Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1927 — Page 2

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OPTIMISM RIPE FOR SOLUTION OF MINE CRISIS Prospects Brighten With Strip Coal Conference Thursday. Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 4. The coal mining situation in Indiana presented a brighter outlook today than at. any time since the suspension jpCTit into effect last Friday with the termination of the Jacksonville agreement. Optimism is rife that the conference of strip operators and representatives of District 11 United Mine Workers of America Thursday, will end the suspension in that branch of the Stale’s coal mining industry. Strip mining represents around 20 per cent of the State’s coal mining industry. Have Point Cause for the optimistic outlook In regard to the strip mining industry is that they havW a real negotiable point with the mine workers’ organization. Strip mine Operators, by contract, pay time and a half for overtime and double time for holiday work, while operators of deep mines pay according to the miners’ regular scale. Miners in strip mines would like their number of holidays Increased to the number in deep mines, it is understood. It is not believed the matter of wages will be a large factor in the negotiations. Pcnna 111 Proposal of the district United Mins Workers’ organization to the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, operators of deep mines, for a conference will be considered when Phil Penna, secretary of the operators, recovers from illness. * Independent mines continue to sign with tho mine workers’ organization to continue work under the old Jacksonville agreement pending settlement, according to Harvey Cartwright, district mine worker president. Tho number that has signed up is not yet available.

CIRCUS DM IN CITYON MAY 3 Nature Study Club Visits Winter Quarters. ~ May 3 will be circus flay in Indianapolis. Attendants at the Sells-Floto and Hagonteck-Wallaee winter quarters at Peru are busy preparing for the opening of tlfb season. Sells-Floto, which has added some $400,000 worth of anitnals to thencollection is scheduled to visit the ' Hoosier capital May 3, according to Zack Terrell, manager. ' After playing three weeks at the * Chicago coliseum the canvas will open at Peru May 2. Several hundred local persons in the Indianapolis Nature Study Club -party visited the circus grounds Sun- [ day, witnessing special performances I in honor of the visit? ' ASKS FAITH BE SHOWN Should Be Expressed in I.ives, Says Baltimore Itector Here. ♦‘The modern age looks for teeults. If we who profess to believe so much would only permit our faith to express itself in our lives we would have no trouble in convincing men of the truth of our faith,” said the Rev. Henry A. Hanson of All Saints Cathedral, at the Lenten service at Christ Church at noon today. It was the beginning of the sixth week’s series of Lenten sermons. Dr. Wyatt Brown, rector of St. Michael and the All Angels Church, Baltimore, Md., will preach at the services each noon until Saturday. BOY DIES OF SCALDS I* Said to Have Fallen in Boiling Vat at Leather Products Plant. Coroner Paul F. Robinson today investigated the death of Edward Frejie, 7, 2116 N. Harding St., who died at the Methodist Hospital Sunday from burns. The youth is said to have fallen into a vat of scalding water at the American Leather Products Company, Twenty-Second St. and the Belt Railway, Saturday. He and other boys are alleged to have removed a board from a fence to gain entrance to the grounds. Company officials said they knew nothing of the accident. The vat was filled with waste liquids from the plant. NAME MEDA^~V\MNNERS Three Girls Take Prohibition Contest Prizes at Ben Davis. Margaret Telley, Bennie Mae Dickey, Marie Green won the oratorical contest Friday night at School 14 at Ben Davis, under auspices of the Meridian Heights W. O. T. U. Medals were presented 'by Mrs. Francis Metz Schmoe, chairman. The contest staged with cooperation of Camp Fire girls dealt with the subject of prohibition. SUBMARINE DAMAGED Bu United Press VALLEJO, Cal., April 4.—The United States submarine S-17 was in the Mare Island Navy yard for repairs tod<ty following a crash in a test cruise. Traveling on the surface of the water, the vessel rammed l Into a causeway supporting the Mare [ bland drawbridge Sunday, No one l wls Injured)

Cat Still Has Nine Lives 81/ United Press LYNN, Mass., April 4. Trapped seventy-two hours beneath 140 tons of steel rails, Rusty, a pet cat, was rescued here without the loss of even one) of its nine lives. Spurred on by feeble "meows,” four members of a street railway wrecking crew worked four hours to free the cat. After the rescue Robert Preston, owner of the cat, found that Rusty had lost four pounds, but otherwise was normal.

