Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1929 — Page 2

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BALK $30,000 HIGH SCHOOL GRAB BY SHIPP Irvington Plans Were Laid to Mulct Public on Heat Contracts. BY BEN STERN. Indianapolis taxpayers would have been mulcted of $30,025 if the state tax board had approved the plans and specifications for the heating and ventilating of the Irvington high school, a comparison of bids and data supplied the tax board indicated today. The profit would have gone to C. C. Shipp, Indianapolis ventilating equipment manufacturer, whose equipment, according to a statement made by Carl Eurton, school board building and grounds superintendent, is favored by the school board. Investigation has disclosed Shipp has received a much lower price for his equipment in other communities than in Indianapolis. Comparison of bids he has made in other communities and of prices he published in his yellow and green brochures showed striking variances. Herman Zietlow, another manufacturer. told the tax board that his bid was $4,575, and that of Shipp for the same type of equipment was $34,600. Shipp’s Figures Vary The Shipp and Zietlow bids included radiation—the actual heating radiators. Radiation generally is figured at 35.5 cents a foot. On this basis, radiation in the Irvington school should have cost approximately $1,288. Deducting this amount from the bids, the base bids for ventilating equipment approximated $33,312 by Shipp, and $3,347 by Zietlow. Since twenty-eight units were to have been used, the Shipp unit bid amounted to $1,189, while that of Zietlow was sll9. Shipp's bid was not consistent with figures in his “green book,” investigation disclosed. There, Shipp’s two types of units, specified in the Irvington high school plans, are quoted at $324 and $326 each. On this basis, it followed, the total ventilation and radiation bid on the Shipp system might have been expected to approximate SIO.OOO. Had the contract been given Shipp, on his high bid. the deal would have represented an excess of $24,000 above the profit he allows himself in his own trade list. Fir Prices to Situation “I think it is a better system,” was the only explanation given the state tax board by C. C. York, school business manager, when asked his opinion of the price difference. Evidence that Shipp's prices may be fitted to situations was contained in bids he submitted for two northern Indiana school boards. For a school at North Manchester, he submitted a quotation of $2,790 for thirty-four units. In this case his base bid per unit was $55.29, while his trade list price was sll7. For a consolidated school in Union township. Elkhart county, his bid was $4,028 for sixty-four units, or a unit price of $69.95. No ventilating radiators were specified in the Elkhart job, but were at North Manchester. In spite of this, the Elkhart bid was sl9 higher than the other, and in Indianapolis mounted above the list price.

BUDGET IS CUT B-Y GARY CITY COUNCIL Tax Levy of 98 Cents to Be Authorized at Meeting. B" Times Special GARY. Ind., Aug. 10—A tax levy of 98 cents on SIOO probably will be authorized for 1930, at the next meeting of the Gary city council, Aug. 19. This tax levy, the same as that in force during the present year, carries a total budget of $1,825,764. This budget will be about $4,500 less than that for the present year, the first time in the history of the city that there has been a reduction in municipal expenses. Rigid elimination of all unnecessary expenses is cited as the cause for the decline. The financial estimates passed first and second readings without discussion Monday night. RUSSIAN WOMFN WILL ENTER ARMY'S SCHOOLS Feminine Soldiers Will Not Be Granted Favors. Bu United Press . , MOSCOW. Aug. 9.—A demand ot a group of Russian women for equal rights in the military service has been partially granted, the government announced today. A limited number of women will be admissable to certain technical military schools, but will be subject to military discipline the same as the men. 'They will not be allowed any time off for child-birth or other “'special privileges. Building Permits O. Howard. dwelling and garage. 137 South Spencer. $3,125. E Lay. dwelling and parage. 6125 Dewey. * Hendlev. dwelling and garage. 2263 East Riverside drive. 53.350 G Sadler Jr., dwelling. 3345 bark. $ : .400. G. Sadler Jr . dwelling. 5?43 Perk. 5..000. Pur, garage. SIS South Illinois, Price. F°rch. *42 North Hamilton. 53 G° Price, garage. 442 North Hamilton. 5360 C G Foulv. dwelling. 70S North Pershing. $3,200. - C. Unversaw. rercof. 1259 West Twentv.ninth. 5135. G. Pcs. rercof, 74? North Belmont. S2OO C. Cones, dwelling and garage. 6449 Park. 54.500 J. Emmlnger. dwelling, 404 South Addison. 52.450. P T. Roe. addition, 2809 SehofSeld. S2OO. S A Morgan, garage. 105? River. S2OO. Wales Visits in France C LE TOUQUET. France. Aug. 10.— The prince of Wales was here today, a week-end guest at the villa the late Rodman Wanamaker of New York The prince arrived here incognito. He surprised the air field officials by arriving by plane instead of by motor, having flown here all the way from Lumpne. ingland, in a Berck plane.

