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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Gathers Dust in Strong Box
at Police Station; None
Want 1t.

Five hundred dollars in yellow
backed bills is looking Tor an
owner.
Just prove you have a title to L.
and it is yours. But that may be
difficult, as well as embarrassing
because the money is tainted.
The stain of being used by one
city councilman to bride another
clings to it, three months after it
was waved before a Criminal Court
jury.
1t is doubtful whether anyone has
a legal right to it, in the opinion
of Prosecutor william H. Remy
Elk Councilman o. Ray Albertsor
identified it from the witness stand
as the $500 paid him by ex-Coun.
Gilman Boynton j. Moore to in
huence his vote on council matters
Who Is Custodian
That was back in March, while
Moore was on trial on a bribery
charge. Albert has no claim to it
because he admits he received it ir
an unlawful manner. Certainly II
isn't Moore's, because Moore denied
ever paying it Ito Albertsor.
And SO, for three long months
the $500 has rested in the police sta
ton safe, without the care of 9
kind-hearted owner.
There's even some doubt as tc
who is the custodian of it. Court
Reporter Norman Metcalf says he
isn't, because the money were mere.
ly exhibited, and identified, not en-
tered as exhibit so-and-so for the
State.
Formal Claims by None
Prosecutor Remy says he isn't. Al
the close of the trial the money was
turned over to Remy, who In turn
turned it over to his investigator
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
More Prizes Bring Mfzux .
of Scooter Derby Entries

announcement of preliminary race
dates will be made in The Times
as soon as the schedule is COM
pleted. All entries must be in The
Times Office, or at the playground
the day before first race is sched-
uled.
Remember, the place to practice
for the race is on the playground,
or on the sidewalk. Don't run your
scooter in the street-to do so is
dangerous. Safe play pays.
Clip the entry blank from today's
paper, and make sure of getting
into this race The prizes are worth
working for, and the boys and the
girls who work hardest are the ones
who will win. But the first thing
is to get your entry in-do it todayl
Either mail or bring the blank,
properly filled out, to The Times
office or to, the recreation center
where you play.
Then start training for the big
day, and get a share Of the $500 in
cash, and one Of the valuable mer-
chandise prizes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Tainted $500 Bride Money
Waits Months for O70ner

Harry McGlenn, with orders to keep
it safe, pending appeal of Moore's
case.
McGlenn put it in the police sta
ton safe. Now, Moores sentence
to prison has been committed, and
he will not appeal. Anyway, Met
calf said the money was not needed
for the appeal, because it was not
an exhibit.
No one has put in formal claim
for it, Remy and McGlenn say.
They have doubts that they have
authority to release it without word
from Metcalf, who is just as strong
ly convinced that he has no au-
thority to let any one have it.
So, again, the money has, no
owner, and no one has authority
to give to an owner if he should
turn I'D.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
YOUTH DIES IN
BALLOON JUMP
Body Buried Two Feet by
Force of Fall.

Struggling to pull the release cord
on his parachute during a 30O-foot
drop, Everett Via, %, of 1922 Shelf
field Ave, was killed Sunday after
noon at Shields Park, Seymour,
Ind. The parachute failed to open.
Via, balloon jumper since he was
16, had contracted for a weeks work
at the park for Oscar E. Ruth, bal
loonist, with whom Via lived here.
The tragedy occurred when Via
attempted a triple parachute jump.
Two parachutes worked properly.
The third failed.
The body was buried two feet in
the ground from the force of the fall,
An inquest was scheduled for to-
day by Coroner William A. Dick
meyer.
Via had trouble with opening the
third parachute both Friday and
Saturday, it was said.
Friday he landed on the roof of
the Seymour First Methodist
Church.
Via, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Via, 448 N. State Ave-, was a grad
uate of the Bradford (Ohio) high
school. His parents, three brothers,
Milford Via, Troy, Ohio, and Fred
and Alfred Via of Indianapolis; a
sister, Mrs. Leila Reed, Bent Noun
tain, Va, and step-sister, Miss
Helen Miller, Indianapolis, survive.
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BY DAN THOMAS

