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HONOR PARDON PLEAS ARE UP TO GOVERNOR Full Restoration of Lost Civil Rigths Demanded by Darrow. BY DAN CAMPBELL Init'd Prrt* BUB CrrrMondnt HONOLULU. May 7 —Pardon applications for the convicted American honor slayers were before Governor Lawrence M. Judd today with favorable action expected hourly. Confidence tha‘ Judd would grant j the pardons and restore their civil rights was expressed by the four defendants, whose ten-year prison terms previously were commuted to one hour of technical custody. Increasing pressure for the pardons was brought to bear on Judd after Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue; her son-in-law, Lieutenant Thoma* H. Massie, and two enlisted men, Albert Jones and Edward Lord, wore convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Joe Kahahawai. The slam islander was one of five trie! in December on charges; of attacking Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie. the naval officer's 21-year- ; old wife. The jury disagreed, and Prosecutor Kelley has attempting to persuade Mrs. Massie to remain here and testify at a second trial of the four remaining defendants. May Delay Sailing Despite previous announcements ' that the four death case defendants 1 ard Mrs. Massie intended to sail at once for the mainland, later as- , surances that she will appear at the attack case retrial are expected to keep both Mrs Fortescue and Lieutenant Massie here with her. Clarence Darrow*. lamous chief defense counsel, who Friday pre-1 Rented formal pardon applications to Governor Judd, consistently has opposed Mrs. Massie s appearance , against the islanders. He claimed there wr.r, little chance for a conviction. i However. Prosecutor John C. Kel- ■ ley. who conducted the case againstj Mrs Fortescue and three navy men, was informed today that Mrs. Massie will accept service of a subpoena. With the defendants she has remained at Pearl Harbor navy base, where process servers could not enter. Consents to Summons Lieutenant L. H. C. Johnson, naval officer and associate defense counsel, wrote Kelley that Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commandant of the base, had consented to the summons. This consent apparently was because Mrs. Massie , had changed her mind and agreed to remain. Lieutenant Massie, who has been ordered to report at San Francisco for anew assignment, was to sail with his wife and mother-in-law Sunday aboard the Malolo, but it was believed now he will remain for the time being. Kelley promised 1 to have the attack retrial set at the earliest possible date. Regardless of Judd's decision on the pardons, Jones and Lord were due to sail today for San Francisco . on the destroyer Tracey, which i stopped here from Manila with a "mosquito fleet'* squadron. Naval Boycott Started Darrow in his pardon plea argued that an offense for which the punishment was an hour's custody was insufficient to deprive the defendants of their civil rights. The applications were backed by scores of congressmen in Washing- i ton and an unofficial navy boycott in Honolulu, where service men annually spend $27,000,000. The elderly attorney hinted that unless the pardons were granted, he would seek congressional action to restore the civil rights, but. expressed confidence this would be unnecessary. STUDENTS VISIT I. U. Annual Guest Day Programs Draw 1.000 to Bloomington. B< Timet Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 7. Approximately 1.000 high school and Hi-Y students are guests of Indiana university today for the annual state high school and Hi-Y day program A full day of recreational and educational activities has been planned by university officials for entertainment of the young visitors. The students began arriving on the I. U. campus at 8 o'clock this morning and the morning program Included registration, university sight-seeing, and swimming in the men's pool. The last group of students arrived at 10:15 a m. on the special train which the Illinois Central railroad ran in connection with the state high school day program at the university. INDIANA'S UNEMPLOYED TO MEET HERE SUNDAY Delegates From 30 Cities Expected at Workers' Center. Delegates from thirty Indiana cities will attend the state-wide conference of unemployed councils Sunday afternoon at Workers' Center, 932 1 j South Meridian street. A committee will be selected to appeal to Governor Harry G. Leslie ibr a special session of the legislature to aid the unemployed and for jelease of Theodore Luesse, imprisoned unemployed leader. The committee Monday morning will visit Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker at the courthouse to obtain a statement on the Luesse case. BARES MEXICAN LORE Dr. Herring Says Resolution Part of Native Psychology. Beginning in the time of the conqiustadores. revolution always has struck deeply into the psychology of Mexico, Dr. Hubert C. Herring, educator, declared at a dinner given Friday night in the Spink-Arms by the Indiana Council on International Relations. One who seeks the true Mexico, Dr. Herring said, will desert the city boulevards of the country and traverse her native, Indian villages. It is there, he asserted, that the mysticism, so inherent in Mexico, ran best be apprehended. Mrs. G*id Butler Jameson presided at the \nner.
