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HOLT CHARGES TRAFFIC ZONES Gins BY COPS Blocked Off on ‘Friendship Basis,’ Declares City Controller. AUTO DEALER FAVORED Cops Allowed to Use Cars in Return for Space, It Is Said. BV CHARLES E. CARLE Instances in which curb loading zone areas have been blocked oil by police for individuals without charge and on a "friendship basis” were alleged today by Sterling R. Holt, city controller, as police began a check of “no parking” places. Holt admitted he is without power to investigate use of restricted zones on which fees are not being collected and that he will be unable to act until the police traffic division supplies him with a complete list. Captain Lewis Johnson of the traffic department conferred with Chief Jerry Kinney and city officials today and said that the investigation Is underway, more than fifty parking places having been checked. Johnson assured officials the investigation will cover the entire city and should be completed within a few days. Collection of the fees will add thousands of dollars to city revenues annually. "I tried to get to the bottom of tills situation not long ago,” Holt said. "It should be corrected and those who are using large spaces without costs should be made to pay for the privilege, as provided in the city ordinance. Car Dealer lad Section “In a previous investigation, I learned that an East Washington street used car dealer had a restricted section of 100 feet in front of his auto sales lot. "I called him to my office and he said he paid for the area. He couldn't tell me whom he had paid but when questioned closely, admitted the police had given it to him and he let some of the boys use autos when they needed them.” Holt said the dealer would not state what the cars were used for but indicated that police, off duty, used the autos on “pleasure jaunts. ’ The loading zone situation came before officials after Albert F. Meurer, former city councilman, was arrested Tuesday when he refused to pay a $2 fine for alleged violation of the ordinance prohibiting parking in the fifty-four-foot loading zone in front of the HumeMansur building. Records show the building firm has not paid required fees of SSO annuallv for the first eighteen feet and $lO for each additional foot. Thinks Zone Too Long Holt said he did not understand vhv the loading zone should be more than eighteen or twenty feet. As it is now. the restricted area extends east of the building entrance In front of an empty storeroom and on the west side, into the frontage of a candy shop. Since Meurer's arrest, many motorists have complained that the parking situation in downtown Indianapolis is "bad enough” without individuals and companies blocking off areas on main thoroughfares. Meurer said his stand in the matter was prompted “in the interests of the motoring public.” Meurer will be tried before Municipal Judge Dan V. White, April 3, for the alleged ordinance violation. While a contract for housing cars taken off streets by police in a garage is pending, a fifty-four foot parking space is marked off in front of the market garage. Market and Alabama streets. This garage had the city contract last year, but the contract has not been awarded apain this year, garage officials said. No Rental Paid An official of the garage said the parking space "just came there.” He said he did not know of the firm ever having paid any rental on the space. It was said that while the garage had the city contract, many cars brought there were allowed to stand in the space. The location is less than a half block from the market and three days a week traffic is congested in this area, principally because motorists can not find parking space. A fifty-four foot space will accommodate three cars and perhaps four, depending on their length. PROWLER IS GREETED WITH BULLETS: FLEES Girl Screams as Marauder Enters Room: Father Uses Revolver. A prowler who attempted to enter .the room of Miss Fannie 'Greeter, 1525 Park avenue. Thursday night fled as Miss Greeter's father fired two shots at him. “Don’t move or I’ll shoot,” the prowler warned Miss Greeter. She screamed and fled from the room and her father sped the man's flight with revolver shots. A step ladder had been placed against the window by the man.

