Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1930 — Page 15

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MORE ACTIVITY SHOWN NOW IN BUILDING FIELD One Stone Company Alone Has Orders for 100 Carloads. $1,000,000 PLAN FILED Board at East Chicago Proposes Improvement of School Structures. BY CHARLES C. STONE Nilor, Th* Tim** Indications that building is reviving formed the outstanding development, noted in a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The Alexander King Stone Company has booked an order to provide sixty carloads of stone for the Falk Clinic building. Pittsburgh. Pa. Other orders, including one for the new University of Notre Dame stadium, bring the total bonked by the company to 100 car loads. Officials report a large number of Inquiries and express a belief that 1030 will be one of the best years the stone, business has experienced. Operations have been resumed at the quarry of the Ralph Rogers Company, near Versailles, with twenty men employed. A school building program for East Chicago, involving expenditure of $1,000,000 over a period of five years, has been submitted by the school board to the city council for approval. Oil and Gas Outlook Good Dr. William H. Logan, Indiana state geologist, announces there are indications that a promising oil and gas field will be developed on the eastern edge of Monroe and Lawrence counties. He cites two new gas wells and one oil well recently brought In. Conditions in various Indiana cities are shown in the following summary: Mnncie—Officials of seven Industries here consider the outlook for the next few’ months as generally satisfactory. The industries are on schedules ranging from full to half time operation. Nearly 1,200 persons are on the pay roll of the Muncle Products Corporation, General Motors subsidiary. Most of the men discharged during a lull In operations of the Warner Gear Company have been re-employed, according to E. B. Baltzly. vice-president. The Muncle Malleable Foundry Company plant is operating at nearly 100 per cent of capacity, as are those of Kitselman Brothers and Indiana Steel and Wire Company. Marion —Unemployment here is not alarming, business leaders declare, and estimate that 90 pet cent of men who were working at this time in 1929 are now’ employed.

Plant Addition Enlarged Washington—Plans for an addition to the Reliance Manufacturing Company plant have been enlarged to provide space for 475 employes. Bids on the addition will be received early in Marcn. South Bend— The Bendix Brake Corporation has purchased the Bragg-Kliesrath Corporation of Long Island, N. Y.. manufacturing an auxiliary braking device for vehicles, and the deal will result in strument Company here has bought additions to the force at the Bendix plant here. Wabash—The Reliance Manufacturing Company, anew industry here, has started operations with forty-three persons employed, and it is expected the force will be increased immediately. Elkhart—The Martin Band Instrument Company hree has bought controlling interest in the Harry Pedler & Cos. clarinet manufacturing concern. Arcadia—The D. C. Jenkins Glass Company plant here has been closed for repairs, and will resume operations in about six weeks. East Chicago—Capacity of pipe lines which bring oil from Texas to the Empire Refining Company plant here will be almost doubled. Present lines carry 30.000 barrels daily and with the additions the capacity will be 50.000. Portland—Work of rebuilding the burned plant of the J. A. Long Company, packers, will be started early in the spring. $>300,000 Theater Planned Mishawaka—The Indiana Federated Theaters, Inc., is considering plans for erection of a $300,000 talking picture theater with a seating capacity of 1.800. El wood —Operations will be started Monday at the local plant of the Western Indiana Gravel Company of Lafayette. Gravel machinery will be manufactured here in the old factory of the Ames Shovel and Tool Company, re-equipped at a cost of $20,000. lioogootee—The Loogootee Shale Brick Company is planned to begin operations soon in a plant remodeled at a cost of $50,000. Terre A. Herz Company. operating this city’s oldest department store, has been merged with the Meis Brothers Company, which operates the youngest department store. Huntington—The plant of the defunct Playtime Equipment Company, bought by a group of local business men at a bankruptcy sale, is to be placed in operation with a force of 100. The new owning company is capitalized at $70,000. Retired Engineer Dies Bv Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind.. Feb. 'William M. Brcwn. 76. a retired civil engineer, is dead. He was one of the engineers employed in buiidirg the Panama canal

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House Plan Wins SI,OOO

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Apartment dwellers who are pouring through books of house plans with an eye to spring home-building will flock to the John Herron Art institute during the next two weeks. For approximately forty plans, adjudged the best in thousands submitted in the third annual competition conducted by The House Beautiful magazine, went on display at the Institute today and will continue on view until Feb. 26, sponsored by the Indiana Society of Architects. In the photo here, Miss lona Johnson. 1319 Ringgold street, art student, is holding the small house plan that won first prize, SI,OOO, in the contest. The plan Is the work of Raymond J. Percival of Hartford, Conn.

