Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1928 — Page 17
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MORE SPACE REQUIRED BY FOURPLANTS H3luffton, Marion, Seymour and Richmond Businesses Grow. WAGES PAID INCREASE Studebaker Corporation Reports $1,780,580 Gain for Seven Months. BY CHARLES C. STONE I State Editor, The Times Additions to plants of industries in four Indiana cities and prosperous conditions of others are notable in a business and industrial survey of the State for the week ended today. An addition to cost $45,000 will be built to the Hoosier Condensed Milk Company plant at Bluffton. It will house machinery for production of powdered milk and will permit of an output increase of twenty-five tons daily. The Dwyer Paper Products Company, Marion, will build a 35x83foot addition, to permit handling increasing business. Storage space for 6,000 more bushels of apples will be obtained through completion for the Hall Orchard Company, Seymour, of a new storage building. Purchase of a four-story brick building is announced by the National Autmatic Tool Company, Richmond, for use as a warehouse, and the room in the present plant now serving as storage space will be utilized in production work. Wages Show Increase Wages paid employes of the Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, during the first seven months of this year are $1,780,580 in excess of those paid in the same period last year. The corporation sold more autos during August this year than in any other August in its history. Contracts for printing, which will total $1,250,000 over a five-year period, have been obtained by the R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, Crawfordsville. Work on the contracts will begin Oct. 1. Some new equipment will be added and the working force increased slightly. Enameling equipment is being by the Globe Stove and Range Company, Kokomo, to keep pace with a steadily increasing demand for a furnace, production of which was started three years ago. Production of anew toy automobile by the Kokomo Stamped Metal Company will begin next week Several large orders for the new product have already been booked, John Reuss, general manager, announces. Glass Sales Gain
Sales of a non-shattering glass, a new product for the Johnson Glass Company, Hartford City, are showing a gratifying increase, the management states, and several large auto manufacturers are among buyers. Conditions in other cities are shown in the following summary: LEBANON—The Lebanon Electric Hatchery is anew business here. Equipment will include two incubators with a total capacity of 30,000 chicks. FT. WAYNE—The present working force of the local General Electric Company plant is 6,150, the largest in its history, and more workers are needed. An average of 100 women weekly have been put on the pay roll in the last month and a half. Plant May Be Re-opened BLUFFTON—Hope is expressed here that the Great Northern Glove Company, which went into receivership a few days ago, will be taken over by other interests than those now in control and placed in operation. The plant has been idle for some time. SHIRLEY—Merger of the Western Glass Company here with the Highland Glass Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., is expected to result in steady operation of the local plant during the coming winter. It was closed last winter. OAKLAND ClTY—David and William Ingle, Evansville, announce plans for opening anew deep vein coal mine six miles north of here. Workmen are already engaged in digging a slope to a seven-foot vein of coal which will be brought out by conveyors instead of the cages usually employed in deep vein shafts. HE STICKS TO HIS WORK Life Insurance President Writes Some Policies Abroad. YORK, Sept. 21.—The bigger their interests, the harder busi-
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ness men seem to Haley Fiske is a big life insurance president, but he isn’t above a little salesmanship now and then. He has returned from England. where he spent two weeks selling group pollcies covering 15,000 persons.
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BIRGER AID IS NABBED IN EAST Lieutenant of Gang Czar to Face Death Trial. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Leslie Simpson, said to be one of the most trusted lieutenants of the late Charley Birger, whose gang terrorized lower Illinois for ten years, will be returned to that State as soon as extradition papers are received here. Simpson, arrested yesterday by Arlie Boswell, prosecuting attorney of Williamson County, when he came ashore from the freighter Stanley, is under indictment charging him with complicity in the murder of Lory Price, Illinois State trooper, and his wife. The arrest climaxed a long hun for Simpson, indicted with eight others for the murder for which Birger was hanged. At that time Simpson had fled and his whereabouts was unknown until Boswell learned he had shipped aboard the freighter. When the ship docked from port said yesterday, Boswell and two sheriffs were there to arrest Simpson. Beggar Makes $11.90 in Hour. NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—One hour’s panhandling on the B. M. T. subway platform, Whitehall St. station, brought James Castle $11.90, he told police.
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PROBE HI-JACKING PLOT Police Arrest Three on Tip of Liquor Raid Scheme. Police believe they nipped a hijacking plot in the bud Thursday when they arrested Lawrence Brodrick, 28, of 324 Bicking St.; Coleen Jackson, 19, Bedford, and Robert Moore, 25, 450 W. Twenty-Ninth St. The trio, according to a tip received by police, had planned to raid a load of liquor. All are hefd on vagrancy charges.
