Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1929 — Page 9

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Great Work Done for Children at Bridgeport Nutrition Camp

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Sunshine, play and wholesome food are putting new life into the undernourished boys pictured above "by the wagon-load” at the nutrition camp near Bridgeport, maintained by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association.

CITY SALARY HIKES ARE FROWNED ON BY C. OF C. GROUP

Public Officials Urged Not to Increase Personnel Next Year. Pubilc officials will be urged not to make provision for salary increases or increased personnel, except in emergency, in their 1930 budgets, as the result of formulation of policies by the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs budget subcommittee,, it was learned today. The committee also adopted the policy of urging city, county, and school budget makers to stabilize their tax rates and depend on increased revenue from increased assessed valuation instead of raising the levy. The salary and personnel policy was adopted by the committee, it was explained, in view of the mounting 1930 budgets, especially increases in fixed charges in all budgets, and the extraordinary increases in tax rates seemingly to be asked. "We have gone through the period ißf rapidly mounting municipal government costs.” the committee’s statement explained. "In most cities the rates now are being stabilized. and Indianapolis should fall in line. “It is estimated that the Indianapolis valuation will be increased approximately $13,500,000 in 1930, which, on the basis of the tax rates lor this year, would provide the city, county, and schools $325,000 additional revenue, with no increase in rates.” bricTisused by” BURGLARS AT STORE Grocery Loot Includes Cigars and Cigarets. A brick, hurled through the plate glass front window in the Kiefer and Daniels grocery at Keystone and Bethel avenues early today, gave burglars access to the store, from which they took cigars and cirgarets valued at $lO, police were told. A watch, clothes, and money, totaling almost SIOO, were taken from the room of Emil and Joe Hlatko, 907 East Eleventh street, Wednesday. Clarence Haynes, 244 East Tenth street, told police he left $45 on a dresser in his room Wednesday. When he returned S3O was gone. While John Franklin, 114 West street, Worthington, Ind.. slept on the seat of his motor truck in front of 159 Kentucky avenue Wednesday night, his bill fold containing $37 was taken. LAD WAITS 5 HOURS TO SEE SCREEN STAR 12-Year-Old Boy Gets Autographed Photo of Desmond. Alfred Barton, 12, 431 South Alabama street, today was envied by his neighborhood gang for having touched the hem of the toga of fame that adorns one of the gang's screen idols. In the doorway of William (Bill) Desmond’s dressing room in the Lyric theater, the small chap halted Wednesday night. "I wanta picture of ya," he demanded. He watched eagerly over Bill’s shoulder as the hero of countless Western thrillers autographed a photo. "Ya see. Bill. I been waiting at the etage door for this since 5 o'clock." Desmond glanced at his watch. It was 10.

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Below, at the left, a city boy has made a warm friend of a country cow, and at the right, two enthusiastic “burlap seiners” are about to bring up another catch of “craw-dads.”

AID URGED FOR BOYS Speaker Says Lack of Chance Makes Criminals. “The master criminals of tomorrow are the boys growing up today without environment that gives them a fair chance,” said David Ligett, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Community Fund, addressing the Bible Investigation Club at the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night. Organizations such as the Community Fund help to supply proper environment, he pointed out. CONTEST VICTOR MAKESHER BOW Audrey Pugh Introduced to Lyric Throng. With the applause of a big audience still ringing in her ears, Miss Audrey L. Pugh, Indiana’s Physical Culture Girl, today continued her preparations for her New York trip. Last night, Miss Pugh officially was introduced to C. Roltare Eggleston, one of the Judges, at the Lyric. Eggleston congratulated the city and state in having such wonderful examples of womanhood. Miss Crystal Frank, Miss Mildred McGlinchey, Miss Martha Leonard, and Miss Mary Kohnle, the runnersup in the contest, also were presented. William Desmond, movie star, told the audience that Indianapolis did not have to go to Hollywood to pick beauties. SPANISH YACHT BURNS Bu United Press BORDEAUX, France, Aug. 22. Three occupants of a Spanish luxury yacht, bound from Plymouth, England, were rescued by French Fishermen when the yacht burned in the bay of Biscay last night. The flsheremn took the rescued persons to Arcachon.

