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FOREMEN ARE NEEDED AT FEDERAL PRISONS I Civil Service Tests to Be Held for Trades Instructors. Foremen to act as instructors at United States penitentiaries at Atlanta, Ga., Leavenworth, Kan., Chillicothe, Ohio, and McNeil Island, Wash., are needed, according to Henry M. Trimpe, local civil service secretary. Lines of work available for foremen include automobile mechanic, baker and cook, brick burner, bricklayer, carpenter, electrician, laundry, plumber and steamfitter, printer, shoe repairman and tailor. Applications will be received until July 5. Other vacancies announced include associate librarian. Naval Observatory; landscape architect, Park and Planning Commission* Senior physicist, Signal Corps laboratory; associate hide specialist. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils; associate mineral economist, Bureau of Mines; engineering field aide, Geological survey; rodmen and chainmen, Interstate Commerce Commission. BOY BREAKS > ARMS Slips at Play and Sustains Double Fracture. A box slipped from under John Wolf, 9. son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Wolf, 3828 N. Pennsylvania St., as h was about to jump. Both of his arms were broken in the fall. The boy’s father is president of -the White Furniture Company.

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STATE PARKS EQUIPPED FOR HOLIDAY RUSH New Pools and Hotels Add to Attractiveness of Resorts. 500,000 EXPECTED Visitors From All Sections of Nation Will Enjoy Indiana Summer. With new swimming pools, additional hotel space and new shelters Indiana owned parks are ready to receive the 500,000 visitors from this and other States expected to visit the beauty spots. In 1927 more than 300,000 paid admission to the State parks and the new Dunes Park was opening for three months during that period. Richard Lieber, Conservation Department director, expects at least one-half million visitors this year and arrangements have been made accordingly. Pools Provided Hundreds of reservations for hotel and cottage space for the summer already are on file. Additional lodgings for fifty persons are provided in the third story addition to the Inn at Clifty Falls State Park at Madison. The road to this park is nearing completion and the detours provided are reported to be in very good condition. Two bathing pools, one for children and the other for adults are under construction at McCormick’s Creek Canyon Park and will be placed in use July 1. Nature Guides Free Traffic from Indianapolis to this park is routed over Rd. 37 to Bloomington, which is all paved and then over ten miles of scone highway, Rd. 46 to the park. This obviates the sand and" gravel on Rd. 67 and is only six miles longer, the State Highway Department reports. Playground equipment has been provided at all State parks this year and several of the resorts will continue the free guide service. This nature guide feature was begun several seasons ago and has proved popular.

Golf Course Available Grounds at the hotel at Pokagcn Park on Lake James have been landscaped, and guests of the hotel are extended the privilege of the privately-owned golf course. Motor and row boats for hire make this lake resort unusually attractive. New trials have been added by engineers across the shifting sands of the Dunes Park. Parking space and camping area has been provided for thousands who may desire to take advantage of this rare beauty spot. Addition of the $50,000 land grant of Samuel Insull Jr„ the utility magnate, has added a direct entrance from the paved highway, Rd. 20. Plan Big Hotel Plans are under way to build a large modern hotel at this beauty spot. Limited facilities now are offered at Duneside Inn. All preparations have been completed at the Turkey Run State Park to entertain the thousands who flock there each season. The Inn there has overnight capacity for 150 guests. The cottages which contain sleeping rooms only are patronized extensively. The park has 1,070 acres, practically all of which is heavily wooded and contains 285 acres of virgin timber. Tins park is reached over Rds. 47 and 41.

Inn Is Delightful Os interest to nature lovers is the Clark County State forest with its 4,500 acres accessible by Rd. 31. Many visitors are going to the Muscatatuck State Park winding along the river of the same name. The Inn there is a delightful stopping place as it is a remodeled farm house with large openings between the lobby, dining room and hallway and is always cool and inviting. Four cottages outside supplement the sleeping facilities of the Inn. Rds. 7 and 50 lead to this park. G. A. R. MEET CLOSING Veterans In Session at Columbus Select Martinsville for 1929. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., June 21. Final business sessions and auto trips were on the program today for the closing of the four-day encampment of the Indiana Department, Grand Army of the Republic. Martinsville has been chosen as the 1929 encampment city. Wednesday was the most important day of the meeting. A parade in which 300 veterans marched was a feature in the afternoon, and at night the annual campfire was held.

By NBA Service NEW YORK, June 21.—“ God is a long way from Gotham,” the Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley concluded after a week’s experience driving a New York taxicab to gather first hand knowledge of life in the New York streets. “In this great city.” he said, "men and women live' move and have their being, observing bus one commandments—‘Don’t get caught.’

