Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1928 — Page 17

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IDLENESS OF FOUR INDIANA PLANTS ENDS Operations Again at Greensburg, Vcodersburg, Richmont and LaGrange. ’J[E PLAN EXPANSION Larger Factories for Kokomo, Evansville, Auburn, Ft. Wayne, Valparaiso. BY CHARLES C. STONE , State Editor. The Times Resumption of operations by four Indiana plants idle for periods varying from a few weeks to four years; expansion programs by five others and formation of two new manufacturing companies are noteworthy in a business survey of Indiana for the s'eek ended today. The plant of the Bromwell Wire and Brush Company, Greensburg, idle for four years, has been purchased by the Cyclone Fence Company, Waukegan, 111., which will reopen it within sixty days for the manufacture of screen wire, employing a force of 75 to 100. Veedersburg’s principal industry, the Rose Shale Brick Company, closed for several months, has resumed operations. The plant was recently taken over by the Central Brick Company as a part of a million dollar merger. Thirty-five men are at work in the Indiana Body Company plant, Richmond, operations having been resumed after a reorganization. It is planned to increase the force to sixty soon. Elkhart Men Buy Plant An idle period for the LaGrange Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturing Company, LaGrange, will end soon. A grciup of Elkhart men, headed by H. F. Fawcett recently purchased the plant and propose to operate it as soon as invoicing, now in progress, is completed. The J. W. Leach Company, Kokomo, plans extensive improvement of the Cole plant, Peru, recently purchased for ice manufacturing. Plans are being drawn for an addiition to the laboratory of the Mead Johnson plant, Evansville. A two-story brick office building is to be erected for the Auburn Automobile Company, Auburn. Recently the company completed a new service building in which machinery valued at SIOO,OOO was installed. An addition that will double plant capacity is being built for the Truck Engineering Company, Ft. Wayne, at a cost of SIB,OOO. A brick and steel addition, 42x92 feet, is to be built to the Indiana Steel Products Company plant at Valparaiso. The Women’s Wear Service Corset Company has been formed at Huntington and plans an early start of operations. It has a capital of $30,000. Furniture Factory Opens Production has been started by the Grand Furniture Company, Hammond’s first furniture manufacturing concern. Fifty-four men are on the pay roll. The company announces enough orders booked to assure steady operation for six months. Building slumped sharply in Indiana during February. The total for the month in 1927 was $5,877,140; for this year, $3,087,673. Os twentytwo cities included in this survey, gains were shown by only five. These were Elkhart, Hammond, Marion, Shelbyville and Vincennes. Other business survey data for the week follows; BLUFFTON—Business men here are elated over purchase by the B. K. Settergren Company of this city of the Estey Piano Corporation of New York, manufacturers of the ''Estey line of pianos and organs will be carried on in the local plant as soon as details of the change in ownership are executed. Adds Twenty to Force GREENSBURG The Reliance Manufacturing Company has added twenty girls to its force. PERU—A shop has been opened here by B. .P. Pond for the manufacture of model airplanes. COLUMBUS—The Cummins Engine Company has obtained a contract from the United States Shipping Board for air compressor units to be installed on eight ships which are to be converted to Diesel operation. Bids were received at the port of New York. ANDERSON Construction of plant 8 for the Delco-Remy Corporation is being carried on as rapidly as weather permits. BLOOMINGTON The local American Legion post is cooperating with the post at Bedford in a campaign urging the United States Government to use Indiana limestone in building hospitals for disabled veterans. Steel Record Likely GARY—Stock No. 9 of the Illinois Steel Company’s Gary works is expected to set anew national production record by April 1, when the first full year of its operation closes. Already the stack has surpassed by 15,000 tons the best previous mark, made by Stack A of the American Sheet and Wire plant, Cleveland, Ohio. PLYMOUTH—Establishment of a trust fund for use in bringing industrial plants to this city is under consideration by the Chamber of Commerce. EDINBURG—The town # board Is , having plans prepared for erection of anew electric power plant. RENSSELAER—Frank G. Kresler, owner of the Palace theater, announces purchase of a site for erection of a modern motion picture theater.

