Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1931 — Page 11

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BANK POOL TO AID FARMERS, LEADERS SAY Hoover Forces See Indirect Assistance for Troubled Agriculture. BILLIONS OUT IN LOANS Corporation Will Enable Easing Up of Demands, Experts Assert. By United t'ress WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 —Officials of the Hoover administration foresaw today indirect benefits to depressed agricultureUhrough operations of the $500,000,000 National Credit Corproation set up by private bankers. Farmers and livestock producers, they explained, will share in the benefits coming from the general casing of the banking stringency. Banks in farming sections will be enabled to realize on “frozen assets” through services of the banking pool. Credit thus will be made available to put banks in a better position to lend for agricultural, as well as other purposes. At the same time, banks will be enabled to ease up on their demands which, in turn, will react to lessen the pressure upon farmers and livestock producers who have obligations outstanding. Loans Are Tremendous The total of agricultural loans outstanding is tremendous. Various banking agencies in the federal system, including federal reserve member banks, farm land banks, joint stock banks and intermediate credit banks, had a total of $2,238,069,276 on June 30. Os the total of $388,124,000 in real estate loans on farm land, held by member banks of the reserve system at that time, $260,218,000 was held by country banks. Mortgage loans of the federal land banks aggregated $1,181,541,084 and of the joint stock land banks $533,097,676. Loans and discounts of the intermediate credit banks amounted to $134,706,417. Legislation Is Proposed The administration has proposed legislation to aid agriculture directly by doubling the capitalization of the farm land banks by an appropriation of $60,000,000. This will be considered by congress. This expansion would permit further extensions of loans of hard-pressed farmers. In addition to the easing of the credit situation, the National Credit Corporation’s operations are expected to so bolster confidence that people again will put back into banks the money they have hoarded In homes and safety deposit vaults, estimated to amount to a billion dollars.

Boosts Bi-Metallism BY HENRY T. RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 14—The capitalist system is likely to collapse unless it can be made to resume working at a profit and this can not be done until the price of commodities is raised, in the opinion of John Ford Darling, famous currency expert, a director of the Midland bank, and one of England’s famous “big five.” Darling said the low price of commodities is one of the principal causes of economic disturbances all over the world. He said that until commodity prices are raised, millions of potential profit-makers throughout the world will be lost to world markets rs potential purchasers. He urged that the ability to make a jfrofit would be restored to them if the value of silver were increased materially and stabilized. This, he said can De done most effectively tlu-ougn tne reintroduction of bimetallism. It would cause purchasing power to return and create an increased demand for other commodities, Darling believes. The result would be an increase in the price of those commodities and consequent ability of sellers to make a profit "without which the capitalist system can not function properly.” “This question of raising the price of commodities," he said today in an exclusive interview with the ; United Press, “is the most important question before the world today." SOCIETY TO CELEBRATE Sons of American Revolution to Hold Meeting at Spink-Arma. Indiana Society, Sons of the American Revolution, will celebrate the surrender to George Washing- 1 ton 150 years ago of British troops under Lord Cornwallis, at a luncheon Saturday at the Spink-Arms. Lieutenant J. P. Kidwell of Ft. Benjamin Harrison, will speak on present day military strategy and the progress made in devices and modes of warfare. Officers of the society who will attend, include Dr. Fletcher Hodges, president; Mark Reasoner, A. M. Glossbrenner and Charles L. Barry, vice-presidents, and Blair Taylor, New Augusta, secretary, TAX HOLIDAY IS URGED Moratorium in State Is Asked by South Bend Organization. Moratorium on payment of taxes and assessing of delinquency costs throughout the state is urged in a plea sent to Governor Harry p. Leslie today by business leaders of South Bend. The plea, urging suspension of tax payments until “such time as conditions improve for the masses," represents more than 5.000 South Bend taxpayers, according to G. W. j. Kalczynski, president of the South Bend Chapin Street Business Men’s and Advancement Association.

