Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1930 — Page 3

JAN. T 5, 1930.

CITIZENS COME TO RESCUE OF ‘BROKE' CHICAGO Millions Will Bring Relief to Poor ai'.d Schools; Politics Scored. BY MFRTON T. AKERS I nitrd Prrvn S;aff Correspondent CHICAGO. Jan. 25.—Chicago citizens will dig down into their pockets for $20.000 000 to save tottering city, county and school governments from immediate financial chaos, but none of the millions will be available for "spendthrifts, wild financing or pay rolling.'’ Faced with world-wide unfavorable publicity and misery within sight of their own homes, citizens who have made fortunes with the lrise of Chicago from a Lake Michigan swamp have agreed to place at least $20,000,000 at the disposal of city officials, but it must go to pay employes who have been forced to sek aid from loan sharks, to pay pensions to mothers and the blind, to keep 500,000 children in school and to heat hospitals and poorhouses. $20,000,000 to Start The demands were phrased more delicately than that but the meaning was clear when the "rescue committee,” made up of leading rich men headed by Silas Strawn, internationally known lawyer, announced that the ship of city government would not be permitted to go on the recks from want of casn. Instead of the $50,000,000 deemed necessary by politicians, the committee decided that $20,000,000 would serve as a starter. The money will be put into tax anticipation warrants. Names of the men and firms that came to the aid of the city were not made public by the committee nor were the exact methods by which the money would be handled, but there was no mistaking that the committee would govern payments. With the announcement came a caustic and slangy statement from the committee, directed at Mayor William Hale Thompson, Yale graduate, cowboy executive and foe of | King George and Great Britain. Nlap at Thompson “Nero fiddled while Rome burned,”! the statement said, “but he had j nothing on what certain officials j now are doing. The situation is much like that in China. They are not concerned with what, they can j earn, but whet they can borrow. ‘‘Big Bill is attempting to get a campaign platform out cf the muddle. He is posing as a friend of the poor people a ,r ainst the inroads of the rich. He thinks it will be more effective than promising to biff King George on the snoot when he comes sailing down Lake Michigan toward Chicago.” Strawn added his voice to the! tirade again t politicians when he] said:- J “The biggest difficulty we encounter in trying to raise money for , the city is the effort to play politics with the situation. Politicians are attempting to gain art advantage out of the desperate financial condition of the community.” RIOT FEAR IS SUBSIDING Groups of Whites and Filipinos on Streets Only Trouble Sign. Ru l nitrd Press WATSONVILLE. Cal.. Jar.. 25. Mob scenes of previous nights of the race riots here since Sunday were reduced today to small groups of whites and Filipinos standing on street corners. Rumors of the arrival of more Filipino workers on nearby ranches were heard, but police said they felt they could meet any emergency that might arise. The Filipino Club, where nine white dancing girls were employed to dance with the islanders, has been closed. All pool halls have been ordered to close at 6 p. in. each day.

Air Course Offered Collaborating with the Curtiss Flying Service of India-na, Butler university next semester will offer a course in preliminary aeronautics. Three academic hours credit will be allowed by Butler for a course of fifty lectures by Ralph Barnes. Curtiss school manager. Pupils, after taking the class and laboratory work, may continue with technical and advanced work at the Mars Hill airport under direction of the Curtiss company, it was said. If the experimental course proves successful. Dr. Robert J. Aley, Butler president, said, additional equipment will be obtained by the university and several new aeronautical courses will be added to the university curriculum. Mast Is Located RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 25.—The mooring mast, at which the Graf Zeppelin will be docked on her arrival during the proposed South American tour next May, will be erected at Recife, it was announced today. The landing field is to be at Campo do Yipranga Ciquia. It is a tract of land over a quarter of a mile long and some 300 yards wide. Prepare for Flight Bti T'nifrrf COLOGNE. Jan. 25.—Lucio Luijsaga and Horacio Vasquez. Bolivian fibers preparing for a projected trans-Atlantic flight from Seville to La Paz. left Cologne today for Paris. Marriage Licenses Gavlord B Millikan. 29. of 1304 North Delaware, contractor, and Gertrude L. Hereth. 28. of 4503 Broadway. William R. Chapman. 22. of 4815 Wfnthrop knitter, and Marv L Sams. 26. of 2263 North New Jersey, inspector. Harold P. Oiltner, 21. of 228 South Sherman, chaufleur. and Katrine B. Wells. 23. of 444 North Arsenal, stenogr*l?n Brtteman. 25. of 612 West New York, grocer, and Ros% Cohen. 25, of 2433 BeUefontatne. While the date of the invention of the locomotive is usually placed at 1829, Solomon de Cause, a Frenchman, published a book early in the seventeenth century concerning the ’ pushing of carriages and ships by boiling water and making steam.” He was put in an asylum In 1630.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. Is Behind Amazing Boom in Historic Old Town in Virginia

