Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1929 — Page 3

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LIBERTY IN U. $. DEAD. DECLARES NOTEDPACIFIST Nation in ‘Dark Ages’ of Civil Freedom, Says Roger Baldwin. Painting a dark picture as to the outlook and future of liberty in the United States, Roger Baldwin, secretary of the American Civil Liberties Union and a noted pacifist, declared Friday night in a speech at the Athanaeum that there never has been a period in the history of this country when freedom was at a lower ebb than during this postwar era. Baldwin took a rap at Judge Linn D. Hay’s injunction restraining the miners in Bicknell from holding meetings. “Liberty in the state of Indiana seems to be dead,” said the speaker, referring to the injunction. “The power of injunctions has done more to gag labor than any other weapon. The courts in the main are subservient to the demands of employers.” Public Doesn’t Care “There is no economic, political, racial or religious liberty in the United States,” he declared. “Since the war this country has dropped a tradition of 130 years, the tradition that no one could be jalied for exorcising an opinion. Now one can b* jailed merely for being a member of the Communist party. “Public opinion has changed also. In pre-war days public opinion always arose in protest when minorities were ill-treated. Today the average American doesn’t care t 1 the rights of free speech have been whittled away because he himself has nothing to say. Just One Party * “At present there is unbridled license for those making money for the corporations, trusts and monopolies to go ahead and make it in any way they wish, while the producer’s right is denied. "There is no political liberty and there is no political opposition. There fs only one party and that includes the Democrats. One half the people don’t vote because they know it is no use. Politics and government are controlled by those who make campaign contributions. During 1928 there were 548 persecutions for free speech and more than sixty meetings were broken up because the Workers party entered the presidential campaign. K. K. K. Spirit Rules “There is no racial and religious liberty, the Negroes and the Catholics can witness that.” Baldwin declared that the future welfare of this country lies in the union of workers and tenant farmers into a labor party. One of his purposes in coming here was to form a local branch of the Civil Liberties Union. PRIZES IN MODEL HOME CONTESTS TOTAL $250 Additional Sums Donated by Realty Board. With the donation by Indianapolis Real Estate Board members of $35 for' additional prizes in the board’s minature model house contest, total prizes for the competition amount to $250, Robert Allison, chairman, announced today. Seven members of the board each have given $5. They are Joseph J. Schmid, Joseph J. Argus, T. E. Grinslade, Tom L. Dillon, Abe Gelman, William L. Elder and Forrest M. Knight. Members of the committee will meet Monday at the board office to decide how the additional prize money shall be distributed. Approximately 150 pupils entered the contest this week, bringing the total number of entries to more than 700. All models must be turned in at the Manufacturers building at the state fairground March 31, Allison said. They will be displayed at the realtors’ home show April 4 to 13. BOYS’ PREP CHANGES NAME TO PARK SCHOOL House Wanning Held Friday in Rebuilt Gymnasium. Changing the name of the Boys Preparatory school to the Park school was announced today by Nicholas H. Noyes, chairman of trustees. The school is on former estate of Carl Fisher, West Riverside drive, in vicinity of Thomas Taggart park. The school held a housewarming Friday night following completion of the reconstruction of the gymnasium. It partly was destroyed by fire last Semptember. G. M. Williams, Marmon Motor Car Company president, made a substantial gift to tile project. Anew flr ~r, showers, lockers, have been added. ELECTRIC MEN MEET Sixty Contractors Hear Talk on Correct Lighting. T. P. Brown, Cleveland, Edison Lamp Works Incorporated, discussed correct illumination Friday night at a conference sponsored by the Electric League of Indianapolis. Sixty contractors, architects, home builders and dealers attended. Indianapolis Power and Light Company sales room was inspected. A. B. James, Chicago, Edison lighting engineer, will speak on “Commercial and Industrial Lighting,” Thursday and Friday evenings. Community Fund Raised Bu Times Special MARION. Ind., March 23. Marion’s community fund stands over-subscribed today by a $1,152. The goal was $45,000.