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Here is Bishop S. Arthur Huston of the Episcopal diocese of Olympia Wash., and his son Wilbur, winner of the Edison scholarship. At the right is Wilbur as he appeared as crucifer when his father was consecrated as bishop in 1925; below, a recent photo of Wilbur and his mother.

Robust Boys and Girls Camp at Fairground

Back Row (Left to Right)—Frances Brookshire, Elizabeth Roeder, Rosemary Dobson, all of New Augusta. Front row (Left to Fright)— Gladys Scudder, Alice Milhaus of Decatur, and Mary Ellen Wilson of Cicero.

Parents to Visit Members of 4-H Clubs Here on Sunday, A healthful place is the state fair- j ground these days. Robust members of the 4-H clubs, to the number of several hundred boys and girls, are in camp here. Arrivals began pouring in late Walter C. Kolb. Greenfield, assisted by Harold Yarling also of Greenfield are in charge of the camp. Miss Janice Berlin is the girls’ chaperon. C. Henry, Indianapolis. is instructor. Classes start at. 8:30 a. m. and taps sound at 9 p. m. Parents will visit the camp Sunday and addresses and special entertainment is being prepared for them. State to Get Oil Bids Lubricating oil and grease bids will be received by the state highway department Aug. 28. The year’s supply costs approximately $990,000. The present contract !~ held by the Standard Oil Company. Elect Pension Fund President Harry H. Rogers of Tulsa, Okla., president of the international convention of the Disciples of Christ at Seattle. Wash., has been elected to succeed Thomas C. Howe of Indianapolis. who resigned recently, as pension fund president, dispatches said today.

The Bogie Man’ll Get You Down from the primitive days of the race, mankind has invented explanations of the things he couldn't understand. And he has sought to pierce the veil of the future to determine his fate: and to search into the mysterious for charms and aids against perils he didn’t understand. Our Washington Bureau has a group of five of its interesting bulletins on various phases of the occult and mysterious. Here are the titles: 1. The Meanings of Dreams. 3. Meanings of Dreams. 2. Fortune Telling. 4. The Meanings of Flowers. 5. Palmistry. If you want thus packet of five bulletins fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE OCCULTISM EDITOR. Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington. D. C. I want the packet of five bulletins on OCCULTISSI and enclose herewith 15 cents in coin or loose, uncancelled U. S. postage stamps, to cover postage and handling costs. NAME * STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.>

EAGLE RANK GIVEN Two Scouts Are Honored for Camp Work. James Carr and Arthur Wilson of Troop 9 and Robert Koch of Troop 16, received Eagle rank badges | Friday night- at the Scout reserva- ! ticn. * The boys have been active in | camp for several seasons as fire- : crafters. At the ceremonial 141 merit badges were awarded. Merle Miller 1 and Harry Ice were in charge. | Gervais Fais. Troop 3, Leonard Oliver, Troop 7. James T. Whallon, ’ Troop 13. Richard Spalding. Troop j 51. Robert Wenner. Troop 55 and Rex Vaught. Troop 1. of Bicknel 1, | were given star rank. Robert Russell, a member of the j senior staff, in recognition of fifteen ; merits above Eagle requirements, was awarded a silver “palm.” HEAT KILLS VETERAN Evansville Victim Was Prominent in Spanish War Activities. i 81/ X nited Pri st* EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 10.—Extreme heat caused the death here Friday of Wade Bell, 51, prominent in Spanish-American war veteran's , work. Bell was patriotic instructor of Major James F. Fee camp and had seen active service in the Philip- : pines.

