Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1928 — Page 2

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TWO ARE DEAD; EIGHT HURT IN AUTOMISHAPS Daniel Engle, 78, Here on Vacation, Walks Into Truck. Two men are dead today and eight persons injured as a result of automobile accidents. The dead: Daniel Engle, 78, Carlos, Ind., farmer. John M. York, 77, of 2835 N. New Jersey St., retired railroad engineer. Engle died at Methodist Hospital Thursday of injuries received when he walked into the side of a coal truck driven by Albert Summers, Negro, 1612 Columbia Ave., at New York St. and Colorado Ave. Summers was arrestedon an involuntary manslaughter charge. Was On Vacation Engle was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Earl P. Morrison, 4203 ’2 E. New York St„ while on his first vacation from the farm in five years. Engle was a native of Randolph County and had lived on a farm near Carlos all his life. Besides Mrs. Morrison, he is survived by seven other children: Mrs. Charles Dallenger, Charles Engle, Mrs. Grace Adamson and Mrs. William Rodson of Carlos, and Robert and Walter Engle of Richmond. The body will be taken to Carlos, where funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon. York, struck by an automobile driven by John M. Crupp, 30. of 321 N. West St- at Central Ave. and Pall Creek Blvd.. on Feb. 7, died at St. Vincent’s Hospital of hypostatic pneumonia, resulting from the accident. Coroner C. H. Keever ordered Crupp held on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Funeral services for York will be held at the Holy Cross Church at 9 a. m. Saturday, followed by burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Cars Crash Three persons were injured Thursday when automobiles driven by Clarence Gibson, 1515 W. Pruitt St., and G. W. Conklin collided on W. Washington St. Mrs. Gibson was taken to Methodist Hospital, while her husband and Conklin were cut and bruised. Others injured: Mrs. Mary Dinperick. 64, of 935 Massachusetts Ave.; Mrs. Ethel Strausberg. 27, of 405 E. Ohio St.; Paul McCalip, 28. of 1053 Tremont Ave.; Mrs. Armanda Lane, 42, of 226 Lexington Axe.; Mrs. Ellen Miller, 55, Negro, 1104 Maple St. BUTLER DEBATERS WIN College of City of Detroit Loses on Latin Affairs Subject. A third victory for the negative team, in the debate, “Resolved, the United States should cease to interfere by armed forces in Latin America for the protection of property, except after formal declaration of war,” was won last night when the Butler team, composed of A. P. Harrison, George Gisler and Harold Bredell, defeated the College of the City of Detroit team. The decision was given by Prof. H. T. Ross of Dc Pauw. The Butler negative team previously won over De Pauw and Purdue. CRIME CAREERS NIPPED Three Bandits Who Stole Auto Wednesday Sentenced Thursday. By United Press FRANKFORT, Ir,d„ Feb. 24. Three men who embarked on a whirlwind criminal career to get “easy money,” are under sentence of five to twenty-one years each in the Indiana State Reformatory today. They admitted stealing an automobile in Kokomo, Wednesday, and holding up Frankfort and Lafayette filling stations. The men, Merle Wolford, Ray Hindersot and Tom Davis of Kokomo, were sentenced by Judge Brenton A. Devol on their pleas of guilty to automobile banditry and robbery. NEW ARRESTS EXPECTED By United Press INDEPENDENCE, Cal., Feb. 24. A second group of dynamiters, not included in the fifteen already named by District Attorney Jess Hession, are being sought in connection with plots to blow up the $43,000,000 Los Angeles aqueduct, it was learned here. While Kession declined to intimate how many or who were included in the new investigation, he said names would cause a sensation almost as great as the original arrests. Feb. 28 was set as the date when all of those arrested will enter pleas. Spencer Out of Congress Race By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 24.John W. Spencer Jr. today withdrew from the race for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the First district, leaving the contest between John W. Boehne Jr. and E. Dale Eby of Princeton. Spencer found his candidacy interfered with his law practice.

It’s All Over Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 24. The overall case is all over, and Ora Holloway and Lloyd Sigman have each been sent to the State Farm for terms of 180 days each. The two stole a pay check and as a pretext for getting it cashed bought a pair of overalls at a store. Then they disposed of the overalls. The new owner learned of the check deal. He sold the garment. There were several owners, each getting rid of the overalls through fear of getting into trouble, as they were informed of the check. The last owner weighted the overalls and threw them into White River.

