Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1930 — Page 1

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‘HOLIDAY’ ON BATTLESHIPS IS BIG TOPIC U. S. Delegates to Parley Will Seek Extension of Project. FAVORED BY SENTIMENT MacDonald May Take Up Important Question as Opening Stroke. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER, I tilled Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, AT SEA, Jan. 10.—The first objective of the American delegation to the five-power naval conference at London will be the extension of the present battleship construction “holiday.” This appeared to be the consensus among well-informed persons aboard ship toddy. No formal agreement with Great Britain on this vital subject to be considered at the conference has been reached, the United Press was told in conversations with persons in the American group going to London. However, it is certain sentiment among the delegates favor a continuation of the “naval holiday” on battleship construction because it is one of the projects which they feel has the best chance of getting quick results. Would Aid Morale A decision unanimously supporting such a plan would aid the morale of the conference, it was pointed out. This question has been left open in the agenda submitted by the British recently. Their initial program provided only for the opening address by King George and the appointment of committees. Premier J. Ramsay MacDonaJd may take up the question of a battleship construction holiday as an opening stroke, advocating a continuance of the recess in building this class of worships after the Washington conference agreement expires in 1931, The Americans doubtless would support strongly such a move. 100 Aids Aboard A salute of nineteen guns was given as the liner passed Ft. Jay Stimson nnd the other delegates stood on the bridge during the salvo. The Amercan delegation, aside from the five official delegates, included nearly 100 men and women experts, secretaries, aids and others needed to handle the routine of the American division. The delegates aboard are Stimson and Adams, Dwight W. Morrow, ambassador to Mexico; Joseph T. Robinson. Democratic senator from Arkansas, and David A. Reed, Republican senator from Pennsylvania. In England, they will be joined by the other two American delegates, Charles G. Dawes, ambassador to London, and Hugh S. Gibson, ambassador to Belgium. Italy, France Deadlocked Bv Unit'd Press ROME, Jan. 10. —The Italian government considers its conversations with France a complete failure, and believes no preliminary agreement on naval parity and Mediterranean strength will be possible in advance of the five-power London conference The break in negotiations, despite France's assertion that the discussion merely is at a standstill, presumably means that the fight will be taken to London. All hope of renewing the conversations disappear with the wide divergence of the two viewpoints, and with France's unequivocal statement that she not only would not admit Italy to naval parity, but that she insisted on “a navy compatible with her own needs.” MRS. OX NAM IS ILL Condition of College President’s Wife Remains Critical. Bv United Press CtREENCASTLE. Jan. 10—Mrs. G. Bromley Oxnam. wife of the president of De Pauw university, remained critically ill in a hospital at Los Angeles, students were informed in a wire from Dr. Oxnam today.

CITY SCHOOLS WILL REOPEN MONDAY; HEAT ORDERS GIVEN

Pledged to safeguarding health of the children, public, private and parochial schools of Indianapolis will reopen Monday morning, after a week’s enforced vacation, due to the spinal meningitis epidemic. Closed for two weeks for the Christmas holidays, the schools were kept closed this week due to the meningitis danger. Decrease in the disease and stringent health rules adopted this morning in a conferance of Russell Wilson, school board president; D. T. Weir, acting superintendent of schools, and Dr. Hermai G. Morgan, city health commissioner, permit reopening next week. An old rule of the former school board, forbidding teachers to open school window* during classes was rescinded at the conference today. Under new rules, the school board

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Food Jags! Gluttons Should Take Vow to Cut Down Eating, Warns Dr. King.

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Excessive drinkers who swore off New Year’s day and still are standing by their resolution should be joined by the food drunkards, Dr. William F. King, director of the state health department, advised today. For there are plenty of folks carrying dining to excess as well as drinking. “They are sugar drunk and starch drunk, but will feel extremely temperate comparing themselves with the person who uses alcohol to the point of drunkenness,” Dr. King declared. “Starch and sugar are habit formers, just the same as alcohol, only it takes a little longer. Acidosis and toxic conditions may start from over-eating of meats, starches, sugar, cereals or any .acid-producing food. “Sound advice is to not be intemperate either with food or stimulants.”

