Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1929 — Page 3

FEB. 16, 1929-

ONE BILL SIGNED BY LESLIE IN MONTH OF LEGISLA TURE

MEASURES FIND ROCKY ROAD TO DESK OF CHIEF City Interest Focuses on Mangled Manager Law Now in Committee. TAX DRAFTS PEND Primary Revision Seems to Be Riding for Fall. Bl’ ROBERT BEARD One lone bill of the 660 introduced had been signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie when legislators today adjusted their calendars to the thirty-eighth day of the seventysixth general assembly. Although only one bill had been approved—the legislative approprial ion measure, first bill introduced—three others lay on the Governor’s desk and a score or more were expected to reach him in the coming week. Hundreds of others straggling along the devious legislative pathway, already littered with “the dead and dying.” Manager Bill Mangled For Indianapolis, the house fight on the tfoll city manager amendment bill held greatest interest in the week's developments. The bill, sadly amended by its opponents, will spend the week-end in Judiciary A committee while its friends concoct remedies to be administered when it is brought back on the floor next week. Permanent registration of voters as proposed ir tpe.hopse bill, drafted and , supported by the Indiana League of Women Voters, survived the fight precipitated by a divided elections commitAee report. But the margin of victory was narrow and its success is regarded dubious. From Representative Harold R. Donnell, elections chairman, bitter opponent of the women's bill, came a measure representing his idea of safeguarding the ballot by permitting the selection of watchers at the polls upon petition of ten candidates of one party. Despite protests from Indianans in Washington, D. C., the house measure proposing to create a commission for obtaining and transmitting their ballots was wiped off the calendar.

Tobacco Tax Proposed With evident disregard for Governor Leslie's wishes in the matter, the house likewise killed the AdamsByers bill to broaden reviewing powers pfcjbhtrstatg, tax board. ■ And although representatives were remiiidqd of Leslie’s and former Governor Ed Jackson’s recommendation of another $5,00.000 annually for the highway department, they all but killed the 1-cent gasoline tax increase bill on a divided report; Second reading will see a renewal of hostilities. Return of the divided report, prepared two Weeks ago. indicated the road committee’s evident satisfaction with Highway Superintendent John D. Williams’ explanation of administrative costs which consumed 3.71 per cent of , the $16,000.000 expended by the highway commission in the last fiscal year. Most important of new house bills introduced were those sponsored by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, proposing to raise $2,250,000 from a tobacco tax and $1,750,000 annually from an amusement tax. That opposition will not be wanting when reports are returned. was indicated at hearings when tobacco dealers declared the tobacco bill would all but put them out of business, and theater owners insisted the amusement tax would be equally disastrous. Protestants of bath classes insisted the bills will not return the expected revenue.

Armory Report Waited Os special licensing measures, the real estate licensing bill fared the j worst,- riding to a fatal fall on sec- j ond reading. The cosmetologists! and hairdressers’ licensing bill will be watched next week as it approaches the same hurdle. The barbers’ bill, largely rewritten by the house labor committee, awaits a real test of favor. Senate interest centered on activities of the armory building probe committee, revealing the intricacies of “high finance" applied to a state construction program. The' senate subcommittee's report is promised tor Mondry. Taking more interest in the income tax amendment bill than when it first passed the measure without due regard for rules, the senate passed the bill again and sent it to the house where the “farm bloc" will shove it toward passage. After juggling the hot-brick of primary "revision In the privacy ox committee room and caucus cliamber. majority leaders risked it on the floor of the upper house and narrowly averted disaster. Amended to eliminate district conventions and to provide the Australian ballot system. of voting lri state coni entions, the bill squeezed to second reading, while its opponents drew their lines. Republicans joining Democrats, for next chance at the measure. • - - Judge Pay Hike Denied A bill bearing signatures of twenty senators proposing a referendum in 1930 on primary revision did not help clarify the primary atmosphere. It increased doubt that the '•"Trent legislature will alter the mSuy one iota. The senate applied the ax to the bill proposing -increases in—judge* salaries, amounting, to sonvf >130,000 a year. The week passed without action on the workmen’s- compensation measure. There was wide discussion in both houses, but no action, * * ‘ i,7 ' '

