Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1930 — Page 17
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EIGHT INDIANA CITIES REPORT MOREBUILDING Gain Shown for April as Compared With Total in March. PERIOD USUALLY SLOW State Construction Status Ranks Favorable With That of Nation. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Although only two of fifteen Indiana cities covered in a business and industrial survey for the week ended today, show building gains during April this year over April, 1929. eight had larger volume in the month this year than in March. The two gaining over April last year are Marion and Terre Haute. Those with increases over March this year are Elkhart, Ft. Wayne, Hammond, Kokomo, Marion, Muncie. South Bend and Terre Haute. The situation in the state, viewed :n connection with that of the nation as a whole, is favorable. For the entire country the building gain in April over the March total was 12 per cent. This gain is considered significant in view of the fact that normally the building trend during March and April is downward. However, for April this year, the volume was 61 per cent less thin for the same month last year. New Hotel for Anderson Among major building operations in the state is the twelve-story Tower hotel, Anderson, for which a contract has been awarded. Work will be started as soon as a Muncie contractor can move equipment. The hotel will cost $400,000. A steel tipple, to cost SIOO,OOO, will be erected at Deep Vein coal mine, south of Princeton. The board of school trustees at Jeffersonville has filed notice of intention to issue $155,000 in bonds for additions and improvements of three schools. The Auburn city council has accepted plans for a $16,000 building to house the light, water and street commissioner's depr nents. Within the last lew days building projects have been started at Marion that will entail expenditure of $300,000. These include a warehouse for the United States Radio and Television Corporation; new garage and filling station for the Rhoads Auto Service Company, garage and warehouse for the Indiana General Service Company and adidtion to the Marion National Sanatorium. Factory Being Erected Good progress is .being made in erecting a $50,000 factory building for the Reliance Manufacturing Company at Washington. At East Chicago, the Empire Refining Company has obtained seventeen building permits for structures j which will cost a total of $850,000. The company is now employing 1,000 men. The following summary shows conditions in seevral Indiana cities: Bloomington—Several large building projects are providing some relief from unemployment here. Stone quarries are busy and many men idle for several months are being re-emploved in the industry. Columbus Unfilled orders of Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc., totaled $1,912,000 on May 1 as compared with $194,400 on the same date last year. Operations at the W. W. Mooney & Sons Corporation tannery are increasing and eighty men are now employed. A capacity force of 200 to 250 is expected within the next few months. Kokomo—The headquarters of the Globe-American Corporation have been moved here from Macomb, 111., following merger of the American Steel Products Company of that city with the Globe Stove and Range Company of Kokomo. The plant is operating at capacity. Peru—Officials of the Master Fireman Company, Inc., formed to manufacture a stoker invented by Arthur V. Sampsell of Peru, announce production will be started within two weeks. Jobbers are now producing parts of the machines and assembly work will be done here.
Paper Plant Grows Hartford City—Enlarging of th£ paper making unit of the Ft. Wayne Corrugated Paper Mill will be completed within a few days, increasing capacity to 125 tons daily. Wabash —The board mill of the United Paperboard Company, idle while repairs are being made, will resume operations about June 15. Wabash county farmers will begin harvesting the 1930 pea crop about mid-June, which will provide the Wabash Canning Company with one of the largest volumes of raw material in recent years. The acreage this season is 735. Blnffton The Morris 5 and 10-cent to $1 stores with headquarters here, and which owns fortythree stores in Indiana, Ohio Michigan and Illinois, has issued $250,000 in preferred stock, proceeds from which wilLbe used in an extensive expansion program. Evansville Servel Inc.. has received a $50,000 order from the United States government for 200 refrigerators to be installed in army camps in this country and abroad. Orleans—Late next week picking of the largest strawberry crop in Orange county’s history will be started. It is estimated the berries will bring $20,000 to growers. Motorist Injured B v Times Special GREENCASTLE. lnd.. May 23. Jasper Miller, Greencastle, was injured when an automobile he was driving collided with one driven by M. W. Gertach, Indianapolis, one mile east of here. Both cars were demolished.
