Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1929 — Page 2

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DEADLOCK ON KELLOGG PACT TO CONTINUE Little Hope Is Seen to Reach Early Ballot in Senate. SENATE KfUojtr treaty deadlock continue*. Hearst Mexican document* report to be considered. Indian affair* committee to hear Hubert Work and Attorney-General Sargent. Judiciary committee consider* proposed prohibition Investigation. HOUSE Considers reapportionme.it bill, three hoar* debate. Civil service committee considers amending Welch pay act. Ways and mean* committee continues tariff hearing*. Merchant Marine committee hearing on extending life of federal radio commission. Flood control committee hearing on Florida flood control. Foreign affairs committee hearing on calendar simplification. Judiciary committee hearing on confederate and union veterans reunion in 1929. Special prisons investigating committee hearing on federal prison situation. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—Deadlocked and contented, the senate rolled on with the Kellogg anti-war treaty debate today, the reservationists threatening to filibuster and the trs;ity adherents daring them to do it. The end of legitimate debate was in sight and everything appeared ready for a final vote of ratification soon, except that no provision has been made for consideration of the reservations. A vote would mean defeat for the reservationists so they are talking about filibustering. They f(?el they have gained material strength since the debate started, four or five senators having joined their ranks. Further delay, they think, would give them added votes. Want Long Delay The most prominent treaty adherents virtually are content with the situation because they do not believe the treaty can be hurt by delay. They are opposed to the naval cruiser building bill which is the next order of business and they would like to put consideration of it off as long as possible. The proposed Hoover prohibition investigation was taker, up by the judiciary committee where Senator Jones (Rep.. Wash.) and Edge (Rep.. N. J., wet) were to appear to draw a compromise resolution authorizing such an inquiry. They already have agreed that the compromise should be a joint resolution authorizing President-Elect Hoover to appoint nine members of an investigating committee which would have $50,000 in expenses. The resolution is expected to be adopted, although Senator King (Dem., Utah) is trying to rally opposition to it. Study Reapportionment The old subject of reapportioning state representation in the house in accordance with new shifts In population finally was brought before that body, with debate limited to three hours. The bill Is expected to be passed and may be rushed through the senate before adjournment. The house tariff investigation continued and numerous committees were at work clearing up minor matters. U. S. BUSY BOOTBLACK Provides 2.181.829 Pounds of Polish to Other Nations in Ten Months. By I nihil Pres* WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—Uncle Sam is one of the world's busiest bootblacks. He helps shine the shoes of other nations. This became evident when the department of commerce announced that 2.781.829 pounds of shoe polish valued at $766,326 was shipped by American firm to other countries during the first ten months of 1928. The greater part of this went to provide glittering shoes and boots for Cubans, Canadians and Souio Americans. Europe, the report showed, makes most of her polish at home.

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Miss Ruby Porter In robes of ermine and purple, Miss Porter. Shelbyviile high school girl, presided as queen over the Alfalfa day celebration held in connection Aeith the annual meeting of the Shelby county larm oureau. Her throne was built with bales of alfalfa hay.

ARREST PASTOR; WED BIRL.II Accused of Giving False Age for Child Bride. lili United, Press HERRIN, 111., Jan. 10—Josepn Milton Benton, 54-year-old, blind Pentecostal preacher, was under arrest today charged with perjury in talsifying the age of his 11-year-old wife, formerly Selinda Glendenin. Additional charges against him were promised by authorities pending examination of his girl bride. Neighbors say she soon will become a mother. Benton was arrested at the request of Mrs. Hester Yuill. Williamson county probation officer, and Mrs. Minnie Smith of the Illinois children’s Home and Aid Society of Duquoin who investigated the strange marriage, through which Selinda has been led to believe she would become “sanctified.” Charges of perjury also have been filed against the parents of the child, who authorities say, gave her age as 16 while the bride-to-be sat in an automobile outside the courthouse. Authorities also were investigating unconfirmed reports that Benton has a wife living in Leachville, Ark. U. S. TROOPS TO GET WATERPROOF BLANKETS New Fabrics Invented by Quartermaster Corps Lieutenant. It!) lit I ted Press WASHINGTON. Jan. ~ 10.—The prayers of buck privates and others who have been compelled to sleep unsheltered during rainstorms have been answered by Lieutenant Harry Kirsner of the Philadelphia quartermaster depot. Kirsner lias invented a blanket material that resists water. The war department says that in tests water was suspended in some of the Kirsner blankets for sixty hours without penetrating the material. Tests have shown the blanket to contain twice the warmth of the current army issue of the same weight and when rolled into a pack tightly does not become hard enough to chafe a doughboy’s shoulders. Troops probably will be supplied with the new blanket as current stocks of the old blanket are exhausted. START FOR LICENSE TO WED, ASK ONE TO HUNT Couple Seek Marriage License. But Wild Geese Change Plans. By i nited Trass GOLDENDALf:. Ore., Jan. 10.— W. W. Gerling of Portland and Miss Martha Jackson of Goodnoe Hills, Wash., came here to get a marriage license, but when informed the wild geese were coming into the wheat fields of this section they applied for a hunting license. ‘ We'll go so ra hunt first, what say?” Gerling addressed his bride-to-be. ‘ Suits me.'* replied the young woman. “We can get married any day. but we can t go goose hunting any day.” After an unsuccessful hunt the couple returned and took out their marriage license.

