Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1930 — Page 1

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By Heywood Broun

CMVE a job till June. There can J be no question that unemployment Is acute and that millions are in want. Something should be done, and it should be done now. President Hoover’s remedy seems to be a set of promises. William Z. Foster, the revolutionary, has offered the hungry a series of parades. Thus, there has been little consolation from the right or from the left. It Is up to us of the middle class j to stir ourselves. And so I say, i “Give a job till June.” This column | will start immediately to act as a j clearing house for employment. Naturally, its scope is small, but when so much cries out for the doing, even a scratch on the surface may not be wasted. Specifically, then. I will start the movement by giving one job, and I hope to enlist support from readers in this “Give a Job Till June” campaign. Naturally, there is no disposition to hope that when summer rumbles around, all tribulation will have ended. Perhaps the pinch may be less by then, and in any case I am suggesting something the only merit of which is immediacy. lam trying to make it easy for myself and anybody else who will Join ir by definitely limiting the commitment. a a a Little Enough A MINIMUM wage of S2O a week is set by this column, and heaven knows that is little enough. Thus anybody can do his tiny bit toward helping out an intolerable situation at the expense of Just S2OO. | There may be many thousands of people in this community to whom this sum would be a trifle. Your columnist feels that anybody who on occasion wins or loses that much in a bridge or poker game has no right to stand on the sidelines. If he could only draw tribute from every dollar limit game, that would at least amount to something. But none of this has anything to do with charity. I am not going to pretend an absence of all compassion, but primarily I am interested in this project because it seems to me to*fall within the province of a semi-public institution, such as a newspaper column. And it is to my interest, also, and to yours. Give a job till June. Particularly, call on all those who have railed in harshest terms against Red demonstrations. nan Just Give a Job IF you are satisfied with your present economic status and want the current arrangement to con- j tinue. please have the foresight so ad a little to preserve It. But, frankly, I take no interest in your motives. Just give a job till June. It is perfectly true that if this column could find ten jobs or 10,000. it would solve nothing. Relief should not be dependent upon the enterprise of private citizens. Great bodies move slowly. People are cold and disheartened and hungry now. Even if nothing more comes out of this than the one job I have promised, that is just one better than nothing. 1 invite all people out of work who may happen to read this column to write to me in not more than 300 words, stating what sort of employment they are best suited for. and what they will do in a pinch. Please do not state race, religion, nationality or political beliefs. Unemployment is unemployment. All letters will be regarded as confidential. with the exception that I might wish to quote from communications without giving names or addresses or anything else which would serve to identify the writer. Send the letters to me, care of the Evening Telegram. New York. I invite all people who are willing to give a job until June, at not less than S2O a week, to write to me. stating the nature of the work which they desire to have done. Naturally, in some cases the pay should be. and will be, more than the S2O minimum. Also, if the arrangement proves satisfactory and lasting, so much the better. June merely is set as the minimum obligation. a a a Work to Be Done IT must bo so that almost everybody has some chore which has been hanging around for years, waiting to get done. It may L some typing or the cataloging of a library. In your attic or cellar, spare room or country cottage, there is work to be done. Have it done now. Give a job till June. I will send to every reader who has a job to give the letters from applicants which seem best to suit his purpose. I solicit co-operation from firms as well as individuals. I want to print the names of those who give jobs, because that may •sene to encourage and inspire your neighbors, but, naturally. I will leave out the name of any employer who wishes to remain anonymous. Naturally. I invite communications from women out of work as well as men A casual column such as this is not likely to reach many givers or receivers. I will return to the subject again, and do my very best to try and give such small pep as lies within my power. Tliis is not an effort to prove anything or solve anything except, perhrp , my favorite belief that we are a decent lot and all fellow passengers. (Copyright, ISO. hr The Times)

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The Indianapolis Times Increasing cloudiness with probably snow flurries tonight or Friday; cold wave with temperatures 15 to 20 above by Friday night.

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Frigid Wave From North to Hit City Temperature May Drop to 15 Degrees Following Snow Flurries. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 35 10 a. m 51 7a. m 36 11 a. m..... 55 Ba. m 39 12 (noon).. 56 9 a- m 40 1 p. m 58 Warnings to shippers and motorists against a cold wave due to descend on Indiana and the middle west before Friday night were broadcast today by J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist. Snow flurries tonight or Friday will be followed by rapid decline in temperature to between 15 and 20 degrees, he said. Northern Indiana mercury readings may be slightly lower. The unseasonable cold Is being driven down from northwestern United States and Canada, where subzero temperatures were recorded today. The cold wave probably will not endure here more than one or two days, Armington forecast.

