Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 111, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1927 — Page 9

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FuU Leased Wire Service el the United Press Associations.

AID COMES TO NURSE, HELD AS POjSONER Brother and Sister Join to Hire Counsel to Fight Murder Charge. PECLARES INNOCENCE Prosecutor Asserts He Has Strong Evidence to Win Conviction. By United Press ENID, Okla., Sept. 17.—Counsel engaged for Mary Atkinson, 26-fear-old nurse, accused In fatal poisoning of the wife and daughter |of her minister, conferred with her “in Jail today to outline plans for defense. The nurse steadfastly has denied Sny connection with the death of lary Jane Bailey, 18, and the girl’s mother and serious illness of three other children of the Bialey fami'.y. Bhe has refused to discuss her relations with the Rev. Charles Bailey, JCipscopalian minister, with whom authorities charge she was infatuated. Harry O. Glasscr and H. G. McKeever. attorneys hired by Miss Atkinson’s brother, Harry, to defend the nurse, refused today to reveal their plan for combating circumstantial evidence against her. Poison Found in Room The evidence against the girl, as far as has been made public, is that she had followed the minister and his family from a Texas parish and had written him endearing letters, that poison was found in her room, that Mary Jane died of poison while the nurse was attending her and that the Bailey children objected to the nurse’s affection for the minister. Prosecutor Dan Mitchell has intimated he has other incriminating facts which he will present at the rial a id that a principal prosecution witness will be Mr. Bailey. Sister Also to Aid Harry Atkinson is a sheet metal worker living in Pawhuska, Okla. He did not come to his sister’s assistance until a week after her arrest, but he said he believed she was innocent and would do everything possible to help he.*. Atkinson said another sister living in Chicago also would aid in the defense. Other than the brother and the sister, the nurse has no near relatives and she was without funds to hire lawyers at the time of her arrest, SERVICE COMMISSION, TAX BOARD ASSAILED Indiana Municipal League Hfey Wage War in 1927 Legislature. Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 17.—Attacks on two State bodies—the tax board and public service commission—will probably be made at the 1929 session of the Indiana General Assembly by the Indiana Municipal League, it was indicated by expressions of members after criticism by two speakers. Mayor L. A. Handley, Richmond, speaking Friday night at the closing session of the league’s thirtysixth annual convention here, declared his opposition to centralized government in Indiana, referring specifically to the tax board. Mayor Silcox Spurgeon, Kokomo, speaking previously, attacked the public service commission. I

BOY SLAIN FOR SECRET Police Believe Bootleggers Killed Young Chemist. By United Pres* BALTIMORE, Sept. 17.—Police trailed bootleggers, suspected of knowing how John Athey Kerner, 22-year-old chemist, came to his death. The authorities believed liquor men cut off his head because he refused to reveal a secret method of taking poison from denatured alcohol. The boy, a graduate student of Johns Hopkins University, had been employed recently by an Industrial alcohol company, and had told friends that his secret process for rectifying impure spirits had been sought, but that he had refused to yield it. Girls Stole Auto, Charge Bn Time* Special PSRU, Ind., Sept. 17.—Olive Adams and Bula Hersher, local girls, will be tried in Miami Circuit Court here next Tuesday on charges of auto thefts They are alleged to have taken a car belonging to Thomas Hamblin, Santa Fe, on Sept. 5. Croatian Annals in Song GARY, Ind., Sept. 17.—Preradovic, Gary’s Croatian glee club, combined with two large Chicago singing clubs, will present a concert here Sunday, in which the history of the Croatian race will be told. Nearly 175 men and women will sing.

No Auto? Huh! By Time* Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Sept. 17. The Job of probation officer of Porter County is not wanted, because an auto Is not provided with it. The pay is S9OO a year and S3OO expenses. Judge Grant Crumpacker, who appoints the officer, has interviewed several applicants, but they lost all Interest when they learned a car was not part of the proposition.

Miami Stages Heroic Comeback; Year Finds All Signs of Hurricane Erased

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(Photos by Florida Coast Railway) A portion of Miami’s $8,000,000 Biscayne Boulevard, now completed, is shown In the upper photo. It’s one of the world’s finest streets. Below is one of the first buildings of the new University of Miami.

