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ENGINEER
IS OPPOSED.
Discharge of Sewage Plant
Head Sought by Sanitary
Board Member.
CHARGE FUNDS SHORT
AIIege Money Refused for
Efficient Operation.

o. c. Ross. president of the board
OF sanitary commissioners. said to-
day he viii oppose vigorously the
efforts OF Russell T. MacF'all' board
member, 10 oust Cecil Calvert as en-.
gineer In charge of the city's
$4,000 900 sewage disposal plant on
White River.
Ross contends that McFafI and
George G. Schmidt, city engineer.
who seconded at the last meeting
OF the board a motion by MacF'all
to remove Calvert and then left the
meeting. have refused to authorize
acquisitions for additions at the
plant necessary to insure efficient
operation.
"Those acquisitions are on fle OF
the board with only my signature on
them" Ross said
Dedicated Year Ago
The sewage disposal plant was
dedicated with much ceremony last
July. With proper cooperation, II
would have been in efficient oper.
alton by April, 1925, authorities say.
g. Compensation for the board mem.
bers is authorized In an unusual
manner. They receive $500 q month
as long as the sewage disposal plant
is incomplete. Afterward their pay
drops TO $50 a month. They are still
receiving $500 a month.
Engineers from all parts OF the
country come TO consult with Cal
vert" Ross said. "He Is the only
man know who can handle that
plant as II should be opera ted. He
is efficient in every way and see
no reason for a change"
Charges Inefiiciency
"The plant has been installed near
ly a year and Mr.. Calvert has not
been able 10 operate n efficiently"
MacFaIl said. Calvert and Huisf
Charles II. Hurd. formerly In
charge Of the plant seem to think
the plant belongs TO them. In in.
tend to bring this resolution up az
every meeting until II Is passed"
Ross estimated that less than $685.
900 will supply the. necessities Of the
plant.
acquisitions on file call for covers
for the sludge tanks, a skimming de-
vice to remove oil from the sewage
and cleaners to remove the filth from
grit chambers IN the sewage pipes.
At present the chambers are
cleaned by worlxmen. q process that
requires some time and which makes
&c necessary TO divert raw. unhl.
tered sewage into the river for sew
eral hours
Resignation Refused
A few days ago Ross refused TO ac-
cept Calvert's resignation, rendered
after he had been ignored in prepare.
tion of the budget for the plant and
had suffered a number OF other
affronts.
The board of sanitary commission
ers is a peculiarly constituted body
The city engineer is an ex.ofiicio
member. one member is named by
the State board Of health and the
two chose thee third member.
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LOG ROLLERS TO MEET

Bv URited Press
BLOOMINGTON. Ind. July. a.
Several thousand members Of the
Indiana Log Rolling Association Of
the Modern Woodmen will meet here
Monday In annual State convention.
State officers win speak.
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DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 3.-Mayor
Ernest Boubion of Aqua Prieta,
Mexico. in a signed statement today
declared that Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson, Los Angeles evangelist, told
him that she had been in Aqua
Prieta for three days prior to her
dramatic return to life" on June 23
The evangelist, later, however,
qualified her alleged statements and
declared she had been in the "out-
skirts of Aqua Prieta," during the
three days, said the Mexican mayor
II met Mrs. Mcpherson in a cafe
in Aqua Prieta about 1 o'clock last
Thursday afternoon" said the state
ment.
81 asked het If she had been in
Aqua Prieta 1br eight days before
she made her presence known. She
answered.:
No, only three days"
In another statement Mayor Bou-
bion declared that Mrs. Mcpherson
made efforts to have him withhold
from the public results of the Mex
lean authorities investigation of
her story"
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PRINCE IN YELLOWSTONE

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS,
Wyo.. July 3.-Crown Prince Gus
tav and Princess Louise of Sweden
today explored the natural beauties
Of the Yellowstone National Park
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THREE BURNED IN BLAST
Well Explodes, Burning Workers
Fatally.
By United Press

Bu Unffed F'rfSS
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, July S.-A
gas we'll on the Ford Lease OF the
Ohio Fuel Company near here ex'
ploded today burning three men per
haps fatally and injuring a fourth.
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LIGHT ON
AIMEE SHED
BY MEXICAN
Mayor Says Evangelist in
Town Three Days Before
She Reappeared.
BULLETIN

BIZ Unftcd Pff IS
LOS ANGELES, July 3.-Los
Angeles authorities announced
today that a solution of the
Aimee Semple Mcpherson kid
naping mystery may be ex-
pected soon. The whereabouts
4af the eSang gelisssz from theeti'iie.
she disappeared from the beach
at Venice on May 18, until her
temperance in the Mexican
desert near Douglas, Ariz., June
%, have been traced in detail, 1t
is said.
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Telephone Tybe7C1iteY Ne7C Time SaUer
Latest Device for Transmit
ting Messages Installed
Here.