Dr W A R Goodwin left, and John D. Rockefeller Jr., are shown at the left as they watched work being done on one of the buildings in Williamsburg, Va„ which they plan to restore to its early colonial condition. Upper center is the Garrett house, already restored, and below you see the oldest college building in America, now being rebuilt. At right is the monument on the site of the Governors mansion. Excavations here will reveal the original foundations, upon which the structure will be restored.

Old-Fashioned Colonial City to Be Rebuilt as National Shrine. Bu VP.I Service WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Jan. 25. This sleepy, old-fashioned, respectably shabby colonial town is staging a boom, a ghost boom, if you will, that is making the other towns of the old domjiion rub their eyes and wonder if they are dreaming or really seeing things. For Williamsburg, snubbed by Rotary clubs, high hatted by progress, and allowed to run down at the heel because no one considered it important enough to rebuild, now finds that its dilapidated buildings and the grandfather’s clocks that won't run are worth more than factories and skyscrapers, and that there’s something in having had a part as well as having a future. Oil yes, there’s money in tradition, but it takes money to exploit it, and that is where Williamsburg has the break. For back of the restoration of Williamsburg are the millions of John D. Rockefeller Jr. flowing freely at the direction of Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, who is pastor of the Bruton Parish church, oldest church in the country. It's Famed in History Ever since he fame to the town in 1902, Dr. Goodwin h?s realized the historical importance and the traditional wealth of the town and has felt it should be perpetuated, and It was he who interested Rockefeller in the plan. When they started to restore the town, it was thought that $5,000,000 ought to do the job. since fine old places then were available at almost any amount of cash in hand. Many had deteriorated into quarters for Negro cooks and gardeners. And $5,000,000 might have been enough, had not the town, at this point, awakened from its slumbers and shown some up-to-date American business spirit.

Prices Soar Skyward Just as soon as the news was spread that Rockefeller was restoring the town, the inevitable happened—real estate prices doubled, tripled and skyrocketed like Florida values immediately before the slump. Property that had not been acquired quietly already by Rockefeller's agents climbed to ridiculous prices. The town is rich in history, as well as good fortune. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was the capital of the state. Here Patrick Henry burned ’em up with his oratory. Here is the Burwell home where Thomas Jefferson. then a prep school boy at William and Mary college, used to come courting. Here George Washington had his headquarters during the Revolution. Here is a collection of “oldest in 1 America" buildings that is priceless ' —and becoming more so.

Town to Be Rebuilt The restoration of the town into a national shrine involves practically its complete rebuilding, and entails work of great magnitude and expense. It now is two years since the first crew of architects and builders moved in to start the work, and at present only twelve of the old houses are actually rejuvenated. In addition to the first $5,000,000, it is estimated by some of the optimistic townsfolk that at least $25.000.000 more must be put into the project, which is assuming greater proportions daily. And they say that at least eight years more w ill be necessary to buy and plan and rebuild. If these figures were not sufficient to make Williamsburgers realize their new importance, the great influx of tourists, architects, artists and a small army of workmen would do the rest. After 200 years, business is looking up. NEW SCHOOL TO OPEN Red Cross Field Worker Will Teach Life-Saving Methods. Methods in life saving will be taught at a special school for lifesaving examiners, which will be opened in Indianapolis Monday by Paul D. Goss, life-saving field representative of the American Red Cross. The course will be given at the Indianapolis Athletic Club pool, and will be open to persons who have passed the senior Red Cross lifesaving test. Instruction starts at 7 p. m. Monday.

