Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1928 — Page 3

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COUNCIL PLANS TO REOROANIZE, CHOOSE LEADER Revamped Ruling Body to Name Committees at Session Tonight. HINT RAUB FOR HEAD Is One of Two Veterans; Must ‘Break In’ Seven New Members. Public committee hearings on all Issues pending in council will be suggested to the revamped city council at its first regular meeting tonight by Edward B. Raub Sr., and Robert E. Springsteen, Democratic councilmen. Raub and Springsteen, the only councilmen not involved in the bribery scandals, will begin their task of “breaking in” the new city lathers tonight. Raub, who presided at the recent special meetings, is expected to be elected president. The first task of the president, Who will succeed Otis E. Bartholomew, resigned, will be to name new committees. A president pro tern, also will be selected to succeed Walter R. Dorsett, one of the indicted Republican councilmen, who resigned. Hear Public Views Raub and Springsteen believe city officials and citizens interested in issues pending before council should have opportunity to present their views at a public committee hearing. Formerly the old council rushed into caucus a lew minutes before ! the regular session and "railroaded” I the ordinance by vote of the “four j horsemen” majority faction. j “In the past the council has not I had sufficient information on a i great many questions. Everyone in- | terested in an ordinance should have chance to present their case to a committee,” Raub said. “Such a practice would be more ! satisfactory and businesslike, giving the council opportunity for advice and information,” Raub declared. Abandon Old Methods The committee system of the old body, under which one or two members would “investigate” and promise to kill or pass the measure before council, was one of the 1 practices of the indicted city fathers | to which many persons objected. It is likely that committee meetings will be set for 7:30 p. m., preliminary to the opening of council meetings. Raub said he also will suggest that there be two finance committees, as in the past one committee has been burdened by the number of ordinances referred for study. Ordinarily five councilmen compose a committee. Back City Manager Plan The council is composed of five Republicans and four Democrats Since its reorganzation along the lines suggested by non-partisan civic bodies the councilmen have pledged their support to the city manager form and promised nonpartisan administration of city’s busness. Council also will have to name a successor to Austin H. Todd, indicted councilman who resigned, to j serve as council representative op the board of zoning appeals. Thirteen members of the City Manager League, Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade joint committee which recommended the new councilmen, will attend the meeting tonght to voice their confidence in the new body.

SET REZONING HEARING Park Board to Examine Protests to i Gas Station May 3. A public hearing on the petition of J. O. Spahr and Anna L. Kissel to erect filling stations south of Thirty-Eighth St., on sites east of the Monon railroad and at Kissel Ave. intersection has been set for May 3. The park board declined to permit the Indianapolis baseball club to erect a park on the site. Spahr told the board the location was unfit for residential use and he desired to have it re-zoned for business. Property owners objected to the ball park project. FARM PLAYLET IS FREE Especially Written for Presentation by Bureaus. A three-act playlet, “Arming the Farm,” has been written by Verna L. Hatch, director of the Social and Educational Department of the Indiana Farm Bureau, and is available for free distribution in pamphlet .form. The playlet has been especially prepared for Farm Bureau entertainments, and presents an interesting story of the part which the social and educational department of the farm bureau plays in the building of a greater rural life. Out-of-State residents may obtain copies for twenty-five cents. REBEKAHS ENTERTAINED Sixth district officers of Rebekahs were entertained Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. Lillian Lockwood, 848 Eastern Ave., district deputy president of Marion County. Cards and refreshments were on the program. The next district meeting is scheduled for the afternoon and evening, April 23, at 23% S. Capitol Ave. Home and All Money Bums By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 16.—A $lO bill, the only money they possessed, was consumed when fire destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Cooper, Lincolndale, near here, while they were absent. The Jetui Red Cross is aiding them.

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A typical hamlet on the Labrador coast, near where the trans-Atlantic biplane Bremen landed, Is Battle Harbor, shown in the above picture. These isolated settlements, which dot the coast of the sparsely inhabited country, are occupied mostly by fishermen and often are Ice-bound from September until late in April. Battle Harbor is only a short distance from Greenly Island, where fliers landed.

THREE ON TRIAL IN KILUNG CASE Officer’s Alleged Slayers in Court at Madison. By Times Special MADISON, Ind., April 16.—Three men are on trial in Jefferson Circuit Court here today on charges of second degree murder, a sequel to a dance hall

tragedy near Versailles last No vember. Defendants are Clarence Jackson, John Ryan and Willian Mehrhoff, Jr., accused in tho death of Leonard Eads, a deputy sheriff, who died from being beaten after ejecting the accused men from the dance hall. Authorities were told at the time

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of the fatal attack on Eads, that he followed his alleged slayers from the dance hall after ejecting them, it being reported they caused a disturbance. The trial was brought here from Ripley Circuit Court at Versailles on a change of venue, defense counsel having filed 115 affidavits supporting their motion for a change. James M. Fortune, Jeffersonville lawyer, is presiding as special judge. BAD FERTILIZER IS SOLD Farm Bureau Warns Against Agents With Extravagant Claims. Warning against inferior fertilizers has been issued by the Indiana Farm Bureau. Farmers are cautioned to buy only from reliable agencies, and to make sure of the formulae before buying. Many farmers have been defrauded by listening to wild claims made by irresponsible salesmen, the bureau declares, and calls attention to the opportunity to buy high fertilizers at a low price through cooperation with the purchasing department of the bureau. Journalists to Honor Founder of Fraternity

