Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1927 — Page 15

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BUSINESS OUTLOOK HERE ‘NEVER BETTER,’VERDICT

SISTER OF LENIN INDIES UNIQUE •NEWSPAPER POST Conducts Department Devoted to Complaints Made by Workers. Bu United Press MOSCOW, April 1. Lenin’s sister is a newspaper editor with a job unlike that of any other person engaged in newspaper work. She is the editor of the “complaints department” of Pravda. the Communist party’s official publication. Anybody with a grievance is invited to air it in this four-column department of Pravda. and many and strange are the articles which appear there. The Soviet officials keep a sharp watch on these columns and make investigations of the complaints. Most of the criticisms concern bosses in the factories. The Bolshevik count the privilege on complaint concerning their bosses as one of the finest new liberties won by the workers in the 1917 uprising. “Comrade Berkovetz,” runs a typical complaint, “is never to be found at her work as manager of the Moscow sub-department, for protection of mothers and babies. She is always in conference or at meetings or busy in her studio whenever one wants to see her. Comrade Berkois lazy.” BLimrade Berkovetz will hear from complaint. The proper officials P| investigate it. P *The manager of the Moscow Zoo,” puns another, "released the demobilized soldiers who joined his staff for the summer extra work and kept many who are not unionists for the desirable Winter work. He took their jobs away from demobilized soldiers and from unionists.” The manager will have to explain to his superiors why he did this tiling, if the complaint is found to be true. Perhaps he had a good reason. But at any rate there will be an investigation. The unique department has been Imitated in other papers, under the heading, “The Control of a Million Eyes.” Its effect in keeping up morale and efficiency is reported to be great. DETERMINED TO GET STEPHENSON Petition for Habeas Corpus Writ Prepared. Petition for a writ of habeas corpus ad testifleadum ordering Warden Walter H. Daly, Indiana State Prison, to bring D. C. Stephenson, MMfner Klan leader, into Superior One to testify as to whether owns property in Indianapolis, expected to be filed today by Mattice, attorney, representMrs. Nettie Stephenson Brehm former wife of Stesubpoena for Stephenson's apwas served on him perby Sheriff Kroll. La Porte ....gmty, but was not honored by is serving a life sensor the murder of Madge OberIndianapolis. Mrs. Brehm Is him for $10.(100 for support of Florence Catherine on the subpoena served afternoon was received by Judge James M. Mattice flies bis petition, AtGeneral Arthur L. Oilliom has he would file a motion to new order aside. IK 80, SLAIN IN HOME ■gjIjM’HANAN. Mich., April I. Zerbe, SO-year-old farmer. -Sirtßierp, was brutally slain with an t ( 4§Jd his wife beaten unconscious home today. SMmeM killer In an effort to hide the set tire to the Zerbe home raped .Svf'CTthbors discovered the house on trliiP®roke down Hie door and carV'fgraMe bodies out. Authorities arc find any motive. MtISONERS AT LARGE mJI’OTEE’ In.. April 1.- Homer ifijgnnd Roy Stone, who escaped by sawing the bars were still at large today.

PANORAMA OF SHANGHAI, SHOWING FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS

Building Activity Heralds Progress and Prosperity, Business Men Agree. Indianapolis business men near the industrial “front” declared today the business outlook for the city for spring and summer “never looked better.” With more than $1,000,000 worth of building permits issued in March, local builders assert more new buildings were started in the month than during the same month last year. Here’s a summary of what real estate and building men say: Growth Recounted Every section of Indianapolis is registering a phenomenal growth. The downtown skyline is changing with one new theater building practically finished and anew hotel and garage contemplated. Main thoroughfares leading into the downtown district are being rapidly lined with new stores. Home property is renting at full blast. Both moderate and higher priced homes are being built. Lots, especially in the suburban districts are selling rapidly, most of them to persons who contemplate homes on the sites. MacGregor Optimistic Hotels and apartment building owners report well tenanted buildings. Downtown office buildings are leasing space at a higher rate than average and storerooms in communities are being leased daily. One of the most optimistic men in Indianapolis is Robert MacGregor, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. “Is it going to be a good year? It certainly is,” he said. “The real estate board is getting reports daily of large numbers of sales and rentals all of them to good, substantial people who are here to stay. Indi-. anapolis is no longer a place where people come to stay temporarily. It is a city of homes and industries, where the citizens are really citizens, interested in the city’s development.” East Side Booms William Low Rice, realtor, said business is "brighter than it has been for some time.” Rice , said he completed six new homes in Carrollton Court, near Fifty-Second St. and Carrollton Ayg., and that five are sohj and he is starting construction on six new ones. From the east side come reports of a miniature boom. C. B. Durham has invested $2,000,000 in property and improvements in this section. “The eastern part of Indianapolis is now experiencing one of its greatest periods of growth,” he stated. “Homes and buildings of every description are going up.” Fifty-five businesses are operating in the vicinity of Forty-Second St. and College Ave., a survey by Harry Templeton, of the H. Templeton Realty Company, showed. "Uptown Indianapolis is growing steadily,” Templeton declared. In the Suburbs Walter T. White announced that suburban property north of Riverside Park is sellinfig faster than ever before. "Sale of improved property in Indianapolis is showing a firmer tone and buyers are interested in better homes at a right price rather than just any home at low price,” S. .T. Argus of the American Estates Company said. A survey by CaitmeU-Burcaw-Moore, Inc., which specializes in suburban property, brought this announcement from B. C. Cartniell, president: “Each week during March has seen the sale of four to ten houses on one-half to two-acre tracts. It will he the best year yet for development In outlying districts.” Florida “Dead” Business men believe nothing can stop enlargement of the city this year, and are saying so. Some of them deoJare the Florida boom had a lot to do with Indianapolis’ seeming retard two years ago. For some time this center of activity seemed to sap the life from northern cities. \ However, Florida now demands attention only as a place for hibernating during winter months and is “dead” so far as attracting northern capital is concerned, according to several persons who have been there during the last sixty days. Opening of the Indianapolis Home Complete Show at the State fairground Manufacturers Bldg. Saturday night will be another boost to business, it is said. QUAKE IN JAPAN Bu United Press TOKIO, April I.—A slight earthquake shook the Tango district in central Japan at 6 a. m., today. The quake caused a panic among residents of the district, scores of whom had not recovered from injuries received in the severe quakes whigh recently rocked the Tango and adjacent districts, with heavy loss of life.

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OCCUPANTS away, EAST SIDE HOMES ARE BURGLARIZED Five Yield Clothes, Money and Jewelery Thursday Night. Five east side homes were burglarized Thursday night while the residents were away. Thomas H. Thard, 339 Poplar Rd., said his home was looted of a shotgun, child’s diamond ring, other jewelery, lady’s fur coat and a travelling bag, totaling S2OO in value. A master key was used to enter. At the home of William Schlegel, 10 N. Riley Ave., a rear window was pried open and $6.50 in money and a $lO ring stolen. W. R. Smith, 48 N. Brookville Rd., reported a suit and top coat valued at S4O was taken from his home. A master key was used to open the front door. Verne Maple, 3340 E. New York St., found his house ransacked and $1.40 taken. Otto Hofers, proprietor of a meat market at 2009 E. Minnesota St., said nothing was taken from his shop, entered by breaking the rear door lock. McKinley -Armstrong, merchant policeman, discovered the burglary at 2 a. m. B. F. Brumley, 18 N. Belle Vieu Pi., owns a house at 454 Blake St., vacant. He told police the place was entered by burglars who took auto accessories and fixtures valued at S4OO. Lee Chandler, Apt. 3, of 430 N. Meridian St., reported to police that a man told the landlady he had been sent there hy Chandler after a suit ease and clothing valued at SBO. She'gave it to him. Ciiandler states he did not send the man. ROTARY AT MINNEAPOLIS Meeting Place Announced for 1928 International Convention. Bu United Press CHICAGO, April I.—The nineteenth .annual convention of Rotary International, to be held June 18 to 22, 1928, will he in Minneapolis, Minn., the international headquarters here announced today. Arthur E. Larkin, president of the Minneapolis Rotary Club, was advised his club had been given the honor Os being host to tile 3928 meeting. Twelve thousand persons are expected to attend. This year's meeting will be at Ostend. \

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a player rated as the best outfielder in the American League, you would feel mighty tough about it. That’s the way Ray Sehalk. new pilot of the Chicago White Sox, feels, only more so. It is doubtful if any team starting its spring training

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ever received a woite shock, than the attempt on the part of Johnny Mostii, Schaik's premier outfielder, to take his life. I can recall only one similar happening. About twenty years ago, Chick Stahl of the Boston Red Sox. committed suicide because of ill health, just a few days prior to the opening of the season. It so upset the club that the team finished last, if my memory serves me correctly.