Girl Outtalks 5 Brothers; Lawyer Now

Bp SB A Service Atlanta. Ga., Feb. 16.—The youngest woman lawyer in the United States is Miss Irma Von Nunes. At 19. she probably is the youngest lawyer of either sex, but the most remarkable thing about her career is that she never has been to law school. Georgia, it happens, does not require law school training for admission to its bar. A sufficient knowledge of the law is the only requirement. Nor must its attorneys have attained their majority. Irma was only 15 when she made three very important decisions: She was going to have a legal career; she was not going to keep house: she was not going to have a husband. Tliere were five brothers in the Nunes family, and Irma was the only girl. Maintaining the feminine viewpoint against such masculine opposition convinced her that she had the making of a good lawyer. If she could out-talk five brothers, w-asn’t’ it logical that she could convince ar ordinary jury? nan TILLOU VON NUNES. Irma’s father, is one of Atlanta’s best known attorneys. Irma

Congress at 31

David W. Hopkins, above, has been elected to succeed the late Charles L. Faust as congressman from the Fourth district of Missouri. Hopkins, who is 31, and a Republican, resigned as superintendent of schools at St. Joseph to make the race against Mayor Louis V. Stigall, Democrat, and won by nearly 3,000 votes.

DISCUSS JDOG POUND How Much Shall City Spend Puzzles Works Board. How much should the city spend for a dog pound? This question today baffled the board of public works, which has been asked to request of city council a $30,000 bond issue. “Why do we need to spend $30,000 for a dog pounds. Let's have some one Gome in and explain to us. It seems to me that SIO,OOO would be ample,” Emsley W. Johnson, board member said, when Oren S. Hack, corporation counsel, approached the board. Hack said Mayor L. Ert Slack desired that the board adopt the necessary resoution, asking council for the bond issue. SKYSCRAPER FOR. FILMS Warner Brothers to Erect Building on Broadway. Hu United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 16.—Warner brothers will erect a skyscraper office building containing a large motion picture theater, it was reported today. The site takes in almost all of the west front on Broadway from Fortyseventh to Forty-eighth street and includes the Strand theater which will be demolished.

ONLY ONE UNSIGNED i Bob Meusel Latest Yank to Send in in Contract. Bit United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Only one Yankee regular remained unsigned today after receipt by officials of the New York American League team of the signed contract of Bob Meusel, outfielder. Secretary Barrow of the Yankees, in announcing the signing of Meusel for the 1929 season, refused to disclose the identity of the one. player remaining outside the pale. It is believed here, however, that Earl Combs is the man. FIRE DAMAGES AUTOS Blaze in Hutchison Company Garage Is Mystery. Fire of undetermined origin in the Hutchison Automobile Company garage at 2330 Pierson avenue severely damaged, three cars stored in the garage Friday night.

i on the biennial budget appropria- . tion measure introduced in the lower house and proposing appropria-, ; tions of $55,000,000 for the next two ! years. While representatives killed the real estate dealers’ license bill, sen- | atoFS passed a measure for the li- : censing of insurance agents and sent it to the house. Revenue-producing bills, which must originate in the house, have not advanced tothe point of receiving senate consideration.

could have gone to boarding school, or college. She could have continued her study of music or French. She might have gone abroad. But as soon as she got her high school diploma, Irma showed up at her father’s office, pulled out a volume of Blackstone and began to read. She read for two years. No one was asked to teach her. With the aid of a comfortable chair and many a box of chocolates, she waded through that law r library until, last July, she announced herself ready for the bar examination. She passed, with a high rating. nun IN addition to arguments with her brothers. Miss Nunes gained her first legal training by accompanying her father to Fulton superior court. There she’d sit inside the railing, listening while he tried cases, and fairly soaking in the legal atmosphere. So the courtroom held few terrors for Irma when, immediately after admission to the bar, she began the practice of law- by trying a case before the Georgia supreme court. It was the first case in which a woman attorney ever had appeared before this highest tribunal. She won it. Now she has a regular professional practice and has an office with her father.

