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800 BILLS MAY BE INTRODUCED IN ASSEMBLY State Legislators Leave for Their Homes for Week-End* CIGARET TAX PROPOSED Levy on Malt Would Be Used to Provide Free Text Books. State senators and representatives left for their homes today for the week-end ana presumably to put the finishing touches to the hundreds of bills which will be thrown into the legislative hopper beginning Monday afternoon. Charles Kcttlcborough, director of the state legislative reference bureau, who aids in the drawing of many of the measures, declared today in his opinion approximately 800 bills will bo introduced this session. This will equal the number presented in the 1929 session. "Ihc director pointed out that his office already has assisted in the Writing of 200 proposed measures. The 1907 session with 1,400 bills introduced holds the all-time record, according to statistics compiled. .Malt Tax Proposed Interrogation of the members of the assembly reveals a wide assortment of proposed legislation, including, besides major proposals already predicted, a tax of 5 cents on each , pound of malt, a 10 per cent tax on cigarcts and tobacco products and a proposal to tax bill boards an amount as yet unspecified for each square foot of exhibition space. This latter measure would be both revenue producing and regulatory. Representative William J. Black <Dem., Madison) expects to introduce tlie malt and tobacco tax measures which in his opinion would raise $2,539,933 annually. Revenue derived from these taxes would be used to provide free textbooks, according to the author. A retail sales tax of 1 per cent on all types of goods, wares and merchandise also is being prepared. Injustice Pointed Out One proposed measure would make it compulsory for every court m the state to pass an indeterminate sentence except in cases of murder. Its sponsors point out that there are many statutes which provide a judge must give a determinate sentence of not more nor less than certain stipulated figures. This works for injustice, as one judge may give a high sentence and t he other the minimum for the same felony. The proposed bill would have sentences for felonies indeterminate within the boundaries set by the statutes already in force. Would Amend Criminal Act Another measure would amend the habitual criminal act passed in 1907, so that a judge, upon the third conviction of a felony, could sentence the convicted person to not less than ten years, but the prison trustees would have the right to hold the prisoner for life if his behavior was bad. Under the present law it is mandatory that a third felony conviction should carry life. Many attorneys and courts feel that this is too strong a sentence. Since the passage of the act in 1907 only thirty persons have been convicted under it. The bill also would require every penal institution to report the record of each person who has served one or more terms for a felony to the state board of criminal identification and ipvestigation. Tills bureau will in turn furnish the prosecuting attorneys of each circuit w'ith the information upon request. This last measure is sponsored by the state crime conference. BOARD TO BUILD SIX COMFORT STATIONS Construction Work at Playgrounds to Be Started in March. Construction of six new comfort stations to be located in playgrounds about the city will begin soon after March 1. In the meantime members of the park board will endeavor to assemble enough money to complete ihe work without floating a bond issue. The board engineer, J. Edward Perry, is to have plans, specifications and other data ready March 1. Locations of the stations will be Walnut and Spring streets, two near Fall creek and College avenue, Sixty-first street ancK Broadway, Lents playground, and Orange street and Pleasant Run boulevard. BA N DIT TAKES $6,000 Bank Cashier Held Prisoner All Night by Robber. By United Press MOWVTLLE. la., Jan. 9.—A bandit who held D..E. Wilkins, cashier of the First Trust and Savings bank here, prisoner all night escorted the bank official to work today and robbed the bank of $6,000. Youngest Civil War Pensioner Dies By United Press NEW BEDFORD, Mass.. Jan. 9 George C. Holmes, 78, believed the youngest man in the country receiving a Civil war pension, is dead at his home here. At the age of 11 he was a messenger boy aboard a Union gunboat.

