Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1931 — Page 2

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CONTROL OVER UTILITY HOLDING FIRMS SOUGHT Bill Defeated in Session of 1929 Reintroduced by Senator Moorhead. Another attempt to bring utility holding companies within jurisdlct*on of the Indiana public service ( ommission was made today when the bill which failed in the 1929 ses- ' ion was reintroduced in the senate oy Senator Robert L. Moorhead 'Rep., Marion). Under the bill s provisions the holding companies would jc declared utilities and thus come directly pndcr the commission's power. At' present they escape on the ” rout ? ds that they are not operating utilities and. therefore, the commission has no control over them. Road Lighting Proposed Utility lobbyists were able to kill the measure after a long and bitteir struggle at the last legislative ses- : ion. It is opposed by large utility interests who have found the holding company an easy way to circumvent state control, Moorhead charges. The bill is backed by members of the public service commission who point out that only with a free hand over holding companies can they successfully control the larger utility operators. A bill in which the utilities are likely to be more interested seeing pass, w-as introduced in the senate by Senator j. Francis Lochard ( Dem., Dearborn, Jennings and Ripley). It would permit the state highway department or county commissioners to enter into tenyear contracts to light rural roads | and pay for construction of such j lighting outfits by special funds appropriated for such purpose. Credit Unions Affected The state health department bill for creations of county unit health service on a full-time basis was introduced in the senate by-Senator Rollo N. Walker (Rep. Dekalb, Steuben and Lagrange*. Two bills referred to the committee on Indianapolis affairs were presented. One'would have the Indianapolis school city donate $5,000 to the children's museum and the other calls for codification of Indianapolis sewer and drain construction laws. Miller introduced a bill permitting credit unions to charge 1 per cent monthly on loans, instead of the present 8 per cent yearly limit. . Another bill introduced legalized | the shooting and killing of pigeons, j TRUSTEE NAMED FOR HIDE. LEATHER FIRM Union Trust Company to Distribute Assets to Creditors. Properties of the Hide Leather and Belting Company, 227 Southl Meridian street, valued at about j $500,000 today were to be turned I over to the Union Trust Company, trustee, for distribution to 435 creditors, on direction 'of CaVl Wilde', federal master in chancery. The trust company was named trustee after A. G. Snider, president, committed suicide Sept. 26. Included in the assets of the firm to be distributed will be a $135,000 insurance policy of Mr. Snider. Wilde stated. JAIL RELEASE SOUGHT BY OPIUM SMUGGLER Chinese. Woman Asks Permission to Enter Hospital. By United Press NANKING. China, Jan. 23.—Temporary release from prison so she may enter a hospital was sought, today for Mrs. Kao ring by her husband. former vice-consul at San Francisco, it was reported from Sooshow-. Mrs. Ying w-as convicted in the Nanking district court of attempting to smuggle $600,000 worth of opium into the United States and was sentenced to serve four years. Recently she became seriously ill. Road Work Opposed ANDERSON. Ind., Jan. 23. Paving of the Dale J. Noland road, estimated to cost $182,000, as the first . link of a continuous paved highway between Anderson and Elwood, is opposed in a remonstrance filed with Ward Shetterly, Madison county auditor. The remonstrance will be certified to the state board of tax’ commissioners, which once disapproved a proposed bond issue. The project was then revived. Most of the opposition comes from residents who favor a route through the town of Hamilton over a route through Frankton, the latter route having- been approved by Madison county commissioners.

