Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 101, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 5,1927

19 DEATHS BY VIOLENCE, TOLL OVERJNDIANA AMto Accidents Cause Most, of Fatalities Over Week-End: Violent death was the fate of nineteen persons in Indiana over the week end. The heaviest toll was exacted by automobiles and also includes three killed in a train wreck and two suicides. Seymour Stone, a representative of the Metre-Goldwyn Film Corporation, was burned to death when an fffitomobiles in which he was riding with two other men caught fire after turning over on State Rd. 56 near Madison. His companions were severely injured. Mrs. Charles M. Wiezer, 48, wife of the president of the First National Bank, Ft. Wayne, is dead of injuries suffered in an auto accident near Garrett. James Trackwell, 53, Brazil, a lineman, was electrocuted while stringing a wire in a basement where he was working. Youth Fatally Shot Edward Venable, 19, Boonville, was fatally shot with a revolver in the hands of Albert Matthews, 16, while they were playing “movies.” Mrs. Omer Hook, 18, was fatally burned at her farm home north of Bumettsville when a stove exploded. Mrs. Mittie Sandefur, 30, Evansville, and Hampton Anderson, 40, Camby, died of injuries suffered when an auto driven by Anderson struck a guard rail on a road near Cynthlana. Silas Terry, 90, retired druggist, Brazil, committed suicide by hanging, after swallowing poison. Fear of losing his mind and of going blind was given by relatives as the cause of the act. Charles T. Miller, 64, Rockville, killed himself by poisoning after becoming despondent over illness. Two Die at Crossing Harvey Holderman, 43, and Willis Bryant, 33, farmers, near Tippecanoe, were killed when a Nickel Plate train struck an automobile at a crossing near Mentone. Holderman’s son, John, 17, was so badly injured that he is expected to die. Marion V. Wilhoite, 16, was killed instantly when a truck driven by his uncle, Frank Wilhoite, went into a ditch near Lizton. Isaac Wolf, 28, Seymour, drowned while swimming in White River near that city. Alvey Earl, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Earl, Terre Haute, was killed when the car in which he was riding with his parents collided with one driven by Ernest Burns, 24. Robert Price, 5, and his brother, Charles, 3, are dead at Kokomo of burns suffered when an old barn in which they were playing was burned. A third brother, Gerald, 9, dropped a lighted match while the three were in the loft of the bam, setting fire to baled paper stored below. There was no addition today to the death list of three in a Collision of a Southern passenger train and Big Four coal train near Princeton Saturday. The dead are Thomas Nelson, 62, New Albany, Southern engineer; W. E. Anderson, Petersburg, Big Four fireman, and Leonard Wilson, 44, Princeton, Southern fireman. George Fluher, 40, Petersburg, Big Four engineer, remains in a critical condition today with injuries.

WARN WHEAT FARMERS AGAINST BIG ACREAGE World Market Situation May Not Be Favorable Next Year. By United Preaa WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—The world market situation for wheat next year may not be as favorable as hitherto for marketing the export surplus, on account of large plantings in this country and certain foreign countries, the Agriculture Department said in a report today. “The carry over of old wheat into next season may be no larger than this season’s carryover, but there is a tendency to continue to expand wheat, area not only in the United States, but also in Canada, Argentina and Australia,” declared the report, which is being widely distributed as a warning to wheat farmers. “A winter wheat crop of 626,000,000 bushels and a spring wheat crop the average of the past five years, 250,000,000 bushels, would provide an export surplus of over 250,000,000 bushels, the largest since 1924,” the report said. ADMITS STEALING AUTO Boy Tells Police He took Car for Joy Bide. , Theft of an automobile from in front of 3863 E. Washington St. Saturday night was admitted in a written statement to detectives Sunday by Harold Passwaiter, 16, of 430 N. Emerson Ave. The youth confessed he drove to the home of a friend and took a joy ride, being stopped by a policeman at Shelby and Raymond Sts. The officer, doubting Passwaiter’s explanation that the car belonged to his aunt, accompanied him to her home, but Passwaiter escaped, being arrested later at his home on a charge of vehicle taking. The youth absolved two other boys. DEDICATION IS PLANNED Troub Presbyterian Church Ceremony Set for Sept. 11. Dr. Henry Hostetter, synodical superintendent, will dedicate the addition to the new Troub Memorial Presbyterian Church, Cottage Ave. and Leonard St., Sept. 11. y The Rev. William W. Carson, former pastor of the church, will be a apeakerr. .

