Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1928 — Page 3

iSiOV. 24, 1928.

STORMS LASH WORLD , TAKING TOLL OF DEATH , PANIC

BRITISH ISLES AGAIN IN GRIP OF HIGH GALE Typhoon Strikes Philippine Islands, Ripping Trail of Damage. HURRICANE IN MEXICO Large Regions in Scotland Face Extreme Peril From Floods. By Ini ted Press Hurricane, typhoon and gale struck in widely separated sections of the world today, bringing death and widespread havoc. The British Isles, hardly recovered from the gales of last week, which took more than 100 lives and caused property damage running into many millions, w’as swept by i’ storm of even stronger intensity Friday and winds raged through cities, tearing roofs from houses and Large areas in Scotland were flooded as heavy rains swelled mountain streams to raging torrents and steamers were buffeted by the gale. Eleven of the crew of the German steamship Herrenwijk still were missing as rescue ships picked up fifteen of her crew and cruised through the wreckage in rough seas searching for traces of the lost men. A severe typhoon swung across the southern section of the Philippine glands and the cruiser Memphis, going to aid the stranded Japanese ship, Saka Maru. was hard hit. No word was .ueard from the Japanese ship after the typhoon broke. A severe hurricane was reported in three Mexican states in United Press dispatches from Vera Cruz. British Isies Swept By Uiiited Press LONDON, Nov. 24.—Death and destruction swept the British isles today as heavy gales battered towns and cities and tied up shipping and communications. Reaching hurricane force, the storm had caused nine known deaths. Hundreds were Injured. Fierce winds swept through Ireland, England and Scotland, attaining a velocity of 100 miles an hour in some places and every phase (.<& the storm seemed worse than the one which ravaged northern Europe and England last week, killing more than 100 persons and causing damages running into untold millions. Fishing fleets along the southern coast of England were badly hit and the coast guards were making heroic efforts to aid distressed fishermen. Many steamers were in distress and it was feared the gale would wreak terrible havoc on life and property. At Yorkshire, the wind velocity was reported to have reached 100 miles an hour; at Liverpool, 88 miles an hour, Belfast, 84 miles an hour; Croydon, 71 miles an hour, and similar reports were coming in from every section of the United Kingdom. Sections of Scotland were endangered by flood waters and hundreds of houses were unroofed. All air service was halted and Liverpool ferryboats were tossed about like corks on the gale-lashed waters. Railroad traffic was disrupted. Typhoon Hits Islands Bn United Press MANILA, P. 1., Nov. 24.—The southern section of the Philippine Archipelago was hard hit by the worst typhoon in many years today and the cruiser Memphis was reported to have been badly battered The Memphis, the cruiser which brought Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh back from Europe after h's Paris flight, was hit by the typhoon, as she steamed to aid the Japanese collier Saka Maru, aground on Nasbate island. The Memphis had: planned to reach the distressed steamer at 4 p. m. Friday but had failed tc reach her destination early today and no word had been received from the Saka Maru since the typhoon struck. Several other ships known to have been in the typhoon area have not been heard from. Swept by Hurricane Bn United Press VERA CRUZ, Mexico. Nov. 24. A hurricane sweeping through the states of Tesecchoacan, Otatitlan, and Chacaltiaguis destroyed seven-ty-five per cent of the banana plantations in those areas it was learned today. BANDIT FATALLY SHOT Mechant Near Paoli Slays One of Robber Trio. By United Press PAOLI, Ind., Nov. 24.—Authorities today searched for two companions of an unidentified man who was shot to death near here when the trio -attempted to rob a store. Thomas Wininger, proprietor of the store, said the three entered his establishment and commanded himself, his daughter, Mrs. T. Petty, and her two children to raise their hands. Wininger said he gAbbed a shotgun and shot one of the men as they attempted to escape. Child Hurt by Needle By. Times tipecial UNION CITY, Ind., Nov. 24. Martha Jean Kantnor, 6, is suffering from a wound in one of her hands suffered when a threaded needle penetrated it near the thumb as she slipped from a davenport to the floor of her home. The needle was sticking' in a rug. It was necessary for a doctor to make an incision in the hand to remove the needle.

