Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1931 — Page 13

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‘ROUT HUNGER ON CHRISTMAS,’ IS RALLY CRY Efforts Pooled Through Clearing House to Aid Needy. CHILDREN REMEMBERED Pre-Holiday Parties Are Given by Clubs and Relief Units. With Christmas just around the corner, individuals and organizations of the city today were busy completing the pooling of their reresourccs through the Christmas Clearing House in an attempt to see that no person in the city goes hungry on Christmas day. Approximately 10,000 families will receive baskets this week, according 1/) Herbert S. King, clearing house chairman. "Clubs, churches, fraternal organizations and other groups have obtained names of needy families through Community Fund relief agencies, and are doing yeoman work to bring Christmas cheer to these families,” King said Tuesday. Parties for Children Many other organizations are aiding the crusade against gloom at Christmas time by staging parties for children who probably never would be found by Santa Claus, otherwise. , _ One of the big events of the preChristmas parties will be given at the statehouse at 10 Thursday morning under the sponsorship of statehouse employes and the Salvation Army* Between 3,000 and 4,000 children are expected to attend. Every chi will be given a toy, an orange, candy and clothing. Also 1,111 baskets will be distributed to needy families for Christmas dinners. The Salvation Army gave 600 of these and statehouse employes donated 511. Orphans Club Guests Twenty-five orphans will be guests of the Advertising club at its luncheon in the Columbia Club Thursday. Each member is urged to bring a toy, so that the children may enjoy a merry Christmas. Approximately 500 children attended the annual Christmas party given by the Community Womens Club at the Brookside community house Tuesday. ‘‘Santa Claus at the Microphone,” a play in which children filled the roles, featured the party. ~ _ Girls’ club of the Rhodius Community house sponsored a party at which approximately 200 children were given Christmas candy and fruit Tuesday afternoon. Parties this afternoon are at Brightwood and J. T. V. Hill Community houses.

Letter Carriers Aid Postoffice employes today are distributing 150 baskets to families found to be in need by letter carriers on their routes. Committee In charge of the distribution is John Stettlcr, chairman; Charles Reed, Charles R. Johnson, and John Deupree. One hundred needy families will receive baskets Thursday evening from the service club of the Real Bilk Hosiery Mills. According to Carl Fox, president of the club, the baskets are made up to accommodate families of from four to six persons. They will provide sufficient food for Christmas, end for several days afterward. Tarty at Nursery Following its annual pre-Christ-mas luncheon today at the Lincoln, the Lions Club went to the Indianapolis Day Nursury, where a Santa Claus party had been arranged. Toys, candy, and gifts were given to the children. “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens will be presented tonight by Professor F. Elmer Marshall of the faculty of the Y. M. C. A. night school and of the Jordan Conservatory of Music and Fine Arts. The presentation will be made before a meeting of the Bible Investigation Club at the Y. M. C. A. Second presentation of “White Gifts for the King" will be given at the Fairfax Christian church Sunday night. Fifty persons take part in the production, which was given for the first time last Sunday. Following the first presentation, each department of the Sunday school presented gifts which filled fourteen baskets ,to be distributed to needy families. Playlet Is Given Christmas party of the Mercator Club was held Tuesday night in the Columbia Club ballroom. The program included “The Other Wise Man” by the Rev. Allen K. Trout of the Bethlehem Lutheran church, a playlet by the pupils of Miss Josephine Fitch, and the distribution of toys to children and candy to women guests. Arrangements for the party were In charge of a committee under Dr. George King. Baskets to be distributed include: Catholic Community center 300: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and employes of the Kahn Tailoring Company. 135: Shriners. 525: all churches of the city 2.000: oostoffice employes. 150. Volunteers of America. 4<X): schools and Par-ent-Teacher groups. 650: Salvation Aitov. MOO: Wheeler Citv Rescue mission. 300 Elks. 500: Family Welfare Society. 550. Public Health Nursing Association. CO: planner house. 120: Veterans of Foreign Wars, 300: citv relief workers. 500 division of school nursing. 30: Exchange flub 50. American Settlement house. 15: American Legion. 185: division of child hygiene. 130. Sunshine Mission 100: Girl Scouts. 30. Camp Fire Girls. 10: American War Mothers. 10: nurses of the James Whitcomb Rilev hospital for children. 5. Salaries Reduced By Time* Special NOR'l H MANCHESTER. Ind.. Dec. 23.—Employes of the town of Manchester will receive smaller salaries effective Jan. 1, the town board announces. The employes are Paul Hathaway, marshal: Ira Watts, deputy marshal, and Earl Hester, water works superintendent.

