Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1927 — Page 9

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GAS COMPANY RENEWS PLEA TO TAXBOARD Wants $1,000,000 Increase in Assessment Reconsidered, Says President. RATE CUT STRESSED Chairman Brown Firm in His Stand That Valuation Is Fair.With little hope for change in the attitude of Chairman John J. Brown of the State tax board, Clarence L. Kirk, president of the Citizens Gas Company, will appear before the board July 12, and again request that the $1,000,000 increased assessment of the board be reconsidered, he announced today. Kirk will base his plea for no increased assessment over the $12,000,000 valuation of 1926, on the fact that the company has filed a reducted rate schedule with the public service commission. The commission has already granted the company a month to aid in the creation of a tax payment fund, but it was agreed Monday that the new rates will be effective in July. Rates Not Basis “Rates can be no concern of the tax board in making valuations,” Brown declared today. “We are functioning under the method approved by the United States Supreme Court and take into consideration property value, annual income and valuation of capital stock in arriving at our figures. To consider the new rates would be to anticipate income. We must take the figures from the 1926 reports of the company. “Our efforts in arriving at valuations must be standardized and we can make no ''exception for the Citizens Gas or any other company.” Point to Reductions Kirk has pointed out that his company has made voluntary reductions in rates three times during the last two years. At the same time they have paid two 23 per cent dividents, including those on back payment, on $2,000,000 of common stock, spent $2,000,000 on improvements and created a huge surplus. While the company voluntarily can reduce its rates, with commission approval, they cannot be raised without a public hearing, Commissioner Howell Ellis, who handled the gas case, stated.

NEGRO GIVEN MEDAL Race Advancement Ses : sions Ended. The award of the Spingarn medal, given to Anthony Overton, Negro, Victory Life Insurance Company president, of Chicago, featured the final session Tuesday night of the eighteenth annaul conference of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored Race, held at Caleb Mills hall. The medal is annually awarded by the association to the Negro who has in, the association’s opinion, made the most outstanding contribution to achievements of the Negro race during the year. Overton is the thirteenth to receive the award, which was given him for his business achievements. Dr. W. E. Du Bois, New York, editor of The Crisis, made an address, “The Business Man as a Social Servant,” preceding the presentation and Overton responded. Miss Zona Gale, author of Portage, Wis., made an address, stressing the importance of understanding and cooperation between the races. OSTEOPATH IS HONORED Dr. Frank Smith to Treat Fellow Doctors at Convention. Dr. Frank H. Smith, 527 Merchants Bank Bldg., is one of thirteen osteopathic physicians selected to treat those attending the thirty-first annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association at Denver, Col., the week of July 25. The convention program committee decided that because many osteopathic physicians work along for months without giving proper attention to their own health, that for the convention week at least there will be no excuse for not getting proper care. The thirteen doctors will work each day from 7 to 9 a. m. and four daysof the week from 7 to 10 p. m. Auto Hits Dodging Man William Frye, 43, of Box 134, R. R. 0, was bruised on the back and head today when an auto driven by Frank Wagner, 56, of 134 Kealing Ave., knocked him to the pavement at Meridian and Washington Sts. as he dodged back out of the path of another machine. He was treated at city hospital and taken home. . Will Request Convention Here ■ Dr. Harry K. Mcllroy, IndianapoAs chiropractor, will seek to get the Hr2B convention of American ChiHfcractic Association for Indianapobureau officials anAaced today. This year's conHkm meets at Louisville, Ky., ■KI-16. About 1.000 usually atconventions.

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Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the U. S. Army air service, made a hurried trip to the west coast to inspect the Fokker plane before its flight to Honolulu. He found the plane in good condition . and bade the flyers godspeed.

