Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1930 — Page 7

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JER CHIEF KRIES TO SAVE Puis own job Smith, Tossed Into Troubled Waters, Advances Plan for Compromise. Bu firrippt-FI award ,Vi cspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—AH the kill George Otis Smith acquired In years as spokesman for the government in oil and water problems has not enabled him so far to oil the waters troubled by Iris discharge of William V. King and Charles A. Russell. Faced with the loss of his Job >as chairman of the federal power commission. Smith has been trying to work out a compromise that will keep him in office, and possibly King or Russell also, it was learned today. B,voys have gone from the comion’3 headquarters to Capitol apparently for the purpose of ivering whether re-employment ling as chief accountant, while icr and Russell were allowed _o, would satisfy those senators who will attempt, next Monday, to have the senate reconsider its confirmation of Smith, Garsaud and Draper for the power commission and leave that board still unorganized. Smith himself, after trying for two days to locate Russell, had a conference with him at which suggestions of peace got no farther than a tentative stage Russell More Outspoken If Smith intended to let. Russell know he could be re-employed by promising to be less aggressive in the future, he did not make the offer, for Russell declared early in the conference that such a course was not to his liking. Russell is more anxious about his job and his future than King. He is also, however, the more outspoken of the two, the more militant in his defense of the public interest in water power properties and their honest regulation. King had been worried about affairs in the power commission, and the manner In which enforcement of the power act had been blocked and delayed, ever since he took office, in 1920; but his protests had been quiet ones, which never echoed outside the walls of executive session meeting rooms until Russell joined the commission as solicitor in 1929. Found Views Coincided Russell was given an office adjoining King’s and the two soon found that their views about how the power act should be interpreted and enforced agreed closely. Russell had many friends and contacts; he knew how to make his protests felt and heard; and after his arrival affairs In the power commission came more frequently to the public attention than ever before. King, a meticulous accountant, has spent much of his life cloistered with his books. Russell, a fighting lawyer, had the gift of taking King’s findings on utility capital accounts and net investment and dramatizing them in a few words that made their significance evident to people who knew little of such affairs. PICK SPELLING CHAMP Laborer’s 12-Year-Old Son Captures Illinois State Honors. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 30. Ward Randall, 12-year-old son of a Greene county laborer, is the new spelling champion of Illinois. Willis Lewis, 13, son of Everett Lewis, county judge of Franklin county, won second in the annual state spelling contest in which the Randall boy was first.. Oi the 400 words given them the son of the laborer missed only two. They were "ammeter” and "germane.” The son of the judge misspelled the same two words, but also misspelled eight others—cocky, gully, colossal, acoustics, avarice, and incompatible. ■GRO STANDS MUTE Enter Plea to Charge of SI ying Youth. Hrfmc* Spec, i ■OUTH Bi ND, Ind., Dec. 30 ■•signed in St. Joseph, Mich., H.eph Stevenson. Kalamazoo Hich.) Negro, accused with Joseph ■apman. a South Bend Negro, re■ed to enter a plea to a charge ■ slaving Victor Moser, 18, Waff vliet, Mich. Hrhe youth was fatally shot when S3 attempted to aid a South Bend ■lple. Louis Cohan and Margaret ■mball, alleged to have been kid■ped by the Negroes. Undelivered Gifts Hr Tunes Special KOKOMO, Ind . Dec. 30—Postaster Mort Lamb has two left ers from the Christmas mail rush iat will probably remain unsolved ysteries. One is a gift of $2 ad•Vssed "Searvi’s Greetings to the ail Man.” ifce other Is a packge on which only "To Bobby” Is ritten.

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Ranching is a noble business when the cowboys on the ranch are as fair to see as the Honorable Joan and Nancy Cowdray. The outfits of a Canadian cowboy are quite in contrast to the gorgeous raiment'in which these two comely granddaughters of the Viscountess Cowdray were presented at court in Buckingham palace, London, earlier in the year. They are pictured above at Lake Louise, Canada. With their grandmother they are on a tour of the world.