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Claude Bowers; Hoosier, Back to His First Love; Politics; Hell Be Democrat Keynoter

Great Speech at Jackson Day Dinner Pushed Him Into Limelight. By NEA Service NEW YORK, June 21.—You can take a true Hoosier far from his native state, bury him in the anonymity of newspaper editorial writing and turn him into a scholarly, retiring historian; but sooner or later he will turn back to the ofHy pursuit a real Hoosier ever enjoys—politics. That’s what happened in the case of Claude G. Bowers, anyway. Bowers, born and bred in Indiana, moved to New York five years ago to become an editorial writer for the New York Evening World. In his spare time he studied and wrote history. But last winter he plopped back into politics so zestfully that he was at once chosen to deliver the keynote speech at the coming Democratic convention in Houston, Tex Speaks by Happy Inspiration It all happened because Bowers was invited to address last January’s Jackson day dinner in Washington. This is a traditional love feast of the Democrats, marked in recent years by a notable absence of love. Bowers had written absorbing biographies of such Democratic heroes as Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jeff' r son, and through some happy inspiration the committee asked him to speak. Bowers did. He urged his hearers to make Jackson and Jefferson something more than mere patron saints of the party, contrasted conditions in their eras with conditions today and before he had finished, had aroused the Democratic chieftains to real enthusiasm. Picked as Keynoter A man who could do that seemed worth keeping; so Bowers, by general consent, was chosen to do the keynoting at Houston. Bowers was bom in Hamilton County, Indiana, November, 1878 Asa young man he entered newspaper work, serving his apprenticeship on the old Indianapolis Sentinel.

On his graduation from high school he went to Terre Haute and became a reporter for the Star. While there he exercised the Hoosier’s privilege of becoming active in politics, and in 1904 he ran for Congress under the approval of John E. Lamb, then a Democratic power in Indiana. Beaten for Congress Bowers was defeated, but he continued his political work, holding a variety of minor jobs until 1911. In that year John Worth Kern became United States Senator from Indiana and he took Bowers to Washington with him as his sec*“tary, a post Bowers held until 1917 In 1917 he returned to Indiana to become editor of the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. He held that post until 1923 and waged many a political battle with * the opposition paper, the News-Sentinel. The Journal-Gazette, of course, was a Democratic paper and Bowers attracted considerable repute by his party services. Goes to New York So, in 1923. the New York Evening World took him as editorial writer. Democratic leaders in New York now know him as an exceptionally able, clear-thinking speaker and it was their influence that made him Jackson day speaker last winter. His speech there, delivered with the fire of a polished orator, mads his selection as keynoter at Houston practically a foregone conclusion. His speech in Houston will be heard by millions all over the United States, by means of the radio. Dog Bites Six Persons By Timex Special WABASH, Ind., June 21.—Six persons and several head of livestock were bitten by a dog supposed to have rabies at the home of Mrs. Jacob Rousch north of here. Planes to Meet Ship Bi/ United Prcsx NEW YORK, June 21.—Passenger planes will meet the S. S. Majestic when it arrives at Cherbourg from New York, and will provide accommodations to Paris. The fare will be S4O.

KILLS 2, WOUNDS 4 IN VIENNA CONGRESS

By United Press VIENNA, June 21.—Reports from Belgrade early today said the Skupschtina, the parliament, had adjourned sine die after the violent outburst Wednesday in which two deputies were killed and four others wounded in a clash between government and opposition deputies. The two deputies killed were Paul Raditch and Djura Bassaricek. Those injured were Stefan Raditch, Ivan Pernar, Granda and Jelasitch. Stefan Raditch, noted leader of the opposition party, was seriously wounded, but reports today said his

GOD IS FAR FROM GOTHAM, PASTOR TAXI DRIVER DISCOVERS

“The New York slogan is ’ Take what you want, take all you can get, buddy, it’s coming to you, and if you don’t get it, someone else will—but don’t get caught, go as far as you like, girlie, a short life and a merry one—the sky’s the limit—but don’t get caught’.” \ nun BY day, Mr. Whelpley attends to the spiritual needs of his

