Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 314, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1927 — Page 1

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urn DEFEATED Bf NORTHERNERS Foes of Cantonese at Yangchow Strike First Blow Since Shanghai Fall. POWERS SET DEMANDS U. S. One of Five Nations in Nanking Action. Bu United Pres* SHANGHAI. April 9.—The Nationalist army was defeated today at Yangchow by the allied armies of Marshal Sun Chuan Fang and Chang Chung Chang. It was the first blow struck by the northen# allies since the Nationalists drew near Shanghai and rapidly occupied the entire southern portion of the Yangtze valley. The Consular Corps today waited reply from Municipal council of the foreign settlement to its request for an explanation of the picketing of the soviet consulate, and the Russian consul, in turn, awaited reply of the consular corps to his protest against picketing. The tense situation created by the unusual action of the council had led to a confusion of protests and requests for explanations. American and British representatives on the council defended picketing by white Russian mercenaries and by volunteers, including Americans, on the ground that the soviet headquarters was ‘‘a hotbed of Bolshevist Intrigue.” Bu United Press _ „ PARIS, April 9. —France, England, the United States, Japan and Italy, it was officially announced today have reached agreement regarding demands for reparations for the murder of foreigners at Nanking and the looting of foreign property. The announcement said that it had not been determined whether the power demands would be made to Pekin, Hankow or Shanghai. BRITISH SHIP ATTACKED Destroyer Answers Rifle and Shrapnel Fire of Chinese. LONDON, April 9. —Heavy rifle and shrapnel fire was directed against the British * destroyer Veteran, fifteen miles below Chinkiang, the admiralty announced today. The Veteran, the communication said, replied to the Chinese Are from her main battery and disabled one Chinese gun. There were no British casualties. Four infantry divisions of the Russian army have been mobilized and sent to Siberia and three cavalry brigades also have been mobilized an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen reported today. The whole staff of one army unit has been sent to China, the dispatch added. The military activities reported in Russia were believed to be connected with the tense Chinese situation created by a native police raid on the Russian embassy in Pekin and picketing of the Russian consulate in Shanghai by foreign police.

AMERICANS RELEASED Man and Woman Freed at Pekin Through U. S. Consul’s Effort^. Bu United Press PEKIN, April 9.—Mrs. Mildred Mitchell of San Francisco and Honolulu and Wilbur Burton, Columbus, Ohio, Americans, arrested Tuesday by Chinese police on charges of engaging in Nationalist propaganda, were released today. The United States legation compelled the release following the failure of the Chinese police to take legal action to obtain warrants. The International situation surrounding raiding of the Soviet embassy by Chinese police seemed calm as replies were awaited to the embassy’s protest to Chang Tso-Lin against the raid and the Chinese protest to Moscow against an alleged Soviet plot to overthrow the Pekin government, which Premier Wellington Koo charged was proved by documents found in the embassy raid. Reports that Koo had resigned were officially denied. Nothing of value was seized by Chinese police in raids on Soviet business houses at Tientsin, and no important documents were found, it was understood here. SHOTGUN ROUTS THIEF Woman Wounds Man Prowling Around Dog Kennel. Mrs. Noble Lane, 2218 N. Lane Ave., routed a thief from a dog kennel in rear of her home with a charge of buck shot, wounding him, according to reports to police today. George Lane, her son, told police two dogs recently were stolen from the kennel. When his mother heard someone prowling about the kennel Friday night she got the shotgun and fired. She heard groans of agony. Hourly Temperatures • a. m 46 10 a. m 61 T a. m...... 46 11 a. m. 64 la. m...... 49 12 (noon) .... 62 9 a. m 49 1 p. m...... 64

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Crawls Under Auto; Leg Broken Albert Nahmias, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Nahmias, 1025 S. Illinois St., received a fractured right leg today when he crawled under an auto parked in front of his home after a ball. The driver reentered the auto and started away and a back wheel passed over the boy's legs. Ernest Pasch, 1853 Ringgold St., the driver, was held blameless. He said he stopped as soon as he heard a scream from Maurice Nahmias, (!, brother of the injured boy, who was playing near by. When the lad’s mother objected to his being taken to the city ■ hospital, the . ambulance doctor reset the leg at the home.

