Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1928 — Page 2

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BOY KILLED AND SEVERAL HURT IN CARCRASHES Child Runs in Front of Auto; Girl Injured in Truck I >, Collision. ' A boy was killed and several persons were injured in pre-holiday accidents Tuesday. Several arrests were made by police. The usual Fourth of July morning automobile accidents were practically eliminated by the heavy early rain, police said. William Bottoms, 5, was run down and killed in front of the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bottoms, 1241 W. Twenty-Ninth St., late Tuesday by an automobile driven by William H. Combs, 1009 W. Thirty-Sixth St. The child had crossed the street to buy an ice cream cone, made his purchase, and started back. Combs skidded his car twenty feet in an effort to stop, police learned. Combs, arrested on a charge of manslaughter, was released on his own recognizance by Coroner Charles H. Keever. Dies In Few Moments The lad died before a city hospital ambulance arived. Miss Beatrice Anderson, 17, of 2915 N. Capitol Ave., was injured seriously when the truck in which she was riding collided with a truck and trailer of the Kokomo, India)\apolis and Muncie Transit Lino, seventeen miles south of Anderson. Miss Anderson suffered severe cuts on the neck, head, face and legs. Other occupants of the truck, Dwight Fritchey, 1611 N. Illinois St.; the girl’s father, J. R. Anderson; her brother, John R. Anderson, and Lincoln Chelf, Negro, were not injured seriously. She was brought to the Methodist Hospital. Car Dives Into Canal The automobile of Robert Franklin, 41, Negro, janitor of the Wynn Apts., 2152 N. Meridian St., plunged into the canal near 41C Darnell St. .Tuesday afternoon, when the brakes failed to hold as he attempted to turn. William Bennett, 42, of 1716 Broadway, was arrested on charges of operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor, as the result of an accident in which Bennett’s car collided with an automobile driven by C. Fisher, 206 E. Ohio St., Tuesday afternoon at McCarty St. and Virginia Ave. William McAfee, 35, Negro, 3015 N. Meridian St., was arrested Tuesday night for driving while under the influence of liquor, when his auto crashed into a telephone pole at White River and Thirtieth St. The pole was broken and the car was wrecked. The driver was not injured seriously. Roscoe Stovall, 19, address unknown, was injured silghtly Tuesday night, when the automobile in , which he was riding collided with a car driven by Leslie Stephenson, 24, of 6304 Central Ave., at Washington and Kessler Blvds. T. Bayard Stroud, 19, of Louisville, who was driving the other car, and Stephenson were arrested. INSPECT SPOKEN IfIOVIE Court Holds State Has Censorship Right Over Vitaphone. PHILADELPHIA, July 4.—Speech produced by the vitaphone in conjunction with movies in Pennsylvania must first be approved by the State board censors, under a decision by Judge Martin in Common Pleas Court here recently. The court dimissed the appeal of Vitagraph, Inc., from a ruling of the board, which had withheld approval of the film, “Polly Moran, the Movie Chatterbox.” The action of the board was based on the producer’s refusal to submit the speech of the vitaphone for censorship. Counsel for Vitagraph, Inc., argued that the spoken words were not part of the film and therefore were not subject to censorship. DELEGATION IS CHOSEN Goodrich In Group That Will Notify Hoover. Former Governor James P. Goodrich of Indiana and former Governor Harding of lowa, will head the delegation of the Civil Legion, taking part in formally notifying Herbert Hoover of his selection as Republican presidential nominee. Secretary John P. Tansey of the Civil Legion, made up of those who served during the war in authorized civil pursuits, announced the order will be represented at both the Hoover and Smith notifications. Normal Leads in Enrollment By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 4. Summer school enrollment at Indiana State Normal here is 2,468, leading all institutions in the State. Indiana University has 1,600; Ball Teachers College, 1,400; Notre Dame, 1,000; Purdue, 500, and De Pauw, 80.

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When it’s apple blossom time in the yard of Mrs. Earl Wood, 309 N. Chester Ave., it also is apple time. Mrs. Wood has a tree which bears blossoms and apples at the same time. The apples are of the sheep-nosed transparent variety and make extra fine applesauce, says Mrs. Wood.

