Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1931 — Page 2

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CITY RESIDENTS FLOCK TO FA VORITE HOLIDA Y SPOTS

YOUTHS OPEN THEIR BARRAGE EARLY IN DAY Fireworks Pop as Young America Celebrates Liberty Day. BEACHES TO DRAW MANY Parks Are Scenes of Family Reunions and Group Picnics. Taking advantage of cooler weather resulting from heavy rain Friday night, hundreds of Indianapolis families today were engaged in an exodus to lakes, state parks and other favorite sports of Independence day celebrants. However, lower temperature made it possible to celebrate the Fourth at home in comparative comfort. Sleep-loving citizens were awakened early today by Yeung America re-enacting the war of Independence with noisy fireworks. Thousands of picnic baskets were packed early this morning in preparation for junket trips to nearby parks and sylvan sites. Pools to Draw Many Swimming pools and beaches and golf courses were expected to draw heavy throngs from among those who remained at homo for the day. Police and fire department officials were on guard to prevent serious fires and accidents, warnings against neglecting treatment of powder burns ringing in ears of city’s youth. City parks were the scene of many family reunions and group picnics. Two of the largest picnics at Garfield park were those of the Church of Christ and Bethel Baptist church. Other largo picnics Included the Wheeler City Rescue Mission, Christian park, Clirlstian Alliance church Sunday school, Brookside park; Service post, American Legion, McCord’s park, near Oaklandon; New Baptist church and Samaritan Baptist church, Douglas park; ThirtyEighth Street Civic League and the j Brightwood Church of Christ, Dearborn park. Legion to Celebralo Celebration and band concert will be held at 3 in Ellenbefger park by Irvington post, American Legion. Thousands of relatives and friends of C. M. T. C. candidates in training at Ft, Benjamin Harrison visited the fort this morning to witness the parade at 10 a. m. The visitors were guests of the cadets at dinner served by army cooks at noon. An afternoon and night program also was scheduled. A pyrotechnical display for twenty-seven children at Bj Report nutrition camp of tho 'arien County Tuberculosis Association was arranged by Optimist club members. Special entertainment haa been arranged during the day at Walnut Gardens, where automobile races will be held this afternoon, and at Bread Ripple park.

40 ALMOST-EXTINCT ELEPHANTS PROTECTED Special Di'inking Troughs Provided to Keep Them on Reserve. By Science Service JOHANNESBURG, S. A., July 4. Boreholes have fceeen sunk and special drinking troughs have been provided to obtain protection for a herd of some forty South African elephants in the Addo Reserve, in South Africa. These forty represent the last of a species which are somewhat smaller thau their northern brothers in Africa. The absence of water caused these elephants to roam off the reserve, doing damage to neighboring farms. Another huge preserve is being established between the Aub and the Nosob rivers in the northwestern Cape province, and here the gemsbuck. one of the most beautiful of South African antelopes, will be preserved. This animal nearly is extinct in other parts of the South African union., DAM~PROJECT STARTED Hydroelectric riant in Ozarks to Be Finished in Three Years. By United Pres* SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark., July 4. —Preliminary work to the actual construction of the huge hydroelectric project of Grand river, near here, has been started. Hundreds of acres in the valleys trill he inundated by a lake to be created. The project will be one of the largest in this section of the Ozarks. More than three years will be spent in construction. Hundreds of men will be afforded employment by the work. The actual dam site is across the Arkansas line in Oklahoma. BUST HONORS SENATOR Montana Veteran Democrat Was Prosecutor In Oil Scandal. By United Frees HELENA, Mont., July 4.—A bust of Montana's veteran Democratic leader, Senator Thomas J, Walsh, has been placed in the central lobby of tire state Capitol. The marble bust, the work of Louise Winslow Sparrow of Washington, D. C., was presented to the state by Mrs. Emmett C. Cudger, the senator's daughter. Walsh gained international prominence through his prosecution of the Teapot Dome and other oil scandals. j Climbed 150 Feet f6r Job By United Prat SOUTHAMPTON,, England. July 4.—An unemployed sailor climbed 150 feet in search of a steeple Jacking Job only to And no opening existed Aged Light Keeper Dead By United Prejs EAST COWES, England, July 4. —William Parsons, who was keeper snt the Needles lighthouse, Isle of Wight, for thirty-five years, is dead.

