Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1928 — Page 17
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HUGE ORDER PLACED WITH INDIANA FIRM Hartford City Prfntery to Make Ten Million Candy Wrappers Monthly. BUSY MONTH FORECAST Delco-Remy to Continue Heavy Production at Anderson. BY CHARLES C. STONE Stale Editor, The Timees Ten million candy wrappers a month will be the minimum provided for the next two years by Edward E. Cox, Inc., Hartford City printing firm, to the Curtiss Candy Company, Chicago. The wrappers will be for Baby Ruth caqdy. The Hartford City firm is one of three in the United States to re-, ceive Curtiss contracts. Work on I the order is already under way with a carload delivery monthly scheduled. The huge wrapper order is one of j the features of this week’s business and industrial survey of Indiana, | which also reveals that the DelcoRemy Corporation plants at Anderson will carry out a heavy production program during June, and that there are now 7,978 persons on pay rolls. New Laundry at Anderson Anderson is to have anew laundry which will occupy a two-story plant to be erected soon. The operating company is composed of Indianapolis and Chicago men, headed by Nathan Van Osdol, Indianapolis. One hundred or more skilled, highly paid mechanics may be added soon to the force of the Superior Machine Tool Company, Kokomo, on production of anew light weight, low priced airplane motor developed by the company’s engineers. Montgomery, Ward & Cos., Chicago, has leased a S. Main St. building in Kokomo for use as a store. With a capital of $20,000, the Peru Grain and Coal Company has been formed at Peru to engage in coal retailing and grain elevator lines. Conditions elsewhere in the State are as follows: NEWCASTLE—BeIief is expressed here that the $450,000,000 merger of the Chrysler Corporation and Dodge Bros., Inc., will be beneficial to the local automobile manufacturing plant of Chrysler. $42,000,000 Insurance Merger MUNClE—lnsurance in force totaling $42,000,0u has been effected through buying of the Western Reserve Life Insurance Company of this city by the Northern States Life Insurance Company Hammond. GREENSBURG The Brown stone quarry is operating full time with a force of twenty-four and a production of 150 to 160 yards of stone daily. LA PORTE—Walter K. Greenbaum, former Chicago Association of Commerce vice president, and as secretary of the Michigan City Chamber of Commerce is credited with obtaining twenty new factories for the city, has been appointed manager of the La Port Chamber of Commerce? Doubling of production and erection of a factory addition to cost $200,000 is announced as the expansion program of the United States Slicing Machine Company. Prepares for Expansion EVANSVILLE—The Graham Brothers Truck Company has bought fourteen lots at cost of $20,000 to take care of plant expansion. KNIGHTSTOWN—The local canning factory is preparing for a busy season. Two hundred acres have already been contracted for ' GARY—Steel output of Calumet district mills is 90 to 95 per cent of capacity, while the average for the entire country is about 82 per cent. PLYMOUTH—Two industries, the nature of which is not disclosed, are negotiating for locations here, according to O. T. Fries, Chamber of Commerce secretary. RENSSELAER— The Hoosier State Canners, Inc., of Tipton, will operate a factory here during the coming season. WORK ON MANUSCRIPTS TO REQUIRE 40 YEARS Speaker at Librarians’ Meeting Discusses Task at Vatican. By Times Special WEST BADEN, Ind., June I. Cataloging of manuscripts, in the Vatican at Rome, recently started, will require forty years to complete, delegates to the fifteenth annual convention of the American Library Association here were told by W. W. Bishop, University of Michigan librarian, a speaker before the convention, Thursday. Bishop returned recently from a European trip during which he visited the Vatican library, where he found cataloging of its 60,000 manuscripts being done by Americans with American methods. The convention will close Saturday when officers will be elected. Faces Life Term Calmly Rii Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 1 Roman Luczkowski, 21, waved his hand in a careless farewell to his parent* after Circuit Judge C. E. Pattee had sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Marie, 45. He entered the State prison at Michigan City Thursday night.
