Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1928 — Page 13
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FOUR INDIANA CITIES LEAD IN BUSINESS GAIN Industry Advances at Marlon, Kokomo, Connersville and Ft. Wayne. < AID FUND SET ASIDE Utilities Company’s Plan Expected to Be Beneficial to State. BY CHARLES C. STONE. State Editor, The Time* Excellent condition of industries at Marion, Connersville, Kokomo and Ft. Wayne is the most important data in a business and industrial' survey of Indiana for the week ended today. Summarized, conditions in tl four cities are as follows: MARION —An addition to the factory of the Upland Flint Bottle Company is being erected and new machinery installed, the work going on day and night, to shorten the time the plant will be closed. Full operation for the remainder of 1928 is forecast. New heading equipment, heating and sprinkling systems are being installed by the Delta Electric Company, and its office is being enlarged. Despite the usually dull summer season, 240 are employed steadily. Orders booked for the entire production of the Case Radio Corporation for the remainder of the year. Three night shifts are being worked weekly by the Superior Body Corporation to keep production up to orders. Books Largest Order The largest order yet received by the Craftsman Tool Corporation, new ifidustry, is for a carload of axes. The Economy Box and Pie Plate Company is preparing to purchase machinery to add new lines to its production. An addition to the Lindley Box and Paper Company plant, recently completed, is now in use. CONNERSVILLE Fifty more employes can be given work at the McQuay-Norris Company plant when installation of new machinery now under way is complete. The Connersville Lamp Company made shipments during June which exceed those for the month in all other years of the company’s history. Contracts assuring operation into September are on the books of the Central, Manufacturing Company. KOKOMO—With removal of the Hamilton-Ross Company here from Chicago, business interests declare the city’s industrial rehabilitation following closing of the Haynes auto manufacturing plant, is complete The Hamilton-Ross Company will occupy the last remaining unit of the Haynes plant, other industries having taken over all other structures. Shipments Increase Outbound freight shipments for June this year are 20 per cent above those in the same month last year Express shipments increased at the same rate. FT. WAYNE—A reorganization after receivership proceedings has been made of the American Art Textile Company and it has been sold to William Wunderlin. The plant was reopened this week and its product will be handled by a canvassing organization direct to homes. The McMillan Company announces plans for erection of a plant at Buffalo, N. Y., to handle its eastern business. Two new units of the Truck Engineering Company plant will be completed within a few weeks. It is planned to add to the force. Bank deposits gained $2,800,000 during the fiscal year ended June 30. Aid for Industries Announcement by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company that it had set aside a fund of $200,000 for industrial aid is expected to prove beneficial to a number of liidiana cities. Conditions at other points in the State are as follows. NEWCASTLE—With others 65 per cent greater than for the same period last year, the GalesburgCoulter Disc Company plant is being operated on two eight-hour shifts. ANDERSON Business is too good for a week’s vacation shutdbwn of the Delco-Remy plants here, which had been set to start Aug. 25, and it has been cancelled The plants now have 8,200 persons on pay rolls. COLFAX—Good progress is beingmade in erection of an addition to the plant of the Indiana Hickory Furniture Company plant. The management announces prospects are good for several months steady operation. SHELBYVILLE —A contract has been awarded to Schlegel & Roehn:, Indianapolis, for erection of anew city hall to cost $93,000. FRANKFORT The Frankfort Rendering Company, with a capital of $50,000, has been formed by buyers of the Bamhard Fertilizer Company, which will also operate plants at Lafayette, Delphi and Kokomo. Oil Drilling Begins PLYMOUTH—A test hole for oil ; s being drilled by the Arco Oil and Gase Company, Cleveland, Ohio, at the eastern city limits. SOUTH BEND—A 51 per cent increase in sales of autos is announced by the Studebaker Corporation for June this year over the same month in 1927, and a gain of 23 per cent for the first half of 1928 over the same 1927 period.
