Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1929 — Page 17

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NEW KOKOMO MILL TO GIVE 500 MEN JOBS $ Continental Steel Unit Will Pay $1,000,000 Wages Yearly. INCREASES IN PAY ROLLS Workers at Anderson, Peru and Connersville Getting More, BY CHARLES C. STONE Slate Edi'or. The Tiroes Addition of 500 more workers and an industrial pay roll increase of $1,000,000 annually, through establishment of anew rolling mill at Kokomo, and heavy gains in pay rolls at Anderson. Peru and Connersville are among important business and industrial developments of the past week in Indiana, a survey today reveals. The new mill at Kokomo will be a unit of the Continental Steel Corporation. Completion is set for September, Henry Roemer, Continental president, announces. An increase of $2,100,000 in the industrial pay roll at Anderson is reported by the Chamber of Commerce, for this period of 1929 as compared with the same time in 1928. The annual total is placed at $21,000,000. Factories are now paying employes $1,750,000 monthly. 450 Get More Pay Raises in pay granted Chesapeake & Ohio railroad shopmen will increase the roll at the Peru shops $70,000 a year. The raises affect 450 Peru men. Connersville shows a remarkable pay roll Increase. For the week ended Saturday, industries paid employes $120,000. with 4,300 persons at work. Five weeks ago the pay roll total was only $91,000 with 3,050 working. Building in the state during January reached a total of $4,465,000, and was 4 per cent above the December, 1928, total, but 31 per cent less than the January, 1928, total. Ol the new work, $1,465,200 was in Indianapolis. The Hoosier Condensed Milk Company, operating plants in several Indiana cities, announces a capital stock increase of $120,000, for a total of $200,000. The company is planning to build a large addition to its BlufTton plant. Conditions in other Indiana cities are shown in the following summary : Kokomo—Hamilton-Ross Factories, Inc., manufacturing lamps and furniture novelties, plans an immediate expansion to provide employment of 300 more persons. Increases Capital Crawfordsvill- -The Union Savings and Loan Association has increased its capital stock from sl,000,000 to $1,500,000. The association reports 1928 was the most profitable year in its history. The Mid-States Steel and Wire Company announces that installation of new type galvanizing process makes its plant the most modern wire producing unit in the country. Marion—The Eilar Piple Saddle and Clamp Company has been incorporated with a capital of SIOO,000. A contract has been awarded for extensive remodeling of a building occupied by the Trueblood Laundry. \ Peru—Expenditure of $500,000 by the Wabash railroad for improvement of its Peru division may result in erection of anew roundhouse here. .Work known to be planned includes laying of new rails ahd building of passing sidings. South Bend—Prediction that this city will become headquarters of the world's largest company manufacturing farm implements have been made following merger of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works. South Bend, with the Nichols-Sheppard Company. Battle Creek. Mich., and the -Hart-Parr Company, Charles City, La. Reports are current here that other companies will be taken into the merger, which is capitalized at $50,000,000. The merged company is large enough, it is said, to be a strong competitor of the International Harvester Company. Ft. Wayne—A contract has been signed for erection of a plant for the Steinite Radio Manufacturing Company. Fifty men are to be employed in manufacturing Sky Romer monoplanes at a plant to occupy a remodeled hangar at the Guy Means airport. Steel Production Gains Gary—Operations in the local works of the Illinois Steel Company are now close to the 100 per cent mark, due to opening of the tenth stack of blast furnaces. The unit has a capacity of 1,000 tons daily. Twenty of a total of twenty-seven Company announces that Its unfilled stacks are now in use. Aube-"—The Auburn Automobile orders/ ul 3.000 in the New York, Boston and Philadelphia district, with less than fifty cars in distributors hands. At the same time last year, the figures were 102 and 900 respectively. Vincennes—lglehart Brothers, Inc., flour millers, announce plans for erection at their plant here of” eighteen storage and fourteen interbins, to cost SIOO,OOO. Mt Vernon—The new plant of the Overall Corporation of America here has been dedicated, and officials announce operations will be started within’a few weeks. Forty persons will comprise the force at beginning of production NY k Postmaster By Tinn s special TAYLORVILLE. Ind.. March I.— Lowell Barrows will assume the duties of postmaster here Saturday, succeeding J. H. Sublette, who resigned because of illness.

