Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1928 — Page 3

MAY 25, 1928

CITY PREPARES TO ENTERTAIN 80,000 RACE VISITORS

RECORD THRONG FORECAST FOR MOTORCLASSte Hotels Speed Up Work of Arranging Hospitality for Guests. MOST OF SEATS SOLD Extra Force of Police to Protect Crowds and Guide Traffic. With the advance ranks of the 30,000 out-of-town visitors expected this year for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 500-mile race already in the city, hotels, city officials, and public and private agencies will be busy the few remaining days before the race arranging accommodations for the visitors. Speedway officials expect a recordbreaking crowd at Wednesday’s speed classic. Speedway officials last year officially estimated* the race throng at 135,000. If the weather is favorable this year, 5,000 to 10,000 more should be on hand, they say. Most of Seats Sold All seats except some in anew grand stand at the north end of the home stretch and in the bleachers on the southwest turn have been sold. City officials, Chamber of Commerce and Convention Bureau workers, and hotel managers declare they have made even more careful preparations than usual to use the colorful race crowd hich will gather here from every state and continent. ’Hotels have ordered extra cots placed in regular guest rooms, hallways, dining rooms and meeting rooms. Several thousand guests will be accommodating in this manner. Extra linen, additional employes and three or four times the usual amount of food supplies have been arranged for. Various downtown restaurants and cases also are pre- j paring to feed the hordes of vis-! itors. Hotels will take extra precautions for safety of guests and protection of valuables. Most hotels reported they still are taking reservations, cool weather having resulted in delayed orders. Accommodations of visitors unable to And rooms at hotels is being arranged by the housing unit operated by the Convention Bureau. The bureau is listing rooms in private homes, to be used when all hotel space is taken. More Police On Duty Police Chief Claude M. Worley i announced he will have enough ad- j ditional police officers on duty to j handle the heavy flow of traffic on I downtown streets and on the routes to the Speedway. Special arrangements to handle crowds race bound have - been made by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, the Terre Haute, Indiana and Eastern Traction Company, and the Big Four Railroad. City and county officials have prepared for extra motor traffic by repairing the principal streets and roads to be used by the visitors. Meridian St., which has been resurfaced, was opened to traffic Wednesday. Signs directing visitors to the Speedway will be placed at frequent intervals along the automobile routes. HONOR NEGRO LAWYER Christamore Settlement, Nineteenth and Columbia Ave., has been named in memory of the late James T. W. Hill, former Negro attorney. The park board changed the name of the community house in accordance with a petition from Negro residents of the vicinity.

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Motor Parade Heralds Poppy Sale in City Saturday by Legion Auxiliaiy

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—Photo bv Dexhoimer. Left to right, Mrs. C. O. Taylor, chairman, and Mrs. Everett Saxton, Mrs. R. R. Thomas, Mrs. W. H. Long and and Mrs. E. W. Hildebrant, members of the Seventh district poppy day committee.

