Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1929 — Page 9

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RAINS CAUSE HUGE STATE CROP LOSSES Continued Wet Weather to Be Disastrous to Wheat Growers. CORN IS DAMAGED Precipitation in City Since July 1 Is 3.57 Inches. Tremendous losses in wheat, and com crops confront Indiana farmers unless rains halt to permit harvesting and plowing, reports from all parts of the state indicated today. Anxiety was increased as the weather bureau predicted probable thundershowers. Already the damage has mounted to thousands of dollars, according to reports received by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation and county acrieultural agents. Continued rains preventing farmers from getting into their fields will be disastrous to the 19.000 wheat growers in the state,” said J. H. Moore, farm bureau official. Corn Suffers Damage • With favorable weather, harvesting would have been completed by this time.” said J. H Armington. weather bureau chief for Indiana. "But actually, it is no wavs near completed.” Most wheat has been cut. reports indicated, but many fields remain uncut, with the wheat dead ripe and threatening to shell out. Several days clear warm weather are needed to dry out the fields and shocks. "In Marion county, most of the wheat is cut, but continued rains will cause it to sprout in the shock,” said Charles J. Murphy, assistant county agricultural agent.” With fields inundated by frequent downpours, corn has suffered the greatest damage, it was said. In Marion county alone, the loss to com in the White river bottoms will be thousands of dollars, Murphy said. It was said many farmers have turned their cornfields into soy beans because of the wet weather. Unsettled for Tonight The hay grop was reported un- ! usually good, but will suffer heavily from further rains. In Indianapolis, rainfall since the first of July has amounted to 3.57 inches, representing an excess above normal of 2.80 inches. In the twen-ty-four hours ending at 7 this morning the precipitation totaled 1.45 inches and pushed the excess precipitation thus far this year to 9 63 inches. ■Unsettled with probable thundershowers tonight and Tuesday, somewhat cooler Tuesday,” was the day’s forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity. Local thundershowers also were predicted for the state. Wheat ‘Swamps’ Kansas DODGE CITY, Kan., July B. Kansas farmers had moved part of the millions of bushels of wheat they have on hand today when an electrical storm swept this section and caused a cessation of harvesting. Railroads pressed thousands of box cars into service to haul the wheat to market, but were swamped in the flood of grain. Elevators were filled to capacity several days ago and railroau yards, public squares and even high school grounds were utilized for storage places. At Sublette, county seat of Haskell county, six great piles of wheat filled the lawn of the consolidated high school. Each pile was more than a block long. IRIS PLANTS OF CITY INFECTED BY BORER Only Solution Is to Cut Pest From Stock, Says Official. Indianapolis iris plants are the victims of “boring from within" in k most literal sense, according to Frank Wallace, state entomologist. “What to do?” is the constant question being asked at Wallace's office at the statehouse. “There is no poison strong enough to kill the borer without damaging the plant, because the borer is so difficult to reach,” Wallace explained. "The only solution is to cut into the stalk and remove the pest, then kill it.” The borers are worms about the size of a fat grub.

TWO FLIERS HURT IN CRASH NEAR LEBANON Terr? Haute Men in Hospital After Short Fall of Plane. Bv Cnitfd Prett LEBANON. Ind., July B.—Two licensed aviators were injured, one seriously near here today when their plane fell from a low altitude. Robert Crox and Lester Long, both of Terre Haute were found in the wreckage of their plane by Fred Duss, farmer, who brought them to a hospital here. * They had taken off from Dresser Field. Terre Haute for Defiance. O. Both were employes of the Simplex Air Corporation of Defiance and uere said to have been flying one of the company's planes. The cause of the accident has not been determined. Crox was the most seriously inured.

