Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1931 — Page 4

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RASKOB DENIES ‘BUYING’ WHOLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

‘NO ONE MAN IS IN CONTROL,' CHIEFASSERTS Turns on Political Writer, Ridiculing Charges in Open Letter. SLASHES AT RUMORS 1932 Presidential Nominee Will Not Be HandPicked, He Declares. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Preas Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Reports of undercover maneuvering to handpick the Democratic presidential candidate next year have provoked a disavowal from John J. Raskob, wealthy Democratic national committee chairman, that he had “bought and paid for the party.” For weeks Washington has been filled with whisperings of Democratic intrigue. Most of them are to the effect a handful of Democratic leaders quietly are undertaking to lay a banana peel in the path of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, regarded as one of the chief contenders for the nomination, and that the way is to be cleared for Owen D. Young of New York. Also it has been asserted that Raskob, multimillionaire anti-pro-hibitionist, has underwritten the Democratic party and intends to exact as his pound, of flesh, the right to name the next candidate. Written by Frank Kent This charge, in was put into print recently by frank R. Kent, political correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Though the Sun is Democratic, Kent is one of President Hoover's journalistic intimates and because he often is credited with reflecting White House views Democratic politicians watch him closely. Raskob now has turned on Kent in an open letter to him. “When you liken the Democratic party to a common harlot that can be bought and sold, used and abused at will,” Raskob wrote to Kent, “you tramp on the toes of millions of Democrats who are proud of their heritage, glory in the traditions of their party and resent your insults.” “No One Man in Control” As to the charge that ho intended to hand-pick the party presidential candidate. Raskob said: "The Democratic party is not and will not be controlled by any man or small group of men. “Unselfish, patriotic service to one’s country easily can be viewed by selfish, suspicious people as a ‘prize paradox,’ but thank God the country is overflowing with unselfish, patriotic citizens who are only awaiting the 1932 national elections to follow a leader carrying their banne.'.” Raskob denied he has stood responsible personally for party debts of nearly $1,000,000. Party Deficit Reduced Raskob said close friends of Smith had reduced the party's deficit and that the money he loaned the national committee was to be repaid. He said plans are being made for a nation-wide money-rais-ing campaign. The Democratic chairman also denied ever having been a Republican. as had been charged when he left his post as one of the directors oi General Motors to manage Alfred E. Smith’s presidential campaign in 1928. He said he generally had voted the Democratic ticket, though he had been an independent until he affiliated with the party. Raskob declared it had been alleged that he changed to the Democratic party because former Governor Smith was a Roman Catholic. He charged a “strong group in the Republican national committee” had been “fomenting religious and class hatreds during the past two years and prostituting the Republican party to gain ballots from a misinformed, abused and misguided public." FAREWELL PARTY GIVEN Four Pennsy Veterans Honored at Monday Night Celebration. More tlian three hundred employes and families gave a farewell party Monday night at the Pemisy gym to four veteran locomotive Engineers retiring from the Pennsylvania railroad. R. C. Miller, general superintendent, southwestern division, presented T. F. Sullivan. R. A*f Wiseman and Janies O'Donnell, Indianapolis, and C. C. Blakeman. Bradford. 0., with certificates of service and gifts of employes.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen 0 Jackson. 3120 North Illinois street Oldsmobile sedan. 346-666 1930 >. from Illinois and Thirty-fourth streets. D A. Fox. 316 South Ariinirton avenue. HupmobUe sedan. 788-747 t1930i. from State and Maryland streets. j L. Laporte. 16 North Brookvllle road. Ford Tudor, from Oriental and Market William*. 1740 Lockwood street. Oldsmobile coach. ’"4l-589. from rear of 1025 North Meridian street. Charles White. 517 Bright street. Buick touring. 69-941 (1930 ‘, from Tenth and Brook streets. Robert H. Reiner. 336 Massachusetts avenue. Ford ron'erttble coupe. 22-345 (19311. from 336 Massachusetts avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police 'itsterson. 1346 North Pershing avenue. Chevrolet coach, found at 1228 West Eighteenth street. i*ord coupe. Missouri license 497-932 (1930), sou id at 114 East Michigan street.

