Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1929 — Page 17

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LITTLE DRIVEN TO RESIGN AT MICHIGAN 11. Famous Educator Forced to Quit Largely Because of Governor Green. ATTACKED FOR VIEWS Lecture Advocating Birth Control Was Start of Bitter Clash. Herewith in the first of three articles bv Howard Stephenson of the Toledo News-Bee telling bow Dr. Clarence Cook Tittle was forced to resign as president of the University of Michigan because of his advocacy of birth control and other advanced ideas, and because he had the temerity to incur the displeasure of politicians. His four-year administration constitutes an interesting experiment in public education. BY HOWARD STEPHENSON ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 7.—Dr. Clarence Cook Little, who has resigned as president of the University of Michigan, after a stormy administration of four years, virtually was forced out of office. The resignation on the surface was, of course, voluntary, but the

situation in which Dr. Little found himself was hopeless from his standpoint. It is believed he forestalled a movement against him by acting when he did. Governor Fred W. Green, now serving his second term as chief executive of the state, was at cross - purposes with Little, and

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is credited with having contributed largely to the situation that finally caused little to quit. This is only one factor, however. Little has been in constant argument with different groups from the outset. His views, innovations he sougnt to bring about, and regulations he imposed at various times, has brought him into conflict with church organizations, the legislature, the faculty, students, alumni, proprietors of rooming houses, and others. Speech Stirs Furore Trouble started within a few days after Little took office, when he spoke before a meeting of state health officials and nurses at Lansing and advocated birth control and Sterilization to weed out criminals and defectives. The reaction was immediate. Certain religious groups demanded his resignation. Members of the legislature were critical. Regents received an avalanche of protests. Dr. Little took cognizance of the furore by saying he spoke as an individual scientist and not as president of the university. The board of regents upheld his right to speak freely as an individual, and he was not fired, as had been demanded. Among those angered by the birth control incident was the Governor. The story goes that he remarked: ‘ Well, I’m mighty glad we didn’t have birth control in Michigan fifty years ago. You see, I was the ninth child in the family.” • Relations between the two grew steadily worse as time passed. Made Great Record Other events followed which went to show that the university regents, in picking Little, had got the kind of a man they bargained for. They had wanted a young man of ideas and administrative ability, with progressive views on education and liberal tendencies. They wanted a scientist, and one who could utilize the university to the better advantage of the state. Little’s record in building up the University of Maine, his research at Harvard and Carnegie institute, and his known independence caused him to be chosen from among sixty applicants. These qualities, and his insistence on doing what he thought was right, no matter whose toes were stepped on, eventually brought about Little’s resignation, although he never dodged a fight or struck his colors. Next: Little and Governor Green Fall Out. PUPILS GIVE PROGRAM Hibben Students to Have Valentine Ceremony Tomorrow. Pupils of the Hibben school. 5237 Pleasant Run parkway, will give a Valentine day program from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. Saturday in the auditorium of the Irvington public school. Members of the faculty in charge are Miss Helen Hfben, Miss Hazel Hibben. Miss Grace Thomas. Miss Anna Faucett, Miss Zerelda Rubush, Miss Ada Rubush, Miss Isabelle Layman. Miss Evelyn l*brsyth and Miss Constance Forsyth. STEAL CAMERA LENSES Photo Company Robbed of SI,OOO in Equipment. Camera lenses valued at SI,OOO were taken from the Bass Photo Company, 308 South New Jersey street, by thieves who entered the establishment by prying open a rear window. Two lenses, each valued at SSOO, were stolen. Diamond rings valued at $250 were reported stolen from the home of Erwin W. Muhlenbruck, 1111 Shannon street. The thieves entered the house * broken front door. ' i- . • **

