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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
WARREN TOWNSHIP
TRUSTEE ASSAILED
Methods of Giving Notice
on Drainage Repairs
Are Attacked.

Criticism of methods used by Will
liam H. Cooper, Warren township
trustee, in issuing notification to
residents on drainage ditch repairs
was heard today by county commits
SionerS when seventeen residents
living in the vicinity of the Frank
lin road and Rawles avenue ap-
pealed to the board for aid in set
Ting the question of assessments
levied against them.
Although commissioners have no
jurisdiction in the matter, the resi-
dents sought advice because, they
said, Cooper had refused to hold a
conference with them.
Cleaning of bitches and the indi-
V1dual assessments on property
owners of 10 cents a lineal foot
rests with the township trustee,
whose duty it is, according to law,
to post notices of his intention to
do the work. The residents charge
that no such notices were posted,
and that, in some instances, persons
have paid their assessment and the
work has not been done.
SpokeSwomen for the resisting
property owners were Mrs. Carroll
Collins, Mrs. Martin Ash, Mrs.
August E. Schneider and Mrs. John
w. Schmidt, all living in the vicin-
ity of the Hartman ditch at the
Franklin road.
Commissioners and County Audi
tor Harry Dunn advised residents
that their only relief would be in
obtaining a conference with Cooper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
CATCH BANDITS
IN WILD CHASE
Fleeing Trio Uses Child as
Gunfire Shield.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 17.-Three
bandits, captured by police after a
twenty mile auto chase through the
streets, during which they used q
kidnapped 4-year-old girl as a shield
against gunfire, were held today
while their Identification was being
sought.
The men shot and slightly wound
ed Gene BernSinger, 33, when he
attempted to call police after seeing
them rob a grocery warehouse. They
then Communicated an automobile
driven by Miss Helen Foss, 10.
Police followed, but did not shoot
when the fugitives held Miss Foss'
sister-in-law, Mrs. William Foss, 26,
and the latter's 4-year-old daughter
Helen Mae before the rear window.
A dry gasoline tank brought the
fleeing automobile to halt. One
of the men said his name was Mar
vim Smith of California.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
States WILL
Be LINKED BY
BRIDGE: FRIDAY
Indiana and Kentucky TO Be
Represented at DediCa-
ton in Madison.
SPAN COST s1,8oo,oo0
Parade and Luncheon on
Program Following
Formal Rite.
Pr Times ,cneci0l

En- 1fmeS SDeciGt
MADISON, Ind, Dec. 17-Gover-
nor Harry G. Leslie and James
Breathitt Jr., lieutenant governor
of Kentucky, will dedicate the new
$1,800,000 steel bridge across the
Ohio river Friday The bridge con-
meets this city with Milton, KY.
and is declared the highest i'm
portance in facilitating travel north
and south.
Flags, bunting and welcome signs
adorn business buildings here for
the bridge opening.
Dedication ceremonies will open
at II a. m, when the Indiana uni
versity band and the Ormsby Viii
lage band of Louisville, KY, meet
in the center of the bridge. Imme-
diately after Governor Leslie and
Lieutenant Governor Breathitt will
carry out their part of the cere-
mony.
Formal opening of the span will
be signalized by Miss Margaret
Pecar of Milton, Queen of the
Bridge" who will unite white
ribbon. Attending Miss Pecar will
be the following maids of honor and
Kathryn Butts, 3, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. Forrest Butz of Madi-
son; Nadyne Young, North Madi-
son; Gladys Parker, Greensburg;
Elizabeth Clementine Miller, Colum-
bus; Eloise Richards, Vevay; Mar
tina Abplanalp, Osgood; Helen Man
ford, Patriot; Lois Enochs, Scots
burg; Helen Schnabel, Madison;
Ella Koehue, Versailles; Marjorie
Wilcoxson, Jeffersonville; Neoma
Whitcomb, Hanover; Virginia Cur
ran, Bedford, KY; Martha Swope,
Pleasureville, KY; Helen Orem,
Campbellsburg, KY; Villa Dee
Force, Newcastle, KY, and Margaret
Bobbitt, Eninence, KY.
The next number will be a parade
in which seventy-five floats and
twelve bands will take part.
A bridge dedication luncheon will
be held here at 100 p. m, speakers
for which will include Leslie,
Breathitt, United States Senator
Arthur r. Robinson; Mayor w. M.
Harrison, Louisville; Mayor-elect
Reginald Sullivan, indianapolis:
Harry c. Garfield, representative in
congress, and Albert j. Wedeking
chairman of the Indiana highway
commission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
INCREASE IN PLUMBING
INSPECTORS is DENIED
City Council Strikes Measure in
Face of Free Offers,

