Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1929 — Page 2

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CONGRESS WILL VOTE BIG GAIN IN DEFENSE FUNDS Military Establishments to Cost 796 Millions Next Year. SENATE crnUrr bill. Conlder war department appropriation bill. Public land, committee brine polled on Walsb Salt Creek leaae report. HOUSE Continue* consideration of nary appropriation bill. War* and means committee bearing on tariff revision. Military affair* committee bearing on leasing Muse'r Shoal*. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Pres* SUIT Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—Military establishments next year will cost more than $796,000,000, it became j apparent today when the senate and j house resumed work on the war and navy departments appropriations bills. This sum represents about $35,000,000 more than the budget bureau thought necessary and does not include more than $50,000,000 which congress intends to spend on new cruisers. The navy department appropriaton bill now up in the house for debate would authorize an expenditure of nearly $350 000.000, about $15,000,000 less than the appropr’ tions for last year and $1,600,000 under the budge:. Total to Be Boosted Its total, however will be materially increased before it passes the house and then boosted again when the senate adds more amendments later. , The war department bill which fc/ill pass the senate either late today or early next week carries $447,000,|OOO or nearly $100,000,000 more than provided for the navy. This discrepancy is in part due to the rivers pncl harbors provisions of the war department bill. Its total represents an increase of $49,000,000 more than was spent in the war department this year and $544,000 more than the budget bureau estimated would be necessary next year. This total, too, is to be increased materially before the bill reaches the hands of the President. The figures are particularly interesting in view of the recent “war talk” during the senate’s discussion of the naval cruiser building bill, a measure which contemplates a $174,000,000 naval building program in the next three years, i * Norris and Nye Protest The bill is to be passed late Monday under the agreement which has been reached by senate leaders. During the crusier discussion there have been many charges that the American defense system is inadequately provided for. Opponents of the bill spread their contentions on the record Friday, arguing the national defense system already is sufficiently strong to withstand attack. Senators Nye and Norris of the farm bloc told the senate the money of taxpayers is being used to fight an ethereal war with Great Britain. They did not believe the construction program either is advisable or necessary. THOUSANDS HAVE CASH COMING FROM U. S. Many Pay Into Retirement Fund, Fail to Collect. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—Fifty thousand persons in the United States can have an average of S2O each from the government merely by asking for it. But they dont ask. They are former employes of the United States who paid from 2% to per cent of their monthly salaries into a retirement fund and Uien, evidently, forgot it. The retirement divsiiion of the pension bureau is trying to locate them. Nearly all these persons, the bureau exploined, remained in the government service but a short time and then went elsewhere When they left they either forgot the money they had paid to the retirement fund or else left it with the government thinking it would draw interest. But it does not. SAN WOMEN’S COATS Communists Want Harmful Rule Abolished in Caucasus. TTFLIS. U. S. S. R„ Feb. I. Certain of the Caucasian tribes women, as a sign of their inferior position, are not permitted to wear heavy coats of any sort. As the weather gets quite cold for long periods, the custom entails great suffering and leads to an abnormal death rate among women. “Give a coat to the woman!” is the war cry recently adopted by communist organiaztions in such regions. To encourage women to break through the old superstition, tee communist party is distributing coat* on credit, giving women a year in which to pay for their new freedom.

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Youngest Radio ‘Dealer

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Thomas M. Hunter Jr., 17 months old, is claimed by Fayetteville, N. C„ as its youngest radio fan, while the hundreds of Philco dealers throughout the United States claim him not only as their youngest salesman, but one of the first in the country to sell the new console model by which he is standing. After Thomas had connected the aerial, plugged in his AC cord and tuned in, he persuaded Mrs. Thomas C. Leak of Fayetteville that it was the only set for her to buy.

