Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1930 — Page 15

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INDUSTRIES OF FOUR CITIES IN GROWTH PLANS Terre Haute. Marion, Clinton and East Chicago Affected by Expansion.. COST ABOVE $1,000,000 New Telegraph and Telephone Building Will House Tripled Force. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, Tbe Time* Four expansion programs form the most noteworthy feature of a business and Industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, after two years of negotiation, announces it has acquired a si to in Terre Haute for erection of a. building, which, with equipment, will require an outlay of more than $1,000,000. The building will be four stories high, so constructed that, additional stories maybe added. The present force of forty-five persons will be tripled. Anew unit of the Soultz Brass Foundry Company has been placed in operation at Marion, entailing an increase in the force which will add $20,000 a year to the company’s pay roll. The new unit cost $15,000. The Empire Refining Company will enlarge its East Chicago plant during the spring to a point increasing output by 10.000 barrels. Cracking units will be increased from six to ten. Factory to Be Enlarged A contract has been signed for an addition to the Lewin overall factory at Clinton, to increase floor space 6,400 square feet.. A fund of more than $6,000 was contributed by Clinton business men and other citizens to assure building of the addition. Steel production in the Calumet district has reached a point slightly above 95 per cent of normal, a gain of 5 per cent having been accomplished in the past. week. Conditions in various Indiana cities are shown in the following summary: Lebanon—Til a Ladoga Canning Company announces that tomato growers will be paid sl4 a ton, an Increase of $1 over last year's price. The company’s plant here has been enlarged to an extent permitting handling of 300 tons of tomatoes daily. Hartford City—This city’s four glass factories are expected to be operating on a satisfactory basis at an early date. Gary The Indiana Industrial Land Company, a Midland United Company subsidiary, has bought 200 acres of land between here and Michigan City as the site for an electric generating station. No early development of the tract is planned. Terre Haute—The Hardware Supply Company, with SIOO,OOO capital stock, has been formed here, and plans erection of a building in the downtown district with 15,000 square feet of floor space. Vincennes Plant Busy Vincennes—The Hartman Manufacturing Company, producing farm 1 machinery, is operating steadily and officials announce the schedule will be maintained for at least eleven months. The company’s weekly pay roll Is $1,200. Jeffersonville —The Howard shipyards has launched and turned over to the buyer, the Vesta Coal Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., the William Larimer Jones, one of two towboats. The craft is of all-steel construction. 139 feet long and 34 feet side. The two boats will cost $400,000. Valparaiso—Control of the Acco Corporation, which has been in the hands of an executive committee as a result of financial difficulties, has passed to the Porte- superior court, where a temporary receiver was appointed. Michigan City—The Michigan City Core Sand Company has been organized, with plans to begin operations March 15. More than one hundred workers employed in erecting the $7,000,000 Northern Indiana Public Service Company generating station on the Lake Michigan shore, walked out after a disagreement with machinists, accused of performing services the iron workers asserted was part of their work. TWO KILLED IN BLAST, Boiler of Saw Mill Explodes Southeast of Crothersville. iu Timt * Special CROTHERSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 28. R. A. Cade. 64. is dead, the second victim of a boiler explosion at a saw mill six miles southeast of here Ed Smith, 65, owne r of the mill, was killed instantly. His son, Ernest Smith, and Warmer Richardson, 30. were slightly ini.ured. N. W. Stewart, Scott county coroner. announc -d following an inquest. that cold water allowed to flow into the boiler by Cade caused the explosion. Mae’hlne Injures Two By Time* Special COLUNVBUS. Ind.. Feb. 28. When r. and Mrs. Mathew Ward, southwest of here, started to operate m cream separator which they several months ago at a r*€hlic sale, the machine burst and fcboth were injured. Parts of the separator struck both Mr. and Mrs. Ward and caused considerable damage to a room. It Is thought possibly someone had placed some kind of explosh e in the separator.

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‘Retire?' Gray beards Nearing Century Mark Laugh at Advice

AT 86, Captain Robert Dollar is the largest individual owner

and operator of ships in the world. Of retirement, the Pacific mariner says: “They say a man should retire at 70. If I'd done so, what a lot I'd have missed! My idea of a full life is to do my day’s work on my last day on earth and wake up the next morning in eternity.”

Dollar

Wedding to Be March 15

HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 28—Helen Costello and Lowell Sherman, screen players, are to be married here March 15, it was reported today. Their engagement was announced some time ago. The affair is to take price at the exclusive Beverly Wiltshire hotel. Dolores Costello, actress and sister of Helen, will act. as maid of honor, while her husband, John Barrymore, has consented to be best man for Sherman.

