Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1930 — Page 3

JUNE 17,1930.

J. BERTERMANN IS DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS Pioneer Florist Succumbs; Suffered Stroke Five t Months Ago. Funeral services for John BerterTnann. 80, pioneer floriculturist and president, of Bertermann Bros., w Y o died Monday at his home on the National road, four miles east of Indianapolis, will be held at 3 Wednesday afternoon at the home with private burial in Crown hill cemetery. Mr. Bertermann was forced to retire from active business as the result of a paralytic stroke and had seriously ill for five months. Educated in the floricultural schools of Europe, he was known as an expert. During his residence abroad his talent brought the friendship of Emperor Napoleon 111. Bom in Germany Mr. Bertermann was born in Wilhelmsloehe, Hese Cassel, Germany, April 21, 1850. and was reared there. It was a foregone conclusion that he would study the family’s hereditary profession, floriculture. Comjpg to the United States in 1876, he lived in Cincinnati for two years and then moved to Indianapolis. Here he entered the floral business j with his brother William and lo- j cated their store on Washington street, a few doors east of Pennsylvania stret. They erected a greenhouse at Liberty and New York streets in 1880 and four years later acquired a five-acre tract at Oakland avenue and East Washington street. In 1883 they moved their business location to its present site, 241 Massachusetts avenue. John Bertermann assumed sole control of the business when his brother Walter died in 1902, and the present corporation was formed two years later. In 1905 the estab- , lishment was located on the National road, where the home is now'. Married Twice While living in Cincinnati in 1878, Jbe married Mrs. Anna Carlstedt j vdeyer, who died ten years later, and in 1894 he married Miss Margaret Engle, Indianapolis. He is survived by the widow and seven children: Walter, Irwin and Herbert of Cincinnati; Mrs. Alfred Brandt. Mrs. Herman Junge, Mrs. Olga Shideler and Mrs. Arthur Hotchkiss, Birmingham; a brother, Edward Bertermann, and a sister, Mrs. Gertrude PfefTerman, and twelve grandchildren. The pioneer florist w T as a member of the Columbia Club, Hoosier Athletic Club. Chamber of Commerce, State Florists’ Association, Society of American Florists, Pioneer Horticulturists, Florists Telegraph Association and the Hearts Club, composed of local business men. He was confirmed in the Lutheran church.

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-—Photo bv Bretzman. John Bertermann, president of Bertermann Brothers, and a pioneer floriculturist, who died Monday at his home east of Indianapolis on the National road after five months’ illness.

PUSH VETERANS’ BILL Legion Begins Drive for World War Measure. By Scrippg-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 17.—The American Legion today began a drive for passage of the World war veterans’ bill before adjournment of congress, and conceded that President Hoover probably will veto it by urging, at the same time, that congress remain in session long enough to prevent a pocket veto of the bill. However, in response to claims that passage of the bill will mean an increase in the tax rate, the Legion asserted the bill will cost the government only $50,000,000, instead of $181,000,000, which the veterans’ bureau has estimated as the minimum cost. The senate finance committee has eliminated a number of provisions in the bill, and now estimate the annual cost at $74,000,000 From this figure the Legion subtracts $24,000,000, claiming an amendment has been included which would save expenditures called for by the present law. Gas Company Asks Survey Rushville Natural Gas Company, Rushville, today petitioned the public service commission for a survey of their properties by commission engineers and accountants to establish anew valuation for a rate base.

