Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1931 — Page 4

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WETTEST spot ONLY SO MILES FROM CAPITAL Marylanders Resent Agents’ Raid on Postmaster Who ‘Made Good Liquor.’ Within sixty miles of the national capital la a little known section of the t’nited States that larcety has been left behind In the march of the machine a*e. This section, the first part of Maryland to be settled, adheres to such quaint old customs as extending unquestioning hospitality, and aging whisky two years before selling it. The whole region is in a state of pas ive and gentlemanly resistance against the national prohibition laws. By I nit,.l Press LEONARDTOWN, Md„ Nov. 19. Descendants of those free souls who came over to this tobacco country with the Calverts are showing such a mass defiance of a lav; they believe unjust that their federal postoffice has been raided by dry agents. This is the country described by Prohibition Director Amos W. W. Woodcock as “the wettest region In the United States." Only this week the postoffice at Jarboesville, a little hamlet near here, was raided by the “revenue men," the postmaster arrested and a large quantity of liquor seized. Made “Good Liquor” Yet these friendly, independent farmers and villagers do not look upon themselves “wet." The term to them connotes drunkenness and disorder, and they claim to be neither drunk nor disorderly. Anton Lang, the Jarboesville postmaster, “made good liquor”—that is sufficient argument against the raid. It is difficult for one coming from the national capital less than sixty miles away t,o adjust himself to the century of difference between Washington and St. Mary’s county. Here life is mechanized to a minimum, and the old Calvert traditions of civil and personal liberty still are very much alive. Such traditions Include pride of craft, and pride of craft impels the southern Marylanders to age his rye whisky two years. Refuse Agents Quarters Southern Marylanders don’t argue about prohibition—they ignore it, with a certain polite contempt. It is to them a bad law and they resist It. passively, in gentlemanly fashion as befits a 300-year-old tradition, but enthusiastically and effectively. A prohibition agent, be he ever so gentlemanly, never is and never can be accepted. When Woodcock a year ago i planned to establish quarters in Leonardtown with ten agents and a clerk, no one would rent them office space and the project was abandoned. Later when the chief of the St. Mary’s agents brought his family and vanload of furniture to Leonardtown, not one of the town’s 600 citizens would rent him a house, and he had to store his furniture. It was a long time before he found living quarters. Stills Still Distill To be seen talking to a “revenue man is to court social octracism. Woodcock, who comes himself from a very wet section across the bay, has made a determined effort to dry up this first-settled part of Maryland, and his agents have succeeded in complicating life a bit for the natives. But they haven’t cut off the flow of guaranteed rye. Returning to the twentieth century on the bus —the only means of public transportation—one sees passenger after passenger climb aboard with heavy suitcases carried gingerly and softly clinking or gurgling. Those suitcases don't contain ginger ale. *

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‘Eire Trucks? Bah! Horses for Thrills , ’ Says Old ( Smoke Eater

“T'vADDY of them all," is the J J title won by Capt. Philip Kile' of Aerial Ladder Company 13, oldest veteran in point of service on the Indianapolis fire department. For forty-six years Captain Kile has thrilled to the shrieking of sirens, clanging of gongs and the smell of smoke. And it is his ambition to stay on the force until he has served past the forty-nine-year mark, when automatically he will be retired at the age of 70. Captain Kile, who still is active, despite his long service, was appointed to the Indianapolis fire department Jan. 3, 1886. in the days when two-wheeled hose reels w'ere in vogue. “When I started, there were only ninety-two men on the force, and the north side was built up only as far as Twenty-first street,” Captain Kile reminisced. “The fire wagons and, especially, the horses, always fascinated me, and, from the time I was a boy of 12, I hung around fire stations. Before I was appointed I used to substitute for firemen who wanted a night off.” O tt tt KILE still gets a thrill from riding shiny fire trucks and fighting fires, but not the thrill that came from driving a team of galloping fire horses. “I ftked the old days best," he commented, “but the horses had to go—they couldn’t keep up with this motorized age.” When first appointed, Kile began serving at old No. 2 station, on Massachusetts avenue between Liberty and Noble streets, now Station 8. Later he went to headquarters, then at Massachusetts avenue and New York street. From there he went to Station 15 as hook and ladder wagon driver. “Firemen really worked in those days," he said. “I spent most of my time as a driver, even while I was a lieutenant, and I know that the drivers had little time to rest. “Every half hour or so, drivers had to check over their horses. They had to feed them morning and night, keep them clean, treat sick and injured horses and mend harness. “Usually there was an extra horses at the station recovering from illness or injury that had to be given special care. “After every fire, even in the ; middle of the night, the horses i had to be covered until they '

