Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1931 — Page 3

JAN. 31, 1931

THIEVES' LOOT DURING NIGHT TOTALS $2,000 Heavy Safe, Cash, Movie Machine Are Among Articles Stolen. Men who live by their gun* and wit* were busy in the city Friday night and early today victimizing a long list of persons and taking money and goods worth more than $2,000, according to police records. Two Negro bandits leveled guns at Ivan and Harlan Hurst, R. R. 2, Mt. Meridian, on National road, near Bridgeport, early this morning, and took $53 in money and watches valued at $49. From the Robert Williams pharmacy, 2455 Martlndale avenue, thieves carried a 1,500-pound safe with SSO In it, Pat Sweeney, grocer at 1420 Columbia avenue, told police this morning that $l4O worth of merchandlst had been stolen from his store. • Awakened by Police Dog Thieves who broke int othe auto of I. M. Adler, 526 East Fall Creek boulevard. Friday night, took a motion picture machine and films valued at S6OO. Another auto robbery netted thieves S6O worth of clothing samples, according to R. T. Stockdale, 2001 North Delaware street, in his complaint to police. Dr. John F. McCool, 1412 East Washington street, was aroused early today by his police dog, and fired three shots at two men he saw trying to get Into his garage. None of the bullets took effect. Jewelry valued at $347 was stolen from the home of Martin Matich, 702 Ketchum street. The Langsdale plant store of the Citizens Gas Company was robbed of merchandise worth SSO today. Kidnaping Is Charged Police who answered a call to 1402 Shelby street, today found that Alva Ellis had been kidnaped by three men, ali of whom have police records, who sought to hijack him of. liquor. Ellis had none, he said. Police are searching for Arthur Uampier, Lee Snyder, and Chuck Smock, named by Ellis as his kidnapers. Walking past the Dollar Cleaners’ establishment, Thirty-second street and College avenue early today, Forest Jackson, 3344 Graceland avenue, saw a burglar inside. He called police, who discovered that the burglar had laid out almost all the clothing in the place, but fled when he saw’ Jackson outside. 3 SUSPECTS INDICTED FOR POLICE SHOOTING Grand Jury Names Men Accused cf Wounding Patrolman. Three separate Indictments charging assault and battery with intent to murder, second degree burglary and conspiracy, were returned Friday by the Marion county grand jury against William T. Thayer, George Mears and Carl Tate. The indictments resulted from the shooting of patrolman Ferdinand Finchum in an alley at Thirtieth street and Northwestern avenue, and the alleged robbery of a SearsRoebuck Company’s store, 650 East Maple road.

Aviation

Weather Men Trained By SEA Service. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Expanding aviation activities in the United States have caused the United States department of agriculture to establish a school for weather forecasters. Students will receive training at Washington and will be sent to airports all over the country to take over weather forecasting. ;Ranger’ Ready in 1934 By SEA service WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—The first of the United States Navy’s aircraft carriers especially designed for the purpose will be completed in the spring of 1934, it is announced. It is the Ranger, and will be of 13.800 tons displacement. It is being constructed at a cost of about $4,050,000. and will be the first of its type to be built for the navy. Eckener to Visit U. S. By United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Jan. 31. Dr. Hugo Eckener, Zeppelin expert and commander of the Graf Zeppelin. intends to go to the United States to discuss international airship services if congress passes the airship bill now before it, he said today. “If the bill is adopted in time, I may go to America late in February,” Dr. Eckener said. “The bill will enable me to discuss with interested groups in the United States the organization of regular airship traffic between the United States and Europe.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belona to: Arletarh Bravto.n Columbus. Ind., Ford sport model coupe. 244-102 (1930), from Washlneton and New Jersey streets. Rent A Car Inc.. 25 Kentucky avenue. Bulck sedan. 71-086 0930'. from 25 Kentucky atenue. Ohio Casualty Insurance Company. 734 Circle Tower Bulldine. Ford coupe. 18-410 (1931). from 600 North Meridian street. Rosetta Peterman. 3226 McPherson street. Ford Tudor. 81-651 (1930). from 15 East Sixteenth street. Cecil McKinney. R. R. 3. Box 452. Ford roadster. 60-548 i1930>. from 1356 Nordyke avenue. John Snvder. Cambridge Cftv. Ind.. Chevrolet coach. 309-666 (1930). from Capitol avenue and Ohio streets. Clarence Bausht. Bicknell. Ind., Essex Coach. 139-780 (1931) from Bicknell. Ind.

