Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1930 — Page 17

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DECISION PLEASING TO CEMENT MEN

Clear Victory Is Seen in Highway Ruling of Attorney-General. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Cement and gravel salesmen were rejoicing today over reports of the decision of the state highway commission to “follow the law,” as based on a recent opinion to Director John J. Brown of the state highway department from the at-torney-general. The opinion, designating the division between construction and maintenance, was up for discussion at the commission meeting Thursday and procedure decided upon. in the opinion of the cement and gravel interests, this "follow the law” idea is a clear victory for them. It means that A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent, will be shorn of much power, which will be transferred to William Titus, chief engineer. Titus is rated as a cement booster, while Hinkle bears the label of “black top.” Pleases Cement Men According to the cement people. Hinkle has been directing black top construction under the guise of maintenance and the bill has been paid from construction funds. Under the attorney-general's opinion, all construction work must come under the construction division of which Titus is head Here, cement men say. is how Hinkle has been “getting away with it.” He takes a state-maintained road and grades it. eliminating the curves, they say. Then the next year he gives it a stone base and by the third year a black top, which is any one of the asphalt or bituminous macadam products. When the black top is laid, the cement men contend. Hinkle points out that “construction cost” is but about $12,000 or $15,000 a mile, as compared with cement, which averages around $28,000. Opposed by Gravel Interests But, they say, Hinkle has not counted the stone base and work in preparation, all of which is charged against the cemented-constructed roads. The gravel interests are antagonistic to Hinkle because he uses stone. “Os course, we will have to follow the law,” Director Brown declared today, in commenting on the discussion of the attorney-general’s opinion. He did say that he thought that the fine line between construction and maintenance must, in the last analysis, be drawn by the highway commissioners. There is some talk of a suit to have the court decide where that line must be drawn. That cement well with the administration was indicated when Governor Harry G. Leslie sent the Hoosier senators and congressmen telegrams urging defeat of the Blease amendment permitting governmental units to import cement tariff-free. FAMILY SAVED IN FIRE Mother Smells Smoke, Rescues Four Children in Night Blaze. An electric iron left connected all night caused a fire that damaged the kitchen of the home of Mrs. Catherin Koesters, 314 Parkway, more than SSO early today. Mra. Koesters smelled smoke and bundled her four children out of the house at 2:43. Her screams roused neighbors who turned in an alarm. I

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Name Speed Pu Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., April 18. —A new' last name three times in three hours is the record established here by Mrs. Amos C. Dyer. As Mrs. Mildred Kissick. she obtained a divorce from Simon Kissick, on an allegation of cruelty, and was granted restoration of her maiden name, Haynes. Then she became the bride of Dyer.

FINED $200,000 FOR EVADING TAX Wealthy Woman Penalized for Dodging Customs. Bu United Preen NEW YORK, April 18.—If Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, wealthy cosmetic manufacturer, expects to wear her latest Parisian frocks for Easter, she will have to pay customs authorities approximately $200,000 because she failed to declare them. Announcement of the seizure of goods brought in on the lie de France and valued at between SBO,OOO and SIOO,OOO was made by customs authorities, who said it was perhaps the largest seizure in the history of the New York ports. A majority of it was clothing and jewelry, they said. ‘GOOSE' LEE FINED Negro Politician Convicted on Assault Charge. Harry (Goosie) Lee. Negro politician, poolroom and soft drink parlor operator at 522 Indiana avenue, was fined $25 and costs and received a suspended thirty days county jail sentence when convicted in Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron's court today on assault and battery charges. Lee paid the fine. Lee is alleged, to have attacked Claude Boyland, 1322 Beville avenue, after an accident at Lafayette and Tenth streets March 22. Boyland was treated at city hospital after the assault. FRATERNITY MEN TO MEET HERE APRIL 26 Phi Gamma Delta Teams to Compete in Bowling and Bridge, Teams from five undergraduate chapters of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity in Indiana will participate in bowling matches and a bridge tournament as two of the features of the annual state banquet Saturday night, April 26. at the Athenaeum. The banquet is being given under auspices of the Indianapolis graduate chapter of the fraternity Chapters in the state are located at the following colleges and universities: Indiana university. Purdue university. De Pauw university. Hanover college and Wabash college. INTRODUCE CANDIDATES First ward voters Thursday night were urged to “give the government back to the people” as fifty Democratic candidates for nomination in the primary appeared upon the platform of the Odd Fellow hall in Brightwood.

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You read “Chickie” and you liked it. It wasn’t literature, but it packed a world of zip that held your interest all the way. It swept the country like a storm. You read “Sonia” and liked it. It wasn’t literature, either, but it went over like a cyclone. You’ll lead “Mary Della” and like it still better. It’ll go over like a tornado. “Mary Della” starts in The Times next Monday. VMS MSS Mary Della Chubb was hard-boiled. She admitted it. She was good-looking. Plenty. When she passed the comer, with her pert little skirt trying to reach her knees—and failing—

STATE SHOWS SLOW REVIVAL OF INDUSTRY Building for March Down; 667 Cars of Limestone' Are Ordered. BY CHARLES C. STONE Slow revival of activities in in- | dustry and a pronounced slump in : building are revealed in a business ; and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. As compared with March, 1929, building in the state in the same month this year is approximately only one-third. For the first time this year none of the seventeen cities covered by the survey shows building increases. The state’s building for last j March was in round sums $6,000,000. For March this year it was $2,000,000. Illustrative of the slump are the following cities: Indianapolis, from $1,930,000 to $817,000; Ft. Wayne, $605,000 to $310,000: Shelbyville, $681,000 to $5,900; Gary, $488,000 to $145,000; Kokomo, $250,000 to $36,000; Muncie, $142,000 to $38,000, and Logansport, $24,000 to SB,OOO. Wage Level Above Average A report released by Dorrance, Sullivan & Cos., Inc., New York advertising agents, shows Indiana’s average industrial wage of $1,335 a year is higher than that for the nation as a whole, that figure being $1,300. In output per workers, Indiana also exceeds the national average, the figures being respectively $7,670 i and $7,500. Among cities of the state, In- ; dianapolis with the average wage ; the same as that for the nation as | a whole, show's the lowest per cent ;of wages in relation to cost. The ! average wage in Ft. Wayne is $1,340 and in Evansville, $1,075. General conditions in various Indiana cities are shown in the following summary: . Bloomington—The Indiana Limestone Company has received an order for 667 carloads of stone to be used in erecting West Virginia’s new state Capitol building. This is the largest order booked thus far in 1930. Plant to Be Reopened Crawfordsville—Local business In- | terests have acquired the plant of ] the Crawfordsville Canning Company and formed an operating concern under the name of the Crawfordsville Packing Company. The new owner has a force of men at work repairing the plant for use during the summer. The plant has not been in use for three years. Alexandria Aladdin Industries. Inc., will erect a two-story brick and concrete building for warehouse and shipping department use as an addition to its plant. The shipping department, on completion of the building in July, will be moved from Chicago and will give employment to about fifty persons. The building will be 95x160 feet, providing 45,000 square feet of floor space. Anderson The new 120-room Anderson hotel will be opened May 15. The building is the work of Baynham & Cos., Indianapolis contractors, and will be operated by the Pick-Wenzel Company. Muncie—A reduction of appeals for aid received by the Social Service Bureau by a third as compared to the number during the winter, is considered as indicating improvement in employment conditions here. Dagger—Operations have been resumed at the Grove coal mine after a period of idleness which started Feb. 25. About 100 men are employed. School to Cost $443,000 Hammond—Erection of anew Robertsdale junior high school building at a cost of $443,000 has been approved by the Hammond city council. South Bend—Operation has started in the Stromberg motor devices unit of the Bendix Aviation Corpo- I ration here. The unit was formerly j located in Chicago and was moved to anew plant building here. The Northern Indiana Railway Company has placed an order for ten modem cars, to cost $145,000, as the first step in a program for rehabilitation of the street railway system here. Elkhart—The newly formed Lever Motor Corporation of Indiana will unite with the Elcar Motors Company here to form a $5,000,000 doncem, which will manufacture an automobile to be known as the Elcar Lever. The new car will use a radically different type of engine, which includes a direct connection between crankshaft and piston. East Chicago—Erection of an addition to the Empire Refining Company, Huntington, has leased quarployment for 1.100 men. The addition will practically double the refinery’s capacity.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18,1930

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Colon Bearup, 23, fugitive from the Indiana state reformatory, who pressed a revolver to his temple and took his life Thursday night when cornered by police in front of 113 South Illinois street.

CITY MAN HELD AS ‘GASHAWK’ Denies Striking Youth Who Defended Two Girls. Charged with vagrancy, Roger Williams, 25, of 513 East Eleventh street, was arrested today as driver of a “gas hawk” car, one occupant of which seriously injured a youth who attempted to defend two girls Thursday night. Williams, admitting to police he was driving the car, denied striking Virgil Jones, 17, of 1010 North Alabama street, with a wrench, but declared his companion, whom he said he did not know, struck Jones. Jones suffered a broken jaw and a severely cut cheek. When Jones went to the aid of Irene Harker, 16, and Adis Blunk, 14, both of 244 East Tenth street, as two men attempted to drag the girls into an automobile at St. Clair and Alabama streets, one of the men struck Jones with a heavy wrench, he told police. DRY SHAKEUP LOOMS Regrouping of Districts Is Proposed. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—Plans to regroup the prohibition administrative districts and weed out many dry officials after the justice department takes over prohibition enforcement, as is provided in the Williamson bi£ before the senate, were by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. The treasury department, he explained, will retain control of the distribution of industrial alcohol, while the justice department enforces the dry laws. New administrative districts will be established by the latter department and the former will regroup its twenty-eight existing districts to parallel the new ones. HALL TO MAKE SPiECH Indianapolis Candidate for Congress to Talk at Sullivan. Archibald M. Hall, Indianapolis manufacturer and candidate for the Republican nomination for United States congressman from the Seventh district, will be the principal speaker at a district rally of the American Legion in Sullivan tonight. Although in the midst of his campaign. Hall cancelled his campaign engagements to be with the Legion. His subject will concern the needs of the soldier and praise for work of the American Legion.

POLICE PROBE LIFE OF MURDERED GIRL

Gain Ground in Search of Pretty Navy Worker’s Slayer. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—Officers investigating the murder a week ago of Miss Mary Baker, young navy department employe, believed themselves nearer a solution of the crime today as the result of information gained Thursday night from the dead girl's two closest companions. These two—Miss Olga Skinner

the boys adjusted their ties, flecked specks of dust from their coats sleeves, sighed, and watched her for the next block. n m st tt tt a Robert Henley Calkman 111 went to Yale, which was nothing particularly against him. He had dough in wads. Whenever Calkman Sr. opened his vault it made the front door of the mint look like the side entrance to the poorhouse. St St St tt tt M Robert acquired a crush on Majorie Marabee and before he knew it, he was hooked. Her parents had looked up his financial rating. Then he met Mary Della, by the simple expedient of running her down with his gaudy roadster.

IRON HAND OF BRITAIN WILL FALL ON INDIA Vigorous Action to Check Unrest Predicted With Report Issuance. GANDHI TO BE PUNISHED Arrest Forecast for Hindu Chief; Revolt End Seen Near. Bu United Press LONDON, April 18.—Definite and vigorous action by the British government to end unrest in India became nearer today, with the report that findings of the Simon investigating commission probably will be issued within two weeks, instead of late next month. First section of the Simon report, said to have a slight pro-Indian tinge, already is in the hands of the printers, and drafting of the second section is nearly completed Experts on colonial affairs explain that thus far the government has met the passive resistance of the Mahatma Gandhi with its own policy of equally passive resistance, which is the reason it has refused to accede to Gandhi’s “requests" to be arrested. For the present the Indian administration is handling the situation with a velvet glove. With the issuance of the Simon report, the iron fist within the glove will be revealed. It is not improbable that Gandhi may be arrested simultaneously with the issuance of a “friendly” report, some observers believing this would be a master stroke, particularly if the early fires of enthusiasm for Gandhi’s “peaceful” revolt have died. Such report, too, would take the edge off any spectacular action, such as taking the Mahatma to jail. The danger of active, open revolt, which would have loomed large if Gandhi had been arrested a few days ago, is believed considerably lessened now. From the military standpoint, Great Britain strongly is entrenched in India. The British army is stationed at strategic points throughout the empire, under a “triangular" or circular system, through which three detachments of troops could at any time converge at a central point, wherever trouble threatened. BILLINGS IS NAMED STATE REVENUE HEAD Veteran Government Employe Is Appointed to City Office. W. P. Billings, 3465 Carrollton avenue, today was appointed to the office of internal revenue agent in charge of the Indianapolis division which consists of the state of Indiana. Billings has been appointed in the r f ze of E P. Hutchinson who recently was transferred to Columbia, S. C. Billings has been an employe of the government for the past thirty years. He was in the department of commerce nine years, in the interior department two years, and for seven years in the postoffice department. He came to Indianapolis twelve years ago as a field examiner in the department of which he now is the head. A former student at Butler university, Billings was graduated from Hanover college in 1898. His appointment was said to be unusual in that he was placed in charge of! his home district. Billings’ office was banked with flowers sent him by friends. 38 Dies in Island Blast LISBON, Portugal, April 18.—An explosion caused by lightning in a factory at Taipa on the Island of Cacao, killed thirty-eight men and women, advices received today said.

and Miss Mildred Sperry—were found at the home of one of Miss Skinner’s aunt in Mounteastle, Va. They were questioned intensively by William C. Gloth, commonwealth's attorney, of Arlington county Virginia. Gloth said the girls gave him a comprehensive picture of their lives and that of the dead girl who lived with them. Police are keeping under close surveillance a number of men friends of Miss Baker’s, but, apparently, do not yet know which one. if any, of them was with her in her car when she was shot three times last Friday night.

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16-Room House Seems to Shrink

By United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., April 18. —Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, goodnaturedly enough, is trying to figure out the whereabouts of the sixteen rooms which “The Beeches,” her future home, is supposed to have. Standing at a local soda fountain, the former first lady asked a United Press correspondent who had inspected the house how many rooms he had seen. Together they finally managed to account for thirteen rooms, three

less than the advertised total. Their list was as follows: First Floor—Library, drawing room, dining room and kitchen. Second Floor—Four bedrooms and dressing room. Third Floor—Maids’ rooms, billiard room and trunk room. ...... Mrs. Coolidge laughingly pointed out that the trunk room on the third floor and the dressing room on the second floor hardly could be listed among the sixteen rooms, and hence there appeared to be a total of only eleven rooms. Seeking enlightenment on the subject, a reporter questioned Mrs. Morris L. Comey, from whom Coolidge recently purchased “The Beeches” at a price estimated

at SSOOOO ( said Mrs. Comey, “on the first floor there’s the library, drawing room, dining room, glassed-in sun parlor, kitchen and maids

dining room. That’s six. “And on the second floor there’s Mr. Coolidge’s bedroom, Mrs. Coolidge’s bedroom, two guest rooms and a large private dressing room which has three windows. That’s eleven. “And on the third floor there’s the billiard room, trunk room and two maids’ rooms. That’s fifteen.” “Yes," said the inquiring reporter, “but the total is supposed to be sixteen. * 9 “Well,” said Mrs. Comey, after brief deliberation, “there are two rooms for the chauffeur in the basement. Count one of them." OIL OPERATORS TO CONFER AT SEVERIN Numerous Speakers to Take Part in Discussions at Meeting. Paul E. Hadilck, marketing division secretary of the American Petroleum Institute, “will speak on “The Code in Your busines,'.” at a conference of oil operators of the state at the Severin Thursday. H. H. Evans of Newcastle will discuss the proposed constitutional convention. F. E. Packard, Standard Oil Company general counsel, will discuss the 4 cents a barrel inspection fee In Indiaha. Phillip E. Zoercher will talk on work of the Indiana state tax commission, Auditor of State A. N. Bobbitt will speak on w’ork of his office and other speakers will be Herbert F. Davis, Indiana Petroleum Association president, and Thomas J. O’Day, vice-president of the association. MURRAY IS SPEAKER Candidate Predicts Sweeping Victory for Democratic Party. Opening the primary campaign in the Ninth ward with a meeting at Liberty hall, Michigan and Dearborn streets, Thursday night, Raymond F. Murray, Democratic candidate for nomination as prosecuting attorney, predicted a sweeping victory for the Democratic party. Other speakers were Thomas Garvin for juvenile judge, William Gail for auditor and Walter McCord for commissioner of the First district. B. Barnet Henry presided. Orators Compete Today By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 18.— Leon Chandler of Fontanet is the representative of Indiana State Teachers’ college here in the state oratorical contest on World Peace at Earlham college today.

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They started for the hospital, but ended up with a little spooning party out on Lover’s lane. And then there was battle, murder, and sudden death. And in the glare of the roadster’s lights, Mary Della saw the “Red Mask” crouching over his victim. m t mm • • m You’ll like it all—Mary Della, Robert, the romance, the humor, the horror, the mystery. So you’ll call The Times circulation department, Riley 5551, and make sure that you get the first installment of “Mary Della” next Monday. You can’t miss it.

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QUAKES SHAKE GREECE'S COAST Towns Crumble Along Gulf With Several Deaths. By United Press ATHENS, April 18.—Earthquakes, which began at 10:10 p. m. Thursday night, continued to shake . Peloponnesus today, increasing i property damage in crumbling towns along the Corinthian gulf. Several deaths were reported. Athens, which was approximately thirty miles from the epicenter of the disturbance, felt severe shocks through the night. Dramatic scenes, heightened by the tradition of the earth’s trembling at the Crucifixion, occurred in many churches throughout the shaken district, where throngs were attending pre-Easter services. The roof of one church was split open. SPURNED; HANGS SELF Shattered Romance Is Blamed for Yale Graduate’s Suicide. By United Press. NEW YORK, April 18.—A shattered romance was blamed today for the suicide of John Douglas, Yale graduate of the class of 1929, whose body was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in a Y. M. C. A. building. In Douglas’ room was found a letter from a girl signed “Dana,” in which she broke their engagement but asked that they always remain friends. The letter was postmarked Fargo, N. D., and indicated the girl’s father was a rancher. MAYOR TURNS TEACHER Sullivan Gives Young Visitors Lesson in Citizenship. A lesson In good citizenship was given to a delegation of School 46 civic students visiting Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s office Thursday. Sullivan pointed out the oath of loyalty was taken by the youth of Athens on reaching the age of j 18, and asked the children to read it aloud. A pledge of allegiance to the flag concluded the lesson.

HARROW ASKS ABOLITION OF ALL TARIFFS Famed Agnostic, 73 Today, Sees Error in Stand of America. By Times Special CHICAGO, April 18—On his 73d birthday, Clarence Darrow today submitted a comprehensive program to alleviate present disturbed condtiions in America. He advocated: j Abolish all tariffs. Establish co-operative systems of production and distribution. Reduce the hours of labor. Raise the wage scales. Repeal the Volstead act. “The peoples of the world are hungry,” said the veteran of more than, a half century in courts of law, “yet wheat is a drag on the world's principal markets. They shiver in their nakedness, while it is announced there are too many clothes ‘on the market.’ And America is aggravating the situation existing today by deepening the enmity of Europe toward her, by keeping up a high protective tariff: so much so that many European countries are taking steps to retaliate by adopting tariff measures against goods made in the United States, based to a large extent on the principles of our own immigration “quota law.” Back From Europe Darrow, after nearly a year in Europe, is back at his apartment on East Sixteenth street, Chicago, where he has lived for the last onarter century. He Contends that, despite almost daily importunings to defend in noted cases, that he will not resume the practice of law, and that his remaining days will be devoted to “escaping work. In that category he does not include writing and speaking, which he thoroughly enjoys. The veteran defender, with a record of never having a client die on” him, has stood the harpooning of the unsympathetic with a forti--1 tude characteristic of his 73 years. I He long has preached that ‘ life lsn t worth living,” yet it is apparent that he revels in the companionship of myriad friends, and admits that he forgets his own troubles in hearing the sorrows of others. In Fine Health Clarence Darrow, from Ohio soil, brought up by agnostic father whose home was a resting place for reformers who passed through in the sixties and seventies, bears all the earmarks of a temperate life, and at three score and thirteen appears in finest health and spirits. He recently vented his strong feelings against prohibition in series of debates with Senator Smith W. Brookhart of lowa and Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist; Board of Temperance, Prohibition ; and Public Morals. His next speaking engagement Is !in the Indiana National Guard ! Armory, Indianapolis, April 30, w T hen ; he will relate “Why I Am an Ag- : nostic.” j Other speakers on that occasion j win be Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal church. Quin O'Brien, Chicago attorney, and Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht of the Indianapolis temple. Each will tell In thirty minutes the reasons for, his belief In Agnosticism, Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism* respectively. PARK SECTION TO BE PICKNICKING GROUNDS Funds in Dearborn Development Unlikely, Says Board. A section of Dearborn park will be converted into an overnight camp for picnickers and Boy and Girl Scouts, David S. Kilgore, recreation direction, said today. The park board probably will not have funds for development of the park for several years. Ovens will be constructed for convenience of campers. KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Evansville Man, Hurt Near Sheridan, Dies in Ambulance. Injured in a collision betwen his automobile and another driven by Clayton O’Bannion of Tipton, five miles east of Sheridan on Road 31 Thursday night, Noble McClain of Evansville died en route to Robert Long hospital here in ah ambulance. Coroner C. H. Keever started an investigation of the collision. O’Bannion is business manager o! the Tipton Tribune. Bankruptcy Petition Is Filed Voluntary bankruptcy petition was filed in federal court today by Cecil O. Mitchell, grocer, 1180 West Twenty-ninth street- He listed his liabilities at his assets at $1,563, • .

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