Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1930 — Page 13

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POLLUTION IN CITY AIRPORT WATERBARED Officials Admit Impurities Revealed by Health Board Tests. OBSTACLE TO OPENING Chlorination May Be Tried; Contractor Protests HalfPrice Pay. Pollution in the driven well at municipal airport, today stood as another obstacle to city officialdom their arduous efforts toward cany completion of the airfield. City works board members and airport, officials admitted existence of the pollution after tests by the city health board, but also stated a report by the state health board revealed the water was drinkable. Discrepancy in the reports, so far, has not. been explained. In the city tests, three showed bacteria in the water too numerous to count, according to the health board report. The city tests were made from water taken from the well by Paul H. Moore, airport superintendent; M. G. Johnson, engineer, and H. Gene Haynes, administration publicity man. Tests Made Secretly The tests weie made secretly and board of health employes refused to reveal the contents of the report or to show the report to The Times. A report finally was obtained after the situation was admitted by officials. That a state board test was made was not revealed until officials prepared to pay James Hensley, well contractor, only $4 a foot for the 513-foot digging. Hensley, according to E. Kirk McKinney, president of the works board, said he should have $8 a foot because the water was drinkable. The contract called for the latter price if the water was drinkable. Hensley, McKinney said, declared he had taken the water to the state board for the test. Hensley today was paid $2,052—a $4 a foot basis—- , and if future tests prove water drinkable, another similar amount will be paid him. McKinney stated. Tanks to Cost SSOO McKinney said further tests will be withheld until pumps are placed in operation at the well. Bids will he received on this equipment Oct. 20 and are expected to cost not more than $3,500. McKinney pointed out that chlorination tanks can be installed to purify the water if the tests prove impurities still exist. These tanks will cost about SSOO. officials said. If the water is found not to be drinkable, no more will be paid Hensley and the difference in cost will pay bottled water bills a “long time,’’ one official said. The well now in operation is the second dug at the airport. The first digging, ordered by the previous administration, and costing more than $3,000. failed. Digging of the second well, it is recalled, was met with objections by city officials who declared the territory was dry and water should be piped to the field. This would have cost the city approximately ■5130,000. it is said. HOOVER OIL PROGRAM ATTACKED IN SUIT California, Woman Challenges Order on Public Domain Land. B'J Srripps-Howard XrwsPaoer Alliance WASHINGTON. Oct. 16.—President Hoover’s oil conservation program again is under fire in the federal district court of appeals here, in the test case brought, by Mrs. Ethel McLennan of McKittrick, Cal., challenging the constitutionality of the order by Secretary of the Interor Wilbur. March 18. 1929. withdrawing oil and gas lands on the public domain from public entry. Mrs. McLennan was sustained in the lower court and the withdrawal order declared invalid. The case now is being heard on appeal and involves the whole controversy between the administration and the public domain states, which have opposed the Hoover program on the ground that, by stopping development, on their public lands, their revenues from oil leasing royalties have been restricted.

1,041 ARE ENROLLED IN NEGRO Y. M. C. A. Membership Campaign Closes With Victory Banquet at Branch. One thousand forty-one were enrolled in the Negro branch of the Y. M. C. A. during the thirtieth anniversary membership campaign which closed Wednesday night with a victory banquet, it was announced today. Division A. led by Dr. C. A. Lucas and Oliver Martin, won the prize for having secured the largest number of members, their total being 522 Division B. generaled by R. W Chamblee and R L. Brokenburr. reported a total of 488 members secured during the drive; thirty-one Century Club members were secured in the non-division group. Division A won 6.235 points, against 5,858 points earned by Division B. The trophy cup was won by Team 2. captained by Dr. W. E. Brown, and Team 4, captained by Dr E. D Moten; while the boys’ trophy cup was won by Roger Hurd's team. John A. Patton secured the highest number of members in the individual workers' group and Dr. C. A. Lucas secured the next highest, admitting them into the Double Gold Star division of the Royal Order of Spizzerinktum. A delegation from the Dayton Y. M. C- A. and from Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. attended the banquet

