Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1929 — Page 17

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MARION PLANT PROMISES 800 TO GH WORK Business Men Take Lead in Raising $50,000 as Aid. MORE COAL TO BE DUG Three Mining Operations Arranged During Past Week.

BY CHARLES C. STONE, Slat* Editor. The Times Developments at Marion were the* most notable in Indiana business and industry in the past week, a survey of the state for the week closed today reveals. Business men and other citizens of Marion have contributed a soo,000 fund to aid in enlarging the plant of the United States Radio and Television Corporation which Iras given assurance that 800 persons will receive employment. The corporation was formed recently by merger of the Case Radio Corporation of Marion and two Chicago concerns. Nearly half of the required amount was subscribed during the first day of solicitation. Another Marion concern, the Superior Paper Products Company, has leased three buildings formerly used by the Western Drop Forge Company. The paper company moved from Fairmount three months age following destruction of its factor.- by fire. W ork at Three Mines In the coal ruining industry there \v:re three developments during the week. The New York Eletcric Shovel Company, operating a stripping mind at Arthur, has installed new machinery making doubled production possible. The Panhandle mine near Bicknel' is employing 150 men, working under a co-operative angement. In the same field, American Mine No. 1 of the Kno t Consolidated Coal Company is being operated under court order with approximately 150 men at work. Conditions over the state are shown in the following summary: Kokomo—The General Parts Company will add several men to its force as a result of taking over the parts and service business of the McFarlan Automobile Company of Conners ville. New Home for Factory Anderson—A SIO,OOO factory struc- j ture is to be erected as quarters for ] the Van Loon Pattern Works, doubling the size of the present plant. Hartford City—The Weller building has been leased by MontgomeryWard & Cos. of Chicago, for use as a branrn store. It will be completely remodeled. Evansville— -The new body plant of the Graham-Paige company is in operation with about 500 men working. South Bend—The South Bend Tool and Die Company has been moved here from Dayton. 0.. and will employ from 75 to 125 men. La Porte—A branch has been opened in Berlin, Germany, by the Advance-Rumely Company of La Porte, manufacturing harvesting equipment. The company has also arranged for distribution of its product.' in India and Morocco. Doubles Floor Space Ft. Branch—Remodeling of the Emge Packing- Company plant is near completion, giving double the floor space of the former quarters. East Chicago— % The local plant of the General American Tank Car Company has received an order for 700 cars from the Santa Fe Railroad. Hammond—Work will begin in a few days on remodeling the Tapper building for use as a branch of the W. T. Grant Company of New York, chain store operator. ML >*. ion—Part of the plant of the Frederick Vollmer wood products concefn. recently burned with a loss of $15,000, will be rebuilt. FIRE RAZES BUILDING; DAMAGE IS $500,000 Fireman Injured in Blaze When Roof Crashes. Bv f*iii ted Pratts CHICAGO. Feb. I.—Fire wrecked a Fulton street store building today with a loss estimated at $500,000. John Dahl, fireman, was badly injured when he fell with the collapsing roof. The building was a four-story structure housing twenty-four concerns. Forty-eight pieces of firefighting apparatus responded to the alarms in sub-zero temperature. The cause of the fire is not known. BROTHERS DIE OF GAS AFTER SUICIDE PACT Leave Note Asking Evansville Physician Be Notified. BO United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—A double suicide pact was fulfilled here today with the death of John E. Dorsey. 45. an invalid. Dorsey and his brother. Lawrence, 42. were found in a gas-filled room Thursday morning. The younger brother was dead. Notes left by the pair asked that Dr. W. G. Doddenhausen, Evansville. Ind.. be notified, and indicated they had sought death because of ill health. Gas Fatal to Child Bo Timet Special GREENSBURG. Ind.. Feb. I. John E. Roberts. 7, found dead in bed by his mother, was a victim of gas fumes, a physician found.

