Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1929 — Page 17

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TWO INDIANA CITIES OBTAIN NEWPLANTS Pump Factory for South Bend and Candy Factory for La Porte. 12 AHEAD IN BUILDING Indianapolis Among Number Showing Gain Over December, 1927. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Acquisition of new Industries by South Bend and La Porte and building gains in twelve of nine- j teen Indiana cities reporting, are! revealed in a business and indus- j trial survey of the state for the 1 week ended today. The Sterling Pump Works. Inc., of Stockton, Cal., has arranged to establish a branch factory at South Bend. It is a $500,000 corporation. Two Chicago companies operating aa. a unit will establish a plant at La Porte in which forty to sixty persons will beer. ployed. The companies are the Chocho Products, manufacturing a confection container, and the Arctic Candy, making a candy bar. It is expected production will be in progress by Jan. 31. , Building Decreases With building in nineteen Indiana cities during December showing a total decrease of approximately $1,400,000. twelve of the cities showed gains over December, 1927, They are Indianapolis, Anderson, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Gary, Hunt- j ington, Lafayette, Marion, Michigan City, Muncie, Richmond and Shelbyville. The International Steel and Iron Company, Evansville, has obtained a contract to supply material for two bridges to be built across the Tennessee river. The contract value is $2,000,000. Addition of anew press by the Commercial Wall Paper Company, Hammond, will permit an increase in annual production from 3,500,000 to 4,700.000 rolls. Factory to Be Operated Operation of the Steinite radio factory No. 5 will be started at Auburn next week, and when in capacity production will employ 250 persons. One type of cabinet will be made and the remainder of the plant’s work will be assembling sets which will be shipped from it complete. j Hot mills of the American Sheet and Tinplate plant were placed on a fifteen-turn a week basis Monday. John Nyrne. manager, announces the outlook is good for the company's business. The Spencer Wood Products Company. Spencer, has purchased the Martinsville Cedar Works, Martinsville, equipment of which has been moved for installation as an addition to the Spencer factory. SLAYER SON AND DYING FATHER SAY ‘GOOD-BY’ Evansville Man Who Killed Wife Sees Parent for Last Time. Bn I imes Sveoinl EVANSVILLE. Jan. 25.—Morton Thomas. 74. father, and Herman Thomas, son, looked upon each other for the last time today The father is leaving for his old home in Morganfield, Ky„ to die among friends. The son is awaiting transfer to the Indiana state prison \to begin serving a two-to-twenty-one-year term for manslaughter, following conviction an a charge of slaying his wife, the result of a love triangle. During the son’s trial, the elder man'was critically ill in a hospital here. Days passed, and doctors isaid there was no hope for his life. Then the last meeting with the son was arranged. MERCHANT’S SUCCESS BLUFF, DEATH REVEALS Much-Interviewed Man Owed All to Wife. By United Press TRENTON. N. J.. Jan. 25.—During his lifetime Max Litt was regarded as a capable, successful and well-to-do merchant. It was revealed today, after his death, that it was all a bluff. Litt died three weeks ago from monoxide poisoning in his garage. Contents of his will disclosed a request for an epitaph stating that he •‘has lived and accomplished nothing.” As the nominal head of a flourishing millinery business. Litt gave interviews on how he achieved success. He was hailed as a business leader and took a prominent part in fraternal and charitable affairs. The secret was explained by Litt’s “It was all mine.” she said. “My store, my money, and my management. I allowed my husband to sign the checks. It looked better, you know.” COFFIN TO VISIT MAYOS G. O. P. Chairman Seeks to Recover Health at Clinic. George V. Coffin, Seventh district Republican chairman, will go to the Mayo hospital at Rochester, Minn., in a few days for treatment, members of his family announced today. Coffin has been ill since the November election. During the last I few weeks he has shown slight imK provement.

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U. S. Millionaires Dull, Plaint of Lovely Lily

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Lila Damita . . . finds rich men dull and poor boys interesting.

