Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1931 — Page 9

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THORNS STUD PATH TO PEACE IN FAR EAST Dynamite Lies Ready to Be Touched Off Only by Trifling. PERIL GROWING DAILY Actual War Menace Lurks in Background During Government Changes. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS Scrlppa-Iloward Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Behind * calm exterior the admirtistration now may be said to have entered a period of anxious waiting, so far as events in the far east are concerned. In both China and Japan new regimes have been formed, or are in process of formation. In both countries the swing is away from moderation and in the direction cf a more intensified nationalism. Regardless of whoever may become the new Chinese president, it is a foregone conclusion that he will take a stronger stand against Jaan in Manchuria. Failure to show fight finally brought President Chiang’s downfall. Similarly it was largely the army’s opposition to Premier Wakatsuke and Foreign Minister Shidehara, at Tokio, that forced their resignation and paved the way for the more two-fisted regime of Premier K. Inukai. More and More TNT The far eastern situation, therefore, is more fraught with peril today than ever. There is more dynamite In it, and there are more and hotter sparks. The administrative changes on the make in China and Japan, however, have not evoked any official change of attitude here. Officially, it is much the same as if one political party in this country had succeeded another after an election. Personages drop out, but governments go on. Nanking continues responsible for China’s acts and Tokio remains responsible for Japan’s acts. Accordingly, the hope here is that, so far as Manchuria is concerned, both countries will live up to their pledges to the League of Nations council and to Washington—namely that there will be no further fighting and that the situation will be restored to normal as soon as possible. They’re More Responsible Nevertheless, beneath this unchanged surface there is a vastly altered situation. In a very definite sense, the Japanese and Chinese governments of today are more responsible for events than were their predecessors. At Nanking, according to reports, the new regime will be a sort of coalition, representing a united China —the south, which recently seceded from Nanking, as well as the north. At Tokio, the party of the late General Tanaka, proponent of the “big stick” in dealing with China, is in office. This is the party of the military faction which, up to now, actually has made recent Manchurian policy without beimj internationally accountable for It. From now on, this party of Tanaka, the army and, incidentally of Premier Inukai, not only will give orders to General Honjo, Japanese generalissimo in Manghuria, but will be responsible officially for his acts in the bargain. Strain Isn’t Relieved Had the Japanese army taken Chinchow last w-eek, for example, it might have been said that General Honjo had exceeded his authority and that the Wakatsuke-Shidehara government at Tokio was not really to blame. Now, however, if Chinchow is captured. there can be no such claim. Premier Wakatsuke and Baron Shidehara have made their fight against army control and have lost. They have gone into retirement. The military clique not only is in the saddle now. but is holding the reins officially. While all this clarifies the situation rather materially, it by no means relieves the strain. On the contrary, the feeling of suspense has deepened. For anew explosion in Manchuria necessarily could not tail to be viewed here and by the league council in an altogether altered and graver light. CITY IS PARLEY SITE 10,000 Disciples of Christ Delegates Expected Here in 1932. More than 10.000 delegates will attend the international convention of Disciples of Christ in Indianapolis Oct. 11 to 16. 1932, according to members of the executive convention committee, who held a meeting with national board members at the 6everin Wednesday. Movement to bring the convention here has been under way for nearly two years. Recently, the Indianapolis Christian Ministers' Association adopted a resolution urging selection of Indianapolis. Plans for the convention will be arranged by a local committee yet to be appointed. First international convention of Disciples of Christ was held here In 1870. Indianapolis also was host in 1873, 1881, 1887 and 1897. LOGAN RITES A~rT~HELD Funeral Services at St. Patrick’s for Slain Police Officer. Last rites for Daniel Logan. 55, of 1201 St. Peter street. Indianapolis police officer twenty-five years, were held today at St, Patrick’s Catholic c'urch. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Logan was injured fatally Monday night when he was struck by an automobile at Maryland and Delaware streets, the site of his first duty as a traffic policeman. For the last six years, Mr. Logan had been stationed at Meridian and Maryland streets. Seven children survive him.