COUNCIL, WORKS BOARD AT ODDS OVER AIRPORT Rivalry Increased With Report Illinois Labor Is Being Used. Rivalry between the works board ; and city council over management j and dedication of the municipal airport was increased today witb the council’s independent investigaj tion of the report that Illinois labor is being used instead of local em- ; ployes at the city airport. On several occasions recently | there have been indications that friction between the works board i jjid council resulted from discussion | of plans for the dedication of th.° landing field this fall. Two closed-door conferences have j been held recently between the works board and the council air- | port committee, the committee having conferred secretly with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and the board late Monday in Sullivan’s private office. Difference of Opinion It is known there is a difference of opinion on appropriate dedicatory exercises for the port. Some of those present expressed the desire that the administration be given a conspicuous part in the dedication to assure sufficient “credit” for the project, while at least one councilman is known to have suggested that the formal dedication of the $700,000 field should be an occasion for development of civic pride and advertisement of the field to the nation. George Henry’, Republican councilman, offered a motion in caucus to empower President Ernest C. Ropkey to name a special committee to invesigate a report that R. McCallum, Danville (111.) contractor, had employed more out-of-town workmen on the runway contract than he had agreed to. Begins Labor Quiz Leo Welch, administration spokesman, and other councilmen agreed local labor should be employed. E. Kirk McKinney, w’orks board president, already has begun an investigation and placed several long distance calls in an effort to locate the Danville contractor. Early in the airport development the former council adopted a resolution placing the airport under the w’orks board, which has jurisdiction over all city buildings and grounds, on the theory that it was the proper administrative board and that council is purely a legislative body. Property Razing Bids Slated Bids on the razing of the Indiana blind school property which becomes a part of the World War Memorial Plaza were to be advertised today by Indiana World War Memorial trustees.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Start Drive to Stress City’s Air Center Value

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Striving to make Indianapolis “The Air enter of America,” the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today took steps to see that every aeronautical manufacturer in the United States become acquainted with the city’s advantages, augmented by the municipal airport now under construction with adjacent industrial sites. Clifford G. Dunphy, acting industrial commissioner of the Indianapolis Chamber today sent 250 airplane manufacturers a series of charts giving in brief this city’s ad-

GERMAN VETERANS TO AID CITY POST

Battlefield enemies and peacetime friends will meet in the “Siege of 1918,” a World war spectacle, which will be given July 19 at the state fairground. In an effort to be historically accurate in depicting Verdun, the Argonne and the Bloody Marne, Convention City post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, has recruited a squad of fifteen former German soldiers in Indianapolis to aid in staging the acturai combat drama. “When visitors to the ‘Siege’ see a German advance on an American trench, they’ll see men who actually were German officers overseas leading the attack,” explains V. T. Wagner, commander of the post. While the squad of former German officers, now Indianapolis

vantages as an aviation center and as a prospective location for budding aviation industries. In addition to the charts, information will be supplied on factors of labor, taxes and legislation, power, markets, transportation and raw materials. Dunphy announced that at the present time, a group of Indianapolis men is discussing with the industrial commission an organization for manufacturing a small sport plane. A definite announcement in this connection will be forthcoming soon, Dunphy said.

citizens, is being recruited, the nominees in the “Miss Victory” contest have started their onslaught. They seek votes to win the Marmon Roosevelt sedan offered by the Indianapolis sales branch of the Marmon Motor Car Company, Eleventh and Meridian streets, to the seller of the most tickets to the “Siege.” The drum corps of the veterans’ organization will meet tonight at 143 East Ohio street to select young women to reinforce the “shock” troops who began their drive for the “victory” crown Monday. “Plans are under way for a cantest solely for men of the city,” Wagner said, “and the prize will make a Lindbergh turn green with envy.” Announcement of the men’s- contest will be made the last of June.

BRITON FEARS NAVAL BUILDING RAGE IN EUROPE Sir Austen Chamberlain Thinks Formal Conferences Are Mistake. BY HENRY T. RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1530. in all countries bv United Press. All rights reserved.! LONDON, June 17.—Fear that one of the results of the London naval conference may be to “stimulate an increase in armaments’’ on the continent of Europe, was expressed today by Sir Austen Chamberlain, formerly British foreign secretary, in an exclusive interview with the United States. Sir Austen said he sometimes is inclined to think disarmament would have made more progress if it had “never been the subject of formal conferences.” He expressed the belief that the

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introduction of parity as the standard of naval construction "has raised anew and grave problem” in Europe. “The treaty of London." declared Sir Austen, “gives the United States superiority in fact, although not in name. That does not disturb me. however, as I do not con-

In memoriam John Bertermann Senior Member of the Firm Store Closed Wednesday T ff BERTERMANN’S

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sider a struggle between the United States and the British empire as within the bounds of possibility. “We neither of us may contemplate war with the other, but such discussions by being inevitably conducted on the hypothesis of war are unfortunate.