Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1928 — Page 21

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$2,000,000 IN POWER PLANT AT EVANSVILLE Preliminary Work Under Way; Serve!, Inc., to Continue Expansion. ORDER OF $10,000,000 Factory at New Albany Signs Contract for Radio Cabinets. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Featuring a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today are the following: Preliminary work in erection of a $2,000,000 power plant by the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company at Evansville. In the same city, Servel Inc., manufacturing refrigerators, announces continuation of an expansion program which eventually will result in addition of SOO to 1.000 persons to its force. Thf* corporation has 2,270 in its employ with a monthly pay roll of $300,000. and is spending $750,000 annually in advertising its products. Gets $10,000,000 Contract

A $10,000,000 radio cabinet contract has been closed by the New Albany Veneering Company with the Grisby-Grunow Company, Chicago manufacturers. The contract will run five years. Fifteen new machines will be added to the equipment of the Wayne Knitting Mills. Ft. Wayne, at a cost of $190,000. The company now has 1,500 employes on its payroll and will increase the number. The Dick Burdg-Larson Company, Decatur manufacturers of electric refrigerators, will operate on a day and night schedule to fill orders which are being received from all parts of the United States and; Canada. Grccnsburg Factory Busy Steady operation is being maintained by the Cyclone Com- j pany, Greensburg, and it is expected j that production will be doubled j shortly. / . | A modern steel bar and billet plant is a recently completed addi- ! tion to Kokomo Steel and Wire Company factory. It has a capacity of 30,000 tons a month. Conditions in other cities are as follows: FT. WAYNE—Contracts have been awarded for erection of sixstory building for the Grand Leader j store. MARION—The Indiana General j Service Company has awarded a j contract for erection of a $30,000 j substation building. WABASH—The Chamber of Commerce is considering plans lor establishing a fund for use in bringing industries to the city. Occupies No? Quarters A N D E R S O N—The Rodecap Candy Company has moved into a business structure remodeled for its use. There are only fifty-nine vacant residences here as compared to 100 in the same period last year. CLARKSBURG—A contract has been awarded for construction of a school building here at a cost of $33,000. GARY—The record-breakinj public improvement program here for the present year has been added to by letting of contracts by tl?e public works board for projects to cost $171,000. HUNTINGTON —Bonds have been sold for a $193,000 school building program. SHELBYVlLLE—Construction has started on a five-story business building on a downtown site owned by the First Methodist Church. The building will cost $150,000. Oil Field Aids Industry TERRE HAUTE—Development of an oil field south of here has added anew line to the business of the Quick Welding and Machine Shop, which is now engaged in building ooil tanks. PERU—A $38,000 paving contract has been awarded by the city council to C. J. Burke, local contractor. ' SUMMITVILLE—Erection of a building for a cheese factory is under way here. LEBANON Merger of Boone County’s two largest banks—the First National and Farmers’ Statewill be completed next month. The merged bank will have deposits in excess of $1,500,000. It will be known as the First National Bank of Lebanon. Police Chiefs to Anderson Bn Times Special i FT. WAYNE, Ind.. May 18.—AnLderson was chosen as the fall conwention citV for the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police, which closed a two-day session here tonight. Chief Elmer Nighbert of Anderson will fix a September date. Heavier sentences for law breakers and revision of Indiana’s criminal code will be asked of the State Legislature by the association.

Bottoms Up! pTni*ed Press in n. vV YORK May 18.—The largest cocktail m the world was discovered when the liner Munamar docked from the West Indies. A thousand gallon tank, half full of rusty water, had been used to smuggle in 2,800 bottles of liquor. The bottles broke, the tank leaked, and when the customs agents tasted the cocktail, they raided the ship.

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‘Miss Labor' Wins Mexico

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Miss Luz Guzman Gavira, a popular Mexican beauty, is in line for election as Labor Queen, to be elected by all members of affiliated labor organizations in Mexico. “Miss Labor” is shown above in her Mexican “China” costume as she appeared recently at festival in Mexico City.

‘BIG BILL’ HAYWOOD, RADICAL ‘KING,’ DIES

STUDIES SPEED IN U. S. French Miller Learns American Hurry-Up Methods.

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The mills of the French grind slowly, it seems, so Ernest Vilgrin, head of the biggest flour milling company in France, has come *o see how Amer icans speed up production. Vilgrin was the "Herbert Hoover” of the French government during the war.

