Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1928 — Page 15

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EXPANSION ON PROGRAMS OF 3 INDUSTRIES Hartford City Paper Company Contracts /or Plant Addition. UTILITIES DEALS LEAD Seymour to Get Central Office of Merged Phone Company. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Time* Expansion of three industries in as many Indiana cities is notable in a business and industrial survey of the State for the week ended today. The Hartford City Paper Company has awarded a contract for erection of a 75x100-foot two-story warehouse for storage of raw material and finished products. Doubling of the capacity of mine sfo. 2, a strip shaft on the SullivanGreen County line, in the Linton district, is planned by the operator, the Central Indiana Coal Company. The largest electrically operated shovel ever made has been installed by the company to carry out its doubled production program, a daily output of 2,000 tons. The Hoosier Factories, Inc., Michigan City, manufacturing overalls and children’s play garments, is having a one-story 35x60 feet addition built to its plant. The company employs 115 persons. Other important transactions of the week included the following affected utilities companies: Approval by securities holders of a proposal to merge the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company and its subsidiaries with the Central Indiana Power Company to form a $40,000,000 concern. Offices at Seymour Plans for erection of a building at Seymour for use as central offices for the newly formed IndianaQhio Telephone Company, rated as the fifth largest concern of its kind in the United States. The company will be holder of common stock of the Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company and of the Ohio Central Telephone Corporation, with a value of $5,000,000. Conditions elsewhere in the State are as follows: MUNClE—Permits for buildings to cost $1,150,730 were issued here during the first half of 1928. Os the permits. 149 were for repildences. TERRE HAUTE—The Coal Mine Equipment Company has been formed for manufacture and sale of machines and supplies used in coal mining. Capital is SIO,OOO. CONNERSVILLE—Production will be started Aug. 1 by the Oonnersville Cabinet Company, anew industry. ANDERSON—The Pierce Governor Company’s old plant is to be remodeled at a cost of $5,000. The building will be used by an auto sales agency, the Pierce Company having moved recently to larger quarters. Truck Company Busy MARION—The Indiana Truck Corporation announces a 20 per cent production increase in June over the May output. The plant is being operated on full time and a third assembly line has been established to turn out trucks solely for export business. Construction of additions to the Marion National Sanatorium, made possible by a $700,000 appropriation by Congress, is expected to begin soon. KOKOMO The Hill-Standard Company, playground and swimming pool device manufacturer, is operating on a fifty-five hour a week schedule and will continue on that basis until fall, F. H. Green, superintendent, announces. Anew type boiler for use in distillation of Indiana peppermint is being patented by G. A. and Fred Goudy of the Goudy Brothers Boiler Work. ALEXANDRIA—The city council with passages of two ordinances has lifted the burden of municipal tax from every industry in the city. One ordinance disannexed from city territory sites occupied by industries near the boundary line while the other measure exempted also from taxation those plants farther within the city. MARTINSVILLE—An "unusually heavy yield of peas is keeping the 'ncal plant of the Van Camp Packing Company working day and night. Chamber Gains 707 Members LA PORTE—The Chamber cf Commerce here is claiming more members in ratio to population of the city than any other place in the middle West. With the completion of a membership campaign, enrollment of 707 persons is announced. The chamber’s budget for acquisition of .new industries and other activities has been increased from $7,500 to $17,000 annually. EAST COLUMBUS—The Purity Milk Company, new retail concern, has opened for business in anew building and with modern machinery installed. CULVER—A resort hotel to be the equal of any in Indiana, is planned by E. R. and B. B, Culver, who recently purchased the Palmer House hotel building and site from J. P. Walter. The hotel is expected to cost between $250,000 and $500,000. EAST CHICAGO—A plant of the United States Gypsum Sompany, largest conceAi of its kind in the world, may belestablished here. The company is negotiating for purchase of a thirty- tjwo-acre tract with prospects that the deal will be closed and erection of buildings started before the summer ends. W. M. Day, himself blind, proposes to establish a broom making plant in which only sightless persons will be employed. \ \

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Skyrocket Chief Petty Officer of Yesterday Is Coolidge Admiral Today,

BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD United Press Staff Correspondent CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, Wis., July 6.—Yesterday Howard Johnson, U. S. N., was a chief petty officer assigned to the presidential yacht Mayflower. Today he is an admiral. Johnson, who has been on special duty with President Coolidge’s party here, was called before the chief executive today. “You are the only navy man in my official party,” the President said, “I’ll make you, admiral of the fleet.” Mr. Coolidge waved his hand toward a flotilla of canoes bobbing jerkily on the tiny Brule River. That was how an admiral was made. a u a Admiral Johnson’s new duties include scrubbing ‘Beaver Dick,” the President’s personal fishing canoe, and keep-' ing in immaculate condition the boathouse which shelters the various small water craft on the Henry Clay Pierce estate. Admiral Johnson expects to review the fleet at an early date. Plans for summer maneuvres on the Brule already are under way, he said. Heretofore, Johnson’s only duty at the summer White House was to operate a motion picture machine which furnished the President and Mrs. Coolidge the latest screen productions and news reels. When on board the Mayflower he is chief electrician. The officer accompanies the executive on most of his train journeys, projecting motion pictures within Mr. Coolidge’s private car, and is the smallest member of the President’s official party. a an Governor Theodore CHRISTIANSON of Minnesota and Representative August H. Andreson will pay their respects to the President today, when he makes the second of his semi-weekly visits to the executive offices in Superior. They will be accompanied by a large Minnesota delegation. Governor Fred R. Zimmerman of Wisconsin, who remained overnight at the lodge after visiting with Mr. Coolidge yesterday, will go with the President to Superior. Governor Zimmerman assured Mr. Coolidge that Wisconsin would go safely for Herbert Hoover in the November election. CROP LOSS IS HEAVY State Damage $2,000,000, Says Farm Bureau. Indiana Farm Bureau officials estimated the crop damage of Wednesday night’s storm at $2,000,000 today. This estimate was based on an unofficial survey made Thursday afternoon. Oats suffered the greatest damage the officials said. James R. Moore, bureau publicity man, estimated the total small grains damage at $1,000,000 and placed damage to orchards, shade trees and timber at another million. Oats, he pointed out, had just begun to head and was beaten to the ground by the high wind and sweeping rain. While much of it will rise and ripen, he predicted, a large quantity will be lost. Wheat, which already has been curtailed by winter freezes, also was beaten down and a short crop is predicted. Corn, belated because of constant rain, was blown down but will largely recover Moore declared. Lightning Kills Buffalo By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 6.—The oldest buffalo in the herd at Columbian park here is dead, as a result of being struck by lightning.

MUSEUM RECEIVES ‘LOST CITY’ RELICS

By United Press CHICAGO, Jlfly 6. Relics of three “lost cities,” built by the Maya Indians in the heart of British Honduras, were unpacked today at the Field museum here. Revealing traces of one of the earliest American civilizations, the relics were brought back by J. Eric Thompson, assistant curator of Mexican and Maya ethnology, who discovered the three cities in the Cayo district, 140 miles inland from Belize. One of the cities, named “Tsimin Cax,” Mayan for mountain cow, was at the height of its power about 200 B. C. The other two, "Hascap

YEA-A-A, FIGHT! EX-FOOTBALL STARS SHINE IN DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC RUSHES

BY MORRIS MOORE IN the new system for controlling and bruising pedestrians downtown, ex-college football stars who now sell bonds and attend luncheon clubs have the edge on their more unfortunate friends who lack the culture and gridiron experience of a university education. This new system—at the Washington St. intersections of Illinois, Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts.—has made a football game out of getting across the street. You must be an expert broken field runner, a line plunger, or at least know how to skirt the ends If you don’t, then you’re out of

