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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
MAIL RANGER
COURSES FLOP
Few Get in Forest Service
by Correspondence.

Young men who would be forest
rangers were warned today to be-
ware of some widely advertised
correspondence courses in prepara-
ton for examinations by Henry M
Trimpe, local civil service secretary.
These courses, for the most part,
are practically worthless, Trimpe
said.
Survey of examination papers OF
1881 competitors in the forest
ranger examination last October
revealed.
OF CTS competitors who had no
correspondence training, 1870, or %
per cent passed.
OF 337 competitors who had
taken a preparatory correspondence
course, exactly eighteen passed, Oh
less than 6 per cent.
Trimpe issued the following state
ment:
MANY Of the statements in these
advertisements are misleading and
in some cases absolutely false.
THE position of forest ranger is
one of considerable responsibility
requiring arduous work, often under
difficult conditions, and with def
mite requirements as to experience
and ability"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
SHOW HOUSE MODEL
Ideal Frame Construction at
Realtors Exhibit.

Best construction methods for
frame houses are demonstrated in
the mystery model home" which
will form the centerpiece of the
Realtors Home Show to be opened
at the State Playground Saturday
under auspices of the Indianapolis
Real Estate Board.
The home put up by the Indian
apoliS Home Builders Association
in cooperation with the South
ern Pine Association and local lum-
Der dealers, is being built entirely
Of Southern pine.
Construction is being carried out
in accordance with Fifteen cardinal
points of safe and permanent frame
construction" developed after years
of research and study by the South
ern Pine Association. These points
of bracing and fire-stopping will be
shown in one room of the home,
which will be left unfinished Walls,
floors and ceilings will be only par
TALLY finished, permitting a view
of studding, rafters and joiSts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
CONTRACT FOR
Sewer FOUGHT
Protest Awarding of Work
to Mead Firm.

Awarding of the Forty Second st.
main sewer contract to the Mead
Construction Company was pro-
tested today by the Eugene Shee-
han Construction Company, sewer
contractors.
After visiting Mayor L. Ert Slack,
William A. PickenS, Democrat, at
torney for Sheehan, filed a protest
with the board of works, charging
the Mead firm is not equipped to
build sewers.
The Mead Company, which has
been doing street paving, was low
bidder. The Sheehan protest de-
clared that the bid was irregular.
Meads bid was approximately
$250,0O0 against the Sheehan bid of
$258,000. Both bids were under the
estimate of City Engineer A. H.
Moore who figures approximately
$262,0OO.
Oren S. Hack, works board pres
ident, referred the question to the
city legal department.
Emsley w. Johnson, Mead's at
torney and special prosecutor in the
political graft investigation, will file
a brief on the protest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03

Members of the indianapolis
Traffic Club will enter the Casey
JONES'" a locomotive body placed
on Ford chassis IN the baseball
opening parade April 10. The ma
chine will be piloted by w. j.
Sellers, of Los Angeles. one of the
trio of ex-service men who are
making their way from Los Angeles
to New York in it; and L. E. Banta,
president of the club, will be seated
on the tender wearing high hat.
Members of the committee in
charge of the arrangements are:
on the locomotive left to right,
Fred Alderman, chairman of the
arrangements committee, Walt
Harris, Sam harrington, NJ. D..
Collins. Kirby Scott and B. c. Lipp.
Standing in front, H. e. West and
L. E. Banta. Sellers is in the cab
of the Casey Jones"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
ROCk-a-Bye

