Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1931 — Page 13

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1932 ELECTION SHADOW CAST ON ASSEMBLY Half Way Mark Near But Important Tax Bills Still Waiting. TACTFUL ACTION RARE McKesson Billed to Use Lash in Effort to Fulfill Party Pledge. BT BEN STERN. With the outcome of the 1932 election hanging in the balance, the seventy-seventh general assembly will pass the half way mark Monday. The ctlrtain rising on the second half of the biennial show will reveal Representative Delph L. McKesson < Marshall), Democratic floor leader, in the most important role of his political career—that of Simon Legree cracking the whip over the backs of his colleagues in an effort to effect passage of tax reform measures. This will be the first grand gesture of authority to be made by the party floor leader, who has been the subject of acrimonious criticism for his alleged lack of finesse and tact. Upon McKesson’s leadership next week not only hangs his own political fate, but what is infinitely more important, that of his party, which pledged itself in the 1930 platform to lift the tax burden from real estate. Those veterans who stand outside the house rail and many who sit within it are doubting whether any important tax relief measures will be passed this session. Dilatory Tactics Evident They base their beliefs upon the dilatory tactics pursued by the joint committee on taxation which, it is said, is as lacking in knowledge today of any real solution of the tax problem as it was a month ago. Even if McKesson succeeds in obtaining house passage for those measures to which the party is pledged, namely: A levy on private and corporation incomes and a tax on tobacco and malt sales, it is extremely doubtful if they would pass the senate. And there lies the joker in the political deck. If such bills are passed by the house, and there is no reason to doubt that this will occur, and if they die in the senate, the Republican majority, which is now largely a myth, will be held responsible in 1932. Senate leader Flayed Bitter as is the criticism of McKesson’s leadership, it is but mild compared with the disgust of the real leaders of the Republican party with what they term the lack of political sagacity, diplomacy and generalship displayed by Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Noble and Allen), president pro tern. Upon Hartzell, acting as ventriloquist’s doll for Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush, can be placed the blame for the needless slight put upon Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep., Lake) over the question of passage of the old age pension bill. This affront caused the Lake county veteran to turn upon his colleagues and in an unchecked flow of language, berate them for failing to act as gentlemen in inviting him to a party caucus on the bill. Declaring that he would from now on vote with the minority, Nejdl, like Achilles, is sulking in his tent and Bush and Hartzell will be forced, it is said, to call upon the heads of the state committee to exert their blandishments to soothe the ruffled'feelings of not only the Lake county senator, but of his friends. Tcace Making Necessary The most politically sagacious man in the state G. O. P. councils has predicted the committee will have to step into the breach and mend matters in order to save the party's face. Hopes of the opponents of the direct primary to push through a repeal measure are ephemeral. Even if the primary death bill would pass in the senate, McKesson has openly declared his intention of killing the measure in the house. "The men and women who are not actively engaged in politics want the primary law to remain on the books so that the rank and file of each party may indicate preferences,” declared McKesson. "It is their voices which we must heed.” The house Democrats are expected to pass the voter's registration law and the anti-injunction bill next week. Leaders point out that the first fulfills a pledge to the Indiana League of Women Voters and the second should bind labor to the party for several campaigns. Greater Cut Urged It will be the house which will also slash the biennial budget appropriation bill when it comes down. Although a cut of $600,000 in the budget has been made by members of that committee, house leaders are saying it is not enough; and the best way to solve the tax problem is to reduce expenditures. The highway probe is bearing fruit and a bitter fight will be waged by Senator Charles Strey < Rep.. Kosciusko and Wabash) to make the commission full time, appointed by the Governor with the ratification of the senate. Attorney General James M. Ogden’s charges concerning the disposition of a $3,000 check for “promotional expenses” in which he involved Calvin T. Mclntosh, public service commissioner, have as yet failed to bear fruit, and there appears small likelihood they will.

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Dull Sex Arlen Prefers ‘lris’ of ‘The Green Hat’ to Modern Bores.