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By United Pres* CHICAGO, Jan. 9. Six-year-old Elaine Rosenkranz and 5-year-old Lorraine Dobmeier were run over by a street car, and for an hour were given up as dead. But both lived. The car was traveling at a moderate speed when the girls stepped in front of it and, frightened, stcod there. Motorman Claude Hughes stopped quickly, but too late. The children were under the car. Hughes called police, his headquarters and the fire department. All responded. ’Traffic was blocked. A dozen men wokred excitedly for an hour. Finally the car was packed up. Elaine crawled out first, unaided. Lor- 1 raine followed. i Except for bruises and afc | scratches, they were unhurt.

RAILS BRIGHT SPOT IN DAY'S STOCK DEALING Gains of 1 to 7 Points Are Maintained; Industrials Give Ground. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Railroad shares maintained gains of 1 to 7 points while industrials slipped off on profit-taking on the Stock Exchange today. Allied Chemical, the weak feature, dropped 6 points to 167, anew 193031 low. United States Stefel slipped back to the previous close of 1441* after reaching anew high on the movement at 145. Utilities gave ground from their highs and were irregular in a narrow range around 2 p. m. Oils were firm as a group with gains of fractions to more than a point, featured by Stanrdard Oil of New Jersey. Weekly trade reviews were optimistic. Dun’s Review said that “seldom has a year opened with interest so closely focused on the business indications, and the first full week of 1931 has been marked by seme encouraging signs.” Motors were strong in the early dealings under the leadership of Auburn and Nash but they sold off as the session progressed. In the railroad division several shares made wide gains including Pittsburgh & West Virginia, which at one time was up 16 points. Pennsylvania was strong and fairly active. Atchison held well and other leaders resister profit-taking selling. Rails were still under the influence of the good news rbgarding consolidation of eastern railroads, which was believed the forerunner of other similar plans.

PLANE IS DAMAGED Endurance Flight Passes 114-Hour Mark. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jail. 9.—A torn fuselage, which permitted cold winds to enter the cabin of the Lady Rolph caused Bobbie Trout and Edna Mae Cooper to ask for materials to repair the breach as the endurance plane entered its 114th hour aloft at 8:30 a. m. today. Miss Cooper, who has been handling the refueling hose through the twenty contacts, . apparently stcuk her foot through the fragile side of the ship as she stood waist hight in the cockpit. QUIZ FOR TENNESSEE Thorough Inquiry Approved by House and Senate. By United Press NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 9.—The Tennessee state senate adopted today a Joint resolution, already approved by the house, asking a thorough investigation of the state’s tangled financial affairs, resulting from tie up of $6,000,000 in state funds of bank closings. The resolution was adopted with three Amendments after stormy debate. The amendments empower the proposed investigating committee to investigate affairs of indiviluals or firms in any way connected with transaction of state business, and require a partial report by March 1. 8 HELD AS STOWAWAYS S Men, 2 Women Make Long Ocean Trip in Single Stateroom. B i United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Six men and two women stowaways, dressed for the theater, stepped off the lnier Emile Franqui, and are held by immigration authorities. They made the fifteen-day trip from Antwerp in one stateroom.

