Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1927 — Page 9

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RUTH ELDER LANDS AT AZORES PORT

FID FORCES OPEN ANNUAL CHARITY DRIVE Solicitations Start Among 850 Firms, Listed as Heavy Givers. COST IS CUT BY BUDGET Only 7 Cents on Dollar Spent to Collect, Disburse City Donations. Swinging into action in advance of the general campaign, the “A,” “B” and “Branch House” divisions of the Community Fund’s army of workers have begun solicitations among 850 downtown-business firms listed as among the heaviest contributors to the annual social serv- : ice budget of Indianapolis. Dick Miller is chairman of the “A” division for the third consecutive year. Other leaders of this ! division include Arthur V. Brown, G. A. Efroymson, W. C. Kobin, William H. Insley, Arthur Baxter, A. Kiefer Mayer, Nicholas H. Noyes and Edgar H. Evans. The division’s executive committeee is composed of Herman P. Lieber, Leo Rappaport and William J. Mooney. Active workers in this group number fortyeight. Business Men Active Theodore E. Myers heads the “B” division and has for his principal assistants William H. Harrison, Perry Lesh, Harry Orlopp, Joseph Wate, William Henkle and H. M. Glo sbrenner. Thirty-six Qther prominent business men of the city are active in the work of this division. The Branch House division is headed by George Bockstahler, who has a total of thirty business men to aid in soliciting among the firms which have home offices in other cities. The Mile Square division, the Industrial division and the women’s I army are the three other main groups of the Community Fund campaign. These divisions begin their work later, according to the plan announced by Walter C. Marmon, general campaign chairman. Goal Set at $722,800 This year’s campaign goal has been set at $722,800. This amount is required, says Mr. Marmon, to meet the actual needs of the thirty-eight social service agencies sharing in the general fund. “In asking the citizens of Indianapolis to give $722,800 toward the support of the city’s social service and charitable agencies, the community fund directors can assure the public that every dollar is vitally needed if Indianapolis is not to suffer the disgrace of failing to provide adequately and decently for 60,000 unfortunates,” Mr. Marmon announces. “Moreover, the community fund can assure the public that no more economical system of caring for the poor, the sick and the needy has even been devised,” he continued. “In the days before the city had the community fund it cost at least 15 cents out of every dollar to collect and disburse the funds raised by the separate charities. “Under the organized budget plan of the community fund this cost has been reduced to 7 cents, or exactly one-half. Waste Is Eliminated “Not only does 93 cents of every dollar reach its proper destination, but the citizens of Indianapolis get far more value for their money. The trained and skilled workers of the community fund have eliminated waste and are able to see the Job through to the end. “It is the same old story of skilled against unskilled workers. Organized social service work is as much of an improvement over unorganized work as the automobile is over the ox cart. “Knowing these facts, an army of 3,000 men and women is prepared to canvass citizens with more zeal and heart-felt interests than ever before.’* UNION AGENT IS KILLED John G. Watson Held Post Six Years With Bricklayers. John G. Watson, 36, of 213 S. Audubon Rd., killed in the crash was business agent for Bricklayer, Stone and Marble Masons and Tilesetters Union No. 3. He had held this position for the last six years and was re-elected at the annual meeting this week. He is survived by the widow and three sons, John, 7; Richard, 5, and James, 4; and his mother Mrs. John Watson. Mr. Watson was born in Indianapolis, was graduated from Shortridge High School, and served during the World War. He was a member of the Sahara Grotto drill team and a veiled prophet of the Grotto. • Festival at Danville Bu Timet Special DANVILLE, Ind., Oct. 15.—This city will hold a town and country festival, beginning Thursday and continuing the remainder of the week. Several athletic events are on the program. Eleven high schools have entered teams in a baseball tournament and six schools have entered a girls’ volley ball contest.

