Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1929 — Page 2

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625 TAXPAYERS SAVE $175,000 IN COURTORDER Judge Chamberlin Raps ‘Slovenly Laws' in Sewer Case. Rapping the legislature for the writing of “slovenly laws.” Judge Harry O. Chamberlin of circuit court, today saved 625 taxpayers $175,000 when he sliced assessments on the $400,000 Pleasant Run sanitary sewer project. Judge Chamberlin’s ruling on the case of Frank C. Ayres et al against the city set aside SIOO,OOO assessment on farm land property in the sewage district by holding no assessments could be made against it. He reduced four other classes of assessment property 60 Pr cent, making the grand total of $175,000 saved by the 625 property owners The approximate total assessment against the landholders who appealed to circuit court for redress -.vaa $250,000. Will Appeal Decision After notification of Judge Chamberlin’s ruling attorneys for the city said they would appeal his decision on the grounds the court hadn t proper jurisdiction. Edward H. Knight, attorney for the city, said the burden of the reduced assessments lay on the taxpayers of Indianapolis if Judge Chamberlin’s ruling was sustained by the Indiana supreme court. In commenting on a sanitary board act of 1917 cited by attorneys in the case, Judge Chamberlin said: “Without a doubt the act is (as is much legislation turned out by our legislature) slovenly drawn so falas it concerns any definite elucidation as to meaning or scope. Assessments Vary The assessments on the property involved in the appeal from the board of works averaged from 5,1.00 per 100 square feet to 45 cents per square foot. Other property owners in the ; sewage district who did not appeal their assessments are not affected by the reductions made through Judge Chamberlin’s order. DRIVER IS SENTENCED Detroit Man Gets Terms for “Intoxicated Operations.”

Robert, Shaw of Detroit Tuesday began serving a thirty-day sentence on the Indiana state farm following conviction in Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter's court Monday on a drunk-driving charge. Shaw was arrested Sunday after his car wobbled crazily in the 2800 block North Meridian street. Thomas Vail. 52, New York City, 'aid to have confessed holding up a restaurant at 1549 North Illinois •feet Saturday, was bound over to > ie grand Jury by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron Monday.

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Automobiles reported to the police as stolen are: Thomas R. West. 1005 Congress avenue. Ford roadster. 561-972, from the state fair ground. Walter Sands, 808 South Noble street, Nash coach. 99-798, from Pearl and East streets. C. H. Robbins, 1421 West Twentythird street, Ford roadster. 65-028, from Washington street and Senate avenue. Police Chief Mulvihill of Greenfield. Ind.. reports Chrysler coupe, 556-506, stolen from Greenfield.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police: Ford roadster, 257-134, found at 300 Ellsworth street. Negro Faces Charges Henry Brenner, 41, Negro, recently released from the Indiana state farm, was arrested on Tuesdaynight when Patrolman J. F. Wilson saw him in an automobile belonging to Charles Erber, 235 Dixon street. He is alleged to have taken a flashlight from the auto.

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Brief Biographies of Commission Candidates

Biographical sketches of the seven candidates for city commissioners indorsed today by the Indianapolis City Manager League are publisher here. The Times urges its readers to preserve these sketches for careful consideration as the date of the city commissioner election, Nov. 5, approaches. The “Who’s Who” of the candidates indorsed by the league:

John Franklin White

John Franklin White, 76. of 1545 Lexington avenue, Democratic city councilman and south side civic leader, has spent more than fifty years of his colorful career in Indianapolis. He is the oldest city councilman to serve in recent years. He was born in 1853 in Charlotte, Mich., and is a product of the “Little Red School House.’’ Since coming to Indianapolis a half century ago he has participated in many phases of public life and is regarded as an outstanding leader in the movement for better city government. He is a member of the league executive committee but took up the fight for businesslike government and establishment of the civil service principle in city affairs before the inception of the local league movement. The city council chose White to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of a south side city councilman who was indicted in the city hall bribery scandal in 1927. White served on the first city council organized under the present Federal charter in 1891. during the term of Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan. In 1918 he was a candidate for the school board on the Citizens ticket. White was a member of the police civil service commission during the Duvall regime and was instrumental in the establishment of civil service rules in the police and fire departments but resigned the city post when politics supplanted the merit system. Before hi; retirement he operated the Sterling laundry for eighteen years. Prior to that he was a journeyman printer in Indianapolis and at one time published newspapers in Cambridge City and Hagerstown. Ind. Early residents remember him for hi 9 fight on behalf of organized labor from 1880 to 1900. He is a member of the Typographical Union and Masonic lodge, but is not affiliated with any church. . White served as president of the Federation of Community Civic Clubs for two terms, director of the Family Welfare society for twelve years and chairman of the Indianapolis Free Employment bureau under the Indianapolis Foundation. His latest civic venture is the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League of which he is chairman.

