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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937. 3 IRWIN, 81, SUCCUMBS Native of Ontario, Canada, Was Official of Local Singer Branch. Francis William Irwin, 81 years old, 126 Dickson street, an official of the Indianapolis branch of the Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company, died Monday night after a brief illness. Mr. Irwin was born in St.

Catherine's, Ontario, Canada, May 27, 1855. He was a member of the Holy Cross Catholic Church and a charter member of Fort Wayne Council No. 451, of Columbus, and its oldest thishts, member. In Foreign Offices. Mr.

Irwin spent his early life in Buffalo, N. Y. He became associated with the Singer company in positions in Canada and the United States and was superintendent of the company's offices in Argentina and for more than ten years. Mr. Irwin's wife died in 1927 and a year later he retired from active service, but continued as a member the company's advisory board.

He lived there until 1905 he came moved Wayne erich 1893 and to Indianapolis. Services Tomorrow. Survivors are four daughters, Miss Helen May Irwin, church news editor of the Journal Fort Wayne; Sister Margaret of the Sisters of Providence, St. Simon's Convent, Washington, and Mrs. Louise Bigelow and Mrs.

Agnes Vollmer of Indianapolis; three sons, Robert G. Irwin and Arthur E. Irwin of Indianapolis and George L. Irwin of Muncie; twenty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at the home and at 9 o'clock in the Holy Cross Church.

Mgr. William Keafe will officiate. The Rev. Francis B. Boeres of Notre Dame University will attend the funeral services.

Burdal will be in Holy Cross cemetery. MRS WHITE DIES; MOTHER OF JUDGE Pioneer Resident of Tipton County Was Last Surviving of 15 Children. Mrs. Emily M. White, 89 years old, mother of Judge Dan V.

White of Municipal Court, Room 2, died of pneumonia at her home in Elwood yesterday. Funeral services will be held in the Friends Church at Hazel Dell, one mile south and one mile east of Windfall, at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, Mrs. White was a pioneer resident of Tipton county. She was born at Kempton Sept. 22, 1847.

Her father was Joseph Goar, one of the first two associate judges of the Tipton Circuit Court. Last Surviving of 15 Children. She was the last surviving member of a family of fifteen children, and was married to A Aaron White in December, 1867. Mr. White was a member of the 117th Indiana regiment in the Civil War.

was an early Tipton county farmer, clearing the land where he established farm. Mrs. White taught school near Kempton before her marriage. Besides the son, survivors are three grandchildren, Mrs. Minnie Webb of Los Angeles, and Don E.

White and James R. White, sons of Judge White; four great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. Mrs. White was a memof the Society of Church and an active church worker. Mrs.

Edward T. Coney, 63, Stricken in Hospital Mrs. Helen M. Coney, 63 years old, 2312 North Pennsylvania street, a resident of Indianapolis since 1901, died yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital following an illness of several months.

Mrs. Coney was born in Danville, Ill. She attended the Millersburg Female Seminary in Millersburg, Ky. She was married to Edward T. Coney of Indianapolis, July 3, 1903.

Mrs. Coney was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, Leestown, chapter of the Daughters Confederacy and the Electa Circle. Survivors are her husband; a daughter, Mrs. W. D.

McAbee, and three grandchildren, William T. McAbee, Marjorie H. McAbee and Kenneth E. McAbee, all of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon in the home.

Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. The Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, will have charge of the services. William C.

