Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1928 — Page 9

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STEEL MILLS OF CALUMET GETORDERS Rails and Cars Will Be Made at Gary and Hammond. BUILDING RANK GIVEN Indianapolis First on List; New Plant at Crothersville. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Activities of steel mills of the Calumet district feature an industrial and business survey of Indiana completed today. An order for 35,000 tons of steel rails have been placed at Gary by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, while at Hammond the Pennsylvania Railroad lias ordered 150 all-steel coaches to cost $4,000,000. Seventeen of the Illinois Steel Company’s twenty-three Calumet district furpaces are in operation. Completion of the $400,000,000 combine of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company and the Inland Steel Company will probably speed building of the Jones and Laughlin Company plant in North Hammond. The company has a 1,400 acre site. Fill-in operations, which have been under way for some time, have been completed almost to One Hundred and Forty-Third St., near the Ham-mond-East Chicago limits. Indianapolis First Figures on building volume in Indiana during 1926, just announced show various cities in the following order: Indianapolis, first; Gary, second: Hammond, third: Ft. Wayne, lourth; South Bend, fifth; East Chicago, sixth; Evansville, seventh; Muncie, eighth: Elkhart, ninth; Anderson, tenth; Terre Haute, eleventh, and Richmond, twelfth. Conditions in other Indiana cities as revealed in the week's survey are as follows: PERU— I The city council has awarded the contract for the Cass St. sewer project to cost $119,000. ANDERSON—There will' be nc change in operation of the Beaver Products Company plant here as a result of the merger of the Beaver Company and the Certain-teed Products Corporation. The plan 1 ; employs 175. Plan Furniture Factory CROTHERSVILLE A company composed of local men has bought the machinery of the S. & C. Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, and will open a novelty furniture making plant here. Operations probably will begin in the spring. BLOOMINGTON—A $300,000 office building is to be erected here on Sixth St., between Walnut and Washington Sts. OAKLAND CITY Construction of a $119,000 high school building will be started here about March 15. MITCHELL—The loca pliant of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company has resumed operations after a two weeks shutdown. Capacity Increased LIMED ALE—A new kiln of 1,500 barrels daily capacity has been added to the plant here of the Indiana Portland Cement Company, increasing the total production facilities to (6.000 barrels daily. HARTFORD CITY Tentative plans have been approved for the erection of a school building here at it cost of $114,000. DECATUR—Beet growers in the area surrounding this city are slated over plans of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company for handling 90,000 tons of beets during the coming season. This would mean an increase of 25,000 tons over the annual average run. ALBANY—The Bahr Refiners Paper Corporation has bought the plant and real estate of the T. F. Hart Paper Company. The new company has a capital of $50,000 all paid in. The plant has been idle. WASHINGTON—The new Graham Farms cheese factory started operations this week.

I. U. HEAD HEARD AT PITTENGER’S INAUGURAL Dr. William L. Bryan Speaks as NewNormal President Is Inducted. Ity Times Sficei+l MUNCIE, tad., Feb. 2.--Tribute Was paid here today to William Alfred Jones, first president of the Indiana State Normal School, by Dr. William Lowe Bryan, Indiana University president, delivei-ing the Inaugural address for Lemuel A. Pittenger, inducted as president of the State Normal, eastern division. Dr. Bryan praised Ball brothers, local philanthropists, who made possible Lucina hall, one of two new buildings dedicated at the Eastern normal following the inaugural. The other building is a combined library and assembly structure. postal' receipts'drop January Decline Due to Decrease in Permit Mail. Receipts at the Indianapolis postoffice for January showed a 10 per cent decrease in comparison ■with January, 1927, according to Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. The decrease was occasioned principally by lessened permit mail, a heavy mail advertising campaign having been waged January, last year, by an Indianapolis manufacturing company. Receipts for last month were $356,948.57, as compared with $399,295.27 January, 1927.

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What was to have been the second honeymoon of Franklin S. Harc’inge, 61-year-old Chicago millionaire, and Miss Anne Livingstone, 30, Tulsa. Okla., divorcee (above) seems to have been called off. A prenuptial dinner was given by Hardinge, the minister engaged, the weddirng supper arranged, and a! I that. There seemed to be no hitch. Yet when Miss Livingstone was asked to sign a paper waiving cla!m#to the wealth of her prospective husband for SIOO,OOO to be paid upon his death, she refused. Thus ends this chapter.