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AIMEE FACING SIO,OOO DEFICIT Evangelist’s Boston Crowds Won’t ‘Shell Out.’ By United Press BOSTON, Oct. 14.—Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, the California evangelist, faces the prospect of a deficit exceeding SIO,OOO in connection with her Boston soul-saving campaign. This was indicated today when an unofficial check-up showed that the approximately 50,000 persons attending her services thus far have contributed only about $4,500. Expenses to date, figured at the rate of $2,600 daily, total $10,400. and the end is not yet, on expenses. Aimee, who promised Mayor James M. Curley she would donate half her net proceeds to Boston’s unemployed, appeared unperturbed today by the realization that the revival doubtless w r ould show no profit. For the last two days, she said, she hadn’t even bothered to inquire as to the collection totals. The evangelist has attraoted large crowds to Boston Garden daily, Tuesday night’s audience reaching the record total of 15,305, but contributions have averaged less than a dime a person.

BOY KILLER TG PEN ‘l'd Rather Have the Chair, Says Perry Swank. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Oct. 14. Perry Swank, the state’s youngest “lifer,” became No. 14937 in the Indiana state prison here today. Swank was brought here from Lake county, where he was convicted on a charge of killing an aged gasoline station attendant. As he entered the prison, he surrendered anew, colored shirt given Jiim bv his grandmother, for the blue denim garb worn by all convicts. “I’d rather have the electric chair than go td prison for life,” was the young slayer's only comment as the doors closed behind him. Swank was held under quarantine until he submits to a physical examination. Deputy Warden H. D. Claudy said the youth would work in the prison shirt factory. PRESENTS WET PETITION Chicago Alderman Takes Plea of Board to Hoover, By I nitrd Press Oct. 14.—A resolution of the Chicago board of alder, men, calling on President Hoover to summon a special session of congress to consider modification of the Volstead act, was presented to the chief executive today by Aiderman J. C. Moreland of the Fortyfirst Chicago ward. Moreland said he also gave the President statistics designed to show that changes in the prohibition law would give employment to 1,500,000 men and put $2,000,000,000 In circulation. Mr. Hoover, Moreland said, promised to take the resolution under advisement. EXTEND TRUCK SERVICE Railway Express Agency Adds to Its Facilities in City. Extension to all parts of the city of the free pick-up and delivery service of the Railway Express Agency was announced today by J. W. Dill, general agent. More than fifty trucks will be available for service within the corporate limits of the city under the new plan, Dill said. Formerly, charge was made for service outside of perscribed areas. “The express business today no longer is merely the handling of i small parcels,” Dill said. “Shipments now include all sorts of j “live” commodities and perishables. The huge daily volume of merchandise moved is one of the most aC'arate barometers of business 1 conditions in a community.”

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Baton rouc-u, La., Oct. 14. This sovereign state of Louisiana, which mobilized part of its army in the capital city Tuesday night, awoke today with two United States “senators, ’’two “Governors,” two “Lieutenant-Governors” and a headache. The army, all sixty-seven militiamen in the local detachment of the national guard, was called out by somebedy, name unknown, as result of an attempted coup d’etat by Lieutenant-Governor Dr. Paul Cyr. Came the dawn and the army went back to bed. Cyr. a 200-pour.d, gray-haired native of the Creole country,

CRASH STARTS CITY LIBRARY SAFETY PROBE Huge Block of Moulding Falls Soon After 50 Leave Room. ♦ While workmen today replaced six tons of molding that fell from a public library reference room ceiling Tuesday, the entire building was inspected and found safe, according to H. F. Osier, school city buildings and grounds superintendent. Tragedy probably was averted in the library Tuesday when the moulding, weighing seventy-five pounds a foot, sagged and cracked, giving warning before it crashed to the floor. Fifty persons in the room evacuated it before the moulding fell. At suggestion of Russell William, school board president, Osier was accompanied on the inspection tour by William F. Hurd, city building inspector. No Other Bad Defects No other dangerous defects were found, Osier said, although in some rooms plaster will have to be repaired or replaced. The slim budget for 1932 took a heavy jolt at the school board session Tuesday night when it was learned that perhaps several thousand dollars will be required from it to repair the library, Crispus Attucks high school, and possibly other buildings. To replenish plaster that has fallen, or is about to fall, in the new Crispus Attucks high school school building, the board transferred $3,600 from another fund to the Crispus Attucks appropriation. Osier said the plaster in the latter structure was made and put on according to specifications, but added that the specifications should not have been used for that type of building. Cheap Work Intimated Russell Wilson, president, said he believed faulty ceilings in this and other buildings reported to the board were the result of careless supervision or of connivance between inspectors and contractors to cheapen construction and fatten their own purses. Guarding against that type of work in the future, the present school board employs its own inspector to watch school building construction. Appointment of Annalee Webb, Daisy Townsend and Alma Theiss as teachers in elementary schools, and of Hannah L. Martin as janitor in Shortridge high school were approved. The board adopted a resolution for a $175,000 loan to replenish the special fund until the fall installment of taxes is received. Luther F. Dickerson, city librarian, reported resignation of Miss Kate V. Branham, member of the city library staff for thirty-nine years, during which time, he said, she was absent only twelve days, due to an injury she received while on duty. SABATINI RAPS CAPONE A1 Unsuitable for Novel, Because He Lacks Ideals, Says Author. By Lnital Press NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—A1 Capone is not a proper figure for romantic novels, Rafael Sabatini said when he arrived here ‘t’ired 'and hungry after traveling from Canada without any meals.” The author commented that Capone “seems really to have no ideals;” therefore, he is “out” as a subject of an historical novel. Mussolini probably will be the present day’s most inspiring subject for historical romance writers 100 years from now, because “the power and intrigue are there, and ideals with them,” Sabatini said. FIRE HOUSE WORK LET Elliott and Myers W’in Contract on Bid of $10,995. General construction of anew building to house engine company No. 19, Harding and West Morris streets, was awarded this morning by the safety board to Elliott and Myers who submitted the bid of $10,995. Elliott and Myers also will construct a concrete dryer for $2lO. Successful bids were submitted for heating by P. J. Fitzpatrick, $1,338; electric wiring, Robbins Electrical Company, $415, and plumbing, Cook Brothers, $1,255.

