Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1928 — Page 2

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RAPS UTILITIES FDR COMPLAINT OF VALUATIONS jWomber of Tax Board Challenges Law Suit; ~ Decision Stands. *lf Indinaa utilities are not satisfied with the taxation valuations they are getting, let them go into court and tell some jury of Indiana farmers that their assessments are too high,” declared Philip Zoercher, member of the Indiana State tax board Monday afternoon. Zoercher heatedly declared: “I am getting tired of all these utilities coming before this board find crying for reduced assessments. Utilities that have been enjoying Incomes. Why, there are thousand:. of taxpayers in Indiana now Who have no idea where they are going to raise the money to pay Jheir coming installments.”. Claims Board Unfair Arguments of attorneys for the - Indianapolis Power and Light Company and Indiana Bell Telephone Company for reduced valuations touched off Zoercher’s fireworks, for -days the tax board had been listening to utility lawyers tell how poor their companies were and how tinfair the tax board was to try to piake them pay taxes on the true bash vaiue of their property. The board wound up a heated Afternoon by refusing the plea of W. C. Richardson, treasurer of the .power company, that the $24,592,530 taxation valuation be reduced $4,400,000 because real estate had been Assessed at its actual instead of its book value, and refusing to reduce the valuation of the telephone corporation $2,200,000 from the $29,941,644 already set. B. G. Halstead phone company tax expert, presented the plea. Challenges Court Suit Halstead's intimation that the phone company might go to court With an argument that other property than that of utilities was not being assessed at more than 70 per cent of the true cash value drew jfchis retort from Zoercher: “I’m getting tired of all these Utility threats that they are going Into court whenever they don’t get all they want. I hope the Indiana Bell does go to court. The law says property shall be assessed at its true Cash value. We would see whether 70 per cent could be enough. “I don’t believe the Indiana Bell property is assessed even now as much as its actual cash value. I am surprised that you have come in here objecting to our appraisement when we thought we had allowed you everything in the world.” Halstead went away from the hearing with the threat: “Well, it’s only a question of whether the telephone patrons pay the taxes or the people of Indiana pay them.”

SET WILSON RITES Suicide Victim Will Be Buried in Washington Park Wednesday. Funeral services for Charles B. Wilson, 48, of 434 S. Rural St., official of the Empire Hat Company, Inc., toll be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon with burial at Washington Park Cemetery. Wilson took his life some time between Saturday afternoon, when he disappeared from his home and Monday noon when his body was found on the edge of the city dumps in the rear of School 21 at Southeastern Ave. and Rural St. He drank poison. His widow, Mrs. Mamie Wilson, and daughter, Charlotte, 10, attracted to the scene by reports that a man had been found dead, identified the body. They blamed financial difficulties in his business partnership as the motive. Bury Ex-Senator in Arlington By United Press WASHINGTON. July 10.—Former Senator George Earle Chamberlain of Oregon will be buried Wednesday In Arlington national cemetery. Following funeral services at 10:30 a. m. at Wardman Park Hotel, where he died Monday.

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NEW PROMISES PROBEREPORT Grand Jury to Hear About Rozelle’s Company. Bit Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 10.— The Omaha Tapestry Paint Company, Lagrange, headed by Frank E. Rozelle, United States marshal for the northern Indiana district, will be the subject of a full report to the Federal grand jury to convene here Aug. 20, Postmaster General Harry S. New promises Oliver M. Loomis, district attorney. In a statement following New’s promise, Loomis declared that if an indictment is returned, “I will prosecute the case to the full extent of the law.” He denied he had any personal interest in the case. Loomis branded as false statements of Robert C. Hicks, South Whitley, accuser of Rozelle and his company, that he would not act. Hicks declares the company has violated postal laws in conduct .of its business.

