Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1930 — Page 5

APRIL 3, 1930.

OPPOSES MOVE TO PULL TEETH OF JONES LAW Mitchell Tells House Body Time in Effect Is Not Enough for Test. Bw rnit”l Bret* WASHINGTON, April 3.—Attor-ney-General Mitchell opposed modification of the Jones ‘five and ten" prohibition law as provided hy a Dill now pending in the house, in a letter to the house judiciary committee made public today. He urged adoption of the law enforcement commission’s program with minor amendments which, he aid, have been approved by Chairman George Wickersham of the commission. Mitchell's letter, which was confidential, dated March 26, was not made public until today. The attorney-general said sufficient time has not elapsed to determine the value of the Jones law and that the proposed bill, which was introduced by Representative Stobbs <Rep. and now Is pending before the judiciary committee, would "emasculate” the Jones law.

One of Three Bills The Stobbs bill was for definition of "casual and petty offenses." being one of three measures prepared to carry out the commission's plan to give United States commissioners power to try minor cases as a means of clearing up court congestion. However, Stobbs’ bill goes further than the commission’s plan to definitions, and gives too little discretion, in Mitchell’s opinion, to prosecutors in the matter of deciding whether specific cases were to be tried under the Jones law or merely as casual offenders. The bill would modify the Jones law% in effect, by placing in the minor class some violations which now might come under the Jones law thus drawing the higher penalties, the maximum being five years in jail and SIO,OOO fine.

Definition Inexact "A serious objection to the bill is the* inexactness of definition,” Mitchell said. “To illustrate, a single sale includes a barrel as well*! as a pint. The limits of small ! quantities are impossible of definite ascertainment. “Assuming, however, that the definition set forth is sufficient in the law, the effect of the bill will be to reduce the penalties for violations of the national prohibition act fixed by congress only a year ago. “Sufficient time has not elapsed

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Daring Norsemen chart new seas, sail unexplored regions and conquer the "salty main" out in Riverside where Robin Hood robs the rich to help the poor and pirates are frequent visitors. "Tell us another,” cry the children in whose lives myth mixes freely with reality and who like nothing better than a good story told by the librarian at the Riverside branch. The Saturday morning story hour has become the most interesting feature of service offered by the oldest branch library in the city. With a meager assortment of books it w'as founded in 1896 in limited quarters above Gauld’s drug store.

to determine the efficacy of the Increased penalties and no change should be made until it appears they are ineffective or that the judges and United States attorneys have not discriminated fairly between major and minor violations. RAIL GROUP TO MEET First meeting of the state railroad commission, appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie, will be held in the Governor’s office Tuesday morning, the Governor announced today. The commission, authorized by the 1929 legislature, has been criticised severely by railroad union labor leaders.

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Miss Louise Hodapp and her assistant, Miss Alberta Berryhill, are the story tellers. The Robin Hood cycle story hour which just closed lasted six weeks. Las yaer 2.556 boys and girls attended the thirty-eight story hours at the branch and heard 103 stories. In thirty-four years the branch has built a large patronage, and loaned 92.209 books to readers in 1929. Miss Harriet Manning who has been connected with the branch thirty-one years is at present working part time. For ten years she conducted a novel experiment at the branch—a reading club for the blind where blind patrons gathered and heard her read stories.

IRISH ELECT COSGRAVE : Free State Head, Ousted Week Ago, Is Back In Power. ! Rv United Press DUBLIN. Ireland. April 3.—Wil- | liam T. Gosgrave, ousted a week ago, again was in power today as head of the Free state executive council, having been re-elected by the Dail Eireann, 80 to 65. The political flurry which again brought prominence to Eamann De Valera, now in Chicago, apparently resulted in establishing more firmly than before, the control of the Cosgrave support In the Dail. De 1 Valera was nominated and defeated.

