Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1930 — Page 9

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RESIDENTS WIN WAR FOR BAN ON CREAMERY Dairy Petition !s Denied as City Zoning Board Runs to Cover. ONLY ONE ‘YES’ VOTED Propositions Are Advanced but Protesters Refuse to Give Ground. BY CHARLES E. CARLL Retreating to cover under a barrage of fiery protest, the city zoning appeals board Tuesday afternoon denied the Benner Farms Dairy, Inc., the right to operate a creamery at 1011 North Gladstone avenue, a residential section. The secret action of the city plan commission, membership of which is identical with the board, two weeks ago in permitting filing of a petition to rezone the site for the creamery disclosed in The Times, proved an empty gesture after the vote defeated the proposal, six to one. Arguments between the board and the protesting residents and among board members lasted more than an hour to climax with the assurance that a creamery never will operate in the district. Pleas Fall on Deaf Ears Before and during the first stages of the session, it appeared the board would permit the creamery to operate under the clause that it remain a year on the site, provided a “bona fide effort” was made to find anew location, in six months. The board, and more than a score of residents who carried the battle to the board, first listended to Mark Miller, attorney for the milk firm, plead for a “chance for these men to live.” He said residents had been given “misstatements” of the situation. When this plea failed and was followed by further protest from the taxpayers, George T. O’Connor, board president, offered the propositin that the temporary permit be granted provided the building be razed after the year. This brought shouts of ‘No, No,” from the audience. Then Mrs. Lelia Taylor suggested the time of the permit he cut to seven or eight months. This fell on unhearing ears, too, with the cry of “all or nothing” rising from the gathering.

Only One “Yes” Voted The board went into a huddle and came out, again offering the razing proposition. Still no advance was made and the board huddled again. After whispered conferences, O'Cononr said the board had heard enough and was ready to vote and not “spend all afternoon listening to discussion.” Tlie first vote was cast by John W. Atherton, executive secretary of Butler university, and was “yes.” But it was the only “yes” of the afternoon and with six other “noes” O'Connor informed the dairy operators the petition had been denied. For more than an hour after the meeting adjourned, groups talked in the city hall lobby, with officials oi the dairy pleading with the residents “to find a place for us to run our creamery and deliver milk ana cream to our 200 customers.” GETS FINES, SENTENCE ON THREE CHARGES Frank Drmpster. 50, Pays Heavily in Drunk Driving Case. Heavy fines and a county jail sentence were imposed on Frank Dempster. 50. of 2630 Burton avenue, by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter today, as Dempster was convicted on three counts. He was assessed $25 and costs for drunkenness, $25 and costs and thirty days for drunken driving, and SlO and costs and fifteen days for resisting an officer. Mrs. Lizzie Dempster, his wife, was fined $lO and costs for drunkenness and $5 and costs for resisting an officer, but her penalties were suspended. The Dempsters were arrested after an auto accident Monday night. WELL-KNOWN DOCTORS WILL APPEAR HERE Seventh District Medical Society to Meet Here Oct. 28. Physicians from Chicago, Cincinnati and Rochester, Minn., will appear on the program of the Seventh District Medical Society meeting here Oct. 28. A dinner at the Columbia Club is a feature of the session. Lecturers are: Dr. Harry E. Mock. Chicago: Dr. Martin Fischer, Cincinnati, and Dr. E. Starr Judd. Rochester. Women's auxiliary will be entertained with a tea at the D. A. R. chapter house, 824 North Pennsylvania street, and at the dinner. MRS. MARY MILLER DIES Funeral Services to Be Held at Residence Friday. Mrs. Man,- A. Miller. 55, wife of Edward W. Miller, died early today at their hoifte. 3024 College avenue. Funeral services will be held there at 10 a. m. Friday, with burial in St. Boniface cemetery, Lafayette. Survivors are the husband, a son. Harry E. Miller, and a daughter. Mrs. Marie H. Dixon. HOMES ARE PLUNDERED Passkey Burglars Take Clothing and Silver in Two Robberies. Entering the home of Mrs. Letha Byrd, 1037 North West street, with a passkey, burglars Tuesday night took clothing worth S4O and silver valued at $l5O, she told police today. Clothing valued at S9O was taken ii-om the home of Mrs. Hattie Lee Eumphers, 355 West Eleventh street.

