Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1929 — Page 9

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BROAD RIPPLE SEWER PUNS ARE REVISED City Sanitary Board Will Be Asked for Approval at Once. RIVER CROSSED TWICE Work Expected to Start This Fall; Bond Issue to Carry Project. Revised plans for the Broad Riple nd Riverside district main interceptor have been completed by Consulting- Engineer Charles H. Hurd, and are ready for approval of the city sanitary board, it was learned today at city hall. The board was expected to consider details of the plans, but no official action was contemplated at, the meeting today, according to City Engineer A. H. Moore. Hurd has been working on revision of plans for the north side sewer project- since May 9. when the plan to cross White river four times was rescinded. Hurd's new plan provides for crossing the river only twice, at Rocky Ripple and Northwestern avenue. Mayor L. Ert Slack, Moore and B. .T. T. Jeup, sanitary commissioner, objected to Hurd's pian to cross the stream four times. Agree on New Plan. Otto G. Ross, board president, Jeup. Moore and Slack have had several conferences with Hurd on the new plan and it is understood that all have agreed to its feasibility. It is contemplated that work he started this fall, when the “wet” work can be accomplished during low water time. Bonds ran be sold for the $399,000 improvement and work .started within sixty days if there is no further delay. The interceptor has been needed for several years to serve the Broad Ripple and Riverside area and remove stream pollution It is estimated that 45.000 persons in the upper area will be served, the sewer having a capacity to serve 80.000 population. It is designed by Hurd to serve that area for thirty-five j years. The flow of sewage is about 5,000.000 gallons a dav at present, but the system will accommodate 11.- \ 000.000 at Broad Ripple and 18.090.- j 000 at Speedway avenue, where it j joins the present interceptor. Estimates Are Itemized Itemized estimate of costs is j $88,887 from Meridian street and j Westfield boulevard to Thirty-eighth j street and White river: $106,000 from that point to Speedway avenue at, Harding street; $177,000 for inverted siphons crossing the river and Fairview crossing of canal: sll-000 for special connections: $9,000 for new pumping equipment at the Meridian street station, and *5.000 for lands and right-of-ways. The plan is practically the same as Hurd's specifications approved bv the board in February, except the concrete piers and flood prevention wall were substituted for piling be- | tween White river and the Indian- ; apohs Water Company canal from i Thirty-sixth to Thirty-eighth streets 1 on complaint of the water company Thf other p’an. erossing White river foair times, was to avoid running the drain between the river and the canal Hurd's estimate shows that present specifications will bring a saving of about $27,000. The present plan has increased capacitv from the original plan for only 10.000.000 gallon: King to Sled? Flan*. r>r. William F King, state health board secretary, wrote letters to the sanitary board and Mayor L. Ert Slack last spring stating that the board was ' disturbed” over delay in pushing Hurd's plan and urging that the project be “rushed.”^ Slack replied to the state officer that 'the improvement had received careful consideration and that the sanitary board planned to expedite the program." it was understood. The revised plan will be resubmitted to King for approval. 30.000 EX°ECTED TO ATTEND PLANT PICNIC T>Heo-Remy Outing at Broad Ripple Saturday. Final preparations were being made at Broad Ripple amusement park today for entertaining the crowd of 30.000 expected at the annual outing Saturday of the DelcoRemy Corporation of Anderson. Plant championships will be at stake in games and contests, including boxing wrestling, swimming, diving, races and beauty contests. Thirty couples have entered the park's second annual roller skating endurance contest which will start Friday night at 10. Last year the skaters went 634 hours. Herman Marsh. 1928 winner, was among the first to enter the 1929 competition Entrants will undergo rigid physical examination before being permitted to take the floor. Physicians and nurses will be on hand constantly YEGGS BALKED BY SAFE Break Into Indianapois Pant Firm. Fai to Get Loot. Yeggs who broke into the Indianapois Fower and Pant Company, Thirty-fourth street and Central avenue. Wednesday night, failed to open the safe. V. M. Hasselman. proprietor, told police today. He said he found several holes drilled in the tafa

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A recent picture of Pope Pius XI. first pope in sixty years to leave the Vatican.

