Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1929 — Page 6

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VICTORY FOR MANAGER BILL ISPREDICTEO House Concurrence in Senate Amendments Only Worry. House concurrence in senate amendments to the Noll city manager bill was the only source of apprehension today for city manager forces, who advanced the measure to third reading Tuesday over efforts of its opponents to kill it outright. Two of the four amendments appended to the bill by Senator Winfield Miller and friendly forces Tuesday are expected to encounter resistance from city manager enemies when the house is asked to concur. One would take control of city manager elections away from the regular board of election commissioners and place control in the hands of a commission of three — one named by the circuit court judge, one by the ctiy council, or, after the first election, by the commission, and the city clerk to be the third. The other provides for selection of a park board of three members to be named by the city manager with the duties and powers of the present board; and for selection of a sanitary board of three members, to be named by the city manager, one of whom shall be nominated by the state board of health. Senator Millei said he would call the Noll bill down for third reading the first time the order of business presents the opportunity, probably Thursday. Passage is generally conceded in view of Tuesday’s victory. * Senators Sumner Clancy, Indianapolis; Gedrge W. Sims, Terre Haute, and Car) M. Gray, Petersburg, comprised the trio that tried unsuccessfully to kill the Noll bill TuesGray offered ar amendment identical with Sim’s repeal bill, now second reading, but the killng amendment was voted down when twenty-seven senators stood to table it. Clancy succeeded in getting approval for one amendment, little opposed by manager forces. It provides that any reversion to the federal system after city manager government is instituted, shall be at the end of the term of the commissioner whox* commission expires first. Claris prof erred amendment to empower the city attorney to name all his deputies was tabled on moMadison, 22 to 8. tion of Senator Joseph M. Cravens,

First Presbyterian ADDITION DEDICATED Dedicatory exercises for the Matthew F. Smith churchhouse of the First Presbyterian church which held Tuesday night culminated six years of work in the erection of the structure. The addition was built in memory of Dr. Matthew F. Smith, late pastor of the church. The building will be used as a gymnasium and young people's gathering place. Six hundred persons took part in the ceremonies presided over by William L. Elder, building committee chairman. A bronze tablet was unveiled in honor of Dr. Smith. The prayer of dedication was given by Dr. George Arthur Frantz, pastor. Following the dedication a basketball game and informal reception were held. Plans for the construction of 'he recreation building tyere begun in 1921. Work on the structure started in 1924. The building has been put to church use since Christmas.

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PICK NINUURYMEN Panel for McDonald Trial May Be Completed Today. With defense attorneys holding only three peremptory challenges with which they might check the state’s effort to obtain a jury to try Rupert McDonald, 22, of Chicago, charged with the murder of Wilkinson Haag, local druggist, it was believed the panel was near completion todas. Nine jurors had been tentatively accepted by both sides. Criminal Judge James A. Collins ordered twenty-five more prospective jurors subpoenaed forthwith, when it developed that a previous venire of fifty rapidly was being exhausted. Two hundred and sev-enty-five talesmen now have been called for service. As long as the defense held several peremptory challenges, it was possible to oust any prospective talesmen not favorable to McDonald. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark has exercised five peremptory challenges, but has removed almost fifty prospective jurors for cause due to their disbelief in capital punishment. Haag was shot while lunching at the Green Mill barbecue, East Thirty-eighth street and Keystone avenue, May 16, 1926.

ADVANCE VOTE BILL Registration Measure Goes to Third Reading. Amended so deputy county auditors will get 10 cents a head for each voter registered in the first listing after the bill becomes law, the voter registration bill passed to third reading in the senate Tuesday afternoon. Senator Winfield Miller, Indianapot sponsor of the bill, which al-rc-'"y has passed the house, agreed to the amendment regarding deputy auditors offered by Senator J. Francis Lochard, Milan. The bill had provided for assessors to register the voters. Effort of Senator J. French Clements, Evansville, to strike out the provision that voters must write their names in poll books for comparison with the original registration was defeated. The bill originally was put into both houses by the Indiana League of Women Voters. Many members of that organization were in the senate chamber to watch its advancement.