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Meny Christmas Grows Old to Mary Christmas

By United Prcw PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23. Merry Christmas, according to Mary Christmas, is a fine and noble sentiment in its proper place and at the proper time. "But when you hear Merry Christmas every day in the year,” Mrs. Mary Christmas said today, ‘‘it loses much of its spontaneous joyousness.” But that is not the only woe of Mrs. Christmas, wife of Henry N. Christmas, vice-presi-dent of a Glenside (Pa.) corporation. Recently a friend presented her with a bloode-d spaniel pup. “And what do you think they called it? "Jimminy Christmas. Isn’t that an awful name to wish on an unoffensive pup?” “Merry Christmas is all right at times, but when even your

JURY INDICTS GARY SENATOR C. Oliver Holmes to Face Embezzlement Charge. By Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 22.—Further probe into affairs of the Central Trust and Savings bank here loomed today, with return of indictments Tuesday by the Lake county grand jury against State Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Gary), and seven Gary bankers on charges of embezzlement and gross mismanagement. Holmes was president of the institution. “We have discovered irregularities as well as a number of matters that deserve criticism in this bank and we are of the opinion that further investigation should result in some further action,” the jury said in its report. Indicted with Holmes on the embezzlement charge were Hodge and Adell Jablway, brothers and owners of the Broadway hotel, as result of a loan alleged to have been made to them by Holmes. Louis H. Glueck, president of the Mid-City institution’s Fifth avenue bank, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to embezzle trading assets of the savings bank. The indictments were the first to be returned against officers of any of the numerous Gary banks which closed this year, plunging the city into desperate financial straits. Among others indicted were J. A. Hale, cashier of Miller state bank, on a mismanagement charge; Sidney L. Pachper, Glueck’s nephew, and Ann Grabriel, Glueck’s secretary and assistant cashier of the Mid-City bank, on embezzlement charges. ME MB ERS HI PC AM PA IG N INCREASES LEGION 600 Twelfth Listrict Roll Jumps to 1,650, Says Commander Hano. Twelfth district American Legion membership is 1,650 as compared with 976 at this time last year, John W. Hano, district commander, said Tuesday night. Two more posts, Osric Mills Watkins and Fireman’s, have exceeded their quotas for 1932 membership. Firemen’s post reported an enrollment of 100, ten more than the goal. Ernest Elliott is commander, and Roy Washburn is adjutant. Osric Mills Watkins has fifty-two members. Gus Meyer is commander; Fred K. Sale, adjutant. Police post and Big Eagle post also have gone “over the top” in the membership drive. HOOSIER TURKEY FOR HOOVEFTYULE DINNER Henry County Growers Send 40Pound Fowl to White House. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The stage has been set for a nice little publicity stunt for the turkeys of Henry county, Indiana. Plans have been made for Senators James E. Watson and Arthur Robinson to present to President Hoover today a huge turkey gobbler forty pounds in weight by Henry county scales. Newspaper and movie reel cameramen have been invited to the ceremony. The Gobbler, named “Quaker Tom,” was selected as the finest in Henry county and shipped to Washington to grace the President’s Christmas table, compliments of the Henry County Turkey Growers’ Association. BA NK PAYS $1,800,000 Closed Logansport Institution Makes Dividend Distribution. By United Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., Dec. 23. Dividends of $1,800,000 were made available to depositors of the defunct First National bank with the opening of the National Bank of Logansport Tuesday. The First National was closed two months ago. W. A. Deniston is president of the new institution, which is capitalized at $175,000. Frank McHaie, former state commander of the American Legion, was chairman ’ the organization committee.

