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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
BUILDING NEEDS
HAMPER CUTS
IN SCHOOL LEVY
Budget of 100000 for
Structures Holds Up Ten
tative Rate.

City school officials today we're
no nearer solution of the serious
problem facing them in attempting
to reduce 1880 budget appropria-
tons sufficient to get within a rea-
sonable tax levy.
The levy today stood between
$1.32 and s1.$5, Business Director
G. G. York said. York added a def
mite figure probably would not be
available before Monday. The
board must adopt the budget at its
meeting Tuesday night to permit
advertising it ten days before date
for final action, Sept. g.
Want Building Funds
Plans to finance Schools 81 and
81, and additions to Schools Is and
40, costing $415,O00, in the budget
instead of by bond issue are ad-
vanced by the majority faction, it
was learned today.
The state tax board recently
turned down a 1895, 900 bond issue
for these buildings and 100000 is
sue for Irvington high school, be-
cause bids we're higher.
The board had planned to read
vertise with an 100000 Irvington
issue, and a $415,00O grade school
issue, which would leave the school
city's bonding power at a danger
ously low figure.
Building Budget S1,200,O00
This is expected to bring the
budget appropriation for building to
$1,200,000, as it includes about $780,
900 for one unit for new Broad
Ripple High school, $4,000 to &C
quire the Washington township
grade school in recently annexed
territory, and $123,5Oo to acquire
Center township school No. l, also
recently annexed.
York said the board is faced with
the problem of making up for
budget reductions of previous years.
AS an example, he pointed out the
annual summer building program
had to be abandoned this year be-
cause of insufficient funds, and
much of the work left out this year
must be planned for next year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
RUSSIAN PLANE
AGAIN OFF FOR
new YORK HOP
Same Crew Which Came to
Grief Recently Is Man.
ming Craft.
- Aviation
By Urited PTsss

By JNtfed Prese
MOSCOW, Aug. ga new BIZ
motored all-metal monoplane. chris
tered Land of the Soviets, took off
from Moscow at 3:15 a. no. today
Q0:i5 p. m. Thursday. eastern
standard time, for Omsk, en- route
to New York.
The plane is duplicate Of the
Land Of the Soyiets plane which was
damaged in a forced landing last
week in forest near Chita, Siberia,
because of motor trouble.
The same crew which came to
grief after having traversed many
hundred miles Of the course to New
York manned the new Land of the
Soviets.
The f1iers are due at Omsk. 1,400
miles away. during the afternoon.
Tgne first lap of the flight is the
longest single hop of the contem-
plIed itinerary. although the plane
is capable of a cruising radius much
in excess of 2,400 miles. according
10 the navigator, Boris Sterligof.
The plane has a capacity of three
tons Of gasoline and fully loaded
and equipped weighs eight tons.
Numerous stops are included on
the itinerary. The f1iers expected
to make their first landing on
United States soil at Seward, Alaska,
flying from there to Seattle and San
Francisco, thence eastward to Chi
cago and New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Leslie NAMES
z COMMITTEES
Appointees on Commissions
Pay Own Expenses.

Governor Harry G. Leslie has
named the personnel of two extra
legal commissions, the Cumberland
Gap memorial and the Indiana
delegation to the national tax con-
ference at Saranac Lake, N. Y,
Sept. GA.
The appointees serve without pay
and bear their own expenses.
Appointees on the Cumberland
Gap commission, which is to CO.
operate with the Cumberland Gap
Pioneers Memorial Association, with
headquarters at Middlesboro, KY, in
the erection of memorial to the
emigrants who used the gap on their
trek to the middle west are: James
A. Wodburn, Bloomington; Vernon
knight, New Albany; Ross H. Lock-
ridge, Bloomington; Charles H.
Thompson, Indianapolis, and Mrs.
Fred Hoke, indianapolis.
Members of the tax delegation
are: Harry Miesse, president of the
Indiana Taxpayers Association;
William G. Harrison, Fred A. Sims,
T. P. Tillman and Charles A. Great
house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
2 CONVENTIONS
ELECT OFFICERS
Women's and Mems Groups
Hold Joint Banquet.

