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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
PARK BOARD
TURNS over
MERIDIAN ST.
Works Commission Will Get
7horoughfare, Resurface
and Widen 1t.
RAPS CHRONIC KIcKERS
Property Owners Declare
Project One That Will
Benefit City.

City officials al last have un-
raveled the tangle ever resurfacing
of Meridian st. between Fall Greek
and Thirty-eighth st.
The park board Thursday adopt
ed a resolution turning the threet
over to the board Of works for i'm
provement and widening. The north
side thoroughfare includes "Duvall's
Gulch" and "Buser's Canyon" ruts
named "in honor" of city officials.
Jurisdiction over the boulevard
was released by the park board after
a bond issue for resurfacing was
declared illegal.
Virgil Vandagrifft, works board
president, was at the meeting Thurs
day and accepted the gift" He
said City Engineer Paul r. Brown
had been ordered to draw a resolu-
ton for the resurfacing and WIDEN
ing of the street. The board is ex-
pected to adopt the resolution Mon
day.
Widening Planned
The park board also adopted a
resolution taking over Meridian be-
tween North and Fall Greek. The
section between st. Clair and Tenth
will be temporarily released to the
works board next week so the bot
tie neck" may be removed. It will
be resurfaced and widened from
forty-four to fifty-one feet.
Widening of Meridian north Of
Fall Greek has met opposition of
several property owners. Arthur v.
Brown, Union Trust Company presi-
dent, 3172 N. Meridian St., said prop
erty owners would demonstrate the
widening.
81 don't think it viii do you any
good" retorted Vandagrifft
Vandagrifft announced work viii
be rushed on the resurfacing and
widening. the job being split into
three contracts, so 1t can be finished
before winter.
E. w. Warner. 27o9 N. Meridian
st, and Frank Woolling, real estate
dealer, urged the widening project.
Woolling owns property at the
southeast corner Of Meridian and
Thirtieth SITS.
Raped Chronic Kickers
Warner raped professional re-
monstrators," who always are OPP
posed to a forward program benefit
ing the entire city.
1T have been fighting for years to
keep hog and cattle caravans from
our streets. They should go around
the city," said Warner.
Commissioner Michael E. Foley
assured Warner that Meridian st.
would not be used by trucks en- route
to the stockyards.
Harry R. Fitton, 1925 N. Meridian
ST., said he was opposed to business
houses being erected on Meridian.
Gustave G. Schmidt. city plan
commission president, promised the
park baord that the commission
would not permit business to rush in
while the street was under works
board jurisdiction,
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Anti-SaI0On League Lauded
for Warfare Against
? King Alcohol

DR.. Oren w. Fifer, Indianapolis
district superintendent; the Rev. w.
E. Farmer, president of the Preach
ers' Aid Society, and the Rev. j. T.
Schulz, ConnerSville district super
intendent, were elected as three of
the seven ministerial delegates to
the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church by the
Indiana conference of the church
this morning.
This afternoon the conference,
meeting in the Irvington NJ. E.
Church, voted to select the other
four general conference delegates.
The general conference will be held
in Kansas City in May.
Laymen of the Indiana Confer
ence, in session at the Irvington
Presbyterian Church, elected these
five lay delegates to the. general
conference.
Dwight s. Ritter. Indianapolis;
Mrs. Hattie Asbury, Indianapolis;
Judge F. A. Huering, Rockport;
r. A. fash, Salem, and T. J. Sare,
Bloomington.
Two other lay delegates were
voted on this afternoon.
PICK UP
Indianapolis District Ministers
Wives Association held a reception
this afternoon in charge of Mrs.
Oren w. Fifer, president.
Ministers and laymen held a
joint session, followed by a meeting
to be addressed by DR.. F.. B. Stock
dale, DID,, on THE Preachers Cen
esis," DR.. H. w. Hargitt, DID,, pre-
siding.
Temperance Plea Made
An appeal for Statewide scien-
tific temperance instruction in pub
lie schools was made in resolution
adopted by district superintendent
Thursday afternoon. The resolution
also made an appeal to ministers to
present the real facts" from their
pulpits. The paper was presented by
the Rev. Elmer st. Clair, Boonville,
secretary of the committee.
I'm the face of Misrepresentation
on the part of the forces of evil and
widespread criticism by moistened
newspapers, we wish to express our
confidence in the integrity of the
Anti-Saloon League of Indiana, and
to indicate as our Judgment that 1t
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PICK LAYMEN
FARLEY DELEGATES TO-DAY

