Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1926 — Page 4

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CITY SANITARY BOARD MEMBER HITS INTEREST Mac Fall Syas Pressure Is Bjfing Exerted for Engineer. Powerful interests, which have received contracts for supplies in the building and mantenance of the $3,500,000 sewage disposal plant are exerting pressure on Russell T. MeFall and City Engineer George G. Schmidt to halt the ousting of C. K. Calvert as plant engineer, Mac Fall charged today. Mac Fall, merpber of the board of sanitary commissioners, contending that Calvert and his associates are halting completion of the plant, has tried to obtain passage of a board resolution to dismiss Calvert, but has been blocked by defense of Calvert, O. C. Ross, board president, and the indecision of Schmidt, the other board member. To Reveal Facts “I expect to have some interesting data on the motives of persons who would retain the Calvert regime,” said McFaJl. ‘‘l cannot tolerate conditions now prevailing With respect to conduct of the board’s affairs.” Mac Fall scored the lavish expenditures allowed C. H. Hurd, who built the sewage disposal plant. Hurd, he said drew his salary of $750 a month during two tjfips to Europe. The zoard paid the expenses of his last trip, amounting to S7OO, in August. Hurd wet to Europe to investigate the claim of European engineers that the Chicago board of sanitary commissioner had infringed upon their patent rights in construction of a disposal plant there. Failed to Report The theory of the jaunt was that the Indianapolis board might be as legally liable for infringement as the Chicago body. • Hurd, Mac Fall said has failed to subjpit a reuxlrt he agreed to make concerning -that trip. He received a leave of absence without pay late in December and has never reported for duty Since, according to MacFall.

DUNN WILL ASK . ROAD BONDS BID (Continued From Page 1) primary because of his activities in behalf of crushed stone, politiclaris said. The State highway commission, with the approval of the Government, bureau of public roads, uses both crushed stone and gravel as the “coarse aggregate” In roads of the rigid type. Proximity to the source of supply is the determining factor. After the tax board had refused to permit bonds to be sold to cover construction of a road on a baSls which that body regarded as, “unfair,” the county commissioners did not use State specifications. Instead, specifications were changed entirely and bids were asked on a bituminous macadam construction, a non-rigid type in the building of which*more, stone and asphalt is used than in the rigid type. Tests made of rigid type roads in which either gravel or crushed stone has been used as the “coarse aggregate” show a variation of less than one-half of one per cent. Such a difference Js regarded as inherent in tests. Easily Deformed The non-rigid type of road does not have the life length granted concrete roads because of the lack of cement. The surface is easily deformed by traffic and requires more repairs and greater cost of up-keep, according to Government reports. A check of contracts let. by the highway commission in the past year shows an average price of approximately $22,000 per mile for concrete roads. On this basis the -three and one-fourth miles to be paved in Tibbs Ave. would cost about ?72.0(W, a sum less than the amount the county commissioners have agreed to pay the Hayes Construction Company for' the work. Local contractors would rather bil on concrete roads in this vicinity where gravel is permitted as the coarse aggregate on account of the many pits in Marion County from which the material can be secured. There are no stone quarries in this county. The nearest quarries are located in Putnam County near %Greencastle. FOREST FIRES UNCHECKE Thousands of Men Fight Flames In Canada—One Killed. Bii United Press WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July lfe.— ♦Fdrest fires in Alberta and British Cdlumbia w,ere flaming today with repewed vigor despite a heavy rainfall last night. The fire jumped a creek and spread many thousand) feet up Mt. Wardie. Thousands of men are fighting the flames. One man was killed near Nelson, B. C., by a falling tree. A desperate fight is being waged along the Banff - Windermere highway. One hundred fire fighters were hemmed in there yesterday and escaped with . their lives only after a hard battle. Several lumber camps were destroyed yesterday in the Nelson area. FAMILY OUSTED BY FIRE Defective Wiring Believed Cause of Blaze on South Side. Family of Louis Neff, Stop 8, Madison Rd.. was aroused at 4 a. m. today when a blaze broke out in their home. With the aid of neighbors they were able to remove house, hold furniture. Damage was about $260. . ' ... : Defective wiring was believed to be the cause, according to the fire dej partment.

