Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1927 — Page 3

DEC. 17, 1927_

COLLEGE HEADS GIVE APPROVAL TO PEACE PLAN Twelve Presidents, Meeting Here, Send Letter to * Indiana Senators. "Unqualified approval” of the Capper resolution for international peace was expressed over the signatures of twelve Indiana college presidents, in a letter sent today to United States Senators James E. .Watson and Arthur R. Robinson. Agreeing with the views of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University president and strong advocate of the Capper plan, who addressed them, the college heads adopted the resolution of endorsement at the reorganization meeting of the Indiana Church College Presidents’ Association at the Lincoln Hotel Friday afternoon. The Capper resolution would define the policy of the United States to renounce war as an instrument of public policy, by treaty with France and like-minded nations, and to settle international disputes by arbitration. It would define aggressor nations as those beginning hostilities in disregard of promises to submit to arbitration. Edwards Heads Association Dr. David M. Edwards, Earlham College president, was elected to the association presidency, succeeding Dr. I. J. Good, Indiana Central College president, who was made association secretary-treasurer. Dr. W. P. Deering, Oakland City College president, was elected vice president. Earlham College at Richmond, was chosen for the next annual meeting, Nov. 21, 1928. Mid-year meetings tvill be held each April. Others attending the meeting, beside those elected to office, were: Dr. Robert Aley, Butler University president; Dr. J. W. Putnam, Butler dean; Dr. W. A. Millis, Hanover College president; Dr. E. E. Harper, Evansville College president; Dr. L. H. Murlin, De Pauw University president; Dr. L. D. Ikenbary, Manchester College vice president; Dr. Homer P. Rainey, Franklin College president; Dr. A. H. Woodworth, Hanover College acting president; Dr. John H. Paul, Taylor University president, and Dr. Jones, Marion College acting president. Gives Views of Mussolini Dr. Butler gave his impressions of Mussolini, Italy’s director, gained from his interview with him at Rome last June. The university head said it was his opinion that facism was loosing favor with the lower classes of Italy. He charged his hearers with a responsibility greater than directing the education of their students and said it was imperative that they maintain keen and studious interest in national and international affairs.

INDIANA PROFESSOR FLAYS PROHIBITION Wrong: in Principle and Practice, Says Valparaiso Instructor. Bu Time Svecial VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 17. Striking hard at what he termed classroom conventionalism as a dominant factor in American public life today, Prof. A. C. Kissing, Valparaiso University, assailed prohibition in an address to local Kiwanis Club members. “Prohibition is not only wrong in principle, it is also wrong in practice,” the professor declared. “Laws that seek to govern and control what people shall eat and drink and wear, except in time of national crisis, fail of success. They fail because the individual resents them as encroachments on his personal liberty and for that reason such laws never win the support of the majority of the individuals whose lives are made to conform to them.” MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Bfcknell Man Accused In Fatal Shooting of Baby. Bit Timet Svecial VINCENNES, Ind., Dec. 17.—Ernest Scroggins, 30, Bicknell, stands accused today of involuntary manslaughter based on the death of Ruth Stanfield, the 14-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Jerry Stanfield. The baby was fatally shot early Monday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McDaniels, where police say an allnight party was held. Scroggins declares the tragedy was the result of the accidental discharge of a gun which he was demonstrating to the child’s parents. LEGION POST ELECTS John H. Hilkene Is New Commander of Memorial No. 3. John H. Hilkene was elected commander of Memorial Post No. 3, American Legion, at the Elks Club Friday night. Other officers are Paul R. Stevenson, adjutant; Jesse Wells, senior vice commander; Miss Clara Hunt, junior vice commander; Paul Fechtman, finance officer; Bishop Joseph Francis, chaplain; Sie Mahalowitz, historian, and M. W. Gwinn, sergeant-at-arms. Edmund H. Ermy, retiring commander, presided. New officers will be installed by State Commander Frank McHale, Logansport, Jan. 13. HOOVER TO FLOOD AREA Starts on Final Tour of Mississippi River Region. B# United Frees WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Secretary of Commerce Hoover left here last night for his final tour of the Mississippi flood districts. He will spend one day each in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana conferring with rehabilitation committees for caring for destitute flood refugees over the winter

Buying of Groceries for 20,000 Is No Small Job

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Daily E. McCoy inspecting some of the thousands of grocery samples received by the Joint Purchasing Committee.

