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PARKING BAN FOR 2 HOURS IS ADVOCATED Limitation Would Relieve Congestion, Says Street Car Head. CITES RUSH PROBLEM Carry 53 Per Cent of Passengers From 6 to 8 and 4:30 to 6:30. Traffic congestion in the downtown area of Indianapolis would be materially lessened if parking was forbidden for two hours a day,” declared James P. Tretton, general uperintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, at the meeting of tire Srientech Club at neon today at the Chamber of Commerce. Tretton discussed mass transportation and street railway problems. ‘ Business men interested in traffic congestion would find that parking limitation would fill the relief .need,” he declared. Explains Problems Tic did not discuss the proposed it- routing ol street cars, because tiic plans had not been fully investi-'-atrd. but lrc explained the problem confronting the street car company. "We haul 54 per cent of our traffic nr four hours, the rush hours of 6 to 8 a. nr. and 4:30 to 6.30 p. nr. ' The remaining 46 per cent is pread over a period of twenty irours. “During lire rush hours wc have to put in service 307 street cars, while but 175 operate during the quiet hours. In addition we somct inrefi have tc use as many as eighteen single-trip cars to take rare ol the rush. ' It is surprising to note that there has been but little tall off in our rush hour business, while there has been a. 20 per cent drop in slow time business in the last ten years. Needed Four Hours “In response to the cry that we iiould have more srfl ts during the rush hour, it is well to note that a street car costs $13,000, need both motorman and conductor and arc only needed four hours a day. “We use double the usual amount of cars during the rush hour and they mst stand idle the remainder of the day. The street car company. to be frank, can't afford to put on more cars.” Tretton declared that the Meridian stieet bus line, which goes into service Sunday, is expected to relieve much ot # thc Illinois car line congestion.

AL SMITH TO WRITE MAGAZINE ARTICLES Report Saturday Evening Post Will Pay Him S2 a Word. Vji l nited Press PHILADELPHIA. April 15.—Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York, will write a series for the Saturday Evening Post, the editorial department today told the United Press. The former Governor's subject will be his personal and political reminiscences. Reports were current in New York that Smith would receive $2 a word for his writings Former President Calvin Coolidge is understood to have received SI a word for articles for the Cosmopolitan magazine. HOOSIER IN CUSTODY Held After Girl Attempts Suicide in Cincinnati. Blf l'nil of Press CINCINNATI. O. April 15—A 15-year-old girl known as Nancy Stancel of Knoxville, Tenn., swallowed poison today after being taken to the police station here. Physicians said she will recover. Shortly after the girl was arrested, George Sink. Rising Sun. Ind.. was taken into custody. Officers said ihey had been tipped that Sink has visited the girl in her room. Nancy is believed to have run away from her nome at Knoxville. Sink is held on suspicion. Police said he was armed. STOVE BLAST FATAL It. Wayne Man Killed and Wife Severely Injured. li ' I llitrtl Prt -' FT. WAYNE. Ind . April 15.—As the result of an explosion in a stove at his home when he attempted to start a fire with kerosene. Robert Skiles. 26. was burned fatally and his wife. Bertha, sustained serious bums on face and arms. So strong was the force of the blast that windows in the home were shattered. Mrs. Skiles was burned when she attempted to save her husband bywrapping a blanket around him. OPERATE ON EDUCATOR Dr. Nicholas M. Butler Better: Gall Stones Removed. tv United Post NEW YORK. April 15—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president ot Columbia university, was operated on at Presbyterian hospital today for gall stones. After the operation his condition was reported as “excellent. **

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Flyings Safe, Says ‘Veteranlß

