Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1928 — Page 3

DEC. 5, 1928

BOULDER DAM FOES FIGHT TO SHELVE BILL Hope to Sidetrack Draft or Stall It in Senate Committee. SENATE Receives President’s budget message. Finance committee starts consideration of Kellogg treaty. Starts Boulder dam debate. HOUSE Receives President’s budget message. Treasury and postoffice appropriations bill reported from committee. Naval affairs committee copslders uncontested bills. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—The same bitterness which caused two successful ' filibusters against the Boulder dam bill was manifest in the senate today as Senator Hiram Johnson of California again brought his measure up for consideration. Threats were freely, though privately, made by opponents of the measure that they soon would sidetrack it by displacing it with the naval cruiser building bill or by pigeon-holing it in the senate commerce committee. Johnson announced he would fight to preserve the advanced position of the measure as the unfinished business; that he would not willingly consent to let it be sent to committee for revision, and that he intended to do any necessary revising by introducing amendments from the floor. Johnson Handicaped The senator’s plight generally Is as serious because of the recent report of engineers who studied the project during the summer and the attitude expressed in President Coolidge’s message to congress that electrical power development should be left to private enterprise. Johnson has seen the President and has announced his belief Mr. Coolidge will sign the bill containing its optional clause to let the secretary of interior determine whether the government should build, or lease the power site before building. His opponents, the Utah and Arizona senators, Smoot, King, Ashurst and Hayden, believe the engineers’ report will make it necessary to send the bill back to committee for revision. SraOot says he does not believe the President would sign the measure if it is passed. They are organizing all their forces to prevent adoption of the measure by every available means. Substitution First Move Smoot has been negotiating with senators from Wyoming and Colorado in an effort to get them to withdraw from the state compact for division of waters. He contends the engineers’ report shows the compact is incorrectly drawn. They indicated they could take care of their interests by proposing a series of amendments to the pending bill. Johnson’s first step will be a motion to substitute the bill as passed by the house last session for his bill now pending as the unfinished business. This step is necessary under the parliamentary situation, but it is a vulnerable step, and will permit the bill's opponents to begin maneuvers against both bills at once. The bill became the unfinished business at the opening of the session Monday under an agreement reached during the filibuster over the measure during the closing days of the last session. No opportunity was permitted for discussion of the bill until today. Business Leader Dies Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. s.—Elmer J. Whiteley, 65, director of two Muncie banks and interested in other enterprises here, is dead at Long Beach, Cal., of injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Funeral services will be held at Long Beach Thursday .and interment at Springfield, 0., Monday.

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ELECT C. OF C. BOARDDEC. 11 Rival Directors’ Slates Seek Election. Competition in the annual Chamber of Commerce election of directors is assured with the filing t>f an independent slate with Secretary Ed Hunter. The independent ticket, Hunter said, is sponsored by a group of members desiring to arouse interest in the election. Nominees on the new ticket are: George Steinmetz, Indianapolis branch manager, Ford Motor Car Company, manufacturers’ division: Leland C. Huey, Capitol Lumber Company, retail division; Edward L. Osborne, Central Wall Paper and Paint Company, wholesale division; Charles S. Rauh, Belt Railroad and Stock Yards Company executive vice-president, civic affairs division; Perry W. Lesh, Lesh Paper Company, freight and traffic division; Thomas A. Moynahan, of Moynahan Construction Company, and George T. Wheldon, realtor, directors-at-large. The slate nominated by directors recently includes: Harold B. West of West Baking Company, civic affairs division; Charles E. Mallory, Kingan & Cos., freight and traffic division; Walter B. Harding, G. & J. Tire Company, manufacturers’ division; Bert C. McCammon, druggist, retail division; William J. Mooney Jr„ Mooney-Mueller-Ward Company, wholesale division; Scott R. Brewer, State Savings and Trust Company, and Hugh J. Baker of Hugh J. Baker & Cos., directors-at-large. The election is to be held Dec. 11. Polls will be open from 11 a. m. to 7p. m. Thursday is the final day for filing additional slates.