Time was. and not long since, when
man conceived the idea of saving
time, crowding more activity into
the span of his life.
And time saving devices, starting
with such crude forms as the pony
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HENRI T. CoNDE DIES
Burial of Retired Business Man 10
Re Here.

Burial og Henri T. conde. retired
indianapolis business man. who died
in Pasadena. Cal. Friday. VIII take
place IN this city.
Mr.. Condo held . number Of high
Offices IN the Masonic Lodge ana was
interested ~ activities a. the Ma.
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POLICE CONTINUE
FIREWORKS DRIVE,
33ARE ARRESTED
Wife of Mayor Casualty
List of Don'ts Given by
Chief Johnson.

With Mrs. John L. Duvall, wife OF
the mayor, a casualty and thirty
three persons under arrest, police to.
day continued a city-wide drive
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CHIvALROUS ALL RIGHT
Goes to Jail Rather Than Ton Name
Of Married Woman.

M Tbnee kDccfdI
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. July r.
James Casteluct has been released
after serving a seven months bail
sentence. rather than tell the name
of a married woman, who Was with
him the night OF a hold-up OF which
he was convicted. Testimony Of the
unknown woman. officials say, would
have cleared Castelucci Of the
charge.
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SCOTT TO HANG OCT. IS
Chicago Slayer Denied New Sanity
Hearing.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. July 3.-Russell Scott
today was denied new sanity hear
ing and date Of his execution was
set for Oct. 15.
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FEAR BANKER IS DEAD
100000 Shortage. Threatens to End
Life.
Bv United Press

By United Press
OMAHA. Neb.. July 3.--No trace
had been found today Of Edward
Goerke. president Of the Pappillion
State Bank. Pappilion Neb., who
is said to have threatened suicide
after bank examiners had found a
shortage Of nearly 100000 in the
bank.
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$4,000 BUTLER
DONATION SFO.R
BUILDING CHAPEL
Mrs. Carrie Frances Robert
son Makes Gift to School
at FairvieW.

Announcement of an $4,000 gift
to Butler University, to be used in
the erection of chapel building in
Fsrview Park, the new Butler site,
by Mrs. Carrie Frances Robertson,
926 n. Meridian ST., was made to-
day by John w. Atherton, execu-
tive secretary of the university.
The gift was chiefly real estate,
II was said.
To Prepare Plans
Robert Frost Dagget. architect
and his associate, Thomas z. Hibben,
will prepare preliminary plans for
the structure. The building will be
constructed Of stone and will be of
modified English Gothic Style of
architecture. 1t will be located on
the hills, north and east of the main
quadrangle and will offer a com.
manding position in natural forest
setting.
The building will be large enough
to accommodate the student body and
will be used as the University
church.
Mrs. Robertson is the widow Of
Alexander Robertson. who died three
years ago. lie was highly interested
In educational advance ment in In.
dianapclis. Mrs Robertson said the
gift was in memory of her husband.
Donor Happy
II have long been interested in the
civic welfare of indianapolis. said
Mrs. Robertson, ''and have come
to believe that education is the most
important thing any of us can sup
port Religion, of course, is the
foundation of all education. While
others are contributing toward the
erection OF classrooms, administra-
ton and science buildings and their
equipment. 1t seemed to me proper
and fitting to contribute to the erec-
ton OF a chapel.
mo thing makes me happier than
the knowledge that adequate pro-
vision will be made for the spiritual
life of the Butler students for all
time to come. ! feel that higher ed
ucation cannot be of enduring bene-
fit to our nation unless the spirit
ural as well as the mental. side
of our boys and girls is developed.
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Forecast

