Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1928 — Page 2

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HIGH OFFICIALS TO HONOR RAIL LABORVETERAN ‘Herm’ Wills to Be Given Surprise Party on His 80th Anniversary. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING WASHINGTON, July 14.—They’re going to give Herm Wills a “surprise party” July 16 at the Carlton Hotel here. Sixty-two years ago Herm, a husky, Black-haired youth from Vermont, landed a job as fireman on the old Northwestern Railroad in lowa. Running into the frontier town of Omaha, he knew the old West. Senators, high labor officials, railroad presidents and Cabinet members will do him honor Monday night, when Wills, retired assistant grand chief and legislative agent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, now one of the strongest labor organizations in the world, celebrates his eightieth birthday. You could hardly say “retired” either, for he still visits his office daily in his work as chairman of a general education committee of all the rail brotherhoods. Put Over Inspection Law The story of the rise of the Brotherhood from a few struggling unions is to a great extent the story of Wills. He was a trusted lieutenant of P. M. Arthur, great Brotherhood leader of the last century, and at one time held the unique power, as assistant grand chief, to suspend the chief if he felt the latter were doing wrong. He was no less trusted by Warren S. Stone, later. Perhaps his proudest achievement was helping to put through the Federal locomotive inspection law of 1912, securing the aid of President Taft against powerful opposition. Bom In Vermont July 16, 1348. self-supporting at 11, the glamorous western adventures of an elder brother fired Wills’ imagination, and he got his fireman’s job at Clinton, lowa, in 1866. At 21 he was driving his own engine, and at 24 was trusted with the Fast Mail and the Denver Express. They tell all sorts of yams about him—for instance, about the new executive who went about “pulling” signals on the engineers to see if they were obeying them. When Wills was stopped, he saw what had happened, and waved his fists wildly at the executive on the platform. with considerable rough language. “Fired” From Burlington The executive complained. Wills was called on the carpet. “Yes, I swore at him and if he ever does it again, I’ll stop the train long enough to knock his block off,” he said. The executive received a gentle warning to let Wills alone. t> All this time he was active in labor organization. He was a charter member of the Firemen’s Brotherhood, joining at Clinton in 1868. In 1872 he joined the struggling engineers’ organization, and almost immediately became nationally prominent in it. He negotiated the second systemwide agreement ever entered—with th Northwestern. The ex-president of that road. R. H. Aishton, who warred with Wills over many a council board, but is a lifelong friend, now president of the American Railway Association, will help to do him honor Monday night. Wills helped to lead the famous Burlington strike. He was “fired” from the Burlington for merely belonging to a labor committee and later returned to the Northwestern. BOY, 9, TRIES SUICIDE Evansville Lad Makes Two Attempts at Drowning. llii Timex Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 14. Police have failed so far to find a motive for two attempts at suicide by drowning made by Leonard Coombs, 9, son of Leonard Coombs. The first attempt was frustrated by Melvin Smith, houseboat owner when he noticed the boy sitting calmly on a battered craft sinking in Pigeon Creek. He pulled the boy aboard his houseboat and he immediately jumped into the water, and was rescued again • Smith. Academy Reunion Sunday Bn Times Special FAIRMOUNT, Ind., July 14. Former teachers and students of the old Farmount Academy will hold a reunion here Sunday.

