Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1927 — Page 3

ATTG. 24, 1927

AVERAGE YEAR FOR FARMS OF NATIONLIKEiY Government Experts Declare Corn Crop Shortest in Many Years. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Aug. 24.—The Scriptural adage, "To him that hath shall be given,” sums up fairly accurately the farm situation this year, which was described today by the Agriculture Department as average.” While it is not a banner year, short crops in several commodities—corn, cotton, oats and most fruitwill result in good money for those farmers who have them. On the other hand, farmers who have had bad luck with these crops, will ha\e a poor year. All these crops have suffered this year. Potato Yield Heavy For the exception, the potato crop is large this year, and potato prices accordingly will not be high. Outside of these "spotty” situations, the outlook is for a fair year. The wheat crop is good, and wheat farmers will get good prices. The outlook for cattle, generally, is promising and the general level of prices next year may possibly be higher. Sheep and hogs are about the same this year as last, but the sheep market is on a gradual decline due to large production for the last few years, and the Agriculture Department suggests caution as to further expansion. Corn Crop Short The corn crop this year, according to present estimates, will be the shortest, with one exception, in twenty-six years, and prices now are about 30 per cent higher than last year. Because of the poor corn and oats crops this year, farmers tend to plant more winter wheat, and the Agricultural Department has issued a warning against this, fearing a huge crop with low prices. This would mean a large surplus, calling for extra marketing methods, some of the plans for which have been opposed by the administration as unsound. Generally, the department considers crop prospects excellent in the North Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon, where agitation for government aid has received considerable>Bupport. It sees a ,fairly good outlook for most other States, with the exception of four middle Western States, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and Missouri; Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, which suffered from wet weather early in the season, and Florida and New Mexico, where droughts have been damaging. Frost Every Month. /'•it Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Aug. 24.—The present cool summer recalls to S. F. Braselton, Civil War veteran here, that there was frost in every month if the year 1863. He says that near the close of each month the tern, perature would fall and there would be a frost, one of killing proportions naving occurred on Aug. 29.

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While ships and planes hunt the Pacific for traces of the plane In \yhich Miss Mildred Doran was lost in the trans-Paciflc air race, her two brothers and sister still cling to hope that she may be saved. They are (left to right) Floyd, 14; Helert, 10, and William, 24.

SPEED GAR IS BUILT Lockhart to Attempt Record in Stutz Machine. Reports that the Stutz Motor Car Company is designing a “mystery car” designed to attain a speed of 220 miles an hour were confirmed today by C. C. Craw-ford, chief engineer. Frank Lockhart, 1926 Indianapolis Motor Speedway winner and holder of the American speed record, 164 miles an hour, is supervising construction and will drive the car. He hopes to set anew world’s record, the present mark, 203.79 miles, having been established last March, by Maj. H. O. D. Seagrave with a British motor. Lockhart will pilot the super speedster at Daytona Beach, Fla., or Muroc, Cal., the only places in the United States where such speed can be developed. The undertaking is being sponsored by a group of American sportsmen, the cost of the model to exceed $35,000. Complete secrecy surrounds the plans. BUILD NEW APARTMENTS Two-Story Structure Is Planned at 3143 E. Washington. An eight-apartment, two-story structure will be built at 3143 E. Washington St., by John Larison, contractor, 5117 E. Washington St. A permit for erecting the structure was issued Tuesday. The building will be completed about Jan. 1. It is to be of brick veneer, with four apartments of four rooms each on each floor. Larison, formerly with the E. G. Spink Company, built more than fifty Indianapolis apartments during fifteen years with l hat firm. Church Session Opens Bp Times Special HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 24. —Attendance was close to 300 today at the White River conference of United Brethren in Christ churches, following the opening session Tuesday night. The conference will close Sunday.

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Aged Case By United Press NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Aug. 24.—Mrs. Alena M. Atkins, 65, who might celebrate her golden wedding annivesray next Janaury, is suing her 90-year-old husband for divorce. She claims her husband deserted her ten years after their marriage in Springfield, Mass. - The couple have a sou, Frederick E. Atkins, Jr., 45.

VALUATIONS BOOSTED City Will Pay More for Street Widening Land. Increases in valuation of three properties to be bought by the city for the proposed widening and paving of Forty-Sixth St., between Sunset Ave. and Boulevard PI., were granted today by the board of works. The modified damage roll was approved by Members J. W. Friday and Frank Cones for acquisition of land for the fifty-foot widening. The raodway will lead to the main entrance of the new Butler University site. Value of property of Edward Allred was reset at $1,612, double the original figure. An increase was granted James G. Drummond, from $997 to $1,425, and Henry G. Blume from $843 to $2,487. INDIANA QUAKERS ELECT Percy M. Thomas, Fairmount, Heads Yearly Meeting. By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 24. Percy M. Thomas, Fairmount, was named presiding clerk for* this year’s sessions of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, late Tuesday, following action on the nominating committee’s report, The new presiding clerk succeeds Arthur M. Charles, Richmond. Other officers named by the Yearly Meeting, in session here, inciude Isadore Kirk, Spiceland, recording clerk; Edwin P. Trueblood, Richmond, and Edith J. Hoftt, Charlottsand Parvin W. Bond, Wabash, announcing clerk.

