Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1930 — Page 1

HUSTON DENIES ACTIVITY WITH LOBBY GROUP Inlivens Hearing by Waging Sarcastic Verbal Duel With Caraway. INTENDS TO KEEP POST G. 0. P. National Chairman Spikes Reports He Will Resign. f 'nitfd Prt WASHINGTON, March 12.—Claudius Huston denied before the senate lobby investigating committee today reports that he has been active in Muscle Shoals lobbying since liia appointment as chairman of the Republican national committee. Huston also characterized as “erroneous newspaper reports” rumors that he will resign as head of the Republican committee because of evidence before the lobby committee concerning these alleged activities. Huston told the lobby committee today he could not furnish any records of the $400,000 or $500,000, which has been spent by the Tennessee River Improvement Association in connection with Muscle Shoals legislation. Huston, former president and treasurer of the association, said the only records kept by the organization were checks stubs and that he could not furnish them. Huston said he had been connected with the Tennessee River Improvement Association for thirty years. The assocaition had been active in lobbying for the American Cvanamid Company’s bid to operate Muscle Shoals. Clashes With Caraway Chairman Caraway and Huston engaged in a verbal tiff as soon as the witness took the stand. When Huston explained that he was a manufacturer and chairman of the Republican national committee. Caraway asked: "A manufacturer of propaganda?” "Not necessarily.” Huston answered. “I thought you said you were chairman of tlv Republican national committee?” Caraway said. That is why I thought you were a manufacturer of propaganda. “I may learn sometime from the Democrats,” Huston replied. Caraway then questioned Huston about his statement of last week charging the lobby committee with "bandying about” his name, without giving him a chance to reply. Huston pointed out that his name has figured in committee records rince last fall. To Report Thursday Huston said he had heard the report that he wasn’t called before the committee earlier because Caraway had said he was going to “let him sweat" a while. "Did you sweat?” Caraway asked. “No. I haven't perspired at all about this." Huston replied. The committee questioned Huston nearly two hours, mostly about the missing records. The committee adjourned at noon in order to take part in tariff debate on the senate door, but instructed Huston to return Thursday. HOOVER PLEA APPROVED Senate Adopts Amendment to Farm Deficiency BilL Hi 7 nitrd Press WASHINGTON. March 12.—The request of President Hoover for a $100,000,000 appropriation for the federal farm board was approved today by the senate. It adopted without a record vote an amendment to the first deficiency bill providing that sum to carry’ on the board's stabilization program. ROOF FIRE DAMAGE $75 Sparks Cause Blaze at Settlement House on Pearl Street. Sparks from a flue at the Ameroan Settlement house, 617 West Pearl street, early today caused a blaze which resulted in $75 damage ;o the roof. No children were in the structure at the time of the fire. Miss Birda Hunt, nurse of the Public Health Nursing Association and Morris Eenford, Negro. 711 Camp street, anitor, were the only persons in the rickety wood structure at the time of the fire.

Dies Too Hard Itv I'nitcd Press PARIS. March 12.—Alice Raveau doesn't object to being killed once in a while, but she doesn’t want the Spanish tenor. Pedro La Fuente. to be too rough about it. Miss Raveau, noted Paris opera singer, has filed suit in Lille against the tenor, saying that when he kills her—as he does in Carmen, for example—he nearly, so to speak, kills her So she wants him to pay for his violence. La Fuente plays Don Jose tc Miss Raveau's cigaret girl.

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BRAVERY that made Zariah Dinkins, 87, one of Indiana’s outstanding soldiers in the Civil war, was displayed again today when he saved his daughter, Mrs. Emma Wilbur, 48, of 1433 West Thirty-second street, from burning to death. Mrs. Wilbur is clinging to life at city hospital, suffering from severe burns. Her clothing became ignited as fumes of gasoline, with which she was spraying the basement of her home, exploded, drenching her with the inflammable fluid. Screaming and with clothing afire, Mrs. Wilbur, ran to the head of the basement stairs, but was unable to open the door. Dinkins, ran from the next room, jerked open the door. Stripping off his coat, he threw it around her and beat out the flames as she staggered into the kitchen. a a u JAMES H. DINKINS, brother of Mrs. Wilbur, who was painting a nearby hou3*. ran home and aided his father. Hospital physicians say Dinkins’ heroism saved his daughter from immediate death. She may recover. Dinkins told police Mrs. Wilbur was spraying the fluid to exterminate insects in the basement, when the fumes were ignited by the furnace fire. Dinkins is one of the two survivors of Company H of the Nineteenth Indiana Civil war regiment. His company was one of those which campaigned through Georgia prior to the southern surrender.

