Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1932 — Page 5

AUG. 1, 1932.

SPOKESMEN OF WHITE HOUSE RARELY SAME Privilege of Being Senate Mouthpiece Fleeting Honor. By I nitrd Cress WASHINGTON. Aug. I—The privilege of speaking informally, but authoritatively, for the White House cn the senate floor was a fleeting honor during the last session of congress just ended. Senator George H. Moses <Rep„ N. H ), scholar, wisecracker and parliamentarian extraordinary, was the spokesman during closing weeks of the session. His predecessors included Senator Frederick C. Walcott 'Rep., Conn.), Senator James E. Watson (Rep., -Ind.), the majority leader, and, occasionally, Senator Charles L. McNary <Rrp., Orel, assistant leader of senate Republicans. Walcott w'as selected by the administration to steer through the senate the Reconstruction Finance Corporation bill. It W’as to Walcott that President Hcover complained last winter that short sellers selfishly were contributing to depressed business conditions. Undone by Short Sales The complaint, specifically, was that cvry time the administration did something constructive, it was undone in a storm of short sales. Walcott started so furious a bear hunt that it seemed desirable shortly to slow the chase. His senate colleagues were anhoyel at what they believed to be Walcott's effort to curb the investigation; and he quietly was ousted from his post as master of the hounds. His White House spokesmanship ended there. Majority Leader Watson and Mr. Hoover never were political pals. Watson and Vice-President Curtis in 1928 were leaders of the “stopHoover” campaign of favorite sons. Political necessity brought the President and the senate leader together after the election. Sometimes Watson knew what the White House w’as thinking. Sometimes he didn't. Hoover Was Displeased Watson w’as chosen to manage enactment of the home loan discounty bank bill. The President was not pleased that It lay for months before congress, and was not passed until the last day of the session. Biit Watson got it through, confessing that he once had opposed it. One of the mysteries of the long session was McNary. The Oregonian is neither stand-pat nor progressive. His populartiy among his colleagues is not excelled by that of any other senator. But Mr. Hoover consistently sought advice and counsel elsewhere. Othrse desiring accurate information ot the senate’s temper consistently scught McNary during the long winter. It w f as whispered in senate corridors that the spare senator from II he west repeatedly had braved White House wrath in the early weeks of the session by fearlessly speaking his mind at the Hoover table, even when his judgment directly contradicted that of the President. MAN SLAIN: WOMAN HELD AS MURDERER Negro Is Killed at Lawn Fete; SelfDefense Is Claimed. A woman faces a murder charge today as the result of the slaying of a man early Sunday at a lawn fete at 3123 East Minnesota street. The dead man is Merle Lasw’ell. 30, Negro, 1301 Van Buren street. Mrs. Gene Lytle, 37, Negro, of the Minnesota street address, is charged with murder. Another Negro was slain over the week-end. Discharge of a shotgun shattered Lasw'el’s face and chest. Mrs. Lytle told police that Laswell refused to leave after she announced the party was over and insisted on playing a piano. She charges he attempted to atack her with a knife. {Second slaying victim was Herbert Pennick, 35, Negro, 970 Coe street, who died Sunday in city hospital of a bullet wound in the abdome.n suffered Saturday night. Lukc Robinson, 37. of 923 Darndell street, Is charged with the murder. In a death bed statement. Pennick, according to police, stated he was shot after greeting Robinson with 'Hello.” The shooting occurred near Pennick's home.

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m butler WjfflSL * \ UNIVERSITY Jt Costs per student need ||| nos exceed $275 a year *■ .;1H I| A DETAILED estimate of the annual costs for 4 students living at home in '-'I . this. city is as follows: fU" Books and Laboratory CLASSVVORK WILD BEGIN SEPTEMBER 12 in the following divisions of Jordan hall from sunset hill the university: “Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures. College of Liberal Arts and Vhilest the landslip round Sciences. it measures. College of Religion. • * u ... * „ College of Education. Towers and battlements it SPPS Division of Graduate InstrucBosomed high in tufted tion ’ trees.” Division of Evening and Ex—Milton: L’Allegro. tension Courses. Announcements for the 1932-33 school year will be sent upon request. FOR INFORMATION WRITE The President. Butler university, Indianapolis, Ind.

