Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1930 — Page 16

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ROBOT PROVES MODEL TRAFFIC COP IN TESTS Automatic Control Can Do Everything but Swear at Motorists. BY HARPY FERGUSON I’nlted Prrs* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 11—The most recent robot to be demonstrated.here is an automatic traffic control which can do everything a human patrolman does, except swear at motorists. This device presages that the day Is not far of! when the streets of New York will be Utopian highways when green !:gh s always are shining and no ogre in a blue uniform ever halt; you to inyiite politely: “Where do you think you're going—to a fire?” The remarkable feature of patrolman robot, is that it not only has brains, but v es them. The robot i c called the electrirmatic traffic dispatching system, hut it is far simpler than its name. * Three Parts There are three parts to it: The ordinary system of green and red lights, sensitive fingers" hidden under the pavements at street intersections and an a electric brain that works far better than you would suspect. Patrolman Robot's "fingers" feel the flow of traffic along the streets and convey the sensation to his brain. Thus, he is able to speed up traffic on busy streets by allowing the direction in which the flow is heaviest to have the right of way. But the lone motorist who waits at. a cross street seeking a hole in the unending stream of vehicles receives fair treatment from the robot, Tor the "fingers" are recording that he la waiting and eventually the automomatic policeman turns on the green light for him. The manufacturers hastened to point out to city officials that robot never demands an eight-hour day with time and a half for overtime; that the matter of police pensions could be forgotten and that the robot treated members of the great tax-paying public with uniform courtesy. Difficult Situation There are crises in traffic, how•ver, that would puzzle the robot, but which would be crystal clear to a human patrolman. For instance, there was the motorist who was driving up Seventh avenue New Year’s eve after making several calls. For him the green lights and the red blended into a beautiful rainbow hue, and he was just sufficiently alert to halt his car where repairs were being made in the street. A patrolman noticed him there, and f."turning two hours later found the man’s car still standing there. Shaking the drowsy motorist, the policeman inquired: “Why don’t you drive on?” “I,” said the law-abiding citizen, pointing to a red lantern on a pile of brick in the street, "am waiting for that light to change.” TWO ARE RENAMED BY REALTY BOARD Rinehart, Royse Reappointed as Legal Representatives. Reappointment of Mark V. Rinehart as counsel for the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and John A Royse as board attorney was announced today by T. E. Grinslade. president. Each has served in his respective Office for the last four years. Rinehart is president of the Farmers Trust Company. He has been an associate member of the realty board since 1918, when he was executive secretary of the organization. Prior to assuming the presidency of the Farmers Trust Company a few months ago. he was vicepresident and secretary of the Washington Bank and Trust Company. Royse has been a member of the board for ten years. He has served as Marion county pauper attorney and for four and one-half years held the position of United States customs collector for Indiana, having been appointed by the late President Warren G. Harding. RUBIO STUDIES CABINET Reitring President of Mexico May be Named Secretary. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11.—The personnel of President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio's cabinet is likely to include Emilio Portes Gil, present chief executive, as secretary of interior, it was learned tonight. The make-up of the administration remains highly conjectural as a result of political dissension.

