Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1929 — Page 19

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NEW PLANTS LOCATES IN FIVE CITIES Limestone Belt Extends to Owen County With One uuarry Working. CONSTRUCTION SPEEDED Force of 300 Engaged Day and Night in Erecting Brazil Factory. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Lditor. The Times Acquisition of new plants by five Indiana cities, an April building total of $5,425 452 and extension of the Indiana limestone district from Lawrence and Monroe counties to Jcwen county are disclosed in a business and industrial survey of The state for the w r eek ended today. Os nineteen cities covered by the tnjrvey, building gains are shown by rlcven. They are Elkhart, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Hammond, Huntington, Kokomo, Lafayette, Marion, Michigan City, Muncie and South 33end. A $250,000 seven-story apartment hotel is to be erected in Hammond during the summer. Work will bepin July 1 on a $30,000 addition to the postofHce at Richmond. Stone development in Owen bounty has followed discovery rercntly of a large deposit of high grade buff stone near Romona. The Ingalls Company is already operrting in quarry at Romona and has .lust completed eight large derricks. Spencer citizens are enthusiastic ever reports that a large stone mill is to be established in that city Soon. Ten Bloomington men have acquired an option on a site 90x200 feet for erection of a canning factory at a cost of $25,000. South Bend Gets riant The John Baumbarth Company, employing between 400 and 500 perrons, is to be moved from Chicago to South Bend. It is engaged in lithographing, its products including calendars, greeting cards and similar specialties. Work is already under way on a $300,000 plant. Articles of incorporation have been recorded by the Securrograph Pen Company which will operate a plant at Oakland City, to be manned at first by students of Oakland City college. It is capitalized at $60,000. An apron factory has been opened nt El wood by Grover Hutcherson, and another new industry is that of J. J. Anders, Indianapolis, the manufacture of oil burners for furnaces. Macy Conveyors, Inc., with a capital of $50,000, is anew industry at Decatur. It has taken over the old plant of the Gerber Ladder Companv and work of remodeling it is under way. The new concern will manufacture a line of portable convenors, bucket elevators and skip hoists. The following summary shows conditions in various cities of the state: Kokomo —One hundred employes will be added to the force of the McLoughlin Manufacturing Company with completion of installing new machinery' now in progress. The Constantine Porcelain Manufacturing Company, Michigan concern, which recently purchased the Hunt Porcelain Company here, announces it will be expanded at once and enough orders are on hand to assure steady operation for six to eight months. Anderson— The Lynch Glass Machine Company, established here twelve years ago, now sells its product in the United States and twenty-two foreign countries. Unfilled orders now on hand came from Mexico. France. Scotland. Japan. New Zealand and England. Marion— Th Delta Electric Company is booking large orders from leading aviation manufacturers for two new airplane lights on which it recently received patents. The Roberd Manufacturing Company and Upland Flint Glass Company are enlarging their plants. The local plant of the United States Radio and Television Corporation is to be enlarged and production increased, Allen G. Messick. directors’ chairman announces. Brush Company Busy Seymour— The Indiana Ox Fiber Brush Company announces that plant improvements just completed will enable it to enter the first stage of a heavv production schedule. Brazil—A force of 300 men is working night and day on construction of anew plant for the Clay Products Company. Columbus The Indiana Fur Farms, to operate near here, has been incorporated by Mrs. J. Clifford Noblitt and Mr. and Mrs. Loren Noblitt. A site of 100 acres has been purchased. Muncie—The new plant of the Kuhner Packing Company has opened, marking advance of a' concern which grew from a small retail meat business established t wen type ven years ago. Evansville— The Graham Glass Company has been taken over by the Owens-Illinois Bottle Company, largest concern of Its kind in the world. Plymouth—A test well for oil and gas is to be drilled on the Lamson farm near here. Connersville —The plant of the Auburn Automobile Company has reached a shipping peak of 201 cars daily, and it is xpected this will reach 250 cars by June 1. Elwood—lncreasing business has Necessitated building's SIO,OOO addition to the plant of the Indiana

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NEA Los Angles Bureau. Here is the newest contender for the women's duration flight record. She is 20-year-old Marjorie Crawford of Los Angeles, Cal., who plans to start her flight June 1 in a Kinner monoplane with sufficient fuel to last thirty hours. Miss Crawford has flown for five years. If she remains aloft until the gasoline is exhausted she will break the present record of more than twenty-six hours held by Elinor Smith, 17-year-old “flying flapper” of New York.