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This is the second of a series of ten articles on how to swim. They are written by the famous Zitenfleld twins of New York. 14-year-old girls, who hold the junior long-distance title. BY THE ZITENFIELD TWINS For NEA Service THE first step in learning how to swim is to overcome fear of the water. The best way to do this, of course, is to grow used to the water while still young. Mother used to take us in swimming when we were tiny babies. ’ But we never were afraid of the water. It is a mistake to take any child into the water who is afraid. Give him a sand pail and shovel and let him dig around on the beach and before he knows it he will be wading. It is only a step more clear into the water. Our advice is not for babies, however. We want to try to help boys and girls and adults make up their minds to learn swimming. Don’t Use Floats If starting in a pool, stick to the shallow end until you really can swim under your own power. Never use water wings. Try to duck and play ball or tag in the water until you don’t mind going under. Wallow around and learn to like the feel of water. You never can learn to swim if you don’t go under far enough to wet your hair. Don’t hold your nose,, either. Take a deep breath, hold it, duck to a squatting position, come up, exhale. If you do this easily, slowly, and try to enjoy it, you can easily grow used to water without being afraid And you should learn to keep your eyes open, too. Many persons fear to open their eyes. In keeping them shut, they thus develop another kind of fear for water. When you have learned to duck down and up again without being afraid, or out of breath, try the “dead man’s float.” Stretch out opon the top of the water, face downwards, hand out in i .ont, face under water, with breath held. The easiest way to do it is to start from the side of the tank and kick off with your feet. A Buoyant Feeling Stretch out your arms as you take a deep breath and push yourself from the side. If you, hold your body out taut, you will find that you float across the water easily. You will have to try it many times before you can push more than halfway across the tank. But this gives you a feeling of buoyancy that is essential to anyone who wants to swim. Try this “dead man’s float” for only a few seconds the first time. Just to ’f* t the position. Then repeat, try.ig to get a deeper breath and stay afloat longer. Never strain yourself trying to stay afloat longer than you can easily. That will come later. But the minute you accomplish a good “dead man’s float” you have learned several valuable things needed in swimming: buoyancy, the feel of water on the face, the ability to hold the breath without getting scared, and a sense of easy motion through the water. LIFT YULE TREE BAN | 1 U. S. Opens Gates to Importing Greens From Canada. Pji United Press WASHINGTON, July 14.—The Christmas tree situation is promising again, as the result of a decree by the agriculture department lifting the quarantine on trees and greens from the province of Quebec The quarantine was imposed because of the presence of the gypsy moth, which has now been eradicated, according to reports from the Canadian government. SCOUTS TO PLAY INDIAN Boys Will Depict Hiawatha Scenes at Reservation Tonight. Scenes-”- from “Hiawatha,” the poem, wili be' depicted tonight at the' Boy ;Scout' reservation, northeast of the city, j Scout officials will be guests at the entertainment. Scout leaders 1 from surrounding Indiana towns have been invited. Swiipming events and a parade wiil feature the program. Wife, 14, Asks Divorce Bn Thm s iKnee!,,l EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 14.—Mrs. Helen Kasper, 14, seeks a divorce here from Edward Kasper, 23, a painter, alleging he falsely represented her age as 18 to authorities when they were married and that he makes an sells liquor. The girl was a June bnde.

Phyllis Zitenfleld poses in the “dead man’s float.”

The PASSING PROCESSION

News of the Week Boiled Down

ject. But is happened. Seven men were electrocuted. Two had killed other men in holdups. One had killed another man in a feud. He protested his innocence to the end—“l never did nothing wrong.” Another had killed ttwo men. Two had killed their sweethearts. The last had killed in a fit of anger, for revenge. * It took one hour and fifty-seven minutes for the State to punish the seven for their crimes, and ei ablish anew record. The Department of Agriculture announced a new record, too. The

American people set this record. They (we Americans) consumed 334,703,610 gallons of ice cream last year, the department announced. Did you get your share? It was 2.85 gallons. That is on an average each person in the United States ate 2.85 gallons of ice cream. Last year was a record year with a total of 11,038,610 more gallons eaten than in 1926. Executions and ice cream—they’re far apart. But such is the passing procession of life. And from ice cream land, the far north, came word of rescues from death. The Russian steamer Krassin rescued from an icy island five men who were marooned there forty-two days before, when the North Pole dirigible Italia crashed. Death had seemed almost certain for those men. The day before the Krassin saved from a twenty-foot ice floe, on which they were drifting helpless, two of the three men who attempted to walk to the mainland from the Italia crew’s camp. The world had regarded them as lost long ago. Rescue came too late for one man of their party, the Swedish meterologist, Prof. Finn Malmgren. He died a month ago as the party sought to fight its way to the mainland, the scanty messages from the north said. There was little news this week on the mystery of the death of Capt Alfred Loewenstein, Belgium financier, third richest man in the world. A report that fishermen saw a parachute descend from an airplane about the time Lowenstein disappeared as his private cabin-airplane was flying across the English channel, came from France. PLANE DEATH STILL MYSTERY But there was little eke to help solve the mystery. Whether Loewenstein accidentally stepped through the wrong door to fall into the sea? Whether he deliberately killed himself by throwing himself from the plane? Whether he was pushed or misguided through the wrong door to death. Or whether he never died at all? In the Nnited States, politics was not forgotten in spite of the heat wave which brought deaths here and there. Hoover picked Aug. 11 as the date when he will be notified that the Republican party has decided he, instead of Senator Watson or several other ex-aspirar:ts will make the best next President of tfie United States. A1 Smith picked John J. Raskob, chairman of the General Motors Corporation, to run the campaign to seat him in the White House. Raskob was named chairman of the Democratic national committee. The Anti-Saloon League began its broadsides against Smith, Superintendent F. Scott Mcßride declaring Smith’s election “materially would aid the liquor criminals of the country.”

