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RECORD PEACE BUDGET GOES TO CONGRESS Hoover Asks for Nearly Four Billions to Operate Government Year. CONTINUE DAVIS PROBE House Begins Work on Unemployment Relief Fund Program. By United Preen WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Unemployment and drought relief, Muscle Shoals legislation and the Nye committee’s renewed Investigation into the primary campaign expenditures of Senator .James J. Davis (Rep., Pa.) occupied the attention of congress today as the first important committee hearings of the short session began. Simultaneously, the house received President Hoover’s budget mesvsage calling for a record peacetime expenditure of nearly $4,000,000,000, during the 1932 fiscal year, and recommending discontinuance of the 1 per cent tax reduction effective this year. In renewing its Davis inquiry, the senate campaign expenditures committee, headed by Chairman Nye, revealed it had learned that at least $641,274 had been spent jointly in the Pennsylvania primary campaigns of Davis and Francis S. Brown, unsuccessful candidate for Governor. Adjourn Pennsv Inquiry The committee failed to bring out, however, just what portion of this was expected for Davis, who was sworn in as senator Tuesday over tire objections of the committee. William R. Douglas, Philadelphia collector of contributions for the Davis-Brown organization, told the committee today it would be difficult to determine what funds were used in behalf of Davis. The committee adjourned the j Pennsylvania hearing indefinitely today after hearing Douglas and i George W. Weaver. Philadelphia j lawyer. Thursday the group will I go to New York to inquire into the campaign activities of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Launch Jobbers’ Program Meanwhile, the house began to formulate an unemployment relief program along the lines recommended in President Hoover’s annual message. Chairman Wood of the appropriations committee announced he would introduce a lump sum bill providing about $150,000,000. Chairman Haugen of the agriculture committee brought forward a plan for 525.000.000 seed loan bill, recommended by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. House and senate conferees on Muscle Shoals legislation agreed tentatively to report a disagreement. Such action would enable the house to vote soon on the Morris plan for government operation, adopted by the senate last session. Nominations Are Received A long list of important nominations were received by the senate from President Hoover. Chief among these were the names of William N. Doak to be secretary of labor and Henry P. Fletcher to be chairman of the tariff commission. Opposition to each is believed likely to develop In the senate. Appropriation for the 1932 fiscal year, which begins next July 1, were placed by the President’s budget message at $3,932,842,411, which is 5221.000.000 more than current expenditures in this fiscal year. Principal items in • the increase included $100,000,000 additional for the federal farm board: $110,000,000 increase for war veterans. $51,000,000 for new roads and $35,000,000 for the United States shipping board. Expenditures of the federal government in the 1932 fiscal year were estimated at $4,054,519,200, and receipts were placed at $4,085,119.927. Surplus for Year Slim Appropriations are less than estimated expenditures because the government will have available several continuing funds for which no new appropriations are necessary. For the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. the President estimated the government will have a deficit of $180,000,000 as a result of reduced receipts due to business depression and added expenses to relieve unemployment and aid veterans. Looking to the 1932 fiscal year, the President estimated the government would end its fiscal year June 30, 1932, with the slim sinplus of $30,600,000. He warned that this margin easily may be reduced by emergency government expenditures. Warns Against Spending ’This is not a time when we can afford to embark upon any new or enlarged ventures of government,'’ Mr. Hoover said. ‘‘lt will tax our every resource to expand in directions providing employment in the next few months upon already authorized projects. On the subject of taxes, Mr. Hoover said he wishes it were possible to continue the 1 per cent cut authorized by congress last winter on taxes paid in 1930. “I regret,” he added, “that the present outlook for heavy decrease in probable income and the necessity to Increase public works and kMd to employment does not warrant rhe continuation of the reduction ey the present time.”