City Goes Rapidly Ahead to Rebuild; Improvements Cost Millions. Bu \’EA Service MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 17.—Florida’s pride, Miami, has lived down the hurricane which flattened much of the city Just a year ago this month.. September 18 last year, Miami reeled under the worst tropical storm that ever swept down this part of the Atlantic coast. In Its wake the storm left a wide swath of destruction. Todi.y all traces of the damage have disapDeared. Beauty spots, fine buildings and public improvements are in evidence that before the hurricane were not to be seen. Lives Down Boom Flop The collapse of the Florida boom came along with the storm, but Miami has lived that down, too. The first thing Miami did after the hurricane was clean up. Then it hastily got ready for the winter tourist season, which brought “business as usual.” The new University of Miami, established as a seat of intellectual exchange between the United States and Latin America as well as a general culture center; opened on time. Work on the Magnificent Biscayne Boulevard, the city’s most pretentious thoroughfare, went right ahead to completion. This Included cutting through thirty-three business and residential blocks. Royal palms now are being planted its entire length. Causeway Costs $680,0C1 A causeway costing $680,000 is b£y ing built to Connect the boulevard with the northern end of Miami Beach, across Biscayne Bay. A census revealed that Miami now has a permanent population of 131,286 In 1900 the population was 1600, arid in 1915 it was only 15,592. Among the municipal Improvements this year are forty-three miles of new paving, new sewers, and a bridge across the Miami river at Twelfth St. Harbor Improvements and the building of a twenty-eight story county court house and municipal building are under way. The Tamiaml trail to Tampa, which was begun in 1913 but delayed because of the war, is being improved at a cost exceeding $14,000,000. v ' Dykes for Protection Miami expects to protect from overflows an area of more than a thousand acres of Everglades immediately adjacent. Dykes encircling this expanse are almost completed. The development of this fertile territory together with Miami’s extensive port developments and extensive railroad facilities is expected to create much future activity.

URGE MANAGER SLATE Legislators Sought to Favor Efficient City Rule. Election in 1928 of State Senators and Representatives who are favorable to the businesslike administration of city affairs will be sought by the Indianapolis City Manager League. William H. Insley, executive committeeman, stressed the need for favorable' legislators at a meeting of ward organizers at league headquarters in the Illinois Bldg. Friday night,. He arserted the present city manager law should be strengthened in some particulars. Henry L. Dithmer urged a compact organization. Claude H. Anderson, executive secretary, presided. Executive Chairman John W. Esterline announced a mailing list of 75,000 is being prepared from the poll books. The league will keep in touch with the citizens who indicated they favored the' manager form.. New College Opens By Time* Special FRANKFORT, Ind., Sept. 17. The Pilgrim College and Theological Seminary, Frankfort’s newest educational institution, has opened its first term with an enrollment of men and women from eight States. The college is sponsored by the Pilgrim Holiness Church.

The Indianapolis Times

Two ‘L’s’in Vermillion, County Residents ’Demand

INVITE WORLEY TO COPPARLEY Indiana Police Chiefs Will Meet at Kokomo. Police Chief Claude M. Worley and safety board members today received an Invitation to attend the third convention of Ihdiana Association of Chiefs of Police, Sept. 20-21 at Kokomo, Ind. Kokomo Chief RollJe H. Benson has planned an elaborate program. Speakers include John Smock, Terre Haute, State president, and John E. Frederick, State Chamber of Commerce president. Walter Cavanugh, Fort Wayne chief, Is slated for president since former Police Chief Claude F. Johnson of Indianapolis retired from the race. Johnson withdrew after he accepted the post of city controller. He was instrumental in organization of the State body and was expected to be elevated from first vice-presi-dent to the executive’s chair this year. John W. Friday, former safety board member, and several superior officers probably will join the Indianapolis delegation.

CANDLES PASSING OUT Only One Hotel in I.ondon Now Uses Tallow Light*. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 17.—The old George Tavern is the only remaining hotel in London where candles still are used. Many relics of Charles Dickens’ day are preserved here, as well as early pictures of London a* it appeared at that time. The furnishings are the originals.

Lost in Rockies

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Wandering, in the Rocky Mountains for a night and a day without being sure just where you are isn’t such uproarious fun, Genevieve Van Derek (top) and Edna Cassity will testify. The two 17-year-old girls were spending their vacations in the* Provo branch of the Rockies, in Utah, and strolled away one afternoon. Boy Scouts found them.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 1927

Hoosiers Angry Because Postoffice Department Uses One. Bu United Press Newport, ind., Sept. 17.—citizens of Vermillion County are becoming Increasingly indignant over the persistence of the Feders Government in spelling the county’s name with one"!” according to an article printed the Sept. 14 Issue of the Hoosier Star, published in that town. “Citizens of Veftnillion County are becoming ‘red headed’ over the fact that the postofflee department persists in spelling the county’s name with a single ‘l’ the article says. “The department’s attention has been called a number of times to the incorrect orthography but protests have been without avail.” So incensed have residents become ove.* the matter that in May, 1927. an appeal was sent to Secretary of State F. E. Schortemeier, at Indianapolis, to determine what was the exact status of the county’s title. The secretary examined mouldy records at the statehouse, and mailed a pedigree certificate to Newport, showing that local residents are correct in their contention. According to the records, the county’s name was spelled with two “1” when it was formed of territory formerly located in Parke and Wabash counties. The constitution of the State also shows the same spelling.