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HOLD 3 IN OOP SHOOTINO CASE Grand Jury to Get Alleged Tire Shop Burglars. Aftermath of a hectic ten minutes Jan. 6, in which two policemen were shot in a burglary escapade, came Thursday when three men were bound over to the grand jury by Judge Paul C. Wetter in municipal court. They are George S. Mears.- 25, of 618 Vi Virginia avenue; William Thayer, 25, of 909 Edison street, and Carl Tate, 4450 Caroline avenue. They are charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, burglary and assault, and assault and battery with intent to kill. Two policemen, Ferdinand H. Finchum and Owen Tevlin, surprised the trio forcing the rear door of a tire shop at Northwestern avenue and thirtieth street. Tate fled and while the police were searching Thayer and Mears, Mears is alleged to have fired three shots and ran. Thayer was held, Mears was picked up a few hours later and Tate was captured in Washington, D. C. RED CRQSS ASSAILED Relief Denied Strikers in Virginia, Payne Told. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—A special investigator for the national Red Cross will arrive today in The Danville textile strike area to investigate claims by strikers that hungry families there are not being fed by the local Red Cross and that the Red Cross is “sympathetic with the company.” The investigator - was sent by Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the national Red Cross. "I have sent one of our best men to Danville to investigate,” said Judge 'Payne. “The Red Cross never has taken sides in any industrial dispute.” Representative J. Hamilton Fish of New York, also appealed to by the strikers’ committee, said that he had urged the Red Cross to feed the hungry in Danville. 4 HELDINMURDER New Evidence Discovered in Slaying of Teacher. - By United Press FT. MORGAN, Colo., Jan. 23. Three men and a woman were under arrest today in connection with the mystery murder of Enid Marriott, school teacher, whose body was found frozen in a drainage canal two months af,ter she disappeared. Arrest of Lloyd Lung, Denver, followed discovery of a bullet-riddled automobile which Sheriff Rufus Johnston said Lung had borrowed from Sidney Hughes the night Miss Marriott was slain. Hughes also is under arrest. Harry E. Moore, a road worker, is free under bond, but was charged with abduction in connection with the case. Name of the woman held was not revealed.

From 1,000 to 3,000 people gath- : er at the Center township trustee’s office daily, looking for food, coal, clothing and work. Here is part of the group which, due to j inadequate facilities, could not be kept inside in the warmth this j morning while four clerks were listing their names and addresses. This is a daily occurrence at 122 ; North East street, offices of Mrs. j Hannah Noone, trustee.

Complaints Found Baseless: Workers at Posts for Long Hours. From 12,000 to 15,000 families in Center township, Indianapolis, alone are “on the county.” From 750 to 3,000 baskets of food, ranging in cost from $3.50 to $5 each, are being distributed by the township trustee, Mrs. Hannah Noone, daily. Thousands of bottles of milk for babies, additional thousands of loaves of bread and countless orders of coal, clothing, and other necessities, are pouring out of this center of human distress each week. Workers are handicapped by the hopelessly inadequate facilities of an old-fashioned, grimy, two-story brick building at 122 North East street, continually harassed by the inconsiderate among charity seekers, heckled from all sides and depressed by the seeming lack of appreciation from both those they are helping and those who provide the fundi. Labor Long Hours These are some of the things revealed to a Times reporter investigating complaints of petty grafting, favoritism in granting contracts for supplies and heartlessness in dealing with human suffering, which had originated from recipients of county charity who felt they had not been treated fairly. Instead of substantiation of these reports, the reporter found these things: Social workers laboring from ten to fifteen hours daily, with no thought of extra effort or extra hours that they might relieve distress. A sincere effort to investigate and record the results of investigation of each case, that dispensation of the poor relief fund might take place in inorderly manner and with due respect to the rights of county taxpayers who provide that fund. Agitation Is Noted A great deal of agitation, much of it provocative in motive, among victims of depression. Much of this is in the form of quiet propaganda emanating from a limited group of professional agitators who have been operating here for some time. A sincere attempt to induce the destitute to help themselves, in the form of providing employment for them. And a host of evidence that even in these days of depression, poverty, unemployment, hunger, there are those who would take advantage of the really needy and seek to obtain charitable disbursements where they were not deserved. One of the primary cases of complaints reaching The Times came from applicants for poor relief who had claimed that the baskets of food received by them did not contain full value in food items—that either the township officials or the grocers providing these baskets were making exorbitant profit.

