Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1929 — Page 9

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CHAMBER TQ FIGHT SCHOOL TAXINCREASE County Levy Also Will Be Appealed: New Building Plans Attacked. URGE ‘COOLIDGE THRIFT’ Problem of Congestion Is Brought to Fore at Conference. Preparations lor appealing the 11.34 school tax levy for 1930, approved by the school board Tuesday night, today were being made by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce civic affairs budget subcommittee and the Indiana Taxpayers Association. The Marion county levy of $.415 also will be appealed by the organizations. The board adopted the proposed budget, with its 32-cent increase over the 1929 levy, over protest of the chamber subcommittee, which recommended budget decreases to cut. the levy to $.989. A meeting of the chamber civic affairs budget sub-committee to deride final action to be taken on various 1930 levies will be held at the Chamber Thursday. The chamber report was submitted by A. M. Glossbrenner, chairman, and Dwight S. Ritter. Money Transfer Criticized Glossbrenner criticized transfer of money from the sinking fund, and admonished the board to postpone erection of new buildings fors a year. The report urged elimination of $1,111,000 from the budget for new buildings and real estate, in view of the proposed $1,215,000 bond issues for anew Irvington high school, two new grade schools and two additions. These bond issues, it was admitted by the board, will bring the school city to the bonded indebtedness limit. “We not only urge you to keep down taxes, but we exhort vou to do so.” Glossbrenner said. "What we are primarily interested in is the Cool id ge sort of economy.” When Glossbrenner criticized plans for building more high schools. Theodore F. Vonnegut. minority faction board member, asked Glossbrenner how he would care for the Increasing number of high school pupils, due to the compulsory attendance law. Wouldn't Force Attendance “I do not believe in forcing children who would rather work and who will get nothing from school to attend and thus increase the educational cost," Glassbrenner answered. “However, it might be possible to change the high school schedules to two shifts, placing them on an efficiency basis similar to the Ford factory system.” President Charles W. Kern declared the 1929 levy of $1.02 in reality provides only $0,951 for school purposes. He explained the library and free kindergarten levies are included in the total school levy here. “Remarks of Glossbrenner and Ritter, for the first time in three years, have led me to believe the chamber reports were given in a constructive way,” Kern declared. “My opinion in the past has been the chamber come before us in exactly the opposite way.” After their defense of the budget before the chamber representatives, Kern and Vonnegut voted against its adoption. Kern remarking to majority faction members: “You wouldn't defend your budget, so somebody had to do it.”

WARNS AGAINST TRICK ISSUES IN ELECTION Manager League Chairman Pleads for Fair Trial. Whether Indianapolis will continue to be dominated* by political bosses or give the city manager plan a fair trial is the issue before voters Kcv 5, Claude H. Anderson, Indianapolis City Manager League chairman, told Kiwanis Club members today at the Clavpool. Anderson warned against the effort of independent candidates to ••split the vote” by trick issues which will confuse the people.” “True friends of the city manager plan will not jeopardize it by supporting independents; let's keep the seven league candidates intact as a group.” he said. "The league candidates are students of city manager form, equipped to install the new plan in Indianapolis.” LOTTERY MEN FINED Two Plead Guilty in Printer’s Pool Case. Joseph C. Weber and , Joseph Holies, 440 Century building, were fined SIOO and casts and S3OO and costs, respectively, today in criminal court on charges of operating a lottery Affidavits were filed against the men May 21 after Prosecutor Judson L. Stark conducted an investigation of an alleged extensive “printer’s pool” said to be operated in the city. Both Weber and Holies had pleaded not guilty to the charge, but pleaded guilty today. Conductor Falls to Death I'nitrd Prrtt LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Sept. 11.—'William R. Hatchett, 47. Decatur, IIL, railroad conductor, was killed here when he fefTTrom a string of freight cars on a bridge into a stream fifty Seat beiov.

