Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1929 — Page 1

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NEW BLOC OF CONGRESSMEN BALKS HOOVER Mid-West G. 0. P. Senators Join Democrats to Carry Debenture Plan. DEFEAT FOR PRESIDENT Same Coalition May Wage Fight on Tariff in Lower House. BY PAI L R. MALI.ON, fnitrd Pre** Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 9. A natural coalition of midwestern Republic;, n farm congressmen and D m ; nits appeared to be forming today in both houses of congress m : So overturn President Herbt ' i over's tarifT and agriculture let .at ion. i . r ren Republicans, most of whom voted and campaigned for Ho-;.'., r, combined with thirty-four Democrats in the senate late Wednesday to vote into the administration farm bill the debenture, or tariff bounty feature, which Hoover has declared so objectionable. Tin vote was 47 to 44. Encouraged by this success, house Democrats, led by Representative John Garner. Texas, announced they would rally around the debenture plan. Ruled Out Once They had not thought enough of it two weeks ago to force a record vote on it when it was ruled out of order in the house, but now they think they can get enough midwestern votes to make a showing, and perhaps to win. The same unexpected situation, embarrassing to the administration, is growing up around the tarifT bill whirl; is to be brought to the floor of the house today for general debate. The house ways and means committee today favorably reported the bill by a vote of 15 to 9. Nine of the tpn Democrats on the committee voted against reporting out the measure. The opposition announced through Representative Cordell Hull (Dem., Tenn.i that it would file a minority report attacking many of the bill’s features. The house farm bloc is dissatisfied with increased rates provided for materials which the farmer must buy. The Democrats believe the bill goes too high. In the senate. Senator Joseph Robinson, the Democratic floor leader, has served notice lie will fight to eliminate the tariff commission. Senator William Borah of Idaho, one ol those who voted against Homer on the debenture plan, told the United Press he is strongly against increasing the commission and giving the President full reign over it as provided in the house bill. May Hold Majority These and other natural interests are working to bring the nominally opposing forces together, and together they may be able to command a majority, as they showed Wednesday in the senate farm vote. Administration leaders claimed Hoc vers friends mishandled the situation from a political viewpoint. An appointee of one doubtful senator was released from the justice cc, s'-rtment a week before the vote. An her doubtful senator complained he was not treated right by ciw < i Hoover's spokesmen. A resume of the debenture plan vt t hows the following Republicans tavored the debenture plan: Biaine and LaFollette. Wisconsin; •Johnson. California; Borah. Nye and Frazier. North Dakota; Melt! aster and Norbeck, South Dakota; Pine. Oklahoma: Schall, Minnesota: Norris and Howell, Nebraska, and Bi ikhart. lowa. Cn’.y two Democrats deserted their party ranks. Ransdell of Lou; tana and Wagner of New York Even the two others who had announced they would vote against the plan. Walsh of Massachusetts, and King of Utah, accepted pairs, so their votes were not recorded. Today the senate was settling the last fight on the farm bill on the question of whether fruits and vegetables should be included in the list of commodities to be benefited. The measure is expected o be passed and sent back to the house by Friday. FIRE DAMAGES STORE Cohen Dry Goods Firm Sustains SIO,OOO Water, Smoke Loss. Water and smoke caused by a fire of unknown origin at 3 a. m. today did damage estimated at *IO.OOO to stock at the Cohen Dry Cioods Company. 2501 Station street. The fire war confined tea rear room of the store and a stairway leading to a balcony. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 45 10 a. m.... 57 7 a. m.... 47 11 a. m 58 8 a m.... 52 12 (noon).. 59 9 a. m 55 1 p. m 61

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Magnet Used to Remove

Needle From Baby Brain

Hu I nitrd Press POTTSVILLE. Pa.. May 9.—A powerful magnet in a surgeon’s hands pulled a tiny sewing needle from the center of a baby’s brain today and physicians said the child has a good chance of living. Several days ago Mrs. Jennie Harvey of Pine Grove, near here, found the threaded end of a needle protruding from above the left eye of her baby daughter, Rosanna, 9 months. The mother tried to pull out the needle, but the thread slipped and the needle disappeared.

