Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1931 — Page 3

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PROTESTS POUR IN ON PROPOSED BAR TO PARKING Council Will Hold Special Meeting Friday to Decide Action; Special city council meeting has been set lor 6:30 Friday as result of failure of councilmen to take definite action on the new traffic ordinance Monday night. The delay was occasioned by failure of councilmen to agree on the section banning parking around the World War memorial plaza. Representatives of several groups appeared at the meeting to object to this feature. The section banning parking in the central traffic district from 7 to 9:15 a. m., designed to halt all day parking, also was a controversial point. The council passed the new ordinance regulating taxicabs, making minor changes. Another ordinance banning delivery of milk before 6 a. m. during winter months, as a health measure and to reduce number of early morning milk wagon accidents, was killed. City Librarian Protests Objections to the plaza parking ban were presented by Luther F. Dickerson, city librarian, who asked one-hour panting be permitted on the north side of St. Clair street between Pennsylvania and Meridian streets, as an accommodation to library patrons. Protests of representatives of the Second Presbyterian and First Baptist churches, on the plaza, against the ban won support of Maurice E. Tennant, council traffic committee chairman; Leo F. Welch and James A. Houck. Representatives of the Indianapolis Building Owners and Managers Association objected to the early morning parking ban, declaring it would work a hardship on hundreds of insurance company agents wtlb must attend meetings in their offices at 8 each morning. It was declared that if the ban became effective, these companies would move into outlying sections. Defends Plaza Parking Ban Defending the plaza parking ban, Captain Lewis Johnson said the parking interfered with numerous parades and ceremonies on the plaza, making it necessary for police to pull cars away from the area several times a week. It was pointed out that a bill in the legislature which would have banned the parking was withdrawn upon promise the matter would be submitted to city council for action. Opinion of the Indiana attorneygeneral that the Indiana World war memorial commission has power to regulate parking around the plaza, since widening of streets in the vicinity makes it necessary for park-

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PHOENIX, Ariz., April 7.—The nightly prayers of Richard Nash Burrows, 20, of Chicago have been answered in part and today he awaited trial again on a charging of killing Jack Martin, a Mesa (Ariz.) salesman, who gave him hn automobile ride. Burrows was jubilant when informed that the supreme court had set aside the verdict which would have sent him to the gallows and had granted him anew trial. While under sentence of death for almost two years he prayed nightly for “another chance.”

ers to use land owned by the state, was cited with the statement it would be better for the city to handle the situation rather than to establish the precedent of state regulation within the city. The taxicab ordinance, as adopted, requires drivers to show physical and moral fitness before obtaining licenses, empowers the safety board to regulate taxi stands and call boxes, requires companies to hold licenses for operating, establishes a S3O annual fee for each cab, requires name of the licensee on each cab and establishes maximum fares. The council eliminated provision empowering the safety board to determine whether or not new taxi companies may be established. New ordinances introduced provide purchase of a radio transmitter for the police radio station to cost less than $5,200, create a board of electrical examiners to license electrical contractors, transfer $25,000 from the gasoline tax fund to the city engineer gas tax fund for street repairs, abolish the taxicab stand on Monument circle, appropriate $450 to the municipal airport insurance fund and abolish the post of assistant safety board surgeon, increasing salary of the safety board surgeon to $2,400 a year.