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BUYtRS IN CITY SAVE AUTO TAX Cost of New Cars to Be $200,000 Less in Year. The reduction in retail automobile prices made possible through the elimination of the war excise tax is already being passed on to Indianapolis buyers, a survey by The Times today showed. It is estimated that this will save local motor car buyers more than $200,000 during the next year. The bill eliminating the tax became effective Tuesday at 10 a. m., when it was signed by the President. Terms of the bill provide for a refund to dealers of any tax paid on cars on hand when the law went in force. Reductions on cars Increase with rhe price of the car: they range from $lO to sl7 on Fords and Chevrolets. Marmon and Stutz factories passed word of the reductions to their dealers at once. Officials of the Stutz Motor Car Company declared preparations have been made for weeks in advance.to j provide for reductions as soon 'as the bill was passed. Every manufacturer in the coun- | try promised in writing that he would be responsible for the action of his dealers in passing the reduction along to the consumer as soon as it became effective, it was said The moment they were advised that the President had signed the bill, Stutz officials telegraphed all their dealers the news of the change. 100 "face u. s. judge Pair Indicted in Mali Robbery Arraigned. Arraignment of more than 100 defendants indicted by the recent Federal grand jury, including Calvin Holmes and Carl E. Jennings, Terre Haute, charged with complicity in the Terre Haute mail robbery, was started in Federal Court todaj?. Holmes and Jennings are charged with having held up the Terre Haute Union Station mail room March 26, disarming and tying up three mail clerks and escaping with five sacks of mail. Less than SIOO in cash was obtained in the holdup. | PLAN RED CROSS CAMP Courses in First Aid and Life-Sav-ing Will Be Given. Courses in first aid, life-saving, swimming, water games and pageants, diving, canoe and boat work and administration will be given by the American Red Cross at Camp Crosley, on Little Tippecanoe Lake, near Leesburg, June 18 to 28, Miss Agnes Cruse. Indianapolis Red Cross secretary, announced today. Capt. D. Melville Carr, a national field representative in life-saving j for the Red Cross, will be director of the school.
FREIGHT STEAMER IS SUNK IN CRASH
Bu United Press BOSTON, June I.—The freight steamer Kershaw, bound from Boston to Norfolk, Va., was sunk early this morning, when it collided with the Dollar Line steamship’President Garfield, near East Chop, Martha’s Vineyard. Most of the crew of the Kershaw,
‘MIND READING’ COLT COUNTS, ANSWERS QUESTIONS, PASSES SCIENTIFIC ‘EXAM’
Bn Science Service DURHAM, N. C„ June 3-year-old colt, Lady, of Richmond, Va., said to be a “mind-reading horse,” has been investigated by Dr. J. B. Rhine and Dr. Louise E. Rhine of Duke University, with the cooperation of Prof. William McDougall of that institution. The colt is said to answer questions and give answers to simple problems in arithmetic, by touching lettered or numbered blocks with her nose. The investigators witnessed her answer in this manner questions on various subjects,
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Miss Lucinda Smith was queen of the June day carnival on the new Butler University campus at Fairvicw today. Butler classes were ■ dismissed and the entire student body took part in the event, which replaces former May day programs. The event ivas staged by the W Oman's League and Men's Union to celebrate removal of the University to the new ca mpus.
ANTI-WAR PACT WINS TWO MORE SUPPORTERS Irish Free State and New Zealand Indorse Kellogg Plan. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June I.—Secretary of State Kellogg’s plan for a renunciation of war treaty has gained two more adherents, it was disclosed today with publication of replies from the Irish Free Stale and New Zealand. The former indorsed the American draft for an unqualified pact and the latter approved the principle involved and agreed to enter the negotiations. Invitations to become origina parties to the projected treaty were sent to the British dominions and India, on May 22. Tire Irish Free 3tate and New Zealand were the first to reply. MAINE PASTOR HONORED Named Secretary of Methodists’ General Conference. Rif T’uifcd Pres* PORTLAND, Maine, June I.
