Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1931 — Page 11

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Never! Voice of Famous Chaplin Character to Be Kept From Talkies.

BY SIDNEY H. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. s.—Charlie Chaplin, the now legendary character with over-sized pants, i he bamboo cane—an affectation ol gentility—the rather frowzy derby hat and the purposeless mous'ache, may be laid away to rest

some day, but he never will lift his voice in the talkies. Charles Chaplin, creator of the pathetic comedian who is known and esteemed the world over, on the other hand, may be persuaded to build another figure for talkie purposes only. If he docs, he said today, the new

Charlie will have none of the familiar traits of the old. Chaplin is not disturbed a bit by the overwhelming sweep of sound pictures throughout the world’s cinemas. He even is willing to praise them, as bringing out numbers of splendid actors and actreses who otherwise might not come berore the movie public. But a play is a spoken play, and pantomime is pantomime, and never the twain shall occupy the >atne screen as far as he is concerned. n u a r pKE comedian balanced nervI ously on his restless feet— Chaplin always is nervous—and ran his hand through the now graying waves of his hair. ‘ When a character speaks,” he -aid, "the mental processes of the bearer stop with the end of his words. They go no farther. Thereiore, the mental reactions to a spoken play are restricted. With pantomime the reaction is wholly different. "A pantomime translates thoughts into action and suggests—and the audience can draw whatever conclusion it likes. Tire conclusion it draw's is the one that will make it the happiest, which is the purpose of entertainment.’* a a a ONE interview with Chaplin reveals at once that the screen Chaplin merely Is an exaggeration of the real man—an exaggeration of the eternal paradox that puts .serious thoughts on his whimsical Ups, that tops a youthful, limber body with gray hair, and that can make a shrug of the shoulder either an expression or dark despair or light abandon, which ever you elect to consider it. It is to this Chaplin that there come, while he is bent on his most ludicrous portrayls, he said, solemn i hough ts of Napoleon and his greatness, and what a magnificent work it would be to play the Little Corporal for the silver screen. by contrast, it may be that he is devising music for some pathetic scene when, with the perversity of genius, a screamingly hilarious piece of action will intrude. At any rate, Charlie said, he will noo let the old Charlie’s voice be heard in the movies, thus to destroy an illusion each movie goer has built up, individually, around the character. # * a CHAPLIN does not know where his next play is coming from, although he suggested there might be something in a Spanish bull ught, or perhaps in the French gendarmerie, to give anew field for the derby hat and big shoes. ‘ I’m going to loaf around England for a while,” he said, “and perhaps I’ll go down to Gatti’s old music hall in Westminster Bridge road, where my father used to play. I also want to see if an old pub. ’The Horns.’ still is in existence. I don’t care anything about seeing London’s west end. I want, to go into the east end and renew my acquaintance with that and other quarters that were well known to mo before I came to \merica.” RELIEF" FUND INCREASED Red Cross Total Nears §34,000 in Drought Aid Campaign. Donations of $3,217.07 since Wednesday brought total contributions in the Red Cross drought relief campaign here to $33,997.58 today. The largest contributions since Wednesday were from General Electric Company. $200: thirty faculty members at Manual Training high school. $275: ex-service men, $200: Hook Drug Company. $100; boys of Methodist hospital, S6B. and L. S. Ayres & Cos. employes raised their total of $626.10. FIGHT ON LOAN SHARKS Legislator Seeks to Decrease Interest Rate to Borrower, Further legislation aimed at small loan usury was introduced in the house today in a bill by Representative V Uliam E. Wilson (Dem., Hancock and which proposes to limit the interest rate on petty loans to 6 per cent annually. • Two per cent additional would be allowed by the bill for the cost of investigating the loan and any and all indorsers. One small loan bill now pending would reduce the present Interest rate of 3Vi per cent a month and another to 10 per cent a year N E W~Y OR K ST IL L * 0 PEN’ Tired Business Man May, Until, 3 a. m. Continue to lSt>lic. By United Prest NEW YORK, Feb. 5. —Froposals of Police Commissioner Mulrooney for a 1 o’clock curfew on night clubs were compromised by leaving the closing time as it is. 3 o’clock, and giving police authority over’ the clubt. Mayor Walker suggested all amuaement seekers shouldn’t be punished for the sins of a few, and “vou can’t legislate morality into night clubs.”

