Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1934 — Page 3

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CHURCH LEADER DEAD; FUNERAL - SET TOMORROW Mrs. Rose Mary Rollings Was Charter Member of North Park. Mrs. Rose Mary Rollings. 83. of 3310 Park avenue, yesterday at her home. Funeral services vnl! be held at 3 'i'*nce. conduct- i f ; by •h< Rev. E. I. Day of Martins- ! v .• a former pa tor of North Park Chn-tian church, now University I* rk Christian church, of which : charter m<labor Burial will be in Crown Hill.; Surviving Mrs. Rollings are the' Widower and three daughters. Mrs. Alfred W. Bu chmann, Mrs Frank A. Schmedel and Mrs. James M. Woods. Mrs. Commins Dead Mr Catherine Commins, 57, of 830 North Oakland avenue, died yesterday in her home, following a two months’ illness. Funeral services will be held at 8 30 tomorrow morning in the home and at 9 in St. Philip Neri church. B inal will b in Ffoly Crass cent- i eterv. Mrs. Commins was born in Ire-. land and came to Indianapolis twenty-five years ago. She was a ! member of St. Philip Neri church i and Altar Society of the church. Surviving her are three daugh- | ters, Mrs. Fdwin Sehantz. Miss ■ Helen Commins and Miss Catherine Commins, and a brother, Martin McDonagh, all of Indianapolis. Ritter Rites Tomorrow Funeral services for Mrs. Mary | Ritter. 76. of 3909 North New Jer-1 ey ;reet. who died Wednesday fol-! lowing a heart attack, will be held at 8 30 tomorrow in the home and at 9 in St. Joan of Arc church. Bunal will be in Crown Hill. Surviving Mrs. Ritter are the widower, John Ritter; a daughter.' Miss Clara Ritter. Indianapolis; a son. Fred A. Rutter. Batcsville. and j two granUhildren. U. S. LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR HOUSE REPAIRS Advertising Expert Named to Direct Selling Campaign. /in l'mil> <1 /‘e w WASHINGTON, July 13—Presidenl Roosevelt's housing adminis-1 tration began a national campaign j today to induce Americans to spend money to renovate their homes. (amt A Moffett, housing administrator, selected Ward Canady, widely-known advertising man. to direct the ’’selling campaign” through which he hoped to pry •loose millions in private capital to stimulate the building trades industry. Mr. Canady, president of the United States Advertising Agency, must convince thousands of home owners they should borrow from banks and other lending agencies to repair and modernize their homes. Although he denied today that he would “ballyhoo” the program. Mr.; Canady admitted there would be a ’‘selling campaign.” TWO MENTIONED FOR STATE RELIEF POST Salwasser and lleim Due Here for j Conference. Two new names are being mentioned at the staiehouse as possible successors to William H. Book, recently resigned chairman of the Governor's unemployment relief commission. They are Melton Salwasser. La Porte, and Orla Hein> Evansville. Both will be in Indianapolis Tuesday to confer with Howard Hunter, field representative of the federal emergency relief administration. FULL PROSPERITY NEAR. SAYS INSURANCE HEAD Depression "Burned Out” Year Ago Underwriters Told. Tlie depression “burned itself out a year ago." Dr. Solomon S. Huebner. Philadelphia, dean of the American College of Life Underwriters, told members of the Indiana chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters at a luncheon yesterday in the Columbia Club. •Nothing can prevent the nation from resuming full prosperity in the near future." Dr. Huebner asserted. HELD FOR ’CON’ GAME Negro Arrested in Attempt to Get Diamond Drill. Apprehended in an alleged attempt to work an ancient confidence scheme. Claud Hall. 19. Negro, 954 Camp street, was field to the Marion county grand jury under SI 000 bond in municipal court today. Hall is alleged to have attempted to obtain a diamond drill under false pretenses from the Central Supply Company last week. OLAN OUTING JN PARK Cosmopolitan Democratic Club to Hold Picnic. The Cosmopolitan Democratic Club will hold a picnic Sunday at Columbia park. Those who plan to attend will assemble at 10:30 at University square.