Rules Announced for ‘Sunshine Girl'Contest

Here are the rules for The Times Indiana theater “Sunshine Girl" j contest: ! 1. This contest shall be known as The iTimes-Indtana Theater Sunshine Girl Contest.” ! 2 Preliminaries shall be held at the Indiana theater the night of Wednesday, j feb. 5, at 11:30 to pick five winners. who I will appear at every stage performance I thereafter, starting Friday. Feb. 7. through j Feb. 13. Final aw ards will be made following the last stage show on the night |of Feb. 13. | 3 . All unmarried, non-professional giu* land women between 16 and 26 (inclusive) i are eligible to enter. 4. The prizes, totalling S2OO in cash, are to be awarded as follows: First, $75; second. SSO; third. S3O; fourth, $25, and fifth. S2O. 5. All entrants must appear in the preliminary contest at the Indiana theater the night of Feb. 5. 6. Entrants must agree that if chosen as one of the five preliminary winners they will appear on the stage of the Indiana theater with Charlie It a vis all the following week. 7. Final aw-ards will be determined byaudience applause, v.-ith Charlies Davis acting as the solo judge as to which contestant wins the most at each performance. 8. Awards further will be based on a scoring system, with winner of the most points getting first prize, winner of the 'second highest number of points getting j the second prize, et cetera. Points will be j determined as follows; The winner of | the most applause at each individual per--1 formance will be given five points; winner of the second greatest amount will be given four points; winner of third greatest amount three points; winner of fourth greatest amount, two points; and, winner of the fifth, one point. Points will be scored and totalled after each performance, the winners of the highest totals at the end of the week’s final performance being given respective awards. Position of contestants will be alternated each performance to assure fairness at all times. Each contestant must confine her performance to not more than one minute and one-half. 9. All entrance blanks for the preliminary must be in the mail by 12 o'clock the night of Monday, Feb. 3. These must be addressed to “Sunshine Girl Contest. luj diana Theater building.” ! 10. All entrants to the first preliminary 'must be at the theater t stags door enj trance by 10 o'clock the night of Feb. sth. | ready for the first try-out, and with own I music, if music is needed. Accompaniment. | when wanted, will be supplied bs* members !of the Charlie Davis orchestra, i 11. Amateur performers of every kind are eligible. That is. singers, dancers, | monologists, pianists, players of all instruments, etc.

TAGGART IS VISITOR Hotel Owner Spend's Short Time With Officials. Thomas D. Taggart Jr., owner of the French Lick Springs hotel and ! son of the late Democratic leader, was a visitor at city hall Friday, j “I was coming past the city hall and thought I'd stop in and see seme friends,” Taggart said. Asked if he expected to continue j actively the interest of his famous father in Democratic politics, he , said: “No, I'm just a hard-working | bey." A minute later his chauffeur drove him away in a Rolls-Royce. Appearance of Taggart at city hall recalled the last visit of the late j Democratic boss to city hall during | the Slack administration when he visited L. Ert Slack, former mayor, and City Controller Sterling R. Holt, : and "talked politics” between smokes.

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STOCK LOANS DECLINE Federal Banks Decrease $24,000,000 From Last Week. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. i;.—Loans on stocks and bonds to brokers and dealers by reporting federal reserve member banks in New York City on Jan. 22, declined, $24,000,000 to a total of $3,341,000,000 from the previous week’s total, the federal reserve board announced late Thursday.

