Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1930 — Page 13

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PLANTS OVER i STATE OFFER MOREWORK Shelbyville Stove Factory on Full Operating Basis With Heavy Orders. STONE MILL REOPENED Another on Night and Day Schedule: Canning to Make Jobs. BY C HARLES C. STONE StaU Editor. The Times Improvement in employment in several Indiana cities was the outstanding development of the past week in business, a survey of the -state reveals. For the first time in several months the plant of the Chambers Manufacturing Company, Shelbyville, is in full operation in making stoves. Officials announce that orders totaling more than $250,000 have been bortced, insuring steady operation through this month and September. A force of more than 200 is on the pay roll. Better conditions are noted in the atone industry. A night shift has been put to work by the Bloomingten' Limestone Company and the American mill of the Indiana Limestone Company has been reopened. About 100 men are employed in the two plants. Several employes of the Guide Lamp Corporation, Anderson, who had been idle, have been recalled. 300 Work at Arcadia At Arcadia, the D. C. Jenkins Glass Company plant has resumed operations after a few months of idleness with 300 men employed. It is said the company has enough orders on hand to assure steady work for six months and that enlargement of the plant is being considered. More men are at work in the ' Calumet district. The East Chicago Docket Terminal Company has added 150 to its pay roll due to an increase in business. At Hammond, the Bates Expanded Steel Truss Corporation plant has enough orders to keep operation on a night and day schedule for three or four months. Early in August two new plants, the Lever Bros. 1 soap sac- j tory, Robertsdale, and the Calumet; Electric Casting Company. Ham- 1 mond. will be put in operation. *Many residents in the district re- ; ceived employment through re- • sumption of operations at the Ford Motor Company plant, Hegewisch. 111., which started with a force of | 2.400 men with an announcement i that steady operations would con- | tinue for a considerable period. Canning to Create Jobs About Aug. 15 the canning season will be in full swing throughout Indiana, affording several weeks’ employment for thousands of persons. More than 300 persons will ! be employed in Muncie alone. In the same city, 200 employes of the | Foster-Forbes Glass Company will i return to work Monday after being , idle thirty days. The following summary covers > conditions in several Indiana cities: | Greensburg— The K. of P. theater , is installing sound equipment and i remodeling the entrance and lobby. Elkhart—Plant and equipment of the bankrupt Lincoln Paper Mills will be disposed of at public sale here Wednesday. Muncie made at Ball State Teachers’ college here will cost $30,000. They include a new coal storage unit which will cost $20,000. $150,000 Spent at Mine Princeton—A new tipple is being erected at the King Station mine of the Deep Vein Coal Company at a cost of $150,000. It is expected the work will be completed by Sept. 1. j The mine will employ about 400 j men. ' j Crawfordsville —The Jerscke Wire j Specialty Company has filed articles j of incorporation with 250 shares of; stock valued at SIOO each and 900 shares of no par value. South Bend—Bids will be received Tuesday for construction of a SIOO,000 building for the Roach. Appleton Company, manufacturer of electrical equipment, which is to be moved here from Chicago. The Willida Dairy Company announces plans for erection of a SIOO,OOO building. CHICKEN-GARDEN CLASH Bone Thief Detective Worried by City Judge at Richmond. In Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., Aug. 1. A chicken and garden feud, with a horse thief detective angle, brought two men Into city court here. Judge Benjamin Ball dismissed charges in the case, with a warning to 'Walter Stikeleather. a horsethief detective association agent, to get •long better with his neighbors. The defendant in the case was Bcott Harden, the chicken owner. Youth Surrenders By Timet Special ROCHESTER. Ind.. Aug. I.—Admitting he was wanted in Hinton. W. Va., his home town, Charles Arnold. 19. surrendered here to Police Chief Ray Gordon. The youth said he was homesick and confessed so he could get back to Hinton, where he will face a prison term of two to fourteen years for jail breaking. He escaped from a jail where he was serving a six months’ bootlegging sentence. Postal Veteran Honored Unite* Press MUNCIE, Ind.. Aug. I—More than 100 postal workers and their families gathered here to honor Jame%, Manor, veteran rural route , who has completed thirty-two rs of service and has been retired. Edward Gainor. Washington, president of the National Associattoc cf was the