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Mixed Drinks By United Press DENVER, Colo., Jan. 13. When Mrs. Goldie Young went to church, her husband followed her with three pints of whisky in his pockets and offered all the deacons a drink, she charged today in her suit for divorce, which was granted. “It was most embarrassing,” she said.

COURT SENTENCES 5 Prison Terms Imposed on Two by Judge Baker. Two criminal offenders fared badly in criminal court Monday when Judge Frank P. Baker sentenced them to penal institutions after finding them guilty of felonies. On a charge of transporting liquor, William H. Brown, who in December, 1929, was arrested by police in a car they said contained fifty-two gallons of liquor was sentenced to serve one to tsvo years at the Indiana state prison. Clyde Short, 17, charged with robbery and petit larceny in connection with a robbery at 1150 West New York street Nov. 2, was sentenced to serve one to ten years at the reformatory. The defendant held up Alexander Dale, robbing him of sl4, it was charged. Three youths charged with the burglary of a drug store at 1502 South Belmont avenue, were given suspended one-year farm sentences. They are Roy Smith, 16; Raymond McKissick. 17, and Arthur Collins, 17, all of Muncie. PROGRAM TO BE HELD ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY Hibernians Name Eugene Shine to Head Arrangements Group. Plans for observance of St. Patrick’s day, March 17, were announced today following the appointment of Police Lieutenant Eugene Shine as chairman of the arrangements committee by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Other committee members are: George Rice, vice-chairman; Dennis F. Delaney, secretary; Michael J. Mannix, treasurer; Robert McGuire, Eugene Clark, John F. Shanahan, B. F. Kelly, Charles F. Fisher and James E. Deery. Members of the Hibernians will attend mass and receive holy communion at St. John's Catholic church at 7:30 a. m. After services breakfast will be held in the Riley room at the Claypool. Several speeches are on the program. The St. Patrick’s day dance will be held at 7:30 p. m. in Tomlinson hall, preceded by a concert and recitations. CIVIC SUPPORT GIVEN WOMAN’S PRISON BILL Author of Proposed Legislation Asked for Explanation. Representative Russell Dean (Deni., Marion), has been invited to attend the regular meeting of the East New York Street Civic League Wednesday night at 8 to explain his plan for a bill calling for the removal of the Indiana woman's prison to a suburban location nearIndiana polls. The Brookside Civic League voted Monday night to support the bill and elected George Payne, 1424 North Tuxedo street, as the 1931 president. The Sherman-Emerson Civic League will meet tonight jat School 62 to elect officers and selftct a rep- j resentative to attend legislature ses- ! sions, support removal of the pris- ' on, and study Barrett law tnd text i book change provisions. CONCLAVE IS AT END Dr. George S. Grubb, Marion, Elected President of Optometrists. A trip through the Real Silk Hosiery Mills and an address by Dr. Julius Nuemueller, of the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry featured final sessions today of the thirty-fourth annual convention of the Indiana Association of Optometrists in the Severin, New officers arc: Dr. George S. Grubb. Marion, president; Dr. C. E. lusher. Sulivan: Dr Charles A. Meigs, Ft. Wayne: Dr. C. D. Adair Efr wood; Dr. L. C. Smith. Indianapolis, and Dr. Walter Klein, Logansport, vice-presi-dents: Dr. Adair, secretary, and Dr. B. H. Kaplan. Michigan City, treasurer. NEW PLANE LAW URGED Gasoline Tax Unfair to Aircraft, .Says Flying Service Manager. Since the 4-cent state gasoline tax is levied to build better roads for those who use them, airplanes should be exempt from such tax payment in the opinion of H. Weir Cook, general manager of the Cur-tis-Wright Flying Service of Indiana, Inc. Cook conferred with Attorney General James M. Ogden and Floyd ! E. Williamson, state auditor, MonI day, regarding possible legislation making such exemption practicable. LUMBER MEN TO MEET Furniture Production Is Topic for Convention. Furniture- production and hardwoods in general will be discussed at the annual convention of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association at the Severin Friday. A. P. Kaake. managing director, National Association of Furniture I Manufacturers, Chicago: W. E. Showers. Bloomington; Colonel E. V. Knight. New Albany; E. V. Babcock, Pittsburgh; John W. McClure. Memphis, Tenn., and John I. Shafer, South Bend, will speak.

