Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1928 — Page 3

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[THIRTY SHIPS t GO IN SEARCH I OF AMUNDSEN Norway Government Orders Arctic Vessels to Join Hunt. REPORT PLANE IS SEEN Indicates Relief Vessel Was in Difficulties Soon" After Start. By United Press OSLO, Norway, June 27.—Thirty Arctic vessels, in the area between Tromsoe and Spitzbergen, were ordered by the government today to begin an immediate search for the French seaplane carrying Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, and his five companions, missing since June' 18. The newspaper, Morgen Bladet, in a dispatch from Thomsoe, Norway, today said that fishermen reported that at 6 p. m. June 18 they had seen a Latham airplane—such as was used by Roald Amundsen and his relief expedition—flying hear the water south of Bear Island. The fishermen said the airplane seemed too heavily loaded. The manager of the geophysical institute at Tromsoe ordered members of the radio station at Bear Island to make a search on skiis for the plane. He believed the plane probably had reached Bear Island and had made a forced landing. If the fishermen’s report was correct the big French seaplane had encountered difficulties within two hours after it left Tromsoe to go to the aid of the Italia’s craft, on June 18. The meteorological radio station at Tromsoe today intercepted a i message from Archangel, Russia, | transmitting an unconfirmed report that a Norwegian sealing vessel had | sighted Roald Amundsen’s French I airplane on an ice floe southeast of I Northeastland, June 20, two days after it left here for Spitzbergen. Nobile Aid Killed By TJnited Press ROME, June 27.—One member of the dirigible Italia’s crew was killed when the polar dirigible crashed, May 25, Gen. Umberto Nobile advised today. He made a disheartening report that indicated the men who floated away with the balloon might have perished shortly after the crash. The dirigible sank suddenly, May 25, and smashed a gondola. Vincenzo Pomella, an engineman, was ■tilled as his forward engine turret Also struck the jagged ice. He was Biirown from the turret, aid subsequently was buried on the out of Sfte way Ice Island, with full honors. ißAfter the cabins had been SMnashed the bag lifted, propelled by n high wind, and started floating ■jastward. ■ Today the commander—who Is W\ painfully injured aboard the Citta Di Milano, after having been rescued Saturday—said that when the bag was ten kilomters away from the scene of the crack-up, a pillar of smoke was seen to shoot into the air. Since then there has been no word of the seven men, who were not In the gondola. HARM BY BAIT HUNTERS Monticello Residents Say Night Crawler Quests Damage Garden. Bn United Press MONTICELLO, Ind., June 27. Fish bait hunters here are earnestly requested by E. R. Gardner and hia neighbors to transfer their activities to other fields. Gardner complained to police: “I have been furnishing night crawlers to all the fishermen in this section of the United States.” i The complainant said that at firsc ■ he didn’t mind the invading of his and flower beds, but that Kow the practice is becoming moBiotonous. He said he believed that H>oys were trampling down his garHen until he discovered the inwore No. 9 shoes. “Lads Blearing No. 9 shoes,” he said, ■should know enough to keep out of Hardens.” KIES IN PHILADELPHIA • Rites for Mrs. Ray W. Retterer to . Be Held Thursday. Funeral services for Mrs. Ray W. Retterer, 37, of 39 N. Sheridan Ave., will be held at 2:30 p. m Thursday in the Irvington Methodist Episcopal Church with the Rev. Robert Zaring, Columbus, Ind., offleiatingt Burial services will be held in Washington Memorial cemetery. Mrs. Retterer died Monday afternoon in Philadelphia, Pa. She and her husband were attending a con'vention in Atlantic City last week when she suddenly became ill. The body was brought to Indianapolis this morning. She was bom in this city and attended Manual Training High School. She was a member of the Irvington M. E. Church. Survivors are two sons, Ray Jr„ 13, and Richard, 4; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Joslin, Southport, and a brother, Edwin Joslin, Indianapolis. Destroy 1,100 Barberry Bushes By Times Special WABASH, Ind., June 27.—Agents of the United States Department of Agriculture ha destroyed 1,100 barberry bushes lnwrabash County in the last several cmys, using 1,200 pounds of salt and forty gallons of kerosene in the work. The bushes harbor black stem rust, which is highly destructive to growing wheat.

