Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1931 — Page 5

JUNE 12,1931.

66,000 PUPILS DESERT BOOKS FOR VACATION Public Schools to Reopen Before Labor Day, Is Announcement. Fifty-eight thousand Johns and Marys who have spent nine months in public schools and 8,000 others in parochial schools picked up their books and pencils this afternoon, leaving behind schoolrooms and looking forward to two and one-half months of carefree summer vacation. Several thousand other boys and gills, however, prepared to attend summer schools opening Monday. r i he schools, of half-day duration, six days of the week for six weeks, are to be held in city high schools. Will Reopen Earlier Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools, pulled a surprise from his sleeve for both pupils and teachers. School, this year, will reopen before Labor day. For years it has been the custom, in the operation of the public school system, to continue the vacation until after the state fair and Labor day, the children returning to their studies about Sept. 7 to 8. Stetson said that the teachers’ institute will be cut from four to two days and will be held Sept. 1 and 2. On Sept. 3, public school pupils will answer the morning bell and return to the four walls of educational chambers. Stetson said plans will be made to facilitate the enrollment in high and grade schools so routine will be under w'ay the following week. Increase Safety Measures With the closing of schools, police and city recreation officials prepared for the protection of youngsters during the summer. Streets and unauthorized swimming places will be under heavy guard, in order to keep at a minimum the number of tragedies that mar the vacation period. Playground and swimming instructors at city parks this afternoon were to receive instructions at city hall on regulation of the playground centers. Convicted in Five Minutes By United Press CLEVELAND, June 12.—A jury deliberated just five minutes today before convicting Thomas V. Prosperre, 34, of Chicago to prison for bigamy. The swift conviction was followed swiftly by a sentence of three years in Ohi open imposed by Judge Alva Corlett.

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Lett to Right—Charles Smith and Don Dillon.

Twenty-two boys, winners and runners up at the city-wide sectional marble championships The Times has been conducting about the city the last month, will gather at Willard park next Monday morning at 10 to decide the marble champion of Indianapolis. Among them will be Charles Smith, 2855 Washington boule-

LODGE CHIEF'S WIFE jS DEAD Mrs. Maud Bornwasser to Be Buried Sunday. Mrs. Maud Funk Bornwasser, Hotel English, wife „of George P. Bornwasser, grand secretary of the Grand lodge of Indiana, I. O. O. F.. died Thursday night at the Methodist hospital. Mrs. Bornwasser had been ill two weeks. Funeral services will be held in New Albany, former residence of Mrs. Bornwasser, at 2 Sunday afternoon. Burial will be in a New Albany cemetery. Mrs. Bornwasser was a member of the Ruth Rebekah lodge, No. 1, of New Albany, and the Woman’s Department Club and Roberts Park M. E. church of Indianapolis. Survivors, in addition to the husband, are three sisters, Mrs. Ernest Conner, Miss Alice Funk and Miss Clara Funk, all of New Albany, and four brothers, Dr. Chester Funk of New Albany, Dr. Austin Funk of Jeffersonville, .Edward Funk of Princeton and Walter Funk of St. Louis, Mo. Small Still Is Confiscated Police, under Sergeant Irvin Landers, confiscated a small home-made still at 1902 Sharon avenue Thursday, but arrested no one. The owner of the house was absent.

vard, and Don Dillon, 4057 Cornelius avenue, winner and runnerup, respectively, at Fall Creek playground. The final winner at Willard park will be sent by The Times with all expenses paid and with a chaperon to Ocean City, N. J., to take part in the national marble tournament. He will leave Indianapolis Friday, June 19.

BIG DECREASE FOUND IN RAIL EMPLOYMENT 14.70 Per Cent Reduction in Year Is Reported by U. S. Commission. WASHINGTON, June 12—Figures just released show a large decrease in the number of employes of class one railroads. Compared with March a year ago, class one railroads in March of this year had reduced the number of employes 14.70 per cent, and total compensation of employes showed a decrease of 16.59 per cent, according to the Interstate Commerce commission. Number of employes and total compensation follow: March, 1930, 1,546,663; $227,066,435. March 1931, 1,319,315; $189,407,457. Find Witch History By United Press MEDIA, Pa., June 12.—Among the papers left by Dr. Anna E. Broomall, who died recently, was an unpublished manuscript on witches which were said to abound in this section more than a century ago.

