Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1928 — Page 3

JULY 21, 1925.

WAIT PICTURED TO LEARN FATE OF MALMGREN Flier Claims Photos Will Show Three on Floe Before Rescue, BY ALS ANDERSEN United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 19i8. by United Press) KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, July 21—The Soviet aviator Chukhunovsky, who first sighted Capts. Adalberto Mariano and Filippo Zappi and directed the Krassin to their rescue, in an interview today said he was greatly surprised when he learned Prof. Finn Malmgren also had not been rescued. He said he and his five aides felt certain they saw three men on the ice floe when their plane first passed over the little group. “When we espied the Malmgren group on the ice floe we were convinced we saw three persons, the first standing erect, the second bowing and the third lying down, Chukhnovsky said. Saw Men Tied Together “All three were tied together with ropes to prevent their slipping off the ice floe, which was only twenty square meters, surrounded by open water. We were greatly surprised on learning that only two were rescued. , . , . "It is possible we mistook a bundle of garments for a third person. However, we hope this will be clarified through pictures we took while cruising over the ice floe. The smallness of the spot prohibited our dropping supplies winch, moreover, was inadvisable since tne starving men would have gorged themselves to death.” Mariano and Zappi, after then rescue by the Krassin, said they had left Malmgren alive after he had been urable to proceed with them on their walk across the ice floe, searching for rescue. Ma.mgren had been injured when the dirigible Italia crashed May 25, but he was leader of the smail expedition that started out for aid. Suffers Frozen Leg The two Italian captains said his Injuries and a frozen leg prevented him from continuing the march, • and that he had insisted they continue and leave him . . .. Meanwhile the rescued Italians of the dirigible prepared to leave on the Citta Di Milano to start back to their homes in Italy, T™ Citta Di Milano has been ordered to carry the men to Narvik immediately so they may return to their native land. . „ The Krassin meanwhile is unaeieping repairs on her prow befoye continuing a search for the Roald Amundsen party and the six men - who floated away with the envelope of the dirigible.

ANTI-WAR PACT IS APPROVED BY JAPAN Acceptance by Entire World Is Predicted in Note. Bn United. Press WASHINGTON. July 21.— Acceptance of the renunciation of war treaty “by the whole civilized world is foreseen by Japan, whose note approving the American draft of the anti-war pact was published todain the note, which was addressed -to Ambassador MacVeagh in Tokio Foreign Minister Tanaka said. I cannot conclude without congra ilia ting vour Government most v-armlv upon the rapid and general acceptance which their proposals have met with. Czecho-Slovakias reply, the last to be received from the fourteen nations invited to sign the pact, probably will be made public tonight. ______ u. sTgTrls attackeo Chinese Policemen Ts Accused in Crime at Hankow. £ a United Press HANKOW. China, July 21.—Reports reached here today that two American girls. 8 and 10 years old. had been attacked at Yu Ling by a Chinese policeman. The girls were said to be aaugnters of a Seventh Day Adventist missionary. L. P. Lockhart, consul general at Hankow, has asked Yu Ling authorities for details preparatory to protesting officially.

INSPECTS HIGHWAY SITE Tax Board Investigates Proposed J. E. Huff Road. Members of the State tax board Friday inspected the proposed location of the J. E. Huff Rd., Lawrence Township. Marion County, for which a $66,000 bond issue has been asked. Objection has been raised by citizens on the ground that the road does not go to a schoolhouse, where needed, in their opinion, but is designed to benefit realty holdings. ADDRESS ROTARY CLUB Fred Hoke and Dick Miller to Talk on Each Other’s Records. Two Rotary Club members are t<? talk about each other at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool Tuesday. Fred Hoke, of the Holcomb and Hoke Manufacturing Company, will tell the club of the financial and industrial activities of Dick Miller, City Trust Company and Chamber of Commerce president. Miller will talk on Hoke’s industrial and community activities.

In The Air

CONDITIONS AT 9:30 A. M. (Compiled for The Times by Government Weather Observer J. H. Armineton and Donald McConnell. Government aeronautical observer.) Cealing. unlimited; visibility, 6 miles; barometric, 29.98; wind west, 7 m. p. h.