Maine has received another church honor. The Rev. John M. Arters, pastor, of this city has been elected secretary of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Next to the Episcopal office itself, this is one of the highest honors within the gift of the
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College Pays Debts HUNTINGTON, Ind., June I. Huntington college will celebrate payment of several debts during commencement week, opening Sunday, by burning mortgages and notes at a booster meeting. Commencement exercises will be held Thursday.
7 DIE AS TRACTION CARS HIT HEAD-ON
By United Press DANVILLE, 111., June I.—A coroner’s inquest was convened today to determine the cause of a headon collision between two Illinois traction trains at Fithian, near here, Thursday night. Seven persons were killed and more than a score injured. The dead are: Dr, Charles B. Johnson, Champaign, 111.; Frank Craig, Danville, motorman; E. R. Townsend, Chicago; Ira Goldselter White Heath; Dennis Pyle, White Heath; Fred Gulick, Georgetown,
which was reported to have gone down immediately after the crash, were said to have been picked up by the President Garfield. Authorities of the Dollar Line, however, said that reports reaching them indicated that seven or eight of the crew of twenty-nine still were unaccounted for.
even when the question was not spoken. Dates on coins could be told, they reported, and numbers written on a pad could be given, with almost perfect precision. The owner, Mrs. C. D. Fonda, was then restricted in various ways, in order to discover possible methods of signaling. She was asked to keep silent and motionless as far as possible; this did not seem to interfere. She was next blindfolded and turned partly away from the horse. The horse still succeeded. A board
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1928
BOARD VOTES ON $1,300,000 PLANS TODAY More Thar $600,000 Asked for Improvement of County Roads. EXPECT WELL APPROVAL Report Solution Near on Water Supply for Sunnyside. Important petitions, involving more than $1,300,000. were considered by the Marion County Council today in special meeting. Among them are four requests for improvement of county thoroughfares previously turned down by the council. One is the Holt Rd., running from W. Washington St., to State Rd. 40, past the Indianapolis Airport that has been pending commissioners and councilmen for months. It is to cost $86,300. The move to present It to the council, followed recommendations of commissioners, who iavor the improvement. Council members are opposed to having the road improved to Washington St., because of the cost of a Pennsylvania railroad elevation. Demand Entire Project Persons living in the vicinity have objected to stopping the improvement at Morris St. and were to request the project in its entirety. Other petitions include High School Rd., to cost $158,900; E. Tenth St., from Arlington Ave., to Cumberland, to cost $211,300, and College Ave., from the county line to Seventy-First St., to cost $122,700. Previously these requests were killed by the council when they were submitted in a group with several others, because of the heavy expense. Expect Well Approval Solution of the water supp’y problem at the Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium seemed near at hand. The council approved on items of $30,000 for this purpose and in effect authorized engineers to do what is necessary to safeguard patients. Patients have been moving in and out of the hospital for several months because of the lack of water. The council also was to consider a temporary loan of $350,000 to pay current county expenses and SBO,OOO to pay bonded indebtedness. Consider $150,000 Track Elevation Belt railroad track elevation costing the county $150,000 was included in another petition. New bridges and culverts on township roads to cost $11,200 were to be presented for passage. These Included anew culvert in Wayne township: bridge in Lawrence township on Indiana creek; another over Lick creek in Perry township and two in Franklin and Washington townships. Alleged political corruption investigation expenses also were before the council. An item for S7BO, once turned down, including traveling expenses for prosecutors and witnesses before the grand jury was to be considered. Payment of $3,150 covering cost of repairs and improvements at the courthouse was included.
