Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1928 — Page 3

[APRIL 11, 1928.

IR VINGTON GROUP DISCREDITS SCHOOL BOARDS ALIBI

BRANDS MONEY ' SHORTAGE PLEA i 'BUCK PASSING' ( IVJrs. Henry H. Prescott Denies Tax Commission Opposes New Building. JVEW SITE IS PROMISED vftgree to Buy Location for - New High School When Taxes Are Paid. f Irvington residents seeking anew feast side high school today were Considering their next move, following visit of a delegation of Irvington parents at the school boardjneeting Tuesday night, when board •'fencmbcrs declared the school city is financially unable to build the pchool at present. The delegation decided today not to visit school board offices to study (financial figures, as agreed at the fneeting Tuesday night, Mrs. Robert i flail, 129 Downey Ave., said, because they already have all the hecessary figures. j May Visit Tax Board r It was reported the committee ! Unight visit the tax board to obtain Reassurance of support for the new j school. The meeting Tuesday night resolved into a bitter argument between Mrs. Henry H. Prescott, 15 S3. Bolton Ave., delegation chairman, and board members, resulting in promises to buy a site within a month or two. Commissioners Charles W. Kern ' pnd Theodore F. Vonnegut charged the State tax board with “hoodwinking, passing the buck and insincerity.” Attacks Board’s Delay “An Irvington delegation first k Visited you and showed the need of an Irvington high school two years ago,” Mrs. Prescott said. “Since then many new homes have been [built and the school population has increased. This delegation is here (earnestly to inquire into the delay. “Mr. Zoercher of the tax board lias assured us the tax board stands ready to authorize the necessary - funds as soon as the school board obtains a site. Does that leave room for further delay?” Vonnegut declared the tax board removed a $38,000 appropriation for p. site from the budget last year. “Zoerdher has my hearty contempt for the way he has passed fyhe buck,” Vonnegut said. Blames State Tax Board Kern explained the board had planned to build the Irvington High School late this year or next, hilt that tax board budget cuts had 'prevented. “It has been our plan to build high schools from bond issues and (grade buildings from direct taxes.” Kern said. “The J,ax board cut forced us to launch a $600,000 bond issue for grade buildings which j should have gone into an living- ; ton high school, but was needed worse for grade buildings.” “You arc not obscuring the issue i Vto these women here,” Mrs. Prescott said. “The tax board asked definite figures on cost of a definite sire and j admire their definiteness. If there is any fault, it is in this school commission.” Charges Insincerity At this point Kern interjected •‘that just goes to show you do not know what you are talking about.” “The tax board is not sincere. We had a definite price on a definite i site,” he said. "You arc our only recourse,” Mrs. Prescott said. “What is there for lis to do but to come here?” “There is no use for you to conic I Jicrc," Vonnegut said. “What do you suppose the tax I hoard means—” Mrs. Prescott began, ] [when Vonnegut interrupted. “They mean to hoodwink you.” > “—when they say if you get a j (definite site at a definite price they * [will approve it?” she contined. Pay Taxes, Then Buy Kern explained that after repayment from spring taxes in May or June of a $500,000 loan, the board j will have sufficient bonding power j ;to buy a site and promised it would | ho this. Transfer of $13,640 of school funds to meet deficiencies, advertised for ' hearing Tuesday night, was referred : to Martin M. Hugg, school attorney. : | There were no objectors present. A $215,000 bond issue for the Arsenal Technical High School aujditorium was authorized by resolution and advertisements for bids to be received May 3 were ordered. The board purchased a Studefcaker automobile costing $1,495 from the Armacost Auto Company for use of Superintendent Charles F. [Miller. Contract was authorized [with the park board for use of playgrounds at six schools for recreational purposes this summer. ! Shirts Stolen From Line > it isn’t even safe to hang the family washing out to dry. Mrs. . .Charles Feeser, 1837 N. Gray St., told police today. Five shirts, valued t $12.50, were taken from her clothes line, Mrs. Feeser said.