1. The French consulate. 10. Municipal park. 2. Plaza hotel. 11. British consulate. 3. Shanghai club. £ hine8 * P® B *?™®®- U. General hospital. 4. Hongkong-Shanghai bank. )4 harden |, r idgc. 5. Customs house. 15. Russian consulate. 6. North China Daily News. 16. Astor hotel. 7. Chartered Bank of India. 17. German consulate. 8. Palace hotel. 18. American consulate. 9. Yokohama specie bank. 19. Japanese consulate. The broad, metropolitan sweep of the foreign settlements of Shangliair, powder-keg of the east, is pictured splendidly here. The foreign districts are shown as they front on the Blind, Shanghai's most famous thoroughfare, and the Whangpoo river. The Bund traverses the river front from the French settlement at the extreme left to the Garden Bridge across the mouth of Soochow creek, marked by the number H. Stately buildings crowd its entire length. Canton road, Foochow road, Ilaugkow road, Pekin road and others intersect it at intervals. Within the foreign settlements thousands of refugees from the interior of China have sought safety from riot, pillage and murder.

BULLETINS: APRIL 1 THE WORLD’S NEWS AS IT HAPPENS ONLY TODAY

LETS TAX SLIP PASS NEW ORLEANS, April I.—The head of a million-dollar buttonhole corporation today was acquitted of failure to file any income tax return. The judge said that since this was a first offense, there would be no penalty. The manufacturer asked the reporters not to print his name, please, and they readily acquiesced. TAKES BORAH’S HINT WASHINGTON, Apri 1 I.—Secretary Kellogg today announced the withdrawal of American Marines from Nicaragua. He said he acted on the advice of. Senator Borah. COOLIDGE PARADES WASHINGTON, April L—The Rialto was rife today. The rifeness was caused when President C'oolidge appeared on Pensylvania Ave., with a poodle dog on a string. The President wore his usual Oxford bags JUST FOR FUN NEW YORK, April L—Edward W. Browning today signed over ail. his estate to Frances (Peaches) Ileenan Browning. The only explanation he would offer was that slip deserved it. HOMAGE TO HEFLIN WASHINGTON, April I.—Senator Tom Hellin was puzzled today. The Alabama solon received a handsome wrist watch. In its case was inscribed: “To our dear Tom—from the Knights of Columbus.” Heflin said he never had heard of the organization. PASTORS HONOR LEWIS lIILO, Hawaii, April I.—Sinclair Lewis, popular American novelist, was elected unanimously today president of the Hawaiian Ministerial Association. Mr. Lewis will he invited to speak on his religious views here next April 1. MELLON DOESN’T CARE WASHINGTON, April I.—Secre-

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Like Mostii. Stahl was a prime favorite with the players and it is a strange coincidence that he was the star -center fielder of the club, Mostil's position with Chicago. FINTIRE TEAM SERIOUS It is very apparent that the Mostii tragedy has upset the Chicago club to a marked degree. Usually a carefree aggregation, the Sox seem very serious-minded and I have no doubt but that the Mostii affair has created such a condition. No one on the ball club has been more affected by the tragedy than Manager Ray Schalk. A great admirer and close friend of Johnny, he has suffered a severe shock because of personal reasons. To • this, one must add the worry that naturally results because of Mosul's absence .from the line-up. When Ray Schalk consented to take over the Chicago club as successor to Eddie Collins, the outfield was one part of the club that gave him no great concern. He felt in Bib Falk. Johnny Mostii and Bill Barrett he had one of the strongest outfields in the American League, and rightfully so. However, the passing of Mostii has completely upset his outfield plans. IKE BOONE GETS CHANCE Q“IN all probability, it means that I Bill Barrett must shift from .1 right to center. . Bill had just about learned the intricacies of right field and mastered the sun field handicap that faces the right field-

