Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1930 — Page 15

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$3,G0G,000 TO BE SPENT FOR BUILDING WORK Projects in Indiana Include Improvement of Calumet Street Car System. STORE TO BE REPLACED Structure to Cost SIOO,OOO Will Follow Fire at Evansville. BY ( HARLKS C. STONE. State Editor. The Times Construction projects calling Tor expenditures of $3,000,000 are revealed in a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The projects include the following: Improvement of the street railway rry. 'em serving Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago, $2,500,000. Replacement of the burned DeJong store at Evansville, SIOO,OOO. Indiana limestone and brick will be the materials. New buildings and remodeling of the Weil Packing Company plant, $50,000. Rehabilitation of the Damascus Steel Castings plant, Hammond, $200,000. Addition to the Louden Packing Company plant, Terre Haute. Officials announce that during 1929 the company's business showed a 66 per cent gain over that of the preceding year. Plant to Cost SIOO,OOO Bids will be opened Wednesday for a SIOO,OOO factory to be occupied • by Associated Apparels Inc., Los gansport. The present force of 200 will be Increased to 600, officials announce. Building permits issued at Vincennes during P’ebruary were for the largest amount in any month since April, 1928. The total for the month was $72,549. President A. E. Dickinson of the Indiana Limestone Company announces that during the first two months of 1930, approximately $650,000,000 was spent in the United States for new construction. "While general business is below normal,” Dickinson stated, “the bottom of the valley has been reached. A steady upturn Is expected in all lines.” Addressing a group of Bloomington business men, Lawrence Whiting, chairman of the Indiana Limestone Company’s board of directors, urged a greater “stone consciousness” in the city and suggested investment of $1.000,000 in the industry for promotion designed to dispose of its by-products. The following summary shows conditions in various Indiana cities: Anderson—Employment continues to increase gradually in Indiana plants of the Delco-Remy Corporation, located here, at Indianapolis and Muncle. The force at the three now numbers 7,700, which is about 2.000 greater than employed during abnormal depression periods. El wood—Business men and other citizens here, by subscribing a $25,000 stock issue, have assured removal here of the Monticello Manufacturing Company from Monticello. Os the money derived from the ’!ock, $4,000 will be spent for a factory site, SII,OOO for erection of a building and SIO,OOO will be retained as working capital. Lebanon— The Hicks Body Company plans addition of speed boats to its output. Operations Resumed Bloomington—The Hunter Bros, quarry, idle throughout the winter, has resumed operations. Peru— A survey is being made here by engineers for the Wabash railroad preliminary to erection during the summer of new shops and yards. Evansville—City officials, manufacturers and the Central Labor Union are co-operating in a program designed to reduce unemployment. South Bend—The Bendix Aviation Corporation of South Bend has entered a combination which includes the Westinghouse Air Brake Company for manufacture of air brakes for busses and trucks. Washington—The passenger car eh partment of the Baltimore <S: Ohio railroad shops has resumed operations with 135 men employed. The department had been idle since November. Hagerstown—Stockholders of the Perfect Circle Ring Company here have voted an increase of capital stock from $162,000 to $250,000. English—Crawford county strawberry growers expect a profitable season this year due to reduced acreage in the south. Sick Woman in Fire p v 7 ini- Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. March 7 When the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Palmer, three miles northwest oi here, caught fire, Mrs. calmer and her mother. Mrs. George Bless, who were sick in bed, suffered considerably from excitement and nervousness. Mrs. Palmer is ill of grip and her mother has pneumonia. For a time it was feared they would have to be moved from the building. The fire started on the roof and was burning rapidly when discovered. A bucket brigade extinguished the fire. Realty Dealer Missing B j Times Special i GARY, Ind.. March 7 —Gary’ police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of James W. Walker, 33. Wheeling (111.) real estate salesman. Walker disappeared Feb. 26 aft r telephon.ng his family he was c ; g to Gary on business. He has : not been seen since.

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Dainty Curls Come Back

Curls have staged a comeback. The dainty ringlets which beautified the belles of yesterday are again the correct mode of hairdress, especially for evening. How the extravagance of design in dresses has affected the coiffures of the fair sex is seen in the charming curls which Thelma Streicker, above, of Elyria. 0., displayed at the convention of Ohio hair dressers at Cleveland.