SEEK TRADE BUREAU Indianapolis Has Chance to Get Government Office. Indianapolis has an opportunity to obtain one of four additional district branch offios of the Department of Commerce, according to Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Activities. Appropriation of $.'5,000 was made by Congress at its last session for establishment of four additional district trade bureaus. Indianapolis business men are urged by Chamber of Commerce officials to “pull together" for establishment of one here. District trade bureaus are financed by direct governmental budget and place at the disposal of business men the services of the bureau’s head, who acts as scout, councilor and general guide in matters of export and import. Letters Urging establishment of a branch bureau in Indianapolis may be addressed to Secretary Herbert Hoover, Postmaster General Harry S. New and Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson. FOUR DIE AT CROSSING Train St) <es Auto West of Monroeville. By Times Special MONROEVILLE, Ind., Sept. 17.*Four persons, members of one family, are dead today, victims of a auto-train crossing crash a half mile west of here Friday night. The dead are Frank David, 65. New Haven; his daughter-in-law, Lloyd David, 28, and her two sons, Jack, 6, and Junior, 7.

ASHES OF JUSTICE

Lindsey Protects Denver Homes

By United Pre** DENVER, Colo., *Sept. 17.—A1l that remained of Judge Ben Lindsey’s once famous juvenile court Saturday was a pile of ashes and charred paper. Th# court itself continued to administer the laws, but it was without the personality which made it the subject of national and international comment and the intimate records of its proceedings during Judge Lindsey’s administration. Judge Lindsey appeared in a city park with the bulky records, piled

SPOKANE RACE PLANES WILL DE INSPECTED Government Experts Arrive at Field as Registration Period Closes. THREE EVENTS PLANNED Fifty Machines Will Fly in Competition for $50,000 \ Prizes. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Five officials of the Department of Commerce appeared at Roosevelt Field today to examine the planes entered in the three New York-to-Spokane air races next week. This was the last day. for registration. It is estimated some fifty planes will compete for prizes totaling upwards of $50,000. Thirty are expected to start in the Class B race for one-passenger planes with engine displacement of not more than 300 cubic inches. Fifteen are looked for in the Class A event, for planes carrying two passengers or equivalent weight, with engine displacement not exceeding 800 cubic Inches. Four or five are expected in the non-stop race, which will draw unlimitedtype planes. First Event Monday The Class B race will start from Roosevelt field at 6 a. m. Monday with overnight'stops at Chicago and Glendive, Mont. Five-minute control halts will be established at Bellefonte, Pa., Cleveland and Bryan, Ohio; St. Paul) Minn., and Fargo and Bismarck, N. D., and Billings and Missoula, Mont. A single overnight stop at St. Paul will be permitted Class A contestants who are to take off at 6 a. m. Tuesday. Control stations will be at Cleveland, Chicago, Aberdeen, S. D., and Miles City and Butte, Mont. Non-Stop Race Wednesday The non-stop racers will leave early Wednesday afternoon. Entrants in that event, which carries SIO,OOO as first prize and $5,000 as second may include C. A. (Duke) Schiller and Phil Wood in their monoplane Royal Windsor, at one time a prospective trans-Atlantic craft. Other possible contestants In the “Big” race are Eddie Stinson, airplane designer, and Bert Acosta, one of Commander Richard E. Byrd’s crew in the flight to France. Mrs. Gladys O’Donnell, 23-year-old wife of J. Lloyd O’Donnell, whose travel air machine is entered in the Class A race will fly with her husband.

‘BARBER SHOP’ DRINKS BANNED Hair Tonic Alcohol Sales Are Curbed. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—“ Barber 6hop highballs” and “beauty parlor cocktails”—made from hair tonics, lilac vegetal, bay rum, lotions, perfumes, shampoos and toilet waters—were put on Uncle Sam’s 1 blacklist today.' New alcohol regulations issued by Prohibition Commissioner Doran ordered that henceforth such potential bases for illicit drinks shall not be sold in barrel or tank cars, but shall be In containers of not more than a gallon capacity. In this way, Doran feels, the big bootleggers, who have made wholesale diversions of hair tonic—beauty aid alcohol will be hampered In their operations. To make life more difficult for bootleggers relying on alcohol as the basis for their “imported Scotch,” “genuine rye” and “London pin,” Doran’s regulations provide; Alcohol plants shall not operate In darkness. They shall not be fenced in, except in special cases, and then the dry administrator shall have keys for ready access. Alcohol makers must have annual permits after Dec. 31, 1928. Rubbing alcohol may not be sold hereafter in containers larger than one pint. GLICK BEATS SNELL Bu Times Special NEW YORK, Sept. Glick, New York lightweight, won a tenround decision over Doc Snell, Tacoma, Wash., here Thursday. Snell weighed 130Glick 130.

