Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1931 — Page 6

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SUCCESS STORY: OSLER ‘ACTING' TITLE DROPPED Made School Grounds Chief and Given Secretary; No Salary Hike. BY BEN STERN This is a success story. It is the tale of how' H. F. Osier today erases the word “acting" from in front of the title and now stands forth as a full-fledged superintendent of buildings and grounds for the Indianapolis board of school commissioners. The school board evidently recognizes merit when it meets it. The promotion all happened at the board meeting Tuesday night, when Osier came to the meeting an “acting ’ and walked out a “superintendent.” No Salary Increase The reward, a change in title, carries with it no salary increase. That remains at $5,000 a year. If the board issued citations, it would read that “because Osier figured out a manner of moving eleven portable schools from one site to another and connecting nine of them to steam plants at the various schools for $35,450; and because he figured out a way to effect a yearly saving of $9,527 without discharging any one or cutting the wages in his department, he shall no longer be known as ‘Acting’ but as ‘Superintendent.’ ” The board apnroved both plans at the Tuesday night meeting and the change in the title. Osier saw to it himself that he has a secretary.

Title Is Changed That was comparatively simple. His report to the board recommended that “the title of stenographer M. H. Marley be changed to that of secretary to the superintendent of buildings and grounds, at the same salary.” The business of saving $9,527 a year is worthy‘of the attention of the nationally renowned efficiency engineers. According to the explanation of A. B. Good, school business manager, made after the meeting (nothing ever is explained at the meeting) the nine foremen in the various subdivisions of the buildings and grounds department will be foremen no longer. They will draw the same salaries, computed on an hourly scale as before, but will work. That, according to Good, will obviate the employment of additional help. No Dismissals But, added Good, no one will be dismissed. He could not explain how, if no one was going to be dismissed and no salaries were going to be cut, a savings of $9,527 a year would be effected. However, this is a "success" story, bo why bother about figures? The portables to be moved for $35,450 included two from School 29 to Broad Ripple high school; two from No. 69 to Washington high school; three from No. 82 to Arsenal Technical high school; two from No. 77 to Crispus Attucks high school; one from No. 49 to No. 68, and one from No. 19 to No. 82. Today is the high spot of Osier’s career. A year ago when Carl Eurton, then superintendent of buildings and grounds, resigned, Osier was his assistant

ARRESTS FEWER IN COUNTY DURING 1930 Total More Than 8,000 Below Previous Years, Report Shows. Despite the “economic plight of many Indianapolis families" the number of arrests on criminal offenses in Marion county , dropped during 1930 to 22,000, the first time in three yea.rs the total was below 1 30,000. This was revealed today in probation report of the four municipal courts, compiled by Solon C. Vial, chief probation officer, and is■ued by Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Drunkenness brought 494 persons under the supervision of the probation department during 1930. Speeding was the offense bringing the second highest number of persons before probation officials. SEEK OLD FURNITURE Family Welfare Society Asks to Aid Roomers. Now that June has inspired hundreds of families in the city to refurnish their homes, the Family Welfare Society is making a plea for the discarded furniture. On the society’s books are listed 282 families living in furnished rooms. Many of them have lost their furniture in the past year and are anxious to re-establish their homes. The society will take furniture replaced by new pieces and distribute it among these families. 575 TO BE GRADUATED Shortridge Commencement Slated Tonight at Cadle Tabernacle. Tonight at 8 in Cadle tabernacle, 575 seniors of Shortridge will finish their high school careers. Student speakers will deliver addresses, and Russell Willson, president of the school board, will award the diplomas. Music by the Shortridge orchestra and a double quartet of student singers, will complete the program. Principal George Buck will preside. OPPOSES PAPER SALE Mrs. McLean Confers With Attorneys In Post Disposal. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, June 10.—Mrs. Edward B. McLean, estranged wife of the owner of the Washington Post, arrived today from Newport, R. 1., to discuss with her attorneys proposed sale of the newspaper to David Lawrence, publisher of the United States Daily. Mrs. McLean said before leaving Newport she would oppose the sale. Delay Sixteenth Street Work Minor delay in widening of Sixteenth street, between Delaware street and Northwestern avenue, was made today by the works board in rescinding all action on the improvement to prepare anew resolution. The board wishes to make a®parate contracts for the street |~rt sidewalk construction.

