Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1928 — Page 7

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PAN-AMERICAN DELEGATES TAX HAVANANOSTS Vanguard Reaqhes Cuba for Opening Monday; Big 1 Task Awaits. 12.—The vanguard of the greatest gathering Havana has ever boasted is arriving here for the Sixth Pan-American Congress, which opens Monday to discuss Questions affecting the future of the Western hemisphere. The fact of the promised attendance of President and Mrs. Coolidge ahd Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg would in itself make notable this Sixth International Conference of American States—which is the Official designation of the gather-ing—-but there is an imposing number of other personages drawn to this historic city. The delegates and visitors will find Pan-Americanism at a turning point, and with a choice to be made of a future either nonpolitical or political. Politics to Fare The five preceding Pan-American (Conferences have dealt principally With economic, commercial and humanitarian problems. Today, however, finds the American nations facing an increasing complexity of political problems. "Whether or not it would be wise to attempt to solve them through the mediuxp of this conference is a hardly spoken but none the less real, thought in the minds of the delegates. Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State, heads the delegation from the greatest republic of the two Americans. He is, in addition, to be surrounded by what many believe to be the most distinguished ever sent by the American government to an international meeting. The other members are Henry P. Fletcher, American Ambassador to Italy, who has held diplomatic posts! in Cuba, Mexico and Chile; Oscar ! W. Underwood, former Democratic I Senator from Alabama and a prom-1 inent contender for the Democratic | presidential nomination four years! ago; Dwight W. Morrow, American ambassador to Mexico; Noble B. Judah, American ambassador to Cuba; Former Judge Morgan J. O’Brien of New York; James Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford University, and Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director-general of the Pan-American Union in Washington. Diplomats Gathering The United States delegation will j meet and mingle with the flower of diplomats, statesmen, scholars and jurists from other countries. Heading the Cuban delegation is Dr. Antonio Sanchez de Sustamente, eminent jurist and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague. Another Cuban is Dr. Orestes Ferrara, Cuban ambassador to Washington. Among the other delegates are Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, ambassador from Argentina to the United States, and Dr. Enrique Olaya, Colombian minister to the United States.

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BY JOSEPH W. SULLIVAN Art doesn’t pay in this modem world, according to Dezso Kiss, descendant of twenty generations of Italian violin makers, and himself a master of that craft. In his little shop at 1326 W. Washington St., the walls of which are hung with unsold violins, Dezso makes his living as a shoemaker, and tries to forget the dreams he brought to America as an immigrant boy. “The phonograph and the radio are ruining the violin business,” explains Kiss, a swarthy little man of perhaps 50. "I came to America to make the beautiful violin, but nobody wants the fiddle any more. So I fix shoes.” and he waves his hand toward the rows and rows of dilapidated footwear which await his attention. Adopts Shoe Repair Profession Kiss came to America as a steerage passenger thirty years ago—a young man full of dreams of great accomplishment. But the new world was cold and disinterested. For a while he worked at his trade in New York, but the large musical instrument companies soon squeezed out the independent artisans, and Kiss was forced to seek other employment. Gradually, he drifted west, until he reached Indianapolis. ‘I was broke and I got a job in a shoe shop,” he said. "Now when I am not busy I make violins for fun.” Kiss is doing well at his adopted profession, he says. Living with his wife and six children in a two-room apartment above his place of business he is able to economize enough to send his oldest daughter. Mary, 14, to the best violin instructor in Indianapolis. "Perhaps she may become a great violinist like Kreisler.” he says, his

