Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1928 — Page 2

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11N 10 VIOLATE TRAFFIC RULES, SURVEYSHOWS Increase in Law Breaking Indicated Throughout United States. Are you the one motorist in ten who was guilty of a traffic law violation in 1927? And were you one of the motorists who helped to pour the $20,746 into the city coffers, collected for motor fines? An average of one out of ten motorists and truck drivers in Indianapolis was charged with violations of traffic laws during 1927, records of the Indianapolis police traffic department revealed. Other cities in the United States report an average of one out of five motorists charged with violations of the traffic laws each year, according to the American Automobile Association. Violations Increase The compilation reveals that in eighteen cities violations in 1927 total 614,232, as compared with 77,940 in 1917. While car registration in these cities increased but 326 per cent for the ten years, there was a 688 per cent increase in traffic law violation. But seven cities showed a percentage of increase in car registrations greater than the gain in traffic violations. They are headed by Indianapolis which increased the number of automobiles and decreased the traffic violations. Other are: El Paso, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Worcester, Mass.; Chicago and Denver. Baltimore Leads List Baltimore showed the greatest increase in violation of traffic laws, with a gain of 29.75 per cent in the ten-year period. Police records show that 9,969 motorists paid $20,746 in fines here during 1927; and that instead of the number of violations increasing as a result of an increase in the number of automobiles and trucks in the city, there was been a decrease in violations of about 1,000. In 1926 10,517 motorists were fined $22,253. Yet in 1926 there were approximately 6,000 less automobiles and trucks operating on Indianapolis streets. License records in the secretary of state’s office reveal that 106,263 passenger cars and 22,652 trucks were licensed in Marion county during 1927, and of this number a total of 6,000 belonged to persons living in the county. Too Many Rules In 1926 100.428 passenger cars and 22,146 trucks were licensed in Marion county. Despite the increase in vehicles there were 1,000 less offenses reported, the records show. Throughout the nation violations have been on the upgrade as a result of the legislation of hundreds of varying traffic rules which leave the motorist in a muddle. Motor experts are advocating that' all cities have uniform traffic ordinances and regulations. DEDICATE PLAYGROUND ON ‘DISCOVERY DAY’ Holy Rosary Italian Church to Hold Special Services. Dedication of a parish playg-ound at 9 a. m. Friday will open special services of the Holy Rosary Italian Congregation to observe Discovery day. A flag rasing and patriotic songs will complete morning ceremonies. Evening services will include a parade with school children and the following Italian societies in the line of march: Society of Guisepps Crispi; Society of Humberto Primo; Society of Queen Margaritta, and the Sodality of Holy Rosary Church. G. 0. P.’ LEADER DIES David Sti iuse Aided Campaign of Benjamin Harrison. By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Oct. B.—Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning for David Strouse, 81, active in Republican politics and fraternal circles, who died Sunday after a year’s illness. He was a Civil War veteran; served as Parke County clerk and for thirty years was a land, tax and claim agent for the Pennsylvania railroad. He aided in the nomination and election of Benjamin Harrison to the presidency.

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NEA Washington Bureau. Here’s the way modern dirigibles solve one of aviation’s greatest problems—landing in a small space at low speed. At the top you see a closeup of the Goodyeear Puritan, second smallest of its type in the country, on the top of a four-story building in downtown Washington. Lower photo shows the craft as it came to rest, within half its own length, after two unsuccessful tries.

CHURCH RETREAT HELD Seventy-Five Protestant Laymen of Large City Congregations Attend. Seventy-five laymen representing all the large Protestant churches in Indianapolis participated in a retreat Saturday in Melodeon Hail on the J. K. Lilly estate, Seventy-First St. and College Ave. Chairman Edgar M. Evans declared that the purpose of the retreat was to promote fellowship.

