Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1930 — Page 15

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$4,000,000 IN ORDERS GIVEN STATEPIANTS Automobile Parts and Stone Contracted for in Past Week, EMPLOYMENT TO GAIN Glass Factory at Muncie to Give Work to 175 Next Week. . '3Y CHARLES C. STOKE State Editor. The Times Orders booked by Indiana firms for a total expenditure of $4,000,000 was the outstanding development in business and industry during the last week a survey ended tocjay shows. The Auburn Automobile Company, with plants at Auburn and Connersvtlle, ordered $3,000,000 worth of products from Indiana plants, including the Schebler Carburetor Company, Metal Auto Parts Company, L, G. S. Devices Corporation, Arrow Supply Company, Hide, Leather and Belting Company, Zenite Metal Company, Sweitzer, Cummins & Cos., and the Oakes Company, all of Indianapolis; Slant Machine and Tool Company, Indiana Lamp Company and Central Manufacturing Company, all of Connersville; Marion Malleable Company, Marion; Delco - Remy Corporation, Anderson; Indiana Pressed Company, Muncie; Excel Curtain Company, Elkhart, and Russ Gear and Tool Company, Lafayette. Deliveries in all instances are to be started Jan. 1. $1,000,000 Stone Deal The Indiana Limestone Company, operating in the Bloomington-Bed-ford district, has an order i'or $1,000,000 worth of stone to be used in construction of the Mellon Institute building at Pittsburgh. The order, company officials announce, will insure steady employment in its plants for the remainder of the winter. The Pullman Car Manufacturing Company, Michigan City, has received an order for 500 refrigerator cars from the Santa Fe railroad, and will have 800 men on its pay roll by Jan. 15. Sale of anew six-cylinder tractor. a product of the AdvanceRumely Company at La Porte, is already in excess of the initial production schedule set for completion Feb. 23. Unemployment in Muncie will be reduced next week when 175 men will go to work in the Hemingway Glass Company plant. Milling Plant to Operate After being idle several weeks due to lack of orders, the Noblesville Milling Company plant, largest in the state, has resumed operations. It is said enough orders are on hand to keep the mill running until spring. During the week a reduction was made in the force of the Monon railroad shops at Lafayette. It is planned to resume operations Jan. 5. Steady operation of the DelcoKsmy Corporation plants at Ander- . on, with a prospect for better conditions in January, are announced fcv the president, F. C. Krueger. The N. N. Smith Cigar Company at Frankfort has been purchased by Tegge-Jackman Cigar Company of Detroit, and operations will be started Dec. 26 by the new owner, which announces that by Feb. 15 it is probable 300 to 350 persons will be employed $25,000 to Aid Industry Business men of Franklin have subscribed a fund of $25,000 to ass’'* E. Vernon Knight, New Albany, w recently bought the Franklin Man factoring Company plant, in gettii it in operation The plant is Fran’, 'iis largest employer. It man?c Lures desks. New machiner aicii will increase production neat - 100 per cent, is being installed i • be Louden Packing Company facory at Terre Haute. The E, G. Reece Canning Company plant burned at Waldron with i loss of $50,000 w.'U be rebuilt in the spring, it is announced by E. G. Reece. Sugar beet growers in Adams and surrounding counties are receiving checks for a total of $600,000 from the Holland-St. Louis Company at Decatur, representing 70 per cent of money due for beets delivered at the company’s plant. The remainder will be paid about Jan. 15. C. L. SMITH CO. WILL INSTALL AIRPORT LIGHTS •'irm Agrees to Do Work and Await City Payment Later. Building and field lights for the municipal airport will be installed by the C. L. Smith Electric Company following agreement of the firm to place the lighting equipment without cost at this time. The Smith firm had a low bid of $22,790 for the job, but since the city is without money pending litigation on the $75,000 bond issue, officials of the firm said they would install the lights within thirty days without contract and await payment later. The equipment, in addition to building appurtenances, includes: revolving and code beacons; electric wind indicator; obstacle and boundary lights; roof sign with eight-foot Jitters, and bed and apron flood lights. The only obstacle in the 320 acres is the building. Other bidders were: Sanborn Electric Company, 523.798 and Hatfield Electric Company, $23,820. The T. and A. W., cross-country line, will start daily use of the field when the lights axe installed. ShelbVvtlle Woman Buried By Times Special SHELBYVILUE, Ind.. Dec. 19. Funeral services were held here for Mrs. Lola M. Palmer, 50, wife of Marshall Palmer, who died after an illness of three weeks.

