Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1927 — Page 2

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WARM CLIMES LURE HOOSIERS FROM HOMES Exodus to Florida Rivals ‘Gold Rush’ Days, Say Rail Officials. Saffron seas and sunny skies are luring Hoosiers southward —hundreds of them every week, say railroad officials. And while Indiaians sun themselves on gold flecked Florida beaches, California Chamber of Commerce officials are turning handsprings. The exodus to Florida from Indiana equals that of several years ago when the historic “gold rush” was in vogue, with California taking second place as a favorite resort, most railroad officials say. Older folks tour in the winter, they declare. The youngsters travel in the summer during their vacations. Usually about Oct. 15 the rush starts, but this year our friend the weatherman, with predictions and fulfillments of balmy climate, stemmed the tide until the second week in November. Florida Has Edge Reservations to California were heavy until this week when they fell sharply. No one wants to spend Christmas day on the train. But Florida reservations were heavy for trains until about thirtysix hours before Santa Claus time. Travel bureau clerks shake thenheads when asked the why of the “Florida or Bust’’ onslaught. Interstate pilgrimages are heaviest around Christmas week-end. Everyone is going home. But that happens every year, and the volume is about as heavy as in 1926. Railroad officials estimate that Florida reservations will be made all through February. California travel slows up about Jan. 15. “It doesn’t cost so much to go to the peninsular State,” was the strongest answer to the “why?” “That is, it doesn’t cost so much to get there.” West Indies Cruise Popular Some Indianapolis persons with plenty of time booked steamship passage to California via the Panama Canal. They observed Christmas on the boat. The Mediterranean and the Riveira are luring a few Hoosiers—but not many. And some are even departing on cruises around the world starting before the holidays. The bulk of the people are going in January, however. The most popular ocean cruise for Indianapolis persons is the one through the West Indies. The desire for sunshine and something stronger than “Wright Water” is said to be the cause of the popularity. Then, too, the trip is short. “Speaking of short trips, the fare to Brightwood and Irvington and other Indianapolis suburbs is still 10 cents and less,” said a travel bureau'^Uffi&aL “But as for sunshine and refreshment—.”

$172,750 IN BUILDINGS Three Large Construction Projects on Week’s List. Building permits valued at $172,750 were issued last week in Indianapolis for ten residences and’ three large projects, according to report of the Real Estate Board. Residences cost $42,750. A permit was Issued to William H. Hanning for a three-story apartment building costing SIOO,OOO at 5824 E. Washington Et. Mothershead and Fitten were issued a permit for an office and garage at 1325 N. Capitol Ave., rallied at $22,500. Albert Glldden was permitted to build a salesroom valued at $7,500 at 1910 E. Washington St. Natoinal Association of Real Estate Boards gauged market activity in November by the index figure 159, based on reports from forty-one cities. November was eight points higher than October, but one point lower than November, 1926. AVOIDS CHRISTMAS JURY Prosecutors of Three Bankers Fears Holiday Season Influence. pj/ United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 26. Christmas spirit does exist and has a very definite effect on minds of human beings, under a court decision made in Kansas City. When James R. Page prosecutor, asked for continuance of trial date of three bankers, charged with violation of State banking laws, because he did not want them to face a jury at the Yuletide, his request was granted. Under reasoning, of Page, minds of the jui-y are naturally influenced by holiday cheer and Christmas spirit.