A MERICAN millionaires are d*- dull! And the richer they are the duller they are! Such is the report of the blonde and lovely Lily Damita, who captured the time and fancy of Prince George in Hollywood, and who bases her assertion on experiences met on the first half of a cross-country “personal appearance” trip. Miss Damita is in Indianapolis for a one-day personal appearance Saturday at the Palace theater. “They talk only of business,” she reports in her still faltering English. “Imagine—five beautiful women standing in a corner having to talg to themselves, while the men all stand around, talking business. “And when they do talk to you —lt is the stock market and how business is . . . bah! There is no romance. “The French millionajre . . . what of him? Well, they are so few' compared to your American rich men. And the French arc the French whether they are rich Jr not.” nun “XJO —I have met hundreds of your American rich men. They make good money, but bad love. They do not know' romance. They know business. “Detroit W'as the worst. There were—oh so many millionaires — but what good? I would not marry one of them. It would not be amusing even to have a romance. "They are all too dull. They can keep their money—poor things—they must need it, since they! do not know liow to have fun. “It is too bad. In Detroit they gather around and say have a drink and come and see the night life. But Ido not drink—and the night life? ... It is so-so. “On the Pacific coast they say . . . . come and sail on my yacht! And the beautiful movie girls sail on their yachts. I have sailed just so—they have yachts like a European palace. Yet the rich men are dull, the yachts are dull —they must drink the bad gin to even talk.” “TN America it is the poor boy -l who is interesting. He know's of books and the theater and the arts and the music—yes, and he knows of the romance. He has the ideas and he knows the struggle. “He does not need the money . . . yet lie tries to get it . . . and when he gets it, he gets fat and dull. It is all too bad.” Miss Damita. appearing in connection with her first American picture, “The Rescue.” already has visited half a dozen key cities in the middle west, after a stay in New York.

STATE PARKS DRAW WINTER MOTORISTS

Blanketed in snow during the last few days, Indiana's northern state parks have proved nearly as popular in their public appeal as in summer, according to the state conservation department. Particularly is this true with Pokagon, where the inn. a modern structure of comfortable sleeping rooms, all steam heated, and noted in half a dozen states, for excellence of table service, has been the mecca for hundreds. Snow and exhilarating air off Lake James appeals to many people, particularly those crowded in big cities, who delight in getting out

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MOTHER TO ASK MERCYFOR SON Mrs. Northcott Called as Death Trial Witness. By United Press RIVERSIDE. Cal.. Jan. 25.—Mrs. Sarah Louise Northcott, now' serving a life sentence for murder, will be brought from San Quentin penitentiary to testify in behalf of her son, Gordon Stewart Northcott, accused “murder farm” slayer of three boys. Mrs. Northcott was convicted of the murder of young Walter Collins. for whose death her son must stand trial later. In the present trial, Northcott is accused of abusing and slaying Lewis and Nelson Winslow' and a young Mexican boy, whose headless body v/as found at Puenta, Cal. Northcott. continuing to act as his own defense counsel, presented the motion asking permission to call his mother as a defense witness. The motion was granted. Cow Found in Cellar Dies Bu Timrft Rnrrial COVINGTON. Ind.. Jan. 25.—A Jersey cow is dead here after being found in a cellar, ending a twentythree day disappearance. The cow, owned by James Baldw'in. was given treatment after being removed from the cellar but died a few minutes later. It is not know’ll how’ the animal got into the cellar.

CHALLENGE HURLED AT “APE THEORIES”

By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—The Defenders of the Christian Faith, organized to “purify the nation of modernism and evolution,” today challenged evolutionists and modernists to offer scientific proof of any manmonkey link. Paul Rader, Chicago evangelist and leader of the new fundamentalist organization, offered to post a reward of SI,OOO to any one who could establish one fact to disprove a single statement in the Bible. “Nine-tenths of the talk of the evolutionists is sheer nonsense,” Rader said. “It is not founded on observation and is wholly unsupported by facts. Evolution literature abounds with statements about the Pithecanthropus, the Heidelberg man and the Piltdown man. These are a sort of evolution salad affairs built up from bones at various places. The Pithecanthropus is a highbrow’ name for an ape-man.” First move of the Defenders of the Christian Faith will be a naitional convention of fundemental-

into the open. Pokagon is patronized now by people from points in Ohio, and many from Ft. Wayne and several parties came down from Michigan and spent the week-end. Hotel accommodations are limited at the Dunes on Lake Michigan, but its location near Michigan City. Gary and Chicago is such that hundreds leave these cities and make trips to the reservation and return in a day. The great beach, covered with snow, and ice jams in the lake, are spectacular sights worth going miles to see. The Dunes is as alluring in winter as in summer, but its beauty is of a most contrasting character.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 1929

