Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1927 — Page 3

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TRAINMEN DENY TUNNEL GUARD RHILHANDIGAP Union Leaders Rap Public Service Commission for Decision. Contention of the public service commission that tunnel guard rails would be a handicap in case of derailments is "all poppycock,” in the opinion of A. E. Gordon, legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, with offices in Hotel English. Gordon, M. H. Miller, railway trainmen representative; R. H. Harrington, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and E. L. Kenney, conductor’s spokesman, framed the petition for tunnel guard rails which was turljsd down by the commission July i. In an order written by Commissioner Harvey Harmon it was pointed out that there had never been a serious accident in any of the eight tunnels in southern Indiana? that guard rails are largely for use on bridges, to keep ties from piling up, and that they would be a handicap in placing cars back on the track in case of derailment. Rails Stop Swaying "Our contention is that guard rails keep a train from swaying in the narrow tunnels and thus are a safety measure for both passengers and crew,” Gordon contended. “We have eight tunnels in the State ranging from 326 to 4,300 feet in length. There was no evidence forthcor .ng from railway officials that guard rails were not a safety device and the commission’s contention regarding derailment seems to me unfounded.” “It should not be necessary to have a Titanic disaster before safety measure are approved,” was the comment of Trainman Miller. Wants Expert Opinion Commissioner Harmon defended his position by pointing out that only “opinions” of the brotherhood representatives, and no "expert engineering testimony”'was offered at the hearing. Whether rehearing will be asked is now being discussed by the brotherhood representatives and no “expert engineering testimony” was offered at the hearing. The commission has refused jurisdiction of a petition from the same source which would require a “full crew” with a “light engine.” This means a locomotive that is not drawing cars. Refusal was based on opinion of the attorney general and should rehearing of the guard rail petition be asked the same question of jurisdiction may arise, Harmon said. HE TOOK POLICEMAN - ON SNAPPY AUTO RIDE And Today Peru Motorist Is Explaining to Judge. Bu Times Special PERU, Ind., July 7.—Gilbert Glassburn, who took Patrolman William Wikel on an automobile ride which the officer says was filled with thrills, will fact! trial in city court here this afternoon on charges of drunkenness, driving an automobile while intoxicated and reckless driving. Wikel says he noticed Glassburn driving his car in a wobbly manner. He leaped on the running board and wa3 taken for an erratic ride of three blocks which ended when the officer grabbed the steering wheel and drove the auto into a tree. WIFE IS POISON VICTIM Despondency Over Husband’s Prison Sentence Believed Cause. Despondent because her husband recently was sentenced to a term at Indiana State Farm for liquor violation, Mrs. Frank Wolfe, 21, of 412 N. La Salle St., tried to end her life 'Wednesday night by taking a large quantity of poison, police believe. She was rushed to city hospital by police, who were called by her sister, MYs. William Endicott, with whom shfc had been living. Doctors at the hospital said she would recover. FoMfing Torture Use Healing, Liquid Zemo Zemo seldom fails to stop Itching Torture and relieve Skin Irritation, it makes the skin soft, clear and healthy. Itch, Pimples, Blotches, Blackheads, in most cases quickly give way to Zemo. Frequently, minor blemishes disappear overnight. Itching usually stops promptly. Zemo is a safe, healing liquid. Convenient to use any time. All druggists—6oc and SI.OO.

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COMMONS WILL BACKJALDWIN House of Lords Reform Bill Hotly Debated. Bu United Press LONDON, July 7.—The House of Commons ended a day of lively debate, featured by a combined labor and liberal attaek on the government shortly before midnight last night by giving the Baldwin government a vote of confidence. By vote of 362 to 167 the House rejected a motion by James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the opposition, to censure the government for its tentative proposal for the reform of the House of Lords. David Lloyd George, Liberal leader, made a speech supporting the MacDonald motion. Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, the debate on behalf of the government by criticising the introduction of a motion of censure He said the House was not voting on a q tion of reforming the House o Lords but on the questioni ✓of whether the government had done wrong in permitting the House of Lords to take part in the discussion. re-elect bank heads Annual Meeting of Ft. Wayne Ave. State Stockholders Held. Officers were re-elected and a second vice-presidency created by stockholders of the Ft. Wayne Ave. State Bank, 844 Ft. Wayne Wednesday night in annual meet > m Glenn B. Ralston was elected to the second vice-presidency. Those re-elected: A. C. Nobes, President, S. G. Howard, first vice-president, C. W. Raub, cashier; C. L. Noel, assistant cashier; Nobes, Howard, Raub, Ralston, A. E. Schmollinger, I. A. Laughner, J. H. Raub and Mayor John L. Duvall, directors. H. K. Fatout was elected as anew director. ARMORY SITE DENIED Shelby County Will Not Donate Part of Courthouse Grounds. Bu Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., July 7. Shelby County will not donate part of the courthouse grounds here as a site for a $65,0000 national guard armory. , . . County commissioners decided against the site proposal after considering a remonstrance bearing the names of 175 persons, who opposed any additional buildings on the courthouse grounds, but offered to subscribe to a fund to buy an armory site elsewhere. evicts Own mother Son Alleged to Have Forced Her to Live With Chickens. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 7. An indictment charging assault will be asked by District Attorney Arthur Rowland against Paul Mateyoke, 30, of Yonkers. The man is alleged to have ejected his 75-year-oid mother, Mrs. Susie Mateyoke, from the house and to have compelled her to live in a chicken coop in the rear yard for the last two weeks. Patrolman Foley was sent to the house in answer to a complaint sent a man was beating a woman at that address.

