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BOY, 11, IS DROWNED Scared; Leaps From Raft in White River. Jumping from a raft on which he was playing with several boys, Harry Akers, 11, of 337 Beauty avenue, son of Mrs. Lina Ganly. was drowned In White river Friday afternoon. The boys were on the raft when It was swept into the current near Washington street. Becoming panic stricken, the boy jumped into the water. His body was recovered an hour later. His was the third drowning In t.he county this year. THREE SUFFER HURTS IN AUTO COLLISIONS Victims All Women in Different Accidents; Pedestrian Hit. Walking along West Washington street in the 3900 block Friday, Miss Rosa Dreker, 2154 Barth avenue. was struck by an auto driven by Newton Reath. 1408 South Waldemere avenue. She was treated at city hospital. The auto went into a ditch. Mrs. Caroline Peer, 61, Newport, Ind.. was injured Friday night when her husband’s au + o collided with a car driven by Jesse Harvey, 19, of Bridgeport, at Warman avenue and Washington street. Mrs. E. E. Linger. 26, of 807 North Ritter avenue, suffered scalp injuries when her auto collided with a street car at College avenue and Thirty-fourth street, Friday. HERBERT HOOVER 111 TABOOS .BALD HEADS ‘Better Wear Your Hat/ President's Grandson Tells Doormen. By L’niteil Press WASHINGTON, March 21.—Men with bald heads need not apply for work at the White House. The grandchildren of President Hoover do not like them. Herbert Hoover 111, 3. approached an elderly doorman dressed in the usual morning clothes at the inner lobby entrance of the executive mansion. His head so bald the brilliantly lighted chandelier reflected ciazzlingly from his shiny pate. Casting a calculating eye upon the attendant, the youngster said: ‘‘You look better with your hat on. I think you had better wear it after this.'' RELIEF _ DRIvFiriNDED Red Cross Obtains $60,136 in City for Drought Sufferers. The Red Cross campaign for drought relief sufferers closed in Indianapolis with a total of $60.138.57 in contributions. Arthur V. Brown, chairman of the campaign, making a Anal report today, said this amount was 40 per cent of the sum raised in the state.

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The Indianapolis Times Mostly cloudy with probably rain tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature, lowest tonight about 34.

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Top Photo—Machine gunners of the One hundred twenty-ninth Illinois infantry have two guns trained on the gate leading to the cell blocks at Stateville. Middle —Three murderous knives ere taken from convicts who look part in the Stateville riots. Deputy Warden Frank Kness, who took a leading part in suppressing the disorders, is shewn Bottom—The Rev. George Whitmeyer, recently resigned chaplain at Joliet prison, is accused of aiding discontent among the prisoners.

BANK ROBBER SUSPECT IS GRILLED BY COPS Police today questioned Maurice Patron, 21, Noblesville, who, it io alleged, was one of the men who attempted to rob the New Augusta State bank Jan. 22. Patron, according to authorities, is a companion of Ralph Gifford, 25, of Cicero, who is facing grand jury action in connection with the bank stickup. Police said they would question Patron on other robberies in and near Indianapolis.

SPRING OFFICIALLY HERE AND MERCURY KNOWS IT

Spring arrived officially in Indianapolis this morning at 8:07 amid sunshine and rising temperatures. But the weather bureau’s prediction called for cloudy skies before nightfall with probably rain Sunday. The mercury Jumped from 33 at 6 a. m. to 42 at 9 and greeted spring with 39 degrees. The predicted cloudiness and probable rain is to be genera.! throughout the state Sunday, according to J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief. Advent of spring brought to a close one of the oddest winters in the history of the midwest. At no time during the winter season did the mercury drop below 1 degree above zero in Indianapolis. It reached this low level Nov. 27. 4.

