Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 23, 1927

MOTHER TAKES DISPUTED BABY INTOHER HOME Judge Rules No Evidence of Shuffle at Hospital Is Shown. Bit United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 23.—A disputed baby girl, principal of the dismissed habeas corpus proceedings yesterday before Judge Carl V. Weygandt, was in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith today, cooing her satisfaction. The habeas corpus writ, filed by the Smiths against the Fairview Park Maternity Hospital, requiring the institution to produce a boy, Mrs. Smith said was born to her Aug. 22, Was denied by Judge Weygandt late yesterday. No Evidence of Mistake In making his decision, the judge said there were no indications of a mistake except a technical one, and that all existing evidence pointed to the baby girl as the child of Mrs. Smith. The court called attention to physical similarities between the two which were pointed out on the stand by Dr. W. B. Glendenning, known anatomist. r “it is a great probability that this baby is Mrs. Smith’s child,” Judge Weygandt asserted. “There is no evidence of any kind—in fact no evidence at all—which would Substantiate the theory that this girl is not her child. I find there was a technical mistake made at the hospital, and I hope the parents will be satisfied that this mistake, despite the suffering it caused, might have happened in any such institution. Mother in Courtroom "It would be a tragedy if this woman were to build up in her mind a resistance to the idea that this is her child,” the judge continued. “I wi6h and trust that as the child grows up, Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be Just as proud of her as though she had been a boy.” Mrs. Smith, who came into the courtroom by surprise, after she previously had announced she would not leave her bed at the hospital until "her boy was found,” collapsed on the stand while testifying. After the judge had announced his decision she broke into a flow of tears, and said she did not knew whether they would take the baby into their home or not. Following a conference, however, with their attorney, Charles F. McConnell, and Judge Weygandt, the Smiths went to the hospital and agreed to take the infant. PETITION TO PROHIBIT . NEW SHUMAKER BLOW | ! Dry Chiefs Counsel Asks Dismissal i of Gilliom Demand. " Motion to dismiss the petition of j Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom for increased sentence in the Shumaker contempt case was filed with the Supreme Court Thursday by James Bingham, Shumaker counsel. Superintendent E. S. Shumaker was sentenced to sixty days at State Farm and SSOO fine for contempt. Gilliom asked sentence increase following publication of correspondence between Shumaker and Senator James E. Watson, which disclosed an effort to obtain political influence while the case was pending in court. The correspondence was brought to light during an editorial controversary which Senator Arthur R. Robinson launched against the editor of The Times. Bingham’s motion sets out that to resentence would be double jeopardy and that the court is without jurisdiction. simsTs named head OF TUBERCULOSIS UNIT 11 ■ Succeed* Dr. Henry, Who Completes Term of Seventeen Years. Election of officers of the Marlon County Tuberculosis Association at a directors’ meeting Thursday resulted in Fred A. Sims, Indianapolis attorney, succeedir. g Dr. Alfred i Henry, as president. Dr. Henry comr pleted seventeen years of service as president. Sol Schloss was named vice president, Mrs. A. O. Rasmussen, treasurer, and Mrs. James Barrett, secretary. Four new board members are: Dr. Henry, Mrs. J. A. Goodman, Edward H. Harris and Mrs. D. Laurence Chambers. Members re-elected are Dr. E. M. Amas, Joseph G. Hayes, Mrs. M. F. Ault, Michael E. Foley, John W. Hays, John Lauck Jr., Leo Kaminsky and Mrs. Charles H. Smith. Township vice presidents named were: Mr*. Charles Jay, Decatur Township; Mrs. J. W. Moore, Center; Mrs. R. S. Records, Lowrence; Dr. E. O. Asher. Pike; Mrs William Gale, Warren; Mrs Roy Corwin, Wayne; Mrs. William A. Brennan, Washington; Mrs. Frank Klmberlin, Franklin, and Mrs. E. A. Clark, Perry. - FAMILY FOUND IN WANT Mother and Six Children, Formerly Here, Suffer at Elwood. By Time* Special ELWOOD, Ind., Sept. 23.—A mother, ill since the birth of a baby three weeks ago, waits with five other children for. Pearl Blackburn, the husband and father, whose whereabouts are unknown. An official of the Associated Charities found the family In a home without food or fuel. Arrangements were made for taking care of the mother and children while a search Is on k for Blackburn. The family moved I here recently from Indianapolis. Ifee longest suspension bridge In the world Is the Camden-Philadel-phla bridge, 1,750 feet. . About one-third of the wells dim for ou turn out to bo drj[.