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SULLIVAN BACKS FUND raPAIGN Generous Pledges Asked by Mayor in Statement. Urging generous response to appeals for pledges to make up its $865,000 goal, Mayor Reginald Sullivan today issued a statement indorsing the eleventh annual Community Fund campaign. The campaign will begin with a meeting of 2,500 workers at 6:30 Friday night in the Claypool. G. M. Williams, Marmon Mosor Car Company president, will speak. “It seems to me that the annual Community Fund campaign which opens Friday is of unusual importance this year because of economic conditions which confront us,” the mayor’s statement began. “The raising of funds for the carrying on of organized relief work among the needy is a movement which should bring a ready response at all times, but especially is this so at this time when so many are unemployed.” The goal this year represents only basic needs of the thirty-five agencies of the fund, according to campaign leaders, and Arthur V. Brown, chairman.

SLAYING INDICATED IN CURRY’S DEATH

Automobile Theory Is Discarded by Coroner at Anderson. B w Times Special ANDERSON. Ind, Ott. 16 “Death from an unknown cause" will be the verdict of Earl Sells, Madison county coroner, leaving open for grand jury investigation, the circumstances surrounding the death of John H. Curry. 38. World war veteran, whose body was found at the side of state road 67. near the Indiana reformatory at Pendleton. Monday morning. Sells believes two bandits who

GOTHAM’S CHAMPION FIRST-NIGHTER DIES; ALWAYS ‘DOWN FRONT’ FOR 49 YEARS

BY PAUL W. WHITE . Unite*Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct, 16.—George Mayer, whom all Broadway had seen, but whom few knew, died today and thus was removed the most inveterate first-nighter in theatrical history. The statistics were amazing. He had completed forty-eight years of 8i tendance at premieres. He had purchased more than 12,700 pairs of tickets. He had attended more than S.OOO openings. And yet in this unparalleled regime of theater -going, he rarely became acquainted with actors whether in the distant days of the Goodwins, the . Booths and the Urines or the more modern era

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dream than Miss Ellen Shambaugh, 421 Bowman avenue, as she her treasure chest. Miss Shambaugh will play this pirate role in “Captain Applejack,” a comedy to be presented by the Indiana Central college dramatic club Saturday night in Kephart auditorium, University Heights, under direction of Miss Leora Weimar, as the closing feature of Indiana Central home-coming.

Alice Brady Named in Triangle Divorce Suit

By United Press DETROIT, Oct. 16.—Alice Brady, stage star and daughter of William A. Brady, New York producer, is named co-re-spondent in a suit for divorce filed here by Mrs. Bernice McClelland. The plaintiff is a daughter of Michael Wiesman, wealthy Detroit automobile dealer. She asks a decree from Donald C. McClelland, whom she married in March, 1929. after a romance which had its inception in the Civic theatre here, where McClelland had been playing juvenile leads. Miss Brady and McClelland now are in Atlanta, Ga., trying out anew show, in which Miss Brady has the leading feminine role. Mrs. McClelland alleges in her bill of complaint that Miss Brady made trips to Boston. Newport and Philadelphia with her husband and entertained him so frequently in her New York home that he made the Brady home his mailing address.

committed two holdups Sunday night, one near Anderson and the other in front of a restaurant at McCordsville, are connected with the solution. He believes Curry was slugged and robbed and his body laid at the side of the road. There were no marks on the body except some facial scratches which might have been sustained in a fight against assailants and a dent in the back of the skull which the coroner believes was inflicted by a blunt instrument. The theory that Curry met death at the hands of robbers instead of being the victim of a hit and run automobile driver was given weight by the fact that the body appeared to have been carefully placed at the roadside.