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COOLIDGE PICKS ROY WEST FOR CABINETBERTH Chicagoan Named to Fill Office of Secretary of Interior. Bn United Press SUPERIOR, Wis.. July 21.—President Coolidge has filled one of the cabinet vacancies growing out of the presidential campaign by appointing Roy O. West oi‘ Chicago as secretary of the interiot The appointment takes effect immediately. West succeeds Dr. Hubert Work, who resigned from the cabinet to devote himself to Herbert Hoover s Republican presidential candidacy as chairman of the Republican rational committee. • The other cabinet vacancy created by the campaign was Hoover's resignation as secretary of Comerce. Although Mr. Coolidge is known to be giving considerable attention to the matter of a successor to Hoover no indication has been given of when the appointment will be made. West Active in 1924 West is Republican national committeeman from Illinois and took an important part in the 1924 presidential campaign. He recently conferred with the President at Cedar Island Lodge. It was understood he was offered the interiorship at that time. Mr. Coolidge favors Paris as the site for a conference next summer of signatory powers to the anti-war treaty now being concluded by Secretary of State Kellogg, it was indicated. The treaties would be signed formally by the fourteen major powers now interested at the conference. It is felt that the French capital would be more convenient than an American city for the meeting. Favors Merchant Marines It has been learned that Mr. Coolidge believes the terms of the new merchant marine measure provide a better market for Govern-ment-owned ships and at the same time offer wider inducements to private shipping interests. No details of the new measure have been transmitted to the summer capitol however. The President has been invited to attend a log-rolling contest, Aug. 17-19, at Brownstone Bowl, near Washburn, Wis. The invitation was enclosed in a hollowed veneered log.

NEW DRY AGENT QUIZ WAITS RESULT IN FIRST Civil Service Test WiU Not Be Announced Until August. New civil service examinations for dry agents will not be announced until results of the first examination have been compiled, probably the middle of August, according to information received by Henry M. Trimpe, local civil service secretary. Rating of written examinations has been completed and oral and character investigations rating will be completed early in August. New examinations will be held only in States where there are insufficient eligibles, it was announced. Incumbents in the 2,500 newly classified dry agent, posts are serving under temporary appointment. Ten of twenty-three Indiana dry agents failed on the written test last winter. SCOUTS FILE PETITION Troops of Nearby Towns Ask to Join Local Area.

Petitions of Boy Scout committees of Edinburg, Greenwood and Noblesville to become members of the proposed Indianapolis area were presented at the council meeting Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce. Under the proposed six-county area plan, a field executive would be available to aid all in developing thrr county scout work, it was explained by C. M. Finnell, national associate region executive of Chicago. The petitions were signed by Willett Pallar, Jr., and Mark Adler of Lebanon; M. T. Kelly and Walter Grass of Greenwod; Carl Jump and Donald Jenkins of Noblesville, and S. C. Harrell of Edinburg. PLAN TWO RIVER SPANS State, Private Bridges to Cross the Ohio at Evansville. Attorney Frank M. Hatfield of the C. W. Chapman Company, Chicago investment house, announced at the Statehouse today that the Evans-ville-Ohio River Bridge Company, incorporated by his firm, will commence at once to erect a bridge over the Ohio at Evansville. The bridge will be a private toll project. Director John D. Williams of the State Highway Department says that the highway commission is going forward with plans for erection of a State-owned bridge there as directed by the 1927 Legislature. Fire Damages Iron Works Sparks from an emery wheel, which ignited some paint, caused a S2OO fire at Central Iron Works, 119 W. Norwood St., late Friday.

