Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1930 — Page 2
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tIIVER, HARBOR BILL PROPOSED f TO AID INDIANA 5f300.000.000 May Be Total; Ohio Near Evansville May Get $200,000. By Seripps-Hoirard \etespaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 31.—The greatest rivers and harbors bill in the history of the country will be reported from the house committee on rivers and harbors within a week or ten days. The committee has completed hearings on suggested work, and will start writing its bill next week. This will not take long, Chairman Wallace Dempeey believes. The bill probably will authorize construction work totaling between $125,000,000 and $150,000,000. If the bill should pass both house and senate within the next two months, money for starting the work, and thus relieving unemployment, might be included in a deficiency bill and made available July 1. Small Projects Added The committee probably will include In the bill all the projects that were put into the bill that failed of passage in the last congress. The total cost of this work was $115,000,000. To this will be added a considerable number of small projects. In addition the committee has under consideration four large and costly proposals for improvement work. If all these should be approved, the bill would call for expenditure of more than $300,000,000 Among the items in last year’s rivers and harbors bill, which probably are to be carried over into the new measure are the following: New York, Hudson river, $169,000; Port Jefferson harbor, $99,000; Great Sodus Bay harbor, $20,000: St. Lawrence river, $165,000; Waddington harbor, SIO,OOO. California Gets Big Sum Maryland: Baltimore harbor and channels, $507,640; Choptank river, $6,300; Elk river, $6,000; Smith creek, $7,500. Texas: Freeport harbor, modification of plans; Port Aransas, $395,000; Brazos Island harbor, $1,000,000. Indiana: Ohio river near Evansville, $200,000. Kentucky: Trade water river, $2,500; Green river and Bear creek, $23,000. Ohio: Fairport harbor, $124,000; Lorain harbor, $66,000. California: San Diego harbor, $759,000; San Francisco harbor, sl,284,000; Richmond harbor, modification of plans; Suisun bay, $38,000; Redwood creek, $26,000; Pataluma creek, $185,000; Humboldt harbor and bay, $92,000. CRIME EXTENT SHOWN Judg" Says Murder Each 18 Minutes Would Leave 200 Over at Year's End. B’l Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., March 31.—“1f all the criminals in the world were to be jailed there would still be crime, and similarly, if all murderers were hanged, killing w'ould continue to excite the country,” declared Judge Alonzo L. Bales of the Randolph circuit court, in addressing men of the Central Methodist Episcopal church here. Judge Bales illustrated the crime situation in America as follows: “If one man took it upon himself to do all the murdering which is annually done in the United States, and if this one man murdered one individual each eighteen minutes, at the end of the year he would still have 200 men left to wipe out at a single stroke.” - -y Officials in Session mi a Times Special I EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 31. sect'pn conference of judges and officers of Vanderburg and seven surrounding counties is being held here today. Arrangements for the meeting were made by Judge Travis B. Williams of the Evansville probate and juvenile court. Professor’s Widow Burled BU Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. March 31.—Funeral services were held here for Mrs. Robert A. King, widow of the former head of Wabash college's department of German language and literature. She died in Indianapolis Thursday, after a long illness.
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William Burkhardt 28 (below), was arrested at Los Angeles after the mysterious murder of his wife, Ann McKnight, 19 (above), Hollywood dancer. Although Burkhardt was carrying a gun when arrested, it had not been fired and the bullets which killed the dancer were of a different caliber. The murder occurred day they patched up an estrangement. ALUMINUM MONOPOLY PROBE IS SCHEDULED Federal Power Body to Continue Quiz of Mellon Firm. [in Seripps-Howard Xeicspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 31.—Final arguments will begin Tuesday before the federal trade commission on that body’s five-year inquiry into charges that the Aluminum Company of America constitutes a monopoly in restraint of trade. The commission’s citation of the company, which Is controlled by the Mellon family, charged violation of ! the anti-trust law's through price ! discrimination against manufactur- [ ing competitors. EDISON SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE CHOSEN Governor Asks Wisehart to Aid in Naming Iloosier Candidates. Governor Harry G. Leslie has asked Roy P. Wisehart, state superintendent of public instruction, to co-operate in selecting Hoosier candidates for the second Thomas A. Edison scholarship competition. As in the contest last year, there will be national scholarship awards and in addition tv.'o Indiana scholarships available to state winners. A special Edison contest committee has been selected by the state education board, consisting of Henry B. Londen, vice-president of 1 De Pauw university; Miss Martha | Whitacre of the Richmond schools, I President L. A. Pittenger of Ball | state Teachers college, President ■ Edward C. Elliott of Purdue uni- : versity. Wisehart and President ! Lowe ’ Bryan of Indiana university, .-hairman. HOLMES IS OUT FOR CONGRESS AS WET The second wet seeking the G. O. P. nomination for Congress from the Seventh district has announced his ■ candidacy. He is Ira M. Holmes, atI tomey ,for ten years Republican member of the city and county election commissions and long a Coffin leader. Ward E. Hiner, Indianapolis business man. also has filed for Congress on a wet platform. Holmes does not advocate repeal of the eighteenth amendment, but instead would have full control of liquor placed in the hands of the federal government, and the Volstead act modified. SEEKS TREASURERSHIP General Contractor in Race for Office as Republican. Alonzo Jeffers, general contractor. has filed for the G. O. P. nomination for county treasurer. In 1926, he was an independent candidate for county commissioner in the second district. He is married and lives at 5914 East Washington street.