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MERIDIAN BUS RULINGJS NEAR Park Board Is Expected to Approve Change. A ruling on the petition to permit Butler university busses to use North Meridian street is promised soon by John E. Milnor, park board president. “Board members have discussed the Pe'oples Motor Coach Company petition, but have not made up their minds,” Milnor declared. Mayor L. Ert Slack favors use of Meridian by the busses and it is believed the park board will act favorably on the plea. Milnor said petitions ■with about 1.000 names had been presented to the board, asking that the ban be lifted More than two hundred property owners living on Meridian street signed a petition to permit busses on the north side artery. It was filed with the park board Thursday without comment. About one hundred Delaware street residents signed a petition favoring the pain, citing the heavy congestion on Delaware, which is partially due to the busses from the west which use Delaware south of Thirtieth. Shortridge High School ParentTeacher Association wrote a letter to the board, citing the advantages of a Meridian line to serve high school students. HITS RUM FOR VOTES Bill Aimed at Liquor Use to Influence Ballots. Use of liquor to influence elections is struck at in a bill prepared for introduction into the Indiana legislature by Representative Joseph R. Scott, New Albany. Both the dispenser and receiver of the liquor would be subject to SSO to SIOO fine and required to serve a thirty-day jail term, if the measure becomes law. It provides that the gift or acceptance of liquor as an inducement to influence the vote of any citizen for any candidate or measure in any election be listed as a misdemeanor. The thirty-day jail term is made mandatory. SET WORLAND RITES City Woman Died in Auto After Treatment for Illness. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Worland, 49, of 2035 Langley avenue, who died Wednesday evening, will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at the home. Burial will be at Memorial Park cemetery. Mrs. Worland died in an automobile at Vermont and Delaware streets while being driven home after treatment at her physician’s office. A verdict of natural death from a hemorrhage at the base of the skull was found by Coroner C. H. Keever. She is survived by her husband. Harry G. Worland, three daughters, Mrs. W. C. Busch, Mrs. Arthur Kane and Mrs. Paul Whittington and a son, Frank Miller, all of Indianapolis.

CRIMINAL CODE IS SLAPPED BY JUDGE

Criminal procedure as practiced in the courts of Indiana is held up to scathing criticism in a' letter from Judge Martin J. Smith of the Lake county criminal court to Governor Harry G. Leslie, made public today. One of the high lights of Judge Smith’s letter is a declaration that after handling approximately 7,000 cases in the criminal courts of Indiana, he finds “it has been demonstrated repeatedly and proved beyond doubt . . . that it is only the poor and those without influence who can be made amenable to the penalties of our criminal code.’ Judge Smith takes occasion in the letter to congratulate Governor Leslie on his inaugural address and message to the seventy-sixth general assembly and the Governor s stand in general for speeding up justice. The writer also outlines in particular many changes that

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Upper Left—Scene in the Green Valley township sch 001, where Miss Virginia Leonard (extreme background of the photo) teaches despite the fact the township owes her two months’ salary. The foxhound in the foreground is Junior, Miss Leonard's dog. He attends school regularly. Upper Oval—Muriai Pittman, teacher of the Greasy Creek school, carrying coal and wood to start a fire in her dilapidated schoolhouse. Snow flurries drift in the schoolroom through side-wall chinks. In the background can be seen the broken clapboards. Group Photo (right of oval)—Mrs. Pittman's school in session—and just five pupils. Top (extreme right)—W, C. Goble, superintendent of Nashville city

