Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1928 — Page 15

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NEW BUILDING IN SOUTH BEND TO SH PEAK -12-Story Office Structure Will Top Others; Postoffice Planned. MILLS AT GARY BUSY Kokomo Reports Shortage in Labor; Factories at Capacities. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Plans for anew postoffice and 12story office building and reports of heavy increases in orders by South Bend plants featured the business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. Construction will be started within a few days on the new $300,000 structure in the heart of South Bend’s business district. It will be the tallest building in the city, reaching the maximum set by the city building code. Site will be selected within three weeks for the new $1,000,000 postoffice for which $300,000 already has been made available. Gary Mills Busy The Bendix Brake Corporation of South Bend has been forced to crowd its production facilities to meet the new orders received this month. Work also is progressing on the new station and Armory build ! not far behind in refler prosperity of the Calumet . General business in the t ,D has reacted favorably to the stimulation of United States Steel’s rapid rise on the stock exchange. Output of the mills is ahead of last year, with trading increasing in pigiron and steel. A recent order was for 42,000 tons of pipe line. The plants report a surprisingly large number of small orders from widely diversified sources. Sign Electric Contracts Three big orders have been signed by the Falls City Electric Company of Jeffersonville. The one now being filled is for the new Harrison County courthouse at Corydon. The others call for material for new school buildings at Henryville and Memphis. Other business and industrial activities include: EVANSVILLE—Steps toward ' establishing an all water freight service from Evansville to New Orleans and eventually to Pittsburgh have been taken. The Ohio and Mississippi Transit Company is preparing to open its new service using oil burning tow boats. If the 100 barges ordered, fifteen are being sent to Evansville. The company now is transporting 40,000 toils of coal daily from the Green River region and hopes to increase that to 50,000 tons by winter. Labor Shortage at Kokomo KOKOMO—The city reports no unemployment and a decided shortage in some lines of labor. Paul Johnson, head of the Kingston Products Corporation, says their plant is the busiest it has been since the World War with some departments working as much as twenty hours a day. The company’s three • factories now are employing 1,200 men. Production is expected to be increased to fill new orders from Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Nash, Chandler and Stutz motor car companies. The Haynes Stellite plant is breaking all production records. The Continental Steel Corporation, operating on a part time schedule for repairs, reports business increasing. The McLaughlin Manufacturing Company is moving 100 sewing machines from Indianapolis to its Kokomo plant to handle increasing orders. TERRE HAUTE—Work will start in a few day on Indiana State Normal’s new SIBO,OOO dormitory for women. MISHAWAKA— Contracts have been awarded fora new fire station in the East section of the city. |l GREENSBURG Southern Inr diana towns are much concerned over the proposal of Carrollton, Ky., to build a $1,300,000 bridge over the Ohio River to Lamb, Ind. Indiana counties are seeking to have the br dge located at Madison as anew gateway between North and South. COVINGTON Anticipating the rush in supplying eastern markets with dressed fowls, the Fountain Produce Company at Veedersburg is erecting a building to be used for scalding and picking. Canning Plant Rushed NEW HAVEN—Complete rearrangement and rewiring of the New Haven exchange of the Home Telephone and Telegraph Company has k started with installation of . autolunatic equipment. —More than 150 tone each of tomatoes and corn is being weighed in daily for canning at the Vincennes Packing Company. More than 150 extra men and women have been added for the rush seaANDERSON Ninety-five per cent of the emplQyes of the DelcoRemy Corporation have taken out group insurance valued at $15.000,000. BLOOMINGTON—Work has been started on the new $250,000 store building being erected for Montgomery Ward & Cos. MUNCIE—PIans have been started for street viaducts at the railroad crossings in the industrial fc section. The Delco-Remy Corporation plant is urging the improvement as an aid to industrial business. The plant reports it now is employing 150 men and expects to increase this number to 1,000 within a sW>rt time.

