Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1929 — Page 13

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EIGHT INDIANA CITIES REPORT BUILDING GAIN Thirteen Others Show Loss in October —State Total Declines. AVIATION FIRM THRIVES Bendix of South Bend Will Add 2,600 Men to Working Force. BY CHARLES C. STONE State tdltor. The Times Aside from seasonal recessions, business and industry In Indiana, with the exception of building, are maintaining a fairly active status, a survey of the state for the week el dod today reveals. During October, building in the 6t e showed a decrease of appi ximately $1,740,000 Hi compared w. ,i lie same month last year. Os twenty-one cities reporting, ei n’ showed building gains for the month over October, 1928. Those cities are East 'Chicago, Elkhart, Evansville, Ft. Wayne. Kokomo, Richmond, Terre Haute and Vincennes. In the Industrial field, the outstanding event of the week was announcement of an expansion program by the Bendix Aviation Corporation including addition of 2.600 men to the working force, ; 1.600 to be employed in present ; plant units and the remainder in ; anew plane wheel and brake factory to be moved from Dayton, O. j Anderson Plants Running . Tn Anderson Industries there are a few instances where October and November business was below expectations, but in more it was better than anticipated. Six thousand persons are on the pay roll of the | Delco-Remy Corporation as com- I pared with 10,000 a few months ago. Officials indicate that no more radical reductions of the force are likely. Among Anderson industries reporting normal business or better 1; the Lynch Glass Machine Com- j P?ny, How'e Fire Apparatus Cimpany, Dean-Hill Pump Company, American Stell and Wire Company, | Nicholson File Company, National Tile Company. Ward-Stilson Company, Forse Manufacturing Com- ' pany and Certainteed Products j Company. The following summary shows conditions in various Indiana cities: Elwood—The old plant and ground of the Ames Shovel and Tool Company has been purchased by the Western Indiana Gravel Company of Lafayette, and a remodeling program has been started. . It is planned to employ 100 men j In manufacturing of gravel equip- j ment. South Bend—The Huswich Iron Company plant, recently destroyed bv fire, is to be rebuilt at a cast i of $30,000. Peru Annexation Planned p*ru—An ordinance has been introduced in the city council providing for annexation of 200 acres to the city, including Wallace Heights, new city park and reservoir. Kokomo—With a production of nearly 1.000 lamns daily, neressitat- I lng a night shift, the Ham " >n- j Ross Company Is taking advantage of Christmas demand. Between 250 j end 275 persons are employed. Newcastle —Officials of the local Chrysler automobile plant declare there Is every Indication that the , low point in employment has j passed, but admit that business j conditions are such that increasing j of the force will be slow. Connersville—Development of a i ' -acre addition as a select resi- | dential section is betng planned by Anthony Locke. Jasper—The plant of the new Indiana Chair Company, built at b cost of $200,000. started operations this week. At capacity, the : plant will employ 150 men. ’'fonticello—E. W. Sparkman of i Jr iianapolls announces that devel- | C ’nent of Ideal beach on Lake E naefer will Include anew pavilion for dancing, enlargement of the picnic pavilion and improving t>f the bathhouse. Sixty Out of Work Mt. Vernon—The Naomi Poultry fer.d Fgg Company, employing sixty j persons, has ceased operations, due 1 to unfavorable market conditions, j Petersburg—A survey is being tr. > by New York Central railroad pr inters preliminary to building five miles of track in Pike county I connecting with several strip coal tr.lriing centers. Ft. Wayne—An addition is being j built to the plant of the Joslvn Manufacturing and Suoply Comp: ny. and one is planned by the In a Manufacturing Company. The Grayson Shops, operating a chain j o. women’s apparel stores, will open | a store here next week. A ten- i year lease for a total rental 6f $75,000 has been taken on quarters which are being remodeled at a j cost of $25 000. Eva nsvll'e—Work has started on laving a S3OO 000 pipeline, beginning at Francisco, to carry natural gas to Evansville. Farming Teachers Meet Bv Times Rnrcinl CRAWFORDSV4LLE. Ind., Nov. —Vocational agriculture teachers from Montgomery and five surrounding counties attended a district meeting at the local high school. The principal speaker was Dr. Z. N Smith of Purdue university, state director of vocational agriculture work in high schools. The teachers were guests of the j local Rotary Club at luncheon.

