Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 326, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1927 — Page 2

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YEGGS GET $7,200 AT STATE BANK

Bu Times Svreial JTOBLESVILLE. Ind-, April 23. Band bandits early Friday looted the State bank at Jolletville, twelve miles west of Noblesville, of cash and securities amounting to $7,200, Including $2,200 in cash. The robbery was discovered when persons passing the bank found the front door open and notified \V. F. Thomas, cashier. Tho explosion that wrecked the bank safe failed to awaken sleeping inhabitants and no ono saw the yeggs at work. - Telephone wires were cut, delaying the alarm. Thomas said that all the money and securities in the safe were taken, but that safety deposit boxes were not molested. The yeggs entered the bank by breaking the lock on the front door. An acetylene torch left behind furnished the only clew. Hamilton county officials and the protective division of the Indiana Bankers Association were notified. The bank is capitalized at $23,000. A. W. L. Newcomer, president, said the. loss was covered by insurance. BOARD SWALLOWS STATE’S REBUKE TO RUSH SCHOOL City Body to Transfer $50,000 Fund to Aid Shortridge Building. The finance and building and grounds committees of the school board will meet Monday to transfer $50,000 from the general school fund to be added to the $230,000 bond issue allowed Friday by the State tax board to pay heating, ventilating and plumbing contracts for new Shortridge 1 ligh School. Further delays in construction of the new school were averted Friday afternoon when majority faction school board members swallowed a stinging rebuke from the State tax board and accepted the $230,000 bond issue offered.

Sign With Frcyn Bros. A $303,000 bond issue was originally asked, but was rejected as excessive and Because bidding was confined to the “direct-indirect” manufactured by C. Shipp. Although order to receive bids on competitive types of ventilation was ignored by the school hoard, the present Freyn Bros, bid including tfl* Shipp items was approved to prevent possible suit with the general contractor, due to further delay in engineering work. Fred Bates Johnson, minority school boat'd member, objected to accepting the reduction without readvertising for bids. Change Specifications Thermostatic radiator controls, costing $1S,000; twenty-eight Shipp ventilators and minor boiler room fixtures were elimonated by agreement with Freyn Bros., to reduce the bid $37,000. ”T believe we arc acting illegally,’’ Johnson said. “Other contractors should be allowed to bid on these new specifications.” The $50,000 will pay the difference between the $230,000 bond issue and the $248,000 bid of Freyn Bros. Architects fees of 5 per cent will amount to $12,400 and SIB,OOO will be necessary to pay for original heating and ventilating plans which were scrapped.

UK REAPPOINTED CHIEF EXAMINER State Accounts Board Head Renamed by Jackson. Acting in line with recent predie* tions, Governor Jackson announced before leaving the city Friday that Lawrence Orr was reappointed to the office of chief examiner of the State board of accounts. His term expires*May 1. The reappointment is for a period of four years. Jackson left for an eastern trip and is scheduled to speak at a city missions convention at Charleston, S. 0., Sunday, He is accompanied by Mrs. Jackson and Adjt. Gen. William H. Kershner. They will visit Washington, D. C., where the Governor will ask Chief Justice Taft to speak at the dedication of the War Memorial, July x 4. He is expected to return the latter part of next week.

Several weeks ago support was given the rumor was not to be reappointed, but was to be made the scapegoat in the waning war between the highway department and the board of accounts. It was board of accounts’ investigations that resulted in Marion County indictments of State Highway Director John D. Williams and members of the highway department, which wete quashed while the recent Legislature was in cession after pending without prosecution for two years. Orr was appointed board chief by Governor McCray in 1923. His r> appointment' means a second term as chief in the department where he has served for fifteen years. Scout Troop 77 Installed Scout Executive F. O. Delzer presided at installation ceremonies Friday night of new Boy Scout Troop 77 at Riverside Park E. Church, 2440 _N. Harding St. Edward H. Engl in is leader of the new troop, assisted by Arthur Sipt.

