Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1928 — Page 3

[APRIL 10, 1928_

VETERAN CITY TEACHERS FACE LOSS OF JOBS Board to Work Out Rule to Automatically Retire Aged Instructors. Sixteen veteran Indianapolis school teachers who have taught Irom forty to nity-three years face involuntary retirement in June. Forty-nine teachers, who have taught forty years or are 68 years old, were given temporary one-year contracts last May before the teachers’ tenure law went into effect. Two since have died and a third resigned. The temporary contract was retiuired in order for the board to work out a satisfactory retirement rule. Under the teacher tenure law they could not have been forced to resign without a hearing. Tire board tonight is expected to consider a rule automatically retiring teachers who have taught forty years and are 68 years old. Commissioner Charles W. Kern declared some older teachers, unable physically to teach, continue at their posts for sentimental reasons, although eligible to retire on pensions. Some Walk With Canes “Several walk with canes, others have to be hauled to school in taxicabs and have to be helped into buildings and their rooms,” he said, j Miss Emma Donnan, 76, principal j at School 18, is both the oldest teacher in the Indianapolis school system, and has taught the longest, fifty-three and one-half years. Miss Laura Donnan, 74, of Shortridge high school is the second oldest. She has taught fifty-one years. Three teachers are 72, Miss Anna | J. Griffith, Manual Training High j School, who has taught fifty-one j years; Eugene Mueller, forty-six j years, and Miss Angeline Carey, | forty-nine and one-half years, both j of Shortridge. Miss Lizzie Stearns. 71, School 32 principal, and Miss Lillian Smith, 71, j School 55, who have taught fifty and j one-half and thirty-nine and one- ! half years respectively, are the next j oldest teachers. Others Are Affected Other teachers who would be affected by the proposed retirement rule, include: Miss Mary B. Knowlton, 70, School 12 principal. 47 years, Miss Sara Youtsey, 70, School 20, 50% years; Miss Kate Metcalf, 70, School 38. 47 years; Miss Nettie Downey, 70. School 25. 34 years; Miss Ida Stickney, 69, School 2, 51 years; Miss Martha Rihl, 69, School 25, 49 years; Miss Mary Gilkison, 69, School 29, 44 '2 years; Miss Emily Halls, 69, School 59 principal, 28! 2 years: Miss Martha Griffith, 68., School 13, 46 years; Miss Ida Geary, | 68, School 39 principal, 42 years, and | Miss Florence Bass, School 66, 48 years. Additional teachers who have taught forty years and who would, be affected within a few years by he proposed retirement rule include: Miss Alice Cullen. 67. School 5, fortyfour years; Miss Dorothy David. 67. School 25. principal, forty-six years; Miss Alice Duthie, 66, School 55. forty-five and onehalf years; Miss Jessie Smith. 66, School j 29, principal, fortv-one and one-half years; i Miss Helena Williams, 66. School 14. fortyfive years; Miss Alice O'Hair, 66, School 27. principal, fortv-six years: Miss Alta i Medaris, 66. School 21. forty-one years: j Miss Rosa M. R. Mikels, 66, Shortridge. | forty-one years. , _ Miss Mabel West. 65. Manual Training, forty-two and one-half years: Miss Elizabeth Forsvthe, 65, Scnoo. 28, fifty-six ■yeais; Miss Corrinne Ryan. 65. School 53, forty-five years; Miss Belle Sawyer. 65, School 5. forty-three and one-half years; j Miss Irene Ecter, 64. School 40, forty-two vears: Miss Lulu C. Grove. 64. Shortridße. forty-one years: Miss Alice Forsythe, 63. [ School 14. fortv-three years; Miss Gertrude Thatcher, 63, School 61. principal. 1 fortv-three and one-half years; Miss Belle i O'Hmr, 63. Shortridge. forty-tw'o years; | Ada Matthe. 63. School 6, fortv-three and one-haif years; W. S. Hiser. 62, Manual i Training, forty-one years. , __ . Miss Viola Pence. 61. Scnool 20. principal. forty-two vears; Miss Ella Pedlow. I 61 School 22. principal, forty-one and j one-half vears; Miss Mary Buckley. 60, School 7. principal, fortv-one and one- I half vears; Miss Jessie Ingersoll. 60. School 36. forty-two and one-half years; ; Miss Dorothy Wenner. 60. school 67. principal, forty-two and one-half years; Miss Eliza King, 60, School 9. forty-one and one-half years. Miss Nathalie Connelly. 59. School 38, principal, forty-one years; Miss Lula Case. 59. School 49, fortv-one vears. and Miss Frances Hull. 58. School 41. principal, forty-one years. 3 INJURED IN CRASH Car Is Demolished and Negroes Seriously Hurt. One automobile was demolished, another badly damaged and three Negroes, passengers of one of the cars, were seriously injured in a crash at Twenty-Ninth St. and Boulevard Place., early today. The drivers were Albert Imes, 26, Negro, of 1132 Fayette St., and McKinley Vest, 26, of 834 W. ThirtyFirst St. Imes was ordered held in the city hospital detention ward on charges of assault and battery, reckless driving and failure to stop at a preferential street. He was injured on the head. William Hampton, 50, of 233 W. Thirteenth St., and Benny Herring, 49, of 218 W. Thirteenth St., suffered head and body injuries. Henry Hampton, 22, and Alex Bender, 31, of 1206 N. West St., were bruised and shaken up. Vest was not injured. Imes automobile was demolished. CANDIDATE TO SPEAK Stump to Lecture on “Robert Burns” at Parent-Teacher Meetings. Albert Stump, attorney and candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, will speak on “Robert Burns” at a Par-ant-Teacher Association meeting at School No. 76, Thirtieth St. and College Ave„ Tuesday, 6 p. m. The lecture will be given Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., at a Parent-Teacher Association meeting in School No. 57, Irvington. 600 DIE IN DAM CRASH Chinese Miners Trapped When Huge Water Structure Breaks. 8.11 United Urea? rOKIO, April 10.—Five hundred Chinese miners were killed by the collapse of a dam at the Fushun collieries in Manchuria, advices from Mukden said today. kThe miners were trapped in a gallery of the mine by water from the dam, which went out Monday.

