Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1928 — Page 3

MAT 26, 1928

DEMAND A CTION ON UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS GAS MAINS

RESIDENTS TO SEEK MEANS TO FORCESERVICE State Highway Director Refuses Permit for Tearing Up Road. 300 PERSONS AFFECTED Indiana Central College Is Among Seekers; Meeting Is Called. John D. Williams, State highway director, today refused to budge irom his declaration that the Citizens Gas Company cannot lay mains alongside Madison Rd. paving to serve more than 300 persons in University Heights. Upon his declaration University Heights leaders declared they would see what could be done to force action. Williams prohibits laying of the mains within eleven feet of the paving, so the berm (the earthen shoulder) would not be destroyed. Fears Ruin of Paving “There is ample space for the Citizens Gas Company to lay the gas mains outside the berm of the road and I can see no reason why more than $30,000 of pavement should be ruined when it is not necessary, Williams said. This statement came as a result of the complaint of residents of University Heights and the University Heights Civic League that Williams had for two years been blocking the laying of the mains through his order that the berm cannot be penetrated to permit the placing of the piping, “Naturally T want the people in University Heights to have gas,” the highway director said. “But I cannot see where any one will profit when an expensive pavement is ruined to place the mains and then the State turns right about and appropriates money to repair a roadway which was laid to last many years.

Damaged Brookville Road “Without permission the gas company tore the berm of the Brookville Rd. and ruined a perfectly good road. All that I am endeavoring to do is to protect the Madison Rd. against the same damage sustained ! by the Brookville Rd.” “The Citizens Gas Company did j not in any manner injure the , Brookville Rd.,” Kirk declared in i answer to this charge. “It is true that we placed the mains without permission but it was through an error which we sought to remedy by asking permission. This was refused us. “There was a crack in the road cast of Ritter Ave. before the men dug the ditch, and they reported that water ran out from under the macadam into the ditch from the very road itself, and this in all probability caused the injury to the road,” Kirk charged. Mains Wait on Siding Gas main valued at $50,000 are waiting on sidings to be put into position upon the obtaining of permission from Wililams to proceed with the work, Clarance L. Kirk, general manager of the gas company said. “If we laid the mains along the logical route they would be placed down Madison Rd. to Lowrance St., the southern boundary of University Heights and in tris manner we could serve the 344 homes that need the service. Any other routing would miss forty-nine homes for which gas have been asked. Bond Is Refused “If we followed Williams’ order which called for the installation eleven feet outside the bejm of the road it would mean the of lawns along Madison Ave.,” Kirk said. He added that he offered to place a bond of SIO,OOO to repair the road berm and rfeturn it to its original condition and provide the upkeep of the road for five or ten years. “We don’t want his bond,” Williams declared when told about it. “What we want is to keep the road intact. The gas company should not be permitted to ruin a road, because no matter how well the pavement is repaired after the. berm is torn up, the road remains faulty.” “It is a case of downright contrariness of the highway commission. John D. Williams owns the roads and the taxpayers have nothing to say about the mattter,” Kirk said. One of the seekers of gas is the Indiana ' Central College which needs the fuel for its laboratories and buildings. Property Owners Irate Irate over the ruling of the highway director, University Heights residents will hold a mass meeting Thursday night at the home of Paul Trees, on Lawrence Ave., to decide on a course of action. The meeting has been called by William McClish, University Heights Civic League president, and a committee composed of Trees, Sable, Finch, Russ Berry, Kenneth Smith and W. H. Finch, will report to the citizens on some plan of action. Citizens of the neighborhood threatened a march on Williams’ office and demand action.