BIZ Science ScrricG
MESA VERDE, Col, April 8.
The finest specimen Of a rat
tie belonging to the ancient
cliff dwellers ever found in
Mesa Verde National Park has
just been discovered by Deric
Nusbaum, IS year old son of
the park superintendent. The
rattle and other prehistoric
relics found with it have been
presented to the park museum
by their finder.
The rattle was found, in all
probability, exactly as it was
left by some cliff dweller eight
to twelve centuries ago. 1t is
considered remarkable that so
fragile a specimen, composed
of thin guard rind, could have
survived SO long a time.
The rattle consists of two
discs of guard, about three and
a half inches in diameter, cut
and rubbed down to fit to-
gether perfectly. Yucca fiber
was used to fasten the two
halves of the rattle and the
noise was produced by small
sandstone pebbles in the hollow
case. The handle Of the rattle
YVES a stick Of mountain ma
hog any.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by po-
lice belong to:
Victor r. Calvin, 2917 N. Chester
Ave, Ford, found at Thirtieth and
Adams SITS.
A. M. Galligan, 1160 Kentucky
Ave, Essex, found at Prospect ST.
and Madison Ave.
Clarence Doughitt, 18 S. Capitol
Ave-, Auburn, found at Madison Ave.
and Orange st.
Adolph Schernekan, 1921 Belle
fontaine ST., Ford, found at 212
Leeds Ave.
Ada J. WeSterfield, Brill and Sum-
ner Sts., Ford truck, found at Illi-
nois and Maryland SITS.
Robert r. Raglan, 436 E. Fall
Greek Blvd, Buick, found at East
and Market SITS.
Harry Graham, 1919 N. Delaware
ST., Chevrolet, found at Fifty-Second
st. and College Ave. u....
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
PECLAL SESSIONS CALLED TO CHOOSE TWO COUNCZLMEN
CITY MANAGER
LEAGUE TO Be
NON-PARTISAN
Will IndOrSe Candidates in
Primary Tickets of
Both Parties.

The partisan policy Of the
indianapolis City Manager League
will be followed in the May primary
campaign, according to Chairman
Fred Hoke.
Directors have adopted a resolu-
ton setting this policy. The league
viii investigate candidates and in
dorse tickets in both Republican and
Democratic primaries. but will only
seek to inform the citizenship Of the
candidates who are for the city
manager form of municipal govern
ment.
The action taken was to end
claims of certain politicians that
they arc the city manager can
didates.'
Candidates presented by political
parties will be investigated after
next Saturday when all announce
ments must have been filed with
county clerk.
From the beginning this organ
lzation has assumed a frankness
with the public and it therefore be-
comes necessary to call attention to
the fact that the league has not now
assumed and does not intend to as
sumo the functions of q political
party. 1t has no candidate for any
office" said Executive Chairman
John w, Esterline.
The resolution:
The Board of Directors wishes to
go on record now by saying that
it has urged and will continue to
urge the leaders Of both political
parties to put before the peonle
reliable and trustworthy candidates
for each office.
Many of the advocates OF good
government, in both parties, have,
as individuals, been making ire
mendous efforts to induce their
respective parties to see the wis
dom of putting high grade candi-
dates before the people this year.
These things the City Manager
League now promises the people it
will DO:
l. AS soon as the date for filing
is past, the league will take the
necessary steps to obtain the in
formation and to inform the people
of Indianapolis what candidates
may be expected to best support
the cause of good government.
2. The league will do its utmost
to urge the thousands of citizens
who have registered in favor of
good government to support those
candidates, in their respective
parties, who stand for good govern
ment.
3. The league will do its utmost
to insure an honest primary cleo
ton and an honest count of the
votes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
CANDIDATES QUIzzED
Governor ASpirantS Asked
Policy Views.

Gubernatorial candidates are
asked to state their views on num-
Der of public questions in an open
letter addressed to them G.. Oliver
Holmes of Gary, State Senator and
Indiana Bankers Association presi-
dent.
Questions which Holmes believes
candidates should answer or dis
cuss' include: Attitude on banking
reform laws; an insurance policy for
State property; solving of traffic
control by establishing a depart
ment independent Of the office OF
the Secretary of State, which viii.
give greater rural protection and
reduce fatalities; providing OF ade-
9uate housing for historical and
museum material; study and RENE
dy of overcrowded conditions in
State penal, benevolent and educa-
ton institutions. and plan for les
Sening the property tax.
Holmes said bank failures Of the
past two years indicated a need for
revision of the laws respecting con-
troll and operation of banks.
Holmes made a yelled attack on
the administration of James Jack
son, brother of Governor Ed Jack
son, as superintendent of the State
School for Feeble Minded Youth at
TT. Wayne when he said 'retrogres-
>sion that has taken place at FIT.
Wayne has caused widespread dis
may and has thrown away twenty
five years of progressive effort"
DR.. Byron E. Biggs, nationally
eminent psychopath, was removed
by Governor Jackson Jan. l, 1925,
over Statewide protest, to make
way for Jackson's brother and a
Mh11sirness administration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to
police belong to:
William l.. Landreth, 222 Blue
Ridge Rd., Jordan, 1872, from Market
and Alabama SITS.
Leo Gootee, 1868 Hosbrook ST.,
Ford, 652-818, from East and Michi-
gan SITS.
Paul B. Scott, 1916 Montcalm ST.,
Chevrolet, 636-954, from MaSsa-
chusettS and College AYES.
Frank Murrello, 664 E. East St.,
Nash, 616-243, from East and Michi-
gan SITS.
James Green, 100 w. st. Clair St.,
Cadillac, 449-831, from In front of
that address.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
RITES WEDNESDAY FOR
LIG0NIER'S EX- MAYOR

