Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1928 — Page 17

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INDUSTRY AT BLUFFTON IN GOOD STATE Data on Various Plants Submitted to Chamber of Commerce. PREPARING FDR CANNING Factories in Various Parts of Indiana Conditioned for Season. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Bluffton’s strong industrial situation as revealed in data presented to the Chamber of Commerce stands out prominently in an industrial and business survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The data was submitted by Elmore D. Sturgis,' chairman of the chamber’s industrial committe, and showed: Pull operating schedule in anew plant by the Grimes Foundry, heavy loser in a recent fire. Entrance into the food manufacturing field by the Bluflton Grocery Company, wholesale concern. Addition of cement blocks to production of the Frazier Drain Tile Company. Consideration of an expansion program by the Patton-McCrav Furniture Company. Excellent sales reported of anew type glove produced by the Great Northern Glove Company. Steady operation by the Boss Glove Manufacturing Company. Sales Reach $1,000,000 Sale of $1,000,000 worth of milk products in the last year by the Hoosier Condensed Milk Company, Which paid to farmers $535,000. Steady operations by the Settergreen Piano Company. Good demand for anew type lawn mower made by the Red Cross Manufacturing Company. Preparations are being made in. several sections of the State for the canning season, opening soon. New machinery is being 'installed at the plant of the Covington Packing Company. The factory at Lapel will be in operation in about two weeks. The Hoosier Canners, Inc., recent buyer of plants at Rushville and Glenwood, will pack pumpkin this fall if sufficient acreage is assured. The company has distributed 200,000 plants in preparation for the tomato canning run. After fourteen months of idleness, the Panhandle coal mine at Bicknell, has resumed operations with 150 men at work. Hoosier Flavor for Gum Oil from peppermint grown in Indiana will flavor Baby Ruth gum to be made by the Curtiss Gum Company, Chicago, a creation of Otto Y. Schnering, one of the largest manufacturing confectioners. He announces a St ate-wide newspaper advertising campaign will be made. A project for building a $2,500,000 hydro-electric plant at Cagle’s Mill, near Greencastle, has been dropped, through inability of the W. B. Foshay Company, a Minnesota corporation, to buy 23,000 acres of flowage land at what it considered a reasonable price. Conditions elsewhere in the State are summarized as follows: KOKOMO—Tripling of the force of the Wolf Industries is forecast through addition to manufacture of radio and phonograph cabinets, of fixtures for stores, banks, schools and other public buildings. The new lines are expjected to provide employment for 400 to 500 men. MUNCIE Building permits granted during May were for work valued at $507,000, and for the first five months of 1928, approximately $900,000, more than one-half of the total for the entire year of 1926. GREENCASTLE—The Greencastle' Fertilizer Company, a branch of Honcock Fertilizer Company, operating a chain of plants, will be established soon. Fifty on Force at Brazil BRAZIL The William Tegge cigar factory, new industry here, is working a force of fifty girls. It Is planned to add to the force until 300 are employed, as rapidly as equipment and stock can be made ready. WASHINGTON—A contract for erection of anew. Daviess County courthouse has been given English Bros., Champaign, 111., contractors, on a bid of $203,900. CRAWFORDSVILLE A theater with a seating capacity of 1,100 will be built here by Harry P. Vondersrhmitt, operating theaters at Washington, Bedford, Bloomington and Greencastle. CAYUGA—The Acme Brick Company’s plant is running on full schedule after a shutdown of several weeks during which several changes were made in machinery. EVANSVILLE Storage facilities will be enlarged by the Atlas Powder Company on a site near here Postal receipts for May were $6,902 above those of the same month last year, the figures being $59,706 this year. FT. WAYNE—Ready mixed concrete is the product of anew Diant put in operation by the, Tiellcer j.Materials Company. wanTs divorced wife Hubby Seeks Batura of Former Mate Who Married His Attorney. By United. Press CHICAGO, June B.—Men, too, can change their minds, and Dr. William Courtney, who obtained a divorce from his wife in February, prove* that that privilege isn’t solely in the possession of the fair sex. After divorcing his wife, his lawyer, Walter Hamilton, married her. Now Dr. Courtney wants his wife back, but Hamilton refuses to consent, although the former Mrs. Courtney is eager to return to her first love.

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U. S. Girls Star in Paris

A couple of ye?,rs ago the Dodge twins of Los Angeles started playing in vaudeville and movie prologs. Now they’re the stars of the Folies Bergere in Paris. They are Betty (left) and Beth.

