Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1929 — Page 2

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22 BILLS ABE 1 SHOWERED IN HOUSE HOPPER Adjournment is Taken Until Wednesday After Brief Session. Protection for the utility stockholder whose stock is not needed to affect the merger or purchase of | a utility was offered in one of the ; twenty-two bills showered on the speaker's table in a brief session of j the Indiana house of representatives today. Adjournment was taken ' at 11:15 until Wednesday at 10 a. m. to permit committees to confer on the mass of bills already entered. Representative Charles Y. Foster, of Carmel introduced the biil j amending the utilities act to afford protection to the stockholder who finds his stock not required in utility deals for majority control and faces a consequent loss of value. Barber Bill in Hopper Foster’s bill would authorize the commission to fix a lair value for stock involved in mergers and sales of utilities, and to force the persons of firms gaining control by stock purchases to buy, at the determined figure, as much of the stock held by minority stockholders as they may desire to sell. A barber’s bill, similar to the one that suffered by Governor Ed Jackson’s pocket veto two years ago, was introduced by Representatives John W. Chamberlain and Wililam H. Lee. It would create a board of examiners for the licensing and regulation of barbers and require a barbers’ license after Sept. 1, 1929. Life imprisonment would be mandatory upon conviction of the charge of kidnaping by a bill introduced by Representative Louis R. Markun. Five representatives joined in a measure changing the name of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Normal school to the “State Teachers’ college board,” and designating the normal school at Terre Haute as the “Indiana State Teachers’ college ” and the one at Muncie as the “Ball State Teachers’ col- | lege.” Biver Survey Asked Other bills introduced would empower township trustees to compel the destruction of Canadian thistles; exempt from taxation interstate bridges owned or being acquired by the state; deprive forever all persons convicted of a felony from the right of suffrage or holding office; establish the latest revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary as standards for purity and strength of drugs; and increase the requirements for registered pharmacists to three years’ experience and eighteen months training in a recognized school of pharmacy. A joint resolution requested the federal government to survey the Kankakee river from the Indiana line to Kankakee. HI., with a view to removing obstructions affecting the drainage of nine northern Indiana counties. Railroad freight trains of more than seventy cars will not be permitted to use street levels, but must be moved on overhead tracks, according to a bill introduced by Representative Henry F. Kottkamp, Indianapolis. ELECT LEWIS WILLIAMS SAHARA GROTTO HEAD Succeeds Charles G. Walsh, Who Is Elected Three-Year Trustee. > Lewis A. Williams, 3143 North Capitol avenue, was elected monarch of Sahara Grotto Monday night, succeeding Charles G. Walsh, who was elected a three-year trustee. Williams is a member of Ancient Landmarks lodge No. 319, F. & A. M., and is the treasurer of the J. S. Cruse Realty Company. Other officers: Clyde E. Robinson, chief justice: Carl 'B. Schey, master of ceremonies; C. Wilbur Foster, ’enerable prophet; Charles S. Braurigan, treasurer, and H. Verle Wilson, secretary. John H. Berllng, who has been secretary for nine years, resigned. Appointive officers are: Harry Trowbridge, marshal; Robert E. Wilcox, captain of the guard; Amos Haynes, sentinel; James Lanham, assistant sentinel, and Luther Manley, orator. SPUR MUSEUM DRIVE Silver Cup Put as Award in Membership Campaign. Impetus was given the children's museum membership campaign Monday by announcement that a silver loving cup will be presented to the private school making the best record in the drive. The cup will be given by Mrs. John N. Carey, one of the founders of the museum. Announcement of the award was made at a meeting of campaign workers Monday noon. Given Prison Term for Attack Karl Brown, 33. of 420 Grand avenue, was sentenced to five to twen-ty-one years in state prison on a statutory charge by Judge James A. Collins in criminal court this morning. Brown was charged with attacking a 15-year-old girl.

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That hat, sheriff! Oh, those chapeau! Fearful that the public might not get a chance to see Sheriff George L. Winkler in his new four-gallon, far-western, wide-open-space, men-are-men bonnet, The Times today presents this photograph. The sheriff refuses to appear publicly in it. “Good heavens, fellows,” he told reporters. “They might hang some such nickname as ‘Gorgeous George’ on me if I appeared that way.” Anyway, the sheriff has such a hat, and he came by it honestly. Attorney Earl Cox, red-hot Democrat, bet Winkler the hat before the election. Winkler (Republican) won easily. Cox had to go clear to Chicago to find one with a crown high enough and brim broad enough to suit his fancy. He presented it to Winkler with due, hilarious ceremony at a luncheon at the county jail Tuesday.

