Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1929 — Page 19

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MILLIONS TO BE SPENT BY UTILITY CO. Plymouth and Nearby Points Affected by Northern Indiana Plans. ACTIVITY IN OIL FIELDS Shell Corporation Takes Leases on Large Area in Knox County. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Outstanding business and industrial developments in Indiana for the week ended today Include announcement of a $1,860,000 improvement program for the northern part of the state by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company and activity in oil fields in the southern part. The service company’s program Includes erection of a superpower station at Plymouth and an extension ot a 132,000-volt power line from Michigan City to Plymouth; a 33,000-volt transmission line from the Plymouth center to Goshen and Warsaw’; additional switching apparatus in the Michigan City substation; a second circuit on the superpower line between Michigan City and New Carlisle, and improvement of service facilities in Plymouth, Culver and other cities and towns in that vicinity. Large Area Leased The most extensive oil drilling test in Knox county’s history is forecasts a result of the leasing of nearly 5.000 acres of land by the ! Shell Petroleum Corporation. The j leases will run for five years. The j company also holds leases on land j in southern Pike county and north- i ern Warrick county. Bell Brothers, independent op- | erators have brought in a well which is declared the most promis- ; ing of any in the western Pike county field. Oil is flowing from the boring, and a banks have been thrown up to hold it until tanks i can be built. Conditions in various Indiana | cities are shown in the following summary: Anderson —Operations have been resumed at two local General Motors units, the Delco-Remy and Guide Lamp Corporation plants, after ten days idleness during taking of the annual inventory. Marion—The United States Radio and Television Corporation has moved into its new administrative and engineering building. Alexandria— The mantle department of the Aladdin Corporation has been moved into a new’ SIOO,OOO building. Chrysler Force Increased Newc<rstle —The local plant of the Chrysler automobile industry is steadily adding to its working force, Ihe additions being mostly old employes who were affected by a recent reduction in the number of employes. Columbus— A ruge Diesel engine made here by the Cummins Engine Company for the Pennsylvania railroad. the first of a type to be made in tests for developing anew locomotive, has been shipped to Altoona, Pa., for mounting on a specially designed chassis. Gas City—The Owens-Illinois Glass Company, whose Indiana plants are located here and at Evansville. has been merged with the Continental Can Company of New York, a $100,000,000 concern, forming the largest organization of its kind in the world. Wabash—The Chamber of Commerce announces plans for creation here of a SIOO,OOO fund to be used In obtaining factories for the city. $30,000 Paid for Tomatoes Trafalgar— Farmers of this community have been paid $30,000 for tomatoes by Van Camp Packing Company in this year’s canning scftson. East Chicago—The partially completed plant here of the Empire Refining Company is already providing employment to 1.500 men, and full operation will be in effect by Jan. 1. Ft. Wayne— The Allied Mills. Inc., of Ft. Wayne has purchased the Riverdale Products Company of Chicago. Auburn—A service building 225 feet long and 175 feet wide is to be anew unit of the Auburn Automobile Company plant here. Waterloo—The Sliver Moon Toy Company announces plans to buy realty south of here on which its plant is located. An expansion program will probably be put into effect early in 1930. Bluffton—A committee of the Chamber of Commerce announces completion of raising a $25,000 fund to obtain an industry which will use the plant of the defunct H. C. Bay Piano Company. Aviation Business Grows South Bend Officials of the Bendix Aviation Corporation announce new business hase been developed in Europe as a result of a trip abroad by Vincent Bendix, president, and Albert Bradley, a vice-president of General Motors Corporation and chairman of the Bendix finance committee. Clinton—The Vermillion coal mine, Idle since March, resumed operations this week with a force of about 150. I* Porte— The National Rabbit Breeders and Packers Association, recently formed by local men. announces plans plans for an extensive business in fur and meat. Vincennes—The local plant of the Brown Shoe Company has resumed operations, after a short period of idleness during the semiannual inventory. The pay roll is nearly SIO,OOO weekly.