Grandsons of James J. Hill, Rail King, Race to Win Rule of Great Northern

m -fllflMr r JBfc, jjggi&gK Vv'Sft’ J J 'ft. • F" '*tw *2 ’ iow to repair an air pump. John loir, shown with him, is the man / f ■jw’jßSpX ho taught Louis’ father the /R rick, thirty years ago. Below, / le doesn’t mind getting his hands I nd face dirty while assembling ylindcr heads ■y* 1 ’ ( IESSif J o grandsons of the late James J. J/ 11 are working as day laborers on e Great Northern railroad—the alroad they some day will own. 3 —— They are very young men; as far money goes, each of them could W-- : ■ tn a railroad of his own right now he chose. : y

Above, Louis Hill (left) learns how to repair an air pump. John Moir, shown with him, is the man who taught Louis’ father the same trick, thirty years ago. Below, right, Courtland Hill proves that he doesn’t mind getting his hands and face dirty while assembling cylinder headsOne Starting at Top, Other at Bottom; Attitudes Far Different. I!il NEA Service. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 23.—The two grandsons of the late James J. Hill are working as day laborers on the Great Northern railroad—the roalroad they some day will own. They are very young men; as far as money goes, each of them could own a railroad of his own right now if he chose. But they are setting out to earn their ownership, one by working with a construction crew and the other by laboring as a machinist’s helper. Furthermore, they are having a race—a race to see which will get first to the president’s chair of the road their grandfather built. One Goes Up; One Down One Is working up. The other is working down. If the latter meets his brother at the half-way station, he’ll turn around and go back up with him. Courtland Hill, 21, the younger of the two brothers, is the one who is “working down.” He doesn’t propose to work his way through all departments and all jobs; not for him are the success stories about th! ambtious lad who began at the bottom and worked his way to the top by slow and painful struggles. BOt he does want to know something about the railroad, and he doesn’t mind getting his face and hands dirty while he’s learningWorks as Machinist So he is working as a machinist’s helper, working in the Dale St. shops. But soon he’s going to quit his job and go back <a trifle tardy, perhaps), to Yale University, where he’ll be a sophomore. Some day he may return to the shop. But he admits that it’s the presidency of the road that he’s after. “I’ll take that Job maybe next year, maybe not until I’m through college,” he says. “But that’s what I’m after. Louis (the brother who is working up from the bottom) can stay dbwn. I think he’s bulling, anyway, about this bottom start stuff.” Attitudes Far Different That remark depicts the different attitudes of the two brothers. Just now, Louis, at 25, is a member of a construction crew on the Klamath Falls extension crew on the Klamath Falls extension, in Oregon. Before that he was timekeeper for a section gang in the iron range region of Minnesota, working for

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$2.25 a day with bunk and board thrown in. And, for a time, he worked in the shops where Courtland is now working, helping classify scrap iron and inventorying nails and gaskets, lamps and wicks, gauges and pistons and what notLouis keeps the very modest wage that he draws; Courtland scorns it. Scorns $2 a Day “I’m hue to learn, in short order, how to be president of the road.” says Courtland. “I’m not out to learn how to get $2 a day.” Louis carries his lunch to work with him just like any other member of the crew. Courtland always eats at restaurants. Courtland, however, s points out that their father, Louis Hill Sr., gets no salary for his services as chairman of the board of the Great Northern. Oddly Aough, it is Courtland who looks the part of the grimy laboring

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man 'more than Louis. Courtland wears stained and streaked overalls, hobnaili and boots rnd smilingly tells of pleas from his family to “try, please, to get your face clean ” Louie is more careful with his dress and is more inclined to look like the son of the chairman of the board. Louis, however, insists that it probably will be two years before he is ready fox a white-collar job. "Louie’s a good kid and he means well,” says Courtland. "But he's so slow going about this thing. Now me—” and his white teeth gleam as a smil wrinkles his grimy face—“l aim high and that’s where I’m going to strike: right for the chair behind the frosted glass door marked ‘president’ Then I’ll come down, If I need to know more about the business. “But if Louis and I meet on the way, with him heading up. I’ll turn around and go back with him, and beat him back, too.”