Dozens of Women to Aid in Annua! Campaign of Mercy. The annua! sale of American Legion Auxiliary poppies, for the benefit of the work among disabled World War Veterans and their families or their survivors was heralded this afternoon by a motor parade through downtown streets. The poppy sale will be conducted in downtown streets and public buildings, Saturday. Women in charge are shown in the pictures above. Dozens of pretty young women oi the auxiliary, none of whom is a paid workers, will pin the bright red paper flowers upon thousands of lapels. Made by Disabled Men The flowers are faade by disabled ex-service men, who are paid for their work. This is the only source of income for some of the wounded veterans. The men have been working on poppies Government hospitals and elsewhere for six months. They receive one cent for each poppy. Those who buy the poppies may contribute whatever they like, the young women receiving contributions which range from a few cents to a handful of bills. Thousands Cleared Last year throughout the country more than $600,000 was realized for the welfare work. This year the auxiliary expects to clear about SBOO,OOO. The parade today moved from St. Clair St. through Meridian St. around the Circle to Market St., thence to Pennsylvania St„ Washington St., Illinois St. and north to St. Clair, where it disbanded. A float of the Salvation Army, specially loaned as a mark of cooperation with the auxiliary, was a feature. HOLD FUNERAL TONIGHT FOR MRS. NELLIE SMITH t Attorney’s Wife Dies on Street Car; Burial in Cincinnati. Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Vandeventer Smith, 68, of Apt. 3, 1121 Central Ave., who died suddenly in a Central street car in the downtown district Thursday noon, will be held at the Johnson and Montgomery undertaking establishment at 8 o’clock tonight. Tire Rev. George A. Frantz, First Presbyterian church pastor, will officiate and the body will be sent to Cincinnati. Ohio, for burial. Mrs. Smith was the wife of Attorney John Schropshire Smith. She had boarded the car with two market baskets at Washington and Illinois Sts. She fell over dead in the front seat as the car stopped at Illinois and Market Sts. Coroner C. H. Keever pronounced death due to heart disease. Surviving are the husband; a brother, J. D. Vandeventer, Anderson, Ind., and a sister, Mrs. W. W. Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Left to right, Mrs. Ethele L. Tierney, in charge of the service department of the Indiana American Legion, partially maintained by poppy sales. (Dexheimer); Mrs. Paul Akin, national poppy sale director at Legion national headquarters, and Mrs. W. W. Ward, president of the Seventh district council of the American Legion Auxiliary, in general charge of the auxiliary activities. (Dexheimer.)

RADIUM POISON CASE SETAHEAD First Poisoning Trial May Begin Monday. By Untied Press NEWARK, N. J., May 25.—The first of the New Jersey radium poisoning cases may come to trial in the Supreme Court here Monday, j Judge Worrall F. Mountain said he would consent to putting the j damage suit of Miss Grace Fryer ahead on his docket despite the fact that the Chancery Court has not yet ruled on whether the suit would violate the New Jersey statute of limitations, Miss Fryer is one of five former factory women who are suing the! United States Radium Corporation | for $250 000 damages each. They charge they contracted radium poi- j zoning while painting watch dials in I the corporation’s factory at Orange. | Because symptoms of the poison- ; ing did not appear until seven years , after they stopped working in the factory, the company held the women had no grounds on which to bring suit. Numerous delays in settling that aspect of the case raised the question of whether the plaintiffs would die of poisoning before their suits could be brought to trial. JAPAN ACCEPTS PACT Ready to Trail Along With United States on Anti-War Plan. By United Press ' LONDON, May 25.—The Japanese cabinet has decided to accept the United States anti-war treaty proposal provided that its terms op not conflict with League of Nations obligations or prevent self-protection, the Exchange Telegraph Tokio correspondent cabled today.

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"QUIET’ STEEL TRADE IS SUMMER’S FORECAST Campbell Not Pessimistic; Sees Good Business Volume. Dit United Press NEW YORK, May 25.- James A. Campbell, president of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, said he expected steel business would be rather quiet during the summer and until election. He was by no means pessimistic, he said. He expected that the volume of business would be better than usual. BATTLE WITH BRICKS •Tipping Off’ Cops on Brew Cache Causes Fight. Charges over “tipping off" authorities that 1,200 quarts of home brew could be found in an untenanted house, 515 Lansing Ave.. raided Sunday, started a brick battle in the 600 block Lansing Ave. Thursday police said. Vincent Drake. 52. of 828 S. Senate Ave., is in city hospital with six stitches in his scalp. Mrs. Walter Baker, 29, 301 Lansing St., was held by police for throwing bricks at Pearl Davis. 306 Lansing St. Mrs. Baker is alleged to have been accused as a “stool pigeon.” Drake was struck by Walter Baker with a hammer, police said. The four were arrested for vagrancy. A fifth man escaped when police led by Patrolman Oliver intervened. A brick gave Oliver a black eye. Later in the evening 360 gallons of mash, several hundred pounds of cracked corn, corn sugar and yeast ferment were confiscated at 1427 Bellefontaine St. Pearl Davis and Ralph Hiat, 1362 S. Belmont Ave., and Clara Hupp, 615 S. Noble St.,. tiptoed into the empty house and were charged with vagrancy.