3fidt Milkman's Work Disrupted by Bad Streets,

Mr. Fixit is The Times’ renresentative at city hall. He will present your complaints to the proper city officials. Write Mr, Fixit at. The Times and sisu name anti address. Name will nut be published. The early morning visit of the milk man was threatened to be disrupted by bad Indianapolis streets, according to a complaint to Mr. Fixit today. A. W., in a letter, charged the milk and laundry men have to stop their several blocks from his south si<i<!\ residence and walk to the house. The letter: Why can’t we people on St. Peter St. between Southeastern and English Aves. have lights, street mains and a few cinders. This street is a disgx'ace to Indianapolis. The laundry and milk deliverymen have to stop on Southeastern and walk to St. Peter St. Please do something. A. W. Your complaint' certainly is justified. The street commissioner's office received your complaint and will seek to provide relief. Another correspondent of Mr. Fixit challenged city officials to drive over W. Tenth St. and \\. Michigan Sts. west of Tibbs Ave. “Repairing bf these streets would be greatly appreciated by motorists and visitors as well. The only time repairs are made are hefore race day each year, the letter declared. "If the high and mighty ones would take a spin over these streets their garage bills would be more than their incomes.” Your complaint will be investi- 4 gated by the street commissioner. MURAT POTENTATE IS LEAVING CITY Arthur B. Wagner, Resigns at Marmon Company. Arthur B. Wagner, Illustrious Potentate of Murat Temple. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, has resigned his connection with the Marmon Motor Car Company and will leave Indianapolis next week for Elgin, 111., to assumo an executive position with the Elgin Clock Company, he announced today. Chief Rabban William 11. Bockstahler will assume charge of Wagner's duties as the highest officer of the Shrine here, laws of the order forbidding him to resign. A native of Huntington, Ind., Wagner came here eighteen years ago and through his connection practically all of thaf time with the Marmon company, became widely known in automotive circles of the city and State. He is an ex-presi-dent of tho Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association. Wagner's Blue Lodge affiliation was with Calvin Prather Lodge No. 717. . Bockstahler is a past master of Fentalpha Lodge No. 564, F. & A. M., a member of Scottish Rite and was Thrice Potent Master of Adoniram Grand Lodge. He announces all Shrine committees will remain intact and that he will carry out Wagner's plans the remainder of the j year. WHITELAND GIRL SPELLING CHAMP | _____ (Continued From Page 1) to determine the championship. Five minute rest periods were given at the end of each thirty minutes. The twenty-three-piece orches* tra of tlie Masonic Home, at. Franklin, played before the contest and entertained during the recesses.

The words that spelled disappointment to twenty-one of the twenty-two contestants were not the difficult w-ords that one might expect them to be. They were easy words chosen from the fifth, sixth and seventh grade pages—words that were not tricky—that one might not think of stumbling over. They were words that most pupils had failed to study, as they had mastered the words that they expected might trip them. Other counties are preparing for meets that will select the champions to represent them in the State contest here, ‘the winner of which will go to Washington, D. C., in June, properly chaperoned and at the expense of the Times, to compete in the National Spelling Bee, which offers a first prize of SI,OOO cash.

HIS SUICIDE IN VAIN Banks Ready to Loan Cashier SIO,OOO When He Killed Self. ISu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., April 23.—1f A. F. Zehring, cashier of the Bunker Hill Bank, near here, which failed recently, had waited an hour longer his suicide might have been avoided, it was disclosed here today by Attorney John B. Joyce. Joyce said lie learned at Peru in a conference with the bank receivership officials that Zehring, the night before tie killed himself, had applied to several Peru banks for ft SIO,OOO loan, trying he must have it by noon the next day. The banks hero agreed the next morning and had the money ready to ship when they learned Zehring had killed himself.

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High spots of the annual reunion of the t inted Confederate Veterans at Tixipa! Aaron 1.. Hurt, 82, of Honaker, t n., and Mrs. Fannie Graves 56, of Chattanooga, met at last year’s Birmingham foregathering and added an iniprograinmed feature to 1927’s b.v stepping off into matrimony. Here they are just after the ceremony. In the middle is a car full of pretty United Daughters of the Confederacy in the reunion parade, with a grizzled vet as guidon bearer and (insert below) Gen. Felix Robertson, of Texas, only surviving general who wore the gray front ’6l to ’65.