COURT CLEARS U. S. CASES IN SPEEDY TIE Federal Tribunal Here Is Remarkably Free of Congestion. FEW ACTIONS PENDING Only 109 Now on Docket; Delay Necessary in Most of Them. Congestion of federal courts, advanced by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon as an argument against increasing the prohibition enforcement appropriation, does not apply to federal court for the southern district of Indiana. Federal court here is in an unusually clear condition, with but few criminal cases which could be tried at tills time on the docket. Records of Albert Ward, district attorney, show only 109 crimnial cases pending, of which few could be tried now, except for several in the Terre Haute, Evansville and New Albany divisions, which will be heard when Judge Robert C. Baltzell visits these districts this spring. Under the heading “pending cases,” the district attorney’s office lists all criminal cases, including those where defendants are fugitives, where cases have been taken under advisemnt by the qpurt, where defendants are in state penal institutions, and ct-ses where all but one or two defendants have been disposed of. Several Still Fugitives No case can be considered closed until every defendant has been disposed of. An example of this is the Ferracane liquor conspiracy case, with ninety-nine defendants, more than seventy of whom have been sentenced. The other defendants either a.re fugitives or have not been removed from other districts. The year ended June 30. 1928. was started here with 183 cases pending, 691 cases were terminated, of which 471 were liquor cases, and 115 cases were pending at the close of the year. The year ended June 30, 1925, was started with 98 cases pending, 264 were terminated, leaving 160 cases pending at close of the year. The following year, 264 cases were terminated, of yiiich 105 were liquor cases, leaving 160 cases pending, including 63 liquor cases. The court terminated 264 cases in the year ended June 30, 1927, of which 133 were liquor cases, and closed the year with 183 cases pending. A total of 71 liquor cases was pending at the start of the year and 78 when the year closed. 124 Now Pending Seventy-five of the 691 cases carried in the records as terminated in 1928 were transferred to the new court for the northern district of Indiana. Records now show only 124 civil cases pending. Back in the days when Indiana was dry and surrounding states wet and it was a federal offense to bring liquor into Indiana. Federal Judge A. B. Anderson used to dispose of more than 1,000 cases a year and still take the regular two or threemonths vacation in the summer.

ists at Indianapolis Feb. 3 to 10. Rader said plans had been made to accommodate 100,000 visitors at the convention. The convention will decide upon a plan for a nationwide campaign against evolutionists. healthylbabies to VIE AT FOOD SHOW Contest to Be Daily Feature of Second Annual Exposition. A healthy baby contest will be a daily feature of the second annual Indianapolis food and household appliance show w'hich will be held Feb. 18 to 23 at Cadle tabernacle under the auspices of the Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers’ Association of Marion county, according to E. V. Richardson, manager. Parents desiring to register children for the contest should phone the entries to Cadle tabernacle now, Richardson said. Tuesday’s contest will be for babies 2 to 6 months old; Wednesday’s, for those from 6 to 12 months; Thursday’s, 12 to 18 months; Friday’s, 18 to 24 months, and Saturday for twins and triplets, 2 to 20 months old. Last of Veterans Dies Bu Times Special WILLIAMSPORT, Ind., Jan. 25. Funeral services were held today for Hugh Berryman, last Civil war veteran of this town. He enlisted on the first call for volunteers and served four years with Company G, Forty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry. He was bom in Madison county in 1844. City-Owned Plant Pays Bn Times Special GOSHEN, Ind., Jan. 25.—This city's water, light and heat plant earned a profit of $53,987 during 1928, which is $10,942.64 more than the 1927 profits. Electric consumers increased 146 during 1928.

Fourteen Freshman Class Rosebuds Selected by Voters at Butler U.

