Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1930 — Page 3

DEC. 13, 1930_

WEAK LEADERS ARE HELD CHIEF PERIL TO DRYS Warned at Conference That ‘Unified Front’ to Fight Wets Necessary. By Vnitcd Vrr^n WASHINGTON. Dec. I.3.—Last of the dry organizations which held conferences here all week had adjourned today after a final warning from one of their most active members that "incapable leadership" is the chief hazard dry forces face in the 1932 presidential campaign. The warning was issued by Clinton M. Howard, member of the newly-formed committee of sixteen which Is to serve as a board of strategy in attempting to solidify the dry forces for 1932. Howard, chairman of the united committee for law enforcement, told a joint meeting of his group and the International Reform Federation that prohibition forces had been handicapped by inadequate leadership since the passing of William Jennings Bryan and Wayne B. Wheeler. Although the board of strategy is no", scheduled to meet again until Feb. 27, its members will be active during most of the interim. Try for “Unified Front” Most of them agree the attempt to effect a "unified front” dissolves many difficulties, and frequent subcommitee meetings will be held, it was said. Little discussion of the proposed national prohibition referendum has been heard among prohibition leaders since the National Temperance Council and National Conference of Organizations Supporting the Eighteenth Amendment adopted resolutions earlier in the week denouncing the referenda as "unauthorized, unprecedented and unconstitutional." Although several referendum bills have been introduced in the house, most of the wet leaders also are agreed the Constitution makes no provision for a referendum entailing a direct decision from the voters on a constitutional amendment. Agree on Repeal Instead, they say, the procedure to be followed in obtaining a test of the people's sentiment toward the prohibition amendment would be that proposed by Representative Andrew’ 'Rep.. Mass.), Representative Boylan fDem., N. Y.) and others, w’ho have introduced bills providing for submission of the question to state constitutional conventions. Wet and dry leaders both agree the Constitution provides this method for altering or repealing any of its amendments. The proposal to call state constitutional conventions for this purpose also was sponsored by Representative Fort (Rep.. N. J.>. a stanch dry, who said he believed such a test, at this time would be “good strategy” for the drys. UNEMPLOYED SLEEP IN DETROIT FACTORY Fisher Body Plant Transformed Into Dormitory for Jobless. B/> Vnitcd I’rcxs DETROIT, Mich.. Dec. 13.—A section of an automobile body plant, where in better times men worked to keep pace with the demand of the country's automobile users, will become a dormitory for 2,500 of the city’s unemployment who have no hemes. Tile Fisher Body Company, through Charles T. Fisher, has offered Mayor Frank Murphy’s unemployment committee use of one of the plant buildings as a dormitory. The company will heat and light the place and provide necessary sanitary facilities The city will furnish the beds. The building can house 10.000 beds if necessary, it was said. The Salvation Army will have charge of *he dormitory. LONG HUNT OVER: FINDS HIS BROTHER IN GRAVE ( emparison of Finger Prints Shows “John Malone” Was John Wall. f!" Vnitcd I'rrss DETROIT, Dec. 13.—Reopening of a grave in Mt. Olivet cemetery, over which a headstone bore the name “John Malone." had revealed 'oday the fate of John W. Wall, Worid war veteran, who died in 1925. Searching for his brother, George Wall of Durango, Colo., traced him to Detroit two years ago. There the trail ended and John Wall dropped from sight. For two years George Wall exhausted every possibility, finally obtaining a hint "John Malone” might have been his last brother. By special permission of county authorities the grave was opened this week. Comparison of fingerprints showed conclusively that John Malone and John W. Wall were the same person.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: W. J. Polk. R. R. 1. Box 201. Ford coupe. 134-976. from 415 West Twenty-seventh street. C. F. Hutchins. 736 East drive. Woodruff place. Ford coupe, from Capitol avenue and Washington street. John L. Hawkotte. 812 East Fortieth street. Oldsmobile coach. 92-378. from parkling lot In rear of 9 North New Jersey street. Orland Melntir.e 1224 West Twenty-first s:reet. Ford roadster. 72-904. from Capitol avenue and Market street. Go: don Hall. MO East Forty-fourth street. Nash coupe. 1-775. from Capitol avenue and Fall Creek. Empire Life Insurance Company. 215 East New York street. Chevrolet coupe. 37-650. from Michigan and Meridian streets. A. H. Welshaar. 1022 Mansfield avenue. Oakland coach. 76-387. from Riverside pent. Paul H. Chapman. 115 North Arsenal. Oldsmobile coupe. 87-575. stolen from garage In rear.

