Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1930 — Page 15
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UTILITIES WILL BUILD CENTERS AND NEW UNE Northern Indiana Scene of Electric Transmission Expansion Program. FURNITURE TRADE DULL Depleted Stocks Basis of Some Hope Among Manufacturers. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Timea Construction work was outstanding in a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. Two large electric distribution centers and a 132,000-volt steel tower superpower transmission line will be constructed in northern Indiana by ■the Northern Indiana Public Service Company and the Interstate Public Service Company, subsidiaries of Midland United Company. Work is to begin at once. Plymouth and Monticello will get the distribution centers. The power line will be eighty-two miles long, extending from New Carlisle to Monticello, through Plymouth. On completion of the work all of Midland's subsidiary electric properties in northern Indiana will be connected with the great power facilities of the Chicago district. $150,000 Theater Planned Negotiations are in progress at Michigan City for erection of a $150,000 theater, Nathaniel Bernstein, Gary announces. The H. A. Arbaugh Construction Company, Portland, holds a contract to build an addition to the Randolph county hospital at Winchester at a cost of $14,800. The Foster Lumber and Coal Company, Valparaiso, has been awarded a contract for anew industrial exposition building on the Porter county fairground at a cost of $8,700. In the furniture industry marking time describes the situation Shelbyville manufacturers see a ray of hope in depletion of stocks. There is little activity in Columbus furniture factories. It is believed that the mid-summer show which will open July 7 for three weeks, may serve to give indications of what the situation may be in the coming year. Hope of Mining Revival
Purchase by the Sweringen interests of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, which includes a line between Terre Haute and Evansville through the Indiana mining section, has caused hope in some quarters that coal production may be aided, as there is a belief that the deal was made so the Van Sweringen roads would have a line along which coal could be produced Afor their own use. Net income of the Perfect Circle Company, with headquarters at Hagerstown, for the firot three months of this year was more than 25 per cent under that for the same period in 1929. The figures are $162,123 and $205,232. However, company officials report that the company’s Hagerstown plant is now operating with a night and day force, as is the one at Tipton and the foundry at Newcastle. The increased operation is declared due to replacement orders from jobbers. $30,000 Order Boosted Arthur Driver, technical engineer, who has an advisory position with the Dirigold Corporation. Kokomo, expresses a belief that it will be on a better basis soon. Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings, filed in Federal court at Chicago, have been dismissed and the corporation’s indebtedness reduced from $400,000 to $130,000. An order for $30,000 worth of tableware, with an option for $20,000 more, has been booked by the corporation. Conditions in other Indiana cities are shown in the following summary : Crawfordsville —An airplane kite toy is anew product of the Apex Stamping Company here. Mt. Vernon Operations were started this week by anew concern here, the Mt. Vernon Excelsior Company, and the first shipment has been made. Elkhart—The Primo Sales and Manufacturing Company has been formed here to produce and market an oil burner for use principally in heating stoves. Ft. Wayne—A deal has been closed whereby the Magnavox Company, Oakland, Cal., will acquire a part of the Steinite Manufacturing Company's radio plant here. The Steinite company is now in receivership, 'East Chicago—The Graver Tank and Manufacturing Corporation has i teen formed here following acquisition by the Phoenix Manufacturing Company of the Gravir Corporation, which in addition to a plant here, has units at Joliet, 111., Catasauqua. Pa., and Montreal, Canada. BALTZELL~CONViCTS SIX Found Guilty of Violating Liquor Law in Federal Court. Six persons were convicted of violating the liquor law in federal court today by Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The defendants and their sentences are: Frank Zehr, Indianapolis. sixty days; Willard Gruell and Eugene Abercrombie, both in Howard county, ninety days each: Andy Brunton, sixty days, and Earl Ruddle, four months. Lucius Wilson, Negro, will be sentenced May 24. SILVERWARE IS STOLEN City Home Ransacked While Owner of Dwelling Is in Florida. Burglars entered the home of Mrs. John W. Roberts, 3517 Central avenue, some time this week, Miss Virginia Roberts told police, and ranj sacked the dwelling. * Loot consisted mostly of silverhware valued at $355. Mrs. Roberts ndf * * ***** a -
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Eddie Foy Wins Beauty
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CITY TURF FANS HEAD TO DERBY ‘Specials’ to Carry Horse Lovers to Louisville. Train, bus, interurban and motor car will carry Indianapolis’ contingent to the Kentucky Derby at Louisville, Saturday. A vanguard of the derbyites left today for the Churchill Dow’ns course, fortified by umbrellas, raincoats and earmuffs as the United States weather bureau forecast “cloudy, occasional rains and colder” for the annual historic renew'al of the nation’s race for 3-year-olds over a mile and quarter racing strip. The Pennsylvania railroad and the Interstate Traction Company will operate derby “specials” to the Downs Saturday. Gallant Fox, the east’s hope of the bluegrass classic, and Tannery, the west’s entrant, draw' the major support from the city’s “hoss” fans. But the clan of longshot players is poring over past performances with a forecast of an upset.