HOME SHOW SEEN BY OVER 100,000, OFFICIALS STATE Exposition Closes Tonight With Out-of-Town Visitors Greeted. More than 100,000 persons will have attended the sixth annual Home Complete Exposition when the final curtain is rung down tonight, according to Indianapolis Real Estate Board officials. Attendance records of other years will be shattered if fair weather prevails tonight, they predict. Twelve Milwaukee (Wis.) realtors and builders visited the show today. The final day of the exposition has been designated "Out-of-Town Guest Day” and several hundred visitors from surrounding towns were expected. Many exhibitors, pleased with the success of this year’s event, have reserved space for the .1928 exposition, J. Frank Cantwell, director, said. Committee workers in charge of the city manager campaign booth at the show, have been among the busiest "exhibitors” there. Their booth has been the gathering place of throngs and hundreds of signatures have been affixed to petitions asking a city manager election. Exposition doors will close at 10:30 tonight. ONE VOTE SPARED COOUDGE ATTACK Report Describes Anti-Sa-loon League Move. 811 Times Special Washington, April 9.—The ex ecutive committee of the AntiSaloon League failed only by a vote of five to four late in 1925 to censure President Coolidge and the administration for "misfeasance and malfeasance” in administering the Volstead law, according to a statement by the Association Against the Prohibition amendment here today. According to the statement, E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League was a member of the board at the time and voted against public release of the censure. The meeting was described as being held in the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 8, 1925. Although failing to make public the censure, the executive committee sent a “ rather curt” letter to Coolidge, warning him that no slackness in prohibition enforcement would be tolerated. Al Smith Replies Bu United Press tfEW YORK, April 9.—Governor Al Smith’s “statement of faith” in reply to a request for reconciliation of his Roman Catholic Church membership with the position he wuold occupy if he were elected President of the United States, today was in the hands of the Atlantic Monthly, to be published April 25.

Other Counties Busy With Spelling Bees •

Enthusiasm abundant! That’s what the • newspapers and school officials in eight central Indiana counties, cooperating with the Indianapolis Times, have to say about the interest of pupils in the State Spelling Bee. And that’s what the teachers have been saying for two weeks about the Spelling Bee in the Indianapolis schools. But Indianapolis pupils are not outdoing the boys and girls of the public schools of Johnson, Shelby*Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Wells, Hamilton and Madison counties. While the ties are being spelled off Monday in tho local class rooms, boys and girls who have tied for honors in the schoois of these other counties also will be battling with words for the grade championships. Some

APPROPRIATE COLLEGE AVE. BRIDGEFUND Council Authorizes Bonds for Repair of Fall Creek Structure. WORKS BOARD TO BUILD Park Commission Steps Aside as Council Acts. City legal machinery for the repair of College Ave. bridge, slowly slipping into Fall Creek, which was put in motion again by city council with passage of an ordinance providing a $?0,000 bond issue, Friday night, was temporarily throttled today while City Engineer Frank C. Lingenfelter figured out the next step. Although the board of works has passed the resolution and plans have been drawn, actual work can not begin in less than five weeks, it was said. Approval of the State tax board must be obtained before Lingenfelter can advertise for bids on the project. Two weeks will be required to advertise for bids, two weeks must pass to allow filing of a remonstrance and one or two weeks for receiving bids and awarding the contract. Roy C. Shaneberger, board of works president, said the next step would be up to Lingenfelter. It was believed the park board which had taken up the burden after other departments had delayed, will acquiesce to the new program. The bridge started to fall early in March, after former City Engineer Chester C. Oberleas had declared it safe. City councilmen asked that it be closed to traffic. The meeting Friday night at which council authorized the bond issue and directed board of works to go ahead with the repairs was called by Mayor Duvall and was the second special council session of the day. The park board recently agreed to repair tlie span after considerable delay among city officials. The council had taken previous action in a resolution, but work on tho span was not begun. “The-park board is very congenial and will step aside and allow the (Turn to Page 2) INDORSE PARK PLANS Plan Cnmis.sion's Proposal Approved by Fairvlew Organizations. The Fairview-Butler Civic Association and the Fairview Men's Club adopted resolutions Friday night at Fairview Presbyterian Church indorsing the City Plan Commission’s proposal to develop a 120-acre park between White River and the canal north of Fifty-Sixth St. to Warfleigh. City Plan Commission President Gustav G. Schmidt spoke for the project. Part of the land Is owned by Dr. H. H. Wheeler, who petitioned to plat It in small lots. Mrs. Case May Keep Auto , Court Rules Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins today permitted Mrs. Minnie May Case, 3815 Ruckle St., wife of Elmer Case, alleged North Side society bootlegger, to retain her Stutz automobile. The car was placed under SI,OOO bond after Case was arrested hauling booze in it last November. Prosecutor William H. Remy attempted to have the car confiscated on the ground that it belonged to Case, but was merely transferred to his wife's name for "protection.” Mrs. Case told Collins she bought the car “with money she had inherited.” Case is on suspended sentence of one to two years on the liquor charge in which the car was in* volved.