Here’s Why Drive Workers Won’t Quit

-i . ... ■nini 'jta.. „ .I Hi t|pll§f| - These pictures show some of the reasons why Community Func workers are working overtime, continuing ;he Community Funi drive ’ in a final effort to reach the drive’s $781,800 quota.. Above: Some of the patients of the Public Health Nursing Association. Evelyn Russell seated in front in the little chair, was a hope- '■***>.. less cripple four years ago. Nqw she can run and play with her friends -Rplow (T.pftl r TV*i Ufr.f.lp cyirl True p cnfTprpr frrm riflrofc Hus i>nro.

HORACE STARR PASSER AWAY Retired Business Man Is Ciaimed by Death. Horace Chipman Starr, 75, retired business man and member of a pioneer Indiana family, died Friday afternoon in the Columbia Club, where he made his home. A hip injury, suffered five years ago in a fall, hastened his death. He had suffered from a paralytic stroke for two years. The son of Colonel William C. Starr, Mr. Starr was born in Cincinnati in 1853. Soon after the Civil war, in which Colonel Starr served in the Union arm,,, Mr. Stanmoved to Richmond, Ind., the family home, with his parents. He was educated at Earlham college, and after his graduation went into hardware and harness manufacturing with his father. After his father’s death Mr. Starr became its head. In 1900 he transferred the firm to Indianapolis, where it was operated until he sold the firm and retired fifteen years ago. Mr. Starr was a member of the Columbia Club, the Elks Club, and was prominent in Masonic circles. He was a member of the Christian Science church. Surviving him are a son, William Thompson Starr, and a daughter, Mrs. Marie Starr Chadbourne, New York. Funeral arrangements await word from the two. WHEAT CROP GAINS Canadian Crop Said to Be of Poor Quality. Bw United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The world’s wheat crop, outside of Russia and China, was estimated at 3,700,000,000 bushels, about 100,000,000 bushels greater than last year, by the agricultural department today. The Russian wheat crop is estimated to be larger than in 1927, but, due to a short rye crop and other factors, there will be no wheat for export and Russia probably will have to import more wheat than in 1927, reports to the department said. A large part of the Canadian bumper wheat crop was said to be of low grade and a larger percentage of it will be used as feed.

PASSENGER SIGNS AWAY PROTECTION FOR HIS LIFE ON STEAMSHIP TICKET

Charles Johnson Post, well-known marine expert, author, and investigator, W continues with this issue authoritative series of articles on the Vestrs Dsaster. BY CHARLES JOHNSON POST 1 Copyright, 1928. by New York Telegram . Company) IAM trying to take some of the bunk out of the sea. And not —most emphatically not—take anything away from the sailor men themselves. The sailor is a man like you, or me, or our friends; his human nature is as the human nature of mankind. He has a wonderful life—a life that I have in many ways envied. But back of his life at sea and of his seamanship there is the ship owner—the sailor owner, too,

These pictures show some of the reasons why Community Fund workers are working overtime, continuing ;he Community Funl drive in a final effort to reach the drive's $781,800 quota,. Above: Some of the patients of the Public Health Nursing Association. Evelyn Russell seated in front in the little chair, was a hopeless cripple four years ago. Nqw she can run and play with her friends. • Below: (Left) This little girl was a sufferer from rickets, but careful nursing attention at St. Elizabeth's home, 2500 Churchman avenue, has made her a sturdy child, able to romp wit hthe other boys and girls who have found a haven at the home supervised by the Catholic Community Center. The home is partially supervised by the Community Fund. * Below: (Right) These children have no home of their own. They live in one of the boarding homes provided by the Family Welfare Society.