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as reported in the Senate today. \ i Many Democrats have turned 1 ~4? 'pfp'gVV-& -fjm I •rnmjimmm m --- J r ANEW ape to delay action on it until they § ' f graph,’ by which news is transm: m seek to force a change of senti- § >1 ted within the walls of prisons, tc ient in the Senate. 4iiiiirriiiitiffiiiMi M William Edward Hickman the da inn n V li/ITU I limv * Os his hanging had been postpon IUU ILT Willi LINUI several hours before he was no;

MELLON TO GET DEMOCRAT AID Couzens’ Resolution Likely to Be Buried. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 23. A swing of sentiment against the Couzens resolution advising Secretary of Treasury Mellon to resign was reported in the Senate today. Many Democrats have turned against the resolution for political reasons and will prevent its adoption, Senate leaders said. Senator Reed, Pennsylvania, close friend of Mellon, has moved to send the resolution to the Finance Committee, where it will be forgotten. If Democrats carry out their threat to vote against the resolution, Reed's motion is expected to be adopted. Senators Walsh of Montana and Heflin of Alabama are expected to debate the resolution when it is brought up again. Friends of the resolution, in the face of the new adverse reports, hope to delay action on it until they can seek to force a change of sentiment In the Senate. 300 FLY WiTH LINOY Equal Number of Congressmen Still Seek Chance. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Everybody wants to fly with Lindbergh. His invitation to Congress already has been accepted by 310 members and relatives who have been taken aloft in three days, and 200 to 300 more applications received will keep him busy today and Saturday in piloting sightseeing airplanes over Washington. He started today’s flights at 9:30 a. m. Search City for Girl’s Mother Police today heeded a plea of a 13-year-old Zanesville Ohio) girl, Dorothy Stackhouse, to search the city for information about her mother, Mrs. Mary Stackhouse. The girl wrote that her mother was in this city in 1914.

LOVE THAT LASTS

Wives *Stick ' to Accused Mates

By Times Special |7'T. WAYNE, Ind., March 23. Miss Maxine Charters, 19, became the bride of Frank Woods, 31, convicted of holding up the Randall Investment Company office here Dec. 10 last, on the eve of his departure for the Indiana State Prison to serve a five to twenty-one year sentence. The couple was married in the Allen County Jail. Sheriff and Mrs. Guy Emrick “stood up” with them. Jackson, Negro, awaiting trial on an auto theft charge, played the wedding march. The Rev. J. A. Hawkins, City Missions superintendtent, performed the ceremony. “You won’t get much of a honeymoon, will you? the bride was asked. “I hope they will let me ride with him as far as the prison,” she replied.

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Here are some of the Indianapolis entries among the more than 900 pets from all over the country you may see at the Hoosier Kennel Club’s dog show opening in Tomlinson Hall Tuesday. Upper left, Alexander Bourneville Sunny Jim, a sable Pomeranian owned by Mrs. J. P. Booty, 4610 N. Keystone Ave. Upper center, Erick vrn der Markgrafenburg. imported German police dog, owned by Albe - Meyer, Trebla Kennels, 2600 block Madison Ave., with Patty May Burnett, niece of Meyer. The dog does not understand English.

STRIKERS ATTACK WORKERS IN MINE

Bn United Press CADIZ, Ohio, March 23.—Sixty striking miners, led by a woman, attacked thirty nonunion workmen as they emerged from a mine near

By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., March 23. Oscar Cook, awaiting trial on a second degree murder charge in the slaying of William Leach at a dance hall here a few weeks ago, has a loyal wife. She has come here from the home of his mother at Sharps Chapel, Tenn., to aid in defending him. “I don’t believe he would have committed a crime like that if he had not been forced to do it,” Mrs. Cook declares. “He had come here to get work and I was to join him later. ,We were in Tennessee on our honeymoon when he left me and we were intending to make Indiana our home. He was never known to be in any trouble like this before. I have come to Kokomo to get work in order to pay his lawyer, and I will stick to him and see him through. He has been a gcod, true and faithful husband. God help us.”

