Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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FORD 69 TODAY: CELEBRATES BY STAYING ON JOB Health Perfect, He Says in Interview: Visions Bet-* ter Times. By t mini Prrss DETROIT, July 30.—His bronzed face and agate grey eyes vibrating perfect health, ’ Henry Ford celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday today, “just like every other day, keeping busy,’’ “My health," he told a group of newspaper men, in an informal birthday interview in one of the offices at his engineering laboratory, “is too stale a subject to discuss. I believe people stay healthy, thinking and working all. the time. “I haven't been forced to bed except twice, that I can recall, and then it was a dislocated rib and a sprained ankle." "I’ll say this about these socalled 'hard times’,” Ford continued. “People are thinking more and more about helping themselves. When they get to that condition, they will find people more willing to give them help. “It's true that the world has got mass production out of suffering of many people. It was necessary because before the things the people really wanted could be produced. “I think that the day is approaching fast now, though, when j v;e can distribute our industry to small towns, giving them self support. “I don’t mean by that that mass production will stop, for it won't. But improvements in our machinery and inventions are removing the necessity for such concentration of man power." DAIRY PRICES STAGING RISE OF THEIR OWN Eggs and Butter Join Livestock Market’s Trend Upward. By United Press CHICAGO, July 30.—The farm wife who depends on a flock of chickens to fill her pockctbook with j spending money today received some of the cheer that lately has come to her husband who raises cattle and hogs. The optimism that has been spreading in a gradually widening stream through the commodity markets, today had struck the exchanges dealing in eggs and butter. Prices for October eggs stood at the highrst levels of the year with trading in the Chicago mercantile i exchange at the heaviest volume of! 1932. November butter prices had made a similar recovery from the! depression levels of recent weeks. IMBIBERS IN ALABAMA STICK TO MOONSHINE 90 Per Cent of Liquor Consumption Is of Native ‘Corn.’ Bn 1 nitrd Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 30. North Alabama whisky consumption is 90 per cent or more of the •’moonshine’’ corn variety, according to Deputy Prohibition Administrator Sol W. Miller. Most drinking folk in this region, the prohibition chief said, shun expensive “bottled-in-bond" liquor because they have found they can get much more “kick" at less expense from the native "corn.” “Drinking people.” he asserted, "simply have come around to a i view they might have long I before prohibition—they drink for j the effect of the alcohol only. "Os course, there are a few' who drink for the taste. They continue to pay exorbitant prices for their liquor." WIN CONTEMP T~~ A PPEAL Supreme Court Overrules Henry Circuit Judge in Fining Pair. Fines and imprisonment, can not he resorted to by courts as purely punitive measures ,in civil cases under a decision of the supreme court written by Justice Walter E. Treanor. The ease involved the fine for contempt imposed by Henry circuit court on Sumner B. Denny and his son, Harold, for operating a Muncie bus line in violation of an injunction. The high court decision Friday held it is the duty of courts in connection with injunctions in civil suits, to protect the rights of the person procuring the injunction, and not to punish the violator. SLUGGER INJURES BOY Peeps Into Tent; Struck on Head; Two Men Claim Ignorance. While’ peeking into a tent at the East Tenth street carnival Friday night, Milton Seitz. 15, of 602 North Colorado avenue, was struck on the head oy an unidentified person, incurring a wound which required three stitches to close. Police questioned Robert Merwin, managing the show occupying the tent, and Edward Roth, carnival manager, but they asserted they knew nothing about the affair. HURT IN CAR CRASH Murray Satz Suffers Injuries to Back and Ribs. Murray Satz, 42, of 5507 Carrollton avenue, was taken to city hospital today suffering from back injuries and broken ribs received in an automobile accident at Fifty-sixth and Meridian street. A car driven north on Meridian street by J. F. Kurfess Jr. of Louisville. collided with Satz automobile. Kurfess. who was not held, told police Satz failed to stop at the intersection. THREE KILLED IN BLAST Dies as Explosion Demolishes Mixer at Hercules Powder Company. By United Press GIANT, cal.. Jqly 30.—Three men were killed today'"*hen an explo•eion demolished a mixing plant of the Hercules Powder Company.