POLITICAL GANG MURDERS GERMAN LEADERS
Notables Marked for Death by Terrorists, Who Escape Without Penalty^
BY MILTON BRONNER Furop.an Managrr, NfA BERLIN, May 3—Chicago and other American cities may have t ieir bloody gang murders as bootleggers and racketeers kill off one another, but post-war Germany has experienced for thirteen years a kind of political gang war which make the record of the United States insignificant in comparison. In Germany, where political battles have lyen fought with bullets as well as ballots ever since Kaiser Wilhelm was overthrown, more than 500 persons nave been slain in political feud. Victims have ranged from the small fry to high public officials. The recent attempt on th* life of Dr. Hans Luther, head of the German reichsbank, has directed attention to the long list of cnme3 resulting from political feuds. Dr. Luther luckily escaped death, the would-be killer's bullet merely wounding him in the hand The assailant was a wellknown German economist, who opposed Dr. Luther s iron fiscal decrees. The poltical murders In Germany are not the work of isolated cranks. They are carefully planned crimes by various secret organizations. In some cases, the “vengeance courts" of the secret organizations first “try" and '‘convict" a man selected for assassination and then send a representative to kill him. Usually, the victim is a political enemy or some former member of their own organization who has been denounced as a “traitor.” The blot on Germany and the German courts is that in all the thirteen years none of the murders committed has been punished by the death or even the life imprb.onment of any of the assassins. In many cases it has been reported that no clew could be found to the killers. In many more cases, where men have been arrested for the crime, they have been acquitted. In a few cases, they have been given nominal sentences of from one to three years’ imprisonment
ACT TO STOP OIL 'DUMPING' Reward for Information Is Posted by Committee. Announcement of a reward for information on gasoline or oil "dumping" was made today by the Indiana gasoline tax evasion committee, of which H. D. Rauch. 5 East Market street, is chairman. The committee is composed of representatives of large oil companies who are seeking to stop tax evasion in the state. The reward announcement follows: "The Indiana gas tax evasion committee will pay a suitable reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of parties who dump gasoline in equipment owned and controlled by other oil companies. “The information requested should give the time and place where the illegal dumping occurs, together with the truck license number and a description of the driver. "All information so received will be treated in strictest confidence, and vigorous prosecution will be instigated where the evidence warrants such action."
JURY TO REPORT IN MIAMI LOVE TANGLE
Quits Paradise By l nited Pm* HOLLYWOOD. Mav 7. Back in Hollywood today after a trip to the south seas, Dougless Fairbanks expressed himself delighted with the carefree life of the natives. "They’re the happiest people in the world," the actor declared after his arrival from San Francisco, where he disembarked. ‘ Economic conditions have had little effect upon them. The only difference is they have quit drinking French wine and simply make their own out of oranges. “I'd like to have a little native but away back in the country, get my food out of the sea and forests end come to town on boat davs only. That's the wav to live!" Mary Pickford met her husband m San FYancisco.