Committee Delves Into Coal Mines

NEA Washington Bureau This is the Senatorial Committee which is to conduct an inquiry into conditions, prevailing in the coal mining regions where strikes exist. Left to right: Senators W. B. Pine, Oklahoma: Frank R. Gooding, Idaho, Burton K. Wheeler, Montana, and Robert F. Wagner, New York.

Majority of Nation’s Wage Earners Found in Debt for Their Breakfasts

CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Sixty-five per cent of the Nation’s wage earners start the day owing for their breakfasts. This leaves, according to statisticians, only 35 per cent of the daily toilers beginning the day's work with “satisfied” stomachs. Further, it has been 'determined in a survey of the financial status of the American workman, that four-fifths of all wage earners are in debt. Wage earners and their families make up threequarters of the coimtry’s population, tlie survey, directed by Willard S. Pillsbury, president of the Wimsett system of loan banks, shows. The remaining fourth, or approximately 25.000.000 persons, is divided fairly equally between “floaters” and the financially independent. Neither class of this minority has any financial worries. The “floater” is unable to get into debt, and while his breakfast may not be paid for, he does not owe for it. Some of the causes creating the “owe for their breakfast” class, the survey shows, are illness, unemployment, death, mismanagement and extrav-

LOST WOMAN FOUND Aged Ex-Teacher Wanders Away; Amnesia Victim. Mrs. Ida Kassuike, 71, of 4558 Carrollton Ave., was returned to her home from Connersville, Ind., today, where she was picked up on the streets Thursday suffering from amnesia. She wandered away from home on Wednesday. Police here had been asked to search for her. Mrs. Kassuike taught in Indianapolis public schools for more than thirty years. She retired two years ago and has been in ill health for some time, her husband reported. Fred S. Leary, 28, drew sll2 from the bank and disappeared last Friday, his wife informed police today. Police also were asked to find Doris Mumford. 14, who ran away from her home at Muncie Thursday night. CONTRIBUTE TO HEALTH Food Laws, Check on Conlagion Places Wisconsin Ahead. By United Press MILWAUKEE, Feb. 24 Pure food laws and efficient check of contagious diseases are held to be the two outstanding contributing factors in making Wisconsin the healthiest State in the Union. Health commissioners of the State and city of Milwaukee are cooperating in plans to hold the longest average human life span safe for Wisconsin. They intend to better the record average of fifty-nine years given in an official report cf tho United States health service. De Pauw President Travels By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 24. President Lemuel Herbert Murlin, De Pauw University here, will spend the next month visiting De Pauw alumni in Western States. He and Mrs. Murlin left here Thursday. They will be in Kansas City tonight, for an alumni meeting. They will stop at the Grand Canyon and other places en route to Los Angeles to attend the annual March meeting of Los Angeles alumm, March 10. They will return about March 26.

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Doctors Recommend It as Ideal for Home Use in Pneumonia Weather Realizing that every common cold may be the forerunner of pneumonia—unless treated properly in time hospital physicians have chosen a remedy that is ideal for use at home. And numbers of Indianapolis people find that it brings quick, sure relief—often in a few hours—yet is inexpesive and pleasant to take. Mrs. H. E. Giddis, for instance, had such a stuffy cold she couldn’t breathe thru her nose and coughed so deep she feared pneumonia. Then she sought advice from her doctor, who prescribed double strength doses of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral—a concentrated mixture of wild cherry, terpin-hydrate and other ingredients Which have relieved even the most extreme hospital cases. Relief began with the first pleasant swallow. She felt its comforting, healing warmth from her nose passages deep down into her chest. In a few hours she began to get relief from that “feverish, grippy” feeling. By night she coughed less and was able to breathe through her nose. And in another day or so, the doctor reports, she was rid of the cold completely.

BY W. F. SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent

agance. “Budget tin p.y envelope before the flap is torn.” is the advice of Pillsbury to protect the family pocketbook. "To the family already in debt, this presents a different problem, and any budget worked out must provide for a way of cleaning off tne slate before a permanent budget system ran be followed.” Pillsbury offers a simple budget plan. For example, he would divide expenditures of a family of four living on $l5O a month, as follows: Savings. 10 per cent: food, 30 per cent; shelter, 28 per cent; clothing 17 per cent; operating expenses, including light. he3t. fuel, carfare and laundry, 8 per cent; and the remaining 7 per cent for advancement, which means church, charity, education, recreation, doctors and other miscellaneous items. A family with an income of S3OO should increase its savings to 15 per cent, double its operating expenses, use the same proportion for clothing and advancement, while food and shelter could absorb a smaller percentage of the whole amount.