is the most effective agency through
which the churches may conduct
their warfare against King Alcohol"
the resolution stated.
Rev. Fifer and Rev. j. N. Greene,
Bedford. were reelected trustees of
the Anti-Saloon League.
The resolution also expressed ap-
prevail of prison reform movements.
Ministers Elected
Ministers elected to fill member
ship in the conference: The Rev.
Lester N. Abel, Switz City; the Rev.
Alfred L. Beatty, Greencastle: the
Rev. Russell w. Parsley, Center
Point; the Rev. Virgil Stauffer,
Newberry; and the Rev. James Todd,
Prairietown. The ministers will be
ordained Sunday in services con-
Quoted by Bishop Henderson.
Mrs. Dan Brummitt, chairman of
the woman's missionary jubilee
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By HoRTENsE SAUNDERS

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-The fat
'ady, the spider man, the woman
Who gets sawed in half
The Hihdoo mind readers, the as
rologist, the wax works-where the
5acco- Vanzetti executions and the
,nyder murder trial bring the col
ection of horrors up to date
These and all the other miscel-
aneous Coney Island purveyors OF
un and amusement, including lol-
ipops and hot dogs, are almost in a
lass with the farmers and Near
East orphans this fall. The coming
Of September found them sadly in
need of relief.
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1t is the most typical New York
place in New York. In one evening
there you get slant on New York's
melting pot in action, such as no
other place affords.
Some of the shopkeepers at Coney
yearn wistfully for the old days, say
before the~war and before prohibit
ton. They sigh for the generation
that slipped beer from six ounce
glass and became expansive, spend
ing its money with a reckless aban-
don and prodigal gesture this gem
GRAFTON does not know.
Beer. it seems, encouraged dreams
of grandeur so that father gladly
would spend $40 to win a 50-cent
box of chocolates or a beautiful doll
with lamp where you least ex-
pected it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
ANNUAL MEET PLANNED

Fourteenth annual meeting of the
Marion County tuberculosis Asso-
citation will be held at the Lincoln
Hotel next Thursday, Miss Mary A.
Meyers, executive secretary, an
nounced today.
Following luncheon officers will
make their annual reports and DR..
H. E. Kleinschmidt, national tuber-
culosis supervisor of medical service,
will speak.
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By Times specios

BY Times Specios
MUNCIE, Ind, Sept. 16.--
Hottest September day in
Muncie's history-92-was the
one Shaffer Oren. engineer at
the Y. w. C. A. building.
choose as testing time for the
buildings new heating plant to
ascertain If enough pressure
could be developed to insure
sufiicient heat when winter
comes. Girls at the "Y" re-
treated to the porch, roof and
grounds while the test was on.
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Hes so sensitive to what, they
say. He'll hear himself called "a
veteran or read something about
his legs being gone. and he'll say,
They're right, Estelle, I'm getting
to be an old man And he looks
SO gloomy I nearly die laughing at
the old man of 49,"
Mrs: Jack Dempsey may or may
not be the Dempsey family boss. as
some critics have said, but I'm in
clined to think any man, even a
champion, could do worse than keep
in step with mind like hers. She
knows her onions and her Jackl
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She Liked Hotels

~ Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 49,
Fred Weaver was granted divorce
in Superior court here when he Of
fered proof that his wife, Mabel,
deserted him because he refused to
give up their home and live with
her In q hotel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
NET FISHING is CHARGED