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996 S.NOOPERS FIRED BY DRY CZARS OF UNO Turmoil Has Marked Every Regime of Federal Enforcement. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 24.—The dismissal of twenty-four federal dry agents in New York brings the grand total of dismissals since prohibition to 996, according to figures compiled today. The small heads have fallen in droves in the eight years, but so have the large ones. Shifts in high administrative officials have been many. There have been thirty changes in zone administrators since Gen. Lincoln C. Andxews established* centralized enforcement in August, 1925. Shake Up on Now Many inore dry agents will be dismsised in the next few weeks, as a general shake-up is in progress. The next “weeding out” is expected in Seattle, Wash., the Seattle administrator, Roy C. Lyle, has been summoned here sept. 1 to discuss alleged bribery of agents under his supervision. The total dismissals, 996, are half the total number cf agents now in the service, which is slightly less than 2,000. While the New York dismissals were laid to a deficit in the operating budget Incurred by Chester P. Mills, former New York administrator, the 972 others were "for cause.” Many Causes Cited The "causes” included false statements on applications for positions, immorality, arrests for speeding, gambling, graft, accepting bribes, failure to file income tax returns and inefficiency, Prohibition Commissioner Doran explained today. ‘ Others to be dismissed soon may find “for drunkenness’’ on their dismissal papers, it is indicated by Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman. In announcing the New York reduction, he said dry agents who drink will be ousted. CONTINUE BANK CHECK Statement to Wild Depositors Expected This Week. Statements on what action depositors should take in filing claims against the J. F. Wild <& Cos. State Bank probably will be made this week, Eugene H. Iglehart. one of the receivers of the institution announced today. At the present time the receivers are continuing a check of bank records in order to determine its actual financial status. TAKE ALLEGED BANDITS Two Men Accused of Series of State, Kentucky Robberies. Local police were notified today of the arrest of William Compliment, 25, of Muncie, and Chester Strader, 27, of Elwood, charged with robbing a jewelry store at Carrollto, Ky., July 25. The loot was valued at $750. Sleuths say they stole an automobile in Muncie and commited a series of filling station and store hold-ups In southern Indiana and northern Kentucky.

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Last Letter of Vanzetti and Sacco Is Revealed

Friends Thanked and Victory Proclaimed in Shadow of Death. Bn United Press BOSTON, Aug. 24.—Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti wrote a farewell letter, which has been made public by the defense committee. The letter, dated Aug. 21 and addressed to the committee, was as follows: “After tomorrow, midnight, we will be executed, save anew staying of the execution by either the United States Supreme Court, or by Governor Alvan T. Fuller. “In a word, we feel lost! Therefore, we decided to write this letter to you to express our gratitude and admiration for all that you have done In our defense during these seven years, four months awd eleven days of struggle. “That we lost and have to die, does not diminish our appreciation and gratitude for your great solidarity with us and our families. “Friends and comrades, now that the tragedy of this trial Is at an end, be all as of one heart. Only two of us will die. Our ideal, you, our comrades, will live by millions; we have won, we are not vanquished. “Just treasure our suffering, our sorrow, our mistakes, our defeats, our passion for future battles and for the great emancipation. "Be all as v of one heart in this blackest hour of our tragedy. And have heart. Salute for us all the friends and comrades of the earth. "We embrace you all and bid you our extreme good-by with out hearts filled with love and affection. “Now and ever, long life to you all, long life to liberty. “Yours In life and death. “Bartolomeo Vanzetti. “Nicola Sacco.” INJURIES FATAL TO EVANSVILLE BANKER Samuel L. May Dies After Auto Accident Near Patoka. By United Press PRINCETON, Ind., Aug. 24. Samuel L. May, 52, president of the Citizens’ National Bank of Evansville. died here early today In the Methodist hospital from Injuries received in an automobile accident near Patoka Tuesday. May was delirious most of the time after the accident and never fully regained consciousness. Walton M. Wheeler, Evansville attorney, and Frank R. Wilson, first vice president of the old national bank of Evansville, both of tohom were slightly injured in the same accident, were improving today. The three men. all of whom were receivers for the Servel Corporation, were en route to Terre Haute to take a train for New York. The car, which was driven by a . colored chauffeur, became unmanageable, leaving the road, crashing into a telephone pole and turning over. Besides his bank connections, May had extensive in several construction firms engaged In building locks and dams on the Ohio River.