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Here the young men and women who will “run things” at Butler university the rest of this school year—members of the newly organized student council. Left to right they are: Top Row—Janice Barnard, President Henry Hebert, E. Gerald Bowman. Second Row —Lucille Summers, Helen Vennard. Third Row—Fenly Shepperd, Cecil Ross, Mildred Sullivan and Donald Youel. Fourth Row—Annabelle Parr, George Gisler and Maja Brownlee. Edward Raffensperger,. another member, is not photographed here.

STEWART MAY RETNEW JOB Report Oil Man to Head Consolidation. Ru United Press NEW YORK, March 23—Colonel Robert W. Stewart, ousted chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, was reported in Wall Street today likely to head anew oil company now in process of formation through a series of mergers. The reports said he tentatively has accepted leadership of the consolidation. The consolidation company, it is understood, will operate partly in the territory served by Standard of Indiana. 9 MENJENTENCED One Pleads for Release of Companions, Fails. Damon and Pythias legends sound good in books, but they don't work out in criminal court, Judge James A. Collins declared. George F. Meyers, Raymond Croft and Stanley Berg, all 19 and from Chicago, pleaded guilty to vehicle taking. They were charged with stealing an auto belonging to Merritt E. Wright, 39 South Warman avenue, a few weeks ago. As Collins prepares to sentence them, Meyers spoke up: “Please, judge, let me take the jolt on this. The other boys couldn’t stand it like I could.” “No Damon and Pythias stuff in court, boys,” Collins said. “You are each sentenced one year on the state farm because one of you is as guilty as the other.” Others sentenced during the session were: Edward Earnhart, 17, one year on the farm and Lewis Riley, 19, one to ten years in the state reformatory, vehicle taking; James Darling, ninety days on the farm, grand laceny; Clarence Brickert, 22, Cincinnati, auto banditry and robbery, two to ten years in the reformatory and David Lockridge, 19, one to ten years in the reformatory and Harvey A. Wolf, 17, one year on the farm, burglary. DOG COLLAR IN FASHION Used by Paris Women as Trimming for Hats. Bu United Press PARIS, March 23.—Dog collars brilliantly studded with brass nails, are no longer worn around a dog’s neck, but around its mistress’ hat French fashion dictators, always on the lookout for something new, have thought of the idea of wearing the collars as trimming around the tight hats effected by women these days. Some even carry the freakish fashion so far as to have a small silver dog tag attached to the collar, bearing the engraved name and address of the lady wearer.

FRANCO-BELGIAN ‘PACT’ REVEALED AS FORGERY Holland Government Admits It Couldn’t Stop Publication. Bu United Press AMSTERDAM, March 23.—The Netherlands government knew before the forged Franco-Belgian military agreement was published recently that it was a forgery, but was powerless to prevent its publication, F. B. Van Blokland, foreign minister, informed the second chamber at its session Friday night. The “agreement” was published in the Utrecht Dagblad a month ago and created "considerable excitement in German political circles. It purported to be an agreement whereby Belgium and France would unite against Germany if the latter should attack either of the two former countries. Albert Franck was arrested in Brussels a week later and confessed he forged the document. He was released without prosecution when the Belgian government decided he did not violate any civil law. PIONEER AND CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES; AGE, 85 Rites for John Milton Brown Set for Saturday. Funeral services for John Milton Brown, 85, Indiana pioneer, who died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. B. Dyer, 2033 North New Jersey street, were to be held at 3 p. m. Saturday at the daughter’s home. The body will be cremated. Mr. Brown served in Company K of the Fifty-first regiment and Company Dos the One Hundred and Fortieth regiment during the Civil war. After the war he went to Indiana university and graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts. He was engaged in the lumber business in Shelbyville in 1875. He came to Indianapolis in 1911. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, charter member of the Chillon lodge No. 129, Knights of Pythias, and became affiliated with the Central Christian church upon coming to Indianapolis. Survivors are the widow and daughter.

