Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1930 — Page 3

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Horrors! It Was the Colonel Who Came Out From Behind the Brush.

The first week of The Times World war story contest comes to an end today, and prizes of $lO and $5 for the two best stories of the week will he awarded Wednesday. The response to the call war stories has been great,. Every mail has brought in a flock of tales of the great conflict and there have been some grins among the number. Keep 'em rolling. More letters were received this week than could be published. All that “fit the space” were printed and most of the others will show up in columns of The Times next week. There's no time limit on the Your letter this week may get in next week, and have the same chance at the money. Make ’em as short as possible, and still tell your story with the old punch. u n m The curtain raiser today goes to Howard. 11. Bates, 700 Fletcher Trust building, and the colonel comes out winner: IN March, 1919, the writers company arrived in Brest, France, en route to 'he states, and the commandin ificer instructed me to report to „.ie officer in charge of the area conce ning the number of men to be fed _nd quartered. Feeling very' happy and “corky” at the thought of going home, I went to the small wooden two-room barrack used as an office for the area commander. Upon entering the front office room I found it unoccupied, so I proceeded to bang my hob-nailed shoes against the wall. In a few minutes a man appeared from the rear room with lather on his face and a raznr in his hand. He was garbed In regulation enlisted men’s breeches, hob-nailed shoes, wrap leggings and an enlisted man’s shirt. Supposing him to be some sergeant or company clerk, I inquired, “When will His Majesty, the colonel in charge of this blankety-blankety-blank place, come to life and be in?” Very meekly, the man replied: "The colonel will appear in a few minutes, sergeant.” “All right, buddy.” T replied. "Don’t cut your throat with that razor.” After this brilliant sally, T composed my soul In patience and waited. Imagine my surprise and utter humiliation a few minutes later when the same very' meek individual appeared from the back room with a Sam Browne belt and a blouse with silver eagles on the shoulders. “Sergeant,” he said, “the colonel has come to life.” n * H. L. Pinkston, 212 h Lexington avenue, chimes in with his thrills, as follows: I STAYED a short time in the United States, then went to Fngland and France. I was with the First division, Sixteenth infantry’. One night the sergeant called us about midnight. We went to the St. Mihlel sector. My first night in the front line I laid under a fivenour barrage. At daybreak we went over the top and were successful. Airplanes looked like so many birds flying around. We kept moving forward until we hit Argonne, took that sector with heavy loss. I was caught in the pocket where Fritz, could fire point blank at us. I was gassed, but couldn’t go to the hospital, for my company was shot to pieces and we couldn't get replacements. I lost my buddy. We were automatic gunners. Then we took the Sedan sector. It wasn’t so bad. for Fritz was on the run. When the armistice was signed I came home with the last troops. I sure was glad that I had one little American girl waiting for me. ana William Faster, 159 Blake street, sends along another good one: PRIVATE B of Company E infantry was in the best of humor at one stage of the battle of the Argonne Forest. War had ceased to worry him. Bullets without number w ere rpping around his head. He began hopping up and down, first on one foot and then the other, shouting, "Listen to the humming birds!” Suddenly he grasped his neck with both hands. A "humming bird” had inflicted a slight wound. “There you are." he said; “If I hadn't been hopping up and down, the bullet would have bumped me off sure.”

M'CORD SEEKS OFFICE Carpenters’ Council Secretary Files for Legislature. Milton N. McCord, 420 West Forty-first street, has announced lor the Republican nomination for Marion county representative. He is secretary of the Indianapolis carpenetrs’ district council. Born in Jasper county, McCord has been a resident of Indianapolis for forty-three years. DOG ENTRIES TO CLOSE Sunday Deadline for Show; More Than 400 Coming. Entry lists for the Hoosier Kennel Club's dog show at Tomlinson hall, April 1 and 2. will close at midnight Sunday, entries in the mails at that time to be accepted. More than four hundred entries nave been received to date and capacity of the hall will be taxed. Exceptionally large showings of toy and ; porting breeds of dogs have been assured.