Simon J. Straus, Chicago Business
Leader, to Rest in Home Town.
By Times Special
LIGONIER, Ind, April 3.-Simon
j. Straus, who served several terms
as mayor here, will be buried here
Wednesday, according to word from
Chicago, where Of late Straus had
been living. Ligonier is his native
town.
Straus was president at his death
of a chain of large Chicago cloth
ing stores. His son, Stanley j., sue
ceeds him to the presidency. Other
survivors are his wife, and a daugh-
ter, GWendolyn.
AS had his father, StrauS spent
summers in Ligonier, where he OBJ
tanned his grade school education.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
DRY AGENT INDICTED
Local Negro Named in Conspiracy
Charges at Chicago.

Horace Lyle, Negro, prohibition
agent indicted with several others
at Chicago on conspiracy charges
lives in Indianapolis and is at
tached to the Indiana prohibition
department, his point of duty being
South Bend.
He was appointed to the service
June 6, 1925, was dismissed at Chi
cago and reinstated June 81, 1927
He was reasSigned to Indiana IL
February.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
LECTION OF
PAIR is SET
FOR THURSDAY
designations of Moore and
Dorset Are Accepted
at Meeting.
CIVIC LIST is PREPARED
Names of Candidates for
BerthS Kept Secret, So
They Cannot Refuse.

Successors to Bcynton J. Moore
and Walter r. Dorset, Republicans
whose designations were accepted by
city council Monday night, will bC
elected at a special council meet
ing Thursday noon.
The council may fill the vacan-
cies from the list submitted by the
civic group headed by Frank Fow-
Ter. Austin H. Todd's resignation
which is effective April 25, was not
read to council Monday night.
Moore was convicted Of bribery
and will be sentenced Saturday
While Dorset is facing trial in May
on like charge.
Neither attended the meeting or
Monday night.
Council President Otis E. Bar
tholomew announced Thursday is
the earlist date for selection of new
councilmen possible under the law
Keep Candidates Secret
Secrecy has surrounded the NAM
ing of the candidates for council by
Chamber Of Commerce, Board Of
Trade and City Manager League
representatives. The committee Of
the organization met at noon again
today to work on the list. The list
may not be made public until an
hour or so before the special cOun-
Gil session.
The committee feels that the citi-
zenship should draft the new Coun-
cilmen and give them no oppor-
tunity to refuse, before their cleo
ton, according to Councilman Ed
ward B. Raub. Raub and Robert
E. Springsteen, Democrats, the only
cCuncilmen not involved in the
bribery charges, met with the COM
mittee to discuss candidates.
Council President Bartholomew
and Willard w. Ferguson, who are
said to have written out Tesigna-
tons, gave no indication as to when
they will leave the council. Claude
E. Negley, former president, is not
expected to resign under a proposed
agreement whereby councilmen will
escape penitentiary terms if they
resign and plead guilty to malfeas-
ancs.
q Ray Albertson, who turned
STAGES evidence, also may resign.
He has not attended council meet
ingA since he testified at Moore's
trial and admitted accepting brides.
Few Attend Session
Councilman Raub, after o thirty
minute caucus of the six council
men behind closed doors, moved
that the designations Of Moore and
Dorsett be accepted
E. E. Heller, coal dealer 1924
Fletcher Ave, is mentioned as
successor to Moore from the Sixth
councilmanic district. Friends of
Albert F. Meurer, 4426 r. Tenth ST.,
are boosting him to succeed Dor
Sett in the First district.
J. A. Birsfleld, Republican, who
opposed Austin H. Todd, Repub-
lican, from the Fourth district in
last election, attended the council
session.
A squad Of police was assigned
to the council chamber in anticipa-
ton of a large crowd. Only twenty
five citizens attended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Dog Reveals Mans Suicide
BIZ Times Special

EHRNIANNDALE, Ind, April s.
Relatives of Silas Jones, 81, a sui
eide, found his body through strange
actions of his dog. Jones left home
to hunt, accompanied by the dog. 1t
returned later and its actions caused
relatives to follow it into a woods
where Jones, with his head shattered
by a shotgun blast, was found. No
motive for the suicide was given by
the family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
POLICE CHIEF SPELLED
LIAR IN BIG LETTERS
Head Of Princeton Department in
1895 Used Plain Speaking.