JUDGES WIN POINT IN SALARY BATTLE

Demurrer of eight Marion county judges to a writ of prohibition filed in behalf of county officials to prevent the issuance of court mandates in the court reporter’s pay case was sustained today by the supreme court. The ruling included a dismissal of thp writ proceeding brought by County Attorney Clinton H. Givan. On file before the high court since 55 PAY GUY FINES Failure to Get Licenses to Bring More Arrests. Fifty-five of seventy-five persons arrested Thursday for failure to comply with city license laws were fined today by Special Municipal Judge John L. N.black. Defendants included two women charged with failure to have procured room'ng house licenses. Other charges wfre based on delinquency in obtaining gasoline pump, theater and trur.K licenses. The drive against those who have not secured licenses required by city ordinance will be continued, Pqlice Captain Otto Ray, city license inspe tor. said.

NOTED SLEUTH TO PROBE BOMBINGS

By United Press MARION, Ind.. Feb. 28. Ora Slater. Cincinnati detective, will arrive in Marion Saturday to supervise investigation of three bombings in two months which have caused five deaths and terrorized members of the Mold Makers’ union. The latest bombing occurred Wednesday, killing John Ashcraft, 35. when he set off a dynamite missile by starting his automobile.

WORLD S MOST AMBITIOUS MAN HAS ANOTHER IMPORTANT ‘ENGAGEMENT’

BY SANDOR S. KLEIN I'nili-d Press SiaH Correspondent NEW YORK. Feb. 28.—Prison bars alone prevented Stanley Weinberg. America’s greatest synthetic celebrity and perhaps the world's most ambitious man. from completing another “big deal” today. Weinberg, alias Wyman. Wellman. Weyman and St. Cyr, former adviser to Princess Fatima Afghanistan, former consul-general for Rumania. former family physician to Pola Negri, former attorney tor Harold F. McCormick and former state lunacy commissioner—all by impersonation—was sentenced Thursday to six months to three years in Sing Sing for jumping bail on a charge of falsely impersonating a lawyer. He was arrested a few hours before his sentence, walking down Broadway with a newspaper- wrapped luncheon consisting of one ham and one cheese sandwich, under his arm. “You evidently are confusing me with someone else, my good fellow.” Weinberg told the arresting officer haughtily, at the same time displaying two checks, one for ss?'\o'tG and the ether for a mere million. "I am on my way to a financial closing which will transfer ownership of the biggest candy chain in the United States. Fortunately,

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Givan. a month ago. attempted to f rust ate action of the judges to mandate County Auditor Harry Dunn to pay the reporters an increased salary, the writ of prohibition resulted in temporary orders preventing judges from issuing such a mandate. Later, the county grand jury began a probe into the alleged “disappearance’ ’of the court reporter’s pay increase record, and reported last week that the charges, as made by judges, were unfounded. The high court’s ruling now gives judges opportunity to mandate Dunn to pay the pay increase of S6OO, or an additional SSO a month salary to each reporter, it was understood. It was indicated that Dunn will not pay the salary boost unless forced to do so by mandate from each judge. TAX SURVEY STARTED About two hundred deputy assessors in Center township began their annual survey of taxable propert’’ today after taking oath of office Thursday at a meeting in Marion criminal courtroom. Instructions were given by Clarence Uhling, member of the state tax board. Center Township Assessor Frank Brattain and James Eldler, county assessor.

Slater recently worked on the murder case of Melvin Horst at Orville. O., and was employed to investigate the murder of Don Mel left, Canton (O.) newspaper editor, a few years ago. George Coogan. deputy state fire marshal, will be sent to Marion to assist local police in the investigation cf Marion’s latest bombing disaster. it was learned at the statehouse today.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930

AT 88, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States supreme court is one of the most

Root, 85. one of the oldest of America’s elder statesmen, still is a power among world peacemakers. This man, who served in two cabinets and held numerous diplomatic pasts, crowned his career by framing reservations to the United States’ adherence to the world

