Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1930 — Page 3

MAY 20,1930.

C. OF C. WARNS CITY TO GUARD RONDINGPOWER Civil School Units Close to Limit; Per Capita Debt Is Higher. Calling attention to proximity of local governmental units to the constitutional limit of bonding power, Chamber of Commerce officials today urged close study of the situation by Indianapolis and county officials. The situation was revealed in a report made by William H. Book, chamber civic affairs committee secretary, and public officials have announced they will follow the chamber’s recommendations in the matter. Activities Surveyed It was pointed out in the statement that the season of business recession and unemployment has placed emphasis on the “prosperity reserve” ihat should be on hand to continue with public improvements. The report includes a survey of bonding activities of the various units from Jan. 1, 1929, until May 15, 1930. Total bonded debt of all Indianapolis governmental units on Jan. 1, 1930, was $35,320,680, according to the report. It is estimated that the total indebtedness collectible from the city was $89.48 for each Indianapolis citizen as against $83.40 the previous year. Reserve Is Slight Maturities of all units, including a large amount of bonds called and canceled during the last year, amounted to $1,808,010, while new bond issues during the year totaled $4,433,400, a boost of $2,625,390. Both the civil and school cities have extremely narrow bonding margins, according to the report. The civil city’s remaining bonding margin is about 20 per cent of its total bonding power and bonds contemplated would reduce it to about 12 per cent. The school city’s remaining bonding margin is about 19 per cent of its bonding power and the proposed projects would reduce this to about 15 per cent, according to the statement. TWO ARE CLEARED OF MURDER SUSPICION Convict Repudiates Implication in City Cop’s Slaying. A convict’s desire to patronize prison guards and to collect a SI,OOO reward for naming the murderer of Paul Miller, Indianapolis policeman, led him to accuse .’wo men of the murder unjustly, it was revealed in criminal court today with the release of Thomas J. McKnight and Carl Champion, both of Tulsa, Okla., held here as the murder suspects. Murder charges against the two men were dismissed Monday on motion of Chief Deputy Prosecutor Paul Rhoadarmer, after it was learned the convict repudiated statements involving McKnight and Champion. He is Sanford Satterfield, convict in the Oklahoma state prison. PLACE BLAST BLAME Coroner’s Jury Attributes Armour Plant Tragedy to Carelessness. Pu United Press ST. JOSEPH. Mo., May 20. A comer’s jury has held that inefficiency and carelessness on the part of Armour & Cos. officials and employes caused the explosion in its smokehouse recently which cost the lives of nineteen persons. Receiver Suit Is Filed Bv United Pres* ST. LOUIS, May 20.—The Hamil-ton-Brown Shoe Company, one of the oldest and best known shoe manufacturing companies in the country, is defendant in a suit in United States district court in which the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company is suing for appointment of a receiver. The bank states it holds a claim in excess of $360,000 for ftrads loaned the shoe firm.

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Charges that Ralph E. Updike, former representative in congress from Marion county, has had “affairs with women” for two years, were made in a divorce petition filed against him by his wife, Mrs'. Charlotte Mae Updike, in Washington Monday, according to dispatches. Updike has been living in Washington since he was defeated in 1928 by Louis Ludlow, as Seventh district representative. He is holding a position as attorney with the income tax department in Washington. In Street Scene Mrs. Updike charged Updike and a woman with whom he has been carrying on a courtship, were involved in a street scene last Sunday, and Mrs. Updike averred she found the woman in her husband’s car. Mrs. Updike seeks a limited divorce and alimony. Allegations that Updike failed to support her and their four children also are contianed in the petition She said she left infant twins in Indianapolis with her parents and then took two older children, boys, 8 and 11, from Updike’s apartment when she found they were not being cared for properly. Did Not Inform Her She alleged she permitted the boys to remain with Updike while she sought employment. It also is charged that she remained in Indianapolis while her husband sought employment in Washington after his election defeat, and that he did not inform her that he had been employed. The girl, named co-respondent, is a former Indianapolis resident, ac’ording to the suit. Since Jan. 18, Mrs. Updike alleges, her husband has given her only S4O for support of herself and the children. She alleged she has been working at odd jobs in Washington. Updike was elected to congress in 1924 and served two terms. Mrs. Updike was active in his campaign and was in charge of her husband’s political headquarters here. When defeated, Updike resided at 2843 Washington boulevard. $1,050 in Stocks Stolen F. n Timex Special ANDERSON, Id., May 20.—Stocks valued at $1,050 were stolen from the home of Albert Eshelman.

