Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1928 — Page 9

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CITY TO SPEND $564,000 ON SEWAGELINES System for Broad Ripple, Enlarging of Disposal Plant Provided. 0. K. PUT ON PLANS Engineer Ordered to Go on With Preparation of Specifications. General plans for a sewage system, connecting with the main city sewage system, to care for Broad Ripple and surrounding territory, and to enlarge the city sewage disposal plant at Sellers farm, southwest of the city, at a cost of approximately $564,000, were adopted by the city sanitary board today. Charles H. Hurd, consulting engineer, was ordered to prepare detailed plans. It was agreed to allow Hurd a fee of 5.5 per cent of the cost for plans and construction supervision. The action was taken by Board President O. C. Ross and City Engineer A. H. Moore at a conference with Mayor Slack and Hurd. B. J. T. Jeup, the other board member, who has been kept at his home by injuries received in a fall several weeks ago, had approved the project, it was said. Prevent River Polution The project, board members said, will prevent pollution of White River by Broad Ripple sewage, care for that territory permanently and will make it possible in about ten years to build an addition to the Crooked Creek interceptor sewer northwest of the Highland Golf and Country Club and install a sewage system for the Crow’s Nest and neighboring territory. At present Broad Ripple district sewage is pumped into the city main disposal system by a pumping station at Westfield Blvd. and Meridian St. The present facilities, however, have not cared for all the sewage and the overflow has been going into White River. It was this overflow, which polWhite River last summer, making necessary the closing of McClure Beach, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary, said. System to Cost $270,000 The new plans call for expenditure of about $270,000 on the Broad Ripple district system and enlargement of the Westfield Blvd. and Meridian St. pumping station. The system, it is said, will care for the district north of Forty-Sixth-St., between Illinois St. and the canal to Sixty-Fourth St., and east of Illinois St. north of FiftySecond St. An interceptor sewer will connect with the present system at Michigan and Harding Sts. It is proposed to spend $252,000 of the total amount to enlarge the Sellers farm disposal plant. Included ampng the additions will be additional settler for the activated sludge system. Put Plant in Operation Thirty thousand is to be spent to place in operation the dehydration plant at the farm, which was built at cost of $200,000 four years ago and has never been used. The former sanitary board faction headed by President Russell T. Mac Fall refused to place the plant in operation after it had been nearly completed, declaring similar plants had been unsuccessful in other cities. THREE YOUTHS HELD FOR ROBBING CAFE Patrolman Captures One of Trio Fleeing From Burglary Scene. Three youths were held as burglars by police after Patrolman Frank Fagin, early today, surprised them leaving the Irvin Kearney restaurant, 1101 Shelby St. Fagin caught one of the youths who gave his name as Fred Glenn Marshall, 23, of 1139 Olive St., but the other two ran, dodging shots fired at them. Questioned at headquarters Marshall said his companions were Owen Hawkins, 16, of 739 Buchanan St., and Robert Williams, 17, of 1135 Shelby St. They were arrested later. A small quantity of money and cigarets taken from place were found In their pockets, police said. GRAVEYARD FORTIMEE Cheerful Cemetery to Be Created for Evangelist and Followers. Bjj United Press BURBANK, Cal., Jan. 19.—A cheerful graveyard where Aimee Semple McPherson and her devoted followers can be laid to rest will be created here by Angelus Temple, it was disclosed when engineers sought a permit to clear off an unsightly lot adjacent to fourteen acres purchased by the evangelist. Construction of the cemetery, to be known as Blessed Hope Memorial Park, and to include a chapel of the Angelus, will begin at once, it was said. EXAMINE 300 JURORS Fifth Venire Called in Trial of Harry Hill for Matricide. Bji United Press OTTAWA, 111., Jan. 19.—Almost 300 talesmen have been examined in an effort to find a jury to try Harry Hill for matricide. The fifth , venire was called yesterday. Two panels of four jurors have been sworn and two more jurors are needed to fill the third panel.

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“No more dust-catching telephones,” says Mrs. Norman Riley of Thorntown, photographed in front of a telephone cabinet, one of the many displays at the convention of the Retail Lumber Dealers Association of Indiana at the Claypool Hotel.

MILLIONS SPENT ON SCHOOL BUILDINGS

Not So Bad By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 19. Before city court here on a charge of being drunk, Noble Hill got off with a fine of only $lO and costs when he explained that he hadn't been drinking liquor—it was "Wapo” cough syrup. Hill was arrested when he dropped a bottle on a a sidewalk.