REV. KABEY ON TRANSFER LIST Bishop Sends Local Pastor to Evansville. Transfer of the Rev. Charles Kabey from Little Flower Church, Indianapolis, to Evansville is among changes in pastorates of Catholic churches in the Indianapolis diocese, announced today by the Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand, bishop. The Rev. John J. Doyle of Jeffersonville was transferred to Little Flower Church. Other transfers: The Rev. Pierce Dixon of Hayden to Leopold; the Rev. Henry Ernst to St. Bernard, Gibson- County, from Shelbyville; the Rev. Edward Eisenman from Leopold to Hayden; the Rev. Francis H. Ankenbrdck from Vincennes to Tell City. - Newly ordained priests were placed as follows: The Rev. Joseph Brown to St. Augustine’s Church, Jeffersonville; the Rev. ' Francis Early, assistant pastor of St. Phillip Nero Church, Indianapolis; the Rev. William Davis, assistant pastor at St. Simon’s Church, Washington. The appointments become effective July 1. The Rev. Joseph A. Kempf, Ph. D., recently graduated from Columbia University, has been named a professor in St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, near Terre Haute. WISCONSIN SENATE PASSES BEER BILL Governor Expected to Sign Law Permitting Home Brew. Bu United Press MADISON, Wis., June 29.—A bill legalizing manufacture and sale of home-brewed beer as far as Wisconsin law is concerned, was passed by the upper house of the Legislature today and sent to Governor Fred R. Zimmerman. By a vote of 17 to 14 the Senate concurred with an Assembly action in passing the Duncan beer bill. The bill proposes that penalties for violation of the State’s prohibition laws shall not apply where the liquor in question does not contain more than 2.75 per cent alcohol, by weight. Proponents of the bill are confident the Governor will sign. BOY ACCUSES PARENTS Police Investigate Story of Youthful Panhandler. A weird tale told police by a 12-year-old boy of how he was beaten and forced upon the street to beg by his parents who required that he have a certain amount of money before he could return home at night was investigated Tuesday night. The boy found begging at Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts., said he lived at 2300 Massachusetts Ave., police found his parents, who denied the accusation and said instead that they were unable to cope with the boy’s desire for money and that they were unable to stop his begging practice. Other officers said they investigated the case twice before. The boy was taken to the detention home Tuesday night, and the case referred to juvenile court authorities for investigation. TAUGHT FOR 50 YEARS Pedagogue Retires at 91 to Perfect Phonetic Alphabet. BOSTON, June 29.—Fred O. Ellie of Braintree, Mass., served 50 years in the schools of Swampscott and Boston. He has just celebrated his 91st birthddy. Since his retirement in 1909, Ellis has been at work on an international phonetic alphabet which he originated and has written a grammar ani. spelling book.

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Wife, General and Mascot Cheer and Hope far Ocean Fliers

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With all three ihotors roaring and a cloud of dust rising astern, the giant United States Army Fokker plane, piloted by Lieuts. Lester Maitland and Alfred S. Hegenberger, takes off at San Francisco for its 2,100-mile flight to Honolulu.

BRITISH ISLES DARKENED BY SUN'S ECLIPSE Millions Watch Overcast Sky Throughout Northern Europe. Bu United Press , LONDON, June 29.—Nearly three million acres of land in England and Wales were thrown into almost total darkness today over the total eclipse of the sun swept over the British Isles. This is the first total eclipse of the sun that has visited Great Britain since 1724 and it will be the last seen here until 1999. Falling first in the Atlantic Ocean, a little southwest of Ireland, the moon's shadow reached land where Carnarvonshire, Wales juts out into the St. George’s Channel. The time was then about 5:23 a. m., Greenwich Mean Time. Passing over North Wales and the Irish Sea the shadow in its totality fell in England between Liverpool and the south and Fleetwood at the north—an approximate stretch of 30 miles. The shadow spewt over Lancashire, Yorkshire and Durham to the North Sea, reaching the east coast of England between Sunderland on the north and Saltburn on the south. Passing out of England, the shadow fell over the North Sea and traveled over Scandinavia, the Artie and Northern Siberia, its long journey ending near the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea. Had Long Shadows The reason for the great length of the eclispse is that the sun's altitude when the eclipse occured was only between 10 and 13 degrees from the horizon taking the form of a long shadow rather than a round spot as is the case when the sun is directly overhead. The speed of the shadow was approximately 90 miles a minute. Observers of the phenomenon today can be conservatively estimated at millions. Not only did people from all parts of the British Isles flock to the area to see the sight which occurs so infrequently in a civilized country, but people from all over the world made special trips to England and Wales to observe the eclipse. Scientists Busy All last night the roads leading to the area were crowded with private automobiles and trucks carrying thousands of people who could not spare the time to spend more than one night to get a few seconds’ glimpse of the eclipse. Hotels in all of the major cities and towns in the area were crowded to capacity with thousands of people who are making of |the event. Aside from the millions of curious people, there were some of the most famous scientists and astronomers in the world gathered in what were considered the best spots to observe the eclipse.

