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The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
RADIO, MOVIES
MAKE MEXICAN
PEON LITERATE
Education of Masses Goes
Forward Under New
4 Methods.
BY MAX STERN

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28.-"Give
us ten years of peace and illiteracy
will be wiped out in Mexico"
This is the statement of Professor
A. F. Meriscal, chairman of dele
cation of twenty-seven Mexican ed
ucators visiting California to study
the States schools.
THE radio and the movie are do
ing what centuries of old school
methods have failed to do. The
Mexican Ministry of Education last
year conducted $500 radio lectures
each reaching millions of poems and
their families in all parts of the re-
public.
Cheap receiving sets that sell for
three pesos are strung up under
trees in the most remote mountain
villages and the townsmen gather to
hear the courses, lectures and con-
certS given several times a week.
Educational films are also in high
demand among the masses, the de-
partment sending out 5000 such
films year.
1.-The educational movement of
Mexico is the most significant thing
under way said Dr. Meriscal, who
is of the University of Mexico fac
ulty. Some As per cent of the total
national budget goes to education.
To-day in Mexico City 90 percent
of the people are getting some form
of instruction. Where rural schools
fail to reach the people we have ex-
tension courses, libraries and educa-
tional missionaries.
I'VE are establishing five new
agricultural centers with model
farms to instruct in modern farming
methods, cooperation and financing.
THE revival of native art and
handicraft is a stirring movement.
Sanitation and child care are being
taught the masses through the new
channels. For the first time educa-
ton is reaching the lower classes"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
HONOR FOR Driver
Most SportSmanIike Car
Pilot to Get Trophy.

Indianapolis Real Estate Board
again will honor the most sports
manlike driver in the 5O0-mile race
by presenting him with a valuable
split-second stop watch, President
Emerson w. Chaille announced
today.
Last year the watch was awarded
to Norman Batten for driving to
the pits in his flaming car and
risking his life to keep from en-
dangering other drivers.
Winner of this years realty board
prize will be selected by a special
committee composed of Eddie Eden
burn, American Automobile Associ-
alton official, in charge of the
Decoration Day event, chairman;
T. E. Myers, secretary treasurer of
the indianapolis Motor Speedway
and member of the contest board;
Eddie Kicker hacker, contest board
chairman; Secretary Arthur Means
of the contest board; President
Thomas P. Henry of A a A., Val
Haresnape and Arthur c. Pillsbury.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
DEMAND A ACTTON ON UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS GAS MAIN
U, S. COLLECTS 4
z MILLIONS IN +.
OIL DEAL TAXES
Huge Amount Paid as ln-
come Levy on Continental
Transaction.

bD [ NitCU fItNo
WASHINGTON, May 26-The
Government has collected more
than $2,000,O00 in income taxes from
those involved in the questioned
Continental Trading Company oil
deal, Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon told the Senate today in
letter.
Mellon stated James E. O'NeilL
former president of the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company, had paid
$151 ,305; Harry M. Blackmer, former
president of the Midwest Refining
Company $l5l ,597 and the Sinclair
Crude Oil Purchasing Company.
$3O3,194, The latter figure repre-
sents taxes on profits Harry F. Sni-
clair and Col. Robert w. Stewart
made from the deal They recently
turned their profits from the 1921
transactions over to the Sinclair
Company.
Mellon stated $l,39891O in delin-
quent taxes were collected from per-
sons, whose names he declined 10
mention, and additional sums are
expected to be collected later.
The letter, addressed to Chairman
Hawley of the joint congressional
committee on internal revenue tax
alton, was in answer to a joint resos
luton adopted by both Houses after
Mellon declined to respond to q
similar Senate resolution.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
CRAzED miner
SAVED IN PIT
Negro WanderS for Week in
Death Shaft.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MATHER, Pa, May 26.-Mum-
bling incoherently, John Wade
Negro worker in the Mather mine
today was in a hospital after being
rescued from the mine shaft where
he spent lat hours after the eX-
plosion that killed 1876 workers.
Wade was found last night, two
aand a half miles in the interior OF
the shaft.
He was half crazed when rescue
workers came upon him. Ever
since Saturday he had been in the
shaft in which his fellow workers
were killed. Apparently he had
wandered from section to section
seeking an outlet from the gas
fumed interior of the mine.
He recognized none of the workers
and could tai konly in gasps. Then
his conversation was indistinguish-
able and rescuerS were unable to
determine how he had managed to
live through the ordeal while others
workers in the mine were killed.
Rescue workers continued digging
through the shattered mine shaft
today, seeking additional bodies.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
0-YEAR RESIDENT OF
INDIANAPOLIS IS DEAD
Funeral Of John Schmitt, 81, Held
at Sacred Heart Church.

