Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1928 — Page 3
JULY 5, 1928.
COOLIDGE GETS FINE TROUT AND REGISTERS JOY President Given Thrill by Good Sport on His 56tK Anniversary. BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD, United Press Staff Correspondent SUPERIOR, Wis., July s.—Exuberant over his Fourth of July fishing triumphs. President Coolidge today will receive Governor Fred R. Zimmerman of Wisconsin at the summer White House. Goveiuor Zimmerman, a former Republican insurgent, who has joined the regular party ranks with a pledge to support Herbert Hoover, will be an ovecnight guest. Politics will not be discussed, the Governor said. An expert angler himself, his conversations with the President probably will concern the Waltonian art. Coolidge Enjoys Holiday Independence day at the summer White House, which was Mr. Coolidge’s sixty-fifth birthday, was a highly enjoyable one, both for the executive family and for the newspaper men and photographers assigned to Cedar Island lodge. It was the first time since the President’s arrival that the latter were allowed to make pictures of Mr. Coolidge whipping the stream on the picturesque Henry Clay fierce estate, and the results were gratifying to both. Mr. Coolidge landed five excellent trout • and the cameramen ground out film to their heart’s content. The President seemed pleased with his catch and ordered John La Roque, his Chippewa Indian guide, to paddle his canoe slowly in review before the photographers. “Did you get that one when he jumped?” Mr. Coolidge inquired of them. When assured that the action had been recorded, a broad smile spread over his face. Wears Lumberjack Garb
The President’s holiday garb consisted of his famous ten-gallon hat, a black and red lumber jacket, riding breeches and lace boots. Mrs. Coolidge was dressed in white, while John, their son, had breeches and boots similar to his father’s. On his return from the fishing trip, the President called Mrs. Coolidge to the front lawn, and together they cut a seventeen-pound birthday cake baked for him by Mrs. F. L. Cowen of Duluth. Each was in a holiday mood. The President chatted affably with newspaper men, while Mrs. Coolidge played with Rob Roy, the White House collie, and her red chow, Terrible Tim. Both assisted in serving guests. WHERE IS TSCHIFFELY? Chamber of Commerce Has Letters for Argentine Flier. Has anybody seen A. F. Tschiffely, .‘test flight” aviator supposed to have taken to the air from Buenos Aires en route to New York? Paul H. Moore, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce aeronautics committee, has letters for him and a lot more of them about him. A telegram from St. Louis June 14 advised Moore the flier was,, bringing a letter from Buenos Aires to the national commander of the American Legion for delivery- here. Then came a letter from the National Geographic Society for the flier. Next the Argentine embassy Washington inquired for Tschiffely. v.iocre hasn’t heard from him and inquiries continue to arrive.
BURGLAR IS SENTENCED Henry Schneider Pleads Guilty to Entering Drug Store. Henry Schneider. 26, was sentenced to one to ten years for second degree burglary today on a plea of guilty before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. It was shown he entered a drug store of Herman McLeay at 2501 Brooksville Ave. A former reformatory sentence for a similar offense allowed Judge Collins to sentence Schneider to the State prison, despite the fact he is under 30 years old. AUTO AND TRUCK CRASH Driver of Car Hurled Through Windshield, Injured; Arrested. Finis Lowry, Irvington, Ala., was held for assault and battery when his car struck a truck driven by Robert Sultz, 19, of Ben Davis, 1 at the stop sign at Belmont Ave. and Washington St., early today. Lowry was hurled through the windshield and his wrist cut. Bleeding profusely, he was taken to city hospital by police. CONFIDENCE TO CABINET New Socialist Government Given Backing by Reichstag. Bu United Prats BERLIN, July s.—Th? Reichstag, by a vote of 261 to 134, with twentyeight not voting, expressed confidence today in the new coalition government of Herman Mueller, Socialist chancellor. Muellerahad outlined the Government’s policy Tuesday. Venizelos Forms Cabinet Bu United Press LONDON, July s.—Premier Venizelos has formed a cabinet, the Daily Mail Athens correspondent cabled today, with M. Carpanos as foreign; minister; Zavitsanos, interior; Bofoulis, war; Petrides, justice; Argyropoulos, marine; Gentika*, education; Christomanos, ;cmmunicationsffi Emmanouclides, public welfare, and Canavos agriculture
