Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1930 — Page 1

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May McEvoy Bu TimeS Special. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23.—When a film publication used the wrong picture of her and made errors in the accompanying printed material, May McEvoy, screen star, refused to pay $250. The court held she was justified, but levied a SSO judgment against Joseph Schildkraut, who also had refused to pay. Business Confidence Urged Pu I Hiti and Press NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The cause of “our business ills have been removed and what the nation needs is confidence,” Edward E. Shumaker, president oLthe RCA-Victory Company, said today in a luncheon address before the Merchants’ Association of New York. German Progress Predicted 811 I nil cl I’rtMf ' ■ ■ * • NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The conservative German government will continue to’“build slowly and with stability,” despite the furore created by Fascists and Communists, Fried - rich Wilhelm von Prittwitz, ambassador to Washington, asserted on his arrival here from Berlin. American Engineer Suicide /.•'/ I inlrrl Press SOUSE, Tanisia, Oct. 23. —Carron Van Ardsall. 39, engineer and a native ox Auburn, Ky., was found dead in his hotel room here Tuesday night, his throat slashed with a razor blade. Police said he had taken his own life. Near Panic in Prison Fire R u I nit cd Press JACKSON. Mich.. Oct. 23.—A near panic prevailed for a half hour in the Michigan state prison here early today when fire, caused by a short circuit, broke out in the basement of the south wing of the old prison. Inmates at no time were in danger. Prepare for Royal Wedding Bu I iiilnl Press ASSISI, Italy. Oct, 23.—Cluttered streets of the little town of Assisi, where St. Francis ministered to the poor seven centuries ago, were caught in the turmoil of final preparations today for the arrival of Princess Giovanna of Italy and King Boris of Bulgaria, who will be married here Saturday. 18 Years to Learn Wife’s Age Bn I nited Press SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 23—According to Captain Thomas G. Poland. army officer, eighteen years hardly is enough time to find out a woman’s age. Poland has asked a divorce on the grounds he had just found out his wife, now 75, is twenty-one years older than himself. He was 19 when married. Kellogg Takes Court Oath Bn Vnitrd Press THE HAGUE. Oct. 23.—Frank B. Kellogg was sworn in today as a judge of the permanent court of international justice and was welcomed by President D. Anzilotti of Italy. Stock Deals Are Probed R>/ T'nited Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 23. j Stock selling methods of William W. Easterday, former associate of Nicky Arnstein of New York, were Investigated here today. Wed in 50-Ycar Romance Bu Vnited Press FITCHBURG, Mass., Oet. 23.—A romance of more than fifty years’ duration resulted in the marriage of Major-General Benjamin A. Poore, U. S. A., retired, and Mrs. Flora B. Bullock, schoolday sweethearts. Rum Vessels Are Seized Bn United Press NEW LONDON. Conn.. Oct. 23. Coast guard patrol vessels today brought in three suspected rum boats captured operating in the vicinity of Montauk Point, L. I. Six prisoners were taken. Lindbergh Tests New Route Bu United Press M'KEESPORT, Pa., Oct. 23. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, test flying the new air mail passenger route from Newark, N. J.. to Columbus, 0., landed here at 12:55 today. Three-Alarm Fire Loss $200,000 Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 23.—A three-alarm fire alarm swept the Merchants and Miners pier, south wharves, on the Delaware river here today and threatened several nearby piers, causing damage estimated in excess of $200,000. Farmers to Hear Editor SHELBYVILLE, Ind.. Oct. 23. The annual membership meeting of the Shelby County Farm Bureau will be held here Oct. 29. The principal speaker will be Frederick Landis, Logansport newspaper edi-