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Heroine cf Thrillers to Stage Movie Comeback

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Ruth Roland Bv .V EA Service HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. I.—Moviana’s greatest serial star is coming back—but not in the thrillers which made her famous. “Because,” declares Ruth Roland, “they don’t make them any more. There isn’t a company in business today that makes serials of the quality we used to make five or six years ago. “We made two serials a year and each of them cost in the neighborhood at $300,000. Today they are made in about six weeks at a cost of about $50,000. And I won’t work in such pictures.” Ruth’s return to the screen is after an absence of two years. Since that time she has devoted her time to vaudeville and her various real estate enterprises. She is rated near the millionaire class.

TROUBLE AT MINE AVERTED FOR DAY

Violence Feared at Shaft Near Boonville: Pickets Quit Vigil. Bu Times Special BOONVILLE, Ind., Nov. I.—Fear of violence for 100 nonunion miners at the John Bull co-operattive mine near Boonville was dispelled momentarily today, when a crowd of approximately fifty pickets dispersed alter fruitless efforts to induce the miners to quit work. The pickets, most of them from other Warrick county co-operative mines which have suspended operation as miners left at the union’s behest, took up stations along roads leading to the John Bull prine about 7 a. m. They attempted no violence, but entreated the miners to join their ranks. They withdrew about 9 a. m. Ihe situation remained tense, however, in view of the nonunion miners’ determination to stay on the job. Fearing an outbreak of violence, Sheriff George Ward made three trips to the mine this morning. Operators believe organizers and possibly some of their allies who were believed to have had a hand in the recent Bono brutalities are behind the trouble here. It is estimated that the organization drive in Warrick county has thrown approximately 400 miners out of work. Under the co-operative plan, miners’ wages are contingent upon

Judge Tried as Killer

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Here are the principal figures in the trial of Judge R. H. Hamilton (right) of Amarillo, Tex., charged with killing his son-in-law, Tom Walter, after he had learned of young Walton's secret marriage with his daughter, Theresa, while they were students at the University of Texas. Judge J. E. Carter, before whom Hamilton is beiijg tried at Weatherford, i pictured, top left, and Prosecuting Attorney V. P. Craven, left below,

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a division of profits from operation, with regard for the hours of employment. The arrangement is in disregard of the union wage scale. Officials of the mine are prepared to appeal to the state for aid at the first sign of violence. CUSTODIANS INVITED Smoke Abatement League to See Pictures. Indianapolis power engineers and firemen, custodians and janitors of all industries, schools, hospitals and other buildings, were invited today to attend a meeting of the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League tonight at the Denison. The National Associaion of Power Engineers and the Universal Craftsmen’s Council of Engineers are meeting jointly with the league. J. P. Brown, league inspector, will show slide pictures of old and new buildings and equipment in the city, and Roy Johnsqp, league manager, will speak. Nig'it Classes Planned Hu T'tiitrd rrss „ ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. I.—Public schools will conduct night classes to enable parents to familiarize themselves with school methods aa a feature of this city’s observance of American education week, Nov. 11 to 17.

