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4 i 14 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1938. 17W-i hi'm'l ffiX rffiTlnlfTI Ayres Gives Tokens to Girl Scouts. DR. WIRT, GARY EDUCATOR, DIES a i.nniiTi i i i i r- i i i i I i -ii Founder of Noted School Plan Precipitated Quiz By Congress. -)'''' WiliffiiBM Younger To Wear If REGISTERED KaHil31SEiESSy Sister, Too, Wants a Shirley Temple I I Jpeco' to The Indionopolis Star.

Gary March 11. Funeral Heir With Fan Pleated Skirt I Vmmk Little sister knows her fashions and insists upon wearing one of these exciting new Bolero type dresses with a fan-pleated skirt. These styles are made of a fine quality rayon taffeta and come in dainty floral prints as well as the new spring pastel shades. Authentic Shirley Temple fashions, made by Cinderella. Sizes 3 to 12 years in the group.

With a Lilt and a Tilt A New Londonaire Greets the Spring! A soft felt with a saucy feather and a brim that you can wear up or down. Just listen' while we call the color roll Metal Green, Platinum Grey, Monterey Blue, Dramatic. Blue, Burnt Tuscan, Vusty Hose, Bamboo Beige, Parisand! New Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin Spring Frocks I Miss Dorothy Ifande (left), field worker in the Indianapolis Girl Scout organization, is shown receiving a charm-bracelet token celebrating the Girl Scouts' 26th birthday anniversary from Mrs. Hester Leavitt of S. Ayres Co, Ayres executives announced yesterday that any Girl Scout who presents her registration card in the Girl Scout section on the fourth floor of the store will receive one of the birthday tokens.

The token, shown in the inset, is in gleaming gold finish inscribed with the Girl Scout motto and trefoil. tit The Shirley Temple styles are inspired by her new picture, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Fast color cotton prints and solid colors. Sizes 3 to 12. Deanna Durbins in sizes 12 to 16. I0VN8TAIRS AT AYKKS.

Local Girl Scouts to Give Pageant In Celebration of 26tb Anniversary Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Girl Scout organization, 175 Indianapolis Girl Scouts will participate in a pageant in the Indiana World War Memorial Shrine at 1:45 o'clock this afternoon. The pageant, international in theme, has grown out of the study for world knowledge badge of the organization, supervised by Mrs. C. Severin Buschmann. Flags of the 31 countries where Girl Scouting now is carried on will be presented in a review by members of Troop 40.

Two girls from Fort Harrison troop, Lowry Davidson and Hope Wheeler, will open the program by flashing a wireless greeting to Lord Baden-Powell, founder of scouting. Mrs. Horace R. McClure, commissioner, will Interpret the message and give the nddress of welcome. Six American flags will be presented the organization as gifts from Caroline Scott Harriso.i chap ter, D.

A. and from the Auxiliary of the Indianapolis Post, American Legion. Mrs. Frederick Stilz and Mrs. Clarence Jackson will make the presentations.

Music for the pageant will be in charge of Mrs. G. B. Jackson. Mrs.

Robert S. Blake, soloist, will sing. Mary Lou Over will be narrator, assisted by Louise Dunning. Probation Given Two S. II.

S. Youtbs; Judge Praises Editorial in The Star services will be held here Monday morning for Dr. William A. Wirt, founder of the noted Gary educa tional plan of "work-study-play," and precipitator of a congressional investigation in 1934 when he said "brain trusters" told him President Roosevelt was "only the Kerensky of this revolution." He died today at the age of 64. The schools he founded and made world-famous will be closed during the services at Christ Episcopal Church and during the burial services at his home city of Bluff-ton, where he was superintendent of schools before coming here.

Superintendent of Gary schools from 1907 until his death, Dr. Wirt was summoned to Washington four years ago to explain a letter in which he had said that some of the administration's advisers were plotting to destroy "the America of Washington, Jefferson and Lin coln. No Action Taken. I Nothing came of the investiga tion. Three Democrats on the House committee reported they found no foundation for the charges.