ACCUSE TRQTSKI IN REVOLT PLOT Two Ex-Soviet Commissars Are Arrested, By United Press LONDON, Feb. I.—The Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent said today that the arrest of L. B. Kamenev and Gregory Zinovieff, reported Thursday in Helsingfors advices, came as the result of their allleged promised support of Leon Trotzki in an attempt to overthrow Josef Stalin, Soviet leader. Soviet secret police claimed they discovered Trotzki's secret correspondence to both of the former commissars, the correspondent saW. The correspondence, it was claimed, proved that Trotzki was in constant touch with Kamenev and Zinovieff. Moscow' newspapers said that four trains carrying 1,600 Trotzkists left the Soviet capital since Monday, en route to Siberia, the correspondent added. ‘BUNDLE’ FOR LAUNDRY Drunk Found Asleep in Receiver; Sent to Jail. A fastidious Negro roysterer, nine sheets in the wind and desirous of sleeping off a sizeable “jag,” crawled into a laundry bundle receiver in front of a laundry at 901 Virginia avenue Thursday night and peacefully reposed. Laundry collectors found the “bundle” this morning and called police. The Negro, Robert Crites, 921 North West street, continued his sleep in a-, jail cell. Endow School With $1,000,000 By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. I.—The Yale school of nursing has been awarded a permanent endowment of $1,000,000, presented by the Rockefeller foundation.

should be made in Indiana's criminal code. Pointing out what he terms “some of the most vicious” provisions of Indiana procedure, with reasons why it is paramount that they be eliminated, Judge Smith says: “To be compelled to operate -under this procedure is nauseating and utterly disgusting to any one who can see beyond its innocent appearance and comprehend its rottenness.” Speaking of the advantage afforded the criminal under the law providing change of venue, Judge Smith says, in part: “The present provision further operates as an invitation and license from the state of Indiana to the criminal class, from bootleggers and vice lords to gunmen and robbers, to continue in their law-defy-ing careers and to repeat their offenses against our laws.”

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 1,1929

CAMEL GLIDE WILL BE TAUGHT IN CITY

Times and Indiana Roof Ballroom Join to Give Free Lessons. “The Camel Glide,” latest dance, which is sweeping the country like wildfire, will be taught to Indianapolis dancers through arrangement of The Times with officials of the Indiana Roof ballroom. This dance, which has won instant favor here, was created by a number of dancers at the Indiana Roof, among them Frank Levay, Sylvia D’Arcy, Marie D’Arcy, Errol Mushrush, Ernest Gilberti and. Jacqueline Beal. Arrangements have been made to give free instruction for one week, every night except Sunday, between 7:30 and 8:30 beginning tonight. There will be no door charges for admission to the ballroom for this hour and sufficient instructors will be on hand for the crowd. A clipping of this story will serve as a ticket, but unless it is presented at the door the regular charge will be made. “This new darice is rousing great enthusiasm of dancers here and is likely to sweep the nation,” said Tom Devine, manager of the Roof. “Since its creation I have contracted with operators of the largest ballrooms in the country and all, without exception, declare that there is a crying need for a nw dance such as the Camel Glide.” Devine has given as his reason for this demand, the new' talking moving pictures. Almost all of these he said have some slow, sweet tune as the theme song and in many cases it becomes one of the popular hits. When this occurs, he explained, it likewise becomes popular on the dance floor, with the patrons asking for it. Naturally, the fast, perky dances which have beeen in vogue just don’t fit. Hence their demand for something new'. Watch tomorrow’s Times for a diagram showing the steps in “The Camel Glide.” USES CORNSTALK PAPER Greencastle Herald First Ever Printed on Bond Grade. By Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., Feb. I. Today’s edition of the Greencastle Herald was printed on cornstalk bond paper, the first time in history st ’i grade of paper has been used by a news paper. Other papers have used cornstalk paper of newsprint grade, w’hich like the bond stock employed here, is a product of the Kalf-mazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, Kalamazoo, Mich. PENNSY INCREASES PAY $500,000 in Wage Hikes are Made by j Railroad’s Department. By Uni'i Press PHILADELPHIA. Feb. I.—Wage increases totaling $500,000 annually will take effect today in the maintenance of ways and structure departments of the Pennsylvania railroad. This is in addition to increases to 35,000 shop workers announced Monday.