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DEMOCRATS VISION G. 0. P. ROUT IN STATE Optimism Holds Sway as Executive Committee * Goes Into Parley. EXPECT HUGE MAJORITY Election of Nine Congressmen Is Held Certain by Party Leaders. Predictions of a Democratic state victory with a majority ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 votes and election of at least nine congressmen were made by members of the state executive committee, meeting I here today to discuss plans for the final week of the campaign. A definite trend toward the Democratic ticket in industrial centers was reported and Frederick Van Nuys, committee chairman, declared Republicans are finding out that their pleas to “support Hoover” are not meeting with much success with labor. Van Nuys expressed himself as confident that they would poll heavy majorities in Evansville, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, South Bend, and Ft. Wayne, while the Lake county Republican lead would be reduced from the 15,610 of 1928 to about 5,000. Leaders Arc Optimistic Claims that the First, Second, Third,Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh and Thirteenth districts are assuredly Democratic, while the Democrats have excellent chances to win the Sixth, Eighth, Tenth and Twelfth were made. A general aura of optimism permeated the conference as one encouraging report after another was received. The committeemen spoke of recordbreaking crowds in each of the districts and a report was made regarding the general dissatisfaction existing in the rural sections with the federal farm policy. Republican efforts to spread the gospel that the depression suffered in this country is a part of worldwide conditions are not carrying great weight, it was pointed out. Confident of Marion Very litle anxiety concerning Marion county was expressed. There was a general feeling the county ticket is safely over and it was declared that the landslide in the mayoralty election has pointed the way for a similar result Nov. 4. Desperate attempts of the Republican organization to hold even 50 per cent of the Negro vote of the state by bringing Representative Oscar Depriest, Negro, Chicago, and Representative Lee Dyer, Missouri, author of the anti-lynching law, have not been met with the desired results, Democratic leaders asserted. They say it safely can be predicted that between 60 and 75 per cent of the Negro vote of Marion county will be Democratic this year. “The voter who will go to the polls will vote for his county and township ticket and carry along the state ticket,” one committeeman said. COLD WEATHER DUE Mercury May Sink to 35 Degrees Tonight. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 41 10 a. m 42 7a. m 41 11 a. m 43 Ba. m 42 12 (noon)., 43 9 a. m 42 1 p. m 44 Clouds and slightly colder weather were on the weather menu for Indianapolis tonight, according to forecast of the United States weather bureau here today. Temperatures had risen this morning to 41 degrees at 6 a. m., after a record low mark of 25 degrees was recorded Monday. They may sink to 35 degrees tonight. Friday will be generally fair. VOTIiGMACHINES FOR PRACTICE PLANNED Five to Be Installed in Public Places This Week. Five practice voting machines will be placed this week in public and semi-public buildings for giving of instructions to voters, Marion county board of election commissioners announced today. Locations of machines follow: Main corridor of the courthouse; in the rotunda of city hall; at the Y. W. C. A., 329 North Pennsylvania street; at engine house No. 1, Indiana avenue and the Canal, and at Democratic county headquarters, third floor State Life building. CARD SHUFFLER AND DEALER IS INVENTED Device Designed to Save 30 Minutes in Evening of Bridge. Bu United Press CLEVELAND. Oct. 23.—Cleveland bridge addicts anxiously were awaiting today the appearance of the “square dealer.” a card-shuffling device, designed to save thirty minutes in each evening of bridge playing. The invention of L. A. Lux, the device is a machine that will shuffle and deal four hands of bridge in the space of twenty seconds, without any “phoneys’* or chances for misdeals.

