Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1928 — Page 15

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JULY BUILDING ABOVE MONTH OF LAST YEAR Indianapolis and Nine Other Hoosier Cities Show Gains. $3,000,000 IN PROJECT Chain Store Company Plans Structure at Ft. Wayne. fsr BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Gain of $403,375 in building in Indiana for July this year over the same month in 1927 is worthy of note in a business and industrial survey of the State for the week ended today. Os twenty-two cities covered by the survey, ten show gains. They are Indianapolis, Anderson, East Chicago, Ft. Waynay Huntington, Kokomo, Michigan City, Mishawaka, Muncie and Shelbyville. Among twenty-five of the leading cities of the entire Nation, Indianapolis ranks seventeenth. The Bank of America National Association, New York, after a Na-tion-wide survey, announces that Indiana has the smallest bonded indebtedness among forty-four debtor States, the per capita being 11 cents. Following is a summary of conditions in various Indiana cities and towns! FT. WAYNE —Schulte United, Inc., a chain store company, plans erection of a modern business building at a cost of $3,000,000. Jobs for 200 More MARION—The Case Electric Corporation has bought the Marion Electric Company to increase its facilities, business now requiring operation on a twenty-four-hour-a-day basis. The Case corporation manufactures radio sets, automobile accessories and electric phonographs. An increase of 200 in the working force is planned. ROCKPORT—The Rockport Sanitary Pottery Company plant, closed during receivership, is to be reopened at once, giving employment to sixty men and forty women, with a monthly payroll of $25,000 to $30,000. The plant was recently sold by the receiver for $40,000 to Richard J. D'Eath, Ann Arbor, Mich., and George S. Barhentine, Zanesville, Ohio. NEWCASTLE The GalesburgCoulter Disc Company, with plants here and at Galesburg, 111., has booked orders from the Packard Motor Company and Hupp Motor Car Corporation for clutch discs to fill all requirements for next year. July sales of the company exceeded $500,000, the largest single month’s business in its history. Plans Double Schedule GREENSBURG—Operations on a twenty-four-hour-a-day schedule will begin soon at the plant of the Cyclone Fence Company and the working force will be doubled. BLOOMINGTON—The Vermilya Medicine Company, with its laboratory working on a day and night schedule, has increased its capital stock from SIO,OOO to $50,000, and plans to extend its sales organization, now covering Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, over other States. LEBANON—Operations at the Hicks Bus Body Company are on an overtime basis and a 36x80-foot building is being erected to house the painting department. SEYMOUR—The Bromwell Brush Manufacturing Company reports booking of a number of large orders with good prospects for a busy fall and winter season. COLUMBUS—Bartholomew County farmers will receive approximately $125,000 through sale of tomatoes and corn' to the Morgan Packing Company, canning of the two crops now being in progress. EDINBURG—With completion of a building for the Edinburg Furniture Company there will not be a vacant business structure here. Glass Plant to Reopen VINCENNES More than 200 men will have jobs next week when the Blackford Window Glass Company plant resumes operations after a shutdown since June 20, while repairs were being made. TERRE HAUTE—Between 70 and 100 men are to be added to the working force of the Highland Iron and Steel Company, when a plant addition is completed Nov. 1. CLINTON—The Submarine mine, owned by the Ferguson Coal Company, has resumed operations. It employs several hundred men when on full production. WASHINGTON Davies county fruit growers will receive $20,000 for this year’s peach crop, shipment of which started this week. SOUTH BEND—A permit for construction of the main part of this city’s new Union station has been issued to the Walsh Construction placing an SBOO,OOO value on that portion of the work. Other work and furnishings are expected to make the total cost of the station considerably in excess of $1,000,000. It is to be completed by Jan. 1. SULLIVAN—A cheese factory will be in operation here by Oct. 1. The factory will use milk from 1,500 cows. RENSSELAER —Hope that 20,000 acres of land in Jasper County and large tracts in Newton, Pulaski and Starke Counties may be brought to a high state of cultivation is expressed by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, owner of the laud, which reverted to it when former owners were unable to pay mortgages. The I company has opened an office here which will be headquarters for a force which will work with Purdue University in an effort to make the farming venture profitable.

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GETS HOOVER’S JOB

New Secretary Tireless Worker

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Cabinet post is his first in politics; future of sons assured before accepting honors.

