Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1929 — Page 9

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WATSON MAY LAND SENATE FINANCE POST Indiana Senator Is in Line If Smoot Decides to Make Change. CHAIRMAN SHAKEUP DUE Death of Warren to Bring Numerous Shifts on Committees. liu Scripp-Hotcard Seicsvaver Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—A complete rearrangement of senate committee chairmanships probably will result from the death of Senator Francis E. Warren. Warren for years had been chairman of the appropriations committee, one of the most important in congress. First in line as a successor is Reed Smoot, chairman of the finance committee. It is doubtful whether he will resign the finance chairmanship to handle appropriations. but it is passible, with the tariff bill out of the way, that he will do so. If Smoot should make this change then anew head would have to be selected for the important finance committee, and James E. Watson, Republican floor leader, ranks next in line for the place. Failing health caused Watson to leave the senate several weeks aao for a rest in Florida, and there have been rumors that he would not reassume the leadership on the floor when returns. Watson May Take Post He might abandon that post to head the finance committee. Such move would bring to a head various movements looking to selection of anew floor leader. It Watson does not take the finance chairmanship, it might fall to David A. Reed, who would have to relinquish his post as head of the military affairs committee to take it. If Smoot elects to remain where he is, the next in line for chairmanship of appropriations is Wesley Jones of Washington. Jones at present is head of the commerce committee, a body most important to his state, especially this year, when a rivers and harbors bill is to be written. He also has been failing in health since a recent long illness, but has continued to act as assistant floor leader. Hale Next in Line Frederick Hale of Maine, at present chairman of naval affairs, ranks next, and after him Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado is a possibility. If Jones relinquishes the commerce chairmanship, it falls to Senator McNary of Oregon, who probably would prefer to keep his agr:culture chairmanship, or to Hira: W. Johnson of California, who woulu undoubtedly resign the chairmanmanship of immigration to accept it. Keyes of New Hampshipe would In that case succeed to the immigration committee. In addition to this situation, there are a numDer of important committee memberships to be filled. Resignation of Edge from the senate has left vacancies on the foreign relations, finance, banking and currency, privileges and elections and interoceanic canals committees. * Burton 1’ 'sts Open Warren was a member, also, of m tar.v affairs, and public buildlnt and grounds. Burton of Ohio, who died a few weeks ago. was a member of civil service, commerce, education and labor, and judiciary. All senators will be asked by the committees to indicate whatever changes in assignment they desire. During the week the shuffling about will take place, so that new chairmen may begin the work of the regular session as soon as congress reconvenes Dec. 2. Senator Watson returned to Washington Wednesday night, much refreshed from his vacation in the south. He said he was “feeling fine” and was home for Thanksgiving dinner. He had the appearance of having regained his vigor by the rest cure route. EMBEZZLING CONFESSED Former Township Trustee Awaits Sentence at South Bend. Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 28—A sentence of from one to five years in the state prison awaits Ira W. Place, former Lincoln township trustee, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Soon after Place’s case was called for trial Wednesday he changed his plea to guilty. He was released on bond pending sentence, which will be passed within a few days. Place was indicted four years ago on a charge of embezzling SIO,OOO. TURKEY FOR PRISONERS Two Tons of Poultry Will Feed 2,000 at Michigan City. F MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 28. —Two tons of turkey were served the 2.000 inmates of the Indiana state prison today. Other items on the bill are apple dressing, brown gravy, lettuce salad, hot rolls, pumpkin pie and coffee. A motion picture of recent release will be shown prisoners in the auditorium during the afternoon. Greencastle Man Shot B v T"— GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Nov. 28 Grover Boots is carrying a fewstray pellets from a shotgun fired in his direction at a seventy-five-yard range by Robert Best. Boots la not seriously injured.

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Prefers Movies to Mate

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It wasn’t another man, but the glamor of a movie career that stole. Camilla Horn, above, the flaxen-haired film star, from her husband, Camilla, who now is in Berlin, secretly has brought suit for divorce from Klaus Gerra, a young merchant of Hamburg, with his full consent. “I am tired of being a husband in name only,’' Herr Gerra told his friends. “Camilla and I were happy until she became a famous film star. Then I saw little of her.”

