Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1930 — Page 9

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Drink Up That’s Answer of Society to Plea for Cocktail Ban in Homes.

BY PALL W. WHITE United Pre* Staff torrissiKJßoeDt NEW YORK, June 10.—Whether the cocktail shall remain a prelude to society parties was hotly debated today along Park and Fifth avenue and in the fashionable sections of Suburbia, where dwell the elite enrolled in the Social Register. Until now the status of the cocktail—and its many alcoholic cousins—has been unquestioned among many social leaders. It did not come over on the Mayflower, perhaps, but its frequent sponsors maintained against skepticism that its components did arrive on the Berengeria or the Majestic and somehow got by customs. It remained for a Philadelphia woman to dispute the place of liquor in the mind of society that is spelled with a capital “S.” Mrs. George Holt Strawbridge initiated a gentle campaign designed to eliminate moistness from the social functions in this and other cities. ana IN her letter addressed to Social Registerites, Mrs. Strawbridge pointed to the example set by Mrs. Edward B. McLean of Washington, whose dry breakfasts, inaugurated a year or so ago, have achieved a measure of publicity in the capital. Mrs. Strawbridge hopes eventually to form a national committee of society leaders. She promises, however, “no spectacular crusade and no public meetings.” Her idea, in short, follows: “My thought is simply that if people whose wealth and position clothe them with the power of example can be induced to set an example, as Mrs. McLean is trying to to, we could be of inestimable aid to the President in carrying out his program for law observance and law enforcement by the people themselves.” n ~ n tt Mrs. straw bridges proposal was met with no wild huzzahs, if recipients of her letter, interviewed today, reacted as did the majority, take, for instance, the views of Mrs. R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont, nee De, Castro. “I telephoned to twenty of my friends in regard to the matter this morning,” Mrs. Pierrepont said. “Eighteen had received a copy of the letter. Not one will comply with it. “I know of only two houses in which cocktails and wine are not served, and I believe that there is not a chance in the world of changing the custom. One of the houses where nothing alcoholic is served is the home of a federal judge. I think nearly every one I know is opposed to bone-dry • parties.” - tt tt tt MRS. PIERREPONT revealed that, she had written Mrs. Strawbridge, declaring that “to obey a law' that is stupid and illadi.se dvsimply because it is a law will not serve to further the cause of temperance or add to respect for government.” Mrs. Beekman J. Delatour and Mrs. Edward S. Coffey Jr. said they felt the same way about it. “Everywhere I go cocktails are served.” commented Mrs. Delatour, “and I suppose they will continue to be served.” “I believe that a committee to foster observance of the prohibition law,” declared Mrs. Coffey, “merely' would add one more busybody organization to the amazing - number that combined to bring about prohibition in the first place.” PREDICTS ARMS PACT AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE Bar Association Speaker Forecasts Delay in Treaty Action. Armament limitation was forecast as a 1932 national election campaign issue by Salmon O. Levinson, Chicago attorney, in an address Monday night before the Indianapolis Bar Association, in the Columbia Club. : . 1 ' , “Senators have no idea they can defeat the London armament treaty and so they will defer action in the senate in an effort to make the treaty a 1932 campaign problem," Levinson said. He pictured the world court as a good-will organization seeking to outlaw war, and urged America’s participation in its activities. ORDER SPEEDING UP OF CITY AIRPORT WORK Board Asks Everything Possible Be Done on Building. Speeding up of work on the administration building at city airport south of Ben Davis was ordered today by the city works board. In a letter to MacGuire and Shook and C. T. Caldwell, general contractor, the board ordered everything possible done to rush the completion of ihe administrationhangar building. Although August 1 is the date set for completion, the contractor and sub-contractors only have finished excavation and footings for the structure. BROOKHART LASHED AT BY G. 0. P. CHIEFTAIN “Cheap Fellow” Says Creager of lowa Republican Senator. Bv United Press SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. June 10.— R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman, today had reopened his long-standing controversy with Senator Smith W. Brook hart by attacking the lowa Republican as “a cheap fellow hiding irr a ly manner behind his* senatorial immunity.” Brookh&rt recently read into the senate records a report charging that liquor was found in Creagers suite in a Dallas hotel when doctors were summoned to treat a woman who had taken poison accidentally.