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ROW LOOMS ON LAWYERS’ PAY Jose Gets Only S4O; Givan Receives $375. Another courthouse legal battle over pay of officials loomed today when it became known that Clinton H. Givan, county attorney, has received $375 for services during January under a $4,500 a year salary schedule, while Victor R. Jose Jr., deputy prosecutor, has only been allowed S4O. Jose has not accepted his check, which gives him the amount due from Jan. 26 to the end of the month. He filed a claim for about $l5O for services from the date of appointmefit Jan. 10. It is expected that he will file a mandate suit against Harry Dunn, county auditor, and county commissioners for payment. The county council approved Givan’s raise from $3,400, Jan. 2G and also allowed Jose S2OO a month. Givan received an approval claim for a full month’s salary on the new basis while Jose only was awarded pay for five day’s work. Givan is close to county commissioners, having received the reappointment as county attorney after he became sympathetic to the political cause of George V. Coffin, Seventh district Republican boss, with whom commissioners are aligned. He received the increase in pay a few weeks after he started representing Councilman Paul S. Dunn in criminal court. Dunn is charged with perjury. Givan has stated that there is no certain salary for county attorney and that the new order by the council sets aside the $3,400 budget provision for him. 65 DIE_JN RIOTS 500 Injured as Hindu Outbreaks Continue. i By United Press BOMBAY, India, Feb. B.—Renewed rioting between Hindus, Pathans and Moslems in Bombay brought the death roll to sixty-five at noon today. About 500 were estimated to have been injured in the riots which began Monday, ostensibly because Hindu mill workers believed highborn Pathans were kidnaping children to be .buried in newly-con-structed buildings as offerings to the gods. Reports spread through the city early today that several mosques, and temples had been desecrated, and a fierce fight between Hindus and Moslems followed. Two Hindus were said to have been killed in the fight while about twenty were injured.

HOLD 3 AS THIEVES Two Negroes Wounded by Buckshot; One Escapes. Four alleged chicken thieves, Negroes, were greeted wiht several charges of buckshot early this morning when they are said to have entered the barn of John J. Pastma, 1721 Perkins street. Two were wounded, one seriously, a third was held for arrest at the point of a shotgun, and the fourth member of the gang escaped. Those wounded were John Price, 1444 Minoequa avenue, and Charles Andrews, 29, of 2451 Columbia avenue. They were taken to city hospital. Andrew Ellington, 20, of 1701 Vandeman street, was held until police arrived. The three were charged with entering a house with intent to commit a felony. FALLS THREE STORIES Woman Suffers Fractured Skull When She Slips on Icy Stairway. Bv United Press CLEVELAND, Feb. B.—Miss Miriam Lewis, 18, was in a hospital here today with injuries suffered when she slipped on an icy fire escape at the rear of her apartment home and fell three stories to the sidewalk below. It is believed she has a frac-

