Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1930 — Page 9

APRIL 3, 1930.

FLOOD WATERS OF MISSISSIPPI TAKE BIG TOLL U. S. to Spend More Than Panama Canal Cost to Tame River. Tbiw i* th** of a *rie of irfiHr* on flood rontrnl in the ippi \a*lev. written bv a •itafT correspondent who reported the 1927 flood and has hern in the valley since. BV F. O. BAILEY. fritted Press Staff forrespondent MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 3—“ Old man Ribbor, hr don't, plant corn nnd hr don’t plant, cotton; and them that do am soon forgotten.” To most of the world those words are just. a part of the hit sone from Edna Ferbrr's “Show Boat." but residents of the Mississippi valley know them to be true. Thousands of persons who till the fertile soil bordering the Mississippi river have seen the muddy flood waters sweep their erops away time and again. often wiping out the work of a lifetime. Forced to High Ground It is no unfamiliar sight in the valley to see farmers load their scanty belongings on to a wagon drawn by a team of mules, and while the women and children trudge along, drive to higher ground. Week? later they return, often penniless, to the water-soaked waste that once was a broad expanse of beautiful, growing crops and substantial homes. Little is left them but. hope. For countless years flood waters annually have swept o\er this vast agricultural area now inhabited by 4,000.000 people. Three times in modern history—in 1884. 1912 and 1927—floods have resulted in major national disasters. 310 Persons Drowned The most serious was in 1927, when 240 persons were drowned and nearly 1.000.000 made homeless by flood waters invading 170 counties in seven states. The Red Cross spent $17,498,902 in relief work to rare for 637.476 persons. Earthen embankments built back from the river after many years of work and expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars virtually are all that stand between a 1.000,000 people and possible annihilation. Engineers, led by Major-General Edgar Jadwin, former chief of army engineers in charge of flood control werk. have turned to spillways, revetments, dredging and iuseplug levees as an aid to the main levees. Jadwin Plan Adopted Failure of the levees to hold in 1927 convinced engineers of the enormity of the problem confronting them. It was recognized as a problem for the federal government to handle. States already had taxed themselves to the limit and their resources to battle the river were near an end. A year later the plan which has come to be known as the “Jadwin plan’’ of flood control was proposed and adopted by congress and provisions made for expenditure of approximately $325,000,000 over a period of ten years in carrying out the plan. The Jadwin plan mapped out one of the greatest engineering tasks in modern history. Construction of the Panama canal, exclusive of fortifications, cost $237,000,000, a little more than two-thirds of the amounts authorized by congress for carrying out flood control work in the valley.

SUIT TO HALT TAX COLLECTION LOOMS Annexed Section Residents Oppose Payment of City Rate. Court battle to enjoin the county from collecting city taxes from residents living in a section of Washington township, annexed to the city last year, loomed today unless attorneys representing both sides reach an immediate agreements County Auditor Harry* Dunn said. The matter involves more than $40,000 in taxes, which the county may attempt to collect under city rate. The city rate Ls $1 higher than the rate levied against residents before the annexation. Attorneys representing taxpayers, the county, the school board, and the city conferred Monday on the question, and will meet again Friday, Dunn said. GOETT NAMES DEPUTY City Clerk Appoints Miss Dillon to Succeed Mrs. Thatcher, City Clerk Henry O. Goett today announced the appointment of Miss Marguerite Dillon. 426 Terrace avenue. as deputy clerk to succeed Mrs. Mary Thatcher, who resigned. Mrs. Thatcher will operate a concession at Coffin golf course this season. Miss Dillon formerly worked in the county recorder’s office. Park to IV BeantiTied P’l Times Special f ANPFRSON. Ind.. April 3.-The city park commission has purchased 1.000 climbing rose and honeysuckle vines to be planted along the banks of White river, between the Eighth street and Twelfth street bridges. The beautification project was started by the removal of several years’ accumulation of rubbish.