RUTH OUTDONE | IN OLDEN DAYS (Continued From Page 11 sensitive beholder, but, O dear, what are we coming to when grave little women go in for window sashes, chloroform and picture wire? No Gray to Help And yet this brutality was antedated some several years ago by Judith of Bethulia, who just missed getting into the Bible. Said young lady got Holofernes to drink “more wine than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born," then marched him to bed, drove a nail through his right temple (AngloSaxon version', took down his sword, smote his r<4sk twice, cut off his head, thrust it in a bag of meat, and gaily tripped off to morning prayers. And no Judd Gray to help her either—that is the kind of women they had in those days. And Holofernes wasn't even a husband —now I ask you! What Mary Lost As for those who complain that the corset salesman-stenographer affair is a cheap story: A similar situation cost a queen her throne, almost —not quite—her life, and got her talked about by some of the very best people. We refer to the lato Mary, Queen of fecols. One Sunday night, in ..February, several years ago, she and the boy friend, the Earl of Bothwell, ret o.ut 1 for a party at Holyrood. leaving Darnley, the husband, at home sick in bed—a dangerous place for husbands, it seems. Some two hours later there was a gunpowder explosion that blew up the whole house, including Mr. Darnley—they didn’t do things by halves in those days.

Tongues Wagged Two months later, Bothwoll stood ; mock trial— even then they had ( them —was acquitted, divorced his wife a month later, and eight days after the final decree married Mary —and my, my, how tongues did wag! The classic parallel—and it’s uncannily so—for Mrs. Snyder and Gray is that of Clytemnestra, who had acquired a gigolo while her husband was playing stud poker ’neath the shade of Ilium’s towers. When he returned, bringing with him a chorine, sl\e had all the excuse she needed. Fear; No Remorse And there’s much of Symnestra’s bearing in Mrs. Snyder—that hard determination, that spirit that shows no horror of the past, but only fear of future consequences; seemingly : no torture of self by conscience but only dread of public judgment. Yes. the Snyder murder is in our day but its emotions, its motives, its chardcters belong to all time. We have added only the circus element, the crowd of witnesses to watch the struggle and cry "Thumbs up!" or i "Thumbs down!” I < Copyright, 1D27, by New York Telegram)

NEW CHAMPION ORATOR ! Glen Stahl of Evansville Winner at J. U. J?M T'ttifrtl Prras BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 23. Glen Stahl of Evansville today held the honor of being champion high school orator of Indiana. At the final contest of the Discussion League championships which closed *at Indiana University late Friday night Stahl came through with flying colors. Second place was won by Nathan Levy, South Bend, while Vivian Mosher, Columbia City, was winner of third place. Gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded the three winners, who discussed the subject, “A Federal Department of Education With a Secretary in the President’s Cab- < inet.

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AUDIENCE AND JUDGE IN ACCORD Vote Taken in Court Upholds Divorce Case Decision. Hit In it erf Press CHICAGO, April 23. —Another man and wife were going through the “divorce mill'' in Superior Court here,. Their story—commonplace but tragic, of affection turned to bitter hate —had been told to Judge Harry A. Lewis. The white-haired jurist who had heard hundreds of similar cases pondered a minute and then addressed the courtroom. Measuring Self • *‘l want to sfc," lie said “whether I am still competent to b a judge. It may be that hearing these same stories day after day dulls one's sensibilities. I have been on the bench eighteen y?ars. But the popular mind can't be fooled. The bailiff will pass slips of paper and I wish all of you would write ’man’ or ‘woman” on the slip, according to which you believe should lie granted the divorce.” Uninfluenced Ruling As the. .bailiff.was distributing the slips the judge pointed out he was legally bound to give a decision uninfluenced .by. any. one's oninion. "The man is granted a divorce and the’ woman’s bill for separate maintenance is dismissed, ho said. The baliff collected the slips and read them off, one by one. They all said “man.”

OFFER 2 PIANO RECITALS Bomar Cramer and Willard MacGregor to Be Heard Sunday. Bomar Cramer MacGregor will give a recital at John Herron Art Institute Sunday at 3:3d p. m. They will repeat three numbers of the program that they recently gave in the interests of the McDowell fund. Rachmanloff’s Opus 17, a suite of four movements, opens the program and is followed by “Duo Concertante,” by Mozart-Busoni; "The “Waltz,” by Arensky. The final number is Gershwin’s "Rhapsodic in Blue.” The institute is free to the public on Sundays.