schools, who has not received a cent of his SI,BOO yearly salary. Goble refuses to make a request for money as long as the school corporation is in arrears to his subordinates. He is secretary-treasurer of City and Township Superintendents’ Association of Indiana. - Lower (left)—Miss Eudora Kelley, commercial teacher in the Nashville high school, is shown teaching Ruth McGrayel, 14, typewriting. Miss Kelley has not received a month's pay since opening of school in September. Lower Right—An exterior view of the Green Valley school, in need of new' “pink” paint. Its only decoration is the schoolhouse’s natural setting near a typical Brow'n county creek, through which the children w'ade in wet weather.

HIT PROBATE RECORD January Breaks Court's Best Month for Filing: Documents. Records for filing document sin probate court were broken in January, Charles Bebinger, probate clerk, announced today. Fifty-four wills were filed for probate and 156 estates were opened, he said. The highest number of wills previously filed was thirty-three. DOCTOR’S RITES HELD Woman Physician Is Buried in Hebrew Cemetery. Funeral Services were held this morning for Dr. Elizabeth Pauline Blitzsten of Chicago who died Tuesday at Rochester, Minn. The services were held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wolf, 3743 North Meridian street. Burial was in the Hebrew cemetery. Dr. Blitzsten was the wife of Dr. Lionel Blitzstert of Chicago, nationally known psychiatrist. Death was due to a thyroid toxicant. Mrs. Blitzsten was born in Indianapolis in 1895 and attended Tudor hall and Bryn Mawr college. She later became an instructor at the University of Chicago and subsequently received the degree of doctor of medicine at Rush college. Dr. Blitzsten was the first woman to receive a grant from the Royal College of Medicine of England, where she worked with Sir Thomas Lewis. She was the first woman interne at Michael Reese hospital. In addition to her husband and parents she is survived by a sister, Mrs. H. C. Glasser of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and a brother, Waite.- Wolf, of this city. FERRY LEFT IN ICE Abandon Attempts to Free Craft on Lake Michigan. Bv United Press GRAND HAVEN, Mich., Feb. I. Attempts to free the Grand Trunk car ferry Milwaukee, icebound in Lake Michigan, were abandoned today. Sailors reported the Milwaukee was resting on a solid bed of ice and that the vessel may be tied up for the winter. Three other ferries, freed from the Wednesday, have resumed regular schedules. TAXIED INTO HOLDUPS Alleged Girl Bandit Declares “Stickups” Just Happened. Bit United Press CHICAGO, Feb. I.—Nadine Miller, on trial with three alleged bandit companions, testified that "It just happened, that every time we went riding in a taxicab, the driver always got held up.” The taxi driver victims, however, declared Nadine handled the gun and the case was taken under advisement. Sis.--.-~, . ..

COUNTY P. T. L MEETINGS SET Entertainment Arranged for Three Groups. Three groups of the Marion County Parent-Teacher Association will meet next w'eek. Mrs. Frank J. Lahr will speak at the meeting of the Edgewood P. T. A. at 2:30 p. m. Friday, Feb. 8. Founders day wil be observed in a program by children in charge of Miss Catherine Johnson and Miss Mildred Ragains. teachers. The Garden City P. T. A. will meet at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. The fourth and fifth grades will give a program following the business meeting. The P. T. A. of Pleasant Run school will serve a “jitney supper” at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday. A business session will follow'. All of the associations of Warren township are cooperating in a paper sales drive to aid in purchasing uniforms for the Warren Central high school band. FINANCIER TO MARRY Divorce Millionaire and Fiance Get License Today. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. I.—Clifford V. Brokaw, 52, New York financier, and his fiancee, Violet Morrison, 26, New 7 York will obtain a marrage license here today. The license applied for Monday, is obtainable today, and it was reported Brokaw and Miss Morrison would be married immediately. Brokaw’ w'as divorced in Carson City, Nev., last week by Nannie Inman Brokaw, who received a property settlement of approximately $3,000,000. Fire Damaged Ship to Sail By United Press JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. I.—The Dollar liner President Johnson w'ill sail for a round-the-world cruise today if repairs from Thursday's SIO,OOO fire can be made in time. Two junior engineers were trapped by flames in their quarters and killed. They W’ere Stanley Horton of Alameda, Cal., and Benjamin Krynck, New York. j