BACK HOME AGAIN

automobiles recovered by police Botck coupe. 87-6 U. found at Ditnols and Vermont streets. HONS CLUBS MERGED North Side and Indianapolis Units No Longer to Be Separated. Operating for the past two years as individual clubs, the Indianapolis Lions Chib and the North Side Lions Club hava consolidated into one luncheon club, bearing the former’s came.

Plans Ready for Avalon Club

EL PASO WINS , RADIO JDUTLET Broadcast Facilities Long Denied Texas City. By Times Special EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 31.—El Paso, biggest American city on the Mexican border, which has been denied radio access to the outside world because channels allotted to Texas are overcrowded, is to get on the air now through remote control across the state line into New Mexico. It is to be through station KOB, 1,180 kilocycles, at State College, N. M., forty miles north of El Paso In the foothills of the Organ mountains, once famed hangout of Billy the Kid, and on the ancient Jornado del Muerto, along with Spanish conquistadores brought Christian civilization to the Indians of the far west three centuries ago. El Paso Evening Post, a ScrippsHoward paper, arranged the hookup and provided a studio in the new Post building. Its formal opening will be Saturday from 7 to 10 p. m., Indianapolis time. El Paso broadcasting will continue thereafter seven hours daily, three hours in the morning and from 6 to 10 p. m. KOB is a 20,000-watt station, the biggest college-owned station in the United States.

Petticoats Are Back in Britain to <Save Nation *

BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 31.—Petticoats, which English women discarded to help win the war, are coming back to “save the nation” in time of peace. Dress designers have decreed women again must don the despised undergarment which they so lightly cast aside more than a decade ago. Their edict aplies alike to elderly matrons, fashionable young ladies and trim little girls from boarding school. Fashion and patriotism work hand-in-hand in Britain. The women who heed the new decree not only will be correctly dressed, but will be aiding the depressed spinning and weaving industries. Newspapers have pointed out BACKS" RUM REPORT Loesch Sees No Inconsistency in Findings. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Frank J. Loesch. one of the five Wickersham commission members who favored revision of the eighteenth amendment, does not think the committee’s report to President Hoover was inconsistent. Loesch predicted the report will be an important issue in the 1922 presidential campaign, and reiterated his stand that there should be a change In the prohibition law. In defending the report, Loesch said that although a majority of the twelve members favored a change of some kind in the dry laws, he could see no reason why that same majority should not advocate strengthening enforcement. “The commission’s attitude was that the prohibition law is on the statute books, that it devolves upon the President and other executives to enforce it so long as it is a law.”

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Rebuilding of the clubhouse of the Avalon Country Club, which was destroyed by fire last fall, is to start immediately, and the structure will be ready for occupancy May 1, William Hoyer, director, announced today. The new structure will be of Spanish type with the addition of four floors and two wings. One will house a dining room with a seating capacity of sixty-five, storage and women’s living quarters, and the other, additional men’s locker rooms and show’ers and a women’s social room. Drawing of the proposed structure by Harrison & Tumock, architests, is shown, above.

ROUSES JUDGE’S IRE Chicago Civic Chairman to Be Called Before Jury. By United. Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—An address which Albert R. Brunker was reported as making before the City Club of Boston has been taken exception to by Judge John P. McGoorty, who said today he would ask Brunker to repeat his charges before a grand jury. Brunker, according to reports, told the Boston Club “80 per cent of Chicago’s judges were criminals,” that “Scarface A1 Capone had 6,000, city, state and federal officials on his pay roll,” and that the men who killed seven Moran gangsters in the St. Valentine’s day massacre were policemen. Brunker is chairman of the civic safety committee.

that the stimulus thus given to cloth manufacturing will soon spread to other trades and may lead to a great industrial revival. During the World war British womanhood offered its petticoats upon the altar of national sacrifice. Mills had to be adapted to making cloth for soldiers’ uniforms. The nation loked to its women for a patriotic gesture—and was not disappointed. Now, with depression hanging heavy over the mills of Lancashire and Nottingham, Britain again looks to its women. Queen Mary 'lerself began the return to “Petticcat rule” by ordering six pint anu white cotton petticoats.