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A reorganization of the Indiana-, polis Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America will be effected at a meeting called for this evening at 8 o’clock, at the Chamber of Commerce, 28 S. Meridian St. State Senator L. G. Bradford of South Bend, president of the Indiana State Division of the Izaak Walton League will be present at this meeting and will be the speaker of the everting. Major R. A. P. llolderby of Chicago, national representative of the League, and A. E. Bodine, State organizer of the Department of Conservation of Indiana, are cooperating in the organization work. The local committee in charge of tonight's meeting is as follows: George . Denny, John A. Hook, Fred L. Appel, Perry W. Lesh and V. C. Roberts.

SHRINERS REPORT BOP FUND Worker? in Financing Campaign Hold Luncheon. Another report meeting and luncheon of the team captains and workers in the Murat Temple campaign for refinancing was held today at thfe qiaypool under the direction of Edward J. Scoonover, general chairman, and Arthur R. Baxter, executive chairman. Subscriptions totaling $300,000 have been subscribed. Subscriptions are for loans, payable over a period of five years, at the conclusion of which period the temple’s entire preferred stock and interest charges can be retired. . Ir ... f- \ • FARE DEFICIT GROWS Car Company’s Reserve Fund to Cover $135,577.09 Loss. Asa result of a heavy loss of receipts by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company during June, the deficit in the company's depreciation reserve fund rose from $108,924.63 to $135,577.09, according to a report filed today with the public service commission. Total receipts for June were $384,582.13, as against $411,234.59 for the same month in 1923, thus increasing the deficit $26,652.46. The June, 1926. receipts also fell $2,550.59 under those for the same month in 1925. The depreciation reserve fund created two years ago by the public service commission when fares wer*" last increased, is supposed to be used to replace worn-out equipment. The fare increase, however, has never brought about the increased revenues anticipated. IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT Suspect Greencastle [Prisoners of Postal Theft. Federal postal inspectors went to Greencastle today to identify four men, believed to have taken part in the of the New Lisbon (Wis.) postoffice some time ago. The’ men were arrested a few days ago by the Putnam County sheriff, and will be turned over to the Federal authorities. They are Edward A. Allison, alias Eddie (Shorty) Casey; James Stevens. ,alias Charles Hagener: Harry Gaddii, alias Robert McGregor, and Thomas A. Ellis, alias Thomas A. Elliott. GAS WAR ON Bit United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., July 16.—A gasoline prjce war in the twin cities was indicated today in the action of an independent concern in reducing prices 4.2 cents a gallon. W. C. T. U. WITHDRAWS Bv United Press PHILADELPHIA. July 16.—The National Women’s Christian Temperature union had withdrawn from participation in the Sesqui-Centen-nial exposition, it was announced today because of the operation of the exnosition on Sunday. i

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TO DEDICATE NEW PARK Governors, Other Notables, To Be at Lake James Saturday. In addition to three Governors, several other persons of note will be on hand Saturday at the formal dedication of Lake James State Park, in Steuben County, it was announced today by the State Conservation commission. Governor Jackson of Indiana, Groesbeck of Michigan and Donahey of Ohio are listed as speakers at the afternoon program. Other notables who will attend are United States Senator James E. Watson, Congress man David Hogg, ex-Governor James P. Goodrich, Clyde A. Walb, chair man of the Republican State committee: R. Earle ePters, chairman of the Democratic State committee: State Conservation Director Richard Lieber and his assistant, Charles G. Sauers: Evans Woollen, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, short term: Albert Stump, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, short term, and State, conservation commission members.

