Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 319, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1928 — Page 17

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PAY ROLLS IN i INDIANA WILL CAWSOK Survey for Week Shows Industrial Employment Increases. 800 JOBS AT KOKOMO Additional Workers Also at Tipton, Ft. Wayne and Vincennes.

BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Time* Improvement in employment conditions is noted in a survey of business and industry in Indiana for the week ended today. Three hundred persons will be given places in the plant of the McLoughlin Manufacturing Company at Kokomo, which moved from Indianapolis. The company will occupy the flatiron unit of tho Baynes buildings. It manufactures underwear. Orders have been received to add thirty-one men to the working force of the Nickel Plate railroad’s car repair shops at Tipton. The Dudlo plant, Ft. Wayne, Is re-hiring 250 persons dismissed hi the seasonal shutdown during the winter, and is preparing for capacity production well into the fall. The Wayne Knitting Mills will add 150 to its force, following installation of new machinery at a cost of $150,000. Twenty women have been added to the force of the Wayne company. This is the first time in the company’s history that it has used women as plant employes. Factory Will Be Moved Some equipment and several employes of the Lima (Ohio) plant of the Coony Bayer Cigar Company, will be brought to Ft. Wayne where the company maintains its offices and another plant. The move is preliminary to establishing the factory at Ft. Wayne and discontinuing operations at Lima. Brazil business was encouraged by acquisition of a factory of the William Tegge Cigar Company, to take the place of the General Cigar Company factory moved a few weeks ago to Detroit, Mich. The Tegge company intends to start with a force of 300, and employes are now being signed. Gradual increase in the Brown Shoe Company factory force at Vincennes until 500 persons are at work, is the plan announced by F. A. Schuth, manager. Employment of new workers will begin Monday. Another Vincennes industry, the Central Foundry, will put 100 more men to work, doubling it force. It has added brake shoes to its production. Work at Two Mines The Ferguson Coal Company, operating two mines in the Terre Haute district, has signed the Jacksonville wage agreement. The mines affected employ between 500 and 700 men on full production. These make seventeen mines affected by the agreement since April 1, when operation ceased due to expiration of contracts. The Kiser Plating Company, Muncie, will erect a $7,000 addition and expects a 50 per cent increase in the working force. A $75,000 railroad spur is being built to serve the Bert G. Hoadley quarry two miles northwest of Bloomington. Greensburg’s new industry, the Cyclone Fence Company, put the Second floor of its factory in operation this week.

Columbus Industry Busy Production pf Ford auto emergency brake levers at the rate of 5,000 ciaily is the goal of the,. NoblittSparks Industries, Columbus. Expenditure of $22,500 for improvements to the Beyer Ice Cream Company factory at Kendallvllle has been authorized. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad Is erecting a $15,000 icing station at Alice, near Vincennes, for use of the Fruit Growers Express Company In handling Knox County’s peach and melon crops. Most of a five-year printing contract which will amount to $500,000 yearly, awarded the R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, Chicago, will be handled by the company’s establishment at Crawfordsville. The contract was given by the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church. A $12,000,000 company has been organized under the name of the Motor Dealers Credit Association to finance dealers in Studebaker and Erskme automobiles, it is announced by the Studebaker Corporation, South Bend.

Public Building Survey Public building projects over the State include the following: BLOOMINGTON Addition to jjostofflce to cost $75,000, and a $22,500 store and apartment building. BRAZIL —A contract has been let bn an $89,000 bid for erection of a vocational and physical education fcuilding as an addition to the city’s school system. SPENCER—Two-story theater of Spanish design to cost $45,000. DUGGER—Bonds for SIO,OOO have been sold to finance erection of a tew library building. PRINCETON—Work preliminary to erection of an armory building is in progress. NEW WINCHESTER—Contracts for a total of $56,000 have been awarded for a school building addition’. HARTFORD ClTY—Erection of the new $114,000 William Reed School building is under way.