Mrs. George C. Finfrock

Mrs. George C. Finfrock, 48. of 3101 Broadway, has been closely identified with the league's activities since the inception of the manager movement in Indianapolis. She is an ardent advocate of city manager principles and led the work among women of the city in the referendum election in 1927. Mrs. Finfrock was born at Cincinnati in 1881. and has been a resident of this city twenty-two years. She has been affiliated with the Republican party but never was a candidate for public office. After graduation from Woodward high school at Cincinnati she attended the University of Cincinnati. Her husband is Indiana superintendent of the Sanborn Map Company and is a graduate of the Michigan law school. 'Mrs. Finfrock has been active in Parent-Teacher. League of Women Voters and Little Theater work. She was active in Red Cross work during the war and is a member of the W. C. T. U. and the Unitarian church.

Henry McCabe Dowling

For twenty-five years Henry McCabe Dowlmg. 57. of 3556 Washington boulevard, has engaged in the practice of law in Indianapolis He was born at New Albany, Ind.. in 1872. and came to Indianapolis in 1896. Dowling is a Republican and served two terms as assistant attorney-general and a term on the railroad commission under Governor Hanly. He never before has been a candidate for public office. After graduation from De Pauv* university, he attended Harvard law school. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church. Indianapolis Literary Club. Delta Kappa Epsilon and the state and city bar ’ssoeiatior.s His offices are at 1110 Fletcher Savings and Trust building.

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erty, 56, commanding officer, Eightyfourth divisibn reserve corps, will win even if he loses, has arisen in the Dougherty family. The colonel, a flying student of Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, is striving mightily to master the intricacies of landing and taking off in order to take his first solo flight before his son Jack, 20, beats him. Jack, “a chip off the old block,” also is a student at the Curtiss school, and a mighty good one, according to Earl W. Sweeney, instructor. “I have flown, off and on, since last January while on business trips by air,” the elder Dougherty explained. “While I have often taken the controls in the air, and even have looped the loop and done other tricks, I never have tried to land or take off. “I am starting right now to learn that too, so I can solo before Jack. But even if I lose, I’ll be mighty proud of Jack. He’s a great boy.” Jack has had only four or five lessons, but is spending most of his time at the airport to solo before he enters the University of Illinois this fall.

nected officially with the manager movement, he has been in sympathy with the principles of the league.

Ellsworth Elmer Heller

Ellsworth Elmer Heller, 67, of 1423 Pleasant street, has been engaged in the coal business at 1924 Fletcher avenue for twenty-seven years. He formerly operated a grocery on the south side. He was born in Fayette county, Indiana, in 1862, coming to Indianapolis more than a half century ago. He was graduated from the Tailholt high school. He has been active in south side activities but never was a candidate for public office. He is a Republican. Heller is a member of the First Baptist church. Masonic and I. O. O. F. lodges, Sons of Veterans, is former president of the city and state coal dealer associations and now is president of the Southeastern Savings and Loan Association, 1701 Prospect street.

William Henry Insley

From a $5 a week job as a grocery clerk thirty-seven years ago, William Henry Insley, 6G, of 445 North Audubon road, has risen to the position of president and general manager of the Insley Manufacturing Company, Olney and St. Clair streets. Insley was born on a farm in Fountain county and taught in a country school before coming to Indianapolis thirty-seven years ago. He attended De Pauw university and received an engineering edueatioon at Rose Polytechnic institute. He is a Republican but never held public office. As chairman of the City Manager League’s executive committee, Insley has been prominent in the movement to bring about adoption of a successful city manager form of government. He w r as an election commissioner, representing the city manager forces, in the referendum election in 1927. He is a member of the Irvington Methodist church, Little Theater society, Masonic lodge, Indianapolis Art Association, Society of Indiana Pioneers and professional engineering organizations. Insley has been active in Community Fund and Family Welfare society activities. He served as consulting engineer for Indiana in the United States fuel administration and as Indiana chairman of the resources and conversion section of war resources commission. U. S. A.

H. Nathan Swain

Hardress Nathan Swain, 39, of 1125 West Thirty-sixth street, was a candidate for judge of the Marion probate court on the Democratic ticket in 1925. He is an attorney and has offices with James M. Ogden, Indiana attorney-general, at 911 State Life building. For thirteen years he has practiced law in Indianapolis. He was born at Zionsville, Ind.. and attended De Pauw university and University of Chicago. He is a member of the Methodist church, Sigma Nu fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, and Order of the Coif, legal fraternities, the Masonic lodge and city and state bar associations.

Leo Francis Welch

Leo Francis Welch. 36. of 4310 Broadway, a realtor, is a life long resident of Indianapolis. He is secretary-treasurer -of the John R. Welch & Sons firm. 23

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Jack Dougherty “I hope Dad wins, but I am going to give him a fight for it,” Jack commented.

