Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1929 — Page 3

OCT. 19, 1929

FORMAL CHARGE WILL BE FILED IN TRAIN WRECK Police Claim Evidence Is Found to Implicate William Breece. Evidence which police say will link Wililam Breece, 45, of Cumberland with defailment of a fast Pennsylvania express train east of Indianapolis Wednesday night, has been gathered by investigators, they claimed today. Breece, who is charged with vagrancy and held under SIO,OOO bond, probably will be named today in an affidavit charging him with wrecking the train, it was said. According to detectives, evidence has been obtained that Breece was not at home during the early part of the night, as he said, and that he was seen near the scene of the accident. Police also stated that the bicycle pump, found along with wrenches and a crowbar near the accident scene, had been in Breece’s possession. The train was wrecked while traveling sixty-five miles an hour. Fifteen cars and a locomotive were derailed, tearing up the track more than a half-mile. Breece was arrested after bloodhounds led police to his home. Breece today continued to assert his innocence and said he could prove he had nothing to do with J wrecking the express. The vagrancy case against him j was continued in municipal court ; until Oct. 25. Breece is a former employe of j the railroad and is said to have ; been injured while in the company’s | employ. CLAUDE BOWERS TO TALK BEFORE EDITORS Democratic Association to Hold Midwinter Session Here. Claude G. Bowers, famed historian and Democratic keynoter, is scheduled to address the midwinter meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at the Claypool, Feb. 15. Arrangements for Bowers visit here were made by Miller G. Ellingham of Ft. Wayne, president of the association. Bowers, now an editorial writer on the New York World, is a native of Indianapolis and graduate of Shortridge high school. He was editorial writer on the old Indianapolis Sentinel and the Terre Haifte Star. From 1917 to 1923 he was editor of the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. His latest book, selected as the book of the month by the Literary Guild, is entitled “The Tragic Era; the Revolution After Lincoln.” It deals with the Johnson regime and the corruption of the south by the “carpetbaggers.” ITALIAN EMBASSY IS GUARDED BY POLICE Brussels Demonstrators Fire Shots j and Throw Stones. Bu T nited Press LONDON,, Oct. 19.—Extra police were assigned to guard the Italian embassy in Brussels today to prevent further acts of a group of demonstrators who Friday fired several shots in the neighborhood of the embassy and hurled stones at the windows, a Daily Chronicle dispatch from Brussells today said. In some quarters it was believed the demonstrations were in protest against the expected announcement of the engagement of CrOwn Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium. Others believed the demonstration might have been a protest against the execution of Yugo-Slavian and the imprisonment of four others at Pola Thursday. COAL PRICE BOOST FEARED BY GERMANY Export Firing Agreement Received With Gloom in Berlin. it ii Vnited Frets BERLIN. Oct. 19.—Fear of a considerable increase in the price of coal was raised here today by talk of an understanding between European producers to fix coal exports. Business circles expressed the belief such an arrangement inevitably would raise prices here, because the importation of British coal would be reduced or even eliminated. The outlook has alarmed German consumers. who point out that British competition in the past has benefited Germany. One expert, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt. emphasized that British coal not only has helped keep down prices in Germany, but also has improved the quality of German coal. THREE HURT IN CRASH Two Teachers Injured in Collision of Autos at Intersection. Three were injured when automobiles driven by W. W. Adams. 54, of 1524 Rembrandt street, and Miss Tessie Sheets. 28, Hammond, <lnd.> teacher, collided at Thirtieth street and State road 52. Friday night. Adams’ shoulder was dislocated; Miss Goldie Shieglev. 27. Chalmers <lnd.) teacher, was cut and bruised, and George W. Timmons, 52. Brookston. was cut on the head. All were treated at city hospital. STATE IS RESTRAINED Insurance Firm May Continue Issue Policies Temporarily. Temporary restraining order has been issued by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell against Clarence Wysong, state insurance commissioner. to prevent disqualification of the Iroquois Underwriters, Inc., from writing automobile insurance because of issuance of nonassessable policies

Big Air Liner Will Be Displayed Here

One of the largest airplanes in service on a passenger air line, the Curtiss Condor biplane, will be exhibited at the Curtlss-Mars Hill airport Saturday, in connection with formal dedication of the new $75,000 hangar and administration building of Cur-