BLOW CHARGED IN COURTROOM Alleged Death Threat to Girl Brings Jail Term. After he was alleged to have struck a woman and threatened to kill her, In Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter’s court today, Bernard Harrington, 29, of 1848 North Pennsylvania street, was sentenced sixty days on the state penal farm and fined SIOO for contempt of court. Pete Concillo, attorney for Harrington, was rebuked by the court after Harrington said Concillo promised to "fix up” Harrington’s failure to appear in court Wednesday. Harrington was charged with assault and battery on Miss Josephine Sheridan, 438 East Market street, the woman he is alleged to have hit today. The assault charge had been continued and Harrington was leaving the court, when he is said to have struck Miss Sheridan and threatened to “kill her if she talked.” BUTLER IN PROTEST Probation Is Asked Pending Expulsion Probe. (Other Details on Sport Faee) A telegram protesting its expulsion from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary schools was sent today from Butler university, signed by Hilton U. Brown, president of the board of directors. It read in part: “In behalf of the directors of Butler university I respectfully request probationary latitude pending further investigation. No one of our trustees has been interviewed by your investigating committee, nor was our main city office called on for facts and figures or promotional plans.” WINS $5,000 PRIZE City Man Is Awarded First Place in Contest. Henry G. Dammeyer, secretarytreasurer of the Dammeyer Realty Company, today was announced winner of the $5,000 first prize in Liberty magazine's recently conducted “Patriotic Game of Presidents.” Dammeyer, 62. resides at 1453 East Washington street. He is married and has two children. Schwab Home May Be Razed Bu United Press NEW YORK. March 20.—The aristocratic old chateau home of Charles F. Schwab, overlooking the Hudson river, may be razed to make : way for an apartment building, i Agents admitted leasing of the land was being negotiated.

GAP WIDENS IN FIGURES ON HUGE UTILITY MOVE

Difference between public service commission figures and those of the utilities in the proposed $70,000,000 Insull utilities merger reached anew high today when one of the commission experts took another $1,428.768 off his original appraisal for further depreciation of the properties. This makes the present spread between commission and utilities figures approximately $30,000,000. It was considered unlikely such a gap can be closed sufficiently to make the merger possible. The utilities valuation in round numbers was $73,000,000 and the commission $40,000,000. before today's additional reduction. The $1,428,768 cut v.as made by Roy Husselman, Cleveland, commission consulting engineer, who took the witness stand on cross-examination. He took up 51.280.918 additional depreciation from the Central In-