Over .in Pennsylvania sheriffs and dr raiders clashed. The Pennsylvania State Sheriff’s Association was holding a convention at Conneaut Lake Park, one of the usual summer resorts. The dry raiders led by the county prosecutor crashed into .the hotel 100 m in which the convention was enjoying itself The sheriffs resented the rude intrusion and biows were struck. But the matter was compromised. A bellboy was charged with possession of liquor. Nine of the sheriffs was arrested. Compromises are wonderful things. To counterbalance this there was the peace note from Germany. Germany wrote the United States declaring herself 200 per cent lor Secretary of State Kellog’s plan that all the nations sign a peace pact agreeing not to wage war except in self-defense.

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From Washington : came the interesting news that cigaret smoking has increased five-fold in the last ten years. During the year which ended July 1 cigaret smokers paid the Government $301,000,000 in taxes while Uncle Sam only realized $66,000,000 from the fag burners in 1918.

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IT is possible to kill seven persons in two hours, legally. It was done down in Kentucky and anew record set. Anew record set for the largest number of executions ever performed In the United States at one time. It’s not a very pleasant sub-

There were four or -five more liquor war deaths in Detroit. A tSt. Louis four bandits forced the automobile of a bank messenger into the rails of a bridge and escaped with $48,000 in cold cash. A jury at Colorado*Springs decided a money bite on the nose is worth SIO,OOO. A monkey in the zoo of a hotel bit a 15-year-old boy. The mother sued for SIOO,OOO, but the Jury thought SIO,OOO was enough.

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Automobiles stolen: William H Block, 3015 N. .Meridian St., LaSalle coupe, from in front of his home. George Kehrer, 1001 E. Georgia St., Ford sedan, 655-722, from Pearl St. and Capitol Ave. Fred T. Roadcap, Ravenswood, Ford roadster, 658-459, from Pennsylvania and Walnut Sts. Marion County Nash. Nash roadster, 631-766, from 17 E. Pratt St. John O Connor, 5066 W. Fourteenth St., Ford sedan, 639-257, from Court and Delaware Sts. M. C. Wisehart, 92 N. Dearborn St., Ford roadster, 646-967, from East and Massachusetts Ave. Paul Bridegroom, 622 E. TwentyFirst St., Ford coupe, 659-862, from New Jersey and Ohio Sts. William Wadsworth, 2432 N. Alabama St., Ford coupe, 661-039, from 314 Muskingum St. Ora Davis, 1415 Faulcey St., Wiliys-Knight touring car, from Bethel Ave., near Beech Grove. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles recovered by the police: Jess Miller, Ohio, 650-585, Diana touring car, sent to Market St. Garage; Gypsy band arrested. Jess Miller, Gpysy leader, Lincoln touring, Illinois, 676-732, Market St. Garage. Jess Miller Gypsy leader, Dodge truck, 29-634, Market St. Garage. Harley Meyers, 1562 W. New York St., Hupmobile coupe, Kentucky Ave. and Missouri St. DELAY PETERMAN CASE Judge Continues Trial of Man for , Selling Skeen Liquor. Trial of Adam W. Peterman, proprietor of a restaurant at 502 N. Noble St., has been postponed by Special Criminal Judge Fremont Alford. Defense Attorney E. H. Stewart declared he had not been notified of the trial in time to get his witnesses. Peterman is charged with having sold liquor to Carl, Skeen on June 13, the day Skeen took Mrs. Pearl Jarboe, waitress, for a ride, which ended when Mrs. Jarboe jumped or was pushed from the machine to her death. Skeen is charged with pushing Mrs. Jarboe from the car and is under indictment for murder. UNTIE MARITAL KNOTS Elopers Into Maryland Fare Badly in Pennsylvania. Bn United Press HARRISBURG. Pa., July 14. Marital knots tied in Maryland come loose in Dauphine County, Pennsylvania, it appears from court records which show that fifty-one of 174 couples divorced in this county last year were married in Maryland. Hagerstown, Md., just over the Pennsylvania-Maryland border line, is chosen by many Pennsylvania elopers for their weddings.

