Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1928 — Page 2

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‘SQUARE MEAL, ’PLEA OFINMATES ATCOUNTYPOOR FARM

OLD FOLKS IN REBELLION AT FOOD QUALITY Seek Relief From Endless Stews and Scarcity of Meat. MEAL BUDGET SMALL Butter Served Three Times a Week; Chicken Twice Yearly. BY MORRIS MOORE Stew, stew, stew, then some soup, some hash and still more stew. Give us a square meal once in a while! This is the plea of some inmates of the County Infirmary, who have asked that an inquiry into their fare be made. The food appropriation averages 20 cents a day for each of the 425 inmates. Meat—not luscious steaks, but wholesome meat of any kind that will stick to the ribs. That’s what the broken, old people are asking for. They do get meat, declares Superintendent J. V. Carter. He declares they get meat ten times a week. Here’s how: Meat Ground Sliced, boiled meat is served twice, three times the residue goes into hash (35 to 40 pounds for 425 inmates) twice more a week into stews and three times a week smoked side meat is used to season beans. Some of the inmates insist that they can only recognize meat on the menu twice a week. They declare the hash is minus meat. Carter has an explanation for this: “We have the meat ground up and cooked into the hash with the vegetables because if it were cut into cubes or chunks the waiters would give more to their favorite inmates in return for tobacco or some such favor.’’ The inmates’ medium of exchange is tobacco. Chicken Twice a Year The inmates don’t go entirely without a banquet. Once a year—on Easter—they get eggs for breakfast, they say. And twice a year they get chicken —on Christmas and Thanksgiving cr some other holiday. The rest of the year its the same routine some inmates say. Jr i W. Bare, State Board of Cbarav inspector, investigated the infirmary menu last week and recommended that more eggs, milk and butter be fed the old folks. Limited by Appropriation Carter said an effort to comply would be made, but declares he has to struggle to make the $32,000 a year food appropriation from county council cover costs now. He says the poultry flock of the 300-acre

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EL PASO, Texas, July 21.—Partly successful In her attempt to set aside the exclusion order of United States immigration officials. Maria Conesa, Mexican actress, will leave for Havana, Cuba, today. She was permitted to enter the United States Friday, but only to travel to Havana. The Mexican government requested her to leave that country after she had defeated efforts to implicate here in a silk smuggling plot chargd against Gen. Jose Alvarez, chief of President Calles’ staff.

farm is not large enough to furnish eggs for the inmates. They raise strawberries and other garden truck at the infirmary. Off the half-acre berry patch this spring the inmates got strawberry short-cake—once. F. B. Carter, son of the superintendent, said the rest of the crop was preserved. Twenty gallons of preserves are stored for next winter he said. Not Enough Butter Twenty-four Holstein cows are milked daily. Butter is served three times a week, a portion placed on the plates with the bread. Carter is making an effort to increase this to four times weekly, since Bare’s visit, “Blue John,” said J. M. Darnell, 77, of milk he has seen in the three years he has been there. "I tried to get some for my stomach, on doctor’s orders, and couldn’t. Lots of us think it is the milk which has gone through the separator. “Every day is like a year,” added Mason Davis, 77, who has spent a year at the home. "The food? Sometimes it is good, sometimes it ain’t. It is too much the same, just stewed vegetables, bread and coffee, with a little meat now and then, or stew.” Henry Smith, 66, has spent four years there. He gets hungry between meals, “because there is not enough to eat,” he said. J. L. Owens and John Milner, 76, agreed with him. •

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HOLD LEAD IN AIRPLANE TOUR Fliers Leave Missoula for Great Falls, Mont. By United Press MISSOULA, Mont., July 21. Leaders of the national air tour held their respective places when the planes left today for Great Falls. Dan Robertson, flying a Curtis Robin monoplane, was forced to remain aground at Spokane Friday because of engine trouble. M. Gould Peard, waco biplane, was to-ceu down near Missoula with mot <r trouble and delayed several hou s. Scores of the five leaders: John P. Wood, Waco biplane, 13,509.4; Frank Hawks, Ford trimotor, 16,407.8; Randolph Page, Stlnson-Detroiter Jr., 15,258.5; Charlie Meyers. Waco biplane, 14,945.1; Eddie Stinson, Stinson-De-troiter, 14,512.

