Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1930 — Page 3

JULY 30,1930.

DENIES CUTTING LABOR WAGE IN ROAD BUILDING City Contractor Says Old Scale Prevails on His Projects. William D. Vogel, Indianapolis contractor, who is widening the National road west of the city under a state highway department contract, today declared that he has not reduced wages of his men, as reported by Adolph Fritz, secretary of the Indiana State Federation of Labor. Fritz told The Times that Director John J. Brown of the state highway department had told him that the contractor doing the state work on West Washington street was paying 17 'i cents an hour. “The lowest wage I am paying on that Job is 35 cents an hour.” Vogel explained today. “I took the contract last January and figured on labor at 35 and 40 cents. Only Water Boys “Only the water boys get below 35 cents, and many of the men are paid 75. 80 cents and $1 an hour. They are men who have been with me for years and I am paying them the same wages which they received for similar work the last four or five years. “I feel that to charge me with wage cutting, is very unfair, because it is absolutely untrue. In fact, other contractors have come to me and asked why I don’t cut wages and take advantage of the current unemployment. Recognizes Cutting *'l understand that this wage cutting has been done to a large extent on state paving contracts in the western and southern parts of the state.” Fritz said that he knew positively that a 20-cent-an-hour scale is in force on certain state paving projects in Greene county. These contracts were let with labor figured at between 40 and 50 cents an hour and the contractors are enriching themselves at the expense of the laborers. Fritz declared he will bring the matter ’ -fore the state federation of labor convention this fall and see | if the state contracts can not be made to carry a minimum wage ! clause.

JOHN NEWTON RITES SCHEDULED THURSDAY Funeral Service to Be Held at Home for Civil War Veteran. Last rites for John Newton, 89. Civil war veteran, who died Tuesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. A. N. Stratton, 112 North Gladstone avenue, will be held at the home at 2 Thursday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Newton came to Indianapolis thirty years ago. He was born in Kentucky and served in the Fourth Indiana volunteer cavalry during the war. His wife was Miss Mary Jane Shipp of Johnson county, Indiana. Survivors are two children. Mrs. Stratton and Owrey W. Newton, Indianapolis; two grandchildren, one great-grandchild and one great-grcat-grandchild. POSTOFFICE LEASES PROBE NEARS CLOSE Senate Group in Begin Hearings in Public Within Month. Si/ r nited Press WASHINGTON, July 30. The special senate committee appointed to conduct rn investigation of postoffice leases will be ready to begin public hearings in less than a month, it was learned here today. Some members of congress have charged the ir.. iry may uncover sensations rivaling those of Teapot Dome. The committee has been working quietly for many weeks, laying the ground work for the investigation ordered by the senate following charges of f ratid and corruption in the handling of lrases. Investigators, headed by John Holland, who has done similar work for other senate committees, have been scrutinizing the 10.000 postoffice leases for igns of fraud. Special attention nas been given to the more than 400 leases involving annual rentals of $5,000 or more. HAYS IS ELATED OVER FILM PACT IN EUROPE Vgreement Removes Chief Retarding Factor of Industry, Says Czar. S United Press NEW YORK. July 30—The agreement between American and German motion picture producers signed recently at Paris has removed the industry's main retarding factor, according to Will H. Hays, president of the Mo‘ion Ticture Producers and Distributers of America, who returned Tuesday aboard the lie De France. "The agreement reached at Paris frees the talking motion picture art from the limitations imposed upon it by the patent controversy that has existed abroad." Hays said, "and from the burden of worldwide litigation as between German and American interests." FIRE SWEEPS FOREST Government Preserve Is Threatened by Raging Flames. Bu United Press CLARKSBURG. W. Va.. July 30. —Fanned by a high northwest wind blowing toward the Monongahela national forest, a raging forest fire which already has burned m n re than 1.000 acres of timberland, was reported beyond control today by advices received from Parsons. WINDMILL TRADE STAYS Machine Age Falls to Halt Sale of §9,000 During Past Year. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. July 30. The windmill Industry still Is a miliiondollar business, despite the competition of the machine age. Commerce department statistics show IM.OOO windmills, valued at *4.063.9*o, were manufactured last year.

