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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
BISHOP TO SPEAK
BEFORE COUNCIL
International Relations
Body ConveneS Here Friday.

The first annual conference of the
Indiana Council on international Re
lations will be held Friday and Sat
urday at the Lincoln.
Sessions will open Friday at .
p. m, with Ray S. Trent, executive
committee chairman, presiding.
Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell of
Pittsburgh, Pa, will speak at $3.50.
In the evening a mass meeting,
under direction of \the Protestant
Catholic and Jewish Federation of
Churches, viii be held at the Arm
DRY. Bishop Mcconnell will speak.
DR. James A. WOODBURY., presi-
dent OF the Indiana Council. will
speak at the Saturday morning ses-
sion. Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan,
associate secretary of the National
Council for Prevention of War,
Washington, and Prof Homer T.
Morris of Earlham College, Rich
mond, Ind, also are on the program.
Reservations are now being made
for the luncheon at noon Saturday,
at which DIR. Frank S. C. Wicks
will preside.
q w. A. Mills of Hanover College,
Hanover, Ind. will preside at the
Saturday afternoon session. John
II. Clarke, former justice of the
United States Supreme Court and
president of the League of Nations
Nonpartisan Association. will speak
at p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
PROBE DELAY IN
AMBULANCE RUN
Police Finally Take Injured
Youth TO Hospital.

Police and city hospital officials to-
day were investigating cause for the
delay Monday afternoon in removing
Guy McMorris, II, of 209 w. Twelfth
ST., from the scene of an accident at
TT. Wayne Ave. and Pennsylvania
st. to the hospital.
McMorris, employe of the Sanborn
Electric Company, was riding BIZ
cycle when struck by an automobile
driven by Wilfred Hinkley, 10, of
1921 N. Delaware St., about 1870.
Hospital ambulance drivers declare
they received no emergency call until
2;02 p. m. and left two minutes later.
Policemen Graham and Oakley,
detailed to investigate the accident,
found the youth still there. They
called the ambulance, they reported
to headquarters, but afetr waiting
eighteen minutes took McMorris to
the hospital in the police car, meet
ing the ambulance at Senate Ave.
and North st.
McMorris, it was said at the hos
pital, was painfully bruised"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
USE AUTO TO ROB
BEN DAVIS STORE
Burglars Haul Away $400
Stock-MiSS Cash.

Reward of 5000 was offered today
by Edward Betatz, proprietor, for
capture of the burglars who early
today moved out" much of the
stock Of the Dan Durham Company
drug store, Ben Davis, and hauled
it away in an auto. Loss was esti-
mated at $500.
Forcing the rear door with crow
bar, the robbers entered the store
between 1 a. m. and a. m. They
took ten flashlights, all the watches,
pens and pencils in the case. Then
they carried away the stores entire
supply of baseball equipment and
fishing tackle, large quantity of
perfume and many compacts. All
the cigarets and most of the supply
Of cigars also were stolen. Two
radios were carried out.
The thieves, however, found only
81 in change and overlooked about
$400 in cash which Betatz had hid.
den in the store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
Nip His Plans to
Find Missing Wife

Walter Bland, As, Negro, 1142
Burdsall Pkwy., imbibed too freely
of the forbidden fluid today, stole an
automobile and with his four chill
dren started for Chicago to find, if
possible, Mrs. Walter Bland. who
recently abandoned her home and
family here.
Now Walters in Jail, charged
with drunkenness, drunk driving,
blind tiger and illegal possession Of
an automobile. The four children
have been given into care Of his
mother, while Bland is away"
Bland, a car washer at the Mason
garage, 319 w. New York St., was
caught at Thirtieth st. and River
side DR.. by w. II. Sheridan and
Clyde Sheridan, brothers, 730 N. Illi-
nois ST., garage employees. He was
driving car owned by ]. F. Elgin,
700 Rochester ST., which had been
stolen from the garage.
Theft was discovered by Elgin
when he appeared at garage soon
after BANDS departure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
LEAGUE OFFICER
ADMITS BOOSTING
'PROH|' DIRECTOR
Wheeler Spread PrOp8
ganda for Haynes as Dry
Chief, Says Shumaker.

