Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1930 — Page 2

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CALLS WOMEN TO WIPE OUT ‘G, O.J\SHAME' Democratic Convention’s Permanent Chairman Flays Republicans. (Continued From Pape 1) commission. ‘The Republican platform admits this fact and talks about reducing taxes on real estate and tangible personal prooerty without saying how or when, - ’ McNutt asserted. The G. O. P. failed to answer the cry arising from various state-aid school districts with definite relief, merely calling another commission and lapsing into inaction, McNutt charged. ‘Failing in the performance of law enforcement, the Republicans called another commission and then paraded their candidates for Governor in 1932,” he continued. “The responsibility for law enforcement rests with the executive branch of the government, it can not be shifted if constitutional gov-, emment is to survive. ‘‘lt is imperative that the members of the public service commission be selected with scrupulous care or its usefulness will cease. “Wedded to Trust” “The people look to the Governor to protect their interests and demand that the politics-ridden, detour-producing commission wedded to the cement trust, be subjected to a searching investigation and thorough overhauling. McNutt declared the people were disgusted by the continuous use of the important office of secretary of state for the advancement of political ambitions by the various secretaries, and are determined to send the incumbent back to Lake county and “restore the office to the use of the public.” Three stages record the history of '"the nation, declared the keynoter. “They are the passing of the Indian, passing of the buffalo and the passing of the buck.” The roll of Democratic leaders in Indiana was called by Montgomery, who told how their administrations had been operated for the benefit and to the advantage of the people. Montgomery called upon the women voters of the state to aid in casting aside the “shame of the Republican administrations.” Anew candidate for the nomination for the supreme court bench, from the Fourth district, and three candidates for the appellate bench from the Second district, entered the race late Monday. Wilson D. Lett, Marion, seeks the high court nomination, and Elmore Barce, Fowler; V. E. Livengood, Covington, and Harvey J. Curtis, Gary, president of the Lake County Bar Association, are out for the appellate bench. Many second ballot pledges are said to have been obtained by the supporters of Arthur J. Hamrick, Greencastle, seeking the nomination for secretary of state for the fourth time. Delegates grew restless as Montgomery continued reading of his long speech. "Now I’m going to skip a little,” he said, turning a page. A tremendous cheer of approval resulted. Following invocation by the Rev. Frank Klingensmith of Friends’ church, Noblesville, O'Neil, chairman of the rules committee, read regulations to guide against attempts to wage a wet and dry fight on the floor. The first rule provided that minority reports must be submitted without debate; the second that all resolutions must be referred to the resolutions committee without discussion. R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, state chairman, opened the convention with a short speech in w'hich he attacked corruption and allegiance to special privilege in the Republican party, and predicted victory for the Democrats in November. Charles A. Greathouse, Indiana Democratic national committeeman, was unable to attend the convention, because of illness. Two Indianapolis proxies were accepted: Robert Springsteen, former city councilman, held the proxy of John W. Holtzman, former corporation counsel, and John Daily, that of his father, Frank Daily, 1928 candidate for Governor. Tom Taggart Jr. Attends Thomas D. Taggart Jr. took a seat in the rear of the hall as the multitude quieted. Attentive to speeches of Democratic leaders and sounding out sentiment among delegates, were several prominent Indiana and Indianapolis Republicans. Among them were: M. Bert Thurman, Indiana national committeman; Bert Morgan, Bert Fuller. Alfred Hogsdon, fire marshal, and John Ruckelshaus, attorney. CITY NAMED IN SUIT Utility Dam Construction Basis for Court Litigation. But Time* Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., June 10.—Twenty thousand dollars damages are asked of the city of Crawfordsville in a suit filed in circuit court here by Annie L. Detchon, Esther Detchon Olds and Lee Irwin Detchon. for damage alleged done to their property by construction of the electric light company’s dam across Sugar creek. The dam. it is alleged, has caused water to back into the plaintiffs' farm lands, with attendant heavy damage. Honorary Degree Awarded Rh Time* Snerial EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 10.—One honorary’ degree was conferred by Evansville college at its seventysecond commencement today. The Rev. W. F. Patrick, Evansville district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church, was made a doctor of divinity. Railroads' Picnic Set 8# Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 10.— Members of the Anderson Big Four Boosters’ Club are making plans to attend a joint picnic with the Muncie Big Four Boosters* Club to be held In McCulloch park, Muncie, June 22. Several hundred local railroad employes and their wives will attend. B. L. Thomas, Anderson, will be master of ceremonies.