“JT'IVE motor car accidents oc--Ic cur to one in an airplane.” Citing the above digest of the safety of the air, Richard Earl James, 18, of New York, the only youth of his age to fly from coast to coast, spoke today to the Service Club at the Lincoln. James, who celebrated his eighteenth birthday wtih the address today, won a SI,OOO prize from the American Society for Promotion of Avation for the trip from San Francisco to New York. The flight was made Oct. 31 to Dec. 15, 1928, in the flying time of twenty-four hours with twentyfour stops. After receipt of the prize, James turned the money back to the society for the purchase of an annual trophy to be awarded other youths for flying achievements. In his talk, James told of the need for student instruction, of the comparative safety of the air over the boulevard, and of the future of aviation in general, James was born in Logansport, Ind. He has been flying since 16, has traveled 15.000 miles by plane and has 183 hours in the air. He was accompanied to this city by his father, Forrest James. The youth will give lectures in schools and colleges in Indianapolis and nearby cities. FOOTE TO KEEP HIS U. S, POST Tax Commissioner Denies Resignation Rumor. George L. Foote, collector of internal revenue, back from a Florida vacation, today declared that he is not contemplating resigning “at this time or any other time.” Politicians last week circulated the report that Foote w r ould resign May I and that Miss Dorothy Cunningham, Republican national committee woman for Indiana, had been practically agreed upon as his successor. “The first I heard of it was when I got off the train here Sunday,” said Foote. He refused to discuss theories as to how -and why the rumor got started. Miss Cunningham said that Senator James E. Watson had told her he would like to see her get the job but she had not yet been indorsed by Senator Arthur R. Robinson. Foote’s commission, given him a vear ago when M. Burt Thurman resigned to become Watson’s presidential campaign manager, is dated indefinitely.

RAIN HELPS POSIES Heavy Downpour Promises Many May Flowers. If May flowers bloom in direct proportion to April showers, there will be a profusion of posies next month. Rainfall for the first half #f the current month lacked only about one-half inch of the normal precipitation for the full month ot April, figures at the weather bureau lure showed today. Normally. 3.62 inches of rainfall are recorded in April. The precipitation thus far this month has been 2.05 inches. Cloudy, with probably rain tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy with slowly rising temperature.” was the forecast today. OIL DIRECTOR RESIGNS Dr. William 31. Burton Quits Standard of Indiana Board. Ru United l’ress CHICAGO, April 15.—Dr. William M. Burton resigned today as a director of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. His resignation was accepted by the directors in session here and Bruce Johnstone. Chicago attorney. elected in his place. Dr. Burton gave ill health as the reason for his retirement. Johnstone is a former president of the Municipal Voters’ League and was a special United States attorney in the Grossman contempt proceedings before the United States supreme court in 1925.

MANY FLOATS ENTERED FOR BASEBALL PARADE

Five bands, about twenty-five floats and nearly 200 automobiles have been entered in the baseball opening day parade Tuesday, it was announced today by Frank E. McKinney Chamber of Commerce athletic committee chairman. Bands participating will be the Newsboys band, Cathedral high school band. Shortridge high school band. Washington high school band and Union band. Among organizations entering floats are Universal Club. L. S. Ayres & Cos.. Elks Club, park board. Pola; Ice and Fuel Company, WeigandMoorefield. Lions Club. Columbia Club. William H. Block Company, Advance Paint Company. Gyro Club. L. Strauss & Cos.. Caravan Club, West Washington Street Mercnants Association, Berkell Players, Service

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Likes Poverty Heiress Glad She Spurned Riches to Stay With Cowboy Mate.