STATE ASYLUM POPULATION UP Enrollment Is Higher by 20 Per Cent. Indiana’s poor asylum population is increasing more rapidly than the general state population growth, according to a tabulation made today by Secretary John A. Brown of the state charities board. During 1929 there were 129 persons In county poor asylums for each 100.000 population, while in 1920 there were but 106, the report shows. The gain approximates 20 per cent. Total number of inmates in the poor asylums of the ninety-two counties and the Marion county asylum for the insane is 4.136, an increase in 1929 of 187, over the preceding year. There are 2.904 ( males and 1.252 females. There w ? ere six babies under 3 years and nine children between 3 and 17. Years ago there were as many as 400, Brown pointed out. Os the grand total, 29.8 per cent are under 60 years, 69.3 per cent over 60, and less than 1 per cent of unknown age. Institution superintendents report 425 men and 413 women feebleminded. 235 men and 168 women insane, forty-six men and forty-eight women epileptic. Os the total population, 30.7 per cent are rated as mental defectives.

City Man Dies

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Last rites for Oscar E. Lewis, 69, one of the founders of the Indianapolis Casket Company, who died Thursday, will be held Saturday at the family home, 2214 North Capitol avenue.

OTIS SKINNER IS OTIS SKINNER, THEN IN A FLASH HE IS PAPA JUAN

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IT was not Papa Juan, a man just getting ready to celebrate his hundreth birthday, who sat in the star’s dressing room at English's last night. It was Otis Skinner, the star and the man. mostly the man. who has made the theater for years a better and a happier place to visit. He was seated at a little table in the dressing room, writing a note to Booth Tarkington. I take it, inviting the author back after the play. “Yes, yes,” said Skinner when his manager told him that I was just behind his back, “of course

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‘Sob Sister’ Young Girl Is Wracked by Crying Spell 108 Hours Long.

Attleboro. Mass., Feb. 14. Medical science today contined its battle to relieve Miss Violet Michael, pretty 19-year-old factory worker, of the convulsive sobbing that has wracked her for more than 108 hours. Apparently no worse, physically, as a result of her strange affiliction, tie girl sat in bed today reading newspapers and magazines, between fits of sobbing. Miss Michael was stricken with the malady Sunday night following the departure of her mother, Mrs. An torn Michael of New Bedford to her home, after spending the week-end with her daughter. The girl’s sobbing started after she had shed a few tears when her mother left following her first visit in two years. At a theater, where she was taken by her boyhood sweetheart, Tony Bosh, the sobbing spasms became so acute she was taken home and Dr. Earle R. White was called to administer aid. Several treatments of morphine and ether have failed to relieve the girl’s suffering, and physicians resorted to emetics. The sobbing hysteria was relieved somewhat Wednesday and doctors have used chloral hydrate to give Miss Michael further relief. She was able to get a few hours’ sleep Wednesday and Thursday nights. CITY MAN IS SUICIDE Howard W. Hershey Dies in Blackford County. Howard Wilbur Hershey, 52, of 218 North Senate avenue, formerly a resident of Blackford county, committed suicide today by slashing his throat, at the home of a sister, Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, living two miles south of Hartford City. Hershey went there Thursday. His brother-in-law, Sylvester Johnson, found the body in a field near the house, when he became alarmed over the absence of Hershey, who rose and left the house early this morning. Hershey inflicted deep cuts on his throat and bled to death. 11l health was the only cause advanced for the act, relatives said. He was employed as a shipping clerk at the Columbia seat factory here. Besides Mrs. Johnson he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Lucy Arehart. Bowersville. 0., and a brother, W. C. Hershey, McAllister, Okla.

I remember you. Are you well and happy?” Then I told him that, I heard several people while entering the theater say that they were glad that he “was still in flesh and not coming to town in a can.” He smiled and said: “Yes, yes. and I may soon. Not just yet, but it is possible.” I told him that I wished since George Arliss has made “Disraeli” as a talker that he would make a talking movie out of “The Honor of the Family.” He thought seriously for a second and said: “It is being contemplated, that and another.”

