Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1928 — Page 17

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NEW PLANTS OBTAINED BY THREE CITIES Bloomington, Brazil and Kendallville Add to Industries. SPRING BUILDING OPENS Thousands of Dollars to Be Spent on Construction in Indiana, BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Time* Acquisitiion of new industries by three Indiana cities and a large volume of spring building are outstanding in a business survey of the State completed today. The Atlas Plywood Company, Boston, Mass., will establish an $85(000 plant at Bloomington to siipply the Showers Brothers Furniture Company of that city with plywood boxes for use in packing furniture. The order from the Showers Company is the largest for plywood ever made in the United States, its officials announce. Brazil has obtained the Eagles-field-Link Company, anew $40,000 concern, which will manufacture wood working machinery. The Electric and Manufacturing Company has been added to Kendallville's industries. It will begin production of an automatic electric water heater April 15. Spring building activities include the following: ANDERSON—Contract awarded for erection of Capitol theater to the Krebay Construction Company, Indianapolis, on a bid of $172,000. MUNClE—Addition to postoffice to cost $120,000. KOKOMO Addition to high school building, new grade school building and improvements to three others at cost of $280,000. New homes under construction or planned, SIOO,OOO. COLUMBIA CITY—New building for Interstate Service Company, operating local and Whitley County ‘dephone systems, cost $125,000 to 150,000. SEYMOUR—PubIic library addition, $17,000. Six Homes Cost $150,000 BLOOMINGTON—Six residences built of Indiana limestone at an aggregate cost of $150,000. HARTFORD CITY-Contract let to G. W. Heinzeman & Son. Marion, for erection here of a $50,000 Pennsylvania railroad station. RICHMOND—A building gain during March over the same month in 1927 and 1927 is shown. The figures—March, this year. $135,385; 1926, $101,855, and 1927, $116,780. GREENCASTLE —Permits issued ! for erection of seventeen homes. NORTH HAMMOND—Four-story, thirty - five - apartment building, $300,000. MISHAWAKA Building here during March reached a total of $170,881, exceeding the same month last year by $13,000. EAST CHICAGO—A gain of ap- 1 proximately $22,000 in building was shown in March this year over the ! same month in 1927. Other conditions in the State are as follows: TERRE HAUTE-A coal mine on | the Henry Russell farm four miles | east of Tangier, is to be reopened ! after an idle period of several years. ' Operators of three mines have i signed the wage scale agreement.! They are Lower Vein Coal Com- ! pany, near Linton, and Saxton Coal : Company, near here. Plant to Be Enlarged COLUMBUS—A $12,000 addition will be built to the dairy products plant of the Farmers Marketing Association. BLOOMINGTON—H. G. Hoadley , has added twenty-two acres of stone ! land to his quarry holdings at a 1 cost of $13,250. NEWCASTLE—The local branch i of the Teetor Perfect Circle Com- j pany is employing 125 persons and shipping an average of 100,000 auto piston rings daily. RICHMOND Employment and production in industries here are at high levels, with conditions especially good in iron products,.furniture and auto accessories manufacture. BLUFFTON—A high-grade ball bearing lawn mower has been added to the products of the Red Cross Manufacturing Company. NEWCASTLE—The improvement program at the Chrysler automobile plant is progressing rapidly. Installation of a 5,000 horsepower boiler has been completed and the roof is being put on anew die plant building. GREENSBURG The Standard Casket Hardware Company has bought the building it occupies here and plans to increase its size due to increasing business. Factory on Double Shift KOKOMO The Kokomo Stamped Metal Company is working on a day and night shift basis with 250 persons on the pay roll. Postal receipts here during March were the largest in the city’s history, showing a gain of 34 per cent over the previous mark. CONNERSVILLE—More than a thousand persons have been added to the pay rolls of the Auburn Automobile Company, Central Manufacturing Company and McFarland Motor Company in the last few weeks. DECATUR—The local plant of the General Electric Company is now operating on a full time basis, replacing a five-day-a-week schedule.

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BY LEONARD HALL Bv NE.i Service A/TEW YORK, April 6.—The New Yorker is in a pretty bad way in the matter of the springtide of the year, He may not see a tree from one week-end to another, and no crocus in history has succeeded in pushing its gay head through the pavements of Times Square. He seldom can see more than a square yard of sky, and it is a ten to one shot that if he looks up for a sign of spring he will be hit in the eye with a clinker, a two-ton safe, or a falling body. The New Yorker, of course, experiences a. slight twinge of shiftlessness in early April. But physical proof

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“cutest girl in Alabama,” they call her. She is Elizabeth Calhoun, student in the Woman's College of Alabama at Montgomery, and won her title by vote of her fellow students. Her home is in Pensacola, Fla. Elizabeth seems to be a devotee of archery. Supposing she used one of Cupid’s arrows—who would volunteer as a target?

