Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1930 — Page 9
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95 Per Cent Luck Built His Huge Fortune, Declares Rosenwald
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These sketches tell, briefly, the story of Julius Rosenwald’s rise to the position of the world’s greatest merchant and how he amassed a personal fortune variously estimated at between 300 and 400 million dollars. Rosenwald is also shown in his most recent photo.
FIVE-DAY WEEK IS RASKOB RADIO PLEA
Democratic Chief Advocates Dry Referendum as Part of Program. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—New issues have been thrust into the congressional election just one week away by John J. Raskob. chairman of the Democratic national committee. In a radio address Monday night, 'the Democratic national chairman outlined a broad political program Including the following: 1. A five-day week for all. 2. All holidays except possibly Christmas to be on Mondays in order to give a three-day week-end. 3. Enforcement of liquor excise taxes against bootleg liquor and a national referendum on prohibition. He estimated that $900,000,000 would have been collected on the basis of 876,000,000 gallons of illicit liquor produced last ’ year, according to government estimates, and that this sum could e cut off of income taxes, releasing that much purchasing power. Takes Campaign Lead 4. Power to the federal trade commission to grant immunity from criminal prosecution to mergers not inimical to public interest nor in conflict with the spirit of anti-trust law?. 5. Abolition of the capital gain and loss taxes to encourage investment of capital in speculative enterprises. 6. Removal of the tariff from politics by creation of a bipartisan tariff commission, appointed for life, surrounded with dignity like that of the United States supreme court, empowered to make recommendations to congress, which could not consider any amendments except those germane to items concerned. Raskob declared everything thoroughly has been deflated, that business now is turning upward, and that soon we shall all be singing “Happy days are here again.” Emerging with this program from the background where he has remained since the defeat of former Governor Smith two years ago, Raskob has taken the lead in the final days of the Democratic campaign. Robinson to Answer Republicans are expected to Seize upon this development to concentrate their fire on Raskob. knowing that some sections of his own party strongly are opposed to his anti-prohibition views and to his control of the Democratic national committee. The Republican national committee has announced that Senator Arthur Robinson (Rep., Ind.) will go on' the air tonight to discuss Raskob. Bloomington Man Dies £n Timet Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 28.Harry D. Orchard. 62, secretary of the Bloomington National Building and Loan Association, is dead of Bright’s disease. He leaves his widow: a daughter, Mrs. Ashley Pielmeier, Vincennes, and two sons, Harry>and John, this city. War Veteran, S2, Dies pu Vnited Prcsa BEDFORD, Ind., Oct. 28.—William H. Hilton, 92, Civil war veteran, is dead here. Survivors are three sons, William, Bedford; George, Chillicothe, 0., and Frank, Battle" Creek," Mich. Brooksion Man Injured £, Timra Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 28. Richard A. Wilkinson, 24, a Brookston, grain dealer, is in a Home hospital here as a result of injuries Buffered in an automobile accident near this city. The driver of another car turned in front of him at the entrance to Lincoln Lodge, north of the city, and Wilkinson's auto crashed into it. Purdue university students took him to the hospital.
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One Way Out Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Oct. 28. Congratulations, rather than punishment, were in order when Hartman Nolte, coal miner, appeared in city court on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. The prosecuting witness failed to appear as Nolte had married her during a continuance of the case. The charge was dismissed.
RAID TIP PROBE CLEARSAGENTS Federal Officers Exonerated in Anderson Case. pv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 28.—Following an investigation here of charges that alleged liquor dealers had been warned of a raid by federal officers, it was announced that if a tip was given, it did not come from any person connected with the prohibition enforcement unit. The probe was made by Oswald Ryan, Madison county prosecuting attorney, and Edward Devlin and Warren Alexander, attached to the federal prohibition force at Indianapolis. Ryan said that John Carter, one of thirteen persons arrested in the raid, admitted he had received warning that the officers were coming, but it did not come from a federal source. Carter, according to the prosecutor, was warned by a local man ten minuses before officers arrived, but his identity has not been disclosed. Os seven of the prisoners arraigned before Judge Carl Morrow in Madison circuit court Monday, William R. Rickert pleaded guilty and was fined SIOO and sent to jail for thirty days. A case against Charles Hester was dismissed. Not guilty pleas were made by Onnie Peak, Samuel Laswell, Eugene Huffman, William Moore and George Halford. Scalds Fatal to Child * Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind. , Oct. 28. Ernest L. Johnson, 5, is dead of scalds suffered when a pan of hot water was accidentally overturned on him by his father, Ernest D. Johnson. Electric Car Kills Youth Bu Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 28. Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Albert Gentry, 21, fatally hurt when struck by an interurban car.
