasper, Fowler, Bloom
ington, Muncie and Seymour.
Wells stated that in the deluge of
questions reaching his office. sec
ton seven OF the mployers'
covenant is the one most frequently
mentioned.
City Grocers Accept Code
This section binds the signer not
to reduce the compensation for en-
ployment now in excess Of minimum
wages hereby agreed TO Cnotwith-
standing that the hours worked in
such employment may be hereby re-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28
TAXES EXCEED MILLION
Income, Sales Levy Payments Still
Coming; STOPS Average.

State income and sales tax returns
for May and June have exceeded
the 100000 mark and still are com
ing in. 1t was reported today bv
Collector Clarence Jackson. Aver
age return on nearly 100000 is
slO2a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28

the water from that creek ditch
and the vitals of the dead cattle
"Cyanide!" was the verdict.
"Cyanidel Cyanidei' babbled the
creek in its soft disguise If rocks,
moss. and tall grass growing on
banks. but was 'nheard Dy passing
motorists on the highway above
That was in 1880 at Newcastle
along ditch that empties into the
city's Big Blue river.
Canal for Wastes
The ditch is a canal for wastes
from the Chrysler Corporation. mo-
tor car manufactures. at Newcastle
And just a few days ago. the meek
innocent ditch again carried its car
60 of death for livestock and fish
down into Big Blue
Eight to ten parts of cyanide per
million" was the report of labora
tory experts of the state bureau OF
sanitary engineering.
No cattle or other livestock died
Farmers living along the ditch
banks learned their lesson in 1890
Now they know that the meek ditch
that meanders through their land
is a potential slaughter house Not
all the time. but who can know the
time?
Faint Smell Is Warning
The only warning if the breeze is
on the clover of the fields. is the
faint bitter almond smell that spells
in capital letters:
"CYANIDEi"
Several law suits resulted from
the poisonings of 1890. One verdict
for $500 was rendered in the favor
Continued on Page One.
Second SeCtiOnl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28

sued from the downtown post
Office and thousands of others
were sent from substations
throughout the city.
In Indiana. those signed by
heads Of firms will be collected by
airplane in a whirlwind roundup
The weekly echo., 1933-09-29
Numerous Changes
In "Y. w." Perso-
mel

New York City, Sept %, CAMP
Beginning September l, several chan
ges in the personel of workers in the
Y. w. c. A. branches became effective
Most important is the complete reir-
ganization of work in Philadelphia.
Formerly, this city had two branches
under separate management, but last
Spring these branches were merged af-
ter an exhaustive study if the field
under Miss Dorothy Gwinn, colored,
and Miss Hazel Ormsbee, White, menu
bers on the executive staff of the Nat
ional Board A single staff will ne now
conduct the work.
The executive secretary al the newly
organized branch in Philadelphia IS
Miss Ann Arnold, who has resigned
as the Director of Emma Ronsone
House, the largest hotel for Negro wo-
men in the world, which is part of the
Wv. c. A. Tor Colored Women in Har-
lem. Associated with Miss Arnold will
be Miss Mamie E Davis, who will
serve IS program secretary of indus
trial girls. Also Miss Olivia M. Hamp-
ton. who was transferred from Winstin
Salem, and Miss Louise Parrot, who
has served for the last five years as
director of the Manhattan Council OF
Girls Clubs, a Girl Scout organization
in Harlem. Miss Parrot will be direc-
tor of health education.
The Mintromery st. Branch OF the
~. w c. A. in Trenton, N. j., will
have as its executive secretary Miss
Fannie Scott, who was formerly the ex-
ecutive secretary of the Branch at
Roanoke, Va, Miss Mabel Brady Will
take charge of the Branch in Lynch
burg, Va, Miss Brady served the T. W.
c. A in numerous official capacities
for twelve years. She resigned as the
executive secretary of the Branch in
Nashville, Tenn, to accept her latest
appointment
Miss Lula L. Weeden leaves the
Branch in Durham, N. c to accept the
ncsition of executive secretary OF the
Phyllis Wheatley Branch in Atlanta
Ga.
The weekly echo., 1933-09-29
DENIED CHANCE TO MAKE
SPEECH, TAKES PROTEST TO LORD
IN PRAYER

Atlanta, Ga, Sept, 20, (ANP) When
Glover Davis, blind man, was brut-
ally slain by Atlanta police here some
days ago, resentment among Negroes
arose to fever pitch Citizens rallied
to hold a giant Protest funeral at Mt.
Zion Baptist church of which the Rev.
J. T. Dorsey is pastor.
Four thousand persons turned out
Placards in the crowd read END Police
Murder in Atlanta" Two ministers, the
Rev. ]. A. Martin, of the Colored Me-
thodist Episcopal church, and the Rev.
j. Raymond Henderson, Baptist, were
selected to deliver protest" sermons.
The Atlanta police department was
represented by seventy uniformed men
and twenty officers in plain clothes.
Mounted policeman, armed with ma
chine guns and tear gas bombs paraded
around the church and through the
crowd
The Rev. Mr.. Dorsey announced that
there would be no protest" sermons,
the Revs. Martin and Henderson not
withstanding. But he did permit
prayer, even in the presence of the
white policeman From the lips OF
Rev. Martin the following prayer came;
Lord, give us men who are not A.
fraid to speak against and denounce
police brutality, and their Staying OF
NEGROES, shooting them in the back
while they flee arrest. Lord, give us
an aroused church, both white and
black. for such times as these-men,
who despite mob violence, will stand
upon the house tops and cry aloud,
even though the police force surround
our churches and attempt to brighten
us with machine guns, bullets and tear
gas bombs. We need, Oh Lord, the
True Prophet, one who is not AFRAID
to die for a righteous cause, such as
this even to-day
Now, Lord, Thou knowest me, but
some who hear me today may not
know who l am. My name is j. A
Martin, and my street address is 1O2e
Westmore drive, Atlanta, Ga, Amenl