Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1929 — Page 3

A L 3, 1929

SIfNCE WILL map past and FUTURE OF MAN Philosophical Society Will Take Up Problems at Annual Session. B'i Time* PHILADELPHIA April 3. Two problems ol far-reaching importance 'o mankind advancing will be thrash and out at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Society. April 18 ID and 20. in the society's historical hall on Independence square. Or>c will be an effort to answer by symposium in the Ugh. of known facts the question, “Which Is the Earlier Civilization?” The other will be an attempt by Dr. Alex Hrdlicka. noted anthropologist of the National museum, Washington, to chart ‘he future of the human race in the light of what is known 'of Its past and present. According to the preliminary program of the nreting announced yesterday by Dr. Albert P. Brubaker, chairman of the committee in charge, the symposum o early civi- j lizations will take place Saturday I afternoon. April 20.

Discuss Early Civilization It will be led by Dr. James H Breasted, noted Egyptologist of the University of Chicago, who spent the winter excavating on the Nile with a party that included John D Rockefeller Jr Dr. Breasted will discuss ‘he problem from the standpoint of early Egyptian civilization Others who will read papers as a part of the symposium are Dr. Leon Legrain. curator of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, on the Babylonian civilization; Dr. Alan Rowe, excavator of Beisan, who will compare Egyptian and Babylonian civilizations and their influence on Palestine, and Dr. George A. Barton, professor of Semitic languages at the University of Pennsylvania, who will discuss the origins of civilizations in Africa and Mesopotamia. Elect Sixteen Members Papers on many important and interetsing subjects are o.i the program of the three-day meeting, for •ears an important scientit’c gathering held in the Unite i States. Saturday morning officers and new members will be elected. El ction to membership, one of the his hest honors that can come to American men of science, will be extended to sixteen this year, there being only that number of vacancies.

WOMAN IS HELD ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT I'aces Three Oilier Counts as Result of Fight. Mrs. Josephine Shakley, 30, of 417cy North Liberty street, is under arrest on charges of drunkeness, assault and battery, malicious trespass and profanity. Police were called to the home of Mrs. Hazel Alexander, 732 East Michigan street. Tuesday night after Mrs. Shakley is said to have broken out a window and threatened her. Mrs. Shakley was found at the home of Mrs. Jean Blood. 730 East Michigan street, where she is alleged to have been fighting Mrs. Blood when police arrived.

FATHER, TWO CHILDREN MEET DEATH IN BLAZE Parent Dies to Save Boy and Girl; Mother, Girl Badly Hurt. Bn CHi ted Press ROCHESTER, N. Y„ April 3.—A father who went back into a blazing house to rescue two children was burned to death with them today at Chili, suburb of Rochester. The mother and another child were seriously injured when they jumped from a second story window. The dead are C. Eugene Leonard, 39: Lavina, 13. and C. Eugene Jr., 3. Mrs. Leonard, 35, and Aleta, 13, were suffering from shock and burns. They may not recover. DIVIDE STATE INTO 17 DISTRICTS FOR CENSUS Sheridan Nominated to Head Local Section. Plans to divide the state into seventeen districts for the 1930 census were well under way here today. United States senators and Republican members of congress have been asked by William M. Steuart. director of the census, to make recommendations for appointment of seventeen supervisors, who will be responsible for enumerators employed for thirty to sixty days. Appointment of Lawrence V. Sheridan, first city plan expert in Indianapolis, as Indianapolis district supervisor, has been nominated by Paul Q. Richey. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president. Marion county, with Indianapolis as headquarters, will comprise the eleven) h district.

DOCTORS TO BROADCAST Association Will Tell Need of Checking Health Yearly. Radio talks on importance of medical checking up at least once each vear will be broadcast this month over WFBM bv tin Marion County Tuberculosis Association, it was announced Tuesday night at the “tub-iculosis meeting" of the diana Medical Society at the Athenaeum. The association will use the Indiana State Medical Society hour for the “early diagnosis campaign" talks. Speakers Tuesday night included Dr Stephen A. Douglass. Marion comity tuberculosis hospital superintendent, and Dr. E. B. Mornford.