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INDIANA NATIVE NEW PRESIDENT OF NOTRE DAME University Headed by Father O’Donnell, a Graduate. NOTRE DAME, Ind., July 14.—A native Hoosier heads the University of Notre" Dame, with the election of the Rev. Charles L. O’Donnell, C. S. C., to succeed the Rev. Matthew J. Walsh. The new president served as an army chaplain during the World War. He is first assistant general of the congregation of Holy Cross and former provincial. He was graduated from Notre Dame in 1906 and also attended Holy Cross College, Harvard University and Catholic University. With the announcement of Father O’Donnell’s election, was that of various other appointments, including the following: Brother William, superior, Catholic central high school, Indianapolis; Brother Gerard, superior, Reitz Memorial high school, Evansville, and Brother Harold, superior. Catholic Central high school, Ft. Wayne. Directors of outlying posts: The Rev. Louis Kelley and the Rev. Thomas Lahey of Notre Dame, president and vice president, respectively, of Columbia University, Portland, Ore., and the Rev. Matthew A. Schumacher and the Rev. William A. Bolger, also of Notre Dame, president and vice president, respectively, of the new St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn.

AL IS WHIPPED, HEFLINCLAIMS Worse Defeat Than That of John W. Davis Predicted. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, July 14.—The Smith-Robinson ticket of the Democrats will suffer an even worse defeat than that accorded John W. Davis four years ago. Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama predicted here today. Heflin described the nominations of Smith and Robinson as the “worst work the Democratic party had done in fifty years.” “There is not the slightest hope of the Democrats winning in November,” he said. “I haven’t met a Smith or Robinson man in all the people I have talked with since the close of Congress.” Heflin said three-fourths of the women in the Democratic party would oppose the ticket. He predicted several southern States would put anti-Smith Democratic electors on their ballots and vote for them in preference to the regular party electors. Heflin said Smith must explain his attitude toward social equality in his acceptance speech if he expected to get any support in the South. “He already has made one mistake by repudiating the party platform,” Heflin said. BATTLE RADIO OUSTER Stations Plan Appeal to Test Law Ruling Them Out. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 14.—A series of suits to test the constitutionality of the radio law is expected to result from the cancellation of licenses of some of the 164 broadcasting stations now under investigation. It is regarded as likely that thirty to fifty of the 107 stations which have protested the order will be licensed to continue, but that some of the others, judging from their protests to the Federal Radio Commission in this week’s hearings, will take their cases to the courts if they lose. RAILROADERS TO FROLIC Peoria and Eastern Employes Plan Riverside Outing for Sunday. About 1,000 employes of the Peoria and Eastern Railroad will hold their fourth annual outing Sunday ? I Riverside Park. The Indianapolis delegation is expected to include about 400 persons. Two special trains will leave Peoria Sunday morning, picking up delegations along the route. Forty-two cities will send representatives. Twelve Pups Born to Setter Bn Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 14. “Mrs. Queen,” registered English setter owned by P. M. Wilson, local real estate dealer, has given birth to twelve puppies, seven male and three female. 6 6 6 .Kills M;itarla! Germs anil qulrkly relieves Biliousness, Headaches and Dlzziness due to temporary Constipation. All’s in eliminating Toxins and Is hLrhly esteemed for producing copious watery evaeuntlons.—Advertisement.

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Police Chief Claude M. Worley is distributing posters and cards about the city in his campaign to cut down automobile accidents. Above is shown Chief Worley holding one of 1,000 posters provided by the Globe Indemntiy Company. The posters show the sixteen causes of accidents. Below is shown one of 100,000 cards provided by the Hoosier Automobile Motor Club. The cards, warning of likelihood of accident to children playing in the streets, is being distributed by the Indianapolis Bell Telephone Company with its monthly bills.

LABOR LEADER SLAIN Shot From Auto in Chicago Indusrial War. Bn United Press CHICAGO, July 14.—Joseph Paul, 32, labor leader, was shot and killed last night by five men who fired upon him as he sat in his parked automobile. Fauk was talking to his brother, Frank, standing on the curb. Guns blazed from a passing automobile. Three pistol bullets struck Faul in the head, while the charge from a sawed-off shotgun * passed through his chest. The ;abor leader died almost instantly. Faul was a member of the Plumbers' Union and recently was elected delegate to the convention at Atlantic City. Police believe labor disputes were responsible for the* assassination. 2 ACCUSED IN KILLING Epileptic Village AttcndantyCharged With Slaying Inmate. Bn Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., July 11— Indictments charging manslaughter have been returned by the Henry County grand jury against Benjamin D. Allen and Claude Roach, attendants at the Indiana village for epileptics, in the slaying of Joseph Wysinger, 29, Negro, an inmate. Wysinger was killed during a fight at the institution July 6. He is said to have been reprimanded by Kelley Reeve, dairy farm foreman, for beating a cow at which he became angered when it switched its tail in his face. Find Civil War Shell Bn Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., July 14. Vincennes Bridge Company workmen engaged in digging a drainage ditch here found a minnieball, a relic of 'he Civil War. The balls, used as ammunition, were of two kinds, one being solid metal, the other hollow and filled with small pieces of metal. The one found was solid.