TECH PRINCIPAL ON PROGRAM OF P. T. AJROUP De Witt S. Morgan Will Be Speaker Wednesday at School 29. “What the High School Is Trying to Do” will be the subject of De Witt S. Morgan, Technical high school principal, before the ParentTeacher Association of School 29, at 2101 College avenue, at 3:15 Wedensday. P. T. A. meetings scheduled on a wide scale for this week, following resumption of school, are: ' The P. T. A. o t School 27 will meet at 2:30 Wednesday. Mrs. Glr.a Ratti will talk on “A Glimpse of Italian Life.’’ Paul C. Stetson, Indianapolis schools' superintendent, will speak at the P. T. A. meeting of School 66, at 3:15 Wednesday. School 84 will hold Its P. T. A. meeting at .„ 2:30 Wednesday. William R. Teel will talk on “Yucatan.” and Robert Schultz will play a group of trumpet solos. The P. T. A. of School 58 will have a night meeting Friday at 8. Michael Foley will speak on “The Crime Wave.” Music will be furnished by the Music Masters or School of Music, a children's orchestra. There also will be vocal solos. Executive board of the Federation of Mothers Choruses will meet at 8:30 Monday, in the Fletcher American Bank building. Rehearsal of the massed Mothers' Chor-u-es will be held at 1:30 Tuesday, at Scnool 45, Twenty-third and Park avenue. „ T- A - of School 16 will meet at 3.15 Wednesday. Dr. Ada Schweitzer of *r,n5 ta te 1-calth, board will speak on Child \\ elfare. The Mothers’ Chorus will sing. **■ T- A - of School 47 will meet at 3:15 Thursday. Lieutenant Frank Owen will speak on “Safety.” The traffic boys will give a short program. School 14 will hold open house at 7 Fr day night for the P. T. A. Teachers mil receive parents In their rooms at -M 8 - , De , witt s - Morgan of auditorium wifi speak in the . . of n?P hoo J., 87 will meet at 3:15 Weanesoaj. Miss Flora A. Dutcher will talk on The Health of Our Children •• The program will consist of moving picJJJfJA. The Priceless Gift o# Health?' and selections by the Mothers’ Chorus. Mrs. William C. Gardner will sopalr 2 at , n 15 for thelP. t" A. meeting 6 alt 2 .q 3 , 0 'X ed r.': sday - ,„ He r subject will be r SPv Te r wll be voca * numbers by D. T G Corile E- Lowe ’ accoi npanied byjMr*. School SO will have a P. T. A. meeting Wednesday. Dr. Kyle B. Mayhall wifi talft. on Care of Our Children's Tppth ** songs, Myrtlß Burrls wiu Ein S a group of Schoof r s'? win 4 b? fu'rnTshed bTtVacheM ss a T iSE tion of her work. Pupils of Miss Helen Pfandon and Miss Marie Sandidge will £.m e c , llarae of the program. Noble Pearcv J? 11 *, an d Betty McConnell will give a.n'ano so,io. Betty Williams will dance B L Russell will give a violin solo The meeting will be held at 2:30 Wednesday. th¥ r J' m ar f v J ’ Plackmore will speak at A - meeting of School 3 at 3:15 Wednesday. She will dress in Eskimo costume and will speak on “Alaska ” Mrs Louis Schmidt is president. S * T. A. of Washington high school will meet at 8 Thursday night. The mathcmatics department under the direction of program^ 411 Elv W,U have of the wln have a P. T. A meeting at -:30 Wednesday. Mrs. David Ross win TVufftv ” n ' T 1 M° vie of Yesterday and bv d puptls. A sh ° rt proßram wlu be given ■hi?h„T;^ A ’ ot School 15 will meet at 3:15 Wednesday. There will be a short buslsirfg meetinK and the mothers chorus will Miller will speak on “Care Tenth at the P. T. A. meeting svth’ C s h anri Mi at T 3 Wednesday. Miss Fors anc } Miss Josephine Tacoma's rooms will entertain. f rerffai ft' ?, au i! >Hve a costume 78 o, 1 'in h m P H T -. A - meeting of School (6 ~t 2.30 Wednesday. Swiss vodeling w?i S ho St <£v™ and Impressions of America will be given by Mrs. Pauli. a.J-be ?• T. A. of School 57 will meet at speak Wand SdftV ' Mrs ' Davld 11055 wUI School 78 will hold its P. T. A. meeting “j; 3O Wednesday. The Rev. Edmond H. Kerlin will speak on "Religion for a FiveRoom House. Music will be furnished ? e P De T orchestra from the Music Masters School of Music. , p \ T -. A - of School 62 will meet at 2 da J- M rs - Cla.vton_Jß.idge, presids9t the Parent Teachers Federation, speak. A musical program will folr,o^i?,'oP r ,v, ce B , ennet 'C director of occupational therapaphy at the city hospital. i? e w ' %bool 43. P T. A. meeting fnrni!hJf re £ nes !f? v - ? Dec J, al music will be furnished by Mrs. A. C. Garnet. The S-v. 1 ds „ studv class w>. continue every Thursday morning at 1:15 at the school. A, 1 !!*®, is n° fee in* connection. Anyone interested is welcome. ... T. A. of School 54 will meet at 7:30 Wednesday night. The program will be given by the Pagan orchestra and will include a playlet. “Toyland.” bv children or the school. The mothers* chorus will give a cantata. Fathers are idvited. School 49 will hold its P. T. A. meeting cnr, :ls K Tl l e Program will be sh e fifth grade pupils: a playlet. Safety First.” given by the second grade pupils: playlet. * he Little Homemaker. by fourth grade, and songs by mothers’ chorus. Sidney R Esten wil speak at School 13. at 2.30 Wednesday. He will lecture with pictures on "Our State Parks.” p -. T - A - of School 41 will meet at 2:30 Wednesday. Mrs. Logan G. Hughes will speak on ‘Child Welfare.” Mrs. Mary Tvapb* sing, accompanied by Mildred Cathcart Warrick. Parent-Teacher federation will hold its midyear meeting at 1:30, Jan. 28. at School 66. “Yellow” Press to Fade, Says Editor By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 13. “Yellow journalism” emancipated the American press from the control of hidden interests, but it will not endure, in the opinion of Walter Lippman, editor of the New York World, expressed in an address to Yale students Monday night.