POOL FOOD IN STARVINGTOWN Snowbound Village Faces Real Want. EARLVILLE, la., Jan. 29.—A motor plow, aided by horse teams and shovel crews, today attacked the ten-foot snow bai-rier which for ten days has isolated the village of Colesburg. eleven miles east of here. The rescue workers were handicapped by temperatures ranging from zero to 10 degrees below as they set out to re-establish communication with the snow-bound village. While the snow-plow was working its way through the huge drifts, teams of men on skiis worked in relays transporting much needed fuel and food to the 350 residents of the village. Through a single telephone line, Colesburg’s sole means of communication with the outside world, Mayor W. F. Hoot told authorities at Petersburgh, Earlville and Cedar Rapids, that unless food and fuel reached the village within twentyfour hours serious suffering would result. He said all provisions had been pooled by the villagers and a committee appointed to dole out rations. A bobsled, carrying food and medicines, reached Colesburg Monday morning after battling the drifts for twenty-one hours.' A rural mail carrier planned to leave from Dyersville for Colesburg today with mail which has been undelivered for ten days.

MANY BABIES ENTERED | IN FOOD SHOW CONTEST; Arrangements Nearly Complete for Second Exhibition* Arrangements for the second annual food and household appliance show, to be held Feb. 18 to 23 in Cadle tabernacle under auspices of the Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers of Marion county, rapidly are nearing completion, and the committee in charge of the event expects a record breaking attendance. The healthy baby show gives promise of being one of the most attractive features. Many babies already are entered, and new entries are being received daily. Babies between the ages of two and twenty-four months are eligible. Other features of the show will be a complete food and household appliance exhibit, a cooking school and a public wedding. BANDIT SUSPECT HELD FOR WHITE SLAVERY Admits Charges; First Arrested in Theater Holdup Case. Eric Long, 23, held in jail since his arrest Jan. 15 on charges of conspiracy to rob the box office of che Apollo theater, today was held to the federal grand jury under $2,000 bond on a white slave charge by Howard S. Young. United States commissioner Long is charged with transporting Miss Beatrice Arisman, 23, of Columbus. 0.. from Columbus to Chicago and later to Indianapolis. He admitted the charges and said he wished to plead guilty when indicted. MINSTRELS ON~ AIR The Kennedy Minstrels, sponsored by the Kennedy Car Liner and Bag Company, Shelbyville, will be one of several numbers to feature the regular program to be broadcast tonight over WFBM at 8:30. Other members of the Kennedy program include selections by Miss Rebecca Alley, grand opera star; several numbers by the boys’ band of the Masonic home of Franklin, Ind., and a special quartet composed of four leading Indianapolis vocalists.

CITY EAGLES TO VOTE ON BY-LAW CHANGES Amendments to Come Up at Monthly Smoker Meeting, Important amendments and changes in by-laws of the Indianapolis aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will be up for final passage next Monday night, it was announced today following a meeting Monday night. The next session also will be the monthly smoker and initiation night. An invitation was extended Monday night by the woman’s auxiliary for its family night meeting to be held Feb. 5. by Mrs. Edith Amick, auxiliary president, and Mrs. Lillian Beswick, a trustee. A report on the old-age pension bill sponsored by the Eagles before the general assembly was given by Otto P. Deluse, chairman, and Louis C. Schwartz, his co-worker. HELD ON U. S. CHARGES Steve Sclipcea Placed Under $2,500 Federal Bond. Steve Sclipcea, 2284 West Michigan street, arrested Monday by police on a federal warrant, was held to the federal grand jury under $2,500 bond by John W. Kern, United States commissioner. He has two appeals pending in Indiana supreme court, based on conviction in criminal court on liquor charges. Mrs. Nora Green, 830 East Daly street, charged with selling liquor to dry agents, was released on a SIOO bond. Edward Robert Fell, Toronto, Canada, was held to the grand jury under $2,500 bond on motor theft charges. He is alleged to have driven a stolen car from Wapokeneta, 0., to Indianapolis. BURNED BY GASOLINE Bucket Explodes While Cleaning Stove. When a bucket filled with gasoline with which be was cleaning a stove exploded. Monday night, Arthur Peggs, 1646 Tabor street, an attendant at the Shelby Service Company, 1336 Shelby street, was burned severely. Peggs was treated at city hospital for severe burns on the face and hands. The blaze started when he threw a hot rag into the gasoline oucket. INVITED TO HEAR TAFT Members of the Indiana legislature have been invited to attend a meeting and dinner as guests of the Marion County Bar Association and the Indianapolis City Manager League in the Chateau room of the Claypool at 6:30 p. m., Feb. 6, when Charles P. Taft, 11, prosecutor of Hamilton county, Cincinnati, 0., will speak on the “City Manager Plan.” M. E. Foley, president of the Marion County Bar Association, will preside. Claude H. Anderson, chairman of the legislation committee of the Indianapolis City Manager League, is assisting in completing plans for the meeting and diner.