City Storm Hurls Tree to Housetop
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TREES UPROOTED BY STORM'S FURY
Trees were torn from yards and roadsides, water rose to six feet in a subway, a barn blew down and q home was struck by lightning during the wind, rain and electrical storm Wednesday night. Several were injured and others narrowly escaped. Firemen and police formed rescue squads and brought marooned motorists to safety. Pumpers were busy lifting the water from the low places into the swollen sewers. Marion County tuberculosis hospital at Sunnyside was one of the first places to feel the violence of the storm. As it swept from the eastern and northern sections of the city
APPEAL TAX RULING City Water Company Case Before State Board. The State tax beard today heard appeal of the Indianapolis Water Company for a $4,000,000 reduction in its $15,843,720 valuation for taxation purposes. The company’s 1927 valuation was $15,754,000. Company officials argued that the company’s statement on which the new taxation figures was based included a depreciation item of 75 per cent of $10,000,000. The item should have been 2 per cent of $10,000,000, they said. The company had and gross income of $1,367,444 in the year ending March 1, they said. The water company’s rates are based on a valuation of $19,000,000, set by Federal Court. The '‘ompany asked a $23,000,000 valuation in an appeal from the public service commission at that time. SEEK AID OF HOOVER Leslie, Rogers Offer Peace for Local Support. Harry C. Leslie of Lafayette, Republican nominee for Governor, and Bert Fuller, also of Lafayette, his campaign manager, quietly departed for Washington, D. C., today to make campaign overtures to the managers of Herbert Hoover's presidential candidacy. Staking his hopes for election upon Hoover’s strength in this State, Leslie is believed anxious to improve relations with the Republican presidential nominee. Tlza Rogers, Republican State chairman, made a similar visit to Washington a week ago, hoping to heal wounds ojftned at the Republican national convention, when he and Ed Bush, nominee for Lieuten-ant-Governor, so vigorously opposed Hoover's nomination. Republican State organization has indicated it will advance Hoover’s campaign leaders in Hoover’s Indiana primary fight are not going to entrust his campaign solely to those who were his opponents in the primary contest.
OPEN NUTRITION CAMP Twenty-Five Children Taken to County Tuberculosis Home. The new Marion County Tuberculosis Association child nutrition camp, north of Bridgeport, Ind., was opened today when twenty-five undernourished children were taken there for a months’ stay. The camp, financed by, Christmas seal money and private contributions, includes eighty acres of land on the banks of White Lick Creek. Formal dedication exercises will be held at 4 p. m. Sunday. Furnishings fpr a five-room home are offered today at a sacrifice in the want ad section.
Thrown Out Bu United Press . NEW YORK, July s.—Mrs. Helen D. Van Eaton, who described herself as a relative of Andrew Jackson, has been evicted from her home by Henry Ederle, father of Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim thd English Channel. Ederle said Mrs. Van Eaton owned him S2OO rent for her apartment in a building which he owns. When she did not pay it, he summonded city marshals and moved her househouse furnishings to the sider walks. An extensive collection of antiques was included in the furniture.