Many Students Unable to ‘Grasp ’ Lord s Prayer Uy .'hi >•< <• Service v JOHNSON CITY. Tenn., Jan. 10.—Tennessee college students preparing to be teachers are well acquainted with .he words of the Lord's Prayer, but they understand only about two-thirds of this famous classic, whic hthey repeat daily in their schoolrooms. This is shown by an educational experiment with 540 students, conducted by Lester R. Wheeler of the East Tennessee State Teachers' college, and reported to School and Society. Ninety-six per cent of the future school teachers wrote the words of the Lord's Prayer from memory’, without leaving out a word. When asked to explain the fifteen different thought units, the average student gave acceptable interpretation of only 65 per cent. Some units were found to be much easier to understand than others. Only 44 per cent could explain "Our Father, " while "Thy kingdom come - ’ proved to be the most difficult of all, aijd was answered by only 43 per cent. The easiest passages were "and forgive us our debts” and "lead us not into temptation.” The investigation indicates "that the school and church are failing in teaching the student the wider and more subtle meaning of this well-known passage," Wheeler reports. “If college students understand only two thirds of the praypr. the ignorance of the average child probably will be more appalling than this study indicates."

OLD COINS SELL HIGH SSO Gold Piece Minted in 1852 Brings $lO9 in Auction. By United Press GETTYSBURG, Pa., Jan. 10— A SSO gold piece, minted in 1852, sold ftxr $lO9 at a sale of antique coins here. One side of the coin was plain, but the other had a figure and inscription, together with the date of issue. The coin was octagonal shaped. Another $2 gold coin, bearing only the mint-date of 1806, sold for $6. DRY VIOLATIONS DROPJNSTATE Report Reveals Falling Off in All Respects. Liquor valued at $189,018, bootleg prices, was confiscated, and 1.085 persons arrested by prohibition agents in Indiana during 1929, according to the report made public today by James G. Browning, acting deputy dry administrator. The report for the year was less than that of the previous year in almost every respect. In 1927, number of persons arrested was 1,799, and liquor valued at $431,866 was confiscated. Fines of $89,720 were levied, in comparison with $116,531 the previous year, and sentences totaling 193 years were given in federal and state courts, compared with 232 years the previous year. Seventy-eight permanent injunctions were issued, sixty-seven less than the previous year. During the year confiscations included: sixty-eight stills, thirty-six automobiles, 4,045 gallons of whisky and alcohol valued at $80,900, 8,819 gallons of home brew valued at $17,638 and 39,585 gallons of mash valued at $90,480. NIGHT CLUB FEVER IN LONDON ABATING Clubs Built to Accommodate 2,000; Entertain but 200 Nightly. Bjj^liiitcd Press LONDON. Jan. 10.—London’s night-club fever is abating. Clubs which were built to accommodate 2,000 dancers can not today boast of a nightly attendance of 200. Proprietors who, a year ago, carried on festivities until ft a. m., and then .served breakfast, now put up the shutters an hour or so after midnight. At some the attendance has become insufficient to cover lighting expenses. The recent searchlights on London police methods; the changes in the administrative departments of the metropolitan force; and the reports that Sir Wiiliam JoynsoiiHicks, home secretary, is out to “clean up” London, have all had their effect in curing the disease. Cincinnati Man to Speak George C. Riley, Cincinnati, will be the principal speaker at a special meeting of the Indianapolis Bond Men’s Club tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club His subject will be “Investment Trusts.” Dr. Charles P. Emerson, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicines and Hospitals, was the | principal speaker, Wednesday night at the third monthly brotherhood meeting of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church.