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CAMPUS HERO WILL STRUT SATURDAY Annual Edition of the Jordan River Revue Will Be Given Here for Two Performances at Keith’s. A CAMPUS hero but a -upreme egotist, a dumb freshman ultimately playing a useful role in helping i demure and lovable girl dethrone a stunning vamp, who seeks to keep the heart of the hero to the detriment of the best interests if the university. This forms the plot which features the ninth annual Jordan River Revue, playing at the B. F. Keith theater, Saturday afternoon and evening. Bert Whaley of Bloomington plays the part of Jerry Culhane, the conceited campus hero, and Miss Margaret Myer of Rensselaer impersonates Audrey Grayson, the demure, unsophisticated girl who is secretly

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YOUTHS ENOAOE COPS IN DUEL Empty Guns, Escape, When Caught in Theft. Discovered taking a battery out of a car parked near Washington street and White River boulevard, two youths fired at Motor Policemen Nauntseck and Mitchell early today and escaped. In pursuit the patrolmen returned several shots before losing the youths. A Negro held up Dale Ross, Sinclair filling station attendant at Twenty-fourth and Meridian streets Wednesday night, escaping with SSO, the attendant reported. Three diamond rings and clothing valued at S3OO was the loot of burglars from the residence of J. C. Ittenbach, 605 North Oakland avenue. Mrs. Herman Adams, 644 East Thirty-fourth street, reported clothing valued at SSO, stolen from her home. A diamond ring was stolen from the home of Mrs. Jean McCormick, 3539 Winthrop avenue, by a sneak thief. Burglars ransacked the John G. Wilson residence at, 1705 Ashland avenue and stole clothing and jewelry valued at $l7O. A fraternity pin valued at S2O was stolen from the home of E. W. Robinson. 4721 Sunset avenue. Cigarets and pies were loot of burglars who entered the Dave Wilson restaurant, 17 South West street. Russia's regular Red army is estimated to be 562.000 strong; there are also 12.000.000 Territorials.

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in love with Jerry. Miss Alice Thom of Bloomington takes the part of the college vamp and does so like a professional trooper. Miss Thorn has had an unusual amount of experience in college theatricals and her acting is highly praised by critics who have seen the revue. Robert Masters, Bloomington, portraying the dumb freshman, provides the comedy for ; the show with great success. Other leading members of the cast are: Ewing Pennell. Kokomo, as : Sidney Cumings. Jerry’s roommate and admirer; Katherine Ann Lou- : den. Bloomington, as Helen Farley, j sweetheart of Sidney and sorority > sister of Audrey. Frederick Smith, Angola, char- ! actcrizes Professor Grayson, father i of Audrey. Miss Myer and Mr. WTialey took j the leading roles in the revue last year. Miss Myer also took the leading role in the revue during her freshman year at the university, , when she played opposite Edmund | Keeney, director of this year's revue. a a a Other theaters today will offer: Nancy Gibbs at the Lyric, “The Sil--1 ver Cord" at the Playhouse, “Only : the Brave” at the Indiana, “The Vagabond King” at the Circle, I "Street of Chance” at the Ohio, I “Anna Christie” at the Palace, "Song of the West” at the Apollo, ; Clara Smith at the Walker. George j Fares at the Colonial, and burlesque ! at, the Mutual.

FOUR CHILDREN AMONG CAR DEATH VICTIMS Four of fifty-eight persons killed in automobile accidents in Marion county outside the city limits during 1929 were children of 12 years or under, report of Sheriff George Winkler today showed. Sheriff Winkler reported investigation of 367 automobile accidents during the year in which 374 adults of 18 yeais or more were injured. The report shows the ages of children injured as six of 17 years; eight of 16; six of 15; six of 14; two of 13; six of 12; four of 10; two of 9; five of 8; two of 7; one of 6; seven of 5; two of 4; five of 3; three of 2. One child killed was of 12 years, one of 8, one of 7 and one of 5 years. 55 Drowned in Boat Tragedy TOKIO. Japan, April 3.—Tragedy marked beginning of the cherry blossom festivals in Japan when a ferryboat, overloaded with holiday merrymakers, overturned Wednesday at Wakamatsu, a city in southern Japan. Fifty-five were drowned. More than forty were reported missing. Deaf Hear Thru Vibrations Science has discovered a way of gently massaging the tight bones, tense muscles and organs of the inner ear by utilizing sound waves, reducing head noises, improving hearing and often restoring it to normal. A simple little silver device, hardly visible, fits into the ear. No batteries, no wires or head bands. No excessive amplification. The Vibraphone Cos.. Station 133, Central National Bank Bldg.. St. Louis, Mo., will send details free.—Advertisement.

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‘BACK-TO-FARM’ DRIVE LAUNCHED IN JOB CRISIS Virginia Farmers Act to Give Work to Large Number of Unemployed. BY THOMAS L. STOKES, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 3. A “back to the farm” colonization project to stimulate employment is planned by leaders of the delegation of unemployed which converged on Washington from all parts of the country recently to seek government aid. An offer to take a number of unemployed persons on farms already has been received by the conference from a group of Shenandoah valley (Va.) farmers. They plan to establish a permanent community of farm workers. The Virginians offered a 50-50 share of profits on crops grown on cleared land and 100 per cent for those raised on uncleared ground. Paul Dennie, Philadelphia garment worker and chairman of the conference here, explained the experiment he and his associates will promote to increase employment. Workers, he said, will be cleared to the Virginia farms through local headquarters of the conference here. Later similar projects may be carried out in other sections. Dennie satd money will be needed to ‘grub stake” those who take up the proposition until they can make a crop this spring. He added he would seek aid from the federal farm board and. also seek to interest members of congress. “This is probably the sanest offer of sqlution for this problem that’s been presented in this crisis,” Dan O'Brien, nationally known hobo, said on referring to the Virginia offer. "There are 50,000 unemployed in New York City who could be helped in this way.”

FUNERAL RITES FOR FLORIST ARRANGED Services for Charles F. HoeJtke Set for 2 I*. M. Friday. Funeral services for Charles F. Hoeltke, 65, florist, will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Friedens Evangelical church, Parkway and Ala- j cama streets. Burial will be in I Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Hoeltke operated several : greenhouses on West Troy avenue for many years. He was born in Germany and went to Cincinnati, 0., when he was 15. Later he moved to Indianapolis. Survivors are the widow, five daughters, Mrs. Minnie Marschke, Mrs. Lillian Niedenthal, Mrs. Louise Koch, Mrs. Edna Sells and Miss Anna Hoeltke; two sons, Fred and Carl Hoeltke, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Drinkut, all of Indianapolis. EGG HUNTS SCHEDULEDj J. Edward Burke and Mrs. Harry A. Bell today were named to direct the municipal egg hunts to be conducted by the recreation department on the south side on April 19, 20. Some neighborhoods will stage the Easter party on Saturday while I others will hold it on Sfinday after- j noon. Merchants will donate eggs, j Bulgarian Premier 111 LONDON, April 3. Premier Andrei Liapchev of Bulgaria has; been taken suddenly ill with a high I fever, believed to be typhus, according to an Exchange Telegraph Company report from Vienna i

CARBOLIC ACID SALE TO CHILD APPROVED Appellate Court Reverses Damages Verdict in Suicide. Fathers contemplating suicide may send 8-year-old sons to the drug sjtore for carbolic acid and the widow can not recover damages for the sale, the appellate court held Wednesday in reversing a $5,000 damage suit appealed from Marion superior court one. The case was an appeal of the Riesbeck Drug Company. The lower court had awarded Mrs. Mary S. Wray $5,000 upon the suicide of her husband, Norman E. Wray, May 7, 1928. Wray had sent his 8-year-old son, Russell, to get the poison with which he died. He left the widow, son and a 2-weeks-old baby. The appellate decision points out that there is no Indiana law preventing sale of carbolic acid to children.

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