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Swim Right! Twins Will Tell You How
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This is the first of a series of ten swimming articles by the famous Zitenfield twins, junior long distance champions. For readers of The Times and NEA Service they are writing about the fundamental principles and most natural methods of swimming. They describe the secrets that have allowed them, at 14, to become internationally known for their endurance feats. BY THE ZITENFIELD TWINS For NEA Service SWIM right or do not swim at all. That really should be the motto for folks who want to enjoy the water. We are often asked, “Isn’t it just terribly hard to swim as you girls do?’’ We answer, "It is easy, because we learned the correct way firstTherefore everything we have done since has helped us.” For you merely lost time trying to just flounder in the water expecting to find fins. A few simple directions, if grasped perfectly, can teach anyone the principles of swimming.
Men and women take infinite pains to learn how to drive off in golf. They will spend days learning just how the different clubs should be held and swung and what the game is all about. Learn the Rules The same is true in tennis. The rules are learned first. Each stroke means something. . Children are taught how to serve, when to use backhand or overhand and so on. This holds for dancing also. No one is expected to dance just because he Is standing on a dance floor. He learns the steps before he starts out. But swimming Is a sport that really is not given a fair chance. Folks put on pretty bathing suits, expect to swim immediately and grow discouraged when they don’t. That is the wrong attack. There ere certain rules, much simpler than the rules of other enjoyable sports or games. Learn these first. Then you can’ swim. You will be surprised how easy it is. Health Is Sure Aside from the pleasure, which is what we both think of first when swimming is mentioned, there is the health that is derived from constant swimming. Swimming can do more for a person than any other single sport. If you are thin, swimming will fit you out. Especially if your neck Is scrawny, you will be surprised how it rounds out from swimming. On the other hand, if you are overweight, swimming makes the pounds roll off. Ailments are Cured Recently much work has been done to show how beneficial swimming is as a corrective for curvature of the spine, for legs left useless from infantile paralysis ana for other crippled conditions. Add to the physical good that swimming brings one the lilt of spirit that a good swim induces, and you will agree with us when we advocate swimming for everyone. Our advice is, however, “Learn how. Then swim, for health and happiness.”
GIANT AND DWARF IN TEST AT STATE MINE
Bu Times Soecial BICKNELL, Ind., July 13.—A giant and a dwarf are toiling in the Panhandle mine near here, where the first test of mining machines in the history of Indiana coal production is being made. Weighing twenty-six tons, the giant, an Oldroyd loading machine, is working with a Link-Belt machine which weighs six tons. The big machine requires a track like the small cars into which it loads coal, but the small one is of caterpillar type, being as mobile as tanks used in warfare and tractors in farming.
YOUNGSTERS GIVE WAY TO ELDERS IN TRAINING SCHOOLS OF MOTORING
BY DAN M. KIDNEY HOOSIERS of the younger generation seem to know all about operating automobiles almost from their cradle. It is the grandfathers and grandmothers that are being taught to drive nowadays, according to dealers here. North side salesmen on the motor rows of Capitol Ave., Illinois and Meridian Sts., are unanimous in the opinion that there is scarcely a youngster, boy
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ERRAND BOY ROBBED Clever Swindler Uses Hospital as ‘Office.’ Using St. Vincent’s Hospital as his scene of operations, a clever swindler robbed Urban Blasengym, errand boy employed at the Thomas Mullen drug store, 2737 N. Illinois St., of S2O and $1.90 worth of merchandise Thursday afternoon. The boy was sent to the hospital on a telephone call ordering the merchandise and asking change for S2O also be sent. The swindler met the boy at the door and asked him to go to the third floor. There the. man took the change and merchandise and said he would return in a few minutes with the S2O bill. He did not return. Hospital authorities knew nothing of the phone call. WEST BOOSTS AL SMITH Idaho Publisher Heads Machine in Twelve States. DENVER, July 13.—The West is organized to put over A1 Smith for president.
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Two Boy Cousins Drown Bu Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 13. Harry Wilson, 10, this city, and Robert Elston, 9, Toledo, Ohio, were drowned in a pool at Toledo, when they fell from a raft. The Wilson boy was a guest of the other lad, his cousin.