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FLAT BROKE, HAPPY

Bushman Runs Through Millions

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STEAL TO HELP WIDOWiJAILED Two Boys, 16, Give Poor Family Their Loot. CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—Two 16-year-old boys whom a destitute widow described as “good” because they gave her $230 worth of merchandise for Christmas, were in jail today charged with stealing. The boys, George Dicks and James Monton. were charged with taking the articles from a restaurant and giving them to Mrs. Alice Orr, 43, who has nine children, and whose husband died a month ago. The stolen articles included food cooking utensils, a radio and a clock. ACCUSED OF THEFT Negro Captured by Police After Store Robbery. One Negro was held by police today and five others are sought by police in connection with a grocery robbery. Tom RKtchell, 17, of 402 Albert street, was nabbed by Patrolman / Otis Tyner, who said the Negro was carrying a bushel basket of cigars, cigarets and receipts from the store of George Angleopolis, 166 Geisen-* dorff street. Angleopolis said a cash register, containing $340 and a •revolver, also was stolen. The looted register was found after Mitchell’s arrest at the Big Four railroad and Blake street. Police said Mitchell admitted complicity in the job, but refused to name the others. Mitdhell is held cn vagrancy charges pending further investigation. Tyner said he saw five other Negroes flee, but was able to apprehend Mitchell only. CRASH INJURY FATAL William Nolte, 75, Dies at Methodist Hospital. William Nolte. 75, R. R. P. Box | 108-E, injured in an auto crash at I Tenth street and Sherman drive, Monday afternoon, succumbed to his injuries in Methodist hospital today. His son Harvey still is in the hospital. HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGE Frank Ross Bound to U. S. Grand Jury After Booze Raid. Frank Ross, 1006 Fletcher avenue, late Thursday was bound to the federal grand jury under SIO,OOO bond*on charges of national prohibition law violation. Prohibition agents told John W. Kern, United States commissioner, they confiscated forty gallons of whisky in a raid on the Fletcher avenue ■ address.

Co-eds Seek Chorine Posts

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Here they are, Mr. Ziegfeld—first candidates for chorine jobs in the new edition of Butler university’s annual Fairview Follies. Caught by The Times photographer at their first rehearsal, the co-eds seeking chorus berths are (left to right) the Misses Margaret Ann Davis, Joan Boswell, Evelyn Wclfard, Dorothv Stewart, Jewell Martffl and Mary Stierwalt.