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LAND GIFT TO ASSURE STATE SEVENTH PARK 288 Acres In Lawrence Cos. Donated by Cement Company Head. BEAUTIFUL IN SCENERY Virgin Timber and Many Caves are Found in Large Tract, Dreams of a seventh State park for Indiana came to realization today, with announcement by Richard Lieber, director of the Department of Conservation, that the Lehigh Portland Cement Company had given to the State for park purposes 288 acres of beautiful rolling timber land in Lawrence County. This land adjoins the Donaldson woods tract, which the last legislature authorized to be converted into a State park and brings the proposed tract to about 500 acers. Projectors of the new reservation seek to aquire a total of 1,000 acres. The additional acreage is being negotiated for by Lawrence County commissioners. Gift of E. M. Young The 288 acre tract is the outright gift of E. M. Young, of Allentown, Pa., president of the Lehigh company, and his business as sociates. The gift was negotiated by W. H. Weitnecht, manager of the company’s Mitchell plant. The tract lies east of Mitchell and is one of the ccenic wooded tracts of that section. Its value has not been estimated. On the new reserve are located the old Hamer mill, long abandoned, which is to be restored to show how early water power mills operated; the Hamer cave; and a beautiful stream which today provides water for the cement plant as it did in the past for the pioneer flour mill. Timber Never Cut The Donaldson tract came into possession of Indiana University when the former died intestate. It contains virgin timber of large size. The former owner never permitted the timber to be cut, and it stands today as one of the few remaining remnants of primeval forests of the old Indiana. On those two tracts blind fish are found in the innumerable underground caves. Indiana University has for years studied these subterranean areas and when this land becomes a State park it will continue to have the privilege of using the park for experimental purposes.

U. S. TOURISTS USE ANTELOPE TIRES’

By United Press BANGKOK, Siam, July 6. Twenty-three punctures are too many for trans-African motorcycle tourists. So thought James Wilson, former Columbia student and saxophonist, and Francis A. Flood, agriculture student and Nebraska newspaper man. The punctures were due to sharp thorns in the midst of untraveled country. There was nothing but native ingenuity to fall back on, so the two Americans shot an antelope and dried its skin. “When the skin was thoroughly dry, we cut it in strips and put it inside the tires to protect the tubigs,” said Wilson. “And, believe it or not, from then until we reached

Ceel,” cold dawn, and “Cahal Picric,” emerald toucanents, were capitals in 575 A. D. At the peak of their civilization, the cities ranked ahead of many capitals in Europe at that time, Thompson said, Their culture lasted until the Spanish conquest in the Sixteenth century, and since It was wiped out the natives have reverted to semi-barbarism. Thompson, as head of the Marshall Field expedition, spent six months in the interior of the country, the first white man to explore the regions in centuries. From the Mayan temples and tombs he brought back ornaments of carved jade, and pottery 2,000 years old.

luck, and fail to make the ten yards in four downs. Under the system, all vehicular traffic stops for forty-five seconds

periods. This gives, the experts say, opportunity for pedestrians to ci-css the street in safety, without worry with cars and trucks.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1928.

Where Al Smith s Memory Goes Drifting Back

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ARGUES BALL POOLS PROOF OF GAMING

Tattling Heat Bp Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 6.—Arthur Gilbert is in jail here charged with prohibition law violation after hot weather aided in his capture following a raid at a house. As officers entered the house, Gilbert leaped from a window and ran so fast he outdistanced Deputy Sheriff Staton, who kept going, believing he recognized the runner. The officer finally came upon Gilbert walking leisurely, but his red and sweaty face showed results of his speed on a warm day and he was arrested.

Massauah, nearly 3,000 miles away, we never had another puncture.” A lost rubber bearing from the magneto when 1,500 miles from a repair shop was replaced by rubber from a dental bridge plate contributed by Flood, the travelers said. Other troubles included a price of $4 a gallon for gasoline at one remote point. The two youths passed India by steamer, but went overland on a hot 125-mile tramp from Karkarak to Meh Sot’, whence they proceeded by ponies and raft. After leaving Bangkok they expected to go on by bicycle, train and boat, returning to the United States via the Philipppines. CANDIDATES TO~MEET Chairman Rogers Calls G. O. P. Leaders Here Next Tuesday. Republican State candidates will meet with the party's State committee at the Severin next Tuesday noon, to formulate plans for the campaign. Elza O. Rogers, State chairman, who is in Washington conferring with Herbert Hoover, presidential nominee, and national campaign leaders, called the meeting. Rogers will return Monday. Slays Wife’s Assailant By Times Special AURORA, Ind., July 6.—Cecil Reynolds is dead here of bullet wounds inflicted by Raymond O’Neil, who said he shot when he returned to his home to find Reynolds beating Mrs. O’Neil, his wife. O’Neil told of his story of the tragedy on surrendering to police immediately after the shooting. Reynolds and O’Neil were railroad section workers.

