Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1928 — Page 17

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GOSHEN GETS FACTORY TO EMPLOY 100 r etroit Auto Radiator Maker Chooses Branch Site. AIDED BY FREIGHT CUT Muncie Manufacturers to Pay Lower Scrap Iron Rate. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Timet Addition of a branch factory of the Long Manufacturing Company to Goshen's industries was an important event of the week ended today, a business and industrial survey of Indiana reveals. The Long company, one of the largest manufacturers of automobile radiators, has two plants at Detroit. At least 100 men will be employed when the Goshen branch is opened, set within the next few weeks. It is planned to have at least 150 on the pay roll within six month. Manufacture of radiators for Studebaker automobiles will be the principal item of production for the plant. Sixteen Companies Benefited Sixteen Muncie manufacturers will be benefited by a reduction of freight rates on scrap iron, brought about through efforts of the Chamber of Commerce. Shower.! Brothers Company. Bloomington, one of the largest furniture manufacturing concerns in the world, announces that business for October was the largest for that month in the company’s history. Shipments for the month ran above $1,000,000 in value. President J. M. Nurre expects November will show a larger volume than October. The plants are running daily from 6 a. m. to 10 p. m. Production of auto head lamps, anew line for Plant 3 of the DeltoRemy Corporation,' Anderson, will begin about Nov. 15, and more men will be put on the payroll. The Kokomo Economy Tool Corporation, Kokomo, has been incorporated with a capital of $25,000, Establish River Terminal An important development in Ohio river traffic is announced at Mt. Vernon where the Ohio and Mississippi Transit Company and the Emerald Coal Mining Company have established a coal shipping terminal, which it is estimated will handle 100,000 tons annually of the Emerald company’s production. Contracts for building ten steel passenger cars, has been placed with the Standard Steel Car Company, Hammond, by the South Shore electric railroad. Roy C. Bryant, Franklin, has been awarded the for erecting anew school building at Sheridan on a bid of $130,286. Contracts will be let Tuesday for erection of an addition to the Graham Bros. Truck Manufacturing plant at Evansville. The addition will have approximately 125,000 square feet of floor space. Construction of an addition to the Valparaiso Home Ice Company plant, Valparaiso, is under way. The structure covers nearly half a block. Factories Seek Sites Shoes, clothing, airplane motors and clay products are represented among companies which are negotiating with the Chamber of Commerce regarding location in Terre Haute. One of the companies employs 700 men and another 125. De Luxe Tire Service Inc., New York, has signed a contract for erection of a building 60x145 feet in Ft. Wayne as a salesroom for gasoline ,tires an dother automotive products. The Citizens bank, anew financial institution, has been opened at Bainbridge, with a capital of SIO,OOO. Curtis K. Hughes of Greencastle is president. PASTOR IS WELCOMED North Methodist Church Holds Reception for New Minister. Members of the North Methodist Episcopal church greeted the new pastor, the Rev. Warren W. Wiant, at a reception Thursday night in the church. More than 350 members of the congregation attended. Speakers were: Bishop Edgar Blake, Dr. O. W. Fifer, superintendent of the Indianapolis district, and Fred Hoke, who represented the congregation.

BOOZE LOOKS FOR HOME Thousands of Bottles, No' Place to Store Them. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.—Several thousand bottles of good, bad and indifferent liquor are looking for a home. The Treasury building where Prohibition Administrator E. R. Bohner, legal guardian of the orphaned booze, stored it has been ordered sold to to the San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange. The problem became acute when Bohner was refused permission to rent storage space for all the seized liquor and now he hasn’t any idea what to do with it all. Man Struck by Auto Dies AV/ Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 9—Arthur Freeman, 55, Losantville, died at a hospital here of injuries received Saturday when struck by an auto driven by Monroe Barber. He was pushing his own car on a road after the engine stopped, when the accident occurred.