Meredith Nicholson Founders of Sigma Delta Chi who organized the international journalistic fraternity April 17, 1909, at De Pauw University, will be honored at a Founders’ Day banquet Tuesday night at the Lincoln. The Indianapolis alumni chapter which is sponsoring the dinner has invited all Indiana newspaper men and former newspaper men to join in the observance. Delegates from Purdue, Indiana, De Pauw and Butler universities, which have active chapters, will attend. Alumni of fifteen cities will hold similar observances commemorating the fraternity’s nineteenth birthday. Leroy H. Millikan of Indianapolis, one of the founders, will be honor guest. Meredith Nicholson, noted Hoosier author and former newspaper man, will speak. John H. Heiney, Indjanapolis alumni chapter president, will preside. The entire De Pauw chapter, which won the 1927 national efficiency cup at the Lawrence, Kan., convention, will attend. James A. Stuart, managing editor of the Star, is national president. More than 100 reservations are expected by Russell Campbell, of the Star, local alumni secretary. We can supply money now for current needs. Confidential and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 141% E. Wash. St.—Advertisement.

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Not the official, silk-hatted welcoming committee that waited at Mitchel Field, New York, but horny-handed fishermen and Eskimos in the Labrador coast country greeted the crew of the trans-Atlantic plane Bremen when they landed in North America. Upper photo shows a Labrador native with a sealing spear, fitted with barbed points and a strong line. Sharp rocks and half-hidden icebergs keep the native shipwright busy, as evidenced by the lower photo, taken at Hopedale, Labrador.

PLANS CONFERENCES TO REVISE SCHOOL COURSE Meetings Will Be Held With Teachers Throughout State. Plans have been outlined by Roy P. Wisehart, State superintendent of pub'.xc instruction for conferences with Hoosier teachers upon revision of high school courses of study. Heretofore the schools have been using the courses accompanying the text books in use, but Wisehart plans to strike out independently for a consistently progressive system. School administrators and teachers have bee nasked to attend the conferences in their section Monday at Ft. Wayne; Tuesday morning, Peru; Tuesday afternoon. Plymouth; Wednesday morning, Lafayette; Wednesday afternoon, Greencastle; Thursday morning, Bloomington; Thursday afternoon, Paok; Friday morning, Princeton; Monday morning, April 23, Rushville, and Monday afternoon, Muncie. A general conference of the educators will then be called for May when the ideas will be co-ordinated. WILLIAMS CHAIRMAN Marmon Head Again in Charge of Raising Lap Prizes. President G. M. Williams of the Marmon Motor Car Company will again be chairman of the Speedway Lap Prize Fund Cmmittee it was announced today. Dan V. Goodman is vice chairman. The committee will raise $20,000 for the SIOO lap prizes for the Speedway classic frm business and industrial firms of the city. Last Decoration Day, Driver Frank Lockhart collected SII,OOO worth of these prizes. The lap prizes are donated locally to show appreciation of the citizenry for the Speedway and has the effect of keeping drivers “out in front” throughout the 500 mile grind.

YEGGS STEAL SAFE FROM RIVOLI SHOW

Safe blowers broke into the manager’s office at the Rivoli Theater, 3155 E. Tenth St., after closng hours Sunday night, and took the safe and contents. According to Manager Willis Grist, Sunday receipts totaling $458 and $lO worth of stamps were in-, eluded in the loot. Numerous theater tickets were found scattered on the ground where the safe was found.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

CANDIDATE PROPOSES TO STAMP OUT CRIME Herman Seeger Offers Plan of Listing All Persons Employed. Beating burglars before they begin is one of the planks announced by Candidate Herman L. Seeger, 801 Bradley Ave., who is seeking the Republican nomination for State Senator from Marion County. Here is how he proposes to do it: “An employers’ license and employes’ registration law should be passed. Under the act all employers would be compelled to register each month the persons employed and employes to file notice of change in employment. “Burglars, of course, could not readily file the nature of their occupation, so crime might be suppressed at its inception.” Seeger is also for an industrial court, conservation of natural resources and a farm survey. ARNOLD STATES STAND “Nobody Drafted Me,” Says State Senator Candidate. “Nobody drafted me, nor entreated me to run,” William A. Arnold, 2262 N. Delaware St., declares of his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for State Senator from Marion County. “I am not making a sacrifice and I ask for the office because I want it,” he adds. Arnold, outlined his qualifications as being a Senate “graduate,” having served from Floyd and Washington Counties 1919-1921, a lawyer and real estate man. “I have spent thirty years in politics and believe I can hold a Senate position creditably and acceptably,” he asserts. “My policy is and will be economy, retrenchment and reform."