HOME LIGHTING EFFECTSASKED Citizens Are Urged to Aid Jubilee Celebration. Citizens have been asked to augment Indianapolis’ celebration of! Lights golden jubilee by home displays between 7 and 9 p. m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, in an announcement issued by the local committee in charge of the celebration. Monday will be the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the electric light by Thomas A. Edison. Pre-celebration events got under j way in Indianapolis Friday night, I with light displays in many parts of the city. From the War Memorial Plaza Friday night a giant searchlight, property of the United States war department, played on airplanes flying over the city in darkness. On the underside of one plane the name “Edison” was spelled in electric lights. Special lighting effects were arranged at the sous corners of the War Memorial, where crowds of residents with thousands of visiting school teachers viewed the spectacle. The display of citizen’s need not, be elaborate, the committee’s recommendation said. It was suggested porch lights be left on during the celebration hours. CAMPAIGN TO BOOM School Candidates Average Five Meetings Daily. Candidates on the citizens’ school j committee ticket are addressing [ about 6,090 persons weekly to acquaint voters with the need ffor “cleaning up” Indianapolis schools, Herman C. Wolff, citizens’ chairman, said today. An average of five meetings a day, exclusive of the organization meetings, were held this week. Voting the "straight ticket” was urged on the theory that citizens will be voting for a cause, and not individuals, by supporting the citizens’ slate. “Make our schools worth their cost,” is the slogan of the citizen# committee. Mrs. Maud Miller, Julian Wetzel, Samuel Garrison, Russell Willson! and Merle Sidener are the candidates. URGES STRICT UWS Glossbrenner Promises to Regulate City Crime. Strict law enforcement was advocated by Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican candidate for mayor, at a rally of the First Ward Repubi lican Club Friday night at 2001 \ Winter avenue. “The big cripiinals of the country usually have begun as petty thieves | starting careers in the poorly regj ulated poolroom, the back room of | the saloon, or blind pig,” Glossbren- | ner said. “I intend, if elected, to maintain a strict supervision, through the proper authorities, over ' known places of this character; to : provide safe streets for the women | and girls of the city; to eliminate, in j so far as possible, the reckless driver as a constant menace to other j drivers.” Glossbrenner also declared that he will make the police department free from political control. 'MIND CURE' IS SCIENCE Hospital Head Says Practice No Longer Is Quackery. By Science Service NEW YORK. Oct. 19.—“ Mind cure” is ris ng from the realm of quackery and becoming a part of scientific medicine. Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s hospital, Washington, told j physicians at the second annuri graduate fortn’ght of the New York Academy of Medicine Friday night In property selected cases, prop- ; erly trained physicians are able to cure disease by treat ng the minds i of the patients. Dr. White explained ; to the doctors who had gathered to i learn the latest facts of this new branch of medicine, psychotherapy.

tiss Flying Service of Indiana today, Saturday and Sunday. The air liner has accommodations for eighteen passengers and a crew of three. The plane is being loaned by Transcontinental Air Transport, which uses it on its transcontinental air-m6il route.

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IF YOU should see a mail truck lurch out of his steaming truck and -stagger away some blustery day this winter, don’t call the police. He may be the victim of bootleg alcohol. But still don’t call the police—it will be entirely legal. Here’s how!—gleaned from a surprisingly frank conversation between Postmaster Robert H. Bryson and Alf O. Meloy, United States marshal. * 1 Eryson: “Hello, Alf. How about a little ‘alky?’ ” Meloy: “Hello, Bob. How much do you want?” Bryson (without batting an eye): “Oh, four or five hundred gallons —or as much as you can spare. I’ve got to get those postoffice trucks ready for winter. But don’t give me any confiscated ‘white mule,’ because it eats out the radiators!” The government saves probably SSOO a year on its radiator alcohol bill, Bryson explained, by obtaining from the marshal denatured alcohol which has been taken from rum runners by federal dry agents.