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RE-ELECT FARM HEADS Purchasing Department of Bureau Closes Meeting at Denison. Re-election of all officers closed the meeting of the Indiana Farm Bureau Purchasing Department, Inc., Tuesday in the Denison hotel. Officers re-named for the year 1929 are: William H. Settle, Petroleum, president; Oscar W. Larm, Oxford, vice-president; Everett Jeanes, Indianapolis, secretarytreasurer, and I. H. Hull, Indianapolis, general manager. Resolutions were passed asking congress to amend the intermediate credit act and to conduct an educational service among established co-operative association. FARM SURVEY URGED Better understanding of rural and urban relations would result from an agricultural survey in Indianapolis trade area, N. T. Frame, agriculture extension director of University of Virginia, told Rotary Club members Tuesday at the Claypool. Frame said the study should include about fifteen counties. Clarence Henry, county agricultural agent who has been endeavoring to make such a survey, introduced Frame. MOTION PICTURES

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FIGHT STORM ALL NIGHT TO SAVEJJLIMPS 700 Army and Navy Men in Battle With Gale to Hold Airships.

Bit United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.--An ! all-night fight to save three army and navy blimps ended today with the calming of a fifty-mile-an-hour gale that had whipped Bolling field for sixteen hours. • In the struggle two seamen were injured clinging to tjje ground cables of the bobbing gas bags, and the navy blimp J-4 was deflated w r ith the accompanying loss of the valuable helium gas that filled the bag. The other craft, the navy J-3, and the army TC-5, returned to Langley Field, Va., this morning, where suitable moorings are to be had. The cage on the J-3 was partly smashed. “Twister” Hits Field The fight o save the craft started Tuesday night at 8 o’clock just as men at the field were going to supper. An officer glanced at the swirling s k y and saw a “twister” descending toward the field where the ships were held with only ground ropes, there being no other mooring at Bolling field. The entire garrison rushed to the blimps and by sheer strength and numbers the airships were prevented from taking the air unmanned. Every available man was rushed to the field, many fighting the wind and mud without boots, some without even shoes. Approximately 350 men, the entire staffs of Bolling field and the naval air station, vere on the field in the first hour. At times the entire number was lifted clear of the ground. It was only with the greatest effort the ships were kept clear of each other and on the ground. 700 Men Battle Storm When it became apparent the fight would be lost unless more men were present, seventy-one men were dispatched from the marine barracks and the navy yard and still later 200 men were rushed from Ft. Myer and eighty-seven marines and sailors from the presidential yacht Mayflower. In the rain, wind and mud about 700 men battled the elements. By dawn two of the seamen had been injured manning the steel anchor cables. The J-4 was deflated when an officer noticed a great rip in the bag To keep the rip frpm growing larger he pulled the deflation cord. The helium that filled it costing $1 a cubic foot was whipped away and the folds of the bag dropped to earth, many of the men being caught beneath it when it came down.

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DEATH COMES TO TAGGART, PARTY CHIEF Funeral Services Are Set for Friday: Power in * Politics for Years. (Continued from Page 1.) nate Samuel M. Ralston in the convention of 1908. But when complimentary votes were being passed around at Taggart’s suggestion, combinations began slipping and Ralston was prevailed up to withdraw. Taggart, promptly nominated Marshall and he was given the nomination on the ensuing ballot. Upon the death of United States Senator Benjamin F. Shively in 1916, Governor Ralston named Taggart as his successor March 20. 1916 Within a few months Senator Taggart had distinguished-himseli to a greater extent than many of his colleagues had in years of service. This he accomplished by taking hold of governmental affairs with the same wisdom and energy that characterized his own business successes. He was chosen Democratic nominee for United States senator to succeed himself, but was defeated in the November election by James E. Watson. Taggart again was active at the San Francisco national convention in 1920, but it was at the convention in New York in 1924 that he reached the apex of his career, say his friends, only to be disappointed when the selection of. the party's presidential nominee lay in his hand. For the better part of three weeks, delegates had been wrangling over their choice of a national standard bearer. Steadily Taggart had been advancing Ralston’s cause, while the Indiana delegation cast its vote steadfastly for the “favorite gon.” • Finally delegations came to Taggart at his rooms in the Waldorf Astoria promising to switch to Ralston when voting was resumed that night. Taggart was stretched out on the bed. catching a bit of rest oefore the night session in which he would make a presidential nominee. A crowning climax to a career of political activity was only a few hours distant. Then there came the fateful tele-, gram from Ralston, bearing the word that he would not under any consideration accept the nomination were it offered him. Taggart read the yellow piece of paper and sank down on the bed. Tears streamed down his face as he silently handed the piece of paper to the circle of friends about him. His skillfully conceived and executed plans were for naught. Ralston would not run. Few political figures have been subjected to the bitter opposition from platform and press that was levied against Taggart in his years as a rising Democratic leader,