Maintaining secrecy as to their destination, the two French pilots pictured at the right took off from Villacouby Airdrome, France, with sufficient fuel to carry them across the Atlantic. They were believed headed for the United

VIOLENCE TOLL 139 THIS YEAR Report Shows 23 Homocides and 41 Suicides. Twenty-three homocidal and forty-one suicidal deaths have occured in Marion County since the first of the year. The total violent deaths from all causes is 139 according to figures compiled by Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier, president of the Indianapolis safety council. Recent police and bandit slaying has swelled the total for homocides. Os the twenty-three listed, thirteen were slain by firearms, two by knives and six unclassified, which includes clubbing and strangulation. Fifteen persons shot themselves, fourteen took poison, seven hung themselves, four drowned themselves and one died from asphyxiation. Sixty-six were killed in traffic accidents. Falls was the second largest accidental cause, totaling thirtyone. Drowning ranked third with ten. Railroad accidents and firearms each claimed six, burns four, accidental poisoning and street cars two each. Six other deaths were accidental and unclassified, such as electrocutions, fractures and the result of being struck by objects.

FIREMEN PLAN PICNIC Big Four Enginemen to Hold Riverside Outing Next Thursday. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen of the Big Four Railroad will hold their annual picnic at the Riverside amusement park next Thursday. Four hundred members are expected to attend. The men’s committee consists of G. W. Bowersox, A. J. Abdon and Harry E. Smith, while the women’s committee is composed of Mrs. Emma Ford, Mrs. Al Abdon and Mrs. E. J. Miller. There will be athletic and other contests during the afternoon, it is announede. HITCHCOCK GIVES TALK Exchange Club Hears Theater Star at Lincoln. An appeal for good nature and kindliness was made to Indianapolis Exchange Club members Friday at the Lincoln by Raymond Hitchcock, theatrical favorite appearing this week at the Lyric theater. Hitchcock urged temperance, which he said is not synonymous with prohibition. He said intelligence or morals cannot be legislated. A feature of his talk was a learned, somewhat involved, discussion of the Einstein theory of relativity. Hitchcock is a member of the Cleveland Exchange Club.

METHODISTS INCREASE State Ranks Fifth in Number of Churches, Members. Indiana ranked fifth in the members of Methodist Episcopal Churches and membership in 1926, according to a Department of Commerce report. Membership of 288,181 in the 1,449 F'oosier churches was shown The suivey showed the membership in the United States increased from 3,717,000 to 4,080,000 from 1916 to 1926. The number of churches dropped from 29,315 to 26,130. Pennsylvania led the States, with Ohio, New York and Illinois following. NAB 3 FOR AUTO THEFT Car Returned to Owner Before Reported Stolen. Police at 3 a. m. recovered an automobile owned by Robert A. Bolyard, 2539 Broadway, before he had reported the car stolen from Ohio and Meridian St. Lieut. Otto Petit arrested three "Negroes who were in the car on Indiana Ave. The men gave their names as: Leon Swanningan, 415 Minervia St.; Eugene Campbell, 609 W. Tenth St., and Charles Jones, 414 W. Vermont St. Burglars Loot Church By Times Special BASS LAKE, Ind., July 21.—Burglars have left only the pews and organ to the Lutheran Church. Bibles, song books, baptismal font, carpets and rugs were stolen.

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States. Captain Wackenheim, left, military pilot, and Lionel de Marmier, civilian flier, are shown in the fuselage of their ship. Above is their single-motored Potez monoplane, which was loaded with 5,000 litres of gasoline when it left the field.

Initials Linger li'j Times Special EVERTON. Ind., July 21.—A land terrapin on whose back Virgil Griffith and Walter Moore carved their initials May 17, 1904, has been found by Donald Wilson on his farm southwest of here. The lettering is still almost as plain as it was when carved twenty-four years ago, Wilson says.