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Dead of War Still Lie Hidden in French Woods

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Above is Chateau Thierry as it looks today, with the famous “Hill 204“ seen in the background. Below is Surcsnes cemetery, one of the burial grounds in France for American soldiers.

Search Continues to Bare Fallen Soldiers’ Bones on Battlefields. BY MINOTT SAUNDERS NE/ Service Writer "PARIS, Nov. 9.—The tangle un- *- derbrush of the Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Chateau Thierry and other battlefields still are giving up the unidentified bodies of American soldiers who fell in action ten years ago. The country has buried its Unknown Soldier in a national shrine at Arlington. But during recent years 1,626 bodies have been brought out of the old battlefields, to be buried in American military cemeteries over here as “unknown,” because identification is impossible. Ten years have passed since the armistice. But today, and every day, American searching parties are going through the battlegrounds, looking for the lost remains of boys who did not live to toss their helmets and cheer on that November day a decade ago. Still 1,344 Missing Forty bodies have been recovered in the last few months. The American Graves Registration service estimates that there still are 1,344 American bodies to be found. A few weeks ago a searching party went through the Belleau Wood sector. Overgrown dugouts, covered with second growth bush and brambles, nearly hidden beneath fallen trees, concealed by vines and creepers, were explored painstakingly. In them, at one place and another, were found five bodies. They lay where they had fallen ten years ago. The registration service spares no effort to learn the identity of the dead men. An elaborate system of identification has been developed. The task, as can be imagined, is extremely difficult. Tooth Chart Helps Marks on clothing and equipment have been, in most cases, obliterated The identification disk is often missing. When it is, the army tooth chart is consulted. According to Colonel F. W. Van Duyne, in command of the Registration service, this method is almost infallible whenever units can be associated definitely with the neighborhood in which a body is found. Nearly all the 30,713 graves in the American military cemeteries in Europe now bear the new stone crosses. In most of these cemeteries work is in progress for the erection of the memorial chapels planned by the Battle Monuments commis sion, headed by General John J. Pershing.

INSURANCE SUIT, OUTGROWTH OF STEVE’S HOME FIRE, WILL BE FOUGHT AGAIN

A FADED gray and white palace in Irvington, where once David C. Stephenson dreamed his roseate visions of power, and where was conceived the deed which led to his downfall, will be the cause of contention in federal court, Dec. 19. And Stephenson, occupying the cell of a life prisoner in the Indiana state prsion, will be a defendant to the suit, although he will not be present. Named with him as co-defend-ants are the Great American Insurance Company, New York, and Ira M. Holmes, lawyer. For three years the fight of the Marion county state bank, holder of a $15,000 mortgage on the mansion, at 5423 University avenue, •

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ELEGTION GIVES VARENEW HOPE G. 0. P. Majority Likely to Seat Senator-Elect. B,y Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—A possible result of the Hoover landslide Tuesday will be the seating of Sen-ator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, whose seat has hung in the balance for two years. The incoming senate will have a sufficient Republican majority to seat Vare despite the protests of the Democrats and Progressive Republicans. The defeat of six Democratic | senators will mean that the next senate will have 55 Republicans, 39 Democrats, and 1 Farmer-Laborite, Senator Shipstead of Minnesota. There may be more of a will, also, in the next administration to seat Vare than there was in this administration. Vare from the outset of the Hoover campaign was one of his supporters. Vare’s friends now will seek to prevent his ejection at the coming short session of congress, which the Democrats and Pro -essive Re- ! publicans will dominate. They will ; seek to delay action when Senator Reed of Missouri renews his fight against Vare. CONCEDE HATFIELD WIN Republican Victor in West Virginia Senatorial Race. By United Brest CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Nov. 9. Democratic leaders today conceded the election of Henry D. Hatfield, Republican candidate for United States senator, over Matthew Neely, Democrat, incumbent. Returns from all but thirty-four of the state’s 2,310 precincts gave Hatfield 323,281 and Neely 313,462. PresidentElect Herbert Hoover carried the 3tate by 110,000 majority. PUNCHHORSE; FINED $2 Election Clouts on Animal’s Nose Draws Ire From Judge. B,y United Press BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.—Charged with punching a horse on the nose during an election night argument, John Casidans, 20, and Stanley Mathewson, 18, were fined $2 and costs each in a Flatbush magistrate’s court. Patrolman Norton Creamer of traffic force testified that he was sitting on the horse at the time and that the two men leaned out of an automobile and struck his mount when he ordered them to move on.