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‘SPITE QUARANTINE’ LAID TO CORONER IS BEFORE JURORS

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Mr. and Mrs. Jeffie Glover and their son Lloyd. 4. of 423 East Louisiana street, as they appeared when they told grand jurors of the secret autopsy performed on Frank Glover, 14 months old, in August by Dr. Clarence N. Harris, Negro deputy coroner.

U. S. URGED TO ABANDON GOLD Philadelphia Record Asks Congress to Act. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17.—The Philadelphia Record today urged that the Unted States abandon the gold standard to “save much human suffering and speed the return of the world as well a S this country to normalcy. The Record is an independent newspaper owned by J. David Stern, who also publishes the Camden (N. J.) Caurier and Morning Post. “The nation will be forced off the gold standard eventually, when it will do us little good,” the front page editorial said, so “congress should take the United States off the present gold standard immediately.” Labeled 'Preposterous’ By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Administration financial authorities consider “preposterous” suggestions that the United States is about to go off the gold standard. High authorities, discussing the matter today, argued that as the whole credit system is based upon gold it would be impossible for the government to act in any way which would be effective in altering the standard.

BANKERS MEET TONIGHT Credit Problems to Be Discussed at Columbia Club Session. National Credit Corporation and other credit and banking problems will be discussed by the Banks Credit Corporation at the Columbia Club at a dinner to be attended by more than 100 Indiana bankers. Speakers include Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner; Thomas D. Barr, deputy state banking commissioner; Judge Clarence R. Martin of the Indiana supreme court; Elmer W. Stout and W. P. Flynn, Indianapolis bankers; Meredith Nicholson, Carl Endicott, Huntington banker, and Oscar L. Griffith, Brown county artist.

HOOSIER MURDERER IS REPORTED SLAIN

Bruce Scott, Killer of Fireman, Said to Be Dead in Texas. Bruce Scott, Indiana's most notorious criminal product in the last five years, was slain in a gun battle with a Dallas (Tex.) policeman Wednesday night. According to press dispatches, Scott, wanted here for the murder of Henry Millikan, Indianapolis fireman, last January, seriously wounded patrolman J. E. Griffin of the Texas city. Scott robbed a filling station of a small amount of money, and, unable to commandeer an auto in his flight, staged the bullet duel with the police officer. On Dec. 4 Scott, by using a ruse, escaped from the McAlester, Okla., penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence on a kidnaping charge. Scott slipped from his cell and used a plank in scaling the prison wall. He escaped under gunfire of guards. Shooting of Millikan by Scott followed attempts of police to arrest the criminal after he was seen loitering in a filling station at Virginia avenue and South New Jersey street. A killer. Scott shot Millikan as the latter grabbed him after a pursuit of several blocks. He escaped by stealing two autombiles. The outlaw was 27 and a native of Jackson county. He was serving a fifteen-year Indiana reformatory sentence for a Daleville bank robbery when he and two others escaped from the institution. The Indianapolis slaying occurred a few days later. Scott was recaptured in April in Illinois after being wounded following an Edmond (Okla.) kidnaping. studTpouce methods Six Indianapolis Officers Inspect System at Louisville. Six Indianapolis police officials today were in Louisville studying traffic record systems, detective afid Bertillon departments in the Kentucky city’s police department.

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Dr. Morgan, Head of City Health Board, Called to Testify. BY DICK MILLER Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city health baord, today testified in the grand jury probe of purported irregular activities of Coroner Fred W. Vehling. Morgan was reported to have informed the jury of the alleged “spite” quarantine ordered by Vehling against relatives of Verner Pinner, Negro, 31, of 2216 Pleasant street, who died at city hospital Aug. 5 from a noncontagious type of meningitis. Relatives of the deceased man charge Vehling invoked the order because of a law suit brought against him by the undertaker for the family. Ordered Private Burial Vehling enforced the quarantine and ordered a private burial, on ground that Pinner was a victim of a contagious form of the disease. Morgan recently told The Times investigation and tests in the case revealed no danger of a contagion. In addition, it is charged that Dr. Clarence N. Harris, Negro, deputy coroner, performed a postmortem on the body, despite protests of the family. Results of his autopsy also reveal the disease was not contagious, it is claimed. W. T. Blasengym, undertaker, charged Vehling ordered him to hold a private funeral. Blasengym retained Dr. C. A. Tolies, Negro, pathologist, to conduct an examination of the body, which further refuted Vehling’s claims Pinner was the victim of a contagious disease. Threats Aire Charged Attempts of Vehling to “bulldoze” relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan of Lawrence, following the couple’s death when their car was struck by a train near their home six weeks ago, is to be aired before the jury this week. Vehling ordered autopsies in the case and is alleged to have threatened relatives who attempted to block his order. Jurors also have indicated they intend to probe the post-mortem performed on the body of Lieutenant Lewis Stanley, who lost his life Oct. 31, in a fire truck-automo-bile crash at Sixteenth street and Central avenue. Vehling is alleged to have taken custody of Stanley’s personal possessions following the fireman’s death.