County's Wheat Harvest Under Way

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Wheat harvest in Marion county is under way, as tne above pictures indicate. Oran H. Murphy and his son, Milton O. Murphy, who live seven

WILSON FLAYS COMMISSIONERS Han’t Afford to Ignore Grand Jury Report. Inactivity of county commissioners in considering the findings of the Marion county giand jury, charging “mismanagement and mistreatment of inmates ’ at the county poor farm, was flayed today by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson. “They can’t afford to overlook this report as they have other reports. There must be something to the jury’s report,” Wilson declared. HLs statement hit at the comment of County Commissioner George Snider who said upon reading the report, “just another grand jury report.” “If something isn’t done soon in the way of quarters out at the fann they’ll be freezing to death this winter,” Wilson asserted. Possibility cf new quarters for men at the farm is seen in the special summer meeting of the county council to consider the year’s budget. It is believed that Dow Vorhies and John C. Shearer, county commissioners, may seek funds from the council for the erection of new quarters for men at the farm. Although the grand jury indirectly requested the discharge of John Carter, superintendent of the farm, the commissioners have not called Carter “on the carpet.” Carter is termed by courthouse attaches as “Snider’s man.”

BIG RADIO COMBINE NEAR END, IS VIEW

Spokesmen x for Alleged Trust Offer to Chatige Agreements. By Scripps-H award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 4.—Dissolution of the alleged radio trust created by Owen D. Young since the World war was in prospect today as a result of negotiations between the department of justice and representatives of the $6,000,000,000 combine headed by the Radio Corporation of America, General Electric, Westinghouse Electric and the American Telephone and Telegraph. Although denying the illegality of their patent agreements, spokesmen for the radio group have offered to change them so as to make them “unobjectionable in the view of the department.” They also have taken under consideration creation of a general pool of their 4,000 valuable patents so that they may be used by independent competitors at a reasonable cost. The proposed pool would be

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From this bungalow in the near future will go all orders to police cars cruising with radio receivers mounted Inside. It is the new police radio broadcasting station, ' in Willard park, almost ready for service. Radio everts for several weeks have been installing

miles south of the Indianapolis city limits are shown gathering their crop with a combine. This tractor-drawn device cuts the wheat, threshes it. and stows

HURT AS TRAINS COLLIDE HEAD-ON

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COMMITTEE TO REPORT Baptist Group to Outline Program of Work for Summer, Fall. A committee' appointed by the Baptist Ministerial Union of Indianapolis to prepare a program of evangelical and church work for the summer and fall will report Monday at a special meeting of directors of the Federated Baptist churches of the city at the Thirty-first Street Baptist church. The program will conform to the interdenominational church loyalty week Oct. 18 to 23, and a visitation evangelistic campaign from Nov. 8 to Dec. 4. SWIM; DIIOS STOLEN Clothes Left in Car by Bathers Vanish. Tom Bland, Negro, 638 North California street, and Garno Reese, Negro, 925 Roanoke street, arc searching for two suits of clothes which they owned Friday. They went swimming Friday with Charles Brown, Negro, 1635 Alford street, in Eagle creek at Sixteenth street, leaving their clothing In Brown’s car, parked nearby. Brown left them, they declared, supposedly for a few minutes, and went to his car. He drove away with the car and wearing apparel. Bland and Reese are still at a loss.