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Lillian Loraine, a few years ago the toast of Broadway when she appeared in Ziegfeld’s Follies, is reported as seriously ill from a ruptured appendix and tumor. Ziegfeld called her “the most beautiful girl I ever glorified,” but in her days of illness few of her old friends were with her. The two pictures above show the former star when she was at the height of her career several years ago. x

BAIL NEAR RECORD IN BLAST CLEANUP

Bonds Total $248,000 to Date in Traugott and Allied Cases. More bonds of higher amounts have been set in Indianapolis dur- j ing the last week by judges and Federal commissioners in the investigation of the explosion in the Edward Traugott store and the interstate auto ring than ever before in any case during such a short period in Indianapolis, At present bonds total $248,000. Each of these has been placed within the last week, with the exception of one instance where tne man under bend, Harold Libowitz, died. To rt lease these men, provided the money could be raised, this amount would have to be produced in cash or in $496,000 worth of unincumbered property. Four Bonds Post SIOO,OOO Four bonds aggregating SIOO,OOO have been set by United States commissioners. They are ag' inst Traugott and Harry Sussman, owners of the store in which the explosion took place; Elmer Sussman, relative of the part-owner of the store. These are bonds of $25,000 each, as is that of William “Woody” Laffey, arrested by Federal authorities Wednesday evening at 4113 F. Tenth St. charged with selling one of the stolen cars that the Sussmans and Traugott are alleged to have “fenced” out throughout this and other states. Federal agents took another step in the case Thursday afternoon when they arrested Morton Deveney, bartender in La-ffey’s dry beer saloon. Although he was arrested on a liquor charge, he is connected with the case in that he had checks and documents addressed to “Mr. Traugott” in the place when arrested. Federal agents have these and they will be turned over to the grand jury during its investigation of the alleged rum-running, carstealing ring. Harold Wright is held in the county jail under $50,000 bond for being an alleged habitual criminal. He Is held on Remy’s orders because he is believed to know something about the explosion and the alleged auto thefts. James Walker is held with him under SIO,OOO bond. Douthitt Won’t Talk Harold Libowitz,-of 39 N. Jefferson St., fatally burned in the explosion, was under $25,000 bond. Clarence Douthitt, 23, of 965 N. Pershing Ave., is held under SIO,OOO vagrancy bond. He was arrested after refusal to talk to authorities when questioned about the Traugott case. Another large bond* is levied against Charles Phayer, held for complicity in the SIOO,OOO Broadmoor Country Club holdup May 30. He will have to produce $50,000 surety to get out. He was returned from St. Louis earlier in the week His bond was raised on request of Prosecutor Remy. Into the picture also comes George McHenry, whose bond was set at $25,000 Thursday by Judge

AUTO PERIL FEAR LIFTED FROM PARENTS; CHILDREN MOVED TO NEW SCHOOL

more do nineteen children in No. 77 school district have to trudge a mile and a half over dangerous highways to school. No more do anxious parents need worry in the fear one Sf their Children may meet the fate of Bright Hudson, who, two years

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Picture Justice By United Press ATLANTA, Ga„ Sept. 14. Governor L. G. Hardman declined today to give out his impression of pictures of Eula May Thompson, condemned to die Sept. 21 for participating in the murder of Coleman Osborne, a country storekeeper. Governor Hardman several weeks ago said he considered Mrs. Thompson was one of the criminal type, basing his opinion on his knowledge of criminal characteristics such as the shape of the head and contour of features. More, recently, however, he asked for more photographs of the woman.

James A. Collins. He is alleged to have threatened to kill Louis Lawall, 1125 Bellefontaine St., after Lawall reported what he believed bootlegging activities were being indulged in by McHenry. Remy declared he will continue to seek high bonds for any one arrested during investigation of the case. COUPLE ON GLOBE HOP Viscount and American Hop Off for World Flight By United Press LONDON, Sept. 14.—The Vicomte de Sibour, accompanied by the Viccomtesse, formerly the American girl, Miss Violette Selfridge, left Stag Lane airdrome, London, today on an around-the-world flight in a Moth light airplane. Their first scheduled stop is Paris.

BIRDS’ BEST MARK BEATEN BY FLIERS

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Announcement by the National Aeronautical Association that it has accepted as the,official non-stop record for airplanes the 4,736.7-mile hop of the late Italian aviator, Arturo Ferrarin, from Rome to Brazi'. means that another record, hitherto held by birds, has been smashed. Previously the record stood at 2,895.97 miles and was tyeld by Edzard of Germany. According to records which ornithologists consider indisputable, he had been outdistanced more than 1,000 miles by a giant albatross that flew 4,000 miles from the Crozet Islands to Rottnest Island, off the roast of Australia, carrying about its neck a frantic message from thirteen shipwrecked sailors of the French vessel Tamarais. Proof that the bird had not alighted on the sea to seek food was established by the fact that a wire, holding the message about its neck, was too tight to permit

ago, was killed en route to School 21 from the same neighborhood. For parents of the district have won their battle to obtain proper accommodations for their children in their own school district. Superintendent of Schools Charles Miller today notified Laura Hayes, principal of No. 77,