PICTURE TELLS VOTERS HOW TO USE MACHINE ON NOVEMBER 4
HERE is pictured the upper left comer of the voting machine on which electors next Tuesday will cast their votes for or against a constitutional convention, while electing county officers, legislators and a number of state officials. At the top will be seen the two keys over the words “Yes” and “No” as answers to the question: “Are you in favor of convening a constitutional convention in the year 1931?” In the photo, the key has been turned down to indicate a vote "Yes,” favoring the rewriting of Indiana's 1851 Constitution. The method of voting follows: Entering the booth, pull the curtain lever above your head to the extreme right, thus closing the curtain and preparing the machine for your vote. At the left end of the machine are the party levers. Select the one lor the majority of whose candi-
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Jlv XU A Service NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 23. With a personal fortune estimated at between 300 and 400 million dollars accumulated in his own lifetime, Julius Rosenwald, now r 68 years old, today looks back on his career and says: ‘lt was luck—lo per cent work and common sense, maybe, and 90 per cent luck.” The world’s greatest merchant smiles, his gray eyes twinkling behind his rimless spectacles, and then adds reflectively: “No. I think I ought to revise those figures; it was 95 per cent luck.” In his first peisonal interviewdisassociated from public affairs or philanthropy—that he ever gave, the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Cos. unfolded
News of World at a Glance
Bu Lulled Press I LONDON. Oct. 28.—An Exchange j Telegraph dispatch from Tokio to- ; day reported 200 Japanese police and civilians had been killed in riotI ing on the island of Formosa. Chicago Official Shot flu United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—That he had been shot because of “a political war” was the only explanation police could get today from Harry Haas, a sanitary district precinct 1 captain, who was wounded three | times by two men who entered his i home and forced him to leave with ; them. He probably will recover. Warns of Bad Booze I Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Citizens tempted to celebrate Halloween and the other coming holidays in the ancient manner were warned today by James M. Doran, industrial alcohol commissioner, to bew'are of the poor quality of liquor being placed on the market this year. McAdoo Flies to Coast Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28.—William Gibbs McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, returned to his | law office here today after a fast. | airplane flight from New Yoi’k City ! over the southern route. Big Bill Buys a Yacht Bn United Press .... CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Mayor William Hale (Big Bill) Thompson lias bought a quarter-million dollar yacht and will substitute a sea captain’s cap for the cowboy hat that has characterized him during his years as a politician. The mayor, it w'as learned today, has bought the Doris V, the fastest yacht on the Great Lakes. Veteran Actor Dead Bp T’uifrd Press GLENDALE. Cal., Oct. 28.—Funeral services will be in Hollywood Wednesday for William Bechtel, 63, veteran of .the stage and screen, once leading man for Lillian ; Russel, w'ho died in a hospital late Monday. Long Phone Line Used Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. Oct. 28.—A 17,000 mile telephone circuit, said to be the longest ever established, w’as in service today between Los Angeles and Austria. ii Celebration in Italy Bu United Press ROME, Oct. 28.—The eighth anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome and the installation of the Fascist -regime w r as celebrated throughout Italy today. Premier Mussolini was acclaimed when he reviewed a military parade. Italy’s Stands Irks French Bu United Press PARIS. Oct. 28.—The speech of Premier Mussolini of Italy, especially in reference to revision of the Versailles treaty, caused the French press to declare today that “Revision means war, while the status quo insures peace.” Whitney Burial Is Set Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Funeral services for Harry Payne Whitney, noted sportsman and financier, w'ill be held from St. Bartholomew’s church Wednesday. Millions Worth of Whisky Bit United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 28. More than $100,000,000 worth of first-grade whisky, at bootleg prices, now is being aged for medicinal use at the federal liquor concentration warehouse here,. Thomas J. Jones, city assessor, learned today in a report from the state tax commission. Boris Home on Wednesday Bu United Press SOFIA, Oct. 28.—King Boris of Bulgaria and his bride. Queen Ivana, are expected to land on the Bulgarian cost Wednesday. They will be welcomed in Sofia Thursday.
