Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1928 — Page 17
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MILLIONS TO BE SPENT ON STEELPLM Youngstown Company to Plan Expansion at Indiana Harbor. GROWTH AT EVANSVILLE Telephone Company Will Erect Office and Exchange. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor The Time* Announcement that the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company will spend a sum set at “several millions’’ on expansion of its plant at Indiana Harbor is noteworthy in a business and industrial survey of the state for the week ended today. James A. Campbell, president of the company, announced the program, stating that the enlarged plant will have a capacity of 30,000 tons a month greater than the present one. Several hundred additional workers will be employed, Campbell said. The program is to be executed without any public financing. $1,000,000 to Be Spent The Southern Indiana Bell Telephone Company will spend more than $1,000,000 in construction of a new general office and exchange building in Evansville. A report of Servel Inc., which has a plant in Evansville shows net earnings were $465,672 for the first nine months ol 1928 and that 500 more men were employed than were at work last year. Operations will start Nov. 1 by the Madison Wood Products Company, anew industry at Crothersville. Hogsheads for tobacco will be made. The following summary shows conditions elsewhere in the state. Greensburg—An addition to the plant of the Standard Casket Hardware Company, giving 1,700 square feet more floor space, is being constructed. Ft. Wayne—Growth of the electric refrigerator business will result in a change at the local plant of the General Electric Company to, permit employment of more persons. To make room for increased refrigerator production, the oil-cooled transformer department is to be transferred to plants elsewhere. Officials announce the change will be made soon. Plant to Be Enlarged Mrncie —A warehouse addition to the Ball Bros.’ plant, with a capacity of 900 carloads, will be ready for use within sixty days. Anderson —To keep its facilities in step with Anderson’s growth, the Indiana Bell Telephone Company plans a program calling for expen. diture of $5C,000, including 16.000 feet of aerial and underground cable. Kendall ville—The Breyer Ice Cream Company, which established its plant a year ago this month, is now buying 45,000 pounds of milk daily from 652 farmers, against 12,000 and 163 at its opening. Mt. Vernon—A campaign by the Chamber of Commerce to raise a fund for bringing a factory to Mt. Vernon is nearly complete. Terre Haute-rAddition of 75 to 100 men to the Highland Iron and Steel Company force by Nov. 19, the date set for completion of a piant addition, is forecast by company officials. They announce orders for iron fende on hand now call for more production than the present force can turn out in a year. Force Will Be Increased Wabash—Several men will be added to the freight handling force of the Big Four railroad here Nov. 15 when small package shipments now transferred at Elkhart will be taken care of here. A loading platform permitting work in twentyfour cars at one time is being erected. Bloomfield—The new plant of the Kraft Phoenix Cheese Company, anew industry here, was opened this week. Peru —A garage and office building to cost $75,000 will be built here, work to start within a few weeks. iNDIANS IN HOME MOVIE Sioux Shown in Films as They Live on Reservation PIERRE, S. D„ Oct. 26.—Sioux Indians are to appear in moving pictures, not to depict “wild west” features of Indian life, but to portray the home life of the Sioux in all its features. The pictures cover tribal ceiemonies and customs, games, dances, methods of travel, the work of women in their lodges and a marriage ceremony. The pictures were taken on the Pine Ridge reservation and over a hundred men, women and children were used in the taking. Among the men were leading representatives, including Kills-a-Hun-dred, Arrow Wound, Two Bulls, White Plume, Drage Rope, No Water, Comes Again and Mountain Sheep. AIRPORTS TO BE BUILT Twenty Cities Announce They Will Have Municipal Fields WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Twenty more cities have announced their mtentio nos establishing municipal airports, the aeronautic branch of the Department of Commerce announced today. They are: Gustine, Hanford and Oakdale, Cal.; Cocoa, Fla.; Huntington, Ind.; Sigourney and Storm Lake, Iowa; Big Rapids, Mich.; Picayune, Mich.; Kannapolis, N. C.; Osborne, Ohio; Downersgrove, Hollidaysburg, Paoli, Somerset and Warren, Pa.; Hot Springs, S. D.; Beaver Dam, Fort Atkinson and Horicon, Wis.
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Scorns Society Lures to Brave Jungles With Her Husband
Mrs. Calvao and her husband . . . are going back to the Jungle.