Two Republicans reported the Investigation was not through. The House took no action. Dr. Wirt criticized the brain trusters and told of asking "some of the individuals in this group what their complete plan was for bringing on the proposed over throw of tho established social order." "I was told," he wrote, "that they believed by thwarting our then evident recovery they would be able to. prolong the country's destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the government must operate industry and commerce." Born at Markle, Dr.

Wirt attended DePauw University, took postgraduate work at the Univer sity of Chicago and studied educational methods abroad. Students Buy Paintings. Educators from over the entire country have been in Gary at various times to study tho city's school system. The schools are conducted the year around and the hours are from 8:15 a. m.

to 4:15 p. with night classes for adults until 10 p. m. Free textbooks are used and elementary subjects are intro duced by games. Two hours of each day are allotted for play.

The students raise antl sell chickens and pheasants and also sell eggs. Records show the average college age in the country is 18 but in Gary the average age is 16 Profits derived from the various school activities have enabled the students to buy approximately worth of paintings. Successor Not Discussed. School board members, nrenarinu to participate in the funeral services, probably will not discuss the question of even a temporary successor until after the burial. Once possessor of a considerable estate, Dr.

Wirt lost most of his holdings during tho depression, in cluding his summer home on Lake George, N. and his interests in the defunct National Bank of America, of which he once was president. Surviving are the widow, one of the departmental supervisors In the Gary school system and known professionally as Mildred Harter Wirt; three children, William A. Sherwood and Eleanor Wirt; a brother, Chester Wirt, and two sisters, Mrs. Orviile E.

Fisher and Mrs. Lulu Roberts, both of Gary. His first wife died more than a decade ago. His second wife was the former Miss Ruth Jacques, who had been serving as his secretary. Following their divorce he wedded Miss Harter.

MRS. TIIIRZA CRAKi. Mrs. Thurza Craig, 49 years old, died yesterday while In the bath room of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Perry C. Lewis, 901 North New Jersey street, No. 6. Mr. Lewis told police and Dr.

E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, that Mrs. Craig had been complaining of pains in her chest for several weeks. Halliburton Addresses Audience at School 57 Richard Halliburton, world traveler and author, addressed an audi ence of more than 700 persons last night in School 57, under sponsor ship of the Irvington Union of Clubs.

Speaking on the subject, "Far-Off Lands Behind the Sunset," Mr. Halliburton reviewed episodes and adventuers first revealed in the series of travel books he has written covering his wanderings over most of the world. Mrs. James C. Todd, committee chairman, presided.

FILE GADGET AFFIDAVITS Affidavits setting out reasons why the Indiana automobile gadget holder law should be scrapped were Tiled by nine motorists in Federal Court yesterday. All aflldavits set out that the gadgets were unsightly and listed eight reasons why the law requiring the gadgets is unconstitutional. A three-judge court will hear the case of Ernest Maholm for an Injunction against enforcement of the gadget law, Wednesday. ST. JOSEPH ALUMNUS DIES.

Cincinnati, March 11. The Rev. Arthur J. Powers, 33-year-old professor of Latin of St. Gregory Seminary in suburban Mount Washington, died today after a two weeks' illness, A native of Father Powers was graduated In 1931 from St.

Joseph College, Collegeville, Ind. VETERAN EDUCATOR DIES. Kansas City, March 11. (U.P.) Dr. Julius C.

Zeller, 66 years old, veteran educator, minister and plantation owner, died last night of a heart attack in a drug store where he was making a Sizes 3 to 11 New for Spring 1938! Girls' Fitted or Swagger Coats J5.95 5 Smart girls look their oest dressed in a fitted swagger coat of herringbone tweed or novelty fleece. Coats lor school or Sunday best. Well tailored styles in navy blue, novelty mixtures, royal blue, raspberry, tan and copper. Sizes 7 to 14. 3 MANIOiM TO BE SPEAKER FOR HIBERNIAN ORDER Clarence Manion.