WILBUR IS BOOMED FOR CABINET POST

i)f/ United Press PALO ALTO, Cal., Feb. I.—lt is announced in the local press, and not denied, that Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, intimate friend of Herbert Hoover since their Stanford undergraduate days, will be named secretary of the interior. At Stanford, where since 1916 he has been president, Dr. refused to comment on the report. “I have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say on that question,” he said. Prominent alumni confirmed the report that Wilbur has been offered the portfolio, accepted, and made arrangements for his departure to

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crash mm BURIALSUNDAY Funeral Services Arranged for John Dithmer. Funeral services for John M. Dithmer, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Dithmer. 3436 Watson road, who was killed Thursday noon in an automobile accident ten miles north of Lebc.non, will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the home, according to tentative arrangements. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Dithmer, with two Purdue university students, was en route from Lafayette to Indianapolis. His automobile crashed into a bridge railing when it skidded while passing another car. Daniel M. Blackmore of Bloomfield, was injurecritically in the crash, and Herbert Holmes of Portland, escaped with minor injuries. They were frate’ lity brothers of the dead youth. Dithmer, a former Purdue student and a champion swimmer, had gone to Lafayette to see about re-enter-ing school next semester. He had one more semester to complete before receiving his diploma. A son of the president of the Polar Ice and Fuel Company, Dithmer had won signal honors at .Purdue. He had been student manager of the football team and captain of the swimming team. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a Shortridge high school graduate. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Henry L. Dithmer Jr„ and a sister, Mrs. Paul B. Gray. Blackmore is in a Lebanon hospital. Physicians hold little hope for his recovery. KELLOGG IS BOOSTED Recommended by Senators for Nobel Peace Prize. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—Secretary of State Kellogg has been suggested to the Nobel prize committee at Oslo, Norway, for the 1928 award because of his work in connection with the multilateral antiwar pact, it was learned here today. Vice-President Dawes, Senators Shipstead and Schall of Minnesota, and Senator Burton of Ohio sent a joint cable to the committee last week recommending Secretary Kellogg, Senator Burton said today. LAZARUS RITESTTODAY Furrier Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack. Furneal services were to be held at 2 this afternon for Lazar Lazarus, 68, of 2242 North New Jersey street, who died suddenly Thursday night. He was a furrier with offices at 533 Occidental building. Burial will be in the Hebrew cemetery. Death was due to heart dlccase and he was found on the porch of Mrs. Ada V. Redick, 2230 Ashland avenue. Mr. Lazerus died ".ortly after the arrival of Dr. H. F. Thurston, 2236 Ashland avenue. He is survived by the •widow, Mrs. Mary Lazerus and a son, Daniel Lazerus of Indianapolis. * Offer SI,OOO Reward for Boy By United P-css LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. I. The Los Angeles city council today offered a rew’ard of $5,000 for the return cf 11-year-old Richard Grant, who disappeared last December. Police charged the boy was abducted by a Henry Palmer.

Washington soon. According to these. Hoover, himself a trustee, has been active in securing the promise of a year's leave of absence for Dr. Wilbur. The board of trustees meets Feb. 114, then, it is said, Wilbur will be granted leave and Dr. R. E. Swain, chemistry professor, will be named acting president. Wilbur’s pending appointment is being hailed with considerably more favorable comment than was that of his brother to the navy post, which was §aid to have been urged upon Coolidge by Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times.