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BABES ILL; STEALS Misfortunes Pile Up on Family

THE two babies of Everett Childers. 22, of 1204 West Market street, are seriously ill with pneumonia in nty hospital today. His wife is at city hospital, helping nurse her sick ones. And Childers sits in a cell at city prison waiting for the law to take its course. He is charged with, and admits, stealing an automobile a Chevrolet coach, belonging to the Indiana Gravel Companv, from Meridian and New York streets, and taking and rolls from a grocerv at 901 West Washington street. Sergeant Clifford Richter and squad saw the stolen car at New York street White river boulevard Thursday night. They gave chase and forced Childers to the curb at Washington street, and with drawn revolvers captured him.

DUAL MURDER BEING PROBED Five Face Questioning at Logansport. B.u United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind.. March I. Authorities continued their investigation today into the slaying Thursday of Earl Armstrong, 36. and Jack Williams, 23, alleged bootlegger, whose bodies were found in the former’s solt drink parlor, each containing a bullet wound. Police announced today they had instituted a search for a man named “Blake” who may have been a companion to John J. Crockett, at the scene of the murder. Crockett appeared at a hospital here Thursday requesting medical attention for a bullet wound, cause of which he refused to divulge. He, however, told police he had visited the scene of the slaying and that he saw several other persons, besides the victims in the shack. Crockett, still in a serious condition, was to be questioned again today. Four other persons, a woman and three men also were to be questioned again today. The woman, Jessie Penny, 25, said to be a sweetheart of Crockett’s has visited him several times in the hospital, each time engaging in undertone conversation. The men, Tom Deering. George Hiles. and John Bagley, were said to have known the dead men well. Hiles discovered the bodies. It was considered likely Hhat Circuit Judge John Smith would be asked to name a special prosecutor in the case, inasmuch as Glen Miller, prosecutor, is a cousin of Crockett. Funeral services for the two men will be held Saturday, Armstrong will be buried at Greento.vn and Williams here.

MEETING DRAWS 600 Eagles in District Session at Connersville. By Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., March 1. —Fifty candidates were initiated at a Ninth district meeting of the Fraternal Order of Eagles here Thursday night, when the local aerie was host to the Brookville, Richmond and Rushville aeries. The candidates included Earl Crawford, president of the Fayette Bank and Trust' Company of Connersville, who was also a speaker.’ There was an attendance of 600. Other speakers included J. Pierce Cummings, Indianapolis, Henry Schroeder, state vice-president, Richmond; Wallace J. Dillingham, Warsaw, deputy national auditor; Mike Burkhart, president of the Brookville aerie; Edwin Yaesel, Richmond aerie president, and Herman Parker, Connersville aerie president. There was a musical program directed by Charles F. Ford on which the Eagles’ string band appeared. The ritualistic work was directed by William A. Stoehr, state chaplain, and a member of Connersville aerie. A banquet closed the meeting. STEAL ELECTRICITY ! 1 Some Patrons of Peru Plant Accused. By Times (Special PERU, Ind., March I.—Electric meters may be placed outside homes here and locked, with a glass space so readings can be made, as a result of reports that theft of electricity has reached serious propor- , tions. The city council will pass on the inside meter proposal at its next meeting and in the meantime persons known to have been stealing current will be warned to cease the practcie. Current here is provided by a city-owned plant.