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Four-year-old Catherine Powers of Sandwich, Ont., is alive today only because of a window curtain that flapped. The flapping curtain diverted bullets fired by a U. S. liquor patrol in the Detroit River, while Catherine slept. Two 45-caliber bullets were buried in the wall two feet from the side of her bed. Canadian authorities say this is only one instance in which bullets from the patrol boats have endangered the lives of people living on the Canadian shore.

MEXICAN CIVIL WARJJNABATEO Little Prospect of Peace in • Religious Strife. By I nited Pros* MEXICO CITY. April 10.—The second Holy Week in Mexico since the religious trouble began twenty months ago has passed, yet there is no visible sign that the difficulty will be settled. “Mexico is engaged in a struggle to establish the supremacy of civil government,” President Calles maintains. Strife in Mexico is by no means ended. Since March 1, about 300 rebels and between thirty to forty Federal soldiers, Agrarians and members of local defense organizations have been killed in battle, according to newspaper reports. In the same period, six persons, l including a priest, were executed at San Luis Potosi because they were i charged with open rebellion. Three : arms smugglers are reported to have j been executed elsewhere. More than 100 Catholics have been I arrested in these six weeks, thirty \ of them accused of smuggling arms.; Five priests were among those ar- i rested; Most of them, merely charged with attending or conducting services, have been released; or, in the case of priests, were deported. HEAR AYRES ORCHESTRA > Group to Play at Butler Wednesday, Thursday and Friday noons. L. S. Ayres & Cos. orchestra will play at chapel at Butler University, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 12 to 12.30. Members of the orchestra are: Director Henry Herbert, Gladys Van Lear, Hazel Lamkin, Jane Duddy, Thelma Rubush, J. A. Petrie, Earl Russell, Theresea Baar, Lawrence Lahr, A. H. Green, Armon Cunningham, Paul Parke, Mary Clerkin, Thomas Cox, Glen Spinning, Marie Meuller, Burton White, Frances Kirkham, Rachel Carew, William Walker. Robert Schultz, Marcena Campbell, Eva Reddick, Norman Rardon, George Layman, Virgil Herbert and Mildred Goens. HEALTH DAY PLANNED Meet Thursday to Prepare for Annual May Day Celebration. ivliss Mary A. Meyers, Marion County Tuberculosis Association secretary, today called a meeting for Thursday afternoon at 1217 Meyer - Kiser Bank Bldg., to plan the annual May Day health celebration. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary, appointed Miss Meyers chairman of the health day committee. . She issued a call for all Indianapolis agencies interested in child health to unify activities for health day. All clubs and organizations are urged to join in the observance, Dr. Morgan said. NUDE NEGRO WINS PITY Says Trio Forced Him to Drink, Took Clothing; Is Fined SlO. Three men confronting him with a revolver at Senate Ave. and Corn Sts., forced him to drink so much “mule” he got drunk, Ernest Lewis, 26, Negro, 360 W. Fourteenth St., toid Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Monday. Then the trio undressed him, even taking his new pair of shoes and $25, Lewis said. Police found him standing nude at the corner and arrested him on an intoxication charge. Judge Wetter fined him $lO and costs, but suspended the costs. INSPECT HOOSIER NAVY “Indiana's Navy” will be inspected tonight by the naval inspection board composed of Capt. N. E. Nichols, president; Commander R. C. Williams of the Navy department, and Commander Charles N. Yates, assistant commander of the Ninth Navay district, with headquarters at Great Lakes, 111. Lieut. O. F. Heslar, commanding the third naval reserve area, of which Indiana’s Navy is a part. William H. Kershner, adjutant generalof Indiana, will be host to the examining board and Lieutenant Heslar at dinner tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