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GEN. BOOTH TO BE REQUESTED TO QUIT POST Salvation Army's Council Will Ask Commander to Retire. BY ARCH RODGERS United Press Staff Correspondent SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, England, Jan. 10.—The high council of the Salvation Army has decided to ask General Bramwell Booth, supreme commander, to retire, it was announced offcially today. Booth will retain the title of general, the announcement said. Outcome of the extraordinary meeting of the high council here was a victory for Commander Evangeline Booth, head of the army in the United States, who was leader of the movement to remove her brother from autocratic control of the army, because of his ill health. Official announcement said the high council had decided that its president, vice-presidents and five members be delegated to visit General Booth at Southwold, Sussex, where he is ill, and suggest his retirement. The resolution suggesting that General Booth retire was adopted unanimously by the high council, the official announcement said. Booth Takes Action Bn United Press LONDON, Jan. 10.—Seeking to checkmate his sister’s efforts to unseat him as head of the Salvation Army, General W. Bramwell Booth was reported today to have named a council of five to direct the army’s affairs during his illness. The Daily Mail said it understood he had undertaken to forestall the removal campaign of Commander Evangeline Booth by sending the high council a letter announcing the appointment. Commissioner E. J. Higgins, the army’s chief of staff, was appointed chairman of the committee, the. Daily Mail said. The other members were Commander Evangeline Booth, head of the army in the United States and leader of the opposition movement; Catherine Booth, General Booth’s daughter, and two prominent commissioners. It also was understood that the general proposes to appoint a commission to learn whether any changes in administration are desired by the army, and if so how far reaching the changes should be. Commander Booth seeks her brother’s removal on the grounds that his poor health makes him unable to attend to his duties. AGREEION STATE POLICE BILL Single Draft Displaces Three Original Measures. A single bill to enlarge the state motorpolice force, under a nonpartisan board of control, was in prospect today, displacing three measures previously proposed for introduction in the general assembly. Co-ordination of features of the three proposals was effected Wednesday at a meeting in the office of Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state, attended by Fifield, Senators John L. Niblack and Robert L. Moorhead of Indianapolis; A. G. Brown of Greencastle, Indiana Bankers’ Association president and Eben Lesh of Huntington, attorney for the Farmer’s Guide. Fifield favored enlargement of the state police force to provide at least one officer for each of Indiana's ninety-two counties. Bankers w’anted a separate commission c.eated to direct the police. Leah’s bill would have placed the force under the adjutant general. The co-ordinated measure vould place control of the enlarged 'force under an advisory board; o.ie Republican and one Democrat appointed by the Governor to serve without pay, and the secretary of state as an ex-officio member. The bill is intended to remove the department from politics and is expected to have the support of the three groups interested in the proposal. C. C. Goodrich, sales manager of the Indianapolis Engraving Company, spoke on “The Engraver and the Advertiser” at the Advertising Club luncheon today at the Columbia Club.

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LINK HOOVER AID IN SECRET PAPERSJ>ROBE Mystery Anfles Revealed in Quiz of Documents Scandal. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—New mysteries were added to tjje international forged documents scandal today when the senate investigating committee made public secret evidence it recently had taken pertaining to show George Barr Baker, confidential adviser of PresidentElect Hoover had been forced by the state department to surrender documents which had been stolen from the American embassy in Mexico. It also revealed the committee was in possession of a document charging that Ivy Lee, public relations expert of New York and publicity counsel for John D. Rockefeller, had been paid an unstated amount of money by the Soviet government for some undescribed expenses. 200 Documents in All The only identification of the Baker documents offered was when Senator Borah of Idaho pointed out that they “referred to supposed activities on the part of the American government which were unfriendly to Mexico.” It also was brought out some of them were spurious and that there were about 200 of them. Chairman Reed of the committee offered the documents in relation to Ivy Lee, purporting to be two typewritten memoranda giving the substance of a letter signed by the soviet ambassador Pakowsky, addressed to A. M. Kempner of the Commercial Bank for North Europe in Paris. It read as follows: “Please pay to Mr. Ivy Lee, or the person duly authorized by him, the

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CHAMBER NAMES 1929 COMMITTEES

