Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1929 — Page 11

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GREENSBURG’S GAS SITUATION RAISES ISSUE Group Disputes Company’s Contentions on Three Points. TAKEN TO STATE BODY Service Commission Urged to Change Depletion Figure and Rates. tlu Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., April 3.—A group of Greensburg residents including Cort Ray and Frank Walker have opened a fight on three points against the Hoosier Gas and Light Company, which absorbed the Zoller Gas Company, which formerly supplied this city, at a time when several companies in this field were taken over, John E. Osborn, local attorney and counsel for the group, has filed a brief with the public service commission, in which the three points are listed. They are based on valuation adopted for calculation of depletion, the rate adopted for depletion and the rate for gas users. Wide Variance in Figures The petition declares that despite a basis set by the commission’s accounting department at $153,929 for depletion, the petition asks that the figure be $400,u00, although all property of the company is valued at only $521,000. Even the acounting department's figure would be excessive, it Is declared. According to the petition, the utility is asking “the enormous rate” of depletion of 16.22 per cent a year in the face of an estimate of 10 per cent by the commission’s engineer. H. W. Wenger. The objectors assert 5 per cent would be a fair rate. Show Return on Low Rate Going into the history of the local gas field, objectors declare the Zoller company started with a 15-cent rate to consumers and at that figure retired the original capital invested, developed the field, met operating expenses and at times paid an annual dividend on stock as high as 40 per cent. The Hoosier company asks a 70cent rate, on a sliding scale basis, with larger consumers getting gas at a reduced rate. The petition asks that one rate be adopted, declaring: “There is no reason that we can see why the large consumer should be given an advantage and benefit over the lesser consumer from the standpoint of rates. There would be no more reason for such a distinction than for the legislature to make a distinction in gasoline tax as between the small consumers and the large consumers."

DIAGNOSIS CAMPAIGN OPENED BY DOCTORS I übcrculosist Authorities Talk at Medical Meeting. Dr. Stephen A. Douglass, superintendent of Sunnyside sanitorium. and Dr. E. B. Mumford were speakers at the "Tuberculosis Meeting” of ihe Indianapolis Medical Society Tuesday night at the Athenaeum. The session was a step in co-opera-tion with the early diagnosis campaign now r being emphasized in Indianapolis and Marion county by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Mumford spoke on “Bone and Joint Tuberculosis." Dr. Douglass spoke on "Juvenile Tuberculosis, Its Early Diagnosis.” He pointed out that the peak of the tuberculosis death rate now is between the age of 20 and 35. WOMAN. BELIEVED FILM ACTRESS. DIES IN CRASH Body Claimed by Evelyn Nesbit, Former Wife of Harry Thaw. Bv United Press ROCHELLE PARK, N. J.. April 3. —Miss Catherine MacDonald, believed to be a motion picture actress, was killed here today when the automobile in which she was a passenger skidded off the road and crashed into a locomotive tire used as fire larm gong. Andrew Chatelan of Brooklyn, driver of the car. was arrested on a technical charge of homicide. Evelyn Nesbit. former wife of Harry K. Thaw, claimed Miss MacDonald's body.

CLOTHING, JEWELRY TAKEN BY BURGLARS Thieves Enter Home During Family’s Absence: Change Suit. Police are searching for burglars who entered several homes Tuesday night. Jewelry, clothing and a revolver, all valued at $275. were stolen from the home of Harley F. Driver. 2875 North Gale street. Driver had been away for a week and discovered the theft when he returned. Thieves evidently changed clothes in the house for a suit of old clothes were found. Burglars entered the room of Adolph Wegner, 6174 North Illinois street, and took clothing valued at $l2O. Elias Fort. Negro. 1131 Boon street, reported loss of clothing valued at SSO from his home. ■ CHARLEY’S RESTAURANt open for Sunday dinners, 5 to m. '• ' AdvertiMpent.