THAW FIGHTS LAW ON INSANITY PLEA

Fiddlers Two NEW YORK, June B.—Sonny Pappas, 13, lost his violin and was disconsolate because his parents could not afford to get him another one. Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader, heard of the boy’s plight and gave him a violin. Sonny promptly played a Sonata for Lopez.

PRINCESS FILES SUIT Boy King’s Mother Seeks to Divorce Carol. By United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 8. —Princess Helene, mother of boy King Michael, today filed suit for divorce against former Crown Prince Carol. The suit was filed with the president of the Court of Appeals—the only competent authority under statutes regulating royal procedure. TRAIN HITS CAR; 6 DIE Three of Crossing Crash Victims Are Children. By United Press PEORIA, 111., June B.—Six persons were killed instantly last night when their automobile was struck by a passenger train near here. Three of the victims were children. The dead: Ransom Hasty, 45; Mrs. G. Hasty, 85; Roger Watson, 49; Kirby, Theodore and Larence Hasty. Nellie Hasty, a fourth child of Ransom Hasty, was injured.

COUNTY OWES CITY SIO,OOO IN BACK FINES

The Indianapolis city treasury is to receive a check for possibly more than SIO,OOO on June 30, from the Marion County clerk. A check-up showed the city since Jan. 1, 1926, had not received fines levied by municipal judges for disobediences of city ordinances. ' . The county has not remitted to city treasury quarterly, as the law specifies, because when municipal courts replaced the old city court earlier in 1927 no reorganization was made in the book system so that city and county could be separated. Prior to organization of municipal courts the courts were conducted

BABY MUST LAUGH, SQUEAL, PLAY BETTER EACH WEEK, DOCTOR WARNS PARENTS

By Science Service Atlantic city, June B. “Jimmie hasn’t begun to say ‘da-da’ the way that lively Smith baby does,” says Jimmie’s mother confidentially to Jimmie’s father, “and he still doesn’t get the idea of playing peek-a-boo at all.” . “But ‘they both reassure themselves,’ Jimmie -will catch up, of course. Babies develop so differently.”

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Tourist Denies Conviction in Effort to Land in England. By United Press SOUTHAMPTON, England, June B.—Harry Thaw’s representatives, in a last desperate effort to prevent his exclusion from England as an undesirable alien, have represented to home office authorities that Thaw never really was convicted of Stanford White’s murder but was held insane. The section of the alien restriction law under whioh Thaw was barred when he tried to land from the liner Aquitanla specifically uses the word “convicted” as regards extraditable crimes. Even if this difficulty were overcome however, authorities if they wished would be able to bar Thaw without giving any reason. Thus, only twenty-four hours before the Aquitania’s sailing on the return voyage to the United States, Thaw still was aboard, under surveillance. He spent the morning idling about the ship—less optimistic than he was Thursday when he told the United Press he had engaged a suite at the Savoy Hotel in London. Thaw’s lawyers have advised him to do nothing at the moment. “They pointed put that the situation was at a clelicate stage just now,” he said, “and that further publicity possibly might spoil whatever chance there is of my being able to land.” Free airplanes and equipment are given by the Canadian Department of National Defense to any Canadian city where civil flying clubs are prepared to meet certain conditions. ••

by the city, and the county received fines other than those paid for violation of city statutes. All county fines go into the State common school fund. Inasmuclf as the city’s fine profits were not subtracted from the county’s apolis is believed to have more than SIO,OOO in the school fund. The only satisfactory manner in which the city could be reimbursed is by going through the records and getting a total of the amount due Indianapolis. This is being done. Starting next quarter, beginning July 1, anew system of bookkeeping is to go into practice.

A warning against this sort of careless faith that a baby will outgrow mental handicaps and shoot ahead at some later age was voiced today by Dr. Arnold Gesell, psychologist of Yale University, before the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded, at its annual meeting, here. The Yale Psycho-Clinic has carefully studied the behavior of