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INDUSTRY AT BLUFFTON TO EMPLOY 150 Woodworking Company Takes Over Plant of Concern That Failed. GROWTH AT RICHMOND Belden Factory Unit to Cost $250,000; Expansion at Muncie. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Replacing of a bankrupt industry with a ne wcompany and a $250,000 plant addition are features of an industrial and business survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The National Chest and Cabinet Company, capitalized at $250,000, will occupy the H. C. Bay piano factory, Bluff ton, which ceased operations following receivership. The National company will manufacture cedar chests, radio sets and parts, and furniture novelties. It will take possession of the Bay plant March 1, and will have 150 men at work shortly after that date. Anew unit,-costing $250,000, will be built at the Balden Manufacturing Company plant, Richmond. It will be 500 feet long and 250 wide and will house departments for wire drawing and enameling, bakelite work and a machine shop. Expansion at Muncie The first expansion program for the Muncie Products, Muncie, a branch of General Motors, includes anew factory building 220x200 feet, in which it is planned to provide room for employing several hundred persons. Capacity of the Indiana Ox Fiber Brush Company, Seymour, is to be doubled, giving employment to 150. Conditions in other Indiana cities are shown in he following summary: Anderson The Certainteed Products Company has enough orders booked to assure steady operation for several months. The plant is now b.eing operated seven days a week, with some night work. Marion—Production of radio sets at the former Case Radio Company plant, one of three companies merged to form the United States Radio and Television Corporation, has started. The company was aided by a $50,000 fund raised by business men of the city. Kokomo—General offices of the Hamilton-Ross Company, which moved to Kokomo from Chicago several months ago, are to be brought here. About thirty persons will be employed in office work. Alexandria Company Sold Alexandria—The Banner Rock Products Company has been absorbed by the Johns-Manville Corporation, New York, a concern of national scope. The purchase price is reported to have been $1,750,000. Terre Haute—The Sullivan Brush Company, which moved plants here from Sullivan and Union City and merged them in one factory, has started production. Newcastle—Cicero M. Bailey announces plans for anew theater with a seating capacity of 1,250. Evansville—The Indiana Trust and Savings bank announces plans for a $30,000 bank and office building. Ft. Wayne—A three-story building will be erected by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company as an addition to its home offices, at a cost of $400,000. Hartford City—The Lapinsky Garment Company is anew industry here, obtained after subscription of $2,000 by business interests. Studebaker Gains South Bend—The Stude baker Corporation’s pay roll for 1929 will be $27,000,000. an increase of $5,000,000 over 1928, according to a forecast by officials. The corporation has announced a $7,600,000 stock dividend “melon” will be divided this year. The Electric Sprayite Company announces plans for erection of anew factory of 25,000 square feet floor space. Gary—No. 2 hearth of the Gary woTks, Illinois Steel Company, idle for several months, is again in operation, with a possibility that two more hearths will be started soon. The Union Drawn Steel Company has purchased a tract seven and one-half acres adjoining its plant site to provide for expansion, and is considering plans for enlarging the works. WEDS~OITS2.SO A WEEK Maybe Two Can Live Cheaper Than One After All. Bu United Press LONDON, Feb. B.—Maybe two can live cheaper than one after all. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lovelock of Lyneham. in celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, revealed that they’ were married when Lovelock was making but j $2.50 a week and that shortly after > his salary was reduced to $2.25.

THE MYSTERY DEEPENS IN M’CONNELL MARRIAGE * :

'T'HE mystery which shrouded the courtship and marriage of Ruth McConnell, Indianapolis girl, and Kenneth B. Coulter, New York capitalist, apparently continues to be drawn over their married life The couple, barricaded behind guarded doors and drawn blinds, were mr :* .M last Thursday in the home ji the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry McConnell, 3123 Broadway. They now are honeymooning at Buchanan, Mich.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 8, 1929

The Butler of Today and Yesterday

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SENATE INDIAN INQUIRYHALTED Hearings Are Suspended by Lack of Funds. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The senate Indian investigating committee today suspended further hearings until more money is voted by the senate. “Only sufficient money is left to care for regular committee expenses until the end of the month,” Senator Frazier said. An additional appropriation of $30,000 has been asked and the resolution has been in the hands of Senator Deneen, chairman of the senate committee on audits and contingent expenses, for two weeks. Although Deneen had said his committee would meet yesterday, no session was held. “I expect that a meeting will be held some time this week,” Deneen said. Deneen again refused to discuss reports charging that he was delaying .committee action because the Indian investigators had inquired into a New Mexico contract signed by Secretary of Interior West. Deneen aided in getting West’s appointment confirmed by the senate. CRASH VICTIM GAINS Shortridge Pupil’s Condition Is Reported Improved. Dorothy Lewis, 16-year-old Shortridge high school student, injured in an automobile-train crash at the Thirty-eighth street Big Four crossing was reported “somewhat improved” at city hospital today. Her mother, Mrs. Frank T. Lewis, Lawrence, Ind.. who was driving the coupe in which they were riding, was reported in a serious condition. The mother was severely bruised, her back was injured and internal injuries are feared. Miss Lewis, although still in a critical condition, may have escaped a skull fracture and may have a chance for recovery, hospital attaches said. The girl’s right arm was torn off, her left leg injured, her scalp lacerated and one finger on her left hand bruised and broken. LINDY TOJLY MAIL Air Eagle to Open New Mexican Route. Bu United Press NEW ORLEANS, Feb. B.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, now in the Canal Zone, will pilot the airplane which will open the New York-New Orleans-Mexico City air mail route Feb. 23, the New Orleans Association of Commerce announced it had learned on good authority today. The proposed route will be an extension of the one now ending at Brownsville, Tex.