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Beer Strike on Farm May Start *.Rush of ’3o’ Hit l. nitrd Prexx MORRIS, 111., May 23.—W. T. Hornsby, farmer, has restricted rigidly all prospecting rights on his farm He dug up a bottle of beer while making post holes a few hours before he issued his prospecting order. The beer, in excellent condition, was the product of a Morris brewery long before prohibition. Hornsby said indications were that more bottles of beer might be found. "So if there is any further digging to be done,” he added, "I’ll attend to it personally.”
FIND MAN’S BODY FLOATING IN CANAL
Quiz Curtis' Son
Accused by building contractors of accepting SIO,OOO in return for using his influence to obtain government contracts for them, Harry K. Curtis (above) of Chicago, son of Vice-President Charles Curtis, defended the acceptance of the fees. He said the money was payment for legal advice.
ORPHANS VISIT GIANT WHALE 100 See Ocean Monster, Get Ice Cream, Balloons. The three R’s of the schoolroom were mere incidents in the lives of 100 children in the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home today as they visited the exhibition of the sixty-eight-ton whole at Kentucky and Oliver avenues this afternoon. Opportunity for the children to see the giant mammal was given them by The Times and the Pacific Whaling Company, which is exhibiting the monster on a transcontinental tour. When school closed this afternoon the children boarded a special car supplied gratis by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for the ride to the glass inclosed car in which the whale is displayed. Whaling company officials greeted the boys and girls with ice cream and balloons. ORDER ORDINANCE ON CEMETERIES CONTROL Ryan to Draft Resolution Covering Construction, Burials. Russell J. Ryan, park board attorhas ben instructed to draft a reso ney, has been instructed to draft a resolution regulating cemeteries along boulevards as result of the dismissal of suits against the Glen Haven Memorial park along Kessler boulevard. Two separate resolutions will be presented next Thursday, one being designed to forbid burials within 500 feet of boulevards in existing cemeteries and another to prohibit future cemeteries from being established within 500 feet of boulevards, according to Jackiel W. Joseph, park board member. Aged Farmer Dies BELLE UNION, Ind., May 23. W. S. Meeks, 62, Putnam county farmer, died following a stroke of paralysis suffered seven months ago. He leaves a sister, Mrs. John Norwood, near here.
COMPULSORY R. O. T. C. IS OPPOSED BY I. U. VOTE
Rif Times Special BLOOMINGTON, lnd., May 23. With less than half the two thousand male undergraduates voting, ta referendum Thursday at Indiana university here disclosed that students would banish compulsory R. O T. C. training for freshmen and sophomores In the referendum, conducted by the board of aeons, student advisory committee, compulsory military training was rejected by a vote of 468 to 419. Fight to abolish the compulsory military courses at the university was begun lost winter by editors of the Indiana Daily Student, official
DISCOVERER OF WORLD’S RICHEST GOLD FIELD LIV
LONDON. May 23.—“ It’s all in the game!” In that laconic sentence was expressed the fatalistic philosophy of a man who once was rich beyond all the dreams of avarice and who now lives in complete and lonely poverty in a remote section of the Transvaal. Nearly half a century ago the name of Samuel Honeyball was famous throughout the world as one of the four mining prospectors who discovered the richest gold deposit in the world, the Rand gold mines, which have been valued at $1,000,000,000 and which have yielded five times that much to their lucky owners. Honeyball recently was found tiv-
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‘Poison Liquor’ Blamed by Coroner for Death of Unidentified Victim. After an autopsy, ‘‘poison liquor” was blamed by Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier today for the death of an unidentified man whose body was found floating in the canal early this morning. A large bump and cut on the man's left temple, which gave' rise to the theory of murder, w’ere inflicted while the body was in the water, Bakemeier held. The man, about 60 to 65 years old, was seen last sitting on the canal bank at 10 Thursday night. Workmen at the Capital Ice Company’s plant at Missouri and Walnut streets, saw the body in the canal early today and notified police. It is believed the man tumbled into the canal when taken fatally ill as result of bad alcohol. Pockets of the man’s clothing were empty and no marks were found on his clothing to serve for identification. Mrs. Ida Webb, 642 North Missouri street, her daughter, Miss Ruth Webb, and Mrs. Leona Jones of 640 North Missouri street, all Negroes, told police the man had been seated on ?he canal bank at 10 lasi night. The man was about five feet eight inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds, was smooth shaven and had a light complexion, with gray hair, wore dark blue serge trousers with a slight pin stripe and a dark blue serge coat without a stripe. He wore a white shirt with attached collar and high topped black shoes. The body was taken to the city morgue where an autopsy was to be performed.