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Not many of Hollywood’s moving picture luminaries come from Austria —but pretty Dina Gralla, leading comedienne of the Austrian screen, is shortly to make her film debut on this side of the water. She'll be introduced to the American public in the pictures ‘‘The Prince and the Dancer” and “Switchback.”

SIX FLEE AFTER ATTACKING GUARD AT INDIANA FARM

Posses Hunt Escaped Prisoners Who Have One Gun. Du United Press PUTNAMVILLE, Ind., April 3. Authorities searched the hilly country near here today lor six prisoners who escaped from the state farm at Putnamville, Tuesday night, by slugging a guard. The fugitives, Harry Davis, Lake county; William Nipper, Wayne county: Robert Allen. Rush county; Henry Wood and Manuel Vlyers Indianapolis and James Wilson, Vigo county, placed a heavy stone in a sack and hammered Alph Williams, the guard, into unconsciousness. They obtained the guard’s revolver. Two automobiles reported stolen during the night are believed to have been taken by the fugitives. One was stolen from Reuben Rogers, Reelsville, and another at Cataract. The escaped men were serving terms ranging from sixty days to one year, mostly larceny and burglary. A search was instituted immediately and the six were traced as far as the Hamrick railroad station, where the trail was lost. It was considered likely that the men had made their way to the hills to hide. Posses, aided by volunteers from here today, continued the intensive search which was started test night.

CHURCH BOOT MEETS Evangelical Women's Federation in Session. Members of the Federation of Evanelical Women’s Organization met here today in their sixteenth semi-annual meeting at the Zion Evangelical church. The Willing Workers class of the local church was host. The business session this morning was preceded by a musical program. Luncheon was served in the church dining room. The Rev. F R. Danes, pastor of the church, was chairman of the morning session. The Rev. H. E. Eberhardt spoke on “The Need of Missions in Larger Cities” at the afternoon session. scoutsltage pageant Kiuanis Club Holds Father and Son Meeting. A pageant depicting “Boy Scouts of Other Nations” featured the Father and Son day meeting of the Kiwanis Club at the Claypool today. Thirty scouts, under direction of F. O. Belzer, scout executive and Kiwanian. had parts in the pageant. Demonstrations of scoutcraft were given by Robert Russell of Troop 29. Central Christian Church. Gunnar Berg of New York, national director of volunteer Training, BoyScouts. was the speaker.

LOVE MERE CONTAGIOUS DISEASE TO BE GREATLY DREADED, SAYS EDUCATOR

BY PRINCESS ALI FAZIL I'nlted Press Staff Correspondent PARIS. April 3.—Love is only a disease, like whooping cough, measles and chicken pox. a thing to be greatly dreaded and carefully avoided, in the opinion of Professor Pierre Vachet of the University of Higher Social Studies. But Paris, which has thrived on this disease for quite a number of centuries, if history books are to

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Taxi? Fire! B y Times Special RICHMOND, Ind.. April 3. Hally Nickens, Negro, said: ‘‘l was calling a taxi, judge,” when arraigned in city court here on a charge of being drunk, but the excuse fell fiat. The court assessed a fine of SIOO and costs. Police said Nickens dialed the fire department number from a downtown telephone booth and in a short time was surrounded by bright red fire apparatus instead of a taxi.