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HUGE INDIANA LIQUOR PLOT TO BEBARED 46 Defendants Go on Trial in Big Rum Ring Case at Terre Haute. PACK U. S. COURTROOM Quiz Begun After Murders Resulted in Capture of Large Still. B-tt Timrs Sorrinl TERRE HAUTE, Ind„ June 10.— Operations of the alleged Wabash Valley booze ring, which is said to have extended to all parts of the middle west, were to be bared in the federal court trial of forty-six persons, charged with conspiracy ta violate the prohibition law, underway here today. Government attorneys said they are prepared to jerk the veil from the alleged conspiracy and show how alleged rum runners, merchants, offiicials and gunmen of Vigo and Vermillion counties built up Indiana's biggest alleged booze ring. Special bailiffs, police and guards battled with the crowd that was at the trial today. More chan 150 witnesses from Indiana and surrounding states have been called to testify in the case. It is expected the trial will take a week. Murders Start Probe The indictments were returned after months of investigation into activities of alleged rum runners and liquor vendors in the Wabash Valley district. Federal agents began their probe after two murders, one in Clinton and another in Terre Haute. The trial led the probers into the hills of southern Indiana, into offices of business men in Clinton and this city, and into bootlegging joints in various parts of the state. Confiscates Still The first strike of the probe came last December when federal agents arrested ten men, including a prominent Clinton merchant, for the alleged operation of an enormous still at Montezuma. George Jeffrey, district attorney, in his opening statement, charged Ray Foncannon, former Vigo county sheriff; John Ansen, former Republican county chairman, and Roy Wright, former federal prohibition agent, with active connections with the alleged booze ring. He charged Ansen made collections and that Foncannon received SSOO monthly from still operations. He included Wright in the charge that the nvn accepted protection money from several illicit operators. Jake Traum, said to have been a member of a gang active in the still racket, and Danny Wagner, alleged gunmen, changed their pleas to guilty in the conspiracy case. They will be sentenced later. i Bare Protection System The liquor, it is charged, was made in several stills in Vigo and Vermillion counties, and was turned over to rum runners who delivered it into all parts of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and Ohio. An intricate system of protection for dealers and rum runners is alleged to have been worked out by the defendants. Clinton was said to have been the pay-off headquarters for the gang’s operations and lieutenants are alleged to have made headquarters here. Others on Trial Among those to be tried are: Mario Bonicarsi, Clinton sugar wholesaler; Jack Bell, Terre Haute, and St. Louis gangster; Victor Borucchi, aid of Bonacarsi’s; Theodore and William Choleva, Joseph Poraski, Angelo Stefani, Carl Snodgrass and John B. Sturm, all of Clinton, who were arrested when the enormous still at Montezuma was confiscated last December; John Barrole and Fred Ketter, both of St. Louis; Homer Wright, alleged Chicago and St. Louis gunman; Arthur Zamberlatti of Clinton, former federal prisoner; Franlj Magione and Albert Moore, all of Clinton, and Ivan Money of Terre Haute. FALL KILLS PAINTER Another Breaks Ankle, in 14-Foot Tumble. A ladder rung snapping precipitated two painters fourteen feet to the ground at 1122 East Michigan street, early today, .njuring one of tnem fatally. G. O. Johnson, 80, of 1426 Sturm avenue, who suffered a brain concussion, died at city hospital a few minutes after he was admitted. Charles Allen, 40, of 920 East Washington street, sustained a fractured ankle, and was treated by a neighboring private physician. Johnson and Allen were painting a house, under construction, at that address. Witnesses said Johnson struck on his head, which was lacerated badly.

PLAINS ONCE SACRED TO STEER, BUFFALO BECOMING NATION’S ‘BREAD BASKET’

BY FRANK O. HALL United Pres* Staff Correioondrnt Oklahoma city. June 10.— Virgin prairies in the Pan- - handle sections of Texas and Oklahoma promise to soon become the "bread basket” of the nation. With farming rapidly replacing ranching as a paying business, thousands of acres of land over which buffaloes and longhorns once roamed in countless thousands are being broken each year by the plow. Estimated wheat ”ield in west- ,

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Miss Gertrude Zorn, 17, of 717 South New Jersey street.