UTILITY MERGER LEFT IN HANDS OF COMMISSION Counsel Finish Arguments: Given 15 Days in Which to File Briefs. Final decision in the two-year-old Insull utilities $70,000,000 merger case will be forthcoming in another month or two. - Oral arguments in the matter closed Friday afternoon and Commissioner Howell Ellis, who presided, gave each side fifteen day's to file briefs. The commission then will decide, or evade, the question of whether or not they have jurisdiction in the matter at all. If they do not decide this question, or accept jurisdiction, they either will affirm or deny the merger on the evidence. All indications are that denial, or dismissal, will be the outcome. File to Dismiss Opposition counsel at the opening of the hearing several months ago filed motion to dismiss. “Granting this petition will make fair regulation impossible,” Harvey Harmon, former commissioner and now chief opposition counsel, declared in closing arguments before the commission Friday afternoon. “The 271 tow'ns and cities involved will be placed in an arbtrarv classification and rate relief will be practically impossible. The law does not recognize anything but the used and useful property theory in rate making and doesn’t provide for its separation according to specific use. “This will be one huge utility, including electric, gas, water and ice plants, as well as Interurban lines and all the property will be valued in making the rates.” Theory Is Expoded This theory was exploded in final argument by David E. Watson of the Insull counsel, new president of the T. H., I. & E., one of the utilities involved In the merger. He pointed out that even now an electric rate petition for Terre Haute is pending before the commission. and that certainly commissioners do not intend to evaluate the interurban property' to decide the light rate, although both are T. H., I. E. properties. “Used and useful,” Watson explained, “means used and useful in producing the electricity, gas or water Involved. “Save the interurban lines by turning them over to Insull,” was the burden of his final plea. At the close, P. J. Lucey, Insull counsel from Chicago, thanked commissioners for their intelligent consideration of the petition, and even lauded the commission appraisal, which Is $30,000,000 under Insull’s. Not Finance Amateurs “We are not amateurs in utility operations and finance,” he asserted. The Insull organization is recognized as the best operator in the United States. We are here to volunteer to take over Indiana utilities with interurban lines that now are almost defunct and revitalize them with money and management.” Preceeding Harmon’s argument, Oscar Pond of the opposition counsel, asserted that such a huge combination of unlike utilities will make individual rights practically impossible. He asserted that he considered the issuance of no-par-value stock for utilities an effort to circumvent commission control over financing. Oscar Smith of the opposition counsel contended that the paying utilities will be made support the non-profitable ones if the merger is allowed. t SETTLEMENT PREDICTED J. F. Wild Company Receiver Informs Stockholders of Situation. Settlement of about 75 per cent to stockholders in the defunct J. F. Wild Realty Company within the next few months was predicted today by Edgar M. Blessing, receiver. Stockholders have been informed by Blessing that they can obtain $393,000 in preferred stock in anew corporation along with $7,000 in cash and there is a possibility of obtaining another $50,000 if they turn over the banking quarters of the building held by the realty company to the new corporation. These quarters are occupied by the State Savings and Trust. Company and a suit now is pending attacking legality of the lease. GILLIOM TALKS TO CLUB Former Attorney-General Opposed to Change in State Constitution. Opposition to any change in the state constitution was expressed byArthur L. Gilliom. former attorneygeneral. in an address Friday at the ltincheon of the Optimist Club at the Claypool. The meeting was under the direction of the “gold" ticket for election April 11. Carl Steeg. presideni tial candidate on the ticket, presided. Harry Wangelin was announced i for president on an independent | ticket ICE PLAN ANNOUNCED Light Company to Handle ’~~oduet of Frigidaire Firm. Equipment produced by .he Frigidaire Corporation will be marketed here by the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, according to a formal statement is-, sued today. Employes of the power and light company were informed of the new plan at a minstrel show and dance Friday night at the Morris street plant. Dry Law Failure, Says Grand Duke Bv United Press LOS ANGELES. March 22.—Prohibition in America, like Communism in his native land, has failed. Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, grandson of Czar Nicholas I, said upon his arrival here for a series of lectures.