Legislative Calendar

House bills introduced: H. B. 21G. Rice of Huntington— Providing for enlargement of powers of city courts in cities of fourth class by granting criminal jurisdiction and civil jurisdiction in cases not exceeding SI,OOO. Cities and towns. H. B. 217. Scott of Lake—Permitting municipally owned waterworks to Issue bonds by ordinance for additions and extensions. Emergency for city of Valparaiso. Judiciary B. H. B. 218. Scott of Lake—Authorizing first, second, third and fourth class city councils to enact ordinance registering and licensing building, plumbing contractors. Judiciary B. H. B. 219. Worley—Reguiring county institution superintendents to file annual inventory. Judiciary B. H. B. 220. Fisher—Permitting raising and lowering of lake levels on petition. Rivers and waters. H. B. 221. Wright—Permitting reduction of capital stock values of petroleum pipe line corporations at special meetings. Emergency. Judiciary B. H. B. 222. Knepper and King—Providing for annual registration and licensing of water craft by secretary of state and regulations concerning their operation. Effective June 1, 1929. Rights and privileges. H. B. 223. Street and McKesson Transferring collection and incidental work in connection with state inheritance investigations from state tax board to state auditor’s office. Judiciary A. H. B. 24. Garrard—Providing for Increase of state gasoline tax from 3 cents to 5 cents with flat four-year, pleasure-car license fee of $1 and graduates fees for other cars. Roads. H. B. 225. Hawkins—Giving county superintendents authority to hold county institutes for teachers at own discretions instead of monthly as now required. Education. H. B. 26. nouglass—Providing for testing of motor oil by food and drug commissioner to insure purity and giving same official sales regulatory authority. Rights and privileges. H. B. 227. Freeman, Cromer and Murden—Amendatory. Removing rural teachers from effect of 1927 teacher-tenure law and making It apply to first, second, third and fourth-class cities. H. B. 228. Lee and Chamberlain—Providing that washhouses for employes must be maintained at mines by operators and providing penalty for violation. Mines and mining. H. B. 229. Taylor. Shaffer and Staples —Amendatory. Providing that funds apportioned to counties from gas tax receipt be credited to budget and free gravel road repair fund appropriation of each county. Roads. House resolutions adopted: H. R. 1. Freeman—Requiring state highway commission to supply legislature with detailed statement of finances. Adopted viva voce. House bills on third reading: H. B. 66. Scott of Lake —Substituting “Children’s” for “Orphans’ ” in name of Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors’ Orphans Home. Ayes. 93; noes, O. H. B. 74. Gilbert—Authorizing cities, towns and counties to acquire forest tracts for public reservations to be operated under control of the department of conservation. Ayes, 95; noes, 0. H. B. 95. Claycombe—lncreasing time for filing of license by storage, transfer, and warehouse companies from ten to thirty days. Ayes. 92; noes, 0. H. B. 102. Ferguson of Allen—Providing that second-class cities should have population of between 35,000 to 250.000, increasing maximum figure. Ayes, 97; noes. 0. H. B. 106. McGriff—Requiring county record of chattel mortgages. Ayes. 39; noes, 3. H. B. 107.Knepper— Lowering minimum age limit for caddies from 16 to 14. Ayes, 89: noes. 3. H. B. 108. Scott of Lake—Creating nine-member commission to represent Indiana at Chicago world’s fair in 1933. Ayes. 94; noes, 1. H. B. 111. Eshelman Authorizing I fourth and fifth class cities to appoint ' board of hospital governors to accept and

