Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1929 — Page 1

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CITY COUNSEL APPROVES GAS PLANT PROJECT Special Attorneys Say Municipal Purchase Won't Be Hindered. KNEW PLAN FOR MONTH But Mayor Was Not Told of Move to Spend $779,000 for New Ovens. ;ng known for a month of the Citizens Gas Companys intent to build lorty new coke ovens costing approximately $779,000. John W. Holtzman and Fred C. Gause, counsel for the city, did not regard the propect as an impediment to the city’s acquisition and operation of the property and told Mayor L. Ert Slack nothing about it. it was learned today. That the ovens are “desperately needed ’ if gas production is to keep pace with increasing consumption, was the information given Holtz - man and Gause a month ago and repeated today bj H. H. Hornbrook, a director and counsel for directors of the gas company. “Gas consumption has been increasing rapidly,” Hornbrook said, and we are face to face with the necessity of increasing production or. if the increased demand continues as we think it will, being forced to turn down demands for service next January.

Consumption Way Up "May consumption was about 18 per cent greater than for May last year, and each month this year has shown an increase of from 12 to 15 per cent. "We have been crowding the plant to meet current demands. It will take six months to make this improvement and the ovens will be ready for operation no sooner than they are absolutely needed. "Not one cent of Citizens Gas Company bonds will need to be sold to finance the improvement, and •he indebtedness of the Citizens Gas Company will not be increased. The project can be financed from Jndianapolis'Gas Company bonds and from depreciation and other funds which have accrued.” Mayor Slack today said: **T nevpr had heard of the coke oven program before. I had. of course, gained a zeneral understanding from our conference with the gas company officials that the usual and ordinary improvements, neces?av in the normal enlargement of the plant to meet the city's increasing growth, would be continued, but T had no knowledge of anything sc extensive as this." Complications Feared rt was thought tn some quarters the project might complicate plans 'or refunding approximately $4,000.nnn of bonds for which the property is mortgaged.

Holtzman stated that Horn brook e\plained the need for the new ovens to Gause and himself, estimating they would cost about *760,000. “I don't know whether he talked to the mayor and I didn't." Holtzman said. We recognized that the eas company had the right to go ahead and that the bond issue wouldn't affect plans for taking over the property. 'I didn't, see how the city would he Justified in hiring experts to make an investigation of the needs when it. would take lots of time and cost maybe $25,000 or more." Forcing its way into the utility’s improvement picture." on the eve of the city's acquisition of the property. was the $65,000 extension nowunder construction on West Washington street. Extension Kef used More than a year ago. residents said, they sought extension of gas -iMwicf west from Tibbs avenue to Lyndhurst drive and were told by he gas company that the project couldn't be started until 300 residents petitioned the service. Combined efforts of residents and the company nett?d less than 150 petitioners and the company refused to undertake the improvement, according to residents. But last year, the company began laying a sixteen-inch high pressure mkin from Tibbs avenue to Rockville road and now is laying a fourinch and a twelve-indh line along Washington street to Glen Arm road, in Ben Davis, although that long an extension was not petitioned. Gas company officials admitted the extension will not have enough patrons to make it a paying proposition at the start, but said it was started so as to be completed before Washington street is widened and In anticipation of rapid growth in the west section of the city. Hombrook added that "better cooperation" is being obtained from the revamped highway commission than was possible a year ago.

NAME NEW POLICEMAN Michael McAllen. 29. Appointed on City Force. Michael McAllen. 29. boiler-maker. 653 North Oxford street, today was appointed patrolman by the roard of public safety. McAllen was born in Ireland.

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Ruin in Song Triumph Turned to Ashes for Heroine of Times Seiral.

