Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1929 — Page 3

FEB. 11, 1929.

SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE TUESDAY; HONORUNGOLN ‘Rail Splitter’ President Spoke in City 68 Years Ago Today. With the closing of city schools, the city hall, and memorial day dinners and addresses Indianapolis, will celebrate the 120th birthday anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday. Sixty-eight years ago today the “rail-splitter” President spoke from a balcony of the old Bates house, comer of Washington and Illinois streets.

Grade and high schools of the city celebrated his Indianapolis visit with pre-birthday memorial exercises today. Students told of his trip from Springfield, 111., through Indianapolis, on his way to take the executive chair of the nation. Lincoln remained in Indianapolis until the morning of his birthday. Mail service will be curtailed to one residential and two business deliveries Tuesday. Other offices than the postoffice in the federal building will remain open. Banks, the Marion county courthouse offices, statehouse offices, Butler university and the Cathedral high school will not close. A Lincoln memorial day will be celebrated by the general assembly with a joint session in the house chamber at 11 a. m. Tuesday. Colonel David N. Foster of Ft. Wayne and Oswald Ryan of Anderson will be the speakers. Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush will preside. With Dr. Stanley Coulter, dean emeritus of Purdue university, as the principal speaker, the John Holliday post of the American Legion will hold a Lincoln’s day dinner at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday in the First .Presbyterian church. State Senator John Niblack of Indianapolis will tell the legionnaires the “five funniest stories” told by Lincoln. State Representative Oscar Ahlgren of Whiting will speak on legislation for veterans. Ogden Will Speak Dr. O. W. Fifer, Indianapolis district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church, will address the Gyro Club at the Lincoln Tuesday. on “Abraham Lincoln.” Attorney-General James M. Ogden will speak over WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company radio station, at 9:30 Tuesday night on “Abraham Lincoln and Indianapolis.” Ogden's address will be part of the Banner Booster program sponsored by the Banner-Furniture Company. Ogden will repeat part of the address which was made by Lincoln from the balcony of the old Bates house on his visit to Indianapolis Feb. 11. 1861. $200,000 NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH IS DEDICATED Bishop of Indianapolis Diocese Conducts Ceremony. Dedicatory exercises for the new $200,000 edifice of the St. Patrick’s Catholic church. Woodlawn avenue and Hunter street, were held Sunday morning. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand, bishop of the Indianapolis diocese of the Catholic church, conducted the ceremonies. The new structure replaces one which wps destroyed by fire June 20. 1927. At present a temporary altar is being used by the parishioners. A permanent marbii altar is being erected in Italy. It will cost SIO,OOO and will be brought to Indianapolis within the next six months. SCIENTIST WILL SPEAK Dr. Albert E. Wiggam to Address Sons of Amercan Revolution. The Indiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution will hold its annual Washington’s birthday banquet Feb. 22 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Dr. Albert Edward Wiggam, author. will speak on “The Blood of the Nation” or “The Patriotism of a Biologist,” Mrs. W. D. Long will give an impersonation in colonial dialect, assisted by Mrs. Charles A. Breece. The Mary Traub Busch trio will provide music. President Thomas A. Daily will preside at a business meeting preceding the banquet. ARRANGE SPELLING BEE Civic League Sponsors Event Tuesday Night. Sherman-Emerson Civic League will hold its fourth annual “'oldfashioned spelling bee” Tuesday night at” School 62, Wallace and Tenth strets. The modem McCall speller will be used instead of the McGuffey reader. Atomey E. O. Snethen will be “schoolmaster.” Mrs. Elizabeth Witt and Floyd Baber will assist. The public is invited. Mrs. W. E. Heyer, vice-president, in charge of arrangements. announced prizes will be awarded. FAST TRAIN DERAILED Seven Cats of Broadway Limited Leave Track Near Hobart. Bu United Press . „ . , . CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad began an investigation today of the derailment of seven cars of the Broadway limited, crack Chi-ago-New York passenger train, near Hobart, Friday. Unofficial reports said the breaking oi an axle in one of the Pullman cars caused the accident. All of the derailed coaches remained upright and prevented injury to any of the 100 passengers. Pioneer’s Kin Dies BRAZIL. Ind.. Feb. 11.—Funeral services were held Sunday for Mrs. Amanda Zenor. 83, granddaughter of Samuel Rizley, first white man to settle in Clay county.