PICK MANAGER GROUP Committee to Draft Amendments to State Law. Appointment of a City Manager League committee to make a final draft of amendments to the city j manager law, amendments to be ■ placed before the next legislature, was announced \oday by J. W. 12terline. Claude H. Anderson, executive ; secretary of the league, will be I chairman of the committee. Other | members: Harry Hartsock, William H. Insley, George C. Frinfrock, E. O. Snethen, Mrs. Christian Olsen, Sol Schloss. The local commtitee will work with committees from other cities in the state to secure passage of the j amendments strengthening the city j manager law. PASS OUT BOOKLETS Clark Commission to Get Memorial Souvenirs. When the executive committee of the George Rogers Clark sesquicentennial commisison meets at the Columbia Club next Tuesday to discuss methods of choosing an architect for the memorial at Vincennes each member will be presented with a Clark memorial booklet by the Thousands of these booklets are being distributed by the state printing board. Members of the committee comiiing the little volume were Lewis S. Bowman, state auditor; Charles Kettleborough, head of the legislative reference bureau;. Director Christopher B. Coleman of the state Lee, printing board secretary, historical department, and J. Otto Murder Trial Set for Dec. 10 By Times /Special DANVILLE, Ind., Nov. 24.—Trial of William Nichols, 50, Stilesville, charged with the slaying Sept. 23 of his brother-in-law. Ora Williams, 57, will open in Hendricks circuit court here Dec. 10. The men quarreled over support of Nichols’ father, Anderson T. Nichols.

for that matter. It is the ship \ owner who should be forced to stand out in open, in the full nakedness of his own rapacity, and no longer be permitted to shelter himself behind the heroic records of the men who do, actually and j in their own persons, go down to sea in ships. And so, in this analysis of the tickets that a steamship owner sells you, and makes you sign your name to his contract, there is a perfect illustration of the centu-ries-old, unrevised and permitted greed, coldly crystallized in a ticket contract that allows the steamship owner to take your passage money and then, in return, specifically pledge himself

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Why worry, fuss and fret a lot About your shipping list? Start buying now, and you’ll be sure Name Address Here’s your golden opportunity to see one of the best shows of the year, without a cent of cost. And all you need do is write a single line, three, four, or five words, whichever you think best. Supply the last line to the jingle above. If yours is one of the three best, you’ll get a pair of tickets to see Billie Dove in her latest play, “Adoration,” at the Indiana theater next week. The winners of today’s contest will be announced next Thursday in The Times. Get your last line in now. TheyTe coming in by the thousands. And watch for Monday's jingle. If you're not a winner today, maybe you’ll come in ahead under the wire Monday.

to give you neither steamship transportation nor any safeguards or responsibility for even your life! And this ticket, from which I am quoting, is sold by one of the best and most enlightened steamship lines in the world! u THEN there is another section in a steamship ticket contract, somewhat odd to a landsman and apparently of origin in recent years. However, in it the passenger signs away, under certain frequent conditions, all redress for his life, or puts it in the sole hands of a steamship owner with unlimited discretion. "The owners shall not be liable

MERCY FUND IS STILL $43,610 SHORT OF GOAL Campaign Will Be Closed Wednesday, Announces Chairman Marmon. Although the largest sum of money ever contributed to an Indianapolis Community fund already has been subscribed to the 1928 campaign, audited reports today indicated that $43,610.47 is lacking tc put the fund over the $781,800 goal Chairman Walter C. Marmon announced Friday that the campaign would close Wednesday, regardless of the amount contributed at that date. The grand total is $738,189.53, more than $12,000 over last year’s goal. Leaders ol the fund divisions Friday assured Marmon that additional gifts are in sight and that Wednesday should mark the successful conclusion of the greatest charity campaign in the history of the city. Contributions Are Large Heavy contributoins were reported by the six employes’ divisions, to bring their present total to $126,415.28. The women’s army division Friday turned in $4,008.68, bringing its total to $55,758. Workers who joined the “ovei-the-top” brigade Friday are George Kuhn, George Newton, Joseph Bloch, L. M. Peterson, Donald Morrison, Mrs. A. H. Gerhardt, Mrs. Robert Dorsey, L. D. Bell, J. E. Mendenhall, Henry Jameson and J. L. Rodabaugh. Mrs. Mae Belcher of District 37, whose quota is the largest in the west division, is within a few dollars of her $2,970.75 goal. The Friday luncheon was featured by presentation of a prayer rug to Chairman Marmon from a Hindu friend of the Rev. Virgil P. Brock, with the suggestion that the campaign general pray the fund “over the top.” Pupils Give $73.92 A gift of $73.92 was contributed by the pupils of Orchard school and presented Friday by C. H. Matravers. principal, in the form of an ornamental pirate chest that the school children had been “feeding” for several weeks. A novel feature of the fund campaign is the Tuesday evening program broadcast over WFBM by Gus Habich's “Rlngsiders,” who have appealed for Community Fund support and raised approximately $75, j several contributions coming from residents in other cities. ] ’the final radio appeal is scheduled for Tuesday night. RIPS AT KLAN MASK i New York Official Orders Rosters Filed. By United Press ALBANY, N. Y.. Nov. 24.—Robert Moses, secretary of state, today moved to enforce the New York state law to unmask the Ku-Klux Klan, constitutionality of which recently was upheld by the United States supreme court. Moses has directed letters to the district attorneys in each county of the state, declaring it Is up to them to see that the Klan files lists of members, rules and oaths and bylaws as required under provisions of the law, heretofore disregarded pending the supreme court decision