Three Lafayette Men Also Accused
Of Killing Ducks Out of Season.
A trio of Lafayette men were ar
rested Thursday by State game
wardens for using net in the Wa
bash River and pursuing wild fow
out of season. The latter is a Fed
eral charge.
The men, Harry O'Connor, Will
liam O'Connor and William Collins,
are charged with having in their
possession two wild ducks.
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week for herself and some of you
birds who laugh at me for listening
make $50. Beat it."
But you see," said Estelle, "you
see Jack is so big in his line, that
no lAatter how famous I might be-
come I could never be MS equal.
Mary Pickford herself is not so we'll
known as Jack Dempsey. He is so
supreme that my biggest efforts
would never make him look
smaller.
Mans Job Biggest
THAT'S the secret of happiness in
a marriage between two profess
sional people-to have the mans
job the biggest.
Jacks has always been put first.
That's why I'm here in Chicago
right now, instead of out in Holly
wood plugging for contract.
That's why I've refused contracts
that would tie me up for more years
than any married woman has a
right to promise herself to any in
stitution other than her husband.
Jacks always has assumed that
when he needed me I would be
ready to go with him or wherever
he was. He isn't interested in the
details of how 1 manage this. He
wants the results. And he's always
had them"
Estelle Taylor Dempsey's huge
brown eyes snapped.
A Costly Marriage
MANY people have said that !
used Jack as a stepping stone for
my own ambitions--that I wanted
the publicity he could give me.
"But on the contrary, my mar
riage has cost me more professional
ly than it ever gave me. 1t cost me
a contract at the time of my mar
riage. 1t has handicapped me in
making them since.
(T1ere at this point we have some
inside dope on the Mr.. and Mrs.
Dempsey finances.)
Jack sometimes says I take all
the 4neart out Of him and make it
hard for him to see any point in
making big money because I won't
spend it,.
Perhaps It's because I've earned
my own way ever since I was a
child, but I've never been able to
spend his money.
'I let him keep up the house, but
that's all. Except presents, of
course. Some day, when I stop
working and we have our family,
he'll have all the spending on me
he wants"
She's worried these days-so much
SO that the pounds are dropping off,
and she says she wakes in the night
praying that Jack will win.
Jack Anxious to Win
"He wants it sol try to tell him
that, after all. it's not so terribly
important, because if he keeps on
taking it as. hard as he does he'll
be so tense and keyed up in the
ring he can't do anythingl
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Auto-Quet?
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
UNION CITY, Ind. Sept. is.
-Cleve Pittinger hauled poul-
try in the family automobile
and refused to buy truck for
the purpose as his wife advised.
He is facing a charge of assault
and battery with intent to kill,
Mrs. Pittinger charging he at
tackled her during an argument
over the auto-riding poultry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
BRINGS JOBS TO FOUR
Theater Owners Case Causes Ap-
pointment of Justices.

Ey Times Special
SCOTTSBURG, Ind, Sept. 16.--
Justices of the peace in four Scott
County townships heretofore with
out such officials have been named
by the county commissioners to
cope with a situation created when
G. w. Rohn, charged with operating
his theater here on Sunday, took a
change Of venue. The law provides
that when a change is taken, the
case must be sent to a justice of the
peace in an adjoining township, but
there was no such official until the
commissioners acted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
COUNCIL YIN MIDDLE
Five Blackboard County designations
Causes Lack of Quorum.

OF JWt5 bU6CTUT
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. Is.
Resignation of five of the seven
members Of the Blackford County
council in a dispute over county
budget making has created sit
uation which is puzzling to the two
remaining and to the county au-
ditor and county attorney, as there
is lack of a quorum for a legal
meeting to appoint successors.
One way out has been suggested
that members who quit recall
their designations long enough for a
session to appoint successors. 1t is
not known yet whether those who
quit will accept this plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
SUES HUNTING PARTNER
Elkhart Mans Leg Amputated After
Accidental Shot.
| R1 Tinlao Cnon;oJ
By Times Special

ELKHART, Ind, Sept. 49,
George R. Davis seeks $4,000 dam
ages in suit filed here against
George c. Hitesman, his companion
on hunting trip last December
during which shotgun carried by
Hitesman was accidentally dis
charged, the load striking Davis in
the right leg.
AS a result of the wound, it was
necessary to amputate Davis leg at
the knee. He alleges he was COM
PEELED to spend 5000 for a wooden
leg, in addition to bills for medical
and surgical treatment, and that his
earning power has been decreased
from 5000 to $50 month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
SEEK STATION BANDITS
Two Daylight Robberies Reported
to Police This Week.