ARMED GUNMEN LOOT BANK IN KANSAS CITY Wellston 1. M0.) Bandits Escape With $25,000 in Cash. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Kail.. Feb. 24. The City Bank in the heart of the business district was held up by a gang of gunmen shortly after 9 a. in. today. The amount of the loot could not at first be learned. By I nited Press WELLSTON, Mo., Feb. 24.— 1 Four bandits believed to have hidden in the Wellston Trust Company! building all night, held up the bank: at opening time today and escaped with between $25,000 and $30,000 in cash. The bandits kidnaped the driver of a bank service car. NATURE CLUB TO MEET ‘Venturesome Pioneers’ to Be Topic at Annual Dinner. Plans have been .completed for the annual dinner of the Nature 1 Study Club of Indiana to be held : Saturday night at the Marott Hotel, when Mrs. M. F. Laffcrty of the j University of Kentucky will speak on “Venturesome Pioneers.” Members of the committee are: i Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Elwood. Mr. i and Mrs. Harry H. Coburn, Dr. and j Mrs. W. P. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. j W. C. Gardner and Mr and Mrs. ! William A. Myers. RACE DRIVER ARRESTED Eddie Hcarne Captured by Janitors; After Speed Dash on Foot. Eddie Hearne, 40, of the Graylynn Hotel, is an internationally known automobile race driver, but Thursday he proved a complete “flop” as a foot racer. Asa consequence of being outdistanced in a five-block sprint by two Negroes, John and Irvin Shirely, Hearne today faces intoxication charges. Hearne’s captors told police he was prowling at>out an apartment at 1540 N. Meridian St., where they are janitors.

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Doctors find that this hospital medicine does far more than stop coughing instantly. It penetrates and heals inflamed linings of the breathing passages. Absorbed tty the system it quickly reduces phlegm, helps allay that “feverish” grippy feeling and drives out the cold from the nose passages, throat and chest. Just a few pleasant spoonfuls of Cherry Pectoral now and you’ll feel like a different person tomorrow. At all druggists, 80c.; twice as much in :j>l.oo hospital size.

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REED TIRED BY TOUR Campaign Strain Showing on Missourian. By I nited Po ss DENVER. Colo., PYb. 24.—Senator James A. Reed, swinging into his western tour in the interests of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, today showed signs of the strain of his extensive ca mpaign. Reed was to address the Denver Chamber of Commerce today. Last night he appeared before 6,000 persons at a Democratic mass meeting. The eyes, voice and demeanor of the fiery Missourian, betrayed visibly a weariness brought on by his trip through Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Reed continued his attack against the Republican administrations of Harding and Coolidge. He talked for an hour and a half, assailing the Teapot Dome scandal, war debt cancellation and the Government’s "economy” program. CROOKS TO BE FILMED Movie Will Furnish Record of Criminals. By-United Press CHICAGO. Feb. 26—Crooks will go “on location” here just as soon as the city completes a most unusual movie studio. Plans call for movies of all major law violators. Then when a crime has been committed. the victim or witnesses will be shown moving pictures of suspects. Officials say this will simplify identification and eliminate delay in apprehending known criminals. There are now trans-Atlantic liners so large that Babe Ruth’s longest hit would fall far short of the length of the vessel.

Eighty-third Annual Statement New York Life Insurance Company DAX WIN P. KINGSLEY, President 34* Broadway New York, N. Y. A Purely Mutual Company. Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York Founded in 1845

1817 A PROSPEROUS YEAR New insurance paid for in 1927 Over $927*000*060 Insurance owned by policy-holders on December 31 Over s6 T 2Bsfoooyooo Number of policies owned by them . 2 381,186 S9S7 PAYMENTS to POLICY-HOLDERS and BENEFICIARIES Paid to living policy-holders Over $90,500,000 Paid to Beneficiaries in Death Claims . Over $48,500,000 Dividends (included above) Over $53,000,000 Paid policy-holders and beneficiaries since organization Over $2,640,000,000 CREDIT anC DEBIT SUMMARY on DEC. SI, 1927 Amount of the Company's obligations (liabilities) and the funds held to meet them, showing a surplus or general contingency fund of $115,227*812.30

