Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1928 — Page 2

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SINCLAIR AND MARLAND OIL MERGERHINTEO Half Billion-Dollar Union of Companies Rumored ’ in Wall Street. NEW YORK, March 9. —Wall Street is discussing rumors of a $500,000,000 oil combination involving the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation and Marland Oil Company. That rumor is given as partial reason for the sudden interest in the oil shares in which Sinclair and Marland participated vigorously, Sinclair rising to new high ground for the year. It has been rumored often that Harry F. Sinclair planned to retire. No verification has ever been obtainable, however. Sinclair and Marland are almost non-competing and this strengthened the merger rumor, in the opinion of stock traders. It was learned that bankers recently went over the books of the Marland 0:1 Company in which J. P. Morgan. & Cos. is said to have a large interest. Sinclair Consolidated Oil operates in all sections of the country. It also has large holdings in Central America and Portuguese West Africa. Through foreign interests it operates in England, France and Belgium. The Marland Oil Company is principally a holding company, with important holdings in the Mid-Conti-nent field. Texas, Louisiana, California, Colorado, Mexico and several provinces of western Canada. Closer relationship between Sinclair and Standard Oil of Indiana, which jointly own the Sinclair Pipe Line Company and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company, also has been discussed, but fear of adverse Federal trade commission opinion on such a deal gives it little weight.

EDGAR LOSH IS DEAD; BURIAL TO BE SATURDAY Native of Indiana Had Spent Most of Life in Farming. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the McNeeley & Sons’ undertaking establishment for Edgar Losh, 58, who died suddenly Thursday at his home, 3708 W. Tenth St. Burial will be at Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Losh was a native of Brookville, Ind., and much of his life was spent in farming. He first came to Indiajiapolis thirty years ago and worked for the Standard Wheel Works. Later he returned again to the farm and only recently Returned to this city. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Elsie Losh; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Attkisson and Miss Irene Losh, both of Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. James C. Baugh of Indianapolis, and Mrs. C. H. Bennett of Detroit; a brother, George W. Losh of Indianapolis. Another brother, John W. Losh, one-time Democratic candidate for nomination for mayor, preceded him in death. , FIRE DAMAGE IS $3,275 Overheated Steve Causes $3,00!) Blaze in Two-Story House. An overheated stove was believed to have started a fire in the upper part of a two-story frame dwelling at 416 N. Noble St., late Thursday, causing damage estimated at $3,000. The Daniel Farthing family occupied the second floor. Mrs. E. J. Clark, who lived downstairs, was nearly overcome by smoke. Fire of undetermined origin caused S2OO damage in the offices of the Johnson Bain Coal Company, 359 W. Ray St., early today. A garage owned by Paul Emhart, 1940 Shelby St., was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin this morning. Loss was $75. ASTERS FOR CAR TIRES Edison Finds Rubber Per Cent Also in Dandelions. By United Press NEW YORK, March 9.—Asters are 3 per cent rubber and there is enough tire material in dandelions and golden rods to provide an emergency supply should the occasion arise. This according to announcement from the laboratories of America’s inventive wizard, Thomas Edison.

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Then Doctor Told Her Quickest Way to Get Relief— Cold Soon Disappeared By taking the timely advice of her doctor, Miss Margaret Miller, like numbers of Indianapolis people, has found the quickest and surest home treatment to end a cough or deep seated chest cold. Miss Miller had neglected her cold several days, thinking it would “cure itself.” But instead, it started streading down towards her lungs, causing her to cough so hard in a movie the other night that people stared at her. The day following she began to feel “feverish,” feared pneumonia and called her doctor for advice. Relief began inside of an hour when the doctor gave her double 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. She felt the comforting, healing warmth from her throat deep down into her chest. By night the “feverish” feeling had left and she was able to breathe freely and sleep without coughing. The next day she awoke to find that practically all traces of the cold were gone, and in a day or so, doctors report, she was as well as ever; %