William F. Whiting, Herbert Hoover’s successor as Secretary of Commerce. HOLYOKE. Mass., Aug. 24. —Hale, alert and at 64 still a tireless worker—that is William F. Whiting, who takes Herbert Hoover’s job as United States Secretary of Commerce. His appointment was a surprise to Holyoke, his home city—but it was a welcome onee. Holyoke long has known Whiting as the one Massachusetts delegate to the 1920 Republican convention who throujh ten ballots voted consistently for Calvin Coolidge as the presidential nominee of the year, and finally saw’ “Cal” go over as vice president and thus president-to-be.

Coolidge and Whiting both are loyal alumni of Amherst College. At Amherst, Cooldige. of the class of ’95, heard much of “Bill” Whitting, the football star w’ho graduated nine years before. Whiting was born in Holyoke. Here his father. William Whiting, had a prosperous paper manufacturing business. Father Was Congressman The elder Whiting w’as a Congressman and W'as an intimate of President McKinley, so it was natural that the son should become interested in things political. The prosperity to which the father guided the paper concern W’ould have allowed his son plenty of leisure for outside activities had he so chosen. But he elected to remain a worker, keeping out of the public eye and giving strict attention to his business. It is said here Whiting was offered choice governmental posts in the present administration long ago. But no public office seemed to tempt him. His interest in national affairs in general, and Republican policies in particular, grew steadily. however. He is a friend of Herbert Hoover, William Jardine. and other Cabinet men. Friends have pointed to Whiting as the inspiration behind not a few administration plans. Assured Sons Future Friends say Whiting's aversion to personal participation in politics w r as due to his desire to insure prosperity for his family and establish his sons in the business that his father founded. This he has done. The industry now actively is managed by William, Edw’ard and Fairfield Whiting. So the father is ready for his new job. Whiting has a real farm here in Holyoke, within the city limits. Although its value has increased tenfold, he has refused to part w’ith a single acre and calmly goes on raising his prize cattle and chickens. Whiting comes from many generations of old New’ England stock, is a member of the Congregational Church, and is a thirty-second degree Mason.

Clear Lake Is Suggested for Week-End Trip

For the week-end vacationist the Hoosier Motor Club suggests a trip to Clear Lake and gives the following routing from this city: Follow State route 67 (Pendleton Pike) through Lawrence, Oaklandon, Fortville, Ingalls, to Anderson. Take State route 9 north via Alexandria. Marion, to Huntington; United States Road 24 to Ft. Wayne; United States 27 to Garrett, Auburn, Waterloo, Pleasant Lake and Angola. Thence over a marked county road through Fremont to destination. The distance is approximately 183 miles. The road is paved from Indianapolis to Ft. Wayne with the exception of a short gravel gap at the east edge of Huntingtor. It also will be necessary to drive carefully around construction between Marion and Huntington. Gravel extends from Ft. Wayne to Garrett and then is treated stone surfaced road with some gravel to Clear Lake.

ARREST OF LIQUOR PURCHASERS URGED TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION LAW

ARREST the purchasers of liquor, whether they buy “imported” stuff by the case or half-pints of diluted alcohol. Allow public ridicule to do the rest. This, in the opinion of Alexander G. Cavins, assistant United States district attorney, is the way to bring about more complete observance of the prohibition laws. Cavins believes that the present scheme should be supplemented, that efforts in liquor law enforcement should be directed against

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JEWISH CUff ENDS SUNDAY All-Day Frolic to Be Held by Children. Indianapolis citizens have been invited to drive out to that portion of the old Stoughton Fletcher estate known as the Laurel stock .farms Sunday afternoon and witness a field day frolic that will close the eight w’eeks of camp life for underprivileged children under auspices of the Indianapolis Jewish Federation. During the eight weeks ninetyfive children from the poorer Jewish homes of the city have enjoyed the benefits of healthful, supervised camp life in the great out-of-doors. The camp has been a health resort where those who were undernourished have gained a pound and one-half a week or more. The camp is under the direction of Miss Helen Orkin. who has charge of the Sunday program. Members of the camp committee are Dr. H. A. Jacobs, chairman; Julius Falender. Louis Wolf, Jacob Wolf and Dr. R. A. Soloman. BACKLESS SUITS STIR FRENCH BATH RESORTS Practical Ladies Scorn Seclusion for Sun Baths. Dll United Pro i* DEAUVILLE. Aug. 24.—Cartoonists have been lampooning women's bathing garb, contending that they could be folded into a vanity bag, but Deauville gasped w’hen anew freak of fashion cut away almost half of what is left of swimming gear. The stylish bathing suits are now backless. They still have shoulderstraps and a bib. but are cut low’er ir. the back than any evening gown was ever trimmed. For several seasons bathers retired to a comparatively quiet corner of the beach and opened the tops of their bathing costumes to let the sun play on their backs. Practical women suddenly decided that all this w’as a w’aste of time, and if the bathing suits had no backs the effect would be the same.