BROWN COUNTY SCHOOLS FACE BANKRUPTCY + Teachers Go Without Pay, Roofs Leak, and Debts Pile High. STATE AID IS SORE 'NEED Necessity May Arise for ‘Turning Pupils Loose in Woods/ BY ARCH STEINEL Brown county schools are going bankrupt—flat broke—with no hope of relief until the deficit in the state school aid fund is eradicated. Forty-five miles from the state -apitol, where legislators, among other things, are seeking means of compelling the wealthy counties to ielp educate the children of the ■ounties with low taxation valuations, children are going to school ■in buildings with facilities scarcely -omparable to the old log schoollouses of Lincoln’s day. The log louses at least kept out the wind. And in Lincoln’s time they paid the teachers’ salaries now and then. Some Brown county teachers worked all last year and didn’t get their salaries until this school year opened. Need Is Acute Brown county is cited as one of the startling examples of the failure of the state aid system—l,l73 pupils of the five township school corporations and the city school of Nashville, county seat, may be turned loose to the only study that doesn’t ; cost a dime—the study of the flora ! and fauna of the county’s beautiful hills. The county's acute need for funds are summed in these findings: That the Nashville State bank holds notes—notes that have been renewed for several years—amounting to $20,000 on money lent to the five township school corporations and Its own city schools for meeting yearly school expenses. That teachers are working daily ■who have received but SSO pay since Sept. 10. That W. C. Goble, superintendent of the Nashville city schools, has not drawn a penny of his SI,BOO yearly salary since the opening of school. That Miss Eudora Kelley, a teacher in the commercial department of the Nashville schools, has not received recompense for her services for this school year. That township school roofs are leaking seriously. Schools Going Bankrupt Authority for the statement that the school corporations are going bankrupt is W. L. Coffey, cashier of the Nashville {State bank and trustee for the school funds of Nashville. Coffey is a former county school superintendent. At 'a trustees’ meeting Tuesday in the office of Grover E. Brown, county superintendent, it was shown that in Van Buren township, with eight elementary and three high school teachers, the eight elementary teachers had received but SSO apiece on their SBOO yearly salary since opening of school. Two of the high school teachers have received SSO each and the third $l5O. The Story and Pike’s Peak schools in Phillips township have such leaky roofs that it was necessary to bore holes in the floor to permit rain water to drain while school Is In session. At the Greasy Creek school In Jackson township, a class of fifteen has dwindled to five. Cold air crawls through chinks in the sidewalls. (

Maps, Books Antiquated In the Green Valley school, Washington township, Miss Virginia Leonard has not received pay for two months. The building needs repairs. Antiquated maps, reference books long out of date, board blackboards —not slates—are used in many of the schools. In addition to going “Into the red” at the banks by borrowing money, each township owes for hauling children to schoc , blits ranging from several hundred dollars to SI,OOO. The eductors in the pink-colored schoolhouses are either fortunate or •unfortunate. The “fortunate” ones have other relatives sUDDcrting them until the educational pay dav comes, the “unfortunates” harass the trustees until they get SSO here, maybe another SSO in a couple of months and thereby pay off boarding house indebtedness. With the county’s state aid demand for this year set at approximately $50,000, it is expected that 30 per cent will be cut. adding to eac htownship’s increasing indebtedness. “What can we do?” remarks a county official. “We’ve taxed everything but the scenery—and we can’t tax it—for if we keep going in debt, we’ll have to give our children the scenerv for an education—by closing the schools and turning them into the woods.” BANDITS TOOK $70,000 Clinton Er~* ”eveals Loct of Robbery Six Weeks Ago. B n Times Special CLINTON, Ind., Feb. I.—Bandits who robed the First National bank here six weeks ago obtained $70,283.49, the bank has revealed. In a statement of its condition to set at rest ru:: ors that its loss might impair its s^Mity. Insurance carried by the bank, amounting to $50,000, has been paid and the remainder of the loss amply replaced from undivided profits and other surplus fund*.