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Big Feet on the Force; A Iso Small Ones

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“All policemen have big feet,” Is merely a saying. Proof that all do not is found on the Indianapolis police force. And the fact that most do is found in the same organization. Dale Smith, 2217 Parker Ave., is proof that some officers have no larger feet than the average man about town. He wears No. B’s. He has one of the smallest pair off et on the force. He has been in service two years. Thomas P. Eisenhut, 1430 E. Tenth St., needs a size 13 to encase his “dogs.” He is acclaimed generally about police headquarters as having “the biggest feet in Indianapolis.” A non-official check on sizes of feet in the station yields the result that all policemen wear shoes known as “10’s or ll’s.”

OFFICERS SEIZE LIQUORSTILLS Three Held After Raids on Houses. Police and Federal dry agents today believed they have eliminated one of the principal sources of liquor in Indianapolis with confiscation of liquor and four stills valued at nearly $16,000 at three houses in the 900 block of Lexington Ave. Thursday night. Joseph Sgro, 914 Lexington Ave., and Marmelo Mirabile, 916 Lexington Ave., were arrested, while Micale Sisicata, 910 Lexington Ave., escaped. Sgro and Mirabile face Federal charges. At the Sisiata home officers found three stills in operation, twentyfour barrels of fermenting mash, 130 gallons of com whisky and 150 gallons of red wine. A 100-gallon still and 155 gallons of whisky were found in the attic of the Sgro home, reached by a secret flight of stairs. Twenty-five gallons of wine were found in Mirabile basement. Later police, under Lieut. Dean and Sergt. Barge, battered in the door of an apartment at 425 Lansing St., confiscated nearly 100 quarts of beer and arrested Joseph Terrell on liquor charges, and five others for vagrancy. Police said cards had been passed on the street, urging the thirsty to “come to Herman’s place. Open day and night,” and bearing the Lansing St. address.

ASK PAY FOR ESTATE Heirs Want $300,000 From U. S. for Washington’s Laud. WASHINGTON, May 4.—’The Government is asked to pay a debt

for more than a century. Great-great-great nephew of George Washington, Dr. William B. Turnbull of Boston, Mass., expects to receive Government payment for the loss of lands which once belonged to the first President. He and other heirs want about S3OO each.

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GILLIOM TO BROADCAST Will Make Radio Debut in Campaign Over WFBM TonightAttorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator, will speak tonight from 7:40 to 8 over WFBM. Although Gilliom has made campaign addresses before several organizations here, this will be his first speech to the general public in this section of the State.

‘L. ERT,’ THE MAYOR, IS PROUD OF HIS SIGNATURE, BECAUSE IT IS UNUSUAL

BY EDWIN Y. O’NEEL THERE’S “lots in a name” when it is that of a city official! Mayor L. Ert Slack, who signs thousands of public documents during the week, has one of the most distinctive signatures of any public ofacial. The mayor adopted the present style of his name during his grade school days and is known everywhere as “L. Ert.” The signature appears in his school books which he still cherishes. Slack’s full name is Lemuel Ertus, but is never written in full even on public documents.

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, Time to Rest Thoughts of Coolidge Are Turning to Choice of Vacation Site.

BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 4. President Coolidge ls turning his thoughts to his summer vacation, which probably will begin shortly after the budget meeting here June 11. Col. E. W. Starling, member of the White House secret service in now on an inspection tour that will take him to virtually each of the prominent estates offered the President for the summer White House. The Swannanoa valley in West Virginia was inspected Wednesday. Estates that have been offered Colidge include several locations in Virginia; the 150,000-acre Sapela Island heme of Howard Coffin, chairman of the board of the Hudson Motor Company, seven miles from Savannah, Ga.; the home of Phillip S. Henry on Beaucatcher Mountain at Asheville, N. C.; and ‘Old Farm” at Bar Harbor, Maine, which the President has described as “a delightful place with fine accommodations.” According to White House rumors, the President inclines to New England for this summer’s holiday. Regardless, however, of the site finally chosen, it must meet certain requirements outlined by the President. It must be of sufficient altitude to inmire protection against his rose fever; it must have streams abundant with trout for the, chief executive’s hook and line; it must include adequate accommodations for the presidential party, clerical staff, newspaper correspondents and photographers; and it must be reasonably accessible by train to Washington. ■ Choice of a summer White House to a large extent will be governed by the condition of Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Coolidge, who is ill at Northampton, Mass., the President has Indicated. If her condition continues grave through the summer, Coolidge probably will maintain his summer home near by —another factor pointing to a vacation in new England.