ORDER PROBE OF OPERATIONS THAT COST GIRL’S LEGS

Physician Who Used Knife Says He’ll File Suit for $250,000. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Two groups of investigators today inquired into the circumstances surrounding operations on Miss Sadie Holland, who first underwent an operation designed to straighten her bowed legs, and later suffered amputation of both legs. Miss Holland was believed today to have passed the crisis. Her physicians said she would recover. The State's attorney’s office and the State department of registration both conducted investigations of the operations. Dr. Henry J. Schireson, plastic surgeon, and Dr. S. D. Zaph, orthopedic surgeon, performed the leg straightening operation. Later, Dr. William Van Doren, Holland family physician, examined the girl and decided to move her to another hospital. This was done over Dr. Scbireson's protests, and after Miss Holland had signed statements releasing jSchireson from responsibility for what might happen thereafter. Dr. Van Doren called a surgeon into consultation and it was found that gangrene made amputation of both legs necessary to save Miss Holland’s life. Dr. Schireson, in New York, today sent word here that he considered the entire affair was “a case of professional abduction.” He said the girl was improving rapidly and the “operation was a complete success” until she was moved from the original hospital. “I shall institute suit for $250,000 against the two physicians who took away my patient,” he said. ROBBERY PROBE PUSHED Laundry Driver Held Up of SSO; Escape in Car. Police investigation of the robbery of Walter Ameter, 609 Eastern Ave., driver for the Crown Laundry, at 334 N. Summitt Alate Wednesday, continued today. Ameter said two men took SSO from his satchel and escaped in an automobile with a third man at the wheel.

SOUTH POLE HOP WILL MAKE BYRD GREATEST OF FLIERS, SAYS EXPLORER

For The Indianapolis Times and NEA Service, Milton Bronner has secured two vivid world pictures, by internationally famous antarctic explorers, of the seemingly impossible task Commander Richard E. Bvrd has set for himself—to fly across the south pole during the antarctic summer of 1928-29. This is the first of the exclusive articles. The third will be written by Byrd himself. BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer LONDON, Feb. 2.—ls Commander Richard E. Byrd of the United States navy succeeds in flying over the south pole, he will be acclaimed as the greatest aviator explorer in history. Yes, he will be greater than America’s Lindbergh! . The man who made tnat statement is one of the few living explorers who fully realize the perils of the south polar regions. He is Herbert G. Ponting, a member of Captain Robert Scott’s British expedition when it reached the “bottom of the world” in 1912. His book, “The Great White South,”

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KILL EVIDENCE CENTERSON GUN Seek to Show Youth Had Revolver of Same Caliber. By United Press OTTAWA, 111., Feb. 2.—First evidence designed to connect Harry Hill directly with the murder of his mother was to be introduced by the prosecution in Hill’s trial today. Evidence was to center around the gun which the State contended was used to kill Mrs. Eliza A. Hill. The gun has never been found, but prosecution planned to present a' 'hain of circumstances intended to show that Hill once possessed a gun of the same caliber as that used in the murder. R. E. Sparks, owner of the Streator Motor Company, the prosecution said, will testify that he once missed a gun and later found it in Hill’s car. The gun was again found missing in August, at about the time when the State alleges the murder was committed.

REMUS’ FIGHT FOR LIBERTY IS BEGUN

By United Press LIMA, Ohio, Feb. 2.—The longdelayed fight of George Remus, former millionaire Cincinnati rumrunner, to obtain his release from the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane here, has been launched. Attorneys for the former bootleg king who was committed to the asylum after his acquittal for murder of his wife, Imogene. have filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus returnable *t 2 p. m. tomorrow. * The petition will be heard by Appellate Judges Phil M. Crow, Kent W. Hughes and Charles L. Justice. It contends Remus has never been found insane. The petition also sets

is one of the classics on the subject. His film record of the expedition has been shown all over Europe and soon will be brought to America. “The difficulties encountered in a hop across the south pole would, by comparison, make every other flying achievement seem simple,” Ponting said. “Commander Byrd already has two wonderful accomplishments to his credit. “Like Lindbergh and Chamberlin he has flown the Atlantic ocean in one hop. Unlike anyone else, he has flown an airplane over the north pole. “In crossing the Atlantic, one takes off under known weather conditions and encounters only reasonably high temperatures. If forced down, there Is a chance of being picked up by a steamship, as was Miss Ruth Elder. “Even in a flight across the

