Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1931 — Page 9

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RITCHIE FLAYS ‘MUZZLE’ USE UN GOVERNORS Maryland Executive Comes Out Into Open on Job Crisis, Prohibition. BACKS PINCHOT STAND Power Speech Is Declared Appropriate Topic for Convention. (Continued from Page One) tion is prohibition. If this question has dynamite in it, is not this because the country endeavors to enforce temperance by a standard and uniform rule, instead of by considering the diversified conditions of our diversified land and respecting the needs and the problems of the different states? “If the question of prohibition is turned back to the states, then a system of excise taxes again may be built up which might do away with our federal income taxes altogether, ancl at one stroke relieve capital, labor, and agriculture from the tax burdens which rest so heavily upon them. “Is not a question which so profoundly affects every state in the Union one which the Governors of these states should debate? “Where, indeed, could we secure better evidence of how this great national experiment actualy is working than from the Governors of the states? Tariff Affects All "There is not a state whose people are not affected by the national tariff. Better than any one else, the Governors ought to know how they are affected. If irreconcilable differences exist as to what measure of protection American industry needs, is that any reason why we should not consider whether it is desirable to erect a tariff wall so high as to destroy our export trade, when that is the only outlet for our surplus of goods and produce, and to invite reprieals from other nations whose trade we need and whose international friendship and good-will we ought to have? "The press has speculated whether Governor Pinchot would speak on the timber problem to which he was assigned, or on public utilities, to which he was not. Is there any imaginable reason why he should not have spoken on public utilities? “This is something which has become a vital issue in a great many j of the states, and what could be j more appropriate than for the Gov- j ernors to discuss it, when their people are so seriously concerned in it?” Caulfield to Defense Governor Henry S. Caulfield of Missouri took up the cudgels for the executive committeemen who compiled the printed program. He declared tariff and prohibition federal questions and out of place at a Governors' conference. has taught us that It is best not to turn these meetings into a debating society,” Caulfield declared. “We do not want to become a mere sounding board for wind and bluff.” The Pinchot paper he termed appropriate, however, and then proceeded to disagree with the Pennsylvania Governor’s conclusions regarding federal power control. "I agree that the power monopoly well may concern the American people,” Caulfield continued, “but I do not agree with Governor Pinchot’s plan to substitute national for state control. It is the federal courts that are to blame now for the high utility rates. “It was in the federal court that the. utilities built their doctrine of replacement now depreciated as the base for rate making. “If the federal courts leave us alone, we can handle our own utility regulation through the public service commission.” Cites Danger to Public He then cited the danger to rate payers ot remote control and made a stirring plea for adherence to the doctrine of state rights. Later Pinchot answered this by declaring that the state’s right argument is being used by big utility interest to keep away from national regulation, well knowing that the state is not big enough to handle them. Public ownership of power and all transmisison lines was urged by Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, as the ultimate solution of the problem. He is the only FarmerLabor Governor at the meeting. He praised Ritchie for suggesting that in the future controversial topics be dealt with and suggested such topics as employment insurance, government ownership, and price control. “Our outstanding problem now is. where we can eat and how long are w-e going to be able to do it," Governor Olson declared. Leslie Pours Out Oil At this juncture. Governor Harry G. Leslie, host to the conference, poured oil on the waters by praising both the executive committee’s program and those who deviated from it. He pointed .out that since the Governors are of various political faiths, they must make their programs to meet common problems. “The trouble is that we have so many politicians and too few statesmen.” Leslie said, ‘if we are long on pleasantries and short on intestinal fortitude. After all, the public gets what it wants, but not always when it wants it.” Governor Leslie will preside at the state dinner at French Lick Springs hotel tonight, which is the final event on the official conference program. Trip to the Bloomington-Bedford district got under way at 10:30 a. m. and the return is scheduled for 4:30. Lunaheon is to be served on the train.

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Damp Dry By United Press NANCY, France, June 3. Mayor John H. Porter of Los Angeles, who has taken a militant dry stand during the tour of the American mayors in France, has been converted to the use of wine sauces, and the other mayors held a “victory” celebration today. Mayor Porter admitted he liked to “dunk” in the Chambertin and red wine sauces served with fowl and the flaming brandy sauce served with the little crepe suzette pancakes. All the mayors were fascinated by the elaborite ritual of preparing the crepe suzettes, reaching its climax when the pancakes, swimming in a bath of butter, are drenched in spirit and set afire, and then are served still blazing. Porter denied that his liking for sauces was in any way a violation of his prohibition priciples.