“If I only were a boy, I sure would enter The Times tournament,” said Miss Gertrude Zorn, Manual Training high school star girl athlete today, as she looked over more than two dozen beautiful awards to be given participants in the fifth annual Indianapolis Times interschclastic golf tournament that began today over the Riverside municipal links. The tournament had an advance entry of more than 300 and most of the entrants were determined to play their qualifying round today or Wednesday.

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Dead Soldiers SPENCER, Ind., June 10. Spirits always are associated with cemeteries, but the spirits two Spencer youths found in bushes in Riverside cemetery here were of a more earthly sort. The boys, Denver Sheppard and James Wallace, were playing in the cemetery when a touring car halted not far away. Its occupant, a man, tossed two objects into the bushes. They were capped bottles, the boys found. One, taken to Police Chief Stuckey, was found to contain homebrew. back for the other bottle, the hoys’ learned someone had re -moved it.

620 MATED FROMPURDUE 0. Governor Leslie Addresses Class of 1930. Bv Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 10.—Six hundred twenty students of Purdue university were graduated today at the fifty-sixth annual commencement. The exercises were held in the Memorial gymnasium with the processional being led by Professor W. P. Turner, followed by Dr. C. E. Elliott and Governor Harry G. Leslie. The graduating class was inducted into the Purdue Alumni Association by Robert M. Feustel of Ft. Wayne, president. Governer Leslie addressed the class. The Rev. Reese F. Thornton, pastor of St. John’s Episcopal church of Lafayette, delivered the invocation. TECH EXERCISES SLATED Dr. Sutton, Atlanta, Ga., tc Speak at Auditorium. Exercises for the A section of the Technical high school graduating class will be held in the school auditorium on the Arsenal grounds tonight. Dr. Willis A. Sutton, superintendent of Atlanta (Ga.) schools, will be the speaker. Diplomas will be presented by Daniel T. Weir, acting superintendent of city schools. Members of the T section of the graduating class will receive their diplomas Thursday night, at which William H. Herschell, poet, will be honor guest.

em Oklahoma this year is 40,000,000 bushels, while that of the Texas Panhandle is between 30,000.000 and 40.000,000 bushels. Growers face a problem in getting the grain to the market each year, but this season railroad officials have announced that 200,000 cars are now available for transportation of the grain. Landowners have found that wheat farming is more profitable than.raising cattle, and - ■ • m

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The winner will receive the beautiful fcurteen-inch silver trephy offered by the Kay Jewelry Company. Other prizes were given by Beckley-Ralston Company, Chicago; Em-Roe Sporting Goods Company, Capitol Cap Company, Lyman Brothers, Smith-Hassler-Sturm Company, and George Soutar, Neal Mclntyre, Harry Schoop, Herman Uebele, Dick Nelson, Roy Smith, Joe Quigley, Ralph Stonehouse and Russell Stonehouse, professionals at local courses.

Death Toll Is High; 490 Injured in Three-Month Spring Period. One hundred sixteen children under 15 were killed and 490 injured in automobile accidents in Indiana, exclusive of Marion county, during March, April and May, according to figures released today by the automobile licensing division of the office of Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield. A total of 526 people were killed and 3,753 injured during the period; the report shows. In announcing the totals, the secretary of state made a plea for greater co-operation in accident prevention from both motorists and pedestrians. He particularly urged parents to educate their children in the exercise of caution. Many Children Die Os the total number killed in the last three months, forty-one were children under 4 and seventy-five between the ages of 5 and 14, according to the report.. There were 347 killed between the ages of 15 and 64 and sixty-three over the age of 65. Os the fatalities, 198 were pedestrians, 143 were killed in collisions, and 142 in accidents resulting from skidding, turning over, hitting bridge abutments, trees and culverts. Older Persons Killed Besides the 490 children under 15 injured during the three-month period, 2,445 persons between the ages of 15 and 64 were injured and seventy-eight over 65. Os the total, 427 w'ere pedestrians, 1,026 were injured in collisions and 887 were injured when their cars skidded or turned over. Total number of injured for the three months was 3,753. POET TO BE FATHER: DIVORCE IS OUT NOW William Kenneth Moyer Need Not Invoke Marriage Contract. Bit Vnited Press SOUDERTON, Pa„ June 10.— There is no danger of a divorce in the home of William Kenneth Moyer, the United press learned today. Some months ago Moyer, a wellknow’n poet, startled conventional society when he had insertei in his marriage contract with Ethel Owen, a proviso that in the event thenmarriage did not result in the birth of a baby within two years, eit’nei party was at liberty to seek a divorce on that ground. Moyer was in a happy mood to day as he told the United Press reporter that he and Mrs. Moyer ex pected to be blessed with a bab; some time in October.

