Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1928 — Page 9

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BLOOMINGTON TO BE NEW HOTEL SITE Building Will Cost $600,000 —More Than Hundred Guest Rooms. STORE* TO BE REPLACED Fire at Ft. Wayne Brings Plan for $1,250,000 Structure. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Anew $600,000 hotel for Bloomington and a $1,250,00 six-story modern store building to replace one burned at Ft. Wayne are noted in a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. Tentative plans call for an eightstory structure to house the Bloomington hotel. There will be more than 100 g" B, ',t rooms. The Grai.a Leader Company will occupy the new Ft. Wayne store building. The structure will be of the “set back - ’ type, popular in New York, Chicago and other large cities, but the first of the kind for Ft. Wayne. Steel Circles Interested The Calumet district of Indiana is showing much interest in discussion of a merger of steel companies. The merger, it is understood, was to include the Jones & Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and the Inland Steel companies, but latest reports indicate the first named has been dropped. Both the latter two companies have large plants in Indiana Harbor. The Jones & Laughlin company has done preliminary work at Hanimond on anew plant which ultimately will represent an outlay of $75,000,000. Steel mill owners believe 1928 will be a bigger building year than either 1926 or 1927 and also expect! automobile manufacturing will cause heavy buying of steel. One hundred five-room bungalows to cost $750,000 will be built at West Gary as homes for steel mill employes. Construction of the first group of twenty-five is already under way. Trade Volume Increases “December dollar volume of trade as shown by bank debits was $185,666.000, an increase over a year ago and over November,’’ says the current issues of the Indiana Business Review in commenting on economic conditions in Indianapolis and Marion County in December. The review is prepared by Charles F. Beuzel, Indianapolis division manager of the Indiana University bureau of business research, and published monthly by the Fletcher American National Bank, Indianapolis. The report on Indianapolis continues in part as follows: “Bank clearings increased to $102,717,000. Retail trade was extremely active under stimulus of holiday buying and preliminary reports indicate that anew peak for Christmas trade was established. Advertising Gains “Advertising lineage in three newspapers amounted to 3,341,214 agate lines, an increase of 5.9 per cent over November, but 1.2 per cent less than a year ago. Building contract awards numbered 52 and were valued at $918,400, adding 164,300 square feet of new floor space as compared with 29 awards last December valued at $695,900 and having floor area of 83,100 square feet, according to the F. W. Dodge Corporation. "Automobile plants have expanded their working forces; stone mills are operating full time; iron and steel production has continued the increase shown last month; and further extension of work on a number of building projects has been possible during the warm spells this winter; however, road building and like work has been suspended until spring.” This was Benzel’s report with reference to the general employment situation in Indiana. The survey shows conditions elsewhere in the State as follows: WASHINGTON—Machinery has arrived for the new Graham cheese factory, located east of here on State Rd. 50. KENDALLVILLE—The city council has ordered plans for an addition to the municipal electric power plant, ft is proposed to add a 1,000kilowatt unit to the present 950,unit. New Home for Store MARlON—Operations are expected to begin soon at the Craftsman Tool Company plant, anew industry. The site is now being prepared for erection of a $38,000 building for the S. S. Kresge store. MUNClE—Booking of orders for a large quantity of high-speed truck transmissions by the Graham Trucking Company assures operation of its plant through next summer. RlCHMOND—Operation of the new Belden plant will probably be started Feb. 15. The last shipment of equipment has arrived.

POSTAL WORKER DEAD Robert T. Cordrey Funeral Is Set for Friday. Funeral services for Robert T Cordrey, Indianapolis postofflee employe for twenty years, who died Tuesday after an illness of five weeks, will be held Friday at 10 a. m. at the Flanner & Buchanan funeral home. Mr. Cordrey, who lived at Cl 9 N. Sherman Dr., was foreman of the city division at the postofflee five years and was president of the Federal Cafeteria Corporation and first president of Local 130, National Federation of Postofflee Clerks,

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Violet Hargrave, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hargraves, 1647 S. Meridian St., who died today after eating strychnine pills she thought were candy.

Hill STORY TO EE TOLO JURY Seattle Detective to Take Stand in Death Trial. By I nilni Press OTTAWA. 111., Jan. 23.—Harry Hill’s initial statement, after his arrest for the murder of his mother, today was to be told to a jury trying him for the crime. Hill, the prosecution contends, killed his mother and then buried her body in the basement of her home in Streator, 111. Today's principal testimony was to come from Captain of Detectives William Kent of Seattle, where Hill was arrested after a nation-wide search. Kent will tell the jury Hill told him he lasj saw his mother, Mrs. Eliza A. Hill, on Aug. 6. Her body was found a few days later. From Kent the first evidence tending to show a motive for the murder was to come. The prosecution contends Hill committed ’the crime to cover several forged checks drawn against his mother’s account. Kent was to tell the jury that Harry told him, “I ran away from Streator, because of certain difficulties about checks.”