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 177

Study Both Plans

r J''HE Insull interests, backed by bondholder committees and a group of powerful and influential citizens, are asking a street car franchise. The offer finally to give public ownership, at a valuation which may be questioned as extortionate, admits an Insull belief that public ownership will be the eventual solution. In the meantime, under the Insull plan, the city will pay high returns on values of whose real existence public-spir-ited citizens well may be skeptical. Against this, George J. Marott, merchant, financier, large owner of property whose values depend upon growth and stability of the city, suggests immediate public ownership, a substitution of modern bus lines for rusted street car tracks, widened streets and preparation for a city of a million. His experience leads him to the belief that the initial cost to the city will be much less than the money Insull promises to spend to buy new cars and repair the lines. The only value of the present lines, above their salvage price as junk, comes from the right to use the city streets. It is apparent that the Insull plan proposes to sell back to the people the thing they already own. Study both plans. The Marott plan offers at least a basis for discussion of public ownership and nonpolitical management that should he more attractive than a surrender of all the future in an effort to pulmotor life into an apparently very sick, perhaps dying, business.

BOY, 18, SLAIN BY DETECTIVES Another Youth Is Wounded Robbing Freight Car. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 3.—Jack Griffith, 16, South Chicago, was killed and his friend, Edward Martin, 16, also of South Chicago, was critically wounded early today when William Hunter and H. Jones, railroad detectives, found them attempting to rob a car loaded with canned fruit in the lake front yards of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Hunter and Jones surprised the youths with two friends, Tony Spaicesich, 17, and William Walters, 18, also of South Chicago. The wounded youth, Martin, is in a hospital, while Spaicesich and Walters are in jail. AMELIA, FIANCE ON TRIP Miss Earhart and Putnam Leave Newark in Monoplane. I!y United Press • NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 3.—Miss Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam, who obtained a marriage license recently, left Newark airport in a Bellanca monoplane today. They were accompanied by an unidentified woman.

MAYR MOVE IS SEEN AS CHALLENGE TO GOVERNOR Secretary of State May Ride Over Leslie Desires in Appointment of Criminal Probe Superintendent.

Despite the desire of Governor Harry G. Leslie to retain his fellow townsman, E. L. Osborne of Lafayette, as superintendent of the bureau of criminal investigation, a Democrat who can qualify for .the post will be appointed, declared Frank Mayr Jr., new secretary of state, today. “If any member of my party can qualify and is properly recommended and meets with the approval of bankers of the state, I will appoint him,” said Mayr. The statement is viewed as a challenge to the Governor, who is anxious that Osborne be retained. Leslie recommended Osborne to Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state in 1929, and the Lafayette man was appointed to the position. Although appropriation for the superintendent's salary is but $3,100 a year, Leslie added S4OO from his contingency fund. If Mayr attempts to appoint a Democrat, it will bring about a trial of strength as the 1927 statute creating the crime-probing department specifically states: “The superintendent . . . shall be appointed by the secretary of state, with the approval of the Governor.” Leslie is expected to withhold his approval of any man Mayr may appoint to succeed Osborne. If this is done the question may be carried to the legislature, where an attempt may be made to strike out the clause giving approval power

HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN NEED HELP! CLOTHE A SCHOOL CHILD FOR CHRISTMAS!

NIGHT spots the city. Weary laundry workers trudge heme. One among them walks toward Wyoming street. She's washed a city's duds and now goes home to wash again, so that her four boys, Paul, Clarence, William and James, may have clean clothes for the morrow’s school day. Paul, Clarence, William and

A REAL BOOST “We’ll clothe ten children for Christmas.” That was the welcome message phoned to The Times this morning by C. C. (Bud) Mathews, general manager of the Capitol Electric Company, 122 South Senate avenue, distributors of Majestic radios. That's the real Christmas spirit.