Indiana Train Crash Takes Three Lives

Two scenes of the wreckage after a Southern passenger train and a Big Four coal train met In a headon collision six miles east of Princeton, Saturday. Three persons, an engineer and two firemen, were killed, and ten injured. Oscar Culbert (upper left), Terre Haute, Big Four road foreman of engines, and C. E. Rush (lower right), Princeton, Southern trainmaster, are aiding in investigating the accident.

CORN, OATS SHORT, STIMULATE WHEAT Speculative Trading Causes Activity in All Grains. Stimulation of the wheat market as a result of the speculation being carried on in com and oats, both crops being reported short, is seen by William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, who has just returned from an extensive trip through the Northwest and Canada wheat regions. Settle said that his trip was prompted by the conflicting reports being received at v ,he office of the Central States Soft Wheat Growers, about the prospects for the 1927 crops. He is also general manager for the latter organization. His itinery took him through North and South Dakota, Alberta and Saskatchewan and Minnesota. 23 FAMILIES IN REUNION Annual Celebrations Are Held at Garfield Park. Annual reunions were held at Garfield Park Sunday by twentythree families. They were the Monzingo, Sloan, Bradford, Dearinger, Diemser, Belk, Gozney, Martin, Tearman, Denker, Carmele, Reitzer, Logan, Sutton, Redman, Medsker, Hull, Thompson, Sells, Dr. Roller, Briner, Black, Daniel Ritzel and McOure families.

Who’s Who?

*. /J jjL- & | #; a: ': HRPlß&j jjjjm

Mrs. Corrine Smith Brock (above) of Dayton says she’s the legal wife of William S. Brock, ’round-the-world flier. Below is Mrs. William S. Brock o.f Detroit, whose friends call the other Mrs. Brock’s

THE CITY IN BRIEF

TUESDAY'S EVENTS Rotary Club luncheon, Claypool. Gyro Club luncheon, Lincoln. Universal Club luncheon, Columbia Club. Mercator Club luncheon, Spink-Arm*. Phi Gamma Delta luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Purchasing Agents’ Association luncheon. Severln. American Chemical Society luncheon, Chamber of Commerce. University of Michigan Alumni, luncheon. Severln. National Federation of Rural Mall Carriers and Post Office Clerk, national convention, Claypool, all day. Indiana State Fair, fairground, all day. 70TH Indiana Regimental Association, reunion, fairgrounds, 10 a. m. Members of the Indianapolis branch of the American Chemical Society left today to attend' the fal’ meeting in Detroit. The session formally opened at noon and will continue until Saturday. While Urban Tucker of 1419 E. Michigan St., slept, two youths he met at Riverside amusement park skating rink and took in for the night robbed him of $lO in money and a fraternity pin, he reported to police. Firemen extinguished the third alleged incendiary fire in a vacant building at 213 W. Miami St. Sunday evening. Flames broke out on the second floor and had spread to the roof and the rear before firemen arrived. William Coniff, 26, of Cincinnati is in a critical condition at city hospital, as a result of taking poison in a suicide attempt, following failure of attempted reconciliation with his wife. The suicide attempt took place at the wife’s home, 444 E. Market St. DRIVER IS PUNISHED Forty-Eight Hours in JaH for Striking Elderly Man. Ray Neal, 21, of 554 Drover St., arrested Saturday afternoon on charges of assault and battery and driving through a safety zone, was fined S3O and costs and sentenced to serve forty-eight hours in jail by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter today. Neal was charged with painfully injuring James C. O’Neil, 67, of 813 E. North St., who was standing in a safety zone at Washington and East Sts. Neal was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to twenty-four hours in jail on the assault and battery charge and $5 and costs and twen-ty-four hours in Jail on charges of driving through the safety zone. FIREMEN TOIL TO GIVE HORSE CHANCE TO DIVE Work Goes for Naught When Big • Tank Bursts. Those who see the diving horse at the Indiana State Fair this week, probably will not appreciate the labor that befell firemen of pumping company No. 2, in order to give the horse something to dive into. , A large canvas tank holding several thousand gallons of water was constructed. The fireman filled it. after stretching 450 feet of hose. Just as the last few drops were being supplied, the tank burst, deluging the firemen. ' The "pick and shovel squad” got fc .-.sy and dug a hole. So now the horse dives into a canvas-lined dugout filled with water. W. K. VANDERBILT WEDS Mrs. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton Bride of U. S. Millionaire. By United Press PARIS, Sept. s.—William Kissam Vanderbilt and Mrs. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton were married today at city hall of the Sixteenth ward in this city. The couple will honeymoon in Italy and return to too .United States in October,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