INDIANA WHEAT CROP FIFTH OF NORMAL; FARMERS LOSE BY SHIFT TO HARD GRAIN

Indiana's wheat crop is about one-fith normal. The price is 90 cents a bushel, compared with $1.25 a year ago. For the first time in history Indiana is harvesting less soft wheat than hard. Farmers, consequently, have failed to profit by the premium soft wheat brought them over hard. If the condition persists, soft wheat millers will go out of business. And Mr. City Resident, blandly unconcerned with the farmer’s woes, will complain when Friend Wife resorts to hard wheat flour to make his biscuits, pies and cakes. That's the way the wheat situation in Indiana is sized up by B. B. Benner. secretary-treasurer of the Central States Soft Wheat Grow-

the consumer of the bad booze flood. Os course, bootleggers should be arrested too. “Punish the man who buys liquor and there won't be so many bootleggers to prosecute,” said Cavins. “Stop the demand and the supply will stop itself.” B B B “nnHE Wright bone dry law J. makes provision for punishment of purchasers as well as bootleggers,” Cavins pointed out.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUG. 24, 1928

125 CASES GO TO U. S. JURY IN FALL TERM District Attorney’s Office Prepares for Opening Sept. 11. THREE BIG SUITS SLATED Strip Stamp Conspiracy Is Among Important Hearings. With seventy-five cases ready to present, Albert Ward, United States district attorney, is preparing for the fall" Federal grand jury session, to start Sept. 11. Probably 125 cases, involving 150 to 175 individuals, will be presented to the grand Jury for consideration, it is expected. A majority of the cases are ior liquor law violations, although there is the usual run of narcotics, white slavery, counterfeiting, banking and postal violations. The district attorney's office has spent the summer months in preparing to go to trial in the counterfeit strip stamp conspiracy case, Steinbrenner Rubber Company banking law violation case, the Re-mus-Squibb distillery tax suit and others. Strip Stamp Case Up Briefs are being prepared by Ward and his assistant, Alexander G. Cavins. in appeal of Tony Ferracane, Indianapolis, and Charles W. Gay. Les Feldhaus, Leo Stabile and Steve Calendrina. all of Louisville, convicted in the Ferracane liquor conspiracy case last spring. All five appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. The district attorney's office also is making efforts to obtain removal of Dave Fleigle, from Louisville here to face trial as a defendant in the Ferracane case. Several „ other defendants also are to be removed here from Chicago for trial. The nation-wide strip stamp conspiracy case involves ninteen defendants living in Albany, N. Y., Minneapolis, Chicago. Indianapolis, Muncie and Ft. Wayne. The case was originated here by George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator. when some counterfeit strip stamps and whisky labels were found on a liquor raid. Based on information gained here, two Chicago warehouses were raided, resulting in confiscation of fourteen tons of counterfeit labels, revenue stamps and other paraphernalia for making “genuine bonded" whisky. Government Seeks $250,000 The Steinbrenner case involves alleged check-kiting by the Steinbrenner Rubber Company, Noblesville, now in receivership, resulting In failure of the Huntington County State Bank, Huntington, Ind., and the First. National Bank of Noblesville, Ind. Defendants are E. B. Ayres, 81, president of the Huntington bank, and his son. E. Porter Ayres; N. W. Cowgill. cashier, and Walter W. Bray, bookkeeper of the Noblesville bank, and S. Homer Federman. treasurer of the rubber company. A sixth defendant, Henry G. Steinbrenner. president of the rubber company, committed suicide in a Chicago hotel last winter after being indicted. In the Remus-Squibbs distillery case, the Government seeks to collect more than $250,000 alleged to be due as additional taxes because Remus sold liquor he illegally removed from the Squibbs Distillery, Lawrenceburg, Ind., for beverage purposes instead of for medicinal use. Remus himself may apear in the trial of the case, inasmuch as the American Surety Company of New York, which provided the distillery bonds, holds collateral he provided to insure the surety company against loss.

