Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1931 — Page 9

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I). S. PLANNING WINTER FOOD AID FOR NEEDY Federal Co-Operation for ' Hunger Relief Aim of Current Survey. ‘DOLE’ IDEA SHUNNED Officials to Insist Local Governments Take First Steps. BY' RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pres Staff Correspondent i fOopvrteht. 1931. bv United Press! WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.—Federal co-operation to feed the nation's hungry next winter will be undertaken by President Herbert Hoover on a scale to be determined after completion of a survey now being made, according to a high administration source today. Mr. Hoover is said to be. distressed With the thought that, large numbers are on the border-line of starvation while the country is overflowing with more foodstuffs than can be consumed. A search is on for a plan whereby the food surplus can be turned into needy channels, it is stated. Two conditions are imposed by the. President, it is understood: One is that local communities must exhaust their own resources before outside aid is extended. A canvass of this situation is being made. Secondly, relief must not take the form of a "dole,” a point emphasized hotly by officials. Depends on Viewpoint Just what is a dole and what is not depends partially upon the point of view. For the moment, the phrase is used to damn any plan which is not favored. The administration is ready to draw on 1,600,000 army blankets and 206,000 cots available In the war department for emergency relief. This is not considered a dole. Proposals are being made from private sources to utilize the farm board's wheat surplus in some of food relief and to finance local relief agencies through long-term federal credit. These suggestions thus far have been held to involve the "dole” In some form. Officials promise that the necessary relief will be provided, preferably without any vital legislation. But the program is not yet formulated, they say. Mr. Hoover contemplates no extra session of congress, it is said and prefers to work out a relief plan administratively, with some sort of national relief organization heading up the activity and financing it to the extent needed. Administration Concerned One chief concern of the administration is to head off numerous extensive relief plans which are sure to be agitated in the coming congress. With senators and congressmen facing election campaigns, and pressed by constituents in hard circumstances, the temptation to be big-hearted with treasury funds will be great, administration officials fear. Already the vanguard of the relief army is heard. President Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation, just has announced reopening of the fight for an equalization fee to relieve agriculture. Senator John J. Blaine <Rep., Wis.) has written Mr. Hoover urging an extra session in September, saying the necessity never W'as greater and that "oncoming winter presents a dark picture with it promised hunger, poverty and distress widespread.” Senator Gerald P. Nye (Rep., N. D.) has come back from the prairies suggesting a “two or three-year period of federal price fixing” on farm products and a moratorium on farm mortgage loans. Representative Wright Patman (Dem., Tex.) has appealed to Mr. Hoover to fix prices on oil, cotton, wheat and corn. ABANDON CHAIN SYSTEM Fox Theater Corporation Changes Idea of Show Operation. By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—The Fox Theater Corporation, through its general manager, Harry Arthur, has announced it will abandon the chain system of theater management. The system will be decentralized. Arthur said, and the 200 theaters grouped into districts equivalent to the territory served by the film exchanges. A general manager will be in charge of each district. Arthur said the move was expected to result in a large savings, as well as raising the standard of theater operation. BURGLARS HAVE JUMPS Hop, Skip and Leap Crooks Are Sighted in Homes. Two hop. skip and jump burglars, one of whom obtained sl7, arc sought today by police. Hearing a noise in the front of the house, Miss Mary Tomlinson and Mrs. F. A. Petit, 1308 North Alabama street, early today frightened a burglar who leaped through a sun parlor window. Miss Tomlinson said her purse containing sl7 was stolen. John Bear, 517 Holly street, today told police he returned to his home late Tuesday night to see a burglar jump through a side window. No loot was obtained. Young Yegg Suspect Pinched Arrested Tuesday and accused of having hammered the combination off a safe in Western Union Telegraph Company branch office at 31 South Delaware street recer y, Warren Thompson, 17, of Valley Mills, was held in city prison today on a burglary charge.