G. 0. P. CLUB IS SUED Seek to Collect $571 From New Era Group. Officials of the New Era Republican Club were sued today for $571.67 by James Carter, owner of property at 1647-49 Yandes St, which, it is alleged, was sold to pay a judgment against the club obtained by Frank C. Burton and Louise Howes, owners of the property at 227 W. New York St., where club headquarters were located. According to the complaint. Carter furnished the club's appeal bond for carrying the case from a justice of the peace court to Superior Court Two, where the former judgment was upheld. The club had no property and execution was obtained on the Yandes St. property that Carter put up as security. Defendants are: M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue; County Auditor Harry Dunn; Rufus Page, local Negro politician; Hadley H. Fite, Joseph K. Brown, John F. Johnson, George M. Robinson, Charles H. Johnson, Perry Porter, Charles Harrison, Edward Scott, Charles W. Brown and Robert Page.

LAW’S SEARCH FOR RHINELANDER FAILS

P,y United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Search for Leonard Kip Rhinelander, whom his Negro wife, the former Alice Jones, is suing for separation on grounds of cruelty and abandonment, was instituted in New York today, when Westchester County authorities admitted they had been unable to find him. Copies of the summons and complaint were handed to Deputy Sheriff William Woolf, but the legal papers were not accompanied by any

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REPUBLICANS PUT TO ROUT IU VANE CASE Committee Backs Down in Dismissing Wilson Plea for Vote Recount. REHEARING IS ORDERED Ballots Bay Be Counted as Result of Session Set for This Afternoon. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—Republican members of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee decided informally this afternoon to reverse their action in dismissing the contest brought by William B. Wilson. Democrat, against SenatorElect Vare of Pennsylvania. A meeting of the committee was called for 3 p. m. to take another vote and Democrats who had protested the dismissal action were informed by Chairman Short ridge of the committee that Republicans were willing to acede to the Democratic suggestion that a subcommittee be appointed to recount the Pennsylvania ballots. The Flepublicans retreated after the “Democrats had brought their fight to the Senate floor and apparently because the Democrats, with the Independents, controlled a majority there which could have repudiated the committee action and made it try the contest against its will. Reed Offers Resolution Senator Reed of Missouri introduced a resolution ordering the committee to conduct the recount, but announced formally he did not think it would be necessary to press Shortridge would not comment on the announcement, but Reed and Senator Caraway (Dem.) Arkansas, both members of the committee, said they had received assurances that Republicans had “a change of heart overnight.” “They got cold feet,” Caraway said. By a strict party vote of 8 to * the committee late yesterday Uu-*to out the complaint of William B. Wilson, former Democratic Secretary of Labor, against Senator-Elect William S. • Vare, Republican. It said the complaint was not sufficiently specific in its charges of fraud and corruption against Vare. Allows Vare to Run Again The action was taken by the Republicans to enable Vare to file for re-election in the next Pennsylvania primaries* April 24, His friends admit that the Senate probably will oust him because of his primary campaign expenditures. They say he wants to run again but he could not do so as long as the Wilson contest was pending against him. The primary expenditures dispute is entirely separate from the Wilson contest and would not prevent him from filing. A last-minute switch in the Republican membership of the committee enabled dismissal of the complaint. Senator Goff (Rep.) West Virginia, who is reported to have favored Wilson, was replaced by Senator Moses (Rep.) New Hampshire, who favored Vare, thus protecting the Republican majority against the Democrats.