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his life story to a representative of NEA Service. He came down from Chicago to visit his daughter, Mrs. Edgar B. Stem, and the reporter found him at luncheon in a mellow mood. nan HE expressed his views on millionaires in this way: “I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some of the richest men I have met in my life have been the most stupid. There are men in America today, financial failures, who have more real brains than I ever will have. I had the luck to get my opportunity; their opportunity never came.
MACDONALD IS ! FACING MOST CRITICAL TEST Colorful Ceremony of Opening Parliament Held in London. BY KEITH JONES United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Oct. 28.—The Laborite government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald faced its most critical test today as parliament opened for anew session. The conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, were prepared to begin a determined attack on many laborite policies, chiefly that concerning unemployment, in the hope of administering a crushing defeat to the party in pow’er. Thousands of Londoners cheered King George and Queen Mary as they drove to the house of lords for the formal opening of the session. It w T as the first time the king had inaugurated parliament since his illness in 1928. Throngs Cheer Royalty The king and queen rode from Buckingham palace through cheering crowds in the famous gilt stage coach drawn by eight black horses with an escort of squadrons of life guards in glittering plumed helmets, steel corsetlets, and high, shiny black boots. The king, clad in gorgeous robes of state, advanced through lines of courtiers to the throne, while Queen Mary, glittering with jewels, seated herself beside him. The prince of Wales and duke of York, in magnificent uniforms, arrived separately. The prince took his special seat on the right-hand side of the throne while the duke w'ent to the end seat of the benches reserved for dukes. Galleries Are Packed All the gallleries were packed. The peeresses’ gallery was ablaze W'ith dazzling jewels and magnificent dresses, while in the ambassador’s box on the right of the throne colorfully was amassed the variegated dress uniforms of nearly every nation in the world, practically every uniform further embellished with decorations varying from a single jeweled ornament or ribbon to whole rows of medals. Many quarters doubted whether the labor government could withstand the attacks of the conservatives who accuse the government of failing to fulfill its chief election pledge of remedying unemployment. There now are more than two million unemployed in England, compared with one million one hundred thousand when the labor government took office in June, 1929. The government also expected attacks on its policy in Palestine; on its plans for the creation of import boards to receive raw products from the dominions and on plans for the revival of the coal industry and rationalization of the nation’s heavy industries. Prime Minister MacDonald has outlined the government’s plans for combating the forthcoming opposition. POSTAL CLERK DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Last Rites for William A. Carson to Be Held Wednesday. Last rites for William A. Carson. 60, clerk in the mailing division of the Indianapolis postoffice, who died Monday at his home, 2449 North New Jersey street, w'ill be held at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday at the residence and at 9 at SS. Peter and Paul cathedral. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Carson had been ill six | months. Born in Trenton, N. J., he ■ has lived here since he w r as fifteen; years of age. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Katherine Carson; two sons. Robert W. Carson and Albert Carson, Detroit, and a daughter. Mrs. Margaret Roberts, Indianapolis.
Rosenwald talked of his early days. He was bom in Springfield, LI., Aug. 12, 1862. His father came to Springfield the year after Abraham Lincoln left, but his two uncles knew' Lincoln well. “The first job I remember was a newspaper route I had while attending the public schools of Springfield. During vacations I took odd jobs wherever I could find them.” Chance led this boy to seek w'ork in a “racket store”—about, the same as a five-and-ten, but without such an arbitrary price limit. So his career as a merchant began. “I’ll never forget my first sale,” smiled Rosenw'ald. “It was a bowl of goldfish for 49 cents.”