Handling of 200 tons daily by each machine is claimed by the makers despite the difference in size. The small loader is the first machine of its kind ever made. The mine management, desiring to give mechanized mining a thorough tryout in Indiana, is also testing a coal cutting and shearing machine. It operates on a track which is built up to the face of the coal. A nine-foot cutting curface operates against the wall of coal and after it has cut to its capacity, shears off the block of coal. It is designed to be operated with the Oldroyd loader.
or girl, more than 16, with whom they have come into contact that does not understand driving a car. Many of them know about the mechanism and can give their parents lessons in automotive mechanics. “It’s the real old folks who have to be taught how to handle a car,” one of the dealers in medium priced motors explained. "For Instance, just at present we have an instr.'- 'w teaching a graybeard of 60 the art of steering
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928
DRYS SEEK TO WIN RECRUITS FROKJMITH Shumaker Hopes to Line Up Prohibition Democrats in Indiana. CAMPAIGN IN CHURCHES Anti-Saloon League Claims Access to Protestant Organizations. Dry Democrats, antagonistic to A1 Smith’s presidential candidacy, will be recruited from Indiana AntiSaloon League ranks as the most effective leaders of the league's anti-Smith fight in this State, said E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana dry organization, today. "They can work best to prevent a nullifications getting into the White House,” said Shumaker, spurred to a vigorous campaign against Smith by the statement of F. Scott Mcßride, Anti-Saloon League general superintendent, that Smith’s election "materially would aid the liquor criminals of the country.” Shumaker said he recognized the difficulty of getting dry Democratic leaders who at the same time would observe "non-partisan fairness” toward Republican candidates of •satisfactory dryness.” Lineup Nonpartisan “We must have patriots before partisans,” said Shumaker. "Our workers will go down the line, irrespective of party, for those whose records are right on prohibition." The league’s campaign will be waged through an organization of “key men,” two or three to a county, Shumaker said. In addition, it may be necessary to employ a couple of organizers, he said. "We count upon public enlightenment to defeat wet candidates,” said the Indiana superintendent,' whose organization has blanketed the State with pamphlets citing “A1 Smith's record as Tammany legislator and Governor” and recording his official acts on matters relating to prohibition. Approximately twenty-five speakers for the league are appearing each Sunday in Indiana Protestant churches, Shumaker said, defending national and State prohibition laws and calling for rigid enforcement. Access to 2,000 Churches "We have ready access to at least 2,000 of the 3,000 Protestant churches in the State,” he said, "and our message will be carried into hundreds of thousands of homes.” He predicted an Indiana circulation of over 125,000 for the special issue of the American Issue, which will make its appearance shortly before the November election. The growing prominence of prohibition as an issue in the coming campaign, said Shumaker, has resulted in a flood of voluntary contributions to the league fund. “Only yesterday,” he said, “there came a contribution of $lO from an invalid woman, accompanied by her benediction.”
Wrong Choice Kokomo Man Arrested in Rum Car, but Avoided Carrying Battery.
Ilu Times Soecial KOKOMO, Ind., July 13. Alonzo Woolley, 22, is in trouble because he chooses to ride in an auto carrying liquor in preference to carrying a fifty-pound storage battery more than two miles. A man known as Hite stopped at Woolley’s home and offered to take him as a passenger so the storage battery which had been rented could be returned to the owner. After riding a short distance, Woolley discovered the auto was loaded with liquor, but remained a passenger. Before the destination was reached, Hite and Woolley were arrested by Sheriff John Spearman and charged with liquor law violation. City Judge Joe Cripe, after hearing several character witnesses in Woolley’s behalf, deferred decision. Hoosier’s Truck Kills Boy Bu Times Soecial VALPARISO, Ind., July 13.—Ourdett Tatlock, a local truck driver is under arrest atr Chicago, as a result of the killing of Walter Duda, 8, run over by his truck. Oldest Citizen Buried Bu Times Special MONTPELIER, Ind., July 13.Funeral services were held today for Thomas Shull, 88, oldest Montpelier citizen, who had lived here sixtyeight years. He died Wednesday after five weeks’Tllness. j
and stepping on it with safety. “My own time has been revoked to an elderly woman, whom I have known for years, but who has resisted learning to drive the family car until the present time. Now she has decided to have a motor of her own, the same as her children and grandchildren. “Her husband has been driving for years, but she says that with her own car she will rto longer have to bother him Sunday mornings taking her to church.”