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ASKS 0,0, P. TO OUST GRAFTERS Urges Indiana to Follow Illinois Example. Possibility of a “Republican housecleaning” in the Indiana primary election, May 8, was increased by the sweeping defeat of the Srnall-Thompson-Klan combination in Illinois Tuesday, declared Republican leaders here today. “Illinois cleaned house in Tuesday’s primary; Indiana Republicans can follow suit on May 8,” was the pronouncement of Ralph Kane, manager for Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom’s campaign for the Republican nomination for United States Senator, in a statement representative of opinion in Soosier “new-deal" circles. “By their primary vote,” said Kane of the Illinois upset, “the people annihilated the forces of the Small-Thompson-Klan combination and rescued party control from unworthy hands. “In Arthur L. Gilliom the people of Indiana have the opportunity to do for their own State what the citizens of Illilnois did for theirs. By the control of certain organizations, some of which were organized and maintained for laudable purposes, the leaders, through misrepresentation, deceit and other improper and fraudulent pactices, have utilized them for the purpose of perpetrating great wrongs against the public interest.”

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: O. B. Montz, 713 N. Delaware St„, Ford, Meridian and New York Sts May Allison, 428 W. McCarty St., Ford, Meridian and Ray Sts. Truman Toon. 1156 S. State Ave., Ford, 42-070, Washington St. and White River bridge. Averitt D. Corley, 28 S. Sheridan Ave., Ford, 625-851, 600 N. West SV K. R. Hoover, 18 N. Illinois St., Oakland, 629-783, Market and Delaware Sts. Sarah Sheets, New Augusta, Ind., Ford, 630-606, Capitol Ave. and Market St. Joseph L. Doerr, 1431 Union St., Studebaker, 051-174, 1300 N. Delaware St.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Louis Sagalosky. 129 W. Merrill St., Chevrolet, at 600 block Madison Ave. Howard Chown, 509 Merchants Bank Bldg., Pontiac, at Highland Golf and Country Club. Boy Runs Away from Home Robert Anderson, 17, left his home, 1261 W. Thirtieth St., Sunday night with a sack filled with clothing over his shoulder, his father told police in asking aid in

3 HOOSIERS HELD IlSf MURDER CASE

Gy Times Special ] NLES, Mich., April 11.—Miss Mar- I guerite Bumbaugh, 32, and her! brothers, George and Girard, all of Warsaw, Ind,.. today arc held to the Berrien Circuit Court for trial on first degree murder charges. The accused offered no defense in a preliminary hearing here Tuesday before Justice of the Peace Harry Langston in the slaying March 30 of Walter H. Cook, local basket manufacturer. Although offering no defense in court, counsel for the three, in a long statement to the press, declared Miss Bumbaugh killed Cook because he had wronged her and performed three illegal operations upon her; that he repeatedly failed to keep promises to divorce his wife and marry her; held back salary she earned as his private secretai'y and failed in promises to repay. Charges Woman Wronged “Miss Bumbaugh didn’t go to Cook’s factory with the idea of killing him,” Attorney Edwin J. Donahue of defense counsel said. “He owed her $3,879 and he had continually refused to pay her this. During the past three years she has been in dire need and every

False Hoodoo Accidents Do Not Gain on Friday, the Thirteenth Figures Show.

HERE’S a jolt for those folks who have been t- ing a rabbit’s foot to the radiator cap and taking out anew insurance policy every time Friday the thirteenth stole up on them, and even now are nervously viewing the approach of one this week. There are no more accidents on Friday the thirteenth than any other Friday—in fact there aren’t half so many as on the average balmy Sunday. "Take the last Friday the thirteenth—in January—for instance,” said Lieut. Frank Owens. h“ad of the police accident prevent bureau. “We had fifteen accidents. The day before there were seventeen and on Saturday the fourteenth there were twenty-four. “Carry the rabbit foot; take out the insurance policies, if you want to, but if you want to live and prosper at the same time don't jay walk, don't speed into preferential streets, don't speed at all, be sure your brakes are working; just be a cautious motorist, whether it’s Friday the thirteenth or Monday the umpty-umpth.”