DECLARES TAX SLASH WOULD AID BUSINESS James E. Fischer Visions Results of 10 Per cent Cut. Business activity can be restored by reducing cost of government, James E. Fischer, publicity chairman of the speakers’ bureau, Marion County Association for Tax Reduction, said Friday night at a meeting of the South Meridian Street Cine Club in Druids’ hall. "High taxes are striking a*stag--1 gering blow at business and undermining the foundation of prosperity,” he declared. "If the American people could save 10 per cent of their present tax burden, it would turn bach into business of the nation more than four million dollars every working dav.” He pointed out that 20 cents of every earned dollar is diverted to government! cost. Three Face Dry Act Charge A man and two women face blind tiger charges today after police raided a home at 421 East Ninth j street, claiming they seized 200 quarts of home brew. Those held are Lawrence Meyers. 37; his wife, Mabel. 43, and Mrs. Peggy Walker. 38, all of Ute East Ninth street Jtd- [ dress. '
and usually have been freed long i Bavarian parliament) he was shot before their time was up. and killed S One of these assassins is at j The assassin was condemned to Jr present an elected deputy to the j death, but this quickly was com- y Ww Reichstag—a member of the Nazi muted to life imprisonment. * ■ ■ . ~mf t How strenuous this sentence Wf party. m a a was can be seen from the * act that T J , . he was allowed to go to his es-
and usually have been freed long before their time was up. One of these assassins is at present an elected deputy to the Reichstag—a member of the Nazi party. * * a THE political murders started just as soon as the revolution made a clean sweep of the monarchy and the petty rulers. On Jan. 15. 1919, Dr. Karl Liebknccht and Rosa Luxemburg, leaders of the Communists, were arrested in Berlin. On Jan. 16 Licbknecht was shot and killed "while trying to escape." Luxemburg was ‘ lynched.’’ Everybody in Germany knows they were murdered. Nobody ever was arrested for the crime. Kurt Eisner was the Communist president of the repubi lie in Bavaria. On Feb. 21, 1919, when he was on his way to the Landtag (the upper house of the
BOY. 5, TUMBLES IN WELL, GRABS PIPE
Pluck in Holding to Refuge Saves Lad From Plunge Into Water. James Mains. 5, moved into his new home today and nearly lost his life. Only his pluckiness and a pipe that protruded from a cisteru which contained six feet of water saved the boy from drowning. Janies didn't want to be in the way while his mother was arranging furniture in their home at 1506 West New* York street. She granted him permission to take a hammer and play in the backyard. Janies’ hammer exploration took him to the cover on an old cistern. He beat on the planks with the hammer and one of them became loosened. Then James made his mistake. He leaned froward on the loose plank to wield his hammer at an old nail on another part of the cover. The loose plank turned under his weight and hurled the child into the cistern. Mrs. Lucy Page, 1461 West New* York street, had been watching her neighbor's son bang his hammer on
State Contends Writer Shot to Death in Bed by Australian Flier. By l 'ailed Prrtt MIAMI, Fla., May 7—The Dade county grand jury will report Monday in its investigation of first degree murder charges against Caplain W. N. Lancaster. British flier, in the death of Haden Clarke, Vernon Hawthorne, state's attorney, told the United Press today. Clarke was shot to death in the bed he occupied with Lancaster in a sleeping porch at the bungalow home of Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Miller. Australian woman flier, Clarke's intended bride, and Lancaster's flying partner for the last five years. Haw’thorne said he learned that Lancaster had been a guest at an El Paso (Tex.) hotel before he went to St. Louis, where evidence indicated he purchased a gun which killed Clarke a few* days later. An excerpt from the flier's diary concerning his stay in El Paso was quoted by Hawthorne as follows: “Wired Chubbie (Mrs. KeithMiller) every cent I could raise. It leaves me broke, but God may provide. How to get out of the hotel is a problem. Why no news iYom Chubbie? “4 a. m. I have been trying to telephone Chubbie. No reply. Why? I'll die with nervous worry.” Although Mrs. Keith-Miller has contended she and Lancaster were “good friends, nothing more," Hawthorne has said letters written between them and the diary indicate a deeper feeling. The state contends that a love triangle existed.
SEIZE ATTACK SUSPECT Woman Points Out Alleged Hammer Assailant on Street. Screaming hysterically, a woman ran to Traffic Patrolman Francis Logue at Pennsylvania and Market streets today pointed to a Negro as the man who attacked her with a hammer. Logue arrested Lucien Starks of 218 1 - Anderson street, who is held on a vagrancy charge under high bond. The woman is Mrs. Lillian Manthey, 32. of 419 East Fifteenth street. She suffered two scalp wounds at her home early Thursday morning when a Negro attempted to attack her. He was armed with a hammer, which he left behind after a it Biggie with Mrs. Man they.
