Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1930 — Page 3

AUG. 9, 1930.

EXTRAVAGANCE BRINGS DENIAL OF PRONE HIKE 1 mSm ' m Southern Indiana Firm Head Scored in Order by Commission. Expenditures of L. C. Griffiths, i pres.’lent of the Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company, j which included such items as $42.50 for a single day at the Blackstone j hotel in Chicago, was one of the ! factors which caused the public | service commission to turn down the company's request for rate in- ; creases at the Friday afternoon : conference. An order denying the company i increases and criticising Griffith ex- | penditures was written by Commissioner Jere West, who heard the I case. The company serves some thirty southern Indiana towns. Pictured a* Epicure Attorneys Clyde Jones and Asa Smith had appeared for the rate j payers and Griffiths was pictured as a "man of epicurean habits and fas- . tidloua tastes. - ’ who spent huge | sums in high living while the southern Indiana clients, who pay the bill, are suffering intensely from the agricultural and industrial depres- ! Sion. This view was shared by West and other commissioners, who denied the proposed rate increases unanimously. ! “Hard times” also were considered , 1 nan order written by Chairman John W. McCardle denying a rate increase for the Ladoga Telephone Company. V.'ont Time in History "At no time since the public service commission act has been in effect have economic, as well as other conditions, been as bad, especially in the rural or farming communities. although the small towns and in a measure, the cities as well, are effected,” the order sets out. "These conditions, over which no one has control, arc not only alarming, but, if continued, will be disastrous to many communities where dependence is largely upon the farmers, "The commission is of the opinion that, under the present conditions and with no probability of relief in time to be of much benefit, the utilities should bear a part of the burden for a temporary period, at least, and not impose all of it on the subscribers.” HIGH TENSION LINES PROJECT APPROVED Tower Company Securities Issue Passed Over Protest. Public service commissioners ignored an intervenors’ petition and approved a $12,267,075 securities issue for the Indianapolis Power and Light Company so that the company can complete its new power plant and establish high tension lines circling the city. In taking this action at their Friday conference, commissioners ruled that right-of-way for the high tension lines may be obtained through court process without commission Jurisdiction. This ruling was based on the decision of Judge Lynn D Hay of superior court two, according to Commissioner Howell Ellis, who wrote the opinion. Protest against the securities issue was built largely around the idea that land owners north of the city disapprove of the high tension poles on their property. Securities approved include an $8,000,000 bond issue. $2,500,000 of 6 per cent preferred stock and 160,000 shares of no par value common stock.

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Automobiles reported to the police as •tolen belong to C M. Toohv. 340 North Hamilton avenue. Oldsmobile sedan. *5-864. Irom Sixteenth street and Capitol avenue. J D. Scanlon. 1728 North Meridian •treet. Ford roadster. 79-594. Irom Pennsylvania and Michigan streets. Joe Yoder. 1519 Kennington streets Chrvsler roadster. 731-903. from Maryland and Illinois street.

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stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: Whippet roadster, no license, no certificate of title, found at English avenue and Cedar street. Beniamin D. Hit*. Brendenwood. Ind.. Oakland coach, found at Nowland and Kevstone avenuet. j. P. Johnson 25 East Thirty-seventh atreet. Jordan coupe, found at Minnesota atreet and Eagle Creek. SI 1.500 Loss in Spontaneous Blaze CONNERS VILLE, Ind.. Aug. 9. Spontaneous combustion in new hay was blamed for the $11,500 fire at the Connersville Ice Company and the C. G. Carr sales barn, with only a portion of the loss covered by insurance. A cow, two calves and a pony died in the flames. Two horses and several trucks were saved.