PRIZE WINNING PUP BACK TO STOCK JOB

Animal Owned by Fanner Near Marion Takes Prizes at Chicago. By Times Special

MARION. Ind., Nov. 28.—Loadstone Lute, 7-months-old collie pup picked by the judges at the Chicago Collie Club show as the champion in her class, is driving stock on the farm of her owner, Fred L. Kem, near here, today. The pup was awarded first place in a field of fifty-nine entries from nearly every state. In addition to the grand prize, Loadstone Lute was awarded two blue ribbons, one as the best pup. either sex, and the other, the best novice. This was the first time she had competed for a prize.

True to Steel

Armed and armored with steel — as befits a steel king’s niece comely Eurana Schwab, whose uncle is Charles M. Schwab, Is pictured above when she appeared in the role of a headsman during rehearsal for a play of early Christian days at Marymount school, Tarrytown, N. Y. Contagion Reported Bv Time* Svriti ’ GREENCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 28. Two cases of >arlet fever and one of smallpox are reported in this vicinity by local physicians.

CORN, RATHER THAN TURKEY, MADE PILGRIM FATHERS GIVE THANKSGIVING

I By Seim*'*' Servirr VITASHINGTON, Nov. 28. * ’ When the nation struggles homeward from the football stadium Thursday to knock a host of stuffed turkeys for a goal, there probably will be at least a little recollection lingering of the first Thanksgiving feats, when the Pilgrim fathers sat down with their Indian friends to enjoy the fruits of their first year's labor in the New World. We always think about the turkey first in our mental picture of that early feast. Our magazine cover artists help to perpetuate the tradition, too. by showing a Puritan in a steeple hat, stalking

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HOLT REFUSES TO PAY BILL Plasterer’s Claim Turned Down By Controller. When City Controller Sterling R. Holt goes out of office Jan. 6 he will leave behind an unpaid bill of $212 for “plastering.” “And I wouldn’t pay it if I stayed here fifty years, Holt remarked. Edward J. Hinton, 3020 English avenue, submitted the bill Dec. 31, 1928, for plastering in connection with a plumbing repair job at city hall, ordered through the office of Joel A. Baker, city purchasing agent. Controller Holt obtained estimates on the work and declares SSO for the entire bill would be “ample.” In addition. Controller Holt contends the bill of James A. Kreglo, plumber, for $1,778 should have included repair of walls and ceilings. Hinton filed suit and obtained judgment against the city, but Controller Holt refuses to pay the judgment without a court mandate. COAL CODE ORDERED Ordinance Will Be Drafted to Protect Public. The city legal department will take steps to obtain an ordinance that will protect the public in the purchase of coal and apply equally to all classes of dealers, Oren S. Hack, city corporation counsel, said today. Herbert Spencer, city prosecutor, was instructed by Hack to revise the measure which was held unconstitutional by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin because it discriminates against dealers selling “under ICO pounds.” Charles Howe, city coal Inspector, has been conducting a war against short weight and improper description of coal. NEW OFFICIAL CHOSEN Fairmount Man Given Grant County Attendance Post. Bm Times Special MARION, Ind., Nov. 28.—Clyde E. Helms, Fairmount, is the new Grant county attendance officer. He was elected by a committee composed of the thirteen township trustees and school board presidents from Gas City, Fairmount, Jonesboro and Marion schools and County School Superintendent Fred Ratliff. He The new officer taught school at The new fficer taught school at Fairmount three years. During the past year he has been employed by Grant county as a supervisor of road and bridge work.

a proud gobbler with a blunderbuss. Aside from the inaccuracy in showing the ancient fowling-piece as a bell-mouthed gun of German invention, the picture is all right, for the Pilgrims and the other Puritan settlers who came after them did hunt turkeys in the woods. But it misplaces the emphasis of the story. Com was the chief gift of the Lord for which the Pilgrims felt that they must return thanks. During that first terrible winter, when starvation and disease stalked through the little settlement at Plymouth, it' was this new and strange Indian grain lit'