ASSETS Real Estate owned and First Mortgage Loans on Farms, Homes and Business Property... J 503,308,744.93 Bonds of the United States, Other Governments, States, Cities, Counties, Public Utilities, Railroads, etc.... 628,437,285.07 Policy Loans, Cash and Ollier Assets 269,330,791.52 "otal Funds for Policy-holders’ ■. Protection $1,401, 076,831.5*

FIND STRIKERS LIVE IN WANT IN MINE AREA Senators See Great Lack of Sanitation in Pittsburgh District. By JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Pa.. Feb. 24.—Living conditions which miners said were worse than in the slums of big cities confronted four United States Senators as they continued today their investigation of the western Pennsylvania coal fields. Overcrowding and lack of sanitation will receive full attention, the Senators said, along with the problems of industrial conflict that caused the United States Senate to order a full inquiry. Senator Gooding (Rep.). Idaho, chairman of the Interstate ’ Commerce sub-committee making the investigation, said both mine operators and union leaders would be given full opportunity to present their view. Report Reds Active He planned to look further into allegations that communists were attempting to establish organization in the strike zones. Miners told the Senators that Red leaders have promised food and clothing 10 .strikers and their families in return for opportunities to address mass meetings. Senator Wheeler <Dem.) Montana, said he would look into reports that bootleg liquor is plentiful at headquarters of strike breakers. Imported strike breakers boasted to the subcommittee in its eight-hour tour Thursday that liquor was easy to get. Senator Pine (Rep.) Oklahoma, specialized on a study cf injunctions He became interested in reports that miners have been denied the right to congregate at a church, even to sing hymns. He will determine whether the constitutional rights of the strikers have been violated. Half Arc Negroes Senator Wagner tRep.U New York, took great interest in the labor situation. On questioning mine superintendents he found that 50 per cent of the strike breakers are Negroes imported from Kentucky and other Southern States. The subcommittee said today that an expression by a miner called “Tony" fully described conditions both in camps where strikers are barracked and at mines where strike breakers are working. “We live like piggies,” Tony said. Live in Shacks Strikers are living in shacks made of flimsy boards. Wind can blow through cracks in the boards, sanitary conditions are unspeakable and privacy is unknown. From five to twelve persons live in four rooms, the Senators learned. Children peep through cracks in partitions and see what is going on in their neighbors’ rooms. Garbage is dumped in the street. There is no sewage system. Water is obtained at pumps and wells often half a mile from the temporary homes. The barracks, constructed on stilts, are damp and water settles under them. In the front and rear of the shacks mud is ankle-deep. HEALTH DAY PLANNED P. T. A. Speaker Outlines Program for Observance. Program for observance of Health Day, March 7. was outlined at the meeting of the Seventh district Parent-Teacher Association at the Hotel Lincoln Thursday by Dr. Ada Schweitzer, State director of child hygiene. Other speakers at the meeting were Mrs. Homer J. Miller, State president of P. T. A.; D. F. Morgan, member of the Arsenal Technical High School faculty; Mrs. L. S. Hughes, president of the city federation of the association, and Mrs. Earl James, president of the county association.

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HOME OFFICE BUILDING Now being erected on alto of famous old Madison Square Garden

LIABILITIES Reserves—ample with future premiums & Interest to pay all insurance & annuity obligations as they become due. .$1,215,522,705.25 Dividends payable to policy-holders in 1928 59,886,112.00 All other Liabilities 10,440,191.97 Total Li abilities 51,285,849,009.22 General Contingency Fund 115,227,512.30 Total $1,401,076,811.51