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BY ARCH STEINEL IF you w ant to live as long as Zaro Agha, the Turkish birthday collector visiting these United States, then stay out of bathtubs, quit playing backlot baseball, and do nothing but spend your time on a “ping-pong” court. For “ping-pong” is the one and only sport of sports where you've one-thousandth of a chance to beat the “accident” columns in the newspapers. This declaration was made today by Indianapolis casualty insurance men in perusing reports and discussing dangers of the vacation and summer season.

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Arrivals and Departures Mars Hill Airport—James Keller, Saginaw, Mich., to Indianapolis, Cabinaire; Martin Becker and William Thornton, Terre Haute to Indianapolis, Travel Air, overnight; westbound T. A. T. passengers included L. H. Harding, Shelbyville; C. B. Havens, Greencastle; W. A. Royce, K. of P. building; E. L. Snyder and H. M. Cates, both of Connersville. and Miss Edith Line, 320 East Fifteenth street; eastbound passengers were Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World war ace; E. C. Hanford and G. H. Sheftloti, both of Columbus, O.; Embry-Rid Ile passengers to Chicago included L. R. Roth, W. H. Severin, Robert R. Guy, J. E. Murphy and J. J. Berst, all of Chicago. R. M. Smith, Chicago, and W. P. Smith, Cincinnati, were passengers to Cincinnati. Hoosier Airport—Ralph Sturm, Seymour, to Indianapolis anci veturn, Challenger Robin; Ned Bo tom, Indianapolis to Logansport and return. Air King. Capitol Airport Henry Smith, Chicago to Indianapolis and return, Lockhead plane. Wait Drop in Wind By Vnited Prog KIRKWALL, Scotland. July 30. The German aviators, Wolf Hirth and Oscar Weller, awaited abatement of a twenty-five-mile-an-hour wind todav before starting their airplane flight to Chicago, via Greenland and Labrador. Hirth and Weller said they feared the wind would reduce the speed of their plane excessively if they attempted to take off in it. in view of the fuel capacity of the craft, and thereby endanger their chances of reaching their next refueling point. Pass 230 Hours in Sky ROOSEVELT FIELD. L. I„ July 30. —Louis Reichers and Robert Black, flying a Stimson monoplane toward the 553-hour endurance record of the Hunter brothers, passed the 230th hour at 10 a. m. today. Tuesday night they took on fuel during a severe thunderstorm, with lightning illuminating the scene at intervals. In Air for 219 Hours Bu T nited Press ST. LOUIS. July 30.—The endurance monoplane (Heater St. Louis, piloted by Forest O'Brine and Dale Jackson, remained up today despite strong winds which buffeted it about. At 10:11 a. m. O'Brine and Jackson had been in the air 219 hours in their attempt to shatter the present record held by the Hunter brothers of Spaita. 111. Notes dropped to the ground crew indicated all fas well aboard the monoplane. s Hawks After Record Bn T nited Press NEW YORK. July 30.—Captain Frank Hawks expects to recapture within a few days the transcontinental flight record that Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took from him. Hawks said he is ready to make the cross-country dash in his new plane, which he has been preparing several months, as soon as conditions are favorable. MEXICO LENIENT WITH BORDER GAMING HOUSES Continue to Operate Under Old Concessions, Says Ortiz Rubio. By United frress MEXICO CITY. July 30.—Continued open operation of Mexican gambling houses despite President Pasquel Oritz Rubio's announced opposition to such concessions was due solely to the necessity of reorganizing concessions granted before the present administration, the president explained at his second press conference here. Many casinos still operate, particularly along the United States frontier, under old concessions have not yet expired. \

