Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1930 — Page 3

FEB. 8, 1930

LESLIE PLEADS TO SAVE HOMES FOR HOOSIERS m Officials Discuss Purchase of State Lands for Reforestation. BY DANIEL >7. KIDNEY Hoosier "hill-billies” are the happiest people in Indiana in the opinion of Governor i*arry G. Leslie and he does not Intend to have them harassed. So today Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department '.aces a sociological problem, where previously he encountered only an economic one. The problem of reforestation in southern counties, which, State Forester Ralph Wilcox contends, will kkhelp solve state-aid school difficul- " ’es. Held Conference t Wilcox and Lieber advanced this idea at a joint conference of conservation and highway commissions with Leslie Friday afternoon at Turkey Run State park. They produced facts and figures to back a program of eventual purchase of more than 1,000,000 acre for reforestation by rhe state. Purchase would be in blocks of 25,000 to 100,000 acres. School-aid would be aided by eliminated of townships and even counties which now require this as- . distance. hut t‘ hill-billies” would have to move*nd there is where the Governor advanced his point. Want Homes "What would become of these people?” Leslie queried. "They don’t want to come into cities and try to successful. They are not interested in that. “These folks crave the out-of-doors, care-free, wild life that you are trying to encourage with state parks. Why, they are the happiest people we have. ’ln many ways they are my kind „of folks, for I, too love the out-of-doors and fishing and hunting away from bustle and noise. I have been among these hill people. They have Aheir own kind of fun every day and It top it off with a dance at night. ~ Can Not Go to Cities ‘•They don’t care for our so-called city life and I do not think we ought to drive them off the land without some assurance that they will not go into cities where they don’t fit and wind up stealing cars or being cared for in institutions.” * Lieber combated this with the contention that most of the .families would move to the small towns or farms nearby and when the forests grow up in fifteen or twenty years they will be employed in the lumber industry. Wilcox attempted to shoulder the social side by charging these hill folks are interested in the liquor industry and declared: "There is a still on every hill.” Liquor Money Source Here also the Governor was not without some knowledge of the subject. He told of a "hill billy’’ doing time in prison who explained to the trustees there how he had lifted the S4OO mortgage “on the old home place” with illicit liquor making. Although the deduction was not made <aloud) it appeared logical -'that continued prohibition may solve the state aid problem without raising a tree. Leslie closed the meeting by expressing sympathy with the reforestration plan and indicating he might call a conference to co-ordi-nate this with other state aid, flood control and social problems facing his administration. Commissioners also inspected two • proposed roadsides for entrance into the park. The one selected will eventually become a state highway from United States Road 41 to r Crawfordsville, it was decided.

NOTED WHISTLER TO GIVE RADIO PROGRAM Several Other Features on Sunday Broadcast of Block Company. Jesse Hall, whose whistling has been heard from the stage of many of this country’s leading theaters, will be guest artist Sunday night at 6 on the William H. Block Company's weekly broadcast from tatlon WFBM. * Hall can interpolate the natural Calls of birds into the melody of a song. He has been in demand for years in the booking offices of the leading vaudeville circuits, but only recently has devoted much of his time to radio. For his whistling solo on the Block program he has chosen Lincke’s “Spring. Beautiful Spring.” The program for Sunday night includes the Block orchestra, the Block singers and the "Elevator Boys.’ A talk on spring fashions by Mary Helen. Block's fashion obIperver will be heard during the second half of the hour.

BROKER FACING PRISON Sentence Imposed in Robbery of Rensselaer Bank. Ru Putted Press RENSSELAER. Ind., Feb. B.—John Dunlay, 51, Gary real estate broker. Is under sentence to serve one to fifteen years in the state prison for conspiracy in the robbery of the State bank here. Circuit Judge George J. Williams did not commit Dunlap to prison pending appeal to the Indiana supreme court The batik lost S9OO in cash and $50,000 in negotiable securities in the robbery. The loot was recovered. "Blue Law” Case Fails gu Time* special PRINCETON. Ind.. Feb B.—G. W. JUfreen and Edward Thies, proprietors of a motion picture theater here, were acquitted by a jury in Gibson cir uit court where they wire charged with ooerating shows on Sunday. The charges were filed by the ministerial association and W. C. T. O.