Byrd Assembles 12,000-Piece ‘Trousseau for Antarctic Trip
Packs Tons of Mittens, ‘Heavies,’ Furs, Coats in Ice Bags. BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer \ NEW YORK, July 13.—Assembling a wedding trousseau or collecting odd bits for a court presentation is mere child's play compared to the sartorial effort involved before setting out for the Antarctic regions. And if Commander Byrd and his party are not the last word in swank when they reach the iceberg zone, it is not because they are not giving time and expense to their raiment. Anyone curious about polar styles should drop in at the Byrd headquarters here and see the rooms strewn with samples of fur coats, helmets, socks and ballbriggan underwear and hear the weighty arguments that go on as to what type will be most nifty and dashing for life on an ice barrier. Commander Byrd estimates each of the sixty men on the trip will have at least 200 pieces of wearing apparel, neatly marked with his own name and packed in sea bags. Mittens Two Feet Long This does not include the common garden variety of apparel that each will wear on the boat trip into the Antarctic—all this will be stored at the last stop, Dunedin, and will be parked there for more than a year, until the party returns to a temperate zone. Large consignments of furs are on their way to New Yprk from Alaska to be made into coats and parkas for the crew. A parka is a short cape, made of reindeeer skin, lined with fawnskin, that is worn over a regulation Arctic suit as a windbreaker. It is large and loose, absolutely gale-proof, and is the finishing touch to th£ Arctic ensemble. In millinery there is a wide choice of helmets, fur and wool and leather caps, and towering affairs that look like very large tea cozies, and do for the head what the cozy does for the tea pot. Then there is the large fur-lined hood, that fits over the helmet, like a cowl. Frozen Feet Are Common. Mittens achieve unbelievable proportions and are worn, childfashion. suspended from a cord about the neck. Some are nearly two feet long, a foot wide and a couple of inches thick—regular baby mattresses. V/hat an explorer's glove box. if he had one, would look like is a thought to conjure with. And when you build shoes on the fireless cooker plan, you needs must forget daintiness and well-turned ankles. Frozen feet are very common, and, they say, most unpleasant, so shoek have been specially made with felt soles packed with senna grass from Finland, which serves as an insulator to keep in the natural heat. Thus the water-proof "mukluks” and the overshoes to wear over these neat walking shoes take on the most exaggerated and fantastic proportions. Then there are furlined moccasins, fur and wool-lined boots, hip boots and other types of other footgear. Socks of wool are thick and bungly, and there are fur ones to be worn on the inside, so that the moisture of the foot inside th3 stockings may go through the fur and onto the hide. This minimizes the dampness, and the damp foot is the one that is in danger of freezing. Make Clothes on Trip Wool shirts and "heavies” appeal to one’s sense of the comfortable rather than of the beautiful, though they are of the finest materials available. The really clothes-conscious ex- | plorer covers every part* of himself ! but his eyes when he is finally clothed for a day’s jaunt. Asa last touch, he covers that last exposed area with large goggles to prevent blindness from the expanse of dazzling snow. Besides all the “ready-mades” that are being taken on this expedition, many pelts are shipped in the piece. Once a voyage is under way, the ! sailmakers will be kept busy making parkas and loose coats. Since these are simple in cut, and nil as to fit, they can be fashioned quite as adequately by the sailmaker as they could by a Regent St. tailor. CONTINUE MINE PARLEY Fourth Day of Meeting to Iron Out Soft Coal Tangle. About 150 miners swung into a fourth day of oratory at 9:30 a. m. today at the meeting of the policy committee of the United Mine Workers of America at headquarters here in an effort to iron out the soft coal tangle. No official statements have been given by John L. Lewis, president. The Thursday meeting lasted nearly eight Hours, the longest of the con- | ierence. | Miners reconvened at 2p. m. aftei ■ a two-hour recess with the possibil- ! ity of a fifth day's session in sight.
