Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 337, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1927 — Page 17

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Eight City Zone Champs to Enter State Spelling Bee

Eon* I—Andre Rhoads, Golden Hill, Zone 2—Marcella Ardern, 2456 Park Zone 3—Maxine Van Sant, 1929 l)*-*- Zone 4—Wilbur Moran, 211 W. Mor- Zone s—Marjorie Benson, 1008 Union Zone —Emma Gibson, 1832 Hoyt Zone 7—Blanche Sclioneker, 1539 Zone B—Ruth imrman, 21 McUhn School 41. Ave., School 45. ter Ave„ School 44. ris St., School 49. St., School 22. Ave., School 39. Hamilton Are., School 33. Ave., School 14.

Hoover, Davis Enter Flood Area for Relief Survey

State spelling CONTEST MAY 20 AT CALEB MILLS County and Zone Champions to Compete at Shortridge High Hall. The spelling championship of Indiana will be decided at Caleb Mills auditorium, Shortridge High School, on Friday evening, May 20. Selection of the date and place was announced today by the Editor of The Indianapolis Times, ■which la conducting the spelling contest program in Indiana. The winner will be sent to Washington, D. C., during the week of June 20, to compete in the National Spelling Bee, which is being sponsored by the The Times, the Louisville Courier-Journal and a number of other leading newspapers interested in educational work. Expenses of the Indiana champion and a chaperon will be paid by The Times. | Eight Indianapolis spelling champions, the champion speller of Marion county and the champions of Johnson and Bartholomew and the other central Indiana counties completing the spelling bee program, will compete for the State honors. Words for the State Spelling B?e and officials to preside over it will be chosen soon by the State bee committee. The State contest will be oral and because the McCall Speller is a standard text book in the Indiana schools, the contest words will be chosen from it. An additional list of words, chosen at random but approved by a standard dictionary, will be held in reserve, for use in event that the McCall list becomes exhausted. Rules for the State bee willl be practically the same as those governing the oral contests in the Indianapolis schools. The contest will be in direct charge of the promoters and the Judges. Retails of the State meet, w*hich will be open to the publio, will be announced soon. The Indiana State Spelling champion and chaperon will be housed at the Hotel Hamilton, which will be headquarters for the State champions while in Washington for the National Bee. All expenses of the Indiana winner and chaperone, Including railway and Pullman fare, meals, hotel and the scheduled sight-seeing trips will be paid by this newspaper. 'i A total of in gold Is offered the winners in the National Bee. The first prize is SI,OOO cash. A second prize of SSOO Is offered and an additional SI,OOO will be divided among the other winners. No one will receive less than $35.

STATE SUPPORTS 18,667 PERSONS 15,769 Now Present in 20 Institutions. I’er capita cost of $295.19 was expended last year by Indiana In supporting some 18,000 persons in the twenty State Institutions, according to the quarterly bulletin issued today by the State board of charities. The number of inmates enrolled is given as 18,667, of which number 15,769 were listed as actually present, while the remainder -were on furlough, parole, suspended sentence or temporarily absent. Os the total 12,502 are men and 6,165 women. It cost the State a grand total of $5,210,862.08 to support the Institutions during 1926. Officers and employes total 2,247. Salaries and feutges were the largest item of exsistence next at $1,029,193. Shingling among women may result in a race of bearded women, sSys a doctor, who points out that men who let the hair grow on their heads have practically none on their faces.

LIVES BY ‘CANNED’ BREATH Squad of Chicago Firemen Fighting to Save Pneumonia Victim. Bu United Press CHICAGO, May Fighting a vicious pneumonia congestion, Harry O. Thompson, 42, today had been kept alive sixty hours by hourly administrations of oxygen given in relays by firemen stationed near his home. When influenza developed into acute pneumonia Tuesday, Thompson’s physician, Dr. John J. Hessert, saw his patient could only live a few hours unless something was done, and he appealed to the fire squad. * v Oxygen tanks were brought and appled, the oxygen inhalator being applied to the • nostrils on the hour and half-hour regularly. Thompson is allowed to breathe oxygen for t.en minutes at a time. “One lung is so congested that is impossible to obtain sufficient air naturally to keep him alive,” Dr. Hessert said. “Without the firemen he would have died Tuesday. We hope to keep him alive with oxygen until the lung congestion has been relle\’ed sufficiently to allow natural breathing.’’ Gang of Kidnapers Believed Crushed Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 6.—A gang of kidnapers whose operations extended to half a dozen cities has been broken up by the killing here of one meifiber of the gang and the arrest of several others, police said today. Two men, held for ransom here since April 28, were released today, police announced. The kidnaped men, Abraham Scharlin and James H. Taylor, said to be real estate dealers, were taken to police headquarters to tell their story. The man slain was Joseph Marcus, with a criminal record and several abases. With a companion, David Berman, he was accosted near Central Park by Detective John Cordes, who had been trailing them., Marcus tried to kill the detective and was shot by a motorcycle policeman who came running up. Berman gave the name of Charles Kraemer as an accomplice and Kraemer was arrested. Kraemer comes from Chicago. Mrs. Mary Goldberg was arrested lajer at the apartment where Maneus was living.