TWO DROWN IN HARBORCRASH Trapped in Cutter Rammed by Freighter. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—Ccast guard cutter 113 was rammed and sunk in Philadelphia harbor today by the shipping board vessel S. S. Culberson from Los Angeles, with the loss of two men. The accident* occurred near Overfall light vessel while the coast guard cutter was patroiiing in the vicinity of Cape May. The 113 was rammed amidship and sank immediately. Two men, John F. Haines of Pleasantville, N. J., and Dewitt T. Hale, 383 Park Ave., Atlanta, Ga„ were trapped in the engine room and drowned. Their bodies have not been recovered, though five cutters were searching for them. Hales’ next of kin is given as his sister, Mrs. Walter O. Gresebam of Washington, Ga. The other five members of the crew were injured. The 113 was a seventy-five-foot patrol boat. The Culberson, a freighter of 5,400 tons, was bound from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. According to information received here only the mast tip ol the sunken coast guard cutter shows above water. According to information from the Cape May coast guard station, the accident occurred during a light fog and stormy conditions on the water. The 113 was launched in 1924 and was valued at $40,000. England claims to be the pioneer nation for women aviators, two of whom hold commercial licenses for flying; but France lays claim to the first woman engaged in airplane construction engineering.

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ASSASSIN OF 06REGDN GETS 2 DAmO LIVE Confessed Killer Will Be Given Civil Trial for Murder. BY GESFORD F. FINE United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, July 21.—Inquiry along “religious lines” continued today into the assassination of Gen. Alvaro Obregon, president-elect, with punishment of Jose De Leon Toral, the confessed killer, delayed for at leastt wo days. Toral is to be given a civil trial and at present the war department and police officials are prevented from proceeding against the young caricaturist by an Amparo—similar to a writ of habeas corpus—granted Friday. Civil trial for Toral is unusual for Mexico in the case of such a crime. Generally execution is summary, such as was the execution of four men who attempted to bomb General Obregon’s motor car last fall. They were executed by a firing squad 48 hours after the crime. New Arrests Are Made But it was apparent from the announcement that Toral would be given a civil trial that the government of President Calles desires to avoid any possible outside critic sm and that also they believe a civil hearing might result in learnl ig who—if any one—aided Toral in the crime. It was learned authoritatively that new arrests had been made—in addition to the ten known to be arrested—and that the investigation probably would continue for about two days. The young assassin continues holding up well under the ordeal. He had expected to be killed for his crime, it became known today, and apparently is surprised at the delay. Quizzed by Calles Shortly after he was arrested President Calles Toral with the following reported text of questions and answers: “Who influenced you?” Calles asked. “It was a mandate of Christ the King that the laws of his religion should reign over Mexico,” Toral replied “What was your object?” “That the people might not be damned.” “Who were your accomplices?" “I had none. I did it all alone. If I had accomplices they would only have provoked confusion.’ “How did you expect to emerge from this crime?” “I believed I would be killed, but you see I am still alive. This is proof that all is the work of the Holy Spirit.” “Have you parents, wife or any relative? ’