RAIL OFFICIAL RETIRED S. B. Adams Goes on Pension After Forty-three Years’ Service. Retirement of S. B. Adams, traveling passenger agent for the Norfolk & Western railroad, with offices at 408 Guaranty building, was an-

nounced today. Adams has served the- Norfolk lines for the last fortythree years. He retires on a pension ut the age of 65. He is a member of Hilton U. Brown class of the Scottish Rite, valley of Indianapolis, and holds a life mem- . bership in Aurora lodge No. 48, F. & A. M. He will make his

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home in Greenfield. Hold Two in Mail Robbery By United Press THOMASVILLE, Ga., Jan. 31. George Denorgogue and Wash Davis. Negro youths, were held here today after confessing the robbery of an Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast railway mail car at Merrillville, Ga., Wednesday night.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

AIMS BLAST AT POLICYON INDIA Winston Churchill Bitterly Assails MacDonald. By United Press MANCHESTER, Bngland, Jan. 31. —Winston Churchill celebrated his withdrawal from the conservative “shadow cabinet” by condemning the La .cor government and the Indian Nationalist party in an unusually bitter speech here. Churchill’s attack on the way Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his colleagues handled the Indian situation was one of the most drastic launched against any British government for years. “The government is preparing to hand rule in India to comparatively small and utterly misrepresentative political factions,” Churchill said. “India thus will be the prey of misgovernment, deterioration, disorder, nepotism, corruption and religious bigotry of a kind undreamed in the west, and finally to inevitable civil war. “There would be no more wicked or contemptible act by any great nation than to hand over the wellbeing of three hundred millions of persons to the tight oligarchy of lawless politicians, fanatics, and greedy merchants off which the Indian congress party is composed.” “For the last eighteen months the Labor government has stimulated all the forces of sedition and disorder in India, and has witnessed the disintegration of British interests and authority,” he said. 51 ARE NATURALIZED Mussolini No Longer Boss, Italian Applicants’ Verdict. Fifty-one persons marched home from federal court Friday with smiling faces and tiny American flags because the stamp of alien had been removed when they took the oath of allegiance to the United States before Judge Robert C. Baltzell. W. A. Keefer, district naturalization director, of Cincinnati, found that allegiance to Mussolini stops at the American shore, even though H Duce claims members of his race to the third and fourth generations. “Do you belong to Mussolini?” the examiner asked three Italians who had served in the American army. “No, sir, we do not,” they all answered emphatically. “You would make good soldiers for him, wouldn’t you?” the examiner again asked. “Mussolini may think so, but we have a different opinion,” the three answered in broken English. 7 GOPS^APPoiNTED Promotions of Two Others - Are Announced. Appointment of seven policemen and promotion of two others were announced Friday by safety board members following a caucus with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Those appointed fill vacancies including those caused by recent dismissal of five department members who were convicted of conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition law in federal court. Sergeant Leo Troutman was promoted to lieutenant and Patrolman Dan Scanlon to Sergeant. Those appointed: Fred J. Stevens, 2529 West Twelfth street; George Johnson, 963 West Twenty-eighth street; William Marks, 2126 Station street; Emmett McCormick, 606 Woodlawn avenue; Alvie C. Emmelman, 2004 Lexington avenue; Thomas Smith. 2183 1 2 North Talbot street, and Joseph Comiskey, 1043 Blaine avenue. The appointees are Democrats. DEADLINE EXTENDED Ten-day extension of the deadline for purchase of 1931 Indiana automobile license plates has been granted by Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. The final date, originally set for Feb. 1, has been extended until midnight Feb. 10, and all peace officers of the state have been notified of the change, Mayr said. 2 DRY LAWS BILLS FILED Measures Would Legalize Medicinal Whisky, Abolish $25 Fee. Legalization of prescription and sale of medicinal whisky in Indiana and abolition of the $25 special prosecutor fee for liquor law convictions were sought in bills introduced in the house Friday by Representatives J. Henry Moning Jr. (Dem., Vanderburgh and Fred A. Egan (Dem., Lake). /These two bills, amending the Wright bone dry law, were among thirty-three introduced.*

