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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
SHORTRIDGE
TO GET BOARD O. K.
Complete Inspection Made
of Structure Before
Acceptance.

Partial acceptance of new Short
ridge high school by the school board
was scheduled for tonight, follow
ing a minute inspection of all de-
tails of the building today.
While the structure will be used
by ShOrtridge pupils beginning Mon
day. the board will reserve the right
to require contractors to complete
such minor details as may be in
complete then.
A large force of men was en-
gagged today on final details, such as
hanging lighting fixtures, polishing
floors, and installing equipment.
The building will be cleaned
thoroughly by a corps of janitors
and laborers Friday, Saturday and
Sunday.
Much laboratory and other equip
ment has been moved to the new
building from old Shortridge.
With close OF classes at moor
Wednesday for the THANKSGIVING
monday, all remaining furniture and
equipment to be used in the new
building will be removed.
The new building, constructed, at
a cost of more than $1,300,OO0 us
one of the most modern high school
structures in the country, according
to officials.
A feature is the amount of day
light in each room the building,
having more window space than
any other school in the country, it
is claimed.
Among the modern featuresis the
domestic science department. with
a model dining room for instruC-
ton in preparation of a table for
q meal, electric clothes washer,
dryer and ironer.
An echoless library and an ar
gallery in the south corridor, third
floor, with indirect lighting through
ground glass SkylightS, are othe:
points of interest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
EZRA MEEKER
SINKING SLOWLY
Doubtful II. Oregon Trail
Pioneer Will Live.
Py United Press

By United Press
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 27.-Sink-
ing slowly, Ezra Meeker, trail blazer
losing battle against death here to
day.
The 97-year-old pioneer of OK
team days lapsed into unconscious
ness late Monday and a bulletin is
sued from his room at the Frye
hotel said it was doubtful if he
would live tWenty-four hours.
The bulletin was issued by c. l..
Templeton, grandson of the pioneer.
Meeker's rugged constitution has
weakened considerably in the last
few weeks. The first indication OF
his condition came this summer
when be was confined to the Ford
hospital at Detroit for two months.
Meeker lost much of his strength
then and came west to recuperate.
His advanced age brought on a re-
currence shortly after he arrived
here.
Meeker was born in Butler
County (Ohio), Dec. 90, 1880. When
ne was 81, he migrated west by
covered wagon, arriving in oregon
in 1852.
Fifty-four years later he retraced
his steps across the country and
made a second trip in 1910. Three
years ago he flew by airplane over
the route.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
FEAR CHARITY
FUND TO FALL
BELOW QUOTA
Final Luncheon for Reports
to Be Held Wednesday
at CIaypooI.

Final luncheon of Community
Fund workers is scheduled for
Wednesday noon in the Chateau
room Of the Claypool.
Preparations are being made to
handle one OF the largest fund
luncheons of the campaign as re-
ports Of gifts are turned in for the
last time this year.
Walter c. Marmon. campaign
chairman, said that gifts now ir
sight would raise the total to arouno
$750,000, an amount $4,000
short of the $781 300 goal. Whether
this deficit would be cut down will
depend entirely upon gifts reported
Wednesday noon, he said.
Heaviest gifts are expected from
the six employees divisions and from
the women'S army. Other main di-
visions, Marmon explained, were
confident of bringing in sufficient
gifts to equal their quotas since
these main groups now lacked only
few thousands of dollars of going
over the top.
Gifts to the Community Fund
will continue to come in for many
weeks after the curtain officially is
rung down on the ninth annual
campaign" Marmop said. But I'M
less there is an unexpected ava
lanche of gifts reported Wednesday
noon the appeal unfortunately will
end without having reached the
minimum goal of $781, 300. Wednes-
day will tell the story"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
YOUNG men TO
HELP OUT FUND
New Club Votes to Go After
Contributions.