FINE MAN WHO PEDDLED OLEO’ TO HOUSEWIVES

All is not gold that glitters, neither is butter always cream from a cow, north side wives found out today following the arrest and conviction of Clarence Jones, 324'2 North Missouri street, in municipal court. Jones i\as fined SSO and costs by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter on a charge of selling oleomargarine for butter to housekeepers of the north side. O. T. Law and F. A. Stratton, state health board inspectors, and

ANDY BROWN, TAXI HEAD, FILES INCOME TAX REPORT

Hii L nited Press CHICAGO. March 12.—Three days before the deadline, Andy Brown deep-voiced half of Amos ’n’ Andy radio comedy team, filed his income tax return today with Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, internal revenue collector, who broke the rules and made it public. Andy signed himself as “president, vice-president and general manager of the Fresh Air Taxicab Company, Incorporated.’’ Amos apparently was out chauffeuring somewhere in their alleged taxicab. Andy filled in all the blanks even helping out the government bywriting in the ones he wasn't supposed to. Date of incorporation of the taxicab company was given as 1929 B. C. (before cabs); the file code as “rat tail’’ and the serial number as “quaker oats.” Gross income of the corporation was given as SSO 000.050, divided as follows: One taxicab at beginning of year $25; one taxicab at end of year (busted), $25; ideas and ad-

TAFT’S WIDOW . LEFT ESTATE Yale University Bequeathed SIO,OOO Legacy. Hu United Press WASHINGTON, March 12—The will of William Howard Taft leaving his estate to his widow with the exception of a few individual legacies was filed with the register of wills in the District of Columbia supreme court today. No estimate of the value of the estate as a whole was given. No application was made for probate, but probating will follow as a necessary course of legal procedure. Yale university was bequeathed SIO,OOO to be added to the principal of the alumni university fund and credited to the class anniversary fund of the class of 1878. Mr. Taft’s class. A codicil attached to the will provided for reduction of time subscriptions to the fund from this sum. The will was signed by Mr. Taft June 3, 1925. Sheridan Pioneer Dies SHERIDAN, Ind., March 12. Samuel Wallace, 73, a resident of Sheridan all of his life, died unexpectedly of heart disease. He was preparing ground for tobacco planting when stricken. He leaves six children.

R. A. Curd, internal revenue agent for the government, caused Jones’ arrest following a raid on his home. They charged in court that Jones had purchased oleo at city groceries and with the aid of coloring matter mixed it to resemble butter and* then sold it at 50 to 60 cents a pound. Jones denied he had palmed off oleo for butter. State inspectors also charged Jones used dirty utensils in mixing the oleo.

vice on good “revestments,” $50,000.000. Deductions were: Losses, one headache, $21,000,000 (divided with Ames). And down at the end of the blank where Uncle Sam asks for a balance, Andy, “regusted,” wrote, “I can't.’’

DOUGHBOYS! TELL YOUR WAR STORIES AND CASH IN!

WHO won the war? Not so many years since this cry echoed from the castled crags of the Rhine, down across the duckboards of Brest, and spanned the ocean, to be argued in every training camp, barroom and drawing room, and on every street corner of America. It's still a question. We can’t answer it, and neither can you. The war's over, so what’s all the fuss about?