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 1928

GAS SITUATION IS STUDIED BY C.OFOGROUP Charter Contains Option for Purchase of Utility by • City in 1930. ATTITUDE IS IN DOUBT Directors of Company May Battle Taking Over by Municipality. Whether the Citizens’ Gas Company charter contains an enforceable option for the city's purchase of the utility in 1930 Is being studied informally by Chamber of Commerce civic affairs members, Chairman William Fortune admitted today. Fortune said the contract, which originally provided that the utility shall be taken over by the muncipality after expiration of the twen-ty-five-year agreement, had not been considered formally by Chamber committees. “We have been giving the matter considerable consideration for some time, though it has not been acted upon officially by chamber officers,” Fortune said. Book Studies Situation Fortune said William H. Book, civic affairs director, had given some attention to the gas situation and probably will make a thorough study. "Advisability of the city taking ofer the utility in 1930 has been the topic at several informal conferences with chamber committeemen and city officials. A conference was held some months ago with city officials at their request. Mayor L. Ert Slack and Corporation Counsel John W. Holtzman, mayor in 1905 when the charter was granted, have been studying the provisions of the contract. Slack said he had not sought the attitude of gas company directors. “I expect to talk it over with them soon,” he said. Gas Cos. Attitude Doubtful John R. Welsh, company president, declined to reveal the directors’ attitude toward surrender of the utility to the city as originally provided, but it is said the utility officials have indicated that they will contend the option is not enforceable and are ready for a court fight at any time the city starts the move. , The capitalists who have been buying up certificates of stock are expected to fight municipal purchase, on the ground the t the charter became in operation when the public service commission issued an indefinite permit. Several attorneys have given the opinion that the option is enforceable. City councilmen favor “saving the gas company” for the citizens, as intended under the charter. KINGSTON FUNERAL SET Attorney Will Be Buried Saturday in Crown Hill. Funeral services for William N. Kingston, 62, attorney, who died Thursday in his home at 903 S. State Ave., will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the J. C. Wilson funeral home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Kingston, who came to Indianapolis from Titusville, Pa., his birthplace, when 9, was admitted to the bar here more than twentyfive years ago. Surviving him are the widow, a son, two daughters, two brothers and a sister.

it to swallow. When found, relates Dr. T. S. Palmer, expert of the Biological Survey, it had choked to death on a herring. Comparison of other figures, submitted by the Aeronautical Association and by Dr. Palmer, shows that the speed and altitude records of birds have been smashed, too. Lieut. C. C. Champion, United States Navy, holds the altitude record, 38418 feet, while the highest a bird is known to have flown is 20,000 feet. The speed record for airplanes is 278.48 miles an hour, held by Warrant Officer Bonnet of France. Dr. Palmer is of the opinion that birds never go more than sixty miles an hour except in a terrific gale. He points out, however, that birds are not trying to break records and do not go in for stunts. Their flights are “strictly business.” When it comes to precision flying, he adds, birds can fly circles around any aviator; they never lose th<r bearings and do not require instruments.

at 602 S. Sherman Dr., that a new teacher would be added to the school’s staff Monday, thus making possible the retransfer of the nineteen students who have been forced to attend School 21 at Southeastern and English Aves.

Broadway Season Is Again Under Way

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The 1928-29 Broadway stage season is in full blast. Here are Lee Tracy, who stars In “The Front Page.” as a hard-boiled newspaper reporter, and Zita Johann, who proved a “find” when she appeared in “Machinal.” Below are some of the celebrities in New York shows held over from last season. Left to right they’re Judith Anderson, “Strange Interlude”; Marilyn Miller, “Rosalie;” Norma Terris, “Showboat;” Mae West, Diamond Lil.”