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Bavarian parliament) he was shot and killed The assassin was condemned to death, but this quickly was com- , muted to life imprisonment. How strenuous this sentence was can be seen from the fact that he was allowed to go to his esstate to superintend the work there. Later he was released and today is prominent in the politics of the extreme Right. The mass of Germans shrugged their shoulders over these killings. because, after all, the victims were Communists. But the murderers of the Right soon sought higher game. a a a . DR. KARL GAREIS, a Socialist leader in the Bavarian Land.tag. was in the black books of the secret organizations. He had tried to probe into the secret places where the organizations had guns and ammunition hidden.
the cistern top. She heard the boy scream as he fell into the cistern. Running to a filling station av 1501 West New York street. Mrs. Page summoned Ralph Kelsch, operator. Grabbing a ladder, Kelsch lowered it into the cistern. His intention was to go down the ladder and rescue the boy. But there was no need. James was climbing the ladder. "Well, here I am," the boy said. "I grabbed hold of a pipe ‘ down there and wouldn't let go." At city hospital James was wrapped in a blanket. "I'm all right, but I sure got a mouthful of dirty water," he said. "I cried when I was down there. It seemed like I just had to cry while I was holding to that pipe.” MORON ROONDOP ON 30 Degenerates Nabbed in Nurse Slayer Hunt. By Timet Special TOLEDO. May 7.—A wholesale roundup of degenerates was in progress today as police redoubled their efforts to capture the murderer of Miss Winifred Rafferty, 22, whose mutilated body was found early Friday, a short distance from the hospital where she was employed as a dietitian. Thirty suspects were marked for questioning and eight of these after being interrogated, were released. CLERGYMEN SEE NEED PROBE IN MINE AREA Return From Kentucky Convinced of Liberties Violation. By United Brest NEW YORK, May 7.—Clergymen, representing a group of New York pastors seeking a congressional investigation of the southeastern Kentucky mine fields, returned here today from Pineville. Ky., declaring themselves still firmly convinced of the need for the inquiry. The committee consisted of the Rev. Rankin Barnes, executive secretary of the department of Christian social service of the Protestant Episcopal church; the Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological seminary; th# Rev. Cameron Hall, pastor of Christ Presbyterian church, and the Rev. William B. Spofford. executive secretary of the Church League for industrial democracy. "After our visit to Bell county, Kentucky, we still are of the opinion that such an investigation should be made. We are convinced tha: there have been widespread violations of civil liberties and that no adequate steps have been taken to bring the prepetrators thereof to justice,” their statement said. CARTOON ‘FIXES’ COAL MAN’S PARKING TICKET Drawing Shows Motorist Pleading With Cop, as Wife Shops. When Carl J. Castleman, Mishawaka (Ind.) coal dealer attended a convention here this week, he violated the overtime parking ordinance. He had to return to his business and left the stacker with the clerk of a downtown hotel. Today, Chief Mike Morrissey received a letter from him. Castleman admitted the law violation, but inclosed a magazine cover. The cover drawing showed a motorist pleading with a cop not to give him a sticker. The motorist's wife was shown in a shop, trying on dozens of hats. “Perhaps this will make you understand that I want to be square about that sticker," Castleman wrote. Morrissey said he will answer Castleman, absolving him from blame.
Dr. Hans Luther, head of the German reichsbank and recent victim of an attempted political assassination, is shown at the right, while above are three others who have been murdered in Germany's long list of killings. Left to right are Walter Rathenau, Kurt Eisner and “Red Rosa" Luxemburg. The sketch shows the murder of Rathenau, into whose car slayers tossed a hand grenade after they had riddled him with bullets.