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Booth Tarkington Is Shown Up as Jinx of Tiger Grid Team

NEW 7 YORK, Sept. 11.—Booth Tarkington, famed Indiana author and one of the most illustrious sons of Princeton, once was considered the “jinx” of his alma mater's football team, and his appearance as an alumnus on the eve of a big game was greeted with groans, defeat or a tie being ascribed directly to his presence. That interesting chapter in the life of the famous novelist is revealed in the September issue of The Bookman by Arthur Bartlett Maurice, in a series of intimate reminiscences of famous literary men of the last quarter century. Some years ago. says Maurice, the Tigers and Harvard played a 14-14 tie at Cambridge, Harvard coming from behind to tie the score in the last few minutes of play. Suspecting Tarkington's presence, Maurice wrote him, demanding an explanation. The author replied, meekly ex-

plaining that he had disguised himself in a big fur coat, with no Princeton colors showing

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KLAN ARSON CASE STILL ON DOCKET

Death Follows Bee Sting Bn Times Special )y . THORNTOWN, Ind., Sept. 11. —O. S. Loveless, 69, died of heart disease at his home, five miles north of here, a few minutes after being stung by a honey bee. He leaves a widow and seven children. He was the last of a family of ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Loveless.

RUSSIANS ATTACKING Chinese Resist Assaults Along Wide Front. tin tailed Press MUKDEN. Manchuria. Sept. 11 The situation along the Man-churian-Siberian border continued grave today, with the Chinese desperately concentrating against a menacing Russian force along a wide front. Communication with important border points was severed and only intermittent reports came through ECKENER TO BE FETED Berlin Plans Reception for Zeppelin Commander. B" Veiled Prt BERLIN. Sept. 11.—A reception to Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, when he returns from the United States, was planned by authorities today. The freedom of the city will be conferred. Later Eckener will be received by President Paul Von Hindenburg for a conference on the Graf Zeppelin's Arctic trip. 14 DROWN IN COLLISION Belgian Crew Lost When Two Ships Crash. Bu Vnited Press FLUSHING. The Netherlands. Sept. 11.—The pilot and thirteen members of the crew of the Belgian steamer Estella were drowned in the Scheldt today when the vessel sank after a collision with a German steamer. Two members of the crew were rescued. The Estella was en route to Antwerp and London. The disaster occurred near Walsoorden. Mayoralty Nominees Chosen Bv Vnited Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 11.— Final canvass of votes cast in Terre Ht-.ute's primary election Tuesday show that Republicans chose Chester Kelly as their mayoralty candidate and the Democrats J. Wood Posey. Kelly polled 3.960 lb 2,839 for William Dean, his nearest rival. Posey received 2,619 and Donn M. Roberts v . „ _

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Decision Pending on Whether Samuel Withrow Will Face Fourth Trial. Bn Times Special NEWPORT, Ind.. Sept. 11.— Whether* Samuel F. Withrow will be cried for the fourth time on arson charge, previous hearings having resulted in hung juries, has not yet been decided, although the case is still on the docket of Vermillion circuit court here, the September term of which is now in session. Withrow, former official of the KuKlux Klan in Parke county, is accused of setting fire to a school building in Bridgeton in 1924, when there was bitter strife between the klan and its foes during an election. Among important cases to be tried are those of nearly fifty mtffi charged with rioting in connection with labor trouble at the Bono coal mine near Dana. These have been set for Friday. BUSINESS LEADER I DIES Roy Carlisle Was Founder of Marble Company. * Funeral service for Roy Carlisle, 42, of 2914 English avenue, who died Monday, will be held at 9 Thursday morning at the Holy Cross Catholic church. Burial will be in the Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Carlisle, a resident of Indianapolis since 1888. was one of the founders of the Triangle Marble and Tile Company. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Rose Carlisle; his father, Robert E. Carlisle; two brothers, Edward and Logan L. Carlisle; and a sister, Mrs. Henry Bermer, all of Indianapolis. STATE H Property Loss in 1928 Totaled 56.874.263. Property loss by fire in Indiana in 1928 was $6,874,263 in 4,777 fires, according to figures compiled in the office of Alfred M. Hogston, state file marshal. Total value of property endangered was $63,486,930. Causes were: Sparks, 1,739; children and matches, 107; defective flues, 377; lightning, 94: explosions, 143, defective wiring. 203; cigaxets, 87. and overheated, stoves and furnaces. 313. TWO HURT IN CAR CRASH Wreck on Washington Street Brings No Arrests. Two persons were seriously injured today by windshield glass in a collision of motor cars at Senate avenue and Washington street. Junior Christenson. 4, of 1533 Ratine avenue, and James Nicholl, 44. of 811 River avenue, suffered lacerations when the car in which they were riding, driven by Neal Wagner, 1323 Blaine avenue, collided with an auto driven by Lyle Altum, 244 North Rural street.