PET CONDOR, PRIDE OF CHILEAN AIR FORCE, IS GROUNDED, NEVER TO FLY AGAIN

BY ERNIE PYLE ScriDpx-Howard Aviation Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. The pet condor of the Chilean air force is dead. In fact, it has been dead for some time, but the story just now is drifting back here from South America. Pilot J. Benson Hoy of- the Ludington Airlines, who used to fly daily across the Andes, brought back the story. A condor, you know, is a huge bird that lives in the South American mountains. One day some of the Chilean pilots at the army flying field in Santiago captured a baby condor

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best friends won’t introduce you by your proper name, but merely shout with glee that Here comes Mary Christmas’ when you enter a room, you can readily see that it gets tiresome.” Mrs. Christmas’ mother-in-law also was named Mary, but she used Norah, her middle name. There is another Mary Christmas in the family who lives in Pelham, N. Y., but has changed her name to Marie. The Christmas family came originally from the north part of England and settled many years ago in the northern New York state, where many of the family still live. “Perhaps,” Mrs. Christmas said, ‘‘my name may make lots of people keep the Christmas spirit throughout the year. If it does, I guess I can stand the jokes.’’

JOAN BENNETT TO WED Actress’ Engagement to Gene Markey, Writer, Is Announced. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Formal announcement of the engagement of Joan Bennett, screen actress, and Gene Markey, film writer, was made today by the actress’ mother, Mrs. Eric S. Pinker. No date has been set for the wedding. Miss Bennett and Markey both are in Hollywood now. She is the daughter of- Richard Bennett and has been married before. FIGHT BLOW AT SPORTCONTROL High School Council Flays Gary Official’s Plan. A resolution, denouncing William C. Wirt’s suggestion that control of high school athletic contests be placed with the state board of education, was sent the board today oy the Indiana High School Athletic association. The resolution was adopted unanimously by the I. H. S. A. A. council. Wirt, superintendent of Gary schools, made his suggestion to the stave board at its recent meeting here. The Gary school board later appproved it. “Whereas,” the resolution read, “It is considered by the Indiana High School Athletic Association council that its administration of inter-scholastic athletic games through the twenty-eight years of its existence has been intelligently handled, be it resolved that this administration, supervision and management of inter-scholastic contests in the 800 high schools of Indiana belonging to‘the I. H. S. A. A. be continued in the hands of the Indiana High School Athletic Association.” The resolution was signed by members of the council representing all sections of the state. AMOS HAINES, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, DIES Last City Member of Company K, 51st Indiana Infantry. Amos Haines, 84, the last Indianapolis member of the Civil war, company K, Fifty-first Indiana infantry, died today at the home of his son, Amos G. Haines, at 620 North Rural street. Mr. Haines, who had lived in the city for sixty years, was past commander of George H. Thomas post. No. 17. Before his retirement eight years ago, he worked in a printing shop. Mr. Haines, a member of the Macabee and Druid lodges, is survived by four sons, Amos G. and A. J. of Indianapolis; C. G. of Akron, 0., and A. R. of Beverly Hills, Cal. Funeral services will be held at the home of the son at 2 Wednesday, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. DIESEL TRUCK PUSHES TOWARD RECORD MARK Refuel With Motor Running to Go on in Nonstop Grind. Passing 11,455 miles at Indianapolis Motor Speedway today, the Cummins Diesel truck continued its endurance run toward the 15,000mile mark. The mileage record is 13,447 miles, held by a Marmon. Average speed, at 10 this morning, w r as 45.05. A non-refueling record was set Tuesday at 10.005 miles. Additional fuel was supplied without stopping the engine. C. L. Cummins of Columbus, Ind., inventor, will leave the truck Thursday to spend Christmas at home. Dave Evans, chief pilot, will quit Friday. Three Sentenced By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 23.—Reformatory sentences of one to five years each were imposed in Bartholomew circuit here on Oval Wheeler,. 16; William Shane, 17, and Leonard' Hayden, 28, convicted of robbing the home of Icy Hook at Hope.

up in the hills and took it back to camp. The bird was so young and the fliers babied it so that soon it had no fear of human nor an airplane. It would follow the fliers around all day, and stand for hours watching the airplanes take off. Finally it decided it had to learn to fly, too. ft St St SO, it got out on the field and started running down the runway, like the airplanes. But nothing happened. It was running “down-wind,” and its wings were still weak, and it couldn’t get off the ground. That distressed the bird. It

