Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1929 — Page 19
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INDIANA STONE ORDERED WILL FILL in CARS Bedford-Bloomington Area to Supply Material for Two Buildings. NIGHT WORK PLANNED One Company Prepares for Rush Period to Insure Delivery. BY CHARLES STONE State Editor. The Time* Noteworthy in a business and industrill survey of Indiana for tne week ended today is booking of two orders for building stone totaling 117 carloads, came from the quarries of the Bloomington-Bedford district. The Bedford Cut Stone Company will supply ninety-seven carloads for the new National City Christian church in Washington. D. C., to be built at a cost of $1,000,000. A rig... force will be used by the company to insure filling of the order on time. The church exterior will be entirely of Bedford stone. Booking of an order for twenty carloads is announced by the Indiana Limestone Company to be used in constructing anew federal building at Juneau, Alaska. Shipment is to be made next month so that material will be on hand when construction will start at the end of the severe Alaskan winter. The Walker Brothers Stone Company of Bloomington has added 2,000 shares to its capital stock with a value of SSO a share. Conditions in various cities of the state are. shown in the following summary: Munrie —In the face of the unusual depression in various industries here, their officials predict improvement will be noted soon. Columbus Company Prospers Columbus —A financal statement of Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc., with plants here, at Greenwood ant. Seymour, covering the first -en months of this year, Indicate 1929 will be the most prosperous year in the company’s history. Net earnings for the ten months were $489,673. An increase in shipments of 122 per cent Is shown for the first ten months of 1929 as compared with the same period in 1928. Inc David Stepp <fc Son packing plant has been sold to Stattler Bros, of Indianapolis. The new owners announces the plant will be enlarged. Greencastlc —The American Zmc Products Company plant is operating again after being idle nearly three weeks while a broken shai i was replaced. Rushville—A milk plant and tomato canning plant "Will be established here by a company composed of Harve Snider, Fountaintown; C. A. Guild, Fairland, and Wallace Reiman. Shelbyville. Brazil—R. E. and F. A. Knox, breeders of Rhode Island Red chickens have added another large incubator to their hatchery here to meet a demand which comes from nearly every state. Craw fordsville—Five carloads of skid platforms, product of the Lewis-Shepard Company, anew concern here, have been shipped. Sanatorium to Be Enlarged Marion— Plans are being drawn for an addition costing $150,000 to $200,000 to the Marion National sanatorium. Decatur -Cloverleaf Creameries, Tnc., operating plants here and at Huntington, has bought the Hunt-ington-Collins Ice Cream Company, operating in Huntington and Rochester. Additions to the plants at Huntington are being planned. Plymouth—Officials of the Plymouth Artificial Ice Company announce that additions to its plant being planned will triple production. . , _ Terre Haute—Eighteen industries are seking information relative to locating plants here, Morton Hayman, Chamber of Commerce secretary. announces. Monticello— Fred P. Biederwolf. manager of the Biederwolf Coal and Ice Company hers. announces personal purchase of the Wolcott, Remington and Goodland ice companies. Bluff ton—Arrangements have been completed whereby a Chicago woodworking company will occupy the plant of the defunct H. C. Bay Piano Company here, and will eventually employ £OO men. Plant tq be Enlarged Goshen—J. Dana Cramer, manager of the Chase Bag Company, which has the largest pay roll of any industry here and gives employment to 475 persons, announces an addition to be built to its plant will increase floor space 63.000 square feet. Vincennes—The Shell Petroleum Company holds leases on 13,742 acres of Knox county land for oil drilling tests, and will probably acquire more land. Ft. Wayne—A company for operation of a brass, bronze and aluminum foundry here is in process of incorporation. J. B. Wiles. manager of the chamber of commerce announces. The Steinite Radio Manufacturing Company, which recently moved to anew plant here from Atchison. Kan., has 1.800 persons on its pay roll. Production is now 1,500 sets daily. Gary— The Pennsylvania railroad announces that construction of its $190,000 passenger station here is to be started at once. Governor's Nephew 111 By Times Special * NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Nov. 15. Carl Leslie, a nephew of Governor Harry Leslie, is in the local hospital IB with appendicitis.
