Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 311, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1928 — Page 2

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TOLL OF MANY MILLIONS IS TAKEN BY SOUTHERN FLOODS

PERIL GROWS; HUNDREDS FLEE FROM HOMES New Communities of South Are Threatened as Rivers Rise. LIVES REPORTED LOST Florida Town Washed Away After 600 Inhabitants Have Left. By United I’ress ATLANTA, Ga., April 25.--Flood waters which have driven thousands from their homes in six Southern States and caused property damage estimated at $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, threatened new communities today. The lower Alabama Valley, the Pearl River and Tombigbee River Valleys in Mississippi, and the lower Choctawhatchee Valley in northwest Florida were in the path of the new flood menace. The Arkansas and White Rivers continued to rise in Arkansas. In ■northern Louisiana the Ouachita River was at flood stage. Lives Are Claimed Loss of life, on the basis of incomplete reports, appeared confined to Florida and Alabama. Six Negroes were drowned in southern Alabama. Two were missing from a family that fled Caryville, Fla., as the flood approached. The tri-State area of southwest Georgia, southern Alabama, and northwest Florida, with hundreds of thousands of acres of rich farmland under water and refugees numbering several thousand, was the most affected. Lower reaches of rivers in the area received the muddy flood waters that yesterday cut off from the outside world a dozen small communities built along the upper reaches. These small towns today received back their inhabitants. Brewton and Flomaton, Ala., and smaller communities in the Escambia River area, flooded yesterday, were being rehabilitated today. Shoal River was receding in northwest Florida. In Georgia the northern reaches of the Flint were at a lower stage and farming communities again dry land. The Apalachicola will receive the main body of the flood within the next forty-eight hours. Communities along its banks were warned of the rise. Georgia Losses Are High Railroad and highway traffic in the Georgia, Florida and Alabama area was at a standstill for the third day. At least fifteen bridges in Alabama have been washed away. Georgia farmers, especially cotton growers in the area consider their combined losses to run above $2,000,000. Watermelon and canteloupe plantings, nearly mature, were ruined. From Pensacola came reports that all houses in Caryville, Fla., evacuated loy its 600 inhabitants Monday, had been washed away by the flood waters of the Choctawhatchee. Jackson, Miss., watched the Pearl River rise. Lowlands near the city already have been deserted. The crest of the rise was expected today. The Tombigbee at Columbus, Miss., was choked with flood waters and the towns along the lower valley in Alabama were warned to expect higher water. Alabama Faces Peril By United Press DEMOPOLIS, Ala., April 25. The Tombigbee River, drainage system of west Alabama and eastern Mississippi, was more than twelve feet above its flood stage of thirtynine feet today, and weather bureau officials predicted a further rise of ten feet by Sunday. PRIZES CAMPAIGN RELIC Hoosier Owns Pewter Coin Made in Year Lincoln Was Elected. MT. VERNON, Ind., April 24. Richard Stevens, living near Farmersville, is the possessor of an interesting relic of the campaign of 1860 which preceded the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. The relic is a pewter coin, about the size of a dollar, issued in behalf of the candidacy of John Bell, Tennessee, who ran on the “Know Nothing” platform of the Democratic party. Stevens found the coin more than thirty years ago in a ditch near the site of the old Peerman school, which was located a mile and a half northeast of Farmersville. The coin has been in his possession ever since.

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Steals ‘Stars’ By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., April 25. The latest in theft has been reported to police. Pictures of motion picture stars displayed in the foyer of the Strand Theater were stolen.