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930

LEWIS SPURNS INJUNCTION AS MINE WEAPON Rejects Use as Means to Bring Illinois Rebels to Terms. RECRUITING IS STARTED Rump Session Adjournment Signal for Membership Campaign. Injunction will not be invoked by United Mine Workers of America, in convention here, to prevent use of its name by Illinois insurgents meeting in Springfield, 111. John L. Lewis, international president, announced today at the Tomlinson hall convention that no such court action is contemplated and indicated it will not be employed. “Our membership always has engaged in a fight against the use of the injunction,” he declared. “The Illinois group is the one that uses injunctions. Our membership here is opposed to the practice.” Lewis, however, refused to say what means w'ould be taken to combat rivalry' by the Illinois insurgents who, claiming the constitution of the union had expired, are assuming the name of the union after adopting anew constitution and declaring all offices vacant. To Increase Penalty That adjournment of the Illinois convention today or Thursday will bring intense membership rivalry, especially in the southern Illinois coal fields, was admitted today by officers of the convention here. Organizers have been sent into the insurgent districts by the union here in an effort to recruit membership before the insurgents begin a campaign. Lenthy descriptions of the Illinois insurgency were given to the convention this morning by John Jacobs of Westville, 111., and by John T. Jones, provisional president of subdistrict No. 9, District 12 of Franklin county. Jacobs declared the last district convention in Illinois recognized validity of the mine union constitution by rulings on constitutional questions, despite the fact it was held in March and April after the Illinois insurgents claim it expired. Blame Assigned James A. Ray of Valier, 111., served as a sort of Exhibit A for Jones’ talk. Ray was blinded in a mine accident and claimed he was defrauded of all but S9OO of the $4,600 compensation due him, through action of district officials. Direct charges that officials of local No. 4173 at West Frankfort. 111., “embezzled more than $125,000 in two years,” were made by Jones. At the same time, he charges that death claims had been paid to men “now walking the streets of West Frankfort.” Sale of this local’s property by officials resulted in conviction of two in courts of Franklin county. An official vote placing blame on District No. 12 officers opened the discussion by the convention here of the Illinois rebellion. Ignoring the peace palm offered by the Springfield convention and ignoring appeal of the Springfield convention to the senate labor committee to intervene in the miners’ union disruption, President John L. Lewis led an attack on the (Turn to Page 9) HEART VICTIM~IN”~CAR Lorin Buchan, 2, Found Dead While Parked at Curbing. Walking at Delaware and Vermont streets Tuesday night, John O'Hearn 2239 North New Jersey street, and H. H. Juday, 631 Eugene street, saw Lorin Buchan, 42, of 685 Middle drive, Woodruff Place, sitting in his automobile at the curb, apparently in a coma. They drove the machine to Buchan's home and called a physician. Buchan was dead. Deputy Coroner O. H. Bakemeier said death resulted from heart disease. BIG FOUR DONATES S4OO Police and Firemen’s Pension Fund Boosted by Railroad. The Big Four railroad today contributed S4OO to the police and firemen’s pension fund, Charles R. Myers, safety board president, announced. Myers said the contribution was in expression of gratitude to police and firemen.

The war’s over, but there still are a lot of stories untold about those days when the doughboys’ hobnailed shoes struck sparks from the cobblestoned streets of France, as they hiked wearily toward the flaming front. You know a lot of them and your buddies know a lot more of them. Now is the time to tell them and The Times will give you prizes for the best of the bunch.

‘Greek Meets Greek,’Start to Work

HERE'S Delta Delta Delta. That's Greek to you as an explanation of these photos? Well, so was sawing a board, hammering a nail and digging a ditch to the three Butler university misses caught by the photographer. But being members of the school’s Green sorority, Delta Delta Delta, they couldn’t resist making the adage, when “Greek meets Greek,” come true, so they were caught taking a hand in construction of

$200,000 CITY STREET PROGRAM MAPPED

18 Tentatively on List for Improvements This Summer. City Engineer A. H. Moore today recommended to the board of public works a tentative list of eighteen streets constituting a $200,000 improvement program for the summer. The works board, city engineer, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and the city plan commission made an inspection tour of the streets this afternoon preliminary to a final decision. E. Kirk McKinney, works board president, wrote a letter to the Hoosier Motor Club asking recommendation of streets it thought should be improved this year. Widening Is Planned Streets scheduled for resurfacing and widening: Eleventh, between Capitol avenue and Delaware; Pratt from Illinois to Pennsylvania, from Thirtieth to Thirty-fourth. Resurfacing: McCarty, from Alabama to Virginia avenue; Illinois, from Twentyeighth to Thirty-fourth; Blake, from Washington avenue to New York street; South, from Alabama to Senate avenue; Twentieth, from Talbott avenue to Bellefontaine street; Fifteenth, from Illinois to Senate avenue; St. Clair, from Massachusetts avenue to New York Central railroad; Vermont, from West to Bright; Pratt, from Illinois to Capitol avenue; Pratt, from Pennsylvania to Delaware; College avenue, from Massachusetts to Eleventh; Fourteenth, from Senate avenue to Illinois. Improve Bridge Approach Improvement of Kentucky avenue, from Harding street to Belmont avenue; College avenue, from canal to Seventy-first street, and Lafayette street, from Sixteenth to West Riverside drive is contemplated under the connecting link law. The city’s share of the cost would be $34,000. Plans also are being made to improve the north approach to the Delaware street bridge over Fall creek.