City Council Strikes Measure in
Face of Free Offers.
Despite the plea of delegation
OF master plumbers, headed by G. T..
Watson, who presented a petition of
ITO names favoring passage of the
ordinance, city council on Monday
night struck from the files the
measure to add three plumbing in
spectors and increase the license fee
from SIS to $50. A delegation op-
posed the measure.
The plumbers volunteered to pay
additional fees if the council would
grant three extra plumbing inspec-
tors. Watson declared the city
needs more plumbing inspectors.
and has been unable to obtain bud
get appropriations for six years. I"
Watson said plumbers were required
to wait several hours on inspectors,
causing a heavy financial loss.
The council, in the caucus be-
fore hearing the plea, decided to
strike the measure from the files,
and stood by their guns despite the
plea of Councilman Albert Muerer
that the measure be considered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17

Dimes are less used for Christ
Il mas trees, except in the sea-
board regions of the southeast and
to a certain extent in the middle
Atlantic states.
Here the pine barrens and the
neglected clay soils produce a
scrubby growth Of pines, some
times mixed with low oaks and
other broad-leaved trees, and
these pines, Of little value rs
timber, supply a large quantity
Of satisfactory Christmas trees in
the lower price brackets.
Farther north, where white
pines might figure as Christmas
trees. this species has become too
scarce and valuableto cut for this
purpose on anything like a large
scale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17

It's leaves are a little longer
than those of the spruce, f1atter
in shape and usually curved, less
stiff and quite without the prick
illness Of the spruce needles. Most
of the frs contain good deal Of
gummy resin, which makes them
rather sticky to handle and in
some places has given the tree the
name of balsam.
IN the Pacific northwest, where
the Douglas fir groks, little trees
of this species sometimes are used
at Christmas. 1t is not a fir in
the strict sense; neither is it a
spruce. 1t is intermediate in the
character of its foliage. but it
can be distinguished easily by its
cones. These hang downward as
do those of the spruce, but over
each scale there projects three
prcnged appendage, which is lack
ing in both frs and spruceS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17

the Christmas trade. Some of
these trees are cut and sold in the
usual way, and others are trans
planted into tubs to serve as
permanent Christmas trees.
The purchasers move the tree
out of the house after the holiday
season and set the tub in hole
in the ground, where it serves as a
part of the lawn shruhbery until
another Christmas comes round.
This eliminates the bother Of
shopping for a tree every year,
and since the tree does not dry
out in the house, it does not litter
the place with dead needles.
The most popular of Christmas
trees. the kind most abundantly
supplied from trimmings in COM
mercial forests, is the spruce. This
is one of the most abundant of
evergreens, found clear around the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17

Therefore, thinning is resorted to,
and the Christmas tree market
provides a use for the trees that
would otherwise have to be
burned, and at the same time
helps to defray the cost of cut
ting.
Possibility Of abuse of the
Christmas tree market still exists,
OF course. There probably always
will be some owners of timber too
short-sighted and too greedy for
immediate gain to refrain from
stripping their lands clean of
small trees.
A MOTHER commercial source
IA of Christmas trees that is
growing in Importance is the
Christmas tree nursery. in which
fine specimens of young spruces
and frs are grown especially for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
Hall, St0rk!
Judge Tells Mother of
Seven at % That's
Enough at Present.