BU Times NBCcjqT
PRINCETON, Ind, April 3.-Plain
speaking was in vogue here in 1896
when William S. Spillman was po-
lice chief. Gambling was rife in
The city and police were being crit
icized by church going citizens, who
declared officers tipped off gamblers
before making raids. Finally Spill
man caused the following notice to
be inserted in newspapers:
Il wish to say in this public way
that any man, white or black, who
declares or intimates that I have
ever given tip to gamblers of this
city who we're about to be raided,
is a LIAR. Speak out and give
names, or shut up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Laymen Refused Equality

BIZ IHneS NpeCtuL
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, April s.
Methodist laymen of the North In
diana conference will retain a
status inferior to that of ministers
in conference sessions. Refusal to
admit laymen on an equality with
ministers was voted at the closing
session Of the conference here Mon
day. The equality rule is in effect
in the general conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
RULES ON TREASURER
GiIliOm Says Widow May Hold
Mates Office Until Election.

Mates Office Until Election.
Mrs. Joseph v. Mines, named
Brown County treasurer by county
commissioners to succeed her hus-
band on his death, should hold Of
flee only until a successor to her
husband is regularly elected at the
November election, Attorney Gen
eral Arthur L. Gilliom has ruled in
an opinion to Assistant Secretary of
State H. B. Gray.
Mines was elected to serve as
county treasurer until Jan. 1, 1880,
but Mrs. Mines can not be appoint
ed to fill out the entire term, Gill
lion said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Boy LaShed

By Times Special
LINTON, Ind, April s.
Joseph Goshen, Is. was given
ten lashes with a strap by his
father, Stephen Goshen, a SEN
tence imposed by Mayor Bull
in city court, where the youth
was charged with stealing
seven chickens and selling
them at a grocery. Young
Goshen grasped an iron post at
police headquarters while the
flashing was administered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Baby Eats TaIcum Powder

ItY JNlteU PfcSS
WABASH, Ind, April 3.-The con-
dition of Patricia Carrico,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Pat Car
rico, who in some manner, while
playing with a box of talcum
powder, got the lid off and ate some
of it, is reported by doctors to be
better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Divorces Former Athlete

By Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 3.-Al-
leging cruelty. Mrs. Dora Wendland
has been granted a divorce here
from John Wendland, former Uni
versity'of Notre Dame distance run
ner and track coach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Church Will Expand

BIZ Times NpcclnT -,
ANDERSON, Ind, April 3-The
CONGREGATION of the Church of the
Brethren will decide within the neX SI
few days whether to spend $35 .OOO
for erection of a new church build
ing or to remodel the old one at a
cost of $4,000 to $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Doctor Dies in Office

bU 7 MUGS NUCCIUJ
DECATUR, Ind, April 3.-Dr.
Benjamin F. Beavers, 81, died sud-
denly Of heart disease in his office
here shortly after returning Mon
day forenoon from the Adams
County hospital, where he had per-
formed an operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Bible Reading Marathon

WABASH, Ind. April 3.-Sixty-
eight persons this morning started
a New Testament reading marathon,
expecting to complete the task in
seventeen hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
SICK
HEADACHE

Be suspicious of persistent sick
headaches, dizzy spells or floating
specks before the eyes. They usu-
ally indicate a poisoned condition
of the system which leads to high
blood pressure. Due to our abnor-
NAL habits of living we place too
great strain upon the vital organs,
especially the liver.
The liver becoming weak OK slug
gish fails to cleanse the blood of the
poisons formed in food waste. The
whole system becomes toxic then,
affecting stomach, kidneys, heart,
blood pressure and blood vessels.
The liver occasionally needs a lit
lie help, and there's nothing better
AM Is, as medical men now know,
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03