SIX INVOLVED BY INSURANCE FRAUD PROBE Five Accused Believed to Be Fugitives; One Man Held at Anderson. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 28.—Investigators of fraudulent transactions by which the Modern Woodmen of America lodge insurance department paid two $3,000 death claims have caused arrest of one man, ordered arrest of five other persons, one a woman, and have recovered $1,500 of the money, Clarence Scott, district deputy of the insurance department, with headquarters here, is in custody. He was held in jail over night and then released under heavy bond. A few hours later Prosecuting Attorney Oswald Ryan announced that he had recovered $1,500 of the money obtained through fraud, presumably with aid of Scott. He has admitted having had knowiedge of the frauds and has made a detailed statement involving five other persons in the case. Following these disclosures authorities in Arkansas have been instructed to arrest Dewey and Herschel Hudson, brothers; Emma Self, her brother-in-law, Hoyt Self, and another man whose name has not been divulged. The Hunt brothers and Self disappeared from their homes at Pendleton the day the investigation started and arebelieved hiding in Arkansas.

COOLIDGE TOUTED AS SUCCESSOR TO HAYS Ex-President’s Presence In Hollywood Viewed as Significant. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.—Is Calvin Coolidge to succeed Will Hays as movie czar? Rumors were afloat today that presence of the ex-President in Hollywood has to do with a possible change. For a long time gossip has been rife that Hays will resign his position as head of Motion Picture Producers’ Association and of the film board of trade, positions that total $150,000 a year in salary. Comes now Coolidge, a lawyer, with a visit to California that takes him almost exclusively into the heart of the movie colony. Coolidge did not choose to come to San Francisco. Confirmation of the rumor could not be made today in San Francisco movie circles. It was said that Hays is happy in his present job and his employers are satisfied with his service.

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Staff Captain William F. Fox, Salvation Army young people’s secretary for the central territory, who will speak at corps No. 1 hall, 24 South Capitol avenue, at 8 tonight.

in case you doubt my word. I have some of the documents with me. Will you please examine these checks?” But the officer knew his man and told him to use the checks to “paper the walls of your cell up the river.” # # # # # # THE first of Weinberg’s known exploits occurred in 1910, when at the age of 19 he represented himself as the newly appointed consular agent from Port de Aubres, Morocco, commissioned to study the court system of New York. But he was discovered when he wore a rough rider’s uniform. After a brief masquerade as a wounded Bulgarian lieutenant, Weinberg appeared in 1917, attired in naval uniform, as Lieutenant Commander Ethan Allan Weinberg, consul general of Rumania. In this capacity he inspected the naval vessels in the Hudson and gave out “official” statements, commending the excellent discipline of the American navy. When Admiral Dewey died. Weinberg, this time Captain De St. Cyr of he aviation wept unrestrainedly at the funeral, proclaiming himself a relative. .

distinguished members of that high tribunal. Whenever March 8, his birthday, rolls around, there are rumors Justice Holmes plans to retire, but he says, "I will not resign or retire until the Almighty Himself requests it.”

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GEORGE FISHER BAKER, multi-millionaire New York banker, lost $57,000,000 last year

in shrinkage of stock holdings, but his ability and power is unshaken. A t 89. he is of greater active influence than he was at 25 or 50 years ago, not because of his vast wealth, but because of his financial wizardry, Baker will be 90 on March 27.

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Look me over, but don't overlook me! I’ll be in this newspaper every day, or nearly every day, starting Saturday. Every man is entitled to his say and I’m going to have mine. Wise cracking? Sure! Philosophy? Oh. occasionally. Humor? Well. I hope it hits you that way. All in all, If you don’t mind, I have a lot I am going to get off of my mind in “SEZ HUGH ”

67 DEFENDANTS TO FACE COURT Several Alleged Bandits in Criminal Court List. Arraignment of sixty-seven defendants charged with crimes in affidavits and indictments will be held Monday before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Fourteen other persons, named in indictments returned today by the grand jury in a seventh partial report, probably will be included in the list. Of the sixty-seven persons up for pleadings Monday fifty-nine are being held at the county jail. Eight are at liberty under bond. Kenneth Hunt, who Feb. 6 is alleged to have held up Morris Olshan, 1802 Howard street, robbing him of $42, faces auto banditry and robbery charges. The charges are against Amo Ross, Theodore Edge and Alexander Geisking, 1400 South Belmont. Ross and Edge are charged with holding up Roy Keller, 1836 Minnesota street, Shell Petroleum oil filling station attendant, Jan. 29, robbing him of $80. Indictments returned today included Harry Rozelle, who is alleged to have robbed Alonzo Liebhardt, 131 North New Jersey street, of his $1,015 in life savings Feb. 1.

