Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1927 — Page 3

JUNE 2, 1927

U. S. LEADERS IN CONFERENCE TO •BATTLE FLOODS Notables From All Walks of Life Assembled for Chicago Meet. P,m Tinited Prrss _ CHICAGO, June 2.—As the South wrestled with the Mississippi flood thousands of the Nation’s leaders gathered here today to plan against a recurrence of the disastrous overflow that has wrecked the Mississippi basin. Government aids, Senators, Representatives, engineers, bankers and men from all walks gathered for the flood control congress called by Mayor William Hale Thompson, Chicago; Mayor Victor J. Miller, St. Louis, and Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe, New Orleans. President Coolidge was represented by Secretary of War Dwight Davis, who brings his special message, Davis will deliver the message today. The congress keynote probably will be sounded by Senator Pat Harrison, Mississippi, this after‘noon. He is organization committee chairman. More than 500 plans for relief been suggested since the flood. will be brought before the delegates, expected to number 25.000 by Saturday. Leading engineers, among them Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of the Arnty engineers, employed in the flood area, will offer views. Every effort will be made to keep out political aspects. Hoosiers A + *:.id Governor Jackson today headed the Hoosier delegation to the flood prevention conference called at Chicago, by Mayor William Hale Thompson and the mayors of St., Louis and New Orleans. Those attending are the Governor, Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Director Richard Lieber, State conservation department; Ora J. Davies,lndiana Manufacturers’ Association secretary; Dr. W. K. Hatt, Purdue engineering school head, and George M. Foland, Crown Point. The conference opens a threeday session Friday at the Sherman Hotel. Jackson will present a plan of reforestation and Robinson a flood prevention 'scheme by canal construction to cost $2,000,000,000. MAN SLAIN BY OFFICER Unarmed West Virginian Shot Eight Times. Bn United Press MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, June 2. Johnson, 55, of New MarW. Va., was shot to.death before midnight last night by Special Officer George Kelt, who claimed he saw Johnson carrying a coil of copper wire along the Ohio Riv§r , shore near the city’s abandoned water plant. Johnson was shot eight times. No weaporjs were found on his person. 424 BUSINESSES NEW City Total 164 for May Decline From April Mark. In May, 164 new businesses were opened in Indianapolis and a total of 424 in the State, according to the business digest of the Indiana Clipping Service. This was a decline from April, when 197 new businesses were opened in Indianapolis and 568 in the Statp.

Police End Rampage Parsons in the vicinity of 1400 Bates St., called police when they believed a murder was taking places Instead, police said they found Albert Slack, 58, of 1416 Bates St., in the street, barely clad, and in the house they found his wife, suffering froni a blow on the head. She was taken to the city hospital and he to the city prison, where charges of intoxication and assault and battery were preferred. New Firm President k Bn United Press J CHICAGO, June 2.—Theodore F. Merseles, president of Montgomery, Ward & Cos., has losigned to become president of the Johns-Manville Company, it became known today. Hd will succeed H. W. Manville, elected chairman of directors. George B Everitt, vice president and general manager of Montgomery, Ward & Cos., has been elected president! Port to Bar British Bu United Press LONDON, June 2. —Vladivostok, Russian port in Siberia, soon will be closed to British shipping, a dispatch from Pekin to the Daily Express said today. Hoosier Drowned Bu United Press MT. VERNON. Ind., June 2. Thrown from a skiff into the swift current of the swollen Wabash River, Mose Hedrick, 42, of Griffin, was’ drowned Wednesday night.

Bigger Than Moon In the northern sky a little south of the big clipper handle there’s a huge ball of gases, 100,000 miles in diameter, traveling toward the earth at the rate of a million miles a day, according to Russell Sullivan, city astronomer. Known as the Pons-Winnecke comet, the gases will be closest to the earth June 27, when they comg within 4,000,000 miles. That night the ball will appear to the eye much larger then the moon. Sullivan said. Scientists are prelsaring to photograph the comet. Its tail, at first feared to shower the earth with meteoric fragments, has been lost.