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Automobile sreported to police as stolen belonit to: Helen Kruse. 2405 East Tenth street. Ford sedan. 739-514. from 2405 East Tenth street. Violet Cash. 859 Edison street. Hudson secan. 51-186. Xrom 330 North Capitol avenue. Glenn Back. 1225 Le Grande avenue. Oldsmobile sedan. Xrom 1529 Southeastern avenue.
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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: John Fahey. 436 North Kevstone avenue. Ford sedan. Xound at BlackXord and Market streets. Oldsmobile sedan. 99-489. found at English avenue and Shetbv street. Ralph Graeen. Mooresville. Ford coupe, found at New Yorlt and Gale street. Stanley Carter. 3600 East Washington street. Buick coupe, found at Summit street and Southeastern avenue. The top of the Leaning T>wer of Pisa is sixteen feet out of the perpendicular.
ACTRESS ENDS LIFE AS STAGE RETORN FADES Ex-Star’s Health Wrecked by Dieting to Attain Slender Figure. Bu United Press NEW YORK, March 31.—Allyn King, whose blonde loveliness once was chronicled in the flickering lights of Broadway stage life, was dead today, a martyr to the harsh code Broadway assumes, that “they never come back.” Convinced that her career as a stage star was over, the former Ziegfeld star died in Bellevue hospital Sunday several hours after she had thrown herself from a Greenwich Village apartment. Both arms and legs were broken and her skull fractured and only her last words, “I did it, because I never can return to Broadway,” remained to recall her career. Elevated by Florenz Ziefeld from a New Haven cabaret girl to a star in her own right, Allyn King became one of the most popular of his stars. Then in 1921 came the craze for “boyish” figures, and her contract said she must weigh 115 pounds. She lived for months on a strict diet and finally, she was carried to a sanitarium, a physical and mental wreck. For two years she was there, and recovered only to find she never could regain her former place.
HELD IN GIRL DEATH Expectant Mother’s Story Involves Negro. Following death this morning of Miss Ada Francis Hughes, 19, Negro, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hughes, 2451 Northwestern avenue, Rawlings Berry, Negro, of 2477 Barnes avenue, was arrested on vagrancy charges under $5,000 bond. Police declare the story of the girl, an expectant mother, involved Berry as the man who allegedly gave her medicine which caused her death. The girl was stricken by convulsions on a Northwestern street car this morning while en route with her parents to city hospital for treatment as a result of the medicine she took. She died a short time later after being taken home. FLAMES TRAP FAMILY Neighbors Aid in Rescue of Trio From Blazing Home. Trapped in the upstairs bedrooms of their home at 2931 East New York street at 3 a. m. today, when fire on the floor below filled the stairway with flames, Russell Supp, his wife Opal and their son Robert, 2, escaped to the roof of a rear porch and down ladders placed by neighbors. Mrs. Supp collapsed after the escape and was ill today from a nervous breakdown. Awakening to find their rooms filled with smoke, the family found the stairway filled with smoke and flames. ICY BATH ENDS CHASE Mechanic Explains Jump in River by Tale of Gang Pursuit. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—A tale of gangsters who pursued him here from Detroit, apparently seeking his life, was told today by August Lozzi, 30-year-old mechanic, in explanation of his jump from a high bridge late Sunday into icy Potomac waters.