Edward S. Shumaker, indiana
Anti Saloon League superintendent,
today admitted that Wayne b.
Wheeler national counsel for the
league, conducted high powered
propaganda campaign to have Roy
a. Haynes made permanent prohi-
bition director.
The charge was made by officials
Of the Association Against the Pro.
hibition Amendment in letters to
President Coolidge and Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon.
President Stayton of the wet or
ganization quoted letters from
Wheeler to State League superin-
tendent urging them TO have Mellon
and Coolidge flooded with requests
for Haynes, who was appointed
acting" commissioner by Mellon
few weeks ago. Haynes served
three years and was replaced by AS
sistant Secretary Andrews. The
Wheeler instructions advised that
the President be urged to make the
Haynes appointment permanent.
"Of course, we used our influence
to see that a friend Of prohibition
was appointed to the place" Shu-
maker declared in defending
Wheeler.
Had we not done so we would
have failed in our duty. Indiana
really preferred the appointment Of
L. c. Yellowley, but we are back Of
Major Haynes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
TOWNSHIP BEE
IS HELD TODAY
Continued From Page u

continues From Page u
intendent of schools, to direct the
county bee.
The judges and the pronouncer
also were chosen by the committee,
and were in direct charge of the con-
test, when the spoilers took their
places on the platform.
And while Marion County was
naming it's spelling queen-because
no boys survived the township SPELL
ing tests-principals in eighty one
grammar schools in Indianapolis
were preparing for the Building
Spelling Bees, to be held tomorrow
at S:45 a. m.
Selection Of city building cham
pions will be under direct superVi-
sion of the principal of each build
ing. The words will be selected by
the principal for each building coll
test, to be taken from the fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth grade
pages of the Mccall Speller. The
contest will be written and the same
words will be pronounced to all
grade champions in each school.
Should a tie result in any contest,
Wednesday, the principal will Sc
lect the winner by oral spelling con-
test, in which other teachers will be
the judges.
The eighty-one building champions
will be divided into eight city zones
and will prepare for the zone spell
ing bees on Thursday May 5. A
champion will be chosen in each
zone. and the eight winners will rep
resent Indianapolis in The Times
State Spelling Bee.
!; Through the plans of the City
City Spelling Bee Committee and the
grade school principals, the zone
bees will be in charge of principals
from another zone.
Words for the zone spelling bees
are being chosen from the Mccall
Speller, but are being compiled
mostly from those misspelled in
grade bees. When the papers of the
building bees are graded, the mis-
spelled words will be listed, and adj
ditional words will be added for the
zone bees.
The winner of the State Spelling
Bee VIII be sent to Washington,
D. c., late in June, to enter the Ma
tional Spelling Bee, in which cash
prize of $1,000 is offered the winner.
All expenses of the State champion
and the chaperone to Washington
will be paid by The Indianapolis
Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
SIX MONTHS ROW
OVER SHORTRIDGE
BIDS NEAR END
Settlement Expected To-
night With Acceptance of
Freyn Bros. Cut Figure.

'Finis" is expected to be written
tonight to the six-months-old contro-
versy over the heating, ventilating
and plumbing of new Shortridge
High School when the school board
will meet to accept the altered bid
Of Freyn Bros. s..
Total cost OF the work, including
architects fees and $4,000 spent on
plans which later were scrapped,
will approximate $2S0,000
Ship System Fight Center
OF this figure, $4,000 will have to
I've transferred from the general
school fund because the State tax
board refused to allow more than
$230,000 for the work. The tax board
protested the $2S0,O 900 allotment on
the grounds of being excessive and
allowed it to prevent general con-
struction delays and a possible suit
with the general contractor,
Controversy over the engineering
bids resulted from the school boards
assistance upon G. c. Ships "Di-
rect-Indirect" system Of ventilation
and closeds bids to ALI other types
of ventilation.
Original bids were rejected by the
State tax board because they were
too high and the school board was
ordered to receive bids on competi-
tive ventilating systems.
A second set of bids were received
but the school board again refused
to receive bids on any ventilating
systems except the "Direct-Indirect."
Bid Reduced $4,000
Although the second bids were
lower than the first, the tax board
still insisted they were too high and
censored the school board for closed
bid tactics
In a final effort to gain the tax
boards approval and prevent con-
struction delays, $4,000 was pared
off the Freyn Bros bid by elimi-
mating twenty-eight Shipp wall
boxes, automatic radiator controls
and minor boiler room niceties.
Fred Bates Johnson, minority
school board member, protested
changing the Freyn Bros. bid with
out rcadvertising to. allow other
bidders the same privilege, but he
was over-ruled at the last special
meeting Of the board
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to po-
lice belong to:
Edgers Donesteel, 746 Roach ST.,
Ford, 51S-524, from Tenth st. and
Senate Ave.
Hazel Munden, 4709 Hillside Ave,
Chevrolet, 10-3S1, from Ohio st. and
Senate Ave.
Herbert Lipp, 63S Eugene ST.. SIT
9S2 from Senate Ave. and Washing
ton St -
BACK HOME AGAIN
Automobiles reported found by po'
lice belong to:
Rickenbacher, four passenger. no
license plates on title card, found at
407 Z. Michigan st.
George Holt, $40 N. Meridian St.
Ford, at 1876 w. Maryland ST.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
HOME BETS ON
MARKET STANDS
Report Scarcity of Spinach
Green Beans rs Cents.