President Cooiidge at Birthday Party of United

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President Calvin Cooiidge and other distinguished speakers and guests are pictured here at the recent twentieth annivery dinner of the United Press. The photo, taken in the Cascade room of the Biltmore Hotel at New York, shows a section of the speakers' table, microphones which sent President Coolidge’s address all over the United States and across the seas, and in the foreground a few of the 900 newspaper editors and publishers and other prominent men present. Left to right, those standing (front) are Philip Jackson,

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EXPECT DUNCAN. FOUND GUILTY. TO FILE WRIT Tilton, Also Convicted, May Seek Retrial; Two Other Defendants Freed. A writ of error is expected to be filed by attorneys for Russell V. Duncan, Marion County State Representative, convicted Thursday before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell of theft, forgery and conspiracy In connection with the disappearance Nov. 19, 1924 of an income tax rebate check for $3,094 from the Internal Revenue collector’s office here. Charles W. Tilton, formerly employed in the revenue office and by Duncan, was also found guilty. Tilton was charged with forging the indorsement of “John W. Smith,” payee, to the check, which Duncan later indorsed and deposited at the J. F. Wild Bank. Evidence was also introduced to prove that Tilton had access to the check shortly before its disappearance. Tilton's attorneys also are expected to file dissenting action to obtain anew trial. Under $10,00(1 Bond Duncan and Tilton are at liberty under SIO,OOO bond. Howard F. Hamilton, 25. and lis wife, Suzanne Baker Hamilton, who were In custody of the check in the revenue office and were charged with conspiracy in connection with its disappearance, were freed by the jury. The jury's verdict came unexpectedly after four hours of deliberation. Judge Baltzell ordered the jurymen to be brought into the courtroom shortly after 5 p. m. Wednesday to tell them he was leaving for dinner. It was then the foreman announced a verdict had been reached. Duncan and Tilton will be sentenced May 14. Seven counts comprising the Government’s indictment carry a maximum sentence of twenty-seven years in the peniten tiary. Writ of Error Duncan's writ of error, which if filed will have the same effect as a motion for anew trial, will be based on Judge Baltzell’s instruction to the jury, which his attorneys claim shifted the burden of proof upon the defense.

Evil Power!

A mysterious power for evil, a Ringleader who wields power over constituted officials, is battling a newspaper editor’s efforts to st\ve a city from becoming the plaything of the Underworld. He is revca.’ed in a story you have always wanted to read. See next Tuesday’s issue of The Indianapolis Times. Girls Nearly Step on Skulking Pair Hearing burglars is one thing, while almost treading on them is another, Florence and Fern Brooking, daughters of Mrs. Muriel Brooking, 354 E. Troy Ave., told members of a police emergency squad late Thursday night. The mother had left the daughters in care of the house and two small children while she went on an errand. The girls visiting at a next door neighbor’s heard their dog bark st their home. Investigating, the two walked around the house and almost stepped on two persons who were lying on the ground beside the house. The strangers sprang up and ran, the girl said

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NEGRO INS OFF WITH DIAMONDS Seizes Tray of Gems and Rings in Store. Two Negro boys employed a clever ruse in a diamond theft at the store of R. B. Goldsberry, 146 W Washington St., Thursday. Goldsberry told police that one boy asked to look at caps. While he was trying on headwear. Goldsberry said, his companion loitered about the case where the diamond rings are kept. Suddenly he seized a tray containing fourteen rings with chip diamonds and a dozen plain rings, and ran out the door, followed by his pal. The rings were valued at $250 by Goldsberry. Burgla reentered the home of John Ashe, 617 N. Eeville Ave., and took jewelry .valued at $l5O, Thursday night, police said. L. J. Hopkins, 4721 Winthrop Ave., told police his home had been looted of clothing and jewelry worth $165. OCEAN FLIERS MISSING Saint Roman and Crew Not Heard From Since Start Across Water. Bu United Press RIO DE JANEIRO, May 6 —Capt. Saint Roman and liis companions in the land plane which left West Africa yesterday morning to fly across the south Atlantic ocean to Brazil were seven hours overdue at 7:30 a. m., today, the Brazilian National Telegraph Company announced. Saint Roman was aboard a Goliath plane originally equipped with pon toons which were removed at Casablanca, Morocco, despite forebodings of experienced airmen that an Atlantic flight without floats would be almost suicidal. BUTLER HAS HONOR DAY Awards Are Presented Students During Exercises. Honor day exercises were held at Butler University Thursday afternoon when all persons Who won various prizes during the school year received awards. Special services were held for the senior class and new members of the Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary fraternity. Dr. T. A. Olmstead, University of Illinois, was the principal speaker and President Robert J. Aley was in charge.