BU Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. IT,
- The 29-year-old mother of
seven children who appeared in
city court here where her hus-
band, Homer Riley, was charged
with nonsupport Of the family,
was addressed as follows by Judge
Mccoy:
You're just as much to blame
as your husband. You shouldn't
have any more children until he
does something for the seven you
have now"
Riley's aged mother interviewed
in his behalf, saving him from a
penal farm term. She agreed to
offer shelter to the family until
Jan. l. However, she said that
If her son did not obtain a Job
by that time, she would favor the
farm term.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17

world wherever snow lies long in
winter, and extending far south
ward along mountain ranges.
It is the commonest of the high
altitude conifers, for example, in
the southern Appalachians. There
are many species, but all are rec
ognizable by their four-sided, stlft,
short, prickley leaves, and by their
thin-scaled cones hanging down
ward on the tTTigs.
% u
A N even finer Christmas tree,
L n though less abaundant in
this country, is the fir. The fir is
the Tannenbaum, Of which the
German children sing; it is the
original Christmas tree, and was
used at pagan Tuetonic and Gel
tic midwinter festivals before the
coming of Christianity TO north
ern and western Europe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
ORR TO AID IN CHECK

Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner
of the state board of accounts, said
today he would accept the invitation
of Elect Reginald H Sullivan
to assist in an inventory Of all city
property.
Orr indicated he would assign two
field examiners to work with the city
administration In completion of the
inventory, as soon as Sullivan takes
Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
MAYOR LEADS
LAMBS; FINDS
THEY'RE LIONS
Lynnhurst Chief Executive
Turned Down by Coun-
Gil He Selected.
ANNEXATION is FOUGHT
Citizens Refused to Stand
for Territory Switch
of 2,640 Acres.

Like Rossum's Universal Robot.
the mechanical monster of Karl
Capek's play which turned on and
annihilated its maker, Ernest KEEL
logg, mayor" of Lynnhurst, faces d
monster" of his own manufacture.
With Kellogg facing charges of
carrying concealed weapons and
drawing deadly weapons today, resi-
dents Of Lynnhurst were considering
legal steps or peaceful means of
dlSannexing a large territory which
Kellogg and H. K. Powell, holdover
town board members, voted into the
town limits.
Monday night Kellogg, facing the
town board which he and Powell
had elected week ago, found his
monster" defying control. He then
backed out of the town board meet
ing place with a revolver. He was
dtsarmed by twenty-five spectators,
as he held the board, the town
marshal and the corporation counsel
at bay.
Turn on Mayor
Kellogg, as chairman of the board
and mayor" of the town, with
Powell week ago elected five mem
bers to the town board. He be-
lieved all of them favored the an
nexation of the territory voted in.
Monday night Don Brannigan,
one of the trustees, moved to dis
annex the territory and Kellogg
found, to his surprise, that all five
members named last week favored
Instrumentation. Kellogg Immediately
declared the meeting adjourned
and is alleged to have drawn a
revolver when members objected to
adjournment.
Kellogg declared the election of
the five members illegal, despite the
fact he voted with Powell for their
election a week ago. The mayor"
based his claim of illegality on the
fact that written notice of election
must be given five days in advance.
Proponents of Instrumentation to-
day agreed that the mayor" has
temporary control, at least. With
Powell backing Kellogg's claim that
Az HiAGONAl llOGASC Wd0 6lN6Il, u IlEW
election will be necessary.
Ready for Another Vote
Instrumentation proponents hold,
however, they are willing to have
another election with Powell and
Kellogg naming new trustees, de-
claring that the sentiment against
holding the annexed territory is so
great that no board will oppose dis
annexation.
An injunction suit, considered at
a meeting today to prevent the
town board from acting until it's le-
gal status is decided, probably will
not be filed, as board members have
expressed themselves willing to
await decision without a suit. Next
board meeting is scheduled for
Jan. 6.
The annexation involved 2,640
acres. A meeting will be held at
school No. IA tonight under auspices
of the Wayne Township Civic
League to prepare circulation of pc
titions for Instrumentation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
PAINTER WILL SPEAK
Cloud to Talk Art at Advertising
Club Luncheon Here.

c. Carey Cloud Of Nashville, Ind,
a Brown county colony artist, will
discuss Modern Art in Advertising"
before the weekly Advertising Club
luncheon in the Columbia Club
Thursday.
Cloud and his family established
residence in the Brown county art
colony, after spending a number Of
summers doing art work in the
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
GRAND JURORS TOLD
OF DOUBLE MURDER
AUTOS Is Autos
Ru Times SD ecinI

BIZ Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Dec.
17-Ernest RAIDER, night en-
ploye at the postofnce, called
police to place a sticker on an
automobile which was parked
in front of a mail box, pre-
venting opening it. Before
police arrived, the car was
driven away by its owner. The
officers put the sticker on the
only car then in sight. 1t was
RAIDERS own.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
GOVERNORS OFFICE TO
HAVE CHRISTMAS TREE
State Grown Pine Is Brought From
LibertyVille.