Senate Committees

Senate committees named by i Lieutenant - Governor Edgar D. Bush too late for publication in Monday's Times follow: Agriculture—Lindlev. chairman; Friedler, Schull and Tormohlen. Republicans, and Drake. Drulev and Morris. Democrats. County and Township Business—Alldredge, chairman: Southworth. Adams. Biown, Pell. Slenker and Walters. Republicans, and Chambers. Gorman. Lochard and Williams. Democrats. Cities and Towns—Holmes, chairman: Clements. Hartzell and Sherwood. Republicans. and Brewster. Druley and Morris, Democrats. Affairs of the Citv of Indianapolis—Niblack. chairman: Miller. Beckett. Hoffman and Moorhead. Republicans, and C.- A. Perkins and E. A. Perkins. Democrats. Criminal Code —Clements. chairman: Niblack. Sims and Adams. Republicans, and Kehoe. Ketchum and Wade. Democrats. Education—Tormohlen. chairman: Sims. Lindlev and Aldredge. Republicans, and Morris. Ketchum and Brewster. Democrats. Enrolled Bills—Schull. chairman: Tormohlen. Berkey and Brown. Republicans, and Williams. Gottschalk and Gorman. Democrats. Finance —Huff. chairman: Moorhead. Beckett. Southworth and Hoffman. Repuolicans. and Chambers. Drake. Gottschaik and Lochard. Democrats. Fees and Salaries—Sims. chairman; Holmes. Garrott and Rowley. Republicans, and Raber. E. A. Perkins and Holman. i Democrats. Jadieiarv A—Hoffman, chairman: Niblack. Berkev. Garrott. Moorhead and ; Adams. Republicans, and Clouser. Gotta- ; chair. Cutiibertscn. Kchoc and Ketchum. j Democrats. *, Judiciary C—Clemeuas. chairman; Und- : ley, Hartzell and BoutlPaorth, Republicans. 1

