Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1929 — Page 1

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HIGH SCHOOL BIDS EXCEED BOARD'S FUND Low Proposals on Irvington Structure $153,613 Above $600,000 Available. MAY REJECT FIGURES Plans Call for Building to House 1,200 East Side Pupils. Necessity of rejecting all bids for the construction of the new Irvington high school and changing the plans and specifications loomed today when, following the opening of bids by the school board for the construction of the high school, two school additions and two new schools, tabulation revealed the low bids were more than the $600,000 appropriation. Low bids on the high school totaled $753,613. No addition may be made to the appropriation as the school board asked the state tax board for only $600,000 to construct the high school, Charles W. Kern, school board president declared. “If a recheck reveals with all deductions the bids total more than the appropriation the school board will have to reject all bids and alter specifications and plans so the $600,000 will not be exceeded,” he said. School Urgently Needed This means another delay in the construction of the east side high school which has been declared an urgent need. The proposed high school was to accommodate 1,200 pupils and include a large auditorium and gymnasium. Low base bidders were: General construction, E. A. Carson Consructiton Company, $523,446; heating and ventilating, Fred G. Janitz, $145,740; plumbing, Fred G. Janitz, $55,500; and electrical wiring, Porter, Glore and Glass, Inc., which was low on a combination bid for wiring and fixtures with $28,927. Janitz was $15,941 lower than the next lowest heating and ventilating bidder. All specifications called for ventilating fixtures of the D. I. type, manufactured by C. C. Shipp, Indianapolis manufacturer, who is under fire because of his attemp to shut down competitive bidding. Insurgency Develops Insurgency in the ranks of the majority faction was attempted at toady's meeting by Lewis E. Whiteman, vice-president of the board, who attempted to take the tabulation and consideration of alll the bids out of the hands of the building and grounds committee and place it with the board as a whole. The minority faction, composed of Kern and Theodore Vonnegut was placed in the position of fighting for the leader of the minorty faction. Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, who with Fred Kepner, who was not present today, constitute the majority on the building and grounds committee. Mrs. Sedwick did not vote, and the minority carried the vote defeating Whiteman's motion. Low bids on the three rooms and auditorium addition to School 15, Beville avenue and Michigan street, totaled $50,430. Low’ bidders were: General construction. Elliott-Myers Construction Company, $36,000; heating and ventilating. E. J. Fitzpatrick Company, $12,000; and electric wiring and fixtures, Sanborn Electric Company, $1,595. A low total of $41,805 for the construction of a two-room addition and auditorium to School 49, Morris and Kappes streets, was tabulated. Low bidders were: General construction. Eliott-Myers Construction Company, $29,959; heating and ventilating. Freyn Brothers. $9,994; plumbing, Fred Janitz, $562; and electric wiring and fixtures. $1,290. Low bids for the construction of a twelve-room school with auditorium at Nineteenth street and Parkway boulevard to be known as School 81 totaled $154,000. Two bids for anew twelve-room school with auditorium at English and Emerson avenues to be known as School 82 totaled $151,455.

MRS, JOLSON RALLIES FOLLOWING OPERATION “Show Girl” Star Collapsed in Dressing Room. Bu I'nitfd Prc.i* NEW YORK. Aug. I—Ruby Keeler i Mrs. A1 Jolson) underwent an operation the early part of the week at Lenox Hill’s hospital and is “doing nicely." The nature of the operation was not revealed. Miss Keeler, who had played the roie of Dixie Dugan since Zieefeld’s "Show Girl" opened, collapsed in her dressing room after the first act of the show several days ago. Dorothy Stone is to arrrive in New York today to take the role popularized bv Mrs. Jolson. American Airman Killed /?’* r hi ted Prtis BALBOA, C. Z. Aug. 1. Major Paul T Bock, United States army. wa killed at France field today when his plane, while swooping tn machine gun practice, failed to * come out of a dive. Major Bock was H years old and came from Illinois.

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Reducing Diets Dr. Morris Fishbein, the world’s greatest writer on medical subjects, discusses the "eighteen-day” diet today in The Times. He has written a series of six articles on reducing methods, sweeping the country this summer. Turn to The Fishbein feature on the editorial page.