it swooped down on the Sunnyside grounds uprooted a dozen trees. Patients on perches were hurried inside and many persons who hdd assembled to witness the fireworks display drenched by the rain, according to Dr. Harvard S. Hatch, superintendent of the institution. Throngs at various parks where picnics were being held and at the amusement parks where fireworks programs were halted underwent similar experience. At the home of Russell M. Edwards, Seventy-First and Pennsylvania Sts., a huge tree was uprooted and hurled across the roof cf the house. A tree fell across the roof of V. V. Smith’s house, 5824 Guilford Ave., damages being so extensive that the family must live elsewhere, pending repairs. The Kiefer Mayer home 4326 N Illinois St-, was struck by lightning and damage was estimated at'sloo. A barn on the Ellenberger farm, one mile east of the city, was blown down. Fireman Rescue Autolsts Firemen rescued several persons marooned in automobiles under the Big Four elevation on Sherman Dr. Water rose there to almost six feet. , Helen Anderson. 8; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Anderson, 1856 Ghent Ave., and Mrs. Nellis Rough, 649 S. Alabama St., waded to safety when the water reached the floor boards of their stalled car. The little girl had been seriously ill and was rushed to her home by police. Others who waded to safety were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mershen, 4716 Brouse Ave., and Miss Margaret McGee, 030 W. Twenty-Eighth St. Some preferred to wait until the flood subsided and took refuge on top of their machines. Fortville Man Hurt One man was injured and roads blocked by fallen trees in the vicinity of Fortville, where the storm was close to tornado violence. Business houses were damaged and the town left in darkness through blowing down of light wires. Harry Dicks, employed at the Big Four Railroad station near Fortville, was severely cut by glass from broken windows in stores. A Union Traction Company shelter, house was blown across tracks. Six persons were stunned when the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Reese, Noblesville, was struck by lightning. Those hurt, besides the Reesle couple, were their children, Rosemary and Perry, and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Patterson. The house was badly damaged. A dog and one. of her six pups were killed when the bolt struck a kennel near the home. The five other pups, only two feet from the animals killed, escaped Injury. .
CONFER ON OHIO BRIDGE Evansville Rankers Meet With State Officials; Talk Bids. Thrce v Evansville bankers today conferred with the State auditor and treasurer on bids which the treasurer of Vanderburgh County will receive July 16 on a bond issue for $1,100,000, one-fourth of the cost of the Evansville Ohio River bridge. The bankers were Marcus Sonntag, American Trust Company president; C. B. Enlow, National City Bank president, and George Bittler. West Side Bank president. BODY OF MAN IS FOUND William Shuffle Taken to City Morgue From Vacant House. police sought relatives of a man known as William Shuffle, alias Shultze, who was found dead in an empty house at 527 E. Miami £t„ Wednesday. Thomas Perry, 525 E. Ohio St., found the body. Police learned Shultze formerly lived at Noble and Washington Sts., but of recent months has been out of money and took refuge in vacant houses. The body was taken to the city morgue. REPORTS FATHER GONE Wo' -n Asks Police Aid in Hunt for John Dailey, 61. For five weeks, John Dailey, 61, has been missing from his home in the 2,000 block, E. Le Grande Ave., his daughter told police Wednesday when she asked that a search be mad* for him. Dailey wore a brown felt- hat, blue shirt, dark suit, she r c.id."
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Typical of the damage done by the storm in north sections of the city Wednesday night, was this huge tree which left its moorings to perch upon the roof of the Russell M. Edwards home. Seven-ty-First and Pennsylvania St.
