Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1930 — Page 11

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JOB DECREASE FOR INDIANA IN MAYJSSHOWN State Fares Better Than Others, but Still Is Below Normal. INDUSTRIAL CITIES HURT Most Factories Operating on Curtailed Schedules of Production. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN Timet Sttff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 19. Although Indiana fared better than many other states, unemployment showed a further increase in every principal industrial city of the state during May, and the monthly survey of the labor department, published today, holds out hope for only the normal seasonal improvements during the summer. The department does not tabulate the unemployed by cities or states, nor does it give an estimate of the total number whc. are out of work because of the protracted industrial depression. Expressing the May results by comparisons with April, however, the reports shows a further general falling off of business activity in every section of the country. Production Curtailed '•While the majority of the plants in the various centers were in operation,” says the Indiana summary, "a number curtailed their production schedules. Part time prevailed in-the coal mines, with an employment decrease noted. Automobile and accessory factories and assembly plants operated on curtailed schedules. "Foundries and brass plants, screw factories, iron and steel mills, glass and pottery plants, furniture and woodworking establishments and auto body plants were running part time with reduced forces. Several other miscellaneous factories operated on curtailed schedules. Considerable unemployment was reported from various cities at the close of the month.” Outdoor Work Gains In Indianapolis, increased activity in outdoor operations took up some of the spring slack, but building operations still were below the season’s normal at the end of the month. Neither has road construction and railroad work absorbed as many of the unemployed as was anticipated in the spring forecasts of President Hoover’s stability conference. "A surplus of workers continued in all lines of industry,” the Indianapolis summary says. "Practically all plants were running, but several reported part time and reduced forces.” In Evansville, "several plants were reported closed temporarily.” About 450 workers were involved in complete suspensions. “All other plants were in operation. A few reporting p rt time schedules. Furniture factor, sand automobile-body plants re. uced their forces temporarily, releasing 1,500 workers,” the report said. Farm Demand Fair There was a fair demand for extra farm help in the vicinity, but not sufficient to absorb the transient labor offered. ‘‘Considerable unemployment was apparent at the close of the month.” Three factories closed down completely in the Terre Haute district, throwing out about 400 men. Michigan City and Muncie reported part time schedules in every plant. Another complete shut-down affecting 500 ffien was reported in Bloomington. For the country as a whole, today’s employment report is the least encouraging of the 1930 series. No major industry reported employment gains for May among the secondary industries.

MUNCIE GETS MEETING State Sunday School Organization Picks 1931 Meeting Place. Bt Timps Special HUNTINGTON. Ind.. June 19. Muncie was chosen as the 1931 convention city during this year's session here of the Indiana Council of Religious Education, the state Sunday school organization. In a Bible memory contest, Clarence Gault of the First Presbyterian church, Indianapolis, won first honors. Martha Wynn, Deputy, was first in a Bible story telling contest. A banquet tonight will close the convention. Waldo Ross, Marion county young people's superintendent, will preside. DRY DETECTIVE QUITS Doran Silent on Reported Charge of graft in Service. B <i United Press WASHINGTON, June 19.—Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran today accepted the resignation of Thomas F. Rice, an investigator attached to the Albany (N. Y.) headquarters of the prohibition bureau. Doran said he was not advised of the reasons for Rice’s resignation and declined to comment on reports Rice has charged widespread graft in the federal dryservice. BUILDERS HOLD PICNIC Annual Outing of City Congress Near New BetheL The annual picnic and outing of the Indianapolis Building Congress will be held late this afternoon and tonight at the home of John Mann, New Bethel, nine miles from the city on the BhelbyvUle road. A dinner pill be served.

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Clara Talks Too Much, Says ‘Sugar Bu United Press DALLAS, Tex., June 19.—1f Clara Bow came down here to "straighten out things with a boy friend,” she apparently is doing very little about it—in a business way, at least.

