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UTILITIES RULE PLAN OFFERED BY ROOSEVELT Nominee Lists 8-Point Program in Talk at Portland, Ore. URGES FULL PUBLICITY Community Right to Own and Operate Service Is Recognized. BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL, EN KOuTE TO SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt entered California, the home state of President Hoover, today as the nation digested his eight-point policy calling for anew deal in governmental conduct in water power and utility regulation. Roosevelt swung farther south along the Pacific coast after having delivered at Portland, Ore., the third of the four major speeches he scheduled for his transcontinental campaign tour. The Democratic presidential nominee pledged, if elected, no surrender by the federal government of its sovereignty and control over its power sources, and the following remedies for the regulation and control of public utilities engaged in the power business: Eight Points in Program ” Full publicity as to stocks, bonds, liabilities and gross and net earnings. Publicity on all stock ownership. Publicity on intercompany contracts and interchange of power. Regulation and control of holding companies by federal power commission. Co-operation of power commission with public utilities commission oi the states on matters of regulation. Regulation and control of stock and bond issues on principle of prudent investment only. Abolition of reproduction cost theory for rate-making, replacing it with actual money prudent-in-vestment principle as rate-making basis. Legislation making it a crime to circulate false matter relating to public utilities. Views on Ownership Taking up what' he termed “the other great problem of relationship of the government to the development through the government itself of power resources and power manufacture,’’ Roosevelt explained: “I do not hold with those who advocate government ownership or government operation of all utilities. I state to you categorically that as a broad general rule the development of utilities should remain, with certain exceptions, a function for private initiative and private capital.” The Governor went on to say, however, that should a community become dissatisfied with the service or rates of a private utility, it had the undeniable right as one of its functions of government and home rule to set up, after a fair referendum, its own governmentally owned and operated service. As to state-owned or federalowned power sites, Roosevelt declared they “can and should be developed properly by the government itself.” Cites Insull “Monstrosity” “When so developed, private capital should be given the first opportunity to transmit and distribute the power on the basis of the best service and the lowest rates to give a reasonable profit only,” the nominee said. power issue,” he said, “when vigorously handled in the public interest, means abundant and cheaper current for American industry, reduced rates and increased use in millions of homes, and preservation of our water power resources in co-ordination with flood control, reclamation and irrigation.” Assailing the Republican administrations position on the power question, the nominee remarked that “it proposes to continue as in the past to allow the interstate promoters and manipulators of public utilities to play fast and loose with the American public without adequate regulation or control. He referred to the crash of the Insull empire as a “financial monstrosity that has opened our eyes to the fact that private manipulation ha* outsmarted the slow-mov-ing power of government.” KILLS SELF IN HOTEL Retired Real Estate Dealer Dies in Hall Chair. By United Prci* CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—William Thrall, 55, retired real estate dealer, shot and killed himself today while on the twenty-fourth floor balcony of the Allerton hotel here. The body was found upright in a chair with a .38-caliber revolver in his hand, by an elevator operator. A letter to an advertising official of a Chicago newspaper was found, but the police did not open it. URGES TAX PAYMENTS Barrett Law Statements Now Available, Sexton Announces. Barrett law statements now are available with tax duplicates, Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, announced today, in a statement urging early payment of the November installment of taxes. •*lf people only would come in 'now, we could give them better service and they could be waited on more promptly than if they delay until the last day, when the rush comes;’ Sexton said.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy and cooler tonight; Friday, generally fair and cool.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 115

NO. 3 FOR CHAPLIN

Kiss Just Friendly, Says Blond

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Charlie Chaplin gave her a fond goodby kiss and platinum blond Paulette Goddard, above, ended a gay stay in Hollywood that set its gossips to speculating if the comedian is contemplating a third marriage. Chaplin and the girl who divorced a* Charlotte (N. C.) lumber magnate to break into the movies, were seen often in public. The camera caught them, below, in earnest conversation at jt Hollywood tennis match.

BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Hollywood, sept. 22.— Does Charlie Chaplin have another romance in the offing—his third —or hasn’t he? Hollywood has been a-twitter with rumor ever since Charlie started going places and seeing things with Paulette Goddard, youthful movie beauty who has been hailed as “Charlie Chaplin’s new girl friend"—but you can’t prove a thing by either of them. Charlie isn’t saying anything. Miss Goddard, who admits that she kissed Charlie goodby when she departed recently for the east, says, "Oh, that doesn’t mean that we are going to be married!” And then she added: “Why, I kissed everybody' goodby. It was just a friendly kiss; we are not even thinking of getting married. “Anyway, I was married for nearly two years and now I want a vacation. Os course, I like to go out with Charlie; he takes me to parties and tennis matches and openings—and just lots of places.” n n * PAULETTE says she is going to appear in Chaplin's next picture, and for this reason she is letting her hair return to its natural brown, because Charlie likes it that way. Just now. she's a platinum blond —but you mustn't ask scow or why. Miss Goddard recently obtained a Reno divorce from a Charlotte (N. C.) lumber magnate. Then she came to Hollywood to try her hand at the movies. At a dinner given her by Joseph Schenck, movie magnate, she met Chaplin. She told Charlie of her ambition to enter the movies—and the rest was easy.

MILK PRICES FIXED Producers’ Strike Averted by Citizens’ Action. New milk prices to become effective Sunday were set today in a meetmg between distributors and producers under sponsorship of a citizens’ milk committee. The action was taken to avert a milk price war or strike. Standard quarts of milk will sell at retail for 9 cents and at wholesale for 7 cents. Pints will be priced at 6 cents retail and 4 cents wholesale. Producers will receive price increases of approximately 17.5 per cent under the new arrangement, ti is said. Twenty-three of the leading Indianapolis distributors have subscribed to the new price scale. GARNER CAPITAL-BOUND Returning From Texas After Burial of Mother. By United Prett DETROIT, Tex., Sept. 22.—John Nance Garner was en route to Washington today after the burial Wednesday of his 81-year-old mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Garner.

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BLACKBURN SET JUDGE Intends to Return to Purdue to Finish Course. Acquitted of charges' of robbery and inflicting physical injury while committing robbery, William Howell Blackburn, 21, former Purdue university student, today prepared to re-enter the university and complete an electrical engineering course. Loud applause greeted Blackburn late Wednesday when Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker found him not guilty of shooting and robbing Joseph Russell Gardner, 3236 North Illinois street, former state highway commission employe.

TROOPS ENFORCE MURRAY OIL FIELDS SHUTDOWN

By United Press t ' OKLAHOMA CITY. OkJa., Sept, j 22.—National guardsmen patroled the Oklahoma City oil field today at the order of Governor W. H. Murray. The troops were sent to the field, one of the richest oil reserves in the nation, by the picturesque executive to prevent asserted oil thefts and “riot and racket.” Murray’s action followed clashes between guardsmen and employes of the Wilcox Oil and Gas Company. Several workers were injured before the trqpps dispersed them with the aid of fists, pistol butts and tear gas. Executives of the company, refusing to recognize a shut-down order,

Germany Secretly Arming, With Money • Borrowed in U. S., France May Charge

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Premier Herriott of France is said to have carried with him to Geneva Wednesday, “proof" that Germany secretly is arming, and that much of the money used to finance her illicit war preparations came from the United States. The French premier is understood to be reluctant to make use of his information. In common with Washington and London statesmen, he still is hopeful that Germany yet may be brought back 'to the disarmament parley which she bolted. Until that hope has faded, therefore, he will do nothing to widen the breach caused by the German ultimatum demanding arms equality. Herriott is said to be prepared to spring his documents if and when Germany continues to balk, thus imperiling tljfe parley. His object