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Plant Physiologist Claims Chemical Fluid More --v Economical. By Science Service WASHINGTON, July 4.—Water grown roses and other flowers, said to be more fragrant than those grown in the soil, may be put on the market soon if methods developed by W. F. Gericke, assistant plant physiologist of the University of California experiment station, are exploited commercially. Gericke, who plants his flowers in jars of water to which have been added the chemical elements essential to growth, has during the last eight months succeeded in growing to full fruition, or Bloom, several thousand floral plants comprising about fifty commercially important species. The method is said to involve a minimum expense. Once set in suitable containers, filled with a nutrient solution, roses, dahlias, carnations and other plants grew and developed normally without the solution being renewed and, in many cases, without eveen water being addeed to replacee what was absorbed. Since compounding the various culture solutions requires little time and since little or no attention is required once the seedlings have been “planted” and exposed to the proper environment, Gericke predicts that in the future at least part of the production of flowers for markets and for the home will be in water media. BOLIVIA HOISrORS JULY 4 Proclaimed National Holiday as Tribute to U. S. By United Press TOWANDA, Pa., July 4.—Secretary of State Kellogg was informed officially today by Minister Diez De Medina of Bolivia that Bolivia has made July 4 a national holiday in homage to the United States. This is the first time in history a South American nation has honored the United States in this way. Minister Diez De Medina and his family, with Don George De La Barra, first secretary of the Bolivian legation, are spending the holiday here, visiting American Minister to Bolivia Kaufman. WILD CASE UP FRIDAY Judge Collins to Hear Arguments on Quashing Indictments. Arguments on a motion to quash indictments against four officers of the defunct J. F. Wild and Company State bank will be heard by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, Friday morning. The officers are John F. Wild, Otto P. Kern, John Craig Fisher and William F. McNairy. The motions were filed when their pleas in abatement were overruled by Judge Collins last month. The four are charged with bank embezzlement in connection with the failure of the institution last July. Claims Thinking Is Chemical CHICAGO, July 4.—Working with a thermopile, an instrument that can detect one-millionth part of one millionth of an amphere of electricity, Dr. R. W. Gerard, of the University of Chicago is trying to prove that thinking is a chemical process. Two Boys Steal Tires Theft of two tires from the automobile of Thomas Overton, 1415 Yandes St., parked in the rear of his home, resulted in the arrest of two 15-year-old Negro boys Tuesday night. They are held at the Detention Home.

Neighborly Bu Times Special TELL CITY, Ind., July 4. It was just a neighborly act for the local fire department to go to Rockport and help combat recent fires, believed of incendiary o-igin. The Tell City council refused remuneration for sending its firemen fifteen miles to Rockport.

ARRESTS CLEAR AUTO THEFTS, POLICE SAY > Man and Woman Are Held After Cars Disappear. Thelts of two automobiles in Indianapolis recently were believed to be cleared today with the arrest of Otto alias Dick Rabe, 45, and his woman companion, Rose Barrett, alias Sybil Rabe, alias Mrs. Karl Munn. A confession obtained by Detectives Golder and Dugan, who made the arrests, admits the pair stole cars belonging to Robert Lappin, Edgewood, and of the Union Development Company, 12 Union Trust Bldg., police say. Rabe, who said he has lived three weeks at the Indiana automobile camp, west of the city on the National Rd., said he changed motor numbers with tools used in his trade as piano tuner. The woman safd she has been In similar trouble in Federal Court in Salt Lake City. LIQUOR FOR EMBALMING Victims Have Appearance of Dead After Drinking Hootch TIFFIN, Ohio, July 4.—Embalming liquid is going the rounds and, bootleggers must be selling something similar to customers. Two men, found intoxicated here, had every appearance of being dead. They were entirely “out” and unable to move. A small quantity of alleged liquor was found near the unconscious forms. Fishing Minister Fined By Times Special WARSAW, Ind., July 4.—The Rev. R. C. Plank, pastor of the Methodist Church at North Manchester, was fined $24 by a justice of peace here on a charge of catching and retaining fish under the legal size. The pastor was arrested by a game .warden at Webster Lake.