INDIANA MINES MAY „ ENTER BIG MERGER

By Times Special i TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. March 1 Fifteen Indiana coal mining companies included m a planned i merger which would have a capital of $50,000,000 and include mines; also in West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Options on the Indiana properties it is proposed to absorb were extended for sixty days at a meeting Here Thursday of counsel representing the various companies. Directing handling of the merger details is affecting Indiana is the law firm cf Hays & Hays, Sullivan, with Hinkle C. Hays in charge. The new corporation, functioning under the laws of Delaware, plans re-organization of the soft coal In- j dustry into a number of large units j

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Desire to keep his mother and a third child from starving prompted him to steal the doughnuts and rolls, Childers declared. His mother is staying at his rooms at the West Market street address, caring for the third child, Esther. 3. while his wife waits at the bedsides of the two ill children. The children at the hospital are Williams, 17 months, and Mary, 7 weeks. "I guess I was just crazy, wild, to steal that car,” said Childers. “I don’t know what I was going to do. “Last night they told me my baby wasn't going to get well. There wasn’t a thing in the house for my mother and little girl to eat. "Ive been out of work a month. I worked at Klngan's, but the work was irregular. Good weeks I made $lB to S2O. I owe a month's rent. I was afraid they’d put me out. “Mister, all I want is that somebody sees that my mother and my little girl have something to eat’. My wife is eating at the hospital. I don’t care about myself.” Childers admitted he had been arrested several years ago on a grand larceny charge, but said he was not convicted. Sergeant Thomas Bledsoe, humane society officer, is investigating the needs of Childer’s mother and daughter so the humane society may provide relief if needed.

NINE MURDERED IN NINEMGNTHS Bloomington Record Exceeds Chicago’s. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., March 1. —That Bloomington has a homicide record which is greater in proportion to population than that of/Chicago, with nine in as many months was the assertion made before a meeting of the Kiwanis club by George Henley, attorney. He declarea crime wave has existed in Bloomington for several months and gave a committee a recommendation to make an investigation and report concerning conditions and a possible remedy. Henley also pointed out that in the past week a number of homes have been entered and that a drug store was robbed of SSOO in cash and $5,000 in checks.

HOOSIERS TO SEE HOOVERTAKEOATH

By Times Special WASHINGTON, March I.—Several hundred persons from Indiana will be here for the inauguration next Monday of Herbert Hoover as President, but th/ state will not be represented in the inaugural parade, according to General Anton Stephan, in charge, and there will be no general center of Indiana activities. The Hoosiers are expected to gather Saturday night at the Willard hotel, where Representative David Hogg of Ft. Wayne plans an Indiana get-together, with Strickland Gillilan, humorist and former Hoosier, as the center of attraction. Indiana senators and representatives report that their supplies of tickets for the inauguration are exhausted, but that the demand has not been as heavy as they expected. Governor Harry G. Leslie is not expected, unless he announces at the last minute he is coming. Among the Indiana Republican political leaders expected to be here are former Governor James P. Goodrich and Oscar Foellinger, Ft. Wayne publisher, who led Hoover’s pre-primary campaign in Indiana; M: Bert Thurman, national committeeman, and Mrs. Thurman; Elza Rogers. state chairman, and Mrs. Rogers, and Miss Dorothy Cunningham, national committeewoman. A party of twenty-five from Ft. Wayne has chartered a special car in which they expect to remain during their stay in Washington. A similar party from Indianapolis also has a car. Mayor Raleigh Hale and

for improvement of production methods, reduction of overhead, costs, elimination of selling duplication and employment of scientists to determine ways of perfecting various by-products in mining. Indiana companies being considered for the merger include: Knox Coftsolidated Coal Company, the Talley Coal Mining Company, Coal Creek Mining Company, Bon Ayr Coal Company. Glen Ayr Coal Company. Fayette Reality and Development Company. Templeton Coal Company, Glendora Coal Company, Linton Summit Coal Company. Shirkie Coal Company, Binkley Coal Company. Bogle Coal Company, Hymera Coal Mining Company, Miami Coal Company, Hamilton Coal Company. ~