UNION DISPUTE IS SET Mailers’ Injunction Against Printers Will Be Heard Tuesday. Hearing on a permanent injunction asked by Mailers’ Trade District Union against International Typographical Union leaders is set for 10 a. m. Tuesday in Federal Court. A temporary injunction granted Dec. 17. 1926, and sustained by the United Vates Circuit Court of Appeals, enjoined I. T. U. officials from preventing mailer members from voting for I. T> U. officers, from taking from mailer members their right of beneficial interests and from removing them from membership in the I. T. U. SUNKEN SUBS LOCATED German Boats Wrecked in World War Can Be Raised. BERLIN, Dec. 26.—Two German submarines which sank off Windau, Latvia, in a World War collision, have been located at a depth of 125 feet. Divers reported them to be damaged only slightly and said they \could be raised. -

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DRY DEMOCRATS READY FOR WAR No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Bloc Formed to Bar All Wet Candidates. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.—The Jackson day dinner of the Democrats Jan. 12, will be the signal for an attempt by party drys to eliminate any possibility of a wet candidate getting the presidential nomination. A dry bloc is being formed in the party to oppose wet candidates and vote solidly against them at the Democratic national convention. The dry bloc .will represent the Anti-Saloon League, women’s temperance organizations. Senators, congressmen, church organizations, and others lined up solidly behind the eighteenth amendment. Its formation has been discussed at numerous conferences hei-e and elsewhere in recent %eeks and all is in readiness to launch the dry party movement right after the party conclave next month. 1,000 DAYS IN OFFICE Marx Sets Record for German Postwar Chancellors. Pji United Press BERLIN, Dec. 25.—Oii Christmas day, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx celebrated 1,000 days in office, the first of the nine post-war chancellors with such a record. Until today he had been in office fc# 587 days, having served the remainder of the time a few years ago. Former Chancellor Wirth lias the next best record, with. 559 as chancellor. Gustav Stresemann, present foreign minister, was chancellor for 111 days, while the shortest lived chancellery was that of Herrman Mueller, the Socialist, who was in office only eighty-seven days.

DEER ATTACKS AUTO Defends Doe from “Strange Monster” on Michigan Road. B.u United Press WHITE CLOUD, Mich., Dec. 24. A bold buck deer, enraged by what it apparently thought was an attempt to attack its mate, turned on an automobile driven by John Larson Jr., on a road near here and fought it until John, startled by the sudden appearance of the animal out of the mist, jerked the machine to a sudden stop and hot water spouted out of the radiator. Aroused by the water the buck “whistled'’ and dug his forefeet into the radiator, looked to see if the doe was out of sight, and then trotted off. WRITE ‘OBIT’ FOR CAT Clarice Caught in Electric Fan; Herald Mice Can Play. Bit United Press DECATUR, 111., Dec. 26.—When Clarice, the office cat, lost her nine lives in a ventilating fan she was honored in a lengthy obituary in the Decatur Herald, for which newspaper she worked in the capacity of chief mouser. “Clarice went to sleep in the fan,” read the “obit,” and awoke inn that happy land where catnip grows on every vacant lot and where there are no holes to serve as a refuge for mice.” Woman Dies in Auto Tin Times Sner.im SUMAN, Ind., Dec. 26.—Miss Susan Stanley, 47, Cincinnati, Ohio, was killed and her sister, Miss Mary Stahley, 55, slightly hurt when the auto in which they were riding upset five miles southeast of here after a rear tire burst. The sisters were en route here to visit relatives. Woman Kills Self With Gas Bii Times Rnrcial 80UTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 26. Mrs. Agnes Howe, 29, committed suicide by inhaling gas in the kitchen of her home while her husband. Frederick, was away delivering Christmas presents.

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‘Victims’ Shoot Down Four Bandits in Week Indianapolis finally has gotten angry enough at bandits to fight back. Four young robbers have been shot by intended victims in' the city within a week. With the four bold bandits under treatment, Police Chief Claude M. Worley today doubled the guard at city hospital detention ward. The chief also ordered leg irons placed on each of these patients. George Adams and Charles Mengus, shot in the attempted holdup of the Butter Crust Pie Company plant Friday night. Donald Davis, shot when he attempted to hold up a filling station at Troy and Madison Aves. Monday night. Lawrence Long, Negro, shot by Earl Adams, grocer, 411 Bright St., when he was cought looting the store. Worley’s precaution also was based upon an attempt by Davis Friday to snatch the gun of Patrolman Albert Scribner. Davis called the guard to his bed and pretended he wanted to whisper something. He grabbed for the gun.