Wellbaum Heads Publicity, McKinney, Athletics and Stickney, Insurance. Appointment of new Chamber of Commerce insurance, athletic and publicity and activities committees for 1929 was announced today by Paul Q. Richey, president, today. George B. Wellbaum, Indiana Bell Telephone Company publicity director, was reappointed chairman of the publicity and activities committee. T. A. Carroll, of E. C. Atkins & Cos., was named vice-chairman. Committee members: Briant Sando, Sando Advertising Company; Sydney Sullivan, L. S. Ayres & Cos.; Julian Wetzel, Keystone Press: Curtiss Hodges, Indianapolis News; James A. Stuart, Indianapolis Star; Boyd Gurley, Indianapolis Times. Frank E. McKinney, Peoples State bank, was named athletic committee chairman, and Hubert S. Riley, Na-

amount indicated to cover all his expenses contemplated by the special account of Narkomindel !NT 362 M W. “At the same time notify officially Mr. Ivy Lee or his representatives, that there has been put at his disposition, a complementary credit provided for by his arrangement with Moscow. Offered for Salye “These complementary credits and the increase in the normal amount of the periodical payments should also be put to the special account of Narkomindel N 361 M W. concerning Senator Borah.” Reed said he understood the papers had been offered for sale in Paris for approximately $50,000. “There is reason to believe that the typewriter on which they were written is one of those which was in the soviet embassy .at Paris, Reed said. It was his opinion they were forged merely for sale or for the purpose of blackmail.

tional Paper Stock Company, was named vice-chairman. Committee members; George B. Wellbaum. Wallace O. Lee, T. F. Hatfield, George J. Diver, Harvey J. Elam, Charles E. Kaser, Herman H. Lauter, Jack Trimble, Robert 'Sturm, Vedder Gard, Blythe Hendricks, A. C. Byerly, Charles P. Emmelmann. The insurance committee is headed by Joseph W. Stickney of the Fletcher American Company, with C. O. Bray, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, as vice-chairman. Committee members: William E. Barton, Scott R. Brewer. C. M. Burpee, Ralph L. Colby, C. C. Duck, Dan W T . Flickinger, Edwin H. Forry, Dick Habbe. Clinton L. Lasher. Otis E. Logan, Guy A. Ramsdell, G. A. Schnull, Elbert Storer, Irving Williams, Barrett M. Woodsmall, J. J. Fitzgerald, E. M. Sellers, Mansur B. Oakes, F. H. Irwin, H. L. Barr, O. L. Mummert, G. H. Radcliffe. C. C. Wysong, Indiana insurance commissioner, was named an honorary member.

NEGRO TO ENTER PLEA OF GUILTY IN SLAYING An unusual proceedure will take place in criminal court Saturday when Leroy Moss, Negro, 24, a juggler in a Negro theatrical company, will plead guilty to an indictment charging first degree murder for the fatal shooting of Jqseph Saunders, Negro, 34, in a restaurant Sept. 2 at 339 Indiana avenue, Deputy Prosecutor Paul Rhoadarmer announced today. Moss was to have been tried by a jury last month but he indicated he would plead guilty. The state insisted on a plea of first degree murder but did not demand the death penalty. Moss is said to have shot Saunders after the latter refused to pay him wages for his participation in a show.

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BOY, 14, GOES ON TRIAL FOR WraOEATH First of Trio Gets Life Sentence; Pick Jury in 40 Minutes. Bit United Press YORK. Pa., Jan. 10.—The old witch on her broomstick came riding into the court record at the start of the trial of John Curry today. Curry, rosy-cheeked, slick-haired lad of 14, is the second defendant to be put to trial for the witchcraft murder of Nelson Rehmeyer. “John Blymyer told me,” testified Clayton Hess, the first witness, “that he was going to work on Rehmeyer's mind, get him under his control and then he would get a lock of Rehmeyer’s hair and that would end all the trouble my parents were having and would break the spell.” After Re 1 "eyer’s murder Blymyer, witch .ctor who Wednesday was convicted and ordered sentenced to life imprisonment, told him Hess said: “It’s all my fault. I hope they don’t blame the other boys. I got the witch.” The jury for Curry’s trial had been picked in forty minutes, said to be a record for murder cases. GIFT TO ART INSTITUTE $5,000 Received by John Herron Foundation. Evans Woollen, John Herron Art Institute president, today announced an anonymous Christmas gift of $5,000. The donor made no restrictions on the gift, it was announced, The George P. Carelton bequest of SI,OOO will be used to purchase pictures.