at Sacred Heart Church.
Funeral services for John Schmitt,
81, resident here seventy years, was
held at 9 a. m. today at Sacred
Heart Catholic Church, Burial was
in st. Joseph cemetery.
Mr. Schmidt died Thursday at ST.
Francis Hospital after a months
illness.
He was native of Germany and
cameto this country with his par
ents when IL. He was a cigar
manufacturer and for thirty-fivc
years operated a plant at 8O8 S. Me-
ridian st. He retired from bust
ness about twenty years ago.
For sixty years ne sang in Sacred
Heart choir. He was also a member
of the st. Francis Aid Society and
st. Josephs Benevolent Society.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs
Kathryn Hornberger, Mrs. J. M.
Tilford, Mrs. Jesse Sislod and Mrs
John Yanett; two sons, Leonard
and Herman E. Schmitt, all of In
dianapolis: two brothers, Nicholas
Schmitt, Hannibal Mo, and Leon
ard Schmitt, Indianapolis, and two
sisters, Mrs. Mary Theurer, Beech
Grove, and Mrs. Lena Taggart,
Mendocino, Cal
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
WATSON ASKED
JACKSON RAP
Reputation on G. 0. P.
Floor Was Sought.

Reputation of Governor Ed Jack
son was all but asked of the Repub-
lican State convention Thursday,
The Times leraned today.
Senator James E. Watson vigor-
ously Endorsed Jackson's repudia-
ton, it was learned, when he met
with Republican leaders Wednesday
night after the Coffin machine sue
ceeded in having the Governor
chosen as one of the two Seventh
District delegates to the national
convention.
Watson, it was learned, told his
confereeS that Jackson's presence
Oh the Indiana delegation would
be decidedly harmful to his can
didacy and so sought to brand him
as repudated on the convention
floor.
Finally, however, the conference
was concluded by decision to avoid
a possible outbreak on the floor, by
letting bad enough alone and avoida
ing disruption in the interests Of
party harmony
Watson's had was seen in the re-
fusal to permit Jackson to address
the convention after it had been an
nounced he would speak and he was
on the platform with his prepared
speech in his pocket. Watson car
ried his opposition to the Governor
further in insisting successfully
that he should not be named on
the "big seven" delegates-at-large
To both moves Watson lent the
air of harmony by consenting him
self, not to be on the big seven,
norto speak before the convention
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Building Permits

.. G.. f. Long. .dyellins and garage. 1929
Bridges & Graves, dwelling and garage.
5439 Broadway $4,000.
W. H. Lewis, porch, 2427 NJ Temple.
r. E. Tollen. addition. l441 Hiatt, $3.50.
A,5Ssn5 RT Ed%sTd Ssd6 Harpers' floor 25ol N.
Indiana Guard Armory. repair. I'll N.
Pennsylvania, $40. 900.
William .Boclng, dwelling, 1926 N Dell
aware. $4,000.
Patrick. Commins repair, 545 N. Bell
Oscar Miller. dwelling and garage. 1881
w. Roache, S3.250.
Miss D. Mooreland, reroof. 5000 Laurel.
Miss D. Mooreland. garage, $3.50 Laurel.
Capitol Machine Company. boiler. 2sOl
Roosevelt, $1,000.
Capitol Machine Company. coal bins,
2801 Roosevelt. $500.
August Kuntz. garage. sls E. Minnesota.
S. M. Mencke, garage, $40 N. De Quincy,
~ c. Duncan. garage, 2oo2 N. Delaware.
John L. OTIS, ceiling, SGT E. washins-
Mrs. Carr. garage. 1888 Parker $500.
Katherine e. Mercer. reroof. 333 N.
j.. NJ. yRittre, dwelling and garage. All
Henry J, Foltz, dwelling, 1923 Blaine.
west Side Lumber Company garage, 7Oz
otho BUrkhart, addition. 1918 Berwick.
5000.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
GAS GROUP ELECTS
E. J. Kelly, Fl. Wayne, Is
Named President.

