Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1931 — Page 2

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HOOVERS HAVE WILD TRIP ON STORM-TOSSED POTOMAC

GALE LASHES CROWDED SHIP. SOAKS THRONG Wind, Rain and Lightning Provide Thrills for President’s Party. HIGH SEAS POUND BOAT Clothing Ruined, Executive and First Lady Jostled by Hundreds. BY PAUL R. MAI.I.ON United Pres* Stiff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 27.—A choppy overnight return voyage in a small boat brought President Hoover to the close this morning cf an exciting week-end experience with the elements up and down the Potomac. From the time he left Washington Saturday in a stiff breeze, the chief executive found himself, his party, and his 100-foot inspection boat of the commerce department fighting wind, rain, lightning, and —for the Potomac river—heavy seas. Half the time there was bright, warm sunshine, as on Sunday afternoon, when he disembarked from the Sequoia to celebrate the 324th anniversary of the landing of the cavaliers on the sand dune desert of Cape Henry, Va.. 22 mile3 from Norfolk. But the other half was worse than had been considered possible, like the climax of the trip, when a thunderstorm broke up the celebration as a clergyman was reciting the Lord’s Prayer. Hoovers Given Thrills Neither the President nor Mrs. Hoover soon will forget that experience. It was possibly the most thrilling moment and trying time since they have been in the White House. Eighteen hours they had journeyed down the Potomac in the cramped quarters of the Sequoia to help the Tidewater Association of Virginia Women commemorate the landing of the first permanent American colonists. About 8,000 persons were crowded into the sandy well of a natural sand dune amphitheater at the tip of the cape. Mr. Hoover wore his silk hat and Mrs. Hoover a pretty new lilac-colored bonnet. Both were ruined in the downpour, which began five minutes after the ceremonies started. Prayer Is Halted While Girl Scouts ran screaming for the cover of the stands the President and first lady stocd with the rain beating down upon them, not moving an inch. Even Bishop Thomson of the Episcopal church, the radio microphones in front of him, was forced to stop his prayer at this point: “Give us this day our daily bread.” Raincoats were thrown over the shoulders of the president and first lady and several persons tried to hold umbrellas above their heads, but this protection was fruitless against the whipping gusts of heavy rain. The viciferous Girl Scouts were excited, but not frightened, and seemed to enjoy the rain more than did the dignitaries present. Their screams mingled with blasts of lightning, rumbling thunder, intonations of the minister and the swishing of the rain to create a tumultuous scene in which every one was scurrying but the President and Mrs. Hoover. Caught in Crowd Five minutes in the downpour compelled the executive to give up. As he stepped out of the stands </h the return walk to a special train, the rain stopped. But when he reached the tracks, the rain started up again, heavier than before. The President ana Mrs. Hoover took refuge in a tea room, where they were marconed half an hour while hundreds of excited citizens, who never had seen a President, milled around him at arm’s length. The train and a long-sought motor car arrived at the same time, and Mr. Hoover chose the motor for the ten-mile return trip to the Sequo'a. With a mocking smile the sun again burst from the clouds as he stepped aboard the yacht for a warm bath and a change of clothes. But the end was not yet. Squalls intermittently blew across the lower Potomac, and the work boat Vacht danced to the tune of the deep. The squalls were not very feebut they made tra\ eling extremely uncomfortable. 10,000 MENACE REBELS Portugal Government Takes Move to Prevent Revolt Spread. By United Tress LISBON. Portugal, April 24 (Friday, delayed by censor).—The war office today issued a communique announcing that 10,000 men had been concentrated at various strategic places throughout Portugal, in an effort to maintain order and prevent the spread of rebellion. Other detachments totaling 2.000 men are to be dispatched to the Island of Madeira, where rebels continued to hold Funchal, the capital, defying the government. HURTS HEAD IN FALL Walter Curtis Injured In Tumble From Flaming Truck. Falling from a truck after furniture on it had caught fire, Walter Curtis, 57, of 4403 Caroline avenue, suffered serious head injuries today. He was riding on the rear cf the vehicle driven by his son, Carl Curtis, 915 East Fifteenth street. Cause of the fire was undetermined. Curti* was taken to city hospital. OM Is Shot to Death By United Press YONKERS, N. Y., April 27.—An unidentified girl, about 20, pretty and auburn haired, was found dead behind a low wall today. Police said she was shot while in an auto and her body thrown behind the

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Ellen Mackay Berlin and her father, Clarence Mackay—seldom seen together since the heiress’ marriage to Irving Berlin, the song writer —are pictured above as they appeared at court in New York to fight a SIOO,OOO suit filed against Mackay’s telegraph interests. Mrs. Beriin was to testify for her father. Mackay was sued by John S. Hansen, who charged that though he successfully negotiated to put the Mackay lines through Mexico, he never was paid.