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NEGRO CAUGHT AFTER STAGING EIGHTHOLD-UPS Youth, 17, Held After Robberies Netting $46 Near Times Building. A 17-year-old armed Negro youth who staged eight hold-ups, three of them In the rear of The Times Bldg., 214 W. Maryland St., while several thousands in front were listening to the Dempsey-Tunney fight broadcasting, was captured by police after a chase last night. The youth, Clarence Terry, 17 Prunk St., was slated on a robbery charge when $46.67 of the loot was found in a flour bin at his home. His mother, Mrs. Anna Bowman, was charged with vagrancy. Menacing his victims Into silence with his revolver, Terry held up on different occasions Albert Albin, 12, of 619 Arbor Ave.; Harld Hyde, 32, of 2325 Morgan St., and Grover McDonald, 102 N. Elder Ave., within a few yards of the crowd of fight fans In front of The Times. He obtained nothing from the first two, but got sl6 from McDonald. Crowd Gives Chase After the third hold-up a crowd gave chase, but he escaped. Later Floyd Harding. 904 N. Warman Ave., Andrew Harding, 514 Miley Ave., and Carl Kehrer, 952 Concord St., phoned police that a Negro was threatening the attendant of the Silver Flash filling station at Washington St. and White River bridge, across the street from the station. Lieut. Leonard Forsythe and squad found that Terry had taken the attendant, E. H. Harrell, 1129 S. Pershing Ave., across the street into the shadow of a house and robbed him of s3l. After robbing Harrell he entered the home of J. H. McCutcheon, 965 W. Washington St„ and held McCutcheon, Albert M. Rust, same address, and two other persons at bay while he took 40 cent*, a knife and a purse from McCutcaeon. Police gave chase and found Terry hiding in the weeds at 1000 W. Pearl St. f. Hold Negro, 11 Police believe the theft of accessories and suitcases from a number i of autos in the vicinity of The Times Bldg, was solved with the arrest at midnight of Charles Ramsay, 11, Negro, who refused to give an address. Herbert Rawles, alias Smith, 22, Negro, 234 W. Empire St., was arrested on vagrancy charges when the boy said that Rawles had been pawning the loot he and a 14-year-old boy had been stealing from autos in the vicinity. Terry, the bey also said, had taken part in several of the thefts. The Warm Air Heating and Ventilating Association today ~ announced opening of an office at 631 S. Delaware St., with Paul R. Jordan as executive secretary. Jordan also Is executive secretary of the Bheet Metal Contractor*’ Association. Plans to merge the two organizations are being made.

Funeral Prices Changed Radically Since ’74 Days

Caskets were cheap in 187 *! < ; board meeting on record show the more than five feet. ... $6.50. The price covered entire burial i

Mrs. Jennie McNutt, City hospital first minutes book. She has been a lined, stained coffin, a jlaper shroud, digging of the grave and "attendance at funerals In person if not otherwise occupied. The minutes for June, 1875, show Weaver and Wert, low bidders, received the contract. Royster <& Askin, covnty undertakers, today receive s:<s allowance for a funeral. 60 Cents for Delivery Six:y cents was charged for "delivery of patients at hospital when ordered,” and 40 cents for each additional person the same trip. A fee of $3 was charged for delivery of persons with contagious diseases to the “pest house.” Burial of "pest house” patients cost sll. Today’s ambulance rate is $5 for a private ambulanceThe first minutes book is preserved carefully in the vault of Superineendent William A. Doeppers. “We have looked everywhere, but Oct. 7, 1874, is the first meeting we have found on record,” said Dr. Doeppers. The first gathering recorded called by President Theophilus Parvin to adopt a memorial resolution after the death of Dr. A. W. Davis, hospital superintendent. “Dr. Davis entered on a study of medicine later in life than most do, in the full maturity of his intellectual powers, and with a zeal that was stronger even for the many years he had been compelled to wait, from adverse circumstances, in accomplishing the long-cherished desire of life,” the resolution stated. Dr. William B. McDonald, senior hourse surgeon, was named superintendent and Dr. J- N. Smith secretary pro tem. The story of the institution of 1874, as told by the slightly faded record, Is a decided contrast to* the