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Here’s two attractive bits of decoration for a certain porch swing this summer. On the left we have an Indiana Central college cushion and on the right its new owner. Miss Alma Noblitt. I. C. co-ed. She won the cushion for writing the best slogan for high school day at I. C. which will be observed Thursday. The slogan is “Start Right at Indiana Central.” The college will entertain more than 400 high school students—from all over the middle west—prospective I. C. freshmen—with an elaborate program on the campus Thursday.

DEATH OF OIL MAN IS PROBED Quiz Women; Hint Love Affair, Blackmail. /;// \ uiir.i m** TULSA. Okla.. April 3.—Theories that a clandestine love affair and blackmail might have been the background for an attack that resulted in the death of William S. McCray, wealthy oil operator, led to further questioning of a comely divorcee here today. Mrs. Annette Abrams, 39, who came here from New York, is the center of the county attorney's inquiry. Mrs. M. A. Dickerson, mother of Miss Norma Smallwood, “Miss America” of the 1527 Atlantic City beauty show, also has been questioned. McCray died in a hospital here Saturday from injuries suffered the night of March 24, when he was attacked in his hotel room toy an unrecognized assailant. W. L. Coffey, assistant county attorney in charge of the inquiry, said that Mrs. Abrams admitted she went to Mrs. Jeanette McCray, the oil man's widow, to "torment” her by saying she knew of a clandestine love affair of her husband. Mrs. Abrams explained she had been drinking when she made the statement to Mrs. McCray. Conn Linn, Tulsa lawyer, told investigators McCray had said a woman was attempting to blackmail him.

PLAN JEWISH DRIVE Banquet Thursday to Decide Fund Campaign. Details of the two-year buldget drive for the Jewish Welfare fund will be planned at the dinner Thursday night at the Athenaeum. The drive will be held during May. it was decided at a meeting of leaders of the campaign Tuesday night at the home of J. A. Goodman, Kessler boulevard and White river. Budget divisions to receive shares of the fund are: Palestinian institutions: Independent Order B'Nai Brith. United European and Palestine appeals and American institutions. outside of the city. Other officers of the fund are: Louis Wolf, vice-president; Samuel Mueller, treasurer; Samuel A. Frommer. secretary; H. Joseph Hyman, executive director: Albert S. Goldstein. chairman of the budget committee. and Eli Schloss. chairman of the committee on collections. BAR TO HOLD RITES Plan Whitcomb Memorial Service Thursday. Memmbers of the Indianapolis Bar Association will conduct memorial services Thursday, 10 a. m., in the federal court room, for Larz A. Whitcomb, Indianapolis attorney, who died Monday afternoon of heart disease. Michael Foley, bar association president, will call the meeting to order and Emsley W. Johnson, memorial committee chairman, will •*- Speakers will be Charles Martindale. Henry M. Dowling, James W. Fesler. James W. Noel, Elmer W. Stout. St— r ' Dowden and Louis E” v ' ri nk. Private funeral services were to be held at 3 p. m. today at the home. 3. rth P'— --’">nia street, the Rev. Virgil E. Rorer. pastor of the Meridi'.n Street M. E. church, officiating. Burial was to be in Crown Hill cemetery. AUSTRIAN CABINET QUITS Hu l nihil Pries VIENNA. Austria. April 3.—The Austrian cabinet, headed by Ignat? Seipel. of the Christian Socialist party, resigned today. It was a coalition cabinet, made up of Christian Socialists, Pan-German and Feasant parties and was reorganized May 25. 1927.

Duty —to Death Red Tape Unwinds; Too Late for Pat McMahon, Just a Cop.

in United I‘rcsn NEW HAVEN. Conn., April 3. For twelve years Patrick J. McMahon served his fellow citizens as a policeman. Night after night he pounded the pavements faithfully, until about nine months ago he was taken ill and went to a hospital. McMahon was 44 years old and the regulations provide that a policeman must be 60 before he is retired on half pay. But McMahon felt he never again would be much use as a policeman and asked for a special dispensation to retire him early. Acton was slow and McMahon clung grmly to life. They might refuse his application. Then it would be his duty to fight off his illness and return to his beat. Monday night police commissioners granted the officer’s request for retirement. An hour later McMahon died. Doctors said his heart gave out.

