Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1927 — Page 3

DEC. 22, 1927-

FAIRGROUNDS URGED AS SITE OF BALL PARK Club Owners May Seek Use of State Property for Games. Negotiations with the Indiana State Fair Board looking toward use of the State Fair ground by the Indianapolis Baseball Club were suggested by Gustav G. Schmidt, board of zoning appeals president. This was today’s development in the club’s quest for a site for erecting a $500,000 plant for American Association games here. Petition for permission to erect the new ball park on a tract bounded by Tacoma and Keystone Aves. and New York and Washington Sts., was withdrawn by James A. Perry, club president, Tuesday. Other Sites Considered Opposition to the proposal had been voiced by East Side residents at hearings before the zoning appeals board, and with the expiration of certain options, the club officials dropped the Effort before action was taken. William A. Claueiyclub secretary, said two or three other sites are under consideration. He would not divulge their location. “It would be a fine thing if arrangement could be made for using the fair ground,’’ Schmidt said. “It is ideally located with respect to traffic outlets. It is used only once a year for the fair and the club could play out of town that week. Northwest Plot Talked “I understand the State intends building anew grandstand and it might be possible to locate it so as to serve fair events and baseball as well.” Schmidt said another site is available at the northwest corner of Northwestern Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd. The tract is park property owned by the city. He said effort was made to develop it into a ball park during the Shank administration but ball clubs opposed the plan because of fumes from the nearby gas plant. The appeal board president thought it might be well to locate the new park along the Pendleton Pike between Brightwood and the rity proper, if a tract can be found available. FIVE THEATERS WILL GATHER FOOD FQR POOR ‘Apple and Potato Parties’ Sponsored for Week-End. Five neighborhood theaters are sponsoring “apple and potato parties” this week-end for the benefit of needy families. All food stuff brought for admission will be distributed immediately by Photo-Play Indorsers, according to Mrs. H. G. Bertrand, general chairman. Benefit plays will be given at the Strand at 2 p. m., Eastland at 2 p. m., Zaring at 10 a. m., Idle Hour at 1:30 p. m., all Thursday, and the Belmont at 2 p. m.. Saturday. RAIL~VETERAN IS DEAD Pennsylvania Workman to Be Buried Friday in Crown Hill. Funeral services will be held Friday at 9 a. m. at St. John’s Catholic Church for John F. Haley, 75, of 150 Virginia Ave., veteran railroad employe, who died Wednesday at St. Vincent’s Hospital after a brief illness. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Haley, a native of this city, entered the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad in 1883 and served as yard brakeman and yard conductor until his retirement Dec. 1, 1922. Surviving are one son, Frank Haley, of this city, and five sisters, Sister Illuminata of the Order of St. Joseph at St. Louis; Mrs. David Weipert of Chicago, Mrs. O. A. Chillson and Mrs. W. H. Dellbrook of this city and Mrs. Everett Gill of Point Pleasant, W. Va.

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PRESS IS PRAISED Worley Lauds Newspapers for Work to Curb Crime. Repeated warnings to the criminal world, given by Police Chief Claude M. Worley through the newspapers, was attributed as the cause of crime abatement by the chief today. Wednesday night police business was at a standstill, Worley pointed out. Between 2:30 p. m. Wednesday and 9 a. m. today only five minor thefts were reported. Filling station bandits let twentyfour hours slip by without actfbn. That the chief’s warnings are being taken seriously is shown by a letter from Marion, Ind., signed by an ex-convict. He requests permission to come to Indianapolis so that the holidays might be- spent with a mother and sister here. The letter says the writer will report to Worley as soon as he arrives in the city, but does not want to be picked up for questioning and thus embarass his relatives. It closed by congratulating the chief on his law enforcement efforts. BIDS ON 5 BRIDGES OPENED BY STATE Bids for the construction of five bridges and one arch support, the entire estimated cost of which is $111,768 were opened Wednesday by the State Highway Commissioners. Forty-four bids were received on the projects which are: Bridge on Rd. 28, Randolph County, estimated cost, $25,474; low bid by Tharp & Tharp, Fountain City, $23,170. Three bridges on Rd. 28, Randolph County, estimated cost, $19,566; low bid by Milner & Kepler, Kokomo, $16,659. Bridge over Metz ditch in Posey County, Rd. 65, estimated cost, $30,839; low bid by Vincennes Bridge Company, $26,978. Arch extensilon on Rd. 37, near Monroe City, estimated cost, $6,753; low bid by Campbell & Hash, of Sanborn, $6,559. Grading of approach on Rd. 37, Lawrence County, estimated cost, $29,135; low bid by Ryan & Ryan, Washington, $28,656. SET MARQUETTE RITES Funeral services for Harry Marquette, 51, coal salesman, who died Monday at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., will be held at 10 a. m. Friday at Irvington M. E. Church, rather than at 2:30 p. m., as announced Wednesday. The body will lie in state at the church for two hours before the services. The Rev. J. B. Rosemurgy will conduct the church services and the Masonic Lodge will have charge of burial at Memorial Park cemetery.