to collect $6,000 insurance, has been before the federal court. The insurance suit was swept into the background when the master of the mansion was sentenced to life imprisonment for the slaying of Madge Oberholtzer, and it gradually was drifting into oblivion as the former Ku-K!ux Klan dragon attempted to win his way to freedom on supreme court appeals. j* # THE wheel of time again has swept it onto the stage. Stephenson bought the mansion from Robert I Marsh, Klan attorney, March 9, 1924. This is the same Marsh who was indicted with Governor Ed Jackson and the Republican boss,

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOV. 9, 1928

WHITE DRAFTS CIVIL SERVICE PLANFOR CITY Every Municipal Branch Would Be Requested by Merit System. commissToTTf three ' \ Political Activity Barred; Would Be Regulated by to Discharge. City Councilman John F. White, who fathered the local civil service movement, has submitted regulations for the proposed classified civil service system to the municipal committee. White, A. B. Goode, deputy city controller, and City Attorney Edward H. Knight will submit the recommendations to the mayor’s cabinet. The committee of city officials was named to recommend the regulations to the mayor’s cabinet, after city council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that Mayor L. Ert Slack established the merit plan. White's plan provides for the classified civil service system in all city departments, including police and fire. The plan is designed to deprive the politicians of the spoils of office and establish a non-politi-cal system of appointment, promotion, suspension, and discharge of city employes. Provides for Commission The plan provides for appointment of a commission of three by the mayor. Two commissioners must hold no city or political office, while the third may be a city employe if desirable. The commission will serve without pay until Jan. 1. 1930, when the city manager form of government will be effective. Not more than two of the commissioners can be of the same political faith. The mayor can discharge a member on giving written notice and permitting the discharged official a hearing ift his own behalf. One member shall serve as chairman, another as secretary. A city employe will be designated as commission clerk. The commission will have authority to employ expert help to give the physical and mental examinations required to determine fitness. Bans Vote Working Compilation of a list of employes, their position, date and character of appointment and subsequent status, is recommended by White. Proposed rules prohibit donation to or solicitation of political funds, use of official position or political influence in awarding positions for partisan political services, and prohibit discharge of employes for political reasons. Civil service workers would be prohibited from working ai the polls on election day, a time-honored tradition with Hoosier office holders. Executive heads of departments, one chief deputy and an executive officer, and unskilled laborers would not be affected by the regulations. Unskilled laborers would be protected by a system of registration and priority and other regulations deemed practical by the commission. May Appoint Fire Chief White changed the former civil service regulations used in the police and fire departments to provide that the mayor can name cither the fire or police chief from within or without the department. The regulations provide that all other vacancies be filled by promotion. Applicants will be appointed on the basis of physical and mental fitness “without regard to their political affiliation, religious conviction or fraternal association."

SIGHT IS REGAINED BY GRAFTING EYE

B.y United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—One of the most delicate operations known to medical science proved at least partially successful today, when Bert Ferguson, once blind, looked dimly at the world through another man’s eye. Ferguson’s one eye failed him several weeks ago and the doctors, in an effort to restore his sight, decided to transplant the cornea from another eye. Charles Greenblatt, whose eye was removed be-

George V. Coffin, for an alleged attempt to bribe Ex-Governor McCray. The charges were dropped because of the statute of limitation. At the time of his purchase, Stephenson executed a mortgage with the Marion County State Bank for $15,000. Prior to the sale, Marsh had obtained an insurance policy for $25,000 on the house. Transfer of the insurance to Stephenson was duly entered. On April 17, 1925, while the dragon was under arrest for the Oberholtzer slaying, the building was damaged by fire . Witnesses told deputy fire marshals that men were seen running in and out of the house and there was a great commotion prior to the fire.