No ‘Seconds’! A Little Stuffing Goes Long Way Turkey Day, Is Warning.

By United Press CHICAGO. Nov. 24.—You may be a careful driver and a topnotch safety worker in your vocation, but those attributes will profit you little If you over-stuff yourself with turkey, pie and pudding on Thanksgiving. The National Safety Council, which goes In for preventing tragedies by issuing timely warnings, included over-eating in its list of warnings today. “Stomach-stuffing leads to disease and disease leads to tragedy,” the bulletin said. “Such diseases are hardening of the arteries, kidney trouble and heart disease “Don’t punish yourself just because the food is staring you in the face. “Remember another Thanksgiving will be around in just 365 days and you can’t afford to miss the next one.”

for loss, damage, or delay to the passenger or baggage or death of the passenger caused directly or indirectly by riots, strikes, lockouts, labor disputes, or labor disturbances of any kind, or by the course of action adopted by the owners or other persxras whomsoever In contemplation or In consequence thereof or in connection therewith.” And here is another section of your steamship ticket contract that omes to you with the fine old salty flavor of the sea of years ago preserved: “The owners shall not be liable for failure to perform this contract, or for any loss, damage, injury, delay or death, of or to the passenger or the passenger’s prop-

Coolidges’ Holiday Host

<o • HrfjL . JIHBL jW RESOURCES GREATER W J/gL By United Press announced today the aggregate wßiiilS A 7.676 national banks in V 8r more than a year ago. Loans and discounts including rediscounts ■

RESOURCES GREATER Over $28,000,000 Decrease Loans and Discount. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Comptroller of Currency John W. Pole announced today the aggregate resources of 7,676 national banks in the United States totaled $28,925,480,000 on Oct. 3, or $1,711,656,000 more than a year ago. Loans and discounts including rediscounts amounted to $15,116,869,000, a decrease of $28,126,000 since June 30, but an Increase in the year of $749,943,000. Paid-in capital stocks of national banks on Oct. 3, totalled $1,615,744,000. Liabilities for circulating notes outstanding totaled $648,548,000. Total deposit liabilities were $23,005,311,000.