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/■>. k\ J V v * Miss Marjorie Gladman Bu United Press SANTA MONICA, Cal., Oct. 22. A romance that began on the tennis court’s will culminate tonight in the marriage of John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J., member of the Davis cup team, and Marjorie Gladman of Santa Monica, junior and national women’s intercollegiate champion. Shamrock V Back Home Bu United Press SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct, 22.—Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Lipton’s unsuccessful challenger for the America’s cup, returned today from the United States battered by heavy seas during a stormy crossing. The voyage from Newport took nineteen days. Diving Record Is Set. Du United Press PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Oct. 22. The submarine V-5, latest addition to the United States navy’s battlefleet, and largest submersible afloat, established anew record for deepsea diving Tuesday, attaining a depth of 332 feet. • She’s Out of Prohibition Bu United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, former United States attorney-general, “is glad to be out of prohibition and intends to stay out,” she said here today. Church Figures in Divorce Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Divorce suit brought by Alice Stickney Holthusen against Major Henry F. Holthusen, lawyer, is based largely on evidence obtained by a witness who took up an observation post on the roof of a Park avenue church, it was disclosed in supreme court. Worried on German Debt Bu I nited Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. The statement of Dr. Hyalmar Schacht, former head of the Reichsbank, that Germany may be forced to halt reparations payments, aroused considerable interest among officials here today. They were concerned over the possible effect of such action on allied debt payments. Clear Fighter in Death Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. Oct. 22.—Death of Hazel Cole, 20, during a party she attended with Bobby La Salle, wellknown Pacific coast fighter, was the result of acute alcoholism, the coroner’s office announced today. Brazil Federate Claim Victory Biz United Press SAO PAULO. Oct. 22.—A federal victory at Itarare, considered the key city in the defense of the Parana frontier, was claimed by government officials today. Probe Veteran's Racket Bu United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 22.—The veterans of all wars, which hired a staff of girls to solicit contributions by telephone, was under investigation by the racketeering department of the state’s attorney’s office today. Girl Slayer on Trial Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 22. Paul Kauffman, 31. confessed slayer of Avis Woolery, 17-year-old Webb City (Mo.) girl whom he lured here with a false promise of a job. went on trial today for murder in Judge Allen C. Southerns court. Quiz Two in Buckley Kilting Bu United Press DETROIT, Oct. 22.—1n the hope they might shed some light on the slaying here last July of Gerald E. Buckley, radio announcer, and two alleged drug traffickers, William Cannon and George Collins, two men and a woman were to be questioned at Chicago today. Football Injuries Fatal Bu United Press CHESTER, Pa.. Oct. 22.—Stanley Pomlanak, 22, died today as a result of a broken neck received in a football game here last Saturday. Pomianak was the full back on the St. Hadwig’s Catholic Club team which played the Wilmington Panthers.

Ban on Jews 9 Trek to Palestine May Cause U. S., British Friction

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Stripps-Homrd Forcitn Editor WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.—Homeward trek of Jews from all over the world, back to the land of King Saul and King David, seems doomed. Already bitterly opposed by Arab Nationalists. Jewry's would-be settlers in Palestine have been told by the British government that “there remains no more land available for agricultural settlement by new immigrants,” save what already is held by Jewish agencies, and that further influx must be limited. Dr. Chaim Weizmann. president of the official Jewish agency and Zionist organization with headquar-

