Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1930 — Page 9

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TRIAL OPENS IN NURSE'S DEATH Roscoe Allison Faces Jury in Manslaughter Case. Criminal court jury trial of Roscoe Allison, 42, of 1318 Roache street, on an Involuntary manslaughter charge growing out of the death of a nurse at his father’s home last June, began today, when Charles Allison, the defendant’s father, was called as first state’B witness. Trial jury was empanelled at 10, after more than a day was spent in questioning of tailesmen, with Harvey Grabill sitting as special judge. Deputy prosecutors Harry Gause and George Eggleston are conducting the state’s case. John Royse is defense attorney. Allison is alleged to have caused the death of Miss Ida Davis, family nurse, in a struggle on the porch of the family home, ending when both persons toppled over the porch railing to the ground. The woman died shortly after of injuries received in the fall. Later, the case came into the limelight when Roscoe Allison’s mother died and court action was taken by the defendant’s sister, Mrs. Bessie Owens, for possession of the mother’s body. The case came to trial before Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott and was halted after both parties agreed to carry out the mother's burial without further court action. The mother was being attended by the nurse when the trouble occurred.

IMPORTERS’ LOBBY SPENT LARGE SUMS Senate Committee Reports Activity During; Tariff Fight. WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The national council of American Importers and Traders was “active" and expended “large sums of money’’ during the tariff fight last year, the senate lobby committee reported to the senate today. The report, submitted by Senator Robinson of Indiana, only “regular" Republican on the committee, dealt exclusively with activities of organizations seeking low tariffs. “The testimony adduced shows conclusively that this organization maintained a lobby throughout the sessions of 1921 and 1922 for the purpose of influencing tariff legislation,'' the report said. BLAST MENACES EIGHT Fire Destroys Cleaning Plant at Michigan City. Bu I'nitrd l’ri MICHIGAN CITY, Ind„ Feb. 5. Lives of eight persons were imperiled here today when an explosion wrecked a dry cleaning plant. The blast occurred when a naphtha machine used in cleaning silk clothing emitted sparks and ignited fumes. Two walls of the structure were leveled and the building destroyed by fire. Arthur Mitchell, son of former Judge Fred H. Mitchell, was standing in the room when the walls were blown out and narrowly escaped injury. The seven others were the only employes in the building at the time. STRIKERS TO ARBITRATE Government Workers Accede to Request of Roosevelt for Place. Bm United Prigs NEW YORK. Feb. s—Striking garment workers will accept Governor Roosevelt's offer for a conference of representatives of all factions involved to seek peaceful settlement, Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union, said today. Dress manufacturers already have signified their willingness to arbitrate. The workers must ratify the acceptance at the meeting tonight of the general strike committee of 700. Illness Fatal to Child Bm Timrs Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. Feb. s.—Mary Evelyn Hege, 11-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Hubert Hege, is dead at the family home, three miles southwest of here, after a month’s severe Illness. She leaves her parents and a brother and a sister, Carl and Mildred Hege.