Daylight bandits who have robbed
two filing stations this week, get
ting $135 loot are sought by police
today.
Thursday afternoon, while one Of
the men waited in an alto, the
other held up James English, 1418
English Ave-, at the Western Oil
Refining Company station at
Fletcher Ave. and Shelby ST., and
took $35.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
MARKSMEN TO COMPETE
National Team VIII Be Picked at
TT. BENJAMIN Harrison.


TT. Benjamin Harrison.
One hundred and fifty civilians
from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and
West Virginia will take part in rifle
matches at Fl. Benjamin Harrison
Otc. Is, to pick marksmen from
the fifth corps area to enter a shoot
to choose a rifle team for interna-
tional competition, Col. w. S. Pat
terson Of the 84th Division Officers
Reserve Corps, announced today.
The shoot is sponsored by the
United States Army. The national
rifle team will go to sweden next
year to compete against teams from
Sweden, Great Britain, France,
Switzerland, Italy and Norway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
ASK DAY OFF FOR COPS
Councilman Will Introduce Ordi-
nance; In Effect at Buffalo, N. Y.


1 Councilman Walter Dorsett today
said he will sponsor an ordinance
providing a "day off each week" for
city police. Introduction of the
measure is expected Monday night.
Dorsett and Boynton j. Moore,
who "put over" the salary increase
for police in the 1928 budget, came
back from their vacation with the
idea Of creating the day of" Gus
tom, which is in effect at Buffalo,
N. Y.
Dorsett has communicated with
Buffalo authorities on the plan used
there and will make public its pro-
visions when he receives a reply.
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baseball, fencing, hand ball and vol
ley ball teams will be organized for
the coming season.
Instructions in the swimming pool
will t. given by Johnny Haynes for
boys and men and Mrs. Flora Kind
er will have charge of the girls and
women's classes.
The big gymnasium has been re-
novated and the equipment which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
MAJOR TO SEE GUARD

Order for Inspection of Indiana,
Units Is Issued.
Maj. A. G. Lindloff, Camp Knox.
KY, will inspect small arms and
other ordnance Of ali Indiana Ma
tionai Guard units beginning oct. 8.
Order for the inspection was sent
out today by Adj. Gen. William n.
Kershner Inspections will continue
util Jan 16. indianapolis units viii
be inspected Dec. lS, to the closiag
date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16

When the Labor day week ent
dawned bright and warm, Coney
Island went into paroxysms of graft
tude and huzzahs. When the week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
ESTELLE SOLVES IT
Marriage Ahead of Her Career
By ALLENE SUMNER

=, topydEht lI9S5. NEA service Inel ~ \, - -
olives and things rattle fast about Jack that forget
Il my manners, and I'll tell you everything"
with whom dined night Dempsey
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16

is very sure That ner husband is Cne
outstanding man of the world.
Over the lamb chops and spinach
and bran muf1ns especially ordered
by the nurse in constant attendance
upon the fighters wife, we talked
for hours about
Well, about the one dissension the
Dempsey home knows-Estelle's re-
fusal to spend Jacks money
About her job in handling Q. SEN
sitive husband who, at 80, almost
believes he is ga veteran"
About how annoying it sometimes
is to be, the wife of so famous a
man when you want to buy dollar
pearl beads
About the rumored Dempsey baby
that isn't to be, and about their
hurt because any one would think
they would deny the coming of the
child they both hope for
About this thing called marriage.
especially marriages of two career
ists," how it works and all that.
This was the theme that prolonn Ell
the chops and kept the iced me on
and the swall.w-tailed head waiter
waiting longest.
isn't it dangerous, asked Mrs.
Jack Dempsey. Ito be almost as
good in your own profession as your
husband is in his? Aren't you poo
pooling all the marriage advisers
who say q husband must tower over
his wife or he's restless?"
Estelle shook her curly brown
head and laid down the chop fork
a. z1s-. 49, s,,oskio,, ,x,;+I. hos ,.acfia
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their hotels when It rains. Coney |
Island gets its crowds by boat and |
subway from New York city. When |
it rains, folks just stay away. |
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end after that also proved favorable
for big business, coney hardly could
believe it.
After the long succession Of cold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-01

