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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
TO
Be PAID; COURT
MANDATES BUSER
But How Is for Controller
to Figure. Out, Says
Judge Elliott.

Judge Byron X. Elliott, in Marion
Superior Court Four. today man
dated City Controller William Buser
to pay the fifteen policewomen who
have been working since the first Of
the year without remuneration.
The ruling was on the petition
of Mrs. Sara Rodgers. one OF the
fifteen. who. successfully resisted
efforts to discharge them.
In issuing the mandate Judge FL
lott said:
1T is not up to me to determine
the validity of the ordinance. The
only situation I'm facing is that of
these women and as long as they
are employed by the city they must
be paid.
With what funds" asked Don F.
Roberts, assistant city attorney fight.
ing the women's reqGest.
Up to Controller
That's up to the controller" Ell
lott replied. IF it were up to me,
1 would pay them under the ordi-
nance"
The policewomen were to receive a
salary of 1854 a month. The amount
now due them approximates $4,000.
Hearing was held before Judge Ell
lott Thursday afternoon.
Roberts contended that the ordi-
nance passed over the mayors veto,
which transfers funds so that the
policewomen may be paid. was
illegal as it did not have the officials
o. *. of the city controller.
Not Appropriation
Holmes pointed out that il was
not an appropriation measure, but
only a transfer of funds from the
board of works to the board of safe
ty and therefore did not have to go
through the same channels as an
appropriation bill.
The ordinance was passed after
Judge Harry o. Chamberln of
Marion Circuit Court had issued an
injunction prohibiting discharge of
the policewomen. They had asked
for the restraining order immediate
ly upon learning that no provision
was made for them in the annual
budget. 1t was granted on the
theory that second year service po-
lice officers could not be discharged
without cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
AGREEMENT ENDS
BOARD FEUD ON
SHORTR|DGE BIDS
School Officials Consent to
Tax Body'S SIaShing
Off of $37,126.

The school board today agreed to
compromise on Shortridge High
School heating, ventilating, plumbing
bids in an effort to prevent delay in
the construction Of the new building.
The school board voted to accept
the Freyn Bros. bid on the plumbing
and the 'direct-indirect" Ventilating
system, manufactured by c. c.
Shipp, with a s37,126 deduction.
Because of the reduced price,
S245,310, thermostatic steam control
Of radiators and several other small
items will not be installed.
Word Awaited
The State tax board was expected
to approve the reduced bid and
specifications this afternoonA school
board meeting to formally award
the contract is to be held as soon
as the tax board verdict is received.
Minority Absent
Only majority faction board mem
bers attended the session this
morning at which the compromise
was dC(eplSus
They have been insistent on in
stalling the Ship type CT ventilating
system in the building in spite of
objections of the minority faction
and State tax board members.
Charles w. Kern, urged the agree
ment, declaring: 1T is going to cost
the taxpayers a lot of money, no
matter who is proved to be right il
more delay is caused"
Visit Tax Board
After the morning session school
officials went to the State tax board
offices to get formal approval OF
the State board.
The compromise was affected at
a meeting Thursday afternoon of
Jacob H. Hilkene, school buildings
and grounds superintendent; Walter
Horn, tax board engineer, and men,
bers of the tax board.
The school board was forced to
advertise twice for Shortridge heat
ing and ventilatinon bids, because
the tax board insisted that the Shipp
ventilating system was too ex-
pensive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
Diets Have Attended Over
5000 Patients at City
Detention Hospital.

