Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1929 — Page 15

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FT. WAYNE TO GET $400,000 U. S. BUILDING Contract !s Awarded for $150,000 Service Plant , in Hammond. FACTORY WILL EXPAND New Industry Will Locate in Crawfordsville: Other Business News. BY CHARLES C. STOVE State Editor, Tie Tines Flans for construction work In several Indiana cities are revealed by a business and industrial survey o? the state for the week ended today. Acquisition of the entire block bounded by Harrison street. Douglas avenue, Brackenridge street and Webster street. Ft. Wayne, for construction of e $401,250 federal building, has been approved by the United States treasury department. Contracts have been let for construction of $150,000 salon and service building, Hohman and Doty streets, Hammond, by E. N. Bunnell, Hammond automobile agent. The building will be complete in November. Will Expand Factory Officials of the Berne Furniture Company announce that an addition to their factory buildings in Berne will be erected in the near future and that at least twenty-five more men will be employed. Two new buidings to cost a total of $75,000 are planned for Kokomo. Vestrymen of St. Andrew’s Episcopal church have announced a campaign to build anew $60,000 church, and the Kokomo Trades and Labor Council plans a $15,000 labor temple. Announcement was made yesterday that arrangements have been completed for the second new factory In Crawfordsville since the first of the year. The Lewis-Shephard Company of j Boston, has secured possession of S the building formerly occupied by I the Indiana Match Company, and 1 within a few days will start work on i remodeling the structure. With a view of having a branch factory! running here within two months. Adds Many Jobs The eastern firm manufactures eiectric trucks for interdepartmental use in factories as well as a large variety of other factory equipment, including cranes, hoists and elevators. The establishment of the new factory will mean the employment of about fifty men at fust, with a gradual increase until the maximum of about 150 is reached. Removal of additional families to Crawfordsville will bring the housing problem to an acute stage. There already is a great demand for rental properties in spite of the number built in the last twelve months. Contracts for sidewalks, curbs and gutters totaling $9,455.92 were let by the Lebanon city council, and contracts amounting to $9,065.50 for construction of bridges in Boone county were let by the Boone county commissioners. Lebanon—The construction company in charge of double tracking the Big Four through this county has appealed to the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce for help in obtaining laborers to work on the improvement. Between forty and fifty men are needed at once. Gary—Gary’s bank clearings for July reached the unexpected total of $28,695,181, the highest total recorded here since April, 1927. Bloomington —The Indiana Limestone Company. Bloomington, has ben awarded a $910,780 stone contract. The stone will be shipped to Milwaukee, where it will be used in construction of the new $7,000,000 Milwaukee county courthouse. Princeton—The Gibson county commissioners, at their meeting this week, awarded six road contracts, amounting to $37,130. Ft. Wayne—The bankrupt Wayne Machinery Company was sold this week to C. L. Schust, Walter Meyer, and Clifford Kern for $24,100. They plan to carry on a used farm implement business, under the name of the Indiana Machinery Company. DEDICATION DATE SET Newcastle Memorial Rites to Be Heid Aug. 25. Bn Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind.. Aug. 9.—The dcughboy monument in Memorial park, erected by the Henry county War Mothers in honor of the Henry county boys who fought in France during the last war. will be dedicated Sunday. Aug. 25. Mrs. Lynn C. Boyd, head of the local War Mothers, announced today. The Rev. William Everson, pastor of the First Baptist church. Muncie, will be the main speaker. Everson commanded expeditionary forces in Italy during the World war. CHARLESHtROEGETIDIES Was Father of President of DelcoRemy Corporation at Anderson, Bn Time* Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Aug. 9. Charles Kroeger. father of Fred C. Kroeger. president and general manager of the Delco-Remy Corporation. is dead at the family home in Winona. Minn. Mr. Kroeger was notified last Sunday of the illness of his father and was at the bedside when death occurred. Fire Destroys Bam Bn Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Aug. 9.-Fire destroyed a bam and a large quantity of hay at the home of Homer Melson,

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Forest Harness KOKOMO. Ind., Aug. 9.—Forest Harness is being backed by this district for commander of the state American Legion.

