Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1929 — Page 2

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WATSON ACTS . TO SPUR VOTE ON PEACE PACT Negotiations of Indiana Senator Come to Naught Over Week-End. SENATE Continues Kellogg peace treaty debate. Judiciary committee consider* Jonea resolution tor senatorial investigation of prohibition enforcement. HOUSE Tabes up consent calendar and first deficiency appropriation bill. gp-risl prison investigating commis.-o heaving with Attnrney-fSeneral Sarf.ent and superintendent of Prisons Comer tV a? . and mean* committee opens tariff hearings. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—Negotiations seeking to end the senate’s hot dispute over the Kellogg anti-war treaty with a compromise undertaken by senate leaders over the week-end, accomplished nothing, and the numerically small but highpowered opposition took > up the cudgel against the pact again today. The compromise solution was offered by Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, now practicing to become senate leader after March 4. He got the opposing leaders together and proposed the reservations embodied in the Moses-Reed resolution, explicitly exempting traditional American foreign policies from the treaty, be written into an official report by the foreign relations committee. In return for sucTi a report he expected the opposition to abandon its resolution. Sought to Spur Vote Watson’s idea was that the foreign relations committee go on record as to its interpretation of the treaty and thus save the administration from an embarrassing vote on the interpretative ReedMoses resolution. Chairman Borah, who is championing the treaty, was agreeable enough to such a course "if it would speed up a vote on the treaty,”' he said. But Senators Reed of Missouri and Moses of New Hampshire, the opposition leaders, frowned on the scheme. They felt that a report would not have a sufficiently official tinge. They asked more time to think it over. The report proposed by Watson would embody statements, that the Monroe doctrine, as an essential part of American self-defense, would not in any way be affected by the treaty. It would point out the United States assumed no obligations for coercive enforcement of the pact and' specify particularly that each nation could decide for itself what was its own self-defense. These are the same Ideas embodied in the Reed-Moses resolution. Study Tariff Revision If the agreement can be effected the treaty can be ratified without further argument and the senate can turn its attention to the naval cruiser, building bijl. If not, the debate ’’ mdv drag on indefinitely, although Eorah hopes to be able to force a vote before the end of this week. The senate judiciary committee today took up the two resolutions proposing investigation of prohibition to refer them to a sub-com-mittee. A compromise resolution is expected to be drawn. Authorizing President-Elect Hoover to appoint an investigating commission of nine memoers, in accordance with the promise he made during the recent campaign. Tariff revision hearings, which will last seven weeks, were started by the house ways and means committee. The house wrestled with the first deficiency and the war department appropriation bills, both of which are expected to be passed before night.

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BOOZE ARRESTS SHOW INCREASE 4,140 Taken Into Custody During Year. Increase in intoxication arrests and decrease in blind tiger arrests featuicd the annual report of the Indianapolis police department for 1928. During the year 35,100 persons were arrested an increase of 8,594 compared with 1927. Intoxication arrests numbered 4,140, an increase of 1,610. .There were 604 fewer blind tiger arrests. Drunken driving arrests numbered 626, a decrease of nine. Vagrancy charges claimed the greatest number of victims, 6,866, an increase of 1,011, Traffic law violations caused arrest of 5,617 persons, 2,067 more than in 1927. Police made 3,888 arrests on miscellaneous misdemeanor charges, increase of 260. The report showed an increase of 132 in the number of speeders, 2,376. Other arrests included: Burglary, 207; vehicle taking, 271; homicide, 43; assault and battery, 1,647; petit larceny, 796; carrying concealed weapons, 259; gaming, 2,840; reckless driving, 555; automobile banditry. 38. All but seventy-one of the 1,160 persons reported missing were located. Emergency squad, substation teams and squad cars made 23,171 runs, an increase of more than 3,500. During the year $21,310 was paid in traffic fines, $526 more than in 1927. but nearly SI,OOO less than in 1926. BUS HEARING CALLED Company Faces Ouster From State Following Accident. Secretary Fred I. King of the public service commission has set Jan. 12 at 10 a. m. as the date when officials of the Pony Express Liness, Detroit, should appear before the commissioners and show cause why they should not be prohibited from operating busses on Hoosier highways. The company operates a bus line from Chicago to Detroit, through Indiana. The citation was ordered by Commissioner Howell Ellis when he learned that a driver figuring in a fatal accident at Elkhart had been operating the bus for three days with no sleep except in a bus seat.