Dead Live! Memorial Services Held for Sailor Who Died on Maine.

BY ARCH STEINEL THROUGH the myriad colors of a, stained glass window of the Fletcher Place Methodist church—j a window dedicated to “Harry J. | Keys, Victim of the U. S. S. Maine”. —a manly forenoon sun measured i off each panel Sunday morning, j measured each paean of praise of I the Rev. William F. Russell, the } church’s pastor, as he preached the I thirtieth memorial service for Ini diana’s only boy to lose his life on j the Battleship Maine. In the fourth row pew, wearing a i blue dress—navy blue—sat Mrs. I Tillie Turner, 70, of 708 North. New Jersey street, Harry’s mother, hearing the pastor of the church in which he first learned his Sunday .school lessons pay tribute to her son, who died Feb. 15, 1898. Members of the U. S. navy recruiting station, the Harold C. McGrew Camp, No. 1, of the Spanish War Veterans, formed a portion of the congregation. a a a SIX flags guarded a water-colored photo of Seaman Keys on its easel near the altar. Five of the flags slept; while the sixth, hanging from a wal, stirred constantly during the service. A draught—a something—picked up the blue-bor-dered end of this flag with its woven inscription, “In Memory of Harry J. Keys, U. S. N.” and kept it in soft motion during the services. “There is no death. The dead live,” said Mr. Russell. The sixth flag’s hem waved. The other five lay still as stage scenery. a a a VOICE husky, Mr. Russell said, “I have an announcement to make. Mrs. Turner wants me to present this water-color picture of her son to the navy recruiting station.” A navy lieutenant bowed a “thank you”. Mrs. Turner mothered him with a smile of “you’re welcome.” Each birthday of her boy, Nov. 21, she will go to the recruiting station to pay reverence to that picture. The sixth flag waved its hem inscribed “In Memory of Harry J. Keys, U. S. N.;” the doxology was sung; echo taps were played; the sun measured off its last panel in the window dedicated to Seaman Keyes, and the memorial service ended—except in the heart of a mother.

DAUGHTER KILLS MOTHER, SELF Leaves Note: Found With Gas Tube in Mouth. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 11.—Mrs. Eva P. Bischoff, 68, an invalid, was found dead in hed today in her Whites tone, Queens, home, her head crushed. Her daughter, Miss Sadie Clair Bischoff, 42, who left a letter indicating she had killed her mother, was found dead on a couch in another room, a tube connected to an open gas jet in her mouth. Unable to gain admittance to Bischoff’s home, a maid, who came to do the weekly housecleaning, prevailed upon Harry Schwefel, 12, who lives next door, to climb through the second story window. In a few minutes the youth ran out the front door, shouting, “They’re dead!” Detectives believed the mother had been slain in her sleep. The daughter's body was fully clothed. Inspector John Gallagher said the letter seemed to to him to “be something about religion,” and about all he “could make out of it was that the daughter killed her mother and then herself.” CLEANERS AT CONCLAVE National President Addresses Indiana Association. The Indiana Association of Dyers and Cleaners opened a convention at the Lincoln today. Frank A Weller, president of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners, was the principal speaker at n business session this morning. F. E. Glass, Indianapolis, president of the state organization, delivered the annual president’s address. Other convention speakers will include R. C. Shaneberger, Indianapolis; Paul Trimble, national association managing director; Roy Denny, editor of the Cleaning and Dyeing World. A dinner dance will be held tonight and the convention will close Tuesday afternoon. Bev of Tunis Dies TUNIS, Feb. 11.—Sidi Mohammed El Habib, 71, bey of Tunis, died here today. The funeral will be held tomorrow. Sidi Ahmed, a nephew, will succeed him.