tary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon today declared he was going to quit trying to collect the French war debt. It was only a small sum, he said, and not worth while. KING CANS IL DUCE ROME, April 1. —Declaring that there are too many dictators in the world today, King Victor Emmanuel of Italy gave Benito Mussolini his walking papers. Mussolini thanked the King for his patience in giving him a good start in life. BOOMS CALIFORNIA PALM BEACH. Fla., April I. Urging residents of Palm Beach to move to California, the secretary of the chamber of commerce here today declared Florida was on the down grade, while things were just beginning to shake up lively in Los Angeles. SLIM TAFT SPEAKS WASHINGTON, April I.—Five thousand women cheered former President William H. Taft following an address today in which the president outlined the diet whereby he had been so successful at reducing. The popular Supreme Court justice weighs only 135 now. ANOTHER LAUDER GIFT KANSAS CITY. April I.—The gift of anew public library was announced tod.ay. The cost is estimated to be $1,000,000. The donor was said to be Harry Lauder. OR ‘EVERYBODY HAPPY’ WASHINGTON. April I.—lmportant new radio rulings were announced today. A fine of not less than SI,OOO, with a sentence of not less than ten years in Federal prison, was decided upon as the proper penalty for any radio announcer who says "Nightie Night.” Cats are, in law, domestic animals and therefore cannot be trapped or speared.

er at Chicago as well as several other American League parks. Barrett isn’t so keen for playing center, but will give Schalk his best. That means that Ike Boone will likely go to right field. Boone can hit, hut he is no Tris Speaker as a fielder. So, instead of having his outfield definitely settled ho has two doubtful spots. Randolph Moore, a youngster, who starred at Longview, Texas, last year, is a fine prospect, a really great fielder, but there is hardly a chance that he can step in and hit major league pitching with only one year’s experience. GOOD PITCHING EXPECTED mT is just possible that Bill Hunnefield may solve part of Schaik’s worry. Last season he did yeoman ser%ice at short, second and third and hit mighty well. Maybe he will prove the key to the outfield problem by being shifted to right or center. Manager Schalk admits that such a thing is a possibility, but that is as far as he would go on that score. The White Sox should get the best of pitching. The infield should prove a strong combination if the veterans hold up. The outflcAl is Schaik’s chief worry. If John Mostii was in the line-up, I am sure the White Sox would be most optimistic as to their chances, because it is a mighty good ball club. The loss of Mostii, however, has made most of the athletes rather pessimistic, which is an added handicap.

HOPE OF DISARMAMENT SHATTERED AT GENEVA

NEGRO SCHOOLBOY SHOE IN SCUFFLE : First Fatality of Spring Vacation Week. The first school child fatality of “No Accident Spring Vacation Week,” occurred late Thursday when Robert Mitchell, Negro, 10, of 2135 Hovey St., was shot over the right eye and instantly killed while scuffling with three other Negro boys in the rear of 2025 Alvord St., over possession of a revolver. Joseph Franklin. 13, of 1433 Cornell Ave., one of the three boys, was questioned after the shooting, by Lieut. Fred Drinkut. Police say he admitted he was holding the revolver when Mitchell was shot. The revover, 32-caliber, was said to have been found several days ago in a shed in the neighborhood by Emmett Primus, 13, of 1233 Alvord St. Francis Wathen, 12, of 2225 Sheldon St., was with Franklin when the shot was fired. The Primus boy and Wilber Morton, 13, of 2320 Yandes St., said they left the other hoys shortly before the shooting. The week's school child injury toll advanced to four when Ralph Nichols, 13, of 16 S. State Ave., was injured about the legs when his bicycle was struck at Hendricks PI. and E. New York St., Thursday night by an auto driven hy J. L. Mansfield. 241 N. Tacoma Ave. Police were told the bicycle carried no tail light and Mansfield blamed the rain on the windshield for his inability to see the youth.

