Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1930 — Page 3

SEPT. 20, 1930

IDA M. TARBELL QUITS SUPPORT OF PROHIBITION Drys Warned That Law Is Menace to Temperance, Degrades Youth. £ i 7 irnrg Special NEW YORK, Sept. 20 —Contending that the prohibitionist has become as much of a menace to temperance as were the brewers and saloonkeepers of twenty years ago, Ida M. Tarbell, dean of American journalists and for long an ardent prohibitionist herself, in an article in the October issue of Delineator, out today, warns the drys that they either must admit that the eighteenth amendment is a failure and make ready a practical substitute to slip in its place or see an un-

regulated saloon triumphant. Miss Tarbell considers that repeal of the eightee nth amendment is certain and that it is a good thing, inasmuch s prohibition has failed to produce the rcsuits expected of it. Therefore, she asks in her Delineator article.

Ida Tarbell

“is it not high time that honestIninded prohibitionists took stocktrusted their senses—admitted that the issue had not been closed by the eighteenth amendment? What do they seek? Temperance, let us hope—not merely a statute. “Intemperance and crime are Inundating us in spite of the statute. Are they willing to let the flood rise? Was there ever a time in this country's long struggle for temperance when there was a better chance for a union of all people seriously interested in regulating the liquor traffic and educating men and women to control of appetite? There is a practically unanimous agreement at certain points. The saloon must not return. Hard liquor as a beverage should go. Repeal Must Come “The criminal factory, which the lawless traffic (inevitable under prohibition) lias set tip, must be razed. Obviously this means the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, though not until a practical substitute has been made ready to slip into its place. “Will the prohibitionist help in this work? Today he stands, before a large and growing public opinion, where brewers and saloons stood twenty years ago. He is regarded as in the way of temperance. “He has his chance now as they did then. Unless he takes heed, it will be swept out of his reach. He will find himself with the amendment repealed, no substitute ready, an unregulated saloon triumphant.” To Miss Tarbell the most alarming feature of the present situation is not the drinking of illicit liquor. “The crime of crimes in prohibiton,” she declares, “is what it is doing to our youth." Youth Is Corrupted “The old alliance of the licensed saloon with politician and police as a vicious and demoralizing business, but it never was so violent in jis crimes, never so corrupting in its isocial effects—above all, it never so drew' on youth to carry on its operations as it is now doing.” “It is not what the drinking cf illicit liquor is doing to our people, which is the alarming feature of the outcome of ten years cf prohibition,” she declares, “though that is startling enough: it is the vast army of law-breakers it is creating in all classes of society—law-break-ers ranging from those who pay the $2,500,000,000 for their drinks to the hundreds of thousands of men and women who run the gigantic illegal business which sells them.” SING SING NEEDS HIM Not Only for His Pitching Ability, but His "Lifting” Skill. Ru f t!itrd Press BRIDEGPORT. Conn., Sept. 20. If police capture Harry McCann, 25, the Sing Sing pris6n'T>aseball team will regain its star pitcher of last season, it appeared today. McCann was paroled from the prison three weeks ago when Raymond Wahler, pitcher for a factory nine which opposed the Sing Sing team, got him a job here. Police have just revealed that McCann drew his pay Tuesday night and left town with a suit of clothes, watch and jewelry belonging to his benefactor.

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Destroyer's Nose Broken

Two of Uncle Sams destroyers did a bang-up job in their maneuvers off the Rhode Island coast the other night. Running without lights w'ith eighteen other destroyers, the Hatfield and the Sands collided. The bow of the Hatfield is shown above as the destroyer was towed into the Brooklyn navy yaid for a face-lifting operation. The destroyer Sands, with four holes in her port side below the waterline, limped in on her own power.