Thirty eighth annual conventions
of the state council Of the Junior
Order of United American Mechan-
les and the Daughters of America
were to elect officers today at the
Denison hotel.
More than 500 delegates are at
tending the conventions, which
close today.
After a banquet at the Sphinx
Arms Thursday night Mrs. Ethel
Bricker, Richmond, state councillor
of the Daughters of America, gave
a welcome address to which Mrs.
Sarah Johnson, national councillor,
and other officers of the order,
responded.
Today's session opened with a
Joint memorial service at 10 a. m,
followed by the election. Omar
Stubs, national councillor of The
mechanics, spoke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
CurtiSs Gets BipIane

CT-tiss Flying Service of Indiana
has received a new De Haviland
Moth biplane to be added to the
large number Of planes owned by the
Indiana company.
The plane was delivered Thursday
from the factory at Lowell, Mass,
by H. Galladay.
The Indiana Curtiss company re-
Gently became Indiana distributor
for the Moth, light cockpit biplane
with remarkable performance rec
ords. The plane is powered with the
eo-horse power Wright-Gypsy motor
and is equipped with folding wings
and wing slots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
ALCER HUNTED
IN KENTUCKY BY
INDIANA POLICE
State Officers Leave for
Louisville to Seek
Bandit Suspect.

The search for Gene Alger, u.
paroled state reformatory convict,
and his red haired bride, Josephine,
alleged bank bandits, continued to
center around Louisville, KY. today
as state police attempted to find
key man" who might know where
Alger weht after leaving Louisville
Sunday morning.
The Ayers are wanted on charges
of robbing the Paris Crossing state
bank last Thursday. Police say pic
lures of Alger and his wife have
been identified positively at Paris
Crossing as the man and woman
who obtained $3.50 from the bank.
Letter Is Sought
Police today received word that
Mrs. Gal Alger, wife of Gene Al
gers brother, received a letter which
was supposed to have come from the
alleged bandit or his wife. Imme-
date steps were taken to obtain the
letter.
Informants said the postmark Of
the reported message indicated it
had been mailed from a railroad
train or depot. Alger and his wife
aare said to be driving Gail Ayers
car.
Officers Go to Kentucky
Carl L,osey, state policeman, re-
opened his search at Louisville
Thursday afternoon. Tuesday and
Wednesday, Losey learned that the
Algers lived at the Hermitage hotel,
Saturday and Sunday, under an as
sumed name and spent most Of their
time with Joe Roth, alleged boot
logger and gambler. Roth told police
Alger was armed and would shoot
to kill if they attempted to arrest
him.
George Nellie, assistant state po-
lice chief, and several officers today
left Indianapolis to aid in the search
for Alger. The officers we're in plain
cloths and were expected to go to
Louisville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
At the Walker Theater

''Eoah's Ark" spectacular picture about
which so many stories have appeared in
recent months, has been released by
Warner Brothers and will be seen at the
Walker for six days, starting Monday.
This great picture was more than three
years in production and is one of the
finest films yet made. The settings oc-
cupied thirty-three acres and ten thousand
people were employed in the flood scene.
as well as in the events which occur in
the sequences depicting modern times.
The cast Of this great Aim epic includes
the famous colored star. Noble Johnson.
The story begins Just before the out
break of the World war. The victims Of
a train wreck, on reaching Paris. find
the conflict is on. They are carried into
the tumult of the nations. At one point
a bomb hits a building where they have
taken refuge and they are thrown into
the cellar. There a chaplain begins to
tell them of Noah and the food and as
they are carried back to the ancient time,
the story is made a reality.
In making "Noah's Ark Vitaphone has
been used effectively.
The great festival Of Jaghut, the SEN
tence Of Miriam to human sacrifice. build
ing the Ark, march of animals to the Ark,
the storm and the great flood are but
few of the impressive scenes that Warner
Brothers have incorporated in 'Noah's
Ark"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Free Policies for FIiers

Free life insurance is being pro-
vided by Curtiss Flying Service of
Indiana for all its student fiiers, it
was announced today by H. Weir
Cook, general manager.
When a student enrolls with Cur
this for a flying course. he is given
automatically a $4,000 life insur-
ance policy without any charge
other than the tuition fee, Cook
said.
In case additional life insurance
is desired, the student may take out
more insurance at the rates regu-
larry charged by lie insurance COM
palies for ordinary insurance.
This insurance risk is carried by
the Curtiss Company itself. to en-
able the student to obtain insurance
at a reasonable figure. Decision to
carry the insurance was made by
the company because Of its con-
fidence in its instructors and flying
equipment, Cook. said.
Curtiss also carries its own risk on
its planes for all kinds of flying. and
REQUIRES no bond of students to
cover possible damage to planes
while taking instruction or flying
solo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
WRIGHT EXHAUSTS ON
AUTOMOBILES URGED