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FLAY G. 0. P. FOR DELAY IN DROUGHT AID Democrats of House Lay Responsibility at Door of Republicans. WAGE ANGRY DEBATE La Follette Tells Senate Suffering at Peak in Small Communities. By united Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Responsibility for continued delay in the house on drought relief legislation, which has been pending since Monday, was laid directly at the door of the house Republican leadership today by Democrats in an angry exchange on the floor. Drama was lent the debate by the participation of Speaker Longworth, who had just previously turned over the chair to Representative Tilson (Rep., Conn.). Representative Bankhead (Dem., Ala.), directly accused Representative Snell (Rep., N. Y.), of delaying the bill by his failure to devise a special rule for its passage. The bill has been held up all week by objections of Representative La Gaurdia (Rep, N. Y.), who insists food loans to city dwellers be specifically included. As the bill now stands, it calls for $45,000,000 appropriation for stock feed, etc., plus a $15,000,000 amendment added by the senate on Monday for human food. 1a Follette Assails Delay Simultaneously the issue came sharply to the fore in the senate, with pointed criticism of the administration’s efforts both for drought relief and lor relief unemployment. Senator La Follette (Rep., Wis.), read reports from widely scattered communities tending to show distress was widespread and in many cases unrelieved. He gave the senate a partial Report on replies to questionnaires broadcast among smaller cities all over the country. “It is in these smaller places,” he said, "that suffering has reached its peak. There is less concentration of wealth and there are fewer persons able to provide relief.” La Follette told the senate he had distributed questionnaires among forty-one states and had received 303 replies. The bulk of the replies came, he said, fisaj Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Condition of Poor Desperate President Hoover, he went on, had "hoped” distress would be avoided. “But it is significant,” he said, “that after only a month had elapsed since the President estimated unemployment at nearly 3,500,000, Chairman Woods of the emergency employment committee said it was between 4,009,000 and 5,000,000.” He said Woods’ figure is only a rough estimate, and presented to the senate several letters from mayors and welfare workers. Mayor F. w. Latta, Dyersburg, Tenn., informed him "the condition of the poor is desperate, with hundreds applying for relief to agencies w-hich are impotent. There is no work.” Things as Bad as War’ The mayor of Jeffersonville, Ind., said “this condition is as war. Men and women are in need and their children are suffering. Many may die if we have a bad winter, because of lack of strength to resist illness. There has been too much delay at Washington.” Bankhead began his speech by demanding to know from "responsible leaders of this house” when some action might be expected. "The administration considered this matter of sufficient importance to recommend legislation,” he said. “It is a matter of great importance justifying prompt action. Thousands of people are suffering and nothing is being done. “The obstinacy of opinion of two or three members is holding it up.” Asks Who Is to Blame Representative Garner (Dem., Tex.), minority leader, interrupted to say that the bill could have been referred to the appropriations committee when it was received from the senate, and could have been brought back to the floor the same day for action. Speaker Longworth then took the floor to say that he favored a special rule such as suggested by Bankhead, whereupon the Alabaman turned to Snell and demanded to know why such a rule had not been devised. Snell retorted that he would call his committee together to formulate a rule when such action should be formally requested. Representative Blanton (Dem., Tex.), then pointedly accused Snell of holding the bill, saying: “I have seen the chairman of the rules committee with ‘hip-pocket’ legislation provide a way for action.”

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HUNDREDS MAKE PLEA FOR FOOD Starving Arkansas Farmers Get Red Cross Orders, 'By United Press ENGLAND, Ark., Jan. 9.—With J humble, but determined mien, hun- j dreds of share-croppers and other ; drought stricken _larmers filed through Red Cross headquarters heue today, seeking food for hungry wives and children. Officials estimated that 250 persons or more were given food requisitions Thursday and that many or more would be aided today. The crowd was a motely one. It ranged from mere lads to' wrinkled old men. Many women and girls mingled with the men in line waiting for rations. Undaunted because they were unable to -write their names on the requisition blanks, many solemnly marked a large black “X” on the papers and passea on. Scores of farmers who previously were able to go to almost any establishment here and obtain credit took their places along witji Negroes in the line. Aged men and their families rode into down on dilapidated wagons to appeal to the Red Cross for food. With them came strong young farmers, who offered to work for 25 to 50 cents a day.

COURT CITES*CAPONE Gang Leader Summoned to Appear at Rearing. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 9. —"Scarfacc A!’ Capone was ordered today by Federal Judge James A. Wilkerson to appear in court Jan. 18 for hearing on a motion to quash criminal proceedings pending against the gang chieftain. The contempt citation grew' out of Capone’s failure to 'appear during the trial some time ago of a liquor conspiracy case when a doctor reported he was too ill to obey a summons. The government charged Capone’s health was not too poor to keep him away fro n boxing matches and race tracks. Capone is said to be in Florida.