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so that he looked neutral and was not suspected by the “jinx.” However, wrote Tarkington, tragedy happened when the score was 14 to 7 in favor of Princeton near the end of the game. “Then I made my mistake,” he wrote, “threw off all disguise and squawked, bellered, hawhawed, baw-bawed, belched, boomed, larynated, lunaboed; in brief, did all Panurge would have done —and got caught at it; jinx immediately tied the score and would have done worse except for the timekeeper.” The same article reveals that Tarkington frequently has dramatized himself through one of his characters, as did the late Richard Harding Davis. Os the latter, Maurice reports that Davis bared his heart pitilessly in “Captain Macklin" and winced when the portrait was misunderstood. He quotes from a personal letter he received from Davis which said. “Nothing ever hurt me so much as the linp

STATE BANKERS OPEN CONCLAVE Laws Branded Unfair Will Be Discussed. B)/ Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 11.— State laws branded unfair to banking will be discussed at the thirtythird annual convention of the Indiana Bankers Association, which opened here today to continue through Thursday. Taxation is one of the subjects the bankers will discuss. Among them an opinion prevails that Indiana’s levies on financial institutions are excessive. A. G. Brown, Greencastle, association president, called the first session of the convention to order this morning. James T. Walker, vice-president of the Peoples Savings bank here, welcomed the visitors to Evansville. On their behalf, a response was made by Elmer W. Stout, Indianapolis, vice-president of the association. The annual address of the president followed. There was a program of speeches, including those of Governor Harry G. Leslie; T. J. Davis, Cincinnati; L. F. Symons, Indianapolis, state banking commissioner, and R. C. Stephenson, South Bend. Reports were submitted by Miss Forba McDaniel, association secretary, and by Welch Wampler, treasurer.

DOG RACERS IN SUIT Unknown Backers of Track Appeal Injunction. “Unknown persons associating themselves together under the name and style of the Harrison Kennel Club. Ltd., today appealed to the supreme court for a writ of prohibition lifting a restraining order against operation of a dog racing track at West Harrison, Ind. The writ is asked against the order of the Dearborn circuit court, which prevented operation of the track Labor day. It was planned to hold racing under the “invesment sytem” of betting, which was barred at an Indianapolis track. According to a letter to AttcmeyGeneral James M. Ogden among the “unknown persons” backing the track is George Remus, Cincinnati bootlegger and murderer. PUSH BELT HIGHWAY Motor Club Will Sponsor Circumurban Road. Further steps to establish a belt highway around Indianapolis and Marion county will be taken within the next few weeks, Koosier Motor Club officials announced today. The proposed thoroughfare will be sixty and one-half miles in length, with a 100-foot right-of-way. The route of the proposed highway would be: From Southport, west to High School road; north, past the municical airport to Eighty-sixth street; east to Ft. Benjamin Harrison and south through New Bethel to the Southport junction. Father of Four Convicted Bit United Press VALPARAISO, Ind./ Sept, 11.— After deliberating all night, a circuit court jury today found Harry Evans, 29, father of four chilren, guilty on a criminal attack charge.