MOTHER SLAYS OWN CHILDREN Slashes Throats of Boy, Girl and Baby in Cemetery. Bu United Press LEBANON, Ky.. May 24.—Mrs. Avey Shoaf, 38, took her three children to a cemetery here today, slashed their throats with a razor, then cut her own throat. Mrs. Shoaf was brought to a hospital here in a dying condition. The children, whose bodies lay near that of their mother, were Catherine, 9; George, 2, and a baby girl, whose name was not learned. Police, after an investigation, said Mrs. Shoaf had been despondent over domestic troubles. COUNCIL WILL ACT Meets Today to Decide on Election Commissioner. Council President Edward B. Raub called a special council meeting for 5 p. m. today to elect the third member of the city election commission. Council likely will name a Democrat, it is said. The names of A. Nathan Swain, attorney, and Robert Sloan, south side civic leader, are under consideration. The council appointee will serve with William H. Remy, who was named by circuit court, and William A. Boyce Jr., city clerk.

HELD TO GRAND JURY F. A. Pohl Charged as Driver in Fatal Beech Grove Accident. F. A. Pohl, 136 South Seventeenth street. Beech Grove, alleged driver of an automobile that killed John Windhorst, 40. of 4 South Seventeenth street. Beech Grove, and injured John Windhorst Jr., 12, and Ella Windhorst. 9, his children, and J. W. Pettill, 70, Beech Grove, on Churchman avenue between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. Beech Grove, March 4, was held to the Marion county grand jury Thursday by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. EX-SENATOR ACCUSED Former Member of Congress Replies to Bad Check Charge. By United Press WASHINGTON. May 24.—Former United States Senator Charles Dick of Akron. 0., appeared voluntarily at police headquarters here to explain a bad check dharge filed against him in Ohio. Dick said he stopped payment on a S3OO check to Homer Edson, Columbus, 0.. charging breach of contract. Police said when the warrant for Dick’s arrest wes received here from Ohio, it would be served, but Dick would not be remanded to jail.

CUTE LITTLE SKUNK SPURS PEANUT PUSHER TO SPEED UP PIKES PEAK

By United Press COLORADO SPRINGS, May 24. —lt settled down to a case of Bill Williams vs. a mountain today. The tall Texas plasterer, who escaped spring housecleaning time down in Rio Hondo. Tex., by getting himself tied up in a SSOO bet that he can push a peanut wdth his nose to the top of Pike's peak, • distance o t twenty-two miles.

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SUGGEST CORYDON TRIP Hoosier Motor Club Gives Route to State's First Capital. Corydon, in Harrison county, where Indiana's first state Capitol building still stands, is suggested as the destination of week-end motorists by the Hoosier Motor Club this week. The club offers as the best route: South on Meridian street to Madison avenue; bear on U. S. Road 31 through Franklin, Columbus. Seymour and Scottsburg to. New Albany; then west on Road 62 to Coryaon. The distance is 142 miles, all paved. Passenger Averts Train Wreck NEW LEXINGTON, 0.. May 24. Glen Nichols of Lancaster, Ohio, averted a serious wreck near here today when he signaled the engineer of Pennsylvania passenger train No. 971, en route from Zanesville, to Cincinnati, to stop when the rear coach jumped the track. Nichols was the only passenger aboard the coach, which partially turaed- over.

in twenty-two days, seems to have overcome most of the natural hazards that lurk along the course. These hazards included hungry squirrels that covet Bill s Georgiagrown peanuts, wind and rain, which threatened to turn the pushing into a swim. Now it appears to be a case of whether Williams can stand the gaff for seventeen more days. The progress maue yeeterdsy tyr

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929

SCHOOL BOYS 1 ADMIT THEFT OF 27 AUTOS South Bend Officials Expect Additions to Three Weeks’ List. DESIRED ‘JOY RIDES’ Cars Taken Were Those Parked Without Keys Being Turned. i Du Timet Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., May 24. Four high school boys who have confessed to stealing twenty-seven automobiles in three weeks are expected by officials to add to the list before investigation of their cases is concluded. Three of the accused, each 15 years old, attended a school here, while the fourth, Robert Eby, 16, was a student at Battle Creek, Mich. He has entered a plea of guilty to a vehicle taking charge and has been paroled to his mother. When first arrested the boys said they had taken fifteen cars, but under questioning listed twelve j more. A car belonging to Dr. L. P. Van : Rie, stolen from in front of a hospital at Mishaw’aka, was the last . taken by the boys. They stopped at a filling station in Michigan City to ! inquire the route to Chicago and a police officer asked them to show ! their title card and container. They j were unable to identify themselves satisfactorily and tvere arrested. “Joy riding” promoted the thefts, officials said. In no case did the boys take a car which had been locked. In every instance, the autos I stolen had been left unlocked by ! their owners.