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Left (inset) William Barker, who killed his wife (right inset) and himself at his home today. Orphans of the tragedy, left to right, back row, Mildred. 18; Emily Belle, 2; William Henry, 15, and in the foreground, Clarence, 13. ana BY ARCH STEINEL A CHEAP bone-handled knife, one of the 49-cent variety, was fingered by a 13-year-old boy today in the office of Coroner C. H. Keever. He always had wanted that knife. He had admired it in his Dad’s hands as it slivered off matches and made toothpicks. Why, his Dad even had let him cut with it, sometimes. He’d even cut his name "onct” with it. The boy, Clarence Barker, 13. has the knife now. It was the only worldly posssession outside of a small equity in a home that William Barker, 58, R. R. A. Box 38-G, left him and his brother and sisters this morning when he shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. ana WITH slow questions, questions that adolescent minds could understand. Coroner Keever drew the story of the tragedy from Clarence, William Henry, 15, his brother, and Mildred, 18, his sister. “He —he—knew I liked the knife and he told me, ‘When I’m through with it, you can have it,” explained Clarence as his hand smoothed the cheap bone-handle. ‘We heard shots. Mildred wasn't at home, just William and I and the baby.” he explained. Yes, if I’d a-been there I might have gotten killed," interposed Mildred, “he was sore at me because I wouldn’t give him the money I made clerking.” An extra shell found by the coroner in Barker’s pocket, gave credence to her statement. an n “YTTELL” continued Clarence, W “me and William heard the shots and with a lighted lamp went upstairs. Williams carried the lamp. I threw the covers back. Mama’s head was ” “Yes, I know, son, you needn’t say more,” replied Coroner Keever. “Then later I went to put my shoes on. The police came. I found Dad’s knife in my shoe. He wanted me to have it when he was through with it, and I've got it now.” A haze filled the coroner’s eyes, filled the room. Other facts were gathered. Barker had no insurance, he stopped it six months ago; he never quarreled with his boys, only with his wife and daughter. Mrs. Barker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Albrandt, live in Cumberland, Ind. But these were only facts, not realities, to Clarence. Clarenoe hardly realizes his mother and father are dead. He only know r s that his father kept his word and that he has the coveted bone-handled knife to make notches with.

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Accounts Board Chief Hits Commercialism in Public Posts. Rv Times Special MARION. Ind.. Feb. s.—“ How can we expect a decrease in crime if certain public officials charged with enforcement of the laws will accept lucre from the law violator? Partnership of officer and criminal does not tend toward reducing crime conditions.” This was the challenge to officialdom made today by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, addressing the Marion Kiwanis Club. Pointing out that the unholy alliance between public officials and the underworld increases disrespect for law and order, he continued: “He who violates the law by penmission of the public, through its officials, can not have much respect for that law or the public official who thereby assists him in its violation. “You can not stop crime until you first show the criminal that a public official means business. that he Is faithful to his trust, will

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SHERIFF TRYING OUT NEW START Man With Police Record Deputized at Richmond. Bv Timm Special RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. s.—Murrell Maher, on a promise to “be good,” has been deputized by Sheriff Henry Long as one member of a two-man special police force which will serve in districts bordering on the Richmond city limits. The other officer is Lovell Runyon. Maher’s police record in the last ten years is as follows: July 5, 1917, speeding, $1 and costs: Sept. 11. 1922, driving while drunk, $5 and costs; March 27, 1923, liquor law charge, dismissed; March 19, 1924, Intoxication, $5 and costs and thirty days in jail; April 6, 1925, assault and battery on wife, $5 and costs; July 20, 1927, intoxication, $lO and costs, and April 3, 1929, assault and battery on wife, S2O and costs and thirty days in jail. The record was taken from the city docket. Asa result of publication of an account of the appointment in a newspaper here, Sheriff Long and William F.mslie, a reporter, came to blows. The reporter is facing assault and battery charges. The sheriff is said to weigh 250 pounds, and Emslie, former Earlham college football player, weighs 151. Aged Arba Man Dies Bv Times Special ARBA, Ind., Feb. s.—Elias Rust, 78. Is dead near here of heart disease. He leaves his widow and three sons, Clem, Farmland; Orla, Hagerstown, and Irvin, Arba.

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Mrs. Robert E. Springsteen, wife of the former postmaster and excouncilman, who died Tuesday at her home, 234 East Twelfth street.

not violate his oath of office and has a wholesome respect for the law himself.” Pointing out that there is much talk about public office being a public trust and not enough devotion to the idea of trusteeship, Orr decried the linking of officials with corrupt business through bonuses.