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928

POWDER PLANT FIRE EATS WAY TO KILNS

PLAN CHURCH ADDITION New Fletcher Place Structure to Serve as Community Building. Plans for the building of an addition to the Fletcher Place Methodist Church, to serve as a social settlement and community building, were discussed at a dinner meeting of Methodist missionary workers Wednesday night at the church. Dr. O. W. Fifer presidecL A second meeting will be held at the Y. M. C. A. Friday and another at the church Monday. LUTHERANS ELECT Name Muncie Man Head; Tour City Today. Delegates to the thirty-first annual convention of the Luther League of Indiana, held at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church here, made an automobile tour of the city today. Sessions will end with a banquet at the church tonight. The Rev. C. A. Sundberg, Springfield, Ohio, will speak on "The Powers of a Purpose.” The Rev. J. S. Albert, Muncie, was re-elected head of the league Wednesday afternoon. Miss Verna Schwab, Louisville, Ky., was named vice president; Miss Cordelia Nickel, Batesville, recording secretary; Miss Florence Butler, recording secretary, and Miss Katherine Loemker, Louisville, Ky., treasurer. Louisville, Ky., was selected as the next meeting place. The Rev. L. F. Gruber, president of the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, spoke Wednesday evening on the liberal doctrine of the church. Following the address, the new officers were installed in a candle-light service, with the Rev. W. C. Donaldson, pastor of the First English Lutheran Church, in charge.

condition was not considered dangerous. The difficulties in the parliament started when the radical deputy, Puisha Ratchich, after a long opposition fiilibuster, drew a revolver and started firing at the benches where the opposition party was seated. Several shots were fired, two of which killed Paul Raditch, nephew of the leader, and Deputy Bassaricek. The assassin then leaped from a window and escaped, although he was followed.

Chelsea Presbyterian Church congregation. At night, he changes his profession and attire. In a checked cap and a sack suit, he becomes a taxi driver, who will, at a signal, transport any “fare” through the streets of Manhattan to the accompaniment of a clicking meter. It occurred to him that the average minister led too restricted a life, and that the way to reach the vast number of New Yorkers

Seven Explode in Night; Unable to Combat Flames. *Bu United Prcxx ALLENTOWN, Pa., June 21.—Fire early today continued to eat its way toward three great powder Kilns in the steel powder shed of the Trojan Powder Company, where earlier seven kilns had exploded. Damage to the one plant was great and window in all buildings and houses close by were shattered No one this morning would place an estimate on the total. No one was in the building at the time of the explosions, the 300 employes having left work earlier. Albert Fritzinger, night watchman, was showered by debris but otherwise was unhurt. He was outside the building when the first explosion shook the district. The first of the explosions occurred a few minutes after midnight when four kilns blew up. The detonations awakened people in the vicinity and also in Allentown, two miles away. The sceond occurred about an hour later. There were seventeen of the great kilns, each 20 by 30 feet, in the corrugated powder shed, but only ten were loaded. The three loaded kilns remaining probably will explode, firemen said, and this prevented approach of fire fighting companies toward the burning building. convTcted~Tn bombing Hammond Theater Operator Faces Prison Term. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., June 21.—After three hours’ deliberation, a Lake County Criminal Court jury Wednesday night convicted William Kleihege of conspiracy in the bombing of the State Theater here last November. The conviction carries a prison sentence of ten to twenty years. Kleihege, reputed to be a millionaire, had the theater wrecked by a bomb because business was poor. He was operating the theater under a lease. Four Bishops in Wedding By United P r ess NEW YORK, June 21.—Four Methodist Episcopal bishops took part in the ceremony when Miss Edith Mary Warne married Herbert Francis Fisher. Miss Warne is the daughter of Bishop Francis Wesley Warne, retired, ft Woman Hit by Trolley Mrs. Sallie Whorton, 61, of 2513 James St., is suffering from a cut on her left hip today as a result of being struck by an E. Washington street car, at Washington and Pennsylvania Sts., late Wednesday. She was taken home.

who never entered a church was to mingle more with them—not as a minister, but just as one of the vast army who serve without questioning or being questioned. Brief experience as a taxi driver, he said, proved his theory that the church has become too removed from the man in the street. u “T HAVE gone with the crowds A to their night clubs apd their