CITY WILL OET 810 TAX CUT Crawfordsville Levy Will Drop About 10 Cents. B.u Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Aug. 9. Taxing officials here predict a decrease in the total tax rate for the city of Crawfordsville for 1930 of at least 10 cents from this year's rate. Most of the decrease is due to the fact that last year the rate for 1929 was figured on a, valuation of $12,000.000 rather than the $14,000,000 that should have been used. The mix-up occurred’when the valuation of public utilities was omitted from the amount certified' to the city council. Consequently there is a surplus in almost every city fund. In addition to this the expenditures, according to the preliminary budgets of the various city departments, will be less in 1930 than this year. The decrease will be made greater by an almost certain drop in the county rate of from 4 to 7 cents.

Rough Riding! Bj/ Timcs Special FRANKFORT. Ind.. Aug. 9. Jane Allan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Allan of Oak Park. 111., visiting for the first time in the country on a farm east of here, decided that the switching tail of a cow would make a fine swing. Today she is recovering from painful fractures. Grabbing on to the tail the child startled the animal and caused it to make a wild dash. She clung on, but a hog, attempting to get out of the way, ran between the girl and the cow, throwing her to the ground. Her left arm was broken at the shoulder, again just above the elbow, the collar bone was fractured and two ribs were broken. X-ray pictures disclosed.

Boy Undergoes Operation Bi/ Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., Aug. 9. Taking only a local anaesthetic, Myron Lawrence. 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Lawrence of Fern, submitted to an operation for locked bowel at the Putnam county hospital. His condition is serious.

WORK STARTED ON NEW FIRE STATION

Bn Times Special FRANKFORT. Ind.. Aug. 9. Excavation work for Frankfort's new fire station on North Main street, just north of the National Guard armory, is completed and construction work will be started this week. It is expected the station will be placed in use in September. The new station was necessary because the Lake Erie and Clover Leaf divisions of the Nickel Plate railroad, diriding the city in two almost equal parts, often delayed the fire trucks, endangering north side property. The new station will be operated on a double platoon system. Some firemen from the central station will FARMER DIES IN FALL Man of 60 Plunges From Load of Hay Near Ktrklin. By Times Special FRANKFORT. Ind.. Aug. 9. Jacob Frazier. 60. was killed instantly Thursday, when he fell head first from a load of hay on his farm near Kirkl n. His neck was broken. He is survived by two sons.

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MAD DOG PERIL HITS FRANKFORT New Epidemic Results in Quarantine Order. Bu Times Special FRANKFORT. Ind.. Aug. 9.—With the recent mad-dog scare in Frankfort virtually over, anew quaranantine has been placed on dogs in the city by Dr. Benson Ruddell, secretary of the city board of health. A large police, dog owned by a Frankfort merchant ran amuck. Police searched for the animal all night before it was found and killed, but only after it had bitten at least five other animals. Dr. Ruddell stated that the quarantine will remain in effect at least until Sept. 15. The police dog, suspected of infection, had been kept chained in a basement for several days. A short time after its owner had petted it the animal broke a hasp holding its chain to the wall, tore through a double screen door and ran wildly away. Three weeks ago a . large dog ran through the city, biting several dogs and wounding George Sherer, courthouse custodian. Since then police have killed a large number of animals found on the streets. A number of dogs kept confined by their owners have developed rabies and have been killed. Both police and health authorities declare the situation here a dangerous one. REFURBISH POSTOFFICE Bloomington Structure Repainted For First Time in 15 Years. Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Aug. 9. Redecoration of the local postoffice will begin within the next week, it was announce 4 todaj by postoffice officials. Bids were received Saturday. It will be the first time in fifteen years that the postcffice here has received a complete painting and varnishing. Carpenter Dies of Injury Bn Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Aug. 9. George Dunbeck. 56. son of Mrs. Mary Porter. Anderson, is dead at Portsmouth. 0.. from injuries sustaihed while working on a barn. Dunbeck. a carpenter, lived three days with a crushed skull.

be transferred to the new station so recruits may be trained at both places without impairing efficiency of the department.

Muncie Opens Million-Dollar Hospital

Here Is shown Munde’s new mUlion-dollar Bell Memorla hospite, to which the first patients were admitted Thursday. This is an eastern view, showing the entrance. The hospital is located on University avenue, directly south of the Ball State Teachers’ college athletic field, , ......