the home of the bride’s sister in Interviewed by South Bend newspaper workers Thursday the bride went to some pains to tiraw the mystery veil even tighter. tt u A LTHOUGH it ifc weU known that her courtship and marriage hinged on a mysterious rrans-continental airplane pursuit which ended in San Francisco six weeks ago. she told interviewers she never had been in San Francisco. “I never have been in San Fran-

ORPHAN HOME BILL BITTERLY FOUGHT

Moorhead’s Plan for New Board, and Children 'Farming’ Assailed. Defeat for the Moorhead bill providing anew board of trustees for the Knightstown Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans home was predicted about the house of representatives in view of the bitter opposition displayed at a public hearing on the measure Thursday afternoon. The bill, now in the hands of the house judiciary B committee, after passage by the senate, provides for appointment of a board of four trustees by the Governor without the present requirement that they be veterans of the Civil, SpanishAmerican or World war. The measure also provides for forfeiure of control of children in the institution by parents or guardians, so that the children may be adopted or placed in private homes. Alumni from the home and preresentatives of veterans’ organizations filled the house chamber and applauded defenders of the presente system of management. James Lamkin. an alumnus of the home, challenged Senator Robert L. Moorhead, author of the bill, to show him a post of the American Legion favoring the bill, despite the claim that the legion was sponsoring the measure. “I’ll tell you why the senate passed this bill,” Lamkin declared, “Because the author is antagonistic toward a former member of the upper house who approves the present arrangement, and because they want to throw control of the Knightstown home to the state board of charities.” Lamkin, Joseph Morris of Gary, department commander of the Spanish-American War Veterans; the Rev. Homer Dale, pastor of the Hillside Christian church, Indianapolis; Russell B. Harrison of Indianapolis, former state senator, and Thomas A. Daily, protested enactment of the bill. All deplored te provision permitting adoption or “farming out” of children. 6 Hurt in Street Car Crash Bv United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. B. Six persons nursed slight injuries today as a result of a rear-end collision of two street cars. The accident occurred when the motorrnan of one car was unable to stop it while on a hill.

cisco, and it has been four years since I was in California,” she is reported to have said. She refused to discuss her courtship and marriage, and also refused to divulge the couple’s future plans. “We may go to New York and we may go to Timbuctoo.” she said airily. van MRS. COULTER, who formerly was an art and music instructor in an eastern school, also Changed her husband’s academic affixations at a stroke.

‘Bums’ Rush Bv United Press CHICAGO, Feb. B.—Ella, 21, and Mary Mosket, 18, went to jail today to serve out SSO fines imposed for a beating they administered to Lillian Le Botes, who called the sisters “bums” for wearing short skirts.

97 WIN DIVORCES ( 204 Suits for Decrees Are Filed During January. There were more than twice as many marriage licenses issued as divorces granted in Marion county in in January, according to figures made public by the county clerk’s office today. Ninety-seven divorces were granted by the circuit and superior courts. Marriage licenses were issued to 273 couples. But 204 divorce suits were filed, putting the number of divorces applied for and granted twentyeight above tl# number of licenses to wed issued. Women were more frequent victors in the divorce courts than men. Seventy-seven women won divorces while only twenty men were given separation decrees. Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin led the judges in divorces granted with thirty-two, but Superior Judge Linn D. Hay was a close second with twenty-eight. ROBBED OF WATCH Forced Into Alley at Point of Pistol by Holdup Man. While walking on Park avenue, near’Pratt street, Thursday night, Harold O’Hair, 901 North East street, was held up by a man who approached him from the back, poked a pistol in his ribs, and with the warning, “don’t look back or I’ll shoot,” forced him into an alley, where he was robbed of his watch and $4. Minister Dies at Auto Wheel Bv Times Special , SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. B. While driving his automobile on a street here, the Rev. I. J. Aldrich of Terre Haute and Sullivan, Ind., died suddenly, the car crashing into a parked machine. Identification of the minister was made by Ret Crossley, Indiana newspaper man, who is visiting here.