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Critical illness of Feodor Chaliapin, opera star, above, in Milan, Italy, has caused the cancellation of performances of the Russian opera in which he sings the title role. Fifty-seven years old, Chaliapin is widely known in America. He was born in Kansan, Russia.
TEN INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS OVER WEEK-END Brain Concussion Sustained by City Man in Crash With Street Car. Week-end traffic accidents injured ten persons in the city, according to police records today. Mark Buloth, 30, of 4448 North Maplewood drive, suffered brain concussion and perhaps a skull fracture when an auto driven by Lester M. Sweeney, 31, of 824 Sumner street, collided headon with a car at South East street and the Belt railroad early Sunday night. Sweeney was arrested on charges of drunken driving, and his wife, Mrs. Ruth Sweeney, 36. was charged with drunkenness. Mr. and Mrs. Sweeny, and Miss Eleanor Lobby, 25, of 2325 Shelby street, escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Buloth also was a passenger in the auto. Swinging his car into a curb at Thirteenth and Delaware streets early today, in order to avoid collision with a truck, George Heise, 58, of 4160 Broadway, sustained bruises and injuries to the left leg when the car overturned. Police sent him home. Others Injured in week-end crashes included: Frank Bramblett, 20, of 1329 Wade street, face cut; Chris Hankemeier, 20, of 1503 North Pennsylvania street, Apt. 32, face cut; Mrs. Gilda Hiatt, 36, of 1503 North Pennsylvania street, Apt. 2, wrenched back; William C. Hanscon, 1811 North Delaware street, cuts and bruises; Robert F. Hargraves, 8, of 208 Wes t Morris street, minor injuries, and Mrs. Inez Hawk, 34, Plymouth, back injuries. SPURNED; TAKES LIFE Cops Lay Suicide of Marion Cargould to Wife’s Turndown. Refusal of his divorced wife to return caused Marion H. Cargould, 36, to end his life by drinking poison in a room at 841 North Delaware street Sunday, police assert. Cargould told police his divorced wife, Miss Zella Shaner, often had threatened to kill himself.
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SCOUT LEADERS STUDY AS ROYS TAKE VACATION Youths Prepare to Assume Control of City for Hour Wednesday. Tables were turned today in Indianapolis Scout circles as the second day of annual Boy Scout week got under way with boys enjoying spring recess from books and scoutmasters attending school. While the annual scoutmaster’s training course was being held today for their leaders, the boys “swapped ideas” as to how the government should be run when they take over city and state offices for one hour Wednesday, Mass Meeting Held Sunday National Boy Scout week was opened officially here Sunday with a mass meeting in Roberts Park M. E. church. The scout band, directed by Raymond Oster, gave a musical program and Cecil Danner, Indianapolis artist, gave an illustrated talk on “Patriots.” A ceremonial will be held tonight in the First Presbyterian church, Sixteenth and Delaware streets, with former members of the scoutmaster's training course as guests. Dinner Set for Tuesday The fathers’ and sons’ dinner will be held Tuesday night at the Central Christian church. El Comancho, adventurer and trapper, will speak. Wednesday, Civic day, scouts will take over reins of local and state government; a parade and court of honor will fill Thursday’s program, and Friday and Saturday will be devoted to the Boy Scout exposition in Tomlinson hall. Prizes will be awarded the troops having best oooths in the exposition which is to be open to the public. BERLIN SOLVES CRIMES 30 Out of 32 Murders During 1929 Are Cleared Up. Bw United Press BERLIN, March 31.—-This metropolis, with its 4,000,000 population, had thirty-two murders for the year 1929. Thirty of the murders were solved by the end of the year, according to the annual report of the Prussian ministry of the interior. In sixteen of these cases the murderer killed himself before he could be appreaended and in the other fourteen he was arrested and brought to trial. REALTORS TO EAT CAKE Replica of Home Show Centerpiece to Be Served at Dinner. A cake replica of the model home which will be the Home Complete exposition centerpiece will be served tonight a joint dinner meeting of the Real Estate Board and the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association tonight in the show building at the state fairground. Another cake replica will be displayed on the seventh floor of the L. S. Ayres & Cos. annex all week.