SAVES TOTS FROM FIRE Laurel Man Catches Girls as They Leap From Second Floor. By Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., May 26 Rousing his small daughter and granddaughter, who were asleep on the second floor, W. G. Rogers of near Laurel, Ind., was able to catch the two children as they leaped from the flaming building. The house was destroyed from the blast of a kerosene lamp. Rogers is in the hospital here today recovering from burns, w _

Family of G. O. P. Governor Nominee

CRAZED MINER SAVED IN PIT Negro Wanders for Week in Death Shaft. By United Press MATHER, Pa., May 26.—Mumbling incoherently, John Wade, Negro worker in the Mather mine, today was in a hospital after being rescued from the mine shaft whexe he spent 147 hours after the explosion that killed 196 workers. Wade was found last night, two aand a half miles in the interior of the shaft. He was half crazed when rescue workers came upon him. Ever since Saturday he had been in the shaft in which his fellow-workers were killed. Apparently he had wandered from section to section, seeking an outlet from the gas fumed interior of the mine. He recognized none of the workers and could tal konly in gasps. Then his fconversation was indistinguishable and rescuers were unable to determine how he had managed to live through the ordeal while others workers in the mine were killed. Rescue workers continued digging through the shattered mine shaft today, seeking additional bodies. FOUR HURT BY TRAINS Three Sisters in Car Escape Death; Track Walker Hit. By Times Special MARION, Ind., May 26.—Three sisters narrowly escaped death at Sweetzer, Friday, when their car was wrecked by a C. & O. passenger train. Tire three girls who are in a local hospital, are Welma Smith 20; Thelma, 19, and Willadean, 16. Fred Hamilton suffered a broken right arm when struck by a Big Four train, Friday. The pilot ol the engine threw he man clear of the tracks. Asks Police to Find Wife T. E. Black, 1706 Broadway, appealed to police today to aid in locating his wife, Mary, 41, who left home Thursday, writing a ppte saying she was going to rest for a few days and not to worry. He has been unable to learn of her whereabouts.

Pshaw, Pshaio LONDON, May 26. Dr. Serge Voronoff, noted gland specialist, has offered to perfrom a rejuvenation operation upon George Bernard Shaw, but the latter has declined. The two met at a dinner last night and Voronoff spoke enthusiastically of gland operations. It was then he told Shaw that he would perform a rejuvenation operation at any time the noted writer “felt the first symptoms of old age.” Shaw thanked the doctor, but added: “Think of the cry of horror that would arise from the whole world at the ‘encore du Shaw.’ ”

Only One Dead in Wreck

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Although the locomotive was demolished and several cars were damaged, only one life was lost in the wreck pictured here at Johnstown, Pa. The fireman of the Pennsylvania passenger train was killed; the engineer was hurled 200 feet from his cab and escaped with serious injuries. Passengers were scared, but nothing more.

This is Mrs. Harry G. Leslie, wife of the Republican candidate for Governor, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie’s three sons. Robert, 10, is at the left; Jack, 14, in the center, and Richard, 12, at the right.

China. Chief Here for Aid

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Dr. C. C. Wu, co-founder of the present Nationalist government in China, is shown here with his wife- as they arrived in America to ask the moral support of the United States in his government’s attitude toward Japanese invasion of Chinese sovereignty. Dr. Wu was born in Washington, when his father was Chinese minister there.

Gun Toter By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., May 26.—A permit to carry a Colt automatic revolver has been issued to Edna E. Martin, 52, of Cartersburg.

FAILS TO SAVE FOUR Refuses Guilty Pleas of Alleged Negro Killers. Efforts of Attorney H. B. Pike to save four Negroes charged with first degree murder from the possibility of dying in the electric chair failed | in Criminal Court today, j The men are held for the slaying I of Charles Conrad, 68, who was shot I and killed in an attempted hold-up I of the Standard grocery, 2816 Clifton St., where he was manager. The event occurred last November. Those held are: Arlie Balthrip, 25; Archie Grinnell, 18; Lewis Dunn, 19, and Charles Barry, 19. Balthrip was tried this week in Boone County Circuit Court at Lebanon. The jury was dismissed Thursday night after failing to reach a decision. Today Pike appealed to Criminal Judge James A. Collins and Proseeutor William H. Remy to accept pleas of guilty from the four men and sentence them to life imprisonment. The plea was refused. 3. L. Hawkins, general agent of the National Surety Company of this city, is attending the midwestern States convention of the company at the New Bismarck | Hotel, Chicago.