JUDGE’S RULING MAY BAR RISE TO HIGH COURT

Supreme Court Nominee Is Attacked for Opinion in Utility Case. By iScripps-HotcorJ \ev:spaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 3—An opinion by Circuit Judge John J. Parker, holding that a return of Vi per cent to a public utility company did not appear to be "an adequate return on the capital invested," had come to the attention of the senate judiciary subcommittee which is considering Parker's nomination for the supreme court. The opinion was given in the Bluefield Waterworks case, in the district court at Charleston, W. Va., in May, 1927. Parker was called in by Circuit Judge McClintic to serve in an advisory judicial capacity. In his oral opinion Parker said on the point of capital return: "We do not think a return of 7Ms per cent, especially in the close valuation made, is an adequate return on the capital invested.” A stenographic transcript of the opinion has been forwarded to the senate committee by F. M. Livezey of Huntington, W. Va., who was counsel for the West Virginia public service commission in the proceeding, A temporary injunction issued by Parker restrained the public service commission from making effective its proposed rate and valuation schedules for the water company at a time when the plant figured in a then pending merger proposal which later culminated in consolidation of the local company with the American Water Works Company. This opinion was rendered almost

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The record of Federal Judge Harry B. Anderson of Memphis, Term., above, is being investigated by congress at the insistence of Representative F. H. La Guardia of New York. He demanded inquiry into alleged low bail for narcotic law violators and the judge's connection with a Memphis bank that failed.

three years before the supreme court validated a return of 7.44 per cent in the Baltimore street car decision. Members of the judiciary subcommittee will inquire into the Bluefields case when they assemble next Saturday to begin hearings on the Parker nomination. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, who has announced his opposition to Parker because of opinions in strike injunction cases, will be the first witness heard. Labor’s opposition is based principally on the appellate opinion of Judge Parker in the Red Jacket coal injunction case. ‘‘The injunction,” Green charges, “virtually reduced the condition of the miners of West Virginia to a point approximating industrial servitude.”

HIGHWAY BODY RECEIVES BIDS FOR 13BRIDGES Total Low Offers for Work Amount to $206,474; Projects Listed. Ninety-eight bids were opened by the state highway commission today for construction of thirteen bridges on state and national highways in Indiana. Total low bids were $206,474.28, while engineers’ estimates for the entire construction program was $365,278.09. Largest single span was one across White river at the west edge of Noblesville, lowest bid for \ nich was presented by Harold Thorpe, Fountain City, of $89,982.23. Engineer's estimate was $108,265.96. Other bridge estimates, and low bids were: Jefferson county. State Road 7, near Dupont. Albert B. Ash, Sanborn, $23,636.65; estimate, $30,769.23. Jennings county. State Road 7, near Vernon, H. W. Miller. Indianapolis, $27,1 152.34; estimate. $31,614.29. Jennings county. State Road 7, near Vernon. Harry Hicks & Son. North Vernon. $46,309.14; estimate, $56,404.13. Two bridges Union county. U. S. 27, near Liberty. John P. Hipskind, Richmond, $17,722,08; estimate. $20,064.17. Two bridges, Randolph and Jay counties, U. S. 27, near Deerfield and Portland, Burke Construction Company, Newcastle, $30,618.71; estimate, $34,831.17. Carrol county, near Deer Creek, State Road 29, Clark & Duvall. Flora, $23,916.05; estimate, $28,129.27. Two bridges. Hamilton county, U. S. 31, near Carmel. A. G. Ryans Contract Company. Chrisney, $17,369.61; estimate, $20.532.37, Vermillion county, near Montezuma, State Road 36. R. McCalman. Inc., Danville, 111., sl2, 233.39; estimate, $14,500.75. Martin county. State Road 45, near Loogootee, Ryan & Ryan, Washington, $17.534.08; estimate. $20,136.13.

-126 CONVENTIONS ARE SLATED FOR QUARTER AU But Two of 31 Held Here In January to Return. A total of 126 conventions in Indianapolis are scheduled for the next nine months of 1930, Henry T. Davis, Indianapolis convention bureau manager, announced today, listing 154 conventions held during the first three months of the year. AH except two of the thirty-one conventions held here in January will return to Indianapolis next year, eleven of fourteen held in

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