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Left to Risfht —Leonard Synunes, John May, Merrill Beach, Robert Knight, Charles Moody, Robert Harlan.

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Left to Right—Charlotte Thompson, Wanda Grounds, Palma Quire, Bessie Hawn, Vera Feaster, Gertrude Kelley. •

Left to Right—Harry Fuhrmann, Thomas White, Paul Gentry, Raymond Thomas, Harold Reimer, Clayton Nichols.

Left to Right—Matilda Robb, Louise Kehrer, Velva Zook, Lela Sowers, Josephine Griswold, Volivii Huber.

Left to Right—Marion Swinford, Henry Onofrie, George Roberts, Chalmer Webb, Albert Roth, Robert Finke.

Left to Right—Edith Thompson, Martha Schwarz, Dorothea Foist, Wilma Robbins, Virginia Elliott, Beryl Mangan.

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Left to Rightr— George Flceman, Jane White, Mary Schiesz, Rosemary Whlsler.

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Final Census Request Have jou been counted? If rot, or if you have any doubt, fill out this coupon and mail to Delbert O. Wilmeth, supervisor of census, 235 Federal building, Indianapolis. On April 1, 1930, I was living at address given below, but to the best of my knowledge I have not been enumerated, either there or anywhere else. ✓ Name Street and No City

With possibility of Indianapolis advancing from twenty-first to twentieth place in the population of American cities in the 1930 census, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today urged every resident of the city who thinks he or she may not have been enumerated, to send 9 TO BE GRADUATED AT SCHOOL OF BLIND Commencement Exercises Scheduled for Next Monday Night. Seven comprise the graduating class of the Indiana School for the Blind, commencement exercises to be held at 8 Monday night. Pupils of the school will present a musical program and Governor Harry G. Leslie will deliver the class address. The commencement exercises will be followed at 8 Tuesday night by the closing concert of the season. The graduating class is comprised of Misses Mildred Whitson Carter Anna Kathryn Ballman, Leafy Loretta Ales and Dotfie May Howe of the industrial department: William A. Nctingham. Claude Dooley and Miss Bernice A. Christie of the literary department. WIRE THEFT CHARGED Two Bound Over to Grand Jury for Alleged Grand Larceny. Albert Nail. 37. of Seventy-fifth street and the Nickel Plate railway, and Edward Hall, 26, of 4808 Sangster street, arrested today, are alleged to have confessed theft of 8250 worth of wire from the Big Four railway. The wire, in four rolls, was sold by the two as junk, deputy sheriffs say. after insulation had been burned off. Both are charged with grand larceny and bound over to the grand jury from municipal court. Two Schools Condemned WABASH. Ind., May 27.—The state board of health has condemned two Vabash county school buildings, the Bussert and Disko, both in Pleasant township.

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in his or her name immediately on the attached coupon. The coupon should be sent to Delbert O. Wilmeth, supervisor of the census, 235 Federal building, Indianapolis. Indianapolis was twenty-first in population in the official census of 1920. Its population in that year was 314,194. Seattle was only slightly ahead, in twentieth position, with a population of 315,312. The preliminary announcement of the 1920 population of Seattle, announced in Washington Sunday, shows a total of 362.426. a gain of 14.8 per cent in the ten years. The official count here has not been computed. It is not regarded likely that cities below twenty-first place in the 1920 census will pass Indianapolis in the 1930 count, or that other cities above Indianapolis ten years ago may drop below. The nineteenth city in 1920 was Kansas City, Mo., with 324.410. Its 1930 population has not yet been announced. The four cities immediately below twenty-first place in 1920 were Jersey City. 298.103; Rochester, 295,750; Portland, Ore., 258,288, and Denver, 256.491. I. U. History to be on Air Pit Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. May 27. Historical headlights of Indiana university, oldest of the western state universities, will be presented in a radio program over KYW beginning at 10:10 p. m., Wednesday, June 4.

DISGUISED MUSICIAN EARNS $5.51 PLAYING $40,000 VIOLIN 30 MINUTES ON STREET

Bn I ni!id Press CHICAGO, May 27.—Disguised as an old man, and dressed in old clothing, Jacques Gordon, concert master of the Chicago Symphony orchestra for the last nine years, earned $5.51 from an audience of seventy persons playing h!s $40,000 Stradivarius violin on Michigan boulevard. The Chicago Evening Post prevailed upon Gordon to settle a dispute in the magazine Time recently.