BACK HOME AGAIN

stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: House of Crane Companv. 132 South Meridian street. Chevrolet truck, found at Fifty-ninth and Illinois streets. H. W Woodsmal! Company. Fidelity Trust building. Ford coupe, found In rear of 1643 Yandes street. . Essex. 50-148, found In rear of 923 Broadway. Banks to Be Merged GREENSBURG, Ind., Dec. 13. The Citizens National bank and the Third National Bank and Trust Company, will be merged as the Citizens Third National Bank and Trust Company on Jan. 1. according to a vote of the stockholders.

Stars of High Repute on Air Next Week

Lola Kane (above), movie star, Wednesday, 10:30 Indianapolis time, CBS. Bob Steele (lower right), actor in western pictures, Wednesday,, 10:30 Indianapolis time. CBS. Merle Thorpe Mower left), business commentator, 7:50 Indianapolis time. NBC-WEAF.

K. OF 0. TO GIVE MELODIES FETE Annual Concert Sunday to Help Orphans, Aged. Elaborate tableaux presenting illustrious figures in American history will be accompanied by appropriate old melodies at the eighth annual Old Melodies concert, sponsored by Indianapolis Council 437, Knights of Columbus, in the council's auditorium. Thirteenth and Delaware streets, Sunday night. Instrumental, vocal and choral numbers will accompany each figure in the tableau in the first part of the program. The second part will be presented in concert fashion. The concerts are given annually for the K. of C. Christmas charity fund for orphans and the aged. Taking part in the tableaux will be: A. F. Kriee. Joseph Gallaffher. Ray Kavanaugh. Norman Patrick. Joseph Putts, Mrs. Garret Kirbv. Thomas Holloran, Walter Buchman. Marv Jane Calland. William I.ennon. Frank Dwver. Michael Santleh. Frank X. Garauhan. Anna Louise Kirsch. Rita Frances Noll. Rosemary Ford and Harry E. Calland. Participating in the concert program will be: Cornelius Sheridan. Nola Bonham Rieder, Miss Ruth Beals. Loretta Sheridan Ritter. the Tabernacle church quartet; Miss Maud Delbridge. the La Shelle Choral Club with Edward La Shelle and Margaret Geisler Welch taking solo parts and the “Ice House Quartet."

Aviation

Girl, 16, Is Student B.v United l’ress DETROIT, Dec. 13—Winifred Bryden, who started to learn how to fly when she was 15, only to have the government order her to stop because of her age, resumed 'instructions as soon as she was "16. and today is one of the youngest, if not the youngest, holder of a federal student flier’s license. Airplane Lake Built Bu V/ \ Service MILAN, Dec. 13.—A huge seaplane base now is open here after the completion of a large artificial lake, more than a mile and a half long and about 450 yards wide, for the purpose. Tire artificial lake was constructed at a cost of about $1,000,000. Milan now has three airports, two of which are for land planes. NEGRO IS MURDERED Police Claim Confession in Slaying After Party. After a fight, John H. Miller. 41, Negro, 1343 South Sheffield avenue, shot and killed Henry Hill, 36. Negro. 2218 Miller street, in Miller’s home early today, police say Miller confessed. Miller, charged with murder, told police he ordered a party in his home to break up. and all left but Hill, in whose arms the killer said he found his wife a short time later. Hill was victor in a fistic battle, but Miller ran upstairs and got his shotgun. He said Hill was armed with an ice pick when he came downstairs again. Four blasts of shot struck Hill and he fell dead in the dining room. Students to Give Play MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 13.—President L. A. Pittenger of Ball State Teachers’ college here has many duties, but he finds time to continue study of the Bible. Wednesday, students will present a biblical play, “Liilith,” which was written by President Pittenger.

