Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1932 — Page 5

MAY 28. 1832

CITY PLACED ON PUBLIC WORKS LIST OF GARNER Federal Building Wing to Cost $1,100,000; Other Funds for State. til! 7 >mc Fprrinl WASHINGTON May 28 —The proposed north wing of the Indianapolis federal building, to cost 11.100 000. is inehided in the billiondollar public works program in the i Gamer unemployment relief bill. The bill also provides funds for '• the immediate construction of post- j offices in the following Indiana cities: Angola, $80,000; Aurora, $70,000; • Berne, $70,000; Crown Point. $85,000; j Columbia City. $80,000; Culver,: $70,000; Franklin, $85,000; Garrett, j $85,000; Hartford City, $85,000; Lawreneeburg, $70,000; Ligomer, $60,000: Martinsville. $85,000; Nappanee. $75,000; North Maneuver. $65,000; Spencer, $80,000; Sullivan,. $80,000: Tipton. $80,000; Union City. $85,000. The total provided for Indiana postofßce buildings is $2,490,000. j The rivers and harbors program j includes $1,820,000 for Indiana Harbor and canal; $357.00 for Indiana : Harbor; $4,650,000 for open channel work, and $6,000,000 for lock and dam construction in the Ohio river, j The secretary of treasury is authorized to proceed as expeditiously as possible toward construction of postoffice buildings at Auburn. French Lick. Plymouth and Vin- j cennes. These projects have not reached the contract stage. In addition, the secretary of treasury is authorized to acquire and clear sites for vostoffices at Albion, Alexandria. Attica, Batesville, Bicknell, Bloomfield. Boonville and Brookville. Butler, Cambridge City, Cannelton, Corydon, Danville, Delphi. Fowler. Hobart, Huntingburg. Jasper. Knighstown, Knox, LaGrange. Liberty. Mitchell, Monticello. Oakland City, Petersburg. Rensselaer. Rockville. Scottsburg. Sheridan. Tell City. Winamac, Austin, Dunkirk. Edinburg. Fairmount, Gas City, Greenwood. Jasonville, Loogootee. Montpelier. North Judson. Orleans. Paoli. Pendleton. Rockport, St. Meinrad, Syracuse and West Baden. Indiara also would share in the distribution of $217,000,000 in federal highway grants. SEEK TOKIO POLICY Powers Consider Proposal for Conference. Hn Unitrd I’m* WASHINGTON, May 28. The United States. Great* Britain. France and Italy, the United Press learned today, are carrying on a scries of informal conversations to formulate a policy on Tokio's proposal for a conference on the SinoJapanesc controversy. The conversations, it was learned, have resulted in a tentative conclusion that the time for a conference Is not yet ripe. However, no answer has yet been given to Tokio, and may not be until conditions in the far east Justify an affirmative reply. Several weeks ago. Japan proposed to the powers that they meet in Tokio with the Chinese and Japanese to seek a solution. STATE BUYS CARS Arranges for Purchase of 73 at $31,886. State highway department arranged Friday for the purchase of seventy-three automobiles at a cost of *31.886, Including forty Chevrolet*. twenty-four Plymouth* and nine Fords. Officials explained that part of the cars will replace some now in use and others will be for additional supervisory workers due to the heavy construction program be<*,ing carried out. It is pointed out that there is a $15,000,000 program this year against one of $10,500,000 last year. Contract for construction of two bridges in Brown county was awarded today to Hancock <Sr Kieffer of Brownstown on a bid of *13.978.13. ANKLE SOCKS BANNED School Girls Who Wear Them Mast Don Cotton Hov B t United Prroo HARTFORD. Conn., May 28. Ankle socks have been forbidden by the dean of girl* at Weaver high school. Not only has the dean forbidden the girls to wear the fashionable new socks, but if any dissenting spirit ventures to appear at school with them she is compelled to change them in the dean s office for a pair of old cotton long stockings full of holes. MARKER’S GAIN SMALL Turee Votes Added to His Total In Recount; Needs 57. Gaining three votes in recount of twelve precincts Friday, Ernest R. Marker, defeated Democratic candidate for Second district commissioner. nomination had a net gain of 131 votes in 217 precincts. The contest is against Walter C. Boetcher, who was declared official winner over Marker by a margin of 187 votes. Marker must gain fifty-seven votes more to win. with 114 precincts still uncounted. SUES GROCERY FIRM Delaware County Man Charge Kroger With Defamation. Charles Thomas, living near Muneie. filed auit for *40.000 damages in federal court here Friday against the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company. chain store operators. He alleges his character was defamed when he was accused of presenting an alleged worthless check at a Saroger stars in Muncie.

Cannonball Baker Will Speed Times to Anderson and Muncie

Famous Driver Will Carry Speedway Extras to Nearby Cities. Cannonball Baker, internationally famous automobile driver, has been engaged by The Times to drive Speedway race edition extras to Anderson and Muncie immediately following the close of the races Mon-

Hobo Love Romance of College Girl and Cowboy Ends in City Court.