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State High School Principals Meet Today at Bloomington

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Speakers at the annual state high school principals conference include: Above (left to right) Paul Addison, W. F. Loper and Miss Marie Thurston. Below—Alza A. Brewer, (left) and Cloyd Anthony. Hu Timrx Snrrial BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Nov. 22. The eighth annual high school principals’ conference opened at Indiana university today with approximately 200 in attendance. The session will continue through Saturday. Dean L. A. Pechstein of the college of education of the University of Cincinnati will be the principal speaker. Members of the I. U. school of education will preside at the various sessions of the conference as follows today: Professor W. W. Wright; banquet this evening. Professor C. G. F. Franzen; meeting tonight. Dean H. L. Smith, and Saturday morning, Professor W. W. Patty. The program today included address of welcome by President IV. L. Bryan and Dean Smith; “Critical Aspects of Adolescent Psychology,” Dean Pechstein: “Social Guidance of Girls in the Junior High school,” Miss Marie Thurston, principal, junior high school, Elwood. Following the speeches. President and Mrs. Bryant will hold a reception at their home so rthe visiting principals. This evening the speakers will be Dean Pechstein and D. H. Vass. principal of Woodrow Wilson Junior high school, Terre Haute. Dean Pechstein will talk on “Time Saving

STEEPLEJACKS DIVE TC DEATH Three Bodies Are Found in Brooklyn Chimney. n 'new ‘‘ YORK, Nov 22.—Three steeplejacks, perched on the threadlike boards they had strung across the top of a high chimney in Brooklyn, tumbled to death Thursday, when their scaffolding snapped. It was not until early today, approximately sixteen hours after the accident, that Michael Walsh, a watchman for the American Sugar Refinery, on which the chimney was located, opr-nod a trap *u* at the base of the stack and iound the three bodies in the huge grate. The dead: William T. Clark of North Arlington. N. J. Alfred Clark of Harrison, N. J., his brother. Anthony Miller of North Arlington N. J. Firemen placed ladders inside the chimney and. near the top, found the smashed scaffolding lodged against the chimney walls. Apparently the boards were too frail to sustain the weight ol the three men. FEW THEFTS IN CITY Only Four Robberies Are Reported to Police. Indianapolis thefts dwindled in the last twelve hours to but four robberies. Burglars entered the home of William Marks, 3175 North Sherman drive, by forcing a side window and stole a $125 radio and 50 cents in change. Clothing valued at SIOO was taken from the home of Fred Plckirn. Negro, 1930 East Thirty-second street. F. W. Oamage. 5715 Beechwood avenue, was robbed of a purse containing $175 in cash while riding an East Washington street car. A Negro bandit heldup and robbed John R. Mullins, 1301 North Pennsylvania street, of his automobile and an empty pocketbook. The holdup occurred in the rear of ,1213 North Pennsylvania street.

PARACHUTE JUMP SAFE IF YOU ARE CAREFUL, AIR EXPERT DECLARES r

By Time* Special NEW YORK. Nov. 22.—There never is any danger in parachute jumping if you just are careful. says Buddy Bushmever in the December issue of Aero Mechanics magazine. There are three ways to wear a parachute—the back pack, the seat pack and the chest pack. The method used mostly today is the back pack. The modem 'chute is safe, he says. Occasional failures are caused by ignorance or faulty packing. In the early days the

