Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1930 — Page 2

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CITY TROLLEY FRANCHISE WITH INSULL STUDIED Series of Public Meetings to Be Held Regarding Proposal. A series of public meetings ■will be held within the next few weeks when the question of the city entering into a franchise with the Insull interests and the attitude of the public toward the reorganization of t,he Indianapolis Street Car Company will be sought, E. Kirk McKinney, chairman of the board of public works and chairman of the city’s committee on the franchise, declared today. McKinney and members of the committee today received the typewritten volume of eighty pages which sets out the rehabilitation program and the terms of the proposed “service at cast” franchise. A copy was left with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan at St. Vincent's hospital, where he is confined. McKinney said his committee and the works board would require a week or ten days for intensive study of the proposed franchise before proceeding with hearings. The plan coincides in the main with that which was published when the announcement of the reorganization program was made two months ago. Valued at $11,250,000 The outstanding feature is the valuation of the property of the street car company at $11,250,000. This valuation is exclusive of the Traction Terminal building and adjacent real estate. Securities said to total more than $18,000,000 had been issued by the former operators of the company and the reduction in valuation represents a loss to stockholders of $6,750,000. Immediate expendituret of $9,000,000 on new equipment, tracks and overhead work, is promised in the franchise. The franchise also leaves open a path toward the purchase of the street car system by the city. It provides that the lines may be purchased after six months’ notice for $11,250,000, plus any capital investments made by the corporation. This would make the purchase price, after the new rolling stock and equipment is purchased, approximately $20,000,000. Fares May Go Up or Down If the city should agree to the terms of the franchise a legalizing act will be submitted to the 1931 legislature which would provide for a city transportation commission and take from the public service commission the power to fix bus and street car fares in Indianapolis. This is extremely vital as the main point of the franchise is predicated upon the “service at cost feature” whereby a fare index account of $500,000 is established and irom this will be paid all operating expenses, which includes salaries and power costs. In event that this reserve falls, a certain percentage, as yet unspecified, below the $500,000 during a three month’s period, fares will b increased; and if the index account shows an increase fares will be decreased.

DISPUTED POINTS IN LIQUOR LAW CLEARED Improvement in Enforcement Cited in Justice Official’s Report. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Government officials in charge of prohibition enforcement were aided materially during the past year by the clearing up of several disputed points important to enforcement, Assistant Attorney-General Youngquist pointed out in his annual report made public today. Youngquist, successor to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in charge of prohibition cases for the justice department, noted a marked improvement in the handling of prosecutions, saying enforcement officers as a rule filed stronger and better cases during the last fiscal year. The report showed jail and prison sentences were imposed in 27,709 cases from July 1, 1929, to July 1, 1930. This was an increase of 6,107 over the previous twelve months. The average length of sentences increased in even greater proportion, Youngquist stated.

FIGHT FOR TARIFF ON OIL IS REVIVED Senator Shortridge of California Will Bring Up Issue Again. By Scrivvs-Hotcard Xetesuaver Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—The proposed sl-a-barrel tariff on oil, like Banquo's ghost, will not down. Senator Sam Shortridge <Rep., Cal.) said today he will bring the issue again on the senate floor and seek to rally the protectionists to its support. The oil tariff was defeated at last session by a vote of 45 to 33 when it was proposed by Senator Elmer Thomas (Dem., Okla.). “I care not,” said Shortridge, • whether certain of the big oil companies with holdings abroad oppose it. In my state we are trying to curtail the production of oil and at the same time millions of barrels are being shipped into this country duty free from Venezuela and elsewhere.”

FINANCE ASSOCIATION WILL HOLD BANQUET Indiana Loan Firm Heads to Hear Address by City Banker. A banquet tonight with John P. Collett, manager of the analytical department of the Fletcher-Amer-lcan Company, as the speaker, will feature the opening of the two-day sessions of the Hoosier Association of Finance Companies at the Lincoln. The convention brought forty managers of state finance companies to the city. Collett will discuss business conditions, and gave the history of panic* and a forecast on business. Officers of the association, which is composed of independent finance companies of the state, are: Donald Jameson. Indianapolis, president; C. W. Bowman. Winchester, vice-presi-dent; Paul Jones. Marion, secretarytreasurer, and Fred V. Chew, Bloomsryrton, manager.