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SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN TO 240AT DEPAUW Rector Awards Announced; Eighteen Are From Marion County. ALL TUITION IS PAID Chicago Attorney Is Donor; Record Is Set by Number of Grants. Bn Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 9. Nine states and one foreign country are represented in the list of 240 persons granted Rotor scholarships at De Pauw university for the coming year. This mark, according to Dr. Henry B. Longden. director of the Edward Rector scholarship foundation and vice-president of the univeisity, sets a record. The states represented are Indiana. Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Missouri. Walter Hoffsommer, a graduate of the American school at Tokio, Japan, is the only one to come from outside the United States. This list will raise the total number of Rector scholars to be found on the campus in September to approximately six hundred. In the list of recent awards are to be found the names of eighteen Marion county high school graduates who have been given scholarships. Marion County Boys Included They are as follows: Shortridge high school—Fred Johns, Sidney Kauffman, Earl Kiger, Edward Bayless, John Millett, and David Thomas. Arsenal Tech—Robert Miller, Robert W. Osier, Francis W. Pritchard and James Lawrence Sims. Washington high—Fsank Wesley Yarbrough. Manual Training—Henry Schoenborn. Crispus Attucks—David Daniel Lewis. Warren Central—John S. Berry. Valley Mills—Paul Kollman. Beech Grove—Elton Ceshwiier. West Newton—Joseph Workman. Ben Davis—Daniel Mcßride. These scholarships, made possible by the late Edward Rector, Wealthy Chicago attorney, are valued at SI,OOO each, paying all tuition and fees for the entire four years at De Pauw university. The type of men that the Rector scholarships bring to De Pauw is exemplified in the person of Bernard Sturgis of Butler, Ind., state winner in the Thomas A. Edison successor con-, test and runner-up in the national elimination. Twins On List The Butler youth was granted a rector scholarship prior to his entry in the Edison contest. All youths granted scholarships must stand high in their high school graduating class and are marked men on the campus. For the second time in the history of the Rector scholarship foundation, scholarships have been granted to twins who were evenly matched as to grades and high school honors. The list for this year includes the names of Elmer Lee Harvey and Eugene Harvey, twin graduates of Mooresville high school. In 1921, scholarships w r ere granted to Fred and Ned Swantz, twins, from South Bend.

Timely Cough Bp Times Special Anderson, ind.. Aug. 9. Like the little boy who loses his toothache when he goes to the dentist, Beverly Jo, 20-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brown, coughed and dislodged a beauty pin from its oesophagus as a throat specialist stood by with a bronchoscope ready to operate. The child’s father is an Anderson undertaker.

CONTRACTS FOR RODEO Madison County 4-H Club Fair Also to Hare Exhibits. Bn Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Aug. 9.—Madison County Agricultural Association signed contracts for a rodeo, several rides and other amusement features in connection with the annual county 4-H Club fair at Athletic park. August 22-23. Exhibits will be arranged in tents. The Madison county council has appropriated $1,200 to pay premiums.

Only One Day Left to Enter lTimes Physical Culture Race

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Here are five more entrants in The Times' great Physical Culture contest, run in connection with the MacFadden national camoaign. Above—Left, is Alma, Teifert; center, Benca King; right, Mabel Presley. Below—Left, Margaret Moulton; right, Regina Clav - .

BIG GUNS ROAR ST GAMP KNOX Guardsmen Given Treat by Endurance Fliers. Bu Vnitcd Press CAMP KNOX. Ky., Aug. 9. Heavy artillery boomed on the Camp Knox range today as Indiana National guardsmen resumed target practice. Practice for the mo,st part was from the 3.000 and 5,000-yard mark. The guardsmen were given an added treat Thursday when Forest OBrine and Dale Jackson, holders of the world's refueling airplane endurance record, made a trip to the camp. Mimic warfare in which the “reds” are sweeping across the Ohio river southward toward Camp Knox with 1,200 airplanes is the problem that the “blues” have to face at the present time as part of the training program for the Coast Artillery antiaircraft units from three corps areas. Six regiments of anti-aircraft artillery from the Fifth Corps area, including the 69th and 505th, largely from Cincinanti and vicinity, the 511th, from Cleveland and Northern Ohio; the 525th, from Kentucky; the 535th. from Indianapolis, and the 541st from West Virginia, have their skeleton office personnel in training at the camp and taking part in the defense at Camp Knox. EDITORS iT CONVENTION 200 State Newspaper Men Meet at Bloomington. Bu T'nited Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 9. Approximately 200 editors were here today for the annual two-day midsummer meeting of the Indiana Weekly Editorial Association. All sessions will be held in Indiana university buildings. Registration, a sight-seeing trip over Bloomington, and short addresses were to occupy the delegates today. MICHIGAN MAYOR DIES John Bailey of Battle Creek Is Claimed. Bji United Press BATTLE CREEK. Mich.. Aug. 9. —John Bailey, prominent state Democratic leader and mayor of this city, died at his home here early today of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 70. and had been in ill health for some time. Bailey was serving his fifth term as Battle Creeks’ chief executive.