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Air Mail Anniversary Being Celebrated Here

(Continued from Page 1) snowstorm, made an emergency landing on a farm near here. The first planes used were open ships, cruising at 97 miles an hour and carrying about 200 pounds of mail. Great advance is seen in comparing these first planes with the comfortable, capacious and speedy cabin planes now' operating on the line. Passenger comfort has increased immeasurably. In the early days, passengers were incased in cumbersome heavy fleece-lined flying suits. wearing helmets and goggles, and bundled into the front seat of the Waco, already crowded with mail sacks and other equipment. The one-way fare to Chicago from Cincinnati then was $35. s u a TODAY, passengers and mail are carried in the commodious Pilgrim cabin plane, maintaining a temperature of 70 to 80 degrees, in the coldest weather. Instead of donning flying suits, passengers now can remove

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931

CHINESE HURL NEW CHARGES OF AGGRESSION Japan Still Is on Attack, Note to League of Nations Alleges. NANKING STUDENTS RIOT Plant of Nationalists’ Newspaper Is Raided and Wrecked. By United Press GENEVA, Dec. 17.—Japanese attacks on Chinese in Manchuria and control of Chinese railroads were alleged today in a Chinese note to the League of Nations council, outlining developments in the Manchurian situation since the council ended its consideration of the question at Paris. The Chinese note listed the alleged occurrences in the following chronological order: Dec. 5. Japanese gunboat and force of eighty soldiers arrived at Chin Hwang-Tao. Dec. 9. Three Japanese airplanes bombed Tsinchiao destroying the telephone exchange and damaging the railway in several places; two airplanes attacked Tien Hsien with bombs and machine guns; Japanese airplanes circled over governmental buildings at Chinchow for twenty minutes. Dec. IC. Japanese troops carried off the station master and two railway employes at Hsinminfu. Dec. 11. Japanese gendarmes questioned, imprisoned, and wounded Chinese passengers at the Hsinminfu station; Japanese troops reportedly enlisted services of 1,700 Mongolian bandits, who demanded SBOO daily from the Hsinminfu population. The Chinese claimed that the Japanese placed the Kirin-Chang-chun and Kirin-Tunhwa railroads under the Changchun-Tunhwa railway administration and sent surveying corps for the purpose of extending the railways westward to Talai and eastward to Heuining. League quarters regarded this charge as very important, as it would constitute Japanese development of strategic railways in Manchuria.

Nanking Students Riot By United Press NANKING, China, Dec. 17. Rioting students wrecked the premises of the Central Daily News, official organ of the Nationalist party, today. They destroyed presses, typewriters and other equipment. Soldiers arrived and routed the students, making fifty-five arrests. Some of the students tried to escape over nearby ponds, and several were drowned. A delegation of Cantonese leaders, here to reorganize the government in an attempt at National unity, proclaimed their intention of struggling to regain China’s lost territorial rights in Manchuria. They insisted Chinese militarists in Manchuria who failed to resist the Japanese invasion must be held responsible. General Chiang Kai-Shek, resigned head of the government, returned suddenly today after a brief airplane trip with his wife away from the capital. Madame Chiang remained at Shanghai. The Cantonese leaders paid homage at the tomb of Sun Yat-Sen, China’s national hero, and then conferred with Chiang. 0 Veiled Threat Made By United Press TOKIO, ' Dec. 17.—The government announced today that General Chang Hsueh-Liang-, deposed Manchurian ruler, had promised the legation at Peiping ten days ago to withdraw his troops from Chinchow gradually. No withdrawals have been made to date, the announcement said. General Shigeru Honjo, Japanese commander at Mukden, was ready to move against Chinchow at any time it appeared “necessary.” General Jiro Minami, war minister in the late Wakatsuki cabinet, will be appointed first governorgeneral of Manchuria, it was disclosed today. Gaining Charges Dismissed Charges of vagrancy and operating a lottery and gift enterprise against William Moeller, operator of a printing company at 107 South Capitol avenue, were dismissed today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Moeller was arrested in a police raid Nov. 9.