TWO CHIROPRACTORS IN RACE FOR LEGISLATURE Attempt to Free Practitioners From Medical Board Predicted. Determination of Indiana chiropractors to divorce chiropractic regulation from the State board of medical examination and registration was seen today in the lastminute filing of two candidates for the Republican nomination for State representatives from Marion County. Harry loor, 642 Eugene St., and Miss Gertrude Hinshaw, 811 'i E. Sixty-Third St., chiropractors, were notified by Secretary of State Frederitk E. Schortemeier that their candidacies were valid although not filed until after the office closed Saturday night. “Eleven hundred chiropractors in the State are outraged by the situation as it was left by the passage of House Bill 49 last spring,” loor said. The act placed a chiropractor on the State board of medical examination and registration. loor said he favored strengthening legislation to facilitate operation of the city manager form of government. DISTRICT ORATORS TO BE NAMED BY APRIL 15 Will Compete in Bar Association Contest for Zone Titles April 20. Thirteen congressional district champions in the Indiana State Bar Association's oratorical contest will be selected this week. School and county winners have already been determined and the district elimination contests have been arranged. County championship contests closed March 30 and the district champions must be selected by April 15; zone champions by April 20, and the State champion on or before April 27. Winner of the State title will enter the semi-finals of the national contest at Troy. N. Y., May 11 and if successful will compete in the national finals at Washington, May 25, and the international finals there Oct. 13. The suzj&cts for the oration are; “The Development of the Constitution,” or “The Present Signficance of the Constitution.” First prize in th State-wide contet is $250; second. $120; third, $65; fourth, $35; fifth, sls, and sixth, sl6. State finals will be held in one of three cities as Indianapolis, Richmond or Crawfordsville. PENTECOST PLANNED Disciples of Christ Will Observe 12Day Prayer Period. Marion County churches of the Disciples of Christ will observe Pentecost during the twelve days from May 15 to 27, was the announcement of the Indianapolis Christian Church Union, at the conclusion of a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Monday. Daily prayer meetings will be held in all thirty-eight churches of the denomination in this district throughout the period of observance. Two meetings and conferences of ministers and laymen will be held during the period. A mass meeting at one of the local churches will conclude the ceremonies, May 27. The meeting Monday also approved the plan for an annual Fairview assembly, which will be held this year July 8 to 15. FRENCH FLIERS DOWN World Aces Forced to Land for 7’nel on Way to Calcutta. By i ,id Press PARIS, April 10. Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, French world fliers, have arrived in French Indo-China after a flight from Tokio, according to advices today to Paris newspapers. They lost time when they were forced to land at the Tonkin border and refuel. The advices said the two fliers hoped to start today for Calcutta on the next lap of their flight from Tokio to Paris. The advices to the Paris newspapers delighted the French public as fears had grown that Costes and Lebrix had been forced down. Seek Substitute Bus Route Petition was filed with the public service commission Monday by the Union Traction Company of Anderson to substitute a bus route between Indianapolis and Noblesville via Cicera for the route via Westfield because of the construction of a bridge on Highway 32.