THREE KILLED BY TORNADOES Southern States Hard Hit by Freak Winds. Hit United Press MEMPHIS. Tenn.. March 7.—Tornadoes, which ripped paths through four towns in widely separated sections of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, Thursday night, left a trail of death amd disorder, a survey revealed today. A preliminary check of the high wind toll revealed three dead and more than two score injured. Property damage from the freak winds appeared great, with much livestock lost and many houses and farms damaged. The known dead were Mrs. J. W. Adams, 65, Kosciusko, Miss.-; an unidentified Negro woman, near Boyle, Miss, and a Negro laborer at Harris, La. Outlying districts were cut off by damaged telegraph and telephone lines. It was feared the number of dead and Injured would increase when reports begin coming in. 250 Pennies in Loot Fj/ Time* Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 7. Thieves entered the residence of Edward McGonigle, on the Mounds road, during the absence of the family. Two diamond rings valued at $175, a wrist watch. 250 pennies and some old coins were stolen.

KILLS WIFE, NEGRO TRAPPED IN HOME

Bu United Preen SOUTH BEND. Ind.. March 7. Leo Dembinski, 28. South Bend, shot and killed his wife Clementine. 26, and a Negro physician. Dr. J. L. Cun is. 40, when he discovered the two together in a bedroom of his home early today. Mrs. Dembinski was shot three times and Dr. Curtis once in the head. Both died instantly. After the shooting, Dembinski walked several blocks to a railroad yard and surrendered to a railroad detective. He is held in jail pending a coroner's investigation. Dembinski returned home from work at 1:30 this morning and found Dr. Curtis with his wife. Mrs. Dembinski told her husband she had been feeling ill and had called the physician. Dr. Curtis asked Dembinski to

HEROES OF SEA, OFTEN PROVED IN TIME OF PERIL, ADD NEW LUSTER TO FAME

BY RAYMOND CLAPPF.R I'nited Pres* Staff Correspondent Aboard s. s. America at SEA. March 7.—Chief Officer Harry Manning and Captain George S. Fried of the liner America, accomplished, in darkness and heavy seas, Thursday night, another of the humanitarian acts which already have made them known to the world as mariner-heroes.

They took aboard at the risk of life. Chief Engineer Frank Battam of the eastbound steamer Cranford, to bring him back to America, where his daughter, critically burned in a ship fire at New Orleans, is calling for him.

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AUTB ACCIDENT REPORT PROBED Woman Rushed Away After Fall From Car Door. Falling from an automobile as it stopped on Brookside avenue near Dearborn street at midnight Thursday, a woman was placed in the car hurriedly by two men companions and the car sped away, police were informed. That the woman had been injured in an automobile wreck in which the car figured an hour before the incident is belief of police. License on the car had been issued to an out-of-town automobile dealer. Frank Counsilman, 53, or 2215 North Capitol avenue; Loren Dunwoodie, 28, of Atlanta, Ga„ and Miss Ella Bloom, 23, of 2231 Central avenue, were attended at city hospital and taken home after cars driven by Counsilman and Dunwoodie' collided at Central avenue and Twen-ty-fifth street Thursday night. Edward Stafae, 7, of 768 Warman avenue, was injured slightly when he ran into the side of a police squad car driven by Captain Edward Helm. Farm House Burns GREENSBURG. Ind.. March 7. The Andy Miller farm home near here was destroyed by fire. The Greensburg auxiliary fire truck made its first run to the home and farmers succeeded in saving barn and outbuildings.

( awaken a neighborhood druggist | and obtain a prescribed medicine ! for his wife. Dembinski left the ! home, but returned before getting I the medicine when his suspicious were aroused. Dembinski slipped around to the side of his home and peered in a bedroom window. There he saw his wife with the doctor. Dembinski entered through the ! back door, grabbed a .22-caliber rifle and went to the bedroom. Standing In the doorway, he shot Dr. Curtis in the back of the head. Dembinski fired three shots at his wife, one striking her in the mouth, ! another in the shoulder and the third in the abdomen. Three small children of the Dembinski's were asleep in the bedroom at the time of the double killing.

tain Fried maneuvered his great ship to within 500 yards of the other vessel. Then Manning “went overboard” with eleven seamen, in a lifeboat, pulled through threatening waves, and returned with his passenger, who was hauled to the deck by breeches buoy.

