Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1928 — Page 19

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BUSINESS OF STATE PLANS FOR BUILDING %ew Million-Dollar Union Station to Be Erected at South Bend. WORK AT SOME MINES Expiration of Wage Contract Will Not Close All Pits. By CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Business building projects are worthy of note in a survey of Indiana business for the week ended today. Tlif.oe projects include: A union station at South Bend to cost $1,000,000. Work is to begin within a few weeks. Erection of a four story theater and office building at Hammond with foundations built to accomodate six additional stories. Completion of a warehouse at Gary for the National Biscuit Company. lucreasing business made the j building necessary. It has 4,000 square feet of floor space. Evan Roper, Michigan Ciay automobile sales agent, has obtained a permit for building a $25,000 salesroom. The Hare Motor Sales Company, Bloomington, will erect a $50,000 building. A three story storage building, 40x150 feet, will be built for Columbia Woolen Mills, Columbia City. Bright Spots for Miners Despite the general gloomy outlook for the coal mining industry ; in Indiana, due to expiration Saturday of the present wage agreement, there are some bright spots. Among these is a contract held by the Princeton Mining Company, operating the Kings mine. Princeton, which does not expire until April 1, 1929, assuring employment for 200 men regardless of what action is taken in the State as a while. The same situation prevails at the Francisco mine near Princeton. Other mines are also assured of operations as their owners are not h members of the operators association and have negotiated separate ■contracts with the miners’ union ■ and will not be affected by cessation of operation Saturday. mines, confined mostly to ffgfPLsouthern part of the State, a so BRJPcontinue operations. In all, it SgwKstimated. employers not affected *|fcithe expiration of the wage conhave 50 per cent of Indiana’s ■miners on their pay rolls. From $52 to $125,009 ■ A business romance was revealed lin this week’s survey. The Monteith ■ Bros. Company,. Elkhart, started by ] Roy C. and Curtis E. Monteith, World War veterans in 1921, on a capital of $52, and which last year did a $125,000 business, has bought the Elkhart Band Instrument plant to handle increasing business. The company remakes automobile accessories. Conditions elsewhere in the State are as follows: MUNCIE—An addition to cost $4,000 will be built to the Warner Gear Company plant here. ANDERSON —A feature of Better Homes week beginning Monday will be displays of furniture by local dealers Tuesday and Wednesday. Operations have been started with a % force of seventy-five men in the 300x300 feet addition to the American Steel and Wire Mill. Production Increases TlPTON—Production has been speeded up at the General Piston Ring Company plant here until 1,250,000 rings are being made monthly. WASHINGTON—Twenty to thirty men are assured of employment during the summer at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops in making concrete piling and slabs to be used in construction of four bridges. The shops freight car department has been idle for a few days owing to failure of material to arrive. SOUTH BEND The Bendix Brake Company has bought a three story building near its plant for $150,000 to care for expansion. The company now has 1,300 persons on its pay roll. KOKOMO—Regarding conditions here, Frank McCarty, Citizens National Bank president says: “Manufacturing in Kokomo has started p off much better than it did last L year with every indication that it will B take on added impetus as the ■ months pass.” ■ Terre Haute Seeks Factory I TERRE HAUTE—A SIO,OOO fund H is being raised to bring the Louisttville Pipe Organ Company plant to ■ this city. The company had a ■ $24,000 pay roll in 1927. I MARSHALL—Dairy farmers have ■ met requirements for establishment ■ here of a Kraft Cheese Company ■ plant. i BRAZlL—Merchants have decided ■to re-establish the Golden Rule sales ■plan and will hold sales weekly in- ■ stead of monthly as in the past. ■ FT. WAYNE—An increase of ■nearly three per cent in freight ■handled during February this year plover the same month in 1927, is ■noted in a report of the Ft. Wayne ■division of the Pennsylvania rail■road covering the last eight months. ■ GARY—When the first quarter of ■1928 ends Saturday, it is believed the ■Gary worke of the Illinois Steel ■ Company will have made one of the W best quarterly production records I in Its history. The local works are I operating at 95 per cent of capacity I with good prospects of operations A continuing at a high rate.