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Al Smith’s Life Story Pays Well

BY PAUL FRFDIX, T'nitcd Press Staff Correspondent New YORK, July 25.—Alfred E. Smith, defeated Democratic nominee for President has turned author, at $2 a word. For a series of Saturday Evening Post articles entitled “Up

to Nowv” the first one appearing this week, he has been paid $2 a word, said to be the highest price for writings of such length. The first article, running about P. 300 words, including every “if,” “and." 'but,” the" and “a,” netted the former Gover-

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nor of New York state approximately $18,609. Smith has submitted and received cash for manuscripts sufficient to make five to seven more articles. If the magazine runs eight altogether, and if they are all as long as the first. Smith's income from them must be about $148,800. or within $1,200 of the total salary President Hoover will receive for *he first half of his four-year presidential term. Smith is believed likely to exceed the primary literary earnings of Calvin Coolidge. who contracted to write for three magazines when he left the presidency. How his widowed mother made umbrellas for a living while he sold newspapers after school is told by the tormer Governor. As he grew older, he left school and took various jobs, including "truck chaser” or. the waterfront and "assistant bookkeeper’ 'at Fulton street fish market, 808 HIS rise to his first political office is related, together with the growth of New York and the

TARZAN OF THE APES

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Early next morning Lord and Lady Greystokes chests and boxes were hoisted on deck and lowered to waiting small boats for transportation to shore. There was a great quantity and variety of stock, arms and ammunition, as they had expected a possible five years' residence in their new west coast African horns.

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] disappearance of its “neighborliness.” Smith describes clam chowder parties given by assembly districtleaders until comparatively recent years. Six thousand men used to ferry to Donnelly’s pavilion on College Point, L. 1.. for parties given by Big Tim Sullivan, he says. “Strange to say. in those days, out. of a gathering of 6.000 men. there would not be a dozen who drank anything stronger than beer,” the author says. Smith describes his boyish love of animals. At one time he had four dogs, a monkey, a goat and a parrot inf the attic of his mother's home under the towers of j Brooklyn bridge, he says. HUS stiffs TOTS Mother. Children Die in Gas Filled Room, Bv United Pres NEW BRITAIN. Conn,. July 25. Mrs. Esther Hallin. 31-year-old ! housewife, took her three children ! into a bedroom today and turned on the eras. Several hours later all were ! found dead. Henry Hallim said his wife had appeared in her customary j good spirits when he kissed her I goodby and left for work at 6 a. m. LIONS ENTERTAIN SONS The Lions Club held its annual Sons’ and Fathers’ day program ! Wednesday noon at the Lincoln. About 125 fathers and sons were present. Entertainment was provided by the Chase Boy Singers, appearing | at the Lyric, and George Nearpass, : the whistling brakeman. Since August, has been designated by the club as vacation month, next .Wednesday noon's session will be I the last meeting until September.

The man shuddered as he meditated upon the awful gravity, the fearful helplessness of their situation. But it was a merciful providence which prevented him from seeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depth of that dense jungle. They silently sat. each wrapped in gloomy foreboding, wondenq^