AUTO iSOMB DETAILS TO BE AIRED AT INQUEST Story of Attentions to Slain Man’s Wife Will Be Told Bn United Press ROCKFORD, 111., July 21.—The story of the attentions paid by Paul Reed of Oregon, 111., to Mrs. Vernon Plager will be told today at the inquest into Plager’s death. He was killed by a bomb concealed in his automobile which exploded when he stepped on the starter. Plager, before his death, accused Reed of the tombing. Reed, surrendering to Oregon authorities, denied the accusation. Mrs. Plager said she eloped with Reed last year, but returned to her husband two weeks later and was forgiven. She said Reed had been annoying her recently. It was established that the bomb placed in Plager’s automobile contained a heavy charge of dynamite. PUPIL VISITS TEACHER OF FIFTY YEARS AGO Mrs. Anna Ferre Recalls Old Days in Boone County. School days of a half century, ago were recalled by Mrs. Anna Ferree, 2151 Central Ave., recently, when she received a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Marion Coffin, Los Angles, Cal. Coffin was a pupil of Mrs. Ferree when she was Miss Anna White and taught the primary grades at the old Friends’ School in Boone County, near Thorntown, Ind. The place was then known as the Sugar Plain School ana had a fine reputation in central Indiana. Among the early principals of the school were Professors John Chawner and Absolem Rosenberger, both of whora still are living in California. Prof Chawner is almost 90. Mrs. Ferree is 80, but is able to get about freely. Her former pupil has gained fame as an architect, being one of the designers of Union Station here. DENY~HUFF RD. PAVING Tax Board Refuses to Authorize $66,000 Bond Issue. The $66,000 bond issue for improvement of Huff Rd., known as Shadeland Ave., between ThirtyEighth and Fifty-Sixth Sts., was denied today by the State tax board, following inspection of the road. Members said the improvement is not of sufficient immediate necessity to justify the cost, considering the financial structure of Lawrence Township.

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WORKS BOARD FILES PLEA FOR BUDGETJOOST Asks $260,000 More for Next Year; Pay-as-Go Plan Urged. Appropriation of $1,615,000 for 1929 expenditures was asked today by the board of works following paring of departmental requests at' a conference with the board. The figure is an increase of $260,000 over last year's appropriation, principal increases being $113,000 for water and light bills and $76,000 for equipment in the street commissioner’s office. “We have made up our budget on a business basis irregardless of what folks think. There are certain fixed bills which the city has to pay sometime and it is better to put them in the budget than to pay 6 per cent interest on the indebtedness.” President Oren S. Hack said. “We intend to pay as we go next year. The board decided on a 5cent levy for street resurfacing. We asked the maximum because of the necessity for issuing some 15140,000 worth of certificates of indebtedness this year to meet emergencies. By including what money we will need in the budget the city saves the interest,” Hack said. Prepare Two Budgets “There will be a deficit of something like $73,000 in utility bills this year. Our request was increased from the $700,000 appropriated last year because it is foolish to let the deficit accumulate from year to year and then retire the debt with a bond issue after a court judgment has been obtained,” Hack declared. Works board departments askedAdministration, $875,950, an increase of $114,000; public buildings, $53,000, jump of $9,000; city engineer, $213,745, $69,000 increase; assessment bureau, $14,000; drop of $1,000; municipal garage, $83,000, jump of $14,000, and street commissioner, $373,470, an increase of SBO,OOO. Street Commissioner Charles A Grossart prepared two budgets one based on the proposed motorization of the department and the other on continuation with mule power. Replacement of thirty - three mules with ten trucks will make possible a saving of about SIO,OOO a year in operation and maintenance, increasing the efficiency of the department 300 per cent. Board Member Charles L. Riddle estimated. The saving the first year will pay for the cost of the motor equipment. Equipment Condition Bad Grossart reported the street cleaning and sewer department equipment in bad condition, most of the department's trucks are ten years old and require heavy upkeep costs. He recommended replacement of equipment by purchasing twentyseven pieces of apparatus and trucks. The entire budget was reclassified, men being listed in the departments to which they are assigned. City Engineer A. H. Moore asked $27,000 for maintenance of flood prevention walls along White River and Fall Creek. The board requested a levy of 4.6 cents for track elevation instead of the 6 cent maximum.

PLAY PLANNED IN PARK Will Feature Wednesday Night Program. “The Victory of a Good Citizen." a playlet, will feature the program to be given in Christian Park Wednesday evening under the direction of Miss Emmeline Joseph. Miss Joseph has developed a general pageant from the dancers in the entertainment under the direction of Miss Hazel Abbett. pageant supervisor. Besides the playlet and the pageant, there will be folk dances, songs, recitations and musical specialties. TRAIN FALLS IN RIVER Long Island Car, 15 Passengers, Plunge From Bridge. Bu United Press ..EW YORK, July 21.—A commutation train of the Long Island railroad was wrecked when it ran by a red signal at Hammill drawbridge on Long Island today. One car. reported to have been carrying fifteen passengers, went off the bridge and into the water and another car turned over. All of the passengers were rescued from the water, but a few were injured, according to reports reaching the railroad’s main offices here.