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in Secondary Education,” while ‘‘So- [preside and the leaders will be W. S. cial Activities as Time Saving for Forney, principal of Wiley high Citizenship Training” will be dis- 1 school, Terre Haute, and Hugh E. cussed by Vass. j Vandivier, supervising principal ol The fim address Saturday mom- : th Q the tag will be on -European Practices “nsklp' JnS,il.S'° r r e,. lesc ™' dianapolts. will preside at the dis- * ‘ T ean ! cussion on junior high school curriThe remainder of the morning cuium and the leader will be Paul F. program will be given over to round i Addison, principal of Wilson junior table discussions on three subjects, high school, Muncie. W. F. Loper, namely; 'Administrative Organiza- j principal at the Shelbyville high tlon and Articulation of Junior and j school, will preside over the extraSenior High Schools,” “The Junior curricular activities discussion and High School Curriculum,” and j the leader will be Alza A. Brewer, “Extra-Curricular Activities of the principal of the junior high school, Junior High School.” The first one Connersville. will be divided into two parts Saturday afternoon, the visiting senior high school and junior high principals will attend the Purdueschool. Cloyd Anthony, principal ot Indiana bootball game in Memorial Bloomington junior high school, will Stadium.

FIRE DRIVES NINE INTO FRIGID NIGHT

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Miss Very Davy. 2429 Harding street, Butler university's youngest student. She is 15, and a freshman, majoring in the English department. She is pledged to Zeta Tau Alpha national sorority. SCOUT BOARD MEETS Eighteen Troops In Area Have Delegates at Session. Eighteen Boy Scout troops of the Indianapolis and central Indiana area were represented at a meeting of the area field committee in the Chamber of Commerce building Thursday night. W. T. Kelly of Greenwood, vice-president, presided. The meeting included business and general financial discussions. Six and one-half counties bounding Marion county are included in the area. Bv Vniteel Press Ten-Fold Profit From Trunk ROCHESTER, Ind., Nov. 22.—Interest in collection of antiques here has increased since George Bouchtel found $45 in old coins and a bill in two trunks which he bought at a sale for $4.50.

'chutes were made of cotton, but Japanese silk now is used, and even the shroud lines are silken cords. They carry a factor of safety greatly in excess of what is needed. They have crossseams to give additional strength so that when the opening shock comes, they stand the strain to which they are subjected without any trouble. The normal rate of descent for the average person is sixteen feet a second.

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Nearly SB,OOO in Damage Caused by Flames on North Side. Fire originating from defective electric wiring damaged a double residence and tailoring shop more than $2,500 and drove nine persons clad only in sleeping garments into the frigid night air early today. Another blaze, origin unknown, destroyed stocks and fixtures valued at more than $4,500. in a north side pharmacy and damaged the building about SBOO. Smoke in the house aroused Mrs. Louis Feldman, 38, of 707 North Alabama street, shortly after midnight. Her screams awakened her husband, proprietor cf the tailor shop in the front of the building and her 13-year-old son, Harry. They awakened Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Wert, 70716 North Alabama street, their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Wert, and two roomers, Dr. and Mrs. Conley Robinson, Firemen extinguished the blaze, which started in the basement beneath the tailor shop, and the families returned to their beds. The loss is covered by insurance. A fire discovered by an unidentified Negro about 5 a. m. consumed most of the stock of the A. D. Borley pharmacy, 2602 North Capitol avenue, and damaged the one-story brick building about SBOO. Origin of the blaze is not determined, fire officials say. FIRST REUNION HELD Ambulance Unit Forms Regular Organization for Future. Veterans of ambulance company No. 134, Indianapolis World war onit, held their first reunion at the Lincoln Thursday night. Most of the members were recruited in the vicinity of Broad Ripple in 1917, and all saw service overseas. Dr. Mason B Light, former commander, pres ded. A permanent reanion organization was formed, the next to be held in April, 1930. Resolutions of sympathy were paid the family of J. Clark Mick, a member, who died a few hours before the reunion.

In parachute jumping there are many things to be remembered. The proper altitude, the place to get off at that particular altitude, and the cross winds must be noted. If a field is directly underneath and the wind is blowing less than ten miles an hour and the distance Is less than 500 feet, the jumper ■will land in that field almost on the desired spot. But if he is up 3,000 feet or so he might land a considerable distance away.