Democrat Platform Text Submitted to Convention

Text of the Democratic state platform as submitted today to the party's state convention in Cadle tabernacle follows:' The Democratic party pledges its officials— To an honest, economical and efficient administration of all official duties. To relieve the undue burden of taxation on real property by the adoption, in lieu thereof, at least for state and school aid purposes, of other methods, including an income tax, with exemptions not less liberal than those of the federal income tax. To give equal opportunity for all school children to acquire an education in all school units. We favor provision for equitable collection of state aid funds for our poorer school districts, and the proper, honest and efficient distribution of this fund. To properly maintain and support the state library. To the continued support of the George Rogers Clark memorial. To extend and improve the state highway system, not as a corrupt political machine or football of politics, but so as to make it more useful and more efficiently administered and to protect the highway by regulating the traffic thereon. To the economical extension of our state park system; to the conservation of our state’s natural resources; to the reforestation of wastelands; to the creation of state forests in areas not adaptable to agriculture and to the protection of wild bird and animal life. Stricter Bank Examinations We favor such legislation as may be necessary and beneficial to the proper protection of our ex-soldiers, nurses and their dependents. Indiana coal should be purchased and used by Indiana institutions. State banking institutions’ examinations should be equal to those made by national bank examiners under federal law, to the end that we may have fewer bank failures with their consequent losses in the state of Indiana. Waterways for transportation from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico should be opened and maintained by the United States government and Indiana senators and representatives should give this their undivided support. We reaffirm our faith in the principles of constitutional liberty and the bill of rights pronounced by Thomas Jefferson and practiced by Woodrow Wilson. We charge that the people no longer govern themselves. We charge that Republican politicians in office have exercised privilege and favoritism to the point where it has begotten crime. For crime today is a national disgrace and menace, starting incipient revolutions in prisons and penitentiar ies. This crime wave came while Republican administrations were in full control of all the law enforcement agencies. Following corruption in high places, it has spread like contagion throughout the nation, and with the examples at Washington and Indianapolis before them, the common criminal feels safe. Charge Spirit of Plunder No member of a Democratic President’s cabinet, no Democratic Governor of Indiana has even been indicted or convicted of a crime. Republican officials are responsible for not suppressing crime before it reached its present alarming proportions. They are responsible for the lawlessness of election in Lake county. If the Democratic party comes into power, honesty and integrity in office, the enforcement of law and the suppression of crime will be basic policies. We charge that the spirit of plunder and privilege has caused the present financial panic. It pervades the pending Smoot-Hawley tariff bill the most iniquitous measure of its kind ever proposed in the nation’s history. If enacted into law, every citizen will be its victim. We therefore indict the master politicians of the Republican party for crimes that have defiled, debased and confounded justice; for conduct that has corrupted and corroded conscience; for the lust and lure of privilege that has brought about the auctioning off of seats in the United States Senate primaries in various states at hundreds of thousands of dollars each; for the unemployment of millions; for the worst panic in the nation’s history, for preaching abolition of poverty while raising the cost of living through unreasonable tax and tariffs, thus picking the pockets of consumers and lowering the wages of those who still have jobs, and for intolerable taxes, the result of reckless spending. Governor’s Expenditure We denounce the illegal and unwarranted action of the last legislature in appropriating the additional sum of SIO,OOO for the maintenance of the Governor’s home and household at a time when our industrial workers are unemployed by thousands and our farmers are threatened by bankruptcy. We further charge that it is unwise to place in the hands of any Governor the unprecedented sum of $200,000 without check or control. We charge that the present secretary of state has used the vast power of this important office for his political profit, and that he has used the state police force to build up a machine for his poltical advancement, neglecting its proper purpose of protecting life and property. We pledge ourselves to a readjustment of the salaries of all offices in the state by placing them on a straight salary basis, and provide that all general and special fees collected by the various county officers shall be paid into the county treasury. Deplore Tariff Barrier We condemn the pending tariff bill as the greatest outrage sought to be perpetrated on a suffering, tax-burdened people in the history of our nation. The bill should not be passed, and if passed, should not be signed by the President. We deplore the threatened raising of our tariff barrier particularly at this • time when the country’s productive capacity so far exceeds its domestic consumptive capacity. For the excess of our commodities foreign markets are essential. Thoce markets can not be kept open except by our willingness to enable foreigners to sell to us and thereby acquire the means with which to buy from us. Flood- Relief While our national government has tr many years past been