Deaf School Pupils in Annual Antics

Pupils of the Indiana School for the Deaf, Forty-second street and Monon railroad, displayed their activities Tuesday at an “exhibition” day. Dr. L .A. Pittingsr, superintendent, was in charge. Upper Photo —Members of a gym class, taught by Miss Lola Pfeifer, in a mimic “chariot” race.

PERU GREETS STATE EAGLES Many Prominent Men on Convention Program. By United Press PERU, Ind., June 10.—Delegates representing the 35,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Indiana met here today in the annual state convention. Many of the order’s outstanding leaders are on the program, which continues through Thursday. Scheduled for addresses are Robert E. Proctor. Elkhart, national president, and two others who have held that office, Frank E. Hering, South Bend, and Otto P. Deluse, Indianapolis. Other speakers include Louis Ludlow, Indiana representative in congress; Adolph Fritz, secretary of the Indiana Federation of Labor; Boyd Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis Times; James J. Nejdl, state senator; Lowell Neff, Logansport, and Wallace J. Dillingham, deputy national auditor. Following a reception by the Peru aerie, the convention was scheduled to begin at 1 p. m. with John B. Hudson, mayor of Lafayette, president of the state order, presiding. Addresses of welcome were to be made by Mayor John J. Yarling, Peru, and William Welsh, president of the Chamber of Commerce. O. L. Grimes, Terre Haute, was to respond. Appointment of committees and reports of officers made up the remainder of the first session's program. Election of state officers and a delegate to the national convention in Toledo the week of Aug. 10 and selection of a 1932 convention city will bring the convention to a close.

FAMOUS FILM STAR BOOKED AT LYRIC Belle Bennett Started Her Stage Career in a Cradle When She Was Still a Baby in Her Mother's Arms. BELLE BENNETT was born on a “show boat.” Her father, the late “Billy’’ Bennett, was the owner and manager of one of these floating theaters, that supplied the folks of the river front with drama. Mrs. Bennett was the leading woman and at the age of 5 weeks Belle made her debut. One of the plays called for a baby. A prop had been used but it was decided as a touch of realism to use a real infant so the baby was substituted for the bundle of rags. With the exception of the time spent in school Miss Bennett has

been on the stage ever since. Her father abandoned his “show boat” for a “wagon show” —a dramatic company that toured overland by wagon visiting towns off the railroad. Competition on the Mississippi had become keen and Bennett saw greater profit playing in the middle west- where “troupes” were scarce. Miss Bennett was then 3 : i years old and she was cast for boy and girl parts alike. One night she was little Eva in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the next night Mary Morgan in “Ten Nights in a Bar Room.” The wagon show prospered and soon grew into a “tent show” and finally became the largest organization of its kind on the road, ten railroad cars being required to transfer the tents, scenery and company from town to town. By this time Miss Bennett was 11 years old and had developed into a full-fledged leading woman, intrusted with such difficult roles as the girl, in “The Girl of the Golden West." The company was playing Walla Walla, Wash.; a motion picture director was in the audience. He predicted a brilliant future in the films for Miss Bennett and she went to Calif ora*. on his advice. .. y - - -

The “drivers” stood on the backs of the “horses,” who raced around the gym on padded hands and knees. Insets—Le Roy Turner (left) of Grade 11A and Miss Beatrice Hoover (right) of Grade 9A. They received honor medals for having the best all-around grades of the 400 pupils.

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They Quaked By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 10.— “It’s an earthquake!” shouted someone. And courthouse attaches and county officials dashed from their offices Monday and headed for the great outdoors as a great crashing and banging disturbed the austere serenity of the courthouse. It wasn't a quake. It was a 400-pound weight, attached to the clock, which had fallen from its mooring in the tower and crashed through two floors of the building, its descent was halted when it struck a pile of lumber on the third floor. No one was injured.

0. L AIRPORT WORK $12,000 Grand Stand Plan Approved by City. Decision to construct a 500-seat grand stand and other improvements at municipal airport costing approximately $12,000 was reached by the works board today. Projects to be undertaken include extending the Raymond street entrance to the airport west and south to the administration building, constructing anew concrete service apron connecting the present apron with the northeast, southwest runway, and building, a concession stand and ticket office. The grand stand, concession stand and ticket office will be north of the administration building. Bids on the work will be received probably late this month.