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Fast Work, Major

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Ago proved no bar to speed in the Curtiss Marine Trophy race at Washington. D. C., the otljer day. Major C. A. Lutz, commanding officer at Brown Field, Quantico, Va., is 47 years old, but he is shown here, right, as Secretary of the Navy Wilbur presents the trophy for winning the 100-mile flight. Major Lutz piloted a Curtiss Hawk at an average of 157.60 miles an hour.

Ground Hog’s New Habits Prove Costly to Farmer

Crops Menaced by Recent Migrations From Hills. By Science Service WASHINGTON, May 29.—The eastern woodchuck, or ground hog as he is always called around the second of February, is an interesting enough animal when encountered in his old habitat in rocky hillsides, woodlands, and bramble thickets. Os late years, however, following the trend of the times, he has looked for an easier place to make a living and has settled on the comfortable cultivated lands o fthe farmer. Farmers who up to ten years ago had not seen a woodchuck now find themselves confronted with the necessity of waging a serious fight against these animals if crops are to be saved, according 1 to a recent report of James Silver, assistant biologist of the Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture. The reason for this migration is not fully known. The crop most seriously damaged by the woodchuck is forage. Clover, alfalfa and other legumes are particularly attractive to these little pests and they have been observed following plantings of soy beans as they have been moved from one field to another in crop rotation. The forage crop is reduced not only by the amount consumed by the woodchucks, but also by their burrowing habits. Their large mounds in the aggregate cover a considerable amount of space, and in avoiding the mounds the sickle bars of the mowers miss a good deal of the nearby forage. Young fruit trees, growing and shocked corn, truck crops and poui-

RADIO. MOVIES MAKE MEXICAN PEONUTERATE Education of Masses Goes Forward Under New Methods. By MAX STERN SAN FRANCISCO, May 28.—“ Give us ten years of peace and illiteracy will be wiped out in Mexico.” This is the statement of Professor A. F. Meriscal, chairman of a delegation of twenty-seven Mexican educators visiting California to study the State's schools. “The radio and the movie are doing what centuries of old school methods have failed to do. The Mexican Ministry of Education last year conducted 2,500 radio lectures each reaching millions of peons and their families in ail parts of the republic. Cheap receiving sets that sell for three pesos are strung up under trees in the most remote mountain villages and the townsmen gather to hear the courses, lectures and concerts given several times a week. Educational films are also in high demand among the masses, the department sending out 3,000 such films a year. “The educational movement of Mexico is the most significant thing under way,” said Dr. Meriscal, who is of the University of Mexico faculty. “Some 45 per cent of the total national budget goes to education. “Today in Mexico City 90 percent of the people are getting some form of instruction. Where rural schools fail to reach the people we have extension courses, libraries and educational missionaries. “We are establishing five new agricultural centers with model farms to instruct in modern farming methods, cooperation and financing. “The revival of native art and handicraft is a stirring movement. Sanitation and child care are being taught the masses through the new channels. For the first time education is reaching the lower classes.” Attorney Sue for Fees Suit for $15,000 attorneys fees representing service in refinancing the Innis-Pierce Company, an Indiana corporation, in 1927, has been filed in Federal Court today by John J. Golding and Jacob K. Miller, Philadelphia attorneys, against William H. Pearce and the InnisPearce Company. The largest known star is Betelgeuse.

try are also the prey of the woodchuck. In addition so the damage they cause to agricultural crops, woodchucks also do considerable economic damage through their burrowing. The burrows are a constant menace to the limbs of farms animals working in the fields infested by them In other localities the burrows are an even more serious menaefe, causing cave-ins of railrad embankments and breaks in levee and ditch, banks, with resulting disastrous flooding of crops and erosion of the soil.