The National Federation Of Music
Clubs and G. G. Orchard & Co. an
nounce a prize of $1,000 for can
tata written by an American COM
poser and concerning an American
subject.
The winning cantata will be dedi-
Gated to and produced by the Fes-
tival Chorus of the Middle West
composed of choral groups from
twenty-five Pennsylvania towns and
conducted by Lee Hess Barnes,
founder and director.
The cantata must require not less
than thirty minutes nor more than
fifty minutes in performance. Feb.
1, 1928, is the last day of the con-
test.
The conditions are as follows:
/ The test may be from any source
and unpublished text is used, the com
poser must present satisfactory evidence
of his right to use the same.
The Federation Of Music Clubs. oxford,
scripts. must be sent anonymous, and
for Identification, and must be accom-
panied by sealed envelope securely sy-
tached thereto. bearing on the outside
containing the full name and address
of the composer, which envelope shall
not be unsealed until the award has
5. Manuscripts must be sent fat. ac-
companied by sufficient postage for their
safe return S.t in the postal class indi-
4. The successful work shall be pub
lished by g. G. Orchard and Company
The viii be- Expected 70 Supply
suitable orchestral score or to author
ize the publishers to secure same.
be one that has not been published or
publicly performed or submitted in any
composition.
posed of competent musicians.
The country wide demand to hear
Marion Talley, the phenomenal
young prima donna of the Metro
politan Opera Company in concert
has for the second season compelled
her to start her fall tour in mid
summer.
This tour opened in Colorado
Springs on Aug. 90, where for the
second successive season, Miss Tai
ley appeared under the auspices OF
the American Legion.
From there she travelled to the
Pacific coast for her first appear
ance in the far West, singing in Sar
Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles
San Diego, Long Beach, Sacra-
mento, Portland, Seattle and Spo-
kane.
Returning in early October she
will sing in Salt Lake, and thence
fill prolonged tour in the central
West, including her first appear
ance in Chicago scheduled for Sun
day, Oct. 9. After her Christmas
vacation, Miss Talley will again
concertize in the East in January,
making her first appearance in
Montreal and Boston.
Miss Talley is a resident of Kansas
City and it is doubtful if any indi-
viduai was ever accorded such unan-
imous and fine-spirited support as
was rendered this young singer by
the Kansas City community. Their
counsel, their money, their prayers
were freely hers, and she responded
by earning for them q sensational
success which will forever stand as
a credit to the altruistic efforts of
this city.
Now she Is no longer the ward of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-01

Kansas City, for America at large
has claimed her, and everywhere she
goes she is the recipient of honors
bestowed only on national heroines.
For America is proud of its newest
and youngest nightingale, proud of
her modest department, her I'M
spoiled beauty, and loves her for
her wholesomeneSS. Governors and
mayors wait upon her, motor cycle
escorts guide her through the cities
she visits, and crowds gather within
and without the auditoriums where
she sings. Throughout it all, Miss
Talley remains demure, calm, un-
ruf1ed, never losing sight of the task
which is hers, to sing her best.
The arduous schedule of trains
and concerts finds her fresh and
serene in the company of her insep-
arabic companions, her mother and
her sister Florence. She studies by
day and sleeps soundly by night,
and has zest in all the good things
which life has in store for her. She
has been booked at the Murat by
Ona B. Talbot.
Arthur w. Mason, director at the
Indiana College of Music and Fine
Arts, has been invited to be the
principal speaker on the afternoon
program of the Ninth district
meeting of the Indiana Federation
of music Clubs. The meeting will
be held on Friday, Oct. 7 in the
Baptist Church at Ladoga, Mont
gomery County. Mr.. Mason will
talk on Public School Music"
Bernice Church, soprano, Ruth
Todd, Reader, and Bomar Cramer,
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ConkIin is Very Busy

Chester Conklin, in addition to
being co-starred with w. G. Fields
in their forthcoming comedy, 1.-The
Side Show" is acting as technical
director of the company. Conklin as
a youth spent several years as a
circus clown and can give the last
word on show customs and practice.
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Miss Georgiana Rockwell, piano
pupil of Willard MacGregor, artist
teacher of the Metropolitan school
of Music, will give a program for
the guest meeting of the Fortnightly
Club Of Cloverdale, Ind, next
Wednesday.