“He’s a Princeton man, not a Harvard man,” she said. “And another thing, he wasn’t hurt playing football." Coulter is an invalid and newspapers carried stories to the effect he was injured permanently while playing football on a Harvard university team. The bridegroom is reported to have a fortune estimated at $7,000,000. Mrs. Coulter’s parents could not be reached to verify the bride’s interview Thursday night.

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Top, Butler university’s new administration building at Fairview; center (left), Miss Evelyn Mitchell Butler, grand-daughter of Butler’s founder and dean of women at the university; center (right). Forest home, 1306 Park avenue, built by Ovid Butler on a 200-acre tract of land for his residence. He lived there to the time of his death. The home now is owned by Mrs. John M. Shaw; inset, Butler’s founder, Ovid Butler; below, A view of the old Butler university campus at Irvington. The building in the background is Burgess Hall of Science and the structure with the vines in the foreground is the former administration building.

LIMIT ASKED ON PAY OFMAYORS Senate Bill Sets Top at $5,200 Annually. New maximum and minimum limits for salaries of officials of Indiana cities of over 35,000 population, except Indianapolis, are proposed in a bill Senator Roy M. Friedley, Muncie, has introduced in the Indiana senate. The salary of mayor would be fixed at $5,200 annually, which might be increased, by ordinance, to not more than $7,500. For other city officials the minimum salaries and amounts to which they might be increased Jjy ordinance, would be: City controller, $3,500 to $6,000; deputy controller, SI,BOO to $2,500; city clerk, $3,000 to $4,800; deputy clerk, not more than $2,500; city treasurer, $3,600 to $6,000; deputy treasurer, SI,BOO to $2,500; city judge $3,600 to $6,000; members of board of works, $2,400 to $3,600; board of works clerk, $1,500 to $2,000; members of board of safety, S6OO to $1,200; clerk of board of safety, $1,500 to $1,300; city civil engineer, $3,600 to $4,800; city councilmen, S6OO to $1,000; city attorney, $3,600 to $5,000; and members of the park board, not over S6OO. The salary scale would become effective Jan. 1, 1930, by provisions of Senator Friedley’s bill. SCO UT AWARDED SIOO William McEwen Gets Scholarship, Troops Observe Anniversary. Annual Boy Scout week will be observed here during school spring vacation, beginning March 31, F. O. Belzer, Scout executive, announced at the Scout council executive board meeting Thursday. The board observed the nineteenth anniversary of founding of the Scout movement in America and the fourteenth anniversary of the movement in Indianapolis. William (Billy) McEwen, Troop 3 eagle scout, was presented with the Harmon Foundation scholarship, consisting of SIOO. Dr. C. jb. Miller gave a report on Scout week being held at Plainfield. EXPIUIN CITY PUN Cincinnati Official to Talk on Manager Form. O. Adair Harrell, assistant to the city manager of Cincinnati, and Claude H. Anderson, local attorney and city manager advocate, will discuss the city manager form before the Indiana Engineering Society dinner tonight at the Severin. Clifford L. Harrodd, Chamber of Commerce commissioner, is president. The dinner will plose the fortyninth annual session. The city manager form was adopted in Indianapolis by a 6-to-l vote and becomes operative in January, 1930. Reading of technical papers and election of officers was scheduled for the afternoon program. Speakers today include: L. W. Bruck, Insley Manufacturing Company; C. B. Foster, Foster Engineering Company; H. A. Glover of the Knox Consolidated Coal Company, and Professors R. B. Leckie, H. L. Solberg and A. W. Cole of Purdue university. WAR~WORKER IS DEAD Mrs. Dike, President of AmericanFrench Group, Dies in Paris. By United Press PARIS, Feb. B—Mrs. Anne Murray Dike of New York, president of the American Committee for Devastated France and one of the most prominent American women in Europe, died today. Mrs. Dike was associated foj years with Miss Anne Morgan in work in the devastated regions. She has been decorated with the Croix De Guerre and is an officer of the Legion of Honor.