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DOT MACKAYE HAPPY IN CELL

Heart, Feet Still Dance as She Waits Back of Bars

B,y United Press SAN QUENTIN, Cal., March 30.—Life in San Quentin Penitentiary is not so bad after all, says Dorothy Mackaye, stage and screen star. Dorothy danced before she went to prison. She danced on board the ferry that took her to the gates of the great, stone structure, and her heart continues to dance beneath the rough blue and white dress, which is her prison costume. She was sentenced for concealing the facts in connection with the death of her husband, Ray Raymond, killed in a fist fight with Paul Kelly, screen star. On the other side of the “big wall” that separates the women’s and men’s sections of the prison, is Paul Kelly, also serving sentence for the death of Raymond. “Dot” is willing to talk—of everything but Kelly. She spoke freely of the convent which she attended as a girl, she spoke of her trial and of her time in the Los Angeles jail, but she refused to discuss Kelly. “Why bring that up?” was her reply to a question whether she wished to see him. “I never slept better,” Dot said. “My appetite is fine. “I enjoy the fresh air and I'm having a good time. “In fact, there aren’t many rules and restrictions here as there were in the convent in Texas, where I was educated. “You know, I was afraid of the penitentiary before I came. Ppnnlp told me so manv terrible

STORM KILLS 4 IN ALABAMA Many Towns Isolated; Houses Collapse. Bjj United Press ARGO. Ala., March 30.—High winds swept over northern Alabama Thursday night and early today. Incomplete reports from over the area declared four persons had been killed. Clay and Argo were believed to have suffered the greatest damage. Many towns were isolated by the storm and details of damage were meager. Wires were down through the area. Nelson and Mrs. Mann, who live on a farm between here and Clay, were killed when their home collapsed in tht heavy wind. The Byers were also caught in the wreckage of their home. Six children were said to be seriously injured.

MRS. COOLIDGE’S VISITS TO MOTHER DECREASED Grave Condition of Mrs. Goodhue Makes Calls Necessary. Bn United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 30.—The condition of Mrs. Lemira Goodhue was such that Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has decreased the number of her daily visits. Thursday, Mrs. Coolidge visited the hospital only once, that in the late nfternoon. She remained for more than an hour with her mother. She decreased her visits fearing to weaken her mother’s condition. Doctors last night reported Mrs. Goodhue resting fairly comfortably.

ILLINOIS MINERS TO WALK OUT APRIL 1

CHICAGO, March 30.—A strike in the soft coal fields after Saturday, at least in Illinois, became inevitable today with announcement by President Harry Fishwick of the Illinois miners’ union that nothing would be done to prevent a cessation of operations. The temporary wage agreement under which the Illinois bituminous mines now are operating ends April 1. The Jacksonville wage scale is being paid and the Illinois’ Operators’ Association decided not to sign new contracts with the miners unless they provided for “modification of the Jacksonville agreement.” The miners are bound not to accept any reduction from the Jacksonville scale of $7.50 per day. “We shall abide by the ruling of the policy committee of the United Mine Workers of America, that working miners shall receive the Jacksonville wage scale,” Fishwick said. “There will be a number of mines continuing operations after April 1, however, where the owners agree to the Jacksonville scale. Undoubtedly there will be other operators desiring to continue production who also will enter into separate agreements.” Fifteen hundred miners working in strip mines in Indiana will continue in the pits after April 1, it was definitely deeded. Anew agreement was signed providing for the scale. The Indiana situation was brightened further by the action of the Operators’ Association in allowing its membership to enter into individual agreements with the mine workers’ organizaton. This tended to bear out predictions of union officials that April 1 would sea little change in the mining situation in Indiana. The lowa situation also looked much better than that of Illinois today when President Joe Morris of

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stories, but this has ths Los Angeles County Jail beaten a block. "The only thing I’m sorry about is the stigma it places on my child.” “Dot” Mackaye. who danced before the footlights, had her whirl before the kleigs and her frolic beneath the mazdas, has been assigned to cleaning cells in the prison, and she is game.