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Fought for 50 Years in Battle Lines of Labor Wars. (Turn to Page 2) in-law. and Fowler. It soon was apparent that Mother Jones’ last struggle had ended. Last May 1 Mother Jones —she was seldom know T n by her full name of Mrs. Mary Harris Jones — celebrated her 100th birthday. Labor leaders from all over the country gathered at the Burgess home. The day was a great one for Mother Jones in another respect, for a telegram arrived from John D. Rockefeller Jr., of the family against whom she had fought bitterly. “He’s a damn good sport,” said Mother Jones with her picturesque method of expression. “I’ve licked him many times, but now we’ve made peace.” On the ninety-first birthday of John D. Rockefeller Sr., Mother Jones wired him: “Thank God we have some men in the world yet as good as you.” Mother Jones had been to jail because of her agitation against Rockefeller interests. In black dress and bonnet she had gone into the fields and led the men into battle against the things*the family represented. Held Some Old Enmities She had seen machine gun and bayonet in action, as in the Ludlow (Colo.) killings of 1914, when mine guards shot down twenty-one women and children and a dozen men Other old-time enmities were not so easily forgotten. She gave SI,OOO a few weeks ago to continue her campaign against President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America. Later she tore up her will and contributed her savings, about $lO,000, to the cause of labor. Mother Jones remembered all her life the day British soldiers broke into their little home in Cork and ransacked the place looking for her father, even tearing down a chimney. He had escaped from jail, and with seven others took a boat to the United States. A year later he sent for the family, and they lived first in Vermont. Educated in Convent Mary Harris—that was her name then—was educated in a Montreal convent. She married George Jones of Memphis, Tenn., in 1861, the first year of the Civil War, and was a nurse during the struggle between the North and South. Asa young mother she faced her first tragedy and learned the fortitude which later enabled her to face judges and jails calmly. Her husband and three children died in a yellow fever epidemic. She prepared their bodies for the death cart and sat alone in the house ten days before the quarantine was lifted. Then she bravely took up her life again and established a dress-

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STARS TO PLAY RADIOJUGE WFBM Broadcasts Second Game of Series. Second of the season’s bridge by radio games will be broadcast over station WFBM, Tuesday, at 4:30. Four outstanding players from as many different states will participate under direction of Milton C. Work. Sidney S. Lenz of New York will occupy the South position as dealer. His partner will be Mrs. John Munce Jr. of Alexandria, Va., and they will be opposed by Mrs. Wistar Morris Chubb of South Orange, N. J., West, and Mr. Christian A. Herter of Boston, East. The hands they will hold follow: “South,” the Dealer, holds: Spades 8 spot 6 5 Hearts K O J 10 6 Diamonds K J 9 7 Clubs Q “West” holds: Spades K J 9 4 3 Hearts A 8 spot 7 4 Diamonds A Q 10 Clubs A “North” holds: Spades A Q Hearts 9 5 3 2 Diamonds None Clubs K J 10 8 Spot 5 4 2 “East” holds: Spades 10 7 2 Hearts None Diamonds 8 spot 6 5 4 3 2 Clubs 9 7 6 3 J

MENACES COP WITH UNLOADED SHOTGUN Man Is Held on Charges of Drawing Deadly Weapon, Vagrancy. Motor Foliceiran William Englebright played a nerve-wracking game of tag with the double muzzle of a shotgun for a few minutes early today before he and Motor Policeman Charles Bernauer arrested Francis Lepper, Dayton, 0., in a rooming house at 613 Eastern avenue. They had gone to the rooming house to investigate complaints Irving Jacobs, 1026 Beville avenue, had made against his separated wife, who, he said, lived at the rooming house. Lepper, in hunting clothes, threatened Englebright with the shotgun, then laid it down. Examination of the gun after Lepper was in custody revealed it was unloaded. Lepper is charged with vagrancy and drawing a deadly weapon.