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929

2,000 CLAMOR FOR JOBS ON CITY PAY ROLL Rush So Great That Party Chiefs Print Blanks for Applicants. SULLIVAN MEETS MANY Mayor-Elect Reported to Have Made No Promise to Multitude. An indexed system of filing applications for city positions has been inaugurated by the Democratic city committee to aid Reginald H. Sullivan, mayor elect, in selecting the personnel of his administration. This is the first time that a political party has had forms printed for applicants for city berths, it was understood. It is estimated approximately 2,000 persons have joined the procession of city jobseekers. The Democratic party organization is maintaining an office on the fourth floor of the State Savings and Trust building, where the applications are filed and indexed according to wards and departments. It is understood the lists will be gone over by the ward and precinct leaders and possibly Chairman E. Kirk McKinney, to ‘‘weed out the incapable and unworthy,” before they are presented to Sullivan for consideration. Sullivan Meets Many The form contains blanks for name, address, ward and precinct of the applicant, the first and second preference for position, education, and other qualifications. On the lower part of the sheet is a blank for signatures of persons recommending the individual and another blank with the caption, “Approved By.” Sullivan daily interviews a long procession of persons seeking public jobs, but it is understood he has made no commitments. The task of finding positions for faithful party workers while preserving party harmony always is a trying one for a mayor-elect. At the outset of an administration the task requires more time than can be given to conduct of the city’s business. Problem For Slack Mayor L. Ert Slack has tussled with the employment problem for two years, making scattered appointments of Democratic workers. Failure of Slack to recognize the wholesale recommendations of Leroy J. Keach, Democratic county chairman two years ago, is said to have led to the breech between Slack and Keach. It was reported at that time that Keach sent alphabetical lists of persons recommended for jobs to the office of Slack and notified the individuals by post card that he had presented their names to the mayor. City hall is astir over the prospects for a wholesale shakeup with the start of Mayor-Elect Sullivan’s new administration Jan. 6. It generally is conceded that several of the Slack Democrats will be retained, but the Republican ranks will be thinned considerably. SUPPORT OF BANKERS IS PLEDGED HOOVER President of Association Asserts Eve/y Help Will Be Given. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28.—Bankers of America will be firmly behind President Hoover’s business program, John C. Lonsdale, president of the American Bankers’ Association, announced here. Lonsdale said there was no doubt bankers would be behind the President and that they already had indicated their intentions of serving Mr. Hoover in any manner possible. Lonsdale also announced he had appointed four bankers, representing the east, north, south and west, to attend the conference of business and financial leaders in Washington Dec. 5. Expansion Work Dropped Bv Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Nov. 28.—Failure of the 1929 legislature to pass a bill authorizing the county and Big Four railroad to share cost of a grade separation project extending from Anderson two miles east to Gridley tower has indefinitely postponed a large railroad expansion project on which work was to have started early in 1930. Railroad officials said when asked whether the effort of President Hoover to stimulate construction work would speed up the! improvement contemplated here.

that kept life in the strugggling colony. More than once the foraging parties in the woods came upon Indian caches of com, and carried them home without inquiring too nicely about the exact ownership. Theirs was the claim of hunger, which is very apt to weigh heavily when title is doubtful. nan TN the spring the survivors at Plymouth learned from the Indians how to cultivate their grain, dropping a fish or two in each hill with the seed, to serve as fertilizer. They learned how to make hominy and grind meal, and to adapt this

Well, Who Wouldn’t Be ‘ln the Swim '

J 0: i If you’re a Butler university co-ed. you’re “not in the swim” unless f nil : * j ’ you attend the practice meets held in the school’s field house pool. I1 : S ■■ . For when it’s 25 above outside, it’s 82 degrees fahrenneit in the ' pool, and many a co-ed with chilled toes has thawed them by pitting | f M If !> m St, - - "' . The top photo shows (left to right): Miss Eleanor Clark, 4176 ijL • W J Carrollton avenue; Miss Grey Hinshaw, 4848 Sangster street, and Miss ‘ > k * jfiß: i Mary Virginia Clark of the Carrollton avenue address, racing, i. . 9L ii* The lower left photo (top to bottom): Miss Maja Brownlee, 6020 .JNj Park avenue; Miss Eleanor Clark, Miss Mary Virginia Clark and Miss 1 At the right Miss Brownlee is practicing a life-saving stunt with ’ :i ■*, WKm Miss Hinshaw. l'i i,I H n nnr thf papfrs?