BANQUET ENDS s CONVOCATION The sixty-second convocation of the Scottish Rite will close tonight with a banquet at the Cathedral, United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson presiding. Frank E. Gavin will extend a welcome to new members. The Rev. George W. Alllison of Irvington Presbyterian Church will deliver the princpal address, and Frank D. Stalnaker, chairman of the new Cathedral building committee, will speak. James C. Black of Anderson was chosen president of the class of candidates taking degreees at the Cathedral Thursday. Other class officers were: Frederick E. Jewett of Muncie, vice president; Lynn S. Kidd of Brazil, second vice president; Harold Ehnes of Indianapolis, sec-retary-treasurer; W. Henry McLean of Greencastle, chaplain-orator, and Logan Esarey of Bloomington, historian. California Woman Judge Collapses Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, April I.—California’s only woman judge, GeOrgiia Bullock, today was recovering from a nervous collapse, the result of fatigue and over work. She fainted during a recess in her division of the municipal court yesterday. Physicians said she would be Unable to return to her court work for several days.

HARD LIQUOR BANISHED FOREVER, SAYS ANDREWS Dry Enforcement Chief Makes Statement on Anniversary of Two Years in Office.

Editor's Note: The* United Press presents herewith the first of a two section interview with General Andrews, who today closed two years as Chief of United States dry enforcement. His views on liquor drinking and on enforcement are frivrn. By Joseph S. Wasncy I nihil Vnx* Slnlf Correspondent WASHINGTON, April I.—“ Hard liquor" will never stage a comeback in the United States, in the opinion of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews, who today celebrated the second anniversary of his taking office as dry generalissimo of the Federal pro’fbition forces. "I sincerely believe that even without prohibition drinking of hard liquor would have disappeared." Andrews told the United Press. “Such drinking was becoming unpopular before the war. Consumption of hard drinks handicaps men who are competing or taking any part in the higli-power existence of today. It is really unscientific in this modern age. Shuns Liquor Himself Andrews, on taking the oath of office two years ago today, simul-

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I Years of Effort by League of Nations Comes to Naught. Editor's Note: Henry Wood, the United Press Geneva correspondent, who has spent more than fifteen years in Europe covering the international scene and has studied the Leamie of Nations at first hand since its inception, has concluded that the world movement for disarmament has failed at Geneva. The teal significance of the tremendously important developments in the last few days has been in a measure lost sight of because of interest in China. Wood has analyzed the situation and today cabled the following story, in which he points out clearly that the nations, still suffering from the disastrous World War. must work out their destiny under the vast handicap of three billions of dollars a year spent on war preparations and the ever-present menace of prospective conflict. By Henry M ood United Press Staff Corresuondent Copuri(jht. It)i7, United Press GENEVA, April 1. —. The League of Nations has failed in its years of post-war efforts toward disarmament. That fact was inescapable here today. The nations of the world now must arrange their resources to bear the tremendous burden of armed preparedness on a scale that is % costing in the neighborhood of $3*000,000,000 annually. Europe and the world generally must continue to stagger under the present armaments load with only two hopes for decreases and even those promise only slight relief. They are: A meager reduction in the period of service for Europe’s conscript armies. President Coolidge’s three-power conference may reduce naval armaments somewhat. Frankly States Status That was the way competent spokesmen frankly outlined the situation today after the first ten days’ sessions of the League of Nations preparatory disarmament conference here. The fault, they explained, was not the League's, but that of nations who refuse to disarm. With adoption by the commission of the first article of the proposed universal disarmament convention, all hope of any reduction in Europe’s present standing armies was dispelled. That article dealt exclusively with land, or military, armaments. The utmost hope extended to the world was for the stabilization of standing armies at their present strengths. Heavy Burden Remains "With failure of the commission to wring from Europe's leading conscript nations any basis for actual reduction of armies, no greater success was expected with either naval or aerial armaments. That means Europe’s five leading nations, England, France, Russia, Italy and Germany, together with Japan, will continue to maintain their present armaments budgets which now average $-.500,000,000 annually, while the world total armaments budget, of which the bulk is European, will remain in the neighborhood of $3,000,000,000 annually. Uses Glass Sliver in Suicide Attempt Bu United Press NEW YORK!, April I.—Using a slight sliver of a lens from his glasses, Walter Turner, suspected of the theft of $70,000 worth of jewels from Mrs. B. G. Dahlberg, Chicago, attempted to kll himself in his cell today. When found by Policeman Andrew Kcil Turner was standing over a wash bowl letting the blood from a gash in his left wrist pour into it. His condition was said to be not serious.