of the Barrymores, the Cowls and the wise-cracking Marxes The box-office tiesaurers. however, were his friends. He depended upon them to assign seats A-l and A-2 to him whenever anew play should come to, town. It. began back in 1881 when Mayer, then 17, just was beginning an apprenticeship in the corset industry. Even then he liked to spend his evening at the theater and on one memorable evening, a newspaper friend invited him to attend a first-night. a a a MAYER sat m awe through the now-forgotten play. But as colorful as. was the performance ■

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I. U. DEAN IS UNDER FIRE DF GDP. CHIEFS University Heads Wacned of Reprisals Unless McNutt Is Curbed. LESLIE DENIES INTEREST College Leader Refuses to Check His Democratic Activities. Warning to Indiana university officials against possible Republican reprisals on the university appropriations unless Dean Paul V. McNutt curbs his Democratic campaign activities was said today to. have been the subject of a conference between Governor Harry G. Leslie and Secretary John Covens of the university at Bloomington earlier in the week. McNutt launched a broadside against the Republicans over the radio Wednesday night and Leslie, returning to his office at the statehouse today, denied that he was interested in the matter. He said that he did talk over the university budget with Cravens, as he intends to do with other state institution officials. McNutt was “not officially” mentioned, the Governor declared. Cravens Takes Similar Stand Cravens had previously taken a similar stand. Asked by The Times whether Leslie had talked about McNutt’s activities in the campaign and warned of its effect on the university budget, he declared; “We talked only casually about such things.” McNutt is dean of the Indiana law school. Lellie was said to have pointed out that this was a fulltime job and he should stick to it. “Os course that’s true, but it wasn’t my business at that conference with Cravens,” he told The Times today. “One Is Still a Citizen” That McNutt intends no curtailment of his campaign activities became apparent when he told The Times today: “I’m not giving up my rights as an American citizen and I don’t intend to The university has been singularly free from political interference and not the slightest pressure has been exerted upon me from that source. One is still a citizen when he becomes a member of the faculty and retains all the rights of citizenship. . “I have heard indirectly that the Governor has commented on my campaign activity, but I do not contemplate any interference by the university nor retaliation by the legislature.” A Republican legislature might, if it chose to inflict reprisals, trim the university’s budget appropriations.

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LEGION TO INSTALL OFFICERS ON PLAZA John T. Couchman Is Elected New Commander of Post 4. Public installation of newly elected officers of Indianapolis post No. 4. American Legion, will be held Monday evening. Oct. 20. on the steps of the World war memorial, it was announced following the meeting and annual election Wednesday night. New officers of the post are: Post commander. John Turner Couchman: adjutant. E. P. Brennan; first vicecommander, Charles Mazey; second vieecommander, Louis A. Yochem. flnanc officer. Robert Tatmar.; chaplain. O’orge Gill: sergeant-at-arms. Thomas W. King; historian. Harold K. Batchelder; Americanism officer. Garrett W. Olds: settee officer. Fred F. Innis, and publicity office*. Ralph S Hesler. Members of the post executive committee are John Downing. Raymond Grider and Hiram Stonecipher

on the stage it could not compete with the show provided by the audience. Celebrities were gathered to stare and to be stared at. The wits of the time sprinkled their mots in the lobby at intermission. The women were dazzling. The youth vowed then that whenever possible, he would attend premieres. At first the money could not always be spared, but as he advanced to the presidency of the corset concern (a position from which he retired a few year| ago), he became an inevitable part of the theatrical scene. But was not conspicuous He was little and white-haired and circumspect in dref*. He was &

Alumni of De Pauw U. Will Be Back Saturday at Home-Coming

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Bu Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 16. De Pauw university is preparing to entertain hundreds of visitors at its annual home-coming, Old Gold day, which will be observed Saturday, The usual home-coming feature, an alumni chapel in Meharry hall, Saturday morning, will have as a speaker Eugene Gilmore, an alumnus, who was acting governor-gen-eral of the Philippine Islands from 1927 to 1928. Gilmore, widely known as a. lawyer and educator, was awarded an LLD. degree by De Pauw in 1922 and at Harvard was given the bachelor of laws degree in 1899. He "was in the Philippines from 1922 to 1930.