Hold Complaint Insufficient The resolution adopted by the committee was introduced by Senator Waterman (Rep.) Colorado. It set forth Wilson's complaint did not state with any degree of certainty the character of the conspiracy which he alleged Republicans of Pennsylvania had perpetrated against him. It resolved that the complaint should be held insufficient even to require an answer from Vare. The committee gave Wilson twen-ty-five days in which to produce more evidence if he desired to press the matter further. Republican committee members who voted for the resolution included: Shortridge of California, Watson of Indiana. Green of Vermont, Deneen of Illinois. Edge of New Jersey. Steiwer of Oregon, Waterman and Moses. Democrats who voted against the resolution: King of Utah, George of Georgia, Neely of West Virginia, Smith of South Carolina, Carawav of Arkansas, and Reed of Missouri. FREE ATHLETE IN DEATH Ex-Yale Star Not Guilty of Murder in Massachusetts. By United Press PITTSFIELD, Mass., Jan. 26. Gilbert Stanley, former Yale athlete, was found not guilty today of manslaughter for the death of Peter Fulco. Fulco was shot and killed by Stanley on the grounds of the Berkshire school for boys in Sheffield, Nov. 27

definite information about Rhinelander’s whereabouts. Mrs. Rhinelander remained at her New Rochelle home while her husband, who failed to obtain annulment of their marriage on the plea that his wife deceived him -about her color, has traveled widely under an alias. His attorneys regularly have paid her S3OO a month, however. Samuel F. Swinburne, counsel for Mrs. Rhinelander, heard reports the husband is in Florida*

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Copyright 1928. NEA Service. Inc. Edward Hickman, slayer of Marion Parker, pictured en route from the jail to court Wednesday. The photo was rushed by NEA Service to The Times by telephoto wires. Left to right: Jailer Frank Dower, William Edward Hickman, Chief Guard Claud Peters, with assistant jailers in the background.

IRISH CHIEF IS SEEING SIGHTS Cosgrave’s Wrist Suffers in Capitol Hand-Shaking. fill T inted Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—William T. Cosgrave, president of the Irish Free State, took refuge in sight-see-ing today after a round of handshaking in House and Senate Wednesday that left his right hand limp. All the Congressmen, including Clancy, Kelly, Casey, Connery, O’Connell and O'Brien, shouted greetings and formed a line to receive him, when he entered the House. Senator Heflin, who has been making anti-Cathloci speeches, joined his colleagues” in shaking the visitor’s hand in the Senate. Cosgrave made a short speech expressing Ireland's gratitude for American co-operation. This afternoon Cosgrave Is to receive a doctor of laws degree at Catholic University. Tonight he will be a dinner guest of Sir Esme Howard at the British embassy. He will leave at 9 a. m. Friday for Philadelphia.

MAGIC LANTERN BOY BUYS 300 THEATERS

Ily United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—William Fox, who started in the motion picture industry twenty-five years ago with a tiny lantern slide house in Brooklyn, has bought 300 theaters in a single deal. The announcement that Fox, who is president of the Fox Film Corporation, had acquired control of the Westco Company, a holding corporation for 250 theaters in the west coast theater chain, and fifty ATTACK BAFFLES POLICE Minister Strung Up by Thumbs, When He Refused Duress Marriage. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 26. Investigators from the district attorney's office admitted today they were unable to solve an alleged attack on the Rev. F. E. Webb, who said he was abducted and tortured Sunday night. Exhibiting swollen thumbs, the clergyman said he was attacked when he refused to perform a marriage under duress. He was “strung up hy the thumbs” until he fell unconscious, he said. OPEN LICENSE DRIVE City Inspector to Ask Arrest of Persons Without 1928 Permits. City License Inspector Otto Raf today started a drive on person! who have failed to obtain their 1928 city licenses. Harry Stapelkemper, 21, of 6203 E Washington St., was arrested for failure to have a city truck and chauffeur’s license. All peddlers, poolroom proprietors and others required to have city licenses who have not secured them will be arrested, Ray said,

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in the Saxe circuit in Wisconsin, established him as one of the leading theatrical magnates. Although he declined to reveal what he paid for the theaters, Fox said it will take $100,000,000 “to reconstruct them.” By the purchase of the properties, Fox's theater chain has increased from forty houses to 340, and he already has started on building program for the erection of twentyfive new ones which will cost $150,000,000. The combined seating capacity of the recently purchased theaters is 350,000, and the box office receipts are estimated to total $35,000,000 a year. The Westco chain is in Oregon, Washington, California, Montana and Nevada. MIC HA EL~A RLE N ~TO~WED Engagement of Novelist to Greek Countess Expected Soon. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 26.—The Daily Express in a story today said it understood that the engagement of Michael Arlen, popular novelist, to the Countess Atlanta Mercati of Greece would be announced shortly. The countess is a beautiful brunette in her early twenties. She is the daughter of Count Mercati, former Lord Chamberlin to the King of Greece. Life Term Given Slayer By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 26. Edward Hagerman is under life sentence here for the murder of his brother-in-law, Frank Wilkie, last Sept. 27. Sentence was imposed by Circuit Judge John Jeffries after overruling a motion for anew trial. A jury a few weeks ago convicted Hagerman of second degree murder.