WET MEASURES BEFORE HOUSE NOW TOTAL 4 Bills to Legalize Medical j Whisky, Cut Fees of Prosecutors Filed. Legalization of the sale of medicinal whisky, provided in a bill among the thirty-three introduced in the house Friday, brings to four the number of wet measures now before the house public morals committee. The medicinal whisky bill, sponsored by Representative Fred A. Egan (Dem., Lake) and J. Henry Monnig Jr. (Dem., Vanderburgh), permits the prescription of whisky by licensed physicians with a 50cent license fee on each prescription blank. Sale by registered pharmacists is confined to those who have been in the drug business at least two years prior to application for permission to sell whisky. A companion measure introduced by Egan and Monning reduces prosecutors’ fees under the 1925 Wright bone dry act from $25 to $lO. This bill differs only from the measure of Representative Howard F. Grimm (Rep., Dekalb) in that the reduction is to $5. Friction Is Suspected The fourth wet bill pending in the public morals committee, cf which Representative Russel J. Dean (Dem., Marion) is chairman, is the Galloway-Egan measure for outright and complete repeal of the Wright act. No report has been made on the repeal bill which was assigned the public morale group Jan. 15. With the bill inactive over the seventeen days of the session thus far, the lack of a report of either favorable or unfavorable nature has lent credence to repeated charges of friction in the Marion county delegation. Representative Gerritt M. Bates (Dem., Marion) is ranking member of the public morals committee, and Fred Galloway (Dem., Marion) introduced the repeal bill from the floor. Two-Thirds Vote Needed Wet members of the house, it is known, have considered an effort to pull the bill from committee and force a report on the floor of the house. However, there is no house rule on neglected bills and the wets are afraid they would be unable to obtain the two-thirds majority vote necessary to force the report. Dean has explained this inaction of his committee on what is regarded as one of the most important bills of the session by saying the public morals group only is waiting unti: it has “enough measures to consider.” The public morals commltte now has five bills in all before it, including one by Representative Charles J. Aallardt (Dem.. St. Joseph), to legalize pari-mutuel betting at licensed racing meets. In Legislature 50 Years Ago By Uni'cd Press THE house of representatives in the session of 1881 spent little time in killing a bill introduced by Representative Mitchell prohibiting issuance of marriage licenses to insane people, those of insane descent, habitual criminals, or drunkards. Representative Cauthorn pointed out that the bill would give to county clerks a judicial function which they were not competent to perform. A similar bill in the senate received more consideration, however, and was the subject pf several hot debates on the floor, before recommitment to committee for further consideration. jobless^seekTng~dole Unemployed to Ask Legislature for Weekly Payment of sls. Weekly dole of sls to each unemployed worker and $3 to each of his dependents will be asked of the legislature by delegates of trades unions, workers’ organizations and mass meeting of laborers and farmers who will meet at 3 p. m. Sunday in Odd Fellow hall, 244*4 West Vermont street. A demonstration is planned for 10 a. m. Monday at the statehouse. $500,000 Loss in Fire By United Press CEDAR RAPIDS. la., Jan. 31. The Newman department store and practically all its stock of merchandise was destroyed by fire Friday night. The loss was estimated at about $500,000.

Asks Divorce

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By United Preas CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Harry K. Thaw's former wife, Evelyn Nesbit, has filed suit here for divorce from Jack Clifford, an actor whose real name Is Virgil James Montani. Miss Nesbit and Clifford were dancing partners and were married in 1916. She charges that he kfi deserted fee? tea £& ago.

MRS. JOE GIBSON WINS ESSAY PRIZE

First Victor Is Announced in Kismet Contest of Circle Theater. The Times today announces the first cash winners in “The Fate Essay Contest,” which it has conducted in connection with Otis Skinner film. “Kismet” now at the Circle theater. Mrs. Joe Gibson. 1916 College avenue, wins today’s $lO prize for the best essay so far received. It follows: A few years ago three neighbors and myself planned a mushroom hunt. How we joked back and forth preparing our baskets. It was time to go, and here came a telegram: My grandfather was dying. I must leave at once for Ohio. “Maybe we can eo when I get back.” I said. “Good-by. all of you and be good.’’ A week later I came home and was grief stricken when I learned that my friends had been killed in an accident on their way to the hunt. Had I been saved through fate? I wonder? The second prize of $2.50 goes to Cathryn L. Mason, 52 North Fifteenth avenue, Beech Grove, and tickets to the Circle theater were awarded the following contestants: Ruth Richardson, 1334 Hiatt street; Margaret Sellers, 1 North New Jersey street, Room 8; Arthur Hawkins, 145 Detroit street; Miss Alberta Norman, 2120 North Wallace street; J. M. Collins, R. R. 10, Box 269, Indianapolis. The next $lO and $2.50 winners will be announced In The Times Monday. Send in your essays on what part Fate has played in your life. Essays are not to be more than 100 words. Send them to The Kismet Editor at The Times. Each day, the cash awards and the tickets will be sent to the winners by mail. County School Head Chosen By Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., Jan. 31. Arthur D. Gray, principal of Westland high school, is new county superintendent, named by township trustees here to succeed Grover Van Duyn. Van Duyn resigned to become assistant state superintendent of public instruction. Gray will assume office March 16.