CUBAN PARLEY WORKSTARTED Committees to Organize, Begin Deliberations. BY LOUIS JAY HEATH United Press Staff Correspondent HAVANA, Jan. 19.—The sixth Pan-American Conference today got down to the serious business of organizing itself for the work before it. No plenary session is scheduled for today and no time has been set for the holding of the next one. These meetings are convoked at the will of the chairman and until the various committees, being organized today, have something to report, another plenary meeting is unlikely. Seven of the eight standing committees of the conference, exclusive of the committee on initiatives, are slated to hold organization meetings some time during the day. The personnel of the committees has not yet, been announced, although several of the delegations have announced the assignments of their members. Dwight Morrow, United States Ambassador to Mexico and member of the Pan-American Conference delegation was host at a party last night in honor of the Mexican delegation at the Country Club. Members of the United States delegation also were guests. Earlier in the day the entire United. States delegation placed a wreath on the monument of Jose Marti, hero of the Cuban struggle for independence. The act also was intended to honor the widow. FREEZE IS DUE TONiGHT Low Mark to Be 25, United States Weather Bureau Predicts. Below freezing weather tonight, with a low mark of about 25, will end the pleasant weather the city has been enjoying, according to J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head. The below freezing temperatures will continue at least through Friday and it may be slightly colder Friday night, Armington said. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature was 47, which is 20 degrees above normal. Missing Woman Found Bv United Press MARION, Ind., Jan. 19.—Search for Mrs. Margaret Walters, 28, ot this city, who has been missing for the past three days, ended today when it was learned that Mrs. Martha Stephenson, Madison, her mother, had received a letter from her. The daughter wrote that she was working in Cairo, 111.

CRIME PUBLICITY IS UPHELD BY DOCTOR

BY LEE GEBHART. United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1928. by United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—While horrible crimes influence weak minds by the power of suggestion, detailed description of the punishment meted out as in the case of the Gray-Snyder executions has a terrific effect as a deterrent, in the opinion of Dr. William A. White, famous psychiatrist and head of St. Elizabeth’s, the Government Hospital for the Insane, White, a gray-haired man who in his twenty-five years at St. Elizabeth’s has handled about 50,000 insanity cases, weighed the effects of

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Half of Heavy Expenditure Is on New Structure for Shortridge High. New school buildings and additions costing more than $2,850,000 are under construction, or planned, this year in Indianapolis. About half the cost of these buildings is represented in the new Shortridge high school, Meridian and Thirty-Fourth Sts. The building, which will contain 102 classrooms, is about half completed. Work has been started on the two new wings and auditorium at Arsenal Technical High School. The $250,000 bond issue for this work recently was sold for $261,000. Excavation for the new $200,000 School 84, at Fifty-Seventh St. and Central Ave., is under way, but will not be completed for nearly a year. School 85 Completed School 85, Arlington and University Aves., has been completed at a cost of approximately $140,000 and the building will be opened probably before the end of the month. An eight-room addition at Sqhool 73, School and Thirtieth Sts., costing SIOO,OOO, is under construction. Notice of intention to issue $600,000 school bonds for four additions has been given by the school board. One of these additions will be School 80, Sixty-Second and Marion Sts., costing $192,000. Location of this school has not been decided. Location in Doubt The addition may be located north of the canal and west of Cornell Ave., to be nearer the school district center. The building will have twelve classrooms, with provision for eight more. The three other additions include School 47, Warren and Ray Sts., ten rooms, $121,275; School 43, Capitol Ave. and Fortieth St., six rooms and auditorium, $98,200; School 66, six rooms and auditorium, $170,890. CHAMBER HEAD SPEAKER Kokomo Man Addresses Lions; Shoals Talk Next Week. “Mind and heart should always be applied to the betterment of living because the quality of the community depends on the direction of our own lives,” said John E. Frederick, Kokomo, president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, addressing the Lions’ Club here Wednesday. Anthony Menke, Detroit, past district governor of the Lions’ Club of Michigan, will give an illustrated lecture on Muscle Shoals at next Wednesday’s meeting, which Is ladies’ day. North side Lions’ Club members will be guests. get lulian oil jury Testimony In Trial of Ten Defendants Is Begun. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Jan. 19.—Testimony in the trial of ten defendants, charged with wrecking of the $10,000,000 Julian Petroleum Corporation, began today. A jury to try the case was obtained late Wednesday after nearly two weeks of examination. The defendants are accused of over-issuing stock.

the recent brutal murders and the Sing Sing executions in an’interview with the United Press. “Many people are in the twilight zone between sanity and insanity, and when they read descriptive accounts of murders and suicides it tends in many instances to activate them to similar crimes,” he said. “The newspapers cannot be held directly responsible. News must be distributed and there must be freedom of the press. This is one distinct side to the problem. The other is the reaction on such weak-minded persons and the subsequent disastrous results to society.”