HIGHWAYS FUSS CHIEF ISSUE OF TEXASJ/OTERS Ma Ferguson, Opponent in Controversy Over Roads Commission. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., July 30.—A controversy over the state highway commission today became the center of interest in the campaign ol Mrs. Miriam A. <Ma> Ferguson to regain the governorship of Texas. Mrs. Ferguson polled more than 200,000 votes in last week's preliminary election and is opposed in the present campaign by Ross Sterling, who ran second to her in the preliminary. The highway commission controversy was over the question of making it an elective body. Mrs. Ferguson charged that if elected Sterling planned to appoint Governor Dan Moody and Thomas B. Love, whom she called an “avowed Hoovercrat,” on the commission. James A. (Pa.) Ferguson, impeached Governor, followed up his wife's statement with a demand that Sterling resign from the present highway commission and use his influence to make the body elective. Love, a defeated gubernatorial candidate, replied to the Ferguson charge by declaring he would un- 1 der no circumstances accept a po- ; sition on the highway commission | if it were offered to him.

“And the bathtub songs didn’t help the old tub out a bit as a hazard and livelihood for the bonesetter. They tool: the song, literally and lounged In ;hem with the resultant slips on soap and bath salts,*’ chimed in one casualty agent. “The Saturday night rites are a common cause for accident claims,” explained H. S. Wenger, head of the claims division of the Fidelity and Casualty Company.

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“Swimming and bathing are second to baseball in causing serious accidents,” Wenger says. Fireworks, golf, falls from horseback. wrestling, tennis tail the list of claims for accidental injuries. “One of the most peculiar accidents recorded in Indianapolis was that of a certain prominent man who was hurt in lighting a cigar. The sulphur from the match burned his hand, infection set in, paralysis followed, and he's still unable to use his arm,” Wenger said. TRADE FAIR IS HELD IN HEART OF SAHARA Immense Success, Despite Terrific July Heat, Says Report. By Vnited Press TAMANRASSET, Sahara, July 30. —The first North African trade fair was opened here in the heart of the Sahara desert, modeled upon the lines of the Leipsig and Paris commercial fairs. Merchants from all parts of the desert and from the rich land bordering on the Sahara, have arrived with camels and six-wheeled automobiles loaded with the products of the desert, displaying them under gaudy awnings. Despite terrific July heat, the trade fair is an Anmense success. Principal articles of trade are sheep and domesticated camels, zebus, handworked leathers, ivory, gold and silver jewelry and grains. Tamanrasset is a crossroads of the desert where camel trains have met and Arabs have traded for centuries.

SHERIFF CARS LIKELY TO LOSE RADIO SETS County Refuses to Pay One-Fourth of Police Station Cost. Radio communication service to county sheriff's automobiles equipped with radio receiving sets may be discontinued as result of the refusal of the county to pay onefoprth of the total cost of operating the police radio station, it was indicated today at city hall. The total cost of operating the station will be included in the city's budget, the station having proved its worth, Sullivan said. $1,000,000 OFFER DENIED Manager of Edinburg Television Worker Declares Report False. Bu Times Special EDINBURG. Ind.. July 30.—A million dollars with $5,000 a year income for life, reported offer to Ernest Patrick. 19. Edinburg television worker, is without basis, according to Dr. Clerence Kincaid, Taylorsville. manager of the youth. The report said the offer was from the Crosley Radio Corporation, but Dr. Kincaid, while admitting a Crosley engineer had inspected apparatus made by Patrick, declared no overtures of the kind described were made. \ JEWELRY STORE MOVED Julius C. Walk and Son, Inc., Take Circle Tower Quarters. Julius C. Walk and Son, Inc., one of the oldest jewelry stores in the state, was moved from its Washington street location today to new quarters in the Circle Tower building, 53 Monument Circle.

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Herbert M. Campbell, Oak Crest (Va.) real estate dealer, has been held in connection with the murder of Mary Baker, navy department clerk, and is here shown in a new picture, taken in the Arlington county jail Bureau of standard experts have declared the gun which Campbell owns to be the one used in the killing of the pretty clerk, whose body was discovered in a culvert outside Washington last April.

