Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1929 — Page 3

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MAP PLANS ON POISON-MADE AUTO PLATES First to Be Put in Use in 1931; Next Year's Contract to Private Firm. Plan- for the manufacture of t.itomobile licen.se plates and road isrn.s at the Indiana state prison ere completed at a conference of rison officials and trustees with Governor Harry G. Leslie at. the alehouse Wednesday afternoon. The 1929 legislature passed a law : equiring that this be done and another enabling the trustees to abandon the binder twine manufacturing at the prison. First state-made plates will be •iscd m 1931, the 1930 plate contract having already been let to a private concern. Inspect Other Plants Warden Walter H. Daly, Chairman John L. Moorman, Knox, of Tiic board of trustees, and Arthur L Dennison, board member, were appointed to inspect plants where plates are made and frame specifications for equipment to be advertised for bidding. It is estimated that a complete plate and sign plant at the prison will cost approximately $40,000, accord ng to Michael E. Foley, Indianapolis. board member. The new machinery will replace that now used for twine manufacture. It will be advertised for : nlc shortly, it was announced. Employ Seventy-Five Prisoners The plate and sign making is expected to employ about seventyfive prisoners. Indiana will be the twenty-sec-ond state to make its own automobile license plates, Foley said. This state, however, is the fifth to adopt the “statc-usc“ system for disposing of prison-made products by selling them to governmental units, which are required to buy from the state when possible. Contracts lor 1930 license plates has been let to the National ColorI ype Company. Law'rcnccbtirg, by Secretary of State Otto G. Fificld. No Sales Outside State The Lawrcnccburg company has this year's contract also. The cost runs a little ies,s than 8 cents a pair, according to the license department of the ocretary of state's office. In !928 ihe annual cost was more than $87,000 and it is expected to be lightly in excess of this in 1929 and 1930. Be. ides the piatc all road and street signs will be prison-made for state u-e. It is not expected to attempt Ties out ide ilie state since congress has passed a law forbidding all such interstate commerce within the next five years. MARQUETTE TO HONOR HOWARD AND BICKEL Newspaper Men Will Become Members <>f Sigma Delta Chi. MILWAUKEE. May 2.—Two outstanding figures in the modern American newspaper field. Karl A. Biekel. president of the United Press Associations, and Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board of directors of the Seripps-Howard newspapers, will be in Milwaukee in May to become honorary members of the Marquette university chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity. Both Biekel and Howard have accepted the invitation of Joseph W. Berg, president of the Marquette chapter, to become honorary members of the local group, and have tgniiied their intention of coming to Milwaukee for the induction cere-

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-i-mi • n iuMwntu ■ Children at the kindergarten of / - Miss Fern Swanson, 3720 North / 4 ' -•' 4 \ Pennsylvania street, didn't quite / W^at t 0 ma^c ttic Vigid , * 3720 North Pennsylvania street, Ijjlr; W' bot streets, in their May day cosrm fc . At me lumes -

POISON KILLS FOUR Die From Food as Race With Serum Fails. P.u I vital Pa ... HUDSON, Wyo„ May 2.—Four members of the family of Rudolph Vasco, who died from food poisoning while serum that might have saved their lives was on the way from Denver, will be buried at a group funeral today. The dead are Mrs. Vasco. 32, and three children. Thomas, 7; Fannie Frances, 7. and Mary Violet, 6. The train bearing the serum was delayed by storm-crippled lines. The lack of a lighted airport here prevented sending it by airplane. PUBLISH SEX WORK New Republic Will Print Mrs. Dennett's Book. Bu l mi at Press NEW Vt)RK. May 2.—The major portion of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett's “The Sex Side of Life,’’ a pamphlet held obscene by a federal court jury and for mailing of which she was eonvieted. will be reprinted in the May Issue of the New Republic, it was announced today. According to publication officials, the purpose is not to test the court’s decision that the pamphlet is obscene and unmailable, “but to allow readers interested in the case to judge the character of the material for themselves. - ’ NEGRO PYTHIAN CHIEFS ARE ENTERTAINED HERE Visiting Leaders 91a ke Flans for National Meeting in City. A reception at the Walker Coffee Pot and the Woman's Club home was held last night in honor of visiting Negro Pythians of the supreme entertaining committee. William H. Porter, vice-chairman of the conv .ittce and his staff were hosts. The -itors included Mr. and Mrs. S. W. ;een. New Orleans, supreme leadei Major R. R. Jackson, and Genei Charles Redd. Chicago; Attorney .G. Tidrington, Evansville, grand ancellor and Mrs. Nannie Waters of French Lick. Final plans were made for the supreme national encampment to be held here in August at the state fairground.