CREDIT UNION GROWS Lay Plans to Form 20 More Groups in Indiana. The Indiana Credit Union League will make further plans to form twenty more credit unions among employes of Indiana factories and stores at its fourth annual dinner at the Y. W. C. A. Thursday at 6:30. The drive to form new unions is being held in connection with the “expansion month” campaign of the National Credit Union Bureau, Jan. 15 to Feb. 15. There are twenty-two credit unions in the State, thirteen of which are in Indianapolis. Members are permitted to borrow at low rates of interest. C. Leroy Austin, L. S. Ayres & Cos., is president of the State organization. which maintains headquarters at 315 Guaranty Bldg, with Miss Ida M. Anderson in charge.

LINDY STARTS ON HOP TO COLUMBIA

By United Press BALBOA, Canal Zone, Jan. 26. Col. Charles" A. Lindbergh left in his airplane, Spirit of St. Louis, at 9 a. m. today for Cartagena, Colombia, his next halt on his good will tour of Central America. Lindbergh expected to arrive at Cartegena about 2 p. m. after a flight of over 320 miles across the Gulf of Darien. The Cartagena visit was not on Lindbergh's program. He was scheduled to leave tomorrow for Bogota, the Colombian capital. However, the officials of Cartagena pleaded that Colonel Lindbergh visit

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DORAN LAUDS ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION IN MDIANA; SPEAKER ‘SLAMS’ AL SMITH

U. S. Dry Chief Commends Ward and Winkler for Good Work. FAITH IN CIVIL SERVICE State Is Outstanding for Efforts to End Liquor Traffic, Meeting Told. High praise for prohibition enforcement in Indiana, both Federal and State, wa svoiced at the Indiana dry convention at RoDerts Park M. E. Church this afternoon by Dr. J M. Doran, United States prohibition commissioner. Special tribute was paid United States District Attorney Albert Ward and Federal Dry Chief George Winkler for their efforts in apprehending and prosecuting liquor law violators. “In the district of Indiana some outstanding cases have been investigated and prosecuted during the past year,” Doran declared. “Some very important cases are now pending. "District Attorney Ward of this city has not only conducted his office with great ability, as shown by the results he lias secured in court, but continually has acted as the legal adviser for Deputy Administrator Winkler and Mr. Yellowley in the investigation of these cases, and I can only state that I wish all of our districts were like Indiana ill that respect. Faith in Civil Service “We have a problem that continually is changing, but I am confident that no combination or group of commercial liquor violators ever is going to dominate the forces of the United States Government. Indiana is a State where we have well illustrated the workout of the concurrent power clause of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution. Your State officers and courts perform their duty admirably, leaving to the Federal forces the task of combating large interstate violations. This is an ideal arrangement and I believe is the proper division of function.”z z z z z z Faith in the civil service idea for enforcement workers was expressed by the speakers, but he asserted he was greatly disturbed by some of the immediate applications of the civil service provision. “I believe, in the end, it will produce a service of higher grade and quality,” he said. “But, I propose, while this transition is going on, to exert my utcomst efforts to maintain and effevtive field service, in order that there may be no let-down in the enforcement.” Praices Education Plan The belief that enforcement is a success was also expressed. “I believe that the scientific method of trial and error has been applied to the legal control of beverage alcohol and that in the laboratory of political action a result has been obtained that stands every test, ’’Doran asserted. He praised the Anti-Saloon League plans for an educational campaign and cited authorities on the declaration that alcohol is a depressant and not a stimulant.

CHURCH GROUPS MEET Organizations of Disciples of Christ Start Parley. The Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity and the commission of budgets and promotional relations of the international conventin of the Disciples of Christ met at the Severin today. The Rev. Charles Morrison of Chicago, editor of The Christian Century, and the Rev. Levi Batman of Youngstown, Ohio, are among the out-of-town ministers attending. Batman is president of the Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity, a national organization of the Disciples of Christ, to bring together more closely the Protestant churches of the country. ‘T. R/ WIDOW IN COLON Mrs. Roosevelt Visits Hotel Which Had Husband as First Guest. By United Pre,ss COLON, Canal Zone, Jan. 26. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the former President, was a guest today at the Tivoli hotel, Ancon, which had. Colonel Roosevelt as its first guest when it opened in November, 1906. Mrs. Roosevelt arrived Friday on the Santa Luisa from New York.