HIGHER PAY OR LOWER TARIFF, IS LABOR'S CRY Federation Head Threatens to Join Revision Move for Protection. By Scripps-Hoicard Setcspater Alliance WASHINGTON, April 7.—The American high wage standard or no more high protective tariff! This, in effect, was the ultimatum voiced today by President William Green of the American Federation cf Labor, who threatened to join a movement for downward tariff revision unless “certain highly protected industrialists halt their wageslashing campaign.” “If these gentlemen In the shoe, textile and other highly protected industries continue to force wage reductions, I propose to join the movement at the next congress to reduce their tariff protection,” said Green. “These gentlemen can not have their cake and eat it, too. Every argument they advanced at the recent Smoot-Hawley tariff bill hearings was to the effect that they could not compete with foreign competitors because of the American high wage. Now that they have their higher tariff they are proceeding to slash wages. Threat to Revisionists If they deliberately forsake the high wage system they must forsake their high wage argument; they must also forego tariff protection.” Green suggested a measure providing for a sliding scale tariff that would conform to the American wage scale in each industry. Thus, he said, the degree of protection would conform to the wage paid. Green’s threat to join the downward revisionists is no idle gesture. At last session the American Federation of Labor could easily have defeated the so-called Grundy tariff act. „ The bill, it will be remembered, passed the senate by only two votes. The A. F. of 'L. maintained a neutral position,’ In f act, certain laborites, headed by Vice-President Mathew Woll of the federation, formed a “WageEarners’ League” to battle for the high protectionists. Drives Against Pay Slashes Should Green and other labor leaders reverse their stand the movement now becoming vocal to revise the measure downward would gain considerable impetus. In the meantime, Green is staging a nation-wide drive against the wage-slashers. By radio talks, speeches and the use of the motion picture houses he is urging employers to stand by their agreement of 1929 with President Hoover.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

AID KID M’COY IN PLEA FOR PARDON

Famous Men Ask Liberty Be Given One-Time Prize Ring Idol. By United Pres* SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., April 7.—Norman Selby, who as Kid McCoy, descended from the pinnacle of prize ring fame to the walled gates of San Quentin, has applied to Governor James Rolph Jr. for a pardon on his conviction of manslaughter. McCoy has prevailed upon such men as ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, United States Senators Royal S. Copeland and Robert F. Wagner of New York and the Governors of four states to plead for his freedom. McCoy, who always has maintained his innocense, revealed how he was trying to end a twenty-year term imposed upon him as the slayer oi Mrs. Teresa Mors of Los Angeles, his sweetheart. He said he had five jobs in prospect—among them offers from Henry Ford and Bernarr MacFadden—and hoped this would weigh With the Governor when the state prison board holds a hearing on his case in June. The thirty-seven signers of his pardon plea included Governors Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, John Garland Pollard of Virginia, Fred Green of Michigan and George W. P. Hunt of Arizona. EUS' 'BAB' RAIDED Jersey City Clubhouse May Be Padlocked. • By United Press JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 7. Federal authorities were preparing padlock proceedings today against the Jersey City Elks Club, after a raid in which sixty-five bottles of alleged assorted liquors were found behind a bar in the club house basement. Prohibition agents raided the club on a complaint signed by Daniel Powers, a former exalted ruler of the lodge, who termed the club “no more than an exalted speakeasy.” Powers charged that a forty-foot bar was kept open fifteen hours a day in the club house with two bartenders in attendance. He said ordinary drinks were sold for 50 cents, with so-called imported liquors running considerably higher. Owen Young’s Mother Near Death CHANDLER, Ariz., April 7.—Accompanied by his wife, Owen D. Young, author of tfie Young plan for payment of Germany’s war debts, was en route today to New York, where his mother is near death. They have been vacationing here.

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Miss Katherine Kinniard and Charles Boite.

A group of eccentric dances will be given in thre Fairview Follies on Friday and Saturday nights at Caleb Mills hall by Miss Katherine Kinnaird, 207 West Fortyfourth street, and Charles Boite, 243 Downey avenue. Apache and Bowery dances will feature the specialty numbers. Miss Kinnaird and Boite are members of the senior class at Butler university and belong to the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and the Sigma Chi fraternity, respectively.