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Citizenship Is Resumed

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Representative T;I!a C. Haines Democratic Party Worker for Last Eight Years Comes to Capital. Miss Telia C. Haines, Democratic representative in the seventy-sev-enth Indiana general assembly from Sullivan county, is the first Democratic woman member of either house in the history of Indiana politics. A Democratic party worker for eight years, Miss Haines never before has sought a public office though she served in 1928 as vicechairman of the Second congressional district. Monday afternoon in the house caucus she was elected permanent caucus secretary by aclamation. Miss Haines has been named a member of the house committees on claims, legislative apportionment and mines and mining, is ranking member of the committee on ministers and chairman of the public libraries committee. Obtaining her preliminary legal education at Indiana university, Miss Haines has had an able political mentor in Charles H. Bedwell, Speaker of the house in 1915, in whose office she practices law. Miss Haines was admitted to the bar in 1928 and now is secretary of the Sullivan County Bar Association. She also is a member of the Psi lota Xi sorority.

and Wade. Brewster and Williams, Democrats. Joint Rules—Hartzell. chairman; Nejdl and Chambers. Republicans. Military Affairs—Moorhead, chairman: Niblack. Huff and Clements. Republicans, and Kcfftschalf. Brewster and C. A. Perkins. Democrats. Organization of Courts—Southworth, chairman: Berkev. Sims and Sllnkcr. Republicans. and Clouser. Holman and Wade. Democrats. Phraseology of Bills Mid Unfinished Business—Brown. chairmanAjiowley and Beckett. Republicans, and Brewster. Chambers. Gottschalk and Holman. Democrats. Prisons—Berkey. chairman: Idndlev. Alldredge and Rowley. Republicans, and Clouser. Cuthbertson and Raber. Democrats. Public Health—Friedlev. chairman: Huff and Schull. Republicans, and Cuthbertson, Gorman and Ketchum. Democrats. Public Libraries—Hoadley. chairman: Pell. Friedlev and Miller. Republicans, and Wade. E. A. Perkins and C. A. Perkins. Democrats. Public PrinLnr Slenker. chairman; Friedlev. Miller and Hoadlev. Republicans, and Williams. Lochard and Gorman, Democrats. Reformatories—Beckett, chairman: AUdredge. Berkev and Martin. Republicans, and. Dennigan.. Gorman, and. Clouser. Democrats. Railroads—Brown. chairman: Southworth. Rowley. Clements and Adams. Republicans. and Morris. Ketchum. Kehoe and E. A. Perkins. Democrats. Roads—Sherwood. chairman: Brown. Friedlev and Strev. Republicans, and Brewster. Cutherbertson and Lochard, Democrats. Rules—Nejdl. chairman: Hartzell. Southworth and Pell. Republicans, and Chambers end William-. Democrats, and Lieutenant Governor Bush. Swam* lands and Drains— Holmes, clerk: Berkev. Brown and Walters. Republicans. and Cuthbertson. C. A. Perkins and Holman. Democrat*,

Citizenship! That's expressed in the accompanying photo as Gravel and George Voida, 11 and 13. respectively, are shown, left to right, in their new American garb. The boys arrived in Indian a p o 1 is Sunday in the homespun of their native land. Transylvania. They were bom here. They were taken back to the “old country” by their mother. They regained citizenship in the land of their birth by donning the ma-chine-m a de garni e nt sos the United States. The youths are staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Sauer. 556 West Washington street.