BLOSSOM TOUR SUNDAY Public Invited to Join in Visit to Apple Orchards. The “apple blossom” tour of the Indiana Horticultural Society will be held this Sunday afternoon. All desiring to make the trip are requested to meet at College Ave and the Canal at 1:45. The tour was arranged to give Indianapolis citizens a chance to sqie apple orchards in the county while the trees are in bloom. Four or five of the largest orchards in the county will be visited.

“I do not Recall how I started to use my present signature. It was when I was a mere youth, I have always used it because it is uncommon,” Slack said. a a a CHARLES MACK, of “two black crows” fame, commented on i the unusualness of Slack’s name on his recent visit to the mayor’s office. “When folks say L. Ert you know who they are talking about. But there are thousands of' 1 Charlies in the United States,” Mack opined.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928

150 PLANES TO STAGE AIR WAR Congressmen Will Witness Army Show. LANGLEY FIELD, HAMPTON, Va., May 4.—One hundred and fifty airplanes are concentrated here today for annual maneuvers of the Army air service. Hundreds of visitors, including Senators and Congressman, are on hand to witness the demonstration. A formation of twenty bombing planes flew from Bolling Field Thursday afternoon, carrying Senators Jones of Washington, Oddie of Neveda, McMasters of South Dakota, and Stock of Iwa, and Representatives James of Michigan, Hoffman of New Jersey and Delegate Houston of Hawaii. Senators Robinson of Indiana, Pine of Oklahoma, and Brookhart of lowa, and eleven Representatives, are due here today. Because these lawmakers were unable to come Thursday, the night’s aerial Tnanuevers were postponed until tonight. These will include a theoretical attack and destruction of the town of Messick, Va. The fighting tactics of great aces of the World War will be demonstrated when three pursuit planes attack and destroy an observation balloon.

AL SMITH’S LEAD IS RAISED TO 73,000

Bu United Prees SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.—'Tbe final count of ballots in the California presidential primary will give Herbert Hoover nearly 600,000 votes and will raise Governor A1 Smith’s majority to about 73,000, nearly complete returns indicated today. The unopposed Hoover-pledged delegation of twenty-nine members

U. S. TO AID QUAKE AREA Near East Relief Started Work In Ravaged Balkans. WASHINGTON, May 4.—America

is preparing to aid the Balkan district, recently ravaged by earthquakes. Director of orphanage work for Near East Relief in Athens, Greece, Mrs. Edna Bassett of Los Angeles, answered the first call for help from earthquake sufferers in the Corinth area. Boy Scouts from the American orphan-

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Slack’s father ran across the name Ertus while reading a book shortly before the mayor’s birth, but has never been able to recall the circumstances under which he selected the name. Like other public officials whose “John Henry” is required on thousands of bonds and public records, Slack has cut the size of his signature considerable since he took office. Police Chief Claude M. Worley’s initial stands for "Morton.” He was named in honor of Governor Morton. Worley has a twin brother in

