Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1933 — Page 2

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BITTER WARFARE IS WAGED BETWEEN WETS AND DRYS IN STATEn.EGISLATURES More Than 15 Assemblies Already Have Acted to Repeal Enforcement Statutes or Prohibition Amendments. Not alone in the halla of centres* I* the prohibition issue being foutht. The wrt-drv battle which ha* held the nation * Interest for so manv months ha* been extended to state lecrislatures and electorate* in attempt* to repeal dry law* or to maintain them. Here is a comprehensive survey of the status of the flaiit over state dry laws. By United Preni ' KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 16.—Bitter warfare between wet and dry forces is being waged with state legislatures as the battle grounds. 1 he wets seek to clear the way for speedy acceptance by the states of any action that may be taken by congress for modification or repeal.

Already more than fifteen, states have acted to repeal enforcement statutes or amendments to their state constitutions which would I have blocked the return of liquor within their borders. Many more measures dealing With prohibition are pending. But in every state in which wets already have not won a victory, dry forces are mustering for a finish fight, reports from state capitals indicated. I)rys Wage Rattle They are throwing every resource at their command into the struggle to prevent possible opening of their states to the flow of liquor in the event of national legalization. In some states this dry influence is felt so strongly that, as yet, no attempts have been launched to alter state law’s. In New York state, citadel of the wet forces. Governor Herbert H. Lehman has asked the legislature to prepare for beer or repeal by passage of measures for licensing of the sale and distribution of liquor. Governor Lehman soon will appoint a commission to study the problem. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith has refused the chairmanship of this group. Kansas Still Is Dry California, which rescinded its state prohibition statutes by a referendum at the November election, has pending a bill which would ask congress for action on repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Dry for many years, Kansas shows no disposition to wander from the trail blazed by Carrie Nation. Not n single liquor measure was introduced during the first week of the present legislative session In Illinois, bills for repeal of the state dry laws are on second reading in the house, and on third reading in the senate. Both major parties are committed by platform pledges to repeal. Other states, for the most part, fall into the same general grouping as these three. They may be di- j vided into. . threo. classes—those ! which already have repealed state i laws; those which have measures to that end pending, and those whose legislatures have not received measures dealing with prohibition. Repeal Passes Sixteen States Among those which have repealed state dry laws are: New York, New Jersey, California, Arizona. Nevada, Wisconsin, Colorado, Michigan, Wyoming, Montana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, Oregon and Washington. Action taken in these states, however. differs widely. In Wyoming, voters passed a measure, by referendum. providing for automatic repeal of the state laws when, and if, national prohibitory acts arc repealed. Michigan voters amended the Constitution to eliminate its prohibition section, but legislation to repeal the statute against manufacture and sale of liquor is pending. Before the Connecticut general: assembly is an unusual bill for a state dispensary system of regu- j lated liquor stores in case of repeal. Maine to Vote on Beer States in which liquor legislation Is pending include: Maine, Minnesota, Missouri. Idaho, South Carolina. Ohio. Pensylvania, Nebraska. Indiana, New Mexico,; Illinois. Texas and New Hampshire j In most of these states a multi- ! plicity of plans for changing the state laws exists. Pensylvania has six bills pending in the state legis- j lature. Ohio has five measures awaiting action. Maine legislators will vote on a bill to legalize manufacture and sale of beer with alcoholic content j no greater than that fixed by the j national government as non-in-; toxica ting. States whose legislatures have j hot yet received bills for repeal of state enforcement acts include: North Dakota. Arkansas, Missis- j sippi. Florida. lowa. Utah. Okla-, home. Kansas and Vermont. Other Measures Prepared In North Dakota. Arkansas and Florida, bills aimed at the state dry laws were being prepared for introduction. Arkansas legislators voted down a resolution which would have urged congress to submit repeal to the, states without delay. However, a j beer-wine bill was scheduled to be , introduced today. Mississippi. lowa, Kansas and Utah are not expected to take any action. Utah's dry status is regarded 'as due to the Mormon influence. In Oklahoma there is talk of a kr.ove to repeal the state laws, but |t is regarded as unlikely to succeed. MRS. MARY L. STEELY IS TAKEN BY DEATH J5-Year-Old Woman Lived in City for Half Century. Funeral ftOrvic.es for Mrs. Mary L. • Bteelv, 76. of 124 West Forty-fourth street, were to be held at 2 today in her home. Burial will be in Crown Jiill cemetery. Mrs. Steely, a resident of this city for fifty years, died Friday at her home, following a long illness. She was the widow of John N. Steely jnnd was a member of the Roberts Ark M. E. church.

