Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1929 — Page 2

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HIGHWAY BOARD HOLDS SECRET LAKE MEETING Plans for 1930 Discussed at Session to Avoid ‘Nosey Public.’ The .state highway commission, commission executives and Governor Harry G. Leslie slipped out of Indianapolis and gathered in a quiet retreat on the bank of a lake ninetynine miles north of Indianapolis on Wednesday in order to discuss what t.they are going to do with the S2O 000.000 or so of the peopa money they will have in 1930. it was disclosed today. They sought privacy, the chairman of the commission baldly admitted. because they didn't want newspaper men or citizens who might have some ideas about howsome of the money should be spent, poking around. Citizens Inquisitive The chariman. Albert J. Wedek:ng of Dale, who returned today with Commissioner Robert Boren of Fountain City, was the man who admtited the secrecy was deliberate. The meeting was held Wednesday at the cottage of Commissioner Jess Murden. Peru, at Lake Manitou. "What did you do at the meeting?'' Wedeking was asked by reporters who were not let into the secret session plans. “Well," said the highway chairman, "There wasn’t anything supposed to be said about the meeting." Later he explained the avoidance of publicity was due to the effort to avoid delegations of the public and concentrate upon highway construction plans for the next year. These plans include the expenditure of some $22,000,000 by the construction division, under William A. Titus, chief engineer. The public, whom the commissioners sought to avoid, pays the bill from the levy ot a 4-cent gasoline tax. “We planned roads to be taken Into the state system and pavement to be laid in 1930,” Wedeking explained, but added the program was not ready for the public and the press as yet.

Press Not Informed Nothing had been said to the press about the secret meeting either at the Governor's office or commission headquarters in the Statehoq.se annex. It had been announced the commission was on an Inspection tour, with department heads, and the Governor had gone to the Dunes to spend a vacation with his family. He stayed at the Murden cottage Wednesday night, it was learned today. Wedeking declared there was nc discussion of the split to be made between concrete and blacktop pavement at the meeting. But the department will continue to lay almost all new roads with cement, the chairman said. With budget committee approval they have been able to shift all construction to Titus, from the maintenance department, leaving A. H. Hinkle, superintendent of that division, with but $1.5000,000 of his former $4,000,000 to spend. Building Strike Ends Bu Timex Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. I.—A strike of union workmen employed on a $140,000 school building, remodeling and repair projects has ended. A walkout resulted through employment of two nonunion helpers by a plumbing company. A notice by the board of education to contractors, stating they would be expected to complete the w'ork in time for opening of the school is September, was followed by a settlement.

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MOVE PRISONER i BY AIRPLANE Ralph Fleagel Transported by Federal Heads. ll u I'nit 4 >1 l’n hr LAMAR. Colo., Aug. I.—Ralph E. Fleagel, who has the distinction of being the first federal prisoner ever to be transported from one state to another by commercial airplane, is in the county jail here today, charged with murder in connection with the sensational bank holdup and murders here in May, 1928.. Fleagel was still sick this morning, the air journey from Chicago to Garden City, Kan., having upset him. he said. Four members of the Fleagel family now are in Colorado jails in connection with the holdup and murders, and Jakie, a brother of Ralph, is the object of a nation-wide search. Jakie's fingerprints have been found to correspond with those found on the automobile of Dr. W. W. Wineinger, Dighton <Kan.) physician, who is supposed to have been called to treat one of the wounded bandits and then murdered. Ralph Fleagel was arrested Sunday at Kankakee with George De Moss, also wanted in connection with the killings. The latter retained attorneys to fight extradition. Sheriff Alderman said today that Fleagel had $7,800 in his possession when arrested, and there were three revolvers in his automobile.

FATHER SENT TO FARM FOR INJURY TO SON, 8 B<y Attempted to Defend Mother and Is Cut. Convicted of an attack on his wife and 8-year-old son, who attempted to defend his mother, Christopher Dorman, 311 Spring street, today started a ninety days terms on the state penal farm. The sentence was imposed in municipal court together with a $25 fine on drunkenness charges, and a $1 fine for disorderly conduct. Four stitches were required to close a wound in the boy’s head. PIERSON is PROMOTED Becomes Vice-President of Cement Company. G. E. Pierson, manager and sales manager of the Lone Star Cement Company, Indiana, Inc., has been elected vice-president. He will be relieved of the duties of sales manager but will continue as manager. Pierson came here three years ago as sales manager from Kansas City, Mo. He succeeds D. S. MacBride as vice-president.

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GUARDSMEN LEAVE Advance details of the Indiana national guard units left early today in a truck train for Camp Knox, Ky., where the annual two weeks’ encampment period begins Sunday. Most troops from throughout the state will make the trip by train shortly after midnight Saturday. The truck train mobilized at the armory here under command of Captain Walter Fowler. There were details from guard units at Ft. Wayne, Gary, Franklin, Lafayette, Muncie, Shelbyville and Indianapolis.