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ROMANCE that led a pretty brunet from the east to seek ■•hobo” adventures with a cowpuncher of the old west brought the couple Friday before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. The girl is Miss Florida Bourbeau, 21, of Turners Hall. Mass., a graduate of St. Jerome college, near Montreal, Canada. He is Harry Elliott, 29, blonde, a licensed aviator and a cowpuncher. They met on a ranch near Ft. Stockton, Tex. He was the dashing, hard-rid-ing kind. She. from east, was fresh from college, and searching for adventure. It was love at first sight. Why their romance led them to flight, and subsequent travels in railway box cars is unexplained, but. togeher. the pair “hopped the first freight out of town.” That was May 23. a a a THE story of their adventures until they reached St. Louis is unwritten. Then trouble began. Capt. C. L. Moran of St. Louis, Pennsylvania railroad detective, saw the couple “riding the rods.” and wired to the Indianapolis office. At noon Thursday the cow-puncher and his sweetheart were found on a freight train at the Hawthorne vards. She was soot-begrimed, tired. The cap. men's pants and clothes that she wore were greasesmeared. There was a pack on her back. He wore high-heeled boots, cowpuncher’s pants and a ten-gallon hat. Detectives found them clinging to ladders of cars nearly half a mile apart. They were arrested on vagrancy charges a a a HTHE scene shifts now to Sheaf--1 L. G. Gibson, railroad detective, look startled as the bailiff called Miss Bourbeau's name. For, instead of the dusy. begrimed girl of Thursday. Miss Bourbeau was transformed by a riding outfit of breeches, boots and jacket. Elliott stood beside her at the bench. He still wore his cowboy garb. Apparently undisturbed, the couple told their story. “He just told everybody he was my brother, that's all. Miss Bourbeau said. 9 m a WITHOUT commenting on case. Sheaffer fined Elliott tl and costs, but suspended the penalty on condition that he “get out of town.” Elliott accepted. Miss Bourbeau was ordered held In jail until June 10, pending communication with her parents. With a view to lessening earlymorning noise of rattling milk bottles, a rubber company has devised rubbec>covered milk containers.

Cannonball Baker and hi* record-breaking Graham car.

day. This will give Times - readers in these cities and along Road 67 a welcomed opportunity to see this seasoned veteran in action at close range. Cannonball Baker probably is better known than any other record holder in the automobile game. He has crosesd the continent 102 times in record-breaking runs, and only this week broke his own record of two years’ standing, when he piloted a Graham Blue Streak Eight from Indianapolis to French Lick in one hour and thirty-three minutes. This record is a tribute to a great driver who safely can pilot a car at sustained high speeds over a road of 403 turns, hills and sharp curves, and eighty-five bridges and culverts. It was with this thought in mind that The Times solicited his services; leaving to him the choice of a car for the work. He chose the Graham Blue Streak,

CASH FOR YOUR SALES SLIPS! When you buy something, the clerk of the store usually hands you a slip containing a record of your purchase. That is a sales slip. Such slips, or any other evidence of a purchase, is eligible for the contest. 1. Save every sale slip that you get with any purchase made from any Times advertiser. 2. Write a statement of 25 words or less, telling why you think the sale slip should be lucky. > Mail the slips and the statements to Indianapolis Times “Sales Slip Editor.” • There you are. Send ’em in now! The more the merrier. (See rules of contest printed elsewhere in this issue.)

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the same car he used in his dash to French Lick. Baker says that the greatest hazard to fast road work is the careless driver, who always is likely to swerve into the road from nowhere and make it necessary to “set your car down” quickly. Baker will leave The Times office as soon as giant presses make race editions available and, as he speeds into Anderson, will be met by a police motorcycle detail, which will get him through with minimum delay. At Muncie the police will be in waiting at the city limits and hurry him to courthouse square, where he will unload The Times race extras. This week, after a trip to Muncie to check the course, he made the return to Indianapolis in fortyeight minutes, bearing out his contention that mile-a-minute motoring is safe, if you know how!

DR. KERR NAMED MODERATOR BY PRESBYTERIANS Former Plains Missionary Is Choice *over Four Other Pastors. By Unit'd Prttt DENVER, May 28—A missionary, who went into the plains of Oklahoma thirty years ago to teach the Bible to the Indians and roving range riders, today was moderator of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Charles W. Kerr of Tulsa, Okla., was elected moderator, highest honor in the church, at the opening of the 144th annual assembly of the church here. He was elected on the third ballot, over four other pastors nominated for the post. They were: Dr. Dirk Lay, another missionary pastor; Dr. Joseph A. Vance, Detroit; Dr. David D. Burrell, Williamsport, Pa., and Dr. William Hallock Johnson. Lincoln university, Pennsylvania. The latter two withdrew after the second ballot. The new moderator, who succeeds Dr. Lewis S. Mudge of Philadelphia, has had a colorful history. His original church, with a membership of seventy-five, has grown now to a membership of more than 3,000. SPAIN’S WOMAN PRISON DIRECTOR IS LET OUT “Too Soft” With the Convicts, Explain Her Critics. By United Prei* MADRID, Spain, May 28. —Spain's first woman director of prisons, Victoria Kent y Siano has resigned because her critic# said she was “too soft” with the prisoners.