DIST RICT ATTORNEY FACES $50,000 SUIT

Oliver M. Loomis of False Arrest in Bradford Case. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 30. Oliver M. Loomis, district attorney in the United States court of northern Indiana, will appear here Jan 6 in the role of a defendant. | Loomis and two Gary policemen are defendants in a $50,000 damagesuit filed by Miss Martha Machacek, secretary to Ralph B. Bradford, reform politician of the Calumet district, in which she charges false arrest. Bradford, a former klan official, is under indictment on a charge of conspiracy to violate the federal narcotic code. A writ of certiorari, filed In the federal court at Ft. Wayne, showing that Loomis ordered the arrest of Miss Machacek in his capacity as a federal officer, has been received by the superior court of Lake county. This action automatically transfers the hearing from state to federal jurisdiction. Miss Machacek was arrested after a package of narcotics, mailed in New Orleans, was received at Bradford’s office by her. JOBS TO DEMOCRATS 18 Janitors at Statehouse Lose Positions. Janitorial force at the statehouse Will start the new year with eighteen Democrats replacing that many of the present Republican staff, it was decided at a meeting of the buildings and grounds committee Monday afternoon. The committee consists of Governor Harry'G..Leslie, Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. and State Auditor Floyd E. Williamson. This gives the Democrats two of three votes. They expect to oust Frank G. Gaylor from the custodianship after the legislature. This action would be taken now, but the two Deomcrats have been unable to agree on a successor, it is said. MYSTERY MARKS DEATH OF HOOVER NAVAL AID Bruises Indicate Young Lieutenant May Have Been Fall Victim. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec 30. A mystery has developed in the death of Lieutenant Bruce Settle, 32, naval aid to President Hoover. Settle died suddenly Monday at the Washington navy yard. An autopsy was performed and a naval board of inquiry was continuing its investigations today. It was indicated from bruises on the body that Settle might have died from a fall from the Mezzanine floor of the interior communications school. He had been in good health. Suit to Be Rcfiled By Times Special AUBURN, Ind.. Dec. 30.—George A. Mitchell has taken steps in Dekalb circuit court here to file a second suit seeking $25,000 damages from the Indiana Service Corporation and the Ft. Wayne-Lima Railroad Company as a result of the death of his son, Roy Mitchell. A previous suit was dismissed after opening of a trial.

Welcome Duty By United Press LOVELAND, Colo., Dec. 30. —A new Duty has come into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Duty with the arrival of a bably girl. The mother said today the new Duty is more than welcome.

3 EXECUTED FOR SLAYINGS Youths Remain Calm as They Go to Death Chamber. By Untied Press \ TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 30.—Three young gunmen walked to the electric chair in the state prison here Monday night and were executed for murders committed in robberies. The youths, William Gimbel, 20, of Bloomfield, Joseph Calabrese, 21, of Newark, and Arthur Cort, 22, of Newark, remained calm throughout the ordeal. All three were dead within seventeen minutes. Gimbel, the first to die, entered the death chamber smiling, accompanied by two priests. Calabrese, who came next wore a white carnation. Cort walked to the chair looking straight ahead. Gimbel was charged with the murder of Paul Bohrer and Edward W. Maurer of Belleville. Calabrese and Cort were convicted on a charge of murdering Morris Grossman, Newark druggist.