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 25. 1929

LITTLE TOWN’S MISSING FUND UNDERPROBE Lynnhurst Treasurer Says SSOO Gone After He Issued SSO Check. STATE BOARD WILL ACT President of Town Board Claims Money Can All Bo Accounted For. Lynnhurst, incorporated last fall as Indianapolis' smallest suburban ! town and one of the smallest in | the state, already is in the toils of | the state board of accounts with charges of fund juggling by town officials. Upon complaint of C. C. Smith, 306 Gerard drive, Lynnhurst. Lawrence F. Orr. chief examiner of the state board oi accounts, today assigned Thadd Major, field examiner, |to check the town's accounts and j discover what became of the SSOO in funds. Smith complained to Orr and Greensberry Lowe, deputy examiner, that he as town treasurer, cashed not more than one SSO check —if any—and that the funds are gont and he has been Informed he is not nor never really was treasurer. He attributes his difficulties to Ernest Kellogg, president of the Lynnhurst town board. Says Finances O. K. Kellogg today asserted the town's finances are all present or accounted for and that Smith never qualified as treasurer because he never posted bond. Floyd Newton is treasurer, the board president contends. And the state board of accounts is j determined to find out who's who | in little Lynnhurst. according to 1 Orr. The whole town covers 14.4 acres i and contains but thirty-two homes, j According to the story brought to the state board of accounts by Smith, the town board borrowed the SSOO from the Washington Bank and Trust Company and deposited S2OO as an emergency fund in the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company bank. Got One SSO Check He received a canceled check for SSO paid the Lynnhurt company for a set of law books and was then informed the fund was exhausted, he said. He went to the town board meeting to gei raor'erdeiails and wa-s told, he was not treasurer. The SSO check, he says, is doubtful, declaring he signed but one check in the middle of May, and this was dated June 29. He admitted the law books were on hand at the board meeting in Kellogg’s house, and he was told the balance of the funds had been shifted to another bank. He wanted to know why he was not consulted regarding the shift, and was told it was because he was not qualified as treasurer. Kellogg, who works for the Advance Paint Company, is also a lawyer. Smith told Lowe, and he thought that when Kellogg said he was treasurer all qualifications had been met. The board president, however, asserted today Smith had refused to provide bond and this disqualified him. Kellogg went to the accounts board office for a conference this morning, CANADA SEEKS VISITORS Deny Charges of Discrimination Against American Tourists, Bv United Pres* WINDSOR, Ont.. July 25.—Instead of being discriminated against as charged by the Detroit Automobile Club, Ameidcan motorists are often exempted from penalties paid by Canadian motorists in Canada, according to the local Chamber of Commerce. Congressman Leslie Steele Dies Bit United Press WASHINGTON, July 25.—The body of Representative Leslie J. Steele of Georgia, who died here Wednesday following an operation, will be taken to Atlanta today. He will be buried in Decatur. Ga., Sun- | day. 1

They had escaped death at the hands of the mutineers: but were faced with far graver dangers. Alone, he might hope to survive for years. But what of his wife, and that other little life so soon to be launched amidst the hardships and grave dangers of a primeval world? His heart sank in despair, considering their luiuatk

‘Cheap Limestone 9 Statue Now Proves to Be Art Treasure

-p| Jjf Hiram Chose “excaratm| />?</’ f/?c valuable statue of J||& Jp|? \ Benjamin Franklin >n the ||P - j workshop of the Carter jjjjHil Stour Company. V: ” I >; i : * , x :-i % J* '}

RADIO DEALERS IN STATE MEET Atwater Kent Representatives Discuss Problems. The Capitol Paper Company's second annual Atwater Kent state convention opened this morning at 10 at the offices. 221-227 West South street. Approximately 350 Atwater Kent dealers attended the luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club at noon. From 2 to 6 local representatives displayed the new Atwater Kent screen grid radio in club parlors. Dinner will be served at 6:30. “One of the problems to be discuessed Is the fear of dealers that within a few years the saturation point in radio consumption will be reached.” C. F. Kahn, vice-president of the Capitol Paper Companystated. George Gawd, central sales manager from Chicago, satd tax laws in Europe, especially England, prohibit radios. Gawd said he did not favor the granting of stronger wave lengths to small stations. “Desire for publicity drives many small stations into competition with worthwhile stations,” he said. The Capitol Paper Company, dealers in Indianapolis for forty-eight years, is represented by I. F. Kahn, president; C. F. Kahn, -vice-presi-dent; S. C. Kahn, secretary, and Paul Nugent, Paul D. Vave, John Cain and Kenneth M. Hall of the Indianapolis sales force. John McCoy. national sales promotion manager, will speak at the banquet. DIES IN MOCK ESCAPE Shot Demonstrating How to Foil Bandits. By United Press ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 25. Captain William Kieb of Audubon, N. J.. a field representative of the Red Cross, was accidentally shot to j death today while demonstrating how to escape bandits. Kieb was showing Policeman Warren Sander at the station here how easily he could maheuver away from a person prodding him in the back with a gun. Sander acted as the bandit and Kieb the victim. Just as Kieb started a movement, Sander’s gun accidentally discharged. Both men thought, the revolver unloaded. SAILS AROUND WORLD Bv United Press PARIS. July 25.—Alain Gerbault, who has sailed around the world in j the small sloop Firecrest. passed Cherbourg at 5 a. m. today en route, to Le Havre.