ers’ Association, in the offices of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. but the problem, he says, has deeper significance for the farmer and business man than the fluffiness of a cake. “The American farmer,” said Benner today, “has raised close to a bumper wheat crop this'year and the price has dropped until he probably will not get as much money for the crop as if it were 200 000,000 bushels less. And yet, the world never has had as much wheat as it would like to eat” Normally, Indiana’s wheat crop, soft wheat predominating, amounts to 28,000,000 or 30,000,000 bushels. In 1927 the yield was 27,749,000 bushels from the 1,697,000 acres planted. Last fall the acreage planted in

He assisted in writing the section of this law defining various forms of violation. “The Indiana law makes it unlawful to ‘purchase, receive, exchange, give away, furnish or otherwise handle,’ as well as to ‘manufacture, possess; .transport or sill’ liquor,” he said. “Avery few prosecutions against prominent citizens should cause a falling off in demand. “If there has been a single case prosecuted directly against a pur-

ROMANCE SAILS WITH BYRD

Red Blooded Men of Sea in Crew for Pole Cruise

By NE’A Service NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—“ The South Pole? No, I’ve never been there. If I had I would have declined this berth, for there's a lot of travelin’ I'jjn to do and a lot of places I'm to see before castin’ anchor permanently.” That would be “Mister McGuinnis” speaking. The roster of the Byrd Antarctic expedition has him listed as “McGuinnis, Charles J.,” but it’s “Mister” that he’s called aboard the City of New’ York, for he is first mate of Byrd's base ship that sails from New York Saturday. Too Bad He's Reticent Only 35 years old now’. McGuinnis is the youngest officer on the ship, but one of the oldest according to the scale by which adventurers' lives are measured. Conrad could have done a half dozen wordy volumes on Mac's life, and probably would have, too, if he ever had heard the Irish seaman spin the yarns of his travels. Mac doesn't like to talk, though. “I'm a reticent chap,” he said. "A soldier of fortune—or a sailor, if you please—doesn’t always care to chart out all his old courses.” He w’as only a lad in Ireland, when he ran away to sea, taking only a growing wanderlust and a rosary his mother had given him. He still has both. Scoured the World On fullriggers and barks and brigantines he scoured tiie world an.i learned to know the colorful out-of-the-way ports where the canvascarrying vessels plied. Asa pearl fisherman in the South Seas, he found adventures for himself and wealth for others. Shipwrecked in a hurricane, he and four others put off in a small boat, only to be capsized. His companions “went west,” but the lucky Irishman reached an island and was rescued. McGuinnis fought for his beloved Irish Free State for a brief period, but this patriotism and ability in things nautical soon found a happy combination in the ticklish job of running arms from Germany into Ireland. Ashore in East Africa, while the World War was under way. Mac enlisted with the British, w’as thrice wounded, and finally was captured by the Germans. But the sea claimed him again in a few days after his release. This time he sailed between Bangkok, Siam and China. The Official Diver With the Byrd expedition, McOuinnis not only is first mate, but is the official diver for the party. What perilous descents he may be called upon to make into the icy waters of the far South. Mac doesn't know, nor very much cares. “I’m a sorry diver,” he admitted, “but that just adds zest to the business.” B B B JOHN JACOBSEN has one of those faces you usually see only in the movies. He is the Byrd party's oldest, member. He’s next door to 60. Jacobsen is on the Byrd roster as sailmaker. He went to sea in his boyhood, was apprenticed to a sailmaker. and has stuck to that calling ever since. Jacobsen knows the northern seas as well as he knows his sails. He was a member of the Ziegle expedition that attempted a dash to the North Pole in 1904. but failed after reaching 82 north latitude in Franz •Joseph Land. “I am an American, no matter w’here I was born.” he boomed. “In the American Navy I have spent twenty-five years, but when they said I was too old. in 1925. I was retired. “Me too old! Look!” And Jacobsen extended two gnarled and calloused paws with fingers like hausers. “The commander know’s those hands can make our sails and our clothes.” Jacobsen served on fourteen Navy vessels, from the barkentine Independent to the battleship Texas. He w’as on the old Raleigh when it fired the first shot at Manila.

wheat in Indiana was 7 per cent above normal. And the yield. Benner estimates, will be 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 bushels, about one-fifth of a normal crop. Freezing weather played havoc with the crop in Indiana last winter, Benner said. Whole fields were abandoned as a result. In June it was estimated the crop would be slightly less than half of normal. Then hot weather injured the wheat in the milk, and more abandonments brought still lower estimates. “The 24.000,000 bushels of wheat which Indiana farmers were disappointed in not harvesting, would have amounted, at the $1.49 per bushel ‘production cost rate’ estimated by the Government, to over $35,000,000, or at the present market price of 90 cents, over $21,000,000,”

chaser since the passage of the Wright law in 1925, it has not come within my observation, and I was hopeful that we would have some experience to study by this time. “This law fully covers the situation. Simple posse:.oion is not sufficient for conviction under the Volstead act. Persons prosecuted under the national law must be cohnected in some way with the liquor traffic or transporting.”