JUDGE ORDERS MAN TO END ‘DUAL LIFE’

Thomas C. Colwell Must Quit Woman ‘Companion’ After 11 Years. The law gave back the problem of two wives—one legal and one illegal—and two children by each wife to Thomas C. Colwell, 40, to unsnarl today. Judgment was withheld against Colwell by Judge John Geckler, of the juvenile court, and he was ordered to end his “double life” and break of? relations with his com-mon-law wife, Miss Margaret Cook, 935 North Oakland avenue. Judge Geckler ordered Colwell to live with his legal wife, Mrs. Nono Colwell, 915 East Forty-ninth street, “if possible.” The dual matrimonial affairs of Colwell became a court problem when an anonymous letter was written to the juvenile court detailing how Colwell lived under the same name in the two homes. Lived With Two Women Testimony at his trial and that of Miss Cook showed he had lived at the Oakland avenue address and had visited on an average of once a week at the home of his legal wife. Colwell and Miss Cook were tried on child neglect charges. Both Colwell and his legal wife testified at the trial on child neglect charges that they were “trying to work the matter out.” Colwell arrived in court today, arm-in-arm with his common-law wife. They wept as the judge lectured them on their relationship. Ordered to Pay Geckler ordered Colwell to pay $lO a week for support of a daughter by his first wife, but made no order respective to the two children born outside the law. Colwell has cared for the children of both the legal and the illegal marital state without court orders. He intimated as he left the court with Miss Cook that he would continue to support her children. “We’ll try to obey your order, judge.” the couple replied to the juvenile court jurist when he ordered them to go separate ways. Colwell’s first wife refuses to divorce him because cf religious scruples, court attaches said. She was not in court tedav.

LETTER ‘FT MISSING: SEARCH IS ILLEGAL Street Name Wrong; Negro Is Freed on Liquor Charge. For the want of an “r” a case was lost today in Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter's court. Charles Frazier, Negro, was charged with violating the liquor law. after his arrest recently by police at his home, 1226 Brooker street. However, the search warrant read 1226 Booker street. City directory, maps and finally records from city engineer’s office were brought into court show the street, located between Capitol and Senate avenues, near Sixteenth street, is Brooker and not Booker. Finding that it is Brooker resulted in Wetter sustaining a motion to suppress evidence. Police said they found a quart of liquor in Frazier's house. FUND HEADS TO MEET Groundwork for Jewish Drive Will Be Laid at Session. Groundwork for the drive of the Jewish welfare fund, which is to start May 8, will be laid at the meeting tonight of the special gifts committee at the home of Joseph M. Bloch, 4163 Washington boulevard, chairman of the fund campaign. Plans are expected to be made for a series of noon meetings during which the details of the drive and solicitation methods will be discussed. Hunters to Use Bows By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind.. April 27.—Edward Penn and Edward Miller are en route to the woods of Canada for a two weeks’ hunting trip during which their only weapons will be bows and arrows.

FIRE DAMAGE $15,000 Hercules Manufacturing Company Plant Swept by Flames. Damage estimated at $15,000 was sustained at the Hercules Manufacturing Company, 2122 Northwestern avenue, Sunday when fire of unknown origin swept the plant. The company manufacturs auto accessories. The loss is covered entirely by insurance. OPEN PROBE OF BUTLER ‘SLUR’ Haitian Minister Will Be Quizzed for Remark. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian minister, is expected to be questioned by the state department today regarding charges that he aspersed the military record of Major General Smedley D. Butler. A thorough investigation has been ordered of a complaint by Butler, made through the secretary of the navy, that Bellegarde, in a newspaper interview, intimated that Butler received his second medal of honor for capturing a fort which did not exist. Bellegarde _ told newspapermen he did not mean to say there was no such fort, but that he was not aware of its existence. He said he would tell the state department investigator the same thing. Butler demanded that Bellegarde be reprimanded, a request looked upon here as a species of retaliation 10 / “ le recei it Mussolini episode, when the general was reprimanded for criticism of the Italian premier. Father of 2,000 Inventions Dies By United Press PHILADELPHIA, April 27.—Dr. Isadore Kitzee, 87, who gave to the world approximately 2,000 inventions in forty-five years, died Sunday after a month’s illness. He J ev ? small Portion of the vea.th his inventions brought him.