World Champion Typist Now Stays at Home and Enjoys Life With Baby

Doesn't Miss Her Job and Takes Pleasure in Housewife Duties. BY EVELYN SEELEY Tim** SUff Writer NEW YORK. Aug. 1. —Stella Willins, the world’s champion typist, a year ago was traveling triumphantly in Europe. Now she is the mother of a 2-month-old son, staying quietly at home. The father is Danield Adleman. an attorney, who during the years of Miss Willins’ fame was not known as her husband, but as an unnamed fiancee, who would not stand for being identified as ‘‘Mr. Stella Willins.” * Shortly after her European trip Miss Willins quit her job and settled down to being Mrs. Daniel Adleman. “I haven’t missed my job,” she said today at the Adleman apartment, in Brooklyn. “I don't think I'll ever go back. She Misses Travel “I don’t miss anythihg except perhaps the traveling around. But I couldn't do that now. because I'd be too lonesome for the baby.” “I never thought I liked babies before, but this one is the most fascinating little person I ever knew. I hate to let him out of my sight—he is so lovely.” During the former years of her marriage, Mrs. Adleman let some one else run the house and she and her husband alw’ays dined away from home. Now, in so short a time, she has become a real housekeeper. ‘‘What I learned in business has been very useful to me,” she said. "You need the same qualities in a home as in the business world. Must Use System ‘‘System—when you have a baby you simply must organize your time and have the household running like clockwork. I don't mean our life is systematized—that would be awful—but the routine of the household Is all planned out efficiently. ‘‘And poise and calm. Being trained not to lose your head. You need that even more than you do in an office, even more than in a speed test sometimes. If you go to pieces your whole house does too.” She is still, it happens, champion woman typist of the world, but that is because, due to the depression, there have been few speed tests since she pulled out of the field. Her record of 124 words a minute still holds. J, N. FEASEY DEAD Former Store Head Active Civic Worker. John N. Feasey, 74, former general manager of the New York store and active worker in church, civic and fraternal organizations, died Saturday night in his home, 2240 North Pennsylvania street. An attack of angina pectoris suffered three years ago caused the death. Born in Aylesbury, England, Mr. Feasey came to the United States when a young man. He was engaged in the dry goods business in Troy, N. Y.; New York City and Baltimore, Md., before coming to Indianapolis. He was a member of the Merchants Association, the Chamber of Commerce, First Baptist church, Pentalpha lodge No. 564. F. & A. M.; Keystone chapter No. 6. R. A. M„ and Raper commandery, Knights Templar. He was organizer and first president of the Indiana State Baptist bortherhood. a past president of the Indiana State Sunday School Association, a director of the Masonic relief board and a member of the citizens’ committee for car re-routing. Raper commandery and Pentalpha lodge will be in charge of the funeral services at 2:30 Tuesday in the First Baptist church. The Rev. O. R. McKay, assistant pastor of the chruch will aid in the rites. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. HINKLE’S MOTHER DIES Highway Superintendent Goes to Ohio for Funeral. A. H. Hinkle, state highway maintenance superintendent, left today to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Mary Nancy Hinkle, 70, who died Sunday at her home on a farm near Marion, O, A second son, Jacob, lives on the farm.

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—New York World-Telegram staff photo. Mrs. Daniel Adleman and her 2-month-old sen.