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This Parking Place Pool Is Knocking the Nation Dizzy

BY FRANK GETTY Cnitfd Pren Stall Correspondent NEW YORK, July 31.—1f this miniature golf business keeps on growing at the present alarming rate, there is no telling what civilization will /ome to. Already the*e pesky little outdoor pool parlors, which can be constructed with half a barrel, a few yards of lumber, a bath mat and a large-bore auger, have cut in upon this nation’s evenings with a vengeance—and no end of profit. The state of California is said

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“There'll be more of this next week. Hod.” "You’re dam right, Harry,” Patrolman Hod Eller promised. Eller, ex-Indian pitcher and captain of the policeman’s baseball team which will meet the fire department nine in two games at Broad Ripple park Aug. 5 and 6, and Harry Miller, leader of the firemen’s team, stopped in at

FEW CONVICTS WIN CLEMENCY Only Six Out of 115 Get Paroles or Shorter Terms. Bu United Pr*ss MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., Aug. I. Six of 115 men in state prison whose cases were taken up by the pardon board received favorable action through paroles and commutations. Vincent Neville. Marion county, serving two to fourteen years for false impersonation; Forest Gwinn, Madison county, one to five years for possession of a still, and William Cook, St. Joseph county, two to fourteen years for murder, were granted paroles. Commutations were granted Milton Warren, Morgan county, serving a two to fourteen-year term, commuted to one to fourteen, and Charles Lankford, Gibson county, two to fourteen years, commuted to one to fourteen. Jimmy Walker, Alexandria, serving a life term for killing two policemen, was denied a parole. He was sentenced April 3, 1911. Appeal of Charles First, Huntington, for commutation of his life sentence for second-degree murder, was postponed until the next hearing. He has served thirteen years.

GIRL RADIO SINGER HELD IN DEATH QUIZ

Bu United Press DETROIT. Aug. I.—A pretty young radio artist, Margy Mansell, 21, today was brought into the investigation into the gang murder of Gerald E. Buckley, radio announcer, following her arrest early today at her cast side apartment. She frequently sang over station WMBC, where Buckley was announcer. Police said Miss Mansell was a close friend of Pete Licavoli, alleged gangster whom they have been seeking as the key man in the Buckley slaying. When Miss Mansell was arrested detectives discovered she was in possession of Licavoli’s automobile. They impounded it. The young woman was held at the women’s detention home for questioning. Police refused to say if apprehension of Miss Mansell ends their

MISSIONARIES’ DAY IN CHINA NEAR END

Bv Times Specials NEW YORK, Aug. I.—The day of the missionaries in China seems to be rapidly drawing to a close,” says Hallet Abend, Peiping journalist, in August Curren History. After generations of effort and after spending millions of dollars, missionaries have converted only about 3,000.000 Chinese in a population estimated at 400,000,000. “Catholic and Protestant missions together have spent approximately $15,000,000 a year, but from the evangelical point of view with little result. • During the years of Chinese NationUist activity the missionaries in tprir seal to forward anything that might i mproye th Chinese

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✓to be supporting more than 2,000 of the darned things. In and around New York there is at least one in every speak-easy. From the Canadian to border, vacant lots toy golf hoops, u >ar: aves and knot holes until yourlare not turn a corner for fear of rurtning into a stymie. The latest intrusion of miniature golf in New York City has been upon the parking spaces in the Roaring Forties, which was like subtracting nothing from nothing in the first place. In be-

The Times office today u> tell the sporting editor how good they thought they were. They met at the door of the building, as amiably as two beaus on their best girl’s front porch. However, both agreed to abandon their evident attempts at murder and mayhem until after the ball was over, or not over, as the umpire will decide.