Victory of Plymouth Man Over Fabius Gwin Surprising. Representative Delph L. McKesson, of Plymouth (Dem., Marshall),' today held the leadership of the topheavy Democratic majority in the Indiana House of Representatives by virtue of a caucus election Monday that marked the first important “bucket upset" of the session. Election of a caucus chairman went off by clock-work and the post was accorded Representative Earl Crawford (Dem., Union and Wayne) by acclamation. Representative Telia C. Haines (Dem., Sullivan), only woman member of the legislature, was elected caucus secretary in the same ‘manner. When nominations for majority floor leader were called, Representative Fabius Gwin (Dem., Dubois and Martin) was nominated by John Masselink (Vigo), and Mc.Kesson by John F. Cory (Lake). Upon a motion to close the nominations Fred Galloway (Marion) asked the chair to hold up the action until he had an opportunity to make a nomination. The motion to close was tabled and Galloway nominated Herbert P. Kenney (Floyd). Upon the first vote Gwin received 35 votes; two less than the necessary majority; McKesson got 28, and Kenney, 13. The ’atter withdrew and on the second ote McKesson got 38 votes and Gwin, 35. Gwin Defeat Unexpected McKesson’s selection upset the dope Bucket, as it had been Gwin would be named floor leader and Kenney would head Judiciary A. The only other business transacted in the house during the afternoon session was the reading of committee appointments and introduction and passage under suspension of the rules of a $150,000 appropriation bill to pay the expensed of the seventy-seventh session. An insight into the Republican house minority policy for the session was given the Democrats when the report of the committee on rules was read in which the number of members of the committees on legislative and congressional reapportionment was increased from 13 to 17 in order to give the Republicans four members. Republican Balks Representative James M. Knapp (Rep., Wayne), who was 1929 speaker and is minority leader, refused to sign the report as Republican member. “I did not sign the report, not because of a policy of opposition, but because the minority feels that the j increase to seventeen members will make the committee unwieldy and too bulky to handle" he said, and we will not be able to get the results we desire to obtain. ‘‘We minority members of the house will not vote against acceptance of the report because you have enough votes to obtain its passage. But we do not want to be responsible for any changes in the rules.” The report was approved, the Republicans not voting. NEGRO BANDITS GET S2O Insurance Collector Forced Into Alley, Robbed by Gunmen. Two Negro bandits today robbed Rover Ramey, 951 West Thirty-first street, insurance collector, of S2O. They drew revolvers and forced Ramey into an alley in the 600 block Torbett street. P. J. Walker, 819 Park avenue, another collector, fled when the Negroes drew revolvers. The bandits fled in a car, driving toward the downtown district +■ WILLIAMS HEADS~BANK Farmers Trust Company Executive Elected President Charles N. Williams, veteran executive of the Fanners’ Trust Company, was elected president at the meeting of its board of directors Monday. Mark V. Rinehart, former president, resigned to attend to personal affairs.