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FORTUNE FOR AIR DASH Belgian in This Country Seeking Daring Fliers. NEW YORK, April 6.—Anybody want to earn 1,300,000 francs, which,

in English, is about $65,000? Baron de Zuylen de Nyvelt of the Royal Belgian Aero Club, is in America with an offer of that sum for the first nonstop flight between New York and Ostend. It is prescribed that the flight be made between June 20 and J uly 20 of this year. The baron has de-

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parted for Washington to seek Government sanction of the project. WILSON CLUB TO MEET Washington Township Society Will I Invite Candidates. The Woodrow Wilson Club of Washington Township will sponsor a candidates’ meeting April 10, at the clubroom, 6366 Bellefontaine St., Frank Wooling, township Democratic chairman, announced today. Orover C. Parr is president of the club, and Omar Gilhspie, secretarytreasurer. Woodburn Masson heads the headquarters committee; Walter Johnson is finance committee chairman and Howard H. Bates, publicity committee chairman. The club will sponsor a meeting honoring Frank Dailey, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, and Walter Myers and Albert Stump, rival candidates for the Democratic senatorial nomination, late in April.

SHERIFF AT KOKOMO CALLS CRITIC LIAR

By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., April 6.—John Spearman, Howard County sheriff, employs the press to reply to an anonymous letter signed only with the word “Citizen” in which the sheriff was accused of tipping off bootleggers in advance of raids. “You lie,” is the sheriff’s reply to the tipping off charge in a letter given newspapers for publication. “Citizen” asserted: “It’s against the law to allow boys in poolrooms.

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Evansville Patriotic Bodies Criticise Dr. Earl E. Harper. By Times special EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 6.—Dr. Earl E. Harper, installed March 23? as president of Evansville college, and one of the youngest men in the United States holding such a position, has already clashed with seven patriotic organizations here. Dr. Harper is a foe of war and all things connected with it, including military training of youth in educational institutions. Speaking from the pulpit of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church here, Dr. Harper urged “Christians to link themselves in all meekness to oppose war and all that is conducive to it, including military training of our youth.” A week later Dr. Harper received a letter of protest, signed by representatives of the American Legion, Reserve Officers Association, Spanish-American War veterans, D. A. R., United Daughters of the Confederacy, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the G. A. R. The letter suggested that perhaps Dr. Harper had been misquoted. But he replied by saying he had been quoted correctly; that his remarks at the church stated his convictions then and now. He expects shortly to reply more fully in an open letter. Pastor Forty Years Dies Bu Science Service NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 6. Funeral services will be held here for the Rev. Thomas Henderson, 87, who for a period of forty years served as pastor of various Quaker churches in central Indiana. He died Thursday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Charles Strawbridge, Danville, 111.

I myself have a boy that goes to pool rooms and I have had occasion to go after him.” And Sheriff Spearman replied: “You seem to expect the sheriff and police to help you raise your children. That doesn’t speak very well for either you or the children. I raised mine without asking for outside help and I can’t understand the man who cannot control his own children without asking officials to spank them for him.”

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1928

of the arrival of the loony season is almost entirely lacking. One portent, and only one, really exists to show the citizen of Bagdad that the sulphur and molasses era has come. One morning, dimly gulping his third glass of orange juice, he sees the headline ‘‘The Big Show Opens at the Garden.” At that second all doubts are dispelled. He leaps up, hurriedly inspects his summerweights, flings the red flannels into a corner, puts on his gayest necktie and whistles all the way to the subway station. For Ringling Brothers’ and Barnum & Bailey’s combined circus has opened its season of three or four week's at