DIRECTS PUBLICITY Samuel Frommer Appointed by B’Nai B’Rith. Samuel Frommer, Indianapolis was appointed chairman of the publicity committee of the B’Nci B’rith at the first meeting of the publicity and general committees Saturday at the Broadmoor Country Club. Bernard Lustig, Toledo, was appointed assistant. The gathering represented members from eight States in the second district. A publicity program was arranged and will be announced in a few weeks. A Dutch lunch was served in the evening. Principal speakers were Samuel Sivers, St. Louis, Mo.; Rabbi Moise Burgman, Pueblo, Cal.; Louis Drucker, Cleveland, Ohio, and Sidney Kuswork, Dayton. LESLIE IN FT. WAYNE Candidate to Cover Northern Tier of Counties This Week. Leading up to the “reopening” of his campaign at a banquet in Ft. Wayne Tuesday night, Harry G. Leslie, Republican candidate for Governor, was addressing neighborhood meetings in the Allen county seat today. Leslie wlil tour Huntington Country Wednesday with a mass meeting in Huntington Wednesday night, and will conclude a tour of Cass County with a mass meeting at Logansport Thursday night. Friday will be spent in Wabash County and Saturday in Delaware County, with a meeting at Muncie Saturday night. FIRE ON SUSPECTS Suspicious-Looking Motorists Routed by Residents. The slippery citizen up to suspicious business had best stay away from Madison and Troy Aves. Three men rode about in an automobile, looking over homes and business places in the neighborhood Sunday night. When one man alighted from the car, several residents attempted to question him. He and his companions fled. One of the citizens fired several times at them. ROTARY TO HEAR DOYLE Underwriters’ Counsel Slated as Luncheon Speaker. C. J. Doyle, Springfield, 111., associate general counsel of the National Board of Fire Underwriters of New York City, will speak Tuesday at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool. New officers will be installed and new members introduced. CHURCH REUNIOTIHELD Several hundred attended the thirty-fourth annual homecoming of the First Moravian Church, Twenty-Second St. and Broadway, Sunday. CHUFCH SELLS BRICKS Seven thousand bricks were sold | at 10 cents a brick Sunday to open | a drive for a new' $40,000 church ed- ! ucational building of the Bethany Christian Church, Minnesota and Quill Sts.

CHARGED WITH UNCLE’S DEATH Clarence Briggs Heid at Williamsport. I'rt Times Special WILLIAMSPORT, Ind., Oct. B. Clarence B. Briggs, 34, today faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of his uncle, Victor M. Briggs, whose bullet-riddled body was found at the door of his farm home near West Lebanon Wednesday. Walter Gillespie, Warren county prosecuting attorney, filed the charge. A brother of the accused, William J. Briggs, also taken into custody during investigation of the slaying, has been released. Denial of the charge is made by Clarence Briggs, who declares: “I had no designs against my uncle. Even if I had, his property was in trust. I could not get possession of it.” Authorities point to alleged ill feeling between the nephews and uncle over the will of Joel Briggs, father of Victor, bequeathing to him and his two nephews an estate valued at $250,000. Bandits Use Murder Car IIJ! Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. B.—Bandits w'ho robbed Hugh Haughey of S2O in his restaurant here used the automobile driven by Wilkinson Haag, Indianapolis, the day he was slain three years ago in a holdup. The car, now the porperty of Robert Morton, Louisville <Ky.), was stolen by the restaurant bandits, who wrecked it w'hile escaping.

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Automobiles reported to the police as stolen: Herbert Detrick, 1038 Willow Dr., Buick coupe; from Ohio St. and Capitol Ave. Michael O'Connor, B'4o S. Meridian St., Nash sedan, 627-927; from Washington and Illinois Sts. Mary E. Quill, 4443 Ruckle St., Buick sedan, 632-858; from garage rear of 4443 Ruckle St. Elmer Sharp, 1306 W. Thirtieth St,, Ford sedan; from Udell and Annette Sts. Arthur Lindauer, 1842 Roosevelt Ave., Ford roadster, 25-435; from Station and Roosevelt. M. L. Norland, 5345 Central Ave., Buick, 624-231; from New York and Illinois Sts. John S. Mann, New Bethel, Ind.; Buick sedan, 30-995; from Meridian and Twenty-Seventh St. F. M. Millikan Jr., 1403 City Trust Bldg., 655-461; from Washington St. and Virginia Ave.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by the police: Earl Sears, 131 N. Chester Ave., Auburn sedan, found at Oliver Ave. and White River Blvd. Ford coupe, 121-446 Indiana, no cretificate of title, found at Kentucky Ave. and Sands St. Earl Marple, Greenwood. Ind., Auburn sedan, found at Illinois and South Sts. Waldo Dickson, Crawfordsville, Ind, Whippet coach, found at Ohio and Walcott Sts. Ford coupe, 699-315, found in front of 409 S. Capitol Ave. Edward J. Kirkhoff, 4740 E. Washington St , Chrysler, found at 236 S. Pennsylvania St. Diana, 647-518, found at 15 S. West St. Ralph Dorsett, Cloverdale, Ind, Ford, found at New York St. and Senate Ave.