them before an impromptu crowd of spectators and applied the match. Belief that the substance of the records would ruin the “homes and happiness of women and children who have appeared before him on the bench if they became public prompted the action, Judge Lindsey said. “Do you think I want homerruined in Denver?” the Judge said addressing the crowd. "I haw) not destroyed any court records. Th'. records I destroyed sare my privat? files. I have destroyed thousand, such records before.”

It s Fair Enough

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Directors of the Los Angeles county fair chose this picture from among thousands of others as the official poster of the fair. Miss Lois Wilson is the girl, posing with “Rosanna,” $25,000 Arabian from the famous Pomona (Cal.) stable of W,. K. Kellogg, the cereal king.

REALTORS PICK ANDERSON MAN William H. Surbaugh Heads State Body. By I'imes Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 17. —Members of the Indiana Real Estate Association were returning to their homes today following tfce close Friday of the organization’s fourteenth annual convention here. Officers were elected as follows; President, William H. Surbaugh, Anderson; vice president, central district, Scott Brewer, Indianapolis; vice president, eastern district, M. R. Kohlmeyer, Richmond; vice president, northern district, M. J. Keneflck, Michigan City; vice president, western district, Howard L. Hyatt, Terre Haute; vice president, southern district, Ottis Wilson. Evansville; board of governors. First district, J. R. Anderson, Evansville; Third district, J. Frank Walls, Bedford; Fifth district, R. E. Worley, Terre Haute: Seventy district, L. H. Lewis, Indianapolis'; Ninth district, G. G. Gerhardt, Kokomo; Eleventh district, John L. Haines, Marion, and Thirteenth district, Roy J. Michael, South Bend. Frank L. Moore was elected secretary treasurer for the sixth consecutive time. He is with the Schmid & Smith Realty Company, Indianapolis. Gary was chosen as the 1928 convention city.

CHAMBER IS ACTIVE New Businesses Brought to City by Commission. Repor' of activities and accomplishments of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce industrial commission since formation last May is made by C. L. Harrod, general manager, in Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce activities. Two new factories, the Ward-Stil-son Company branch of Anderson, manufacturers of women’s ready-to-wear dresses, and the Federal Ice Refrigerating Company branch, were obtained for the city, arrangements completed for construction of anew type five-ton truck and the bringing here of two'other plants, and permanent headquarters in Indianapolis of the Grand Recorder, Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, brought here. Representatives of nine substantial outside firms with a view of relocating In Indianapolis have been brought here, and twelve firms have been called upon at their home offices by a representative of the commission. Complete investigation Is made of all prospects obtained by the Chamber of Commerce and every effort is made to increase the number of substantial Industries in Indianapolis, Harrod reported.

VETERANS WILL MEET Three Regiments to Hold Giant Reunion at Lebanon Monday. By Time* Special LEBANON, Ind., Sept. 17—A combined reunion of the Tenth, Fortieth and Eighty-Sixth Indiana volunteer regiments. Civil War organizations, will be held here Monday. Sixty veterans are expected to attend. Rev. Arthur E. Cowley, pastor, First Baptist church, will make the address of welcome. There will be a musicale program followed by separate business sessions of each regiment. Dinner, served by the Woman’s Relief corps and & campfire will close the session. Muncie Boy Missing By Time* Special MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 17.—Daniel C Haynes, 15, son of Dr. E. C. *7aynes of this city has been missing h:ce Cept. 8, and local police have tsked aid of officers tn other Indian?l cities and of the press in a search.

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Entered as Second-class Matter at Postofflee. Indianapolis.

INDUSTRIES OF EUROPEWAKEN Seek to Adopt Methods 0/ American Plants. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. “American” prosperity for Europe. That Is what France and other European countries are after when they raise tariff rates or Introduce other startling commercial innovations, is the belief of Dr. Julius Klein, director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce oi the Department of Commerce. European count, ies no longer are seeking pre-war normalcy, Dr. Klein told the Scranton, Pa., Chamber of Commerce when it visited his office. “Europe now realizes that anew economic world has come into being since 1918 and the task Involves not the ‘restoration’ of antiquated conditions, but adjustment to anew business environment.” In Germany, Dr. Klein declared, industrialists are devouring literature on American factory methods. In all the countries, including Great Britain, they are pondering American industrial methods, with a view to bettering standards of living and increasing production and profits. “We can take no exception to their endeavors to conserve the benefits of this new development primarily for the parties involved, through preferential tariffs,” Dr. Klein said, “unless, of course, there be evidence of discrimination.” American business, while it will rejoice in Europe’s increased buying power, will have to take anew measure of its possibilities as a competitor, he indicated.