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REBELLION CHARGED German, British Generals Linked in Plot. fiU United Pres* BERLIN, Jan. 11. Sensational charges linking officers of the British and German armies with Schalwa Karumidse, on trial here for counterfeiting, in a military plot to liberate Georgia, were made today by the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne. The newspaper claims that Karumidse planned to flood Russia with $25,000,000 in counterfeit bank notes, and thus raise money to finance a Georgian revolt. The names of General Von Kressenstein of Germany and General Stoker of Great Britain entered i he case on the Rote Fahne’s charge that they conferred repeatedly with Karumidse on the Georgia invasion. A difference of opinion arose, the newspaper says, the British general advising an invasion from Persia, and the German declaring for an advance from a base in Turkey. General Von Kressenstein, formerly commander of the German occupation army in Georgia, recently retired. CLUB MEETS MONDAY ON CIVIC PROJECTS Improvement Issues Are Before Southeastern Group. Southeastern Civic Improvement Club will meet Monday night at the home of J. Ed Burke, 2033 Hoyt avenue. Burke anounced today. Development of Finch park, the extension of Fletcher avenue from St. Paul street to Keystone avenue, and the straightening of a jog in Lexington avenue at Shelby street are the major issues up for discussion. Speakers will include Louis C. Brandt, nev.ly installed works board member, and ex-city councilman, John White. Co-operation with the new city administration will be chief issue for discussion. FREED IN ‘PURITY’ CASE Bookseller Acquitted on Obscenity Charge; Frameup Hinted. Bu United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 11.—The purity patrol of the Illinois Vigilance Association has received a setback at the hands of a jury which acquitted a bookseller of a charge of selling an alleged obscene book to an agent of the Rev. Philip Yarrow, reformer, after hearing that the association receives half of all fines collected after convictions. It was brought out that Yarrow’s agent. George Brown, persuaded Walter Shaver, bookstore proprietor, to obtain for him a book about a Moorish harem that Shaver never had read nor heard of. The book was made the basis of the charge. It took the jury twenty minutes Friday to decide Shaver was not guilty. Postal Business Gains ”1/ Time* Snreittl ANDERSON. Ind., Jan. 11.—Revenue totaling $286,569.32 during 1929 at the local postofflce, it is announced by A1 V. Rescher. postmaster. The increase over the preceding year was $26,074, approximately 10 per cent.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: John W. Sniper, 813 North Senate avenue. Ford sedan, from 526 North West street. Kenneth Kinnaman, 5020 Orion street, Oakland coach, 742-110, from Riverside park. Mary Johnson, 608 Middle drive, Woodruff place, Essex coach, 80-724, from New York and Muskingum street. James Butler, 1450 North Mount street, Chevrolet coupe, from North and Illinois streets. Albert Wurster, 1216 East Fiftyninth street, Hupmobile sedan, 10-415 (1930), from 2724 North Talbot avenue. Don J. Long, 2110 College avenue, Chevrolet cabriolet, 494-897, from Capitol avenue and Washington street. City of Indianapolis (Mayor Sullivan), city hall, Stutz sedan, 1-633 (1930), from Michigan street and Capitol avenue. Paul B. Callagher, 315 North Chester avenue, Ford coupe, 10-414 (1930) from 100 North State street. Irvin Bemett, 3617 College avenue, Chevrolet sedan, 93-109, from in front of the Polk Milk Company office. Ernest Newlin, 4016 Winthrop avenue, Chevrolet coach, 61-056, from Vermont and Pennsylvania streets. Frank Coffey, 323 South Lyndhurst drive, Whippet sedan, 47-044, from Liberty and North streets. Ranzi E. McNay, 1249 Roach street. Ford coupe, 308-837, from Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. James Kingham, 1501 Barth avenue, Chevrolet coach, 94-219 (1930), from Eucliod avenue and Washington street. Edgar Green. 2756 Bellefontaine street. Chevrolet coach, 85-103, from Twenty-eighth and Bellefontaine streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Cecil Haymaker, 738 North New Jersey street, Chevrolet touring, found at 218 East Nineteenth street. Emil Kisal, 838 Virginia avenue, Essex coach, found at Kealing avenue and New York street. Ford coupe. 730-003, found at McCarty and Delaware streets. Hudson sedan, M-524, found at 2300 Shelby street. Walter E. Jenny, 5556 Pleasant Run boluevard, Whippet coach, found in front of 123 West Maryland street. Rutherford B. McArthur, 2503 MNorthvestem avenue, Essex coach, found at Capitol avenue and Michigan street. Ranzie E. McKay, 1249 Roach street, Ford coupe, found at Thirtieth street and East Riverside drive. Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 209 West South street, Chevrolet coach, found at Yandes and Twen-ty-third street. Pioneer Woman Dies FARMLAND, Ind., Jan. 11.—Mrs. Mary Hurst, 87, widow of Jasper Hun Hurst, is dead here. She has resided in this community for the past fifty years. Two daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Arbogast and Mrs. Mary Deal, and a son, Henry, survive.