WE MUST ACT TO PREVENT ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION

The following resolution was adopted by editors and executives of ! all Scripps-Howard newspapers, meeting in annual conference in French Lick: \TTTE, the editors and executives of the Scripps-Howard ** newspapers, meeting in editorial conference, recognize i the business depression as a national emergency, It requires i of Americans the same courage and intelligence which went | into fighting floods and epidemics or into winning the war. For this is a fight against immediate poverty and sufj sering. And it is a fight against the ignorance and unpre- ! paredness which break both capital and labor on the wheel of ! a vicious business cycle. Relief must go to the destitute. Municipal authorities, ! aided by state and federal governments, can speed up public j works. Private employment can be divided among more I men. Large companies can hasten construction projects. Many home owners can provide odd jobs. To those for whom even temporary work is lacking, citizens’ organizations, in co-operation with city authorities and social agencies, can give charity. Doubtless experience in this depression will persuade more employers and more states that the only efficient and scientific way to provide relief in the future is through a perfected American system of general unemployment insurance, as a substitute for charity when there are no emergency jobs left. But emergency relief is not enough. Our nation never again should suffer a general and prolonged depression. Americans need not accept, as fatalists, the inevitability of an ever-returning cycle of plenty followed by misery. non u n n THE Scripps-Howard newspapers know of no quick cure-all for the economic disease of cycles. But we are convinced that the same scientific method which so largely has solved our production problems can solve in time the problems of a wider distribution of wealth, so that the masses always can buy and enjoy the increasing output of their mass production. Business leaders of vision and economic experts, after years of experience, are fairly well agreed upon how to start. Beginning with the Hoover unemployment commission in 1922, there have been several official inquiries, all resulting in virtually the same recommendations. They called for large scale planning and staggering of public and semi-public construction projects, for adequate current labor and production statistics, for co-ordinated federal and state employment agencies. But these measures of minimum preparedness were not undertaken, because America was too busy enjoying the fat years to think of coming lean years. When the reaction came, we were unprepared. We must not be unprepared next time. The Scripps-Howard newspapers call upon the President and the next congress, to enact this long-pending legislation. In addition, we urge upon political and business leaders the necessity for a permanent general economic council, to help put the nation’s business upon a safe peace-time basis. u st a bub OUR machine civilization is increasing chronic unemployment by displacing hand workers and scrapping the middle-aged. This process, unless scientifically controlled, leads toward revolution. Our industrial system has nothing to fear from agitators. But it can collapse through its own inefficiency. It was the collapse of inefficient economic systems which led to Communist dictatorship in Russia and Fascist dictatorship in Italy and other countries. Our industrial system gluts itself periodically by overproduction, because the public’s consuming power is restricted by inadequate distribution of wealth. Therefore, those business leaders and economists first to advocate the eight-hour day and higher wages now see the need for a further shortening of working hours at a sustained wage, to give labor its share in the increased productivity of the machine and to spread jobs and money among more consumers. Complete reorganisation is needed in industries such as coal mining and textiles, which now can exist only on a part-time, long hour, lowwage and small profit basis. Child labor should be eliminated, to provide jobs for now chronically unemployed adults. BUB B B B THESE and similar reforms can reduce business cycles. These reforms involve no radical departure from American methods. They merely carry forward the policy of lifting the consuming masses, the policy which advanced former American prosperity. Political leadership also is required. Politicians added to the destruction of our exports and precipitated an international trade war of retaliation by passing the billion-doilar Smoot-Hawley tariff. They must repeal this self-defeating tariff before industry can recover entirely. Despite the seriousness of the present emergency, we are confident that permanent prosperity is within reach of America. This is no false optimism. Compared with other nations suffering from world-wide overproduction or underconsumption, our problems are relatively simple. No other country is so strong in natural resources, raw materials, man power, labor skill, technical equipment, industrial plant, geographical position, home market, and credit reserve. Blessed by such natural riches, Americans can improve the economic system sufficiently to assure workers adequate and steady jobs and to assure capital fair and steady profits. To all political officials and industrial leaders who have set themselves to this great task, the Scripps-Howard newspapers pledge vigorous co-operation.

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Slugs, Captures Husky Gunman

STAGING a “David and Goliath” with a fist for a slingshot, a 125-pound coal company manager floored a bfirly 200-pound holdup man and frustrated a robbery at the White River Coal Company office, 320 South West street, early this afternoon. Lane Sites, 28, of 315 North West street, the manager, was in the office alone when the stranger came in and ordered a ton of coal. The sixfooter stepped behind the stove to warm his hands. Then Sites heard

his command: “Stick ’em up.” Sites kept them up until he saw the bandit pocket his gun to use both hands in ransacking the casn register. Check Goliath with an' error. With clenched fists, Sites sprang on the man, and landed a resounding thud on his head. Both went down, Sites on top. He managed to prevent the thug’s reaching the gun in his pocket until drivers took a hand and held the big fellow for police. He gave his name as Ralph Pang, 25, living “on Butler avenue, just north of the city.” Police this afternoon were grilling him after he is alleged to have “mentioned” staging a half dozen other holdups. BOUND TO JURY IN AUTO DEATH CASE William G. Schnepf Held in Fatal Injuries to Woman. William G. Schnepf, 1333 Comer street, whose auto fatally injured a pedestrian Oct. 5, was bound over to Marion county grand jury by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today, with bonds fixed at SSOO. The victim was Mrs. Mary Van Camp. 131 North Bradley avenue, who was en route to church when struck by the Car. SUES fSTTBOOZE DEATH Kansas Woman Asks 520,000 Damages From Alleged Bootlegger. Bi • t nitrd Press KANSAS CITY. Oct. 23.—Mrs. Hettie Brumley has filed suit here for $20,000 against a man and wite she c-*- -lares sold liquor to her husband. i' imuel H. Brumley, who died here July 12. after drinking two pints of whisky. The defendants are Mr. and Mrs. Frank PierkarskL