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BILL OPPOSED BY UTILITIES! SCORES GAIN Holding Company Measure Given Life by Senate Vote of 27 to 9. MONEY SAVING CLAIMED Author Declares People Would Benefit Through Rate-Making. Revival of the effort to bring utility holding companies under j surveillance of the Indiana public' service commission appeared well on the road to success today. By the decisive vote of 27 to 9, | the senate late We<\nesday rejected | the report of a minority of its \ Judiciary A committee favoring in- . definite postponement of the measure, and it was advanced to second reading without amendment. A similar bill passed the senate two years ago but was killed In the house of representatives. “This would be one of the great- j est money saving measures for the people of Indiana we could pass,” declared Senator Robert Moorhead (Rep., Marion), author of the bill. Moorhead’s bill would regard as a public utility, under public service commission authority, any corporation, organization or association of individuals owning, holding or controlling more than 50 per cent of the common stock of a public utility. Needed in Rate Fixing “It is needed if the public service commission is to get at the real cost of supplying water, gas or electric current,” he said. “Without such a law, „the public service commission is without authority to inquire into holding company expenditures; they can not see what holding companies are charging for their services.” Moorhead read to the senate from several Times’ editorials stressing necessity for enactment of such a bill. Senator J. Clyde Hoffman (Rep., Marion), who two years ago favored passage, this time signed the minority report to kill the bill. With him in this position were Senators Harry K. Cuthbertson (Dem.. Howard and Miami), Warren Berkey (Rep., Elkhart) and I. Floyd Garrott (Rep., Benton and Tippecanoe). Hoffman contended the commis-1 sion holds authority now to inquire \ into utility holding companies’ ex- 1 penditures, which may be reflected in rates for service, and Cuthbertson expounded this view at length. "Senator Hoffman and utility attorneys say this bill isn’t needed,” Moorhead echoed. "If not. why do they object to it?” The roll call in which "noes” i turned down the move to kill the ! bill, thus amounting to votes favor- j able to its passage:

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Favoring Passage. (27) REPUBLICANS (13) DEMOCRATS 114) Adams Ballard AUdredge Brewster Beckett Clouscr Friedlev' Doors Hartzell Drake Holmes Drulev Lindlev fiorman Martin Gottschalk Miller Holman Moorhead Morris Niblack Perkins of St. Sherwood Joseph Shull Perkins of Marion Wade Williams Against Passage (9) REPUBLICANS (> DEMOCRATS (3) Bfkey Cuthbertson Clements f<ochard Garrott Raber Hoffman Nejdl Rowlev Absent (14) REPUBLICANS (10) DEMOCRATS (4) Brown Chambers HoadleT Denniran Huff Kehoe Pell Ketchum Sims Slenker Southworth Strey Tormohlen Walter Proposed abolition of the public service commission was expected to be debated in tfie house of representatives today with a majority report of the judiciary A committee to be returned favoring such a step. The report is promised on the Reisinger bill providing that utilities now operating under indeterminate permits issued by the commission may operate for one year following passage of the bill at the same rates and under the same conditions now prevailing. Abolishing the commission, the bill would reinstate the old railroad commission.

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Bills Signed. Feb. 4 H. B. 197 (Weiss' —Eliminating penalties accruing on tax sales Feb. 9. if the property is redeemed in 1931 and providing that purchaser shall receive 6 pe cent onlv on the tax sale price: eliminating from Feb. 9 tax sale the 1930 taxes payable in 193! Westfield Man Dies Fjj Times Special WESTFIELD, Ind.. Feb. s.—Alvin Weaver, 75. is dead at his home here. He leaves his widow and a son. Cloen Weaver. Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Marion Morelock. Durbin, and Mrs. Donald McAvoy Westfield.

. WANT A T-BONE STEAK?—JUST VISIT THE SLOT MACHINE

BY H. ALLEN SMITA United Press Staff Correspondent "VTEW YORK, Feb. s.—The first slot machine-grocery, designed to bring the delicatessen into the apartment house, was givefi its initial workout today for the benefit of a gaping press and the movie people, and except for a disagreement over a can of beans and an argument about the price of eggs, the demonstration was a great success. The contraption is called a Delamat and lias been installed in a room adjoining the lobby of the Beaux Arts apartments. It will be tußicd over to the tenants Mondf. '

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Solo flight of her car which ran down hill a block and missed crashing into a bridge by inches, probably will be a reminder to Mrs. Marion Higgins, 1527 Villa avenue, to give the emergency brake an extra pull hereafter. Mrs. Higgins had parked her car in front of her home after taking

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Upright Egg E.y Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 5.—A freak egg is being exhibited by Grant Warren, which was purchased at a local store by his sister. The egg will not lie down. It stands on end at all times. It is thought that the egg is rather old and that the white and yolk have formed in one end, leaving a large air space in the other end. This coincides with the type which can not be upset.