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One of the famous aviators in the national air tour which will stop here Saturday afternoon will be Alger Graham, 29, flying a Buhl “Airster” biplane in the 6 000-mile reliability flight. Graham began his flying experience with the Royal Flying Corps in the war. He made three round trips with Capt. George Wilkins, arctic explorer, from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Point Barrow, for which he was given membership in the famous Explorers’ Club.

CITIZEN SOLDIERS ARE SPURRED BY SUNSHINE First Fair Weather Since Camp Opened at Ft. Harrison. Sunshine greeted the citizen soldiers attending the Ft. Harrison C. M. T. C. this morning at reveille for the first time since the camp opened. Thursday and Friday nights a regimental reve'w is scheduled and close-order drill marked today’s activities in preparation for it. Fair weather added impetus to the athletic program. Double-header baseball games will be played to catch up with the original schedule. Tennis, boxing, swimming are on the program. Two more Indianapolis cadets have been raised to sergeantcie6. They are Sergt. Wilson Rash, 421 W. Forty-Second St., Cos. I, and Sidney A. Kauffman, 1938 Central Ave., Cos. I. Second battalion of 750 cadets were to be guests of the management of the Indiana Theater at a matinee this afternoon. HOUSE IS RANSACKED BY REVOLVER THIEF Slot Machine Is Stolen From Poolroom. A burglar who fled as Bert Callahan, 1636 N. Illinois St., entered his home late Tuesday night, ransacked the house, but stole only a revolver. Herman Grote, proprietor of a poolroom at 2211 Shelby St., said burglars took a slot machine containing S2O in nickels and 140 checks, four cartons of cigarets, pennies and street car tokens. Harold Coleman, 432 N. East St. reported SBS taken from a trunk in his room. Burglars smashed a window at the Smith department store, 1709 Southeastern Ave., but were frightened away without loot. TRUCK DRIVERS SCORE CARELESS MOTORISTS Brand Disregard for Traffic Rules Cause of Many Accidents. “Dumb drivers” were “put on the pan” at a meeting Tuesday night of the Indianapolis commercial vehicle drivers’ division of the Indianapolis Safety Council in the Athenaeum. The double parker, alley parker and safety zone parker were roundly denounced, as were inexperienced drivers who suddenly make turns without giving hand signals. Tom F. Snyder, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Motor Truck Association, urged truck drivers to scrupulously observe traffic signals as their contribution to popularizing careful driving, v “Safety is a matter of cooperation between the public, the driver and employers,” said Henry L. Dithmer, Sr., Polar Ice and Fuel Company president. Mayor L. Ert Slack, board of safety members and police offleiais will be i’V'ited to the next meeting in two weer s Refinance your debts now and repay as you earn. Low cost. Confidential and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 141% E. Wash. St.—Advertisement.