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Eilena Kazanova, Russian violinist, Sunday, 9:30, Indianapolis lime, CBS. Rarhel Morton, soprano (in;ct), Thursday, 8, NBC-WEAF.

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LABOR TO BE TOPIC Kirshbaum Center Speaker to Discuss Industry. Third event on the season’s program of the open forum at Kirshbaum Community Center, will be an address Sunday night by Whiting Williams on “What Is Industry Doing to Us?” Social unrest, strikes, Bolshevistic tendencies, and the modern relations of capital and labor, arc

the problems Williams will discuss. Asa former executive of a large steel manufacturing concern, and later adopting the role of a common laborer, he presents an unusual dual viewpoint. He has lectured extensively, written for popular business publications, and acted as industrial ad-

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visor for many large organizations. The lecture will start at 8:15, in the auditorium, 2314 North Meridian street. The public is invited, nonmembers on a small admittance fee. BANKERS AS WITNESSES Trial at Columbus Results in Ten Being on Stand. COLUMBUS. Ind., Dec. 13.—Ten banks and bank employes testified in the suitof the Commercial Credit Corporation, an out-state concern, against Leonard Sonnefeld, local painter, asking $550, on trial in Bartholomek circuit court here. The defense contends Sonnefeld’s signature as forged, and that in signing a paper for some free literature he received paint instead, payment for which is sought. The bankers included Joe Springer. Elizabethtown, Farmers and Merchants bank; Frank Metzler, Carl Rossman and William Wissman, First National, here; John Suverkrup, Charles Setser, William Goeler, Will Roth and George Vorwald, Irwin Union Trust Company, and Ellis Lortz, American Security Company.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

“C. S.”—stands for Christmas seals and children’s smiles at the Theodore Potter fresh air school, to which part of the seal proceeds are contributed. Reversing the Garden of Eden precedent, Lois, pupil at the school, is pictured about to accept a big red apple from Billy, her classmate. Lois lived at the nutrition camp for sick children, near Bridgeport, last summer, and so knows what is good for a child and what is not. The camp is operated by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association out of proceeds of the Christmas seal sale.

INTRUDER IS SHOT Alleged House-Breaker Is Critically Wounded. Shot when he supposedly attempted to enter the home of William Nugent, 315 Caldwell street, early today, Joseph Rounds, 34, of 1032 West New York street, is critically wounded at city hospital. Nugent told police that Rounds was trying to enter the house and that he fired through a door. The bullet struck Rounds in the groin. City hospital physicians said there was little chance for his recovery. Police held Nugent for questioning. SURGEON-SLAYER MAY WIN PRISON RELEASE Pardon Board Favors Lenity for Dr. Bryson of Washington. HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 13.—Dr. Herbert J. Bryson, former Washington (D. C.) physician and Walter Reid hospital surgeon, probably will be released from Western penitentiary the last of this month on commutation of sentence granted by Governor Fisher. The state pardon board recommended a commutation of the fourteen and eighteen-year term Bryson was serving for the second degree murder of Mrs. Helen Irene Haines, also formerly of Washington, D. C. The parole board will act on his application next week and the Governor will sign the document.

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Prince of Wales (above), heir to England’s throne. Tuesday, 3:40 Indianapolis time, NBC-WJZ. Aurturo Toscani, New York Philharmonic Symphony conductor, Sunday, 2 Indianapolis time, CBS.