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This remarkable new picture of President-Elect Herbert Hoover shows the nation’s next chief executive as he appears when addressing millions over the radio microphone. Mr. Hoover is expected to speak to the people frequently by means of thi sagency.

AL CHEERED IN ALBANYRETURN Whistles Shriek and Red Lights Flare. Py United Press ALBANY. N. Y.. Nov. 9.—Governor Alfred E. Smith was back at his official home at the gubernatorial mansion today, convinced that his friends of Albany had not deserted him. Proof of this friendship came last night v nen the Governor returned to Albany from New York City. Hundreds gathered at the station as the train bearing the Governor's private car pulled in. Bombs exploded. Red lights flared. Train whistles and sirens shrieked. When the Governor appeared there were joyous shouts from the crowd. Many shouted regrets over his defeat for the presidency. The crowd formed so close around the train that the Governor had to have special escorts. Smich was quiet His face did not break into its customary grin. His lips gripped his Cigar tightly. Red flares lighted the way of the entire parade, and occasionally the Governor would wave his brown derby, but that was the only notice he gave to the crowd. SET BUS LINE - HEARING Park Board to Decide Butler Route on Nov. 19. Petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to run busses to Butler university on Meridian street will be heard by the park board Nov. 19. The Hoosier Motor Club, which has objected to the proposal, and other remonstrators will appear in protest. The city council will be free to act on the request of the bus company if the park board should favor the plan and release Meridian between Sixteenth and Fall creek from its jurisdiction. Use of Meridian would reliev: congestion on Delaware street, it was declared.

cause of a tumor, offered it to the surgeons and the cornea, still alive, was removed and grafted to Ferguson’s member. The medical world awaited the result anxiously and there was great interest today when the bandages were removed. Ferguson was able to distinguish objects ten feet away. Surgeons said that development of sight and permanent success of the operation would depend upon the ability of Ferguson’s optic tissue to nourish the cells of the grafted cornea.

But the commotions at the time did not prove of great interest to the neighbors, for, acording to them Stephenson, assisted by his bodyguards, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, was often the host for orgies in the mansion. tt tt B STEPHENSON made no claim for repairs, as he was engaged busily in preparing a defense for the Oberholtze rcase. The bank contracted for repairs and in July, 1926, submitted a bill to the insurance company. It was learned that Stephenson was no longer the owner of the house, having transferred the property to Holmes prior to the fire. The insurance company refused to allow the claim, declaring that

Romping Days Children to Play in White House for First Time in 20 Years.

BY THOMAS L. STOKES, ' United Press Staff Correspondent PALO ALTO, Cal., Nov. 9. Children will romp about the White House in the next administration for the first time in twenty years. Herbert Hoover the third is just a year old now, to be true, but within two or three years he will have reached the age that delights in riding a velocipede on such places as the East room’s shiny floors. They have not been marred since young Quentin Roosevelt, who now occupies a soldier’s grave in France, urged his pony to try the slippery footing. a u n HERBERT’S sister, flaxenhaired, blue-eyed Peggy, already has reached the mischieveous age. Knowing her grandfather only as a big, kindly, man, and not as President-elect of the United States, she marches into his study here, calmly pushes aside his papers and insists on a romp. And the President-elect sets aside important matters and plays with his 2 V4-year-old granddaughter. He is proud of her. People tell him she is the living image of him, and needs only a cigar in her pert little mouth to be a double as far as facial features are concerned. n a T TER father and mother will not live in the White House all the time, but they will be in and out of there much of the time, on week-ends, during college holidays, and during the summers. The mother and children will become familiar figures about the executive mansion. Herbert Hoover Jr. is an instructor in business economics at Harvard, taking after his father, and recently has become interested in aviation. He has completed a survey of aviation fields in connection with the Guggenheim aviation foundation. The younger brother Allan, who recently became of voting age, still has one quarter of study to complete in Stanford university before his graduation. st n u 'T'HE President-elect Is enjoy- •*- ing a family reunion. Behind the walls of his beautiful home here, he is taking the first real vacation in a long time, shut away from the world. This is “thinking and listening” time for him. Hoover is giving a good deal of thought to his success in breaking into the solid south, and what this near-miracle means to the future of the Republican party. He and party leaders are planning to capitalize it by encouraging establishment of live, active, effective organizations there.