A whirlwind canvass to secure
gifts for the Community Fund was
deciced upon by members of Young
Men of Indianapolis at a. meeting
held Monday night at the Sphinx
Arms.
Support for the Thanksgiving day
football game between Butler and
Tufts college of Medford, Mass,
also was voted by members of the
newly-formed organization
Nearly $500 has been secured for
the city's fund, said Eugene E.
Whitehill, president. Efforts to Sc
cure gifts totaling at least $500
before the official end of the fund
campaign Wednesday are to be
made, said Whitehill.
Walter c. Marmon spoke briefly,
declaring that the full quota of
$791, 300 was needed if the citys So
cial service agencies were not to be
handicapped.
G. NJ. Williams, president of the
Marmon Motor Car Company, in the
principal speech of the evening,
urged a "singleneSs of purpose" in
dealing with civic and economic
problems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
APPEAL TO
: TRIAL; STATE. ABSENT
Public Service Commission Is Not
= Represented at Hearing.

Public Service Commission Is Not
80 Represented at Hearing.
ey Another utilities appeal from the
@public service commission went to
trial today without the commission
scr the state represented. The case
Is that of the Standard Telephone
company. Notice of trial in Cass
Circuit court was received by the
Commissioners Saturday.
SIR Commissioner Calvin Mcintosh,
1Who wrote the order forbidding a
merger as asked by Max F. Hosea,
Indianapolis, Standard Telephone
Company promoter, asked Arthur
Il. Gillium, attorney general, to rep
resent them in the matter. Gilliom
Replied, as he has in all cases ap-
spealed to courts under the 1927
Statute, that no provision is made
for his Office to represent the COM
mission in such cases.
= At the time of passage, Gilliom
declared the statute unconstitu-
.sstional, but Governor Ed Jackson
sssigned it in the face of the opinion.
z Constitutionality of the measure
has never been tested out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
vESTRIS MUTINY
TALE is DENIED
BY z OF CREW
Conflicting Stories Told;
$4,000 Damage Suit
Filed.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK: Nov. 27.-Conf1ict-
ing stories continued today as the
government attempted to learn why
the steamer VestriS sank with loss
of ia lives.
Monday members of the crew told
of mutiny of the "black gang" This
was repetition of earlier stories
that the "black gang" had mutinied
several hours before the steamer
went down.
Deny Mutiny Story
Today two witnesses appeared be-
fore the reconvened commerce de-
partment inquiry and denied these
mutiny charges. One was Alfred
Hansen, the pantryman, who gained
such renown through the pictures
he took of the disaster, and the
other was Alfred Duncan, the Sec
ond steward.
There was no mutiny," Hansen
testified.
Discipline was good" Duncan
testified.
Both Duncan and Hansen told
stories similar to those they had told
at the inquiry before a United
States commissioner concerning the
lowering of lifeboats and the last
scene aboard the vessel.
Crew RebeIIed
Hansen told particularly how few
lifeboatS had been lowered into the
water safely.
Reginald M. Dickson, sixth en-
gineer Of the Vestris, repeated tes-
timony he gave Monday that mem
berS of the engine room crew had
left their posts without authority
and that Captain william ]. Carey
pleaded with them:
For Gods sake, toys, go below
and give a hand"
There was no action on this plea.
Dickson testified.
Damage Suits Filed
He was followed to the stand BY
Harry Forsythe, third engineer;
George J. Preswick, fourth engi-
neer, and Ernest Smith, refrigera-
tor engineer. They all more or less
substantiated DickSon's story.
A $4,000 suit was filed against
the Lamport & Holt Line Monday
by Emelie Nahem and Simon Slit,
administrators for the estate of
Isaac Nahenn, who lost his life in
the disaster.
Several more of the 1913 crew sur
vivors have been subpoenaed in the
$4,000 damage suit filed last week
against the line by Orris S. Steph-
ems. a passenger. Stephens bride
lost her life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
GIRL BITES GAS HAWK
J. IN BATTLE ON STREET

Police today sought "gas hawk"
with teeth. marks on his finger.
p1@ The gas hawk had the misfortune
to pick Miss Elizabeth RatI, 1850
~:Winthrop avenue, Manual Training
sshigh school physical training in.
elstructor Monday night as victim
ssof his "gas hawking" ~ =
g AS Miss Rath was walking west
ION Thirty eighth street near the
Ndonon railroad boulevard station
1.-THE youth, about %, drove to the
curb in front of her and pretended
= TO be looking at the tires of his new
r Ford roadster. sS &:
~ AS Miss Rath came abreast Of
the Ford he grabbed her and at
tempted to drag her into the car.
rasShe fought and in the struggle got
..one Of his fingers in her mouth and
bit it. He released her and she fled
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
FARMERS HEAR
STATE INCOME
" TAX Get BOOST
Adoption in Indiana Urged
e by Professor HubbeII
of Wisconsin.