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Ann, Winner in Balm Suit, Gets Film Offers

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Need Never Again Be 'Drudge’ If She Accepts Offers by Stage Men. Bf/ United Press CHICAGO, July B—Ann Livingston received but one-tenth of the $250,000 she asked in her breach of promise suit against Franklin S. Hardinge, 62-year-old oil burner magnate, but she need never again j be the "poor working drudge” she ! represented herself to be during the trial if she accepts any of a number of opulent theatrical contracts which she has under consideration ! today. According to Benjamin H. Ehrlich, the 29-year-old Tulsa divorcee's j attorney, she has had offers from j several theaters running as high as $3,500 a week and also a “splendid j proposal” from one motion picture concern. Ehrlich said his client had not yet decided which she would accept and that she might go to her home in Tulsa for a brief rest before making any plans for her future. Miss Livingston was well pleased with the verdict for $25,000 returned by a jury in circuit court here Saturday. "The jurors vindicated me and proved that I was a good girl,” she said. “The amount of the verdict was not important.” During the long-drawn-out trial Hardinge had claimed the pretty girl, whom he met on a transcontinental train and jilted at Chicago after their wedding invitations had been sent out, was a “gold digger,” who cared for nothing but his millions. The plaintiff's attorneys had maintained she was only a “poor working drudge,” who had succumbed to the wiles of the 62-year-cld millionaire through inexperience and in good faith. SEEK MISSING GIRL Pens Note Saying She Left With Man. A note. "I am going to California with Leon Johnson.” today confounded Henry Stickam, Hannah avenue, near Bluff road, as he invoked police aid in a search for his daughter Henrietta. 17, who left home Sunday night. Police discovered that the girl left Indianapolis shortly before midnight I on a bus bound for Michigan City and Chicago, but was not aboard the bus when it reached the northern Indiana town. She was accompanied iby a man. Stickman says he does | not known Leon Johnson and beI lieves she left Indianapolis with another man. Mrs. Grace Nicholson. 32. of 1439 Deloss street, mother of eight children, who left her home last Wednesday night, and Thursday telephoned her husband. J. J. Nicholson. saying she was ill, was still missing today.

‘I’M NEW MAN,’ SAYS EX-FOOTBALL STAR, AFTER OPERATION FOR ‘CRIME TWIST’

BV ARCH STEINEL "T FEEL like anew man." With combative eyes, eyes that accept the moral gauntlet flung to him by society in the form of an operation which sought to change him from an habitual criminal to a respected citizen. Howard Buck, football star, talks to you from his bed at Robert W. Long hospital. •'lt's my second day being up and around—and. just think, not a headache. I can't thank Governor Leslie, the doctors, every one enough for what they've done—giving me anew chance.”

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FIND BODY OF GLACIERVICTIM Heroic Struggle Ends Over Dead Football Star. B v United Press PARADISE INN, RAINIER PARK. Wash.. July B.—After an eight-hour descent down treacherous glacier slopes, the body of Forrest Greathouse, former University of Illinois football star, was returned here from the crevasse on Mt. Rainier, where Greathouse and a companion were killed a week ago. A searching party under Charles Brown, veteran guide, located the body early Sunday and carried it from the crevasse after a difficult struggle with the ice. Greathouse and Edwin A. Wetzel, Milwaukee, were members of a party of six who attempted the season’s first climb to the summit of the famous peak. The party was swept from a ledge. Four of the party were rescued and Wetzel’s body was found the following day.

ELEVEN DEAD AS TOLL OF VIOLENCE

Two Others Missing at Evansville Believed Drowning Victims. Eleven known dead and the possibility that two others may be added to the list is the toll of violence in Indiana over the week-end. Although no bodies have been found, it is believed certain that Allen C. Yeager, 32, Evansville business man and Russell Morris, 13, were drowned in the Ohio river. Yeager and the boy took the former’s new motor boat on a test run and failed to return. The boat was found, empty, but no traces of its occupants has been found. John Edward Filcer, Jr., 19, of 2009 Hoyt avenue, Indianapolis, was drowned while swimming in Sugar Creek five miles north of Edinburg. Julius Samuels, 35, Chicago, was drowned while swimming in Bass lake at Knox. Adolph Ostergreen, 50. Chicago, drowned while swimming in Fishtrap lake two miles north of Laporte. Albert Kohn, 73. Kokomo, died of injuries suffered when struck by a train. Lovell J. Ledman. 40. and H. M. Tyler, 41, both of Lafayette, were killed twelve miles southeast of there when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Nickel Plate freight train. Orva Roberts. 39, farmer near Montpelier, is dead of a bullet wound accidentally inflicted by Don Chapman, 17, while shooting at sparrows. James T. Howell Jr., 40, wealthy