manage gifts, donations and bequests. Ayes, 93; noes, 0. H. B. 124. Ahlgren—Providing salary of between *2,400 and $4,000 for mayors of fourth class cities having assessed valuation of more than *29,000,000, with salary to be fixed by common councils. Ayes, 88; noes, 10. House bills indefinitely postponed: H. B 151. Thompson—Providing cities and towns pay for street resurfacing instead of through assessment of abutting property owners. Cities and towns. House bills withdrawn: H. B. 87. Lee and Zimmerman—Requiring railroads to fix safety precautions at crossings designated by public service commission and regulating safety precautions by motorists, with penalty for nonobservance. Senate action on bills: S. B. 26. Pell—Permitting the state to take over the estate of a person confined in a charitable or benevolent institution, who has no dependents or near relatives to pay for his maintenance. Ayes, 39: noes, 5. S. B. 35. Holmes—Cutting time of closing estates from one year to months at discretion of court and requiring claims to be filed against estate within six months. Ayes. 43; noes, 1. S. 8.57. Walter—Permitting officers and directors of trust companies and insurance and surety companies to obtain loans from institutions with which they are associated, upon execution of a note. Ayes, 44; noes, none. S. B. 69. Moorhead, Lockhard —Transferring control of the Butlerville Feebled minded colony from trustees of the State School for the Feebleminded Youth, Ft. Wayne, to board of four trustees, to be named by the Governor. Ayes, 32; noes. 15. S. B. 83. Moorhead—Authorizing appointment by the Governor of four trustees, not neccessarily war veterans, to govern the Knightstown Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home. Ayes. 43; noes, 3. Concurrent Resolution 5. Beckett—Providing for removal of the body of James Gresham, first American World war soldier killed in France, to the World war memorial, Indianapolis, from Evansville. Ayes. 27: noes not called. QIL INQUIRY ORDEREO Federal Trade Board Will Sift Practices. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—The federal trade commission will turn its attention to the petroleum industry in the next few weeks and scrutinize some of the practices, that have caused trouble in different parts of the country. It has called a conference Feb. 11 in St. Louis, at which seven specific questions, and probably others not on the official program, will be discussed. Representatives of the American Petroleum institute and gas and oil dealers from all parts of the country will attend. The seven questions are: Interference with existing contracts, substitution of one grade of product for another, lottery schemes, sales from tucks, regulation of loaning or leasing gas pumps, tanks and equipment, discontinuance of such practice as building of driveways and other extraordinary free servile: sing filling stations at abnormally low rents or subleasing such stations for the purpose of price cutting or rebating. MODEL STUDENT HAS WONDERFUL RECORD Youth, Absent Two Days in Four Years, Wins Many Honors. Bu United Press MILL VALLEY, Cal., Feb. 1. Karl Hanson, 16. was the model student of Tamalpais Union high school. Here is his record: 1. Absent only two school days out of four years (absence due to a broken arm). 2. Has 237 school credits when only 175 are needed for gr aduation. 3. Has numerous citizenship credits for participation in school activities. 4. Was class valedictorian. 5. Was life member of school’s honor society. And— Was in senior play, received let- ! ter for playing basketball; has been reportin'* news for San Francisco and San Rafael papers; has Boy i Scout merit .badges; was secretary !of Sunday school class, and does “odd Jobs” on Saturdays. y