SAME BANDITS REPEAT OIL STATION ROBBERY Obtain 535 From Washington Street Filling Station. History repeated itself early this morning at the Standard Oil filling station at Southeastern avenue and Washington street, of w r hich Edward W. Lollis, 5603 East Washington street, Is attendant. In an automobile stolen a few minutes before from Hershal A. McGail, 4409 Baltimore avenue, night foreman at the West Baking Company, 1331 East Market street, two bandits drove into the station at 1 a. m. With a gun one forced Lollis to open the safe and took $35. Lollis told police the bandit was the same man who held up the filling station a month ago. Surgeons Use Kitchen Table EVANSVILLE. Ind.. May 24.—A kitchen table was an operating table in the case of Mrs. R. W. Riggs, wife, of a Scott township farmer, suffering from appendicitis. Bad roads prevented her removal from her home to a hospital.

Williams surprised even his most enthusiastic supporters. It was not until evening, when Williams was resting under the main tent of the peanut pusher's roadside camp, that the real reason for the setting of anew speed record was revealed. a b a TT seems, according to Bill, that, J as he was nosing his second gj t-b* d”,F a,ri pg t.hp X7tß

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“Wuxtra!” And the Shortridge high school newsgirls swing into a lively dance interpretation of how urchins spread the news of the “woild.” Left' to right, these members of the Shortridge girls’ gymnasium classes will appear in a program at the school at 8 o’clock next Wednesday night; Peggy Mac Lucas, Lois Coleman, Marcella Mark, Wilhelmena McElroy, Eileen Buck, Frieda Roderick, Nina Ruth Sherman. Amelia McClure, Florence Blum and Hannah Leah Miller.

LEGION URGES KISER DRAFT

Man Power Only Plan Hit by Commander. B,y Times Special GARY, Ind., May 24.—Paul W. McNutt, national commander of the American Legion, speaking at a banquet in his honor here Thursday night, declared the legion to be “gravely concerned” over two situations in congress—failure to pass the veterans’ hospital construction bill and a proposal to draft only man power in war time. The commander declared there are 5,189 mentally ill veterans without a place to receive treatment in j discussing the hospital bill. Regarding the man power draft ; plan of Secretary of War Good, McNutt said: “The American Legion opposes j this attempt to enact legislation | for the conscription of man power j without taking into consideration the mobilization of industry and wealth in the event of another war.

SCHWAB OPTIMISTIC Visions Increased Prosperity for American Business. Bv United Press NEW YORK, May 24.—Charles M. Schwab is optimistic about business. In his address today before the American Iron and Steel Institute, of which he is president, Schwab declared that more steel was used last year than ever before. While the automobiles, railroad and building lines have been the three largest users of steel, he predicted that road building, demands for bridges and vehicular tunnels and airplane manufacturing, will further increase the demand for the commodity—the backbone of American industrial life. Despite the rosy outlook, Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, warned however, against being too self satisfied. PARK EMPLOYES NAMED Thirteen Recreation Department Appointments Announced. Thirteen additional recreation department employes were appointed tday by the park board on recommendation of Mayor L. Ert Slack. Those named: Ira Haymaker Jr., instructor; Helen Ernsting and James Demetrius, instructors at Kingan’s playground; Lizzie Morford, Margaret Miller, Nellie S. Morton, Pearl Kendall, Josephine Noonan, Mary M. Devenay, Mary Reid, Rose Griffin and Mrs. G. E. Frill, matrons, and Miss Lena Lohman, matron at Christamore settlement. GARAGE FIRED TWICE Charles Reisner Reports Place Burned Second Time. A garage in the rear of 1033 South Alabama street, in which a number of junked automobiles are stored, was set afire this morning for the second time in three months, Charles Reisner of the Market street garage complained to police. Since the first blaze it has been boarded up and used as a storehouse for worthless cars. The blaze today damaged the roof slightly.

Pass trail, there happened to be among the gallery a particularly pretty animals that ventured out from the woods. It was black, for the most part, with blazing white stripes running along its back, and its tail spread was something to write home about. Bill claims to be afraid of nothing that grows hair, but he knows bis zoology as only * westerner

The whole program includes Dance of Greeting, Entrance March, Mass Drill in Fundamentals; Why Mothers Turn Gray (clogging), with these numbers: Country Dance, Newsboys Clog, Mighty Like a Rose. Yankee Doodle. Doll Dance, Sidewalks of New York; Krakawiak, two Spanish dances, Peascods, Liebesfreud, Italian Street Song. Raggedy Ann and Andy, Class Fundamentals, Hungarian Dance, and the ensemble.