WOMAN LAYS KIDNAP PLOT ONBOARDER Sweetheart of Victim in Robber# Says Ruddell Hatched Plans. 3 MEN HELD BY POLICE ‘Boys Were Broke/ Asserts Nettie Hayes, Explaining $5,000 Holdup. BY ARCH STEINEL A detective took a fur-collared woman with a gold tooth from the city jail to a cell in the Marion county jail today. Only a few curious bystanders watched the parade. The woman’s eyes were swollen with sleeplessness and tears of hopelessness. A passing detective mumbled aloud as the prisoner passed through a city jail corridor, “she’s squawked now and the bozos that were with her on the job will have to take the fall.” And they will. For at noon today Miss Nettie Hayes, 43, of 239 North. Illinois street, added to her ‘squawk” of Wednesday when she confessed to framing a $5,000 holdup on her sweetheart, William Gerard, by laying the blame on Ray Ruddell, 37, a one-time boarder at her home. Held for Conspiracy Ruddell and Wallace Preston, 1502 North Kealing street, and Miss Hayes, are held on charges of auto banditry and conspiracy. Joseph A. Price, 41, grocer at 1555 Grant avenue, was arrested by State Policeman Charles Bridges as an accessory. He is alleged to have secreted SBOO of Preston’s share in the loot. ‘‘Ruddle planned it,” accused Miss Hayes as she rocked to and fro in a chair in the matron’s room of the county jail. “They—the boys—that is, Ruddell and Preston—were low in money. Ruddell (he lived at my home last October) came to me to borrow some money. I didn’t have any to give him. I'd lent hmi sls He said he had to have some money right away. He suggested I—I,” she hesitated and her eyes shifted and hre mouth widened until the gold tooth became a headlight. Didn’t Want To “That you put Gerard on the spot, kidnap him, and rob him,” urged an interviewer. “Yes. But so help me God I didn’t want to do it. I’ve never stolen a cent in my life,” begged the shifting eyes. “Gerard and I had gone together several years. He was such a good honest man. Now, now he wouldn’t ever want to see me again,” and her hands smoothed her brown coat’s cloth. "I didn’t use the money we got. I didn’t need it. Oh! I’m sorry. Sorry * for deceiving Gerard. I’ve been sick for quite awhile—that was the reason I went into it. Don’t question me any more. I'm so tired.” pleaded the shifting eyes. “They Deserve It” A matron assisted her out of the rocking chair, guided her effortless cream-stcckinged limbs with the black satin pumps, cellward. At police headquarters detectives discussed in the vernacular of the underworld, “the job.” “That’s what a couple of bozos get when they mix up with a moll on a job. She squawks, lays the blame on them, and they take the fall. Ain't I right, Ed?” The cell door clanged on the furcollared woman with the gold tooth to the “uh-huh” of the "dick” called “Ed.” WOMAN, AGED 103, DIES i Came to America 33 Years Ago; Left 75 Descendants. Bu United Press NEW YORK, March 20. Mrs. Rebecca Gross, 103, who came to this country at the age of 70 to “start life anew,” collapsed and died before physicians could be summoned. Police said she had seventyfive descendants.

diana properties and $147,850 from T. H.. I & E. These deductions-she based on reconsideration of the properties in the light of his original figures submitted at the first hearing. This would make the new total valuation by Husselman $39,473,198. He allows nothing for “going value” and “general overhead,” however. At the close of this hearing utilities attorneys will be permitted to file briefs supporting commission jurisdiction and opposing the motion to dismiss the petition filed early in the case by opposition attorneys. Commissioners then will dispose of the dismissal motion and either approve or deny the merger, should they uphold their own jurisdiction in the matter. Jurisdiction already has been attacked in an opinion from Attorney-General James M. Ogden.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930

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Drinking Party of Trio Is Climaxed by Tragedy at Eagle Creek. Theory that a third person was killed in an auto accident at Eagle Creek and Kentucky avenue Wednesday night, in which two men met instant death and a woman was injured seriously, was abandoned by police today after they dragged the creek. Ponpeii Loftin Gamto, alias Williams, 23, of Rushville, Ga., and Oscar Guy Thompson, 29, of 1249 Kentucky avenue, were killed and Mrs. Ada Davenport, 25, of 2402 West Ray street, was injured when the car hurtled over a thirty-foot embankment adjoining the bridge. The accident occurred after a drinking party. Woman Taken to Hospital Mrs. Davenport was taken to city hospital today after confinement in jail Wednesday night on a drunk charge. She became afflicted with temporary paralysis while being questioned by police. Belief that another woman may have been on the party resulted from Mrs. Davenport’s inability to tell whether any one entered the car after she “got real drunk.” William Craig, 1422 Silver avenue, and Vinton Martin, 1150 Kentucky avenue, told police they knew Thompson and saw the trio in the car shortly before the accident They said Mrs. Davenport was the only woman. Garnto was Identified at the Patterson funeral parlors by Fritz Holtzendroff, 1336 Nordyke avenue, who said Garnto went under the alias of Williams in Atlanta and had arrived here Tuesday. Garnto was I‘ooming at the Nordyke avenue address, Holtzendroff told police. The car overturned in midair and hung above the creek waters when steel guy cables across the creek snatched the auto, catapulting the men through the shattered top. Recovered From Creek Mrs. Davenport was taken from the car by motorists. Garnto’s body was recovered from the creek about forty feet from the accident scene. Thompson’s head nearly was severed from his body. Mrs. Davenport told police she knew Thompson and that the men called, for her at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Burgess, where she has been living since separation from her husband nine months ago. i Mrs. Davenport said the men obtained liquor at a booze joint and they drank and drove for some time. Thompson was in the rear seat of the car with her, she said. “We were driving pretty fast,” she narrated. “I had been begging to go home long before the accident happened. The man who was driving was drunk—awfully drunk.” Mrs. Davenport was dressed in a sleeveless evening dress, sparkling with brilliants and wore red slippers. Driver Intoxicated The car was owned by Henry Huepner of Forest Park, 111., and was turned over to Garnto by Tuepner in Atlanta, Ga., when the latter became ill while returning to Chicago from Florida, his nephew, Charles Armbrust of Forest Park. 111., told police today in long-distance phone conversation. Garnto was due in Chicago today with the car. The only explanation Mrs. Davenport could give police of the tragedy was that they were driving northeast on the road and Gamto failed to negotiate the turn which leads to the Kentucky avenue bridge Police also are checking a statement of Mrs. Burgess that one man and a woman were in the closed car when Mrs Davenport left her house. Mrs. Davenport denied another woman was present. Thompson's body will be taken to Greensburg, Ky., for burial. He is survived by his mother, Mrs Martha Thompson; four sisters, Mrs Jake Daveport. Miss Cattlet Thompson and Mrs. Audrey As’ury, all of Greensburg, and Mrs. Luther Jones 852 South Belmont avenue, and two brothers, Roy and Luther Thompson of Auburn, 111. WIFE HANDED SURPRISE Expected to Find Mate at Woman s Home, but Not Washing Dishes. / nited Pr. MENOMINEE, Mich.. March 20. Mrs. Charles Baldwin wasn’t surprised, she said, when she accompanied policemen into the home of Mrs. Grace Polan and found her husband. She had expected that. “But I was almost floored when I found he was washing dishes. ’ she added. “In all the years of cur married life I never knew him to have the slightest acquaintance with 1 household tasks.”