On June 10, 1921, as he was on his way home, he was shot to death. Nothing ever was done about it. The Erzberger case is notorious. Matthias Erzberger was the leader of the Catholic Centre party. During the World war he worked for peace and. as secretary of state, conducted the armistice ne-
JOAN CRAWFORD IS PLOT VICTIM Man Held for Questioning in Extortion Case. By United Prett LOS ANGELES. May 7.—A young man whose identity was not revealed was held in technical cus- | tody today, pending investigation of an asserted extortion plot against Joan Crawford, motion picture star. Investigators for the district attorney’s office visited the United Artists studio yesterday afternoon, it was revealed, and were said to have engaged the suspect in a conversation which was recorded on a dic‘n phone. The man later was placed in custody by Blancy Matthews, assistant district attorney. It was understood he had come here recently li'om Washington, D. C. District Attorney Buron Fittis said regarding the case: 4 FYom the report of the investigator it is difficult to tell just what he wanted. The dictaphone record is indistinct, but the man apparently is a crank over acting in pictures and attempted to force Miss Crawford to get him a job." MUNCIE MAN SEEKING LEADERSHIP OF G. A. R. James Bowden in Letter Tells of Hi# War Record. Indiana G. A. R. post commanders have received a circular letter from James Bowden. Muncie, announcing his candidacy for state commander. The ne\\ commander will be elected at the annual G. A. R. encampment at Richmond, Ind., the week of June 19. Bowden sets out his Civil war career as follows: "I served in the Eleventh mounted infantry when I was but 14, sent to Camp Carington, Indianapolis, remained there about four weeks, then was mustered in the United States service on my birthday which made me 15 and sent right away to the front, and served to the end of the war. “I had six older brothers in the Civil war, besides myself, fighting against every relation we had they were all slave holders in the Rebel army. “I am opposed to the moving of our headquarters from the statehouse, and I am opposed to any tampering w’ith our state organization which might be the ruin of it.’’ ELECTION ON PROGRAM Professor Carscallen to Preside Over Mathenjatical Session. Business session and election of officers were slated today for the annual meeting of the Indiana section, Mathematical Association of America, at Butler university. Professor G. E. Carscallen of Wabash, retiring section head, was to preside during the election of officers and was to speak later on "The Pathology of Mathematics." A preliminary dinner was held Friday night at the North M. E. church.
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Automobile# reported to police ss stolen belong to. Morris Bernard. 28H Ruckle street, apartment No. 3, Buick sedan, hom 2811 Ruckle street. Joe Coppa. 444 North Capitol avenue. Ford coupe. 29-670 Florida, from Michigan street and Capitol avenue. Nellie Cochran. 1043 St. Peter street. Studebaker sedan. 128-192, from Technical high school. Elmer Barnes. 2410 North Sherman drive. Chevrolet coach, 64-S7B, from 300 North Meridian street. George Branham 1131 Applegate street. Ford coach 69 ‘H, from Prospect end Shelbv streets. Herman R. Fletcher. 1132 North New Jersey street.. Nash coups. 994-939, from 1132 North New Jersey street.
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Stolen automobiles found br police belong to: Alfred L. Reed, 2*60 Lowell avenue. Chevrolet sedan, automobile stripped of Ures. found seven miles cast of cit* limits on Raymond street. Mrs. Vivian McCoy. New Augusta, ini.. Petri coupe. loux- at 419 North FtaaajrF raaia street.
gotiations on Germany's behalf and signed Its terms. In 1919 he became finance minister of the republic. The monarchists never torgave him for signing the armistice. He became a marked man. On Jan. 26. 1920. as Erzberger was leaving the courthouse In Berlin, where he w r as plaintiff in
Study Shots Marble Players Should Take Their Time in Picking ’Em.
BY JOHN JEFFRIES National Marble Champion A MARBLE tournament is no place for a blind man. Hang on to this, and don't forget it. Steady eyes and careful picking of shots count. The player who rushes to the ring, kneels and
shoots without looking nevei has been and never will be a champion. A real champion will study the layout of the marbles before he shoots. He will walk around the ring at least once, and maybe twice or three times, to discover the various combinations of shots
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that may be made. Play slowly. Don't forget one shot may be the difference between defeat and a wonderful trip to Ocean City, N. J., this summer as the marble champion of Indianapolis. Look the ring over Never shoot at ONE marble when you can get an angle shot that will let you shoot at TWO. That week at Ocean City is well w'orth winning, and don't forget it! Next I’m going to tell you about clothes—yes, they have their part in tournament play, too. CHICAGOAN IS OUT OF DIPLOMATIC SERVICE Captain Gross' Domestic. Scandal Blamed for Separation. By United Prrtn WASHINGTON, May 7.—The state department announced today that Captain Christian Channing Gross of Chicago, former secretary of legation at Ottawa. Canada, has been separated from the diplomatic service. Gross recently was involved in a lawsuit with his w T ife concerning the paternity of her child and its rights to an inheritance. The case was tried in Chicago. The state department declined to say whether Gross had resigned or had been expelled by the foreign sendee personnel board. SENATE PASSES HALE BILL FOR BIG NAVY Favors Building Increase, but There Are No Funds. By United Preu WASHINGTON. May 7. The senate has declared itself on record in favor of building the United States navy up to the maximum limits of the Washington ana London treaties. By 44 to 21: it passed late Friday the Hale bill “authorizing’’ construction of such a navy. But the measure provides no funds for building of actual warships, and in view of the need for stringent economy, it is not expected that any money will be appropriated for this purpose. PLANS VOTE CONTEST Commissioner Candidate to File Illegal Voting Suit. Contest suit alleging illegal voting and fraud will be filed by Ernest K. Marker, apparently defeated in his race for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner from the Second district. Clinton H. Givan, attorney for Marker, said the suit will be filed as soon as the vote in the Tuesday primary election is announced officially. Unofficial figures show Marker lost to Walter C. Boetgher by 189 votes.