champions were chosen this week in all the counties, including Marion. Teachers in the schools of the counties which are cooperating in the contest conducted in Indiana by The Times declare that, the spelling bees have greatly stimulated interest in educational programs. Homes have become the scenes of neighborhood bees, and adults as well as children have become enthused over spelling. Down in Johnson county, according to word from Franklin, Edinburg and Greenwood, the grade spelling bees were held held Friday, but there were numerous ties and oral bees will be required in some of the nineteen public schools on Monday to decide the championships.

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PARENTS SEPARATE ELOPERS But Girl, 16, Refuses to Consent to Wedding Annulment. Shattered romance of an eloping couple is to be written into the records of the county courts if parental determination wins. It will be .a suit to annul the marriage of Everett Whalen, 20, of 5176 Hovey St., and Bertha Earlywine, 16, Broad Ripple school girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Earlywine, 4216 Baltimore Ave. They eloped to Lebanon Friday. The youthful lovers were separated Friday night by Bertha’s father and a* escort of two policemen. Using Persuasion “We are using persuasion to show Bertha that she must agree to annulment proceedings. If she persists in her determination to oppose, we will annul the marriage against her wish,” her parents declared. "There’s just no use,” declared Bertha. “I love Everett and he loves me. I’m trying to see this the way my parents want me to do, but I just know I can't.” Bertha left home for school Friday morning. But arrangements for the elopement had been made. A girl friend hqd taken charge of a bundle of Bertha's clothing, dropped from the Earlwine window Thursday evening. Bertha met young Whalen and they went to Lebanon by auto and were married. “Then we came back to Indianapolis and went to where Everett boards on Hovey St.,” Bertha sobbed. “Afterward, the two policemen and father came, and they made me leave Everett there and come home. It’s terrible. I’ll never get over it. I love him and I can’t give him up.” But Bertha’s parents think differently. “We’ll give her until Monday to see this right,” they said. “We don't want to be cruel, but there's too much foolish marrying and divorcing among the young folks fiowadays... We want to save our girl from this, with her consent, if possible.”

SPEED WORK ON STREET REPAIRS Three More Gangs Go on Job Under Contract Monday. Three additional gangs of workmen will begin Monday repairing city streets under contract with the Indiana Asphalt Company, Assistant City Engineer Arthur Haulier said today. The- new force will work on W. Washington, Michigan and New Vork Sts. and cross streets, while two gangs of city workmen will continue work on downtown north side streets. Haufler said the east side streets are in good condition and the $75,000 gas tax fund appropriated by the city council Friday night with $35,000 from last year will enable the department to put streets in good condition in six weeks. Indiana Ave. and main arteries will be put in shape before the arrival of Speedway crowds, Haufler. declared. Park Engineer J. E. Perry said boulevards will be treated with oil as the weather permits. About 150,000 gallons of oil will be used on gravel boulevards. FREE GARAGE RECEIVER Montgomery Surrenders Control of Alabama-Market Firm. Release of George H. Montgomery, real estate man, as receiver for the Alabama and Market Garage Company, 325 E. Market St., was completed in Superior Court One today. Montgomery reported to the court that he was ready to return the assets to the corporation. *. Receivership suit was filed April 4 by Ralph W. Carlson, firm official, who charged mismanagement by others. Wilbur Quellhorst, another official, bought Carlson’s Interest In the company, it was announced.