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BRILLIANT PARTY FETES DIVORCE Royal Pa’ace Honeymoon Fails to Bring Bliss. Bit United Press • RENO, Nev., May 2T.—After a brilliant party in celebration of her divorce from Colonel Lytton Ament, internationally known World war relief worker, Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, cne-time actress, prepared today to leave here Thursday for Lido Beach, Long Island. The party followed court proceedings Monday which, aside from grant'ng the divorce, restored to the plaintiff the name of her former husband, Edward Russell Thomas, who died in 1926. Among the guests of honor at the parry were Judge George A. Bartlett, who granted the decree, and Judge P. A. McCarran, attorney for Colonel Ament. When Thomas died, the divorcee became an heiress to a large estate, which included the New York Telegraph, which she continued to publish. Colonel Ament, who was an aid to President Hoover during the World war apd identified since then with veterans’ bureau activities, became “domineering and dictatorial” within forty-eight hours after their marriage, Mrs. Thomas testified in obtaining the divorce. The Aments spent their honeymoon in the royal palace at Bucharest with King Ferdinand and Queen Marie.

SCARCITY OF WORK PREVENTS PAROLES

Bu United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., May 27.Unemployment conditions played a role at the Indiana state prison here Monday night when the pardon and parole board denied clemency to most of seventy-two prisoners who petitioned for release. Lack of jobs was given as the reason for denial of paroles to Dan Washington, Negro, Indianapolis, and George Reinhart, Knox. The board held over for investigation the case of Sing Lee, former proprietor of a Chinese laundry in Gary, serving a five to twenty-one-year term for conviction on a statutory charge. It is said that friends have promised to return Lee to China upon his release. Earl Bruner, Warsaw, sentenced in 1924 on a forgery charge, received a commutation of sentence

! The magazine printed two arj tides one affirming that if Jascha I Heifetz famous violinist, were to | play on New* York streets he | would receive no attention, and the other declared that he would block trpffic. Gordon proved that an artist i can earn more and draw greater | crowds than can the ordinary street player, but he did not draw such a crowd as to cause traffic , congestion.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1930

300 CASES ON WAITING LIST M HIGH COURT State Supreme Tribunal Has Pending Actions Piled Mountain High. ;SOME HELD FOR YEARS Striking Contrast Is Shown With Record Made by Appellate Judges. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Contrast between the dockets of the Indiana supreme and appellate courts was disclosed as striking today, in that the latter has but fiftythree cases pending that are fully briefed and awaiting decision. In the supreme court, some 300 cases await decision, many pending for years. The list includes civil actions with widespread effect on governmental functioning and criminal cases which constitutionally demand ‘‘speedy justice.” From July 30, 1929, to March 5, 1930, supreme court judges decided fifty-one cases, according to the Northeastern Reporter, covering that period. During 1929 the appellate court disposed of 489 cases, and has disposed of 143 since Jan. 1, its docket discloses., Paid SIO,OOO Yearly There are five supreme and six appellate judges. Each is paid $lO,000 a year. The appellate court handles civil and misdemeanor cases. The latter was added to its jurisdiction by emergency legislation in 1929, in an effort to get the supreme court docket clear. It is effective until Jan. 1, 1931. Meanwhile, thirty-four cases questioning constitutionality of this measure have piled up, awaiting decision in the supreme court. Members of the supreme court are Judge Benjamin M. Willoughby, Vincennes, new chief justice for the May term, which started Monday; Judges Julius C. Travis, La Porte; David A. MjNers, Greensburg; Clarence R. Martin, Indianapolis, and Willard B. Gemmill, Marion. All are Republicans. Willoughby and Gemmill are seeking renomination on the G. O. P. ticket. Term is six years and selection of the nominee will be made at the state convention, June 5. Check Made on Docket The jammed docket has caused The Indianapolis Times to make a checkup on how the individual judges have been working. Here is the record: In the Northeastern Reporter 167 covering the period July 30 to Oct 22, 1929, Willoughby is credited with one decision, Myers one, Martin three, Gemmill three, Travis four. In volume 168, Oct 22, 1929, to Jan. 8, 1930, the record is Willoughby four, Myers two, Martin seven, Gemmill five, Travis two. In volume 169, Jan. 15 to March 5, 1930, it runs Willoughby six, Myers two, Martin six, Gemmill one, Travis one. Three cases were decided “per curiam,” no judge lending his name to the decision as written. The Indiana Law Journal for October, 1929, listed the cases as assigned by districts. Cases are assigned to each judge in turn and the listing by districts makes him identifiable, since the judgeships are based on district representation. Each Has Many Cases Using this list and the record above, the following estimate of “who has the cases” was made today: Willoughby, eighty-four; Meyers, sixty-nine; Martin, thirty-two; Gemmill, nineteen and Travis, eighty-five. These cases should be divided as those coming to the court as regular appeals and those on petition to transfer from the appellate court. Regular cases are estimated as Willoughby, forty; Myers, thirtyfive; Martin, fifteen; Gemmill, ten, and Travis, sixty. On petition to transfer the estimate, based on the law journal figures, are Willoughby, forty-four; Meyers, fourteen; Martin, seventeen; Gemmill, nine, and Travis, twenty-five.