their city and he complied by moving his schedulde up one day. From Cartagena, Lindbergh planned to fly to Bogota, then to Caracas, Venezuela, and then to follow the route he had previously announced. The good-will flight as scheduled now will 'be conluded at Havana Feb. 8, from where Lindbergh plans to return to the United States. Lindbergh flew back to France Field late Wednesday from Pearl Island in order to bid adieu to Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, French fliers, who have been visited here. The two Frenchmen planned to continue their flight toward tide United States today, ,

Church Secretary Praises New York Governor, but Pins on ‘Knock/ SLACK LAUDS ‘MOPPERS’ More Than 1,000 Attend i Opening Sess ons of Dry Convention. Approval of Anti-Saloon Leagu* plans to mop up moist America, voiced by Mayor L. Ert Slack, and tribute to A1 Smith as “the Governor scoring highest from the standpoint of social legislation,” paid by tho Rev. A. W. Taylor, secretary of tha board of temperance and social welfare, Disciples of Christ, were highlights of the opening session of tha Indiana Dry Convention at the Roberts Park M. E. church this morning. True, Mr. Taylor latter qualified his praise of the New York Governor by branding him a “wet” and attributing this to his early environment in New Tfork City, “the most foreign city in America.” Wets in Minority, Says Slack More than 1,000 men and women from throughout the State gathered for the opening session of the convention, which will continue morning, afternoon and evening until Friday night. Scheduled for the welcome address, the mayor appeared with a prepared speech in which he asserted his stand for prohibition principles, and termed any move for modification as “political suicide for the party attempting it.” “The wet vote in this country is now and always will be 4ii the minority,” Mayor Slack asserted. “When it comes to a question of wet or dry, the drys have it by a large majority'. “Not even with the disappointed drys added to the straight-out wets, could any political party or candidate succeed in a national election, because too many voters feel and believe that national prohibition has not yet had a fair, honest and fearless trial.” Cites Example of Smith The Rev. Taylor opened his address by declaring that many good, sober men are honestly opposed to prohibition on the grounds that It is opposed to personal liberty. “It is up to us drys to convince them that they are wrong,” he declared. He then cited the example of A1 Smith, to whom he referred as “that very able and excellent Governor of New York, who scores highest. I think, in the matter of social legislation and reform, but who fails in the matter of prohibition, the grea\est of all social legislation.” Attributing this to the New York City environment, the Rev. Taylor criticised the entire wet Atlantic seacoast as “lowest in Americanism.” “It is in the least American communities that prohibition is unenforced," lie declared. “Here in the midwest no politician dares ask the suffrage of the people unless he says he is dry. It is true we have often been trimmed by politicians posing as drys. but lacking in moral for the cause.”

Keynote Is Sounded Local enforcement, backed by strong community sentiment, was advocated by the Rev. Mr. Taylor to make prohibition more effective. He declared that it was not up to the United States to handle all petty violators, but that the Federal prohibition forces should be free to halt smuggling and interstate violations while the local officials enforced the laws in their own communities. The Rev. C. H. Winders, pastor of North wood Christian Church and vice president of the Anti-Saloon Lgague, sounded the keynote of the meeting in responding to the mayor. “The purpose of such gatherings as this is to renew our faith in the cause by recalling the old and corrupt saloon days and inspire enthusiasm for converting those who are not backing our program, but are yet not our enemies,” the Rev. Winders said. The Rev. Ernest C. Wareing. editor of the Western Christian Advocate, Cincinnati, Ohio, also spoke. The Rev. W. B. Farmer, Indianapolis, presided, and in introducing the speakers often urged that some one invite the attorney general to come out and witness the working “of this great political machine.” WOMEN’S ASSAILANT IN DANGER OF MOB Sheriff Hurries George Bates, Negro, Away From Kokomo. By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 26.—George Bates, Negro, who has confessed to criminally assaulting and robbing two women several weeks ago. was spirited away from the local jail here Wednesday night by Sheriff John Spearman for rear of mob violence. Rumors that a mob was organizing to lynch Bates came from Miami County where the man attacked Mrs. Dorothy Kuntz on Dec. 12. Mrs. O. C. Phillips, wife of a Kokomo attorney was his second victim. Bates was returned here recently from Memphis, Tenn., where he fled after the attacks. Attempts Suicide in Jail By Times Special HAMMOND. Ind., Jan. 26.—Stanley Sopzichi, 50, may die as the result of thirteen wounds self-inflicted with a penknife in the city Jail here. Sopzichi attempted to end his life after rqpeiving a 180-day penal farm sentence for assault and battery on his wif e*