By United Preen JOLIET, 111., March 21.—Comparative quiet prevailed, but national troops remained on guard today over the Joliet and Stateville prisons where riots of the last week have resulted in three deaths and property damage in excess of $500,000. Danger of further serious noting apparently had been removed. Almost all the convicts remained locked in their cells twenty-four hours a day. Many of the men who had been on a bread, coffee and water diet for a full week were in an ugly mood, but they could do no more than shout their protests. Members of a special legislative committee who were present Friday when a mild uprising broke loose planned to call two religious men as today’s principal witnesses in the inquiry to determine the .cause of the riots. These two men, the Rev. Eligius Weir, Catholic chaplain, and the Rev. George Whitmeyer, who was a chaplain until recently, held widely different opinions as to the causes of the disorders. Whitmeyer contends he resigned as chaplain in protest to what he considered cruelty to prisoners. Warden Henry C. Hill, however, says Whitmeyer was discharged. It has been charged that Whitmeyer helped incite the convicts by telling some of them that “what this prison needs is a good riot.” Father Weir, on the other hand, is a staunch supporter o.‘; Warden Hill. He contends that prisoners have been well treated under Hill and that the whole trouble lies in the state’s system of indeterminate sentences rather than with officials. *

67 TO ENTER PLEAS Attempted Murder Among Varied Charges. Sixty-seven defendants were to be arraigned today "before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker on charges ranging from larceny to attempted murder. Baker will accept pleas of each person to the charges as set forth in affidavits and indictments, and will fix trial dates. Thirty-two persons named on the arraignment calendar are jail prisoners. illegautTcharged IN DRV CASE ARREST No Search Warrant, Is Claim, But Negro Is Bound to Jury. Jesse Steele, Negro, 430 Douglass street, today faced grand jury investigation on liquor charges despite argument that his arrest and confiscation of five gallons of alcohol by federal dry agents was illegal because of lack of a search warrant. A dry agent testified before Howard S. Young, United States commissioner, that Steele was arrested at 716 Darnell street, after he was seen delivering the alcohol. Steele was held to the grand jury under $1,500 bond.

Majority of the snowfall occurred in March as the winter, described by Armington as “very dry and very warm,” neared its close. “It was a most exceptional winter,” he said. “Although the lack of rain and snow continued the serious drought, the prevailing high temperatures caused much less freezing than usual and this will prove an aid to early crops.” Outstanding in many ways the winter just ended was particularly remarkable in the midwest, in that it was one of the three years since 1870 when the temperature never once dropped below zero. It was an unusual winter also in that less rain fell than in almost any year since 1880 and the only storm of any severity eld not occur until the season was almost over.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931

BIRTH CONTROL IS INDORSED BY CHURCH GROUP / Federal Council Gives Its Approval in Formal Report. MINORITY IS OPPOSED Action First on Record by Inter-Denominational Body. By United Press NEW YORK, March 21.—Birth control was approved, broadly though conditionally, on grounds of health, economics and humanity in a report today of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, representing many denominations of Christian religion. The approval was said, in a statement accompanying the report, to be the first such declaration made by an inter-denominational body. A minority recommended abstinence as an “ideal” among married people who felt unable to have children. But all signed the report, and they made an imposing list of churchmen and social workers. Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians were included among the signatories. Uphold Birth Control Briefly, the report upheld birth control because: 1. It may be morally right in certain circumstances. 2. Some form of “effective control” of families is necessary. 3. “There should be sex union between husbands and wives as an expression of mutual affection, without relation to procreation.” It was held that birth control has become a fact, and that, therefore: { l. “The public, therefore, has a right to expect guidance from the church on the moral aspects.” 2. Whatever the final decision of the church may be, it should not seek to impose anti-birth control legislation, nor to seek to prohibit physicians from imparting information regarding use of contraceptives. But in its tone the report seemed to go beyond the bare statement of the facts as given. Report After Study of Years