CONGRESS AIRS BOOZE TRIALS OF CITY COPS Bitter Battle Looms Over j $11,530,680 Plea for Dry Enforcement. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN Timet Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13. The celebrated Indianapolis govern-ment-owned speakeasy, where liquor | was sold to policemen to gain evidence against them for conspiracy : to violate the prohibition laws, may be closed, but it isn’t forgotten. The case, in fact, is destined to be an extremely important factor in whether or not the prohibition forces will get $11,530,680 for prohibition enforcement in the coming fiscal year. Representative J. Charles Lintnicum (Dem., Md.), who will lead the fight on the floor of the house against the department of justice supply bill, has announced his intention of featuring the Indianapolis case. Branded “Fragrant Misuse”, He branded it “a most flagrant misuse of government funds.” Amos W. Woodcock, prohibition commissioner, however, thinks it it was justified. Likewise Woodcock defends the use of tapped wires in uncovering evidence. The battle, which will open this week, will center around two requests by the prohibition forces. The first is for 500 additional agents. The second concerns an item of $316,000 for “special and miscellaneous current expenses.” “No More Revolting Case” Opponents of the bill will seek to defeat the first and to insert an amendment prohibiting further expenditures of money lor the operation of illicit liquor dispensaries. Relative to the Indianapolis case. Representative Linthicum averred that “there is no more revolting case in the history of American jurisprudence.” “Even the trial courts,” he continued, “acknowledge that the operation of a speakeasy by the government agents constituted a grave irregularity of procedure. We do not believe the American people are ready to countenance this sort of official lawlessness.”, Spent $31,940 for Booze Publication cf the committee hearings today revealed Commissioner Woodcock testified his agents had spent" $31,940 for purchase of liquor during the first four months of the year. This was in support of his request for an additional $316,000. Representative George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts, in a minority committee report, assailed this money as a “scandalous and indefensible expenditure.” “This very large sum of money from the public treasury admittedly is intended to be spent for the commission of the very acts made a crime by the prohibition law,” he averred. “And the director of prohibition was unable to submit to the committee a statute or a court decision to prove that such acts of his employes were not crimes.” PETITION FIL'eD FOR SPEEDWAY BUS LINE Tibbs Avenue Residents Seek New Transportation Route. Anew bus service, sale of a water plant and authority to sell stock issues were among petitions filed with the public service commission today. Eighty residents on Tibbs avenue, Speedway City, petitioned for bus service on a route extending from Sixteenth street to Tibbs avenue, south to West Tenth street, west to Speedway City, north to Sixteenth street and return. The Central .Greyhound Lines, Inc., asks the commission for permission to carry parcels from Indianapolis to Evansville and also to consolidate several certificates of operation along that route. Interstate Public Service Company asked for permission to sell the water plant at Leavenworth, Crawford county, to John G. Lutz. The Chicago District Generating Corporation of Hammond petitioned for authority to sell 30,000 shares of its 6 per cent cumulative preferred stock.

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‘Pre-War’ Loss By United Press LORAIN. 0., Jan. 13.—Albert Diedrlcks today gave police a long list of items that were stolen by burglars who ransacked his store. Heading the list was;' “Two quarts of whisky (prewar) .”

PLAY VIEWED BY TELEVISION ‘Retouched’ Drama Is Put on Air Successfully. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 13— An eerie glimpse into the future was afforded Monday night to guests of L. P. Gamer, engineer, who watched the first successful attempt to broadcast a musical comedy by television. The play, “Their Television Honeymoon,” in which the bride was willing to see her husband only by television until a mouse got into her room, was broadcast from station W9XAO, which is a part of radio station WIBO. In Gamer’s home, several miles away from the studio, the guests saw the play produced upon a tiny screen, two feet square, saw clearly the images of the actors and heard every sound, even to the final kiss of the “Television Honeymooners.” The successful broadcast was made possible by new inventions of U. A. Sanabria, 24, an engineer. These inventions make it possible, Gamer explained, for the transmitting operator to retouch the images as they go on the air. Previously, Garner said, television broadcasters have used single , spirals, but with the new inventions they use triple spirals instead in their scanning disks. The difference, he explained in non-engineering language, is merely the 'difference between one eye and three eyes—the operator can see three times as well. BOYCE FAILS TO WIN STATE SENATE POST Norman Neely Named Reading Clerk by Patronage Committee. Attempt of the Marion county delegation to make William D. j Boyce, Jr., former city clerk, read- | ing clerk of the senate failed and I the position was given to Norman | Neely of Bloomington by the senate I patronage committee. The Democratic senators decided to frame a “steering committee” to handle minority patronage. Senators J. Francis Lochard, Miland, and Waite ■ S. Chambers, Newcastle, were made members and will name two more. Final unfilled posts of the patronage committee were decided upon as follows: Indorsing clerk. Miss' Dorothy Leach: registry clerk. Miss Margaret Byers: calendar clerk. Mrs. A. C. Parish; assistant postmaster, Mrs. Rosa McCreary; stenographers. Miss Clyde Schumeier, Boonville; Patsy Owens, Indianapolis; Miss Nellie Van Voorst. Ft. Wayne; Miss Dorothy Laib, Evansville; Miss Gladys Morgan, Scottsburg; engrossing room. Mrs. Enola Z. Fetters. Indianapolis; assistant engrossing clerk. Miss Goldie Wheeler, and assistant doorkeepers. Ernest Stevenson. Allen Reed, E. A. Clark. Walter Wagner. Orla Kennedy and Arthur Renick. SOUTHPORT TO RAISE FUNDS TO AID NEEDY Three Basketball Games Listed on Program at High School. An entertainment, the proceeds to go for relief work in Perry township, will be given at the Southport high school tonight. It is the first of a series of special programs for benefit of the needy. Admission will be foodstuffs, clothing or cash. Three basketball games will be played, with the following teams participating: Edgewood women’s team against the girls’ team of the Pennsylvania railroad; Southport business men’s quintet against the Southport teachers, and the Southport Black Diamonds against the Edgewood Athleic Club team. Blasting Rained Eggs; Town Sued METHUEN, Mass., Jan. 13. Claiming that blasting at the town quarry near his home ruined a setting of 500 eggs, David Levesque has filed suit against the town for S6O damages.