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 8,1928

GREAT STAFF WILL COVER CONVENTIONS Political Experts of Three Organizations to Serve The Times. PARKER IS IN CHARGE Tracy, Denny and Fleming to Be on Duty: Hoople Also on Job. The Indianapolis Times will be represented at the Republican and Democratic national conventions by the largest staff of trained newspapermen ever assembled for a like event. Coverage of both events will include not only the report of what actually takes place on the convention floor, but the happenings in local delegations and the controversies and agreements in the little su K rosa conventions where candid' - are made and candidates are br Roscoe B. Fleming, Times staff correspondent, will write special stories of the Indiana delegation, whose activities will be, of unusual interest as result of the keen battle staged for delegates by Senator James E. Watson, and Herbert Hoover, and doubt as to whom the delegates will support if Watson is eliminated from the race. Thorough Wire Service In addition to the foregoing special coverage, The Times will receive the complete leased wire reports of the United Press, the Newspaper Enterprise Association and the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. M. E. Tracy, whose column of editorial interpretation appears daily in this newspaper, will attend both conventions arid write his daily comment from first hand information; Other writers to be present with whom the readers of this newspaper are familiar, are Ludwell Denny, John M. Gleissner. Ray Tucker, Leo R. Sack, C. J. Lilley, Ruth Finney and Roscoe B. Fleming. This staff will be in charge of G. B. Parker, editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. It will devote iiself largely to giving you an interpretative coverage of the conventions. It will tell you what each movement means, rather than what it seems. Every Move to Be Flashed The United Press Association will have its complete line-up of leased wires connected directly into the convention halls. Every action will be flashed to this newspaper just as it happens. Compilation of the United Press reports will be in the hands of veteran newspapermen selected from the Washington bureau. These men with their comprehensive political background, will be alert to every move of the contending factions. R*bert J. Bender, general news manager of the United Press, will be in charge of this convention staff. He will be assisted by Carl D. Groat, Raymond Clapper, Paul Mallon, Ralph H. Turner, and Thomas L. Stokes. The Major’ll Be There Fred S. Ferguson, president of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, will head its staff of writers, artists, photographers, and feature writers. They will include Herbert Walker, Rodney Dutcher, Robert H. Dorman, and Gene Ahern. Ahern, by the way, will be assisted by his famous portege, Major Amos Hoople, who will write daily stories for The Times.

Did You Know

The wheat straw is the supporting tube upon which the heads of wheat have grown. The nutriment which went up from the earth into the making of the heads of grain flowed through the tube that is now the wheat straw. The honey bee’s cell is hexagonal because the bees have learned, apparently through experience, that a cell of that shape requires less material than any other cellular form of the same cubical content. How they have learned it we do not know, except that it has come about through evolutionary, experimentation. Gold is weighed by troy scale and feathers and lead by avoirdupois scale. The troy pound contains 5,760 grains and the avoirdupois pound 7,000 grains. Hence, an avoirdupois pound of feathers weighs more than a troy pound of gold. Simple, yet puzzling, questions of this character will be answered . in a daily feature of The Times editorial page. Chicken or egg, which was first? Watch for the answer tomorrow. Slack to French Lick Mayor L. Ert Slack today motored to French Lick for a few days’ rest from city business. He is expected to return early next week. Mrs. Slack and Mr. and’ Mrs. George S. Wainwright, neighbors of the mayor, are in the party.

several hundred normal babies and a large number of retarded and defective infants. Asa result, a schedule has been worked out of 135 items which are characteristic of normal stages of development in the first year of life, Dr. Gesell said. When and how an infant fixes his eyes upon an object, what he does when a toy is removed from his sight, how he uses his handc—-

SOME TOE IN, SOME TOE OUT

Few Women Are Pigeon-Toed, Observer Reports

Here’s what the learned professor would have seen had he checked up on the gaits of Indianapolis girls. Left to right they are: Jessie, who toes straight; Wilma, who toes out; and Ruby, who doesn’t toe in naturally, but walked that way just to help out the cause.

STEWART ASKS DIRECTED lURY Makes Last Stand in Contempt Trial. By United Prrgn WASHINGTON, June B.—A final effort by Robert W. Stewart, oil millionaire. to nullify legally his prosecution on a charge of contempt of the Senate was expected to fail at his trial here today. The next step is final arguments, charges by Justice Siddons and submission of the case to the jury. The last stage may not be reached until Monday if the usual Saturday recess is taken. Jesse C. Adkins, attorney for the defendant Standard Oil Cor. pany of Indiana chairman, was to resume today his ten-point attack on the Teapot Dome investigation and the indictment, the basis of his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal. Justice Siddons already has ruled on several of the points, in favor of the Government. The motion is not viewed as dangerous by the Govern-’ ment, but the objections made are expected to be used Jn appeals to the Court of Appeals and United States Supreme Court, if Stewart is convicted. The oil man faces a maximum sentence of one year in a “common jail” and a fine of up to SI,OOO if convicted.

EXHIBITJMODEL SETS Play Production Classes at Butler Display Work. Miniature model stages made by the members of Mrs. Eugene Fife’s play production class of Butler University were on display today in the college chapel The following sets are in exhibit in the chapel: Kismet, by David Clarke; Bobby Boy, by Neil Firestine; The Sun, by Esther Durbin; The Dance Below, by Vera HalliMan; The Doll’s House, by Almon Coble. Other exhibitions including The Tragedy of Nan, and L’Aiglon are to be added. Plans are being made to have a permanent museum for the models if such a place can be found at Fairview, said Mrs. Fife.