FAST BUSSES MAY END CITY TRAFFIC JAM Street Rail Chief Doubts Elevated Road Would Be Solution Here. r SLACK SEES BIG NEED Company Studies Utility of 40-Passenger, Twin Motor Cars. Elevated rapid transit as a solution to Inidanapotts' long haul transportation problem, suggested by Mayor L. Ert Slack, is a long way off, but fast surface service by express bus may be inaugurated comparatively soon, James P. Tretton, operating superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, said today. Mayor Slack has suggested that city and traction officials prepare a program for rapid transit In keeping with expected growth of the city. Slack believes elevated lines from the business district to Broad Ripple, thence to Fairview and Riverside, are the eventual solution. Would Choose Subways Tretton, while commenting that this is too early a date to be definite, believes that the city of the future will avoid elevated tracks, because of their ugliness and use subways. The street railway company recognizes, however, the need for faster rides from the extreme north and east sections of the city, both from five to six miles from the business district, Tretton said. Preliminary study has led to the belief that express busses would be the best Immediate relief, he said It Is likely that these non-stop busses would run over the same lines as at present, but new equipment might be bought. The company has looked into the possibility of buying a number of forty-passen-ger twin-motor cars. Motors at Sides The cars have motors of the sides with compartments in both front and rear for passengers—the driver’s vision being left free, of course. This type rapidly is replacing dou-ble-deck busses in larger cities, it is said. Taetton had no comment upon Slack’s proposal that a number of downtown streets be freed from car and bus lines, a loop around the present congested district replacing them. The company, Tretton said, is willing to co-operate in sensible revision of the system. Tretton suggested that downtown traffic congestion would be relieved greatly by prohibiting parking in the mile square during the rush period from 4:30 p. m. to 6 p. m. Would Relieve Congestion “It would help, of course, to prohibit parking during the rush hour in the morning, but two hours in the evening would not work a hardship and would relieve congestion 50 per cent,” Tretton declared. Councilmen manifested interest in Slack’s proposal to the council, but have not taken up the transportation survey, because of the many tasks confronting them in their new posts.

will receive approixmately threefourths of the total vote. The various candidates maintained about the same ratio of strength as the final precincts were tabulated. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri continued to run second on the Democratic ballot, while Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana ran about 11,000 votes behind Reed.

Bu Timet Special COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 4. Official figures announced today by Secretary of State Brown for the recent Ohio primary, show that Herbert Hoover received 217,430 votes, Oliver Ross, 8,280, and the late Senator Frank B. Willis. 84,461. Governor A1 Smith received 42,365, former Senator Atlee Pomerene, 13,957, and Governor Donahey, 7,935. Highway Contract Let Contract for paving 8.72 miles on State Rd. 67 between Muncie and Portland, was awarded Thursday by the State highway commission to the Bums Construction Company of Indianapolis at a bid of $156,079.52. The engineer’s estimate was $178,370.95.

Tennessee who is named in memory of President Harrison. u a tt *~IITY PURCHASING AGENT JOEL A. BAKER refused to explain his middle initial. “It’s just A.,” he replied. The first name of Park Superintendent R. Walter Jarvis is Robert, although he never writes it in full. Dr. Herman Grover Morgan, city health officer, writes it Herman G. Morgan. “The Grover is for Grover Cleveland. My father was a great admirer of the former president.

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With the announcement of her marriage to Louis G. Kaufman, Jr., son a wealtny New York banker, Dorothy Dilley, ingenue of “Take the Air,” says she will give the stage the air as soon as her present contract expires. Graveraet Y. Kaufman, another of the banker’s sons, eloped with May Daw, Ziegfeld Follies dancer, in 1924. Papa Kaufman says it’s all O. K. with him. Dorothy is shown in one of her little dancing tricks and in the inset, above.