Bn United Press Hollywood. April 15.— Two months after she spurned a parental mansion and wealth for a simple Hollywood bungalow and the dude cowboy with whom she eloped, the former Catherine Thorne, Chicago heiress, was convinced today that she had made the right decision in choosing love. The home her husband, “Big Boy” George Gillespie has provided is anything but pretentious, but it is cozy. There are no servants, but there is happiness, Mrs. Gillespie said. There are no idle trips about the country or prospects of a visit to Europe. The fortune of the girl’s father, Robert J. Thorne, millionaire and former president of Montgomery Ward <fe Cos., does not figure in the little home—they're on “their own.” Gillespie is looking for a job; he thinks it’s a movie job, or hopes. it will be. The cowboy worked in a Ken Maynard film as a pony express rider, but a picture doesn't take long to make these days and production has been completed. an a “AyES sir, we haven’t got much I money. But we have a lot of fun.” Gillespie said as he strummed a banjo. “That's nothing unusual with me. Lots of times, a meal and a place to sleep has been my fortune.” As for the housekeeping—the bride looked at her husky husband and then said. “George does all the cooking. He's wonderful at it and —well, I couldn't even boil an egg. “He can cook anything, but he likes hamburgers best.” “Yes sir, just let me see any dish and sniff it and I’ll turn you out that very same dish any style, bar none,” the cowboy assured. “Don't think I have to do all the housekeeping, though,” he put his arm about his wife. “She’s one fine little seamstress and I keep her busy sewing buttons on my shirts.” Gillespie is teaching his wife cowboy songs and how to play the banjo. The romance of the cowboy and the heiress gained nation-wide attention when they eloped from Castle Hot Springs, Ariz., where Gillespie was employed and the girl was a guest. Her father first said she was under age and had been kidnaped, but later withdrew a complaint. Then the couple agreed to a ten-day “love test” separation. But at the end of that time decided they still were in love and were reunited here. Honrly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 38 10 a. m.... 42 7 a. m.... 39 11 a. m.... 43 8 a. m.... 40 12 (noon).. 45 9a. m 40 Ip. m 47

Club and Indianapolis Power and Light Company. McKinney received word today that Miss Florence Killilea, owner ot the Milwaukee Brewers, who will open the season with the American Association champs here, will be unable to attend. Harry Franklin is parade marshal and Charles E. Kaser is chairman of the parade committee. Vedder Gard, prize committee chairman, announced today that, prizes awarded tor the first home run and other "firsts," will be distributed Wednesday at the Lions Club luncheon at the Lincoln Members ot both teams will be guests. The parade will form at 1 p. m. at Meridian and North streets with the march beginning at 1:30. The route is south in Meridian to Washington street and thence west to the ball park.

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SULLIVAN BANK AFFAIRS PROBE OPENSSESSION Grand Jury Reconvenes to Conclude Tragic Financial Crashes. INCLUDES MAPLE DEATH Suicide Theory Gaining in Support Among Citizens. Bn Times Special SULLIVAN, Ind., April 15.—Sullivan’s interest today turned toward its bank tangle, which has affected three of the county’s financial institutions, which has sent the president of one to serve a sentence of from two to fourteen years in Michigan City prison, caused the death of the vice-president and trust officer of a second and which made the president of the third a fugitive from his home city for more than a year. This came with a reconvening this morning of the grand jury to finish its probe into the death ot Edgar D. Maple, vice-president and trust officer of the Peoples National Bank, and into the affairs of the defunct Shelburn bank, for forgeries on which Jessup Bolinger, its president, is now in state prison. It seems improbable that Bolinger will be brought back to face the grand jury, though Prosecutor Jesse Bedwell had once declared he might be. Since the jury was granted a recess Bolinger has filed an inventory of his assets and liabilities before a federal court referee in bankruptcy. This, is is understood, is to be presented to the grand jury for its use in untangling affairs of the Shelburn State Bank. Woman on Jury Mrs. Georgia Bard'ley, Shelburn, is the only woman , • ember of the jury. So far as could be learned, no witnesses in the bank cases were heard at the morning session of the jury, those appearing being called in another .case. It is expected the jury will be in session two weeks. Developments today in the Bolinger bankruptcy case included filing of claims with W. T. Douthitt, trustee, appointed by Everett Davidson, federal referee. The claims included one of $150,000 for the Peoples bank; $2,181.80 by Herschel V. Stark, receiver of the defunct First State Bank of Shelburn, and $9,496.60 for the Terre Haute Trust Company. Sentiment in Sullivan regarding the death of Maple, who, it was discovered, had made heavy loans from his bank to Bolinger and discounted notes Bolinger forged, has changed gradually until fully half of the town believes he took his own life. At first more than 90 per cent of the citizens believed Maple was murdered. Bolinger’s inventory showed the loss of the bank Maple represented to be more heavy than at first was thought. It also showed that a Terre Haute bank, the Terre Haute Trust Company, lost $23,000 through Bolinger’s bad pa>er. Since Maple’s death, James R. Royce. president of the Terre Haute Trust Company also i took his own life. Following these events business , men of the town speak more frankly 1 of Maple’s death, saying they think he shot himself. Shortly after the grand jury was j granted a recess, the town was thrown into another uproar when Uncle Jimmie Lang, president of the Citizens Trust Company, who disappeared more than a year ago, leaving a tangled condition of affairs at his bank, was brought back to his home town “to help straighten out things.” Bond Case Thursday Uncle Jimmie's first statement to old neighbors was that he had not taken a cent from this bank and that he had returned to William Abbott of Spencer $60,000 worth of Liberty bonds which Abbott claimed had been missing since Lang left. Abbott’s suit for the return of the bonds will be tried in Knox county , circuit court at Vincennes, starting Thursday. Sullivan, to a man, says it be-j lieves that Lang returned the bonds. It has continued to lionize Lang > since his return and is expected to j send a delegation to Vincennes with j him to give moral support during j the trial. Sullivan oday is as one of its j business men declared, “lanquid” in interest about the Bollinger-Maple | case, “since that money is gone, j anyway,” but “rarin’ to go” in its efforts to prove Lang “hasn't got them bonds and did nothing wrong : but get scared.”