Other counties also report that the is keen and that youngsters have spent hours in the evening in drilling for the bees. Winners of grade championships are now preparing everywhere for the Building Spelling Bees, which will be held late this month. Pupils of tho fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the public schools in the outlying counties are determined to fight their way to county championships, to State championships and to the National Championship. Teachers in all schools have pledged their cooperation to grade champions and will coach them in the words of the McCall Speller for the Building Spelling Bees, in which all grade champions will compete. They have promised to carry through with

FLOOD DEATH TOTAL AT 22 IN OKLAHOMA Farmer and Railroader Save Marines’ Train on Washout Brink. LOSS BY WATERSPOUTS One Measuring Eight Inches Reported. Bu United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 9. —Oklahoma's death toll was swelled by fourteen when overflow waters of the Washita River swept through several Mexican homes near Rocky Ford last night. Six persons were drowned in the same copimunity AVednesday night and six others are missing. Two other persons have been drowned as the result of floods in various parts of the State in the last forty-eight hours, a total of twenty-two deaths in the State. In several parts of Oklahoma swollen streams have overflowed farmlands and paralyzed railroad traffic. River at Flood Stage Yesterday's toll of death and damage was followed by waterspouts again last night. The Grand River was a raging torrent early today and is expected to rise at least thirty feet and overflow. At Erie, Kan., where an engineer, fireman and an unujentlfled passen-

Two Save Marines * Special Train Bu T nitrd Press WALNUT, Kas., April 9. United States marines, en route to China, were saved from possible death i and injury yesterday by two Walnut men. Sam Plum, 55, a farmer, waded the raging Little Walnut Creek to flag the oncoming military train. At the same time, E. B. Carlos. Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad agent at Walnut, ran for half a mile to give the danger signal. The engineer of the marine special halted the locomotive within a few feet of a washout. Otherwise the train would have gone into tho stream.

ger were drowned early yesterday when a Missouri, Kansas & Texas train was derailed into Flatrock Creek, an eight-inch waterspout flooded the city. 40 on Island Isolated Big Island, in the Neosho River, south of St. Paul, Kan., was isolated today by high water. The forty inhabitants of the 1,000-acre Island were completely cut off. Trains are lhmning far behind time on all lines. Washouts in many places have disrupted regular service and travel is difficult. Two wrecks occurred on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas early yesterday in which three were killed and twenty-one hurt. A Missouri-Pa-cific train was derailed near Englevale last night as the result of a washout, but no one was hurt. PARSONS, KAN., FLOODED Four Feet of Water in More Than 100 Homes. Bv United Press PARSONS, Kan., Api! 9.—Waterspouts and resulting floods held a new threat for life a fid property in southern Kansas today. More than eight inches of rain fell In several Kansas communities in a short time yesterday and by nightfall rivers and creeks were invading towns and lowlands and driving farmers and townspeople from their homes. More than 100 homes in Parsons stood four feet deep in water early today.

the various winners until after the Zone and State Spelling Sees have been held here in May. Miss Flora E. Drake, assistant superintendent of Indianapolis schools, who is cooperating with The Times in promoting the Bees in Indiana, declares that reports reaching her office show that many ties have resulted from the written bees held Jra the local schools Thursday morning. Oral bees to be held at the regular class periods Monday morning will find many pupils competing in many grades. Attention will turn, after the oral spell-off Monday, to the preparations for the Building Bees, which will be held in Indianapolis April 27. These contests will be the last of the written bees.

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SCHOOLGIRL’S GIFT DIME FOUND BY DEATH SCENE

Girl Dies Planning to Cheer Mother —Youth Killed on Bicycle. Pink tissue paper with which to “make something for mother” caused a few minutes’ delay in a little girl’s getting to school Friday afternoon. Perhaps thqpe few minutes were the cause of her death, for as Mary Alice Ruark, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ruark, 2226 S. Delaware St., ran nappily across the street toward a drug store on Madison Ave., she circled around one car and was struck by another, driven by Wallace Wood, R. R. 6. The girl died within a few minutes and Wood was slated on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Dime Is Returned Forty minutes later, another 14-year-old child, Robert Sellers, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Huston, 2043 E. Washington St., riding a bicycle, was struck by a truck, driven by Philip Plum, of 1315 Union St., at State Ave. and Washington St. Plum was also slated for involuntary manslaughter when the boy died after reaching city hospital.. The little girl victim was a pupil at School 35. “She was bright and happy when she came home for lunch,” said Mrs. Ruark. “‘I want a dime, mother, I'm going to get some pink tissue paper and make something for you at school," she said, all eagerness. Then she went away, my little girl. When I saw her again she was—dead. Later, someone brought me the coin that had been struck fjrom her poor little hand.” Pet Cat “Knows” A white cat, Jack, Mary Alice's boon companion, circles disconsolate, ly around the rooms of the Ruark home. “Every night Jack slept by Mary Alice,” the child's mother explained. “I think he knows something is wrong.” The Sellers boy. whose family came to Indianapolis from Lakeland, Fla., two weeks ago, expected to enter Technical High School next Monday. His brother, John, 16, was riding a few feet behind him when ho was struck.