OPTOMETRY CLINIC IS SLATED NEXT WEEK Chicago Specialist Believes Vision Affects Juvenile Delinquency. Dr. A. M. Skeffington of Chicago, director of the Graduate Foundation of Optometry, will conduct a clinic at the Lincoln next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday under auspices of the Indianapolis Optometrists Association. His work showing juvenile delinquency often is traceable directly to defective eyesight has aroused wide attention and he also has spent much time in study of effects of inefficient vision in traffic problems. During his visit here he will confer with juvenile court and traffic department officials. MERCHANT INJURED Frank R. Wolf Hurt Near Bedford in Crash. Frank R. Wolf, vice-president of H. P. Wasson & Cos., residing at 3703 Washington boulevard, who was injured near Bedford Thursday night when his car overturned, was reported improving today at the Dunn Memorial hospital, Bedford. Officials of the Wasson store went to Bedford today and will return with the injured official as soon as possible. En route to the Derby at Louisville, Ky., Wolf is said to have rounded a curve between Bedford and Mitchell at too high a rate of speed. The car overturned and he suffered a fractured collar bone, severe cuts above his right eye and was badly bruised. Passing motorists gave aid and called an ambulance.
These Twins Think Alike ana n n n Letha and Leton Adams Have Minds That Run in Same Channel, Arkansas College Instructors Say. Bn SKA Service JONESBORO, Ark., May 16— Not only do Letha and Leton Adams, Jonesboro twins, look alike and act alike, but they also think alike. The queer phenomenon that their minds run in the same
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examinations and would invariably turn in the same answers. Instructors are convinced thst the girls just naturally think alike and are taking the matter up with the civil service commission.
Best Roads to Derby
Although “all roads lead to Louisville” for Derby day, Saturday, t - ■> routes were offered today by the touring department of the Kuosier Motor Club. The first is: South on Madison avenue on Road 31 through Seymour to south of Sellersburg, follow left branch or Road 31E via municipal bridge at Jeffersonville into Louisville. Vehicles entering by the way of municipal bridge between the hours of 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. will proceed west on Main to Sixth, south on Sixth to Hill, west on Hill to Seventh and then south on Seventh to Churchill Downs. Another routing lies through Bloomington and Bedford: South on Meridian street to the 1900 block, bear right on Road 37 through Bloomington to Paoli; then left on U. S. Road 150 through New Albany to Louisville. Vehicles crossing the K. & I. bridge at New Albany between 9 a. m. and 8 p. m. will use Western parkway and Algonquin parkway to Taylor boulevard, to Central avenue.