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MAP SHUMAKER CASE Dry Chief and Counsel Will Confer Today. Procedure in attempted appeal of the Shumaker contempt case to the United States Supreme Court was to be outlined today at a conference of counsel with Superintendent E. S. Shumaker of the Indiana AntiSaloon League. Chief Counsel James Bingham Sr. has announced that it will be filed for rehearing with the Indiana Supreme Court, but considers the move merely one of completion of record. Whether the effort to bring the case before the highest court will be irtade by filing writ of error with the State court or taken direct to Washington on writ of certiorari is to be decided at the conference. Shumaker was held in contempt of the Indiana Suprejne Court and sentenced to serve sixty days at the State farm'and to pay a $250 fine. Motions for arrest of judgment, new trial and modification of sentence were denied. The rehearing motion will not be argued. Bingham said.

THE CITY IN BRIEF

THUBSbAY EVENTS Indianapolis Advertising Club luncheon, Spink Arms Indianapolis Engineering Club luncheon. Board ol Trade. Loyal Knights of the Bound Table luncheon. Lincoln. American Business Club luncheon. Columbia Club. Sigma Nu luncheon. Board of Trade Sigma Chi luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Mary Association picnic. Broad Ripple Park, all day. Mose Davis, operating a tire sh H at 302 N. Capitol Ave., today surrendered to Federal prohibition agents upon learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest. He was released on bond of $3,006: Operatives of the United States marshal’s office Tuesday arrested Pat Pyle of Anderson in that city in connection with the theft of an automobile several months ago. He was brought to Indianapolis by Commissioner John W. Kern, who released him on $2,500-bond. After stealing the car here Pyle took it to Florida, it is charged. A People’s Motor Coach Company bus in charge of Don Green, 25, of 954 E. Minnesota St., collided with a coal wagon driven by Richard Clay, Negro, 69, ol 868 Edgemont SV, at Delaware and Nineteenth Sts., late Tuesday. The wagon was turned over. Clay and Frank Harris, Negro, 67, of 2102 Shrlver Ave., were bruised. PHONE PIONEER ILL Bn United Press BOSTON, Aug. 24.—C01. Charles J. Glfjlden, 69, who was associated with Alexander Graham Bell in perfecting telephonic communication, is critcially ill. First to make an automobile tour of the world, he later established what became famous as the “Glidden Tours.”

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ANDERSON MAN FAILS TO APPEAR FOR TRIAL Mellett Intoxication Case Is Continued Until Aug. 31. Charge of intoxication against J. H. Mellett, former mayor of Anderson, In i., was continued Tuesday in Municipal Court 4 until Aug. 31 when Mellett failed to appear for trial. Abe Greenspan, bondsman for Mellet, was granted until that time to produce Mellett. Charges of driving while drunk and intoxication against Charles Wilder, 46, of 540 N. Oriental St., who was arrested with Mellett Aug. 13 following a minor auto accjflent, were dismissed when Greenspan produced board of health records *0 show that Wilder died Saturday night after being found in a stupor in the Oneida Hotel, S. Illinois Si*. Coroner C. H. Keever pronounced Wilder’s death due to alcoholism. 1 POPE PRAYS FOR DEAD Hopes Souls of Vanzetti and Sacco May Be Saved. By United Press ROME, Aug. 24.—Pope Pius XI is praying for the souls of Sacco and Vanzetti, his secretary of state, Cardinal Gasparri, telegraphed to Sacco’s father. The elder Sacco had wired the Pope asking him to intervene in Sacco’s behalf.

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WORLD TO END i LIQUOR, BELIEF OF‘PUSSYFOOT’ Militant Temperance Advocate Last Speaker at Congress. Bn United Press WINONA LAKE. Ind., Aug. 24. Delegates to the congress of the World League Against Alcoholism were on their way homeward today, following the close of what is described by leaders as the greatest “anti-alcoholism congress in the world's history. The conference closed here Tuesday night after a week’s session. Featuring the final session was an address by William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, internationally known militant foe of liquor. Johnson’s address permeated his audience with a glittering, optimistic future for prohibition as its principal subject. “I believe,” he said, “the time is near when the flag of no civilized nation will longer fly over a brewery, a distillery or a drinking hole.” Directing his voice at the foreign delegates to the congress, Johnson said: “Tell the people in your countries America has setteld her prohibition problem . Say straight ahead is the only direction America knows anything about traveling. Say America is not a crab that crawls backward.” At. Its closing session the league adopted resolutions holding the religious and moral forces of the world resDonsible for the moral welfare of the world. Among other resolutions adopted were: Praise of the Eighteenth amendment and a request fop better enforcement. Reference to the need of scientific and educational temperance work. Declarating that liquor smuggling is an inexcusable breach of international relations. DOUGH MIXER DEADLY • - Clinton Baker Dies Following Numerous Injuries in Machine. By Times Special CLINTON. Ind., Aug. 24.—Baptist Marchetti, 50, is dead here of injuries suffered wher his head was caught in an electric dough mixer whlie he was working at his bakery here. Reaching into the machine to retrieve a knife he dropped, Marchetti was caught, suffering sever® lacerations of his face and throat, fractures of several bones of his face, a skull fracture across the forehead, three crushed fingers, broken left arm and his right' ey® was almost torn out.