HOLD IRATE LANDLORD Charge Man Struck Woman Holding Baby. C. W. Hoover, E. Walnut St., was held on an assault and battery charge today after he is alleged to have attacked Mrs. Helen Stoops, a roomer at his home. The alleged attack was the result of a visit of Miss Agatha Courtney, daughter of Mrs. Lillian Courtney, to the Hoover residence. The Courtneys had lived at Hoover’s home for. a short time, and when they left Hoover told them they couldn't enter his house again. When they came to visit Mrs. Stoops, Hoover is alleged to have knocked Mrs. Stoops down while the woman was holding her baby, police said. It is charged that he hit her several times while she was ort the floor. NAME OFFICE MANAGERS Commerce Department Announces Appointments for July 1. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 29.—Selection of managers for new offices to be opened July 1 was announced today by the Commerce Department. The offices and managers follow: Jacksonville, Fla., Walter N. Pearce of Washington, D. C.; Los Angeles, Cal., James H. Smiley of Haverhill, Mass.; Mobile, Ala., Lawrence W. James, former commercial attache at Lima, Peru; Wilmington, Del., John H. Farrell of Troy, N. Y.; Norfolk Va., Sherman R. Peabody of Rochester, N. Y.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29,1927

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The hardest part of a long air voyage—waiting, hour after hour, for some sort of word of the flier’s fate—fell to Mrs. Lester Maitland when her husband hopped off for Honolulu. She is shown here with their baby.

Ocean Fliers Wife and Daughter Wait Unafraid Mrs. Maitland Cheerful as Reports Come in; Child Knows Little of Father’s Danger. r=ra ASHINGTON. June 29.—T0 young Patricia Maitland, age 3’j, this YjU is just another day. “I haven’t told her much about it.” her young YV mother says. “She knows her daddy’s flying somewhere—but then he always is!” As if she had just thought of it. she added: “I wonder what this generation of fliers’ children will be like—always looking up into the sky for their fathers to come home.” Whatever the children may be. it is already evident that this generation of fliers’ wives is a generation of Spartan women. Mrs. Maitland went to Dayton, Ohio, to say good-by to her husband, then came back to her home here to wait-word of his flight so that she could be in close touch with the War Department and sure of the earliest

possible news. She reached here at noon Tuesday and at once graciously and happily began receiving an endless procession of reporters. She received them at her parents’ apartments In St. hospital for the insane. Her father, Dr. William A. White, is superintendent of the institution. Patricia didn't'go to Dayton for the good-by. They don’t make much fuss over the good-bys, these Spartan wives. Mrs. Maitland laughed about the jolly time she and her husband had trying out the collapsible rubber boat, with its tiny sail, carried for emergency in the C-2. She, spoke too, about the tremendous advance in safety devices since Commander John Rodgers tried to fly to Hawaii less than two years ago. The radio beacon, which will sound a “T” signal to tell the flyers they are on their course all the way across the Pacific hadn’t been perfected then and neither had the smoke candles devised to show the navigator the drift of his plane, the angle between the direction the plane is pointing and the direction of the actual flight. But Mrs Maitland was thinking more of the future No more long, pioneering flights to worry about—not because she had forbidden them, but because this particular goal was the one to which he had bent his energies. BEGGAR LEAVES $65,000 Share In Estate of Professional Panhandler Asked By Friend. Bu t'nited Press NEW YORK, June 29. —John Armstrong, a professional beggar, left an estate of $65,000. This became known when Mrs. Ella Sloan, who had befriended the aged man, filed in surrogate court a claim to SIO,OOO of the estate. Armstrong “panhandled” downtown streets for half a century. Normal School Meeting July 15 Meeting of the State Educational Board and the Normal School trustees are scheduled for July 15, Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles F. Miller announced. The board will meet at Miller’s office and the trustees at the Columbia Club. President for Muncie Normal may be chosen at that time.