E. J. Kelly of Ft. Wayne, an ex-
ecutive of the Northern Indiana
Public Service Company, is the new
president of the Indiana Gas Asso-
citation, succeeding I. G. shepard of
Evansville, official of the Southern
Indiana Gas and Electric Company.
The election was held at the
closing session of the gas associa-
ton, Thursday which also closed the
three day convention of the Indiana
Utilities Association.
Clarence L. Kirk, vice president
and general manager of the Citi-
zens Gas Company of Indianapolis,
is the new vice president and F. B.
Tracy of Muncie official of the Cen
trail Indiana Gas Company was re-
elected secretary treasurer.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
URGES NEED OF FAITH

The Rev. E. w. Weber, Independ-
ence, Ohio, speaking at the conclud-
ing service of a series of dedicatory
meetings Thursday evening at the
new Grace Lutheran Church, em-
phasized the need for a return UNI
compromising faith.
eve must quit measuring God by
the yard, and His word by mans
faulty intelligence, he declared.
The Rev. Werner Knutz, pastor
of the church will give his dedica-
tory sermon Sunday morning, this
weeks series of services having been
turned over to QUITO f-town pastors,
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
PENTECOST OBSERVED

Pentecostal observance in Hebrew
congregations today and Saturday
will include memorial services, con-
firmations, and special observances
in all Hebrew temples of the city.
The feast, which began at sun
down Thursday, will be concluded
at sundown Saturday. 1t is one of
the most joyous holidays in the
Jewish church calendar, the harz
vest festival of ancient Palestine.
A sundown service was held at
Temple Bethel Zadeck Thursday,
and a confirmation service this
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Births

Sam and Olivia Mosley. 1922 MarloVe
Alexander and Ada Anderson. 504 Dor-
man.
Walter and Ethel welch, St. vincentS
Hospital.
Lester and Bonnie Lecompte, 1929 e.
Raymond.
Phoenix and Ellen Branham. $40 Camp.
Ira and EYeline Williams, 1901 Cottage.
Girls
Morris and Mildred Phillips, 2i02 Clay.
Joseph and Josephine Sigreto, 535 e.
Merrill.
John and Clara Godfrey. st, Vincents
Hospital.
Wilbur and Mary Dittrich st. vincent'a
Hospital
Bernard and Beatrice Buchanan, 3iis E.
IA
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Crops MenaCed by Recent
MigrationS From
Hills.
BIZ Science SCrUicc

BIZ Science SCTCtcC
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The
eastern woodchuck, or ground hog
as he is always called around the
second of February, is an interesting
enough animal when encountered
in his old habitat in rocky hillsides,
woodlands, and bramble thicketS. OF
late years, however, following the
trend of the times, he has looked
for an easier place to make living
and has settled on the comfortable
cultivated lands o fthe farmer
Farmers who up to ten years ago
had not seen a woodchuck now find
themselves confronted with the
necessity of waging a serious fight
against these animals if crops are to
be saved according to a recent re-
port of James Silver, assistant bio
logist of the Bureau of Biological
Survey, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture. The reason for this migra-
ton is not fully known.
The crop most seriously damaged
Dy JIle WOOOCuClCh 10 4O4dSC. OAONOA,
alfalfa and other legumes are par
ticularly attractive to these little
pests and they have been observed
following paintings of soy beans as
they have been moved from one
field to another in crop rotation.
The forage crop is reduced not
only by the amount consumed by
the woodchucks, but also by their
burrowing habits. Their large
mounds in the aggregate cover d
considerable amount of space, and IN
I avoiding the mounds the sickle bars
of the mowers miss a good deal OF
the nearby forage.
Young fruit trees, growing and
shocked corn. truck crops and poul-
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Ground Hogs Ne70 Habits
Pr0Ue Costly to Farmer

try are also the prey of the wood
chuck.
In addition to the damage they
cause to agricultural crops, wood
chucks also do considerable econom-
ic damage through their burrowing.
The burrows are a constant menace
to the limbs of farms animals work
ing in the fields infested by them
In other localities the burrows are
an even more serious menace, caus-
ing cave-ins of railrad embank-
mentS and breaks in levee and ditch,
banks, with resulting disastrous
flooding of crops and erosion of the
soil
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
PShnW, PShazO

LONDON, May 26. DR..
Serge Voronoff, noted gland
specialist, has offered to per-
from a rejuvenation operation
upon George Bernard Shaw,
but the latter has declined.
The two met at a dinner last
night ard Voronof spoke en-
Enthusiastically of gland oper-
ations. 1t was then he told
Shaw that he would perform
a rejuvenation operation at
any time the noted writer "felt
the first symptoms of old age"
Shaw thanked the doctor,
but added:
Think of the cry Of horror
that would arise from the
whole world at the encore du
Shaw"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Deaths