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930

CITY MAY ACT j TO CHECK GAS, LIGHT BILLS Municipal Meter Readers, to Protect Public, Are Urged by Dithmer. MAYOR INDORSES IDEA Plan Would Include All Utilities; Singleton Also Approves. Proposal for creation of a municipal meter-reading department, to inspect and read meters on complaint of Indianapolis utility patrons drew the indorsement todav of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and Public Service Commissioner Frank Singleton. Enactment of a city ordinance creating the department is all that would be required to make the plan a reality, Singleton believes. Special enabling legislation is not required of the general assembly, in his opiniQn. Mayor Sullivan, who is studying the proposal offered by Henry L. Dithmer, Polar Ice and Fuel Company head, president of the Better I Business Bureau, and prominent j civic leader, said he believes such : a department would “render a valuable public service.” Study Plan Here Possibility of inaugurating the service to augment the public service commission supervision of utilities will be studied by city officials | and the salary of inspectors listed in the 1931 budget, if it is deemed wise. Under the present system the patron who complains about incorrect reading of meters or reports a defective meter has no way of testing the meter except by appealing to the company. Appeal then may be taken to the public service commission, but the commission maintains only one man to inspect the meters in Indiana and does not investigate individual cases. Singleton urged that a municipal I meter reading department be estabj lished not only in Indianapolis, but i ift other large Inidana cities. | He pointed out that under the 1 utility law the state commission’s j service department should handle | all complaints, but that in reality j it has neither the men nor money | to take care of individual protests. ! Only when there is some community I demand does the service depart- ! ment investigate. Should Waste No Time “The investigation should be conducted at the time protest, is made and at present the commission j might be swamped with demands | w’hich would require months to in- ! vestigate,” he asserted. “The city department could act j promptly and its findings, if proi Stested by the utility companies, I could be brought to the commisj sion for checking as a sort of court | of appeal.” He pointed out that no objection jto meter tests could be made by j utilities using honest meters which | function properly.

MADE SALES MANAGER C. M. Wills to Direct Affairs of HiLaß Products FirmAppointment of C. M. Wills as new sales manager of HiLaß Products Company, of the Hide, Leather

and Belting Company, was announced today by A. G. Snider, president of the firm. Wills, native of Green field, and graduate of Butler university, formerly was connected with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, O. He also was dis-> trict sales manager for Prest-O-Lite Storage Bat-

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tery Company in Chicago, St. Louis and Dallas and later manager United States branches and warehouses for the same firm. HiLaß manufactures automobile parts and accessories. KNIVES IN RUM DISPUTE Two Gary Men With Opposed Liquor Views Slashed. Bv United Press GARY, Ind., Feb. u.—The prohibition question was argued with knives by two Gary steel workers and both are in a hospital today. Marcadino Baltcar, 21. a dry, met Trofilo Ysguirlo, a friend who insisted that they have a drink together. Baltcar began a defense of his dry principles which angered his friend. In the resulting argument. both used knives.

A ND then I thought back to his grand “Mister Antoneo” and I thought of Booth Tarkington. Then the star's thoughts returned to Tarkington when he said: “What was that Booth Tarkington said about the city? It seems to me with all the wires reaching ou* here and there that it is just a web. So much tension and noise. Just a city in turmoil.” And as I watched him there in the chair, quietly smokin? a dgaret. still in his aced makeup of Papa Juan. I could not connect Otis Skinner with the turmoil and noise of a great city.

TODAY’S THE DAY OF LOVE

Valentines Have Their 24-Hour Reign

'T'HE day of days is today, St Valentine’s. You can get even with your bootlegger, the butcher, and baker with caricatured witticisms at 1 cent a paper sheet. Spinisters have twenty-four hours in which to suggest that twain hearts should beat as one, with water-colored verse, while doggeral or worse beneath a comic red nose should do for the landlord who won't fix your wallpaper. It’s the day when LOVE is spelled with capital letters and Cupid may lurk at the corner soda fountain, the end-seat on an Indianapolis street car or merely in dreams. It will be celebrated with parties where red hearts are masticated m ice cream, cakes and candies. Radio broadcasts will drip with . the honeyed love songs of past and present. And dream waltzes will feature the night’s dancing. “Blue” strains and the sad notes of the "broken-hearted” scores of Tin Pan Alley will be shelved for the day. The anniversary originated Feb. 14, 270, with the beheading of St. Valentine by Emperor Claudius II of Rome and ever since a man’s scalp has been the target of feminists who were unable to act as mourners at Valentine’s execution.