MULCH PAPER PROVES VALUABLE TO GARDENERS

Pt/ Times Special PHILADELPHIA. Feb. s—For the enthusiastic gardener, who already is planning his early planting, the Farm Journal today publishes the result of experiments in hastening early vegetables to maturity recorded by E. R. Lancashire, gardening specialist of Ohio State university. The tests prove the value of mulch paper as a protective covering for the garden, both in increasing the natural temperature of the soil and in providing a uniform distribution of moisture. Increased production ranging as high as 92 per cent was recorded for the gardens using the paper covering. In only three instances,

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1930

HOOVERS WILL OBSERVE 31ST WEDDING GATE President and First Lady Were Married on Feb. 10, 1599. MET IN SCHOOL DAYS Couple Has Lived in Many Foreign Countries During Career. BY BERYL MILLER NEA Service Writer (Copyright. 1930. NEA Service, Inc.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. —The President and the first lady of the United States celebrate their thirtyfirst wedding anniversary on Feb. 10. Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover have observed many anniversaries in remote corners of the world and under many strange circumstances since 1899, but this will be the first time the event has occurred in the White House. When a husky young engineer of 25, then called Bert. Hoover married the tall and charming daughter of a wealthy banker in Monterey, Cal., and carried her off to far-away China on their honeymoon, he set her up beside him for life as a working comrade. And they have achieved remarkable success in blending marriage and career. Met in College Hoover has trekked the African veldt, ridden the Australian bush, crossed the Siberian steppes, suppressed riots of Chinese coolies, been wrecked on the China coast. And through it all, Mrs. Hoover has accompanied him, making her home wherever his work took them. The first time Bert Hoover ever saw his future wife was while he was working his way through Stanford university where she was a co-ed. He waited on her at the table, and a short time later he put away his apron to call on her. Lou Henry’s sorority sisters saw their waiter and college laundry agent in the front parlor and walked out of the room with their noses in the air. But she entertained him the whole evening. And the next day she moved out of the sorority house. Blacksmith’s Son Hoover, the son of an lowa blacksmith, then was a poverty-stricken student at Stanford, and Lou Henry was the daughter of a wealthy banker. But she had the true democracy that is the test of blue blood. Young Hoover and Miss Henry found much in common as they pored over the rocks on hinges with the geology class and studied the strata that composed the earth’s crust. She was the only girl taking the geology course and their courtship developed on these expeditions. They built their castles in Spain, as all lovers do, but neither imagined they would some day occupy the White House. There are tales that Herbert’s exams had their bad moments and that Lou Henry tutored him quite extensively. Offer of Job But at last the engineer’s diploma was achieved and Hoover took a job in Australia. Then came an offer of a good job in China. Engineer Hoover decided to take It if Lou Henry would marry him at once. He cabled the question. Word flashed back that she would. * As soon as Hoover could get to California they were married in Monterey, and left immediately for China. The ceremony was performed by a Catholic priest with special dispensation to perform Protestant marriages, as no Protestant minister was immediately available. Mrs. Hoover left the Episcopalian church to embrace the faith of her new husband, a Quaker. One of her first jobs as helpmate to her husband was to organize the women of Tientsin during the Boxer rebellion, to ration off food supplies, and to feed the men behind a barricade of sugar barrels and rice bags. She is even said to have manned a machine gun at one time, but this is probably stretching the truth. She learned to speak Chinese to help her husband more effectively. Ask any one who has tried to master Chinese and they’ll tfell you that any wife who will do that is a matchless mate, and a genius. Successively Hoover’s work carried his family to Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, Africa and various European countries. Man Dies by Own Hand INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Feb. 5. —Edward Roberts, 52, committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn at his home here. No reason was ascribed for the act.

in the case of onions from seed, late cabbage and turnips, was production below the ordinary. Use of the paper resulted in these increases: Spinach, 48 per cent; lettuce, 28 per cent; early beets. 35 per cent; late beets, 20 per cent; late carrots, 71 per cent; early peas, 41 per cent; late peas. 47 per cent; celery, 32 per cent; early cabbage. 44 per cent; early cauliflower, 41 per cent; late cauliflower, 92 per cent; early potatoes. 21 per cent; early snapbeans, 5 per cent; late snapbeans, 48 per cent; bush lima beans, 10 per cent; peppers, 63 per cent; eggplant. 75 per cent; sweet com. 20 per cent; tomatoes. 7 per cent; cucumber, 44 per cent.