REAL CLEANUP FOR CITY HALL But It’ll Be for Walls, Not Inmates. City hall will get a real cleanup. The “four walls” inside which city councilmen, officials and ordinary employes spend weary hours minding the city’s business are to lose their faded, smoke-stained hues. The board of works and Chris Hoffman, city hall custodain, will see to that. Although it may take months, all inside walls are to be painted. No provision was made for paint for the city building in the 1929 budget, so the board of works and Hoffman will travel in round about ways to accomplish their purpose. Hoffman now has his janitors at work cleaning the walls in theli spare time. Two painters on the payroll of Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart are to be borrowed. The board of works probably will approve a bond issue for the $5,000 or $6,000 necessary to buy the paints and varnishes. City hall walls once were green and tan, when the present coat of paint was applied ten or twelve years ago, but Hoffman’s taste runs to lighter tints.
BLIND MAY VOTE Physically Handicapped Will Be Cared For. Physical handicaps do not prevent any citizen of legal age from voting Nov. 6, election commissioners said today. Several queries have been received by them asking how persons who are deaf, crippled or blind, can vote. The solution is this: If you are blind or crippled so that you can not handle the voting machine, you have the -right to ask for instructions from the Democratic and Republican clerks at the voting places. In any case, both r'—\ s must be consulted and they have the power to enter the booth and aid the voter in operating the machine. Commissioners emphasized the point that both clerks must be in the booth.
SHOPGIRL WILL BE PLUTOCRAT’S BRIDE
By United Press ALBANY, N. Y„ Oct. 26.—The romance of a wealthy Englishman of high social rank and a former shop girl of Albany is about to be consummated in a wedding in New York City. The engagement of Miss Betty McCormick to John Robert LawsonTRAVELERS ARE FETED Unique Club Plays Host to Salesmen in Virginia DANVILLE, Va„ Oct. 26.—The ninth anniversary of the Danville Pass-It-on-Club was observed here. The club was founded by Miss Sarah Harrison of this city and today has a nation-wide reputation. f The work is among traveling salesmen who are called for at the local hotels each Sunday night and taken in automobiles to whatever denominational service they desire to attend. There are almost 5,000 members from every state of the Union. More than seventy members attended the annual dinner.
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BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Mrs. J. Tozzi Calvao, knows Paris, Berlin, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and the jungle equally well, and she prefers— The jungle! So Mrs. Calvao, who is young, blonde, and delightfully feminine, is going back to the jungle, the only woman in a party of eight naturalists, botanists, geographers, and archeologists. The eight compose the Brazilian-American scientific expedition, headed by Mrs. Calvao’s husband. They are leaving for hitherto
SMITH RESTS . FOR LAST BIG VOTEJMASII Philadelphia Next on List, for Parade and Night Speech Saturday. HOPES MOUNT HIGHER New England’s Reception Greatly Heartens Candidate. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correipendent NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Governor Alfred E. Smith settled down for a short rest here today, preparing for a swing Saturday into the second maneuver of his “battle of the Atlantic seaboard." The Democratic presidential nominee will leave here around noon tomorrow for Philadelphia, a staunch Republican stronghold, where he will parade and deliver a night speech. He intends to move from there to the country home of his campaign manager, John J. Raskob, near Centreville, Md. He will remain at Raskob’s place over Sunday, going into Baltimore Monday for a parade and another night speech. Smith probably will remain all night Monday at Baltimore, because he dislikes to sleep on trains and wiH return to New York Tuesday, to concentrate his efforts the final week before election in the metropolitan area. He will speak at Newark probably Wednesday night, Brooklyn Friday and Madison Square Garden Saturday, winding up his campaign with a big rally there. It is a hectic closing schedule, including its five speeches within eight days and more of the hectic parades such as he met on his New England tour. He denied himself to all callers at his hotel home this morning, working leisurely on his Philadelphia address which his friends say will be another shot at the “state socialism” charges hurled at his campaign by the Republicans. The “happy warrior” is happier now after his New England speech. If there was any air of resignation about his personal party before, it has been dissipated by the unprecedented political receptions he recently has received and the volume of telegrams which have deluged his train. At one stop last night thirty-five telegrams addressed to him were taken aboard. He and his friends claim, and they really believe, a change has been wrought in the general political attitude of certain sections of the country. They base this belief not only on the reports from the farm belt, where Senator George Norris of Nebraska is taking up the Smith cudgel, but also on the impressions they received during the last two days in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut—three ordinarily staid Republican states. SEEK AIRPL/TnE HANGAR Park Board to Act on Request of Flying Club. The Flying Club’s request for a permit to erect a six-plane hangar on Kessler boulevard, opposite Broadmoor Country Club, will be taken up by the park board Thursday.