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hangar and found that it was raining. Raining! and there was a dense fog. When Barnstorf had persuaded himself that he wasn't seeing things, he asked the company’s scientists for an explanation. And he learned that the hangar is so big that it creates its own weather conditions inside. 'On this particular occasion, warm and moist air had been rising from the floor, where men were at work, to the distant ceiling, where the air was cold. There the moisture condensed and fell to the floor as rain; and as the thing kept up the air became full of moisture and there was a fog in addition. Goodyear-Zeppelin scientists say that it could snow inside the hangar in just the same way. And if the whirling, unaccountable air currents were to grow? a bit stronger, the hangar could house a severe windstorm when the air outside was perfectly still.

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PRISONER DENIES GUILT Youth Identified as “Banana Kid” by Six Taxicab Drivers. Six taxicab drivers, several filling station attendants and a pedestrian

were robbery victims of "The Banana Kid.” whom police now say is Kenneth Hunt, 21, of 1504 Blaine avenue, bound over to the grand jury Thursday from municipal court on charges of robbery and banditry. Hunt, denies the title, although he has been identified by several victims. He was

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NEGRO PICKS WRONG NUMBER: IS JAILED Pa United Press PITTSBURGH, Feb. B.—Woodbridge Phillips, Negro, will have two and one-half to five years leisure to pick his next clearing house number" because he picked the wrong number in court Thursday. Arraigned on a charge of robbery, Phillips denied taking S2O from William Bigler last December. Police who arrested him testified they found S2O in his pockets when they took him into custody. "Where did you get the money, then?” asked Prosecutor Roy T. Clunk. "I won on Number 235 Dec. 14,” Phillips said. Clunk got a newspaper for Dec. 14 and found the "number" for that day had been 216. A short time later the jury returned a verdict of guilty and Phillips was sentenced to serve two and one-half to five years to the workhouse by Judge Reid.

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SET CORNER STONE RITE Ceremony to Be Held Sunday by Second Reformed Church. Corner stone to the new approach and outside stairway of the Second Reformed church, at Shelby and Pleasant streets, will be laid Sunday at the morning service. The building was purchased about five years ago, but a remodeling program is being completed. Anew organ will be installed and the building is made into one of the largest church edifices on the south side. The Rev. George P. Kehl is preparing a special program for the corner stone laying. Train Kills Child Pn United Press MARION, Ind., Feb. B.—Abraham Sweigher. 8, was instantly killed here Friday when struck by a Big Four train. The body was badly mangled and parts strewn along the track for nearly 175 yards.

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CANADA ANGER IS AROUSED BY SHOOTING CASE Note of Protest to U. S. Is Demanded by Two Irate M. P.s. ftv United Press WINDSOR, Ontario, Feb. B. Rumbles of protest over the shooting of Arthur La Framboise, allegedly by United States border guards, continued to reverberate along the border today with new threats of a protest to Washington coming from two Canadian legislators. La Framboise, a British subject, was wounded as he helped a friend with a load of liquor on the Detroit river Sunday night. He claims he was on Canadian territory and was shot by American officers. Coast guard and customs headquarters in Detroit have received no report of such a shooting from their men. Agents Assailed American border agents were assailed anew Thursday night in two speeches at the Essex County West, conservative Association’s annual convention. Colonel S. C. Robinson, member Os the Ontario parliament, told the convention he had investigated the shooting personally and was convinced it occurred on Canadian soil. “I am prepared to go the limit in bringing this serious situation to the attention of the government. Such an incident as the La Frambroise shooting might have meant war if it occurred at some European boundary.” Demands Protests Colonel Robinson previously announced he would ask the Ontario parliament for a resolution of protest. The other speaker was Charles W. Bell, K. C. Dominion parliament member from Hamilton, Ontaria, who said: "The righteous indignation of every loyal Canadian should be stirred. The rights of our citizens are being flaunted and their lives endangered by indiscriminate use of firearms on the border.” The latest federal estimates show that there were 47,171,000 head of sheep in the United States on Jan. 1, 1929. These were valued at more than $500,000,000.