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DEFER UTILITY QUIZ Hearing of New Witnesses Set for May 28. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, May 18.—Open hearings in the Federal Trade Commission's utilities investigation were suspended today until May 28 when New York, Minnesota and Colorado utilities men will be called. Subpoenas have been issued for Charles H. B. Chaplin, New York, secretary of the Empire State Gas and Electric Association, and Fred W. Crone. New York, director of the New York State committee of public utility information. John W. Lapham. Minneapolis, secretary of the North Central Public Utilities Information Bureau, has been summoned for May 29. Colorado men to be examined May 31 are George V. Lewis. Denver, manager of the Rocky Mountain committee on public utility information, and O. A. Weller, of the Rocky Mountain division of the National Electric Light Association. WOMAN GETS U. S. JOB Ruth Shipley Selected to Pass on All Passports WASHINGTON, May 18.—Women still aVe forging to the fore in Gov-

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ernment work. Miss Ruth B. Shipley of this city, has been appointed chief of the passport division of the State department. She is the first woman ever appointed to head a division of this branch of Government. She will pass on passports.

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Train and Plane Relay Will Narrow Continent

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Transcontinental travelers of the near future will be able to avail themselves of the plan diagrammed above, according to announcements of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., and the Pennsylvania and A. T. & S. F. railroads. A train-and-plane relay soon is to stretch from New York to Los Angeles, carrying

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Fugitive From U. S. Passes in Moscow, Following Long Illness. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, May 18.—William 'Big Eill) Haywood, former “uncrowned king of the I. W. W.” in the United States, died in self-imposed exile here today in his 66th year. Haywood’s condition had been critical for several weeks after a long fight against diabetes. The disease was arrested ■ more than a montn ago, but the communist’s heart was too weak to survive the treatment Haywood* had been a fugitive from American justice since 1921, when he came to Russia to escape serving a 20-year prison sentence for obstructing the war. The sentence was imposed on "Big Bill” by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in Chicago in 1918. Flees to Russia , By the time the court upheld his sentence, Haywood was gone. Here in Russia he was received readily by the Communists, whose doctrines he had championed so successfully in the United States. “Big Bill” was brought to a hospital here three weexs ago, responded to treatment satisfactorily, and was released. Later his heart went bad and he was returned to the hospital, w'here he died today at 10:40 a. m. Haywood never succeeded in making the name for himself here that he had enjoyed in America. In Russia he was not considered unusual, as his political and economic doctrines were the same as the doctrines of the masses. Haywood w'as born in Salt Lake City, the son of a poor miner. He grew up among laborers and developed the spirit of unrest that marked the mining and lumber camps of the West in the late nineties.

Involved in Slaying His fust public appearance as a labor leader was in 1899. when he founded the Industrial Workers of the World. In 1907 he was involved in the assassination of Governor Steunenberg of Idaho. His trial, with two other defendants, was a national sensation. Senator William E. Borah served as prosecutor and lost the case to Clarence Darrow, the Chicago criminal attorney, who was employed by the defense. Haywood’s acquittal was said to have b;en the result of 7 a too elaborate “confession” submitted by one Harry Orchard and purporting to involve “Big Bill” as a % conspirator in the bombing. The assassination of ' the Idaho Governor was an outgrowth of the troubles of the old Western Federation of Miners in which Haywood was a leader.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 18,1928

COUNCILMEN OF COUNTY FACE NEW CONFLICT Meeting June 1 Is Forecast as Torrid Affair, With Factions Clashing. BUSINESS IS BLOCKED Sunnyside Help and Road Program Among Matters Hanging Fire. County council meeting of June 1. called this week by County Auditor Harry Dunn, promises to be as fiery as former council table battles between the two major factions in the Republican party in Marion County. Several matters of business which have proved thorns in the side of the George V. Coffin faction-con-trolled council, will be resubmitted by the county commissioners, a majority of whom favor the faction headed by Otis Dodson. Chief among these are the $12,000 improvement plan for the Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium water plant, a $500,000 county rodd program, and the payment of the county’s share in elevation of the Big Four over Shelby St.

Favors Sunnyside Action Council Member Paul Dunn, member of the Coffin majority said today that he favors “remedyii g the water situation at Sunnyside. The council is more than willing to act when the commissioners offer us a feasible plan. “All we can do is pass on plans they submit. They’ve been delaying more than a year. We are willing when they give us something to work on. No. I’m not familiar with the new plan.” Commissioners Cassius L. Hogle and Charles O. Sutton retaliate with the counter charge that it is the council that has delayed, that feasible plans have been submitted, and that they have been rejected. Road Projects Blocked The road program has been backed by Hogle and Sutton and County Engineer Henry Campbell, who was defeated for renomination along with most other Dodson faction aspirants, in the last primary. They claim that this, too, has 1 been made to suffer because of the opposition of the Coffin majority on the council, although it is a worthy step forward, tnes declare. Campbell’s p.atform has been for a comity road system, but his efforts for concerted building program have | been blocked by the council.