TRAFFIC DEAD MAY INCREASE TO FOUR

By Time* Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Aug. 22. Three serious accidents in Decatur county in four days have already caused one death and will probably result in adding three more to Decatur county’s quota. Funeral services were held on Wednesday for Samuel McGuire, 57. who succumbed to injuries sustained Saturday when an automobile in which he was riding was struck by a switch engine here. McGuire sustained a fractured skull and internal injuries when he drove on to the tracks back of a passing passenger train and was struck on the second track. He leaves a widow and seven children. Ferd McMillian, riding with McGuire, is in a hospital suffering from injuries which it is feared will be fatal. McGuire’s daughter-in-law and her infant son were killed by a train here Dec. 3, 1927. Clifford Davis, near Letts, was probably fatally hurt at a Big Four railroad crossing in Letts, when he

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Boys and Girls Improve Rapidly in Health at Play Center. BY ELDORA FIELD If Indianapolis citizens who have bought Christmas seals could see the beautiful, rolling acres of the nutrition camp, one mile north of Bridgeport, that their money helped to buy— If they could watch the thin but happy children who scamper over the grass and frolic in White Lick creek— Then they would be glad of their part in this health-building project of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association and the city board of health. “Examination show's that fully one-third of Indianapolis school children are under weight,” said Miss Mary Meyers, executive secretary of the association. “If continued absences from school because of illness are noted by the school nurses, special effort is made toward combating conditions that threaten serious disease. Work Is Proved “The camp is an experiment where we are trying to prove what right food and a schedule of outdoor activities can do for these boys and girls.” “Os course the number we can accommodate in the camp is ridiculously out of proportion to those who should be here. As it is, the camp is doing a big work.” About twenty-five children form each group, which stays in camp five weeks. The boys are having their turn this month. The girls, who left on July 31, made an average gain of four pounds, although one recorded weight of thirteen pounds. “That little girl was practically starved when she arrived,” said Miss Meyers. “Os course her gain was unusual.” Boys Play Hard “The boys of the camp get up as soon as daylight permits,” said Mrs. Elizabeth Sayle, director. “They play harder than the girls and except for enforced rest periods and their meals, they keep up one merry frolic. One little boy cried his way here. There was really not room for any more, but his extreme desire to come, overcame objections.” Miss Stella Glasson is assistant director and nurse. Fred A. Sim is president of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. Breaks Arm While at Play. Marie Bailly, 10, 2457 Shelby street, broke her arm in a fall from a Garfield park maypole Wednesday. She was taken to city hospital.

drove his automobile into the path of a work train. Three ribs were broken, puncturing the right lung, and severe head Injuries sustained. Doctors fear pneumonia will cause death. The other serious injury was suffered by Michael O’Connor, 10, who Is in a hospital with a fractured skull as the result of a head-on collision between automobiles. He is not expected to survive.

WEARY BANDIT GOES TO SLEEP WHILE HOLDING UP 35

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.—The laziest man in the world was in jail today after he went to sleep holding up thirty-five persons in a hotdog stand. Between yawns he said his name was Chester Kopisksi and then went to sleep again. The strange holdup occurred Wednesday night just south of West Chi-