JEWS TO RAISE FUND Expect to Obtain SIOO,OOO Next Week for Kirslibaum Unit. A campaign for SIOO,OOO for the Kirshbaum Community Center, 2134 N. Meridian St., which "will put every Jew in Indianapolis on his metal,” according to Rabb* Morris M. Feuerlicht, will be waged #here next week. It is expectea'to obtain the fund within seven days. Rabbi Feuerlicht announced the campaign at Passover services Friday night. at Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Temple, Tenth and Delaware Sts. The fund is to pay for anew unit now under construction. CONVENTION SPEAKER Dr. Eda Schweitzer to Appear on Washington Program. Dr. Ada Schweitzer, director of the division of Infant and Child Hygiene, of this city, will speak at the annual meeting of the American Child Health Association in Washington. D. C., May 9-11. Dr. Schweitzer will tell what has been done in all the States in the way of celebrating National Child Health Day. Five hundred physicians, educators, nurses, statisticians und psychologists from throughout the United States will attend the meeting. Herbert Hoover, association •president and United States Secretary of Commerce, will preside.

MAN HURT WHEN DRUM EXPLODES

Using an acetylene torch to remove tho head from n discarded gasoline drum at the Sellars Farm city garbage reduction plant, George Kirkpatrick, 35. was seriously injured Friday when the drum exploded. He was taken to Methodist Hospital in police emergency, suffering with severe lacerations about the face and head. Kirkpatrick lives on Harding St., one mile south of the city limits. The Sellars farm is at Eagle Creek and Kentucky Ave. The drums on which he was working was one of those used two years ago to float a raft. They had been sealed since that time. Intending to salvage them for garbage cans, Kirkpatrick was cutting out the heads. Kirkpatrick lost a leg at the farm four years ago when n cable broke. BOARD OF WORKS LOOKS ’EM OVER The new board of works, after a second and brief session on Friday, went on a tour of inspection in preparedness for improvement resolutions coming before it next Monday. “This board will visit all street improvement projects before it acts on them,” President Virgil Vandagrifft announced. Only routine matters were taken up at the meeting. In the course of its ramblings this afternoon, the Board was to look over the obstruction of E. Tenth St. at the Belt Railroad elevation, a matter of contention it inherited from the preceding board which failed to appease property holders’ demands for action. Debris continues to block the street.

Police Get i ear s First ‘Fish Story ’ Abe Cohn did not have carp for his dinner Thlirsday night. Alm?, who is the owner of the Capitol Poultry and Produce Company, 1018 S. Meridian St., was leaving his store with a live five-pound carp splashing about in the bucket in his hand, when a telephone call summoned him back into the building. Depositing the bucket just outside] the door, he returned to the phone. Ho came out in time to see the carp's fail waving farewell in the hands of a man turning the next corner. He gave pursuit but the carp's captor beat him in the race. “And such a nice one!" he told police, bernoanifcg his loss. Worley Speeds and Breaks His Record Clauds’ M. "Worley made his first arrest as chief, of detectives Friday and drove seventy-five miles an hour to do it. When he was leaving the home of friends in Cumberland at midnight, Worley said an automobile, driven by a young man, pulled into the drive, backed around and sped away. Suspicions. Worley took up the chase. The chase ended when Worley overtook the driver in Irvington, forced him into the curb and arrested him on charges of speeding and vagrancy. The youth after giving a number of names and addresses, finally told Chief Worley he was John W. Tevis. 23. of 1933 College Ave. The ear was owned by a rental agency.

DISCIPLES ELECT HEADS Disciples of Christ, closing their annual convention at the Severln, I Thursday, elected Cloycl Goodnight, j president of Bethany College, Bethany, IV. Va., to head tho church 'board of education. T. C. Howe, Indianapolis, former Butler College president, was chosen vice president: G. D. Edwards of Columbia. Mo., recorder: Max Cricltfield of Indianapolis, treasurer: H. O. Pritchard of Indianapolis, general secretary; H. H. Harmon of Indianapolis, secretly of promotion and [ endowment, and J. C. Todd. Indiana I University, university secretary. Representatives of twenty-eight i educational institutions affiliated with the hoard attended the convention. College of Missions, Indianapolis, was one of three new insti- ! (litlons admitted to membership.

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FIREMAN ‘CELEBRATES’ ON DAY OFF; HE’S OUT

William A. Petty, fireman at .Station 13, was off duty Thursday, by choice. Friday he was off duty by request and his Thursday escapade will be aired Tuesday by tiie board of safety. And. in municipal court. Petty faces charges of assault and battery, intoxication and driving an automobile while drunk. Files Report “Late” Roy Poore, of 412 E. Twenty First St., suffered a broken rib in the accident in which Petty's car crashed into Poore's automobile on Kentucky Ave., near White River bridge, about 6:15 p. m. Thursday.

