Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 163, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1932 — Page 3

NOV. 17, 1932.

RUTH ELDER'S NOSE PUNCHED! WHOOIDTHAT? Two Gentlemen of Reno Differ in Stories: She Has New Divorce. BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY United Press Staff Correspondent RENO, Nev.. Nov. 17.—There seems to be some doubt about which gentleman hit Ruth on the nose. The girl who first achieved fame when she was rescued from a disabled plane in mid-Atlantic, who later married Walter Camp Jr., and who received a Reno divorce this week, wouldn't say. When the gentleman knocked her

down, she picked herself up, went to a dude ranch on the outskirts of Reno, and nursed her bruises in silence. Came M. J. Holland, however, into court, with one eye black. He accused “John Doe’’ of assault. Mr. Doe voluntarily identified himself as Ken-

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drick Johnson, divorce lawyer. He accused Holland of starting a fight in his apartment. “ 'Taint so,” countered Holland. ‘‘Johnson started fighting Miss Elder. I butted in and got smacked in the eye.” “Holland started it when he horned in on the party,” retorted Johnson, whose eye also was purple. “Miss Elder accidentally was knocked down, but she wasn't hurt. "I phoned her, and she told me so.’’ “Humph,” said Holland. “I was introduced to Miss Elder at a club. I didn't horn in on any party. Johnson asked me to go with them to his apartment. Two policemen went along. One of them was attentive to Miss Elder. Johnson didn't like it. “After the police left, he knocked Miss Elder down. When I went to her aid I got a wallop in the tye. I swore out an assault complaint, but that isn’t all. “Johnson hit me while I was wearing glasses, and that's a felony.” “Holland sdcked me when I ordered him out of the apartment,” said Johnson. “There was a whale of a fight. While our fists were flying, Miss Elder must have been struck.” The divorce colony hinted meantime that Miss Elder and Johnson intended to marry.Miss Elder said they didn’t. Johnson said nothing. IRVINGTON ARTISTS FIX DATE FOR EXHIBITION Annual Display to Be Held Week of Nov. 27 at Carr’s Hall. The annual Irvington artists’ exhibition will be held during the week of Nov. 27 in Carr’s hall, 5436 East Washington street, it was announced today by the exhibition committee. Eleven east side artists will take part in the display. Talks and artists demonstrations of pafhtings will feature the exhibit. Doors will be open each day from 2 to 10. Speakers will be Wilbur D. Peat, director of the John Herron Art institute; William Forsythe, senior member of the Irvington group of artists; Frederick Polley; Brandt Steele, and Luther Dickerson, head of the Indianapolis public library. Simon D. Baus will give a demonstration of portrait painting Tuesday night, Nov. 29, and Clifton Wheeler will paint a rapid portrait sketch of Dr. S. J. Carr Friday night, Dec. 2. Artists in the exhibit will be William Forsythe, Constance Forsythe, Clifton Wheeler, Hilah Drake Wheeler, Dorothy Morlan, Helene Hibben, Simon P. Baus, Frederick Polley, Robert Craig, Robert Selby, and Charles Teager. LEGION MEN BARELY ESCAPE PLANE CRASH Craft Forced Down in Small Field While on Way to Indianapolis. Two officials of the Kansas department of the American Legion narrowly escaped serious injury Wednesday when their airplane was forced down near Casey, 111., while they were en route to national headquarters here to attend a three-day commanders’ and adjutants' convention. Ernest A. Ryan, Kansas department adjutant, and Tommy Atkinson of Pittsburg. Kan., departmental membership chairman, were bringing a check for $6,125 and membership cards to the meeting in the latter’s plane. After a dead stick landing, the plane rested in a field too small to permit a take-off with the weight of both men. Ryan boarded a train for Indianapolis, while Atkinson remained with the plane. After obtaining a fresh gasoline supply, he arrived in this city half an hour ahead of the train bearing Ryan. DR. ydTZGER TO TALK Principal Speaker at Dinner of City Walther League Tuesday. Principal speaker at the fellowship dinner of the City Walther League Tuesday night in the Foodcraft shop will be Dr. John E. Potzger. Butler university faculty member. Entertainment will be provided during the dinner by a co-ed trio and the Misses Mildred and Marion Fossmeyer and by Harold Brandt. Following the dinner a program will be given by Miss Vera Sudbrock. soprano; Miss Pauline Olsen and Harold Kotlowski, violinists, ahd Miss Charlotte Rothkopf, reader. THE ITCH (scabies) Thin contagious torment will continue for life If not treated. KXSORA kill* the'paraslte (Itch mite) almost Instantly. Three days ends it. Get complete EXBOKA treatment at once. ALL Hook’t DRI'C. STORES. —Advertisement.