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AL PAYS CALL ON HOOVER IN BROWNDERBY Chat Half Hour on Events of Campaign at Miami Beadi. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent MIAMI BEACH, Jan. 29.—Wearing the brown derby made famous in his last campaign, Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York, called today upon Herbert Hoover, President-elect of the United States. A1 was smiling broadly as he entered the sun parlor of the luxurious Penney home here to talk over campaign days with Hoover. He wore the brown derby and formal morning attire, with frock coat. The two talked tvenyt-flve minutes. “I congratulated him upon his election and I meant it,” Smith said. “We talked a little about the funny things that happened during the campaign.” Hoover wore his usual sport vacation costume, blue coat, white pants and white shoes. No pictures were taken as ver requetsed none be made. Though the leaders of Lie country's two great political parties had met only once before and that casually at a Red Crors rally in New York in 1921, they seemed immediately to find a common ground and chatted in a very friendly way about amusing incidents of the campaign. ‘HOW TO KNOW GOD’ Teaching Mission to Hear Illinois Pastor Tonight. “How to Know God” will be the topic of Dr. Harris Franklin Rail, Evanst o n, 111., tonight before the teaching mission at Central Christian church. Dr. Rail is professor of theology at Garrett Biblical institute.

GUARDS ESCORT MINERSJO PIT Shaft Near Bicknell to Work Under 1917 Scale. Bp United Press BICKNELL, Ind., Jan. 29.—The American Mine No. 1, of the Knox Consolidated Coal Company, near here, employing 1,000 men, reopened today under the 1917 wage agreement, following a writ which was granted by the Marion county superior court at Indianapolis. The reopening came after miners in the Bicknell field had attempted to have the shaft reopened under a scale lower than that agreed on at a meeting in Terre Haute Dec. 1. The plan for reopening was started by B. E. Neal, a stockholder in the company, who threw the concern into bankruptcy. Neal entered .a suit against the company and was granted an order for reopening by Judge Linn D. Hay. A mineis train, the first to be operated between Vincennes and Bicknell in the past two years, was conveyed 300 men to the mine, guarded by Sb n-iff Kruse of Knox county and several deputies. The 1917 scale is $5 a day for day labor; motormen, $5.50, and trip riders, $5. LOOT BUSINESS FIRMS Three Places Are Ransacked by Thieves Over Night. Prowlers entered three business establishments Monday night and escaped with more than S2O and merchandise valued at approximately S7O. At the Bell Packing Company, 601 West Ray street, thieves took $6 in cash and a clock valued at $25. Machinery valued at sls was stolen from a shop operated by James Gibson at 328 West Twentyeighth street. Cigars and cigarets valued at S2O were taken from the Little Rock billiard parlor at 29 West Ohio street.

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Noses Know Bp Timet Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 29. —Two police officers sniffed the breath of William Buckman while he sat in the witness chair of circuit court here resulted in imposition of a fine of SSO and costs on an intoxication charge, in addition to one of SIOO and a ninety-day farm sentence for violating the liquor law.