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John Jacobson (upper photo). Commander Byrd’s sailmaker, has a face such as you seldom see except in the movies. In the life story of Charles J. McGuinnis (below’), first mate of Byrd’s flagship, City of New York, one more or less shipwreck is a very small matter indeed.

ABLE seaman, recreation expert, jazz band leader, and master of the phonographs and the player

piano—those are some of the jobs Dick Konter will hold down on the Byrd expedition. Sixteen years in the Navy left Konter w’ell grounded in the musical tastes of men when they are far removed from ballrooms and concert halls. Also, he was a member of Byrd’s North Pole expedition.

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The band he has recruited from Byrd’s new staff will blaze the first jazz trail across the bottom of the world. And when sterner duties require the bandsmen’s attention—then they’ll crank up the phonographs and the player piano. B B B WHEN Byrd’s ship, the City of New York, reaches Anartctic seas on its 10,800 mile voyage to

the Bay of Whales, the responsibility of guiding the vessel will go to Bendeck Johansen. ice pilot. This tall Norwegian, born within the Arctic Circle, knows more about the perils of ice floes than any other member of the expedition. No less than 37 times has Johansen piloted hunting and

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sealing parties through Arctic ice. The North country knows him, too, as an expert with the harpoon. For

AL GUARDS HEALTH FOR BALLOT DRIVE

BY THOMAS L. STOKES NEW YORK. Aug. 24—Governor Alfred E. Smith is taking care of his health and planning his campaign program in such a way that he will be in the best form in the “pinches” during the gruelling days

said the wheat growers’ secretary. The price drop in hard wheat from $1.25 a year ago to 90 cents this year is attributed to the bumper crop, outside Indiana. Kansas expects to show a record of 180.000.000 bushels: Nebraska has a good yield and Oklahoma and Texas are fair. In Indiana, to add to the farmers’ discomfiture, most wheat is grading only No. 3 to “sample” instead of No. 2. because of excess moisture and mixed varieties. In the Indiana drift from soft to hard wheat, Benner sees the Hoosier farmer sacrificing a profitable opportunity. “Indiana, Illinois and Ohio are best suited by soil and climate to produce soft wheat which always commands a premium,” he said.

npHE power of ridicule would come to the aid of Jaw enforcement if purchasers prosecutions, Cavins said. “If purchasers should be prosecuted, derision would switch from the law to the offenders. No citizen would relish the remarks of his friends concerning his appearance in court on a charge of buying liquor.” ' , The Wright law grants immunity to witnesses who testify as to violations, thus permitting

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four years he has held a master’s papers. tt tt tt MEN many of them spent months trying to persuade Commander Byrd to take them to

the An ta r c tic with him, and failed. But Bob Rogers spent a few minutes and succeeded. He is listed as dog master. Ro g ers drove ‘huskies for Capt. Wilkins in the Arctic three years ago. Then he w’ent to sea. Recently he sailed into New’ York from Buenos Aires, heard Byrd

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intended to take four-score malamutes with him and headed straight for the Ryrd headquarters. He presented his credentials as a "mushing” expert and went to work for Byrd the next day. B B B SECOND mate of the City of New York is Sverre Strom. Norwegian sailor with ten years of Arctic navi-

gation on his record. John Jacobsen. the 60-year-old sail-maker with the Byrd party, went to school with Strom's father, but these two men never before have sailed together. Str o m knows his ship, for he is an old member' of its crew. When the City of New York, then called the Samson, was bought in Nor-