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having seen the man she later identified as Billings. In Thursday’s hearing Miss Smith could not say that the famous suitcase that Billings carried was light brown or just dark. MacDonald had called it “dirty brown.” Miss Smith carelessly let it out on Thursday that Billings* left her office with the Brown suitcases at about the time the head of the parade was passing her office. This was 1:51, as shown by a picture of her produced by the defense in 1916 and showing her jwaving a towel at Mayor Rolph, leading the parade. She apparently did not realize that thereby she impeached her fellow witness, John MacDonald, who had said he saw Billings or another man, now not Billings, plant a suitcase at the explosion scene at about the same moment. Governor Young is arranging for a hearing of MacDonald before his parden board in Sacramento, probably Saturday afternoon.

search for the woman who telephoned Buckley the night he was shot When detectives walked into the apartment of the pretty, darkhaired, brown-eyed local radio and cabaret singer, they immediately found evidence of her association with Licavoli. Pictures of them together were discovered, along with a mass of newspaper clippings which told of the Buckley murder, the attempt on the life of Police Inspector Joe Garvin last January, and the gang murder of Jimmy Walters, racketeer, several months ago. Arrest of Miss Mansell followed the arraignment Thursday of Angelo Livecchi, charged with murder In the Buckley slaying, and reports that grand jury action was to be demanded.

people, have campaigned in their home lands for this Nationalist cause. It has proved a boomerang, because the Nationalists attack Christianity as foreign and as a menace to the cause of Chinese unity and development. With the rise of the anti-foreign feeling, Christian missions, schools and hospitals have been closed, forcibly or voluntarily, and many of the missionaries have left the country. Even influential Chinese Christians are outspoken in declaring that the missionaries are “the agents of imperialism.” and nonChristian Chinese have oorne to consider Christianity as unpatriotic.

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tween building operations, while a vacant lot is awaiting the foundations of anew skyscraper, up pops a toy golf layout and up pop the cash customers. Strangers in the city peer under their beds at night to make sure a foursome is not in progress. The natives don’t mind. They are out somewhere, playing mifiiature golf. nun . A NOTHER insidious thing lx. about this toy golf business is that it has no more relation-

THOUSANDS ‘ON THE BUM’ IN HARVEST BELT i Shelbyville Man Describes Scenes in Wheat Area; Throngs Hungry. “I’ve bummed my way from Frisco bay to the rockbound coast of : Maine, to Canada and Mexico, and ! wandered back again.” This is the theme song for the i great horde of wandering willies, or [ the army of unemployed, which is | touring the country this season via t the box-car route. It numbers no less than 200,000, and represents nearly every walk of lifeT declares Loren W. Phillips of Shelbyville, just back from the nation’s great western wheats belt. Here is the story as he tells it: The present, unemployment situation has driven thousands of heretofore industrious men, young and old and even a of intrepid young women from their homes in search of work in the golden west. Hitch-hikers and freight train rid-' ers are to be seen at every hand, even in Indiana, but the Hoosier state is one of the least popular regions this summer among the knights of the road. Thousands “on Bum” It has been estimated that the hobo population of the United States is 20,000. These are tramps of the confirmed type, known to nearly every housewife. These gentry toil not and neither do they spin, nor could they be induced to accept a job requiring physical exertion or permanent residence in one locality. Although there are ten times more men “on the bum” than ever before, the ranks of the confirmed type have not increased appreciably and the regular back door beggars are held in supreme contempt by their fellow travelers. The greater number of the “army” is composed of youths, ranging in age from 16 to 25. A large percentage of them are from average good American homes and have been accustomed to working. The call of the 1 harvest has been heard from coast to coast and. answered with twenty-five men for every job. From the north, east, south and west, they have flocked into the grain belt, extending across Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas in such numbers that the farmers have taken every’advantage that is possible for an employer to gain from an employe, and $2.50 a day is the highest wage offered, but the greatest... number of workers in Kansas and Nebraska, where the harvesting is finished, received only $1 to $1.50 a day. Scores Ride Freights During the latter weeks of June, when the Kansas harvest swung into full blast, it was not an uncommon matter to see as many as 200 men “stealing a ride” on a freight train in that section. The Missouri Pacific lines were especially heavily patronized during that period and the cities along its route—St. Louis, Jefferson City and Kansas City, were swarming with bums. At a point midway between Jefferson City and the Kansas line, I witnessed a most striking example of present day hard tim£s. A Missouri, Pacific train of cattle cars on which more than a hundred men were riding, stopped for a few minutes in a small village and a number of the men left the train in search of food. An old man, working in a garden, pulled a large number of radishes, which had gone to seed and cast them into the alley, where they were pounced upon eagerly by fifteen men, who ate them ravenously. Willing to Work I witnessed a number of occurrences. equally touching. All of those men were willing to work—a regular hobo doesn’t eat discarded radishes—he brazenly begs for food and usually fares well, but it is most difficult for a red-blooded American workman, even in want, to ask for alms. The prevailing idea that men in such dire straits are of a low order, ignorant, unskilled or degenerate/ is quite wrong. I met and conversed with a large number of college students “on the bum” and some who even claimed to possess college degrees. A few of these, probably exaggerated their status, but not all of them. I saw one Phi 3eta Kappa key and quite a number of insignia denoting membership in lesser Greek letter societies during six weeks travels with the bums. I met teachers, salesmen, musicians, office workers, sign painters, aotors, shipbuilders, carpenters, brick masons, oil workers, steel workers, automobile workers, furniture workers, rafifroad employes, clerks, stevedores, coal miners, exsoldiers, sailors, marines and even a minister, all “on the bum.” Park Custodian Dismissed Bn Timet Special MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. I.—Gemie Mattingly, park custodian here, is free on bond, pending trial on charges of receiving stolen property. His job has been taken from hiiq. Police charge thbt Mattingly bought property from five Muncie boys which had been from a Greenville (O.) store.. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