a libel action, he was shot twice. The man who did the deed got only eighteen months In prison. Erzberger recovered and. to complete his cure, went to a resort in the Black forest. Here on Aug. 26, 1921, while out walking, he was set upon by two young ruffians, who shot him twice. As he lay on the ground fatally wounded, they pumped two more shots into him to make sure of the Job. mam EQUALLY" notorious is the political assassinations of another of Germany s leading statesmen—Walter Rathenau. Before the war he was one of the greatest industrialists in Germany. During the war he was called to high sendee by the kaiser. Rathenau had pointed out that the war promised to be a long one, and it would be necessary to conserve all materials like copper, rubber and cotton, for the army. Thereupon, the kaiser and his generals made him controller of such supplies. In 1922 the chancelor made him minister of foreign affairs. As such, he came into conflict with the extremists of the right, because he enunciated the policy of reconciliation with France. On June 24. 1922. as he was riding in an automobile from his villa In Grunewald to the foreign office, a car. filled with assasssins, drove alongside, shots were poured Into the doomed man and, to complete the work, a hand grenade was thrown into his car. One man implicated was killed by the police during an interchange of shots. Another killed himself. A third was given fifteen years' imprisonment. Dr. Luther, the latest victim of an attack, is one of the most distinguished men in Germany. He was chancellor for a time in 1925, and also in 1926. For many years he was the successful and progressive mayor of the great town of Essen, in the Ruhr. As chancellor, he signed the celebrated Locarno pact. He is at present president of the Reichsbank, the national bank of Germany.
FINISH OF VOTE COUNT IS NEAR Larrabee Is Holding Lead Over Ellis. The primary election canvassing board is expected to finish its official tabulation of Marion county voting today or Sunday. The official vote, tabulated unofficially, shows Congressman William H. Larrabee with 351 votes more than Willis Ellis of Anderson, in their disputed race for the Eleventh district congressional nomination. The canvassing board reported that numerous mistakes had been found on the tally sheets, but that they were not expected to alter results. Prostcutor Herbert E. Wilson In a statement Friday lauded the election commissioners for the efficient and swift conduct of the election. DECLARES PEACE BASED ON TOLERANCE SOUGHT Castle Explains American Aim.# at Geneva Conference. By United Prrtt ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. May 7. The world is striving toward a peace based on tolerance and good will. Acting Secretary of State William R. Castle Jr., told the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church last night. "What we want," Castle declared, "is a peace which comes of tolerance and understanding of the ideas of every honest man, of faith in the good-will of nations." He described the aims of the American delegation to the Geneva conference as seeking the reduction of armed forces to a minimum, with their retention only for police purposes and purely defensive measures. FINDS AUTO RIDDLED Owner Returns to Parked Car, Count# Six Bullet Hole#. Six bullets were fired into the body of an automobile Friday night, the owner, Charles Swinney, R. R. 3. Box 877, reported to police today. He left the car in front of a garage at 22 west Henry street, while engaged in his work as driver of a freight truck operated from the garage. He told police he was unable to determine whether the car had been driven after he parked it. MAYOR'S 0. K. ON BEER Seattle Executive Won’t Bother Home Brew, Wine, He Announces. By United Prtit SEATTLE, May 7.—By way of bringing back the good old days, Mayor-Elect John F. Dore has promised that he will not bother residents who want to “make a little beer or wine in their homes.” He also ,iald he favored smoking on rear sections of street cars, to increase patronage on municipal line*
ADAPTED TO ODD SUMS
Usually the word investment bring# to mind u#e of sums of money. A single dollar at work is an investment. a mvings account you can put a single dollar just as well as you can a large sum. It is the ability to employ odd sums that makes a savings account a preferred investment. A savings account draws interest.