Cal to Rest in Dime Novel Land

History Carved President to Visit Scenes Where Deadwood Dick and Calamity Jane Shot Way to Lurid Fame. Today The Times and HEA Service preKiit the first of six stories by Peter EdSon, staff reporter, describing the Black Hills region—giving its history, telling of the famous characters that lived there, pointing out its attractions and detailing the list of recreations and sports that will be available for President Cooliilge this summer. By Peter Edson NEA Service Writer tfAPID CITY, S. D„ June 2.—ls Calvin Coolidge comes back from his vacation this summer wearing a tengallon hat, chaps, and a trusty sixshooter, there'll be a reason; he is going to spend his vacation In the heart of the country made famous by the infamous yellow-backed dime novel. In the Black Hills canyons to the north and south and west of the summer White House near Rapid City are the ghosts of more two-gun men than Bill Hart and Tom Mix together ever impersonated In the movies. Twice a month, Deadwood Dick, with his one eye and his sawed off shotgun loaded with buckshot, and two pearl-handled six-shooters at his belt, used to ride through this country sitting on a Wells-Fargo safe filled with $500,000 in gold, shooting his way clear to Omaha. Buried ’Em Often In White Rock cemetery, north of Deadwood, they used to bury a man every morning before breakfast. Here now repose the bones of immortal “Wild Bill” Hickock, who had forty notches on his gun. Also, there was Calamity Jane, who threw away her women’s clothes, dressed as a man, was a mule skinner for Custer, the Indian fighter, and the toughest, hardswearing, hard-riding, hard-drinking woman who ever graduated from the school of experience. She was a Missouri preacher’s daughter. Single-handed, she captured McCall, Hickock’s slayer, with a butcher’s cleaver. Belle Fourche, just a few miles farther north, is still the scene of one of the best rodeos and roundups in the West. Found Gold There Only a little more than fifty years ago all this country was a howling wilderness. Then one of Custer’s scouts discovered gold. - It was a country so bad that there is a monument erected in the town of Custer to Mrs. Anna D. Tallent, the first white woman who dared set foot in the region. There are two other famous monuments in the hills. One, outside the town of Deadwood, is erected to Theodore Roosevelt. The other monument Is erected to the first “sky pilot” in Deadwood, Preacher Smith, who marched right into "Nutshell Bill's” saloon, made them clear away the bottles from the bar and abandon the faro and poker tables while he conducted divine services and passed the hat for a collection of gold dust and nuggets. ,Famous Mine at l/ead Not far away from Rapid City, too, is the city of Lead, with its famous Homestake mine, which has been worked for more than fifty years and produces about $8,000,000 worth of gold a year. There are 1,800 square miles of United States forest reserve to the

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Lindy’s Flight May Win French Loans

Bu I nltrd Press WASHINGTON, June 2 —A new attempt to have the Administration embargo against private loans to France lifted soon may be made by American hankers. New friendly relations have developed between the United States and France by the greafc reception given Charles Lindbergh in France at the conclusion of his trans-Atlan-tic flight, and this “brotherly feeling” undoubtedly will be pointed out to the Administration. While Administration leaders reiterated* that no loans to private

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OIL BLAST KILLS BOY; PALBURNED Blazing Liquid Sprays Two Tipton Lads. Bu United Press TIPTON, Ind., June 2.—A 12-year-old hoy was dead and his companion was in a serious condition today as the result of an oil can explosion late Wednesday. The explosion sprayed burning oil over the boys, fatally injuring Edward Logan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Logan. John Russell. 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Russell may recover. The cause of the blast was not determined. BLAST PERILS TOWN Bu United Press PLYMOUTH. Ind., June 2.—Fire threatened the village of Hamlet, fourteen miles west of here, early today after a wreck on the Pennsylvania railway there exploded a car of gasoline and ignited four other cars adjoining the one exploding. The wreck occurred in the center of Hamlet and flames threatened the elevator, railroad station and other buildings. i Fire equipment from Plymouth and Knox answered calls for assistance. however, and succeeded In saving the village. GIRL IS POISONED? In Serious Condition After Ride; Blame IJquor. Miss Velma Connerly, 18, of 821 S Missouri St., Is in a serious condition at city hospital, a result of what hospital physicians believe was poison liquor. The girl told Motorpolicemen Hague and Troutman she had been riding Wednesday afternoon and evening with another girl and a man and had taken several drinks from a bottle which the others drank. She was ordered held on a vagrancy charge. Her parents live in Williams. PARK GARDENS OPEN 60,000 New Plants Set by Garfl.dd Florist. Garfield Park sunken gardens, considered by many the city’s most beautiful spot, is open for the season. David Morris, chief florist, has set 60,000 new plants and rearranged floral designs. The shelter house has been remodeled and anew bridge built over the -lagoon. MELLON NOT CANDIDATE Won't Seek Presidency. Treasury Head Declares. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June 2.—Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, meniioned by the Antl-ThiTd Term League as one possibility for the presidencl. has no Intention of entering the race next year. Mellon said today that Andrew “J.” Mellon, the name carried by the Anti-Third Term League In Its literature, might be interested, but Andrew W. Mellon’was not. Tot Dies Under Train Bu United Press EDMONSTON, Md., June2—An inquest will be held tonlgltt for James Girard Beall, age 18 months, who toddled out of his family front yard onto a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad track ami was killed by a train.