LESLIE DEFENDS DEATHJPENALTY Bankers Hear Pledge to Show No Leniency. Governor Harry G. Leslie further pledged himself against leniency toward imprisoned felons and in support of capital punishment at the banquet closing the Indiana Bankers Association mid-winter meeting at the Claypool Monday night. The Governor’s address was one of three heard by more than 850 bankers, state officials and guests. Dr. Harold Stonier, New York, national educational director of the American Institute of Banking, discussed the need of a trained bank personnel. Charles T. Evans, Little Rock, vice-president of the Home Fire Insurance Company, spoke on “Some Ideas on Living.” “I want to say to you folks right now,” said Governor Leslie, "that I will not be an agency for a oneman pardon board. Pleas for the ‘unfortunate prisoners’ who parade their grief-stricken families as Exhibit A in their efforts for clemency will not get far with me. They should have thought of their poor families before they stuck a gun in the face of the innocent. “I want you bankers to understand right now that I am not in favor of abolishment of capital punishment in this state. Any prisoner doing a life sentence in the penitentiary isn’t doing near so long a term as the innocent dead. The hardest man we have to deal with today is the dastardly being who sticks a gun in the face of innocent men. These men are not afraid of the penitentiary. They are ‘at home’ there. They know that by good behavior they have an opportunity to gain freedom sometime. But they are afraid of the electric chair." One of the musical features of the evening v/as selections by the De Pauw university choir and ensemble under direction of Dean Robert G. McCutcheon. FLIER ROM CASE UP Judge to Rule Thursday on Stewart Charges. Ruling on the case in which Rollin Stewart, 120 East North street, aviator and alleged rum runner is charged with transporting liquor in an auto, will be given Thursday by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Stewart is under a suspended sentence of one to two years for conviction on a similar charge several months ago. Stewart was arrested on the present charge when police overtook his auto after a chase of several blocks. Police ordered him to stop for failure to have a tail light and speeding. When he stepped from the car a pint of whisky and a quantity of port wine was found. French Win Output Gains By United Brest BORDEAUX, Jan. 29. French vineyards produced 2,211,024 gallons of wine during 1928, official statistics made public today revealed. The 1928 crop was 347,853 gallons larger than in 1927.

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LAW HAMMER POUNDS ON TO CLEAN CHICAOO Hopes of Citizens to Free City of Gang Grip Grows. BY EARL J. JOHNSON United Press Staff • Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Law-abiding Chicagoans followed hopefully today the progress of the most promising clean-up campaign the former “capital of crime” has known in eight years. Results obtained by Judge John A. Swanson, since he took office as state’s attorney the first of December, include an impressive list of victories for the law enforcement machine with which Swanson has surrounded himself. Although he is nearly 60, Swanson campaigned and won what perhaps is the biggest crime-fignting job in the country. As the ranking elective officer in Cook county he controls not only the county office holders but the city police department as well, in a community that has become notorious the world over as a haven of outlaws. Closed to Vice and Gambling Today, approximately two months after Swanson became state’s attorney, Chicago virtually is a closed city with respect to vice and gambling, the two main objectives of the reform drive. Many stories are being related in the underworld and at police headquarters about the far-reaching effects of Swanson’s campaign. One of the most significant concerns the case of one of Scarface A1 Caponi’s chief lieutenants. At 7:30 one night last week this lord of vice opened a house of questionable purpose in Twenty-third street. One hour later the place had been raided, >all the fixtures thrown into the street and eight women placed in jail. The two policemen who had been hired by the owner to “protect” the house were put in uniform and sent out to patrol a beat on the other side of town. Reorganization of the police department under Commissioner William Russell, with the suspension or transfer of hundreds of policemen, sent dozens of “swivel chair” warriors out into the rank and file of the flatfoots. Dog Loses Attendant Deputy Detective Chief John Stege’s pet police dog lost its attendant when Russell ordered the policeman, whom Stege had assigned to that duty, to don a uniform , and join a raiding party. The series of raids that have been conducted here over the last two week-ends have resulted in the arrest of nearly 5,000 persons, many of them known hoodlums and gunmen, in the first roundup of qases obtaining confessions that automatically will lead to prison sentences. A queer development of the wholesale raids was that in at least four incidents the raiding policemen came upon robbers and holdup men in the act oi plying their trade. Clean Out Gang Nest Through an alliance between county and federal authorities Chicago Heights completely has been cleaned out, more than TOO of its residents, including some policemen, having been arrested two weeks ago in an all-night raid in that suburban retreat of oeer runners. That come nearer breaking the back of Chicago’s major beer syndicate than anything that had happened since prohibition. An indication that the drive is likely to continue is seen in the atcion of the city council in authorizing the employment of 250 more policemen now and an additional 500 before July 1.