First Flivver Chained to Lamp Post by Ford to Foil Carious Crowds

Bn Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. Henry Ford had to chain and lock his first flivver to a lamppost whenever he parked it in the “Streets of Detroit in 1893. to prevent curious bystanders from trying to start it. * This is the amusing fact brought out by Charles Merz, who. in the February issue cf World’s Work, discloses the story of Ford’s ten-year struggle to find financial backers for the awkward creation which made him the world’s wealthiest man. “If I stopped my machine anywhere in town,” Ford himself is quoted, “a crowd was around it before I could start again. II I left it alone, some inquisitive person always tried to run it. Finally I had to chain it to a lamp-post when I left it anywhere.” Not one of Ford's twelve original backers was either a capitalist or professional promoter. Although many were approached, those supposedly shrewd and farsighted individuals carefully avoided any contact with the autobuilder. It was chance, rather than business sagacity

DROP FIGHT TO INSERT 'P. R.' IN MANAGER BILL Fear Doubtful Legality of Proposeu Jystem Might Crash Whole Scheme. Efforts to amend the city manager law to provide the proportional representation system of electing city commissioner were to be abandoned in the Indiana house of representatives this afternoon. Doubtful constitutionality of the “P. R.” system, described as the nemises of “machine control” o. city manager government, caused 'the Indianapolis City Manager League and members of the Indianapolis delegation in the house to recede from their advocacy of proportional representation, it was learned. This switch in plan was the latest development in the city manager controversy that was to be opened formally on the floor ’ of the house at 2:30 p. m. At that hour the Noll bill, clarifying and strengthening the 1921 city manager act was to be placed on second reading and opened to debate and amendment.

Report Favoss Bill The bill was drafted by the Indianapolis City Manager League and introduced in the house by Representative Frank J. Noll Jr. of Indianapolis. It came unamended from the cities and towns committee with a report favoring passage. The report was adopted more than a week ago. Political factions, seeing the hope of controlling city government under the manager form slipping away under the “P. R.” system of electing commissioners, at first were outspoken against the voting innovation. Their opposition, however, was soft-pedaled when it appeared that because of “P. R.’s” doubtful legality, under the Indiana constitution, its inclusion in the city manager statute might offer a vulnerable spot for attacks on the whole city manager law in the state supreme court. Sensing this, and informed by high legal authority that proportional representation might prove a boomerang, the city manager forces agreed, it was learned, to withdraw this feature of the Noll bill. An amendment was expected from Representative J. Glenn Harris of Gary to remove “P. R.” anad permit election of city commissioners under the federal system of elections. “Better to Wait” Friends of the city manager government feared that if they succeeded in their fight for “P. R.” and the city manager form of government were esetablished in Indianapolis in 1930 with commissioners so elected, the whole governmental structure of the city might crumple under an adverse decision by the state supreme court, “If proportional representation would open the city manager form of government to danger of invalidation by the supreme court, it is better to wait two years and then seek an amendment to the constitution so that ‘P. R.’ can adopted,” one Marion county representative explained. Evansville representatives had intended to offer an amendment to extend proportional representation to that city, as well as Indianapolis. Today’s developments, however, made this improbable. Contemplated amendments include: Several Amendments Proposed 1. One by Indianapolis forces friendly to the manager form, designed to protect he present setup of the Indianapolis board of health which directs management of the city hospital. 2. One by Representative John W. Chamberlain of Terre Haute, regarded detrimental to the manager plan, proposing to make the city clerk and city judge elective instead of appointive. The city judge reference would not apply to Indianapolis. 3. Another by Chamberlain to increase the salaries of commissioners from SSOO to $5,000 a year. 4. One or more by Indianapolis opponents of the city manager form of government, intended, presumably, to remedy parts of the law regarded of doubtful constitutionality. Friends of the city manager law and the Noll amendments were anticipating the strongest attack to come from Representative Lloyd D. Claycombe of Indianapolis, avowed enemy of the manager government. Claycombe said he had made no decision on introduction of a bill he has prepared for a form of city government incorporating principles of the present federal system and city manager plan. “We’ll wait and see what happens,” he said. “If the present law is amended so as to make it reasonable, I may not introduce my bill.” A bill resting in the cities and towns committee of the senate calls for outright repeal of the city manager act.

that created the Ford company, Merz points out. The inventor, while working for the Detroit Electric Company, made friends with Alexander Malcomson, the coal dealer, who backed him for a quarter of the original stock. James Couzens, multi-millionaire senator, then a clerk in Malcomson’s office, borrowed from his sister to buy twenty-four shares, and induced her to take a single share in her own name. Charles J. Woodhall. Malcomson’s bookkeeper, bought ten shares with his SI,OOO savings. All of these became wealthy merely uhrough the chance acquaintenship. John F. and Horace E. Dodge, owners of a machine shop, agreed to build Ford’s motors for fifty shares of stock apiece Their tremendous fortune later went to build the Dodge Brothers’ car. But the most pathetic figure of the twelve, the World’s Work article relates, was Albert Strelow, a carpenter, who bought fifty shares, then sold it to put the money into a mine. While the others were being made fabulously wealthy by Ford, his mine investment resulted in a total loss.