State Committee Must Toil and Taste and Pick at Tedious Length. “No man living can buy groceries for a woman.” At least that is what nearly every housewife at one time or another tells her husband and sons. But the laugh is on them. Today and Friday seven men have been in a room in the Statehouse tasting, smelling and handling foodstuffs of all description and when they get through they will have bought, not for one family, but for 20,000 persons, inmates of twenty. State institutions. Spend $30,000 Approximately $30,000 will he spent for groceries and laundry supplies which must Hist the Statecontrolled institutions for a threemonth period. Very few persons realize what a weighty problem it is to buy for 20,000 persons, Daily McCoy, secretary of the Joint Purchasing Board, said today. “It isn’t merely buying good groceries or products. We also are confronted with the problem of purchasing as cheaply as possible and still not get inferior grades.” Samples from 300 concerns which manufacture everything from starch to corncob pipes are ranged on the shelves in the committee’s office. For days the clerks busily are engaged in marking and tabulating the samples and the committee spends the days selecting the best. Must Taste, Taste, Taste As an example, the committee must taste and pass on forty-seven varieties of peaches. Twenty brands of cocoa must be examined, to purchase the best 1,000 pounds. How about tasting twenty-two varieties of corn syrup to select the concern to get the contract for 800 gallons of corn syrup? . The sour also is not forgotten. The committee will award a contract for 2,800 gallons of vinegar cider. Picture this, if you can, Mrs. Housewife: 93,760 bars of soap placed end to end. How many tons of beans have you in 916,000 pounds? Well, that’s what the purchasing committee will have to buy also. Brave Men In Group The brave men who constitute this group of experts are Moses Epstein, Frankfort, chairman; John L. Moorman, Knox; James G. Jackson, Ft. Wayne; Ralph Howard, Greencastle; Robert E. Neff, Indianapolis, and Dr. W. C. Van Nuys, Newcastle, and one woman, Mrs. Francis Beadle, Lafayette. Perhaps the one woman has a lot to do with influencing the decision towards the right. The committee doesn’t comment on this. Legion District Meeting Bu Times fiver,ini BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 17. American Legion post members of the Second district will hold their annual banquet here Sunday afternoon. Frank McHale, Logansport, State commander-elect, and Paul V. McNutt, present commadner, will be speakers. William Sayre, Bloomington, will be installed as district committeeman.

Santa Judge Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 17.—Joe Zarenski, restaurant owner, pointed out to Judge C. M. Greenlee in city court here that Christmas is only a few days away and the court ruled that Zarenski will not have to start serving a thirty-day sentence for selling liquor until Jan. 5.

FIND GOLDEN-CROWNED TOMB OF ANCIENT PRINCE

Bu United Press LONDON, Dec. 17.—A goldencrowned prince’s tomb, glittering in the rays of flashlights with heaps of priceless jewels, has been discovered in Mesopotamia by a joint .University of Pennsyl-

BYRD PLANS At Least 12 Explorers to Go on South Pole Jaunt. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Commander Richard E. Byrd has confided how he plans to tackle the job of exploring a south polar territory one and half times as large as the United States. He told members of the National Geographic Society last night that he will take other flier comrades and at least twelve arctic experts on a reinforced ship to the ice of the Great Ross Barrier. There the party will make Its main base, setting out with six Eskimos, special motor tobaggans and dog teams to lay further bases 100 miles apart toward the pole and on the very edge of the unexplored Antarctic continent. Then will begin flights in three planes, with mapping cameras recording the hitherto unexplored continent at the rate of 100 miles an hour. Byrd expects to plant the American flag at the pole itself. BIRDS’ NESTS BRING GAS DEATH CLOSE TO FOUR Stopped Chimney at Home of Wabash Family. Bu Times Special WABASH, Ind., Dec. 17.—Birds’ nests blocking the chimney at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roll Hall near La Fontaine, came near resulting in the death of the couple and their two daughters when escaping gas from a base burner coal stove filled the house. Hall started a fire In the stove and the family retired for the night. Some hours later Hall awoke and found his wife and children unconscious and himself ill. He managed to reach a phone but collapsed as he lifted the receiver. The operator heard him fall and sent assistance to the home. MUNCIE PADLOCK ASKED Federal Ban Is Sought on Three Establishments. Padlock pro ceedings against three Muncie establishments were filed in Federal Court Friday by Albert Ward, United States district attorney, as a result of recent liquor raids by Federal agents. Places named in the proceedings are the Midway cigar store, 1102 W. Walnut St.; the ,*oodland Gardens, 1010 Burlington Dr., and the residence of Cleo Lounsbury, owned by Thomas C. Oland, at 721 E. Wysor St. Truck Kills Aged Man P,U United Press LA PORTE, Ind., Dec. 17.—Thomas Meredith, 65, Coburg, Porter County, was killed near Westville, Friday, when struckJ>y a truck from the Ford assembling plant at Hedgewich, 111. He was walking in the road.. Joseph F. Babineau, Chicago, driver of the truck, was not held. Favored for Academy Bu Times Special MARION, Ind., Dec. 17.—Mason Hamilton of this city has been recommended for entrance to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., by Albert R. Hall, Representative in Congress from the Eleventh Indiana District. Institution Dedication Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 17,-rLake County’s new home for dependent children here will be dedicated Monday with Judge E. Miles Norton as principal speaker. The home will be open for public inspection throughout the day.