It was a carefully prepared and reasoned document, of scholarly composition. In its references to divergence between majority and minority groups it showed mutual respect for the view of the other side, and the minority signatories said frankly, in an inserted summary, that they recognized their recommendation of abstinence instead of birth control as “a counsel of perfection.” The Rev. Worth N. -Tippy, executive secretary of the church council’s social service commission, said in a statement accompanying the report that) it was the result of a "continuous study of problems of marriage and the home, extending over a period of years.” Physicians, psychologists and social scientists, rhe said, had given counsel regarding its preparation. Near Recognized Standard In its opening paragraph the report said that use of contraceptives is "nearing the status of a recognized procedure,” and that the public is entitled to church guidance regarding it. Marital love, it was said, could not be regarded solely as a means of procreation, but as a supreme expression of affection and comradeship. The hazards of pregnancy in certain circumstances, it was said, must be accepted as a fact. Economic conditions also enter into the question, it was added, and it was pointed out that very large families tended to "produce poverty, to endanger the health and stability of the family and to limit the educational opportunities of the children. Furthermore, it was said: “The problem of overproduction —while not an immediate one so far as this country was concernedmust be taken into consideration. Recognized by Doctors “As to the necessity, therefore,” the report continued, “for some form of effective control of the size of the family and spacing of children, and, consequently, of control of conception, there can be no question. It is recognized by all churches and all physicians. “There is general agreement also that sex union between husbands and wives as an expression of mutual affection, without relation to procreation, is right. This is recognized by the scriptures, by all branches of the Christian church, by social and medical science, and by the good sense and idealism of mankind. Review Differing Views “As to the method of control of conception, two ways are possible. One is' the use of contraceptives, or methods other than abstinence, which may be classified as such. The other is self-control or abstinence for longer or shorter periods of time. Both may oe considered as forms of birth control." • Here the report reviewed the different views, medical and social as (Tom to Pag* Three)

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Paul F. Kassey (left) being questioned by William McDermott oi Cleveland, United States district attorney.

Hungarian Held in Akron Case Again Asserts He’s Been 'Framed.’ By United Press AKRON, 0., March 21.—The United States government will attempt to prove that Paul F. Kassey, rivet inspector for the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, who is under arrest on charges of trying to bring about the destruction of the giant dirigible Akron, being constructed for the navy, has definite connections with the Soviet government, the United Press has been informed. Although the district office of the Communist party denied that Kassey is a member of the party, his fellow-workmen in the dirigible works described him as a man with a mania for the destruction of any agent of warfare which might be used by the United States against Soviet Russia. Yetta Land, woman attorney, who has taken part in defending Communists, arrived here Friday night with the announced intention of aiding in Kassey’s defense. Kassey, when arraigned Friday on a warrant charging him with violating the Ohio syndicalism law, pleaded not guilty and was held in $25,000 bail. “It’s all a frameup,” the tall Hungarian said. “I was asked by Goodyear officials to aid them in trying to find out if someone planned to damage the Zeppelin, and was trying to do that when arrested.” Information from government sources said that Kassey may be charged with weakening the wings of a huge navy bombing plane which crashed in San Diego last September, killing a pilot. The plane was built by the Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation at Cleveland, in a factory where Kassey was employed. It was one of eighteen planes built for the navy in that plant while he worked there. Secret service agents started an investigation after the plane crash which led to the dirigible plant, where Kassey went after he was discharged from the airplane factory. Home Ransacked Burglars who ransacked the home of Charles Stephenson, 518 North Hamilton avenue, Friday night took $29, hecomplained to police.

Line-Up for H.S. Cage Classic FRIDAY SATURDAY KENDALLVILLE (16). \ 9 a. m. MUNCIE (21) MUNCIE (37) ) I S:3O a. m. MUNCIE \ WASHINGTON (23)...\ \ J 10 a. m. ( WASHINGTON (19)., / SHORTRIDGE (22) ) 2:30 p. m. > " BROWNSTOWN (19)..x ( 11a.m. J LOGANSPORT i \ LOGANSPORT (23)...) ’ J 9:30 a. m. , • ’ BLUFFTON (19)...... \ \ 2 p. m. ( FRANKFORT ’ FRANKFORT (28) J 8 p. m. ► F EVANSVILLE (15) \ # 3 p. m. GREEXCASTLE GREENCASTLE (20) .. .) } 10:30 a. m. \ MARION (22).... \ \ 4 p. m. ELKHART I ELKHART (26) J f 3:30 p. m ) * „ RUSHVILLE (21) ....i ( 7:30 p.m. f RUSHVILLE V HORACE MANN (20).) ’ 11:30 a. m. GREENSBURG (18).. \ \ 8:30 p. n, WILEY WILEY (31) )