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MOLLY BURNHAM . . . . . . the heroine, is torn between her love for Jack and her desire for a career. \ SEEMINGLY unimportant litle poem, tucked away inside a newspaper, changed Molly Bumham's whole life. It ran like this: A girl, she had her hope and chance But fate -as the.arted by a glance, A look that set her heart afire. So genius died, for v arm desire. Vet, still the phantom visions glow. Although a xorld will never know The Shining Talent that was dead So soon as that bright soul was wed. A dull and stodgy wife Is she. And dark the flame that used to be; But always come to torture her The dreams of things that never were. So this Is the song of the wife— Ah. what have I done with my life? If she hadn't read this poem. Molly, the heroine of The Shining Talent," which begins Wednesday in The Times, might have married and settled down instead of becoming a nationally famous playwright and author. Marriage or Career Like thousands of other girls. Mollv found herself graduated from college and faced with the problem of making a choice between marriage and a career. Two men represented the conflicting forces in her life. Jack Wells, a Harvard man and Molly's sweetheart, w-anted her to marry him, but insisted they writ until he became successful as an architect and able to provide her with rich gifts of love. Red Flynn, a newspaper reporter. urged Molly to follow her ambition. to write a play, to win her own way in the world. Haunted by Song Molly loved Jack. But that hauntine poem. “The Song of the Wife, kept running through her mind. And so Molly chose a career. She achieved an amazing success. But the world didn't know that in the hour of triumph her sweetheart refused to marry her and scorned her crime plays a-s cheap—that she found achievement a mockery. Read about Molly Burnham and the two conflicting mfluences in her Wells and Red Flynn—in •The Shining Talent." beginning Wednesday in The Times.

FILE $300,000 SUIT Action Against City Brought on Garbage Contracts, Suit for *300.000 damages was filed in superior court 2 today against the city of Indianapolis by William Gambel. Indianapolis; Perrj- H. Easton. Sanborn. Ind.. ani Edmond A. Mcßeth. Ft. Wayn'e. Ind.. who charge breach of contract they held by which the city was bound to deliver to them processed garbage which they manufactured into live stock food. “Incompetent and irresponsible persons in the city administration'' took control of the garbage disposal plant from E. W. McCullough, consulting engineer, in 1927-28. they allege, and deliveries of the processed garbage ceased. The suit is an echo of troubles the sanitary board had with 'he plaintiff's sales agents and the garbage plant operation last year. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 69 10 a. Da.... 77 7a. m..*... 71 11 a. m 74 Ra. m 72 12 (noon'.. 76 9 a. m 74 1 p. m 76

ROME FLIERS ARE BELIEVED NEAR SPAIN Silence of Atlantic Hides Progress of Plane on Ocean Hop. NO WORD BY SHIPS Williams and Yancey Are Expected at Italian Goal Wednesday. By United Pro >•* NEW YORK. July 9.—Silence as heavy as the fog banks into which the Pathfinder soared from Old Orchard beach Monday morning continued to cloak today the plane’s whereabouts or progress. Given good fortune, the daring fliers, Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A. Yancey, determined to reach Rome, were nearing the coast of Spain this afternoon. The fliers expected to reach the Rome capital Wednesday. Absence of news of their journey did not necessarily arouse alarm, for the plane was without radio equipment.

Moreover, even with big passenger vessels and tramp freighters dotting the course the Pathfinder intended to follow, it was recalled by aviation men that sighting a plane across the ocean is only a matter of chance, especially as ocean aviators usually fly high. At the end of more than fifteen hours in the air. no radio-equipped vessel had reported sighting thd Pathfinder or hearing its motors. The silver-winged craft had a coast stretch of fog to penetrate when it set off Monday morning from Old Orchard, estimated at 1.400 miles or more, but with decent flying weather beyond. SCIENCE IS CONQUERED BY ‘VAMPIRE DISEASE’ Practically Gives Up Fight to Save Bov From "Creeping Death.” 81l United Press NEW YORK. July 9.—Science today practically gave up its fight to save the life of Georg Mosher, 14. victim of a strange "vampire disease" that saps his blood. The disease was at first diagnosed as kala-azar. a rare tropical infection. Eleven blood transfusions have been performd. with the boy rallying after each only to relapse as the new blood is consumed. Today the hospital issued what practically amounted to a death warrant for the boy.