It was through Governor Leslie that Buck was given a temporary parole from the state reformatory at Pendleton to undergo the skull operation which sought to unsnarl his warped life as a "kiter” of checks. An injury suffered in a football game against Purdue, the Governor's alma mater, was believed by surgeons to have caused Buck's criminal tendencies. Buck was a Chicago university quarter back. ‘‘No headaches." Buck smoothed the bedspread with white fingers, “you can t think what that means

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929

OFFICER'S KISS TO WIFE SETS HOOSIER FREE Henry Davey of Shelburn Flees From Train During Farewell at Car Steps. BOGUS MONEY CHARGED Escape Recalls SB,OOO Robbery and Counterfeiting Case in Indiana. Bn Timm Svecial TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 8. Police officials here read with interest a press dispatch from Miami, Fla., telhng of the escape of Henry Davey from W. F. Fox, deputy United States marshal. The officer was en route with Davey to Louisville, Ky., where the prisoner was to face trial in federal court on charges of counterfeiting money. Fox left Davey in a train coach while he went to the steps to kiss Mrs. Fox goodby, shortly before the train was to leave the station. When he returned, Davey was gone. Escapes in Bad Money Case Davey, gunman and counterfeiter, has a at Shelburn, twenty-one miles south of here. He was sought by police here three years ago at the time the notorious Billy Evans band of counterfeiters was rounded up, he being the only one escaping. While the counterfeiters were being hunted, Davey bought a load of moonshine liquor in Kentucky, paying for it with bogus S2O bills. Several years ago, Davey was arrested at Mt. Carmel, 111., charged with a hardware store burglary. He broke jail, was later recaptured, and served a term in the Illinois prison. Surrendered After Robbery The next chapter in his crime career was the SB,OOO holdup of the Latta Creek mine payroll in Greene county. Dusty Graham being his accomplice. Davey was found at the home of a relative in Shelburn and after the house had been surrounded by a posse he surrendered. He was given a prison term. Although hunted for three years by officers here on the counterfeiting charge, Davey, they declare, has not been seen once, although there are reports from other sources he had been here within the last three weeks. Following his arrest in Miami, police here sent authorities in the Florida city a full history of Davey’s career in crime so far as they know it. SHI P SINKS IN BLAST Goes Down Off English Coast With All Hands, Message Says. Bv United Press LONDON, July B.—A wireless message from a Danish steamer stating that the vessel had seen another ship sink after an explosion off the Suffolk coast, was intercepted by the Northforeland radio station early today. No traces of survivors had been found when the last message from the Danish vessel came.

Nashville (Tenn.) broker committed suicide by slashing himself with a knife in jail at Corydon, where he was held on a charge of reckless driving. Officials say he was in bad mental condition. Clarence W. Dalrymple, 33, Richmond. killed himself by poisoning. He was despondent over financial troubles. Frank Mosher, 40, Anderson, used poisoning to end his life. A motive for the act has not been ascribed. Miss Goldie Smith, 18. Cannelburg, was killed five miles north of Kokomo, when an automobile in which she was a passenger crashed into a truck. FACTORY TO EXPAND Allison Firm to Get New Buildings. Indication that construction of new buildings in line with expansion program of the Allison Engineering Company in Speedway City will be started soon was seen today in the tearing down of several old buildings connected with the plant. N. H. Gilman, president, said the old buildings were being torn down to make room for the expansion of the plant, but would make no statement when new buildings would be started. The Allison company was purchased recently by General Motors Corporation with the announcement the plant would be greatly enlarged in the near future for aviation work.