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Mississinewa, Once Most Beautiful Stream in Indiana, Now Stagnant With Strawboard Waste

Eaton Plant Pours Death for Game Fisji Into River Waters. TOWN IS APATHETIC SI,BOO Weekly Pay Roll Keeps Citizens Silent; Cleanup Promised. (Continued From Page One) at Eaton causes nuisances which seriously interfere with the comfort of people living nearby. Conditions are created which adversely affect the use of the stream for watering livestock. During the dry months of the average year, fish are killed in this section of the stream because of its polluted condition.” Company Claims Handicap Clyde Ryan, sales manager of the paper mills for the Bajl Brothers, declares the company is handicapped m dealing with strawboard plant at Eaton. He points out that settling ponds are not handling the wastes because of limestone bottom which does not permit seepage as do the ponds at the company's Noblesville plant. He says that every effort is being made to reduce the wash water the strawboard plant and that engineers have been working on methods of keeping the mush of the leaf straw from flowing into the river with tiie resultant sapping of the stream's oxygen. Mr. Ryan asserts that Ball Brothers have spent approximately SIO,OOO in an effort to stop the pollution of the stream and will not stop until they have solved the problem. Sewage Disposal Discussed Sewage disposal as well as a clased system for handling waste waters is under discussion, he says. The sanitary division of the health board in an early report before Ball Brothers purchased the plant, declared that the pollution could be alleviated by the adoption of "recovery processes or the construction of treatment works.” "The settling ponds now in use will not provide the required degree of treatment,” adds a report as far back as 1931. The health board advocates for the stream, “that public health and public welfare will not be jeopardized. Nuisances which interfere with public health and comfort should not be created. The use of the stream for industrial purpases will not be interfered with. Beneficial animal and vegetable life will not be materially jeopardized.” The Eaton strawboard plant, coupled with sewage from Hartford City, are dual offenders in pouring upon the city of Marion a load of contamination via the Mississinewa river. Marion Adds Sewage Marion then empties its sewage to add to the stream’s load. The stream at times has been referred to by health board engineers as an “open sewer” below Lick creek, where Hartford City's wastes join with the strawboard offal to contaminate the river. Ball Brothers, operators of the strawboard plant, are known for their philanthropy and contributions to educational institutions. The plant employs approximately

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Upper—One of Eaton's optimists trying to catch an edible catfish within several blocks of the strawboard plant. The plant cap be seen in the background. Lower—A view of the Eaton strawboard plant where carton board is made for jar containers and other uses. The plant is operated by the Ball Brothers of Muncie. It pours a stream of pollution into the Mississinewa river.

100 men. The major portion of the workmen are residents of Eaton. When the plant shuts down, credit goes awry in Eatoy. It is the town’s main fear in connection with the correction of stream pollution by the plant. “Better the plant operate than to shut down and throw us out of work,” relatives of workmen say when the matter of revamping the plant to end pollution is discussed. Old settlers, however, point out that Indians were not so far wrong in naming the Mississinewa. “It’s a corruption of a word of the Miami' tongue,” said an oldtimer. “It means ‘much fall in the river.’ And if they were back here today, looking her over, they would see she's fallen a lot as far as beauty and fishing is concerned.” He shook his head sagely and went back to digging for worms in his garden and making another daylight attempt at catching something besides a fingerling. (Next: The Hoosier Athens and Its Acids).

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WOLF AGAIN IS BOYS' CHIEFTAIN City Man Selected to Head Club for Twelfth Time. Arthur Wolf, was elected president of the Boys’ Club Association cf Indianapolis for the twelfth time last night, at the meeting held at the camp near Noblesville. All other officers of the organization also were re-elected. Karl C. Wolfe was named executive vice-president and was placed on the board of trustees with Hugh McK. Landon. Vacancies on the board of directors were filled by Al G. Feeney and Dr. Joseph E. Kernel. The new permanent hospital at the camp, given by Harold West,

and equipped through the courtesy of Clarence Hess, assistant superintendent of Methodist hospital, was dedicated. BICYCLE LICENSE AGE LIMIT MAY BE RAISED City Councilman Will Move to Make 18-Year-Olds Exempt. Age limit exemptions from purchasing city bicycle licenses would be raised from 16 to 18 years, under terms of a city ordinance to be introduced at a city council meeting Monday night. Declaring that the bicycle is a necessary mode of transportation for many high school students, •George A. Henry, Republican councilman, said that he would sponsor the measure to relieve these students from the tax. Bicycle owners more than 15 now are required to pay a $2 license fee. Riders not owning bicycles are not required to have licenses. Few licenses have been issued.

FILM EXTRAS TO REVEAL DETAILS OF WILD ORGIES Girls Forced to Submit to Indignities to Get Work, She Says.. By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 13.—June De Long, film extra, whose testimony before the grand jury resulted in the indictment of Dave Allen, casting dir'-tor and Gloria Marsh, another extra, on morals was to testify today at the trial of Allen and Miss Marsh. Miss De Long, raven-haired extra, was scheduled to tell details of an asserted wild party participated in by herself, Allen, and Miss Marsh. The actress charges such orgies are a part of a “system” in Hollywood in which girl extras are forced to submit to moral indignities in order to obtain work. Her testimony will follow’ that ol Mrs. Pearl Ow’ings, another fiim extra, who earlier in the trial related the sordid sight which she claimed confronted her when she entered Miss De Long’s partment. Pat Harmon, a motion picture “heavy” and former policeman, vigorously denied, when questioned by the defense, that he, Mrs. Owings and Miss De Long had “framed” Allen in order to obtain film work. Allen, Mrs. Owings said, first blustered and threatened her. Then he said, “This is the most beautiful thing in life —won’t you join us?”, according to her testimony. When his pleas failed, he offered each of the three girls S2OO to keep silent, Mrs. Owings testified. She said that they all refused the money.