A. & P. TAKES LEASE ON TERMINAL WAREHOUSE New Building Will Serve 300 Stores With 2,250 Employed. Leasing of a large terminal warehouse, now under construction in east Indianapolis, to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company of New Jersey was announced today by the Monyhan Construction Company and R. D. Brown of this city. The building, located near Washington street and State avenue, has a floor space of approximately 150,000 square feet, and will serve as a distributing center for 300 retail stores in Indiana. It is being erected by the Moynahan and the Carl M. Geupel Construction companies and is expected to be completed by Jan. 1. J. A. Lindgren, president of the tea company, announces that more than 225 persons will be employed in the tern^nal. GROTTOJJPENS HOME 4,000 Veiled Prophets # in Dedication Ceremony. Sahara Grotto today officially opened its new home to lodge activities after dedication exercises Friday night, featured by a ceremonial, executed by approximately 4,000 veiled prophets. Edward Blake Winter, of Windsor, Ont., grand steward of flie supreme council, was guest of honor at a banquet in the Claypool Friday night. Uniformed organizations participated in street pageant preceding the ceremonial. Carl Schey served as master of ceremonies at the exercises. FORMER OFFICIAL HELD Shortage Alleged in Accounts of Richmond Treasury. pji Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 19.—Embezzlement of public funds and altering records are charged to William G. McVay, former city treas- . urer, in indictments by the Wayne county grand jury. McVay is held iin jail, having failed to provide ; $2,000 bond. State board of accounts examiners ; in a report submitted in August said j McVay’s accounts during his term in office were $4,500 short. ATTORNEYS WILL ELECT Nominating Committee Is Named by Bar Association. A committee of five members of the Indianapolis Bar Association today considered the names of members for nominations as president, vice-president, treasurer, executive committee and admission committeemen. Members of the nominating committee, appointed Friday night, are Louis B. Ewbank, William D. Fitzj patrick. H. Nathan Swain and Jos- ! eph T. Markey. NAME CRUISER FOR CITY Optimist Club Sponsors More By i Urging Appeal to Ludlow. ' Steps to have one of the new government cruisers named Indianapolis are being taken by the Indianapolis Optimist Club. Indianapolis persons have been asked to write Congressman Louis Ludlow, urging him to support the movement. The club committee which made the appeal includes: Dr. Frank M. Fitch. F. A. Cannon, Otto Ross. Elmer Goldsmith, Ralph Elvin and Fred Ahrbecker.

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PLANE INJURIES FATAL TO FLIER Albert Miesel Succumbs to Propeller Cuts. ‘ Albert W. Miesel, 20, Sixty-second street and Lafayette pike, was fatally injured about 2:30 p. m. Friday when he was struck by an airplane propeller. The accident occurred in a field opposite Miesel’s home, when, as he was inspecting the motor of a plane owned by Harry Boggs, 31, of 915 Daly street, his foot slipped from a wire on which he was standing and he fell forward into the whirling propeller bade. The tip of the propeller was broken off when it struck the young man’s head. He was taken to Methodist hospital, where he died several hours later. Miesel had been flying about three years. He and Boggs made frequent trips in Boggs’ plane and they were building a small monoplane at Miesel’s home. Miesel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miesel. In addition to the parents, he is survived by a brother Raymond and a sister, Mrs. George Wishmire, both of Indianapolis. He was a graduate of the Ban Davis high school. Argentine Justice Is Dead Bu T'nitrd Press BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19. Dr. president of the supreme court, died Friday night.