CASHIER OF CLOSED BANK FACES COURT

Alleged Embezzler on Trial at Liberty on Five Counts. Bu Times Special . , _ , . LIBERTY, Ind., Oct. 16.—Trial of William P. Kennedy, cashier of the defunct Citizens bank, is in prog'i gress in Union circuit court here. Kennedy is charged with embezzlement in five counts of indictments returned April 12. Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne overruled defense motions to quash the indictments and for a change of venue. Th bank was ordered closed by Thomas V. Barr, deputy commissioner of the state banking department, Oct. 29, 1929. The boo*ks showed demand deposits to be greatly in excess of cash on hand, Barr declared. Stockholders of the bank are Mrs. E. K. Bonnelle, president; A. K. Dubois, vice-president; William P. Kennedy, assistant cashier; Samuel Lambert and Mrs. Flora Kennedy. Elmer F. Bossert. Liberty attorney, who was appointed receiver for the bank, recently obtained a court order prohibiting the stockholders from disposing of any of their personal property, since, as the bank is privately owned, all property of the stockholders is considered assets of the bank. A special venire of seventy-five persons was drawn for prospective jury service.

CITY WILL RULE ON BUS ROUTE MONDAY Petition for Schools’ Line Permit Taken Under Advisement. Safety and works board members will rule on the petition of Logan J. Smith to operate a school bus line Monday afternoon. Hearing on the petition to operate busses to accommodate pupils of Technical and Shortridge high schools and students of Butler university was held before the boards Wednesday. The bus line is opposed by the Indianapolis Street Railway and the Peoples Motor Coach companies on the ground that it is not a public necessity. Night Students Increase Bjl Times Bverinl ANDERSON. Ind.. Oct. 16.—Reduction from $3 and $5 to $1 for registration in night school classes at- the senior high school building has increased the enrollment. There are now 266 men and women enrolled as compared to a first night registration of eighteen.

bachelor, and until his mother died two years ago, she almost always was his companion. There were about him a number of oddities that served to distinguish him from others. For instance: a a a HE always paid for his tickets despite >his acquaintance with managers and treasurers. If there were five openings on the same ni-ht, he would buy tickets to all of them, select these for the play he thought most likely to entertain him and give the others to friends. He never was late to a performance. Although New York curtains notoriously rise late, he al-

He is now dean of the University of lowa law school. Among the features of the day will be an edition of the De Pauw, student publication, sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, journalistic sorority. Francis Cauble, Chicago, will serve as editor in chief; Mary Niblack, Terre Haute, business manager; Jane Isaackson, St. Charles, 111., features and society, and Harriet Martin, Martinsville, managing editor. The program will include the annual freshman-sophomore scrap, the De Pauw-Illinois Wesleyan football game and a play at night in the Little Theater.

Fatty Arbuckle Is Divorced

Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16.—Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, once famous as

the screen’s heaviest comedian, was single again today as the result of a superior court order granting a final decree of divorce to Doris Dean Arbuckle, film actress. Friends said that Miss Dean, who married Arbuckle in 1925 and left hi m three years later, in-

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tended to marry Allan S. Lund, Los Angeles attorney, but the actress refused to confirm the rumor. Lund represented her in obtaining the divorce. SCHOLARSHIP IS URGED Law School Student Body in Move to Honor Dean. Motion to the executive committee to create a scholarship in honor of the late Dean James A. Rohbach was adopted by the student body of the Indiana law school at a smoker Wednesday night in the Spink-Arms. Henry M. Dowling, attorney, member of the executive board, was the speaker.