GarlcN Stevens, 43. Long Hospital. lobar
pneumonia.
Robert Russell. SIS, s72 Darnen. mitraI
stenosis
Marie Alice. Freije, ? days. 2ll5 N.
Harding, cerebral hemorrhage
Salhe E. Lewis, 81, 2845 N. Capitol,
uremia.
Carl Martin Anderson. days, 42S Doug-
las, premature birth.
Cora KlemeTt, a. Christian Hospital,
car
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Asks Police to Find Wife

T. E. Black, 17O6 Broadway ap-
pealed to police today to aid III
locating his wife, Mary, Al, who left
home Thursday, writing a note say
ing she was going to rest for few
days and not to worry. He has been
unable to learn of her whereabouts.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26

London now has 565000 tele-
phones; nearly 100000 miles of
telephone wires we're added last
year, making nearly two and a
half million miles. The telephone
directories issued weighed 1,700
tons and contained nearly 100000
entries.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Marriaqe Licenses

william c. Kassebaum, 81 1861 College
Ave, secretary of the Security Trust
Company, and Irene B. Henricksen. IS.
John William Harrison. 90. Roosevelt
Hotel, salesman. and Annette Dolie Rod
vile, %. Roosevelt Hotel. saleslady.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Attornev Sue for Fees

Suit for $4,000 attorneys fees
representing service in refinancing
the Innis-Pierce Company, an In
diana corporation. in 1927, has been
filed in Federal Court today by
John j. Golding and Jacob K. Mil
Ter, Philadelphia attorneys, against
William H. Pearce and the Innis-
Pearce Company.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
PASTOR SUES FOR LIBEL
J. Frank Norris of Texas Seeks
100000 Because of Editorials.

BIZ United Press
JACKSON, Miss, May 26,-The
Rev. J. Frank Morris of Texas. ac-
Quilted of Staying a member Of his
congregation, has filed a 100000
damage suit here against the Jack
son Daily News, charging libel in
two editorials.
One was an answer to an article
allegedly written by Norris in an
other paper. The second editorial
is said to have described Norris as
shooting IAN unarmed man in cold
blood"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
FOUR HURT BY TRAINS
Three Sisters in Car Escape Death; I;
Track Walker Hit.
By Times Special

BU 7 TWtS NptClUt
MARION, Ind, May 26.-Three
sisters narrowly escaped death at
Sweetzer, Friday, when their car
was wrecked by a c. & o. passenger
train. The three girls who are in
a local hospital, are Welma Smith
20; Thelma, 10, and Willadean, 16.
Fred Hamilton suffered a broken
right arm when struck by a Big
Four train, Friday The pilot OF
the engine threw he man clear OF
the tracks.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26

There are several species of birds
that can travel much faster than
any airplane; the fastest is the
"frigate bird" which has its home
in the tropics. This bird is remark
able for its long wings, and is said
to be Oapable of flying 300 miles an
hour.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
FAILS TO SAVE -FOUR
Refuses Guilty Pleas of Al
legged Negro Killers.

Efforts of Attorney H. B. Pike to
save four Negroes charged with first
degree murder from the possibility
of dying in the electric chair failed
in Criminal Court today,
The men are held for the Staying
of Charles Conrad GO, who was shot
and killed in an attempted hold-up
of the Standard grocery, 2816 Cliff
ton ST., where he was manager. The
event occurred last November.
Those held are: Arlie Balthrip,
25; Archie Grinnell, 18; Lewis Dunn,
10, and Charles Barry, 10. Balthrip
was tried this week in Boone County
Circuit Court at Lebanon. The jury
was dismissed Thursday night after
failing to reach a decision.
Today Pike appealed to Criminal
Judge James A. Collins and Prose-
cutor William H. Remy to accept
pleas of guilty from the four men
and sentence them to life imprison-
ment. The plea was refused.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
Gun TOter

BIZ Times Special
DANVILLE, Ind, May 26.-A
permit to carry a Colt auto
matte revolver has been issued
to Edna E. Martin, So, of Car
terSburg.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26
SAVES TOTS FROM FIRE
Laurel Man Catches Girls as They
Leap From Second Floor.