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The hands of time turn back thirty-one years for President and Mrs. Hoover when they observe their wedding anniversary, the first in the White House. Here they are as they appear today and as they appared on their wedding day back in 1899 —she a banker’s daughter and he a brilliant young engineer, the eon of a poor lowa blacksmith, who had met her while working his way through college.

EOIGT OF STATE DEFIED GY BALE Council Body to Ascertain Rights of City. Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 5.—A committee of the city council has been appointed to formulate a report on rights of the city as a result of a' demand of the state board of health of “immediate action” on building a sewage disposal plant and an intercepting sewer, the two projects to cost about $1,500,000. At a stormy session of the council, during which the health board order was discussed, Mayor George R. Dale and others were criticised, Councilman Ora Shroyer, Democrat, asserting Dale, Calvin Faris, Dr, Earl S. Green, former secretary of the city health board, and Dr. H. D. Fair, his successor, were responsible for the state board’s order. “Politics is playing too important a part in the sewage plant and sewer matter,” Shroyer asserted, “and interests are trying to force this council to bond the city above its limit.” C. A. Taughinbaugh, city attorney, defended the mayor, telling Shroyer his attack on an executive head was unfair. The attorney said the projects would not be earned out as long as Dale can prevent. BAPTIST FEDERATION HAS NEW SECRETARY The Rev. Clive McGuire Fills Post Vacant Since Last May. The Rev. Clive McGuire of Dayton Beach, Fla., a native of Inditona Beach, Fla., a native of Inditary of the Federated Baptist churches of Indianapolis at a meet-

ing of the executive committee today. Born In Jennings county, Mr. McGuire held his first pastoral charge at Sullivan. He has been out of the state for fifteen years, the last five of which he spent in Florida. Baptist church work in Indianapolis has been carried on without aid of an executive

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“The benefits derived were more than sufficient to warrant the expenditure of S7 or $8 for enough paper to cover an area of 30x90 feet.” says the writer. “Papercovered gardens warmed up quicker in the mornings and cooled off slower at night. Gardens protected by paper mulcn were better supplied with moisture than those not protected. “In these tests light-colored papers, tar papers and papers which shrink have been found impractical. Soil temperature tests showed that the darker the paper, the warmer the day and the cooler the night, the better was the result." The absorbent paper, says Lan-

Bent Again Scotty’s Not Broke, but He Needs Dough to Keep Up Reputation.

Kansas city, mo, Feb. 5. “Death Valley” Scotty, most eccentric millionaire ever to come from the gold mines of the west, hurried to his desert castle today in an attempt to recoup a fortune lest in the stock market. “Death Valley” Scotty, whose almost forgotten name is Walter Scott, passed through here a week ago with Paris his announced destination. All his life, he said, he had been busy taking out gold from his mine in Death Valley, and then had built himself a $4,500,000 home on the sunbaked sands nearby in which to enjoy life. “But even in a swell joint like that I got lonesome,” said Scotty, who, several years ago, achieved fame when he chartered a special 'train for a race against time, “just for the fun of it.” Anyway, Scotty started for Paris, wtih his pockets bulging with bank notes and anew ten-gallon hat on his grizzled head. He passed through Kansas City in the opposite direction today, downcast and with all thought of the pleasures of Paris vanished. He turned back at Chicago, he said, when he learned he had lost all his ready money playing the stock market. “Guess I’ll have to do some dirty work in my mine,” he said. Unless the mine produces “plenty,” Scotty added that he might have to give up the manorial castle, with its swimming pool, its pipe organ, and its scores of rooms, which he built in the valley where the mercury sometimes touches 150. “You know the taxes on It are $150,000,” said Scott.. “And It costs me about $200,000 a year just to look at it. This stock market just about ruined me. Why, I’m nearly broke.” Scotty reached Into his pocket to find a bill with which to tip the porter. Despite his financial difficulties, he had trouble locating a bill small enough to give the porter. After thumbing a SIO,OOO roll, he finally found one for $5, changed trains, and hastened on to his lonely castle in the painted desert. Farm Home Bums Bv 1 intes Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. s.—The two-story residence of Chauncey Huntzinger, farmer, five miles northwest of here, was destroyed by fire which started from sparks on the roof.