HONOLULU IS NASTY CITY
That’s the Verdict of Actress and Dog
BY DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, Territory Hawaii, Oct. 28.—Foufee (pronounced Phooey), pedigreed Pomeranian; Hope Hampton, actress, and her husband, Jules Brilatour, millionaire, all bounded merrily over the Pacific today to Hilo. Forgotten were the unobliging port officials, the nasty old quarantine laws that would have kept Foufee locked up among ordinary dogs for 120 days, and the perfectly unreasonable legislators who refused to cancel laws w'hen they were commanded to do so. Forgotten even were the veiled insinuations that Foufee might have a case of rabies. The only thing Foufee couldn’t forget were the islands themselves, but then Foufee never had seen them —so how could she? Foufee, who is the size of a link of sausage, and her perturbed owmers will return here Saturday and sail—on the same ship, the same day—for the mainland. All three left Honolulu huffily when told that Foufee, being a dog, would have to submit to the dog quarantine before entering.
BISHOP CANNON IS IN HOSPITAL Physician Says No One May See Prelate. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was a patient at Sibley hospital today, having entered the institution last Saturday for a period of “rest and quiet.” Dr. Roy L. Sexton, Cannon’s physician, said no one would be permitted to see the bishop. Neither would the physician issue a bulletin on the patient’s condition. Cannon entered the hospital after his return from Richmond, Va., where he conferred with church authorities regarding charges that have been made against him alleging activities incompatible with his high church position. COURT DODGES JAIL SBO,OOO Race Winner Agrees to Leave County. Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Oct. 28—Arthur Court, formerly of Indianapolis, who won fleeting fame as SBO,OOO winner on an English horse race, escaped a time in jail Monday by agreeing to leave Hamilton county and “stay left.” Judge Fred E. Hines of the Hamilton circuit court, fined Court SIOO and sentenced him to thirty days in jail for liquor possession, then suspending the sentence. Liquor was found on the Court farm when officers searched it a few weeks ago. Holdings of Court in Hamilton county now are small. Originally he paid $20,000 for fifty-eight acres of land, four miles south of this city, and recently he disposed of thirty-seven acres for two-thirds less than he paid for it. waltFr Jameson dead Funeral Services Will be Held Monday at Home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday for Walter Jameson, 70, who died at his home at 1225 Yandes street, Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Surviving him is the widow, Mrs. Mary Jameson.
HIS father ran a small clothing store and Julius Rosenwald, leaving high school at 16, went to work in it. Then his father backed him for a small clothing store in New York City. Tn New York, Rosenwald progressed to the wholesale clothing business, making a specialty of summer togs for men w'hich were then—in the ’eighties—just coming into style. Then, in 1885, he went to Chicago and formed the firm of Rosenw'ald & Weil. It prospered. There he met a man named Sears and his life was changed. Sears had a small mail order business. He needed more capital. He talked it over with Rosenw'ald. It wasn’t the first mail order business in America, but both had ideas and they got together.
' *f LAW PROPOSAL |9| | iLeague to Ask License for Hr - x All Fishers, Hunters. SS IBllill rihancrp in ronsprvfltion lesisla-
liope Hampton, her husband and ‘Foufee.’