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Francis X. Bushman

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Few people could run through millions of dollars, earned by hard work, find themselves flat broke at 46, and still profess to be happy. Yet Francis X. Bushman, idolized scren hero of a decade and a half ago, finss himself in that position today and is able to say: “If I’d die tomorrow, there’s nothing I’d have missed.” Bushman’s fascinating story is told in an interview in the current issue of Photoplay Magazine. The actor, who made early screen history with Beverly Bayne as one of the pioneer “handsome lovers” of the screen, gives a frank account of the life he led and what happened to the fortunes he earned.* In thirty years on the stage and screen, Bushman earned around $6,000,000. At the height of his cai-eer, money was pouring in. About 1915 he bought a $1,000,000 estate in Maryland, with a great stable of hunting horses and $250,000 worth of magnificent furniture. Then came his marital troubles. “Two and a half years of litigation about my divorce,” he says, “ended in my getting nothing. Mrs. Bushman got mighty little after the lawyers were through.” * * * LATER, neglected income taxes and penalties took thousands more of his dollars. Soon he dropped out of the pictures. He went into vaudeville and managed to make $50,000 a year from that source and from his stock holdings. Then vaudeville passed into a decline and his income dwindled. Finally, the crash of the stock market wiped him out. Why did his fortune dwindle to the point where he had nothing left? he was asked. “I spent it,” he replied. “Never was money spent so joyously and no one ever could have had a better time than I did. I circled the globe thrice and I have visited more than forty countries. There still are some I am going to. That’s why I’m still plugging.” That is what he is doing. He has been playing the leading role in a stage play in stock on the Pacific coast, and expects to find similar work in the future, although he does not expect much revenue from the pictures, having been blacklisted by the producers. In 1929 he worked before the camera only sixteen days. “I am not a bit sorry I spent my money,” he summed up. “I had a whale of a good time. And I’ll always be able to earn a living.” HOSPITAL PLANTREADY Veterans Bureau Institution Bids Will Be Received Jan. 20. Plans and specifications for the new United States veterans hospital to be erected on a thirty-acre tract in the Riverside golf course on the west side of White river, have been received by the Chamber of Commerce, Wililam H. Book, civic affairs secretary, said today. Flans may be. viewed by architects and builders who will bid on the project, Book said. Bids will be received bj' the bureau Jan. 20 at the Arlington buildine, Washington, D. C.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1930

TERM IN JAIL CHANGES MIND OF LIQUOR FOE Jeffersonville Minister Plans Campaign Against Dry Amendment, GOES BACK TO PULPIT Through With 'Unwise Efforts to Make People Good by Law/ By Timet Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Dec. 19. —Back from Louisville, Ky., where he spent ten days in jail as a sentence for contempt of federal court, the Rev. Roy E. Davis, Pentecostal Baptist minister, announces that he will make a vigorous campaign against the eighteenth amendment j and the Volstead law. The minister came here six months ago and started a series of i revival meetings in an empty store j building. On his return, he found his followers had purchased the former Nazarene church building and were ready for him to resume his evangelistic campaign. Judge Dawson sentenced the minister for clapping his hands after a federal charge against him had been dismissed. The minister denies he applauded. “I believe that the church made a terrible mistake when it forced the passage of the eighteenth amendment and supporting dry laws,” the minister declares, ‘‘bringing in an era of lawlessness and corruption without making any reduction in the evil of drunkenness. ‘‘While I was serving the contempt sentence,” the minister said, “I came in contact with many prohibition law violators who are not criminals and who never would have been sent to prison had the eighteenth amendment and Volstead law been enacted, because they respect other criminal statutes, but have no respect for the dry laws. I am done with unwise attempts to make people good by law and in the future will devote by efforts to preaching the gospel. I am a teetotaler myself, but I have no right to dictate to others what they shall eat and drink, and would cause more harm than good if I tried to do so.”

Film Stars to Wed

FIVE KILLED IN CRASH Sixth Man Injured as Auto Strikes Concrete Culvert Abutment. By United Brest LEWISBURG, Pa., Dec. 19.—Five men were killed and one injured when an automobile in which they were riding crashed into a, concrete abutment of a culvert near here earlv today.

Hunters to Fill Yule Baskets

HUNTERS of the city today joined the drive to assure every family in Indianapolis of a bountiful dinner on Christmas day. They promised to put it over with, a bang, literally as well as figuratively. A double portion of pleasure is promised every hunter who’ll join the drive, which originated with G. A. Myers of the National Refining Company today. They’ll get their sport and they can donate the game to needy families for their holiday, feast. Rabbits, driven from their usual haunts by the drought, are unusually numerous in this section now, states Myers, and he is leading a movement for every hunter to fare forth, bag the limit, and turn the game over to the City Employes and Citizens’ Relief Association, to be placed in Christmas baskets. Otto Ray. police captain in charge of association headquarters at 225 North Alabama street, has promised to arrange for refrigeration of all game