administered by three independent trustees under the plan known to have been discussed. No definite agreement has been reached, but negotiations will be resumed In September. Should the result amount to a consent decree, the government will drop the suit it has brought for dissolution of the various companies on the ground that they constitute “an unlawful conspiracy, combination and monopoly." The case was to have been brought to trial in the fall, but it may be postponed pending completion of negotiations. Snake Playmate Bites Child By United Press MT. CARMEL, Pa., July 4.—Edmond Serfass, aged 4, chose a copperhead snake for a playmate and was trying to pick it up when horrified adults rescued the child. The snake drove its fangs into the child's thumb, but there were no harmful results because of prompt medical attention.

equipment and attaching it to the tall antenna towers between which it sits. Tests will be made from the station within ten days, and it will be in use within two weeks. The station is one of the most complete police radio broadcast sets in the nation,

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it in a bin at the top of the machine. Then it loads the grain into wagons which may draw it directly to market.

Tower Man’s ‘Mistake’ Is Cause of Smashup at New Haven. By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 4.—A tower man’s mistake under the pressure of extraordinarily heavy holiday traffic was blamed by New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad officials today for a headon collision between the Merchants Limited ana a Springfield bound train here Friday night. The Springfield train “for some reason which is not clear” was on the.wrong track, said a statement issued by the officials. The accident was made more serious due to the fact the railroad had put into service several wooden cars to handle holiday throngs. One of these caught fire when it was forced into contact with high tension wires and many of the forty-one injured suffered burns. The Merchants Limited, one of the road’s crack fliers, was speeding down the last stretch before entering the New Haven railroad yards, when it rounded a corner and encountered the Springfield train on the same track. The Springfield train just was beginning to gain speed aften* leaving the station and was traveling at about fifteen miles an hour.

MALES SHOWN FICKLE More Bridegrooms Change Minds at Last Minute, ByNEA Service LONDON, July 4.—The privilege of changing one’s mind isn’t exclusive to the female sex. To the contrary, London marriage registrars have found that males have become more fickle than the fair sex in canceling marriages after licenses have been taken out. In the past six months 1,500 licenses have been taken out which have not been used in civil or ecclesiastical offices. “In the majority of cases it has been the prospective bridegroom and not the bride who ■ has canceled the marriage with a lastminute excuse," one of the registrars says. “This prerogative for the change of mind appears to have been transferred to the bridegroom. In the present returns their excuse figures in over 60 per cent of the cancellations." Lord's Prayer Their Sentence By United Press BOSTON, July 4.— When Carl Salin and Mike Yasuck appeared before him on charges of mutual a-seault, Municipal Judge Michale J. Murphy agreed to file their cases if they would recite the Lord’s prayer three times in each other’s presence.

THIEF SLUGS CITY WOMAN; HURT SERIOUSLY Negro Thug Takes to His Heels After Assault; Robbers Busy. Slugged from behind three times after she got off a street car near her home early today, Mrs. Rockle Norris, 2225 Morgan street, was wounded seriously by a Negro. Mrs. Charles Doom, 1457 South Sheffield avenue, said she saw the Negro strike Mrs. Norris and flee. Mrs. Norris was taken to city hospital. Thieves worked in several sections of the city Friday night, according to reports to police. Burglar Suspect Held Ed Watson, Negro, 22, of 2823 Boulevard place, was arrested early today by police who charge him with being the burglar who fled from the residence of Mrs. Ruth Poynter, 2506 North Capitol avenue, when she screamed late Friday night. Mrs. Poynter identified Watson as the Negro who fled through the bedroom window, according *to police. A bandit who stepped from a vacant house on Pine street near Market street Friday night trained a gun on Fred Bever, 453 Vs East Washington street, robbing him of SB, he told police. ?200 in Clothing Taken Theft of clothing valued at S2OO from the parked auto of Mrs. Mattie Garriott, Mt. Comfort, Ind., was reported to police. Other thefts reported: Mrs. J. W. Stewart, 335 North Sherman drive, $80; Horace Thompson, 5324 Guilford avenue, S2O; Harold C. Fuller, 468 Blue Ridge road, $12.50, and a Standard grocery, 801 South Capitol avenue, $3 and merchandise.