are anxiously watching the success or failure of the federal farm board’s efforts in stablizing the price of the grain. Should the price of ’"heat ever be stablized to any : -arket degree, virtually every section of land in the sparsely settled territory would be planted in grain, State Grain Inspector E. H. Linzee believes. If such an agricultural program is carried out, and it appears highly probable, Linzee says the

DRYS REALIZE ERRORS, HINTS MCKERSHAM Education, No Violence, Seen as New Course of Liquor Foes. HOOVER TAKING LEAD Washington View Is That President Is Trying to Change System. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 10. A growing belief here that President Hoover is trying gradually to educate the country toward anew attitude with regard to prohibition was strengthened today by the Boston speech of Chairman Wickersham of the President’s law enforcement commission. Wickersham declared that since the arrival of federal prohibition, dependence upon education as to the evils of liquor had been abandoned. and an attempt to enforce “excessive” penalties “in the nature of vengeful reprisals upon those who question the legislative wisdom” had been substituted. He said this method reached its climax in the Jones law, making a felony of all prohibition violations except possession and maintenance of a nuisance. He said the long process of education against the evils of drink which led up to the eighteenth amendment had been abandoned, contrasting the progress toward temperance made in England under a system of persistent education. Viewed as Significant Such utterance by the head of the President’s commission which is investigating prohibition, was received here as of greatest significance. President Hoover has continued his silence on the prohibition question, but the feeling in Washington is that he patiently is preparing the way, hoping to bring about a change in the handling of the prohibition issue whereby education will replace attempts to force temperance by legislation. He declared in the presidential campaign that prohibition was “a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and farreaching in purpose.” He said he was against repeal of the eighteenth amendment. President Hoover is understood here to feel that prohibition has brought about economic gains. There is, however, a feeling that he is not satisfied with the results of enforcement. Mapy think he believes increased temperance will depend upon education of the public as to the evils of drink rather than attempts to enforce abstinence by statute. New Laws Sought Since Mr. Hoover became President. however, he has kept a strict official silence on these points, and while the law enforcement commission has been investigating prohibition the President has confined himself to efforts to enforce existing laws. Meanwhile, the Wickersham commission has sought new laws to simplify the problem. Congress has, at the insistence of the President and Wickersham, passed a bill which transfers the prohibition enforcement machinery from the treasury to the justice department July 1. The house has passed bills to soften the Jones law penalties and to permit minor prohibition offenses to be tried without juries. There is little prospect of these two measures passing the senate at this session, however. The action of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow in declaring for repeal of the eighteenth amendment in his campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination in New Jersey has given impetus to national consideration of the prohibition question. Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, recently told the senate lobby committee that his organization is preparing to spend large sums in anew campaign of education against the evils of liquor much like the old-style campaigns which promoted enough temperance sentiment to force through federal prohibition. ? r EK LOWER RATES Ftjtu.jn to Be Approved by City Council. B.H Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 10.— Approval of a petition to the public service commission in which lower electric rates will be requested is expected to be given by the city council tonight. The petition, asking for the downward revision of the Interstate Pubic Service Company’s rate schedule, vas ready for final vote a week ago, iut action was deferred. The request will be presented the commision within a few days of the counil’s action.

small wheat fanner may just as well quit raising grain and devote his land and labor to some other phase of fanning. mm * LINZEE based his contention on the fact that the western states have increased wheat acreage to a remarkable extent since the advent of the tractor and combine, while there has been no decrease in the older states and little, if any, increase in con-

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Albert (Jake) Lingle, 38, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, assigned to cover gangland activities, was shot in the back of the head and killed by a gangster Monday. The shooting took place in a subway under Michigan boulevard leading to the Illinois Gentral suburban tracks.