ISSUE APPEAL FOR JOB RELIEF SHOWS

Sponsors Urge Attendance at Saturday Night Benefits. An appeal for every employed person in the city to purchase tickets in advance for special midnight shows Saturday for benefit of the city’s unemployed was issued today by sponsors of the event. All proceeds from benefit performances at the Indiana, Lyric, and Loew’s Palace theaters, will be turned ever to the Emergency Work committee. All the actors, theater employes, including union stagehands, operators and musicians, will donate their services. Free use of the theaters is being given by theater owners, and even the films are being donated. Tickets and advertising cards were printed without charge. All theater managers in the city are co-operating in the event. Vaudeville acts will be rotated

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stopped sweating, and then .they had to be cleaned. n tt m THAT was before the twoplatoon system, and we only had one night off each week. But before the drivers could leave, their horses had to be bedded .down and fed, and the drivers had to return in time to care for the horses early in the morning. “No, we didn’t have much time to play cards then. Some months we would make from fifty to sixty runs. We had a lot of roof fires then, but now almost all roofs are of fireproof materials. We had a; lot of cellar fires downtown too. usually caused by cigarets thrown into open gratings. Now most gratings are covered. “People are a lot more careful about fires get started now than they were in those days.” While he has not kept any record of the number of fire alarms he has answered, Captain Kile estimates that in nearly forty-six years, he has responded to more than 12,000 # alarms. a tt a WHEN numbered badges first were given firemen, Kile was tendered badge No. 13. I wouldn’t even unwrap it, and didn’t wear a badge until they gave me another, No. 120, which

between the three theaters. Tljf Indiana will present Tyler Mason, Jean and Lou, the Perrin Kiddies, Bruce Jordn, Slim Green, Dessa Byrd, the News quartet, Ed Resener and his Indiana theater orchestra, Jimmy Boyer and girls and other attractions. The Palace will present Baby Rose Marie, Connie and his band, Flagler and Ruth, Esther Campbell, Juggling Nelson, the Caligari Brothers, Ernestine Ewing and Myrna Celete, and four other acts. Presented by the Lyric will be Jay Mills and Florence Robinson. Ruth Noller and her Varsity Red Hots, the De Toregos, Walter Realeaux and his WFBM orchestra, Mary Palmer and her mind-reading pony, and other R. K. O. vaudeville acts. All performances will start at 11:30 p. m. Tickets are on sale at all theaters in the city, at leading department and drug stores, by emergency work committee members and at film exchanges.

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I still have,” he chuckled. “T thought it was bad luck. But then I was transferred to Station 13 where I am now, and I have had pretty good luck.” Kile has had a lot of close calls, he sa|d, but has been fortunate in regard to injuries. His most serious injury occurred in 1897 at the Denison hotel fire. While he was coupling hose to a fire plug, another fireman turned on the water and the pressure forced off the plug cap. striking him in the face and knocking him backward. Bones in his face were smashed.

CHARGE DEPUTY FIRED AT MINER Killer Pleads Self-Defense at Murder Trial. By United Press MT. STERLING, Ky., Nov. 20. The defense in the case of William Burnett, miner charged with murder, sought to show in his trial today that Harlan county deputies fired first in the mine strike melee during which Deputy Sheriff Jesse Pace was slain. Burnett’s trial is the first resulting from bloodshed in the Harlan and Evarts (Ky.), labor disorders of last spring. The coal miner testified in his own behalf Thursday. He admitted emptying a pistol at Pace and another deputy, but not, he insisted, until they both shot at him. Ten other defense witnesses gave similar testimony. Burnett explained his possession of the pistol by saying he was “hard up" and had started to town to sell the weapon, when he and other miners met thirteen deputies, seeking Burnett to serve a warrant charging him with publicly whipping a strikebreaker.