Plagiarism?

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(NEA Service. New York Bureau) Valeska Suratt, widely popular actress (above, in nurse’s uniform), has sued Cecil B. de Mille, the movie director (below), and others for $1,000,000. It is her allegation that the photoplay “The King of Kings” is a plagiarized version of “Mary Magdalene,” a scenario she owns.

FOG AND WIND I FORCERETURN OFIRISH FLIERS Perils of North Atlantic Defeat Aviators in At- * lantic Dash. 3 HOURS FROM LAND Disaster Close to Plane Long Before Safe Landing Is Made on Coast. 7 BY GEORGE MACDONAGH /• United Press Staff Correspondent DUBLIN, Sept. 17.—The perils at log and wind that the north Atlantic holds for those who would flj; westward over its restless wastes were described today by two men who turned back. With defeat inevitable, Capt. R. H Mclntosh and Commandant James Fitzmaurice reversed the course of the monoplane Princess Xenia, after It had sped three hours from land, and escaped the fate of their daring fellow airmen who sought in vain this summer to trace an aerial path from Europe to North America. The Irish aviators encountered the same sort of heavy weather which doubtless overcame the crews of the White Bird and the* St. Raphael after they had passed out to sea toward tragedy. Mclntosh and Fitzmaurice hopped off from Baldonnel air field, Dublin, at 1:34 p. m. Friday for New York. Two hours later they soared over Galway Bay and headed out over the Atlantic which never yet has been crossed in a non-stop flight from east to west. / Near to Disaster Then into fog and rain and headwinds—disaster was very close to the Fokker monoplane for two hours. At length, beaten, the fliers elected to abandon their argosy. They regained the Irish coast over the mouth of the River Shannon and circled for a landing place. They shot up signal rockets from their Verey pistol "Taping that villagers would light the dusk to aid them. They finally landed at 7:30 p. m. bringing down the craft near Ballybunion on the western coast of County Kerry. The aviators, tired and weighed with the feeling that death had been near, went to bed in a hotel. In an interview with the press, Fitzmaurice sketched the hardships faced in the brief flight. Visibility Is Poor “We had been over the sea between two and three hours when we encountered extremely heavy weather,” he said. “Visibility was unutterably poor. “To top it all we ran into a downpour of rain that forced us frequently to fly only thirty feet or so above the water. “At 5 o’clock we found it Impossible to steer a true compass course and decided that to continue would be suicide. “We were then running into a 40-mile-an-hour headwind and finally were forced to empty some of our petrol tanks. “Having decided to return w* made good time with the wind at our backs and reached the coast about 6:20 p. m. after flying at a low altitude for a while we noticed a fine stretch of land and cams down. The machine was in perfect condition.” Ends Year’s Attempts Both Mclntosh and Fitzmaurice were lavish in praise of the performance of the Princess Xenia, named after the wife of William B. Leeds, principal backer of the flight. The monoplane was a sistership of the 111-fated St. Raphael and Old Glory and was the one In which Van Lear Black, publisher of th Baltimore Sun, flew to and from the East Indiec. It was believed here today that no other attempt would be made from this side of the Atlantic to span the ocean this year. The flights thus far have been unsuccessful and autumnal and winter weather will only serve to increase the hazards. Jewelry Taken During Dinner By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—Surprising Ernie Young, prominent theaterical booking agent, and his wire while they were at dinner in their hotel apartment, two “polite” bandits bound them and robbed them of $16,000 worth of jewelry. Beats “Oaken Bucket” By Times Special SHELBYMILLE, Ind., Sept. 17. Os all the improvements witnessed during her lifetime, Miss Lucinda Query, 96, of this city, consider* piping of water the best. She refers to the great advantages of the faucet over “the old oaken bucket."

Restive at 84 By Timet Special MIDDLETOWN, Ind., Sept .17.—'Wilson Cory, 84, who says he has traveled in thirty-two states, is resting here while looking for a man of 65 to 75 who will accompany him on a national auto camping trip. He wants his partner to assist him in building ian automobilehouse for the tour and after that to spend a year or twt traveling south in the winter northeast or west in s'.-ivne 1