SOO ATTEND FROLIC College Air Marks Columbia Club Dinner. Approximately six hundred alumni, undergraduates and friends of colleges and universities attended the Alma Mater Spring Frolic at the Columbia Club, Tuesday night. Presidents and representatives of a number of Indiana colleges were guests of honor, while “graduates of the University of Hard Knocks” formed one of the largest groups at the dinner-dance. Pennants and college colors gave a collegiate air to the lavishly decoraefed third floor dining room and tenth floor ball room. Undergraduates from Indiana, Butler, Purdue and De Pauw universities, and Wabash and Indiana Central colleges gave vocal a-d dance numbers in the entertainment program preceding an address by Edgar A. Guest of Detroit, Mich., poet. Former Mayor Charles W. Jewett was toastmaster.

ACCIDENT TOLL HIGH 22 Killed in March: Auto Casualties Lead. Deaths from accidents increased last month over February, clcmiing the lives of twenty-two persons, a survey of the records of Coroner Charles H. Keever by the Indianapolis safety council indicates. The number is an increase of four over February, equals the number killed in January, and is three higher than March, 1928. j In addition to the accidental deaths, six persons committed suicide. two were murdered and two died of acute alcoholism. Automobiles claimed eleven lives. Two of the victims were boys 5 years of age. One man was killed while loading freight at a local manufacturing plant, two died as the result of a scaffold giving way, one was killed when struck by a train and a freak bolt of lightning killed an aged woman. The lightning struck the woman's residence but apparently caused no damage. The bolt sprung an iron illuminating gas pipe and the escaping gas asphyxiated the woman. TROLLEY. AUTO CRASH Head-On Collision Puts Youth in Hospital. Francis E. Hunter. 21, of 3123 Graceland avenue, is in the Methodist hospital today suffering from minor injuries received Tuesday when his automobile collieded headon with a Northwestern avenue street car at Thirty-fourth street. Harold Milam. 3617 East Sixteenth street, motorman, told police he could not stop the car in time to keep Hunter from crashing into him. Hunter took the blame for the accident, police said.

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HYDE PLACES HIS 0. K. ON M’NARYPLAN Advocates Revolving Fund for Relief of Farm Distress. liu Unit' and I’ft ns WASHINGTON, April 3.—The administration's general indorsement of the McNary co-operative marketing bill was given to the senate agricultural committee today by Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture. Hyde establishment ot a $300,000,000 revolving fund to be administered by the federal farm loan board, clothed with general and board authority to work out a solution of the marketing problem. Hyde said he considered the result of the last eelction a mandate from the people to the administration and congress to establish this general formula of relief. The new agricultural secretary cautioned the committee particularly to give the proposed board full power to work out its own destiny. They should promotes, he said, such agencies as “fanner-owned elevators, clearing houses, farmers’ pools which are all in the essence of farmer co-operatives.” Farmers to Keep Control “It is largely upon these organizations that he should build the foundation of the collective action of the farmer,” he continued. “We want to build up the farmers themselves to control their products, not to build up bureaucracy.” “It would seem to me desirable that the board, armed with resources and authority, could best work out these problems by receiving proposals from the various farmers’ marketing associations. These proposals, in many instances, particularly in handling stabilization questions, or handling of facilities, can well take the form of corporations created by these associations and owned and managed by them, and aided with capital from the board, under such restrictions as the board should be authorized to apply. Make Own History “Os these restrictions, it would seem to me desirable to insist that no operations should be supported which would stimulate increased production, because by adding to a surplus we would defeat all relief. “There is little in the way of accumulated experience to guide the board. It must make its own history, and guide each succeeding step it takes by the experience gained from the last.” Hyde’s testimony was the first statement from the administration concerning the farm relief bill to be enacted in the special session of congress which President Hoover has called to meet here a week from Monday.