and George Johnson, Terre Haute, Ind. Passengers on a west bound steel limited escaped without injury but passengers in the forward compartments of Craig’s east bound wooden car were Instantly killed or fatally injured. The two trains were scheduled to pass at Fithian. HEROISM IS REWARDED Mississippi Rail Man Gets Medal, Coolidge Letter. By United Press WASHINGTON, June I.—Bravery
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screen was then held up beside the colt’s head, obscuring all but the lower extremities of the observers. Results were still good. Even with Mrs. Fonda entirely out of the tent some results were obtained, but the colt became unmanageable when she discovered the absence of her mistress. ana ON certain occasions, when the colt was working well, the owner could be eliminated entirely from the process by keeping her ignorant of which block
'SeeingAmerica From Cloudland Is Latest Fashion in Vacations
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16-Passenger Plane Is on Way From New York to California. EDITORS NOTE:-This is th tlrst of * series of four articles written especially lor The Times and NEA Service by W. R. Yahner. a reporter, who Is testing the qualities of the newest passenger-service form of aviaSion by taking an aerial vacation. Yatiller Is a passenger In a huge cabin plane, much like those that will be used in the new Joint air-rail transcontinental passenger service, with which Oolonel Charles A Lindbergh has Identified himself Yahner s trip takes him from New York to California. BY W. R. YAHNER NEA Service Writer DAYTON, Ohio, June I.—ls you have a vacation coming and can’t quite decide where and how to spend it— Try an aerial vacation You can go farther, see more, suffer less discomfort and get more thrills as a passenger on a commercial airplane line than in any other way I know. A palatial cabin plane of the Western Air Express, destined for passenger service on the Pacific coast, was recently built by the Fokker people in New Jersey. Asa test, it was flown to California preparatory to going into regular service there, and on this transcontinental trip carried a num- | ber of passengers. By a stroke of good fortune I managed to get my name on the list. Even if you are a confirmed groundling the start of a trip in one of these big tri-motored enclosed planes won’t give you any qualms. It’s all matter-of-fact — much like beginning of a trip by train. Start From New York The trip began at Mitchell Field, Long Island. We entered the roomy cabin and arranged ourselves in comfortable arm chairs. Racks overhead held our wraps; baggage compartment forward carried our luggage. This ship can carry sixteen passengers and a good quantity of freight. The interior is like that of a Pullman car; a trifle narrower,, but j fitted just as luxuriously. I gazed out the window as we took off and j when the ground shot past and j presently dropped away beneath us it seemed the most natural thing in the world. There was little vibration—none of the going-up-in-an-elevator feeling you’d expect in an airplane. Circling the field, the plane headed over the tall spires of Manhattan Island, dwarfed by the distance. We came down a bit to fly over the harbor, passing over huge ocean liners just making port. I wondered how many of the passengers thronging the boats’ decks would be taking aerial vacations in a few years as lightly as they now go by boat or train. Luncheon Is Served Leaving the harbor, the plane struck out across New Jersey for Philadelphia, the first stop. It was about noon, and just as I j was beginning to wish I had eaten some lunch before starting, Mrs. ] Anthony Fokker, wife of the builder of the plane, sounded the call for j refreshments. Sandwiches and coffee were served as we flew along a mile above the ground, and by the time we had finished we were coming to earth in Philadelphia. After a brief stop we were off again. The plane climbed higher, until presently we were some 12,500 feet up. At that altitude the air is very cold; but the plane comfortable. Someone started a bridge game. Although we were speeding along at 120 miles an hour there was no sensation of movement, and as the game progressed we forgot that we were two miles off the earth. Running Water on Tap Since no effort was being made to set any special records, we made Pittsburgh the overnight stopping point. , Next day we took (iff again landing at Columbus, Ohio. From Columbus tb Dayton is sixty-five miles in an airplane, but it only took us thirty-two minutes to make the trip. | Next: On the wing again—for I Kansas City, through Indianapolis.
the horse was to touch. Good results were thus obtained by Professor McDougall and Dr. Rhine, they reported, even when they stood with eyes shaded from all present, avoiding any motions -and gestures. There appeared to be no loop-hole, they state, no reasonable possibility for signaling, either of a conscious or un- • conscious character. “The state of the normally active colt, when she was working well, was markedly passive, as if she was almost asleep, with eyes half-closed and head
Here is the start of the “aerial vacation” and the passengers on the big cabin plane Los Angeles being snapped before their departure from Mitchell Field, New York, on their trip to California. Below is a fair passenger going aboard.