AFFLICTED CHILD AT LAST LINDS HOME

Care Arranged at Greensburg for The Boy Nobody Wants.’ By Times Special GREENSBURGH, Ind., May 18William R. Rediker, 5, tongue-tied and feeble minded, “the boy nobody wants,” has at last found a place to lay his head while awaiting committment to the State school for feeble-minded children. He has been placed in a private home by John Parker, Decatur County charities board president. The boy has been at the Bartholomew County Orphans Home about four years, although a ward of Decatur County. As his condition required much care be given him, Mrs. Elmira Brown, home matron, succeeded in having the Bartholomew County commissioners order his transfer to Decatur County. Officers brought the boy here, but found Decatur County officials in no mood to become responsible for him. Orphanages in three other counties refused to take him; the sheriff said the jail was no place for feeble-minded children, and an appeal to the State board of charities by telephone brought the answer that the question was one wholly up to county offiicials. Officers who brought the boy here left him ’standing on the county jail porch with a little bundle containing his clothes beside him, after spending three, hours trying to get someone to take care of him. Arrangements were finally made by Parker. The boy’s mother is dead, and his blind father is an inmate of the Decatur County Infirmary.

passengers from coast to coast in approximately fortyseven hours. Night travel will be by train, for the advantages of comfort and safety. At dawn, however, passengers will transfer to multi-motored air liners. These will offer dining service and every day time convenience found in first class trains. Cost of the train-

Women Guard Railroad Crossings; Hold Jobs Begun in World War

Rain or Shine, Trio Sticks to Post; Likes Work Even in Winter. BY DAN M. KIDNEY They call them the three war horses. Not an elegant title for gentlewomen, but they like it. For they are the sole survivors of some eighteen who took to “railroading” on the Pennsylvania during the war years when man-power was scarce. The veteran of the group is Mrs. Iva B. Kennedy, plump blackskirted matron, who presides with vigor at the Butler Ave. crossing during the first trick daily. Her eight-hour shift is from 7 a. m. to 3 p. m. and she is on the job, rain or shine. The others are Mrs. Hattie Howard, crossing guardswoman at Raymond St., and Mrs. Genevieve Schultz, Terrace Ave. crossing. Armed with the large iron pole surmounted with a disk bearing the legend “STOP” they warn traffic of approaching trains. Never An Accident “Do you have any trouble with fast trains?” Mrs. Kennedy was asked. “I’m more apt to have trouble with some of these fast Butler boys,” she replied <vith the ready wit that suits her name. Her post is located on the edge of the Butler University campus. She smiled and explained that she meant no reflection on the students. “They are the best mannered persons in the world,” she declared. “In all my time here I have never had anything but the utmost courtesy from them.” “You see I come naturally by liking the railroad.” she continued. “My father was an engineer and my Uncle Ollie was a brakeman for years on the Logansport division. We are all Pennsylvania people. The hand-cars and speeders cause ! her the greatest anxiety. They arc on the crossing almost before she j has time to get out with the stop-1 pole. But in all these years of service she never has had an accident. Likes Cold Weather Cold weather. She likes it better than summer and boasts that the only time she caught cold was when she bundled too heavy with flannels the first season. A coal stove provides ample! warmth in the winter. In summer! there is a tulip garden that borders j the track and is tended by Irvington citizens. Seven fast passenger trains pass daily on her track. She knows their , names and points with pride to the! American and the Lindbergh coach. | Reading is barred by the rules, so when time hangs heavy Mrs. Kennedy nibbles her lunch. She brings enough eatables to last the day out and attributes her flesh to the fact that she eats so much “just to pass the time away.” Her only w-orry is that they may install signal lights and abolish her splendid position. She enjoys it.

WINS PRIZE WHILE ILL Patient in Mississippi Hospital Gets $5,000 Award. VICKSBURG, Miss., May 18

Illness has failed to thvart the ambition of one Mississippi man. A patient in a tuberculosis hospital at Sanatori um , Miss.. James E. Noble. 24, telephone engineer, has won $5,000 for the slogan, “Certified by Centuries of Service” offered by 'national lumber men.

