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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-31

committee to convey this infor
nation to DR.. Walter S. Athearn
and the board now appoints Dean
j. w. Putnam as acting president
and inStructs the committee to con-
vey such messages to him.
Your committee informed me of
the boards willingness that I sub
NIT my resignation if 1 preferred
this method of eliminating myself
from the service of the university
to straight dismissal, provided 1
resign not later than Monday morn
ing, Oct. 30.
In the brief discussion which fol-
lowed this notification you declined
to give reasons for the action of
the board, and recognized that 1
had had no previous notice of the
boards intentions and was not given
chance to be heard by the hoard
in answer to whatever charges may
have been the basis of the boards
decision. You justified the boards
action by quoting from the charter
the clause which gives the board
u1AC llSlC W hit anu uloCldI &c till
ployeS at will
Before giving you my decision as
to Whethcr I choose I cSignation to
a straight dismissal, let me cite you
to few of the achievements of
my administration during the past
two years.
Financially Bankrupt
When 1 came to Butler in the
summer of 1881 it was generally
recognized as one of the most diff
flcult administrative fields in Amer
lea. The institution was financially
bankrupt and accidentally discred-
tied by the North Central Associa-
ton of Colleges and Secondary
Schools, and other national stand
ardizing agencies. was given
eighteen months in which to make
the improvements necessary to re-
move the institution from the ten
tative status which had been
granted by the North Central Asso-
citation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools. During the last two years,
under my guidance and direction,
the following things have been
achieved at Butler university:
/. The full approval of its aca-
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PASTOR RISES
TO DEFENSE
OF ATHEARN
High Handed Methods Are
Unfair, Is Charge of
Graduate Student.

A defense of the administration
of DR.. Walter Scott Athearn, dis
missed president of Butler univer-
sity, was given The Times today by
the Rev. M. C.. Schollenberger,
minister of the Beech Grove Chist
ian church and graduate student in
the Butler college of religion.
Il realize that 1 may be jeopardiz
ing my chances of receiving my A.
M. degree for which 1 am working
now said Mr.. Schollenberger. But
I feel so strongly that DR.. Athearn
has done much good work for the
university that it is incumbent upon
me to come to his defense at this
time.
Il feel that he was dismissed
without fair Neutrality-suspicious. the
courtesy or decency that would be
extended to an office boy or a do
nestle servant Such high-handed
methods are not fair to an out
standing educator like Dr. Athearn.
DR. Athearn has raised the
standards of the college to a higher
degree than any previous president
had succeeded in accomplishing. I
know from personal experience that
he work he has done in the COL
lege of religion has raised the STAN
dard indefinitely.
THE fact that North Central As
ISOLATION of Colleges and other Or
carnations looking to the raising of
educatinal standards have acknowl-
edged Or. Athearns regime speaks
for itself.
Or. Athearn believed in intra-
mural athletics rather than over
emphasis on money making football
teams and adhered to the athletic
system which has been so success
full in English colleges especially.
He laid greater stress on
scholarship. His views did not coin
eide apparently with those of men
who have burdened the university
with such white elephants as the
bowl and the fieldhouse and stressed
athletics above all"
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FACTORY FIRE
LOSS $4,000
Ermet Products Company
Plant Is Destroyed
by Flames.

Fed by exploded gasoline and
varnish tanks, flames completely
destroyed the plant of the Ermet
Products Comp ~, at 21O0 Caroline
avenue, this morning and caused
loss estimated at $4,000.
Believed to ave started in the
drying room ~ the plant, the fire
spread rapidly over the frame build
ing and soon was beyond control.
A second alarm was turned in
shortly after arrival of f1remen.
High tension wires near the plant
were burned in two and linemen of
the Indianapolis Power and Light
Company were called to remove the
lines from the way of the firemen.
Considerable difficulty was en-
countered by the f1remen in fight
ing the flames, because water lines
had to be extended several hun
dred feet across the Big Four rail-
road tracks.
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YOUTH ADMITS
CRIME SERIES.
POLICE CLAIM
Bandit Suspect Nabbed in
Hotel HoIdup: Three
Others implicated.