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CALM SLAYER UNSHAKEN BY CHAIR DEATH John /Hall Pays With Life for Murder at South Bend. Pn l nited Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., April 10. —John Hall, “one of those guys who never got a break,” walked out of his death cell in the Indiana State Prison here ealry today, sat down in the electric chair and died without the least show of emotion. He was the thirteenth man to be electrocuted in Indiana and he paid with his life for the murder of Louis Kreidler, a South Bend druggist. Kreidler was killed in a holdup staged by Hall and Thomas O’Brien, who is serving a life sentence for his share in the murder. Spared “Death March” Hall was perhaps the calmest man in the death chamber as he was strapped into the chair. The nearness of the chair to the death cells had spared him the agonizing “death march” staged in some prisons. The condemned man left his cell at 12:01. It was exactly one minute later than the current was turned on. He was pronounced dead at 12:09. As was his custom during all his confinement here. Hall spent the final night of his life in a quiet manner. Not one relative came to see him. In the afternoon he was visited by the Rev. Paul Iron. Lutheran minister. Last rites of the church were administered. At Hall’.' request, certain scriptures were read. A chicken dinner was eaten at 7 p. m. Then the 23-year-old Milwaukee (Wis.) youth sat smoking his corn cob pipe and calmy talking to the “death watch.” He told the guards he was “ready to go,” but he protested his innocence. On the brink of death he said he had no last words to leave. The execution was carried through after Governor Ed Jackson, Monday afternoon, refused to heed a last minute plea for commutation of sentence. Pal Sought to Aid The final plea to the Governor was based on an alleged confession made by Thomas O’Brien, in which O'Brien attempted to shoulder the actual blame for the murder. However, the Governor said “no new evidence sufficient to justify me in changing my stand in this matter has been presented.” Hall since his conviction was apathetic regarding any chance he might have had of escaping the chair. He preferred to dismiss all conversation along these lines with “I’m just one of those guys who never got a break. Life imprisonment means about twenty-five, years. The chair means about five minutes. What’s the difference?” ‘MADE IN INDIANA’ AUTO TO HAVE PARKMOBILE New Eight-Cylinder Car Will Be Produced at Richmond. Bi> Times Special ’IICHMOND. Ind.. April 10—A new eight-cylinder automobile with a parking device as part of its equipment is to be manufactured here by the Automotive Corporation of America, a Baltimore <Md.) company. The device is called the parkmobile. It consists of a fourwheel frame beneath the car and can be used for both parking and jacking, operated from the driver’s seat. The corporation will operate In two buildings of the Geoi-ge W. Davis Motor Car Company, purchased in a deal closed Monday night. The Davis company’s trade name was included in the sale of the buildings. REGRET HOGLE QUIT Irvington G. O. P. Club Adopts Resolution. Cassius L. Hogle's decision not to seek the Republican renomination as county commissioner brought a resolution of regret from the Irvington Republican Club, Inc., at its meeting in the Carr Bldg., 5436 E. Washington St., Monday night. Dr. Samuel McGaughey introduced the resolution. Hogle said Saturday business reasons prevented his running. A special committee including Edward V. Richardson, McGaughey and James W. Elder was authorized to obtain options on any site thought available for a club house. William G. Heim, candidate for State Representative, made a brief address. TUMP TO TOUR SCHOOLS Senator Candidate Will Desert Campaign Rostrum. Albert Stump, candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, after this week will desert the campaign stump and take to the high school commencement rostrum. Stump announced today that, starting Monday, he will make commencement addresses everv night until May 5, but may be able to work in some afternoon political addresses. Thursday Stump will address the Indiana University Jackson Club at Bloomington, Friday noon he will speak at a meeting of the Indiana Democratic Women’s Club at South Bend and Friday night at a Democratic meeting at Marion. Sheep Causes Injury B n United Press WABASH, Ind., April 10.—Mrs. David Brane, 66, suffered a broken hip here when her son-in-law invited her out to look over his herd of sheep. As the elderly lady opened the barn door, one of the sheep rushed out and knocked her over. She fell across a cement feed trough.

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