Waitresses on Wheels Are ‘Grand Flop’

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“We tried It out, but it didn’t work,” said H. E. Deputy, manager of White’s new restaurant, 27 N. Illinois St. “I’ll say it didn’t work,” chimed in Miss Eloise Caulder, a waitress. It was a grand idea—on paper—-

TWO BANDITS ESCAPE Loot Bryant (Ind.) Bank of $2,500 to $3,000. Bu Time* Special BRYANT, Ind., Oct. 15.—Loot of between $2,500 and $3,000 is in the hands of two young bandits today, following hold-up of the State bank here late Friday afternoon. The robbers, both well dressed, ordered John Bonifas, cashier and his assistant, Miss Emma Bonifas, to “Stick ’em up” immediately after entering the bank. They grabbed all the money in sight, but did not ask that the safe, containing $6,000, be opened. Telling their victims to stand with their faces to a wall for five minutes, threatening death would result from disobedience, the robbers escaped in auto bearing an Indiana license. No trace of them has yet been found. Bryant is a town of about 400 population, located in Jay County; six miles north of Portland. STATE GRANGE SESSION Fifty-Seventh Annr invention to Open at Port"' • onday. By United Press PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 15.—The fifty-seventh annual convention of the Indiana State Grange will open here Monday, to continue through Thursday. Delegates will be guests of the Portland Kiwanis, Rotary and other service clubs. Sessions will begin with a social meeting Monday night and will conclude with election of officers on Thursday. v *\

CHAMPION EGG LOST AMONG PLEBEIANS, EGG-ZACTLY ALIKE, IN CAL’S PANTRY

By United Pres* 7y7| ASHINGTON, Oct. 15. YY To a prize hen a championship egg may be a worldrocking achievement, but to the naked eye of a man named Smith such an egg is, after all, Just another egg. So it happens that the recordbreaking 166th consecutive egg laid last Tuesday in Omaha, Neb.,

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but a grand ffop on roller skates. The idea was to equip waitresses at White’s with roller skates, to speed up delivery of food and make the service more efficient, said H. H. Keller, proprietor. But the broken dishes resulting more than offset the saving in speed.

Turkeys Travel 811 BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 15.—Harry Axtell has shipped twelve turkeys from his farm northeast of here to Japan, where they will be used for breeding. This is the third shipment Axtenn has made to - Japan. The turkeys make the trip in thirty-one days.

LIST 18 CONVENTIONS Meetings Will Bring Thousands to City. That Indianapolis still retains Its popularity as a meeting city is shown by the fact that eighteen conventions have been listed by the Indianapolis convention bureau in the past forty-five days, most of them for next year. Eight thousand former soldiers will visit Indianapolis next year attending the national encampment, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Other conventions will include the international convention of Phi Rho sigma medical fraternity, supreme national convention of Daughters of Job and the triennial women’s board of missions of the Evangelical Church. The latter will be held in 1930. “A convention a day” might well have been the slogan of the convention bureau for September, thirty conventions meeting here in that many days. These included nineteen State-wide meetings, four regional and seven national and international meetings, brigig n10,450 visitors.

by Lady Norfolk, better known as “Babe Ruth,” will grace a, presidential omelet, not alone, but with eggs of lesser degree. When the word flashed here that “Babe Ryth’s” egg was being sent to the White House for President Coolidge’s delectation, editors assigned star reporters to the task of “covering” its reception. They said they wanted the story of its

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The rubber-tired roller skates from the Em-Roe store were not at fault. It was just human frailty. But broken dishes were not the only casualties. Oh, my, no. Pretty Miss' Caulder will testify to that.

GOLF CLUB TO ELECT Annual Highland Meeting Set for Tonight. Stockholders of Highland Golf and Country Club will hold their annual meeting following a stage dinner tonight at 6:30. Directors and membership committeemen to succeed those whose terms of office expire shortly will be elected. Thp nominating committee, Sidney Fenstermaker, Tom Kaufman and Joe Stout, has named two tickets for each office. Four directors are to be elected from among Robert Berner, A. R. C. Kipp, R. V. Law, E. L. Lennox, Dr. C- H. McCaskey, Homer McKee, Frederick Van Nuys and C. E. Wells. Four membmership committeemen are to be elected from among Eugene S. Carpenter. Dr. J. H. P. Gauss, Clyde H. Jones, H. C. Lathrop, Robert L. Pythian, R. L. Reed, C. S. sherer and Lyman Whitaker. PART OF STAFF CHOSEN Preparations Made to Issue the Sycamore, Normal Year Book. Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 15. The staff for the Sycamore, year book of the Indiana State Normal School here, has been selected in part as follows: \ Herschell H. Lammey, editor-in-chief; Maurine Mcllroy, Jeanette L. Billman and Otis Jamison, assistant editors; La Verne Taylor, Denis Magenhart, William Johnson and Charlotte Jardine, staff members.