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INDIANA MAN BRANDED BOND THEFTJRAINS’ Henry T. Davidson Fights Return for Bank Robbery Trial. NEW CLASH THURSDAY Habeas Corpus Hearing to Follow State Victory on Extradition. By United Press RENSSELAER, Ind.. March I. Efforts of Jasper county authorities to bring Henry T. Davidson here for trial on a charge of aiding in the robbery of the State Bank of Rensselaer, Sept. 7 last, have brought a series of developments which may disclose that the wanted man is the brains of a huge conspiracy in bank bond stealing. Two men alleged to be connected with plot are in custody in Oklahoma City where Davidson is also held, pending further Investigation into bofld thefts. The men held were arrested when they appeared as witnesses for Davidson in his fight to prevent extradition to Indiana. Starts Another Fight Charles A. Halleck, Jasper county prosecuting attorney, and Sheriff Harry Rouse have returned here after spending several days in Oklahoma City, where they succeeded in winning the extradition fight only to be blocked when Davidson’s counsel instituted habeas corpus proceedings. Halieck and Rouse wi 1 be In Oklahoma City Thursday when the habeas corpus case will be heard. They plan to take with them several Rensselaer citizens to combat Davidson’s claim that he was not here at the time of the hank robbery. He asserted that on Sept 7 he was in St. Louis, Mo., in fighting extradition, and will make the same claim in. the hearing Thursday. Loot Evidence Found When taken into custody by Oklahoma officers as a fugitive, Davidson had in his possession six coupons from bonds included in loot from the local bank as well as coupons from bonds missing in other cities. In the extradition case. Prosecutor Halleck was pitted against Moman Pruiett, Oklahoma’s most brilliant lawyer, but was the victor. The case is attracting attention throughout Oklahoma. Bond has been denied Davidson in advance of the present hearing. In the previous case he was under SB,OOO bond, but he and his attorneys did not appear until after a long delay, and friends who signed as security have withdrawn aid.

a party of fiva from East Chicago are coming. Thirteen persons from Terre Haute have notified Representative Noble Johnson they will be here, and several from Evansville have notified Representative Harry E. Rowbottom of similar intentions. Many will motor through. Senators and representatives of Indiana will keep open house for Hoosier visitors. Kokomo Men to Attend Bit Times Special KOKOMO, March I.—Morton Lamb, postmaster; Omer F. Brown and Emmett Swafford, two former Republican chairmen of Howard county, and Grant Fitch, precinct worker, will motor to Washington, to attend the Hoover inauguration. While in Washington the local men will be guests of S. S. Symons, a Howard county man who for nearly thirty years has been employed in the war department offices.. REALfORS~TO DETROIT Home Show Committee to Attend Exposition There. Members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board home show committee left Thursday night for Detroit to attend the home show there. They will return Saturday. Those who made the trip are: T. E. Grinslade, chairman: J. Frank Cantwell. Walter M. Evans, Dan W. LeGore, M. M. Miller, and Mayfield Kaylor, assistant secretary of the board. Store to Use Bank Building Bn Times Special KOKOMO, Ind.. March I.—A building permit has been issued the Franklin D. Miller Realty Company to remodel the old American Trust Company Bank building at a cost of $10,500. The Sears-Roebuck Cos., Chicago has leased the building for use as a retail store.

Who Paid? Bn Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. March I.—H. T. Evans and Glen Zoll took a taxi ride together and at its end. couldn’t agree who should pay. each insisting on parting with money. When Evans attempted to end the argument by striking Zoll. his hand went through a window, severely cutting his right wrist. Evans is being treated at a hospital. Zoll is in jail charged with being drunk.

SKIPPER JOAN LICKS WORLD

Girl s Exploits Surpass Fiction Thrillers

S A full DIGGED SHIP wag 70AM LOWELOQ j NUCGCGY, A FLOUI2. . J paq her, first J YEARS O* HEO.UYE AkuL'. I ( Here's Skipper Joan Lowell with JjjgJ / \ I . /;i * a model of the Star of Bengal, her j father’s South Sea island trading dry f J&m ship on s^e spent her life . vCk,' until she was 17. She made the Jr*/’- l l: V r model herself. In the sketches, JPv l A ctaialf-'STDiW' Artist Joe King illustrates some v MAO MAN ON A LONELY CJUANO incidents in her astounding INLAND Use story.

(Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) NEW ORLEANS, March I. Gangway for Skipper Joan! Gangway for the 26-year-old girl who has licked the world! Her name is Joan Lowell. She is a “Trader Horn in petticoats” and her life story is the most alluring ever read. Here is a real story of the South Seas, more fascinating than fiction masterpieces. From the time she was 11-months-olds until she was 17-years-old she lived aboard her father’s vessel, which traded between the strange ports below the Southern,Cross. A full-rigged ship was her nursery, a flour bag her first nightgown, a canvas hammock her cradle and the ship’s sailmaker her nurse. She was raised largely on milk from Norfolk Island goats, obtained from the natives in trade for dried apricots, old alarm clocks, beads, mirrors and such things as that. She learned to spit a curve in the wind and swear a blue streak for minutes at a time without repeating. Up to the time she was 17 she never had worn shoes or stockings, but she had a second mate’s papers for any tonnage in sail throughout the Pacific ocean. She wore trousers, chewed tobacco, learned the ways of sailors and shinned up the rigging as fast as any of them. She has lived a lot and seen a lot . . . she mastered fourteen South Sea dialects as a girl .. . mingled with cannibals on volcanic islands . . . saw the dance of the Virgin on Atafu . . . escaped a fe-male-struck madman on a lonely guano island .. . witnessed an operation at sea where the lancet was a razor and the anesthetic a belaying pin. tt tt n AND now, at 26, Skipper Joan has licked the world! Like Trader Horn, Skipper Joan his set down her life in a book. It is “The Cradle of the Deep,” to be published by Simon & Schuster early in March, and it promises to be one of the literary sensations of the year. Theatrical and movie rights already have been sold. Within two years, it is estimated, Skipper Joan will have a bank account of more than $200,000. But more than that. Skipper Joan is a successful actress. She has been playing the lead with a stock company in New Orleans, but she is en route to New York to take the leading role in the stage version of her life. Then she is going to Hollywood to take the leading part in the screen version. She probably will see her name blazoned in electric lights across the front of theaters on Broadway, in London, Paris, San Francisco and other cities before many more months.

WHEN Joan was II months old. her father took her to -sea from their home in Berkeley. Cal. The mother and the other children remained behind.^ With hard-handed sailors for nurses, the babe came along. At a time when most girls are playing with dolls. Joan was learning to splice and knot and reef and steer. She was up in the rigging when she was 6; her childhood was spent in the circle of wide, wet horizons, broken by visits to sfrange and savage islands and Oriental ports that reeked with all the sins hell itself knows. Sire wore the singlet and dungarees and sea boots like the rest of the crew when she didn't go barefooted. Square-shouldered, slim-hipped, with arms like steel cables—they are that way today—she toiled as a sailor as well as any of them. “I was chewing plug tobacco

when I was 12. It kept my teeth white. I could spit better, too.” b n tt THE able seaman learned navigatio from her father and got a second mate’s papers. “When I was 16,” she relates, “I weighed 140 pounds and could lick any man my weight. I had to do it lots of times. Sometimes I had to step outside my weight, too.” At 17, dressed as a girl for the first time, Joan went ashore—to lick the world or get licked by it. She had fought hurricane and man-eating sharks, she had nearly starved on a becalmed ship when the grub ran short, she had fallen twenty feet to the deck and broken her nose—but she had never faced the world and men before. California wasn’t cordial, but she found a job as a telephone