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went to Shreveport Tuesday and took the oath of office as Governor. It was one move in his campaign to force out of office the fiery-tempered Huey P. Long, Governor and senator-elect of the state of Louisiana. “Long,” said Cyr, his bitter enemy of two years standing, "is out as Governor, so he can’t be in. He can’t hold two offices at once. He was elected senator, and that makes him senator, not Governor. # a a THE tow-headed Long was in New Orleans when he heard that Cyr had declared himself Governor.

Mys-tick By United. Press CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—Adolph Lenis, 52, stood before Judge Leon Edelman and pointed straight at his former friend, Frank Arman, 64. “He stole my watch,” charged Lenis, “How do you know he stole it?” asked Edelman. “A fortune teller told me how old I was,” said Lenis, “and she was right. She told me then where I was born—and she was right about that. Also, she told me about my relatives, and again she was right. Then she told me Frank stole my watch. She m-u-s-t have been right about that, too.” Judge Edelman does not, however, believe in fortune tellers. “Case dismissed,” he said.

'PLAYBOYS' ARE RAPPED BY ORR Office Holders Should Stay on Job, He Says. By Times Special GARY, Ind., Oct. 14.—Indiana office holders who are “mere political playboys” were scored today by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state accounts board, in an address here before members of the Lions Club. Orr, warning against waning of the public’s confidence in officials since the economic depression, declared it is the duty of present and future office holders to regain the public support. “Men elected to office should work at the jobs and not be mere political playboys,” Orr said. “They should earn salaries paid them by the public to perform their duties rather than assume they are placed in offices to do as they please and just turn their attentions to political maneuvering, graciously permitting the public to support them, while so engaged.” Orr said the era of the backslapping and hand-shaking politicians who have “nothing but themselves” to offer taxpayers is gone. “Those who see the favor of the voters should have some defiinite plan of government and public service to offer,” he stated. BUS RATES ASSAILED Civic League Appeals for Slash From 10 Cents. War on bus fares of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company was opened today by representatives of the East New York Street Civic League, who appealed to city officials for legal aid. Pointing out the difference in 6.25-cent street car fare and the 10-cent rates of buses, Samuel Harrig, president of the organization, said the fight will be carried to the public, service commission. Members of the works board said the organization will receive the support of the city legal department and “We agree with your sentiments.” Harrig said families who are forced to use buses pay $lO or sl2 additional monthly for fares, as compared to street car rates.