as Stephenson had not entered the transfer with the insurance company, the policy was void as far as payment for the fire damage was concerned. The bank filed suit for recovery in Marion county superior court, and on Aug. 13, 1925, while Stephenson was on trial in Hamilton county for the slaying, he was served with a subpoena to appear before Judge Leathers. On motion for the insurance company, which claimed diversity of citizenship, the suit was transferred to federal coiurt Oct. 13, 1925. nun IN the meantime, on Oct. 5, Stephenson, his secretary, Fred Butler, and bodyguards, Klenck and Gentry, were indicted by the

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ATHEIST FIGHTS ARKANSAS LAW Prepares to Reopen His Headquarters. By United Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 9. Carrying out his threat of a statewide fight against “Bible bigots,” Charles Smith, New York atheist, was ready to reopen his atheist headquarters here today. His headquarters were closed Oct. 17 by Police Chief Burl C. Rothenberry, his atheist literature seized, and Smith jailed, when he refused to pay a $25 fine imposed in municipal court. Smith’s threat to reopen headquarters follows close on the heels of his seventeen-day hunger strike in protest against the Arkansas constitutional provisions that prohibit an atheist from testifying in court or holding office. Smith appealed to the circuit court and the case was nolle pressed yesterday when it was brought to trial by Assistant Prosecutor Kenneth Coulter, acting for the city attorney. Smith said that the nolle prosse action, which throws his case out of court, is an effort to prevent him from taking the case to the federal courts, thereby making a test case of the Arkansas laws against uthe.sts. MATE DESERTS^BEAUTY Fourteen-Year-Old Bathing Queen Taken Back Home to Texas. By Times Special DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 9.—Marian Sherman. 14, bathing beauty prize winner, was brought to Dallas today from Helena, Ark., her husband, E. C. Edwards, is alleged to have deserted her while the two were hitch-hiking. Edwards has been held in the county jail here for several weeks on charges of false swearing and criminal assault, both being denied. ADMIT BANK MERGER Rumor of Chicago Combine Supported by Officials. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—Rumors to the effect that Chicago is to have another large bank, through the merger of two banks here, were supported in a measure by a statement from officers of the two institutions. It was rumored that the First National Bank and the Union Trust Company were planning to merge, which would result in an institution with deposits of nearly $500,000,000, capitalization of $700,000,000 and resources of $585,000,000. Accept Election Proposal By United Press VIENNA, Nov. 9.—The government is understood to have accepted the proposal of the agrarian part> that the president of the republic be elected by popular vote. A bill to that effect will be introduced next week, amending the constitution by referendum.

Marion county grand jury on charges of arson in connection with the fire. Large quantities of gasoline and oil had been found in the house following the blaze. The suit has been pending before the court for three years, while both sides have filed demurrers and petitions. The arson cases against Butler, Klenck, and Gentry were nolled in April, 1927, but that against Stephenson has been continued. The legal fight Dec. 19 will be concentrated on the point tha* Stephenson made no record to the insurance company of the transfer of the property to Holmes and in that event the insurance company need not pay the bank, because although its $15,000 interest was insured, the bank itself carried no insurance upon the building.