Gene Tunney’s Pledge to ‘Die for Reds’ Revealed

Helps Politician Explain Error in Oath to ‘Aid Communism.’ By Scripps-H award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—Gene Tunney has been aiding Representative A. Piatt Andrew, Republican, of Gloucester, Mass., in the latter's efforts to explain to a humorless constituency that the ‘‘oath to support communism,” which both Gene and Piatt took in Russia last year, merely was one of those screamingly funny things which happen sometimes under a misapprehension. Tunney revealed this today, following reports that Representative Andrew, a wealthy New Englander, { professor of economics, had been burned in effigy when he reached his Gloucester home after congress adjourned. The story, unfamiliar to the rest of the country, but by now a -wellknown tale in Massachusetts, apparently was related by Representative Andrew himself when he returned from a trip in Russia last year. Tunney, now mentioned as good Democratic senatorial timber from Connecticut by James Farley, Roosevelt’s campaign manager, was in a box with Representative Andrew in a Moscow theater, the story goes, when, noticing everybody standing, the two important Americans also rose to their feet. Afterward, they were informed that the leading actor had asked everybody in the theater who would die for Communism, as had the men in the play just witnessed, to stand. Tunney, wiring today, in response to a question as to his aid of the congressman i n the latter’s fight for renomination in the Massachusetts primary in September, said: “The good congressman economist jokingly stressed the amusing experience you refer to in statement upon return last year. He was criticised severely by hard Baptist drys of Massachusetts. Naturally I supported him in humorous duel with critics. Personally looked upon the thing with merriment.” 510 ARE AT COLLEGE Fourteen Indianapolis Students Among Those at Summer School By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Aug. I.—Fourteen Indianapolis students are among the 510 enrolled at Central Normal college for the summer term. They are: T. W. Bennett, Iris Inn. Shyrl Crieg. Mary Moreiana, F. A. McMasters, Hope Stiles, Louis Trosky, Herbert Smith, Wayne Money, Mary Helen SeaJ. Nellie Record, Denzol Robertson, Irene Rotart and Perry Underwood.

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Counter Punch By United Cress BOSTON, Aug. I.—A famous downtown stool-and-counter restaurant boasts many celebrities among its patrons. By coincidence, although there are scores of counters, two of the most noted guests habitually sit at the same counter. They are Jack Sharkey, worlds heavyweight boxing champion, and Navy Secretary Charles Francis Adams, when the latter is visiting his home town.

OPEN POOR AID QUIZ Politics Charge to Be Probed by Commissioners. County commissioners Wednesday morning will open their investigation into charges that poor relief in Center township is distributed by Miss Hannah Noone. trustees, with politics as the controlling factor. Lynch S. Symmes, 2547 Northwestern avenue, has charged, in a complaint filed with commissioners, that he has been refused aid for his family since April 15. Symmes also alleges that he was told that being a Republican he could r.ot expect relief from Democratic sources. Miss Noone has denied the charges, asserting relief was baited in the Symmes case when it was learned the family paid $25 monthly rental and had a phene. Symmes supports several of his own children and grandchildren. ENDS 50 YEARS ON JOB John G. Polk Retires; Handled 15,000,000 Shipments. After fifty years of service with the Railway Express agency and its predecessors, John G. Polk, 1427 Broadway, is retired today. J. W. Dill, general agent for the company, estimated that Polk had handled approximately fifteen million shipments without loss. The company presented him a fifty-year service gold medal.

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LAST 4 DATS! Paramount'* Riot of Faffs! Is “Madame Racketeer” with George Raft Evalyn Knapp and Others TOM HOWARD COMEDY “ITNCLIT TOM’S CABIN” anil other lass sketches Mickey Mouse Cartoon 25c to fi 35c after A Kiddies 10c Always cool Park Free—Del-Mar Garage ZSJZUJ3 They’re Coming Friday! S MILLS BROS. On the Stage in Person |

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R00?:/ELT TO TOUR NATION IN I VOTE CAMPAIGN Travels May Take Governor as Far West as Pacific Coast. By United Cress ALBANY. N. Y„ Aug. I—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has decided to make his campaign na-tion-wide. and starting in September he will begin a tour which probably will take him as far west as the Pacific coast. This drive, as mapped tentatively, will be an effort to turn the tables on the Republican administration which has been labeling him as a j "radical.” Roosevelt, according to his mani agers, already has collected material I to support his contention that President Hoover is the “radical.” It is expected that the farm | board will be singled out as a special i example, Roosevelt arguing that this | agency actually put the government j into the business of bargaining in | grain futures. Roosevelt’s speech Saturday night also was considered likely to form ; the theme in several of his addresses on the far-western swing. In that address the nominee read j the entire party platform, then i commented briefly on certain issues, chiefly fiscal policies and prohibition. The Governor charged that during the decade preceding the depression, the national debt was reduced drastically; that adequate steps were not taken to meet the deficits, and that the administration has resorted to inflation. Discussing the prohibition plank, Roosevelt said if the old congress ! does not repeal the eighteenth

MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEGISLATION WILL INCREASE TAX BURDEN OF FARMERS AND OTHER TAXPAYERS

BILLS have been introduced in the special session of the Indiana legislature for the promotion of municipal ownership of public utilities which are revolutionary in character. If they are enacted into laws and a program of extension of public ownership is carried on, they will result in increased taxation throughout the state. Municipal plants pay no taxes. The privately owned public utilities of Indiana pay approximately $25,000.000 annually for the support of the state, county, township and city governments and the public school system. This company and associated companies under the same general management, are paying this year a total of $4,465,730 in state and local taxes in Indiana, on their properties, exclusive of electric railways. If these bills are enacted into laws, every time a municipality acquires a public utility property, that property will be taken off the tax duplicate. That means that the amount of taxes it has been paying must be made up by the other taxpayers of the state. Farmers and other taxpayers will be forced to pay more taxes every time taxpaying properties are taken off the tax duplicate. Not only will the taxes of citizens in the town adopting municipal ownership be raised, but farmers and others living outside the city will be obliged to pay additional county and state taxes to make up the loss of tax revenue due to the taking of property off the tax rolls. Taxes for 1931, payable this year on electric properties only, owned by this group of companies in certain Indiana cities follow” Attira . . . $10,020.31 Lafayette . . $22,439.11 Bedford . . . 22,664.64 Michigan City . 182,733.26 Bloomington . 18.261.79 Monticello . . 13.146.04 Columbus . . 8.208.67 New Castle . . 13.892.74 East Chicago . 96,585.59 Plymouth . . 17,261.86 Fort Wayne .148.360.26 Shelbwille . . 10.423.90 Gary . . . 163,031.38 Terre Haute . 107,048.48 Hammond . . 672.984.10 Vincennes . . 51,937.68 Huntington , 20,600.13 Wabash . , . 13,333.33 Kokomo . . 51,811.18 Whiting . . . 9,593.01 The total tax paid on electric properties in the above cities amounts to $1,635,657.43 of which $1,292,063.82 goes for the support of city and township governments and public schools. County taxes totaled $219,527.45 and state taxes $142,752.99. If those municipalities acquired these electric properties, taxes now paid by the companies would have to be made up by added tax burdens on other taxpayers in the cities, counties and the state. Asa further example, consider typical Indiana communities which now have municipal utility plants from which no taxes are collected. If these properties

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Professor Tricks Bugs; Enjoys Porch Comfort B<J Science Si n ice GRINNELL. la., Aug. I.—lnsects bothered Professor H. W. Matlack of Grinnell college. He has a broad, comfortable screened porch, with subdued lights, where it is pleasant to sit on warm summer nights. But insects leaked into it in the innumerable ways insects can find, attracted by the lights. The smallest and peskiest of them came right through the meshes of the screens. Professor Matlack gave considerable thought to the matter At last he had a flash of inspiration. Like many strokes ot genius, his solution was exceedingly simple. Under the eaves of his porch, outside the screen, he fitted one bright light, much brighter than any of the shaded lamps on the porch itself. Immediately, all the insects on the porch turned their backs on the subdued lights and went straight for the bright bulb. The smallest ones went out through the meshes as they had come in. and danced around the light, drunk with the strong radiation. The larger ones crowded crawling on the screen as near as they could get to it. No more insects invaded the porch, since the strongest attraction now was outside it. And Professor Matlack and his family revel in cool and bugless comfort. And the joke about it is that Professor Matlack is not an entomologist not a scientist at all. He is a member of the faculty of the department of music, and teaches pipe organ.

amendment or modify the Volstead law. He would “urge’' the new congress to do so. Roosevelt has mapped three speeches before he starts his na-tion-wide tour. They are: Columbus, 0., Aug. 29; Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 27, and Bridgeport. Conn.. Sept. 3. Another Rocsevelt rran was added to the official board of strategy Sunday, when James A. Farley, chairman ot the Derro ratic national committee, named Frank C. Walker, treasurer. The post has been vacant sincp James W. Gerard res gned last spring. Walker formerly was active in Montana politics. Flower Show Is Scheduled Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company employes will hold a flower show in the company cafeteria Wednesday.