MOTHER GIVEN BACK SON BY RIVER DEATH Double Tragedy Surmounts Barrier of Divorce and Remarriage. Death today surmounted a barrier reared by divorce and remarriage and sent into the home of a mother the lifeless body of the little boy she had not held in her arms for so long—so long. Living—Ernest Major, 11. stayed with his father, Stephen Major, 2225 Winter avenue. Dead—he was drowned in White river Wednesday with his cousin and chum, Glen Harvey, 10 —he is with his mother, Mrs. Theodore Van Ckeleer of 2354 North Dearborn street, where single funeral sendees for the two boys will be held Saturday afternoon at 2, preceding burial in Memorial Park. “I have not had my boy with me for a long time,” Mrs. Van Ckeleer sobbed today. “I want him now, every minute, right up to the last.” Victims’ Mothers Sisters The boys' mothers are sisters. Mrs. Van Ckeleer, divorced from Ernest’s father, was remarried last March. Glenn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harvey, 2156 Winter avenue. With Mrs. Van Ckeleer, when divorce intervened, remained her other son, Everett Major, 8. Everett begged to go to his father’s and brother's home at 2351 Winter avenue, Tuesday night. It proved to be Ernests last night on earth. What they talked of through that night may be a precious memory to Everett. Winter avenue, where the drowning victim lived, lay desolate today. Only a day ago the sun-flecked sidewalk between 2156 and 2225 Winter avenue, was a gay and happy place. Then someone came up the street, almost racing, a moment later a car with a throaty, ominous roar bounded around the corner. “I Couldn’t Save Them” “Ernest Major and Glenn Harvey, they’re dead they’re drowned,” someone screamed and a whitehaired woman—Mrs. Effie Law, grandmother of Glen, who came haltingly from one of the little cottage porches, cried, “it isn’t true, it can’t be.” “Yes it is. I couldn’t save them,” sobbed a boy, who fairly fell out of the car. Then other women came and the mother of the sobbing boy, Mrs. George Howell grabbed her son Harold, who had tried to rescue his drowning playmates at the risk of his own life. “Oh God is good. God is good,” she cried “Oh Harold I can’t believe I have you here, safe.” Today, hushed quiet groups of children stand around, waiting, watching. Children Mourn Pals My little girl, Pauline, cried almost all night,” said Mrs. Forest Henderson, 2244 Winter avenue. “Every morning the children and Glen and Harvey would come out to ; play here together. They’ve been | playmates so long. We’re all heart- | broken.” The Major boy’s body was recov- ! ered at 7 Wednesday evening by Buss Flehlinger. 27, of 2023 Adams street, and Walter Brockman, 25, of 318 East North street, who relieved police for a time with the grappling hooks. The Harvey boy’s body was recovered at midnight in twenty feet of ! water near the point where he sank. Stephen Major. Francis Hodges, of 13160 North Pennsylvania street, a ' Red Cross life guard, and Fred Grossart of 5148 North Meridian j street, of the city recreation department. found the body with the aid !of a submarine light. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey watched their efforts from the shore.

FEAR POWER PROBE Secret Memorandum Warns Company Executives. Bu United WASHINGTON. Aug. I.—A secret memorandum has come into the hands of government officials purporting to have been for circulation among power company executives and stating the federal power commission activities if carried on “may have dangerous effects on our stock values now so favorably quoted.” A responsible government official said the document had come into his hands in a confidential way and was being turned over to the federal trade commission, now investigating the power industry. The document which he gave to the United Press bore no indication as to authorship.

WILLEBRANDT SERIES DRAWS DRYSTRAISE Times Lauded for Effort to Present Unbiased Views. OF INTEREST TO ALL State Leaders to Follow 24 Articles to Start Aug. 5.

Enthusiastic praise has been accorded The Times by Indiana dry leaders as a result of the announcement that The Times, beginning Aug. 5, will print twenty-four articles by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, formerly assistant United States Attorney-General, in which she sets out “The Truth About Prohibition!” Leaders in dry thought in the state have announced their intention of closely following the series and some of the expressions of opinion follow: Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley, president of the W. C. T. U. of Indiana: “Accept my personal thanks and assurance of gratitude and appreciation of our White Ribbon Comrades of Indiana for the publication of twenty-four letters from Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. “This is a splendid contribution to the cause of good government, for Mrs. Willebrandt is an authority on the legal status of prohibition and the Harrison drug act, and she has the facts in hand that our people need to help them to an intelligent understanding of the benefits we have derived from the law, even under the handicap of lax enforcement, and I trust our women of Indiana will secure the valuable information contained in Mrs. Willebrandt’s letters to The Times.” Praised By Blake Bishop Edgar Blake of the Methodist Ediscopal church says: “I am very glad that The Times is to publish Mrs. Willebrandt’s ticles on prohibition. The pu..-c wants the facts and full and frank discussion of them. Our Methodist Board of Temperance informs me that no person in the United States is better qualified than Mrs. Willebrandt to discuss prohibition and law enforcement. Her legal training and passion for facts will insure an entirely accurate as well as adequate discussion. “Mrs. Willebrandt personally is responsible for the fundamental idea underlying the Jones law, making offenses which are directly against the Constitution subject to more serious penalties than violations less serious in principle.” G. I. Hoover, general secretary Indiana Christian Missionary Association and president of the Bethany Assembly: “Mrs, Willebrandt, as an associate to the executive responsible for the enforcement of the prohibition act, manifested great zeal in her efforts to secure such enforcement. She not only was a zealous executive but was a propagandist for the prohibition cause. Has Intimate Knowledge “Her years of service in this position. with the intimate knowledge that it gave her of the country-wide conditions in relation to the liquor traffic, should make the narrative of her experiences most interesting reading, and will give weight to her opinions upon the matter of law enforcement, particularly in relation to the prohibition act. She is geni erally thought of as a woman of ; ability.” Ernest N. Evans, executive secre- ; tary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis: “It is with satisfaction | that I learn of your plan to publish a series of articles on prohibition by Mrs. Willebrandt. Os course, her attitude toward this question 1s well known because of her activities while in public office. At the same time the stand of your own publication also is recognized in this community.