CHEVROLET TO TRANSFER EAST Factory Will Be Erected in Baltimore. Louis Chevrolet, president of the Chevrolet Aircraft, corporation, announced today the organization will move Jan. 15 to Baltimore, where a factory will be established. The Chevrolet Aircraft corporation there will become affiliated with the Glenn L. Martin Company, which manufactures the Martin Bomber for the army, together with training planes and flying boats for the navy. The motor designed by Chevrolet is a four-cylinder,' in-line, aircooled, inverted motor capable of developing between 90 and 100 horsepower and 1900 to 2,000 revolutions a minute. It will be used in training planes of medium flying speed and low landing speed, and in all-metal sport planes capable of 140 miles an hour. Chevrolet claims the inverted motor will give the pilot greater visibility an 1 will be cheaper to manufacture than present motors. Ten of the motors hav~ been manufactured for tests at Lr itimore. The company will be reorganized in the east before going into production. Chevrolet is president ; Martin vice-president and treasurer, and Solon J. Carter, Indianapolis attorney, secretary. Charles Chevrolet, a son of Louis, is assistant chief engineer. OFFER GUILTY PLEAS Three Coast Guardsmen Facing Booze Terms. Bn United Prctß NEW LONDON, Conn.. Jan. 10 Three coast guardsmen pleaded guilty today to charges of intoxicai tion before the general court-martial summoned as result of theft of confiscated liquor from the rum runner Flor Del Mar. Thirteen men now are awaiting trial after pleading not guilty to intoxication charges. It is believed eleven more will be brought to trial. , Fifteen face charges of stealing the I Flor De Mar's whisky, but this number may be reduced. Commander | M. J. Fyan, president of the three- ! man court, told the United Press.

will instruct teachers and principals to raise all school room windows during recess periods, to ventilate the rooms and to raise windows in rooms whenever temperature exceeds 74 degrees. Even temperatures of from 68 to '4 degrees will be ordered at all buildings and cans of water will be ordered placed on each radiator in the schools for proper humidity. Practice of some janitors of sweeping during school hours or shortly before school opens will be ordered discontinued as a menace to health due to a spreading of disease germs. “Health of the school children comes ahead of education,” Acting Superintendent Weir declare i in the conference. “We will not endeavor to save coal, but to keep the children well.” Rulings against opening windows

Grind Most Difficult Ever Undertaken by Squadron in Peace Time. Bv United Press MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 10.— Throwing a challenge to all the elements have to offer, twenty-two army airplanes of the “Arctic patrol” today took off on what is to be the hardest test ever designed by the army for machines and men. The route is to Spokane, Wash., and return. The purpose to test winter flying conditions. Major Ralph Royce, commander of the First pursuit group and in charge of the flight, took off at 8:57 o’clock. In quick order the seventeen other fleet pursuit planes followed and the three heavier transports and an observation plane followed. The takeoff was from the frozen surface of Lake St. Clair. The sky was clear for the first time in days. The temperature was 10 above zero. The army had wanted bad weather for this test flight, but conditions were so bad Wednesday and Thursday postponement of the takeoff was necessary. Radio Is Used The planes will be linked to earth by radio, one of the transports being equipped with a complete low wave sending and receiving station. Today’s first stop was at St. Ignace, the trip being made without incident, and tonight the forty-two men on the trip expect to sleep in Duluth. The trip probably is the most difficult and hazardous ever undertaken in peace time by an army squadron. The country over which the route has been mapped is for the most part rough, with few facilities for emergency landings. For once, however, the army is looking for bad weather for a flight, for it is the mission of the junket to test new appliances and gather information on all phases of winter flying. Skiis on Planes The planes are fitted with skiis, and where landing fields are not covered with snow they will come down on ice-covered lakes. Heaters for motors and motor covers will be tried, as well as new devices to enable pilots to keep warm in extremely low’ temperatures. On the westward flight the army squadron will not make a regular landing in Wisconsin, flying from Duluth to Grand Forks, N. D. On the return trip, however, a more southerly route will be taken and an overnight stop, Jan. 15, is scheduled for Wausau, Wis. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 19 10 a. m 18 7a. m 18 11 a. m 23 Ba. m 18 12 (noon).. 22 9 a. m 17 1 p. m 23