Berries Are Cheap; So Are Bricks

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Strawberries aren’t cheap enough for paving material—yet. So #ve men scrambled off the above truck and retrieved a crate 7 of berries spilled over Alabama St. in front of the county jail this morning.

Death Rides Mail Plane

WATSON ASKED JSfl JACKSON RAP P* ’ S M| Repudiation on G. 0. P. jm Repudiation of Governor Ed Jack- rePfijrafiik,, 1 son was all but asked of the Republican State convention Thursday, Senator James E. Watson vigor- hlhS|| $% • ously indorsed Jackson's repudia- rlfflNM? h tion, it was learned, when he met ’SlPls A with Republican leaders Wednesday t night after the Coffin machine sue- ' ceeded in having the Governor .ji^l

WATSON ASKED JACKSON RAP Repudiation on G. 6. P. Floor Was Sought. Repudiation of Governor Ed Jackson was all but asked of the Republican State convention Thursday, The Times leraned today. Senator James E. Watson vigorously indorsed Jackson's repudiation, it was learned, when he met with Republican leaders Wednesday night after the Coffin machine succeeded in having the Governor chosen as one of the two Seventh District delegates to the national convention. Watson, it was learned, told his conferees that Jackson’s presence oxi the Indiana delegation would be decidedly harmful to his candidacy and so sought to brand him as repudiated on the convention floor. Finally, however, the conference was concluded by a decision to avoid a possible outbreak on the floor, by letting bad enough alone and avoid*ing disruption in the interests of party harmony. Watson’s had was seen in the refusal to permit Jackson to address the convention after it had been an - nounced he would speak and he was on the platform with his prepared speech in his pocket. Watson carried his opposition to the Governor further in insisting successfully, that he should not be named on the “big seven” delegates-at-large. To both moves Watson lent the air of harmony by consenting himself. not to be on the “big seven,” norto speak before the convention.

GAS GROUP ELECTS E. J. Kelly, Ft. Wayne, Is Named President. E. J. Kelly of Ft. Wayne, an executive of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, is the new president of the Indiana Gas Association, succeeding I. C. Shepard of Evansville, official of tire Southern Ind. ana Gas and Electric Company. The election was held at the closing session of the gas association, Thursday which also closed the three-day convention of the Indiana, Utilities Association. Clarence L. Kirk, vice president and general manager of the Citizens Gas Company of Indianapolis, is the new vice president and F. B. Tracy of Muncie official of the Central Indiana Gas Company was reelected secretary-treasurer. PASTOR SUES FOR LIBEL J. Frank Norris of Texas Seeks SIOO,OOO Because of Editorials. B\! United Press JACKSON. Miss., May 26.—The Rev. J. Frank Morris of Texas, acquitted of slaying a member of his congregation, has filed a SIOO,OOO damage suit here against the Jackson Daily News, charging libel in two editorials. One was an answer to an article allegedly written by Norris in another paper. The second editorial is said to have described Norris as shooting “an unarmed man in cold blood.” PENTECOST OBSERVED Pentecostal observance in Hebrew congregations today and Saturday will include memorial services, confirmations, and special observances in all Heorew temples of the city. The feast, which began at sundown Thursday, will be concluded at sundown Saturday. It is one of the most joyous holidays in the Jewish church calendar, the harvest festival of ancient Palestine. A sundown service was held at Temple Beth-el Zadeck Thursday, and a confirmation service this

