Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1928 — Page 3

FEB. 28, 1928.

APPOINTMENTS SHOW COFFIN STILL IN G O. P. SADDLE

STRENGTH SEEN IN NAMING OF NEW DEPUTIES Frank Brattain Appoints 140 Assistant Township Assessors. PREPARE FOR ELECTION Move Expected to Boost Cause of County Chairman for Re-Election. Unhampered by the Criminal Court charges which still hang over him. Republican County Chairman George V. Coffin still is running the organization. Politiciais remarked this again today when they scanned the list of appointments of 140 deputy township assessors named by Assessor Frank Brattain. Lieutenants of Otis Dodson. Coffin's bitter political foe. had let it be known the Dodson forces might pick up a bit of prestige through landing a majority of the assessorships. The deputies list property for taxation during March. The jobs generally are regarded as reward for political service performed or promised. Coffin’s term as county chairman ends this spruig. He is building his fences for re-election. Brattain had been regarded, before he became assessor, as a Dodson man. Coffin men and women, however, landed most of the deputy assessorships. The appointments, as announced by Brattain: Louie F. Lewis, Henry Kugelman, Arthur P. Bruner, Carl E. Koons, Max Caplan, Charles A. H. Clauer, Byron C. Icenbarger, Guy Brewer. Lillian Young. Harry Schonfield, Mattie Hinchman, Harry A. Haynes, Ella Settles, Francis Roby, Charlesanna Thomas, Estelle V. Cosby, Lydia White, 3ertha Dorsey, Anna Granger, Claude R. Coram, Elmer Petty. Hattie Porter, Harry K. Price, Bertha Reilly, William H. Stokes, Nellie Stansifer, Nannie Milligan, Mary K. Dietz, Celia M. Simon. Lucille Johnson, Maude Jackson, Gertrude Davis. Margaret Gregg, Iva Pavey., Henrietta Snyder. Levy W. Dooley, Beatrice Mclntire, Marie Clegg, Laura M. Lee, Paul Bratton, Mary A. Wright, Paul T. Beville. George W. Hardesty, George W. Noble, P. C. Lumley. Alice M. Yule, Lucy Suggs, Mary E. Avery Elizabeth Mann, Earl Hutto, Maud Johnson. Bertha K. Ong, William T. Cook, William M. Smock, Mary Allee, Blanche Babb, Mathew Green, Edith Tanner, William Jasper, Paul Talbott, Anna Kennedy, Lillian M. Early, Beatrice Highley, Carrie McQuay, Ruth Rowell, Lillie V. Boswell. Mabel Campbell, John Mosbey, Josie Rudd, Maude Dawson, William D. Crayton, George W. Millette, Bessie Monroe, Adele Schaller, Elmetta Worth, Harry Mayo, Edith Nelson, Carrie E. Reinbold, Ola V. South, Myrtle Keough, Mrytle Fox, Mayme E. Armstrong, Emma J. Spittler, Jessie L. Prange, Laura C. Frederick, Mabel Stephens, Ursula Clemens, Harry Krames, Nick Rawlings. Mark Perry, William S. O’Donnell, Pauline Allen, Cecil Buchanan, Bertha Mosier, Etta Calvin, Sarah B. Berkshire, Lena Coe, Mary A Drake, Ida E. Douglass, Vina Brasier. Ruby Jackson, Iva Brooking, Abe Smith, Minnie Haines, Emma S. Davis, T. Edward Pedigo, Anna Coppess, Louisa B. Meyers, Ellen Buchanan, Margaret M. Hansen. Daisey Hollingsworth, Charles Lohman, Charles Hickman, Ella Dennick, Gladys Kerr, Charlotte Buchanan, Stella Cromwell, Claudia Ray, Anna Robinson, Fannie Trabue, Stella M. Kline, Anna M. Pfister, Clara E. Wilson, Minerva Mathis, Charles E. Morris, Clara Steinsberger, Maude Williams, Clara Kleinhelter, Minnie Thomas, Murl Keeney. Charles Avels, Mary Gaughan. Emma Lieness, Zippora Newhart, Wilbur Brake, James Johnson, Thomas Matthews, Herbert Avels, Floyd McNulty, Margaret T. Gilbreath, Samuel W. Beal. Pearl Matthews, Maurice McNulty, Robert Ribble, Nelle Utterback, Charles Pinder, Cecil O. Thomas, Helen White, Bertha Edmunds, Bertha James, Benton C. Wyrick, Mary E. Fee. Business William Sharpe, John M. Boland, Charles E. Allen, William E. Leibold, Theodore Ambuhl, Donald Underwood, Andrew Taylor, George W. Squires, Frank K. Miller. Guardians Hazel Yarborough, .Ephraim O. Streeter, Charlotte B. Short. Administrators Erva Blauvelt, Jennie Tomlinson, Blanche McKinney. Interpreter Rocco Cassiero. Local Board Andrew H. Wahl. Frank Borns. Office Deputies Cecile E. Hodges, Daisy Petty, Caroline Gehring, Winifred Rubush. Chloe Davis, Lola Alford, Henrietta Boyce, Alice E. Hall, Mary H. Maxwell, Anna M. Feeney, Josie E Tucker, Ellen E. Green, Ruth L. Riser, Daisy O’Brien, Lillie Bailey, Gertrude Brown, Elizabeth Blevins, William Behrens, Stella Burris, Eva J. Tomlinson. Real Estate Almon F. Kitts, C. F. DeNoon, George W. Baker, Thomas Nugent, E. C. Dunmeyer, John E. Ertel, Lindsay L. Runnels, James G. Shepherd. William E. Bryant, James W. Lamkin, Harry G. Alexander, A. Russel Scates, William T. Cox, William Halgh, Michael Finn, Martin J. Oain, 3. E. Colwell, George W. Huggins, Volney Kirkpatrick, Don Young. ,