ONE-TEN DAY BEFORE JUDGE Collins Sentences Seven to Reformatory. Today was one to ten-year day in criminal court Nine defendants appeared before Judge James A. Collins and seven i-eceived one to ten-year state reformatory sentences. Leroy Baker, 19. R. R. B, Box 606, and Jewell Corbin, 19. of 1148 West Sixteenth street, pleaded guilty to breaking windows of three radio shops and stealing radios and stealing an automobile Dec. 15, 1928. They received reformatory sentences. James Edgell. 17.937 1 North Delaware street' William Donley. 17. 227 North McCarty street, and Gerald Lambert, 16, 824 Lexington street, pleaded guilty to holding up the Superior Oil Company filling station, 2940 Bluff road Feb. 7. and robbing the attendant of $29. The tw-o older youths received reformatory sentences and Lambert was sentenced to one year on the state farm. Redford Branham, 16, of 508 West Henry street, and Leon Childers, 17, of 537 South West street, pleaded guilty to robbing two Kroger groceries and holding up the Tanner dry- goods store, Ray and West streets. Marion Quilter, 18, 63614 South West street, pleaded not guilty, but all three received sentences. George Ambrose. 38, Brooklyn, who was paroled from the Indiana state prison in 1925, declared that he had entered the Kroger grocery, 2134 North Illinois street, while drunk on March 4. A police emergency squad arrested him there, but he did not have any stolen propertyin his possession. In view of his past record. Judge Collins sentenced him to one to ten years in the Indiana state prison. Street Work to Cost 513.980 B u l imes Special MARION. April 3.- The Federal Asphalt Pavement Company has been awarded a constract for the resurfacing of Swayzee street between Bronson and Indiana on a bid of $13,980.

be believed, is finding consolation in the fact that there are no known cures for it and no practical vaccinations. According to the professor, all the science and art of loving, which have been the inspiration for poets and painters and composers, merely are the result of wrong orientation of our imaginations. *

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FUGITIVE BACK FOR TRIAL OF MURDER CASE Returns to Princeton and Surrenders to Sheriff at Jail Door. ASKS CHARITY DEFENSE Tony Boger Enters Not Guilty Plea, and Says He Is Broke. Du Times Special PRINCETON, Ind.. April 3.—Tony Boger is in jail here facing a second degree murder charge in the slaying of George W. Pierce, having surrendered aiter being a fugitive since March 10, date of the death. As he entered the front door of the jail building, Boger was met by Sheriff Sylvester Summers. “Well, I understand you are looking for me,” Boger remarked to the officer, “and if you are, I am ready to be locked up.” Unable to provide a $5,000 bond, Boger. who entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned before Circuit Judge Claude A. Smith, was locked up. He asked the court to appoint an attorney to defend him at his trial, April 23, declaring he was without funds to pay for counsel. No explanation was given by Boger regarding his flight and return. Pierce was fatally stabbed at the home of Edward Scott, during an argument over bets on thr StriblingSharkey prize fight. Scott and Police Chief Herschell Higgins of Princeton, charged with being accessories after the fact in the case, are at liberty r~der SI,OOO bond each, pending trial.

IRON WORKERS TO BE PAID FOR CLIMBING Trips Up and Down Structures Included in “Time.” Bp United Press CHICAGO, April 3.—Structural iron workers hereafter will be paid for the time they spend climbing up and dow’n stairways, ladders and beams to get to and from their lofty jobs, according to a, decision reached by Joshua D’Eposito, arbitrator between unions and contractors. The union men claimed they were losing 15 to 20 minutes daily climbing and descending from their work on skyscrapers and demanded to be “checked in” when they arrived at the base of the building. Many of them get $2 an hour and more. The decision, affected workers or buildings above |welve stories.

Pa Pays Price Family Head Responsible in Auto Accidents, Says Report.

must “hold the bag” if m-J one of his family steers the family auto into a damage suit, J. Duane Dungan, Hoosier Motor Club president said today, relaying a report received from the A. A. A. research department. A person loaning his car to another is not responsible for damage to another car unless the driver is acting as agent for the owner, Dungan said. “This applies in cases where he owner sends an employe or someone else to act for him,” Dungan continued. “However, the family doctrine is that if the head of a family provides an automobile for the use of his family, then it is not necessary to show that the member of the family who was driving the car at the time the injury was occasioned was acting as the agent of the head of the family. Upon showing that the car was so provided for the use of the family by the head of the family, the latter is held responsible for the negligence of the driver.” TAKE $5,000 LOOT Burglars Raid Store at Lebanon. Dp Times Special LEBANON, Ind., April 3.—Approximately $5,000 wortli of women's clothing was stolen by burglars who entered the Isadore Eickman store here Tuesday night. A checkup of the loss today showed loot included one hundred dresses, valued at $1,000; twenty-five women’s coats. $700; eighteen fur coats. $3,000, and necklaces. beads and ot merchandise Several hundred dollars’ worth of men’s clothing was stolen Monday night from a store at Gosport. Police believe the two burglaries may be the work of the same gang.