ENDURANCE FLIERS ARE FORCED DOWN

Thomas Betters Lindbergh Mark for Sustained Solo Flight. /! ti T'nitrit Pres* ROOSEVELT FIELD. L. 1., May 4.—Almost twenty hours short of the record he had set out to break, Lieut. Royal Thomas was forced to descend at 11:50 p. m. Thursday, after being In the air since 12:30 p. m. Wednesday. He said a dump valve in the main gasoline tank had opened, causing most of the supply of gasoline to seep out. Thomas established one record. He broke the record for sustained solo flights which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh had held at 334 hours. Thomas remained in the air about one and one-half hours more. It ii United Pres* CHICKASHA, Okla., May 4.--Joe Hart, formerly a member of the American flying corps, failed in his attempt to establish anew sustained flight record when a defective oil pump forced him to descend after only a few hours in the air. He had taken off at 5:43 a. m Thursday and came down at 1:30 p. m. He said he had made a landing at 9:30 because of the bad pump. He probably will try again in the Ryan monoplane that he used yesterday. Boone County Pioneer Dies By Time* Special LEBANON, Ind., May 4.—John Bart, 96, native of Germany but a resident of Boone County more than sixty years, is dead. Boobs, Ilicks on Broadway Bn T nitcd Pre*s NEW YORK, May 4.—The boobs, hicks and ignorants aren’t on the farm. “The greatest boobs are on Eroadway,” says the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, of radio church fame.

PADLOCKS MENACE CHICAGO CABARETS

Bu United Press CHICAGO, May 4.—The doom of the padlock hung over Chicago’s cabarets today. Within two weeks, Government agents predicted, the city’s gayest night life resorts will be dark. Virtually every cabaret of prominence figures in injunction proceedings which had been held up during their fight for the right to serve “set-ups# The fight of the Case Owners’ Association was given up yesterday, when a test case opposing the court ruling which made it a dry law in-

I think, because he was a good duck shot. “Many folks think I am Dutch because of the name Herman, but I am Scotch-Irish. My father had a good friend by the name of Herman,” Dr. Morgan said. YTCTORKS Board President Oren ' ’ Stephen Hack was known in college at Indiana University as “Oriental Sunday” Hack. He did not explain the origin on the nickname. Hack’s neat signature is written on hundreds of contracts and requisitions thrice a week.

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PRINCESS NOW AUTHOR Book Chosen as Best of Month by Guild. NEW YORK, May 4.—lt is to a Rumanian princess that the Literary Guild turns for its particular

book of the month. The guild is bringing out Marthe Bibesco’s ‘Catherine-Paris.” This is the first literary bow the princess has made in America, ;hough she has been confused here with Margot Asquith’s daugh- j ter, Elizabeth Bibesco, whose writing are well known here,

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Princess Marthe, born to the house of Lahovary, has been writing since girlhood. At 20 she wrote “The Eight Paradises,” which won recognition in the French Academy. NAVAL ATTACHE NAMED Capt. G, W. Steele Appointed to Paris Embassy. WASHINGTON, *May 4. Announcement was made today that

Capt. George W. Steele, Jr., has been appointed naval attache to the American embassy at Paris and also will fulfill the same duties to Spain and Portugal. He has been commanding officer of the rs. S. S. • Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic fleet.

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fringement to serve ginger ale and ice to patrons bringing their own liquor ended with the closing of the Rainbo Gardens, one of the leading cabarets. Fred Mann, owner of Rainbo Gardens, is president of the association. The ruling against “set-ups,” which made cabarets and restaurants liable to prosecution through so-called “observation evidence,” was returned by a court here last fall. The Case Owners’ Association raised a large fund to fight the ruling in the courts.

“Anyone who signs his name as often as I do will cut out a lot of the flourishes,” Hack declared. State Board of Accounts Examiner Tracy Warner Whitaker assigned to city hall received his first name from a family doctor. “Warner” is 1 a family name. He signs his name “Tracy W. Whittaker. “I suppose you think my middle name is Augustus. But it is Abraham,” said Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart. “My great grandfather was Charles Abraham,” he explained.