SLAPS LEGISLATORS They’re Ignorant on Own Bills, Says Leslie. By Times Special FRENCH LICK, Ind., June 3 Governor Harry G. Leslie, who was a legislator before he became the state’s chief executive, took a slap at Hoosier lawmakers in addressing the Governors’ conference here. Leslie described as “too efficient” work of Indiana legislative reference bureau, presided ever by Dr. Charles L. Kettleborcugh, where bills were drafted upon legislators’ requests. So efficient is the bureau. Leslie said, that it drafts bills for lawmakers “who don’t know any more about them than a candy frog!” old wound Troubles Evansville Man, 75, Shot in Side Thirty-One Years Ago. EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 3.—Although he has reached the age of 75, Fred Henke, former Vanderburg county sheriff, has never fully recovered from the effects of being shot thirty-one years ago. Tom Hutchins, a detective, shot Henke in the side when the officer and Fred Brennecke, then a police captain, walked into a beer garden. The shot was intended for the policeman, there having been a grudge between himself and the detective.

Council Has *.Family Picture Taken

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—Photo by Clark. Bretrraan associate. Truce prevailed in debate on the new traffic code and the controversial tow-in contract when city councilmen and the city clerk filed into Mayor Reginald H. Sullivjpa’s office for this “family pic-

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Fund Is Increased SSOO by Dayton Man; Killers Still at Large. One week ago today, two men walked into a Standard grocery, where Lafayette A. Jackson, owner of the Standard chain, sat at his desk. They were typical criminal hoodlums, gunmen. One carried a revolver. the other a short-barreled shotgun. They demanded the money in Mr. Jackson’s safe. Mr. Jackson opened fire with a gun that lay at his hand. He was wounded mortally. A policeman was shot in an attempt to capture the bandits as they fled the scene of the battle. The murderes escaped. They still are at large. Police say they have net a clew to their identity. However, The Times and hundreds of friends of the grocer are firm in their belief that someone could name these two men—give information leading to their arrest and conviction. To the person who will do that, The Times and these friends and business associates will pay rewards which now total $3,100. T. C. Dye, of the Dayton Spice Company, Dayton, 0., raised the total to that amount today, when he phoned The Times to say he would give SSOO to see the murderes caught and punished. A call to The Times, Riley 5551, is all that will be necessary if you know and will tell who slevi Mr. Jackson. Any demands for secrecy will be respected. GRANDMA GETS NO KICK Prepares for Sixth Motor Trip Across U. S.; She’s Nonchalant. By United Press DETROIT, June 3.—Transcontinental motoring has become a thrillles habit for Mrs. Arminta (Grandma) Stewart, 73, San Pedro (Cal.) chicken farmer. Today she nonchalantly prepared to make her sixth motor trip from Detroit to California, after spending the winter with her son here. She made the 2,800-mile journey five times before in an ancient flivver which she affectionately refers to as “the old girl.” Newcastle Widow Dies By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 3.—Mrs. Emma Elliott, 74, widow of William H. Elliott, former editor of the Newcastle Courier, is dead after a long illness. Bom in Henry county, she had lived in it all her life with the exception of four years spent in Porto Rico.

ture.” Seated, left to right, are Councilmen Clarence I. Wheatley and Ernest C. Ropkey; Mayor Sullivan, and Councilmen Leo F. Welch and Fred C. Gardner. Standing, left to right, are Councilman Jafpes A. Houck, City

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931

BRITONS USE TELEVISION TO WATCHDERBY Experiments Termed Great Success by English Radio Experts. MANY SCENES CLEAR Broadcast Is Tuned In With Commentary From Trackside. BY HERBERT MOORE United Press Staff Corresnondent LONDON, June 3. Television plus wireless telephony enabled approximately 5,000 owners of home receiving sets in Europe to see Cameronian win the English Derby today while simultaneously they listened to a British broadcasting company running commentary on the race. The result was similar to a movie “talkie.” It was the first time television had been employed for an outdoor event. Reception was marred at times, but there were many sharply distinct scenes. Experts asserted that the demonstration indicated it will be only a matter of time before televized outdoor programs will become commercially practical. Today's broadcast was considered a success from an experimental standpoint. See Stirring Finish Through television, spectators at the instruments were given glimpses of the crowd, the parade of horses in front of the grandstand, and finally the starring finish. The scenes were visible in a small televisor window in each instrument, approximately two by five inches in size. The Baird television studio instrument had too small a screen to enable recognition of the horses or distinguishing of numbers. Owners of a televisor at Bedford were enthusiastic. Scene Shown Clearly “We could see the first three winners come home,” they said. “The picture was quite clear, especially the finish, with the crowd in the grandstand standing and cheering. It was uncanny, amazingly real.” The transmitting apparatus included a revolving mirror on a drum and it was installed in a small structure near the judges’ box. approximately in front of the grandstand.