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A SLIGHT error on the part of Walter Davis, 24, of 223 Leota street, gave him something to think about today while awaiting trial on charges of drunkenness and operating a vehicle while drunk. Davis, Thursday night, drove his car in front of the closed doors of a garage on East Maryland street. He tooted the horn—several times. The doors opened and a man stepped out. “Hello, there,” Davis yelled. “Give this car a wash, grind the valves And check it over. I’ll get it later.” “No, you won’t,” said the garage “attendant.” The “attendant” was Deputy Sheriff Sam Young w-ho arrested Davis. The garage was that of the Marion county sheriff. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 30 10 a. m 34 7a. m 31 11 a. m 34 Ba. m 33 12 (noon).. 35 9 a. m 34 1 p. m 37

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Sweet messages of "corn tassels down on the farm” were intermixed with recitations at Warren Central high school Thursday where the pupils are learning to be scientific farmers as well as scientific thinkers. These photos of a few of the prize winning exhilyts in a com, egg and soil fertility display testify as to effect on the school’s pedagogy. Miss Nellie Raible (upper left)

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$2.20 Murder By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. Emory F. Ells, convicted of paying $2.20 in dimes to have his wife slain, today faced life imprisonment in San Quentin penitentiary. Benjamin Franklin Brown, charged with killing Mrs. Ells for the liandful of dimes, is awaiting trial. He pleaded not guilt by reason of insanity. He said Ells promised him $2,000, but gave him only $2.20 for committing the murder.

BANDIT JjETS $250 Bandit Fires at Patron of Jonesville Bank, * By Times Special JONESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 9.—An unmasked bandit obtained $250 in a holdup of the Jonesville State bank at 9:30 this morning, after shooting at a patron who came in while the robbery was in progress. The patron, Albert Kiel, refused to obey the robber’s demand to lie on the floor, and ran out to spread the alarm. The shot missed. Quietly entering the bank, the bandit drew a revolver and commanded the cashier, George Donhost, alone in the bank, to hand over money. Donhost reached into a till and gave the bandit $250. After shooting at Kiql, the bandit left his loot and drove away in an automobile. NYE PROBERS CALL TWO Tennessee Atterney-Gcneral Is Summoned Before Comimttee. By United Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 9. Attorney-General Charlie McCall and his assistant, J. W. Braswell have been summoned to appear before the Nye investigating committee in Washington, Jan. 26 in connection with Tennessee elections, it was learned today. GIRL HELD IN^SHOOTING Kokomo Man Believed Dying, Police Arrest Five. By,Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 9.—Chris Spireff, 26, is believed dying of two bullet wounds he says were inflicted by Patsy Zeppatela, 26. The shooting occurred in the factory district this morning, and is said to have followed a quarrel over a woman, Geneva Thomas. She and four other persons are in custody as police investigate the case.

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smiles even though handling these prize eggs is a “touchy” job. Raymond Schackel, winner of first prize in the yellow dent corn contest and sweepstakes for all corn displays, and Alfred Mithoefsr (upper right), are joyful, too, for they are the Warren corn kings. “Show your colors,” says Miss Irene Schaekel to Elmer Witte, winner of the egg show, as she pins the ribbons on him.