overcoats and travel in comfort, reading and even dining while the plane cruises at 115 miles an hour. The present planes carry nine passengers. 475 pounds of mail, together with baggage, in separate compartments. Three round trips are made daily. In the four years, 275,970 pounds of mail and 11,692 passengers have been carried, and approximately 1,487,337 miles flown. There were fifteen employes of the company when the first air mail was flown. Today there are 200 employes in the Embry-Riddle division. The Embry-Riddle Company was taken over by Aviation Corporation in April, 1929, and made a division of American Airways, operating between Cleveland and Ft. Worth, and between Chicago and Atlanta by way of Cincinnati. Widow, 84. Dies PERKINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 17. Mrs. Mary Foland, 84, widow of Nelson Foland, is dead at her home here. She leaves three sons, Hal, Hlwood; Frank, Perkinsville, and Charles; two brothers, Isaac and Oliver Goldsberry, Perkinsviile.

LOVE LIVES IN MARBLE

Memorial Reunites Circus Star and Mate

Here is the stately memorial, “Reunion,” in which Alfred Cadona portrays he and his wife, Lillian Leitzel, clasped in each other’s arms in deathless embrace. At the left, Cadona is shown placing her ashes in the tomb. The fadeout shows Leitzel as millions of circuis-goers throughout the world remember her.

BY DAN THOMAS * NEA Service Writer LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17. —Lillian Leitzfel has played to her last audience. The music of a circus band seemed to float softly from the distance and the faint odor of fresh tanbark seemed to fill the air when a silent crowd gathered at anew monument of Italian marble in Inglewood cemetery the other day. But the only music was that of the wind sighing through the low palm trees and the odor was the sweet, heavy scent of fresh-cut flowers. Lillian Leitzel, highest paid and most famous circus acrobat in history, was making her farewell appearance. Alfred Cadona of Los Angeles, her acrobatic husband, placed within the monument a small silver urn containing her ashes; slowly, he closed the metal door and they sealed it. Cadona had kept these ashes since last February when his wife met sudden death in a fall in Copenhagen, Denmark. She pitched to the ground like a

Majority of Indiana’s Criminals Native Born

Population of Two State Penal Institutions Prove Point. Ninety-two per cent of the misdemeanor commitments in two Indiana penal institutions for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, were persons born in America, and 50 per cent were native Hoosiers, according to statistics compiled by John A. Brown, secretary of the state board of charities. Only 518 out of a total of 6,527 were foreign born. These figures indicate that even the idea that “most bootleggers are foreigners’’ is entirely fallacious. For there were 3,443 commitments for violations of the liquor laws. 799 Less Than 20 Years Out of the total of 6,527, there were 4,985 white and 1,542 Negro, as the tabulation shows. The correctional department of the Indiana woman’s prison Here received 377 commitments and the Indiana state farm at Putnamville, 6,150. There were 799 less than 20 years old, 3,743 from 20 to 40, 1,785 from 40 to 60 and 200 more than 60. Figures refer to the number of commitments rather than the number of different persons, some of whom were repeaters. Offenses Are Varied Offenses of which these men and women were found guilty were as follows: Criminal attack 6, robbery 21, assault and battery 562, burglary 83, forgery 98, larceny 1,245, sex offenses, except criminal attack 64, violation of liquor laws 3,443 and all others, including violation of city ordinances, 1,105. At the close of the fiscal year, there were 1,380 men and women actually present in the two institutions. There were 1,285 men at Putnamville and 115 women at Indianapolis. In comparison with the year before this was a decrease of 138 present on Sept. 30, but an increase of 288 in the whole number of commitments. BRITISH SHAKEUP SEEN Possible Political Switch, Involving MacDonald, Is Forecast. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 17.—A possible i realignment in British politics with! Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald heading anew center party was forecast in reliable political; quarters today. MacDonald, the re- j ports said, was contemplating a party composed of liberals and right wing laborites, in expectation of a possible split In the cabinet over the tariff. The party would be formed along toward budget time in the spring. City Buys Equipment By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 17. Three ordinances approving contracts for the purchase of $14,525 worth of vehicular equipment for the city police and fire departments were adopted under suspension of the rules by the city council. The equipment includes a combination police patrol and city ambulance ; and a 750-gallon pumper for the fire department.