Spelling, Bee Is Praised by 1927 State Champion

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Indiana Interest Growing in This Year’s Contest in Schools. The 1927 Indiana Spelling Bee champion is Miss Mildred Riddle, of Valley Mills, Ind., and she walked away with all the State honors in last year's contest. Miss Riddle went to Washington, D. C., for the national finals with Miss Flora E. Drake, assistant superintendent of Indianapolis schools, as the chaperone. Expenses for both were paid by The Indianapolis Times. But it remained for a boy. Dean Lucas, of Akron, Ohio, to win over all others in the country and be named National champion. Strong in Praise of Event Both Miss Riddle and Lucas are strong in their praise of the Spelling Bee. “Although I didn't take the grand prize, I learned more about spelling in the contest than I ever did before,” says Miss Riddle. The initial Spelling Bee contest opens Friday in every grade school room eligible in nineteen counties with more than 50,000 children competing. The next contest will be held March 16 to determine the building champion. Then the county champions will be named. The Times will award a special certificate to every winner in every grade room eligible in Marion and Boone County. The certificates will be signed by the superintendent of schools and the editor of The Times. Interest High in City Building champions will be given a sterling silver medal. Parents are invited to attend the initial room contests in which their children are entered. Just call the school principal. Miss Drake is sponsoring the contest in the Indianapolis public schools and reports interest high. The Rev. Francis Mellen is in charge of Indianapolis parochial school contests. Lee V. Swails, Marion County superintendent of schools, is sponsoring the contest in this county outside Indianapolis. C. O. Caplinger, Boone County superintendent of schools, is working out the spelling bee in Boone County. BORNS IS IN RACE City Lawyer Asks Re-Election to Seat in Legislature. Attorney Frank Borns of Indianapolis has announced his candidacy for re-election to the lower House of the Indiana Legislature on the Republican ticket. He is a native of Marion County and one of the local delegation that supported the move to make the Wright “bone-dry” law conform with the Volstead act, by permitting whisky for medicinal use.

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ATTACK U. S. SCHOOL IN CAIRO Egyptian Students Stage Huge Demonstrations. By United Press LONDON, March 9.—The American mission at Cairo advised the United Press that 1,500 Government school students at Assiut, Egypt, had staged a demonstration in front of the American College. While attempting to force students of the American college into a strike and political demonstrations, the rioters threw stones, breaking college windows. President Russell, Kenesaw, Neb., was hit by a stone without serious injury, reports said. Cairo Denies Report By United Press CAIRO, Egypt, March 9.—Twen-' ty-six persons were treated at the hospitals here after student demonstrations and police clashes, but there were no Americans involved, it was said today. There was no disorders reported this morning and the scene was quiet. It was noteworthy that the disorders were confined to students. Reports that the American college had been involved were denied, as also were reports printed abroad that the attacks had taken on a serious aspect.

BURGLARS FAIL TO GET LOOT IN THREE STORES Find Cash Register Empty; Foiled by Fruit Stand Safe. Buiglars had a bad night on Massachusetts Ave. Thursday. They entered three places, but failed to get any returns on the labor invested. At Cozy Inn. restaurant at 759 Massachusetts Ave., they opened an empty cash register. Then they took a slot machine from the front room into the kitchen and smashed it with a meat cleaver. Apparently the flying nickles made so much noise that the burglars fled, for the coins were found scattered about the floor. The Frank Linder meat market, 533 Massachusetts Ave., and the H. J. Riebe fruit store, 535 Massachusetts Ave., were ransacked. The burglars knocked the nobs off the fruit store safe, but failed to get into the cash drawers. SYMMES’ PLAN IGNORED Gubernatorial Candidate Unmoved by Suggestion to Withdraw. Republican candidates for Governor today took no cognizance of a suggestion made by one of their number, Arthur Symmes of Linton, that they all withdraw and leavethe selection with the State committee. • “I am the only Republican candidate for Governor who brings no squalling baby to lay in the lap of the party,” Symmes said in a statement. He advocates good roads as the basis of his campaign. SEEK TWO MEN, BOY Three Persons Are Reported to Police as Missing. Three persons were reported to be missing today, police records show. They are Kenneth Miller, 13, of 1725 Lord St., reported by his father, Arthur Miller; Simon J. Hyder, 60, of 1704 N. Delaware St., reported by his stepson, E. A. Moore, and George Huckleberry, 20, of 4155 Randolph St., reported by his mother. W. C. T. U. Frowns Again FRESNO, Cal., March 9.—A resolution passed by the local W. C. T. U. stated members considered immoral the practice of girls driving to their favorites irrigation ditches clad only in bathing suits. Man, 85, Has Second Child LUCAS, Kan., March 9.—S. P. Djnsmore. 85, is giving away cigars in celebration of the birth of a tenpound baby boy. Three yeans ago his wife, who is > now 23, gave birth to a baby g’rl.