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WILLIS SEEKS EXAMINER’S JOB Orr Strives to Locate Berth on Staff. Effort is being made by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, to find a berth on his field examiners staff for John W. (Whitey) Willis, so that Willis might be used as a criminal investigator for the department, it was learned today. Willis resigned as investigator for the Marion county prosecutor’s office to seek the Republican nomination for sheriff. He was defeated by Sheriff George Winkler. Formerly he had been an arson investigat%r in the state fire marshal’s office. Wlilis took the field examiners’ examination and “came close to passing,” Orr explained today. Among those who did pass the recent examination was Harvey See, lieutenant and long time employe of State Fire Marshal Alfred E. Hogston. He now is in Goshen doing “temporary work” for the department, Orr said, and he will be added to the regular staff. See’s last position with Hogston was as educational director of the fire marshal’s office. ADVERTISING IS LAUDED Modem Agencies Praised in Speech by Senator Allen of Kansas. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, May 20.—The London naval treaty and the prohibition problem might well have been turned over to a modern advertising agency, in the opinion of Senator Henry J. AJlen of Kansas. “There isn’t anything modern advertising can not do if it keeps reasonably busy,” Allen, himself a former advertising man, told the Advertising Federation of America Monday night.

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FLOOD THREATS STILL LOOMING IN SOUTHWEST Fifty Square Miles of South Arkansas Oil Fields Under Water. Bv Uni rd Pres * KANSAS CITY, May 20.—Threats of flood still lingered in the southwest today, though clearing skies brought promise of cessation of the downpour of rain which sent rivers and streams over their banks. Fifty square miles of the south Arkansas oil fields are under water. Nearly two thousand residents are homeless. Three Negro plantation communities in Phillips county, Arkansas, are burying their seventeen dead today, and caring for the scores injured by a twister. Six persons, three of them Negroes, were killed in storms and floods in Texas, bringing to twentyfive the total of deaths in the southwest during the three days of disturbances. Greatest damage lrom the floods was in the Smackover oil fields in Union county, where property losses were estimated at $1,000,000. The Red, Ouachita and Little Missouri rivers were swirling at the top of the levees in several places today, and river engineers said more rain would send them cascading over their banks. Eastern Arkansas rivers also were reported bankfull. Traffic was suspended today over the main highway between Little Rock and Memphis* streams in Oklahoma gradually are lowering. The end of colonization, it Is estimated, wil be reached in about 200 years.

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MERGER BAN IS FAVORED Senate Votes to Consider Couzens Resolution on Rail Combines. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, May 20.—The senate voted, 45 to 23, today to consider the Couzens resolution to suspend until March 4, 1931, all railroad mergers. PASS BRIDGE PLANS • Supreme Court in Approval of Evansville Span. Another step in the long process of making the Evansville bridge a reality was recorded today when At-torney-General James M. Ogden received notice that the United States supreme court has approved the contract as drawn between Indiana and Kentucky to finance the structure. Several weeks ago the high court approved the contract plan of construction and quashed all pending litigation. Under the contract Indiana and Kentucky will share equally the estimated $4,000,000 cost of the bridge.

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ARRANGE RITES FOR CARVICTIM Services to Be Wednesday for Police Officer. Funeral services will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at the Progressive Spiritualist church, St. Clair street and Park avenue, for Byron W. Payne, 39, city patrolman, driver of an automobile in which he and Mrs. Flossie Owens were injured fatally Sunday. Burial will be at Washington Park cemetery. Coroner C. H. Keever will not complete an investigation of the accident until two injured persons who were in the car at the time it turned over on the Pendleton pike are interviewed. Gilbert Robbins, 13, of 2911 East Washington street, was injured when struck by an automobile at Grace and Washington streets Monday night. The boy was riding a bicycle. Harold Wallis, 30, died at St. Vincent’s hospital Monday from injuries

suffered in a fall from a horse at state fairground Saturday. Wallis was riding a horse quartered with the King brothers troupe at the fairground, awaiting opening of the Junior League rodeo today. He had roomed in the 4200 block on Baltimore avenue. His home is believed to have been in Wyoming.

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