CHARGE MOOSE VIOLATED U. S. POSTAL LAWS Lottery Tickets Transported in Mails, Government Alleges at Trial. SENATOR DAVIS CALM Reads Newspaper, Chats With Reporters as Case Goes On. BY SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept, 22.—The government showed at the trial of United States Senator James J. Davis today that 24,387,360 alleged lottery tickets bearing the names of several hundred lodges of the Loyal Order of Moose, were transported through the mails and in interstate commerce. Opening the most direct phase of its attempt to show that Davis, dominating force of the Moose, was the planner and backer of supposed lotteries conducted by Moose lodges under the guise of charity balls, the government produced witnesses who said they purchased tickets, not with the idea of going to the balls, but to participate in “drawings” for prizes. Davis is on trial in federal court here on indictments charging violating of federal statutes prohibiting lottery matter from the mails and interstate commerce. Member of the cabinets of three Presidents, Davis faces a maximum sentence of twenty years! 1 imprisonment and a $28,000 fine if convicted.

Davis Little Interested The supreme council of the Moose not only approved of the charity balls, but made plans to hold more, the government brought out earlier in the day. Davis seemed little interested as minutes of the 1931 meeting of .the supreme council were read into the record. He read a newspaper and chatted in whispers with reporters. * Bess M. Elgart, Gertrude Sobel, James W. Reed, employes of Philadelphia and Scranton, Pa., printers, described the printing of thousands so tickets for Moose charity balls in all parts of the country, ecan one of which had a coupon attached entitling the purchaser to participation in a “drawing” for cash prizes. Included “Drawings” Coupon Reed testified that on the order of Bernard C. McGuire, also under indictment and alleged to be the “business man” of the alleged lotteries, his firm printed 609,684 books of tickets for Moose charity bajls, or 24,387,360 individual tickets. The tickets were sold by the various Moose lodges at 50 cents each. Each ticket had a numbered coupon for the “drawings.” Reed was instructed to send his bill to the Moose. It was paid by :heck, but he coulan’t remember who signed it. Reed said McGuire placed other orders for similar tickets for entertainments given by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Shriners and the Knights of Columbus. Two officials of the Eagles are under indictments similar to those for which Davis is being tried. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 63 10 a. m 66 7a. m 63 11 a. m 70 Ba. m 63 12 (noon).. 69 9a. m 64 1 ,p. m 70

had obtained from the supreme court an order permitting production under a $5,000 supercedeas bond. Governor Murray branded the court order a “monstrosity of justice” and ordered it ignored. The clashes between troops and workers resulted. It was understood the Wilcox company planned to seek a federal court injunction, and if necessary, appeal to the United States supreme court. All property in the field, except homes, was subject to the Governor’s order today. Troopers challenged every person entering the area, and passed only those proving authorized business.

would be to throw the blame upon Germany for such disaster, instead of allowing it to fall on France. Details of Germany's purported secret war preparations are known to have been in French hands ior some time. Former Premier Tardieu carried them with him to Geneva last spring, but kept them under lock and key following the German delegation's efforts to co-op-erate. * Publication now would indicate a definite collapse of the conference, a dangerous break between Paris and Berlin, and likely would be the signal for the long-withheld attempt in Germany to scrap the whole treaty of Versailles. While the German arms data have not been made public, the gist of it has been communicated to the proper committees of the French chamber of deputies, and to the government at London. It is said to show that Germany today maintains a huge war ma-

Bonfire ‘Jumps the Gun 9 at Butler

After valiant efforts in building this pile of boxes for a huge butler university bonfire, the work of these young women went up in smoke at midnight Wednesday. They are < left to right) Miss Betty Hayworth, 4920 Central avenue; Elysee Crosier, 421 Poplar road, and Dorothy Jane Lewis. 439 Hampton drive.