from two to fourteen years to one to fourteen years. The case of Edward Peters, Gary, sentenced to from ten to twenty-one years on a holdup charge, was continued for sixty days. Henry Descamps, Clay county, fined SSOO and sentenced to six months on the penal farm while on parole from the state prison. Rather than serve on the farm, he asked to be committed to the penitentiary. He was unable to pay the fine and the Judge left the length of the term to the prison board. It was decided he must serve for one year. A ninety-day continuance was given Dello Taburn. Indianapolis charged with theft from a building where he was employed as janitor. He has served five years of a two to fourteen-year sentence.

nnHE concert master stationed himself in front of the art institute shortly before noon. He started playing the tunes for which of persons gather in concert halls, paying thousands of dollars. Six persons were attracted. An elderly woman was the first to show her appreciation. She listened a few moments, walked M

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HAND BETTER JAIL ATTENTION (Continued From Page 1) from a serious rupture when he was removed from the lockup to the county jail. He was taken to city hospital immediately. He had been in the city lockup since 4 Monday afternoon on an intoxication charge. William Goble, automobile salesman, today declared he had talked with Sparks only half an hour before Sparks’ car struck a parked machine at St. Clair and Meridian streets Friday night. At that time Sparks had not taken any intoxicating liquors, Goble declared. He said Sparks did not drink. Safety Board to Act Disclosures of alleged inadequate medical provision in city prison drew the attention of the board of safety today. Adoption of plan whereby all drunken prisoners will be sent to city hospital for examination was proposed by Donald S. Mort-is, safety board member, as the board discussed the recent deaths. Chief Kinney advised the board of his new order for frequent inspection of cells and requiring that all prisoners be sent to city hospital for examination “if there is any question in the officer’s mind about whether the person is drunk.” Frank C. Dailey, board member, expressed the belief Kinney’s plan would prevent future occurrences of a like nature. Kinney said officers carry drunks to the jail on stretchers “so tight that we can’t find out their name until they sober up.” The safety board may revive the resident interne system, despite the reported lack of quarters, it was indicated. MYSTERY ILL FATAL One of Gibson County Dead and Two Others in Serious State. Bu United Press PRINCETON, Ind., May 27.—A mysterious illness has attacked the family of Mrs. Calln Selby, Gibson county, and caused the death of Roy Selby, 15. Mrs. Selby, the mother, and another child are seriously ill. The illness, believed due to poison, was not noticed until Saturday, too late to save the son. The county health authorities have been unable to find the source of the poisoning. Drinking water is being examined. MEURER CASE SLATED zr~ Demurrer to Parking Conviction to Be Argued Thursday. Oral arguments on the demurrer of Albert F. Meurer, former city councilman, to charges of illegal parking, were set today for hearing in circuit court at 10 Thursday morning. Meurer has appealed for municipal court conviction fer parking in a restricted zone in front of the Hume-Mansur building, denying the right of the city to lease to private firms space on the public streets. Howard Meyer, attorney, represents him.

on and then came back, dropping a small coin into Gordon’s cup. Then as office forces came out for lunch, the crowd grew. Office boys, stenographers and business men collected and the coins began to clink into the cup. Women made up more than half the crowd. Gordon spied Herman Devries, one of the best known music critics in Chicago, and Mrs. Dev-