ARSENAL TECH TEACHER DIES Miss Marie K. Binninger Was on First Staff. Miss Marie K. Binninger, 40, history teacher at Arsenal Technical High School since It was opened, died at 12:10 a. m. today at the family' home, 1610 N. Alabama St., after several months’ illness. Miss Binninger was born and reared in Indianapolis. She was a graduate of Manual Training High School and Butler University, where she received a scholarship to Chicago University. She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi sorority. Surviving are the mother, Mrs. Frieda Binninger; brother, Franz Binninger, and three sisters, Bertha and Frieda Binninger and Mrs. James R. Lewis. Funeral services will he Wednesday at 9 a. m. at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral.

APPOINTMENTS UP TO JACKSON Back at His Desk, Governor Faces Ticklish Job. Governor Jackson returned to his desk at the Stateliouse today, after a week's illness at Clifty Falls State Park, near Madison, Ind. Accompanied by his wife and family lie went to the falls for a week-end trip and suffered an attack of “flu” and sinus infection. Among the Important considerations facing Jackson are pending appointments to board and commissions. Chief among these Is the reappointment or choice of a successor to Alvan Burch, State highway commissioner. Burch’s term expires April 17. Terms of Frank Wampler and Howell Ellis of the public service commission expire in May. Commissioner Clyde Jones has announced he will resign to enter law practice here and this will mean another vacancy. Two appointments are to be made on the State education board, and one on the industrial board. Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts also will be up for reappointment soon. The term of Dr. William F. King, the State board of health secretary expires April 14, but this reappointment is up to the board. Dr. King is a full-fledged member. Park Board Bumps Over Meridian St. The park board made a tour of investigation of Meridian St. and Thirty-Eighth St. Blvd., today to get first hand knowledge of their condition. A special meeting \>f the board will be held tonight to decide what action will be taken to improve the streets. Plans and specifications have been drawn up for the widening and resurfacing of Meridian St. from Fall Creek to Thirty-Eighth St., and for the resurfacing of Thirty-Eighth St. John E. Milnor, president, declared that because of a lack of funds Meridian St. probably would not be widened this year, but would be resurfaced. DE PINEDO IN FLIGHT Italian Works Two Hours Getting Hugo Plane to Take Air. liii United Press MEDINA LAKE, SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. April 4.—Taking the air or, the third leg of his trails American flight, Commanrfer Francesco Dc Pinedo, Fascist ace, rose from Medina Lake at 8:03 a. m. today in his giant hydro-monoplane. Tho huge craft labored more than two hours before it successfully rose from the calm waters and it was necessary to lighten the cargo by discharging 200 gallons of gasoline. De Pinedo announced his destination as Lake Hall, Hot Springs, N. M.

News: Auto Pulls Mules From Mud Bu United Press FAIRFIELD, lowa, April 4. • —Enter anew definition of just what is news. When a mule pulls an automobile out of th* mud in lowa that isn’t news—unless the automobile happens to belong to a celebrity. But when an automobile pulls a mule—better* still, a span 0 Missouri mules—out of an lowa nuulhole, that, assuredly, is news. A truck performed the service for a span of Eclipse Lumber Company mules that wandered off the end of Burlington St. hern.