April 3wthout citing authority its statements
tabloid
Mack head Of the Postal Telegraph Company has forgiven his daugh
marrying Berlin the Jewish
that reconciliation
health Mackay,
En the Berlin baby returning together from the West
Mackay society leader
dSnted his daughter 1926 when she went against
his wishes eoped with the composer.
reconciliation the Graphic
because of the
OF Mackay fortune
Maciays headquarters Telegraph here it
Mackay
whereabouts published of reconca
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03

Easter Clothing on 20 payments.
H&R. Clothing Co., % E. Ohio ST,
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-03
Three BANDIT
GANGS BROKEN
Up BY POLICE
Many City RobberieS and
Safe LOotingS Confessed
by Youths.

Detective Chief Jerry Kinney to-
day announced confessions by four
youths held in city prison to a num-
Der of burglaries and safe robberies
here and in neighboring towns.
The four, he said, were members
of a gang which detectives believed
have committed twenty to fifty rob-
berries here in the past few months.
With the confessions from these
youths, police have uncovered three
bandit gangs within four days, Kin
ney pointed out.
The youths held are: Paul H..
Sheldon, 26. of rs N. Brookville Rd.,
charged with burglary; John AL
berts, "a, of 953 Elm ST., burglary;
Herbert Skaggs, "a, of 1920 w. Nc
Carly St, and Robert Prater, 26, of
304 Villa Ave, charged with being
convict in possession of firearms.
Planned to Rob Bank
First arrests in the cleanup of
the gang were made March %
when several of the youths were
found in Sheldon's car at Merid-
ian and Maryland SITS. with several
guns, two acetylene tanks and a
large crOWbar in the machine.
They planned to attempt to rob
the safe Of the JoneSville State Bank
or the Alert State Bank that night.
detectives said the youths adj
mitted.
In February, according to detec-
tlves, they admitted breaking into
safes at the Peoples Coal Company
Bates and Shelby SITS. and the Paul
H. Krauss Laundry Company here
and at an oil company Office in
Lebanon.
Prater, according to detectives. IS
under parole from the Illinois State
Prison at Joliet He was a mem
berof the Mamie Isley gang. and
served a prison term with other
members of the group for robbina
the Alert State Bank in 1922.
Admits Sixty Robberies
Detectives Rugenstein, Fields
Schultz, Poets, Irik and Fletcher
worked on the case.
Detectives today checked the
statement of Everett Perry, 90. of
1911 Harlan St, bandit leader
whose signed confession admits
from sixty to seventy-five burglaries
and robberies.
Perry was arrested early Satur-
day when Lieut.. Patrick O'Connor
and squad chased the bandits
twenty-five miles and engaged in a
gun battle with the bandits. Patrol
man Bartlett fatally wounded
Wilbur Allen, %. of 17O5 Naomi St,
when Allen fled from the car snoot-
ing at the policemen Mrs. Belle
Dobb, SO, of 221O w. Mccarthy St,
in the car with them also is be-
ing held as is Leonard Wilson. 90
of Ben Davis, and Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Burd. 340O Carson st.
parents Of Leonards wife.
Evening star., 1928-06-08
Everyday Law Cases
May Witness Be Sued for GiDing
False Testimony?
BY TIE COUNsELLOR.

After obtaining Judgment against
Henry Cooper, Ralph Blair found him.
self unable to collect.
After a while Blair found that his
debtor had sufficient money in the
hands of James Daley to satisfy the
Judgment. Accordingly he issued an
attachment, instructing the sheriff 10
command Daley not to turn the money
over to Cooper. but to hold 1t for him.
To Blair's surprise, Daley filed an
answer to the proceeding, denying that
he had any Of Cooper's money. To the
same effect was his testimony upon the
witness stand when The matter came up
for a hearing. The attachment pro-
ceedings we're thereupon dismissed
Later Blair found that Dailey's tes-
timony was absolutely false and that he
did have Cooper's money in his possess
sion at the time Unable to collect
from Cooper, Blair brought a civil suit
against Daley, declaring that the false
testimony had impaired his chances to
collect his judgment.
But the court dismissed the suit, stat
ing:
mo civil action for damages can be
maintained for alleged false testimony
given on the witness stand. Public
policy and the safe administration of
Justice require that witnesses, who are
necessary part of the judicial ma
chinery, be privileged against any re-
straint excepting that imposed by the
penalty for perjury"