Two Killed in Plunge of Auto

DEATH THREATS TO WITNESSES ARECHARGED Prosecutor Charges Bandit Suspect Intimidated Store Owner. Charges that Alexander Geisking, 27, delicatessen store bandit suspect, intimidated witnesses while at liberty on bond, were made today by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, Stark said he has drawn from Leo Silver, delicatessen store owner at 2905 Central avenue and alleged victim of Geisking, an admission that Silver failed to identify the bandit because his life was threatened. Geisking, who police say is a rum runner, was the alleged companion of Charles Reuter, slain Sept. 28 by police in a liquor battle on Indiana avenue. The shooting occurred three hours after Geisking and Reuter held up the Silver delicatessen store, robbing the manager of $175, it was said. Asa result of Silver’s positive identification of the suspect, banditry charges will be filed against Geisking in criminal court, Stark said. The suspect is held in jail in default of a SIO,OOO bond. Michigan authorities Wednesday sought Geisking’s extradit.on as a fugitive from justice in that state, but failed after Stark laid the identification before a municipal judge at the extradition hearing. He is wanted there for assault and battery with intent to kill. Until Wednesday, Stark said, only one of four witnesses to the holdup has been able to identify Geisking as the bandit who rifled the Silver store cash register. Reuter was identified by these four persons at the city morgue as being one of the bandits. Stark has uncovered other information, he said, that Geisking told three persons he had “a stiff” (Reuter) in his auto a short time after the holdup and liquor battle in which Reuter was killed. Oklahoma Educator Dies Bu United Press NORMAN, Okla., March 20.—Dr. James Shannon Buchanan, 65, vicepresident of Oklahoma university and veteran Oklahoma educator, died at his home here today of heart disease. Ke had been in ill health several months. He is survived by the widow.

WISEHART TO INVESTIGATE SCHOOL COAL SCANDAL

Roy P. Wisehart, superintendent of public instruction, announced today he will go to Mitchell. Ind., and conduct a personal investigation of the payment of $7.75 a ton for coal to State Senator John G. Sherwood by the Bryantsville state aid school district. The school is in Spice Valley township and the $7.75 payment for thirty-five tons of coal was disclosed in the annual report of the township trustees. Sherwood called on Wisehart about the matter after it was announced by the superintendent of public instruction that Harry Kirk, state aid auditor, was to investigate the expenditure. After the visit from the state senator, Wisehart decided personally to conduct the investigation.