Extend Trade, Urges King
Bu Unitea Press LONDON, Oct. 28.—'The British empire will persist in its effort to develop and extend its home, imperial and foreign trade, King George said today in his speech ipening parliament as he expressed confidence in the result of the imperial conference of dominions now nearing an end here. The king paid attention to the world-wide economic depression and unemployment and urged parliament to pass such domestic legislation as w’ill aid the situation. Mentioning the India crisis, King George predicted success for the Indian round table conference which will begin Nov. 12. The king did not mention Palestine. The monarch referred briefly to friendly relations with foreign powers. SCHOOL ARCHITECTS WILL BE SELECTED Board Meets Tonight to Talk Flans for Two Buildings. Selection of architects and engineers for the construction of school No. 82 will be made tonight at a meeting of the board of school commissioner*. The school will replace schools Nos. 77 and 82, both of portable construction. Other routine business will be discussed at the 'meeting. ARMSTRONG IS BURIED Funeral Services Are Held at Home of Aged City Man. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 209 North Arsenal avenue for Robert M. Armstrong, 79, Indianapolis resident for more than fifty years, who died Sunday in city hospital. Mr. Armstrong was a member of Mystic Tie lodge, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and Shrine, and Central Christian church. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery.
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THE firm w r as ‘capitalized at 5150.000. Sears held $50,000 of that. Young Julius Rosenwald put in $35,000. Another man put in $35,000. They let the remaining $20,000 “stand as good will.” They didn’t know' it then, but j they were on the ' path to vast millions. “Like Topsy.” Rosenwald says “we ‘just growled’"—and thus, in five words, he dismisses the world’s greatest retail merchandising business. He dismisses his philanthropies in the same five words. “Like Topsy, they have ‘just growled,’ too,” he answers when asked about his gifts to humanity which are said to run $6,000,000 a year.
REVISED GAME LAW PROPOSAL League to Ask License for Ail Fishers, Hunters. Change in conservation legislai tion to require every hunter and fisherman in the state to possess a license will be advocated by, the Indiana Fish, Game and Forest League in its annual meeting Thursday at the Lincoln. Under present statutes, fishermen do not need a license to fish in their own county. Farmers hunt and fish on their own property without a license, but the league’s proposed reform would not affect this freedom. H. H. Evans, Newcastle, league president, will open the conference at 10 a. m. with a speech in which he is expected to continue his recent attack on Richard Lieber, state conservation director. Feature address of the meeting will be that of James Tandy Ellis, Ghent, Ky. Ellis is a columnist for a Louisville newspaper, and well known as a conservation authority. Walter Shirts, superintendent of the Indiana division of fish and game, will review the year’s work. YOUNG BRITISH PRINCE MAY BE MADE DUKE Announcement Expected on George’s Twenty-Eighth Birthday. liy Vnited Press LONDON, Oct. 28.—Prince George, fourth and youngest son of the king and queen of England, is soon to be made a duke, according to court circles. It is anticipated, judging from the precedent of his three elder brothers, that the announcement will be made on the prince’s twentyeighth birthday, Dec. 20. No definite knowledge as to the title that will be given him is yet available, but it is forecast that it will be a Scottish one—the dukedom of Edinburgh—which has been in abeyance since Prince Albert, second son of Queen Victoria, held it. PARKS ON TRACKS; HELD Man Faces Drunken Driving Charge; Saved by Switchmen. Ray Scherf, 34, of 1639 Park avenue, was under arrest today on drunkenness and drunken driving charges after he is alleged to have driven his auto on railroads tracks in Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad yards southeast of the city Monday night. Switchmen lifted Scherf and his I auto from the tracks a moment be- I fore a mail train whizzed by.
dates you wish to vote, pull it to the right until the bell rings, then let go. This turns down the keys over all candidates of that party, and if nothing further is done to these small keys casts a “straight” vote for all candidates of that party. To scratch, push BACK UP the keys over the names of candidates for whom you do NOT wish to vote, and pull down the keys over the names of the corresponding candidates in the other party for whom you DO wish to vote. Now you are finished with the candidates. DO NOT LEAVE THE MACHINE WITHOUT VOTING ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Pull down the little key over “Yes” if you favor the convention; or over “no” if you oppose the convention. Reopening the screen” by the lever over your head, you record your vote.