ship with. golf than Davy Jones had with Bobby. Any one can play this parking space pool, and the average Broadwayite can give a scratch golfer six bisques and win. Certainly nothing has been so lipsetting to a quiet evening’s routine since tlje Maine Stein Song. And the worst of this miniature golf proppsition is its effect upon other sports, all of which now are showing a tendency to carry on after dark. In answering a questionnaire, Thomas Edison said that the time

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‘ALFALFA BILL’ TO LIVE IN GARAGE IF ELECTED GOVERNOR, HE ASSERTS

Whole Family Can Play in Times Toy Golf Meet You can hold a tournament within a tournament in The Times toy golf championship, with the entire family entering to see which Jones or Smith, if any, shall represent some course in the elimination round which precedes the championship play. Is mother, father, little Willie or equally little Mary the most adept at chaperoning the little white ball past the yawning traps and inviting water pans into the cup at which often is the end of a long, long trail? • ' Enter the family in the qualifying round which gets under way at eighteen city courses Monday. All you have to do is fill out a coupon entry blank which appears on Page Four of this issue, with a complete list of rules and other tournament news. Hand this blank to the manager of the course you want to represent in the qualifying round, before starting play. Remember, you may play as many qualifying rounds as you like, but only the four best rounds (72 holes) determine your place among entrants to the elimination round. -These will be the three lowest scoring men and three lowest scoring women at each course. No entry fee is required, but each must pay the regular course fee in the qualifying round. No charge will be made for the elimination and championship play. Turn to Page Four; Read the rules, fill out the blank and start practicing. Get set for the tournament grind which starts Monday, with the qualifying to be finished on or by Aug. 12.