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Today’s Flood Facts

Crews of workers strive to save levees at twenty points in Louisiana. “No work, no food,’’ Is slogan in flood menaced areas. Capitalists and Negroes toil side by side. No additional deaths reported from latest inundated sections. Homeless estimated at from 350,000 to 400,000. Secretary Hoover and Secretary Davis return to flood district to further relief work. Red Cross relief fund reaches 7,813,908. GIVES AMERICAN VIEW ON RUBBER U. S. Delegate at League Session Answers Briton. Bu I titled Press GENEVA, May 6.—Anglo-Ameri-can differences regarding British methods of maintaining rubber prices at an artificial level again became a subject of discussion before the League of Nations international economic conference today. Henry M. Robinson, head of the American delegation, referred to the speech yesterday of Sir Max Muspratt cf the Federation of British In dustries, in which Sir Max said restrictions on rubber production, ai most wholly a monopoly within the British empire, were not discrimina tory. "I wonder,” said Robinson, “whether the fact that 75 per cent of the rubber is consumed in a non-pro-ducing country while the countrycontrolling the restrictions consumes but 7 per cent of the total supply might be regarded as discrimination. I understand, however, that this problem is solving itself, as it is already meeting opposition within the empire.” ™ Sills Has His Own Idea Milton Sills reverses the usual order of crime, conviction and punishment in his current starring vehicle for First National Pictures, "Diamonds In the Rough.” First he served “time” In a tropical penal colony, then exiled by working In Brazilian diamond mines. Now, weeks later, he's filming v scenes of the French military court, whose decision started him on his Odyssy.

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Cabinet Members Will Make Trip Down Raginp Mississippi. Bu T'nitrd Press Two members of President Coolidge’s Cabinet arrived at Vicksburg, j Miss., today for conferences on relief measures, rehabilitation and fuj ture means of controlling Mississippi i valley floods. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover conferred with A. L. Sohaf- * fer. Red Cross regional director; L. O. Crosby, Mississippi State flood relief dictator, and Col. E. G. Egger of the National Guard. Secretary of War Dwight Davis met with the chief engineer for this district, Maj. John C. H. Lee, to obtain first-hand information on the progress of the battle against the river. The party from Washington, which includes Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, was to leave later for a trip down tlie Mississippi aboard the Mississippi river commission steamer Control. The Red Cross flood disaster fund reached $7,813,908 today' as word came from Henry' M. Baker, relief director, that the Red Cross is now ! caring for nearly one-third of a million refugees in the .flood zone. I The $10,000,000 minimum goal set in President Coolidge’s second relief appeal will be.distinctly a minimum, Baker indicated. In face of repeated defeats and re- ! versals, Louisiana farmers and vil- | lagers continued today to fight ad--1 vanning floods in the hope of saving , small sections which have escaped | inundation. Breathles i, sweating, swearing I crews worked on levees at a score [of points. Capitalists, Negro laborers, farmer refugees, merchants and State convict . strain side by side In the effort to build up and strengthen the river wall. The most concentrated effort was being made on the levee at Pineville, across the river from Alexandria. where the Mississippi was higher than ever befdre recorded. Refugees at camps near the scene have been drafted to work on the dike. “No work, no food” was the edict of rescue workers in ordering that all able-bodied men do their share to save the river wall. As nearly as can be determined there have been no deaths in newly flooded areas. Rescue crews were too well prepared for the flood and had the a vantage of experience In caring for victims farther north. The area inundated is about 15,090 square miles. The number of refugees cannot be accurately computed because of unstable conditions. It is estimated homes of between 350,000 and 400,000 persons are marooned. Workers Drafted Workers have been drafted from refuge camps to work on the levees but the threat of flood to the south central parishes is growing more seriously hourly. In Rapides Parish, along Bayou Rapids, levee crews redoubled efforts to save at least part of the cotton crop in the section. State prison convicts are working with prominent farmers and bankers on the levee In an attempt to stop the waters. Plantations threatened are large and loss if the levees break would warn that of the Tensas Basin. A portion of Eastern Monroe was ordered evacuated. Backwater attacking the city has risen to a depth of five feet and efforts to construct a levee to hold it may have come too late. Backwater from Lafourche swamp continued to rise today, increasing the menace to Monroe. The swamp Is fed by floods to the East. Swamp backwater, driven across country by the Mississippi dike breaks, washed against the levee of the Ouachita River, threatening a flood from that source unless the river falls before the backwater softens the levees and allows the current to sweep through. The last transportation means between Delhi and Oakgrove was severed today. Bus traffic was suspended when water on the highway became too deep for operation of the machines. Delhi, housing a large number of northern Louisiana refugees. Is flow Isolated except for access by boat. Shocked, Fell From Tree Bu United Press MARION, Ind.. May 6.—Sufferlng with body injuries and severe burns. Chauncey Parrett and Oras Parrett of Wabash, were in the Marlon hospital today. The two brothers fell twenty feet from a tree at the Marion national sanitarium when the pruning hook they were using touched a high tension electric win.