YOUTH BOUND OVER Hit-Run Driver Case Is Before Grand Jury. Charged with involuntary manslaughter and failure to stop after an accident, Morris Fairbanks, 21, of 326 East Henry street, todayfaced grand jury action after he was bound over Tuesday afternoon by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. The youth Is charged with having been the "hit-run” driver of the car that killed Hobart Myers, 19, of 1112 North Rural street, as Myers and a girl companion were walking on Madison road May 10. Case of William Howell, 507 Erie street, owner of the car Fairbanks was driving, who is charged with vagrancy, was continued until July 2.

CHARITY APPEALS BECOMING FEWER

Odd jobs of the summer season and the call of the open road, today appeared as the biggest factors in a decrease in the number of appeals by needy persons to charity organizations throughout the city. From these groups came the word that demands for food and supplies are lessening and from “flop houses” it was learned that only a part of the beds, filled this winter, now are being used. One of the first indications of the decrease of want came from city employes who announced the line at the souphouse, 227 East Maryland street, has decreased to such an extent that next week meals will not be served at the place. However, in view of the needs of families, meals

Clerk Henry O. Goett and Councilman George A. Henry, Charles C. Morgan, Carl A. Hildebrand and Maurice Tennant. Gardner, Henry and Tennant are Republicans, all others Democrats.

De Pauw to Honor Faculty Veteran

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By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., June 3. The commencement week program of De Fauw university will open with alumni day Saturday, when Dr. Henry B. Longden will be honored by the entire alumni association on that day. He will have completed fifty years as a member of the faculty and now is vice-presi-dent of the university, director of Edward Rector Scholarship Foundation and head of the department of German language and literature. He was graduated from De Pauw in

SCOUTS WILL GREET HOOVER Hundreds to Line City Streets June 15. Hundreds of Boy and Girl Scouts will line Meridian street, from the Union station to the home of Governor Harry G. Leslie, the afternoon of June 15, as President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover are escorted to Leslie’s mansion. The President will speak at night at the manufacturers’ building at the state fairground as the guest of honor of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. At headquarters of the general committee it was announced today that reservations for the dinner may surpass 5,000. A military escort of soldiers from Ft. Harrison, the United States marine corps and the national guard, under Captain Harry Franklin, parade marshal, will escort Hoover. Mrs. Hoover was in Indianapolis last October attending the meeting of the national council of Girl Scouts. She is honorary head of the girls’ organization and the President is honorary head of the boys’ group.

will be prepared there for persons who desire to take food home. City hall employes who joined in relief moves during the winter said many persons who made up the line at the soupnouse now have odd jobs while others are moving toward the west to seek jobs in the midwestern wheat fields. Salvation Army officials said the hotel now is only two-thirds full as compared to days last winter when charity and paid lodgers filled the beds, chairs and even slept on the floor. Today the Salvation Army reported only sixteen charity cases. During the winter these cases number as high as sixty daily. “We hcye more new men come for lodgii , but the regulars who stay with us are dwindling,” declared officials of the Wheeler Rescue Mission. Statistics of the mission show that on Feb. 1 the mission gave lodging to sixty-nine men, but on June 1 the number was thirty-nine. “But out of the thirty-nine men on June 1, thirty-three were new to the city, while in February only twenty-eight of the sixty-nine were new. It shows that the unemployed are moving from city to city and hunting work in the open,” one mission worker declared. DENY REQUESTS Tax Rates Already Too High, State Board’s Ruling Says. Requests for authority to issue three series of bonds for road construction in Vigo and Monroe counties were turned dow i today by the state tax board on ths grounds that the tax rates in those counties are too high at present. Harrison township in'Vigo county requested authority to issue $17,500 bonds for the R. G. Weber road, and $13,200 for the Charles H. Smith road, while Bloomington township in Monroe would sell $55,371 bonds for the construction of the Willard Gcdsey road. Poor Fund Notes Sold By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. June 3.—A $46,000 issue of notes to provide funds for poor relief has been sold by Delaware county to a bank here.