cashire, is test kept in place by the use of wire wickets, each about two feet in length with bent ends which will reach at least six inches into the ground. They should be pinned close enough together so as to prevent any gust of wind lifting up the paper between them. Hill crops are planted through holes made in the paper. Drill crops are planted By first laying the paper and leaving a thin strip of exposed soil between the strips of paper into which the seed can be drilled. Lancashire also points out to the amateur gardener that vegetables get the maximum amount of sunlight only when the garden rows run north and south, a point which frequently is overlooked.

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FARMERS HELP FLOOD VICTIMS Many Require Assistance to Assure Spring Planting. A campaign for funds by the Indiana Farm Bureau started a week ago to give farmers in the flood districts of the state anew start is bringing contributions from individual sympathizers as well as from township and county farm bureau organizations, officials announce. The Bourbon township bm-eau, Marshall county, was among the first to contribute, according to information from the state, sending a check for SSO. Silver Creek Township bureau, Clark county, and Franklin township bureau, Montgomery county followed with checks of $25 each. The Bartholomew county bureau contributed SSO and the Elkhart county bureau $25. The Clinton township bureau, Vermillion county, contributed S2O and the Mays Farmers Institute, Rush county, $25. Other township units have contributed $5 to $lO each and several individual farmers mailed checks of similar amounts. Officials of the state bureau are pleased with progress being made in the campaign.

SCORES PRICE-FIXING Speaker Blames West for Class Legislation. Eighty-five per cent of class legislation originates west of the Missisi sippi river, “where there are no I business or pay roll problems," John B. Maling, Hammond, industrial executive, declared before the annual dinner meeting of Associated Employers of Indianapolis. Inc. Monday night at Columbia Club. , “The west gave us the I. W. W.. | the Populist movement, the Non partisan movement and, this year, we are faced with proposals for price fixing," Mailing said. “Western senators are leading the fight. “There are 400 organizations in this country attempting to destroy our social system and monthly, weekly and daily newspapers are aiding them. Communism is their purpose." Present-day ignorance of the Constitution was deplored by Harry F. Atwood, Chicago, Constitution Educational Association president, in an address. Attorney-General James M. Ogden was toastmaster. The Rev. Jean S. Milner of the Second Presbyterian church gave the invocation, Andrew J. Allen, secretary of the association, delivered an eulogy on the flag. KERN IS CLUB SPEAKER Young Democrats Hear Address by Candidate for Judge. Careers and accomplishments of Hoosier Democrats of national renown were traced by John W. Kern, candidate for the Democratic nomination for judge of superior court one, before the Young Democrats Club Tuesday night at the Lincoln. Among the great Democrats named by Kern were Thomas A. Kendricks, Daniel W. Vorhees, Josept E. McDonald. Thomas Taggart, Thomas R. Marshall and Samuel Ralston. Sweden’s Queen Still 111 !! i/ United Press ROME. Feb. s.—Queen Victoria of Sweden continued critically ill today. An official bulletin said her condition was little changed in the last few days, although she was somewhat quieter.