After valiant efforts in building this pile of ! boxes for a huge butler university bonfire, the work of these young women went up in smoke at mid- ; |f s\ night Wednesday. They are 'left to right) Miss I 4np53SQp|MF Betty Hayworth. 4920 Central avenu®: Elvsee * Crosier. 421 Poplar road, and Dorothy Jane Lewis. 439 Hampton drive. m 1 ■Hr jm if I- * * m I * 1 ,- / ■ j:

BOOZE TRUCKS UNDERPROBE Federal Agents Charge Vast Amount Transported. Charges that employes of leading interstate trucking companies are converting their trucks from merchandise carriers to booze haulers were made today following arrest of the Detroit branch manager of the Red Ball Transit Company, Indianapolis. The arrest bared a nation-wide investigation being made by government agents of reports that immense quantities of liquor are being transported in large freight trucks which are disguised as legitimate freight carriers. Harry F. Hornstein, formerly of Indianapolis, the Detroit Red Ball branch manager, was held to the federal grand jury at Detroit today on liquor conspiracy charges. Two drivers, Sam Fleisher, former leader of the notorious Detroit Purple gang, and Anthony Massu, were arrested near Buffalo last week with a load of whisky. Ward Hiner, an official of the Red Ball company, is understood to have learned that employes in several Red Ball branches were engaged in liquor hauling, and to have relayed the information to federal investigators. Hornstein was held under SI,OOO bond, which he failed to provide. The truck seized at Buffalo was loaded with 3,960 bottles of Scotch whisky and five kegs of whisky r.ialt, according to W. L. Ray, chief special prohibition investigator In Detroit. It was owned by Hornstein, Ray said. Hiner explained that Red Ball trucks are not owned by the parent company, which has offices in the Illinois building here, but that branches in various larger cities, owning their own trucks, operate under franchise from the Red Ball Transit Company.

WATCHMAN SLAYS BOY Lad, 12, Picks Up Coal to Aid Widowed Mother, Shot Dead. By United Presl CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—John Gawlick, 12, was dead today of a bullet from a watchman’s gun, fired as the boy was surprised picking up coal in the rear of a lumber yard. The boy, whose widowed mother and three brothers and sisters are unemployed and being fed by the emergency relief commission, had gone to gather a supply of fuel for his mother. The watchman, John Lechowski, 54, said he fired when the boy started to run instead of halting at his command.

chine far beyond the limitations im- ] posed upon her by treaty. It contains figures it is said, I showing Germany could put approximately 4.000,000 well-drilled j soldiers into the field within a short time, plus 60,000 trained offi- j cers. The authorized army of 100,000 j men is alleged to be used file- j gaily as a West Point for officers j and a drill-school for training non-1 commissioned officers and men. The Hitlerites, Steel Helmets and other "patriotic societies” really are organized reserves, it is said. Colonel Grasset, formerly of the French general staff, who has made a study of the question," intimates that Germany, has in hiding vast stores of artillery, machine guns, trench mortars, tank parts and other such equipment, much of which was manufactured b tween the armistice and the date of turning over the , war stores to the allies in 1920. J

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COME WHERE on the Butler university campus is a student whose future may intermingle with firemen, if be works as successfully in the future as he did at midnight Wednesday. For six days, the eds and co-eds of the university have been gathering boxes from every available source. Each has hurled his contribution on the pile that soared skyward near the stadium. The boxes were to be ignited for the football season’s first bonfire Friday night. Then came the shock. The scream of sirens awakened north side residents Wednesday night. Fire apparatus, police and an ambulance raced to the northwest section of the city where a blaze reflected against the sky. It was a bonfire—and what a bonfire! But the engagement was played two nights early. To day the huge pile of boxes was in ashes. , And after investigation on the campus, a university official reports : “Fraternities met Wednesday night. I believe the fire was the outgrowth of a plan fostered in one of those meetings early in the evening.” And the campus answer is, “No doubt.” Not to be foiled, students returned to their building task today and hope for enough boxes to have another fire Friday night. The Times photo was taken on Wednesday afternoon. MRS. BORAH FIGHTING OFF PARROT FEVER Recovering From Attack of Dreaded Disease; Pet Died Week Ago. By United Press BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 22.—Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of the Idaho senator, was recovering today from an attack of “parrot fever.” Dr. Raljih Falk, Mrs. Borah’s physician, disclosed the cause of her illness. It first was believed she suffered from influenza. Mrs. Borah‘s pet parrot di&d a week ago, Dr! Falk said. A few days later she became ill.