spending millions of dollars for flood relief in other states, Indiana has never received any such relief. The amount of damage caused by the overflow of the Wabash river and its tributaries to *be farm lands of Indiana and Illinois is hard to estimate. With the great flood destruction of Dec., 1929, and Jan., 1930, fresh in our minds, we can safely say that flcod relief is now a great necessity. We would, therefore, recommend a hearty and vigorous support to the Wabash-Mau-mee Valley Improvement Association that has been doing such splendid work to get this matter before congress for action. Labor We reaffirm adherence to the democratic fundamental that all men are and of right ought to be equal befor the law. Labor is not a commodj ity. Contracts of employment that impinge on the employe’s civil rights to that extent violate the workman’s constitutional guarantees. Such contracts known as “yellow dog” contracts are condemned. Trade unions are legal entities performing a distinctive service in our school and industrial life. The right of men to organize is fundamental. The use of the writ of injunction in labor disputes should be defined by statute and the right of trial by jury of those charged with indirect contempt should be safeguarded by law. The state should point the way safeguarding the work places of those employed in mine, shop, factory, mill and transportation. Insanitary work shops are as much a social hazard as is unguarded machinery. Experience has proved the social value of the workmen’s compensation law. This law should be liberalized to the point that it compares favorably with similar statutes in our border states. Inmates of our penal and correctional institutions can not be kept in idleness, but the product of their industry should not find its way to the market in unfair competition with free labor. Corntract prison labor should be prohibited. There must be no weakening of the child labor laws of this state. We recognize the value of capital and labor invested in coal mining in Indiana. The Democratic party pledges adherence to these expressions of social import and adhere thereto, whether it be through the legislative, the administrative or the judicial branches of the government. We favor legislation providing for the permanent registration of voters to the end that the sancity of the ballot may be preserved. Utilities The public service commission as established was intended to protect the public from unjust rates and to award only fair returns on actually invested capital. Its purpose can be carried out only by members who realize that it should be so administered and not for the payment of political debts by unjust rates; by members who realize this obligation to the public; by members who will carry out their duties without bias, undue pressure, and political influence. We believe in a full measure of local self government ill all matters affecting the management of municipally owned utilities as the nature of the business will admit. Agriculture The Democratic party has ever been and still remains the real friend of the masses of which the farmer is a large part. We, therefore, reaffirm our promise to do everything possible in keeping with good business to place agriculture on a par with labor and industry. We condemn the Republican leaders for their failure to bring the immediate farm relief promised two years ago, and their slowness in developing a plan to bring agriculture under the same protection afforded industry for many years, and believe a complete solution of the farm problem will never be realized under Republican leadership. It being impossible to control farm production, the tariff on surplus farm crops is ineffective, and places the farmer on an open world market for many of our staple crops and forces him to purchase in a highly protected market. We reaffirm our belief that the government can take care of the exportable surplus crops without loss by distributing the cost to the producers which would curtail overproduction and place agriculture on an equality with industry. We condemn the Republican members of congress for failing to keep their promise of revising the tariff so as to make it more favorable to agriculture, but instead they are considering a tariff bill more discriminatory against agriculture than any tariff ever considered by any congress. Care of the Aged The present method of caring for the aged poor in asylums violates the humane and generous sentiments which would preserve for the poor the freedom to choose their own environment and the opportunity of untrammeled social communications with relatives and friends and agreeable companions. , A careful study of the available facts indicates that the present method is likewise extravagant and uneconomic. There should be a just and equitable old age pension system worked out with the purpose, both of safeguarding the best interests of the aged poor, and at the same time of reducing the burden which the present extravagant and inhuman methods of caring for them casts upon the public. The Democratic state convention pledges the party to the basic principles of democracy, as stated by Thomas Jefferson, as the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone, by which to try the services of those we trust. Cherishing the inspiring memory of Woodrow Wilson we commend all efforts in the interest of world peace. We adopt the rooster in the attitude of crowing as the emblem of the Democratic party. Museum Home Selected Ru Timts Special PERU, Ind.. June 10.—The East Main street schoolhouse has been chosen as a permanent home for the Miami county museum, by decision of the officers and directors of the Miami County Historical Society. The selection has the approval of C. B. Coleman of Indianapolis, director of the State Historical Society. *

