Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 February 1928 — Page 3

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TiMES INAUGURATES FIFTH ANNUAL U. S. SPELLING BEE

HOOSIER EVENT IN CONJUNCTION WITHNATIONAL Plans Made for Indiana’s Contests, Beginning March 9. WINNERS TO GET TRIP Boy or Girl Will Be Sent to Washington for Final Competition. The fifth annual National Spelling Bee was inaugurated today by The Indianapolis Times in collaboration with the Louisville CourierJournal. The first round of the Marion County spelling will be held March 9 under the direction of The Times and Lee V. Swails, Marion County superintendent ofg schools. The Indianapolis schools - will hold the initial contest the same day under the direction of Miss Flora E. Drake, assistant superintendent of schools. At the same time about twenty counties in Indiana will choose the best speller in each fifth, sixth, seventh and eigth grade room in the county. Parochial schools in Indiana will select room winners on the same date. Endorsed by Leaders * The spelling bee both in the State and nation practically has become an institution from an educational standpoint. Roy P. Wisehart, State superintendent of schools, has indorsed the contest and is giving it his active backing. Other endorsers include John J. Tigert, United States commissioner of education, and S. D. Shankland and J. E. Morgan of the National Education Association, Was! "ton, D. C. Contests rules and man;: r of choosing the winner are not complicated and were designed primarily for convenience in conducting the contest and increasing spelling accuracy among students. Elimination Bees Planned One winner in each room of each public and parochial school will be selected March 9 in an old-fashioned “spell-down.” These winners will be eliminated until one student remains as the building champion.. The building contest will be held March 16. Then on March 30 the champion from each building will meet in an elimination which will leave one pupil as county champion. One student will be named Marion County champion outside Indianapolis. But because of the large enrollment in this city, eight school zones have been made, and one champion will be named from each zone. That will leave nine students as champions of their section of the community. One champion only will be named from each of the other counties in Indiana. The State championship contest will be held May 4 in Indianapolis under the direction of The Times. All of the county winners and the nine winners in Marion County will meet in the final elimination.

Winner Gets Washington Trip The boy or girl crowned Indiana champion will be sent to Washington, D. C„ about May 22 to enter the national contest to uphold the State against contestants from forty-seven other States. In addition to the free trip and entertainment at Washington, the Indiana champion will be eligible to $2,500 in cash prizes. Although the winner will be advised to use the money for educational purposes, there will be no “strings tied to the award.” The McCall speller, the standard text book in Indiana, will be used in all contests. Words were selected by a committee of educational authorities and newspaper editors. Simple grade school words are used in the list, and all obsolete and catch words have been eliminated. • The national spelling bee was conceived by the Louisville CourierJournal five years ago and was taken up in Indiana by The Times and in each county by progressive and constructive newspapers. One of the leading papers m each State usually sponsors the contest. Friendly Rivalry Created Superintendents, principals and teachers realize the importance of the spelling bee because of the aid it is to them in their work. It creates an interest in spelling among pupils and develops a friendly rivalry between communities such ’as is fostered by the annual State basketball tournament between high schools. In addition to sponsoring the Indianapolis and Marion County contest, The Times is sponsoring the Boone Coiinty contest with the assistance of C. O. Caplinger, Boone County superintendent of schools. Although the spelling bee is almost State wide, there a few counties still unrepresented. Many of these counties have short school terms which will not allow them to enter the contest with the present dates used. Arrangements are being made to handle these counties In the 1929 contest, and to enter other counties in this year’s bee under the “last minute” rule plan. Further announcements will appear in Thursday’s Times. NAMf POSTER "DEADLINE Realtors’ Home Show Contest to Close Thursday Noon. Entries in the Realtors’ Home Show poster contest must be in the Real Estate Board office, 820 Lemcke Bldg., by noon Thursday, Henry L. Richardt, chairman of the contest, announced today. The drawer of the winning poster will receive SSO and the poster will be used to advertise the Home Show which Is to be held April 7 to 14 at the State fairground. Second and third prizes are $25 and $lO.