CONCERT IS DISCUSSED Event May Be Cancelled Because of Theater Lease Expiration. Possibility of appearance here on Monday night of the Chicago Symphony orchestra was to be decided late today at a conference between representatives of the Murat theater, the orchestra and Mrs. Ona B. Talbot, who is sponsoring the Indianapolis concert. The concert may be cancelleld because of expiration of the lease of Lee and J. J. Shubert, New York theatrical producers, on the Murat theater at mid/iight tonight. The lease is not to be renewed. No other theater is said to be available for the event.

AT 83. Thomas A. Edison still is experimenting with as much zest as when a boy. His chief

interest now is to perfect a substitute for rubber. “I generally feel about 50,” Mr. Edison said recently. “B u t microbes have spotted me and have done some experimenting with my internal machinery, so I feel about 85.”

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ELECTRIC LINE SERVICE WILL CEASE TONIGHT Anderson-Middletown and Muncie-Union City Cars Abandoned. By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Feb. 28— Preparations are completed for abandonment at midnight tonight of the Anderson-Middletown and Muncie-Union City lines of the Union Traction Company. Arthur W. Brady, receiver for the company has filed reports in Madison circuit court here showing inventories of the real and personal property of the two lines. Deducting costs of taking up rails and moving equipment, the value of discontinuing the Muncie-Union City line is $131,912.56, and that of the Anderson-Middletown line, $31,126.01. The figures were provided in reports compiled by Louis A. Mitchell, engineer of maintenance of way. The Muncie-Union City line has 28.35 miles of open track and the other line 8.71 miles. Judge Carl F. Morrow has approved the inventories and issued authority t.o the receiver to remove the rails, crossties, poles, wires, interlockers, shelter stations, substations and all other removable property, except that of the Traction Light and Power Company, which provides electric current for a number of small towms. Private sale of the real estate for the best prices obtainable was also ordered by the court. Owners of farm land along the rights of way are expected to bid for the real estate.

LEAP YEAR VICTIM

Fire Marshal ‘Only 12 Years Old'

STATE FIRE MARSHAL ALFRED M. HOGSTON is 50 years old today —or is it tomorrow? At any rate, it wall be two more years before he can celebrate a birthday and then it wall be only his 12th natal day celebration. For Hogston was born on Feb. 29, 1880. Usually he goes four years without a birthday, but once it was eight years. From 1896 until 1904 there was no leap year and consequently no Feb. 29. “If I live until the year 2000, I will make up for that 1900 birthday that I lost,” Hogston chuckled. j

WARM WEATHER DUE Rain to Accompany Higher Temperatures. Return to above seasonal temperatures after a drop Wednesday night and Thursday, was predicted today by J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist. Higher temperatures will be accompanied by rains tonight and Saturday, he said. At 9 a. m. today, the thermometer stood at 36 degrees, rising from 31 at 7 a. m. Hospital Route Impassable By Times Special BROOK, Ind., Feb. 28.—John Ekstrom, farmer, who suffered a broken leg when a team of horses ran away, is being treated at his home, as roads are in such bad condition that a hospital can not be reached

JUDGE TO RULE IN SECURITIES CASE

Carollyn E. Crump, 44, Chicago, tried this week on a charge of selling securities of an insolvent issue in connection with operation of the defunct Indiana Real Estate Securities Corporation, will appear Saturday before Criminal Judge James A. Collins for conviction or acquittal. Evidence .was completed Wednesday when Crump occupied the wit-

Next he metamorphosed into a rear admiral and would have inspected successfully the New York navy yard had he not made the error of wearing a captain's trousers with an admiral’s coat and rear admiral’s hat. ana a a a HE reached the apex of his career, however, when, with the aid of forged credentials, he presented Princess Fatima of Afghanistan to President Harding in Washington. He had won the President’s confidence, until the truth was learned from New York police. The next two years he sojourned in an Atlanta cell. Alienists questioned his sanity after he announced himself as lawyer for Harold F. McCormick, wealthy Chicagoan. But he revenged himself. Representing himself as Dr. Sterling C. Wyman, state lunacy commissioner of New York, he delivered an address at the opening ceremonies of the Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery at Cambridge. Mass., in which he arraigned the ethics of alienists appearing as criminal trial witnesses. He also represented himself as Pola Negri’s family physician at Rudolph Valentino's funeral; as secretary to Dr. Adolph Lorenz, noted surgeon, and as a political “angei.’'