Court Ends 17- Year Conflict for Girl

Mother Refused Damages as Climax to Long Fight for Custody. The Supreme Court has written | what likely is the final chapter in | the seventeen-year-old fight, only i recently ended, between Mrs. E. L. I Crum, 4020 N. Pennsylvania St., and | has former husband, T. Wilbur Montgomery, for the love and custody of their daughter, Eloise. The court refused the mother $25,000 damages against the father and his family awarded her by the Vanderburgh Circuit Court. Married in Posey County some years ago, t*ie couple moved to Florida with the daughter. In 1911, Montgomery deserted her, taking the child with him, the mother charged in the suit decided by the Supreme Court. Files Divorce Suit He brought the child to his family home in Posey County and filed suit for divorce. The mother won custody of the child on a crosscomplaint, however, with the provision that the child stay with the grandparents two months a year. In 1912 Montgomery took the j child while it was staying wtih the grandparents and went to Florida. | In the custody of the father and I his sister, the child was trailed , through Florida, Cuba and Mexico 1 to the Isle of Pines by detectives for | the mother. In 1913 Montgomery was Indicted on a charge of stealing the i child and brought back to In- | diana, where he served two years in ! the Reformatory, escaping when allowed a parole to attend a funeral. He later was pardoned. Mother Gets Custody In the meantime, the child had been with the aunt, but in 1918, after a habeas corpus suit and other j litigation the mother who had re- ! married, obtained custody. Two Ii ears later the father, in secret j letters persuaded the girl to leave j the mother and join him in Florida, i Mrs. Crum then sued and obtained ; the damages, now refused her. The daughter, now 21, is teaching | school at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The I mother and the daughter recently have been reunited. Mrs. Crum just has returned from a “wbnderful visit” with her daughter. Last winter the daughter lived with her and attended Indianapolis Teachers College, she said. SIGNS BUILDING BILL I Coolidge Authorizes $100,000,000 for Federal Structures. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.—President Coolidge today signed the bill authorizing an additional $100,000,000 for postoffice and Federal buildings throughout the United States. It increased by $100,000,000 the $165,000,000 appropriation voted last session, which provided $100,000,000 for Federal buildings in the United States, $50,000,000 for public strucI tures in the District of Columbia | and an unexpended balance of $15,j 000,000 to be distributed at discreI tion of the Postoffice and Treasury i Departments. i MIRROR, LUCK BROKEN Misfortunes Start at Once When Looking Glass Is Smashed. Elza M. Kennedy, 40. of 1302 Yandes St., broke a mirror and his bad luck started right away. His wife, being a trifle superstitious, threw one of the pieces at him, according to police. It struck Elza on the lip. City j hospital doctors closed the wound j with seven stitches.

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NAME SAFETY HEAD Harry U. Franklin Appointed Director. Selection of Harry M. Franklin, former police officer and captain in the Indiana National Guard, as director of the Indianapolis safety council has been announced by W. B. Harding, chairman. Franklin will assume his post March I. and will attend a safety council meeting at Richmond, Va., March 2,3, and 4, where he will discuss safety problems with managers from all parts of the country. He succeeds Paul F. Strieker, field representative of the National Safety Council, who has been in charge of the organization of the council. MARMON SETS RECORD AH Previous Marks for Car Shipments Are Shattered. All previous records in car shipments and orders were broken by the Marmon Motor Car Company this month, according to G. M. Williams, president. The largest shipment of the month will be a train load of the Indianapolis-made cars to the Pacific coast to fill the demand that Marmon executives expect to be created by the Los Angeles auto show, opening this week.

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CAPITAL SLAPS SHIPSTEAD BILL ON INJUNCTIONS Court Curb on Labor Held Necessary Measure of Protection. BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The labor injunction is the public's only protection against unfair strikes and boycotts, Walter Gordon Merritt, counsel for the League for Industrial Rights, told the Senate Judiciary Committee, opposing the Shipstead anti-injunction bill. Merritt, first witness introduced by the National Association of Manufacturers in answe* to the case set up by the American Federation of Labor, is the former’s expert on the relations of law and government to labor unions. This league is maintained by large employers and represents them te big injunction suits. The most ii rtant of all property rights is th, right of use. Merritt said, and the Shipstead bill seeks to take away this protect! “Here is the point,” cot: led Merritt, as he held aloft a unv 5-cent piece. “This nick is property—my property—but t - >n’t value it nearly as much as 1 value my right to go out and earn another nickel. It is the same with a factory; the courts must be able to protect the use as well as mere possession of property.” Denying organized labor's claim that the equity courts have distorted their powers so that capital might use them against unions, Merritt cited decisions of English courts as far back as 1708. The protection of the right of use was established, he said, by a decision in the reign of Queen Anne. Merritt did not deny that injunctions against labor unions often restrained lawful acts, but insisted that these acts were designed for an unlawful purpose.

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