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1931

DRASTIC CUTS IN TAX VALUES SEENJLIKELY 1932 Reassessment Should Change Figures but Little, Says State Official. ASSESSORS END SESSION Adopt Resolution Urging Levy on Corporate, Personal Income. Slight, if any, reduction will be made in valuation of real estate for taxation purposes if county assessors follow advice they received at the close of their annual conference with the state tax board today. Complete reassessment of both personal property and real estate will be made next year under the law which requires such revaluation every four years. Before closing the session the assessors adopted a resolution calling for enactment of state personal and corporate income tax laws which will provide, however, that where income is derived from real property the proper exemptions be made in order that there be no double burden. The admonition against great reduction in assessments was sounded by Pliny Wolfard, state tax board member, who addressed the final meeting. Reassessment Difficult New forms of raising revenues must be devised to bring genuine relief to the real property owner, Wolfard advised. But he declared the property tax ever must remain the basic form of financing governmental expenditures. “To my mind it will be impossible to establish any permanent and dependable system of taxation that does not have at its foundation a general property tax,” Wolfard declared. “No method of distribution of this form of tax long can survive that varies from the uniform rule. Our duty remains to make a uniform assessment of a just valuation on all property, both personal and real, in the state of Indiana. “It is evident now that this will be a difficult task for the coming year. “Declining prices of land and its products and declining rents during recent years indicate a reduction in the value of real estate. Legislative Relief Needed “There is considerable speculation as to what extent this will affect the tax duplicate in anew assessment. If sale prices alone were to control valuations, in some localities there might be a sharp falling off of value. “But if principles laid down in the statutes are adhered to the fluctuation from the present valuations will not be great. “Aside from the importance of finding the true basis values for assessment purposes, it is most essential that there be an equitable distribution of those values. “Until some relief is afforded by legislation the general property taxpayer will continue to have difficulty in meeting his obligations.” Hopeless Note Sounded A note of hopelessness for reform by the special session method was sounded at their meeting on Tuesday afternoon by William A. Hough, former state tax commissioner. He cited other states where special sessions have been called without success. Chairman James E. Showalter of the board made the closing’ remarks and reported the meeting a success. Phil Zoercher, veteran tax board member, addressed the conference Tuesday afternoon and upheld the tax board’s powers to dictate local budgets, despite two recent rulings to the contrary in Marion county courts. Pointing out that the board had presented a tax reform program at the 1931 legislative session and it had not been acted upon, Zoercher predicted that better results might be expected in 1933. TECH GRIPPER GREETED Faculty and Pupils Send Basket to Injured Football Player. Pupils and faculty members of Technical high school have sent Tommy Taylor, Tech football player who suffered two fractured neck vertabrae in the Tech-Manual football game, a Christmas basket with greetings and best wishes of the season. Taylor is confined in Methodist hospital. In charge of decorating and sending the basket was Miss Lyle Harter, a senior sponsor, and a pupil committee made up of Dave Zifferin, Carl Trout, Lucille Zimmerman and Ruth Stultz. Falls From Car; Breaks Arm Falling as he stepped from a deputy sheriff’s car at Tibbs avenue and Washington street, Robert Boettcher, 4001 East Thirty-first street, broke an arm Tuesday night. He was taken to city hospital by deputies, who said Boettcher had accompanied them on an investigation.

went back to the hangars and moped the rest of the day. It wouldn’t even let the pilot pet it. But next day it was out again. This time it watched more closely, actually followed the planes to the end of the runway, and started running behind them. But still it was too young to get into the air. Up in the mountains it would have learned to fly by being pushed off a cliff by its mother. But the little bird knew nothing about flying naturally. It had to learn from watching man-made machines. Day after day it kept at it. The flying instinct was strong. Its wings grew stronger. It learned how to flap them better. Grad-

How’d You Like to Be in This Truck and Meet a Road Hog?