Homegrown beets, selling at 10
cents a bunch, were on city market
stands today for the first time this
season.
No other new commodities were
received. Spinach, rather scarce, was
quoted at IS cents a pound. Argen-
were still plentiful at 40 cents a
pound.
Spring chickens dropped 5 cents
on the pound, now 70 cents. Hens
continued selling at As cents a pound.
Green beans advanced 25 cents q
pound. Carrots were 10 cents a
bunch. Strawberries were still 80
cents a quart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
O. K. $4,000 BONDS
Tax Board Approves Issues for Two
Roads I'm County.

Indiana tax board has approved
bonds totaling 100000 for two Ma
rion County paving projects. Issue
of $134,000 was approved for the
Frank Mann road over which there
has been much controversy. The
road extends 5.43 miles on what is
known as the Mars Hill or Spring
Valley gravel road, from No. IL to
the south county line. The board
had refused the first petition for
bonds. as State highway officials
would not accept the county speci-
fications.
Bituminous concrete will be used
by Hayes Construction Company
which will do the work. Three
bridges on the road are to be con-
structed by Marshall Oberholtzer for
$t6,152.
Bonds totaling $4,000 were APP
proved for the William Rooster Rd.,
or Brill St. between Troy and Han
ma AYES. 1.O7 miles. This contract
went to J. r. Hiatt & Co., Indian
apolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
CAR LINES ARE MERGED
Company Moves to End Confusion
Pending Repair of Bridge.

Merging of the College Ave. line
north of Thirty.Fourth st. with the
Central line in an effort to avoid
confusion was planned today by the
Indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany.
The board of works granted per-
mission to mark College Ave. cars
routed beyond Thirty-Fourth St.
with a Central sign during the
blockade of the College Ave. bridge
at Fall Creek. Renamed cars will
bear smaller sign, indicating
whether they are bound for Forty
Sixth st. or Broad Ripple. They
have been using the Central Ave.
bridge for some time. The only cars
marked College Ave. are those run
ming on College to Twenty Seventh
St. and return.
The present schedule will be main.
tanned, according to Superintendent
James p. Tretton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26

Virtually every student at New
Albany remained out Of class this
morning. They seek to force the
school board to rename Charles B.
McLinn, principal for twenty years.
and Miss Alice Funk for thirty
years teacher of botany.
More than 200 pupils at Jasonville,
near Terre Haute, were out be-
cause the board there refused to re-
appoint Jerry Naugle, athletic
coach, Mrs. Nina Neal, teacher of
dramatics, and A. w. Preden, a
commercial teacher.
Peace Move Made
The Jasonville school board met
today in a peace move.
New Albany students staged their
second parade this morning, carry
ing banners demanding the rein
statement of the two teachers. More
than 500 students, headed by the
school band, took part. Seven hun
dred marched Monday morning.
Only four pupils went to school
today.
Two mass meetings have been
called in favor of the students. One
will be held tonight under the aus
pieces of the High School Alumni AS
ISOLATION. The citizens committee
has called another for Friday night
at which Prosecutor Chester V.
Lurch will preside. The Parent
Teacher Association has adopted
resolutions, declaring sympathy for
the pupils but advising them to re-
turn to school.
Board Adamant
DR. II. w. Harris, school board
president, said
I'VE are not going to do anything
about it. Let the kids go on and
have their fun. They'll soon begin
to realize 1 am not an ogre"
Harris and John T. Hahn voted
against reinstating the two teachers,
opposed by Mrs. Mary Clark, the
other member of the board. No spe-
cific reason was given.
High feeling at Jasonville over the
school boards action eliminated
in a mass meeting in which the
students voted to strike. Coach
Naugle has turned out a number of
successful football and basketball
teams and is intensely popular with
the students.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
DALE'S LIBERTY
SAFE FOR FORTY
DAYS At LEAST
U. S. Supreme Court Man.
date Will Not Reach In
diana Immediately.
Roscoe Il. Fleming
Times Sf0ff FOTTPsDODuCUf