ALLEGED FEUD KILLERS HELD Two Brothers Being Returned to Salem Jail, By United Press SALEM, Ind., Dec. 19— Sheriff Milton Trinkle is expected back from Tennessee today or Saturday with John anl Pleas Spurlock, brothers, suspects in the slaying of Patton Gibson, farmer, Sunday. The Spurlocks were arrested while fleeing through Tennessee. Witnesses testified at the coroner’s inquest that Pleas Spurlock shot Gibson through the back, while his brother held the victim. Both the Spurlock and Gibson families came from Tennessee, and it is believed that a family feud existed between them. All three men were armed for a pre-arranged meeting Sunday, it is .said. LEGIONNAIRES AID POOR Hilton U. Brown Jr. Post Donates Canned Goods and Clothing. In co-operation with the Police and Firemen’s post of the American Legion, members of Hilton U. Brown Jr. post have contributed hundreds of cans of canned goods, a truck load of clothing and other supplies to families irracute need, post officers announced today. Members of tjie post are devoting Saturday afternoons to distributing supplies. Swimming Pool Bonds Denied Danville, Ind., will have no municipal swimming pool as the result of denial by the state tax board today of a proposed $15,000 bond isI sue to construct the pool.

Dorothy Sebastian

By United Frets LAS VEGAS, Nev., Dec. 19. William Boyd, serein star, and Dorothy Sebastian, also of the films, flew here to be married to-

today, and immediately after the ceremony will return to Hollywood. They were accompanied here by Mr. and Mrs. Adolph L. Shufer. Boyd’s first wife was Elinor Fa ire, who played with him in “The Volga Boatman,” the

picture in which he _ gained his first screen success. Their divorce was signed Nov. 16. Miss Sebastian also had been married before. Boyd recently changed his film name to Bill Boyd, to avoid confusion which arose when William Boyd of the stage entered motion pictures.

A Correction

An enor in the noon edition of today’s Times in the last paragraph of the Clinton bank bandit story made it appear that George W. Langley was identified “as” Chauncey A. Manning, instead of “by” Manning. The Times apologizes. Serving as investigator with the bureau of criminal investigation and Identification, since its inception, Manning has identified hundreds of suspects for state and municipal police throughout the state.

Young Michael Cudahy and Wife Drop Divorce

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19.—Michael Cudahy, son of the millionaire meat packer, and Muriel Adele Cudahy, formerly Muriel