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July C.
l. L Did everything in the world
except the animals and birds on
Noah's ark actually perish when the
earth became flooded as is told in
the Bible?
Perhaps we will get a little more
enlightening information on that
subject when Warner Bros. COM
plete their 100000 production,
"Noah's Ark"
Nobody in all Hollywood, with the
exception of those working on the
film, knows just what happens in the
eight or ten reels that this film will
run.
I spent one entire Sunday under
a broiling hot sun watching nearly
5000 extras march hither and yon
around all enormous open air set,
with about ten cameras grinding or
them from all angles.
1t really was quite an inspiring
sight to see all those people decked
out in garments that some research
man assured Director Michael Cur
tiz were worn in Noah's day.
The set itself covered several acres
and was supposed to have cost
100000. What is was all about is
just one Of those unsolved mys-
teries. Perhaps the purpose is to
plant the idea of the greatness of
the disaster when the flood swept
things away. However, we may
know after the film is shown.
Dolores Costello's name heads the
cast that includes some good actors.
In the Biblical sequence, which real
ly is the important part of the film,
Dolores is seen as a street waif of a
rather uncertain origin. 1t will be
her first movie appearance with a
dirty face.
But her blonde beauty attracts
George O'Brien, one of Noah's three
sons. Around their romance the
story revolves.
Oh, yes, and we mustn't forget
old man Noah himself. He's the
guy responsible for the ark. Paul
McAllister, who was a matinee idol
on Broadway back in 1906 and 1907,
is portraying him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
COWARD LABEL !
is BLAMED IN F..
FATAL SHOOTING
italian Is Killed as He Sits
in Fruit Truck; Hunt.
Men He InSuIted,

Joseph Cento, 40, of s16 Elm st.,
fatally was shot Sunday night while
he sat in his fruit truck in front Of
that address, because a man he
called a coward accepted his chal-
lenge to flight it out" police be-
lieved today.
AS a result they are seeking John
Moio, 1916 English Ave, as the
slayer of Cento.
Cento whispered the name Of the
man he said shot him to police, al,
city hospital, where he died fe
hours later.
Four Persons See Killing Y
Four persons who either witnessed
the shooting or its prelude are held
on vagrancy charges and made
statements. They are Mrs. Camel
liza Moio, "a, wife of the alleged
slayer; Antonio Ferraro, "a, of 819
Elm ST., who was sitting in the
truck with Cento when Cento was
shot; Roscoe Giardiano, q, of 914
Lexington Ave. and Dominic Pala-
mara, 46, of BIG Elm ST., with whom
Cento roomed.
According to the statements those
under arrest, with the exception Of
Ferraro, and others, were dining at
the Palanara home when Cento
came in intoxicated He was in
Vited to eat with them.
During the meal he and Moio
got into an argument. Friends veri-
fled that Cento was usually quar-
relsome when drunk.
Called MOiO a Coward
During the argument Cento. ac-
cording to the statements called
Moio a coward, branded his an
cestors cowardly and challenged
him:
IF you'll fight it out, I'll battle
you with gun. knife or any way"
Moio left the house in his auto
mobile and Cento went to his room
to come down a few minutes later
with loaded revolver sticking from
his belt.
He sat out in his truck where
Ferraro joined him. A short time
later an automobile drove up and
stopped beside the car.
Came From Italy
The man in the machine, who &C
cording to police, was Moio, jumped
out, fired five or six shots poiutf
blank at Cento.
Four of the shots struck vital
organs and the slayer speeded
away.
Cento, fruit vender, had lived
with the Palamaras two years. He
was very secretive, it was said. He
is believed to have come from the
province Of Calabria, italy, and to
have a wife and child there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
new YORK VICE
is LAID TO RISE
OF NIGHT CLUBS
Scarlet Brand Placed on
'Hostesses'; Condition Is
Held DepIorabIe.

By United Press
NEW YORK, July 9. - New
York City's relaxation from the
taut strain of Puritanisrn is due
largely to the influence of night
clubs and speakeasieS, according to
report of the Committee of Four
teen, the reform organization which
just has completed survey Of those
relatively new institutions.
The committees report concludes
that vice conditions here are worse
than at any time in the last twen-
ty years and classes the night club
and speakeasy hostess with the pro-
fessional prostitute Of an earlier
day.
1.-THE hostess is the American
counterpart of the Japanese geisha
GIRL" the committees report said.
Her sex appeal largely accounts
for her success. She is the sue
cessor of the old-time hustler who
worked in bars on a commission
basis many years ago.
Hostess Is Attraction
1.-THE night clubs and speakeasies
are too numerous to succeed from
the sale of liquor without the added
attraction of the hostess"
Closed dance halls, where wom-
en- dancing instructors give men
private lessons behind closed doors,
also are blamed for a part of the
city'S moral decline.
From the closed dance halls MANY
Of the night club hostesses were
found to have been recruited. The
committees report said its inyesti-
gators learned that the girls we're
employed through advertisements in
one tabloid newspaper which pointed
out that no experience was neces-
sary.
Many Identified With Vice
Although the report does not
name any of New York's more ia
nous hostesses, it is said 157 night
clubs and speakeasies were inves-
tigated and that of these 1872 we're
found to be identified with COM
mercial vice.
The report points out that the
survey was necessarily incomplete
because of the prohibitive cost of
repeated visits to the night clubs by
its Investigators.
The Committee of Fourteen was
organized in 1905 to combat the old
Raines law hotels, which operated
houses of vice in conjunction with
saloons Since winning that fight,
it has continued to report to police
from time to time on evidence of
commercialized vice.
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Awards of Merchandise
Are Added to Cash
Purse of $500.