WASHINGTON, April 26.-George
Dale, Muncie Qnd) editor, may re-
main out of Jail forty more days.
The mandate of the United States
Supreme Court that it has dismissed
Dales appeal from the ninety-day
penal farm sentence and $500 fine
given him for contempt of court by
Judge Clarence Dearth in Muncie
will be sent to Indiana forty days
from yesterday, it was said at the
Supreme Court office today.
The Supreme Court yesterday fin
ally dismissed Dale's appeal from the
sentence after it had once been rein
stated on motion of Dale's own chief
attorney here, former Senator Moses
L. Clapp of Minnesota.
Clapp said he had become con-
WINGED from studying the record that
the case involved mo Federal ques-
ton and none upon which the court
could pass
Dale's Contention
The Federal question Dale had at
tempted to raise was of his protec-
ton against illegal imprisonment.
according to l.. NJ. White, assistant
attorney general of Indiana, who,
with Edward j. Lennon, also an as
sistant attorney general, had come
here to argue the case against Dale.
White said the point made by
Clapp was one that he had raised
in the brief he had filed against
Dale's appeal. Technically. it was
that Dale had not made the point
of his constitutional rights before
the State courts and under the Fed
eral code was not entitled to raise
it before the United States Supreme
Court. 1t had nothing to do with
the truth is no defense" dictum of
the Indiana court. although that
dictum under the special circum-
stances is also upheld by former
United States Supreme Court rul-
ings, White said.
Court Surprised
White said he was mot surprised"
at Clapp's action. although it evil
IDENTIFY surprised the court. The case
was called for argument yesterday,
but in the usual course of events
would not have been reached until
later in the week Clapp, however,
made his motion soon after the court
met.
1t was explained at the Supreme
Court Offices that the restoration of
Dale's appeal to the docket after it
had been stricken off some time ago
prevents the mandate from going
forward at once. The forty-day peri
cd is given in all cases to allow
further motion before the courts
ruling goes into effect. Dale's local
counsel could not be reached last
night to learn if any further effort
here in his behalf is contemplated.
White and Lennon will visit New
York before returning home.
Roscoe Fertich. Washington at
torney, who has been handling
Dale's case here since the original
appeal, said that the present case is
"a closed chapter" and nothing re-
mains for Dale to serve his sentence
unless he can prevail upon Governor
Jackson of Indiana to extend
clemency.
In the other cases now pending
against Dale, however, he under
stands that an effort will be made to
so complete the record in the In
diana courts that a Supreme Court
appeal will be possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
WARNS OF HIGH
WATER RECORD
Continued From Page y

direct cause of many of the 100 or
more deaths which have been re-
corded.
The stream of refugees from the
delta region continued pouring into
Vicksburg in endless procession to-
day. Additional territory is being
inundated by the rise of the river
south of here. 1t is believed that the
actual crest of the flood has now
passed Vicksburg.
South Of NatcheZ the river Is ris.
ing at an alarming rate, according
to reports to engineers working
with the Red relief organiza-
ton here. Hundreds Of mo-
tor boats patrolled the new flood
danger districts, removing inhabi.
tants to the safety of refugee camps.
Large numbers were taken to towns
south of Niclls burg that are safely
out of the area threatened with in.
undatiOn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
LEvEE BREAKING PROPOSED

WASHINGTON. April 26.-Thc
Federal Government has no author.
ity to assume responsibility fot
breaking the levees in the lower
Mississippi River, as suggested by
Governor Simpson of Louisiana to
Secretary of War Davis. it was an
nounced at the White House today.
Davis took the matter up with the
cabinet at it's meeting today, and it
was the general consensus of opinion
among cabinet officers and the Presi-
dent that the Federal Government
could not authorize the breaking of
the levees, desired to prevent flood.
ing of Louisiana populous sections
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES
NOrdyke & Marmon EmpIoye Sue
cumbs to Injuries Suffered April 8.