to me. Before the operation those headaches bothered me all the time.” It was because of the headaches that Buck says he drank heavily and then "kited” checks that resulted in his sentence to the state reformatory. a a a “V’OU know, it seems as if some one—the doctors—just had taken a veil, a something, that was closing in on me and lifted it away. "Why, I catch myself figuring

Coxey Will Tour Country by Motor to Boost Finance Plan

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Here are General Jacob S. Coxey, who led the famous march of “Coxey’s Army” on Washington thirty-five years ago. and his pretty daughter, Ruth Coxey, who plan a 3.000-mile motor tour in behalf of the general s revolutionary finance plan this summer. Inset shows one of the big trucks in their motor fleet.

General of 1894 ’Army’ Fame Will Carry ‘Big Idea’ to Voters. BY BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer MASSILLON, 0.. July B.—General Jacob S. Coxey, who led a forlorn band of ragged job-seekers to Washington thirty-five years ago and marched straight into trouble, ridicule, and a kind of folk-lore immortality, is about to go on the march again, Anew Coxey’s army is formingforming for a 3,000-mile tour of the nation. It seeks the same distant frontier that the Massillon general sought thirty-five years ago—better times for the average man. This group, however, will not string its ragged marchers along dusty pikes, footsore and straggling. It will travel in an automobile caravan, with a steam calliope to tootle a quickstep ahead, big red trucks, bearing, in large type, quotations from an Indianapolis Times editorial, to carry the tent, and 5,000 seats for Coxey’s audiences —for this is to be a speaking tour —a luxurious foreign-built touring car as the general’s chariot, and two big sleeping car busses. Direct to the Voters Coxey is planning no descent on the White House or Capitol, such as he attempted with his famous army of unemployed in 1894. He is going direct to the people of twelve congressional districts, scattered from Maine to Utah, to spread the gospel of his new plan to reduce unemployment, promote prosperity, secure good roads and wipe out the public debt. His far-reaching scheme is comparatively simple. Briefly, it would enable cities, counties or states—or the federal government itself —to get all the money needed without paying a cent of interest charges. And since, on many public jobs, the interest charges come to more than the cost of the jobs themselves, Coxey figures that this would reduce taxes, provide much more money for necessary public works—thus, in turn, increasing employment and stimulating industry. His Plan in Brief Here is what his plan provides: A city, let us say, wishes to put through an expensive street paving program. Instead of issuing longterm bonds, it would deposit with the United States treasury nonin-terest-bearing twenty - five - year bonds covering the amount of money it needs. The treasury, thereupon, would issue bank notes for that amount, and would deliver them at once to the city, retaining 1 per cent to cover the cost of printing, etc. The city, in turn, would pay off the principal to the treasury, at 4 per cent a year. Thus, at the end of twenty-five years, its bonds, held by the treasury, would be canceled, and the bank notes spent by the city would be returned to the treasury, and retired from circulation. The amount of bonds that any city or other governmental unit might issue would be limited to one-half of the assessed valuation of its real property. The bill providing for all this was introduced in the last congress at Coxey’s request, but was stifled in the house committee on banking and currency. Coxey now plans to visit the home

•he was draftsman at the time of his sentence to prison) doing sums that I never could do before.” The Rev. S. C. Murr, reformatory chaplain, and Bert Fuller, Indianapolis insurance man and a victim of Buck’s check-kiting, following visits to his bedside, acclaimed the changes in the disposition and temperament of the former football star since the operation. “He's got the old football fight in him again, the spunk to make good,” averred Fuller.