LA FOLLETTES TO SWING TO DEMOCRATS, IS REPORT

By United Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 22. The fighting La Follettes whose name has been political magic in Wisconsin for nearly forty years, today were believed planning a bitter reprisal on the conservative Republicans who defeated virtually the entire progressive ticket in Tuesday’s primary. Predictions were frequent that Governor Philip F. La Follette, who lost the nomination for Governor to former Governor Walter J. Kohler

Specifically he cites Germany turned over only 38,500 cannon of all sizes in 1920, when she must have j had no less than 55,000. But it is Germany’s “war potential’’ which the French fear most—her new industrial organization for conducting a war. Germany’s equipment, it is alleged surpasses that of any other nation on earth, and that it is on a far more colossal scale than any peace time requirement possibly could amount to within the machinery’s lifetime. At a moment’s notice, French observers claim, Germany could start mass production of everything required for an ultra-modern war, from tanks and poison gas to munitions of all kinds, inching war planes of the most up-to-date variety. The capital for this huge industrial layout largely was borrowed in America.

THOMAS STARTS CAMPAIGN TOUR Winter of Suffering Seen by Socialist Nominee. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, has left New York on a campaign tour that will carry him to Texas and California, predicting a “national calamity” if either Franklin D. Roosevelt or Herbert Hoover is elected President. ‘I look for open starvation in big cities this winter, with rioting,’ Thomas said here. Stock market rises and reports of employment increases are manipulations’—the last desperate efforts of every one to do something. “Roosevelt is giving an extraordinary exhibition of a man trying to say nothings nicely. He wants every one to be good and happy. “As for the bonus, if his plan is like Sonny Whitney’s (calling for immediate relief only for the needy), why, I was the one who said it first. “Even if we don’t get elected, we may be able to force issues with the major parties.” ISSUE 180 WARRANTS Motorists Who Ignored * Tags to Be Brought In. Here is bad news for 180 motorists who received stickers, but “forgot” to appear at police traffic headquarters! Captain Lewis L. Johnson said today that warrants for the entire 180 were issued Wednesday. Johnson said the motorists failed to appear within seventy-two hours after receiving the stickers. He indicated that the practice by which sticker holders can see a municipal court deputy prosecutor before opening of court, pay the $2 and be on their w'ay, may be discontinued, compelling drivers “to tell it to the judge.”

by 90,000 votes, and Senator John J. Blaine, who was defeated by John B. Chappie, young newspaper editor, by 18,000 votes, would attempt to lead their loyal followers into the Democratic camp. If these tactics are employed it was expected the progressive leaders shortly would indorse the Democratic candidacy of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. They have been virulent in criticism of President Hoover’s policies. There appeared, however, a good chance the progressive leaders would retain their nominal allegiance to the Republican party. On past occasion the La Follette leadership usually ha/ been content to attack conservative Republican candidates, without openly espousing the cause of their opponents. In such past instances the La Follette followers have deserted Republican ranks in large numbers. Loss of customary Democratic Support was blamed by many progressive leaders to defeat of their ticket in the primary. Whether or not La Follette leaders openly indorse the Democratic Governor candidate. Mayor A. G. Schmedeman of Madison, he is expected to poll a heavy progressive vote. Schmedeman is a personal friend of the 35-year-old Governor. In Tuesday’s voting, Schmedeman polled a record Democratic vote of 394.000, though losing to Kohler by 160,000. La Follette withheld definite announcement of his plans. “I am enlisted in the progressive movement for life,” he said. “In or out of public office I shall do all in my power to advance the principles for which it stands. This contest will go on until it is wod£