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WIFE SMUGGLES ‘TONIC’ Caught Taking Two Pints of Liquor to Husband in Jail. PHOENIX, Ariz., May 2.—Clotilde Armenta, 24-j ear-old wife of Francisco Armenta, was arrested here when she attempted to smuggle two pints of liquor in a pair of bedroom slippers to her husband in the county jail. Mrs. Armenta declared that her husband needed the liquor as a I tonic lor his nerves to help him en- ! dure prison routine. SEEK TWO IN KILLING Warrants Out in Murder of Remus Aid. I Tin t Vital Pass CINCINNATI. 0., May 2.—Two warrants charging murder were sworn out here today in connection with the killing of August Bruck, 34. former lieutenant of the ex-rum king, George Remus, who was found shot to death in a room in the Gibson hotel here Wednesday. The warrants were obtained by Bruck's wife, Lottie of Newport, Ky„ and named Joseph Plunkett, son of a former Chicago police captain, and a man known as Edward D. Hall of Ottawa. Kan. Bruck was killed in a room rented Monday by Plunkett, and the two, with Hall, arc known to have held a conference or party in the room a few hours before the murder. HURLED BOMB LETS GO AT COURTHOUSE FRONT | Faith Healer in Jail After Blast at Michigan City. /?>/ rvital rrrs* MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. May 2.. Business was unusually dead today, so Harry Mays, faith healer, decided Michigan City needed a little “shaking up." Mays had sat at his office window and watched hundreds of persons pass. He pondered over how he could attract customers. It came to his mind, police said, to obtain a stick of dynamite. He did. Walking to the window, he hurled the stick directly in front of the Superior" Court building—the blast was heard for blocks — then Mays sat back in his chair to wait for "customers.’’ They came, dressed in blue suits and caps, each carrying a club. They arrested him. SLACK OUSTS ELEPHANT Mayor's Cirrus Advertisement Must Have Donkey. An elephant. Grand Old Party emblem, has no place in the office of Mayor L. Ert Slack! A bianket covered novelty advertising the Police and Firemen's circus May 20 at the state fairground was placed on the mayor's desk. “I don't want that elephant in my office." Slack told Edward V. Richardson, circus manager. Richardson promised "his honor’’ a donkey, emblem 'of the Democratic party. KELLOGG SAILS FOR U. S. Ex-Secretary of State Books Passage From Europe. 1!" I Vital PasLONDON. Mav 2.—Frank B. Kellogg. former United States secretary of state, was booked for passage aboard the liner. Majestic, sailing for New York today. Kellogg came to Europe immediately after turning over his office to Henry L. Stimson. WRITER TO VISIT AFRICA William Seabrootc Sails to Studs Cannibals. Voodooism. B" l vital 1‘r, ... NEW YORK. May 2.— William B. Seabrook. author, was en route today for a protracted stay in a cannibal village between Timbuctoo and | Lake Tchad. . He expects to learn first hand the ] rites of central African voodooism about which he will write a book.

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Children at the kindergarten of Miss Fern Swanson, 3720 North Pennsylvania street, didn't quite know what to make of the frigid weather today, because only Wednesday they ushered in the baimy season with the annual May pole dance. Above are Glenna McCalum, 3720 North Pennsylvania street, and Jean Cox, Thirtieth, and Talbot streets, in their May day costumes.