PUSH TOBIN FOR CABINET POST Claims for Labor Post Are Given James A. Farley on Visit Here. Claims of Daniel J. Tobin, 5102 Park avenue, president of the International Teamsters Union, for the post of secretary of labor In the Roosevelt cabinet, were presented to James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman, when he visited the city Sunday. Tobin was approved by United States Senator-Elect Frederick Van Nuys and It. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, wno were assured Indiana would get a ‘ fair break’’ on federal patronage. Tobin served as head of the labor bureau at national committee headquarters during the last campaign. Deficit of the Democratic national committee also was discussed at the Claypool conference and Peters was informed by Farley that Indiana's quota had been placed at $30,000. Recommendation for consolidation of governmental units which have become obsolete because of improved transportation w’as made by Farley. There is no reason why smaller counties should not be combined, since many of them now are the size townships once were, he poinited out. Abolition oi offices and needless expense may meet with a great deal of opposition, he admitted. “However,’ Farley said, “any government official whose economic policy is sound will win the approval of the majority because what the people want is reduction in taxes. They definitely have become taxminded.”

Lovers’ Lane Will Be ‘Great White Way’ —If Legislator Has His Say

LOVERS’ LANE, traditional trysting place in deep shadows. rustling leaves and silvery moonlight, may pass into history if the state legislature acts. Once it was that the roads winding through shaded dells were the noiseless, unlighted haunts of the lovelorn, but it soon may be different. Society apparently is opposed to wooing in the dark. Love making in the dim shadows of unfrequented roads by modern motorized swains constitutes a public hazard, at least in the opinion of one Indiana legislator.

Inn Again —Out Again Towels, Draperies, Ash Trays and What Not Vanish From Hotels. “Two towels, an ash-tray, missing from 413, Miss Fox.” “The draperies are gone out of room —, Miss Fox.” “The lady who was in nine sixteen burned the mattress with a cigaret, Miss Fox." / Day in and day out these remarks are addressed to Miss Margaret Fox, housekeeper at the Lincoln, and from the reports of maids she has been able, through years of serving the traveling public, to place the olame ol destruction of guests equally on both sexes.

“Men are no worse than women in leaving a litter in a room. Where men leave empty bottles and ashes, women litter the floor with wrappings of articles purchased in shops. It’s all in a day's work with us,” Miss Fox explains. She says that on an average of seventy towels a week are lost through the light-fingeredness of guests. “It's just a game with them. Nothing dishonest, but merely towelcollectors like we formerly had years ago with silver. But with hotels placing their names on silver the practice has stopped. “They take a fancy to those thermos coffee pots now instead of silverware,” Miss Fox says. “Men do the most damage with razor blades. They wipe the blades, after shaving, on towels without realizing that the towels when they come back from the laundries will have holes in them from the slight cuts of the blades. “Women,” she continued, “leave greasy pillow cases, greasy backboards of beds from the cold cream they use on their faces, necks and arms.” Men, she declares, forget their belongings with more regularity than women. In one hotel where Miss Fox was employed a set of drapes was stolen weekly for one month. “And then the thefts stopped. I guess they got all the sets of drapes they needed." she said. It is necessary for hotels at times to bolt down clocks in club lounges, and strap telephone pay booths to prevent their disappearance. One city hotel management reported that someone took a teninch electric fan bolted to a wall and that prior to this, lifted a oil portrait from its frame by slicing the canvas in a neat square, rolling it up. and walking out with it. Hotel keys are lost at the rate of twenty to > thirty a month and

COUSINS IN ASSEMBLY

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Herman W. Modisett

Chester C. Modesitt Tw’o cousins, living only a short distance from each other, represent Parke and Vigo counties in the 1933 house of representatives. They are Chested C. Modesitt, Parke county farmer, and Herman W. Modisett, Vigo county farmer. Chester is serving his first term and Herman his second. Both are Democrats. Each lives near the county line, separating Parke and Vigo counties. Although the Modisett or Modesitt family has been living in Parke and Vigo counties since the first member of the family came to Indiana in 1836, neither of the two representatives is certain which was the original spelling of the name or how the difference first came about. AGED CITY WOMAN*DIES Mrs. Minnie Rescner Was Resident Here Since Girlhood. Mrs. Minnie Resener, 80, of 337 North Beville avenue, widow of Frederick W. Resener and a resident of Indianapolis since girlhood, when she came nere from Germany, died Thursday at her home. Funeral services were to be held at the home at 2:30 this afternoon, with burial in Concordia cemetery.

So,, to make these seldom-used paths safe for the motorists | whose mission is more hurried

where, in other years, the hotel was only forced to pay 2 cents postage for their return it now costs 5 cents. Miss Fox, however, reports one silver lining in the business clouds. “Do you know what I heard the other morning?” she said. “It was a man singing in the bathtub. Times must be getting better. It used to be we heard a lot of whistling and singing in the bathtubs, but this was the first songster of the year,” she concluded.