Unsettled tonight and Sum
day. Probable showers or
thunder storms Somewhat cool
er tonight.
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ton, the total fell to 5,465, he said.
In indianapolis 1,12l were ar
rested for drunkenness; 3,546 in
1920, and 1876 in 1924, ShirI1 said.
Declaring drunken drivers and
drunken children have increased far
above anything known in this coun-
try, Shlrk said I'VE can not escape
the conclusion that the Volstead act
has utterly failed to promote TEN.
perance and sobriety.
1--WE believe that greater degree
Of temperance can be attained with
a wise restrictive law than by a
bone dry law which does not com
mand the respect of a large part of
our people, he said. Modification,
Shirll said he was convinced, would
eliminate almost entirely the scan
dalous corruption and bribery of
public officials; stop the growth of
the millionaire bootleg class; check
disrespect for the law and produce a
handsome national revenue"
Shirk declared drunkenness now
was about the same In wet States
as before prohibition, but in States
which had their own dry laws, intox-
ication was much higher than in
1914. lie said drunkenness in New
York increased asa per cent from
1916 to 1924; Chicago, 440 per cent;
Washington 1,062 per cent; Mil.
waukee. 2,554 per cent, and Mime
apolis, GIG per cent.
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BANK BANDITS
GIVEN TERMS
Reeves, Dennis HoStetter,
Sentenced by Judge.

Kenneth Reeves. %. Of 923 Broad
way, charged with implication with
Dennis Hostetter, 81, i'm the hold-up
of the Southport Citizens State bank
was fined 500 and costs and SEN
fenced TO ten to twenty-one years at
the Indiana State Reformatory to-
day by Criminal Judge James A. Col
lins. Hostettcr was fined SOD and
costs and sentenced to two to four
teen years at the reformatory.
Miss Rose Mary Kaiser. is, indict-
ed with the two, turned States
evidence. Judge Collins said he
would dispose OF her case Saturday
morning. Howard and Robert Hos
letter, indicted with the other threee,
are fugitives. Reeves was returned
a week ago from Texas, where
he was apprehended with Robert
and Howard Hostetter. The other
two escaped.
They are alleged to have looted
the bank Of $1,69O.05. Hostetter
and Reeves refused to testify. Rich
and Hostetter, father of Dennis,
Howard and Robert, is under in
dictment for receiving stolen goods.
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Action Ward VIII
Take Is Not Knolvn

When the charge was made Ward
was before the United States Cir
cult Court Of Appeals al Chicago,
where he successfully argued the
Governments side OF the case in ask
ing the appeal Of liquor holders be
docketed and dismissed because il
was not perfected and the booze be
destroyed
Clerks office officials at the Fed
eral Bldg. have been awaiting the
arrival Of the mandate ordering de
struction of the booze. 1t is ex-
pected the last OF the week.
Check of the w. p. Squibb Com.
pany liquor was made during the last
week of March by A. J. Signaigo
Department Of Justice examiner. and
Marshal Meredith. Signaigo made
the check Immediately after La
Guardia made the charge in Con
greSs.
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announce the winner soon after
the contest ends. The prizes will
be awarded at the exposition.
To enter q candidate in the con-
test you must write d letter to
the Unique Woman Contest Edi-
tor, Indianapolis Times, setting
out these facts:
The woman's name and adj
dress.
Full details upon the unique
job and some of the woman's ac-
complishments. enough detail to
give the judges a good idea of
why YOU think the woman is un-
usual. remembering she must
earn money in some way0
Inclose the woman's picture if
you can secure one.
This contest is part of the
plans of the executive board of
the Indianapolis Womans Expo
sition. The exposition itself is
planned to demonstrate the prog
ress, attainments and accomplish
nlents of women. 1t is sponsored
and promoted for the furtherance
OF the ideals of the organized
business women.
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HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Name @ Unique Woman
Candidate

Have YOU decided who YOU are
gong to nominate in the Unique
Woman Contest?
The Times, cooperating with
the Business Women's Depart
ment of the Indianapolis Wom-
ans Department Club, offers a
500 prize to the most unique
woman in indianapolis and $40 to
the person who first suggests her
name.
The contest is operated to call
attention to the varied activities
Of Indianapolis women. as an ad
vance feature of the indianapolis
Woman's Exposition to be held
ut iho State Playground May II
TO ?2
Any Indianapolis woman. over
S years of age, who earus
money in an unusual way, ls
eligible to enter the contest. She
may he a business or professional
woman. She may be a housewife
who adds to the family income by
a unique sideline.
The contest ends at midnight
May 8. Judges will be selected
soon hy the executive board of
the exposition. The Times will
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SurUeyShows Drunkenness
Increasing, Senate Told