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STANDARD OIL OBSERVES ITS BOTHBIRTHDAY Rockefeller Sr. Attends Annual Celebration Via Movietone. BY HAROLD E. RIGHTER Cnited Press Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND, Jan. 11.—John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil men looked back over sixty years of development here Friday night at the company’s birthday party and resolved the oil business was a sucRockefeller Sr. came back to Cleveland, where he started the company that grew into the largest business organization in the world, but he came back only scientifically, via that newest theatrical revolution, the talking picture. In a Fox movietone short he expressed his regrets that he was unable to travel from Ormond Beach, Fla., to Cleveland for the Standard Oil Company’s sixtieth birthday. Started at $15,000 They told at the banquet Friday night that Rockefeller’s first salary with the new Standard Oil Company of Ohio as its president, was $15,000. Three hundred employes celebrated and Standard Off officials from thir-ty-two states were present. W. T. Holliday, president of Standard Oil of Ohio, parent of the vast Rockefeller interests, told the story of how "serious Johnny” came from Pennsylvania oil fields in 1862 with $17,000 to invest; how he and a partner, Maurice B. Clark, bought a “tea kettle” refinery, with Samuel Andrews coming in as third man, and how it culminated in incorporation of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. Pittsburgh was the oil center at that time, and Rockefeller’s little company set out to compete with Pittsburgh. And because Cleveland had the Great Lakes, two railroads and the Ohio canal, and also because Rockefeller’s company finally bought out all the competing “tea kettle” refineries here, Pittsburgh had to be second in importance in the oil industry. Bought Out Clark Rockefeller bought out Clark for $72,500 in 1865. Henry M. Fagler financed a move to buy the competing “tea kettles.” One by one they came into Rockefeller & Cos. and Jan. 10, 1870 the Standard Oil Company was incorporated with Rockefeler, his brother William, Andrews, Flagler and Stephen V. Harkness as incorporators. There was a mountainous birthday cake at the party, with a miniature modem gasoline station atop. Dr. John L. Davis, pastor of Washington Square Methodist church, New York, was the principal speaker. A two-hour radio program from Station WTAM and over a national network, carrying imported talent of star caliber, was on the air in conjunction with the celebration. PRINCESS WILL HUNT Marie Louise of England to Sail for South American Wilds. Bu United Press LONDON, Jan. 11. Princess Marie Louise, cousin of King George and one of the most unconventional and democratic of British royalties, plans to leave for South America Jan. 31 to enjoy herself in the wilds for several months. Among other plans, she intends to take part in a roundup at one of the great cattle ranches, and afterwards cruise on the Amazon river. In 1928, the princess enjoyed herself in the west African jungle, wearing “shorts” and sleeping in a tent.

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POISON GAS USE IMPRACTICABLE Persons Can Be Trained to Avoid Attack Results. Bu Science Scrrirc WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. Though the possibilities of gas warfare in the future practically are limitless, General L. Gilchrist, chief of the army chemical warfare service, does not believe that the civilized world would tolerate gas attacks upon cities, nor does he believe that such hostilities would be practicable. It would take eighty tons of phosgene per square mile, for example, he states in testimony presented to congress, to gas Paris. This great concentration is required because air currents caused by buildings and cross streets would dissipate the gas rather rapidly. Inhabitants could be tri ined how to act in the event of a gas attack, to go indoors, stop up doors and windows, shut off ventilators and fires, and thus be safe. In tall buildings, the upper stories would not be affected. New York’s population, for example, could go up in their skyscrapers. Undoubtedly, great confusion would result from a gas attack on an unprepared and untrained popular, and it might be effective in quickly bringing a city to its knees, General Gilchrist admitted. Its use on the part of any military commander for such purpose, however, he believes would be unthinkable. Veteran Medium Dies Bu Times Special CHESTERFIELD, Ind., Jan. 11.— Mrs. Sarah E. Pierce. 89, dean of Indiana spiritualists and a friend of Mary Baker Eddy before Mrs. Eddy become the founder of Christian Science, is dead at her home on the Spiritualist camp ground. Mrs. Pierce was a retired practicing physician and a graduate of Boston university.

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GRAIN ELEVATOR FIRE DAMAGE $1,000,000 Cleveland Plant Reduced to Ruin; Flames Rage All Night. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. 11.—A fire that raged all night had reduced the Cleveland Grain and Milling Company elevator to a mass of ruins today, causing a damage estimated at $1,000,000. All available fire companies in the city were called out. Fireman, hampered by the extreme coldness of the weather, fought a hopeless battle against the flames throughout the night. Cause of the fire is undetermined but is thought to have originated in the grain bins in the elevator. Located just a few blocks from the heart of the downtown section, the shooting flames attracted thousands. Robbers Miss $55 Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 11.—Two unmasked bandits who robbed a Kroger grocery overlooked $55 which had been placed in a bank book. Their loot, taken from the cash register, amounted to only $11.55. They held the manager, Forest Hoener, at bay with a gun, and after the robbery escaped in an automobile.

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