Court Voids Dying Request; Pets to Live Pv United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9. Three pedigreed dogs and two Angora cats have been saved by a court order from a “painless death” requested for them by their late mistress, who wished them to be with “her in the hereafter.” Mrs. Charles Winterman. who died a month ago. asked on her deathbed that the five pets be executed "because no one could love them as I do.” Thousands of telegrams and cablegrams protesting the animals' deaths were received. “As there is no evidence these animals are guilty of any crime. I. at this time, issue a restraining order prohibiting their death,” Judge Walter Han by announced in superior court Thursday. Mrs. Nancy White. Pasadena society woman, had retained an attorney, Griffith Jones, to defend the animals. He argued that they should be sold to the highest bidder and the funds given to the state school fund. The dogs, two setters and a spaniel, are valued a* $3,000. The cats are pedigreed and worth a considerable sum.

Hopes to Hitch-Hike His Way to Governors Chair of Oklahoma

‘Alfalfa Bill’ Has Great Chance to Beat Oil Man in Runoff. BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 9 —"Alfalfa Bill” Murray, Oklahoma's perennial frontiersman, who hitchhiked his way to leadership in the Democratic primary for governor, is going to follow the same methods in the run-off primary and is quite confident that he will hitch-hike his way right into the executive mansion. Political observers here believe he will, too, since he had a lead of 70,000 votes over his nearest opponent In the first primary. In the run-off primary, Aug. 12, he will oppose Frank Buttram, millionaire oil magnate, and it seems only a political miracle can keep Murray from winning; and the Democratic gubernatorial nomination here means election. Lunched on Cheese and Crackers “I spent s7l during the first four weeks of my campaign,’’ Murray says. "It was the cheapest campaigning I ever did and I am proud to say that during the campaign, I often ate cheese and crackers to cut expenses. I am glad that I was able to beat a millionaire. "I’ll win in the run-off without trouble and when I am governor, my door will be open to absolutely everybody. A caller won't even have to show a card.” Murray, whose real name is William H. Murray, but who is called “Alfalfa Bill” because he was the first farmer to grow alfalfa in Oklahoma, made one of the cheapest tours of the state of any candidate In history. He had to, because he Is said to be virtually penniless. Asked Strangers for a "Lift” His method was simple. He would saunter into some small town filling station, dressed in his familiar dusty and baggy clothes. A motorist would drive in, and Alfalfa Bill would go up to him and say: "Hello, stranger, I’m Alfalfa Bill. I guess you've heard of me. I'm going to be the next governor, you know. The boys over in the next town want me to give ’em a little talk tonight. Would you mind driving me over?” After the meeting “Alfalfa Bill’ would ask the welcoming committee if “one of you boys could put me up for the night.” The request always was granted, and next day he would hitch-hike his way to another town. In this way he hitch-hiked all over the state, speaking in countless agricultural communities, rolling up a huge farmer vote despite the fact that the city voters were against him. If he is elected, “Alfalfa Bill” says he will live in the garage back of the executive mansion and rent the mansion himself, as he isn't used to living in such a big house. He also says he will fire the gardener and raise his own vegetables. Murray’s triumph in the primary brings back to Oklahoma politics one of the state's most colorful figures. Ran Away at 12 Asa boy of 12 he ran away from home with a capital of less than 50 cents and wandered down into Texas. He worked on a farm there, cut cordwood for $7.50 a month chopped cotton, punched cattle, educated himself—he could not read when he left home—put himself through high school, taught School, established a rural newspaper, studied law and finally was admitted to the bar. Then he moved to Indian territory and opened a law office, later abandoning his practice to buy a ranch and start farming. His early crops of alfalfa gave him his nickname. When Oklahoma entered the union he helped write the state constitution. On the front porch of his three-room log cabin home he studied the constitution of every state in existence. Next he became speaker of the state legislature. Later he went to congress. Led Colonists to Bolivia Six years ago he found Oklahoma too civilized. He liked the frontier, and not finding any frontier in the United States any more he took a party of colonists down to Bolivia, seeking to establish a group of farms there on rich land in the tropics. After a year of this his colonists got discouraged and came home; Murray came back, recruited anew set and went down to repeat the venture. This second attempt was little more successful. Murray returned not long ago with little baggage and almost no money. He promptly announced his candidacy for governor, and began his famous hitch-hike campaign.