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dispensary clerk, looking over the hospital employe since 1911. present modem hospital, which is a “little city” in itself. Meager records indicate the first hospital employed about three nurses and the superintendent personally treated all patients. A picture of the first building, located on the site of the present kitchen on Coe St., hangs in the reception room. Expense for supplies was nominal. Today the hospital has 450 employes, more than 200 nurses, and forty doctors, according to Dr. Doeppers. The plant includes a garage, grocery, drug store, power plant, paint and carpenter shop and laundry. There are 585 beds. Business Manager Clarence Hess said the hospital used 250,000 yards of gauze last year and served some 70,000 meals a month. WINS $500,000 TAXES Great Northern Railway Gets Reduction on Assessments. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The Great Northern Railway today won a sweeping victory before the United States board of tax appeals when that tribunal reduced back tax assessments on the road by about $500,000. The commissioner of Internal revenue had assessed the railway $667,043 in back taxes for the years 1917, 1918 and 1919, but the tax board ruled that only about SIOO,OOO was due the Government. Seeing New York by air is cheaper than by taxi. The same route covered by an airplane at a cost of $5 will run up a taxicab bill of $6.10, It Is reported.

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DOZEN DETOURS ELIMINATED ON STATEJOADS Highway Unit Announces ' Completion of Paving on 12 Sections. A dozen detours and bridge runarounds were eliminated on State roads during the week, the State Highway Department bulletin shows. Rains during the week greatly facilitated maintenance work on stone and gravel surfaces. Maintenance forces completed surface treating sections of Rds. 37 just south of Indianapolis; 67 between Maywood and Valley Mills, southwest of Indianapolis; 52 between the Marion County line and Julietta; and 9 from intersection of Rd. 6to Albion. Detours were lifted off Rd. 20 as paving was completed on railroad overhead approaches at 8 miles east of Elkhart; off Rd. 31 at 5 miles south of Columbus; Rd. 32 at 4% miles east of Crawfordsville, and off Rd. 53 permitting all types of traffic to use the new pavement between Demotte and Hebron. Indianapolis road conditions were given as follows: No. 29 (Madison, Greensburg. Shelbyvllle. Indianapolis. Logansport, La Porte, i unction of Rd. 20 near Michigan City) >etour around construction Just south of Greensburg, one mile of whic.’r is very narrow. . Detour at one and one-half miles north' of Kirkltn. Bridge run-around at Middle Fork. Detour fro mone mile north of Burlington to Deer Creek for construction. Detour from Knox to Junction of Rd. 30 account paving. U. S. No. 31 (Louisville. Seymour. Columbus. Indianapolis. Peru. South Bend. Michigan line)—Detour from Sellersburg to Hamburg account paving. Five-mile detour around Edinburg bridge is narr w. Bridge run-arounds at nine and ele/en miles north of Kokomo and at one mil* north of Peru. - U. S. No. 36 (authorized but not maintained from Illinois line to Montezumamaintained thence to Rockville, Danville, Indianapolis)—Detour around paving between Danville and Avon. , _ , No. 37 (Tell City, English, Paoll, Bedford. Bloomington. Martinsville, Indianapolis)—Drive carefully past workmen south of Orantsburg. Detour In Paoll around paving. U. S. No. 52 (junction of Rd. 41 near Fowler. Lafayette, Lebanon. Indianapolis, Rushvllle, Brookvllle. Cincinnati)—Eightmile detour between Oxford and Templeton Detour from east edge of Montmorend to one and one-half miles east of Otterbein. Good five-mile detour around paving between Lebanon and Lafa” .te. Paving between New Palestine ar Morristown with detours for local trr.ilc. Pavement from Rushvllle to Morristown and Marion County line to New Palestine completed. However men are working on shoulders and one drives this at their own risk. Through traffic may route via No. 40 to Dunrelth, thence south on Rd. 3 to Rushville. No. 67 (Vincennes. Blcknell. Spencer, Tndlanapolis. Anderson, Muncie—authoU. .a to Pc-Hand and Ohio line)—Short detouc In Edwardsport account bridge construction. The Prince of Wales and his younger brother, Prince George, hold equal claim to the honor of being the best dancers in the royal family. Oxford University is said to have been founded by King Alfred the Great in 1872.