Haugh Dies; of Pioneer Family Here William Cameron Haugh, 63 years old, member of a pioneer Indianapolis family and a salesman for the Indiana Paper Company more than fifteen years, died yesterday in his home, 2431 Park avenue, following an illness of two months. He died the day following his sixty-third birthday a anniversary. Mr. Haugh was born in Indianapolis Feb. 15, 1874, the son of Charles E.

and Margaret Cameron Haugh. He attended the public schools here and was graduated from Shortridge High School. Mr. Haugh married to Miss Florence Tucker of Indianapolis June 3, 1903. Survivors are the widow: a son, Charles Tucker of Indianapolis, and The Best Location in New York and there's a certain something about the atmosphere which makes people glad they chose the HOTEL NEW WESTON Madison Ave.

at 30th Street Single $4.00 Double $6.00 Suites $8.00 ELECTED NEW DIRECTORS OF BUTLER UNIVERSITY. New directors of Butler left to right: the Rev. George of the First Presbyterian Church; ney and capitalist; Mrs. A. M.

leader, and J. H. Trimble of Trimble Realty Corporation. University elected yesterday are, A. Frantz of Indianapolis, pastor Glen R.

Hillis, Kokomo attorRobertson, Indianapolis civic Indianapolis, president of the YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT DENTISTS, THEY'RE NOT PAINFUL-UNLESS CHICAGO, Feb. Dr. H. W. Oppice insists it's dentist goes to work.

To overcome it, Dr. Oppice, Loyola University, said today tion, dentists are using psychology chology and 30 per cent technique. "Actually there is very little pain in modern dentistry," he said. "The vibration of the drill gives a sensation which registers fear in the brain, but the anticipation causes more pain than the operation. "Fear of the dentist is inherited3 fear of the unknown--and it i is magnified by education in the home.

Parents who have been to the dentist and discuss their experiences cause much of the fear in children. Dentists are trying to educate that fear out of them." He left a loophole for those who doubt him about pain. It varies in volume with the patient, he said. Psychological treatment to reduce dental phobia, he said, included improvement of the doctor's personality, modern arrangment of offices to make them more "home like," and hiding instruments when not in use. dentists Incidentally, Dr.

Oppice opined, now talk less and work more because with fear decreased there is less need of conversation to G. H. COFFEY DIES; INSURANCE AGENT GEORGE H. COFFEY. George H.

Coffey, 66 years old, an agent for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia more than twenty years, died yesterday in his home, 529 East Twelfth street, following an illness of six months. Mr. Coffey was born in Washington county. He lived in Brownstown many years before coming to Indianapolis twenty-two years ago. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Kettler, Sept.

7, 1926, in Greenfield. Mr. Coffey was a member of the English Lutheran Church. Survivors besides the widow are three daughters, Mrs. Nellie Mascher, Mrs.

Applewhite and Mrs. Catherine Finney, all of Indianapolis: three sons, Wilbur Coffey of Indianapolis, Earl H. Coffey of St. Louis, and Maynard Coffey of Atlanta, all children by a former marriage; three brothers, Wade Coffey, Ernest Coffey and Harvey Coffey all of Salem: two sisters, Miss Mary E. Coffey and Mrs.

Anna Denny, both of Salem, and his mother, Mrs. Mathilda Coffey, of near Velonia. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. HAS LEADING IN CHURCH PLAY Miss Rose Ellen Gray has one of the leading roles in the play, "Dollars to Doughnuts," to be given by the Woodruff Place Baptist Dramatic Club in the church recreation hall Friday night, Feb.

26. Others in the cast are Martha Alice Smock. Jane Ellen Walden, Helen Currie, Kathryn Hays, Maybelle Smith, Harley Campbell, Robert Don McCloskey, James Runyan, Paul Metcalf and Linden Beatty. The committee in charge includes Charles Runyan, chairman, Esther Morrison and Vida Marie Bennett. JOHN B.

JAMES, 93, OF NEW ALBANY DIES to The Indianapolis NEW ALBANY, Feb. John B. James, 93 years old, believed Indiana's oldest practicing attorney, died today of pneumonia. A native of Alsace-Lorraine, he came here with his parents at the age of 3. He taught school at in Indiana and later in Illinois, then took up law and practiced fifty-two years.

He organized the Floyd County Abstract Company of which he was head at the time of his death. THEODORE AVE-LALLEMANT. MILWAUKEE, Feb. -Theodore Lallen 58-yearold economist and former instructor at Marquette University, died yesterday after a long illness. He was born in Kellersville, Dubois county, Indiana.