PRICE FIXING ON OIL CHARGED IN FEDERAL BRIEFS Concludes Preliminaries in Monopoly Litigation of Three Years Standing. The United States Government today concluded written preliminaries in its three-year-old suit against the Standard Oil Companies of Indiana and New Jersey, the Texaco Company, the Gasoline products Company as "primary” defendants and forty-seven other oil refining concerns, charging attempts to monopolize petroleum "cracking” processes to produce gasoline. The Government, in tts 600-page brief, contends the refineries have a price-fixing agreement among themselves and that a system of licensing exclusive use of the "cracking” process among themselves is in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Hearing May 16. Attorney Charles Martindalc, Indianapolis, has acted as master of chancery in the case since April, 192^. Printed evidence submitted by counsel for the defendants covers ten thousand printed pages. Argument will be heard before Martindale In Federal Court, May 16. Following the heading Martindale will submit a written report of his findings to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Chicago, for final disposition. A formidable array of nationally known legal talent will.participate in the hearing. Among approximately fifty defense attorneys will be John W. Davis, one-time Democratic presidential candidate, who will represent the Standard Oil Company of New J ersey. Sargent May Appear John G. Sargent, United States attorney general, has participated in the case and may appear. The license agreements attacked by the Government include some 200 alleged patents owned by the primary defendants in the suit and "farmed out” to the smaller refineries. The oil companies contend that the combination is justified under the patents issued by tho Government and that the licensing system was necessary to prevent possible Infringement litigation. The Government points out that heavy royalties are imposed on socalled independent refiners, the amount of which is determined by agreement. This constitutes an agreement to fixe prices, it is contended, a practice recently condemned by the Supremo Court. LOSE BOSCH SUIT Bu United Press NEW YORK, April 4.—The United States Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed the suit of Otfo Heins and Albert R. Klein to recover the Bosch Magneto Company, which they owned before the war. The Government seized the assets and stock of the company and sold them under the alien property law for $5,000,000.

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FATHER OF SLAIN GIRL IS BURIED George Oberholtzer Rests in Grave Beside His Daughter. “One of the kindliest men I have ever known.” This was part of the benediction pronounced upon the character of George E. Oberholtzer, who was buried from his home, 5802 University Ave., this afternoon. The Rev. C. H. Winders of tho Northwood Christian Church paid tribute to the devotion to his family which had characterized the dead man, the father of Madge Oberholtzer, for whose murder D. C. Stephenson Is serving a life term in the Indiana State Prison. The Rev. J. B. Rosemurgy, pastor of the Irvington M. E. Church also took part in the service. Neither minister made specific reference to the daughter or the tragedy that preceded her death. Mrs. Oberhqltzer, in a nervous state, bordering on collapse, heard the services from an upstairs room. The large bay-windowed second parlor where Mr. Oberholtzer’s casket rested was a bower of floral offerings—many sent by those who have sympathized with the Oberholtzer family, but 'had no personal acquaintance, as well as from numberless friends and neighbors. Tho burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery, where Mr. Oberholtzer, now lies beside Madge, his only daughter.

Indianapolis Rea! Estate Board members say this year’s Home Complete Exposition at the State Fairground Is the most attractive show the board has staged. Above: A view of Hie, west side of the Freneli chateau, centerpiece of tlie exhibit. Below: Betty Mae Prlnzler, 3430 Guilford Ave.. in front of the mission st>le house in which the Yonnegut Hardware Company exhibit is shown.

MURDER TRIAL OPENS Bu Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., April 4.—Melvin McKeen, 60, went on trial for the second time today on charge he murdered Willard Mingous in 1924. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was granted anew trial by the Supreme Court.

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OFFER TO COOLIDGE Bu United Press LANSING, Mich., April 4.—President Coolidge lias been offered use of the 150-acre summer lodge of R. E. Olds, automobile magnate, on Charlevoix Lake, Charlevoix, Mich., it wa*reported today. The offer also includes use of the Olds oceangoing yacht. Reomar IH.

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PRIEST 10 YEARS DIES Bu United PreSn. . PARIS, April 4.—Monsignor Joseph Wack, 71, for forty years a priest in Texas, and at one time vicar genera! oi the San Antonio diocese, yesterday jd his births place, near Metz ; to which he retired several years ago.