DRIVE BEGUN ON LIQUOR SOURCES Federal Agents in All Parts of State. With Federal agents permanently stationed in all parts of the State, A. Rl Harris, deputy prohibition director, today announced that a “drive to the sources of the Indiana liquor supply is on.” Harris said the men will remain at the points of duty until investigations and arrests are made that will rid Indiana of booze sources. j He said the drive will be effective until fall and agents will concentrate on river camps where stills are operated. During the first fifteen days of the month, Harris said, agents confiscated twenty Stills, thousands of gallons of mash, and moonshine whisky. Agents turned up five stills Thursday, in the southern part of the State. BORIS' TURONE TOTTERS.REPORT Domestic Violence Looms — May Restore Father. Bu United fireas ATHENS, July 16.—Unconfirmed reports from Sofia indicate that Bulgaria today is on the verge of domestic violence which might result in the abdication of Boris 111, the bachelor king, and the return to the throne of his father, King Ferdinand. Macedonian revolutionary organizations, backed by former Premier Alexander Zankoff, were alleged to be preparing for the violent overthrow of the Liapseffs cabinet. It was reported that the Macedonian organizations imposed upon Boris the half-secret Journey which he began last week. Boris is in Lucerne, Switzerland, with his sister, Princess Eudoxie. Bv United Press LONDON, July 16. —The Exchange Telegraph’s Vienna correspondent has wired a Bucharest report that, a strong force of Roumanian troops has been sent to the Dobrouja zone. The troops are under orders to disperse a band of 600 Macedonians and a number of Bulgarians, the report states. CITY HALL TOO BRIGHT Board Members Find Total of Light Bills High. It’s to be a soft pedal on the bright lights at the city hall. “We'd better hire a man to turn out the light here,” Lem Trotter, board of works member, exclaimed today when he discovered that the light bill for the last six months for the hall amounted to $3,518.97, or nearly S6OO a month. The board members also were considerably perturbed when they learned that the commercial heating of Tomlinson Hall for the first five months of this year cost $5,785. SIX YOUTHS SENTENCED AII Fined and ‘Sent Up’ For Taking Automobiles. Six youths, all charged with vehicle taking, were convicted today in Criminal C6urt before Judge James A. Collins. Roscoe Hash. 21, was fined $1 and costs and sentences one to fourteen years at the Indiana Reformatory. Hash was returned from Morgantown, In., where he is alleged to have driven a stolen machine with Ulysses Tony, 16, who was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail. Beveridge Cole, Walter Hancock, Burnlce Brazzell and Fletcher Bendler, each 19, pleaded guilty vehicle taking. Hancock was given one year on the Indiana State Farm and the others ten months. Cole also was given a ten month’s term on a charge of issuing fraudulant check. i

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FORMER 10BAL MANJURDERED (Continued From Page 1) garage door wherf the assassins opened fire. Shots lodged in the door from both sides, showing that one gunman had been hidden on either side of the back yard. One neighbor, the 'first to the scene, told police he heard two men running down the street behind the garage. Officials are inclined to the theory that two hired gunmen committed the murder, probably the same men who were seen earlier in the week driving by the Mellett home frequently in a large automobile bearing a Pennsylvania license. Mellett has been lor a year publisher of the Canton Daily News, owned by James M. Cox. once Democratic nominee for President. Mellett once operated newspapers in Columbus and Rudhvilie, Ind., and was an employe of the advertising department of The Indianapolis Times for a while. . , Mother IJves Here Mellett's brother, Lowell Mellett is head of the Washington Bureau of Scripps-Howard newspapers. His mother, Mrs. Margaret Mellett resides at 3357 Washington Blvd., here. John Mellett, author, and Homer

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Mellett, newspaperman, also realde in Indianapolis. Another brother, Loyd, city editor of the Cantpn Daily-News, formerly was in charge of the Indiana bureau of the International News Service here. Roland Mellett Os the Mellett Printing Company of/this city and Hickman Mellett of Anderson, Ind., are also brothers of the murdered man. Three brothers, Hickman, Jehn and Roland, left early today for Canton, Ohio. Mr. Mellett and Miss Evans, who later became his wife, attended school together at Shortridge High School and Indiana University. Mr. Mellett attended Indiana University in 1914. He was born In Elwood, Ind.. In 1890. His father was J. 11. Mellett. Fourteen Shots Fired Fourteen shots were fired by the assassjn, some of them into the house where sJbllett and his wife were entertaining a party of friends. Two 1 of the bullets lodged in Mellet’s head, killing him. almost instantly. The party had returned late to the Mellett home and was in the house where the publisher’s wife was preparing a lunch. Mellett had gone outside to put and the shooting took place when he started back to the house. Mellett had been active in municipal reform movements since be went to Canton a year ago to take charge of the Cox newspaper. He was a

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