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Fourteen rosebuds of the Butler university freshman class have been chosen and one of them will blossom in the “Freshman Rose” at the annual freshman . frolic Feb. 8. Class members vote for one of the fourteen candidates. representing campus organizations, when they buy tickets. In the pictures they are left to right, unless otherwise designated: 1. Helen Beasley. 4458 College avenue. Kappa Alpha Theta; Thelma Bingman, 5445 Rockville road, Chi Theta Chi; Jeanette Palmer, R. R. 1, Box 221, University Club; Shirley Nelson, 2239 College avenue, Alpha Delta PL 2. Margaret Mosley, 55 South Downey avenue, Alpha Chi Omega; Anita Brow’nlee , 545 North Jefferson avenue. Delta Zeta; Martha Jackson, 104 South Emerson avenue, Alpha Delta Theta. 3. Jean Scad. 331 North Arsenal avenue, Alpha Omicron Pi; Louise Rude, 242 North Randolph street. Kappa Phi. 5. Eva Adwell, 2358 Kenwood avenue, Zeta Tau Alpha; Marie Oliver, 323 lowa street, Delta Gamma. 5. Helen Hitch. Lafayette, Delta Delta < seated!; Dot Grimes, 4619 East New York street, Kappa Kappa Gamma (left); Jane Sutton, 3942 Ruckle street, Pi Beta Phi, (right). museum Enlist Fifteen New Members in Effort to Raise $12,000 Goal. Fifteen new life members have been enlisted in the children’s museum membership campaign to raise $12,000 for the museum from membership fees, Benjamin D. Hitz, life membership committee chairman announced today. Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes spoke at a luncheon of campaign workers at the Board of Trade. Another luncheon will be held Monday. New life members announced were: John J. Madden, Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres, Mrs. Frank D. Stalnaker, L. J. Keach Walter Pfaff, Alex R. Holliday, Louis J. Borinstein, Hal L. Purdv, Howard Marmon, Benjamin F. Hitz, Thomas D. Sheerin. Eli Lilly, Norman Perry, Mrs. Bernard Vonnegut and Stuart Dean. No Snow ; Tough on Snowshoes ST. ALBANS, Vt.. Jam 25.—As result of a shortage of snow, participants in a snows hoe race from Montreal to lewiston, Me., wore out twenty-seven pairs of snowshoes in forty-eight hours.

COUNCILMAN WANTS ’SAFE safety: ZONES

Meurer Suggests Patrons Wait on Curb to Board Street Cars. Abolition of the present safety zones in residence districts and establishment of curb zones except in the downtow’n district was advocated today by City Councilman Albert F. Meurer. Aroused over the increasing death toll from hit-and-run drivers who strike pedestrians waiting for street cars in the present safety zones in the street, Meurer urged council to take additional precautions. “There is needless loss of life caused by reckless drivers w’ho kill persons w'aiting in the present zones. It seems to me that something could be done to curb this death rate. "It occurs to me that it would be practical to designate waiting zones on the curb in the streets away from the downtown area. Motormen could stop when they saw a person standing in this designated area. It could be marked by a suitable sign,” Meurer said. “Our present ordinance provides that motor vehicles stop n the rear of a street car w'hich is taking on or unloading passengers. Frequently, because of a blitding weather condition, a careful driver strikes a pedestrian who is waiting for a

KEYES’ FAMILY TO HELP HIS DEFENSE

By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.—Asa Keyes, former district attorney of Los Angeles county, brought his family to court today to help him fight the bribery charges by which the state hopes to send him to San Quentin penitentiary. His wife, Mrs. Lillian Keyes, and his two daughters, Elizabeth and Annis, all were called as witnesses in Kej'es’ defense. They will testily regarding the purchase of the new $27,000 Keyes home in Beverly Hilis, attorneys stated. On trial with Keyes now are Ed

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Mother Knows? By United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 25.—“ Mother Knows Best,” the old copy book maxim, is only half correct, according to David Seabury, the psychologist who wrote “Unmasking Our Minds.” “Fifty per cent of the time mother does not know best and even the children are beginning to find that out,” Seabury told the Chicago Association of Child Study and Parent Education.

street car. Thre is one slight objection to the curb zones. There might be a little delay on the part of the street car, but this would be overbalanced if a few lives might be saved,” Meurer added. Meurer conferred with Superintendent James P. Tretton of the Indianapolis Street Railw'ay Company rlative to the proposal. Tretton said he would give some thought to the suggestion. “Only one objection comes to my mind and that is there might be difficulty in seeing the passenger, resulting in some persons being passed up on rainy or sleety davs,” Tretton said. “One thing that would help curb reckless drivers and prevent drunken drivers from taking innocent lives would be stringent punishment,” Tretton suggested.

