Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1929 — Page 2

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BUSINESS IS ON UPGRADE, SAYS WHITING Expresses His Faith in Sound Structure and Future Expansion. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Pres* Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1929. by United Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—William F. Whiting, secretary of commerce, today expressed confidence in “the fundamental soundness of the bu.' ness structure’’ of America which, if maintained, “would indicate for the immediate future a gratifying business progress." His optimistic statement, made .exclusively to United Press, was coincident with a drop in the stock market and an increase to 10 per cent in the call money rates. It followed, too, a warning by the federal reserve board against further loans for speculative purposes. Secretary Whiting, a big business man as well as head of the commerce department despite these considerations expressed confidence in the present financial and industrial structure. Production Maintained He cited the fact that production and distribution by manufacturers are being maintained at steady and generally rising levels as an indication of fundamental solidity. “The administration policies have made for a substantial and uniformly Increasing stability in business for several years," Whiting said. “This has aided in large measure to relieve the fluctuations in business of previous years. All important business indices show that broadly speaking production and distribution by manufacturers generally are being maintained at steady and gradually rising levels. “This points to the fundamental soundness of the business structure which, if maintained, would indicate for the immediate future a gratifying business progress.

Few Are Without \Work “If these conservative, constructive policies of the government and business are maintained, then there would seem to be no reason why the present economic situation should not continue.” Secretray Whiting’s view was supported by the survey of the United States employment service today. Relatively few persons in the United States were without work in January. Further Brake on Stocks By United Pr-esis WASINGTON, Feb. 16.—Unexpected action of the federal advisory council in announcing its indorsement of the federal reserve board’s speculation warning offered a further check today on the “bull market” of recent months. Already hard hit by the board's drastic warning statement of Feb. 7, Wall Street faced the prospect today of further action to restrict use of reserve bank credit for speculative purposes, going beyond its indorsement of the board, the advisory council suggested: •'That all member banks in each district be asked directly by the federal reserve bank of the district to co-operate in order to attain the end desired.” The council added it thought beneficial results could be attained in this manner.

BOYS UNDER ARREST HELP INJURED POLICE Two Released at Wabash Due to Cliauffeur-Nurse Services. By ('nitl'd Press WABASH. Ind., Feb. 16.—After serving as chauffeur-nurses for police who arrested them, Harold Butler and Carl Whisman, each 15, have been spared from punishment on charges of burglary. After warrants had been issued for the two boys, they fled to Chattanooga. Tenn. Police Chief Charles D. Bolte and Donald Muncon, a special officer, went to that city by motor to return them. En route home, the automobile carrying officers and prisoners was wrecked, Bolte and Muncon being severely injureci, while the boys were unhurt. The car was repaired and the boys took turns driving it back to Wabash with their captors as passengers. Officials refuse to press the case against them. Ten Feet From Death Bp Times Special PLYMOUTH. Ind.. Feb. 16—A narrow margin between death and life was experienced by Lester Machlin when a freight car loaded with lumber fell 25 feet from a viaduct 10 feet ahead of the automobile he was driving.

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One of the leaders in the younger set in Washington, preparing for the social festivities attendant upon the inauguration of PresidentElect Hoover, is Miss Mary Ann Harrison, daughter of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Miss Harrison bears an unusual resembleance to her father. (Senator Harrison owes us a cigar for that one.)

TEXT-BOOK CHANGE OPPOSED IN HOUSE

Dangers to Standardized Course Are Seen in Two Menaces. School book salesmen will scamper from trustee to trustee throughout Indiana instead of centering their visits on the state board of education, if two bills now in the education committee of the house of representatives win passage. Danger to standardized courses of education in the state and probable increase in text book prices were seen in the measures by legislators who will oppose them on the floor. The bills were introduced Thursday by Representatives James H. Lowry of Indianapolis and Bertha A. Zimmerman of Terre Haute. One would increase the number of series of grade school text books chosen by the state board of education from one to four. The other would make a corresponding increase in text books chosen by the board for high schools. At present the board selects and approves one series in each subject for grade schools, and one text book in each subject for high schools. The proposed change to four will permit township trustees and school boards to select series or books from among the four approved. Provisions is made in the high school text book bill to restrict the state board to' changing two of four previously selected books in any one subject, when it meets to consider books on that subject at five-year intervals. Lowery said the bills were sponsored by the state board of education. teachers and parent-teach-er associations, trustees and educational associations throughout the state. He said he had made an investigation of the situation before introducing the bills and was satisfied they were not partial to any particular text book publisher or publishers.