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IZAAK WALTON LEAGUERS TO MEETINGARY State Session Will Open Thursday and Continue Through Friday. CONSERVATION TO FORE Reforestation and Pollution of Streams Are Up for Discussion. | Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Oct. 22.—Indiana ; members of the Izaak Walton League of America will meet in convention here Thursday and Friday. Registration of delegates will be held during the forenoon of the first day. The convention proper will open at 1:30 Thursday afternoon with addresses of welcome by H. S. 1 Norton, president of the Gary \ Chamber of Commerce, and Ivar Hennings, state president of the league. Following reports by officers of the league, the program will present matters dealing with ConservationReforestation Is Topic “Reforestation in Indiana,” will be discussed by Ralph E. Wilcox, state forester; “Tree Planting,” by Frank S. Betz, Hammond; “Teaching Conservation,” by Roy P. Wisehart, state superintendent of public instruction, and “Boy Scouts and the Walton - ians,” by Ralph Silcott, Gary. “Anti-Pollution,” will be the subject of Lewis S. Finch, chief engineer, sanitary engineering division of the state board of health; “Our Fish and Game,” by Walter Shirts, superintendent of fisheries and game, state conservation department, and "Farmer-City Man-Out-door Sport Relationship,” by A. E. Andiews, assistant editor of Farmers’ Guide, Huntington. Pastor to Speak Dr. Preston Bradley, pastor of the | People’s church, Chicago, trill be the principal speaker at a banquet Thursday evening. Friday’s session will include discussion of chapter activities apd an address by Richard E. Lieber, state director of conservation. During the forenoon, a report will be made by a committee appointed several weeks ago to Investigate charges made by H. H. Evans, Newcastle, against the state conservation department. Officers will be elected and the 1931 meeting place selected at the close of the meeting Friday afternoon.

FIVE PLANES TO FLY FOR AUTOS Hupmobile Owners, Dealers Leave Oct. 29. Five planes bearing Hupmobile owners and distributers from Indianapolis and vicinity will soar away from Mars Hill airport at noon Oct. 29 to join the second annual SkyRoad parade to the Hupp Motor Company plant in Detroit. At South Bend they will join the Chicago fleet, and in Detroit will form a part of a mammoth parade of planes on a similar mission from Akron, Scranton, St. Louis, Denver, Syracuse, Buffalo, Pittsburgh,' Philadelphia, Milwaukee and several other cities. In Detroit the idstributers and owners will participate in a mil-lion-dollar driveaway of Hupmobiles, expected to prove a stimulus to business at the end of a prolonged business depression. Among companies co-operating with Hupp Motors in furnishing planes are: National Air Transport Ford Motor company, Goodyear, Standard Oil, Firestone, Gabriel Snubbers. Pines Winterfront, Vacuum Oil, Curtis Publishing Company, Timken Roller Bearing and other concerns. STANLEY HALL TO TALK AT CHURCH DINNER Ohio Superintendent of Universalists to Speak Here. Stanley Hall. Ohio superintendent of the Universalist church, will speak at the men’s fellowship club dinner tonight in Central Universalist church, 1502 North New Jersey street. Dr. Frank D. Adams, former pastor of the Central church and now president of the Universalist general convention, will be principal Speaker at the meeting following the dinner. Theodore F. Schlaegal, president of the Universalist convention of Indiana, will preside. The midwest denominational rally and ministers’ conference of the Indiana convention opened today at Central church and will continue until Sunday.

ters in London, has resigned and called a congress of these organizations to discuss what is now to be done. There are reports that the Zionists of the world may abandon London as their headquarters and make their fight from the United States. It is feared that another source of friction between Britain and America may develop over Britain’s Palestine stand similar to that over Ireland. American Jews already have formally protested against the action of the London government. About 1,500 years before Christ was born in Palestine, the twelve tribes of Israel ceased their nomadic life and settled in the tortile val-

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Pin-Hookers New Conservation Club Is Formed to Preserve ‘Fishing Holes.’