LAST TRIBUTE PAID TO GOUD DY HOME CITY Secretary of War Is Buried in Cedar Rapids (la.) Cemetery. ARMY IS IN CHARGE Salute of Nineteen Guns Fired as Cortege Goes to Grave. Bv United Press CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Nov. 22. The United States army buried its chief, Secretary of War James W, Good, in Oak Hill cemetery here today, while the friends of his young manhood paid final tribute to the city’s most distinguished son. The nation’s military took charge of the funeral after Dr. Harry M. Gage, president of Coe college, Good’s alma mater, and the Rev. Robert Little had spoken at services in the First Presbyterian church. The casket, draped in the national colors and banked with scores oi fioral tributes from men and women in all walks of life, was placed on an artillery caisson. As the cortege, led by artillery troops wearing black armbands of crepe, left the church, the first gun of the secretary of war’s salute of nineteen guns boomed out. Shots were fired at one-minute intervals as the procession moved to' the cemetery, a mile distant, to a dirge by the Fourteenth cavalry band. A musketry salute was fired over the grave, taps were sounded and then another gun thundered. Long before 11 a. m., the hour of the services at the church, crowds gathered. The pews open to the public soon w’ere filled, as were those reserved for members of the family and representatives of President Hoover, the administration and congress. Dr. Gage spoke of the life of James W. Good from the time he came to Cedar Rapids from a Linn county farm until he died in a Washington (D. C.) hospital last Monday.

HOG-CALLING iS TASKJ-POLSCE Two Motorcycle Cops Star in Porker Roundup. An automobile collision at the intersection of Illinois and Fall Creek boulevard today turned two motor policemen into hog-callers. Art Probst, 42, of 178 Broadway, was driving a truck-load of seven hogs to the stockyards, at the above intersection today when his truck crashed into a car driven by C. E. Arbogast, 38, of 2416 Central avenue. Probst's truck was overturned. Hogs scampered and squealed up and down Fall Creek boulevard. Motor Policeman Charles Weddle and Ora McClain arrived on the scene and started a hog roundup. After a couple of hundred “sooeys,” Weddle and McClain got the hogs corraled in a nearby garage. While Weddle and McClain nursed sore throats, A. G. Clute, 62, of R. R. 14. Box 239, a companion of Probst’s, nursed bruises suffered in the accident. LESLIE DEFIES GOLD Governor Is Determined to Attend Grid Game. Despite a heavy cold, which kept him confined to his home Thursday, Governor Harry G. Leslie is determined to attend the Purdue-Indiana university football game Saturday at Bloomington. The Governor and his family were to go to Bloomington this afternoon to be the guests of Dr. J. E. P. Holland and Mrs. Holland there. The Governor expects to have a party of fifty close friends at the grid encounter, including the presidents of both universities. George Ade, novelist, is to come to the Indianapolis Athletic Club tonight, accompanied by his secretary, Joe Reeves, and James Rathbun, a relative. The three will have luncheon with the Governor at the Holland home in Bloomington Saturday and attend the game in the Governor’s party. Ade will return to the Athletic Club Saturday night. “If they won’t let me attend the game, I’ll keep my ear at the radio,” the Governor asserted.

At the height of 10,000 to 15,000 feet he has no choice as to where his terra firma location will be, although when nearer the ground the occupant of the ’chute can maneuver it to attain the most favorable landing possible. This is done by pulling the cords on one side, causing the ’chute to slip more speedly if over a desired landing spot or to make it carry an occupant to a better landing.

They Say It’s Spooky

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Story on Page One. In this small dwelling on East Vermont street, household furnishings joined handa with strange spirits to frighten the Floyd Clemens family away. Two days of leaping pictures and dresser drawers, lumps of coal that walked, and kitchen utensils that jumped from tables, were enough for the father, mother and two children. Today the house is deserted, W'hile they seek other quarters.