RIVERSIDE CHURCHES TO HOLD FESTIVAL TONIGHT Police and Firemen’s Band Will Lead Parade. Riverside district churches will hold a union summer festival tonight at N. Harding St. and Burdsal Blvd. The Police and Firemen’s Band will lead a parade, starting at Montcalm and Eighteenth Sts. The Sahara Grotto drum corps, the Sahara Grotto Auxiliary glee club, a stringed orchestra and the combined choirs of the Riverside churches will feature the entertainment. Officers of the cooperative movement are: William M. Taylor, president; H. P. Haislup. vice president; Miss Bertha Curtis, secretary, and R., E. £oleman, treasurer. CONFESSES Tq PART ~ IN MELLETT SLAYING ✓ Atlanta Police Doubt Story; Think It Ruse for Transportation. Ry United Press , ATLANTA, Ga., June 27.—Complicity in the murder of Don R. Mellett, militant Canton, Ohio, editor, was confessed here today by a man who surrendered to police, giving his name as Cecil R. Porter, 30, steeplejack, of Canton. Police were inclined to doubt Porter’s story, thinking he was looking for transportation home. He would give no details when he gave himself up and police said Canton authorities wired that Porter was not known there. Porter is held on a chahrge of suspicion pending further word from Canton. v He was penniless and out of employment when he surrendered. “My conscience hurt me,” was his explanation. IMPRISONED IN VAULT Police Cut Hole in Wall for Girl to Give Them Combination. By United Press NEW YORK, June 27.—For almost an hour Miss Hattie Dingle, a stenographer in the Good Housekeeping Institute, was a prisoner in a large steel vault while fellowfworkers outside vainly tried to decipher the combination of the lock. Miss Dingle entered the vault to file correspondence and someone accidentally closed the door. Other stenographers coala not decipher Miss Dingle’s shorthand, in which the combination was written. Police finally cut a small hole through the terracotta vault of the wall and passed the notebook in. Miss Dingle then read off the combination and was liberate. SKUNK HUNTER LOSER Finding of -Gold Money Near Petersburg Explained By Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., June 27. Finding of $5 gold pieces in the last few days on the farmk of Ed McFarland and Ferd P. Veeck, near here, is/ explained by E. O. Jones, who said six of the pieces contained in a chamois bag were lost twenty years ago by Jesse Kylander while digging some skunks from a hole. Despite a diligent search at the time, none of the money was found. !

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CONTINUED RAIN DELAYS COUNTY CROPS3WEEKS Weeds Threaten Corn As Wet Fields Hold Up Cultivation Marion County fanners are approximately three weeks behind with their work due to excessive rains, Assistant County Farm Agent C. J. Murphy said today. ' Com that has been in the ground six weeks has‘been allowed to go unplowed, because of wet ground. In many cases, he said, weeds are as high as the com. Continued rain will cause serious damage, according, to Murphy. By now much com would have been cultivated twice or three times. Delays Cultivation “The most serious aspect of the late spring,” he said, “is the fact that when the ground does dry out, farmers will have too many tasks to do. The com must be cultivated clean at the first opportunity. In two or three weeks, wheat will be ready to cut. This cannot wait. It will be time to make hay in a short time, as soon as it has dried out sufficiently.” Continued clear weather, with sufficient time to clean the com fields of weeds, should mean a satisfactory yield, in Murphy’s opinion. ■He does not see particular damage as having already resulted. Com is now from six to eight inches high, while it should be a foot or more. "In many cases, water is still standing in the fields, wnile all fields are so soggy it would require four or five days for them to dry out enough for a cultivator to be put in. Weeds Threaten Crops “A majority of Marion County corn fields have not been touched since planting. I returned Tuesday from a trip from Sheridan to below Martinsville, all the way across Marion County. The entire trip showed weeds almost taking the com fields,” said Murphy. “Oats is not suffering. It is heading out,” he said, “and probably will show a satisfactory yield. However, if the rain continues, oats may be damaged seriously. “Grasses are in good shape, and will be ready for cutting when dry weather comes,” he said. U. S. COMMUNITY CHEST LEADERS CONVENE HERE Meet With Homer W. Borst, Chairman, to Map Campaign. A national committee on educational publicity sponsored by the Association of Community Chests and Councils met here today with the committee chairman, Homer W. Borst, Indianapolis Community Fund executive secretary, to discuss means of interesting the public in social work. Serving with Borst on the committee are: xtalph J. Reed, director of the Des Moines (la.) Community Chest; Miss Louis Clevenger, publicity director of the_st. Paul (Minn.) Community Chest; Paul Bliss, publicity director of the St. Louts (Mo.) Community Council; Edwin Eckland. director of the Springfield (111.) Community Chest; Lewis Hlllnouse, publicity director of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Community Chest, and Council of Social Agencies; Victor Woodward, director of the Lansing iMich.) Community Chest: Wilbur Maxwell, director, Pittsburgh (Pa.) Community Chest; Arch Mandel. director, Dayton (Ohio) Community Chest, and Thomas Devine, director, Memphis (Tenn.) Community Chest. . , Allen T. Burns, executive director of the Association of Community Chests and Councils, also was present. BEACH GUARD ORDEREO TO LISTEN FOR SNEEZE Air Must Be Kept Pure, Edict of Superintendent. By Times Special CHICAGO, June 27.—Guards at the bathing beaches of Evanston, a Chicago suburb, must not only qualify as censors of what is modest in bathing attire, but must be able to detect a cough or a sneeze or snuf * fie, be it ever so slight, and escort the offending bather to his dressing room.' William Bechtold, superintendent, of recreation, has added a series of regulations aimed to maintain at par the purity of the air, the sands and the water at Evanston’s shores By order of the city council, not only are one-piece bathing suits taboo for men and women, but white or flesh-colored bathing costumes likewise. A bathing suit must not be cut lower than a line drawn across the chest from armpit to armpit. PLAN NEW APARTMENT Three-Story House With FortyEight Divisions to Cost $200,000. The Dollman Construction Company today announced plans for a $200,000 apartment house at 1402 N. Alabama St. The structure will be three stories with forty-eight apartments. Incorporators of the Traymore Realty Company are: Henry G. Dollman, Henry L. Dollman of the Dollman Construction Company, and Anton J. Wichmann, Meyer-Kiser Bank cashier. 109 GIVEN LIFE TERMS * Sentenced As Habitual Criminals Under N. Y. Laws SING SING, N. Y., June 27.—One hundred nine criminals have received life sentences in this State in the last two years under the Baumes laws which prescribe life terms for any person convicted of four or more felonies. Polish Cabinet Resigns By United Press WARSAW, PoTand, June 27. Marshal Pilsudski’s cabinet resigned today. Vice Premier Mazimierz Bartel formed anew cabinet.