DEFER INQUIRY ON ROWBOTTOM Federal Grand Jury Sifts Liquor Cases. | Cass of Congressman Harry E. I Rowbottom, Evansville, of the First district, charged with “sale” of postoffice jobs, will not be considered by the federal grand jury until next week. The jury today continued its investigations into liquor violations. | At least two more days will be required to hear evidence on liquor ! violations. ; Rowbottom was arrested in Evansi ville and released on $10,006 bond, following arraignment on charges of accepting a bribe from Walter and Aaron Ayer, brothers, of Rockport, Ind. He is alleged to have promised them he would recommend the appointment of Gresham Ayer, a relative, as rural mail carrier. It is believed the Ayer brothers will be the only witnesses to appear before the grand jury. NEW COURSE OFFERED I. t 7. Extension Class for Teachers to Be Opened Monday. * Class in school grounds, buildings and equipment will be taught at

the Indiana university extension center, starting Monday, by Otto T. Hamilton, assistant professor of the extension division. The course is one of the advanced curriculum intended for teachers working for administrative licenses and masters’ degrees. Sixteen courses are offered in the sec-

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ond semester of the 1930-1931 year at the extension center. COUNCIL REFUSES^ PAY ATTORNEY’S FEE Money Should Have Been Raised First, Is Legal Opinion. By United Press MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 5. The Morgan county council has refused to pay the SSOO claim of John Royse, Indianapolis attorney, who defended Ernest Pryor, recently convicted in Marion criminal court on a manslaughter charge after allegedly poisoning his wife, Royse served as pauper attorney. The councilmen were told by Omar O'Harrow, Morgan county attorney, the law provided that the appropriation shotild have been raised before contract was made for Royse’s services.

The customer simply walks in, deposits certain coins in certain slots, and the Delamat yields up virtually everything but Judge Carter and brooms. There are cherry preserves, canned vegetable salad, fruit salad, peaches, tea, coffee, ginger ale, com, peas, tomatoes. bread, potatoes, asparagus, ,milk. butter, squab, club steak, tenderloin steak, sugar, cheese, sauerkraut, salmon, lamb chops and sundry other items of provender. * m * N. R. HARVEY, the inventor, said today that several hundred delaumts are to t>e installed in apartmJßt lobbies as soon as

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her son Johnny, 6, to a nearby school. A few minutes later she looked out and the car had vanished. A block down the hill she spied the ear top above the south bank of Pleasant run. The picture shows how the car missed the concrete bridge and nosed into the soft turf on the creek bank.

Senate and Hoover Stilt Far From Accord Over Help for Hungry. BY LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—President Hoover and the senate confronted each other in stalemate today on the disputed question of relief for the hungry. Upon the report of Colonel Campbell V. Hodges, presidential aid, who flew westward Wednesday to survey conditions in Arkansas, may depend the outcome. But Republican leaders maintain their optimism of compromise, regardless of what Hodges may discover in the hardest hit of the drought states. There W’ere indications that Democratic senators would accept a substantial reduction of their original relief program, calling for $50,000,000, half of which was to be distributed through the Red Cross. Mr. Hoover is being importuned to accept a $15,000,000 addition to the $45,000,000 feed, seed and fertilizer loan fund now being administered by the agriculture department. The added millions would be available for food loans, although the distasteful w’ord "food” might not be incorporated in the appropriating phraseology. "I think we will get a compromise satisfactory to everybody,” senate majority leader Watson reassuringly informs questioners. "It may take a little more time. But the whole situation will work out with everybody satisfied.” Such usually regular Republicans as Senator Bingham (Conn.) have deserted Mr. Hoover in his refusal to admit federal funds into the food relief treasury. SOCIAL WORKER DIES Rites for Mrs. C. M. Hites to Be Held Friday. Mrs. Clyish M. Hites. 77, mother of Colonel Earl F. Hites of the Volunteers of America, w’ho died Wednesday at her home in Danville, will be buried Friday in the Danville cemetery. Funeral rites will be held at the home with Bishop H. H. Fout of the Uinted Brethren church officiating. Mrs. Hites’ death came four weeks after that of her husband*, William P. Hites. Mr. and Mrs. Hites lived in Indianapolis until four years ago, when* they moved to Danville. They conducted services for fifteen years at the Volunteers’ headquarters, 320 North Illinois street. Surviving besides Colonel Hites are four other sons: William Hites, Richmond, Va.; Clyde M. Hites of Jasper, Mo.; Richard L. Hites of Danville, and Walter Hites of Des Moines, la., and a daughter, Mrs. Pearl Bosley of St. Louis. BEGIN INVESTIGATION OF LINTON DISASTER Seek Cause of Explosion Which Brought Death to Miners. By United Press LINTON, Ind., Feb. s—Official investigation to determine the cause of the explosion in the Little Betty mine here last week in which twen-ty-eight men lost their lives, was begun today under the direction of Albert C. Dally, state mine inspector. Coroner Hartin McHugh, Sullivan county, was expected to conduct an inquest into the deaths of the men tomorrow. Dally is expected to report his findings to the state bureau of mines at Indianapolis by Saturday.