_JAN. 13, 1931

AGE PENSIONS, FLO6GINS BILLS BEFORE SENATE Horsethief Detective Act Repeal Proposed in Niblack Measure. Proposals ranging from old age pensions to the flogging of felons with cat-o'-nine-tails were contained in the seven bills which went down the aisles of the Indiana senate today. Senators James J. Nejdl (Rep., Lake), and Walter S. Chambers 'Dem., Hancock. Henry and Madison), introduced the old age pension*measure, sponsored nationally by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. It would require counties to share equally with the state the expenses of old age pensions, not to exceed $25 monthly, to the aged and indigent, lacking other means of support. It would require the pensioners to have been residents of the state and county at least fifteen consecutive years and be at least 65 years of a-ge. and to meet other qualifications. Sent to Committee Old-age pension measures of previous legislative sessions have been optional with counties. Today’s, mandatory in character, was sent to the committee on county and township business. Senator Robert L. Moorhead (Rep., Marion) was author of the flogging bill. It would require judges, when sentencing a felon, to prescribe from ten to twenty strokes with a cat-o’-nine tails “on the bare back, well laid on.” Should the felon be convicted of more than one offense, the strokes could not exceed sixty. Authority Abused The punishment would be administered by the warden of the state prison or the superintendent of the reformatory or someone of their designation. ’Females would be exempt from such punishment. Repeal of the 1907 “horsethief detective” act. long a controversial legislative subject, would be provided by a bill introduced by Senator John L. Niblack (Rep., Marion.) Detectives operating under the act have unreasonably broad powers of arrest, Niblack asserted, and abuses of their authority have been frequent and flagrant, he explained. A similar measure died in committee two years ago. Others Submitted Other measures introduced today were: Senator Ralph Adams (Rep.. Fayette, Rush and Shelby)—Making Armistice day a legal holiday. Senators Adams and C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Lake)—Reducing the length of time of a probate to six months in discretion of the court. Senators Earl Rowley (Rep., La Porte and Stark), and Will Brown (Rep., Jasper, Newton, Porter and Pulaski) —Allowing all circuit judges and superior judges, whose districts embrace more than one county, SSOO a year in lieu of traveling expenses, to be paid monthly. Senator Herbert V. Tormohlen (Rep., Jay and Randolph)— Amending oleomargarine act to prqhibit use of oleomargarine in state •institutions othe~ than penal institutions. The senate adjourned after a brief morning session to reconvene at 10 Wednesday.

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