700,000 TREES ARE PROVIDED BY STATE Henryville Nursery s4pments Set Record for Single Year. More than 700,000 young trees were shipped from the state conservation department tree nursery at Henryville this spring, the largest number ever sent out in a single year, Director Richard Lieber announced today. Had enough trees been available, orders for 1,250,000 could have been filled, State Forester Ralph Wilcox reported. Additional plantings have been made at the nursery and by 1931 there will be between three and four million seedlings available, Wilcox said. These trees are used primarily for reforestation of waste land, planting windbreaks on farms and around orchards and for reforestation of stripped-over coal lands in southwestern Indiana, it was said. M. E. SESSION ENDING Conference Close to Find Bishop Cannon in Good Graces. DALLAS, Tex., May 23. The twenty-first quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, marked by one of the most bitter controversies in the history of the denomination, was expected to complete its business and adjourn tonight. Bishop James Cannon Jr., berated and defended by factions which split the conference, stood once more in the good graces of the church today as the 700 delegates prepared to return to their homes. Aged Grocer Kills Self Bu United Pre/tx PORTLAND. Ind., May 23.—William Broderick, 77-year-old grocer, made good Thursday night on several threats to end his life. He died shortly after swallowing poison. He leaves his widow and two stepsons.
campus newspaper, who today reiterated their views. In the Student this morning also appeared resolutions adopted by the Bloomington American Legion post, favoring the training. President William Lowe Bryan of the university said the results of the vote would be presented to the university trustees at their next meeting. However, he was of the opinion that no action would be taken because of the small vote. For the first time in six years the Indiana R. O. T. C. unit this year was awarded excellent rating, and was cited for its efficiency by General D. E. Nolan, commanding the Fifth corps area.
ing in penury, shaggy, unkempt, aged, the wreck of a man who gained a world and lost it, the living hero of a stranger and more fantastic tale than novelists ever told. But he has no regrets, no resentments. no ill-feelings and but one explanation for the turn in his fortune: "It's all in the game.’’ a a a IT was nearly fifty years ago that Londoners were startled by the amazing news from Africa that a rich gold deposit, the richest yet, had been discovered by four men in the bleak ravines of the Transvaal. Stories of untold wealth began to be heard and before many
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GRAND JURY’S VOTE CHARGE QUIZJELAYED Await Naming of Special Prosecutor to Take Place of Stark. TWO MEN CONSIDERED Foreman May Be Ineligible Because of Service as Primary Official. The grand jury probe into alleged primary election frauds marked time today, as Criminal Judge James A. Collins and Prosecutor Judson L. Stark pondered the appointment of a special prosecutor to direct the investigation. Stark and Collins conferred at length today, supposedly over names of several candidates for the place, and indicated following the session that nothing definite will be done until Saturday. Enmity that existed between Collins and the prosecutor over control of the grand jury apparently has given way to friendship with the statement by Stark that he "welcomed assistance in conducting the probe if the people think I need it.” Stark’s removal as grand jury prosecutor was demanded by the grand jury this week under formal explanation of jurors that he “would be in an embarrassing position.” Threaten Fistic Clash The request was presented to Collins by Charles G. Fitch, grand jury foreman. It was a threat of fistic combat between Fitch and Stark that made necessary the presence of deputy sheriffs inside and outside the jury chambers, it is known. Reports current today that Claude M. Worley, former police chief, was named by Collins to conduct a quiet probe into fraud charges were denied by Worley. The latter has been seen in conference with Collins several times recently. Names of candidates brought forward as contenders for jury prosecutor include Arthur L. Gilliom and Fred C. Gause. Homer Elliott and Harvey Grabill, attorney, mentioned