But during that forty-five second period, civil war prevails. Not having to worry with dodging fenders, the pedestrians give vent to their wrath on the army approaching from the opposite curb Really, it is wonderful exercise. You wait on the curb while a hot noonday sun pours down, as autos whiz by and white gloved cops keep pushing you back. Sone gets offside, and the cop puts him back. Then comes the keynote blasts of the whistle, meaning the quarterback is calling signals. You poise for the rush. Three short toots and you’re off. In the middle of the street, you

Judge Frees Suspect as He Rules ‘No Guessing by Court.’ Argument that courts could take cognizance of possession of baseball pool tickets as proof x of gambling purposes was advanced Thursday in Municipal Court Four by Deputy Prosecutor Carl Vandiver. He made his statement to the court in a case against Fred Van Brant, 52, cf 137 Kansas St., charged with selling the tickets in a poolroom at 950 S. Meridian St. Police said they did not see the sale of the tickets, but Van Brant had them in his hand and when he refused to turn them over, they confiscated them. No Sale Shown “There was no warrant and no sale,” Judge Paul C. Wetter said. "Possession of these tickets is the same as possession of playing cards.” “The matter is altogether different,” Vandiver protested. “Cards can be used lawfully, but no one in this courtroom ever heard of these things being used for any legal purpose. The court can take judicial knowledge of the use of these tickets. “It Is known generally that pool tickets are for one purpose and one purpose only. There is a decided distinction between possession of playing cards and baseball pool tickets.” Rules Against Guesses “However, there must be facts showing any alleged gambling,” Defense Attorney Dan Brown stated. “It is not up to this court to guess men into jail,” Wetter said in reply. “Operating and gaming must be shown.” Van Brant was discharged. RESCUED OFF ISLAND Marooned Motorists Saved in Flood Near North Vernon. Marooned on an island in the flood waters of the Muscatatuck River, near North Vernon, Ind., Mr.’ and Mrs. Frank McCarthy and Miss Maggie Herman were rescued by North Vernon firemen and Sheriff Ray Hearne. The party's clothing, tent and car were covered by the flood waters caused by the storm Wednesday night. The party had camped by the side of the stream. The flood waters following the storm surrounded them, converting their camp site into an island. Fright Causes Death By Times Special FORTVILLE, Ind., July 6.—Mrs. Charles Humbles, 61, living east of here, died because of fright which seized her when a storm shook a garage in which she had taken shelter.

and your compatriots, sweating and fuming, mix with the horde from the other side, take a few slugs at nearby opponents, sidestep a man about to hit you below the knees, stiff arm a woman with bundles, hurdle another sprawling in the street—and perhaps emerge, victorious on the other curb. Then you wait for the autos to quit their part of the party, so you can get across to the other corner. When you get so tangled in that first rush excitement that some are left behind when the whistle blows, the white-gloved -i

NORRIS LEANS TOWARDSMITH Senator to Back Al If He Fights Power Trust. E# United Press WASHINGTON, July 6. The congressional “progressive” bloc will battle on the “anti-power trust” issue in the coming campaign unless Governor Smith denounces the public utilities propaganda campaigns in his speech of acceptance next month, Senator George W Norris revealed today. The Nebraska insurgent is ready to support Smith If the latter denounces the utilities and makes an issue of the revelations of the Federal Trade commission investigation. Norris deplores Insistence upon "wets” and “drys” as a false issue, and has proposed to his colleagues and to hundreds who have suggested that he run for President on a third party ticket, that liberals concentrate instead on electing anti-power Congressmen and Senators. CLEAR ‘DEATH CORNERS’ Crew of Men Cuts Weeds That Obstruct Autoists’ View. The Hoosier Motor Club has hired a crew of men to cut weeds at comers where the view is obstructed for motorists, Todd Stoops, club secretary, announced today. Stoops also urged property owners to cut the weeds on their property, as the motor club crew only will be able to work at the most dangerous intersections. Property owners are required by law to keep the weeds, down, he pointed out.