HUNDREDS JOIN IN SEARCH FOR FIEND

Pair Shot and Beaten, Tied in Auto, Left to Burn; Both Escape. j Bu United Press SPOKANE, Wash., May 24.—Keyed ]to a high pitch of indignation, t citizens of Spokane and nearby ; country side joined today in an inj tensive search for the fiend who I attacked a young woman, shot down ; her escort, tossed them into an automobile, and set fire to the car. The man bound and gagged the couple, using rags saturated with chloroform to stuff into their mouths before he attempted to burn them in their automobile, according to the story told officers. The search centered around Hangman creek, south of here, where the assault took place. It is believed the man is hiding in the thick brush lining the Inland Empire highway. The sheriff s office said all roads out of Spokane were guarded and that police of cities in the Pacific northwest had been asked to be on the lookout for the assailant, described as about 30 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with black eyes. As the search went on, authorities continued to question William J. j Johnson, 28-year-old Spokane electrician, and Hazel Huller, 28, whose stories of the attack were said to differ in some respects. Prosecutor Greenough, conducting the investigation, said he felt certain that “we have not been told the entire truth about this matter.” Johnson, suffering from four bullet wounds, was in a hospital, where it was said he probably would recover. Physicians said Miss Huller suffered only scratches and bruises.

SABBATH PASSING, CHURCHMEN TOLD i .. ~ church involves both an inconLOrd S Usy OGCrGtSry sistency tn principle and a neglect

Mourns Loss of Reverence in Synod Speech. “The Sabbath situation today has become intensely serious. Efforts are being made to put the dollar above the day, commercialism above Christ and the pocketbook above the parson,” the Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, New York, general secretary of the Lord’s Day Alliance, told delegates to the twenty-third triennial general synod of the Reformed church in the United States in the First Reformed church, Tenth street and Oakland avenue, today. “Amusement and sporting organizations are seeking to make Sunday the biggest money-getting day of the week. The desecration is appalling,” he charged. Four hundred delegates to the synod Thursday afternoon voted to adopt a resolution to send down to individual churches an amendment to the church constitution giving women full equality with men in church affairs. A special commission, which has had the move under consideration, recommended equal rights. “Your commission is encouraged to propose this action by the overwhelming support of the proposal by the synodical societies of the W. M. S. G. S.” the recommendation stated. “The present status of women in

can. It was only natural that he should decide that the present location of the peanut push was entirely wrong as to altitude. It might cost him SSOO to retreat along the path of least resistance, which was down hill. Besides, that's against the rules of peaut marathoning. Having to go somewhere at once, BUI selected up u tin best move

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Student Dance Ban Lifted Bu Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., May 24. For the first time in the history of the Columbus High school, students who attended this year’s junior-senior reception were permitted to dance. The reception was held in the high school gymnasium and the dance in connection with it was the first ever held in the building.

GROTTO BOYS HOME Dalrymple Property Purchased for Headquarters. Sahara Grotto has purchased the John W. Dalrymple residence, southeast corner es Thirteenth street and Park avenue, for headquarters, it w r as anounced today. Approximately $75,000 will be spent in reconditioning the buildings. The residence is a three-story brick structure with twenty rooms. On the rear of the lot there is a garage for twelve autos and a caretaker’s residence. The property was sold through the State Property Company, which purchased it from the estate of Dalrymplc, who cjied Dec. 15, 1927.

j of opportunity.” | An executive committee report, ! submitted to the assembly, declared ! that there are too many special days | observed in the church, and outlined a plan to cut the number to nine, ! with a definite date for each. Miss Mildred Dirks, 50 North ! Kenmore road, a senior at Butler j university, Thursday was awarded ! first prize fro ma field of 1,500 en{tries in the Group D stewardship I essay .contest, and Clifton White- ! ley of the Second Reformed church, ! Indianapolis, won the Group A | stewardship poster contest. Report of the committee on home | missions was read at the session ■ Thursday night in Zion Evangelical 1 church, at which Dr. Chafles E. Schaeffer, Philadelphia, Pa., newly elected president of the synod, spoke. Dr. Allen Bartholomew, Philai delphia, Pa., retiring president, and : secretary of the board of foreign missions, will speak tonight on “A Review of the Work of Three Years,” and the Rev. D. B. Schneder, president of the North Japan college, Sendail, Japan, will present “A Message From Our Japan Mission.” Lifelong Resident Dies MARION, Ind., May 24.—Funeral services for Mrs. Edward McCorI mick, 59, lifelong resident of Grant county, who died at the Kneipp : sanitarium, Rome City, w'ere held at St. Paul's Catholic church.