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CALL FOR MORE FIRE FIGHTERS IN NORTHWEST Forest Blazes Still Hold Upper Hand at Half a Dozen Points. Bu United Preen PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 10.—After more than a week of fighting by more than a thousand men, the Pacific northwest’s greatest enemy—fire in the forests—still held the upper hand today at half a dozen different points along the battle front. State fire wardens were, broadcasting calls for more men to fight a blaze which broke out late Friday a few miles from Portland and was raging through timber and grain lands. Fire which started Wednesday on Whisky creek in Crater National forest, southern Oregon, was still out of control today. Sixty men are fighting it and thirty more with fresh supplies have been sent to the scene. The blaze is six miles from any road. Take Refuge in Canyon A firebug or a careless camper caused the blaze which is the worst in Oregon in Rainier national park, Washington. A marooned fire fighting crew which took refuge Friday in a rocky canyon as the roaring flames forced them to flee, today was believed to be out of danger. Efforts were being made to drop food and water to them from airplanes. The fire which the marooned men were fighting was but a small unit of the blazes which were still sweeping through virgin forest on the slopes of the northwest’s highest and most majestic peak. More recruits were rushed to fight fires in the Pend Orielle, Salway, Colville and Clearwater districts in eastern Washington and northwestern Idaho Friday night. Indian Reservation Ablaze The fire in the Colville national forest presents the most serious menace in that region, forest service officials at northwest headquarters here said. Recruits also were called for Friday night to battle a blaze which burst from control on the Nez Perce Indian reservation in Idaho. In British Columbia, which has been comparatively free from fires during the recent outburst, the town of Allenby was threatened by flames which broke out in timber on the international boundary Friday night. A milling company at Princeton, B. C., has released 170 employes to aid in fighting the fire, and they are accompanied by fifty other men from the town.

RADIO SCHOOL TO OPEN HERE Institution Is Only One in County. Anew organization, the first and only one of its kind in America and said to be the only one in the world, a radio announcers’ school, will open in Indianapolis Monday morning. The studios and classrooms are located at 311-312 Kresge building. A complete course will be given the prospective radio announcer. Applied English, enunciation, pronunciation, microphone precense, radio theory, sales and voice culture will be included. A private broadcasting unit will be used at the studio. John B. Newlin, Indiana and De Pauw graduate, is in charge of the institution: Tal Clark is president, and Don Hastings, formerly with the Columbia broadcasting system, is secretary and treasurer. Applications have already been received by the school from students in all parts of the country. One mail brought seven applications from Texas, twelve from Illinois, six from New England states and six from the south. The school has the co-operation of the federal radio commission. SOUTHERNERS ARRIVE Mississippi Boosters in City Few Hours. Indianapolis Friday was host to : 200 Mississippians who are making a - good-will tour of the eastern part i of the nation. The special train of eight Pullman coaches and two exhibition | coaches pulled into the Union station shortly before noon and the j party headed by Dennis Murphree, ! former Governor of Mississippi, was j welcomed by Chamber of Commerce and city officials. They were j welcomed by Mayor L. Ert Slack. A sixty-piece band which is ac- { companying the boosters gave a ! concert on the Circle and the party ‘ then left for Muncie and Union 1 City. MILITARY BAND TO PLAY AT GARFIELD Variety of Selections in Sunday Program at Park. The Indianapolis Military band will play the following concert Sunj day at 7:30 p. m. at Garfield park: ! “National Fencibles,” “Creme de la Creme,” “March of the Toys” from Babes in Toy land,” selected euphonium solo by Noble P. Howard, “A Hunting Scene,’ "H Guarany,” Three Spanish Dances,” excerpts from “Dream City” aftd “The Magic Knight.” “Hungarian Fan--1 tafia” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.’

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When knights of Columbus meet in annual convention Aug, 20-22, inclusive, at Milwaukee, these three men will figure prominently. Robert Wittig, above, of Milwaukee, is general chairman of the convention. Below, left, is Martin H. Carmody of Grand Rapids, Mich., supreme knight, who will preside; and, right, Bishop Paul Peter Rhode, of Green Bay, who will be celebrant at pontifical high mass on the opening day.

FETE PLANNED FORJDBPHANS Look Forward to Party at Protestant Home. Children at the General Protestant Orphans’ home, 1404 South State avenue, are looking forward to Sunday, Aug. 11, which marks the sixty-second anniversary of the founding of the hoiiie. The annual feast day program will begin at 10 a. m. when the Rev. Robert C. Kuebler, pastor of Friden’s Evangelical church will make an address. The Sahara Grotto band will give concerts during the afternoon and the children will march and sing. Noon and evening meals will be served by the Ladies Auxiliary. Adolph Ziegler, superintendent for thirteen years, and Mrs. Ziegler, will be in charge. Andrew J. Weiss is president of the home which was founded in 1867, and Edward C. Weibke, vice-president. Membership dues, bequests and endowments support the home and orphans of any denomination, are admitted upon the application of relatives. The children who attend the Indianapolis grade and high schools spend a portion of time attending the gardens which provide much of the food used in the home and in play over the well-kept grounds, consisting of thirteen acres.