Leaving movie fans and reporters to ponder over the Intricacies of her latest "affair,” the red-haired "jazz girl” of movies has spent her entire three days in Dallas in a gay round of night clubs. She went to bed at 5 a. m. Wednesday and slept until noon, leaving reporters to wait impatiently in the hotel lobby for answers to their

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questions. The actress then explained her visit by declaring she was attempting to prevent a young Dallas doctor’s wife from filing an alienation of affections suit against her. k "Just Talked Too Much” The doctor, when found by the United Press, denied Clara’s story. He said he had been friendly with the actress two years ago in Hollywood, but that the affair was "all washed up.” He declared his wife was not contemplating a divorce suit, had not been paid any money by Clara, and that the actress “didn’t mean any harm, but just talked too much.” To prove his contention that he and Clara were “just old friends,” he took her to Bagdad roadhouse Tuesday night. Wednesday night the two went to a "little informal party,” from which the actress said she intended to return early—by 2 a. m. When the provocative Clara and her secretary arrived hire several days ago they registered under assumed names at the Baker hotelengaging the presidential suite—wore horn-rimrtfed glasses to prevent recognition, and settled down to a “little-rest-between-pictuves.” It’s All Confused She couldn’t conceal her identity, however, and reporters interviewed her. A Dallas newspaper printed a story that she had paid $30,000 to a woman to forestall a $150,000 alienation of affections suit. Clara denied it. Her secretary, however, confirmed it. Then the actress admitted the payment, and went into detail to explain why she made it—only to nave her story denied by the handsome young doctor, whose wife is in Alabama. Movie fans were wondering today what answer she would make to the doctor’s story. Clara didn’t seem interested, however. She was sleeping.

LASHES AT STIMSON Hiram Johnson Blasts at Naval Treaty. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June 19.—While the attack of Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.) on the London naval treaty still echoed in the radio air today Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.) prepared to answer it tonight with a nation-wide broadcast in favor of the pact; The Californian said the treaty should be rejected. Johnson’s onslaught was directed at Secretary of State Stimson, as well as the naval treaty. He said Stimson in a radio speech last week had spoken of .American naval officers with contempt because they opposed his handiwork. Terming Stimson’s remarks “platitudinous generalities,” Johnson said the Secretary displayed an angry intolerance toward any who might not agree with him and all w r ho, under process, had been compelled to testify before the senate committees contrary to his view. BICKNELL CHILD SAVED Part of Ice Cream Cone Leads Searchers to Investigate Well. Bn Times Special BICKNELL, Ind., June 18.—Billy Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hill of Bicknell, has only a small cut on his forehead to show after a narrow escape from death. The child fell into a well while visiting at the home of his grandparents at Ingraham. 111. The child, who had been playing qi the yard, was missed, and finding near the well of part of an ice cream cone he had been eating, guided thp search. A small boy was lowered into the well and caught the child as he came to the surface of the water.

GIRL, 8, HELD ON BURGLARY CHARGE

Bv Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., June 19. Rosie Tislow, 8, has admitted to police here that she is the burglar who has taken money from several homes here In the past few weeks. Her father. Earl Tislow, is serving a term at the penal farm for stealing. Police arrested Rosie while she was on a shopping tour spending a little more than $2 she had taken from the latest home she visited. Then the officers started a search of the city, accompanied by Rosie, in an effort to learn the number of her victims. She pointed out six places, but said there were others, too many for her to remember. There are other children, all youn .-er than Rosie, in her family. Police believe that most of the money stolen was spent in buying