Indianapolis has, two candidates
for the peacetime bravery medal.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dietz who
care for patients at the city deten-
ton hospital, Montcalm and Fiji
teenth SITS. have come in contact
with billions of germs in the past
seventeen years at the institution.
Constantly endangering her own
health in nursing hundreds of per-
sons with contagious diseases, Mrs.
Dietz, 81. goes about her task cheer
fully and fearlessly.
Not Afraid
I'm not afraid and / enjoy my
work. / was vaccinated for small
pox in Germany when a child and
have never taken it," she said.
She has cared for more than 5000
patients and lost only four in sew
enteen years. Their deaths were due
to pneumonia. She has seen sew
eral mad epidemics.
Although located along Fall Creek
in an undeveloped district, the de-
tention hospital has an attractive
garden and flowers.
Mrs. Dietz and her husband, 20,
are the only attendants. They have
two police dog, pigeons and a bevy
of birds in the yard. The hospital
has a radio.
Both have left the hospital only
four times in seventeen years. "One
of us always has to stay" said Dietz.
Nursing a Pleasure
The majority of the cases are
smallpox and all classes of persons
are taken to the hospital. The young
est patient was 8 weeks old.
"All kinds of soaps, disinfectants
and cleaning compounds are used
here in our battle against germs"
said Mrs. Dietz. I'VE live with mil
lions of germs every day, but I
think nothing Of it because I'm in.
terested in my work.
People generally appreciate what
we do for them. 1t is a pleasure
to nurse and I get recreation from
my flowers and garden"
Building Needs Repairs
Mrs. Dietz treats smallpox without
the aid of a doctor. She is a prac-
teal nurse.
The condition of the hospital
building was deplored by Mr.. and
Mrs. Dietz. They pointed out that
the building is inadequate and needs
repairs.
During high water 1t is necessary
to move out patients. High water
reached windows last March.
DIR. Herman Morgan, city health
secretary. commended Mrs. Dietz
work. "She is a mighty good cook
too. The board always goes out
when chickens are ripe" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
FOUR BOYS
CAR THEFT
RING HIT
Two, Is, and Two, ID,
Were About to Quit
When Caught.

1--WE intended TO stop stealing
cars, and had talked about it on
several of our Joy rides" said Glenn
Peters, just past 16, of 4S02 Z.
Washington St. a senior member of
a firm" of youthful auto thieves
apprehended by police Thursday
night, as he sat on an upper bunk
at the city prison today, Juggling
away at a sandwich.
Harold Passfaiter. Is. of $50 N.
Emerson Ave, the other senior
member, was locked in a cell in an
other division of the prison. Two
junior members, both IA, were left
in care of their parents Thursday
night by police and ordered into
juvenile court today.
Tells of Theft
Harold stole a truck one night
and drove it around. The next day
he told me about it," Glenn said. II
suggested that 1 go joy riding with
him the next time. Harold said he
knew where we could get a car if we
had a key. / remembered seeing
my brother, who works in a garage,
disconnecting wires at the switch
and connecting them together max
ing the motor start without a key.
I told Harold, and he tinkered about
the auto until he got 1t running. l
recall five autos that I helped steal.
1 think Harold and the two other
boys were along. They took two
more"
Playing Slips
Glenn said he always was home by
$3.50 p. m. and if his parents asked
where he had been he always told
them he was playing slips" He
laughed as it was suggested 1t
might have been Slips" with the
police while riding in stolen autos.
The youthful ring was rounded up
by Motorpolice Schley and Engle-
bright, who were called to 1872 S.
Meridian st. by A. Gorham of that
address. Gorham said he parked his
auto in front and left the key in it.
Two minutes later he heard the en-.
CINE start and saw the car pull away
from the curb. H. c. Dinwiddie, rs
S. Meridian St., and William f.
Kruger, $40 Century Bldg, heard
Gorham's calls and leaped on the
running board. Two boys leaped out
the other door and ran. Passwaiter
was held. He implicated the other
three.
Glenn said after most of the thefts
the quartet drove out of town and
back, a favorite ride being to the
Greenfield city limits. The autos
were taken in the vicinity of the
boys homes, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
BURGLARS, THIEF
GET S1,225 LOOT
Three Homes Visited While :
Families Are Absent.