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TIME. MONEY IS ALL NEEDED TO AID POOR INDIAN Property, Education Chief Tasks of Government, Says Wilbur. Bn Scripps-Hotenrd Xetcuptiper Alliance. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—A little time, a little money and a little brains will solve the Indian problem, Secretary Wilbur said today. Wilbur in tackling the jjjpblem of reorganizing the government’s Indian bureau and formulating a new Indian policy drastically different from the old, said he had divided it into two parts. First: The Indian himself. Second: The Indian’s property. In case of the older Indian, who been a ward of the government, Wilbur said the Indian’s property is the chief consideration. “Honest management can be given in a stupid way and the Indian’s property can be dissipated,” Wilbur said. “Honest management can be given in a capable way, conserving and making more valuable the property of the Indians.” Many Incompetent The chief fault in the Indian bureau has been that valuable property has been placed in the hands of government employes, many of whom were not capable of administering it properly, Wilbur said. It is his purpose to get sufficient funds from Congress to employ capable agents to handle and protect the property. In the case of the younger Indian, it is not so much a case of property but of developing the Indan himself, Wilbur declared. His first step in this direction has been to order that as many Indian children as possible be sent to public schools. Those who are just finishing school, he is trying tp provide with jobs, and an employment arrangement is being made to find work for them. The Indian boy will be easier to assist than the Indian girl, Wilbur said. The boys are found to be natural mechanics and to show aptitude in other industrial lines. Formerly the government policy had been to train the Indians to become farmers or idlers by making them government wards and leasing out parts of their lands. This has been abandoned, Wilbur indicated. Trained as Domestics The girls have been trained only for domestic work. It now is thought they can be made nurses and be fitted for educational and other forms of endeavor. Wilbur said the Indian policy in the past has been to make the Indian world an exclusive sphere, cutting it off from the remainder of the country. He s!aid he was flattening it out and opening up avenues from the Indian reservation into the rural and municipal life of the nation for the Indian to travel. “I want to make him a citizen, independent and able to take care of himself and not a ward, dependent upon the government for his food and his income,” Wilbur said. Wilbur hopes to end Indian guardianships, Indian boarding schools, destroy reservation life and let the Indians become part of the communities in the states in which they live. He wants them to earn their own living, pay taxes like other citizens, send their children to public schools and take an active civic interest in the affairs around them. Gunsmith Works at 92 Bit Timet Special ELWOOD, Ind., Oct. 19.—Celebration of his ninety-second birlnday over, Anthony Chamness. Elwood’s oldest citizen, is back on the job at his trade of gunsmith. His shop is on Chamness avenue, named for him, and he is the owner of all the buildings along the thoroughfare.

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FAMOUS ORCHESTRA TO OPEN SEASON

Boston Symphony Will Be at the Murat Soon. GREAT orchestra music, superb dancing and grand opera is the musical feast offered to Indiana and Indianapolis this season by the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Five evening attractions in the Murat, opening on Thursday evening, Oct. 31, with the world famous Boston Symphony orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor, are announced. The remaining four concerts on Monday evening will include the Isadora Duncan dancers, Nov. 25; La Argentina, Spain’s famous dancer, Jan. 27; one performance of grand opera by the German Grand Opera Company, Feb. 24, and the Chicago Symphony orchestra, Frederick Stock conductor, March 3. Individual tickets for any of the above concerts will be placed on sale Monday morning at the office of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises, Baldwin Piano Company. For the,first time in many years, to be exact, since February, 1912, the Boston Symphony orchestra is to visit Indianapolis, for a concert on Oct. 31. This orchestra, then reputed the greatest in the world, has in the intervening seventeen years added many glorious chapters to its illustrious history. For five years the Boston Smyphony orchestra has been under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, the extraordinary Russian conductor. Before Koussevitzky came to America in 1924 to lead this orchestra many reports had come from European cities of Koussevitzky’s stirring readings of classic and modem music, his amazingly brilliant and dramatic leadership. In the Boston Symphony orchestra, the genius of Koussevitzky has found a wider range, a more perfectly responsive instrument than ever before. Asa result, the Boston Symphony concerts have taken on a fresh life and a supreme beauty which are the standing wonders of musical performance. A journey so far westward by the Boston Symphony orchestra muSt of necessity be very seldom indeed. The orchestra’s schedule of concerts is almost entirely filled by the five series in greater Boston, one in Providence, and two in New York. Each of these series is subscribed in advance to the last seat, with waiting lists from year to year. This, therefore, is the extent of its itinerary, save for a week’s journey westward in the autumn. An opportunity is here offered to hear at their best the great orchestra and conductor, which are quite inaccessible to any but subscribers in their own city.

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Mrs. Thornton Guerin. 1838 North Alabama street, sat complacently in hes home Thursday while the roof and upper story of the house were consumed by flames. She denied urgent requests of firemen, battling a blaze that damaged three duplex apartments, t o seek safety outside. “I’ll stay with my canary,” she explained, indicating an 18-year-old songbird, the gift of a sister now dead. “Take it with you.” a fireman suggested. “I will. If you turn off the hoses,” replied Mrs. Guerin. “The poor thing might get wet.”

Very Distant Bandits Stick Up ‘One of James Boys/ Guardian of Laundry.