GREAT PARADE TO HONOR WAR DEAD OF CITY Procession Also Will Be Made Object Lesson in Tolerance. THOUSANDS TO MARCH Ceremonies Will End at Reviewing Stand in Monument Circle. An object lesson in religious and racial tolerance is the primary purpose of the giant Armistice day parade to be held Monday, according to Colonel A. J. Dougherty, chief of staff of the Eighty-Fourth division organized reserve corps, and co-worker with Dr. George Bowman; chairman of. the general Armistice day committee. “People have been talking a lot about tolerance and local good will; we’re living it in this parade,” states Dougherty. “Deeper than military preparedness and deeper even than our tribute to the war dead is our desire to promote tolerance among Indianapolis religious and racial bodies.” Approximately three thousand persons are expected to take active part in what is announced as the greatest procession ever held here in point of size and number of organizations participating. More than 150 guests will watch the parade from the reviewing stand in Monument circle, where the procession will terminate with a joint band concert under the direction of J. B. Vanderwor and brief services led by prominent men of the large religious organizations of the city. Invocation by Feuerlicht Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht of the Indianapolis Hebrew congrejatdon will offer the invocation. A brief address by the Rev. Edwin W. Dunlavy, pastor of Roberts Park M. E. church, will be followed by the benediction by the Rev. M. W. Lyons, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church. The parade, starting at St. Clair and Meridian streets at 10:30 a. m. and ending at Monument Circle, will be divided into eight sections. A police escort, headed by Ciaude M. Worley, police chief, will lead the procession. | The first and second divisions will include the regular army, navy, marine, national guard, naval reserve and army reserve members, with Colonel H. P. Hobbs of the Eleventh infantry in command. Automobiles carrying disabled veterans and war mothers will head the third section, composed of Red Cross nurses in uniform, legion members, band from the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphan home at Knightstown, American Legion and auxiliary members, the Rainbow division, Veterans of Foreign Wars and United Spanish War Veterans with auxiliaries. Band to Lead Division Cathedral high school band will lead the fourth division, to include the Knights of Columbus, Woman’s Relief Corps, the Overseas League, Salvation Army, the Y. M. C. A. and the American Red Cross. The fifth section will be composed of the Murat temple band. Masonic uniformed ranks, Modern Woodmen of America and the Elks’ float. Section 6 will include the Service Club, Kiwanis* Rotary, Lions, Woman’s Department and Woman’s Rotary clubs, led by thi Butler university band. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls a.id Girl Reserves will make up the seventh division. Section 8 will include R. O. T. C. cadets and bands from ArsenalTechnical, Manual Training, Shortridge and Crispus Attucks high schools. Statcliouse to Close Tlie Statehouse and the courthouse will be closed all day Monday, while the city hall will pause in its daily routine between 10 a. m. and 1 p. m., when the Armistice day parade and celebration will take place. Superintendent Charles Miller has ordered school children expected to participate in the parade excused from 9 a. m. until the beginning of the afternoon session. Majority of local business houses will be closed or will permit employes to take part in the parade during working hours, according to word from the Merchants’' Association today. The line of march will be from Meridian and St. Clair streets south to the main building of the World War plaza and then to Monument Circle, where the services will be broadcast over WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company radio station. Disabled veterans and war mothers deseiring to participate in the parade are instructed to phone Harvey Thomas, commander of Hilton U. Brown American Legion post, at Riley 9567. Automobile transportation will be given disabled veterans through courtesy of the Indianapolis Automobile Dealers’ Association.

AUTO DEATH TO JURY Manslaughter Case Verdict Is Expected Today, A criminal court jury today is expected to receive the case of Ralph Mann, 24, of 1936 West Vermont street, who is charged with manslaughter for the death of Robert McCray, 48, Indianapolis Street Railway Company employe, May 26. when Mann’s automobile is alleged to have struck him. McCray was painting street guard lines at West Washington street and Pershing avenue when the accident occurred.