WORK ON FARMS 10 DAYS AHEAC Favorable Weather Is Aid to Early Planting. . Members of the Indiana farm bureau from various sections of the state report the spring planting season as approximately ten days ahead of normal. Favorable weather in March and April made it possible for plowing to be done much earlier than usual and warm weather of the past few weeks has brought about early corn planting. It is also reported that seed beds are usually good this season and warm rains coming at frequent intervals have provided the proper moisture. Seed corn testing has prevailed throughout most sections and it is predicted that stands will be very satisfactory. It is estimated the corn acreage of the state will probably be above normal because of favorable weather conditions which made early work possible. HARRISON IS APPOINTED Leslie Names Columbia City Man on Soldiers’ Home Board. Joseph R. Harrison of Columbia City, a Democrat, today was appointed to the governing board of the Soldiers’ home at Lafayette by Governor Harry G. Leslie, succeeding A. D. Zuber of Ft. Wayne, whose term expired May 11. The appointment is for four years. A captain in the Spanish-Amer-ican war, Harrison has been connected with the Indiana national guard for more than twenty years and recently was retired as a colonel.
channel that as one thinks the other thinks—is vouched for by instructors at Arkansas State -ollege where they are endled. It happened like this: The girls took civil service xaminations for government jobs. Back came a reply from Washington stating, “there is obvious evidence of copying in the papers,” and therefore the ~ ins would be barred. v Indignant, the girls prosted. College instructors, ailed in, testified that the .vins’ minds run in the ame channel—that they think alike. The teachers said the twins had been separated and watched in
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NAVY CHIEFS CLASH OVER SEA JREATY Testimony of Officers in Conflict With Report of General Board. JONES KEEP UP FIGHT Senator Reed’s Evidence Makes Impression on Committee. Bu United Presn WASHINGTON, May 16.—Controversy over the navy general board’s opinion of the London naval pact developed today before the senate foreign relations committee, when Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), a conference delegate, produced a secret report of the board conflicting with testimony of naval officers who oppose treaty. After Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol had testified the general board was opposed to the division into 6 and 8-inch gun types and had favored only 8-inch gun cruisers, Reed produced a secret report of the board dated Sept. 11. In this report, which Reed said, the board said twenty-one 8-inch gun cruisers of 10,000 tons, the ten-6-inch cruisers of 7,500 tons of the Omaha class, and five additional 6-inch gun cruisers aggregating 315,500 tons would be acceptable as cruiser parity with Great Britain. Jones Stands Pat Reed pointed out that the board had asked 315,000 tons, while the treaty gave the United States 323,000 tons, although the twenty-one ten thousand-ton cruisers were reduced to eighteen. Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, who appeared today before the senate naval affairs committee to reiterate his opposition to the treaty, was called before the foreign relations committee to discuss this report, but contended that W'hile Tie had approved it, it was a reversal of this country’s previous policy. Reed’s proof that the general board had accepted the six-inch gun division apparently impressed the committee. Bristol devoted a large part of his testimony today to Japan, declaring American interests required i maintenance of the 60-100 ration with Japan. The treaty gives Japan a 70-100 ratio. Would Protect Islands The United States w'ould be i forced to carry the war to Japan, in ! case of hostilities with that country, i he said, and in this case, the United States would be handicapped by the ; lack of large cruisers. He admitted I this country would be safe from a ■ Japanese attack, but said we would lose the war. Bristol also emphasized the necessity of protecting the Philippines, pointing out that the islands, if freed, would expect the United States to protect them.
PAGEANT IS ARRANGED City Turners to Give Exhibition at Athenaeum Tonight. A pageant and exhibition will be presented by the Indianapolis Turners at the Athenaeum tonight. The sophomore class of Normal college A. G. U. will present the pageant depicting the creation of man and Pandora with her box of troubles. Junior boys will present an apparatus number and Indian club drill. Normal college girls will appear in a physical educaion number and the men’s class will present a spectacular drill and a high horizontal bar number. The Shortridge high school orchestra will furnish music. Dancing will complete the program. PARKS RITES SUNDAY Funeral for Accountant Jo Be Held at Mortuary. Funeral services for Clarence E. Parks, 50, who died at his home, 5353 College avenue, Thursday, will be held at the Johnson & Montgomery undertaking establishment at 11 a. m. Sunday. Burial will be at Richmond, Ind. The Masonic order, of which he was a member, will have charge of services at the Earlham cemetery chapel at Richmond. Parks was a member of the firm of Carson & Parks, public accountants. He was born near Richmond and lived there until moving to Indianapolis nine years ago. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Bessie Trueblood Parks; two sons, Evan and Robert, who live at home; four brothers, Charles of St. Louis, Roy of Miami, Fla.; William and Ernest of Portland, Ind; two sisters, Mrs. Raymond Briggs and Mrs. George Simmons of Washington, D. C„ and father ana mother, Mr. and Mrs. Leonidas Parks of Richmond. FORM CLUB PLANS Reorganization of Hoosier A. C. in Offing. r ns for reorganization of the Hoosier Athletic Club were under way today following sale at auction of the club building, 902 North Meridian street, Thursday. Gecrge J. Marott bid in the structure at SIIO,OOO, subject to court approval. The club is in receivership. Howard Muller, official of the athletic club, said the reorganization will be completed within ninety days, and the building will be leased from Marott.