INDIANA LINE ASKS PLACE IN MERGER

Gloom ! Du Time ft Special PORTLAND. Ind.. March 30. —Small boys here are exclaiming “There ain’t no Santa Claus or , nothin'.” Chief of Police Edward Loper has issued orders forbidding roller skating and bicycle riding on sidewalks ancl also playing “shinny” in the streets.

FIRE THREATENS FAMED VILLAGE Sweeps Maryland Sea Food Town Unchecked. Bn United Press POCOMOKE CITY. Md„ March 30.—Crissfield, Md., famous seafood town, twenty-seven miles from here, was partly destroyed by fire last night. Early this morning flames that had swept through four or five blocks of the business district were still out of control, though firemen from Crissfield and nearby towns had fought them since 7:30 Thursday night. Telephone communication was destroyed. The fire starting in the Arcade Theater, spread rapidly. A second theater, the Brick Hotel and numerous stores and dwellings were burned. The city hall and other public buildings were said to be directly in the path of the conflagration. Engines from Seaford, Laurel and Delmar, all distant towns, were called to aid those from Maryland communities. Crissfield is on the east shore of Chesapeake Bay, about 120 miles from Baltimore.

District Thirteen, United Mine Workers,'announced that regardless of the action taken in the neighboring State that mines were expected to continue operating in lowa. JAMES P. YOUNG DIES City Man Drops Dead While Visiting Daughter at Bedford. While visiting a daughter at Bedford, Ind., James Henry Young, 63, of 544 South West St., dropped dead Thursday. The body is to be brought here for burial. Death was caused from heart disease. Surviving are the widow, five sons, Charles, Clarence, Frederick, Henry and Lewis Young, all of this city, and two daughters, Mrs. Harry Foster of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Pevry Lynn, whom he was visiting. Retired, But Business Like By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., March 30.—E. W. Smith is a retired business man, but he still attends to business. He just had presented a demand for refund of a $5 water meter deposit made Aug. 11, 1911, on a rental property which he sold recently.

DUTCH VIKINGS SET OUT FOR U. S. IN 20 FOOT BOAT

BY MILTQN BRONNER NEA Service Writer T ONDON, March 30.—Not since the hardy Vikings sailed from Norway across stormy seas and actually reached Greenland and perhaps the American continent has a bolder enterprise been undertaken than the journey of the Schuttevaer. The Schuttevaer is a mere steel and oak lifeboat, twenty-one feet long, six feet wide at the broadest portion and so low in the water that a man of ordinary height can-

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Over her blue and white dress, when it is chilly, she wears a simple sweater. She looks forward to the time when the State will have claimed its penalty because she wouldn’t “kiss and tell,” and she can go to Europe, to start again. The fight which ended in Raymond’s death was caused by a quarrel over attentions Kelly paid to Dot.