Steady, Boys! DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska. March 7.—Three trappers who never have seen automobiles, street cars or skyscrapers were en route to Seattle today on Aleutian Native, auxiliary schooner. The men have seen airplanes in the frozen fastnesses of the northland. but they have never stood in the streets of a modern city with its countless noises.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1930

MAYOR URGES CITY WORK BE Gr/EN JOBLESS Sullivan Confers With 50 Contractors in Effort to Speed Projects. MILLIONS TO BE SPENT j Williams Reports Success in Factories’ New Plan of Employment. Me_..ng with more than fifty con- | tractors, who handle city projects, at ! the board of public works office today, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan them to speed pending municipal construction at the earliest | possible moment to provide employment for the jobless of the city. The meeting followed announcement by the Chamber of Commerce employment stabilization commission that state, county and city officials had been urged to cut as much “red tape” in construction I projects as possible and to speed up work on pending construction. Awards of jobs to citizens of Indianapolis by contractors also was urged by Mayor Sullivan. The stabilization commission has compiled a list of needy, jobless persons, prepared with co-operation of welfare agencies. Want Work for Citizens The commission especially urged j that all employes added, both in j j public and private work, be citizens I of Indianapolis. G. M. Williams, chairman of the j i commission, issued a statement, saying in part: “We are continuing to have spleni did co-operation from private em- \ ployers in all lines of industry. They ; are pushing plans for spring clean- ; ups, repairs or construction, rotating employes, increasing production as rapidly as the situation warrants, and by other means contributing to the employment situation.j “The next step should come from | public officials in pushing public contracts or projects to be carried i out by their forces.” Total outlay for public projects j under way or proposed will amount j to several millions of dollars. Chair- I ! man Williams declared.

City May Rotate Force Mayor Sullivan, “Chairman Williams announced, has instructed one large city department to study possibilities of rotating employes for a time to provide additional employment. Public construction projects under contract since last season in* elude the following: Construction of the Belt railroad bridge as a part of the elevation of the Belt railway tracks, changing of the channel of White river and construction of a new bridge across Morris’ street, as a part of flood prevention; con- | struction of a power house at city | hospital and paving of county ! roads. . Other projects contracted for during the winter include: Construction of an out-patient and laboratory building and laundry building at city hospital, an addition to the board of children’s guardians’ home, an administration i building and hangar at the munici- : pal airport, a shelter house in Christian park and a swimming pool in Garfield park. Other Projects in View Projects determined upon for 1930. and plans for which are said to be sufficiently near completion to enable an early start of construction, are: Further development of the airport, resurfacing and construction of new county roads, further work on the Belt elevation project, building of the Broad Ripple interceptor, completion of the sewage disposal dehydration building, additions to the sewage disposal aeration plant, aditional sewer projects, resurfacing of a number of city streets, and construction of new elementary school buildings. An extensive program of repair of city streets also may be started, with receipt of SIBI,OOO as the city’s share of the 1929 gasoline tax. Prompt action in appropriation of this money is necessary to permit an early start on this work. Andersen Veteran Dies Bu Time* Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 7.—lsaac Wood, 81, Civil war veteran and for many years president of the 130th Indiana Regimental Reunion Association, is dead here.

THE two ships were approximately 300 miles south of Cape Race when their dramatic meeting came. Battam, aboard the Cranford, had received a message telling of the New Orleans tragedy, in which his wife had died, his son was lost, and his daughter was critically burned as the result of a dockside fire aboard the steamship Scantic last Sunday. Captain Fried received the request to stop and take Battam on board the America, and replied it would be done if it was humanly possible. Messages shot through the air, and the two ships, then out of sight of each other, drew nearer. At 4:30 p. m.. as dusk was settling, the Cranford was sighted by Chief Officer Manning. A heavy swell was running. “Which life boat do you want?” C-’n-ain Fried asked Manning. The vessels slowed down and came within 500 yards. Manning picked out lifeboat No. 1, and as-