POLITICIAN GETS ! ASPHALT SUPPLY CONTRACT AWARD Mystery Surrounds Action of Park Board on Re* surfacing Job. Todd Young, politician and sentative of the United Rock Asp sag Company, Louisville, low bidder, few day received a park board contract j to furnish 1,400 tons, more or les% ! of rock asphalt at sll a ton for re* surfacing Thirty-Eighth St. betwee# Northwestern Ave. and Boulevard An air of mystery surrounded Um , award by the park board on bids ad- ! vertised for and opened by City Pur I chasing Agent John J. Collins. Co* | lins was authorized in a resolutlo* |in January to handle the bids. Hs ! made no recommendation. I’oley Refuses to Vote Park Commissioner Michael EL | Foley refused to vole on the contract 1 motion made by Adolph G. Emhardt I President John E. Milnor and Mrs I J. D. Hoss voted for the award t 4 Young. | Young underbid the Natural Rocl' | Asphalt Company just 3 cents. Rocl 1 asphalt last year was bought sot I $14.09, it was said. * S. E. E'erguson. Kentucky Rocl ! Asphalt sales engineer, a competing i bidder engaged in a heited tangii j with Young over the merits of theP product and size of th dr concern! Ferguson Hid 512.119 Ferguson bid $12.09 and to replace the street surface within three years if not satisfactory. “The specifications were very loose. They specified that the rock asphalt shall be equal to the best produced In Kentucky,” said Ferguson. Young pointed out the product must ! be acceptable to the city ohemieal | department, which tests each car j load. OHIOAN’S FROLIC ENOS IN ARREST Breaks Up Party and Parks Auto on Car Tracks. A liquor party, broken up when the party became rough early today, resulted In the arrest of Dr. H. D. Sheeran, 40, general manager of Mia Fostoria Serum Company, Fostorla. Ohio, on charges of driving an auto while Intoxicated. Before his arrest, Sheeran is alleged to have rolled up the rugs at the home of A. A. Brown 4145 N. Capitol Ave., scene of the party, upset the furniture and caused a damage of $l5O, according to Sergt. Cliff Richter. Brown is in Florida and the house is in charge of a sister. She gave her name as Mrs. A. C. Dlsher, Richmond, Ind. Mrs. Disher said Sheeran became violent at the party. After wrecking the furniture he was ejected. Insistent on getting back In, he pushed his arm through the door glass and was badly cut, she said. He drove his auto to 2051 N. Illinois St., and deserted the machine on the car track, where an owl car struck it at 3 a. m. He went into a nearby garage and the attendants called police. He told the story at the city hospital, where he is held. Jewish Home May Be Near Ford Property Bu United Press SOUTH SUDBURY, Mass., May 6. —Near Henry Ford's historic Wayside Inn, anew Hebrew home may soon be erected. This has been disclosed by J. W. Weeder of this village, who already has conferred with a Jewish committee regarding sale of the site, which he owns. A delegation from a Boston synagogue has inspected the site, according to Weeder. % The owner said the Jews were favorable to purchase of the property, which ."ii -:stes of twenty-six acres. Plans cal) for election of a, home and recreation headquarters for Jew-