1881 and became a member of the faculty the following year. Other features of the day will include a meeting of the board of trustees, an alumni luncheon in Longden hall, reunions of classes of 1930, 1928, 1926, 1921, 1916, 1911, 1906, 1901, 1896, 1881, 1876 and all previous classes. A reception by S. Bromley Oxnam, president, and the senior class play will feature the evening program. The baccalaureate service will be held Sunday with President Oxnam as speaker. This service will be held in the new Methodist church. Rector scholar alumni will hold its

Death Hovers Queen of Gypsies Battles for Life, as Tribes Chant Hope.

OMAHA, Neb., June 3.—Queen Mary, bare-footed reigning ruler of the gypsy tribes, was near death today in a hospital room here, while outside her window gathered her subjects throughout the nation. For many years Queen Mary, now 50 years old and mother of eighteen living children, has ruled, with King Peter, the Sokjohn bands of Brazilian gypsies. A few days ago, as her band followed the spring northward through Nebraska, she drank from a well in the sandhills country. The water, physicians believe, was infected. Queen Mary was brought to Methodist hospital, critically ill. Today the half-dozen specialists engaged by the gypsy band in an effort to save her life gave but little hope. Across the road from the hospital, sixteen of hdr children, with twenty-four other families of the tribe, were encamped. Nearby the Stanley tribe, which claims to be the reigning Rumanian gypsy family, had set up its tents, Going honor to the dying ruler of another gypsy nation. The gypsies gathered Tuesday beneath their queen's windows. Guitars twanged, and voices rose in songs of love and encouragement. Queen Mary may have heard and enjoyed them, but other patients were disturbed by the wild music of die tribes, and police dispersed them. Today they had gathered once more—silent this time—beneath the window where their queen, who came to the hospital barefoot, but from whose neck the great chain of S2O gold pieces has not been removed, lay facing death. RAILIfEiTINDEFENDENT Refuse Green’s Invitation to Merge With A. F. of L. By United Press HOUSTON, Tex., June 3.—The Erotherhood of Railway Trainmen was on record today as refusing William Green’s invitation to merge with the American Federation of Labor. A resolution to reject the proposal was- presented by George W. Hunt, chairman of the relations committee, to delegates of the 185,000 trainmen in triennial convention here.

Marble Stars to Clash at Four City Play Lots

Championship honors in The Times sectional marble tourney at Municipal gardens was won by Robert Duingan, 12, of 1129 North Mount street. Bob will take part in the final championship play at Willard park Monday, June 15, when the winners and runners-up at each of the eleven sectionals will play to determine the marble champion of Indianapolis. The Times will send the champion to Ocean City, N. J., the week of June 20 to compete for the national marble championship and enjoy a week of sight-seeing, with all expenses paid. Final sectional games will be held Saturday at 10 a. m. at Hawthorne, and Fall creek playground and Brcokside and Riverside parks, the rings to be laid out on the tennis courts. Be there at 10 a. m. sharp. Monticello Man Kills Self By United Press MONTICELLO, Ind.. June 3. John Clark, 51, ended his life by cutting his throat with a razor here. Family troubles* was blamed.

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annual dinner in Longden hall at noon. The commencement service proper will be held in Bowman Memorial gymnasium. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, pastor of Madison Avenue M. E. church, New York, wifi be the speaker. Degrees will be conferred by President Oxnam. Fred Axtell, South Bend, is senior class president. Dr. Sockman has been college preacher at Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Chicago, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Smith, Holyoke, Wellesley and other leading institutions of learning.

ATTORNEY HELD IN ‘TIP RACKET' Accused of Offering Rum Offenders ‘Protection.’ By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., June 3.—Clarence Vores, Muncie attorney, surrendered today to Sheriff Fred W. Puckett on a charge of compounding a misdemeanor. Vores, in three statements filed with Prosecutor Paul Leffler, is accused of attempting to operate a “proteciton racket” for liquor law violators. According to the statements, Vores demanded a SSO fee for advance tips on the issuance of search warrants to police officials. He is alleged to have claimed that because. of his acquaintance with judges and justices of the peace, he could get advance information. In case he failed to get the information and a successful raid resulted, the SSO fee was to cover his services in defending his clients, it is charged. The three persons who made the statements informed Prosecutor Leffler of the arrangement after Vores allegedly had failed to appear in court to defend them on liquor charges. Vores was released on $1,500 bond. He is under $6,000 bond given in Henry county where three charges of liquor law violation have been filed against him.