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DARING SEA TRIP FAILS German Forced to Abandon Small Boat in Atlantic. PARIS. May 18.—Another daring

trans-Atlantic voyage has ended in failure. Capt. Franz Romer, German steamship officer, has abandoned his attempt to row a small canvas boat across the Atlantic to America. He was picked up, completely exhausted, by Portugue s e fishermen after he had been driven far off his course.

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and-plane journey across the United States is expected to be about $250. The president of the newly organized Transcontinental Air Transport is C. M. Keys, New York capitalist. Numerous celebrities of aviation, railway operation, and finance are among the project’s backers.

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Mrs. Iva B. Kennedy, crossing guard at Irvington, one of three women who have survived the war in this position.

SUSPECT CLEAR SN ATTACK CASE Nurse’s Story Overturned by Alibi. James Willard, 33. of near Pendleton, is free of a charge of luring Miss Vivian Graham, 21, of 2010 N. Meridian St., a nurse at Indiana Christian Hospital, into his automobile and attempting to attack her, as the result of an alibi he presented in Criminal Court Thursday afternoon. Judge James A. Collins discharged Willard when three witnesses testified he was at a poultry house buying chickens at the time of the attack on the night of April 21. Willard’s defense was that someone else using his automobile was guilty. He introduced evidence that his automobile was stqlen that day and that he had reported the theft to police headquarters before time of the attack. Miss Graham, on the stand Wednesday morning, declared Willard was the man who accosted her as she was leaving the hospital. She mistook him for a friend and approached the machine. On his insistence, she consented he should drive her to her home, she said. Brandishing a revolver, the man forced her to stay in the machine until they reached Fall Creek Blvd., w'here he attempted to attack her, she declared. She broke away, noted the car’s license number and fled, she testified. V

Handing Out $4,000,000 Pay A Year‘ Just Work ’

'No Time to Be Sociable,’ Says City Bookkeeper of Job. Passing out checks for nearly $4,000,000 a year is “just work” for Bookkeeper F. A. Muehlbacher, who prepares checks for 2,500 city employes in the office of City Controller Sterling R. Holt. “Giving salary checks to city employes Is just a cold-blooded business proposition to me. They come up and give their name and department and I hand out their check and pass the time of day. Many of them I do not know personally or by name,” Muehlbacher said. “You can’t be very sociable about it when there are sixty or more standing in line waiting for their pay,” he said. Muehlbacher hands out the checks personally to a majority of the city employes who call at the pay window. Some employes of the sanitary, health and fire department receive their checks at work because they are unable to

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WILLIAMS STILL I CZAR OF ROADS Wedeking Named Chairman in ‘Reorganization.’ John D. Williams, director of the State Highway Commission, today still held the throne in State road affairs he has occupied for five years, despite “reorganization” of the commission late Thursday. . Albert J. Wedeking was elected chairman of the commission, succeeding Charles Zeiglar, who was not reappointed by Governor Ed Jackson when his term expired recently. Wedeking is the senior Republican member of the commission. George E. Hershman, Democrat, Crown Point, was re-elected vice chairman. Commission members said that retention or dismissal of Williams w-as not even discussed at the meeting. Williams, by virtue of his full time employment as director, exercises the powe of czar over the highway office. His regime has been marked by the fact that no newspaper man ever has been allowed close enough to commission meetings to find out first hand what went on. The commission lets out exactly W'hat it wants the public to know', either through statements by a paid publicity director, what Williams cares to tell, or what industrious reporters are able to dig out through “leaks.” Subordinates are so fearful of the power of Williams that “leaks” are infrequent. *•

get to the controller’s office without losing time. Deputy Controller A. B. Good delivers the pay check of Mayor L. Ert Slack to his secretary Miss R: Anne Cunningham who places it on his desk twice a month. Twice a month Muehlbacher prepares a $125,000 payroll and weekly payrolls as follows: Laborers, $5,000; park employes, $5,000, and sanitary department, $4,100. NOVELIST LIKES DUCE Owen Johnson Says He’s a Fan for Mussolini. NEW YORK, May 18.—Mussolini

has found another strong American supporter. Owen Johnson, American novelist, has returned from Italy, where he studied Fascism and Mussolini’s rule. “Like nearly everyone who has a chance for a long talk with the dictator, I’m now a Mussolini ‘fan,’ ” he declared.