FOUR BOYS’ CAR THEFT RING HIT

“We intended to stop stealing cars, and had talked about it on several of our joy rides, ’ said Glenn Peters, just past 16, of 4502 E. Washington St., a senior member of a “firm” of youthful auto thieves apprehended by police Thursday night, as he sat on an upper bunk at the city prison today, tugging away at a sandwich.

Harold Passfaiter, 16, of 430 N. Emerson Ave., tho other senior member, was locked in a cell in another division of the prison. Two junior members, both 14, were left in care of their parents Thursday night by police ruid ordered into juvenile court tod A'Telia of •Theft • “Harold stole a truck one night and drove it around. The next day he told me about it,” Glenn said. “I suggested that 1 go joy riding with him tho next time. Harold said he knew where we could get a car if we had a key. I remembered seeing my brother, who works in a garage, disconnecting wires at the switch and connecting them together making the motor start without a key. I told Harold, and he tinkered about the auto until he got it running. I recall five autos that I helped steal, I think Harold and the two other boys were along. They took two more.” Playing Slips Glenn said he always was home by 9:30 p. m. and if his parents asked where lie had been lie always told them lie was “playing slips.” He laughed as it was suggested it might have been “slips” with the police while riding in stolen autos.

The youthful ring was rounded up by Motorpolice Schley and Engle bright, who were called to 132 S. Meridian St. by A. Gorham of that address. Gorham said he parked his: auto in front and left the key in it. Two minutes later he heard the en gine start and saw the car pull away from the curb. I-J. C. Dinwiddie, 25 S. Meridian St., and William F. Kruger, 370 Century' Bldg., heard Gorham’s calls and leaped on the running board. Two boys leaped out the other door and ran. Passwaiter was held. Ho implicated the other three. Glenn said after most of the thefts the quartet drove out of town and hack, a tavorite ride being to the Greenfield city limits. The autos were taken in the vicinity of the boys' homes, he said.

Shortridge Senior Class Presents Their Annual Play, a George M. Cohen Comedy ‘So This is London’ at the Murat Theatre Saturday Evening, April 23 Admission 50c, SI.OO. $1.50

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And, at 9:10 p, m.. Petty, who had abandoned his car and fled scene of the accident, notified police that “His car had been stolen.” lie told how he had planned to go fishing with a friend, how the plans had changed find lie hail parked tiie car. later discovering it had been | stolen. Confessed, Say Officers Friday, however, police renewed j investigation and, according to Sergeant Owens,* petty confessed ! that he was driving the car at the i time of the accident. Arrested, Petty was suspended by i Fire Chief Hutsell and ordered bci fore tHo safety board Tuesday.

MANAGER DATA SHOWS SUCCESS Comparative figures to show how taxes have been reduced in cities with manager form of government are being compiled by the local city manager organization for use in the campaign here before the election, June 21. Officials of the manager form in other cities have provided figures showing remarkable reductions in taxes and increased improvements, j Claude IT. Anderson, executive secretary, said. Anderson and Delbert O. Wilmeth, ex-city judge, debated the city' manager plan at the Optimists Club luncheon at the Clay-pool Friday. "Only three cities have returned to the political form after having adopted the manager form by popular vote.” Anderson said. New Bank Carmel Articles of incorporation for the Citizens State Bank, Carmel, Ind., were filed today in the office of Secretary’ of State Frederick Schortemeier. Capital stock of $25,000 is authorized. O. W. Nutt will be president and Bailey Hawkins cashier.

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SITE FOR NORSES’ NOME ANNOUNCED Methodist Hospital trustees announced that the selection of the northwest corner of Eighteenth St. and Capitol Ave., for the proposed $400,000 nurses’ home. The_ contract will he let within the next month, according to Arthur V. Brown, board president. Fred Hoke heads the building committee. "The executive committee is undecided on several details of tiie plan, but we expect to get work under way shortly," Brown said. The hospital purchased the site several years ago looking to the building of additional units. Tiie lot has 213 feet frontage on Capitol Ave.. with a depth of 181 feet on Eighteenth St. Nurses now live in ten siuqll houses north of the hospital v Sixteenth St. and Capitol Ave. Tin ground occupied by’ the houses is held in reserve pending expansion of the hospital, Brown said.

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