“We appreciate the spirit of fair play exhibited in this plan. The ultimate solution of every question must rest on the foundation of the facts and merit. Os course, those who believe in the Eighteenth amendment believe also in the merit of their position, but light on all phases of every question must be given for a true ultimate position.” Mrs. W. w. Reedy, president of the Meridian Union W. C. T. U.: j “The publication of articles by Mrs. Willebrandt should command the interest of every person who believes m prohibition. When the inside of prohibition is generally known, as Mrs. Willebrandt promises to tell it, the cause will be greatly advanced .” Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the Anti-Saloon League: “I am looking forward with much interest to the coming series of articles by Mrs Willebrandt. She has been a very strong advocate of the cause of prohibition and in her official position was in close touch with the courts and is very familiar with all the legal questions that have affected prohibition enforcement. Her articles, no doubt, will be very helpTo miss the series by Mrs. Willebrandt. according to all drv leaders, is to lose an intelligent discussion of this nation’s greatest controversial question. In order that you do not lose out on a word of these articles, j The Times advises that you have the 1 paper delivered to your home.

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‘Truth About Prohibition Indorsed by State Leaders

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SONS BARK IN RAOERiOTING All Savannah Reserves Are Called; Two Slain. Bu tutted Press SAVANAH, Ga„ Aug. I.—All Savannah police reserves were called out today when a race riot broke out in Yamacraw. the Negro residential section of the city. Policeman Fitzgerald was slain in the early fighting. Street firing was continuing shortly before noon. Later a Negro, Dave Singleton, who was believed the slayer of the officer, was killed by police. The rioting began when Fitzgerald was summoned to the Yamacraw section where he was told a Negro woman was being murdered. When he arrived, he was shot through the heart. His body was found in the street. Singleton was killed during a battle which followed the discovery of Fitzgerald’s body. He was heavily armed when police examined his ; body. The Negro woman for whom the ! call was made was found later. She had been shot in the face.

FOUR PERSONS MISSING Three Men and One Woman Sought by Police. Four names were added to the list of missing persons at police headquarters today: Roy M. Hendricks, 40, of 2766 Roosevelt avenue, missing five weeks; Martha Louise Ellin, 13, of 262 North Rural street, missing since Monday night; Lester Hanscon. 33, of 576 East Parkway boulevard, missing since July 29. and Louis Riffil. 52, of 918 North Delaware street, missing for three weeks. SWIMMING IS TAUGHT Free Lessons Are Given at Rhodius Pool. Free swimming instruction for adults is being given daily in Rhodius park pool between 6 and 7 in the evening, and for children, at 2 every afternoon excepting Sunday. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 71 10 a. m 77 7a. m 71 11 a. m 80 Ba. m,.... 75 12 (noon).. 83 9 a. m..... 76 1 p. m 64

Among the Indiana dry leaders who have Indorsed the articles by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt are, above, left to right: G. I. Hoover, General Secretary Indiana Christian Missionary Association; Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley, president W. C. T. U. of Indiana, and Edgar Blake, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. Below, left to right: Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the AntiSaloon League: Mrs. W. W. Reedy, president of the Marion Union, W. C. T. U. and Ernest Evans, executive secretary of the Church Federation of Indiana.

Film Contest Pictures in the New Era Movie Contest, which failed to run in The Times Wednesday, are printed today. The time limit for answers has been extended one day. Turn to Page 6.