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 13.--Drunk-
enness is more widespread now
than in the open-saloon days. Stan
ley Shirl1, research director Of the
New York Moderation League and
wet witness. told the Senate prohi-
bition investigating committee today.
He said a national survey showed
arrests for drunkenness in 457 rep
resentative places had increased
from 25O,000 in 1920 to $4,000 in
1924.
Indiana was concluded, Shirl1
said. lie quoted figures from thir-
teen Hoosier cities. showing total
arrests in 1914 numbered only 6,471.
as compared to 1879 In 1924. In
1920, the fist full year of prohibi-
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WILLIAMS
I'LL, DEFENSE SA VS.
Had Stomach Trouble and Was Not Full of Cocktails,
Court Martial Told, Denying Buffers Charges.

told the court martial which is hear
ing drunkenness charges, preferred
by General Butler.
Social leaders of Southern Cali
fornia We're expected TO take the
stand for Williams today
The prosecution rested suddenly
Monday after using only four wit
nesses, including General Butler.
"As soon as my hat was taken
from me at Williams home. what
Il presumed was a cocktail was
handed to me-" Butler testified. IT
refused it. Colonel Williams kept
asking me to drink it, saying It was
very mild
During the supper" Butler
continued, 81 got the impression
that Colonel Williams was getting
intoxicated. He was ranting about
the influence of the radio i'm the
home"
'I tried to get away. | didn't
want to see anything. / soon noticed
that Williams was getting full so
/ moved out on the porch and
SldySu there until the neIlDeTS Oh
the party started for the hotel.
las we left for the hotel Williams
staggered across the lawn and /
thought someone was going to put
him to bed"
Butler then told OF Williams ac-
tions at the hotel Del Coronado-the
actions which resulted i'm the Colo
nels arrest and the court martial.
Mondays evidence was conflicting.
Capt. Clifton B. Gates, said he be-
lieved that Colonel Williams was i'll
and not intoxicated. lie also didn't
believe the drinks were strong
enough to be classed alcoholic"
Maj. Ross Rowell and Capt.
Charles L. Rice, however believed
Williams was intoxicated although
no drinking took place in their
presence.
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MAN CRUSHED
UNDER TRACTOR
Condition of Workman Re-
ported Critical.

Cecil La Toilette, %. Of S35 N.
Capitol Ave, was critically injured
today when ne was crushed beneath
a twoton tractor at 351 S. Harding
st. Lieut.. Walter Claffey and squad
sent him to the city hospital, where
his injuries are said to consist Of a
broken left hip, internal injuries and
cuts and bruises.
La Toilette is employed by the
Krebay Construction Company, en-
gagged in erecting a garage for the
Standard Oil branch plant. He was
driving the tractor.
He told Claffey the clutch jammed
suddenly and the front end somer
saulted in the air and over on him
before he had opportunity to leap.
Workmen lifted the huge machine
from him.
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SQUIBB'S LIQUOR $50 CASES SHORT
TEACHING BODY
CHANGE is NOT
TO Be RADICAL
Vonnegut Says School Board
Will Follow Usual Course
on Selections.