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Jack and His Beanstalk had little on Indiana when it sets its mind to raising sunflowers. In fact, Hoosier sunflowers go the Kansas variety a few feet better when it comes to reaching for the clouds. The giant stalk shown in the above photo was grown in the backyard beauty spot of the home of J. William Walters, 2628 North Harding street. Frank Pigg of 1954 North La Salle street, a nephew of Walters, is standing beside the huge weed. "Just about fourteen feet tall,” w'as the size given the stalk by Walters.

LISTS NEWS VALUES Today’s Definitions Given by G. B. Parker. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12.—A new definition of news, broader in scope, must be observed by modern newspapers, George B. Parker, editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. told the world press congress today. Parker said the old definition illustrated by the statement that "When a man bites a dog, that’s news,” is not sufficient for the modern newspapers. They must report all phases of the biting and also avoid undue stress on abnormal conditions, he contended. Reno divorce court actions and revolutionary movements in South America should not be stressed, Parker said. The delegates were received by President Pascual Ortiz Rubio. BABY HURTIN CRASH Injured Seriously as Cars Collide at Noblesville. Bn Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 12. The 19-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John McGill of Frankfort was injured seriously when the McGMI machine collided on United States Road 31 in the northwestern part of Hamilton county with a machine driven by Paton Johnson, 1715 Cornell avenue, Indianapolis. In the McGill machine were McGill, their 11-year-old daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller and son Robert, all of Frankfort, and all of whom were slightly cut and bruised. Johnson escaped unhurt. NO STORK, SAYS GENE Polly Lauder Tunney Not to Become Mother, He Declares. if)/ United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—The stork is not roosting about the Gene Tunney menage, the former world's heavyweight champion said today, contradicting reports to the contrary. “It's all wrong," he said with what seemed a touch of regret. It was explained that Mrs. Tunney had slipped on a rock at a Maine coast resort last week, suffering a severe and painful dislocation. Gene chartered an airplane and rushed her to the Lincoln Memorial hospital at Damariscotta, Me., where she now is receiving treatment for the injury. JAIL 53 IN STRIKE RIOT Violence Flares Anew in West Virginia Coal Fields. Bp United Press WHEELING. W. Va., Aug. 12. Renewed outbreaks of violence flared in the West Virginia coal strike area Tuesday night and early today before the situation was controlled by authorities, who arrested fifty-three men and women. The strikers, charged with inciting to riot and blocking highways, were lodged in the Ohio county jail here and ordered held for hearings under S4O bond each. Tools, Furniture Are Stolen While L. M. Barrett, 218 Spring street, was away from home several weeks, burglars removed tools and furniture from his former home at 903 Chadwick street, he complained to police today. The loss, he said. waaT2oo.

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LEGS DIAMOND SENTENCED TO 4-YEfIR TERM New York Racketeer Will Serve in Atlanta Federal Prison. I AID GETS SHORT ‘RAP’ Quatrocchi Goes to Cell for Two Years; Must • Pay $5,000. f\ I By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Jack (Legs) Diamond was sentenced today to serve four years in Atlanta and pay a fine of SII,OOO following his conviction of conspiracy to violate the prohibition act and possession of an illicit still. The sentence, handed down by Judge Richard J. Hopkins of Kansas, a “guest” jurist in New York, was the maximum permitted under the law. Daniel Prior, attorney for Diamond, immediately filed notice of appeal and bail of $15,000 was set for the gang leader. Diamond left the court to arrange for filing of the bond with tears in his eyes. A similar notice was filed for Owatrocchi and bond of $7,500 was fixed. Paul Quatrocchi, Diamond’s lieutenant in the Greene county rumrunning business, was sentenced to serve two years in Atlanta and pay a fine of $5,000. Diamond’s sentence to. the federal prison marks the first time in a career of lawlessness that began in his youth, in which the racketeer, hoodlum and gangster ever has been sent away for a. major crime. His only previous conviction came from desertion from the United States army in his youth. 40 YVitnesses Testify Forty witnesses, gathered from the underworld of the rural Catskill community, where Diamond was trying to establish a beer running monopoly, had testified to his activities. Diamond’s first major "error” came when, deserting the metropolis. he tried to set up an underworld principality in the New York Catskills, to control the roadhouse trade along the much traveled summer highway from New York to Albany. The Greene county residents resented and feared his presence. State police and federal authorities combined in an onslaught upon his “castle” at Acra, and finally succeeded in obtaining an overwhelming array of witnesses to his criminality. Judge Hopkins, under. whom the case was tried, is known as one of the sternest of judges, and one who is committed in principle to the theory of prohibition. Career Is Typical A Catskill jury, two weeks before, had acquitted Diamond of “torturing” a Catskill farmer in an effort to force him to disclose the whereabouts of a cider still. Diamond’s career is typical of the modern gangster. He began it as a bundle snatcher from express wagons, and developed into a common thief, racketeer, gambler and—with the advent of rum-running gangs—liquor distributor. Three times Diamond has been shot, once filled so full of slugs that doctors considered his recovery a medical miracle. Slight, pale, seemingly bloodless and weighing only 125 pounds, Diamond today carries in his body at least six bullets from the last attack made upon him.