FLEEING MAN SLAIN BY POLICE BULLET

Bu United Press SEYMOUR. Ind., Aug. 1. Fatal bullet wounds were inflicted upon Lee Mullins, Tennessee World war veteran, by Homer Phillips, Seymour police chief, during a* raid on a liquor still in a woods near Crothersville, Thursday night, when Mullins allegedly refused to heed the officer’s command to halt. Mullins and two other men were said by the chief and Otis Hays, his deputy, to be carrying a still when the command to halt was given. Phillips said Mullins wheeled as though drawing a gun, whereupon the officer fired at a ninety-yard

Luck—All Bad Bu Unit A Press • e> • RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. I. When a gypsy woman dropped a “lucky coin” into the pocketbook of W. F. Nichols, Philadelphia, S4O in bills disappeared, he told police heee. He had stopped outside the city, he said, when the gypsy stepped up to his automobile and offered him a luck piece. He opened his purse and she dropped in the coin. Upon arriving in the city he found his money missing.

for recreation was “alter the .sun goes down.” Edison would think of that, having a small interest in the electric lighting contrivances which make night golf, baseball, football, pclo'and racing possible. Those financially interested in regulation sized golf coursed, observing the financial, if not esthetic, success of the toy golf business, are installing lighting arrangements at country clubs. Daytona Beach is going in for auto rating at night. Baseball and football are played extensive-

• range, and Mullins fell dead. His companions escaped. No gun was found on Mullins, however. Phillips said the shooting so unnerved him that he and Hays made no attempt to capture Mullins’ companions. Twelve barrels of mash and the still equipment were confiscated. A conorer’s inquest at Crothersville is expected to result in a verdict that Mullins met death while resisting arrest. Mullins leaves his widow and three chiren, the edest 11.

THREE YEARS WORK : WIPED OUT IN FIRE

B.U Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. I. St. Benedict’s Catholic church here, which was burned within a few hours Wednesday afternoon, required three years to build. , The church was erected thirtyfour years ago, with Edward B. Farrell as superintendent. He came here from Colupfcus. Mr. Farrell died about thres months ago. Material included forty-four col-,

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ly under the glare of artificial lighting. Smaller fight clubs in the east are losing patronage and 'receipts because of the interest in miniature golf, and the whole world of sport is feeling the effect of the idea. The entire trend toward evening sport naturally is alarming scientists who have the future of the human race at heart. When a man picks up his putter instead of the evening paper after dinner, it is just another .step toward disintegration of the home.

Bu United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. I—ls William Henry Murray is elected Governor of Oklahoma, he will not live in the gubernatorial mansion, but in the garage behind it instead, the “Sage of Tishomingo” announced today, as it appeared more and more likely he would be successful in his race for the governorship. “I’ll live in the garage so I can have easier access to the* potato .patch,” said “Alfalfa Bill,” as his 'lead in the preliminary primary election race continued to grow and it appeared that November balloting might give him the right to be the next resident of the executive mansion. Murray was leading a large field in toe initial Democratic primary, ai.a w’as ahead of Frank Buttram, Oklahoma City oil milllionaire, almost two to one. * It was a victorious ccfmeback in Oklahoma politics, which has seen little of Murray in recent years. He helped give the state its start some years ago by writing its Constitution, and engaged in politics for a time, but the professions of school teacher, lawyer and farmer took his time in recent years. “The first thing I’m going to do when I get the governorship is to* fire the gardeners, move to the garage and start a potato patch,” Murray declared. “A Governor should raise his own victuals. I’ll rent the mansion.” “Alfalfa Bill” will enter the runoff primaries Aug. 12 against Buttram. It appeared for a time that his majority in the recent election might be so great there would be no need for a run-off, but Murray saw that returns were coming in slowly and agreed to the second primary, so printers might start work on the ballots. He says he will continue to make his appeal to the “common people.” Buttram, suave, polished, and exactly the opposite style of politician, will make his appeal to city voters.

’umns of stone which were the product of a quarry in Marne, Germany. The corner stone was taken from a quarrjF near Lake Superior. Decorations of the interior, which cost SIOO,OOO, were imported mostly from Germany. a Among the costly statues ruined by the fire was a bronze figure of St. Michael, a gift to the church from file lat#Herman Hulman Sr., pioneer Terre Haute budttess man. It cost $25,000 and three ton*.