' i The worlds largest and most * m powerful motor truck rolled from ~~~ m the manufacturing plant of the 1* • ■*&£&&&. V. Marmon-Herrington Company. 1101 ~ gfjflk’ | W West Morris street, today to begin MBBBttjji flMlßj F ® service as a unit of the North Da- ’* .. y % kota highway commission. gHSHf ; * The truck, weighing six and oneI ‘ half tons, with a 180-horse power k m. motor and 198 inches of wheelbase, |£i £ is one of new models of fourMi wheel drive commercial vehicles to U i JB be produced by the Indianapolis JH firm. The truck is more than twenflr AHiMTiTi p:J| J§& ty feet long. * m J*P MEm Final inspection of the huge truck m W was made at the plant, and the ruck started its trek to MinneapWahpeton. N. D.. at the wheel. IpL 1 se<l to lcar Snow HipV lllf L At- Minneapolis a rotary snowplow w nnrf u ' !l be attached to the vehicle and * I sJiip u will see service at Grand Forks. Ini/||§f§f N - D • Clearing the roads of snow s Jppp* this winter - During the summer ,l ...he used in highway trticSpecial axle and transmission deforward and three reverse speeds ■■'■'Q- ■■ : O'- '. -!*■. -* ff; gi . ve the enormous truck exceptional

Upper—Here’s the answer to the revenge-seeking road hog victim’s prayer. It’s the largest truck in the world, manufactured by the Marmon-Herrington Company, 1101 West Morris street. The truck weighs six and one-half tons. Lower Left—Miss Dorothy Swank, 522 Fletcher avenue, Apartment 5, perches beside the huge motor of the truck—provided you notice the motor. Lower Right—The job of driving the truck to Grand Forks, N. D., is that of W. E. Van Walker of Wahpeton, N. D. He sold the truck to the state highway commission there.

JURY TO TAKE UP MYSTERY AUTOPSY

Musical Bed liy Times Special GUTHRIE, Ind., Dec. 23Billy, a cat owned by Frank Lemon, living near here, makes his bed on the keys of a piano, and there is a jangle of notes whenever he moves in his sleep. In his kitten days, Billy was taught to sleep on the keyboard* and now he refuses to make his bed anywhere else.

ROBS COAL OFFICE Unarmed Negro Bandit Gets $27 From Clerk. Bandits and a footpad who staged four holdups in the city Tuesday night, escaping with a total of $75, were sought today by police. A young unarmed Negro forced Miss Lucille Huddleston, clerk at the Page Coal Company, 2412 Rader street, to turn out the lights in the company offices Tuesday night while he looted the cash register of $27. Frank Masarachia, 1611 Dawson street, clerk in the McKinsey pharmacy, 1566 Columbia avenue, was robbed f sls by a Negro gunman on Tuesday night. Carol Jenkins, 1214 East Sixteenth street, a customer in the store, was not aware of the holdup. A bandit fled with $25 after holding up Homer Russell, 19, of R. R. 3, Box 142, attendant at a filling station at East Washington street and Eagle creek. Ambrose Saunders, Negro, 59, of 803 West California street, was slugged by a Negro as he walked in an alley near St. Clair and West, streets, and was robbeed of SB. LEGION CHIEF ON AIR Stevens to Broadcast Message to Hospitalized Veterans. A Christmas message from Henry L. Stevens Jr., national American Legion commander, to veterans in hospitals throughout the country, will be part of a radio broadcast from Washington, at 5:15 Indianapolis time, Thursday. Patrick J. Hurley, sceretary of war, and Frank R. Hines, administrator of veterans’ affairs, also will speak briefly.

ually it got to making little hops, and gradually the hops grew longer. u U tt THEN one day the bird went tearing down the runway, leaped into the air and soared out past the end of the field. But it couldn’t clear the trees, it snagged the top of one, and went crashing to the ground, just like a plane. It was laid up for several days, badly injured. But as soon as it could get around it went out to try again. Before long it was really flying, making big circles around the field. The pilots were proud of their protege. Then one day, after months of practice, the bird flew away and

Vehling Misconduct Probe to Be Delayed Until Next Week. BY DICK MILLER A mysterious autopsy performed on the body of Dillard Colvin, 1322 Lexington avenue, a railroad switchman, following his death from injuries suffered in an accident at the Hawthorne railroad yards, in February, will be probed by the county grand jury next week. Jurors today postponed until Monday the quiz into alleged improper activities of Coroner Fred W. Vehling, while they made routine inspections of county institutions. The jury’s term expires Jan. 4 when the report of the Vehling investigation will be made in. criminal court. No records of the Colvin autopsy exist in the county files. Officials of the J. C. Wilson undertaking establishment declare their records reveal the post-mortem performed by the coroner. Elbert Colvin of Fillmore, Ind., brother of the deceased man, did not learn of the post mortem until a few hours prior to the burial. Undertakers told relatives, they said, the operation was performed to facilitate embalming. Mr. Colvin died in a private hospital. Mrs. Ida Miller of Newcastle, who charges Vehling with “unwarranted butchering of her husband’s body,” also will testify Monday. Mr. Miller died at city hospital from natural causes and the autopsy was performed before she reached the institution, it is alleged. GREET COLLEGE YOUTH Hebrew Congregation Plans Special in Temple Firday Night. Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation will observe home-coming for college students at Tenth and Delaware streets Friday night. Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht has chosen as his sermon subject “A Jew Looks at Christmas.” An open forum will follow the sermon. The Temple Sisterhood sponsors the services. Members in the high school and college departments comprise the reception committee. A musical program will be given by the choir and a social hour will follow the forum.