Her first mother role was in “Stella Dallas" and she has never been able to play any other kind of a part since then. In “Lady Taylor—Waitress," the one-act playlet which Miss Bennett will present as the headlined act on the Lyric six-act vaudeville bill, starting next Saturday, she will again play a mother. She is said to be under contract to return to California to play Martha Washington in the film story of the life of George Washington. A company of four Hollywood players support the star in her personal .appearance sketch at the Lyric. “Stepping Out,” an M-G-M comedy romance, with Charlotte Greenwood. Reginald Denny, Leila Hyams and Cliff Edwards, in the leading roles, will be shown on the screen. # # u v Indianapolis theaters today offer: "Strictly Dishonorable” at English's, “The Maltese Falcon” at the Lyric, "Laughing Sinners’ ’at the Palace, “Young Dona van’s Kid" at the Circle, “Born to Love” at the Ohio, Brooke Johns at the Indiana, “Daddy Long Legs" at the Apollo, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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Below—Tap dancing class of sixth grade girls, taught by Miss Pfeifer, who had a prominent part on the program. Booths exhibiting printing, woodwork, needle craft and other handcrafts, music, athletic awards and other entertainment were features.

Midnight to Mark Close of Voting in High School Competition. With close of voting just a few hours off in the Lyric-Times free trip to Washington contest, friends and relatives of candidates now leading and of the runners-up are expected to pour in the ballots. The Times and the Lyric are sponsoring three five-day trips to Washington, D. C., on the Pennsylvania railroad, for the most popular high school students, one boy and one girl, and the most popular teacher. The voting has been in progress for two weeks and some of the candidates have piled up heavy totals. At 4 p. m. Tuesday, Richard Harold, Technical high school, led the field with 80,500 votes, his nearest competitor was Abie Bortz, also of Tech, with 20,800 votes. Race Is Close It still is anyone’s race among the girls, Miss Grace Gabbard, Tech, leading with 14,800 votes and Miss Birdie Williams, the same school, following closely, with 11,600. Mrs. Eastland, popular instructor at Tech, has piled up more than 2,000 votes over her nearest competitors. Unless some exceedingly heavy voting is done today, it is not expected that the standing of any of the leading contestants will change much, other than the race between the girls, who now stand just 3,000 votes apart. The party will leave for Washington Sunday, June 14, at 7 a. m., with the Pennsylvania summer vacation tours. Returning June 18, after seeing the sights of the national capital, and many other interesting side trips, such as a boat ride on the historic Potomac river to Mt. Vernon, a visit to Annapolis, Arlington National cemetery, and various other famous national buildings and spots of interest. Every Item Paid Every item of the trip will be paid by The Times and the Lyric. This includes round-trip fares, meals and first-class hotel accommodations in Washington. The expense of the side sight-seeing trips also are included in this offer. Remember, the contest closes tonight at midnight, but there still is time to get votes at the Lyric theater until 10 p. m. Each patron of the theater receives a coupon worth 100 votes. Tell your friends and relatives to save them for your favorites. Ballot boxes will be in the lobby of the Lyric theater and The Times office until 12 tonight. After that time they will be taken away and the task of counting the final votes begun. Winners will be announced in Thursday or Friday’s Times. SUES FOR SIO,OOO IN MATE’S ‘ALKY’ DEATH City Paint Company Defendant in Suit by Woman. Death which she charges lurked in a pint of denatured alcohol has caused Mrs. Sadie Hampsher to file suit for SIO,OOO. She asks damages because, she says, the alleged “liquor” killed her .husband, and robbed her of her sole means of support. The suit, in superior court three, charges the Perfection Paint and Color Company, 715 East Maryland street, on Dec. 9, 1930, sold her husband, Bruce Hampsher, the alcohol. Damages are demanded from the company for funeral expenses and to replace the $4 a day support which the husband, “an able-bodied man before he drank the liquor,” was earning. The husband became intoxicated and died within a few hours, the