TWO SLAIN IN AUTO Believe Man Shot Woman and Self. I!ii Vnileil Press COLUMBUS, 0., April 3.—E. A. Welsh, credit manager of the Gwynn Milling Company here, and Miss Eleanor Porter, an employe, were found shot to death in an automobile parked two miles north of New Albany today. A bullet had pierced Welsh’s head. His left hand clasped a revolver. Miss Porter had been shot in the chest. Coroner Murphy, after a preliminary examination, said he believed Welsh shot Miss Porter, then killed himself. WAR VETERAN DIES Pensioned Soldier Found in Bed; Pneumonia Cause. Alonzo P. Moore, 60, a veteran of the Spanish-American war, was found dead in bed this morning at a rooming house, 1601 West Market street, by Mrs. Julia Ooghe, proprietor. Moore had complained of pains in his chest and a city hospital phvsician treated him for a cold. It is believed he died of pneumonia. The body was taken to city morgue. Among papers in his room was found three honorable discharges from the army. He was living on a government pension, Mrs. Ooghe said. Moore is survived by a brother, Charles Moore, Lexington, Ind.; a daughter and sister, in California, and a half sister in Indianapolis. Police are attempting to locate other relatives. ARTIFICIAL NOSE MADE BY DENTIST FOR MAN Contrived of Rubber, Can Be Taken Off at Will. O. A. Martin. 108 West Walnut street, has a trick nose. He can put it in his pocket, hold it near a grindstone without fear of drawing blood, and generally know his nose better than anyone else can know a nose. In 1914 Martin lost his sureenough nose following an accident Today he wears a vulcanite rubber nose which he can take off or wear at will. The nose was made by Dr. Denzij C. Barnhill, dentist, with offices at 603 Roosevelt building. Six Killed in Detroit Fire Hi, Cuffed Press DETROIT. Mich., April 3.Trapped on the second floor of a blazing two-story dwelling, six Negroes. a man. w an and four children, were tr J to death here early this mor J when fire destroyed their I >me,

Real; $1 Quart Boy, 12, Halts Broadway Crowds With Old Mull Scotch.

BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 3.—Out of the accumulated wisdom of his twelve years on earth. Fabin Lavelle had learned that whiskygenuine Old Mull Scotch whiskyhad a certain economic value. He had not learned, however, that policemen do not buy liquor no matter how good a bargain it is—at least they don't out on a Broadway sidewalk where electric lights rival daylight. The result is that Fabian is in ‘he custoday of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He and two companions were having a fling at night life at Forty-eighth and Broadway Tuesday night when one of the boys noticed a brown-paper parcel on the sidewalk. So they put away their dice and went over to investigate. The paper contained a bottle and the bottle contained something that looked like whisky. It smelled like whisky. It gurgled like whisky. “It must be whisky,” said Fabian. a b u THREE juvenile brows went into creases over the problem of how much they could charge for a quart of whisky and still leave their consciences free to attend a movie on the proceeds. After considerable discussion, the scale of prices was set at $1 a quart an' 1 w-as delegated to venture into the marts of trade. He stepped in to the vortex of the theater-going crowd, brandishing the bottle. “Here you are,” shouted Fabian. "Genuine Old Mull whisky, a dollar a quart. Scotch whisky just off the boat, a dollar a quart.” tt tt tt FABIAN outshouted the newsboy on the corner and the crowds halted. Waving his bottle in the faces of potential customers, Fabian found them skeptical. He eulogized the merits of genuine Old Mull Scotch whisky, and one bystander cautiously bid 75 cents. Fabian held out for a dollar. Suddenly a gruff voice interrupted. “I’ll take the whisky,” it said, "and you, too.” Fabian lifted his eyes to the skies and confronted the steely gaze of Patrolman Lenz of the Broadway traffic squad. The crowds dispensed.

GIVES BLOOD TO PAL Aids Frat Brother to Win Health After Operation. A smiling white-faced boy is being congratulated today by seven- | teen fraternity brothers for his j courage in aiding another fraternal | comrade. The brother aided is Thomas R. Gockel Jr., 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. j Thomas R. Gockel Sr., 4027 Graceland avenue, who is in the Indiana Christian hospital. The boy underwent a tonsil op- | eration Monday. That night he began to lose blood and a blood trans- ( fusion was found necessary. Eighteen Alpha Omega fraternity mothers volunteered for the transfusion, and the blood of Thomas Carroll Jr„ 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. j Thomas Carroll Sr., 2420 North j Meridian street, was found compati- j ole by Dr. R. G. Hendricks. The transfusion was made at 2 a. m Tuesday and Gockel improved rapidly.