didn’t come back that night. It was a blue bunch around the flying field. The officers thought their pet had been called by instinct back to its mountain haunts, had gone native, and never would return. But such wasn’t the case. A few days passed. And then, in all his glory, the pet condor formed a squadron of condors and led them down from the mountains to the city. n n it THE pilots stood in amazement and watched as they came out of the distance and wheeled and turned in perfect formation 5,090 feet above the flying field. The leader , tried to bring his

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It’s World’s Largest, Built in City, and Weighs Mere Six and Half Tons. The world's largest and most powerful motor truck rolled from the manufacturing plant of the Marmon-Herrington Company, 1101 West Morris street, today to begin service as a unit of the North Dakota highway commission. The truck, weighing six and onehalf tons, with a 180-horse power motor and 198 inches of wheelbase, is one of the new models of fourwheel drive commercial vehicles to be produced by the Indianapolis firm. The truck is more than twenty feet long. Final inspection of the huge truck was made at the plant and the truck started its trek to Minneapolis, with W. E. Van Walker of Wahpeton, N. D., at the wheel. Used to Clear Snow At Minneapolis a rotary snowplow will be attached to the vehicle and it will see service ac Grand Forks, N. D., clearing the roads of snow this winter. During the summer it will be used in highway construction work. Special axle and transmission designs give the truck a cruising speed of fifty miles an hour. Ten forward and three reverse speeds give the enormous truck exceptional climbing power. The frame and cross members resemble those used in office building construction. Tires Double Size The tires on the truck are twice the size of regulation tires and the storage battery is the largest made, weighing 173 pounds. Two gasoline tanks, with a capacity of seventyfive gallons each, hold fuel for the vehicle. To control weight of the truck, air brakes similar to those used on railway coaches have been installed. Cost of the truck, with the snowplow, will total $16,000. The vehicle was designed by Col. A. W. Herrington of the Indianapolis firm, former transport consultant of the United States army. LABOR PLAN AIRED Street Railway . Battles 8-Hour Day. Three street car men testified at the public service commission eighthour day arbitration hearing today on signing of opposition petitions passed about by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Howard Case told Commissioner Frank Singleton that he thought he was signing a petition for the eighthour day, rather than against it. Theodore Stine and Frank Glover said they knew what the company petition meant and signed it. They are opposed to an eight-hour day, they said. The company obtained 387 signers to twenty-five such petitions in an effort to combat the eight-hour day move fostered by James Greene and Harry Pearson, car men. Pearson today questioned the almost illegibile signature of Leslie Rivers to the company petition. Rivers took the stand to verify it. Singleton ordered the company to furnish data for further hearings, to include number of men whose work spreads over eleven to twelve, ten to eleven, and nine to ten hours. He wants to know for how many hours they are paid, he said. DRUG ADULTERATION IS CHARGED IN SUIT District Attorney Asks Seizure of Flori<fci Concoctions. George R. Jeffrey, federal district attorney, today filed suit in federal court, asking seizure and destruction of 131 packages of drugs, now held by Indianapolis wholesale firms. The government charges that 117 packages of drugs sent the KieferStewart Company, and 14 packages sent the Mooney-Mueller-Ward Company, by the Dr. G. D. Stoner Company, Lakeland, Fla., violate the pure food and drugs act. An analysis, the government charges, showed the drugs consisted essentially of common salt, with coloring material added. The suit charges the drugs misbranded within meaning of the food and drugs act and that false and fraudulent statements accompany the product.

squadron down, but they wouldn’t come closer than 2',000 feet. They were afraid. Finally, at dusk, the leader gave up and landed on the field, while his squadron soared away back to the mountains. That is about all of the story. The ending is sad and commonplace. The pet condor landed in a vineyard one day and started eating grapes. And the vineyard owner shot him dead. The Chilean pilots buried him near the field, and put up a monument for him. And the fl ers who loved the remarkable bird still fondly tell the story.