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YOUTHS BARRED FROM FUNERAL Five in Jail Not Allowed at Gary Girl’s Burial. ! By Uniied Press GARY, Ind.. Dec. 3.—The body of 18-year-old Arlene Drrves was taken to Reynolds, Ind., . r burial today while the five youths • barged with causing her death c mg a drinking party were transferred from the Gary jail to the county | jail at Crown Point. The youths, all members of ! prominent families, were denied the privilege of attending Miss Draves’ j funeral Tuesday. About 500 per- | sons, including many boys and girls : who attended high school with Miss Draves before she was graduated last year, attended the services. With removal of the youths to Crown Point, Prosecutor Oliver i Starr announced that a special grand jury would be called next j Monday to hear his plea for first degree murder charges against them. The five held are Virgil Kirkland, ■ David Thompson, Paul Barton, Leon I Stanford and Henry Shirk, i The crowd of men and boys who i packed streets around the court ! building when the youths were arj raigned was almost as large as that at Miss Draves’ funeral.

to the Governor. That move, it is expected, would involve a long drawn battle between the Democratic house and Republican senate. Earl Spradley, Boonville police chief and Warrick county Democratic chairman, is the outstanding contender for the position of superintendent. WIFE ILL: HUSBAND 17 TS POISON. DIES Despondent, Claude Hack Takes Own Life; Mate Not Informed. Despondent because of his wife’s i critical illness, Claude Hack, 68, of 358 North Addison street, swallowed poison Tuesday and died at noon today in city hospital. Lying at the point of death at the 1 family home, the wife, Mrs. Luetta Hack, was not informed of her husband's act or death. Two daughters, Mrs. J. J. Kiley and Mrs. May Rogers, and one son, Raymond Hack, survive the suicide victim. Senator Morrow Is Sworn In By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Dwight W. Morrow (Rep., N. J.) was sworn in as United States senator today, and immediately took a seat in the back row where “freshman senators” are customarily placed.

James! There’s almost a musical cleft in their names. Bat the music of their lives is the “rubscrub" of their mother as she nightly washes the only clothing they have, threadbare clothing at that, so that they won't have to stay in bed to keep warm. Paul, Clarence, William and James! They’re more than mere names, for they're children waiting for YOU to enter the “Clothe a School Child for Christmas” campaign being conducted by The Times. a a it T TER - hands chapped by the scrub-board, the Mother of The Four raises her head from her night's washing long enough to mutter through the steamfilled room. "I don’t know what I’m going to do, for these have been scrubbed out until there's not

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3,1930

COURT RULES AGAINST STATE SECURITY LAW South Bend Judge Decides Statute Protecting Investors Unconstitutional. ACTION TO BE FOUGHT Ruling Would Destroy Commissioner Office: Supreme Court Appeal Likely. Judge Orlo R. Deahl of the St. Joseph superior court, South Bend, today ruled the Indiana securities law unconstitutional. Effect of such a ruling would abolish the office of commissioner, which this week was assumed by William P. O'Neill, Mishawaka, former Democratic lieutenant governor, according to Attorney - General James M. Ogden. But the state Is determined to keep its law, which is designed to protect Hoosier investors from bluesky speculations, the attorney-gen-eral declared. Will Seek Remedy Procedure will be to file motions to keep the case pending until alleged unconstitutional features can be remedied by the 1931 legislature. or an appeal to the supreme court can be perfected, Ogden declared. The case in which Judge Deahl ruled is that of Alexander B. Shipman and Clarence B. Brillhart, South Bend brokers, charged With violating the law through securities sales. Merl Wall, deputy attorney-gen-eral, who handled the case for the securities commission, contended that that the judge’s ruling will only affect certain sections and leave the primary structure of the law unchanged. Law Not Adequate The court’s finding was based on several points, chief of which was that the law is not subject to adequate and accurate interpretation and in operation the jury would have to determine the nature of the crime. The ruling pointed out specifically that the penal code of the act does not conform to the corresponding sections and that its mandates are; not clearly expressed. Constitutionality of the law has never been tested Ogden stated.

MERCURY TO DROP Cold Snap Is Expected to Continue Two Days. Temperatures here continued their game of seesaw today, rising to 51 degrees at 1 p. rn., and threatening to plunge to 20 degrees tonight as anew cold snap was expected to set in. It will continue perhaps two days, according to J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the United States weather bureau here, and then higher temperatures are anticipated. Fair skies were forecast to become cloudy, bringing unsettled weather tonight or Thursday. In some portions of the state rain or snow were awaited. The new cold wave is the result of intense cold and storms sweeping central Canada, but proceeding northward from Winnipeg, where he mercury today was 20 below.