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STEWART HITS AT JOHN 0. SR. FORJHLSTAND ‘Deliberately Misinformed/ Aged Financier Is Told. B v United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—The latest statement of Colonel Robert W. Stewart, in his proxy war with John D. Rockefeller Jr., for control of the Stand , and Oil Company of Indiana, was jeen as anew challenge today to the power of the Rockefellers. Stewart, whose campaign for reelection as chairman of the board of the Indiana Standard Comoany is opposed by Rockefeller Jr., addressed his latest challenge directly to John D. Rockefeller Sr., aged oil wizard. The statement replied to a recent one of Rockefeller Sr., and charged the latter had been “deliberately misinformed” concerning the fight between his son and the Standard chairman. Letter to Rockefeller The letter sent to Ormond Beach, Fla., where the senior Rockefeller is spending the winter, read: “You are credited in the press with having made a statement as follows: “ ‘The press has several times reported a statement from Colonel Robert W. Stewart to the effect that John D. Rockefeller Sr., would be pleased by the re-election of Colonel Stewart as a director of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Rockefeller has been informed that many people in the west have been misled by this report.’ “It is evident you have been misinformed in regard to the facts. I never have made such a statement, either publicly or privately. The only statement in regard to yourself that I evet have made is that I would not believe you were opposing me for re-election until I had positive proof of that opposition. Cites His Long Record “I made this statement, believing that the loyal and honest support I have given you and your associates for so many years, and through most trying times, would prevent your opposing me for re-election, especially when every director of this company and the entire organization, who know all the facts, are practically solid for my re-election. “I could have understood the silence of a father under the circumstances. Can not understand your making this statement unless you have been deliberately misinformed.” Some observers believed the reproachful nature of Stewart’s reply to Rockefeller, Sr., Indicated his confidence of victory over Rockefeller, Jr., in the annual meeting of stockholders at Whiting, Ind., March 7, It was said Stewart hardly would have dared make the charge that Rockefeller, Sr„ had been “deliberately misinformed” unless he was certain he held the upper hand. FAVORS INCOME TAX Senate Adopts Report for Referendum on Act. Referendum on a constitutional amendment giving the legislature authority to levy an income tax was approved *by the Indiana senate Friday on adoption of a favorable report of its committee on constitutional revision. The senate is adjourned to reconvene Monday at 10 a. m. Other measures favorably reported in the senate included those to establish a charter board of four members, appointed by the Governor; to provide for appointment of a state banking commissioner by the charter board so created; to create a tax-studying commission to investigate the feasibility of substituting a sales tax for state property taxes. Over the vigorous opposition of Vanderburgh county’s two senators, Bruce E. Cooper and French Clements, the senate voted to remove the body of James Bethel Gresham, first Hoosier killed in the World war, ! from Evansville to the World War Memorial in Indianapolis. OPERATE WITH MAGNET Take Steel Bullet From War Veteran by Aid of Instrument, Bp United Press MONTREAL, Feb. 2.—An operation was performed here on a Canadian war veteran with a magnet. The vet had been troubled with a bullet in his lung for ten years and it was in such a position that it could not be reached with forcepts. A powerful magnet was held on his chest to attract the nickeljacketed bullet to a point within reach of the surgeon’s instruments.

John Smith and the Rest What does your family name mean, and how did your family get it? Our Washington bureau has taken from the directories of largest cities the five hundred commonest surnames in the United States today, and compiled from the best authorities information on the origins and meanings of these names. There is an interesting history of how names originated, a compilation showing the rank in numbers of the principal family names in the United States and an alphabetically arranged list of 500 names, showing the language, origin and meaning. Fill out the coupon below and send for copy of the bulletin. CLIP COUPON HERE HISTORY EDITOR. Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin SURNAMES and inclose herewith five cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover postage and handling costs. NAME STREET AND NO . CITY.. STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.) t -

Fliers Save Women in Afghan Revolt

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British aviators rescued twenty white women—among them an American bride—who were trapped in Kabul, Afghanistan, when the fierce Shinwaris revolted against King Amanullah. A group of refugees are pictured here being welcomed upon their safe arrival in Peshawar, India. The American woman was Mrs. Carol Isaacson, who was in Kabul on her honeymoon. She, incidentally, snapped this picture for NEA Service and the London Times.