GIRL ISJENTENGED Pretty Young Mother Admits Embezzling. Mrs. Faye Grayson Summers, pretty 23-year-old Shelbyville girl, was sentenced to nine months in the correctional department of the Indiana Woman's Prison today on a plea of guilty to embezzlement, by Criminal Judge James A, Collins. Dressed strikingly in red and black, with bright red pumps and hat, Mrs. Summers was unmoved as prosecutors explained how she embezzled approximately S4OO in six months as cashier of the Starr Piano Company. She sobbed slightly and leaned heavily cn the shoulder of Lawrence Shaw, her attorney, as sentence was pronounced. Mrs. Summers said she has been married, has a child a year and a half old who is in Shelbyville with her parents. and that her husband deserted her. The falsifications were effected by destroying the duplicates of receipts, and failing to make the entries in the cash book, it was shown. POPE GIVES UP DAILY WALKS FOR CAR RIDES Report Change Made Because of Pius' Poor Health. Bn C n’trrl Press ROME, July s.—Pope Pius XI. for more than a month now, has given up his daily walks in the Vatican gardens, taking only automobile rides. The change has been attributed to the pope’s health, which, according to rumor, has been less satisfactory than usual. A private prelate of his holines, however, has said that the pope has made the change mer;ly to avoid the discomfort of walking in the heat of the summer sun. Pius XI, a few years ago, had e special covering built into the wall cf Leo IV by the side of the Vatican and even in days of heavy rain it has been his custom to walk rapidly up and down his sheltered promenade,
Water From Silver Mine Makes Desert Ranch Pay
Hundred Acres Irrigated by Using Waste From Famous Shaft. fill United Press TONOPAH, Nev., July s.—Victor Lambertuuci, who has made many blades of grass grow where none e’er grew before, is the owner of probably the only ranch in the world irrigated from water pumped from a big silver mine. The Lambertucpi , hundred-acre ranch is one of the show places of this desert area of Nevada. The water comes from the Victor mine, which has produced many millions of dollars’ worth of silver and gold ore. Wheels of the huge Diesel engines revolve day and night operating the big pumps that lift the water to the surface to make it possible for miners to work underground. Victor Lambertucci, born in Italy, first came to Tonopah about ten years ago to work in the mines. . Lambertucci did not like mining. Coming off his shift one afternoon he noticed large streams of water pouring down the hillside. He w'ent to John G. Kirchen, the boss, and got permission to use the mine’s waste w'aters. He started in to clear up a few acres. Five years ago he built a greenhous at a cost of $15,000. The ranch
Smelts Bu United Press BRISTOL, Conn., July 5. Police been asked to -do something about a local fish store. The owners away for five warm days. Persons living within two blocks of the store have complained to the authorities. .
DELAY FACED IN FRANKFORT BRIBE TRIAL i Fail to Receive Orders for Special Jury Venire for Monday. Further delay in the trial of Martin Frankfort, realty dealer, for bribery of the Indianapolis city council, was seen today when the jury commissioners failed to receive orders for a special venire of prospective jurors to report Monday, trial date. It was said important witnesses of the State are out of the city. It is feared they will not be located before Monday. Return to the city of Jury Commissioner Joseph R. Raub allowed the commission to draw special venires for other pending cases, the regular panel, and ten names for the new grand jury to report Monday. No Comment by Remy When Criminal Judge James A Collins changed the orders for Juries, to report Monday instead of today as the delayed orders had read, he failed to send down one for the Frankfort trial. Prosecutor William H. Remy had no comment. It was said his office is making efforts to locate the missing witness. Frankfort’s trial has been delayed from time to time since March when the first of the councilmen Boynton J. Moore, went to 'trial for bribery. Since then other councilmen have been allowed tc plead guilty under a lesser statute escaping the penitentiary by payment of a light fine. Moore's three to fourteen-year sentence has been commuted by Governor Ed Jackson, leaving Martin and ex-Councilman Claude' Negle} to be triffci for bribery, punishable by imprisonment. Ten Names Drawn Ten names drawn today to All four vacancies on the new grand jury, reporting Monday, are: John Wachtel. 1531 S. New Jersey St.; Abraham F. Maloff. 2850 E. Washington St.; Frank A. Mangold, 2954 Cornell'Ave.; Charles R. Yoke. 861 S. Southrn Ave.; Louis C. Yager, 2151 N. Capitol Ave.; Will M. Young. 411 N. Drexel Ave.; Morris A. Wallace, 133 S. Bancroft; Napoleon La Bante, 920 N. Emerson Ave.; Frank A. Young. 3557 N. Meridian St., and Guy P. Rutherford, 2332 E. Sixteenth St.