Miner’s Son Picks Mayor Mackey as His ‘Dad’—Philadelphian Accepts

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14.—Eugene Victor McGregor, 14-year-old son of a Montrose, Pa., coal miner, has “chosen” Mayor Harry A. Mackey of Philadelphia, as his future “Dad.” He made up his mind seven years ago and this week decided he had reached the proper age to make known his selection. Traveling on borrowed money, he arrived in Philadelphia, sought out the mayor and “sold” him on the idea that every household needs a son and that a son of a hard coal miner who has ten other children, could fill the bill. Mayor Mackey accepted his new position as “Dad” to the boy from the Pennsylvania coal fields. tt St tt GENE met Mayor Mackey and his daughter, Lorna Mackey Haines, when they visited Mont-

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“Fine,” said Long. "That rids Louisiana of Paul Cyr. By taking the oath as Governor he has forfeited his job as LieutenantGovernor. That makes Senator Alvin King the Lieutenant-Gov-ernor.” • “That’s right,” Senator Alvin King, president pro tern, of the state senate, agreed. And he hurried forthwith to Baton Rouge to take the oath as Lieu-tenant-Governor. Meanwhile, two patrols of state highway police had been stationed at the capitol and at the executive mansion. Long explained that he feared Cyr might attempt to take pos-

IDEATH CLAIMS A. R. HOLLIDAY, CIVIC LEADER Prominent Business Man Succumbs to Illness of Two Months. Alexander R. Holliday, 54, of 1235 North New Jersey street, prominent city business man and member of an outstanding pioneer family of

Indiana polis, died early today at Robert Long hospital, after an illness of two months. Mr. Holliday took a prominent part in the civic life of Indianapolis and was active in charitable work. He was secretary - treasurer and one of the founders of the National Concrete Company, 106 East Mar-

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ket street, and secretary of the Indianapolis Belt Railroad and Stockyards Company. Also, he was a director of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company and an official of the Family Welfare Society and director of the Indianapolis Art Association. Mr. Holliday was president of the Meridian Hills Country Club at the time of his death.. He was a former president of the Contemporary Club and also a member of the University Club, Woodstock Club, Indianapolis Literary Club, Indianapolis Dramatic Club and other city organization. During the World war Mr. Holliday served as assistant fuel administrator for Indiana. He was the son of John H. Holliday, deceased, pioneer Indianapolis leader, who founded the Indianapolis News and assisted in founding | the Indianapolis Belt Railroad and | the Union Trust Company, and establishing of Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Holliday was born in Indianapolis in 1877. He was graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, and for the next five years was an engineer in the Pennsylvania railroad maintenance . department. Returning to Indianapolis, Mr. Holliday helped organize the National Concrete Company, a wellknown contracting firm. Surviving him are the widow, two daughters in college, Miss Frances Holliday and Miss Janet Holliday; one son, Alexander Holliday Jr.; and six sisters, Mrs. Joseph J. Daniels and Mrs. Benjamin B. Hitz, Indianapolis; Mrs. L. MacBeth, Los Angeles; Mrs. Wallace Patterson, Evanston, 111., and Mrs. H. H. Mitchell, New York. Funeral services will be held at 3 Thursday at the residence, with the Rev. Robert C. Alexander of All Saints’ Episcopal cathedral officiating. , Private burial services will be held at Crown Hill cemetery. Surgeon Honored CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 14.—Dr. George A. Collett, local surgeon, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Physcians ' and Surgeons.

rose in 1924. He was a beautiful child, but unkempt. He liked the Mackeys and the mayor's daughter became attached to him. That summer Gene visited at the Mackey home in Philadelphia and was taken for a vacation at the seashore. He returned from the vacation, but the boy never forgot those few happy months. His mother died two years ago and his father married again. More and more Gene was determined to find the only man who had ever been real good to him. He sold his bicycle for $5, borrowed $5 from a woman who had known his mother and started out. A bus brought him to Philadelphia Sunday. The mayor’s office was closed but a guard told him where the “boss” lived.

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session of both, and just was taking no chances. Cyr declared he would file an ouster suit, charging Long is not entitled to hold both offices, Governor and United States senator, to which place he was named in the last general election. tt tt a T ONG and Cyr were elected to office on the same ticket. Then in the impeachment trial of 1929 they split and Cyr denounced his superior from the floor of the senate as a “political tyrant.” After that, Long wouldn’t even leave the state unless his Lieu-tenant-Governor went along. He