Above (left to right)—Keith H. Ewbank, Alden P. Taber and Richard S. Freeman. Below (left) Carl I. Hutton, and William D. Eckert. Diplomas Will Be Awarded June 12 by Secretary of War. B-j Times Snccial WEST POINT, N. Y., May 27. In the 1930 graduating class at the United States military academy here, five cadets from Indiana will receive diplomas from the secretary of war, Patrick J. Hurley, June 12. They are Richard S. Freeman, son of Ab Freeman, Winamac; William D. Eckert, son of Frank L. Eckert, Madison; Carl I. Hutton, Terre Haute; Keith H. Ewbank, son of Eldo E. Ewbank, Kingman, and Alden P. Taber, son of G. W. Taber, Bluffton. Richard Freeman was a student at the University of Notre Dame when Representative Albert R. Hall of the Eleventh district appointed him to West Point. He has, achieved high military and athletic honors and is also a member of the choir. Last June Major General William R. Smith appointed Freeman a lieutenant in the corps of cadets. In athletics he has been on the Army football and lacrosse squads since his admission and at times also on track and basketball teams. Last year he was awarded a military academy monogram for his work in football, and this year is a regular player on the army lacrosse squad. Freeman has applied for a commission in the infantry. Air Corps Asked William D. Eckert was appointed by Representative Harry C. Canfield of the Fourth district, and will be graduated a cadet first sergeant. Eckert was a member of Battery E, One hundred fiftieth field artillery, Indiana national guard, before his appointment. He is a member of the honor committee in the corps of cadets and is also assisting in the publication of The Howitzer, the cadet year book. Eckert has applied for service in the air corps and this summer will receive orders from the war department directing him to report to an army flying school for training as an aviator. As an honor student at Wentworth military academy, Keith H. Ewbank won his appointment to West Point. Ewbank has developed into one of the best shots in the academy here and has been on the army rifle team for three years, winning three “A’s” and this year is captain of the team. He has applied for a commission in the field artillery. WiU Join ArtUlery Winning his appointment as a result of a competitive examination, open to soldiers in the regular army, Carl I. Hutton, then a private in the Sixty-fourth coast artillery stationed at Hawaii, was admitted in 1926. Hutton will be graduated a cadet sergeant and will probably be j assigned to a field artillery regiment. Alden P. Taber spent a year at Indiana university prior to being appointed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of the Eighth district. Taber has applied for a commission in the coast artillery and will join either an anti-aircraft or heavy gun regiment. KILL COPJIHALOON Crowd Saw Slaying, Empty Beer Glasses Indicate. Bn United Press CHICAGO, May 27.—A dozen half-empty beer steins on the bar in a north side speakeasy indicated that as many persons witnessed the slaying early today of policeman John McDonald, 35, who had gone there after he was off duty. When a squad of police entered the barroom they found it dark and deserted, except for McDonald, who lay dying on the floor. He still clutched his revolver, from which he had fired one shot. Besides the beer steins, other mute evidence that a crowd had been in the place when McDonald was shot included men’s hats and coats and a pair of women’s gloves. Noblesville Woman Dies Pu 7 'imr* Br>rr ! rtJ NOBLESVILLE. Ind., May 27. Mrs. Abner Jackson, 75, is dead. Among her children living is Miss Minnie Jackson, manager of all moving picture theaters here.

ries. The three live in the same hotel. Gordon started playing the Meditation from Thais, which he knew to be Devries’ favorite. a B n THE couple listened intently and when the concert master had completed the selection, they started a frantic search for coins. All the change they had they dropped into the cup. It totaled 18 cents. t

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BROAD RIPPLE PARR TO OPEN Attractions Arranged for Memorial Day. A rodeo, a balloon ascension, a dancing exhibition and the festival of the Indiana council of Red Men will be attractions at Broad Ripple park Memorial day when the park opens for the season. The balloon ascension will be under auspices of the Red Men, opening their ten-day festival, during which drill teams from lodges of the order will provide special drills and stunts. The rodeo, which was an attraction at the fairground under auspices of the Junior League will move to Broad Ripple for a threeday engagement, beginning Memorial day. Pupils of the Jac Broderic Studios of Dancing will appear Friday afternoon and night and each night during the opening week. Opening was delayed because of extensive improvements, including anew bath house. Anew ride, “Ride the Ripples,” has been erected, and the new entrance tower, while not ready for the opening Friday, will be rushed to early completion. ZEP TO HOP NORTH Start for Havana Will Be Made Wednesday. Bu ini fed Pm ss PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, May 27. The Graf Zeppelin will point its nose toward the United States for the third time Wednesday after a five-day visit to South America. Refueling and storage of provisions began shortly after the ship moored here Monday after its return from a flight to Rio de Janeiro. Two new Americans * joined the five passengers already aboard the Zeppelin here. They were William B. Leeds, and J. H. Durrell, who came here by airplane from Rio de Janeiro. The Graf Zeppelin will fly from Pernambuco to Havana, a distance of approximately 3,000 miles, for a brief halt before proceeding to Lakehurst. FINDS REEL ‘SHEIKS 7 NOT REAL IN DESERT Disillusioned Woman Gives Up Hunt for Romantic Film Type. ' ALGIERS, May 27.—An admittedly disillusioned Chicagoan, Mrs. Augie Mitchell, arrived today after an automobile tour of unfrequented desert roads, vrhere she sought in vain for the desert tribesmen portrayed in movies and novels. She made her tour alone. “I looked everywhere for a desert sheik like Valentino portrayed,” she complained, “but they don't exist. I spoke to them about Mayor Thcmpsonwof Chicago and Scarface Al Capone, but they had never heard of them.”