eating “bite by bite.” Here was the story of a non-stop egg coming to a stop against a palate of such a nature that every one would want to read about it. The egg arrived. But it reached the White House in the mail last night after all the reperters h and gone home. And the man named Smith, who opens the White House packages, could distinguish

WEST BADEN HOST TO U. S. TRAKCHIEF National Commerce Chamber Sessions Will Be Opened on Sunday. FLOOD CONTROL IS UP Former Governor Parker of Louisiana Will Lecture at First Meeting. Bu Time* Special WEST BADEN, Ind., Oct. 15. The proposed program for organized business in 1928 was prepared today, to be laid before the three-day meeting here of national councilors and directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Leading business men from all parts of the country, representing the several lines of industry, finance and commerce, were arriving today for the directors’ session tonight. The only session of the conference Sunday will be at 8 p. m., when John M. Parker, former Governor of Louisiana, and member of the chamber’s committee on Mississippi flood control, will lecture, with motion pictures. Flood Control Up The conference will give consideration to a special report on flood control prepared by a committee of business leaders, who made a personal inspection of the devastated area. Tax reduction is to receive considerable attention. James R. McColl of Providence, R. 1., chairman of the chamber committee on Federal taxation, is to open discussion of the subject Monday morning. Means are to be discussed for “getting out the vote.” Chambers all over the United States have shown interest in this subject. Ernest T. Trigg of Philadelphia is to lead discussions. Other outstanding topics scheduled for consideration include postal rates and the Federal reserve system, presented, respectively, by Lucius R. Teter, Chicago banker, and Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago, formerly president of the national chamber. Program to Be Discussed In an address Monday night, Lewis E. Pierson, New York banker, and national chamber president, will discuss the legislative program which organized business intends to advocate before the coming Congress. Other speakers include Judge Edwin B. Parker, chairman board of directors; Philip H. Gadsden, Philadelphia: Merle Thorpe, editor the Nation’s Business; Frank C. Page, Washington; John W. O’Leary, Chicago, former national chamber president; C. B. Brown, Washington; Frederic A. Lelano, Washington, and Julius H. Barnes, New York. DRUM CORPS MEMBERS HELP IN RESCUE WORK Rush to Aid Victims of Crash; Bodies Mangled. Grotto drug corps members, who were practicing at fire headquarters Friday night, rushed to aid in removing dead and injured in the traction-bus crash northeast of the city. R. J. Weidman, 548 E. Twentieth St., Big Four railroad detective,, said the members of the party had parked their private autos at Washington St. and Emericon Ave. and climbed o nthe truck-trailer. The party gave a loud cheer as the truck wheeled away toward the scene of merriment. Ft. Benjamin Harrison sent the hospital corps to aid police. Several officers were dispatched to the scene. Weidman, who aided police in removal of the bodies, said many of the bodies were mangled badly, some being thrown about a city block. Five bodies were found on the front of the interurban, he declared. 3 FACE DEATH TRIAL Widow, Sister and Father to Be in Court at English Monday. ENGLISH, Ind., Oct. 15.—Mrs. Mildred Mitchell, 19; her sister-in-law, Mrs. Frona Cummings, 25, and the latter’s father, Isaiah Mitchell, 70, will go on trial for murder in Crawford Circuit Court here Monday as a result of the death of Arthur Mitchell, 29, husband of Mildred. The younger Mitchell was shot to death last March 16 at the home of his father, four miles south of Eckerty, the culmination of what officials believe was a family quarrel.

nothing about the package to show it contained the egg. Smith deferred opening the packet until this morning. And when he untied the package it was too late to include the egg in Mr. Coolidge’s breakfast. Smith went, therefore, to the White House egg basket. He gingerly put “Babe Ruth’s championship egg in it, where Mrs.