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CHAIN FUN FEST ON AIR TONIGHT Listener’s Mass Meeting to Be Announced. Members of the listeners’ cooperative trustees committee, having resolved that the $6,000 radio fund drive shall not fail, are pressing forward in the war on interference, and tonight will sponsor a combined broadcast on WFBM and WKBF in the second request fun frolic, which will originate in a central studio, beginning at 9:30. The two stations will transmot it on their respective frequencies of 1090 and 1190 kilocycles. The program tonight will carry announcements of a mass meeting of radio listeners to be held at 8 Thursday night in the study hall of the old Shortridge high school building. The facts of the campaign will be laid before radio listeners at the mass meeting, when they will have opportunity to accept or reject the movement. The chain program tonight will carry numerous surprise features including the performance of a noted Recording star. Musicians of the Greggorizing Variety hour will open the program, to be followed during the evening by Charlie De Sautelle and his banc., Charlie and Walt, two entertainers from the Zarring Theater, and others. A total of $l5O was received by the Fletcher American National Bank, trustee of the Radio Interference Fund, today including $25 each from the H. T. Electric Cos., and the Indianapolis Power & Light Cos. The Sparton Shop contributed $lO as did V. L. Cunningham, 1129 N. Capitol Ave. Ray Meyers of Indianapolis News, and R. F. Haddath, 40 Jackson Ave., contributed $5 each.

NEW SCHOOLS HINGE ON TAX BOARD IS OPINION No Buildings Will Be Planned, Says Vonnegut. Whether or not Indianapolis builds any more new school buildings is entirely up to the State tax board, Theodore F. Vonnegut, school board president, commented today on the $600,000 building bond issue before the tax board Tuesday. “The school board has done its part,” he said. “If the tax board sees fit to halt the bond issue, there is no use for the school board to plan any more new buildings.” The tax board Tuesday served notice on school commissioners future heating and ventilation specifications must be drawn to permit competitive building. No mention of the hearing was made at the thirty-minute school board meeting Tuesday night. The board accepted the bid of the Continental National Bank for a $500,000 temporary loan at 3.85 per cent interest. OHIO CLERGYMAN HERE Cleveland Man Gives Lenten Talk at Christ Church. The Rt. Rev. Warren L. Rogers of Cleveland, Ohio, spoke on “I Believe in the God That Jesus Represents” at a Lenten service at Christ Church this noon. He will discuss “Our Approach to Church Unity” at an interparochial service of Protestant Episcopal churches at Christ Church tonight. “Our ideas of God have grown. It is not fair to insist upon maintaining primitive notions of God. Religion must be progressve,” he declared in his Lenten sermon Tuesday noon. PLAN CHURCH SEWICES Evangelist W'll Conduct Revivals at Garfield M. E. Evangelistic services will start Sunday morning at the Garfield Ave. M. E. Church and continue until March 26. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Harry W. Vom Bruch, evangelist, assisted by Harry D. Clarke, singer. Mrs. Vom Bruch will handle the children’s work. The evangelist is well known here, having conducted revivals at Wheeler City Mission and the Irvington M. E. Church. The Rev. Clyde S. Black is pastor of the church.

Pm NEA Per vice WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. A middle-aged w'oman, starting out for a job after years spent in her home as wife and mother, hasn’t much of a chance to get along. Bah! and a couple of Poohs! /• For, ten years ago, Mrs. Odessa V. Glover, at 45 years of age, was in just such a situation. And today, Mrs. Glover, at 55, is chief of an important section of the war risk insurance division of the Government. Ten years ago Mrs. Glover’s life was that of the average housewife. Then her husband was invalided. She took the civil service examination, entered the insurance division as a clerk, studied, worked, fought. Now the important work of posting premium payments, issuing receipts, authorizing dividends, quoting loan and cash surrender values and keeping track of beneficiaries of more than 200,000 policy holders, has been placed under her direct supervision.

BANDIT TRIO HOLDS UP DRUGGIST, CUSTOMER Escapes in Auto With $73; Negro Is Robbed. “Stay inside, brother, ’cause if you stick your head out that front door after we leave it’ll be just too bad,” was a warning given L. E. Smith, druggist at 1301 W. Thirtieth St., by th-ee bandits Tuesday night. The trio held up Smith and a customer, M. S. Yeaw, 940 Elmyra St., and took sls from the strong box and SSB from Yeaw. They escaped in an automobile. Three Negroes stepped from an alley near Bright and Michigan Sts. and robbed him of $13.13, William Turner, Negro, 947 Center St., told police.