GOLF FAN MISSING Believe 16-Year-Old Youth Headed for Tournament. His enthusiasm for golf is believed to have caused Howard Loy, 16? of 511 North Oxford street, to leave his home Wednesday morning, relatives said today after reporting his disappearance to the police. Roy McAuley, an uncle with whom the youth lives, and Mrs. McAuley said they believed the boy may have started to the National Public Links Golf tourney at St. Louis, Mo. Loy caddied at various local courses during the last two years, they said. When last seen he was wearing a gray and black sleeveless sweater and tan trousers. He did not wear a hat. He is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. Soviet Plane Hops Off Bu United Press NOVO SIBIRSK, Siberia, Aug. 10. The huge Russian airplane Land of the Sviets, took off from Krasnoyarsk, the next scheduled stop on its flight from Mscow to the United States, at 10:20 a. m. today. The Soviet plane, manned by four of Russia’s crack aviators, is to be flown to Seattle via Siberia and Alaska, and thence across the United States to New York. Receiver is Sought Application for a receiver for Hendricks & Dennis. Inc., 510 Illinois building, was filed Friday by the McCullough Printing Company in superior court No. 4. Judgment of SI,OOO is asked in the suit.

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17 INJURED IN 24-HOUR TRAFFIC TOLL Drunken Driving, Failing to Give Right of Way Among Charges. Seventeen pers'ons today made up the twenty-four-hour toll of traffic accidents in Indianapolis and vicinity, according to records ox police, hospitals and sheriff’s offices. Six were hurt when'a car driven by Chester McPherson, Negro, 1717 Vandaman avenue, collided with a machine operated by Norman Ball, 30, of 1144 South Senate avenue, at Keystone avenue and Raymond street Friday night. Mrs. Martha Ball, 56, Norman's mother, and Mrs. Mina Bali, 34, his wife, were taken to St. Francis hospital, Beech Grove, with serious Injuries. Ella and Carroll Ball, riding with their father, sustained cuts and bruises. Both drivers were slightly hurt. McPherson was arrested on charges of assault and battery and failure to give right of way. George Barton, 58, of 4110 West Washington street, today was charged with drunken driving, after an auto crash in the 4300 block West Washington street, Friday night, in which his auto collided with a car driven by Excel Shaw, 22, of 1751 South High School road. Shaw sustained minor injuries. Edith Jenkins, 25, of 3425 North Sherman drive, and Charles Lust, 37, of 1525 Bellefontaine street, passenger on a Brightwood bus were injured when it was struck at Seventeenth street and Roosevelt avenue by a street car. Others injured were: Vincent King, 6, of 225 Beauty avenue, minor injuries; Donald Goin, 13, of 27 North Lansing street, minor injuries; Clarence W. Clegg, chief bailiff of criminal court and Mrs. Clegg, both of whom escaped with minor injuries.

FLATS OOP AND GETSS2S FINE Man Caught Impersonating Traffic Officer. Found guilty of impersonating a police offeer, Russel Bohannon, 28, Thirty-second street and Leslie avenue, must pay off a $25 fine and costs, levied against him in municipal court Friday afternoon, on the “installment plan.” Bohannon was placed on probation for six months with orders to pay off the assessment within that period. He was arrested by state police after persons reported that he was stopping motorists on Speedway road and representing himself as a state policeman. According to- information given offices, Bohannon was wearing a uniform and a badge j of the type used by the Horsethief Detective Association. In the Air Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m.: Northwest wind, five miles an hour; temperature, 78; barometric pressure, 30.03 at sea level; ceiling overcast at 1.500: visibility, four miles; light fog, clearing. Arrivals and Departures Hoosier Airport—Harold C. Brooks, airport secretary treasurer, to Gary, j South Bend, Ft. Wayne and Rensselaer, demonstrating new J6-travel air biplane. r Capitol Airport—Ray Kuhl, Eagle- j rock biplane, to Attica and return. 1 Curtiss-Mars Hill Airport—Lieutenants Fred Sellers and Morgan, Camp Knox, Ky., to Mrs Hill, Sellers to continue to Dayton and back to Camp Knox, in Douglas 02H. Postcard From Zep Michael Schumacher, 2505 East Washington street, has received a postal card from his brother, William Schumacher, Koenigswinter, Germany, which was brought across the Atlantic on the Graf Zeppelin. Passengers on Planes Passengers Friday on the EmbryRiddle air mail plane included: R. W. Marshall, Robbins Body Corporation. and John Sutherland, assistant Embry-Riddle representative here, to Cincinnati; J. Buckner, Chicago, from Chicago and return; John T. Gantz, Universal Aviation Corporation, assistant general traffic manager, and Mrs. Gantz, from Chicago; J. G. Fisher, Anderson, and A. J. Nichols, to Chicago. Plane to Be Demonstrated Demonstration of the new Alex-ander-Eaglerock Bullet cabin monoplane, with retractable landing gear, will be made at Capitol airport within the next few weeks, according to information received by President E. H. Jose.