BOY, 17, SLAIN BY DRY AGENTS Fire on College Students’ Car; Held for Murder. IW United Press BLUEFIELD, W. Va., May 9 Charged with murder in connection with the death of J. W. Kendrick, 17-year-old Emery and Henry college student, whom they believed to be transporting liquor, three men were held for the grand jury here today. Kendrick died Wednesday of a bullet wound through the head. He was shot when the auto in which he was riding with two other students. Paul Phelps and O. Dutton, was fired on by police.' Young Kendrick was shot through the back of the head according to his uncle. Intimations that the boys were carrying liquor were flatly denied by the elder Kendrick, who said if anything were wrong it was but the play of college boys. He said the three left home Tuesday evening together, saying • they were “going for a ride.” RUBBER-NECKED POLICE WILL BE TABOO IN CITY Chief Orders Cops to Discard Celluloid Collars Also. Co-operating with the fire prevention department, Police Chief Claude M. Worley has ordered the elimination of fire hazards from policemen's uniforms. Rubber and celluloid collars are taboo in the summer uniform which policemen donned Wednesday, Worley proclaimed. Advent of the open collar provoked the ban, Worley explained. To keep policemen “spic and span” the chief ordered that only white shirts with black ties may be worn, shoes must be shined at least twice weekly and uniforms subjected to inspection once a month. The new summer uniform coat is of the English army type. White gloves and white caps are adjuncts of traffic officers' uniforms. CONFESSES 1914 KILLING Suspect Captured in Detroit Admits Crime in Colorado. ' DETROIT.' Mich.. May 9.—After confessing that he participated in a Pueblo (Colo.) jewelry store holdup in 1914 in which the proprietor was slain. Lem mo Grose. 36. today admitted that he had twice escaped from the Colorado state penitentiary. where he was serving a life term for the Pueblo murder. Grose said he would waive extradition and accompany Colorado officers who are en route to Detroit. COFFIN AMENDS SUIT Minor Changes to Be Made in Manager Complaint. An amended complaint will be filed in the superior court three case attacking the constitutionality of the i city manager law before the hearing | Saturday. Clinton H. Givan, attorney announced today. He said the changes will be minor and technical. Judge William O. Dunlavy will hear arguments Saturday on the petition for a temporary injunction to prevent city election commissioners and City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr., from holding an election this year under the city manager form of government. The suit is brought by Clifford Keane, council candidate for nonr--1 ination on the dummy ticket presented by George V. Coffin. Republican district and city boss. REMUS VISITS IN CITY Former Bootleg: Czar Appears at Federal Building. George Remus, former “bootleg czar.” acquitted last year of the murder of his wife. Imogene, vis- ; itecl -he ff-dera! budding today during trial of the interstate motor theft ring 'onspiracy case. Remus, who was a defendant in federal court here in the Jack Daniels distillery case, spent several minutes in the court room, renewing acquaintances. He said he was en j route to Cleveland.

, An X-ray examination showed ! the needle resting vertically in the center of the infant's brain. Today Dr. J. B. Rogers, chief surgeon at the Pottsville hospital, j opened the baby’s scalp and held an electric magnet over the place where he thought the needle to be. The needle, blackened during the time it had been in Rosanna's head, came out. How' the needle entered the baby’s head, and when, are not known. The mother said her sewing basket had lain beside the baby’s crib.

WIFE HELD IN POISON DEATH ‘Mail Order Mate’ Alleged to Have Drugged Coffee. Bli I nitril Press SONORA, Cal.. May 9.—Mrs. Eva Rablen, 32, “mail order wife” of Carroll B. Rablen, World war veteran, was held today on charges of murdering her husband, after chemists reported that they had found poison in his stomach. The Rablens u ; ere married two years ago after a courtship through a matrimonial agency. Evidence, which authorities think will substantiate their belief that Mrs. Rablen administered the poison in a cup of coffee at a dance in Tuttletown nearly two weeks ago, w r as placed in the hands of Dr. E. O. Heinrich, Berkeley crimnologist. Specimens of Mrs. Rablen’s handwriting and the register of a Tuolume drug store on which a “Mrs. Joe Williams” has signed for the purchase of the strychnine, was included. Two drug clerks identified Mrs. Rablen as the “Mrs. Joe Williams’.”

Blade less Age The thief of the present machine-gun age looks with disdain on the bright steel blade which flourished when knighthood, was in flower. Police were convinced of this today when Frank M. Cravens of Franklin, Ind.. reported that the thief who stole his Knight: Templar uniform and a tan suit case, all valued at S6O, from his parked car at Court and Pennsylvania streets Wednesday night, did not take his sword.