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THIS SOUNDS LIKE BULL In Fact, it Is; Animal Left at Farmhouse by Strangers. A Jersey bull has taken up his abode at the farm of Paul Brewer, R R. 12. Box 359. after being atftndor.ed by two men who fed in an automobi’e. Brewer told deputy sberif s that he was awakened early Sunday morning to find the two men. the bull, and the automobile in front of his home. Before Brewer could make an investigation, the men drove away Taking possession of the bull. Brewer called the officers. After ! farmers in the neighborhood had been checked and all said they were not short a bull, the officers advised | Brewer to hold the animal.

were privately owned it is estimated they would pay taxes as follows: Anderson . . $85,530.81 Jasper . . . $4,837.06 Auburn . . . 8.469.02 Kendallville . 10,532.34 Bluffton . . . 10.105.62 Linton . . . 5,167.27 Columbia City . 12.831.84 Logansport . 45.179.78 Crawfordsville. 25,579.54 Mishawaka . . 15,390.30 Decatur . . . 15,842.39 Paoli . . . 1,451.35 Fort Wayne . 75,630.35 Peru .... 29,841.71 Frankfort . . 35,563.60 Portland . . 15.630.84 Garrett . . . 8.052.11 Richmond . . 101.203.37 Gas City . . . 2,465.32 Rushville . . 14,198.02 Goshen . . . 10,838.77 Tiptoi. . . . 6.306.67 Greenfield . . 4.777.12 Washington . 20,512.88 The above taxes are figured on the book value of the plant, as reported by the municipality for the year ended December 31, 1930, and might be more or less if privately owned. The total amount of taxes which might be levied on these twenty-four electric properties would be $565,938.08. The utilities owmed by the above municipalities, if privately owned and taxed would mean lightening the tax burden not only of taxpayers in those towns, but also in the county and state. House Bills 682 and 649 and Senate Bill 417 would remove all municipally owned utility plants from regulation by the state and would give municipalities the pow’er to condemn privately owned public utilities and to establish their own utilities by the issuance of revenue bonds. If these bills are enacted, city councils or town boards could obligate cities and towns to spend large sums of money for machinery and other equipment without restriction or regulation and without submitting the proposal to a referendum of the voters. There would he no control by the state of rates, quality of service, accounting, or service extensions. Discriminatory rates or even free service for friends of the public officials in control would become a possibility. Privately owned public utility companies in Indiana have extended electric service to farms and rural communities. Passage of these bills and extension of municipal ownership will curtail rural electrification and retard development of service to those who live outside the boundary lines of cities and towns. Not only will the tax burden of the farmer be increased, but opportunity for electrification of his farm will be deferred. These bills are of vital concern to every taxpayer in the state of Indiana. They break down the safeguards which now exist to prevent public officials from unwise and wasteful spending of public funds. They take away that right of equal treatment which is the privilege of every citizen. If you are opposed to such legislation, write or wire veur state senator or representative at Indianapolis and voice yonr protest against House Bills 682 and 649 and Senate Bill 417.

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COXEYTODPEN CAMPAIGN WITH TOUR OF WEST Presidential Drive to Start In Omaha on Friday: Will Go East. I By United Cress , MASS T L T ON. 0., Aug. I.—Jacob S. Coxey the 78-year-old mayor of M'ssiUon. who aspires to the presidency on the Farmer-Labor i ticket, will launch his campaign in Omaha, Neb., next Friday. His plans include a tour of Nebraska, lowa and Minnesota, nosering 2.000 miles in fifteen days. Then he expects to make a series of speeches in Washington. New York. Boston and other large eastern cities. Purpose of the eastern trip is to reach “that Wall Street crowd.” The campaign will be based largely on the party's platform calling for economic relief for the masses, ■ but Coxey said he would devote many of his speeches to explana- ! tions of his noninterest-bearing i bond theory, which he asserts would provide immediate and permanent relief for munieinalUies. He has thirteen trips to Washington to urge congress to pass a bill emtociying the plan. The first was in 1891. when he led a nondescript ‘army” on the nation's capital. There wi'l be no political *’“tomfco’.ery” about the campaign. Coxey said. He does not want any torchlight processions, gay streaming banners, or other reminder of 1890 campaigns. He is concentrating seriously upon i the important economic issues in the campaign, he said. Coxey was born in a log cabin in 1 Selinsgrove. Pa., April 16, 1854.