possible. He believes it will result in a reduction in grocery prices as well as a saving in time for the apartment housewife. News reel pictures were taken of the delamat today, with two young women named Clara and Helen playing the part of shoppers. Clara and Helen walk into the room talking about Clara’s new dress. Then Helen asks Clara if she has seen the new delamat, and Clara, arching her brows, says she hasn’t, tut would like to. So Helen says that they have to have some groceries any way, so why not try it out. Clya says that would be fine. v

THOUSANDS IN FLIGHT FROM m± PERIL Throngs Evacuate City in New as Menace of Pestilence Rises. NEW SHOCKS FEARED Fugitives Taken Away in Ships; Death Toll High in Hundreds. By United Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 5. —Urgent evacuation of the town of Napier, leveled by an earthquake and swept by fire, was under way today, as survivors fled from dangers of epidemic and recurrent earth shocks. Tremors continued while residents of the stricken area hastened to safety. The town was ordered evacuated within forty-eight hours Wednesday, due to complete disruption of the sanitary system. 5,000 in Flight Five thousand survivors had left Napier at dusk Thursday night. Many were forced to leave on foot. As many as possible w T ere taken aboard British warships and other vessels in the harbor. The latest authenticated death | roll was ninety at Napier and sev-enty-nine at Hastings, a total of 169, of which 131 had been identiI fled. There were no Americans among the victims, according to first reports. The damage to the business section of Napier from the earthquake fire and tidal wave was estimated at at least $12,500,000. Fear Children Killed It was feared that forty children were killed in the collapse of a technical school at Napier. Several | boys who returned to the ruins of i the school building in a heroic effort |to rescue girl students lost their ! lives. Children at other schools, it was reported, were fortunately in the open playgrounds when the school buildings collapsed. A cross outside the cathedral was not damaged in the quake, although the cathedral was levelled. Four hospital trains reached Palmerston, near Wellington, bearing injured survivors today. The Veronica, foundered when the floor of the river harbor at Napier was raised during the quake, was refloated at high tide and was not damaged.

Greatest U. S. Authority on Fashions Joins 7 hues

The Times, in engaging Amos Parrish and his associates, to provide a daily fashion feature, has secured the services of an organization foremost in analyzing and forecasting fashions for manufacturers and stores.

Hundreds of department stores and other retail organizations attend the fashion merchandising clinics held in New York by Amos Parrish in January and July, in advance of the spring and fall fashion seasons, and also the remi-annual home furnishings merchandising clinics. The Amos Parrish organization also is engaged in sales promotion, merchandising and ad-

Slain Marine Is Given Military Funeral Honors

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Three funeral volleys fired by comrades was the final tribute paid Private Richard Litz of the marine corps who was buried Wednesday afternoon in Washington Park cemetery. Private Litz was slain when he and a group of marines were ambushed by rebels in Nicaragua Dec. 31. Funeral services were held at the Third Christian church and were conducted by the Rev. William F. Rothenburger, pastor. A marine escort, headed by Captain John A. Tebbs, conducted