-■ In Realm of Aviation

Arrivals and Departures Mars Hill Airport—T. A. T. passengers west bound included C. A. Huff, 4404 East Fifty-fifth street; cast bound passengers included J. A. Connolly and A. S. Butterworth, Columbus, O.; Charles T. O'Brien, New York, and G. C. Farrington, Steubenville, O.; Embry-Riddle passengers to Cincinnati included L. G. Simmons, Indianapolis; Harry D. Rei and W. Haggard, to Cincinnati; F. W. Cullison, Gary, and C. R. Ruckelshaus, 2835 North Meridian street, to Chicago. Hoosier Airport—Clyde Shockley, Columbus to Kokomo, Fairchild; E. G. Kidwell, New York to San Francisco, Bird; M. L. Sater, St. Louis to New York, Curtiss-Robin, overnight. Capitol Airport—Walter Davis, Richmond to Indianapolis, Davis monoplane; Oren Wills, Anderson to Indianapolis, Swallow plane; Edgar C. Schmid, Evansville to Chicago, Ryan. Predicts Vast Zep Lines flu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Within a few years, dirigible airships will be maintaining regular schedules across the Atlantic from New York to Europe and across the Pacific from California to the Orient, in the opinion of P. W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, now building two super-dirigibles for the navy at Akron, O. Feasibility of the airship for long distance travel has been demonstrated, according to Litchfield, who was a luncheon guest of President Hoover, Friday. Model Demand Heavy flu A HA Sen ire WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 20. Proof of aviation’s popularity is shown in the business conducted by makers of model airplanes in the United States. More than tw r o thousand companies last year, working con--OPEN BEAUTY PARLOR IN SENATE BUILDING Step Toward Equal Rights for Fair Sex May Aid Mrs. McCormick. ft u Pnited Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—The

senate has taken a long step toward equal rights for women. A beauty parlor has been established in the senate office building! It was installed primarily for the convenience of the many stenographers and secretaries employed by senators. Without a beauty parlor, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, senatorial candidate would not get all of the rights of a senator should she be elected in November. Senators and male members of the*Jiouse get free service in the capitol's barber shops. TUG-OF-WAR IS HELD Indiana Central Freshmen Pulled Through Creek by Sophs. Freshmen of Indiana Central college were pulled through Lick creek by sophomores in the anual tug-of-war Friday night. Following the tug, 300 students, and faculty attended a picnic dinner in the grove near Long Acre swimming pool, after which the two classes buried the “hatchet of hate” in the annual ceremony around a campfire. Speeches were made by President I. J. Good and class representatives. HELD IN AUTO CASE Three* Alleged to Have Attempted Theft of Car. Three men were held by police on vagrancy charges after they are elleged to have attempted to start an auto in a garage in the rear of 800 Middle drive, Woodruff Place, early today. Those held are Frank Gardner, 26, of 230 South State avenue; Albert Conover, 21, of 750 South State avenue, and Carl Miller. 25. of 826 North New Jersey street. NAMED TO G. 0. P. POST Mrs. Clara Webster, Gary, Is Made Negro Bureau Chairman. Mrs. Clara E. Webster of Gary has been appointed by Elza O. Rogers. Republican state chairman, as vice-chairman of the state Negro bureau. Mrs. Webster has been active in Republican politics in Lake county for eight years and is* national chairman of the citizenship committee of the Colored Women's Federated Clubs. She also is president of the boards of the Ladies’ Eifcs of Indiana.

stantly, produced thousands of model planes of the “rubber band” type to supply the demand of interested children. The model airplane industry of the country now' represents an investment of more than $4,000,000. -• . Air Speed to Grow flit XKA Service CHICAGO, Sept. 20—The airplane of the near future, according to william R. Stout, president of the Stout Laboratories, will carry more passengers per horse power, per pound of fuel, per square foot of wing or pound of structural area than will our present planes. He predicts that cruising speeds of large air liners shortly will be increased to 200 miles an hour. Seek Endurance Record flu l nited Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 20Three weeks rfiore of monotonous flying lay ahead of Bennett Griffin and Roy Hunt today as they circled over Oklahoma City airport in an attempt to set a new' refueling endurance flight record. The fliers pased their 157th hour in the air at 2:31 a. m. today. To break the record set recently by Forrest O’Brine and Dale Jackson of St. Louis, they must remain up until Oct. 12. BANK PROWLER ONLY RUNAWAY YOUNGSTER Hungry Boy, 10, Squeezes Through Bars; Wanted Food Money. Bn United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 20— J. B. McComas, night watchmen, went into action early today when he saw the beams of a flashlight moving through the darkness in the Commerce Trust Company, Kansas City’s largest bank. He cocked his revolver and crept toward the light, ready to fight it out with a gun. He pounced upon the figure holding the flashlight, which revealed that he had captured Clifton Farrell, 10-year-old runaway son of a farmer. The hungry boy had squeezed through the bars of a window' in search of money with which to buy food. BRITISH DRYS POINT TO U. S. SPORT LEAD