The state income tax adoption
of whicee favored in a resolution
passed Monday by the Indiana
Alarm Bureau Federation, was given
boost today by Professor B. H.
Hubbard of the University of Wis
-.consin, who addressed the 1000 IN
diana farmers attending the tenth
annual convention of the federation
at the Claypool.
sses"There must be change in our
eantiquated taxation fabric, and the
state income tax is the best way
we have to get out of the rut we
are in he said.
He described the working of the
@Wisconsin state income tax and
urged the Indiana farmers to fol-
low the Badger states lead in es-
stablishing such system. . =
zone of the main reasons farm re-
lief is needed so desperately now
is the fact that the farmers have
mot been abb to reduce their taxes
in proportion to their reduced in
comes. Nothing can be done about
it, however, under the present: rec
.girne," he declared.
Settle Is Reelected
1--WE ned a tax reform. Persons
Should be compelled to pay accord
ing to their ability"
esa Miss Verna Elsinger Of the Ohio
farm bureau addressed the dele
fro+on ~, = 1t4xyox,oa VIC DoV.t i,1-tha
Farm Bureau -. ~
- operative living" she 5-saids
Unjust be behind all our schemes
for cooperative marketing and 'pIlr-
chasing, andsin this woman's part
is a big one"
80 At Monday nights session of the
convention William H. Settle, for
the last six years president of the
organization, was reelected, as were
Lewis Taylor, Newburg, vice-presi--
dent; and Mrs. Charles Sewell, Of
terbein, second vice-president.
hss Urge. McNary Plans
Settle, when nominated, was
described as "the most loyal friend
indiana agriculture has" and a
sresolution commencing him for his
stand in support of Al Smith for
The announced purpose of aiding
farm relief, was adopted.
The farmers Monday night also
passed resolution declaring the
SprinCiples of the McNary-Haugen
bill sound and workable, and an
s1nouncing the intention of continued
ssMork toward legislation that wiz
establish a national farm policy.
1t was resolved to make no at
etempt to obtain any farm legisla-
stion during the short term of con-
gress that -convenes Dec. 3.
~ The convention, which began at
ipl0 Monday morning, ends tonight
with a dinner in the Claypool.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27

Middletown to Greensburg. 1851 miles in
Decatur county, John F. Kelly g. Co.,
Terre Haute. s196 1920.
State Road So Remington to Rensselaer,,
l1.028 niles in Jasper county, w. F. Smith
& Co. Rensselaer,, S193. 322.57.
State Road 50. three miles northeast Of
Valparaiso to Chesterton, 5l33 miles in
Porter county, P. T. Clifford & Son, VAL
paraisof S91, 556.O1.
State Road As, Huntingburg to Jaasper,
6.571 miles in Dubois county. Berns Con-
struction Company, Indianapolis. S115,-
sos 4s.
Combination bid. Huntingburg to Hays
vile. 13.439 miles in Dubois county.
Foulkes Construction Company, Terre
Haute. 1888 ,2o8.48.
Grading
State Road 81, Bridges approaches to
Clear Creek and Monon bridges near
Harrodsburg, James C. Ellis, Rockport.
$31. 740.6O.
State Road 81, Worthington to three
fourths miles east, Hart & Hart, Sand
born, SO, 63l 80.
Grading totals low are $4O. s72.5O.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
ADD $500 TO REWARD
R. R. Bair Hikes Ante to
Catch PuIIiam SIayerS..