- Complaints Found Baseless The complaints were checked and j unanimously were found to be withI out foundation. One sample case: W C , a painter hving in the Brookside section, has a wife and two children. He never before had applied for ' poor relief. He appeared at the trustee's office, asking for work. He received a ticket to report to the ‘‘make-work'’ committee, at 308 North Meridian street, where he was given three days employment at 30 cents an hour. He was told at the time that $5 of the amount to be earned would be supplied in food items and $2.20 in cash. He worked the three days. A basket of food was sent to his home. He and his wife checked the items, discovered that--there w? not $5 worth of food in thc baskeT and he came to The Times with his story. Checked at $3.58 Reporte. a f The Times took his sales slip, sh >pped ten independent groceries, averaged the prices, and found the average total to be $3.58. Feeling sure that evidence of irregularity had been found, a hasty call at the trustee's office was made. This was revealed: The basket sent to the home of this painter was not the basket for which he had been charged $5. It was, instead, a $3.50 basket, sent out that he and his family might have food while he was working. His $5 basket will arrive at bis' home Saturday afternoon with the regular weekly deliveries. . Asa result for his three-days’ work he gets $8.50 in food am* $2.20 in cash.

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SHOALS ISSUE UP ON MONDAY Effort to Be Made Again for Compromise. ffu Serippa-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—What may be the final effort to reach a compromise on Muscle Shoals at this session will be made next Monday when conferees of the house and senate resume their sessions. The last session broke up when Senator George W. Norris (Rep., Neb.) walked out after house conferees had refused to agree to his stipulations concerning the lease of the nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals. Senator Charles L. McNary (Rep., Ore.), chairman of the senate conferees, said today he proposed to exhaust every effort to reach an agreement with the present conferees. He said he had not paid attention to the proposal, made informally -both in the house and senate, to let the matter lie over until the next session brings a congress which probably will be more friendly to the Norris bill for government operation of the Shoals. Unless something unforeseen occurs between now and the conference, many senators and representatives believe it will end in another disagreement. In that event, more attention may be paid to the resolution recently introduced by Representative John Garner (Texas), the minority leader, asking discharge of the present house conferees and appointment of hew ones.. SIMMONS IS NAMED Democrat Elected to Fill Vacancy in House. By .United Press BLUFFTON, Ind., Jan. 23.—Virgil L. Simmons, Democrat and Bluffton attorney, was chosen in a special election Thursday, to fill the vacancy in the Indiana general assembly

created by the recent death of Representative George L. Saunders, Bluffton publisher. Simmons held a plurality of 1,032 over his Republican opponent, Dillon Myers, a Bluffton florist, for the seat from Adams and Wells counties. Voting w r as light; approximately 40 per cent of that of the recent election. Vote by counties was:

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Adams—Simmons, 1,776;* Myers, 802. Wells—Simmons, 1,998; Myers, 1.940. Simmons is expected to leave for Indianapolis immediately to take over his duties. CASES OFsTx SET FOR NIGHT COURT HEARINGS Alleged Cumberland Bank Robber Pleads Not Guilty. Cases of six defendants accused of major crimes have been-set for trial in night sessions of criminal court next week. Judge Frank P. Baker announced today. Ordia Bruce, indicted for the robbery' of the Cumberland State bank recently, will be tried Tuesdaynight. Arraigned today before Baker, Bruce pleaded not guilty. Cases of Frank Thomas and Newman Adkins, both under indictment for robbery in connection with the holdup and shooting of an Indianapolis grocer, will be tried Monday night. On Wednesday night Baker will try Eugene S. Goben, charged with burglary;, Ralph Morris, charged with robbery, and Edward L. Grunnell, indicted for second degree burglary. INSPECTibYTO BE HELD Royal Arch Masons Chapter Will Hold Ceremony Saturday. Annual inspection of officers will be held at 7:30 Saturday night by Keystone Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, at the Masonic temple, Illinois and North streets. Herbert A. Graham. Elkhart, grand lecturer of Indiana, will conduct the inspection. Alfred B. Lyon is high priest of the chapter. Business Places Robbed ’ FREELANDVILLE, Ind., Jan. 23. —Three armed men who invaded this town in an automobile, made Charles Tilley, night watchman, their, captive while they robbed two stores and a poolroom.