Justice for All Held Chief Problem Nwmtoo of Vote* Subject* Comfrottu importune* *f tobjocU 2209 Administration of Justice 2068 Prohibition 1699 Lawlessness, Disrespect foe Law 1642 Crime 1573 Law Enforcement .. .. 1235 World Peace 996 Agriculture, Farm Relief - 877 Taxation .. •mmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmme Barely overshadowing prohibitioi 362 World Court *.. ■■■■ ——■—— t he subject of administration t 811 Reduction and Limitation of Armaments justice was regarded the paramour 810 Conservation of Natural Raaouret* ———r problem of the United States fc 735 Efficient Democratic Government 1930, by a preferential vote of th 672 Foreign Relations national council of The Nations 654 Education Economic League, it was announce 644 Individual Liberty today. 613 Law Revision, Federal and State Ninety-seven prominent Indianar 611 League of Nations ■ were among the thousands of civil 592 Unemployment professional and business leadei , ’ . canvassed in the vote. IndianapoL 570 Political Corruption >■■' members Include: H. C. Atkin 567 Child Welfare Frederic M. Ayres, James Binghan 554 Flood Control .. mmaammmmmmmmm William H. Book, Arthur V. Brow] - „ .J. Henrv L. Dithmer. William Fortum 521 Consolidations and Mergers Alfre £ M Glossbrenner> j. j. H o] 512 Tariff nmmmmmmmmmKm comb, Charles W. Jewett, Arthu 502 Eugenics, Defectives .... amoM Jordan, S. E. Rauh, Frank D. Sta] 500 Desecration of Natural Beauty in the U. S., — 1...1 naker, Frederick Van Nuys an ... „ . , ' Benjamin M. Willoughby. 460 Moral and Ethical Standards The accompanying table show 455 Election Laws... the re itaive importance given prob 449 Economic Distribution mamammmmmmmm lems in the ballot taken in January 440 Highways and Waterways ■■■■ Some thirty-five other subjects re ... _ ' .. ceived less than 400 votes each. Group --j- mmmmmmmi Executive council of the leagui 435 Penology, Prison Reform formed “to create an informed an 432 Co-operation vs. Competition ~ tmmmmmmmmmm cfisinterested leadership for publi 424 Motor Traffic Regulation opinion,” includes: John Hays Ham ... _ . - mond. mining engineer; Williai 411 Freedom of bpeech, of the Press ■ AH en white, editor, the Empori 400 Stabilization of Business mmmmmmmm Gazette; James Ftowland Angel

‘Eye of Death ’ Young Inventor’s Device Designed to End Prison Breaks.

BOSTON, March 22.—A figure in the striped garb of a convict climbed stealthily through darkness to the top of a prison wall. A pistol cracked. The figure slumped. Electric gongs sounded. Glaring beacons, a moment later, lighted the scene. Edwin H. Vedder of East Pittsburgh, Pa., inventor, had demonstarted to a group of Boston scientists an “electric eye” designed to discourgae prisoners from breaking jail. The magic eye, which would bring instant death to an escaping convict, once the fugitive crossed a deadline of light, gleamed from the head of a sort of robot guard. “Os course,” the young Inventor explained cheerfully, “in actual use, the eye could unleash a machine gun or a battery of machine guns, instead of just a pistol. There would be no such thing as dodging the stream of lead.” The basic unit of the device is a vacuum tube -which is sensitive to the vibrations of light.

PURDUE DEBATERS WIN Defeat Rose Poly Team in Argument Over Navigation Problem. Purdue university debaters defeated Rase Polytechnic institute in the fourth annual debate sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Friday night In the Anthenaeum. The question was, “Resolved, That the Maumee and Wabash rivers should be made navigable between Lake Erie and the Ohio river.” Members of the Purdue negative team w-ere T. C. Prall, G. A. Slonaker and G. R. Lydick. Rose Poly was represented by John Pavelones, Frank Butler and Robert Finfrock. William H. Otto of Shortridge was critic judge. ORDERS BREWERY RAIDS Doran Instructs Aids to Halt Usual Spring Beer Increase. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, March 22.—Prohibition administrators have been ordered by J. M. Doran, prohibition commission, to organize their brewery squads for a spring housecleaning campaign. Illicit brewing takes a sudden spurt every spring, Doran said, and the prohibition “board of strategy” plans to check the operations of brewers of real beer before they can get started. Athlete Takes Bride Bp Times Special GREENSBURG. Ind., March 22. Basketball fans here were surprised by the announcement of the marriage of Walter Kammerling, star center on the Greensburg high school basketball team, on Dec. 27, 1929. The w-edding was at Lawrenceburg. Mrs. Kammerling was formerly Miss Dorothy Hodson, graduated from the Letts high in 1929.

