Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1929 — Page 2

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MANAGER LAW FRIEND WINS IN HOUSE FIGHT Gary Man Foils First Move for Amendments to Measure. With a decisive victory scored, Representative J. Glenn Harris. Gary, new floor leader for the city manager forces, today prepared to lessen the force of the amendments foisted on the city manager bill last Monday. Harris in one of the cleverest parliamentary moves of the present session of the state house of representatives succeeded in having the emasculated city manager bill recommitted to his committee Thursday afternoon over the objection of R"presentati\e Lloyd Clavcombe, Indianapolis, and his anti-city manager law forces. Operate on Amendments It is upon Clavcombe's amendments that Harris is going to operate in Judiciary A committee. By the insertion of the words “may continue pending action of the new government" and ‘‘changed by ordinance" he will knock "ally-west Claycombe's amendments, the purpose of which is to foist upon the new government all of the departments and divisons of the old and so render ineffectual many benefits that the city manager type of government offers. Confer Over Week-end Claycombe. Representative Prank J. Nell Jr. of Indianapolis and Fred C. Gause, Republican state election commissioner, will be asked by Harliis to confer with him over the week-end on additional amendments to make the law more workable an<| to safeguard all the essential elements of the city manager plan, Harris said. The report of Judiciary A com- j mittee will be prepared at a meet- 1 ing at 1 o’clock Monday afternooon j and probably will be presented to the house that afternoon. The battle was on when the city j manager bill, still on second read- j ing, was called down by Speaker j James Knapp as a special order of j business Thursday afternoon. WOMACK BURIAL RITES TO BE HELD SATURDAY Former Sheriff of Marion County Dies Friday. Funeral services for Albert A. j Womack. 77. former assessor and i -heriff of Marion county, who died j Friday at his home, 1640 College | avenue, will be held Saturday at j 2:30 p. m. at Shirley Bros, funeral j chapel. Burial will be in Crown , Hill. Mr. Womack was born in Shelby county. He came to Indianapolis ■ at 18. He was elected sheriff in 1891 and served until 1396. Later he! served a term as assessor. Mrs. Chariot te F. Trusty, Muiicie, j and Mrs. Ellen E. Mershon. Indianapolis. two daughters, survive. AD MEM UTILITY GUESTS Power Company Entertains Members of Club at Dinner. I Members of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis were guests of the r Indianapolis Power and Light Com- j pany at the Mill street plant at a dinner and a plant visit Friday ' noon. Wallace O. Lee. director of public relations, welcomed the “ad” men to the plant. Plant operations were explained by Ray Forbes, research engineer of the company. The Scientech Club will be luncheon guests and take a trip through the plant Monday, it was announced. FIRE DAMAGES FACTORY Sl.ooo Loss Caused by Blaze at Paper Company. Fire starting from an unknown origin caused SI,OOO damage to the scrap stock room of the Beveridge Paper Comany. 717 West Washington street, early today. A sprinkler system in the paper company's plant prevented the blaze from spreading, firemen said. Harry M. Ross, plant superintendent, said the major portion of the fire loss was water damage. ‘LOYALTY’ BILL PASSED Teachers’ Oath to U. S. Required in Draft; Up to Senate. Teachers in public schools and colleges of Indiana will be required to pledge their allegiance to the American flag if the bill which passed the house of representatives Thursday is approved by the senate. The bill, sponsored by the D. A. R . requires that aii pedagogues take the oath of allegiance. Representative Thaddeus S. Adams is father of the act. ‘BIBLES ARE READ NOW' Publisher Talks at Northwood Christian Church Dinner. Dusty Bibles that lay unused in bureau drawers are things of the past. P. A. Wood, manager of Meigs Publishing Company, told diners at a fellowship meeting of the Northwood Christian church. Friday night. Meigs said the present-day Bible is made for reading and not decorative purposes. He said the manner in which the Bibles are bound encourages reading. Plane Crash Fatal to Two B'i United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Feb. 15. Nobie Green, pilot, was killed instantly and Robert Sappington. a passenger, was injured fatally when their airplane crashed to the ground near here Thursday. Green, an experienced flier, was said to have been giving Sappington some pointers op flying, prior to the latter's entrance into an aviation school the accident occurred. Sappington died soon after reaching a hospital

Pays Fiddler By I nitrd Prtss WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. Jascha Heifetz, violin virtuoso, who came to this country’ In 1917, has paid taxes on an income approximating $150,000 a year decision by the United Stales board of tax appeals shows.