Attica Road Inclusion With Van Sweringen Combine Is Possible. By BEN STF.RN Strong pressure is being brought to bear upon promoters of two important railroad mergers to include the Chicago. Attica Sc Southern railroad in their proposed combines, it was learned today. Indiana Congressmen have been pledged to use their influence in behalf of the inclusion of this small freight railroad in either the Van Sweringen enterprise of the New York Central and Big Four combine. But 145 miles in length, the C., A. & S. has undergone vicissitude-, that are historic and today is doing a greater business than ever before in its history. It serves forty-two towns and sidings in seven Indiana counties, thirty of which would be without railway service if it were not for this struggling line. Thirty-two grain elevators depend upon it for service to the Chicago market. Freight Prices Low This railroad underprices all other lines in the same territory in the haulage charge on grain to Chicago. Where competitive lines charge 14 Va cents a hundred pounds from Attica to Chicago, this line charges 9 cents. Forced into abandonment in 1922 by stockholders of the C. & E. I. railroad, to which system it belonged, farmers and merchants of the territory it served obtained a certificate of convenience and necessity from the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1923, bought up the outstanding bonded indebtedness, and started hauling. Limited in its field, the road rented car equipment. In 1915 the property was valued at more than $4,000,000. When forced into abandonment in 1922, it had a deficit of $300,000. Its valuation on Dec. 31, 1927, was $2,650,000 and it is slowly coming out of its indebtedness. Started In 1873 It was started in 1873 as the Chicago and Indiana Coal Line, and fought along until 1890, when it was purchased by the C. & E. 1. railroad. Although of utmost necessity to its terrieory, it never was a money maker, and its bond holders argue that it will prove profitable only as part of a larger road. The line is crossed at various points by the Clover Leaf, N. Y. C. & St. L., Pennsylvania and Erie. The farmers and merchants who came to its rescue in 1923 are the sole bond holders, while the stock is owned by C. F. Propst, of Attica, president and general manager. Car loadings handled by the line have jumped 500 this year, George Barnard, general counsel, declared and they average between 2,500 and 3,000 yearly. Asa part of the merger, it would form an important link from grain areas of Laporte, Newton, Benton, Lacrosse, Knox, Fountain and Parke Counties to the Chicago and Cleveland grain markets. Leaves Home Over Soup Diet CHICAGO, March 30.—George Rodney appeared in domestic court here in answer to his wife’s nonsupport complaint and said he left home becausehome, because his, wife fed him “soup and sausage every day of the week.”

not stand up in it. Aboard it, four heardy Dutch seamen have set forth from Westminster Bridge pier in the Thames at London, with their destination New York. The little ship, a maritime novelty built by J. P. Schuttevaer of Rotterdam, who is seventy years of age, is believed unsinkable. It has a large triangle keel, ballasted with water tanks. These will right the ship in any kind of sea, Schuttevaer thinks. There are only four openings into its hold, and in stormy weather these are covered by water-tight steel hatches.