SANE BUSINESS ERA DAWNING. BANKERS TOLD Financiers, Public Must Get Lesson From Slump, I. B. A. Head Asserts. Predicting the “sanest program of business operation in our history,” during the next twenty-five years, Frank Br Bernard, president of the Indianapolis Bankers’ Association, addressed Indiana financial leaders today at the Claypool. Approximately 500 bahkers were expected to attend the sessions of the thirty-fifth annual convention today and Thursday. “I suspect that history will record that one of the major factors contributing to the present depression has been the maladministration of our credit structure,” said Bernard, who is head of the Merchants National bank at Muncie. Bankers Must Share Blame “We must admit that, measured by our record, we are not far removed from the class of economic illiterates. The banking profession carrying, not all, but a major portion bf our credit structure, must accept a full share of the responsibility for maladministration. “Ability of the American people to meet their problems in a highminded way will result in gradual emergence from the business lethargy, Bernard believes. “No type of banking organization is free from failure.” Bernard said. “But banks don't fail; bankers fail. The determining factor is the type of management.” Bernard asserted that financial leaders did “a miserably poor job in appraising the foreseeable factors” leading to the depression. Installment Buying Hit Installment buying contributed to the country’s present plight because “we can not ignore the fact, in the last analysis, installment merchandising means that we are mortgaging future earning capacity to buy immediate consumption goods, ’ the speaker said. Bernard urged the co-operation of all Indiana bankers in the work of the new bank law study commission, recently appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie, to simplify Indiana statutes relating to banking institutions. Felix M. McWhirter, president of the People's State bank, welcomed the bankers when the convention convened today. C. F. Swenker, Wisconsin banking commissioner, spoke on “The Banker Model,” and reports were submitted. Edward J. Reilly, New York, and Justin H. Moore, New York, were to speak this afternoon.

SEEK PROBE OF TRUCKING LINES Petition Involves Carriers in Pike County. Investigation by the public service commission of alleged illegal operation of truck lines in Pike county was asked today in petitions filed by Harvey Harmon, former commissioner, representing Aurora Ferguson of Oakland City, truck line operator. Filing of the petitions with the commission was considered an unusual procedure. Generally such actions are filed as injunction suits with courts. Ferguson charged he is an operator, authorized by certificate, while Levi H. Ishum, operating the Ishum Truck Lines, and Vemor and James Willis, operating the Willis Truck Lines, maintain a line through Windslow and Arthur without certificate. Rehearing on granting of a certificate to the Evansville, Suburban & Newburg Railroad Company to operate a bus line along United States road 61 also was asked by Ferguson. He alleged that he was not present at the hearing on the railroad’s certificate and that he is a competitor.

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NEWCASTLE, Ind. f June 10.—j The annual parade and campfire,! yearly features of the G. A. R. en- j campment, were to be held here today as Civil war veterans began the last day of their fifty-second encampment. Governor Harry G. Leslie had announced he would be present for both events. The parade was to begin at 1:30 p. m., with veterans seeing the line of march from a reviewing stand. Troops from Ft. Benjamin Harrison and national guard units were to augment the parade. CLARA TO FREELANCE Red-Haired “It Girl” Prepars to Take Rest Cure. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Cal., June 10.— Clara Bow, red-haired motion picture star, who was released from her contract with the Paramount studios a few days ago, intends to become a free lance actress when she regains her health, she said today. She is preparing to leave within a few days for a ranch in Nevada for a complete rest. ‘TARIFF-ED’ TO CANADA Memphis Hardwood Plant Joins Trek Costly to U. S. By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 10.—The Canadian tariff increase has made it necessary for the E. L. Bruce Lumber Company to plan construction of a branch plant at Toronto, Robert G. Bruce, president of the hardwood floor manufacturing firm, announced today. Several hundred men will be'employed in the projected plan!, . a

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Bankers believe in bankers’ hours. For at the opening of the thirtyfifth annual convention of the Indiana Bankers’ Association this morning it took a feminine bugler about two-dozen toots of her cornet to wheedle the financiers from their sofas in the Claypool into the convention meeting in the Riley room. The convention was scheduled to

NAME BABY WHALE AND SEE IT FREE

Mail Your Suggestion to The Times and Ticket Will Be Reward. Folks who did not have the opportunity to see Big Bertha, the monster whale brought here last year, now have another chance this week of seeing one of these sea beasts. On this “return engagement,” sister vhale brought along her “name! s chaperoned by Captain Jonathan Prince, veteran seaman, who relates his thrilling adventures along the Pacific coast, where such creatures are captured. The Times is making every effort to enable all boys and girls to see this interesting and educational exhibit free. The last time the whale was here, thousands of school children saw it, and marveled. This time, for the first time, a mother and baby whale may be seen. All you have to do to get a free ticket is to suggest a name for the “baby”; send it to the Whale Editor, care of The Times, along with a few words why you think the name suitable, and a stamped and self-addressed envelope. You will receive a free ticket.