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LIQUOR TRADE LEADER FINED Laundry Man Assessed SI,OOO in U. S. Court. Ktf l i mr* special HAMMOND. Ind., Nov. 15. Dometer Szilagyi, East Chicago laundryman, said to have hauled beer and whiskey in trucks ostensibly used for making collections and deliveries of clothes, was fined SI,OOO and given a six months suspended jail sentence by Judge Thomas W. Slick in federal court here. Szilagyi, reputed as one of the leaders In the Calumet district liquor traffic, entered a plea of guilty, withdrawing one of contrary nature. Counsel for the accused man in urging leniency said the only connection his client had with liquor dealing was permitting use of his building, to which -Judge Slick responded : “You should have known better than to rent your property to be used for violating the prohibition law. If it wasn’t for your age, I would make you serve your sentence.”
PICK DEAN EMERSON I. U. Doctor Heads Mental Hygiene Committee. Word was received here today of the election of Dr. Charles P. Emerson. dean of the Indiana university school of medicine, to the presidency of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene at the body’s meeting in New York. Dr. Emerson, who lives at 3177 North Pennsylvania street, is well known as a diagnostician. The hygienic organization also named Dr. William H. Welch of John Hopkins university honorary president. Dr. James R. Angell, president of Yale, explained at a dinner of the body how a check was made yearly by Yale on the mental condition and morale of students. Dr. Emerson is expected to return from the New York meeting Saturday.
DINNER 15 ARRANGED Mothers of Day Nursery Children to Attend. Sixty mothers, who send their children to the Day Nursery association’s home at 542 Lockerbie street daily while they work, will be entertained Tuesday night by the association's board of directors with a dinner. The dinner is an annual fete of the association’s directorate for the mothers. Games, music and talks will feature the evening's entertainment. Mrs. J. D. Hoss is president of the association; Mrs. Lillian Copeland, matron of the nursery home, and) Mrs. John Engelke is in charge of arrangements for the dinner.
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WIFE KEEPS ALGER SILENT IN PRISON
Youth Reported Ready to Break, but Mate Holds Him Back. Bv Times Special „ „„ VERNON, Ind.. Nov. 15.—While the curious peered through windows of the county jail here today, a redhaired girl paced back and forth in a cell block with her slayerhusband, advising him “not to talk.” The girl is Mrs. Josephine Alger, wno is awaiting trial here with her husband, Gene, for robbery of the Paris Crossing state bank, Aug. 15. Alger is alleged to have robbed the bank while* Mrs. Alger waited in the car. Mrs. Alger, authorities said, was instrumental in retention of Claude Mcßride, Jennings county attorney, to represent them in circuit court here when their trial is held tne latter part of December. Wife Balks Quiz Persons at the jail said when Alger was questioned Wednesday and Thursday, his wife shook her head and whispered to him. Alger refused to talk. State police are contemplating interviewing Alger again within a few days and declared that several times earlier in the week, he was ready “to break,” but his wife interfered. Throughout the day. Alger and his wife, who are the sole occupants of the old jail here, are allowed the freedom of the twenty-foot square cellroom. At night, though, they are confined in separate cells and an extra guard is thrown around the jail. Sheriff Wilbur Bannister said he did not believe there was any possibility of the couple breaking jail. Visited by Sister I Mrs. Alger was visited by her 14-year-old sister. Hazel Miller of Jeffersonville, for a few minutes Thursday. The girl brought the message to jail attaches to serve Josephine Alger certain foods to prevent recurrence of stomach trouble the girl suffered while attending college at Danville. She met Gene Alger while in school. He then was on trial in Danville for the fatal shooting of John Buchanan, Negro, Indianapolis policeman. He was paroled from the two to twenty-one-year reformatory sentence for this offense last May by Governor Harry G. Leslie. RETIRED GROCER DIES Amos W. Reagan Was Official of Wholesaling Firm. Latst rites for Amos W. Reagan. 73, retired wholesale grocer, who died at his home, 3246 Central avehue, Thursday, will be held at the home at 2:30 p. m.. Saturday, by the Rev. W. A. Shullenberger, pastor Central Christian church. Mr. Reagan was born near Plainfield and came to Indianapolis in 1880. For twnety-nve years he was secretary and treasurer of the J. C. Perry & Cos., wholesale grocers, until he retired in 1918. He was a member of Central Christian church and Pentalpha lodge No. 564. F. & A. M. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Clara Reagan, and a brother, Jbhn Reagan of Indianapolis.