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NORTHWEST IN GRIP OF HEAVY SNOWSTORM Blizzard Covers Wide Region; New York Swept by Winter Blasts. EH United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., March 9.—One man was frozen to death as a result of the snow storm which gripped the northwest Thursday and Thursday night with temperatures between 14 and 28 degrees above zero. Snow fell virtually over all the northwest, varying from slight flurries to seven inches at Winona, Minn. Albert Eichmann, 77, Brainard, Minn., was frozen to death after falling unconscious in the yard of his home. He struck his head as he stumbled over a log. Post Storm Warnings Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 9. Storm warnings were ordered posted today from Eastport,. Me., to Delaware breakwater and small craft warnings from the breakwater south to Cape Hatteras, because of a disturbance of rapidly increasing intensity approaching the Atlantic seaboard from Ohio. The storm, according to the Weather Bureau, will be attended by easterly gales this afternoon shifting to west tonight. Snow Sweeps New York Bn United Press NEW YORK, March 9.—A violent snow storm was sweeping New York today. Falling temperatures accompanied the flurry. Weather bureau forecasts indicated the snow’ would continue for several hours, turning to sleet or rain by night. Heavy Snow in East By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa.. March 9. A snow’storm of midwinter force struck parts of central Pennsylvania today. The snow started-shortly before 5 a. m. and as it continued increased in intensity. At 10 a. m. the fall was estimated in excess of two inches. The mountain section of Pennsylvania was experiencing the first heavy snowfall of the winter and traffic was seriously impeded. At 10 o’clock six inches of snow had fallen in Altoona. Snow Probable in Ohio By United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9 Drizzling rain was general over Ohio today, with prospects of snow flurries in the northern section by tomorrow night. Temperatures today ranged from 25 to 35 above. DEFEND OLD NAVY YARD Naval Chiefs Opposed to Proposal to Abandon Brooklyn Project. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 9.—Naval authorities flatly are opposed to the recently revived proposal that the Brooklyn Navy Yard be abolished, it was learned today. Secretary Wilbur recently told a delegation of Brooklyn labor men he did not favor the suggestion, which was made by Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder before a House committeee. Mayor Walker gave his indorsement to the proposal here Wednesday in a conference with the New York congressional delegation. He suggested the space occupied by the yard could be better used for commercial docks.

VISITS COLUMBIA CLUB National Head of American Business Clubs Here Today. John Petritz, national president of the American Business Club, was entertained today at luncheon at the Columbia Club. Petritz is visiting clubs in the middle West. Dirigible to Carry Four Planes ATLANTIC CITY, March 6. Four airplanes will be carried on the next dirigible which the United States builds, said Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, of the Los Angeles. The new ship will be twice as large as the Los Angeles. Basketball Celebraters Set Free fill United Press CHICAGO, March 9.- -Exuberance over victory of his basketball team is not exactly criminal on the part of thfe average high school youth. Judge Finnegan ruled here in dismissing riot charges against eight school boys. She’s a “Fireman” Now BRONXVILLE, N. Y„ March 9. —Mrs. Henry G. McGarvey, wife of a prominent physician, has become the first woman of the volunteer fire department.

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Storm Obscures Vision of Airmen; Land After 18 1-2 Hours. By l nited Press MT. CLEMENS. Mich., March 9. —A mushy snow, driven by a powerful wind, forced Eddie Stinson and Capt. George Haldeman to abandon their effort to create anew world's endurance flight record at 3 a. m. today. At that time they had been aloft in the special Stinson-Detroiter airplane eighteen and one-half hours. The long-winged orange and black plane had performed admirably until the snowstorm, which piled up four inches of snow’, obscured vision and periled the filers’ safety. The Whirlwind motor, which had worked 420 hours before the flight started, performed perfectly, the fliers said. Before retiring, Stinson said, if weather conditions permitted, they would re-start their attempt today.

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PROBE THREAT ON MOTOR COP; SLAYERSOU6HT Schoen Murder Baffles Police: Second Officer Is Menaced. Detectives investigated a threat on another policeman today, but still were without clews to the slayer who shot down Patrolman Norman Schcen, 88 N. Irvington Ave., in front of his home Tuesday night. Police are “up against a stone wall” in the hunt for Schoen’s murderer,” Detective Chief Jerry Kinney said. Detectives are investigating the threat on the life of Motorcycle Officer Theodore McNeill, 942 Congress Ave., assigned to the park board. McNeill reported to Capt. Leonard Forsythe that a man came to his home Thursday afternoon and asked his mother for something to eat. She said she did not have anything and the man cursed her. When his father put him into the street and told him to leave or he would call his son, a policeman, the man replied. “All right, go ahead. They just killed one of them and I’ll be back and get him.” Kinney assigned two detectives to investigate the threat. In the meantime, ten other detectives have made a thorough search of the vicinity where Schoen, was shot.

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