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THURSDAY EVENTS Traffic Club dinner meeting. Severln, 8:30. Advertising Club luncheon. Splnk-Arms. Real Estate Board luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Indianapolis Engineering Club luncheon. Board of Trade. Sigma Nu luncheon. Board of Trade. Retail Credit Men's Association, luncheon, Chamber of Commerce, Sigma Chi luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Dr. John F. Spaunhurst, 4631 Boulevard PI., has been re-elected trustee of the College of Electronic Medicine of San Francisco, it was announced today by the American Electronic Research Association, Chicago. Coming from Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, more than 250 WillysKnight and Whippet dealers assembled here today to participate in a business meeting, a chicken dinner and an outing at Broad Ripple Park. “Development of Transportation” will be discussed by R. R. Nace, Pennsylvania Railroad, Indianapolis division superintendent, at a dinner and meeting of the Indianapolis Traffic Club to be held at the Spink-Arms Hotel Thursday night. “The Passion Tlay of Oberammergau” will be reproduced in a dramatic picture lecture at a union meeting in the First Presbyterian Church at Sixteenth and Delaware Sts., at 8 p. m., Thursday night. Dr. Harvey Hadlock of California will lecture. . Reports on activities of the first six months of the year by President L. H. Lewis and Executive Secretary Robert Mac Gregor will feature the Indianapolis Real Estate Board luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday. C. E. Shover, forty years a resident of Indianapolis, but now of Vancouver, B. C., Tuesday sent Governor Jackson two huge keys, to be added to the State relics collection. The keys were to the old Statehouse. tom down by him in 1877, when he was a contractor here.

‘MISSIONARIES’ FROM KENTUCKY LAND IN JAIL Thirsty Hoosiers’ Ambitious Rescuers Caught With Whisky Still. Bu Times Special . MARTINSVILLE, Ind., June 29. —Visions of three Kentuckians of becoming millionaires at the expense of Indianapolis whisky drinkers were blasted today by Sheriff Rufus Pointer and aids. To provide real Kentucky mountain dew, made by the methods perfected in the Kentucky Hills long before prohibition became a reality, when they journeyed to Morgan County last Friday, they now admit. Raub Hill, an isolated elevation a few miles east of Centerton. which is six miles northwest of Martinsville, was selected as the scene of their missionary operations. But fate intervened. Sheriff Pointer, Deputies Bert Lucas, Harry Ratcliff and Special Office Charles Byrum at midnight discovered the still they had set up and waited in the woods until the moonshiners began operations at 6 a. m. The officers watched operations for fifteen minutes and saw the experts make sixteen gallons of “real corn and rye” whisky in that time. Then Sheriff Pointer stepped out of the bushes and sat down on a log where they were working. “Howdy, boys,” he said. “Who are you and what do you want?” growled Fred Cramer, the K. ntuckians’ leader, and tried to get his trusty pistol from his pocket. But the sheriff beat him to the draw and the missionary efforts of Cramer, Fred Ulrich and Fred May, all about 35, were ended. “We’d have made a million if you’d left us alone for thirty days," they told their captors as they were lodged in jail on possession of a still charge. The still, with its capacity of about 1,400 gallons in twenty-four hours. wv> the largest ever seized in Morgan Cvunty, according to Sheriff Pointer. In addition to the still, with its large boiler, and copper coil condenser, forty-four barrels of mash cached in a nearby hollow, and cotton to be used to strain the moonshine were seized.