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NEW SHERIFF APPOINTS 36 AS ASSISTANTS Wiltsie, Republican, Is Retained by Sumner as Chief Deputy. Appointment of thirty-six deputies, clerks and jailers to take office Jan, 1 were announced today by Democratic Sheriff-elect Charles Sumner. t At the same time, Sumner declared he will reduce the sheriff's force from 50 to 40, instituting an immediate savings of SIB,OOO a year. Appointees were ordered by the sheriff-elect to resign from their posts in the county Democratic organization before Jan. 1. Wiltsie Is Retained In recognition of the twenty-two years' service of Anson B. Wiltsie, 2824 Washington#boulevard, as chief deputy and the necessity of having an experienced man in charge of the paper work in the sheriff’s office, Sumner declared he would retain him as chief deputy, although a Republican. The post pays $3,000. Herman F. Rikhoff, 5111 Washington boulevard, police chief in the law Shank administration, is appointed chief of the road patrol at a salary of $2,400. Rikhoff will succeed Harry L. Bendel. Boyce Succeeds Snider John E. Boyce, 841 South Pershing avnue, ex-service man and army officer, will succeed Rollin Snider as chief jailer at a salary of $2,400. Fabian W. Biemer, 20 North Highland avenue, former superintendent of the city garage, and ex-service man, will be turnkey, $2,400, and Wesley A. Stout, 1826 North Capitol avenue, one time candidate for the nomination for sheriff, assistant turnkey, $2,100. Miss Eleanor Hussey, 31 North Highland avenue, attached to the Pennsylvania railroad police office, chief clerk, $1,800; Miss Juanita Buttz, 1102 North Butler avenue, stenographer at police head quarters, stenographer, $1,500, and Miss Helen F. Moriarity, 2623 Paris avenue, matron at the Garfield swimming pool, matron at the jail, $960 and lodging. Five Ex-Cops Named Deputy sheriffs appointed include five ex-policemen. Deputies are paid $1,920 a year. They are: Clarence B. Walters. 1107 North Jefferson avenue: Ralph L. Hitch. Butler graduate and former newspaperman. 3645 North Illinois street: Charles G. McCalllster, 3154 North Capitol avenue; Howard Brennan, 1317 West Thirty-sixth street: Ithomer Douglass, 108 West North street: Thomas E. Bell. 248 North Keystone avenue: Michael F. Lane. 814 North Pine street; Charles Hanlein. 2610 East Washington street, and James F. Cunningham. 48 North Dearborn street: Charles E. Lynch. 239 North Randolph street: Pearl O. Craig. 1508 Linden street: August Gatto, 515 East Merrill street: Thomas J. Scanlon. 832 Church street: Elmer R. Dailey. 1729 Union street: Michael Barer. 7034 South Delaware street: Henry Dilger. 1443 South Illinois street: Edward Kasenbrocl:, 1225 West Ray street: Patrick Kinney. 102 Kochne street: Lewis Mikesell. 304 South Meridian street: John R. Wright. 4802 College avenue: Harry J. Cook. R. R 5. Bex 45; Alexis Riley. Oakiandon: Frank Lindsey. 423 Concord street, and Waldo B. Carter. 5518 East Washington street. Four Negro deputies also were appointed: Jack Leslie, 1217 East Sixteenth street, former policeman and pugilist; Henry Garfield Lee, 1434 North Missouri street, former guard at the workhouse; Henry B. Walker, 419 Agnes street, and John Brewington, 514 North Senate avenue. BOARD TO VISIT ALL STATE INSTITUTIONS Budget Committee Is on Two Weeks’ Tour of Indiana Asylums. A two weeks’ tour of all state institutions began today when she state budget committee left in a special bus to visit Knightstown, Newcastle and Richmond. The committee, headed by State Senator Byron E. Huff, Martinsville, will return to Indianapolis Tuesday night after visiting the eastern institutions and will leave Wednesday for a trip to asylums in the northern section of the state. ASTMTREMSraT ON FREE TRIAL D. J. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane Building, St. Mary’s, Kan., manufactures a treatment for Asthma in which he has so much confidence that he sends a $1.25 bottle by mail to anyone who will write him for it. His offer is that he is to be paid for this bottle after you are completely satisfied and the one taking the treatment to be the judge. Send your name and address today.—Advertisement.