WOOLLEN RAPS HOOVERPLEDGE Denies Government "Able to Create Prosperity. Times Svecial MARTINSVILLE, Ind., July 30. Plans of campaign in the fall elections were carried throughout the state today by members of the Democratic state committee, following a meeting with Chairman R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, here Tuesday. In about a week Peters will announce bureau heads for the campaign, and another state committee meeting is scheduled for Aug. 15. The Republican party has a superiority complex unwarranted by its recorc , Evans Woollen, Indianapolis banker, told Indiana Democrats at Jap Jones’ Colonial sanitarium Tuesday. Woollen said he did not blame President Hoover for the whirlwind now being reaped from the collapse of the stock market, but that he did blame the President for making promises in his 1928 campaign that success of the Republican party would mean continuation of business stability and employment. The Republican theory that government can provide prosperity is a fallacy, Woollen declared. Albert Stump, Indianapolis; Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana university law school; Walter Myers, Indianapolis, and Jones, also spoke.

$200,000 BANK STEAL IS LAID TO PRESIDENT Stock Market Speculations Blamed for Ohio Crash. Bu t'nited Press CLEVELAND, 0., July 30.—J. E. Casey, former president of the Citizens National bank at Galion, 0., which was closed Tuesday by banking officials, today charged that three other men were involved with him in a pool to speculate in the stock market. The bank had a shortage of $200,000, according to bank examiners. Casey pleaded not guilty to misapplication of bank .funds and falsification of records. He was bound over to the federal grand jury. He was released on $12,500 bond. William Taylor, chief examiner, said Casey caried three accounts in the bank, one under his own name and the others under different names, and manipulated them according to his needs. According to Taylor, Casey used :he funds to cover losses in the stock market crash of last October. GIRL ROBS CAB DRIVERS OF MONEY AND PANTS Back on Job in Chicago With Shiny New Pistol, Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 30—’The girl who holds up taxicab drivers and steals their pants was back in Chicago again today. Wearing a red hat and carrying a shiny new pistol, she returned to her old field and selected driver Richard Reddatz as her first victim. Her procedure was the same as she employed when she held up several drivers last winter. Accompanied by a young man, she entered a cab, pressed the pistol against the driver’s back, forced him to hand over his money and his pants, then walked leisurely away while blushing Reddatz went looking for a police station with a side or back entrance. FIGHT BRITISH PREMIER Movement Within Labor Party for MacDonald's Ouster. Bu United Press LONDON, July 30.—A movement within the British labor party to force the resignation of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer. as party leaders, owing to unemployment conditions, was reported today. Arthur Henderson, foreign secretary in MacDonald’s government, was mentioned as the most likely candidate to succeed MacDonald as party leader if he should resign.

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STATE FARMERS ‘HO-HUM’ LEGGE MEETING HERE Apathy, Reaction to U. S., Chief’s Plea for Less Wheat Production. Unconcern as to whether they will raise more or less wheat is apparent among Indiana farmers as federal agriculture leaders plan a conference here Friday to discuss reduction in acreage. From opinions of Indiana farm leaders it appeared today that Chairman Alexander Legge of the federal farm board, and h.s proposal of a reduced wheat acreage as the sole means of salvation for the grain farmer, will not be taken seriously in this state this year. Legge and Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, are scheduled to meet with extension directors, research men and county agents at the Claypool here Friday to discuss the problems. Many Unconcerned ‘‘Although the question is being discussed pro and con, many Indiana farmers will not give the question of reduced acreage a thought,” B. B. Benner, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Farm Bureau wheat pool, declared today. Legge, however, believes farmers | all over the country are doing a lot ; of thinking these days and are aware their present unhappy condition is a result of unregulated production, according to information from Washington. President William H. Settle, Indiana Farm Bureau, said; “I don’t think the conference will have much effect on Indiana farmers.” Wheat All They Have About all southern Indiana farmers will have this year is their wheat. This is expected to keep grain growers of that section from welcoming any reduction proposal. With the whole state now harvesting its largest wheat crop in years, it is likely Legge’s proposal will meet apathetic reactions in all farm sections. Farm bureau officials report the largest deliverage in proportion to acreage in many years, and state that Indiana wheat this year is practically all first class. The meeting Friday was called by W. C. Warburton, head of extension bureau, United States department of agriculture, and will bring extension directors, economists and editors from several midivestern states here.