BYRD TELLS SOUTH POLE FLIGHT PUNS New Book Relates Story of Career and Reveals Future Hopes. EXPEDITION ELABORATE Will Carry Three Planes, 75 Dogs: Purpose of Trip Scientific. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. March 30.—Commantier Richard E. Byrd, U. S. N„ who in 1926 flew with Floyd Bennett to the north pole; last year flew to France; and now seeks to fly to the south pole, tells the story of his adventurous career and of his future hopes in a book which he calls “Skyward,” published today by G. P. Putnam’s sons. Byrd terms the south pole the “last challenge” to the explorer and the flier and expresses his determination to meet the challenge. Will Take Three Planes He reveals that it is his plan to sail with his party in September of this year, and by the first week m January, 1929, hopes to be in Ross Sea, where the base will be established. He will take one large monoplane and two smaller planes, to be used in the explorations. Floyd Bennett will be his second in command. The main base probably will be on the Bay of Whales on the Ross Ice Barrier or else at Discovery Harbor, on the opposite side of the barrier. Amundsen based at the Bay of Whales lor his trip to the south pole while Scott used Discovery Bay. "Our base then, will probably be established on snow-covered ice,” Byrd writes. “This will be about the same thing as camping on a stationary iceberg. It docs not seem a practical thing, but I believe it is.” Must Be Self-Sustaining "There is no place where one can get so fr from human life,” Byrd writes. “Our base will be 2.300 miles from the nearest human dwell-, ing. It must be a self-sustaining unit capable of maintaining itself indefinitely without outside help, because if we should have to spend the Antarctic night, or if our ship should get injured in the ice, there is no telling how long we might have to stay down there.” Seventy-five Eskimo dogs, some of which are now being trained by Arthur T. Walden. Wonalancet, N. H.. will be a part of the equipment. Most of these dogs will come from Greenland or northern Canada. Caterpillar tractors also will be a main base equipment. We hope to finish the mission or our expedition during the Antarctic summer, which will last until about March 1,” Byrd writes. “That would give us about two months for operations.” Will Have Sub- Bases Sub-bases will be established on the ice-barrier between the main base and the Pole. “In a forced landing in any kind of weather within 500 miles from tlie base, there would be a chance of getting back with bases down every 100 miles,” Byrd writes. “Without them there would be no chance. ... On the final flight to the Pole the flying done after the last base is passed will be hazardous, of course, because should there be a forced landing with the planes out of commission, our ability to return to the nearest base would be very far from a certainty.” May Carry Dogs The plane to be used in the final flight will have to be able to lilt its load to an altitude of 20,000 feet as the Pole itself is on a great ice plateau, 10,000 feet above sea level. It is possible, Byrd reveals, that a team of Eskimo dogs and a small sled will be carried in the plane when the final flight is made. The expedition will make many photographs and its scientists will study not only the atmospheric conditions, the ice barrier, and the currents, but also the geology of the mountain peaks expected to be encountered; and will search for living things, plant or animal, of which there seems to be but little in those parts of “Antarctica” thus far known. CABBAGE TO BE GROWN Moragn County Farmers to Raise Crop for Kraut Canning. By Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., March 30. —Several Morgan Cuonty farmers will raise cabbage this summer for kraut canning purposes. The Van Camp Packing Company experimented with cabbage growing and kraut canning at its local plant last summer. Convinced by the research, the company is now contracting with growers for cabbage to be produced this summer.

T'vURING extensive tests made in Holland the boat was pushed off a bigger vessel into the water, made a clean dive, and arose immediately after being submerged. “The principal value of my invention,” said the old man, “is that it shows how big steamships can be provided with absolutely unsinkable lifeboats. “I am show’ng my entire confidence in my invention by undertaking at my age the voyage across the Atlantic at a period of the year when heavy storms are the rule.

Model Depicts Its Viking Builder’s Love for Sea

EXPRESSING the great interest in nautical subjects inherited from his Viking ancesters, Carl Torkildson, 11E. McCarty St., has reproduced in minature a model British racing sloop. “The Alice” shown here with its builder is complete in every respect from its silk sails to its tiny cabin containing green cushion benches, two Jeds and a chiffonier. According to Torkildson, who has been in this country about nineteen years, learned much about the sea and its ships during his boyhood, which was spent in Oslo, Norway. There has always been a Torkildson in the Norwegian navy, so this Torkildson, though following the trade of a jeweler, has satisfied his love of the sea by carefully building this model ship, spending eight months of careful work in its construction.

The tiny sloop measure two feet from the top of the mast to the keel. All the metal parts are of sterling silver except the pulley which is of wood with brass wheels. The cabin, which is a cubic inch of wood, opens with mahogany doors, inlaid with maple which is used throughout the boat. The decks are of hardwood. If the miniature craft were to be built in the proportions from which it was reduced it would stand twenty-six feet high and measure nearly twenty-four feet from bow to stern. Torkildson has -lived in Indianapolis only a month, formerly making Detroit his home. “The Alice” ’•eceived the highest medal awarded for ship models at the Pan-Ameri-can Exposition in San Francisco, 1915.