Sunday is the last day, and Captain Prince and his assistants are on deck day and night to answer questions and describe in detail the thrills which play a part in outfitting an expedition for these sea monsters. Captain Prince’s favorite adventure, which he likes to recount to the amazement of wideeyed youths, is about the time a captive whale towed a large boat at a rapid speed for seventy miles before it was killed, and the laborious trip back to the mother ship could be undertaken. The whales now on exhibition are at Virginia avenue near the elevation, where they will remain until late Sunday night. Hurry children and get your suggested name to the Whale Editor and see the whales free. RULES ON MORTGAGES Ogden Defines Status of Documents Involved in Receiverships. Mortgages with fixed dates of maturity, that are held by building and loan companies that go into receivership, are not due immediately, Attorney General James M. Ogden set out today in an opinion given Luther Symons, state bank commissioner. Those without dates of maturity may be due at once, (sgden stated.

Scenes of Civil war days were recalled as veterans held their annual reception and reunions. Auxiliary organizations began their business sessions and were to hold elections today. Approximately two hundred veterans have registered for the encampment.

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start at 9:30 a. m. It started at 9:50 a. m. And only the resounding notes of “assembly” from the horn of Miss Helen Collins, former buglar for the Girl Scouts, and the “come on in's” of Raymond D. Jackson and Charles N. Fultz, city bankers, filled | the convention seats. Miss Collins will “toot” assembly for the bankers at all meetings toj day and Thursday.

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GRADUATES TO HEARLECTURER Dayton Educator to Speak at Fieldhouse. Dr. Frank D. Slutz of Dayton, 0., will address members of George Washington high school Thursday night at commencement services in Butler university fieldhouse. Dr. Slutz, ’Widely known teacher and educational lecturer, will speak on “Every Man’s University.” Washington Alumni Association will hold its annual dinner-dance Friday night in the school gymnasium. Robert Spangler, ‘2B, of Ensley, Ala., will be toastmaster. Responses will be given by Robert Lones, ’29; Victor Thomas, ’3O; Homer Connor, '3O, and Harry Sanders, ’3l. Music will be by Howard Reading Night Owls. Senior class day was celebrated Tuesday afternoon in the school auditorium. Typical class day programs for 1881, 1931 and 1981 were presented. The last one was by television.

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REUS NOT TO ANNOT HOOVER, POLICE DEGREE ! Safety Board Bans Program During Visit; Welcome Party Named. Communists who intend to stage a demonstration when President and Mrs. Herbert , Hoover come here Monday for the Indiana Republican Editorial Association dinner will not be permitted to put on any program near the President, but will be told to go to Camp Sullivan and “talk their heads off," members of the board of safety declared today. Police will be put on twelve-hour shifts Monday, Major Herbert Fletcher, acting chief of police, announced. Several weeks ago, the Communist leaders announced they would stage a demonstration upon Hoover's arrival. They would attempt to ask the President to take steps to relieve unemployment, their statement said. Seven on Committee A special committee of seven persons to greet the President and Mrs. Hoover has been named by Paul R. Bausman, president of the editorial association. The committee is to include four Republican publishers and three public officials. Members are: Oscar G. Froellinger, publisher of the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel and Hoover primary manager in Indiana in 1928; Mr. Bausman, Mrs. Samuel E. Boys of Plymouth, wife of the vice-president of the editorial association; Mrs. Harriett Toner, publisher of the Anderson Herald; Senator James E. Watson, Governor Harry G. Leslie, and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Others to ‘Look On’ On the lawn and In the mansion of Governor Harry G. Leslie will be fifty-eight other Republicans, “ousted” from the reception committee. awaiting the arrival of the nation’s chief executive, while he is cheered the route along Meridian street by school boys and girls. Those fifty-eight staunch supporters of the Republican administration today are beginning to rer cover from the shock that they wifi not be permitted to throng the passageways of the station to greet the President and Mrs. Hoover. Secret service operatives ordered the size of the reception committee reduced from more than sixty, as originally planned, to six or seven* because it was felt that a large crowd milling about the President would lead to confusion, Bausman explained.

STAFF EDITORS NAMED 125 Shortridge Pupils to Serve in Publishing School Paper. Editors of the staffs of the Shortridge Daily Echo for next year have been announced by the sponsors of the various editions. Nelson Kauffman will edit Monday’s Echo;. Mary Anne Russe and Charles Johnson, Tuesday’s; William Burich, Wednesday's; Ada Mozelle Miller, Thursday’s* and Jeanne Helt, Friday's. All will be seniors except Miss Miller, who will be a post-graduate!. About 125 students will serve on the five Echo staffs.

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