HARRY FERGUSON United Preis Staff Correspondent YORK, Feb. 6.—From this i day on women will have to i shape their destinies without the advice and consolation of Michael Arlen, who thinks u ■ II \ they have made ill their lives dull vv anyway. .X* \l 3b*' ) what is \ more, Iris March \ 'JjW of “The Green v.l 'Hat,” who was a /iTttjh pattern for the v post-war woman, H Jon remember your fliction of five years ago, you will recall that Irish committed suicide in the closing chapter of “The Green Hat,” but today it was done all over again. Arlen wrote her death warrant in blue cigaret smoke as he sat in his Fifth avenue hotel, and then executed her with a phrase. Now Irish March was “that shameful, shameless lady,” the finest flower of London’s mayfair. In this country she was interpreted by two of America’s most glamorous women—Miss Katherine Cornell of the stage and Miss Greta Garbo of the screen. She set the fashion for the postwar girls who wore trench coats with turned up collars, borrowed cigarets, swore on appropriate occasions and tried ever so desperately to be wicked as they contemplated the futility of existence. n h x “VfES, Iris, and her type are •A dead,” said Arlen. “I think she went to heaven, but that is not saying where she ought to have gone. Now we have the modern woman. „ | “They are havL I i a dull time. 7 I The y have let ) XT/>t m the men out of AJCJ AC ■ a lot of pleasant duties that they ■ to per- “ They have fh ven the men Blf L yVSSj | more freedom, w' /Tl ' v J which the men do not need. And they have made their own lives that much duller.” 1 M. Arlen lifted his shoulders to indicate he was through with the modem woman, and a great stillness settled over New York. And, of course, the conversation came back to Irish March and the green hat that she wore. “All, Iris. Is it possible that people still remember her? She was the result of a youthful dream —my ideal woman. Os course, I want her to be in heaven where she will be happy.” The 35-year-old author seemed as much concerned about the life-beyond-the-grave habitation of Iris as he was about his wife and small son whom he left at Cannes to blaze a trail to Hollywood. SEWER WORK TO BEGIN Sanitary Board Members Plan for $375,765 Jobs in Spring. Sanitary board members today contemplated beginning work on $375,765 worth of new sewers in the spring. Decision of Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn of the Hancock circuit court denying a petition for an injunction to prevent the board from carrying out the contracts let last June led to plans for the work. Some contractors, it is believed, wall be ’ reluctant to begin work, however, until they learn if an appeal may be taken by the petitioners. RAIN MAY COME TONIGHT Temperature Will Remain Mild, Says Weather Forecaster. Occasional rains may visit Indianapolis tonight and over the weekend, but temperatures will remain mild, the United States weather bureau here forecast this morning. Lowest temperature tonight will be about 40 degrees, the forecast stated.

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Cave Man Texts Rouse Civic Row

By United Press PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Feb. 6. —John Spargo, assistant state superintendent of schools, must decide if the textbooks, “The Childs History of the World,,” is a proper book for children—all because a little sixth grade girl went hoipe and said “Umfa, umfa, glug glug.” The girl is the daughter of the Rev. Byron Nelson, and little knowing that she was throwing Perth Amboy into the same class with Dayton, Tenn., and other points made famous by evolution, she repeated the words home. The father, a vigorous, young Lutheran minister, and a Kiwanian speaker, told the Kiwanians about it, and said he didn't think it was fair, that it aroused a controversial question over evolution in the schools. This is what he read them: “The first people had hair growing, not just on their heads, but all over their bodies, just like some shaggy dogs. They simply lay down on

the ground when night came. They were bloodthirsty. They liked to drink the warm blood of animals they had killed, as you would a glass of milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts—Umfa, umfa, glug, glug. The Kiwanians spread the news of this maritime city's defection from the ranks of fundamentalism. So W. C. McGinnis, superintendent of :,choo)s, got a copy of the book to read—he had never seen it before. This passage caught his eye: “A cave man got his wife by stealing a girl away from her own cave home, knocking her senseless and dragging her off by her hair, if necessary.” - . , . With little ado he ruled V. M. Hillyer’s textbook, in use in his schools for the last five or six years, to be in a literary style that was bad, fecially for children, and ordered all sixteen copies of it off the 00l book shelves. V \