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Sorority Sisters to Cheer Indians

Alpha Delta Pi Sorority members from Butler University in senior “sweet shirts” will ride the Columbia Club float in theparade before the opening baseball game Tuesday, rooting for a 1929 championship Indian team. The fair rooters are

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DEATH CLIMAX OF CHAMPAGNE PARTY

Rich Men Battle for Attractive Woman; One Killed. By United Press NEW YORK, April 15.—A Park avenue bridge party, where pre-war champagne allegedly was served, caught official attention today as efforts were made to learn how Arthur Morgan Smith, wealthy Cleveland (O.) business man, died. Park avenue is to the New York of 1929 what Fifth avenue was to New York of the gay nineties. There is luxury, wealth and social prestige along every step of the thoroughfare. The Hotel Marguery is cne of those residential hotels where one's social prominence is surveyed alone with one’s income before a lease is sealed. It was to the Hotel Marguery that ■ Smith went Thursday night. He ! died after returning to the Hotel I Barclay and three persons are held, Samuel E. Bell, oil promoter of Balj timore; Mrs. Robert L. Brown, socially prominent matron of Lexington, Ky. and Frank W. Spence, a ; taxicab driver. Disputed Woman Released Mrs. Brown was questioned today by District Attorney Joab Banton and later released. She told the district attorney she knew nothing of the alleged altercation between Smith and Bell. District Attorney Banton today hoped to hear more about what preceded the death by calling Mrs. Robert W. Schuette, Smith’s hostess Thursday night; Mrs. M. Walter Beinecker and Mrs. Harold G. Barbee, Park avenue residents. Mrs. Schuette had invited enough guests to make several tables. Smith went, but did not play bridge, according to Beinecke. He sat around and had several drinks during the course ol’ the evening, the guests said. Smith, several witnesses said, became interested in Mrs. Brown and with Bell escorted her down the elevator and out to the curbing. There when he tried to enter the cab driven by Spence, Bell pushed him and he fell against the curbing. Smith ‘Messy Drunk’ Spence said that Smith was “messy drunk.” although in Cleveland he was not known as a drinking man. Police arrested Smith on an intoxicating charge and when he appeared in court Friday morning he appeared so ill that the judge ordered him to his hotel. A few hours later he died and at first his death was attributed to a diabetic condition. An investigation later showed he had a fractured skull. Bell insisted he did not knock the j Cleveland man down as some witnesses have asserted. Mrs. Schuette, former wife of Harry S. Harkness, went to her country home immediately after the event. FRATERNITY CLEARED Virginia Chapter Exonerated of Liquor Making Charges. By United press CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va.. April 15.—The University of Virginia chapter of Delta Tau Delta, national social fraternity, stood j cleared today of charges of liquor j making and defiance of university drinking rules. The charges were declared unfounded after an investigation by j Norman McLeod, national president; F. D. Moore, president of the j eastern division and Frank S. Hemmick, executive secretary.