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Week of Holiday Parties Is Arranged; Music to Be Featured. Plans for a series of holiday entertainments at the Columbia club, beginning with a dance Christmas eve and concluding with the annual New Year’s party, are announced by N. A. Perry, president. On Christmas eve the carolers of the boy’s choir of Christ Church, will sing Christmas carols in the dining room, beginning at 8. This program will be broadcast over Station WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Beginning at 10 o’clock, a special Christmas dance will be held in the bail room. From 3 to 5 o’clock on Christmas day a musicale-tea will be given on the tenth floor. The program will be presented by the Orloff Trio and Madame Leonora Ferrari, soprano, formerly of the Chicago English Opera Company. During the dinner hour Christmas night the Glossbrenner Trio, consisting of Mrs. Helen Harrison Glossbrenner, pianist; Miss Martha Winkenhofer, violinist, and Miss Harriet Harding, cellist, with Miss Kathleen Bumbaugh, contralto, as soloist, will present a program of Christmas music. Monday night, which is the Christmas holiday, a Christmas musical program will be given during the dinner hour, 6 to 8:30 o’clock, by th eOld Gold Orchestra of the club, with Miss Mary Moorman, contralto, as soloist. Christmas week the club’s calendar is filled with arrangements for holiday parties by clubs and sororities. Four orchestras and six other musical and entertainment features are on the. program for the big party New Year’s eve. The entertainment committee has arranged plenty of music and dancing, so that some form of entertainment will be in j rogress in all the din ng rooms and in the ballroom, with a special revue feature for midnight. SCHOOL CUSTODIAN DIES Arthur D. Higgins Will Be Buried Friday in Crown Hill. Arthur D. Higgins, 74, resident of Indianapolis for forty years, died Wednesday at his home, 256 N. Rural St., after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at the home Friday at 10 a. m., the Rev. O. A. Trinkle, Englewood Christian Church pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Higgins was custodian of Public School 3, Rural and Washington Sts., for twenty years. He resigned two years ago. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Susannah B. Higgins, and a son, Eugene N. Higgins, both of Indianapolis.

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Gilliom Presents Christmas Resolution Before Traffic Club. Calling upon the people of Indiana to awaken from their political lethargy and shake oft the “apparent dictation of Hiram Evans of Georgia, head of the Klan, and Dr. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League head, who to all evident purposes and intent will dictate the nomination in all parties,” Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today asked every Hoosier to adopt the following common sense New Year's resolution: “To free Indiana politics and government from the corrupt and blighting practices of the paid and grafting leaders of intolerance and bigotry.” This statement was made at the meeting of the Traffic Club at noon today at the Hotel Severin where Gilliom was the principal speaker. “It will require years to overcome the disadvantages Indiana has suffered at the hands of organized intolerance and bigotry. It is high time for the people to resume the business of self-government. “As the time approaches for the selection of party candidates for public office for the next election a cowardly, pussy-footing attitude is seen in both parties and it appears as though Hiram Evans and ‘Doc’ Shumaker will dictate the nominations In the two major political organizations of the State. “We can have Americanism,” Gilliom declared, "without Klanism and prohibition without fanaticism.

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Appointment, of Dr. Ross A. Cooper of Carmel as State rehabilitation chairman of the American Legion for 1928 was announced today by Frank M. McHale, Logansport, State com-, mander-elect. Dr. Cooper has been identified with the Legion since its organization in the State. He organized Carmel Post, No. 115, and served as its first commander. He has servfed two terms as district commander.

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METER READER DRY SNOOPERS ARE RECALLED

Order to Watch for Stills Revoked by Rhode Island Firm. PAWTUCKET, R. 1., Dec. 22. President David Daly of the Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric Company today revoked his order in which his 100 meter readers became “still sleuths.” His action came after a storm of protest had aroused by the instructing of the meter readers to report all stills seen in customers’ cellars. U. S. Attorney John S. Murdcok previously had issued a statement disclaiming responsibility for the transformation of meter readers into prohibition agents. Daly’s statement read as follows: “I am delighted to know that we were mistaken in thinking that the district attorney insisted upon our issuing the order to our employes, employes. “We have no wish to spy on our customers. It certainly is not In our interest to do so, and we do not believe that it is in the interest of the public. “The order therefore is revoked, but this revision must nor be considered by employes as authorizing any relaxation of vigilance in respect to the illegal use of gas furnished by the companies.” Indiana Circle No. 8, United Ancient Order of Druids, will not hold its regular meeting Monday night, officials announced today.

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