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were due to the resultant increased consumption of fuel. All schools will be reopened Monday, parochial groups assuring Dr. Morgan today they would co-operate in ventilation and heating requirements. Teachers’ College of Indianapolis will open Monday as well as Butler university. No new deaths or new' cases of meningitis were reported here today. Two deaths and two new cases were added to the list in the state outside Indianapolis. Since Dec. 9, there have been forty-nine fatalities here and seven-ty-two cases. Mrs. Frank Foulks died of meningitis at Goshen Thursday and Mrs. Medora Lewis, 74, died at Richmond. The fifth case in South Bend and the first in Peru were reported.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1930

FLOOD DANGER WANES; RIVER RISEJALTED Damage High in Thousands Over State, Following Sleet Storms. PHONES ARE HARD HIT Bell Company Has Loss of $100,000; One Death Is Reported. Indianapolis and other central Indiana river cities were believed free from flood dangers today as the Wabash and White rivers, swollen by recent rains, ceased to rise north of Terre Haute and this city. Southern Indiana points on both streams, many of which already are inundated, will not benefit from the check of high waters for several days, J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist, said, and in some places the worst floods since 1913 •will be experienced. The high tide of White river stopped here at 16.4 feeet early this morning, within two feet of flood stage. The city was one of the few in central and southern portions of the state in which waters did not exceed flood levels. Sleet Damage Heavy Damage by sleet in the northern part of the state and water in central and southern portions was expected to aggregate several hundred thousand dollars. Indiana Bell Telephone Company alone reported SIOO,OOO damage. A sudden temperature drop Thursday night halted rains that soaked the state since Tuesday. Further decline tonight, to 5 or 10 degrees, was predicted by the weather bureau, with a rise Saturday to 35 or 40 degrees. There will be no rain or snow. With White river rising an inch an hour Thursday night, forty-five street department employes labored all night to check leaks in levees and in a dam across the river west of Warfleigh beach. High at Vincennes At Vincennes, shortly before noon, weather bureau guages showed a water level of 21.9 feet, with flood level at 14 feet. In 1913, after levees gave way, the Wabash river.there rose to 24 feet. Mt. Carmel reported 22.9 feet, with flood stage of 16 feet. Elliston, where White river now is at 24.9 feet, probably will have an additional two feet before the tide subsides. Seymour, with flood level of 10 feet, reported 14 feet today. Shoals, where flood level is 20 feet, may find White river rising to 25 or 26 feet within a few days. Decker, on the main branch of the stream, with an 18-foot flood stage, will watch the river rise to more than 23 feet. Sleet Storm Damaging The Lebanon-Crawfordsville-La-district was hardest hit by one of the worst sleet storms ever recorded in the state, according to early reports today. In that section practically all telephones were out, interurban service suspended and the highways coated with an inch or more ice. More than 2,000 telephone poles were down throughout the state today, according to Indiana Bell. Lines were open north of the city only to Chicago, South Bend and Ft. Wayne. Emergency crews were laboring today to restore service. An emergency order sent a special train, loaded with 1,500 poles from Jackson, Miss., today, while another order brought 10,000 pounds, approximately sixty miles, of wire, from Chicago.

. Trouble on Lines Western Union Telegraph Company reported serious trouble between Sheridan and Frankfort, and between Lebanon and Lafayette due to ice-coated wires. Postal Telegraph Cable Company said most of its lines north of Indianapolis were out, with communication established only to trunk points. Neither concern estimated monetary damage. Traction service operating from Indianapolis north was blocked today at Tipton, on the Peru lines; at Muncie, on the Ft. Wayne line, and at Lebanon, on the Lafayette line. Busses ;iansported passengers from Muncie to Ft. Wayne. Bus service between Indianapolis and Louisville was blocked by water at Seymour, on United States Road 31. Snow, falling today in the northern Indiana district near Goshen and Elkhart, presented an additional traffic hazard there. Mid-West Hard Hit CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—Snow barrage had made a No Man’s Land of the midwest today, leaving a toll of death, suffering and crippled transportation and communication facilities. Stragglers of the wintry army attacked outlying regions as far west as the Pacific coast and eastward to the north central and New England States. The repercussions were heard as far south as the upper gulf belt, where either rain or snow carried the seasonal war into usually neutral climes. A practically unbroken realm of white stretched from upper Texas to the Arctic and from the Rocky mountains to the Appalachians.