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930

WILD GEESE FLOCKS HONK WAY OVER CITY Clearly Visible by Street Lights, Irvington Woman Reports. Flying just above the housetops, three flocks of wild geese awakened Irvington residents in the vicinity of Bancroft street at 3 this morning with their honking. “The noise awakened the neighborhood,” said Mrs. E. E. Antibus, 322 North Bancroft street. “There were two small flocks and one large one. With their long necks stretching out ahead of them, they could be seen clearly in the light from the street lights.” ALCOHOLISM DEATHS UP Insurance Statistics Reveal 300 Per Cent Increase in Ten Years. Bit T 1 nitrd Prr*s NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Deaths from alcoholism have risen 300 per cent since 1920, according to figures published today by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician of the Prodential Life Insurance Company.

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Profit and pleasure—that’s the slogan in The Times Twin Contest, which gets under way with a resounding bang today. Profit? Well, the first prize is a Stewart-Warner radio that anyone would be proud to own. Second prize Is $25; third, $lO, and twenty more $1 prizes to the next score of contestants. Pleasure? You’ll find it recreation galore to sit by the fire these chilly evenings, clip out the picture of twins that will appear separately in The Times every day, match them, and mail them in, neatly pasted up, to The Times Twin Contest Editor. The first of these pictures appear today on Page 13, with complete details of the contest. They'll run in this newspaper until Nov. 14. Get busy now and maybe you’ll be dialing that first prize radio before another month *its by.

U. S. JOBLESS AID MACHINE SET IN MOTION Federal Reserve Heads Are Against Half Billion U. S. Bond Issue. BRAND PLAN AS FUTILE Colonel Woods, President’s Choice, Grapples With Work Problem. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Federal reserve board officials rejected today proposals that they authorize purchase of half a billion dollars in government bonds to aid business recovery. In informal comment on the current credit situation, a prominent board official said he could see little need for any such action by the reserve system. He also held that other recent schemes suggested by private business men had little merit. Woods Gets to W’ork Measurable plans for organizing federal machinery for h>.ndling the problem of 3,500,000 or more unemployed men and women were discussed today by President Hoover i with Colonel Arthur Woods, director of federal relief, and others placed in charge of the work. It was decided at a White House conference attended by Woods Chairman Lamont of the cabinet unemployment council, Secretary oi War Hurley and Undersecretary 01 Treasury Ogden Mills, to begin immediately with organization of federal activity. Woods indicated he would model his new organization upon the one he set up in 1921 with the co-opera-tion of President Hoover, then secretary of commerce in President Harding's cabinet. Woods, however, said he was not prepared to give details of how the organization would operate. Waiting on Other Fellow “There is no shortage of money; in fact, we have an abundance of funds at unusually low rates, and therefore such a plan would seem an unnecessary step,” the federal reserve official said. “What is lacking is the disposition to use the money now available. Rediscount rates are at the lowest point in the history of the reserve system. “Instead of buying now when prices are at rock bottom, everybody is waiting to see what the other fellow is doing. All the factors of business recovery are here, but bad psychology is holding it back. In times of boom, the public is overconfident and in poor times it is over depressed.” Urge Church Purchase Marion county commissioners will be urged to purchase two churches on the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza to ! enefit from present low valuations adn to aid in relief ing unemployment, officers of the Indiana Building Congress said today, making public recent resolutions adopted by their organization. The congress also adopted resolutions urging additional building to relieve unemployment, and to begin building programs to elimniate unsuitable housing conditions in poorer neighborhoods, the result of shifting population. Russ Wheat Price Up Bl! United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 23.—Alexander Legge, chairman of the federal farm board said today he has received reports Russia has advanced from 4 to 6 cents a bushel the price of wheat which it holds for sale. Legge described this as a substantial increase in price, and said it probably would be a helpful factor. Shorter Day Favored Bp United Press DES MOINES, Oct. 23.—A shorter working day as a means of relieving unemployment among railroad workers was favored today by the lowa state convention of tb* Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginmen. 2,000 Jobs in Week Bu United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 23.—Factories, mills and department stores will employ 2,000 adidtional workers here within a week, business leaders have announced, bringing the total of workers employed since Sept. 1 to 3,000. THREATEN BLUE LAWS Toy Golf Owners Fight Police Order on Sunday Closing. Bu United Press NASHUA, N. H., Oct. 23.—Owners of Nashua’s four miniature golf courses have threatened to invoke the state’s iron-clad blue laws next Sunday if Irving F. Goodwin, police chief, carries out his plan to prevent putting on the Sabbath.