Outside Loops to Be Feature of Aerial Circus at Mars Hill
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When Dale (Red) Robinson, by plane, in lower right photo, flew from Memphis, this week, to take part in a Curtiss-Wright Exhibition Company air circus at Stout field, Mars Hill, Saturday and Sunday, he added another record to the one he now holds for sustained flight. In the Travel Air Mystery “S” plane, pictured at the top, he covered the 430 miles in 2 hours 12 minutes. Six of the pilots in the exhibition team are shown in the above layout: Upper*row, left to right, C I. McElroy, George Aldridge and W. W. Osborne. Lower row, left to right, Leßoy McGrady, Lee Allen and Jackson.
U. S. WAR MOTHERS ARRIVE IN FRANCE
First Gold Star Contingent* Is Accorded Tumultuous Landing Welcome. Bn United Press CHERBOURG, France, May 16. The S. S. America steamed into Cherbourg roads under a bright sun today, bringing the first contingent of Gold Star mothers to visit the graves of their soldier sons in France. French officials went out to meet the pilgrirrage. The wharves and welcoming boats were decorated in honor of the women and their journey. There were few dry eyes as the mothers and wives of men who died on French battlefields looked on the sunny harbor where many American troops landed a dozen years ago. France gave them a sympathetic welcome and reassured them the nation has not forgotten the sacrifice of America. Officers conducted them on the first stages of the trip, which was laid through the bright Normandy countryside where fruit trees and meadows indicated how‘far France has moved from the war. The visitors will be shown over Paris for three days and Mrs. Sarah Thompson of New York will place a wreath brought from America on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc De Triomphe. Later sight seeing trips will be made to Versailles where the visitors may see the table where the World war treaty was signed. There also will be ample time for shopping tours in Paris with trained guides to aid the visitors. Next Monday the Pilgrims will divide and go by Pullman autobusses to the battlefields.
DEATH IS PROBED Washington Man Held for Investigation of Case. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Ind., May 16. The Daviess county grand jury today was expected to investigate the death Thursday night of Charles Connaughton, 68, Montgomery town marshal, after he had fallen from the running board of an auto in an attempt to arrest the driver. Cecil Gilliatt, 28, "Washington, was held in jail today. Gilliatt, allegedly drunk, is said to have struck Connaunghton, knocking him to the pavement. No charges have been placed against Gilliatt. MISS FLANDERS NAMED Receives Position in Office of City Purchasing Agent. Miss Doilie Flanders, 2234 Ashland avenue, today was appointed a clerk in the office of City Purchasing Agent Albert Losche. She replaces Mrs. Ruth Sims, who. resigned. Frank Callahan, asphalt plant employe, was made a foreman of the brick repair gang, succeeding Patrick Noon, who was transferred to foreman of the asphalt repair crew by the works board. Noon succeeds Martin Gavin, who was discharged.
BANQUET TO BE GWEN Director of Butler Band Will Be Honored by Fraternity. J. B. Vandaworker, director of the Butler university band, will be honored at a banquet to be given
by the Butler chapter of {appa Kappa Psi, national band fraternity, at the Columbia Club Tuesday, May 20. Vandaworker, director of the Butler band for six years, recently was elected national vice-presi-dent of the fraternity, which is the only band honorary in the United States.