MAKING GOOD ON PROBATION No. 3 Head—See Puzzle County Bureau Finds 90 Per Cent ‘Come Back.’ Ninety per cent of adults placed on probation since the creation of the Marion County probation department in October have made good, Solon C. Vial, head of the department, announced in making his first annual report on the work. The department was created by the 1927 Legislature as an adjunct to the Marion County courts. During the nine months before October only forty adults were on probation. With the creation of the department, forty-eight were placed on probation in October, fifty-nine in November and fifty-one up until Dec. 23. Ninety per cent of the probationers are men. Forty-one per cent of the total were charged with being drunk. Ten per cent were charged with driving while intoxicated. The sentences range from thirty to as many as 600 days and fines. Modern methods have gone Into the payment of these fines. The department workers investigate ability to pay and the probationer is allowed to make installments. These vary in size from $1 to $5 or more a week. Not only has this system been applied to fine payments, but in one case has been extended to a man making restitution on a $l5O forged check. Assistants to Vial are Miss Laurel Thayer, who had charge of delinquents before the department was organized; Miss Ethel Weldy and Miss Sarah Rhodecker. PLAN INSURANCE DAY Fifth Annual Event Will Bring Noted Speakers Here. Final arrangements for the fifth annual Indiana Insurance day, to be held at the Claypool Hotel Jan. 24, by the Insurance Federation of Indiana will be made within a few days, members of the committee in charge announced today. Three speakers have been obtained for the convention. Edmund J. Donegan, first vice president and general manager of the Metropolitan Casualty Company; John M. Thomas, vice president of the Fire Association of Philadelphia, and Charles Evans, vice president of the Home Life Insurance Company, of Little Rock, Ark. C. M. Cartwright, managing editor of the National Underwriter Insurance Trade Journal, will be toastmaster at the evening banquet. Veteran of March Dies Bn Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 26.—Benjamin S. Sasser, 83, Civil War veteran who was with Sherman on the famous “March to the Sea,” is dead here. He served with Company H, 124th Indiana infantry. Man Dies as Home Burns * EVANSViLLR Ind., Dec. 26. Charles Fister, 30, Negro, was burned to death in his home here. It is believed he was so intoxicated that he was unable to escape from the burning house.

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FOUR PERSONS ARE DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE Blaze Discovered as Chimes Announce Arrival of Christmas. Bit United Press HOPEWELL, Va., Dec. 26.—Four persons were burned to death in a hotel fire here which started just as the church chimes of the city announced the arrival of Christmas Saturday midnight. Police have listed the following four as dead: MR. and MRS. MAUDE , bride and groom, whose car with an Ohio license tag stood in front of the hotel, CHARLES COX, councilman, Hopewell. LUTHER HAMILTON, Hopewell. About fifty persons were sleeping in the Grand Central Hotel, a threestory frame building, when the fire started frofn some undetermined origin. Those on the two lower floors were able to escape but all persons on the third floor were rescued by firemen, with exception of the four. The fire burned throughout the night, spreading to the St. Elmo Hotel and the Strand Theater adjoining. Damage was estimated at about $35,000.

EXTEND PROBATION State Unit Makes Advance in Last Year. Four outstanding accomplishments of the State probation department during 1927 are listed in the annual report of the department, issued by Mrs. Florence Riddick, Boys’ State probation officer. These are anew understanding and friendliness for probation on the part of the public; wider use of unofficial probation; a new adult probation law, with the enlargement of adult probation, and extension of probation to nine more counties. Provisions of the new adult law empower judges of circuit, criminal and municipal courts in cities of the first and second class to appoint probation officers according to need. Five such officei-s have been appointed. Nine counties to adopt probation are Kosciusko, Benton, Dubis, Clark, Montgomery, Union, Wabash and Porter. There are 116 probation officers in the State, forty-one men and seventy-five women. Under the supervision of the probation officers are 11,117 persons. HOLMES IS SUPPORTED Attorney Files Brief in Suit for Mayoralty. A brief supporting the contest of Ira Holmes, for fifteen minutes city controller of Indianapolis, who has aspirations for the mayoralty, was filed by Jacob Morgan, attorney in Supreme Court. The brief, filed as friend of the court, sets forth that Holmes’ pretensions to the job now held by L. Ert Slack, are based on the grounds that he was legally appointed controller and was therefore logical successor to John L. Duvall.