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ADMITS KILLING STEPDAUGHTER Murder of Girl, 10, Is Confessed by Matron. Bii United Press DENVER, Colo., Oct. 23.—1 t was reported unofficially today that Mrs. Pearl O’Laughlin, attractive young auburn-haired matron, had assumed responsibility for the murder a week ago of her stepdaughter, Leona O’Laughlin, 10. Mrs. O'Laughlin, "after being questioned for seven hours by Detective Captain Clark, collapsed suddenly and was carried screaming to a jail cell. Clark was quoted by other police authorities as saying Mrs. O’Laughlin had assumed blame for the brutal murder. Clark, active in the case day and night for more than a week, went to his home for, a few hours rest. “We are going to give her a chance to rest. Then later in the morning we will take her full statement,” Clark was quoted as saying. Mrs. O’Laughlin was called into Clark’s office Wednesday night. During the day she had faced her husband, Leo O’Laughlin, city detective, for two hours, answering his questions. O’Laughlin was weak from his recent serious illness, caused, physicians said, by eating ground glass, which also was fed to Leona before she was beaten and thrown into the Berkeley park lake. CITY BANK CLOSED State Department Takes Over Affairs. Doors of the City Trust Company, 108 East Washington street, were closed at noon today after the board of directors called in Luther Symons of the state banking department, and turned the institution’s affairs over to the department. Neither Symons nor offcials of the bank would make a statement concerning the closing order until a check of the situation is completed by the department. Dick Miller is president of the institution. Notice of the situation was not given until after the director’s meeting, Symons said. He said he was called in and informed of the directors’ resolution to close the bank. Capital stock of the bank was $250,000. TWO BOYS CREMATED Beaten, Thrown in Flames by Auto Thieves. Bu United Press _ . „„ MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 23.—The cremation of two North Carolina boys by highwaymen in the campfire beside which the youths were warming themselves aroused the authorities of two states to a widespread search for the slayers today. The boys, Burton Hensley and Woodrow Wilson of Bald Creek, N. C., were beaten into insensibility and thrown into the fire to die. The slayers then stole their automobile an descaped. Letters found in the boys’ pockets indicated they we driving home from visits with relatives in the west.

Amos Woodcock

i No Harassing of Public to Be Permitted, Asserts Amos Woodcock. Enlistment of prohibition agents who will conduct themselves as gentlemen is a- major objective of ! Amos Woodcock, national prohibition director, who conferred today with John Wilkey, acting deputy prohibition administrator for Indiana. “Agents will be impressed that they must not harass the public,” Director Woodcock asserted. He came here with Colonel J. F. J. Herbert, administrator for the Seventh district, comprising Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Outlining his policy to enforce prohibition, Director Woodcock said he would “push forward a program of incessant operation against commercial violators of liquor laws, concentrating upon manufacturers, wholesalers and retail bootleggers, to diminish all violations by striking at the supply.” Plan Education Drive This drive, he said, “will be augmented with an educational campaign against liquor consumption. Woodcock began a tour of the country Aug. 1, one month after taking office. He will remain here tonight, and journey to South Bend probably Friday. From the northern Indiana city he will go to the Pacific coast. By slow, intelligent pressure Woodcock believes he can lessen liquor traffic and consumption, finally to a point where prohibition may succeed. Later today he will confer with George Jeffrey, United States attorney. The national prohibition director was optimistic about co-operation he has received from local enforcement agencies, declaring half the cases of the federal docket m New York City were results of city police arrests. Seeks More Co-Operation It is his aim, he ‘said, to bring about closer co-ordination of federal and local dry forces. Woodcock and Herbert called on Governor Harry G. Leslie. Outlining the purpose of the verdict, Woodcock explained: “It is my policy to make similar visits in all states to aid in interesting the chief executive in continuing and extending the co-operation and cordial relations which exist between state and federal forces in prohibition enforcement. “Usually, I add congratulations on the help already received and thanks for such co-operation in the future.” Attorney - General James M. Ogden, most ardent liquor law enforcer in the statehouse, was out of the city. Herbert had conferred with Ogden on a previous visit here, which later resulted in the arrest of eighteen Indianapolis policemen. FIRE LOSS IS $25,000 AT ST. BERNICE, IND. Flames of Undetermined Origin Spread Rapidly From Poolroom. Bu I nited Prtet ST. BERNICE, Ind., Oct. 23.—Fire of unknown origin, discovered shortly after midnight Wednesday night, was brought under control today after having destroyed four buildings and damaged two other struc- ; tures at a loss estimated at approximately $25,000. The blaze, first discovered shooting through the roof of a poolroom, spread rapidly to four other buildings. all unoccupied. Damage mated at $2,000 was causedggHg garage in another neagMg| in which stored.