Predicted Assassination “I have, but this is something that interests no one but my God and me.” “What is your name?” “Call me Juan.” “And your last name?” “This does not interest any one. My name is simply Juan, nothing more.” Meanwhile the body of former President Obregon neared his Sonora home after delays, due to rebel destructiveness. It became known also that General Obregon had predicted he might be assassinated from behind —Just as he was at the La Bombilla restaurant Tuesday—exactly one year before he was killed. July 17, 1927, he told his followers: ‘Our enemies are unable to fight face to face, either politically or with arms. They will endeavor to strike from the back.” FARMER PAYS FOR AD AIMED AT HOOVER Former Republican Blames Drop in Land Value on Party. Bn United Press CHICAGO, July 20.—At least one former Republican farmer is so wrathful at his party that he has begun spending his own money to urge fellow farmers to vote against its nominee. F. G. Snow, a resident of Kankakee, who owns and operates 5,000 acres in Illinois, lowa and Indiana, recently paid for a full-page anti-' Hcover advertisement in a Kankakee newspaper. The advertisement said: “I do not care whether you are Catholic or Protestant, wet or dry; the fact remains that the steady confiscation of farm lands is still going on and to an alarming extent, and because the conditions that are rausirig it are absolutely political and no fault of the farmer as a whole, except his vote. I claim that a vote against Hoover is a vote for a SSO average increase in the price of land and a chance to return to a fair measure of prosperity." LOCAL PRISONER FLEES Among Four in Break at Reformatory—One Recaptured. Bu Times Special PENDLETON, Ind., July 21. Three of four prisoners who escaped from the State reformatory here Friday afternoon during a storm, were still at large today The fourth, Lee True, 20, serving a term for vehicle taking, was captured an hour after the break lor liberty. Still at large are William Poland, 20, Indianapolis, robbery convict; James Louke, 27, robbery, and Luther Gates, 21, burglary. The largest proportion of blind people lose their sight during the first year of sight, and the next largest between the ages of 60 tvnd 70.

WATSON URGES FARMERS KEEP FAITHING. 0, P. Democrats Can Do No More for Relief, Speech Read to Editors Asserts. By Times Special CORYDON, Ind., July 20.—A1 Smith's courtship of the Indiana farmer was attacked in a speech of Senator James E. Watson read to the Indiana Republican Editorial Association rally here today. An infected eye prevented Watson from coming to the session in person. His speech was read by Maurrice Robinson of Anderson, Wabash College student and national collegiate oratorical contest winner. In the speech the senior Senator, staunch McNary-Haugen advocate and convert- to the farm relief promises of the Republican national platform and Herbert Hoover, declared agriculture may best expect solution of its problems to be achieved by continuing Republicans in power. Both Parties Agree Reaffirming his opinion the Mc-Nary-Haugen measure would have accomplished the desired result, Senator Watson nevertheless reminded editors he had never contended this means and no other could succeed. Stepping into the breach created by Governor Smith’s promise of an agricultural conference, given the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, Watson, the bureau’s primary choice over Hoover, devoted his address almost exclusively to the farm problem. “What Is the present situation of the two parties on the agricultural problem?” he asked at the outset. Differing in phraseology, national platforms of both parties, he said, "recognize the fact there is a farm problem; that there is a legislative solution for it, and both parties stand pledged to find and apply that solution.” Further, both parties recognize that solution depends upon handling of crop surpluses, he said. Senator Watson related his vigorous support of the McNary-Haugen bill, explaining the importance of the “equalization fee” which provoked the President's veto and the disfavor of the convention. Believes in Hoover Smith’s reply to the farm bureau compared with Hovoer's utterances on farm relief, reveal their stands to be almost identical, Watson said.. “What justification, then, can any Republican farmer have for leaving the Republican party and voting the Democratic ticket on the issues involved in the solution of the farm problem as set forth in these platforms?” Watson asked. “The entire Indiana delegation voted for the McNary-Haugen measure twice and supported it vigorously. Are they to be thrown down by the farmers of Indiana simply because the President did not agree with them? “Secretary Hoover recognizes and asserts the fact that there is a farm problem, that it must and will be solved and doubtless in his speech of acceptance he will make known his sympathetic attitude toward a proper solution.”