HIGH FREIGHTS ON OIL HINDER | INDIANA FIRMS Chicago Industries Profit by Lower Rates on Petroleum. This is the last of a series on freight rates as they affect Indiana industry and business. BY CHARLES CARLL One attempt to obtain an equalization of freight rates for Indiana is a case relating to alleged maladjustment in rates on petroleum and petroleum products now before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Indiana State Chamber of Commerce recently filed a brief in the case stating the situation relative to Indiana consumers. The rates objected to are for hauls from within the territory east of the Mississippi River, 3outh of the Ohio River and east of the Indiana-Illi-nois State line and from points without to points within this territory. Indiana’s stand in the matter is to keep joint through rates put into effect by the commission on a temporary order and for further reductions. Chicago Pays Less The State has, at present, a rate of 39 cents a hundred pounds on refined oil from the territory referred to, while Chicago is paying 36 cents. It is petitioned that the entire western half of Indiana have a 36-cent rate, and that the cost to South Bend, Richmond and Ft. Wayne should not exceed 39 Vi cents. Investigation of the case revealed that the Citizens Gas Company of this city used approximately 150,000 gallons of gas oil from the western oil fields, and from July 1, 1925, to the same date in 1926, the company used 4,728,330 gallons. The distance from the producing point to Indianapolis was 737 miles, to Chicago 783 miles. The cost of the transportation over this period was 35Vi cents to Indianapolis, while to Chicago it was 2914 cents. 6 Cents More for Oil Figures show that in 1921 the gas company paid $17,085 in rates for its location here compared to the cost to Chicago, $23,954 in 1922; $12,860 in 1923 and $14,544 in 1924. The Kokomo Steel and Wire Company is another large Indiana user of fuel oil, obtaining it from Tulsa, Okla. The manufactured product is sold in competition with plants in the Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Chicago group in addition to Minnesota and Wisconsin firms. The Indiana company, however, paid 6 cents more for the fuel than the Chicago competitor and in 1925 this firm paid $24,713 more than would have been needed if the company were located in Chicago. The writer was shown the accounts of an automobile firm located less than fifty miles from Indianapolis up to June 30, 1926. Between July 1, 1925, and the 1926 date, this company used 438 carloads of fuel oil. Under the rates then in effect the auto company paid $24,960 out in excess freight rates compared to the Illinois schedule. Other data obtained showed that over a year’s period ending in 1926, a South Bend company used 226 cars of fuel oil from the Oklahoma fields. It was revealed that this company paid $924 a year more for the oil than did competitors in Rockford, 111.

PRECINCT FIGHT UP Decision Expected Today In Row Over Boundary Charges The row resulting from efforts of politicians to gain force by changing precinct boundary lines before the primary of May 8 was before Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott today for settlement. A ruling was expected when evidence was completed and attorneys had argued the case. It was filed by Jesse A. Evans, 1323 Olney St., to mandate the county election board to accept his filing for precinct committeeman, after it had been thrown out by the board. The situation arose when the county commissioners ordered boundaries changed. A few days later the election board vetoed the changes, and Evans went into court. Candidacies of several are affected, due to the fact that the changes placed them in new precincts. Slayer to be Tried May 16 By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., April 25.—Insanity and self-defense will be pleas of Emmett Selby when he is tried in Knox Circuit Court here May 16 on a charge of the second degree murder of Perry Curry, said to have been intimate with Selby’s estranged wife. Curry was fatally shot two weeks ago. Selby was arraigned Monday and the trial date set. Install Biggest Set of Bells NEW YORK, April 25.—The largPark Avenue Baptist Church. The estfset of bells in the world will be installed in the new building of the Rockefeller memorial carillon, now in the old building, will be increased to sixty bells and moved. Noted Engineer Dies VALPARAISO, Ind., April 25. Milton Beck, 57, research and automobile engineer of international reputation, is dead here following an appendicitis operation. He was one of a group of engineers who have been seeking to perfect a twocylinder automobile engine.