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Richard Trotter of North Salem, Ind., is chairman of the committee in charge.
RETAILERS WAR ON RETURN EVIL Shoe and Furniture Store Heads Join in Move. Two retailing groups today aligned themselves with the Indianapolis Merchants’ Association in a campaign against abuse of the privilege of returning merchandise. The Indianapolis Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association voted to refuse to accept shoes kept out of stores an unreasonable length of time, or merchandise that had been used. The Furniture Association of Indianapolis, comprising virtually all dealers in the city, adopted a similar resolution. Furniture often is purchased, kept a long time, and then returned, often in damaged condition, the dealers said. Not only do dealers suffer loss from such returns, but exchange of used goods often violates public health rules, says Dr. Herman C. Morgan, city health commissioner. The campaign to reduce merchandise returns was begun today by both shoe and furniture retailers, who posted cards bearing notices to that effect.
Walks Five Miles to Plead Speeding Guilt VANSTON, 111., May 16—Lionel E. Busch, 83, walked five miles Jlv into the Evanston police court today and pleaded guilty to a charge of speeding. Busch, retired president of an electrotype company, admitted he was going forty miles an hour on an Evanston street when arrested but said he was not "at fault,” even if he was guilty. "I’ve driven a car for thirty years and never had an accident,” he said. v Admonished by Judge Harry Porter for being an hour late, Busch replied that he lived in Wilmette and had walked in. "I wouldn’t even take a chance on driving through your city again," Busch replied. He was fined $lO and costs. Busch said his wife was with him when he was arrested but that the newspapers said she was 75 years old and that so angered her that she refused to accompany him into court. He didn’t reveal her real age.
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Thrilling Performances to Be Presented Here by Curtiss Stunters. The outside loop, the stunt it took aviators fifteen years to master, may be done in three ways, and crowds at Stout field, Mars Hill, Saturday and Sunday afternoon will witness a demonstration of each of them by Dale (Red) Jackson, holder of the world’s record for sustained flight. Jackson is the star flier of the Curtiss-Wright Exhibition Company’s group of ten airmen presenting an aerial pageant this weekend under auspices of the local Cur-tiss-Wright branch, of which H. Weir Cook is vice-president and general manager. Starts at 2 O’clock The pregram will start at 2 each afternoon. The program announced today is; Aerial parade over city, with ships in formation. Opening salute. Three times over field, with dive and show roll at the top. Inverted flying, J. Le Roy McGrady. Maneuvers and stunts in trimotored Ford monoplane, Leo Allen, pilot. Challenge speed race, twenty-five miles, three Travel Air Speedwings, Jackson, McGrady and Allen. Glider demonstration, concludin ' with a parachute drop, the second ,ever made, Lyman Voelpel, pilot; Jimmy Van Cise,„ jumper. Miss Frances Harrell’s death spin. Formation stunts, Jackson, McGrady and Allen. Race on Program Pony express race. Five times around the field, change pilots at end of each lap. Miss Harrell, Jackson, McGrady, Allen, C. L. McElroy and Swanee Taylor. Glider loop, the first time in Indiana, by Lyman Volepel. Mystery plane flight. Jackson in plane that broke records for commercial ships, swooping over field at 303 miles an hour. He then will perform his outside and five-mile loops. Opposite fly’ng. Jackson and McGrady. Multiple parachute jump. Six to ten men jumping from the Ford monoplane. GAS SUIT NEAR END Final Arguments Are Set for Saturday. Final arguments in the federal court cases in which the city’s claim to ownership of the Citizens Gas Company under the 1905 franchise is attacked, will be heard by Judge Robert C. Baltzell Saturday. The suits are filed by Newton Todd and John J. Cotter. When the evidence was concluded May 5, attorneys said there would be no arguments, but counsel for Cotter requested the privilege. Ruling in February on the Todd motion to strike out, Baltzell sustained contentions of the city and company for the ownership and since has indicated he has not changed his views.