Inability to Meet Debts for New Southport School Worries Perry. Financial chaos of Perry township, Marion county, remained unsolved today and inability of the township to meet outstanding indebtedness became more apparent as bills for work on the new Southport high school continued to flow into the office of Omer Green, new trustee. • Admitting the fiances of the township are in condition, O. S. Pollard, retiring trustee, today denied charges that it is- the fault of his administration. Likewise, Green, who says he will not be able to come anyway near paying bills, many of which were due befeffe he took office, 'does not care to assume blame for the situation. Budget Not Holding Out “Last year’s budget is not holding out and at present two warrants, one due Nov! 20 for $6,800 and another due Dec. 20 for SIO,OOO, both on construction the new high school, stand against the township with no funds available to pay them,” Green said. A bill for $3,600 for furniture in the new building was not paid by the previous administration because the equipment w’as unsatisfactory, Pollard explained. Pollard further stated that a 6cent cut on the 1930 Perry tax levy by the stale tax board will be responsible for the shortage in township funds that looms for 1931. Pollard first outlined his budget for a $2.25 levy, cut it 6 cents himself when taxpayers complained of the burden and was forced by the tax board to cut it to $2.13, the present 1930 levy. Charges that Pollard unduly increased the township's tax burden by placing the school on inaccessible, swampy land, necessitating the building of roads to the school, also were denied by the retiring trustee. “I Didn't Pick Spot” “I didn t want the school building where it is located,” Pollard said, “but the location was decided by the former county superintendent, Lee Swails, after an appeal by taxpayers of the township. “Further, building roads to the new school were not under my jurisdiction. The $19,000 paid out for a road was spent by county commissioners under the county unit law and came from the township’s bond issue. “Bills due in 1930 were unpaid because the December tax settlement did not reach me before I turned the books over to Green,” Pollard i said.

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CITY POLICE ACCUSED OF BRUTALITY IN ATTEMPT TO GAIN SHOOTING CONFESSION Prisoner Exhibits Marks on Face, Bruises on Body; Charges Detectives Kicked and Pounded Him. * ~M — - ' OTHER SUSPECT REPUDIATES STORY Radio Patrolman, Victim of Alley Affray, in Serious Condition, With Bullet in His Abdomen. • Evidence of brutal third degree methods by Indianapolis police, to force a confession in the shooting of two city officers early Wednesday, was given The Times today by William Thayer, 39, one suspect held in the case. Thayer, facing two reporters in Marion cdunty jail, exhibited a scar on his nose, bruises on his face, and black and blue spots on shoulders, chest and back. He declared that there also were marks of ill treatment on his hips and legs. ‘ * j Thayer accused detectives of knocking him down, and kicking and beating him.

When George Mears, 25, of 618 1/2 Virginia avenue, also held as a suspect, saw Thayer in the notorious “back room” at detective headquarters Thursday night, he “would have signed anything,” he said today. Mcarg repudiated the confession he delivered to Detectives Roy Peats and Morris Corbin, in which he said he was the trigger man in the shooting of radio patrolmen Ferdinand Finchum and Owen Tevelin, in an-alley in northwest Indianapolis early Wednesday. Secs Evidence of Beating Before he signed the statement, he said, he demanded to see Thayer, suspecting the latter had been beaten by detectives who applied the third degree. • Thayer was led into the “back room.” “Look at the pan on my buddy, and you'll see w'hy I signed that statement,” Mears said. * “Who were the detectives?" he was asked. “I don’t know—-the first eight on the case,” Thayer said. “Then Peats and Corbin came in. Peats wasn't so bad, but Corbin said: ‘lf you don't come through and tell everything. we’ll do the same as the other boys did, if we have to beat you for two weeks.’” Thayer was captured when Finchum and Tevelin were wounded in a gun battle with Thayer, Mears and a man identified as Carl Tate, 29, of 4550 Caroline avenue, an cxconvict, as are Thayer and Mears. News to Chiefs Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney and Detective Fred Simon, when they heard the stories of the reporters, declared it was the first they had heard of third degree methods in Indianapolis police work. “I don't think it was done," Simon said. Several days ago Kinney said: “If we could do here what is done elsewhere, we might get somewhere,” but added that he never w'ould sanction brutal third-degree GOLF FEES ARE SET Changed Schedule Adopted by Park Board. Action preventing persons from playing golf all day on the payment of a single fee w'as taken Thursday afternoon by the park board with adoption of fee schedules for five municipal courses. Under the proposal, tickets at coifrses will be sold next season on the basis of holes to be played. If a player is to play eighteen or less holes on an eighteen-hole course the fee will be 50 cents. Any one desiring to play two rounds or less on a nine-hole course will pay 25 cents. At the end of specified play the ticket wall be void. Play must start from the first tee, under the board’s rules. Season rates set by the board follow: For play on any of the 18hole courses, $25; play on a specified 18-hole course. sls, and use of a nine-hole course, $lO. Season locker fees are $3 and daily locker fee, 25 cents. 6 BANDITS LOOT~ BANK Gunmen Get $15,000 Cash in Raid on Baltimore Institution. By United Press BALTIMORE, Jan. 9.—Six bandits, armed w’ith automatic rifles and pistols, robbed t*e Commercial Savings bank of $15,000 in cash today. Woman Hit by Hit-Run Coaster By United Press WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 9.—A victim of a hit-and-run coaster, Mrs. Toowand Kasperian, 52, was in a hospital here today after she was struck by a boy coaster who fled after the accident.