FEES ASKED IN HENLEY TANGLE General to Fight Support Allowance in Court. Principals and attorneys in the Henley marriage mystery will appear before Judge Harry W. Chamberlin In circuit court Monday, where Adjutant-General Manford Grant Henley will attempt to oppose the granting of a temporary support allowance and attorney fees. Henley’s defense is that he is not married to Mrs. Henley, despite her claims otherwise. Mrs. Henley’s deposition will be taken under oath Friday. Principals and their counsel will go to Toledo, 0., Dec. 22, where the Rev. L- P. Schuh of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran church and T. A. Burnham will be questioned. Rev. Mr. Schuh is the minister who, Sept. 12, 1929, performed a marriage ceremony between Mrs. Henley and a “Grant Henley,” whose identity now is questioned. GAME REVENUES CHARGE REFUTED Accounts Examiners Find Funds Used Rightly. Revenues of the fish and game division of the state conservation department have been used only for fish and game division adminisi tration and for the protection and ! propogation of fish and game in the ! state, the official report of field exi aminers of the state board of accounts filed Friday with Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner, indicates. This point long has been the basis of a controversy between Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department and Representative Herbert H. Evans (Rep., Newcastle). Evans has charged that sportsmen finance the fish and game division through licenses and fees and that the money was being spent for state parks and forests. A special paragraph in the report, made by field examiners Edward D. Farmer and Thad L. Major, refutes this allegation. The report sets* out that receipts of the entire conservation department, including balances brought forward from the preceding year, were $1,342,287.57 and disbursements, $1,111,051.26Fish and game division receipts, including the balance brought forward, was $505,557.34, with total disbursements of $385,816.13, The division spent $11,832.’3 for administration; $146,020.52 for protection and propogation of wild game and aquatic life, and $134,968.78 for lands and structure, including game preserves, hatchery ponds and the like. •State park receipts for the year were $97,886.42. MOUSE WRECKS AUTO Runs Up Driver’s Leg and He Loses Control of Car. By United Press AUGUSTA, Me., Dec. 13.—When a mouse ran up Herman Patterson’s trouser leg, he lost control of his automobile, which was wrecked. The driver escaped serious injury.

‘MODEL HUBBY’ BUYS 2 PAPERS FOR BREAKFAST Co-Eds Get ‘Specifications’ for Choosing, Training Perfect Mate. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Any young man who plans to become the husband of a modern business girl may as well make up his mind now to make her “his treasurer as well as his treasure” and provide two breakfast newspapers, Dr. Edward L. Cornell of the Northwestern university medical staff Informed the Lydian Club of the university. The club is made up of young women who attend the school of commerce. Dr. Cornell laid down ten new commandments in advising the co-eds how to select and. still more important, how to train a husband. The commandments (“He'’ referring to the prospective bridegroom): He should allow you to audit his finances. He should be healthy enough to swim twenty-five yards in 30 seconds. • He should be willing to rear children. He should be ambitious and industrious. He should be willing to make you an equal partner. He should possess tact and a good disposition. He should be mentally stable. He should not be a braggart. He should have good character. He should have and maintain a good appearance, “If he has the right to become absorbed in external affairs, so have you,” Dr. Cornell told the co-eds, “so don’t marry a man who reads the newspaper at breakfast unless he provides one for you, too.”