PREPARE PLANS FOR EXPOSITION Lebanon Will Be Host to Thousands at Jubilee. Bv Times Special LEBANON, Ind., June 10.—Plans already are well under way for the entertainment of thousands from Boone and nearby counties here June 18 at the Exposition and Good Will Jubilee, and the huge canvas tent, which will house the exhibits, will be erected within the next few days. Officers of civic organizations and city and county officials have joined Chamber of Commerce heads in completing arrangements. Displays will be held by merchants and industrial concerns. Visitors who have announced their attention of attending include W. H. Arnett, secretory of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce; William Howard, secretary of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, and representatives from the Chamber., of Commerce at Newcastle, Crawfordsville, Frankfort and Valparaiso. MRS. HAMMERSTEIN IS GIVEN LENIENCY Widow of Noted Show Producer Is Freed on Vagrancy Charge. NE WYORK, June 10.—Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, widow of the noted theatrical producer and once a famous beauty, was free today after serving a one-day sentence on a charge of vagrancy. She was convicted of accepting S3O from a detective. The sentence was only a technicality, since Mrs. Hammerstein already had served the time in Harlem detention prison. Relatives have promised to make a home for her. OPEN DRIVE ON DRUGS Federal Agents Raid Dens In Cleveland’s “Roarin’ Third.” Bv United Press CLEVELAND, 0.. June 10.—Federal authorities and police today launched a drive to clean up drug dens in Cleveland’s “roarin’ third district.” Eleven persons, including two women were seized in the first raid and morphine and opium valued at nearly $3,000 was confiscated.

950 GRADUATES AT INDIANA U. RITES

Bn Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 10.— Indiana university’s one hundred and first commencement, at which 950 students are to receive degrees, was to be held in the university Memorial stadium this afternoon. The commencement address was to be given by President William Bizzell of the University of Oklahoma, with President W. L. Bryan of the university, presiding at the exercises and awarding degrees and honors. Captain John David Alexander. 91, of Springville, Ind., the university’s oldest living graduate, attended the exercises. He is a veteran of the Civil war, and a retired lawyer. He was graduated from the university in 1861 with a bachelor arts degree. The commencement this afternoon was the climax of a three-day

Linzee pointed out that there are two classes of wheat farmers in the western states, the one who plants from 50 to 100 acres on land valued at from $l5O to S2OO an acre, and another who is plowing for the first time thousands of acres of ranch land valued at from S2O to S3O an acre. The latter can use tractors and combines and raises from 1,000 to 5,000 acres of wheat each year which makes the cost of production low. t ■ ,

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3,000 AT STATE G. A. R. MEETING Hale Refutes Reports That Session Will Be Last. Bit United Press WABASH, Ind., June 10.—More than 3,000 Civil war veterans and visitors were expected in Wabash today for the second day of the fifty-first annual encampment of the Indiana department G. A. R. Although the encampment officially opened Monday the real activities began today. Intimation that this year’s meeting might be the last one was downed as rapidly as it came up. Department Commander Charles Hale, Logansport, said “As long as there are enough members left to form a quorum, just that long will our encampments continue. That probably means another ten years, as the average age now is around 85. We realize we are singing our swan song, but we will continue to repeat the chorus.” Wednesday is the big day for the veterans. The annual parade, which will be seven miles long, will be staged in the afternoon. The veterans will march a block past the reviewing stand on the courthouse lawn and drop out of the line. At night the campfire will be held in the high school gymnasium. Frederick Landis, Logansport editor, will speak. The campfire program will be broadcast over radio station WOWO, Ft. Wayne. 35,000 SPEAKEASIES IN OHIO, WRITES LIGGETT Twenty “Saloons” in Westerville, Dry League Headquarters. Bv United Press NEW YORK, June 10.—The July issue of Plain Talk magazine contains an article entitled “Ohio— Lawless and Unashamed,” in which the statement is made that there are twenty speakeasies in Westerville, national headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League. The article was written by Walter Liggett who contends that his investigation disclosed 35,000 speakeasies in the state. He declares that a “dry dictatorship” in the state will end if the contemplated re-apportionment amendment is put on the ballot in the fall election.

celebration that included luncheons and gala events for members of the graduating class, faculty and alumni. Today’s program opened with the alumnae breakfast and election of a trustee. The alumni association business meeting followed the election. Herman King of Sweetser gave the 1930 Class oration. Annual flag raising and tree planting were held with Lowell Todd of Bedford as chairman of the event. Annual awarding of the Rose loving cup for the class having the largest number of alumni present also was on the program. President and Mrs. Bryan held a reception for the commencement visitors preceding the commencement. Dr. Herbert Willett of the University of Chicago, delivered the baccalaureate address.

npHE latest improved farm machinery is being used on the large wheat farms of western Oklahoma and Kansas, eastern Colorado, northern New Mexico and the Panhandle of Texas. Proof that this vast area is destined to become the wheat belt of the nation is seen in the fact that the section is being tapped from all sides by new railroad lines. Railroads are pushing their lines to stragetic shipping points.