SET SHEARER RITES Civil War Veteran Was Native of County. Funeral services for William R. Shearer, 82, lifelong resident of Marion County, and veteran of the Civil War who died Friday, will be held at the residence on the E. Tenth St. Rd., near Shadeland Ave., at 3 Sunday afternoon. Dr. E. P. Jewett, pastor of the old Bethel M. E. Church, assisted by the Rev. John W. MFall of the Broadway M. E. Church, officiating. The George H. Thomas G. A. R. Post, also will conduct services at the home, and the Irvington I. O. O. F. Lodge will have charge at the grave. Burial will be in the family lot at the Aendrson cemetery. Mr. Shearer, son of Daniel Shearer, one of the early settlers of the community, was born in what is now Warren Township, this county, Oct. 29, 1845. He was a member of the 117th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, o fthe Persimmon Brigade, during the Civil War. He wa salso a member and trustee of the old Bethel M. E. Church, E. Twenty-First St., and a member of the Irvington Lodge, I. O. O. F. He was married to Miss Mary E. Swa:*m, Nov. 28, 1870. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1920. Besides his widow, a brother, Samuel H. Shearer, Indianapolis, and two sons, Walter E„ Warren Township, and Jesse A. Shearer, Indianapolis, survive. The name of the Forbidden City of Tibet is Lhasa.

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Her# Is the seventh of a series of ten swimming lessons written for The Indianapolis Times, by the Zitenfteld twins, Phyllis and Bernice, junior long distance champs. They describe In simple, direct terms the principles of swimming that have enabled them, at 14, to gain international fame for their endurance. BY THE ZITENFIELD TWINS For NEA Service FLOATING is another thing the swimmer must know. It is excellent for relaxing, resting, wait-

RAP U. S. RULE OF NICARAGUA Stickers on Mail Protest Marine Intervention. By Times Special WASHINGTON, July 21.—A new drive of protest against American Marines in Nicaragua is now under way by means of stickers attached to letters, in spite of the fact that the Postoffice Department put a summary stop to a similar attempt last winter. So far no move has been made by the department to stop this protest, and apparently none is contemplated. Last winter there was a storm of protest from Liberals when the postoffice declared letters bearing stickers with the legend "protest against United States Marine rule in Nicaragua” were declared unmailable. The matter was carried to the courts by the All-America AntiImperialist League and was decided in favor of the Government in a decision which declared the league did not come to the court with clean hands. These new stickers say “protest against United States Marines in Nicaragua.” Several Hundred of them have been sent out on letters in the past month, from New York. None has been returned except one wherp it developed an error had been made.

NEGRO FOUND SLAIN Head Nearly Severed From Victim's Body. Folice today held three persons as the result of the finding of a Negro with the head nearly severed from the body on the rear porch of the home of Marguerite (Sug) Anderson, Negro, 527 Patterson St. A sharp, long-bladed knife was found lying near the body. In the pockets of the dead man the police found a tag with the name J. W. Sampson, Acme Mills. He appeared to be about 28 years old. News of the death reached headquarters when a woman telephoned police at 1 a. m., saying there was a cutting scrape at the Patterson St. address. When Lieut. Fred Drinkut and the emergency squad arrived the house was empty, but a police officer stumbled over the body on the rear porch. Blood spots in all three rooms of the house indicated that the body had been dragged from the front room to the back porch. Buster McClarrin, 28, of 411 W. Ohio St.; Mary Thomas, 24, of 752 Kinney St., and Gladys Taylor, 20, of 754 Kinney St., Negroes, said to have been at the Anderson home early in the evening, are being held. Fight to Keep Postcffice By Times Special GRAY6VILLE, Ind., July 21. Citizens of this little Sullivan County town have petitioned that its postoffice be retained, despite an order by Postmaster General Harry S. New that it be closed July 31. A petition has been forwarded to him, but so far no notice of action upon it has been received. Several years ago when it was proposed to abolish the office, strong protests by citizens caused its retention. Chosen Burris School Head By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 21.—Dr. Robert G. Simpson has b*en chosen pprincipal of the new Burris School at Ball Teachers’ College here and will begin his duties at the opening of the fall term. He has been director of teacher training at State Normal College, Bowling Green, Ohio.