A Real Phony Double Checks on Butcher and He Makes $lO Clear Profit. UNITED STATES secret service operatives here “have” a candidate for the world’s champion nerviest and most avaricious passer of counterfeit money. At least, they have an accurate description of the man who went into a butcher shop in a nearby Indiana city and demanded two pounds of hamburger. “And what’s more,” said the counterfeiter, “I want good hamburger. Don’t try to give me any stuff like those pork chops you sold my sister. They were terrible!” “If they were so terrible, why didn’t she bring them back?” returned the butcher. "Oh, we thought we’d let it go the first time,” said the counterfeiter. “But,” he added, menacingly. “this hamburger better be good!” The butcher took a spurious $lO bill along with the “bawling out,” and the counterfeiter took the hamburger and $9.50 in change. Half an hour later the latter returned and flung the hamburger on the counter. “This is ‘lousy,’” he told the flustered butcher. “You’ve got plenty of nerve givin’ me this terrible meat after I warned you. I want my 50 cents back. The humiliated butcher yielded and the counterfeiter made a 100 per cent profit on the deal. BAD DRIVER STILL ALIEN Denied U. S. Citizenship Because of Traffic Court Record. By United Press DETROIT, Dec. 13.—Carl Zier, German immigrant, may secure naturalization papers five years hence if he drives his automobile with more care during that period than he has in the past. In federal court he was denied final papers when it was shown that his record in traffic court averaged one arrest a year for the last five. The judge told him to come back in five years.

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On Globe Hop

Off on a ’round-the-world solo voyage—mostly by air—Barclay A. Warburton Jr., is shown here in the cockpit of his plane, “Little Up and Down.” just before hopping from Miami, Fla., for San Diego, Cal. He planned to ship his plane by boat to Shanghai, China, and fly across Asia, and Europe. He is the son of the president of the Miami Jockey Club.

2 MEN TRY TO KIDNAP WOMAN Flee After Threatening to Use Machine Gun. Two men who sought to force! Miss Esther Harvey, 31, of 433 East 1 Michigan street, into their car and allegedly threatened to kill her if she did not comply with their demands, early today, were the object of an intensive police hunt. Miss Harvey told police that as she approached Michigan and East streets the men stopped the car, one of them ordering her into it. “Get into that car,” he said, she told police. She stated the driver ordered the other man to “get that machine gun and we’ll kill her.” Miss Harvey screamed, attracting several men in the neighborhood. The men in the car fled. Everett Winters, 126 West Twelfth street, told police he pursued the car but it outdistanced him. The car later was seen at North street and Massachusetts avenue. At Blacker's chile parlor, 555 Massachusetts avenue, police were told one of the duo had been in the place and boasted of being a “Chicago gunman.” Fire Bug Sentenced By United Press VINCENNES, Ind., Dec. 13.—Leo Breithaupt, 23, Oaktown, was sentenced to serve from two to fouiteen years in the state reformatory when he pleaded guilty In Knox circuit court here to a charge of setting fire to his home. He was arrested by Daniel W. Moore, investigator for the state fire marshal.

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MELLON. AGING. WON’T GIVE UP CABINET POST Denies Anew He Intends to Resign as Secretary of Treasury. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Vnited Press Start Correspondent WASHINGTON. Dec. 13—The unique position which Andrew W. Mellon achieved as the oldest cabinet officer in service after James J. Davis resigned this month as secretary of labor is emphasized anew by word from his intimate friends that he hopes to continue throughout the Hoover administration. He is the only survivor of the cabinet that came in with the return of the Republicans under Harding in 1921. Thus week the report that Mellon soon would retire was revived, but it was denied authoritatively. It has been denied repeatedly, and once President Hoover sought to end it for all time by announcing that Mellon could remain on as secretary throughout his term. Happy to Keep Job Mellon's last public word on the subject was when he quoted Benjamin Franklin to say. “I am afraid I am deficient in the virtue of resignation.” Inquiry discloses that Mellon, through not sharing the confidence of the White House as he did under President Coolidge, Ls happy to keep on his job. It is described as his only active interest now. He is one of the thr e or four richest men in the country and is content with what wealth he has. He is too old to run for President —he will be 76 in March. His friends say that if he quits work now it might be ruinous to his health. Still Walks to Work Mellon still walks to work from his aphrtment on Massachusetts avenue. He is in his office by 9 o’clock and remains until 6 or later. Mellon’s position has become less conspicuous in the last two years. Many of his friends wish he had resigned at the end of the Coolidge administration, rather than to drift into a less powerful role. However. Mellon Ls much in the position of an elderly man with a hobby and who is determined to hang to it, no matter what happens.

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