INDIAN APQLIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1928

HOSPITALS OF CITY FAIL TO MEETNEEDS One Bed for 130 Persons Is Accommodation Found in Times Survey. DEMANDS ON INCREASE Patients Are Kept in Hotels, Awaiting Turns, Say Local Doctors. With one hospital bed to every 130 persons, Indianapolis’ hospital facilities still are inadequate to meet the city’s needs, a survey made by The Times showed today. The city’s twelve hospitals have 2,065 beds, the survey revealed, and this number is insufficient for the prompt care and treatment of the sick and injured of the city's 375,000 inhabitants. “Increased demands upon the hospitals,” said Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary, “occasioned by a growing population, are augmented by the fact that folks no longer regard these institutions as ‘a place in which to die.’ Too often, this was the old attitude. Today they are regarded as the place in which to recover. “This changed public sentiment has sent thousands to the hospitals for recovery and prolonged life, who. not so far back, would have died rather than submit to hospital treatment.” Hospitals Are Overtaxed Heads of Institutions, almost without exception, report local hospitals overtaxed. Some said patients were in hotels, waiting their turn to get in. A recent survey, said Dr. Morgan, showed that Indianapolis ranked fifteenth among the principal cities of the United States in the number of hospital beds to the thousand of population. Another survey, according to Dr. George Smith, Methodist Hospital superintendent, showed that the city has provided well for the care of needy patients and for the well-to-do classes, but that there is a shortage of hospital facilities here for the large class between those two extremes. To meet this need, the Methodist Hospital will start erection soon of an eigh’-story addition, to supply 200 added rooms. When this is filled, the structure will be extented to sixteen stories, to provide another additional 200 rooms. How Hospitals Rank Indianapolis hospitals and the number of beds they provide at present are: St. Francis, 80; City, 585; Methodist, 386; Indiana Christian, 120; William 11. Coleman, 100; Clark-Blakeslee Osteopathic, 20; Indianapolis Cancer, 52; Robert W. Long, 102; Sunnyside tuberculosis sanatorium, Oaklandon, 250; Provident, 20; James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, 150; and St. Vincent’s, 200. An addition to St. Vincent's Hospital will be completed within two months. Conditions there are crowded, as at practically all the other institutions. Hospital “attendance” is subject to seasonal differences, said Dr. Charles H. Young, superintendent at Indiana Christian Hospital. “November and December are rather quiet months here,” he said. “But beginning in mid-January, the institution is crowded and this condition lasts usually until July. After a few weeks, the number of patients increases in August and continues heavy until November’s slump.” Robert Neff, administrator of the Indiana University group of hospitals, which includes the Robert W Long, William H. Coleman and James Whitcomb Riley institutions, said there were waiting lists for all these hospitals.

BARS BRIDE BEATER Negro Sentenced for Using Pickets on Wife. A picket fence proved the undoing of James Swain, 28, Negro, 546 Minerva St., who was sentenced to 180 days at Indiana State farm and fined SIOO by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Wednesday afternoon. Married six weeks ago, Swain and his bride, Elizabeth, 24, celebrated the event by staging a battle. The event progressed by rounds from the interior of the house into the yard, which is surrounded by a picket fence. Once maneuvered to this position, Swain proceeded to show superior generalship by taking advantage of the terrain. Testimony revealed that he broke three pickets on his wife’s head and left her lying partially pinned down by a 200-pound concrete slab, taken from the disintegrating sidewalk. At this juncture Motorcycle Officers Viles and Anderson appeared on the battlefield and Swain retreated. He was captured after an eight-block chase. Arson Cases Reopened By Times Special ENGLISH, Ind., Jan. 19.—Cases of James Hughes and Edward Stonecipher, each 13, involving burning of the Burkhart school building near Marengo, will come before the Crawford Circuit Court at its February term. This was decided upon by Judge Thomas J. Wilson after he had sentenced the two to the State School for Boys at Plainfield. The boys are now at their homes.