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 2,1928

LIQUOR BOWS TO MOTOR AS GRIEFAGENCY Arrest Sheet Shows Auto Brings More Offenders Afoul of Law. 70 WOMEN ARE BOOKED Gambling in Third Place on Sheet; 2,441 Held in Last Month. The automobile —not liquor—was at the bottom of most of the “deviltry” in Indianapolis last month, the report of city, prison turnkeys and matrons showed today. Out of a total of 2.441 arrests by police in January, 1,083 were for law violations connected with tire automobile and only 328 were for liquor law violations. Gambling scored the next greatest number of those slated. While the grand totals showed the automobile to have been the leading instrument of trouble, women appeared to have been less susceptible to this temptation than to booze. More for Intoxication While sixteen women were slated for motor violations, twenty-eight were "jugged” for intoxication and twenty-six for operating blind tigers. The boys, figures indicate, just stepped into the old bus and let ’er go. For failing to have licenses, 347 were booked; for failure to have lights. 180; for speeding. 402, and for miscellaneous motor transgressions, 138. The men handled their liquor like j gentlemen, for the most part. One I hundred seventeen operated blind , tigers and 177 got so drunk the of- . fleers couldn't overlook them. Thirty-four were charged with operating automobiles while drunk. Amateur Gene Tunneys, both masculine and feminine, were quite I active. Three women were charged j with assault and battery with intent ,to kill and eleven with just plain ; fighting. Fourteen men "battled with i homicidal intent and seventy-nine j just fought. Gambling Takes Toll The police drive on gambling resulted in slating of ninety-seven men for visiting gambling houses, 125 for gambling, twenty-two for keeping gambling houses, and fifteen for having gambling devices. Three women were caught visiting gambling houses and two were charged with gaming. Os the grand total, 2,188 were men and 253 women. FORTY-ONE TO FACE JUDGE COLLINS MONDAY Eail Kiinck of Evansville to Be Among Persons Arraigned. Forty-one persons will be arraigned before Criminal Judge James A. Collins Monday. ! Earl Kiinck of Evansville, former aid of D. C. Stephenson, will be one of those before the court. Kiinck was indicted on charge of being accessory before the fact in falsely attesting an affidavit. Six persons will be arraigned on murder charges. They are Frederick Matelic. 61. who shot J. L. Bernhardt, 21, 1226 N. Holmes Ave., on Dec. 20, when the youth was helping him across the street; Harry Pilz, 923 S. Illinois St., charged with fatally wounding Sam Fosman in Fosman’s barber shop at 805 S. Meridian St., when Fosman interfered in a quarrel; and four Negroes in | the hold-up in which Charles Con!rad, grocery manager, 2816 Clifton I St., was killed.

forth that two of the three alienists who examined Remus did not sign the order of the Cincinnati Probate Court, sending him to Lima. State Attorney General Edward C. Turner has appointed E. M. Botkin, prosecutor of Allen County, to represent the State and has suggested to Prosecutor Charles P. Taft II of Cincinnati, who sought to convict Remus for the killing of his wife, that Taft either attend or be represented at the hearing. Botkin intimated that tomorrow's proceedings will consist merely of the setting of a future date for hearing.

north pole, danger Is lessened by the presence of animal life that will provide both food and fuel in case of accident. The country is comparatively flat, and temperatures are higher than in the antarctic regions. “TTtTHILE the north polar region mainly open sea frozen into an icy waste, the antarctic is a vast continent whose average height is "the greatest on earth. There are mountains towering 15,000 feet into the sky. Mount Erbus, 13,350 feet high, is an active volcano. Ross Island, from which Scott and Amundsen made their successful dashes to the pole, is 1.500 miles from the nearest land —New Zealand. And Ross Island in 900 miles from the pole.” * Here the actual flight will start. Luck, flying skill and the elements permitting, it will end at a base