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Slump or Not, Easy Street Carries On

! Easy street—the one-square ( environs found the above snap- ( through a siege of "whoopii Jf ; thoroughfare out at 3300 West I shots clicked by the camera. cough” and a scries of trea Si ~ i I Eighteenth street—laughs and ■ u PP er Left—Sam, a 9-year-old, | ments for a cat’s bite. ; Lugniecn i & e dU & n an looks out from his barn-stall on I Lower Center—The “piemake

CHILD LOST IN CANYON FOUND 3-Year-Old \ Safe Where Wild Animals Abound. By United Press CASTLE ROCK, Colo.. Aug. 12— Three-year-old Ben jam in Saul, missing thirty-eight in the w'ilds of Jarre canyon, w r as found alive today. A party of Denver tourists found the boy lying about fifty feet from a trail leading through a lion-in-fested canyon. He was weak from lack of food and thirsty. He had lost his right shoe and stocking. His right foot was swollen. He appeared dazed. He said he tried to find his way home, but could not, so he lay down and went to sleep. Then Tuesday he wandered some more. Tuesday night he slept in the wreckage of an automobile, near which he was found. He encountered no animals, he said, though moutain lions and bears are common in the wild canyon. 1

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Easy street—the one-square thoroughfare out at 3300 West Eighteenth street —laughs and lives and has jobless ones and the whooping cough just like other streets of the city during these stalemate days. Hard times are not a "speck” easier because of Easy street’s cognomen. So a jaunt on Easy and its

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Throngs in Gold Rush City Greet Fliers When They Land. By United Press NOME, Alaska, „ Aug. 12—The holiday spirit that was common" to Nome in the historic years of the gold rush returned today, as the city gave itself over to entertaining Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh during their vacation stop en route from Washington to the Orient. While the Lindberghs rested and received with smiles the plaudits of hardy descendants of the gold

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environs found the above snapshots clicked by the camera. Upper Left—Sam, a 9-year-old, looks out from his barn-stall on Easy street’s vacant lots and wishes he might graze awhile. Upper Right—Swishing in the mud is an after-the-rain sport near Easy. Lower Lest —Ola Frances Marsh, 1850 Easy street, is getting her reward for behaving herself