SUICIDE NAMED IN FRAUD SUIT Edward J, Fogarty’s Relative Belittles Case. By Times Soecial SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 3. Charges in a land fraud suit involving the late Edward J. Fogarty, former Indiana prison warden, who committed suicide here a month ago are without basis, according to Sergeant Edward Keller, of the local police department, a relative of Fogarty. The suit, filed by Mrs. Lydia Norman of Chicago in the Federal court of southern Georgia, names as defendants Fogarty’s executors and his associates in the Hoboken Land and Development Company. Mrs. Norman alleges she was defrauded of SBO,OOO. According to her attorney, the plaintiff, 65, is penniless, although she was once worth SIOO,OOO. It is alleged the suicide was the result of threats by Mrs. Norman to expose Fogarty in coinection with a deal which she says was to bring her $60,000 for a tract she owned in Georgia. A contract was drawn up setting that figure, but, according to the suit, it was twice reduced, once to $45,000, and then to $35,000, and only a few hundred dollars was ever paid. “She will never get it,” was Keller’s comment on the suit. Fogarty killed himself at Keller’s home. At the time of his death he was warden of the Cook county jail, Chicago. It was supposed political strife in connection with his position and overwork, had prompted him to end his life.

districts of each of the eleven congressmen who voted to kill his bill, and make speeches to their constituents. In fact, he is going to visit the home precincts of one congressman who actually voted for the bill, for Coxey is not quite sure of this solon’s conversion. A long, racy-looking foreign touring car, driven by a colored chauffeur, will carry General Coxey on his tour. Then there will be a big sedan to carry other members of his family. Following these will be the two sleeping-car busses, with berths and kitchens. Then there will be four great red trucks, with bright yellow letters, setting forth the object of the tour. Bears Times Quotations Coxey displayed these trucks proudly. They bore slogans, quotations, a copy of the bill introduced in congress, and a quotation from an editorial in The Indianapolis Times urging consideration of Coxey’s plan. With General Coxey will travel his wife and daughter, Miss Ruth Coxey. Until recently Miss Coxey was a member of the chorus in Ziegfeld’s “Showboat.” She plans to speak from the same platform with her father. Her chum, Miss Gwendolyn Lee of Canton, 0., another former Ziegfeld girl, will go with her.

“Before the operation, he worked as a clerk under me at the reformatory,” explained Mr. Murr, "and he was just like a baby at times. He’d forget things. He'd ask me questions that only a child would ask, and now' —he's a man now.” a a a "\A/"HY. his e J’ es '” continued Wthe chaplain, "his whole system, seemed to be on a nervous strain. But now it’s different. He seems to see clear, to think clear. I tell you it looks to me miracle.”

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Age Conquers!

Strain of Cross Too Much for Veteran Passion Play ‘Christ; May Quit.

BY MAURITZ A. HALLGREN, United Press Staff Correspondent OBERAMMERGAU, Bavaria. July B.—Anton Lang is anxious to retire from the role of Christus in the decennially produced Passion Play of Oberammergau. Lang visited the United States five years ago. The famous actor-glass worker added, however, that he would abide by the decision of the general committee which is to meet

in September to select a cast for the 1930 pe rs ormance. Lang told the United Press he does not feel that he is growin g any stronger in the interpretation of the leading role as he

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wished to do from decade to decade, and that, perhaps, a younger man should have the role. “It is a great physical strain to hang from the cross for a half hour at a time,” he declared. “One also must not forget that weather changes, which can take place within a few hours in a mountain village, demand a healthy constitution for acting on an onen air stage. “The thin tricot which is worn during the Crucifixion scene affords little protection against chills or colds, particularly when the performances last into the raw days of autumn.” Lang, an artist in glass and pottery, said he wished to observe the traditions of the Passion Play for the role to be passed along to another artist of the village. Perhaps the coming man is the young wood carver who every day passes my window as though he wishes to study me in preparation for the role,” he said, admitting that the ambitious young wood carver had everything that a man should possess to portray the role. “Will you then, Herr Lang, step completely out?” “No, it is a tradition that the retiring Christus should take over the role of the prologue speaker,” he said. HIJACKERS STOP AUTO Four Youths Fire on Tourist, Search Car for Liquor. Hijackers were blamed today for the holdup of L. L. Jackson of Louisville, Ky., tourist, on a road near Flackville early Sunday morning. Jackson told police he was halted by four young men in a Ford sedan, who fired several shots at him before he stopped. The quartet told Jackson they were officers. They searched his car, but stole nothing. Police believe they were watching for a liquor car.