WORKMEN OVERCOME IN GAS-FILLED CELLAR Narrowly Escape Asphyxiation When Leaky Benzol Tank Fills Paint Company Basement With Deadly Vapors.

The workmen narrowly escaped asphyxiation from benzol at the Indianapolis Paint and Color Company, 640-644 N. Capitol Ave., today when one staggered out of the gasfllled basement after a futile attempt to rescue his companion and the second was hauled out through a manhole in the sidewalk. The men, John Mobley, 40, of 713 N. Delaware St., and W. A. Ricketts, 36, of 730 lowa St., both cmWAGE SESSION MONDAY Contractors and Building Trades Will Renew Negotiations. Representatives of contractors and the Marlon County Building Trades Council are to meet Monday to consider further a proposed wage scale agreement to provide a wage in accordance with living costs. It is said details of the plan have not been worked out between the union representatives and .employers. The present scale agreement expired April 1, but sevfral trades continued work pending settlement. FARM HANDS’ PAY LOW About Poorest Remunerated of All American Toilers. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. April 9.—Farm laborers arc about the lowest paid toilers in America, Agriculture Department statistics show. The average farm hand receives $34.53 a month and his board for working from ten to twelve hours a day and sometimes from sun-up to sun-down, the department said. BANDITS GET SIOO,OOO Fifteen Use Machine Guns at Elgin Watch Factory. Bu United Press ELGIN, 111., April 9.—Armed with machine guns, four automoßlle loads of bandits held up the plant of the Illinois Watch Case Company early today, opened a huge safe and escaped with gold and jewels value estimated at SIOO,OOO. N There were fifteen men in the raiding party. They entered the plant and held up two watchmen. A squad of the bandits then set to work with oxygen torches to burn open the vault. Others mounted guard with the machine guns, while a third party forced the watchmen to make their rounds regularly and punch boxes. LAUNCH WOOLLEN BOOM Democratic Leaders Meet Here to Push Banker for Presidency. Former Senator Thomas Taggart, Meredith Nicholson, National Committeeman Charles Greathouse. County Chairman Leroy J. Reach and District Chairman Charles Wellivr were among Democratic leaders who met here today to launch a boom for the candidacy of Evans Woollen, Fletcher Savings and Trust Company president, for Democratic nominee for the presidency In 1928.

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PLANE FOR DE PINEDO Italian Government to Send Machine to Replace One Burned. Bu United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 9.—The epochal four-continent flglht of Commander Francesco De Plnedo, Italian flying ace, will be resumed from New York as soon as anew plane arrives from Rome to replace the Santa Maria which burned at Lake Roosevelt, Arlz. He announced this after arriving here yesterday from Phoenix, Ariz., as a passenger in a United States naval plane. FOLTZ PLEA IS DENIED New Trial Refused for Man Cgjtvicted on Mansliughter Charge. Special Criminal Court Judge Fremont Alford tdoay overruled a motion for anew trial for Grover Foltz. 32, found guilty of manslaughter two weeks ago sos the fatal shooting of Malcolm Grayson, 30. Testimony showed that Folz shot Grayson when he returned to his home, 228 E. Wyoming St., Nov. 15, and found his wife, Mrs. Ruth Foltz, 30, in Grayson’s arms,

ployes of the paint company, were treated at city hospital and taken to their homes. Mobley ha 1 gone into the basement to repair a leaky benzol tank when he was overcome by the gas. Ricketts, watching through a manhole on the sidewalk, saw Mobley slump to the floor and Immediately went down aftfer him. He grew faint before he could assist Mobley to his feet and managed to climb out before he became unconscious. Throwing down a rope. Harry Borgman, 33, of 121 St. Paul St., descended long enough to fasten the rope about Mobley, then climbed out and drew up the unconscious workman. Firemen answered an alarm and Capt. George Townsend, equipped with mask and pipeline to the surface, entered the basement and succeeded in closing a valve to stop the leak. Sacco and Vanzetti Sentenced to Die Bu United Press DEDHAM, Mass., April 9.—Sombre and stolid, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettl returned today to the drab pounty courthouse where they were convicted of murder In 1921 and heard the dread death sentences which they had evaded through an amazing six-year legal fight. With sympathizers of the two barred from the courtroom, standing In silent protest outside, the two former mill workers were sentenced by Judge Webster Thatcher to pay the extreme penalty In the electric chair at Charlston State prison during the week of July 10. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 9.—A special police guard, it developed today, is being maintained at the State Department as a protection against possible demonstrations in connection with the Sacco-Vanzettl case. This precaution was begun Tuesday night, though Secretary of State Kellogg’s office today denied Kellogg had personally requested the extra guards. v ARREST EX-POLICEMAN Spillman, Who Quit Under Fire, Faces Charge of Girl. Leslie Spillman, 26, of 2524 N. Olney St., policeman who resigned Wednesday after being absent without leave, was arrested late Friday on charges of assault and battery. Police today sought William Cooper, 750 E. Washington St., on the same charge and on additional charges of Impersonating an officer and profanity. Warrants for the arrests were signed by Miss Florence Robert. 3 245 S. Sheffield Ave. She alleged they threatened her with arrest, pulled her from an auto in which she was riding with another man at Illinois and Ohio Sts., last Monday night and drove her about the city for several hoars before taking her to heir home. ? s