METHODISTS MEET Forty-Three Ministers, 150 Laymen at Muncie. BY MILDRED SCHOEN Times Staff Correspondent CARMEL, Ind., Feb. 29.—“ Losses in church membership are alarming and it is as important to give ourselves to soul rewinning as it is to bringing new members into the church,” declared district Superintendent W. D. Arnold at the midwinter conference of the Muncie district of the North Indiana ! Methodist Episcopal Conference at the Carmel Methodist Church today. The Rev. Arne Id presided. Forty-three ministers and more than 150 laymen are attending. The district includes churches from northern Marion County, but none from Indianapolis. Laymen include Sunday school superintendents, class leaders, district stewards and exhorters. A layman’s banquet tonight at which R. G. Isenbarger of Muncie, will be the principal speaker will be the high light of the conference. Church policies were discussed in a symposium this afternoon and in addresses on "Our Women: Their Work,” by Mrs. A. F. Hogan of Muncie, and “Our Present Temperance Crisis,” by E. J. Wickersham. Bishop F. D. Leete of the Indiana area is attending. Candidates for ministerial licenses were examined. The conference ends Thursday ,noon.

PRESBYTERIANS PLAN HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE Committee Is Appointed at Church Meeting Here. A committee to receive funds for the proposed Presbyterian Hospital here was appointed Tuesday at the regular meeting of the presbytery at the First Presbyterian Church. The meeting was attended by thirty ministers and ten elders. Members of the committee, appointed by the Rev. Henry T. Graham, moderator, are the Rev. Peter McEwan, S. D. Dungan, Dr. David Ross, Walter C. Marmon and Fred I. Willis. The Rev. John W. Miller was chosen assistant pastor of the First Prebyterian Church. Honorable retirement was voted for the Rev. Frank C. Hood, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Southport and Clayton. Anew pastor for the Greenwood Church was recommended, but action deferred. Release of the Rev. Harris C. Johnson as pastor of the church at Whiteland was announced. loss in Tire is sT,ooo Frame Building Used as Lumber Shed Damaged; Auto Destroyed. A one-story frame building at Thirty-Eighth St. and Orchard Ave., used as a lumber shed by A. B. Kirkpatrick, E. Fifty-Sixth St., was damaged by fire of undetermined origin Tuesday night. Loss was estimated at SI,OOO. Flames destroyed an automobile and damaged another at the Abraham Garage and Transfer Company, 750 Massachusetts Ave., Tuesday afternoon, causing damage of S3OO. Cause of the fire has not been determined. > Fall Injuries Fatal By Time/i Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., Feb. 29. Charles Pratt, 36, Allen County farmer, is dead at a hospital here from injuries suffered when a scaffold collapsed, causing him to fall seventy feet.

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FATAL TRAFFIC CRASHES SHOW BIG MIN HERE Twenty-One Deaths in Two Months Double of Toll Year Ago. Fatal traffic accidents more than doubled in Indianapolis during the first two months of this year, as compared with a similar period in 1927. reports received from the traffic division by Police Chief Claude M. Worley revealed today. Twenty-one deaths occurred during January and February, 1928, while in 1927 there w r ere but ten during these two months. There were 418 injured thus far this year, the report shows. Os the number killed, eight deaths were in January and thirteen in February. There were 203 injured in January and 215 in February. Alarmed at this increase, Worley issued a statement pointing out that with the inauguration of student patrols and safety education, accidents to school children have decreased. He points to education as being the salvation of traffic accident prevention. Twenty-One Die in Two Months “Drive on traffic regulation violators w r as already under wav when the report was received. More than 100 appeared before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today to be reprimanded for passing traffic lights and the like. Several w r ere fined $2 Worley ordered the drive continued and commented on the report as follows: “Since accidents involving school children have decreased, while the total has increased, the report seems to bear out my contention that our hope for solving these problems and preventing this loss of life and limb lies in a program of education. “Os the twenty-one kil’ed during these first two months, eleven were pedestrians. Investigation of these* cases repeal that in the majority of cases carelessness on the part of both motorist and pedestrian was to blame. Pedestrian Ts Careless Even in the old horse and buggy days we were w’arned to be on the lookout before crossing the street. Such warning is much more to be heeded now. Every pedestrian should take the utmost precaution before crossing the street. “On the other hand the carelessness of the pedestrian is augmented by that of the motorist. Every car driver should be constantly on the alert, have his or her machine under perfect control and be sure that the brakes will hold when needed. “Records show that many pedestrians cross the streets in the middle of a block and accidents result. All crossing should be done at tije places provided and then only after looking both ways. “If the adults obey these rules, as the school children are doing, our record for traffic accidents will be a less sorry one.”