If you’ve ever bent a pin-hook, tossed it in a shady creek and watched the cork bob up and down, then you’re eligible to become a member of the city’s newest organization, the Pin-Hook club. The club filed incorporation papers today with the secretary of state, declaring its aim as the perpetuation of wild Hfe, conservation of fish and “fishing holes,” an encouragement of pinhook baiting on the part of the nation's youth. “We hope to make the organization national in scope,” declared Dr. L. M. Manker, one of the incorporators. “Anyone is eligible to join who is interested in fishing and our name just goes back to our boyhood days when we fished to be fishing as well as fishing for fish,” he said. heldoTauto THEFTCHARGE Newlywed Also Wanted in Nonsupport Case. Earl Six, alias Harry Huston, has been arrested for automobile theft and is being held in jail at Richmond, Ind., Lieutenant Charles Bridges, who made the arrest, reported at headquarters at the statehouse today. Bridges outlined the hectic career of Six, since coming to Richmond six weeks ago. He married a Kentucky girl, giving the name Huston, which he told Bridges he adopted legally in Oklahoma some years ago. His parents live at Newcastle, but the new wife said he had told her they lived in Arizona, where they operated a large prune ranch. Married before, Six is wanted for nonsupport of a minor child, according to Bridges. His automobile theft charge is based on two machines, allegedly stolen in Cincinnati, one of which was wrecked by a Richmond street car. WATSON PARES SPEAKING DATES Cancels Three Addresses to Conserve Health. Because of the serious condition of his health, Senator James E. Wason on orders of his physician has canceled three scheduled speeches, one at Elkhart Thursday, another at Gary Saturday and a third at Ft. Wayne Tuesday. When Wa.tson spoke at Terre Haute and Evansville last week he warned state headquarters that the exertion was becoming too much and that to conserve his strength he must curtail his speaking tour. Physicians have ordered him to remain quiet and not exert himself, because of his weakened heart. A tour of Lake county .was planned for the end of the week with the senior senator as the main attraction, but this will be foregone. His curtailed itinerary calls for an address here Nov. I. Pursuant to his long custom, Watson desires to deliver two speeches on Nov. 3, one at Newcastle in the afternoon and winding up the campaign that night at his home in Rushville. The last two dates may be canceled.

SIX HURT IN CRASH Dayton Negro Charged With Reckless Driving. Three women and three small children were cut and bruised when two autos collided at Washington and Colorado streets today. Buster Williams, 35, Negro, Dayton, 0., driver of one of the cars, was charged with reckless driving. Ray C. Burcaw, 33, of 5854 Julian avenue, realtor, was driving the other car. Injured: Mrs. Mary Smith, 32, Negro, legs and knees cut, taken to city hospital; Mrs. Everett Walters, 626 East Sixty-Third street, and Anna Marie Walter, 2, cut and bruised and taken home; Mrs. Roscoe Smith, 6333 Park avenue, and Robert Smith, 2, and Beverly Smith' 5 months, cut and bruised. $20,000 SUIT VENUED Damage Action in Youth’s Death to Be Tried Here. Suit for $20,000 damages for the death of Kenneth Akers, 17, two years ago in Frankfort, was transferred from Clinton circuit court to federal court here today. Russell Akers, Frankfort, father of the youth, alleged a Pennsylvania train, speeding through the city, in violation of an ordinance, struck a truck driven by his son.

ley of the Jordan. King Saul and King David were their early leaders. The Roman empire came along, however, and swallowed them up. py 200 A. D. the Jews had been dispersed to the four corners of the known world. Afterwards came the Turks and tha Crusades when Christian Europe battled endlessly to repossess, or gain free access to Christianity’s holiest shrines. The age-long dream of the scattered Jews always has been to return to Palestine. In 1883 some of them, calling themselves the Society of Lovers of Zion did go back and foune some small settlements there, and so marked a date in Jewish history. The settlements