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STUDY LEGALITY OF 3-IN-1 SEAT AUTO ORDINANCE Councilmen Discuss Ways of Improving Traffic Rules. Legality of the city traffic code section prohibiting more than two persons to ride in the front seat of an auto is being studied by the city council traffic committee. City Prosecutor Herbert Spencer advised the committee that it is impossible to convict violators since Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin held the law unconstitutional. Councilman Edward W. Harris read the section of the model municipal code drafted by the national safety conference, suggesting the section be amended to prohibit inetrference with driver’s view. Meet Again Tuesday “It is a bad practice. Every day we see young folks driving with someone on their lap, smoking a cigarette,” said Fred W. Connell, safety board president. Recodification of the traffic rules will be studied further by the council committee Tuesday. Councilman Robert E. Springsteen is chairman of the committee working with city departments. Spencer recommended the listing of streets under 40 feet wide, where autos can not be parked on both sides. Connell has recommended flat-to curb parking on Washington St. to overcome the objections to the present traffic system designed to • give pedestrians a break” at street corner. He said fiat parking will enable traffic to move 40 per cent faster. Councilman Herman P. Lieber, city plan commission member, urged that any changes in the traffic rules I consider the welfare of pedestrians and street cars. Too Many Trolleys “Merchants want conditions so people can get where they want to go. Any traffic regulation is an irritant. The merchant’s viewpoint should be considered,” Lieber declared. John F. White suggested that the number of street cars turning on Washington St. should be greatly reduced. Deputy Controller A. B. Good recomended repeal of the section allowing hotels to designate a taxi company to use a "taxi stand” near the hotel entrance. Smiley Chambers, assistant city attorney, advised that the section is illegal.

TURNS ON GAS, DIES Man, 25, Commits Suicide; Attempt Fails. Two men attempted suicide Saturday night. One was successful, the other is in a critical condition at city hospital. Forrest V. Bell, 25. of 506 S. Holmes Ave., sealed kitchen doors and windows with newspapers, placed a mattress at the front of the gas range, and turned on all the burners to die. 11l health was given as the cause for the suicide attempt made by Benjamin Goth. 57, of 618 N. Drexel Ave. Mrs. Goth, awakened by her husband's groans, found him cutting himself with a pocketknife. Married on Deathbed JERSEY CITY, N. J., Oct. B. Twenty-four hours before he died, Thomas Madigan, former sheriff of Hudson County, New Jersey, summoned his fiancee, Miss Emma Clifton, and w’as married to her that she might obtain his fortune.

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RILEY HONORED I BY THOUSANDS AT MEMORIAL Dedication of Nurses’ Home Feature of Birthday Observance. James Whitcomb Riley’s joy in all seasons of the year was shown in his owm poems in the exercises given at the Lockerbie St. home at 1:30 this afternoon, in commemoration of the poet's 79th birthday anniversary, which was Sunday. The program was presented by children from school No. 9, with Hollister Gahan in charge. Riley’s "Masque of the Seasons” opened the program, followed by a Riley calendar of two poems for each season. It was concluded with "The Prayer Perfect,” by a chorus of girls’ voices. The chief feature of the program Sunday w'as the dedication in the afternoon of the Ball Nurses’ Home Training School at the Indiana University medical center, 1100 W. Michigan St. Bryan Is Dedication Speaker The address of dedication by President William Lowe Bryan of Indiana University, reviewed the campaign by which funds for the Ball home were obtained. Total gifts available for use, coming from more than 40,000 donors, are $1,288,370, the speaker said. He emphasized the further need for a hospital for psychiatry and a provision for research. Addressing the Ball family as chief donors, President Bryan con*cluded: "The work which you carry on is itself part of the answer to the prayer, "Thy kingdom come.” George Ball Responds George A. Ball responded to the address in place of Frank C. Ball, who was unable to attend the dedicatory services, owing to illness, j other addresses were made by j Hugh McK. Landon, president of the Riley Memorial Association; | Mrs. Alma H. Svott, executive secretary of the Indiana State Nutses’ ! Association; Dean Annie W. GoodI rich of the Yale School of Nursing, | and Major Julia Stimson, chicl of the United States Army Nurse Corps. The Riley home, open all day Sunday, was the goal of many pilgrimages. STATE EXPORTS HIGH Agricultural Machines Sent Abroad in Big Volume. Indiana was one of the States showing the largest volume of agricultural implements exported in j August. The month’s exports exceeded $13,000,000. for the United States, making anew high total of $Bl,686.133 for the first eight months in 1928. Kenneth H. Dame, district manager, bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, announced today Shipments the first eight months this year exceeded by $18,000,000 the same period in 1927. Wheel tractors comprised the largest item shipped during the eight-month period, constituting more than a third of the total of all shipments and representing an increase of $6,000,000 over the same period in 1927. Canadian purchases of w'heel tractors during the period amounted to $13,900,977. Other large purchasers of W’heel tractors were Australia, Germany, Italy, French Africa, and the United Kingdom. Second largest item in shipments during the period was combines, valued at $9,045,365, a large increase.

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Headed by the blond Helen Davis, 32, these three women have left Washington, D. C., in a sedan on a hunt for husbands. They gave their names as Stella Howe (center), 50, and Vivian Frederick Kerr (right), 38. Miss Davis is shown to the left. Miss Davis says the candidates have some 600 applicants to interview on the trip. Miss Davis says her husband must earn SIO,OOO a year and be prepared to advance $5,000 for her brother’s education.