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ROOSEVELT AID URGED IN MIXUP ON LEGISLATION Leaders Likely to Ask Him to Help Break Jam on * Important Measures. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 16— Democratic congressional leaders will besiege President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt when he comes here this week for counsel in one of the most confused legislative situations in recent years. Democrat is pitted against Democrat in the senate to produce a jam behind which important measures on the Roosevelt program are piled helplessly. Beer, repeal, farm relief and economy wait while Senator Huey Long, the Louisiana “kingfish,” holds the senate at bay because of his opposition to the banking bill sponsored by Senator Carter Glass, spirited Virginian. Situation Is Embarrassing The Democratic dilemma may be called more strikingly to the attention of the country on the eve of the Roosevelt visit here Thursday and Friday on his way south. President Hoover, it was reported, has been contemplating for several days a statement or message insisting that the budget be balanced at this session. He is said to have devoted considerable time in the last few days to gathering figures from treasury and budget officials. Republican leaders expect the message this w’eek. Considerable doubt !s expressed here that Roosevelt will become involved before March 4 in family quarrels among his Democratic followers. The present one is most embarrassing. Long was active at Chicago jfor Roosevelt’s nomination, while Glass is such a good friend that he is repeatedly mentioned as secretary of treasury in the Roosevelt cabinet. Both claim Roosevelt’s support in the bank bill fight. How About Other Measures? Inflationary proposals of all sorts are pressing forward, one for a $3,000,000,000 currency issue with large backing. If Democratic leaders expect to check them they must begin soon. They desire Roosevelt’s views. Senate Democratic leaders also would like to know what Roosevelt thinks of the form in which the house passed the farm relief bill taken up by the senate agriculture committee today. A senate judiciary subcommittee has drafted a beer bill, also taken up today by the committee, which differs from that passed by the horse. Which does Roosevelt favor? The same judiciary committee reported out an eighteenth amendment repeal resolution which differs from the outright repeal pledged by the party platform. Which does 1 Roosevelt want?

than that of “love birds,” Representative H. H. Evans of Newscastle, Republican house floor leader, has assumed role of public benefactor and proposes to require petters to. have more than “just moonlight” to reveal their w’hereabouts. In fact, Evans would be drastic toward lovers’ lane habitues who insist on parking wuthout lights. First, he -would require all j parked cars to display lights, either of kerosene, carbide or electricity. And Evans would “go one better” on present traffic laws by requiring that parked vehicles display lights not only in back—but in front as well. This, he must presume, lessens peril of head-on and tail-on collisions with cars of the "otherwise occupied.” So. to make his requirements “stick,” Evans would make the unheeding liable to fine of not more than SI,OOO and would add imprisonment of from thirty days to eighteen months. Beware, petters, days of “spooning by the light of the moon” are about to pass. ONE CENT A DAY PAYS UP TO SIOO A MONTH The Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Cos., 8582 Dierks Building, Kansas City, Mo., is offering anew accident policy that pays up to SIOO a month for 24 months for disability and $1,000.00 for deaths—costs less than lc a day—s3.so a year. More than 150,000 have already bought this policy. Men, women and children eligible. Send \no money. Simply send name, | address, age, beneficiary's name | ami relationship and they will send | this policy on 10 days’ FREE inspee- | lion. No examination is required. I This offer is limited, so write them today.—Advertisement.

ONE-LEGGED MAN HOLDS DOWN JOB AS LUMBER GRADER

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Hoover Will Leave Office in Fit Physical Condition

Health Better Than When He Entered White House Four Years. Ago. BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 16— President Hoover will return to private life March 4 in better physical condition than when he entered the White House four years ago, because he has made work his hobby. Close friends say the pleasure the President finds in work apparently has saved him from the fatigue and crushing strain of his high office, which has broken the health of chief executives. A glance at the inaugural photograph of Mr. Hoover reveals many physical changes, most of which, according to Captain Joel T. Boone, White House physician, have been for the better. Four years ago the President was overweight; he had traces of a double chin. Today he is a trim, hard-muscled man of 58. His sun-tanned face is deeply lined. His movements are

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GERMANS 1 ARMS EQUALITY AIM ANEW Thousands of War Veterans Cheer Chancellor’s Empire Day Speech. BY H. A. PETERS United Tress Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Thousands of war veterans and members of the federal warriors’ legion cheered Sunday, when Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, in an Empire day speech, declared Germany intended to proceed with her program of arms equality with the ether powers of Europe. The chancellor, standing on a platform with President Paul ven Hindenburg and two sons of former Kaiser Wilhelm IT, declared the founding of a federal militia was “necessary for the defense of the fatherland.” He apparently meant the reintroduction of conscription and compulsory military service, as in the days of the empire. “Changed conditions of the times necessitate changed forms," the chancellor said. “I am thinking first of all of a militia.” He clipped his words brusquely, and the soldiers rose and cheered thunderously. The chancellor was interrupted with repeated cheers as he proceeded with his vigorous address. The speech was part of significant ceremonies in connection with the celebration of Empire day for the first time since the establishment of the German republic. President Paul von Hindenburg attended, wearing his old uniform of a field marshal. He entered the sports palace, where the ceremonies were held, accompanied by his son and followed by the chancellor.