HALF OF POPULATION GAIN IN SIX STATES Total Increase in Ten Years Is 16,987,570. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.—Half of the record-breaking increase in the population of the United States as reflected in the 1930 census figures was concentrated in six states, a study of the figures revealed today. The total increase from 1920 to 1930 was 16.987,570. More than half of it was divided among California, New York. Michigan. Texas. Illinois and Pennsylvania. PESHAWAR IS GUARDED Indian Frontier's Unconquered Warriors Are Ready to Attack. PESHAWAR, India, Aug. 9.—Reinforced British troops guarded Peshawar today against the continued threat of Afridi tribesmen to advance and attack the cityRoyal air force planes maintained their bombing raids, flying high over the so-called tribal territory, a few miles from Peshawar, to harass the frontier’s unconquered warriors before they were able to summon neighboring tribes to their aid.

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Wouldn’t Trade Tills for All Alaskan Hills

Bell Telephone Cashier Found Gold Absent in Klondike. If any cne should ever say, "Thar’s gold in them hills,” to Marcus Blinn, 4260 Cornelius avenue, cashier for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, he’d get for reply, “Thar’s gold in them tills.” For Blinn, besides knowing his ‘“tills,” knows his “hills.” And knowing both, he is confident from experience that he's gotten more gold from "tills’ than from “hills.” Blinn’s skepticism of nuggets and belief in coin of the realm goes back to Feb. 22, 1898, when he joined the Klondike gold rush and came back with nothing but a memory of hardships, beautiful scenery and a steamboat mutiny. A company was organized in Huntington, W. Va., to explore the Copper river section of Alaska. “We had purported authentic information that thousands of dollars of gold had been panned out near Copper river. We left Seattle on the S. S. Valencia. “Upon arriving in Copper river, we found it necessary to change our plans. The boat’s captain attempted to unload us on a small island. That’s where the mutiny began,” explained Blinn-

Arrivals and Departures • Mars Hill Airport—William Barton, Anderson to Indianapolis and return, Stinson Detroiter; Clarence F. Cornish, Ft. Wayne to Indianapolis and return, Challenger Robin; T. A. T. passengers westbound included H. S. Bray, 1901 Ashland avenue; eastbound passengers were T. S. Meyer, Columbus, 0., and Lieutenant Bourne, Ft. Benjamin Harrison; Embry-Riddle passengers to Chicago included C. B. Corbin, Paul R. Brehm, R. M. Smith, all of Chicago; C. E. Whitehill 2625 North Meridian street, and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Davis, Seymour. Hoosier Airport—Ned Bottom, Indianapolis to Muncie and return, Air King; Harry Boggs, Indianapolis to Muncie and return, Travel Air; Paul Cox, Terre Haute to Indianapolis and return, Barling; Thomas F. Huntington, Shelbyville to Indianapolis and return, Travel Air; M. S. Smith, from Chicago, Lincoln monoplane, overnight, and H. H. Bullock, from Detroit, Mich., Waco, overnight. Capitol Airport—John P. Stokes, Chicago to English, Ind., Great Lakes plane; Walker W. Winslow, Indiana Aviation Corporation president, Indianapolis to Camp Knox, Ky., Travel Air. Joins Chevolair Force H. C. Brooks, secretary-treasurer of Hoosier airport, has joined the engineering forces of the Chevolair Motors, Inc., Indianapolis, as general superintendent of experimental work and production of airplane motors. Brooks wii continue his position with the Hoosier airport, but will

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"The hatch holds,” he continued,” were covered by firearms and the captain was notified that any one attempting to unload passengers or luggage on the island would be shot. “He threatened us with irons, but later relented and sending for a flat boat, placed our luggage, food, and equipment. What we could not carry was shoved off in the mud and as far as I kngw our steam sled, sawmill, boilers,'still are resting in the mud of Valdez Bay,” Blinn said. Battles with glaciers, a snow-slide that cost the lives of hundreds, and other mishaps brought Blinn’s party to the Copper river point where the gold was said to be as plentiful as hen’s eggs in a hatchery. “There was no gold, and to this day no gold has been taken from the Copper river. We found copper quarts and later the region was exploited for its copper but not for gold,” he explained. “I learned my lesson. The grass always looks greener in the neighbor’s yard. When I got back from Alaska I wouldn’t trade the most barren spot in Hoosierdom for all the northern lands,” concluded Blinn as he went back to his work of collecting “gold” for telephonic conversations instead of “panning” it on some Alaskan creek where “the night is fifty below.”