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COUNTY CUTS JUDGES’ PAY 25 PER CENT Reduces Its Share: Halves Operating Budget of Health Board. POOR FARM SLASH HIT Commissioners Term Move Grave Mistake, Citing Congestion. While county commissioners were terming action of the county council in slashing the poor farm budget, “a grave mistake,” councilmen today sliced 25 per cent from the county share of judge’s salaries and halved the operating budget of the county health board. Commissioners and poor farm officials pointed out that although the infirmary now is housing 100 more inmates than at any other time in its history, $6,575 was slashed from the requested appropriation. Threatened shortage in clothing and household facilities was ignored by the council in a slash of $2,000 from the $12,000 requested for these items. | Held Without Parley Reduction in judges’ salaries was made without waiting for a consultation at which the judges were expected to accept cuts voluntarily. According to statute, the SIO,OOO annual salaries of superior, circuit, probate and criminal judges are paid by the state and county, with the state paying $4,200 and the county, $5,800. The county share was reduced by the council to $4,350, giving the judges an annual salary of $8,550. “We should have had an increased appropriation for the poor farm this year because conditions have been aggravated by the depression,” Dow W. Vorhies, board of commissioners president, said. “Councilmen certainly didn’t consider the increase in inmates. Additional appropriations will have to be made or we can’t operate,” asserted Commissioner Thomas Ellis. Charles Schlotz, farm superintendent, announced today 648 inmates are being cared for at the infirmary. A year ago, records show, 532 were housed. Situation Worst in History Approximately 250 inmates are on the sick list, many incurable. However, the council cut the appropriation for medical, surgical suppplies from $3,000 to $2,500 and the laundry and cleaning item was sliced from $3,500 to $3,200. Unable to get funds needed foi enlarging sleeping auarters, commissioners propose to arrange “double decker” beds for inmates. “The able can sleep higher up, while the aged and infirm will have to take the lower beds,” Commissioner George Snider explained. Despite pleas of representatives of parent-teacher organizations the counciy cut the operating budget of the county health board from $3,145 to $1,635. In the requested appropriation, $2,000 had been vided for the immunization of school children against contagious disease. This item was reduced to SI,OOO. 0 Court Attaches Cut Court attaches were included in the reduction of court budgets. Bailiffs were cut from SI,BOO to $1,500, and court reporters trom $2,400 to SI,BOO. Posts of a circuit court stenographer and juvenile court bailiffs also were abolished. Municipal court judges escaped the pruning knife of the councilmen, with their salaries remaining at $5,000 yearly. Reporters were cut from $2,400 to SI,BOO Oicial adoption of the budget is expected not later than Friday.

WHOLESALE OUSTIN3 OF STATE AIDS LOOMING Appropriation Bill Leaves Nothing for Pay Rolls, Departments Learn. With salaries already reduced, many state employes today faced the prospect of either losing their jobs or being forced to take long vacations without pay. Cause of this dilemma is the discovery by the state budget committee that the - appropriation bill, passed by the special session of the legislature, does nto allow sufficient funds to meet pay rolls in various departments, even after the salary cutting formula has been applied. Department heads appearing before the budget committee today almost were unanimous in seeking to defer action on any solution. Neither Republicans nor Democrats want to be forced to discharge any employes until after the November election, it appeared. An S O S call was sent to Governor Harry G. Leslie by the budget committeemen, who asked that he confer with them regarding the matter. SUICIDE RESCUE FUTILE Chicago Broker’s Wife Succeeds in Second Attempt. By United Prett CHICAGO. Sept. 22 Rescued by a maid from her first suicide attempt, Mrs. Margery Rorrisen, 29, succeeded a few hours later in taking her life today. Mrs. Rorrison, wife of a stock broker and mother of two children, was* found dead early today, her head a few inches from the open jet of a gas fireplace. Wednesday night her maid had discovered Mrs. Rorrison inhaling gas fumes from a kitchen oven.