Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1931 — Page 8

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‘GYP' HINTED BY CITY IN CLAIMS OF CONTRACTOR Padded Pay Roll and Poor Work Is Charged by Local Officials. Investigation by the sanitary board today revealed cliarges that a sewer cleaning contractor is seeking to collect money f om the city on an alleged “padded” pay roll without paying his laborers wages flue them. Workers who complained that they never had received their wages lor helping clean the Meridian street sewer from %outh to Merrill streets will be requested to file verified statements of amount due them, so that the board may make settlement of all claims. Sanitary board members decided to do this after it was found the city would have to complete the job, which had been contracted to Albert Presnell, of the Acme Vault Cleaners, 505 Buchanan street. Branded “Irresponsible” Presnell was the l-w bidder for the cleaning work, but today he was termed by City Engineer A. H. Moore as an "irresponsible contractor.” The city must fin - '- the work because an ordinary sewer excavation bond for $5,000, given by Presnell when he took the contract, "does not legally hold good in this case,” according to Walter Myers, sanitary board attorney. “In this case the board is subject to criticism for not picking the best instead of the lowest bidder,” Moore declared. Must Complete Job Sanitary Engineer Charles A. Brown reported that he had found approximately $l,lOO worth of bills, which Presnell submitted, although the contract provided he should do all the work for $395. Under the contract, entered into •July 7, 1930, Presnell was to furnish equipment, labor, materials for removing all sand, gravel, cinders and other waste material from the sanitary interceptor.” “The sanitary board must complete the work because Presnell’s bond did not guarantee completion of the job, Myers stated. Talking Crow Goes Native thj United l’rcxs MENTONE, Ind., Oct. 21.—Mike, a talking pet crow, which stayed with Isaac Miller for three years, has turned native. With expression he was taught after an operation upon i his tongue, “Beat it,” “Let's go”; and others—farmers of northern Kosciusko have reported Mike lead- j ing a flock of fifty of its own kind. 1

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Ruth Nichols Times Up Plane for Honolulu Hop

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ll’/ I nittd Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21.—Miss Ruth Nichols, society aviator, injured several months ago in a takeoff on a projected trans-Atlantic flight, planned to leave United airport at Burbank today on the first leg of a rumored flight to Hawaii. Miss Nichols planned to fly to Oakland, airport officials said, where 648 gallons of gasoline and 36 gallons of special oil awaited her.

SLAYER GETS LIFE Youth, 19, Pleads Guilty to Killing Father. Hy I nitril Press LAWRENCEVILLE, 111., Oct. 21. —A life term in Menard penitentiary was given John Eugene Leighty, 19, former University of Illinois student, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of killing his father, Hai/. - Leighty, 42. The son said he and his father argued over his low grades made at the university while the two were working in the barn on their farm home during a vacation last spring. After the slaying, the youth was alleged to have set fire to the barn, but neighbors rushed into the burning structure and removed the father’s body. His head had been battered. Indictments were returned against the son and his mother, Mrs. Ocie Leighty, but the son exonerated his mother.

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The oil, it was learned, was shipped from Baltimore. She refused to discuss reports ; that she planned the trans-Pacific i flight. Close friends, however, indicated she would attempt the hop to Honolulu. Her home is in Rye, N. Y. She is flying the high-wing Lockheed monoplane, “Miss Crosley,” in which she attempted the Atlantic I crossing.

NEW YORK ST. PAVING WILL BE CELEBRATED East Siders to Hold Halloween Carnival on Oct. 28. Completion of the widening and paving of the east end of New York street will be celebrated Oct. 28 with a Holloween frolic, according to plans announced today by East New York street merchants. Committees to be led by C. A. Tillman, general chairman, were named Tuesday night at a meeting in the Amick department store, 4302 East New Ycrk street. New York street will be closed from Sherman drive to Emerson avenue during the carnival. The street will be decorated with bunting and cornstalks. A prize will be given for the best decorated home along the route. Another meeting to consider plans for the affair will be held Monday night.