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FLAMES PERIL 135 CHILDREN No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Quebec Escapes Second Tragedy in School. Hr/ United Press QUEBEC, Dec. 17.—Less than forty-eight hours after the fire in the Hospice of St. Charles had claimed at least thirty-six lives, fire last night endangered 135 children in the St John Beechman’s boarding school. The children In the boarding school, however, were removed to safety. Several were reported injured. Last night’s fire was spectacular with flames leaping high into the sky, fanned by a 50-mile an hour wind. Heavy snow fell all the time the yonugsters were being led or carried out of the building. They were taken to nearby fire stations for temporary shelter. The fire was ljplieved caused by a boiler explosion, the flames spreading. A nun trapped in the upper section of the school, effected her escape by leaping from a third story window to a landing net.

Dr. Morgan Picks Snappy Last Line for Limerick

Mrs. Hattie Steffy Winner of Top Prize; Other Good Ones. BY LIMERICK LARRY Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city board of health secretary, picked the winning ‘‘last lines” to Limerick No. 13 today—the one about the stout matron who had difficulty in getting her waistline in shape. Here is the limerick and the winning last lines: A matron who tried to reduce Lived a year on nothing but juice; She emitted loud wails When she stepped on the scales AND EXCLAIMED IN HER “WEIGH,” “WHAT’S THE USE?” Mrs. Hattie Steffy, 120 W. Twenty-Second St., is the author of this line, which wins $5 for her: I’LL NEVER BE “POPLAR” (POPULAR) LEST “SPRUCE.” Is this line “oak” or no, I “ash” you? Mrs. Bernice Gerking, R. R. 2, Box 87, won $3 for writing it. George W. Allison, 254 S. Ritter Ave., won the $2 third prize for this line. FOR HER “WEIGHS” SHE HAD “AMPLE” EXCUSE. Winning “last lines” to Limericks Nos. 14 to 18 will be printed next week and the usual daily cash prizes awarded. After all the “last lines” have been printed, judges will pick the best line received during the entire three weeks' contest. Its author will receive % S2OB Stewart-Wamer console radio, complete with accessories, given by the National Furniture Company, 335 W. Washington St. You still have a chance to win it. “Last lines” still are being received to the last three limericks. Here are the closing dates: No. 18—5 p. m. today. No. 17—5 p. m. Monday. No. 18—5 p. m. Tuesday. HIT BY TRAIN; RECOVERS Engineer Blinded by Steam When Locomotive Backs Into Him. Samuel Bell, 39, of 3527 Roosevelt Ave., Big Four work train engineer, who was struck by a switch train in the Big Four yards at Anderson Friday, is recovering at St. John’s hospital, Anderson. His wife and two children are with him. William Imel, 2133 Oxford St., fireman, was injured only slightly when struck by the engine. Steam obstructed the men’s view of* the backing locomotive. Bell’s foot was crushed badly and his leg was broken. Retired Officer KiUs Self Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 17.—William Blum, 58, former police captain, committed suicide in the basement of the police station here Friday. Blum, who retired from the police force several months ago, first slashed his throat with a razor and then shot himself. 11l health was believed to have been the cause of his act. Faces SIO,OOO Love Suit Bu Times Special BOURBON, Ind., Dec. 17.—Elmer H. Mitchell, principal of the high •school here, is named defendant in a SIO,OOO suit for alienation of affections filed by Bynum Smith, Eaton, Ind., barber, who alleges the principal stole the affections of Mrs. Smith.

Figure It Out! Bu Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 17. Obtaining a divorce on testimony that Angelo Perri deserted her after only twenty days of married life did not deter Mrs. Frieda Perri from becoming the wife of John F. Byers, local policeman, the following day. Byers’ wife divorced him Nov. 18. He is the father of eight children and was ordered by the court to pay $125 of his $l5O monthly salary for the children’s support.