PULLMAN PORTERS’ STRIKE CALLED OFF

By United Press NEW YORK, June B.—The strike of 11,000 Pullman porters, which had been set for noon today, has been called off by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters on the advice of William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor. A. Phiflip Randolph, organizer of the Brotherhood, said he had decided to accept Green’s verdict, but

these reactions change with age, he pointed out. nun “rp'HE growth of the human mind X is already under way at birth,” the psychologist stated. “Each month witnesses some change in the baby’s muscular control, his posture, his language, memory, insight, responsiveness, and adjustments to other persons. These changes tend to proceed in an of-

By Science Service LANSING. Mich., June B.—More than half of the women of the present day walk with their feet toeing straight ahead. Indiap fashion. About 41 per cent toe out after the old dancing school pattern. Only about 5 per cent of the women you see on the streets are pigeon-toed. These are the conclusions of Dr. John W. Crist of Michigan State College. Dr. Crist gathered his statistics by standing on busy street corners during his spare time, and unobtrusively recording the walking habits of some 11,000 women in various cities of the United States. Reporting his investigations in i

the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Heredity, Dr. Crist states that the ancestors of the human species walked on all fours, and their feet must have curved inward to help in grasping trees, as the apes’ feet curl. For some of his figuring. Dr. Crist found it necessary to estimate the ages of feminine pedestrians, making due allowance for facial camouflage. Among the women that he set down in the "over 40” list, about three-fourths toed out. But this great increase in toeing out among older women is not due to age, he later concluded. Weight is the more important factor. As heaviness increases with age, the feet respond by turning outward. Eighty per cent of the heavily built women over 40 toed out. But. only 40 per cent of the light weight women over 40 turned out their toes fan fashion.

Kerchoo! By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 8. —“Kerchoo” will be the password here Sunday when members of the Hay Fever and Asthma Sufferers Association meet in annual convention. Gordon Lewis, this city, is association president. There was an attendance of nearly 200 from four States at the 1927 convention.

FARMERS MEET TO OUTLINE DEMANDS

By United Press v* CHICAGO, June B.—Representatives of the American Farm Bureau Federation met here today to draft the Federation’s expression of national policies. This resolution will be presented at the national conventions of both major parties, according to Sam H. Thompson, president. Thompson was unwilling to comment prior to the meeting on what that policy would include. The meeting has a representative

that the machinery for the strike would be kept intact and that the men were more determined than ever to obtain a wage increase from $72.50 a month to $l5O with a 240hour month. Green said the best interest of the porters would be served if they would postpone the strike and start a “campaign of education and public enlightenment regarding the justice of their cause.”

derly manner with due reference to his age.” Growth is so swift in infancy that even one or two months of retardation at that time may prove important later. This has been shown, Dr. Gesell said, by clinical case reports in which mental growth charts of babies were kept. These cases demonstrate that a child’s mental status can be predicted to some extent in infancy.

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500 TO ATTEND R, 0. UPERIOD Hoosier Group to Train at Camp Knox. More than 500 Indiana college juniors will attend the annual Reserve Officers’ Training Camp" opening at Camp Knox, Ky„ June 16. The training period is six weeks. Purdue University with 118 men of the 186th Field Artillery will supply most of the students in this branch at the camp. Indiana and De Pauw Universities and several of the smaller schools will send most of the 388 men for the Infantry. Indiana win not be represented in the coastal defense. The camp will be commanded by Col. G. L. Townsend of Ohio State University. Most of the officers assigned to the Indiana colleges will be instructors in the camp. Competition in both athletic and military events is expected to be insured by the fact that the men from each school are placed in separate units. The Purdue battery hopes to repeat last year’s championships in pistol matches and baseball, and Indiana to take the track meet and place high in rifle matches again.

from all parts of the United States. “We are not expecting to indorse any presidential candidates,’’ Thompson said, “but we will place our urgent problems before both parties in the hope that they will see the necessity of facing them." The Washington legislative representatiyp of the Bureau Federation is to arrive here today to take part in the deliberation and to read a report on farm legislation. The organization is opposed to subsidies, according to Thompson. It is his opinion also that the Wash* ington representative will declare the Bureau’s preference for private ownership of Muscle Shoals. Thompson stated that in 1910, farm mortgages amounted to $5,500,000,000, while today they total approximately $12,500,000,000. WOMAN LOSES MEMORY Taken to city hospital from the Traction Terminal Thursday night suffering from amnesia, Cora Ninpon, 42, Ft. Wayne, Ind., gave city hospital doctors her name today. She said she was on her way to Shelbyville when she lost her memory. Relatives are being sought.