HEALTH BOARD FACES CRISIS AT HOSPITAL Ramshackle Unit Used by Flower Mission to Be Abandoned. CUT OFF FROM CASH Community Fund Delaying Efforts to Help City’s Tubercular Patients. The problem of providing adequate hospitalization facilities for advanced tubercular patients confronted the city health board today, with the decision of the Flower Mission Society to abandon the present mission hospital, housed in a dilapidated frame structure in rear of city hospital. A committee of Flower Mission Society leaders visited the health board Monday and announced their decision not to admit additional patients to the present hospital, because of its “unfitness for human habitation.” Thirty are housed there. Dr. William A. Doeppers. city hospital superintendent, confirmed the delegation’s statements that the building is a “fire trap and insanitary, because of the smoke and dust arising from traffic on Coe street.” CHy Orders Delay The decision of the Sullivan administration to delay construction of the seven-story ward unit for four or five years has left the city without any provision for chronic tuberculosis cases. A tubercular ward is included in plans for the ward unit, which the former council planned to build this year. The Flower Mission Society, practically the only city agency which has cared for tuberculosis patients for the last quarter century, is handicapped in its plans because of the failure of the Community Fund to grant “permission” to receive private contributions. The committee told the board that three letters have been written to the fund heads recently, but no reply has been received. “It seems peculiar to me that the Community Fund would not permit you to receive contributions if you did not conduct a general campaign,” commented Dr. Frederick E. Jackson, board member. The mission has about $60,000 which it desires to use for construction of a tuberculosis building at city hospital. The amount of money is inadequate to provide a hospital of the desired size for Indianapolis. Friends Would Help Mrs. David Ross, mission president, said the society has a number of friends interested in tuberculosis work who are anxious to make contributions, but that the society is not in a position to solicit. The society is under the community fund because it receives $3,500 maintenance a year and the mission is afraid the allotment will be cut off if fund leaders’ ire is aroused. “That’s nothing short of thwarting the public health program,” commented a member of the health board. David Liggett, fund secretary, said there had been considerable correspondence on the subject and that the problem is for the health board to handle. Dr. H. S. Leonard, board president, said the health beard will co- - in every way with the society. The board offered a site along the bank of Fall creek, north of the new power plant. An architect will bo asked to draw tentative plans for the hospital, designed so additional stories can be built later. The health board agreed to take over operation and maintenance of the plant if donated to the city. Hospital Is Crowded The hospital already is crowded and has no facilities for handling tubercular cases. Dr. Doeppers opposes portable structures, because they are unsafe and difficult to heat. With closing of the mission hospital, there will be no place for advanced tubercular patients to go, Sunnysid i having a long waiting list and taking only curable cases. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, said the city should have a 100-bed unit, but that twenty-five or fifty beds will aid greatly the present situation. “The present hospital is a blot on the name of Indianapolis and we have enough civic pride to want to remove it,” declared Mrs. Robert Elliott. Other members of the delegation were Mrs. Robert Geddes, former mission president; Mrs. C. J. Buchanan, Mrs. W. C. Smith and Mrs. James Ermston. AIRPORT CONFERENCE ARRANGED BY BOARD Construction of Runways to Be Discussed at Stout Field. Conference with national guard aviation officers and officials of Curtiss-Wright Flying Service of Indiana was planned by the state armory board at Stout field. Mars Hill, this afternoon, for discussion of proposed construction of runways at the airport. .. Mail planes have skipped the city occasionally bcause of muddy landing field, the board disclosed. The board will ask the 1931 legislature for appropriation to Improve the airport, constructing the runways and modern hangars for the One hundred thirteenth observation squadron. Indiana national guard. Falls From Tree; 'njured Injuries sustained by Field Ritzendollar, 306 Lansing street, in a fall from a cherry tree at 82 North Holmes avenue, Monday, confined him to his home todagr.