The City in Brief

County commissioners have awarded the Hayes Construction Company the contract to pave Hannah avenue with asphalt for one mile on the eastern end. The company bid $23,500. LincolnJ. Boden has filed suit in superior court, one for SIO,OOO damages against the Del-Mar Garage, Inc., Delaware and Market streets, for personal injuries alleged to have been received Jan. 21. According to the complaint an auto was driven down a runway, striking him as he boarded his car. Drowned Boy’s Body Found Bu Tim< * Special MARION. Inu., March 23.—The body of Bailey Officer, one of three boys drowned Jan. 20 while boat riding on the Mississinewa river, was rt covered today at a point where Boost creek empties into the river. Bodies of the other two have already been found. ,

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LAUNCH PROBES OF 44 DEATHS IN W BLAST Three Official Inquiries Into Cause of Disaster Are Under Way. Bn United Press PITTSBURGH. Pa„ March 23. While rescue workers continued their search for four men still unaccounted for In Thursday’s explosion at the Kinloch mine of the Valley Camp Coal Company, near Parnassus, eighteen miles from here, three investigations into the blast which caused forty-four deaths were begun today. The investigations are being conducted by Daniel J. Harrington, chief engineer of the United States bureau of mines; J. F. Harkins, coroner of Westmoreland county in which the mine is located, and Walter H. Glasgow, state secretary of mines. It generally Is believed that the disaster was caused when a conveyor chain in the tripple at the mouth of the mine broke. After the chain broke, tons of coal and steel fragments of the chain fell to the bottom of the slope which forms the mouth of the mine. A mixture of coal dust and air, which formed at the bottom of the slope, is said to have ignited from a spark caused by the falling steel fragments and the explosion resulted. The investigations were started for the purpose of determining what caused the conveyor chain to break. Although the mine is now clear of poisonous gases, there is little likelihood that any of the missir.j men will be found alive, according to J. Ira Thomas, deputy state mine inspector, EVOLVE NEW BREED OF COYOTE HUNTING DOGS Animals Used to Protect Sheep in Montana. Bn United Press LIVINGSTON, Mont,, March 23. —Experiments in breeding that are hoped to result in a line of dogs that will be most efficient coyote hunters are being conducted by ranchers in this vicinity. Irish and Russian woif hounds, greyhounds, crossbred staghounds and greyhounds have been showing the most ability in protection of sheep. Five dogs on the A. G. Depuy ranch, seven miles up the Yellowstone river from here, have “brought in the scalps” of seventeen coyotes and two bobcats this winter. One of the dogs came from the Amos Close pack of Lander, Wyo., and is reputed to have participated in 300 “kills” before being brought to the Depuy ranch.

POLICE ARREST 1,988 INMONTH 431 Taken for Vagrancy; 426 on Liquor Counts. Twenty-eight Marion county husbands were charged with being lazy husbands in the criminal municipal courts during January. According to records compiled by Russell McCormick, clerk’s office statistician, the judges must not have taken much faith in the charges, because none of the men were convicted. During January 1,988 persons were arrested on 2,638 charges. The most popular charge was vagrancy, on which 431 persons were arrested. Nine were convicted, three of whom were fined and the others sent to the state farm. Next came liquor cases and the disposition of them follows: Drunk, 261 arrested, 88 fined, 47 sentenced to the farm and 19 to jail; blind tiger, 165 arrested, 15 sentenced to the farm, 5 were fined and 34 cases were appealed; gaming, keeping and visiting gambling houses brought 297 into the turnkey’s office, but only 11 persons were convicted. STORK FREES MAN Prisoner Gets Vacation on Birth of Child. Martin Brezigar, 763 Warman avenue, returned to the Marion county jail today after a week’s vacation in which he welcomed arrival of the stork and Miss Patricia Baltzella Brezigar. Incidentally, proximity of the natal anniversary of Ireland’s patron saint and consideration of Federal Judge Robert C. Batzell contributed to naming of the six-day-old young lady. The father had served three months of a five months’ federal liquor sentence in the Marion county jail, when the family physician whispered to Baltzell Saturday night, that the stork had scheduled a stop at the Warman avenue address. Baltzell ordered Brezigar released for a few days. Monday the stork kept its appointment. GIANT MURDER PLOT CHARGED IN IRELAND Cosgrove Gives Reason for Recent Arrest of 100 Youths. Bu United Press DUBLIN, March 23.—As a sequel to recent arrests of more than 100 Dublin youths. President William T. Cosgrave announced in the dail Friday night that the government had learned of the existence of a murder conspiracy involving many persons. The government made wholesale roundups attempting to curb the “gunman menace.” No other reason was given for the arrests.