LANDOWNERS LOSE FIGHT TO KEEP STREET Works Board Overrules Remonstrance Against Pennsy Elevation. SATISFIES FORD PLANT Ruling Closes Oriental and Opens Leota Driveways. The last technical barrier * between elevation of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, east, without damaging the Ford Motor Company assembly plant in E. Washington St., was out of the way today—unless property owners go to court. Over the protest of a few scattered property owners the board ol works Wednesday afternoon overruled remonstrances and confirmed the resolution for the closing of Oriental St. between Southeastern Ave. and the tracks and the opening of Leota St. between Southeastern Ave. and Washington St., when the tracks are elevated. Ford Threatened to Leave During four years, city administrations, the Ford Company and citizens have been fighting over whether such a resolution should go through. The Ford company threatened to move its plant elsewhere and only reopened the plant when the Slack administration promised Oriental St. would be closed. If Oriental St. were open the Ford company could not swing a switch from the elevation across the street down to its first floor, where the assembly chain is located. Company representatives let it bo known Henry Ford would move the plant before paying for moving the assembly system to the second floor to permit switching on the elevation level. Protest Street Closing Richard H. Neff, 4523 Park Ave., one of a delegation of ten citizens Tuesday, said he would have his lawyer seek an injunction against the closing on the score his property would be damaged. Charles Holtman, plumber, and William Foley, 32 S. Oriental St., said their property would be damaged and pointed out they were there long before FoiM. Charles L. Riddle, board member, apswered the protests with the declaration that the board was leaving the Ford plant out of the picture—that the reason for closing Oriental St., was chiefly that it would run into Southeastern Ave. directly under the elevation and create a serious traffic hazard. By opening Leota St. only a short distance west the territory will have easy access to Washington St., he pointed out.

$134 DAILY IS SAVED BY CITY ASPHALT PLANT Cost of Street Repair Work Is Cut With Municipal Plant. City Engineer A. H. Moore today reported to the board of works that operation of the city asphalt plant is saving the city an average of $134 a day. Average cost per ton of asphalt under the old contract system was $13.69 compared with $11.73 production cost at the municipal plant. The plant was reopened recently by Moore. Moore reported 3,591 tons used to repair city streets in fifty-three working days between March 19 and June 15, averaging 67.73 tons a day. The 41,238 square yards of asphalt laid during the period cost $49,168, according to the report of Edward Rochat, repair superintendent. Rochat said the average cost of material and labor a square yard is $1.92. Buys Capitol Ave, Property Dr. Joseph Rilus Eastman purchased the property at the northeast corner of Capitol Ave. and Eighteenth St., from Mrs. Laura M. Reyer, Wednesday for SIB,OOO. The lot has a frontage of eighty feet on Capitol Ave., directly opposite the new Methodist Hospital Nurses’ Home.

HOUSTON LYNCHERS HUNTED; STIRS CITY

By Times Special HOUSTON. Texas, June 21.—City and county officials were bending every effort today to find the five to eight members of a gang which invaded city hospital, took away a wounded Negro prisoner and lynched him Tuesday night. State, county and city authorities joined in the search while newspapers, not only in Houston but other south Texas communities, denounced the tragedy as a “blot on the State and city.” Rewards exceeding SIO,OOO have

gambling dens,” he said, 'to their hall bedrooms and their apartments on Park Ave. and the wretched hotels on the lower East Side. “They pour into New York from the ends of the earth. They batter their heads against the city walls. “Life gets them. Discouraged and defeated, they give up and the gutter claims them.

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The new Bellanca plane that Thea Raasche will pilot on her Atlantic flight attempt is owned by Mrs. James A. Stillman. She bought the ship, christened the North Star, and loaned it to the German aviatrix, whose picture you see here below that of her backer.

RADIO CONTROL BY CIH URGED Hiring of Two Inspectors Recommended. Appropriation in the 1929 city budget for the employment of two radio interference engineers to locate and eliminate local interference was urged upon Sterling R. Holt, city controller, in a communication from William A. Boyce Jr., city clerk, today. "The use of radio receiving sets has become so widespread in our city that any interference with ready reception is a matter affecting the welfare and happiness of a large portion of our citizenship ” Boyce told Holt, who soon will draft and submit the 1929 budget to the mayor and city council. “I would therefore suggest,” Boyce continued, “that you include in the budget for 1929 two municipal radio interference engineers or inspectors, to be charged with the duty of investigating municipal complaints on local interference, as well as the regular inspection of utility power, light and telephone lines and also the lines connected with the municipal Gamewell system.” KIWANIS GOLF TOURNEY TO CLOSE CONVENTION Election of President Business of Final Session Today. By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., June 21. Kiwanis delegates end their twelfth annual international convention today on the golf links. A championship tournament, the last event on the four-day program, will follow the final business session this morning. Election of a president and the choice of their next convention city were two of the matters before the delegates at the last meeting. Samuel Cummings of Kansas City, Mo., apparently was without opposition for presidency. The fight for the convention was between Detroit and Milwaukee. Finds 5100; Seven Claim It By United Press NEW YORK, June 21.—Mrs. Christine T. Lombardi found a SIOO bill and advertised for the owner. Seven persons claimed it immediately. A magistrate will determine who is the owner.

been offered. Every witness to the kidnaping is being closely questioned. Robert Powell, the victim, was under arrest and charged with murder of A. W. Davis, city detective.* Davis was shot down on the street Sunday night. Powell was taken from the hospital bed where he lay dying and hanged to a bridge post. Coming on the eve of the Democratic convention, the lynching was considered the worst possible thing that might have happened.