BANKER CALLED FOR TESTIMONY IN ARMORY QUIZ M’Whirter and Building Firm Head to Be Questioned This Afternoon. Felix M. McWhirter, president of the Peoples State Bank, and James Ostrom. head of the Ostrom Realty Company, have been sunynoned to appear before the legislative committee investigating construction of Indiana National Guard armories at 4 this afternoon. Senator Alonzo H. Lindley of Kingman, chairman of the investigating committee, summoned McWhirter and Ostrom by letter. The realty company has had contracts for constructing all the armories in the $2,500,000 building program and the bank has handled the financing. Tire investigation is expected to be concluded and a report made to the senate by Monday’. Adjutant General William H. Kershner spent two hours with the committee late Thursday. Senator Thurman A. Gottechalk, Berne, author of the investigating resolution and member of the state budget committee, may have something to say if he considers the report a “whitewashing” rather than a thorough job of fact finding. The budget committee refused to approve the Kershner request for $350,000 annually to carry on the armory building program. Today it seemed likely that this amount will be cut to cover only rentals on buildings already ouilt and the program halted as a compromise move. All armory buildings erected under the Jackson administration and the “closed corporation” plan w r ere built by the Ostrom Realty and Construction Company and financed through The Peoples State Bank, parent institution of the contractors. President Felix M. McWhirter has conferred with Lindley regarding the financing. WINS DEATH STAY Dreyfus Rhoades to Appeal on Mew Evidence. Supreme court judges have granted a stay of execution to Dreyfus Rhoades, sentenced to be electrocuted March 6. for the slaying of Simon Carie, Vincennes policeman. Rhoades has been twice tried and each time received the capital sentence. The latest stay is until Oct. 11, and was granted so that appeal on the ground of new evidence be perfected. Rhoades was first sentenced to death in Knox county upon a plea of guilty and his lawyers secured a new trial on the ground of fear of mob violence and took change of venue to Gibson county where he was again tried and sentenced. CLOTHIERS END PARLEY Banquet and Election Closes State Convention. With a banquet Thursday night at the Clay-pool and election of officers in the afternoon, the twelfth annual convention of the Indiana Retail Clothiers and Furnishers’ Association closed. Carl Wolfe, Terre Haute, was elected president of the organization. Other officers are: Lester Bing, Anderson, first vice-president; John Miller, Winchester, second vice-president, and Isador Kornblunt. Indianapolis, treasurer. Harry W. Krause, Indianapolis, was one of four new directors chosen. CASHIER AT LIBERTY Hope Official Free on Bond; Town Shocked by Arrest. Tlte town of Hope. Ind., today was recovering from the shock following arrest of one of its most trusted bankers on a charge of embezzling $45,000. Herman A. Stewart, cashier of the Citizens National Bank at Hope, was at liberty under $25,000 bond, after being held to the federal grand jury here Thursday afternoon by United States Commissioner Howard S. Young. The bank has been closed by directors. POPE PIUS 'TO " TRAVEL First Visit Will Be to Milan; New Train Ordered. Bn I'nitedJ’ress ROME. Feb. 15.—Pope Pius XI is certain to travel through Italy to the various shrines and it was believed today that his first long journey would be to Milan where he formerly was archbishop. Anew papal train, luxuriously equipped and with the most modem fittings, was ordered for immediate construction today by the management of the Italian state railroads.

‘Don is Kiss’ By l nitrd Pr . and WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. Death and danger—don't kiss me. poison” was the note written to his wife by Bruce M. Alley. 46-year-oid jewelry salesman, before he committed suicide.

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THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES

FEB. 15, 1929