REED BOOMS WET AS HIS SUCCESSOR

By United Press ST. LOUIS, July 6.—With reiteration of his consistent opposition to the dry laws, Senator James A. Reed, today virtually launched a wet Democratic campaign of support for James A. Collett to succeed him at Washington. Collett, a lifHong friend and generally classed as wet, is opposed by Charles M. Hay, an avowed dry Democrat and leader of the Wilsonian wing of Missouri Democracy, which eight years ago read Reed out of the party. After conferring with Collett yesterday, Reed said in an interview that repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law were brought “sharply into the cam-

referee comes out and pulls those on top from the pile. This determines whether any ribs are broken, and whether you’re able to proceed on the next play. The referee signals the winner and you pant into position for the next one. There are no

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TWO CHANGES LEFTHICKMAN U. S. Supreme Court Fight Is Next Step. By United Press SAN QUENTIN PENITENTIARY, Cal., July 6.—With only two avenues of escape before him, William Edward Hickman, convicted slayer of Marion Parker probably will be hanged this fall. Hickman heard witn outward calmness yesterday that the State Supreme Court had denied him a new trial. An appeal will be made to the United States Supreme Court, Richard Cantillon, attorney for Hickman announced. Should that plea be denied, Governor Young of California will be asked to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, Cantillon said. Hickman originally was sentenced to hang April 27, but the appeal prevented it. Now he must be returned to Los Angeles, where anew dace will be set for the execution. Officials of the prison estimated that his second sentence would be given some time in August and the hanging would not take place until November. PREXY OF TAYLORT. ASKS DEFEAT OF SMITH Declares Against Democratic Nominee for Wet Stand. By Times Special UPLAND, Ind., July 6.—Alumni and students of Taylor University here are urged by its president, John Paul, to defeat the Democratic national ticket because of the wet views of Al Smith, nominee for President. In appealing for defeat of the Democratic ticket, Paul advised the course “not by good voters staying at home, but by voting the Republican ticket.” Declaring “we do not share the objection to Mr. Smith because he is a Catholic,” the university head points out views of the Catholic Church on prior temporal rights, but believes these would be without effect In America. Alimony of $170,000 Stands Bn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 6. Charles E. Miller has failed in an effort to get anew hearing of the divorce suit in which his wife was awarded $170,000 alimony. Notice of an appeal to the Indiana Appellate Court has been filed with Special Judge Cleon Mount, Tipton, by Miller’s counsel.

paign” by Governor Alfred E. Smith’s wire of acceptance to the Houston convention. Reed added that his statement on prohibition at Houston—in which he said the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law would remain “until the moral forces of the nation become convinced there is a better way to handle this question”—had been given “a very peculiar construction. “The term ‘moral forces’ has been construed to mean the Anti-Saloon League,” he said. "Nothing was farther from my thoughts. Everybody but an idiot knows that the Anti-Saloon League never would consent to any change except to make more drastic and offensive the present laws.”

water boys to rush out with towels flying, after each play, and as yet the cheering sections lack real leaders. Chief Worley and his boys say it is a success. It does get them across faster. But pedestrians know that a good well-lubricated bumper is so much softer than an old maid’s elbow. The best way to get across is to get a couple cf good former halfbacks, experts at interference. Form your plan of attack, put shoulders low, stick together and hit the weakest point in the line. In point of entertainment, it is much better than a Democratic national convention.