BY HAROLD P. MILLS United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Sept. 20.—Love at first sight, a romance between an American youth and a Chinese girl—those are the ingredients in this story that should redut Rudyard Kipling to envy. Harry Warren Palmer, of Kansas City, 26 years old and handsame, was s~nt to Shanghai to
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Dale Miller putting the “Kro-Flite” through its paces on White River.
Dale Miller to Race His Speedy Craft in Peoria Regatta Sept. 30. Indianapolis, which makes rather a point out of being "America’s greatest inland city,” and thereby brags about her lack of waterways, may be the home town of the fastest outboard motor boat afloat. Dale Miller, widely known basketball referee and sportsman, on Sept. 30 will try to shatter the world’s cutboard motor record for Class "B” boats in the annual regatta at Peoria, 111., toth the “Kro-Flite,” an Indianapolis assembled boat, which he keeps in White River near Broad Ripple. Dick Collins is joint owner of the boat with Miller. Tryouts in narrow White River have convinced the owners that the local boat can beat the record, 34.36 miles an hour. Miller and Collins are members of the White City Aquatic Club, where a number of pow'er boats are kept. Bernard Batty and Bill Hunt, other water speed enthusiasts, and Miller and Collins plan to stage a regatta here next year. John Leslie, former Butler Unisersity athlete, was leading a Class C race at Danville, 111., last Sunday when he spilled. The outboard races are great sport, Miller says, the pilot never knowing whether he is going to finish the race or get spilled when ■ big wave h\ts him or when he rounds a corner too sharply. The boats skim the water when under high speed, throwing a shower of spray from twenty to thirty feet to the side and rear.
STAMBOUL, Turkey, Sept. 21.—Zaro Aghsr; at the age of 157, has sacrificed his mustache and beard for hi? country good. Zqro hold a minor municipal job and responded to the city edict urging all employes to be clean shaven. It took Zaro more than a century to cultivate his splendid whiskers and he relinquished them with a sigh, but was consoled by the improvement it made in his appearance. He looked half a century younger. ’ Zaro took new interest in life and decided to replenish his stock of wives, three of whom have died of old age leaving him only one. To his dsimay he ran against the new law prohibiting polygamy Asked for probably the thousandth time about the secret of longevity, Zaro grinned, his sunken eyes almost closing, and recited glibly: “That’s easy. I don’t smoke I don’t drink. I married four wives.”
FILE TAX PROTESTS Indiana Association Objects to School, County Levies. Remonstrances against the proposed 1929 school and county -tax levies were filed today with County Audtor Harry Dunn by the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. No reason for objection to the levies were contained in the remonstrance. Dunn will certify them to the State tax board today. Hearing date will be set by the board.
AMERICAN WINS CHINESE BRIDE IN KIPLINGESQUE ROMANCE
transact business with a Chinese firm of importers. It was his first night in Shanghai and he went to a hotel restaurant. A few tables away sat a Chinese beauty and her father. Harry looked at the girl, the girl looked at Harry. They blushed and looked away. That sort of thing, you know. Now by all the rules of etiquette the American should have sought
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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1928
AUTO DAMAGES HOMESOF TWO Driver Awaits Verdict of Kokomo Court. By Times Special i KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 21.—Ted Daniels, 30, will Saturday tell what the law thinks of a man who was responsible for one of the most unusual automobile stunts in Kokomo’s history. City Judge Cripe has taken Daniels’ case under advisement until that "date. A small coupe driven by Daniels got beyond control when he pressed hard on the accelerator instead of the brake. It left a street, snapped off two poles on which mail boxes were mounted and then went on a house wrecking career. The car first struck the home of Roscoe Durrer, wrecking the front porch. Then it dashed across a vacant lot, striking the home of George Lewis with such force that it was slipped on its foundation. A large hole was tom in the weather boarding and plastering on walls shattered. Daniels was unhurt.