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Mrs. Grace Banta Urbahns, who today began her second term as Indiana state’treasurer. Mrs. Urbahns became treasurer when her husband, Ben Urbahns, died during his term. She was elected in the following election and re-elected last November. Mrs. Urbahns was sworn in at 11 this morning by Supreme Justice Julius Travis in the presence of other officials and many friends. The office was decorated elaborately with flowers sent by friends.

SCHOOL ISSUES MAY BEPASSED Tax Board Is Expected to Approve Bonds. Approval of two bond issues of the Indianapolis board of education, one for $395,000 and the other for $600,000, was forecast today following a public hearing before the state tax board. The issues are being reviewed by the tax board at the behest of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. At today’s hearing the school board was given until Saturday to file additional plans and specifications for additions to be constructed at, Schools 15 and 49 and the proposed new Irvington high school. W. C. Nussbaum, attorney for the taxpayers’ association, said, that the association felt the bonds were needed and merely asked that the tax board review .the issues in order to insure taxpayers the manner in winch their money would be spent. FOUR STORES ROBBED Burglars Bore Through Doors, Loot Is Small. The “brace and bit burglars,” who have committed a series of burglaries in the last three weeks, gaining entrance in each instance by boring their way through the doors, added four more stores to their string today. Their loot totaled only a small amount of change. In the R. C. Sjnoddy drug store, 3432 East Tenth street, they overlooked S3OO which was hidden in the cash register. Other places entered, all of which were ransacked, but from which nothing was taken, were the A. & P. grocery at 3426 East Tenth street, the Sam Danner fruit store, 3428 East Tenth, and a Standard grocery at 3316 East Tenth street. IRWIN FUNERAL SET Last Rites to Be Held Tuesday for Traffic Manager. Funeral services lor Harry J. Irwin, 38, of 7345 North Meridian street, Acme-Evans Company traffic manager, will be held at 11 a. m. Tuesday at the residence. The Rev. Graham Gibson of Fifty-first Street M. E. church, will conduct services. Burial will be at Summitville, his birthplace. He had been associated with the milling company thirteen years. The widow and a son survive.

CRIME WAVE IS BEINGJPROBED Broadmoor Robbery Victims to View Suspect. A second pyobe into the robbery of members of the Broadmoor Country Club last May by several bandits was to be started this afternoon by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark and William H. Remy, former prosecutor. The investigation was expected to touch not only on the robbery, but also alleged crime activities in the city and probably some circumstances surrounding the mysterious fire and explosion in the Edward Traugott Company clothing store, Aug. 26. Several persons who were victims of the hold-up men are to be questioned by Stark and Remy within the next few days. Dne of the primary purposes of the investigation will be to ask club members to view pictures of Charles Phayer, alleged St. Louis gangster, who is charged with being a participant in the holdup, Phayer was to have been tried this month pn a charge of auto banditry and robbery, but several persons were unable to give positive identification. Phayer fas partly identified by victims several months ago following his arrest in St. Louis. He now is in St. Louis, under $5,000 cash bond in criminal court.

TWO WOMEN HELD Negroes Are Accused of Holdups. Because of the quick work of a bondsman, Sergeant Frank Reilly was forced to arrest Mrs. Blanch O’Banyan, 24, Apt. 2,‘ 705 North Senate avenue, and Mrs. Mattie Thomas, 23, 622 East Allegheny street, both Negroes, twice to secure their identification as the women who held up Joseph Helt, Y. M. C. A., Wednesday night taking sls cash and a $325 check. Reilly arrested the women Sunday # Qn vagrancy charges when he met them on the street and slated them subject to SSOO bonds. Before he could go to the Y. M. C. A. and return with Helt to identify the women they had been released under bonds signed by Mrs. Virginia Benniyote, 1515 Steel street. According to police Mrs. Beniyote is a niece of Eli Gmil, professional bondsman who has been barred from signing bonds at police headquarters. Raiding the North Senate avenue apartment of Mrs. O’Banyan; Reilly arrested the two women again. He also found Douglas Austin, Negro, there pouring out some liquor and arrested Austin on a liquor charge. Helt positively identified the women as the ones who had robbed him, police said. They were held on vatrrancy charges with bond set at $5,000 each.