Additional prizes for contestants
in the scooter derby have been
given, and the $500 in cash FOR the
event being sponsored by The Times
and Capitol Diaries, Inc, will be
augmented by a large amount of
valuable merchandise prizes by the
time the races are run.
Three wagons for boys and four
doll perambulators for girls will be
given by the Colonial Furniture
Company These will be offered as
additional prizes, along with many
other merchandise items to be an
nounced later. A complete prize
list. in addition to the $500 in cash,
will be published before the run
ming of the first race.
The recreation board is now pre-
pairing a schedule, and a general
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Is ARE INJURED,
ONE FATALLY,
BY MOTOR CARS
Two Victims Reported
in Serious Condition;
Drivers Arrested.

Twenty-Five persons we're injured
in automobile accidents in and near
the city over the weekend. Three
were reported in serious condition
today.
Ten persons were hurt when two
automobiles collided at Troy Ave.
and Meridian Sts., Sunday. Jack
Schoonover of Martinsville, Ind,
and william G. Woods, 304 S. Cap
itol Ave, were the drivers.
The injured in the Woods car
we're: Miss Agnes Woods, 20, and
Mrs. Josephine Spragg, 81, both of
1928 Montcalm ST.; Charles Spragg,
10, and John Spragg, 3; and Joseph
Kirsch, 8, of $50 Goodlet Ave.
Those injured in the Schoonover
care we're: Mrs. Lillian Schoonover,
80; Walton, 8, and Jane, 10. her
children, and Mrs. Eta William,
81, all of Martinsville, Ind. Schoon-
over also was injured.
Small Boy Is Injured
Stanley Wade, 2, of 1922 E. Twen-
ty-First ST., was struck by all au-
tomobile driven by Robert Heiman,
1903 E. Seventeenth St., in front
of the Wade home Sunday. He was
seriously injured.
DR.. E. c. Latta, 4317 w. Wash
ington ST., was charged with
speeding, assault and battery and
driving an automobile while intox-
icated, Saturday night, after his
automobile struck and seriously in
jured Emil Soufflot, 81, of So N.
Pershing Ave, at Miley Ave. and
Washington st.
Soufflot is in city hospital with
a serious head wound and a frac-
tured right arm.
Roy Chapman. "a, of 626 N. Ala
bama ST., sustained a fractured
right arm and a serious head in
jury Saturday night when he drove
his motorcycle into the side of an
automobile driven by Jasper Maroni,
st. Louis, Mo, at Capitol Ave. and
Fall Creek Blvd.
Hit-Run Accident Charged
Everett Carnes, 1917 Arrow Ave.
fled from the scene, police charge,
after his automobile struck a car
driven by George Miller, 434 w. New
York St., at West and New York
Sts., Saturday night. He was
charged with failing to stop after
an accident.
Other persons injured in week
end accidents were:
DR.. E. T. Davis, 402 N. East St.,
and Mrs. Belle Dobbs, 1402 Linden
St.; Wayne Webb, 1921 Bates St.:
Lester Marvin, %, of 2151 Ashland
Ave, and Hazel Campbell, %, of 100
Fultonl St.; Robert Lewis, 7, of SOL
w. Eleventh ST.; William Altes, r.
R. 9, Box 427; Miss Mabel Edgell, %,
of 1910 w. New York St.; Mrs. U. B.
Sausaman, "a, of 3466 Carrollton
Ave; James Sutton, Apt. 8, of 1880
N. Illinois ST.; Joseph Hodges, FIT.
Harrison; Miss Betty Yost, Is, of
South Bend, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
BIG four PICNIC
TO DRAW 5000
Fairbanks Morse Also Will
Sponsor Outing.