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DR. COOK SERVING OIL FRAUD TERM, ORDERED PAROLED

Perpetrator of North Pole Hoax Anxious for “Another Chance.’ Bu f nit' <1 f'ri ss WASHINGTON, March 7.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook, former Arctic explorer, physician and oil promoter, was ordered paroled from Leavenworth prison today by At-

torney-General Mitchell. Cook has been serving a sentence of fourteen years Bnd nine months following his conviction at Ft. Worth, Tex., on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Dr. Cook, who won short-lived world acclaim in 1909, when he claimed to be the first man ever to reach the north pole, has been prisoner No. 23,118

at Leavenworth for four years and eleven months, thus having served one-third of his sentence. He entered the prison on April 6, 1925, after fighting his case through the supreme court. The penalty given the physicianexplorer was the most severe ever meted out for a similar offense. The usual sentence for use of the mails to defraud is fipm one to three years, and others sentenced with Cook were paroled three years ago. An order for Cook’s release will be telegraphed to Warden T. B. White today and the prisoner probably will be released Sunday, It was said by department of justice officials. After his claims to having reached the north pole were discredited by the University of Copenhagen, Commander Robert E. Peary and others, Cook did not come into the public eye again until 1921 when he appeared in Texas as promoter for the Petroleum Producers Association. It was these operations that led to his arrest, and conviction. BASEBALL POOL HALT ORDERED Police to Be Responsible for Their Districts. Police action to curb activities of baseball pools was ordered today by Major Herbert Fletcher and patrolmen and sergeants were warned each will be held responsible for their districts. An order read at roll calls today follows: “Many complaints are coming in regarding sale of baseball pool tickets. All sergeants and patrolmen are directed to obtain warrants and make arrests of any one handling these tickets. “Patrolmen are instructed to make effort to stop this and-all other forms of gambling. The patrolmen and sergeants will be held responsible for their districts and divisions." FREETdRY LAW VICTIM Michigan's “Life for Pint’’ Conviction Set Aside: New Trial Ordered. By I titled Pit ss LANSING. Mich., March 7.—The conviction of Mrs. Mae W. Miller, the first woman to be sentenced for life term under the Michigan criminal code as a liquor law' violator, was set aside today, by the state supreme court and anew trial ordered. Mrs. Miller originally, was sentenced to serve life, but the term recently was commuted from seven and one-half to fifteen years by Governor Green. STAGE ‘STOLEN PARTY’ Burglars, Believed Boys, Plunder Store of Confectionery. Burglars, believed to have been boys, entered Harris Epstein confectionery at 2812 Southeastern avenue Thursday night, held an “ice cream party” at a table and then departed with $25 worth of candy, cigarets and cash. Three dishes on a table testified to the "sweet teeth” of the burglars. TAFT SLIGHTLY BETTER Pl.“ictans Minimize Change, However as ‘Almost Negligible.’ Hu 1 nited Press WASHINGTON. March 7.—The condition of William Howard Taft was slightly improved today, but physicians emphasized the fact that day-to-day changes are "almost negligible.”

10 YEARS GIVEN BANDIT USING GIRL-WIFE AS DECOY IN HOLDUPS

ALLEGED to have used his 17-year-old wife to decoy holdup victims, George Ryan, 25. was tried today before Criminal Judge James A. Collins, and received a ten-year sentence at the Indiana state pnson on conviction of robbery and grand larceny. Terming Ryan’s case “one of I

Fair Enough Hu l/nited Press , NEW YORK. March 7. Mary and 'Margaret Gibbs, 18, the Siamese twins, may be one fare to some companies, but they are “individuals” to the White Star line. They required two tickets for a trip to Europe, although they sought one.

QUIZ GANGSTERS IN SLAYING OF RACKET LEADER Widow of ‘Dingbat’ Oberta Coolly Testifies at Murder Inquest. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 7.—The roll of the rackets was called today by police seeking a clew to identity of