M’CRAY PLANS FAIR EXHIBIT Ex-Governor Reveals His Ambition for Future. New hopes and ambitions today appeared on the life horizon of Warren T. McCray, former Indiana govnor, when he attended the state fair. Less than three years ago, McCray, who served a federal penitentiary sentence at Atlanta, Ga., had only the ambition to return to his home at Kentland, Ind., and recommence his farm and stock raising activities. Today, as he strolled about the fairground, viewing exhibits, McCray said his highest ambition now is to have an exhibit of his own at a future fair. “I am feeling fine and this is the best fair I ever saw,” McCray smilingly remarked. “This is a good, old stomping ground for me and I hope I’ll be able to have an exhibit of my own at an Indiana fair soon. Yes, sir, the fairground looks mighty good.” Persons who talked with McCray said he seemed in the best of health, which McCray himself confirmed. He was president of the fair board two years before he was convicted and sentenced.

SOLONS KEEP COOL New Washed Air System Installed in Senate. * Bn Bcrinpn-TJoward Xeicspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—However hot the tariff fights get, the senate will remain cool. Anew washed-air system installed during the summer at - a cost of $124,000 in the senate chamber will keep the chamber and galleries at approximately 75 degrees, whatever the outside temperature. It also supplies fresh air to the senate and the occupants of the galleries.

GAS TAXES INCREASE August Collections in State $1,664,246. Gasoline tax collections increased 44 per cent during August, as compared to August last year, accord to figures made public today by Leland Fishback, state gasoline tax collector. Refunds, however, were greater than any previous month in the history of the department, he said. Total collections for August this year were $1,664,246.03, a gain of $498,151.73 over the 1928 figure. Refunds for the month were $130,942.27 on 11,928 claims. Postal Receipts Gain Increase of 5.43 per cent in postal receipts for August, compared with August, 1928, was reported Tuesday by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. The increase, amounting to $18,897, was due principally to better business conditions, Bryson said. West Ohio street, and the son of John R. Welch, a member of the league executive committee. He joined the business of his father seventeen years ago after attending Cathedral Parochial school and Notre Dame university. He is a Democrat and was a candidate for the legislature in 1929, having the indorsement of the City Manager League. He is a member of St. Joan of Arc Catholic church, Elks Club and Knights of Columbus.

GROUP SESSIONS FEATURE DAY FORTEACHERS America Facing Economic Peasantry, Professor Schutz Declares. Group sessions dealing \?ith various phases of public school work were on today's program for the 2,000 teachers attending the Indianapolis teachers’ institute at Shortridge high school. “Europeans look upon America as a materialistic nation without re-, gard for spiritual, esthetic, or moral values,” declared Dr. J. Raymond Shutz, head of the department of sociology of Manchester college, North Manchester, Tuesday afternoon in Caleb Mills hall. He repudiated European charges that education in America is by the “mass production method,” but emphasized the need for more attention to spiritual, esthetic and moral values in our educational program. Fear that American agriculture is headed toward an economic stage of peasantry was expressed by Dr. Shutz. “Thirty-seven per cent of Indiana farms are in control of absentee landlords, and if the present trend continues in agriculture, we are reasonably sure of having a peasant system in America,” he said. Large industries and chain organizations are drawing money from smaller cities and rural communities so rapidly it is seriously affecting the tax valuation, he pointed out. “Such organizations do not pay taxes in the communities in which they are located, and this is going to hinder education by lessening available funds for it.” The institute will continue Thursday and Friday.

PARK SHELTER HOUSEWANTED Delegations Petition Tax Board for Approval. A $40,000 bond issue for erection of a shelter house at Christian park today bore the tentative approval of the state tax board. Nearly 100 residents of the southeast section, mostly women, appeared before the tax board in the house of representatives. Tuesday afternoon to plead for the project. The issue is by the Indianapolis park district. Park Commissioner Michael Foley and Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks, appeared in its support. According to Lee Burns, architect, of the firm of Burns and James, the plans will permit expansion to include a gymnasium. The first structure will contain club rooms, rest rooms and an auditorium and play room. Mrs. Edna M. Christian, who, with her husband, the late Wilmer C. Christian, donated the park, appeared. She said the shelter house will resemble the old Christian homestead.

CITY SUES CITIZENS Foreclosure for Street Paving Is Asked. Suit to foreclose assessments on twenty-two Arlington avenue property holders was filed Tuesday in Marion circuit court by the city of Indianapolis. Attorney fees of $25 from each defendant also are asked. The assessments were for improving South Arlington avenue in 1924. The petitions aver no remonstrances were filed against the project. Defendants are Robert Brookout, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Brooks, David Buskirk, Elizabeth House, Harriett Fleener, Ida Fleener, Harry Fleener, Alexander Dorman, Mary Dunn, Matilda Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hurley, the Miller Products Company, Hugh D. McConnell, Mary O’Connell, Horace H. Page, Maggie E. Patterson, Marion L. Sheperd and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Holt. Young Motorist Killed B.u Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 4. John McKinley, 20, was killed when the automobile he was driving turned over twice on the National road west of Brazil. He w&s an employe of an undertaking firm here.