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FRENCH TRIBUTE PAID TO BRAVE U. S. WAR ACES Monument to Members of Lafayette Escadrille Is Dedicated. BY JOHN O’BRIEN United Pres* Stff Correspondent PARIS. July 4.—France today honored the memory of the three score and seven bold, adventurous spirits who came out of the United States when the first breath of war swept over Europe in 1914, offered their services to France and sealed their courage with their life’s blood A distinguished gathering met at Vaucresson, a suburb of Paris, to dedicate the monument erected there to the dead of the Lafayette Escadrille. It was a strange institution this Lafayette Escadrille. Os the Americans who joined the French Foreign Legion at the outbreak of the war some had worked their way into aviation. U. S. Took Over Group They were good pilots, but it was not until April, 1916, that they were permitted to form a separate squadron. They called it the Escadrille Amerlcaine. Germany protested and as the United States was not at war the protest was passed along to the French government, which decided that the name should be changed to the “Escadrille des Volontaires,” but the boys would have nothing of that and they insisted and won their point in naming the group the "Lafayette Escadrille.” When America entered the war the squadron was taken over and was officially known as the 103rd Pursuit Squadron, but for those who belonged to it and those who knew its history, it remained always the “Lafayette Escadrille.” Herrick Is In Charge One by one one the men who were writing the name America in the annals of the war were killed. Victor Chapman was the first on the roll of death. Then came Dowd, and Kiffin Rockwell and Norman Prince and McConnell, who came over to drive an ambulance and finished gloriously bringing down a German over his own lines. And so it went on And the more they fell the more Americans clamored for membership in that famous group. There were in all 208 members. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick presided at the dedication ceremonies. MOST CONVICTS CLAIM CHURCH AFFILIATION Survey Shows Very Few Know the Lord’s Prayer or Commandments, Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 4.—A large percentage of prisoners in institutions over the United States profess affiliation with some religious denomination, but it is surprising how few know the fundamentals of any religion, according to State Welfare Director John E. Harper. Although 98.5 per cent of the inmates of the State penitentiary here evince belief in some religion, not one prisoner in four years has been able to repeat the Lord’s Frayer or the Ten Commandments, Harper said in a report to Governor Vic Donahey. “Two Negroes came closer to repeating the whole of the Lord’s Prayer,” said Harper, “than anyone else in the prison. Even they were at a total loss to name the Ten Commandments.” MISSING MAN RETURNS WITH WEIRD STORY Hazelrigg Resident’s Memory Impaired After Kidnaping. By Times Special HAZELRIGG, Ind., July 4.—With a story of being kidnaped, beaten and suffering loss of memory, Ralph L. Cox, 20, telephone lineman, is back at his home here after being missing since Saturday. His bulletriddled truck was found Sunday. Cox is in such condition that he talks vaguely and as yet no clear explanation of his experiences has been given. He has given no description o fhis assailants. Cox says he regained consciousness in the Roosevelt Hospital, Chicago, and a doctor who treated him, supplied him with clothing and a ' ticket home. He was without clothing when found Sunday in a box car by a tramp who obtained his admission to the hospital. N. Y. and Oslo Linked by Phone NEW YORK, July 4.—Telephone service between New York and Oslo, the capital of Norway, starts Friday. Patrons can talk to Oslo three minutes for $52.50.

Frail Yachts in Trans-Atlantic Race

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With wind and sail their only means of crossing 3,055 miles of open sea, these tiny schooners, with two others very like them, are racing toward Santander, Spain. All of the boats are skippered by their owners and the rules of the race provide that they be manned by amateurs. Left is the Mohawk, one of the entries, and center is its captain, Dudley F. Wolfe of Boston. The Pinta, only one of the craft that already has made a trans-Atlantic journey, is shown at the right.

WRECK PERILS U. S.TOURISTS Boat Train on Paris Line in Smashup. By United Press PARIS, July 4.—The special Berengaria boat-train, loaded with American and other passengers, collided with another passenger train at the Caen Railway station today.

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The engineer was killed and the baggage destroyed. The train was on the way to Paris from Cherbourg, where the liner Berengaria had touched on its way from New York to Southampton. Life Term to Aged Slayer By Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., July 4. Charles Blackstone, 70, today is under a life sentence in the Indiana State Prison following conviction of murdering Ed Stewart. A motion for anew trial was overruled by Judge J. W. Williams in Morgan Circuit Court Tuesday and sentence imposed. Defense counsel filed notice of an appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court.

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NEW SINCLAIR 1 OIL QUIZ BREWS Senate Committee to Sifl Salt Creek Activities. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 4.—Th( Senate public lands committee today was preparing to start another Investigation into the oil operation: of Harry F. Sinclair. The committee planned to send i subcommittee to Wyoming thi: month to investigate the sale oi royalty oil from the Salt Creek flelc to the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company. While Sinclair's Teapot Dome lease was cancelled, the oil magnate has continued to obtain millions ol dollars worth of royalty oil yearly from the Salt Creek tract under a five-year lease he holds with the Interior Department. The sub-committee also will investigate to learn whether there was any fraud in the leasing of Salt Creek field oil rights. MANY STUDENTS FAIL I. U. Psychology Head Lists Principal Causes. Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 4.Four major causes for the failure of many college students to do satisfactory work have been analyzed by Dr. W. F. Book, head of the phychology department of Indiana University, as follows: Inefficient methods of work; inability to 'plan work to allow propel use of available time; past habit of failure, and lack of ability to adjust the working load to these anc other factors which determine personal success. Dr. Book arrived at the four major causes after a study of the methods of work of freshman students at the university for the past four years.