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INDIANA STONE FIRM RECEIVES YALE’S ORDER Building Material to Cost $250,000 Will Fill 100 Cars. OPTIMISTIC VIEWS HELD Leaders of Industries in Various Cities Confident of Better Times* BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Time* Gradual improvement in various lines was noted in a business survey of Indiana for the week ended today, indicated principally by placing of orders. The Matthews Brothers Stone Company of Ellettsville has been given an order for 100 carloads of stone to be used in erecting buildings on the campus of Yale university at New Haven, Conn. The order amounts to about $250,000. Officials of the company announce that business on hand assures steady operation for the remainder of 1931. Recently an order for 75 car loads for use in building the First Unitarian church at Chicago was completed. George Willis, superintendent of the Lewis Shephard Company at Crawfordsville, announces several substantial orders have been obtained, and the plant is already assured of steady work for the greater part of the year. Manufacture of electric clocks is anew activity of the Umphrey Manufacturing Company. Predicts Improvement An optimistic view of conditions is held by E. G. McQuinn, general manager of (he Hoosier Manufacturing Company at Newcastle. “We are more optimistic in the Hoosier organization now than we have been at any time in the last fifteen months,” according to McQuinn. The Indiana Electric Corporation and Northern Indiana Power Company, Insull subsidiaries, plan to spend $75,000 for improvements and construction at several points in the north central part of Indiana. Announcement of the program was made at Noblesville, where John T. Kester, manager, maintains his headquarters. Force Being Augmented Additions to the force of Servcl. Inc., Evansville, will continue for the next three months, according to Frank E. Smith, president. He predicted business this year would be 50 per cent' greater than last. During the week a shipment made as a test may be the forerunner of anew business field center. around the new river-rail terminal at Evansville. A fifty-ton shipment of tobacco was started for Liverpool, England, to be transported wholly on water, by way of New Orleans. The General Tank Car Corporation of East Chicago has purchased all cars of Swift & Cos., Chicago packing firm, adding 13.000 to the 45,000 cars already controlled.

300 MAY GET JOBS City Awaits Adoption of Gas Tax Measure. When senate concurrence is given in a house amendment specifying the date for distribution of the cities, counties and towns share of the state gas tax money as Feb. 16 instead of March 1, the board of works of Indianapolis will be able to put 300 men to work at the city asphalt plant, it is claimed. The Hartzell bill as passed by the senate specified Feb. 1 as the date for distribution, but because of house delay in passing, it was necessary to make the date Feb. 16. Conscience Causes Payment By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 6.—A total of $4.70 has been paid to six stores here from which a conscience stricken person stole rolls and doughnuts a year ago.

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‘Uncle Joe’ to Quit His House Arbiter Duties

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Democratic members of the house of representatives this session may boast that they have had the services of the best parliamentarians in their party. Ex-Senator Jospeh M. Cravens of Madison, who is and has been “Uncle Joe” to legislators and correspondents for more than a decade and whose services in the Indiana general assembly began in 1902, is resigning from his post as house parliamentarian today to go home and attend to personal business. The 72-year-old veteran lawmaker will be succeeded Monday by Harvey Harmon of Princeton, former state senator and public service commisisone?. “Uncle Joe’s” knowledge of the parliamentary procedure saved Speaker Walter Myers from much embarrassment during the opening weeks of the session when the Speaker attempted to keep the members from being entangled in debates on obscure procedure. The veteran who had announced last year that he would neither seek nor hold public office any longer was prevailed upon by party leaders to lend his counsel to the new lawmakers. He expects to return and watch the assembly during its closing days, he declared today.