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LAPORTEWILL BE HOSTSOON FOR VETERANS Men Who Fought in War Against Spain to Meet Monday. SESSIONS FOR WOMEN Indiana Auxiliary to Have National Head as Meeting Guest. Bu Kmfi Special LAPORTE, Ind., June 19.—The 1930 Indiana encampment of the United Spanish-American War Veterans will open here Sunday to continue three days At the same time, the women’s auxiliary of the veterans’ organization will also be in session. Attendance of 1,000 is expected. The session will open at 7:30 Sunday evening and will be open to the public. The program will be a memorial to the deceased veterans with the Rev. Elmer W. Cole of South Bend as the speaker. The ritualistic part of the memorial will be in charge of Mrs. Florence Drummond of Ft. Wayne, deputy president of the state auxiliary. Closed meetings will be held by both men and women Monday morning. This will be followed at 9:30 a. m. by the second public session of the encampment. Speakers will include a representative of Governor Fred Green of Michigan, national head of the veterans, and Mrs. Lulu J. Shakespeare, Seattle, Wash., president-general of the national auxiliary. Business matters will be considered Monday afternoon and at 4:30 visitors will be guests on an automobile tour of the city. A parade will be held at 7 p. m. and a military ball, honoring Herbert Spencer of Huntington, department commander, and Mrs. Shakespeare, will follow. Business sessions will close the encampment Tuesday afternoon. Officers will be elected in the morning and installed-in the afternoon.

BANK ACCUSED FIGHTS CHARGES Indictments Attacked in Liberty Case. Bn Times Special LIBERTY, Ind., June 19.—Arguments were heard Wednesday by Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne in Union circuit court here to quash five indictments against William L. Kennedy, former cashier of the defunct Citizen’s bank. Judge O’Byrne’s ruling will be announced Monday. Ray K. Shiveley of Richmond was the attorney for the defense, and Estel Buldy, Lawrenceburg, and Charles R. Baker, Union county prosecutor, represented the state. Attorney Shiveley contended that three of the indictments failed to state that the defendant had received deposits by virtue of his connection with the bank as cashier. He aiso contended that in the other indictments, the phrase used in connection with charging embezzlement of funds for his own use and for use of other persons was insufficient and not specific, do not constitute a criminal offense. THEFT OF LANTERNS WORRIES ROAD HEADS Effort to Halt Stealing Made by Chief of Department. Effort to halt the theft of red lanterns marking road repair was made today by A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent of the state highway. In a letter to all field men of the department, Hinkle ordered them to catch lantern thieves for prosecution, .by. . the department. He pointed out that removing a lantern from an obstruction may cause loss of life. At the present rate, 3,000 lanterns will be stolen this season unless the traffic in them is halted, Hinkle said. MORROCi/ SPENT $50,000 Legal Expense Limit Observed in Senate Race, Is Claim. Bn United Press NEWARK, N. J., June 19. Dwight W. Morrow’s expenditures in his campaign to win the Republican senatorial nomination were $50,000, the legal limit, according to information from Morrow sources today. .

food and clothing for them. Once the child made a real haul —s2l—which she says she gave to her mother. Mrs. Tislow denies this, declaring 15 cents is all she ever received, and that Rosie told her school had given her the money. On a public dump Is the home of Rosie, a shack made of tin and scraps of wood with a slab for a door. Inside there is an old iron bed covered with pieces of discarded carpet, a rickety dresser and a stove. From beneath the bed. Rosie brought out fer r-llce inspection a gay little hat, shiny slippers, a dress and a pair of roller skates. These she bought for herself with stolen money. Authorities have not decided what to do with Rosie. She is too young to be committed to the state school for girls.

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TORNADO ETIQUET Ditch Best Place to Entertain

BY ARCH STEINEL “If an auto meets a tornado coming through the sky, should an auto hit the tornado or shake it out on-n high!” THAT’S the question that enters the cranium of every orthodox “stepper-on-the-gas” as he wanders vacationing and meets up with nice, docile cyclones or testy tornadoes. So for the benefit of you orphans of the storm who don’t know what to do when a wind torrent spreadeagles across your path while driving a car, Frank Hatfield, president of the Hoosier Motor Club, suggests several rules to follow to prevent a “hole-in-on” with floral displays

Most well-behaved tornadoes have a yen to travel east. _ So if it’s coming your way and you’re going east, step cn the gas pedal and travel north or south, but be careful, warns Hatfield, not to drive into a second tornado. For when it’s tornado time in Indiana you’ll find them travelmg in If you haven’t a bicycle, auto or a pair of roller skates, and the tornado won’t wait for you to pull a bunion derby, then duck for a cyclone cellar if there's one near.