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BOY ATHLETE SLAIN ON ROAD Shot From Parked Car Is Fatal to Stanley Tyska Near Anderson. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 21 Scarcely a clew was available today to aid city and Madison county authorities in their efforts to apprehend an unidentified motorist who shot and fatally wounded Stanley Tyska, 18, as he and four other members of an independent basketball team were returning home Friday night from a game played at the Lindbergh school. Tyska was for three years a star of the St. Mary’s high school basketball team. He finished his school athletic career in the state Catholic high school tournament played at Indianapolis recently and would have been graduated in June. The automobile in which Tyska and his companions were riding passed a car parked beside the highway, one mile northeast of Anderson. Lights of the parked car blinded James Neffernan, 20, driver of the athletes’, automobile, causing him to shout as he drove past the other car. ; • • • • • “You might have dimmed your lights, anyway.” The rejoinder was the crack of a pistol. Tyska , who was sitting in the back seat between Bernard Foster, 26, and Peter Sokel, 20, was struck in the temple,. but his companions were unaware of it until their automobile was a quarter of a mile from the scene of the shooting. They took -the wounded youth hurriedly to a hospital. Tyska died two hours later, without regaining consciousness. John Foster, brother of Bernard, was the other occupant of the automobile in which the team was riding. None was able to give a good description of the parked car, although all were agreed that it was new and expensive appearing.

BEARCATS DOWN HATCHETS, 1930 CHAMPIONS, IN CLASH CRAMMED WITH THRILLS BULLETIN Logansport scored the most startling upset of the tournament this morning, defeating Frankfort. 2o to 21. BY DICK MILLER Muncie’s Bearcats squeezed out a 21-to-19 victory over Washington’s Hatchets in the first game of the quarter-final round of the state high school basketball tournament this norning at Butler fieldhouse. It was the most sensational battle of the tournament, including even the brilliant Washingon-Shortridge struggle of Friday. * Minus De Jernett, the giant Negro star, who had fouled himself out of the game in the third quarter, the Hatchets, a team that “never knows when it’s beat,’’ battled their way to even terms with the Bearcats in the last period.

Logansport-Frankfort

The giant arena was entirely filled when Frankfort and Logansport took the floor for the second game of the day. Logansport rushed off into the lead when Marburger ambled up the floor and eased in a field goal. Locke, fouled, made it 2 to 1 with one free toss. The teams played cautiously until Thompson fouled Meade, and the Berry star looped in a free toss to make it 3 to 1. Porter swished in a one-handed shot and FrankforJ, called for time, with Logan leading, 5-1. The Hot, Dogs apparently were playing under wraps, as they had not yet worked a formulated play. Stroup Knots Count They finally attempted to cut loose, but had trouble finding the range. Then Lawhead dropped one in from the center circle and Stroup followed it with one from side center a moment later to make it 5-all. Campbell looped in a long one, but Thompson’s free throw leveled down the lead. Thompson took a pass, reversed and toosed in a bucket to make it 8-7, Frankfort. Meade fired in a left-handed shot and Logan lod again. Campbell made an easy shot and Frankfort, worried, took time out. Then, for the first time, the Hot Dogs worked a play and opened a path for Stroup. He registered and the score was 11-10, Logansport, as the half ended. Meade drove down the floor and connected with a field goal, but Shaver came right back with one for the Hot Dogs to make it 13-12. Hot Dogs Flustered Hamden looped in two charity tosses and added another a few minutes later to make it 16-12. Porter went straight down the middle, took a pass and twisted the ball into the net. Hamden, open at the foul line, arched in a pretty one and Frankfort hurriedly called for time. The Hot Dogs were flustered and worried. They rushed down the floor, shook Lawhead loose and he connected for a field goal to make it 20-14 as the quarter closed. Shaver fouled Campbell and he hoisted both free tosses through the ring to give Logan a 22-14 edge. Logansport gave Frankfort some of its own medicine by going into a stall. The clock had slipped down to between four and five minutes. Lawhead added a free throw to Frankfort’s total to make it 22-15. Three minutes remained and Logan continued to stall. Logan fumbled and Red Thompson dived on the ball. He registered a field goal to make it 22-17. Thompson grabbed the ball at the

