Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1929 — Page 2

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LIGHT PETITION LAW CREATES CITYPROBLEM Engineer’s Office Can Not Handle Work Without Additional Staff. Indianapolis city officials are con- " fronted with a perplexing problem by the 1929 electric lighting law which has aroused protests at Ham- - mond, Ind., that may become statewide. The statute permits 60 per cent of the property owners in any city block to file with the board of works a petition for “extra illumination." The legal procedure set cut includes legal advertising, public -> hearings, remonstrance and assessments, requiring the setting up of anew department in the office of City Engineer A. H. Moore. Recommendation Ignored - Moore pointed out the requirement in a letter to city council, asking $5,000 to employ a draftsman, and to operate the department. Council ignored the recommendation and cut the engineer’s budget. Clarence G. Baker, civic leader, filed the first petitions under the new law, requesting ornamental lighting on thirteen west side streets The petitions were filed in July and no action has been taken, Moore said it would be impossible to do any work under the new law with the present engineering staff before this winter, when work is slack. The board may decide to make no installations under the new law, since the plan would be unfair to persons already living on streets with ornamental lighting which was paid for by the city. Installations Improbable Gustave G. Schmidt, former city councilman and plan commission president under the Duvall administration, urged passage of the law by the legislature to permit ButlerFairview residents to obtain more lights. The board of works likely will make no new installations in 1930, because of the limited appropriation. A. E. Oltz, General Engineering and Sales Company of Hammond, Ind., who is leading a fight on the new statute, declared the law is “probably the most bold and arrogant piece of public utilit- l*~Mation ever put over on any legislature." in a letter to A. B. Walton, manager of the Association of Certified Fiectricians, Washington.

BALLOON, AIRPLANE AND HORSE PROVIDE THRILLS Three Events at Once Result In Tangle at Crawfordsville. Bu Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 2.—Patrons of the Montgomery county fair on the closing day were given a series of thrills. A balloon ascension, a horse race and an airplane flight was in progress concurrently. When the balloonist cut loose the gas bag dropped back to the fairground and was headed directly for a large group of persons. A blast of air from the propellor of the plane, however, deflected the balloon enough to cause it to light in the center of the race track. The fall of the balloon frightened one of the horses in the race and he ran into a fence, throwing Driver William Adams to the ground ani slightly injuring him. FORCED TO LEARN ENGLISH 3 TIMES Croaw* Atlantic .on So Many Occasions He’s All Crossed Up. Bv United Press BYRACUSE. N. Y., Sept. 2. Crossing the Atlantic is getting to be as prosaic for John Theodore Bischoff. 4. as going down the block on an errand. John crossed the ocean with his parents when he was 2. During his stay with relatives in Germany he forgot how to talk English. Soon after he came back his mother died and John was sent back to Germany again to live with his grandparents and had to learn German. Now he is back in the United States and struggling hard with the English language for the third time. When he crossed the ocean the last time John came alone and was met at New York by his father. MALES GET A ’BREAK’ Women Enter Smoking Cars at Own Risk. Judge Rules. B LOS ANGELES. Sept, 2.—Man. in his last stand against militant feminism. has received reinforcements her. Municipal Judge F. F. Gualano ruling that the smoking section ot a street car is man’s sanctum and that women enter at their own risk. Judge Gualano rejected the claim cf Mrs. Doris Zimann that John McVelty owed her SSO for damages inflicted when cigaret ashes fell on her clothing. BEES CAUSE OF FIRE Efforts to Smoke Out Swarm Destroys Home. r,v United Press VILLA GROVE. HI.. Sept. 2.—The W. F. Gulton farm home north of here was destroyed by Are in a peculiar manner. A swarm of bees took quarters between the weather boarding of the structure and when occupants of the place attempted to smoke them out. the house caught Art. It was a total loss. Murder Case to Be Tried Bn Tim** Special BEDFORD, Ind.. Sect. 2 One murder case is on the docket of Lawrence circuit court, which wiil convene here this week for the September term. It is that of Jamas k Brannon, 33, Cincinnati charged k with slayiiuuJaa stepson. Edward imt in May.

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C. F. Hyde, 25, (below), trusted secretary to Samuel C. Collins, 45, (above), wealthy Ponca City, Okla., oil man. was Jailed at Newkirk, Okla., charged with administering poison to Collins in an attempt to kill him. Autnoritles claim Collins was marked for death by Hyde in an effort to gain possesison of SIB,OOO worth of securities.

STRIVES TO SET NONSTOP MARK Wood Leaves Coast on Trip to Cleveland, Bv Uniter! Pr ’*s LOS ANGELES. Sept, 2.—John Wood took off froip the Metropolitan airport at Van Neys at 1 a. m. (Pacific standard time) today in an effort to better the time of previous starters in the nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Cleveland. Wood was accompanied by Ward Miller, his mechanic. Wood must reach Cleveland in less than 13 hours, 15 minutes, the best mark to date, in order to win the event. The present leading time was set by Henry Brown when he landed in Cleveland Sunday. Brown bettered the time of Lee Shoenhair and Wood is the last of the entrants to start. The attempt is Wood’s second. He started Saturday morning, but was forced down in New Mexico and returned for another start. Wood is president of the Northern Airways of Wausau, Wis., and was a lieutenant instructor at Kelly field during the World war. Under the rules of the contest, the flier to make the best elapsed time wins, providing he lands in Cleveland during the national air races and between the hours of 8 a. m. and 6 p. m.

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Indianapolis Uses 28.87 Pounds of Soap Per Capita.

When statisticians tire of figuring how long it would take a flea to hop around the world as did the Graf Zeppelin, then they start in on on “How many bars of soap are used by the great American family yearly?" So here’s the figures as they’vej dished it out for Indianapolis. The city uses 23.87 pounds of soap per capita yearly. It consumes 9.550,000 pounds yearly at an approximate cost of $772,595. Tlie adding machine wizards flg“ure it costs $1.93 each twelve months to wash Johnny’s or Mary’s ears. Proof that Indianapolis is more economical with soap than the average city in the nation is shown in a per capita average of twenty-five pounds for the country against the cty’s 23.87 pounds. The nation's soap bill yearly is $300,000,000, with commercial users accounting for $30,000,000 of the the total. It is estimated that a family can take its proper quota of baths and not be a “Saturday-nightsr” on a bar of toilet soap each week. A cake and one-half of laundry soap or a package of soap chips added to the average family’s bill for cleanliness will suffice for seven days. Indianapolis citizens wash their faces four times oftener than those living in the old world. For the average per capita consumption a year in Europe is four pounds of ! soap to an individual. GIFT COAT PREPARED Mrs. Hoover Will Get Fur Garment From South. Bu I'nitcd Press NEW ORLEANS. La., Sept. 2. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be presented, some time in the fall, with a fur coat made from the hides of Louisiana silver muskrats. Officers of the Southern Fur Producers' Association are co-operating. Five hundred and eighty-three muskrats are required to complete the coat, now almost finished. Million Lepers in China Bv United Press SHANGHAI, Sept. 2.—China now contains more than a million lepers, according to estimate of Dr. C. T. Wu. general secretary o i the Chinese Leper*

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