HIT—NOT FIT TO JUDGE; Motorist in Court Finds Victim on Bench. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Ralph i J. Trumbull was in court today for reckless driving. It was charged he nearly ran down a pedestrian. Asked if he knew the pedestrian, Trumbull looked up. “Yes,” he replied, “there he is sitting upon the bench.” Judge Given said he might be prejudiced so the case was transferred to another court. TAKE BANKER TO START TERM Sullivan Official on Way to Prison for Forgery. Bv United Press SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 29.—Jessup F Bolinger, former president of the First State bank at Shelburn, who is under a two-to-fourteen-year sentence for forgery, left here by automobile in the custody of Sheriff Luther Keene and a special deputy today to begin his sentence at the state prison at Michigan City. Bolinger has confessed to forging notes, the paper of which was held by the First National bank at Sullivan. The former president was found in his garage overcome by carbon monoxide gas shortly after the body of Edgar Maple, vice-president of the Sullivan institution was found with a bullet wound in his head. womenflned AND FLATTERED Justice Is Tempered With Compliments. “Women are more careful drivers than men,” Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron flatteringly informed several women motorists before him on traffic law violation charges today. But that didn’t prevent the judge from fining Mrs. Katherine Tutt, 2117 West Morris street, $5 and costs, costs suspended, on a charge of failing to stop at a preferential street. Nine other motorists were given like fines on similar charges, but the charge against Mrs. Fannie Hoffacker, 1314 Le Grande avenue, was suspended indefinitely. Mrs. Hoffacker declared she had stopped and the motorist with whose car she collided at the time failed to appear in court. Miss Frances Hamilton, Woodstock drive, was fined $5 and costs on a speeding charge, but fine and costs were suspended when a man companion explained Miss Hamilton was the “daughter of Dr. Hamilton,” a.bd was on her way to the Christamore settlement house when arrested. Ones T. Spaulding, 46 Whittier place, explained he was talking to his w’ife and didn’t know how fast he was driving, but was fined $5 and costs on a speeding charge. Others fined on speeding charges: Paul White, 617 Cleveland street, $5 and costs; W. R. Watt, 3210 North Capitol avenue, $5 and costs; Charles-Branson, 1502 West Twentysixth street, $1 and costs. J. W. Burts, 23. Negro, 1415 North Senate avenue, was fined sll and costs on charges of reckless driving and driving without a muffler. Geoi’ge Gillum, Negro, 914 North Capitol avenue, was fined $35 and costs and sentenced to sixty days at the Indiana state farm on charges of driving while drunk and drunkenness.

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MUSICAL SHOW STAR TO WED ENGLISH LORD Millionaire Just Dropped in and Popped Question, Says June. BY SAM LOVE ITdited Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—June, the musical comedy actress who keeps her family name a secret, will have one of the most formidable ones in all England before next spring. As she explained today in confirming a report from London, it’s all very simple. Lord Inverclyde simply dropped around to see her while she ms resting from her recent appearance in the title role of “Polly” and popped the question. Inherits $10,000,000 Lord Inverclyde is the grandson of one of the founders of the Cunard line. He inherited $10,000,000 and the title from his father in 1919. He divorced Lady Inverclyde last November. “I said yes, and that is all there was to it,” said Miss June, who is a blond and easily was the chief at-* traction of “Polly’s” brief Broadway run. “It. was last Saturday afternoon. I was here in my apartment at the Savoy-Plaza and Lord Inverclyde, who also is stopping at the hotel, dropped up to see me. We had seen quite a little of each other, you know. “It was very simple and I am very, very happy. My advice to girls when they are proposed to is just to say yes if they like the man. ..Yes—that is the best way.” Miss June said they had fixed March for the ceremony, but haven’t got so far as the details yet. Expects to Quit Stage “After I marry I shall retire from | the stage and make being a wife my future career. We expect to live in London. I haven’t got my engagement ring yet. We are waiting until my return to England to choose It.” Miss June was lured here from England to appear in “Polly,” which The sang, danefed and was the comedienne. She announced a week ago that she was returning to England. BOOTH PEACE OFFER IS GREETED COLDLY Councillors Refuses to Negotiate Until Court Action Is Withdrawn, Bit United Press LONDON, Jan. 29.—General W. Bramwell Booth’s offer to accept mediation in his struggle with the high council for supreme authority in the Salvation Army has met a cold reception among the councillors. R .-liable sources indicated today that the council maintains there can be no negotiations with General Booth until he withdraws the injunction he obtained a week ago restraining selection of his successor. After the injunction was issued, General Booth proposed to the council that he would allow it to elect his successor providing the council would allow mediation of other reform measures suggested. The injunction hearing, twice postponed, was scheduled for today. Gathers Arms Parley Views ’ Bp United Press GENEVA, Jan. 29.—Erik A. Colban, head of the League of Nations disarmament section, left Monday for Paris, Rome, Berlin and other capitals were he will consult the government relative to fixing a program for the league’s preparatory disarmament commission which will meet April 15.