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Mrs. James H. Lowes, superintendent of the present cottage hospital on Coe street, said no definite plans have been decided upon for the financial campaign. The Mission has been seriously handicaped because of the limited capacity of the cottage in rear of city hospital. The hospital has occupied the present site for six years. The two story frame building formerly was a contagious unit and permits only twenty-six patients. Separate wards for men and

Aviator Narrowly Misses Dynamite-Laden Stump; Snow Is Menace. This is the third ot a series describing the dangers faced by airmail pilots, written around the career of Major Wesley L. Smith, 'superintendent of the airmail service on the New Yorlc-Chicago division, and a mail flier since 1919. By SEA Service Difficulty in following the dangerous airmail course is only part of the troubles of the airmail pilots who must keep the mail moving day and night. Motor trouble over the mountains is what they fear most; that and the treacherous line storms which sweep over the east. Sometimes there are other dangers they knownothing of. One of the greatest pieces of good luck Wesley L. Smith, veteran mail pilot and now superintendent of the eastern division of the National Air Transport Company, ever had was on July 6, 1921, while flying west from New- York. The weather ahead w-as thick as soup and for three hours he flew blindly through it. After that the fog broke and he could see below heavily wooded territory, without a sign of habitation. He knew he was north of his course. Just Misses Dynamite Striking south for fifteen minutes he finally espied a field which looked safe for landing, lost it several times in the fog and then brought his plane down, ripping through a field of barley.- He found he was in the first clearing west of the Bellefonte, Pa., field. “As I took off again a farmer came running from a house,” Smith recalled. He waved at me. I thought he was worried about his crops, so I kept going. “The next day or so we had a letter at the field in which the farmer complained that his barley had been damaged and asked for settlement. “So the next Sunday I flew over to his clearing with one of the officials of the field. Missed Dynamite in Stump “As we came down for a landing I could see his barley had straightened up again and had suffered little, if any, damage. The farmer greeted us as we landed. “ ‘Your barley doesn’t look as if it had suffered much damage,’ I told him. He admitted it. _ “ ‘I wasn’t worried so much about the barley as for you,’ he replied. Then he took us out to the field and pointed to a stump, hidden away among the tail stalks. “ ‘There are three sticks of dynamite in that stump,’ he told me. ‘I was getting ready to blow it up. When you took off the other day you missed it by about six inches.’ ” Stalls Over Mountains On another occasion, while trying to squeeze his plane between the mountain tops and the low hanging clouds the Liberty motor in Smith’s plane quit with a stripped gear just as he was passing over Snoeshoe mountain, the first high peak west of Bellefonte. As luck would have it, there was a clearing, free of trees but filled with brush, just below Smith pancaked down. His landing gear missed the trees and ripped through the brush. The plane came to a grinding stop against a stump he hadn’t seen. “The plane was such a complete wreck I had to chop out the mail with an ax, but I wasn't scratched,” Smith explained. Snowstorms like the November one which cost the lives of two airmail pilots and the pilot of a passenger plane and two passengers riding with him are one of the worst dangers the airmal pilots have to contend with. Recently with the installation of almost instantaneous weather reporting service, pilots know the sort of weather thev face as they take off for their flights. But several years ago, when the pilots had only the barest weather protection, things were different. NEXT: Battling ice in the clouds.

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women and five private rooms are provided. It is necessary for Miss Bessie Parry, hosptal supervisor, to use a small room for the drug, consultation and administration office. She assistants. The mission accepted a site for the new hospital from the city health board and the new unit will be built in conformity with the other new hospital buildings. The ward is expected to accommodate fifty men and fifty women, with all modern provisions for ttreatment of lung disease.