rush pioneers, their powerful black and yellow monoplane rode the quiet waters of Safety bay, some twenty miles to the east. Fighting their way through fog which forced them down for ten hours in Kotzebue sound, the couple crossed Seward peninsula Tuesday, circled over the excited city of Nome and came to a graceful landing in the bay at 11:39 a. m. (central standard time). They had left Point Barrow, up on the rim of the Arctic ice pack, at 8:53 Monday night. Their intention was to make a nonstop flight of 523 miles from the point to Nome, but upon reaching the sound they ran into heavy banks of fog which the man who conquered the storm-lashed Atlantic alone did not care to fly through with his wife as a passenger. While his diminutive heiress wife tapped out radio signals to the world of what was happening, Lindbergh brought the ship down safely in the sound, arid there they waited from 2 a. m. until 10 a. m. before taking off again and completing the remaining 100 miles of the trip to Nome. Residents of the town, hardy northerners whose ancestors made history in the exciting "rushes” of the preceding century, had remained up all night to welcome the fliers when they landed. The residents had expected the Lindberghs during the night and built fires to guide them in landing. K, OF G. TO CONVENE National Convention Opens Sunday in French Lick. By United Press FRENCH LICK, Ind., Aug. 12. The forty-ninth annual supreme convention of the Knights of Columbus will open here on Sunday morning with registration of several thousand delegates and visitors. The first session of the Catholic fraternal order of more than 700,000 in the United States, Canada, Cuba and the Philippines will begin upon arrival of Martin H. Carmody, Grand Rapids, Mich., supreme knight, and William J. McGinley, New Haven, Conn., supreme secretary. Ten thousand persons are expected to attend an opening mass Tuesday morning. hunt~sTugging beggar Demand for Money Ignored, Alms Seeker Attacks Man. One of the myriad of beggars that have infested downtown and near downtown streets in recent months, Tuesday night attacked a man who refused his demands for money. John Little, 30, of 807 North Pennsylvania street, ignored the beggar’s request for a dime, and found his way along the sidewalk blocked. The beggar then grasped him and struck him. In the scuffle Little was kicked in the abdomen. The beggar fled, and police sent Little to city hospital while they sought his assailant, y

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through a siege of "whooping cough” and a series of treatments for a cat’s bite. Lower Center—The “piemaker” of Easy street, Donald C. Agnew, 1833 Easy street, and his asistant, Frisky. Lower Right—Howard Newkirk, 9, never has carried "coals to Newcastle,” but he does a good job of “toting” Mary Ann Hittle, 4. around on his educated back.

FEDERAL AGENT 'REAL' SLEUTH He Just Looks at a Thing —and He Knows All. Chemist’s tests to prove whether contents of a bottle are intoxiating and, if so, the quality of it, have been replaced by more novel means by Harry Katon, federal prohibition agent. In municipal court four today he testified that he knew Miss Marie Oltean, 22, of 1001 West Morris street, had "pure whisky” in a bottle she was carrying when he arrested her recently because “it had the picture of a log cabin on it.” Katon said he was riding in an automobile near the woman’s home and saw her standing, bottle in hand, conversing with a neighbor. He admitted pursuing her through the front yard and house and into the rear yard where she fainted. Asked by attorneys how he knew the bottle contained intoxicating liquor, Katon testified: "I knew it was whisky, because I saw the picture of the log cabin on the bottle and the name "Log Cabin” printed on it,” he said. "I also knew because she got flustered when I got out of the car.” Miss Oltean said when Katon ran toward her she fled into her house and he continued his pursuit into the back yard. She said she fainted. Judge William H. Sheaffer withheld judgment in the case. Saved by Faith NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Sallee Louise Dalton, 10-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn broker, was taken out of the Drinker respirator in Kings county hospital today after a twenty-one-day fight against infantile paralysis and was able to breath normally. She attributes her recovery to the prayer she composed while lying helpless in the big white machine: "Oh, my Jesus on the Cross! Look down on us and have mercy on us who look up to Three to plead Thy forgiveness and again receive Thy love and light of Thy most sacred heart. Amen.” ACT ON STREET PAVING Works Board Adopts Resolution For North Delaware Section. Works board today adopted a resolution for resurfacing of North Delaware stret from Thirty-eighth to Fortieth strets, a project estimated to cost $9,505. The construction will include laying of new gutters and curb. Lineal sot estimated for abutting property owner was given as $3.82. Jimmy Walker on Hookup By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—Mayor James J. Walker will speak on an international radio hook-up from Berlin Thursday at 4:30 p. m. (central time), it was announced at the offices of the National Broadcasting Company here tfday.