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stalled when Cudahy was arrested on complaint of his mother, Mrs. J. P. Cudahy. His wife sued him “for divorce on grounds of cruelty and incompatibility, and was awarded a, decree on Oct. 25. , “I won’t apply for my final decree, which means we never really were divorced,” Mrs. Cudahy said today. “We were always friends, and we’re still man and wife, you know. I’m very happy.” QUIZ ON KILLING TO BERESUMED Youth * Will Face Further 'Grill’ on Murder Story. Police here today awaited arrival of the Hamilton county prosecuting attorney for further questioning of Charles McCammon, 19, of 20 McLean place, in connection with the murder of Owen Crickmore, filling station attendant, on Allisonville road in September. Grilled several hours by detectives Thursday, McCammon named Floyd Strange and Robert Ingersoll, now in prison in California, as the trigger men in the slaying. Strange and Ingersoll were arrested ift San Diego, Cal., several weeks after Crickmore was shot, and are serving six months’ sentences there for implication in a holdup. In a lengthy statement McCammon said Strange; Ingersoll and a fourth man took him in their auto, ; saying they were going to Nobles - ville to get liquor. They stopped at i the filling station, and Strange and Ingersoll entered,' the youth de- | dared. He heard a noise like the explosion of an electric light bulb, and the pair ran out with a shotgun. Circkmore shouted after them: “I’ve got your license number,” McCammon related. LIVESTOCK BURNED Cow, Horse Die in Flames on Farm Near City. A horse and cow died in flames that consumed a bam on the farm of Mrs. Martha Blum, Tibbs avenue and Fifty-second street, early today. Origin of the bjazfe is uni known, and loss was placed today | at between $1,200 and $1,400. City fire equipment was called by two Indianapolis policemen who observed the fire from Tenth street and Tibbs avenue, but firemen were forced to fight the flames solely with chemicals. There is no water pressure in the neighborhood. Besides the stock, a number of farm implements and a large amount of feed was destroyed. MARTIN BARNHIZER, SS, RETIRED GROCER, DEAD Spanish-American War Veteran Will Be Buried oa Saturday. Funeral cervices for Martin Bamhizer. 59, retired grocer, will be held at the J. C. Wilson undertaking establishment, 1230 Prospect street, at 2, Saturday afternoon. Mr. Barnhizer, veteran of the Spanish-American war, died Thursday of heart disease at his home, 1030 Spruce street. He was born in Noblesville, but came to Indianapolis with his parents, in early youth. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Jennie Barnhizer; a son, Lpon Barnhizer of Hollywood, Cal.; three sisters, Mrs. Hattie Townsend, Mrs. Maude Sisloff and Mrs. Victoria Shade of Indianapolis, and a brother, William Barnhizer of InI dianapolis. 1 BANDITS SMASH WINDOW Store Front Is Broken Thrice in Three Weeks; Steal Overcoat. Window smashing bandits for the third time in less than three weeks early today hurled a brick through a plate glass display window of the Charles C. Hauger clothing store, 233 Massachusetts avenue, and stole an overcoat, valued at $21.50. Officials of the store told police the expense of replacing the glass broken bit the thieves in the three robbery attempts nearly exceeded the value of stolen clothing.

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turned over to his organization. Different groups, lodges, etc., Christmas baskets of food, will be given allotments from the stock. An appeal is sounded to farmers, whose lands ordinarily are posted, to allow hunters a day or two of shooting, to advance this worthy cause, and farmers also are urged to donate the game they bag during a day’s sport. “It’ll just cost the hunter a few shells, and he'll be more than repaid by the sport he gets,” says Myers. "Then he’ll have that extra good feeling that he's helping someone who needs help far more than he possibly imagines.” Hunters who are ■willing to join the drive can communicate with The Times for any further information. Any game shot up to Wednesday evening will be accepted gladly at. “Bag the Bunnies” headquarters. Any game will be welcomed, except the farmer’s cow, says Myers.

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Evans, film actress, admitted today that they! have become reconciled and will not allow the divorce granted Mrs. Cudahy last*. October to become final. The couple eloped to Riverside after a previous elopement to Santa Barbara was fore-

LYNCHING TRIAL STARTS DEC, 29 Marion Poolroom Owner to Be First Defendant. Bob Beshire, Marion (Ind.) poolroom proprietor, will be the first of seven alleged leaders of the mob that lynched two Negroes there Aug. 7 to be placed on trial. Attorney-General James M. Ogden today informed Judge O. D. Clawson of Grant circuit court that Beshire is his selection for the first trial, opening Dec. 29. Judge Clawson previously had set the date, leaving Ogden to name the first defendant. Beshire and six others, three of whom are fugitives, are charged with active participation in the lynching, an offense carrying the penalty of life imprisonment or death upon conviction. Beshire and three others entered pleas of not guilty when arraigned. The case of the Grant county sheriff, Jacob Campbell, charged by Ogden with failure to prevent the double hanging, on Campbell’s motion to quash, on which hearings have not been held.