PUZZLE FACED ON LIQUOR SALE

Variety of Methods Suggested; Firm Ban on Saloons

Thu U the fourth of a series of six stories dealing with the movement for return of beer, a movement intensified by the recent elections. BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Writer fCopyright. 1632. HEA Service. (Inc.) “YYTHEN the Volstead act is VV modified, or even when the eighteenth amendment is repealed, that’s not the end of the fight—that’s only the beginning.” Fred G. Clark, commander of a million and a quarter Crusaders, speaking. “We're for repeal,” he continues, simply because outright repeal is the quickest way to get to a real solution of the problem. 'But repeal is no solution In itself, any more than national prohibition was a solution. , Modification of the Volstead act is no solution. Suppose congress declares that 4 per cent beer is nonintoxicating in fact. It will be very hard to regulate the sale of a beverage that congress has declared non-intoxicat-ing. Would a place just like a saloon which sold it be a saloon? Plenty of complications can follow that. "The thing is to repeal the eighteenth amendment, and then, having cleared the ground, to build anew and better structure that really will solve the problem.’ The Crusaders advance no ironclad formula for this s ticn. ~n fact, Clark doubts that any single formula will be found that will yield the right answer in rural Kansas and Maine and urban New York and Chicago. ana INSTEAD, he offers a set of principles on which the detailed answer should be built. “Remove the profit from the distributing end of the liquor business. The federal government must protect such states as w r ant to remain dry. The saloon must not be allowed to return.” By the saloon, Clark means especially the organized saloon power, the “liquor traffic,” which was suppressed by national prohibition. The saloon as a drinking place only has been driven underground, and anew and more sinister “liquor traffic” has replaced the old. “Genuine temperance is the real goal.” Those general objectives, you will note, are much the same as those of the W. C. T. U. a generation ago. Clark gets a grim amusement over the similarity, but reiterates that only repeal and anew deal on prohibition will achieve them. This vagueness as to means of achieving the objectives is one of the repealist weaknesses. Various wet organizations never have united on a single answer, though united on repeal. But it would be strange if we could not devise a solution. The United States is the last great prohibition country. Tiny Prince Edward Island, off Canada, is our only companion in retaining bonedry prohibition. The British solution, developed gradually in 1,500 years of trial and error, runs toward gradual tightening of the restrictions on sellers, closer restriction of the hours of selling, higher taxes. The number of saloons is decreasing. a a a THE Swedish solution is to license the consumer, and see that all profits of the industry after expenses, dividends and reserves, go to the state. Denmark and Norway have variations of this—a system of private distribution to licensed drinkers with the profits to producers and dealers itrictly limited. Beer is not consideied „ problem in those countries at all. Canada, Finland and Switzerland have the government monopoly system. In no Canadian province is there private profit from the sale of liquor. / Switzerland has an interesting provision: each canton (or state) on eceiving its share of the proceeds from the government monopoly, must use 10 per cent to promote temperance. Several plans have been proposed for the United States. One is that of Henry W. Anderson, member of the Wickersham commission, which combines features of most of the European systems, but takes note of American customs and institutions. He proposes a twenty-first amendment, repealing the eighteenth and giving congress power to regulate or prohibit the liquor traffic. It could retain national prohibition, remit all or part of the problem to the state, or adopt any solution that seemed better. a a a CONGRESS then would create a bipartisan national commission on liquor control to make regulations for liquor control, subject to laws of congress and the states. Congress then would charter a privately owned national corporation to have a monopoly on making and distributing liquor subject to the regulations of the commission. Stockholders would get a return set by congress (5 to 7 per cent). All earnings above the permitted return would be paid into the United States treasury. The commission would oversee distribution of the company’s products in accordance with the laws of the states, set prices and fix standards of purity. Dry states would have to enforce their law against the local bootleggers, but the corporation would ship none of its liquor to dry states. Shipments to a wet,

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or partially wet, state would be delivered in bond to a state agency. The state agency then would distribute it to its wet communities. Local option would decide which communities would receive shipments for the state agency. Local branches of the state organization would issue permit books to local drinkers. n u DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, Columbia university’s Republican president, also proposed a plan, starting with outright repeal of the eighteenth amendment. “Every state then would regain the right to exercise its police power to deal with the liquor traffic as it sees fit,” he pointed out. He recommended that states should devise a state selling plan, no liquors to be drunk on the premises where sold, the state to tax every sale. Butler believes that congress, by its authority over interstate commerce, already has all necessary power to protect dry states from shipments of liquor. The point of protecting dry states is bound to be a critical one. r "ne Webb-Kenyon law of 1913 put federal authority back of stopping shipment of liquor into dry states. It halted a brisk mail-order business of “original packages” of liquor delivered to individual customers in dry states. The drys now feel that if the eighteenth amendment is repealed congress could repeal the WebbKenyon law at any time. Many states would be reluctant to reassume a burden deposited at congress’ doorstep thirteen years ago. Most of them have taken the stand, when the national government took a hand in the job, of “all right, you do it all!" For in 1930, of the forty-eight states, thirty-nine did not appropriate a dime for prohibition enforcement. Many were dry states before national prohibition. Next—How foreign brewers are already casting an eye on prospective United States trade. Beer’s background here and abroad. BURGLARS GET LOOT Watch, Vending Machine and Clothing Taken Here. A watch valued at SSO was the loot of a burglar Wednesday night in the home of Mrs. Minnie Courim, rear of 1342 North Illinois street. A vending machine containing an undetermined amount of cigarets and money was stolen from a sandwich shop at 616 North Illinois street. Clothing valued at sls was stolen from an automobile service shop at 1210 West Washington street. Pimples Go—Skin Clears Using Wonderful Zemo In a surprisingly short time pimples, itching rash and blemishes vanish—the skin clears up—when soothing, cooling Zemo is used. Grateful people also write in telling how it stops itching torture of Eczema in five seconds, and soon clears skin. Zemo’s rare ingredients, not used in cheaper remedies, are worth the price because you get relief. All druggists’, 35c, 60c. sl. Extra Strength, double results, sl.2s.—Advertisement.

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derson of the Wickersham commission, author of one of the most careful plans proposed for United States liquor control . . . below, Fred G. Clark, commander of 1,250,000 crusaders, who demand temperance.

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three years more, but I believe the worst is over,” he said. ' He recounted indications of industrial Improvement, especially in the south, where sixteen of twentyfour large textile plants are running nighs and day. Epidemic Closes Lafayette School By United Pre LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Nov. 17.—One school in Lafayette was closed as a result of a diphtheria epidemic here and additional cases are being reported, Dr. M. M. Lairy, city health officer, reported today. Lairy said fourteen cases of the malady have been reported.