ing for that second wind that may be better than the first wind, if it only comes. Floating is really easy as can be, if you remember to think of your backbone while doing it. Take the deepest breath you can and turn on your back as you do it. Kick your feet up slightly, if they seem inclined to fall to the bottom, as most untrained feet do. Keep the body arched. Don’t be afraid to let the head rest back on the water. It is as :f you were sleeping on a bed without a pillow and your head felt a bit lower than your body. This is the only way you can float successfully. For if you insist on raising the head, that arch of the backbone is flattened and you sink. Keep your feet together. You can put your arms down at your sides. This is perhaps preferable until you get experienced. Then you can fold your arms under your head for a pillow and it makes no difference. Open your eyes if you feel at all worried. It may reassure you to see the blue heavens or the top of the swimming tank. After you get your position accurately, you will feel light as a cork, and find you can ride the billows with the same ease as a cork. Try not to mind if the water breaks over you. You will stay on top unless you get frightened and turn over or let your back collapse or swallow water. Floating is one pleasure many persons might learn without knowing how to swim, if properly taught. One can help a beginner, if he is careful not to help too much. Putting the hand under the nack and holding it there any length of time accustoms the floater to that much support. But if one just arches a floater's back and leaves him, it might nelp. The straightness of the body is the main thing. Keep the feet near the top of the water. This can be done by kicking slightly every time they seem to be getting away. After you really learn to float, you will find that you can breathe, look at the scenery and enjoy life on top of the waves.

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RUSH STREET i WIDENING FOR i FAIJLJAMES Fifty-Second St. Work to Begin Soon; Other Projects Planned. Widening of W. Fifty-Second St., from Illinois St. to Sunset Ave., it provided in specifications ordered today by the board of works. John C. McCloskey, board member, said the widening project was revised to eliminate the widening between Meridian and Illinois Sts. because of the heavy expense entailed in damages to property. McCloskey said the remainder of the project will not require great expense for purchase of additional land and damages. The street is to be rushed so as to serve the thousands of fans W’ho will visit the Butler University stadium at Fairview this fall. Property owners will be given a publics hearing. Specifications provide widening from fifty to seventy feet, making a forty-eight foot roadway. Public improvement contracts awarded by the board totalled $56,000. They were: Twelfth St. sewer, Arsenal to point 267 feet east, American Construction Company, $1,430; Concord St. permanent improvement. Tenth to Sixteenth Sts., concrete, A. D. Bowen Company, $15,366; Cornelius Ave.. paving, Fifty-Second St. to Westfield Rd., concrete, McNamara Construction Company, $7,767; Boulevard PI., paving, Fifty-Second St. to Westfield Rd.. concrete, McNamara Construction Company, $14,230; Pleasant Run, Llnwood Ave. and Jenny Lane sewer, from Pleasant Run to alley south of Washington, J. H. King Company, $3,659; Christian St., sew’er, from English to Clayton Ave., J. H. King Company, $1,620. A resolution fer Denny St. permanent improvement, Twenty-Sixth to Twenty-Eighth St., rescinded when majority property owners remonstrated. Resolutions adopted: Treatment of Ruckle, between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Fourth. Washington Blvd., between ThirtyFourth and Thirty-Sixth Sts. and College between Thirtieth and Thirty-Eighth St., with bituminous surface; Belle Vieu PI., Washington to Jackson St., paving; Wilkins St., Meridian to Pennsylvania S*s.. paving; Villa Ave., Raymond to Finley St., local sewer; Randolph St., Raymond to Findley. 700 Attend Convention By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 21. Business sessions of the nation-? convention of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity opened here today with an attendance of 700.

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