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Above--The Armstrong Seadrome. Below (right)—The Savarona, owned by R. M. Cadwalader Jr. of Philadelphia, is the most expensive pleasure yacht afloat. It was designed by Henry J. Gielow, Inc. Below (left) —Joseph A. MacDonald, president of Henry J. Gielow, who will have charge of the construction work on the seadrome. “First stop, Armstrong seadrome.” Such will be the starter’s call as Bermuda-bound passengers board a seaplane off Manhattan Island to make the 300-mile hop to the new floating landing field which will be built by the Armstrong Seadrome Development Company and anchored in midocean, half-way between New York and Bermuda. Seven hours after leaving the northern terminal, passengers will be landed on the southern island. Actual work on the seadrome will be started in August.

P. T. A. TO HOLD ANNUAL EVENT Purdue Dean Will Talk at Program Wednesday. 4 The Indianapolis Parent-Teacher Association will hold its annual business meeting at 3 p. m. and annual dinner at 6 p. m. Wednesday at Shortridge high school, Meridian and Thirty-fourth streets, according to Mrs. H. L. Stenger, city publicity chairman. Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president, will preside, and the president of each association will give a twominute report, followed by reports of chairmen. Dr. Stanley' Coulter, dean emeritus of Purdue university, will speak on “Where to Begin.” Mrs. Clyde E. Titus, chairman of school music education, has arranged the musical program. A string trio of Shortridge high school will play. It is composed of Fletcher Woodbury, William Breunig and Susan Aughinbaughh. The mother’s chorus of School 81 will sing under the direction of Mrs. Lee Clifford, and accompanied by Mrs. Howard Aughinbaugh. Mrs. William Hedrick, chairman on arrangements, report more than 500 reservations. Among the guests of honor will be Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Underwood, Mr. and Mrs. George Buok, Dr. and Mrs. Coulter, Mrs. Homer J. Miller, state P. T. A. president; Miss Katherine Pickett of The Indianapolis Star; Miss Mabel Wheeler of The Indianapolis News; and Rader Winget of The Indianapolis Times. EGYPT AGAIN TO ASK FAMED STATUE RETURN Germany Denies Bust of Ancient Queen Smuggled From Nile Land. Bill United Press BERLIN, March 23.—A report from Cairo that the impending Berlin visit of the Egyptian foreign minister, Dr. Hafez Bey Afifi, will revive his country’s demand that I Germany return the famed bust of | Queen Nephretete, evoked official denial today that the bust was smuggled from Egypt. | A dispute over rightful ownership of the bust was the topic of EgyptoGerman diplomatic correspondence in 1927. The Germans insisted the bust was ceded the German Oriental society by the Egyptian antiquities administration. It was discovered during excavations at El Amarna. SEIZE STILL AND BOOZE Negro Arrested in Raid; One Makes Escape. A small whisky still, a quantity of liquor and mash, and one Negro were seized by police who raided a house at 1127 McCord street Friday night. The Negro under arrest is Claude Smith. 32. Another escaped 1 by dashing from the back door as the raiders entered the house. Robin Plane Delivered Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill, delivered anew Curtiss Robin monoplane to the Marion Airport Corporation, Marion, Ind., today. This is the third Robin, delivered this week by Curtiss, the other two having been delivered to the Ft. Wayne and South Bend dealers.