BUTLER WILL PAY TRIBUTE TOFOUNDER Celebration to Honor Man Long Prominent in Civic Uplift. GAVE LAND FOR SCHOOL College Made 'Namesake’ in Spite of Opposition of Its Father. BY ARCH STEINEL Trees, old ones, erect with the straightness of age's knowledge of good work well done, guard a home on the northwest corner of Thirteenth street and Park avenue—the birthplace of Indianapolis’ major university, Butler. In that home Ovid Butler, the university’s founder—whose anniversary the school will celebrate Saturday, Founder’s day—built not only his family life, but kept warm in his heart the thoughts and desires for the fount of knowledge he founded on Jan. 15, 1850. The home, in the center of a tract of land owned by Butler, is the only vestige left by modernity of the first university grounds in Indianapolis. Gives Land for College Butler, after building his residence at Thirteenth street and Park avenue, gave a plot of ground bounded by College avenue on the west, the L. E. & W. tracks on the east, Thirteenth street on the south, and Fifteenth on the north, for the erection of the Northwestern Christian university—which later became known as Butler college and then by its present name of Butler university. The Northwestern Christian university opened its doors there on Nov. 1, 1855, with Butler as president of the board of directors. The first graduating class in 1856 had three members. In 1873 the board of directors determined to sell the university grounds and move to Irvington. Butler opposed the move, but in 1875 college classes were begun on the new campus. Two years later the institution’s name was changed—again in opposition to Butler’s wishes—to honor the school’s benefactor. Opposes Name Change Modest of his own efforts in behalf of the school caused him to oppose the change in its name. The college buildings formerly occupied by Northwestern Christian university, on the site donated by Butler, have been lost in realty’s perennial yearly changes. In 1927 work was begun on the new university buildings at Fairview—the school owns Fairview Park—and the move from Irvington was made in 1928. The university’s father had the concise, logical, emphatic mind requisite of good attorneys. Coming to Indiana at 16—he was born in New York Feb. 7, 1801—he became a practicing lawyer in Shelbyville. Desiring to test his verbal lances with sturdier metal, he moved to Indianapolis as a partner in the law firm of Fletcher, Landis, 2nd Butler. Not content • with courtroom battles, at the close of the Mexican war, he renounced the Democratic party and aided in formation of the Anti-Slavery Democrats and Wigs into the Free Soil party. The Free Soilers later became Indiana’s first Republican organization. Turns to Journalism From politics it was only a wish that sent him into journalism’s realms when h3 established the Indiana Free Soil Democrat in 1852. A year before he helped form Northwestern Christian university he bought the Indiana State Journal and converted it into The Indianapolis JoumaL Failing health, which caused his purchase of the 200-acre tract where Butler college had its inception, sent him into the retirement of his Park avenue home—He called it Forest Home, due to the surrounding woods. John M. Shaw, president of Kingan & Cos., purchased the residence from the Butler heirs In 1885, four years after the death of Butler. ' Dr. Scot Butler, 124 Downey avenue, is one of three surviving children. Dr. Butler is celebrating his 85th birthday Saturday at the same time the university honors his father with cap and gown ceremonies and a reception. Dr. Butler is said to be the oldest living graduate of Butler’s parent school. Chauncey Butler of Interlachen, Fla., a son, and Mrs. B. O. Thomas, Minneapolis, a daughter, are the other surviving children of the founder. Miss Evelyn Mitchell Butler, dean of women at Butler, is a granddaughter of Ovid CHILD AWARDED $4,000 Court Renders Verdict Against Railroad in Crash Case. Judgment for $4,000 was awarded Miss Hettie Brown, aged 10, Ridgeville, Randolph county, against the Pennsylvania railroad, by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell in her suit for SIO,OOO damages for injuries received in a train-auto crash at Ridgeville, Oct. 14, 1926. The complaint alleged the car in which the child was riding, driven by her mother, Mrs. Marie Brown Meranda, was struck by a train, no warning signal having been given. A third passenger in the auto, Garnett C. Pyle, was killed instantly. - v