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1929

RUIN OF UNION IS CHARGED TO JOHNL.LEWIS Deposed Illinois Miners’ Chief Hits President as Wrecker. SEARLES STRIKES BACK Frank Farrington Branded Tool of Operators by Journal Editor. Declaration of war against John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, by Frank Farrington, former president of the Illinois unit of the organization, was scorned today by Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers Journal. In a signed article covering two full pages of last night’s edition of the Belleville (111.) News-Democrat, Farrington attacked Lewis as “the wrecker" of the United Mine Workers of America. “Farrington was ejected from the United Mine Workers three years ago,” Searles said, “and I can not regard seriously any war which he might wage against the union as long as he Is not connected officially with the organization.” Lewis could not be reached for a statement. Lewis is Assailed Nowhere in the history of the trade union movement in America,” Farrington wrote, “is there embraced the record of another happening so fraught with disaster and despair as the dinintegration of the United Mine Workers of America. Organized labor has not experienced another debacle so great, so utterly crushing. “Wrecked and beaten beyond despair, not by the forces of corporate greed, but by the sinister leadership within its own ranks, this once militant fighting force of more than a half million men is but a remnant of its former greatness.” After describing what he termed the “disintegration of the national organization,” Farrington asked: “Who is responsible for this overwhelming disaster, this criminal wrong against the miners? His name is John L. Lewis.” Searles Slaps Farrington The crux -of Farrington’s article was contained in his charge that only the Illinois unit of the national organization has “survived” Lewis’ leadership. Searles, in amplifying his statements, said that Farrington was removed from his position as president of the Illinois union because he was found to be in the employ of the coal operators of that state while he was serving as president of the mine workers’ union. “A man with no more standing than a representative of the operators is not a serious menace,” Searles declared. TYPHOON IN CHINA Hong Kong Is Damaged by Terrific Wind. Bv United Press HONG KONG, Aug. 22.—A severe typhoon from the China sea struck Hong Kong today, doing great property damage. The full extent of the damage is unknown. No casualties had been reported. The terrific gales which followed the typhoon continued to rage through the city. Several steamers were gruonded during the storm. UTILITIES VALUATION GAINS SIX MILLIONS State Board Fixes County Total at $135,718,866. The taxable valuation of Marion county banks and utilities has been increased more than $6,000,000 by the state board of tax commissioners. Increase in banks and utilities valuation for the entire state exceeds $20,000,000. The 1929 valuation of Marion county banks and utilities totals $135,718,866, divided as follows: Banks, $18,783,000; building and loan associations, $981,295; public utilities, $59,943,110; telephone companies, $16,015,833; sleeping cars, $75,273; telegraph companies $416981; express companies, $8,056; electric railways, $8,956,867, and steam railways, $30,538,451. CONFIRM PREMIER VISIT MacDonald to Beach United States in Six Weeks. Bu United Pyss WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of England is expected to come to Washington in about six weeks, it was made known at the White House today, confirming an exclusive United Press dispatch Wednesday.

cago, a suburb, across the line in Dupage county. Thirty-two customers were eating the great American sandwiches which were being served by three waiters when the lazy bandit sauntered in, pistol in hand. “Stick ’em (yawn) up," he drawled sleepily. ’Line up, too (yawn), when you get around to it."

Monsters of Sky Built at Akron

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The composite picture above shows how one of the United States navy’s two new dirigibles, now building at Akron, 0., will look as compared with a battleship. Each will be slightly longer, but of much greater cubic capacity than the Graf Zeppelin. The sketch shows the enclosed construction. Below is an interior of one of the roomy cabins, and a view of the huge new hangar at Akron, now nearing completion, where the great dirigibles are to be assembled.

FEAR FOR SEA FLIERSGROWS Swiss Aviators Are Believed Headwinds Victims. Bv United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 22.—Fear grew today that the two Swiss fliers, who attempted a flight from Lisbon to New York no longer were among the living. The silence concerning their attempted conquest of the hazardous passage of the Atlantic has been unbroken since Monday afternoon when the plane flown by Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher was sighted over the Azores. The fliers, neither of whom had velebrated his 23d birthday, were believed by aviation experts to have fallen victim to the relentless head winds that shove themselves against the nose of any west-bound Atlantic plane, eating up fuel at a heart-breaking rate. Should the Swiss youths be alive, they probably either are floating in their rubber lifeboat or have come down in some isolated spot in New Foundland or Halifax. Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval operations, has ordered all naval vessels in the North Atlantic to watch for the aviators. Merchant ships also have been requested to keep a lokout. If the fliers succeeded in reaching the Canadian coast, they might easily be isolated for weeks without any one being aware of their fate.

Booze, No Gas Henry Ford Says He’ll Quit Auto Making If Liquor Returns.

Bv United Press NEW YORK, Ang. 22.—Henry Ford is through with manufacturing if liquor ever comes back to the United States. Writing in the September issue of the Pictorial Review the motor car manufacturer said: “I would not be bothered with the problem of handling over 200,000 men and trying to pay them wages which the saloons would take away from them. I wouldn’t be’ interested in putting automobiles into the hands of a generation soggy with drink.” Among the faults he foimd with liquor are: There were only two or three effective work days a week when booze was in control. Industry had to have a ten or twelve hour day or a six and seven day week. Gasoline and booze don’t mix. He wrote that prohibition now was effective with 95 per cent of our population. Secretary of State on Vacation Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state, was today en route to Big Boy lake in Minnesota for a two weeks’ vacation with his family. C. P. Fate of the securities department joined him.

THE customers and waiters stood up, their hands toward the sky waiting patiently to be robbed. The cash drawer was open, where a waiter had been about to drop in a coin. Then the nodding bandit spied a daybed and got in it, remarking drowsily as he pulled up the covers: “I’m terribly sleepy. fYawn).

