Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1933 — Page 13

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PAT HARRISON NEXT TARGET OF HUEY LONG Caustic Mississippian ‘Set’ for Kingfish, If Attack Is Launched. CROWS OVER ‘VICTORY’ Louisiana Senator Jubilant Over Supposed Downfall of Carter Glass. BY LEO K. SACK Timm Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.—Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi may be the next Democratic leader Senator Huey Long attempts to ‘'take for a ride.” Encouraged by what he regards as vindication of his filibuster against the Glass banking bill, when the senate failed by one vote to impose a cloture rule restricting debate, the Louisiana ‘'Kingfish'’ Is said to be ready to gun for other Democratic big shots. Senator Long Already has warned Senator Harrison that he is next on his list. He was told by Harrison, in ellcct, to “Lay on, Mac Duff.” This, according to senate cloakroom gossip, gave the belligerent Louisianan pause. Mr. Harrison made it clear that when he replied he would reply in language which no senator could misunderstand. Ready for Huey “I'm ready to take it on the chin,” he is said to have notified the Kingfish. Senator Long has been threatening for weeks to “go after” Senator Harrison, whose state adjoins Louisiana. Long differs with Harrison on many economic points, and since Harrison, is slated for chairmanship of the important finance committee in the next congress, his opinions are calculated to have much weight. Senator Long believes that he already has destroyed the effectiveness of Senator Robinson's Democratic leadership in Washington and he feels that he has caused him great embarrassment in his home state of Arkansas. The ‘ Kingfish" believes, also, that he has made impossible the passage of the Glass bank bill and lessened the possibility of President-Elect Roosevelt inviting Mr. Glass into his Cabinet as secretary of the treasury. Harrison Is on Spot Now, it is reported, he is ready i to battle with the biggest figure in I Mississippi. On Tuesday evening he is reported to have telephoned Senator Har-1 rison’s home to request his presence in the senate on Wednesday. ] It was late and there was no answer j to the phone call. The following day he telephoned Senator Harrison's office, suggesting that he be present when the senate convened. Senator Harrison was there. While he was arranging for Harrison's presence, Senator Long also was planning some additional observations concerning Senator Robinson. He telephoned Robinson's house, it is reported, and his office the next morning. Robinson Also Waiting Senator Robinson, already angered at Senior Long's previous remarks, was waiting, too. But the “Kingfish” was silent insofar as the southern Democratic leaders were concerned. During the day, mutual friends, dismayed at the apparent havoc he is creating within the Democratic party, pleaded with him to forget his alleged j enmities and not indulge in per-; sonalities. Neither Senator Harrison nor ; Senator Robinson, however, urged him to keep silent.

S4O FINE SLAPPED ON PUGNACIOUS ROOMER Asked for Rent, He Gets Fighting Mad, Landlord Testifies. I When John Concannon, 60. of 854 College avenue, asked Albert Whitaker, a roomer, for four months’! overdue rent, Whitaker koncked 500 glasses of jelly and jam from a table, j knocked down his landlord, kicked j at his wife and tore the telephone ■ from the wall, according to court i testimony today. Both men were brought before ! Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer on charges of assault and battery. Whitaker also was charged with malicious trespass. After hearing Concannon's story, the charges against him were dis- j missed by SheafTcr. Whitaker was fined S3O and costs for trespass and $lO and costs for assault and bat- j tery. A second table laden with jelly glasses would have been overturned. Concannon said, if he had not struck Whitaker with a milk bottle.; BANKER WEDS WIDOW 38-Year-Old Millionaire Is Married at Kansas City. i?i/ T'nited Pres> KANSAS CITY. Mo., Jan. 20.— 1 James M. Kemper, millionaire banker, and Mrs. Eleanore Jones Velie, 23, were married here Thursday. The bride's first husband, Tom Craig Velie. died in 1931. Kemper formerly was an official of the National City Company in New York and since 1926 has been president of the Commerce Trust Company, largest bank in the j southwest. SIGNS MORATORIUM BILL Delinquent Tax Sale Postponement to 1934 Becomes Law. Governor Paul V. McNutt signed the delinquent tax sale moratorium measure Thursday afternoon. It is an emergency law which postpones! all property tax sales until 1934. 1