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SEEKS SCHOOL POST Bloomington Man to Run for State Office. Bv United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 22. —William V. Payne, superintendent of Mcnroe county schools, has announced his candidacy for the nomination for state superintendent of public instruction in the Democratic state convention at Indianapolis June 10. £ayne has been Identified with efforts of teachers in state aid districts to obtain their back pay. For twenty-five years he has taught school and has served as county superintendent at Bloomington and in central and northern Indiana. Payne w-as graduated from Indiana university in 1895, and was given his master’s degree three years later. Payne has been the subject of bitted attackes by Governor Harry G. Leslie because of his alleged activities in stirring up teacher protests against bankrupt conditions in state-aid schools.

LAUDS JUVENILE COURT Offers Chance to Aid Children In Home, Says Boswell. Juvenile court offers wide opportunities for ironing out domestic

difficulties before they result disastrously for the children, Eldwin C. Boswell, candidate for the Republican nom in a tion for juve ni le court judge, told the First Ward Republican Club, Twenty-fifth and Station streets, Friday night. “Here it is possible to work out problems of the home affecting child life without the necessity of

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having a court record made or a judicial finding either against the juvenile or the adult,” Boswell said. Porto Rico Celebrates Bv United Press SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. March 22. —Porto Rico celebrated Emancipation day today.

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Barely overshadowing prohibition, the subject of administration of justice was regarded the paramount problem of the United States for 1930, by a preferential vote of the national council of The National Economic League, it was announced today. Ninety-seven prominent Indianans were among the thousands of civic, professional and business leaders canvassed in the vote. Indianapolis members include: H. C. Atkins, Frederic M. Ayres, James Bingham, William H. Book, Arthur V. Brown, Henry L. Dithmer, William Fortune, Alfred M. Glossbrenner, J. I. Holcomb, Charles W. Jewett, Arthur Jordan, S. E. Rauh, Frank D. Stalnaker, Frederick Van Nuys and Benjamin M. Willoughby. The accompanying table shows the reitaive importance given problems in the ballot taken in January. Some thirty-five other subjects received less than 400 votes each. Executive council of the league, formed “to create an informed and cfisinterested leadership for public opinion,” includes: John Hays Hammond, mining engineer; William Allen White, editor, the Emporia Gazette; James Rowland Angell, president Yale university; A. Lawrence Lowell, president Harvard university; Roger W. Babson, statistician; Frank O. Lowden, former Governor of Illinois; David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus Leland Stanford (Jr.) university; George W. Wickersham, former attorneygeneral of the United States, and Nicholas Murray Butler, president Columbia university. Blood Poisoning Fatal Bit Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., March 22. Sanford Pickett, 76, is dead from blood poisoning which developed from an infected foot.

Know Your Library—No. 2.

Prospect Street Branch Is Popular With Pupils

Back in 1896, when community reading centers were scarce, the Prospect street library, now the third oldest branch in the city, was founded. In its inauspicious frame building at 1913 East Prospect street thousands of hungering minds have feasted on “the thoughts of Milton” and “the inspirations of Shakespeare.” # Mrs. Millie K. Drane, librarian, in the fourteen • years she has been connected with the branch, has watched its patronage grow from an average of seventy-five books per day, in 1917, to 362 books, the present average. High school boys and girls form the larger part of the library's clientele. For their benefit a special high school section has been instituted. “I find that our patrons read more adventure stories than any other kind. Zane Gray’s books are especially popular with the younger set,” Mrs. Drane said. Pupils from schools Nos. 61, 39, 20 19, 28, and St. Patrick’s parochial school are served by the branch. Total registration of borrowers is 5,511, with 3,014 adults and 2,447 juvenile readers. “Our shelves are kept loaded with mystery, adventure and western stories,” Mrs. Drane explained, “for our older patrons like them as much as the children.” Travel and biography are not preferred by Prospect patrons, she said. At Christmas time each year the library turns Santa Claus and