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DEATH A DAY, TRAFFIC TOLL RATEJN CITY Fatal Injury of Lad, 12, Boosts Fatalities to Total of 15. EIGHT OTHERS ARE HURT Everett Heid Stepped in Path of Cousin’s Car, Police Told. Another traffic death early today' boosted the Indianapolis auto fatality toll to fifteen in as many days. Ten other persons were injured Thursday night in a series of minor accidents in and near Indianapolis. Everett Heid, 12, of 1915 West Morris street, died in the city hospital this morning as a result of injuries he suffered when struck by an auto driven by his cousin, Victor Williams, 19, R. R. 4, Box 79 at Morris and Hiatt streets. Driver Is Held The boy was returning home from an errand at the time of the accident. Williams stopped his car and called police. He was arrested on a charge of assault and battery with a motor vehicle. Police were told the boy stepped in the path of the auto. Surviving the boy are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heid; four brothers, Harold, Walter, Frank and Daniel Heid, and four sisters, Mrs. Bertha Howson, Mrs. Roxie Norris, Mrs. Delores Mcßride and Miss Bessie Heid. An elderly Negro who was injured fatally by an autoist Thursday morning was identified today as John Upshaw, who lived in the 1300 block Hillside avenue. Upshaw was struck by an auto driven by Harlan Haines, 16, of 1605 Ashland avenue. John Sekula, 929 Haugh street, died Thursday after he was injured Sunday when he walked into the side of a moving taxicab driven by Harry Gilmore, 321 East Walnut street, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Two Hurt in Mishap Two persons were injured when two autos collided Thursday night at Twenty-fourth street and Park avenue. Edward Hite, 3101 Macpherson avenue, driver of one of the autos, was taken to the Methodist hospital suffering from a broken right leg, and Miss Lucille Horine, 2361 North Alabama street, who was riding in the other car, suffered injuries to her right hip. Two Butler university students today were recovering from injuries received in an auto accident. They were Joseph Cahill, 1419 North Gale street, and Edward Campbell, 4200 Brookville road. Other persons injured were: Albert Kreich, 22, of 1354 Union street; Paul Carter of Zionsville; Mrs. William Shipp, 65, of 2311 Hoyt avenue; Oscar Berry, Negro, 54, of 120 East St. Clair street; William McCarty, Barton hotel, and Robert Laflan, 50, Camby.

LSQUOR MURDER TRIALCLOSING Self-Defense Is Plea of Dry Raid Posseman. Bu United Press CHANDLER, Okla., Nov. I.—A jury of farmers and tradesmen probably will receive the case of Jeff Harris, member of a prohibition raiding party, charged with murder, late today. Harris was accused of shooting to death Oscar Lowery and James Harris, farmers, and was charged specifically with Lowery’s murder. He claims he was fired on first and shot in self-defense. The state is seeking a death sentence for the 65-year-old posseman. The raid occurred July, 4 as James Harris, not related to the defendant, his wife and two children were preparing to sit down to dinner with Lowery and his wife. The families lived together on a farm near Tecumseh, Okla. ‘GREAT MORAL VICTORY’ Boys Boot Ball Through Window; Get New One in Return. Bu United Press REDWOOD CITY, Cal., Nov. I. The “Little Scorpions” football team won a great moral vistory here today. The star punter for the Scorpions, a sandlot organization, booted the ball through a grocery window, in the course of an exciting game. Mrs. Anna Struckert, proprietor, enraged over the loss of the window, burned the pigskin. But Justice of the eace Edward McAuliffe, recalling he was young himself once, ordered Mrs. Struckert to pay the boys $lO lor anew ball. POSTAL REVENUESGAIN Increase Is Shown Despite Loss of Political Business. Increase of $2,895 in postal receipts was shown in October, in comparison with October. 1928, despite the fact that approximately $40,000 postage was spent last October by political parties during the presidential campaign. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson reported today. Total receipts last month were $440,077.

Don't Buy Stocks on Margin , Warns Saunders , Once Stung

BY RALPH MILLETT NEA Service Writer Memphis, Tenn., Nov. i.—“it’s foolish business for any individual to try to beat the Wall Street crowd, for in the end there is bound to be only one result—disaster for the individual.” Thus does Clarence Saunders, grocery chain store king, comment on the spectacular Wall Street debacle of the last few days. Saunders knows w ; hat he is talkink about. There was a time when he thought he had Wall Street licked. He bucked Wall Street with $16,000,000 in cold cash. .Then, a day or so later, he woke up to learn that Wall Street had him licked, proper. He put on a come-back and he’s very wealthy today, but he didn’t get It in the stock market. It was only a few short years ago that Saunders found out about Wall Street. As head of PigglyWiggly he had run up paper profits of $30,000,000, taking a railroad car full of cash to New York under his own heavily armed guards to work on. Then unexpectedly, the New York Stock Exchange suspended the rules, gave a five-day extension for stock. deliveries—and Saunders went back to Memphis stone broke. Wall Street ridiculed the exgrocery clerk as “the country boob from Tenneseee.” He came back, though, now has 500 stores of his own and is worth more than he ever was before. In three years „he returned to a millionaire from semi-poverty. But he didn’t put a dime in Wall Street during the recent upheaval, and the present crash is to him a matter of academic interest only. “My advice to the great mass of American men and women,” he