'GANDHI LIEUTENANT DEAD IN LUCKNOW Special Treatment Does Not Save Nationalist Leader. By United Press LUCKNOW, India, Feb. 6.—The Pandit Motilan Nehru, 69, dispicle of Mahatma Gandhi and one of the most influential of India’s nationalist leaders, died here at 6:40 a. m. today. Pandit is a high Indian title. Nehru founded the Swaraj (Nationalist) party and was president of the all-India national congress. The Mahatma M. K. Gandhi motored here from Allahabad with him two days ago, in order that Nehru might receive special treatment. Like other Indian leaders, Nehru served a prison term for his activities in Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign. Nehru was successful as a lawyer and an advocate at the Allahabad high court before he deserted the bar to embrace Gandhi’s asceticism and mysticism. U. S. TAX EXPERTS MEET Concentrate on Efforts to Make Public “Conscious” of Levies, By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 6.—A national tax conference, attended by farmers, bankers, industrialists, railroad executives and real estate dealers, concentrated today on making the public “tax conscious,” to relieve the governmental burden on pocketbooks. The experts, brought together by the American Farm Bureau Federation, heard taxes discussed as of common interest, and took action toward formation of a national tax conference. INSURANCrHEADIIAMED Educational Campaign to Reduce Fire Losses Planned. E. C. Mercer, Rochester, Ind„ was elected president-of the Mutual Insurance Companies’ Union of Indiana in convention at the Clayposl Thursday. W. E. Clark of Fort Wayne was named vice-president and H. L. Nowlin, Indianapolis, sec-retary-treasurer. Plans for an educational campaign to reduce Are losses, especially in rural districts, will be discussed at today’s session. Child Scalded Critically Pushed by her sister while playing in their home today, Evelyn Burrell, 3, Negro, 1237 South West street, fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded crtically. The girl’s mother had placed the tub on the floor to begin washing clothes. She was taken to city hospital. r

MEMORIAL TAX ABOLITION TO BEJELD UP War Monument Trustees to Have Opportunity to Present Case. THRIFTY POLICY REIGNS T House Committee Unmerciful in Dealing With Fund Requests. Although it voted in executive session Thursday night to kill the Babcock bill for extension of the Indiana World war memorial 6-mill tax levy from 1932 to 1935, inclusive, the ways and means committee today deferred its report to the house of representatives. John D. T. Bold (Dem., Vanderburg) and ranking member of the committee, announced the report will be withheld until the war memorial trustees have opportunity to present their side of the case to the committee. The memorial commission trustees, asserting failure to extend the tax levy means postponement of the memorial dedication until 1935 or 1936, are marshaling their forces for a fight on the floor of the house if the committee adheres to its original decision to recommend indefinite postponement. Airport Fund Cut $65,000 Relpntlessly wielding the pruning knife of economy, the ways and means committee slashed the proposed $75,000 appropriation and maintenance fund for Stout field, Mars Hill airport, to SIO,OOO. The fund is sought to allow the Indiana national guard air squadron to receive more federal equipment and the compromise SIO,OOO apr propriation was reached only after some sharp discussion. Also in line with its economy program on appropriations, the committee gave short shrift to the Indiana Bar Association bill asking $4,000 for a state printing of the "Laws of the Indiana Territory.” Only measure to be sent to the house floor with a minority report will be the Grimm bill providing for taxation of all municipal, township and county notes or bonds issued on public improvements after August, 1931. Designed to bring from sequestration thousands of dollars worth of nontaxable securities, the bill's purpose unanimously was indorsed by the committee, but a majority felt the attendant evils would nullify the intent. Ante Bill Favored Bills recommended today for passage were the Walsman-Evans bill providing that all funds raised by special taxation be used only for reduction of the state property levy and the Bold-Foster measure requiring applicants for automobile licenses to show receipt for taxes paid on the car the previous year or make a sworn statement no taxes are due. Preliminary draft of the Democratic income tax measure probably will be given to the house Monday.