INDIANA PAROLEE GETS LIGHT TERM; SYSTEM CRITICIZED CHICAGO, Feb. criticism of Indiana's parole system was made by Judge Frank M. Padden in Felony today when he sentenced Morning Court, Star, an Indian, 31 years old, to six months in Bridewell prison on forged check charge. While telling the court about a $32 check he admittedly gave to a Chicago grocer, Morning Star said he was paroled from the Indiana State Prison in 1933 while serving a three-to-ten-year sentence for forgery. A condition of the parole, he claimed, direcetd him to leave Indiana at once.

"It is a fine state of affairs when a state shirks its duty to look after its own parolees," Judge Padden said. "I will impose a relatively small sentence here only upon condition that you return to Indiana as soon as you are released." lot of people won't believe him, but mostly imagination you feel when the teacher in the dental department of at the Chicago Dental Society convenand technique-70 per cent psy- POLICE PRESS ASSAULT QUIZ Wife and Naval Lieutenant Called Again for Questioning in Honolulu. HONOLULU, Feb. intensified their investigation today of the assault story told by Mrs. Bennett S.

Copping. 24 years old, wife of a naval officer, as the young woman held to her original account of the incident despite the report of an examining physician that he found no evidence of criminal attack. The officers asked Mrs. Copping and her husband to appear again for questioning. Mrs.

Copping reiterated that an unidentified man grabbed her as she left her hotel cottage room about o'clock yesterday morning, dragged her seventy-five feet across the lawn to a garage and attacked her. Woman Tells of Drinking Party. Police Chief William A. Gabrielson said Mrs. Copping told of a drinking party the preceding day and night from which her husband retired comparatively early.

Officers interviewed Naval Lieutena ants W. Johnson and W. Allen and Miss Dolores De Beck, a nurse. Gabrielson said the Coppings, Johnson, Allen and Miss De Beck attended the party Sunday; that it started during the morning, and that Lieutenant Copping, commander of the submarine S-28 left during the afternoon to' return to his hotel. Gabrielson added that Lieut.

Johnson and Lieut. Allen and Miss De Beck accompanied Mrs. Copping to the hotel late that night. They said Copping was asleep. Seized by Throat, She Says.

Several hours later, Mrs. Copping reported she came out of the hotel bungalow to go to a washroom and that she was seized by the throat and dragged to the garage where she lost consciousness. Dr. Henry A. Akina, assistant city-county physician, examined Mra Copping twice and reported he found no indication that she attacked.

A third examination was ordered. The Coppings have been married seven years and have a sma'l daughter who spent the night at the home of her paternal grandmother. Fire Rages Three Hours in Hospital for Insane POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Feb. 16.

-(P)-Fire swept for three hours tonight through the upper floors of the main building of the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane near here but was extinguished without injury or loss of life among the more than four thousand inmates. Dr. Ralph H. Folsom, superintendent, estimating the damage at $15,000, said he would launch an immediate investigation into the cause of the blaze which broke out in the women employes' quarters on the fourth floor. LIVELY STEPPERS FOR WASHINGTON DAY BALL Left to right: Rosalyn Ludwig, Bernice Holtman, Billy Jean Redmon, Joan Degischer, Betty Bertels, Barbara Hamilton and Margie White.

the "Hoosier Lively Steppers" these dancers will participate in the floor show As members of to be presented during the Fifty Club's Washington's birthday ball Saturday night on the Hotel Severin roof. Courtland C. Cohee is chairman of the entertainment committee, Norman G. Wolf is chairman of the arrangements committee and Paul C. Beckner will be master of ceremonies.

DAVID LYONS, 92, DIES HERE SAYS EPISCOPALIANS MUST FACE PRESENT RT. REV. BENJAMIN F. P. IVINS.

Bishop Ivins Compares Ancient Macedonia to Present in Lenten Address. The congregation of the Episcopal church must face the present religious life, its opportunities, privileges and responsibilities, the Rt. Rev. Benjamin F. P.