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Bursting Tire Routs Bandit Bn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 15. William N. Marine, city coun-cilman-elect, had a unique experience with a bandit on state Road 37, near Hagerstown. He was driving home from Richmond, where he had been called because of the serious illness of a relative when he saw an automobile parked at an angle across the road, too near for him to swerve his car to avoid a collision. The impact caused a tire to burst. The report was apparently mistaken by the holdup man to be a shot from a gun. With one side of his car smashed, the bandit started the motor and drove away.
$250 FINE GIVEN DAM WRECKER Lake Maxinkuckee Case Ended at Plymouth. By Tunes special PLYMOUTH, Ind., Nov. 15. Howard McKee of Goshen was fined $250 and costs in Marshall circuit court here when he entered a guilty plea to a charge of dynamiting a dam across a stream leading from Lake Maxinkuckee at Culver. A similar charge against Donald Cress and George Blender, also of Goshen, was dismissed. The three Goshen men were employed by Dr. A. A. Norris of Elkhart, who asserted that he wished to remove the dam because it caused the water from the stream to flow over his land, and also to facilitate harvest of some marsh hay. Other property owners in the vicinity were greatly incensed over the dynamiting, asserting their land would be damaged by removal of the dam. BANDITSFLEE BULLETS Former State Representative Opens Fire, Routing,Gangster Quartet. Four bandits who fled from a barbecue stand on the National road near Bridgeport Thursday night, when their robbery attempts were interrupted by rifle fire, today might be interested to know that a# former representative in the state legislature fired the shots. The bandits fled from the stand of Mrs. Edward Petty, sister of Luke Duffey, former representative and real estate man, when the latter opened fire on them. Duffey fired four shots into .the bandits’ car. RULEsToN VACCINATION County Must Pay Costs on Schools If Parents Are Too Poor. County treasurers must pay the cost of'immunization or vaccination of school children where the parents are too poor and the preventive measures hive been ordered by the county health officials. This ruling was made today by Attorney-General James M. Ogden upon request from Dr. William F. King, director of the state board of health. Dr. King pointed out that the provision for paying for this work in the schools has long been a point of debate throughout the state. DAMAGE TRIAL STARTS Harry Cooler Asks $15,000 for Loss of Business, Trial of the $15,000 damage suit of Harry Cooler, billiard parlor proprietor, against the Hook Drug Company was started before a jury in federal court today. Cooler seeks damages for loss of business resulting from alleged poisonous fumes, used by the drug company to kill rats, entering his billiard parlor. A federal court jury recerftly awarded Cooler $5,000 for injury to £is health caused by the fumes.