OUTSKIRTS of the city are the training grounds for new SriI vers. Kessler Blvd. has proved ] particularly attractive, especially in the early afternoon or late morning. Traffic is at a minimum then and the new driver has a clear field to follow the coacjiing without being frightened. There are professional instructors available, and some firms turn the entire business of toach- , ing new drivers over to tfcem. I Others send their salesmen I, out
Commander Richard E. Byrd . . . knows his polar haberdashery.
SEVEN GO TO DOOM IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
Two Hours Required for Record Number of Executions. Jill United Press WESTERN KENTUCKY PENITENTIARY, EDDYVILLE, Ky„ July 13.—Four white men and three Negroes were executed in the electric chair here early today. The record executions required an hour and 57 minutes. Only one of the seven maintained his innnocence, while three of the white men made confessions just before the current was sent into their bodies. A last-minute effort was made to save the life of Orlando Seymour, 20, of Louisville, known as the “dime bandit.” He was convicted for killing a Louisville coal dealer in a small holdup. Attorneys had obtained a writ of habeas corpus against Seymour’s execution and this was dismissed. Then they attempted to obtain a stay of execution, pending a hearing on Seymour’s sanity. That likewise was refused, and the youinful bandit was led to the death chamber. Six Others Die The other six executed were: Milford Lawson, 35, Corbin, Ky., who killed a man ip a feud. Rascue Dockery, 27, a young mountaineer convicted of killing two women and a man in Harlan County, Kentucky. Charles P. Mitra, 24, St. Louis, who confessed to killing a Louisville grocer in a holdup. William Moore, Negro, 49, Louisville, ,who killed his sweetheart with a razor. James Howard, 24, Negro, Louisville, who stabbed a girl to death. Clarence McQueen, 38, Cynthiana, Ky., who killed another Negro allegedly for revenge. Record for Executions The first man was led to the electric chair at 12:25 a. m. and the seventh man was pronounced dead
LAST FISHING CLUB SURVIVOR AT RIVER
Bu Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., July 13. Somewhere along White River near here Thomas R. Tislow, 83, Civil War veteran, is fishing. He is carrying out a promise made twentyfive years ago to nine other comrades who with himself formed the Veterans’ Fishing Club, of which only he now survives. In the spring of this year, Tislow hoped to have company on his annual fishing trip, and made plans with Samuel G. Conrad. But Conrad was taken ill and died in a few days. A few days ago Tislow ,repared his minnow bucket and
two or three times. "The average man can learn to drive a machine in twenty minutes,” one dealer declared. “After that it is just a matter of practice to become proficient.” “How about the women” he was asked. His reply was the cynical question, "Do women ever learn to drive?” + Other dealers were more optimistic about the feminine drivers. One even vouchsafed the infor-
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Bull Censor Bu United Press COLUMBIA, Pa., July 13. Several local women recently purchased bright red bathing suits and wore them for the first time yesterday at a private pool near St. Joseph’s convent. A bull was the only witness. All the women escaped. Mrs. Edward Rancke was cut badly going through a barbed wire fence and was treated in a hospital.
at 2:22 a. m. It was the largest number of persons ever to pay the death penalty at one time in the United States. The only man who protested that he was innocent of the crime was Milford Lawson, mountaineer, convicted as a feud killer. “I never did anything wrong,” he moaned as guards led him from his cell down the narrow areaway that leads to the death chamber. Guards had failed to obtain a confession from him. ADMIRAL ALSO IS FLIER .1. J. Reby Holds License as a Pilot Aviator. PENSACOLA. Fla., July 13.—Just
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lines and set out on the trip alone. Two weeks each year, during July and August, had been set apart for fishing by the club members. A cook went with the party. The days were spent along the river banks and the nights at campfires, where yarns of the ’6l-’65 conflict were spun. Many persons from this vicinity visited the camp to enjoy the veterans’ hospitality. Once a ban was issued against Sunday fishing, but the veterans would slip away like boys playing truant from school, to cast lines in the water.
mation that they learn more easily than men and are not so frightened at first. The final test is to drive through the crowded downtown streets successfully. With this feat accomplished, instructions cease. One salesman told of anew driver making the trip recently who became so frightened at all the whistles and bells at the intersections that he had to be taken back out into the country and trained all over again.