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Don’t delay the return of more prosperous times. If a large percentage of the American people would do their Christmas shopping early, it would be a great immediate stimulus for business. Conceivably it mignt mean work and thus a Merry Christmas for many who have not had work for several months.

EDITOR TIMES—We have children in our school district who have fainted in school for lack of food at home, nursing mothers who are in rundown condition due to Tack of food, children going to school without underwear and with womout shoes, some wearing tennis shoes, all victims of circumstances and too proud to let their wants be known, sll of which arc receiving attenticn by School 82 relief committee. We work through teachers to find out health conditions of children and their clothing and investigate every case, checking up with the Welfare Association, Police and Firemen’s Relief, and Center and Warren township trustees to prevent duplication. We do not consider race, creed or color and the members of the committee are the only ones who know who receives help, so as not to embarrass. Please help us through your columns. Thanks. MRS. LAMBERT M. CHRISTIE. 326 Grand avenue. Irvington 1055.

much more to scrub. See that hole! And see this one.” Paul, Clarence, William and James, look on as she works. They want warm caps. They want mittens and stockings and under - j garments. Undergarments; Why ; they hardly know what they are. Flour sacks do just as well, when work’s hard to get.

WEST SIDE’S PIED PIPER

Children Trail Uncle Ed to Church

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Above (Right), “Uncle” Ed Hart, the Pied Piper of West-town and his roundup'rope; left, the “Piper” is mobbed; below, the “Piper bringing in the sheaves.

BERT 0, FULLER SERIOUSLY ILL Leslie Aid in Campaign Is Slightly Improved. Slight improvement was reported today in the condition of Bert C. Fuller, co-manager of the primary and state election campaigns of Governor Harry G. Leslie, who suffered a severe heart attack Nov. 23. Oxygen has been administered to him. No telephone calls to Fuller’s home, 3902 College avenue where he is confined, have been permitted. According to his family, he is suffering from an ailment of the nerve centers of the heart.

GIVE JOBS AS CHRISTMAS GIFTS, IS LESLIE’S PLEA Governor Suggests Citizens Find Work About Home So Unemployed May Have Money for Presents.

“Give a job for Christmas” was the idea advanced by Governor Harry G. Leslie in addressing the unemployment committee chairmen from the ninet.y-two counties of the state in cpnference at the statehouse today. Asa further contribution toward providing work, Leslie suggested that “he Sunday before Christmas every citizen, who is well provided for, should search for odd jobs to do about the home, yard or garage and then get a man out of work to do it before Christmas. This, he pointed out, will give many persons Christmas money who otherwise would have to accept charity. He emphasized the importance of permitting parents to buy gifts for their children with money earned in this manner, rather than merely accepting them without working and with none of the joy of making purchases. The meeting was called by Elmer Stout, chairman of the state unemployment executive committee, for the purpose of exchanging ideas regarding job creation and so that the counties more advanced on the work making program can give stimulation to those who lag. Stout explained that in Marion county a jobs bureau has been opened at the Chamber of. Commerce and is aiding greatly in proriding work for the unemployed here.

And so they wait for Hoosier hearts to open, just as hundreds of other girls and boys wait in the “Clothe a School Child” campaign being conducted by The Times. Clubs, lodges, Sunday school classes, business firms and lonely men and women or those not so lonely are wanted to give a boy

BY ARCII STEINEL A PIED PIPER is piping in West-town. But, unlike the piper of Hamelin he is no trapper of mice, and his kinship to the venerable man or legend is in his ability to pipe the children of West-town to the parish church on Sunday morns. Up and down Oliver avenue and Division street each Sunday he—- “ Uncle” Ed Hart, 73, of 649 Birch street —goes calling his flock to Sunday school. He picks up a boy in backyard here and one booting a football on a vacant lot there with his calls, “Come to church.” Creed or clothes play no scales in “Uncle” Ed’s-piping. “Uncle” Ed started his street Sunday school on Nov. 9.