HICKMAN TO APPEAL Counsel to Seek Stay in U. S. Supreme Court. By United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., Sept. 21. A final attempt to save Edward Hickman, slayer of Marion Parker, from the gallows in California, will be made next week by his attorneys through an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Jerome K Walsh of Kansas City, one of the attorneys, said today he will go to Washington to file an application for a writ of review of the Hickman case. GIRL HIKER WAITS HEARING FOR MURDER By United Press AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 21.—Loveda Boyle, 18, "hitch hiker,” charged with second degree murder, awaited preliminary hearing here today. Miss Boyle is accused of shooting to death Robert P. McCormack who had given her a ride, as she walked along a country road. The girl said she shot “to prevent my being attacked.” Declaring “this is the happiest day of my life,” Miss Boyle said today she was “anxious to get this thing over,” and she added: "I shall certainly devote the rest of my life to instructing young girls not to take automobile rides with strange men.” Campaign Log Bv United Press Herbert Hoover made no appointments for the day, reserving the time to work on the speech which he will deliver at Elizabethton, Tenn., on Oct. 6. Senator Charles Curtis made his only speech of the day at Sheridan, Wyo., although he greeted crowds from the rear of his car as he continued his tour of the West. Governor Alfred E. Smith left Oklahoma City for Denver, planning several stops along the route, the first one being at Guthrie, Okla. Senator Joseph T. Robinson emphasized the farjn issue as he continued his campaign through Kentucky.
out a friend or an acquaintance who would introduce him to the girl. But he was more impetuous than that. He arose and walked to her table. a a a SH E met the emergency. “Father, meet Mr. Brown.” she said in perfect English. The introduction was acknowledged and before “Brown” left he heard the girl say:
3 NEW POOLS IN CITY, HOPE OF PARK HEAD Bathing Places on South, West and East Sides Are Projected. I ORDER BONDS FOR ONE Broad Ripple Swimming Center Type Favored by Board. Indianapolis bathers will have no difficulty in finding desirable pools in any section of the city if plans of John E. Milnor, park board president, are carried out next year. Milnor announced the park board contemplates construction of large modem pools on the East, West, and South side next year. Bonds have been ordered for a $40,000 pool in Elle-berger park and the South and West side improvements are expected to follow the Ellenberger project. Milnor said the board hopes to build a North side pool later. “We must do something for the bathers. I feel the park board has an obligation to furnish adequate swimming facilities in all sections of the city. We must keep the young folks from swimming in unguarded places in the river and creeks,” Milnor declared. Broad Ripple Type Favored The contemplated pools will be built along the lines of the Broad Ripple Park pool instead of like the Bientz type in Rhodius park. The Broad Ripple pool is level with the earth and has dressing rooms on the side, while the patented type at Rhodius is built on top of the ground with lockers and showers beneath the walk which circles the water. 'T don’t think the park board wants to build any more of the type at Rhodius,” Milnor declared. The south side pool probably wall be built in the vicinity of Garfield Park and the west side one on the new park track at W. Michigan and Eagle Creek. Milnor said the park board will be forcd to curtail development plans in Christian, Douglas and Dearborn parks and the Sarah Shank golf course and other projects, contemplated when the park board requested an 8-cent tax levy. The council adopted a 6-cent rate. Budget Called Too Low
“Until last year we never operated under 7 cents,” he said. “Council cut the park levy for 1928 because of political animosity, giving the board an inadequate budget,” Milnor asserted. The park board Thursday made Its annual reduction in custodian and watchman forces. Riverside, Brookside, Ellenberger, Rhodius, Christian, Camp Sullivan, Douglas, Garfield, Riley, University, Willard and Fall Creek Pkwy. will be kept open during the winter. The park board Thursday ordered two bond issues totaling $lll,OOO for park improvements and acquisitions. An issue of $45,000 will be used to purchase twenty-five acres west of Olin <Ave., between Michigan and Tenth Sts., and eleven lots east of Broadway between Sixtieth and Sixty-First Sts. The west side will be used for a park and playground and the north side site for a playground. Improvement of Ellenberger Park swimming pool. Pleasant Run Pky., between Meridian St. and Madison Ave., and a minor building at Riverside nursery will be made with a $66,000 issue. Acquisition of thirteen acres bounded by Forty-Sixth, FortyNinth, Arsenal and Haverword Aves., to provide a playgrond for the northeast section, was ordered.