PUZZLE FACED BY INDIANA'S FARMVOTERS Federation Document May Be Interpreted in Different Ways. 0. K. GIVEN DEMOCRATS Loophole Also Left Open for Casting Ballot for Hoover. Seventy-four thousand Hoosier farmers and residents of the rural districts today faced the dilemma of abiding by the pledge which they signed at the behest of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation and voting the Democratic ticket, or ignoring the pledge and sticking with the party, providing they are Republicans. Directors of the bureau spent three days in session in the new quarters in the Lemcke Bldg, to draw a platform that would indicate to the membership what to do. Late Thursday they isseud a document regarding their stand, which lends itself to various interpretation. Stick by Equalization Fee The one certain piece of advice contained in the proclamation is to stick to the bureau and its leadership and continue to fight for the equalization fee. The pledge signed by the farmers and their friends before the national political conventions were held read: "We subscribe our names and pledge our sacred honor that we will not vote for any man for President or Vice President of the United States, Senator, or Representative, who will not pledge his wholehearted support to the enactment of a Federal law that will contain the fundamental principles embodied in the McNary-Haugen bill.” The directorship program. a3 handed down Thursday, begins by pointing out that the bureau is a non-partisan organization and interested in politics only as it pertains to the economic situation of the farmer, - Deny Farm Pleas It then recites the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill in Congress and its veto by President Coolidga and continues: "Because this farm measure was vetoed by the President, his party felt unable to approve this plan lu its platform. Thus, it not only repudiates the actions of a large majority of its own party in Congress, but Iso denied the request of agriculture. By so doing, the body definitely has denied to the farmer the kind of law that he believes would bring relief to his business. “The other party received and adopted into its platform, as one of its most important declarations, an agricultural plank as suggestr*! by the farmers themselves. This declaration has been indorsed heartily by its candidate for President. “A party is honor-bound to carry out its platform pledges. We have the right to believe and demand that after a vote of approval by the people it will do so.” The reference to the Democratic candidate's indorsement was the telegram received by President William H. Settle of the bureau from Governor Alfred E. Smith, saying if elected he at once would call a conference of farm leaders to frame a practical program of farm relief for recommendation to Congress. Fee Plan Approved The party platform approved the equalization fee plan, the feature of the McNary-Haugen bill objected to by Coolidge. The directors’ document declared that the equalization fee merely was an extension of tariff protection to the farmer and pointed out that it was supported by the Indiana delegation in both houses of Congress. It closed with the following recommendations: "Our forward-thinking farmers will give grateful consideration to those men and women, both Republicans and Democrats, who loyally and faithfulily supported our program of farm relief when they came to vote. "For sanity, common sense, and achievement, the Indiana Farm Bureau has a record of which every member justly may be proud. Under its driving force, our hopes for a place among the most favored industries almost has been won. Its future usefulness and greatness depends upon the loyalty and earnest support of its membership. Stand Made Plain "During the coming months every form of fraud, deception and misrepresentation will be resorted to by our enemies to discredit our leadership and our organization, livery form of villainy known to corrur*? politics will be used to encompas* our destruction. “Thus far our Farm Bureau, with the loyal support of its memoers, has fought the battle for equality for agriculture. The fight now is transferred to the doorsteps of the farmers’ own homes. "We stand now as we have stood for seven years, for farm legislation ind equality for agriculture, expressed in the principles of the Mc-Nary-Haugen bill, including the equalization fee, and shall continue so until further thought, study, and experience develops a better plan. "We recognize and respect the sacredness with which the farmer regards his free and uncontrolled right to vote as he pleases. Guided by facts and experience, we have the utmost faith that in the great battle now raging for human right* and economic liberty, victory will be gained through intelligent use of the farm ballot.”