LACK OF JOBS IS BLAMED IN FILIPINO RIOTS Increasing Influx of Race Adds to California’s Labor Troubles. THIRD ASIATIC INVASION Welch Bill Would Exclude Cheap Workers from Pacific Coast. The foUowin* exclusive atorv. written bv Max Stern, veteran California newspaperman, for The Times and NEA Service, presents the background of the recent anti-Filipino riots on the Faeifl# coast. Stern delves back into Paclfio roast history to explain the causes of the outbreaks that have been marked by mob violence, bombine and even death. BY MAX STERN Written for NEA Service (Copyright, 1930. NEA Service. Inc.) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. s.—The third Asiatic invasion in the Pacific coast’s history, bringing a flood of little brown men to these shores to take jobs as workers in many lines, explains the recent anti-Fili-pino race riots that have been marked by mob violence, bombing and even death. The outbreaks have been followed by Filipino protests both in Manila and Washington, and are almost certain to be echoed in congress when the V/elch bill to exclude Filipinos like other Asiatic*, comes up. At present Filipinos born under the American flag In Hawaii and the Philippines are permitted to enter the United States without restriction. The Filipino riots have occurred in increasing intensity since the first outbreak in Yakima. Wash., recently. California disturbances have occurred in a half-dozen cities. The most serious was in Watsonville by a mob inflamed by reports that a Filipino club employed white girl entertainers. Chinese First Three times have Asiatic laborers peacefully penetrated America through Pacific ports and three _ times Asiatic blood has flowed. The first wave of oriental cheap labor threatened to inundate California in the early days of her statehood. In the latter 70’s thousands of Chinese imported to work the gold fields and railroads drifted Into the cities to take the white workers’ jobs. Dennis Kearney, “sandlot orator,” inflamed the mobs with his cry: “The Chinese must go.” And hundreds of Chinese were killed and injured. In 1882 congress passed the Chinese exclusion law. The next "Invaders” were Japanese farm workers. So numerous they became that whole villages in California valleys were peopled by them. As they prospered and bought land these villages became subject to periodic raids by native white laborers. There followed the 1924 Japanese exclusion law, the result of agitation by former Senator Jamea D. Phelan, and organized labor. Uncle Sam Is Ward The third invasion from across the Pacific is that of Uncle Sam’s own Malay wards, a mas of young males, avid to work cheaply, learn American ways and dress in the latest fashion. The outward irritant in their presence is social. Less than 4 per cent, of the arrivals are females, yet under California law Filipinos may not marry white American girls. But the basic cause of the rioting is economic. Since they are Uncle Sam’s wards and are not classed with Japanese and Chinese as aliens, nothing halts their coming in any number. Since 1920 they have been arriving in increasing numbers, so that today ‘heir nuir.Lsr is conservatively estimated at 20.000 in California, 50,090 in continental United States and 60,000 more in Hawaii. How fast they come may be seen by census figures revealing that the Filipino population in the United States has increased ten-fold since 1920. Compete With Whites Only a few come by way of the United States army, and these are the fortunate ones who may become American citizens on honorable discharges. Once here they go first to the valley. There they are welcome, for a shortage of Mexican rural workers is noticeable. They pick cotton, harvest lettuce, work in melons and winter vegetables. Being both frugal and celibate it is, however, only a short time before a group has bought an automobile, formed a club and become “100 per cent American.” The lettuce fields call them no longer and they come to town. The jobs they take in town are different, for there they compete with white Americans, thousands of whom already are jobless. They become cooks, waiters, house servants, steamship cabin boys, elevator operators. Strong as the reaction against violence of law-abiding citizens has been, feeling runs equally strong in California against increasing numbers of unassimilable immigrants from Asia. HOLD TRIO IN KIDNAPING Bv United Press NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 5. Two men are under arrest in New York and one in New Haven in connection with the alleged abduction of Max Price, wealthy New Haven real estate broker, it was reported at police headquarters today. Price has not been reported since he was seen the evening at Jan. 28, accosted by a stranger outside a store here.