CITY SHRINERS OFF ON MIAMI TRIP THURSDAY 350 Masons and Wives to Leave tor Convention by Special Train. The first “pilgrimage” to be made | by the uniformed organizations of j Murat Temple in three years will start Thursday afternoon for Miami, j Fla. The occasion is the annual ! conyention of the imperial council of the ancient order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. A special train of fifteen cars will leave the station at 2:15 p. m. * Preceding the getaway of the 200 men of the uniformed bodies, plus nearly that many more Shriners. members of their families and friends, there will be a street parade of the organizations in uniform. Preceding the parade will be the weekly luncheon of the Caravan Club, of which all Shriners are members. The uniformed bodies will have their luncheon with the Caravan Club. The Murat band will play and the chanters will sing. Parade lo Station Headed by members of the Caravan Club, with Mayor L. Ert S’lack ' and a mounted police escort in the van, the parade will depart from the temple about 1:30 p. m. Following the escort of the Caravan Club and the stay-at-homes, will come the Murat concert band. The Arab Patrol, the Gatling Gun Squad, the Drum and Bugle Corps and the Murat Chanters, will make up the parade. The line of march will be down Massachusetts Ave. to Pennsyhania, south on Pennsylvania to Washington St., w’est on Washington to Illinois and south to the station. The Murat party will travel via Cincinnati, Knoxville, Atlanta, Jacksonville and St. Augustine, with visits in all these cities, and is scheduled to reach Miami Sunday morning, where they will be quartered at the Halcyon Hotel. Thursday evening they start the return journey via Jacksonville, Savannah, Asheville and Cincinnati, reaching home Sunday morning. Reservations Still Open Delegates to the convention of the Shrine representing Murat Temple j are William H. Bockstahler, poten- j tate; Frank G. Laird, assistant rabban; Ed J. Scoonover, past potentate, and Charles Massena of Logansport. Elias J. Jacoby, past imperial potentate of the national order, who is also a past potentate of Murat Temple, also will be with the party. Charles S. Barker, recorder of the temple, will attend the sessions of the Shrine Recorders’ Association for North America. Most of the party will be accompanied by their wives and it is expected approximately 350 will be on the special train. Committees announce there is still room for reservations. Y. W. C. A. CLUBS PLAN ANNUAL JOINT PROGRAM South Side, Central Group Arrange Plays for Wednesday. Y. W. C. A. dramatic clubs of the South Side and Central branches will present their semi-annual program under the leadership of Miss Katherine Harrod in Hollenbeck Hall tonight. Miss Violet Van Note will give a group of interpretive folk dances and Miss Margaret Barlet will sing a solo. Readings will be given by the Misses Eleanor Graham, Jean Schofield, Harriet Scott and Kathryn Harrod. The casts for the three one-act plays, “Tit for Tac,” “Six Cups of : Chicolate” and “Inside Stuff” will be chosen from the combined dramatic groups. Those taking part from the Central branch are. Evelyn Van Hook, Dorothy Wilcox, Irma Day, Clara Chapman, Melvina Smith, Blanche Ferrestter, Betty Reider, Katherine Scott, Harriet Scott and Glenna Nail. Those from the South Side school are: Rose Payne Mark, Mary Chandler, Opal Pugh, Gertrude Buck, Helen McMurray, Esther Vielhaber, Ethel Mark and Mary Munger. Gertrude Buck is in charge of the costumes and Erma Day will be the accompanist. The program will be repeated at Morris Street Methodist Church Friday everting. The program tonight will be preceded by a dinner given by the industrila department. Members of the department will talk on the Y. W. C. A. Camp Gray on Lake Michigan. doctorshoTTnTh in a SHANGHAI, April 25.—Dr. Walter F. Seymour, an American, was shot and killed last Tuesday at the Presbyterian mission hospital at Tsining, a Chefoo message said today. Dr. Seymour was head of the hospital. Confirmation of the message and details of the incident were lacking.

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PAIR SAVED FROM DEATH BY SCIENCE

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 25.—New scientific methods proved effective today in the treatment of an infantile paralysis victim and a diver trapped for five minutes without air. Charles Henderson Dexter, 9, owed his recovery from the infantile disease to blood transfusions made from another victim who had recovered. Dr. Harry Ong made the transfusions along lines pre-

FALL MUCH BETTER May Leave Sanitarium in Month, Doctors Say. By United Press PASADENA, Cal., April 25.—Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, should be able to leave the Las Encinas Sanitarium here in a month or two, his physicians declared today. The former Cabinet member has shown marked improvement in health the past few days. Last month El Paso physicians declared Fall had but six months more to live. "Mr. Fall is responding to rest and treatment in an encouraging manner,” E. B. Isett, business manager of the sanitarium, said. “While it is impossible to state that a complete recovery will be effected, it is expected he will have so far regained his health as to be able to the sanitarium in a month or two." NAB 12 FOR GAMING Police Raid Breaks Up Poker Game. A. C. Hipp, 2321 E. Washington St., was not home when police called Tuesday night. But there were twelve other men there and a table covered with a blanket, three decks of cards and $20.95, officers declare. Two of them admitted they had been playing poker, according to police. The men were taken to headquarters and booked for gambling. Hipp will be charged with keeping a gambling house. MATINEE SEATS BEST Attendance at the matinee performance of the police and firemen’s emergency fund circus at State Fairground was urged by the committee today. Manager Edward V. Richardson announced the public will find better seats available at afternoon than evening performances. Buys Old Copy of Old Testament CHICAGO, April 2'.—Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick has obtained an illuminated Greek version of the New Testament, prepared under edict of “Michael Palaeologe, emperor of the East, in 1260. She would not reveal the purchase price.