OH, A FLIER'S LIFE —! Control Stick Breaks As Pilot Flies Upside Down—Ho Hum! Bv United Press LOWELL. Mass.. July 9.—A. Krapish. test pilot, experienced his most embarrassing moment when he broke his control stick while flying anew airplane upside down. The plane, at an altitude of less than 600 feet, became unmanageable. Krapish risked a parachute jump and. barely missing several high tension wires, landed safely in a pasture, almost without a scratch, Monday night. Two Held In Attack Case Bv rnitrd Press MARION. Ind.. July 9.—Charged with committing a criminal attack upon an 11-year-old girl. Martin Bowman. 40, prominent in church circles, and Elijah Roberts. 45. laborer, were held in jail todav under default of $5,000 bond each.

Real News for Times Readers Dorothy al-den brings you some real news today—ho" l ' to keep cool and well during the summer. You'll find scores of helpful hints every Tuesday on her page for homemakers, one of The Times big weekly feature departments. And then there's the Darn feature. a sparkling style talk for women, appearing every day on the woman's page, which already has won a great following among Indianapolis women. It's as good as a trip to Dare's favorite Paris, if you read it every day. Radio lans. too. are being given a run for their money every day in The Times, even if static is a little bad at this season. "Turn to Page 5 and you'll find the announcement pf another help this paper is giving owners of radio sets. The Times great new serial, “The Shining Talent." starts Wednesday and it'll hold your attention from the first syllable to the end. Everyone is interested in health topics. The American Medical Association is in annual convention in Portland. Ore., and a corps of Science Service experts is reporting it for this newspaper. Wednesday's editions will carry a story covering every phase of advance in the war on disease, as reported by famous physicians at this conclave.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929

Germans Build World’s Largest Airplane: Carries 100 Passengers; Has 12 Motors

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, July 9.—The world’s largest airplane, built secretly by the Dornier plant here, was put on exhibition to the press here this afternoon. Test flights are scheduled for next week. It is a three-deck, twelve-motored seaplane, each engine capable of 500 horse power. The craft is 137.76 feet long and has a wing spread of 157.44 feet. It is believed that it can develop a maximum speed of 155.25 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 118 miles an hour.

RACE RULING IS EXPECTED LATE TODAY Judge Hears Plea of Dog Track Attorneys That ‘Donations’ Are Legal. Final ruling on whether the “donation system” of betting proposed by operators of the Indiana Kennel Club, Ltd., comes under the scope of Indiana’s gaming statutes was expected from Superior Judge James M. Leathers late today, following two hours of arguments starting at 2. The statutes at issue cover "gaming,” "keeping a gaming house,” and "visiting a gaming house.” The court this morning heard arguments on the club’s petition for a temporary injunction to prevent police and deputy sheriffs from interfering with "lawful activities” at the dog race track on the Allisonville road. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark was not opposed to issuance of the temporary injunction provided its wording is similar to that in a restraining order, amended Saturday to give police power to make arrests. One Night’s Freedom As originally issued, Police Chief Claude M. Worley and Sheriff George L. Winkler interpreted the restraining order as preventing them from arresting track operators on gambling charges at the track iast Friday when the "donation system” enjoyed one night's freedom. Contending that the track Is operated under private ownership “to entertain the public,” Earl Cox, attorney for the promoters, objected to police and deputies as “trespassers.” “All we ask is that we be freed from the) presence of uniformed officers, who are a menace.” he said. "We want them kept from being stationed in ‘anticipation’ we are about to violate the law. Declaring he would like to see authorities "pay attention to their own business.” the promoter's attorney added: "And if they think we are violating the law, let them file affidavits: I’ll beat each of them before juries of the best citizens of the county.”