Governor Harry G. Leslie will
have a Christmas tree in his Office
this year.
A flfteen-foot pine tree is being
brought from the state forest at
Libertyville for the display. Ralph
Wilcox, state forester, believes the
display will show the possibilities
Of raising Christmas trees in In
diana.
At present, less than one-seventh
of the 100000 trees used by Indiana
homes at Christmas, are raised in
the state. Waste land will yield
5000 every ten years if planted with
trees, Wilcox declares.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17

BH Science SeTrtc6
UTASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-The
w use of Christmas trees, once
decried by conservation interests,
now is approved by the United
States forest service. A consider
able part Of the little trees that
come to the marke represent thin
ningS from public and privately
owned forest lands, the normal
course of events in re-seeded
forest area after numbering or a
fire brings about severe over
crowding and an intense compe-
tition among the young trees for
a place in the sun.
A great majority of the sap
lings are destined to lose out in
the struggle, but if left to settle
the contest AMONG themselves the
survivors are apt to be too thin
and ~weedy" to make good logs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
GRAVEL PIT FAILS TO
GIVE TRACE OF CALVIN
Mystery Still Shrouds Disappear
ance of City Business Man.

Dragging of water-filled gravel
pit at the Indianapolis Sand and
Gravel Company's plant this morn
ing failed to reveal any trace of
the body of Otis F. Calvin, IS, of
1880 Graceland avenue, president of
the firm.
Calvin has been missing from his
home since Friday, when he left to
purchase a cigar. He was seen last
at the Carl j. Reichel drug store,
Fortieth street and Boulevard place,
where he made the purchase.
He had little money and no jew
elry on him when he disappeared.
Illness, resulting in a nervous
breakdown. caused relatives to fear
for his safety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
STAYS WIFE, DAUGHTER

Turns Gas on Self After Murders;
Lies Near Death.
By United Press
GARDEN CITY, Mich, Dec. IT.
William Denzer, SIS, shot and killed
his wife, so, and his daughter, Mrs.
G. Smelling and injured himself Sc
riously at his home in this suburban
village today.
A passerby heard the fusillade of
shots and called police. Denzer is
near death in a hospital. His mo-
tive was a mystery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
SMALLPOX is SPREADING
Number of Victims Grows; Marion
County Reports One Case.

Spread of smallpox features the
weekly report of the state board of
health. One hundred seventy cases
are listed in the state, against 113
the previous weekend forty-four the
same week last year. Marion county,
however, had only one case. Clark
county. with 81 cases, Henry with
20, Benton with 10 and Delaware
with 10 lead.
Thirty-nine cases Of diphtheria,
Ill cases of scarlet fever and 6 cases
OF typhoid fever we're listed. Mar
ion county had three cases of diph-
liberia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
G. A. r. Elects

BIZ Times SDPcids
RICHMOND. Ind, Dec. II. -
George w. Pinnick, 80, who en-
listed at the age of II with the
One Hundred Forty-seventh Indi-
ana Volunteers at Orangeville, has
been elected commander of Sol
Meredith post, c. A. R. He and
other officers of the post will be
installed Jan. 4. The post was
named for General Sol Meredith, a
Wayne county soldier who served
with distinction in the Civil war.
The post is the only one remaining
in Wayne county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
Third Operation Performed
BIZ Times Snecfnl

BIZ Ifnle8 bDectdF
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec. II. -
Taylor McNew, who is sick with
what is said to be hardening Of the
liver, stomach and bowel ulcers and
other complications, underwent q
third operation when eight quarts
Of fluid were removed from his
stomach
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
SKELETON OF BOY FOUND
May Be Remains of Ohio Lad
Missing for Year.