COLD LULLS NIAGARA Ice Cones 20 Feet High, Now Hang on Cataract Walls. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y.. Feb. 16. —The cold spell of the last few weeks has helped to lull the mighty •roar of the .Horseshoe and American Falls here: Due .to intense, cold, huge ice cakes forming in the Niagara river have caused the rushing water to become a placid stream. Ice cones, some estimated at twenty feet in length, hang majestically along the wall of the cataract. Between cracks in the ice near the edge of the precipice, thin lines of water pour down and pound on the jagged rocks below in a feeble effort to emulate the thunderous roar of Niagara in its full strength.

Can’t See It Delphi Jury Acquits Seller of ‘Moon-Eyed’ Horse.

By Times Special DELPHI, Ind., Feb. 16.—Even in this dry era, one can, under certain circumstances, sell a “moon-eyed” horse and be within the law. This is gathered from a juryverdict in Carroll circuit court here in the case of the State against Emmanuel Skiles, charged with selling the animal of bad sight to Edgar Logan. Evidence showgd that Skiles guaranteed the horse at the time of sale, and he convinced the jury he believed it without a blemish. Logan said he did not notice the “moon eves” for a considerable length of time. The jury was out six hours before returning a verdict acquitting Skiles to Special Judge Gus A. Hall. The trial lasted three days.

SPANiSH EXHIBIT SHOWS PROGRESS SINCE 1492 U. S. Spends $700,000 to Depict U. S. History. By Science Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The development of the United States from the time of Columbus to the present will be graphically depicted by exhibits from twenty-three bureaus of the United States government at the international exposition to be held at Seville, Spain, from March 15 to Dec. 15.

The exhibits will be mainly of scientific, historic and educational significance, and are financed by a congressional appropriation of $700,000 granted by congress. All nations colonized in whole or part by Spain will be represented at the exposition. Among the American exhibits will be the most authentic and detailed model of the Panama canal ever constructed. Radio equipment capable of picking up and broadcasting programs from the United States will be installed in the American buildings.

STOCKHOLDERS PAID - -- * Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Mails , -$1,000,000 to 5,000. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal. Feb. 16— Trust certificates giving beneficial interests from inheritance of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., have been mailed to about 5.000 persons who made investments in his publishing enterprise, it was announced here. The certificates total about $1,000,000 and vail be reimbursed at the death either of Vanderbilt’s father or mother.

DUKE MANSION IS SOLD Another of New York’s Fifth Avenue Homes Will Be Razed. Bit United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—The mansion of the late Benjamin N. Duke has been added to the number of elaborate Fifth avenue homes that will be demolished. It has been sold to an unidentified group of bankers and will be tom down to make way for an apartment house. The transaction involved $5,000,000. Auto Victim, 82, Buried By Times Special LA FONTAINE, Ind., Feb. 16Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Katie Hursh, 82, who died Wednesday from effects of injuries suffffered in an auto accident last fall. .

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PERIL OF COLD TIGHTENS GRIP OVER EUROPE No Hope for Relief Room; Meanwhile, Greenland . . Complains of Heat. B.y United Press LONDON, Feb. 16.—Suffering grew ’more intense today as the European cold wave/almost unprecedented in history, tightened its grasp on the continent and the British Isles. Coal riots were reported in Breslau. Silesia, and food shortages were admitted officially in Berlin with predictions of rationing. ■ The death toll mounted to approximately 200 today. Eight aged people died in Sandwich, England, from the cold, and seven other deaths were reported in the British Isles. A bride was frozen to death near Petrikov, Poland, while she was riding with her husband in a farm wagon, while going to celebrate their wedding. Approximately fifty people collapsed on London's streets during Friday night because of the cold. Meteorologists gave no encouragement to Europeans for warmer weather. % Meanwhile, Greenland, Iceland, and northern Norway complained of the heat. Eskimos said snows were melting and they could not use their hunting, sledges. Temperatures were so low in Switzerland Friday that all ice sport meets were abandoned for the present. Emergency food measures have been introduced in The Netherlands where, for the first time within the memory of the living, people could walk from Enkuisen across the Zuider Zee to the island of Urk, a distance of fifteen miles.

NEW BOOK ON JESUS De Pauw Professor Writes Work on Bible. “Our Recovery- of Jesus.” the new book by Dr. Walter E. Bundy, De Pauw university professor, will be released to book stores Feb. 21, the Bobbs-Merrill Company, local publishers, announced today-. Dr. Bundy’s new study of Jesus will be a companion book to “The Religion of Jesus,” published several months ago by Bobbs-Merrill. As professor of English Bible at the Methodist institution, Dr. Bundy is widely known as a thorough student of the Bible. “Sir, we would see Jesus,” taken from John 12:21 is the key to the book. The author seeks to picture “Jesus as he w-as” and has written for the minister, layman, student or teacher. “Christianity must, be more than a Christ-cult, more than a powerful and efficient organization. A Christianity that is in any appreciable measure true to the Galilean genius that gave it birth must be a spiritual movement that claims and commands the he arts'of mqn, that supplies men as individuals and as groups with those inner resources that are necessary for the living of human life religiously,” declares the author in the introduction.