Tom Heflin Battles With Back to Wall in Alabama Election; Read Out of Democratic Party

Senator Must Make Race j as Independent in Fall; Two Strong Candidates Are His Opposition. BY ROBERT TALLEY, NEA Service Writer j BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 7. After nearly thirty years in the two houses of congress, Senator J. ; Thomas Heflin of Alabama is facing j defeat for the first time and is ‘ fighting with his back to the wall !to keep from being retired from public life. This is a fair and impartial statement, made after a first-hand survey of conditions in the state, and is based largely on these ! points: Heflin has been read out of the | Democratic party in Alabama by ! the state executive committee and j barred from the Democratic primary because he bolted the party to ; oppose A! Smith and support I Hoover in 1928—and in Alabama the : Democratic nomination always has been equivalent to election. The Ku Klux Klan which four years ago dominated Alabama politics with a power sufficiently strong to elect a Governor and a United States senator now is pretty much a thing of the past in this state. Its organization has fallen apart, its influence is negligible. If Heflin runs as an independent I at the general election in Novem- j ber, as he now plans, he will face a j I serious technical obstacle, in the I fact that voters desiring to split the j ticket for his benefit will have to mark the ballot for each individual candidate instead of making one mark under the picture of the party emblem and thus voting a straight ticket as is usually done in Alabama.

Mistake Will Be ‘Fatal’ This means one mistake or duplication will invalidate the whole ballot, and in ome counties there will be fifty or more names on the ballots. Qualified as regular Democratic candidates seeking the nomination in the primary on Aug. 12, are John H. Bankhead of Birmingham, and Frederick I. Thompson of Mobile. Bankhead is a wealthy corporation attorney and a retired coal mine operator. Thompson is a publisher of five Alabama newspapers and a former member of the United States shipping board. The Republicans may or may not put out a candidate. If they do, his vote will be futile because Alabama is overwhelmingly Democratic and has always been so. Won’t Leave Fold The 50,000 regular Democrats who temporarily abandoned their party to vote for Hoover did so because of their objection to Smith as a wet and a Catholic. Since Smith is not now a candidate, it is unlikely they will leave the fold again in very appreciable numbers, even to vote for Tom. Heflin, though facing a stiff battle for his political life, is by no means deserted. In the rural districts of the state—especially in the more remote districts—he is still a power with a great mass of voters, many of whom have never seen a Catholic and who still believe if A1 Smith had been elected, the pope would have left for Washington on the next boat. Heflin has been charging that “Smith, Raskob and the Roman Catholic wet crowd of New York” are flooding money into Alabama to beat him. Yet, his personal strength and some of the remnants of this dying bitterness may cause some Democrats to desert in his favor. Heflin Seems Worried Heflin’s course seems to indicate he realizes the seriousness of hie situation. When the Democratic state committee barred him, he came rushing down from Washington with a w r ar club in his hand. The war club soon turned into an olive branch. He spoke at wellattended meetings throughout Alabama and made numerous pleas to get his name on the Democratic ticket, but to all these the state committee turned a deaf ear, A suit to compel the committee to do this was filed, but no action has been taken. Both Heflin and Bankhead are prohibitionists, which, after all, means nothing in Alabama, as the people here who really want liquor get all they want.

sembled his crew, garbed in heavy clothing and wearing life preservers—for the temperature had dropped to 32, and a bitter wind had blown up.

Wrong House B.u Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 7. —Thomas H. Davis, El wood, parked his automobile while his companion, Pearl McCaskey, Grant county farmer, got out to pay a brief visit to his uncle. McCaskey, it is charged, was intoxicated, and entered the wrong house. The housewife, suspecting a robbery, had her daughter call police. The intruder ran back to the automobile and the two fled to Elwood where they were captured as they drove into the city and returned to jail here. They will face charges in city court here.

A characteristic speaking pose of Tom Heflin, the fiery Alabama senator, as he still attacks A1 Smith, John J. Raskob, and the Catholic church.