Gets Medal for Bravery

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Leonard Schneider, 13, of 1007 E. Morris St., St. Patrick’s school pupil, who saved the life of a small boy Sept. 29 by dragging him from the path of a speeding auto at Virginia and Woodlawn Aves., today was given a gold medal commending him for his "act of valor” by Police Chief Claude M. Worley.

FRENCH FLIERS REAGHJRAZIL Africa-South America Flight Is Made Safely. Bu United Press NATAL, Brazil, Oct. 15.—The French airmen, Dieudonne Costes and Joseph le Brix, landed here at 11:40 last night from Saint Louis, Senegal, West Africa, completing the first flight from Africa to the South American mainland. In landing the propeller of the Breguet plane Nungesser 7 Coli was damaged slightly. Nevertheless, Costes announced they would proceed to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow morning. In spite of the lateness of the hour, a large crowd, including the Governor of the State of Rio Grande Norte and other officials, was present to welcome the fliers. The landing was made at the aviation camp, ten miles from Natal. The South Atlantic had been flown, before, but previous fliers had been unable to reach the mainland, landing on the Island of Fernando do Noronha, 125 miles from the mainland. Costes and Le Brix left Saint Louis at 6:30 a. m. The flight from Africa to South America was approximately 2,100 miles. JUDGMENT FOR $8,064 Ft. Branch Men Lose in Suit Bonding Company Brought. Bu United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind.. Oct. 15. Judgment of $8,064 is held today by the Globe Indemnity Company under a verdict given Friday by a jury in Federal Court here against Henry Lintz, Joseph Black and Thomas Black of Ft. Branch. The company sued for $25,000, charging the Black brothers and Lintz signed as security for James Sickles, Ft. Brank contractor, and that Sickles failed to live up to his contract in building school houses at Sullivan and in Vigo County. Orders Tear Gas Gun Bu TVmes Special BLUFFTON, Ind., Oct. 15. Sheriff Forester McClain of Wells County has placed an order for a tear gas gun as an addition to the county’s weapons against lawbreakers.

Coolidge or the White House cook or somebody would be sure to find it. Lunch time drew near. Smith whispered to Ted Clark, a secretary to the President, of the surprise in store for Coolidges. Then Clark made a discovery. He found that the regular White House egg man, bearing the fruit of nearby hens, had placed a dozen

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Worley purchased the medal himself and presented it at the roll call of the 1,000 Indianapolis school police at police headquarters. The roll call was held in three sections. Accident Prevention sergeant Frank Owen and Worley instructed the school officers in their task of preventing accidents to school children.

ARSON DEFENSE SCORESTHRICE Court Rules Against State in Withrow Case. Bu Times Special ROCKVILLE, Ind., Oct. 15.—The defense in the arson trial of Samuel F. Withrow, former kligraph of the Parke County KuKlux Klan, is victor today as the hearing in Parke Circuit Court stands adjourned until Monday, following three rulings Friday against the prosecution. Judge Harry Fine ruled that the State could not show Lawrence Glaze, who identified Withrow as the man at the scene of the Bridgeton High School fire, in 1924, was under duress when he made a conflicting statement at the State fire marshal’s office. The second prosecution setback came when the court ruled that Charles J. Devlin, who nearly three years ago attempted to have Withrow Indicted, could not testify as a trial witness. Defense objections sustained prevented James Killiom, who investigated the school Are on orders of the State fire marshal’sofflce, from testifying. The States hoped to draw from Killiom a statement that Withrow had declared after the Are it should be blamed on Catholics and bootleggers. PUSH FLOOD RELIEF House Committee Will Open Hearings Nov. 7. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—Shaping of a flood control program by Congress will begin Nov. 7, when the House flood control committee begins informal hearings on this subject. Representative Reid of Illinois has issued a formal call for Congressmen to convene on that date. Non-engineering features bf flood control will be discussed first, it was said at Congressman Reid’s office today. The first witnesses to appear will be Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago p.nd a subcommittee named at the flood control conference at Chicago this summer.

of their Plebian product in the same basket with Babe Ruth’s. Smith rushed to the basket. He looked over the eggs. But his eyes, untrained in such matters, could detect no difference between the egg laid in Omaha by a proud lady Norfolk and the eggs laid alon the Potomac by less purebred fowl. H ecouldn’t find Babe Ruth's, and he admitted failure.