Frustration of an attempted hold
up of the Williams hotel, Senate
avenue and washington street, this
morning, and capture of the bandit,
has led to solution of a number of
recent robberies, police claim.
Walking into the arms of police
squad as he stepped from the hotel
elevator, William Saunders, 81, of
121 East Twenty-first street, was
taken to police headquarters for
questioning.
Grilled by detectives, Saunders
is said to have implicated three
other persons and confessed to
taking part in six recent holdups.
One of the accused men already
was in custody on a vagrancy charge
and the Others a man and a woman.
were arrested on information given
TODAY by Saunders.
Although vehemently denying
Saunders story, Guy Marlette, 1716
North Meridian street, Methodist
hospital employe, and Miss Julia
Knox, 2l22 West Minnesota street.
were arrested and taken to head
quarters, where they were to be
questioned
Albert Birch, alias Underwood,
POOP North Capitol avenue, was ar
rested Sunday as suspect in a
holdup in which Saunders has ad-
mitted taking part.
Saunders registered at the Will
liams at this morning under the
name of James Irwin, Columbus,
O., and left call for a. m. When
awakened by phone, Saunders asked
for ice wafer.
Fred Penn, Negro, 81, of 1856 Co.
lumbia avenue, delivered the ice
water and was forced into a closet
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Expert Testimony Occupies
Hearing on Petition at
Stateh0uSe.

Expert testimony regarding the
productiveneSS of the Indiana nat
ural gas field sought to be tapped
to the city by the Indiana Gas
Service Corporation featured to-
days hearing before the public
service commission.
Declaring that the field will pro-
duce 100000 cubic feet annually
for the next fifteen years, A. Faison
Dixon, nationally known geologist,
testified for the petitioners.
He was subjected to stiff cross
examination by the legal staff of
the city, utility district, and the
Citizens Gas Company, all opposing
introduction of natural gas by the
gas service corporation.
Perry Mozart, commission chair
man, indicated yesterday that he
believed the wrong type of petition
had been submitted by the corpo-
ration, after John H. Maxon, Mum
Gle, vice president, said plans were
to serve industrial consumers using
at least 100000 cubic feet monthly.
w. H. Thompson, attorney for the
city utility district, and Henry H.
Hornbrook, representing the Citi-
zens Gas Company, seized on
Maxon's admission to point out
that granting of the petition would
impair the value of the local gas
company which the city seeks to
acquire.
If the petitioner seeks to serve all
the public, the Citizens Gas Com
pany would suffer from the compe-
tition and the public would lose its
share of the public trust, Thompson
said
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-Four Declared MUOLUed
in RefOrmdt0ry Thefts

One Of the two Indiana state re-
formatory guards. under suspicion
in the theft of pants and shirts
from the reformatory factory, def
nitely has been linked to plot with
two prisoners and truck driver,
A. F. Miles, superintendent of the
Pendleton institution. said today.
Mr.. Miles declined to name the
guard, who with his suspected mate
is under suspension pending further
investigation, but said an unnamed
Anderson truck driver has made a
clean breast of his part.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Miles planned to
question two prisoners who have
been placed in solitary confinement.
The prisoners, George Dillon, Della
ware county. and Brice Michaels.
Terre Haute. are alleged to have
conspired with the two guards and
the truck driver to steal several
bundles of shirts and pants.
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BUTLER STUDENTS MASS
TO PROTEST GUSHING OF
DIR. ATHEARN BY BOARD
Politics
That's Brand Laid on
Butler System by
Dr.. Athearn.

In a letter acknowledging dis
missal as president Of Butler uni
versity, Dr. Walter Scott Athearn
charged that the university is domi-
mated by financial, political and
noneducational administration CEN
tered in the downtown Office of the
university"
Dr. Athearn listed categorically
more than thirty achievements at
Butler during his incumbency as
president. He contended that he
was the victim Of a dual admins
tration" and in his letter accepted
dismissal. but refused to resign.
The letter follows:
Oct 30, 1893.
Mr.. Hilton U. Brown
Mr.. Hugh TIL Miller
Mr.. Emsley w. Johnson,
Gentlemen:
At $50 p. m. Saturday, Oct. %,
you called at my home as a special
committee of the board of directors
of Butler university to notify me of
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PANIC AVERTED BY
ACTORS GAY BANTER
DURING THEATER FIRE
ByJ Hifed Press