‘CHI' TIE-UP LOOMS Filling Station Men May Also Strike. Bu United Press CHICAGO, June 29.—Paralysis of all the city’s transportation means—surface cars. “L” trains and motor traffic appeared likely today through two threatened strikes. Officials of the Carmen’s Union today will present wage ultimatum to officials of the street railways demanding that some concession be given the union demands. In the event of refusal a strike conference, which probably will end with a general strike call, will be arranged. Added to this came the announcement that gasoline filling station attendants had voted to strike unless their demands for wage increases from $l4O to $l5O a month were met. It was pointed out that a strike of gasoline filling station attendants would seriously handicap all motor traffic, as it would be difficult to man sufficient gasoline stations to meet the demand of the city’s motorists. Robinson Redman Chief Senator Arthur R. Robinson will receive the chief’s degree tonight from the Red Cloud Tribe, No. 18, I. O. R. M. Following the ritualistic work, Robinson will address his brother Red Men.

Helen of Troy Is Back Helen of Troy had beauty, to be sure! Helen of Troy had brains, who would have suspected it? Helen of Troy had a moral code—yes, sir—laugh that off! You will find Helen far more fascinating than she ever was in her ancient role when you read THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OF TROY Inamorata of the Trojan Prince Paris. John Erskine. author of the new Times serial, makes Helen of Troy step out of the dim, misty tomes of classical lore into the bright, scintillating pages of a best filler. What a revelation! More than 250,000 copies of the book, translated into eight languages, were published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. It comes to you in serial form daily, beginning Thursday, June 30, in The Indianapolis Times. If you have read it, read it again and you will find new delights. Telephone MAin 3500, home delivery department, to make sure of having your copy delivered.

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The mascot had to stay home, so he wished his master good luck and bon voyage. The photo shows Lieut. Lester Maitland, army flyer, saying good-by to his dog just before he took off on his 2,100-mile flight across the Pacific from San Francisco to Honolulu. (Copyright, 1927, NBA Service*

POPE LEADS IN HOLIDAY RITES Rome Observes Feast of Apostles Today. Bu United rrrss ROME, June 29.—The Feast of the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, protectors of the Eternal City, was celebrated today with all its historic solemnity. It is recognized as the biggest Roman holiday. The Fascist regime, following its policy.of observing great reverence for the church, reinstated it as a government holiday. Pope Pius XI, attended by his court and by the Sacred College of Cardinals, descended from his private apartments into the Vatican Basilica of St. Peter’s which had been closed to the public in order that the Pontiff might do homage before the bronze statue of the Apostle. \ All day long thousands of Romans and foreign visitors filed before the statue, devoutly kissing its toe, which has become worn out during the course of many centuries by the millions' of kisses of men, women and children. In the evening the facade of St. Peter’s will be illuminated. SUITS PROTEST VALUES SET ON RIVER PROPERTY Owners of Improved Sites Ask New Appraisals. Two suits protesting amounts of damages granted by the board of works in projects having to do with the bettering of White River flood conditions, were filed in Superior One today. The suits object to appraisals placed on property inside the area which extends from a line 775 feet south of the center of Raymond St. to MorrW St. One filed by heirs of Nicholas McCarty alleges the board of works appraised property owned by them at $61,787. The petition asserts the property is worth $500,000 and asks that a different figure be set. The other, filed by the Dilling company charges it owns property in the area worth $146,700 and the board of works voted only $55,550 as the appraisal price. 3 GET PARIS DIVORCES Bu United Press PARIS, June 29.—Mrs. Euphemia Louise Tudor Slade Bambrooke was granted a divorce today from Frederic John Bambrooke of Long Beach, Cal. George Frederick Beth Johnson of Jacksonville, Fla., was granted a divorce today from Mrs. Madeleine Shellings Johnson. Mrs. Gertrude Pardee was granted a divorce today from Chatur Chanotulski of Columbus, Ga.