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WHITE HOUSE BUGGY PASSES

Final Trace of Old Era Goes; Coachman Mourns

BY ALFRED P. RECK, United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1923, by United Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—The last horse-drawn vehicle of the White House has given way to progress. It was replaced today by a bright, shiny, new model Ford sedan. Daniel Webster, an aged Negro, who has driven the high steppers of the White House for fifteen years, sorrowfully laid away the high silk hat, his blue coat with the brass buttons, and is being fitted with a chauffeur’s uniform. The old brougham, used in recent years only by the White House housekeeper to make her rounds of Washington markets, was wheeled to the second floor of the quartermaster’s stables, where it will be shrouded with a white sheet and pass into history. Next door, in the White House garage, its successor awaits duty, with sport wire wheels and trim grey body. “I hate to sei the old carriage go,” Daniel Webster remarked as he shook his black head. “But the streets now days ain’t no place for horses. They're in the way, with all these automobiles and street cars. “But I’ll tell you there ain’t nothin’ better than nice steppin’ horses pulling a slick carriage and drove by a good driver like myself, all fitted out in livery.” a a a RARELY since the Taft administration has the President or members of his immediate family used the White House carriages. Mrs. Coolidge used the

at Weddell Sea, on the other side of the pole. “Every condition in the antarct;c is most forbidding,” continued F anting. “At the approach to Ross Island is a great ice barrier which averages seventy feet in height and extends for more than 400 miles. Beyond that, to the Beardmore Glacier, is 400 miles of icecovered plateau which ascends to 9,000 feet above sea level. This vast plateau alone is as large as all France. “From the glacier to the pole is another 500 miles. It is a land where it never rains. It is a land where human beings never have lived. And once the open sea is left behind .there is not a vestige of any sort of animal life. a a tt “TJROBABLY it is the windiest JL place on earth. I have been in blizzards there when the wind raged at seventy miles an hour.

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old victoria twice during the early part of last summer. “I'd been driving the housekeeper. when one day they phoned from the White House and told me to have the carriage down thei-c in a half hour,” Daniel Webster confided. “I knew the housekeeper was gone and I didn’t know what they wanted with me. “Well, I drove down and who'd step out but Mrs. Coolidge and a secret service man. “ T'se surprised, Mrs. Coolidge,’ I remarked. “She kinda smiled and said, ‘You didn’t expect me, did you?’ “I drove her around the parks and she like it so well she had me come back again the next day. But they ain’t never used the carriages since.” nan OVER in the State Department, before the door of Assistant Secretary Castle, sits a darky whose hair fast is turning gray. He is Charles A. Reeder, coachman under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. “I used to be a bellhop at the old Everett Hotel, where McKinley stopped when he was a Congressman,” Reed related. “When he was elected President he brought me down to the White House as coachman. “Mrs. McKinley used to go out every morning, and in the evening I’d drive her and the President around. She’d never ride behind a bobbed-tailed horse. She allow a horse in the White House stables unless it had a long tail.

with the mercury thirty degrees below zero. "There is ancient ice on the continent varying from 100 to 1,000 feet in thickness. The glaciers that reach the sea produce icebergs big enough to bear New York City on their backs. I have seen bergs twenty-three miles long. “Instnunents show that the mean temperature of the antarctic is 11 degrees colder than the north pole regions, and 24 degrees colder in winter.” So that is what Commander Byrd will face when he makes the attempt late in 1928. To clear the mountains he will have to fly at an altitude of more than 16,000 feet. He may run into gales in which no man nor flying machine could possibly live. If he is forced to land, it probably will be on jagged ice that will wreck his plane.

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“About every other day Mrs. McKinley would drive out to Garfield Hospital, where she had two nephews recovering from the war. She used to like to to drive around through the soldiers’ home and through the agriculture grounds. But she’d never allow me to go fast. She used to say her carriage was the slowest in Washington. “Often I’d driven the President, Mrs. McKinley, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hanna and Miss Mabel McKinley to the theater or a concert. ana “Ti OOSEVELT seldom used the jA. carriages,” Reeder continued with his reminiscence. “He either rode horseback or walked Except on state occasions he liked to drive himself, “Miss Alice, she wasn’t married then, she was the one to use the carriages. Sometimes we’d start out at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, drive to the Benning race track, come back to the White House for dinner, and then start out again, and she’s go to parties until early in the morning. I’ve known her to attend seven parties in one night. “When the Tafts came into the White House they started using automobiles. Except for one time, on inauguration day, Mrs. Taft never used the carriages.” 30-Year Marriage Ends FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 2.—Granting of a divorce in Allen Superior Court here to 'William Lock from Lydia Lock ended a marriage of thirty years. The husband charged cruelty.