23 FILE NAMES AS CANDIDATES Cheney First Aspirant to Enter Race Formally. Names of twenty-three candidates seeking nomination to county offices in the May primary elections had been filed at noon today before County Clerk George O. Hutsell. The list includes fifteen Republicans and eight Democrats. Today was the first day for filing. Tom L. Cheney first person to file officially, listing his name as candidate for precinct committeeman of the Twenty-ninth precinct of the Ninth ward. Filings for renomination for county offices includes those of Sheriff George L. Winkler, County Clerk Hutsell, and County Coroner Charles H. Keever, Republicans. Democratic candidates who filed included Timothy P. Sexton, for county treasurer; L. Russell Newgent, for superior court three judgeship, and Charles (Buck) Sumner, for sheriff. Twenty-one candidates from all parts of Indiana for legislative and judicial posts and for county prosecutors had filed their candidacies with the secretary of state at noon. WALTHERS IN MEETINGS Speakers Announced for Sessions Early Next Week. Two winter conferences will be held by the City Walther League at St. Paul’s church hall Monday and Tuesday nights. Monday night, talks will be given by C. R. Nennert, the Rev. H. M. Zorn, J. E. Potzger, the Rev. H. Scheperle, and piano numbers by Paul Amt. Tuesday night, A. E. Mueller, W. Kirchhoff, the Rev. J. D. Matthius, A. J. Sampson, Carl Brandt, Lester Koelling and Herbert Hansen will appear on the program.

EIGHTEEN ACCUSED IN CRIMINAL COURT

Eighteen persons were charged with crimes in affidavits on file today In criminal court. Auto banditry and robbery charges were brought against three men who are alleged to have held up the Cumberland State bank Feb. 19. They are George Swift, 23. Post road and Tenth street; Harry Reed, 17, of Canton, 0., and William Stone, 19, of Wayne county, Ohio. The trio has admitted the holdup, according to police, and also have

The chief officer donned a jacket life preserver, and shoved two flasks in his hip pockets. Searchlights were directed upon the lifeboat and she swung out by the davits, where the gear was tested. BUB AT 5:22 p. m., the boat was lowered, and Manning, bareheaded, directed his men through the waves toward the Cranford. By this time it was pitch dark, but the searchlights picked out the tiny boat, bobbing over the crests. Shortly after 6 o’clock, passengers on the America made out the returning lifeboat with its new passenger. It came under the side of the great liner, and Battam was hauled aboard in a breeches buoy. He was speechless in his endeavor to express his thanks. As the America’s crew hauled the lifeboat up, a heavy swell caught it once more and jammed it against the ship's side, almost crushing it.

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Kntered ns Second-Class Matter at Postoffice? Indianapolis

STREET REPAIR HEAD RESIGNS Politics Hinted as Rochat Quits Position. Resignation to become effective March 15 was tendered to City Engineer A. H. Moore today by Edward Rochat, superintendent of street repair under the city engineering department. Otto Holderman, Richat’s assistant, also resigned. “If accepted, this resignation will relieve the administration of more or less embarrassment over which I have no control,” Rochat wrote, hinting that he believed political factors would force him out of the position. It is known that the board of works is considering John Berry, 1126 North Arsenal avenue, First ward Democratic committeeman, for the post, which pay $2,500 yearly salary. GOLDBERG FUNERAL TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY Funeral services for Louis Goldberg, 64. who died suddenly at his home, 1612 Central avenue, Thursday, will be held from the McNeeley & Sons mortuary, 1828 North Meridian street, at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Burial will be in the Hebrew Congregation cemetery. Mr. Goldberg, bom in New York, came to Indianapolis thirty-five years ago and was founder and president of the Goldberg Ozone Machine Company, 930 North East street. His widow, Mrs. Annie Goldberg; a daughter, Mrs. Edna Levy; a son, Arthur Goldberg, all of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Eva Rogaliner of New York, and three brothers. Herman S., Samuel and A. I. Goldberg, alFof New York, survive him.

confessed to the robbery of the Fairland State bank Jan. 7, in which S7OO loot was obtained. Other defendants named in the papers include Homer Danforth, Charles Lee and Floyd Gray, charged with burglary and grand larceny in connection with the theft of SI,OOO in copper from the Kramer Manufacturing Company, Oct. 16. Twelve additional names were listed on charges ranging from larceny to robbery.