Park Board Fights to Curb Flood

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With cold, clear weather as an ally, city employes today believed they had won their fight to keep swollen White river from flooding Warfleigh. Street Commissioner Wilbur Illingsworth directed the work. Water seeped through and flooded Riverview drive near Central avenue. The top photo shows the sandbags which dammed the flow. Truckloads of sand and several hundred cement sacks were hauled to a central point where Paul

STATE PROBES Terror Reigns in Three Missouri Counties. BY NOLEN BULLOCH United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO, Mo., Jan. 10.—Vigilantes of three central Missouri counties were enlisted today to combat an unusual form of countryside crime believed behind the mysterious murders of four men and one woman. Investigators called it “rural racketeering.” For months the rich and historic counties of Autrian, Howard and Boone have been gripped with fear of pillaging and murder. The state promised to begin today a concerted drive to stamp out the crime conditions, after county officials, balked by reticence of witnesses, could get no farther than hushed gossip of front parlors and talk in town pool palaces. Attorney-General Stratton Shartel informed the United Press he would confer with Governor Henry S. Caulfield for immediate action. “My investigators have told me stories of five unsolved murders, of the fear of the people and of the work of these rural racketeers. Missouri must stop it at once,” he said. Stories related to the United Press correspondent who surveyed the situation, and confirmed by reports to the attorney-general, reported that many farm folk feared to venture from their homes under present conditions. Alarmed parents are keeping their children from rural schools. Women are fearful when at home alone. Lodge meetings and church socials have dwindled in attendance because farm folk avoid the lonely lanes at night. AL SMITH IS GREETED Former New York Governor Gets Key to Coral Gables. Bit United Pres* MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 10.—Coral Gables presented Alfred E. Smith with the key to the city when the former New York Governor arrived here today. “I am here on a vacation and I hope no one will say anything if I have to use this key to get in late at night,” Smith said.

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Elmore, 7 (left in the middle picture), of 6312 Broadway, and Louis Boggs, 15, of 6300 Ashland avenue, watched the workmen. The Boggs family had been driven from home on Ashland avenue. The home in the lower picture, located at Central avenue and Riverview drive, is surrounded by water. In most of the homes in the vicinity of Riverview drive and Central avenue electric pumps were working continuously today pumping water from basements.

Little, Mighty Frail Millionaire Flops 190-Pound Burglar, Who Has Lead Pipe.

Bv United Press VTEW YORK, Jan. 10.—A frail, ' little, unarmed millionaire drove from his twenty-four-room home today a burglar who weighed about 190 pounds and fought with a piece of lead pipe. Dr. Nicholas Partos, Cornel Drug Company head, rose early today to open an alcove window near his bedroom, when out of the darkness sprang a heavily built man, lashing out with a lead pipe. Mrs. Partos. who was awakened, looked on helplessly and was amazed to see her husband toss the husky intruder to the floor and sit on his chest. The burglar flung Partos from his chest and fled, when an attempt to unmask him was made. Partos struck a parting blow as the intruder ran out the front door and disappeared behind some shrubbery across the street.

HOOVER READY TO SEND DRY LAW FINDINGS TO CONGRESS

By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—President Hoover will send the report of the law enforcement commission to congress next Monday, to be dealt with in any legislative manner that congress may choose, it was learned at the White House today. The White House made plain that it has no interest in the manner of parliamentary procedure adopted, and desires only to expedite legislation to deal with the prohibition situation. These facts were made known today, following the action of house leaders in refusing to set up a joint congressional committee to receive the law enforcement commission’s report. Such a committee already had been provided for by the senate. Administrative officials of the government will be placed at the disposal of the house committees to .-ender what help they can in making prohibition

STATE FAIR TO HAVE CARNIVAL Contract Is Signed After Vigorous Debate. The 1930 Indiana state fair will have its carnival. At least during fair week, next fall, there will be no unemployment for the fat lady and the tatooed man. The state fair board of fifteen members, meeting here Thursday, moved in support of hoped-for Hoover prosperity and, after long debate, decided that carnival spirit shall prevail again at the fair. All morning Thursday carnival people appeared before the board and pleaded for a bigger and better ballyhoo, and finally the opposition was routed. Contract was signed with the Dodson World’s Fair Shows, Inc., of Cincinnati, and they will appear on the midway this year. Six circus acts, to appear before the grand stand and in the coliseum also were signed. This co- - is with the Gus Sun Booking Agency of Springfield, O.