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Two Are Injured Fatally in Indianapolis—Many Are Injured. —_ , * SEEK HIT-RUN DRIVER Heavy Toll Is Taken Outside ' of City. Eight persons were dead today, the result of Sunday traffic tragedies in Indiana. Two were killed in Indianapolis and vicinity. Local police were without clews today. to the Identity of the “hit and run” motorist whose automobile sped on after it had hurled the lifeless body of Mrs. Katherine Schmidt, 45, of Elwood, Ind., to the curb. Mrs. Schmidt was struck while crossing the street at 2300 W. Washington St. Her husband. Otto J. Schmidt, stood by, unable to rescue Mrs. Schmidt from the path of the Ford coupe. Schmidt had warned his wife not to attempt to cross the street, Russell Lloyd, 1157 W. TwentyNinth St., an eye-witness to the tragedy, told Police Lieutenant Leonard Forsythe. Witnesses failed to obtain the license humbers or a description of the driver. George Leap, 32,1814 Sugar Grove Ave., was fatally injured Sunday when the borrowed automobile in which he was riding with three companions struck a bridge near Plainfield, turned over and caught fire. Driver Held Richard Wishmire, an Indianapolis man, driver of the auto, was held in the Danville, Ind., county jail on an involuntary mansliughter charge. According to Sheriff Harry Rodney of Danville, Wishmire, said he lives on S. Sheffield Ave., but a different address is given in the city directory. Wishmire, the sheriff said, admitted he had been drinking. Miss Charlotte Saine, 23, of 121 E. Vermont St., also in the auto, was seriously injured. Miss Bertha An-, derson, 20 of the Vermont St. address, suffered only minor hurts. The automobile had been loaned by Frank Scampmorte, Andersen. Ind., for a Sunday trip to Terre Haute, Ind. Cyclist Killed Michael Doktor, 65, a factory worker, was killed at South Bend, when his bicycle was struck by an automobile driven by Edwin Stephens. 19. Police exonerated the youth. James W. Goff, 84. a Civil War veteran, was killed at Ingalls Sunday when he stepped into the path of a train. Levi Inmann, 62. was fatally injured at Cloverland, near Terre Haute when his auto was struck by a T. H., I. & E. traction car. Two at Chicago Arthur Strauck, 27, and Thomas Mowry, 68, were dead as a result of an auto-traction crash at East Chicago. Injuries received several days ago when struck by a train at Sunman fatal to Edgar Schuck, 40, oil truck driver. Many Injured Many persons were injured in motor mishaps. Mrs. Don Phillips, R. F. D. No. 1, Indianapolis, suffered serious injuries, and her 10-month-old daughter was slightly hurt in an auto collision. Charles Winders, 52, of 643 Jefferson Ave., is near death in Indiana Christian Hospital and his wife Js suffering from serious injuries. Their truck was struck by a Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern interurban ear near Mooresville Sunday night. Winders’ skull was fractured. JBriver Tices Willie Wilson, 33, Negro, of 804 Minerva St., is critically injured at city hospital. Wilson was struck by an auto as he walked in Tenth St. near Miley Ave. Police expect to arrest the driver, who fled. Others Hurt Others injured over the week-end: Mrs. Bertha Slade and Mrs. Florence Slade, both of Forty-Sixth St. and Shadeland Dr.; Grant Mullendore, 12 N. La Salle St.; Thomas Perry, 26, of 1121 Ewing St.; John Gray, 53, of 3760 N. Pennsylvania St.; John Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio; Lafayette Keaton, -2138 Madison Ave.; Mrs. Marlin Bellow, 2224 Central Ave. and son, Louis, 2; Mrs. Slavia Gray of Middletown, Ind.; William Maxwell, 126 W. South St.; Dorothy Marshall, 8, of 231 Spring St.; Fred Ruth, 34, of 3226 Newton St. and Mrs. Anna Ryan, 44, of 4429 Schofield Ave.

COOLIDGE LAUDS BIBLE President Expresses Views in letter to Class of Washington Church. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.—President Coolidge was on record today as a strong supporter of the Bible. "Foundations of American Society and Government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible,” he said, “that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings should cease to be practically universal in our country.” The President’s statement was made in the form of a letter read before the Bible class of the Church of Epiphany here.

INCOMES OF 207 ABOVE $1,000,000 EACH YEAR Tax Reports Disclose Seven Persons in United States Receive More Than $5,000,000 Annually.