CARMEN DEMAND PAY SCALE BOOST

Place on Arbitration Group Aiso Is Sought by Traction Workers. Demand for worker representation on an arbitration board to hear complaints on wages and working conditions is among those made by Incuanapolis Street Railway Company employes in a petition filed today with the public service commission. Wage increases also are asked Under the present working agreement with the company, these requests are presented first to the company superintendent and then the president and directors. When the matter S° es to Public -eruce commissioners sitting as an arbitration board. Taking Third Step The petitioners, James Green and Harry Pearson, set out that their demands have been refused by the company officials and this is the third step as provided under the working agreement. Three years ago, the public service commission sitting in a similar case, granted wage increases, making the present scale for carmen from 40 to 4d cents an hour, graduated by service up to five’ years. A 5-cent extra hourly wage is' paid to one-man. car and bus operators. Asks Graduated Scale Today’s petition asks a graduated scale from 60 to 65 cents for carmen and 7 cents extra for one-man operators. A 10 cent increase for shop and pit men 'also is requested.

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RELATIVE WILL FACE QUIZ IN ‘FAROMURDER’ Father-in-Law of Swindler Slain in South Bend Is ‘Afraid to Talk/ By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 27. Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, who resigned as collector of internal revenue at Chicago after ths famous Springfield faro game in which she lost $50,000 of Edward R. Litsinger’s money, declared today she felt “vindicated,” after proving to her own satisfaction that a man killed here was one of the trio who swindled her. Leaving the home where she had been confined by influenza, Mrs. Blacklidge came here Sunday, looked once at the body of George Perry in an undertaking parlor, and declared positively he was the “George Parker” who last Jan. 22 lured her into the card game which resulted" in such notoriety that she was forced out of one of the most responsible political positions ever held by a woman in America. Seek Other Plotters “I feel like I now have anew lease on life,” said Mrs. Blacklidge in discussing Perry’s death and charges made by Litsinger in January that he believed she had conspired with the gamblers to “rob” him of $50,000 by making it appear she had “lost” to them the money he lent to her. Convinced that Perry was the leader in the plot to fleece Mrs. Blacklidge, and strong in their belief that Perry was killed because he beat his companion swindlers out of their share of the faro loot, police directed their efforts toward a search for the other two conspirators and to questioning of Perry’s father-in-law, who himself has a record as a gambler. ~ The father-in-law, John Caniff, at whose garage door Perry was shot down in the dark last Friday night, was quoted as saying he hated Perry and that there were others, perhaps a dozen, who also hated him. C )f hers. Thought Involved Corner B. J. Bolka said Caniff expressed an opinion that perhaps six or more persons might have desired Perry's death and that possibly he was not shot because of the faro game, but because of some other illegal transaction. The other two men who police believed were involved in the faro swindle w T ere known as Roy Browder, alias Burgess, and Roscoe Reynolds, alias Gilmore. Police felt certain that if they found these men some light could be shed upon the Perry slaying, as well as upon the fleecing of Mrs. Blacklidge. Mrs. Blacklidge personally questioned Caniff at length Sunday. She knew him years ago in Chicago when her husband ran a drug store there and Caniff was one of the customers. She expressed to police a belief that Caniff had told Perry things about her and her late husband which Perry used in influencing her to play in the game at Springfield, win $207,000 on paper, and then borrow $50,000 in cash from Litsinger, only to lose it all. Afraid to Talk Police said Caniff denied he had any part in the faro plot. He admitted, they said, that he could “tell more,” but was “afraid to.” Suspicion that Perry was “Parker” first was aroused by his widow, who told police he traveled extensively and had much money, but no job. She had accused him, she said, of being “in on” the Springfield job, and he had replied by telling her to “mind her own business.” Expressing confidence that the death of Perry would open the way for a clearing up of the Springfield faro plot, and prove her positively a dupe and not a conspirator, Mrs. Blacklidge hinted she probably would sue Litsinger for telling newspapers and officials in January that he believed she had plotted with the gamblers to “rob” him. A belief that some of the Lit-singer-Blacklidge loot might be recovered was expressed by police after Mrs. Perry gave them the key to a safety deposit box her husband kept in New York. She told them that whenever her husband needed money, he went to the box.