MURDER WITNESS TELLS OF WARNING

Convict Asserts He Was Told Not to Testify Against Sudovich. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. I.—Al Armstrong, who is serving a life term for complicity in the murder of Uron Marovich, stuck by his story today that Nick Sudovich, now on trial here for the murder, hired him to aid in committing the crime. Defense attorneys tried to get Armstrong to say that Chicago bootleggers hired him and Charles Kelly to do the killing, because Marovich threatened the bootleggers with blackmail, but he did not alter the story told for the state Thursday. Armstrong testified that he has been warned in prison not to testify against Sudovich. He said a brother of Fred Brennan, who was tried for the crime and acquitted, came to his jail window and uttered the warning: “Keep mum about Sudovich.” He identified the brother in court today. An Indiana Harbor policeman also warned him not to mention Sudovich, Armstrong said.

These Bandits Read Signs Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Nov I—Three unmasked youths walked into a grocery operated fcy Charles Kalil, made a few purchases, drew automatic revolvers and their leader remarked: “Hand over the cash. We mean business, Charlie. There’s no monkey business about it this time.” Kalil handed over $129. He couldn’t imagine how the bandit knew his name. After the hold-up, he discovered the key to the mystery. Charles Kalil is painted in large letters on display windows of the store.

DETAILS MISSIONARY EFFORTS IN INDIA Crime Not to Christianize World, Says Dr. Mary Longdon. Work among the children of India and how the coming of education has helped to Christianize them as detailed by Dr. Mary M. C. Longdon, missionary in India for the United Christian Missionary Society, at the annual state rally of the Indiana Women’s Christian Missionary Society Thursday in the Downew Avenue Christian church. “It is not a crime to be born in a non-Christian world, but it Is a crime for Christians to allow nonChristians to remain in that kind of a world,” she declared. Approximately five hundred persons attended the rally. PIONEER RESIDENT DIES Jeremiah Gray Formerly Served Perry Township as Trustee. Last rites for Jeremiah Gray, 77, pioneer resident of Marion county and former trustee of Perrytownship, who died Thursday at his home of his son, Clyde Gray, Sbuthport. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. Mr. Gray was bom near Acton. He was a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges. Surviving him are two sisters, Mrs. G. E. McFarland and Mrs. Ray Ferguson, and three sons, Clyde, Le Roy and Cornelius R. Gray, all of Marion county.

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Clarence Saunders ... he tried to beat Wall Street with $16,000,000 in cold cash—and failed.

•says, “is to refuse absolutely, whatever the temptation, to buy or sell stocks on margin. “Such stock trading is gambling and nothing else—and when you do

‘Mrs. Boss’ Bu T’nifed Press KALAMAZOO, Mich.. Nov. 1. —“Never spend more than $1 without first asking the wife about it,” Harry E. Dodge, of Fall River, Mass., advised a group of youths in an address here. “Let the woman handle the money,” he said. “She is a natural born shopper. Shopping is a part of her life.” He was of the opinion that 10 per cent of all divorces were due to money, and when the money question is not a “fiftyfifty proposition between husband and wife, then trouble lies just around the corner.”