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GASOLINE, OIL STOLEN 600 Gallons of Auto Fuel Reported Missing From Station. A burglar who must have been equipped with a tank car visited a Great Western oil station at 3650 West Sixteenth street Sunday night. A checkup today showed 600 gallons of gasoline and twenty-five gallons of oil missing, total value $125.50. H. Owen, 1612 Somerset avenue, manager of the station, reported the loss to the police. Switzerland Taking Census By United Press ZURICH, Dec. I.—Experts estimated Switzerland’s population at 4,100,000 in the census which began today, compared with 3,880,000 in the census of 1920.

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13 ARE GIVEN JOBS ON STATE , POLICE FORCE Appointments Announced by Grover C. Garrott, New Chief. Thirteen appointments to the state police force were announced today by Grover C. Garrott, Frankfort, newly appointed Democratic chief. They were: Lieutenants: John Hamilton, Sullivan: Rex R. Risher, South Bend: John Weir, Salem, and A1 Romine, Indianapolis. Patrolmen: Guy Engle. Corbon: William Wittmer, Tell City; Ralph C. Liggett. Warsaw; Matthew App. Ft. Wayne; William De Mont: Knox; Roy L. King, Kokomo; Carl H. Springmier, Greensburg: George Gilby, Indianapolis, and Fred L. Jones, Shelbyville. Risher and King are both aviators, King owning his own plane, a Waco 10. All were ordered to report for duty at noon today. Approximately twenty-five remain to be appointed. Robert L. Humes, the outgoing chief, was on hand at the statehouse to turn the keys of his office ovet to Garrott, but none of Humes’ staff of forty-five Republicans reported. Garrott, , Saturday, had informed Humes by letter that he wished the dismissal of the entire force before assuming the office today. He declined Humes’ offer of a helping hand until he became familiar with working of the department. LANDSLIDE KILLS TWO By United Press ■ SAN MATEO, Cal., Dec. I.—Two persons were killed and one ly injured at Lobitos Glen, near here, Sunday when a gigantic slide of earth and rocks swept suddenly over a picnic party. Three other persons ran toward the beach and escaped. The dead are Mrs. Angela Barth, San Mateo, apd Edwin Henry Morgan, Roseville, Cal., a recent Stanford university graduate.

U. OF CHICAGO BUYS SITE OF ARMAGEDDON Plot of Land Near Haifa Is Famous Throughout Biblical History. CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Armageddon, a plot of land near Haifa, Palestine, where kings of the earth met for the struggle against the kingdom of God, has been purchased by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Dr. James H. Breasted, director of the institute, said $3,500 was paid for Armageddon, which was famous throughout Biblical history. Breasted also said that the institute paid three years rental on the pl.ioe to natives who did not own it. Mrs. Mary Oliphant was found to be the rightful owner. The land is fifteen miles from Haifa. SET AIR SAFETY MARK Plane Line Pilots Fly 500,000 Miles Without Accident. DENVER, Colo., Dec. I.—A record of having flown 500,000 miles, transporting thousands of passengers, without injury to a single passenger, pilot or employe was established in September by Midcontinent Air Express.

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WHEELER FLAYS INDIAN BUREAU V - - ‘Mismanaged, Incompetent,’ Says Senator. By Scripps-Hoicard Xeicspnper AUinncei WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—“ Our findings indicate that the Indian bureau is the most completely mismanaged and incompetent bureau in our government,” said Senator Burton K. Wheeler, just returned from an investigation by the senate committee on Indian affairs in Oklahoma, Mississippi and Texas. Senator Wheeler said “the facts disclosed warrant the overhauling of the Indian bureau from top to bottonv” Wheeler found "an army of employes giving most of their attention to supervising the estates of wealthy Indians, while neglecting numerous others living in dire poverty.” “We were unable to find,” he said, “a single instance in which an Indian farmer had been given either assistance or advice by any socalled farm expert.”