The Golden Lion Saves Tarzan in Nick of Time All seemed lost when the host of gorilla-men, massing outside the Great Wall of the Palace of Diamonds, cut off retreat and opening trap doors in the ceiling, hurled flaming bundles of oilsoaked rags into the room where stood Tarzan and his ally La High Priestess of Opar. But suddenly the deep, reverberating roar of the Golden Lion l ang out. There was an instant’s hush. The noise, like a rushing wmd, of black battalions speeding to aid their master, Tarzan sounded in the distance. “Will they be in time?” muttered the white-faced La . . . Read the Thrilling New Tarzan Picture Story TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Drawings by Rex Maxon Beginning Monday, Feb. 9, in The Times t

CARELESS DRIVER IS TARGET OF BILL

License Suspension, Fines Are Contained in Measure Before House. The l>appy motorist who bangs into the side of your car, crumples a fender, waves away your demands for damages with “I ain’t got it,” and drives serenely on to bigger and better collisions, may be riding to a fall. At any rate, that's the fate two state representatives have designed for him in a bill introduced in the Indiana house Thursday, and now under consideration in judiciary A. Backed by motorists’ associatibns, the bill would require the suspension of drivers’ license and vehicle license of any driver against whom a judgment is rendered as result of a collision or for violation of the state's motor laws. Further, it provides that the licenses shall not reissued until the driver has given the secretary of state satisfactory proof of his ability to pay these damages in subsequent accidents: Injury or death of one person, $5,000; injury or death of two persons, SIO,OOO, and property damage, SIO,OOO. Proof of this ability might, under the bill, take the form of liability insurance, approved by the insurance commissioner, or bond, satisfactory to the secretary of state. The bond or insurance would have to be furnished for three years after the motor violation or damage suit

Lincoln Held Usnipper in Hearts of Americans by New History of Life

By United Frees NEW YORK. Feb. 6.—Abraham Lincoln, enshrined in the hearts of most Americans, was “a man of low intelligence, with few scruples, a clumsy social climber and not a man of the people,” Edgar Lee Masters, author of anew Lincoln biography, declared today. Masters, noted as author of “Spoon River Anthology,” has been a student of Lincoln lore for twenty years, and obtained most of the material for his “Lincoln, The Man” from current biographies. “Lincoln's grandfather probably was a traitor and his father was a low character,” Masters declared. “Thero is every reason to believe

Lincoln was mortified by the sup-, posed fact his mother was a natural child.” “He was lazy. He was neither industrious nor honest. “If he had been a man of the people, he would have lined up behind Andrew Jackson instead of behind the forces of privilege in the Clay-Jackson and Adams-Jackson contests. “He set his sails when he thought the wind was coming up, but set them so he could pull ’em down quickly if need be. “He was supposed to be an humble man, yet he went to Springfield for the purpose of marrying a rich woman and so furthering his career.” “If both Lincoln and Douglas had died after their famous debates, Douglas, not Lincoln, would be the more visible figure today. Masters declared the greatest Americans were Jefferson, Whitman and Emerson, and the

praise bestowed on Lincoln is a robbery of them, his superiors. The biography was dedicated to Jefferson, "philosopher President of the United States and (heir greatest President.” Masters denied to Lincoln practically every virtue attributed to him by Americans, excepting his sense of honor. “That was the magnet,” he said, “which drew people to Lincoln and held them.” “But,” Masters declared, “Lincoln was a cold man in a ludicrous plug hat, mannerless, unkempt, and one wonders if he was not unwashed.” Lincoln could have averted the Civil war, his biographer wrote, by allowing the southern states to secede. “They would have been back in the Union within five years.”