Having filled the ship's casks with fresh water, the small boats moved slowly over the water to the ship. As the Fuwalda passed out of sight behind a projecting point. Lord Greystoke and his wife—in the breasts of both, a feeling of impending disaster and utter helplessness—bravely sinaA siientJj- watching,

‘Stone’ Model of Franklin Is Believed to Be Italian Marble. BY WALLACE BIGGS Unfeeling wielders of the brush i have slapped at least a dozen coats lof paint on a statue which now | turns out to be one of Indanapolis’ I art treasures, valued at least at $2,500, it was discovered today. The treasure is the life size statue I of Benjamin Franklin, taken down | without either reverence or particu- ! lar care from the front of the cld j Franklin building. Monument, circle and East Market street, when the ! structure was torn down several j weeks ago to make way for the new ! Circle Tower building. In the belief that the statue was ! just a. “what not,” whacked out of ' Indiana limestone or some kindred plebian material, the building owners presented it to Indianapolis Typographical Union No. 1, in the absence of something better to do with it. It might have been worth as much as SSO. laymen who watched the wrecking estimated. Weighs Too Much First inkling that the statue was really worth something came when O. J. Carter of the Carter Stone Company. 5339 Winthrop avenue, discovered it weighed 5.000 pounds. That was too much for limestone. Carter had received the statue from the local printers' union to clean it, preparatory to a ceremony in which the local will present it to the International Typographical Union for mounting at j headquarters Typographical Terrace. North Meridian street. Hiram Chase, stone, cutter for forty-five years, employed by Carter, had not chipped off more than the first half dozen or so costs of paint when he decided that this was no job for a mason. Chipping away a small portion of the whole paint coating disclosed that the material is Italian marble, Scotch granite or French cainshone. The rough block of stone alone in these materials would cost more than SI,OOO. Sculptor Called In Carter called in Josef Graft, Bloomington. Ind., sculptor. who ! took the commission to do the final fine work in restoring the statue. After Chase get-s most of the paint off. it will take Graft five days to do his work. While the experts believe that “excavation” through the paint will disclose the statue to be either Italian marble or French cainstone, the memory of City Councilman John F. White affords different testimony. White, active in civic affairs for half a century, recalled that the j statue was made by John H. Ma- j honey, a prominent pioneer sculp- i tor in the ’7os. The Carpenter j Monument company of Cambridge j City, Ind.. at that time imported j several blocks of Scotch granite j and White believes Mahoney used j one of them on the Franklin work, i which he completed in 1875. 1

—By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

Entered As Second - Class Matter at Postotlice Indianapolis

SEARS,ROEBUCK STORE OPENED 2.000 Crowd Through Doors: Mayor Presides. The hew Sears. Roebuck & Cos.. ; retail store at Massachusetts avenue | and Alabama street, was formally I opened at 9 this morning by Mayor I L. Ert Slack. At 9:10. more than 2.000 persons had crowded through the doors into : the new store where 450 clerks waited. A police escort of eight patrolmen and four detectives handled i the crowd. Edward W. Hunter, executive sec- ; retary of the Chamber of Commerce | introduced Mayor Slack, who officially welcomed the new store. Speeches by L. C. Harrod. general i manager of the Chamber of Comi merce. C. M. Penticoff. retail man- | ager of Sears Roebuck, and John | Burke, manager of the Indianapolis I store, followed. The free parking place in the rear i held 200 automobiles by 9 a. m. and | cars were lined for several blocks in each direction. The new store operates a service station in connection with the parking area. TALK IS NOT CHEAP Ernest Grimes Discovers It's Dear: SIOO and Costs. Ernest Grimes, 316 East South j street, was fined SIOO and costs and : sentenced to thirty days on the state penal farm today on a blind tiger charge when Municipal Judge Pro | Tern. Thomas Whalen held that his | invitation to police to visit his home ,at any time in search of liquor made it unnecessary for the raiding officers to obtain a search warrant. On July 8 a squad entered the home and found fifty quarts of beer, testimony in court showed. Grimes was released on his promise that he w-ould stop further manufacture. As they left he said: “Come back any time, boys. You’ll never find any more.” They took him at -his word and returned a week later. They said they found eighty quarts of beer and several gallons brewing. TAX INCREASE FACED MUNCIE, Ind.. July 25.—Muncie j faces a tax rate of $1,225 on the SIOO j valuation unless the 1930 budget is greatly reduced. Requests totaling $662,804 are on file with the city council and to raise this amount a tax increase of 47 cents would be necessary. City officials, however, believe that the budget will be reduced considerably and that only a slight increase will be necessary.