devote most of his time to testing and installing Chevolair motors, he said today. A testing stand has been installed at Hoosier airport. Motor Is Tested Mechanics at Hoosier airport are testing a Chevolair six-cylinder airplane motor, manufactured by the Chevolair Mtors, Inc., of Indianapolis, which will be put in a Laird plane for competition in the national air races at Chicago, Aug. 23 to Sept. 1. R-100 to Leave Soon Bu Cnitrd PrcuD MONTREAL, Canada, Aug. 9. The dirigible R-100 may start back to its home base at Cardington, England, the latter part of next week, an announcement by Commander R. B. B. Colmore, British air ministry, aboard the dirigible, indicated today. Memorial to Earhart Bn United Prens BURY PORT, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Aug. 9.—A memorial to Miss Amelia Earhart, first woman airplane passenger to cross the Atlantic ocean, was unveiled Friday night in commemoration of her landing here in June, 1928. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, the first aviator to fly across the Atlantic, unveiled the memorial, which was in the form of a drinking fountain bearing a replica of Miss Earhart's plane, Friendship. As early as 4,241 years before the birth of Christ, the Egyptians had calculated that the year contained 365 days and an extra one every four years.

‘AMOS 'N' ANDY' SAVED DAY FOR; CENSDSTAKERS Southern Negroes Refused Data Until They Heard Radio Broadcast. BY NATHAN ROBERTSON United Pre Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Chicago's “gold coftst” and gansters, the arid deserts of the west, and superstitions of southern Negroes were a few of the dangers and difficulties placed in the path of the fifteenth decennial census enumerators, according to the census bureau. Amazing stories of peril and privation and humorous anecdotes of encounters with suspicious Negroes and Indians, are intermingled with the statistics and figures of enumerators’ final reports. One supervisor in a southern state reported he had-great difficulty obtaining the facts he needed from the Negroes of his district until they heard “Amos and Andy” working out their census return on the radio. Abandoned Hope From one of the western states, a supervisor said one Indian gave his age as 120 years and the enumerator reported, “I have succeeded in beating him down to 90 and let it go at that.” William J. Little, enumerator, told a story of danger in a California desert. After a series of mishaps, he gave up hope for his life and prepared to jot down farewell notes, when he was rescued. “It was very hot and dirty, the sun seemingly grew hotter every minute and my lips cracked and my tongue began to swell,” he said. “After walking ten miles, I struck a main road, but I had grown so weak and dizzy I couldn’t go on so I laid down. “I thought the desert had another victim and was about to address a note to you and one to my folks as a last resort when I saw a car coming, a mere speck in the distance. I got to the road and could only say, ‘water’.” “An enumerator would travel forty miles over roads which were filled with rocks and that would wear out a set of tires, to get three or four prospectors, or drive thirtytwo miles around a mountain to enumerate one man,” she said. “In one of the Mormon towns of Lincoln county,” she reported, “a would be enumerator did not send in his application because it had to be signed by a representative citizen who was not a relative of the applicant and in the whole district he couldn’t find any one who was not related to him.” Difficulties Listed A woman enumerator in Wyoming told of riding horseback for ten successive days through rain and snow, fording creeks so deep she had to put her feet up in the saddle to keep them dry. Ralph L. Goodmkn, supervisor of the Fifth Illinois district, listed the following “special difficulties” in connection with his work: “Our ‘gold coast’ travelers, and those whose homes are difficult to reach, almost inaccessible, especially since newspaper publicity on census-taker robbery. “2. Gangsters in Little Italy, Goose Island, Hell’s Half Acre and North Clark street, of Valentine massacre fame. “3. The north side artists and i actors’ colony. “4. A district fringing the gold coast, almost the full length of our territory, of undesirable women and men whose names and locations change over night.” COMBINED RECREATION, PARKS BODY PROPOSED New Law May Be Asked at Next Legislature, Says Sallee. Enactment of a law combining the Indianapolis park and recreation departments may be requested of the next legislature, according to Charles Sallee, park superintendent. “The department could be operated more efficiently if everything was combined, the recreation director having only jurisdiction over playground activities,” Sallee said. “There is considerable duplication of effort and it seems impractical for the recreation department to endeavor to handle maintenance work,” Sallee said. The tw6 divisions now operate under separate levies.