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WAYWARD GIRLS BECOME IDEAL WIVES Clermont School Guides Pupils Into Paths of Useful Living,

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Upper Lest —Testing the soup with a sniff at Indiana Girls school. Upper Right—The badge of parole, a loaf of bread and an apron. Second Row (left)—Room inspection by cottage mother. Movie queens are enshrined on dressers. Second Row (center)-Dr. Kenosha Sessions, school superintendent. Lower Left—The school’s office and one of the cottages. Lower Right—View of the school’s hospital.

BY ARCH STEINEL HIGH up on a hill eight miles west of Indianapolis on the Crawfordsville road, they’re turning out old-fashioned wives. They're turning out wives guaranteed not to scorch the bacon or a man's shirt. And in this manufacture of oldfashioned wives they're turning wayward girls into ideal housekeepers. For where the way to a man’s heart is through the stomach so, too, is the way that 344 girls at Indiana Girls’ school at Clermont are earning their parole from a state’s correctional institution. A loaf of bread, a garment they have made, are as important at parole meetings of the school's board of trustees as good marks in the institution's school. And the badge of excellence, the coveted crown at the school, is a white cooking cap. The “white caps” are the girls of the school who have passed two grades in home training, the laundry and housekeeping, and now are on the third grade—the kitchen—preparatory for parole. a tt a AT the head of this school for old-fashioned housewives Is Dr. Kenosha Sessions, superin-

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tendent. White-haired, dressed in white, too, sometimes, Dr. Sessions has sent approximately 3,000 girls Into society to become good wives and mothers. Since 1911. Dr. Sessions has dealt with the problem of incorrigibility of girls and she bases their comebacks solely on the three Graces of the home—housekeeping, the laundry and the kitchen. “The heart of the home is the kitchen. That's what we teach our girls. And the success of this teaching is shown in the girls who come back to us, married, and tell us the praise they receive from their husbands for their cooking. “Oftentimes they bring their husbands and children with them and proudly show us how they've made good," Dr. Sessions said. a u tt 'TpHERE'S nothing vague about -S- the school’s training of oldfashioned housewives. It's a real thing, as daily Dr. Sessions’ office is the waiting room for some diffident youth who wishes to unburden to the doctor his heart affliction with, “I'm in love with one of your girls who is on parole and I want to marry her.”

were sneezing and said it was too j soon to determine whether anew j disease had been found. Miss Jost was recovering rapidly | at her Wisconsin home. Much of | the credit for her improvement was ! attributed to use of a serum sent from the Mayo clinic. The serum is ! one which is used frequently in cases I of encephalitis, commonly known as I inflammation of the brain. The organism which causes en- j cephalitis was described as similar i to the streptococci taken from Miss Jost s throat. In no encephalitis I case on record, however, was there mention of prolonged sneezing. GOUTY PLEA MADE BY CHECK-PASSER * Woman ‘Freed’ Here Admits Vigo County Duping. By Timex special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 20. Mrs. Arlene Kirkland, alleged to be wanted in numerous cities on forgery charges, pleaded guilty to charge of uttering fraudulent checks in Vigo county circuit court here Thursday, after being rushed from Indianapolis, where she had been held on ehaige cf vagrancy. She pleaded guilty to cashing a check for *75 here. Sentence will be pronounced Jan 28. Charles Kirkland, who was arrested in Indianapolis as her companion, is held there on charge of vagrancy. *

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Each paroled girl who wishes to marry must obtain consent from Dr. Sessions and the school’s board of trustees before the ceremony is sanctioned. But first the courting days and the young man must receive the school’s sanction before the couple can hope to reach the graduating class of wedlock, with its diploma—the marriage license. