Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1930 — Page 15

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BUILDINGS FOR BUSINESS USE COMETO FORE Marion Company Will Have Warehouse and Garage Costing $75,000. $1,000,000 FOR PLANT New Industry Located in Terre Haute Pays $38,000 for Factory Site. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Aside from building there was little change in business and industrial conditions in Indiana for the week ended oday, a survey shows. Construction has been started at Marion of a $75,000 warehouse and garage for the Indiana General Service Company, to be completed Sept. 1. Building of a plant for the American Can Company, new industry at Terre Haute, will be started soon. Purchase of the site was completed this week when checks totaling $38,000 were paid persons from whom the land was bought. The factory wdll cost nearly $1,000,000. A $60,000 four-story office building is being built at South Bend for the brake division of the Bendix Aviation Corporation. Following a directors meeting of the corporation this week, Victor Bendix, president, declared business conditions are steadily improving. The Harris Grand theater, Bloomington, is to be improved at a cost of $75,000, it is announced by Jules J. Rubens, division manager for the Publix Theater Corporation. The work will be completed in time for reopening of the house Sept. 1. The Marks Supply Company, Valparaiso, has started work on a SIO,OOO addition to the Lincolnvale Country Club house. More Men at Work Reports from nine stone companies in the Bloomington-Bedford district show employment conditions were better during March than for the same month in 1929 and 1928. Ford automobile sales in Indiana during the first three months of this year show an increase over those of the first quarter of 1929, the figures being respectively 10,130 and 9,149. A summary of conditions in Various Indiana cities is as follows; Kokomo —The Concealed Door Check Company here has passed to control of the Electric Autolite Company, Toledo, 0., and will be operated through a subsidiary of the Toledo concern, the Prest-o-lite Battery Company, Indianapolis. In connection with the deal it was announced the plant would remain here at least for the time being. Hard rubber, its raw material, has been bought from the Kokomo Rubber Company, being a large factor in enabling the rubber plant to operate on a quantity basis. $150,000 Building Opened Peru—The Rhodes-Ditzler building, this city’s finest office structure, has been completed at a cost of $150,000. One entire floor will be occupied by offices of the Wabash railroad. The shops of the C. & O. railroad are working with a force 75 per cent of Normal. George A. Bryan, president of the Bryan Steam Corporation, announces the plant will be operated through the summer on a basis assuring employment to 90 per cent of a full force. Hammond—The Hammond Bolt and Nut Company has been merged with the Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Company, which also has a plant in Gary. Michigan City—The Root Manufacturing Company plant here has been leased to E. E. Dubbs, president of the Indiana Lumber and Coal Company, Indiana Harbor, for production of a patented sliding door. No date has been set for starting operations.

RELAPSE SUFFERED BY ATTACK VICTIM City Woman* Injured Near Anderson Is Taken to Hospital. Mrs. Gene Vetnon, 35, of 330 Virginia avenue, who was found unconscious at the roadside near Anderson the night of April 28. and who claims she was attacked by an unidentified man. was taken to city hospital Thursday night when she suffered a relapse due to her injuries. Discharged from a hospital at Anderson. she returned here Thursday but collapsed at her home Thursday night. Mrs. Vernon left her home here April 28, she told police, after a quarrel with her husband. An unidentified man in a large car offered to convey her to a downtown hotel, where she intended to get a room. Instead he took her out the Anderson road, she said, where he robbed her of $8 after hitting her on the head, and then threw her from the car. REASONS FOR NORTH POLE SHIFT SOUGHT Scientists Hope to Learn Whether Earth Tilts in Space. Bu T'mited Prctt WASHINGTON, May 2.—An effort to determine why the north pole keeps shifting around will be made by the United tSates geodetic survey, which soon will establish an observatory al Gaithersburg, Md.. directly opposite an existing station at Masusiwa. Japan. By comparing observations taken at the two, scientists hope to determine whether the earth tilts in space. Variations of as much as fifty feet have been noted in the parallels of latitude at the north pole, according to Major William Bowie of tha-gcorgraphical survey.

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Herr Freidrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz, German ambassador to me United States and his official party as. they arrived here today to attend the dinner of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men at the Columbia Club. Left to Right—Dr. H. Borchers. German consul in Cleveland; the ambassador; K. C. Klipple, president of the Credit Men’s Association, and Xu Putlitz. secretary of the German embassy.

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Millionaire Manufacturer Loses Fee Suit to Law Firm at Anderson. RJI Times (Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 2—The divorce suit of Charles E. Miller, millionaire manufacturer, will cost him more than a quarter of a million dollars, as a result of a jury verdict returned in Madison circuit nourt here fixing the fee of the law firm of Pence & O’Neill at $2,500 for service as associate counsel in connection with a sensational divorce suit tried here two years ago. The judgment, which will be entered on the verdict of the jury, is SSOO less than the attorneys asked and $2,000 more than Miller offered to pay. Decision Reached Speedily The jurors decided the case on the first ballot. It was reported the jury intended to give the suing attorneys the full amount of their claim and failed because of a misunderstanding which led them to believe Miller had prev sly paid SSOO. Much of the testimony olved conversations Miller had with Luther F. Pence and Philip ,B. O'Neill, members of the law firm, prior to the signing of a contract which allowed them a “reasonable fee’’ for their services. Miller previously had made an effort to employ the lawyers for a SSOO fee. representing to them that he would settle the divorce suit outside of court, but the lawyers refused to accept. Freedom Held Worth Price The divorce case was tried before Judge Cleon W. Mount, Tipton, who found for Miller’s wife, now Mrs. Ina Eberhardt, on cross-com-plaint, and awarded her $170,000 alimony, in addition to the property she had received from her husband during their thirty-three years of married life. “The freedom Miller asks should be worth a quarter of a millon dollars.’’ Judge Mount said, when he entered judgment. $12,000 Toss IN FIRE Five Horses Die When Bara Burns at Montgomery County Farm. Bu United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., May 2. —A large brick barn on the grounds of the Montgomery county infirmary was destroyed by fire with a loss of $12,000 Friday night. Several animals died in the fire, including five horses which refused to be led from their burning stalls. Several tons of hay and 300 pounds of wool burned, together with a quantity of grain used for feed. The loss was partly covered by insurance. Former Coroner Dies R'l "rimes (Special ATLANTA, Ind., May 2. Dr. Charles C. Ray, 60, is dead at his home here after a brief illness. He will be buried at his former home in Zionsville. He leaves his widow and two sons. Dr. E. C. Ray, here, and Dr. C. C. Ray Jr., Fairland. He was a practicing physician in Arcadia thirty-four years and served as coroner of Hamilton county for twelve years.

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S9O for Ride GARY, Ind., May 2.—Street car rides ordinarily cost 8 cents here, but Clarence Fredericks, East Chicago, paid S9O for his. Fredericks told police he wasn't working during the afternoon and decided upon a street car ride for diversion. He rode this way and that, hither and yon, taking in the sights, riding most of the time beside a Negro. At last he tired of the ride, disembarked, and began his homeward walk. When nearly home he stuck his hand into a pocket and found nothing. His pocketbook contained S9O.

FAIR WEATHER DUE Slight Drop in Mercury Is Week-End Forecast. Fair weather, with temperatures slightly below those of Thursday and today, was forecast for the week-end by the United States weather bureau here this morning. April’s weather, according to statistics made public by the weather bureau today, brought a few more showers than usual, with precipitation .43 inches above average. Temperatures maintained a daily average of 3 degrees above normal, with the greatest temperature change in twenty-four hours recorded April 10, when the mercury ascended from 48 to 84 degrees. CRIMINOLOGIST UKELY TO STAY ON GARY JOB Mayor Opposes Council in Effort to Remove Police Chief. Bu United Press GARY, Ind., May 2.—A victory for Mayor R. O. Johnson, Gary, in his fight with the city council over appointment of Albert. S. J. Woods, Berkeley (Cal.) criminologist, as inspector of the Gary police department, appears probable. “If the mayor insists that I stay and aids in my plans to reorganize the police force, I suppose I ought to do as he wishes,” Wood said. “However, I wouldn’t care for the mayor to lose anything by employing me over the protests of the council.” When some of the council members indicated they were hostile to the plan, Mayor Johnson said he was prepared to contribute from his own pocket $1,200 toward the inspector's proposed $4,200 yearly salary. Mayor Johnson said he would insist that Woods remain. Corps to Enter Contest pi/ Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., May 2. George Hockett post of the American Legion, will enter its drum and bugle corps in the Eighth district Legion convention to be held at Bluffton Sunday. The local delegation, to occupy forty automobiles, will leave here at 10 a. m. for Bluffton. Paul V. McNutt, former national commander of the legion, will be the principal speaker.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1930

HOOVER MAPS PROGRAM TO HALTSLDMPS Commission Will Be Named to Study Cause, Cure of Depressions. FORECASTS PROSPERITY Optimism Is Expressed by President in Address Before Chamber. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 2.—President Hoover plans to appoint a commission to study causes and cures of economic depressions like the one precipitated by the stock market crash last fall, which, incidentally, he believes is near its end. He revealed his plan Thursday night before the closing session of the United State Chamber of Commerce here. Only a few hours before the President’s appearance, the Chamber adopted a resolution opposing the administration’s plan of helping farmers through governmentfinanced co-operative marketing organizations. Mr. Hoover, however, did not take cognizance of the chamber’s action in his speech. Worst Is Passed Mr Hoover told the 1,600 business representatives attending the banquet in his honor. “I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we rapidly shall recover. “There is one certainty in the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States—that is, prosperity.” Loud applause greeted Mr. Hoover when he arose to speak. This was renewed when he gave assurance that the business depression was near its end. During the remainder of the President’s talk his hearers listened attentatively, but silently. While noting a general recovery of business, Mr. Hoover said there was “one area of credit which is organized most inadequately, and which almost ceased to function under present stress. Backs Home Capital “This,” he said, “is the provision of a steady flow of capital to the home builder. From a social point of view this is one of the most vital segments of credit and should be placed in such a definitely mobilized and organized form as would assure its continued and stable flow. “The ownership of homes, the improvement of residential conditions to our people, is the first anchor in social stability and social progress. “Here is the greatest field for expanded organization of capital, and at the same time stimulation to increased standards of living and social service that lies open to our great loan institutions. “The whole range of our experiences from this boom and slump should be placed under accurate examination with a view to broad determination of what can be done to achieve greater stability for the future, both in prevention and remedy,” Mr. Hoover said in explaining his new plans. “If such an exhaustive examination meets with general approval,” he added, “I shall, when the situation clears a little, move to organize a body—representative of business, economics, labor and agriculture—to undertake it.” The President reviewed the progress made by the administration in seeking to promote business activity particularly construction to overcome the effects of the stock market slump. Declaring “the acceleration of construction programs has been beyond our hopes,” Hoover named utilities, railroads and large manufacturing concerns as contributors to the general program of business advancement. ii heldTi red drive Arrests Halt May Day Plans at Gary and East Chicago. GARY, Ind., May 2.—Communist parades in Gary and East Chicago as a part of May day Thursday were halted without violence when police made eleven arrests. Officers rigidly enforced an order against street parades and meetings. Although several hundred persons witnessed the arrests, there were no demonstrations.

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KOKOMO BANK TO BEOPENED New Institution Will Replace One Closed Jan. 29. Bu United Press KOKOMO, Ind., May 2.—The Farmers Trust and Savings bank of Kokomo, closed by the state banking department Jan. 29, has been reorganized i.nd will reopen soon, it is announced. It was also announced that all depositors and creditors will be paid in full by the new organization. The new bank will have a capital stock of SIOO,OOO and a surplus of $50,000. B. D. Mitchell, president of a bank at Windfall, will head the new organization. Other officers include John F. Fredrick,, president of the board cf directors of the Continental Steel Company, Kokomo, who will serve as president of the bank’s directors, and Ernest B. Seward, vice-presi-dent. It was said the new organization probably will be named the Union Bank and Trust Company. nineTquteo byfire Flames Damage South Side Drug Store. Fire starting in the basement of the O. W. Brown drug store at 1502 Shelby street early today caused damage estimated by firemen at $1,500 and routed nine persons from their homes. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Shrowe, residing in the rear of the drug store at 1063% Cottage avenue, with their four children, Mrs. K. E. McCloskey, her son, C. J. McCloskey, and Mrs. Anna Shaw, living above the drug store, were forced from their beds by the blaze, which was discovered by J. D. Cunningham, grocer across the street. LOOT RESTAURANT SAFE Detectives to Quiz Employes of North Illinois St. Case. Detectives today said they would question employes of a restaurant operated by Henry McCoy at 238 North Illinois street, in which a safe combination was solved and S2OB stolen Thursday night. Wayne McCleary, 418 East Fifteenth street, one of the employes, found the safe open when he unlocked the restaurant doors this morning, he told police.

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$50,000 FIRE BEINGPROBED Oil Believed Used in Burning Lumber Yard. p.U Times Special GJiRY, Ind., May 2.—Operatives of the state fire marshal’s office are making an investigation of a $50,000 fire which swept a branch yard of the Northwestern Lumber Company. Firemen reported finding evidence that oil had been scattered about the place. Although firemen were at the scene a few minutes after an alarm was turned in, all sections of the lumber yard were burning, a condition they declare was unusual as there was little wind to spread the flames. Two hours were required to bring the fire under control. TIE ON RAIL CURB Senate Group Deadlocked on Control Bill. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 2. The senate interstate commerce committee today voted a tie, 6 to 6, on the Couzens bill proposing to suspend railroad consolidations. Chairman Couzens, author of the measure, was instructed by the committee to poll four absent senators, to determine how the bill should be reported to the senate. The measure would hold up the consolidations which affect public service until March 4, 1931, on the supposition that Congress meantime will enact legislation to control holding companies. FIVE IN AUTO INJURED Indianapolis Women Hurt When Car Overturns North of Columbus. rui Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. May 2.—Mrs. Roy Styers, Miss Marie Johnston, Miss Gertrude Bartlett, Mrs. Pearl Moore and Mrs. A. H. Bossmier, all of Indianapolis, were cut and bruised when an automobile in which they were riding turned over on U. S. Road 31 two miles north of here. The driver of the car pulled it aiound a gravel truck and faced another car. In turning the car too quickly, it skidded and turned end for end three times and finally settled on its side. The occupants were brought to the office of a physician here, where their injuries were dressed and later were taken to their homes. The car was demolished.

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Hollywood, cal., May 2. Mast motion picture actresses are of the opinion that as far as pictures are concerned the bob is about on its last leg. Helen Ludlam reports in the current issue of Screenland. The consensus seems to be, she finds, “long for work, but short for play.” Many actresses are trying to compromise by affecting a. longish bob, which can be made to look either long or short. Others must have their play. In the studio they wear wigs for parts demanding very long hair. The third and largest group, however, places work first. Among the long-tressed maidens are Gloria Swanson, Hedda Hopper, Fifi Dorsay, Delores Del Rio, Anita Page and June Collyer.

DOLL FESTIVAL WILLBE HELD Recreation Department to Sponsor Event May 17. The city recreation department will sponsor a doll festival in city community houses, May 17, Miss Julia Landers, assistant recreation director, announced today. Programs will begin at 2 p. m. in Garfield, Brookside, Municipal Gardens, Rhodius park, Brightwood, Greer street and J. T. V. Hill Negro center. The largest collection of dolls ever assembled in Indianapolis probably will be brought together under the department’s auspices. Dolls will be made of corn cobs, peanuts, clothes pins, toothpicks, corks and other articles. Prizes will be offered for the best doll in a national costume, the most original and the best home made doll. Winners from the community house festivals will meet at Sculpture court, John Herron Art institute, May 24, where prizes will also be awarded.

TEN AT DE PAUW GET HONOR MEMBERSHIPS Three Faculty Members and Seven Students Accepted by Fraternity. ri; Time* Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., May 2. Professor Robert E. Williams, director of the De Pauw university chapter of the National Collegiate Players, has been advised that seven students and three members of the faculty in the speech department, have been accepted by th national council for membership. The students chosen are Richard Crowder, Rochester; Helen Dickinson, Gary; Mary Rhue, Marion; Robert Small, South Bend; Louise Freeland, Shelbyville; Dwight Neal, Whitestown, and Franklin Cole, Columbia City. Faculty members are Miss Lucile Calvert, Miss Clarora Bell and Harold T. Ross. Membership is based upon accomplishments in dramatics for which points are given. The De Pauw chapter was established in 1924. TRIBUTE BY COMMUNITY All-Day Program at Boston Sunday on Aged Resident’s Birthday. Bu Time* Special BOSTON, Ind., May 2.—Celebration of the eighty-fourth birthday of Mrs. Mary D. Peterson here Sunday will be in the form of a community home-coming. Following Sunday school and church services, dinner will be served. A service in the church will follow. Since childhood, Mrs. Peterson has been a leader in the Christian church here and is one of its thirteen surviving charter members. She has been a teacher of a Sunday school class thijty-nine years. Accused Man Divorced Bu United Pres* ANDERSON, Ind., May 2.—Henry Shuman, former president and purchasing agent of the Madison County Farm Bureau, fretted behind the bars of the county jail while a divorce suit filed by Mrs. Therza Shuman, was being tried in superior court. Judge Lawrence V. Mays granted the divorce on the grounds of cruelty and approved a property agreement. Shuman is awaiting trial on a charge of having, embezzled 110,000 of the funds on the farm organization. }

WAR CLOUDS PILE HIGH ON ASIANHORIZON Russia Deems Clash With European Powers as Inevitable. INDIA MAY BE COCKPIT French and Italian Naval Dispute Presents New Menace. BY WILLIAM THILIP SIMMS Srripps-Howard Forrirn Editor WASHINGTON, May 2.—To the tune of ominous rumblings in the direction of Europe, and while angry flashes of lightning zig-zag across the storm clouds overhanging Asia, President Hoover Thursday night submitted the London naval treaty to the United States senate and called for ratification. Simultaneously, the dispute between Italy and France over parity has taken a menacing turn. England soon may face the necessity of exercising her option under the new treaty authorizing her to build more ships than the London agreement calls for, thereby forcing the United States to follow suit or forego parity. Further complicating the situation, Russia is preparing foi what she regards as inevitable war, with one eye on England, while India, already in full revolt, has begun what observers declare will be a long, bloody and decisive struggle for freedom.

Mussolini Answers France Dictator Mussolini has lost no time answering France's refusal to accept Italian parity. He just has announced anew building program calling for the immediate laying down of twenty-nine warships, including one 10,000-ton cruiser, two 5,100-ton scout cruisers, four 1,240ton destroyers and submarines. Coming at this time this carries the ring of challenge and if France accepts it as such, she will not be long in taking it up. For to those who were in touch with the French at London and Paris during the naval conference, it instantly was obvious that they are in deadly earnest when they insist upon a 240,00-ton lead on the Italians. Cost what it may, France at least will try to maintain it. Thus Is threatened a naval race between the two Latin neighbors which may have a disastrous ending. At the very least, such a race would knock the London treaty into a cocked hat, so far as tonnage limitation figures among America, Britain and Japan are concerned. Forced to Build By forcing Britain to build, America and Japan necessarily would have to do likewise, else accept positions vastly inferior to what they demanded, and obtained, at the conference. Then Britain has India to consider and, along with India, Russia. Russia is known to be readying up her forces for war as fast as ever .she can. She is convinced that a coalition is in preparation against her, of which Poland likely will be the spearhead, with Britain somewhere in the van. She charges her enemies with inspiring the religious crusade against her as a final, or semi-final move to crush her. In this fanatical frame of mind, will Russia wait for the attack which she thoroughly believes is certain to come? Or will she seek the advantage by striking first? The military history of Europe makes this question perfectly logical and pertinent. Certainly the British are thinking of it, even now% as they w'orry over India. Opening for Russia The closing of Khyber pass, between India and Afghanistan, can be explained in hardly any other way. Khyber pass—some fifteen or twenty miles from Peshawar, where some of the worst outbreaks in the Indian revolt have occurred and the scene of a serious mutiny of native troops—is Russia’s gateway to India. And while happenings in India are in no wise of a Communist nature, being essentially a nationalist drive for independence, Russia might take advantage of the situation to settle a score with one of the strongest members of the feared coalition.

SWIMMING CAMPAIGN WILL START MAY 12 Annual Instruction Drive Will Be Sponsored by Y. M. C. A. . Annual Learn to Swim campaign sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. to teach boys to swim will begin May 12. central Y officers said today. Classes will begin daily at 3:2® p. m., and groups will be handled each twenty minutes until 9 p. m, The swim campaign has an annual enrollment of between eight hundred and a thousand youths. No previous registration is required, and the campaign is conducted without cost to the boys. GAMBLING CASE FAILS PM Time* fivcinl MUNCIE, Ind., May 2.—Four men were seated in an alleged gaming house when a police squad raided it. They were listening to a radio but police arrested them on charges of visiting a gambling house They were acquitted by Special Judge Ward Marshall, who said ho failed to connect listening to a radio program with gambling. Police were instructed to return dice, tables, several decks of cards and even the cuspidors which they had confiscated. Loss of One in Population Bh t nited Presi FAIRMOUNT, Ind., May 3—This town’s population isn't so big, but it’s steady. The latest census shows a loss of one in population, the 1030 count being 2,054 and that of 1929. 2,055. i