COUNTY ROAD PUN ÜBELED AS WASTEFUL Leaks in New Budget Will Cost $60,000, View of Shearer. PAY MORE FOR GRAVEL 90-Cent Variety to Be Used When 20-Cent Kind Is Available. BY SHELDON KEY Leaks in the 1932 Marion county free gravel road budget, as outlined by commissioners, will cost taxpayers s<>o,ooo to $70,000 more than necessary, John Shearer, minority member of the board of commissioners. said today. A study today of budge- proposals, to be submitted to the county council in September, reveals commissioners preparing for huge road expenditures in the face of high tax rates. Unless the county council slashes large sums from the proposed budget, commissioners may institute a tar-gravel road building program within the county w’hich may rival the “blacktop” scheme of the state highway, it is reported. Due to lower material costs, the county can build more roads for less money in 1932 than in 1931, Charles Mann, county road superintendent, estimated. Ignore Cheaper Gravel “Commissioners in their budget requests seem to have turned a deaf ear to Manns suggestion that the county stop paying an exorbitant price for gravel and get it 60 cents a yard cheaper,” Shearer, who. as minority member, -had no part in the budget making, charged today. Mann estimated road costs for 1932 at $149,595. Commissioners are asking the council for an appropriation of $188,509 for the free gravel road fund. The proposed appropriation for gravel was raised from $35,000 to $37,500, although Mann informed Commissioners George Snider and Dow Vorhies they would be able to secure gravel for much less than this, if they desired. Tar Budget Increased By Mann’s suggestion, the county would use pit gravel, obtained from local beds for about 20 cents a yard, instead of paying contractors, 90 cents a yard, as at present. Commissioners let all gravel contracts. “Washed” gravel now is being used. Marion county has as many gravel deposits as Fountain county. In that county the road superintendent is paying as low as 12 % cents a yard, it is reported. Commissioners also expect to spend $37,000 more for tar and patching material than last year. They are asking $50,000 for this purpose, while Mann estimated $13,000 as sufficient. Despite protests by highway experts that tar-gravel roads, the county “blacktop” program, will not hold under heavy traffic, commissioners declare they will build approximately thirty miles of these next year. Two weeks before they made this decision, officials of a well-known tar company took them on a day’s tour of northern Indiana. Levy to Be Boosted Thomas Ellis, incoming Democratic commissioner, also sat in on the commissioner’s budget sessions. Commissioner Vorhies declared “we will build tar-gravel roads to rid the county of maintenance expenditures and casts for oiling dusty roads.” These and other expenditures, which tax reduction proponents declare would not be necessary at a time when tax rates already are oppressingly high, will raise the road levy % cent above Mann’s estimate. Commissioners propose a 1cent levy for roads. Snider and Vorhies are defending their budget by saying "this Is no time to cut road expenditures: roads must be kept in condition, for the public demands it.” HOOVER TALKS TRADE Gifford Breakfasts With President at White House. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. The general business situation was discussed today by President Hoover and Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, at a breakfast conference. So interested was the President in the facts laid before him that he remained at the breakfast table talking far beyond the hour when he usually goes to the executive offices. White House attaches declined to give any particulars regarding the conversation. ACCEPTS BOOZE ‘RAP’ Negro Keeps Promise and la Sentenced to Thirty Days. John McNevin, Negro, employed in a poolroom at 428 West Washington street, has kept his promise. When police raided the place recently and confiscated a quantity of alcohol, McNevin, although not admitting ownership of the liquor, said: “I’ll take the tall.” Today in - v municipal court McNevin was sentenced to thirty days on the state penal farm and fined SIOO and costs for liquor law violation. Caribbean Hurricane Watched By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—An advisory warning was issued today by the weather bureau of a Caribbean hurricane moving west-northwest. The warning said: “Tropical disturbance central about 150 miles south-southeast of city of Santo Domingo this morning apparently moving west-northwestward.“