Clone cellar 1I Ulere s one ucai. Failing in the first two methods, hunt a good cellar of a frame house. Be sure it’s frame, for bricks still cause headaches. Inside the cellar, stand against the wall nearest the storm. The reason for this, Hatfield says, is that if the house is demolished the debris will blow away from you, not on you. But should it blow you away with the house cross your fingers. Hatfield has no rule to go by.

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If your auto is struck and you are too scared to run then lie flat on the ground. It’s preferable to lie in a ditch. Now in picking out your ditch don’t neglect to select a lonesome ditch, not a congenial one. Congenial ditches are near trees, telephone poles. Lonesome ditches are just anywhere, away from everything. If you’ve found the ditch, go back to your car and get your seat cushions and then return to your ditch and pile the cushions on you, you can lie down and let a tornado do a tango over you without fear of flying splinters, rocks or boulders.

Deadly Poison Tried Out by Gary Man, He’ll Live

Bu Times Special GARY. Ind., June 19.—Christ Vallham, 29, has recovered after placing a speck of cyanide of potassium, one of the most deadly of poisons, in his mouth. To physicians at a hospital where he was rushed after a doctor noticed his condition, Vallham declared he was a victim of his curiosity. He wanted to test statements he had heard regarding the small quantity of the poison that would cause death.

DRINKING IN COLLEGES LESS, SURVEY SHOWS W. C. Tj*U. Makes Claim Based on Data From Indiana Presidents. Claims that Indiana college students today are drinking far less than they did in days of the open saloon were made today by the Indiana W. C. T. U., based on statistics gathered from Indiana college presidents. The opinions were gathered from Dr. William L. Bryan of Indiana university, Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam of DePauw university, Dr. Robert J. Aley of Butler, Dr. John Paul of Taylor, Dr. Albert E. Parker Jr. of Hanover, Dr. Homer P. Rainey of Franklin, Ortho Winger of North Manchester college and Dr. John B. Peddle, acting president of Rose Polytechnic institute. Each declared liquor is not a problem in his school. FLORIDA BANK CLOSES St. Augustine Institution Is Ninth in Ten Days to Shut Doors. Bu United PiU-ss TALLAHASSEE. Fla., June 19. The Bankers Trust Company of St. Augustine, capitalized at SIOO,OOO, deposits of $284,596.30, failed to open today, Ernest Amos, state comptroller, announced . It was the ninth Florida bank in ten days to take similar action.

After buying a pound of the poison, which he uses to temper metals in a repair shop he operates, Vallham placed it in his automobile and started for a drive with his wife and three children. He put a particle of the poison about the size of a pin head pn his tongue, and swallowed it. T v e cff-ct was immediately. He was hardly able to steer the car to a euro and stop it. Pedestrians called a doctor, who order Vallham, with his throat partially paralyzed, to the hospital.

CHANGE TAKEN IN BANK TRIAL Former Kewanna President Faces Four Charges. Bu Times Rnrrinl ROCHESTER, Ind., June 19. D. W. Sibert, who was president of the First State bank at Kewanna when it closed several months ago, has taken a change of venue from Fulton circuit court here to the Marshall. circuit court at Plymouth for trial on four indictments involving charges connected with the bank’s failure. William Gohl, accused of embezzlement in the bank case, has advised Judge Hiram Miller that he will not take a change and he will be tried in Fulton circuit court June 28. He waived jury trial. In the indictments against Sibert an overdraft of $40.50 is listed; that he took SSOO of the bank’s money for his own use; that he unlawfully withdrew his account in the bank, and accepted a deposit of $114.45 from John F. Brennan at a time when he knew the bank to be insolvent. PETITION TO ABANDON STATE TRACTION LINE Seek to Drop Route Between Muncie and Portland. Petition for abandonment of the traction linfe between Muncie and Portland, leased and operated by the Union Traction Company, was filed with the public service commission today by Arthur W. Brady of Anderson, traction firm receiver. The petition set out that the line was operated at a loss of $12,713.40 during the last fiscal year. Brady also petitioned for relocation of a traction crossing of the company in Tipton. The Wabash Railroad Company filed a petition asking approval of construction of an extension track at Benton, Surprises Will Part HAMMOND, Ind., June viously it was no surprise to Mrs. Bonnie Surprise when her husband Oliver would come home in the evening and tell her that they were going to move. It happened every month, according to a divorce petition filed in Hammond superior court. The wife alleges that if the Surprises didn’t move they were “thrown out” by various landlords for failure to pay rent.