Professor Blames Tired Feeling" on
Fumes From Cars.
Bu United Press
BOSTON, Aug. 23.-The nations
health would be benefited if auto
mobiles equipped with vertical ex-
hausts, in the opinion of Professor
Yandell Henderson of Yale medical
school.
He told the thirteenth interna-
tional physiological congress here
that the health of pedestrians was
adversely affected at present by car
bon monoxide gas fumes, which,
after expulsion from automobile ex-
hausts, hung in the air about six
feet above ground.
The tired feeling of which many
city jewellers complained might be
attributed to these fumes, he
thought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23

The hardest props job given him
was hunting a Negro baby for a
gag in a comedians act at Keith's
and the time Stuart Walker de-
manded masks for Lincoln's face
and hands.
1T took me two days of house
toulouse canvass in the Indiana
avenue district to find the Negro
baby. Then after finding a mother
willing to let her 'picaninny' do
four day, the comedian got me to
bring the babe on stage during his
performance"
But the Lincoln face and hands
was the toughest assignment. !
couldn't find masks of him, so I
went to the State Capitol building
with some artists mud. 1 nodded a
face mask from g. Lincoln bust.
That mask was o. k, but the bust
had no hands of Lincoln to form
a mold.
"Well when the show was staged
it was a mold Of my hand that mas
queraded for Lincoln's. I've still got
the masks"
Stage superstitions have dwindled,
Quinn says, to one ogre, dressing
room with the number Is stenciled
on its door.
That's why our dressing rooms
here are named after cities as De-
troit, Buffalo, Toledo and so forth, -
he added.
Quinn has built and set props
for Eddie Foy, Will Rogers, Della
Fox, William Gillette, Sophie Tuck
err, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Mrs. Patrick
Campbell and hosts of other stars
of today and yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
U. S. TOURISTS DROWN

Bp United Press
MONTREAL, Que, Aug. 23.-An
inquest has been ordered into the
death of five tourists. drowned when
their automobile collided with an
ether car and was thrown into the
Soulanes canal near Cascade Point
Thursday.
The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Chudds and Elizabeth Chudds, West
Chester. Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs.
George A. Dale of Cochraneville, Pa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23

weather conditions at $3.50 a. m:
Southwest wind. eleven miles an
hour; temperature, 10; barometric
pressure 1904 at sea level; ceiling,
1000 feet; visibility, one and one
half miles. with light fogs and mod
crate rain; field, wet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23

court fight over
a baby. Her own
child having died,
Mrs. Ann a b e |
Crouch of Kan
sas City, bought
the child of an
unmarried couple
for $75 and told
her husband it
was her own.
Now the parents
of the child are
nj arried a n d
want it back.
AI.As
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
MATHEMATICS GETS IT
Statistician Finds IS Million Cher
ries Handled Each Day.

StatiStician Finds as Million Cher-
ries Handled Each Day.
By United Press
LOVELAND, Colo, Aug. 23.-The
cherries are ripe and canning fac
tories are going full blast. There
lies a days work for good Stats
tician.
It remained for G. H. Thom-
son to find that it took 100 cher
ries. dropped one by one into a
bucket. to make a pound. Then it
was found that factories in Love-
land can or pack approximately $50
tons Of cherries a day.
BY simple mathematics 1t was
found that 100000 cherries a day
are handled by the factories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
CHILD BOUGHT FOR SIS
Now Couple Wants Baby Back and
Court Fight Is Faced.
KANSAS

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 23.-The
law faces one of the most unusual
tangles ever confronted here in a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
TYPHooN SINKS SHIPS