PAY OFF M’CULLOUGH City Gives $3,200 to End Designer’s Contract. Erwin W. McCullough, designer of the city garbage reduction plant and former superintendent of both the garbage and sewage disposal plants, today signed an agreement with the sanitary board relieving the city of the obligation to pay him $6,000 a year for two years more. The board paid McCullough $3,200 his salary for the rest of this year) outright in consideration for the release. McCullough had a three-year contract given him by the sanitary board under Russell T. McFall, who was president before Mayor L. Ert Slack refused to reappoint him Jan. 1. THIEVES PREY ON CARS Traveling Bag, Tires and Battery Included in Loot. Sylvan McDade, 19, of 142 W. Twentieth St., fought with a Negro he surprised removing tires from his automobile in his garage Monday night. The Negro broke away and escaped. C. E. Stanley, Evansville, reported a traveling bag and contents worth $75 stolen from his automible parked on Bird St., near Ohio St. William Ross, Mooresville, reported a tire stolen from his car while it was parked in the 700 block W. Morris St. Eli Caskey, 814 Foltz St., reported a battery and tire stolen from his machine parked in the same block. Somebody can get the complete furnishings of a six-room home for only S6O down. See today’s Miscellaneous For Sale classification in The Times.

Forced Down on First Leg of Trip From New York Across Ocean. Bu \EA Service NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va„ July 10.—M. R. Daugherty, known to his fellow townspeople here as “Dinger,” has no legs and only one arm but this week, if all goes well, he will take-off alone from New York on a p-ojected non-stop airplane flight from New York to Rome. For, despite his physical handicaps, the Dinger is an accomplished pilot. Most of his friends here have flown with him at one time or another, and all are confident that he can make the long hop. On First Leg of Flight The first leg of his flight is already under way. Daugherty hopped off from Langlin field here for New York, to confer with friends there before taking off on his noh-stop flight to Rome. Although he was forced down within thirty miles of Roosevelt field, New York, his friends here are still confident that he will make it. Daugherty is 29, the son of a farmer living near town. On his graduation from the local high school he got a job as yard clerk in the Baltimore & Ohio Railway offices here. It was that job that led to his being crippled. Working on a train one day, he fell beneath the wheels. Both legs and one arm were severed. He spent long months in a hospital. A couple of years ago New Martinsville got the thrill of its life. Gloria Swanson came here with her movie companv to make the film, “Stage Struck." Gorgeous Gloria, without realizing it, gave the Dinger an idea. “If she cen become well known and popular, and can cash in on it, why can’t I?” mused the Dinger. Learns to Fly Forthwith he defideed to learn to fly an airplane. Last winter Daugherty went to Florida, where he learned to fly. Despite his physical handicaps, he became a proficient pilot, winning a license as a transport pilot from the Department of Commerce. This spring he flew his ship from Florida to NeV Martinsville, and it was after that flight that he set his mind on a flight to Italy.

Pool Opened to Fun Klub Youngsters on Treat Day

Hundreds of Kids Splash and Ride at Weekly Park Frolic. The All-Kids Klub, fun lodge for Indianapolis youngsters, sponsored by The Indianapolis Times, held it* weekly meeting at Broad Ripple Park today. Hundreds of youngsters took advantage of the treat day hint in Monday’s Times, and brought their bathing suits along for a free dip in the beautiful Broad Ripple pool—the largest re-circulat-ing fresh water pool in the world. Several hundred new members took the pledge for safe play and fair play at today’s meeting, and became members of the joy lodge. All the activities of the club are free to those who fill out the coupon in The Times, and exchange it for a membership button. A number of the thrilling rides in the park were kept open for the members of the club to ride without charge until noon. Members of the club who do not have bathing suits will be given a