stronger, it was said at the White House. The administration’s view of the present legislative situation is that the plan of setting of a joint committee was an expedient agreed upon by house and senate leaders many months ago. Technical difficulties arose from the fact that the resolution passed by the senate would not permit direct report of bills from house members of the select committee to the house itself. On the contrary, it would have been necessary that they be referred to the regular committees of the house even after action by the select joint committee. This would have caused delay. Both House Speaker Longworth and Republican Floor Leader Tilson explained that house leaders disagree with the President on procedure. "There’s no thought of a split with the White House,” Tilson said. “It’s just a matter of disagreement

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COP’S PERJURY IS TARGET OF CITY JUDGES Garvin, White to Continue War on Bondsmen and Attendant Evils. CHARGES ARE ALTERED Political Pressure, Money Alleged Used to Get False Testimony. BY DICK MILLER. Measures to abolish paid perjury of policemen and others against defendants in criminal municipal courts were planned today by Judges Thomas Garvin and Dan V. White, continuing their war against combines of shyster lawyers and professional bondsmen operating in the criminal division of city courts. Transferring from the civil to the criminal municipal court benches this week on suggestion of Governor Harry G. Leslie, the magistrates Immediately took steps to drive out racketeering from city prison and courts. Personal investigation since they ascended the criminal benches Monday has revealed that perjury of police and others, purchased by the racketeers, has been much in vogue. Charges against prisoners often have been altered to suit dealings between lawyers and bondsmen and police, both judges declared. Cornered in Corridors Lawyer-bondsman combines went even so far as to corral police—state’s witnesses—in corridors outside the court, and through force or bribery induce them to testify as the racketeers indicated, according to Judges Garvin and White. Threats of political pressure to reduce officers, or to assign patrolmen to unwholesome districts, were used many times by lawyers and bondsmen. “That was one of the old ways of bringing about crooked testimony by police in court,” the judge declared. “The more modern method is money.” Paid Blanket Sum Not infrequently, according to revelations made to the judges, prisoners were told that for a blanket sum they would be released on bond, defended in court, and even, in some instances, were assured ultimate freedom. From the sum paid the bondsman, the lawyer took his fee, and the policeman his bribe for testimony favorable to the purpose of the lawyer. “If these things are true, they cast reflection on the court,” Judge White said. “Immediate action will be taken to stop paid perjury.” “We are striking first at the police department,” they said. “To do so, we must cast suspicion on the entire force to stamp out the wrongdoings of a few.” The first step toward smashing of the perjury ring was obtaining cooperation of Police Chief Jerry Kinnay, who ordered that police report circumstances of arrest and prefer a charge against a prisoner immediately after he is lodged in jail. SLIGHT TO JEWISH ~ FAITH BRINGS SUIT Wisconsin U. Co-Ed Seeks SIO,OOO for Exclusion From Hall. Bv United Press MADISON, Wis„ Jan. 10.—A University of Wisconsin co-ed sought SIO,OOO damages in federal court today with the plea that because of her Jewish faith, she was excluded from Langdon hall, a university dormitory. The student, Mildred L. Gordon, Chicago, said she suffered mental anguish and humiliation through being barred after reservations in the hall had been made for her. The suit was filed in the name of her father, M. L. Gordon, as guardian. The suit named the Mendota Building Company and R. D. Malone, .secretary-treasurer, as defendants.

“Throughout the house, so far as I know, there is no desire to interfere with the purpose of the President to make the proposed transfer of prohibition enforcement agencies from the treasury to the Justice department. “There is a feeling on the part of some committee chairmen that their jurisdiction would be encroached upon by the joint committee. The house is ready to give the President whatever legislation he desires. The proposal to create a Joint committee of six members to work with the Wicker sham commission was turned down by the house Thursday night after the commission had wound up a three-day session without making public any of the results of its deliberations. The enate previously had approved the proposal, which had been recommended twice by the president