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Sommers today. Sticks and stones were hurled and Earl Christy, a mine superintendent, was knocked unconscious before the mob was repelled with tear bombs. The attackers were led by Mrs. John Penick, wife of a union miner, who was arrested previously on charges of inciting to riot, according to deputy sheriffs who dispersed the mob. The miners attacked were employed at Wheeling township mine No. 2, which recently was reopened on a nonunion basis. They were met with a barrage of stones and were hissed as they came from the diggings, Bolen said. A warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Penick was sworn out. , SAND COATS ICEBERGS Unusual Spectacle Along Indiana's Lake Michigan Shore. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., March 23. Sand-coated icebergs are the novel sight awaiting visitors to Dunes State Park, near here. The bergs stand about fifty feet out in Lake Michigan. Sand lifted from the dunes has been deposited on the ice until the frozen mass appears like an island in the lake. Large herring gulls, which will soon migrate to the Hudson Bay district of Canada, fly about the ice. The bergs are not expected to thaw until late this month.

Upper right, Alexander Flyhauk, black Pomeranian owned by Mrs. Booty. Middle right, Chancellor. Great Dane, owned by G. M. Williams, 5001 N. Meridian St., with George M. Williams Jr, Middle left, litter of Pomeranian pups, each about four inches long, owned by Mrs. Booty. Lower left. Toyio. a chow, owned by Clifford Errick, 3419 N. Pennsylvania St., with Miss Margaret Vance, daughter of Dr. J. C. Vance, 3040 Baltimore Ave. Lower right. La Roys Patia Guard, black cocker spaniel, owned by Mrs. B. F. Buskirk, Atoka Kennels, Pendleton Pike.

MANY RABIES Thirty Persons a Day Treated by Health Board. More than thirty persons a day, who hdve been bitten by dogs, mostly from Marion County, are being given rabies preventative treatment by the State board of health. This does not mean that all the dogs had hydrophobia. From fifteen to twenty new patients are reporting daily for treatment, according to Dr. C. F. Adams, director of laboratories of bacterilogy and pathology for the State health board. Four water meter readers were among the week’s dog-bitten victims. Three-fourths of those taking treatment are children of from 14 to 17 years of age, Dr. Adams said Each August the number reaches its high point, he said. One hundred and four persons were treated in one day last August. TRACE COTTON PROFITS Senate Told Two Mem Knew in Advance of Price Drop. Pji United Press , WASHINGTON, March 23.—A statement that two unnamed men knew in advance of the famous agriculture department cotton price trend report of last Sept. 15 was made to the Senate cotton investigators today. The department report was credited with causing a disastrous slump in the market, which, according to Senator Heflin, Alabama, “enabled somebody to make millions of dollars.”

INVENT DEVICE TO SEND AIR TO SUBS

A method whereby sailors confined In a disabled submarine may be given air, food and water If necessary and through which communication may be maintained with the rescuing ships has been perfected by two Indianapolis men, Fred Warman and Charles E. Edwards. Edwards is chief librarian of the Supreme Court law library and Warman is assistant. The device has been submitted to the navy department and both are eagerly awaiting word as to the action of the naval experts. Two engineers have made favorable reports on the device. The invention is simple in itself. It provides for openings to be made in each compartment and on both sides of the submarine. These openings normally are closed with heavy caps that are screwed on. When

‘ Twinful f By Times Special YORKTOWN, Ind.. March 23.-r-Clyde Burgess. Mt. Pleasant Township school bus driver, serves as chauffeur for three sets of twins each school day. They are Robert and Roberta Belew, Emma and Lola Manna, Paul and Pauline Pauline Antrim. There are seven other sets of twins in the township.

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hickman knew DEATH DELAYED Learned News Through ‘Underground Telegraph/ Ry l nitcd Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., March 23.—The "underground telegraph,” by which news is transmitted within the walls of prisons, told William Edward Hickman the date of his hanging had been postponed several hours before he was notified by oflicials, it was said today. The State Supreme Court Thursday set April 3 as the date for hearing of Hickman’s appeal from the sentence imposed for the murder of Marion Parker. California statute specifies hanging must be | delayed until at least thirty days | after appeal is heard. Hickman's execution was scheduled for April I 27.

the submarine is disabled, a diver, bringing with him one end of a two-inch heavy hose, unscrews the cap and attaches the hose. He then signals the confined men that the hose is attached and they unscrew the inner cap and air may be pumped through the hose. In event the hose is ruptured an automatic safety door is shut, resisting the water until anew hose is attached. The opening is not large enough to permit the entrance of much water in even of such a catastrophe, and yet is of sufficient size to permit the passage of air and of condensed food, Warman says. The plan was evolved by the men in December while discussing submarine fatalities and actual work was started when the S-4 went to the bottom, and it was announced that the need' for such device was imperative. j “It’s not money we are after, although, of course, it is always welcome,” said Warman. “But we are desirous of removing much of i the unnecessary hazard attached to j operating a submarine.” Safe Crackers Get SSOO By Times Special j LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 23. j Loot of SSOO in money and goods j was obtained by safe crackers at a ' meat market and shoe store here. I They are believed to be the same yeggs who obtained $628 by cracking five safes at Kokomo.