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the gangsters, who took John (Dingbat) Oberta and his chauf-feur-body guard, Sammy Malega, “for a ride.” Frank McErlane, Joe Saltis, the O’Donnell brothers, Scarface A1 Capone’s troops, men who live by the gun and under its menace, all will be questioned. Oberta, allaround racketeer, was shot to death in his

own automobile Wednesday night. His chauffeur died at the same instant. At the inquest Thursday it was established Oberta died fighting. The inquest also brought out the psychology of a gangster’s widow. Mrs. Florence Oberta, scorn for her husband's slayers written in her mein, coldly recounted events preceding Oberta’s last departure from home. It was not anew experience for her. Two years ago she testified at the Inquest over the body of Tim Murphy, her first husband, who also was murdered by gunmen. “I guess I’ve had more love and better husbands than most women,” she said. “Johnny was a lovely husband. Something like Mr. Murphy. He was a pallbearer at 1 Tim’s funeral, you know.” Following instructions of an anonymous informant who telephoned that “William Niemoth and his men killed Dingbat,” police sought the trigger man of Frank McErlane's gang. YOUTH KILLS MARSHAL Merrymaker Nabbed, Confesses to Slaying of Wisconsin Official. Hu United Press MONTICELLO, Wis., March 7. A youthful merrymaker murdered Marshal Fred Jordan early today, when the officer tried to prevent him from flashing a spotlight through bedroom windows and awakening the neighborhood with an automobile horn. In less than four hours the youth was captured. He confessed he shot Jordan and left him to die in a quiet residential street. BOOK CENSORSHIP HIT Petition of Educators Aimed at Customs Inspectors. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 7.—A petition protesting strenuously the continuance of book censorship by customs inspectors was to be presented to the senate today by Senator Cutting. Republican, New Mexico. The petition was signed by more than 500 educators. BOY, 6, HURT BY TRU C K Child Struck While Running Across Street to Join Mother. Struck by a truck as he ran across Tenth street at Bosart avenue to join his mocher at noon today, William Cronley, 6. son of Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Cronley, was injured seriously. The driver of the truck, R. B. McMahan, 2816 West Michigan street, was not held. Take Actress’ Body to Ohio Bu United Press NEW YORK. March 7.—The body of Christine Norman, actress, who leaped from a twenty-story window here, will be taken to Cincinnati for burial beside her father, in accordmce with a request she had made.

the most terrible ever tried in criminal court.” Collins asserted the only reason “he did not sentence Ryan to life imprisonment se the law does not permit it.” irl is being held at the .on home on a delinquency charge. Ryan was specifically charged

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TARIFF AGENT ADMITS WORK AS GRUNDY AID More Than Mere Visitor at Office Near Senate, Says Editor. CONTRADICTS HIS CHIEF Senator Goff Also Drawn Into Lobby Probe as Speech Result. Hu United Press WASHINGTON, March 7.—Warren F. Doane, editor of the high tariff publication, Manufacturer, admitted before the senate lobby committee today that he was more than a “visitor” at Room 322, senate office building, an office assigned to Senator Grundy (Rep., Pa.) His testimony appeared to contradict Grundy's statement Thursday in which the Pennsylvania senator also denied reports that the American Tariff League had been | using the office for their activities, i Arthur L. Faubel, secretary of the league of which Grundy formerly ! was vice-president, also testified today before the committee which Is investigating the report. Faubel denied using the office in ! the senate office building, but told of preparing data for a speech in | which Senator Goff (Rep., W. Va.) attacked the Democratic-Western-Republican coalition. Faubel said he prepared a good portion of the data for Goff’s speech and also the news releases on it, bu'. said the work was done in the downtown offices of the tariff league. He also revealed how a conference had been held to decide who should deliver the speech. Doane told the committee he is paid SSOO a month by Grundy and has established his office in | Grundy’s room in the senate office building, although he still is paid $5,000 a year as editor of the magazine issued by the Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia. BLACKSMITH FETED Czechoslovakian President 80 Years Old Today. By United Press PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, March 7.—The entire Czechoslovakian nation today honored the son of a coachman—Thomas G. Masaryk,