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Man Lives After Pulling Hot Steel Bar From Head

HAMMOND, Ind., July 7. Twenty-four feet of redhot steel bar went through his head, the remaining four feet of steel protruding grotesquely, Paul Kosty, 37, asked fellow workers to pull out the billet, but they refused, so he grasped the hot steel and dragged it out. Kosty lives to tell the story. He is at St. Margaret’s Hospital here, but has practically recovered. At no time since, a week ago when the accident happened, was he unconscious. For a while his tongue was paralyzed. Kosty, father of two children, was working at his cutting machine in a steel mill here. He stooped pick up a wrench. On raising his body the twenty-eight-foot rod, % of an inch in diameter, which was working back and forth like a piston, dashed, through him. It entered the chin on the left side and protruded through the back of the head on the right side. By a miracle it missed all the important nerves in the face, passing behind the optic nerves. twenty-four feet of the ' bar passed through his head. His appearance frightened fellow workers, so he pulled the rest of the bar out, searing his hands. Dr. Pugh, attending him, marvels at his recovery. Except for scars, Kosty will be as normal as any

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other person and fill be able to take his accustomed place at his machine soon. TRAVELER TO LECTURE Eugene C. Van Wyk Will Speak at Columbia Club Wednesday. Eugene C. Van Wyk, lecturer and South African journalist, will lecture on big game hunting and travel experiences in South Africa in the ballroom of the Columbia Club Wednesday 8 p. m. Van Wyk was born at Johannesburg, Transvaal, and was educated at the College of South Africa and the University of Good Hope. He was secretary to Gen. J. B. M. Hertzog, prime minister of the Union of South Africa, and on the editorial staff of the Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, for a number of years. Preacher Sentenced Bu Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 7.—Six months on the State Farm and a fine of $1 and costs is the sentence of Ralph Crabtree 29, Seventh Day Adventist preacher, for assault and battery upon Elenora Brovn, 13. He entered a plea of guilty in Circuit Court after a criminal assault charge had been withdrawn.

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WHOOZIT editor that they were entitled to tickets. Earl Robertson. 1109 N. Dearborn St., proved that he, too, got in the way of the photographer’s camera and will be the guest of The Times this week. Miss Josephine Hedden, 1325 Ashland Ave., Apt. 6, and Miss Nelle Ward, 3144 North Delaware St., didn’t have any trouble convincing the man with the > tickets and walked out smiling.

DUAL TRAGEDY OVER JAZZ AGE Anderson Man Slays Wife, Self—Girl Wounded. Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 7.—The jazz age and middle age clashed. Today Marvin Todd, 59, a laborer, and his wife, Margaret, 49, are dead, and Todd’s 16-year-old stepdaughter, Miss Thelma Warrington, 16, Is suffering from bullet wounds in the right arm and right leg. She will live. The slayer did not approve of the manner in which his stepdaughter was having a good time. Todd fired a revolver at the girl first. Then he killed his wife and himself. The tragedy occurred at the family home late Wednesday nightjust as the three were preparing to retire. MAYOR BACKS BOYS’ DAY Amateur Baseball Players to Have Limelight Saturday. Mayor Duvall today urged citizens to attend the “boys’ day” celebration Saturday at Washington Park, in an amateur baseball day proclamation. “Clean sports of this character shou.d be encouraged by citizens of Indianapolis. They are helpful to the physical and mental development of our boys,” Duvall said.

