Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1928 — Page 2

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COUNTY COUNCIL FACES TASK OF ! PARINGBUDGET Meet Tuesday to Consider Proposed 32.5 Cent Levy for 1929. , Budget knives of the county fcouncil were Deing sharpened today for the annual meeting Tuesday when they will be called on to pare down anticipated expenditures so as to squeeze the budget into proposed tax levies. Under the present plan, the county tax rate for next year would be one cent higher than last year, or 32.5 cents. The increases are made in a half cent on the sinking lund and a half cent on the free gravel road fund. Commissioners’ Levies Levies set by the county commissioners and Auditor Harry Dunn, and to bp laid before the council for approve! are: Item 1928 1929 General fund $ .145 $ .145 Sinking fund 12 .125 Free gravel roads 025 .03 T. B. hospital .025 .025 fotal $ .315 $ .325 If the council allows any of the . fextra help or increased salaries > asked by individual officials, and frowned on by the commissioners, the budget cannot be squeezed into .the proposed tax levy, Dunn's figYires today revealed, t He has figured things so closely, jttiat virtually no increases can be fallowed in the general fund, and at ueast $30,000 must be cut from the ’total of $1,159,065 figure, to avoid a yjefiicit at the end of the year. Figure Perfect Collection / Even this close figure does not Contemplate anything except a 100 ’per cent collection of taxes, and experience has proved that only 95 per cent is collected. ■ In the sinking fund, the amount to be raised by the 12.5 cent levy would be $975,000, while the known drains on this fund, none of which can be cut, will be $974,000. This latter also contemplates 100 per cent collection. Councilmen will find themselves fco tightly wedged between actual expense and the tax levy, that there will be little increasing done, observers pointed out, unless the levy is raised. Ignore Deputy Request The figures prepared by Dunn and the commissioners do not include the $27,840 request of Sheriff Omer Hawkins for additional deputies for a county patrol system. The council majority, however, consisting of members favorable to the organization of which Hawkins is chairman, has indicated it will favor the plan and allow the additional men. This would mean $27,000 would have to be sliced from some other individual office or institution, whose budgets already are as low as possible, they claim.

HUNT WOUNDED MAN Brazil Man Started Here Sunday with Victim After Knife Affray. t A fruitless search was made of Indianapolis hospitals for Herchall Shields, 18, of Brazil, Ind., who is said to ■ have been cut by Manial Pocke, 22, of Brazil. The trouble occurred at Brazil Sunday and Pocke is said to have put the wounded man into an automobile and to have said he would lake him to Indianapolis to have ips wounds dressed. The chief of police at Brazil noticed the Indianapolis department to Search for the two men. } —” jj ' Sentenced to Sunday School ygy Times Special Mjp MITCHELL, Ind., Sept. 3.—Sitting 'Mfi city court judge, Mayor McFall •Sentenced three youths who had stealing articles from parked fears to attend Sunday school reguflarly and each Monday to give aPolice Chief Harry Chess a certifi--1 feate showing they attended. Those Sentenced are Clifford Wooford, Ifcester Gilbert and Cecil Mustain.

ON IMPROVED INDIANAPOLIS REAL ESTATE We Lend *IOO% of Appraisement —with moderate annual reduction of the principal; &)0% of Appraisement —under the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 15-year lending plan with semi-annual installments; 65% of Appraisement —on a monthly payment plan. j,H ; o Commission is Charged dfletdjer r #abtngs ant Crust Company N. W. Corner Penn, and Market St*.

‘Angel of Broadway’ Finds Joy for Others, But Her Wedded Life Fails

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WATSON PLANS BILLONMINING Seeks Federal Regulation of Coal Supply. B.v Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—When the Senate reconvenes the plan to enact legislation regulating the production and distribution or coal will be advocated with more vigor than ever, Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, chairman of the committee which investigated the coal strike, announced today. “The recent settlement of differences between the United Mine Workers and Operators in Ohio aggravates the situation more than ever,” Watson said today. “It is merely a temporary solution, offering employment to workers. “It renews the competitive wage struggle between workers in various States and the subsequent battle among operators to keep their properties going. It merely intensifies the vicious circle in which miners and operators heretofore have been traveling.” Before Congress adjourned Senator Watson named a sub-committee consisting of himself and Senators Pittman of Nevada, Goff of West Virginia, Gooding of Idaho, Wheeler of Montana and Wagner of New York to write a law regulating the industry. Since Congress adjourned Senator Gooding has died and Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island was named as his successor. The committee, however, has had no meeting and because of the political demands now being made on members, Watson announced there probably will be no meeting until after the election.