Rosenberg, Julian defendant, whom the state contends paid him $125,000 to permit him to be freed in the oil prosecutions, and Ben Getzoff, the tailor shop proprietor labelled by the state as the “go-betw'een.” Four other defendants have been dismissed. Through hours of cross-examina- ; tion by prosecution attorneys yes- ‘ terday, Keyes denied he was bribed iin the Julian cases aid asserted : that when he accepted gifts from I Getzoff he regarded the tailor as a | “millionaire friend of the family.” j He left the stand with his story i unshaken in any material manner.

U. S. RISE DUE TO HIGH PAY, MILLER SAYS Banker Points Out Benefit to All From America’s Wage Standard. BUILDERS HEAR SPEECH Rearing of Huge Financial and Industrial Power Is Traced. America’s industrial and financial leadership of the world is traceable directly to the high wage standard, Dick Miller, president of the City Trust Company and former president of the Chamber of Commerce, declared Thursday before the Indianapolis Building Congress, at luncheon in the Lincoln. Miller talked on “A Banker’s Conception of Business in General and the Building Industry in Particular.” Twenty-five years ago, he said, the two great corporations of that day, Standard Oil and American Telephone and Telegraph Company, were regarded as liabilities to the wealth and future of the nation. People regarded the great concentration of capital needed to finance these huge organizations from the old socialistic viewpoint, that the money and the control of business were in the hands of a very few, and that the great mass of the public gradually was being caught under the dictation of powerful financiers. Business Grew by Leaps Slowly the modern viewpoint of mass ownership gained ground and he emphasized this point, that great organizations grew faster and faster under the new thought of common stock issues for financing business projects. The idea caught hold, he stated, that America was as sound economically as it was possible to'be. The average American began to think that to realize on the prosperity he must own something. Preferred stock and bond issues no longer were the center of attention in distributing money. People were not content with the fixed income to be derived from these issues; they wanted to be in on the prosperity of the company when it grew. And in line with this came the new idea of the manufacturer. The biggest men of industry began to realize that prosperity would be unlimited if they could create a market for their product. Ford Boosted Wages With this thought came the fixed minimum of wages employed first by Henry Ford in running his great plants. In this way a complete cycle of business was created. The laborer received higher w'ages and was able to afford things that had been luxuries before. When the laborer bought, the manufacturer benefited and the cycle was completed. European capitalists have not caught the American viewpoint of higher wages and the larger money cycle, M iller said, but when they do, one of Uie world’s greatest eras of prosperity will result. He ended his talk with a few short statements to the builders assembled, recommending that they work earnestly for the betterment of them trades. He stated that as a banker he had loaned his last dollar to a contractor or builder who was not constructing his project with the best of materials and workmanship. Robert Frost Daggett, president of the Indianapolis Building congress, presided at the luncheon. DEVELOP NATIONAL MORTGAGE COMPANY Merger Brings Resources of Finn to $42,000,000. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.—Development of a national mortgage company was forecast today in the announcement of the organization of the Bankers and Mortgage Guaranty Company of America with total resources of more than $42,000,000. Albert M. Greenfield, Philadelphia real estate broker and banker, will head the company, which will have nationally known men on its board of directors, it was said. Greenfield will be chairman. The capital funds will approach $12,000,000. The concern hopes to open offices in the leading cities of the country. The new organization is formed from a merger. ADDRESSES AID SOCIETY President of City Travelers Group Speaker at Regional Meeting. Mrs Wilbur Johnson, president oi the Indianapolis Travelers Aid Society, was a guest speaker Thursday at a region conference of executive boards of aid societies of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, at Cincinnati. A number of directors of the local society attended the conference. ASK MENINGITIS HELP Oklahoma Appeals to U. S. Health Officials for Assistance. B;i Unites Frees OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. Jan. 25.—Reporting fifty cases oi spinal meningitis, the state board of health today appealed to the United States public health sendee in Washington for assistance in treatment and prevention of the disease.