Y. M. C. A. OPENS DRIVE Dinner Starts Campaign for More Members. The Y. M. C. A, opened a membership drive'Friday night with a dinner and meeting of 130 members who were organized into teams. Charles F. Coffin, vice-president of the State Life Insurance Company, was the principal speaker. James M. Ogden, attorney-general, presided.

C. C. Isaac, membership secretary, spoke on the campaign. W. F. Hendren, R. J. Duke, Wiliam E. Hart and Leo T. Brown, divisional leaders, held conferences with team members. William S. Springer of the Security Auto Insurance Com. pany, was made leader of a team In the drive for the fourth consecutive year.

THRESHERMEN PICK NEW OFFICERS, END MEETING W. H. Newson, Elizabethtown, Is President.

The ninth annual meeting of the Brotherhood of Threshermen closed Friday at the Severin with the election of W. H. Newson, Elizabethtown, as president. A banquet was held at night with about two hundred attending. Other officers are S. C. Herman of Cowan, vice-president, and E. E. Isenhower of Indianapolis, secre-tary-treasurer. Directors named are Charles White of Switz City, first and second districts; Otto Gleitz of Corydon, third and fourth; L. S. Page of Danville, fifth and sixth, and Charles Schilling of Indianapolis; seventh. | Mrs. W. S. Arnold kas elected president of the ladies’ auxiliary and Mrs. E. E. Isenhower, was elected secretary-’, easurer. Both are of Indianapolis. TROTSKI TO "ANGORA Exiled Soviet Leader Leaves Constantinople. Bu United Press . CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. 16— Leon Trotzki left Constantinople Friday. It was believed he was en route to Broussa and from there by automobile to Karakaya. where the express for Engora passes at midnight. Good Oil Well Near Rockport By Times Special ROCKPORT, Ind- Feb. 16—An oil well believed to be of 300 to 500barrel daily production has been brought in on the farm of Leo Straseel four miles east of here on a lease held by J. Walter Randel and associates.

Five Held for ‘Most Brutal Murder’

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Tell-tale wagon tracks led from the dank South Georgia swamp in which lay the mutilated body ot Ira Byrd, a farmer, back to Byrd's own home. Officers discovered first the “death wagon," then crimson stains on a porch, and later blood spots on an axe. With these as a nucleus they built up a murder case against the slain man’s widow", with whom he had quarreled and four neighboring farmers. The quintet of defendants in this “most brutal killing in Georgia crime history," shortly to come to trial, are pictured above, left to right, at top: Powell Brandon, Lawton Dixon and Levy Smith; and at bottom, Dan Tyre and Mrs. Byrd, the widow.

Must Be Dry Any person' who wants to quiz Senator Chester A. Perkins, South Bend, regarding his resolution to memorialize congress for a change in the eighteenth amendment to permit passing of liquor regulation laws must first sign an affidavit that he never has broken any current dry laws. Perkins took this stand in answering a “dry” letter today.

WIRES TO THEATER CUT Labor Trouble Blamed for Crippling Show at Bloomington. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 16Labor trouble during remodeling of the Indiana theater is believed to have been back of cutting electric wires leading into the theater, spoiling its plans for a first showing of talking pictures. Patrons waited forty minutes while efforts to locate the trouble were made. Several then went to the box office and took refunds. Others remained and saw a belated show.

LENROOT APPOINTMENT DRAWS SENATE FIRE Fight May Be Made on Nomination to Customs Court. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Appointment of former Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin as associate judge of the court of customs appeals provoked criticism among some senators today. Whether a fight will be made on his confirmation has not been determined. Criticism of Lenroot arose from his employment by the joint committee of national utility associations to appear before a senate committee when the power lobby successfully sought to have a proposed senate investigation diverted to the federal trade commission. Lenroot served nine years in the senate and his defeat in 1926 by Senator John J. Blaine established a law office in Washington. According to testimony before the senate, his firm received a fee of $20,000 from the utilities.

VIOLA DANA DIVORCED; MOTHER FOLLOWS SUIT Parent of Actress Charges Her Husband Is Cruel. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 16. Viola Dana, film actress, and her mother, Mrs. Marie Flugrath, both appeared In the divorce courts here. Shortly after Miss Dana was divorced from her husband, Maurice (Lefty) Flynn, former Yale football player, Mrs. Flugrath appeared and asked for a divorce from Emil Flugrath.