MILEAGE COMPUTED Faclllf ite Work of Deputy Marshals in Southern District. Computing mileage between Indianapolis, Terre Haute, New Albany and Evansville and fifteen hundred cities, towns and hamlets in the southern Federal Court district, is the task which the United States marshal’s office here expects to complete in three weeks. The list, when completed will expedite the work of making vouchers for expenses of Federal Court witnesses. There being no list in existence the deputy marshals now must laboriously figure the distances witnesses traveled each time one appears to collect traveling allowance. HURT IN AUTO CRASH Woman Suffers Broken Ribs When Car Hits Train. Mrs. Minnie Mills, 529 E. New York St., sustained broken ribs and internal injuries when her automobile collided with a southbound Pennsylvania passenger train at a crossing on Federal highway No. 31, two miles north of Seymour Sunday. She was removed to Schneck Memorial Hospital at Seymour. The car was carried more than a hundred feet following the crash and demolished. Step-Brother, Sister Wed Bu Times Special HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Sept. 3. —Miss Metha Jones and Vaughn Ritenour, step-brother and sister were married here, shortly after the marriage of her mother and his father. Forty-Two Blooms on Sunflower By Times Special SMITH’S VALLEY, Ind., Sept. 3. —A sunflower at the home of Mrs. Sam Day, thirteen feet in height, has forty-two blooms and thirty buds. _ ___ .., rt .

j Salvation Army Lass Goes Back to Find Peace in Service. BY PHILIP J. SINNOTT NEA Service Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—The girl they called “the Angel of Broadway” helped scores of the White Way’s victims to find happiness and contentment—but she hasn’t been able to find either of those things for herself. Broadway’s Salvation Army lassie, known in private life as Rheba Crawford, quit her work on the big street four years ago to get married. And now she and her husband, J. Harold Sommers, a war veteran, have separated. She has gons back to her first love—preaching the gospel—and now is serving as the ordained minister of a large Congregational church here. “There is no legal separation, and we haven’t talked of a divorce,” she says. “We both realize that we are victims of environment and heredity.” Preached on Broadway Miss Crawford was one of the best known women in New York a few years ago. Nightly she preached on the street corners of Broadway. And cynical, wise-crack-ing Broadway—looking for a selfish motive behind everything, and often failing to understand the meaning of the word “service”—accepted her at face value. She was winsome and pretty and charming: but Broadway has seen many with those attributes. Wha> stumped Broadway was the fact that she was utterly unselfish and utterly sincere. So, when she gave up her work to get married, Broadway united in wishing her happiness. Miss Crawford at first tried to continue her work. But she felt this was not fair to her husband; so presently, she retired, and the two went to a Florida city and she tried to settle down as a regular, stay-at-home wife. Didn’t Fit at Parties But it didn’t work. The Smalltalk of their new social set failed to interest the girl who had been a sort of mother-confessor to yeggmen, dancing girls and down-and-outers. And, by the same token, her own experiences were somewhat ’’out of bounds” as topics for polite conversation. “I just found I didn’t fit in,” she says. "I couldn’t work up any enthusiasm over bridge parties. I did not seem to understand parties. Pleasure, to me, had to be spelled in a different way. I couldn't work up any enthusiasm over gossip when I remembered real hearbreaks and true stories I had seen and listened to. “I sensed the race on the march, and I was out of the parade. The town was too small, too filled with religious feuds, for me to chance local work.” Her husband offered to let her return to the platform, but she refused, vowing that she would stick to her new role. A nervous breakdown resulted. Her husband summoned doctors, and it was agreed thte her place was back in her old environment.