FILM SIMS 'ROCK' Universal Reel Pictures His Triumphs. As the world mourns for Knute Rockne, tragically killed with seven other travelers in an airplane, The Times-Universal News reel, showing in leading city theaters, tells the story of his life, his triumphs and his end in pictures. Graham McNamee, ace of the National Broadcasting Company, who was “Rock’s” friend and clarioned his triumphs to the world, pays high tribute to the famed leader of the fighting Irish of Notre Dame university as he tells the story of his death. The picture, showing the great gridiron chieftain in the midst of newspaper headlines trumpeting his death, also shows him in moments of high victory, and -sveals the first motion pictures of the wrecked plane and the officials who studied it in seeking the solution to the riddle of what caused the accident. Poor Aid Cost Mounts By Times Special LAPORTE, Ind., April 7.—The twelve townships of Laporte county in the first three months of this year have exceeded the budget for all of 1931 in poor relief expenditures. During the three months relief expenses were $35,000, against a budget for the year of $28,000.

SPEND 1344,814 FROM EST ATE Principal of Delavan Smith Foundation Increases. Disbursements of $344,814.01 have been made by Indianapolis Foundation from the Delavan Smith estate since 1926, while the principal cf the estate, held by the Fletcher Trust Company in trust for the foundation, has increased from $868,644.12 to a current total of $939,034.66. This was disclosed today when the Fletcher Trust Company filed its sixth annual report on the trusteeship in Marion probate court. Under the will of Delavan Smith, former publisher of the Indianapolis News, the residue of his estate, after numerous bequests to civic and charitable agencies, employes of his newspaper and others, was given to the Fletcher Trust Company to be held in trust for the Indianapolis Foundation. The foundation was created in 1916 by resolution of several Indianapolis trust companies as a vehicle for accumulating gifts and bequests from which the income is to be used perpetually “for the welfare of persons now or hereafter residing in Indianapolis.” From Dec. 1, 1929, to Dec. 1, 1930, disbursements from the Smith estate were $55,683.34, on written orders of the foundation trustees, the report show’s. Kin Dies in Plane Crash UPLAND, Ind., April 7.—Waldo B. Miller, Lawrence, Mass., one of the men who died in the airplane crash fatal to Knute K. Rockne, was a nephew of Mrs. William Nelson of Uplan. His father, the Rev. Edward Miller was graduated from Taylor university here. The mother was formerly Miss Gertrude Jones of Upland.

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By United Press HOLLYWOOD, April 7.—Jeanette MacDonald, musical comedy and motion picture actress, will be married early in June to Robert G. Richie, New York broker, she announced today. They will be married in Hollywood, Miss MacDonald said, after she completes anew picture.

K. OF DRIVE SIIO,OOO Raised by Lodge; Easter Ball Held. Successful end of the SIIO,OOO campaign to put the Knights of Columbus Council “back on its feet” was announced at the dinner-report meeting Monday night in the grill of the K. of C. building. The annual Easter ball which began at 9, following the meeting, was one of the raajor social events of the council year.

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FIRE DAMAGE IS NEARLY SI 0,800 ON NJMERIDIAN Lieutenant Cut in Fighting Two-Alarm Blaze; Ties Up Traffic. Almost twenty pieces of fire apparatus tied up traffic at Twentieth and Meridian streets today while firemen battled a two-alarm fire that damaged three buildings nearly $*9,000. Lieutenant Danny O’Donnell oC No. 30 company was cut badly on the hand when an ax slipped. He was treated at city hospital. The blaze is believed to have originated from a flue in the Richard Wilcox Manufacturing Company, 1939 North Meridian street, from where it spread to the home of Dr. Frederick E. Taylolr, pastor of the First Baptist church, 1935 North Meridian street, and another dwelling at 1943 North Meridian street. Leaps From Plane; Flier Dies KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 7. Bert Thomas, pilot for the inland aviation company, was killed when he leaped from a mew plane which was falling, late Monday. His altitude was insufficient to permit the parachute he carried to open. Rebels Repulse Venazuelan Federals BOGOTA, Colombia, April 7. Revolutionary trops were reported today to have repulsed Venezuelan federal forces in a sharp battle at the border town of El Amparo.

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