BURNED THEIR JOBS Firemen Fire; Eight in Jail BY* HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent 4 NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—The path of glory trod by volunteer firemen led up to the Mineola county jail today where eight of Glen Cove’s most intrepid battlers of blazes sat behind bars. They confessed things had been dull in the village for the last five years and so, yielding to an overwhelming desire to go into action with their unscorched uniforms, they had started a fire now and then.

Thus did authorities clear up the mystery of the blazes in the four houses. - Grieved that authorities should jail them for holding signal practice in the early hours of morning, the eight hook-and-ladder heroes hastened to point out they had been careful to ascertain the houses were unoccupied before putting the torch to the buildings. Once ai the fire, the volunteers

U. S. CHEMISTS ASTOUNDED BY GERMAN’S FIND Young Scientist of Berlin Discovers Way to Split Hydrogen Gas. VAST CHANGE TO COME Many Experiments May Be Completed With Use of New Theory. BY HECTOR PERRIER I'ntteJ Press Stiff Corre.so<>nCont MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 11. —The splitting of hydrogen gas into two parts, accomplished before the American Chemical Society congress here by Dr. K. F. Bonhoeffer, young German scientist, today was declared by Dr. Irving Langmuir, president of the society, the greatest sten in physical chemistry in 1929. “The achievement of Dr. Bonhoeffpr.” said Dr. Langmuir, “is revolutionary in the extreme, since we always had believed hydrogen was an indivisible gas. . "While the young German’s discovery may have no commercial value at present, it undoubtedly will lead to other discoveries of boundless scope in the next two or three years. “Scores of scientists, working on valuable experiments, were stopped by q stone wall of error, and now, with Dr. Bonhoeffer’s discovery, these experiments at last may be completed.” Dr. Bonhoeffer, youngest chemist at the present convention, who at 17 years was an infantryman in the German trenches at the close of the World war, worked more than a year in an unexplored field to divide hydrogen into what he termed parahvdrogen and orthohydrogen. His equipment had to be manufactured as he went along. Dr. Bonhoeffer found that when hydrogen gas was. passed through a thermos jar filled with charcoal and a tube which contained liquid air, two separate gases were formed. Their individuality was traced by their heat conductivity, shown in small spots of light thrown on a wall. The light spot resulting from a wire which passed through the parahydrogen differed from the spot from the wire through orthohydrogen. Dr. Bonhoeffer declared that when his orthohydrogen was fused with ordinary hydrogen, anew gas was formed.

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Upper (left to right)—Miss Leona Helmuth, Mrs. Beula Clark and Mrs. Lillian Hoover. Lower (left to right)—Mrs. C. E. Spieklemire, Mrs. Henrietta Heishman and Mrs. J. Fred Masters. Officers of Zerelda Wallace chapter, W. C. T. U., were elected Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Dove McClintock, 3444 North Illinois street. Delegates to represent the chapter in the county convention at the West Washington street M. E. church Oct. 2 and 3, and to the state convention at Gary Oct. 12 to 15, also were named. Officers elected were Miss Helmuth, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Clark, recording secretary; Mrs. Hoover, treasurer; Mrs. Heishman, president, and Mrs. Masters, vice-president. Mrs. Spieklemire is the retiring president.

worked with deadly efficiency, for the fire-fighting committee apparently bore in mind the limitations of the department’s equipment, while promoting conflagrations. Police arrested Edward Baker, Harry Francis. Thomas Moore, Adam Kant, Lawrence Kreyer, Raymond Sprague, Fred Doxey and Norman Lang, all of whom were held for the grand jury on charges of arson. . | * *. ■ *

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CLIENT ‘HI-JACKED,’ ATTORNEY CHARGES