Night, a heavy fog, a forced landing—none but the men who themselves fly the night air mails ever will know the perils that beset E. J. Morrissey, of Aurora, 111., before his dizzy dive through space ended in death and the wreckage pictured above. Morrissey, 35, was piloting the airmail northward from Richmond, Va., when j he crashed near Sandston. A World War flyer and army instructor, he is shown at the right. HONOR FOR DRIVER Most Sportsmanlike Car Pilot to Get Trophy. Indianapolis Real Estate Board again will honor the most sportsmanlike driver in the 500-mile race by presenting him with a valuable split-second stop watch, President Emerson W. Chaille announced today. Last year the watch was awarded to Norman Batten for driving to the pits in his flaming car and risking his life to keep from endangering other drivers. Winner of this year's realty board prize will be selected by a special committee composed of Eddie Edenburn, American Automobile Association official, in charge of the Decoration Day event, chairman; T. E. Myers, secretary-treasurer of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and member of the contest board; Eddie Ricker backer, contest board chairman; Secretary Arthur Means of the contest board; President j Thomas P. Henry of A .A. A.. Val Haresnape and Arthur C. Pillsbury.

70-YEAR RESIDENT OF INDIANAPOLIS IS DEAD Funeral of John Schmitt, 82, Held at Sacred Heart Church. Funeral services for John Schmitt, 82, resident here seventy years, was held at 9 a. m. today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial was in St. Joseph cemetery. Mr. Schmidt died Thursday at St. Francis Hospital after a month’s illness. He was a native of Germany and cameto this country with his parents when 12. He was a cigar manufacturer and for thirty-five years operated a plant at 808 S. Meridian St. He retired from business about twenty years ago. For sixty years he sang in Sacred Heart choir. He was also a member of the St. Francis Aid Society and St. Joseph's Benevolent Society. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Hornbergcr. Mrs. J. M. Tilford, Mrs. Jesse Sisloff and Mrs. John Yanett; two sons, Leonard and Herman E. Schmitt, all of Indianapolis; two brothers, Nicholas Schmitt, Hannibal Mo., and Leonard Schmitt, Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Theurer, Beech Grove, and Mrs. Lena Taggart, Mendocino, Cal. London now has 565,000 telephones; nearly 360,000 miles of telephone wires were added last year, making nearly two and a half million miles. The telephone directories issued weighed 1,700 tons and contained nearly 300,000 entries.

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U. S.COLLECTS ! 2 MILLIONS IN OIL DEALTAXES Huge Amount Paid as Income Levy on Continental Transaction. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, May 26.—Th* Government has collected mors than $2,000,000 in income taxes from those involved in the questioned Continental Trading Company oil deal. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon told the Senate today in a letter. Mellon stated James E. O’Neill# former president of the Praii’ie Oil and Gas Company, had paid $151,305; Harry M. Blackmer, former president of the Midwest Refining Company, $151,597, and the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company# $303,194. The latter figure represents taxes on profits Harry F. Sin* clair and Col. Robert W. Stewart made from the deal. They recently turned their profits from the 1921 transactions over to the Sinclair Company. Mellon stated $1,398,910 in delinquent taxes were collected from persons, whose names he declined Jo mention, and additional sums are expected to be collected later. The letter, addressed to Chairman Hawley of the joint congressional committee on internal revenue taxation, was in answer to a joint resolution adopted by both Houses after Mellon declined to respond to a similar Senate resolution.