TWO OF SPAIN’S ROYAL FAMILY WILL WEO Heir to Throne and Princess Are to Take Mates Soon. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 30.—The engagement of two members of the Spanish royal family will be announced soon, the Daily Mail said today. The newspaper understood that the prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, is to marry his cousin, Princess Esperanza, and that Princess Beatriz, oldest daughter of the king and queen, will become engaged to the Infante Alfonso Carlos, a cavalry officer. The prince of the Asturias is 23 years old. Princess Esperanza, 18, is the blonde, blue-eyed daughter of Don Carlos de Bourbon-Sicile. The prince practically has been cured, of hemophilia, a blood ailment, by an American physician, the Daily Mail said. Princess Beatriz is 21. She is a frequent visitor to London with her mother, Queen Victoria, and her sister, Princess Maria. Both engagements in the royal family were said to be love matches. Marriage Licenses Floyd M. Mayfield, 28. of Zionsville, farmer, and Crystal I. Eaks. 21, of Oakla noon Ben Gray. 60, of 2006 North Pennsylvania. painter, and Mollie Blocher. 57, of 2006 North Pennsylvania Samuel E. Moore. 20. of 543 East Georgia, baker, and Edith J. Musgrove, 21. of 243 East Eleventh. Benn Barnhart. 24. of Toledo. Iron work- |£ and Luella E. Good, 21, of 1129 East Herbert Hodge. 25. of 1750 Morgan, laborer, and Katherine E. Kampe, 19, of 1856 West Minnesota, clerk. Carl .T p. Schulthers, 23. of 837 Bradsna*’- clerk, anti Mary E. Lowdern. 25, of 1442 Kennington. Evans Rust. 21. of 3010 North Meridian, printer, and Alma Jane McWhlrter. 20. of 5241 North Meridian. Rollo I>. Davis. 22. of 925 Chadwick, laborer, and Iva M. Thomas. 22. of 2624 North Olnev. clerk. Clarence D. Bariier. 24. of 3310 Parson, painter, and Alta C. Adamson. 20. of 1545 South Richland. Ten-Year Term Imposed By United Press W’ARSAW, Ind., Dec. 30.—A sentence of ten years in the stats prison was given Steffen Kreczmer, 35, South Bend, when he pleaded guilty to a burglary charge here in connection with entering the Bank of Etna Green, Dee. 20.

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MARITAL CASES FORM MOST OF LEGAL BUSINESS Report Shows County Granted 3,623 Marriage Licenses in 1930. Marriage licenses and divorce suits constitute the most voluminous legal business in Marion county, according to year-end statistics announced today by County Clerk George O. HutselL Tabulated by Russell McCormick, assistant deputy file clerk, the figures show that 3,623 couples responded to cupid’s call at the marriage license bureau. On the deficit column of the matrimonial ledger, the figures show, 2,386 persons applied for divorce. Exactly 1,500 divorces were granted out of that number. Wives proved to be the most successful petitioners, with 925 receiving their divorces while only 290 men were granted divcrces. More Civil Suits More suits were filed in civil municipal courts than in all superior courts and circuit courts, the statistics indicate. In the two municipal courts, attorneys filed a total of 7.688 suits, while in five superior courts 5.W7 suits were filed. In circuit court 1,348 suits were filed. Out of the total number, more than 3,500 cases were dismissed. In Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash's court granting of administratorships was the heaviest business during the year. That totaled 1,236 cases, while probate numbered 427; guardianships granted totaled 366, and adoptions 127. Vagrants Suspended In criminal municipal courts at police headquarters, vagrancy charges constituted a large majority of offenses. Two hundred and six of a total of 2,254 persons held under the suspect charge drew jail sentences or fines. Suspensions of judgment went to 757 vagrants, the statistics show. Under the following charges the number of persons fined or sentenced to penal institutions was: Drunk, 2,377; blind tiger, 428; driving while drunk, 227; violation of city ordinances, 3,117; carrying concealed weapons, 111; drawing deadly weapons, 73, and petit larceny, 511. Os 602 persons held chi gaming charges, 153 paid fines or served penal sentences, while 392 went free under discharge, dismissal or suspenison of sentence. COLLINS, MILNER TO ENTER LAW PRACTICE Criminal, Superior Court Judges Announce Future Plans, Entrance into private law practice of Criminal Judge James A. Collins and Superior Judge James M. Milner was announced today. Collins, who has occupied the criminal court bench for sixteen years, announced he will open office at 1215-17 Circle Tower, Jan. 1. Regarded an authority on crime and! probation during his incumbency, he has presided in some of the most important criminal cases ever tried in the county. Milner, superior court judge four years, practiced law in the city from 1904 to 1926. He is a graduate of the Indiana law school. He will be associated in offices at 1542-46 Consolidated building with John W. Holtzman and Robert D. Coleman. Wreck Causes $25,000 Loss By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 30.—Big Four railroad authorities are investigating the crash of a switch engine and a freight train in the South Anderson yards which derailed eight cars and damaged both locomotives with a loss of about $25,000. Crew members escaped injury by leaping before the engines crashed headon.