STREET WORK TO START SOON Ordinance to Raise Funds Will Be Drawn Up. • Construction of Pleasant Run boulevard south from Washington street to join the present roadway, and extension of Fall Creek boulevard east toward Millersville, will be started soon by the park board. These plans were adopted Thursday by the board when orders were issued to H. Nathan Swaim, board attorney, to draw an ordinance for presentation to the council allowing funds for the work. Jackiel W. Joseph, board president, said the work would be accomplished out of board funds now on hand, and without floating a bond issue. The ordinance will place funds derived from sales of park lands such as tlie tract to be used for the United States Veterans hospital on Coffin golf links, into a general fund. Joseph and A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, said the “make work” commission will assign more men to the city if jobs can be provided for them.

which caused the license revocation and made the bond or insurance necessary. Critics of the bill are expected to contend that it is insurance legislation, but it is not as broad as “compulsory liability” laws that have been advocated in this and other states. Motor clubs contend it gradually will clear the streets and highways of irresponsible drivers who now bump from one accident to another, leaving their victims with nothing more consoling than repair bills and the advice, “Sue if you want to; I don’t carry insurance and haven’t got a cent.”

Jailed, Fined, Wine Gone; Baby Still Unchristened

By United rress HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 6.—The attempted christening of Mike Uvelac’s ninth baby was a flop, he admitted today as he looked over bills representing $377.20, cost of the christening to date, and he contemplated a one to two year suspended sentence which hangs over him. this, he complained, the baby still is unchristened. Uvelac’s woes started when he went for wine to be used in the baby ceremony. Returning home his auto struck the machine driven by Mrs. Clem Flahnappe, and he was arrested for reckless driving. Sentence of one to two years for liquor transportation, SIOO and costs, thirty days for liquor transportation and costs for reckless driving and a repair bill for Mrs. Flahnappe’s auto was handed him. The prison terms were suspended, but the liquor was confiscated. “The other eight’s christening didn't cost this much,” Uvelac remarked. '

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PARLEY CALLED ON MINE WAGE Operators Expected to Ask Pay Slash. By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 6. Indiana coal mine operators and their employes will be represented at a joint meeting here Tuesday when efforts will be continued to arrive at anew wage scale and working agreement to replace those to end March 31. Upon the qilestion of wages and working hours, the two sides are far apart. The employers desire restoration of the November, 1917, basic wage of $5 a day, 34 cents a ton for pick mined coal and 72 cents for machine mined, and an eight-hour working day. The miners desire retention of the present basic wage of $6.10 a day, 91 cents for pick mined coal and 79 cents for machine mined, with a six-hour working day and a five-day week. FATHER, SON ESCAPE INJURY IN AUTO CRASH Driver Runs Through Traffic Light, Hits Another Car. Pinned beneath his auto when it overturned after crashing into another car at Sixteenth and Meridian streets today, William Headley, 60, of Mooresville, escaped with minor injuries. His father, Abraham Hoadley, 87, Plainfield, was not hurt. Witnesses said Hoadley drove through a traffic light and struck the auto of W. M. Vaser, 5819 East Washington street, broadside. Vascr’s car careened into a parked auto. FAVOR MINORS’ JOB BILL Measure to Make Employment of Youths Easier Approved. Making employment of minors between 16 and 18 easier was approved on committee report today in the senate. The bill is backed by the vocational education department, wheih will have charge of issuance of certicates, rather than in the industrial board, as at, present. A minority report by Senator George W. Sims (Rep., Vigo) was turned down, despite his plea that boys should not be put to work while many men are idle. BURNS ARE FATAL TO 2 Thirteen Escape When Bus Bursts Into Flames. By United Press SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Cal., Feb. 6.—Virgil A. White, a sailor from the San Diego naval base, and Mrs. Velma Cole, San Diego, were fatally burned late Thursday in a bus from which thirteen other passengers escaped after it burst into flames. It was believed a passenger’s cigaret ignited gasoline from a broken line while the bus was mired at the side of the highway during a heavy rainstorm.