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I BRITISH TRADE ON UPTURN AS VOTINGNEARS Rowdyism Is on Increase; i Parliamentary Campaign Grows Intense. BY HERBERT MOORE Inited Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 21.—Another large decrease in unemployment, an advance in the pound sterling, and increasing evidence of a trade revival due to suspension of the gold standard, added impetus today to the general election campaign. Voting takes place Oct. 27. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and candidates of the National government party continued a straight fight with the old line Laborites led by Arthur Henderson, Liberals loyal to David Lloyd George, and supporters of the “New Party” or Sir Oswald Mosley. Disturbances at election meetings were common. At Bairkenhead, the conservative candidate. Major Allen, was knocked out during a fierce struggle which included fist fights. Desks and chairs were used as weapons. Police used their truncheons. MacDonald overcame the attempts | of hecklers to disrupt an address I at Workshop in behalf of his son; Malcolm. The prime minister had! several previous conflicts with miners in his audiences and the appearance of Sir Oswald Mosley precipitated riots in Birmingham and Glasgow. One of the most disturbing sac-

N* Eastward ho! Four thousand miles nearer the rising c* Y sun—let’s go! To the land of mosques and minarets — so different from our skyscrapers, stacks and steeples. Let’s see dd s strange, strange country. Let’s see the Where Turkish tobacco comes from whefe t h e tobaCCO* grOWS MgKM “ ~ 1 in small leaves on slender stalks—to be tenderly picked, leaf by leaf, hung in long fragrant strings, shelter-dried and blanket-cured. Precious stuff! Let’s taste that delicate aromatic flavor—that sub- % tie difference that makes a cigarette! mm* ~~ a Turkey, Chesterfield has its own tobacco buyers XANTHI . . CAVALLA . . SMYRNA .. " ' SAMSOUN . .famous tobaccos! tobacco is to cigarettes what the smooth, spicy Chesterfield blend, seasoning is to food —the "spice,” the sauce” This is just one more reason for Chester—or what rich, sweet cream is to coffee!. field’s better taste. Tobaccos from far and near, You can taste the Turkish in Chesterfield the best of their several kinds—and the right —there’s enough of it, that’s why. Chester- kinds. And pure, tasteless cigarette paper, field has not been stingy with this impor- the purest made. The many requisites of a tant addition to good taste and aroma; four milder, better smoke, complete! famous kinds of Turkish leaf Xanthi, That’s why they’re GOOD—they’ve got Cavalla, Samsoun and Smyrna —go into to be and they are. © 1931, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Cos.

Health Work in Posters

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An interesting feature of the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers convention, at the Severir today, is the exhibit of posters, presided over by Miss

tors of the campaign was the report that foreign Communists had financed twenty-five Communist candidates and planned to form a “united fighting front,” namely

Mary Whittinghill (above) of the child hygiene division, state board i of health. The posters, prepared by school pupils, depict various phases of i child health work.

strikes and mass action, regardless of the outcome of the election. The only unusual feature of the campaign, however, was the rowdyism displayed at various meetings.

PACIFIC PARLEY TO DELVE INTO WAR IN ORIENT Institute Is Determined Not to Sidestep Discussion on Manchuria. BY H. R. EKINS L'nitrd Pres. Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Oct. 21.—The fourth biennial conference of the institute of Pacific relations convened here today, determined not to sidestep discussion of the Sino-Japanese conflict in Manchuria. Japan and China both were represented at the conference. Jerome D. Greene. New York banker and chairman of the Pacific council of the institute, announced the decision to discuss the Manchurian problem. Australia. Canada, the United States, China, Great Britain, New Zealand, and Japan have sent delegates to the conference while observers are here from the Philippine islands, the Dutch East Indies and the international labor office of the League of Nations. Major interest until Nov. 4, when the conference will adjourn, will center about the discussion of trade relations in the Pacific basin, with especial reference to the prevailing economic depression. China's economic development and the diplomatic machinery of the Pacific area are to provide other interesting topics for discussion. The institute of Pacific relations

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is unique in that it has none and aspires to no official standing. It adopts no resolutions, but it docs seek to achieve a much-needed understanding of the Issues which more and more are thrusting the Orient into the foreground of world attention. China is playing host to 150 delegates who will discuss migration and race problems, the dependent peoples of the Pacific islands, labor problems and she standard of living in the Pacific, food and population problems in the Pacific, and China's foreign relations.

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