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NAME OFFICERS TO ROLE MINE REBEL DISTRICT Lewis Aids Will Govern Until Factional Fight Is Settled. Provisional officers named in district No. 12, Illinois, by John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America, will continue to direct district affairs until the battle between regular union and Illinois insurgent leaders is ended. This was the announcement from international headquarters of the miners’ union here today following all-day discussions Friday of the Illinois situation by Illinois delegates to the miners’ convention which closed here Thursday. The Illinois delegates, remaining for the extra day, discussed organization work to hold the Illinois district loyal to the union here. Trial of twenty-one insurgent Illinois leaders who participated in setting up a dual union at Springfield, 111., two weeks ago, has been set for Tuesday morning before the international executive board, which will convene sessions here Monday morning. Few, if any, of the accused rebels are expected to appear for trial. The executive board sessions probably will continue through next week. FIRE DAMAGES PLANT Toll of Blaze at Hollenbeck Iron Works Estimated at $1,500. Damage of $1,500 was caused to the Hollenbeck Wire and Iron Works, 2251 Massachusetts avenue, at midnight Friday by fire of undetermined origin. The fire started near an electric motor. Neighbors who saw the flames break through the roof turned in the alarm.

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treats the children of the neighborhood to a Christmas party. Children have come to look forward with keen anticipation to the annual Christmas tree, popcorn balls and Christmas story hour at the branch. One part-time and a full-time assistant librarian help Mrs. Drane serve the readers. Miss Alice Brady is the full-time assistant and Miss Lola Johnson works part time.

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FIRE CAUSES BLAST Chicago Buildings Shaken by Film Explosion. Bit United Press CHICAGO, March 22.—A terrific explosion caused by fire from combustion of celluloid film rocked the 30 South Michigan building early today, shattered windows In buildings along the avenue for more than a block and drove a barrage of shattered glass against passing automobiles. Residents of the University Club, the Chicago Athletic Club and the Illinois Athletic Club nearby were driven to the streets in night garb by clouds of a gas believed phosgene, the kind that caused the deaths of more than 100 persons in the Cleveland clinic disaster last year. The fire broke out in the Russell Photographic studio on the fourth floor. The interior was wrecked by the blast and the flames.

GIRL WINS RADIO EVENT Trcssa O. Brann Is Victor in Contest Conducted by YVFBM. Miss Tressa O. Brann, 4-H Club girl living near Reelsville in Putnam county, today was named winner of a contest conducted recently by radio station WFBM of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, on narratives of farm girls and boys on how to make money. Contest was in charge of Henry S. Wood, in charge of the farm program broadcast. Miss Brann’s letter explains her first savings of $5 by doing farm chores, buying pigs and selling them when grown until she had saved S2BB. “I am keeping this and letting it draw interest for I want it to help me through school,” she wrote. BELL IN ASSESSOR RACE Seeks Wayne Township Post on Republican Ticket. Reid F. Bell, of 1235 North Holmes avenue, today announced his candidacy for Republican nomination as Wayne township assessor. During ten years’ residence in the township, he has been active in party work. He is treasurer of the New Wayne Republican Club, and Is a member of the New Marion Club, and of the Odd Fellows.

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GOSSIPS' TALES DRAW IRE OF BRITISH RACER Kaye Don Denies Break With Builder of Car for Speed Trials. Bv United Press DAYTONA BEACH. Fla., March 22.—The future of Kaye Don’s attempts to break the world's automobile records today seemed to be in the hands of the gods of wind and sea, and perhaps of Madame Grundy. Don and his car both are ready for the test, as soon as the winds whip up the ocean into a sufficient tun- to smooth out Daytona’s sands. Speaking at a dinner given in his honor by the city Friday night, Don expressed confidence that when conditions are right he would be able to break the record now held by his countryman, Major H. O. D, Segrave, of 231.36 miles per hour. At the same time, Don gave public recognition to the stories of disorder in his camp. “I want to deny at this time," he said, “published reports that there is friction between myself and Louis Coatelen, designer of my car. “Ever since Coatelen’s arrival we have been working in complete harmony.” Don imd in mind particularly a; story which went so far as to say trouble between Don and Coatelen threatened to cause abandonmenfj of the speed trials. But in the meantime, Madame Grundy had filled Daytona with many rumors. One could hear o* the streets Friday night that Don was going home, that he had broken with all around him and that there had been bitter quarrels. Death Driver Sentenced Bv Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind , March 22. Gus Riggs, Terre Haute, Is under sentence of ninety days at the state penal farm on a plea of guilty to driving while drunk. He was driving an automobile which was wrecked Jan. !2 near Knightstow-n, causing the death of John Steel, 45, Terre Haute, a passenger. A manslaughter charge which had been filed against Riggs was dismissed.

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