OTHER CLUBS JOIN LIONS TO BOOMTRADE Campaign to Help Business .by Spending SIOO in Week Is Boosted. KIWANIANS ACT TODAY Real Estate Board Also to Take Up Proposition at Its Meeting. Momentum was added to the Indianapolis Lions’ Club movement to sec the city’s business wheels whirling again, when other luncheon clubs today announced they would co-operate in a spending campaign to promote business. At a “Prosperity day” luncheon in the Claypool, H. B. Moore, chairman of the Lions’ Club business conference committee, reported that the plan to have each Lion spend SIOO this week to stimulate sales is gaining recognition and support of other luncheon organizations. Herman C. Wolff, Kiwanis Club president, said the matter would be presented to Kiwanians at their weekly luncheon in the Claypool today. Citizens Join Movement Citizens are joining in the movement by buying at least SIOO worth of goods during the period ending Saturday and known as Business Confidence week. The Indianapolis Real Estate Board will consider the proposition at its meeting Thursday, officials announced. This buying project, being promoted on a national scale by Lions International, started in Muskegon, Mich., where luncheon clubs inaugurated a simple scheme by which clubmen promised to spend SIOO each in one week and get five of their friends to do likewise. Lions officials estimate their total national membership alone will put between $100,000,000 and $200,000,000 circulation before the end of the ..eek. enough money, they say, to tip the scales of business depression the other way. Governors Ask Help Governors of thirty-four states have issued proclamations urging citizens to observe “business confidence week” by spending all the money they can afford, and twentythree railroad presidents assured Lions they would co-operate by asking employes to join the campaign. Train coaches of the twenty-three lines are carrying placards with such slogans “Idle Dollars Make Idle Men” and “Pay Your Bills and Buy What You Can Afford.” The North Side Lions club of this city has adopted the slogan, “Have the Same Confidence in ’Business You Have in Government.” Dr. Roger F. Etz, Boston, executive secretary of the Universalist church general convention, addressed the Indianapolis Lions club at luncheon today in the Lincoln. He compared economic prosperity of the United States with conditions he observed I dluring a recent tour of Europe. $20,000 Spent Here Estimates announced at tbe luncheon indicated Lions of this city will spend approximately $20,000 during the week, averaging slightly more than SIOO a member. Wives of Lions Club members are co-operating with the club and were guests at the luncheon. Explanation by wives and members as to how the SIOO is being spent was an interested feature of the meeting. Carl Steag, Indianapolis Optimist Club president, said his organization “was ready to shoot business at all times will continue to work for an optimistic attitude.” Ministers in many cities are asking parishioners to join the spending movement, reports indicate. Citizens everywhere are adopting the buying campaign as the one thing necessary to start the business pendulum up again, Lions Club officials announce. TWO DRIVERS HELD AFTER AUTO CRASHES Negro Woman Accused of Speeding Away After Accident. Omer Stone, 40, of 2088 Livingston street, was charged with drunken driving and intoxication this morning after his auto collided with a car driven by Don Sanders, 30, of 835 West Twenty-seventh street, in the 3400 block West Sixteenth street. Mrs. Elsie Goings, 30, Negro, 116 West St. Clair street, was arrested Tuesday night on charges of failure to stop at a preferential street, and failure to stop after an accident. Witnesses said she sped away from a crash at Boulevard place and ! Thirty-eighth street, sixty-five miles an hour. Predicts Tariff Against TJ. S. Bu l nited Press LONDON, Oct. 22.—A prediction that Great Britain will raise a tariff wall against products from the United States in the next year was made today by Sir Charles Higham, addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in London.

were not very successful but the Zionist movement definitely was born. The return to the ancient kingdom of David had begun. The World war settlements placed Palestine, along with other parts of the Near East, under British mandate. Even before then Lord Balfour had put the British government on record, in favor of “a nationalist home for the Jewish people,” and had promised his government’s “test efforts to achieve this object." So, under the mandate the Zionist organization was recognized as the Jewish agency to carry out the Balfour pledge. The Arabs opposed the coming of the Jews on nationalistic grounds-

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The Lions’ roar is sending a shiver through Old Man Business Depression as the example of 85,000 Liens Club members in the UniteJ States in spending SIOO each for needed commodities this week is being followed by scores of other groups throughout the country. Dr. K. B. Mayhall, president of the Indianapolis Lions Club, is pictured doing his bit by handing over his SIOO check to Miss Jean M. Mac Kay, cashier in a downtown store, for anew overcoat and “skypiece.”

Champ Mother Bu United Press HAMILTON, Ont., Oct. 22. Mrs. Annie Joseph Passmore, 34, of Hamilton, claims the title of “youngest. all-Canadian mother of the biggest family. Mrs. Passmore is the mother of twelve living children. The oldest child is 17, and the youngest, 19 months. Seven are boys and five girls. Two other children died. Mrs. Passmore married when she was 15 years old.

MAIL PLANE TO BE WELCOMED Postal Workers Asked to Attend Arrival. All Indianapolis postal employes who can be free of duties Saturday afternoon today were asked by Postmaster Robert Bryson to : attend the arrival of the first Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., mail plane at Municipal airport at 2:30 p. m. Saturday. The postoffice band will arrive at the field at 2 p. m., Bryson said. Tire Chamber of Commerce and postal authorities are planning ceremonies to dedicate the inauguration of transcontinental mail service through Indianapolis. Bryson also issued warnings to residents here who wish to send letters on the first flight to the west coast against posting the letters in mail boxes. They should be posted at the main office or branch stations with instructions to an attendant that they be included in the inaugural flight parcel. Bryson and the Chamber of Commerce are attempting to place the largest consignment of mail from any city on the route aboard the planes when they arrive here.