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Stays on Bench

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Governor Ed. Jackson has reappointed Judge Fred McCallister of Municipal Court Two for four years beginning Jan. 1. McCallister was one of the four judges appointed under the 1925 Municipal Court law.

OVERHEARJEFT TIP Seven Boys Arrested After Loud Case Talk. A bit of overheard conversation resulted in the arrest at 1:20 a. m. today of seven young men, four of whom are believed to have stolen an automobile and staged a hold-up earlier last night. An employe of John Holt, Indianapolis Motor Club, heard some of the group in a restaurant talking about being in an Auburn sedan earlier in the evening. Later when he found out that Holt had found a stolen and abandoned automobile at Merrill and New Jersey Sts., he gave police a description of the youths. Lieut. Otto Petit recalled that four youths in an Auburn had held up Attendant Albert R. Hall at the Silver Flash filling station at Meridian and South Sts., and obtained S4O. He arrested the seven at Louisiana St. and Virginia Ave. An eighth youth fled. The Auburn, property of Eugene Hough, 20 S. Irvington Ave., was stolen from 100 block E. Ohio St. The same car was stolen and used in an attempted hold-up at the Ritz Theater two weeks ago.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: James Laney, 1955 Mansfield Ave., Hupmoblie, from Indiana Ave.. and Montcalm St. William Sullivan. 702 Madison Ave.. Studebaker, 28-287, from 230 N. Illinois St.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Ford roadster, 666-686, found in gravel pit at Morris and Eagle Creek. Eugene Hough, 28 S. Irvington Ave., Auburn, found at Merrill and New Jersey Sts. Homer McClain, 1024 Orange St„ Chevrolet, truck, found at Prospect St. and Woodlawn Ave. Ben Stein, 1134 S. Meridian St., Auburn, found at 2869 N. Pennsylvania St. Sugar Creek Creamery Company, 419 W. Ohio St., Ford, found at 2013 Singleton Ave. Ford, roadster, M-971, found at 413 Kentucky Ave. BUILDING PERMITS DOWN Cold Weather Reflected In Slump of Construction Plans. Winter weather was reflected in the slump of building permits during the week. Only nine for residences and one for a filling station were issued. Total cost of the residences was $89,000 and the gas station $2,000. H. L. Simmon took out a permit to build a home at 5335 N. Meridian St., at an estimated cost of $50,000. Ingenue Asks SIOO,OOO for Burns. Bit United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Marguerite Lee, Belasco ingenue, sued her landlord for SIOO,OOO for burns, received in an apartment house fire, which she said disfigured her and shattered her stage career. She showed the burns to the jury. Shoplifter Gets Detective Novel. BsU Vtiitra NEW YORK, Dec. *7.—lrwin J. Rainer darted from a department store with several women’s handkerchiefs and a detective novel. Arrested after a chase, he said they were to be Christmas presents for his fiance. Delay Air Endurance Flight TV/ ited Press LAYTON A BEACH, Fla., Dec. 17. —For the fourth consecutive day Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock today were forced to postpone their proposed endurance flight because of adverse weather conditions.

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PLOT TO RAISE LIGHT RATES IS LAIDTOINSULL Huntington Citizens Voice Protests to Scrapping of Electric Plant. “Insull interests are waiting for the people of Huntington to scrap their present electric equipment so that they can jump at the throats of the citizens and charge them an exorbitant rate for electric light power,” the State tax board was told Friday by Huntington citizens who are urging authorization cf a $60,000 bond issue to remodel and equip their present municipally-owned plant. “The municipally-owned plant now is the sole defense of the people In halting any efforts of the Insull combine to raise the rates,” Otto H. Krieg, attorney for the city said. Petitions Are Presented According to figures exhibited, the Northern Indiana Power Company, an Insull concern, now is selling commercial light to the citizens for fl cents a kilowatt hour, where it will be possible for the city, if given the equipment, to furnish the power at a switchboard cost of Just under 1 cent. | Krieg presetted petitions signed j by 661 property-owning taxpayers ! asking that the bond issue be allowed, In reply to results of a postcard poll presented by Walter H. Ball, newspaper owner. Ft. Wayne Cited Points brought out by Krieg, Arthur D. Saylor and E. O. King, attorney for the city, and John Moore, consulting engineer, showed that the city has a working agreement with the Insull interests for the latter to furnish light for the streets at a cost of one and one-fourth cents a kilowatt hour, but that there is no iron-clad contract to this effect, and if ever the city junks its plant “the Insull interests can foist any rate, upon the city, compatible with the permission of the public serviice commission.” “At present,” Commissioners J. J. Brown, Will Hough and Philip Zoercher- were told, “the Insull company is charging Huntington users 9 cents for power and furnishes users in Ft. Wayne power for 5 cents. This is merely because Ft. Wayne has a municipal plant in competition,” Krieg charged. Harry O. Garman, consulting engineer for the remonstrators to the proposed bond issue, and sometimes retained by Insull to appraise plants, stated that on the basis of manufacturing power on the less than 2 cents basis the cits* would lose about $15,000 a year. Mayor Charles Snider attended. U. S. COAL PROBE ASKED Mme. Leaders Seek Congress Order \ for General Investigation. Poi United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—United ! mine workers’ chiefs were expected i today to confer again with Senator Reed (Rep.)J Pennsylvania, in an effort to have introduced into the Senate a resolution calling for a congressional investigation of the coal situation. Supported by the American Federation cf Labor, mine union officials will seek the investigation to ascertain whether railroads have cofispired to keep down coal prices so as to defeat efforts to end by conciliation the bituminous strike in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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Joyce Taylor, 7, of Orleans, Ind., is a happy girl today. Santa Claus picked her letter to win the contest sponsored by The Times to see which of its children readers could write the best letter on “Why I Like Santa Claus.”