STUTZ MERGER WILL NOT TAKE FACTORY FROM CITY

Pending negotiations for merger of the Stutz Motor Car Company of America will not involve removal of the factory from Indianapolis, M. E. Hamilton, secretary-treasurer of the company, declared today following dispatches from New York that a merger of the Stutz firm with the Moon and Gardner Motor Car Companies was in prospect. The rumors declared that Stutz plant would be removed to St. Louis. That negotiations for the merger are not with the two mentioned companies was the declaration of Secretary’ Hamilton and he declared negotiations while nearing completion. are not ready for public announcement.

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A drunken joy-ride ended tragically for two men at Eagle creek and Kentucky avenue Wednesday night when an automobile, failing to take the turn on to the bridge, plunged down the embankment at the right of the photo, and bounded on to cables over the creek. At the left, fragments of the top of the car are shown dangling from a branch of a tree next to the cables.

MINERS PICK CITY FOR 1932 SESSION

Deny 11 Other Bidders for Convention; Wage Cuts Voted Down. Drawing near a close, the $2,500-an-hour convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Tomlinson hall here today chose Indianapolis as the 1932 convention city. The action, coming on the tenth day of the convention, was taken with twelve cities nominated, Indianapolis winning by a large margin on the first rising vote. Conventions of the organization are held every second year, the date to be selected later. Officials of the mine union today estimated costs of the convention to date as in excess of $150,000. Delegates receive $6.50 daily each and expenses, which average about $5 each, and also are allowed transportation, which totals $30,000. Printing bills and incidental expenses bring the total outlay for the more than 1,000 delegates attending the meeting to more than $150,000 to date. While officers of the union hoped to close the sessions tonight, the volume of work facing delegates caused belief the convention would continue sessions Friday, adjourning Friday afternoon. Van A. Bittner of Pittsburgh, or-

According to Wisehart, Sherwood explained that it was not Indiana coal he sold the school, but eastern Kentucky and was bought wholesale from a Mitchell coal dealer who retails It for $6.75 at Mitchell. The difference in his retail price to the school was occasioned by the haulage into the country, Sherwood said. Kirk had put a $6-delivered limit price for coal to -this school and that amount is all that will be allowed in the next state aid distribution, Wisehart asserted. The $1.75 margin will be deducted from the next fund distribution, Wisehart said. Governor Harry G. Leslie had urged all schools in the state to burn only Indiana coal.

“We will not move Stutz from its birthplace, Indianapolis, unless forced to do so,” Hamilton declared. The merger negotiations, started several months ago, were broken into by receivership and bankruptcy suits, filed in courts here against the Stutz companies, which later were withdrawn to permit the merger plans to proceed. Withdrawal of Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate, from business activities also hindered the merger progress, due to the fact Schwab was taking an important part in the plans. Officials of the Moon and Gardner companies at St. Louis also denied the merger was in prospect today.

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ganizer for the international union, and John Boylan of Scranton, president of district No. 1 Pennsylvania, were elected delegates to the international mine congress to be held in Europe in 1930. Cities competing against Indianapolis for the next convention wer£ Washington, Toronto, Canada; Des Moines, Peoria, Columbus, O.; Chicago, Charleston, W. Va.; Sanokin, Pa.; West Baden and Springfield, 111. It was at Springfield last week that a dual miners’ union was set up by rebellious Illinois and Kansas leaders. After heated discussion during the morning, the convention voted down resolutions which would have reduced salaries of international officers, including John L. Lewis, president. Old salaries of $12,000 annually for the president, $9,000 for the vice-president and $7,000 for the secretary-treasurer will continue. A closely divided vote resulted on resolutions to change union election laws to provide certification of each ballot by local union tellers or for rising votes instead of the secret ballot. Charges of stolen elections in Illinois, especially, brought the discussion to tjje floor, when the constitution committee recommended rejection of the resolutions. EXT END DOG ENTRY LI ST Sunday Midnight Is Deadline for Kennel Club Show. Entry lists for the Hoosier Kennel Club dog show at Tomlinson hall, April 1 and 2, will remain open until Sunday midnight, officials of the club announced today, the time being extended from Friday to permit entries by out-of-state breeders. More than 300 entries have been received. RETIRED OFFICER DIES Rear Admiral McLean, Retired, Was Dewey Aid at Manila, ANNAPOLIS, Md„ March 20. Rear Admiral Walter McLean, 74, United States Navy, retired, who was a Dewey’s aid at the battle of Manila, died in the naval hospital today after an illness of complications that began last September when he suffered a stroke of paralysis. •QUICK, WATSON, THE—’ Mrs. Sherlock Holmes Awarded Divorce; Ability Not Even Needed. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 20.—Mrs. Betty Sherlock Holmes did not need the detective ability her name would indicate to discover that her husband, 1 William Edward Holmes, meant to I do her harm when he turned on all the gas jets, she told Judge Joseph Sabath. She was granted a divorce and use of her maiden name, Sherlock. EMPLOYMENT TO RISE Labor Department Experts Decided Upturn in Spring Months. Bu United press WASHINGTON, March 20.—A decided upturn in employment totals was forecast for the spring montah by the labor department today. Analyzing the state of trade, the department concluded business and industry are consolidating the progress made in January for an early forward movement.