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

CHAIN STORES FACE INVASION FROMMCKERS Long Fight on Consent of Withdrawal Is Nearing Court Climax. Bu Scripps-Hnward Kctcspanrr f lliance WASHINGTON, June 10.—Would the packers reduce the cost of living if they were allowed to go into the retail grocery business? What would happen to the chain stores if the packers were permitted to compete with them? These questions, underlying all the current debate on the packers’ consent decree, will move a little closer toward final settlement when the District of Columbia supreme court rules on one phase of the problem within the next week or two. The court has before it a motion of the National and American Wholesale Grocers’ Association to dismiss the motion of the packers asking modification of the consent decree. If it dismisses the grocers’ motion, it either will set a date for hearings on the main issue, modification of the decree, or will appoint a referee to hear the testimony. In either case, the ten-year-old fight will approach and end next winter. It began when the packers signed a consent decree in 1920, agreeting to withdraw from the grocery business. It has continued in the courts ever since. In this time, the packers claim, economic conditions have changed. Last winter the department of agriculture held hearings to determine the attitude of agriculture toward the decree. The testimony almost without exception favored modification. The department transmitted it without comment to the department of justice. Meanwhile, the federal trade commission is conducting an investigation, at direction of the senate, of chain stores to determine whether their prices are lower than their competitors and whether they violate any provisions of the antitrust laws. Before the investigation is complete, a still more powerful competitor may have entered the business of selling food. SOUTH BEND HIT BY TARIFF BILL 15 Per Cent Slash in Auto Rates Scheduled. Bv Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 10.— South Bend products and those of nearby communities will be affected considerably by the new tariff bill, if it passes in its present form. The textile schedule shows a number of changes with cotton rags, now on the free list, coming under a 3 cents a pound duty. The tariff of knit fabric will be raised from 35 to 45 per cent and on gloves and mittens, the increase is from 50 to 60 per cent. The tariff on automobiles, in which this city is concerned most directly, would be reduced from 25 per cent to 10 per cent with motor trucks remaining at 25 per cent. LINER ALTERS COURSE IN ERRAND OF MERCY George Washington Takes Freighter Officer Aboard for Treatment. Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 10.—The United States liner, George Washington en route to Hamburg, went far off her course Monday night to perform an errand of mercy, according to radio dispatches to home offices here today. v Captain A. B. Ramsdell of the George Washington, received a message from the freighter West Caddoa, New Orleans bound from Manchester asking that Third Officer Harold Mann, who has become ill, be taken aboard. The George Washington changed her course and met the freighter in mid-Al iantic at 9p. m. Mann was taken aboard the George Washington and immediately was placed under the care of ship physicians. He was described as “very ill” by radio advices. LOSES WIFE, LIBERTY Barbecue Operator Is Arrested on Booze Charge After Divorce. Bv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 10.—William Woolums, barbecue stand operator, has a gloomy outlook on the future. He is under arrest for possession of liquor which was found by deputy sheriffs when they raided his barbecue Saturday. Woolums was asleep in a chair when they entered. Shortly before he was “caught napping,” his wife, Maggie Woolums, had obtained a divorce from him. Name Grain Reviewer Bv Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 10.Herbert B. Deprez, local manufacturer, has been appointed receiver for the William Nading Grain Company, operating seven elevators in Shelby and Decatur counties. Deprez was appointed in Shelby circuit court in a friendly suit filed by George Leffler, manager of the St. Paul plant owned by the concern, on an account for salary alleged overdue and unpaid. The elevators will continue in operation, it was announced. Summer Camp Scheduled Bu Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 10.—First period of Camp Potawotami, local Y. M. C. A. summer camp, opening June 21, will be attended by twentyfive boys from the Allen County Orphans’ home. Four camp periods, each of which will accommodate eighty-eight boys, are planned. Chevrolet Dealers Meet f v Times Special WEST BADEN, Ind., June 10.— Chevrolet dealers from fifty Indiana counties met here today for their annual two-day outing. Sales talks and sports are on the program. •‘> i '

State Beauties Seek Pageant Prize

Miss Alice Quackenbush (left) *| .? ! has been selected to represent 4 v Bedford in the state beauty pagW'lm cant at the Indiana theater on Wednesday and Thursday, coml peting with seventeen other state \ diana.” the girls will appear JK each show Wednesday and jmL Miss Katherine Palmer (right), .stmlak “Miss Huntington.” also will vie | i UPI