Indiana director for the National Emergency Council will speak on "Irish Is as Irish Does" tomorrow morning at a breakfast of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the Claypool Hotel. He also will be principal speaker Thursday at the annual dinner of the Irish Fellowship Club in the Palmer House, Chicago. $110,400 FOR PAVING. The South East street paving and street-widening project will cost $110,400, plus cost of acquiring land for the undertaking, members of the Board of Works and Sanitation announced yesterday. Board members adopted a resolution approving the expenditure of $110,400 for construction costs.

sr 3.95 Londona'tei fjcusiVs With Kink's Rendezvout Hat Shop, Street Floor. CRITIC OF NEW DEAL "BRAIN TRUST" DIES (Mrrllnj Photo.) DR. WILLIAM A. WIRT. George Gcckler Succumbs Here George M.

Gorklrr. 71 vears old. brother of Judge John F. Geekler of Marion County Juvenile Court, died late vesterdnv in his home. Shelby street, after a brief illness.

A lifelong resident of Indian apolis, Mr. Geekler had operated a cleaninir establishment nt. ihe Shelby street address many years ana was known widely on the South He was born March 2, 1S67. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Survivors, besides Judge Geekler, are the widow, Mrs.

Caroline Geekler, and a daughter, Miss Margaret Geekler of Indianapolis. A son, Geor ge Geekler drowned in Fall Creek in July, 1930, while on a family picnic party. Bund Representatives Open Membership Drive Representatives of the Nazi Amerika Deutschen Volkslmndes (German American Bund) are making a canvass of homes of persons of German extraction in a membership drive, it was learned yesterday. A North side woman said that she was called on bv a woll-rii-pssprl young man carrying a brief case, wnosam mat he represented the Bund. She ordered him off the premises, she said.

Bund representatives have distributed announcement cards and letters advertising a rally to be held at an r.asi sine resiaence at clock Monday night. CAPONE STILL IS IDLE. San Francisco, March 11. UP) The Alcatraz prison warden's ollice today denied a report that Al Capone, one-time Chicago gang leader, had been returned to his former duties in the prison yard. Several weeks ago Capone was taken to the prison hospital after he became "mentally ill." GRIDIRON DINNER HELD.

Gridironers led by Ben Roberts triumphed at the annual gridiron dinner of the Exchange Club last night over a group led by Edwards C. Johnson, Mangus, president, presided. PENNILESS HAWKER DIES. Pittsburgh, March 11. (U.P.) Letters from prominent Canton to.) residents were found by police today in the pockets of a 55-year-old penniless newspaper hawker, who died of a heart attack in a hotel here.

The body was identified as that of Lawrence P. Qullligan. In the pockets were letters of personal tone from a Stark county (Ohio) judge and Representative William Thorn of Ohio. iW for Spring 1938! Girls' Fleece Topper Coats Hi there! Here's a coat that has everything you want for this spring! It's a classic swagger style, wearable with any dress and any place! In gold, shrimp, raspberry and French blue colors. Well made from serviceable fleece.

Sizes 11 to 16. Barksdalc Rites I Will Be Monday Mrs. Miranda Tott Barksdalc, 48 years old, a resident of Indianapolis 25 years, died yesterday in her home, 3037 North Arsenal avenue, after 11 months' illness. Born near Frankfort, Mrs. fenrifcHnin Rnpnt the early years of her life on a farm near New Liz- ton and was graduated irom me New Lizton High School.

Later she attended Central Normal College at Danville. Mrs. Barksdale was a member of the Lizton Christian Church, and was pianist of the Col. A. D.

Streight Circle No. 16, Ladies of the G. A. R. i Services to Be Monday.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon in the residence and will be followed by another service In the Hamilton funeral home. Burial will be in Glen Haven cemetery. Survivors are the husband, Clarence M. Barksdale; a son, Donald W. Barksdale of Indianapolis; daughter, Mrs.

Muriel Jay Hughes of Indianapolis; her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Ginn of Fortville; a brother, Charles Ginn of Lizton; two half-brothers, Gabriel Ginn of Anderson and James C. Ginn of Fortville; a half-sister, Mrs. Carmen Snow of Crawfordsville; two stepsisters, Mrs.

Kate Boyd of Lebanon Bnd Mrs. Mable Roberts of Indianapolis, and four grandchildren. I MRS. ELIZA E. FISHER.

Mrs. Eliza E. Fisher, 79 years old, a resident of Daviess county Until two years ago when she came to Indianapolis to live, died Thursday night in the home of a son, O. W. Guthrie, 432 North Bradley street, after many years' illness.