NOTE HEARING SET $14,000,000 Issue Sought by Power Company, Hearing will be held Thursday before Harvey Harmon, public service commissioner, on the four petitions of the State Line Generating Company to issue $14,000,000 of two-year 5 ’2 per cent notes to pay for the completion of the plant and also approval of power contracts between the generating company and the Northern Indiana Public Service Company and the Interstate Public Service Company. Total cost of the station located at Hammond, when completed will be $28,500,000 and it will have an initial capacity of 208,000 kilowatts or more than 275,000 horse power. The plant has been under construction for two years and joint owners are the two power companies mentioned above the Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, and the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. HOLD GUNMAN SUSPECT Negro Comedian Is Accused of Wounding Juggler in Quarrel. Twelve hours after Leroy Moss, 26, Negro, living at the Haywood Hotel, Michigan St. and Indiana Ave., alleged to have shot and seriously wounded Joseph Sanders, 34, Negro, 444 W. Vermont St., in a resturant at 339 Indiana Ave., he was arrested on the Lafayette Pike, where he was waiting for a bus to go to Chica™. He is charged with shooting with intent to kill. Moss, a comedian, and Sanders, acrobat and juggler, had been playing at the Colonial Theater the last week. They quarreled over the proceeds Saturday night, police said. PRISONER KILLS SELF Martinsville Man Sentenced From Here Last April 22. By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 3. Bryan Dillender, 33, of Martinsville, sentenced to Indiana State Prison from Marion Criminal Court last April 22, committed sucide in his cell Sunday. He is survived by his mother, two sisters, and four brothers all of Martinsville. En Route to World Session Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 3. Henry B. Walker, attorney, sailed from New York Sunday on a trip to Europe. Walker will represent Indiana at the convention of Fidac, International World War Veterans’ organization, to be held at Bucharest, Rumania.

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Above is Rheba Crawford as she appeared when she was a Salvation Army lassie, preaching on Broadway four years ago. Below is her husband, J. Harold Sommers, for whom she gave up evangelism to wed.

TRIPS AWARDED TO CALF CLUB Fair Winners to Go to National Shows. Announcement of eight trips for exhibitors in the calf club show at the State fair were made today by Harry F. Ainsworth of Purdue University, who is in charge of club work in Indiana. Trips awarded in the dairy breeds will take the winners to the National Dairy Show at Memphis, Tenn., while winners in the beef breeds will get to see the International Livestock show at Chicago. Seven of the trips were offered by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture. In the shorthorn, Merritt Thornburg, Greensburg, who exhibited a champion shorthorn steer, a senior calf and who had a high club standing, and awarded the trip, with Lewis Jacobi of Greenfield, as alternate. John F. McKee of Lafayette was awarded a trip due to the laurels won by his grand championship beef steer while Harold Thompson, of Lifayette was named alternate. Trips in the Argus class were a family affair, John Van Hoy, of Loogootee, being given first chance at the journey, while his brother, Robert, was named alternate. Trips to the National Dairy Show at Memphis, Tenn., were awarded in the Jersey class to Oliver Barnes of Monticello with Mildred Wyman of Scottsburg, as alternate; Holstein, Frederick Meeker of Muncie, with Paul Hoffman of Otwell, as alternate; Guernsey, Russell Howson of Lebanon, with Albert Rogers of Frankfort, as alternate; Ayrshires, Aaron Vandivier of Morgantown, with Spencer Richards of Greenwood, as alternate.

ARMY BALLOON JUMPERS ORGANIZE NEW SOCIETY Order Includes 76 Men Saving Selves With Parachutes By Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Army airmen have recognized anew and extremely exclusive order, in addition to their own “Caterpillar Club” which consists of aviators who have saved their lives by jumping with parachutes. The new order is that of “Balloon Jumpers of the World War,” and consists of the seventy-six men who jumped with parachutes from balloons attacked during the World War. They made 117 jumps in all, Lieut. G. Phelps holding the record with five leaps.