800 Millions Required to Make Navy, First Class, Says Wilbur

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SAFEGUARDS ON CHECKS URGED Fingerprints Advocated by Police Official. Fingerprints on checks as a safeguard against forging was recommended by A. G. Parrott, chief identification officer of the Indianapolis police force, at the crime prevention meeting called by Frederick Schortemeier, Secretary of State, Wednesday in the Senate Chamber at the Statehouse. Fifty sheriffs, police chiefs, and identification experts attended and were promised cooperation of the Bureau of Criminal Identification. Following investigation of Parrott’s recommendation, advocated to the State Bankers Association, Schortemeier said. Fingerprinting of every citizen was recommended by Joseph M Stipp, Indiana State prison fingerprint expert. “An average of 30,000 unidentified dead are found in this country each year. If all citizens were fingerprinted, it would be comparatively easy to ascertain the Identity of the dead person,” Stipp said. At present there are 6,500 fingerprints of criminals on file in the State bureau and copies of the prints, pictures and identification characteristics are sent to all law enforcement officers throughout the State and also are broadcast to crirfie centers, Schortemeier said. Wet Song in Church BOSTON, Jan. 19.—The opening strains of “How Dry I Am” sounded from the chimes of Park Street Church. An electrician explained that he struck the notes accidentally white repairing the chimes.

DEATH FEARED IN MISSING GIRL CASE

By United Press • NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 19. —Fear that the disappearance of Miss Frances St. John Smith from her classes at Smith College would resolve into an unsolved mystery similar to that of Miss Alice Corbett in 1925, was expressed today. Miss Smith has been missing from the school since Friday, Jan. 13. Despite rumors that a girl answering her description had been seen in many cities of the East, there has been no actual trace of the missing student. Such was the case of Miss Corbett. She disappeared on a Friday the 13th. There were rumors that she had been seen in many places, but there never has been a solution of the disappearance.

U. S. Lags in Important Cruiser Branch, Compared to Britain; Far Ahead of Its Rivals in Submarines and Destroyers; Owns Three Aircraft Carriers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Suppose Congress should adopt Secretary Wilbur’s plan for $800,000,000 worth of naval construction during the next few years; how would the United States Navy compare with the British navy when that construction was completed? •Secretary Wilbur’s program calls for construction of four classes of ships, cruisers, submarines, aircraft carriers and destroyers. In two of these classes the United States already is ahead of England; in the other two this country is in the rear. j Cruisers head the list, and it is in this class that the United States Navy shows the most marked numerical inferiority to England’s. Since the World War the cruiser has come to be considered one of the most important instruments of naval warfare, and in modern reckoning of naval strength it is held nearly as important, if not entirely so, as the battleship.

Cruisers lack the heavy armor of the battleship, and they lack the battleship’s huge -guns; but they make up for it in extreme speed. Kept Germans Quelled During the World War England's great fleet of dreadnaught’s kept the German fleet at bay; but it was the long string of British cruisers that hamstrung German overseas commerce and enforced the blockade. England has 40 cruisers in its fleet, and has 17 more either building or appropriated for. In the United States Navy there are now but 10 first-line cruisers, with eight more building or appropriated for. The United States Navy has, to be sure, 22 additional cruisers; but they are all obsolete—some of them were built before the Spanish War. Thus the addition of 25 modern cruisers, as planned by Secretary Wilbur, would still leave this country somewhat behind Great Britain numerically, although in point of fact the American fleet probably would be superior, because some of the British cruisers are rather old. American’s ten best-line cruisers now in commission are all 7,500-ton ships with 12 six-inch guns, 10 torpedo tubes and a speed of 33 knots per hour.

Authorities, engaged in an attempt to locate Miss Smith, today expressed the fear that the Smith college freshman—who was known to be worried because her grades were not high—might have jumped into the Connecticut River. John Walsh of HoJyoke, Mass., reported he had seen an object in the river which might have been a girl’s body. The river was watched near Holyoke, but the object was riot seen again. Students of Amherst hunted in the underbrush near the Northampton Asylum for the Insane, in the belief the girl might have been waylaid by one of the inmates, but found no trace of her.