ARSON DEFENDANT NERVOUS AT TRIAL
By Times Special NEWPORT, Ind., Sept. 21.—Samuel Withrow, former kligraph of the Parke County Ku-Klux Klan, nervously twists his hands as he sits in the Vermilion Circuit Courtroom here and listens to the evidence by which the State hopes to convict him of arson in the burning of a schoolhouse at Bridgeton in 1924. The defendant appeared more shaken than usual during an allday cross-examination of Lawrence Glaze, Frankfort, star witness for the State. The questioning was by Charles J. Orbison, Indianapolis lawyer, who has often appeared as counsel for the Klan. Glaze left the stand with his positive identification of Withrow as the firebug unshaken. The witness testified ..that on the night of the fire he was calling on a young woman and was seated in front of her home, across from the school, in an auto parked with the lights off. According to the witness, he noticed flames flash suddenly in the building and saw a man leap from a window. Glaze said he ran toward the building and at one time
“By the way, my ’phone is still West -—. Call me up tomorrow morning.” Young Palmer somehow managed to wait until “tomorrow morning” arrived. The conversation over the telephone was long and highly satisfactory. Then the Missourian set forth to call on the head of Wle Chinese firm. You’ve probably guessed it.
BRANDS GIRL THIEF Indian Beauty Charges Gem Plot
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Arkansas city, Kas., sept. 21. —The noble red man has taken a leaf from the book of the palefaces and has gone into society. Women of the Osage tribe—richest organization of people on the face of the globe—do not wear the colored blankets of tradition, nor intone ancient tales of Great Chief Boiled-on-both-sides. They wear clothes that their paleface sisters might envy, and they play bridge and get into gossipy rows. Now the whole Osage country is excited by criminal charges against the pretty Mrs. Freddie Wheeler, white wife of the rich Morris Wheeler, Indian rancher. The chief complaining witness, Mrs. Edna Plomondon, is an Indian woman of striking beauty. Last July Mrs. Plomondon and two other Osage women—Mrs. J. E. O’Connor and Mrs. Edna Watts —went for a drive. On their way home a masked bandit stopped the car. The chief article of value that was taken was a $1,200 diamond ring belonging to Mrs. Plomondon. A few days later Mrs. Plomondon charged Mrs. Wheeler’s brother, Johnnie Williams, with being
HOME BREW’S O.K.
Clark County Juries Won f t Convict
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Sept. 21.—Despite stringency of Indiana's bone dry law, citizens of Clark County look with favor upon the making of home brew for personal use, declares Grover C. Todd, county prosecutor. The prosecutor made the statement after a jury in Clarx Circuit Court acquitted Mr. ai’d Mrs. Harry Himes, charged with dry law breaking, despite a declaiation by Mrs. Himes that she
Ladies of G. A. R. Ask Pardon of Aged Slayer
By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 21.—A pardon for Henry Romine, 81, Civil War veterans, who is serving a life term for murder in the Indiana State Prison here, is asked of Governor Ed Jackson, in resolutions passed by the Ladies of the G. A. R. in national convention at Denver, Colo., in connection with the national G. A. R. encampment. Each year Romine, for the past sixteen years, has been granted a thirty-day parole to attend encampments. He was convicted of slaying John and George McQuaid at North Vernon, Ind.
was within fifteen feet of the other man, who he declared both on direct and cross-examination was Withrow. STUDENTS SOON TO SAIL Holders of Rhodes Scholarships on Way to England. NEW YORK, r A Sept. 21.—Rhodes \ scholars are scheduled to sail fiom f the United States . J for England soon, L and among them p|s|| will be Abbott Smith of Water- ' ville, Maine. Smith, a clergyman’s son, ' i '" is a Phi Beta k’ I Kappa graduate of I Colby College,where § J he won scl10 " . h i i as tic honors, and Abbott Smith which is located In his home town, and he will enter Balliol College, Oxford.
Palmer’s quarry was the father of the girl. And naturally he was somewhat surprised that the “Mr. Brown” of the night before was now a “Mr. Palmer.” # an PALMER’S stuttered explanation was unsatisfactory, but after the Chinese had threatened not to do business with his caller the youth broke down and con-
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Mrs. Edna Plomondon. right .. . an Osage Indian woman . . . robbed of her diamond, and Mrs. Wheeler, left, whom she accuses of conspiracy to take it. the bandit, and charged Mrs. Wheeler with staging the robbery. The two are now free under bond of $1,500 apiece, awaiting a hearing next month. Williams says he has twelve witnesses to an alibi.| Mrs. Wheeler tearfully protests: “I am not guilty.” Meanwhile, the whole Osage country is excited.
makes home brew and intends to continue making it. The acquitting Jury was composed of both men and women—Democrats and Republicans, church members, wet and dry sy.. pathizers. Mrs. Himes said she makes the brew in fifty-bottle lots, and that she drinks a glass daily and her husband consumes two. Testimony was offered that the couple is peaceful and law-abid-ing.