LAYS SHOOTING TO INDIANA MINE BOSS
Union Head Makes Charge After Clash at Littles. Bii Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June I. William Johnson, attacked by members of a crowd of 400 men who protested against opening of the Little mine in Pike county under the 1917 wage agreement, fired into the crowd before any member of it molested him. The shooting charge is made by Harvey W. Cartwright, president of District 11, United Mine Workers of America, with offices here. According to Cartwright, Johnson, mine superintendent, openly boasted that he would operate the mine despite union protests. Cartwright declares: “Asa matter of carrying out his threats that he would work the mine non-union.and show the world he was a professional strikebreaker. Johnson went to the mine with guns and enough ammunition to kill many citizens, and as he passed men doing peaceful picket duty, observing the law, he shot one of the guns into the crowd of miners, blowing one man’s hat off. “And now he wants the state militia to come in and protect him in unlawful methods of strikebreaking when he is responsible for the condition existing in the community because of his, murderous attack upon law abiding citizens of the state of Indiana.” The Littles mine has been idle fourteen months due to the union
SMITH, GOFF LEAD IN WEST VIRGINIA
By United Press CHARLESTON, W. Va., June I. Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York today apparently had won indorsement of West Virginia Democrats as the Democratic presidential nominee over Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Incomplete figures filed this morning showed Smith holding a lead of about 3,000 votes with all but about 300 precincts heard from. These precincts have only about 100 Democratic voters each and it seemed certain Smith would hold his margin of victory. The vote in the primaries, however, does not bind the delegation
lowered, so that one could hardly believe she was on the alert for delicate signals,” Dr. Rhine stated. “Sometimes she even became too ‘sleepy’ to move, and had to be touched up with the whip. TN the case of other “thinking” horses, such as the famous Clever Hans, the “thinking” process has been explained by the fact that the person who asked the question involuntarily gave the horse a clew to the answer. Hans answered mathematical
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Pretty Case By Times Special LIBERTY. Ind., June I.—ls Mrs. Peter Flint repeats a question put to police when her husband and Mrs. Mary Parker were arrested on intoxication charges, trial of the two in police court Monday may take on some aspects of a beauty contest. “There she is, gentlemen. Is she any better looking than I am?" Mrs. Flint remarked to officers as she confronted her husband and the other woman.
miners’ strike. A few months ago relief work was started among residents of the community around the mine, who had been out of work since the shutdown. Train Kills Motorist By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June I.—John Bennett, 67, farmer near Markleville, met instant death Thursday afternoon when the automobile he was driving was struck by a Big Four train at a crossing twelve miles south of here. Loses Arm in Auto Crash By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., June I.—Clifford Mignerey, 20, Valparaiso University student, lies near death at a hospital here, following amputation of his left arm made necessary by injries suffered in an auto collision.
that will go to Houston, sixteen votes, but it was considered likely the delegation would be guided by the popular vote. The, race for the Republican indorsement today continued to be close between Senator Guy D. Goff, native son candidate, and Herbert Hooaver. Goff still maintained a lead of between 8,000 and 9,000 on the basis of last returns filed. With slightly more than 700 precincts to be heard from Goff had 102,474 and Hoover had 93,940 votes. There was a chance that Hoover might run heavily in the remaining precincts, but political observers said they did not believe even this would be sufficient.
problems by tapping the correct number of times with his forefoot. The secret was that the questioner unconsciously leaned forward slightly as he put the question to the horse, in order to watch the animal, and when the horse had tapped the correct number of times, the questioner just as unconscously raised up a little, and the horse stopped tapping. Clever Hans puzzled careful investigators for some time before they realized how the horse was watching them for the signal.
