Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1929 — Page 3

MARCH 5,1929

HOUSF. BATTLES OVER BILL TO CURBUTIUTIES Insull Concern Is Branded as Octopus, Hailed as Friend of Farmer. Indiana house of representatives today, for two and a half hours, heard the most high flown flights of oratory since "the start of the session. One moment the Insull interests were attacked as an “evergrabbing and reaching octopus," and the next praised as beneficent “big business, which brings comforts to the farmers.” But when the house adjourned at noon, no action had been taken on the recommendation of eleven members of Judiciary A committee that the Moorhead holding company bill be postponed indefinitely and more debate was promised for the afternoon. The bm, in three short paragraphs, declares that a company "holding more than 50 per cent of the common stock of a utility is a utility and gives the public service commission regulatory powers over the holding company, as it now has over optrating utilities. The minority report for passage of the bill was signed by Representatives Relph McKesson and Thad Adams. The majority report list was headed by Representative J. Glenn Harris of Gary, chairman of Judiciary A. McKesson Gets Last Word After a short altercation as to who should have the closing argument in the debate, Speaker James Knapp gave this privilege to McKesson and declared Harris could precede him. All speakers in favor of postponement of the bill took care to declare that they had no connection with utility companies. Representative H. H. Evans of Newcastle declared that if such statement was made in his hearing concerning himself, “I would take the speaker out into the lobby and show him that I was not connected with the utilities, provided that I am the better man, of course.” “I could bring in a map showing the ever-growing and far-reaching connections of the Insull organization,” declared McKesson, who opened the debate, "but such a map is too large. Branded as Octopus

“This map would show the tentacles of this octopus spreading across Indiana, reaching into Ohio, into Illinois and extending to the Ohio river. “Sixty per cent of the electrical energy in the state is in control of the Insull organization. McKesson told how the Insull control is growing stronger each day. He then pleaded that the Moorhead bill be passed, so that “the managers of this organization, who sit in Chicago and direct how the companies in Indiana shoulc. be operated, could be compelled to bring in their books and show what the holding company is charging the Indiana companies for its serv“This will be done only when the public service commission can bring in the holding companies of these utilities,” he declared. Representative A. Everett Bloom of Ft. Wayne, said that: "Big business is here to stay. It is getting too big to be controlled tty state laws, but if regulation is necessary, such regulation should be federal. The Moorhead bill will not reach to the root of the evil, if it is an evil. • “I am not defending Insull, but big business. It was big business that brought electricity to the farmer, that gave the farmer those modern comforts which he would not have obtained otherwise. Big business has proved beneficent.” Representatives C. Y. Foster of Carmel; Ernest M. Hawkins of Fowler; Lloyd D. Claycombe of Indianapolis; and George L. Sanders of Bluff ton took issue with those desiring to postpone the bill, while Frank Noll Jr., William Bosson Jr., of Indianapolis, Fabius Gwin of Shoals, Oscar Ahlgren of Whiting, and Roy Street of Lafayette, spoke for postponement.

BIDS ON 24. BRIDGES TO OPEN MARCH 26 Twenty-four bridges in eleven counties, representing a,n approximate investment of $360,000, will be bid on March 26, the state highway department announced today. This is to be the second letting of the 1929 construction program. Eridges to built include: Or; pn Road 29 near Rossville in Carroll county, where the. highway will be relocated to save two miles and avoid two railroad crossings, and another on the same road oh relocation in Clinton county. Three bridges on Road 29 in Shelbv county, where paving is to be laid this spring between Shelbyville and Oreensburg; four in Decatur county. Largest of the latter will be a 300-foot structure spanning Fla* sock river on relocate from the present route. Four bridges in Jasper county on Road 53: two in Tippecanoe on Road 26 east ■'>' Lafayette. Sore Throat? Don’t Gargle With Famous Prescription Quicker and Better Relief Don't suffer from the pains and soreness of sore throat—gargles and salves are too slow—they relieve only temporarily. But Thoxine, a famous physician’s prescription, is guaranteed to give relief almost instantly. Thoxine has a double action—relieves the soreness and goes direct to the internal cause. No chloroform, iron or other harmful drugs—safe and pleasant for the whole family. Also wonderfully effective for relieving coughs. Quick relief guaranteed or your money back. 35c, 60c and SI.OO. Sold by all druggists,—Advertisement.

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This painting of Lucius B. Swift, Indianapolis attorney, nationally noted as one of the first advocates of civil service, is being shown at the John Herron Art institute in the Indiana exhibition which opened Sunday. The painting is by Simon P. Baus.