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WOMAN SMOKES PIPE By United Press PARIS, Sept. 21.—Mile. Hure, recognized as one of the foremost French workers in stainec. glass, always smokes a '--y wood pipe when she is at her task of decorating churches. She smokes not for inspiration, but for repose, she said.
fessed to the deception. He was forgiven and his business was concluded. The girl in the case was Miss Ming Lau-tsze, a friend of Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Nationalist leader. And. to complete the record, the wedding was arranged to be held at the ballroom of the Majestic Hotel, with a honeymoon to be spent in Japan and Honolulu.
TOP SPEED HIT IN DRIVE FOR STATEVOTES Both Parties Speed Up in Campaign; Speakers in All Sections. MANY WORK FOR G. 0. P. Republicans Depending on Old Plan of ‘Twenty to a Precinct/ While candidates are bombarding all parts of the State from speakers’ platforms Republican and Democratic organization leaders are building diligently the cam-, paign structures on which rest their respective hopes of victory at the polls Nov. 6. One in regarding organization as essential to success as candidates and issues both parties are marshaling forces with a vengeance. Here at headquarters of the two major parties scores of office employes have been installed in enlarged quarters directing and coordinating the efforts of thousands of political workers throughout the State. At the Severin, where Elza O, Rogers, State G. O. P. chairman, holds forth, a dozen or more rooms house the manifold bureaus that encompass the party’s effort to capture the State for Herbert Hoover, presidential nominee; Harry G. Leslie, candidate for Governor, and tha Republican State ticket. Depend on Old Plan Republicans are adhering to tha “twenty to a precinct” plan which has proved highly effective in former campaigns. Its goal is the enlistment of at least ten men and ten women for active work in each of the State’s 3,567 precincts. This object has been approximated in some 2,000 precincts already, Secretary Harry C. Fenton has announced. Bureaus supplementing this work include those for women, farmers, business men. Negroes, veterans, first voters, labor, legislative, publicity, speakers and trr ling men. Cooperating with the State committee and insuring Hodver of the strong support of'“out and out” Hoover Republicans, Hoover-for-Prcsident club activities arc directed from State Hoover headquarters on the Monument Circle.
Oscar G. Foellinger, in charge, hopes to establish a Hoover club in every county in the State. Democratic rTort. are equally as comprehensive, the organization plan being much the same. Headquarters Opened Headquarters for bureaus organizing farmers, first voters, labor and other groups have been opened in connection with State committee rooms in the Claypool. Having escaped such a rupture as was suffered by Republicans in the Hoover-Watson primary clash, Democratic leaders report that unusually rapid progress has been made in organization work—now weeks ahead of its extent in September of former general election years. Especial efforts have been made in organizing Marion County Democrats for the support of Governor Alfred E. Smith, Frank C. Dailey, the gubernatorial nominee, State and county candidates. Leroy J. Keach, county chairman, has directed this work from headquarters in the State Life Bldg., where a corp of assistants, bureau heads, and publicity men are busy. These efforts are being matched from Seventh district Republican offices in the K. of P. Bldg., by George V. Coffin, district chairman, and Omer Hawkins, county chairman. Many Names Certified More than 5,000 names of workers for the 269 precincts in the county have been certified to State chairman Rogers by Coffin. A county first voters bureau has a goal of 2,000 or 3,000 young work* ers in the county also. Thorough organization however, will fall short of its objective unless the men and women in the ranks actually make the house-to-house solicitations expected of them, political leaders agree. While the issues and personalities of the coming presidential election give promise of getting out a heavy vote, the shortness of county tickets is an admitted deterrent. Particularly in the agricultural districts is this the case, any organization heads. With most county tickets offering only six or eight candidates local campaign funds are going to be hard to raise, they sayj and, after all, without the money, all other efforts and precautions are apt to go awry. PRAISES U. S. STUDENTS Americans Behaving Well Abroad, Says Barnard Dean. NEW YORK, Sept. 217.—They’re all good boys and girls when they're ■ can students in Paris and elsewhere abroad are *jjp& • tL behaving them|F 4** solves splendidly, ** said Miss Vir- <. 4; ginia Gilder.i sleeve, dean of • Barnard College, as she returned from Europe. ta&gH "The rising genmm era ti° n is a good *" sort,” she said. Strike Spreads in Poland [lllUnited Press WARSAW. Sept. 21.—The Lodz textile strike is spreading and now affects 70,000 workers. The government has appointed an arbitration committee, hoping to avert a general strike. v