Johnson of London and New York, was confirmed today by Mrs Thomas McCormick, the girl’s mother. Lawson-Johnson was reported en route to New York for the ceremony at St. Patrick’s rectory within two weeks, but at the McCormick home it was said no definite date nad been set. Miss McCormick is now in New York with another sister, Margaret. Lawson-Johnson, reputed to be worth $40,000,000, was divorced a year ago from the former Barbara Guggenheim, daughter of Solomon R. Guggenheim, railroad and copper magnate. The first intimation of the romance came from the former Mrs. Lawson-Johnson, who said in New York recently that her divorced husband was contemplating a second marriage. Nobel Prize Is Awarded By United Press COPENHAGEN, Oct. 26.—The Nobel prize in medicine for 1923 wa3 awarded to Professor Charles Ntcolle, of Tunis, for his work in combatting typhus.
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unexplored territory in central Brazil along the Aripuana river—somewhere between the “River of Doubt,” discovered by Roosevelt, and the Tapajos. a a a \ a native Brazilian, and Mrs. Calvao, who is German, met in New York City and were married here a few years ago. Mrs. Calvao never had seen a jungle or been away from the comforts of civilization until she went on her honeymoon trip to the Amazon country. “It has completely ruined me for domesticity,” she said. “House-
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CITY WILL REPLACE MULES WITH AUTOS
Street Cleaning Unit Will Get 14 Motor Trucks for Next Year. Within a few months King Automobile will conquer another city department. Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart is making plans for motorization of the street cleaning department. Funds for the motorization are provided in the 1929 city budget and $43,500 will be available for that purpose Jan. 1. Grossart plans to buy fourteen motor trucks. The chug-chug of the fourteen trucks will replace the whinnies of eighteen span of mules. But the change, street cleaning department officials believe, will result in greater efficiency in the department and cleaner streets for the city, in addition to aiding a more modern note to the city’s auditory effects. Cost of motor equipment will be saved the city within a year, William Schoenrog, chief clerk of the department, believes. Not only will the city save in “rhule costs” but in the cost of manpower. The same number of workmen, with the advantage of the faster motor equipment, will be able to cover more territory In a less time. The mules of the city street cleaning department long have been a bone of contention and profit to politicians, old-time city hall frequenters recall. The feeding of the efiy mules or privilege of renting to the city their own animals has been eagerly sought by politicians of the in-power faction in former administrations. The city bams on Shelby street where the mules are housed, also has stirred much trouble. Residents of the neighborhood have waged many unsuccessful campaigns to get the mules moved elsewhere. Reach Pact on Traffic By United Press GENEVA, Oct. 26.—The Swiss and Italian governments have reached an agreement on traffic regulations The Italians will allow the crossing of the frontier by all persons bearing a regular passport, a frontier pass or a tourist card.
keeping, cooking, and fancy teas have no lure for me now. I like to ride, tramp in the woods, make friends with the animals —and I can shoot if I have to. “I actually have conquered my fear of snakes, and expect to have a pet snake again as soon as we get settled in the jungle. “Down there, you have a pet snake Instead of a watch dog. The right kind is harmless, very affectionate, and keeps away the poisonous sorts.” u h a THE expedition will map the Aripuana river district with a
CAN’T USE U. S. SCENERY So Expert Theater Troupe Brings Over Own Expert. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—An Engglish theater company, soon to
stage a production on Broadway, would have none of the American variety of scenery and costume designing. So they sent their own artist, pretty Gladys Calthrop, and she has arrived in New York ready to show the metropolis the latest wrinkles in herl theatrical art.
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RED CROSSJO MEET Four Regional Sessions on Schedule Next Month. Red Cross chapters of Indiana will meet at four regional conferences in the state next month to discuss activities of the organization. Dr. H. B. Wilson, Junior Red Cross national director, and William Carl Hunt, eastern area assistant manager, will speak at each conference. A conference will be held at Seymour Monday in the Lutheran clubhouse, the Rev. Paul Million, chapter president, presiding. There will be a conference at Terre Haute Tuesday in the Deming hotel, the Rev. Vincent L. Raphael, Greencastle, presiding. The Y. W. C. A. residence at South Bend will be the scene of a conference Wednesday. Dr. H. N. Evans, Porter county chapter chairman, will preside. W. J. Golightly, chairman of the Howard county chapter, will preside at a conference Thursday in the Masonic temple at Muncie.
view to opening up the country commercially. It is rich in oil, valuable woods, metals and precious stones, they say. Calvao also is interested in locating an ancient city on the northwestern slope of the Sierra del Norte mountains, about which Indian tribes have told him. The city is believed to have been built centuries ago by the Phoenicians. So far, white men have explored only about 200 miles of the Aripuana river valley. The Calvaos hope to cover 600 miles of' it. They will travel by oxen, saddle mules and collapsible boats.