UNPAID FARMER LOANS DOUBLE, SENATE HEARS Banking Committee Reviews Bill to Advance $100,000,000. BESTOR BLAMES PRICE Answers Steiwer’s Charge Against Northwestern Land Banks. By United Press Washington, Dec. 23.—Paul Bettor, who supervises federal land banks from which farmers have borrowed more than $1,000,000,000, told the senate banking and currency committee today that delinquency on these loans has more than doubled in the last year. Bestor said 23.5 per cent of the borrowers were delinquent now compared with 10.1 per cent a year ago. He was testifying in hearings on a bill under which the government would advance $100,000,000 to the land bank so It can be lenient with delinquent borrowers. The house had passed the bill, which was recommended by President Hoover as part of his financial relief program. Blames Low Prices Bestor said the increased delinquency on payments was due to the fall in prices of farm products. “Under present commodity prices,” he said, “I think it is an excellent record that 76.5 per cent of the borrowers have not fallen behind.” He said payments on 12.1 per cent of the loans were delinquent less than ninety days, and 11.1 per cent more than ninety days. A year ago only 3.8 per cent of the borrowers were more than ninety days behind in their payments. Cotton Troubles South “The price of cotton has had a serious effect on some of the banks,” Bestor said in explaining why there were proportionately more delinquent loans in the south than elsewhere. He said that banks “did not pursue a harsh foreclosure,” and added that of the 408,000 loans on Nov. 30 only 3,848 had been foreclosed. Senator steiwer (Rep., Ore.) suggested some banks had dealt harshly with borrowers, compelling them “to sell seed wheat” and other essential property in order to make mortgage payments. Charges Bank Took Feed “There has been some complaint in the northwest,” Steiwer said “about such things and threats to put farmers and their families out in the road if they do not pay.” He said it had been charged that the St. Paul Land bank had taken away from farmers ‘‘their essential seed wheat and feed for livestock,” but that the bank had “relented!” Bestor said the federal farm loan board would not approve such methods if it kne wof them, but that there were individual farmers who “owed everybody in the country and it was not worth while to carry them.” The committee is considering bills to increase federal contributions to the capital of federal land banks and to create a discretionary fiveyear quasi-moratorium for borrowers.

YOUNG DETROIT BANK HEAD SENT TO PRISON Convicted of Embezzlement, Robert Allan Gets 10-20 Years. By United Press DETROIT, Dec. 23—Robert M Allan, youthful Detroit banker whose meteoric flash across Detroit financial circles ended in embezzlement charges and conviction, today was sentenced to serve from ten to twenty years in Jackson prison. Judge W. McKay Skillman, in whose court he was found guilty last week on charges of embezzleing $106,565 from the defunct American State bank, of which ho was president, passed sentence. Allan heard the sentence calmly. His attorney, Thomas F. Chawke immediately filed a motion asking that he be released on bond pending supreme court appeal. SNUB FOR EL SALVADOR U. S. Denies Recognition for President Martinez Regime. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. The state department announced today it had notified the El Salvadorean government, headed by President Martinez, that the United States could not recognize it, because it came into power through overthrow of the former government without consent of the people. Recognition would be contrary to the policy set up in the Central American treaty of 1923, the state department said. DAVIES BOMB TRACED Police Believe Movie Employe Sent Actress “Gift.” By United Press SANTA MONICA, Cal., Dec. 23. i—Police today blamed a motion j picture studio employe or attache for the bomb sent Marian Davies, | film actress, as a Christmas present.” The bomb failed to explode. Police said they were convinced j the address was written on a type- : writer used in studios for subtitles of films. $50,000 Damages Awarded By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 23.—A record verdict for damages awarding $50,000 to Charles Thomas of Anderson, against the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, Cincinnati, will be appealed to the Indiana supreme court, it is understood. Thomas alleged malicious prosecution by Ralph Mittendorf and the company.