Thirty Men Lost as Gunboats Go
Down.
BIZ Rited Press
HONG KONG, Aug. 23--Two
Chinese gun boats were sunk, with
a loss of about thirty men, Thurs
day when a typhoon struck Shiuh-
ing. advices here said today.
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, June IA N.S)-Live
stock. Hogs-Receipts, 1000; mar
ket 15020c lower. Top, $11.30;
bulk. $9.75@11.20; heavyweight,
$10.50Q11.00: mediumweight, $1,000
11.30; lightweight. $10.6O01130;
light lights, $1O25d11 25; packing
sows. $s.1O@10.2O; pigs, $s.75@11.10.
Holdovers. 5000.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000: market
steady. Calves-Receipts, 1000:
market steady. Beef steers, good
and choice, S14615.40: common and
medium, $12613.75; yearlings. s12
@15.25. Butcher cattle, heifers.
$9.50@15.10; cows, $S.50012. so: bulls.
$3.50 O@12.00: calves, s13615 so:
feeder steers, $1150@1350: stocker
steers, $11@13.00 stocker cows, and
heifers, $2.500125O.
> Sheep-Receipts, 10000; market
steady. Medium and choice lambs.
$lS@15.75; culls and common, $11
Q13.00: yearlings, $10.5O@12 90:
common and choice ewes. $306.75;
feeder lambs, $11@13.50.
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
BUYING. ORDERS
SEND PRICES
UPWARD
Ry M. S. COUSINs

NEW YORK, June IA QN.S).
The stock markets fame spread far
and wide as the result of Thurs
days brilliant upward move in the
utility, steel and other favorites.
Buying orders poured in for the
shares of the best actors" at the
beginning of trading today and
prices We're given another boost as
brokers bid for the desired stocks.
At the end of the first hour, the
ticker was IL minutes behind the
market and losing time steadily.
General Electric finally topped
300, but the stock was freely offered
at that price, and in the flow of
weekend profit-taking it fell back
about 4 points to 297k. United
States Steel, Bethlehem, Vanadium
and the balance of the steel group
reached slightly higher prices, but
ground when profittaking set in.
The weekly brokers loan report
showed no change in speculative
borrowings, and the rediscount rates
were unchanged at per cent. OF
more Importance was the fact that
the reserve banks have increased
ing bought so, 500, 900 in the past
week. The money market situation
on the whole looked good to the
bulls.
American Water Works fell back
about points to 134ta when selling
orders flooded the market, but
Standard Gas and Consolidated Gas
took over the leadership of the
utility stocks and pushed forward
aggressively, Consolidated selling
fractionally more than 120 for
2-point gain.
Motor stocks and motor acces-
sories recovered from the slump into
which they have been thrown by re-
cent selling. Large blocks of Gen
eral Motors passed through at S2h,
up about points from yesterdays
low, while Studebaker gained a point
at 76A and Packard sold higher.
Murray and Briggs. in the acces-
sories group, were active and firm.
The Z per cent call renewal rate
was another favorable straw in the
money market wind. Commodity
markets were slightly reactionary
with cotton down TO 10 points and
grain fractionally lower
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
NATIONAL BANK
SYSTEM To Be
STUDIED
BY HARRY GUSACK
Financial Editor

Plans to launch an exhaustive
study of the United States national
banking system was announced to-
day by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency. j. w. Pole.
Within the next three weeks Pole
will name a committee of experts to
launch the study, the objective OF
which is to devise legislation that
will put national banks on a parity
with State banks and trust COM
panies.
The committee will be composed
Of five or six members to be selected
from outstanding bankers and
students of finance. AS soon as pos
sible after the committee is COM
pleted meeting will be held here.
It was expected that Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon. Gov. Roy A.
Young and other members of the
Reserve Board would participate as
we'll as the comptroller.
Pole declared that within recent
months the trend toward trust com.
pany charters by national banks
has been alarmingly accentuated
and that within six months 10 ma
tional banks with aggregate re,
sources of $2.75O. 900 900 have passed
over under State jurisdiction. He
held that Congress has the power
to turn the advantage in favor oi
national banks and thereby made 1t
to the interest of all banks to
operate under national charters"
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
VA. PAVING ROW
UNSETTLED

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June IA
City council and representatives of
the Alexandria, Washington and
Mount Vernon Railroad Company
who conferred last night were un-
able to agree on the division of the
costs of paving King Street and
the conference was continued to a
later date. 1t had been proposed
that the railway company pay ap-
proximately $4,000 as its share
of the total cost of $4,000.
Members of No. Engine Com
pany presented City Manager Paul
Morton with a hand bag at an
informal reception yesterday. The
bag was presented by Capt. Leo
Moore. President Norman Roberts
and City Councilman J. f. w.
Timberman made short talks.
Captain of Police W. w. Camp
bell today received a telegram from
the sheriff of the county saying
that Velma Washington, charged
with being the first wife of Edgar
PEPPER, sailor facing bigamy
charges here. denied having been
married to PEPPER.
City Segt. r. H Cox, in charge
of the city Jail, In commenting on
what is believed to have been an
attempt by one or more prisoners
to saw their way through the bars
leading to the corridor of the Jail
stated that he thought there might
have been an attempt by one OF the
two colored prisoners facing murder
charges to escape but discounted
any theory of a wholesale escape.
No appointment of a successor to
r.. l.. Middleton. for the past six
wears superintendent of the city
gas works, who died at his home
in Washington yesterday. has been
made. 1t is expected Henry Dixon.
assistant superintendent of the
rlant, will have, change until after
the arrival OF City Manager Law
renee in August.
"Colross," one of the original
houses in the city and for many
wears home of the Smoot family
which was recently acquired by the
HoEe Feed Company, of Washing
ton, will be razed and the material
sent to Princeton. N. j., where II
will be rs-srscted.
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
District Of Columbia Week