LAWRENCE WILL VOTE SATURDAY Improved Streets One of Main Ballot Issues. Improved streets and sewage and electric lighting systems will be the stakes when the 600 men and women voters of the hamlet of Lawrence, near Ft. Benjamin Harrison, go to the polls Saturday to vote on the question of incorporation. Necessary improvements can not be brought about unless Lawrence incorporates, advocates declare. “This community is in utmost need of sewage systems and most of the wells providing water are not deep,” declared Dr. R. S. Records, one of the sponsors of the incorporation movement Others aiding the work include H. J. Day, Dr. C. P. Wilson, A. D. McCormick. H. T. Van Cleave, Frank Lewis, Hugh McFadden, A. E. Vandercook, John T. Plummer, Charles Mowrey, Leon Herr, George Coverdill, Samuel Bruce, Martin McDaniel and Frank Vandercook. If the citizens vote for incorporation Saturday, an election of town trustees and other officers will be arranged. The schools will not be affected by the incorporation and will continue under township control. The town first was platted in 1849 and called Lanesville. The name was changed successively to Jamestown, Huntersville, Recordsville and Lawrence. In 1866, county commissioners insisted it retain the latter name. SLACK ASKS ACTION Wants Progress on Airport and Hospital. Letting of contracts for the SIOO.000 municipal airport hangar, administration building, and the $875,000 city hospital building program before the end of his administration Jan. 6 is the hope of Mayor L. Ert Slack. Slack has desired to push the construction program at city hospital and airport during his regime. The board of works approved the plans drawn by William McGuire, airport architect. An effort to start work on the north approach to the Delaware street bridge before Jan. 6 also is being made. Bandit Gets $2,000 Loot By United Press GARY, Ind., Nov. 28.—A man who held up the Tivoli jewelry store here Tuesday night and escaped with $2,000 worth of the stock is the object of police search here today. George Lange, proprietor of the store, was preparing to close for the night when the robber entered, and, after pretending to want to buy a watch, committed the robbery. He overlooked unset stones valued at SIO,OOO.

new cereal to their European tastes. From this small beginning, and from others like it, in Jamestown and the later English colonies, as well as in the Spanish and French settlements elsewhere on the continent, the cultivation of com has spread until it now is the chief cereal crop of America, and produces more wealth in a year than all our gold and silver mines do in a decade. It has traveled farther than our missionaries or our merchants, to China, to Manhcuria, to Hungary. to Africa. Australia, to the pampas of Argentina, establishing American plant colonies all over

If you’re a Butler university co-ed, you’re “not in the swim” unless you attend the practice meets held in the school’s field house pool. For when it’s 25 above outside, it’s 82 degrees fahrenheit in the pool, and many a co-ed with chilled toes has thawed them by pitting her Australian crawl against an overhand stroke. The top photo shows (left to right): Miss Eleanor Clark, 4176 Carrollton avenue; Miss Grey Hinshaw', 4848 Sangster street, and Miss Mary Virginia Clark of the Carrollton avenue address, racing. The lower left photo (top to bottom): Miss Maja Brownlee, 6020 Park avenue; Miss Eleanor Clark, Miss Mary Virginia Clark and Miss Hinshaw. At the right Miss Brownlee is practicing a life-saving stunt with Miss Hinshaw.

GOT THE PAPERS?

Material Petition Fades Away

PAGING Mr. Sherlock Holmes at city hall! The magical disappearance, from a downtown office, of a material petition asking that Grafiam avenue, from Pleasant Run to St. Clair street, be paved with concrete instead of asphalt, has mystified board of works attaches and material company representatives. The Portland Cement Association representatives secured seven of nine resident property owners as signers for cement paving in order to file the petition before 10 a. m., Nov. 20, but disappearance of the petition prevented the filing and a legal tangle has resulted.

The petition was “stolen” from offices of Lynn and Holland, brokers, 219 Indiana Warehouse Terminal building where a stenographer said a man came in and asked for it after it had been left by cement association representatives. The petition could not be duplicated before time for filing. Olli Fauchir, concrete representative, requested the board of works to accept a duplicate petition, but Theodore Dammeyer, works board president, was given a legal opinion that such action was impossible. The Mead Construction Company was low bidder on asphalt paving, at 63 cents per lineal foot more

Star Sets Wedding Date

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Bessie Love By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 28.—Bessie Love, screen star, and William Hawks, broker, have set Dec. 27, as the date of their wedding, it was announced here today. Blanche Sweet will serve as matron of honor, while Bebe Daniels, Mary Astor, Carmel Myers and Norma Shearer will be among the bridesmaids.

the temperate lands of the world. Here at home it has appropriated for its own special use the name intended originally for all the grains—for “corn” at first included wheat, rye, and all the others which we now designate as “small grains.” Thus has Indian corn conquered our agricultural thinking. # * a NOBODY knows where corn first came from, nor what its wild ancestor was. It now is so highly specialized that it will perish if left to grow wild. And the earliest com we know, small nubbiny ears found in 3aske.-.-laker graves in the southwest, still is