NOMINEES ON 0.0. P. SLATE HOLD OFFICES Five of Nine Candidates for State Jobs Already Have Positions. Amidst a hub-bub of shouting, story telling and swapping of votes for favorite son candidates, the delegates to the Indiana Republican convention made short shift of they.* work Thursday night to awaken today and find that they had nominated a ticket composed of a majority of State office holders. The Republican State ticket, with the exception of Governor is composed of: Lieutenant-Governor, Edgar D. Bush, Salem, former holder of the same position; secretary of State, Otto G. Fifield of Crown Point, former treasurer of Lake County; treasurer of State, Mrs. Grace Banta Urbahns of Valparaiso, incumbent treasurer; auditor of State, Archie N. Bobbitt of English, gasoline tax collector and treasurer of the Watson-for-President campaign. 4 Attorney general, James M. Ogden, Indianapolis, Supreme Court reporter; Miss Genevieve Brown, Winamac, securities clerk of the State insurance department; superintendent of public instruction, Roy P. Wisehart of Union City, incumbent superintendent; Supreme Court judge, Second district, David A. Myers of Greensburg; Appellate Court judge. First district, Elmer Q. Lockyear, Evansville, and Appellate Court judge, Second district. Noel D. Neal of Noblesville. Five Hold Jobs Os the nine nominees, five either hold the positions to which they were renominated or other positions in the Statehouse. Sparks were apparent when the nomination for Lieutenant Governor was opened, but after the first ballot, interest only was spasmodic and when Edgar D. Bush started piling up what appeared to be a strong lead on the second ballot, J. Monroe Fitch of Muncie, candidate for the same honor, moved his unanimous selection. Otto G. Fifield of Crown Point was unopposed and was nominated for secretary of State. Divided opposition to Mrs. Grace Urbahns provided by Howard A. Cann ol Frankfort, Harry Nichols of Madison and U. S. Hoffman of Logansport, was ineffective and she was renominated for State treasurer. Marion Boosts Ogden The next Statehouse employe to be nominated was Archie Bobbitt, gasoline tax clerk. George Spencer of Tipton, led a forlorn fight against Bobbitt. For a while it appeared as if there would be a real race for the nomination for Attorney General, with

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James M. Ogden of Indianapolis; Will Church of Terre Haute, and Connor D. Ross of Shelbyville, entdijd. Rural sentiment was with Ross, but Marion County gave Ogden its entire 126 votes. A fight was waged for the Supreme and Appellate Court reporter, Genevive Brown winning with the support of the Statehouse contingent. She was opposed by Mrs. Edward Franklin White, seeking renomination; Miss Jessie Levy and William A. Myers of Indianaolis, and Mrs. Nellie M. Long of North Vernon. Roy P. Wisehart of Union City, present superintendent of public instruction obtained the renomination

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in a run-away race from Arthur H. Hines of Richmond. The race for Supreme Court Judge Second district had but two starters, Charles A. Lowe of Lawrenceburg and the incumbent, Judge David A. Myers of Greensburg, who won easily. Vanderburg County, through skillful trading, obtained the nomination of Judge Elmer Q. Lockyear of Evansville for Appellate Court Judge, First district, in a spirited event against the incumbent judge, Francis M. Thompson of Versailles Noel O. Neal of Noblesville, took 813 votes and won handily over William B. Hile of Elkhart for Appellate Court judge, Second district.

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JAIL FRENCH RADICALS Police Keep Order in Alsace; FIN teen Arrested. By United Pre'^s COLMAR, France, May 25. forces of police kept order in Colmar today after the fiery meeting at which eleven persons—freed aftert espionage trials—had conducted ai mass meeting urging a continuation, of the fight for Alsatian liberties. Fifteen autnomists had been arrested for treason and four wera found guilty and sentenced to ai year in prison and five years ’exile, The others were released.