Women Will Be Taught Safe Driving of Autos

Expert to Hold School in Hoosier Athletic Club for Five Nights. “Well, I just stepped on the darned thing, and it died ” the girl friend explained to the traffic officer today at Meridian and Washington streets. But that didn’t keep the corner cop from telling the girl friend a few things about automobiles, starters, and batteries. Anyone could have heard his “lesson 6n automobiles” for two blocks, at least. Perhaps that very thing has happened to you at one time. And it very easily could happen sometime. So to insure against ,such an embarrassing “lesson” from a traffic cop, just come to The Indianapolis Times office today and get a free ticket to the series of five night lectures on “Efficiency in Automobile Driving” at the Hoosier Athletic Club, starting April 1, under auspices of The Indianapolis Times. Captain Art B. Hickox, former race driver, and other speakers will

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conduct an “efficiency school” exclusively for women automobile drivers. Although the course is absolutely free, you must have a ticket. You can get them at The Times, Hoosier Athletic Club or the Hoosier Motor Club. DOWNFALL OF G. 0. P. PREDICTED BY LAWYER Myers Forecasts End of Party at Democrat Meeting. Disintegration of the Republican party because of groups and factions which have fastened themselves to it for political expediency, was predicted by Walter Myers, Indianapolis attorney, addressing the Indiana Democratic Club Friday. “Group government operates to the detriment of the minority party, bu eventually works damage to the majority,’’ Myers said. “The klan and Anti-Saloon League furnished examples of groups which took recruits from the minority party and threw their weight to the majority. Group government further is damaging in that it eleminates party responsibility.”

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NEED CONGRESS AID TO REVAMP U. SJjIIREAUS President Cannot Change Federal System Without Help. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 23President Herbert Hoover’s idea for government reorganization is for congress to lay down general principles by statutory action and impower the chief executive to make the changes and regroupings later found necessary. The general plan and objective would be outlined Dy the legislative branch, which would also create a commission to advise the President in the actual work. Without such an authorization by congress the President believes, the reorganization program would encounter difficulties and protests from heads of departments opposed to possible curtahiment of their activities. He explained his views in detail when, as secretary on commerce and head of the government survey commission created by Harding, he testified before a joint congressional committee. It is understood his ideas have not changed, and that he will try to follow this plan, with some modifications, in the reorganization venture already undertaken by Walter H. Newton, the new White House secretary. Depends on Congress “If there is to be reorganization," said Hoover, “it will have to be carried out by congress. The men who are at the head of the various bureaus and secondary functions of the government believe honestly and earnestly in the purpose of their service, and they are bound to object to any change which seems to them to decrease their activities, reduce their personnel or require them to take a less important position in some other grouping. “No one deserves higher admiration than the permanent officials of the government, but long years of experience in reorganization of private concerns and some years of experience in the government have led me to believe that if the overlapping and waste in the federal government is to be eliminated, it must be handed down from on high and not attempted as the result of agreements, for they can never be brought about.” Imitate New Yorks Plan The most important phase of the presidential plan, however, are the setting up of definite agencies into which certain kind of activity would be placed and vesting sufficient authority in the President to make the regroupings. The organization generally would be patterned after that carried out in the states of Illinois and New York, where numerous scattered bureaus and commissions were redistributed so that all were assigned to a comparatively few central agencies. As new activities arose, a place for them would be found in existing bodies instead of setting up other independent commissions. NEW GA§ IS INVENTED Non-Asphyxiating and Can Be Used in Cooking. LONDON, March 23 Scientist* are turning domestic. The newest works of their minds are the invention of a non-asphyxiating gas to replace that now used for cooking and heating and a refrigeratorstove, which heats a house in the winter and cools it In the summer.

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