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LESLIE TO SIGN GAS TAX BILL Governor Also Will Approve Auto License Measure. Governor Harry G. Leslie will sign legislation bills calling for a fifty-fifty split of the state gasoline tax and automobile license fees funds between the state highway department and cities, counties and towns. The funds now aggregate $24,000,000. Although the bill has not yet reached his office, since final passage in the senate Friday, it was predicted today by attaches there is no chance for executive veto of the measures. The anticipated 1933 state highway commission program will be cut about 30 per cent .by the reduced budget, according to Ralph Simpson, assistant state highway director. A reduced construction program looms, with seasonable mileage cut from 500 to about 300 miles. The bills, which permit erasure of county and township road levies, were termed “the most popular of the special session and the one point of general agreement" by the large majorities in both houses. None of the bills passed this week have reached the Governor's office, it was announced. They must be enrolled after final passage and signed by presiding officers of both houses while in session. CIRCLE PLEA IS UP Parking Ban May Be Lifted by City Council. Petition of downtown business men that the Monument Circle parking ban be removed, as a barrier to business, will be considered by city council Monday night. The petition, submitted to the safety board two weeks ago. was sent by the board to the council without recommendation. Orfiinance recodifying the city market ordinance and embodying recommendations made several months ago by the market investigating committee, will not be presented Monday night in order to permit further study by safety board members.

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This i* the fifth of twenty daily article* explaining- the new federal taxes. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Sen ice Writer (Copvrisht. 1932. NEA Service, Inc.l EVERY time you toast a slice of bread on your electric toaster, heat the coffee in your electric perculator, turn on your AC radio set, sweep your rugs with the vacuum

cleaner, turn on the lights in your home, or do any of the countless other things that household elec- j tricity accomplishes in this modern age you are helping Uncle Sam balance hs 1932 budget. If you awn an electric clock, you are paying taxes twenty-four hours a day—all of which may seem perfectly shocking, but it is merely a part of your “current” expenses. For there now is a tax of 3 per cent of the cost on all electricity used for domestic and commercial purposes, designed to yield an additional $39,000,000 for the government this year. The law says it must be paid by the consumer. m m Collection of this tax, howeve* need cause you no worry. Your electric company and Uncle Sam attend to that lor you.

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Flays Senator on Delay of Dry Law Repeal Bill

Nejdl Accuses Shull of Trying to Thwart Vote on Act. Charging Senator Lonzo L. Shull 1 Rep.), Sharpsville. is pursuing "dilatory tactics in an effort to prevent repeal of the Wright bone dry law," senators interested in passage of the bill were preparing today to force it from the committee. Shull, who is a dry, is chairman of the committee on public morals, where the Weiss repeal measure has been since its passage in the house early this wees. In addition Shull has failed to bring in any report on the Perkins resolution memorializing congress to repeal the eighteenth amendment. His position regarding the repeal bills was assailed by Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep.), Whiting, the only senator who voted against the Wright law when it was passed in 1925. "Dry or not dry, Shull has no right to thwart honest action on bills assigned to his committee,” Nejdl said. "When the six-day limit is up Wednesday and the repeal bill from the house is not placed 'before the senate by the committee on public morals, I shall move that it be brought in. “In my opinion the opponents of Wright law repeal know that they face defeat and are trying to save the obnoxious law by improper methods." MRS. ANNA M. ARENS CLAIMED BY DEATH Riles Slated Monday for Head of Electrical Firm. Funeral services for Mrs. Anna M. Arens, widow of Herman J. Arens, and president of the H. J. Arens Cos., Inc., distributors of electrical equipment, will be held Monday at 9 at the St. Joan of Arc Catholic church. Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery. Mrs. Arens died. Friday afternoon at her home, R. R. 17, after a short illness caused by heat last week. Since the death of her husband three years ago, she .had managed affairs of the company. A daughter. Mrs. Marie A. Leonard. wife of Dr. Thomas Leonard, and a grandson, Herman, survive.

The company will add 3 per cent to your monthly bill and pay this to the tax collector. If you buy electricity at a flat rate, you must pay the tax whether you use the current pr not, since the levy is based on rate instead of on consumption. In many cities, the average houseIhold electric bill is about $5 a

month. This means a tax of 15 cents a month, or SI.BO a year. n m a THE law says the tax applies to electrical energy “for domestic or commercial consumption," which means homes, stores, etc. , It exempts electrical energy furnished for "industrial consumption." Such exemptions include electrcity used for manufacturing, mining, refining, building construction, railroads, telephone, telegraph ind radio facilities, etc. Newspapers officially are classed as industrial enterprises and therefore are exempt from the tax. Also exempt is electricity used by the federal government, states, cities, counties and towns. Next: Bank efcecks and safety .deposit boxes.