JOBLESS ENDS LIFE C. D. Barrally Uses Officer’s Gun in Suicide. Out of work for nearly a year, Charles G. Barrally, 59, committed suicide today in his room at the home of William Martin, city patrolman, 1909 Ashland avenue, by shooting himself in the left temple. Patrolman Martin had gone hunting, leaving his revolver in a sideboard drawer. While Mrs. Martin was busy with housework and her son William Jr., was away, Barrally obtained the gun, went upstairs and took his life. He had roomed intermittently with the Martins for a year. He is said to have a brother in Tonawanda, N. Y. Calls Missing Financier's Wife Bu United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 22.—Mrs. Charles V. Bob. wife of the missing mining stock promoter, was summoned today to appear at the office of Watson Washburn, head of the bureau of securities, who is conducting an investigation of Bob’s activities.

The Arabs, they said, were increasing fast and the amount of, Arable land was limited. In time, they argued, the Jews would crowd them out of their own country. At the Wailing wall in 1929 there came a clash. The wall about the dome of the rock, one of the most sacred of moslem shrines, is said to contain what was once part of Solomon’s temple. Here, on a holiday, Jews and Arabs clashed and repercussions were felt 1 lover the country. There was rioting, bloodshed and massacres. Since that time the dispute, now become religious, economic and political. has become increasnigly bitter. To put an end to the crisis

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DEADLOCKED ON CITYTAXSLASH Action to Evade Order of State at Standstill. Moves to circumvent the 2-cent sut in the city tax levy for next year, imposed by the state tax board, were at a standstill at the City hall today. Numerous conferences have been held between city legal and department heads, but continuance of these has been blocked by the indisposal of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan since his airplane spill last Saturday. Sullivan is not expected to return to his office until next week. The tax board cut the rate to SI.OB, slicing a cent from the sanitary board levy and another from the general fund. The latter, which affects the city administration in blanket form. Is the one causing most of the discussion. Unless a loophole is found in the board order, the cut may result in the curtailment of activities and employment by the administration next year. INDICTMENTS TALKED Two Held in West May Be Named as Killers. Bu Times Pnrrinl NOBESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 22.—Special session of Hamilton county grand jury may be called to indict Lloyd Strange and Robert Ingersoll, held in San Diego, Cal., as the murderers of Owen Crickmore, filling station attendant wounded mortally in a holdup on Allisonville road, this county, Oct. 2. Emmet Fertig, prosecutor, said he will confer with Indianapolis police regarding evidence against Strange and Ingersoll. According to information from California, the license number is that on the car in which the three murderers sped away after the robbery, and the car shows signs of a long, hard drive. The third member of the band was not captured in San Diego, where Strange and Ingersoll are held on robbery charges. PARADE PLANS MADE FOR ARMISTICE DAY General Chairman Names Chiefs of I Procession’s Sections. Arrangements for an Armistice day parade are being made this week by civic, fraternal and patriotic organizations. Frank A. Montrose, general chairman of the parade committee, said today the Armistice march probably will be held in the morn, ing at 10 and will terminate at the Circle. Commanders of parade sections named by Montrose: Control section, Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney; army and navy, Colonel H. P. Hobbs; patriotic and veterans, Guy A. Boyle; war *elief. Miss Grace Hawk; fraternal section, Harry E. Kaitano; civic, Henry L. Dithmer, and junior, Stanley L. Norton.

the British sent Sir John Hope Simpson with a commission to investigate and report. The latest British pronouncement is based upon Sir John's findings. In effect it would seem to say that henceforth Jewish immigration would strictly be limited. The British claim their action is based upon the 1922 policy, which was that no more Jews would be allowed to enter Palestine than could be properly absorbed there. Apparently they seem to think the saturation point has been about reached. To the Jews of the world the British attitude semes a violation of the Balfour pledge.