as possible appointees, are out of the running, according to reports. Regardless of who is selected, no pay for the place will be provided out of county coffers, county commissioners say. Registration Demanded While awaiting the appointment, grand jurors are confronted with the dilemma as to whether Fitch, their foreman, can remain seated to judge the correctness of the vote returned from a precinct where he was an inspector. Reports came from the jury chambers that one juror has demanded that Fitch resign, while three other jury members wonder if their investigation will not come to naught if Fitch is permitted to remain jury foreman under a cloud of illegality. Illness is the only pretext under which Fitch can resign without provoking discharge of the other jurors it is said. Seek Fraud Evidence Four jurors are said to claim firmly that Fitch legally can not investigate alleged illegal acts in the precinct where he served as inspector, in face of a petition filed recently in criminal court charging that fraud was committed in every precinct in the county. This action was instigated by Mrs. Claudia B. Ripley, 42 East Thirtysixth street, who was overruled in an attempt to have all election records impounded for scrutiny by the courts. Grand jury meanwhile petitioned for impounding of election records and is said to be prepared to start an active review of the papers for concrete evidence of fraud. WHITE HOUSE DENTES NEW YORKER’S OUSTER Displacement of G. O. P. Head Is Refuted in Official Statement. WASHINGTON, May 23.—Reports that Charles D. Hilles, Republican national committeeman, has been displaced in matters pertaining to New York appointments were denied in an official White House statement today. The statement came three days after Wililam J. Maier, New York state Republican chariman, had consulted with President Hoover regarding political affairs in his state. proper”wiringTdvised Fi e Marshal Blames $581,240 Loss on Electrical Defects. More than $581,240 property loss in Indiana last year was attributed to defective wiring by State Fire Marshal Alfred E. Hogston today in issuing a department bulletin urging property owners to get the best wiring possible.
months men from all corners of the world began to sift in to the Transvaal and to join in the hunt for that precious yellow dust which Hood in ,his poetry described as: “Gold, gold, gold. Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Heavy to get and light to hold.” And Honeyball was one of the heroes of the rush, rich and famous. And deservedly, for with his three companions Honeyball prospected in the wild ravines and babboon-infested plains, searching by day and searching by night under the yellow African moon which overhangs Northern Transvaal,
New Hotel Opened at Anderson
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Anderson’3 newest hotel, the Anderson, completed at a cost of more than $400,000, Is in operation. It is eight stories high, and has 150 rooms. The lobby of the hotel and business rooms occupy the ground floor.
DELAYS RULING ON EXHUMATION Coroner to Hear Two More Robinson Witnesses. Testimony of two witnesses was awaited today by Coroner C. H. Keever, he said, before he decides on a request to exhume the body of John C. Robinson, 30, Indianapolis musician, whom relatives believe was murdered. One of these witnesses is J. Russell Robinson, Los Angeles musician, brother of the dead man, who is expected to reveal several facts he has uncovered, and which he claims point toward murder. The other is Dr. R. N. Harger, Indiana university school of medicine toxicologist, who probably will testify that tests be made of Robinson’s clothing indicated the body had not been submerged in water. Robinson’s body was found in the edge of White river, north of McClure beach, May 7, two days after he was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicaoed. ONE OF BLACK CROWS AGAIN IS UNDER KNIFE George Moran, of Moran & Mack, Rests Comfortably After Operation. Bit United Press LOS ANGFLES, May 23.—Georgfj Moran of the famous black face comedy team, Moran & Mack, was reported by hospital authorities to be resting comfortably today after a serious major operation. The operation was the second within the past few months. It will be several weeks, physicians say, before the comedian will be able to resume his work in Hollywood.