Smithy Won’t Be Downed

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W. H. Little Every profession has its ‘ups and downs,” including that of the village smithy. So when W. H. Little, 60, horseshoer of 909 W. New York St., went down under the heels of an equine customer, he didn't desert the emblem of the fraternity he proudly displays on his bosom. “I’ll stick to horseshoein',” he says, nursing three painful ribs. “There’s a kick in it.” Little refused a police offer to take him to city hospital, saying: “Such things will happen in this business.”

Champion Coffee Drinker to Feature Food Show

He’ll Eat All Given Him, Too; Baby Contest to Open Today. One of the feature attractions today at the Indianapolis Pure Food and Household Appliance Show in the Cadle Tabernacle is Albert Baker, world. champion coffee drinker. Baker travels from town to town giving exhibitions in coffee drinking, and has been engaged by show officials to give demonstrations at 4:30 and 9 p. m. daily on the stage. Between coffee orgies, Baker will stroll the aisles of the show, eating anything offered him by exhibitors in the seventy-five booths. That is, anything that is food. As an additional stunt, Baker announces he will give away a "real live baby’’ Saturday night. Baby Show Opens Tire show today is dedicated to the Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers’ Association of Marion County, and every grocers’ wife attending the show will be given free flowers. The baby show is scheduled to open at 2 p. m. with judging of babies up to seven months of age. Mayor L. Ert Slack spoke Monday night in opening the exposition. A line was formed at the entrance as door opened at 7 p. m. and housewives and others strolled through the tabernacle until the last light had been extinguished at 10:30 p. m. Safety Pledges Made Monday w'as given over to city employers and employes of the Indianapolis star and The Indianapolis Times. More than 7,000 persons attending the opening Monday night to hear the address of welcome by Mayor L. Ert Slack. Mike and Ike, Irvington midgets, gave Mrs. Slack a bouquet. More than 100 safety pledges were made by motorists at the booth of the accident prevention bureau of the police department and the Hoosier Motor Club in charge of Lieutenant Frank Owen. The booth centers around a coffin, emblematic of the result of careless driving. A1 Is Off Horned Toads By United Press ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 28.—Governor A1 Smith announced there will be no horned toad in the collections of mementoes which go into the cornerstone of the State’s new thir-ty-two-story office building. Farmer Dies by Hanging By Times Special DELPHI, Ind., Feb. 28.—Milton Wilson, 53, Carroll County farmer, killed himself by hanging in a barn at his home near Camden, due to worry over money matters.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: William Davis, 1142 W. TwentyOhio St., and Senate Ave . William C. Beck, 848 Wallace Ave., Ford, 37-162, from Market St., and Alabama St. Clifford A. Cunningham, R. R. C. Box 701, Ford, 23-094, from Washington St., and Senate Ave.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Chrysler, roadster, engine number G-155167. found at 214 McCrea PI. Fred Blaydes, 3928 Millersville Dr., Maxwell, found at Oliver Ave., and Division St. ‘Y’ DRIVE EXCEEDS GOAL The Y. M. C. A. new member campaign goal of 1,000 has been exceeded by 126, it was announced at a meeting of workers Tuesday r.ight. A. H. Godard, general secretary, presented awards to F. L. Humphrey, seventy-three new members, gold watch; E. J. Shumaker, fortytwo memberships, business membership; Oscar Griffith, ninety-nine memberships, watch; C. A. Newport, 180 new memberships, chair. The campaign was directed by c. C. Isaac, social secretary.