THE INDIANA TRUST frill,. JiSK.'Si $2,000,000.00 THE OLDEST TKUST COMPANY IN INDIANA
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CRITICS IGNORED AS KIN GO ON U. S, PAY ROLL Much Stamina Displayed in Clinging to Family Racket. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Ynlttd Prru Staff Correspondent (Coovrtfht. mi. br United Prew WASHINGTON, May 7—Congressmen may be accused by some critics of being easily frightened, but they can display a good deal of stamina when it comes to clinging to the family pay roll racket. The ease of Representative Joe H. Manlove tßep., Mo.) has nti traded much attention in his dis- ! trict. Through two campaigns he has been criticised for employing his wife as a clerk, but despite this, she still remains on the house pay roll at $291 a month. “That is a matter than has been discussed thoroughly In my district in two campaigns when my opponents published It and put out thousands of copies," Manlove said today, "There is practically nobody in my district, however, who does not understand the situation. "Mrs. Manlove is a very highly educated woman, and always has helped me. I am permitted only i two clerks, and there have been I times when it was necessary for me to use from three to seven or eight clerks. I will spend the equivalent of Mrs. Manlove s salary on the average on extra clerks. In some years I spend more.” Ignore Nepotism Law* Representative Manlove said he had three regular employes in his , office now besides his wife, and he was obliged to have two or three others to work at night occasionally. Asked what required so mueh office work when many congressmen manage to exist with one or two clerks on active duty, Manlove said he encouraged correspondence with his district. Many members continue the employment of wives, children, ln-lawa, or political workers despite state laws against nepotism. A congressman is regarded as a federal officer, and Ls paid from federal Instead of state funds, so that legally they are under no compulsion to observe state laws In this respect. Ijovalty Is Necessary For instance, Utah enacted a law a year ago against employment of relatives by state officials. Yet three of the four members of the Utah delegation continue to employ relatives on the congressional pay roll. Senator Reed Smoot, who formerly had at least two members of his family on the pay roll, claims to have none now. One reason advanced by thpso who insist on employing relatives is that unquestioned loyalty is essential in a congressman's offirr. He must let his secretary handle much of the correspondence with his district. The story is told of a disloyal secretary who trapped a southern congressman by waiting a letter which the congressman signed without reading. The letter was sent to a Negro of the district inviting him to visit the representative’s home, and have dinner on his next trip to Washington. Publication of this letter resulted in defeat of the congressman in the next election. NEWSPAPER AID IN BABY HUNT REVEALED United Press Official Tells of Help Given I.fnflbergli. By United Brett COLUMBIA, Mo., May 7.—Discussion of the Lindbergh kidnaping and a demonstration oi the use of airplanes in circulating newspapers ended Missouri universtiy's twentythird annual journalism week. Robert J. Bender, vice-president and general news manager of the United Press, spoke before 730 persons last night at the annual banquet, asserting that “Colonel Lindbergh and the press of America, with rare exceptions, have been fighting shoulder to shoulder in the pffort to effect the return of tb* Lindbergh bnby.’’ James V. Pierson, aviation editor of the Detroit News, described in his address the effective use of airplane transportation by his newspaper. To demonstrate, he distributed copies of the News, printed at noon Friday and flown here. RAISE $37,000 FUND FOR JEWISH WELFARE Drive to Continue; Final Report Will Be Dur May 16. With $37,000 already raised, workers of the Jewish Welfare Fund will continue their drive unofficially and hold a jubilation meeting at Kirshbaum Center, May 16, as a final report meeting. The fund goal Is $53,000. G. A. Efroymson has been reelected president of the Jewish Federation of Indianapolis, it was announced Friday. Other officers were re-elected. They are: Dr. Harry A. Jacobs, first vice-president; Samuel Mueller, second vice-president; Edward A. Kahn, treasurer; Mrs. Louis Wolf, financial secretary, and Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, recording secretary.