Athletic Superiority Is Cited as Abstinence Inducement. Bn United Press LONDON, Sept. 20.—Prohibition workers here are calling attention of the nation’s youth to the superiority of America’s athletes as an inducement for total abstinence. “It was not a fluke nor an accident that the United States and Finland, the two ‘dry’ countries of the world, ran away from all other nations in the last Olympic games, - ’ said H. Cecil Heath of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of Liquor Traffic^-/ SUES SENATOR'S SON Divorce Is Sought From Lawrence C. Phipps Jr. of Colorado. Bn United Press DENVER, Colo., Sept. 20.—Suit for divorce by Mrs. Gladys Hart Phipps against Lawrence C. Phipps Jr., son of Colorado's senior United States senator, was on file in district court today. They were married in 1912. Bridge Plans Approved Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Assistant Secretary of War Payne, Friday, approved plans for a bridge to be constructed across Trail creek at Franklin street, Michigan City, Ind.

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FOUR JOYRIDERS HURT AS AUTO DIVES 55 FEET Plunge Over Embankment on State Road 67 ‘Death Curve.’ Four young joyriders, returning from a beer party in Maywood, w’ere hurled into Big Eagle creek shortly before midnight when the roadster in which they were riding plunged forty-five feet down an embankment on "Death Curge,” State Road 67, at Kentucky avenue. None was hurt seriously, although Miss Helen Pritchard, 16, Franklin, was dragged Irom the waters unconscious, by M. R. GlidewelJ, operator of a lunchroom near the curve. Miss Anna Lyons, 18, also of Franklin, sustained internal injuries. Admit Beer Drinking George Mclntyre, 21, Greenwood, driver of the roadster, and his brother. Stanley, also of Greenwood, are held today on charges of contributing to juvenlie delinquency. Police say they admitted taking beer to Maywood, where each member of the party drank two bottles. On the curve where the accident occurred, two persons were killed six months ago. Mclntyre said he never had driven over the road before, and failed to see the surve until too late to cut his speed. Five were injured when a roadster collided with a fire truck at Madison avenue and McCarty stret Friday afternoon. Floyd Elliott, Buffalo, N. Y., driver of the car, who was cut and bruised, was ch&rged with failure to give right of way to fire apparatus. Bride of Week Injured His bride of a week also was cut and bruised; his sister Irene sustained a collar bone fracture; his mother, Mrs. O. H. Elliott, 1006 English avenue, suffered head injuries, and the bride's mother, Mrs. Helen Biddy, 5808 Indianola avenue, w'as bruised and cut. William Talley, 1223 East Sixteenth street, escaper serious injury but his horse was killed when a locomotive struck his wagon at Twentieth street and the Monon railroad Friday.

THROWN FROM AUTO x Cops Believe Girl Drugged by Three Companions. Deputy sheriffs and police are seeking two men and a woman who are believed to have drugged Miss Dorothy West, 20, of 416 North East street, and thrown her from an auto at Hanna avenue and East street, early today. Miss West w'as found by,. Deputy Sheriff Miller and Mann, lying beside the roadside in a dazed condition. After first aid aw sgiven, she told the mshe had been riidng with another couple and a man and that she was forced to drink from a bottle. She said she believed the bottle contained a drug and could not relate circumstances of the incident. TESTS INTELLIGENCE OF 500 FRESHMEN Columbia Requires Incoming Class to Answer Odd Questions. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Prescott Lecky, instructor of psychology at Columbia University, made the questions and 500 anxious freshmen representing the new incoming class had to make the answers, including the following: “Do you love your father better than your mother?” “Are you afraid of high places?” “Are you shy with girls?” “Do you often feel lonely w'hen with people?” “Were you surprised when you found out the truth about sex)” The questionnaire was the last in a series of intelligence tests taken during the past week by the freshmen. Answers have not been revealed.