Ivins, bishop of the Milwaukee (Wis.) Episcopal day Lenten Christ Epischurch, said yesterday, at the nooncopal Church. Recalling the vision of St. Paul, when the Macedonians called him to over into Macedonia and help uncome and describing ed the situation which Paul found, Bishop Ivins compared it to the condition of our community, national and international life today. "Many people know about God," he said, "yet have no a experience of Him as motivating reality in their lives. There are many who substitute for religion all sorts of philosophies, strange gods, spiritism, numerology and astrology.

It is evident that in a spite of all human efforts to organize, unify and integrate our lives, there is a terrible lack of unity, purpose and motive." services Bishop Ivins today, will tomorrow speak at and the noon: day, and at an interparochial Lenten rally of young people at 8 o'clock tonight in the Church of the Advent. sister, Mrs. Ira S. Dresbach of a Tiffin, 0. Funeral services will be held in the home and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.

Time of the services has not been set. Mrs. Ruth A. Willhite Dies at Sisters' Home Mrs. Ruth A.

Willhite died yesterat the home of her sisters, Mrs. day W. Reagon and Mrs. Retta B. Amos 3246 Central avenue, after illness of three months.

Mrs. Morgan, an Willhite, 77 old, was the widow years Charles D. Willhite. She came to of Indianapolis her home ill in short- Beverly Hills, and became ly after her arrival. Willhite was born in ClerMrs.

She moved in 1899 to Indianmont. where she lived until 1932, apolis, when she went with to two California daughters, Miss to make her home Yuba Willhite and Mrs. Arthur H. Webber of Beverly Hills. She was member of the Central Christian a Church.

Funeral services will be held Titus funeral home at the Hisey o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with at 2 Dr. William A. Shullenberger, pastor of the Central Christian Church, in charge. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Besides the daughters and sisters, survivors are grandson, Arthur H.

Webber Jr. of Beverly Hills, and a brother, A. H. Barnhill of Oakland, Cal. Mrs.

Artie C. Mills Dies; Ill Five Months Mrs. Harriett Hudspeth Mills, 51 years old, a resident of Indianapolis died yesterday in her thirty years, home, 1934 North Delaware street, following an illness of five months. Boswell. Mrs.

Mills was born in She came to Indianapolis in 1907 and was married to Artie C. Mills of Indianapolis Aug. the 10, 1925. Boswell She M. was E.

a member of Church. Survivors are her husband, a Mrs. Oliver Mills of Indianapolis; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. daughter, Samuel P.

Davis of Lafayette; three brothers, William G. Davis, Harry L. Davis Samuel A. Davis of Lafavette, and three sisters, Mrs. Elwood Stump of Frankfort, Mrs.

George May of Kokomo and Mrs. Raymond E. White of Dayton, 0. Funeral services will be held in the Wald funeral home. Burial will be in Boswell.

Time of the services has not been decided. Jeffersonville Refugee Dies in Hospital Here Frank B. Collier, 65-year-old Jeffersonville flood refugee, died yesterday in the Flower Mission Hospital. The elderly man had been ill for several days. EDWARD DEBIASE.

Edward DeBiase, 48 years old, 1243 Virginia avenue, died morning after an illness of two days. The widow, Mrs. Anna DeBiase of Indianapolis, survives. a o'clock Funeral this services morning will in Burial the be St. held John's at 9 Catholic Church.

will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Civil War Veteran Succumbs to Injuries Suffered in Recent Fall. David Lyons, 92 years old, a veteran of the Civil War and last surviving member of the Pat Thomas Post, G. A. in Greensburg, died yesterday in the Methodist Hospital as the result of a fall suffered Jan.

30. Mr. Lyons, who lived with his grandson, Dr. M. C.

Lyons, 112 East Walnut street, been a patient in the hospital since Feb. 3. Mr. Lyons was born in Woodford, Jan. 22, 1845.