CHEATING NEWSBOY SENDS MAN TO JAIL

RICHMOND, Ind., June 19.—Another “meanest man’’ has been found here in the person of James Harris, 40, who passed a worthless Mexican five pesos bill on a 12-year-old newsboy, Joseph Morat, so that he could obtain money to pay a board bill. Harris gave the worthless money to the boy as a $5 bill in purchasing a paper. The lad, by selling ne ,i; is assisting his mother in' paying for a home. Harris in city court told of being out of work two weeks and of finding the Mexican bill in a junk yard. The manager of the bureau for which the Morat lad sold papers testified he saw Harris displaying the bill before he passed it. Harris faced Judge Benjamin A. Ball on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense. He was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to ■>

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Sports and scoutcraft at Camp Chank - tun -un - gi, Indianapolis Boy Scout camp, which opened Monday, were at high tide today, as the first camp period settled down to a routine program. Upper Left—S. L. Norton, assistant scout executive, holding the “newcomer” to this year’s camp. Chang is the name the boys have given Norton’s Chinese chow pup. Upper Right—Rows of cottages and tents where the scouts stay. Center —What a meal these cooks will have when they finish roasting their meat by pioneer method. Below —Cooling off in the 6amp swimming pool. Swimming periods are held twice daily. Attendance at the first period totals 275 boys and as many have enrolled for each of the other three periods, to be held .under supervision of Scout Executive F. O. Belzer and S. L. Norton, assistant executive. The present period will close June 28. Dates for other periods are: Second, July 7 to 19; third, July 28 to Aug. 9, and fourth, Aug. 18 to 30. A camping period will be open to boys outside the city, July 20 to 27, and Negro scouts will go to camp Aug. 11 to 17. Twenty junior and eleven senior officers are assisting the executives in directory camp activities. EARL GENTRY AWAITS COURT’S FEE RULING D. C. Stephenson’s Former Associate Seeks Recovery of $1,300. Bn United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 19. The case of Earl Gentry, associate of D. C. Stephenson, Ku-Klux Klan dragon, against John H. Kiplinger, Rushville attorney, for recovery of $1,300 attorney fees, is being considered by Judge John H. Morris of Henry circuit court here. Kiplinger was counsel for Gentry when he was charged with conspiring to commit kidnaping and arson in Marion county. Gentry was released under $5,000 bond, provided in Liberty bonds. Gentry charges the attorney with cashing the bonds and retaining $1,300 without the client’s consent. The former Stephenson follower claims Kiplinger was paid fees during Gentry’s defense in the Madge Oberholtzer murder trial, and that no other payments were due. The defense presented evidence that the settlement between client and attorney was fair and honest. In its closing argument, the defense contended Gentry was satisfied with the $1,300 settlement at the time, but that outside influence later made him dissatisfied. 1 FALL FEARED FATAL Light Company Worker Hurt When Ladder Swerves. Falling eighteen feet from a ladder, Harry Owens, 46- of Mickleyville, employe cf the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, suffered possible fatal injuries today. With James White, 835 College avenue, Owens was working on wires at 2800 Washington boulevard, when the ladder swerved and he was thrown to the street. Both his hands were broken- and he suffered a skull fracture, spinal and internal injuries. He was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital in a critical condition.

thirty days in jail on a plea of guilty. Deputy Prosecutor Earl Keisker was not satisfied with the jail sentence and w-anted it changed to a term at the penal farm, but Judge Ball refused, because Harris had re-* imbursed the newsboy. GETS QUICK DEATH WISH "I Want to Go Fast,” lays Farmer; Dies Two Hours Later. Bu United Press RITZVTLLE, Wash., June 20. Robert. T. Rickard, 45, Washtucna district farm hand, and two other workers were talking of death. “I hope I go suddenly,” Rickard said. Two hours later he slumped from the seat of a gangplow—dead of heart disease.