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Lola Long. 18, will continue to make her home with Milton Reiff, farmer of Attica, 0., instead of with her own parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Long. Several years ago her,, father, owing Reiff S2OO, bound Lola out to work for Reiff and pay it off. Lola agreed, but when her father recently tried to get her back, she refused to return, and a court sustained her.

GAS COMPANY PLEA GRANTED State Acts on Bond Issue for Improvements. Bonds totaling $69,000 will be issued by the Citizens Gas Company, to replace funds expended for improvements and additions to the property. Approval of the issue was voted by the public service commission at its Friday conference. Commissioners denied a petition to investigate rates charged industrial consumers by the company. Denial was at request of John W. Holtzman, special Counsel for Indianapolis in the case involving municipal ownership of the gas company, now pending in the United States court of appeals. He asked investigation of rates be postponed until the appeal is decided. A $23,000,000 bond issue and issuance of 717,600 shares of-no par value common stock was approved by the commission upon petition of the Chicago District Electric Generating Corporation, the Insull power plant at Hammond. Abandonment of the Indianapo-lis-Danville division of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company was approved upon petition of Elmer Stout, receiver. FIRE DAMAGE $2,000 Flames Attack Coal Sheds Along Nickel Plate. Fires of unknown origin caused damages estimated at $2,000 to sheds at 1002 East Michigan street, formerly occupied by the Allied Coal and Material Company, late Friday night and early today. The first blaze broke out in the structures early Friday night and was followed by another shortly after midnight. The sheds have been vacant four months and burned like tinder. Jack Stanely, fireman of pumper company No. 7 suffered severe hand burns as he played water on the fire twenty feet from the blaze. The structures are located along the Nickel Plate railroad and authorities believe tramps may have caused the fires. BRATTON IS NOMINATED , Senator Named With No Opposition at New Mexico Convention. Bit United Press SANTA FE. N. M., Sept. 20.—Senator Sam Bratton was renominated without opposition by the New Mexico Democratic convention here late Friday.

TWO SUSPECTED AS AIDS IN CITY ROBBERIES HELD Terre Haute Police Nab Pair Accused in Kidnap-, ing. Banditry Spree. Two men were arrested early today in Terre Haute in connection with a series of krdnapins and robberies staged by bandits within a few hours in Indianapolis and vicinity Thursday night, Earl Compton, 23, of 646 North Sheffield avenue, and a man giving his last name as Murray are being held, pending arrival of Indianapolis police. The men were arrested after police said Raymond Curl, 28, of 242 Hanson avenue, charged with auto banditry in connection with the series of outrages, implicated Compton. Harold Garman, 19, of 610 Patterson street, also charged with atuo banditry, is said by police to have admitted holding up nine persons in a Haag Drug Company store, Thirtieth and Clifton streets, which, police alleged, was the culmination of tw'o hours’ of banditry by Curl and Garman. Curl was captured in a house at 1019 West New York street, in front of which Garman’s car was standing. He told police he went there to get the car, they said. He denied any implication in the robberies and pointed to Compton as one of the alleged bandits. Cases against Curl and Garman were continued until Sept. 25 by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Friday afternoon. RASKOB JR. TO WED PRETTY SECRETARY