FIRST SKIRMISHES ON OUSTER OF STEWART FOUGHT IN CHICAGO

LOWLANDS OF INDIANA UNDER FLOOD WATER White and Ohio Rivers Out of Banks at Several Points. Hundreds of acres of lowlands in Indiana are inundated today because of overflow of rivers and creeks. The Whit eand Ohio rivers are at or near flood stage in many sections. At Decker the Ohio is on its third high rise of the year. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad embankment is in danger, several minor caveins already being reported. Some track is under water. Many workmen are stationed at weak pints today to watch for additional breaks. The same river near Evansville is beyond flood stage, backwater in some instances overflowing many acres of lowlands. Ferry service at many points along the Wabash has been stopped and others are operating under great difficulty. White river, though nigh, is not expected to cause serious damage.

ALLISON SUIT ENDED First and Second Wife of Capitalist Divide Estate. Second step in the compromise of law suits between Mrs. Sara' Allison, first wife of the late James A. Allison, Indianapolis and Florida capitalist, and his second wife, Mrs. Lucille Mussett Allison, was taken in a court at Miami, Fla., Monday, according to dispatches today. The first wife Saturday announced acceptance of a “large sum of money” from the reported $4,000,000 estate of Mr. Allison that resulted in withdrawal of two suits filed against the second wife here for alienation of affections and another seeking probate of Mr. Allison’s will. Mrs. Lucille Allison has accepted $125,000, and an unstated amount, together with monthly payments guaranteed in a prenuptial agreement as her share of the estate, according to the papers filed in the Florida court.

—TOO SAD—YOUTH!

Judge Refuses to “Cast Stone”

JUDGE CLIFTON R. CAMERON would not “cast the stone.” Into his court they came late Monday afternoon, one, two, three, four “ladies o L the evening.” In a row they stood, youth averting its eyes under the stern incadescence of justice. There sat a judge, tired at the end of a long day’s dealing with muddled lives. Here the most heart-wearying muddle of all. “This—look at this—” he said.

Youth in a gray i'ur coat, its laughter out of tune; Youth defiant and courageous in the brown one; Youth with motherhood far off crying a tearless farewell. u u a JUDGE CAMERON flicked the affidavits through his fingers. Helen, Bobbie, Katherine, Florence— “ The great American tragedy,”

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Field Marshals of Both Camps Seek to Agree on Proxy Ammunition. By United Press CHICAGO, March 5. Harsh words skimmed back and forth across a mahogany-topped table in the Standard Oil of Indiana building today as field marshals in the billion-dollar proxy war strove to agree on the ammunition to be used in the Battle of Whiting Thursday afternoon. Both sides spread their weapons on the table, but there seemed to be little likelihood of an agreement. Representatives of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who is fighting to force Colonel Robert W. Stewart off the board of the Standard Oil Company because he refused to obey John D.’s demand to resign, looked withsuspicion upon the proxies displayed by the Stewart group. Stewart’s representatives likewise searched for “dum-dums” among the thousands of proxies presented by the Rockefellers. At the tsockholders’ meeting at Whiting, Ind., Thursday the group which comes through with the most valid proxies will walk off with control of the billion-dollar oil company. Hence today’s controversy over the validity of the disputed proxies. Each share of stock entitles its owner to one vote in the meeting and as both sides have spent thousands of dollars in a campaign to corral a majority of the votes, they are equally determined not to have their proxies thrown out on technicalities. From the proxy checking room came sounds of dispute which indicated to those outside the real contest over whose vote is legal and whose not may be carried into the shareholders meeting itself. British Senior Admiral Dies MAIDENHEAD, England, March s.—Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour, 89, senior admiral of the fleet, died here Monday night. He had spent most of his lifetime in the service of the British navy, having been commander of the fleet until shortly before the World war.

he muttered, and then to Bobbie —slowly, “You are young.” She turned away her face. One by one he dropped the affidavits. “I can’t try this,” he said. ‘Til have someone here Wednesday to sit for me. I could not be fair to these—” They filed away. Outside the street lamps flared.