LAST HONORS ARE DENIED TO VICTIM OF S-4 Storm Aroused When Body Comes Home With No Burial Escort. CIVIC GROUPS ROUSED ‘Died Like Rats, Sent Back Like Rats,’ Charges Seaman’s Sister. B,U United Press RIDGEFIELD PARK, N. J„ March 23.—The body of Frank Snizek, one of the forty men who died when the submarine S-4 went to the bottom off Provincetown, came home last night unescorted, aid today citizens and civic organizations wore preparing to file protests with the Navy Department. Most of the villagers were at the railroad station when the wooden box, draped with an American flag, was lowered to the platform by baggagemen. Mrs. Anna Fabian, sister of the dead torpedo man, cried: “They died like rats, and like rats they send them home.” A meeting of Post 40, American Legion, was called hastily last night and members informally discussed the question. Officers of the post announced today no action would be taken until after Snizek’s funeral tomorrow afternoon. The Rev. Allan Mac Neill, pastor of the Union Commodity church, who will conduct the services, said the lack of a military escort might have been an oversight. Snizek was married only three weeks before the coast guard destroyer Paulding crashed into the submarine. His bride, her mother, Mrs. Joseph Adams, and his wife's brother-in-law, Fred W. Heinsz, boarded the train at Bridgeport. There, they said, naval officials had told them that a guard of honpr would meet the train at Grand Central station, New York, but they saw none. Representative Randolph Perkins of the Sixth Congressional district, was informed that no escort had been provided. He said he was leaving for Washington today and might ask for an investigation if facts warranted, Probers Close S-4 Story In it cel Press BOSTON, March 23.—The complete official story of the sinking of the submarine S-4—one of the nation’s great tragedies—probably will be endPd today. Investigators who went Into the battered hulk of the once great undersea craft—which sank after being rammed by the coast guard destroyer Paulding—expected to complete answers to the 250 questions presented them. An official report will be sent the Navy department and then with burials of the last eight men removed, the incident probably will be closed. Will in Metal Box The investigators found another note Thursday written by one of the crew, 1 who while trapped in the undersea coffin awaited the noxious gas that eventually would cause death. The note was written by Roger L. Short, Boonville, Mo., one of the six men in the torpedo room. It was on a small metal box, written in pencil, and read: “In case of my death, please send entire contents of box to my mother, Mrs. M. G. Short, 804 Spring St., Boonville, Mo. Roger L. Short.” There was not hint of those last hours when the men waited and prayed for rescue, and listened to their leader. Lieutenant Graham Fitch, tap out pleading messages to the rescuers. Medals Are Left In the tin box was found two bank books and a bill fold containing $52, an express check book containing S3O in checks and S4O in cash. There were some medals and other personal belongings. Short was serving his fourth enlistment when he died. He had seen service in the Mexican, Haitian and World war campaigns and once had been awarded a good conduct medal. S E A RC AIL A N T Northern Indiana Police Seek SelfStyled Klansmen in Banker Attack. liy Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 23. —Police here and in other northern Indiana cities are looking for a man who called himself “Jack, the KuKluxer from Chicago,’ who kidnaped, tarred and beat Homer O. Wentworth, 32, assistant cashier of the First National Bank, Ilicksville, Ohio, a short distance from the In-diana-Ohio State line. Although declaring he could not ascribe a motive for the attack, Wentworth indicated he knew the identity of his assailant. A divorce suit is pending between Wentworth and his wife, and he had just left the home of his wife’s mother, where he visited his children, when the attack occurred.

The Cat's * Eats' By Times Rpccial HAMMOND, Ind., March 23. —Feeding a cat a pint of milk daily for fourteen months, costs $34. The public works board has just paid that amount to a deliveryman who left rations at the city barn where a cat is kept to keep rats away. The bill was presented by George St. John, street commissioner.