RAIL SALE IS ASKED Petition Filed Against Line by Mortgage Holders. Sale of the Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Company is asked in a petition filed in superior court five by holders of $2,470,000 mortgage bonds against the company. The petition, filed Tuesday afternoon by Joseph J. Daniels, attorney for the Irving Trust Company of New York, trustee for bondholders under the mortgage, requests Judge Russell J. Ryan to order Elmer Stout, receiver for the line, to permit foreclosure of the mortgage. The line formerly was operated under a lease by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company, which will be sold at public auction in the Traction Terminal building June 23.

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MOTORISTS IN ‘PRACTICE’ FOR TOW-IN LAW Traffic Head Already Sees Downtown Parking Improvement. TAKES EFFECT MONDAY Impounded Autos Will Be Released on Payment of Fine, Cost. Improvement in the downtown parking situation has resulted already from the new traffic ordinance, although it will not be enforced until Monday, Police Captain Lewis Johnson said today. Early this morning but few cars could be found parked in the downtown traffic area which, beginning Monday, will be forbidden territory for auto parkers between 7 and 9:15 a. m. ‘’The all-day parkers either are leaving their cars at home or are parking outside the business area.” Johnson said. “Some of them are taking no chances on their cars being towed in and impounded by police, being confused on the enforcement date, while others merely are getting in ‘practice’ for Monday.” Tow-in trucks and cranes of the Indianapolis Motor Inns, which holds the city contract for impounding cars improperly parked, today were being painted yellow and labeled “Police Totv-In,” on orders of the safety board. Stickers Still to Be Issued The board instructed the Motor Inns Company to use its Plaza garage for impounded cars, temporarily. Motorists whose improperly parked cars are impounded will be forced to visit police headquarters and obtain a release from police after paying the city clerk a $2 fine to recover their cars. At the garage they must pay an additional sl, if the car was towed in, or $1.50 if it was craned in. Police will continue to give owners of improperly parked cars warning stickers until Monday. The impounding law does not include cars parked overtime, which will continue to receive regular traffic stickers. The ban on parking between 7 and 9:15 a. m. includes the area bounded by Vermont, Alabama, South streets and Senate avenue, and the west side of Meridian street from Ohio to Sixteenth streets. Require Flat-to-Curb Parking Parking is banned on the east side of Meridian from Ohio to Sixteenth from 4:30 to 6 p. m., except Sundays and holidays. Parking is prohibited on Monument Circle and its approaches and around the War Memorial Plaza block occupied by the obelisk, at all times. The new traffic ordinance also requires care on four-lane streets to be kept in the lane nearest the curb except when overtaking and passing another car, leaving the middle lanes clear for passing. It also requires that all parking be flat to the curb, banning angle parking everywhere.

WIVES OF TWO MOVIE CHIEFS IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Carewe, Mrs. Fitzmaurice Reported Recovering at Hollywood. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 3.—The wives of two motion picture directors were in hospitals today, one recovering from an ermergency appendicitis operation and the other recuperating after giving birth to twins. Mrs. Mary Akin Carewe, wife of Edwin Carew'e, was reported out of danger, after an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. George Fitzmaurice gave birth to twins Tuesday. The new arrivals have been named Patricia and Michael, director Fitzmaurice said. They weighed 5V4 pounds each at birth. GARY GARDENING - FREE City Obtains Ground for Needy, Donates Seed, Tools. By United Press GARY, Ind., June 3.—Free gardening space, free seed, and free tools for every needy person who applies, was offered by the city of Gary today as a part of its unemployment relief. Th social agencies council announced it has obtained 210 acres of land, .half of it within the city limits. GIRL INJURED BY AUTO Child, 5, Runs Into Path of Car Near Her Home. Running in front of an automobile driven by Ernest Freeman, 19, of 823 Elm street, Flora Jane Losh. 5, of 346 East McCarty street, was knocked down, suffering head cuts and leg injuries. She was taken to city hospital. Injuries are not considered serious. The accident occurred near the home of the girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Losh. Freeman was not held. FLAY ~KIRKLAND~TRIALS W. C. T. U. Brands Outcome as “Travesty on Justice.” Deploring the outcome of Virgil Kirkland's recent murder trials, Marion county W. C. T. U. has adopted a resolution denouncing them as a “travesty on justice.” “The Kirkland trial and verdict is an insult to the womanhood of the country,” the resolution declared. “We should be concerned seriously at the prevalent disrespect for all law, and we deplore the fact that the wets are using such crimes as an argument against prohibition,” it continued