The Trinity Methodist church, Oliver avenue and Division street, began a contest for new members in its Sunday school under the leadership of the Rev. Vern Krause and Mrs. Geneva Dean, superintendent. “I’ll bring them in,” volunteered "Uncle” Ed. The first Sabbath he came with twenty-one youngsters tagging at his coat-tails. The next Sunday, Nov. 16. he rigged up a rope with hand-holds, and with this line scoured the alleys and the front porches for children. “Come to church! Let’s go to Sunday school!” were new calls to

1 Dr. James H. Greene and William | Austin explained what is being done !in South Bend and St. Joseph j county, where “made work” pro- ; grams are being pushed by the city j government and industrial plants. : Dr. John W. Hewitt, executive j committee secretary, has compiled a lists of 100 odd jobs that might be done about the home to aid in the Governor’s program of “Give a job for Christmas.” Chairman Stout assured the con- ; Terence that both Democrats and j Republicans will back the Hoover i program to aid unemployment by ! public work and to finance the j drought stricken farmer. Leslie stated that the federal authorities are citing Indiana’s program as outstanding among the states. PREMIER NABS GUNMAN Revolver Shot Fired as Spanish Chief Walks Through Palace. I By United Press MADRID, Dec. 3—A revolver shot , was fired in the main lobby of the j presidency palace today as Premier General Damaso Berenguer was walking through, the lobby. The premier himself seized Joa- ! quin Llizollivo, 30, a journalist, who ! fired the shot and tinned him over to the police.

or a girl clothing so that they may go to school without being jibed at. a a a TWO clubs joining the campaign today were the Mercator Club and the Amicitia Club. The Mercators say, “we want a boy about 10 or 11 if possible. We're going to outfit him from haircut to shoe shine and the Tuesday before Christmas , he'll have the guest of honor place at our weekly luncheon.” The “Clothe a School Child” organization has no dues. All you need is the good-will of Yuletide and desire to help a youngster. You outfit him yourself. The child’s name is furnished you by the “Clothe a Child Editor” of The Times, through courtesy of the Christmas Clearing House. Here’s a list oT members of the

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West-town’s youth, and curiosity got the better of them. Fifty-six children grabbed for holds on “Uncle” Ed’s rope and filed into the church. The weekly Sabbath parade became a game with the children and new ones joined the rodeo until on Nov./ “Uncle” Ed ran out of rope when eighty-seven youngsters followed the jovial old man. The line has been extended at times to older persons. “I’ve brought them in from 3 years to 88,” explains “Uncle” Ed. “Do I meet with objections from parents? No! Only at times when they feel their children haven’t clothes enough to go to Sunday school. But I take them anyway and some of them get clothes by coming to God’s house,” he said.

REICHSTAG WARNING IS HISSED BY REDS Government Declares Extremist Elements Creating Bad Influence. i By Uni/rd Press BERLIN, Dec. 3.—A warning that ; the Reichstag was in danger of losj ing its influence due to extremist ; elements was given by the governj ment today as the parliament reI convened under police guards so | strong that the district resembled Ia camp. The warning was met by hoots and hisses from the Com- : munists. With the government already enj forcing its financial program by I semi-dictatorial measures, Finance j Minister Hermann Dietrich appealed | for a majority to speed their labors j in surmounting economic difficulties, ! relieve unemployment and reinforce ; the nation. FOX TERRIER HERO DIES Long Vigil Guarding Master’s Body Fatal to One of Four Dogs. I By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The rigors I of heroism have proved fatal for | Four Spot member of the illustri- ' ous Spot family of Fox Terriers. Four Spot, with his brother, i Three Spot and their parents, two | Spot and One Spot, guarded for a I week the body of their master, old I Tom, a Negro, until it was found by a policeman. s Tuesday night, Four Spot died ! of malnutrition resulting from the i long vigil without food.