POSTAL LEASE SCANDAL HUSH LAID TO G. 0. P. Senator Blaine Declares Expose Was Halted for ‘Good of Party.’ OFFICIAL IS GRILLED Removal of U. S. Counsel by Harry New Shown in Testimony. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Senator John J. Blaine (Rep., Wis.), in the senate pcetofficc inquiry today, pictured the Coolidge administration as having halted grand jury action exposing St. Paul postofflee leasing practices “for fear it would blow up G. O. P. chances in the 1928 campaign.” In que; tiomng John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster-generai under Mr. Coolidge, Blaine brought out that Harry S. New, former Post-master-General, obtained the removal of government counsel seeking indictments in the case. Corruption had been charged. Bartlett said this was true, but denied knowledge of Blaine's insinuation that the case later was hushed up at the direction of James W. Good, former Secretary of War and Republican western campaign manager, “after Good had visited President Coolidge’s camp at Brule, Wis.” Matter Hushed Up Blaine’s questions pictured telephone calls between the Coolidge camp and St. Paul government counsel and between St. Paul and Postmaster-General New, resulting in St. Paul being given anew postoffice and the grand jury action collapsing. Bartlett denied he was a party to any such intent, “but, looking back on it, as you have pictured, it appears someone might have had that in mind.” "Without impugning your motives,” Blaine asked Bartlett, “isn’t it a fact that you were sent to St. Paul in July, 1928, to call off grand jury proceedings by arranging for construction of anew postofflee St. Paul had wanted for years? “And isn't it a fact that fear was held that this leasing matter would blow up the campaign in the west and must be stopped at all hazards?” Talked It Over “I don't know how much they feared,” Bartlett said, “none of them talked to me and I don't wish to say anything more than I can say conscientiously. I had nothing to do with the campaign.” ’ Bartlett said all he knew was that he was sent to St. Paul to “talk over the matter with the St. Paul people and bring about condemnation proceedings for anew building.” The now famous St. Paul case involved the signing of ■a. noncancellable lease by Attorney-General New for a St. Paul substation building owned by Jacob Kulp, Chicago, who, Bartlett said, was one of two men granted wholesale postiffice leasing privileges over the entire country. The house postofflee committee will hear Representative Maas (Rep., Minn.) Monday on his bill to prevent postmasters from holding office longer than a year without reappointment, which directly would involve Postmaster Charles J. Moos of St. Paul. 4,000-YEAR-OLD SHRINE OF GODDESS IS FOUND Print of Door Left Half Open \v Last Worshiper Still Seen. Bn (Science Service PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.—A wayside shrine where travelers 4.000 years ago paused to ask the aid of their patron goddess is the latest discovery at Ur of the Chaldees. Four thousand years ago the list worshiper went out and left the door half open. Imprint of the door still is there in the earth. Word of the shrine discover}’ has been received here from C. Leonard Wooley, field director of the joint expedition to Ur sent out by the University of Pennsylvania museum and the British museum. The goddess of the chapel was a little known deity, Pa-Sag, called the protector of desert paths. BRIDGE EXPERT TO TALK Culbertson Will Give Fine Toints of Game to Audience. Ely Culbertson, national and international bridge champion, will lecture in the L. S. Ayres & Cos. auditorium at 2:30 p. m. Monday on "Contract Bridge from A to Z. ’ Culbertson is editor of Bridge World, a monthly magazine devoted to the game, and is author of “The Contract Bridge Blue Book,” and president of the National Bridge Association. PHAMPION IS DIVORCED Wife Wins Suit From Mickey* Walker, ‘Toy Bulldog.’ By United Press TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 6.—A divorce decree in favor of Margaret M. Walker from Edward Patrick f Mickey) Walker, world’s middleweight boxing champion, was signed by Chancellor Edwin R. Walker today. She was given custody of their two children. Walker was charged with cruelty. CITY PHYSICIAN DEAD Dr. Stephen L. Egart Succumbs After Long Illness. Dr. Stephen L. Egart, 56, of 1421 Prospect street, died early today in city hospital after a long illness. He is survived by a brother, Joseph C. Egart, Indianapolis, and a sister in Kentucky.