PURCHASE TRAILERS Contract Is Signed by City Sanitary Board. Contract with the Highway Trailer Company, Edgewood, Wis., for eight garbage trailers was signed today by city sanitary commissioners. O. C. Ross, president, wrote an explanatory letter to Earl Cox and Taylor E. Groninger, representatives of the Freuhauff Trailer Comoany, who protested awarding the contract to the Highway company. comparing specifications of the Indianapolis trailer with that purchased in other cities. The attorneys charged the Highway company offered the same product for less money to other cities. “The trailer which the Highway company offered for $1,670 is specially made with features not contained in any trailer heretofore offered. We believe the confusion arose over the designation of a number of trailers of the same general type, but of substantial construction differences, as XCI66 trailers,” the letter said. A. H. Moore, city engineer, and B. J. T. Jeup, board members, said they were convinced the Highway bid was in keeping with the quality of the product.
now comprises more than 100 acres in high state of cultivation. The Lambertucci ranch today is valued at SIOO,OOO. A local dairy buys all his alfalfa and the town absorbs his flowers and vegetables. NATIONAL GROUPS MEET TO DRAFT SAFETY CODE Seek Uniform Traffic Regulations in Cities and Towns. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July s.—Representatives of ten national organizations interested in promoting traffic safety met at United States Chamber of Commerce headquarters here today to deve! plans for nationwid eimprovement of traffic conditions. Suggested changes in the tentative model traffic ordinance recently drafted by the national conference on street and highway safety were discussed today. Establishment of uniform traffic regulations in all cities and towns of the country is the object of the conference. SHOT BY FIRECRACKER Woman Rocking Baby Killed When Blast Discharges Gun. Bu United Press SEATTLE, Wash., July s.—Explosion of a Fourth of July firecracker here discharged a shotgur that killed Mrs. Vilma Cappiello. 22, as she sat rocking her baby. The loaded gun was leaning against the side of an automobile when the exploding firecracker caused it to topple to the ground The charge hit Mrs. Cappiello in the head. The baby was noi injured. '
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TEACHERS PLAN ELECTION TODAY Indiana Dean Is Assured Treasureship Again. Bn I’nitrd Presn MINNEAPOIS, July s.—The National Educational Association convention turned again today to the discussion of its teachiftg problem. Senator Simeon D. Fess, Ohio, told the convention America should devote herself to the conservation of human resources. J. F. Wright, executive secretary of the Pathfinders of America, Detroit, took up the same thread today. He declared “history does not record another race so inconsistently Satanic in their relationship toward each other as the present race.” Sidney L. Gulick, secretary of the commission on international justice and good will, New York, said religion was the solution of our problems. Elections were to be conduct’d throughout the day for president, treasurer and eleven vice presidents. Dr. Uel W. Lamkin. president of the Northwest State Teachers’ College, Marysville. Mo„ was assured the presidency, since his was the only name entered in the nomination. H. L. Smith, dean of the schoool of education, Indiana UiV'ersity, likewise was assured re-election ’as treasurer, as he was unopposed in the nominations. The convention will end Friday noon.