GARY THIRD IN INDIANA CITIES Only Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne Larger. (Copyright, 1829, by Newspaper Feature Bureau) WHEELING, W. Va„ Feb. 2. Estimates of population of forty Indiana cities for 1929, announced here today by the Newspaper Feature Bureau, show the state’s five largest cities in the order named, are: Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Gary, South Bend and Evansville. Figures on the 1920 census of the cities and the 1929 estimates are as follows: IQOA IQ9Q Anderson 29,767 49.445 Eedford 9,076 19,059 Bloomington 11,595 22,030 Brazil 9,293 10,022 Clinton 10,962 12,068 Columbus 8,990 10,114 Connersville 9,901 13.861 Crawfordsvllle 10,139 11,406 Elkhart 24,277 36,416 Elwood 10,790 13,164 Evansville 85,264' 109,138 Ft. Wayne 86.549 118,572 Frankfort 11,585 14,471 Gary 55,378 116,279 Goshen 9,525 11,112 East Chicago 35,967 68,337 Hammond 36,004 68,408 Huntington 14,000 17,080 Indianapolis 314,194 411,594 Jeffersonville 10,098 16,157 Kokomo 30,067 40,089 Lafayette 22,486 26,982 La Porte 15,158 18,493 Logansport 21,628 23,780 Marion 23,747 31,663 Michigan City 19,457 28,796 Mishawaka 15,195 28,871 Muncie 36,524 51,134 New Albany 22.992 32,198 Newcastle 14,458 23,133 Peru 12,410 15,612 Princeton 7,132 10,698 Richmond 26,765 34,795 Shelbyville 9,701 10,871 South Bend 70,983 115,702 Terre Haute 66,083 77,097 Valparaiso 6,518 11,993 Vincennes 17,160 20,020 Wabash 9,872 10,858 Washington 8,743 12,240 BUDGET IS ORDERED Park, Sanitary, Health Groups to List Expenses. ' Park, sanitary and health departments of the city will be required to submit a budget of 1930 expenditures of the city council, James M. Ogden, attorney-general, held today. Ogden gave an opinion to Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner state board of accounts, who had received a request for a ruling from Oren S. Hack, city corporation counsel. The park, sanitary and health departments operate under a separate levy from the city general fund and in the past have not submitted detailed estimates. The three departments will be required to submit detailed budgets the same as other departments under the opinion, Hack declared. 80 TO BE ARRAIGNED IN CRIMINAL DIVISION Two Hit-and-Run Drivers Will Face Judge Collins. Eighty persons will be arraigned before Criminal Judge James A. Collins, Monday. The most important cases are those against George Sutton, 29, of 3303 West Tenth street, the hit-and-run driver whose car fatally injured Ethel Urquahart, 15, of 2922 West Tenth street, last Wednesday; another hit-and-run driver, Max Kos, charged with killing two street railway employes a month ago; and Tom Hindman, Negro charged with conspiracy in connection with the burglary of the Pettis Dry Goods store a month ago. One hundred and six persons, among them many who will be arraigned Monday, are awaiting criminal court action.

Queen’s ‘Pet’

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Whether the smile won the queen or the queen’s favor made her smile, this little girl has been adopted by Queen Mary of England as her special protegee at the Princess Mary Village Home at Addfleston, Surrey. Ivy (that’s all the name the orphan has) is holding a gift from her majesty.

HEADS STATE BODY Hardware Dealers Pick Tipton Man President. Charles C. Bryan, Tipton, was elected president of the Indiana Retail Hardware Association at the closing session today of their thirtieth annual convention and exposition in the Manufacturers building at the state fairground. Bryan succeeds Cecil W. Miles, Corydon. Other officers: A. G. Haydon, Rushville, first vice-president; I. O. Reinoehl, Kendallvilie, second vice-president, and G. F. Sheely, Indianapolis, re - elected secretary - treasurer. The retiring president automatically becomes a member of the association’s advisory board. Preceding the election, Charles I. Crawford of Waukegan, 111., spoke on “Control—the Ultimate Answer.” Rivers Peterson, Indianapolis, editor of The Hardware Retailer, official monthly publication of the National Retail Hardware Association, spoke on “The Hardware Man." Five hundred persons attended the association’s annual dinner dance Thursday night at the Columbia Club. HITS RUM FOR VOTES Use of liquor to influence elections is struck at in a bill prepared for introduction into the Indiana legislature by Representative Joseph R. Scott, New Albany. Both the dispenser and receiver of the liquor would be subject to SSO to SIOO fine and required to serve a thirty-day jail term, if the measure becomes law. It provides that the gift or acceptance of liquor as an inducement to influence the vote of any citizen for any candidate or measure in any i election be listed as a misdemeanor. The thirty-day jail term is made mandatory. TRADE, DON’T BUY FAGS Circumvent Sales Law by Purchasing “Something” You Don’t Want. Bu United Press LONDON, Feb. 2. The law against selling cigarets after 8 p. m. is strict, but a newspaper correpondent learned that he could buy something, equal to the worth of ; the pack of cigarets, decide he didn’t ■ want the “something” after all, and then exchanged it to* the cigarets.