I Challenges Goliath AS a purely sporting venture, Studebaker, undisputed iV stock car champion of the world, enters at the Indianapolis Race five stock President Eights altered* to meet racing requirements. Pitting these “family motor cars” against the finest hand-built racing machines, re-dramatizes the astounding stamina and performance ability which has given Studebaker a virtual monopoly on all official stock car records. A monopoly climaxed by that record of records ... 30,000 miles in 26,326 consecutive minutes—a monopoly emphasized by the official records on America’s 39 most •These are strictly stock cars famous mountain climbs. nth the toll owing exceptions: Lacking top speed of these racing specials, it is not Cylinder heads were altered far „ David „ wi „ , lay the Giants higher compression ra, ma U But Studebaker, are Champions and every automobile . netos were substituted for battery er w ;n be j n , ere sted in watching these "family ignition, 4 special down-draft car- j ndianapoli , Classic . buretors were installed , racing manifolds, spark plugs and bodies Studebaker* are Champions. Don t be satisfied were used . eBB * Studebaker BUILDER OF CHAMPIONS . . . PIONEER OF FREE WHEELING

Pays, and Pays! U. S. Also Puts Out Much Money for Congress to Send Telegrams.

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER I'altei rrtN SUff CwTM(c4fnt iCouvrlsht. IB S3, br United Preset WASHINGTON. May 28Senators and congressmen are heavy users of the telegraph. And why not’ The government pays for It. In digging into the jumbled account* over a recent period, senators were found to have charged up $50,000 worth of telegrams over a ten-month period. For an eleven-month period, house members charged up at | least $91,961. These figures are incomplete. The items are scattered through monthly accounts, there are numerous small bills and scattered cablegrams, which were not included in the total. They do not include numerous telegrams sent in connection with committee investigations. These bills, paid out of house and senate contingent funds, cover all sorts of telegrams sent or received eollect by members. A multitude of the messages would not get by an auditor. The messages theoretically are checked by clerks in each house, but there has been great leniency in construction of the term “official.” In the house, however, an effort is being made to 'mrb abuses of the privilege by the new chairman of the house accounts committee, Lindsey C. Warren CDem.. N. C.), who recently forced through a resolution to open up congressional pay rolls. “Opportunities of Citizenship,'' will be the topic of Felix M. Me- j Whirter, president of the Peoples j States bank, in an address to the j Mercator Club at a luncheon Tues- : day noon in the Columbia Club.

COUPLE'S LEAP OR FALL FROM TRAIN PROBED J! Doctor, Secretary Found Unconscious Near Pennsy Tracks. By United Prtot BALTIMORE. Md. ( May 28—An investigation to determine whether Dr. Nasseb Masood, 38, and his secretary. Miss Dorothy Cassell, 22, fell or Jumped from a speeding Pennsylvania railroad train was started by authorities here Friday. Dr. Masood may die of his inj juries. He suffered a compound skull fracture. Internal injuries and a fracture of the right forearm. Miss Cassell was less seriously injured. but both were too badly hurt to talk. The couple boarded the train in Washington, D. C.. with tickets for Huntingdon, Pa. They vrent to the Capital recently form Altoona, Pain connection with an effort of Masood to obtain increased veteran's compensation. The train was making nearly sixty miles an hour when the couple was missed, near Glencoe, Md. The train stopped and they found, unconscious. beside the tracks. They were returned to St. Joseph's hospital here. BLON VANCE. 53, DIES He Had Been Chief Accountant of Highway Dept. Five Years. Blon Vance. 53. of Newcastle, chief accountant for five years for the state highway department, died at the Methodist hospital Friday. He leaves a sister. Miss Amy Vance, j Newcastle, and a brother, Chase, I Dayton, O. Arrangements for funeral services and burial at Newcastle have not been completed.

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10.000 FAMILIES ARE FACING EVICTION SUITS By United Prctt TOLEDO. May 28.—Ten thousand Toledo families today faced eviction unless owners of property tenanted by the poor and Jobless heed Mayor Addison Thatcher’s plea for a sixty-day moratorium on rents. Mayor Thatcher issued his plea today when It became known that public and private relief funds no longer would meet the demands for rent for the jobless. Funds for food will be depleted by June 1, also, the mayor said.

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