SENATE OPENS QUIZ OF POISON ‘JAKE^REPORTS Agriculture Group Orders Records on Defective Ginger Paralysis. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June 10.—An investigation of reports that thousands of persons in the south have been paralyzed by drinking defective ginger ‘jake” was instigated today by the senate agricultural committee as part of its inquiry into administration of the pure food and drug laws. Senator wheeler (Dem., Mont.), member of the committee, directed W. G. Campbell, head of the drug division of the agricultural department, to bring all his records concerning the ginger before the committee for examination. maWrssput ON RESOLUTION Fail to Agree on Utilities Board Abolition Plank. Adjourning after a stormy session at the Claypool Monday night, Democratic mayors of the state left undecided their attitude toward a party platform plank advocating removal of municipal utilities control from the public service commission. A resolution calling for such a plank was amended to call for abolition of the commission, but no definite action was taken on the amended resolution. Several mayors declared a platform plank for abolition of the commission would cause the utilities to raise a large campaign fund to defeat the party. George R. Dale, Muncie mayor, decried the statements, declaring “they raised a big campaign fund to beat me last year for mayor of Muncie, but I gave them the worst licking they ever got.” Albert Stump, member of the platform advisory committee, explained the plan adopted by the committee, saying it provides greater measure of local control for all municipal utilities. OLD BELL PEALS AGAIN New Tower Dedicated by Richmond Church on Anniversary. Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., June 10.—Sunday, the old bell of St. Paul’s Episcopal church pealed forth its greeting for the first time in seven years. It was the 1,900 th anniversary of the founding of the Christian church and the celebration of Pentecost. The old bell first was hung in the belfry of St. Paul’s in 1846. It was brought from Cincinnati by horse and wagon by the father of Louis N. Hampton. For the past seven years it has been silent. Anew tower in which to hang the bell was the gift of S. E. Swayne of this city. The bell has been equipped with an automatic ringing device. Miss Kate Van Busen rang the bell Sunday. Cops in Pistol Shoot KOKOMO, Ind., June 10.—Guns of fifteen policemen will go into action here this afternoon, on orders of Police Chief Clinton Johnson, but none of the bullets will find a human lodging place. The detail will be the first of the police force to indulge in regular pistol practice at the armory. Attorney John Marshall, former judge of Howard circuit court, will suppervise the practice. 4-H Club Session Starts KOKOMO, Ind., June 10.—Summer activities of the 4-H Club opened today when seventh grade girls and those younger met in the high school building. Eighth grade girls will meet Wednesday afternoon and high school girls Thursday afternoon. Instruction in dressmaking, cooking and needlework will be given! The 4-H clubs will go to Camp Tecumseh the last week in July for a three-day gathering. Religious Group Elects NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 10. Paul Osborn of Westfield was elected president of the annual meeting of the Hamilton County Council of Religious Education. Other officers are: Vice-president, Emanuel Hartley of Cicero; Jesse Johnson of Carmel, and Roy Wilson of Sheridan; secretary, Miss Dessie Heiny of Noblesville, and treasurer, Mrs.

Miss Alice Quackenbush (left) has been selected to represent Bedford in the state beauty pageant at the Indiana theater on Wednesday and Thursday, competing with seventeen other state beauties for the title of 'Miss Indiana.” All the girls will appear at each show Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Katherine Palmer (right), "Miss Huntington,” also will vie for the title of “Miss Indiana.”

First Nominee

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Walter E. Treanor, Bloomington, instructor in the Indiana university law school, who this afternoon was nominated as the Democratic candidate for judge of the Indiana supreme court from the First judicial district.

Dog Gone — Bu United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 10—Muffled barks emanating from the rear of a laundry truck, in which it was sup-? posed there was nothing but bundles of dirty clothes probably saved a collie pup from getting a scrubbing along with the family wash. Hearing the yelps, the driver of the truck investigated and found the pet dog of one of his customers wrapped in a bundle of laundry. Shortly after his arrival at the company offices, a telephone call from the frantic customer established ownership and the pup was returned.