Highest Type of Entrants Is Enrolled in City Girl Contest, There's just one day left after today to enter The Times great Physical Culture Girl contest and scores of them are coming in at the eleventh hour. Never has there been such a high type of entrants in an Indianapolis contest as in this competition. This is not the ordinary kind of beauty contest, but a real health event, in which only the girls who have taken the best of care of themselves have a chance. After midnight Saturday, the deadline for entries, the judges, who will be announced Saturday or Monday, will begin their work. The winner will be chosen on the stage of the Lyric theater within the next two weeks, with posibility that there will be a previous elimination event, owing to the great number of entries. Don’t lose any time, for Saturday is not far away, and if you have not mailed your photographic application by then, you undoubtedly will regret it. Let the Physical Culture Editor of The Times know the following information when you dispatch your photo: Your name, address, age and occupation; height (in stocking feet), weight (in bathing suit), color of hair, how worn, color of eyes; measurement of neck, bust, waist, hips, thigh, calf and ankle. You still have time to avail yourself of the opportunity to be photographed free through courtesy of The Times. CELEBRATE PAVING Business Firms to Have Floats in Street Pageant. LA PORTE. Ind.. Aug. 9.—A twoday celebration marking the completion of paving in the business district will be held Aug. 16 and 17 the Chamber of Commerce announced today. The paving is expected to be completed by Saturday. Several business firms have announced that they will have floats in the pageant. Friday, Aug. 16.

GREENTOWN BEGINS WORK ON CITY HALL

Bu Times Special GREENTOWN. Aug. 9.—Work is well under way on the concrete foundation for the new city hall here, which is being built at a contract cost of $3,700. It is believed the building will be completed this fall. Workmen also have started to lay

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80TARIANS OF DISTINCT MEET Gary and Evansville Want Next Convention. Bu United Press LEBANON, Ind., Aug. 9. —Annual assembly of the twentieth district Rotarians will be closed today with selection of the spring meeting site. Gary and Evansville were being mentioned as a possible site for the next assembly, although neither had tendered a formal invitation. Fifty-two of the fifty-eight clubs in the district were represented at Thursday’s sessions. Several of the remaining clubs were expected to be represented at the closing meeting. Former district governors who participated in the opening day’s activities included: Worth W. Pepple, Michigan City; Charles Grafton, Muncie; William R. Barr, Bluff - ton; Arthur S. Sapp. Huntington, and Charles E. Watkins, Muncie. G UARD IS RECOVER IN G Reformatory Employe Struck by Auto Badly Hurt. B.v Times Special , ANDERSON, Ind.. Ailg. 9.—Otto Parker, Pendleton, guard at the Indiana reformatory, is recovering at a local hospital from serious injuries he sustained when a detail of convicts of which he was in charge was run into by an automobile driven by Mrs. C. C. Piper of Pontiac, Mich. Parker and seventeen prisoners were marching back to the reformatory after working on the reformatory farm when the auto skidded from state read 67 and hit them, injuring Parker and twelve convicts. Mrs. Piper is under $250 bond at the same hospital here, where she is recovering from shock. Bridge Contracts Let LEBANON, Ind., Aug. 9.—Contracts for the construction of four new bridges and the repair of the Prairie Creek bridge. West Busby street, have been let by the Boone county commissioners.

brick. The 60x75-foot structure, when completed, will be the only Spanish front public building in Howard county. The top will be faced with Spanish tile, and stucco will make up the front overlying a thirteen-inch brick wall. Glazed brick and tile will make up the base of the building. The building will contain four rooms, each 15x35 feet. The room at the extreme south will be headquarters for the fire department. The next room will be used as the council chamber. The two rooms to the north will house the women’s restroom and city library. A six-foot hallway at the front leads back to a pavilion 40x60 feet. The building will be fireproof throughout, is one story high, but shows a front of two stories. Although contracts for erection was let to Charles Smeltzer on a bid of $3,700. the actual value of the building will be nearly SII,OOO. Most of the bricks, cement block and timber from the old building were saved and will be used in the new construction. H. F. Wagner, president of the town board, is inspecting the work Other members of the board are C. C. Currens, John Haines, F. B. Neyhart and Etaer Davis,