Buck’s one desire, with the conclusion of the operation and his apparent recovery, is to thank Governor Leslie for permitting the corrective operation and his temporary release from the reformatory to go through it. "He's a real Governor, a real man, giving me this chance to beat back, and I'm going to tell him so. And I am going to make good. Watch me!” And that’s what surgeons, the prison chaplain. Fuller, and Governor Leslie are doing.

GOVERNMENT EYES TURN ON HUGEMERGERS Giants of Industry Arise Out of Consolidation in Many Fields. BILLIONS ARE INVOLVED Other Deals of Vast Size Are Reported to Be in the Making. BV RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July B.—The huge mergers affecting almost every American industry are attracting the attention of federal officials and congress. Within the last six months—or since President Hoover’s election—there have been unprecedented combinations of groups engaged in banking, power development, radio, shipping, railroad transportation, automobile manufacture, department stores, food production and aviation. Hardly a single field of financing, producing or distributing has been left untouched. The new age of mergers involves the stage, motion pictures, radio broadcasting, cosmetics, insurance companies, jewelers, cigar and grocery store chains, hotels, textiles, express companies and chemicals. Many have ramifications as extensive as the cartels of Europe, involving interests in Canada, South America and Europe. Other Mergers Rumored There are reports of further consolidations. Negotiations are under way to bring together some of the steel companies now independent of Bethlehem and U. S. Steel. Today’s merger precipitates tomorrow's combination of rival groups to meet changiing conditions and more powerful competitors. Through various branches of the government are studying these economic changes, no definite policy has been formulated to deal with them. Each important merger is submitted to scrutiny—more than sixty are being studied by the department of justice—to determine if violations of the anti-trust laws are involved. But the newness and naturalness of the economic advance so bewilders even those trained to observe such changes that William J. Donovan, formerly in charge of the an-ti-trust division, has suggested anew agency for dealing with these combinations. It is probable congress will ask an inquiry with a view to regulatory legislation if any is found necessary. Morgan Backs Deals Behind several spectacular mergers stands the House of Morgan. This financial institution recently effected a combination of the three greatest power companies of New York—the Carlisle, the SchoelkoffBrady and General Electric—with the United Gas of Philadelphia, which has ramifications in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. With additional units to be brought in, this will be a $500,000,000 combination, controlling power resources at Niagara, on the Hudson, St. Lawrence and Susquehanna rivers and at the New Conowingo dam in Pennsylvania. Almost on the same day this combine was announced came word of a rival power group that would emI brace the Electric Bond and Share ! Company, the National Power and Light Company, the American and Foreign Power Company and the American Gas and Electric Company. The Insul groups also are said to be negotiating for a far-reaching tie-up of middle western hydroelectric units. In the far west, with the new government power house at Boulder Dam in prospect, there ha 3 been formed a $192,000,000 merger uniting the Pacific Lighting Corporation and the Southern California Gas Corporation. Power Is Centralized Even without these combinations the power resources of the nation are centralized closely. The Morgan interests are estimated to control 19 per cent, the Electric Bond and Share 16 per cent, and Insull : 10 per cent. The house of Morgan also organized the great combine of Fleischmann company, the Royal Baking Powder Company and E. W. Gillett Ltd., the largest baking powder con- | cem in Canada. Other firms manufacturing household necessities I mentioned as possibile units in this ! $430,000,000 merger are Chase and Sanborn coffee, Campbell soups, Gold Dust, Postum and KraftPhoenix cheese. General Motors long ago set the merger pace in the automobile world, but its example recently was followed when the Dodge and Chrysler interests combined into a $160,000,000 corporation, and the Studebaker and Pierce-Arrow linked fortunes. Further combinations In j this field are forecast. Railroads Are Merged The interstate commerce commission has before it merger applications that would divide the railroads into a few empires controlled by the Baltimore & Ohio, the Van Sweringens. the Pennsylvania, tha New York Central, the Loree interests and the Wabash. These applications envisage railroad system* of 14,000 miles of trackage, valued at from S2,000,000„000 to 52,500,000,000.