LOVE really is an infectious disease and those stricken with it should be given plenty of room and avoided as are all carriers of contagious diseases, he said. It is a hard blow to all women, who have loved to hear that all the passionate movements of their hearts and the anxieties of their souls merely are a result of rundown organisms and that the

HOOVER LIKES HIS NEW BERTH

President Does His Daily Work With Joyful Zest

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This is the first of two outstanding stories by Rodney Dutcher, Washington correspondent for The Times and NfcA Service, in which he describes the daily life of President Hoover and ex-Prcsi-dent Coolidge one month after the inauguration. Today. Dutcher writes intimately of Mr. Hoover’s daily routine; tomorrow, in a special story from Northampton. Mass., he will tell of the daily life of the Coolidges sines their return to private life. BY RODNEY DUTCHER (Copyright, 1929. NEA Service. Inc.l WASHINGTON, April 3.—No American citizen ever was more pleased with anew job than President Herbert Hoover. It is just a month since March 4. when he took over his new job and he is working at it with a joyful zest and a serene confidence—as if a man’s worries ended, rather than merely began, after his inauguration. The man in the White House is a Hoover very different from the candidate Hoover of last fall. Candidate Hoover seemed rather nervous. His gaze was shifty. He spoke jerkily and, in the presence of groups, seldom appeared at ease. Many thought he was easily frightened by adverse polieal developments. President Hoover isn’t like that at all. President Hoover keeps his chin in the air. He speaks easily and smoothly, with a tinge of confident aggressiveness. The old statement that Hoover was timid” is not heard any more. a tt a '“P'HAT is the noticeable change X in Hoover during his first month in office. Otherwise he has not changed at all. His duties are not the same, but his routine and habits of life are almost identical. And he has stepped into the duties —one of his secretaries says —“as if he had been President all his life.” There must, however, always be certain new conditions inherent to the presidency and bound to annoy any new President. Try as he may, Hoover will be unable to avoid the glaring spotlight of national popular interest His slightest motion today is a matter of news: only ingenuity can keep it secret. Figuratively speaking, the White House is a house of glass. A year ago Hoover might have tossed a medcine ball with Torn Heflin in the middle of the street and few would have noticed. Today any news photographer would give his right eye for a picture of the Hoover “medicine ball cabinet” in action and, if properly staged, the spectacle would fill Madison square Garden every night for a year. If the President displays interest in anything at all, the fact automatically becomes news. a an TODAY the world knows that he rises at 7 o'clock, takes deep breaths in front of an open window, tosses the medicine ball with Dr. Joel T. Boone. Justice Stone, and other friends and breakfasts at about 8 o'clock on an invariable fare of citrus fruit, scrambled eggs and bacon and coffee. And he shaves himself with a safety razor. His working day runs from 9 a. m. to 6:30. He smokes an after-breakfast cigar, large and fairly expensive. and walks through to the executive office. There he is awaited by George Akerson, his secretary, with such

great love-heroines of romance and history, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and Francesco di Rimini, really belonged in hospitals. ‘•T ove is a phenomenon caused essentially by physical attraction,” the professor said, “and the contagion of this illness is carried along by the eyes, ears and scent. Then the brain and the soul put a conventional decorum to it.