By Hifed Press
SAN DIEGO, Cal. Oct. 31.-A
line of gay banter between two
vaudeville performers that kept four
hundred theater patrons laughing
while fire ragged backstage, cata-
logued Duke Atterbury and Ken
Gillum as heroes today.
Police said their impromptu per-
Torrance averted a panic. After
bury and Gillum were going
through their act when smoke
curled from the wings. The audi
ence stirred.
Somebody's trying to crab our
act by starting a fire" laughed At
terbury.
Why. so they are" said Gillum.
They maintained a rapid fire con-
versation that soon allayed the
fears of spectators and set them
back in their seats laughing. The
orchestra played final march and
the audience filed through the exits
just as fire apparatus arrived.
Damage to the theater was esti-
mated at $4,000.
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insult WINS
FREEDOM IN
GREEK COURT
Judges Refuse Extradition
to United States
for Trial.
By United Press

By United Press
ATHENS, Oct. 31-Samuel insult,
exiled car of Americas mid-contin-
ent utilities system, today won his
fight against extraditiOn to Chicago
to face charges of having ruined
and mismanged his one-time f1nan-
cial empire.
The Greek court of appeals, APP
parently impressed by the argu-
ments of brilliant battery of de-
Tense lawyers, determined today
that Cook county indictments were
not sufficient to meet the terms of
the extradition treaty, and ordered
his release from custody.
A large crowd was present in the
courtroom when the decision was
announced, and greeted the verdict
with loud applause.
Praised by Court
The courts decision was a ten
page document, which gave more
praise than condemnation to the
one-time ulti-millionaire.
The court recognized Insults i'm
portant contribution to the cleo
trical industry" and recorded it's
verdict that his acts were mot
fraudulent, but brought about by the
general financial collapse"
L expected this verdict" insult
said as he was receiving the crowds
congratulations.
These Greek judges are ideal.
am more than satisfied. I shall stay
here the remainder of my life. and
regard Greece. as my own country"
Hopes for Comeback
Then, indicating his plans for
work, he added:
L hope that by some financial
combinations, 1 may be able to
reciprocate the hospitality of this
small but great country"
insult, who will be 10 next MONTH
thus was left free to continue his
efforts at come back" He hopes.
perhaps with the aid of Sir Basil
Aaharoff, man of international
mystery and of apparently unlimited
millions, to exercise his organizing
genius once more in the Balkans.
Insults defense attorneys. Denis
Lazarlmos and Pericles Rhallis. had
pictured insult as venerable old
man, prosecuted by stockholders.
and victim Of his own generosity"
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leaders declare that It Is up to every
citizen with job in Indianapolis
whether the present campaign sue
ceeds or fails.
Large gifts reported at yesterdays
meeting We're: William H. Block
Company, $4,000; H. P. WATSON g.
Co., $4,000; Banner Whitehill Com
pany, $500; P. c. Reilly, $500;
Van Camp Hardware and Iron Com
pany, $4,000: Mrs. Caroline NJ. Fesler
increased her $500 gift to $1,000;
Link-Belt Company, $1,000; Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
$500.
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ESCAPED CONVICT IS
NAMED SUSPECT IN
CAFE H0LDUP HERE

John, you are stuck up. Give
me $100!" This greeting was given
to John Partlow, owner of a lunch
room at % West Ohio street, early
this morning by young man who
had ordered a glass of beer.
Brandishing a revolver and order
ing Partlow into the back room,
the thief bound him with picture
wire, took several hundred dollars
from his person, looted the cash
register of about 500 and escaped
by the rear entrance
Partlow extricated himself, called
police. and gave description of the
bandit, who police say tallies with
Joseph Burns, fugitive convict.
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Citys Fund Drive Workers STRIFE to
Raise $245, 964 More by Friday Night

Indianapolis is faced with an
emergency, but because of con-
ditions, lacks the necessary drama
to emphasize the seriousness of the
situation"
This comment was made today by
one of the captains of the cityS
army of mercy"-the Community
Fund-as the 5000 workers sought
to raise SEAS ,s64.21 by Friday night.
day night.
No report meeting will be held to-
day. The next session to chart the
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SOUTH SIDE WILL
SHARE IN FUND TO
END CITY'S SLUMS
Bureau Has Decided Not to
Spend Full $5,0OO,O00
in Negro Section.
SITE TO BE SELECTED
Plans for Project Will Be
Rushed to Washington
for Approval.