Gas Meter Readers Must Be Sleuths, Indexer Says

Public Resorts to Many Ruses for Cheating, Tabulators Assert. You hardly would attach romance to the job of the meter reader who walks briskly into your home, shoots one quick glance at the gas or electrical index, jots down a few’ figures and hurries out. Yet the meter man often stumbles on to mild adventure and sometimes he must resort to real detective work to catch gas stealers. Gas thieves range from destitute families to preachers, politicians, Sunday school superintendents and policemen, according to Henry Stenger, contract manager of the Citizens Gas Company and former meter man or indexer, as he is technically known. Many Methods Used Methods of beating the gas game include many ingenious ideas, says Stenger, but the gas hawks always get caught eventually. One means used is to bridge or by-pass. This process involves disconnecting the meter and attaching a rubber hose. The attending danger has cost many lives. “Gas thieves can’t beat the game,” explains Stenger. “Even children and neighbors give them away. Invents Slug Cheaters Perhaps the most ingenious dishonesty ever conceived in this connection took place in Philadelphia several years ago when a foreigner invented ice slugs for pay meters and sold them to customers in many cities. The slugs melted as soon as they were dropped into the machines and the evidence dried up. No pay meters have been in use in Indianapolis for three years.

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NINE ON LIST OF VIOLENT DEATH Mother and Daughter Are Among Victims. Nine persons are dead today in Indiana, victims of violence over the week-end. Josiah McKinney, 71, retired farmer, Boonville, committed suicide; by poisoning while despondent over illness. Luther K. Jones, Kokomo, was killed in Greentow’n when the car which he was driving crashed into an automobile driven by R. F. Ferry, Ft. Wayne. Jones died of a broken neck, hospital attendants said. Mrs. Emma Wentworth, Hillgrove, Ohio, and her mother, Mrs. Caroline Kester, Coalton, Ohio, were killed near Farmland when their automobile crashed into a bridge abutment. Robert Greathouse. 4, Grandview, is dead of burns suffered after he set fire to hay in a barn at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilard Greathouse. William Holber, 65, near Cambridge City, is dead of injuries suffered w'hen a railroad section car on which he was riding crashed into a school bus near Dublin. Lloyd Sheets, 20; Harry Wolster, 19; Esther Lawson, 15, were killed and Mrs. Grace Wolster seriously injured Sunday near Lakerville, when the automobile in which they w r ere riding crashed into a truck. Judah P. Benjamin was the only Jew who was a member of the Confederate cabinet.

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HOOVER WANTS MUSCLE SHOALS IN U. S. CONTROL Comes Out for Government Ownership and Operation of Power Plant. Bn United Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. B. Herbert Hoover favors government ownership and operation of Muscle Shoals. This statement was made by the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Sunday, following a conversation between the Republican candidate and Edward J. Meeman, editor of the NewsSentinel, a Scripps-Howard newspaper. Meeman talked with Hoover following the latter’s speech at Elizabethton, Saturday. Asked concerning a reference In his speech to the desirability of Government ownership in certain instances, Hoover said: “You may say that means Muscle Shoals.” In his speech the Republican nominee had said: "There are local instances w’here the Government must enter the business field as a by-product of some great major purpose such as improvement in navigation, flood control, scientific research or national defense, but they do not vitiate the general policy to which we should adhere.” In his talk with the editor, Hoover explained that he had not spoken specifically of Muscle Shoals because the speech was intended for the whole country; that he was conscious that he was talking not merely to a community especially interested in Muscle Shoals, but, through the radio, to all parts of the country. NAME FIRE PREVENTION SPEAKERS FOR SCHOOLS j Campaign Also Will Be Carried To City’s Civic Clubs. Fire prevention appeals will be carried to 3,500 pupils in addresses this week. Bernard Lynch, Charles Brooks, ! Harry Willett, Bernard Mullen and ; Harry Davis, inspectors, will speak | at forty-nine schools. I John J. O'Brien, battalion chief, ; will address William H. Block em- , ] ployes Wednesday and Cathedral High School Friday. I Horace Carey, fire prevention [ chief will speak at three public schools, Kiwanis Club and Elwood ! business men meetings Thursday I and at Kokomo Friday. PASTOR OF UNIVERSITY PLACE CHURCH HONORED The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith Observes Second Anniversary Here. , The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, pastor of University Place Christian Church. Fortieth St., and Capitol i Ave., was honored Sunday at | services commemorating his second i anniversary as pastor. Dr. William Evans and Dr. A. C. j Garnett, both of Butler University, j spoke. I The church has grown from 150 to 550 members and the Sunday school from 100 to 400 in two years. Girl 111 From Poison Miss Naomi Shores, 19. of 302 Orange St., attempted suicide Sunday night by poison, police said. She was failing in health. Her condition is not serious.