BICYCLIST HURT IN MOVIE-LIKE CHASE

An automobile chase following an accident Tuesday evening sent Charles Shipman, 50, of 835 N. Gray St., to city hospital, an innocent victim, with one hip fractured. He was pedaling-his bicycle home when he became involved in the melee. The race through city streets and the manner in which the fleeing driver was stopped, rivaled movie thrillers, police say. Jesse Wolfa, 42, of 435 N. Jefferson Ave., alleged to have been driving under the influence of liquor, drove his machine into one piloted BRENNAN OUT OF RACE Leaves Two Democratic Candidates in Prosecutor Field. * Two candidates were left in the race for the Democratic nomination for Marion County prosecutor upon wihtdrawal of Edward C. Brennan. Raymond F. Murray, the nominee in 1926, and Clyde E. Karrer are left to contest the nomination. r MOTHER, BABY SOUGHT A search for Mrs. Dovie Wethi, 22, and her three weeks’ old baby, was begun by police today. Mrs. George Welburn, 2315 Station St., with whom Mrs. Wethi boarded, requested the search, stating that Mrs. Wethi left another child with her, asking that she care for it a few minutes while she went to a nearby store. Mrs. Wethi is separated from her husband, Mrs. Welburn said.

time she attempted to collect, Cook insulted and abused her. “And then on the morning of March 30,” Donahue continued, “when she went into his office in an effort to collect and saw this man sitting complacently at his desk there was only one picture that flashed across her eyes. It was the picture of Walter H. Cook as he stood beside her bed after the third illegal operation Walter H. Cook had performed upon her. It was the picture of now he abused her at that moment. “And with this vivid picture be-, fore her eyes, Miss Bumbaugh momentairly lost all reason and killed the man who had wronged her.” Describes Slaying Miss Helen Logan, Cook's secretary, witness at the hearing, testified to the three Bumbaughs entering Cook's office as he gave dictation to her and that Miss Bumbaugh drew a pistol from her purse, demanding money. Cook, the secretary said, walked from the office into the workroom of his basket factory, and a few minutes later a shot was fired and Cook, mortally wounded staggered to a table where he iaid down.

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REPORT FILED , ON BUS PROFITS Peoples Co‘ Made $17,144 Net Operating Revenue in 1 The Peoples Motor Coach Company during 1927 made a-net operating revenue of $17,144.-11 upon its total investment of $314,269.41 in the business of hauling passengers in busses in Indianapolis in 1927, the annual report filed with the public service commission today showed. The report is signed by officials of the Indianapolis Street RailwayCompany, which late last year obtained control of the competing bus company. The net profit is 5 4-10 per cent! upon the total investment. The Street Railway Company paid $500,000 for the common stock of the Peoples. Operating revenue for 1927 was *463.433.10 and expenses, $446,288.99. The average number of passengers carried each month, the report shows, were 356,187. a total for the year of 4.274,240, and the total mileage covered during 1927 was 2,375,566 miles. Bus drivers were paid $95,238.50 as wages and gasoline and oil cost the company $85,469.50.

by W. E. Jordan. 958 N. Gray St. Wolfa fled up the street and Jordan gave chase. Wolfa turned his lights off and on during the wild ride of more than a mile in an attempt to lose Jordan. Shipman came to the corner of Tenth and Gray Sts. and was struck by Wolf’s speeding auto. The driver did not stop. His car had hit the biyclc from behind, tossed the rider against the and ran over the bicycle. Jordan caught up the fleeing motorist at Keystone Ave. and Michigan St. and ran the leading car to the curb. Wolfa leaped out and started to run. Jordan caught him and half carried him back to his car. He drove back with his prisoner to the scene of the bicycle mishap. Wolfa was charged with driving while drunk and failing to stop after an accident., INJURED AT BALL GAME Negro Boy, Eager to See Hit Made, Struck With Bat. Eager to see his teammate, John Primes, 11, Negro, 1103 N. Traub Ave., get a hit in a sandlot baseball game in the neighborhood, William Do Grappenrcd, 11, Negro, 1106 N. Traub Ave., crowded near home plate. William struck out and accidentally hit John with the bat a hard blow over the left eye and nose. Refinance your debts now and repay as you earn. Low cost, confidential and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO.. 141 u E. Wash. St.—Advertisement.