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LITTLE TOWN HOST TO TWO AIR HEROINES American Girl and Viennese Actress, Flying to U.SSf. f Meet in Horta. MAY GO ON TO PARIS Florida Beauty Waits Word From Backers Before . Deciding Course. BY MANEEL CAMARA United Fres* Special Correspondent HORTA, AZORES ISLANDS, Oct. 15.—Ruth Elder, first American trans-Atlantic flier, arrived hero today with George Haldeman, her co-pilot, In the plane American Girl, aboard the Dutch oil tanker Barendrecht, that picked them up at sea Thursday. Thus there were In this little midAtlantic seaport today the first two women to try trans-ocean flights and live to tell about it. Mile. Lillie Dillenz, Austrian actress, who arrived yesterday aboard the Junkers seaplane, D-1230, from Lisbon on her way to Newfoundland and New York, was waiting to greet the American Girl and her companion. Horta, hardly able to realize Its position as the temporary news center of the world, had done its best to honor the two women pioneers. Throng Meets Vessel As the little Dutch steamer, built for business and not to transport international heroines, steamed Into port this morning residents of Horta, in launches and tugs, went out to meet her and escort her into the harbor, She had been sighted more than an hour before by boats outside in open water, and word of her impending arrival had preceded her. Miss Elder and Haldeman received the greatest ovation accorded any one in the history of the island. Almost the whole town's population was jammed around the block where they landed. Greeted by Wild Cheering A tremendous roar of cheeks signaled the arrival of the two fliers, so miraculously brought here from mid-Atlantic. Portuguese government authorities and all officers of the municipal government were present to greet the two fliers on behalf of the island. and the entire consular corps was present with the American consul to welcome them on behalf of the world at large. Miss Elder and Haldeman were unable Immediately to sty when they would leave. Whether they return on the first steamer to the United States—probably the jnail steamer Sinai that leaves here Oct. 26—or go on to Paris depends on instructions Miss Elder Is expecting to receive from the American backers of her flight. In the United States are awaiting a tremendous reception and her own people: in Paris there are her trunks and the frocks and hats for which she said she braved the Atlantic. FUND FOR COLLFCTING j BACK TAXES PROPOSE] Attorney May Be Gh'en Claims <>■ Commission Basis. L The county council today consltfl ered and ordinance to appropriate SIO,OOO to a special fund for collccfl tion of delinquent taxes from per® sons who have moved from th State. County Treasurer Edward Ramsay has negjtiated with Attorney Myron Cosier to collect such taxes by sulu when the persons i till own property In the State and receive 35 per cent of the taxco collected, It waa disclosed. Cosier would receive the 25 per cent from the SIO,OOO when the taxes have been paid to the treasurer, according to the plan. Council also received ordinances asking $2,000 for expenses of the political corruption probe and $2,000 additional for courthouse remodeling. CALL CARMEL MEETING TO DISCUSS PARK PLAN State Playground of 1,200 Acres Near Town Is Proposed. Citizens and officials of Carmel, Ind., and others interested in a proposed 1,200-acre State park in the vicinity of Carmel will discuss tha project at an open meeting Monday night at the Carmel library. It is planned to foster the movemen under provisions of the 1927 statute, which permits county and municipal governmental units to secure lands suitable for State parks to have them accepted by the State conservation department. Henry Roberts, State purchasing agent and publisher of the Carmel Standard, points out that central Indiana is not included in the Stale park system. It is proposed to dam Cool Crr k and form a lake over the b - ‘ .3 lands, the vicinity of the lake 1.01.ig virgin lumber.