THOMAS RILEY OUSTED FROM STATE BOARD Outstanding Democrat Is Succeeded by Yergens, Newcastle Man. KIMBERLIN ALSO GOES Accounts Examiner Is Off i Payroll in Shakeup at Statehouse. BY BEN STERN Rumors of a shakeup in the personnel of the Statehouse, in which Governor Ed Jackson would be able to fill his campaign pledges and give his supporters, both Republican and Democrat, four-year berths came to a head today, when Horace Yergens of Newcastle became a member of the State Industrial Board. The ousting of Homer Kirnberlin as a State board of accounts examiner also was announced. Yergens succeeds Thomas Riley, Indianapolis, for seven years a member of the industrial board and an outstanding Democrat. Riley’s term came to a close April 28, and the appointment of Yergens then was announced. Due to the illness of another board member, however, and the fact that the new appointee was unfamiliar with the work of the office, Jackson asked Riley to stay until June 1. Appointment Is Surprise Announcement of appointment of Yergens to succeed Riley was not expected, in view of the pressure brought to bear upon the Governor by both Republicans and Democrats to retain Riley, who has been regardedas a capable memberof the board. Jackson was in receipt of letters from former Senator Thomas Taggart, Democratic leader; Earl Peters, Democratic State chairman; The American Federation of Labor and Republican leaders, petitioning that Riley be retained. Several weeks before the appointment, Jackson told Riley, in an interview to call off his friends, “as you have enough recommendations for several men,” and the general tone of the conversation was that Riley was to be reappointed. Friends of the industrial board member were assured that his reappointment would receive very favorable consideration. Called Ex-Klan Official Statehouse reports are that Yergens was a Klan organizer and official in Newcastle, Jackson’s home town, in 1924 and that he coerced his followers into supporting the Governor, when he*was a candidate for his present office. It also is said that he and Pliny Wolford, Governor’s secretary, were the occupants of a double house in Newcastle several years ago. He is not prominent in Democratic circles and was unheard of In the Statehouse until his appointment, which is looked upon as the fulfillment of a campaign pledge. Ax Over Perkins At the Statehouse reports are that Jackson is considering the ousting of Edgar A. Perkins, printer, of Indianapolis, one of his own appointees to the industrial board, who has more than a year to serve, and will fill the place with another campaign pledge. Ousting of Kirnberlin, who is the accounts board examiner in the Marion County Barrett law office, was explained by Lawrence Orr, chief of the State Board of accounts, as being “for the good of the service.” Orr protested that there was :io politics connected with the dropping of Kirnberlin, who has been with the board for five years, having served in the Statehouse office four years before being assigned to 4he courthouse. Singleton Also to Go The rumor of a shakeup has been; rife for some time and it was expected to take place after thaj primary and State G. O. P. convention. /mother change contemplated is the dropping of Frank T. Singleton, chairman of the Public Service Commission, whose term expires this month, and the appointment of Wolford in his stead, it is rumored. Singleton was secretary to Governor Emmett Branch and was appointed by him to the commission post. At present he is chairman of the commission. WOMAN CLERK NAMED COUNTY COURT REFEREE Miss Isabelle Somerville Appointed to Juvenile Office. Miss Isabelle Somerville was. appointed referee of the Marion County Juvenile Court today by Judge Frank J. Lahr. She has been chief probation clerk in the court since 1911 and succeeds Miss Clara Burnside, who died recently. Judge Lahr said she will take over the duties as referee in addition to continuing some work as probation clerk. He said that because of her experience in court work Miss Somerville is highly capable of the work. Miss Somerville has lived here all her life. She was graduated from Glendale and Indianapolis Teachers’ Colleges. She formerly was executive secretary of the Children’s aid Association and is a member of various charitable agencies. She is a member of the National Probation Association, and the American Society of Social Workers.