NOOSE IS FACED BY ‘SOFT-HEART’ KILLER

Brutal Slayer, Who Feared Sight of Blood in War, May Plead Guilty. Bti Vniter! Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., Oct, 16. Paul Kauffman, young athlete and steel worker, who could not stand the sight of killing - during the war, was reconciled today to the fact that he may hang because he murdered a girl in a moment of infatuation. Kauffman was expected to plead guilty this afternoon to the murder of Avis Woolery, 17, whom he lured to Kansas City, mistreated and then killed in a drunken frenzy. He confessed he stripped a stock-

ways was in his seat at the advertised time. Similarly, he always remained to the end and never criticised a play. He owed, he believed, a courtesy to the actors and the management. He did not cough. If he was suffering from a throat ailment, he stayed home, rather than risk annoying his neighbors. The correspondent recalls a time when, pursuing a “feature story” such a man naturally would lend himself to. he called at Mayer’s office where Mayer went for a brief period every morning. The telephone rang incessantly. a a a A GIRL asked him to intercede m her fehalX v : th & the-

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STATE SHOWS SOME GAINS IN JQBMJViDING Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Evansville, Terre Haute Noted in Federal Report. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—1 - ’ proved employment conditions in Indianapolis and other leading industrial centers of Indiana were reported by the labor department today, for the second successive month.

Terre Haute, Ft. Wayne and Evansville all reported overtime schedules effective in certain industries, although in each city there was still reported a surplus of unemployed in other lines. It is significant, however, that overtime schedules have not been reported from the state for a year. “While production schedules were increased and slight gains in employment occurred in several industries,” says the Indianapolis survey, “operations in a number of plants and factories were still restricted and considerable part time employment prevailed. The demand for skilled mechanics increased. Employment in the hosiery mills continued on a fairly satisfactory basis.” No change was reported in the great steel plants of the Gary region, but automobile factories throughout the state were speeded up in answer to the normal seasonal demand for new models. Overtime schedules were operative in the flour milling, metal products and automobile-accessory plants of Evansville. The October report showed a marked improvement over conditions reported in August and early September, when the drought losses aggravated the summer slack in industry. Terre Haute reported night work in canning factories and some improvement in bituminous mining production Ft. Wayne also reported night forces in several hosiery mills. Indiana conditions generally were in line with reports for the country as a whole. The stimulus of the seasonal spurt was widely felt throughout industry, but the pace was not quickened quite as much as in normal years. JOHN, FLO WILL VOTE Young C’oolidges Are Eligible to Cast Ballots in Mew Haven. Bu United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 16. The first time since they took up residence here more than a year ago, John Coolidge and his wife, the former ’ c ”orence Trumbull, are entitled to vote in New Haven. The former president's son and the Governor's daughter took the voter’s oath before Town Clerk Cataldo Massa Wednesday night.

ing from her, strangled her with it and completed the murder by burying the body in a shallow grave. “It looks as if I'll go to the gallows,” Kauffman said when told authorities would demand the death penalty. “I killed the kid and I'm sorry.” He revealed that he was convicted of bigamy after marrying a woman now living in Marietta, Pa., and another in York, Pa. “Women have been the cause of all my trouble,” he said. “I don’t believe I killed anyone in the war. Once my battery was caught in an attack and there was hand to hand fighting. I used a rifle, but I could not bring myself to aim at anyone.”

atrical manager. A promoter wanted to interest him in anew movie company. They were discouraged politely. Then a boxoffice attendant called to report in distress that by mistake, the usual Mayer seats for a forthcoming musical comedy had been delegated to a police commissioner. Mayer was aroused. He made a number of calls and finally succeeded in having the tickets transferred to him—at a cost of $16.50 each. Nothing could be more typical of the man except to rour.d out the anecdote by relating that he did not. after all, attend the musical comedy on the opting night. He went to another premiere.