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By United Prett CINCINNATI, Dec. 19—Fritz Reiner, director of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra, has resigned and will be succeeded by Eugene Goosen, present director of the Rochester (N. Y.) Philharmonic orchestra, it was announced today. Reiner said he was negotiating with another organization, which he declined to name. He said he considered his work here completed and “he had accomplished his purpose” in coming here nine years ago. Gocsen, 37, came to America from England seven years ago. Horse’s Kick Fatal EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 19. Funeral services were held today for Harry Lant, 61, farmer and dairyman, who died as a result of being kicked by a hors^_

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NEW MAPPING FOR CONGRESS PROVES VEXING.. 'i' Both Parties in State Fac# the Apportionment Task * in Worried Mood, LAST CHANGE IN 1911 Twelve Districts Will Replace Thirteen With 300,000 Each. BY BEN STERN, Reapportionment spells "headache” to the leaders of both major parties who within a few weeks will bs scrapping to gain the advantages in the first redistricting of the state since 1911. Under the new apportionment plan, the thirteen Indiana congressional districts will be divided into twelve, with approximately 300.000 inhabitants each Gerrymandering of the state in 1 order to create districts which will i be permanently Republican is the I problem of Elza O. Rogers. G. O. P. I state chairman, and his advisers, v and the reverse is true of R. Earl f Peters, Democratic chairman. "When you have comDleted the 1 gerrymandering, what have you. got?” is the question. Democrats Sought Control JP In 1911, when the state was last zoned, the northeast corner was carved into the Twelfth district with the intent of assuring its permanent control by the Democrats. In the election of 1912 Representative Klein, a Democrat, was re-elected, but in 1914 the district went into the Republican column and has remained there. The results of the last election have "gummed up the works,” it is said. Districts which always have been safely Republican, went Democratic and the previous lineup of ten Republican and three Democrats was reversed. "Can this change be permanent?" is the problem of G. O. P. leaders and with this in mind, they are approaching the task of rezoning with trepidation. The opposite is reflected by the Democrats who feel that the 1930' election showed the true state of affairs and the results can be used to their advantage. Unique Possibility Here, for instance, is a, possibility, but not a probability of redistricting: Tn the event that members of the apportionment committees would want to mix up the situation, they could put Marion county into six districts. Center township has a population of slightly more than 300,000. That could be one district. The statutes provide a county may be divided in any manner for redistricting purposes as long as precinct and township boundaries are followed. The southern half of Marion county thus could be split up so Decatur township would bo in the Second district and Perry township in the Fourth district. Lawrence, Warren and Franklin townships could be in the Sixth district; Washington township in the Ninth district, and Pike and Wayne townships in the Fifth district. Os course, such a partitioning of Marion county is not likely, but it presents a peculiar angle of the problem. * Because of its population, 422,666, Marion county must be divided. This could be done by creating one whole district and part of another. If the Republicans can control the situation they will, it is intimated take the northern half of the county, which votes Republican except in rare intervals, and make that one district. The southern hali. normally Democratic, could be cut off and made a part of the consistently Democratic Fourth district. The Tenth and Thirteenth districts must be reduced because they are oversized. In that event, Lak<-. Porter and Newton counties coulci be made into one district; which but for the exception of this year, have always been in the Republican column. It is safe to say that the districts north of Marion county have consistently returned Republican congressmen. \ North Republican The majority of the population of the state outside of Marion county lies north of it. In rezoning a majority of the districts must necessarily lie north of here and that section, unless more skillfully divided than before, can be all Republican. St. Joseph county, which in the past twelve years has gone four ! times Democratic and three times Republican, is the disturbing factor po the G. O. P. strategists in remaking the Thirteenth district. That county alone has a population of 160,033 and can be formed into the nucleus of a Democratic district. By simply taking the consistently Democratic counties of Wells and Adams and the usually Democratic county of Jay from the Eighth and adding them to the Twelfth, that | district could be made Democratic. By shuffling pocket counties, the First district can be made permanently Democratic without impairing the usual lineup of either the Second or Third district. Countless possibilities cm the other hand are offered from the Republican viewpoint for giving their opponents but two districts out of the twelve. Because of the small population in the Democratic Second. ; Third and Fourth districts, which : added together do not total 600,000, ; they can be sliced into two congressional zones. A. re about this will be heard w) n the general assembly gets uruerway and both parties will be grappling for favorable holds. There is, of course, the possibility that in order to gain passage of desired measures, the proposition may be traded about an r end up as simply a means of furthering log-rolling.