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TRAFFIC TOLL IS THREE DEAD IN TWO DAYS Victim’s Body Identified by Son; Aged Woman Dies From Injuries. Three persons have died and seven others suffered injuries in automobile accidents in the city since Sunday. Bled Stewart, 24, of Greenfield, Ind., died this morning at city hospital as the result of injuries in a traffic accident Monday. His brother Floyd is in serious condition. Harry Stock, 36, of 2122 N. Jefferson Ave., hauler and transfer man, also is in serious condition, having been struck by a Brightwood street car in front of 2119 Roosevelt Ave.. about 10 a. m. today. Stewart and his brother turned their automobile east into Pratt St., on College Ave., Monday .afternoon. Cutting in front of a south-bound street car, they turned directly into the path of a northbound interurban car. The Stewart machine was hurled 140 and struck an automobile parked at the curb. Both men fell from the machine and Bled Stewart suffered a skull fracture and other injuries. Steps Into Danger Stock stepped from his truck in front of the Brightwood street car, according to police report. At city hospital he remained unconscious with a fractured skull and other injuries. Mrs. Donnie Gamble, 71, of 811 N. New Jersey St., struck by an automobile at Thirtieth and Annette Sts. Sunday night, died at city hospital early today. She suffered a fractured skull. Norman Glover, 18, of 1229 W. Thirty-Second St., driver of the death car, was charged with manslaughter. Lieut. Frank Owen of the Accident Prevention Bureau is investigating. Killed In Fall Jesse W. Jackson, 60, 2136 Winter Ave.. was killed instantly Monday afternoon when he fell face downward on the pavement from the running board of an automobile driven by William Colvin, 1701 N. Capitol Ave., at Twenty-ninth St and Martindale Ave. Colvin told police that Jackson asked him for a ride at Twentyfifth St. and Martindale Ave. He sat on the left rear door. At Twentyninth St., Colvin’s hat blew off and when he grabbed for it, lost control of the automobile. Jackson fell to the pavement, fracturing his skull. The body was taken to the city .morgue where a small identificatino card bearing the name "Jesse W. Jackson” was found. Colvin was arrested on an involuntary manslaughter charge on orders of the coroner. Jackson’s son, William, with whom he lived, identified the body today. Beside the son with whom he lived, Jackson is survived by another son, Morton Jackson, and a daughter, Mrs. Vena Robb, both of this city. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 3 p. m., at Shirley Brothers’ mortuary, 946 N. Illinois St. Burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. Hit by Two Cars Miss Ethel Lawrence, 22, of 3536 N. Meridian St., is in Methodist Hospital with a fractured leg and body bruises suffered late Monday when struck by an automobile driven by Robert Yount, 18, of 4714 Kenwood Ave., and run over by another car driven by Herschell Arthur, R. R. M, Box 374, at Twelfth 3t. and Capitol Ave. Both drivers were arrested on assault and battery charges. Other injured: Mrs. Elmer Eichmiller, 26, of 2028 Beliefoi:Caine St.; Miss Katherine Lemons, 16. of 746 Sumner St.; Alyon Alexander, 7, Negro, 220 W. North St.; Mrs. Edith Stover, 29, of 2020 N. Illinois St.; Miss Mable Bishop. 19, of 914 Marion Ave. SAFETY TALK GIVEN Engineer Stresses Annual Banquet of Foremen. The gospel of safety is the golden rule of modem industry, declared George Opp, safety engineer of thq Detroit Edison Company of Detroit, at Foremen’s Club first annual dinner at Heal Silk Hosiery Mills cafeteria Monday night. “There is no more unselfish movement on earth that that of organized safety. Anything that cuts short the span of life stands as an indictment against the American public,” declared Opp, Charles A. Trask was elected president. Other officers: Orville Burk, vice president; George J. Hoffman, treasurer, and J. W. Robertson, secretary.