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New Power Group Is Under Fire

Only a few days after they were sworn into office, three members of the federal power commission are under such a hot fire that the United States senate may vote to reconsider approval of their appointments. The fire started when the new commissioners, a few hours after taking office, dismissed William V. King, chief accountant for the commission, and Charles R. Russell, its solicitor.

ZOERCHER WILL RETAINOFFICE Reappointed to State Tax Board Post by Leslie. Philip Zoercher, whose third term as Democratic state tax commissioner expires Jan. 8, has been reappointed for another four-year term by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Zoercher is considered one of the outstanding tax authorities and has been invited to numerous other

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This picture shows the commissioners taking the oath. At the left is Percy L. Allen, chief of the personnel .section of the state department, administering the oath. The commissioners, left to right are Claude L. Draper of Wyoming; George Otis Smith of Maine, and Marcel Garsaud of Louisiana.

states to explain how tax matters are handled in Indiana Official appointment of John C. Kidd, Brazil, to succeed Clarence C. Wysong as state insurance commissioner, Jan. 1, was also anonunced. Leslie appointed Arthur B. Ayres, Newcastle capitalist and heavy Republican campaign contributor, to succeed to the place of the late Charles T. Sansberry, Anderson, on the state library building commission. The commission is charged with selection of a site and awarding contracts for anew state library, to cost $1,000,000. Horace G. Miles. Danville, was selected to succeed A. J. Stevenson, Danville, as trustee of the Indiana Boys’ school at Plainfield. Stevenson takes office Jan. 1, as judge of the Hendricks circuit court.

‘BEST IN THE WORLD’ U. S. Champion Nation ‘Right or Wrong,’ Says Sinclair Lewis, By United Press BERLIN, Dec. 30.—The United States is the best country in the world, “right or wrong,” Sinclair Lewis said in an interview broadcast here Monday night. He told a questioner to join the side of the United States in the event that America went to war with another nation. The winner of the Nobel prize for literature said that he was “intellectually aware” that the United States is not better than other countries, but that emotionally he believed the United States to be the best country in the world, “right or wrong.”

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H. C. THORNTON TO RE BURIED Printing Firm Chief Dead After Long Illness. Funeral services for Henry C Thomtop Sr., president of the Thomton-Levey Company, will be held at the home. 1609 North Delaware street, Wednesday afternoon at 2. Burial services at Crown Hill cemetery later will be private. Mr. Thornton died Monday after a long Illness which began with pneumonia. Besides being con- JSUy" nected with the company that H manufactured y banking supplies *§|g wF) ; and printing, he tPg ■ V was vice-president |§K..* s. of the Bankers Trust Company, A president of the board of trustees of the Tabern a c 1 e Presbyterian church, a member of the m Thornton Masonic order, Scottish Rite and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Born in Bedford, Mr. Thornton continued through grade and high school there and then went to Hanover college, from where he f was graduated. Surviving him are the widow; a son, Henry C. Thornton Jr.; a brother, Joseph, all of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. A. H. Davis, of Washington. Horse racing was a popular sport more than 3,300 year o ago, according to Hittite inscriptions found in Mesopotamia.