ACCUSED YOUTH TRIES TO END HIS OWN LIFE Poison Taken in Cell by Albert Kennedy Held on Girls’ Charges. Albert Kennedy. 21. of 1805 Olive St., attempted suicide by taking poison Wednesday afternoon in the Marion County jail and is in the detention ward of city hospital today in a fair condition. Kennedy is one of three youths in jail awaiting trial for alleged criminal assault June 22, on two 15-year-old girls. He is said to have made two previous attempts to end his life. The tablets which he look were smuggled into the jail. AWARD FEED CONTRACT W. C. Gambel Gets City Garbage Plant Business. City sanitary commissioners today contracted with W. C. Gambel 2735 N. Meridian St„ to sell stock feed from the city garbage plain for an indefinite period. Gambel will serve as agent for the board receiving as ccmmissioi. anything he can get over $29 a ton . The board recently cancelled a contract with Gambel, Perry E. Easton and E. A. Macbeth to buy the fee.i for $21.65 a ton because they were back on payments. The contract states that the agreement is with Gambel and is “not concerned with the partnership of the three.” About 3.000 tons of feed are pro duced yearly. SENTENCE 3 YOUTHS High School Boys Plead Guilty on Burglary Charges. Three Indianapolis high school boys were sentenced today ii. j Criminal Court for burglary. Two admitted being involved in two j burglaries. The third had six to { his credit. Artie Grant. 18. of 335 S. Wal- : cott St., and John Wall, 20, of stj3 j N. Keystone Ave., each sentenced to nine months on the State farm by ! Criminal Judge James A. Collins i Maurice Pickier, 19, of 444 N j Arsenal St„ was sentenced* to on° j to ten years in the reformatory. They were sentenced on pleas of guilty to entering the storeroom oi Bert li. Frink, 1701 E. Michigan St.
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NEGRO CABARET RAIDED, NEW MANAGER NABBED Reopening of Hollywood on Fourth Rnde’y Interrupted. The Hollywood Negro Cabaret, 532 1 - Indiana A - .#, reopened uijder new management Wednesday night after a brief period of inactivity and revelry had just begun when police’came and closed up the place again. Harry (Goosie) L r e, 37. of 2857 Indianapolis Ave., who recently returned from serving a Federal term for liquor violations, is the new manager. He was charged with operating a blind tiger. Lieut. Patrick. O’Connor and squad said they confiscated several bottles of iced liquors in bottles with soft drink labels and some alcohol behind the bar. The musicians were ousted and the merrymakers driven out into the rain.
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POKER TO ROLE. ON TECH BONOS LOSTBYSTATE Tax Board Fails to Rule on Issue Within Time Limit Set Lv Law. The State tax board lost its power to say anything about the $215,000 bond issue for the Technical High School auditorium when it failed to act before last Saturday, it was disclosed today. In consequence, the Indianapolis school board, which has been in controversy with the tax board for many months, gleefully went about preparations to issue the bonds and award contracts. President Theodore Vonnsgut of the school board announced the board probably will go ahead at a special meeting Friday. Word From Tax Board First word that the tax board, whioh has carefully scrutiniz’d the Technical issue because of .difficulties with the local board on other occasions, had lost its power to act came from the tax body itself. Tax Commissioner Philip Zoercher pointed out the section of the 1925 tax law which, he said, convinced him the school board could go ahead without ‘further word from the tax board. This section provides that- after the tax board directs a taxing dnit to receive bids on the contracts and bond issue for a given improvement the bids shall be submitted to the tax board within five days after they are received. The school board did this on June 14 The law further says the tax board shall either approve, reject, or reduce the amount of the bond issue or rate of interest, within fifteen days thereafter. This apparently escaped the tax board for the fifteen-day period ended June 30, last Saturday.
No Shipp Equipment Zoercher indicated the tax board would do nothing further. “The bids we received on the construction were so low that we will only need to issue bonds for $200,090," said School President Vonnegut. “That will give us about $2,000 to cover contingencies. “The tax board might as well have gone ahead and acted like men and given us the approval, like men, when they could find nothing wrong with the plans we submitted. There is no Shipp equipment in this contract." The tax board has been inquiring into the extensive use of C. C. Shipp ventilating devices in Indianapolis schools. CRAIgTuNERAL FRIDAY Rites for Retired Advertising Man Will Be Held at Home. Funeral services for Carl G. Craig, 57, of 2740 N. Pennsylvania St., will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the residence. Mr. Craig, retired advertising man, died Tuesday following two years illness. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. He had resided here seventeen years. He was a member of Monument Lodge. F, & A. M.; the Elks, the Traffic Cluo and the Chamber of Commerce. His mother, Mrs. J. H. Craig; tha widow and four children survive.
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