COLLEGIANS DO MORE DRINKNG, WRITER SAYS Assertion of the Rev. Fosdick Refuted by Williams, After Survey. GENERATION IS UPHELD Princeton Seniors Voted for Whisky, Claim of Author, B]i Times Special NEW YORK. Aug. 9.—When the Rev. Dr. Harrv Emerson Fosdick recently announced in a sermon that there is less drinking in colleges than before prohibition, “h# didn't, know what he was talking about," declares Jesse Lynch Williams, author and authority on college life, in the September issue of the Red Book magazine. After a study of conditions among students during the past several years, as a guest of colleges in all parts of the country. Williams asserts there is more drinking than ever, that the majority of undergraduates are opposed to prohibition and that in many colleges more students drink than smoke. Williams, now living at. Preincteon, says the answers to Uje last annual questionnaire to the senior class there shows a majority of eight, to one against prohibition. In a poll on "favorite beverages," 104 voted for whisky, as against three for milk. Generation Is Improvement But in spite of increased drinking Williams finds the newest, young generation an improvement on that which followed the war. Today students study harder than before, because scholastic advancement has become socially respectable. The last census at. Princeton showed a two-to-one preference for attainments in scholarship to the formerly most coveted honor in athletics. "In circles where manners and breeding count, even the most, unobservant have noted that the young people of today are quieter, less strident, no so blatant in their defiance of authority as the noisy kids of yesterday,” writes Williams. "Distinctions between good taste and bad, recently banished, are returning. Not so many of the boys are drunk and disorderly at private dances, it is no longer funny to break the hostess’ furniture. "The reform, when it comes—and there are signs of its beginningwill be effected not by the younger generation but by this youngest, when not so young. Determined to Face Facts "They believe that they have come into a civilization begun in superstition. still ruled by bunk. Inspired by taboo and tyrannized by tradition. But they no longer consider it necessary to tell us so, at the top .of their lungs. “H. L. Mencken is no longer their god. He may have been, a decade ago. Dean Gauss of Princeton tells me that the boys never mention Mencken’s name now, except to smile at his vehemence in a manner of saying: ‘Why so hot, little man?’ Freund, the high priest of the pcst-war period is fading into the background, into his true perspective. A great scientist, but not the only one. “I have heard a great deal about a ‘spiritual awakening’ sweeping over the youth of the land. I have not been able to isolate it. If they have an emotional hungering and thirsting for religion, their camouflage is too clever for me. But I shouldn’t be surprised if they were getting ready for it. “They are interested in religion, many of them, but as yet it is mostly an intellectual interest. Well, that’s all right. It is better to approach this matter intellectually than sentimentally. In common with the late new generation, they ara determined to face facts mentally. In common with the late new generation, they are determined to face facts as they are, not as told to believe they are by the authority of ancient tradition. 150 ATTEND PICNIC OF SHORTHORN BREEDERS Officers of Crawfordsville District Organization Are Re-elected. Bn Timph Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 9. The picnic held by the Crawfordsville District Shorthorn Breeders’ Association on the farm of George Lloyd in Parke County was attended by 150 people. Speakers were F. W. Harding, general secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association; Ed. Lcgsden, president of the Indiana association, and Dr. T. A. Sigler. Greencastle. former president of the American Veterinary Medical society. Officers of the district association re-elected for next year are Fred Belles, president: Ott Miller, vicepresident. and George Lloyd, secretary. The district includes Putnam. Parke, and Montgomery counties. TWO BARNS~DESTROYED Spontaneous Combustion in Hay Starts Blaze. Bu Timet (■}!' rial COLUMBUS. Ind.. Aug. 9.—Two barns on the farm of Thomas Brown, southeast of this city, were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of approximately SIO,OOO. The fire is believed to have been causd by spontaneous combustion in hay placed in the bams two weeks ago. Besides a large quantity of hay, farm implements, tools, harness, and considerable grain were burned,