Three burglaries and one robbery,
in which s1,225 loot was obtained,
we're reported to police today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Tappan, 5555
\. Delaware ST., called police when
they reached home late Thursday
and found the back door broken
open. A diamond clasped pearl neck
lace valued at $3.50, mems clothing
and a 1925 travelling bag were
missing.
While Arthur Elparache and fam
lily were away from home, 1872
Spencer Ave. a burglar took a
watch and two rings worth $15S.
Max Gold. grocer, sos w. Tenth
St, said burglars climbed through a
transom and stole 81 in change and
a revolver valued at SIS. He believe
his return home frightened the
burglar away.
Mrs. Flora Simmonds. 1891 N. CAPT.
tol Ave, employed at the Kahn Tail.
oring Company, st. Clair st. and
Capitol Ave, told police some one
stole her purse and 500 in cash from
the cloak room.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
Fruit Crop Suruiues Frost and Freezing Temperatures
0rChardists Say Damage Is
Slight Here; Colder in
Northern Indiana.
81 IS CITY'S LOW MARK
Weather Bureau Predicts
Return of Cold Tonight.

Jack Frost, who paid a visit to
Indianapolis and Indiana Thursday
night without seriously damaging
early fruit and vegetation, will
pay return call tonight, the
United States Weather Bureau
predicts.
Scattered flakes of snow fell in
Indianapolis at noon today.
The lowest temperature here was
81 degrees at a. m. Lower tenn
peratures weere recorded in other
parts of the State. particularly in
the northern portion.
Snow fell at Marion for nearly an
hour Thursday night, but melted as
soon as it reached the ground.
Temperatures will fall to almost
the same point tonight" was
Meterologist ]. H. Armington's pre-
diction. THE lowest temperature
in the State last night was 26 de-
grees at South Bend, and tempera
lures were below reezing in every
Indiana city reporting except Mad
ison, where the low mark was 33
degrees.
"Frosts tonight again will be
heavy to killing"
Frost with thin sheets of ice was
reported in various parts of the
county by growers, but it was gen.
eral belief that no serious damage
was done to early crops.
Orchardists Comment
Il don't think it hurt the fruit.
saw some frost. here, but it was
not sufficient to damage things" de-
clared Howard Johnson, orchardist
at Mooresville.
There is lots Of excess bloom this
year and we could loose some by
frost without iniuring the crop.
have seen it get as low as 26 and
still pull through a good yield" he
said.
Charles Broyles, of the Bridgeport
Nursery. said it is impossible to de-
termine the extent of frost damage
until few days afterwards.
1T must have been or 4
degrees below freezing, but l don't
think any great damage was done
by the chilly spell. We had frost
and sheets Of ice on pools of water
this morning early he said.
Gardens Unhurt
Gardens were not far enough along
due to the wet spell. to be damaged
by the freeze. growers declared
Leaves were stiff this morning,
but vegetation doesn't seem to be
hurt much" said Edward Masch-
meyer, nurseryman. 200 w. Troy
Ave.
1--WE are cutting asparagus and if
there was any damage done aspara-
gus would wilt" he declared.
Thursday was a chilly day with
rs of an inch Of rainfall in three
showers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
Service viii Rule
Radio Licensing

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 22.-Public
service will be the paramount factor
in assigning wave lengths to broad
casting stations, the Federal radio
commission announced today.
Pioneer stations which have re-
NAMED on their original wave band
and offer a variety of entertainment
will have priority, according to Com
II. A. Bellows.
BIssuance of permanent" 60-day
licenses will be started by the COM
mission Monday. These licenses will
inform stations of their frequencies,
hours of operation and limit of
power. as far as possible the COM
mission will avoid refusing licenses
and killing" stations, Bellows said.
About 800 stations must accept I'M
desirable lengths.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
THREE SECTIONS RELIEVED
Water Recede in Parts of Kansas,
Missouri and Oklahoma.
BIZ Enfted Presa