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learned the trade of a smithy, but succeeded, principally by his own efforts, in completing a secondary school education, later attending the University of Vienna. In the course of a students’ trip to Leipsic in the same year Masaryk met an American girl, Miss Charlotte Garrigue, whom he later married. His wife died May, 13, 1923. i BIDS SUBMITTED ON HOSPITAL ADDITION Sanborn Electric Firm Figure of $39,776 Low for Wiring. The Sanborn Electric Company was low bidder on electrical wiring for the new adition to city hospital when bids were opened today by the city board of health. Its bid was $39,776. The Lampson Tube Company was low bidder on pneumatic tubes with a figure of $10,663 for the installation. 3ecause only three members of th • board were present award of contracts was deferred. POLICE FINES MISSING Warrant Issued for Missing Magistrate, Charging Embezzlement, Bu United Press CHICAGO. March 7.—A new complexion was given the disappearance of James M. Feron, Oak Park police magistrate, today with issuance of a warrant charging him with embezzling $14,856 in fines. Feron has been missing since Feb. 27.

with robbing Allen Chasteen. 527 South Harris street of $3.65 In an alley holdup Feb. 6. Ryan pleaded not guilty, although he admitted he was convicted previously by federal authorities in Wheeling. W. Va., for violation of the Mann act in connec lion with his relations to the 17-year-old girl, whom he later married.

BY EDDIE ASH Time* Spirts Kdltor Eddie Ash, always ahead, here presents the first pictures of the Indians in action on the Sarasota (Fla.) training field. The Tribesmen fast are rounding into form, as the photos show. Top left is Oliie Bejma, South

Snarl Fever Bit United Press CHICAGO, March 7.—That tired, grumpy feeling that makes business men snarl at their stenographers probably is “dislocated psyche,” anew disease described by Dr. George B. Lake, editor of Clinical Medicine and Surgery. He said it is “gradual loss of mental or emotional balance,” due to the strain of modern business. Sometimes it is “violent temper just short of insanity,” he said.

TRIAL NEAR CLOSE Briefs to Be Submitted in Assessment Protest. Rebuttal evidence seeking to establish a contention that widening of Capitol avenue from Washington to Sixteenth streets has increased value of abutting property was submitted today to Superior Judge William O. Dunlavy in a trial in which property owners are appealing from assessments levied against them in the improvement. Close of the trial was expected in the afternoon session, when Dunlavy will call for briefs before ruling. About one hundred abutting property owners are contesting approximately $40,000 in assessments levied j by the works board after t.he im- • provement was completed in Aui gust, 1928.

president of the republic—on his 80th birthday. Tributes to the venerable leader, who is regarded more as a “father” than as a chief executive, were paid in every city and village, and felicitations and memorials poifred In upon him from every section of the country. Asa youth he

WARNS OF TARIFF HIKE PROTEST SOVIET ACTION

Bii United Press LONDON, March 7.—A warning that European nations are planning to increase their tariffs was given today by Sir Percival Perry, presiding at the first ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Ford Motors Company, Ltd.

Two other defendants received penal sentences when tried today by Collins. Harry Rozelle, 24. accused of robbery and grand larceny as result of a holdup in which he stole 51.015 in life savings of an aged man, drew a one to ten year state reformatory sentence on a plea of giiity to grand larceny. He is

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New Chief for Dirigible

Bv United Press WASHINGTON, March 7. Lieutenant-Commander Vincent A. Clark Jr., now attached to the naval air base at Lakehurst, N. J., has been named commander of the U. S. S. S. Los Angeles, giant naval dirigible, it was learned today. Clark will succeed LieutenantCommander Herbert V. Wiley No announcement has been made as to what duties Wiley will assume. Orders effecting the transfer are expected soon.

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Bend lad, who made a fair showing with the team last year, taking a healthy cut at the apple. Top center, Skipper Johnny Corriden just has shot a fast hopper down the infield. Top right, Buck Crouse, Muncie native, down from the Chicago White Sox, is ready for the pitch.