Contempt Charge May Hit Putnam Deputy for ‘Sneaking' Prisoner. Dan Brown, attorney, today indicated he would file indirect contempt of court charges against L. A. Bryan, Putnam county deputy sheriff, in an effort to return a client, who, he alleged, wa§ “hijacked” from an Indianapolis court this morning. The client, Lawrence Wiggins, 856 West Pratt street, was arrested here Tuesday for Putnam county authorities, who told Indianapolis police they would charge him with reckless driving. Arraigned before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter, he is said to have signed a waiver to return with

CONTACTS ENCOURAGING Flamingo Pilots Hope to Get Flight Under Way on Friday. One successful refueling contact late Tuesday and two others eariy today encouraged Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and Lawrence Genaro. pilots of the Indianapolis Flamingo endurance plane, in the hope they will be able to start the flight Friday. They will make several more practice contacts to test the planes in closer proximity, before attempting the take-off. Confesses Jail Break Aid \ Bit United Press OSGOOD. Ind., Sept. 11— Held here on liquor charges Mrs. Pearl Beard, 19, confessed to authorities that she smuggled saws to her husband, who, with Tom Gray, escaped from the county jail, Sept. 2. The woman was given a three months’ sentence in the Indiana Woman's prison, Indianapolis, on the liquor cb&rget

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Br -an to Greencastle. He was not represented in court by an attorney. As the court was ready to adjourn, Brown appeared before the judge. Pie bore fragments of an affidavit against Wiggins, signed by Detective Charles Russell of the Indianapolis department. On them his name appeared as counsel. On the affidavit in court his name was missing. “I found this on the floor of the prosecutor’s office,” Brown said. “Who tore it up?” Judge Wetter demanded. Detective Russell stepped forward. “I did. I thought the original was wrong,” he said. “I had a great deal of faith in you,” Wetter told Russell, “But this is the most high-handed thing I’ve ever*seen in my court.” . He suggested that Brown file charges to force Wiggins’ return.

FIVE HURT IN AUTO MISHAPS One Driver Arrested After Three-Car Crash. Automobile ts in and near Indianapolis * y injured five persons. Marlin McGowcn. 21, of 660 South Illinois street, suffered body cuts, and Everett Armstrong, 24, of the same address, was cut on the head when the coupe in which they were riding skidded and overturned in gravel on Harding street, two miles south of Indianapolis Tuesday night. Mrs. Josephine Lindley of Newcastle, was cut on the face when a car driven by Mrs. Ray Collins of Newcastle, collided with a machine operated lay Mrs. Jennie Copeland, 6158 Haverford avenue, at Keystone avenue and Millersville road. Ernest Siegman of Lawrence today was charged with failure to stop at a preferential street after his auto struck a car driven by Clark Richardson, 27, Mansfield, 0., and crashed into a third machine driven by William Robertson, 254 Schofield avenue, at Twenty-fifth street and Columbia avenue. Mrs. Helen Siegman was bruised on the arm.

Sun Tan Peril Solar Ray Bath Without Direction of Doctor Is Called Hazard.

SUN-BATHERS took an uppercut today—and it wasn’t a Dempsey count, either. For ©r. Henry Schmitz of Chicago in a paper read before 250 physicians in the joint session of the American Electrotherapeutic Association and Western Association of Physical Therapy at the Lincoln, held that seekers for sun-tan should get their solar massages only under a doctor's directions. “Persons taking sun-baths when not advised by a physician run the danger of sunstroke,” Dr. Schmitz said. Dental nutrition as applied to ultra-violet radiation was discussed by Dr. Sherman Davis, professor of chemistry of the Indiana university school of dentistry. Officers of the two associations will be elected Thursday, with a banquet scheduled for Thursday night at the Lincoln. The convention ends Friday night. Among the numerous exhibits of therapeutic appliances is a static machine capable of manufacturing a miniature lightning bolt of 400,000 volts. The machine is operated on a one-horse power motor. It Is used for therapeutic treatments of sick ptESOBfc