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HOOVER DROPS DUTIES TO TAKE FLORIDA TRIP President Will Spend Week Deep Sea Fishing Off East Coast. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD I,'nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—President Hoover, putting the cares of government behind him, plans to leave here late tonight for a week of deep-sea fishing in the tropical waters off Florida. The outing will be his first, save for brief week-ends at his summer camp in Virginia, since he took office. Although Hoover’s physician, Dr. Joel T. Boone, says he is in excellent health, it was believed a short rest would be beneficial to him. Takes Small Staff Hoover plans to divorce himself entirely from problems of state while in Florida. Only a small secretarial staff, Lawrence Richey and a stenographer, will accompany him. The President, so far as is known, has no political engagements for next week. He will make no speeches, receive no delegations, write few letters. A trim little house boat, the Saunterer, owned by Jeremiah Milbank of New York, will receive the presidential party when it arirves at Long Key, Fla., early Monday morning. Stay for Week Mrs. Hoover, Associate Justice Sterne, Mark Sullivan, newspaper man, and Vernon Kellogg will accompany Mr. Hoover aboard the Saunterer. Secret service men will be accommodated in two other house boats. Mr Hoover plans to spend his entire time on the house boat and is not expected to land until he begins his homeward journey the last of next week. Eschewing a special train. Hoover has arranged for three private cars to be attached to a regular limited train from Washington to Florida. He will make no stops en rout'*, save those necessitated by railroad operation, and will pass throug'r most of the principal cities on the route at night.

Dorothy Wiltshire Leads in Sunshine Girl Contest

Dancing Singer Gets Most Applause From Crowd in Theater.

Dorothy Wiltshire, singing “Turn on the Heat” and doing a tap routine, leads the Indianapolis Times-Indiana Theater Sunshine Girl Contest, being staged in the Charlie Davis presentation at the Indiana theater this week. The contest is being judged by popular applause. The one getting the most receives five points; second most applause, four points; third, three points; fourth, two points, and fifth, one point. Miss Wiltshire was leading after the first day with eighteen points, getting first place at three shows and third place at one show. Mildred Mannon, accordion player, and Constance Kinnaman, singer, were tied after Friday night’s show with fifteen points each. Alma Monninger, singer, was next with seven points, followed by Clara Lock, violinist, with six points. Each girl in the contest will receive a cash prize. The prizes are as follows: First, $75; second, SSO; third, S3O; fourth, $25, and fifth, S2O. Rome had a law to limit the price of women’s dresses two centuries before the beginning of the Christian era.

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This trim craft probably will be converted into a sea-going White House to carry President and Mrs. Hoover southward soon on a brief fishing expedition off Long Key, Florida. It’s the houseboat Saunterer, owned by Jeremiah Milbank, treasurer of the eastern branch of the Republican national committee, and the Hoovers plan to spend most of their time aboard while the rest of their party is quartered in a fishing camp. Physicians advised President Hoover that a brief vacation would “be advantageous to his health.”

Sentencing Deferred ft m United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. B.—Raleigh P. Hale, former mayor of East Cbhicago, and fourteen other men convicted on charges of federal liquor law violations in the East Chicago conspiracy case, have been granted a continuance until March 3, by Judge Thomas W. Slick. On that day the men will appear in federal court here to be sentenced.

PAROLED PRISONERS RETURN TO HOMES Leslie Suggests Separation of State Criminals. One hundred six inmates of the state reformatory, granted paroles by trustees Friday night, will be going to their homes over the weekend. One hundred thirty-seven, eligible for parole, the largest number ever to come before the reformatory board, made application as their minimum sentences had expired. Thirty-one cases were continued. Necessity of separating young offenders, serving short terms, from the hardened criminals, was impressed upon the members of the board by Governor Harry G. Leslie in a message read by his assistant secretary, Gaylord Morton. Impossibility of separating 1,942 men in an institution designed and built to house 1,200, was pointed out.

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HOSPITAL DIOS OF 25 INDIANA CITIES STUDIED Decision of Federal Board Will Await Survey of Situation. nu Time* Soi rial WASHINGTON. Feb. B.—With bids of twenty-five Indiana cities before it. the federal hospital board today was faced with the problem of alloting the $500,000 veterans' hospital proposed for Indiana. Representatives of each of the. cities appeared before the board Friday to \oice their claims to the hospital. The board will make no decision until its engineers have reported on the locations. One of the strongest bids for the hospital was presented by Indianapolis, represented by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and Representative Louis Ludlow. Seventh Indiana congressional district. They pointed out advantages of the capital city’s size, central location, transportation facilities and stressed its medical center, medical advice from which would be available to the veterans. The hospital, if located in Indiananapolis, would become a part of the medical center or would be situated near- the group of city and state hospitals, Mayor Sullivan said. Other places asking the hospital included Bloomington, Kokomo, Martinsville, Washington, Jasonville, Noblesville, Frankfort, Crawfordsville, Bass Lake, Anderson, Stephen county, Muncie, Greencastle, Terre Haute, Logansport, Delphi and several northern Indiana towns. A version of the story of the flood is contained in the ancient books of the Nashi of Moso sect.