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D.S.O. toD.D.S. Tooth-Yanker Proves Real Hero; Operates on Giant Alligator.

By t nitrd Press Chicago, July 30.— Dr. j. s. Lippert inserted a two-loot pair of forceps into the mouth of an alligator today, clamped them tightly on an infected tooth, ~nd yanked. Spectators on the world’s fair grounds scattered. The 'gator lashed the earth. But Dr. Lippert, who has handled tough customers before, didn't bat an eye. "I’m a painless dentist,” said he, looking his patient in the eye, “and this isn’t going to hurt one bit.” He yanked again and out came the tooth. “That will be $3, please,” said the doctor, but the ’gator, listening not, slip back into his pool to cool his tingling jaw. Fair officials had sent a hurry call for a stout-hearted dentist with bulging biceps to extract the tooth which had made their reptile too peevish for public display. Dr. Lippert was the only dentist answering the call. CHECK TRUCK SIZES One Bus Found Too Big, State Aids Report. Maintenance men from the state highway department, joined with police and sheriff's forces in a drive on overweight trucks and busses in Irvington Friday night. Sixty trucks were checked and all found within the Indiana law, it was reported today by A. H Hinkle, chief of maintenance. Out of five busses cheeked, one was overwide. It belonged to the Great Eastern Short Line operating between Indianapolis and Cincinnati and the driver was held, Hinkle said. Similar drives will be carried on nightly for some time. ALLEGEDJJOINT’ RAIDED Police Claim Brew Seizure After Complaint of Robbery. Acting on information supplied by a man who said he was slugged and robbed Friday after visiting booze joints, police raided one blind tiger, confiscating seventy-six quarts of home brew. Other raids are contemplated. Arthur McKinney, 65.. told police he was slugged and robbed of sl7 early Friday morning in the 600 block South Arlington avenue while on his way home. The home of Paul Black, 1421 DeLoss street, was raided and the beer found, according to police. goLd rush is started Jobless in Ecuador Begin Trek to Andes After Nugget Is Found. By I'nited Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. July 30. Unemployed started a gold rush today to the river Napo valley, east of the Andes, after reports that a prospector had brought a five-pound nugget to Quito worth $2,000.

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HEBRIOT DENIES 0. S. IS TARGET OF DEBT PLOT We-Need Have No Fear of Franco-British Pact, Says Premier. Frinuarri Harriot, premier of France and a dominant figure in world debt and disarmament negotiation*, apeak* out in the following exrluaive interview granted the United Free* to clear up doubt concerning the attitude of Europe toward America and war debt*. This interview, and the United Press interview earlier this week with Chancellor Frans Von Tapen of Germany, enabled The Time* to peesent the view* of two ouvtanding European leader* on the vital question* now facing their nations and the world. BY HUGH BAILLIE Executive Vice-President of the I ni.ed Press i (Copyright. 1932. bv United Press) PARIS, July 30.—America need have no fear that a European bloc lias been formed to drive a bargain with the United States on payment of war debts, Premier Edouard Herriot said today. The French premier consented to clear the clouds of misunderstanding which have hovered over the Lausanne reparations settlement

and supplemental agreements as they affect the U n i t ed States. In doing so, he said; 1. The impression that France has an agreement to act jointly with Britain in dealing with war debts owed the United States is false. 2. The Lau-