The daughter charged her husband with being habitually drunk. Mrs. Flugrath said her husband was cruel and that he ignored her. Her case was taken under advisement. Miss Dana and Flynn were married three years ago. They had been termed by Hollywood as the “ideal couple.” Death Driver Sentenced Bjr United Press EVANSW- Li", Ind., Feb. 16— Frank Frick. 32, today is under sentence of a SIOO fine and a 180-day penal farm term following conviction on a d,unk-while-driving charge. A car he was driving crashed into another, causing the death of Louis Wunderlicht, 18.

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BOOST FOB STEWART Standard Oil Employes Back Chairman in Fight. I]U Uniton Press • - ' V CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Cautioning against of “political propaganda or personal desire of an individual,” employes of the Standard Oil Company of Indians, have asked large stockholders of the company to re-elect all present directors. The message was from the association formed by the employes and was taken as an indication of their desire to support Colonel Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of directors, whose removal is sought by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

35 DIE IN MEXICO Disorders Continue; Train Is Dynamited. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Feb. 16.—Renewed disorders in Mexico were reported Friday night with deaths totaling more than thirty-five. Incomplete dispatches from Guadalajara said a train was dynamited between Los Reyes and Yurecuaro, state of Miclioacan, and the engineer, firemen and entire military escort killed. No passengers were among the casualties. Eight federals and twenty—fn-e rebels were reported killed in a battle near Magdalena, state of Jalisco, and two rebels were killed in an encounter at Nopal. DEATH SENTENCE TO BE PRONOUNCED MONDAY MuncieJMan Reads “Thrillers” Pending Fateful Words at Ft. Wayne. By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 16. Wayne Williams, Muncie, will be sentenced to death in the electric chair here Monday by Judge Sql A. Wood of Allen circuit court for the murder of Clem Foley, during a holdup. At the same time, Williams’ partner in crime, Carroll Cooper, will receive a life prison term. “I’d rather die than spend the rest of my life.in prison.” Williams remarks. He puts in most of his time reading magazines specializing on stories in which master criminals outwit detectives. “I never killed anyone. I’m not afraid to die. Fm prepared to go,” the condemned man continues.

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He’ll Swap By Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., Feb. 16.—A rancher near Jordan, N. M., has ( written to the AdvanceRumlex,. Company here offering to trade a' buffalo for a tractor, one of the company’s products. He writes that he will pay the freight on the buffalo if the company will do likewise with the tractor.

FIRE BETTER THAN LAW Destroys Poolroom Monon Ordinance Could Not Affect. By Times Spedfyl MONON, Ind-, Feb. 16.—What the law could not do, fire has done. The poolroom of Thomas Stockton, on the outskirts of this town, is in luins today. An ordinance forbidding poolrooms is in effect here, but Stockton "evaded it by operating the place just outside the limits. It is the general belief here that the fire was of incendiary origin. Many citizens were strongly opposed to the poolroom.

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HOOVER WILL REOPEN DRIVE TON ASMS Expepjs to! Negotiate With Great Bntain Early in Administration. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Prtss Stmff Corrrspondent (Copyright, 1929. by United Press' WASHINGTON. Feb. 16.—Pres: dent-Etect Herbert Hoover is ex pecting to communicate with Greaf Britain early in his administration to see if there is a possibility of resuming disarmament negotiations which, were broken off at Geneva in 1927, the United Press W informed on reliable authority. Sis Esme Howard, the British ambassador .at Washington, gave the United Press ah Interview Friday predicting anew disarmament drive. This is taken ‘as meaning Hoover’s offer for resumption of negotiations will be favorably received in London and that there may be anew disarmament conference possibly before this year is over. The matter is a delicate diplomatic question and authorities in touch with the situation decline generally to make public statements at this time. For one thing the recent senate debate over the American naval cruiser program now adopted has directed international attention to the armament construction program of the United States and Britain.. An appropriation to begin work on the cruisers immediately Is pending in the.senate. President Coolidge, whose strong Armistice day address severely criticised the British attitude expressed at GSneva'.’is about to retire along with his secretary of state. Possibly the most important rea.son for silence in congressional circles is -the fact that Republican adherents of the building program fear Sir Esme’s statement may be used by opponents of the American naval program, seeking to hold up the congressional ationBritain Is Silent Bj‘T nited ,Press ~ LONDON, Feh. 16.—Great Britain probably will be unable to make any further announcement on naval disarmament until, she has consulted with her dominions, the foreign office announced today. Marshal Foci} Gets Better Bp United firck* PARIS, Feb. 16.—Marshal Fertii nand Focfi’s slow progressive improvement continues, a bulletin ir sued today after a thirty-minm consultation by five physicians saie