DRUGGISTS 1 LAW TO BEAMED Pharmacists Seek to Strengthen Requirements. A plan of legislation to strengthen the requirements for assistant pharmacists is expected to result from the two-day conference of the executive committee of the Indiana Pharmacist Association and the members of the state board of pharmacy which closed late Tuesday at the Statehouse. It was pointed out in the discussion that while the Indiana law has adequate educational requirements for registered druggists, only one year of drug store experience is required for an assistant. The state boat’d revoked the license of E. M. Hollender of Evansville. Those attending the conference with the board included Wood Wiles, Bloomington, chairman of the legislative committee of the state association; E. E. Goodnight, Lafayette, chairman of the executive committee; Dean C. B. Jordon of the Purdue university pharmacy school, E. H. Niles of the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy and John C. Eaur of Valparaiso university. Fred Meissner, Laporte, is president of the state board, and Frank McCullough, . New Albany secretary. Is your coal bin full? If not fill it up now while prices are right. Reliable dealers are carrying ads under the classification of and Wood” in tonight’s want ads.

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BUSINESS FALLS OFF, REPORT OF MELLON SHOWS ! —————• Declines in Basic Industries Pointed Out; Price Levels Higher. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—Salient features of business conditions in the fiscal year 1928 summarized today in the annual report of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon showed declines in several basic industries during the fiscal year ended on June 30 last. Mellon reported declines in volume of business, automobile and steel production, and in exports and imports. Prices generally were higher than in 1927, and consumer’s buying power dropped off slightly. An upwar dtrend toward the end of the fiscal year was noted, with indications of further increase of prosperity ahead. Agriculture and building were the two industries described as increasing their business over the preceding year. Building contracts awarded totaled 2.4 per cent more in value than during the prior year. Volume Is Lower “Agriculture as a whole,’’ the report said, “made substantial gains. There was an increase both in prices and in total cash returns for the crops and products of the year 1927-28 as compared with those of the year 1926-27, this increase representing the net result of gains in some products and losses in others.” Mellon pointed out that the physical volume of industrial production, according to recognized indexes, was 3 per cent below the prior year. “Automobile production,” he added, “experienced a major turn for the better during the year. Monthly figures after adjustment for seasonal tendencies indicate that the general decline which began in November, 1925, reached its lowest point in November and December, 1927. The year ended with JuneJuly production nearly 35 per cent above June-July, 1927, although the total for the twelve months was 12 per cent below the prior year." Steel Only Little Believed Steel production, the report said, followed much the same course as automobile production, and the total for the year was but 5 per cent below 1927 production. New nigh records were established in building contracts awarded in the months of October, February, April, i May and June. Under the heading of “Business Profits,” Mellon said: "The decline of business during the fiscal year is reflected in the earnings of manufacturing and mining companies, the net income shown in the published reports of 150 identical corporations (exclusive of General Motors and United States Steel) declining about 7 per

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MOTORISTS ARE RIFLE TARGETS; BOYSTOPRISON Fire From Ambush at Cars Passing to ‘lmprove Marksmanship/ B,y United Press LUBBOCK, Tex., Dec. s.—Three boys who were arrested Tuesday for taking “pot shots” at motorists with a 22-calibre rifle from an ambush on a highway near Lubbock found today that they must serve terms in the State Reform School at Gatesville. / The sentences, assessed in the county court, vary in length from an undetermined period to “the time when they become 21.” The youths, Albert Anthony, 13; J. B. Morris, 14, and Floyd Shireman, 14, were arrested after they had scored two hits. One motorist was struck in the foot by bullets and a girl was cut on the face by flying glass splintered by the fusillade. When arrested, the youths explained that they were endeavoring to improve their marksmanship. CITED FOR CONTEMPT Trustee in Bankruptcy Ordered Before Judge. Michael F. Boland, Batesville, Ind., acting trustee in the voluntary bankruptcy of Albert H. Gommel, was ordered to appear before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Dec. 22 in contempt of court proceedings for failing to obey an order issued by Robert R. Kelso, federal referee in bankruptcy, at New Albany, Sept. 14. The order issued by Kelso required Boland, as acting trustee, to return to the bankrupt property to which he was entitled under the Indiana exemption laws, and to appraise the bankrupt’s growing crop of com in Ripley county.