HOOSIER EXHIBIT AT PLANE SHOW Anderson Company Displays Motor It Will Make. Bp Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 2.—The Wright-Tuttle Aircraft Motors Corporation of Anderson has a large display arranged for the national aircraft show to be held at the Grand Central place in New York next week. Officials of the company are already in New York preparatory to attending the show. They are V L. Wright, president; C. E. Tuttle, vice president, and C. M. Swoger secretary-treasurer. The display includes three radial Renard motors, made in Belgium, and which are also to be manufactured by the Wright-Tuttle corporation; an R. S V. monoplane and aircraft parts, the latter made by the Anderson company. At conclusion of the show, the Renard motors will be shipped here and used as models from which others will be made by the local concern. Air Mail Load Is Heavy A total of 650 pounds of air mail was dispatched from the Indianapolis postoffice in January, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson announced today. January was a bad month for aviation, the mail planes' being untable to fly because of bad weather seven days. During the last year, the first year of Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Chicago air mail route was in operation, Indianapolis dispatched a total of 6,013 pounds of air mail, an average of 501 pounds a month. PROPOSE BATHINGToOL NEAR FAIRGROUND A huge swimming pool, 80x300 feet, may adjoin the state fairground next summer, if plans of the state board of agriculture and a group of business men interested in the project materialize. Attorney-General James M. Ogden today gave an opinion that the board of agriculture has the legal right to lease for twenty years a four-acre site east of the fairground on the other side of the Millersville road, where the proposed pool would be built.

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FEB. 2, 1929

HOOVER'S WORK/ IS HIS PLAT—EXCEPT FISHING Florida People Wonder Over Man Who Scorns Golf Links, Beaches. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent LONG KEY, Fla., Feb. 2.—People in Florida's resort region, except perhaps the confirmed fishermen among them, are wondering Just what sort of man President-Elect Hoover may be. There are many multimillionaires in Florida’s resort centers, men whose lives have rim in the same channels as Hoover’s in amassing their fortunes, who have come here to play. They follow, if they do not participate actively in, the numerous sports that may be enjoyed here. They are puzzling over Hoover, after studying him from a distance for nearly two weeks. Cares Not for Beaches He has fished, and done that in a thorough businesslike manner. But he has not played, as they play. There is a beautiful beach near the Hoover winter home, and fine bathing. Hoover has not been near the beach. There are many splendid golf courses about Miami. The Presi-dent-elect does not play golf, and has no intention of beginning. The horses run every afternoon at Hialeah Park. Hoover has not visited there, and won’t. There are dog races at two tracks every night. The colorful crowd there has not included Mr. Hoover, and won’t. Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion of the world, has turned promoter to stage the first big fight in Florida—the SharkeyStribling bout. Hoover is not interested in prize-fighting. He will not attend the fight if he still is in Florida at the time. Big Contrast to A1 The President-elect does not care for motion pictures. He usually was among the screen audience on the two battleships which carried him to and from South America, but he left ordinarily after a reel or two. The fact is, Hoover does not play. His work is his play, except for fishing. The true fisherman can understand his devotion to that, and by the same token, perhaps, his failure to take interest in any other sport but that. Miami people have noted a contrast in Alfred E. Smith, Hoover’s defeated rival, who has golfed, gone bathing and Friday afternoon attended the horse races. HOSPITALTO GET AID | City Offered $50,000 to Outfit Institution. An Indianapolis organization Is understood to have offered the city health board a donation of about $50,000 to aid in equipping the proposed out-patient unit at city hospital. A doctor, representing a group of public spirited citizens, made the proposal to Mayor L. Ert Slack several weeks ago, according to City Hall reports. Slack cqnferred with Dr, William A. Doeppers, hospital superintendent Thursday, but neither would discuss the conference. It is likely that the $450,000 hospital power plant and another unit west of the present surgery building will be the first steps in the city hospital building program. The present research laboratory also will be expanded. The superstition that it is unlucky to be married in May originated with the ancient Greeks.