Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1929 — Page 3

JAN. 17, 1929.

DEMOCRATS IN MOVE TO BOOST DRYLAW FUND Seek Higher Appropriation Over Protests of Mellon. SENATE Considtrs appropriation bill* and naval cruiser bill. Indian affair* committee Investigation •entinues. Interstate commei,'*! committee coal bearing contlnnes. Banking and currency ommUtee conaiders eaecutlve business. HOUSE Considers independent >,fficrs appropriation bill. Merchant marine comrallPr hearing •n radio. Way* and means committe: hearing on 'ariff revision. Agriculture committer hearing on amending grain standards act. Mllitarv affairs rommittee on Benecia, Cal., bridge bill. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—A determined attempt was started by Democratic drys in the senate today to boost the appropriation for prohibition enforcement from $13,500.000 to $38,500,000 against the will of Secretary of Treasury Mellon. While Republicans sat back and whispered that the Democrats were trying to play politics by maneuvering the administration into a difficult position, the Democrats attacked the present system of dry enforcement, charging Mellon with appointing the “wrong kind of men”; they said, too, that prosecutions against violators of the dry law were not always conducted in good faith. Harris Champions Move Senator Harris, an ardent dry Democrat from Georgia, championed the move for the increase when the Republicans Anally brought the Arst deficiency appropriation bill before the senate for action after four days’ delay. It was Harris’ amendment increasing the sum which was adopted by the appropriations committee in a 6 to 5 vote. The move seemed destined to fail for lack of Republican support. Mellon wrote the senate such an increase would jeopardize the budget and the increase could not be used effectively at this time, The Republicans generally agreed with Mellon. If, however, the Democrats get a dozen Republican votes they can force the appropriation through the senate. In this event it will be willed later in the house where the administration has an indisputable majority protected by rigid rules. Delay Cruiser Fight The naval cruiser bill was laid aside temporarily for consideration of the deficiency appropriation bill and other approriation bills which are to follow. Leaders of both houses desire now' to dispose of these supply measures to avoid filibusters on them in the closing days. In accordance with this idea the house spent the day adopting feonference reports on appropriation bills passed by the senate and considering the new independent offices appropriation bill. At the present rate of speed it is expected all the appropriation bills will be cleared before the last two weeks of the session.

SUES FOR $75,000 Woman Seeks Redress for Rail Injuries. Suits for $85,000 damages were filed in county courts Wednesday afternoon by two Indianapolis persons. Miss Mary Frank, 3777 North Meridian street, filed suit in circuit court seeking $75,000 from the Pennsylvania railroad for injuries she is alleged to have received w’hen she fell while leaving a train at the union station, June 25, 1927. The suit alleged the platform was slippery. that no attendant was at the car to assist her and that she was injured permanently when she fell. The Pullman Company and the Indianapolis Union Railway also were named defendants. Salem K. Feije, druggist, 2101 North Harding street, asked SIO,OOO for the death cf his son, Edward, 7, who fell into an acid vat owned by the American Leather Products Company. VETERANS BLOC FORMS IN STATE ASSEMBLY Legislature Group to Study Needs of Ex-Service Men. An organized veterans' group has •made its appearance in the general assembly with the aim of studying legislative proposals from the viewpoint of former service men. The preliminary meeting was called by Representative John W. Scott of Gary. The group conferred with the budget committee on the $1,000.000 appropriation asked for the Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans home at Knightstown for the two-year period. It is hoped to finance erection of a day nursey. a cottage for boys, a cottage for girls, a power plant and school equipment, though the budget appropriation. _____ - exactly suits elderly PERSONS Teasing, harassing coughs, tickling in the throat, and ehausting. nervous hacking are immediately relieved by Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound. Hold the dose low in the throat a short time before swallowing. Its accurate of pure pine tar. fresh laxative honey, together with other valuable medicinal ingredients is wonderfully healing to cold-inflamed tissues of throat and bronchials. and easily clears away irritating phlegm. No opiates, no chloroform. Try it. All Haag Drug Stores.— Advertisement

If Held Up Ask Bandit to Pose for a Cartoon

The Bandit Victim Provides City Police With Memory Sketch of Robber.

