Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1929 — Page 2

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NONPARTISAN PLAYGROUNDS BOARDJRGED White Pleads for Adoption of Merit-Only System in Appointments. The proposal of the Council of Social Agencies and the city recreational committee that a nonpartisan board be named to hold competitive examinations for applicants for city recreation department positions was lauded today by John F. White, city councilman and advocate of city civil service. The report of Eugene T. Lies, director of the recent recreation survey, recommended the employment of recreation departmnt personnel bn the merit basis instead of as a reward for political work. To All Departments White declared the merit plan ‘hould be extended to the employment of officials for all city departments. “The plan advocated by Lies Is a fine one," declared White, former member of the Duvall administration police civil service boani. White urged Mayor Slack to re-establish civil service in the police and fire department and the city council adopted a resolution unanimously advocating the merit plan. “It is a good plan, but it will require some work and study,” said Edward H. Harris, city council finance chairman. Good in Theory Robert E. Springsteen, councilman and member of the recreation committee, declared the plan is good in theory, but likely would not work out in practice under a political form of government. Ferd L. Hollweg, chairman of the luncheon Tuesday at Christ’s church parish house where Lies presented his recommendation, urged that Mayor-Elect Reginald H. Sullivan carefully consider the plan of obtaining experts to pass on the ability of recreation employes rather than to name them on basis of political allegiance. Sullivan declared he is desirous of co-operating and will give consideration to the recreational study. “I would not want to commit myself until I give careful study to the recommendations,” Sullivan said. Little Improvement

Dr. C. F. Stimson of the recreation and playground association of America, pointed out there has been little improvement from one administration to another under the political dorm of government, citing Cincinnati’s city manager form as an example of efficiency. Dr. Stimson appealed to the intelligent citizens to see to it that too much pressure is not directed at Sullivan in making such appointments. He cited the recreational program as an opportunity to render a high form of human service and declared it “a stupid political act and a misdemeanor to fail to provide the city nonpolitical recreational activities.” MERGE IRON ORE FIRMS Intcrlakc Corporation Has Assets of $50,000,000 Through Combine. Bv United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The Interlake Iron Corporation, with assets of $50,000,000, has been formed here through merger of four iron ore furnace companies. The merger, one of the largest of its kind, was approved Monday by stockholders of the by-products coke, who voted to absorb the Zenith Furnace Company, Duluth, Minn.; the Toledo Furnace Company, Toledo, 0., and the Perry Furnace Company, Erie, Pa. The capacity of the new corporation will be 500.000 tons of pig iron and 1,000.000 tons of coke yearly. FRENCH SAILORS IN RIOT Join in Demonstration in Front of Italian Consulate at Belgrade. By United Press BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. Dec. 11. —The crew of the French flotilla visiting Sebenico, where it accompanied the two submarines built by France for Yugoslavia, joined in a demonstration in front of the Italian consulate Tuesday night, shouting ‘‘Down with Fascism and Mussolini.” Police were unable to break up the demonstration.

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Victims of outrages committed by a band of night riders in their efforts to prevent the marriage of a 20-year-old mentally deficient youth to a 16-year-old girl near Mountain View, Ark., are pictured above. Tillie Ruminer, the girl victim, is shown with her mother and brothers and sisters in the top picture, standing in front of their Ozark mountain home. Charles Ruminer, her father, is shown at the left below. Ruminer was flogged by night riders after they are alleged to have multilated and burned to death Connie Franklin, a mountain wood cutter and the prospective bridgegroom. At the right below are Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Burns, who also were whipped during the reign of terror. Burns is 70 and his wife 40. After murdering young Franklin and burning bis body, the gang assaulted Miss Ruminer. Five men have been indicted for murder and will go to trial Dec. 16.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Mrs. Emma Lewis, 622 West Vermont street, Moon sedan, 735-137, from Alabama and Washington streets. C. O. Abbott. Martinsville, Buick sedan, 222-223, from Martinsville. G. M. Broo, 1215 North Tacoma avenue. Ford tudor, 30-681, from Pennsylvania and Vermont streets. George Peck, 511 East Fortieth street, Ford truck, 4-690, from 511 East Fortieth street. Red Cab Company, 313 West Ohio street, Ford* taxi No. 30, from Hillside avenue and Twenty-first street. Red Cab Company, 313 West Ohio street, Ford taxi No. 50, from Forty-third street and Conser avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Mrs. P. C. Pomeroy, South Bend, Ford sedan, found at Fortieth and Illinois streets. Herman L. Bragoo, 961 East Raymond street, Chevrolet touring, found at Twenty-first and Montcalm streets. Essex coach, 81-253, found at Southeastern and Arsenal avenues. Lawrence J. D”gan, 1048 South West street, Ford coupe, found at Alabama and Lincoln streets. Ford roadster, 30-681, found at 3741 Central avenue. AMERICAN GIRL FREED Mexican Superior Tribunal Upholds Acquittal Verdict of Jury. MEXICO CITY. Dec. 11. Bernice Rush, an American, was ordered released from Belem city prison today by a decree of the superior tribunal upholding the recent verdict of a jury acquitting her of a charge of murdering her sweetheart, Genaro Benavente. She has been a prisoner in Belem ctiy prison for nearly a year. Benavente was shot to death last Christmas eve.