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Miss Norma Mitchell, 1648 Comer Ave., (left) and Miss Ruby Hedges, 1615 E. Minnesota St., delegates of Bethany Christian Church to the Indiana Christian Endeavor convention at Ft. Wayne, will report at services Sunday evening.

DIES IN PLUNGE OVERNIAGARA Indiana Man Sees Priest Leap to Doom. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., June 27. f —lntensive search was started today by officials on both the American and Canadian sides of Niagara Falls for the body of a man thought to be Mitrophan Poplvsky, Greek orthodox priest of Ansonia, Conn. The man plunged to his death late yesterday over the American side of the falls. C. L. Berkheimer of Muncie, Ind., and Mildred Garlow of Niagara Falls, witnesses to the tragedy, told police here that Just before the man leaped into the rapids he shouted to them to gather up his clothes left lying on the bank. After shouting at them, they said, the strong current pulled him over the precipice. According to police, naturalization papers found among the effects left cn the bank, gave the name of the Rtv. Mitrophan Pcplavsky, while a telegram found i r the coat Ijore initials of F. M. Pl avsky. STUDY AHUrLER U. Six-Week Summer School Is Opened. Dr. W. L. Richardson, head of the Butler University education department, is directing the six weeks’ summer high school session which opened Monday in the home economics building on the Irvington campus. Classes will be held daily from 9 a. m. to 12 m. Lee O. Garber of the Butler education department, is the only other instructor. The session is the first of its kind in the city. “The school is mainly to give students a chance to make up extra credits and to provide something to occupy their time during vacation,” Dr. Richardson said. Practically every basic high school subject will be taught, including English, history, algebra, geometry, French and Spanish. A small entrance fee is the only charge. SHIP MAIL SEALS FAKE Strengthens Theory of Leviathan Robbery Occuring in New York. By United Press SOUTHAMPTON, England, June 27. Microscopic examination of postoffice seals on mailbags brought here on the Leviathan and found to have been rifled disclosed today that the seals weer fakes. Scotland Yard officials said immediately afterward that they believed the $500,000 robbery must have occurred in York. Substitution of fake seals for originals—a difficult and lengthy task—would be almost impossible on shipboard, they said, and absolutely impossible at Southampton, whence the 3,500 bags of mail from the Leviathan were distributed to various British postofflees. SUSPENDS TRAFFIC COP Captain Charges Officer Was Drunk While Operating Semaphore. Trafficman Carl Kimberlin, 918 N. Tremont Ave., was taken from his semaphore at Alabama and Massachusetts Ave., Tuesday evening by Traffic Captain Lester Jones and suspended. A passing motorist had telephoned headquarters that Kimberlin was barely able to support himself by clinging to the semaphore. Police Chief Claude M. Worley said intoxication charges would be filed with the board of safety.