FRIDAY 13TH PROVES UNLUCKY FOR 2 HELD IN BOAT THEFT CASE

Two young men with an alleged weakness for rowboats found in the wee, small hours of this morning that Friday the thirteenth was unlucky. The men, held at the city prison on pettit larceny charges, are Lucien Stewart, 21, Akron, Ind., and Clarence Heather, 19, of 300 South Keystone avenue. Police say that Jack Cone, 2135 North New Jersey street, consessionaire at the Twenty-sixth street bathing beach, caught Stewart and Heather last night as they were riding down White river parkway with one of the beach's lifeboats atop their car. Mr. Cone and a companion, John Phillips, 101 North Colorado avenue, forced the pair to return the boat and then called police, they said. SCOUT HONORS SLATED Court of Award to Be Held Tonight at Camp. Recognition will be given to all boys who have completed merit badge work, and have attained the ranks of second and first class, star, life and eagle Scouts, at tonight’s court of awards at the Indianapolis Boy Scout camp. The ceremony will close the second camping period.

HARROD RESIGNS

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C. L. Harrod Resignation of Clifford L. Harrod as president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company was announced yesterday. He has been succeeded by Harry T. Pritchard, formerly of Chicago. INDIANA AVE. GETS TRACKLESS GAR LINE Five More Routes to Have Same Type Service. Operation of trackless trolleys was begun over the Indiana avenue line yesterday by Indianapolis Railways, Inc. Connected with the Columbia avenue route, the line now forms a crosstown service. Five more lines, the Prospect, Pennsylvania, English, South East and Brightwood, will be changed to trackless trolley service during the next two months to make a total of fifteen using this type of service. Indiana avenue cars bound for the Columbia avenue line will move south from Indiana avenue to Maryland street, east to Delaware street, north to Washington street, east to Alabama street, north to Massachusetts avenue and thence northeast over the regular Columbia avenue route. KING GETS ‘TOO DAMN MAD’; GIVES UP GOLF Prince of Wales Tells Society of Monarch’s Temper. By Uni lal Press LONDON, July 13.—King George stopped playing golf because he “got so damned mad,” the prince of Wales told the Lucier Golf Society in a speech last night. Girl, 11, Drowns in Lake By United Press ELKHART, Ind., July 13.—Rebecca Ulrich, 11. daughter of a South Bend farmer, drowned in Heaton lake near Elkhart late yesterday.

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YOUNG SLAYER DIES IN LETHAL GAS CHAMBER New York Hitchhiker Pays With Life for Killing Arizona Man. By United Pms FLORENCE, Ariz, July ze: s new lethal cas chamber claimed its third youthful victim today when George Shaughncssy, 19-year-old Albany <N. Y.) hitchhiker, was executed for the murder of Lon Blankenship, Tucson automobile dealer. The young New Yorker who boasted he came west to become a "bad man." died just one week after Manuel Hernandez 19, and his brother. 18. were put to death for the slaying of an aged Needles, Cal., prospector. Shaughncssy was placed in the death cell at 4.56 a. m. Three minutes later he # was declared dead. Shaughncssy, who had boasted he would go to his death “like a man.” went into convulsions as Warden A. G. Walker cut the strings which dropped the deadly cyanide pellets into an acid solution. For nearly fifty seconds he fought the thongs that bound him to the straight-backed chair in the tiny death chamber, then slumped forward. dead. Killer of Girl Dies By l int'll Press CARSON CITY, Nev.. July 13 Joe Behiter, 35, convicted three years ago for the murder of Maxine Armstrong, Las Vagas dance hall girl, died today in Nevada's lethal gas chamber. He was the seventh person to die here since Nevada introduced lethal gas execution to the world ten years ago. Two to Die on 13th By United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Cal., July 13.—Friday, the 13th. w r as to be a fatal day for Jose Arragon, Mexican. and Walter Ripp.v, Negro. They were to be hanged here today —Arragon for the murder of his wife and her alleged paramour, and Rippy for the slaying of a service station operator. U. S. AIR DEFENSE TO BE PROBED BY HOUSE Representative Says Congress Will Study Service. By United Press WASHINGTON. July 13. A drive for complete readjustment of the air forces of America's army and navy will be undertaken when congress meets next January, Representative Paul J. Kvale (FarmerLabor, Minn.), member of the house military afairs committee, said today. “The air defense act is going to get a working over when congress meets again,” Mr. Kvale said.

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