AIRPLANE WITH VERTICAL RISE PRIESrSWORK Wanatah Pastor Employs Radical Departure from Present Type. IDEA CALLED PRACTICAL * Ten Propellers Along Wings at Side of Body Among Features. By Times Special WANATAH, Ind., Nov. 15.—United States and Canadian patent rights have been granted the Rev. David L. Faurtoe, pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic church here, on a new type of airplane which it is claimed* can rise vertically and incorporates a number of revolutionary changes. Outstanding among features of the new plane is the propellors. There will be ten of them, each somewhat on the lines of the oldfashion paddle wheel of river steamboats. Each propellor will have four blades. These are mounted in cylinders and are adjustable. The inventor declares the present propellor is only about 40 per cent efficient, while claiming his design will insure almost full efficiency. Wings Along Body In connection with placing of the propellors, an entirely new idea in wings has been developed. Instead of being at right angles to the body of the plane, the wings will run along the side. Five propellors will be mounted under each wing. By means of an eccentric cam, adjustable while the ship is in motion, the propellors can be set, to give a downward thrust, enabling the plane to rise vertically. The usual tail design is intended for the plane, consisting of rudder and elevators. In getting the plane off the ground, a control level would give a downward thrust. Once in the air, blades of some of the propellers, four or six, would be set to pull the plane forward, while the others would remain in a position to give a downward thrust. With the plane moving forward, the fins would extend only from the downward side of the cylinder. A series of fenders on each side of the plane constitute another new feature. They will be pivotally pointed between propellor units. Their main purposes will be to reduce resistance on the propellors and providing additional lift. Inventor Never in Plane The priest has never been a passenger on a plane, nor has he had any aviation training. He is 35, was educated for the priesthood in Rensselaer, Ind., and Cincinnati, and prior to his pastorate here, which has extended over the last seven years, was pastor of a Catholic church at Lebanon. Father Faurote’s working model of the new plane has been inspected by noted aviation engineers who declare his plans workable.
SERVICE TO MINERS M. E. Missions Society to Aid Linton District. Decision to purchase the Glendurn mission, which serves needy families in the Linton coal mining district, featured the closing session of the Indiana conference of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church at the Central Avenue M. E. church here Thursday. All officers were re-elected except Mrs. Charles Smith, Indianapolis, who named junior secretary to fill the office left vacant by death of Mrs. J. C. Kelly of Mitchell. Re-elected officers are Mrs. W. S. Ennis, Princeton, president; Mrs. J. T. Scull, Rushville, first vice-presi-dent; Mrs. Ross Beem, Spencer, second vice-president; Mrs. J. A. Miller, Vincennes, third vice-president; Mrs. M. A. Farr, Indianapolis, corresponding secretary; Mrs. J. N. Greene, Vincennes, recording secretary, and Mrs. J. R. Wilkinson, Evansville, treasurer. NOT SUIT PLAINTIFF i Contractor Denies Part in Bonds Mandamus. James F. Mahoney, Danville, Ind., contractor, today protested being named a joint plaintiff in the suit of the Forty-second Street State bank to recover $1,986.48 worth of Beech Grove bonds from County Auditor Harry Dunn. The suit was filed in a Marion superior court Wednesday. Mahoney said he had withdrawn from the contracting partnership of O’Hare and Mahoney before his partner turned the bonds over to Dunn to guarantee settlement of a claim filed by McGhee brothers, subcontractors, now pending in the courts at Greenfield. The litigation is an outgrowth of the Minnesota street paving project. “I never have set foot in the Forty-second street bank and know no are there." Mahoney declared. Sunflower Yield Heavy Bu Special STEWARTSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 15. —Sunflowers grown on bottom land on the farm of J. F. Aaron Robb, are averaging half a ton of seed to the acre. One of the flowers from the farm on display here is 18 inches in diametes, i T