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SON OF DOOMED CHINESE HUNTS MOTHER’S NAME Boy in Orphan Asylum Asks Quan Sing’s Aid in Learning Parentage. “Who was my mother? Help me find out.” Criminal Judge James A. Collins received this plaintive plea today from a sad-eyed, lonely young boy in a Petersburg, Ind., orphanage. The boy is the son of Quan Sing, 45-year-old Chinese who last Wednesday sentenced himself to slow death by disease in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. His name is Billy. He nas not seen his mother since he was 2 years old, but be believes she was a white woman, the daughter of a judge. Can Not Escape Death These facts came to Judge Collins in a letter from Mrs. John Grim, probation officer at Petersburg, as Quan Sing, a graduate of Leland Stanford university, President Hoover’s alma mater, began the one-to-ten-year sentence in the state prison from which doctors say he can not escape alive. Cancer and tuberculosis will end his life before the law can exact its penalty for the crime for which he was sentenced, issuing a fraudulent check. Dictated Own Sentence Quan Sing, himself, dictated the charge on which he should be sentenced and pleaded guilty when he was brought before Collins last Wednesday. Then between wracking coughs he told how he graduated from Leland Stanford with a legal degree twenty-three years ago. How he did well in the restaurant business for a few years and then started on the downward path which resulted in his sentencing for a laundry truck robbery here in 1923 and finally his arrest in Chicago seventeen months ago for passing a bad check here. The letter from Mrs. Grim mentioned Quan Sing’s sentencing.

Wants to Know Mother “I’m sure we have his son, Billy, in our orphan’s home here,” it said. “Billy has written him, but I was afraid he would not answer before he died. “The boy wants to know who his mother was. She left them when he w'ivS 2 years old. He has always been told she was white and the daughter of a judge. Billy is a very bright and unusual boy and is interested in religion and wants to be a missionary.” The boy has been shown pictures of Quan Sing and identified him as his father, the letter said. Sends Letter to Warden The letter did not tell how Billy came to be admitted to the Petersburg home or give his age. Judge Collins immediately forwarded the letter to Warden Walter H. Daly at the prison and asked Daly to question Sing and attempt to secure an answer to the boy’s question—- “ Who was my mother?” BATTLE CAFE Man Dives Through Window; Three Arrested. A headlong dive through a large plate glass window in the Blue Bird case, 617 North Illinois street, climaxed a free-for-all fight Monday night. The man who made the leap, Bernard Harrington, 35, of the Roosevelt hotel, suffered slight cuts, and was treated at city hospital before being taken to police headquarters on a charge of assault and battery. Ed Allen, 22, night manager of the case, and Miss Josephine Sheridan, 27, of 1236 North Pennsylvania street, also were charged with assault and battery. Jl MAYOR WILL SPEAK AT ST. PATRICK PROGRAM

Arrangements for Annual Event Made by Hibernians. Mayor L. Ert Slack will be .the principal speaker at the annual St. Patrick’s day breakfast of the Ancient Order or Hibernians in the Hotel Severin, Eugene Shine, chairman of the committee on arrangements, announced today. All plans for the annual affair have been completed. Members of the order and the ladies’ auxiliary will attend high mass at St. John’s church at 7:30 a. m., where they will receive holy communion. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis H. Gavisk, chancellor of the diocese of Indianapolis, will preach the sermon. The annual breakfast will be held at 9 a. m. James E. Deery, past national commander of the order, will be toastmaster. Charlie Davis and his Indiana theater orchestra will furnish music. Two Bushels of Agonizing Corns Removed Last Week In United States Alone Beats All Records Sales of Shur-Off indicate that in the United States alone two bushels of corns were taken out —roots and all—from the feet of the American people. Think of the joy and happiness this wholesale loss of corns and gain in health brought to a mult'tude of American people. Shur-Off not only instantly stops ' pain of worst corn, but in 3 minutes you can easily and painlessly take It ! right out —root and all! Painless! In ; case you get another corn from shoes j or such —yon can well afford to chuckle because yon know Shur-Off Instantly sends the worst corn to eternity. 30c i bottle of Hook Drug Stores or any other good drug store. —Advertisement.

In Air Today Weather conditions at 9:30 at Indianapolis airport: North wind, 18 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.68; temperature, 33; ceiling and visibility unlimited. . CABINET NAMES ARE CONFIRMED BY U. UENATE Hoover Appointments Are Rushed Through in Fifteen Minutes. BY PAUL C. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March s.—The senate today confirmed the cabinet nominations of President Hoover. , Favorable action was taken fifteen minutes after the list had been submitted. Immediate confirmation had not been expected, it having been previously reported the nominations would be referred to committees because of threatened opposition to some of the appointees. The principal opposition, however, was reported to center about Secretary of Treasury Andrew W. Mellon whose nomination was not submitted along with the others. Secretary of Labor —James J. Davis, the other hold-over appointment also was left off the list. These nominations may never be submitted to the senate, as it was felt generally their confirmation a second time was not necessary. Following is the new cabinet: Secretary of State—Henry L. Stimson of New York, lawyer, 61; secretary of war under President Taft; until recently Governor-gen-eral of Philippines. Secretary of War—James W. Good of lowa, lawyer, 62; member of congress fourteen years until 1923. Attorney-General—-William D. Mitchell of Minnesota, lawyer, 54; solicitor-general of United States since 1925; indorsed by entire supreme court. Under 3 Presidents *