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

JUDGE S. W. GLEASON, 97, of St. Charles, Minn., has announced his candidacy for re-elec-

tion to the municipal court bench, an office he has held for many years. Judge Gleason is as mentally alert as most men of 60. "I expect to file for re-election again In 1934.” he says. “I will be only 101 then.” He has been a Democrat seventy-two years.

The postoffice handles more than a million letters a year for R. L. Ripley, an average of more than 2500 a day. This is more mail than any other individual receives. Many of these letters are from readers of this newspaper.

He gets more mail than the President!

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ness stand more than an hour, relating circumstances leading to failure of his company, closed by the state securities commission. Assets were shown to be less than $500 at the time of the closing, and more than $3,000 in alleged “blue sky” securities were sold to Indianapolis victims, William H. Faust, receiver of Crump’s company, testified.

THOUSANDS OF 'FLOATERS’ OFF TO HARVESTS Crop Work to Start in Short Time in Mid-West and South. JOBLESS TO GET RELIEF Migratory Clan Keeps Eye j on Wheat, Weathervane of Employment. BY MERRILL E. COMPTON United Tress Staff Oorrespondent KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 28. With an early spring forecast, the arir.y of 500.000 workers that annually harvests the nation’s crops—wdieat, com, strawberries, cotton* potatoes, sugar beets and score* of other foodstuffs—is beginning to appear in the southwest. Like a swarm of bees that follows the queen bee, laborers follow the harvest season now about to open in Louisiana and Mississippi. They will end their migratory march in the northern wheat states late in the fall. Where they go during the winter is a problem. Many thousand* have homes in the south, where firing is cheaper and where winter weather does not tax their resources. Others, like leaves before a windstorm, disappear after the last bushel of grain and barrel of app’es has been stored away, to appear in the southlands in the early spring. Demands upon this migratory horde are tremendous. Thousands Are Needed Louisiana needs 30.000 persons t* harvest its berry crop, havesting of which will begin near March 15. Other southern states, exclusive of Texas, will demand 250.000 cotton pickers. Texas, the second largest agriculture state in the union, will need from 250,000 to 300.000 persons to handle its crops this year, government farm labor experts predict. Missouri, with 30.000 acres of strawberries to be harvested, will call upon 60,000 workers. The same number will be needed in Arkansas, where the acreage is about the I same. , Kansas, shortly after June 1, will I start its grain harvest, using approximately 20.000 men. They will come from Oklahoma, where the harvest is earlier. Nebraska calls upon 8.000 to 10,000 harvesters and the northern states demand as many If not more than Kansas.

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The situation on the Pacific coast states is similar, government, experts said. The laborers there migrating from California and Oregon to end the season in Washington. Workers who start from the gulf states will end their Journey in Montana, Idaho and Washington. Watch Wheat Closely “Watch wheat" has been the slogan of the harvesters for decades. And now, with the market experiencing severe setbacks, they are watching it as closely as the speculators. If wheat goes down and the prospects for the year are bad. these workers know that thousand* of acres of Kansas wheat,—already planted—will not be harvested. They know, too, that hundreds of farmers In other northern state* will not plant spring wheat if the outlook is gloomy. Manipulating this army for the government is George E. Tucker, • Kansas cattleman and farmer, recruited to manage the United States farm labor division eight years ago. The main office Is located here. Tucker said the labor question may become acute this year. Farmers, he said, are demanding fewer men than heretofore and the number of unemp’or'-rl farmer workers 1* increasing. If the wheat market causes farmers not to harvest their 1930 crop, he forecast a bad year. Other Work in Right Relief, he said, may come from other lines of business. River work on the Missouri, which will open early in March and which Is forecast to employ 10,000 men, will probably remedy the situation, he said. Road work planned In the southwest and northern states also will use a good percentage of the harvesters, he said. Other employment offices here showed like conditions. Fewer farm workers will be demanded., they agreed, with other branches of industry calling upon a slightly larger percentage. 2 NEGROES HELD TO FEDERAL GRAND JURY Alleged Liquor Runners Claim They Were Duped by “Wholesaler." Resentment against the “bootleg wholesaler” who sold thirty-two cans of water with fortyseven gallon cans of whisky today overshadowed two alleged liquor law violators’ resentment against federal officers who arreted them. John William More and Emerson McCulloch. Negroes cf Dayton, 0., took this attitude when given a hearing before United States Ccmmlsisoner John W. Kern for alleged possession and transportation of liquor. More testified he did not know h* was transporting water at the tim* federal agents made the arrest in Muncie. Feb. 4. The two wer* bound over to the grand jury und*r bond.