RUSSIA’S VAST BUYING POWER CITEDFORU.S. World Can Not Ignore Land With A 50,000,000 People, Institute Told. LED BY STRONG MEN American Engineer Tells . About Progress of Experiment. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WILLI AMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 1. —Potentialities of the Russian market can be made of great mutual value to Russia, the outside world and ourselves, in the opinion of Colonel Hugh Cooper, consulting engineer and designer of a $45,000,000 hydroelectric plant and irrigation system now nearing completion in the Ukraine. He spent most of eight years in southern Russia. • Cooper spoke at the session of the Institute of Politics hei*p today. The world simply can't ignore 150,000,000 ‘ people, occupying onesixth the land surface of the globe, with natural resources greater than are to be found in all the rest of Europe put together, Cooper said, nor can it be denied that they represent a major problem in the world today. Has Great Buying Power “The peace treaties which the United States* has helped frame since 1918,” the speaker declared, are excellent, “but we know that treaties are worthless if not supported by an economic program that produces dependable and satisfactory standards of living. “These standards require natural resources and most of Eurppe’s natural resources happen to be in the Soviet union. Europe never can hope to enjoy satisfactory living standards until she secures a large new market for her. export production, and Russia has a greater potential buying power than can bo found in any other country. “If the United States proceeds intelligently, the potentialities of the Russian market can be made of great mutual value to Russia and the odtside world. “The world is making a big mistake in underestimating Russian leadership,” the speaker warned. Strong Men at Helm They are not mediocrities, or “a lot of common convicts,” as people outside of Russia so frequently classify them. True, he said, many Russian men and women went to prison because they rebelled against centuries of tyranny, but in prison they, had time to do a lot of serious thinking on how to improve the living conditions of the downtrodden. “We stand face to face with two radically different schools of thought,” said Cooper. “One is capitalism, and the other Communism. However much we differ with it, and however much we disbelieve in what it advocates and stands for, it is trying to compete with capitalism for world supremacy. “And in that competition Russia is led by strong men who sincerely believe they will come out victorious. Is Colossal Experiment “Communism,” the colonel declared, “is an expression of dissatisfaction with existing economic conditions, and when we consider that in Germany today more than 2,300,000 unemployed are receiving state aid, and nearly that number of unemployed are on the dole in England, we should not be greatly surprised if Moscow seriously believes a world revolution may be approaching.” Cooper views the Soviet idea as a colossal experiment which must run its course, either to success or failure. Such being the case* it is his belief that the world has much to gain by adopting a friendly and helping attitude. At the same time, he believes Russia’s international activities are a mistake, MRS.SARAH FRA2EUR IS TAKEN BY DEATH Funeral Services for Pioneer Woman Set for Saturday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday, in the West Side Nazarene church, for Mrs. Sarah E. Frazeur, 75, who died Thursday night at her home, 948 Ketcham street. A native of New Jersey, Mrs. Frazeur moved with her husband into the Nebraska territory when it was inhabited chiefly by Indians. The Frazeurs came to Indianapolis in 1896, and Winfield Scott Frazeur, her husband, died here in 1915. Survivors are four sons, Lewis E. Frazeur, and John E. Frazeur of this city; Winfield Scott Frazeur Jr., Lansing, Mich., and David O. FTazeur, Jersey City, N. J.; three daughters, Mrs. John Moncries, Bridgeton, N. J.; Mrs. Earl E. Fowler, Manchester, 0., and Mrs. Flmer Middleton, Dayton, 0.. three talfbrothers and two half-sisters in New Jersey; twenty-two grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Burial will be i Mt. Jackson cemetery, RATES TO FAIR MADE Rail Representatives Agree to Cut Prices on Tickets. Steam railroad representatives met with E. J. Baker, state fair board secretary, today and arranged for fair week excursions at reduced rates. During fair week, Aug. 30 to Sept. 6. all roads will offer a round trip tickets throughout the state at flfie gnd one-half fare. Several weekend specials at a single fare for round trips and one-day. specials also were arranged. Contractor Dies SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. .I. Herman Avery, 76, a veteran building contractor here, is dead here. He leaves four children, Daniul, tijja city, and Joseph, Columbus; Mrs, Lena Webb and Mrs, Edith Ricketts,