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Anew type of oxygen mask developed by the Los Angeles fire department is impervious to water as well as smoke. Firemen William Adams is shown here with the mask- He found it possible to breathe while submerged so t a long period.

THOMPSON AID OUTOFOFFICE Fitzmorris Resigns as Chicago City Controller. Bu United Press CHICAGO. July 21.—The loss of one of his Cabinet officials, and the reported intention of another close friend to be a candidate to succeed him, were added to Mayor Willilam Hale Thompson’s worries today. Chafles G. Fitzmorris, city controller and former chief of police, threw up his job last week after Thompson had ignored his warnings that the administration was overspending. The resignation did not become known until Friday when Fitzmorris was asked why one of his deputies in the controller’s office appeared to be in charge. Fitzmorris said Thompson had not accepted the resignation, “but I’m through, whether he does or not.” He would not say what his letter of resignation contained nor would he discuss the incident other than to explain he wanted to devote all his time to his coal business. George F. Getz, active in landing the Derrpsey-Tunney fight for Chicago, anc a friend of both Thompson and Fitzmorris. was rumored the controller post.

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Bee —Cause Bn Times Special DECATUR. Ind., July 21. When Mrs. Floyd Death at- I tempted to drive a bumblebee from an auto she was driving after it stung her on the forehead she lost control of the machine and it turned a somersault. She escaped with minor cuts and bruises, but the car is believed damaged beyond repair.

TWO HURT IN CRASH Women Taken to Hospital, Driver Disappears. Two women were hurt when two automobiles collided on the National Rd., four miles east of the city limits at 4:40 this morning. Mrs. Sarah Chapman, 64, and Mrs. Edna Chapman, 30, both of New Albany, Ind., were taken to city hospital. A man, giving his name as Kuriter, 119 N. East St., left the scene before Motorpolice Charles Viles and Warren McClure arrived. Both cars were going east on the National Rd. when the car with license 228-660 crashed into the rear of the auto driven by C.aude Chapman, 36, of 207 Sleener St., New Albany, Ind., in which the women were injured. Chapman and his son James, 12, were uninjured.

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HIRAM JOHNSON SWINGS FORCES TO AID HOOVER Quashes Hopes of Al Smith to Win California, Leaders Believe. BY PAUL R. MALLON, (United Press Staff Correspondent) PALO ALTO, Calif., July 21.—Tha Hiram Johnson leadership which never has been more than lukewarm to the candidacy of Herbert Hoover is enthusiastically getting aboard the Hoover band wagon. Governor C. C. Young of California, a Johnson leader, notified Hoover today that he would be his first guest and was invited to lunch. Simultaneously, announcement was made that Johnson himself will be one of the first callers when Hoover opens his palatial villa office for conferences next week. Leaders to Pledge Aid Both Young and Johnson are coming to inform the Republican presidential nominee they will take as prominent a part in his campaign as he desires, according to Hoover’s friends. These friends believe wholehearted support from the Johnson leaders will eliminate whatever chance Governor Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nominee, had of carrying this State which gave the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, in 1916, Young's call was primarily a matter of state, but its political significance was remarked by political observers in the Hoover camp. The swing of Johnson and his leaders to Hoover was not unexpected. They did not oppose him in the State primary. Some of them had indicated, however, they might not desire active work for the Hoover ticket. Rest Over Week-End News that they will, has pleased Hoover’s friends and a binding peace pact is expected. No other visitor than Young will be received by Hoover until Monday. Then Johnson and numerous other State leaders will be consulted. The nominee and Mrs. Hoover de. sired to rest over the week-end in their San Juan Hill villa, overlooking the campus of Leland Stanford University. Mrs. Hoover pulled through without physical difficulty, the ordeal of attending Friday the funeral of her father, C. D. Henry, Monterey banker, whose body was cremated by his order and placed In a vault in Cypress Hill Cemetery. The ancient capital of Siam— Ayuthia—has been hidden in the jungle for four centuries.