Police work would be easier if all bandit victims w r ere cartoonists. Robert White, 1127 North Capitol avenue, not only supplied police with a good description of the bandit who held him up Wednesday night, but today drew a sketch of the bandit to aid in the thief hunt. The bandit held up White and Jess Lively, 950 North Illinois street, in the entrance of the Pasadena apartments, Eleventh and Illinois streets. The bandit got only 50 cents from Lively. White at first believed he had lost only $4 and a $23.44 Stutz Motor Company pay check, but later discovered the bandit also had taken three $lO bills hidden in another pocket. FIND ‘BANDITS’ AUTO PARTY, CAR IN DITCH Sheriffs Dash to Scene After Excited Motorist Escapes. Six deputy sheriffs made a fast run to Hermond hill, two miles south of Maywood, at midnight when an excited motorist phoned bandits had attempted to hold him up. The bandits had stretched a rope across the road, but he drove through the barricade and escaped, the motorist said. The deupty sheriffs found Ed and Walter Abel, brothers. 1200 Olive street, and their wives. Their large sedan had skidded deep into the ditch. They had attempted to signal the motorist, who called the sheriff’s office with flashlights, but he had dashed through the tackle, breaking up the apparatus. SEE K~575,000 M£MO RIAL Plan Bill to Honor James B. Gresham of Evansville. Bill for the appropriation of $75,000 for the erection of the memorial tomb in Evansville, to James Bethel Gresham, first American soldier to be slain in the World war is being drafted by Representative George W. Freeman of Kokomo, and will be introduced soon.

f US E n S the s afe Ihey 1C fill matchf w orcon t ras t They’re finely tailored to be a S HfH com Panion I OB to coat an<^ ill nv Worsteds and cassimeres, $£.95 instead of various \3= = prices up to $lO Third noor a Go, 33 is 32 wot Washington Street.

COURTESY CARD ‘GAG’ OF POLICE CHIEFS BARED ‘Protection’ Given Autoist If He Purchased Ad in 'Year Book. Dozens of “courtesy cards” which recipients were led to believe would get them out of petty troubles with police throughout the estate have been issued in the last two years to business men throughout Indiana by the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police, it was disclosed today by the Better Business Bureau. The bureau also announced that 1929 officials of the association, after conferences with bureau representatives. have agreed that the practice will be discontinued. Association officials said that they had countenanced the practice of representatives going about the state selling “space” in what was termed the association “year book” and giving the space buyers the courtesy cards in return. 58.500 Receipts on Book The bureau has on file a score or more of letters from Indiana business houses admitting purchase of space and receipt of courtesy cards. The bureau estimated that receipts on the 1928 year book must have been about $8,500. Extracts from some of these letters are: “We already have found the courtesy cards of value even at great distances from home. And in this city, where truck drivers often are forced to park double to save time, we believe that they are of considerable help.” “Yes, he did offer us a membership card and stated that the card would be a protection to us while out driving.” “We inserted our ad in this publication and paid therefore the sum of sls. In return, he gave us a membership card which he said might help us in event that we should be arrested in any strange city, or would lend us some prestige in procuring bond.” Card Is “Protection” “He left us a blue card, stating it would be a protection while driving in any part of the state. Edward Foster i the representative who called on us.” "They gave us a card each year and the representative said if we used it in travel and happened to run a stoplight or commit some minor offense, we could present this card and the chief would be lenient. “Our experience has not been so good with them, as they made a number of promises that, no doubt, could not be filled and we believed at the time could not be filled, but under the circumstances were were compelled to contribute. “The money they receive is in the form of a contribution, receipt of which is acknowledged by a card offering ‘police procetion’ while in the possession of any one in ou? organization.” Thomas M. Martin, present head of the association, is the official who assured the bureau that no more cards the being issued. ‘HAM’ LEWIS TO SPEAK Illinois Senator to Address Dinner of State Bar Body. J. Hamilton Lewis, former United States senator from Illinois, will be the principal speaker at a dinner this evening at the Columbia Club of the Indiana State Bar Association. The dinner follows a meeting this afternoon of the association at 2 o’clock.

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Facsimile of “courtesy card” which the Better Business Bureau says was issued to many Indiana business men who had bought space in the police chiefs year book, and were promised, by innuendo, and sometimes directly, that they would be treated leniently by police in cases of minor law violations in return.

STATE RESTS IN MURIO TRIAL Danville Farmer Charged With Killing Relative. Bn United Press DANVILLE. Ind., Jan. 17.—Trial of William Nichols, 59, farmer, charged with the murder of his 68-year-oid brother-in-law, Ora Whitten. was continued in circuit court here today. The state has rested its case. The state failed to introduce any direct evidence in support of its first degree murder charge, due to the fact that Mrs. Cora Whitten, only witness to the shooting, was not placed on the stand. It was considered likely that she would be used as a rebuttal witness. The defense wove its case around self-defense. Nichols was alleged to have killed Whitten after an argument over the care of Whitten’s lather. LAWRENCE IS SPEAKER Political Writ'.r Addresses Kiwanis Club on Government Business. Greater co-operation between business leaders and government under the new administration, was forecast Wednesday by David Lawrence, political writer, at Kiwanis Club luncheon at the Claypool. “Already the co-operation of the government with businses has meant the saving of millions of dollars annually. The Department of Commerce is constantly obtaining figures and facts that are being turned over to the business world to stimulate trade at home and abroad,” Lawrence said.