plummet when the rope holding a ring snapped as she was twirling over and over, a flashing creature in filmy white high up in the circus tent. The broken trapeze is carved on the monument; it tells the story of how she died. The funeral ceremony here recalled what circus people have long called “the perfect romance.” Leitzel and Cadona were both children of the cir-cus-acrobats since childhood. The/ grew up within the shadow of the “big top.” She was the greatest woman aerialist in history; he was famous for his triple somersault in midair. They loved, they wed, they were happy until death parted them. But to Cadona, Leitzel still lives in spirit. He spent a large part of his life’s savings to have carved the beautiful monument showing he and Leitzel embracing as angels. He has called it “Reunion.” Their love, he says, is as deathless as the cold marble that will record it. They will be together—forever.

'SKI GIRL’ AND RIVAL SHAKE HANDS, PART Lover’s Wife Kisses Baby and Leaves to ‘Start All Over Again.’ By United Press MINEOLA, L. 1., Dec. 17.—Miss May Gledhill. comely Canadian athlete, today had her 2-year-old son to herself in the love nest that William Conner, the baby’s father, provided for her before going to prison. Mrs. Conner, who had lived with the unwed mother, left the house “to start life all over again.” The two figures in the- odd triangle parted apparently without bitterness. Mrs. Conner kissed the baby goodbye, shook hands w’ith his mother, and said: “I can’t stay here any longer. God bless you both and I hope I see you both again.” HURT CAR CRASH Two Women Injured as Auto Swerves Into Two Others. When a car in which she was riding swerved to the side of state read No. 37 near Harding street and crashed into two other cars, Mrs. Voris Baker of Westphalia, Ind., was injured seriously today. Mrs. Baker and her husband were riding with Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Chestnut, also of Westphalia. Mrs. Chestnut incurred body bruises, and was taken to Methodist hospital with Mrs. Baker. James Sciscoe, 864 Eugene street, driver of the other car, was not injured, although Mrs. J. C. Dolan of Bloomington, riding in the third ear involved in the collision, sustained cuts on the head.

Film Star Hurt in Crash

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By Times Special PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17.—Marjorie White, petite film star, was seriously injured today when a taxicab in which she rode collided with another automobile. Miss White suffered tliree broken ribs and body bruises, a physician said. The film star has been appearing at a Philadelphia theater. Accompanied by her husband, Edward Tierney, she was en route from the theater to Ijj-oadcast from a radio studio early today when the accident occurred. ; Her husband received cuts and bruises.

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OUST INSPECTOR OF GARY COPS Efficiency Expert Blames Corrupt Politics. By United Press GARY. Dec. 17.—A. S. J. Woods, brought here to develop the best police force Gary ever had, today blamed corrupt politics for his resignation as inspector, as he prepared to return to his home in Berkeley, Cal. My hands were tied and politics ran the police force here,” Woods said after Mayor R. O. Johnson accepted his resignation. “I told the mayor that he would have to take his choice between a wide open city and me,” Woods said. “He answered by accepting my resignation.” Woods described the Gary police force as being 30 per cent efficient. It was about 10 per cent efficient when Woods came to Gary less than two years ago, he asserted, and would have been increased to 75 per cent efficient “if I had been given free rein.” Woods called executives of the police department “chair warmers.” He declined to express an opinion on whether police were protecting liquor and vice, but noted that “nothing was done when I called them to the attention of the mayor.” Woods was brought here by Johnson soon after he had completed a year in Shanghai, China, where he organized a municipal police force. First License Issued By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 17.—The first 1932 automobile license plate issued in Montgomery county was obtained by Alonzo White of Waynetown.