Funeral services will be held at 6 o'clock tonight in the Blackwrll funeral home and the body will be taken to Elnora where burial be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. I Survivors, besides Mr. Guthrie, are another son, Carl Fisher of JSan Antonio, a daughter, Mrs. Gertie Peyton of Washington, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. GEORGE DEPUTY.

George Deputy, 66 years old, B059 Newton street, died of heart iidisease yesterday afternoon in a Pennsylvania Railroad shanty at lhe Pennsylvania railroad and South Gray street. Charles M. Toohy, 62, 1216 Oxford street, operator and yard clerk Jor the railroad, said Deputy came to sit by a stove and then slumped over. Dr. E.

R. Wilson, deputy coroner, reported death was due heart disease. i Dr. Wilson said telegrams and Petters In the man's pocket Indicated his wife lived in Denver, Col. The body was taken to city morgue.

NEWBORN TWIN GIRLS DIE. 1 Twin daughters born to Mrs. Maurice W. Mason, 5317 Park avenue, in St. Vincent's Hospital Tuesday afternoon, are dead, hospital attendants said yesterday.

One in-Jant died the day after birth and the other died Thursday. Mr. is agency manager for the American United Life Insurance Company. TIPS FROM TODAY'S STAR WANT ADS 4ut lh lot to build on Rraullftil harird lot on Guilford ave. Clainlflra-Uon, 88.

11-room rooming houar, good condition, tea, cash. Clavulflcatlon 14, Do yon qualify for thla position? Aaat, cook; fancy aalad and sandwich xp. Mutt be high clam. Give recent ret. Drive own car.

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Classification 89, MANY OTHER ITEMS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE ARK LI8TKD TODAY THROUGHOUT THK STAR'S WANT ADM. KOR COMPLETE FT AILS 11HM NOW TO THE WANT ADS. Five husky Short ridge High School students, dressed in stylishly cut gaberdine and tweed suits, heard their group likened to torture and robbery gangs in Municipal Court yesterday and saw two of their number go on probation for a year and lose their driver's licenses. The live youths, arrested Feb. 12 for annoying a motorist and his wife, appeared before Judge John L.

McNelis. Several of the parents of the boys were in the crowded courtroom. "Stumped" by Actions. "he done about all a judge should do," Judge McNelis told them as he lined them before bar. "I've talked with outstanding businessmen and civic leaders and outstanding members of the bar They're absolutely stumped by the actions of these boys." The youths were Harrv L.

Frevn. 17 years old, 4925 North Meridian I street; Herman Leeth 18, 1512 North Meridian street; Albert Breiner, 16, 815 East 57th street: Robert Hall, 17, 4185 North Dela ware street, and Richard K. Fishet 28, East 57th street. Freyn 'was charged with assault and battery ana disorderly conduct. "Here they, are," Judge McNelis continued, "all students in a fine school, all from line families and all of them intending to go to college." He lifted an editorial clipped from The Star, deploring the depredations of youthful gangs and calling attention to need for convictions as lesson to other youths.

Reads Editorial. "I cut that editorial out and I'm going to read it in full," he said. "It's one of the most able editorials I've ever read and very fitting and very timely. I wish ench one of the mothers and fathers of these boys could read this editorial." The judge read: "TIME FOR OaiECT LESSON: "IF CONVICTIONS are obtained in the trials of youthful gangsters alleged to have committed a long series of crimes in Indianapolis and adjacent counties the law should administer a stern lesson as a deterrent to others 'seeking to exist on banditry. Leniency would be misinterpreted as weakness of the law by boastful members of gangs.

Successful defiance of the law breeds crime by emulators who pervert successful gang operations into a sort of hero worship. "The work of the torture gang that burned the hands and feet of a man who lives alone near Mar tinsville was particularly revolting. Five alleged members of the gang were identiiied by the victim, who was burned in an effort to force revelation of hidden money. The group Is said to have been involved in other robberies. "Another youthful gang Is Implicated, according to police, in a series of burglaries.