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MISSING BANKER HUNT RESUMED Loewenstein’s Body Sought in Channel. Bn United Press BRUSSELS, July 10.—With members of the family convinced that Captain Alfred Loewenstein was killed in a fall from a Fokker air - plane over the English Channel, a new search for the body has been started. Mrs. Loewenstein yesterday suddenly ordered a Dunkirk trawler to resume the search for the banker’s body toward the direction of Dover. There was no indication of the reason for the sudden resumption. A court hearing was held yesterday into the mysterious disappearance of the banker, with a justice of the peace presiding. The hearing was secret, but it is known that Pilot Ronald Drew of the Fokker, and witnesses, who were at Croydon when the craft left, testified. No decision was announced, but Albert Deveze, the family attorney, said the testimony proved Loewenstein had disappeared. TWO KILLED IN CRASH Negro Women Fatally Injured; Owner of Car Captured. Two Negroes were killed and two injured when their automobile overturned and burned near Speedway Rd. and Lynnhurst Dr. late Monday. The dead are Mrs. Louise Holt, 31, and Mrs. Carnie Bryant, 32, both of 425 Douglass St., and the injured Mrs. Pearl Benberry, 30. of the same address and Arthur Minor, 43, of 332 W. Eleventh St. Mrs. Holt is said to have been driving the car and lost control of it. Minor was captured after a chase of nearly two miles. He owned the car, but said he allowed Mrs. Holt to take the wheel just before the accident. He had been drinking, police charge. STOLEN AUTO BURNED An automobile stolen from W. R. Macy, 244 W. Thirty-First St., Monday night was wrecked in the ditch at Seventy-Ninth St. and Spring .Mill Rd., and destroyed by fire.

special discount on bathing suits at the Em-Roe store, 215 W. Washington St., on presentation of membership button. Clip the next coupon which appears in The Times, and exchange it for the button that gives you free admission to the treats which are being provided for the club. Parents will be sure of the safejv of their youngsters while they are in the park, for it is completely fenced in, and every precaution is taken to keep them from harm. The rides are all safe; the pool is supervised by expert swimmers, and is roped off according to depth, to prevent danger to the kids. PLAN COMMUNITY FAIR Tibbs Ave. and Eagle Creek Civic Association will hold a community fair and street parade the second week in August. The committee will meet Friday night at 3537 W. Michigan to plan the event. Business houses will cooperate. The association is urging a park at Eagle Creek and Michigan St.

WASHINGTON TO ASK AL SMITH FORJDDRESS Governor May Speak to Voteless Thousands in Capital. BY PAUL FREDRIX Unit'd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 10.—Governor Smith of New York, Democratic presidential nominee, will be asked to make a campaign speech beneath Washington’s monument here before a crowd, only one in ten of whom can vote. John F. Costello and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Democratic national committee members from the District of Columbia, will leave for Albany tonight to make the request. They said today that a Smith address to “voteless Washington” would be good campaign strategy, for while no citizens can cast ballots here, some 45,000 Washingtonians are entitled to cast “absentee” ballots in outside States, and the Governor’s message would be repeated by his hearers to their friends in every section of the country.

May Use Monument Site No hall here is big enough to hold the audience that might want to hear Smith. Costello, therefore, said the monument grounds, forming a natural amphitheater, might be used. “The Republicans, because of Herbert Hoover’s residence here, have placed their publicity in newspapers everywhere through hundreds of Washington correspondents trained in political writing,” Costello said. “A Smith speech here would do much to reduce this Republican advantage.” Costello has not abandoned hope that Smith’s national campaign headquarters will be established here, although the Governor himself will stay close to Albany. When Costello and Mrs. Harriman return from visiting Smith they will establish District of Columbia headquarters for him, helping “absentee” voters prepare their ballots for mailing, and arranging speaking tours in nearly States. One hundred prominent Demo cratic residents, including many former members of Congress, are expected to map local campaign plans.

Organize Smith Clubs How Washington Democrats spread their activities to neighboring States is shown by Mrs. Lester J. Pollock, a vice president of the local A1 Smith Club, who left last night to organize a women’s Democratic club at Potter, Pa. ’Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, a personal friend of Smith, has invited him to use her beautiful home in Graemer Forest, Md., should he come here. Meantime, Washington’s “voteless” have opportunity, through a newspaper’s “straw poll,” to register their sentiment. Os the first 1,500 ballots tabulated, the newspaper said, nearly 1,000 were for Smith as against Hoover. Republicans, as well as Democrats and Independents, helped to swell Smith’s The women's vote also went to Smith. 22 GAMINGTcASES SET FOR HEARINGS FRIDAY Judge Wetter Names Harry Yockey as Special Jurist. The number of persons who w'll face Municipal Court judges Friday on continued charges of gaming was boosted two twenty-two today, after Judge Clifton R. Cameron Monday afternoon continued cases of five persons. Previously, gaming charges against seventeen persons were continued until Friday. Sixteen were in Judge Paul C. Wetter’s court. Persons whose cases were continued by Cameron are: Charles Ford, 1306 N. Senate Ave.; Roger Head, 1007 W. Vermont St.; John Sims, 631 Bright St.; Ed Thurman, 536 Patterson St., and Albert Washington, 552 Blake St. Wetter announced he Is going to attend the State Bar Association meeting at Ft. Wayne Thursday and Friday, and has appointed Harry Yockey, special judge, Friday. Old Firm to Continue. Bp Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 10.— Ragon Bros., Inc., wholesale grocers in business here fifty-eight years, will continue operations, despite an announcement last week that liquidation was to be started. Stockholders at a meeting following the announcement decided to keep the firm in existence. Man Senseless 248 Hours. By Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind.. July 10.—Recovering consciousness after lying senseless 248 hours, after being hurt in a runaway, Roger Paxson, is expected to recover. His skull was fractured when he was dragged with a corn plow drawn by a team of horses.