THREE SHOT IN DANCE HALL RAID One Man Dead, Two Deputies Wounded in Gun Fight. Du United Press PIKEVILLE, Ky., April 3.—Two deputies were shot and wounded and May Mays, 24, was killed in a pitched battle at Mavs’ dance hall, near Williamstown, w. Va., at midnight. Eleven deputies, under the leadership of the sheriff and ten of Mays' friends, participated in the battle. Women companions of the men, some of them sweethearts and wives, were sent home and Mays and his followers awaited the attack. The officers swooped down out of the darkness and attempted to take the dance hall by storm. Mays, it was said, opened fire, wounding deputies Nat Sanders and Raymond Bedkins. Sanders may die. As Sanders fell, he shot and killed Mays.

mail as is deemed to merit his attention. Between 9 and 10 o'clock he dictates and confers with his secretaries. Then come his callers. Ail are seen by appointment. At 12:30 the President leaves his office for lunch, which is not elaborate, but substantial and usually includes a chop, a small steak, cold cuts, hearty salad or some such matter. He has changed his diet in the White House only by restricting it a little more closely. Hoover is back at his office by 2:30 or earlier, ready to receive cabinet members and other officials who consult him about current problems. By 4 o’clock he again is dictating or studying problems which the day has presented. BETWEEN 6:30 and his 7:30 dinner hour he is likely to be found listening to the radio. He enjoys the music and listens to what he considers important speeches. He does not like comedy, of the monolog or dialog variety, at all. More than likely, there will be guests at dinner —either a cabinet member or a personal friend, who will find a roast of meat or fowl before them. Hoover doesn't go in for fancy delicacies, preferring the plain and wholesome fare. The family subsequently adjourns to the library and the President retires to his bedchamber at about 10:30. to read himself drowsy with a book. That is the regular routine of the Hoover day, but it naturally is varied by both the scheduled and the unexpected. Two days a week there is a morning cabinet meeting. Twice a week the President has his press conferences, at noon Tuesday and 4 o’clock Friday. Twice a week, also, he receives the long lines of visitors who have written authorization from congressmen to shake his hand.

“-QHYSICAL attraction is the A basis of the greatest passions, and where there is no desire, there is no love. Even in mystical passions there is desire of union. In these days of wild excitement there is a wild rush toward enjoyments of all sorts. “In past ages women were more reserved. I consider they were greater hypocrites. “The whole face of the world

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Warm March Temperature Above Normal; Little Snow and Rain, Much Sun.

MARCH slipped past with only a trace of snow here, with the temperature 7.2 degrees above normal, according to the monthly summary by J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief for Indiana. March temperatures ranged from 83 degrees on the 24th to 17 degrees on the 10th. for a mean average of 47.2 degrees, as compared with the normal 40. Traces of snow were recorded on five March days, but none was sufficient for measurement. Normally, 3.8 inches of snow fall in March. What was lost in snow was not made up in rain, for precipitation otaled only 3.24 inches as compared with the normal 3.93 inches. The heaviest rainfall in twentyfour hours was .91 on the twentyfifth and twenty-sixth. Rain was recorded on twenty of the thirtyone days, and thunderstorms occurred on the nineteenth, twentyfifth and thirty-first. * “Old Sol” did himself proud beaming on Indianapolis 227 hours of the possible 271. Wind movement totaled 8.999 miles during the month at an average velocity of 13.1 miles an hour. The hardest “blow” occurred on the sixth, when the wind attained a velocity of fortyfive miles an hour.

TAKES POISON; DIES Woman Despondent Over Death of Husband. Mrs. Lyda Adams, 61, of 2206 North Gale street, was found dead this morning by Mrs. Hettie Ball, with whom she lived. Mrs. Adams had taken two ounces of poison and had placed a chloroform soaked cloth over her face. Her husband died about a year ago. and Mrs. Adams was despondent. The body was ordered to the Moore & Kirk funeral establish? ment, 2530 Station street, by Dr. O. H. Bakemier, deputy coroner. Funeral arrangements have not been made pending the location of relatives by police. RESISTS THUGSSTBEATEN Struck by Two Bandits, but Saves Money. Refusal to obey the commands of two holdup men brought grief to Pete Stamich. 1025 Ketcham street, but he saved his money Tuesday night. He was near West and Ohio streets when the men confronted him with the command to "stick ’em up.” Stamich refused and was knocked down. The men fled.

has changed. We travel by air. We listen to wireless programs coming from all parts of the world, and every day some new invention transforms our lives. “Dancing and drinking have a great influence on the looseness of our morals. The freedom of women encourages physical attaction. The way the young girls flirt nowadays would make our ancestors blush.”