DANGER B|B Your tongue is the best barometer QJ your physical condition. Look at it every morning before breakfast If it is c%ated with white, yellow or brown coloring, and does not have z. ckan red appearance you are constipated and not weU. Heed Its Warning causes more ailments than all other diseases, and is the result oi not having a daily bowel movement Sick-headache, indigestion, biliousness and sallow complexion follow. Ask your druggist for a 25c red paper package of CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS "Safe Laxative". Take a dose to-night and continue one pill after each meaL Don’t stop—until your tongue is dean. Yon will be surprised at the tonk effect this doctor’s formula will have on ycm. CARTERS 153 PIUS

SUPREME COURT STAYS AT WORK IN REST PERIOD / Delays Vacation to Clear Docket of Important State Cases. No summer vacation adjournment of the Indiana Suprerre Court will be made until at least one of three important cases is decided, it was authoratively predicted today. High court Judges announced that the court would not recess for the summer vacation Friday, as had been previously announced. The Appellate Court will adjourn Friday, to reconvene Oct. Supreme Court will continue its sitting until at least July 15, and possibly no recess will be taken until Aug. 1, it was indicated. Work to Clear Docket Despite the fact that next week is a regular recess week the court will continue its conferences and may hand down several cases. Prediction to this effect was made by Judge Benjamin Willioughby. He said the court desires to clear the docket. I The court broke a two-year record Tuesday and sat in conference for seven and one-half hours straight through the lunch hour. No Recess Date Set From the appearance of the stack of briefs upon the conference table the court had much immediate work before it. Judge Clarence R. Martin said that no recess date has been set and it would not come soon. Paramount among pending cases to Indianapolis is the claim of Joseph L. Hogue to the mayoralty. Shumaker Case Considered Os importance to the State and to political leadrs, in particular is the contempt case of Dr. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent. The third important case is the appeal of D. C. Stephenson. FILES FOR CITIZENSHIP TO VOTE FOR HOOVER Danville Resident Came From Sweden in 1868. In order that he may vote for Hoover in November, Charles Relander, 84, farmer living near Danville, Ind., has filed a petition for naturalization in Federal Court. “Not only do I want to vote for Hoover, but I want to die an American citizen,” he told W. A. Kiefer district inspector of naturalization. Relander was born in Sweden and came to the United States in 1868. After a year in Chicago he settled near Danville* He filed his first naturalization petition in 1872 and had the right of franchise until 1921, when a law was passed requiring full citizenship to vote in Indiana. In 1923 he filed anew declaration in Federal Court. He has four children living, including a son, Edward Relander, of Indianapolis. NAMED STATE MANAGER G. E. Pierson Gets Promotion in Portland Cement Company. G. E. Pierson, sales manager of the Indiana Portland Cement Company, has been made manager, it was announced today. He will continue to handle the duties of both offices. Pierson succeeds D. S. Macßride, transferred to Philadelphia as vice president and manager. 4 Macßride retains the title of vice president of the Indiana concern, a subsidiary of the International Cement Corporation, which operates ten mills in the United States, one in Cuba and two in South America