MURDER CASE THREATS BARED Fear for Life Defense as Judt Trial Nears End. Testimony intended to show that Mrs. Mary Ann Judt frequently threatened to kill her husband before she was murdered by him last September, was presented today by the defense at the criminal court jury trial of Andrew Judt, 54, of 423 Virginia avenue. The trial drew near a close, with the state having rested its case late Thursday, after attempting to show that Judt fatally shot his wife as result of deliberate preparation, following a quarrel over the cleanliness of the defendant’s son, Charles Thomas, 2. Witnesses called today included relatives of Mrs. Judt, who testified that the dead woman possessed abnormal strength arising from a nervous ailment. This testimony corroborated the defense alibi that Judt fired twice at his wife in selfdefense. Judt is an invalid. Chief Deputy Prosecutor Paul Rhoadarmer Thursday introduced damaging evidence showing that Judt twice failed in an attempt to end his life shortly after the shooting. Alimony of $15,000 Asked AUBURN,’ind., March 6.—Mrs. F. Foster asks $15,000 alimony in a divorce suit filed in Dekalb circuit court here against Charles Foster, former owner of a laundry at Garrett.

Protest meeting and special prayer regarding religious persecution in Soviet Russia will be held at the Knesses Israel synagog, 1023 South Meridian street, at 8 p. m, Friday, with Rabbi Benjamin Cohen presiding.

alleged to have robbed Alonzo Liebhardt, 121 North New Jersey street. In January. Wilbur Daugherty, 17, received two sentences of one to ten years in the reformatory, when he pleaded guilty to attacking a 13-year-old girl, and to robbing Paul Werkoff, 2303 North New Jersey street, of $35.

Pictures in the bottom row, left to right, show Oral Hildebrand, Butler star hurler, who is trying for a job on the Tribe slab staff: Clyde Barnhart, laying one down; Pete Monohan, first sacker, poling a long one, and Paul Wolfe, snappy infield rookie, lamming one to the barrier.

Age a Peril? Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 7.—An oversupply of old men in the world constitutes a grave social problem because ways in which they can be useful are diminishing, Professor Paul Douglas, University of Chicago economist, told twenty experts in his field at a conference today. "Science, which constantly wins battles with death, just as constantly develops a mechanical state of society in which old men are superfluous,” the economist &ud.

FORM CIVIC LEAGUE Union Street Group to Aid Community Interests. Incorporation of the Union Street Civic League to promote community interests of the neighborhood, was announced today by Louis R. Byran, chairman. Meetings will be held the first Monday of each month at 731 South Meridian street. Philip Kraft is treasurer and Sol Solomon secretary. Rosenwalds Leave for Cairo By United Press KHARTOUM. Egypt. March 7. Julius Rosenwald. Chicago philanthropist, and his bride abandoned their projected cruise on the Nile, and have left for Cairo, where they will remain a week before proceeding to Paris.

URGE EARLY PLANTING OF TREES AND SHRUBS Highway officials Asks Co-operation of District Superintendents. District engineers and superintendents of the state highway department were advised today to urge early highway planting of trees and shrubs by A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent of the state highway department. This will solve the problem of quicker growth and likewise have the planting out of the way prior to the heavy spring work on highways, Hinkle pointed out. Asa rule w r hen planting programs are contemplated the various women’s clubs leading in this work take such matters before the district engineer, according to highway officials. In the past some excellent planting programs were seriously interfered with because they were launched too late, they said. •ALAS! POOR DEMPSEY!’ It Seems Shakespearean Wisdom of Tunney Beat Jack. PHILADELPHIA, March 7.—William Shakespeare was in Gene Tunney's corner at the Sesqui-Centen-nial Stadium here three years ago when Tunney won the heavyweight crown from Jack Dempsey. Tunney’s knowledge of human nature, acquired through intensive study of the “Bard of Avon,” enabled him to divine Dempsey’s thoughts and reactions, and this equipment provided what was necessary to win the championship, according to Sir Archibalt Flower, Shakespearean actor, who spoke to Temple university students.