Anew arbitration board to be composed of three members, one worker representative, one company i representative and a third member agreeable to both is asked. Another provision of the petition is that workers who went on strike July 5, 1926, be returned without suffering seniority penalty. Fenstermacher, McCarthy and Zeichert are attorneys for the ! petitioners. LONG TERMS FOR THEFT Negroes Handed 10-Year Sentences for Home Robbery. Two Negroes today were sentenced to serve ten years each in the state reformatory when they pleaded guilty to first degree burglary and grand larceny charges in criminal court. The two, Thomas Willett and William Scott, are alleged to have broken into the home of Bryan! Brumfield, 415 Harvard place, April i 10, and to have stolen two diamond rings valued at $lO5 and a purse containing S3O ir- cash. David Starr Jordan Still 111 By United Press PALO ALTO, Cal., April 27.—The condition of Dr. David Starr Jordan, 80-year-old chancellor emeritus of Stanford university, who has been ill seriously at his home here, was reported unchanged today. Dr. R. V. Lee, his physician, said Dr. Jordan spent a comfortable Sunday after a restless night.

Frozen Assets By United Press CHICAGO, April 27.—1 t was not the depression, but a dilapidated, old-fashioned icebox that “froze” George Morrish’s assets. Morrish withdrew S7OO from his bank to pay taxes, took it to his rooming house, and hid it in the icebox. A few days later he went for the money. The icebox was gone. His landlady had discarded it in favor of anew mechanical one. Two policemen found Morrish’s assets in a drain pipe, frozen stiff.

KIRKLAND AGAIN TO FACE^ TRIAL Gary Murder Hearing Will Open Wednesday. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., April 27. Virgil Kirkland, convicted of the murder of his high school sweetheart, Arlene Draves, and sentence*} to life imprisonment, will face trial Wednesday for a second time on a charge of killing the Gary girl who died after a drinking party which she attended with him. This time the Gary lad definitely will place his life at stake, for he will be tried, prosecutors say, only on charges of murder by attack and murder by attempt to attack. Conviction on either count carries a mandatory death sentence in Indiana. His previous conviction was on the count of murder by a blow, a charge the prosecutors said they would drop in the new trial. Judge Grant Crumpacker of the circuit court again will preside. Barratt O’Hara, former lieutenantgovernor of Illinois, again will head the corps of defense attorneys. Four other young men indicted with Kirkland on charge of killing the 18-year old girl will be tried ilater.

JUDGES’ SALARY OASECOMES UP Arguments on Mandate Suit Being Heard Today. Fight between the county and eight Democratic judges over salary cuts, ordered by county commissioners, was flared again today, when arguments on a mandate suit in the case were heard in superior court four. Attorneys filed briefs setting forth their contentions with the court following the arguments this morning, on a demurrer contending the commissioners acted lawfully when they fixed the judges salaries at $7,000 instead of SIO,OOO formerly paid. When commissioners slashed their salaries as an economy move, the judges filed a suit mandating payment of the old salary schedule. Samuel Dowden, attorney, sat as special judge in the case which was moved to room four on account of the crowded docket in circuit court where the case is filed. Attorneys for the judges are Howard Young, Ralph Kane and Fred C. Gauss. The county, which has been paying $5,800 of the SIO,OOO judicial salaries, is seeking to cut this amount $3,000. ‘MAYOR’ IS UPHELD Court Ruling Restrains Ravenswood Rivals. Dictator and town board notwithstanding, impeachment proceedings will not he enforced against Charles Ford, claimant to the Ravenswood mayoralty crown, a ruling issued Saturday by Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams provides. The restraining order at least will remain in effect until May 8, when the town’s governmental factions enter court again to iron out their prolonged, unsolved troubles. Ford was to be impeached by Robert Stamm, self-styled dictator, and William Hubbs Sr., because, it j is alleged, Ford cut down the pole i supporting the town fire bell and i turned off the town’s lights at 11 p. m. LIONS’ PRIZES TO BOYS Awards Are Made Despite Downpour Washing Out Ball Game. Despite rain that prevented 6,000 youths from seeing a free baseball game Saturday, they were awarded prizes for floats, bands and slogans, in the parade held under the auspices of the Lions club. The awards were: Best band, Indiana Boys’ school, of Plainfield; best drilled unit, Crispus Attucks high school; best float, a goatdrawn cart entered by the Carrollton Avenue Boys; best float by organized groups, Boy Scouts, troop No. 10; best slogan, Washington high school. Wales, Brother Near Home By United Press LISBON, Portugal, April 27.—The prince of Wales, and his brother, Prince George, proceeded to Bordeaux, France, on board the British cruiser Kent, early Sunday. They are returning to England after an extensive good wlil tour of South America:

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COUZENS URGES C. OF C. TO AIR WAGESLASHING Michigan Senator Demands ‘Big “Business’ Make Clear Its Stand. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—Senator James Couzens (Rep., Mich.) has acted to bring the question of wage reductions cut into the open and has laid it right on the doorstep of big business. In an open letter Sunday the senator, himself a business veteran, challenged the United States Chamber of Commerce. meeting this week in Atlantic City, to go on record on this issue. The challenge was based on a recent statement of Julius Barnes, chairman of the board of the chamber. It said: “Mr. Barnes, in a recent statement, stated there normally were about 45,000,000 persons employed receiving wages of approximately $50,000,000 daily; that there were 5,000,000 out of work, with the 40,000,000 still employed receiving about $46,000,000, and therefore suggests that this $40,000,000 be spread over the entire number of 45,000,000 usually employed.” ‘Would Retard Recovery’ “In other words, there is to be taken from these employed approximately $5,000,000 daily to be distributed in wages for employment of. those now unemployed,” Couzens said. “Does this not place the entire burden of unemployment on the wage earners, and relieve capital of any expense in taking care of the 5,000,000 unemployed?” Such a policy, said Couzens, would retard, not advance, economic recovery, by causing “a maladjustment of the distribution of the earnings of capital and labor.” “Will the chamber at its convention,” he asked, “please go on record whether it believes in a reduction of wages or a possible increase or at least a maintenance of existing wage scales?” ‘Get Down to Essentials’ He contended that wages even now are bslow their proper level in relation to the productivity of the average worker. Recently Couzens called upon the chamber to get down to economic essentials in its meeting, whereupon President Butterworth of the chamber indirectly invited him to attend “and help us.” Couzens said at that time, “Tell him I accept.” The acceptance was premature, however, as no definite invitation ever was issued. Sunday’s statement was in the form of an open letter to Butterworth.

FISH SPURS LEGION TO HUNTING ‘REDS’

Criticises ‘Mild’ Position Against Activities of Communists. American Legionnaires were spurred into “Red” hunting today by a fiery address by Representatives Hamilton Fish of New York, delivered before the annual dinner meeting of the Indiana commandary of the Military Order of Foreign Wars at the Spink-Arms Saturday night. Following on the heels of the Fish speech came the announcement today that Dr. Frank E. Long, Seventh district legion commander, of the appointment of thirteen legion men to probe alleged Soviet sympathy at De Pauw university. “I am a member of the Legion,” Fish declared, “and I aided in drawing the preamble to its constitution, but I shall criticise it when I deem criticism necessary. “The Veterans of Foreign Wars have assumed a much stronger position in ths fight against Communism than has the Legion, but I am hopeful that the latter or* ganizaion will assume its rightful place.” Fish roundly condemned aid given the Russian five-year plan by American industrialists. This has proved the truth of Lenin's statement that “capital will commit suicide for a temporary profit,’ 1 he declared. He also said the five-year plan is successful and he doesn’t know what to do about it. The New York representative headed a congressional committee which went about the country investigating Red activities. He declared there are 600,000 Communists in America today. School Loan Bids Scheduled Bids will be received by the school board Tuesday night on a $200,000 temporary loan to meet current expenses, in anticipation of spring tax collections.

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Good Girl! By United Press DETROIT. April 27.—Miss Gertrude Symanski, 17, has declined an offer of a movie career because “too many girls go wrong in Hollywood.” Gertrude is earning her way through high school by working as a housemaid. “Too many girls have gone to Hollywood and then gone to the dogs.” she said, refusing the film company's offer. “And anyway,” she added, “I don’t want to be a movie star. If I work hard and finish school I know I’ll be happy. But I don’t think I’d be happy if I went to Hollywood.” She plans to take up nursing.