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OIOS RECEIVED ON HOSPITAL Special Meeting Sunday to Discuss Estimate. Low bids on the new city hospital power plant which were read at a special health board meeting todaytotaled $509,767, according to a preliminary analysis of Charles R. Amraerman, consulting engineer. The bids were on the power plant building, tunnels and steam, light and power distribution systems, walks, drives, coal yard and temporary garage. The health board will hold a special meeting Sunday at 1 p. m. at city hospital to go over the engineer’s recommendations, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary, announced. Ammerman had estimated cost at $516,000 without the coal yard and drives.

PETITION OVERRULED City Is Upheld in Street Improvement Case. Immediate steps for improvement of English avenue from Southeastern avenue to Brookville road, will be taken, it was announced by city officials today after Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott, Wednesday afternoon ruled against an injunction petition. The petition was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Ward, who own property at English and Emerson avenues. The complaint alleged the improvement cost of $145,000, was excessive. The works board, following the court’s order, let the contract for curbs and grading to Abel Brothers’ Construction Company for $21,414.27.

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CORNER STONE LAID FOR NEW KIWANIS WIND Indiana Congratulated for $150,000 Addition to Riley Hospital. Kiwanian eyes and ideals—the building of the health and character of the child “who never had a chance" —of the LTntied States, turned to Indiana today with the laying of the corner stone for the new- $150,000 Kiwanls wing of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children this afternoon at 2. Tracing the history of the Kiwanis clubs of the nation in their work for the under-privileged child. O. Samuel Cummins of Dallas, Tex , immediate past international president of Kiwanis, gave the main address at the laying of the corner stone. “We are building a structure here for children, to aid those who haven’t a chance to have their chance, but we must not let that building be but a pile of bricks after it is completed. It is the duty of every Kiwanian to aid individually the children this building is being built for," Cummings urged. While 300 members of Indiana Kiwanis clubs and their wives listened, Cummings congratulated Indiana and its state organization of Kiwanians on the work of raising money to erect the structure. “This building is the most outstanding piece of work done by the Kiwanis International for the underprivileged child in all time. It is the largest amount of money ever raised for a similar project." Cummings emphasized the address made by President Hoover before the recent child health conferecce in which the chief executive said, “The greatest asset of a race is its chil-

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OPTIMIST CLUB PLANS NUTRITION CAMP TRIP Optimist Club members will make an inspection of the nutrition camp for sick children, operated by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. near Bridgeport, when they have luncheon at the camp Friday. The club has assisted the camp for several years. Dr. Harold S. Hatch, formerly superintendent of Sunnvside sanatorium, and Dr. F M. Amos, both of whom are members of the Optimists Club, will talk following the luhcheon. Mrs. Ro\ Corwin of Ben Davis, township vicepresident of the association, heads the committee in charge of luncheon arrangements. dren and the safeguard oi their health and childhood." Austin E. Kress of Terre Haute, former Kiwanis governor of Indiana and chairman of the corner stone laving committee, in a short talk termed the building as a materialization of the Kiwanis motto: "We build." Hugh McK Landon. president of the Riley Memorial Association, responded to the visiting Kiwanians, with a tribute to the civic organization. a need of praise for the Indiana clubs that raised $36,142.50 of the $150,000 total for the erection of the fifty-five bed addition to the hospital. He estimated that between 750 and 1.000 children would receive medical treatment in the new unit now under construction. Other speakers were: Mayor L. Ert Slack and Governor Harry G. Leslie. The ceremonies opened with a bugle call by a Boy Scout detail. The Rev. M. W. Lyons, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church gave the invocation. Group singing closed the exercises. At noon, visiting Kiwanians were entertained with a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club and their wives were given a tea at the new Ball nurses’ residence. The Kiwanis unit of the hospital was designed by Frost Daggett. Leslie Colvin, general contractor, is erecting the structure.

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ATHLETIC GIRLS ROSH TO ENTER TIMES CONTEST Many in Race for Prizes Offered for Physical Culture Star. With recent days marked by sunny skies and beautiful clouds, ideal conditions for picture taki.ig. cameras on beaches, backyards, and on doorsteps have been clicking and recording the forms of athletically inclined girls in bathing suits, who are contemplating entering the Indianapolis search for Physical Culture Girls who will compete for America’s highest honors in the early part of September. The campaign here has been under way for a week, and the contestants are rushing their entries. Not only are the girls interesting themselves in this campaign whereby the most perfectly proportioned, athletically inclined specimen of American womanhood are soon to vie for national awards, but the mothers, too, are urging them to come in. Everybody is eligible, of course, except those girls who have been in the movies or on the stage. Professional models are not permitted to join and by that the committee means models who have posed for sculptors, painters and other artists. A majority of the entrants are high school and college girls, for they seem especially to appreciate the necessity of strong, vital, healthy bodies to carry them on in later years. The contest committee is concerned only in the vital type of American girlhcod. The flat-chest-

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