OPPOSE STATE MINER MEETING District 11 Officials Cite Heavy Expense. Bij Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March I. A special convention of District 11, United Mine Workers of America, is opposed by district officials with headquarters here, and they have sent a letter to all local .unions advising against the meeting. The letter asserts that a proposal by some unions for a meeting was not made in conformity to the district organization’s constitution, and calls attention to the expense of a meeting which it says “would be many thousands of dollars.” Officials ask that the question be submitted to members of all district locals and that a report be made on action taken. MURDER QUIZ HALTS Witnesses Are Awaited in Christie Case. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., March 1, —The Monroe county grand jury has adjourned after a three-day session without an indictment in the murder of John Christie, Indiana uuniversity janitor. Prosecuting Attorney Donald Rogers announces the jurors will be reconvened soon to hear testimony of persons who were out of the city at this week’s session. Forty-five were heard by the jury, but Rogers said not enough evidence was obtained to back up an indictment. hristie was fatally shot the night of Feb. 2 while walking on a street en route to his home.

BEDFORD MURDER SUSPECT ON STAND

Bp Times Special BEDFORD. Ind., March I.—Testifying in his own behalf, Atlee Osborne on trial in Lawrence circuit court here charged with the murder of Sylvan Moore, declared: "I turned cold frc:~* head to foot, as I had never expected anything like this.” He was describing the scene when he returned unexpectedly to his home and found his wife with,

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Here's Skipper Joan Lowell with a model of the Star of Bengal, her father’s South Sea island trading ship on which she spent her life until she was 17. She made the model herself. In the sketches. Artist Joe King illustrates some of the incidents in her astounding life story.

girl at Berkeley. It paid a few dollars a week. After hours as a telephone girl, she waited on tables, washed dishes, minded babies for absent mothers, washed automobiles—anything to raise a dollar. Starting W'ith the little education her father had given her aboard ship, she spent her money for a course in shorthand, in typewriting. For a time she worked in a lawyer’s office and then, reading that a South Sea island movie was to be filmed, she decided to become an actress and bucked Hollywood with $52 in her pocket. n it a SKIPPER JOAN fought Hollywood as thousands of other girls have. Hollywood has licked lots of them. Joan licked Hollywood. She didn’t get a job as an actress right then, but she did get a job as a waitress and a little later she became assistant to a wardrobe mistress at a movie studio for $25. The wardrobe mistress got riled at something and fired her. Back to the job of waiting on tables and washing dishes. Anything to keep alive—that is, anything but one thing. “I wish I had a dollar for every one of those little Hollywood lice in pants who sidled up to me and offered me a cozy little apartment without a wedding ring,” says Joan. “There were times when I said to myself: ‘Well, why not? Why starve?’ But something made me hold back. It wasn’t the bloom of girlish innocence. I knew what the world was like. “I knew every oath in the language. I could stand that. But I couldn’t stand smirking and smut, I told them to go to hell.” n tt tt PERSEVERENCE won. Rupert Hughes and Marshall Neilan happened to like her film tests. She got a job in the movies at $75 a week. She took part in movie after movie, getting increasingly important parts. She was one of the cast in Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rusfl.” Every cent above her living expenses went for lessons. She studied dancing, bought a set of classics ■ and actually read them. At last i she made her way to New York. I Tooth and nail she fought and landed a part in a Broadway play. The ; crtics caught something of her flaming and stark sincerity, i It dawned on Skipper Joan that | she needed wider stage experience i than she was getting in New York. ! So she quit and went out to Detroit Ito work in stock. She played in l eighty-nine different plays in ! eighty-nine weeks. And then she came to New Ori leans .with a stock company at the i St. Charles theater, still seeking I wider experience. Now Joan is going back to New York again. A big job awaits her. She is a finished actress, they say.

Moore. He asserted his mind became blank after Moore struck him and that he did not know what he was doing when he killed Moore a few minutes later by battering his head or a concrete sidewalk near the house. Mrs. Osborne while on the witness stand asserted Moore had gained entrance to the home by placing his foot so that she could not close a door.