mo radical changes" will be made
grade and high school teaching
staffs next semester, it was an
nounced today by Theodore f. Won
negut, school board president.
Vonnegut said the time for prep.
aration of list Of teachers appoint
ments was at hand, and it was his
that superintendent
i. L. Graft will attempt TO have
them completed so contracts can be
let for the ensuing year, by the last
week Of May.
Contracts OF teachers expire June
30. at which time they may either
be reappointed or their contracts
may be allowed 10 run out.
Working OH List
Graft said he was working on the
teachers list.
Nonnegut's word Of no radical
changes came as a relief to Indian
apolis teachers, who, it was report
ed. have been wondering" what the
new board would do.
Following the boards wholesale
dismissal Of about fifty workmen at
the opening OF the new office term,
it was the general feeling that the
teachers ranks also would be
moved.
Majority Oheh Needed
Nonnegut said appointments were
entirely up to Graft and the instruc-
ton committee could not legally"
have anything 10 do with them. He
said the committee. however, might
be called into conference by Graft
in an advisory capacity to talk
over the proposed appointments
and changes in the teaching staffs.
Tho instruction committee is
composed Of majority members.
Charles w. Kern. Lillian Sedwick
and Minority Member Charles T.
Yoke. with Vonnegut acting as an
eX-oflicio member.
The board at its meeting tonight
will decide on the new location OF
School ~. Twenty-Fffth and RAIDER
SITS. It has been proposed to erect
tho school ar isabella and Edge
ment SITS. Patrons are objecting 10
this location.
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and that the matter was now in the
hands OF the Department Of JUS
tice.
The SQuibb liquor was part OF
the stock of George Remus, con-
victed Cincinnati bbootlegger, and
was transferred to Indianapolis dur
ing court proceedings against Re
mus. La Guardia also pointed out
that admission had been made of
the purchase Of certificates COW
ering other Remus liquor by
Matt Hinkle Of Cleveland, Ohio, as
he also charged in his speech in
the House in which the Indian
apolis diversion was mentioned.
Sargent's letter containing the rec
ords Of the SGuibb whisky does not
trace its history back beyond jan
II, 1928, except to state that 1,467
cases were originally received from
Lawrencebure. This shows that
about fourteen cases had disappeared
on Jan. II, 1923, when 1,453 cases
were counted. These were divided
as follows: 1.l45 cases full, six cases
containing from two to ten bottles
each, and two cases empty.
The report sets out that on July 8,
1928. Meredith started to destroy the,
liquor, but was advised not to pro
ceed and stopped. The aumber. of
bottles destroyed at that time is not
known, Sargent said.
On July q, 1924, it was stated r.
V. Fessler. Federal Bldg. carpen-
ter reported that the lock on the
whisky room had been tampered
with. on Jan. 6. 1925. Meredith re-
ported again that the lock had been
broken and on May 16, 1925, Ira C.
Foxworthy reported boards on the
liquor room had been moved.
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Whether United States District
Attorney Albert Ward has taken
any action to determine responsible
ity for the disappearance of $50
cases of Squibb liquor from the
Federal Bldg, was not known here
today. Ward with Marshal Linus
p. Meredith, was i'm Evansville.
where Federal Judge Robert Baltzell
is holding court.
When the charge of the disap-
pearance of $50 cases was first
made by La Guardia in Congress.
Ward said "he knew nothing Of it"
and would take no action in the
matter until he had received word
from Washington.
He has asserted the liquor was not
in his custody, but was Of the opin-
ion that United States Marshal
Linus p. Meredith "could account
for every case and bottle stored"
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BIZ nWfH TTC9s
MARINE BASE. SAN DIEGO,
Cal, April 13.-Col. Alexander S.
Williams had stomach trouble" on
the night of March and was not
full of cocktails, as charged Mon
day by Gen. Smedley d. Butler, the
accused officers defense declared to-
day.
That was why the colonel had to
be carried home. Williams attorney
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his work as head of Philadelphia police
sPH srticie s viii %isTas sppesr S daily. The Times
owns exclusive rights to the articles IN
this territory
With the problem so squarely be-
fore as, and the odds so overs
whelmingly against us, we con-
tinued our task.
one form of political punishment,
exile to Siberia was early
abolished
Whenever a policeman persisted
in doing real work and refused TO
obey the politicians engaged in reap
ing golden harvest from vice and
crime, the policeman had been i'm
mediately transferred to 4 post as
far as possible from his home. Thus
he would have to spend two or three
hours daily of his free time making
the round trip from home to post.
This trick was eliminated by an
order that no policeman was to be
transferred without approval of the
director. A policeman could then
feel safe in performing his duty.
The so-called vice squad was
abolished. These men, operating as
unit for many years, had become
an integral part OF the tenderloin.
The squad was more useful as an
aid to the vice ring than as a police
detail
DrOnes Weeded Out
Policemen working as city hall
clerks. because Of their political in
fuence were ordered into uniform
and sent out to pound beats.
Efficient clerks took their places
The plain clothes district detective
system was completely revised.
In the past these district de.
tectives had got their positions by
virtue of political connections. and
had retained them for years. Be-
cause of their knowledge Of con-
ditions they had become important
factors in vice circles and usually
served as collectors for their
superiors and the politicians who
controlled them.
Under the new plan policemen
served as district detectives for two
week intervals and then were
rotated so they would not become
too we'll known, nor fully corrupted.
The detective bureau was re-
organized. Men who had been per
mitted to report irregularly and to
engage in private business on the
side were put to work.
Drives Continued
Transfer and demotion Of police
officials and policemen found to be
dishonest or inefficient continued.
There were more drives. The war
1n crooks was intensified.
On one surprise tour of the city I
learned why bandits always emerged
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