Five Graduates of Medical College . in 1878 Return for Reunion Today

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Left to right: I)r. Janies If. Taylor. Indianapolis; Dr. H. B. Tanner, Eastland, Tex.; Mrs. Taylor, Dr. T. B. Plowman, Georgetown, 111.; Mrs Carter, Dr Amos Carter, Rockville, Infi.; Mrs. Pierson and Dr. Allen Pierson. Spencer, Ind.

11. S. INSPECTORS HUNT BANDITS Join Search for Mail Robbers, Missing Loot. Bn I'nitcd I‘rrss CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—More than forty United States postal inspectors today joined in the search for missing members of the bandit gang which Saturday robbed a Grand Trunk mail train of $133,000. Five men, alleged leaders in the robbery, remained in custody today while authorities searched for the remainder of the loot which had not been recovered. Police reported more than half of the loot, which consisted of pay roll consignments from Chicago banks to factories in the Calumet district, had been recovered. Search was instituted for Fred Litzinger, wanted as one of the actual participants in the robbery Saturday. Police maintained that the confessions of Charles (Limpy) Cleaver and William Donovan, arrested Sunday morning, established the entire plot, but activity today centered in recovery of the missing portion of the money and in gathering of additional evidence to present in prosecution of the robbers. GEORGE DALE IN RACE Muncie Editor May Become Governor Candidate. Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 28.—George R. Dale, editor of the Post-Demo-crat, who has been in and out of jails several times because of his editorial policies, may become a Democratic candidate for Governor. Dale is named in petitions being circulated in Delaware County by friends. He said he will not refuse to be a candidate, adding: “As to what my platform will be I will content myself for the present by saying the history of my lifelong editorial battles for clean government, snould speak louder than any words I might write or utter. Promises mean little, unless the one who makes them is able to show a background of performance.” ‘JOHN DOE’ IS IN JAIL Elderly Man Refuses to Give Name; Serves Out SSO Fine. John Doe is serving out a SSO and costs fine in Marion County jail. Hailed before Judge Paul C. Wetter Monday on a charge'of disturbing the peace at the Hoosier Athletic Club Saturday night, the elderly man who refused to give police any information about himself asked that he be called “John Doe.” Wetter recognized him, however, as a man who had been before him other times on the same chfcrge and assessed the fine.

OUT THEY GO! 20Q Pairs of Patent, Satin, Velvet and Light Colored Pumps, Straps and Ties SALE $ 1 * 97 WEDNESDAY ONLY Ideal Shoes for Spring ’When Cushion and Sconomy Meet 4 W. WASHINGTON ST.