BIZ United Press
CANTON, O., Dec. II. - Two
hunters unearthed bones near here
today which are believed to be those
of a small boy.
The bones will be examined with
a view to determining if they might
be those of Melvin Horst, 4, missing
from his home in Orrville since last
Dec. 81.
The hunters also found a moose
and some strands of human hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
Aged Resident Dies

NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec. II. -
Silas Perkins. 70, is dead at his
home in the northern part of Ham
ilton county. He leaves his widow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
Fire Damages Church

BN TIM RS SDecfnL
PERU, Ind, Dec. 17.-Damage of
$4,000 was done to the Evangelical
church here by fire which started
from an overheated furnace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-17
RETIRED PRINTER DIES
Charles II. Schleicher Burial to
Take Place at Crown Hill.

Funeral services will be held at 2
Wednesday afternoon at the home
for Charles Harry Schleicher, 50, of
5S12 North New Jersey street. who
died Monday at his home. He was
q retired printer.
Born in Lawrenceburg, he lived
here forty years. His widow, Mrs.
Ola Belle Schleicher. a daughter,
Mrs. Margaret II. Riggs, and three
sons, Frank E. Schleicher. Carl w.
Schleicher and Henry Schleicher.
survive him. Burial will be in
Crown Hill cemetery.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-02-15
WHY HIBERNATE?

n NF cannot be too fresh about
- fresh air. Reduced to its last
analysis the fundamental require
ments OF the human body are few In
number and easy to obtain Air is
one of them.
In winter especially, people are
more prone to be shy of this llfe-giv
ing and DEMONSTRATING commodity
On very cold day one has but to
observe the closed automobiles. the
crowded trolley cars and the lack of
pedestrians to realize this fact.
Initiating to a degree the hibernnt
Ing animals. man crawls In his shell
when frigid weather comes along and
hopes for better days to come II Is
little wonder then that winter is the
"Open season" for pneumonia and
colds. But thus II will remain until
people realize that physical resistance
to disease Is only developed by phys
ical energy. A dollhouse regimen Is
good for tender plants but Is ex
tremely dangerous for human beings
This is the fact that so many ignore
Bundled mp almost to a smothering
degree Mr.. Average Citizen quirkl,
steps from his super-heated house In
to the trolley or his automobile ana
transfers himself to a hot office with
feeling of achievement He has got
the better of the old bug bear-coId
AS matter of fact, cold has got the
better of him.
Weather was intended for human
summer. And outside weather Al
that. Therefore, If within walking
distance TO your Office-wak II will
pay you to take time to take time A
walk of mile or so In the keen brac
ing air is worth many dollars to you
In the bank.
True. winter sports are becoming
more fashionable. But sporting
spirit about winter Is yet generally
lacking. And II Is this that Is so sore
Iy needed. Step up to winter. take
him by the hand, introduce yourself
to him and become close friends Old
Man Winter is anxious to help you
hut you must make the first move and
then keep ON moving.
A two.mile walk every day, sufIi
Client ventilation IL home and office
proper weight clothing (which mems
avoiding extremes either way)--these
are a few of the secrets OF getting
the most out of cold weather
No better opportunity exists for the
development of keen brain, red
corpuscled blood stream and robust
constitution than In winter time
However. one will get ont OF winter
only as much as he puts into it--no
more nor no less. See that you gel
your share
to- 1929 Western Newspaper Union,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-02-15
America Sets Record !.
i'm Road Construction

New York.-No nation has ever gone
into road construction at such an
amazing pace as has the United
States during the last ten years.
Roy D. Chaplin, chairman of the
highway committee, National Automo-
bile Chamber of Commerce, says that
in less than ten years the public has
voted virtually $10,000000,000 to the
construction and maintenance of
roads, or enough to defray our cost in
the World war, excluding foreign
loans.
No public roads Improvement in any
era has remotely approXimated the
expenditure of these projects, and 1T
is notable that the feat of raising the
money has been accomplished with
comparative ease.
During the last year four states
Louisiana, Iowa, West Virginia and
Missouri, have voted total Of $40,
100000 in highway bond issues to ia
cilitate completion of their main state
systems.
New York has more high-type high
ways than any other state, with H.
600 miles of hard-surfaced roads. Hi
nois leads in cement pavements, with
5000 miles, while Indiana has the
largest mileage of all types of hard
surfaced roads
Two states have already completed
initial improvement of all of their
roads. These states are Maryland and
Delaware.
The Department of Commerce esti.
mates that there are 6,5OO,O00 miles
of highways in the world. of which
more than half are in the United
States. When only the improved
roads are considered, the United
States has much more than half.