More than 5000 members of the
Big Four Athletic Association vii,
attend the fifth annual picnic q.
Broad Ripple Park, Saturday. A
thousand reservations have beer
made for the picnic of Fairbanks
Morse &c Co. employees at Riverside
August Jacobs is general chair
man in charge of the Big -Four pic
mic. Prizes are to be given for the
newest married couple, largest
family, and employee with longest
service. The program will start al
2 p. m. There will be races, tug
ot-war, broom throwing and beauty
contests.
Fairbanks Morse Athletic Asso-
citation has charge of the Riverside
picnic program. 1t will include a
skeeball tournament and races
Features also include guessing OF
the weight of I. e. Berger, w. A.
Black, H. A. French and A. H. Scott
heavyweight quartet of the COM
pany, and a cigar-smoking contest
Committee in charge is Chairman
N. D. Brigham, Vice Chairman G
R. Anderson, Paul Pfaff, A. H
Scott, c. II. Ogle, w. C. Whippls
E. Grey, H. A. French, Miss Benda,
N. E. Hit and l.. Metzser.
Special prizes will be awarded To
the youngest baby boy and baby
girl in attendance.
Former residents of Dubois Cour-
ty will picnic Sunday at Garfield
Park. The committee on arrange
ments Is Mrs. Earl Baron. Mrs
George Ruehrschneck and Mrs. Lee
Angerer. Officers Of the association
arH President George E. Gill, Vice
Pre- sident Frank w. Katterjohn
Secretary William Mann and Treas
urer William Kleinhelter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Explosion on Speed Boat Burns
Millionaire and Actress; Life
Is RiSked in Rescue of Girl
Leeds and Adele AStaire
EnveIoped in Flames
After Blast.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, July 9.-Adele
Astaire, co-star with her brother,
Fred, in Funny Face" was burned
on the legs and body yesterday
when William B. Leeds speed boat,
Fantail, caught fire in the boat
house on the millionaire tinplate
manufacturers Long Island estate.
The Astaires were guests at the
Leeds home over the weekend.
During the late afternoon they were
discussing the famous speed boat
and Leeds said he would take the
actress for a ride.
He helped her into the boat while
his wife, the former Princess Xenia
of Russia, and Fred Astaire waited
on the landing stage until Leeds
started the motors. A sudden back
fire touched off a coating of gaso-
line which had formed over biige
water near the rudder.
Leeds and Miss Astaire we're en-
veloped by the sheet of flame.
Lie ySullB lllAlAOlldlIC AAGCQ CIlS
actress to the landing stage and
then pushed the boat out into the
water clear Of the boathouse, where
it burned to the waters edge with
loss of $4,000.
Leeds was buried on the hands
and was bandaged and put to bed.
Miss Astaire was brought to New
York hospital.
She had planned to sail for Eu-
rope soon, where she and her
brother were to open in an English
version of Funny Face"
After the closing of the London
season she planned to marry Will
liam Gaunt, Jr., son of a million
aire English wooden manufacturer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
TAMMANY HELD
PRINCIPAL ISSUE
Manager Good Forecasts
Big Effect in West.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, July 9.-James w.
Good, western manager of the
national Republican presidential
campaign, believes that the ques-
ton, Shall Tammany ruler" will
arouse the most interest IN the
Midwest during the coming pres
idential campaign.
Good has returned from Wash
ington to open western head
quarters for the campaign. He was
to start organizing his forces to-
day.
The western campaign, he said.
probably will be conducted By
volunteer assistants.
Good declined to comment or
the part that prohibition will play
in the campaign. The paramount
issues will be outlined by Herbert
Hoover, he indicated. Personally,
howe yer, he believes that the queS-
ton Cf Tammany rule will be the
chief topic Of discussion in the
West
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
NAMED CLUB DIRECTORS
Mrs. A. w. Early and Alex Corbett
on Board of Boys Association.

Mrs. A. w. Early and Alex Cor
bett were elected directors of the
Boys Club Association Saturday
night at annual meeting at the
summer camp northwest Of Nobles-
vile.
The association maintains the
English Ave. Boys Club and the
Lauter Club. Boys and girls are
given weekly outings at the Mobiles
vile camp.
Councilman Robert E. Springsteen
reported Mayor L. Ert Slack pro-
posed the park board purchase a
track for playground near the
club,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
GET AIR MAIL SERVICE

South Bend and La Porte Placed on
Route to Chicago.
South Bend and La Porte will be
the Indiana points on the new air
mail service route to be inaugu-
rated July II between Bay City,
Mich, and Chicago, postoffice of
flcials here were informed today.
Flying from Bay City to Chicago
the plane will touch the Indiana
cities each evening at 6:25 and $50
O'Clock. Returning they will reach
La Porte at sos a. m. and South
Bend at $40 a. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Brothers Aid
By Times Special

By Times Special
ROCHESTER, Ind, July g.
Clinton Weller, a member of
the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, has been i'll for eight
weeks.
The corn on his farm needed
cultivating. Hot weather was
burning it up.
AS Fourth of July celebra-
ton his lodge brothers at Full
ton gathered at Weller's farm
and cultivated thirty acres of
corn.
Hugh Miller was the captain
Of the team of workers who
used ten teams for blowing
while others used hoes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
SELL RAILWAY PASSES
Three Negroes Are Fined for Illegal
Use of Free Tickets.