TERROR RING BROKEN Mussolini Frees Sicily From Mafia Rulers. Bu L vilc-1 Press PALERMO, Italy. May 2—With ! sentences aggregating more than i seven hundred years in prison im- ! posed on 148 members of the Mafia, j the grip of that terrorist band on : Sicily apparently had been broken i today, after a reign of many years. j The trial of 161 members of the Mafia, which was begun at Termini- j Imerese, near here, last August, j ended on April 29 with jury con- | viction of all but thirteen. The j court pronounced sentence Tuesday night. The trials and convictions brought to a climax the campaign of Premier Benito Mussolini to crush the Mafia. Cesare Mori, prefect of Palermo, was given unrestricted power by the premier to bring the criminals to justice.

ARMS FARLEY SPLIT Nations Differ on Limiting War Materials. P,u I vital Pass GENEVA, May 2.—Sharp division of opinion on a method of limiting stocks of war materials arose among the nations at the preparatory disarmament conference of the League of Nations today. The United States insisted it can accept only full publicity as a means of limitation. Germany. Russia and Sweden demanded direct limitation by fixing flic maximum number of guns, machine guns, cannon and tanks which eaca country is allowed to purchase. The majority, headed by Japan, Italy and France, insisted on indirect limitation by limiting the budget of each country for expenditure on war supplies.

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OPTIMISTS UNO RfIILMEN JOIN SAFETY CLUB Scores of Members Added to Golden Rule Drivers of County. Ardent support of The Indanapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club is being offered by civic organizations and business institutions of the city. The Optimist Club members, at their luncheon today, joined the club at the invitation of Dr. Nelson M King, and a number of the implores of the Nickel Plate railroad united in- signing a long membership roll. Among the letters of commendation received today was one from Dr. H. G. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health, who wrote: “I most heartily indorse the plan of The Times in focussing the attention of the citizens of Indanapolis upon the Golden Rule. Will Cut Toll “Unquestionably your efforts will result in lowering the traffic accident toll, which has had such a tendency to increase in ratio to the additional number of motor cars placed in service each year. - ’ Much praise also is accorded the two-reel safety motion picture, “The Penalty.” which is being shown at Loew's Palace theater. This theater is co-operating with The Times in sponsoring the Golden Rale Safety Club. It is showing The Times film in conjunction with Mary Pickford's great feature. “The Coquette.” Membership application blanks arp in the lobby and any theatergoer desiring to join the club need only sign his name to the blank. Club Without Dues The popular imagination is aroused by the thought of a Golden Rule Club, an organization without officers, dues or rules, the only qualification to join, being merely the desire to “drive as I would want others to drive and to cross streets as I would like others to cross.” Not only Marion county has responded to the drive. W. H. Henderson, Peru. Ind.. commercial artist, sent in a novel membership application. This blank was affixed to a cardboard ruler painted gold and bearing upon it the slogan “Save A Life.” Letters have been received urging The Times to include motorists and pedestrians of other cities in the club. Membership Not Limited The Golden Rule Club is not • limited to citizens of Marion county, it is state and nation-wide in its scope. 1 Any person, whether lie be with Byrd at the South Pole or big game hunting in Kamchatka, may become a member of the organization merely by handing the application card to a policeman, a Boy or Girl Scout, leaving it. at, the Loew s Palace box office or mailing it to The Times. Have YOU joined the Golden Rule Club?