‘Strike Outs’ Beer Is Seized in Three Raids by Squads of Police.

THREE “pitchers” of the Indianapolis Home Brew League were knocked out of the icebox Wednesday afternoon by police and deputy sheriffs. Sergeant John Eisenhut and squad were cruising in the vicinity of 1256 West New York street, when they smelled beer and entered the house, finding it unfurnished and no one there. They destroyed 155 quarts of beer. Not long before Lieutenant Patrick O’Connor and the gentlemen of his squad dropped in to see Mrs. Betty Aubrey, 333 Limestone street, and when they found 107 quarts of beer they arrested her on blind tiger charges. A similar scene took place at Sunset avenue and the canal when deputy sheriffs arrested Grace Lee and confiscated 300 quarts of beer and manufacturing equipment. REPORTS ARE HEARD District Nazarene Church Meeting Is Held, Reports from sixty-seven Nazarene churches in the district were made today at the district meeting in the Nazarene curch, State avenue and Washington street. .An evangelistic service will be held tonight. The Rev. R. T. Williams will deliver the closing address at the church Friday night at a meeting devoted to young people. Other speakers will include the Rev. E. O. Chalfant, Chicago district superintendent; the Rev. O. A. Gibson, Ohio district; the Rev. R. W. Star, Michigan district, and the Rev. L. A. Wells, Kentucky district. The Rev. George W. Surbrook, Nazarene missionary to the British West Indies, spoke Wednesday night. He discussed needs in the missionary field. The Rev. Burl Sparks of Seymour led the song service.

MASH EATING DUCKS IN WEIRD WADDLES

Bn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 22.—Madison county’s illicit liquor supply has been reduced by 100 gallons weekly due to seizure of three stills in the last few weeks by Sheriff Frank G. Daniels and his deputies. Mash taken in one raid was dumped out of containers on the ground, where It was eagerly devoured by twenty ducks which were soon having the time of their lives. Two hours later the ducks were sleeping off their respetive sprees in a hog pen. The latest raid was made on the farm of Forest Gwinn, two miles

You don’t know how sleepy and tired (yawn) a man can get in this business.” He kept his pistol trained on the astonished crowd and closed his eyes. The boldest victim waited until the bandit snored and called the police, who had to wake up the holdup man to arrest him.

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Entered a Second-Class Matter at Hos {office, Indianapolis

TAX RACKETEER CHARGES FILED Chicago Man Got Money by Promising Reductions. Bn Times Special CHICAGO, Aug. 22.—A tax racket, which may have netted as much as $50,000 for its originator, was under investigation tday after two warrants had been issued for David D. Beyers, real estate agent and tax adjuster, by clients who said they paid Beyers to have their taxes reduced. Investigators for the state’s attorney’s office said they had found a shortage of SII,OOO in Beyers’ accounts, and that the sum may run as high as $500,000. Beyers’ method, according to the clients, was to approach them with a propsition to have their taxes reduced by hiring lawyers and going to court. Meanwhile, the clients said, they paid various sums to apply on their tax bills while the litigation was being prepared. According to the charges Beyers cashed checks given to him by the clients if they had been made out to him. In case the checks were made out to George Harding, Cook county treasurer, Beyers took them to the tax offices and prorated them over several of his accounts, paying a little down on many other clients’ taxes. Some of the checks given to Beyers, both in his name and the treasurer’s, ran as high as SI,OOO, it was charged. SENATE ADJOURNS Meets for One Minute; 11 Senators in Seats. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—The senate met for one minute today and adjourned to next Monday, in accordance with the terms of a gentlemen’s agreement between leaders not to do any business until Sept. 4. Only eleven senators were in their seats for the brief session. VicePresident Curtis immediately recognized Republican Leader Watson, who moved the adjournment.

east of Lapel. The raiders found 100 gallons of fermenting mash. Fotprints led them from the house to a cornfield on an adjacent farm, where the still and coil were found. Gwinn was not at home when the raid was made and is still at large. Sheriff Daniels Is confident, however, he will surrender rather than default a heavy bond under which he has been at liberty the last few months pending final disposition of another case growing out of the seizure of a still on his farm in July, 1928. Gwinn was convicted by a jury and sentenced by Judge Carl F. Morrow to one to five years in the state prison. An appeal was taken and the case was transferred from Madison circuit court to the Indiana appellate court, which recently affirmed the conviction but granted counsel for Gwinn sixty days in which to file a motion for a rehearing. Raiders from the sheriff’s office in a campaign to dry up the rural sources of contraband liquor confiscated a 100-gallon still on the farm of William James, one mile south of Anderson, and a large whisky outfit on the farm of James Downey, Hear Linwood.