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boatings by detectives to obtain confessions. The charges of brutality will not be investigated by the safety board unless charges are brought formally against the detectives. Walter, Lewis, secretary of the board, said that his attention was called to the story of Thayer, but added he had no orders to do any-' thing about it. Patrolman Finchum was slightly improved. Dr. William A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent, said this morning. Finchum’s pulse was better, and there was greater hope for his recovery from a bullet wound in the abdomen. Tevelin received only a slight leg wound. One Suspect Escapes Tate escaped from the scene of the shooting, and again eluded police under heavy gunfire when he drove Mears’ auto into his driveway on Caroline avenue before dawn. Sought since then, he stiil is at liberty. Tate at first was named as the man who did the shooting, When Peats and Corbin obtained the alleged confession‘from Mears, it was said Tate had slunk away when the battle began, and that Mears escaped in his own auto. Mears was arrested at his home next day, after the auto had been captured in Tate’s driveway. Throughout questioning Wednesday, Thayer refused to give detectives any information. Mears was quizzed all day Thursday before he confessed that he was with Tate and Thayer, but declared he was too drunk to know what had happened. \ Refuse to Name Gunman Thursday night he confessed to the shooting, saying he had a gun in his hand when he raised his arms while Finchum searched him. He also outlined a long series of robberies he and Tate had committed. In jail this morning both Mears and Thayer refused to name the man who did the shooting. Mears said he was too drunk to know what was going on, and Thayer, while declaring he was not the trigger man, said in the confusion of shots he couldn't tell w’ho was shooting. Mrs. Finchum visited her husband at the hospital for two minutes Thursday. Then she went to police headquarters and declared he told her the man he w r as searching was the trigger man. Whether that was Mears or Tate is unknown. In his alleged confession, Mears said he met Tate at the state reformatory, where both were imprisoned. Out of work, they hooked up with the rum racket last fall, but, abandoned this unfertile business to cash in on "easy money” in burglary. Says They Robbed Stores They robbed several stores, sellnig merchandise to a “fence” on Ohio street, whom Mears said he could not name. Then they began cracking safes, and the "crib racket” proved more lucrative than grocery and dry goods store jobs. Tuesday night they added Thayer to their mob and went to the Guarantee Tire and Rubber Company branch office a* 3008 Northwestern avenue, it was while they were trying to enter that place the police car swung into the alley, Mears said. Tate and Mears had robbed two other branches of the> tire company, getting large sums of money, Mears' statement set out. He will be questioned further today. HOOVER PROBERS LEAVE Wickersham Report Near; Belief as Two Members Take Departure. Bv United Press - • WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Departure of two important members of the Wickersham crime commission, their work here apparently done, today added strength to the understanding that the long-awaited report of the commission is completed. * Those who departed today were Judge William S. Kenyon of lowa, and Monte Lemann of New Orleans. U. S. ADMIRAL IS DEAD Nathaniel R. Usher, 75, Bora in Vincennes, Succumbs at Pottsdam. By United Press POTTSDAM, N. Y., Jan. 9.—Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, 75, retired, U. S. N„ died at hk home here today. He had been in failing health for some time. Rear AdI miral Usher was bom m Vincennes, t/ i *