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Pin in Lung Baby’s Life Is Saved by Extremely Delicate Operation.

Bu United Press ALBANY. N. Y„ April 15.—Lois Jane Rutledge, 7 months old. played about a local hospital today, oblivious of the anxious hours passed by a staff of specialists who removed an open safety pin from her lung, scarcely an inch from her heart. The baby swallowed the pin a week ago. Physicians watched anxiously for a chance to operate when the prong would be turned from a vital spot. In desperation they resorted to a delicate operation with the bronchoscope and removed the dangerous object. Physicians said the operation was one of the most delicate on record because of the extreme youth of the baby and the delicacy of the organs.

DIM HOOFERS’ HOPES Marathon Promoters Tell How ‘Broke’ They Are. Nearly a dozen marathon dance hoofers today saw their hopes of salvaging part of their prize money go glimmering when Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Day, former proprietors of Day’s Casino, testified before Carl Wilde, federal bankruptcy referee, that the partnership is “broke.” Day testified he took in $3,510 and spent $3,510 between Nov. 24 and Dec. 23, dates of the marathon, which was closed unceremoniously when Day announced he had no money. Mr. and Mrs. Day listed liabilities of nearly $6,000 and assets of less than S6OO each, for which they claimed exemption. The assets included three diamond rings ar.d a diamond pin, all in pawn, and a $25 police dog. DELAY RAIL DECISION Supreme Court 3lay Rule on O’Fallon Case Next Week. Bm United Press WASHINGTON, April 15.—N0 decision in the O'Falloa railroad valuation case was announced by the supreme court at its decision session today. Another decision session will be held next Monday.

TRIBUNE QUITS RUSSIA; FLAYS SOVIET POLICIES

Bu United Press CHICAGO, April 15.—The Ch ; - cago Tribune announces editorially that it has closed its news bureau in Soviet Russia because “if an American correspondent expects any privileges from the government he must cable thousands of words of Soviet propaganda to his paper, and he must be cautious with “he news he obtains from other sources.’’ Elaborating on its position, the Tribune says: “So our readers may have at least a measure of news from Russia accurately and impartially presented, we have abandoned our bureau in Soviet Russia. Most of the news that American correspondents can obtain in Russia is contemptuously,

DASH HOPE FOR ARMS PARLEY Time Not Yet Ripe, Geneva Conference Is Told. BY HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, April 15.—Hopes that the early calling of a general disarmament conference in 1929 might be accomplished at the meeting of the preparatory disarmament commission which began today were dissipated by the opening address of ! Dr. J. Loudon, president of the com- | mission. I “The convoking of the present | session,” Dr. Loudon said, “was I done with the full realization that the moment has not yet come when we can proceed with the second reading of our draft disarmament convention, because, since the last session, negotiations between governments have not advanced sufficiently to render an agreement possible. Anew meeting will be convoked as soon as the progress of negotiations between governments justifies it. “However, I am convinced that the present session will be useful for the re-examination of the varidus questions involved in the problem of disarmament.” The meeting adjourned until tomorrow, when the agenda of the present session will be decided. The meetings will be devoted largely to discussion of Soviet Russia’s disarmament proposals and German Count Von Bernstorff’s project for fuller publicity on existing armaments. MRS. INMAN FIGHTS Will Take Divorce Suit to Nevada Supreme Court. By United Press RENO, Nev., April 15.—An appeal to the state supreme court from the decision granting an absolute divorce to Walker P. Inman, wealthy New Yorker, was being prepared here today by attorneys for Mrs. Helene Patton Inman, daughter of a Koko- j mo (Ind.), minister. The apepal is based on the question of alimony. The jury j the trial denied Mrs. Inman’s j counter petition for divorce and a j settlement of $250,000, although ; recommending that Inm"” pay his former wife $1,500 a moot*' alimony, i The court disallowed he latter I settlement because of a agreement between the couple I allowing Mrs. Inman $15,000 yearly. J Appeal was taken on the ground of j er’or.