STAY GIVEN !N DOLLINGS OASc Former Vice-President Gets Sentjnce Delay. Bv United Pres * CINCINNATI. Feb. 14.—Collapse of the $100,000,000 R. L. Dollings Corporation of Ohio and Indiana, seven j’ears ago, was echoed in federal court here today, when Judge Smith Hickenlooper granted an indefinite stay of sentence to Dwight Harrison, vice-president of the now defunct company, who was sentenced to six years in Atlanta on charges of using the mails to defraud. Harrison recently was released to federal authorities by officials of the Ohio state penitentiary, where he served part of a six-year sentence after conviction on charges of issuing a false financial statement.

Paulina Is 5 Today

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Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Paulina Longworth, daughter of Speaker and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. celebrated her fifth birthday today by visiting for the first time the house over which her father presides. As soon as she appeared in the members’ gallery with a governess and her father’s secretary, Republican Leader Tilson called attention of members to her presence and congratulated her on her birthday Following the procedure with which distinguished visitors are

His hands were powdered, so was his hair and his face, but the Otis Skinner personality was there in the dressing room. And then I thought of the quiet, the peace and the beauty of his new' play, “Papa Juan” and I began to understand what he indicated by speaking of the city, the great big centers of energy and noise. I then realized that he had found quiet and peace in this play and was giving it to thousands of others in the theater. a a a “XfOU did have great faith in X this play?” I asked. “Yes, and why not?” he an-

Miss Cyrilla Scheefers, 21, of 1631 North Delaware street (above) and her twin sister, Clarissa, have doubled up on Cupid by making one heart beat for two as they prepare one Valentine in their drawing class at the Circle Art Academy, sixth floor Meyer-Kiser bank building.

CAL IN NEW ORLEANS Former President and Wife See Sights of Southland. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge saw the sights of old New Orleans today, on their way from Florida to California. The former President- and his wife sought a “quiet and simple” visit here, but motorcycle ponce were ordered to escort the Ccolidge’s on their automobile tour through the French quarter.

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greeted, members rose solemnly to their feet, turned toward the gallery and applauded. The demonstration was somewhat disconcerting to the granddaughter of. the late President Roosevelt. First she joined in the applause and then, prompted by her escorts dropped her hands and bowed. The bright blue ribbon holding her curls in place bobbed until the applause subsided. Then she watched the proceedings with wideeyed interest until taken on a tour cf Capitol inspection.

swered. “We opened in the spring in Chicago, stayed there through the very hot weather. Crowds every night. And when August came I began to think of fishing. So I closed it up, went fishing and opened it up later. And we could have stayed on mufch longer in Chicago. The reception being given this play speaks for itself. Then I thought of the great night in Washington, D. C„ just a short time ago when the First Lady of the Land occupied the presidential box to see Mr. Skinner as “Papa Juan.” He turned the conversation to Ethel Barrymore, in “The Kingdom of God," when he told me:

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arrest man as OIL ACCOSTER Jooeph Huxley Identified by Children. Identified by three schoolgirls, 4, 8 and 15 years old, as the man who tried to entice them into his automobile at Devon and New York streets early today, Joseph Huxley, 54, of 610 Cecil street, was held by deputy sheriffs this morning. He is charged wi£h accosting the girls, with carrying concealed weapons and with drunkenness. A gun is said to have been found in a pocket. When Huxley stopped the machine, the girls told deputies, they ran to the school building a short distance away. Mrs. Cordis L. Herdrich, principal, telephoned the deputies. PERRY HEIR IS SUED Beneficiary’s Lawyer Asks SIO,OOO Judgment. Suit for SIO,OOO Judgment against a beneficiary of the estate of the late James Perry, Indianapolis sportsman, who was killed last summer in an airplane crash near Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was filed today in superior court 4 by Earl R. Cox, attorney. Defendants are Dorothy Dorsey, who by Perry’s will was to receive a life allowance of SSOO a month; William C. Richardson, and A. Perry, brother to James Perry. In the suit, Cox charges he was asked to represent, the woman in litigation pertaining to her rights under the will. Contrary to the agreement she settled the matter herself, discharging Cox as her counsel, it is alleged. Richardson and Norman Perry are administrators of the estate. FLY TO ILL DAUGHTER Mother, Father Near Sickbed of 4-year-old Child. Bv United Pres* . „. . , DENVER, Feb. 14.—Flying from Mexico City to Denver, where his daughter is seriously ill, from a double mastoid operation, Charles C. Gates, millionaire automobile tire manufacturer, was expected to reach here late today with Mrs. Gates. Bernice, the 4-year-old child, became ill several days after Gates and his wife left for a tour of Central countries two weeks ago. Thursday physicians decided upon an emergency operation and the parents were notified at Mexico City. Gates chartered an airplane.