HUGE RAKEOFF | CHARGED TO j COFFIN GANG Hsnclimen of Boss Fatten at Public Trough, Lawyer Proves. FAMILIES ON PAY ROLL Czar Maintains Clutch on County by Dealing Out Patronage. BY BEX STERN “Patronage, control of public expenditures, and power to give immunity for certain forms of law violations have perpetuated the hold of Coffinism upon Marion county, ’* declared Charles C. Cox, former suj preme court judge, at a meeting of j workers at the Indiana Democratic j Club this noon. “The most effective of this trio of methods to retain political control is patronage. For ten years the ■ taxpayers of Marion county have by their complacency permitted a soi.: to fester and eat into the social and political fabric of our county government. “For a decade taxpayers have carried the burden of Coffin patronage on the public pay rolls. Their money has kept the machine in power,” Cox • contended. Many Jobs Handed Out “In our county government, there are approximately 1.000 jobs to be handed outj. These jobs may be passed out on the basis of merit, of obtaining the best service possible for the taxpayers, or they may be offered as a reward for political services, without regard to qualification or the taxpayers’ pocketbook. “It is the latter method which Coffinism has chosen to perpetuate itself in power,” Cox declared. “Precinct committeemen, ward politicians, political hangers-on. workers at the polls—these are the only qualifications Coffinism believes necessary to qualify for public service in the courthouse.” Cox pointed out that on Sheriff George Winkler’s pay roll are fifty persons drawing from $960 to $3,000 a year.. Yet even the low-paid jobs are sought eagerly by political henchmen. Answer Is Plain “Why?” asked CvX. “The answer |is plain. The sheriff is the law enforcement officer of the county.” He offered records to show that Winkler, who long has been Coffin's first lieutenant, has in his employ twenty-three precinct committeemen of the Coffin organization. “Then there is Roland Snider, chief jailer, son of George Snider, county commissioner. Snider and his son have been on the public pay roll for ten years. “This is a form of nepotism that |is prevalent at the courthouse,” i Cox said. “Relatives and families are on the public pay roll, not as a reward for | service to the public, but as a reward of service to the boss. It’s All ’lsms “Our county government has come to be one of ‘isms.’ Nepotism, Coffinism, bossism, and other titles j foreign to a .democratic form of : government have been permitted to rule. "In the conduct of the county poor farm, this nepotism Is particularly flagrant,” Cox pointed out. “On the j pay roll we see the names of the Carter family. J. V. Carter is superintendent; Byron Carter, a son; Lizze Carter, wife, and Catherine Carter are all on the pay roll. At the county asylum for the insane, Benjamin Morgan is superintendent and his wife is matron, while the sons are beneficiaries of the public funds. “Forty persons are employed in the office of Clyde Robinson, county treasurer and Coffin county chairman. Among these are six precinct committeemen of the organization and the remainder are allied to the machine as election workers and clerks. \ City Lame Ducks Get Jobs “Robinson also has taken care of his predecessor's city appointees. ; Edith Campbell was in the John L. i Duvall purchasing department; ! Frank Milholland formerly was ! chief of the city engineering dei partment, and Walter Varney formerly was bookkeeper in the Duvall controller’s office. “Judges have from three to six appointments and each of these appointees works hand in glove with the organization. “The county commissioners have hundreds of appointments to make I and the result is their perpetuation : in office, no matter how rank and noisome their conduct becomes. “Throughout every department of the courthouse we find the same condition of affairs,” Cox declared. “This is the patronage system of government which Coffinism is making as infamous as government by injunction several years ago.” CLASS NAMES HEADS George Marshall Elected President of Butler Sophomores. j George Marshall, 5761 North Pennsylvania street, is newly elected | head of the Butler university sophomores. Other officers arc: Miss Helen : Louise Langston. 101 Hampton drive, vice-president; Miss Sarah Ella Hill, . East St. Louis, 111., secretary, and John Lookabill, 3425 Ruckle street, : treasurer. ' TAXI DRIVER IS ROBBED 1 ' Bandits Call Cab, Relieve Its Operator of S’. Two bandits who called a Red : taxicab to Sherman drive and Engi j lish avenue this morning, held up I Thomas Scangler. 28, of 820 North ■i Meridian street, driver, and took F i They left the cab after riding several minutes, and escaped on foot.