2 TAX SALE BILLS PASSED BY SENATE

Measures Would Relieve Owners of Property, Unable to Pay. Suiting action to words, the Indiana senate Friday passed and sent to the house of bills to prevent or soften the blows of auctioneers’ hammers on property scheduled to be sold Feb. 9 for approximately $10,000,000 delinquent taxes. Known as Senate Bills 93 and 94, the ’measures, as explained and championed by Senator Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep., Fountain, Vermilion and Warren), their author, would: Senate Bill 93—Eliminates necessity of paying taxes due for the current year by purchasers of property sold for delinquent taxes Feb. 9 and eliminate immediate payment of such taxes'upon redemption. Senate Bill 94—Eliminate entirely the tax sales of Feb. 9 by declaring a one-year moratorium, and providing also for amortization of delinquent taxes over a four-year period. Passed to Third Reading On the first measure, the vote was 41 to 2 for passage and on the second, 37 to 8. A third and companion measure, Senate Bill 95, which would have declared a moratorium for one year on sale of property for non-payment of Barret law assessments, was returned to second reading so that it might be amended to eliminate objectionable features. The senate suspended the rules to pass to third reading the Weiss house bill, similar to Senate Bill 93, but eliminating the 10 per cent penalty as well as current taxes upon redemption of property sold for delinquent taxes. Amendment Adopted Still further attention was given tax relief when the senate resumed consideration of the Hartzell bill to repeal provisions of the tax laws which exempt fraternal property from taxation, except where used for educational or benevolent purposes. On second reading Friday, Senator J. Clyde Hoffman (Rep., Marion) offered an amendment to postpone the taking effect' of the measure until Jan. 1, 1936. An amendment offered by Senator Winfield Miller (Rep., Marion) and adopted Thursday placed back on the exempt list “properties owned and used for securing income for the benefit of such institutions, individual associations or corporations.” This amendment still clung to the bill Upon its recommitment. Living, brilliant-hued bacteria have been found in coal that is millions of years old, and appear to have lived there ever since the coal was formed. Bacteria also have been found in specimens of preCambrian rocks, usually estimated to have been formed 200,000,000 years ago.

True Forever By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—More than thirty-one years ago, John Halsted and Ida Frances Gibson promised to be true to each other “forever.” Arrangements were complete for their wedding when Halsted was stricken with a heart “attack in 1900. He lived an hour, just long enough for his fiancee to reach his side. They renewed their engagement pledge and she promised that when she died her ashes would be placed with his. Miss Gibson died in San Diego, Cal., ten days ago at the age of 59. Her body was cremated and brought to Chicago by her sister. Halsted’s grave in Graceland cemetery was opened Friday, the urn containing Miss Gibson’s ashes was placed upon his coffin and the grave was sealed again.

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Jean Harlow

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 31.—Jean Harlow, blonde film actress, was divorced from Charles F. McGrew II of Chicago in a decision on file here today. McGrew did not contest the action, which has been pending for more than a year. He was charged with mental cruelty.

Baa! Baa! % Sheep-Killing Dog Bill Requires Farmer to Use Discretion.

“If Little 80-peep has a worried sheep, That Is scared by a bad, bad dog, Its up to her to kill the cur If this bIU becomes a law. But If by chance the sheep denies That fear ran down its spine. Little 80-peep must sell her sheep To pay a century fine.’ ’ THIS doggerel describes, more or less accurately, the dog bill now pending in the senate committee on public morals. It was introduced in the senate Thursday afternoon by Senator John S. Alldredge (Rep., Madison) and referred to the committee by Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush because of the highly technical moral problems involved. Under provisions of the measure any one may kill a dog that has “maimed, killed, chased or worried any sheep, cattle, horses, swine or other livestock or fowls” if unaccompanied by is master. Should any one harbor such a dog they will be subject to a fine of from $lO to SSO. But here is where the danger of being betrayed by a perjuring sheep or false-swearing swine comes in: “Should an innocent dog be killed, it is and the offender, found guilty, may be fined up to $100.” MODERN FALSE ALARM PUZZLES RADIO COPS Cleveland Police Broadcast Heard By Washington Officers. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—A new kind of a false alarm has been encountered here by radio equipped police department scout cars. Several of the cars, cruising about the capital; stopped suddenly Friday when a holdup flash was picked up on their receiving sets. But none of the drivers knew w’here the street mentioned was—in fact, none had ever heard of it. Then just as a search through their guide book showed no such street was listed, the drivers heard from the radio again: “This is the Cleveland, 0., police department signing off.”