CHALLENGE TO BARBERS STIRS LONDON FURY Hairdressers Work Selves Into Lather of Rage at Bill Kenny's ‘lnsult/ DEFY THE YANKEE BLOKE ‘Let ’im Come, We’ll Show ’im a Real 'aircut/ They Chant. BY HENRY T. RUSSELL ITnittd Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 11.—Britannia rules the shears. The embittered hairdressers of London, backed by indignant public opinion, girded their shears today : to repulse the assault on their art, . made by William F. Kenny, New ! York piulti-millionaire. | “Eccentric” was only one of the I adjectives applied to Mr. Kenny’s j action in telephoning across the Atj lantic for his barber to come posthaste and give him “a decent haircut.” The thing really has become serious. It's the implication that English haircuts aren't decent. A clamorous press has united behind the the hairdressers ;(which i~ English for barbers), and the first impulse J to bar the invading barber under the alien labor act, has given place to a courageous resolve to let him come and show him up. The challenge was flung today at John Carter’s, “The Century-Estab-lished Hairdressing Saloon (English for barber shop), on Fleet street. They Challenge Him If William F. Kenny’s barber—or any other blighted Yankee barber —wants to come to England and joust with real hairdressers at shearing, shaving, trimming, clipping. singeing, massaging, shampooing or any other branch of the art. England is ready. That is the challenge that came } without hesitation when the United I Press correspondent entered John j Carter's and asked how about it. Seven barbers rose as one and advanced. gesticulating with razors and shears. The correspondent re- ; treated out of range and listened. : He. heard plenty. j ‘From G. B. Shaw to mast of England's chief justices—” “My father before me—” “And peers and swells—” Memories of 100 years of honorable haircutting were evoked in the clamor. It’s an Insult Then the leading barber stilled the others and acted as spokesman. “You mean to tell me now we’re not fit to clip a Yankee millionaire's hair?” he demanded. Then, villi h’s dropping all over the place, he formulated his demands and his challenge for any Yankee to meet a first-class London hairdresser In a hair-cutting contest. “We’d like to know how the Yankee In question judges a haircut. ; What proof he knows the difference ! between a good and bad haircut? What proof he has any qualifications to judge a haircut? Furthermore. what is the difference between a good and a bad haircut? What authority has he to say he couldn’t get a good haircut in London? It’s an insult to British barbers. “Os course, we London artists can’t answer for suburbanite hairdressers. But I fancy the Yankee bloke neverr tried a reputable London tonsorial, because I venture to sa? any one of them could carry honors in an international competition judged by the world’s tonsorial experts.” Claims Hair Already Cut “Let ’im.” chimed in chair four, referring to Kenny’s barber; “Let ’im come. Let ’im invite us to see ’is work on Kenny. We’ll pick ’oles in 'is blooming ’aircut.” So when Kenny’s barber. Louis Arico. arrives on the Leviathan on Friday, there is every chance he will t' admitted. The Daily Herald, labor organ, commented that it would be an international joke if Arico is not permitted to land. - The Evening News claimed to have interviewed Kenny on the Stoke Poges golf course today. The News said it found Kenny already had a hair cut in London. AUTHORITIES CONSIDER PARKS FOR COUNTY Agent for National Playgrounds Urges Open Breathing Spaces. City and county officials today considered recommendations by Eugene T. Lies of the Playground and Recreation Association of America. Tor establishment of several parks In Marion county. The situation was discussed Tuesday afternoon at a citizens meeting at the Central public library, at which Richard Lieber, state conservation department director, and Mayor L. Ert Slack spoke. Slack said he favored Lies’ suggestion to “provide open breathing spaces near the city.” WHEAT PRICES PROBED Farm Board Asks Inquiry of Grain Disparity. By United Press WASHINGTON, Spt. 11.— An inquiry into causes for the disparity between Canadian wheat prices and wheat prices in the northwestern United States will be made by the agriculture department at request of the &deral farm board, it iras announced todaju f