INDICT WOMAN IN N. Y. STATE CENSUS PROBE First of Her Sex in High Office Sought for False Report. BY PERCY B. SCOTT United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y„ April 6.—The first woman chosen for a high elective office in the State of New York today was expected to be arraigned on grand jury indictments which charge her with four felonies and two misdemeanors while in office. Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, former Secretary of State, was indicted on six counts by a grand jury late Thursday and it was indicated she would surrender today for arraignment. In event she does not surrender an order for her arrest will be given. Indictments Sub Rosa The counts ou which Mrs. Knapp was indicted were kept secret pending arraignment, but it was understood they included falsifying expense accounts; appropriating proceeds of the State for her own use, and assisting a notary public in false certification of the (expense vouchers. It took only eight hours for the grand jury to indict Mrs. Knapp. More than a score of witnesses were called. The indictments came as the climax to the amazing term in office of New York State’s first woman to hold a major elective office. All the charges against her were based on her control of the $1,200,000 State census fund in 1925. Governor Orders Probe A special invesigation was ordered and this report recommended criminal action against Mrs. Knapp and several of her aids in office. District Attorney Herrick was given the case, but said he could find no irregularities that necessitated grand jury action. Then Governor Smith turned the case over to Attorney General Albert Ottinger and George Z. Medalie of New York was appointed the special prosecutor. It took only a few hours to present evidence that brought about the indictments.

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General Umberto Nobile’s aerial expedition to the North Polie was getting under way as this picture of his airship “Italia” was taken. The ship was leaving her hangar at Rome for a flight to Milan, the first leg of the long and hazardous journey. The “Italia” is similar in construction to the “Norge,” in which Roald Amundsen and Nobile crossed the Arctic from Spitzbergen to Alaska.

CITY’S BATHING BEAUTIES GET CHANCE AT NATION-WIDE FAME

Winner Here Will Be Sent to Great Pageant in Galveston, Texas. Here’s the chance for Indianapolis girls to win fame and fortune. You may be selected Miss Universe and share in $5,000 in prizes. The Indianapolis Times-Indiana Ballroom World Bathing Beauty Contest is open. Enter now! Many lucrative engagements went to last year’s winners. Several entered motion pictures, others went into vaudeville. Clara Bow will be recalled as a bathing beauty contest winner who made good. Theatrical engagements at the Circle theatre for winners in the Indiana contest already are assured. Others will follow. Several weeks ago the Indiana showed the picture, “A Girl in Every Port,” in which a number of last year’s winners had important featured roles. Even greater possibilities await this year’s winners. Do you have to have your picture taken in a bathing suit! Yes! But you do not have to pay to have a picture made if you do not already have one. The Times has made arrangements with Dexheimer Studios, 912 Odd Fellow building, Pennsyl-

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DEPUTY Sheriff Charles Bell found a poor impersonator of himself in Fred T. Bell, 29, of Louisville, Ky. Fred Bell, who came to Indianapolis a few days ago, .used a badge resembling the one worn by a deputy sheriff, to pass the doormen of a number of Indianapolis theaters. He threw back his coat, passed in as Deputy Sheriff Bell, saw the show and attended another. But one cannot “raise” a meal with a badge. Fred needed cash. He wrote out a check to himself in black ink, signed the name “Williams” to it in blue ink, and endorsed it with an indelible pencil. He could not convince his landlady. nor a corner grocer that the check was above board. So he went so far as to call from the grocery the sheriff’s office and asked them to assert that Deputy Bell was good for “thirty dollars.” Suspicion was aroused ~:d the real Deputy Bell went after pseudo Deputy Bell and brought him Thursday before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. “I bought the badge from a hungry fellow I met on the street,” the “deputy” told the court. The court smiled. “I did not mean any harm.” continued the defendant. "Fifty dollars and costs, and thirty days on the farm. You should be glad that check was not cashed. Next case.” FAME FOR GIRL AUTHOR Mvrlle Johnson Only 18. But She Writes Best Seller.

LONDON. April 6. England has an author winning fame before she i out of her teens. Miss Myrtle Johnston of London, authoress of “Hanging Johnny,” is only 18 years old, but her novel is proving to be one of England's greatest recent literary successes.

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vania and East Washington streets so that photographs will be made without charge for the contestants. They are made exclusively for The Times-Indiana Ballroom Bathing Beauty Contest. Can you submit a photograph of your oivn? Yes. But often photographs which look adorable on “his" desk, look miserable when published because they are not “sharp” enough in outline to reproduce well in a newspaper. Also, tinted pictures are bad, because the pretty rose on your cheek may look black when reproduced. It is better to have the photographer make a special “newspaper print.” It there any charge for such pictures? Absolutely none. How old must you be? Between 16 and *25 years. And you must never have been married. Widows,

Madison Square Garden, and spring, like dawn, comes! The Greatest Show on Earth has just begun its indoor Metropolitan run before going out on the long, long trail. Grand Ringmaster Fred Bradna, in a new four-gallon topper, toots the whistle of authority, the enormous leather lunged circus band roars out the first bars of a crashing march, and into the arena comes the head of the procession or “spec,” as the troupers call it. The grand entry of Ringling’s circus is the nearest thing to a Roman Imperial Triumph that our dusty, degenerate age knows. There is little to be said of the Big-