GLANCY IS WINNER IN SLOGAN CONTEST Washington Township Man Writes Motto for Farm Federation Drive. The slogan for the drive week of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, which was suggested by Luther Glancy, president of the federation in Washington Township, will be “Volunteer Victory Week—Farm Equality.” The suggestion of Glancy won him $lO in prize money, which had been offer ;d by the bureau. The week of Dec. 12 to 17, which will be devoted to an intensive membership campaign, is being talked of* all over the agricultural sections, Glancy’s letter said, when he sent in his suggestion. His explanation of the slogan was that “volunteer” signifies that the farmers ill donate their services, and "farm equaltiy” is the ultimate goal.

DRY CZAR ARRAIGNS AL SMITH IN SPEECH Lowman Charges Governor Has Blocked Liquor Act. By-United Preaa BUFFALO, N. Y.. Sept. s.—An attack regarded by some as the most severe made recently by a Federal official upon a State Governor was made here today by Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman, America’s dry chief, upon Governor A1 Smith of New York. In a Labor day speech Lowman criticised the Empire State’s atti' tude toward the eighteenth amendment, blaming Smith for failure of New York State to have a dry act. “Under the leadership of Alfred E. Smith, who now wants to be President, every law on the statute books of New York dealing with liquor traffic,” he said, “was repealed except the provision that it is a misdemeanor to be found drunk in a public place. They evidently overlooked that law, or it would have gone, too.” WANT IMPROVED CIRCLE Scientech Club Asks City Officials to / dish Parking. Resolution recommending that ail automobile parking on Monument Circle be abolished and that a “dig • nifled system of flood lighting” be installed to bring out the beauty of the Soldiers and Sailors Monumant. was sent city officials today by the directors of the Scientech Club. The resolution urged the monument commission, the city and all civic organizations to co-operate to preserve the city’s “outstanding mark of distinction and beauty.” BUILD 163 NEW HOMES August Permits Call for $1,670,049 Worth of Construction. Building permits for August covered $1,670,049 worth of new construction, according to figures compiled by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Os this amount 163 residences totaled $787,205. Three permits were issued for apartments to cost $251,000. A $60,000 addition to the Kirschbaum community center will be erected at 1423 N. Meridian, and Manual Training High School is building a $60,000 athletic field at 1600 Madison Ave. Eleven storerooms and additions to various businesses In the city comprise the remainder of the nrogram. Pauline Starke on Honeymoon By United Preaa DEL MONTE, Cal., Sept. s.—Jack White, film producer, and his wife, Pauline Starke, movie actress, have arrived here for a two-day honeymoon. They were married Sunday morning in San Francisco, climaxing an eight-year engagement,