Well, He Won Miesse ‘Kidded’ by Park Board, but Club Is to Get Roller#
TF Harry Miesse doesn’t get what he wants the first time he asks it of the park board, he just “tries again.’’ The persistent secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association several weeks ago requested the park board to loan its steam roller for rolling stone chips at the Woodstock Country Club drive. The roller was not forthcoming so Miesse returned Thursday and after whApering into the ear of a couple board members, publicly renewed his plea for the steam roller. He pointed out that the city owns the club property which is leased to the private organization. “We’ll pay for the labor and one day’s work won’t hurt that roller much. Besides, the city owns the property,” said Miesse, who usually appears befo public boards to object to public expenditures and carries appeals to the state tax board “for a check.” Take this resolution, Jackiel W. Joseph, park commissioner, said to Secretary Mary Griffin: “In view of the meritorious services performed by Mr. Miesse ” Laughter and Miesse’s protest to *cut out that stuff” drowned out the remainder of Joseph’s words. Miesse was promised use of the roller.
FOR months on end they braved everything human beings can brave—hunger, fever, loneliness, wild beasts, the torrid heat of the days and the intense, penetrating cold of the nights. All in the never-ending search for “Gold, gold, gold, gold.” And then they made the great discovery in the Witwatersrand district. Gold, conglomerate beds of it, were found, in a country which the prospectors could have bought for a song. And in spite of the amount of precious metal the Rand mines have give up since they were discovered nearly half a century ago, the amount still there, waiting to be dug out, still is measured in
$1,215,000 Suit Is Filed in War of Bus Routes Bii Timex Special CROWN POINT, Ind., May 23. Preliminaiy hearing in a $1,215,000 suit filed ir Lake circuit court here by Crown Bus Lines, Inc., against the Shore Line Motor Coach Company and other Samuel Insull interests, has been set for June 10, before Judge E. Miles Norton. It is believed that in point of damages sought, the suit sets a precedent ii. Lake county. The Crown company is the successor to the Midwest Motor Coach Company. The damage suit complaint recounts a bus war waged from 1926 to 1929, in which the principals were the Insull-owned Short Line Company and the Midwest firm. In addition to the Shore Line concern, defendants include Gary Railways, Inc.; Chicago. South Shore & South Bend Railway; Warren Bruner, J. C. Johnson and John Norman, agents and managers for the defendants. The complaint alleges the defendants “schemed and connived to monopolize all the business and thereby caused radical reduction in fares which demoralized the business of the Midwest Company.”
Child to Dance
Doris Faucet will give acrobatic dance numbers on the programs at Broad Ripple park the week beginning Memorial day, when the Jac Broderick School of Dancing will provide a week cf free dance entertainment. The park will formally open Memorial day, although some attractions will be open Sunday.
PILOT DIES AS AIRPLANE STRIKES TREE AT NIGHT
Bn United Prefix CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., May 23.—Harold L. Mayer, Lake Forest, 111., pilot of a plane flying to Valdosta, Ga„ was killed, and two passengers were injured slightly when the plane struck a tree in landing at the Waynetown emergency airport at 2 a. m. today. Mrs. Louise McClusker, Chicago, the most seriously injured, was taken to a hospital here with severe cuts and bruises. The other passenger, Dr. Frederick Harvey, also of Chicago said the pilot had been forced to land because of engine trouble,
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billions by mining experts. But Honeyball is living in a remote section of the country, depending for his livelihood upon a pension of $3.10 a week. nan HOW heflost his untold wealth is not known, and Honeyball will not tell. He prefers not to discuss the matter. And then men who were associated with him in the dim past either have forgotten him or have died since. One of them, Frederick Struben, now 80 years old, is living a retired life in Devonshire, England. When he was asked about Honeyball recently, he said: “I can not recall, except in a vague way, the name of the man.