‘WANTED: MAN TO SELL MULES’ City Hunts for Auctioneer to Dispose of 31 Animals. Joel A. Baker, city purchasing agent, is hunting a good auctioneer who will work for nothing! Thirty-one mules have been advertised for sale Feb. 27, at the city's street-cleaning department oarns. Sealed bids were asked. But Emsley W. Johnson, board of w-orks member, thinks they should be sold at public action. “They’ll bring a lot more at public auction. Baker can go down there and cry them off himself. He don't need an auctioneer,” Johnson told Ernest F. Frick, board secretary. Frick and Theodore Dammeyer, board president, said there is no fund to pay the auctioneer. “You could have a peck of fun selling those mules. No one wants to bid on them, but lots of farmers would like one or two,” Johnson said. If the board, is not satisfied with the bids received they will be rejected and a public auction ordered. Meanw'hile, the roster of city officials will be checked to find a “former auctioneer.”

MISSIONARY TO SPEAK Sunday Meetings Will Close Church “Chautauqua.” The “pioneer Chautauqua.” Lung conducted at the Hillside Chi Jan church by J. if. Mohorter, head of benevolences of the Christian churches, will be closed Sunday. Mohorter told the story of twentyfive years of service among aged and orphans cared for by the church, Friday night. The Rev. C. M. Yocum, director of African missions for the Disciples of Christ, will occupy the pulpit Sunday morning and night. GULF LINKS PUSHED Dearborn Course to Be Ready by July. Harry Schopp, South Grove golf course manager, today announced that the new Dearborn park golf course will be completed in July, The park board delegated Schopp to design and lay out the new eigh-teen-hole course. It is located along Dearborn street between Thirtieth and Thirty-sixth streets. “The Dearborn course should be sportier than the presefit courses when it is completed. There is a natural roll to the ground that 'wall add to the value of the links,” Schopp declared. It will cost about SIO,OOO to de- ! sign and condition the links. Mayor L. Ert Slack is planning to enlarge the Sarah Shank course from nine to eighteen holes, if additional property can be acquired.

EVANGELIST PREACHES Nightly Services Held at Fountain Square Christian Church. Evangelical services are being conducted every night at Fountain Square Christian church by the Rev. R. E. Jope and evangelistic party. The series of meetings will end Feb. 24. “Memorial Stones” will be his Sunday morning topic and “Out of the Maze” the evening subject. STILL’S FUMES KILL TWO Men Die of Gas From LiquorMaking Plant. Bi/United Press WICHITA FALLS, Tex., Feb. 16. —J. I. Williams and L. B. Gross died of monoxide poisoning, the gas coming from burners under a still operated on Williams’ farm near here. Purdue Course for Bee Keepers Hit Timex Special LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Feb. 16—The annual bee keepers short course of Purdue university will begin Monday to continue three days. An interesting feature of the course will be a demonstration of anew honey grader.

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Irma Von Nunes . . . could out-talk five brothers, so wasn't it natural that she could convince an ordinary jury?

NAME -POP’ FLYNN AS , EXECUTIVE AT SEVERIN Succeeds William Wilis as Assistant Manager of Hotel. J. E. “Pop” Flynn, has been appointed assistant manager of the Severin hotel here, made vacant through the resigantion of Wililam Wells, to become manager of the Hotel Plankinton, Milwaukee, Wis. Flynn, know'll throughout the United States and Europe as “Pop,” was connected with several European hostelrys before coming to the Severin. He has been in the employ of the local hotel for the past several years, during which time he has held offices in numerous national hotel organizations. Flynn, w'hile a boy, had the experience of meeting the king of England and other notables.

STUDY HOUSING FOR NEW PLANT Real Estate Board to Survey Living Conditions. Housing conditions near the factory building at Gray and Washington streets, purchased by P. R. Mallory Company of Indiana, which will move here from the east, will be studied by a special Indianapolis Real Estate Board committee, appointed today. Members of the committee are George T. Wheldon, Paul L. McCord and L. C. Holtegel. The board, at its luncheon Thursday, indorsed activities of the Chamber of Commerce industrial commission in bringing the factory to Indianapolis The plant will employ about 875 men and women and will have a montly payroll of $70,000. The board reaffirmed its approval of proposed city manager law amendments now before the legislature and disapproval of efforts to cause difficulty in their enactment.