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Starting Sunday, February 1, 1931 ANTLERS “TOWNE CLUB” Will Serve a “DE LUXE TABLE D’HOTE DINNER” From 6 P. M. to 9 P. M. Including Dancing, at $1.50 Per Plate NO COVER CHARGE UP TO 9 P. M. This Will Continue Each Sunday Until May Music By CHIC MYERS RECORDING ORCHESTRA Assisted by A Floor Show Extravaganza For Table Reservations PHONE LINCOLN 2351 HOTEL ANTLERS 750 N. Meridian St.

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LACK OF RAIN CAUSES WORRY TO OBSERVERS Winter Drought Serious; Vast Area Affected, Says U. S. Bureau. Bst Scriijns-Hotcord S ewscacer Allionc • WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Drought relief may be forthcoming front congress or the Red Cross, but adequate relief from rain is not in sight. United States weather men frankly are worried. For the United States as a whole, this winter, counted upon to replenish the parched soil, has been very dry. Whereas a year ago January was cold and 150 per cent normal in precipitation, this December was the dryest month of 1930 and January, 1931, is just as dry. “Generally In the mid-Mississippi and eastward there are small reserves in the subsoil.” said J. B. Kincer. chief of the division of agricultural meteorology of the United States weather bureau. “We have got to get good rains by April 1 or else the drought area may be extended and the spring growing season will open in worse shape than last spring. “It is possible that this area woul4 get enough summer rains, of course, but it would be under handicap of a poor start. There is no big storm in immediate prospect.” Kincer says New England lias had big .snows. California has been getting good rains in the last fortnight. The south is “in good shape.” The west generally beyond Missouri is favored with rains. But, Kincer says, reports are that in Missouri there is no water down to as low as six feet. From the Mississippi eastward to the Atlantic, except for‘New England and the south, creeks, springs and wells are dry and in the upper Ohio valley the farmers are hauling water. Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland have been deficient in rainfall every month since December, 1929. The twenty-one drought-stricken states and Oregon just have been through the dryest period in history. West Virginia, Virginia. Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Maryland being the worst sufferers. Now, says Kincer. the subsoil is “very dry” in Missouri, in the Ohio valley and the midAtlantic states. In this region the situation is called “precarious." BARTHOLOMEW FUNERAL TO BE HELD MONDAY % Former Superior Court Judge Will Be Buried in Crown Hill. Funeral services for Pliny W. Bartholomew, 90, oldest member of the Indianapolis bar and former superior court judge, who died at his home, 1934 College avenue, Thursday, will be held at 10:30 Monday at the Memorial Presbyterian church. The Rev. W. H. Kendall, pastor, will conduct the services. Burial will be In Crown Hill cemetery. TOO MANY RELATIVES ' DIVORCE COURT PLEA Man Says He Left Home to Get Away From 9 Brothers-in-Law. By United Press WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., Jan. 31. —Leaving home to get away from nine brothers-in-law doesn’t constitute abandonment of your wife, Frederick Snyder argued before Supreme Court Justice Morschauser. The justice set trial on separation charges for Feb. 9, but expressed the opinion that Mrs. Snyder has a “slim chance” of winning the verdict.

The City in Brief

The Rev. B. R. Johnson, pastor of the Downey Avenue Christian church, will speak on “Touching Bottom,” Sunday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. Big Meeting at Keith s theater. The thirty-seventh annua] convention of the Indiana Ice Dealers Association will be held at the Severin, Feb. 18 and 19. Police and firemen’s posts of the American Legion will take an activo part in Legion week, Feb. 15 to 11, and the presentation of Floyd Gibbons at Cadle tabernacle, Feb. 9. William Gear Spencer, president of Hillsdale college, Hillsdale, Mich., will appear on the first program of the new members’ education corn-* mittee of the Rotary Club at the weekly luncheon in the Claypool Tuesday.