COMMITTEE TO DRAFT NEW SIGN ORDINANCE W. A. Keathing Named Head of Group by Safety Board. W. A. Keathing heads a committee of electical sign company representatives named by the board of safety to draft anew electrical sign ordinance. Council President Otis E. Batholomew, American Sign Company representative, is on the‘committee. It is proposed to permit a sign to extend one-half the width of sidewalks more than fifteen feet wide, with a maximum of twelve feet, Robert F. Miller, safety board member said. Sidewalks less than fifteen feet wide may have signs within eighteen inches of the curb, under the plan. Howard Robertson, safety board secretary, said the plan will improve the looks of the business section. SAIL FOR WEST INDIES George Ade Among Hoosiers Leaving on “Samaria” Today. George Ade, Hoosier humorist, waone of the Indianians, according to a dispatch, to sail on the “Samaria” for a thirty-day cruise of the West Indies. Points to be visited are Nassau, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Barbados, Trinidad, Venezuela, Curacao, Panama, Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Indianapolis persons on the passenger list included J. Fowler, Mrs. H. C. Moore and J. D. Rathbun. HELD TO GRAND JURY Fred Kuhn Charged With Forging Check on College. Fred Kuhn, alias George Wolfson, 620 N. East St., was held to the grand jury today after waiving examination before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter on charges of forgery and false swearing. Kuhn is said to have forged a S4O check on Indiana Central College and to have made affidavit that there were no debts on his automobile, which he sold for $l5O to the Lincoln Automobile Company. The check was given to the Remiko Manufacturing Company. Fire Fighter Killed By Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 29. Morris Brown, 20, Corydon, was killed by electrocution here while trying to save a house which had been set afire by charged wires. Employes of the Interstate Public Service Company were engaged In blowing out stumps when a charge brought down a pole, throwing wires it carried against the house. Refinance your debts now and repay as you earn. Low cost, confidential and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 141 & E. Wash.—Advertisement

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TRIAL NEARS CLOSE Jury May Get HickmanHunt Case Today. Bn l,'nit id Vrc* LOS ANGELES, Feb. 29 —The joint trial of Welby Hunt and William Edward Hickman charged with the murder of Ivy Toms, druggist, was expected to go to the jury for deliberation late today. Court adjourned Tuesday with Hunt on the stand as a defense witness for Hickman. “Did you kill Ivy Toms?” a pointblank question asked by Jerome Walsh, attorney for Hickman, went unanswered when Hunt's attorneys objected to the question and expressed disfavor in having Hunt testify for Hickman. The court took the matter under advisement and will announce its decision when sessions are resumed today. An attempt made by Hunt’s counsel to have Hunt tell how he set authorities on the trial of Hickman as the murderer of Marion Parker was blocked by the prosecution.

CITY SPEAKERS NAMED FOR LINCOLN CAMPAIGN Will Aid in Drive for Memorial Fund in Indiana. A city-wide speaking campaign has been planned in behalf of the Indiana Lincoln Memorial fund, Robert L. Moorhead, Indianapolis, Lincoln drive speakers’ bureau chairman, announced today. Fifteen speakers have been named by Moorhead to address city civic and patriotic groups in preparation for the campaign. “It is our hope to reach every home in the city with the story of the part the Hoosier environment played in the development’s of Lincoln’s character,” Moorhead said. The following have been named to aid in the speaking campaign: Fred Hoke, the Rev. Edwin W. Dunlavy, Claris Adams, the Rev. Jean S. Milner, Wood Unger, Albert Stump, Oswald Ryan, Walter Myers, Ross Lockeridge, Alva Rucker, Charles*W. Jewett, M. E. Foley, the Rev. George W. Allison, Max J. Young and Prof. Paul Haworth.