Cox argued that “any court that rules in this case will have to ‘infer’ the ’aw is being violated for there are no laws applicable on the statute books." Officials Are Witnesses Worley, Winkler and Coroner Charles H. Keever were witnesses. The chief of police related that he told Ralph Lanius and Frank Young, two of the track's backers, Friday night, that he would confiscate their racing apparatus, including the rabbit, if betting was attempted. Sheriff Winkler told of losing a $2 bet Friday night, and on crossexamination by Cox said he did not ask for his money back and had not read the "donation" envelope agreeing to make refund if demanded. Coroner Keever said he made $1 profit on a $5 bet. and admitted that he made the bet with the understanding he was “making a donation to the club." Since amendment of the first court order, the betting booths at the track have not been opened. John J. Darmody, treasurer, announced that no attempts will be made to open the ‘‘investment system" of betting until all court action is out of the way. Damage Suit Filed Leathers also has before him a $50,000 damage suit filed by A. C. Baxter and Ralph Lanius. track managers, against Worley and Winkler. The suit charges that Worley and Winkler and their subordinates ‘ trespassed on the club's property without authority." Approximately 700 persons were at the track Monday night, most of them openly making bets in private groups. No effort was made to open the cashiers' booths. LICENSE IS REVOKED First Case of Driver Losing Permit Under New Law. The first revocation of a driver license since the new law became effective July 1 was made today by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. He took up the license of A. E. Carr. R. R. R. 2. Box 302. convicted of drunken driving, returned it to the secretary of state and ordered Carr not V> drive for one year. In addition Carr paid S2O in fines and is under a suspended thirtyday jail sentence. He was arersted on Washington street June 34.

Mary Ellis, Ex- Walker Star, Marries in East Mary Ell i& Sydney

Actress Played at Murat Here: Third Venture, Friends Say, Bv United Press NEW MILFORD. Conn., July 9 The marriage of Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis, who played together in several Broadway stage productions, was announced here Monday night. Richard Boleslavsky. director of the American Laboratory theater in New York, revealed the actors were married Monday at his summer home. Miss Ellis Began Here The dramatic career of Mary Ellis really began at the Murat theater in Indianapolis, because she jumped from the Metropolitan grand opera state in New York to this city. She had decided that she wanted to become a, dramatic star and she joined the Stuart Walker Company at the Murat during his next to last season at that theater. She will be remembered for her brilliant work in the Walker production of “School for Scandal.” Miss Ellis received her first dramatic instruction under George Somnes and Stuart Walker. After leaving here, she became the star of “Rose Marie." and was the prima donna of the New York company during its long Broadway run. She has been co-starred with Basil Sydney in "Meet the Prince" and a modern dress version of Shakespeare's “The Taming of the Shrew." Her latest New York appearance was in a rerival of “Becky Sharp." Those who knew her here state that this is her third marriage.

NEW SCHOOLS TALKED Beard Is Expected to Approve 51.090.009 Program Tonight. Formal approval of plans for new school buildings and addtiions costing approximately $1,000,000. including an Irvington high school, is expected a the school board meeting tonight. * The building and grounds committee Monday evening approved plans for the high school, esti. mated to cost $600,000: new Schools 8! and 82. at $300,000. and improvements at Schools 49 and 15. costing $85,000. INSURANCE MAN MISSING Roy Owens. 30. Gone From Home Since Monday Morning. Roy Owens. 30. of 5111 Hovey street, insurance salesman, has not been seen since he left home Monday morning driving a GrahamPaige car, his wile told police today.

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The airplane will carry 100 passengers and a crew of twelve with a 50 per cent fuel reserve for an average flight of approximately 620-iniles. The lower deck is provided with space for fuel, baggage and the crew's sleeping quarters. The middle deck contains passenger cabin and a luxurious dining room. The upper deck has the pilot, engine and radio rooms. The motors will be controlled indirectly from the pilot room.