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Where is the jperson with tooth so sour that wouldn't order sweets, when fair co-ed venders cry their wares? These girls are ready with the “pep’* when the Indiana Central college football team needs encouragement, for they are members of the Greyhound Booster Club. At each home game this year they sold candy and sandwiches to raise funds with which to purchase sweaters for the football team. Left to Right—They are. Misses Helen Smith, Terre Haute; Ardis Wiseman, Corydon, and Lenore Dix, IJobinson, 111.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE DEATH RATE FALLS
Greatest Reduction Noted in Indiana Is Tuberculosis Toll. Deaths from contagious diseases have gradually decreased in Indiana since 1900 despite an increase of more than 1,000,000 in the state population, a survey by the United Press reveals. In the same period, modern, socalled “fast living” has resulted in increased fatilities from other causes, among them cancer, apoplexy, heart disease, Bright’s disease, diabetes, accident, suicide, and homicide. Contagious diseases which now result in fewer deaths than formerly
STUDENT WILL INHERITESTATE Henry J. Huder Creates Trust for His Son. Bulk of the estate of the late Henry J. Huder, for many years an Indianapolis druggist, is bequeathed to his son, Dillon R. Huder, University of Pennsylvania student, under a will filed in Marion county probate court today. All but a small part of his legacy is to be held in trust until he is 30 years old. Three sisters, Misses Louise, Hattie and Elizabeth Huder, and a niece, Miss Lauretta Adam, are give a house at 1244 North New Jersey street, while the Huder home, 3430 Central avenue, is left to the son. The sisters and niece receive annuities from' the trust during their lifetime. Total value of the estate was not given. The Fletcher Savings and Trust Company is executor of the will and trustee for the estate. WOMAN TAKES LIFE 111 Health Believed Cause of Suicide by Poison. 11l health Is believed by police to have prompted Miss Grace Wey, Apt. 100, Seville apartments, 1701 North Illinois street, to drink poison there early today. Her sobs as she awaited the poison’s effect awoke her roommate. y Miss Marguerite Rocker, who telephoned a physician. Miss Wey was •given first aid, and then taken to the hospital. $167,500 for Christmas Bv Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., Nov. 15.—Christmas savings in banks here to be distributed Dec. 1 total $167,500, which is $2,500 less than last year.
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are tuberculosis, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and whooping cough, A slight decrease in the number of deaths due to alcoholism was noted in 1928 as compared to 1900. Deaths from auto accidents increased from 1.4 per 100,000 in 1900 to 30.6 in 1929. The greatest increase during the twenty-eight year period was in the number of deaths caused by heart disease. In 1900, there were 61.3 deaths per 100.000 population and in 1923 there were 183.4, an increpje of 122.1. Apoplexy was second on the list with 37.5 deaths for every 100,000 persons in 1900 and 115.7 In 1928, an increase of 78.2. Cancer caused 38.7 deaths per 100,000 people in 1900 and 61.9 in 1928; influenza, 11 in 1900 and 82 in 1928; accidents were the cause of 63.9 deaths for every 100,000 people in 1900 and 81.3 in 1928; diabetes, 3.8 in 1900 and 16.5 in 1928; suicide, 6.8 in 1900 and 17.1 in 1928; homicide, 1 in 1900 and 6.7 in 1928; pneumonia 101.4 deaths per 100,000 people in 1900 and 107.7 in 1928. The greatest decrease was in deaths due to tuberculosis. In 1900 175.7 of every 100,000 Hoosiers died from this disease, but in 1928 only 73.4. The death rate from typhoid fever decreased from 53.3 per 100,000 persons in 1900 to 4.6 in 1928; diphtheria accounted for deaths of 27.5 of every 100,000 people in 1900 but only 5.7 in 1928; deaths due to scarlet fever decreased in number from 4.8 in 1900 to 2.4 in 1928; measles caused death to three persons out of every 100,000 in 1900 but only 2.1 in 1928; whooping cough, 9.7 persons in 1900 and 4.3 in 1928; and alcoholism 5.7 in 1900 and 4.2 in 1928. The number of births In the twenty-eight year period increased from 31.979 in 1900 to 60,294 in 1928 while the number of deaths increased from 37,716 to 40,507. SYNOD LEADER QUITS The Rev. W. H. Knierim Resigns Education Post.Announc' of the resignation of the Rev. W. H. Knierim as of edv—for the mi-’ vest synod of Reformed churches ” * made Thursday night at the close of the fall classis session of the Reformed churches, in St. Paul’s Reformed church. Mr. Knierim has accepted a pastorate in Olney, 111. Merge- of the congregations of the Sjeventh Reformed and Zion Reformed church— into a Peasant Run boulevard congregation was announced. The new congregation will meet in a building at Pennsylvania street and Pleasant. Run boulevard.