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Flop! Mighty Beer Barons Glad to Go Back to Coal Mine Grime and Toil.

{•>< fs-jted Press p—IT. LOUIS. June 2.—This I C I may not indicate that the |j£J mighty have fallen, but it’s some travel from high-powered gang leader to coal mine inspector at 300 paltry dollars a month. The three Sheltons, southern Illinois beer barons and gang leaders extraordinary, have announced that they want to go back to work in the coal mines. Carl asserted he is through with gang warfare and doesn’t care what happens to Charlie Birger, his erstwhile bitter rival. ELWOOD MAN HELD IN BANK ROBBERY Police Say Robert Goodnight Confessed Hold-up. Bu United Press ELWOOD, Ind.. June 2.—Robert Goodnight, 27, of Elwood, is a prisoner in the Madison County jail at Anderson, charged with participation in the hold-up of the Bank of Lapel last Saturday. Goodnight confessed that it was he and Howard Wood, 25, Elwood, who escaped with $3,100 in cash, police say. The first clew to the bandits’ Identity was gained Tuesday when a boy told police Wood had asked him to take part in the bank robbery. Police Chief Parsons and patrolmen visited Lapel, where descriptions given by the cashier and clerk tallied with Wood and Goodnight. Wood has not l>een arrested. TEACHERS TO GRADUATE College Exercises June 10 at Cadle Tabernacle. Commencement exercises for 299 graduates of the Teachers College of Indianapolis will be held at Cadle Tabernacle June 10. Prof. George 11. Tapy. Wabash College, will speak. The Rev. George Arthur Franz. First Presbyterian Church pastor, will preach the baccalaureate sermon Sunday afternon at the First Baptist Church. Alumnae will lunch June 10 at Indianapolis Athletic Club. BIRD PUZZLES POLICE Red Pigeon Said to Make Home Near Headquarters. ; ’ ' red pigeon flying in the freight yards adjoining police head quarters has given police and city detectives anew mystery to -solve. “What and why is a red pigeon?” According to old-timers red pigeons are as rare as White Uver whales. In fact, they just aren't. But several witnesses around police headquarters have seen It. Local Students Pledged Bu Times Borciol FRANKLIN. Ind., June 2.—Franklin College fraternities have pledged these Indianapolis students: Charles Spangler, Theta Kappa Nu: Leonard Trent, and Ralph Woody, Phi Delta Theta.

Scrapping the hammer to build with aflame IN THE CITY of Sharon, Pa., is a steel and brick building five stories high, covering nearly a quarter of a city block, with not a rivet in it. Even where the girders span a 46-foot aisle, the rat-tat-tat of the automatic hammer never once sounded. * For in this building Westinghouse scrapped the hammer and built with flame. Its joints are welded fused together instead of hammered together. Westinghouse built this structure to prove that the arc-welded joint is stronger than the riveted joint. It is the first “man’s-size” edifice built with the arc-welding process* Two complete designs were made for this building —one on a riveted, one on an arc-welded basis. The arc-welded building k required 12 per cent less steel. ttf This new and imagination>stirring plication of electricity to structural processes is typical of Westinghouse contributions to the building field. Westinghouse equipment available for building is listed below: WESTINGHOUSE PRODUCTS FOR BUILDINGS Arc-Welding | Motors and Machine* Control for Carbon ' other Circuit-Breakers Panelboards Elevators Ranges fpfl (Motors and Safety Switch** | Control) Small Turbine* Farts Solar Glow Heaters Fuses Stokers Insulating Materials Switchboards Lighting Fixtures Water Heaters Mazda Lamps Watt hour Meters Write for Booklet WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MFG. COMPANY. WeatinghoOM Electric Boil ding. 820 North ?ITrr *>!■: Indianapolis, Indiana W*estinghouse

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