LESLIE CREATES NEW STATE JOB Otto N, Mueller Is Named Public Architect, Before leaving for the Indiana state reformatory. Pendleton, today, where he is sitting in with the institution trustees. Governor Harry G. Leslie created anew state position. which will have to be financed out. of his $200,000 emergency fund. The position is that of state architect and consulting engineer and the job goes to Otto N. Mueller. Indianapolis. member of the architectual firm of Vonnegut, Bohn and Mueller. Mueller is to be paid by fees, rather. than salary, the fee to be based on the work done. Last week Attorney-General James M. Ogden in an opinion to Superintendent A. F. Miles of the reformatory ruled that it was unnecessary under the 1929 statute for the state to employ a licensed architect for buildings.

TWO CALIFORNIA FLIERS , ARE ON VERGE OF NEW REFUELING FLIGHT RECORD

Need to Remain Aloft Only Two More Hours to Set Mark, By United Prese CULVER, CITY, Cal., July 9.—Entered on their seventh day in the air. Pete Reinhart and Loren Menaell soared on today with anew world's endurance record for sustained airplane flight only a few hours off. At 12:30 p. m. today they passed their one hundred and seventythird hour in the air. They need remain aloft only five hours more in order to break the sustained flight record established at Cleveland last Saturday. * The record set by Bjron K. Newcomb and Roy Mitchell in Cleveland will be equaled at 1:30 p. m. Rules of air competition demand Reinhart and Mendell must exceed the old mark by one hour to set anew one. Notes dropped to the field by the fliers indicated today that they

LAUNCH HUGE CIVIC PROJECT NORTH OF CITY Meridian Hills Owners Ask Street, Bridge to Cost Million. A campaign for a million dollar civic improvement program in the Meridian Hills district north of the city was begun today by fifty members of the Meridian Hills Community Property Owners Association, headed by Fred E. Barrett, attorney. The property owners seek extension of Meridian street from the end of the canal bridge across White river on anew bridge north to the Nora road, also known as Eightyfourth street, through the heart of exclusive Meridian Hills. Ten property owners comprise a committee which will ask county commissioners to construct the bridge at cost of from $400,000 to $500,000 and the board of works to extend Meridian street. Owners to Be Solicited With Barrett as chairman the committee includes: Gavin L. Payne, Mark Rinehart, Leo K. Fesler, Eugene H. Darrah, J. E. Morris, George S. Oliver, J. W. Esterline, W. S. Johnson and W. F. Cheek, all of whom ow r n or occupy homes in Meridian Hills. The committee will .select a paid campaign manager to manage the movement to solicit aid of all of the 500 property owners in the district which would be assessed for the improvements. “We mean business and we expect to have the project pushed through within the next four months,” Barrett said. The only means of reaching the beautiful new r residence district now are the Illinois street and Central avenue bridges.

“One Patched Up" Bridge The Central avenue bridge was condemned ten years ago, but has been patched up from year to year. The new Meridian street bridge would replace the Central structure. Meridian Hills is one of the richest property districts in the city. Since 1924 the assessed valuation has increased twenty-one million dollars, as compared with forty-two millions for the whole of Marion county. Forty-eight new homes, averaging a cost of $25,000 each, have been built in the district in last three years. Eight others cost. $75,000 each, and one cost SIOO,OOO. JUDGE BANS LABOR PLEA ON ENVELOPES ‘Smash Murder Frame-Up' Legend Condemned by Court. Bv t'nited Press NEW YORK. July 9.—Federal Judge Thomas D. Thatcher today denied the International Labor Defense's plea for an injunction to prevent postoffice authorities from interfering with mailing of envelopes bearing the legend “Smash the Murder Frame-Up Against Gastonia Strikers.” Judge Thatcher termed the material on the envelope “clearly defamatory and scurrilous and perhaps threatening."

would attempt to go on for at least 200 hours. The Wright, whirlwind motor of their craft appeared to be functioning perfectly as the twenty-seoend refueling was made shortly after 7:30 this morning. The fuel taken on in that contact was sufficient to carry them past the 175-hour mark. Ready to Defend Mark CLEVELAND. July 9.—Roy L. Mitchell and Byron K.. Newcomb, who alighted Saturday after breaking the world’s endurance flight record, announced today they were waiting to attempt to break any record the California endurance fliers might set up. FALLS 17 STORIES, DIES Salesman Accidentally Tumbles From Hotel Room. Bv r nit / and Press DETROIT. July 9.—Oliver M. Huff, 52, salesman, fell to his death here today from his room on the seventeenth floor of the Book-Cadillac hotel, where he had been staying the last two weeks. It is believed he fell accidentally.