FIREMEN ARE FIRED Seven Dismissed at Muncie by Mayor Dale. Ev Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., June 10.—A police department shake-up loomed today following the discharge Monday of seven city firemen, some of them veterans, by Mayor George R. Dale. Four of those released said today they would demand a public trial before the safety board. Dale refused to make an explanation of his demand for resignations and Fire Chief Taylor was equally reticent. Those dismissed were William Jones, captain; William Beall, captain; Grant Young, lieutenant; William Gufflgan, lieutenant; Charles Jellison, driver; Clarence Bradbum, pipeman, and Lawrence Queer. 400 WILL BE GIVEN COLLEGE DEGREES Teachers’ Rose Poly Institutions to Hold Commencements. Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 10.— Commencement exercises this week will usher more than 400 young men and women into the teaching and business world from Indiana State Teachers college and Rose Polytechnic Institute here. Os these, 350 will receive diplomas from the normal school and thirtynine will be graduated from Rose Poly. Graduation exercises for the normal class will be held at 9:30 p. m. Friday in the Physical Education building, following a week’s social activities. Rose Poly graduates also will receive their sheepskins Friday. 4,000 Attend Graduation Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 10.— Nearly 4,000 persons witnessed commencement exercises of Anderson high school when diplomas were awarded 226 graduates, the largest class ever to be graduated from the school. Fire Engine Sought By Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind., June 10.—A fire engine, equipped with four forty-gallon chemical tanks, and costing about $3,700, is urged by Henry Davidson in a campaign among farmers and cottage owners of Union township, near Monticello. The city council has agreed to permit storage of the apparatus at city buildings.

MYSTIC SHRINE CONVENTION AT TORONTOOPENS Cloudy Skies Threaten to Cause Postponement of Big Parade. Bu United Press TORONTO, Ontario, June 10.— The sixth imperial council of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, was opened today by Imperial Potentate Leo V. Youngsworth of Los Angeles, and other high Shrine officials. Officially, the convention began with the opening of the council session. Since Saturday, however, brightly uniformed Shrine bands and patrols have paraded about Toronto as eacli incoming train added to the assembly. Overcast skies and occasional rain threatened postponement of the opening parade, but officials said it would not be called off unless absolutely necessary. While thousands of onlookers crowded the streets around the city hall Monday Imperial Potentate Youngworth placed a huge floral wreath on the cenotaph in front of the city hall, Toronto’s memorial to its World war dead. DR. RAINEY SPEAKER Graduation Exercises Held at Broad Ripple H. S. Fifty Broad Ripple high school graduates heard Dr. Homer P. Rainey, Franklin college president, at commencement exercises in the high school Monday night. D. T. Weir, acting superintendent of schools, presented diplomas. Scholarships to Butler university and Indiana Central College were awarded Bessie Ryan and Thelma Hohlt, respectively. Another scholarship, to the John Hcrrcn Art institute, was awarded Helen Wetherbee. POSH RADIO PROBE NBC Offers to Permit Reed to Repeat Speech. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 10.—The commerce and navy departments today were pushing parallel investigations to uncover the source of elusive SOS signals which Saturday night caused a twenty-six-min-ute interruption of former Senator James A. Reed’s denunciation of what he termed the “radio trust.” The one-time Missouri senator spoke from Sedalia, Mo. Meanwhile, the National Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, one of the interests which Reed attacked, offered to permit the Missourian to repeat his speech from its New York station. BANKERS’ SESSION - SET 400 to Attend Huntingion Meeting; Elmer Stout to Speak. Bu Times Special . HUNTINGTON, Ind., June 10.— L. F. Symons of Indianapolis, state bank commissioner, and Elmer W. Stout, Indianapolis Fletcher American National bank president, will speak before the twenty-first annual meeting of group No. 1, Indiana State Bankers’ Association, here Friday. An open forum on “Safe Banking and Better Banking” will be held. More than 400 are expected to attend. Thieves Steal Chickens Bu Times Special ATLANTA, Ind., June 10.—Largest theft of poultry in north central Indiana in many months occurred Monday on the farm of L. C. Trimble, the thieves carrying away 500 White Leghorn pullets. Value of the chickens was S4OO. The coops were entered by Dreaking the locks on the doors. Announce Chemistry Award BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 10.Establishment of an industrial fellowship in chemistry at Indiana university for study of oil emulsions is announced by Dr. R. E. Lyons, chemistry head. Aged Woman Dies ANDERSON, Ind., June 10.—Miss Sarah Gooding, 78, lifelong resident of Madison county, is dead. Two sisters, eight nephews and a niece survive. Miss Gooding was born near Florida Station. *