William White, 81, of 1434 S. Har-
ding ST., Nordyke & Marmon Co.
employee, who was found in an I'M
conscious condition in coal chute
at the plant April after a heavy
wrench accidentally struck him on
the head, died at the Indiana Chris
ton Hospital at 7 a. m. today.
White is survived by the widow,
two sons and four daughters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
HEALTH WEEK TO
HAVE KING, QUEEN
Nutrition Class Winners to
Be Crowned Saturday.
Knocked Him Unconscious

indianapolis will have a Juvenile
king and queen Saturday when the
two children showing the greatest
gain in the public school nutrition
classes will be crowned by DR.. Her
man C. Morgan, city health board
director, as feature Of child health
week, May l to 7.
The coronation ceremonies will
take place on the city hall steps at
10 a. m.
DR.. James II, Stygall, director Of
nutrition work, is conducting exam
nations for the winners this week
through school nurses, Miss Gene
We've Anderson. Miss Mary Fergu-
son, Miss Edith Lakey and Mrs.
Mary Sylvester.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
80 Still Keep Life
in Paralyzed Youth

BIZ Jnitcd Press
ROANOKE, Va. April 26. -
Friends who for four days and five
nights had pumped air, into the col
lapsed lungs of 1S.year.old Walter
l.. Booth took heart at continued
success of their efforts today, while
physicians shook their heads and
said hopeless"
The youths chung desperately to u
faint thread of life in hospital here
despite intense pain.
:. Paralyzed from the waist down
since an operation for automobile
accident injuries dislocated verte.
brae and caved in his lungs, Booth
submitted with alternate smiles and
tears as eighty young friends con-
tinued artificial respiration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
JAIL FAILS TO CALM
TILTED HUSBANDS IRE
Not Sorry for Attack Following Divorce Trial Which
Brought Sentence for Contempt Of Court.

A county Jail cell today had not
chilled Joseph Kline's determination
for vengeance, nor will it, he de-
clares.
Every time l meet that guy VIII
bur Elliott I'm going to sock him,
and If I were let out of here right
now, and met him, l would do it"
Kline said.
Kline went to Jail Monday evening
for six months for contempt of
court. He had knocked Elliott
cold" in Judge William o. Dunlavy's
court room just after Judge Dunlavy
had granted Kline's wife, Eva, a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
RECESSION IN NORTH
Mississippi River Lower Above Mem
phis-Farmers Move Back.

phis- Farmers Move Back.
BIZ Upitod Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 26.-The
Mississippi River has started to re-
treat from the hundreds of square
miles Of territory in the northern
valley engulfed by floods last week.
Slightly lower stages were report.
ed today by Government engineers
at Memphis and practically all river
points north of here.
AS yet the drop is almost imper-
ceptible, but it gives assurance
against further devastation in the
upper regions of the flood district
Already scores of farmers and
their families who fed before the
onrush of the waters in Kentucky
and Tennessee are moving back in
their anxiety to repair their property
and get crops planted as quickly as
possible, adVices to relief head
quarters here said.
Establishment of a large depot
here for distribution of supplies to
refugees was started today by the
Red Cross organization under Henry
M. Baker. national director Of dis.
aster relief work
Baker announced he has requisi-
toned $4,000 tents, $4,000 cots, 100
900 blankets and 200 field kitchens
and other supplies from the War
Department. These supplies will be
shipped to Memphis and rushed to
relief camps wherever they are
needed.
Official estimate places the num-
Der of homeless at $4,000. There
may be 100000 who have sought
refuge beyond the reach of the
angry Mississippi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26

and business man
here for many
years. He died
died Monday after
a four-year illness.
Services will be
held at Flanner &
Buchanan mortu-
airy, 25 w. Fall
Creek Blvd, at 3
p. m. Burial will
be in Crown Hill.
Mr.. Potts was
active in public
affairs, being one
of the founders of
the Commercial
Club, forerunner
of the Indianapo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-26
PLAN SOUTH BEND TRIP
B'nai Birth to Send Delegation to
South Bend Meeting.

One hundred members of Indian.
apolis Lodge 5S, Independent Order
Of B'nai Birth, will attend a group
meeting at South Bend, May l..
Plans for the trip were made Mon
day night at Kirshbaum Community
Center.
Plans were also made for an
initiation ceremony and entertain
ment to be held here May .. Rabbi
Samuel S. Mayerberg, Dayton, Ohio
will speak and one hundred can
didates will be indicted. Dance will
follow to which all Indianapolis Jews
will be invited.