Other Two Living Members of Class Unable to Attend Fete. Fifty years ago tonight twentynine young members of the 1877-78 graduating class of the Indiana Medical College stepped forward one at a time on the dimly lighted stage of the old Dickson’s Grand Opera House on Pennsylvania St. to receive their diplomas. Tonight, five of the seven still living, with a half-century of medical practice behind them, will sit in a box at. Keith's Theater, on the site of their memorable graduation ceremony, to witness the vaudeville performance as the closing event of their first reunion. Dr. James H. Taylor of Indianapolis, one of the five, will be host at the theater party. The others are: Dr. H. B. Tanner, retired physician of Eastland, Texas.; Dr. Arnos Carter, superintendent of the Indiana State Sanitarium at Rockville, Ind.; Dr. T. B. Plowman of Georgetown, 111., and Dr. Allen Pierson of Spencer. Drs. Taylor, Carter and Pierson will be accompanied by their wives. It was Dr. Tanner, whose five years’ persistence revealed names of the surviving members of the class and who travelled 2,000 miles to attend the golden jubilee celebration. The two living members unable to attend are Dr. R. A. Ferguson of Bellair. 111., who is ill, and Dr. F. F. Whetzel of Chicago, who is in Florida This morning the veteran physicians and their wives visited the Indiana University group of hospitals. They were luncheon guests at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. This afternoon they met in a session for “business and reminiscing,” at the Claypool. “Now that we’ve renewed friendships” said Dr. Tanner, “we’ve got to elect officers for the next fifty years.” Phones Put on Dial Plan Bit Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Feb. 28. This city and its suburb, Mishawaka, arc now on an all-dial telephone system, the change having become effective with the beginning of this week. All exchange name prefixes have been dropped, a figure being used instead. What was formerly Lincoln 2456 is now 2-2456.

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DISCUSS PAGT WITH BRITAIN Negotiations'for New Treaty to Start Soon. Ey C. P. WILLIAMSON LONDON, Feb. 23.—Formal negotiations for anew treaty of arbitration between the United States and Great Britain will open here and in Washington shortly, it was indicated today. The British Government now is considering a draft of the new treaty which President Coolidge recently sent to London. Such a treaty, it is understood, would include recognition by the United States of Great Britain's obligation as a member of the League of Nations and a recognition by Great Britain of the United States’ responsibilities under the Monroe doctrine. Conversations of a highly informal and unofficial character have taken place, the United Press learned, regarding possibility of a pact of nonaggression between the United States and Great Britain. It is admitted that such a pact might not be possible, but British diplomats, at least, are hopeful that out of the forthcoming arbitration treaty something may be evolved within the present year. Arbitration treaty negotiations are necessary because the Root treaty of arbitration expires in June.

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ADAMS ENTERS GOVERNOR RACE AS CRUSADER First Opening Volley of Campaign at Officials’ Corruption. Bn Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 28. Thomas H. Adams, editor of the Vincennes Commercial, original instigator of Indiana’s political corruption probe, stood as the fifth candidate in the ranks of Republican gubernatorial candidates today while echoes of his opening volley on political crookedness surpassed Democratic vehemence Adams, presented at a mass meeting of Vincennes citizens Monday night as “a crusader of the people,’* announced his candidacy on a platform of “honest government.” Two bands whooped it up in true campaign style before Adams took the stump. “No man stands clearer or more forceful before the people of tho State and nation than Vincennes’ editor citizen, Thomas 11. Adams,” .said Willis McGinnis of Sandborn, introducing the candidate. Tells of State Corruption Adams recounted evidences of corruption that have been revealed in the last two years, referring to indictments of public men, including Mayor John Duvall, members of his administration, Indianapolis city councilmen. Governor Jackson, George V. Coffin, Marion County Republican chairman, and Clyde A. Walb, former Republican Stato chairman. "We have heard of no meeting anywhere,” Adams declared, “where all the graft and wrong and crime was deplored or exposed. No candidate of either party has stepped to the front to steady the people with the pledge that honesty must rule. “There is no issue except the issue of clean government.” Adams declared the primary must be protected, and said the State must act for farm relief and flood prevention. Bom in Ohio The candidate was born at Grand Rapids, Ohio, and attended Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1876, when he was 16, he took charge of the Edwardsport (Ind.) JournalRecord. He bought the Vincennes Commercial in 1881. He has been Republican city, county and district chairman and was Vincennes postmaster for nine years. He is past president of the Vincennes Chamber of Commerce, and was vice chairman of the Inland Daily Press Association. Unique Class at Richmond RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 28.—Tho only class in floral culture in the United States will begin Wednesday at Morton High School under auspices of the Garden Club. Enrollment totals 200.