He came to Ripley county his parents when he was an infant. Later he moved to Greensburg where he lived thirtyseven years. He served with the 68th and 123d Indiana regiments during the Civil War. Mr. Lyons came to live with his grandson here four years ago.

He was a former commander of the G. A. R. post in a Military Greensburg. funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Methodist Church in Greensburg.

Burial will be in South Park cemetery there. GEN. PERCY HALY, POLITICIAN, DIES Former Kentucky Adjutant General Stricken After Flood Service. LOUISVILLE, Feb. Former Adjt.

Gen. Percy Haly, 62 years old, a prominent figure in Kentucky politics since the Beckham administration in 1900 and deputy provost marshal of the Louisviile military district in the recent flood emergency, died here tonight. Gen. Haly did night and they duty at city hall throughout flood crisis. When the situation was in hand he was taken to a hospital here suffering from pneumonia.

Several days ago he appeared to improve. Gen. Haly never aspired to elective office, preferring to advocate behind the scenes a philosophy of political and economic liberalism which made him one of the earliest Kentucky supporters of President Roosevelt. Praises Work. "Louisville will have full Federal help: in getting over the flood," he said in one of his last comments of public affairs, "because now the gOVernment is being run for the people." These words epitomized the creed he learned as a fighter with Governor William Goebel.

Goebel was slain by an assassin as he left the Legislature that declared him Governor. The then youthful J. C. W. Beckham carried on his policies, one of his first acts being to appoint Haly 88 his adjutant general.

He retained this military title the rest of his life. Judge Robert Worth Bingham, United States ambassador to Great Britain, deplored Gen. Haly's death with this tribute that Haly was "the most unselfish man I have ever known." John C. Butler Funeral Conducted Near Culver to The Indianapolis CULVER, Feb. -Funeral services were held today at the home, near here, for John Campbell Butler, 76 years old.

He was a native of Marshall county and had served as its surveyor and as city engineer of Plymouth. Prior to his retirement to farm near Culver, also had sten, surveyor for Culver Military Academy, Survivors are the widow, daughter, one sister and sons, including P. V. Butler of Indianapolis. W.

D. ROBINSON. VERSAILLES, Feb. Funeral services for W. D.

Robinson will be held at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Versailles Methodist Episcopal Church. Charles Page Perin Dies; Consulting Engineer NEW YORK, Feb. Charles Page Perin, 75 years old, well known consulting engineer, died of pneumonia early today. Perin had been prominent for years in steel and iron industries and was a pioneer in the manufacture of pure iron by electrolysis. He was head of the engineering firm that bore his name.

He made A study of fuel supply for the Trans-Siberian Railway and developed iron resources of India. He also was engaged in mining operations in China. In 1919 as chief engineer of Perin, appraisal commission, attached to the peace commission. Dr. Robert Greenough, Cancer Specialist, Dies BOSTON, Feb.

-Dr. Robert G. Greenough, 66 years old, nationally known cancer specialist and former president of the American College of Surgeons, died today after a heart attack. He was a member of the American Surgical Society, the Clinical Surgical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for Cancer Research. Dean of Northwestern Commerce School Dies CHICAGO, Feb.

E. Heilman, 50 years old, dean of the Northwestern University College of Commerce, died today after an illness of ten days, following a general breakdown suffered last year. Dean at Northwestern since 1919, Heilman was author of many articles dealing with public utilities. G. B.

McGinty, 58, I.C.C. Secretary Succumbs WASHINGTON, Feb. George B. McGinty, 58 years old, secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1913, died at his home here today of pneumonia. McGinty was a native of Monroe county, Georgia, and went to the Interstate Commerce ComI mission in 1908.