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Here are Virginia Amaral, 17-year-old Spanish beauty, who was wounded, and John Burnett, lawyer, both of Elizabethton, Tenn., who died after a mystery shooting at Burnett’s summer camp near Elizabethton. Although a coroner’s jury adjudged Burnett’s death a suicide, authorities are investigating. Miss Amaral was a ward of Burnett.

BOABGDELAYS SEWERAGTION Refused Requisition to Be Discussed. Action on the requisition for sewer materials of the Sanitary Sewer Basin Company, Chicago, which Purchasing Agent Joel A. Baker refused to buy, will be delayed until the return of Theodore Dammeyer, works board president, John C. McCloskey, board vicepresident, declared today. The requisition for ten catch basins and ten sewer inlets was sent to the board from the office of Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart with the notation “by order of the board of public works.” Ordinarily requisitions are sent in with merely the department head’s recommendation. Baker refused to make the purchase, declaring the materials “too high.” The requisition bore the signatures of Dammeyer, McCloskey and Emsley Johnson, works board members. William Broden, Indianapolis agent for the materials, had discussed the materials with the city officials several times. QUIET IN MANCHURIA Chinese Officials Deny Reports of Border Fights. Bu United Prree TOKIO, Aug. 10.—Contradicting recent rumors, the authorities at Harbin, Manchuria, reported officially today that there were no bombardments anywhere along the Si-berian-Manchurian border, where Russian and Chinese troops are concentrated as a result of the dispute over the Chinese Eastern railway. Harbin officials stated all is quiet along the border.

50 TRAFFIC ARRESTS Drive Continued Two Weeks After Start. Traffic arrests, more than two weeks after Police Chief Claude Worley ordered a safety campaign, Friday night and today totaled fifty, according to police records. Fourteen of this number were charged with speeding.

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SOUTH AFRICA NAMES ENVOY TO WASHINGTON Direct Diplomatic Contact Between Cape Town and U. S. Established. BY HERBERT LITTLE l/nited Press Stsff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Direct diplomatic relations through exchange of ministers and establishment of legations between the United States and the Union of South Africa war assured today with American approval of the appointment of Eric Louw as'minister to Washington. Arrival of Louw, now representing his country as commissioner to London. notably will increase the representation of Great Britain’s dominions, the Irish Free state and Canada- recently having sent ministers here. The direct representation will stimulate trade, it is believed here. South Africa now buys goods valued at $55,000,000 a year from the United States, more than one-fourth automobiles. The United States imports diamonds, wool, and sheepskins and other South African products, valued at $8,000,000 a year. Most of the products from the famous South African gold and diamond mines are marketed in Europe often to be resold, however, to Americans. Speculation centered today on the identity of the first United States minister to Cape Town, although the appointment may not be made for several months. The problem of providing money to buy or build a legation also must be taken up soon, and congress probably will be asked this winter to provide funds for this purpose. The United States now has a consulate at Cape Town which may be used temporarily as a legation if President Hoover decides to appoint a minister at once. Great Britain officially has approved the exchange of ministers, as a requisite, following the action af the South African assembly in deciding to send the minister. The self-governing British dominion in South Africa includes nearly a half million square miles and a population of nearly 7,000,000, bf which Europeans make up about one-fourth.

LUDLOW WILL SPEAK Congressman to Address Old-Time Printers. Louis Ludlow, representative In congress from the Seventh district, will address the Old-Time Printers’ Association at their picnic Sunday in the Brookside park' community house. The Indianapolis Typographical Union Band will give a musical program, and a basket dinner will be served at noon. In the afternoon a baseball game between the Union Printers’ team and a picked nine will be played. Weather conditions will not affect the affair, as the dinner and speaking will be in the shelter house. MURDER SUSPECTED Body of Indiana Harbor Man in Canal. Bn Times Special INDIANA HARBOR. Aug. 10.— Belief that Ross Forsythe, 36, whose body was found in the canal here Monday, was a victim of foul play, was strengthened today, when police announced that a severe bruise had been discovered over Forsythe’s eye. The dead man was known as one who carried large sums of money on iiis person. When last heard from ns he checked out of his room at the Palace hotel here, he had more than S2OO in his pockets. Only 24 cents was found on his body.