One of the group was Involved in a fatal automobile accident last fall in which a motorist as well as one of the alleged bandits was killed. Eighteen robberies of filling stations, taverns and restaurants are ascribed to these men. "The public also is familiar with the case of several youths, some of them Indianapolis high school pupils, who terrorized motorists north of the city. Their offenses were not serious from a legal point of view, but the participants should be denied the use of automobiles for a long time. Parental discipline is needed badly in their reformation.

"The depredations of youthful gangs may not be as spectacular as the operations of professional gangsters, although the crimes are no less serious to the victims, threatened by death as well as suffering loss of property. A holiday for customary leniency and a stern object lesson in maximum sentences should he helpful in convincing other youthful ne'er-do-wells that crime doesn't pay." Three Held Not Guilty. Holding Hall, Fisher and Breiner not guilty but commenting that "they were extremely fortunate in just being charged with vagrancy," Judge McNelis then turned to Leeth. "I don't think this boy should go 'scot he said. Leeth was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, vagrancy and operating a motor vehicle with Juse MeNlis Leeth to hand over his driver's license, put him on one year's probation and withheld judgment on a sentence.

"If you drive an automobile for one year, you're liable to a one-to-five-year sentence," Judge McNelis warned. He ordered Leeth to report once a week during the year's probation. Turning to Freyn, he asked him if it were true that Freyn was an all-state football player. The youth nodded. Gives Harsh Scolding.

"This is a hard statement for a court to make, but I wish you'd struck that man four or five times," Judge McNelis said. "If you had struck him four times I'd send you to the state farm. Luckily for you, you only struck him once. And luckily for some people that have been very kind to you and have overlooked your silly pranks. I'm going to be very lenient with you." Freyn was said to have been the youth who struck Julius Travis 1040 Fairfield avenue, when Mr.

Travis and his wife were driving in an automobile in Park avenue near 70th street. Withholding judgment, Judge McNelis took Freyn's driver's license and ordered hun to report once each week for a year to authorities and to a pastor of a church the judge said had Intervened in the bov's behalf. TWO DENIED PAROLES. Joseph Wcintrout, alleged international confidence man, was denied a parole by the State Clemency Commission yesterday. Wein-trout was sentenced in Marion, county July 28, 1934, to serve five to 50 years tor embezzlement after swindling Miss Mabel Gentry, now dead, of 58,000 in bonds.

Weintrout, according to the commission, had spent 35 years as a confidence man. swindling hundreds of persons. His home was in Shelbyville. Daniel Bogdon, serving a one-to-10-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a man on an Indianapolis street in 1937, also was denied clemency. Our Lowest Price! Junior-Miss" White Campus or White and Brown Saddle Oxfords A'pir for Spring Girls' 2-Pc.

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navy, kelly green colors. Sizes 8 to 16 years. iLj Pair miiiiriiieiiiiK petition against use of the thoroughfare by busses. JOB SERVICE REPORTED. More than 20 per cent of the 440 persons hired by Indianapolis employers during February through facilities of the local office of the Indiana State Employment Service were from the commercial and professional department, George J.

Smith, district manager, said yesterday. These included sales persons, stenographers, bookkeepers, auditors, tool designers and time study men. The remainder of the private placements were divtded as follows: Service workers' department, 23 per cent of the placements; domestic workers' department, 31 per cent; skilled and semiskilled trades department, 18 per cent, and unskilled labor department, 4 per cent. Two popular styles for the high school or college girl. Our lowest price on these white moccasin type oxfords or white and brown saddle oxfords.

Flexible sport soles, wedge heels. Sizes 3Vi to 9, A to widths. DOWNSTAIRS AT AYKES. fJllllilllW Protest Abandonment Of Keystone Bus Line A delegation of patrons of the Central-Keystone avenue bus line appeared before members of the Board "of Works and Sanitation yesterday to protest against a proposed abandonment of the line. Indianapolis Railways recently asked permission of the Public Service Commission to abandon the line and replace It with an extension of the Millersvllle road line.

Works board members had approved a plan wHereby the Millers-ville road line would be extended north on Keystone avenue from its present terminus at the Millersville road to 46th street, thence to Scho-field avenue, north to 52d street, east to Keystone and return. Spokesmen for the delegation said 38 of the 42 property owners on Scho field avenue had signed a.