NAB GROWNUPS FOR FIREWORKS Early Fourth Celebrations Not .Kids, but Men. When the kids get electric trains for Christmas, father plays with them. And so *it goes—even to the Fourth of July. Police records today show that of four arrests for shooting fireworks Friday night, three of the police victims are men 47 and over. Clifford Day, 47, of 2128 East Tenth street, was the first arrested when he exploded fire crackers in front of his home. Then police picked up Charles Aran, 54, and Jack Deshlemar, 47, both of 3212 North Senate avenue, who were harking back to their boyhood days. Number four on the police blotter was Henry Arnold, 22, of 3237 North New Jersey street, who told police that as an operator of a sidewalk fireworks stand on Ft. Wayne avenue, he had to shoot the crackers to draw business. All are oharged with shooting fireworks in the city before the Fourth.

8 CITY MEN JOIN PLEA FOR JOBLESS

Eight prominent Indianapolis citizens have joined nearly 1,200 mayors, economists, labor chiefs and leaders of other walks of life in signing a memorial to President Herbert Hoover and congress, urging an immediate special session of congress to enact an unemployment relief program. The program calls for at least $3,000,000,000 federal appropriation for public works; $250,000,000 for direct relief, and $250,000,000 for direct aid to state employment insurance systems. Signers of the memorial represent fourty-four states and the District of Columbia, and 311 cities and towns. Indianapolis signers are: Rabbi Morris M. Feurlicht, the Rev. Francis W. Gavisk, William P. Hapgood, Henry L. Herod, Frederick D. Kershner, the Rev. J. B. Parson. William F. Rotherburger and Emil Salsbury. The memorial points out that there still are 6,000,000 unemployed in the country and many more are working on such short time that their incomes are reduced severely. Loss of wages and salaries in 1930 is estimated at more than $9,000,000,000. “Private charitable funds are Inadequate to alleviate the suffering from these conditions, "says the memorial, “and many of these funds are nearing depletion. “Regardless of any change that may occur in the business outlook, millions of our fellow citizens face a winter of acute poverty and distress. “Nor can there be any marked

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STOCK MART QUIET; PRICES ARE STEADY

Foreign News Guides List Mosi of Week; No Domestic Reports. BY EI.MER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor NEW YORK, July 4.—The stock market quited down this week after its burst of activity a week agp but prices held steady, the averages showing little for the week. Foreign news guided the list most of the time, but the selling did not get out of the realm of profit-taking at any period. Traders were almost unanimous in their belief the French would accept the Hoover plan as originally laid down and hence were not swayed to any wide extent. There was an almost complete absence of domestic news to affect the market. Weekly statistical summaries were little changed from the previous week. Utility shares were active with American and Foreign Power the feature in this respect. Railroad shares were irregular on news the freight rate increase hearings were to begin July 15 and prospects were the decision of the I. C. C. would not be made as swiftly as had been anticipated. Copper shares receded for a time on softening of the price for the metal. The price had been carried up to 9 cents a pound for domestic shipment, but late in the week the metal was being offered at Bcents a pound with demand very light. Commodities followed the trend 7 of stocks, declining most of the week and rallying late in the week. Foreign markets did the same thing. Trading in stocks and comfnodities was sharply lower than/a week ago. In stocks the activity was about half of last week's./ All markets throughout this country wer* closed today. They /Will reopen Monday.

improvement in business conditions, till there is a marked increase in the purchasing power of the American peolpe. / “Under the present conditions the federal government is the only agency which can lead immediately the way to the provision of substantial relief. “However, to postpone till December the execution and even planning of measures of relief is to ignore human misery and to court domestic disorders which, with onefifth of the working population unemployed or irregularly employed, may be unprecedented in our history.” STREET COVERS TOMB Vault Containing Skeleton Found Under Boston Thoroghfare. By United Press BOSTON, July 4.—Millions of pedestrians have traversed School street, in Boston’s business district, during the past half century without realizing that beneath them was a tomb. Workmen engaged in excavation work near King’s Chapel dug into the hidden burial chamber, which was found to hold several skeletons. A coffin plate discovered in the vault bore the inscription “Francis Gray, 1861, Aetat 80." The records of the historic chapel dating back to 1749, contained no reference to the tomb. It is thought the tomb originally was on the sidewalk because of a long-ago relocation of School street, chapel lawn and is now under the