DRAMA MARKS TRIAL Wife Fights for Mate’s Life in Death Case. En United Press RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 17.—The Faison murder trial hurried on toward its close today after a period of high drama that had some women spectators in tears. John Wesley Faison’s wife took the stand Friday to save her husband from conviction in the slaying of his affinity, Mrs. Elsie Holt Snipes, only to hear him say a few minutes later that he had loved the pretty divorcee “better than any other woman.” Mrs. Faison testified to a telephone conversation she had with Mrs. Snipes just before the shooting in Mrs. Snipes' apartment, Nov. 16. Mrs. Snipes “threatened to remove herself from the picture unless she could have John,” the frail little woman told the jtiry. The shooting followed. Faison testified Mrs. Snipes killed herself, using his gun, which he had placed on her table after he told her lie was going to return to his wife. REALTORS PLAN STUNTS Each Division of Board to Have Fling at Wednesday Luncheon. Weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday at the Columbia Club will be made a “Christmas jollification,” Thomas T. Carson, social affairs committee chairman, announced. Each division. home builders, brokers, subdividers and the like, will present a stunt.

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CHURCHES URGE PRAYER TO END U. STYNCHING Feb. 12 Set Aside as Day to Ask Forgiveness for 4,000 Crimes. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—A call to the American people fur prayer as a means of ending lynching in this country was issued today by the Federal Council of Churches, through its commission on race relations. “A nation’s penitence and prayer,” asserts the appeal, “must be summoned both to check the lynching evil and to build up deeper respect for the processes of justice and new sympathetic understanding among all the people. In the attitude of penitence and the atmosphere of prayer tfig best things come forth. 4,000 Have Been Victims “The sobering fact that more than 4,000 persons have been victims of lynching in our country has filled all people of good will with a sense cf horror and shame,” states the call “That mob violence should have continued through the years, so that in 1926 there were as many as thirty persons lynched in the United States, is so flagrantly opposed to the progress of right and brotherhood that all who are committed to the way of Christ are asked to observe a day of penitence and prayer that our American Nation may be purged of this blot upon our civilization.” Feb. 12 Is Chosen The day chosen for this observance is Feb. 12, known as lations Sunday. The cal! urges national roUj before God for “our failure on the belief that we are all blood' and have one (he callous indifference anJHS we have shown in the facJßj sirous wrong, thereby ourHMNHprg| coming guilty in the Mgl v '’ : and man," and for “our of racial superiority and heartless attitudes that acconMEftfi it.” Officials Praised The statement suggests as grounds for thanksgiving “the new sense of the unity of the whole human family to which our generation is coming,” and “a depening sensitiveness of conscience with reference to all discrimination against any of our fellows because of race or class.” America should also he thankful, it is suggested, “for all public officers who courageously defend the majesty of law and orderly government. who faithfully protect those fer whom they are responsible, and who resolutely do their duty even in the face of danger and death.”^ NEGLEY’S BRIEF FILED Contends Ira M. Holmes Has No Claim to Mayor Office. A brief contending that Ira M. Holmes, claimant of the office of mayor, has no legal pretension to this position because he was not legally appointed city controller and (hat the permanent injunction issued by Judge J. S. Miller of Superior Court be sustained, has been filed by Clinton H. Givan, attorney for Claude H. Negley, president of the city council.