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MARKUN IS BACKED FOR POST BY BOTH PARTIES

Bipartisan complexion was given to the proposed state appointment of Representative Louis R. Markun, 3646 E. Fall Creek boulevard today when both state party chairmen expressed their personal approval to Governor Harry G. Leslie. Chairman Elza O. Rogers of the G. O. P. and R. Earl Peters of the Democrats called on Leslie this morning and “O. K’d” the idea of making Markun superintendent of game wardens in the state conservation department. Upon recommendation of Director Richard Lieber of the department

STARTING next Monday, March 17, which Incidentally is St. Patrick’s day, an appropriate time to think in warlike terms —The Times will print as many stories as space will permit, as told by veterans of the World war. Write your experiences, in as brief form as possible—funny stories, dramatic stories, pathetic stories, or whatever you will. For the best story of the week, the writer will receive $10; for the

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their new chapter house, Hampton drive and Crown street. The Royal Sawyer of the Board on the left is Miss Mary Harvey, 1162 Villa trvenue, the Hammerer of the Nall in the center is Miss Virginia Taylor, 3844 Kenwood avenue, and the Digger of the Ditch, Miss Jean Mackay, 2242 North Pennsylvania street. Corner stone of the new Tri-Delt house will be laid at 3 Sunday afternoon.

For Cats' Sake By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 12. The neighbors’ cats are going to continue getting their fish in George Brain’s block in Santa Monica. Brain, 80, was called for jury duty in superior court, but when he explained that he had to keep on fishing daily so the cats could eat, H. B. Blakeley, jury commission, excused him.

ACUUITTED OF MURDER Prisoner Found Not Guilty in Death During Auburn Riots. AUBURN, N. Y„ March 12.—Max Becker of Brooklyn, serving a thirtyyear term in Auburn prison for burglary and grand larceny, was found not guilty today of the charge of murder of Principal Keeper George A. Durnford, during the December prison riot.

MEURER WILL APPEAR BEFORE SAFETY BOARD IN TRAFFIC LAW WAR

RHODES ACCUSES JUDGE Jurist Aided Prosecution in Murder Trial, Attorneys- Claim. Charges that Judge Claude A. Smith of Princeton “aided in the prosecution” of Dreyfus Rhodes, tried for the murder of Simon Carrie, Vincennes policeman, in 1927, were made today in the supreme court by Rhodes’ attorneys, who are attempting to save him from the electric chair. Rhodes is slated to die for the murder July 11, unless the court upholds the appeal. Attorneys said Smith “secretly retained” Harry Lewis, Princeton attorney, to aid in Rhodes’ prosecution. Rhodes has been granted several execution stays in order to perfect the appeal now before the court.

Supreme Court Recess Set WASHINGTON. March 12.—The supreme court announced today it would recess from Monday, March 17, to April 14.

this job with a $3,000 salary was approved last week by the state budget committee. Markun is expected to get the position when the conservation commission meets Saturday. Although members of the legislature are not supposed to hold executive positions with the state several are thus employed in the auditor’s and secretary of state’s offices. Secretary of State Otto G. Fifleld supported their employment, whether legal or illegal, by securing an opinion of approval from Attor-ney-General James M. Ogden.

second best, a prize of $5 will be given. Judges will be chosen from some of Indianapolis’ best known war veterans. Every one Is welcome to contribute. Just keep ’em as short as you can, don’t worry about fine writing, and start them coming to The Times World War Story Editor. Sit down now, dust off the cobwebs, and get your stories in early, for the start next Monday.

5 OFFICIALS TO WORK TOURNEY

Whistle-Tooters for State Finals Are Named. Five officials, instead of four, will handle the final games of the I. H. S. A. A. state finals basketball tournament at Butler university fieldhouse Friday and Saturday, K. V. Ammerman, tourney manager, announced today. The officials to control the all-im-portant games and the number assigned them are as follows: 1, Birch Bayh of Terre Haute; 2, Carl Olson, Gary; 3, Vaughn Russell, Terre Haute; 4, Hugh Vandivier, Marion; 5, Dale Miller, Indianapolis. The officials will work in the following manner. No. 1 will referee the first game and No. 2 will umpire. In the second game No. 2 will referee and No. 3 will umpire, and so on, alternating in that manner.