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NEGRO FACES EXECUTION IN CHAIR TONIGHT Leslie Unaware That Killer Must Be Electrocuted Before Friday. ORDERS FRIED CHICKEN Condemned Man Is Calm as Final Effort Is Made to Reach Governor. Because Governor Harry G. Leslie was unacquainted with provisions of death sentence imposed on James Britt, East Chicago Negro slayer, Britt ; s to die tonight without action on his petition for commutation to life sentence. The chief executive, yachting off the Florida coast, was under impression that his action at any time j Friday would precede Britt’s execuI tion at state prison, Michigan City, j Gaylord S. Morton, secretary to Leslie, declared today. The death sentence stipulates Britt must go to the electric chair before sunrise Friday, March 21, Morton said. Mind Made L'p Early this afternoon Morton had been unable to reach Leslie, and was pessimistic concerning success of his efforts to obtain communication with the Governor before Britt dies, shortly after midnight. It w£,s understood, however, that the Governor had made up his mind not to interfere with the death penalty. Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush of the state has no power to reprieve Britt while Governor Leslie is absent from the state, AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden said. Morton told newspaper men that if word is not received from the i Governor before midnight, the ex- I ecution will proceed then, as planned, rather than be postponed until the last minute, just before dawn breaks. Britt was convicted Jan. 6 of thf murder of Sam Goldberg, Chicago grocer, wno appeared tmefore a federal grand jury to testify to alleged liquor and vice conditioln* in Lake county. I Anticipation of a fried chicken dinner that will be served the condemned man at 7 p. m. apparently superseded all consideration of the death penalty in Britt’s mind today, according to dispatches. He displayed no nervousness as the prison clock ticked away his last hours, and, when asked what he would eat in keeping with the I tradition that a doomed prisoner may select the menu for the “last supper," Britt exclaimed: Not Particular About Trimmings / “Fried chicken!” 1 He was not particular about the ‘‘trimmings.’’ At 3 p. m. Britt was to go to 'the prison barber shop for the head shave that precedes execution. The oriy persons who will witness the execution are Warden Walter H. Daly, two guards, the electrician in charge of arrangement*, and two physicians, one of whom will be Dr. P. H. Weeks, prison doctor. The execution will set a new record for quick action in applying the death penalty in Indiana, and will be the first electrocution in the state prison in almost two years. Laat to Die John Hall, convicted of the mur- : der of Louis Kreidler, South Bend ' druggist, was the last to die in the Michigan City death chamber. He was executed April 10, 1928. Although there was 191 murder convictions in Indiana in 1919, td none was affixed the death penalty. Hall was the only prisoner to be executed in 1928. One was electrocuted in 1927, three in 1926 and two in 1925. t DRY AGENTS AVENGED Youth to Serve 10 Years for Taking “Pot Shots" at Officers. 7ti/ United Prr** DETROIT, March 20.— Taking “pot shots” at federal dry agents on the Detroit river is serious business and must be stopped, Federal Judge Charles Simons declared in sentencing Amos Duval, 19, to serve ten years in Leavenworth peniten-| tiary for firing three shots at two immigration inspectors who were at- j tempting to halt a rum boat. I

Give a Job The Times today publishes the unusual plan of Heywood Broun, its famous columnist, to aid in relieving the unemployment situation. It may seem far-fetched, fantastic, impractical to many, but the fact remains that many might be helped if those financially able would Join with Mr. Broun in his meritorious undertaking. If there are any Indianaplois people who care to “give a job till June,” as Mr. Broun advocated, The Times will be glad to hear from them, and aid in any way possible In bringing employer and join seeker together.

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