MERCURY TO SOAR Warmer Weather in Store for Indianapolis. Temperatures receded to near normal today despite the absence of predicted showers, but fair and warmer weather is in store for Friday, the weather bureau declared. “Probably fair tonight and Friday; warmer Friday,” was the forecast for Indianapolis. The northwest portion of the state may expect thundershowers Friday, the state forecast said. Climbing to 92 degrees Wednesday afternoon, the mercury was within one degree of the season’s high mark, set last Sunday. John Vance, 64, of 963 Bellevieu place, remained In city hospital today as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage believed induced by heat prostration Wednesday afternoon. His condition was pronounced “fair.” COAL AWARD IS MADE City Hospital Lets Contract for 10,000 Tons. Purchasing Agent Joel A. Baker today awarded the Indianapolis Coal Company, low bidder, the contract for 10,000 tons of coal at $2.83 a ton for city hospital. Clarence Hess, business manager, said the bid was on fourth vein 114 inch screen. t

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MADMAN WITH AX KILLS SIX Runs Amuck and Splits Victim’s Heads. t Bit United Press SPARTANBURG, S. C„ Aug. I. Earl Robertson, 45, ran amuck shortly after noon today and, killed six men, including one Negro, splitting their heads open with an ax. Robertson is understood to have gone insane at the mill and elevator plant of J. W. Bell & Cos. first attacking J. L. Bussey, manager. NO DECREASE IN NAVY Conference to Discuss Long Life and Not Reduction. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—lnspection of battleship power in the next naval reduction conference will involve proposals for extending the life of battleships and decreasing their size, but it Is unlikely that total abolition of the giant fighting ships will be discusssed, the United Press learned reliably today. OATS TARIFF INCREASED Senate Finance Committee Retains Wheat, Com Rates Set by House. WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—Wheat and com tariff rates set in the house bill were retained and oats increased 1 cent a bushel as Republican members of the senate finance committee continued today to consider agricultural tariff rates, it was learned today. WIN SALES HONORS Jones-Whitaker Celebrates With Picnic. Executives and employes of the Jones-Whitaker Sales Company, 345 North Capitol avenue, will hold a picnic and banquet at Walnut Gardens Friday to celebrate the winning of sales leadership on Chevrolet automobiles in this region for the year ending July 31. The Jones-Whitaker company sold more new cars than any Chevrolet agency in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee or West Virginia.

RIVAL CLAIMS PRESENTED FOR NEW AIR LINE Indianapolis and Evansville Argue for Proposed Mail Route. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING, Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—Two Indiana cities, Indianapolis and Evansville, presented rival claims here today to be included in the proposed air mail route from Pittsburgh to St. Louis. The hearing was held before the joint committee on civil aviation, composed of officials of the postoffice and commerce departments. Indianapolis was aligned with Columbus, 0., in advocating the northern route, and delegations from the two cities held a preliminary conference Wednesday. Representative Louis Ludlow, C. L. Hawood, industrial commissioner and general manager of the Indianapolis chamber of commerce; C. G. Dunphy, his assistant, and Captain H. Weir Cook, general manager of the Curtiss company in Indiana, presented the Indianapolis arguments. Unexpected Opposition Comes Arthur P. Eberlin of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, joined forces with representatives of Cincinnati and Louisville, which also would be on the proposed southern route. Importance of the proposed route was emphasized when PostmasterGeneral Walter Brown, who comes from Columbus, appeared to preside in person. Unexpected opposition to the whole program developed when Paul Henderson, general manager of the National Air Transport Company, which holds large air mail contracts, said he believed the route should be postponed, feeling that the air mail routes already in use should be developed to full capacity before others are started. The committee also entertained suggestions of extension of the service beyond St. Louis to the southwest, and rival delegations appeared to plead the cause of Texas and Oklahoma for that extension. Eberlin argued that Evansville already has an airmail service to St. Louis wtih a route soon to be completely lighted, an aerological observatory of the United States weather bureau and that not having as quick rail service to the east as the northern cities, could take greater advantage of the air mail.

Hawood emphasized the industrial development of Indianapolis and central Indiana. The volume of mail now being handled, and the facilities that the cities need now for airmail communication is for the east. Less Fog Found Here Captain Cook discussed the favorable flying conditions in central Indiana, emphasized Indianapolis’ air field facilities and the numerous emergency landing fields along the central Indiana route. Representative Ludldw told the joint committee that the northern route is shorter and safer because of the fogs on the so-called river route. He read a letter from Mayor Slack of Indianapolis, calling attention to the 1,000-acre Indianapolis airport. Ludlow also said the central route would supply a much greater volume of air mail which could be transported in less time. The weather bureau, he said, had reported that there were on the average ten days a year of dense fog at Cincinnati, twelve days at Louisville and six days at Indanapolis and Columbus. Last year, he said, Cincinnati had fifteen days of dense fogs, while Indianapolis had three. He also argued the northern route had far more “speedier” possibilities because of the many industrial towns through central Indiana and Ohio.