LINDY EXPECTED TO SET WEDDING DATE Visit to Fiancee in Mexico City Was Unexpected. li nin itrd Press I MEXICO CITY. April 3.—Although officially there was no special significance attached to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s latest visit to his fiancee, Miss Anne Spence; Morrow, daughter of the American ambassador, it firmly was believed today that the exact date and place for the impending marriage would be decided while Lindbergh is here. Lindbergh is expecting to remain j a week. His arrival here, it was un- j derstood, was wholly unexpected. He circled the embassy, as is ms custom when he arrives in Mexico j City, by way of letting Miss Morrow j know that he is in town. CLEAR ICE EARLIER Commercial Navigation of Lake Erie to Start April 20. I!l, T nihil Press *’■ BUFFALO, N. Y„ April 3.—Commercial navigaiton on Lake Erie is j expected to be opened about April 20, a survey indicated today. Ships plying the lakes which have j made their winter base in Buffalo j are being retired and conditioned' for summer travel. Lake Erie, generally holding its ice until May 1, is being cleared earlier this year, due *to a warm spell. DELAY BOXING HEARING Arguments on Injunction Against Ordinance Postponed. Oral arguments on an injunction suit to prevent enforcement of the city's new boxing ordinance were i postponed by Judge James M. Leathers in superior court one today when attorneys were unable to attend. Judge Leathers granted a temporary restraining order last week when trustees of the American Legion Benefit Trust Fund, promoters of bouts at the National Guard armory, fi'.er. the injunction suit. Endorsed bjr HOOK ItRIG and ALE LEADING DRUGGISTS

DENMARK MAY EE FIRST NATION TO DROP ARMS Government Defeat Looms as Weapon to Wipe Out Military Factions. BY OLE CAVLING I nited Press Staff Correspondent COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 3.—Possibility that Denmark may become the first European nation to achieve practical disarmament was envisaged today as a result of forecasts that the social Democrats and the radical Liberals likely are to obtain a majority in the lower house in the April 24 general elections. The government’s recent defeat, which precipitated the resignation of the cabinet and the dissolution of the folketing, was due to a split between the liberal democrats, known as the Farmers party, and the Conservatives. The former held forty-seven seats in the folketing while the Conservatives held twenty-eight. The parties split over the question cf whether Denmark should have a moderately strong or very strong national defense force. Together, the two parties controlled the folketing, in spite of the social democrats, known as the Labor party, which had fifty-three seats and was the strongest single party in the lower house. The Labor party co-operated with the radical liberals, which held sixteen seats. The Labor party is known to be definitely opposed to any national defense force whatever, while the Radical Liberal party, which is really not radical but liberal, favors the establishment only of a small

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DENY ABUSIVE TALK IN BOOZE SAID ON YACHT Customs Men’s Stories Clash With That Told by Social Leader. litt United I’rtss NEW YORK, April 3.—Denying abusive language was used, the customs enforcement bureau has taken responsibility for the boarding and searching of Stuyvesant Fish's power boat. Restless, near the Statue of Liberty Saturday night. J. H. McGill, deputy surveyor ol customs, related the details of the incident, several of his statments being at variance with the account given by Fish. McGill said the customs boat gave chase to the Restless because it was anew craft in these waters. Fish having gone to Wilmington. Dei., that day to accept delivery of the power boat, The customs shin was unable to overtake the Restless. McGill explained. and so two shots were fired into the air to halt her. Fish said his boat was capable o! making only :v.dve miles an hout because of a ?;kded pr >pel!or and hence could not have eluded the customs ship. McGill declared the man who boarded the Restless identified himself by his badge; and did not open any of the Fish luggage, contenting himself with lifting the bags to see if they were heavy enough to have contained liquor. Fish contended all lights on the power boat were turned on and that the craft could not have been mistaken for a rum runner. Meanwhile, Congressman F. H La Guardia said he would make charges if Fish would submit the facts in the case to him.

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