scribed by Lorenz, the great Austrian specialist. The boy was pronounced completely well.. Johannes Rasmussen, 40, working on a bridge foundation, bled from nose and mouth and was unconscious on being raised from the Potomac river, after his air was cut off. He was placed in a tank at the navy yard here and subjected to high pressure, which was decreased over a period of two hours. He revived and may recover.

FARMER FOR HOOVER Bede Lauds Secretary in Auburn Speech. By Times Special AUBURN, Ind., April 25.—Denouncing as “slanderous falsehoods” campaign charges being circulated against Herbert Hoover's presidential candidacy in Indiana, J. Adam Bede, former Congressman from Minnesota, here Tuesday night, declared, “the hundred million people of this Nation, from sunrise to sunset, will rally behind him as their chosen leader if he receives the Republican nomination at Kansas City.” “The farmer,” Bede said, “is not deceived by campaign talk about the McNary-Haugen bill, for he knows that at best any relief through that measure now only can be expressed with a big question mark. The people know that Hoover is the man for the job; the farmer knows that Hoover, who has never faltered, no matter how hard the task, will not falter in dealing with the farmer.” | CITIZENS WILL MEET South Side citizens have been invited by C. C. Miller, secretary of the Garfield Park Civic League, to attend a meeting at Garfield Park Community House Thursday night. Elevation plans for the Belt railroad and other neighborhood problems will be discussed. Son Slayers Trial May 21 By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., April 25. George A. Chisholm who killed his two 'small sons by* drowning them in the ship canal at Indiana Harbor, will be tried on murder charges in Porter Circuit Court here May 21. Insanity will probably be the defense plea.

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'CO-OP' POOL ON m PROVES SUCCESS HERE Sixty Per Cent of Supply Is Provided Through New Association. Most of the Indianapolis residents who view cooperative marketing as some wild-eyed plan associated with the wheat fields of North Dakota are getting their milk through a “co-op” asosciation every morning. Six of every ten bottles of milk piaced on Indianapolis doorsteps these April mornings come from the milk pool of the Indianapolis district, the Dairy Producers’ Exchange, operated in connection with the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, it was disclosed today. This striking example of cooperative marketing has been accomplished within the last month under direction of Carl L. Hedges, also is in charge of the Indiana Dairy Marketing Association at Muncie. Most of Supply in Pool “Approximately 60 per cent of Indianapolis’ milk supply is coming through the pool.” Hedges said today. “Producers in the eight counties in this district supplied 17.050 gallons of milk to local distributors Monday through this pool. “This figure will mount to around 26.000 gallons daily within a few weeks, when all the producers and all the distributors are brought into the plan.” Thirty-five hundred producers are in the district, comprising Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson. Marion. Morgan and Shelby Counties, Hedges said. Distributors at first were hesitant about contracting for their milk through the pool, Hedges said, but rapidly are being converted to the idea, seeing in its operation advantages mutual with those gained by the farmer. Saves on Transportation “This plan,” Hedges explained, “effects a large saving on transportation, for it avoids duplication of routes. It places the farmers, as a group, in a better position to bargain with distributors, as a group; assures distributors of regular and adequate supply; and relieves both buyer and seller of the evils of cutthroat competition. Sellers get the same price and buyers pay the same price. Prices are based on Chicago butter.” When the supply exceeds the demand, Hedges said, the surplus goes to the Indiana Condensed Milk Company and waste is avoided. Distributors, creameries and ice cream companies now supplied under contract with the Dairy Producers Exchange include Capitol Dairies. Inc.; William H. Roberts & Sons Dairy. Ballard Ice Cream Company, Browder Ice Cream Company, Carey & Sons Dairy, Neumann Miik Company, Indiana Condensed Milk Company, Wells and Wells Milk Company, Jessup and Antrim Ice Cream Company, the South Side Milk Company and the Maywood Dairy. SEEK CONVENTION HERE A local church group, organized to bring the 1929 convention of the World Christian Fundamentals Association to Indianapolis, met at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, and elected H. M. Glossbrenner chairman. and Henry T. Davis, of the Chamber of Commerce convention bureau, secretary. A large number attended the meeting, which was interdenominational. A delegation from the local group will attend the 1928 convention in Chicago, May 13 to 20. Five thousand delegates and visitors are expected to attend.