An additional $500 reward for ar
rest and conviction of the slayers
of Paul T. Pulliam, general man
ager of the Bair neighborhood
theaters, was offered today by R. r.
Bair, owner Of the theater chain, il
a letter to Police Chief Claude M.
7Worley. The reward offers now
total $3.50.
Pulliam was slain last Tuesday
night as he was driving downtown
with receipts from the st. Clair
theater.
Bair is offering the reward "fn
appreciation of the highly COM
mendable efforts of yourself and
the. entire police department" TO
solve the Staying, his letter said.
Although special details of detec-
lives still are working on the case
and the entire police department
has been ordered to watch for clews,
police as yet have obtained no def
mite information likely to lead to the
arrest of the slayers, Worley said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
HOLD FISHBERG FUNERAL

Funeral services for Mrs. Anna
Fishberg, a resident of indianapolis
for thirty years, were held Sunday
at her home, 925 Broadway, where
she died Friday. Burial was in
Knesses Israel cemetery. Mrs. Fish
berg was an active member in the
Beth El-Zakeck church. She is sur
vived by her husband, David Fish
berg; three daughters and three
sons and three brothers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
DEMOCRATS I'm HOLE
FOR STATE CAMPAIGN
Expenditures of S115,OOO Leave $4,000
~ Deficit.

Expenditures of $115,OOO Leave $4,000
Deficit.
er Expenditures of the Democratic
state committee in the 1928 cam
e-paign amounted to Sis, 1897, while
receipts were $109, 170.12, according
ITO the treasurer's report filed late
MONDAY with the Marion county
clerk.
Outstanding Indebtedness amounts
ito $10,133.97, according to the re-
aport and deficit of $4,963.85 is
shown. The Democratic national
eseommittee contributed $63,500 and
Thomas Taggart, former United
States senator, made the largest in
~tlividual contribution, $4,000. Frank
&C. Daley, candidate for Governor,
donated $1,000; Albert Stump, can:
.didate for United States senator;
h$1 200 and state candidates sums
arranging from $1,000 to $780,
The Democratic committee came
within $9,058 of equaling expendi-
estures of the Republican committee,
which reported a total outlay Of
A$124, 1928. -Four years ago. the
democrats spent only $56,279.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
OPEN BIDS ON
81 MILES OF
STATE PAVING
Low Prices Submitted on
Eight Projects Total
$1,349,984.

An army of contractors, material
men and others interested filled ev-
cry seat in the house of represent
ativeS chamber and overflowed into
the statehouse corridors today for
the opening of bids for Cts miles
of the proposed 300-mile paving
program of the state highway de-
partment for 1929.
The opening was the first of the
new season.
Low bids on the eight paving
projects totaled $1,349, 948.99 The
letting means employment for more
than one thousand men in various
sections of the state, it was esti-
mated. Work will get under way
in the spring as soon as weather
permits.
Similar lettings are scheduled by
Director John D. Williams through
out the winter months, until the
whole 300 miles are under contract.
Low bids and bidders on both
paving and grading in today'S let
IlIlBS are dS follows.
Paving
State road As and S. Jasper to Hays
Vile. 6s68 miles. Dubois count. Globe
Construction Company. Evansville. $l79,-
54797.
United States "a. Wabash to two miles
east of Lagro, 1925 miles in Wabash coun-
ty. Jh C. O'Connor & Sons, Fl. Wayne.
s18s. O77.16
United States "a, two miles east of Lagro
to two miles west of Huntington. 1918
miles in Wabash and Hunting counties
Tri-Lake Construction Company. Columbia
City, $203. ss8.77.
State road 30. shelbyville to two miles
southeast Of Middletown. 10.065 miles in
Shelby and Decatur counties. Berns Con-
struction Company. indianapolis. $751;
1898.
State road %. two miles southeast of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
TRAIL GROWS FAINT
IN PULLIAM DEATH QUIZ
Homicide Squad and Motor Patrol
Formed.

Detectives today continued to work
on numerous vague clews in con-
nection with the Staying last week
of Paul L. Pulliam, Bair theater
manager, without any information
which promised early solution os the
bandit murder.
AS result of the Pulliam killing
Police Chief Claude M. Worley l.;
organizing a homicide squad and
motor patrols to patrol outlying resi-
dence sections to the southwest,
west, north and east.
The homicide squad is in charge
of Fred Simon, and includes De-
tectives Moore, Gaughan, Golnisch,
Taylor, Miller and McCarty. The
squad will continue on the Pulliam
case and will investigate all future
murder cases.
Under the new patrol system
three teams of men in automobiles
will cover ten large districts for
mrely covered by ten men on foot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
ASKS AID FOR LAW