PROMISES ECONOMY Glossbrenner Says He Will Be 'City Manager.’ “City manager” crept into addresses of Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican nominee for mayor, Thursday night at meetings at Udell and Clifton streets, and Twenty-second street and Martindale avenue. “If elected I shall be an accessible and receptive city manager,” Glossbrenner said. “It becomes vitally important for us to have honest, economical and efficient government. The people of Indianapolis are paying, in one way or the other, for the right kind of city management, whether they get it or not. If elected mayor, I propose to see that they get It.” He said he would welcome public hearings on matters of vital importance to the city. DIES AT AGE 5F122 Mexican Woman in Possession of AH Her Faculties. Bu United Press VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Nov. I. Mrs. Antonia Garfin, a Mexican of the poorer class, died at the age of 122 Thunsdav at Cosamaloapan, state of Vera Cruz. She w’as in possession of all her faculties and able to do housework.

Madame Curie Honored

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President Hoover and Madame Marie Curie are shown above after the famous French scientist and co-discoverer of radium had been preaented a gram of radium worth $50,000, a gift of American women, to carry on her research work. The presentation took place at the National Academy ot Sciences at Washington.

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it, you’ll get gamblers’ loss more times than you’ll get gamblers’ luck. “What has happened in the stock market is just what had to happen. The only question was, ‘When?’ “The money lender is the profit maker out of this wild orgy of uncontrolled gambling and speculation. The man &nd woman of moderate or small means has been stripped of his or her savings. “The big rich have been made richer, for they first sold at a huge profit and how they can buy back (because they have the cash the little fellow got squeezed out of him) at their own price the same stock they sold at a high price.”

BRAIL DEATH TRIALMONDAY Beer Resort Case to Be Heard at South Bend. Bu Times: Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 1. Marvin Cramer, young automobile salesman, will go on trial in St. Joseph circuit court here Monday on an indictment charging him with manslaughter in the death pf Edward J. Blankert, Mishawaka, during a roadhouse brawl early last summer. Cramer was shot through the head in a beer resort operated by Ethel Boyer east of Mishawaka. Cramer denied the shooting, but was indicted on the ground that he was the last person seen with a gun in a free-for-all fight in which Blankert was fatally shot and the interior of the resort demolished. Two Elkhart lawyers, who were indicted on riot charges for participation in the fight, will be called as witnesses. Cramer was indicted by the June grand jury. He has been at liberty under bail since the return of the true bill. TWO YEARS FOR SAW SMUGGLER Aid in Jail-Break Handed Penitentiary Term. Lee Chamness, 21, Muncie, who pleaded guilty to liquqor violation and to smuggling twelve hack safr blades to prisoners in Marion county jail in August, today was sentenced to serve two years in the reformatory at Chillicothe, 0., by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Harry L. Williams, charged with conspiring with Chamness to obtain the saws while Williams was a federal motor theft prisoner in the jail, recently was given two years on the jail break charge and two and one-half years in prison on the mote rtheft charge. Three defendants charged with liquor violation at the Aragon Club, Forty-second street and Millersville road, pleaded guilty. The defendants and their sentences were: Ed H. Shepp, sixty days in jail and SIOO fine; Pete Degarro and Joe Snider, thirty days each. Charles C. Bryant, Kokomo, pleaded guilty to a motor theft charge and was sentenced to serve a year and a day at Leavenworth penitentiary. SOCIALIST MOB CHARGED Pair of Anti-Pilsudski Members of Polish Sejm Wounded. Bu United Press WARSAW, Poland, Nov. I.—Police charged a crowd of 2,000 Socialists gathered at political meeting in the streets here today, wounding two Socialist members of the Sejm, who had made speeches attacking Marshal Joseph Pilsudski. The incident so intensified the political crisis arising out of failure of the parliament to open Thursday that President Ignacy Mosciciki requested Ignacy Danszynski, speaker of the Sejm, to confer with him Saturday in an attempt to relieve the critical situation.