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ASSESSMENTS ON PROPERTY IN CITY GAIN Center Township Valuation for Last Year Set at $595,521,110. Center Township property was assessed for $595,521,110 this year by Township Assessor Frank Brattain, he announced today, following compilation of the annual assessment valuation list. This was a gain in assessed property values of $16,638,050. These figures include assessments in Indianapolis, Center Township outside, Beech Grove and Woodruff Place. Center Township runs from Thirty-Eighth St. to Troy Ave., and from Belmont to Emerson Aves. The following is the tabulation of Indianapolis values as assessed: Real estate, $288,347,450; personal, $55,114,960; corporation real estate, $87561,970; corporation personal property, $57,970,150; railroads, $17,751,570; Indiana Bell Telephone Company, $11,210,660; other public utilities, $38,720,480; building and loan associations, $1,257,330; Indianapolis Street Railway Company, $9,476,490; banks, $9,717,610, and trust companies, $7,973,800. Value Is Raised This total of $585,132,460 does not include $1,088,170 that has been added to the assessor’s books since March 1. This raises the total to $586,220,630, a gain of $15,330,620 over 1926 assessments In this city. Center Township, outside, valuations totaled $5,924,250 this year over $5,081,200 last year, an increase Os $843,050. In Woodruff Place the total for 1927 was $2,249,170 as compared to $2,102,220 in 1926, showing an increase of $146,950. Beech Grove, Center Township property, was assessed at $1,125,060, which is a $317,430 raise. Find Additional Property Brattain said since he became township assessor in May he has uncovered an additional $522,850 worth of real estate assessments and William Gruber has found $475,000 worth of personal assessments that will be added. In reply to letters written by the assessor to persons and companies that had perishable wares stored In local warehouses March 1, that have not been listed on the assessment lists. Brattain has uncovered $17,180 worth of property.

YULE SERVICES SET RECORDS No. 3 Held—Bo Puzzle Churches Are Crowded for Special Rites. Christmas attendance at Indianapolis churches broke all records, pastors reported today. Religious observace of the day began with masses in three Catholic churches at Saturday midnight and continued in the Protestant churches at the regular hours Sunday morning, afternoon and evening. All services were featured by special musical programs. Sunny weather compensated for the lack of a white Christmas. Children and adult shut-ins in the city’s institutions were visited by carolers and a corps of Santa’s who saw that there was a gift for every one. Charitable organizations and scores of individuals distributed Christmas baskets to the unemployed and needy, nearly 4,000 such names having been distributed through the Christmas clearing house. Public offices, industries and business firms remained closed all day today in observance of the legal holiday occasioned by Christmas falling on Sunday.

REALTY OFFICE TO OPEN MacGregor Will Return to Business Jan. 1. A real estate office will be reopened Jan. 3 by Robert MacGregor, retiring secretary of the Indianapolis real estate board. It will be a general real estate and insurance business under the name of Robert MacGregor Company at 541 Consolidated Bldg. He has been secretary of the real estate board for two years and was in the business six years prior to that time. Japanese Emperor Reads Message lin United Press TOKIO, Dec. 26.—For the first time in many yeare the Emperor of Japan today personally read his message to the diet. The Emperor rode from the palace to parliament in a red and gold horse-drawn coach. It was the first time he had dispensed with an automobile in many years. Document 112 Years Old Bu Times Special ENGLISH. Ind., Dec. 26.—A land grant written on parchment, owned by Coy Roberts here, is 112 years old today. It was issued Dec. 26, 1815, by President James Madison and conveys land in Harrison County to James Lindley.