HEAT LINES OFFER IMPROVED SERVICE

Extensions Made on Large Scale by Power and Light Concern. Frigid temperatures are bringing into operation the newly installed lines of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company’s heating system, laid last summer, to care for a larger portion of the north side. Extensions installed were over twice the largest amount ever installed in any city between heating seasons so that Indianapolis now has the largest low pressure heating system in the world. Improvements were made in compliance with an order of the Indiana public service commission, providing that steam heeding service replace the antiquated hot water plant formerly operated at Morton place, off the route line at Sixteenth street. More than eleven miles of underground mains, 450 tons of pipe, and 169 carloads of other materials were used. Work was pushed constantly to complete the project on schedule, an average of 500 men working day and night shifts, for four months. Radiation connected with the company’s heating system now is approximately 2,500,000 square feet, and it is estimated that more than two billion pounds of steam will be required for operation this winter season. In view of the fact that the Indianapolis business district rapidly is extending north, it is anticipated that further enlargement of the system will be necessary in the next few years. Company officials point out that the system is reducing the smoke nuisance by eliminating many private furnaces in the district, CANNERS IN SESSION Conditions Have Changed in Industry, Official Declares Canners must realize that the housewife of 1930 has changed greatly from the one of a decade ago, Gordon €. Corbaley, president of the American Institute of Food Distribution, told the Indiana Canners’ Association in convention at the Claypool today. “She wants different products, and expects to have them packaged in smaller sizes, to fit today’s diversified menu,” he declared. Two great problems of the canning industry, markets and relationship in distribution, will be approached with a scientifically planned program in the near future, he predicted. Bids to Be Taken Dec. 9 ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 22.—Bids for furnishing printing supplies to officials of Madison county for the year of 1930 will be received by the board of county commissioners at their meeting here Dec. 9.

CAPONE AIDS BOND SIGNERS REVEALED

Bu Times Hneeinl HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 22. Signers of a bond for $25,000 which gained release of Phil Collenger, alleged pay off man for A1 Capone, pending trial with Mayor Raleigh P. Hale and other East Chicago officials on a federal liquor conspiracy indictment, are a Hammond business man and another described as a Chicago and East Chicago gambler.

When most people see a ’chute put into a slip, they believe that it is not functioning properly, but once a ’chute opens it stays open, and it will open as well on a calm day as on a windy day. The “wind of descent,” as it might be called, is sufficient to open any ’chute if it has been packed so that the initial wind can get into the folds. The main thing to remember when making a Jump is not to pull the ripcord too soon. Don’t pull

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DEAN SMITH CHOOSES GOOD WILL FOR TOPIC Educator Opens Lecture Scries at Cropsy Auditorium. Dean H. L. Smith of the Indiana University Education School will open a series of lectures arranged by the Indiana Council on Interna-

tional Relations, with an address in Cropsey auditorium, public library, Monday at 8 p. m., on “Training in International Understanding and Good Will.” Dean Smith recently returned from Europe, where he worked on a study ot comparative education and on

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the movement of world peace through education. While abroad, he addressed the third biennial conference of the World Federation of Education Associations, in Geneva, Switzerland. He has been dean of the Educational School at Indiana since 1909.

CEMENT BUYING ACTION DELAYED State Board Will Favor Indiana Firms. Although highway commissioners still plant to give the 2,000,000-barrel cement order to Indiana factories using Hoosier-mined coal they left the statehouse without taking definite action, Director John J. Brown announced today. Just how they will work this plan In view of the fact that the Marquette Cement Company of Illinois was low bidder on 500,000 barrels to be delivered to thirty-two places In the state, remained unexplained. The Marquette company underbid all competitors from 5 to 10 cents a barrel, but it has been reported the Indiana firms will meet the Marquette price. Fifteen bidders submitted bids last Tuesday, five being state firms. All were between 20 and 30 cents a barrel lower than the 1929 contract price. The commission has from fifteen to thirty days to sign the 1930 contracts.

Federal authorities refused to reveal names of the signers, but William J. McAleer, Hammond attorney defending Collenger made them public. Giles Warner, the business man, scheduled various parcels of realty valued at nearly $500,000 before signing the bond. The other signer Harry Hyams, alleged partner of “Sonny Sheets,” reputed Capone racketeer, listed property in East Chicago used as a baseball park.

it while on the ship or in the cockpit, but meet the situation cooly. Just hop over the side, pull the ripcord after counting five, and float down to the most desirable spot to land. If the cord is pulled too soon, there is danger of the folds of the ’chute becoming tangled in the wires, tail or other parts of the plane. On many an occasion, Bushmeyer says, he has waited until he has dropped 1,200 feet before pulling the cord.