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BOND ISSUES ARERENEWED Seven Funds for Paving Jobs Discussed. Seven Marion county proposed bond issues were reviewed by the state tax board Tuesday. Willis Nusbaum, attorney for the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, appeared in behalf of four highway issues, and presented objections to two others.

Those recommended by the association were: Charles B. Wright, county unit road, resurfacing Keystone avenue, $62,000; W. O. Kimberlin road, Thirty-eighth street, between Eastern and Emerson avenues; Earl Hughes road, Holt avenue, between the National highway and Morris street, and Frank Stuck county unit road, Troy avenue, resurfacing and widening. A delegation appeared favoring a petition for a $31,000 issue for anew eighteen-foot pavement on Hobart street, between Churchman avenue and Bethel avenue. Center township would pay for the road, according to Merrili Moores, who headed the petition. Moore said that through a mistake several years ago Perkins street, a block away, was paved instead of Hobart street. Hearing was to be held this afternoon on an issue of $40,000 for paving of the Thomas Wynn road, West Forty-second street, between Meyers road and Kessler boulevard. The Indiana. Taxpayers’ Association objected to both proposals. The petition of the Indianapolis park district for a $40,000 issue for a community building in Christian park also was presented. MISSING GIRL SOUGHT Lillian Beaver Leaves Note for Her Parents. Leaving a note in which she said she and another girl were going to South Bend with two men, Miss Lillian Beaver, 16. McCordsville, ran away from her home Tuesday. The father of the two young men said they planned to go to work in Shelbyville.

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Lad Touches High Tension Wire, Topples to Doom From Trestle. A dime reward and a boy who always took a dare placed an undertaker’s wreath today on the door of the home at 3244 West Washington street. For while neighborhood boys played “banter” today—challenged each other to acrobatic feats—the boy who had always “bantered” them, Fred Meier, 9, of 3244 West Washington street, Had been “bantered” by death. Meier and a group of youths were playing Tuesday afternoon near the T. H., I. & E. trestle over Eagle creek. “They dared Fred,” related James Lloyd, 12, of 3248 West Washington street, “to climb across a steel crossbeam of the tresle. I knew he’d take the dare for he would do almost anything. Someone offered him 10 cents to do it. ‘l’ll give you a dime, too,’ the other boys yelled. He tried to do it.” Lloyd told how Meier crawled on top of the trestle. He said as Fred reached midway of the bridge he touched a high tension wire for support—and the tragedy occurred. The wire’s voltage knocked the boy off the trestle top, his head struck a steel beam and he w T as catapulted into Eagle creek. Youths playing near the creek bank rescued him from the water. He was given emergency treatment and taken to city hospital, where he died from a skull fracture late Tuesday night. He was the son of Ned Meier, an employe of the Deusenberg Motor Company. Naval Plane Is Wrecked By United Press LONG BEACH, Cal., Sept. 4.Three navy fliers were injured slightly when the amphibian plane IJ2 upset in a forced landing here Tuesday. The plane was wrecked.

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SINCLAIR MAKES SLOW PROGRESS FORGLEMENCT President May Not Receive Petition Until Nearly Time for Release. BY HERBERT LITTLE Lnitcd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Harry F. Sinclair, the oil man serving a sentence in District of Columbia jail, is making very slow progress in his campaign for White House clemency. Today, more than two weeks after Sinclair appealed for a commutation of sentence on grounds of illealth, Justice Fdereick L. Siddons had not acted on his petition, according to the office of United States District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Sinclair's sentence will expire early in November, if the usual five days a month for good conduct is taken off, so that if the red tape is not unwound fast, the petition will not reach President Hoover until nearly time for his release. The petition must be passed on by United States Attorney Rover and Attorney-General Mitchell, in addition to Justice Siddons, who presided at Sinclair's trial on charges of contempt of court. Rover also has indicated he will put it before Justice Peyton Gordon, who, as United States attorney, prosecuted Sinclair and his juryshadowing associates, Henry Mason Day, William J. Burns and W. Sherman Burns. Day’s sentence of four months will end during October. Sinclair’s sixmonth sentence started earlier, overlapping a three-month sentence he was given for contempt of the senate. Motorist’s Ear Torn By Times finceial GREENCASTLE. Ind., Sept. 4. Clair Albin, 25. nad his right ear almost torn off in an automobile accident here Tuesday.