ELASTIC JERKS PISTOL AWAY AFTER SUICIDE Randolph County Authorities Seek Motive of Arba Man. By Times Special ARBA, Ind., March 30.—Adam Mercer, 60, farmer, who committed suicide by shooting with a pistol tied a piece of elastic to the weapon so that it was jerked beneath a barn at his home here after it had accomplished its death-deal-ing mission. Randolph County authorities are making an investigation to determine whether Mercer used the elastic in an effort to hide suicide or in the hope that a theory that he was murdered would be established. Members of the family told authorities Mercer had been acting strangely two days preceding his death. VALUES ‘STEVE’ STORY Pennsylvania Lawyer Believes Convict Aids Klan Ouster. Pjl United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. March 30. —Shortly before he departed from here today, Van A. Barrickman, Pittsburgh (Pa.) attorney, said he had obtained information from D. C. Stephenson which he believed would aid him to win his fight to “oust” the Ku-Klux Klan from Pennsylvania. Stephenson, former Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klin, and now a life term prisoner in the State prison here, presented Barrickman with a deposition regarding Klan affairs, according to the attorney. “I believe I’ve got information enough now to win the fight,” Barrickman said as he left for Pennsylvania. Everybody Knows Dwight NEW YORK, March 30.—The Rev. P. J. McGrath asked a cab driver in Mexico City how to pronounce the name of the Mexican president. “Senor Dwight Morrow” the driver answered. German Elections in May Bn United Press BERLIN, March 30. Federal authorities were advised today the German general elections will be held May 20. The cabinet set the date, which must be approved by President Von Hindenburg.

My companions have as much faith in the craft as I. We expect to make the trip to New York in anywhere from forty to sixty days, depending upon the weather. “The craft has no power plant of any kind. In fair weather we will spread sails and skim along at eight to ten miles an hour. When heavy sease are breaking, we will batten everything down and keep below, as snug as a bug in a rug. u n b XAT K originally had a wireless TV along, but had to discard it

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SCHOOL BATTLE GOES T 9 COURT Tax Commission’s Authority Is Attacked. Authority of the State tax board over the Indianapolis school district is attacked in a suit filed late Thursday by the school board in Superior Court 2. A distinction between a municipal corporation and the school city corporation is drawn in the suit, and it is alleged the tax board has no authority over the latter. Superior Judge Linn D. Hay will be called upon to settle the legal question involved in the dispute, which arose recently when the tax board ordered “open and competitive bidding” on heating and ventilating equipment. The State board declined to authorize a $600,000 bond issue for grade school additions, on the ground that heating and ventilating specifications were closed in favor of the apparatus of C. C. Shipp. The legislative act relating to the tax board does not mention the school city, and any authority it attempts to exercise over the school city is a usurpation of power, the school board contends. MUR DEN ON ROAD BOAR D Pci'll Man Succeeds Ziegler on Highway Commission. Jesse E. Murden, Peru, Ind., was appointed to the State highway commission Wednesday by Governor

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Ed Jackson. He succeeds the present chairman, Charles W. Ziegler, Attica, Ind. Both are Republicans. Ziegler’s term expires April 17. Murden is Republican chairman of the Eleventh District. He is said to be favorable to) Director John D. Williams, as well as to Jackson. He is also listed as a supporter of Secre-

tary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier for the governorship. Faculty Member Writes Book By Times Special NOTRE DAME, Ind., March 30. — Another member of the University of Notre Dame faculty is an author. He is Prof. R. L. Greene, department of pharmacy head, and for twenty-five years teacher in the College of Science. His book is “The Chemistry of Health.” Written in every-day language, the central idea of the book is that “life is a series of chemical reactions initiated by the Great Chemist who created the Universe.”

because it took too much room and also interfered with our compass. When we are in sight of New York, my fellow countryman, M. Fokker, the famous airman, will come out in his motor boat and tow us into New York harbor.” In the fore part of the ship the crew stowed provisions consisting of dried fish, bacon, ham, sea biscuit, sugar, coflee, tea and cocoa. The stern of the ship is given over to bunks. In fair weather there will be just enough room for the crew to sprawl out on the deck.