June 1928 has been set as District
of Columbia Week at the Bankers
Industrial Exposition. New York
city and in the directorate of which
President John Poole. Federal
American National Bank. of this
city will serve.
Beginning with September 9, the
entire year has been allotted among
the As States with one week to be
devoted exclusively to the industries
and banking problems of one
particular State. The State week
program will be opened by New
York State.
During District of Columbia week.
all manufacturers in the District
whose products are of interest to
bankers and industrial organiza-
tions will be invited to send ex-
hibits to the exposition.
In addition to the special State
weeks. the days of the week will
be devoted to different industries,
thereby making a business show for
every business day. With the
inauguration of this national pro-
gram. the Bankers Industrial Ex-
position will be the first permanent
business show to undertake a
project of such vast proportions.
There have been temporary exposi-
tions, but never before has there
been permanent exhibit of every
thing which is of interest to
bankers and industrial organiza-
tfons.
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
SHORT TERM SECURITIES
$7O,O24 in Proposals
For Sewers Approved

Proposals for new sewer work
aggregating $7O,O24 were approved
by the District Commissioners at
the regular board meeting today.
The work will be done in the fol-
lowing streets: In the vicinity of
Forty-ninth and Hayes Streets North.
east, $6,362; Nash Street and Sheriff
Road Northeast, $15,265; Minnesota
Avenue and Thirtieth Street South.
east, $S1,S55; Michigan Avenue
Northwest, between Sixth and Eighth
Streets, $2,9S9; Jefferson Street, be-
tween Fourth and Fifth Streets
Northwest, $2,6SS; Redwood Terrace
and Birch Drive Northwest. 5000,
and Perry Place Northeast between
Twentieth and Twenty second Streets
Northwest, $S,316.
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
DepOsits Gain

A decrease for the week of $43,-
100000 in holdings of discounted
bills and increases of $22, 100000 in
holdings of Government securities
and of $4,000 in bills bought in
open market was shown yesterday
in the consolidated statement Of
conditions of Federal Reserve Banks
on June II published by the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
Member bank reserve deposits in
creased $4,000, 900; Government de-
posits, $1,000, 900 and cash reserves,
S9,S00,00O, while Federal Reserve
note circulation declined $780, 200.
Total bills and securities were $19,-
500. 900 below the amount held on
June 5. All of the reserve banks,
except those of New York and Cleve-
land, showed reduction in holdings
of discounted bills.
Loans on securities to brokers and
dealers amounted to $4,000, 900,
exactly the same as the preceding
week, but an increase of 1856, 900 900
over the week ended June 13, 1928.
Loans for own account, 1921 900, 900,
presented a decline of $4,000 900
from the previous week and one of
5S,0000OO below the comparative
period a year ago.
Loans for account of out-of-town
hanks, aggregatnig 81. 1.551 900, 900, in
creased $38,00O,0 from the week
before, but were $67,000,00 below
the corresponding period last year.
Those for account of others, $2.911,-
100000, were $23 O00, 900 behind the
week prior and $1,1SO,O0O ahead of
the similar period in 1928.
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
CapitaI Traction Dividend

The regular dividend of $1.75 a
share was declared yesterday at
the monthly meeting of directors of
the Capital Traction Company. this
action refuting reports that the
board planned to cut the rate from
Z to per cent and possibly to 5
and bringing widespread satisfac-
tion to the stockholders.
While the company has felt the
competition of bus lines and private
automobiles for a long time, it has
a large reserve fund amply suffici-
ent to make up any shortage in
dividend earnings for several years.
The Washington times., 1929-06-14

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