STORE BUILDING SOLD Downtown Property Bought for $82,500. Sale of the two-story brick building at 106 to 112 North Delaware street held by administrators for the estate of the late John G. McCullough to Obie J. Smith, realtor, for $82,500 was approved today by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash. Smith announced that the structure will be leased to Cornelius E. Holloway, vice-president of Charles E. Holloway & Son. and secretary of the Indiana Savings and Investment Company, for ninety-nine years. The rental for this period will total $529,500. Tire building now is occupied by a store of the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company and the J. G. McCullough. agency, real estate dealers. Smith said these leaseholds will run several years, but that later rhe Holloway firm will take over the entire structure. FIND JOAN OF ARC KIN Young French Peasant Direct Descended of Heroine’s Brother. Hu l nited Press PARIS. May 9.—Andre du Lye. a young peasant living near St. Andre de L'Eure. has been found to be a direct descendant of one ol Joan of Arc’s brothers. His fam.lj has the right to the title of Count and to sport the coat of arms oi (wo golden fleur-de-lis on an azure hield and sword surmounted by a crown. The family has never used the title. CLAIMS CLOCK RECORD British Postoffice Has Largest Collection in Kingdom. LONDON. Mav 9.—With 20.000 clerks, the postoffice claims to have he largest collection of timepieces :n t.;e kingdom. All of thes’ clocks are kept perfectly syncromzed and twice a day Greenwich time is telegraphed to principal stations in England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland for this purpose. The second largest collection of slocks is owned by the royal palaces, in which there are said to be more than 1.000 timepieces. German Envoy Appointment Denied B ' f'uiti and Prt .*. WASHINGTON. May 9—Reports that Eugene Meyer Jr., of New York would be 2 o pointed ambassador to Germany were without confirmation at the state department today. Secretary Henry L. Samson said there was no truth in the report so far as he knew.

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SPEED AUTO FACTORIES TO SET RECORD May Production Is Expected to Exceed All Marks for One Month. FRONT-DRIVE CARS OUT Indiana Banker Reported to Be Backing One of New Models. Ha United Prims DETROIT, Mich., May 9.—With automobile factories in the Detroit district working at capacity production and widespread, reports of favorable market absorption, automobile manufacturers hope to set a new all-time production record this month. To eclipse the April mark more than 600,000 cars must be produced by American manufacturers. The tremendous production of Fords, Chevrolets, Essexes, Pontiacs, Plymouths and others in the low-priced field, is expected to account for more than half of the required total. Aside from general discussion of the pushing production pace, interest in the automotive industry centers about the advent of two makes of front-wheel drive passenger cars. Front-Drive Shown While front-drive is not new to the industry it has hitherto been restricted to racing cars. The first of the new passenger car of this type is the Ruxton, scheduled to go into production early in July. A specimen Ruxton has been shown here privately and is now being exhibited on the Pacific coast. It is the product of the New Era Motors Inc. of New York. C Harold Wills, former chief engineer for the Ford Motor Company and former president of the Wills Saint Claire Company, is credited with designing the car. A. M. Andrews, New York canker, is president of the company. An Indiana banker is said to be testing a front-drive model which is scheduled for production later this year. Recent rumors of proposed manufacture of twelve and sixteen cylinder passenger cars by several of the most expensive manufacturers were generally scouted by the companies involved. Fords Take A'acations Ford efficiency is such that the huge plants of Ford here are little affected by the absence of Henry Ford or hs son, Edsel. Mrs. Henry Ford and wife are vacationing in Virginia and Edsel and wife sailed for Europe Wednesday night. The Ford organization’s hopes for a great tractor factory in Soviet Russia apparently have been abandoned following announcement by the Soviet that it will build its own tractors. Albert Kahn. Detroit architect, has been commissioned to design the six-building Soviet plant, which will cost approximately $4,000,000. The plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 40.000 tractors. In a conference with Kahn before he left Detroit, Ford offered his complete co-operation to make the Soviet project a success. EJECTS DEBT PLAN Young Compromise Refused by England. Bn United Press LONDON. May 9. —The Owen D. Young reparations compromise, as foreshadowed in the press Wednesday. is wholly unacceptable to Great Britain. Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, announced in the house of commons today. STRUCK BY TWO CARS Pair of Autos Hit Man Crossing Street at One Time. SPENCER, Mass.. May 9—Homer Fredette, 45, is probably the only man to experience being struck by two automobiles at the same time and live to tell the tale. In crossing the street Fredette was struck by one automobile and hurled nto the path of another, which also struck him. He received a broken collar bona, abrasions of both legs and a few cuts.