DIGNIFIED CAMPAIGN But Leslie Will Make Aggressive Race. A “dignified, but aggressive" campaign will bo made by Harry G. Leslie of Lafayette, who won the Republican nomination for Governor in the State Republican convention Thursday, Leslie said today. “I intend to stand upon the platform adopted by the party,” Leslie declaired at his room in the Claypool, “and will conduct my campaign in accordance with the wishes of the organization.” “All of my opponents in the primary race were very kind in their treatment of me, and I shall try to reciprocate. And what is done in the Governor's office, if I am elected, will be ‘in the open.’ ” Leslie, Ed D. Randolph, his State manager, and Joseph A. Andrews, his assistant manager, will board a Big Four train for their homes in Lafayette at 5 p. m. today. Randolph first had a bit of shopping to do. He won anew hat on a wager Leslie would be nominated on the fifth or seventh ballot. It was the seventh. URGES" NEED OF FAITH The Rev. E. W. Weber, Independence, Ohio, speaking at the concluding service of a series of dedicatory meetings Thursday evening at th® new Grace Lutheran Church, emphasized the need for a return uncompromising faith. “We must quit measuring God by the yard, and His word by man’s faulty intelligence,” he declared. The Rev. Werner Knutz, pastor of the church will give his dedicatory sermon Sunday morning, this week’s series of services having been turned over to out-of-town pastors. Marriage Licenses William C. Kassobatttn, 37, 3561 Co!lr?(* Avp.. secretary of the Security Trust Company, mid Trane B. Henrlcksen, 35, 673 E. Twenty-First St., advertising. .John William Harlson, 29. Roosevelt Hotel, salesman, and Annette Dollle Rodville, 22. Roosevelt Hotel, saleslady. Births Boyn Sam and Olivia Mosley. 1422 Marlowe Alexander and Ada Anderson, 504 Dorman. Walter and Ethel Welch, Bt. Vincent* Hospital. Lester and Bonnie Lecompte, 1229 E. Raymond. Phoenix and Ellen Branham. 840 Camp. Ira and Eveline Williams, 1201 Cottas#. Girls Morris and Mildred Phillips, 2102 Clav. Joseph and Josephine Sigreto. 535 K. Merrill. John and Clara Godfrey, Bt. Vincents Hospital. Wilbur and Mary Dittrich, St. Vincent’# Hospital Bernard and Beatrice Buchanan, 3119 E. Washington. Deaths Garlcyi Stevens, 43, Long Hospital, lobaf pneumonia. Robert Russell. 55. 872 Darnell, mitral stenosis. Marie Alice Frelje, 2 dßvs, 2115 N, Harding, cerebral hemorrhage. Sallie E. Lewis, 61. 2845 N. Capitol, uremia. Carl Martin Anderson, 6 days, 423 Douglas, premature birth. Cora Klemcit, 44. Christian Hospital, carcinoma. Building Permits C. E. Long, dwelling and garage. 182325 S. East, $5,500. Bridges & Graves, dwelling and garage, 5439 Broadway. $6,300. W. H. Lewis, porch. 2427 N. Tempi#, S3OO. - R. E. Tollen, addition. 1441 Hiatt. $250. Dr. Edward Harpers, floor, 2501 N. Alabama, S3OO. / Indiana Guard Armory, repair, 711 N. Pennsylvania, SIO,OOO. William Bocllng, dwelling. 5826 N. Delaware. $5,000. Patrick Commins. repair. 545 N. Bellview, S2OO Oscar Miller, dwelling and garage. 1431 W. Roache, $3,250. Miss D. Mooreland. rcroof. 6030 Laurel, SSOO. , Miss D. Mooreland, garage. 6030 Laurel, S2OO. Capitol Machine Company, boiler. 2801 , Roosevelt, $1,200. Capitol Machine Company, coal bln*, • 2801 Roosevelt. SBOO. August Kuntz. garage. 813 E. Minnesota, $250. v S. M. Mencke, garage. 342 N. De Quincy, $250. " J. C. Duncan, garage. 2902 N. Delaware. $250. John L. Otts. ceiling. 527 E. Washington. S2OO. Mrs. Carr, garage. 2333 Parker. S3OO. Katherine E. Mercer, reroof. 333 N, Lyman, S2OO. - J. M. Rittre. dwelling and garage. 411 • Buckingham drive, SB,OOO. Henry J. Foltz, dwelling, 1028 Blaine, $4,750. West. Side Lumber Company, garage. 703 N. Tibbs. $l5O. Otho Burkhart, addition. 1018 Berwick, S2OO. Tliere are several species of bird# that can travel much faster than any airplane; the fastest is the “frigate bird,” which has its hom# in the tropics. This bird is remarkable for its long wings, and is sai<| to be aapable of flying 300 miles an hour,