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East Washington Library Atmosphere Is Charming
As typically American as George Washington’s “hatchet” and as Hoosier as “the smell of new mown hay,” such is the atmosphere of a charming little book house at 2822 East Washington street, the East Washington branch library. There’s not a trace of foreign flavor behind the brick arcade through w'hich book lovers enter. Firepfaces in each alcove and window seats for loitering readers lend a homelike touch to the interior. It serves a thickly populated district of typical American families who do most of their reading on Monday and Saturday nights. “Trips to the library are regulated in the lives of our patrons,” said Miss Grace Horn, librarian, “they stop here on the way to groceries and the meat market and get their books along with other necessities of life.” Andrew Carnegie’s third gift to the city built the branch in 1909. In *9ll the branch circulated 2,860 books per month and now twice that number. Technical high school pupils and children from public schools 3 and 15 and Holy Cross and St. Philip Neri. parochial schools, form its enthusiastic clienetele. The branch conducted an eighth grade project at public Schools 15
FLOOD DEFENSE OF FRANCE DEVELOPED
Vast System of Locks for Frontier Protection Will Be Tested. BY MLNOTT SAUNDERS. NEA Service Writer. PARIS, March 28—A vast system of locks which, when opened would inundate the country for miles and create a formidable defense of the northern frontier of France, is being developed by the war department, according to War Minister Andre Maginot. This scheme is an important factor in the big system of frontier defense upon which French experts have been working ever since the war. Old-fashioned methods are being discarded, and the plan for flooding such an important section of the country is one of the most daring yet conceived. “In the north, from Lille to Dunkirk, we encounter facilities for inundation which we do not find elsewhere,” M. Maginot says. “But these inundations at present are only intermittent and depend on the season so far as their availability for defense is concerned. A guaranty of security should, of course, be permanent. In time of stress it is necessary to be able to flood the threatened territory immediately.” Maginot explained that a veritable mobilization of the waters is planned. “In three months the study of the defense of the frontier by in-
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and 3, recently, a<jd found that children prefer the classics. “Now they are becoming interested in the works of standard authors such as Dickens, Scott and Cooper, declared Miss Horne. “Instead of reading light fiction, exclusively, they ask for the classics which we purpose to make every child love.” The branch has over 400 borrowers each day.
undation will be complete and I have hopes of instituting at the end of the year, general maneuvers which will consist of the manipulation of the locks at a given hour,” he said. “One can inundate with sea water or with fresh water. The inconvenience of inundations from the sea is that it leaves the submerged territory sterile for twenty-five years. However, a third of sea water can be mixed with fresh water without too much damage to agriculture.” The northern frontier of France is her most vulnerable point. At j the outbreak of the World war Germany made her first great of- j fensive through Belgium, with such grave peril for France. “In the sections that can not be flooded, it is necessary to establish permanent defensive systems, such as at the tw'o great strategic points, Mont Cassel, where machine-gun casements can be constructed, and the forests of Raismes and Mormal,” Maginot stated. Maginot expects that the new ; system of frontier fortifications, I including the inundation schemes, | will be completed in 1934. KINCAID SEEKS OFFICE Funeral Director Files in Race for County Commissioner. George E. Kincaid, 44, funeral director, today announced for the Republican nomination for county commissioner from the First district. He is married, has four children and lives at 3918 North Illinois street.
MARCH 31, 1930
FARMER SLAIN BY DEPUTY IN RAID ON STILL Officer Held for Shooting as Victim Sought to Escape Arrest. Bu United Press RICHMOND, Ky„ March 31. Feeling ran high today at Owsley Fork, nearby hamlet, as Lloyd Lane, deputy sheriff, awaited arraignment on a homicide charge based on the fatal shooting of Ambrose Williams, 35, farmer, during a prohibition raid. The victim's wife and two children stood on the porch of the Williams' home as the farmer ran at the approach Sunday of Sheriff Albert Bogie, Deputy Lane and Boyd federal agent. Lane, as he later allegedly admitted, gave chase and fired when Williams did not halt. While the widow and children knelt beside the body, Sandlin and the sheriff searched the house, finding a small still with a gallon of moonshine liquor in its coils. Publisher Flies to Orient Bu United Press SEOUL, Korea, March 31,.—Van Lear Black, Baltimore publisher, arrived here today by airplane. Black has flown from Europe to the Orient.
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