The earlier mental defects are recognized, the more opportunity there is for prevention and control, just as in physical handicaps, the psychologist pointed out. Dr. Gesell stressed the fact that methods of diagnosing mentality in babies are still being worked out, and should be used only by professional trained persons with clinical experience.

PROPOSES TAX LEVY TO BUILD NEWSCHOOLS Directors Claim Bonded Indebtedness Is Limit for Year 4 PROJECTS UNDER WAY $1,300,000 Shdrtridge High School Building to Be Ready by 1929. Although school buildings costing more than $2,600,000 are under way, or planned for construction this year, Indianapolis is far behind in its school building schedule, according to Albert F. Walsman, school business director. A number of new buildings and additions needed in various sections of the city cannot be constructed this year because of lack of funds, he said. The school city is within $1,000,000 of the $13,000,000 bonded Indebtedness limit, including buildings under construction and proposed this year. Grade Buildings Planned Walsman said plans are being made now to build several new grade buildings next'year from the tax levy in order not to increase the bonded indebtedness. He added the schools are gradually recovering from the post war period of high building prices and school room shortage, but due to reluctance of the board to encroach much farther on the bonded indebtedness limit, progress is slow. “It is the purpose of the board to build high schools by bond Issue and grade buildings by direct taxation,” Walsman said, “but this has been made impossible in the past seven or eight years because of the State tax board cutting too deeply into the budget and levy.” Two High Schools Needed “The .city needs two new high schdols at once, one at Broad Ripple and in Irvington. School 81, Seventeenth and Rural Sts., now occupying several portables, needs anew building. A new building is needed in southeast Indianapolis to relieve crowded conditions at School 21, Rural St. and English Ave., and School 39, Lexington and State Ave. “Additions are needed at School 44, Twenty-First and Sugar Grove Ave.; School 49, at 1902 W. Morris St., and many others.” i Walsman said much of the money which should go for new buildings now must be used to pay interest on bonds. Interest payments of $515,000 are due this year. Shortridge Near Completion The new $1,300,000 Shortridge High School, Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts., will be ready for occupancy next January. New bids will be received Monday for a $215,000 auditorium and gymnasium at Arsenal Technical High School. Completion of School 84, at FiftySeventh and Central Ave., with fourteen rooms, this summer will relieve crowded conditions at School 80, Sixty-Third and Marion Sts., and School 70, Forty-Sixth and Central Ave. An eight-room addition at School 73, Thirtieth and School St., will be completed this summer. Construction of two new wings at Arsenal Technical, costing $250,000, will be completed within a month or two. A $600,000 proposed bond issue for new School 80 and additions to Schools 47, 43 and 66. is pending before the tax board. i. u 7 ALUMNI~to elect Sixteen Candidates for Seven Places on Council. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 8 Sixteen candidates are in the race for election to seven places on the Indiana University alumni council. Voting will begin at 10 Saturday morning and results will be announced at its completion. Candidates - are: Allen G. Messlek, Marlon: Mercedes Janet Hurst, Ft. Wavne; Andrew H. Hepburn, Indianapolis; Lloyd Crosgrave, Valparaiso; Mrs. Charles Masters, Connersvllle; Chester Y. Kelley, Terre Haute; E. C. Von Tress. Chicago: Walter H. Crlm, Salem; Mrs. Alta Brunt Sembower. Bloomington; Professor R. A. Ogg. Greencastle: Charles F. Benzel. Indianapolis; Noble. Butler, Anderson; Mark S. Trueblood. Cincinnati, Ohio; Camden R. McAtee, Washington: Lawrence K. Tuley, Louisville. Ky.. and Frank L. Crone. Richmond. Va. FED ERAL OFFICES QUIET Activity Ceases as G O. P. Members G ave for Kansas City. The Federal building Vill be almost deserted next week with a number of Government officials attending the Republican national convention at Kansas City, George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator; Albert Ward, United States attorney, and his assistant. Alexander G. Cavens, left at noon Thursday for Kansas City, making the trip in Winkler’s c#ir. *Dr. N. M. King, assistant revenue collector, left Thursday afternoon by train. Harvey Barnard, prohibition agent, went by train Tuesday. George L. Foote, internal revenue collector, will leave Sunday, as will several other Federal building officials. urges" chFr"cT merger Participation of the Disciples of Christ in the movement • toward unification of the Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal and Congregational churches was urged by The Rev. H. C. Armstrong, secretary of the Society for Promotion of Christian Unity, at a meeting Thursday night at the Third Christian Church. If the three major Protestant organizations united the first step toward unification would be accomplished.