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SPLIT VOTE ON ' NORRIS. HOOVER IN NEBRASKA Favorite Son Captures Only Part of Delegates: Howell Holds Lead. P,n United Press LINCOLN. Neb., April ,11.— Returns from Tuesday's primary in Nebraska showed that four races may be in doubt until the last precincts are heard from. These were United States senatorial nomination race between Senator R. B. Howell and Attorney General O. S. Spillman, on the Republican ticket; the contest between Norris and anti-Norris delegates to the Republican national convention; the Dort-Sorensen battle for Republican nomination for attorney general and the Democratic contest between Arthur Mullen and William Ritchie Jr., for national committeeman. Howell held a small lead over Spillman with the main returns from Douglas. Lancaster. Hall and York counties, all of which were | counted upon heavily by Howell ! men. First returns from the northeast section of the State indicated that this lead would be rapidly diminished. It berame apparent today that the Republican delegation t# the national convention will be split between those pledged to support the native son candidacy of Senator George W. Norris and the so-called administration ticket, pledged to no one, but favoring Herbert Hoover. As in the Howell-Spillman fight, the brunt of early returns came from Norris territory, and the administration forces expected to overcome the lead established by the Norris group. Former Senator G. M. Hitchcock was without opposition for the Democratic presidential nomination. Oklahomans Uninstructed h OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 11.—A coalition of Democrats favoring the presidential candidates of Governor A1 Smith and Senator James A. Reed won control of the State Democratic convention here j Tuesday and elected an uninstructed delegation to the National convention at Houston. The coalition group elected every candidate on its slate despite a j vigorous battle on the part of those opposed to the Missourian and NewYorker. Several times during the convention battle the sergeant-at-arms was called upon to enforce order. Many delegates at the convention accused the Smith-Reed coalition of “steam roller” tactics. CRAVENS QUITS RACE FOR CONGRESS POST Canfield Unopposed for Fourth District Democratic Nomination. Representative Harry C. Canfield was left unopposed for the Democratic nomination for Fourth district Congressman today with the withdrawal of Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, State Senator from Clark, Jefferson. Ohio and Switzerland Counties, from the race. In a statement announcing his withdrawal, Cravens said he feared the coming contest might cause “some feeling in party ranks” if he opposed Canfield. NEW TURBINE FOR CITY Tax Board Approves Appropriation For Sanitation. State tax board has approved a $60,768.51 appropriation from the general fund to the Indianapolis Sanitary District. Os this amount, $21,200 is to be expended for anew turbine to replace the one blownup several months ago at the garbage reduction plant. The balance is to be used to cover various invoices and debts of 1927, tax commissioners said. The district had turned in $53,135 at the end of the year, they pointed out. Os the total returned to the genei-al fund, $21,000 wras insurance collected when the turbine exploded. Bus Fight to Supreme Court MUNCIE, Ind., April 11.—This city’s six-year bus litigation is to be passed upon by the Indiana Supreme Court. Appeal bonds were filed Tuesday by independent operators against whom the Union Traction Company obtained a restraining order preventing operation of the independents’ busses.

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BUY UP LANB FUR BIG PRUFITS ON MISSISSIPPI Speculators Alleged Out for Control of Property in Flood Districts. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 11.—Members of Congress have received reports that spectators are buying up lands in the Mississippi Valley which are expected to increase in value with the flood control project. Chairman Madden of the House Appropriation Committee said today. Madden explained the reports have not been verified and he lias no definite facts, but indicated an investigation might be made by those supporting President Coolidge in demanding that local districts make some form of contribution. Prepares Two Amendments He said he understands, too, that insurance companies are participatin the “propaganda” for Federal payment of the whole cost of flood control so bonds they hold may rise in value. Madden emphasized that President Coolidge feels very strongly regarding certain features of the new Jones-Reid flood control bill, and that the opposition of the White House, very outspoken Tuesday, probably means a veto if no changes are made by the House. In an effort to shape the measure closer to the President's views, Madden is preparing two amendments which he will offer when the bill is considered in the House. Wants States to Pay One places flood control jurisdiction directly under the President. The other requires that States furnish floodways. This latter would mean that the States, instead of the Federal Government, would have to compensate owners of the land required for floodways, most of whom are large land-owners and corporations, according to War Department figures. Local Firm Buys Bonds Itn Times Sprelnl NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 11.— A $7,900 Hamilton county road bond issue has been bought by Breed. Elliott and Harrison, Indianapolis bond house, bidding against eight other Indianapolis concerns.