WFBM TO LOSE ON ITS APPEAL Radio Board Expected to Refuse ‘Watt’ Boost. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The Federal radio commission virtually has decided to reject the application of Station WFBSi for increase in power from 1,000 to 5,000 watts it became known today. Formal announcement is expected in a few days. It was pointed out that the Indianapolis station will have sixsevenths of the time on its nev; band of 920 'kilocycles, when the commission’s unscrambling order becomes effective Nov. 11. It also was pointed out that at 1,000 watts it can continue to broadcast chain programs, whereas under a commission order, also effective Nov. 11, no station of 5,000 watts or more can have such programs for more than an hour a night when another chain broadcast station is within 300 miles This would have made WFBM dependent upon purely local programs. Commissioner Pickard, in charge of the Fourth zone, in which Indiana is situated, said he believed WFBM had a big opportunity, enjoying practically all the evening time on its band and having no other broadetster nearer than Montana and Washington. It can cover most of Indiana with its present power, he said. Pickard said 90 per cent of the broadcasters in the Fourth Ou„c had accepted the new order, though it was necessary to cut time and to squeeze eight big stations in on two bands, because the Fourth zone was more crowded with stations than any other. Station WOWO, single 5,000 watter, located at Ft. Wayne, is one of four broadcasters of the same power on the 1160 kilocycle band, but Pickard said this station will receive four-sevenths of the evening time on the band, beside being allowed to broadcast all day. RODEO MANAGER HELD Accused of Issuing Fraudulent Check at Claypool. Arthur S. Rowland, manager of the Flying X Rodeo show that appeared at the State fair last week, is held by Detectives Tutt and Jordan charged with issuing a worthless chedk for $125 to the Claypool. Officials of a bank at Marshall, Mich., said he had no account there. Some equipment of the Rodeo is held by Sheriff Omer S. Hawkins because of several attachment proceedings against the company on account of unpaid bills. “Women Only” Cars Don’t Work. Bi; United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Marking some of the subway cars “For women only” would not lessen the congestion here, Guillermo Fels, Buenos Aires expert, said before he sailed for home. The system was tried in Buenos Aires, he said, and women refused to ride in the cars.

THE battle for proper school at No. 77 was begun by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hudson, 3834 Hoyt Ave., soon after their son, Bright, was killed two years ago when hit by an automobile while he was walking to School 21. The other children of the Hudsons, Harold and Emily, have been

‘TALKIES’ BOOSTED AS BOON TO SILENT DRAMA Froducer Sees Business Increase In New Feature. NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Now comes Victor Halperin, a United Artists producer, with the predic-

tion that talkies boon to the silent drama. “By January 1, will prove a great 1931, there still will be 15,000 theaters in the United States unequipped for the showing of sound pictures,” says Halperin. “That means that the studios will still have to continue making silent pictures. And natturally they will

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have to be of a higher standard than our present films in order to compete with the popularity of sound films.” PROPOSE TO SHORTEN WABASH RIVER 8 MILES Dredging in Adams County Will Affect 110,000 Acres By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Sept. 14.—More than 110,000 acres of land in Indiana will be affected by the proposed dredging of the Wabash River which will get under way in a few days. The Indiana drain will start near the Ohio-Indiana line and extend west to what is known as Jim town Bridge, near Linn Grove, in Adams county.. This will be a distance of 16 miles. More than a million yards of gravel will be removed in widening and excavation of the channel of the river. The present channel is 24 miles long and will be shortened eight miles by straightening. Ohio is Joining in the project. More than 25,000 acres will be affected in that State. SEEK TO BUY PLAY LOT Park Board Resolution Drafted for 13-Acre Site. A resolution to purchase the thir-teen-acre tract bounded by Havorford Ave., Arsenal Ave., Forty-Ninth and Forty-Sixth Sts. for a playground was ordered today by the park Board. Edward B. Raub, Jr., park board attorney, will present the resolution at the next meeting. CHECK PARKING SPACES Ordinance Violated, Controller Is Informed. Sterling R. Holt, city controller, today ordered a check of downtown parking spaces allotted to business houses and hotels. Reports that the business men are exceeding the eighteen feet permitted by city council’s ordinance have reached the controller’s office Holt said.

forced to make the long and dangerous trip to the English Ave. school, and Mr. and Mrs. Hudson never have been able to shake the fear they would meet the same fate as their brother. Other parents In the district constantly have been worried about their children, and have

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AUTO INDUSTRY IS NEAR RECORD Foreign Purchases in 1928 Now at 417,000 Mark. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The American automobile industry Is out to establish anew record this year. Foreign purchases of Americanmade cars totalled 417,000 in the first six months cf this year, compared with 395,156 during the same period last year. From January to July inclusive, 2,742,806 autonobiles and trucks were turned out in Americai factories, including the Ford, which just is getting into fast production as result of its change of models. The figures would have been even higher but for unexpected delays encountered in the Ford factories. Figures received by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce show an output of 2,871,842 vehicles from January to August in all member factories. This does not include the Ford figurs for the year. These figures are 23 per cent higher than last year for member factories, or, in terms of cars, 539,168 more than the same makers made last year. The banner year of the automobile industry was 1926, when the Ford plants were operating at capacity with their famous model T. That year 4,503,531 cars were made in the United States. Significant of the increase this year is the fact that more higher priced cars are being manufactured and sold. The Nash, Hupp, Studebaker, Chrysler and Graham-Paige among the so-called “independents” are breaking all previous records. BOY FRIEND WAITS FOR SUE CAROL ACROSS SEA Film Actress to Visit ’Pal’ Who Is Acting in Europe NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—When Sue Carol of the films left for Europe this week she haft more than Just a trip in mind. Nick Stuart, her own particular “boy friend,” is over