WAR AGAINST BOOZE IS WON, DORANCLAIMS Enforcement Improves in All Parts of Nation. Dry Chief Says. JONES LAW IS PRAISED Program of Education and Smash at Higher-Ups His Aim. BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD I ’tilled Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 3.—Prohibition Commissioner J. M. Doran, energetic field marshal of federal dry forces, believes the ten-year-old,, battle ior Volstead law enforcement soon will be won. Enforcement is improving in all parts of the country, Doran told the United Press today. The time is not far distant when prohibition laws will be us well enforced as any other federal statute, he added. Attitude of the new administration toward law enforcement, the Jones law increasing penalties ior convicted commercial liquor manufacturers and distributors, and the apparent willingness of congress to give the prohibition bureau whatever funds are necessary lor adequate personnel have doomed the bootleggers’ pi’ofession, the commissioner believes. “I think the Jones law is going to help immeasurably,” he said. "It is too soon, however, to tell what results it will get. Secs Enforcement Gain “At least, a more serious view of prohibition .mforcement has been taken since the last session of congress. The new 7 law, combined with the President’s appeal for law observance and his decision to make a study of criminal conditions have had a stimulating, wholesome influence.” Sitting behind a paper-strewn desk in his stuffy little office in one of the government’s temporary war buildings, Doran outlined the twofold program by which he hopes ultimately to drive the bootleggers I out of business and make national j prohibition a reality. It is this: 1. Break down the traffic by ap- ! prehending and convicting big | liquor operators. 2. Cut off the demand by educating the country to the benefits of prohibition and the private citizens’ responsibility to respect the law. To accomplish the first part of this program, better co-operation of federal, state and city officials is necessaary, Doran said. He regards ! more complete co-ordination be- | tween the severe arms of the law | as the key to real enforcement and | this phase of the problem now is liis ! primary concern. Education on Program The second phase of Doran’s program, education on prohibition, necessarily is a long-time project, he said. Various advertising devices will be employed to carry on a systematic fight against anti-prohibi-tion propaganda. “I don’t believe the I’m Along sinking incident will have any serious adverse affect on enforcement,” Doran said. “It’s international aspects are the important thing in [ that case. “The Aurora shooting was different. I cannot condone the acts of state agents in that case. Nothing of that kind has happens recently in which federal agents have been involved and I am confident there will be none. “The cure for that sort of thing is, of course, better instruction of officers on their legal rights ar.d limitations. State agents should have the same thorough instruction federal agents receive. “Concerning congressmen charged with importing liquor, I only can say the least to be expected of legislators is obedience to the Jaws they make.” Doran Keeps Busy Doran tapped his desk nervously as he talked. A long row of men and women, each with business to transact, waited in an ante room outside his private office. He probably is one of the busiest and at the same time the most accessible official of his rank in Washington. There never is any question about a visitor’s mission. A secretary merely asks the would-be interviewer's name and ushers him in his turn into the private office. Doran denies himself to no one. Doran, behind the desk in the middle of a barren inner room, is uncertain of age, slight of statute and affable. He looks and talks more like a college professor than the director of a far-flung police force. Doran has been director ot the prohibition bureau for two years, coming up from the ranks of government employes. He originally was a government chemist, later an executive in the internal revenue bureau and finally in the prohibition bureau, his career o' government service started more than twenty years ago. ARREST" 53 MOTORISTS Thirteen Charged With Too Much Haste in Driving. Too much haste caused the arrest of thirteen of the fifty-three motorists slated on traffic charges Tuesday night Nine drivers failed to stop at boulevards, one ran through a stop and go sign, twenty tailed to display the proper lights and, eight violated parking regulations.