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Rapid progress is being made on the new SIOO,OOO home of Alpha Tau Omega at DePauw University, Greencastle, and it will probably be completed early next spring. The old English style of architecture is in evidence throughout the house.

Exit Valves Needed On Subs, Ex-Sailor Claims

City Man, Former Diver, Tells How Safety Measures Are Lacking. Submarines should be equipped with valves so that air and fresh water could be introduced in all compartments promptly, believes Elmer L. Pohlman, of 1923 Adams St., who, during the World War, had extensive submarine and diving experience. “The S-4 disaster furnishes evidence again,” said Pohlman today, “that the submarine is what we used to dub it—the death-trap of the Navy. It would seem to me that with all the engineering talent at the Government’s disposal, valves could be provided into each compartment. Had such valves been installed on the S-4, the men might have been kept alive indefinitely.” Served Three Years Pohlman served most of three years In the Navy, three months of that time as electrician in submarine service. He was trained on the G-2, G-3 and D-2, none of which, he said, was equipped with valves for emergency use and with only one hatch as a means of escape. "In contrast with these craft” he said, “was a French submarine to which I was assigned at Brest when the French crew was short. Each 1 of the compartments had its separate means of escape—a sort of hatch to the deck. “Another valuable aid to morale of men in submarine, destroyers and al! types of Navy duty at sea . would be a submarine so equipped as to permit divers to leave and enter it while submerged. Most of the difficulty In rescue work on the S-4 has been caused by bad weather and nasty seas. Calm Fifty Feet Down "At depths of fifty or a hundred feet, there is only the even flow of the currents and none of the-viol-ence that tosses relief ships about, making diving hazardous if not impossible. “Embodying the torpedo tube idea, it would not seem mechanically impossible to equip a submarine with an exit for under-water use. By this means divers from the relief sub might go about relief work regardless of waves or weather. “If a submarine, so constructed, were placed in every naval district so that it could be rushed to the relief of sunken subs, it would be atremendous help to the morale of the men who never lose their apprehension about sub service, although they may just laugh about it.” Pohlman said his diving experience was gained in repairing underwater parts of the training subs. He had been down as long as five hours at one stretch he said, and as deep as 150 feet. “The deeper you go, the sooner you’ll have to come up” he said. He professed little knowledge of the S type subs, but called them "palaces” compared with the old G and D types. WHITTLES LONG CHAIN Claims Record in Wooden Ornament, 21 Feet in Length. Bu United Press CENTERVILLE, S. D., Dec. 26. Fred E. Hanson, Centerville, claims a record for whittling the world’s longest wooden chain. He is in possession of a chain twenty-one feet long, made by his own hands from whittled links. It contains 170 links and has eight swivel ornaments.

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BANK BUSINESS GAINISSHOWN Previous Records Topped by November Buying. November was a banner month In bank debits in Indianapolis, figures compiled by Indiana University experts show. The total mounted to $182,500,000, indicating a large dollar volume of trade, which was $2,500,000 more than last year. Clearings of $100,602,000 also showed an increase over last year, the report states. Building contract awards reported by F. W. Dodge Corporation numbers seventy-three, adding new floor ace of 268,100 square feet valued at $1,737,500. Both awards arid valuation were smaller than in October and November, 1926. Educational buildings and residences comprised 89 per cent of the total. Advertising in three local newspapers amounted to 3,154,710 agate lines, 4 per cent less than a year ago. Department store sales in October were 2.4 per cent above last year, and expanded seasonally 37 per cent over September volume, preliminary estimates show that November sales increased still further. Livestock receipts were 228,452, an increase of 23.9 per cent over last year, and 15.9 per cent over October. Postoffice receipts of $391,597 were 5 per cent smaller than in October and 2 per cent lower than a year ago. Sales of new cars at retail were 430 in November, as compared with 107 in October, and 720 in November of last year.