and when his followers caught up with him it was at a point where the mountain air suggested nothing more offensive to Bill's educated nose than the dawn of spring, brave little mountain flowers. grass and the fragrance of the pines that line the picturesque roadside along which the Texan is elevating himself to fame and iortuae—if ho m■ mas

BANK ROBBER PAIR REPORTED IN ST. LOUIS Car in Which South Side Bandits Escaped is Said to Be Found. LINKED WITH GARY JOB Abandoned Auto, Carrying Arsenal, Discovered by Boy. Police Chief Claude M. Worley j today received an unverified report i from an insurance company that the stolen Pontiac sedan in w’hich Harry Watson fled from the Founj tain Square State bank, 1059 Viri ginia avenue, after his pal, Jack F. j Landry, 30, was wounded fatally In ] a holdup attempt Thursday mom- | ing, has been found in St. Louis. It was at first reported that two I men in the car were captured, but the chief had no verification of this. Weston ran to the Pontiac sedan at Sanders and Leonard streets, three blocks from the bank, and j drove away in it just after the robbery. The car belonged to Leonard E. Middleton, carpenter, 1422 Gale street, who was working on a church at the corner. Detectives today definitely linked the bandit pair with the thwarted attempt to hold up the American State Bank at Gary Wednesday. Landry, the bandit wounded In the struggle with bank employes here, died in city hospital at 10 Thursday night of bullet wounds in his head.

Killed by Pistol Bullet Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier, after an autopsy this morning, announced that Landry had died of a single revolver shot wound which entered his head one inch back of the left eye, and plowed through to the right side, puncturing both eyeballs. This definitely established that the shot which ended the battle was fired by Val F. Schneider, bank teller. It had been thought at first that the bandit died of a buckshot wound from his own sawed-off shotgun, discharged in the striiggle with Schneider and other bank officials and employes. A legal struggle to obtain possession of the $6,000 in loot found on Landry and in the Chrysler coupe was started today. Various banks and insurance companies which have suffered robbery losses in the last few months are expected to be the contenders. The Fidelity and Deposit Company of Baltimore, which paid more than $21,000 to the Irvington State Bank in January, got the jump when its agents obtained appointment by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash of Attorney Harold F. Kealing as administrator of Landry’s estate.

Skeptical of Confessions Kealing immediately tried to take the loot from police, but Detective Chief Jerry Kinney blocked him. Finally it was agreed that the $3,000 in bonds stolen from a St. Louis bank, $l,lOO in travelers’ cheques stolen from a Lansing (111.) bank and $1,700 in cash found on Landry shall remain in the detectives’ office safe until a competent court orders disposition. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark declared he wanted the money to remain in police custody for use as evidence in case Watson is captured. The Trvington bank’s claim appeared to be based upon the admission by Landry before he died that he participated in that robbery. However, he retracted this admission. Detectives said they were skeptical of his numerous “confessions” during the day because he answered nearly any question they cared to ask him, “yes.” The Marion County Bankers’ Association has offered a reward of SI,OOO for the capture of the other bandit or bandits in the Fountain Square robbery. Arsenal Found in Car Definite linking of Landry with the Gary job came after a small boy, whose name police did not get, accosted Motor Policeman Mike Griffin Thursday night near the bank and announced: “Say, there’s a car dowm there by the bank with a couple of guns in it.” Griffin found the car, a Chrysler coupe, with the gas tank empty. Apparently the two bandits had left their motor running when they went into the bank. When Watson fled after Landry was shot, he ran past this car and stole another, three blocks aw’ay. Police found in the car two loaded rifles, nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition for the rifles, sawed-off shotguns and revolvers, an automatic pistol and $l,lBO In travelers’ cheques issued by a Lansing (111.) bank. The Chrysler bore license plates stolen from Harry E. Wilson of Plainfield, Ind., several days ago. The car was stolen from Valparaiso, Ind., Wednesday before the robbery attempt at the Gary bank. Officials of the Lansing State Bank, Lansing. 111., by long distance phone, identified the traveler’s cheques as having been stolen with $12,000 in a holdup April 12. Linked With Gary Holdup Gary detectives assisted in linking Landry with the attack here. Two men walked into the Gary bank, show’ed President Albert Defries some bonds, similar to those found on Landry after he was shot here, and then felled him with a blow so hard it broke the stock of saw’edoff shotgun. The broken stock was similar to that of the sawedoff gun Landry tried to um 1b tit* Incu btfk