SPELLERS VIE FOR TITLE OF STATETONIGHT More Than 30 Champions of Schools, Counties in Contest. WINNER TO WASHINGTON Indiana Champ to Receive Five-Day Trip to Nation’s Capital. The champion speller of Indiana will be named tonight at Caleb Mills Hall of Shortridge high school when more than thirty county champions compete for the title. The State meet is the culmination of several months eliminations in hundreds of Indiana grade schools. More than 50,000 students entered the contest. No admission will be charged for tonight’s finals. The Indianapolis Times is the sponsor of the second annual State wide contest, and one newspaper in each county had charge of the local events. The Times sponsored the Marion and Boone County tests. Nine From Marion County Contestants, their county and sponsor are: Marion Charles Feibleman. 12, of 3262 Ruckle St.; Robert McTurnam, 12, of 624 E. Twelfth St.; Max Glaze, 12, of 323 Minkner St.; Helen Kass, 12, 51914 W. Court St.; Rosa Pence, 12, of 1412 Prospect St.; Minnie Andrews, 13, of 1149 Madcria St.; William Thompson, 12, of 1136 N. Temple St.; Frances Nipp, 13, of 27 S. Arlington Ave.; Donald Roberson, 11, rural route No. 1, box 749, Alma Dugan, 1113 Woodlawn Ave.; Helen Gusler, 617 W. Twenty-Eighth It.; Mary Mitchell, rural route I_. 5, box 49; Floyd Washburn, 1027 Blaine Ave., and Mary Ethel O’Callaghan, 305 N. Arsenal Ave. Jasper—M. L. Sterrett, county superintendent of schools—Cleda Steinke, Rensselaer. Grant—Marion Chronicle—Sherril Morton, rural route No. 3, Marion. Peru Girl Wins i Miami—Peru Tribune—Alice Mc--1 Elwee, Peru. ! Owen—Albert Free, county superintendent of schools Woodrow Gentry, Freedom. Knox Vincennes Commercial— Elgin Sager, Vincennes. Vigo—Terre Haute Post—Gwen- : dolyn Stephens, Terre Haute, i Brown—Grover G. Brown, county superintendent of schools—Antonio Cesnik, rural route No. 2, Morgantown. Bartholomew—Columbus Evening Republican—Mary Elizabeth Reed, Columbus. Rural Pupil Is Champ Ohio—Ohio County News—Elsie Richason, rural route No. 3, Aurora. Johnson—Franklin Evening Star Harvey Jacobs, Trafalgar. Noble—Noble County Democrat— Velma Wolf, Avilla. Sullivan—Peoples State Bank of Sullivan—Dorothy Burton, Graysville. Boone—lndianapolis Times and C. O. Capilinger, county superintendent of schools, George Cash, Lebanon. Clay—Brazil Dally Times—Marcia Tibbets, Carbon. Clark—Jefferson Evening Champion to be named. Attucks Sextet to Sing Because of the large school population in Marion County, the district was divided into nine zones for public? and five for parochial schools. One -champion was named from each zone to compete in the State contest. A sextet from the Crispus Attucks high school will give a program of Negro Spirituals and plantation melodics at 8 p. m. County contestants will face the pronouncer at 8:15 p. m. Professor Carl Franzen, of the education department of Indiana University, will give the words to the students. Dean Emma Colbert of the Teachers College of Indianapolis: L. A. Pittenger, president of Ball Teachers College 1 of Muncie, and Dr. L. N. Hines, president of the Indiana State Normal school at Terre Haute, will act as judges. Spelling Books Selected Words will be given from “The Mastery of Words” and “The McCall Speller” until the books have been spelled through. The pronouncer then will use the Webster and Funk and Wagnalls Unabridged dictionaries, loaned by W. K. Stewart Book Store, selecting words at random. Out-of-town contestants will gather at the Severin at 2:30 this afternoon and local students will meet in the office of The Times at the same hour. Both groups will attend the Apollo theater at 3. A photograph will be taken of students in front of the Apollo. Indiana’s champion will be sent to Washington, D. C., to enter the national bee with all expenses paid by 'Die Times May 22. A five day sight-seeing trip is Included In the itinerary. YOUNG PEOPLE CONVENE Christian Endeavor Bodies of Two Counties Meet at Anderson. Bu Timet Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 4.—Young people from two counties convened here today to continue through Sunday in the first annual convention of the Madison-Tipton Counties Christian Endeavor organization. Discussion groups will be led by Miss Genefred Harris, Indianapolis and Carl Ogden, general secretary of the Anderson Y. M. C. A.