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and nights on the road before November. He locked up his desk in Albany Thursday, came down here and began today a period of relaxation from the busy days of the last few weeks that will last, with a few interruptions, until he begins his extended speaking tour some time after Labor day. Today he goes to Spring Lake (N. J.). where he and Mrs. Smith and the rest of the family will attend a ball tonight given in the nominee’s honor by Governor Harry Moore. Governor Ritchie, Maryland. and other distinguished guests will be present. He will review the New Jersey National Guard Saturday at Seagirt, two miles from Spring Lake. Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey City, one of the State Democratic leaders, has arranged a monster political rally in connection with the review. summoning the Democratic clans from all over the East. But, in keeping with his program of saving himself for the campaign. Governor Smith will make no speech. Governor Smith has decided definitely against making any back platform speeches during the coming campaign. Neither will he make any outdoor addresses. All will be in halls or auditoriums.

using of buyer and seller against each other at the option of the authorities, in cases where their evidence is obtainable. “Laws are observed, rather than enforced,” Cavins declared. “.The courts largely serve to call attention of the public to the law. If it were necessary to enforce every law against every person, it require a policeman to watch each individual, and probably someone else to watch the policeman.”

ONE CONTROL FOR TRAFFIC IS PROPOSED Worley Urges Adoption of hronized Lights in Downtown Area. PLACES COST AT $5,000 New System Sought to Keep Cars Moving at Busy Corners. Plans for financing a uniform electrical traffic control system for principal downtown intersections are being considered by Police Chief Claude M. Worley. Worley believes a synchronized electric signal system ultimately will be needed in the downtown zone before traffic problems are satisfactorily settled. An engineer for a leading traffic signal company has surveyed the downtown area and submitted an estimate of eosts and specifications for the cenflral control type of traffic signs. Estimate Cost at $5,000 Estimate costs for a three-period overhead signal, to be operated in conjunction with a bell signal for pedestrians, will cost about $2,100. Installation costs bring the total expense to less than $5,000 for eleven main corners, the engineer calculated. The signals proposed have a “stop and go” light with amber for pedestrians to cross the corners, motor traffic being stopped in four directions. The electric bell rings at the start of the pedestrian period. The length of time for pedestrians and motorists could be governed according to the amount of traffic at the particular intersection and the time of day. Signals would be operated by a central control probably located at Washington and Meridian Sts. The proposed plans provide for overhead signals on Washington between Senat Avc. and Alabama St., with the exception of Delaware St., where I street cars make frequent turns. Could Enlarge System Lights at Illinois and Meridian on Maryland, and Illinois, Meridian i and Pensylvania St. intersections on ! Ohio St., would operate in connec- | tion with the Washington St. lights. Worley said the specifications are j such that the system could be enI larged to meet the growth of the j downtown section without making I the original equipmer obsolete. Worley favors the full alternating | type of signals which are designed for long blocks of approximate equal length. The lights would be set to alternate traffic at every other block, tending to keep raffle moving continuously in the district. “Conditions under the full alternating plan are nearly ideal as motor traffic is kept moving continuously. The signals are timed so care at average speed reach the signal on the ‘go’ signs,” Worley declared. Seeks Public Aid The plan considered is in use in Chicago. Dayton and numerous other cities. Worley said. Worley is anxious to secure financial support for the experiment from public spirited citizens who are interested in solving the traffic situation. He said several business men had indicated willingness to contribute money to the $5,000 fund to enable the city to install the Improved system. The 1929 budget does not include funds for the revised traffic signal system in the downtown district, according to William B. Griffis, city electrician. Griffis asked council for funds for several new neighborhood signals. EDUCATOR IS HONORED Honorary Degree Given Milwaukee Professor by Chicago University. By United Press MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Aug. 24. Professor James M. O'Gorman, recently awarded the honorary degree, doctor of science, by De Paul University, Chicago, will be the new lecturing professor at Hunter College for Women, New York. He was formerly in charge of the department of education at Marquette University. COLLEGE COST IS S6B Kentucky School Offers Means for Students to Work Way. BEREA, Ky., Aug. 24.—Any one in Kentucky wanting a college education and willing to work for it can obtain it for approximately sl7 a year. At Berea College here a system of “campus labor,” which does away with a majority of paid employes, has been installed and students, working their way through college, do so in this manner.

Nerve! By Times Special ELWOOD, Ind., Aug. 24. Ernest Bogue, arrested several times by local police, has wired Chief Parson here in the hope of getting money to pay his fare from East St. Louis, 111., Police Chief James Leasy of that city having sent the following tele'gram to Parson: “Ernest Bogue wants you to wire him sls to come home on. Send in my care.” Parson says he wouldn’t worry if Bogue never comes home.