LUMBER DEALERS JOIN IN SHOW HOUSE PLANS Will Aid in Erecting All-Wood Home for Realtors’ Fete. Local lumber dealers will cooperate with the Indianapolis Home Builedrs’ Association in erecting an all-wood home as the centerpiece for the Realtors’ Home Show at the fairground, April 7-14, William L. Bridges, chairman of the ways and means committee of the association, announced today. Stairs and millwork for the home will be donated by local lumbermen, Bridges said. Details of these features have been worked out by Merritt Harrison of the architectural firm of Harrison & Turnock. It will harmonize with the early American architectural style of the house. The home will be built of lumber provided by the Southern Pine Association of New Orleans, of which H. C. Berckes is secretary and manager. SPRING AFFECTS CARS Motorists Advised to Readjust Generators. Todd Stoops, secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club, joined the harbingers of spring today with a reminder for motorists to gradually readjust auto generators to a lower charging rate. “Longer and warmer days,’’ he said, "result in less of a drain on the automobile battery by reducing the amount of headlight usage and requiring less current for starting. Don’t work your generator overtime. The season is at hand when winter adjustments gradually can be dispensed with.”

ATTACKS LEGION HEAD FOR PLAN TO CURB TALKS Sherwood Eddy Flays Spafford for Attempt to Suppress Free Speech. Charges that National Commander Edward Spafford of the American Legion is engaged in a campaign of what he characterizes as “suppression of free speech” are made by Sherwood Eddy, Y. M. C. A. leader in the March 1 issue of the Christion Century. He relates a conference held with Spafford in Indianapolis Jan. 29, in which the Legion commander told him that he would do all he could to prevent people from hearing Eddy speak and get his speaking dates cancelled. Letters Spafford wrote to Legion commanders in an effort to thwart Eddy are included in the article. Referring to his conference here Eddy writes: Suggested Referendum J- I suggested that it might be well to have a referendum of the American Legion and of the country as to whether we still have free speech or whether a few military men shall dictate to the country who shall speak and who shall not speak. “Does the Legion or does it not believe in the Constitution and in the right of free speech in this country, as more than a verbal quibble? Os course the Czar of Russia believed in free speech—for himself and his carefully censored clergy and government officials, but it was denied to all who criticized his policy or differed from him. “Is that the meaning of the American Constitution in the understanding of Washington and Jefferson? Docs the Legion, or does it not. believe in genuine free speech?” Admits Being Pacifist In concluding the article Eddy states that he is "frankly a pacifist” and then concludes: “A few years ago it was the intolerance of the Ku-Klux Klan that was an obstacle of free speech. I hear no more of the Klan now; that policy seems to have discredited and killed it. If this policy is continued it will discredit the Legion and it will follow in the wake of the Klan. “I do not believe that the better element in the Legion will stand for this.

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SB,OOO WATER PLANT IS URGED FOR SUNNYSIDE Engineer Submits Plan to Improve Supply at Sanatorium. Expenditure of SB,OOO on the Sunnyside tuberculosis sanatorium water plan was recommended today in a report of H. T. Best, engineer. County commissioners were planning to spend a maximum of only $1,200 when the sanatorium’s board of managers urged a change in plans whereby Best, a private engineer, would make a survey and recommendations. His recommendations .will be passed on to the county council in the form of a request for an appropriation, Commissioner Cassius L. Hogle said. Supply Is Adequate Best’s general plan for improvements takes the position that the present supply of water is adequate in quantity, but that treatment in sedimentation basins and filters is necessary. Btcter fire protection and instar tion of one new pump also are contemplated. B, st claims his plan if made operative will preclude probability of sending patients to their homes again due to water shortage, as occurred early this month. Present arrangement at the sanatorium is satisfactory unless one of the pumps goes bad. If this occurs, another serious situation would be faced. Delay of Several Weeks Best’s report recommends construction of a three-compartment sedimentation basin with 200,000 gallon capacity; installation of one new pump: erection of a glass inclosure over the basin; installation of two fire plugs and an arrangement whereby water for fire protection may be pumped simultaneously from the sedimentation basin and directly from the wells. Red tape connected with putting such a plan into operation w'ould result in a delay of several weeks at least, it was pointed out today. New Probation Officers New probation officers recently appointed in Indiana are Karl S. Griffin, Hammond city court, and John Gray, Ft. Wayne, Allen Circuit Court. There are now 121 such officers in the State.