U.S.ZEPSTO BE USED FOR OCEANROUTES Mammoth Sky Craft Being Planned in Akron Will Fly to Hawaii. NAVY ORDERS GIANTS Two Huge Dirigibles Linden Construction for U. S. Fighting Forces. AKRON, 0.. Aug. 22.—As the globe-circling dirigible Graf Zeppelin continues on its record-breaking flight around tne world, workers at the great Goodyear Zeppelin plant here are going steadily ahead with plans for two dirigibles that will be even larger than the mighty German air liner as the great hangar now being erected for their construction nears completion. In addition, executives of the same plant are now working on. plans for two commercial dirigibles which will be even larger than the pair now under contract, which are being built for the United States nay. These commercial air ships, under plans being matured, will be used In transoceanic passenger and mail service. It is tentatively planned to put them on a regular schedule between Los Angeles and Hawaii, and Commander Jerome C. Hunsaker, vice-president of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, is now in Honolulu in the interests of this proposed line, and making plans for stablishing a dirigible base in the island city. Thes edevelopments, coming at the height of the Graf Zeppelin’s amazing feat, indicate that America is about uo assume unquestioned leadership in the lighter-than-air field of aviation. Other Oceanic Service Studied In addition to the Pacific line to Hawaii, Goodyear Zeppelin officials are known to be studying the establishment of a trans-Atlantic service with other huge airships. The enormous Akron hangars erected for building the navy ships probably will be maintained for use as a reserve airport where a trans-oceanic Zeppelin could dock when weather conditions along the Atlantic seaboard were unfavorable. Huge and modern as the Graf Zeppelin is, it will be outclassed by the United States’ naval dirigibles. The Graf Zeppelin is 766 feet long, 113 feet high and has a capacity of 3,707,970 cubic feet. Each of the navy dirigibles will be 780 feet long, 142 feet high and will have a capacity of 6,500,000 cubic feet—nearly twice that of th* German liner. When the navy dirigibles take the air the familiar gondolas that line the hulls of all other big dirigibles to house engines and propellers will be done. Engines will be inside the envelope; only the propellers will emerge, on extended brackets. Below, living quarters will similarly be inclosed in the envelope. Nothing will project outside the skin, from stem to stern, except the control car, which must necessarily have observation windows. Lesson From Shenandoah This represents one of the lessons taught by the wreck of the navy’s Shenandoah in 1925. The Shenandoah, caught in a cyclone over Ohio, broke in half. Parts of the ship that hung below the envelope broke off and fell, and the occupants were killed. Officers and members of the crew, who were inside the envelope at the time of the disaster, however, came down safely, as the broken portions of the envelope, still containing gas in their numerous cells, drifted slowly to the earth. One of the most striking features of each new ship will be the presence Inside the envelope of a complete airplane hangar. Each ship will carry five scouting planes, so devised that they can be launched and taken aboard while the dirigible is in flight. The cruising range of each dirigible, incidentally, will be approximately 9,000 miles without refueling. The cabins of the commercial ships Instead of being built at the bottom of the keel, will be higher up along the sides, with the unbroken skin of the envelope complete inclosing them. Glassed-in promenade decks will provide passengers with room to walk and relax and view the scenery below. In addition een the propeller* will be Inside the ships. Wind tunnels will lead to each propeller, and the ships will move through the air without a single whirring wheel being visible. Each of these new dirigibles probably will carry about 100 passengers. Spacious dining rooms, comfortable staterooms, wide lounges, roomy promenade decks will be available for travelers. VETS TO HOLD REUNION Thirty-eighth Division Soldiers to Gather at Louisville Sept. 28. Anticipating the American Legion national convention which opens in Louisville, Ky„ Sept. 30, members of the One hundred and thirteenth sanitary train, Thirty-eghth division, will meet in the same city Sept. 28 for their annual reunion, James D. Lewers. Louisville, announced today. The regiment Is composed almost entirely of Kentucky and Indian* soldiers who trained at Camp Shelby, Miss. A