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FIRE DESTROYS SINCLAIR TANK FARMJNCUBA $3,000,000 Refinery Laid Waste by Blast and Flames. 8.1, 1 nit ed rrm* HAVANA, Cuba, April 6. The Belox refinery and tank farm of the Sinclair Oil Company recently built—was damaged by fire early today with a loss that may reach $3,000,000. An explosion preceded the fire and could be felt all along Havana Harbor. Flames, however, were confined to the tank farm. One woman was killed and early reports said many firemen and volunteer fire fighters were injured. The explosion occurred shortly after 9 p. m. Thursday night. The blast was heard for miles and soon flames were shooting into the air many hundred feet. The entire tank farm seemed ablaze and all fire fighting apparatus from Havana was sent to the refinery. The U. S. S. Wyoming was in the harbor. Members of the crew were dispatched to aid in fighting the flames which for a time threatened to spread. Many volunteers and soldiers were sent to aid the filemen. One gasoline tank was shot into the harbor in many fragments and the blaze dotted all over that portion of the bay. For almost four hours the firemen fought the blaze and finally brought it under control shortly after 1 a. m. At that time, however, the fire was still burning. There was no way to check on the actual damage or the number of injured. The refinery was destroyed in the cyclone of 1926 and reconstruction had just been completed at a cost of .$3,000,000. It was considered probable today that the entire new plant had been destroyed Speaker Wins Gold Medal Hu Science Service COLUMBUS, Ind.. April 6.—An oration on farm relief by Paul C. Glick won a gold medal in a contest at Columbus High School.

divorcees, or girls who have had stage, motion picture or professional experience are ineligible. The loving cups, the prizes, etc. are only for unmarried girls between the ages of 16 and 25. Do you have to be a subscriber to The Times? Certainly not! But only The Times will carry official stories regarding the contest. Can Indianapolis commercial firms enter girls in the contest? Yes! Girls representing business houses will wear the firm’s colors in the contest, the preliminaries of which will be held in the Indiana Ballroom, beginning April 24. State finals will be held at the Indiana theatre Monday, May 7. The Bathing Beauty Editor of The Times has a suspicion that this is only half the things you’ll want to know, so get in touch with me and ASK ME ANOTHER!

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best and Best this year save that it still is. It has most of its superb stars— Lillian LeitzeL unquestionably the greatest aerialist in the world, for one, May Wirth, the stunning rider, is not with the circus this year. But all the great families of tumblers. acrobats and riders—true bluebloods of circusdom —are back on the show. In the animal tent the new headliner is “Goliath,” the monster sea elephant, the first of its kind ever captured, and no doubt a novelty that would delight old Phineas T. himself. But remember the sacred white elephant of a year or two back, and how sold we felt when it turned out to be a dull cerise, with discouraging yellow spots?

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Florence Johns went abroad to play in “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em.” She has just returned with the announcement she married Wilton Lackaye, Jr., several months ago—and that Lackaye had stayed in London, where he is appearing in “Crime.” But he will join her in New York later, she added.

VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR TO BE BURIED TODAY Daniel IT. McAbee Was Indianapolis Resident for 50 Years. Funeral services for Daniel H. McAbee, 83, Civil War veteran, who died Tuesday, were held Thursday at the home, 34 S. Tuxedo St. Dr. O. W. Fifer, superintendent of the Indianapolis district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was assisted in the services by Dr. Frank Lee Roberts, pastor of Central Avenue M. E. Church. Burial was to be at Greeencastle, Ind. Mr. McAbee had been a resident of Indianapolis for fifty years, coming here from Greencastle. He served as State factory inspector from 1897 to 1907, and from 1911 to 1913 as adjutant of the Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette. He was a member of Marion Lodge No. 35, F. and A. M., and George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R. Mr. McAbee is survived by two sons, Daniel McAbee of Port Jervis, N. Y„ and William D. McAbee of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Mazie Pittenger of Muncie; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchil-dren. WRIGHT FUNERAL HELD Widow Was Resident of Indianapolis for Half Century. Funeral of Mrs. Gertrude Wright, 78, resident of Indianapolis fifty years, who died Wednesday morning at the home of her son, Harry W. Wright, 5014 E. New York St., was held at 2 this afternoon. Funeral services at the home were in charge of the Rev. Thomas N. Hunt, pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian Church of which Mrs. Wright was a member. Burial was in Washington Park cemetery. Mrs. Wright attended school in Shelby County, her birthplace, and at Franklin College. She came to Indianapolis several years after her marriage to John A. Wright. Her husband died ten years ago. Her son is the only survivor. PLAN CHURCH CIRCUS The Ermine district of the Marion County Council of Religious Education will stage an indoor circus at the First Friends Church, April 14 to raise fund to send delegates to the Indiana State young people’s camp and the Lake Geneva (Wis.) conference this summer. Four acts of vaudeville, two side shows, refreshment booths and a circus ring will be features. Robert Harrison is manager of the circus.