PLEADERS FOR CONVICTS GET SHARPREBUKE M. E. Foley of Prison Board Declares Correcting Errors Not Purpose. 53 RECEIVE CLEMENCY Remainder of 175 Applicants for Release Turned Down. Bu United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. I. Fifty-three men in Indiana state prison here were given clemency today by the pardon and parole board, out of 175 who had filed applications. Only two w'ere life termers. Twenty-seven of the twenty-nine men paroled a year ago were given permanent discharges. Two will remain on parole. The quarterly meeting Thursday, which lasted until nearly midnight, was marked by a bitter speech of M. L. Foley, board member. In which he denounced "prosecutors and sheriffs who help convict a man and then appear before the board admitting they were wrong in the prosecution.” The tirade was precipitated in the case of Nathan Christner, La Grange county, who is serving a life term for attacking his 8-year-old daughter. Declare He’s Innocent The sheriff who made the arrest, the attorney who prosecuted him and the doctor who made examination on which testimony Christner was sentenced in 1923, appeared before the board for the second time and declared Christner was not guilty, but probably committed an assault. It was brought out at the trial that Christner had suffered sunstroke several years ago and was believed not mentally normal at times. Foley asserted the board was not a body intended to rectify mistakes made in courts, but to grant or deny clemency, and that the board must necessarily assume that courts had weighed evidence and pronounced just sentence. Judge’s Opinion Recited Christner’s case was continued thirty days pending written word from Judge Drake, who passed sentence, that a mistake had or had not been made. Judge Drake already Indicated he believed Christner was wrongfully convicted. One life-termer granted clemency was John de Board, sentenced in Daviess circuit court in January, 1907, for murder. Recommendation to Governor Harry Leslie was that he be given ninety-day temporary parole and a permanent discharge at its conclusion if his behavior warranted, and that he was not to go to Vincennes, where he had had trouble before. His release was recommended by several leading Vincennes citizens, the trial judge and prosecuting attorney. The other life-prisoner released was James Whittinger, sentenced from Tippecanoe county in 1907 for murder committed during a drunken fight. Marlon County Man Free A full parole was granted Claude Ross, Marion county, with a statement that the “board did not believe him guilty.” Ross was sentenced in May, 1928, to five to twenty-one years for attacking a 16-year-old girl who, It has been learned since, was in the habit of seducing men and getting them in. trouble. Trial Judge James A. Collins said Ross was wrongfully convicted and the statement was concurred in by Prosecutor Judaon Clark. Ray Riche, sentenced in Marlon county, in 1926, to ten to twenty-one years also was recommended for a ninety-day temporary parole with expectation that it be made permanent. With two other men he held up a filling station in Indianapolis. Judge Collins recommended the sentence be commuted to eighteen months to twenty-one years, Charles Damron, sentenced in Warrick circuit court, in June 1929, to two to fourteen years for conspiracy, had his sentence commuted to one to fourteen years. He will be eligible for parole in June. Forty-six of the eighty- two men who appeared personally before the board Thursday night were granted paroles, a THREE HOOSIERS ON BIRD GROUP STAFF Audubon Society Plans Antelope Preserve In Nevada. Three Hoosiers are represented on the staff of the National Association of Audubon Societies, which concluded its national meeting in New York this week. Alden H. Hadley of Monrovia la assistant to the president, Sidney R. Esten, Indianapolis, field lecturer on ornithology in Indiana, and 8. E. Perkins, Indianapolis, field lecturer for the organization in Maryland. The society plans an antelope preserve In Nevada in addition to bird sanctuaries on golf courses of the nation. KENTUCKIAN IS HELD Police Charge Attempt to Enter House; Jewelry Found. Frank Laudett, 30, Louisville, was held today on vagrancy charge* tor investigation after his arrest when police say he attempted to enter a house at 519 East Miami street Thursday. Several articels of jewelry, found in his pockets, were identified as having been taken from the apartment of Miss Mary Baldwin and Miss Mabel Bolton, at 830 North Delaware street, police say.