CAMERON TO PROBE ‘USING’ OF HIS COURT Judge Wants to Know If Politics Entered Into Filing of Gases. 69 NEGROES ARRESTED 75 Per Cent Should Have Been Booked • before Wetter, He Says. An inquiry to determine if his court was used for political maneuvering in the filing of cases of sixtynine Negroes, arrested last weekend in gambling raids, will be made Nov. 13, 14 and 15, when the trials are held, Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron promised today. Seventy-five per cent of the arrests were made on the west side of Meridian street and should have been slated for trial in Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter’s court, Cameron declared. Police Chief Claude M. Worley declared he ordered the week-end raids because he had heard reports that politicians had spread the word about the Negro districts that the gamblers could run wide open until election. “Not so,” said Worley, in effect. “No one can use my police department to play for the Negro vote in next month’s election.” Why? Asks the Judge But the question Judge Cameron now is asking, in effect, is: “Why did Chief Worley’s police officers slate all those arrested for hearings in my court, when the majority should have gone before Judge Wetter?” The two municipal Judges who handle police cases have a working agreement that one month one judge will handle all the cases originating west of Meridian street and the other all east of Meridian. The next month the districts shift. This month Cameron’s district is east of Meridian. Although 75 per cent of the arrests were made west of the dividing line, according to records, the police arrest slips turned over to the turnkeys mark the arrests for slating in Camerson’s court. Democratic observers at police station charge that henchmen of George V. Coffin aided the release of the alleged gamblers on bond and helped to see that all got attorneys. He had no choice but to continue the cases until the dates set, which are after election, because his docket is crowded and attorneys for the defendants are busy on the few open dates he has before the November dates picked, Cameron said. Club Over Heads Police station Democrats point out that whatever faction brought about the arrest of the men now can hold final dispositions of the cases over their heads as a means of attempting to control the Negro votes. He will ask police officers and turnkeys who directed them why they slated so many prisoners In his court instead of Wetter’s, when the cases come to trial, Cameron said. The only reason Chief Worley could give for the mistakes in slating was that perhaps the ofheers steered clear of Wetter’s court because “Wetter treats the officers too liarshly."
MONOPLANE OUT TO SET NEW RECORDS
By United Press • LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26.—The sturdy monoplane Yankee Doodle holder of speed records for nonstop flights in both directions across the continent, was being groomed today for anew effort to lower the existing mark for a trip from west to east. Captain C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker arrived at Mines field Los Angeles, at 2:08:30 p. m., Pacific coast time yesterday, after completing the nonstop passage from SET WEAVER BURIAL Funeral Scheduled for City Man Slain in West Virginia. Funeral services for Oran W. Weaver, 34, who died Wednesday night in Huntington, W. Va., will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday, at the home, 3124 Broadway. Mr. Weaver, a native of Indianapolis and a member of the trucking firm, Weaver & Rodocker, was injured fatally when he was struck on the head by an emery wheel while working near Huntington. His mother, Mrs. Carrie Weaver, and a brother survive.
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MRS. CALVAO will make notes and sketches, and also will assist Dr. Norman Taylor of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, who expects to bring back unusual flora. “Life really differs only in externals,” said Mrs. Calvao, concluding her story of the forthcoming trip. “Everywhere woman blossoms out for the man she loves. “The American or European woman buys her rouge in a shop; the squaw in the Amazon country plucks a few seeds from a certain bush and has a carmine tint as good as she could get from a fivedollar Paris lipstick.”
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RIDGEFIELD, Conn., Oct. 26. Published reports that Geraldine Farrar, noted opera singer, was intending to marry hear manger, Charles J. Foley, were branded as “absolutely untrue” today by Sydney D. Farrar, her father. “There is no truth in the report,” he declared at his home here, “and I think I’d be one of the first to know if there was.” Farrar said Miss Farra: was staying at her New York apartment at 277 Park avenue preparatory to going on a concert tour. BOOSTS PEACE PACT Columbia Professor Talks to Educators Here. Declaring that public opinion should show congress that the American people stand for the Briand-Kellogg peace pact as a genuine American ideal, Dr. James T. Shotwell of Columbia university addressed a group of history professors, educators and supporters of international peace at Central library Thursday night. "The Briand-Kellogg pact affords the American people a great responsibility,” said Shotwell. The lecture was sponsored by the Indiana council on international relations.