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Court at Muncie 100 Years Old By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 18.—The Delaware Circuit Court will be 100 years old Saturday, its first session having been held May 19, 1828, lasting but one day. Golf Ball Causes Bear’s Death. By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., May 18.— Brownie, Russian bear belonging to the zoo at Washington park, is dead of acute indigestion caused by eating a golf ball. Two on Motorcycle Killed By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May 18.— Ray Richards, 20, and Estel Smith, 21, both of Evansville, were killed on a road two miles south of here, when the motorcycle on which they were riding crashed head on into an automobile driven by Miss Anna Hunt, Sullivan. 4

DEATH TRIALS OPEN MONDAY IN 2 COURTS State Will Ask Chair for, Negro Implicated in Grocery Holdup. TRIANGLE SLAYING UP Former Held for Shooting of Neighbor in Love Tangle. Death penalty will be asked for Arlie Balthrip, 25, Negro, when he goes on trial Monday on a change of venue in the Circuit Court at Lebanon, for the murder of Charles Conrad, 68. during a robbery of the Standard Grocery, 2816 Clifton St., of which Conrad was the manager. Balthrip is one of the four Negroes charged with first degree murder in connection with the slaying. a motion for separate trials having been granted. So important is the case that Prosecutor William H. Remy will go to Lebanon to conduct the prosecution. He will be assisted by Deputy John L. Niblack. At the same time Remy's office will start the prosecution of another murder case in Criminal Court here. Paul Mittrach. 38. truck farmer who lived on Rural Route 4, will go on trial as the slayer of Fritz Hess, 62, a neighbor. Triangle Charged

Deputy Prosecutors Judson L. Stark and Paul Rhoadarmer will attend to show that the slaying Feb. 5 of this year, resulted from a feud between the two men over alleged attentions paid Hess's wife by Mittrach. Remy will be opposed in the Balthrip trial by Elza Rogers, new Republican State chairman, counsel for the Negro. The other three charged with Balthrip are Archie' Grinnell, 18, Lewis Dunn, 19, and Charles Barry, 19, Each of the Negroes has admitted participation in ths holdup, but each denies the actual shooting. A Colt 32-caliber pistol on a 44 frame, the type used years ago by the Texas Rangers, will be introduced as the weapon fired by Ealthrip. Ask Death Penalties Conrad was slain when the quartet attempted to hold up his ! grocery. One of the four ordered some potatoes and when the aged grocer bent to fill the bag, he w’as confronted with a revolver and an order to “keep ’em up.” the prosecution will attempt to show. When Conrad threw the bag of potatoes at Balthrip, who held one gun in front of him as Barry held one at his back, the firing began and Conrad received fatal wounds. The quartet escaped in a car Remy alleges was stolen. Arrests resulted from the finding of Balthrip’s cap in the store. The arrests were made from two days to a week later, Barry fleeing as far as Nashville, Tenn., where he was arrested. The death penalty will be sought at the trials of each of Balihrip’s alleged accomplices, Remy said. Bled to Death In the other murder case, the shotgun slaying in Hess’ modest home on Rural Route 4. followed many months of enmity .between him and the young truck farmer, it is said.

Hess’ wife was younger than he was, and he is said to haVe believed Mittrach had paid undue attentions to her. His death was attributed to loss of blood from a shotgun wound in the side, because doctors could not reach the scene of the slaying in time. He was dead when city hospital internes reached him. A special venire of fifty prospective jurors has been summoned for the Mittrach case. Ira M. Holmes will defend him. STRESEMANN IS BETTER German Statesman Reported Past Crisis of His Illness. By United Press BERLIN, May 18.—Foreign Minister Stresemann successfully passed the crisis of an illness that earlier this week caused physicians grave anxiety, it was announced at 11 a. m. today. “Herr Stresemann is progressing favorably,” an official bulletin said. “The crisis has been passed, barring a relapse.” I. U. Awards Contract By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 18.— A contract for remodeling the Indiana University power house at a cost of $40,987, was awarded by the board of trustees' meeting here Thursday night. The contract calls for completion of the work by Sept. 10. Quarry Worker Fatally Hurt By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 18.— Albert L. Vaught, 37, is dead of injuries suffered while working at the Johnson quarry, when a ledge of stone fell upon him.

Sky Liquor By United Press LONDON, May 18.—Arrested as drunk and disorderly, Joseph Powell, pleaded that he was struck by lightning. “We find it was white’Tightning,” a policeman said. “How unfortunate,” said the judge, and dismissed Powell. The judge was told later that raw alcohol was called white lightning.