Gordon played the same numbers he played at concerts, including Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” several Victor Herbert’s selections and two Negro spirituals. He played for about thirty minutes, stopping when his fingers became numb from the cold wind blowing down Michigan boulevard. On his way back to his hotel, Gordon spied an old man playing a violin in front of a loop hotel. There was no audience.

RULING SPURS FIGHT TO CURB BOOZE BUYER Senator Sheppard to Press Demand for Law to Punish Purchaser. LEGAL, COURT HOLDS ' Nothing Unlawful in Act of Giving Trade to Bootlegger. BY NATHAN ROBERTSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 27.—Efforts to put anew law on the statute books making the liquor-buyer a criminal and to revoke, by court action, a number of outstanding industrial alcohol permits, appeared today as the first fruits of two outstanding decisions handed down oy the United States supreme court. These decisions, emanating Monday from the nation’s highest judicial body, definitely established two facts: The buyer of liquor is not guilty of a criminal offense under th? national prohibition act. Indeterminate industrial alcohol permits, issued by the treasury department prior to 1927, can not be revoked without court action. Sheppard to Press Bill The first led to an immedate statement by Senator Sheppard (Dem., Tex.), author of the eighteenth amendment, that congress should write the word “purchase” alongside the words “manufacture, sell, transport,” In the Volstead law. Many prohibition leaders in both the house and senate said they felt this broadening of the Volstead act would make it harder to enforce. They feared it might result in the complete breakdown of all enforcement. Among those doubting the wisdom of the move were Senators Jones (Rep., Wash.), author of the famous “five and ten” law, and Fess (Rep., O.). • Similar sentiments were entertained by wets, who contended nothing could help their cause more than an attempt to prosecute the purchaser of liquor. One of them, Senator Walsh (Dem., Mass.), said: Change Action on Permits “It will be interesting now to see if the sincere prohibitionists will take the step they ought to take if they believe the use of intoxicating liquors is harmful and dangerous, namely, amend the present law to make purchase unlawful.” Undeterred by the division among the drys, Sheppard said he would seek immediate consideration of his "buyer guilty” bill, which has been pending before the senate judiciary committee for some months, without action. At the treasury department, present dry enforcement agency, the court’s decision that the Volstead act does not affect the liquor buyer was seen as having little or no effect on enforcement. The government, it was said, has never acted on the belief the buyer was guilty. However, proceedings to revoke a number of indeterminate permits issued to manufacturers using industrial alcohol soon are to be instituted by the treasury as a result of the courts’ second decision. Rule on Car Conductor Since 1927 the treasury has revoked—whenever they expired—permit of manufacturers whom it suspected of violating the law by diverting their alcohol into bootlfeg channels. It will now be impossible to do this. The permits obtained since 1927 and to be Issued hereafter, however, will be on an annual renewal basis, and may be revoked by the treasury without the necessity of legal action. Tlie court’s decision regarding liquor buyers was made on the government’s appeal in the case of James E. Farrar, Boston, charged with violating the permit section of the dry laws when he bought two pints of liquor from a Medford (Mass.) bootlegger. The second case was brought by a number of chemical and medical concerns who argued their products were not “liquor,” and hence did not come under the treasury department regulations affecting liquor. EXPENSE OF PARTIES IN PRIMARY $26,000 Political Groups File Unoffical Campaign Cost Statements. Support of candidates in the primary election cost county political organizations about $26,000, according to an unofficial total of expense accounts filed with the county clerk. The G. O. P. county committee, according to a report filed by Clyde E. Robinson, county chairman, spent $12,852.50, and the Citizens’ Republican League, rival G. O. P. organization supporting “new deal” candidates, listed expenditures as $8,877.72. The latter report was filed by Emsley Johnson, treasurer. Democratic ward chairmen's organization listed expenses of $1,852, and the county committee spent $2,628.72. Contributions to party committees by candidates ranged in amount from SIOO to SBOO, the largest being given by Frank Childers, defeated candidate for the G. O. P. renominaiion for county recorder. NAMED CITY MANAGER Dubuque (la.) Man Appointed to Kentucky City Post Hu United Press COVINGTON, Ky., May 27.—C. A. Kratz, city manager of Dubuque, la., was named city manager of Covington today succeeding Colonel J. F. Bell, who recently resigned under fire. The job pays $12,000 a year.