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DEMOCRATS SEATED All Delegates Admitted to Houston Hall. By United Press HOUSTON. Texas, June 27. All seating contests before the Democratic national convention were ended early today by the credentials committee which seated all delegations placed on the temporary roll call by the national committee. The District of Columbia group, headed by John Costello; the Panama Canal Zone group, headed by National Committee Woknan Mrs. L. O. KKeen; the Louisiana delegation selected by the State central committee all were seated. The regularly accredited Pennsylvania delegates also were granted seats at the convention, thus ending the dispute In that delegation. The committee also voted, against the protest of Florida, to give the Virgin Islands two votes in the convention. AUTO CRASH IS FATAL Car Skids, Turns Over in Ditch Near Plainfield. E. C. Johnson, Detroit, Mich., was fatally Injured and four members of his family were hurt near Plainfield Tuesday when his car overturned in a ditch. Johnson’s car skidded when he applied his brakes to escape hitting another machine. Injuries were suffered by Mrs. Ula Willis, 46, and Mrs. Lena Stephens, 42, both of 2630 E. Tenth St., in an auto accident near Terre Haute. INVITE 2 STATES HERE Indiana Jewelers Propose Joint Convention Next Year. Indiana Retail Jewelers’ Association will hold a tri-State convention in 1929 in Indianapolis, if Ohio and Illinois associations decide to join the move, it was decided on Tuesday at the close of the annual three-day session at the Severin. The meeting will be held in a city near the State line, if only one of the States accepts the proposal.

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BISHOP BLAKE HERE TO TAKE UP NEWDUTIES Methodist Leader to Be Speaker at De Pauw Thursday. Bishop Edgar Blake, assigned to the Indianapolis area of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the recent Kansas City general conference, has arrived here to take up his duties as resident bishop. The new bishop is somewhat familiar with Indiana conditions, having visited the Hocsier State frequently between 1908 and 1920. when he headed Methodist Sunday School work In Chicago. For the last eight years he has been resident bishop in Paris. He succeeds Bishop Frederick D. Lecte, shifted to the Omaha area following eight years’ residence in Indiana. An address at the Indiana Summer School for ministers at De Pauw University, Greencastle. Thursday, will be Bishop Blake’s first public appearance in Indiana. He will speak at Battleground July 4. Will Rest in California The following day he will go to California and other western States for a vacation, returning Sept. 1 to establish residence here. He has four married daughters. His wife died three years ago. Indiana ministers will have their first opportunity to meet him at Seymour, at the Indiana conference. Sept. 19. He also will preside over the Northwest Indiana conference, Oct. 3, at Terre Haute. Dr. Orien W. Fifer, Idianapolis district superintendent, said a reception would be arranged for Bishop Blake following his vacation. Bishop Blake declined to discuss plans or outline his program for Indiana before he has opportunity to “feel out” conditions. “I have been in Europe for eight years and it would be unwise for me to comment on things before I have studied the situation. The church must meet the needs of life —all of life 1 And conditions change rapidly,” declared the bishop. Four Conferences In Area The Indianapolis area includes the Indiana, North Indiana, Northwest Indiana and Southern Illinois conferences. Bishop Blake, of New England stock, was educated in New Hampshire public schools and Boston University, where he attended the School of Theology. Dr. Blake has had a colorful carer in Methodism. He was elevated to the bishopric in 1920 and sent to Europe for the reconstruction period following the war. because of his "decided diplomatic talent and statesmanship bent of mind.” REBELS PREY ON TRAINS Four Attempts Made on Mexican Lines in Twenty-Four Hours. By United Press MEXICO CITY, June 27.—Four attempts have been made to wreck trains in northern Mexico within the last twenty-four hours besides the derailment of one Monday and the attempted bombing of another. Rebels also tried to wreck a crain near Laredo early Tuesday by placing obstructions on the traufc. The engineer saw ties piled on the track and averted a disaster. It took twenty-five minutes to remove the ties.

Rebels also loosened rails near Canutillo in the State of Zacatecas with the apparent object of wrecking the train from Juarez. They were driven away by federal officials before the track was damaged.