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sanne settlement is provisional within the framework of a world settlement of the question of international debts. 3. So far as Herriot is concerned, no further move will be made regarding the debt situation until after the presidential election in the United States. In his office at the Qua! D'Orsay, where the walls are hung with costly tapestries, Herriot himself offered a contrast with the gold and crystal atmosphere. America Need Not Fear He is sturdy and vigorous, a plain French citizen, who puffed hard on his pipe as he. spoke with Gallic earnestness to the writer and manager of the United Press bureau in Paris. Harriot was informed that many conflicting reports regarding the j Lausanne agreement had been cir- j culated abroad, and that the im- i pression prevailed in some quarters j that France had an agreement with : Britain to act jointly in dealing j with the United States on War debts. America has no need to fear a European bloc to drive such a bargain, the premier replied with great emphasis, deploring the false statements attributed to him. He emphasized that there is no such agreement between Britain and France. The so-called “gentleman's agreement” at Lausanne, he explained, was nothing more than an understanding that the reparations settlement would not be effective, that sacrifices to which France agreed will not be made, unless there also is an agreement among Fiance, Britain and the United States regarding the debt payments to America. Long Hard Road Back There is no agreement or understanding, he emphasized, that! France and Britain shall present a united front to the United States or that a debt agreement may not be made between Britain and the United States entirely independent of France. Herriot said that, so far as he is concerned, no further move will be ! made regarding the debt situation until after the United States presidential election. He explained in vigorous language that the feeling that European nations are presenting the United States with an “accomplished fact” on the debts, is based on misconception. The Lausanne proceedings, he said, were in line with what was tin- ' derstood to be the desire of the j United States that Europe put its j house in order before any change j could be made in the debt settle- I ment terms. Europe's way back to normalcy is | a long road and for the journey, ! much hard labor is required, the j premier said in letting it be known : he would remain at his desk all; summer, without a vacation. RICH WOMAN SUICIDE Divorced Wife of Famed Financier Ends Life by Poison. By United Press NEW YORK, July 30.—Mrs. Thereas Kann, divorced wife of Captain James J. Kann, grandson of a founder of the New York Stock j Exchange and himself an interna- | tionally known financier, committed 1 suicide by poison Friday night. FIFI DORSAY IS SIGNED Actress, Who Broke Fox Contract, Will Make Two Pictures. By United Press , HOLLYWOOD. July 30.—Fifi j Dorsay, who broke her contract with Fox a year or so ago, was! signed by I. E. Chadwick for two pictures. [

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FUTURE AT STAKE Court to Decide Girl's Life

i $ /■' ' * ''■ % - .: .i j f iji VX7-AYS of the world moved , ’ * slowly today for a 6-year- ; old girl who clung to her mother W while she awaits a court rulin2 f j and medical science to determine 0U ' her future. f* For Barbara Griffin is the cen- fVv ter of a court battle to prove that * 15^* Howard Griffin, 319 Cleveland ' htjsband of the But it is that support, sought I v*. by Mrs. Margaret Griffin Horn. I F® ' *< j; 3525 Roosevelt avenue, which will ! y - vfW: **

. TTITAYS of the world moved ™ ' slowly today for a 6-year-old girl who clung to her mothpr I while she awaits a court ruling 1 and medical science to determine her future. For Barbara Griffin is the center of a court battle to prove that Howard Griffin, 319 Cleveland street, divorced husband of the i child’s mother, is Barbara’s father. Griffin has denied parentage. He alleges that since he is not the father, no law of the state of Indiana can force him to. pay for her support. But it is that support, sought by Mrs. Margaret Griffin Horn, 3525 Roosevelt avenue, which will mean much to the girl. It may mean that she will be able to finish a high school course, dress in keeping with her friends and, to some extent, be safeguarded against the world as she is reaching maturity. L. Russell Newgent, juvenile court referee, is contemplating subjecting Griffin to a blood test to determine parentage. Griffin, in his denial of parentage, asserted he would “be glad to sumbit to a blood test.” Newgent said he will decide on the blood test proposal next week. MINERS REMAIN IDLE Hundreds of Pickets Stay at Dixie Bee Shaft. By f nitrd Prrss TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 30. Union picketers were successful in preventing employes of the independently operated Dixie Bee mine, near here, from entering the shaft for the third successive day, when they turned back twenty workmen at the outskirts of Terre Haute this morning. The quiet but determined pieketers, still numbering several hundred, appeared determined to maintain their vigil indefinitely. No efforts have been made to operate any other mines in this region, and no threats of violence have been made by the picketers. SKATE 40,512 MILES Three Survivors of Field of 632 Press On. By United Press CAMDEN, N. J., July 30.—Three survivors in a field of 632 who started out from Los Angeles, four years ago to roller skate around the world, were in Camden today after having covered 40,512 miles of their journey. They are well ahead of their schedule, it having been the original plan to travel 60.000 miles in eight years. The one who succeeds in making the trip will receive a prize of $70,000. Seventy-three of the original contestants have died during the last four years. Accompanying the three skaters are two checkers w r ho are with them constantly to see that they observe the rules. They must either walk or skate or exercise at least sixteen hours a day, sleep upright in chairs, eat no meat, seafoods or dairy products, abstain from smoking, sleep at least six hours daily and swim daily. Their trip is sponsored by a film organization and a Los Angeles food expert. Bo far. they have visited thirtyfour countries. MISSING GIRL HUNTED Leaves to Answer Employment Ad; Doesn’t Return Home. Alberta Bannister, 18, of 3825 Downey avenue, was reported to police as missing today by her widowed mother, Mrs. Alleta Bannister, who said her daughter left a note Friday afternoon that she had gone to reply to an advertisement offering work.