i clubs already pledged to clothe i a child: Mercator Club. Amicitia Club. Anonymous, Mr. and Mrs. Circulation and mailing departments, The Times. Editorial department. The Times. Composing room, The Times. Women of The Times. Pressmen of The Times. Business office of The Times. Advertising department of The Times. Mrs. Ralph G. Logan, 3709 Broadway Terrace. Just Two Kindly Women. Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Linaburry, 101 South Denny street. Anna M. Caldwell, 807 North Oakland avenue. Miss Eloi.se Evans. 144 North Sheffield street. Capitol Electric Company (ten c oildren). A friend. y*

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SCHROEDER TO OFFER PLEA OF INSANITY Torch Murder Suspect to Delay Trial Further by Filing Answer. PART OF HOLMES’ PLAN Unexepected Legal Maneuver Surprises Prosecution: Conference Held. BY EDWARD C. FULKE Insanity will be the defense cf Harold Herbert Schroeder, central figure in the High School road torch car killing, it was learned authoritatively today. A special answer of insanity to the grand jury’s first-degree murder indictments against the Mobile (Ala.) business man is understood to be ready for filing Thursday before Criminal Judge James A. Collin.*, Under this unexpected legal maneuver. planned, it is learned, by Ira M. Holmes, Schroeder’s attorney, the state of Indiana will be required to have a medical examination made of the 35-year-old murderer-suspect before he can be tried. Delay Is Necessitated It will necessitate a delay in bringing Shroeder to trial. The criminal court calendar fixed the trial date for next Tuesday. Holmes, Collins and Prosecutor Judson L. Stark conferred secretly more than an hour this morning in Collins’ office. They refused to make statements as to the outcome of the conference. The special answer of insanity, it was learned, will bear the signature of Schroeder, who, since June 20 has been held without bond in the Marion county jail. It will call for the appointment of a commission of -medical and psychopathic experts who will examine Schroeder and report their verdict before the Alabaman can be tried, it was learned. It is know that the insanity defense will be bolstered by discoveries that Schroeder’s mother died in an asylum, and that his sister has been adjudged insane. Faces Death Penalty Under a second legal arrangement, preparatory to trying Schroeder for the orime, the defendant may be placed on trial under the insanity defense, and a commission appointed to make an after-trial examination. This would be done if a jury, in a verdict, found Schroeder to have been insane at the time the alleged murder was committed. Schroeder, who on the morning of June 1 became the focal point of a nation-wide man hunt, was captured almost a month later, and) charged with killing an unidentified man whose charred body was found in Schroeder’s burned sedan. A grand jury indictment for first degree murder charged Schroeder perpetrated the kiling by one of three methods—stabbing, burning or by methods unknown. Penalty on conviction of either count would be death, or life imprisonment. Pryor Follows Suit Ernest Pryor, alleged Martinsville Qnd.) wife poisoner, will plead insanity to a first degree murder charge when he goes on trial Monday before a criminal court jury, ;t was learned today. Pryor was committed today to the psychopathic ward at city hospital where a preliminary examination nf his mental condition will be made. At the same time. Criminal Judge James A. Collins announced he himself will occupy the bench. John Royse, defense attorney, today withdrew a petition for a change cf venue, after four unsuccessful attempts were made to obtain a trial judge. Special venire of sevonty-five prospective jurymen was ordered drawn. Persons selected will report in criminal courtroom Monday. Pryor pleaded not guilty when arraigned. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 43 7 a. m 32 11 a. m 45 Ba. m 34 12 (noon).. 48 9 a. m 39 1 p. m 51

Want Air Trip Want to visit Hollywood, traveling by plane? Writers of this vicinity, interested in motion pictures and writing of reviews, will have a chance to win a trip to Hollywood and return via the new Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. Lines, by submitting the best review, of fifty words or less, on “Hell’s Angels,” the Howard Hughes multi - million - dollar production, which comes to Loews Palace theater for a week’s stay, commencing Saturday. The aritcle must be written on one side of a sheet of paper and typed if possible. Handwritten copy, however, will be accepted, provided it is plainly written. The judges will take neatness of the copy as well as actual treatment of subject matter into consideration. So, when “Hell’s Angels” is being shown at Loew’s Palace, go to the theater, witness the performance and write a concise review, of not more than fifty words, and mail it to “Hell’s Angels Contest Editor" of The Times.