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The Indianapolis Times will print pictures of all grade school * graduates of the city which are obtainable before the end of the school term. Starting on the school page Friday with the 8-A class of School 3, at 23 North Rural street. The Times will continue to print pictures of each 8-A graduating class in Indianapolis as often as possible. Watch for your child's picture. Graduating class pictures have been printed in newspapers here in the past, but the class was taken as a group each time. The Times, to give each student the individual attention which we feel he merits, has undertaken the task of printing each student’s picture and name separate from all others. A half column photograph of each student will appear in the paper for each 8-A class in Indianapolis which can be obtained.

FIRE WRECKS WAREHOUSE; LOSS ESTIMATED AT $400,000

Firemen still were pouring water on the ruins of the warehouse of the United States Corrugated Paper Box Company, 1315 Martindale avenue today. The fire caused loss estimated at $400,000.

MINUTE TWO GAS TRUSTEES Council and Mayor to Pick Three More. With two members nominated by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin today city council this afternoon was caucusing upon whom it will name for its man on the new city public utility board. The council is expected to elect the member at a special meeting tonight. Mayor L. Ert Slack is to name two other members, completing the board of five. The board will formally take over the Citizens Gas Company and operate it as a municipal utility unless prevented by court action. Judge Chamberlin named Thomas C. Howe, manufacturer, former president of Butler college, and William J. Mooney, president of the Mooney-Mueller-Ward Drug Company. The board is being named in compliance with the utility board statute passed by the 1929 legislature. The councilmen were caucusing at the Athenaeum. FIRE U, S, ATTORNEYS Fourteen Assistants in Brooklyn Asked to Quit. Bn United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y.. May 9. Resignation of all the assistant attorneys in the Brooklyn office of the United States attorney has been asked by William E. Mitchell, at-torney-general, Howard W. Ameli, United States attorney said today. Ameli conferred with Mitchell Wednesday in Washington. There are fourteen assistants in the district attorney's office here.

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United States Corrugated Paper Box Damage Is Covered by Insurance. ‘ Firemen continued today to pour j water on the ruins of a warehouse I of the United States Corrugated j Paper Box Company. 1315 Martindaie avenue, destroyed by fire j Wednesday evening with estimated damage of $400,000. Company officials stated this loss was covered by insurance. Night employes at the factory adjoining the warehouse discovered the fire when they heard several muffled explosions about 8 p. m. Running to a window they saw flames break through the roof of the warehouse. A crowd of from 15,000 to 20,000 people gathered at the scene. Street car traffic was tied up for more than two hours on the Brightwood and Columbia lines. Lack of water hampered firemen at first but within a few minutes ■ after the third alarm had sounded : fourteen high pressure pumps were m use boosting water through foity lines of hose. Two Firemen Injured Two firemen were injured, neither ! seriously, and eight affected with smoke during the fire. Those injured were Lieutenant John Lanahan, 312 Tacoma avenue, sprained left wrist, and M. T. Harrison, leg cut by falling glass. Both are from pumper company No. 20. Those who affected by smoke were: Captain George Townsend, station No. 7; Captain William Arthur. William McKinley, William | Carter and Herbert Snyder, all of station No. 8: Thomas Flaharty, ! station No. 14; Lieutenant Grover Todd, Harlan Reno and John W. Johnson of station No. 21. More than $15,000 worth of machinery was destroyed. The rest of the estimated loss was in merchandise and damage to the building. which was destroyed. Fire doors between the warehouse and the main plant were closed automatically when the heat be- ! came great thereby confining the fire to the two-story warehouse. 12,000 Watch Firefighters The warehouse basement and first floor contained paper rolls and box stock. The second floor was stocked with finished paper boxes ready for shipment. Firemen had to contend with a fire hazard caused by large sheets of flaming paper which sailed skyward and carried by a breeze threatened surrounding buildings. H. J. Lacy, president of the paper box company, announced today that the hundred men employed by the firm would be given employment at the company's factory at Dayton. Harry E. Voshell, fire chief, assumed charge after the third alarm had been turned in at 8:40 p. m.