In Air Today

Parachute Saves Pilot By United Press MT. CLEMENS, Mich.. Feb. 16. Lieut. William Morgan saved his life by a parachute drop when his plane grazed the ship of Lieut. Robert Schoenlein as they were flying a mile high w r ith sixteen other Selfridge field pilots. Schoenlein managed to bring his damaged plane safely to the ground. Air By-Laws Drafted A constitution, by-laws and plan of organization will be presented for the Indiana Aircraft Trade Association at a meeting of Indiana dealers and operators Feb. 28. A committee, named at a meeting Thursday night at headquarters of Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, 957 North Meridian street, is composed of Captain H. Weir Cook, Curtiss general manager, L. H. Hottel, Capitol Airways traffic manager; A. E. Thompson, Marion; J. H. McConahey, Richmond; Paul Cox, Terre Haute; J. L. Blish. Seymour, and Harold C. Brooks, Hoosier Airport. Others present included Bob Shank, Hoosier Airport; Walter C. Davis, Richmond; R. R. Stevens, Marion; B. F. Swain, Seymour; Lieutenant Elmer H. Jose. Capitol Airways; Captain Charles E. Cox Jr., Walker W. Winslow- and Lieutenant Fred J. Maibucher, Curtiss Flying Sen-ice. SET WELFARE HEARING Session on Coynty Board Bill Slated for Tuesday. Hearing on the Moorhead bill to create a Marion county beard oi public welfare will be before the city of Indianapolis senate cpmmit- j tee at the statehouse at 4:P) p. m. j Tuesday, it was announced today.

MILK WAGON AND m CRASH Girl Injured When Vehicle Tongue Crashes Auto Wind An automobile-milk wagon crash early this morning at Ohio and Meridian streets severely injured Miss Catherine Radican, 18. of 2230 Morgan street, who was struck on the head by the tongue of the wagon which crashed through te window of the car in which she was riding. The car was driven by Clifford Pittman, 2233 Miller street. Miss Radican w r as taken to city hospital suffering from severe scalp w'ounds. Others in the accident escaped unhurt. The horses on the milk wagon, driven by W. E. Orwin, 4920 Brouse street, ran away after the mishap, but were halted by the driver at Ohio and Illinois street. VOTE BILL UP MONDAY Senate to Consider Registration Act Special Business. Voter registration will be a special order of business in the senate at 10:30 a. m. Monday. The bill to be considered is' the one backed by the Indiana League of Women Voters. It came to the senate flooor Friday afternon on a divided report from the elections committee. Majority committeemen favor passage of the measure. Chairman Winfield Miller of the elections committee, made the motion to give the matter special consideration Monday.

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CHICAGO STARTS SLASHING DRIVE AGAINST CRIME Public Clamor Stirs Police to Cleanup: Rackets •Must Go’ Is Edict. Ur V nihil Press CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Keyed to its highest pitch of indignation, public opinion clamored today for a purging of Chicago, a general housecleaning of the gangster element responsible for the murder of seven men on Valentine's, day. The result has been the greatest drive on crime in Chicago history, started with a bitter denunciation of the police by John A. Swanson, state's attorney. Calling his‘police captains before him. Swanson delivered a stinging indictment of their records, warned that “it is easier to send a policeman to jail than it is to send a gangster there.” He laid the entire blame for the shooting at the door of the police department and the sheriff’s office. Immediate activity throughout gangland resulted. Patrols were sent out to clamp down the lid on all drinking places, gambling houses and disorderly houses. Scores of men were taken to police headquarters for questioning. Police Link Denied Photographs of three Detroit gangsters were identified Friday night as those of three men who occupied a room in a house across the street from the garage where the men were murdered. Mrs. Michael Doody, who owns the rooming house, made the identification. Police believed tlie men might have been spies for the killers. A group of five men, leaders in Chicago business and social life, stood beside the stiffened bodies of the seven men and solemnly were sworn in as a coroner's jury to investigate their death. The federal government aided in the drive to clean up Chicago but was a more or less passive assistant. If aliens are found, the federal government will see that they are deported. Suggestions that the two men seen in uniform after the shooting actually were members of the police force and had taken part in the murders because their cut from the beer profits had not been given out, were not credited by police. Jury Probe Demanded Swanson left police captains a broad hint that unless their districts are cleaned out a grand juryprobe will result. Never before had such an ultimatum been handed out by a state’s attorney. The cleanup drive began within an hour. The Chicago Association of Commerce, representing business interests and the public in general, demanded a special grand jury investigation. In almost identical language the Illinois Association for Criminal Justice made the same demand. Sw : anson's order emphasized that all saloons must be closed, all houses of ill-repuate shut down, all gangster hangouts shut down—in short that the lid be clamped on effectively all over the city. Orders Lid Kept Down He told the police every commanding officer in every district, every highway policeman and the sheriff w'ould be held to strict ac-