COST FIGURED AT 2 MILLION FORSCHOOLS New Buildings Now Under Construction Estimated at $1,900,000. CITY BOARD FILES SUIT Fights State Group Testing Authority to Rule on Bond Issues. New school buildings and additions to cost $2,700,000 are under construction or on the building program of Indianapolis schools for this year, according to records of Albert F. Walsman, school business director. Buildings already under construction amount to $1,900,000, while planned this year will cost SBO,OOO, other buildings and additions it is estimated. The altercation between the school board and tax board over competitive heating and ventilating specifications and bidding may delay the four new buildings and additions included in this year’s program. Test Tax Board Authority The school board recently filed suit against the tax board to determine extent of the tax board’s power over the school board, and to enjoin the. tax board from alleged unlawful interference with the school board. The suit sets out that the tax board lias acted unconstitutionally and has exceeded its powers, without giving the school board recourse to appeal. The school board announced plans to proceed under tax board orders to include plans and specifications for more than one type of heating and ventilating equipment as far as “legally possible.” School Board Balked However, since there are no funds available to pay for plans and specifications, the law requiring appropriations available before entering into such contracts, the school board Is in a quandary, according to Walsman. “The tax board won’t let us have our bond issue until we produce plans and specifications. We can’t legally contract for these with architects and engineers until we have the money from the bond issue.” The largest individual project under way is the new Shortrldge high school, Thirty-Fourth and Pennsylvania Sts., which when completed will cost approximately $1,300,000. Building Arsenal Wings The old Shortridge building. North and Pennsylvania Sts., will be abandoned Jan. 1, 1929. Two new wings to the administration building at Arsenal Technical High School, costing $250,000, will be completed within the next few months. An eight-room addition and auditorium at School 73, Thirtieth and School Sts., costing $125,000, will ba completed this summer. The new fourteen-room School 84, Fifty-Seventh and Central Ave., | costing $190,000, will materially 1 reduce congestion at School 70, Forty-Seventh and Central Ave., j and School 80, Sixty-Fourth and ! Marion Sts., in addition to providing school facilities for a- rapidly growing territory. Plan $600,000 Bond Issue Anew $35,000 auditorium at ' School 54, at 1002 N. Dearborn St., I already is in use. The new building and additions to be constructed from the proposed $600,000 bond issue include new School 80. Sixty-Second and BelleI fontaine Sts., $192,500; School 43, Fortieth and Capitol Ave., four classrooms and auditorium, $98,500; School 47, Warren and Ray Sts., eight class rooms and alterations to old heating and ventilation, $121,275, and School 66, Maple Rd. and Broadway, eight-room addition and auditorium, $170,890. In addition, a bond issue for a new Arsenal Technical high school auditorium and gymnasium, to cost $225,000 without equipment, is to ba asked soon by the school board. 5 ENTER STATE RACE Candidates for Representative >n G, O. P. Ticket File. Five candidates for the Republican nomination for State Representative from Marion County Thursday filed their declarations with the Secretary of State. They are: Arthur G. Gresham, Frank S. Noll, Jr.. James M. Lowry, Oeorga T. Wheldef. and Saniord S. Starks, all of Indianapolis. Michael W. McCarthy of Indianapolis filed for the Demoeratio nomination for joint State Representative from Marion and Johnson counties and Roy L. Volstead filed for the Republication nomination for joint State Senator. Henry W. Moore, Terre Haute, filed for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Fifth District; and Louis W Fairfield, of Angola, filed for the Republican nomination for Congress from the Twelfth District. Enters Upon 88th Year Bu Science Service MARTINSVILLE. Ind., April 6.^. W. H. Eslinger, Democratic candidate for State convention delegate, today is entered upon the eighth year of his life. Fifty sons attended his eighty-sever.; birthday party at his home Thursday. He has lived here years. r -