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GRAF ZEPPELIN FIGHTS STORM ON WAY TO U. S. Heavy Winds and Driving Rain Buffet Giant of Air , Over France. YOUNG LAD STOWAWAYj Eight Americans Are Among Eighteen Passengers on German Dirigible. Bu United Press PARIS, Aug. I.—The trans-Atlan-tic dirigilbe Graf Zeppelin, en route from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J., was speeding southward along the Rhone river valley today, making satisfactory progress in spite of unfavorable weather conditions which prevailed over all of southern France. Driving rains and strong winds beat against the giant dirigible, but in spite of that the Graf was over Tournon at 11:50 a. m. and passed Valence at 12:10 a. m. (5:10 a. m. C. S. TANARUS.), flying steadily on her course. A stowaway was discovered aboard the German dirigible, it was stated in a radio report from the Graf. The brief dispatch stated that the stowaway was a young German boy. A twenty-mile wind battled the ship in some sections of the valley, but the Zeppelin continued at a pace of approximately fifty miles an hour. The Zeppelin reached the Mediterranean at St. Louis-Sur-Rhone and turned westward to follow the coast toward Spain. The time given for the dirigible’s arrival at St, Louis was 2 p. m. The Zeppelin was expected to proceed as formerly, crossing the eastern end of the Mediterranean along the coast of Spain, passing out Tosea near Gibraltar, and traveling approximately by way of the Azores and Bermuda to Lakehurst. From the Spanish coast westward to mid-Atlantic the weather was fair with northerly or variable light winds. From mid-Atlantic to the American coast were cloudy areas with fog and occasional rain, and fresh southwesterly winds, strong in spots. Two Passengers Late BY MAURITZ HALLGREN United Press Staff Correspondent FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY, Aug. I—Germany’s mamoth dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, took off for another trans-Atlantic flight to the United States early today, making full speed toward southern France. Carrying a crew of forty men and a passenger list of eighteen, the giant of the air was released by her ground crew at 3:30 a. m. (8:30 p. m. C. S. T. Wednesday). After cruising over Friedrichshafen as a gesture of farewell, the Graf turned its silver nose westward and a few minutes later disappeared over Lake Constance It was not until last midnight that Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf, announced definitely that the voyage would be begun this morning, as scheduled. Until then it was believed that owing to the threatening weather the trip would be postponed. Stowaway Is Glimpsed The passengers, eight of whom are Americans, were assembled at their hotel when the commander made the announcement. They had rushed to Friedrichshafen from all directions, by motor and by train, in order to be on time for the voyage. One of the members of the ground crew contended that he saw a man jump from the hangar to the ship just as the Graff took off. A brief radio message from ths dirigible later was received by th® Ullstein agency. There was no official confirmation, but the report was generally credited. New Yorker Missing Only two of the passengers originally scheduled to make the trip were missing when the ship took off today—Mrs. Mary A. Pierce of New York and Martin Channing of Bern. The full passenger list follows: Nelson Morris, member of the Chicago packing firm; Sir Hubert Wilkins, the explorer; Joachim Richard, American lawyer, a resident of Madrid; Richard Burke, aviator, San Bernardino, Cal.; Frank Nicholson, New York; Herbert .Fiebel, Saginaw, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. George Crouse, Syracuse, N. Y.; Gregory Gourevitch, Polish pianist, and wife; Walter Spiess, German ministry of transportation; Professor Ernst Millarch, Bonn university; Werner Staufficher, Basle; Heinz Von Eschwage, Berlin; Count Albrecht Monteglass, Berlin; Carl Schutz, Kiel, Germany; Dr. Leisler Kiep, of the Hamburg-American line; Count Franz Von Soden. Friedrichshafen. Find Chef Asleep When everything was in readiness for the take-off it was suddenly discovered that one of the principal members of the trip was missing; from the ship—Otto Manz, the local butcher shop owner who also ;s chief cook of the Zeppelin. Officials of the Zeppelin company, acompanied by the United Presa reporter, started out hunting for th chef and finally discovered him—sleeping soundly in his butcher shop. He was immediately awakened and rushed to the ship. ,

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