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Happy Orphans By Times Special PATOKA, Ind., April 25. The Knox County orphans’ home has anew inmate today. It’s happiness. Lee McElroy, 13, has won a Shetland pony in a letter writing contest and one of the phrases in his letter was that the pony “will belong to all of us.” Mr. and Mrs. George T. Ford, Ft. Branch, have made a gift of a saddle and bridle for the pony.

SMALL NOT TO NAME SENATOR Illinois Seat to Remain Vacant Until Election. By I nited Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 25. The second Illinois seat in the United States Senate will remain empty until the November election, as Governor Len Small has no intention of appointing a successor to Col. Frank L. Smith, it was indicated at Small’s office today. It was pointed out that Small and Smith have been political allies for yeays and the Governor has no intention of asking Smith to relinquish the credentials which the Senate refused to accept. Otis F. Glenn, successful Republican senatorial nominee in the recent primary, has been one of Small’s harshest critics in the State Senate, and, it was said, his appointment to fulfill the unexpired term was very unlikely. CITY POLITICIANS ARE ASSAILED BY GILLIOM Urges Man Outside Indianapolis Be Sent to U. S. Senate. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 25. “Marion County politicians whose methods have embarrassed Republicans throughout the State, are determined to conupt the nomination for Senator,” said Arthur L. Gilliom, attorney general and Republican senatorial candidate in an address here Tuesday night. “Both of my opponents live„ at Indianapolis,” said Gilliom, “and both held public offices at Indianapolis under appointment by Governor Goodrich. I am the only candidate for United States Senator from outside Marion County. “Before I became attorney general, I lived at South Bend, and my legal residence is still here.”

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RUSH QUITS AS LIBRARIAN OVER SCANTBUDGET Takes Columbia University Post in August: Here . for 11 Years. Charles E. Rush, city librarian for eleven years will become director of libraries and professor of educaation in the Columbia University teachers’ college, Aug. 31. His resignation Tuesday night was a surprise to school board members. Rush referred to budget slashes which have made a systematic branch library building program impossible. “In the hope this much needed improvement might be provided I have in the last three or four years refused at a financial sacrifice several advantageous offers of other positions,” he said. Criticises Meager Budget “In view of reepated discouragements, I can ony trust that an aroused public opinion will support efforts of my successor and the board in obtaining as good as adequate educational facilities of this character as are supplied by other cities of similar size.” Commissioners Theodore F. Vonnegut and Charles W. Kern criticized budget handicaps to Rush in his work. “The board congratulates you. of course, on your selection for this wonderful opportunity,” Vonnegut said, “but we cannot congratulate the city that has made it possible to lose you.” “On every occasion the library budget was attacked, Rush was on hand prepared to show what was needed,” Kern said, "yet he was denied a part of the necessary funds.' 1 Rush Native Hoosier In the eleven years Rush has been librarian increases of 122 per cent in book stock, 172 per cent in home readers, 188 per'cent in home use of books and 66 per cent in number of branches have been shown. Rush is a native Hoosier. Born in Fair-mount, in 1885, he was graduated from Fairmount Academy and Earlham College, and took special work at the University of Wisconsin and the New •’York Stale Library School. He was librarian at Jackson, Mich., from 1908 to 1910, and at St. Joseph, Mo., for the next si* years. He came to Indianapolis in 1917 from Des Moines, lowa, where he had served a year as librarian.