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mayor, United States Senator and political strategist. Every “ivective in the political orator’s vocabulary was hurled at him. Cartoonists invoked their art in the campaign of villification ana ridicule. But before all this, Taggart maintained an impassive from Only on one occasion, in 1914 did he protest, to newspaper assaults which he felt went beyond all limits of journalistic license. His protest brought about some moderation in the attacks. Taggart kept his own counsel, in business and in politics. Newspaper men despaired of getting to the bottom of his plans and his political opponents were kept in r state of uneasy perplexity. While his political foes were many, his friendships surpassed them. To these he assigned much of the credit for his accomplishments. But even this he was reluctant to discuss, lest it might presuppose he had accomplished something unusual. On June 16, 1877, Mr. Taggart was manned to Miss Eva D. Bryant. Surviving are the widow, at the Taggart family home here, 1331 North Delaware street; one son, Thomas D. Taggart, present and active manager of the French Lick Springs Hotel Company, who is married, and resides at French Lick; four daughters, Miss Lucy Taggart, of New York and Indianapolis; Mrs. D. Laurence Chambers, wife of the vice-president of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis; Mrs. Irene Young of Louisville, and Mrs. W. Richardson Sinclair, wife of the vice-president of Kingan & Cos., Inc., Indianapolis, and nine grandchildren. Taggart’s personal fortune w’as amassed in the operation of his famous French Licks Springs Hotel Company, the property of the Taggart family exclusively. The company not only operates the hotel property, mecca for the nation’s elete, but in conjunction, the bottling plant which has made “Pluto” water familiar the world over. If you are in need of a typewriter or office equipment of any kind, you will find just what you want in the “Store-Office Supplies” column in tonight’s want ads.

FIX CONGRESS SESSION DATE Hoover to Call Meeting Between April 10-15. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.—President Hoover will call congress into extra session for farm relief and tariff revision between April 10 and 15, it was learned today with his conference with Republican Floor Leader Tilson of the house. Tilson said he had recommended this time and that Mr. Hoover was agreeable to that arrangement. Republican leaders, Tilson explained, will attempt to hold the session to farm relief and tariff revision as designed by Mr. Hoover. The house will take up a farm relief measure first, Tilson explained. He said he expected the ways and means committee would be ready with the tariff bill by April 20. Consideration of farm relief by the house should not take over ten days, Tilson said. The house agriculture committee, Tilson explained, will not hold extended hearings on farm relief. “It is not necessary to go over the conditions of agriculture again in detail, as that has been done for many years,” he said. President Hoover discussed the Mexican situation and his law enforcement program in a general w r ay today with Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho), who called at the White House. The Idaho senator said Mr. Hoover had practically completed the personnel of his prohibition investigating commission and that he expected an announcement soon. Marion Deaths Exceed Births MARION, Ind., March 6.—Deaths exceeded births in Marion during February by nine, according to the monthly report of Dr. J. F. Loomis, city health officer. Os the 49 deaths, 22 were men and 27 women, and of the 40 births 19 were boys and 21 girls.

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HAPPY TO OE PLAIN CITIZEN. SAYSCOOLIDGE Has No Plans for Future: Do Little Writing: Will Live in Northampton. Bj/ United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mas*, uimtch 6.—Calvin Coolidge is happy to be freed from the heavy responsibilities of the presidency and return again to his old neighbors and friends here. He feels the greatest thing about not being President is that he doc: not have to get up at 8 a. m. daily and read and dictated all day. He also appreciates that he need not make so many speeches. He does not plan to devote himself principally to writing. He will do a few articles in the near future, as announced in the newspapers, he said, and perhaps an occasional article later on, but writing will not become his main occupation. Seated at a maple desk in the law office of Coolidge Sc Hemenway, the former President gave his first newspaper interview since he left the White House Monday. But force of his habit at Washington caused him to specify that he was not to be directly quoted. Talks Freely He talked freely. He indicated that he might, on occasion, deliver a speech, but certainly not as often as he did while President. Coolidge smilingly said he was not familiar enough yet with being a private citizen again to discuss it as an occupation." He has no plans for the future. He will maintain his law office here, but he stated emphatically, he will not resume the practice of law either in Northampton or elsewhere. So far as he knows now, he will remain indefinitely in Northampton. He and Mrs. Coolidge gave some thought while still in Washington, to the question of moving to a lai'ger house, but since their return Monday, they find the little duplex at 21 Massaoit street rather larger than they had remembered it Attached to Home • They have a great sentimental attachment for their present home because both of their chilaren were born there, and because it has been the background of every event ol their lives for almost a quarter of a century. In any event, both Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge are disposed to remain in Northampton, rather than move to any other city. Coolidge expressed his appreciation through the press for the thousands of telegroms and letters of good wishes which have reached him from all parts of the country during the last few days.