STOP OFFICIALS’ PAY IN OUSTER ATTEMPT Vigo County Commissioners Fight Man With Prison Record. Bu Times Special TERREHAUTE. Ind., Dec. 26. Payment of salary to Maurice Walsh, Vigo County inspector of weights and measures, has been stopped by the county commissioners. another move in their fight to oust Walsh because of his prison record, he being one of those convicted several years ago with the then mayor, Don M. Roberts, and sent to Federal Prison for election frauds. Recently the commissioners asked Walsh tp resign, but he refused, declaring only the State inspector could oust him, and then only for incompetence or neglect of duty. RECEIVES REMUS GIFT Deputy Sheriff at Muncie Has Present of Sheet Music. Bu Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., Dec. 26.—Luke Rowan, Delaware County deputy sheriff, prizes a gift from George Remus, former millionaire bootlegger king, recently acquitted of murdering his wife, Imogene. While In Cincinnati, Ohio, Rowan made a trip through the jail and met Remus, a prisoner, who gave him a copy of a sheet of waltz music, composed* by Romola, young daughter of Remus.

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CHANGE TO OLD M’NARY-HAUGEN BILL FORECAST t Compromises Fail to Bring Results; Coolidge Veto Is Expected. By PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— Efforts to reach a compromise agreement on farm relief have proved futile and it now appears likely that Congress will pass the old McNaryHaugen bill with some changes although that measure is certain to be vetoed by President Coolidge. Since Congress met three weeks ago, some farm bloc leaders have been working earnestly for abandonment of the McNary-Haugen equalization fee system in favor of some measure which could obtain presidential approval. Suggested Direct Loan Now these efforts will be dropped, and the agriculture committees of both houses will be called to meet after the Christmas holidays to whip the McNary bill in shape for presentation. Just who is responsible for failure of the compromise efforts has not been determined. The United Press is informed that Chairman McNary of the Senate Agriculture Committee submitted to President Coolidge before Congress met, a proposed compromise measure which would have established a direct government loan system to enable cooperative marketing organizations to handle surpluses for export. Sees Early Scare Mr. Coolidge submitted the measure to Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and to Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who were doubtful about some of its features. Meantime the farm bloc itself found numerous objections to the McNary plan and many of Its important members expressed a desire to stand by the old McNary-Haugen bill even though they feel Mr. Coolidge would veto it. They did not wish to desert the old bill until a better bill Is found. That left compromise efforts at an impasse which now has drifted to the point where those concerned believe further steps along those lines would be fruitless. Hence the old bill will be whipped into shape in early January and presented without major change for a vote expected in the Senate by Feb. 1. The House Agricultural Committee will begin hearings on farm relief Jan. 16, and action there may be delayed until the Senate has taken the first step. TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR TO USE CARD INDEX All Center Property to Be Listed by End of Year. Through an indexed card system being installed by Center Township Assessor Frank Brattain every piece of property will be listed by Jan. 1, he announced today. Each card bearing the addition and lot number of the property and the owner’s name also will carry a detailed description of the location. The new system has been placed In service at a cost of $1,200 over the appropriation for the office this year. “One hundred thousand cards, each representing a piece of property have been made so far,” Brattain said. HOLD TWO ON SUSPICION Pair Wanted for Auto Theft and Safe Cracking. Kelly L. Parrish, 27, of 3839 E. Washington St., and Robert 8. Hill are held in city prison in connection with an automobile theft in Memphis, Tenn., and safe cracking In Blytheville, Ark. They will be released to Memphis police. Engaged Girl Killed . | Bit Times Special WABASH. Ind., Dec. 26.—Miss Berneta Harris. 22, Chicago, was killed and her fiance, Edward Johnson, Peru, probably fatally injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Wabash freight train at a crossing hero. The dead girl was a granddaughter of Peter Craft and a niece of Mrs. Jay Brown, both of this city. Johnson’s mother, Mrs. F. W. Johnson, lives at Peru.