“While They Last” Please note—these prices hold good only while quantities last. (Store opens at 8:30.) (Just 10) T ai 1 or e and Suits, navy * gfl A blue; up to $35 values— 1 / (Just 10) Chinchilla Coats, were * gfl fl% $25 and $35 $ j (Just 11) Coats, formerly sls and gfl $25; while they P 1 last (Just 20) Dresses of various fabrics, m* pleasing models; $ while they last.. 1,000 Pairs of Our $1.95 and $2.25 Silk Hose for Women and Misses Pointed Heels $1.35 Full asldoned Sheer iff I Chiffon

'29 CHEVROLET PLANSMAPPED Sales Meeting Attended by 500 Dealers. Officials of the Chevrolet Motor Company left for Knoxvilie, Tenn., Wednesday night, after concluding one of the most successful auto sales meetings ever conducted in Indiana. Five hundred representative business men of the state, including Chevrolet dealers, their assistants and bankers attended the meeting, concluding with a banquet and entertainment at the Claypool last night. M. D. Douglas, assistant general sales* manager, officiated at the banquet. Douglas’ assistants included J. P. Little, manager of parts and service; Sidney Corbett, manager of fleet and truck division; W. G. Lewellen, sales promotion manager; L. L. Linehan, assistant manager of dealer finance and accounting, and J. D. Devine of the Detroit zone sales organization. C. P. Fisken, zone sales manager, was host. Douglas’ address concerned the Chevrolet program for 1929. He stated that this year Chevrolet would build 1,250,000 automobiles. FIRES AT PROWLER s Wife Sees Man Peeping Through Window. Harry Wenz, '1516 East Tenth street, fired two shots at a prowler Wednesday night who was seen by Mrs. Wenz peeping through a window. Police traced the man a short distance in the snow but lost the trail.

And Now for the Greatest DRESS SALE—> in the Selling Out Sale THEY’RE NEW! THEY’RE FRESH! The Maker Refused to Accept Cancellations They’re in the Smart Fashions for Spring! THEY’RE VALUES THAT HO OTHER STORE CAH APPROACH! for the reason that no other store is compelled TO SELL OUT—and to take the terrific reductions that are absolutely necessary to dispose of every dollar’s worth of goods. New Spring Dresses New Spring Dresses $12.7a to Sft.7s $19.75 $ .75 ysz o j| sis \S

DOWN GO COAT PRICES!

Women’s and misses’ coats—the last word in smartness—at prices that will startle Indianapolis. Were $39.75 to $49.75 Were $69.75 to $89.75 22 .75 $32 .75 25 West Washington Street

TEACHERS 1 BILL PROVES LARGE BITE FOR HOUSE • Fifteen New Acts Tossed in Lawmaking Mill at Session. Teacher tenure repeal and utility valuation were big morsels in the mouthful of legislation bitten off today by the house of representatives. Fifteen bills were introduced in a brief morning session and sent to committee to join the twenty-two referred to them Wednesday. Outright repeal of the teacher tenure law enacted in 1927 was the object of the measure introduced by Representative Harlan R. Denton (Dem., Owen and Putnam) and John w. Shaffer (Rep.. Greene). It was sent to the committee on education. The utilities measures, backed by farmers’ organizations and introduced by Representatives Truman G. Murden 'Rep. Cass), and Charles M. Trowbridge (Rep. Henry and Rush) would require that for purposes of taxation, the value of a utility could not be less than its valuation for rate making purposes. The bill went to judiciary A committee of which J. Glenn Harris (Rep. Lake), is chairman. Creation of an old age assistance commission of three members, appointed by the Governor, and of old age assistance boards of seven in eac’-> county to administer a pension, not exceeding $1 a day, to indigent persons over 60 would be provided by a bill introduced by Representative Thomas A. E. Cantwell, Terre Haute. The measure carries an appropriation of $50,000 annually and would require counties to share expansion of the pension system equally with the state. It was sent to judiciary B. committee. Creation of separate superior courts in Delaware and Grant counties is proposed in two bills introduced by Representatives Isaac N. Trent, Sam J. Farrell, Oran W. Cromer and J. C. Knight of the affected counties. The two are now joined in the Delaware-Grant judicial circuit. • M U RDER GUILT ~DEN lED FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 17.—Three men, all of Muncie, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging them with the murder of Clem Foley, local grocery clerk, when 'hey appeared before Judge Sol A. Wood, in circuit court here. The men, Lawrence Thompson, Wayne Williams, and Carroll Cooper, were granted separate trials. Thompson’s trial will be held Jan. 28. Williams’ Feb. 11 and Cooper’s Feb. 27.