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Mrs. Margaret Horn, her daughter, Barbara, and dower) Howard Griffin CHARGES AID PLOT Family Head Says Politics Back of Food Denial. Charges that politics is responsible for a conspiracy which is preventing a family, almost at point of starvation, from obtaining poor relief were investigated today by county commisisoners. Lynch C. Symms, 57, Negro, 2547 Northwestern avenue, made the charges in a petition filed with the beard Friday. He asked a hearing before commissioners. The petition charges conspiracy exists between Miss Hannah Noone, Center township trustee, and Frederick Eisenhut, Democratic precinct committeeman. It alleges that Miss. Patsy Valentine, Negro, investigator, visited Symms, a Republican, and asked him his politics. The petitioner alleges he later was told, May 4, 1932, by the precinct committeeman that “it will be too bad for those who vote the Republican primary and ask for poor relief” Symms declared his family had received no aid since April 15. He is the father of five motherless children and also supports five grand- j children. Miss Noone said relief to the family was halted on recommendation ; of an investigator. Bedford Attorney Kills Self By t nitrd Prrss BEDFORD. Ind., July 30.—Despondency cAer illness was blamed i today by relatives of Ray R. Boruff, 56. prominent attorney, for his sui- : cide at his home here. He shot himself.

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GERMAN VOTERS TO NAME NEW REICH SUNDAY Four Killed, Ten Wounded in Pre-Election Clashes: Truce Called. BY FREDERICK Kill United Pres* Staff Correspondent BERLIN, July 30.—Thirty-seven | million German voters will march to the polls Sunday to elect anew reichstag. They have to select their : choices from the twenty-one different tickets in the field They entered the last day of the election campaign geared to a point of excitement seldom equaled in a I country that takes its politics more ! seriously than any other nation in ; the world. Four persons were killed and ten I wounded in political clashes throughout the country today. At midnight tonight a “political truce” will be effective to last for . ten days. Order Political Truce The truce was established by an emergency decree issued by President Paul von Hindcnburg prohibiting indoor and outdoor political gathering from July 31 to Aug. 10. The last hours of the campaign before the ‘deadline’’ on political activities were featured by an attack on the Von Papen regime by exChancellor Heinrich Bruening, and an address broadcast to the United j States by the chancellor. Groups of Adolph Hitler’s brown shirts were mobilized in various parts of the country, but the move | was not considered dangerous. It is Hitler's custom to send his militia to the polls to protect voters from attacks. Among the questions the voters expected to decide were: Will the Papen-SchlPicher cabinet of aristocrats and military chiefs, resting on the authority of the president and the sword of the army, remain in power? Deny Plans for ‘Putsch* Will Hitler have an opportunity to impose militant Fascism upon the nation? Will the election produce a deadlock between Fascists and antiFascists and leave Germany a victim of civil strife? Bruening was removed from of-fice-many political quarters claim through the influence of Defense Minister General Kurt Von Schleicher—to make way for the Von Papen cabinet of lando.vners and militarists. Hitler's Munich headquarters denied reports of a contemplated "putsch" to seize power by force if the Fascists do not obtain a majority in the new reichstag. MAYOR TO GIVE SPEECH Sullivan to Be Principal Talker al Civic League Mardi Gras. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will be principal speaker tonight at the closing program of the ShermanEmerson Civic League's annual Mardi Gras. It is estimated 20,000 were at the celebration Friday night. W. W. Spencer, attorney, spoke.

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