T> OSENWALD reads the newspapers daily avidly and thoroughly. He plays a little golf. He likes current books with live interest, but has no particular preference. He loves his garden and likes to dig in it and watch the flowers grow. He never went higher than second year in high school, but he believes universities are good things. On his 50Wh birthday, he gave $500,000 to the University of Chicago. He has given millions for the education of Negroes in the south and for the aid of Jewish farmers in Russia, opposing their movement to pick up and go to Palestinl. /
DRY SENATOR IS TOUTED TO WIN WET CITY ‘Wise Money’ Is Placed on Tom Walsh to Sweep Bibulous Butte. BY RAY TUCKER, Scripps.-Hoard Staff tyriter BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 28,—0n the fringes of the city of Butte there stretches a gay and genial district where the frontier west begins and such prohibition as the United States knows comes to a sad and sudden end. It is called Metervillc, and from dawn to dawn it metes out those things which freed the frailities of folks who never have heard of “the noble experiment.” Unknown and unsung, the thirsty visitor can order almost any sort of a drink with his ravioli dinner, he can satisfy his gaming instincts at faro, poker, roulette, blackjack, three card monte or a plain cut of the cards, and the sky's the limit. Right now Meterville is enjoying considerable literary limelight in several national magazines, which think that Butte is Montana, and that, therefore, Associate Justice Albert J. Galen, Republican wet, will be a sure winner over Senator Tom Walsh, dry Democrat. Walsh Is Favored But in these gambling and gurgling joints the gentlemen who permit neither thirst nor sentiment to interfere with serious financial operations are laying SSOO to S2OO that the dry Walsh will defeat the wet Galen. They are betting, indeed, that Walsh, a personal and political prohibitionist, will carry the bad and bibulous city of Butte. This is one of the curious aspects of a curious campaign—a campaign which finds a wet and standpat Republican the only senatorial candidate west of the Mississippi seeking re-election as an administration man. In the vast expanse between the Mississippi and the coast, Galen alone voices the plea that Hoover needs him, and that, if sent to Washington, he will be a help to the White House. Moreover, Galen is getting more administration and party assistance than any other western Republican. He has received funds from the senatorial campaign committee captained by Senators Moses and Steiwer, and both political pilgrims paid him a visit a few weeks ago. Joseph Dixon, former Governor, now assistant secretary of the interior, has been sent out to assist Galen.
Walsh Assails Rival Walsh has not failed to make the most of this onslaught. Recalling the characterization of westerners as “worse than Communists,” and “men who ought to talk darn small,” he declares that Galen would line up with the Moses-Reed-Grundy coterie, rather than with Republicans who “look to Borah, Norris and La Foliette, illustrious son of an illustrious sire, for leadership.” The senator predicts that Galen, if elected will be only a “yes man” at Washington. To which Galen retorts that he would “rather be a yes man than an if man.” This is intended as a dig at Walsh’s promise to vote to resubmit the eighteenth amendment if the state adopts a repeal referendum. Into this fray Senator Wheeler and Governor John Erickson have come charging and roaring, and the struggle has developed into a vicious attack upon Hoover. Erickson, untrammeled by senatorial amenities, recalls that Hoover, as secretary of commerce, did not raise his voice “ii> condemnation of the Doh?nySinclair oil leases, and that what was done was accomplished reluctantly and under the powerful pressure brought by Walsh.”
Wheeler Flays Galen Bitter feelings prevail. Wheeler, ; handling the personal attack on Gaj len, describes him as a “bottlescarred—l beg your pardon—a bat-tle-scarred veteran.” He belittles the Republican’s war record, as judge advocate-general in Siberia, pointing out that, despite his $7,500 judgeship, Galen draws $218.30 a month for disability. With or without Republican inspiration, the klan has been lugged into the scrap. Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans has delivered three speeches against Walsh, allegedly under G. O. P. inspiration. Though Galen, like Walsh, is a Catholic. Evans argued that the senator’s prominence has elevated him to the status of “a national and international Catholic.” The American Federation of Labor, through a letter from William A. Green, president, virtually has demanded that the workingman return Walsh to the senate, and red and grim-visaged Crow chieftains are working for Walsh through the reservations. Motorcyclist Killed EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct, 28. Levi Driscoll, 18, died of injuric" i suffered when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into an automobile.