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MEETING TO BE CALLED Joint Conference Is Scheduled on Proposed Generating Plant. A joint conference of the sanitary commission and works board on the effect of the proposed Indianapolis Power and Light Company generating plant south of the city on flood prevention and sewage disposal will be called in a few days. Otto C. Ross, sanitary president, asked Theodore Dammeyer, works board president, to call a conference to discuss whether the proposed plant will affect the sewage disposal plant south of the city and the flood prevention program of the works board. Robbery Case Unsolved Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 11.—Sheriff Frank G. Daniels and police have made no headway in investigation of a sensational holdup reported by Jack Nicholson, driver for the Grand Laundry Company, who said he was driving away from a filling station when a man who had secreted himself in the rear of the truck pulled him from the driver’s seat and held him while a companion drove to a lonely country road, where he was robbed of S4O and left dazed as a result of having mustard thrown in his eyes.

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Aviation ITALY PREPARES FOR NONSTOP NEWYORK TRIP Ten Government Planes to Start; Navy Cruisers Will Co-Operate. Bu United Press ROME, Dec. 11.—The Italian government is preparing to send a fleet of ten military hydroplanes on a nonstop flight from Italy to New York next March. Crews of the ten great SovietMarcheti ships have been undergo ing an intensive training for the trans-Atlantic trip, and several of them have undertaken flights for forty consecutive hours over Lakes Garda and Bracciano. The air ministry, which is to direct the flight, has arranged for co-operation with the navy, and scout ships and destroyers will be stationed along the route, ready to assist in the event of an emergency. Italo Balo, air minister, will command the flight in person. The project will constitute the 1930 cruse of Italy’s aerial navy. In 1928 the air forces carried out an extensive flight over the western Mediterranean sea and northern Africa. This year the ships flew over the eastern Mediterranean and Black sea. Inaugurate Air Week Bv United Press MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11.—Mexico’s aviation week was inaugurated formally at Valbuena flying field late Tuesday by General Guan F. Azcarate with Mexican and United States fliers participating in the opening ceremonies. Several pilots from the United States army fields in Texas and the British air commodore, Oswald Charlton, were present. Bank Robbery Fails By United Press BENTONVILLE, Ind., Dec. 11. Authorities today are still without clews as to the identity of robbers who entered the Bentonville bank and escaped with a small amount of money after an unsuccessful attempt to open the vault.

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SENATE VOTES RELIEF Bill Passed to Aid New Mexico’s Recent Flood Victims. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A resolution by Senator Cutting, Republican, New Mexico, to create a $400,000 revolving fund for relief of the recently flooded areas of the Rio Grande valley in New Mexico was passed by the senate Tuesday. There was no oppostiion. The resolution thus goes to the house for action.

ALARM SHOUTS GO UNHEEDED IN STUDIOTRAGEDY Dancers Believed Fire Warning Cries Ruse to Hurry Dressing. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—A tragic combination of circumstances, seemingly trivial when separated, but fraught with horror in their entirety, emerged today as the background of the Pathe movie studio fire. Four of the ten who were crushed and burned to death in a wild scramble toward the exits, were chorus girls—young dancers from Broadway musical shows seeking extra Christmas money by pirouetting in a gay sound picture of night club life. In this setting of youth and abandon and tinsel, a tiny mishap—probably the spitting out by an arc light of a chip of incandescent carbon—proved the difference between life and death, between a day’s work at the studio and new York’s worst fire disaster of recent years. The fire started just as it was time for work to begin. The production staff was busy on the floor of the studio. Most of the players, including forty girls, still were in their dressing rooms on the balcony. To the first warning shouts the

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