New Way Ends Corns Painleslly In 3 Minutes With Shur-Off. the marvelous new corn remedy, you can remove a corn or callous in 3 minutes —without soaking or waiting. It stops pain instantly. And it positively will not harm the healthy skin. Simple to use. Just apply Shur-Off to the corn, keep It wet for 2 minutes. Then start peeling the corn or callous right off—root and all! Anyone can do it easily. Shur-Off costs only 50 cents at Hook’s Dependable Drug Stores, or any other good druggist and is guaranteed to give satisfaction or money back. Try It tonight. Enjoy the ease and comfort of corn-free feet. Shur-Off Ends Corns in 3 Minutes

Dramatic School Founder to Be Buried Thursday

Mrs. Arthur J. Berfault Dies After Operation; Was Widely Known. Funeral services for Mrs. Arthur J. Beriault, 35, of 1325 N. Alabama St., Beriault School of Expression director, will be held at 9 a. m. Thursday at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs. Beriault died Monday at St. Francis Hospital, Beech Grove, following an operation Saturday. She was known over the middle west as a dramatic reader and teacher, having been prominent in Little Theatre activities. She was born at St. Paul, Ind., residing here most of her life. Mrs. Beriault founded the Berir"-’t school of which her husband shared directorship in recent years. She was a graduate of Metropolitan School of Music normal and artist course and attended Phidelah Rice School of the Spoken Wcrd, Boston. She was head of the St. Agnes Academy expression department and a faculty member of the Muncie Conservatory of Music. The husband, three children, Helen Elaine, 7; Arthur Leon, 11; Mary Magdaline, 13; her mother, Mrs. John Rupp, 1247 N. Emerson Ave., and three sisters survive.

‘REDHEAD’ IS HUNTED Police Think AuburrvHaired Woman Aided Burglars. Police today are searching for a “red-headed woman with a black dress” whom Mr. and Mrs. George Hyatt believe introduced two burglars into their rooming house at 140S. E. Tenth St. Mrs. Hyatt was awakened by the burglars about 2 a. m. today and called her husband. He went upstairs and arrived in time to see one of the burglars leap out of the red-haired woman’s bedroom window to a rear porch roof and escape. The woman was in the room fully clothed. John Phillips, a roomer, was awakened in time to see the other burglar leap through a front window downstairs, through which entrance had been gained. The woman had rented the room earlier in the evening, but had not given her name. This morning she was gone. ACCUSES COUNCILMAN Anderson Pastor Makes Specific Charges of Drunkenness. ANDERSON, Ind., July 10. Dates and places involving alleged drinking by City Councilman Mark J. Rozelle, are set forth in amended charges filed by the Rev. O. A Knox, crusading pastor of the Grace Methodist Church. After filing the original charge against Rozelle in Madison Circuit Court, the minister followed by making his complaint more specific.