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BIG RUM RINGS I LOSING GROUND 1 TO DRY AGENTS U. S. Figures Show Giant Syndicates Are Falling Under the Ax. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 12.—Federal Prohibition Director Amos W. Wocdccck published figures today cn the dry bureau's work, which he said indicate “we are reaching the more important cases.’’ He referred to the tig commercial liquor operators who now are the chief concern of the bureau. He referred specifically to statistics showing that the average jail sentence w T as thirty-four days greater in May than in April, while the average fine was $34 less, a tendency which, he said, has been demonstrated during the eleven months of his regime. The longer jail sentences reflect the rounding up of the big violators. Sticking out in the mass of Statistics prepared by the bureau at the end of each month is an analysis revealing that the special agents of the department, a highly trained corps of men who rove about several states making cases against the large syndicates, had brought thirty big cases during May in all parts of the country, some of them involving liquor rings that the government has been trying to reach for a long time. - An enormous span of years behind the jail bars was meted out in May, a total of 2,436 years for 3,601 jail sentences. For the eleven months of the Woodcock regime, the grand total of jail sentences is 26,020 for a total of 16,092 years in jail. Fines for the month numbered 4,434 to an amount of $567,178, and for the eleven months, 32,662 totaling $4,941,378. Arrests in May numbered 5.463, which w T as 100 less than in April, There were 4,110 cases held by commissioners and 5,422 placed on court dockets. *

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So, Good Night By United Prrtis f DES MtJINES, June 11.— The night was dark and the wind was cold. A young man walking into the police station, requested a place to sleep. “Your name?” asked the Jailer. “Goodnight,” replied the youth, preparing for sleep. “Just a minute, sonny.” shouted the jailer. “1 asked for your name.” “Goodnight,” patiently responded the youth. “No more wise cracks.” said ' the jailer. “Let's have your name, and be quic’i about it.” “My name,” said the young man, “is John Goodnight, and I come from Ferry. la. “Gccdnight,” said the jailer.

CLEMENCY IS ASKED Mexico Intervenes in Case of Condemned Siayer. Anew petition seeking commutation of the sentence of Ignacio Sarragoza. 26, a Mexican, from death to life imprisonment is cn file with Governor Harry G. Leslie. The petition was presented by Colonel Russell B. Harrison on behalf of the Mexican government, and followed similar pleas made by Mexican authorities. He announced that additional petitions, bearing on the character of Sarragoza, who was convicted on charges of killing a policeman in Michigan City, were being prepared today. Governor Lsslie refused to intervene after he and Warden Daly of Indiana state prison, considered requests for commutation from the Mexican consul in Washington. Sarragoza is sentenced to bs electrocuted June 24. Mother. Daughter Get Degrees By United Press MONMOUTH, 111., June 12.—Amother and her daughter, Mrs. Anna P. and Ruth White of Zenia, 0., w r ere among the eighty-six students who received degrees Thursday at the Monmouth college commencement.

MINE IN WEST JOINS FRAY TO HALT PAY CUTS Colorado Fuel & Iron Cos. Once Was Bitter Foe of Labor. By Scripps-Hoicard S’cicspapcr Alliance j DENVER, June 12.—The largest industrial corporation in the Rocky; mountains, and once the bitterest foe' of labor. Just has stepped into the battle against wage -cutting with an announcement that promises to save the coal miners and industrial workers of this section from a serious campaign to cut pay. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, operating extensive coal mines; in southern Colorado and steel mills at Pueblo, has notified the Colo-, rado industrial commission that it is opposed to cutting wages. It has gone even further—for its executives have voluntarily taken a 19 per cent slash in salary in order that its labor may be spared any reduction. Center of Labor Disputes The C. F. & I. is controlled by! the Rockefeller interests, a fact which gives added significance to its action. Here in Colorado, w’here for more! than twenty years this company; has been the central figure in labor disputes, the most surprising aspect of its announcement is that it marks a complete reversal in its 1 position toward labor. Seventeen years ago there was virtual civil war in Colorado, and i the C. F. & I. bore the brunt of; the battle. It was on C. F. & I. : properties that the bloody industrial war of 1914 w'as fought, culminating in the “Ludlow' massacre” of wives and children of striking ! coal miners. Scene of Roekeller Fight The very name “C. F. & I.” was anathema to organized labor of this ! state the. easter. Even after young ; John D. Rockefeller had made his : historic trip to Colorado, during i which he visited the scenes of the I

industrial warfare that terminated with the crashing of the miners' union, and organized the famous "Rockefeller industrial plan,” his company continued to be the chief target of labor opposition. Today this same company, by its

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formal declaration against wage cutting, has turned the balanca in what threatened to be anew conflict In the mining regions. Widespread efforts to cui miners’ pay % I are believed to have been largely ■ abandoned as a result.