Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1931 — Page 2

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HOLMES DELAYS SCHOOL BOOK BILLS REPORTS Measures Thought Killed by Postponing Action in Senate. Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep, Lake) today drew the ire of senate Democrats who for ten days have

been fighting unsuccessfully to compel the senate’s education committee to bring to the floor the trio of house bill a governing the preparation, adoption, pu r - chase and rental of . text books. Senator Holmes twice has succeeded in deferring the commit!* tee reports although, when

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asked what interest he had in the measure, he professed to have none. The bills are the subject of hottest contention among book published lobbyists who have succeeded in forming strong alignments, pro and con, among incumbent legislators and some powerful members of past sessions who are rushing around the lobbies and down the aisles in both houses. Today Tormohlen drew Lieuten-ant-Governor Bush into whispered conferences, and the reports had not been made at noon. Bills Probably Killed The committee report delay, in which Holmes has played an important part, probably has killed the bills. Except by suspension of senate rules, they can not possibly be acted upon by that body in time for

their presentation to the Governor before the session ends Monday night. All three of the text books bills, of which the American Book Comoany is the chief antagonist, passed the house Feb. 24. A few days later they were submitted to the sena t e’s education committee of which Senator

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Herbert V. Tormohlen (Rep., Jay and Rando.ph) is chairman. Lobby influence aside, retention of the bills m comittee was regarded advantageous to Senate Republicans to force the house judiciary B committee to report out, after delay, the senate bill to divert auto license revenues from the highway department to the general fund. This was done Thursd" r ~"id the Democratic house slaughtered the diversion bill. Each Hour Worth Thousands Representative Chester K. Watson (Dem., Allen and Whitley), chairman of house judiciary B committee, is author of the school book bills. Late Wednesday Democratic senators were promised that if they would withhold their motion demanding the text book bills be reported out, the reports would be forthcoming Thursday morning. The morning passed without fulfillment of the promise. Early Thursday afternoon Senators Chester A. Perkins (Dem., St. Joseph) and Anderson Ketchum ''Dem., Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin and Union) renewed their demands. Senator Holmes pointed to Senator Tormohlen’s empty seat, said he was sure the reports were ready, and would be returned when the absent senator returned to the chamber. The afternoon passed with every hour’s delay worth thousands of dollalrs to that group of school book publishers said to be favored by the present system of adoptions. Holmes Moves Adjournment Senator Tormohlen put in his belated apeparance shortly before adjournment as committee reports were being received. He sent down one report of his committee on another bill. He was walking down the aisle nervously with other reports in his hand when Senator Holmes abruptly moved adjournment. Such a motion always is in order. It carried. Tormohlen beamed with apparent relief. The delay virtually decreed death for the bids. Questioned as to his manifest interest in the measures, Holmes, not

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Child ‘Experts’ By Time* Special MUNCIE, Ind, March 6. . Speaking at a child welfare conference here, Dr. Homer T. Rainey, president of Franklin college, said he did not feel qualified to tell about child training because he had two children of his own. “The most heated discussion of the topic that I have ever heard was between an old maid, a bachelor and a married couple 40 years old who had no children,” he said.

a member of the education committee, said: “I have no interest in the bills. It is now 5 o’clock and you know what three divided reports would mean at this hour. “Besides, they haven’t the votes here now to pass them. These Republican senators are angry over tne house defeat of their license fee diversion bill. They would kill chose textbook bills in a minute!” Wayne Democrats Hear Slack L. Ert Slark, former mayor, addressed the Wayne Township Democratic Club at a meeting in Veterans’ hall, King avenue and Walnut street, Wedensday night.