“I went back stage In New York during the run of that play to see Miss Barrymore. To me it is simply wonderful how she ages in the last act. Nothing but just white on her face and no lines. It is wonderful” Then a knock came on the start dressing room door and Mr. Skinner was asked if he was ready for the second act. Then I saw Papa Juan coming to life as Mr. Skinner picked up his cane, adjusted his hat, and walked toward the door. “Now I go acting again,” he said in Papa Juan s voice. And so I shook hands with Papa Juan and not Otis Skinner.

G. 0. P. CALLED DESPOILER OF PEOPLE’S RULE Claude G. Bowers Flays Republicans in Address Before Editors. EQUAL RIGHTS VANISH Financial Blocs Aid to Campaign Funds Declared Menace. Sounding a clarion call for government by and for the people, Claude G. Bowers, historian, editor and orator; stripped away the veil of obscurity shrouding the history of the Republican party during Its last nine years of power in an address Thursday night at. the banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at the Claypool. Lauding the genius of Jefferson —“the greatest political philosopher that Atnerlca has given to mankind" —Bowers described how the government has abandoned its original boundaries to invade the rights and privileges guaranted by the Constitution. Charging that, campaign funds donated by the financial bloc has resulted in the bloc, using agencies of the government, for its own benefit. Bowers said, “the majority of the people have been deprived of r he equal rights which are essential in the Jeffersonian concept of society. "And the result is that money has come to mean more than men in legislation and administration. Privilege sits in the seats of the mighty with Joe Grundy as cup bearer and Senator Moses as trnmpeteer. The Peter Prys of bureaucracy swarm over the land like the locusts of Egypt and for generations agriculture has played the part of the poor relation in the halls of congress.”

Praises Woodrow Wilson Lauding Wilson as one of the greatest constructive geniuses this country ever has produced, Bowers declared : “During Wilson's administration we revised the tariff without the semblance of a scandal-the first j tarifT act in sixty years that had not | been conceived in iniquity and j brought forth in corruption.” It was during this administra- | tion there was enacted the federal reserve act—“the greatest single piece of constructive statesmanship in three quarters of a century.” Then came the war and, said Bowers, “more than two score of Republican congressional investigating committees, with the potfer to summon witnesses and papers, with a microscope in one hand and the unlimited resources of the nation in the other, were unable to lay a single scandal on the doorsteps of the administration of Woodrow Wll.son. “How times have changed. “More vital, lasting legislation was written into law the first year of the Wilson administration than has ever been written in the combined nine years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. What have they achieved in .the last nine years? We waive the story of Fall and Denby, of Doheny and Sinclair, of Daugherty, of Jess Smith, the suicide; and Roxie Stinson, the delectable. These are not fit subjects for the dinner table, but what else have they achieved?” Like Mannerly Butler “The Republicans have kept the books, collected money and paid it out, have played the part of the well behaved butler in the mansion of Big Business and their executives have drifted with the current without much thought of where the current carried. “Well, the current has carried thousands of gullible Americans upon the sands of bankruptcy within the last six months. “I know of nothing so pathetic in history as the collapse of the market and of business during the regime of the miracle man of business and during the incumbency of the greatest secretary of treasuiy since Hamilton—but why bring that up?” Bowers scathingly denounced the Republican party for the deplorable plight of agriculture and blamed it upon industrialists. Declaring that placing in the President’s hands the power to raise and lower the tariff is In violation of our fundamental law, Bowers said: “We have insisted that the power to tax shall rest exclusively in the representatives of the people in the legislative department of the government. It was in support of this principle that Charles I was ushered to the scaffold and another king sent upon his travels. “Give the President this power and the masses of the people will be completely at the mercy of a single man who is under no obligation to explain his act. It is a power never asked by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt nor Wilson and with all due respect I know nothing in the character or career of Mr. Hoover to justify the extension of such dangerous and despotic power to him.” Charges Corruption “Every sensible man and woman knows that present method of tar* iff making reeks with corruption. It resembles more the division of spoils among quarreling highwaymen in a wayside cave than the orderly processes of statesmen engaged in the of state.’ f