NEW TELLS P.O. DELEGATES OF RESPONSIBILITY Postmaster General Speaks at Joint Session of Three Bodies. Conventions of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks and Auxiliary and National Federation of Rural Letter Carirers were opened today at the Claypool with Postmaster General Harry S. New giving the principal address. New stressed the importance of the postal service and duties owed to the public by all its employes from the postmaster general down. “Every man entering into postal service accepts a public trust,” New said. “I do not know of a single big corporation that begins to equal in size or importance the postoffice department. None of these big private corporations is of any concern to the public, while the postoffice department serves that public in a most important way. Through Its agency, is transacted a large pert of private business. Oi: Their Toes “News and e 'changes of confidence are handled by it, as well as private and personal afffilrs communicated to families and it behooves every employe to be constantly on his toes and doing Jii* best, for any failure on the part of any employe causes a break In the service and works either delay or failure of somebody’s mail.” Nearly 1,500 delegates and visitors were attending the postal clerks’ convention, with about 150 present for the rural carriers’ session. Frank Willis of Indianapolis, general chairman, presided over the opening session of the clerks’ convention this morning. The Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkle gave the invocation. while Karl L. Stimpson of Indianapolis, sixth vice president, made the presentation. Judd R. Austin, president of the Rural Letter Carriers, responded to addresses of welcome by Indianapolis officials. Auto Tour This Afternoon Delegates and visitors were scheduled to make an auto tour of the city this afternoon. Baseball games between Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis teams for the convention championship were scheduled at Riverside park at 4 this afternoon. The Cleveland team won the bowling tournament cup Sunday. Delegate Gideon of Cleveland won first Individual prize, Delegate Wilkins of Cincinnati second, and Julius Carteaux of Indianapolis, third. Senator Arthur R. Robinson is scheduled to speak at the Clerks’ convention Tuesday morning. Delegates and visitors will attend a boxing match at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Tuesday evening. Feature of the Rural Letter Carriers’ convention will be the banquet Wednesday at 6 p. m. In Riley room, Claypool Hotel, in honor of Congressman M. Clyde Kelly, of Pennsylvania, member of the House Postoffice Committee and an outstanding expert on postal questions.

CALF WINS TRIP TO WASHINGTON FOR GIRL Grand Champion Beef Entry Shown by Lafayette Youth. Velma Berkey, 12, of Flora, Inf.., will take an educational trip to Washington and to the National Dairy Show because her Jersey calf took the grand championship honors Bunday In the dairy cattle division in the 4-H Judging contest at the Indiana State fair. The grand champion beeef calf, a Hereford, was shown by Louis Osterhoff of Lafayette. Osterhoff wins an education trip offered by the Indiana State board of agriculture and the Indiana Hereford Association. Grand championship pig honors went to Russell Risk of Frankllin on a Poland China Barrow. Merritt Thornburg won championship honors in, poultry on his Barred Rock entry. NEGRO STABBED IN ROW Victim in Serious Condition; Place Suspect in Jail. Henry Moody, 29, Negro, 1940 Cornell Ave. is in city hospital suffering from severe cuts on his face, neck and breast. Williams E. Evans, 28, Negro, 1946 Cornell Ave., who Moody said cut him Sunday while he was visiting Evans’ home, is in jail charged with assault and battery within tent to kill. Evans fled after the fight, but was arrested a short time later by Sergt. William C. Fields and his squad. FUNERAL DATE Is” SET Mrs. Minerva J. Holliday WJO Be Buried Wednesday. Burial rites for Mrs. Minerva J. Holliday, 79, resident of Indianapolis until recently, will be held Wednesday at 3 p. mr at the home of her niece, Mrs. Fred W. Long, 4801 N. Pennsylvania St. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Long died Saturday in Westport, Mass. She lived in Indianapolis seventy-flve years. She was the widow of Wilbur Holliday, local business man. LENDERS TO MEET HERE Shelbyville Man Will Preside at National Meeting at Claypool. Francis L. Thompson, president of the Thompson Loan Company of Shelbyville and president of the Indiana Industrial Lenders’ Association. will be the general chairman of the thirteenth annual national convention of the American Industrial Lender? Association to be held at the Claypool Hotel Sept 14-16.