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LESLIE ASKS FDLL PROBE OF HIS SPENDING ; Governor Demands Inquiry of Bills Paid Trom Home Maintenance Fund. CHALLENGE TO NIBLACK City Senator Should Be One to Start Recovery Suit, He Asserts. Governor Harry G. Leslie this morning announced that not only would he welcome an investigation of home furnishing expenditures from his emergency contingent fund, but that he also wanted the examiners to look into bills paid from his SIO,OOO maintenance fund. These bills, he asserted, are in the keeping of Gaylord Morton, secretary for pardon and paroles, who, until two months ago, has been paid $250 a month salary from the emergency contingent fund. Morton now is paid from the statehouse maintenance fund, the Governor explained. Leslie also declared that he feels that it is the duty of State Senator John Niblack personally to start a recovery suit for the $15,000 for furnishings spent from the contingent fund. Niblack urged Thursday that such action be taken by the attorney-general. Urges Action by Niblack "Niblack Is a holdover senator from Marion county.” Leslie said. “It’s up to him to start suit if he thinks the money has been spent wrongfully and not try to pass the buck to the attorney-general, “He knows the intent of the legislature in this matter and is also \ a lawyer, "I will waive nil my rights and appear in court, or before any body of legislative investigators that I wants to take this matter up. 'lf any one questions my honesty I always am ready to defend it. It’s the one thing in iny life in which I feel that I can maintain a just pride.” In accordance with the SIO,OOO annual appropriation for maintenance of the Governor’s mansion, a voucher for $833.33 is made out to him monthly. $15,000 Spent From Fund It was the expenditure of some $15,000 from the emergency con- | tingent fund, instead of the maintenance fund, for refurnishing and renovating the mansion, that j subjected him to, criticism. Constitutionality of the payment of a SIO,OOO annual maintenance fund is being questioned by several state officials as it “does indirectly what can not be done directly”— increases the salary of an incumbent Governor. . The state Constitution strictly prohibits the increase in salary of an incumbent governor, they point i out. The Governor's salary is SB,OOO a : year. The SIO,OOO maintenance fund virtually makes the salary SIB,OOO a year. Members of the Marion county delegation to the legislature have voiced the opinion that when they voted for the SIO,OOO maintenance fund, they thought it would be used to keep the mansion in fit condition and not be used as a salary boost. Orr to Start Probe In response tc the Governor's demand for investigation of his expenditures from the emergency fund, Lawrence F. Orr, chief of the state board of accounts, announced the examination would be started Monday, with Ure M. Frazer and Ira Holland the examiners. Neither Orr nor the Governor has asked Attorney-General James M. Ogden for an opinion as to legality of the expenditures made from the emergency contingent fund for furniture, gold-incrusted tableware, oriental rugs, dozens of ash trays, goblets, and more than a score of bridge and table lamps. Other Governors have not had two secretaries nor an annual mansion maintenance fund of SIO,OOO. Expenditures on Record The expenditures made by Leslie for the furnishing of the house from the emergency contingent fund are all a matter of record in the office of Archie Bobbitt, auditor of slate. Four dozen ash trays in one order, other ash trays ranging in price from 50 cents to $20.25 each; a cigaret box for sls; a match box for $2.50; another antique brass cigaret box for $7.65; one payment of $3,382 40 for drapes, curtains and spread; Arabian awnings for 5424.48, and another payment of $4,995.85 for rugs and linoleum, are included, with many more sundry items in the expenditures from the emergency contingent fund. The Governor declared he had had expressions from his friends throughout the state to the effect that if the $15,000 expenditure on the mansion is held to have been unnecessary or illegal, his friends stand ready to make up the amount. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 39 10 a. m 39 7a. m 39 11 a. m 39 8 a. m 37 12 (noon).. 39 9a. m..... 37 Ip. m..... 40

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