“I have seen them do things unbelievably ugly, commit the most unspeakable deeds and unleash their hatreds, passions and vices—all because God is so far from Gotham." Mr. Whelpley was a first lieutenant in the Canadian forces in the World War. He intends to continue as a taxi driver—regarding It as a laboratory for working out human problems.

WATER PLANT DELAY FACED AT SONNYSIDE Action on Bids, Contracts and Bonds in Way of Construction. i APPROVE $30,000 ISSUE 1 Councilmen Have No Hops for Use of Project This Summer. Sunnyside tuberculosis sanatorium, assured anew water plant ti replace an inefficient one that has caused trouble more than a year, may have to worry through tha summer months without the per*, manent remedy. Official red tape so binds the matter of issuing the $30,000 bonds allowed by county council June 1, the calling for bids, the sale of bonds, awarding of contract and actual construction, that county officials believe it will be autumn before the dirt begins to fly. County Auditor Harry Dunn now; is awaiting expiration of the protest period on the bonds before pro* ceeding with the next step. Protest Time Ends July 5 If protest is made, as is often done in other routine bond Issues, and the matter is appealed to the State tax board, a delay of several months may be the result. Commissioner Cassius L. Hogle who has supported the improvement from the begin*, ning, pointed out. Protest period expires July 5. The $30,000 issue, approved by tha council despite expected opposition because of the differences between the majorities of the county commissioners and the councilmen, will provide water supply adequate for all Sunnyside’s needs. Chief in the project are anew well, a large overhead storage tank, and extension of the fire flghtints equipment- * Causes Fire Hazard At present, fire equipment Is woefully inadequate, a committee ofT disinterested engineers of the Indianapolis Water Company claimed in a report for officials. Engineer Charles Brossman has been engaged by the county to prepare plans and specifications, with the aid of engineers of the water company, who have volunteered their services. Plans of County Engineer Henry Campbell, a member of the Republican faction unfriendly to tho Coffin-Hawkins majority on the council, weie disapproved by the council, several weeks ago. $12,000 Plan Rejected His plan called for expenditure of only $12,000 compared to the $30,000 total finally approved by the council. Hot summer months will not increase appreciably the water consumption at Sunnyside, Assistant Superintendent William McQueen said. He anticipates no more trouble unless one of the pumps, now used to capacity, goes out. Water shortage became so acuta in February that 150 patients had to be sent home.

STATE CHURCH BODY i RE-ELECTS OFFICERS ShelhyvJlle Chosen for Religious Council's 1929 Session. By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., June 21.-* Officers were re-elected as follows by the Indiana Council of Religious Education which will close a three* day session here today: William Lowe Bryan, Blooming* ton, president; G. E. Bugnot, first* vice president; Harry Eller, Indianapolis, second vice president; A. D, Gray, Richmond, third vice president; G. H. Gearhardt, Indianapolis, recording secretary, and F. M. Dickerman, Indianapolis, treasurer. The office of fourth vice president was created and W. B. Farmer, Richmond, elected as firs® incumbent. Shelbyville has been chosen ad the 1929 convention city. selects Hartford”city] Mancie District Epworth League Chooses Convention Place. By Times Special FORTVILLE, Ind., June 21— Hartford City was chosen as thd 1929 convention city of the Muncie district Epworth League during thl# year’s meeting here. The following officers werd elected: President, Miss Gertrude) Crouch. Fortville; first vice president, Miss Marjorie French, Alexandria; second vice president, Mis# Joy Anderson, Pendleton; third vice) president, Miss Mildred Cary, Alexandria; fourth vice president, Misd Ruth Clemens, Muncie; secretary* Miss Florence Schwartz, Fortville; treasurer, Robert Hamilton, Eaton;! Junior League superintendent, Mis# Cora Hill, Muncie; district editor* Miss Georgia Vincent, Anderson. Officer Kidnapers Sentenced T By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., June 21 Jean Riley, 28, and Leona Kramer* 26, today are under prison sentences of two to fourteen years each and each fined SI,OOO, as a resulll of their participation last February in kidnaping Fred Wyeth, local policeman. George Kramer, husband of the Kramer woman, is already under sentence. .