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Combining college theory with actual experience, a number of Purdue university aeronautic engineering students are enrolled in the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service ground and flying schools at the Mars Hill airport. The nine weeks’ course is operated by Curtiss in co-operation with Purdue. Four of the students and two of their instructors are: Standing (left to right)—Captain H. Weir Cook, Curtiss general manager; R. F. Conner, New Albany, Ind.; C. Y. Kang, Peiping, China, and Professor G. W. Haskins, Purdue. Seated in the Plane (left to right)—S. C. Liu, China, and V. W. Young, Stillwater, Okla.

JACK PICKFORD YO WEDAGAIN Third Marital Adventure for Mary’s Brother. Bu United Press SALINAS, Cal., Aug. 9 Jack Pickford, brother of Mary, will embark upon his third matrimonial venture wtihin the next two days. The former star of silent pictures came here Friday from Pebble beach and filed intention to wed Miss Mary Mulhern of Hollywood. Miss Mulhern stated her home originally was in New York and that she had appeared on the stage in that city in “The Trial of Mary Dugan” before leaving for Hollywood last winter. > They signed as Jacl: Pickford, 35, native of Canada, sCM Miss Mary Mulhern, 22, native of New Jersey. Pickford was first married to Olive Thomas, called the “loveliest girl is pictures” when she was at the height of her career. She died several years ago in Paris. His next marriage was to the singing and dancing Marilyn Miller of stage and screen fame, who divorced him three years ago. Pickford said he and Miss Mulhern would remain at Pebble beach until the three-day marriage law required by California had been complied with. NEW RADIO ON DISPLAY RCA Dealers Shown Receiver at Columbia Club Session. Anew radio receiver with builtin equipment for recording homemade phonograph records was shown at the meeting of RCA Radiola dealers Friday night at the Columbia Club. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Kruse Radio, Inc., RCA distributors. C. J. Kruse, president of the company, introduced the speakers who included R. B. Bstikofer, district manager of the RCA Victor company; L. M. Brin, factory representative of the RCA; C. N. Chambers of the RCA Radiotron company; Frank Louden of the Burgess Battery Company; O. G. Clements, sales manager of the Kruse company, and E. L. Kruse Jr., vice-president and treasurer of the local company.

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MOYION PICYURE GRAND OPERA IS WELIJN WAY Each New Screen Operetta Regarded Step Toward Finer Music. Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 9.—The strong, silent men of Hollywood have gone, and in their place is the prospect of celluloid grand opera. Each new screen operetta is a step | in that direction, although producers as yet haven't collected enough ! fortitude to offer an unadorned j “Lohengrin” or “Carmen” as such. The reasons are many, but foremost is the discovery that talkie audiences have shown a taste for heartier fare than a continuous round of “boop-boop-a-doop” songs. Lawrence Tibbett, America's most popular baritone, who led the procession of golden voices to Hollywood, has a quiet chuckle when he thinks how some of his best friends tried to kibitzer him away from the cameras and “mikes.” He finds that the same ones who wept on his coat sleeve are now asking him how he did it. “I have lost none of my belief in grand opera,” Tibbett says, “but I feel that for the first time I am in touch with the great American public. The grand opera public is not great and it is not wholly American. The motion picture public is great and it is wholly American. It is not the great unwashed; there isn't any unwashed in this country. John McCormack, the noted Irish tenor, also found anew avenue to popularity was opened to him via the singing films. His first opus won acclaim both for his singing and for the sympathetic story.

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