SLAPS DRY KILLINGS Former Legion Chief Pleads for Repeal of Law. Hv United Press NEW YORK, Jan. s.—The shooting of three men aboard the rumrunner Black Duck was “in moral principle almost an exact parallel of the sinking of the Lusitania,” in the belief of Edward E. Spafford, past national commander of the American Legion. “I am neither a wet nor a dry,” Spafford said in addressing a women's meeting. “I don’t care whether we have light wines and beers or whether we have everything or whether we abstain totally. But I want no compromise with the people who have put this iniquitous amendment, foreign to every principle for which bur forefathers fought, into the Constitution. I want absolute repeal.” Spafford. a former naval officer, also commended the coast guard as a “fine body of men, condemned to do the dirty work.” Grandmother at 38 Bji ’t imes Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. Jan. 25.—Mrs. Harvey Kirts, 38. of East Columbus, is said to be the youngest grandmother in Bartholomew county. Her second grandchild, Dorla Dean Eve Lister, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lister, was born a few days ago. Both Mrs. Lister and Mrs. Kirts were married when they were 16. Mrs. Kirts is the mother of seven children.

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CHICAGO MOTOR SHOW OPENED Many Striking Models to Be Displayed. B,y Times Snecial CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Amid a setting of splendor, the thirtieth annual Chicago national automobile show opened, here today at the Coliseum, unveiling the eagerly awaited 1930 offerings of America’s great motor car manufacturers, as well as the newest developments in accessories and shop equipment. The exposition will be opened Sunday, marking the first time in history that exhibits have been observable to the public on a Sunday. The hours are the same as on other days during'’ show week, 10 a. m. to 10:30 p. m., up to and including Feb. 1. Forty-four makes of 1930 model cars and two of taxicabs occupy the main floor in the Coliseum, as well as the north hall and south annex which adjoin. Exhibits in the accessory division, of which there are 125, are grouped about the Coliseum balcony and second floor of the south annex, while the fifty-three shop equipment displays are located on the second floor of the north hall. The $5,000,000 automotive display reveals countless innovations. A number of former six-cylinder builders have added eights and several of them are concentrating on this type exclusively. For the first time in show history a sixteen-cyl-inder model has made its appearance. Another trend is toward four-speed transmissions, a type of design t’ ,t made its debut two years ag and has since found increasing favor among manufacturers. URGES ‘SPARING OF ROD’ Parents Spoil Child by Being Too Strict, Rabbi Says. “Parents bend backward when they follow the old and womout maxim, ‘spare the rod and spoil the child,”' the Rev. Morris M. Feuerlicht, rabbi of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, declared in an address at the temple Friday night. “By being overstrict they spoil the child. Man should stand straight, not forward, to scan the faults of teachers: not backward to protest his own righteousness.”

MRS. FELTON, FORMER U. S. SENATOR, DIES ‘Grand Old Woman’ of Georgia Succumbs to Long Illness. Bu United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 25.—The “grand old woman” of Georgia— Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, the only one of her sex ever to serve in the United States senate —is dead. She succumbed a few minutes before midnight to a long illness, which found its inception in injuries received in an automobile accident at Cartersville, Ga., last March 3. She was 94. Mrs. Felton sat in two senate sessions, although the elapsed time of her service was less than a day. She was appointed on Oct. 3, 1922, by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson. She sat in the senate sessions of Nov. 21 and 22, 1922. Before her appointment Mrs. Felton had stumped the state in behalf of Governor Hardwick and Senator Watson. She called herself an independent Democrat. Mrs. Felton was born in De Kalb county, Georgia, on June 10, 1835, the daughter of Charles and Eleanor Ann Latimer. She was graduated in 1852 from the Madison 'Ga.) female college, and on Oct. 11, 1853, married W. H. Felton of Barton county, Georgia. Her husband served as a member of congress from 1875 to 18-11. She was a wricer of note and spent much time lecturing on suffrage, and other subjects of interest to women. Among her books are "Memoirs—Georgia Politics,” and “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth.”