JUNE 10,1930

HUTCHINS TAKES RAP AT MODERN SCHOOLSYSTEM Present Methods Ridiculed by Young President of U. of Chicago. Bu United Press CHICAGO. June 10.—Present methods of education were criticised by Robert Maynard Hutchins, youthful president of the University of Chicago, in his address today at graduation exercises for 843 students. Dr. Hutchins referred to the number of students seeking so-called higher education as “colossal.” “Our whole system,’’ he said, “is set up for the average student with the result that in any well organized college there probably is not a single regulation governing the curriculum that a really excellent student should not break. “If we had time to think about education instead of being forced to provide something that looked like education for the multitudes who suddenly demand it, we should direct our attention first to the achievements of individuals.” President Hutchins told the graduates that the universities must create new standards and measurements of achievement instead of the bookkeeping methods of the present, that put emphasis on time spent and courses passed. TRAFFIC DRIVE MADE AFTER AUTO DEATH Muncie Officials Warn Motorists; New Signs Erected. Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., June 10.—With the erection of ‘slop” and “slow” signs completed on Muncie streets, authorities here are tightening up enforcement of the traffic ordinance. Police had intended giving motorists a couple of weeks in which to become familiar with the new restrictions, but the death of a little girl by automobile here last week, and the apparent increase in reckless driving, caused a change in plans. A conference between Police Chief Frank Massey and Coroner C. G. Piepho resulted in instructions to police officers to cause the arraignment of all reckless drivers and speeders. Extra men will be assigned to motorcycle duty until there are five machines on patrol day and night exclusive of the auto scout patrol. CLUB WOMEN MOURN ‘LIVING MUSIC’ LOSS Resolution Condemning Mechanical Devices Vetoed by Federation. Bu United Press DENVER, June 10.—The General Federation of Women’s Clubs today deplored the elimination cf “‘living music” from the nation’s homes and theaters, but votec. not to classify “music robots” as “an ever-increasing menace.” Presentation of a resolution condemning mechanical music inventions by Mme. Mina G. Del Castillo precipitated one of the most spirited debates of the federation’s twentieth biennial convention. GIRL AWARDED MEDAL’ Gertrude Schuelkc Honored for Her Record at University. Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., June 10.— The Maxwell medal at Indiana university this year for proficiency in women’s athletics has been awarded Miss Gertrude Schuelke, Ft. Wayne, according to the announcement made here today. This medal which is donated by Miss Juliette Maxwell, former director of physical education for women at Indiana university, in memory of her father, is awarded to the outstanding I. U. senior who has earned a monogram. OFFICERS TAKE POSTS Mrs. Virginia Asher Installs Heads of Women’s Council. Bu Times Special . .... RICHMOND, Ind., June 10.—Mrs. Virginia Asher, famous throughout the United States for her work among business and industrial girls and for her organization of business women’s councils, conducted the installation of officers of the Virginia Asher Business Women’s council here. Miss Elizabeth Townsend was installed as president while other officers installed were Mrs. Clara Taylor, vice-president; Miss Ruby Geyer, second vice-president; Vera Bcsworth, secretary; Edna Voris, assistant secretary; Ruth Mumbower, treasurer, and Mildred Mann, assistant treasurer. GOVERNOR WILL SPEAK Leslie to Take Part in University Field Day, Picnic. Bv United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 10.—Annual Purdue summer picnic and field day gathering will have Governor Harry G. Leslie as the speakers at the dedication of the ornamental stone gates at the university’s experimental farm near Bedford, Thursday. The gates are a memorial to Moses Fell Dunn and Antoinette Fell Dunn, who gave the farm, to the university in 1914. Similar field meetings will be held at the experimental farm near Vincennes Wednesday and at the North ,Vemon farm, Friday. . Farm Group to Meet Bu Times Special HARTFORD CITY, Ind., June 10. —Dr. H. L. Buckles will talk on “Recent Medical Reyiew” at tonight’s meeting of the Millgrove Farm bureau unit. A play, “The Rag Carpet Bee,” will be presented by the Home Economics Club. Nature Club Will Meet Bu Time* Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. June 10.— The Hamilton County Nature Study Ciub will give a testimonial dinner at the First Methodist Episcopal church in this city Friday night for Dr. W, S. Blatchley, former state geologist. VtH*