“Manning did a fine piece of work,” was Captain Field’s comment on the transfer. “Many thanks,” the captain of the Crawford wirelessed to Field. “Your officer did great work. There

was not the slightest confusion or excitement. The transfer was made quickly with a heavy northeast swell running. It surely war kind of you to stop to pick the chief up.” Battam found his voice, later, to thank Fried

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warmly. He was much moved by the tragedy. “It was very fine of Fried to do this,” he said to the United Press. “I know what it means to delay a passenger ship even half an hour.”

NAVAL PARLEY END FORECAST FOR MID-APRIL French Delegation Is Back in London to Resume Deliberations. ‘FULL STEAM' ORDERED Intentions of All Nations Participating Now Are Made Clear. ft i/ (nit. <1 Press LONDON, March 7.—Prime Minister J. Ramsey MacDonald indicated to the press today that the five-power naval conference might be expected to end in the middle of April. MacDonald, discussing the conference with the press at St. James palace, said it originally had been intended to finish the conference work before the British budget discussion begins in the house of commons on April 14. At present, he said, it was indicated that would be accomplished. He said the conference was going at full steam ahead after three weeks’ rest. It was anonunced that the committee of the whole would meet this afternoon. The delegations have reached a complete understanding of the Intentions of the respective nations, it was said, and now are concentrating on, the necessary work on figures which will produce an agreement among the five powers. The French delegation was welcomed back into the naval conference negotiations, Ambassador Charles G. Dawes having luncheon with them at the Carlton hotel. Prime Minister MacDonald conferred with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France this morning, but Briand said the conference was merely a formal welcome back. Interest Is Revived BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripps-Howard Foreign Editor LONDON, March 7.—Three developments—two of major importance to the naval conference and one arousing curiosity in conference circles—have happened to quicken the flagging interest here. First is that the French are back. Aristide Briand arrived Thursday night and Premier Tardieu Is expected Saturday, and by Monday the parley should again be going in high after three weeks of idleness. Second, there no longer can be room for doubt that the British intend to complete their Singapore naval base, “the Gibraltar of the east.” This was revealed in new naval estimates just issued by First Lord of the Admiralty Alexander, who included in the budget approximately $5,000,000 for this project. This represented more than a million dollars over the current year, despite a previous announcement that, pending the outcome of the naval conference, work on the base would be suspended.

Japanese are Interested This development doubtless will not be lost on the Japanese, who ! insist that naval bases are as im- : portant as battleships, nor on the j Americans who are demanding addi- [ tional 10,000-ton cruisers because the British have numerous first-class bases and American hardly any. Nevertheless the Americans do not seriously object to the Singa- | pore project. One reason, however, | for insistence of the Japanese on 70 per cent of the American tonnage is their fear of Britain’s benevolent neutrality in the event of a conflict in the western Pacific, and in certain contingencies even use by America of the naval bases. The real secret behind the continuance of the Singapore construcj tion, however, is believed to be the ■ insistence of Australia and New ; Zealand. Stimson in Hot Water Concerning Secretary Stimson’s statement, what satisticians wonder here is where he got his figures Indicating a 200,000-ton decrease In the American tonnage as a result of the London conference. They figure he must Include many obsolete or useless vessels now in the fleet to show that after building to parity with Britain such an enormous net reduction would result. Many feel Stimson has embarked on treacherous waters with his pencil. The public is doomed to disillusionment if it expects rear reduction here, according to almost universal opinion. But if five-power limitation is achieved at sane figures, the actual reduction under what the fleets otherwise would be would make the London conference a milestone in history. ASKS DIVORCE FROM YOUTHFUL HUSBAND Charges Former Playmate of Her Son With Desertion. Bn United Press CHICAGO, March 7.—The divorce suit of Mrs. Natalie Blair Bradley, daughter of Henry Blair, millionaire head of the Chicago Surface Lines, against Neil Bradley, whom she married when he was 20 and she was 36, was on file today, Bradley, at 17, was a playmate of the 12-year-old son of the street car magnate’s daughter, when she was the wife of Harry M. Higginbotham, Chicago broker. He was sixteen years her senior. Mrs. Higginbotham divorced her husband and in 1920 married Bradley. She charged in her suit that her young husband deserted her.