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CONGRESS AT WORK AGAIN; FARM AID UP Relief Bill Will Be First Order of Business in House Wednesday. RE-ELECT LONGWORTH New Members Are Sworn In; Hoover Address Set for Tuesday. BY PAUL K. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 15.—President Hoover's new and strongly Republican congress was convened in special session at noon today, to deal with farm relief and restricted tariff revision. With the farm bill prepared as the first order of business in the house, where it will be considered Wednesday, and with an off-stage dispute in the senate as to what the program should be. both houses were officially opened to transact routine business necessary to organizing the session. Vice President Charles E. Curtis took the rostrum in the senate, where he has for seven years been floor leader. When the bell of the old clock used for the last twenty congresses sounded the arrival of the noon hour, Curtis dropped his gavel, demanded order, and gave way to the chaplain for prayer. Notables In Audience While a distinguished audience of Washington society people and diplomats looked on from the gallery, the oaths of office were administered to four senators who did not receive them last month and the usual resolutions of notification that the congress was in session then were adopted. An equally distinguished but larger crowd looked on in the house when William Tyler Page, the clerk, ascended the rostrum to preside until the speaker, Nicholas Longworth, was elected officially. Mr. Hoover’s call of the session was read and the 435 representatives, including eighty new ones, were sworn in in groups of twenty. Both houses tomorrow will hear President Hoover's message setting forth what he desires in the way of farm and tariff legislation. Farm Bill Introduced The administration’s $500,000,000 farm relief bill was introduced in the house by Chairman Haugen of the agricultural committee a few moments after noon. The bill was sent to the bill room without formality, along iwth three other farm relief measures which Haugen hopes will be considered during the special session. The senate adjourned at 12:25 p. m„ after 25 minute routine session, until noon tomorrow. Storm signals are flying from the masts of both houses and the atmosphere at the Capitol is mixed with expectancy and doubt. Republican and Democratic leaders are at odds over the program of business and the house and senate apparently already are at grips over the farm bill. Mr. Hoover wants to hold the business to farm relief and restricted tariff revision, but unless strongarm methods are used efficiently, congress may be here all summer, discussing problems of the nation, including prohibition. Wall street speculation and the social status of Mrs. Gann. House Well in Hand

House leaders appear to have the J situation well in hand for the President. The new lineup shows 267 Republicans, 163 Democrats, one Farmer-Laborite, and four vacancies, the strongest Republican majority since the Harding landslide congress in 1921. With their strong majority and the strict house rules, the leaders believe they can confine the business to farm and tariff, and perhaps a 1930 census authorization, coupled ! with reapportionment of the house ! to be based upon the results of that j census. The tariff hill will be ready tor | consideration in about ten days. It !is being prepared secretly by the : ways and means committee. The senate, however, is another | story. Senator Robinson ol ArkaoI sas, Democratic floor leader, has declined publicity to go along with the curtailment program. He wants action on several other bills, including , one dealing with the relations of the Federal Reserve board and Wall street speculation.

Threats of No Avail The Republican leaders have mads ! persona l appeals and threats, to no ; avail. Now they are scratching ! their heads and wondering whether j domination of the session will run I away from them. Their lineup shows 56 Republicans, 39 Democrats, and I 1 Farmer-Laborite, the strongest , majority since 1921. Scores of proposals for general legislation are to be offered. Senator Glass of Virginia, is drawing a Wall Street bill; Tydings of Maryland. is planning an amendment to modify the Jon 0 - prohibition act. Senator Shipstead 111 HM T nitnl I'trsu WASHINGTON, April 15.—N0 change in the condition ot Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, was reported by nis physicians today. Shipstead suffered a relapse from a recent attack of influenza and has been confined to his home for several days. .