Canners Dine on Canned Food to Show They Can

COOLIDGE HEARS LEGIONPROGRAM McNutt Lays Proposals Before President. Paul V McNutt, nevf national commander of the American legion, personally has laid before President Coolidge details of the legislative program for veterans which the legion has indorsed, it was announced today at legion national headquarters here. Major recommendations of the legion: Universal draft. Scout cruiser construction bill. Twenty amendments to laws for disabled. s The construction of 2.750 new hospital beds costing $10,000.')00. Creation of a committee on vet--1 eians’ legislation in the Senate. Maintenance of our naval ratio under the 5-5-3 treaty. Reaffirming approval of the national defense act for the army. Establishment of a separate bureau of aeronautics, and a single department of national defense. Indorsement of the principles expressed In the multilateral treaty, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, but announcing that the approval of such a treaty does not guarantee peace. Approval of the restrictive features of the Immigration act of 1924, but requesting that veterans, their wives and children, be accorded a nonquota status. COURT CALL SHOCKS Shumaker, 111, Appears Sur- j prised at Order to Appear. The Rev. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League secretary, appeared “very ill" when Sheriff William Resnor of the supreme court, visited him at the Colonial hotel, Martinsville, Thmrsday afternoon, to summon him to appear before the court Dec. 1, Resnor declared today, upon his return to the statehouse. Shumaker must show cause Why he should not serve his sixty days at Indiana state farm, despite the pardon received from Governor Ed Jackson He was fined $250 and sentenced for contempt of the court. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, who moved the court require Shumaker to serve his sentence, pointed out that he might escape by apologizing and “proper show of respect’’ for the court. Shumaker long ago declared he would never do this. He has been at Martinsville a week taking treatments for his health and the news of the court’s command came as a shock, according to the sheriff.

erty on. board, in craft or ashore, or delay on the voyage, arising from act of God, public enemies, arrest or restraint of princes, rulers, peoples, perils of the sea or other waters or of navigation, fire, barratry of master or crew, theft, pilferage, or from any cause whatsoever beyond the owners' reasonable control, or from any other cause, unlfss such other cause be shown due to negligence or wrongdoing chargeable to the owner.” MUM WHAT a unique section! Watch the defense for the defense and you . will find its practical application and thrifty value to shipowners.

At the beautiful Swannanea Country Club near Waynesboro, Va., President Coolidge and the first lady will spend the Thanksgiving holidays this year as the guests of Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. The club is pictured above; their host, Governor Byrd, below.

Indiana Association Holds Banquet; Prizes Are Presented. Sure, canners can eat canned goods that they can. At least the members of the Intheir banquet Thursday night at the diana Canners Association did at Claypool hotel. The menu made up of foods prepared entirely from tin cans or glass containers, consisted of crabmeat cocktail, cream of tomato soup, olives, pickles, roast beef, peas, scalloped corn, green bean salad, pumpkin pie and coffee. With the exception of the first item, all the products were canned In Indiana. Watches were presented to the three winners of the Ten-Ton Tomato Club during the afternoon business session. This club is con- : ducted under the auspices of Purdue I university and is composed of grow--1 ers in Indiana, who yield ten tons or I over per acre in tomatoes. The first prize, a sllO watch, went ! to Asbury Holt, Burrs City, who had an average of 13.8. The secj ond prize, a $75 watch went to Cecil 1 Smith, Sharpesville. who had 13.07, and the third prize, a SSO watch, went to Harry Warner, Sharpesville, who had 12.9. Bronze medals were awarded: Waldo Patton, Noblesville; Howard Harper, Sharpesville; Arthur Harris, Columbus; H. U. Hutto. Sharpsville, and D. M. Langdon Sons, Eaton. Dr. Roscoe Gilmore Stott, lecturer and writer, spoke on “Dying on Third,” in which he compared the game of life to a game of baseball, in which most people die on third base from self-congratulation or lack of nerve or non-alertness. MILLER SORRyUeT WORKED FOR STARK Charges Prosecutor-Elect Forgot Those Who Helped Him. “I wish I had never worked for him.” This was the statement today of William B. Miller, deputy prosecutor, who was assistant manager of Pros-* ecutor-Elect Judson L. Stark’s election campaign. Stark he said, offered him a divorce deputyship, which he refused to accept. “I would have been much better off if I had never given my support to a man who forgets the people who worked for him and who does not come to the front for them,” he said. "I am not complaining because I wasn’t given a job, but because I took my time to support a man who forgets the principles of loyalty.” Abolish Death Penalty for Women By United Press REVAL, ESTONIA, Nov. 24.—The Estonian parliament today passed a bill abolishing capital punishment for all women and for all men over 70.