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’BOMB' EVIDENCE RIDDLES STORY OF SCHROEDER Surprise Witness Tells of Watching Actions of Mobile Man. (Continued from Page One) questioned in the prosecutor’s office, and of statements Schroeder made concerning the tragedy. In a startling chain of evidence laid before Jurors Thursday, prosecutors called witnesses to show that no ditch exists within five miles in either direction of the spot where Schroeder says his auto plunged into a trench at the roadside, killing his unknown passenger. John Keller, maintenance engineer for the Illinois state highway department, testified the ditches within a radius of ten miles of the spot thirty-five miles

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west of Terre Haute, where Schroeder says the accident occurred, are an average depth o* five inches. Schroeder claims that on May 31, when he picked up the hitch-hiker passenger near Indianapolis to carry him to St. Louis, his car plunged into a four-foot ditch. Schroeder says his passenger died there of a broken neck, and that he (Schroeder) drove back to Indianapolis and fired the car and its cargo, fearing he would be charged with murder if authorities learned of the alleged accident. Cross-examining Keller, Ira Holmes, Scroeder’s attorney, shifted the alleged scene to three locations where the accident “might have occurred,” he said. Schroeder has been unable to tell authorities exactly where the place is. Alleged grilling of Schroeder became the center of attack of the defense today, as Stark resumed the stand for cross-examination. Holmes charges that Stark and Winkler violated court orders when they grilled Schroeder in the prosecutor’s office and at police headquarters. Holmes was successful Thursday in striking parts of the testimony on that grilling from the record. Holmes recalled the fight which started in the prosecutor's office shortly after Schroeaer’s capture in a Mobile v/eed patch, in which

Holmes, Roland Snider, former deputy sheriff, and Holmes' son Horace, were participants. At that time Holmes shouted orders to Schroeder to answer no questions. Holmes also grilled Stark on the scene in the office of Edward L. Dietz, former Justice of the peace, when Winkler and Stark were “threatened” with contempt of court proceedings unless Schroeder was produced at oncel for a hearing on a preliminary.arson charge. Stark testified that he asked Schroeder why he (Schroeder) did not toss the body from the car at some point near the accident. “It seems very unreasonable, that you drove clear back to Indianapolis to get rid of the body,” Stark said he told Schroeder. “Schroeder said he didn’t know,” Stark testified. “Schroeder told us he had about $42,500 insurance on himself,” Stark continued. “We told Schroedef there was no evidence or an accident on the car, and that there ought to be some bent fenders or a bent axle, but Schroeder answered: ‘Well, I’ve told my story and I’m going to stick to it,’ ” Stark said. Stark quoted Schroeder as saying he was driving about fifty miles ! an hour at the time of the alleged ; crash. “Schroeder said the right front j wheel of the caf was in the ditch'

with the other three wheels on the berm of the road. “We asked him how he pulled out of such a deep ditch. Schroeder said: ‘Oh, I Just shifted into reverse and backed out,’” Stark said. “Schroeder could only partially describe his passenger. “We asked him the color of the man’s hair, what kind of cloihes he wore, his race, but Schroeder said, ‘I didn’t take much notice of him.’" “I told Schroeder,” Stark said, “that it waS unreasonable that he rode with the man almost 100 miles without remembering anything about him.” “Schroeder answered: ‘Well, I don’t know much about that,’ ” Stark testified. A statement made by Schroeder after his capture in Mobile was read to Jurors by Winkler. It told of Schroeder’s leaving Mobile, May 20, and of reaching Indianapolis, registering at Meeker hotel and of attending the 500-mile Speedway race. The statement told of the alleged crash into the ditch. “I told Schroeder his statement was awfully flimsy,” Winkler testified. “Schroeder said, “Well, that’s my story and I’m going to stick to it,” he added. Most vulnerable part of the state’s case, that of proving the venue, was believed to be cleared with Wink-

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PAUL 'JUST_A FLOP Whiteman Admits He Has Failed as Husband. By Vnited Prett CHICAGO. March 6.—Paul Whiteman, who a few days ago was divorced for the third time, today admitted he had been successful in the realm of jazz, but just a “flop” in private life. The rotund band ’eader philosophically described his condition a being “married to an orchestra ,r “But that’s the v.ay it is show business,” Whiteman said. “Show folks get more happiness out of marriage in two years than most people do in their whole lives. 1 guess that’s why it’s so hard tQ make them permanent.”