Full Investigation of Fee Collections Sought by Ex-Councilman. Demand for an investigation of methods in designating and collecting fees for downtown traffic loading zones and ‘‘no parking” spaces will be made Tuesday at the safety board meeting by Albert F. Meurer, former city councilman, who is waging a legal battle against provisions of the city traffic code. Meurer and his attorney, Howard Meyer, said they would appear before the board, after Meurer was slated today for parking in a restricted zone in front of the Occidental building, Illinois and Washington streets, Monday night. Meurer now is under a similar charge for refusal to pay a $2 fine for parking in a loading zone in front of the Hume-Mansur building, on East Ohoi street, more than a week ago. He will be tried in municipal court 3, April 3, on this charge. In both cases Meurer and Meyer contend the traffic code is unconstitutional and “no parking” privileges should not be granted when fees, required under the city ordinance for the zones are not paid. Records show the Hume-Mansur building space is not paid for and, in face of the “no-parking” signs in the Occidental space, an employe of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company parks a company auto in the restricted zone daily. “I believe gross favoritism in the enforcement of the traffic ordinance by police, now is apparent,” Meurer said. “When this administration took office it was assured that every police matter would be administered promptly. “When the next safety board meeting is held, this matter will have been before the public two weeks. No action has been taken. We will demand a thorough investigation.” % BARE HARVARD CRIBBING At Least Nine First-Year Students Are Facing Expulsion. Bv United Pre CAMBRIDGE. Mass., March 12 - Evidence of cribbing by members of the freshman class at Harvard college may lead to the expulsion of at least nine first-year students, it was reported today.

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LIQUOR BUYER ISSUE IS GIVEN TO HIGH GOURT Attorney-General Mitchell Asks Supreme Tribunal to Decide Case. WOMEN LAUD DRY LAW Feminine Leaders Praise Prohibition in Hearings Before Committee. Hu T'uiti il Pres* WASHINGTON. March 12.—At-torney-General Mitchell today asked the United States supreme court to decide whether a purchaser of intoxicating liquor is guilty of violating the national prohibition act. The decision would provide a test of Section 6 of the Volstead act, which many enforcement authorities* hold makes the buyer equally guilty with the seller. In view of the doubt as evidenced by the expression of various judges of United States district courts, the department of justice has decided to prosecute an appeal to the supreme court from the recent decision of Judge Morton at Boston in the case of United States versus James E. Farrar, Mitchell said. The case docketed in the supreme court today is expected to decide once and for all the status of a liquor buyer. Prohibition enforcement authorities, while interested in outcome of the decision, said that should the ruling hold a liquor buyer liable, it w r ould not simplify their operation* but that it would multiply the num ber guilty for the same violation. llu United Press WASHINGTON. March 12.—A militant band of women leaders bombarded the house judiciary committee for two hours today with statements lauding prohibition and defying the wets to repeal or modify it. Twenty-three of the ladies delivered their enthusiastic arguments in the morning session. The women called for real enforcement “whatever the coat.” Messages supporting prohibition were sent by Mrs. Henry Ford, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison and Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the famous dry leader, William J. Bryan. Sums Up Evidence At the end, their leader, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Boston, chairman of the Woman's National Committee on Law Enforcement, delivered a summary of the evidence. Representative Stobbs (Rep., Mass.) asked that as a courtesy to Mrs. Peabody, the usual questions be held in abeyance. “Well, I am going to ask questions of every one of these witnesses,” said Representative La Guardia, New York wet. Representative Sparks (Rep., Kan.) protested and after a harangue the committee adopted a motion officially granting the woman immunity from questioning for the time being. Mrs. Edison's message read: ‘“I stand for the law that has proved a blessing for one station in life and would do an equal blessing to those enjoying greater privileges in this world if they would give tehe law a fair chance.” >lrs. Ford Hands Law Mrs. Ford said: “I am heartily in favor of the eighteenth amendment without modification. It is a law of the United States and should be observed by all of us. In my opinion it has been of untold benefit to the women as well as men of our country in improved living conditions and a more prosperous nation.” Mrs. Herbert Hoover presided over the last convention of the committee which formulated the women’s program, Mrs. Peabody said. She decried the efforts of women antiprohibitionists to claim that youth is being corrupted by prohibition. A message from Mrs. Vic Donahey, wife of the former Ohio Governor, said her state is squarely for prohibition. “Ohio will support and honor with high office only those who are willing to do their duty in these Important matters,” Mrs. Donahey said. ANTARCTIC ONCE WARM Geologist Finds Polar Region Wa Subtropical Centuries Ago. DUNEDIN, N. Z„ March 12.—Until recently, speaking from a geological standpoint, the Antarctic has never been very cold, according to Lawrence Gould, geological expert of Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s polar expedition.

Luck s Revenge Bu f 'niteii Press MILWAUKEE. March 12. Because Henry Hedman, 58, scoffed at such superstitions as walking under ladders and cutting through funeral processions, plans for his funeral were being made today. He hesitated at an intersection where a funeral procession was passing, then stepped between two mourners’ cars. A truck crushed him to death.

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