U. S. Has Own Opera Stars

s (_J !!!!!!> mi MIIII

Four more singers have been added to the staff of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and the fact that they are American artists is being heralded as meaning that America can get up an opera these days without any help from overseas. The four are pictured above: One —Leone Kruse, soprano, daughter of a Petoskey (Mich.) clergyman; two—Elinor Mario, soprano, San Francisco; three—Olga Kargau, soprano, Chicago, and, four—Chase Baromeo, basso, an alumnus of the University of Michigan.

WASHINGTON GAVEL IS USED AT CONVENTION Historic Relic Is Property of Postoffice Clerks. 1 A gavel made from the historic Washington elm, of Cambridge, Mass., under which George Washington stood when he assumed command of the Continental Armies in 1771, is being used by President Leo E. George, presiding officer of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks’ convention, which opened today. The historic gavel was presented to the federation by Boston delegates in 1919 at the Washington (D. C.) convention, and is kept on exhibition at Washington between conventions.

DRIVf AUTO ON TRACK; TWO HURT BY TRAIN Mr. and Mrs. George T. Brown, both 54, of 1144 Harlan St., were injured seriously Sundya afternoon when their touring car was demolished by a southbound Monon passenger train at Seventy-Fifth St. crossing. They drove on the track, either failing to see the train or attempting to baet it across, Deputy Sheriffs Bell and Brown, reported- The deputy said view in unobstructed. Brown suffered a fractured left arm, severe head and face contusions and possible fracture of the skull, while Mrs. Brown suffered a wrenched neck and other minor injuries. They were taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital. OLD SOLDIERS TO MEET Four Civil War Groups Will Hold Reunions Wednesday. Four annual reunions of Civil War veterans will be held Wednesday. Veterans of the 51st Indiana Volunteers will hold their forty-first annual meeting at the home of Mrs. James M. South, 328 Bright St.; Persimmon brigade will hold its reunion at Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St.; the 7th Indiana volunteers will meet at the fairground and the 26th volunteers at Ft. Friendly. VETERAN PICK OFFICERS Engineer’s Association Names Hankins as President. Officers of the 113 th Engineers’ Association, which served with the 38th Division during the war, were elected at the business meeting at Garfield Park Sunday. They are Frank Hankins, president; E. O. Behymer, vice president; Alexander Dickey, secretary-treasurer, and John Ford and Rudolph Kyler, members of the executive committee. STATE HIBERNIANS MEET Three-Day Convention of Order Opens at Logansport. A delegation of Indianapolis members are attending ths State convention of the ancient order of Hibernians and Ladies’ Auxiliary at Logansport. >. reception in the Knights of Columbus Hall Wednesday night. Hi?h mass was celebrated Sunday iiiorning. MISSIONARY SPEAKER Returned Worker From China Tells of Conditions Abroad. Miss Rose Fecker, missionary worker from Chicago, spoke at the Wheeler City Mission Sunady at 2:30 p. m. The mission is broadcasting an appeal for clothing to supply fall and winter demands.

U. S. MARINE COLONEL ENDS LIFE IN CHINA Commander Charles Hill, Failing in Health, Shoots Self. By United Press SHANGHAI, Sept. 5.—C01. Charles Hill, commander of the United States Marines in Shanghai, shot himself to death at his home this morning. He had been in ill health. Colonel Hill sailed with his 4th Regiment of United States Marines Feb. 4 and arrived at Shanghai March 21. A native of New Hampshire, he was 51 years old last July 4. He saw service in Cuba and Hayti, and thereafter was in command of the marine barracks at Philadelphia, and of the 4th Regiment of Marines. DOGS BITE 2 CHILDREN i Girl and Boy Sent to Hospital; One Animal Killed. Two children are at city hospital as result of being bitten by dogs Sunday. Retta Blanchard, 11, of 39 McKim St., was bitten on both ankles and the right hand by a dog owned by Vincent Brown of 15 McKim St. Police ordered the dog chained for ten days. Robert Smith, Jr., 4, of 2415 N. Parker Ave., was bitten on the left arm by a dog owned by David Sims, of 2422 N. Parker Ave. The dog was killed and the head sent to State board of health laboratory. Negro Snatches Purse Mrs. Lila M. Russell, 933 Harrison St., reported to police that her purse containing $7 and valuable papers was snatched from her by a Negro who stepped from behind a lamp post about 10 p. m- Sunday, near Noble and Washington Sts.