And behind them, over the edge of a low ridge, other eyes WATCHED THEM—close-set wicked eyes, gleaming beneath shaggy brows!

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CITY MANAGER LEAGUE FIGHTS PUISUN SQUAD’ Voters Will Be Informed of Purposes of New Plan; Propaganda Spread. SALARY CUTS HINTED Politicians Seek to Rouse Alarm of Policemen and Firemen, Steps properly to inform voters of the intents and purposes of the city manager plan ot government, which becomes effective here Jan. j 1. were considered today by the Ini dianapolis City Manager league ic offset propaganda spread by party j politicians. Reports of the propaganda, which | has been traced to politicians, who | endeavor to “mislead” citizens in jan effort to defeat the manager 1 league slate for commissioners in ; the Nov. 5 election, already have been received at league headquarters. Reports that salary of police and firemen will be reduced when tho new form becomes effective are being circulated among police and firemen, John R. Welch told the executive committee Wednesday at the Board of Trade. Salaries Are Higher “Asa matter of fact, the salaries of police and firemen in managercontrolled cities arc higher than in Indianapolis,” suggested John L. Niblack, men’s organizer. “Thus is not like a political election, where all the present city employes are thrown out and friends of the persons elected put in jobs. All city employes will stand on their merit,” pointed ont Charles F. Coffin, a leader of the movement. Coffin was authorized to name a committee to drait a campaign document which will be published about Sept. 1. when the ticket is selected. Citizens were asked not to sign petitions of candidates for commissioner before the manager league ticket is chosen. Many candidates have represented themselves as friends of the movement and otained signatures of citizens who “believed they were helping the league.”

Negroes Are Alarmed Already politicians have circulated | rumors in the Negro belts that all 'colored employes will lose their jobs ! under the new regime, and Negro police and firemen will be discharged. “We’ll let the public know the truth about these things when the campaign starts." commented Wil- | liam H. Insley, executive chairman. During Insley’s absence from the city on vacation. Coffin will serve as temporary chairman. Results of organization work in. the 257 precincts were reported to the executive committee by Claude H. Anderson, campaign chairman. The league has about 600 volunteer workers. Women Arc Organized. Mrs. Elsa Huebner Olson, women’s organizer, stated that 93 per cent of the wards and 67 per cent of the precincts have been organized effectively. John L. Niblack, men’s organizer, announced that steps are being taken to combat the methods of the politicians in the Eighth ward, a George V. Coffin Republican faction stronghold. “We will have honest citizens on the boards and count the votes as cast, something unprecedented in the Eighth ward.’’ Niblack told the committee. CRACK TRAIN HALTED DURING HEAVY STORM Signals Reversed in Path of Twentieth Century Limited in Indiana, Bi/ Tim rut Special KENDALLVILLE. Ind.. July 25. Hail and rain which fell on Ken- , dallville and vicinity Wednesday accompanied by a electrical storm, caused several thousand dollars damage, a checkup today reveals. The Twentieth Century Limited, crack New' York to Chicago train, was delayed when lightning struck rails and reversed light signals. Traction sendee was suspended temporarily. Several barns and small structures were fired by lightning. Kendallville was without electric light and telephone service for a time after two lines were burned by lightning. A telephone operator was the heroine of the storm. She ran several blocks to inform the fire department of a blaze after connections to the engine house were severed. The rain and hail damaged wheat and corn. FIND AGED MAN DEAD Neighbors Open Apartment, Discover Body of Charles Clemens. Neighbors concerned about the welfare of Charles Clemens, 64, looked into his apartment at 726 North East street early today and found him dead. They had not seen him since Tuesday, they told Coroner C. H. Keever. The coroner said death was due to heart disease. A sister, Mrs. M. E. Shreeves, 3408 Birchwood avenue, survives. Jannings to Make Talkie Bu United Prea HOLLYWOOD. Cal.. July 25. Emil Jannings will make his first, talking picture in Berlin. It wilt be in the German tongue under diMGiiAB <¥ JOMf You SauMberg.