Even if he made a safe landing, he would be in a vast waste with very limited supplies on his own machine and with no possibility of killing anything for food or fuel. nan “TF Byrd succeeds,” said PontJ- ing, “he not only will have been the first to fly across that barren continent, but the first to cross it in any way. It would be a flight of vast scientific importance. He can chart his route and note the comparative heights of land. He may discover mountain ranges higher than any of those we already know. “It is the hardest goal an aviator ever set for himself.” Next: Captain E. E. M. Joyce, veteran of three antarctic expeditions, tells more about the perils of the southland.

MONOXIDE GAS KILLS WOMAN IN HER GARAGE Dancinq Instructor Found Slumped Over Steering Wheel of Auto. DEAD 3 HOURS LATER Miss Frances Avery, Victim, Well Known in City’s Musical Circles. Carbon monoxide gas from the motor of her automobile was given as the cause of death of Miss Frances Avery, 32, dancing teacher and musician of 1620 Central Ave., Apt. 2, by Coroner C. H. Keever today. Her prostrate form was found huddled over the steering wheel of her car in the garage at her home at 12:30 a. m. by her uncle, Harry W. Avery, of the same address. All doors of the garage were locked and the garage lights were turned on, according t,o the report made by Officers Clark and Baily, who investigated. The motor of the car was still running when the uncle entered. She was given first aid by Dr. Nathan Stern and rushed to Methodist Hospital, where she died at 3 a. m. without regaining consciousness. Pulmotors were used in the effort to save her life. Death Due to Gas Coroner Keever was called and after investigation announced that death was caused by the monoxide poisoning. The theory advanced was that the woman drove the machine in the garage, locked the rear doors and climbed back in the seat to “race the motor” before shutting it off, when she was overcome by fumes, just as she reached to shut off the switch. Door Forced Open Her uncle learned today that tha machine had not been functioning properly and was of the opinion that she had experimented with the motor after closing the garage doors. It was necessary for Avery and Russell McGee, custodian of the apartment, to force the doors in order to gain entrance. He said that Miss Avery, well known in musical circles of the city, had been rehearsing with an orchestra at the home of Burt E. Kimmel, 2117 Talbot St.. Leaving there at 11 p. m. Miss Avery could not get her car started until friends had pushed it some distance. Noting the lateness of the horn-, the uncle expected her x-eturn. Looking out the window he saw the light in the garage and investigated. Long Resident of City Miss Avery was born at Franklin, Ind. Her mother died while Miss Avery was a child and her father, Albert E. Avery, died Dec. 19, 1927. She attended May Wright Sewall school here and Nazareth College at Nazareth, Ky. She was an accomplished piano accompanist. She studied voice at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts and dancing with the Mile. Theo Hewes College ! of Fine Arts in 1925. ■ Since that time she studied dancing at the Elite School of Dancing and was about to establish a dancing school of her own, friends say. She had given dancing instructions at her home. Surviving her are her uncle; her aunt, Miss Daisy Avery, at the Central Ave. address, and another aunt, Mrs. Ella Reed, 1131 Park Ave. Miss Avery was a member of All Saints Cathedra* parish. Funeral arrangements have not been coih•pleted. CITY MEN Will VISIT HOME SHOWS IN EAST Seek Ideas for Making Success es Local Exposition. Members of the Home Show committee of the Indianapolis Real Estate Eoard will visit two similar expositions in the east next week to seek ideas for making the local show better than ever. The Home show this year will be at the fairgrounds, April 7 to 14. Shows to be visited by the committee are the seventh annual building exposition at Philadelphia, Pa.. and the architects’ show at New York City. Those making the trip will be J. F. Cantwell, director of the show; T. E. Grinslade, William Lowe Rice and Walter committee members, and Donald E. Rider, executive secretary of th&lndianapolis Real Estate Board. Rules for the “mystery house” contest, being conducted by the board in connection with the show, may be obtained at 820 Lemcke Bldg. CALL”MAYOR’S'PARLEY State Seeks to Halt Lake Pollution in Calumet Area. Invitations to mayors of Calumet district cities and George J. Geyer, president of the Hammond Manufacturers’ Association to attend a conference to decide on some method of halting pollution of Lake Michigan by Calumet Industrial plants were sent today by Dr. William King, secretary of the State Health Board. The letters ask that the meeting be held before Feb. 10. Gas Kills Indiana Couple Bn Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 2.—Mrs. Josephine Eggleston, 52, is dead as a result of inhaling gas which leaked from a main at her home, where her husband was found dead. She died in a hospital to which she was removed Monday.