ENGINEER TRIES TO END LIFE WITH GUN

•Out of Head’ for Two Days, He Says at City Hospital. Morris Tucker, 27. of 1311 Bates St., assistant engineer of the Fame Laundry Company, shot himself in the stomach, while in the engine room of the laundry, 27 N. Capitol Ave., at 7:45 this morning. He is in a critical condition at city hospital. Claude Cox, 805 N. Bradley St., another employe, had been talking to Tucker, who was reclining by a table and Cox suggested that he pull some cover over him. Cox heard the shot as he was walking up the stairs leading from the room and hurried back to see Tucker walking across the floor “111 pull the wooden box over me for a cover now,” Tucker said as he collapsed. After shooting himself. Tucker replaced the 38-caliber revolver, be-

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AD MEN DUSY AT CONVENTION Crowded Program Faces Throng in Detroit. Bj/ United Press DETROIT, July 10.—The second day of the International Advertising Association's convention and exposition today offered 5,000 delegates a crowded program of speeches, meetings, luncheons and social events, to be climaxed tonight by a radio program from the convention headquarters in Masonic Temple. The program opened this morning with two breakfasts, the first at 7:30, when the Toledo Women’s Advertising Club acted at hostess to women delegates. E. St. Elmo Lewis, Detroit sales counsel, made the first address at today’s general session, followed by Francis H. Sisson, vice president of the Guaranty Trust Company, New York. Sisson’s scheduled address yesterday was postponed after a belated start of the general convention session and the jammed program today forced postponement of the speech by Charles F. Kettering, director of General Motors laboratories. TROOPS OUT OF CHINA Japanese Will Withdraw 7,000 Men Sent During Civil War. Bn United Press TOKIO, July 10.—The Cabinet decided today to withdraw 7,000 men from the military expedition in Shantung, China, sent there during the civil war to protect Japanese interests.

longing to the night watchman, in a drawer and closed the drawer Tucker declared that domestic troubles were not responsible for his suicide attempt, and said: “I have been out of my head for two days.” His wife and two children are visiting relatvies at Shelbyville and were to return Wednesday, he said. He asked that his brother-in-law, a Shelbyville policeman, be notified.

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HOOVER WILL RUN CAMPAIGN ON OWN LINES Politicians’ Old System Shoved Into Discard by Candidate. BY KENNETH CRAWFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 10.—Herbert Hoover, hitherto regarded by politicians as having little or no knowledge of the mysteries of their profession, appeared today to be taking over active management of his own presidential campaign. He will open it officially with his notification ceremony and speech Aug. 11, in California. The Republican campaign machinery, now virtually ready for operation, is understood by observers to be of Hoover design. Nothing like it ever has been seen before in national politics and it is considered unlikely that the professionals were responsible for its innovations. Dispense With Titles The underlying principal of tha machine appears to be “centralized authority with decentralized responsibility,” an executive slogan attributed to Chairman Work of the national committee, but the details of operation are believed to have been worked out by Hoover. \ Titles have been reduced to a necessary minimum in the new organization. Work and former Gov-* ernor Henry Allen of Kansas, publicity manager of the national committee, are the only titled officials in the Washington headquarters, and there is but one other in the country, James Good, Western manager. Instead of appointing Senator Moses of New Hampshire Eastern manager, as anticipated, he was appointed to a committee in charge of the Eastern campaign without a definite title and with but hazily defined duties. Work explained Moses would act as liaison officer between national and State committeemen. Hilles Left Free This arrangement is reported to have been inspired by a desire to leave Charles D. Hilles, national committeeman from New York, with a free hand to run the campaign in his state. The same Reason is assigned for the announcement that eastern headquarters, usually established in New York, would be left here, at least for the present. The arrangement will avoid any possibility of friction resulting from the presence of a New Englander in charge of New York headquarters directing the entire eastern campaign. Work discontinued his two daily press conferences yesterday, announcing that Allen hendbforth would make all the announcements for Republican headquarters. Until now, many of Work's announcements have been contradicted by Hoover’s spokesmen and the new system is expected to result in uniformity of information. • SENTENCE PASTOR’S SON Michigan Youth Gets Term for Firing Frat House. Bu United Press CHARLOTTE. Mich., July 10.— Donald Smith, son of a Congregational minister and president of Kappa Alpha Fraternity chapter at Olivet College, today faces a sentence of from one to ten years for firing the fraternity house at Olivet. Smith admitted setting fire to the building to collect insurance money for payment of the chapter’s debts. He was sentenced by Judge McPeek in Circuit Court Monday.

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