URGE RELEASE OF GANDHI IN INDIAREVOLT Liberal Group, Journalists Back Movement to Free Leader. NONVIOLENCE IS CITED Trend to Abandonment of Passive Resistance More Pronounced. This is one of a series of articles on India by Webb Miler, European news manager of the United Press, who went to India by airplane from London to report conditions which have preceded and accompanied the Indian independence movement. BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent (World Copyright. 1930. by United Press) BOMBAY, India, May 16.—A movement for the release of Mahatma Gandhi has been initiated by two organizations representing a considerable section of opinion. The council of the National Liberal Federation, representing moderate opinion, adopted, among other measures at its meeting in Bombay, Thursday, a resolution urging the government to release political prisoners who were not convicted of violence; urging the viceroy, Lord Irwin, to confer with leaders of Indian opinion; and deploring the civil disobedience campaign. Likewise, the All-India journalists conference, meeting here, adopted a resolution demanding the release of Gandhi, and urging the need of negotiating with him. The resolution also condemned the press restriction ordinance which recently was revivified. i 200 Papers Represented The journalists’ meeting was attended by 300 persons representing papers throughout India. With Gandhi in prison and his direct personal influence thus diminished, indications are growing that the independence seekers are departing from their attitude cf civil disobedience. Despite their insistence to the contrary, they are seeking every means to force the government to exercise violence, which inevitably means more bloodshed. Meantime, the government’s attitude rapidly is stiffening. Manifestations of this include the declaration of drastic martial law regulations at Sholapur, the disturbed mill town, 220 miles southeast of Bombay. The military took control several daj's ago, and announced punishments providing five years’ imprisonment for infractions of the martial law. Nationalist flags were seized at several places.
Ban Congress Bulletin The authorities banned the congress bulletin or any similar publication on the grounds that it was calculated to arouse hatred and contempt and to excite disaffection against the government, provoke riots and disturb public safety. The government’s increased pressure also was shown by the punishments to be meted out to persons giving any sort of assistance to or harboring persons engaged in recent disorders. These will be liable to five years’ imprisonment, and similar penalties are provided for those who display the nationalist flag or attend illegal meetings of over five persons, except religious meetings in houses of worship. Gandhi has always insisted on nonviolence as the basis of his campaign against British rule in India. A few years ago he stopped his disobedience campaign because of outbreaks and bloodshed. Whether the new leaders will be centent to follow the master’s creed remains to be seen. Arrests Total Hundreds It is difficult to obtain accurate compilations, but the arrests already total several hundred. The Satyagraha, or passive resistance movement, however, can not be said to have succeeded in attaining Gandhi’s object, namely, to compel the government to arrest eVery one who breaks the salt law so that civil authority would break down owing to great mass arrests. That Gandhi recognized something more drastic was needed to force the government’s hand was revealed in his plan to raid the salt depots, which his followers at present are undertaking. The arrest of the whole group of the first raiders delighted the Indian members of their congress. Now, however, while the authorities are declaring strong penalties for breaches of regulations, there is an indication they simply may disperse crowds of salt raiders, using force if necesssary without making arrests. operettaplanneF BY SCHOOL 3 PUPILS Stage Scenery, Costumes, Designed and Made by Students. Sixth and sevent’- grade pupils of i School 3, located at 23 North Rural street, will give an operetta, "The Royal Playmate,” at the school at 3:15 and 8 p. m. Thursday. Music will be under direction of Mrs. Katherine Youngman, assisted by Mrs. Marie Knigh* accompanist. Maurice Towler, a pupil, will play the role of Prince. Scenery for the stage has been prepared by the departmental art pupils under supervision of Miss Marian Hill, art teacher. Costumes also are being designed by pupils. Files Suit for SIOO,OOO Charles C. Fisher of Chicago today filed a suit in Federal court against the Banner Rock Product* Company and Charles C. Hall of Alexandria, Ind., seeking SIOO,OOO damages. Fisher charged defend* ants conspired to wreck his business.