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CUT IN STREET LEVY CURTAILS IMPROVEMENTS Widening Program Delayed by Slash of 3 Cents from Estimate. Curtailment of the extensive street widening program contemplated by A. H. Moore, city engineer, will be necessary because of the reduced 1929 resurfacing levy of 2 cents approved by city council. Moore made a survey of the city thoroughfares needing resurfacing and recommended the maximum levy of 5 cents. The request was slashed to 2 cents by Mayor L. Ert Slack. Repairs Badly Needed A list of principal streets which are badly in need of resurfacing was presented to council to substantiate the engineer’s recommendation for the maximum levy. It is said the streets are in such a condition that the maximum rate for five years would be needed to put them in proper condition and preevnt depreciation to such a point that they can not be repaired. The resurfacing also can be done under a certificate of indebtedness plan, but that is considered bad business practice for such improvements when it could be done by direct taxation. It is contemplated to use gasoline tax funds for repair of streets but resurfacing can not be done with that money. West St. First Resurfacing of West St. from Washington to Fourteenth at a cost of $85,000; East St.. Ohio to St. Clair, $61,000, and Delaware St., Ft. Wayne to Massachusetts Ave., $52,000, was contemplated. It would require a levy of 3.5 cents to raise the city’s share of 75 per cent of the $298,000 expense. It also was planned to widen to sixty feet the East St. and Delaware St. sections. The West St. project probably will be undertaken with funds from the 2 cent levy and the other improvements delayed. , Other streets which the engineering department advised council to appropriate funds for resurfacing: East St„ south to Lincoln; Fletcher Ave. Noble to Shelby; Noble St., Washington to Virginia; Noble, Michigan to Massachusetts; Michigan St., Noble to Rural; Roosevelt Ave., Thirteenth to Eighteenth St.; Hillside, Eighteenth to Bloyd; Kentucky Ave., Harding to Belmont. Singers From Tennessee Here The Daugn Radio Quartet of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., will be heard in a free concert at the First Church of the Nazarene at 8 tonight. The Daugn singers are nationally known and broadcast frequently from station KDKA, Pittsburgh. Perlects New Melon Bn Times Special MISHAWAKA, Ind., Sept. 3. Worthington, melon grower near here, announces he has perfected anew variety which he has named Sugar Bowl, created by crossing the netted gem, osage and honeydrew varieties. An open air Socialist party rally will be addressed this evening on the south Courthouse lawn by Miss Mary McVicker of New York City.

fTwo Joyous Festivals Especially l)e- a vised for Labor Day and State Fair Kiddies Week! By All Means, See Both Shows. 25c \ ' WONDER- f Wallace Beery re- / / turns to serious A Show / A. / # roles In Jim TulThey’re / / / ,y 8 About / i\l / “Beggars of Life” “12th . 1 nik WALLACE BEERT Anniversary \{%Sj ' ON THE STAGE Presented by V- I Hev . H ey! He’s done It w\Salt DaWPII i a Davis show far UIQK IrOWBU 1 / above the average— It’s OUR Birthday / p. .. But tofr Party! I Charlie Davis 1/ J AND HIS BAND IN ON THE SCREEN If f u M ,| n one grand / / i Main Street to l\ff party Broadway” “Heart to Heart” \ with with \ ALMIRA SESSIONS, „ .. nV n ] JOE BESSER, ARTHUR MARY ASTOR.EI.OVn J CAMPBELL. RUTH HUGHES, LOUIS . ArA WITMER, BARNETT & ZENDA, LUCIEN LIT- CLARK TLEFIELD & co - BURDAY Overturn * NOWAY “Living Composers” j^ ri ""JMV \ DALE YOUNG ED RESENER I Unnr% f>nw| at the organ I *t Both I ———— —— —Theaters j ——

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MEETINGS TUESDAY Indiana State Fair, Iraigrounds, all iridianaoolis Teachers, meetings Shortridge High School, all day. Indiana Kennel Club, dog show, Indiana State fairgrounds, all day. Rotary Club, luncheon. Claypool Hotel, Gyro Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel n °Me’rcator Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, noon. . , , . Purchasing Agents Association, luncheon, Severin, noon. American Chemical Society, luncheon, Chimber of Commerce, noon. University Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. . Phi Gamma Delta, luncheon, Chamber of Commerce, noon. University of Michigan Alumni, luncheon. Lincoln, noon. Tau Kappa Epsilon, luncheon English, noon. Local police have been requested to watch for bandits who late Saturday held up the paymaster for t.he Wiley Construction Company, Dayton. Ohio, and took the pay roll amounting to SIOO and $4,000 in checks. A Negro pickpocket was seen to attempt several robberies at the market house Saturday night, but his fingers appeared be be ail thumbs. Patrolman Charles Hillman searched the building, but could not locate the fleet-footed dip Mystery surrounds the shooting that is said to have occurred at Twenty-First and Pierson Sts. at 8:40 p. m. Sunday. J. C. Hopps, Apartment 2, 2044 N. Meridian St., said he heard a shot ir. the rear of his apartment, heard a glass break and saw a Negro woman run. She had a gun in her hand W. G. Starks, in a garage in the rear of 2036 Pierson St., said h? heard the shot and saw a couple drive from the alley. The police searched, but failed to find the woman or any person who had been shot. The Statehouse Literary Club met in annual session at Donner Park, Columbus (Ind.) Sunday, with the Bartholomew County Historical Society as host. An address by C. B. Cc eman, Indianapolis, on “The American Revolution in the West,” was a feature. Life officers of the Literary Club are: H. W. Pershing, president; George Pence, vice president; Mr. Hershman, secretary, and Major McCormack, treasurer. A family argument in which Earl Patton, his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Dollie Wilson, all mixed into at the Wilson home, 716 ti W. North St., Sunday night, ended when police took Patton to the city prison, where they charged him with assault and battery and malicious trespass. He beat both women and then broke up most of the furniture police reports state. Because he refused to explain how he received a stab wound in the arm which he said was made with a screw driver, George Berwanger, 30. of 4228 Royal Ave., was held at the city prison on a vagrancy charge after he received treatment at city hospital. An address on "Pyrometry,” byClaude S. Gordon, Chicago, Sept. 10, at the Chamber of Commerce will open the 1928-1929 season of the Indianapolis Chapter American Society for Steel Treating. A dinner will be held in the chamber dining room at 6:30 p. m. Homer Rogers, South Bend, has ■■ been named Indiana agency manager of the Equitable Life Insurance Society of New York and will take charge at once of the offices here. He will move his family to 10 E. Thirty-second St. this week. Rogers has named Fitzhugh Taylor, Terre Haute, assistant State manager. Offices of Grassyfork Fisheries, Inc., formerly in the Peoples State Bank Bldg., have been moved to the hatcheries near Martinsville to fa-