bU Cuttcd PTeSs
KANSAS CITY. Mo, April 22.-
Rain clouds that have hung over
the southwest almost continually
for three weeks disappeared today
and for the first time in many DAYS
there is no immediate danger Of
new floods in Kansas, Missouri or
Oklahoma.
The danger point yesterday was
Cofreyville. Kan, where several
hundred men labored for hours in a
near freezing temperature to save
the east levee. The REINFORCED wall
turned back a tremendous rush of
water in the Verdigris River and
saved the city from inundation.
Two Rivers Recede
The Kaw and Missouri rivers, two
which threatened the industrial dis
trict here early yesterday, were rapid.
ly receding early today with the crest
of the rise passed.
Many thousands OF acres Of farm
ing land in the three States are still
under water that has stood in many
places for two weeks. The crop dam
age has been enormous. Hundreds
of families are still cut off from their
homes. they were forced to evacuate
when flood waters threatened.
Roads Blocked
Highway travel still is disrupted.
Dozens of bridges that served heavy
cross country traffic have been
washed away and are being repaired
where the water has receded.
Adding to the damage inflicted by
tornadoes and floods, a freeze early
yesterday in western Kansas serious
ly damaged the fruit crop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
DELAY PERMIT
PENDING CHANGE
Await Ordinance Rezoning
Site for $25O,OO0 Building.

Approval of specifications for a
three-story business building at the
northwest corner of Twenty.Seventh
and Meridian Sts., has been with
held by the city plan commission
pending certification of an ordinance
rezoning the site for business.
Several councilmen visited the
plan commission in interest of a
permit for 7. A. Moynahan. The
proposed structure would cost about
$250,000. it was said.
Legality of the ordinance passed
by seven votes arose when it was
pointed out that the council passed
the measure without securing rec
concentrations OF the plan commits
sion. The coming board originally
turned down plans for a one.story
structure, but agreed to approve a
three-story project with architecture
al embellishments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
INVITE TAFT TO SPEAK

Chief Justice William Howard
Taft Of the United States Supreme
Court will be invited by Governor
Jackson to deliver the dedicatory adj
dress at the corner stone ceremonies
of the Indiana World War Me-
mortal, July 4.
The Governor will leave late today
for an eastern trip, and will present
the invitation to Taft at Washing
ton, d. c.
Mrs. Jackson and Adjutant Gen
eral William H. Kershner will ac-
company the Governor. Jackson
will speak at city missions con-
vention in Charleston, S. c., Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22

And, at $40 p. m, Petty, who had
abandoned his car and fled the scene
of the accident, notified police that
This car had been stolen" He told
how he had planned to go fishing
with friend, how the plans had
changed and he had parked the
car, later discovering it had been
stolen.
Confessed, Say Officers
Today, however, police renewed
investigation and. according to
Sergeant owens, Petty confessed
that he was driving the car at the
time of the accident.
Arrested, Petty was suspended by
Fire Chief Hutsell and ordered be-
fore the safety board Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
POISON MURDER
CASE NEAR Jury
Victims Widow and Ice
man Romeo Involved.
BIZ United Press

81 OHtted Press
NEWBURGH, n. Y, April %. -
Mrs. Lucy Baxter Early. charged
with putting poison in her hus-
bands soup, was prepared today to
learn, possibly before nightfall,
whether she must face execution or
Imprisonment for murder or be set
free.
Testimony was concluded yester-
day after Mrs. Farley herself had
testified and denied that she killed
her husband; that she had ever been
unfaithful to him or that she had
been the mistress of William Veg
ley, the iceman Romeo of Newburgh.
After attorneys finished closing
arguments today, Justice Tompkins
was to charge the jury and permit
the twelve men, mostly farmers, to
weigh the conflicting evidence
against the widow.
Practically, what the jury must
decide is whether to believe the
story of Wegley, who testified to
roadhouse nights with Mrs. Farley
and admitted she bought poison for
her, or Mrs. Farley, who contra
dicted her alleged lover on every
count.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
CHARGE 2 STOLE MEATS
Driver Accepts Invitation to Drink
and Finds Wagon Looted.