FIFTEEN BILLS WIN APPROVAL IN COMMITTEE Ax Falls on Nine Measures in House; ‘Yellow Dog’ Contract Hit. The guillotine fell on nine measures in the Indiana house this morning, while fifteen won approval of committees, concurred in by the house at large, and were advanced to second reading. Among those killed on the block of indefinite postponement were bills to reduce the legal contract interest rate from 8 to 6 per cent a year; exempt the federal government from gasoline taxes in Indiana; authorize payment of expenses of a house committee junket to the Indiana state prison; increase the pay of grand and petit jurors, and require the licensing of book and nmgazine distributors in small cities. Committee reports favoring passage were adopted on bills levying a tax of 5 cents a pound on oleomargarine, making Armistice day a legal holiday, prohibiting prosecuting attorneys from prosecuting divorce actions, and others. Teacher Bill Saved A bill excluding cities of 3,000 and less population from provisions of the teacher tenure law was recommended for indefinite postponement in a majority report. The minority, favoring passage, succeeded, however, in saving the bill for further consideration at 10:30 a. m., Wednesday. Indianapolis flood prevention and airport bills were advanced to second reading, the house requiring the long flood prevention measure be printed, although Indianapolis representatives had sought to avoid this, in the interest of economy. An important step in the fight of labor against the notorious ‘‘yellow dog” contract in Indiana was taken with adoption of a report from the house committee on labor for passage of the bill making such agreements illegal. The measure was introduced by Representative John M. Masselink (Dem., Vigo), who is chairman of the labor committee. It not only is sponsored by the State Federation of Labor but is one of the labor planks in the Democratic state platform. Bond to Cover Pay Rolls Another workers’ measure reported out favorably would require persons or corporations operating mines under lease to post bonds equal to twice the amount of the weekly pay roll unless they own property In excess of this amount. Recommendation that the bill placing a 5-cent sales tax on each pound of oleomargarine be passed will be embodied in the report of the house committee on agriculture. Members of this body declared that the tax would protect Hoosier farmers against the business inroads made by the sale of this product, some of the ingredients of oleomargarine being imported. Death verdicts were decreed at the ways and means committee’s meeting late Thursday for two measures directly affecting Indianapolis, one of them calling for the removal of the Indiana women's prison from its site at Randolph and New York streets to a rural site and carrying a demand for a $320,000 appropriation. Representative Albert F. Walsman (Dem., Marion) led a minority report on the prison bill. The second measure concerning Indianapolis authorized a $150,000 appropriation for the use of Stout field, Mars Hill, and is sought in order to allow the national guard to receive six new airplanes from the federal government. Reports Arc Delayed The reports were not submitted today, however. Walsman and Representative Earl Crawford (Dem., Union and Wayne) and majority caucus leader, joined in leading the attack on the Broughton resolution authorizing expenses for the committee on affairs of the state prison for an inspection trip. “These trips usualy are farce,” Walsman said. “The probers are ‘wined and dined’ until they forget what they're investigating. That’s the way things were when the Allen county commissioners inspected the county poor farm and found conditions worse than in the middle ages. They ‘whitewashed’ it in their report.” Crawford declared he was opposed to setting any precedent for expensive junkets by any group at the state expense. School Bill Opposed The committee voted six to five for passage of the amended HainesEvans uniform poll tax law which provided a levy of $2.50 for all men and women between 21 and 50 years. The measure now provides that twofifths of the revenue go to the state general fund and the remaining three-fifths to the school fund. Other bills given short shrift by the committee were the school bill of Representative Fabius W. Gwin (Dem., Martin and Dubois), which fixed the state instead of the city or township as a school taxation unit, and an amendatory measure permitting county treasurers to open temporary tax collection offices in incorporated towns with salaries of S4OO for deputies. COUZENS CONTRIBUTES SIO,OOO TO RED CROSS Detroit’s Drought Aid Quota Given Boost by Senator and Wife. By United Press DETROIT, Jan. 23.—Impetus to the local Red Cross for $350,000, j Detroit’s quota of the $10,000,000 drought relief fund campaign was given today’ by a gift of SIO,OOO from Senator James Couzens and Mrs. Couzens. In a letter accompanying the j gift, Couzens explained that he was ! in favor of and voted to have the : government appropriate money for i human drought relief purposes. Aged Man Dies Ey Tim** Special CICERO, Ind., Jan. 23.—George j Fetty, 73, is dead at his home here,' he leaves his widow and four chil- j dren, Mrs. Edna Reasoner, Nobles- ! ville; Roy Fetty, Anderson; Clarence ! Fetty, Arcadia, and John H. Fetty, New' York. Brothers living are: William. Noblesville; Charles. Anthony, Heaty and John. Cicero; Frank, . Sjlawtown and James, Laurel, IndJ