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cilitate business, Eugene C. Shireman, president, announced today. O. R. Livinghousc, formerly of Kokomo, has been promoted from assistant in the tariff division of the public service commission to head of the division, Frank T. Singleton, chairman, announced today. • “The Three Muses,” a volume of poetry, has been published by William Hankins Chitwood, violinist, 2529 Bellefontaine St. Chitwood also illustrated the book. Fifteen students were graduated by the Lincoln Chiropractic College in exercises at Odeon Hall, Pennsylvania and North Sts., Saturday evening. Dean J. N. Firth presented diplomas. Dr. Lillard T. Marshall, Lexington, Ky„ delivered the commencement address; Miss Margaret B. Creamer spoke for the class and Dr. S. J. Burich, college secretary, also spoke. Fathers’ and Kids’ day will be observed by the Kiwanis Club at luncheon at the Claypool Wednesday. Sons and daughters of members, will be guests. Paper hats, toy balloons and other souveniers will be distributed. C. E. Brakett has charge of the program, which includes entertainment and contests. Douglas Dickie was elected director and Edward J. Boren, secretary by the Democratic Young Voters’ Club, of Marion County, at a rally in the Consolidated Bldg. The next meeting will be Sept. 14, in the State Life Bldg. The 26th Indiana Volunteers will hold a reunion at Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St., Wednesday, as guests of Frank Shellehouse, son of the late Conrad H. Shellhouse, who during his life annually entertained his Civil War comrades.

ATTEND THE Indiana State Fair Everybody’s Going A Sept. 4-5-6-7-8 S' Grand Circuit ■- Racing Big Rodeo Show Front of Grandstand u Auto Show Radio Show Horse Show —Live Stock Parade Coliseum Every Night DAILY EXHIBITS OF LIVESTOCK, FARM IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY AUTO RACES SATURDAY FUN—THRILLS—EDUCATION—AMUSEMENT

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RELATIVES ARE REFUSED SLAIN WOMAN’S BODY Man Standing by Parked Car on Day of Killing New Clew. Bp United Press NEWCASTLE. Ind., Sept. 3.—Relatives of Myrtle Miller, 36, of Muncie, whose body was found on lonely road near here Saturday, have been denied permission to take the body to Terre Haute for burial pending further investigation of the brutal hammer murder. Anew clew to the slaying was revealed Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Koons of this city, who reported seeing a parked auto Friday night near the scene where the body was found. They said a man was standing by the car. Working on the description of the man given by Mr. and Mrs. Koons, Muncie detectives joined in the search for the slayer today and were expected to make an arrest in a short time. Mrs. Miller’s mother, Mrs. Nellie Jackson, and her two brothers, Roy and Fred Jackson, came here Sunday for the body. More than 1,800 persons viewed the body before relatives arrived and requested that the public be barred. Police Halt Boy Burglar Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 3. An 8-year-old boy was caught by police here as he emerged from the home of Robbin O. Balsley loaded down with articles he har, stolen. He was examined at headquarters and sent to the Friendly Inn.