Cooperation of members of the
legislature in protecting the city
manager law against attack and in
effecting needed minor amendments
was asked by John w. Esterline,
chairman of the executive commit
tee of the Indianapolis City Manager
League, in letters sent the legisla-
tors, Monday.
The letter ifrclosed a booklet ex-
planning operation of the law and
asked legislators help in "a sincere
endeavor to place the affairs of our
capitol city on q higher plane"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
PROBE BOYS DEATH

Coroner G. H. Keever today in
vestigated the fatal burning, late
Monday of William Wallace, Negro,
eighteen-month-old son of John
Wallace, barber at the Columbia
Club. The child's mother had left
the baby and three other children in
the kitchen of the home while she
went to tie grocery. Helen, 8, te
baby's sister, set its clothes on fire
with a stick she lighted in the oven,
the older children told police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
Speedy Relief
!. for Sore Throat
Safe Prescription Requires
No Gargling

No longer isEit necessary to gargle
or. to choke with nasty tasting patent
medicines or gargles to relieve sore
throat. Now. you can get almost in
slant relief with one swallow of a
famous Doctors prescription called
Thoxine. 1t has double action, re-
lieves the soreness and goes direct to
the internal cause not reached by gar
giles, salves, and patent medicines.
Thoxine does not contain iron, chlo-
reform or dope is pleasant tasting,
harmless and safe for the whole family.
Also excellent for coughs; stops them
almost instantly. Quick relief guar
anteed or your money back, 35c, 6Oc,
and Observation-Disclosures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
FINED FOR LARCENY

State Farm Sentence for Watch
Theft Suspended.
w. c. Strut. 40 North Chester
avenue, was fined SIS and placed on
probation on an suspended sentence
of thirty days at the Indiana state
farm on a petit larceny charge in
municipal court today. Struitt adj
mitted he made no effort to locate
the owner of a watch he picked up
in a Mushroom at the Claypool Sept.
1. The watched belonged to Paul
Waulk, chief bellboy at the Clay
pool. 1t later was found in pawn
shop, where Struitt had pawned it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27

Turn Down Road Bonds
A proposed $4,000 bond issue for
the r. Hodges road, Walnut town
ship, Montgomery county, was
turned down by the state tax board
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
on Empty Bottles

In the early days of the repub-
lican party, it still had something
to offer the agricultural interests,
which were at that time quite
powerful. The Homestead Act was
the purchase price for the culmina-
ton of the alliance between the grain
growers of the Northwest and the
Eastern industrial interests. But to-
day the republican party openly
flouts and spurns the farming in
terests and refuse to do anything
for them as shown at the last ma
tional convention. We are witness
ing therefore a process in each of
the two major parties, whereby the
petty bourgeois are being crushed
more and more under the heel of
the industrial and financial interests
of the Northeast. While it is true
that LaFollette for a time raised
considerable ructions in the repub-
lie party on the wave of agricultural
discomfort, and while it is true that
this wave of discomfort will again
surge upward as the crisis in agri-
culture sharpens again, yet we must
agree that at present time the
Norris, Borah, LaFollette, Brook
hart, and the rest of the so-called
farmlt bloc are distinctly out of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
BY BERT MILLER.
(Continued.)

In spite of the fact that the demo-
ratio party has long denounced the
reflective tariff as conducive to the
interests of monopoly" Mr.. Pitt
nan, Chairman of the Democratic
'latform Committee at the Houston
convention is quoted by the N. Y.
World of Aug. 2, 1928 democratic
rgan) as follows: Democratic
lew, says Mr.. Pittman, has been
Undergoing an evolution since 1900.
With the growth of Southern and
Western industry the theory of low
ariffs' has been abandoned. The
arty now stands for maintenance
( high standards of wages of labor
nd for duties which will allow all
+ our industries to prosper without
ear of destruction from foreign
Gods Now the main purpose
f Mr.. Pittman's remarks is plain:
is purpose is the reinsurance of
nv business interests that may feel
eryous." The Wilson Tariff Bill
nder Cleveland and the Underwood
'ariff under Wilson have given
mple guarantees to these business
,terests that they have no need for
Axvousness.