GYM, WINGS PLANNED FOR TECH SCHOOL School Board Would Spend $450,000 Improving Institution. 5,000-SEAT AUDITORIUM Resolutions Authorizing Bond. Sale for Project Up to Tax Board. A $200,000 auditorium-gymnasium to seat 5,000 persons and two class room wings to cost $250,000 will be added to Arsenal Technical High School if a resolution passed by the school board Monday night providing for the sale of $450,000 worth of bonds is approved by the State tax board. x The proposed additions are part of the "greater Tech” building program under consideration for a ye?.r. The auditorium-gymnasium will permit assembly of the entire student body for the first time in the history of the school. Twenty additional classrooms will be provided to relieve cramped conditions. Pick Architects for School Harrison & Tumock. architects, were chosen to draw plans for the $140,000 addition to school building No. 73, School > and Thirtieth Sts. An auditorium and additional classrooms will be provided. The addition will be started with funds set aside for the proposed grade school at Fifty-Seventh St. and Central Ave., construction of which was held up by court action of neighborhood residents who objected to the school. Ervin W. McCullough. 3024 N. New Jersey St., sanitary board consulting engineer, represented patrons of School No. 66. ThirtyEighth St. and College Ave., and objected to two portable buildings used in place of a long-promised addition to the school. “Classrooms Dark” “Snow sifts through the wall3 In winter and classrooms arc so dark that electric lights are used all day,” McCullough said. The school is third on the list for an addttion, Charles W. Krn. building committee chairman, promised. A special board meeting will be held Thursday at 11 a. m. Bids on a park lighting system for Technical High School will be opened.

DIES AFTER REUNION John Williams, Elkhart, Was Absent 20 Years. Bh Times Spec Ini ELWOOD. Ind., June 29.—Three weeks after he liacl been reunited with his family after an absence of twenty years and identified fifteen years ago as killed in an accident, John Williams. 65, in dead at his home here. Illness from a complication of diseases caused death. During an illness twenty years ag, Mr. Williams disappeared. Five years later the body of a man crushed to death when timber fell in a freight car at Anderson was identified as his. Relatives claimed the body and funeral services were held. Early this month, a son was advised Mr. Williams was still alive, but ill in an Ohio hospital. Investigation established his identity and he was brought here to be with his family. VETERAN EMPLOYE DIES Services for William McAuley to Be Held Thursday. Services for John William McAuley, 56, of 1932 Parker Ave.. who died Tuesday at his home, will be hold at 2 p. m. Thursday, the Rev. Lemuel O. Carnes, Heath Memorial M. E. Church pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. McAuley, who was with the Indianapolis Manufacturing Company for the last thirty-six years, had been ill for the last eight months. He was a member of Heath Memorial M. E. Church, I. O. O. F„ Evergreen Lodge No. 751, and Loyal Order of Moose, Indianapolis Lodge No. 17. Besides the widow, Mr. McAuley leaves two daughters, Miss Emma McAuley. Mrs. Robert Rhodes, and three sons, Roy. Ralph and Russell, all of this city. UNVEIL RILEY SHRINE Poet’s Cousin Will Speak at Fletcher, N. C. Word has been received by Chamber of Commerce officials from the Rev. Clarence Stuart McClellan, Jr., pastor of Cavalry Episcopal Church, Fletcher. N. C.. that a James Whitcomb Riley Memorial will be unveiled there July 17. Dr. Jde Shelby Riley of Fletcher, cousin of the poet, donated the memorial, which consists of a bronze tablet on a bowlder. He will deliver the dedicatory address. Riley often visited the town of Fletcher as the guest of Bill Nyc, famous humorist. Request Certificate Issue Bv T nit-ii Prr-ss l WASHINGTON, Jude 29.—The Southern Pacific Company applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission today for issue $5,786,000 of 4Ms per r trust certificates to be chase of new rolling -* 1