STRAUSS SAYS: A Large Company of ALPAGORA TOPCOATS has just come in Alpagoras are the soft topcoats that give more wear than the general average are pounds lighter and more comfortable (these are laboratory proved facts). As fine as they've been they're stepped up for the spring of 1937. especially in the inner construction which means even better even greater satisfaction. $27.50 Camelshade Oxford Gray Cambridge Gray Silver Gray A New Tan L. STRAUSS AND COMPANY THE MAN'S STORE BOOKED FOR BALL OF CLUB MANAGERS DICK JURGENS.

Entertaining at the Club Managers of America convention banquet and ball tomorrow night in the Indianapolis Athletic Club will be Dick Jurgens and his orchestra. These musicians, recently engagement completed at the a Drake four Hotel in Chicago and are known widely 8.8 a result of their radio broadcasts. The club managers are holding their annual convention in the Hotel Severin. SNOWSTORM, DRIFT UNABLE TO DELAY FIRST LADY'S TRIP WASHINGTON, Feb. heavy snowstorm falled to daunt the energetic Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt today. While the President was talking to reporters, Mrs. Roosevelt rushed in to say she was off to some ceremonies at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

"I just called to say goodby," she said. Noting the snow falling outside, the President replied: "Goodby, if you get stuck in a snow drift telephone me." "Oh yes; I will telephone you from the snow drift," Mrs. Roosevelt retorted, before she vanished. "And, she would too!" the President commented to the laughing reporters. CLUB TO HEAR TODD.

Dr. William H. Todd, superintendent of the White River Conference of the United Brethren church, will discuss "Beliefs That Matter in Thinking About God," for the Young Men's Discussion Club at its meeting in the Y. M. C.

A. tonight. A baked bean dinner at 6 o'clock will precede the address. JUDGE REFUSES DOCTOR'S TEST Keeps Reeves's Physician From Taking Medicine as "Poison" Trial. WHITE PLAINS, N.

Feb. (P) --Dr. Albert W. Page, chief prosecution witness against Chang Foo Lee, Korean houseboy on trial on charges of attempting to poison Mr. and Mrs.

George W. Reeves of Indianapolis, was saved twice today by Judge Gerald Nolan from taking "poison" in court. Dr. Page, who the defense claims unwittingly poisoned the Reeves couple while treating them for an illness, offered to take as injections twice the amount of medicine he gave the Reeves during his treatment of them. Judge Nolan ruled "such a procedure would prove nothing" and declined to permit it.

Asked to Drink Contents. Later Dr. Page was asked by Charles D. Lewis, Chang's attorney, if he would drink, dissolved in water, the contents of four test tubes which Lewis produced with the explanation they contained amounts of two poisons equivalent to those found in the bodies of Mr. and Mrs.

Reeves by laboratory technicians. Again Judge Nolan, agreeing with permit the doctor to take the stuff. prosecution a declined to Charges Fear for Legacy. The state alleges that Chang, mission-reared Korean, poisoned Mr. and Mrs.

Reeves because he feared they would interfere with a legacy he believed he would receive from Mrs. Ida L. Churchill, 83 years old, Mrs. Reeves's wealthy aunt and employer. The defense contends Dr.

Page poisoned them unintentionally. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reeves now are valids-an alleged result of the oning. The prosecution insists that the medicine Dr.

Page gave the Reeves did not contain a sufficient quantity of poison to injure them. Dr. Page spent most of the day on the witness stand, following Mrs. Reeves, who was carried into court on a stretcher. She bluntly accused Chang of giving her poison in a home-concocted tooth cleaning powder.

Two More Terre Haute Police Officers Demoted TERRE HAUTE, Feb. (U.P.) -In the second police department shakeup within a week, Detectives Lewis A. Wheeler and Robert Schroeder were reduced to patrolmen. Their reduction followed demotion of James C. Yates from chief to patrolman.

W. Robert Page, president Board of Safety, said the reductions were made as an econony measure Do you know- That Seville has a reputation for TODAY old fashioned CREAM PIE that com- Old Fashioned petes with Grandma's Cream Pie the secret of its goodness lies in baking it slowly in flaky shell. 10 Seville 7 N. INDIANAPOLIS MERIDIAN. TAVERN.