HAIL MORROW AS POWER IN WETCATTACK Election to Senate Will Bring Vast Personal Prestige to Fight. VICTORY IS AMAZING Illinois Dry Introduces Bill to Change Existing Prohibition Setup. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 19.—Though anti-prohibitionists still are cheering the victory of Dwight W. Morrow in New Jersey, drys insist it means nothing, so far as a change in the federal liquor laws is concerned. In the wake of Morrow’s victory house members had before them today a definite resolution to change the existing prohibition setup by amending the eighteenth amendment. It was introduced late Wednesday by Representative Michaelson (Rep., 111.), hitherto classed as a "dry.” He also made a statement advocating a national prohibition referendum or a referendum by states. Would Protect Dry States His resolution would authorize congress to suppress or regulate intoxicating liquor. Its purpose, he explained, would be to allow the various states to be “wet” as they chose. Meanwhile, safeguards would be provided to protect “dry” states from the liquor traffic. It would, he said, “provide an adequate guarantee against the recurrence of the evils of the liquor traffic.” If Morrow is elected to the senate in November he will bring great personal prestige to the anti-pro-hibition cause. It has been lacking in leadership and has no one of the caliber and strength of Morrow to fight its battle in congress. No Sign of Wet Harvest However, repeal of the eighteenth amendment can come about only in two ways. One is by legislatures of two-thirds of the states calling upon congress to summon a constitutional convention to consider amendments. The other is by two-thirds of each house voting to submit a proposed repeal amendment which would have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. With primaries in one-fourth of the states already over, there is no sign of a harvest of wet nominees for the house and senate, which would change the complexion of congress sufficiently to make possible the submission of a proposed amendment. As to modification of the Volstead act, sentiment in congress at the moment appears still opposed to it. Wins by Huge Margin Bn United Press NEWARK. N. J., June 19.—Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow won the Republican nomination for the United States senate by a margin unprecedented in New Jersey's history. With only twelve districts missing the unofficial record stood: Morrow, 420,131; Franklin W. Fort, 116.966, and Joseph Frelinghuysen, 48,135. Asa result of Morrow's declaration for repeal of the eighteenth amendment the Republican state convention, meeting in Trenton next Tuesday, is expected to adopt a repeal plank in its platform. Wets Up in Arms B.U Times Special WASHINGTON. June 19.—Predictions that Dwight Morrow's victory in the New Jersey senatorial primary would strengthen the wets were borne out today, when numerous members of congress from the east and middle west privately admitted their loyalty to Volsteadism had been shaken, and one who has enjoyed Anti-Saloon League support openly advocated a national referendum and control of the liquor problem by congress. Aggressive wets hailed the. Morrow victory as the first of numerous advances they hope to make next fall. Representative La Guardia, New York R. publican, said it served notice on the G. O. P. in his state that it must nominate a i wet for Governor next fall or “go ! down to a disastrous defeat.” MEDICS ARE EXAMINED 15 Universities Represented at Statehouse Tests. Fifteen medical colleges are represented among the 130 graduates taking state examination at the statehouse today. They include schools of medicine at the Universities of Indiana, Illinois. Oregon, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Michigaan and Pennsylvania; McGill university, Montreal, Canada; Washington university, St. Louis; Johns Hopkins. Baltimore; Rush, Chicago; Loyola, Chicago; Boston university, Boston; Northwestern, Chicago, and the Kirksville College cf Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo. FORD PLANT TO CLOSE Two-Week Shutdown to Permit Inventory, Machinery Installation. Bn United Press DETROIT, June 19.—The Ford Motor Company today announced it will close its offices and plants in Dearborn and Highland Park for two weeks beginning July 12. The shutdown is to permit completion of the installation of machinery and inventory. Office employees will be given a vacation ' during the period. More than 100,000 men are employed in the Ford plants .here.