$350,900 HIKE SEEN IN FORD PAY ROLL HERE Boost in Wages, Estimated at 16 Per Cent, Affects 1,150 Employes. FEW TO BE MADE IDLE Workers Will Go on Other Jobs During Period of Shutdown. If rumors, current after Henry Ford's announcement Thursday of a general wage increase in his plants, that Ford Motor Company employes will receive a 16 per cent pay raise prove true, the annual pay roll of employes here will be augmented more than $350,000, it was learned today. Figured on the 16 per cent oasis, each of the 1,150 employes in the local Ford shops would receive an increase of $1 daily. The present annual pay roll is $2,000,000. Almost simultaneously with Ford’s announcement of the wage increase, another order was made public, closing twenty-five assembly plants until Dec. 15, to allow dealers to reduce stocks on hand. Rex A. Hayes, assistant manager of the Indianapolis plant. 1315 East Washington street, said the closing order would not affect local errlployes seriously, since the majority of those thrown out of regular work would be retained in the maintenance department! re-establishing the Ford service school, dismantled for construction of the new body plant. Additional production upon completion of thi3 plant recently gave employment to almost 500 men. The entire shop, at full production, turns out 100 bodies daily. At present, bodies for tudor sedans, phaetons, roadsters and trucks are assembled here.

Workers Guess at Raise Bv I titled Press DETROIT, Nov. 22.—Patient expectation was manifest among Henry’s Ford’s army of 90.000 workers here today as they discussed the auto magnate’s proposed geenral wage increase for them. Conjecture over the details of the increase, its amount and extent began shortly after news of Ford’s proposal stirred the city Thursday afternoon. While street corner newsboys gainfully barked their wares with the cry, “Henry Ford Sensation,” industrial leaders of the city and nation shared the interest of the Ford workers in the billionaire auto manufacture’s announcement at Washington. Although the announcement occasioned widespread surprise, partly because of its seeming spontaneity, officials of the Ford Motor Company today indicated that the matter of a wage increase had been under consideration by Ford for some weeks. It was said, however, that a definite announcement had not been expected at this time. Ford’s statement that the country needs cheaper prices for products and higher wages for workers recalls that this business philosophy prompted the establishment of a minimum wage of $5 a day by Ford in 1914. A later expression of Ford’s doctrine of lower price levels and higher wages came in 1921. In that year, which is frequently referred to as the leanest in the automobile industry, Ford made a sharp reduction in the price of his products and put into effect certaia production economies which he believed essential to maintain the wage scale that had been established a short time previously. HOLfROAD RESIDENTS PETITION FOR DITCHES Show Preference Over Sewage System tn Insure Drainage. County officials today were urged to put in a ditch system to drain the territory along the National road in vicinity of the Holt road. A petition for drainage of the community is before the county council. Basements of homes in the neighborhood have been flooded in the summer season. Roy Seaver, Wayne Township Civic League president, declared residents who attended a community meeting Thursday night favor a ditch system rather than a sewage system. W. W. Spencer, county ditch attorney, attended the meeting at School 14. Charles N. Perkins! William F. Bornkamp and C. C. Wade will Confer with the city council Dec. 2 to determine whether the territory will be annexed. No annexation plans are under consideration. ‘SHAKE, THEN SOCK,’ GOES IN RING ONLY Judge Wetter Fines Youth for Assault and Battery. Although he observed the rule of the prize ring, to shake hands before hitting, Dan Laurance, 18, of 2342 North New Jersey street, lost the “decision” and $lO and costs in municipal court on an assault and battery charge. Abraham Fournace of 139 West Sixteenth street, related that Laurance visited him to apologize for an argument they had had Halloween night. After shaking hands, Fournace related, Laurance struck out with rights and lefts, breaking Fournace’s glasses and knocking out a couple of teeth. “You did just what all prize fighters do, shake hands and then start to sock,” said Judge Paul C. Wetter. Laurance paid his lino.