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dark eyes siapping. “I don't mind working if she has a chance.” Dezso is a violinist of no mean ability himself. Visitors at his shop often hear him playing the plaintive tunes of his native Italy, on some rare old violin. Sometimes he drifts into the songs of Hungary, his mother’s homeland, or dreamy Austrian waltzes, or a jazzy Magyr “Chardosh.” Among the instruments which he displays with pride is what may be a Stradivarius bearing the date 1723 and another dated 1721. One, whose faded glory he keeps wrapped in cotton batting, bears the almost unbelievable date of 157 J. Kiss declares it has been the property of his family for hundreds of years. The grizzled little man was born in Rome in 1877 and began learning the art of violin making when he was 6 years old. That, he says, was customary in his family, which has been manufacturing the instruments since the fifteenth century. He, too, is teaching his children the trade “to make them happy,” he says. Little Helen, 4, makes playable Instruments from cigar boxes —and wheedles simple tunes from them, too. Joe, 10; John, 13; Eddie, 8, and Ernie, 6, all have musical tailent. But Mary—Dezso's eyes grow dreamy as he rests his hand, twisted and scarred now from his everlasting shoe repairing, on the dark curls of his most brilliant pupil. Education for Girl “I do not mind the hard work and lonesomeness in this strange land,” he says, “if Mary becomes a great artist. ‘I make as high as $56 a week as a shoe repair man, and I am giving her the finest education money can buy. Maybe your America may not be so hard on my Mari'.”

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CITY CONSIDERS BRIDGEREPAIRS North Side Improvements Studied by Moore. City Civil Engineer A. H. Moore today was under orders of the board of works to prepare for two major north side improvement proposals: 1. To ascertain whether the city will have money enough to resurface and widen Meridian St. between Fall Creek and Maple Rd. at approximate cost of $186,000. 2. To prepare plans to keep Thirtieth St. and Central Ave. bridges from toppling into Fall Creek as did the College Ave. bridge last spring and to survey all other city bridges and the Fall Creek retaining walls ! for dangerous defects. | ihe board approved Moore’s plans | for widening Meridian St. from | thirty-six to fifty feet Wednesday ! afternoon, but postponed definite ordering of the project until it determines whether there will be funds enough ths year to pay the city’s $140,000 share of the cost. Benefited property owners pay onefourth and the city three-fourths. Moore reported that the Thirtieth St. and Central Ave. bridges already have been undermined to the extent that there is danger of partial collapse wthin a few years. “To act now might save many thousands of dollars later,” remarked President Oren S. Hack. The board was reminded that parts of the Fall Creek retaining walls have fallen into the water, permitting erosion which eventually will eat away the banks and boulevard roadways. SENTENCED FOR ATTACK Heavy Fine and 210 Days’ Term Given Assailant. Michael Broderick. 28, of 324 Bicking St., was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to 210 days on the In-1 diana State farm on charges of as-! sault and battery and petit larceny! Wednesday by Municipal Judge; Paul C. Wetter. Broderick was arrested Saturday night by Motor Policemen Schley and Mass as the man who attacked W. T. Sanders, 617 Russell Ave., in a garage at the rear of 830 Meikel St. Sander.* testified that he went with a friend to the Meikel St. address. Sanders waited outside a few minutes, then went to the door and inquired for his friend. Broderick then took him to the garage and. pulled a knife and, threatening to kill him, robbed him of $4, said San- j ders. Earlham Given SI,OOO B RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 12.—Earl- ! ham College has received a gift of SI,OOO from Thomas R. White, Philadelphia, Pa., who was graduated* in 1926.

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ASK AID FOR MINERS Legion Collects Food and Clothing for Bicknell. Every World War veteran in Marion County is urged by Dr. George W. Bowman. Seventh district commander of the American Legion, to bring at least one can of food oi fruit to Legion headquarters here for distribution to families of miners at Bicknell. The mines there have been closed for more than a year and many are destitute. IVooms for assembling all contributions have been opened at American Legion headquarters, 777 N. Meridian St. Distribution at Bicknell will be under auspices of the Legion post there. Money contributions are also welcome and should be sent to Stuart A. Bishop, Travelers’ Insurance Company, Chamber of Commerce Bldg. “Children are being turned away daily from the Bicknell post reliel headquarters who are in dire need of clothes, shoes and undergarments,” Dr. Bowman said. “The problem is so big that all relief organizations of the town have been able to cope with it and call on us for help.” Hoosier in Nicaragua BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 12. Corporal M. C. Mundy, son of Mrs. Sylvia Mundy-Galloway, this city, is a member of one of the United States Marine corps units on duty in Nicaragua.

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