First intimation of the robbery was given police today, when residents in the neighborhood of Raymond St. and the Ft. Harrison Rd„ called Sheriff Omer Hawkins and reported a safe with the door knocked off along the roadside. Police believe that a truck was used to transport the safe into the country, where the door could be removed without attracting great attention to the noise of pounding or explosives.

WATSON VEERS FROM TOUCHING SCANDAL TAINT Corruption With 30-Secwid Notice in Keynote Speech. Senator James E. Watson is ignoring the Republican record of corruption in his campaign for Indiana’s presidential preference vote. This stood out today as the significant disclosure of Watson’s keynote address at Winchester Saturday, when the Senator in an exposition of Republican principles requiring one and one-half hours gave a thirty-second glance at Indiana’s political scandal. Watson disclaimed party responsibility for this state of affairs by saying: “If a half dozen men In the State go wrong, that doesn’t involve the whole political party—any more than It would a lodge or a church. It is something for the law and the courts. We believe that when men are placed in positions of trust and responsibility they should measure up. No Mention of Hoover “As Burke said, you can’t indict a whole party if perhaps a few people step aside the right path.” It was Watson’s first recent public utterance on the state of affairs in Indiana. Senator Watson made a dramatic profession of innocence a moment before, when he declared: "I don’t know what the future holds, but whatever comes, you may be sure, I’ll come back to you with hands that are clean!” Although he frequently expressed high commendation for President Coolidge and his Administration, Watson not once mentioned the j name of Herbert C. Hoover, Republican presidential candidate, and j his rival in the May 8 primary elec- j tion. Two thousand persons were : jammed Into the Winchester High j School gymnasium to hear Wat- j son's “home-coming” address. A j parade with bands and drum and bugle corps wound through downtown streets to find that every Watson man. woman and child in Winchester was at the schoolhouse. Visits Huntington Today Mayor O. E. Ross, Randolph County Watson manager, introduced the Senator. Applause interrupted Watson frequently and was prolonged when he declared: “Unless our Nation is imperiled, I never, shall vote to send another American boy across the ocean to war.” Senator Watson went to Huntington for an address today. He plans returning to Washington from Huntington, but will come back to Indiana. April 24, for a speech at South Bend. He will stump the Twelfth and Thirteenth distrets in northern Indiana, April 25 and 26 PLAN FUNERAL RITES FOR MRS. VOORHEES

Services Will Be Held Tuesday at Daughter’s Home Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Stewart Voorhees, who died suddenly at Martinsville Saturday, will be held at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Austin H. Brown, 4401 N. Illinois St., at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday. The Rev. Jean S. Milner, Second Presbyterian Church pastor, will officiate and private burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Voorhees had gone to Martinsville with her sister. Mrs. Caroline Vajen Collins, and her brother-in-law, Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico. They were staying at the Home Lawn Hotel, where she was stricken Saturday, after hieing in the best of health. Mrs. Voorhees was a sister of Mrs. Wilson, who died some weeks ago. She was formerly Fannie Vajen, daughter of John W. Vajen. and a native of this city. She married Mr. Voorhees, one-time Congressman from Washington and son of one-time United States Senator Dan Voorhees of Terre Haute. Mr. Voorhees died in 1912. Mrs. Voorhees maintained an apartment at the Spink-Arms, but spent much of her time traveling. She spent last winter in California. Surviving, besides those mentioned, is a brother. Charles T. Vajen. DELEGATES ARE NAMED Governor Appoints 15 to Attend Social Workers Parley. Governor Ed Jackson today announced names of fifteen delegates to the national conference of social work at Memphis, Tenn., May 2 to 9. They include Amos W. Butler, Msgr. Francis H. Gavish, Mrs. Julia B. Tutewiler, J. A. Brown, State charities board secretary; Rabbi Moses M. Feuerlicht, L. H. Millikan and Miss Isabelle Somerville, all of Indianapolis; Mrs. J. P. Wasson, Delphi; Prof. T. F. Moran, Purdue University, Lafayette; Prof. Donald DuShane, Columbus; Judge E. Miles Norton, Crown Point; William J. Sayers, Muncie; W. H. Eichom, Bluff ton; Mrs. Florence Hinchman Ham, Knightstown; Mrs. Florence Riddick Boys, Plymouth.

DEDICATE NEW CHURCH Bishop Spreng Preaches at Broadway Evangelical Building. The Broadway Evagelical Church, at Fifty-Sixth and Broadway, was dedicated Sunday, with Bishop Samuel P. Spreng of Naperville making addresses at three services, morning, afternoon and night. The importance of sacrifice in great accomplishment was stressed by Bishop Spreng. The unit dedicated Sunday, costing $90,000, was the first of a building program authorized, to cost a total of $150,000. The Rev. E. L. Smith is pastor of the new church, which was built as the result of a survey conducted by the Church Federation, which showed that a church was necessary in that location.

TEN ORATORS IN FINAL District Winners Enter Central Area Contest April 21. Ten district winners in the Lincoln Oratorical Contest will com-

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The winners will compete for a trip to Washington at the finals to be held later in this city. The Indiana Lincoln Un’on is sponsoring the contest. Indianapolis district winners arc Ffieen Myrick of Martinsville and Edward Fillenwarth, Cathedral High School, Indianapolis.