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CHARITY DRIVE SUCCESS WILL AID BUSINESS Workers Pass Half-Way Mark in Striving for $865,000 Goal. $450,358 IS REPORTED Community Chest Offensive Due to Continue Through Monday. Community Fund workers at | noon today reported $99,090.37 adj ditional subscriptions to the I eleventh annual campaign, raisI ing the total subscription thus far to $549,448.47, or 63.5 per cent of the goal. The money was pledged by 21,361 subscribers. Facing the necessity of bringing | in $104,000 daily for four days in ! order to reach the $865,000 goal, i workers in the Community Fund ; buckled down today for a final of- ! fensive for charity’s sake. The fund passed the half-way mark Wednesday with subscriptions | totaling $450,358.10 listed. Although the drive surpasses that of 1929 in funds collected, the greater need due to unemployment has imbued workers with the desire to top all records for giving. Stressing the difficulties ahead of the workers, Arthur V. Brown, campaign chairman, said: “I’ve heard prominent men of the city say that the, success of this campaign will do as much to restore confidence in business as anything ever under - | taken in the city. The man who gives helps the unfortunates and also helps himself. He stimulates good feeling, good business, good times.” Reach 90 Per Cent of Goal The industrial district of the employes’ division heads all drive groups in collections with 90 per cent of its $56,000 goal obtained. At Wednesday’s report meeting $121,953.05 was reported. “Persons who never have given to the Community Fund before are helping this year. No matter how small the gift the workers appreciate it as a desire on the part of citizens to help the city’s poor through a winter that promises much poverty,” declared Brown, Two Bags of Pennies Given Among contributions received at today’s report meeting were two bags of pennies donated by the English Avenue Boys’ Club. The club is supported by the Community Fund, but as the two lads who brought the pennies put it, “We just wanted to help all of you out.” Among the contributions from employes of city firms topping gifts of 1929 were: Keyless Lock Company, $1,065.50; Kothe-Wells-Bauer Company, $358. Travelers Insurance Company, $364; Standard Oil Company of Indiana, $1,753, and Insley Manufacturing Company, $l,lOO. The drive continues through Monday when the last report meeting will be held. Thirty-five charitable and social agencies share in the fund. PROBE BEER PARTY GIVEN FOR JURORS “Mark of Appreciation” /or Verdict in Statutory Case. Bu United Press DETROIT, Oct. 23.—Judge Henry S. Sweeny of recorder’s court today ordered an investigation into a recent beer party given to members of a jury, five days after the jury acquitted nine men of a statutory charge preferred by a 32-year-old woman. The party, as “a mark of appreciation,” was given the night of Oct. 9 in a public hall. Invitations to it were sent to individual jurors by telegrams, signed by Frank M. Kenney Jr., one of the four defense attorneys in the case. At least six members of the jury attended the party. PLAZA CONTRACT IS LET Grading, Sidewalks, Sunken Garden Included in $251,000 Bid. American Construction Company of Indianapolis has been awarded a $251,000 contract for regrading, building of sidewalks and construction of a sunken garden in the uncompleted two squares of the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, it was announced today by Frank H. Henley, secretary of the Indiana World War Memorial commission. Work will begin within a few weeks at the north end of the Plaza in St. Clair park, opposite the public library, Henley said.

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