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G. 0. P. HEADS TO TARE POSTS Mayor, Aids to Go Into Michigan City Offices. Ttr r!ierl Prefix MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. May 23. Mayor Harry B. Tuthill and his official family will take office in Michigan City Saturday noon, thus ending the long dispute over the last election, it has been agreed in a conference wth the Fred Miller forces. Thus Miller will live up to his end of the agreement whereby both sides were to abide by the decision of the supreme court, thus ending permanently all litigation. Earlier this week the supreme court upheld the Laporte circuit court’s decision that the Republicans had filed properly for nominations, and were entitled to the offices for which the voters gave them pluralities last fall. Miller who held office when the city manager form of government went into effect eight years ago, assumed that office immediately after the city manager statute was declared unconstitutional early last fall. Contest over Republican filings have left him and his Democratic fellow officers in the city positions up to this time. CHALLENGES BLAINE TO DRY LAW DEBATE Upshaw of Georgia Defender of Mcßride at Hearing. Dll United Prrsx WASHINGTON, May 23.—Former Representative William D. Upshaw, dry campaigner from Georgia, today challenged Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.) wet, to a prohibition debate. C pshaw was one of the leaders cf the applause fer Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, when the Anti-Saloon League superintendent was being questioned by Blaine at Tuesday’s senate lobby comrtiittee hearing. Upshaw stated in the letter he cons dered himself “a Hoover Democrat.” PAROLED FOR FUNERAL State Prisoner Released for Burial of Wife, Baby; Die at Birth. Guy West, 21, state reformatory prisoner, was given temporary parole this week to attend the funeral here of his wife and a baby he never had seen. Both died at the baby’s birth. West, who was convicted of an attempt to hold up George Sprouse, a night watchman, was given a parole to visit his wife several weeks ago.
striking the tree which was directly in the line of flight at the field, it was reported. He and Mrs. McClusker were en route to Valdosta as the rseult of an automobile accident there in which several persons, including the mother of Mrs. McClusker were injured seriously. Dr. Harvey resumed his trip early today in a plane of the Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, piloted by Charles E. Cox Jr., Indianapolis. Mayer was reported to have had relatives in Indianapolis.
Forty-six years is a long time. But to my recollection it is not correct to say he was one of the first four discoverers of the gold reef.” a a a HONEYBALL bears no ill-feel-ing for any one, and probably does not even care whether he is given credit for being among the first pioneers. Honeyball long had been thought dead. When he was found he recounted how with Struben and the other pioneers he beat the quartz in an old tin to extract gold—in the long, long ago, before modern mining machinery ever was heard of in Africa.