Secretary of Treasury—Andrew W. Mellon of Pennsylvania, banker, 74 this month; secretary of treasury from beginning of Harding administration; understood to be planning to remain in cabinet only one year; only man to hold the office under three Presidents. Postmaster-General Walterr F. Brown of Ohio, lawyer; 59; assistant secretary of commerce since 1927. Secretary of Navy—Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts, business man and amateur yachtsman; 62; great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of President John Quincy Adams. Secretary of Interior—Ray Lyman Wilbur of California, educator and physician; 53; delegate to sixth Pan-American conference at Havana. Ex-Governor in Cabinet Secretary of Agriculture—Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri, farmer and business man, 51, ex-Governor of Missouri. Secretary of Commerce—Robert Patterson Lamont of Illinois, engineer, 61, active in many business enterprises. Secretary of Labor—James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, former iron puddler, now head of fraternal order, 55; secretary of labor from first of Harding administration; has consented to serve one year under Hoover. PASS JUDGES BILL Act Allows Court Comment on Evidence. Judges of Indiana courts will be permitted to comment on evidence before a jury, when they think such comment helpful, under provisions of a bill passed today by the senate. Opposition to the measure was on the grounds that the judges would play politics and not prove impartial. . Admiting that his measure providing for election of an Allen county superior judge at the general election in 1930 is to keep a Republican on the bench, Senator Lee J. Hartzell, Ft. Wayne, put it across in the senate with 26 ayes and 17 noes.

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DISCUSS WAYS OF INCREASING STATEREVENUE Senate Committee Drafting Program to Care for Huge Budget. Determined to avoid the 10-cent tax rate increase threatened by budget appropriations already voted by both houses, the Indiana legislature today moved rapidly toward increasing state revenues by corporate stock and store tax measures. A bill levying a tax of one-twen-tieth of one per cent of the capital stock of corporations operating in Indiana was introduced in the house of representatvies by Representative Sam J. Farrell of Hartford City, chairman of ways and means committee, to which the bill promptly was sent. Meantime, the senate received the so-called chain store bill from the house and prepared tc push it to speedy -.passage. While the double-barreled gunning went on for increased revenues, Senator Alonzo H. Lindley of Kingman introduced a bill in the senate proposing a state taxing system for schools, displacing local school taxes, that would shove the general property tax rate to 50 cents from the present 23 cents.

Will Add Millions The so-called chain store licensing bill and the new corporation tax measure were selected as last minute efforts to avoid the tax rate increase, after a joint committee of the two houses conferred Monday night. . . The committee was created by resolution introduced in the senate by Senator Lindley, after he had tried without success to trim budget appropriations. The two bills are counted upon to add between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 annually to state revenues. This almost will make up the difference in the budget increases over the last biennial period which have already been approved. Blame Lack of Leaders Complete lack of leadership in both houses was blamed by Representative L. Glenn Hari'is, Gary, for the last minute taxation terror. Harris was appointed by Speaker James M. Knapp to represent him on the committee. “We should have got together and worked out a program like this a month or more ago,” Harris declared. The two-bill program provides for amendment of the chain-store licensing bill in the senate to put collection of the tax under the state auditor, rather than the tax board. It has already passed the house. It provides for a gradual scale of store licensing, starting with $2 for one unit and going up to $l5O for each store if forty or more are under single ownership or management. Suggest Corporations Tax Senator Arthur B. Stonex, Goshen, suggested the corporations tax. It will provide for filing a complete annual statement of stocks and business with the auditor and payment of a license fee of onetwentieth of one per cent on the stock valuation. Other committee members are the lieutenant-governor, Senators Lindley and Robert L. Moorhead, Indianapolis; Representatives Farrell, Hartford City, and Charles M. Trowbridge, Rushville.