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Two Business Buildings Razed by Biaze. Bu Times Special GREENFIELD. Ind., Jan. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed two business buildings with an estimated damage of $60,000 and threatened an entire block here early today. The blaze started about 12:15 a. m. in the front of the Early drug store on the south side of Main street, and spread to a building occupied by the Fred Rhim grocery and meat market and the J. D. Hughes dental offices. The interior of both buildings, two-story brick structures, were burned out. Floors crashed through to the basements. Firemen, hampered by the intense cold' which crusted their clothing, the hose and the burning structure with heavy ice, fought the flames until 4:30 before getting them under control. In spite of the cold a large crowd of spectators gathered. Fire Companies 20 and 25 and a headquarters squad from Indianapolis aided the local firemen. CITY~POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW DROP IN 1928 Record-Breaking Christmas Volume Fails to Hold Up Business. Despite a record-breaking Christmas mailing volume, receipts at the Indianapolis postoffice for the year 1926 showed 1.67 per cent decrease in comparison with 1927, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson explained today. The decrease amounts to $80,121. of which more than $30,000 is accounted for by newspaper and periodical postage reduction which became effective six months ago. Stamp sales also showed $38,993 reduction, much of which was due to one local factory which ships its products by mail, having established a western branch distribution office, mailing to western states from the branch office. The total receipts for the year were $4,709,862. Month:) showing increases were February, March April, May, July and October, ROBS - FILLING STATION A youthful bandit held up A. C. Ashley. 2132 North Talbott street, attendant at the Western Oil and Refining Company filling station at Vermont street and Capitol avenue Sunday night and robbed him of $35. “If you give a description of me or try to get my license number I’ll be back and blow your brains out,” were the youth’s words as he jumped into his coupe and sped away in a cloud of steam from a frozen radiator.

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GRAND JURY !S ‘FROZEN OUT’ Judge Collins Heeds Cold Weather Excuses. Cold weather and the high cost of living combined today to keep Marion county without a grand jury. Criminal Judge James A. Collins heeded the pleas of all six prospective jurors drawn today and excused them. The court ordered anew venire of fifteen drawn to report Wednesday. Six who can serve may be called from this list. The judge heard these excuses from those called today: Fred A. Hamp, 3251 Baltimore street, badly needed in the office of the Crane Company, plumbing wholesalers. George Bain, boilermaker for the B. & 0., 2012 West New York street, couldn’t afford to work for only $2 a day as a grand juror. Emil C. Rassman, 552 North Oxford street, presented doctor’s certificate he was too ill to go out in weather like this. • • Fred H. Hansing, 1513 Orange street, badly needed on his job as service manager for an elevator company. Omer Green, R. R. 1, farmer with 200 head of hogs to take care of. Rufus Heinstand. R. R. 6, in the coal and ice business and this was his busy day. OPEN STATE FUND BIDS Members of the state board of finance s tarted this t o open bids for the allocation x>f some $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 of state funds for the year. There are 500 banks on the list and it is expected that complete distribution will not be made for several weeks. Members of the state board of finance are the governor, auditor and treasurer.

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M’NUTT POINTS WAY Legion Commander Outlines 1929 Program. The American Legion will pay close attention to rehabilitation child welfare, Americanism and national defense in 1929, according to an outline of obejetives of the Indiana department given 700 state legion post commanders, adjutants and service officers at the Elks Club Sunday. National Commander Paul V. McNutt of Bloomington was in charge of the meeting. Fred A. Weicking was installed as state commander succeeding Frank M. McHale of Logansport. Railway Brings Town Water AGUILARES, Tex., Jan. 4—The people of this town have been depending on the Tcxas-Mexican Railroad for their Water for the past fifty years. The railroad hauls water in tank cars from Laredo, twenty miles away, puts the cars on a siding, and the people carry their supply away in pails.

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FRAUD CHARGE INQUIRY AGAINST LAWYERPUSHED Further Complaints Probed on W. R. Waddell and Marion Club. Further investigation of the activities of W. R. Waddell, local attorney, who, it is alleged, has been collecting stock certificate money for members and relatives of members of the defunct Marion Club and re’taining large amounts, was being conducted today by Deputy Prosecutor George Eggleston. He was prompted indefinitely to continue the probe because of a series of additional complaints that have been received since Waddell was ordered to “make good” whatever money he had not turned over to rightful owners, by Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott last week. He will be cited for contempt of court if he does not make restitution within a few days, Elliott threatened. One woman, who refused to give her name for publication, but who is the daughter of a late state official. said Waddell visited her home last August and said he “had some money for her.” She said that he did not tell her the amount but said it was in Marion Club stock that her father owned. She signed a paper that would permit him to collect the funds for her. “I never have heard from him since,” she said. “I do not know the exact number of shares of stock my father owned, but I will confer with authorities about the matter.” This is being investigated by County Clerk George O. Hutsell. James A. Dodd, father of William L, Dodd, who died several years ago, and Mrs. Carrie Thompson, widow of Thomas L. Thompson, have complained of Waddell’s activities to Eggleston. W. L. Dodd and Thompson were club members. Dodd said Waddell ’ offered to collect $7.50 which he said was due Dodd for a fee of $3.75. Dodd said he la:er received the latter amount. Records in the clerk’s office show that Waddell collected $47.50 instead of $7.50. On each $25 share of stock, $47.50 was to be refunded. This included interest and dividends.

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