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Now comes Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy in anew role—a Washing bride. She surprised her evangelist-daughter, Aimee Semple McPherson, by eloping the other day with the Rev. G. E. Hudson of New York. They were married at Longview, Wash. She is shown above in her bridal gown. BUYS A ‘LITTLE FARM’ New Yorker Acquires 'Country Place’ of 10,900 Acres. By United Press VISALIA, Cal., July 4.—While Captain John S. Dickerson, New York, decided to buy “a little country place,” he came here and bought the farm once owned by Harriet R. W. Jackson and the Frank B. West estate. It consists of 10,900 acres of valley and foothill land within 10 miles of Sequoia National Park and General Grant National Park.

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HUNT WOMAN BLAMED FOR AUTO ACCIDENT 9-Year-Old Boy Seriously Injured in Crackup With Machine. A woman driver said to have caused an accident Friday in which a 9-year-old boy was injured seriously, is being sought today by police. ’• Eugene Foley, 4427 Broadway, told police he was driving north on Delaware street when the woman drove across his path at Thirty-first without stopping for the intersec- < tion as required. Foley swerved to avoid a collision and Walter Hochuli, 9. 3024 North Delaware, riding a bicycle, ran into his car. The boy was thrown to the payment and suffered bruises and injuries to the head. He was sent to the city hospital. Foley was not held. Mrs. Pauline Brown. 21, 771 North De Quincy street, suffered injuries to her knees Friday when she drove into the rear end of a bus at Tenth street and Butler avenue. She said she was following the bus when it stopped suddenly and she was unable to apply her brakes in time to avoid collision. Mrs. Brown was treated by her family physician. John De Noon, 27, 5034 Hovey street, driver of the bus, was not held.

CORONER COLLECTS DEAD MEN’S SHOES Oddest Hohby Is Attributed to Portlsnd (Ore.) Man. By United Pyess PORTLAND, Ore., July 4.—The county coroner has one of the oddest hobbies in the world. He collects dead men’s shoes. De/id persons brought into the moyfeue here to be identified, but w£ro have remained unclaimed and have been laid away in Potter’s field, furnish shoes for the coroner’s collection. When he gets enough shoes he passes them out to needy persons and starts collecting again. DINNER? AH. THAT’S WHERE RUB CONIES IN Ingenious Professor Would Feed Us With Salves Digested Through Skin. By United Press VIENNA, July 4.—ln the future, if Professor Carl Stejskal’s development is adopted, all you’ll have to do when you get hungry is to grab some “dinutron,” rub it well into your skin, and go on about your business. This food paste is, according to the professor, capable of supporting life indefinitely without feeding in I the usual way. The food is absorbed into the sysI tern through the skin, it is said. END PRAYER MEETINGS Radios, Movies, Too Much Competition for 46-Year-Old Sessions. By United Press BOSTON, July 4.—The Dudley street neighborhood prayer meeting, a Boston institution, is no more. Every Wednesday night for’fortysix years residents of that section gathered for worship in the front room of a lodging house. Now the prayer-meeting group has disbanded, citing the competition of movies, radio and automobiles as one reason. GIRL, 17, IN 25 SCHOOLS Navy Man’s Daughter Certainly la One Cosmopolitan Student, By United Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 4. —Madeleine Hansen is probably one of the most cosmopolitan students in the United States. The 17-year-old daughter of Lieutenant and Mrs. Harry Hansen has attended twenty-five different schools in this country, Hawaii and Guam. “If you want to attend lots of schools,” she remarked, “just be the daughter, or son, of a navy man.” Sandwichmen Advertise Dog LONDON, July 4.—Sandwichmen paraded all day advertising a $25 reward for a missing Scotch terrier.