over there making a picture. Sue thought it would be pretty nice if she could see Nick and Europe at the same time. When she arrived at the railroad station there was Carl Laemmele Jr., who followed her around like a shadow all the time she was making a picture at Universal, to bid her good-by—

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Woman Seriously Burned By Times t-pedal ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 14.—Mrs. N. H. Robbins, 65, is in a critical condition suffering from burns received when she fell while carrying a tub of boiling water.

pointed out the extreme danger in the long journey. English Ave. has no sidewalks, and to avoid being struck by motor cars the children were forced to walk in the center of the road, where an unpaved strip, originally provided for a street car line, divides East and West bound traffic.

CITY CONTROL OF BOXING TO BE REVAMPED Councilmen Work on Plan for New Commission, Under Safety Board. SYSTEM IN DISFAVOR Several Members Dislike Job and Seek Relief From Task. The city boxing ordinance, source of dissension since the late Mayor Lew Shank first legalized fistic exhibitions, is being revamped. Councilman Robert E. Springsteen disclosed today. Some means of getting control of boxing under some other body than the present boxing commission composed df six councilmen is the most important change proposed. Almost from the inception of the present plan citizens have criticised it, declaring that it presented unusual opportunities for councilmen to collect petty graft. Ugly gossip frequently was spread about the commission under the Shank and Duvall administrations, none of which ever took the form of open, proved charges. Councilmen Dislike Task Seven members of the present council, indorsed by civic organizations, took the places of councilmen involved in the Duvall administration city hall scandals. They have viewed the arrangement by which the law said they should serve as the boxing commission with little favor, not caring foi*the job. From data gathered from other cities, Springsteen, present boxing commission chairman, and Assistant City Attorney Smiley N. Chambers, are drafting a model boxing bill, which will be presented soon. This probably will provide for a separate boxing board, possibly under the supervision of the board of public safety. Springsteen said he favored continuing the 5 per cent tax on gate receipts and the license fee and that he thought it should apply to the American Legion winter bouts, at the Armory. Cooperates With Legion The legion has gotten around the tax on the theory that the bouts were staged on Federal property apd exempt from municipal regulation, but has worked in cooperation with the city commission since the council’s complexion wa* changed. History of boxing regulation ha3 been hectic. Lew Shank desired to put the fight game on a sound basis soon after he took office. He had an ordinance providing for appointment of a boxing commission by the mayor introduced. The council, which battled with Shank most of the administration, immediately adopted a bill of 'ls own, setting up the present system of council control. Boxing got such a bad name in Indianapolis that leading business men backed the American Legion when it started its exhibitions at the Armory two seasons ago because the legion declared its independence of the numerous promoters whose shows had gotten into ill repute. PIKE COUNTY PREPARES FOR HARVESTING NUTS Pecans Fair; Walnuts and Hickory Nut Yield is Spotty Ey Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind, Sept. 14. Only a fair crop of pecans is anticipated in the White River bottom as growers are preparing to begin harvesting in a few days. One grove has more than 500 trees. The walnut and hickory nut crops will be ready to harvest late this month. The crop is spotty this year, some of the trees being well filled while in other parts of the county the nuts ore scarce. The annual yield of walnuts has decreased in Pike county within the last few years because of the high price being paid for walnut lumber. Only the small trees are left. As much as SIOO has been paid for a single tree in the county. PICK CAMPAIGN GROUPS Fifty-Six Advisory Groups Named by County Democrat Chief. Fifty-six district advisory committees have been named by Leroy J. Keach, county Democratic chairman, to assist in the Democratic campaign. Good Roads Leader Dies Rp United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Sept. 14. John M. Malang. Joplin, known as the “father” of Missouri State roads on account of his activities in good road campaigns, died Thursday at a local hotel. "leart disease caused his death.

Moon Pranks Last minute changes were made in the teachers directory at Technical High School early this week when instructors reported for duty. The first names were loft on the list, but the last names were changed in several cases. “The moon caused that," said one teacher. “That is right,” said another, “and the preacher helped, too.”