DADDY’S GIRL NOW Mother’s Dying Wish Denied

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Golden haired and 3, Donna Rose Pogue perched on a courthouse stairway post Tuesday afternoon and smiled, little concerned over the future a county judge was to determine for her. oms

nnHE “temple of justice” isn’t such a bad place to Donna Rose Pogue, for today she plays in the homd of her father, Edward Pogue. It will be in his home that she will grow to girlhood and womanhood, all legal entanglements swept aside. Although she loves her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Towell, 856 South Dennison stret, she has the same love for her father, so despite the decision of the county court, dimpled Donna Rose could not lose. Had the serious-miened judge upstairs upheld the dying wish of Donna Rose's mother, Eleato, the child would have made her home with her loved grandparents. The court’s other choice was to hold that because the child’s mother was on her deathbed when the promise that Donna Rose should live with her grandparents was exacted, the promise was given under duress. When Donna Rose got back to superior court three, she just was in time to heard Judge William Pickens declare that her home in the future was to be with daddy. But grandmother and grandfather cotrid visit her and she could visit them. That is why the little 3-year-old is showing her pretty dimples. GUN CHARGE DROPPED Laundry Manager Is Freed by Municipal Judge Sheaffer. Alleged to have drawn a gun on a motorist in an auto crash three weeks ago at Delaware street and Fall Creek boulevard, Paul Caldwell, 5538 North Pennsylvania street, manager of the Pilgrim laundry, was discharged today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Caldwell was charged with assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons after the car he was driving collided with another driven by Floyd Woods, 6483 Park avenue.

DIRTY and tired, he walked into the palatial lobby of the mayor’s hotel and advised the attendants that the “foster-son” of Mayor Mackey awaited his convenience. The mayor was out of town so Gene announced that he would “wait until he gets back.” Mayor Mackey’s butler rescued the lad, fed him and shined him up in readiness for the return oi the “boss.” Monday, the mayor sent him out to the family home, where Mrs. Haines is living with her two daughters. Then he got in touch with the boy’s father, who has agreed to permit the boy to remain with the mayor “as long as he wants him.” “I’m going to keep him,” the mayor said today. “He’s a fine boy.”

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feared to leave Cyr as acting Governor. Cyr’s declaration that Long, having been certified to Washington as United States senator, no longer is Governor but senator, has been supported by United States Senator Edwin S. Broussard. Long claims he is not senator until he stands at the bar of the senate and takes the oath of office. He has not taken that oath, nor has he accepted salary as senator.' So Cyr and Long continue their scrapping, during which they have furnished everything but the score for a comic opera hit.

SKEYHILL, DODD TO GIVE TALKS Teacfjers in Convention to Hear Economic Experts. Tom Skeyhill, native of Australia, world traveler, and student of poltical economy, and Dr. William E. Dodd, professor of American history at the University of Chicago, will be the principal speakers at the general meetings of the Indiana State Teachers’ convention, to be held in Indianapolis, Thursday and Friday, Oct. 22 and 23. “Mussolini” will be the subject of Skeyhill’s talk, which will be given on Thursday night at Cadle Tabernacle. He has spent several months in Italy recently, studying conditions there. He was one of the first of the political economists to make a survey of Russia. He ran the lines in 1920, at a time when foreigners were treated harshly. Dr. Dood, speaking Friday afternoon at the Murat theater, will have as his subject, “Historic Causes of the Existing Economic Disorder.” Dr. Dodd is the author of many historical works, and is the foremost authority on the political career of Woodrow Wilson.

LAUD UTILITY FIGHT Civic League Joins Movement for Rate Slash. Commending the central committee of south side civic clubs on investigation of utility rates, the Sherman-Emerson Civic League, at a meeting at School 62 Tuesday night, joined the movement. “The study of utility rates fits into the work of civic clubs,” John F. White, principal speaker at the meeting, declared. “The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association and the Chamber of Commerce said not one word in their proposals for tax-cutting about reduction of utility rate,” White said. A committee from the ShermanEmerson group will work with other agencies “that we may obtain decent treatment and fair and equitable rates upon an honest appraisal and a just valuati6n of utility properties.” Mrs. W. E. Heyer is president of the club. BULLY FOR MAN O’ WAR! Here’s Another Champ by That Name; It’s Finest Holstein. I!y United I'rruH ST. LOUIS, Oct. 14.—Another animal by the name of Man o’ War has become a champion. But this one is a bull instead of horse. The bull owned by Ed Hofmand of Menomonie, Wis., and was selected at the national dairy show as the finest Holstein bull in the country. He succeeds Sir Forbes Ormsby Hengerveld, which held the title for five years. H. G.~~ WELLS IN U. S. Predicts Collapse of Modern Civilization Possible and Probable. By United Pre net NEW YORK, Oct. 14—H. G. Wells is back in the United States with a prediction that “an absolute colSapse of modern civilization not only is possible but probable.” And when civilization does collapse, Wells said as he came down the harbor Tuesday, "I will write a book about it.” J