STABS SWEETHEART Lover Shot by Police in Chase; Captured. After stabbing his former sweetheart in a jealous rage, Hastings Medaris, 33, of 435 Madison avenue, was shot in the foot and captured Monday night by police, who pursued him several blocks. Medaris stabbed Miss Sadie Gilbert, 29, of 409 Madison averue, with a screw driver. Although she was cut in the left arm, hand, ahd chest, her wounds are not serious. The jealous suitor was captured at Henry street and Madison avenue where he fell wounded in the right foot after police had fired three shots at him. His wound is not serious.

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For a week the Indiana senate will find a out-and-out A1 Smith supporter answering the calls and finger signs for “page.” Orville Gardner, shown above, 22, of 420 North Delaware street, quit his job as a newsboy to serve G. O. P. senators. He lobbied himself into the position, it pays $3 a day, by obtaining the patronage of two Indianapolis solons.

DRAW 250 FOR JURY Record Set in McDonald Murder Trial. Twenty-five more talesmen, making a total of 250, were drawn today as the seventh day of efforts to select a jury for the trial of Rupert McDonald for the murder of Wilkerson Haag, Indianapolis druggist, began in criminal court. The trial promised to set several new courthouse records. The 250 talesmen drawn was the largest number ever summoned in any criminal court case. The previous record was 200 in the trial of former Mayor Joseph Bell in 1917. If a jury was not obtained today, the trial also will set anew record for time used in securing a jury. It required seven days to get a jury in the Bell trial.

NIGHT NURSE SOON ENDED SEVERE COLB

Almost Instant Relief Came When Doctor Advised Method Used , In Homes of Many Here Realizing the needless misery and risk so often caused by neglected colds, doctors are now advising a quick method that gives almost instant relief—then ends the cold completely in a few hours. And now Mrs. Edith Healy, hospital nurse, like numbers of people here, realize how needless it is to take chances on a cold when relief can be had so quickly and pleasantly. Long hours of duty as night nurse—frequent trips from warm sick rooms into chilly halls —caused Mrs. Healey to catch a severe cold. It started in her head but she made the mistake of neglecting it until congestion started spreading rapidly. Then she consulted one of the hospital physicians who advised Ayer's Pectoral —a hospital certified medication of wild cherry, terpin hydrate and other ingredients now used in leading clinics to help reduce fever, clear up congestion and drive out the cold. , Just a pleasant swallow brought almost instant relief. She felt its com- i sorting, healing warmth—from her nose passages deep down into her J chest. Bv night her fever was reduced j from 100 degrees to ndrmal and conges- | tion in her head was rapidly clearing i up. She was able to return to duty I

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NAME WATSON U. S. SENATE FLOORLEADER Bitter Pre-Campaign Foe Becomes Chief Lieutenant of Hoover. Bu United Pnes WASHINGTON. March s.—One of Hoover’s most bitter opponents in the preconvention campaign became his first lieutenant today when Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, was elected Republican leader of the senate at a party caucus. x Other majority officers elected at the conference were Senator W L. Jones of Washington, asistant leader; Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, whip; George H. Moses, New Hampshire, president pro tern.; Fletcher Hale of Maine, secretary. Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, was elected to succeed Watson as chairman of the committee on committees. Keep Sergeant at Arms The patronage committee will be announced later. The party also decided to retain David S. Barry, as sergeant at arms. Colonel Edwin Thayer, secretary, and the Rev. Z. B. Phillips for chaplain. These officers must be approved by a vote of the entire senate, but selection at a party caucus is tantamount to election. The leadership contest virtually was settled before tfie Republican senators caucused. Senator Jones had been Watson’s chief rival tor the position but he withdrew his name from consideration early in the winter. Democrats Nominate The Democrats re-elected Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas leader and the following officers: Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana, assistant leader; Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, whip, and Senator Hugo Black of Alabama, secretary. They al3o nominated Senator Key Pittman of Nevada for president pro tempore. This merely is a formality as he will be defeated by Moses, the majority nominee. Robinson was given authority to appoint ten Democrats to the Democratic steering committee and to assist with the selection of members on the standing committees of tha senate. Gary Mar, Fi'st to Register Bu Time* SnccUit _ , , _ BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 5. Judge Ora L. Wildemuth, Indiuna university alumnus, was the first person to register at the new Graham hotel which opened for business Monday. The formal opening will be held March 15, according to P. C. Gilliat, manager.

B I I a I baSmkSp wOr v ’ ' ■ & Jil that night, the doctor reports, and ia a day or so all traces of the cold wers gone. Note: Other rases reported daily-4* all certified by attending physician. Just a few pleasant spoonsful of Ayer's Pectoral now and you, too. will feel like a different, person tomorrow. Endorsed by HOOK PR LG and all and ru ggists. ' JSjj;