CITY MAN ON NATIONAL FURNITURE COMMITTEE Carl A. Taylor Appointment Follows Chicago Convention. Carl A. Taylor, head of the Taylor Carpet Company, today received notice of his appointment as vicechairman of the executive commit-

tee of the National Retail Furniture Association by lerman Schoenfid of Seattle, sash., president f the N. R. F. A. The appointment follow's the national convention of the association o Chicago last e e k, when ■hoenfeld was tosen to succeed tssell H. Tarr of ampa. Fla., as head of the orga-

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nization. Taylor long has been active in furniture activities in a national way, and is at present also state chairman for Indiana in the national home furnishings campaign, the four-year advertising and merchandising project of the entire home furnishings industry. In his new post he will be a member of the body which generally supervises all the activities of the association, and also will serve in an advisory capacity. PR |TZ IS CLEARED Name Cleared of Charge in Holdup Probe. Court records exonerated Nathaniel Pritz. 25. of 317 North Riley avenue, today of any connection with the $6,000 poker game holdup at Louisville. Pritz was arrested last week on vagrancy and fugitive from justice charges as one of the alleged poker game bandits. Governor Harry G. Leslie refused to grant extradition of Pritz to Kentucky when a number of witnesses testified before the Governor that Prtiz was at his home here the night of the holdup. Louisville witnesses failed to appear at a hearing in municipal court and the fugitive and vagrancy charges were dismissed. Pritz throughout denied the holdup and declared he was the victim of a case of mistaken identity. Louisville authorities also are seeking custody of Urban Pope, 1125 Shannon avenue, alleged rum runner, as one of the poker game bandits. They have obtained extradition papers from Governor Leslie. Pianos of all makes are offered at bargain prices in the Musical classification of tonight’s want ads. Look these over.

BANDIT STORMS AFGHAN RULER'S LASTJJEFENSES Son of Water Carrier May Become King: Invades Capital With Army. Bn United Press LONDON, Jan. 17.—Beyond the narrow heights of Kliyber pass, at the gates of t'ne capital of Afghanistan, a swarthy bandit chief lay siege to the throne of a Moslem kingdom today in the name of the prophet and by the power of a ruthless sword. Bacha Sako, brigand son of a water-carrier, led his combined force of outlaws from the Charikar district and religious fanatics from the Shinwari tribes past the outer defenses of Kabul Wednesday night. Subsequent official advices received today said Bacha Sakao now controls all of Kabul except the Arg, or citadel in the center of the city, where the government forces still held out. Apparently the bandit leader’s drive to topple the newlycrowned king Inayatullah from his throne was succeeding. The fate of the king was uncertain. A border rumor said he and his brother, Amanullah, who abdicated in his favor a few days ago. had been captured. Amanullah, however, was understood to have taken refuge in Kandahar, his stronghold, and the authenticity of the rumor was doubtful. The government airdrome and wireless station near the city fell Into the hands of the rebels, according to the information reaching Peshawar, but it was understood at that time that foreigners in Kabul were not endangered. The Daily Express correspondent at Karachi, India, reported that the Moslem mullahs (priests) who spurred the revolt against the throne because of Amanullah’s attempt to introduce European dress and ideas into his kingdom, had joined with Bacha Sakao in the march of Kabul. They rallied the natives from the Jalalabad district and from near the Indian border to continue the revolt even after the king and his ambitious queen had fled from Kabul, and the reform campaign had been abolished. Observers here had predicted that King Inayatullah would be able to restore order in Afghanistan because of his influence with the mullahs. The reports reaching border cities late Wednesday night, however, indicated that the new king’s position was untenable and that the brigand chief was rapidly approaching a position from which he would be able to seize supreme authority.

Black Coats The smart, fashoinable black coats—with black furs. Were $39.75 and $45 £?* s26= Were $69.75 •fir $30.75 Were $95 *2s* SCQJS Plenty of large sixes In each group.

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