BISHOP NEAR DEATH Episocpal Church Primate Heart Attack Victim. CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Little hope for the recovery of the most Rev. Charles Palmerston Anderson, primate of the American Episcopal church and bishop of Chicago, was held by his physicians today. The bishop, 67, was stricken with a heart attack Wednesday and again Tluirsday. Members of the bishop’s family all had reached his bedside Friday night when hopes for his recovery faded. ,

WINS THIRD CHANCE FOR LIFE BY PERIOD Verdict Punctuation Causes Mistrial of Accused Son-Killer. CLEVELAND, Jan. 25.—A period, a mere matter of punctuation of a two-word sentence, has won for Frank E. Andrews a third trial and given him another chance for his

life. Andrews went to trial here for the second time, accused of the murder of his 18-month-old son. The foreman announced a verdict of manslaughter, whereupon Juryman Laurence Millward declared, that such had not been his verdict. Millward had writ-' ten "No manslaughter.” The

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foreman, reading it thus “No. Manslaughter” took this to mean to vote against a murder verdict and for a manslaughter verdict. The juryman contended he meant his vote without the period, meaning merely no as to manslaughter. The case was declared a mistrial.

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No, j-ou guessed wrong—this isn't Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is observed on Feb. 12, but anew picture of Judge Charles E. Bull, famous as Lincoln's “double,” who now is on a lecture tour in the east. Judge Bull was bom in Texas, the son of Confederate parents, but his resemblance to Lincoln is so strong that he often takes Lincoln roles in the movies in Hollywood, where he now resides.

RELIEF FUND GROWS Donations for Flood Aid Near SIO,OOO Mark. Indianapolis’ flood relief fund was expected to near the SIO,OOO mark today with tabulations of contributions at the Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross. Friday’s contributions of $2,193.14 brought the total fund to date to $8,193.79. Additional pledges, have been received, but not tabulated. WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company radio station, will present flood relief benefit programs from 6:30 to 7 and 11:30 to 1 tonight. ESTATE OF MILLIONS LEFT BY FIRM HEAD Property of Harry Hart Will Go to Family, Under Will. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Harry Hart, one of the founders of the Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothing Company, left an estate of approximately $6,000,000, his will on file today revealed. The bulk of the estate Is left to his family while $130,000 will go to charitable and other organizations. A special trust, created to exist until 1940, is provided to protect his interests in the clothing company. Sarah Hart, his second wife, is to receive SIOO,OOO outright while she and three children will share the residue of the estate, each of the children receiving two-ninths and Mrs. Hart one-third. The mortality tables are said to show that the United States navy man is the healthiest of any in the world.

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MOVE BY ITALY VIEWED AS BID FORJLS. HELP Freedom of Seas Policy Adherence Is Regarded Diplomatic Stroke. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Hotted Preii Staff Correspondent LONDON. Jan. 25.—Italv’a Informal acceptance of the American viewpoint on freedom of the seas was regarded today in some diplomatic circles as a bid for reciprocal sympathy by the United States for Italy’s Mediteramean claims. As the delegates prepared for a let up In their activities over the week-end, with few important conferences scheduled, the two principal topics of discussion were Foreign Minister Rino Grandi’s radio speech to America, and the problem of a method by which the five nations might arrive at limitations of naval tonnage. Talked to Stimson It was considered significant that before making his speech, in which he announced Italy’s adherence to principles already expressed by President Hoover, Grand! spent an hour and a quarter in discussion with Secretary of State Henry L, Stimson. The Italian minister, it was believed, is anxious to work closely with the Americans, seeing an opportunity to contract a working alliance by which he can drive a good bargain with France. Grand! already has attracted considerable attention as the “baby of the conference,” and it is considered significant that he alone of the non - English - speaking representatives made his opening address at the first plenary session in that tongue. He learned the language only last year. Visit In Country Stimson is spending the week-en# at his country place, Stanmore, with Dwight Morrow and other members of the American group. Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald is at Chequers, his country estate. In a brief statement Friday, Stimson cautioned the press against discouragement at the lack of specific developments, stating that absence of information regarding concrete progress was no sign of a crisis or a deadlock, but was due to the fact that many problems are being considered and many conversations will be required before developments begin to assume tangible shape. The delegates were relieved at the temporary surcease from the day-and-night round of conferences, festivities and spectacles and an opportunity to rest over the week-end.

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