ARRANGE RITES FOR WAR DEAD MEMORIAL DAY Tribute at All Cemeteries and Veterans Parade to Mark Services. PLANES WILL BE USED Flowers Will Be Dropped From Air; Schedule Is Compiled. Rifle salutes, strewing of flowers from planes over graves, with memorial exercises at all cemeteries and a parade of war veterans will feature the annual Decoration day ceremonies this year in Indianapolis. Services for Memorial day proper will open at 9 a. m. at the Soldiers and Sailors monuiftent. The Newsboys' band will begin the ceremonies with a concert. Chimes from the First Christ church will call the assembly together. The Rev. George B. Henninger will give the invocation and James M. Ogden, attorney-general, will give the Memorial day address. Planes to Drop Flowers Planes from Schoen field will circle the monument throughout the exercises and drop flowers. -, At 10:30 a. m. patriotic organizations attending the monument rites will parade to Crown Hill cemetery. The order of march follows: Police escort and band; Charles A. Fay, grand marshal; first division. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil war, Grand Army of Republic: second division, firing squad. United Spanish war veterans, Veterans of Foreign wars; third division, American Legion, Disabled Veterans of the World war; fourth division, R. O. T. C. units of Shortridge, Manual Training, Arsenal Technical, Washington, Broad Ripple and Crispus Attucks high schools, commanded by Major Thomas Cathro, U. S. A.; fifth division, Boy Scouts, Git' Reserves, Campfire Girls, Girl ' couta and school students. Assemble on Merid’an The parade will assemble on Meridian street. G. A. R. veterans will be taken to the cemetery in autos. At Crown Hill, the parade will disband and ceremonies at the graves of the dead will include invocation by the Rev. John W. McFall; the placing of evergreens by Girl Scouts and strewing of flowers by Campfire Girls, flag salute, address by Henry M. Dowling, firing squad and taps by Boy Scout buglers. Programs at other city cemeteries will follow the general tenor of the exercises at Crown Hill. Shiloh and Floral park cemeteries will hold their services Saturday May 24. while Memorial park. Jewish. and Holy Cross cemeteries will honor the war dead Sunday, May 25.
Bridge Rile Sunday The Meridian street bridge exercises will be hftfd at 4 p. m. Sunday, i The services are primarily for sai- | lors, aviators and marines. Planes j will drop flowers throughout the ceremonies. | The schedule of services in cemeteries of the city: Jewish cemetery, 10 a. m. Sunday, cemetery, 10 a. m. Sunday, May 24; Memorial park, 2 p. m. Sunday, May 25; Shiloh, Saturday, May 24, 10 a. m.; Floral park. Saturday, May 24, 2 p. m.; Anderson cemetery, 10 a. m., May 30; Grove of Remembrance, May 29, 2:30 p. m.; Crown Hill, 2 p. m., May 30; Concordia, 10 a. m. May 30; Mount Jackson cemetery, 10 a. m. May 30. Wilson C. Oren is president of the General Memorial Association in charge of Decoration day rites. Other officers are: C. C. Moon, vicepresident; Frank Shellhouse, treasurer, and George Hawkins, secretary. Memorial services in honor of Confederate dead will be hdd at Garfield park at 3:30 Sunday, May 25, by the Southern Club. Dr. S. E. Henry will be the Memorial speaker. Ceremonies will be held at the Confederate monument in the park. HOTEL AT COLUMBUS IS DAMAGED BY FIRE Short Circuit Stars Blaze; Guests, Manager Leave Thinly Clad. fi If Thnrx Snrrinl COLUMBUS, Ind., May 23.—Fire starting from a short circuit in a floor lamp damaged the Belvedere hotel here at 3 this morning, entailing a loss of several thousand dollars. The fire started in the living quarters of Charles Kemper, manager of the hotel end spread rapidly. There was much damage from smoke and water. Mr. and Mrs. Kemper were awakened whet* their apartment became filled with smoke and rushing to a door leading into a hall found the exit was cut off. They were forced to crawl through a window to a neamy roof and then descend to the street by ladders placed by firemen. They had time only to don a few clothes and many guests in the building were forced to leave their rooms thinly clad. FARMER KILLS THREE OF KIN; SLAYS SELF fit/ T'nitrfi Prctu WILKES-BARRE. Pa., May 23. —Ernest L. Snyder, 60, wealthy fruit farmer of Harding, near West Pittston, committed suicide today after killing three members of his family as they lay asleep in hed, police reported. The other victims were: Charles Shepherd, 35, Snyder's son-in-law; Madge Shepherd, 32, Snyder’s daughter and the wife of Shepherd, and Ernest Shepherd, 6, son of the couple. They were found shot to death. r Snyder was discovered hanging from the ceiling of the garage and with a bullet wound in his bead.