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Next come the aircraft carriers, representing a branch of naval service undreamed of a dozen years ago. The United States Navy now has three; but of these, two, the Lexington and the Saratoga, are among the largest naval vessels afloat anywhere, and considerably outclass anything of their kind any other navy has to offer. In submarines, highly important in modern naval warfare, the United States Navy already has first place. There are now in commission fifty submarines flying the United States flag; a fleet very nearly double the size of England’s undersea force. Construction of the thirty-two called for hi the Wilbur program would give America an unparalleled pre-eminence in this arm. Ahead In Destroyer* In destroyers, likewise, the American Navy is now far ahead. The Navy boasts 276 modem destroyers, while Britain has 160 destroyers, and only eight building or appropriated for. Accordingly, the Wilbur program calls for the construction of nine destroyer leaders, so-called—de-stroyers of the largest type, rating at 1500 tons or more and capable of a speed well over 27 knots an hour. It is the secretary’s contention that this building program must be adopted if the United States is to have a “first-class” Navy. SPUR ARMS EXPORT BAN Strong Measure Predicted to Prevent Sale to Nations at War. Bjt United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The House Foreign Affairs Committee is expected to act favorably soon on a revised and strengthened resolution prohibiting exportation of arms by the United States to any nation at war, unless Congress especially authorizes such export. Represeritative Burton (Rep.) Ohio, author, today said he found that members of the committee were willing to go further than his original resolution, which prohibited arms exportation to any nation making war on another in violation of treaties or agreements. Accordingly, he revised his resolution and introduced it today.

COOUDGE IS HOME; BENEFIT SEENINTRIP Better Understanding With Latin-America Created, He Believes. PLEASED WITH OVATION Hopes Visit Will End All Apprehension as to U. S. Intentions. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.—President Coolidge return “and to the Capital today after his first presidential trip outside of the continental United States. The special train bearing President and Mrs. Coolidge on the last lap of their trip back from Havana, Cuba, where the chief executive assisted in opening the sixth PanAmerican Congress, reached the Union station at 7:12 a. m. In contrast with the ovation given him by the Cubans and by the American cities through which he journeyed on his five-day trip, there was no crowd at all to greet the President here. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge went immediately to their waiting automobiles and were taken to the White House concluding a trip deemed historic by some. President Is Pleased Mr. Coolidge was cheerful over the result of his long trip. He was pictured as hopeful that the PanAmerican nations are convinced that the United States’ policy toward them is one of cooperation and mutual understanding. He was pleased with Cuba’s overwhelming reception to him, and and gratified officially at the opportunity to help create at Havana an atmosphere which he hopes will dispel certain PanAmerican apprehensions as to the United States’ motives and policies. Mr. Coolidge’s associates were hopeful that his contacts in Cuba may have the effect of furthering the improvement in inter-American relations, promoting the work done by Ambassador Morrow’s “goodfellowship” policy in Mexico, and Charles Lindbergh’s dazzling air journeys in Latin-America. Enjoys His Trip The President’s trip benefited considerably. His spirit were high last night and this morning following a brief touch of seasick less on the return sea journey on the cruiser Memphis from Havana to Key West. He viewed a moving picture on the train last night, his favorite diversion. Mr. Coolidge gave some of his friends on the train gifts of Pepaya melons, Cuban fruit containing some pepsin, with the suggestion that it might be needed as a result of over-indulgence in the delicious food of the Cuban banquets. INDIANA VILLAGE REVELS IN ABUNDANCE OF GAS Almost Any Kind of Hole in Ground Produces. By Times Special JOHNSTOWN. Ind., Jan. 19 Gas is so plentiful here and on nearby farms that even a small hole in the ground produces. A farmer was digging some post’ holes for a fence recently and noticed bubbling water. He tried it with a match, and there was another gas discovery. Gas was found issuing from the abandoned Freeman coal mine. A farmer on whose land the pit is located piped the gas into his home. A resident here has a gas well in the yard of his home, and few living in the town are without service from either wells at their own homes or those of neighbors. UTILITY GROUP TO MEET Board of Governors of Association Will Hear Reports. Board of governors of the Indiana Public Utility Association will meet here Tuesday, Jan. 24, to hear committee reports and to work out a cooperative program for 1928. Arthur W. prady, of Anderson, Ind., receiver for the Union Traction Company, is president of the association. Consideration will be given plans for utility participation in a Statewide study of Indiana’s tax system and problems. H. S. Morse, Indianapolis Water Company, president, is chairman of the association’s tax committee. ARMY MAN ON TRIAL' Furniture “Leaks in Transit;” CourtMartial Hears Case. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Captain J. Leland Bass, United States Army, was to face court-martial here today, because his furniture was alleged to have “leaked in transit” when he shipped it to Michigan. Bass is charged with violation of the ninety-fifth article of war (which includes conduct unbecoming an officer). Eleven fellow officers are to sit In judgment. He was alleged to have sponsored the shipment of liquor in his cargo of furniture, when he was transferred from here to Selfridge Field, Mich. He denied the charges, asserting that someone has “imposed upon . _ , ... .