Roosevelt Field, N. Y., In 24 hours and 52 minutes. The previous east-west record of 26 hours and 50 minutes was set by Lieuts. Macßeady and Kelley in 1926. Three months ago the Yankee Doodle, with a different pilot, set a mark of 18 hours and 58 minutes for the flight from California to New York. On that occasion Art Goebel, winner of the Dole flight to Hawaii, was at the controls. Tucker is owner of the plane and has ridden on all its record-breaking flights. When the two fliers arrived they showed the strain of their 25 hours in the air. They were deafened temporarily by .the roar of their motors. The plane, however, was in good shape and received none of the damage which it sustained inGoebel’s unsuccessful attempt to make the westward nonstop flight Japan Has First Jury Trial By United Press TOKIO, Oct. 26.—1n the first jury trial in the history of Japan, Kameji Fujioka was sentenced to one semester in prison for stabbing his sweetheart. The jury acquitted the prisoner of a charge of attempted murder. v
CITY TO SPEND $680,000 FOR TWO BIG JOBS Sale of Bonds for Major Projects Is Set for ‘ Oct. 30. RIVER WILL BE CURBED Flood Control Program Is Extensive; $60,000 for Hospital Architects. With the sale of $680,000 in city bonds Oct. 30, two major projects will get under way. City Controller Sterling R. Holt has advertised for bids on the $020,000 flood prevention bond issue and $60,000 for architects who will design the new city hospital buildings. The board of health has been delayed two years in starting work on the building program because of failure of council to appropriate funds. Council passed an issue a month ago, but bankers failed to bid on the 414 per cent interest and no trouble in obtaining bidders is anticipated. C. E. Jefferson, contractor, is ready to begin work on widening and dredging of White river between Morris and Raymond streets as soon as funds are available. County to Pay Tart The $620,000 is the city’s 45 per cent of the flood prevention costs. The county will pay a like sum and abutting property owners will be assessed for the remainder. Engineer's estimate it will take two years to complete the dredging and straightening of the White river channel and to build levees. The next step contemplated by the city is the dredging north of Morris to Fall Creek and erection of a retaining wall and levee on the east bank. A small section of the retaining wall has been built between the railroad bridge and Washington strest span. It is estimated it will take five years finish the project. New bridges for the Pennsylvania and Big Four railroads south of Washington and new highway spans over the river at Tenth and Michigan streets also are contemplated. The two bridges over Tenth and ; Michigan will cost about SBOO,OOO. Railroad Will Help The Belt Railroad and Morris street spans, which soon will be under way, and the Washington, oil* j ver avenue, Kentucky avenue and New York street bridges are de- : signed for the 650-foot channel. Track Elevation Engineer M. N Bebee said the board of works will notify the Belt railrooad to begin work on the new $1,200,000 Belt bridge over White River when the bonds are sold. The railroad Is ready to start In accordance with its agreement, thirty days after money is appropriated and complete the south side track elevation project in ten years. It is expected that construction of the bridge will be all accomplished by the Belt the first year. STARVING WHIPPETS' IN GERMANY GIVEN AWAY Huge Racing Venture Proves Total Financial Failure BERLIN, Oct. 26.—One hundred well-trained whippet racing dogs have been given away at Potsdam in the last few weeeks to persons willing to give these sensitive animals a home. This dog-racing project was Instituted at huge expense last spring. Failure marked the undertaking from the beginning, since betting was not permitted, as at horse races. After a few races the stands were empty and the company soon became insolvent. Funds were even lacking for providing food for the animals, and they were saved from death by chloroform by a dog fancier, Major Herschel, who undertook to feed the entire lot of 120 while finding homes for them.
PRIZE WON BY CONVICT Reward In Play Competition Goes to Man in Prison ROME, Oct. 26.—The Italian theater magazine Comoeda offered a prize for the best new comedy and it was divided between Riccordo Testa and Silvio Einaudi, .whose works are considered to be of equal merit. The surprise of the judges can be more easily imagined than described when it was discovered that Riccardo Testa is a confirmed criminal at present in prison serving a long sentence for theft. Testa, who apparently possesses unusual ability as a playwright, is 28 years old and has served four previous terms for theft. CANADA HAS GOLD RUSH Prospectors on Stampede to New Rich Fields TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 26.—Another gold rush is on. For several days word has been spreading of a gold find in the district of Patricia, situated between Cat lake and Lake St. Joseph. It was at first believed this had reference to the gold discoveries in the Kawinagans river, Pickle lake and Crow river. But this is not the case. The new discovery had been kept a secret. Montreal and Toronto mining men are showing great interest in the discovery of tin ore in the province tof Manitoba.