MACDONALD IS GAMBLING FOR HUGE STAKES British Premier Risking His Political Future on Naval Parley. FACES BITTER BATTLE Sea Rule Advocates Fight to Maintain England's Traditions. Tbi* Is tbe fifth of a tr.it Mrfaa an the coming five-power natal parley In London. Written by an authority *n international affairs. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Rcripp.-Howard Foreign Editor It is no exaggeration to say that in promising all-round naval parity ; with the United States, Premier Ramsay MacDonald was risking not only his own political life, but the ' fortunes of the British Labor party as well. The premier Is gambling for huge \ stakes. Anglo-American harmony ; and world peace are his goal, but it ; is by no means certain that he will win. Against him will be arrayed some of the most powerful forces in England, backed by bred-ir.-the-bone traditions and fears dating back more than a thousand years. Still dominant in the average British mind are the thoughts that their navy is their very life; that theirs is a small island next door to a powerful array of often hostile nations; that their colonies, dominions, and trade are scattered all over the earth; that their livelihood depends upon keeping the sea lanes open, and that a month’s effective blockade would leave them all starving. Bred Into Englishman These thoughts are as much a part of the average Englishman’s being as his belief in God. To agree to parity even in capital shifts, as Britain did at Washington in 1921, was unprecedented and aroused protest. “Even though It be to share the command of the sea with a power from whom she expects nothing but friendship,” Lord Wester-Weymss, admiral of the British fleet, said at the time, “this abdication can only fill with regret and even dismay those who realize its potentialities." If that represented the feeling of the average Briton when only capital ships were involved, it Is easy to see that Premier MacDonald will have his work cut out for him if and when he comes to ask his countrymen to ratify a naval pact based on parity with America in every category of fighting craft. “The existence of the British empire as a whole and of England in particular,” said L. S. Amery, first lord of the admiralty under Premier Baldwin, “depends upon keeping open the highways of the seas. Starvation Specter Stalin "If those highways are closed by the action of enemy forces, the different parts of the empire could not assist one another in the hour of danger, and would be open separately to worries and conquest. “Apart from that, their whole economic life immediately would be paralyzed and England, at any rate, would have to face wholesale unemployment and actual starvation. “To appreciate the extent to which we English rely upon seaborne supplies,” he concluded, "it is only necessary to point out that we import, every week, about 6,000,000 tons of food and about 20,000,000 tons of raw material. “And to carry these supplies there is at any given moment some 1,400 British merchant ships of some 3,000 tons and above, scattered over 80,000 i miles of trade routes, and another | 1,400 loading or unloading in the | different harbors of the world.” Such is the basis of the British position. With this as their starting point, therefore, the Amerys and j the Weymsses proceed to show that two things are indispensable to i Britain. First, a battle fleet of firstclass battleships at least as big as that of any other nation; and, second, auxiliary craft, mainly cruiser*, of sufficient number and tonnage to j keep the highways of the sea open, regardless of conditions and clear around the world. MacDonald Faces Grief It is this second essential which is causing trouble between Britain and America at this time. Admiral Weymss and his school Insist America has no need for anything Like the number of cruisers which Britain requires, because neither her overseas possessions nor her trade routes are so far flung. Nor is her geographical position so open to peril. Thus Premier MacDonald may proceed with the London conference, and even bring it to successful conclusion, only to find himself unable'to secure ratification of what he has done. Already many of his countrymen ! resent his “abdication" of sea supremacy “to share equality with the American eagle,” as Admiral Weymss expressed it, and unless by new elections or some other mean* he can increase his Labor party backing in parliament, he may be forced out before his work Is completed. At present Labor holds only 388 seats in the house of commons as against 260 for the Tories fmostly : big navyites), and 59 for the Liberals. Cremation for Suicides Body HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Nov. 15. —The body of HarrisQn Nickey, 85-year-old Civil war veteran, who hanged himself at the home of a niece near Ridgeville, will be cremated here. Nickey was for several years a resident of Hartford dtjA,