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than concrete. A. D. Bowen was low bidder on contract. President Dammeyer of the board indicated it may be necessary to reject all bids and renew the improvement resolution from its start. Butler Student Speaks By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 28. Robert I. Boyer, formerly of this city, a senior in the school of journalism at Butler university was the speaker at the noon luncheon of the Rotary Club. Boyer, who is editor of the Butler paper, discussed newspaper work.

the product of evolution under human guidance, and much more like modem com than it is like any wild plant we know of. It is conjectured that corn is the offspring of the Mexican wild grass known as teosinte, but efforts to repeat the development of teosinte into com have not yet been successful. The proper and distinctive name of com, used in England and on the continent, is maize. This name is perpetuated in the botanical name, Zea mats. It is probably derived from the name found by Columbus in the mouths of the Indians of Cuba, “mahiz.”

WAR RUMBLE AGAIN ECHOES ACROSS ASIA New Russian Advance Into Manchuria May Rouse Japan to Action. CHINESE ARE HELPLESS ! Soviet Hordes Seize City Despite Ideal Situation for Defense. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripp.-lloward Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. Nov. 28.—For the third time in little more than thirty years, international war threatens to break out in that Asiatic cockpit known as Manchuria. In fact, the war already appears to be in full swing. Anti-militarist Russia, supported by cavalry, tanks and airplanes, is reported to De advancing along a wide front from both the eastern i and western ends of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and military observers here take this to indicate a pincer movement against Harbin, rail center and strategic keypoint in between. In other words, Soviet Russia, whose hatred of all capitalistic nations io proverbial, seems ready to go to war with weak and unprepared China to defend what she considered io be her property rights represented by the above-mentioned railroad, whose management the Chinese have seized. Rumors May Be False News from this front, however, will have to be taken with more than the usual grain of salt, for if the Balkans of Europe is a prolific breeder of rumors, the Balkans of Asia goes her one better and then some. The wildest reports fly thick and fast and confirmation is difficult, if not impossible. If the small city of Hailar, about 125 miles east of the Siberian border town of Manchuli, has been captured, as reported, then the next stand the Chinese may be expected to make is where the railway crosses the Great Khingan range, between Hailar and Tsitsihar. Here the road twists and winds its way over the mountains like a snake, crawling through a tunnel near the top of the climb. The country, beautiful and remindful of Blue Ridge uplands, is ideal,* rtr-r defense. *1 * /- But as for that, so is the treeless, pasture-land country around Hailar. A few miles west of that city, crossing the railway at right angles, is a range of rolling hills covered with short glass, like a golf course. The tops of these grassy mounds are thick with sandpits like bunkers, large and small, capable of sheltering a million troops ajong with their field pieces, machine guns, cavalry and whatever else the Chinese happen to have. China Is Helpless The fact that the Russians occupied Hialar as easily as they did—if they did—would seem to be proof of the hopelessness of China’s position. I do not believe, however, that Russia will go very far with her war against China. Should she overstep certain bounds, she would have to reckon with Japan and what Russia now is doing to China, Japan would do to Russia. Japan has fought two wars to prevent jtny other power obtaining a foothold which would endanger her interests In Manchuria, and would not hesitate to fight a third. Therefore, if Russia really has set out to occupy northern Manchuria and force China to come to terms with regard to the Chinese Eastern railway, she probably has already informed Japan of her exact intentions and secured Japan’s promise of a free hand to carry them out. Japan Can Profit Japan has much to gain by permitting Russia to take China down a peg, provided Russia will stop where Japan draws the line. Japan claims special privileges In Manchuria, particularly middle and south Manchuria, and of late the Chinese Nationalists have been inclined to dispute these claims. Japan contends that but for her Russia long ago would have swallowed Manchuria, Just as she swallowed Siberia, a short, snappy, physical demonstration of Russia’s ability to do what Japan says she can do, would go a long way toward proving the Japanese thesis. There always is the danger, of course, of a genuine Russo-Chinese war getting out of hand, involving Japan. Japan fought China in Manchuria in 1895. And ten years later she fought Russia there. In each Instance she got out without vast profit to herself. Today should events force her back Into this arena she never would leave it Manchuria would become definitely Japanese. VOTE CHECK ADJOURNED Recount to Be Resumed Monday: No Fault Found Thus Far. Check of voting machines used ir municipal elections Nov. 5 was suspended today until Monday by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. He is making a personal recount of votes cast for election of city council, after Harry C. Denker, defeated Republican councilmanio nominee, filed suit demanding that the votes be tabulated again. “Thus far.” said the Judge, “no mistakes have been found."