$20,000 AL’S BETTING LOSS, SAYS BOOKIE Capone Had Bad Luck in Picking ‘Ponies,’ Chicago Witness Says. DEFENSE CASE OPENED Johnny Torrio, One-Time King of Underworld, to Go on Stand. BY RAY BLACK I'nitfd Press Staff Corresnondent FEDERAL BUILDING, CHICAGO. Oct. 14.—A race track book- | maker testified today that A1 Ca- | pone blaced four or five bets with I him every day during two racing ! seasons and lost on almost every | race. The witness, Milton Held, ; was the first called by the defense in the gang chief’s income tax fraud trial. Held estimates that Capone's losses during the 1925 Hawthorne season at $12,000, and said he lost between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO on the ponies in 1924. Testimony regarding Capone’s j luck at the races was admitted by • Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson ! over protests of Assistant ’rosccu- | tor Dwight F. Green, who contended the bookmaker had no records to I support his estimates. Was Bouncer at Case I The testimony was considered the ! beginning of a defense attempt to | show that while Capone was a “big i shot” gambler, he did not own ! gambling houses as contended by j the prosecution in supporting its | charge than Capone evaded paying ! $215,000 tax on an income of more ! than $1,000,000 in six years. Held said he met Capone some ! ten years ago at “Johnny Torrio’s place on Twenty-second street.” That was when Capone, fresh from the “five points” gang of Brooklyn, was a “bouncer” at the case, Torrio had imported him as a “muscle man.” Seen “All Over Town” “No, nobody introduced us,” the bookmaker testified. “I just knew who he was. I used to see him all over town.” “Where do you mean by all over town?” asked Green on cross-ex-amination. “Oh, at the theater and places ; like that.” Held gave his occupation as "a | commission broker on sporting events.” Although he insisted Capone had placed hundreds of bets with him, the bookmaker could not recall the names of any horses the gang leader picked. Held denied ever having been in any gambling places in Cicero. Torrio to Take Stand In prosecution testimony Capone has been represented as owner of several big gambling places that took in as much as $150,000 a year. Held said Caprone paid all his losses in cash. Johnny Torrio, former chief of the Chicago underworld, sat with witnesses in the corridor just outside the courtroom today. It could not be learned whether he would, testify in behalf of the man he brought to Chicago and tutored in crime. Torrior* seemed worried. “I don’t know what Fink wants of me,” he said. , ARCHITECTS TO GET TESTIMONIAL DINNER Winners in State Library-Museum Contests To Be Guests. Testimonial dinner in honor of architects submitting winning designs for the Indiana State Library and Historical Museum will be given by Indianapolis architects aiid draftsmen at 7 Thursday evening m the Architects and Builders building, 333 North Pennsylvania street. Thirty-eight architects in the state competed. Edward D. Pierre and George c. Wright, both of Indianapolis, were winners. Pijprre and Wright are members of the firm bearing that name. They have received several gold medal awards from the Indiana Society of Architects. Walter Scholer of Lafayette, recipient of second prize; Joe Wildermuth of Ft. Wayne, third, and members of the firm of Harrison, Turnock, Burns and James will attend. TEXAS TROOPS DEFY FEDERAL OIL EDICT Restrict Production in Face of Ruling by U. S. Judge. By United Press TYLER, Tex., Oct. 14.—Troops upheld the state's oil regulations in east Texas today and defied the power of federal courts to stop them. They held production of five Rush county wells to 175 barrels each, in the face of a federal court order which would allow the wells 5,000 barrels each. Governor Ross S. Sterling, when informed last night that Federal Judge Randolph Bryant had issued a temporary restraining order against state and county officials enforcing the oil regulations, declared that his power under martial law was greater than that of the federal court, and ordered his troops to ignore the order. STATE FIRMS BANKRUPT Voluntary Petition Is Filed by , Theodore McKnight, Owner. Petition in voluntary bankruptcy was filed in federal court today by Theodore G. McKnight, head of the Newtown Hardware Company and the McKnight Implement Company, asserting his liabilities totaled $76% 998.59 and assets, $26,123.96. The hardware firm is located in Newtown and the implement company in Covington, Ind. •