Timet Wathtnoton Bureau. , i?tt A’etc York Avenue WASHINGTON, April 4. —There were 207 persons in the United States last year whose individual income tax reports showed net income in excess of $1,000,000. The total income of these 207 individuals was $422,456,872. Who they are and where they live, an official report today does not say. Other interesting disclosures are: Seven persons reported annual income in excess of $5,000,000. Their total income was $61,382,868 and their income tax totaled 110,259,177. Thera wera 3,953,976 individual In-

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MAYOR DENIES UE HOBNOBBED WITH COFFIN ON TRIP Returns From ‘Somewhere/ Declaring He Wears No Man’s Collar. Mayor John L. Duvall, back in Indianapolis after a mysterious weekend trip, emphatically denied a well substantiated report that he was in conference with George V. Coffin, Marion County Republican chairman. ‘‘somewhere in northern Indiana.” “I am neither connected with Coffin or Armitage,” the major declared. “I am running Indianapolis and I'm not influenced by either man.” Arimtage on Tlirone Acccording to reports, William 11. Armitage, Shank administration political boss, had superseded Coffin as "the man behind the throne” at city hall. Last week the mayor ousted Chester C. Oberleas, a Coffin man, as city engineer, and appointed Frank C. Lingenfelter, an Armitage man, in his place. Armitage would not deny he was the new political boss at city hall. Scouts Shake-Up "There is nothing but hot air tdfl the report that there is going. to a shake-up in the board of Wttrks,” the mayor said. Armitage declared ho "knew from rumors” that L. H. Trotter, board member, would be ousted and that Roy C. Shaneberger, board president, would probably resign. Both members refuse comment. It Is reported at city hail that, if Coffin regains his political influence members of the board will not be ousted.

TRAPEIC ARRESIS ON WEEK-END, 21 Nine Autoists Charged With Drunken Driving. Traffic arrests totaled twenty-sev-en over the week-end. police records showed today. Seven alleged speeders were: Elmer Canady, 22. of 745 Parkway Ave.; Everett Chamness, 20, of 5122 Ellenberger Ave.; W'oolon Mullen, 34, of 2837 Byram Ave.; Andrew Ridley, 28. of 746 N. California St.; Roy R. Aldington, 45, of Southport, Ind.; Earl Robinson. 20, of land, Ind.. and Charles Sing, 20. oM ! R. R. 4, Box 740. M Nine alleged intoxicated driveif I were: Frank Allie, 27. of 872 Udell St.; Harry A. Payne. 66, of 6029 Colonial Ave.; John Stanfield, 44, of 744 Haugh St.; Joe Jacobs, 28, Grand Hotel; Fred Ruth, 3226 Newton Ave.; Richard Coffey, 29, of 2340 N. Keystone Ave.; Lawrence K. Roborts, 25. of 645 N. Oakland Ave.; James Monfort, 47, of 2618 Brookside Ave., and Frank James, 45, of 1263 W. Thirtieth St. John Coolidge Visits Governor s Daughter Bj United Press PLAINVILLE, Conn., April 4*John Coolidge. son of the President, has been courting again, and today lie was en route to Amherst College in the automobile of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, whose daughter, Florence, frequently has entertained him. Miss Trumbull and .John left the Governor’s mansion together in convoy of a State policeman and it has been planned for her to make the entire trip to Amherst with John, but Miss Trumbull stopped at Hartford. She is a student at Mt. Holyoke College. A member of the Governor's household said today John had been given permission by his father to visit the Trumbull home as frequently as he desired. 159 WEEkTnd "ARREST^ Thirly-One Men and Two Women Are Charged With Intoxication. Liquor raids swelled the week-end arrest totals to 159, city prison reports showed today. Thirty-one men and two women were charged with public intoxication, and seventeen men and two women with operating blind tigers. No large amounts of liquor were seized however, police in some cases being forced to drain the contents of sink catch basins for the city chemist’s analysis. Two alleged gambling house keepers and twenty-one alleged gamblers fell into the toils of the law. There were twenty-three arrests for vagrancy. Detectives made only three arrests on felony charges.

come tax payers In the nation and their net income was $21,189,850,119, of which $731,377,191 was paid in income tax. The total income for these 3,953,976 tax payers, including dividends, rents and royalties, etc., v as- $24,700,723,058. Wages and salaries® totaled $9,30(>,590,636. S Persons whose income is between SIOO,OOO and $150,000 f year are the most desirable class of citizens from the Treasury viewpoint. There were 4,769 of them and they paid a net tax of 179,385,904, the largest of any class of tncoma tax payers.