Jilted because of this

When a woman loses the affection of a man, she should look to herself for the reason. Often a case of halitosis (unpleasant breath) is to blame. It is the unforgivable social offense which threatens friendships, jobs and even love affairs. •** * | The one way to avoid such offense is to rinse the mouth with Listerine every day, and especially before meeting others. Immediately, Listerine removes every trace of unpleasant odor. Don’t fool yourself that you never have hali*j tosis. Due to modern habits, it is all too common. Write for free book of etiquette. Lambert Pharmacal Go., Dept. J-2, 2101 Locust Street, St Louis, Mo., U. S. Aend halitosis with Listerine

PAGE 3

COOLIDGE BUSY 1 PREPARING FOR I RETURN HUME President to Clear Routing Work Before Friday; j Wife Packs. BY PAUL R. MALLON *1 United Press Staff Correspondent ' RAPID CITY, S. D., Sept. 5.-* President Coolidge observed Labo® day by laboring at his desk in the! school house executive in* tending to clean up all necessary; routine business before he leaves! Friday night for Washington. He has decided to delay all possible matters until he returns to th® White House, but he has to go over the mail brought each day by airplane from the capital. The Ft. Meade cavalry band assembled on the game lodge lawrt early in the day and played for th® last of the tourists who passed to) see the president’s summer home. Mrs. Coolidge Packs | Mrs- Coolidge was busy supervising the first of the packing for th® return trip. Some of the dishes wer® crated this morning, to be shipped ahead of the regular train, and other odds and ends which will no(j be needed during the last few day® were ready to be shipped. Only two stops will be made on| the return trip, it was learned toady. The special will spend two hours irt Brookings, S. D., Saturday morning* while Mr. Coolidge dedicates tha Lincoln library at the State Agricultural College. Then another stop of forty minutes will be made on the outskirts ofl Chicago, early Sunday morning* while the train is being switched from one riad to another. The party will arrive in Washington Sunday night about 9:40. Bingham Is Visitor Senator Hiram Bingham, Republican, Connecticut, left last night for the East, after a hurried visit with the President, during which he recommended that the Administration Indorse proposals to divide the Chinese republic so that faction® now warring can be set at peace. It was understood Mr. Coolidg® will oppose such a plan and will adhere to traditional American policy for a united China. POLICE ASKED TO SEEK 7 MISSING PERSONS Boys Leave Home With Cart, Dog and Supply of Food. Police Monday were asked to locate seven persons missing since Saturday. Gasper Ricketts, 14, of 746 L ivingstone Ave., is believed by his mother to have run away on a camping trip with his cousin, Lester Ricketts, 14, Mickleyvllle, Ind. The boys took a cart, ■ food, cooking utensils and Gasper’s pet rat terrier with them. Richard McNamara, 1550 Ashland Ave., reported that his son, Lewis, 10, has ben missing since he strayed away from his parents at the State fairground Saturday. Mrs. Opal Golay, 18, of 401 Alton Ave., was reported missing by her husband, Lawrence Golay. Police also were looking for Addie B. Chrisler, 15, Negro, 1214 E, Twenty-Third St. Police were asked by C. L. King of Frankfort, Ind., to search for his son, Ward King, 16, who disappeared from home Sunday. Murle Williams, 19 of Lansing, Mich., was reported missing and i® thought to have come to this city. Faces Mail Theft Charge Elliott Slaughter, 35, Negro, of 2244 N. Dearborn St., will be arraigned before a United States commissioner Tuesday morning on a charge of having stolen several pieces of mail. He was arrested by Postal Inspector W. C. Ela Sunday.