WOMEN PLEAD FOR M’CLURE; HE KEEPS JOB City Recreation Director to Stay in Spite of Slack’s Desires. LOCKED DOOR SESSION Park Board Members Vote Unaminously After Hearing Delegations. Recreation Director Jesse P. McClure today retained his $3,000 city post as the result of the pleas of mothers and fathers and friends of children who are to benefit by the city’s park and recreation program at the city park board Thursday afternoon. The delegation defeated Mayor 1.. Ert Slack’s move to oust McClure. For several weeks Slack has been seeking to remove McClure. At last week’s meeting. Board President John E. Milnor moved that Henry Goett, Democratic party worker, be given McClure's place. McClure, a Republican, was appointed during former Mayor John L. Duvall's administration. Board Membe” Michael E. Foley, a Democrat, however, suggested that action be deferred unLi! this week. Slack Keeps Hands Off After a conference with the board Thursday, Slack announced lie would pursue a hands-off policy. After hearing the delegations’ arguments Thursday and holding an hour’s locked door session, into which McClure was called, the boanl unanimously voted to retain McClure. Foley made the motion, seconded by Mrs. Mary Hoss. Those who appeared for McClure included Mrs. H. K. Willwerth of the Women's Club of Municipal Gardens; Mrs. Ella Van Sickle Gardner, Marion County Representative in the last Legislature; H. A. Campbell of the Better Business League of North Indianapolis; James Willard of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company; H. F. Kottkamp of the Garfield and Surroundings Civic League; and Mrs. C. A. James, representing the neighborhoods surrounding Brookside and Spades Parks. Plead for McCiure They pleaded that McClure has been conducting his department efficiently and that his dismissal would work havoc with plans for recreation work this summer, when it is most important. It would take anew man a year to learn his work and put the city to the expense of paying him while he studied recreational programs in other cities, they contended. The board then retired to an inner room, locking the doors and stationing park board employes on guard. Mayor Slack cane to the board offices and was unable to get in at one door. He was recognized from the through the glass at the other door and admitted. He talked to Foley at one side of the room for a few minutes and left. Object to Theater The board referred to a committee a petition asking permission to erect a 1.200-seat theater to cost $150,000 at Comer Ave. and Shelby St„ near Garfield Park, presented by J. Friedman, 2119 Prospect St. Attorney George Rinier presented a petition signed by 150 remonstrators. A favorable petition signed by 270 residents of the neighborhood was presented. ADMITS SETTING HOUSE AFIRE TO SCARE WIFE Columbus Negro Pleads Guilty to Arson Charge. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 30. Confessing he set fire to his father's-in-law home to give his wife “a scare,” Anthony Goodpasture, Negro, pleaded guilty to first degree arson today in Bartholomew Circuit Court. Three days’ grilling by George 3. Coogan, inspector for the arson division of the State fire marshal’s office, brought fi'om Goodpasture the admission that he set fire to the house last Monday night while hia wife, child and four others slept there. He had brooded over domestic troubles, he said, and didn’t intend to harm the family. All escaped from the blaze without injury. ‘CHARGED’ MAN TO FARM Starts Thirty-Day Sentence: Found Guilty on Three Points. Max Pruitt, 24, giving his address as city, began serving a thirty-day Indiana State Farm sentence given him Thursday in municipal court when he was found guilty on threo of six charges lodged against him by police last Sunday. He was charged with driving his automobile into the C. 6c C. Brick Company Bldg., 816 Washington Ave. Special Judge John W. Kern fined Pruitt SIOO and costs and added a sentence of thirty days each on charges of intoxication and driving an automobile while intoxicated. The fine and one sentence was suspended. A fine of $1 and costs was inflicted for failure to have license plates. Charges of resisting arrest, carrying concealed weapons and operating a blind tiger were dismissed. Ralph Pruitt, 21, a brother, was discharged on an intoxication charge. Road Is Closed by Sleet Severe sleet-storm in the vicinity of Portland, Ind., today caused poles and trees to fail, blockin Rd 27 so that the St? + ~ u• ffivay ordered the re ’cl closed until Saturday.