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ROBBERY PLANNED IN SCHOOL, YOUTH ADMITS Confesses With Pal to Stealing Clothes at Plainfield. William Shoeman, 20, used knowledge he gained at the Indiana Boys School at Plainfield, when he served a sentence tnere several years ago, to equip himself and companion, James Elder, 22, with new suits, he confessed to police today. The two confessed, according to detectives, that they broke into one of the Boys School buildings from the roof, dressed themselves in new suits in the storeroom and left their old clothes behind. They also took two new suits with them in a suit case. Shoeman said he was sentenced to the Boys School several years ago from North Vernon, Ind. They were arrested early today by Motor Policemen Charles Viles and Warren "McClure while the officers were investigating an attempted burglary at the Indiana News Com pany, 110 N. Senate Ave. EXPECT 300 IN SCHOOL St. John’s Acaderry Prepares for Record Attendance. St. John’s Academy, 135 W. Maryland St., will reopen next September with the largest attendance in the school’s history, officials announce. An attendance of 300 girls is expected in the girls’ high school, with more than fifty in the graduating class. Diplomas of the academy are accepted without condition at Butler University. Sisters of Providence are in charge of the school 1 Logansport Merchant Killed Bn Times Special LOGANSPORT. Ind.. July 14. Walter Maiben, 57, merchant, was fatally Injured when struck at a street crossing by an automobile driven by Arthur Copeland, a newspaper man.

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LONG CONFLICT ON MAYORALTY MAYJIEjIITILE City Manager Rule Likely Before Legal Tangle Is Settled. City manager government may overtake Indianapolis before any of the three claimants of the mayor’s office is able to establish his right! to the chair through the courts. This became evident to lawyers representing Mayor L. Ert Slack, Joseph L. Hogue and Ira M. Holmes, the claimants, today, with announcement from Chief Justice David A. Myers of Indiana Supreme Court that it is the consensus of tn Supreme judges that court shall adjourn for summer vacation July 20. * Arguments upon the mayoralty tangle, which at present is before | Supreme Court in suits of Hogue and Holmes, each seeking to oust Slack and seat himself, were held Friday. Briefs Yet to Be Filed This did not put the matter squarely before the judges for decision, since Holmes and Slack have not filed reply briefs to the latest brief of Hogue in his suit. With but one more week of sessions in prospect, it was not regarded likely by most lawyers that the court would settle the highly involved question with consideration of only a few days. Even if the court does hand down a decision next week, the matter is not ended definitely. The nature of the suits is such that no matter who wins they must go back to the Marion County courts, where they originated. Courts in Vacation The county courts now are in vacation until September. Should the matter get back to them early in the fall there still would be opportunity of appeal on error back to Supreme Court and the same routine of briefing and argument would be carried on again. Lawyers recall that such cases often, without undue dragging by judges, take from eighteen to twenty months to be decided. It is just eighteen months until the city manager form of government goes into effect and after that citizens care not who legally should have been mayor during the term Slack has held office. Slack "Would Stay Attorneys generally say that while the matter is being fought out in the courts Slack would continue to" hold office, even though the Supreme Court decided against him in the present affair, unless Hogue or Holmes found some novel means of tossing him out of the chair and sliding into his place. One attorney in the case has made two informal pleas to the Supreme judges that the decision be handed down before the summer adjournment, because Indianapolis government is hampered through inability of the city to sell bonds for needed improvements. Banks will not buy the bonds because they require the mayor’s signature and they do not care to accept a signature clouded by the suits. Petters Given Last Warning Bu United Press SEYMOUR. Ind., July 14.—Final warning against parking in tha middle of the country roads surrounding this city have been issued by Sheriff J. Otis Hays and Chief of Police W. A. Misch to auto petters. “The heat of the last few weeks,” the officials said, “has brought the county’s youth into the open with their petting parties. The general practice of the swain is to stop his flivver right in the middle of a country road and turn off all lights. This endangers the lives of sane motorists”

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