Unless land values prove too pro-
hibitiye, an area on the south side
of indianapolis, one mile from
Monument Circle, will be selected
as the site for a slums clearance and
housing enterprise for white per-
sons.
This was announced today by W..
H. Trimble, chairman of the In
dianapolis Community housing COM
mittee, on receipt of news from
Washington that the federal hous-
ing bureau has decided to divide
between Negro and white residen-
tial sections the $5,000000 intended
for Slums clearance.
Original purpose of the housing
bureau was to devote all Of the
money to Negro sections of Indian
apolis. but it was decided that half
of the money should be spent in
behalf of white wage earners.
Nov. Is Deadline
With Nov. 7 fixed by the federal
housing bureau as the deadline for
the Indianapolis committee to offer
satisfactory proposition, Mr.. Trim
BILE said he believed the local COM
mittee would be able to do so and
that in any event, an extension of
the deadline might be obtained
The south side section definitely
is decided upon, it was announced,
unless there is a tendency of prop
erty owners to boost their prices.
In that event. it was said, another
section would be decided upon.
Under the tentative federal pro-
pOsal. the government is to lend the
Indianapolis committee 81 ,460 900 at
4 per cent interest and the COM
mittee is TO supplement that sum
with $4,000 raised by local sub
Scription.
Take Blame in Delay
Max Dunning, assistant director
of the federal housing bureau, an
nounced from Washington that he
expected the Indianapolis commit
tee to furnish the bureau this week
with plans that can be approved.
Mr.. Dunning asserted that tthere
is every probability that the In
dianapolis committee will make the
grade, and declared that the
Washington bureau is at least so
per cent to blame for delay,
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r.
FroIickers will cavort in the
roped off space ABOUT the War
Memorial footing tin horns and
soaring unsuspecting bystanders
with their weird false faces.
Beer will replace the conven-
tional cider at the South Side
Turner's, when jocund members
of the "So-U-Si' Club will dip for
apples in a tub of beer.
Soaring away that old goblin,
political rumor, six hundred en-
ployes of the Statehouse will join
in amicable funmaking for Pleas
Greenlee, big little boss, officially
known as executive secretary to
the Governor, at the Claypool.
The party will be zen maske."
HANGERS will share the merry
- making at the Indiana ball
room, where Percy Carson and his
Edgwater Beach hotel orchestra
will play from $3.50 until 2 p. m.
Ingeniously costumed frolickers
will vie for cash prizes for the
most unique garb. Games and sur
prises further will enLiven the
party.
Highland Golf and Country
Club will hold a masquerade party
for children tonight, and Hoosier
Athletic Club viii entertain with
party.
Of all that celebrate this
unique holiday few know that the
original date was All Saints Day.
1t was believed by our elders that
on this night ghosts and witches
were won't to frolic and dance in
macabre glee.
The Druids, who wandered
about the woods of Britain wor-
Shipping wild tree gods long before
England had Labor party or the
dole, thought that on this night
all the wicked souls that had died
during the year and inhabited the
bodies of animals, gathered
around the lord of death for a
big pow-wow.
A LII the noise making and
L n strange costumes that have
been handed down to us once
were to keep the evil spirits from
raiding the larder, bewitching the
maids, and behaving in general as
no moral spirit should.
While we celebrate Halloween
in this country with blaring mu-
sic, hard cider sprees, and mis-
chievous prani<S, in Europe the
country folk play games they have
played for centuries and dance to
folk tunes.
Probably the same casualties
will occur this year as ALWAYS.
Some one will get wet falling into
the apple tub, g child will get a
licking for soaping the wrong win
dow, and a gay fun-maker who
has imbibed too well and not
wisely will wander into the wrong
apartment.
But bear with them-tomorrow
the ghosts, the COLLINS, and imps
will have shrunk back into their
graves, to be no more for another
year.
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final days of the campaign will be
held Wednesday noon.
There is not one man or woman
in this city who would fail to do his
or her share if they knew how
serious the crisis is" the drive lead
er added.
The drive was to end Wednesday,
but workers voted to extend the
campaign as tribute to the leader
ship and hard work put forth by
Walter c. Marmon. general chair
man of the l933-1sS4 campaign.
The drive has been conducted
successfully for fourteen years and
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board which had
j us t adjourned.
The reSOluti ion
which you placed
in my hands read:
Resolved, That
under the terms
of the charter (See
Sec. 49, the board
hereby creates q
vacancy in the
office of the presi-
dent of the COL
lege and appoints
Messrs. Hilton U.
Brown, Hugh TIL.
Miller and Ems
lev w Johnson as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-31
NEW OCTOBER HEAT
RECORD SET HERE
Temperatures of 1876 at
Noon Breaks Mark.