So they decided to get a can of beans and some eggs. u m THE first difficulty arose when Clara balked at carrying a can of beans around before a movie camera. "No self-respecting woman,” she said, “would walk around anyway with a can of beans in her hand. You oughta have sacks or something.” The movie man explained that a Delamat wouldn’t need sacks, because it is right in the building where the customers live. “Well, all right,” said Clara, “but I wouldn’t be seen on the street with a can of beans and

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A. G. Lockwood, French Lick, Given Municipal Post by Park Board. Appointment of Arthur G. Lockwood Sr., French Lick, Ind., as director of municipal golf in Indianapolis, was announced today by A. C. Sallee, superintendent of parks. Selection of itockwood by the municipal golf committee, was expected to be ratified by the park board at its session this afternoon. He is slated to take over the department Wednesday. Rarry Schopp, for twenty-seven years manager and professional at South Grove municipal course, who was an aspirant for the directorship,

vertising work for manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as in fashion analysis and forecasting. Amos Parrish will discuss in his articles such subjects as femininity in fashions, the length of dresses, the fashionable types of hats, the new fabrics, fashionable colors, individuality in dress, the ensembling of fashions, evening fashions, sports wear, men’s fashions, home furnishings, and other phases of the prevailing and incoming fashions as they apply to present-day life. The first article will appear exclusively in The Times, Monday, Feb 9

the burial with full military honors. Captain Tebbs enlisted Private Litz in 1929. Survivors are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Litz, 1937 Park avenue, two brothers, Russell Litz of Los Angeles, Cal., and Leo M. Litz of the American Legion publicity department, and a sister, Miss Lucille Litz. Auto Kills Child LEBANON, Ind., Feb. s.—Kenneth Edgar Merrill, 8, was injured fatally Tuesday night when struck by an automobile.

I wouldn't feel right if I stepped into an elevator with a can of beans.” So Clara carried the can of beans. Then came the part where Helen and Clara walk over to the egg place and get some eggs. Through some error, a 15-cent tag had been placed over the slot. Before the scene was. shot, the argus-eyed movie man saw the sign. “Hold on!” she shouted. “How about these eggs? Eggs cost more than 15 cents a dozen, don't they?” * * * WELL, it developed that nobody present knew just how much egsl do cost. One fel-

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has been named maintenance supervisor under Lockwood, Sallee said. Another change in the personnel of city golf operations came with the resignation of Herman Uebele, manager of the Pleasant Run course. Uebele will become manager of anew course at Laporte. Saving Is Effected The city courses, after Lockwood takes over the post, will be entirely under his direction. Positions of managers of the courses have been abolished, at a saving of $6,300 annually to the city. Under the new system, each course will have a professional who receives no salary, but who has concession rights there. Lockwood was selected by the golf committee composed of William H. Diddel, Ralph Young, Sam Mueller and Ed Lennox. Lockwood has been at French Lick in charge of the hotel and resort upper and lower courses since 1919. He says he has designed and constructed more than forty courses in all parts of the country, most of them in the east. Champion in East Lockwood stated he w'as Massachusetts champion three years, played with an American team against England in 1904, and has won more than 200 golf events. Since coming to Indiana, Lockwood conducted the Professional Golfers’ Association championship and has been in charge of all Indiana state championships and other events for eleven years. His salary will be $4,000 annually. ASKS FEE ABOLITION Senate Bill Seeks Salary for Prosecutors, Aids. Abolition of the fee system for all prosecutors and deputy prosecutors and placing them on a salary basis, scaled to meet the various judicial circuits, is contained in a measure introduced in the senate today by Senator Thollie W. Druley (Dem., Wayne). Senator J. Clyde Hoffman (Rep., Marion), presented a bill raising the poll tax from 1 to $2 and providing it be paid by both man and women over 21 with no maximum age limitation. A measure designed to throw a comic light on old age pensions was introduced by Senator Addison Drake (Dem., Sullivan and Vigo), and referred to the committee on swamp lands and drains. It would pension farmery over 40 with the profits from the preceding year’s w'heat crop, if any.

low suggested 30 cents, another I 32c, and Clara helpfully suggested that she wouldn’t eat an egg for SSO. After much wrangling the problem finally was settled by I leaving all price tags off. Leaving the place, your cor-* ■ respondent stopped at a nearby comer grocery store, conducted by one Elmer Elkins. Mr. Elkins was asked for an opinion on the delamat. ‘lf you ask me,” he ventured, J the idea won’t work. Women have got to have somebody to squawk i to about the price a4 potatoes. You can’t argue with a machine. ’