JAIL GASTON MEANS Harding Scandal Figure Hit Cop, Is Charge. By United Press BETHESDA. Md., Nov. 20.—Gastoft B. Means, spectacular figure of the Harding administration scandals, spent the night in jail here and today was released in S6OO bond on charges of assaulting a policeman. Webb Hershberger of the Montgomery county police, reported that !he went to the Means home in Chevy Chase in response to a call, jnd found Means -beating his wife. Means struck her in the policeman’s presence, and hit the policeman several times when an arrest was attempted, Hershberger reported. Means was a leading witness in 1923-24 in the senate investigations of the justice department and the veterans bureau. He later served a term in Atlanta for mail fraud in connection with the National Glass Casket Company case. His latest public exploit was “the Strange Death of President Harding,” a book written in collaboration with May Dixon Thacker. ~ WEEK END EXCURSIONS CHICAGO ’ ss= Round Trip Each Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Leave Indiananolis 11:30 A. M. Friday: 2:30 A. M. or 11:30 A. M. Saturday, or 2:30 A. M. Sunday. Returning to reach Indianapolis not later than 4:05 A. if. Tuesday following date of sale. Round Trip to LOUISVILLE and NORTH MADISON On all trains leaving Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays to Louisville, and Fridays and Saturdays to North Madison. Returning to and including Monday following date of sale, except Sunday from North Madison. COACH SERVICE ONLY For tickets and full information apply to— CITY TICKET OFFICE 116 Monument Place Phone Riley 9331 Pennsylvania Railroad Often had to lie down §raS|7 jjlljf .. Jm *'CIX years ago I took Lydia Ei O Pinkham’s Vegetable ComEound for pains and cramps and it elped wonderfully; "After my children were born, I tried to keep up, but I often had to lie down. I started taking the Vegetable Compound again to build me up. "Since taking it, I feel fine and look well. The Vegetable Compound is a good medicine. If any woman writes to me, I will answer her.”Mrs.lna Petersen,Box4B,St; Seorge Road, Thoms,ston, Maine; WIXBSXBfIMk KaMMSnMpfif

FOXY STRADDLE IS LIKE 'GIFT' FOR CONGRESS Clever Wets’ Proposals Are Received Gladly by Puzzled Ones. By Scripps-Hotcard Net espaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—Clever wets in both political parties are offering to puzzled congressmen a convenient straddle, which is being adopted widely—namely, advocating a referendum on the prohibition question. Many of the legislators who have adopted this device openly as a middle-of-the-road position which commits them to nothing, come from districts where sentiment is believed to have become suddenly enthusiastic for modification or repeal, and these men have admitted cautiously that it would be a good thing to give the people a chance to express themselves. Others declare that they still are dry, but see no reason for withholding the referendum. Every congressman in the Minnesota delegation of ten members as well as both senators, with one exception (Representative Goodwin, Rep.), now has advocated a popular vote. At least four of these men, however, still consider themselves bone dry. In Michigan, the switch of Representatives Woodruff, Hooper and Bohn to a position from “not wishing to discuss the matter” to one of favoring a referendum, is considered significant. The association against the prohibition amendment claims twentyeight or thirty senators and 170 house members in favor of a vote on repeal. In 1928 only fifteen senators and seventy-six house members even would consider the question of a referendum.

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Caricature of Hoover Is Two Centuries Old

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Presidents get used to caricatures, but here are two thev hadn't counted on! These odd Japanese netsukes, and the little medicine box to which one was attacked, were made more than 200 years ago. They look like ex-President Coolidge and President Hoover.

Japanese Carving Shown at Art Institute Bears President’s Likeness. Believe it or not, Ripley, but the sum total of all the caricatures of President Herbert Hoover lies in a case at the John Herron Art institute. Strange as it might seem to President Hoover, it would be stranger still to a Japanese artist of 200 years ago, to discover that, in all innocence, he had caricatured a future President of a nation still in the mold! And now that the Japs are making plenty of caricatures of the President, it is an odd coincidence that this little piece of wood carving should come to light again. It is a part of the oriental collection of the museum which is celebrating its twenty-fifth birthday this month by an exhibit of almost all of its possessions. The object is a smoothly carved netsuke. a large, button-like holder originally invented by the Japanese to hold his pipe and tobacco pouch, his inro, or medicine box, and other small objects slung by a cord to his girdle. The netsuke which caricatures President Hoover was intended to be a mask of Uzume, a young dancer, who figured in the earliest

history of the Japanese. It is carved from walnut and highly polished. It lies among its fellows in a case against the north wall of the print room, and one of its fellows is, in profile, a pretty good caricature of Ex-President Coolidge! Besides the two presidential netsukes, there are some forty others owned by the museum, in shapes of masks, small animals and grotesques of other shapes. The print room is hull of interesting oriental pieces of art.

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S7O BILL ON STOLEN AUTO Shelbyville Owner Protests to State Police. By Times special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Nov. 20. Confronted with a S7O storage bill at South Bend where he went to claim his automobile stolen here April 17, Kenneth Brown complained to state police who are making an investigation. Police here say they were not notified until a few days ago that the automobile had been recovered. South Bend authorities say It has been in storage since April. License plates and certificate of title were intact, Brown asserts, and maintains there should have been no difficulty in identifying the car and notifying him. Blind Woman Survives Fall By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 20.—Mrs. Sarah Gross. 84, blind for several years, is recovering from severe injuries suffered when she fell down a flight of steps at her home.