TAXPAYERS IN CITY HELP IN BORERBATTLE $19,305 from Marion Cos. Aids in Campaign to Save Corn. ROBINSON GIVES FIGURE Half of Dollar Goes to Promote Cause of Education. Marion County taxpayers. 90 per cent of whom live in. Indianapolis and hence see a com field only when they crank up the flivver and tour to Flackville on Sunday, paid $19,305.46 to help fight the European corn borer in Indiana the first six months of this year. City taxpayers, however, benefit by the campaign in the preservation of an important food source. The corn borer figure is one of the interesting items in a report upon division of the $10,000,000 collected up to June 30, made today by County Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson. Large Share to Schools. Almost half the taxpayer’s dollar goes to school and affiliated causes, such as teachers’ pensions, while the balance is divided among the scores of special funds, spent by elected and appointed officials and special boards. Under the general expense head, only about $2,000,000 is collected, but the small statutory levies for this and that special bring the total up. in Center township, to $2.64 per SIOO valuation. It is slightly less in other Marion County townships. Collections for the first half of this year exceeded those for a similar period last year, Chief Deputy Treasurer O. H. Harris said. This increase is attributed by Robinson and Harris to the fact, that advertising in the local papers was run just prior to final date on which taxes could be paid without delinquent penalties. Mostly Spent Successfully Robinson spent S6OO of his own money for this advertising this spring, and so successful was the experiment that he will put a SI,OOO item in his budget for 1929, he said today. "There were hundreds of collections this year that we could trace directly to the ads,” said Robinson. "If advertising is good in one business, it is good in another.” Actual collections for the first half amounted to $10,160,147.21. This is made up of the $9,904,797.16 collections of current taxes, $17,544.86 in delinquents, less the duplications and errors, plus the total on the extra assessment books. Robinson's office in 1928 will handle between $17,000,000 and $18,000,000, but a large amount of tills is spent by officers other than county. Some goes to the State, some to the city, some to the schools, Robinson acting as collection agent for all. Half Million to State The tabulation on which the various amounts were turned over to the spending agencies follows: To the State: general taxes, $505,953.19; State school, $289,470.99; State teachers’ pensions, $70,531.51; State soldiers’ memorial, $23,510.57; State agricultural board, $9,796.06; Dunes Park fund, $7,836.86; State forestry, $3,889.79; corn borer fund, $19,305.46; Clark memorial fund at Vincennes, $15,445.37. To the County: county general, $577,419.71; free gravel roads, $98,247.18; county sinking fund, $469,493.99; township tax, $25,990.89; county tuition, $2,374,399.53; special school district funds, $1,304,249.01; special school bond interest fund, $72,169.15; road tax, $4,835.’.7; township poor fund, $54,540.57; threemile road fund, $239,430.42; county tuberculosis hospital, $97,387.26; small city corporations, $38,636.50; library, $202,148.88: free kindergarten. $30,334.77. To the city general, $1,921,326.38: city sinking, $102,192.65; board of health, $286,979.09; sanitation, $371,837.11; park general fund, $177,967.40; park district bonds, $143,986.02; school help, $42,290.36; recreation, $50,599.34; track elevation, $100,701.72; city tuberculosis, $23,513.64; flood prevention, $50,599.34; World war memoriay, $41,544.90; street resurfacing, $50,847.81; thoroughfare plan, $16,860.45. PROTEST FREIGHT RATE Coal Carriers Present Case t> Interstate Commission Today Coal carriers sought to show that coal freight rates in Indiana are confiscatory when a hearing before William Disque, examiner for the interstate commerce commission, w-as resumed in Federal building today. Carriers, who obtained the hearing. showed that present rates, established by the commission in 1924, allow’ , r 0 cents a ton on coal for the first ten miles from the mines and 59 cents a ton from ten to thirty miles. H. S. McNeely and O. R. Livinghouse, attaches of the Indiana public service commissionfi are sitting with the examiner at the hearing. HOLD TWO IN ROBBERY. Youths Slugged Man and Took $5, Police Claim. Arthur Jester, 21, of 944 Ketcham St.; James Hagen, 19, of 1262 W. New York St., and Lawrence Golay, 20, of 401 N. Alton St., w’ere arrested today on robbery charges. Police 'said the youths confessed that while on their w’ay to a poker game after a few drinks on June 2 they slugged William Day, 1037 N. Belle Vieu Pi., and took $5 and his olothes.