taneously took a “dry pledge.” When asked today the status of the pledge, he replied: “One hundred per cent on the water wagon." “Real progress has been made in enforcement work during the last year,” he continued. “I am more convinced than ever that the policy of eliminating sources of supply for commercial traffic is the only practical way for the Government to make prohibition effective.” Realizes Leaks Andrews said he realizes there is still some smuggling of liquor, that industrial alcohol continues to be diverted into bootleg channels, and that breweries, now and then, get out a few carloads of real beer. "But instead of this being a continuous functioning of traffic so that every bootlegger is assured satisfactory supplies for his customers, many of the rum organizations have been broken up,” he said.

HOME SHOW IS ' READY FOR BIG OPENINGCROWD Doors Open Saturday Night on Exposition in Fairground Building. With every available booth in the Manufacturers’ Bldg., State fairground, sold to Home Complete Exposition exhibitors, efforts were redoubled to finish work on all booths by 6 p. m. today. More than 300 exhibitors will participate in the sixth annual exposition, which will open Saturday at 6 p. m. Realtors Sponsors Sponsored by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, in the interest of “better homes,” this year’s show Is expected to surpass previous records in beauty and variety of exhibits. J. S. Cruse is chairman of “realtors’ night,” Saturday, Thomas F. Carson is reception committee chairman. J. Frank Cantwell, exposition director, predicted the show “will surpass the expositions held in Detroit and Milwaunkee. It will be a revelation to persons interested in home building.” This year's centerpiece is a completely furnished French chateau of brick construction, built by the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association. DRIVER HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE Jailed After Fatal Accident Inquest Planned. Carl Kemp, 21, of 2755 N. Dearborn St., was held under SI,OOO bond today on a charge of involuntary manslaughter while Coroner Paul F. Robinson prepared to conduct an inquest iifto the death Thursday night of Dewey Francis, 29, 830 Edison St., who is alleged to have been struck by Kemp’s auto and knocked into the path of a street car at 815 Massachusetts Ave. According to a report made by Lieut. Leonard Forsythe, Harold Neuenschwander, 838 Parker Ave., said Kemp's auto passed him and struck Francis, who was knocked back into the path of an inbound Brightwood street car. Forsythe reported the street car dragged Francis thirty feet. Kemp and Miss Marie Schaffer, 20, of 2153 Station St., who was riding with him, both said they were unaware of the accident until they saw other ears stop. . They had driven 250 feet, Forsythe said, with the left fender bent down on the tire.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Clarence Darmer, 4r>lo Rockville Rd., Ford, 518-634, from Market and Illinois Sts. Shirley Baker, Shoals. Tnd., Ford, from Market and Illinois Sts. Ida Bayne, 416 E. Vermont St., Chevrolet, 518-694, from that address. Dr. .1. L. Cummins, Anderson, Ind., Ford, from Capitol Avc. and Ohio St. Virgil Whitaker, Stilesville, Ind., Chevrolet, 408-035, from Sixteenth St. and Capitol Ave. A. W. Sournace, 139 W. Sixteenth St., Ford, T-3591, from 20 C ldwell St. Marie Moore, 17 S. Forrest Ave., Ford, 517654, from Illinois and St. Clair Sts.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by nolice belong to: R. F. Johnson Paint Company, 135 S. Illinois St., Oldsmobile, found at Illinois and Washington Sts. Columbia Security Company. 152 N. Delaware St., Ford, found at Thirtieth St. and Baltimore Ave. Ford, license 526-775. found at Oxford and Twenty-Third Sts. JOHN D. THROWS PARTY ORLANDO, Fla.. April I.—John D. Rockefeller today assumed the role of Death Valley Jim Scott. He tipped a perter a $5 gold piece. was it a dime? flj