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JURY VAGARIES INCENSE JUDGE AT PRINCETON Reminds Wounded Bandit of Light Sentence Given Slayer. YOUTH GETS 15 YEARS Only 2 to 21 Term Imposed on Murderer of Policeman. Rff Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Feb. s.—Judge Claude Smitn of Gibson circuit court spoke in an apologetic tone when he sentenced Clarence Hunt, 20, to a fifteen-year term in the Indiana state prison for highway robbery, calling attention to the fact that in his court less than two weeks before Dreyfus Rhoades, who killed a Vincennes policeman, received a term of only two to twen-ty-one years. In a gun duel after the holdup Hunt shot Hugh Wilson, manual training instructor in the local high school, in a hand, inflicting a wound which resulted in amputation of a finger. In turn, the bandit was shot in a thigh by a policeman. Appears on Stretcher Carried into court on a stretcher, Hunt entered a plea of guilty and was moved to the prison in an ambulance. He was received in the prison hospital. Before passing sentence. Judge Smith said: "Young man, you may be wondering at the severity of the sentence which the court is about to impose upon sou, and I feel that in a wav you are justified in thinking that the court is rather severe in view of the verdict which the Jury latelv returned against Dreyfus Rhoades. "To say that the citizens of this county who believe in law enforcement were shocked at the verdict of that jury w’ould be in my judgment expressing the sentiment of our citizens who do believe in ridding this county of its uhruly citizens. In view cf the fact that six or seven men testified that Rhoades had told them that he had killed the officer, in view of the fact that four or five good citizens of Knox county testified that they saw him kill the officer; in view of the fact that prior to this Rhoades had admittedly held up a bank in Hartford, Ark., and stolen some $9,000; had been convicted of highway robbery in Oklahoma and was serving a sentence of ten to twenty-five years w T hen he escaped from that prison, I am very frank to say to you that I ani at a loss to know' how any jury could agree on voluntary manslaughter, but you must remember that there was a jury in this county which tried Dreyfus Rhoades, which was fearless enough to bring in a verdict of murder in the first degree. "Mistakes of Juries” “But, young man, this court is not responsible for the mistakes of a jury, and I am quite sure that for the holding up of filling stations and shooting off a part of the hand of one of our high school teachers the sentence I am about to impose upon you is not too severe.” Despite his youth, Hunt has a rather extensive criminal record. While on parole from the Indiana boys’ school, he committed a theit and was sentenced to the penal farm. While awaiting transfer to the farm from the Gibson county jail here, he escaped. During the time he was at liberty, numerous robberies were committed here and in the vicinity, several victims of which gave descriptions of the bandit tallyirig with that of Hunt. ELEVEN ARE INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Seven La Porte Basketball Player* Occupants of One Car. Bp United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 5 - Eleven persons were injured, two of them seriously, in an auto collision here today. Arthur West, 47, Michigan City, w as reported dying from a fractured skull and internal Injuries. Mrs. L. E. Davis suffered fracture of a leg and internal injuries. In the auto with West were his wife, Mrs. Davis, and her husband. The seven occupants of the other nvichine, all La Porte basketball players, were taken to a hospital. They were A. L. Sage, Kenneth Young. George Boyd, Gordon Duffner, Wclfred Harrow. Clarence Hilgenaorf and Wilbur Hahn. HOLD UP TRUCK BILL Move to Reconsider Engrossment (Jives Opponents Breathing Spell. The red tape of parliament?: * procedure today blocked tho fins l vote of the Louse of representative on the Gwin bill limiting weight of leads and width and length 0* trucks, when Representative Herbert P. Kenney (Dem., Floyd) moved io reconsider engrossment of tho measure. Under the rules, debate is prohibited for twenty-four hour;. Members were engaged in a heated discussion of the measure, which ; opposed by truck associations, when the point of order was raised. 604 BILLS IN ASSEMBLY Efforts to Halt Flood Fall as ft New Measures Are Filed. With leaders of both houses urging a curb to legislative proposals, forty-one new bills were introduced when the flood gates were opened today. Twenty-five poured into the senate and sixteen into the house. Aside from resolutions, the senate to date has received 222 bills; the house 382, a total of 604. The full session's total in 1929 was 800. Tie current session is not half run. J

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