New record for the highest tenn
perature in indianapolis on any
Oct. 81 was established at noon to-
day when the mercury reached 1873
degrees.
According to the local weather
bureau statistics, the previous high
temperature was 1853 in 1866
Yesterdays average temperature
was SO degrees, 10 above normal a
figure which is expected to be ex-
ceeded today.
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NATIONAL AND STATE
BANK CALLS ISSUED
Order Condition Reported
as of Oct. rs.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON Oct. 31.-Cur-
rency Comptroller J. F. T. O'Connor
today issued national bank call
for condition as of Oct. 25.
The call was the first since July 2,
when call for national banks con-
dition as of June 30 was issued.
A call for the condition of state
banks as of Oct. Is was issued to-
day. by the state department of
banking.
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GOVERNMENT BOOSTS
GOLD PRICE TO S32.12
Bullion Price Up Is Cents; Top Lon
don Market by 81 Cents.
By United Pres

by I Htttu fTtss
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The
government today raised its price
on newly mined American gold TO
1922 an ounce from the S31 SO level
Of yesterday. The price was an
overnight advance of Is cents an
ounce.
Today's Washington price was 81
cents above the world price set in
London today.
The London price was 100 shillings
7 pence, of 7l2 pence from yester-
day This was equivalent to s31.21
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COAL CODE HEARING DUE
"a Anthracite Companies Submit
Proposed NRA Plan.
By I nited Press

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-Pubnc
hearings are expected to be set this
week on a proposed code for the
Pennsylvania anthracite industry.
submitted by fifty-four companies,
employing 10000 workers.
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GRAF Yep NEAR FRANCE
Dirigible Reported $50 Miles From
Coast on Return Trip.

81 tNtfsd Pffss
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-The Graf
Zeppelin was reported approx
mately $50 miles of the coast of
France today. by Macksy Radio.
Position of the dirigible was given
as 44.3l north and ll.52 west.
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ST 100000 JEWELS TO
BE SOLD AT AUCTION
Jennie Dolly, One of Noted Sisters,
Tires of Gems.

BIZ Hitcd Press
PARIS, Oct 31.-Jenny Dolly of
the famous Dolly sisters. will offer
her jewels, once valued at $1,000, 900,
at auction Nov Is. it was learned
today
Miss Dolly is at a Paris nursing
home recovering from injuries re,
ceived in motor accident, but
hopes soon to be able to go to her
chateau at Fontainbleau.
The jewels no longer have any
significance for her" her secretary
said when asked the reason for
selling them.
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Natural Gas Supply to
Last Years, Board Told
STATE HUSKERS CLASH
Three Former Champions in Title
Event at Button.

By United Press
BLUFFTON, Ind. Oct. 31.-Three
former state champions will COM
pete here tomorrow in the annual
state corn husking contest
Lawrence Pitzet, Fountain county.
is the defending champion. Charles
Etter, Benton county, champion in
1929. and Robert Kitchell, Wayne
county, 1881 winner, will be among
eleven county titleholders opposing
Pitzer.
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Nelson Morris WEEDS Actress

CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-The mar
riage of Nelson Morris, grandson of
the founder of. Morris & Co.,
packers, and Mile. Blanche BiIboa.
French actress, was announced to-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-31
OIL FIRM SEEKS TO
STOP TAX COLLECTION
Injunction Asked Against City SIS
Levy on Gas Pumps.

Hearing on a petition to enjoin
city officials from collecting an an
nual SIS license fee for each gaso-
line pump opened today before Cir
cult Judge Earl R. Cox.
Suit for the permanent injunction
was filed in the name of the Stith
Petroleum Company, on behalf of
all filling station operators. attack
ing the power of the city to collect
the tax, authorized by 1925 ordi-
nance.
No collections of the tax have
been made since last year, when
s24. 500 was collected.
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Tonight's the Night! Ghosts n
COLLINS to Stalk Forth Again
BY TRISTRAM COFFIN
Times STAFF Writer

ONfGHTs night COLLINS witches ghosts will gaivant
twelve hours ceebaters
have night the voodoo from the door