ROUT BANK BANDITS Officials Repulse Raid With Fusillade of Shots. Bu United Press BRILLIANT, 0., July 30. Officers of the Savings and Loan Company here today repulsed an attempted holdup, driving the bandits from the banking room with a fusillade of shots. Ray Davidson, cashier, was in a rear room when the bandits entered and ordered the teller to throw up his hands. Davidson seized a gun and fired through a partition. The shots were wild but succeeded in routing the bandits who are being trailed closely down the Ohio river highway by police. RITES THURSDAY FOR CIVIL WAR VETERAN John D. Bloomfield, Photographer, Dies at Daughter's Home. Funeral services for John D. Bloomfield, 85, retired photographer and Civil war veteran, who died Tuesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lulu Buergelin, 2526 Prospect street, will take place at the Blasengym undertaking establishment at 10 Thursday. Burial will be in Mt. Jackson cemetery. Mr. Bloomfield formerly lived in Danville, 111., and came to Indianapolis in 1900. He served in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana volunteers during the war. Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Buergelin, Mrs. Ethel Brown, Danville, 111., and Mrs. Nora Marsh, Indianapolis; two sons, Frank Bloomfield, Milwaukee, and Morton Bloomfield, Indianapolis. REFUSES TO GIVE BLOOD TO SAVE OWN CHILD “Meanest Man in World." Says Judge; Assesses SIOO Fine. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 30.—The meanest man in the world, in the opinion of Judge James F. Fardy, is one who refuses to submit to blood transfu“You are not only the meanest sions to save his enemic baby, man in the world, you are almost inhuman,” Judge Fardy told Leo Blotteaux, after Blotteaux's wife testified her husband allowed her to go through several blood transfusion operations for the baby, but refused to submit to one himself. Blotteaux was in the Bridewell today, working out a SIOO fine which Fardy assessed.

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Arrested With Car Alleged Stolen; Apartments Are Plunde id. Five youths were charged with burglary, and one of the five with vehicle taking, after police say they were caught with a stolen car in an alleged attempt to enter an A. & P. grocery at Chester avenue and Tenth street. The car was stolen from the Commercial Accounting Company, 711 Merchants Bank building, while parked at Senate and Washington streets, police declare. The youths arrested included Paul Sims, 19. and Prentice Sims, 17, of 1739 Ludlow avenue; Lloyd Merrill, 17, of 2946 North Olney street; Fred Featherstone, 18, of 1925 Lasalle street, and a boy of 15. Featherstone faces charges of stealing the car as well as burglary. In the car, police say, they found candy allegedly stolen earlier in the

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NAME SEVEN TO TEACHERPOSTS Appointments Confirmed by School Board. Approval of seven teacher appointments by the board ot school commissioners was announced today by D. T. Weir. They are Gordon O. Johnson, mechanical drawing, Shortridge, $1.9003 Mary Wilhite, commercial. Shortridge, $1,950; Raymond Hall, music, Broad Ripple. $1,700: Susie M. Taylor, elementary schools. $1,000: Beth Barr, elementary schools, $1,600; Rovene E. Ticen and Florence B. Sanders, Manual, $1,700 each. Five office appointments taf Manual high school for the school year 1930 were approved. They ara Mary J. Spiegel, secretary, $2,1002 Daisy Harmening, registrar, $1,400? Lenore Mullinix, attendance clerk, $1,200. Marie Stumps, bookkeeper and stenographer. $1,000; Margaret} Bartholomew, clerk. S9OO. Resignations were received from Priscilla Pittenger Muir, Maud C. Archer. Lois Keller Musial, Ruth E. Anderson, Helen H. Neale, Maurice Lee and Hulda C. Butler.