By Times Special
CONNERSVILLE, Ind, May 90
Rousing his small daughter and
granddaughter, who were asleep on
the second floor, w. G. Rogers of
near Laurel, Ind, was able to catch
the two children as they leaped
from the flaming building. The house
was destroyed from the blast OF a
kerosene lamp. Rogers is in the
hospital here today recovering from
burns.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26

J. L. Hawkins, general agent of
the National Surety Company of
this city, is attending the mid
western States convention of the
company at the New Bismarck
Hotel. Chicago.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-26

The largest known star is Betel-
geuSe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-04
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE, Md, July ,(SpeciaD
In observance of Independence day.
banks, post offices and public places
were closed and business generally suS-
pended throughout Montgomery Coun-
ty today. Numerous picnics, lawn
fetes. fireworks displays and other cele-
brations were scheduled.
In a petition filed in the Circuit
Court here by E. H. Mateny and G. H.
Browning of Germantown. this county.
the Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad Co. and
Frank Allnutt are asked to be enjoined
from diverting a small stream from
property of the plaintiffs to that of ALL
nut, contending that the stream has
been running through their land for
more than 90 years, and that the water
is necessary for the conduct of the cat
tie business In which they are engaged.
The plaintiffs are represented by At
torney Stedman Prescott of Rockville
The State motor vehicle commission
er, at the request of the Cabin John
Park Citizens Association, has begun
Investigation of reports that numerous
automobile owners of the Cabin John
neighborhood are operating under Dis
trict of Columbia instead of Maryland
license tags. A representative of the
commission has served notice that they
must obtain Maryland tags
The funeral of Mrs Alverda @. King
don, widow of John Kingdom, who died
early Sunday morning at her residence
in Rockville, aged 83 years, took place
Yesterday afternoon from the home.
Services were conducted by Rev. Bertram
M. Osgood of the Baptist Church, and
burial was In Rockville Union Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-04
WALKER REFUSES
MANY INVITATIONS
New York Mayor Dodges Set
Program for Visits With
Friends in Hollywood.

BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. July 4.--The
hundred or more invitations to public
semi-public and private affairs that have
poured In on Mayor James j. Walker
of New York City since his arrival here
will have to wait for while, and some
of them probably forever 5se
The mayor reiterated today that he
is In southern California informally
and does not want to be tied down to a
formal program.
Il came here principally for rest
and TO see some of my old friends"
Mayer Walker told inquiring reporters,
and do not like to promise to attend
a certain function and then have it in
terfere with something I would want
to do more =
One invitation at least was honored
with a direct reply It was the sug-
gestion from Mayor Ralph of San Fran
cisco that Mayor Walker take an aerial
trip to the Bay City. The reply was
no" Mayor Walker, explained his
secretary, does not ride in airplanes.
The journey, by slower methods, was
under consideration as were invitations
to visit other coast cities. Fresno. San
ia Barbara. Seattle and other towns
have invited the New York executive to
call"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-04
CUTTER SENT TO AID
DISABLED STEAMER
Governor John Lind Helpless Off
Diamond Shoals With Broken Pro-
peller Shaft, but Safe.

NORFOLK. Va, July 4.-Coast
Guard officials here last night expressed
belief that the American steamer Gov
ernor John Lind, which is helpless at
sea off Diamond Shoals because of a
broken propeller shaft. Ia in no immedi-
ate danger. The cutter CarrabaSset,
which was sent from Norfolk today to
aid the disabled vessel, is expected to
reach her about 6 o'clock tomorrow
morning, and will tow her to port.
The Governor John Lind, Bull
Liner, was en- route from San Juan,
Porto Rico. to Atlantic Coast ports, In
Guiding New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Norfolk, when she met with
the mishap. There are said to be about
halt a dozen passengers aboard in adj
dition to 81 men composing the crew.
The position given by the Governor
John Lind, latitude $3.50 north and
longitude 72.45 west, Is just beyond the
Gulf stream, and to get her to port the
cutter will have to tow the disabled
ship across the stretch of water. It Is
expected the ship will be towed to Nor
folk unless wind and tide carry her
nearer to some other port
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-04
EAGER FATHERS JOIN
MODEL YACHT RACE
Finals in National Elimination Con
test Being Run at Memorial Pool
This Afternoon.

Slightly handicapped by fathers who
were unable to refrain from taking an
active part in the sailing of their sons
yachts, Community Center officials to-
day were attempting to run off model
yacht races for so District school chill
dren at the Lincoln Memorial Pool.
While the children's races were be-
ing held, half a dozen Of the entries in
the national elimination regatta of the
Model Yacht Racing Association of
America were sailing slowly across the
Tidal Basin in contest for the Bouch-
er trophy, model steam yacht.
Finals in the national elimination
contest are being held on the Memorial
Pool this afternoon. &
The so children were divided into
four classes--A, B and G for sailing ves-
sells; D for steamers, E for electric
driven boats and F for spring driven
ships.
The youngsters are supposed to sail
their own boats and several races had
TO be re-run because over anxious