USAS OFFICIALS ARE DISMISSED State Highway Auditor and Purchasing Agent Fired. Summary dismissal oi two officials in the motor transport division of the Indiana state highway department today was regarded at the statehouse as the result of longstanding disagreement w’ithin the highway commission over management of the department. H. A. Hitzelberger, purchasing agent in the motor transport division for five years, and Fred R. Huddleston, auditor for three years were the two discharged by Omer S. Manlove, chief of the division. “The action was taken for the good of the department,” Manlove said, explaining the officials were dismissed this morning after he had discussed the matter with the highway commission. Rumors were persistent recently that Hitzelberger had conferred with Attorney-General James M. Ogden relative to the department’s purchase of auto parts and that the controversy had been brought before the highway commission. Huddleston, with years of banking experience, inaugurated a bookkeeping system in the garage when he became its auditor and is understood to have perfected a check on the department's finances that disclosed the possibility of more economical operation. 51-DAY COMA FATAL Mother Unconscious Since Crash, Dies. Hu United Press WICHITA. Kan . May 9 —After lying unconscious for fifty-one days, Mrs. Minnie Burton, mother of tw’o children, died Wednesday night. Mrs. Burton was kept alive by injections of glucose after she was struck by a motor truck. ALLEGED MASHER HELD Youth Charged With Attempting to Get Girl Into Auto. Charles Manning, 24, of 1536 Roosevelt avenue, was arrested Wednesday night as a “masher.” It is alleged Manning attempted to entice Miss Dorothy Rogers, 18, of 2012 North Tacoma avenue, into his automobile.

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‘FAST’TIME TILT SLATED FOR COUNCIL Officials to Fight Out Daylight Savings Issue Tonight. MEMBERS ARE DIVIDED Ordinance Goes Into Effect Sunday If It Is Not Repealed. City councilmen today expressed divided sentiment on the repeal of the daylight saving ordinance which will be acted upon tonight at a special council session. Indications late this afternoon were that council will pass the ordinance repealing daylight saving becaues of its conflict with the state law. The last general assembly passed a law prohibiting fast time in Indianapolis banks and public offices. • The daylight ordinance which was passed last year will go into effect at 2 a. m. Sunday unless repealed tonight. Edward B. Raub Sr., council president, is leading the faction in council which favors ignoring the state law as no penalty is provided for its violation. Raub obtained opinions from several attorneys who believe : the state law invalid, it is understood. Hack Advises Repeal Chairman Meredith Nicholson, who advocated the fast time last year, said the law and judiciary committee had not decided what recommendation will be made. John F. White and Paul Rathert introduced the measure several weeks ago. Council delayed action Monday night to obtain further legal advice but none of the councilmen would indicate the nature of the opinions. Oren S. Hack, corporation counsel, advised the city fathers to repeal the measure. Coimcilmen’s telephone bells have been ringing almost continuously since the Monday night discussion Robert S. Springsteen, Nicholson and Raub said they received numerous calls from persons favoring the retention of the fast time if it is legally possible. Gets ‘Scurrilous’ Letter Nicholson said he received one “scurrilous letter” opposing change of the clock and Springsteen reported receipt of a post card from a laborer who said; “You’ll be paralysed the rest of your life if you vote for daylight saving.” Several large manufacturing plants and business houses plan to operate on the summer schedule regardless of council’s action, it is reported. Employes of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills voted overwhelmingly against daylight saving two weeks ago. Herman P. Lieber, who led opposition to the fast time last year, said he would vote for repeal tonight. Councilman Albert F. Meurer 1 spoke for retention of the fast schedule Monday night. CHARLES DICKENS’ LAST ■ DAUGHTER DIES TODAY;! Leading Surviving Link With Victorian Era Passes in London. Ha United Press LONDON. May 9.—Mrs. Kate Perugini, only surviving daughter of Charles Dickens, the novelist, died today. Mrs. Perugini was one of the few surviving links with the period in which Dickens spent his best years, and made immortal in his novels. She could count a score of the literary and artistic lions of the nineteenth century among her personal friends, including Thackeray and George Eliot. HOSPITALS PLAN TOURS Institutions to Open Doors to Publie Sunday. Among the Indianapolis hospitals to open their doors to the public Sunday in observance of National Hospital day will be the James Whitcomb Riley hospital, the Robert W. Long hospital, and the Coleman Hospital for Women. Special guides will be provided for visitors and tea will be served at r the James Whitcomb Riley during visiting hours. Visitors arc also invited to attend special nursing demonstrations at the Indiana University medical center, it was an nounced. DI SC US S PLAYGROUN DS .Mayor Confers on Recreatiottt! Survey of City. Eugene C. Foster, IndianapolLJ Foundation director, conferred privately with Mayor L. Ert Slack today relative to plans for a recrea-i tional survey in Indianapolis. It is understood that the founda-j tion plans to bring recreational experts here to study all of the city’*| recreational facilities with the vietE; of setting up a balanced program, j

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