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NEW DELEGATE SYSTEM SPURS HOOVERHOPES Revision Greatly Improves President’s Chances of Fjenomination. 5 STATES ARE ENOUGH Drys, Too, Benefit by G. 0. P. Change in Convention Representation. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Corresoondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Unless President Hoover withdraws voluntarily, his renomination w T as regarded as more likely t*day as a result of repairs to the President’s political fences made by his friends in control of the Republican national committee. Even if Calvin Coolidge or Charles G. Dawes succumb to insistent pleas that they let their names be used in an anti-Hoover movement, revision of the system for selecting delegates to the next national convention and retention of Hoover’s personal admirers in key places will give Hoover a big advantage at the Chicago convention next June 14. Under the system of increasing the delegate strength of states which went for Hoover in 1928, including such Democratic strongholds as Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Texas, Hoover can win a clear majority even though he has only the delegates from thirteen southern and border states, and five other delegations usually loyal to the man in the White House.

Five States Are Enough There has been a net gain of forty-two delegates among the thirteen border and southern states, which now' have a total of 269. To obtain a majority of 577 out of 1,154, it is only necessary for Hoover to get the support of the delegations from New York, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Indiana. These give him a total of 600 delegates, and the addition of New Jersey and Ohio would make it 670. Republican delegates from the south already are assigned to the presidential chariot by all political factions, largely through the effective patronage work of PostmasterGeneral Walter F. Brown. In the five other states needed for a majority, Hoover can lay claim to the support of influential figures, and no sign of revolt appears on the political landscape there. Drys Gain Adavantage Similarly, the dry states have been given increased representation. The dry delegations will appear at Chicago with a net gain of about fifty, while the wets have lost, if anything. Both changes resulted from the decision that states which went for Hoover in 1928 should be allotted three additional delegates-at-large, and each district which cast 10,000 Republican votes should be allowed another delegate. There was some grumbling at the re-allocation, which gives Texas 26 new delegates, 10 more to Virginia, 6 more to Florida, 8 more to North Carolina and leaves such G. O. P. territory as Pennsylvania and Illinois without change. Leaders Praise Revision Ancient Republican citadels like Indiana, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and Maine were cut. Twelve delegates were taken from the progressive states of Nebraska, Minnesota, lowa and the Dakotas. As if they anticipated difficulty in obtaining ratification of this arrangement, both Fess and James F. Burke of Pittsburgh, committee counsel, praised those who effected it, and explained that any seeming unfairness was due to mathematical rather than political considerations. In any event, the anti-Hoover groups, including progressives and conservatives, can sweep almost every presidential primary in disgruntled and independent regions of the industrial north and agricultural west without making a dent in the presidential steam roller.

‘ON-THE-FENCERS’ BEAM ON NEW DRY LAW PLAN Newcomer’s Proposal Wins Support From Large Congress Bloc. By Scripps-Ifoicard X etc spa per Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—A newcomer in congress, Representative Thomas R. Amlie of Wisconsin, has evolved a plan for tackling the prohibition problem which promises to win more support from dry and on-the-fence members than most of the eighty or ninety wet bills now before the house and senate. Amlie proposes to provide by law that the Volstead act shall not apply to any individual complying with the law enforcement act of any The effect of this amendment would be to make the Volstead act inoperative insofar as any state may enact legislation on the subject of liquor. It differs from other attempts to modify the Volstead act in that it does not seek to legalize any given percentage of alcoholic content, but leaves this issue up to the states that favor modification. AID SOUGHT FOR INDIANS Congress to Be Asked to Save Sioux in Nebraska From Starving. By United Press NIOBRARA, Neb., Dec. 17. Congressional relief for a tribe of nearly 1,000 Sioux Indians faced by starvation which has already brought death to two small girls, was sought today. Representative Edgar Howard, himself an adopted member of the tribe, said he would ask congress for funds to prevent further suffering among the Indians. Governor Charles W. Bryan announced temporary relief had been sent to the tribe which lost itscrops last summer by drought and a plague of grasshoppers.