Chill Dip in Fall Creek Just Romp for Tourist

•** ..., \.i '> - t ’ W y ,v.y. Hollywood Man. on Long Endurance Tour. Stops - Here * or Swim. xWJt' You who sweltered through more i than 100 degrees in heat waves last summer should get a kick out of *' j Most of you then were seeking refreshment in bathing pools, but how many are swimming these chill i January days, particularly with only * *** the ice cakes of Fall Creek for com- , tt, , It's nart nf this vnnnc inan'c irh

Left: Frank Fielding ready for an icy plunge in Fall Creek, and right, the plunge.

SLAYS HOUSEKEEPER Bootlegger Fears Exposure; Kills Woman, Self. By United- Press ONEIDA, N. Y., Jan. 23.—Fear of exposure as a bootlegger drove Albert E. Suits to kill his 50-year-old housekeeper, Mrs. Laura Manning, and commit suicide, Police Chief Henry Smith of Oneida announced today. Tw’o letters accusing Suits of selling liquor and countenancing visitors who were displeasing to Mrs. Manning w’ere found on her body w’hen it was examined in a morgue here. p

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Hollywood Man. on Long Endurance Tour, Stops Here for Swim. You who sweltered through more than 100 degrees in heat waves last summer should get a kick out of this. Most of you then were seeking refreshment in bathing pools, but how many are swimming these chill January days, particularly with only the ice cakes of Fall Creek for company? It’s part of this young man's job. He is Frank Fielding, Hollywood, who says he is one of three remaining out of 600 who April 2, 1928, began a strange endurance tour with a $70,000 prize awaiting the winnner, if any, in 1932. The test, sponsored by motion picture companies, is to determine howtough the human body is, Fielding declares He wears only white duck trousers and a white cotton shirt, besides shoes and stockings; he must be on his feet twenty hours a day; sleep only in chairs; bathe outdoors once a day; and exist on a diet of twenty-four eggs, six of them raw’; two cans of soup, three quarts of milk, a quart of orange juice, a loaf of bread and a box of crackers. Fielding says he has skated and w-alked 32,228 miles of the 56,000 he must complete before 1932. He says he already has covered all South and Central American countries, and after touring Indiana, Arkansas and Louisiana, will go to Europe.

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STATE SENATE ' VOTE ON DRY LAW ISASKED Eighteenth Amendment Revision Urged in Resolution by Perkins. Senator Chester A. Perkins (Dem , St. Joseph), a “personal dry,” who contends that prohibition has been “tried and found wanting.” introduced in the senate today a joint resolution asking congress to amend the eighteenth amendment. Perkins’ proposal calls for an amendment vesting the regulation of liquor sale and manufacture in congress with the several states acting on its ratification in state convention. He rails attention to the fact that nine members of the Wickersham commission favored submitting the question to popular vote. The resolution declares prohibition has nullified most of the good accomplished by the temperance movement, has fostered graft in public office, financed crime, and given liquor the glamor of forbidden fruit in its appeal to modern youth. The Perkins resolutiton went to the committee on constitutional revision of which Senator Winfield Miller (Rep.. Marion) is chairman. A similar resolution introduced by him in 1929 failed. WOMAN VICTOR IN RACE AFTER THIEF Mrs. Catherine Edie Chases Negro Purse Grabber Five Blocks. It’s going to be a faster robber than Blaine Burnett. 28, Negro, 2635 Boulevard place, who steals, anything from Mrs. Catherine Edie, of the Claypool, and gets away with it. She chased Burnett five blocks through alleys before two patrolmen who joined the pursuit overtook and arrested him. Burnett, they say, readily confessed he grabbed Mrs. Edie's purse, containing more than S6OO in money and jewelry. He surrendered the purse. The Negro jerked her purse from her arm while she was walking on Meridian street, between Michigan and Vermont streets.