Barratry, it may be explained, is any wilful or unlawful act committed by the master or mariners of a ship whereby the owners sustain injury. In other words, a steamship ticket as It is sold to you today, and under archaic forms of law and the archaic dodging of proper responsibility that our laws permit, is nothing legally but a lottery ticket in which you bet your passage money that your ship owner is lucky and generous enough to have lifeboats that do not “naturally” leak,” and has conscience enough to sell you passage on a “seaworthy” nonslnkable ship, even if he legally does not have to do so.

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AGREEMENT ON AUSTRIAN DEBT PACTJIEACHED Way Will Be Made Clear for American Loan to Vienna. B,y United Press WASHINGTON, Nov, 24.—A) agreement to settle Austria's $35,000 000 debt to the United State, has been worked out betweei Undersecretary of Treasury Mill and Austrian officials. The agreement Is similar to thai negotiated with seven other creditoi nations, but terms will not be made public until presented to congress for ratification. Secretary Mellon will recommend to congress permission to be given to sign the Austrian pact to clear the way for an Austrian reconstruction loan in the United States. All nations to which Austria owes money are expected to participate in the loan, which will be about $100,000,00b, to be obtained from private sources. To place any loan in this country, congress must give it priority over other Austrian obligations. Similar action was talcen in 1923 at the time of the so-called League of Nations loan. Under the Lodge resolution adopted some years ago. payment of the Austrian debt to the United States was postponed until 1943. Austria, at the conference today, was represented by Dr. Schiller of the foreign office. Under Secretary Mills, state department, and other treasury officials attended. TROUBLESOME PRISONER COMMITTED TO ASYLUM Bloomington Man Escaped Once, Flooded Jail and Suicide. B)i United Press COLUMBUS, Ind.. Nov. 24.—Oscar H. Moore, Bloomington, held in Jail here on charges of issuing a fraudulent check, and who has caused authorities considerable trouble while a prisoner, has been committed to the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at North Madison. Moore, on one occasion, escaped from the local jail by dashing past the sheriff, but was captured a few days later and returned. His latest act was to slash his body q.nd face with a razor and flood the jail by tearing away plumbing fixtures. At another time he had planned to fill the sheriff’s eyes with pepper and escape, he said, but the plan was frustrated when the sheriff discovered the pepper. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported to the police as having been stolen: J. W. Miller, 2009 North New Jersey street, Ford coupe, from New York and Alabama streets. Lloyd Roberts. 1032 Oliver avenue, Chevrolet touring, license 24-909, from 1319 Kentucky avenue. Dallas Siert, 1013 High street, Whippet coach, license 33-526, from Illinois and North streets. Oscar Moore. 1247 North Pershing avenue, Chevrolet roadster, license 41-650, from Illinois and Michigan streets. Elmer Sparks, 2817 Stewart street. Ford touring, license 636-043, from Illinois and North streets. Gray Milray, Allentown, Pa., Chevrolet coupe, license A 2-392-004 Pennsylvania; from Illinois and Georgia streets. William Ross, 1464 South Illinois street, Chevrolet touring, license 540-116, from Michigan street and Holmes avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by the police: Stutz sedan, license 8-566. 1 found at White river bridge and Kentucky avenue. Ford roadster, license 660-547. found at 2600 W. Morris street, stripped of three tires. Two Twins in Family ■ • By Times Bverial SANDBORN, Ind., Nov. 24.—The second set of twins has arrived a! the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Hobbs, four miles south of here, v boy weighing eight pounds ands girl six. There are now nine children in the family. Legion of District to Meet By Times Special TIPTON. Ind., Nov. 24.—A Niful district American Legion meetin; will be held here on Thursdaj (Thanksgiving day) with the Tiptor post and its auxiliary acting as host and hostess.

Bully-Horse! By United Press BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 24 Idaho range horses are being shipped to France for Christmas dinners. Fifteen carloads of the horses left Nampa Friday. They will be butchered and sold in France, where horse meat is as common as beef in this country. Range horses, a vicious breed which engages in killing forays against domestic animals, are rounded up periodically. Usually they are used nearer home, as fox farm feed, but when prices slump they are shipped abroad. Roundups of the wild range horses usually are engaged in by ranchers acting in unison over a wide territory, the men devoting a day to the task.