WORLD PEACE NEARER, FESS TELLSTHRONG Accomplishments at Navy Conference Lauded Senator. PASTOR ALSO SPEAjKS Notables Give Addresses ai Opening Session of Teachers’ Conclave. \ “Chances of war have been re '- duced, the United States hi reached naval parity with Great t Britain, and rivalry on the seas hai 5 ended,” declared Simeon D Fess oi ' Ohio at the opening session of tha Indiana State Teachers Association! annual convention this morning atl Cadle Tabernacle. Fess’ address on "Recent Steps! Toward World Peace” followed a 1 discussion of “Some Problems on I Present-Day Teaching” by Dr. Al- I bert Parker Fitch of New York. ' Dr. Fitch said the real objective of education should be the teaching of American men and women how to use their minds constructively. Beginning with the move toward world peace, wffiich came to the fore, at the 1918-19 peace conference Fess described situations and problems w'hich confronted succeeding peace conferences, climaxed at, the London naval parley last, year. Opposes League Membership Fess said that “although the League of Nations has done great work for Europe, I have always opposed entry of this nation m the league.” The Washington conference of 1921, although a forward step toward peace, failed to fix a ration for construction of submarines, cruisers and destroyers and did not enter into an attempt to limit standing armies, the Senator declared. The Genoa conference broke up over the difficulty of seating the Russian delegates. Then came the Geneva protocol which stipulated certain immigration provisos and for that reason was Rejected by Great Britain. “A decided step toward peace was reached at the Locarno conference, which adopted treaties, all of which were ratified and secured any nation from invasion by another country,” Fess said. 51 Sign Kellogg Pact “The major movement culminated in the Kellogg pact, in which the signatories denounced war as national policy and pledged themselves to resort to peaceful settlement of disputes. Fifty-one nations signed the treaty which paved thej way for the London conference.” The latter pact did not “impair our first line of national defense, the navy,” he declared, “but has ended rivalry on the sea, reduced chances of war and has given us naval parity with Great Britain.” Entering upon a discussion of the American mind of today. Dr. Fitch declared the need of America is a generation that can “think through to a logical conclusion,”

Hits at, Politics Political supervision of education through state government was described as a hindrance to our education progress, for “all educators in state-controlled schools teach under the fear of the popular vote," he said. “The goal of popular education should not be a vocation goal although it is far wiser to train the youth in the major trades than to become parasites in colleges, but should be the teaching of the youth how to think. “American education never will be successful unless the teachers are cultivated, frank and courageous and are mental human beings,” he pointed out. A quartet from the Murat Chanters choir opened the program. Speakers were introduced by Ralph N. Tirey, Bloomington, retiring president of the association. Northeast Session Opens Bu Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Oct. 16.—With an attendance of more than 2,500, the annual two-day session of the Northeastern Indiana Teachers’ Association opened here today. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York, was the speaker at the opening session this morning. “The Task of a Teacher in a Democracy” was his subject. Two-Day Meeting Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 16.—This city will be host Friday and Saturday to the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Southwe tern Indiana Teachers Associate K. W. Hemmer, Vanderburg col :ty school superintendent, is head < the association. Ben H. Watt, head of the Owensville schools, is chairman of the executive committee. General and section me'-hgs will be held on both days of tr*c sci ’on. | Music will be provided by the . Jlj Southwestern Indiana high school i orchestra, Lincoln and Heitz high | school glee clubs and the Evansville college glee club.

HOOSIER GIRL IN LEAD Connersville Entrant Ahead in National Milking Contest. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 16.—Dorothy Wilwilhelm, Connersville, Ind, was leading today in the nine-day milkmaid’s marathon being held in connection with the national dairy show. Twice every day of the show each of the thirteen girls entered in the contest milks a cow. Seven of them milk Holsteins and the other six milk Dutch Belts. To date. Miss Wilwilhelm has milked 93.98 pounds of milk in a total elapsed time of twenty-four minutes. ~ Miss Essie McCullough, who totaled 84 83 pounds for the same time, was in second place and 19-year-old Miss Gloria of Pacific was in third place. The contest will end Sunday. *