Traflcking in railroad passes
proved costly for three Negroes in
Federal Court today.
Sandy Pointer, 81, Negro, 2045
Columbia Ave, laborer at the Big
Four freighthouse, obtained passes
from Indianapolis to Montezuma,
Ga, ostensibly for his wife and
mother.
But Clarence Wilson and his wife
Haidee, Negroes, 1858 Columbia Ave,
were caught making use of the
passes and hauled from a train be-
tween Chattanooga and Atlanta.
Sandy told Judge Robert G. Bait
zell he was to receive $25 for the
passes, but never got the money
Sandy was fined 5000 and Wilson
and his wife 500 each for violating
the interstate commerce act forbid
ding the sale of passes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Posts Freak smith Bel

BIZ Tunes NpectdJ
KOKOMO, Ind, July 8. - Ed
Henry, local Republican, offers tc
bet that AL Smith will carry every
State in the presidential election
this fall, but is asking odds Of
l to 1000.
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1903 at Summer School
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
WINONA LAKE, Ind, July g.
Enrolment Of 303 has been reached
at the Indiana University new sum-
mer extension school here. Fifty
four Indiana counties are repre-
scented in classes, in addition to
students from seven other States.
Charlotte S. Schaefer is an Indi-
annapolis student.
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Veteran Minister Buried

By Times Special
PERU, Ind, July s.-Funeral
services were held here today for
the Rev. James N. Martin, 10, oldest
minister in the st. Joseph confer
ence Of United Brethren churches.
He died after a nine months illness.
He had been in the ministry fifty
two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
GoUDY FUNERAL HELD
Former Member of City Health De-
partment Buried at Crown Hill.

poAGuA OuAACu dO OIOWu AAAAAs
Funeral services for Hugh Cloudy,
70, of $500 Guilford Ave-, former
members of the city health depart
ment, who died at his residence early
Saturday morning, were held at the
Flanner and Buchanan mortuary at
1890 a. M, today. The Rev. Will
liam F. Rothenberger Of the Third
Christian Church otHciated and
burial was in the Crown Hill Gene
terry.
Mr.. Cloudy, who was born in
Brownsburg, Feb. 16, 1850, was for
many years connected with the cir
culation department of the Indian
apolis Journal. He was in the city
health department during the adj
ministration of Charles w. Jewett
and later served three years on the
board Of review of Marion County.
He had been ill three years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Wage Farmers Own Stock

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, July 9.-Working men
and women of Illinois own IS per
cent of all stock in Illinois corpora
lions, 1t has been announced by
James D. Cunningham, president o.:
the Illinois Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
DROWNED GIRL BURIED
Body of Miss Myrtle LOstutter
Found Sunday by Canoeists.

Found Sunday by Canoeists.
Funeral services for Miss Myrtle
Lostutter, Is, of 2192 N. oxford St.,
who was drowned Wednesday in
White River at Ravenswood, were
held this morning at the Moore &
Kirk funeral parlors, $3.50 Station st.
The Rev. Ray r. Kelley, pastor
Of the Fountain Street M. E. Church,
OBLIGATED. Burial was in Crown
Hill cemetery.
The body of Miss LoStutter, for
which police and deputy sheriffs
have been dragging since the drown
ing, was found Sunday by two canoe
lists a mile below where she was
drowned.
Theron Kilander, 10, of 1915 E.
Maryland ST., and John Bennett, 10,
Of 222 S. State Ave, sighted the
body lodged against tree in shall
low water on the west bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
ASK COOPERATION IN
CITY ANTI-WEED DRIVE
Civic Groups and Other Organiza-
tions Needed to Aid Campaign.

Street Commissioner Charles A.
Grossart today asked civic organ
nations to cooperate in the weed
eradication campaign begun by city
officials.
Grosart pointed out that the
growth of weeds on vacant lots is a
menace to the city's health and
hazardous to motorists.
Police and health authorities,
churches and schools could help.
Realtors should aid and other civic
associations should lend their sup
port in this campaign, which means
so much to our city and its citizens, -
Mayor L. Ert Slack said.