Engagement of Financier’s Son and Jewish Girl Announced. Bu United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 20. —John J. Raskob Jr., former Yale student and son of the financier, is engaged to Marry Miss Minerva Aaronson, pretty private secretary of this city. The couple expect to be married next spring. Whether the Roman Catholic or Jewish marriage rites will be performed has not yet been decided. Raskob is Catholic and Miss Aaronson’s family is of the Jewish faith. The romance started, according to friends of the couple, during young Raskob’s junior year of college. He was graduated last spring. SILLS FUNERAL HELD Body Reposes in Temporary Vault in Glandale Cemetery. B GLENDALE, Cal., Sept. 20.—’The body of Milton Sills, who turned j from a career as college professor | to success in motion pictures, reposed today in a temporary vault in Forest Lawn cemetery. Withi na few days, Doris Kenyon Sills, his widow, and other relatives ! will determine if he is to be buried i in California or in Chicago, where he was born and educated. Funeral services for the actor were held at the Little Church of the Flowers in Glendale Friday with only his famliy and a few close friends in attendance. A lone wreath on the casket, flanked by orchids, was the only floral offering.

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Josephine Baker, colored American musical comedy star, is shown here as she gave Deauville a thrill by promenading with her latest pet, a baby leopard.

KEARNS WANTS TO LOSE WIFE Dempsey’s Ex-Manager for Annulment. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 29. Jack Kearns, former manager of Jack Dempsey, has sued to have his marriage to Legana Kearns annulled. Kearns also asked from Judge Lynch release from the contract under which he agreed to pay his wife SSOO a month for the rest of her life. The action Friday, explained Albert Sabath, Kearns attorney, was in answer to a series of suits filed by Mrs. Kearns to collect back payments. Her claims, Sabath said, were based on “New York's trick marriage laws,” which provide that if two persons sign a notice of intent to wed, have it attested by witnesses and filed for record, they are recognized legally after six months as man and wife. GALE LASHES ENGLAND Numerous Ships in Need of Help in Channel Storm. [in Jnitrfi J*rests LONDON, Sept. 20.—A furious gale lashed the English channel and the southwst coast of England today, placing numerous ships in need of assistance and damaging property inland. The air ministry issued a warning that the wind likely is to attain hurricane force.

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CITY FORCED TO | PAY RENT FOR UNUSEDTOWER Officials’ Attention Called to $3,000 Wasted on Fire Lookout. BY CHARLES E. CARLL Seventeen stories above the city's streets, atop the Merchants National Bank building. Meridian and Washington streets, stands the unused lookout tower of the Indianapolis fire department, for which the city has been paying $166.66 a month. Today, city officials, their attention having been called to the withdrawal of more than $3,000 for the tower rent in the last eighteen months, during which it has not been used, were pondering some means to dodge paying more rent. Each month, since the department gave up the tower in January. 1929, the city has paid $166.66 rental on the lookout dome. September Rent Due Now there is a bill for the September rent, demanding another $166.66. which probably will not be paid. A notation has been entered in the records of William L. Elder, city controller, that payment be withheld. During the period of non-usage the rental has milchcd the city treasury of $3,066.54. In 1923 the city renewed a lease on the structure for ten years. The lease does not expire until Dec. 31. 1932, and the Merchants bank firm will seek to have the monthly installment paid regularly. Court Action Likely If the city is forced to pay the rental, another $4,333.14 will go to waste. If the city refuses to pay, court action is expected. The tower was abandoned while L. Ert Slack was mayor, but payment of the rent went on. The matter n6w is before Edward H. Knight, corporation counsel, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and the board of safety. The tower has been used “off and on” by the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League, but the organization never has paid any part of the city’s rent bill, it was learned. COP BESTS BURGLAR SUSPECT IN FIGHT New 7 Jersp/ Man’s Nose Broken in Resisting Arrest. In a hand-to-hand fight early today patrolman Patrick Moriarity arrested William McClone, 23, of Trenton, N. J., on a charge of burglary, after it is alleged McClone w'as tampering with a car in a garage at 130 South Illinois street. Moriarity said the man was leaving the garage with several wrenches W'hen he called to him to halt. McClone started to run and the officer grabbed him. McClone is in the city hospital detention, ward, suffering from a broken nose. Door on a car of A. F. Hodges in the garage was battered, Moriarity said.