40 MEN GUARD JAPANESE PAIR Fear Riot Against Royalty in Tour of Nation. By United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 27. Prince and Princess Takamatsu of Japan today visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where many of the leading industrial and engineering figures of their homeland were trained. Before coming here, the royal honeymooners stood for a few minutes in the tower of the Boston customs house, 496 feet above the street, and enjoyed a birdseye view of the city. The distinguished visitors entered the museum room of the department of naval architecture and marine engineering between two lines of student members of the reserve officers’ training corps, and were received formally. Today’s program included a visit to Wellesley college. The prince and princess were to leave by train tonight for Montreal. Because of the discovery of what police interpreted as a plot against the lives of the couple last weekj Police Superintendent Michael H. Crowley assigned forty plainclothes men to guard them. WINDSTORM HURTS SIX Concessions Stand Falls at Akron Airport in Near-Cyclone. By United Press AKRON, 0., April 27.—Six persons were recovering here today from injuries received late yesterday when a wind and sleet storm, sweeping through the municipal airport, crushed a concession stand near the Goodyear hangar. Aircraft on the field, including the giant navy d:rigible Akron, was undamaged by the wind, which approached cyclonic velocity.

SUSPEND 2 POLICEMEN Chief Kinney Acts on Report Officers Frequented Beer Joint. Charged with neglect of duty, Patrolmen Pearl Davis and Arthur Reeves were suspended today by Police Chief Jerry Kinney. According to Kinney, the officers haSd been frequenting a home-brew joint on the east side. Date of trials oefere the ; safety board has not been set. FEAR FIVE DROWNED Rescue Parties Search Bay by Air and Water. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, April 27Rescue parties searched San Francisco bay by air and water today with only faint hope that five members of the younger social set, missing since their small boat capsized early Sunday, would be found alive. Those missing were Gilbert Loken Jr. of Piedmont, 31, San Francisco stock broker, and his wife, Mrs. Mary Loken, 23; Carl E. Jefferson, 34, Oakland insurance man; Mrs. Lydia Jefferson, 31, and A. Sheridan Hubbard, 33, Piedmont, manager of an Oakland building and lean association. Harbor officials expressed the belief that the boat was caught in I the wake of a ferry boat or had been swamped by a wave. The sea j was choppy when the five started [ early Sunday morning from the Oakland Yacht Clul?, where they ! had been attending a dance. Coal Found on Farms By Times special EARL PARK, Ind., April 27.—Reports are current that several farm- ! ers living northeast of here have i found coal on their land and steps may be taken to mine it.

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LACK OF DATA BLOCKS HOOVER CRIMEPROBERS Wickersham Commission Asks State Legislatures’ Aid in Survey. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 27.—Lack of satisfactory data on crime and punishment prevents an authoritative knowledge of the real extent of crime in this country, the Wickersham commission has reported to President Hoover. “Statistics,’’ said the report, third of eleven the commission was asked to make, “are needed to tell us—or at least to help tell us—what we have to do, how we are going to do it, and how far what we are doing responds to what we have to do. The commission recommended five major steps: 1. Centralization of statistics on federal administration of justice in one new’ bureau of the department of justice. 2. Collection by the census bureau of nation-wide crime data as soon as state legislation lays a proper foundation for the work; 3. Continuation meanwhile of the development of statistics in the census bureau and justice and labor departments, preparatory to the proposed consolidation; 4. A uniform state law’ for gathering and transmitting state statistics on criminal justice, so far as is required for national purposes; 5. Greater care in gathering statistics under present methods until the new system is effective. ALFONSO IS RETICENT Deposed King Gives Britain No Assurance on Spanish Policy. By United Press LONDON, April 27. —John R Clynes, home secretary, in the house of commons today, said King Alfonso has given no assurance that he will abstain from participation in Spanish political affairs while resident in Great Britain. The statement was greeted by cries of “Why not?” Camel Awards to Be in May By Times Special WINSTON SALEM, N. C., April 27.—Announcement of awards in the Camel Cigaret $50,000 cash prize contest will be made early in May, officials of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company stated today.

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