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I foul line, pivoted and pushed in | another goal to make it 22-19. Porter fouled Stroup and he made |it 22-20 with one free throw. ! Thompson fouled Meade and he ' made two bringing the score to | 24-20. Lawhead shot a basket, but it was ' ruled out and Stroup was fouled for talking back to the official. Both Meade and Lawhead missed. Marburger fouled Thompson and left the game on personals. Edwards took his place as Thompson made it 24 to 21. Meade made it 25 to 21 with a good free throw on a technical foul as the gun ended.

Muncie-Washington

The field house was in an uproar as the Bearcats and Hatchets swung into action in the first game of the day. The two giant Negro centers, Jack Mann and Dave De Jernett walked to the center circle and despite a three-inch disparity in height, “Big Dave” took the opening tip. Heavenridge opened the scoring by putting rhe Hatchets out in front with a free throw. A minute later. Traster evened the score with a similar toss. Heavenridge Tips in Shot Gross’ long shot rolled around the rim and out, Heavenridge batting the ball back through for a field goal. The Hatchets fought for every break under the basket and in a spirited scrimmage, Gross tipped the ball in for another field goal. Schuck dashed down the floor and heaved in a field goal to bring the score to 5 to 3 as the first quarter ended. Big Dave sent the count to 7 to 3 as the second period opened by dribbling under the hoop. Muncie pulled the foul line pivot play and Davidson crashed through for a field goal. Icerman -looped through a held goal from just past the center and the count was all even. After a lull, in which both teams played cautiously, Muncie crashed down the floor, and when Davidson’s shot hit the rim and bounced into Mann’s hqnds the ebony ace tossed it in for a field goal just seconds before the half ended with Muncie ahead 9 to 7. Jack Mann opened the scoring in the second half with a beautiful one-handed push shot from a corner, sending the score to 11-7. Dc Jernet fouled Mann and left thr game. It was his fourth personal and Edwards replaced him at cento for the Hatchets. Mann made the free toss good ano Cook followed it up a moment late: with a similar throw. Heavenridgf flipped one through the nets iroi side-cented to bring the count tr 13-9.

Icerman dribbled down the flooj for an easy basket to boost Mur cie’s total two more points. Man: dropped in a one-handed from the foul circle to make it 17-9. Heavenridge galloped down to. the foul line and flung one through the meshes to make it 17-11. Cherr went in for Morgan arid he wa fouled. He looped in the charit' toss. Heavenridge Sinks Two Heavenridge raced down the floo. 1 and fired a bullet-like goal through the nets, and on the next tip-ofi cut lose with one from the center to make the score 17-16 as the third quarter closed. Edwards sent one through from under the hoop as the fourth quarter started and Washington wa. out ahead, 18-17. Cherry, dribblinp down the floor, was fouled and hr gave the Hatchets a two-point edgr by making his toss good. Schuck knotted the count at 19all with a short shot as three minutes remained to play. The crowd was in a frenzy. Davidson gave Muncie a 20-19 edge with only a minute to play as he dropped in a free toss. Schuck fouled Gross, but the Washington forward missed two free throws. Less than a minute remained to play. Cherry fouled Davidson and he made it 21-19 just as the gun ended the game, the best of the entire tournament. The summary: MUNCIE WASHINGTON Schuck. 1... 2 0 1 4 Gross, r ? Traster. f... 0 1 1 Heavenrdge. f s 1 U Mann, c 3 1 7De Jernett. c 1 o r Icerman. (f.. 2 0 4 Morgan g o n a Cook, i 0 I !Ed war dr. c... I o 2 Totals ...11 5T CherrT ’ _ . . Totals .... 8 3 IS Personal fou.s—(Muncie • Icerman. 2 Cook. 2: Davidson, l: schuck. l: Mann. 1; 'Washington' De Jernett. 4: Morgan. 2 G-oss. 2: Heavenridge. 1; Edsrarda, f; Cherry. 1.