AIRLINE CRAFT MAY USE FIELD AT MARS HILL Central Airways Leaders Confer With Corporation on Improvements. Use of the Indianapolis Airport at Mars Hill by Central Airways, Inc., commercial planes was considered today at luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce by the In - dianapolis Airport Corporation which holds a lease on the field. Paul Q. Richey, airways secretary, conferred with the airport officials relative to the improvements necessary before the field can be used extensively by commercial lines. It is proposed to spend between $50,000 and $60,000 to erect a" civilian hanger, machine shop and a lighting system for night flying. J. A. Goodman, airport corporation president, said the survey of a committee to determine what is needed to make the field physically satisfactory is awaited before any action will be taken. Richey, Capt. Nelson Ke)ly, Marmon Motor Car Company pilot, and Paul H. Moore, airport secretary, compose the committee. Central Airways hopes to establish service within thirty to sixty days. "We want to see commercial aviation developed and are awaiting th 6" report of the committee to see what improvements are necessary to make our local airport a first-class landing field,” Goodman said. “Commercial aviation has great possibilities with increased confidence in aeronautics. We can not picture what will happen in fifteen years, but we must be ready to keep irvstep with other cities,” Goodman said. POLICE ARREST THREE OF 4 IN.STOLEN CAR One Makes Double Escape From City Officers. Dark alleys and high board fences in the neighborhood of Michigan and West Sts., proved powerful allies for Rufus Gray, Negro, 435 Minerva St., wanted by police for vehicle taking. He eluded capture twice Wednesday evening. Police, searching for stolen cars, met Gray and three friends in an auto alleged to have been stolen earlier in the evening. Gray escaped, but his companions, Mac Tolliver, 24. Negro, 435 Minerva St., was charged with vehicle taking, and Ella Cook, 21, Negro, 45514 Agnes St., and Bessie Harrison. 22. Negro, 978 Indiana Ave., were held on vagrancy charges. SERVANT IS SENTENCED Judge Says Too Many Take Jobs to Plan Robberies. “Too many servants take positions just long enough to get acquainted so they may rob the families they work for,” Judge Paul C. Wetter said when he sentenced Miss Elsie Lutey, 5936 Beechwood Ave., to thirty days in the Indiana Women’s Prison and fined her $25 on a petit larceny charge. She took SSO worth of clothing from the home of Z. W. Leach, 1154 E. Ohio St., she was a servant, it was charged.

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Emil W. Cooper Indianapolis police today were asked to aid in a hunt for Emil W. Cooper, 20, Indiana Central College student, who has been missing since closing of the college here May 30. His parents, who live in Bloomington, 111., wrote that he had promised to return to his home as soon as his final examinaions were over, but has not been seen. They fear some harm ha% befallen him. College authorities, according to Paul Snively, secretary to the president, are checking to determine whether Cooper enlisted in the riavy or the Marines. DISPUTE VALUE OF MANILA HOP Disagree on Flight’s Benefit to Islands. Bu United Press MANILA, July 7.—War, so far bloodless but bitter, has broken out between oki and young generations of American residents here over recent trans-Atlantic and CaliforniaHawaii flights. Younger business men want to promote a California-Manila flight, hoping, as their official organ expresses it, to “get more publicity than the Philippines have had since Magellan wore short pants.” The break came when the older men disapproved, through their balance of power in the Chamber of Commerce, a plan to start a prize fund for the first aviator to fly from San Francisco to Manila. It was planned to allow stops at Honolulu, Wake Island and Guam. The younger men, selecting the Manila Times as their mouthpiece, then began an editorial campaign in favor of new blood in Philippine affairs. “The old men in the Chamber are estimable,” said the opening blast. “But their juniors wonder why chloroform is not administered to them, painlessly, so that they might be dead from the neck down as well as from the neck up. “The amount of publicity the Philippines would get if a flight were arranged would be worth millions of dollars. ’ “But the heavy thinkers who compose the majority of the directors can’t see it. Back in ’9B, they didn’t have airplanes, and they can’t be bothered.

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SAYS CAPITAL i IN CHINA HAS ! GOODFUTURE Foreign Business Man MiMt Learn More About Natives. This Is the second of the Henkow series by Randall Gould, written for the United Press. BY RANDALL GOULD >i United Press Staff Correepondaat HANKOW, July 7.—Foreign capital has a great future in China, but it will have a hard row to hoe until the foreign businessman in China learns as much about the people in whose land he lives as he already knows about racing ponies. The statement came from Michael M. Borodin, member of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia, but working for the Nationalist Government in China in the capacity of High Advisor. “What I personally may feel to be China’s best future course will not determine the future,” declared Borodin. “The Chinese themselves will determine the future. From present indications, I believe the possibilities for foreign capital here are bright. Knows Little of China “But what can one say for the vision of the foreign business man in China today? Is he in any position to work constructively for the good of both China and himself? Ho is not. He knows little or nothing of China, but he has an excellent knowledge of racing ponies. In this small community of Hankow alone, you will find three race courses. “What does the foreign business man here read about China? Very little, almost nothing. He reads the work of men of his own kind. Woodhead, who knows all the facts of China but doesn’t understand them; Rodney Gilbert, who is the business man’s prophet; that man Who, like a cat, walks always on the fence—Lenox Simpson. Those are the men he reads. Borodin pointed at a round picture conspicuously displayed on the wall. It was the head of a racehorse. “That is the one thing which the China business man really knows thoroughly. He goes through his business day dealings with the ‘Chinks,’ as he calls them, but his real interest is reserved for the moments he can devote to racing. "You will find, if you question him, that the foreign business man —the ‘China hand’—knows all about not only the racing ponies of his own town, but the Shanghai or other large centers as well. “But he knows nothing of Wangwei and other Chinese leaders; he has no conception of what they are trying to accomplish.” Only through anew ( viewpoint and anew interest in the vital happenings in China today can foreign business achieve anything Borodin believes. On the other hand, he implied that if foreign capital cooperates with the new China it will be richly rewarded. Jazz Lures Young Indians 1 Bu United Press PENDLETON, Ore.. July 7.—A jazz crchestra anc’ modern dance pavilion is a greater attraction for the younger bucks and maidens of Indians than the old tribal dance* at the Three Tribes festival here.