STANDARD OIL GIANTS ARMED FOR CONFLICT Stewart and Rockefeller * Will Meet in Decisive Battle March 7. INDIANA IS WAR SCENE Rival Millionaires Will Settle Feud in Whiting Over Ethics. BY BRCJCE CATTOX, NCA Service Writer WHITING. Ind., March I.—With millions massed on each side, the stage has been set In this quiet little Indiana town, an hour’s ride from Chicago, for the financial “battle of the century"—the fight of John D. Rockefeller Jr., to oust Colonel Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, a $900,000,000 concern. On March 7. Colonel Stewart will be “tried” before a jury composed of the corporation's 58,000 stockholders with Rockefeller in the role of prosecutor. In person or by proxy —mostly the latter—the stockholders will vote on Rockefeller's motion that Stewart should resign because of his connection with the mysterious Continental Trading Company which was linked, in a way,,, with the Teapot Dome oil scandal. Ethics Vs. Profits Some have called it “a battle be4 ; tween ethics and profits.” since* Rockefeller has demanded that Ste- 1 wart resign on ethical grounds and Stewart, refusing, has stood largely on his record for successful operation of the company. It has just recently declared two dividends of $116,000,000 each. John D. Rockefeller Jr., owns only 5 per cent of the Standard Oil of Indiana’s stock and, through various Rockefeller boards and foundations, controls only 10 per cent more. However, he has succeeded in rallying many stockholders to his support in his efforts to get the necessary 51 per cent the vote. His ,aged father, now wintering in Florida, owns none of the stock but is giving his son his full support. Thus comes to a showdown the battle between the son of the world’s richest man and Colonel Stewart, the son of ai. lowa blacksmith, who has accumulated a fortune estimated at $100,000,000. The stake is control of the Standard of Indiana, the largest single manufacturer and marketer of petroleum in the world. Prepare for Battle For months the two men have been marshaling their forces—lining up the votes of stockholders for and against. The whole titanic combat, in which the two antagonists symbolize two opposing trends of American business life, dates back to a curious, almost irrevelant side-is-sue of the great Teapot Dome oil' scandal. The Rockefellers, through a spokesman, recently announced that they already had gained the support of more than 45 per cent of the voting stock, and were confident that this would give them the victory. Stewart, however, refused to concede the truth of this claim. Probably this is the first time in the history of big business that stockholders have sought to oust an official on purely ethical grounds. In this fight Stewart represents the old order of business man; the business man of tradition, who rolls up immense profits for his company and makes no fine definitions about the rights or wrongs of the methods he uses.

John D. Thinks Different Rockefeller, on the other hand, Is interested in the ethics of the thing. Asa stockholder he surely can not complain about the profits Stewart has been making for him. In his viewpoint he represents the new attitude that has been growing up in business circles: the attitude that the simple standard “does it pay?” is not quite good enough, even in trade. And there things rest as present. Rockefeller vs. Stewart—“ethics against profits”—the old order against the new. When the stockholders cast their votes on March 7 it will be determined which is to be the victor. DESIRES LEGAL”DEATH Wabash Woman Sues After Husband Stays Away Seven V;ars. Bit Times Special' WABASH. Ind., March I.—-Mrs. Ollie P. Hinton has filed suit in Wabash circuit court here asking that her husband, Jesse L. Hinton, be , declared legally dead. She desires to collect $540 insurance. According to the wife’s suit, her husband left home Jan. 9, 1922, and since then she has heard nothing from him, and that efforts to find him have been fruitless. Grant County Farmer Dies 111/ Timex Xprrtal PLAINFIELD. Ind.. March 1. Funeral services were held today for Henson Pulley, 81, Grant county farmer, who died at his Washington township home Wednesday.

‘Tis Spring By Times snc'dal MARION. Ind.. March I, Robins, marbles, violets and to •he days ot yore, bock beer signs, are shoved into the discard as heralds of spring by H.- 8. Phillips, who is exhibiting a sprig of cherry blossoms. “It’s not a freak, either.” Phillips asserts. “Come out to my place and I’ll show you a whole tree of them.’’