Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1930 — Page 2
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DURANT PLANS NEW DRIVE IN AUTOJNDUSTRY Three Executives to Quit; Small Car to Rival Austin Is Hinted. By United Press DETROIT, Aug. 7.—Will C. Durant, financial genius, who twice has headed General Motors, today appeared ready to step Into the automobile Industry limelight again. Durant announced at Lansing that three chief executives of the Durant Motor Company would re-
tire shortly and indicated that Durant Motors soon would be allied with strong European automotive interests. Leaders of the automobile world and financial circles awaited Impatiently for Durant’s next move. For a year and a half he has been more or less in the background, having turned
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over the direction of the company he controls to others. It was understood he will not assume active direction of his company now, although there has been no intimation as to who will replace those men who are to step aside. The retirement, within the next few weeks of A. I. Phillips, chairman of the board; Frederick J. Haynes, president, and J. A. Nichols Jr., vice-president, was Durant’s principal announcement Wednesday. Three to Step Aside The three arc stepping aside, it was believed, to make room for new men expected to come into the Durant organization through the alliance with European automobile manufacturers. They are retaining their Durant holdings. While the report was not confirmed, It was believed the new Durant tie-up will result in the manufacture at Lansing of a small, low priced car to compete with the Austin, English-designed automobile recently introduced to the American market. Durant, dynamic and forceful, twice has seen General Motors slip from his control. The founder of the organization some twenty years ago, he lost control, then started the Chevrolet Motor Company, with Arthur Chevrolet as nominal head. Prominent in Industry When Chevrolet became powerful it was taken over by General Motors, and Durant went with it, back to his old concern. Again he was forced out of control around 1922, when the present controlling group came into power. It was not long, however, until Durant “came back" again, this time manufacturing the Star and the Durant He remained active head of his company until January. 1929, when he stepped aside for the leadership of the men whose retirement he announced Wednesday. GREET NEW MEMBERS Real Estate Board Welcomes Group in Session at Camp. New members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board were welcomed into the organization at a chicken dinner Wednesday night at Camp Delight, summer camp of the Y. W. C. A. northeast of Indianapolis. The new members are: Active. C. J. Corbin. R. E. Hueber. L. A. Lawrence. Leo H. McAllister, James T. Movnahan: junior. Herbert E. Barker. B. F. Claypool. K. Clarence Schortemeier. Harry L. Yelch: associate. W. 8. Birch. G. F. Bower. V. E. Bundridge. Henrv L. Dithmer Jr., Leo P. Gauss. H. E. Goldstein. C. V. Haris. A. F. Head. W. J. Hubbard. T. N. Meredith. D. O. Mvstrom. Sydney V. Romer. Wallace M. Welch and R. P. Hoffman. BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Arndt Group to Play at Fall Creek Park at 8 Tonight. Fall Creek boulevard park will be the scene of the Arndt concert band entertainment tonight at 8 p. m. The program of popular, classical and patriotic music will be presented under park board auspices. The program includes “The Firefly,’’ “The Desert Song.’* “The New Moon,” and “The Doll Dance.”
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Autoombtles reported to police as stolen belong to: Edward J. Hinton. 402 Esst Fifty-ninth street. Nash sedan. 6J-699. from Delaware and Market streets.
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Plans Sea Solo
Hoping to repeat Colonel Lindbergh's feat of a solo flight across the Atlantic, Capt. J. Erroll Boyd, above, has announced he will take off alone from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, for London soon in a swift Bellanca monoplane. Captain Boyd was the first Canadian aviator to enter the World war and was pilot of the Columbia’s non-stop flight from New York to Bermuda last June.
CRACKSMEN ESCAPE Woman’s Cry Frightens Two at Work on Safe. A woman’s cry saved two cracksmen from capture by a police emergency squad early this morning. When police squads made a silent run to the John Roeder pool room, 448 North Davidson street, where two crasksmen were reported at work, they missed the hunted men by thirty seconds due to the fact Mrs. Emma Russell, living over the pool room, saw the men and cried out from an upstairs window. One man had entered the pool room, according to Le Roy Wallace, 726 East Michigan street, who telephoned police when he saw them at work- The second pounded on the rim of an automobile wheel to deaden the noise while his companion knocked the combination off the safe. Unable to open it, the two were attempting to move it from the pool room and load it into their automobile when Mrs. Russell alarmed them. The automobile, stolen, later was found abandoned at Garfield park. POST SUMMER SCHOOL Enrollment in Fourth Annual Courses to Be Held Saturday. Enrollment in the fourth annual Butler university post summer school will be held Saturday and classes in the session will begin Monday, according to an announcement by Dean James W. Putnam who is in charge of the school. Courses will be offered in four departments by a faculty of four teachers. Last year 100 persons who were short in graduation or teachers license requirements enrolled in the session. Classes will meet six days a week and the school will continue until Aug. 31. Courses in botany, history, journalism and education will be offered, Dean Putnam said. Students who can meet the ordinary entrance requirements of the university are eligible to attend the session. RUM STEAMER BURNED Smugglers Beach Craft, Destroy It When Fight Fails By United Press NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug. 7. A charred hull was all that was left today of the speedboat Estelle of New York and the cargo of liquor it was believed to be smuggling ashore when overtaken by a coast guard cutter and fired upon. Seeing escape was impossible, the crew beached the craft in Gardiner's Bay set fire to it by cutting the gasoline line and fled into the woods. Former Howard Cos. Official Dead By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 7.—Jackson Morrow, 81, civil engineer, who at one time was police commissioner of Kokomo, and served likewise as Howard county surveyor, died at the home of his son Albert after spending his entire life in the county. The widow ard three sons survive.
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GUARD AGAINST ELECTIONFRAUD Tennessee Goes to Polls in Governor, Senator Race. By United Press MEMPHIS. Tenn., Aug. 7.—Tennessee voters were choosing party candidates lor senator and Governor today with rival factions keeping a close watch at the polls for possible election frauds. State and local issues were the
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chief points at stake, and national policies entered in only a casual fashion. Prohibition was no issue, for every candidate for important office in Tennessee is assumed to be dry. . .. The Horton-Gwinn race for the gubernatorial nomination drew the greatest attention. The candidates are Democrats. Gwinn forces centered their attack on Horton’s administration of highway funds. They indicated their fear of election frauds, particularly in Memphis. Cordell Hull and A. S. Todd opposed each other for the Democratic senatorial nomination, long term, and Senator W. E. Brock, serving the unexplred term of the late Sen-
a tor Tyson, was opposed by John R. Neal. Hull emphasized his friendship for the farmer and announced himself ready to support all practicable plans of farm relief. Todd promised, if elected, to lay before congress an intricate scheme of excess profits taxes, the revenue to be divided among the states for support of schools, highways, and public health workCedar Rapids Man Succumbs Bu United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 7.—William W. Delzell, 70, of Cedar Rapids. la., succumbed to heart disease in a Lafayette hotel. He was an insurance agent.
OR. BUEHLER TO BE BHD HERE Former City Leader Passes at Brownsville, Tex. Funeral arrangements are being completed here for Dr. Eugene Buehler, 58. former city board of health secretary and one-time editor of the Indiana Medical JournJ, who died at his home near Brownsville, Tex., Wednesday. The widow, Mrs. Jane Buehler,
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