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PRESENT BILLS IN LEGISLATURE TAXING TOBACCO $4,000,000 to Be Raised From Levies on Smokers and Amusements. Designed to raise $4,000,000 annually—the equivalent of an 8cent increase in the state tax levy—two bills were to be introduced in the Indiana house of representatives this afternoon levying taxes on amusements and tobacco. Decision to enter the bills and push them vigorously in both houses was reached at a joint meeting of senate and house sub-com-mittees at noon today. The two bills were sponsored by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation after having been drafted by Professor G. W. Starr, head of the research department of Indiana university. The subcommittees decided to withhold for the time being a third measure prepared by Starr and the farm bureau to raise $1,000,000 annually by a fee on corporate stocks. The tobacco bill levies a license fee of $3 on all tobacco dealers and calls for a tax of one mill on each cigaret weighing three pounds or less per thousand; two mills on each cigaret weighing more than three pounds per thousand! one mill on eaqh little cigar weighing less than three pounds per thousand; three mills on each cigar retailing for three cents or less each and weighing more than three pounds per thousand; one cent on each cigar selling for three cents or more each and weighing more than three pounds; one cent for each three oun9es of snuff or chewing tobacco; and one cent on each

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Boy Is Hero KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Feb. 11 —The heroism of Leo Oldham. 12, saved the lives of his mother, three brothers and three sisters when their home was destroyed by flames Sunday. A bucket of motor oil in a heating stove exploded, setting up a wall of fire between the seven persons. Lee rushed through £he flames and helped them escape tlp-ough a window.

ten cents worth of smoking tobacco. Stamps will be obtainable from agents or banks designated by the auditor of state, to whom deaiers and distributors will be required to make monthly reports. The amusement bill imposes a tax of 10 per cent on all admissions to professional amusements, including moving pictures, theatricals and boxing events. Revenues obtained from both tobacco and amusement taxes will go into the state’s general fund, the former being counted upon for $2,225,000 a year and the latter, $1,750,000 a.year. Members of the committees which aproved the bills today are Senators Carl M. Gray of Petersburg, French Clements of Evansville and Alonzo H. Lindley of Kingman and Representatives Charles M. Trowbridge of Rushvflle, Claude G. Maiott of Bloomington and James H. Lowry of Indianaoplis. '• All predicted speedy passage for the measures.

Approximately 500 persons attended a rehearsal of spiritual hymns at a musical convocation Sunday by the Indianapolis Lutheran Association in the First English Lutheran church. The convocation was in charge of Rev. H. Grady Davis, Whitestown. Delegations were present from Anderson, Newcastle, Whitestown, New Augusta, Terre Haute, East Germantown, Brookville, Columbus and Cicero.

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200 CASES UP AT GRAND JURY SESSIONTODAY Cleanup of ‘Hot Car’ Ring Most Important Business Before U. S. Body. More than 200 cases involving more than 250 persons are to be presented to the federal grand jury, which went into session today. The grand jury was sworn this morning by Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley, of the eastern district of Illinois. Judge Lindley came here from Chicago, where he has been sitting, to hear the clemency petition of Attorney Russell V. Duncan, former Marion county representative, sentenced to two years at Leavenworth penitentiary in connection with disappearance of an internal revenue tax refund check. David B. Cole of Vevay, was named foreman. In order for Lindley to come here fqr the Duncan case, it was necessary for Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell to relieve him at Chicago. Liquor violations compose the majority of the cases to be investigated, although the most important case is the clean up of the interstate motor theft conspiracy case. Robert F. McNay, W. Lee Smith and Frank Glenn, convicted in trial of the case several weeks ago, and now serving terms at Leavenworth penitentiary, are to be taken before the grand jury as witnesses in the case Tuesday. It is probable that Sheldon M. Beanblossom, former secretary of the Evansville blan, also will be called at a witness. About thirty witnesses in various cases, including pistol violations, motor thefts and counterfeiting were heard this morning.