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Up-to-date Cleveland bootleggers don't carry it in their boots anymore. but in a nifty, tank-like belt that encircles the waist and holds enough liquor for sixtyeight whisky glasses. The belt was captured in a police raid and the photographer, needing a pretty girl to show how it was used, found Miss Kittie Ford accommodating.

countability for the, immediate cleaning up of his district. He charge these departments to keep closed all places in which liquor is sold, that all places were gambling is conducted be closed and kept closed, that all disorderly houses be shut down and stay shut and “that the continued conduct of an operation of the rackets which have pestered and pillaged legitimate business shall be stopped and ended.” The state’s attorney called attention to the fact that if the gangsters had no income they couki not operate. CHURCH INVITES CHIEFS University Leaders Will Be Guests of Congregation. Leaders of Butler university will be entertained by University Place Christian church Sunday at 3 p. m. The Rev. C. E. Kelly, Terre Haute, president of Indiana Christian churches, will speak. Dean J. F. Putnam of Butler will have a part on the program. Trustees, faculty members and student delegations will attend. EX-EMPLOYER SUES CITY Asks ssoo for Back Pay Which He Says Is Due Him. James Knox, former assistant city combustion engineer, Friday sued the city foi $550 in superior court five for pay which he alleged is due him. Knox alleged that while acting as assistant he also was given the duties of combustion engineer for several months.

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STOP RACKETS BEFORE START, CITY WARNED Chicago Attorney Speaks to Employers: Vigorous Methods Urged. “If you have no rackets here in Indianapolis, stop them before they begin.” George E. Q. Johnson United States attorney, Chicago warned an audience of more than I. persons at the silver anniversary meeting of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, Friday nigh; at the Columbia Club. Mayor L. Ert Slack and Andrew J. Allen. Associated Employers executive secretary, also spoke. Howard T. Griffith, retiring president, presided. Allen dscribed a recent attempt of racketeers to obtain a foothold in Indianapolis among small business men. frustrated by the associatipn. Describes Racket Methods “The main source of income oi organized crime is not from thefts, burglaries and robberies,” Johnson said, “but from privilege to violate the law. granted by some law enforcement officer, a consideration paid for protection. “The purpose of all crime, except crimes of passion and degeneracy, and for vengeance, is to get money. This is the money that provides sinews of war for the organized out - laws and the gun men who enforce their decrees. The speaker outlined the methods by which the racketeer keeps association members in line, throwing bombs, tossing bricks through plate glass windows, throwing acid on merchandise, slugging employes and even murder. The answer, he asid is a vigorous and open attack on rackets by enforcement officers. Prosecution under the conspiracy statutes is th< big weapon, he added. Mayor Praises Police Johnson referred to political conditions in Chicago when he declared; “Thank God. today there can be close co-operation between Ihe state's attorney and the United States attorney.” “Mr. Mayor.” lie declared, “if your manufacturers locate here because they can deliver goods to consumers at a lower cost, they will prosper. Crime will seek a place where it can operate best also. If you have a lax enforcement, crime will come to you as water in a flood.” He pointed to a recent estimate that there arc 20,000 criminals in Chicago, the equivalent of one criminal in a village of 200 persons. “Indianapolis will not tolerate practices of the racketeer,” Mayor Slack said. He praised the Indianaoolis police force and Chief Claude M. Worley, declaring there is no better organized police force in the country. JAIL NORTHCOTT’S AID Boy Participant in California Killings Serving Term. n>' i 'it fini /Vs .'i.v RIVERSIDE. Cal.. Feb. 16.—Sanford Clark, 16, started serving a term in the reform school today, as a result of his participation with his uncle. Gordon Stewart Northcott. in the murder of several boys on Northcotl's farm. Clark was the state’s star witness against Northcott, who is to be executed at San Quentin April 15.