Lon Smith. 3S, of 1928 E. Ray.
mond ST., driver Of a meat wagon.
doesn't mind buying a couple Of
drinks, he told police, but when
some one steals the meat from his
wagon, then he complains.
Smith filed warrant charging
Henry Morrison, 60, of 126 Greer St..
with operating blind tiger. Nor.
rison, he said, invited him into the
home of Edward McCloud, so. of 313
Z. South St., and sold him two drinks
of white mule for so cents. While
he was drinking. the meat disap-
peared from his truck. Police said
some of the meat was found in Nc
Clouds home and some at the home
Of a neighbor woman who said Nc.
Cloud and Morrison sold it to her for
81. Both We're charged with petit
larceny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
SITE FOR NURSES
HOME ANNOUNCED
Structure Will Be Built at
Eighteenth St., Capitol Ave.

Methodist Hospital trustees to-
day announced the selection Of the
northwest corner of Eighteenth st.
and Capitol Ave-, for the proposed
100000 nurses home.
The contract will be let within the
next month, according to Arthur v.
Brown, board president. Fred Hoke
heads the building committee.
1.-The executive committee is un-
decided on several details Of the
plan, but we expect to get work
under way shortly, "SBrown said.
The hospital purchased the site
several years ago looking to the
building OF additional units. The
lot has 213 feet frontage on Capitol
Ave, with a depth Of 1S1 feet on
Eighteenth st.
Nurses now live in ten small
houses north of the hospital at Six
teenth st. and Capitol Ave. The
ground occupied by the houses is
held in reserve pending expansion
of the hospital, Brown said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
FIREMAN CELEBRATES
ON DAY OFF; HE'S OUT
William Petty Reports Car Stolen Four Hours After Acct
dent in Which He Injuries Man.

William A. Petty, fireman at Sta
ton 10, was off duty Thursday, by
choice. Today he is off duty by re-
will be aired Tuesday by the board
of safety.
Andy, in municipal court, Petty
faces charges of assault and battery,
intoxication and driving an automo.
bile while drunk.
Files Report Late"
Roy Poore, of Az L. Twenty-First
St, suffered a broken rib in the ac-
cident in which Petty's car crashed
into Poore's automobile on Ken
lucky Ave, near White River bridge,
about Sis p. m. Thursday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
This Won't Hurt a Bit

SEATTLE, April %. - Isolated
settlements along the. Alaska coast
and the Aleutian Islands will be Wis
tied by a floating dental Office this
spring. DR.. William F. Goode, den
fist and skipper of a 40-foot schoon-
err carrying the equipment, is taking
the trip as vacation and intends
to relieve the toothaches of all the
white men and Eskimos in the isolat-
ed places.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
PUTS STRESS ON
FARM PROBLEM
Purnell Addresses Farmers
in Illinois.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WATSEKA, ILL.,, April 22.-The
farm problem is the greatest ques-
ton congress has undertaken to
solve since the beginning Of the
government, according to Rep
resentative Fred s. Purnell of In.
diana.
Speaking before eastern Illinois
farmers at a banquet OF the
Watseka Bankers Association,
Purnell declared that the farmers
difficulties must be Strengthened
out before continuous national
prosperity can be assured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
Student Tries Suicide;
Note Asks Cremation


COLUMBIA, Mo-, April 22.-After
writing a suicide note that his body
be cremated, but not explaining the
reason for his act, Charles ]. Morton,
20-year-old University of Missouri
student, shot and probably fatally
wounded himself in the basement Of
his fraternity house here A bullet
from a .3S calibre pistol touched his
left lung and his condition is very
critical today, physicians said.
Morton belongs to a prominent st.
Joseph (Mo) family. He made a
previous attempt to take his life
two years ago, fellow students said.
He recently had been reading
philosophy and psychology of a de-
pressing nature and had been in a
morbid mental state during the last
two years, according to hts com
panion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
THINK PIANO FIRE CAUSE

A fire, believed to have started in
an electric piano, according to fire.
men, did $3.50 damage to the former
home of Mrs. Anna Collins at 11O5
w. New York st. about midnight.
Mrs. Collins told firemen she had
been spending the night at the home
of a friend preparatory to complet-
ing removal Of her effects to a new
residence. The piano and few 9TH
er pieces of furniture were all that
remained in the house