BOUND and muffled, Frank James, 64. of 1118 Bates street, night watchman of the Lux laundry. Fifty-third street and Wm.hrop avenue, who says that he is a cousin of Jesse James, lay quiet while four gentlemen of the James type ransacked the laundry safe early today. The robbers did not obtain any money after battering open the safe, but succeceded in giving the cousin of the notorious old-time highwaymen, an uncomfortable hour. James, employed by the laundry for two weeks, has told his friends how “my cousin, Jesse James,” pulled his famous Missouri robbery feats. tt tt tt JAMES did not have the opportunity of pointing out to the Indianapolis thieves how his cousin would have done the job, because after two of the robbers covered him with guns in the laundry boiler room at 1 a. m. they tied him with apron strings and covered his face with a towel. James told police he was slow in l-aising his hands and the gunteters fired one shot at him. His response was prompt. The watchman told police the gunmen asked him to show them “where the money was,” but he replied that he did not know. He said two other members of the gang entered the laundry after he was bound and the four worked for an hour on the safe. He said he was able to release himself shortly after he heard the robbers leave in an auto. James found the phone wires cut and walked to the home of G. W. Barker, 5366 Winthrop avenue, laundry official, to whom he reported the robbery attempt. Police were not quits convinced by James’ stcry of the robbery attempt, and arrested bum on a vagrancy charge, pending further investigation. Marriage Licenses George N. Woodruff. 24 of 2404 Pear!, clerk, and Eldona F. Blackburn. 24, of 1860 Central, clerk. William A. Hackmever. 26, of 3104 Ralston. secretary, and Esther F. Steinmeyer. 24. of 4605 Noblesville Road. Allle B. Winter. 31 * of 1939 North Illinois. salesman, and Eula M. Duchett, 26. of 822 Christian Court, stenographer. Ralph G. Tilton. 26. of 421 North Delaware. newspaperman, and Heles G. Fairfield. 26. of 2101 Park teacher.

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SHEPHERD DOG RESCUES FLOCK IN FOREST FIRE ‘Laddie’ Is Hero as Flames Ravage Grazing Pasture. Bu T’nited Pres* STEVENSON, Wash., Oct. 19. This is the story of Laddie, a nervous little shepherd dog. During the recent forest fire which destroyed the town of Greenleaf, Wash., located fifteen miles west of here on the Columbia river, and which threatened destruction to Stevenson, Laddie became the hero of the day. Fires were raging along the slopes of Hamilton mountain and along Woodward creek. Between the two walls of flames, a flock of sheep was grazing peacefully. C. H. Craig, Harry Patrick and Mrs. Craig were tending the flock with their two dogs, Laddie and Cap. Sheep in Panic The sheep became panic stricken as the flames raced on toward them. Efforts to get them out of the place were made by the herders. After hours of tireless efforts in | which a bell goat, Billie, was drafted in an attempt to lead the flock away, the herders gave up the task and left the sheep to the of the demon. But Laddie stood by. Attempts were made by tae nerders to reach their sheep and Laddie again, but the flames had jumped the road, cutting them off. Laddie Saves Them The next day the fire had subsided temporarily and passage to the grazing ground was made. Upon their arrival they found no sheep, not even a piece of fleece. They searched the adjacent vicinity and soon the tinkling of a bell, the one worn by the tin can eater, was heard. Then the flock came intq view. And there was Laddie, a nervous wreck, racing ’round and ’round the flock, keeping them together. Not a sheep was missing nor was a fleece scorched. All mere brought to safety through the dog’s efforts, corps and a mule. CABLE, RADIO RATES TO JAPAN REDUCED Nipponese Press Receives Announcement With Enthusiasm Bu United Jfrcst t TOKIO, Oct. 19.—Announcement by the caole and radio communication companies of a reduction in the deferred press rate between the United States and Japan to 9 cents American currency a word, was received with enthusiasm today by the Japanese press. The new rate will become effective Oct. 21. Inauguration of the new rate is considered by Japanese newspapers of outstanding importance, so far as news to and from the United States -rr-concerfied. It was pointed out that such a rate will enable the Japanese press to publish in greater volume important news from the United States, particularly presidential addresses, the text of notes and the detail of outstanding news events. ASSOCIATION TO MEET * County Tuberculosis Organization Elects on Monday. One hundred representatives attending the annual meeting of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association Monday noon at, the Lincbln will hear J. W. Becker. St. Louis, president of the Mississippi Valley Conference of Tuberculosis, as principal speaker. His topic will be “What the Middle West Is Doing co Control Tuberculosis.” Miss Mary A. Meyers, executive secretary of the local organization, will read reports of department heads. Fred A. Sims, president, will preside at the election of officers.