Forecast Cloudy tonight and Sunday; probably thunder showers. Not much change in temperature.

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FINAL DRIVE FOR SIGNERS TO PETITION City Manager Campaign Workers Drive for Necessary Signatures. CLOSE RECORDS TONIGHT Sound Last Minute Appeal for More Petitioners. City manager campaign leaders devoted their energy today toward getting all of the signed petitions for a special election back to headquarters in time for filing with the city clerk by Monday, the last day. They urged workers who are circulating petitions to bring them to headquarters, 520 Illinois Bldg., not later than tonight Headquarters will bo kept open until midnight. Campaign leaders will be at headquarters at all hours to answer ques-, (ions. The telephone number is , MAin 2287. To Make Count The leaders desire all petitions in j tonight so the total names may be , counted. Thero must be 19,185 bona fide voters’ names on the petition in order to compel the calling of the special eloctiofi this summer upon whether the manager form shall be adopted. If the petitions are short of tho required number of names a small army of workers is available to comb 1 the city Sunday for the additional ’ signatures required. To insure plenty of names ; churches will be canvassed Sunday i morning, no matter how many 1 signatures are found In the 1 tabulation tonight. Industries Report Petitions bearing more than 1,100 1 names were received from Ell Lilly & Cos. employes. Esterline-Angus Company workers turned in more than 800 names. Many other industrial plants remain to be hoard from. Twenty Butler co r Is, members of the young Women’s Voters League, who combed Irvington for signers, will work from headquarters today finishing certain sections of the city. Headquarters also will be open all day Sunday to receive petitions. Canvass Buildings Apartment buildings and downtown office buildings were canvassed today. „ Campaign leaders said that the remarkable success in securing signatures In the brief two weeks the (Turn to Page 2)

HIT, CHAMBER JOIN IN PLANS Officials Pledge Cooperation < on Improvement Plans. | Mayor Duvall has accepted the of- ! fer of William Fortune, chairman ' of the Chamber of Commerce civic j affairs committee, to cooperate with ] the Chamber in making plans for j future city mprovements. In a letter to Mayor Duvall, For- j tune pointed out that a number of 1 city departments have proposed lm- j provement programs Involving the | expenditure of several million dol- | lars. "An unorganized program of ex- j penditure will endanger later proj- 1 ects that may be vitally necessary," ! Fortune said. In accepting the offer Duvall ex- ! pressed appreciation and asserted ' that "every assistance would be ' given the Chamber of Commerce in ' its Investigation and study of the ! situation." i Aimee Moves; Denies j Rumors of iQuarreli ■ ■■ Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, April 9 —Aimee | Semple McPherson was settled down ! In the former home of the famous ' Nat Goodwin today, preparing her] campaign to take religion to the “wicked East.” The home, overlooking Ocean I Beach, from which Mrs. McPherson claimed to have been kidnaped last! summer. Is the Ideal place to map 1 out her eastern crusade, she believes. She moved in yesterday j amid rumors of dissension In her church and of an open break with; her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy. | The evangelist denied she had disagreed with her mother, and to prove everything was serene at her church she conducted revival services at her Angeles Temple last night. “Every time I leave my Angeles Temple home.” she said, “someone I starts rumors that I have quarreled.” Run Ono-Man Cars One-man street cars were started on the Shelby St. line by the IndianapoHs Street Car Company today. The company has rebuilt a number of cars with automatic safety and door controls especially for thla< "•ass ,