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2 SUBMARINES CRASH; SCORE OF LIVES LOST British Abandon Hope to Rescue 22 Men on Sunken Craft, WARSHIPS TO SCENE Two Tiny Vessels Were Returning From War Game at Sea. By United Press LONDON, July 9.—Hope has been abandoned for the possible rescue of nearly a score of men imprisoned at sea bottom early today in the British naval submarine H-47. The H-47 collided with the British submarine L-12, twenty-two miles off the coast of Pembroke. Wales, in the Irish sea and sank. It was one of the worst disasters in the history of British submarines. , First Lord of the Admiralty Alexander told the house of commons today there was no hope for the remainder of the crew of the H-47, two of whom were rescued. Alexander told the house of commons that he thought approximately twenty-tw'o had perished. The Evening News states that, it understands both submarines were on the surface of the water en route to Portland from Lamash, Scotland, when they collided. The H-47 and the L-12 were two of twenty submarines which had been participating in maneuvers in the Irish sea. Warships and other vessels have rushed to the scene, but efforts to salvage the submarine are believed hopeless. It announced that the sunken submarine was lying on the botton in fifty fathoms of water about, twenty miles due west of Fishguard in Pembroke. Wales.

The spot where the submarine lies is passed regularly bj - the passenger liners plying between New York and Liverpool. The H class submarines are the smallest that the navy has. The H-47 was of 440 tons displacement. They were built to the design of the American constructor. J. 6. H. Holland, in the United States early in the World war. WANDERER, 2, PICKS POLICE STATION HOME Waits for Parents as Cops Prepare to ‘Adopt’ Him. Bv rnitrd Press CHICAGO, July 9.—A youthful victim of wanderlust toddled into the Chicago Lawn police station this morning, clad in a tan sweater and a triangular bit of cloth held in placed by four safety pins. He refused to tell his name, where he lived or why he was out walking at 4 in the morning so lightly clad. Sergeant Harry Smale, after consulting his wife, put the wanderer’s age down as 2 years old (estimate) and said if someone doesn’t identify the lad. he'll get. a life sentence in the Smale household.

BANDIT TAKES $d7.000 Lone Man Escapes With $17,094 Cash and $30,000 Securities. By t'nited Press. DOLORES. Colo., July 9.—lgnoring a pile of silver on the counter before him, a bandit held up the office of J. J. Harris & Cos., here today and escaped with about $17,000 in currency and securities valued at $30,000. SPARKLER BURNS FATAL! Leftover Fourth Device Causes Death of Girl. 6. By United Press STAMFORD, Conn.. July 9.—Severe burns received Saturday night from a leftover Fourth of July sparkler resulted toda? in the death of 6-year-old Doris M. June, a relative of Harold June, pilot with the Byrd Antarctic expedition. FASTER TRAINS PUT ON Pennsylvania Announces Speedier Service to New York. Speeding up of the Gotham and adition of anew train, the Juanita, providing faster sendee between St. Louis and New York by way of Indianapolis, was announced by the Pennsylvania railway today. The Juanitg leaves Indianapolis at 10 p. m., arriving in New York at 7:10 p. m. the ne?a day. while the Gotham leaves Umon Station at 11 p. m. and arrives at 6:50 p. m.

Free Service The Times is continuing free notary service on driver license application blanks from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. daily until Saturday. The service has been extended to give every driver opportunity to take advantage of The Times’ free offer and beat the “fee grab" which politicians had planned.

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