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Dutch Dance’ Is Planned

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The general committee for the sophomore annual dance at Butler university decided upon a novel way of “throwing” the affair. The usual functions of this nature are paid for in full by one member of the couple either boy or girl. The sophomores, however, agreed

COLLEGE NOVEL CAUSES DEATH Imagines Self Prototype of ‘Drunken Peters’: Suicide. t vital Pass CHICAGO, May 2—A fantastic tragedy against a background of undergraduate college life was revealed today with the discovery of the body of Vernon T. Peters, bond salesman. Peters, it was believed, ended his own life because he thought himself the prototype of “Drunken Peters.” a character in the novel “Beyond the Jordan,” written by a classmate at Harvard. Peters’ body was discovered by John T. Gilbert, a friend who told j police that the dead man had been ! living apart from his wife and had i been drinking heavily. On a table i before Peters’ lifeless form were sev- ! oral empty whisky bottles and a j page torn from the novel. A phonograph, apparently turned on to drown noise of the shot, was : grinding out a jazz record called : “Let's Do It.”

Enrol! Me as a Member of The Indianapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club Name Address T agree to “drive as I would want others to drive” when using a motor car and when walking to “cross streets as I would like others to cross” if I were driving. Sign and Mail to The Indianapolis Times or Hand to Any Policeman, Boy Scout or Girl Scout

I thal since each had equally as much ■ tun. each must pay. Hence, the first annual sophomore “Dutch Dance.” The sophs are enthusiastic over the ’dea, especially the men in the class.

MONON TESTS SAFETY BRAKE Girl. 8. Tries to Lead Train to Crash, but Fails. An eight-coach Monon train with an 8-year-old girl as engineer tried its best to crash into another train Wednesday afternoon—and failed. The failure was due to one of the latest engineering devices in railroading—an automatic stop system. The test was made near Carmel. Governor Harry G. Leslie, public service commissioners, leaders of Indianapolis civic clubs and Harry R. Kurrie of Chicago, president of the Monon railroad, were on the train. The demonstration was made with one train keeping the block signal system at “danger” and the other train with Laverne Baus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baus. roundhouse foreman for the Monon, at the throttle passing the signal at a speed of 60 miles an hour. The Monon has installed the added safety feature on its line from Indianapolis to Chicago.

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JIM WATSON'S CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST Words Senator Used to Assail Hoover Hurled Back in His Face. BY RAY TUCKER. t ruled PresN Staff 1 orrespondrnt WASHINGTON, May 2.—The embarrassment predicted for Senator Watson of Indiana because of his opposition to President Hoover in the primary has materialized. Democratic senators-like Robinson and Caraway of Arkansas refuse to let Watson forget some of the harsh things he said about Hoover during the Indiana presidential primary, which Watson won. Caraway has threatened to insert in the Congressional Record an anti-Hoover address delivered by Watson at Kansas City during the G. O. P. convention. Some of Watson's Republican colleagues, particularly Borah of Idaho and Norris of Nebraska, seem ito enjoy his predicament. During several interchanges in which WatI son defended his past and present i position. Borah stook in the center | aisle, grinning broadly. Watson Is Annoyed Though Watson accepted the : joshing good-naturedly at first it iis beginning to annoy him. During ; everal recent debates lie refused to j yield to the men who arose to bait i him. Shaking his shaggy mane, | pounding his palms and lifting his j coat-tails, the senator denied there was any inconsistency in his posi- ! tion. “I said several things about the present President of ihe United States.” retorted Watson. T admit I wasn't for him. 1 wanted the nomination myself. 1 had the disposition, and all I lacked was the votes.” Looking around the senate. Watson launched into a eulogy of Hoover. ana caused more chuckles and smiles with the assertion that, he "did not know Herbert Hoover when he was a candidate lor President.” I Watson denied he had delivered bitter attacks on his present party leader. Careful in “I always am very careful what I say of Republican candidates,” lie explained, ' because I might have to support them. And I can say this—there was nothing of a personal character in my remarks about Hoover. There was nothing for which I must apologize now or at any other time." Though he had voted for the McNar,-Haugen bill and equalization fee last year, Watson explained, he had good reason for opposing such proposals as the fee and debenture now. Since consideration of the old bill, he aid 'we have bad a convention, a campai ' mends by our President when he was a candidate—and an election.” Asa “practical legislator." Watson concluded, lie felt it was useless to propose schemes which were not favored at the polls—or ai the White House.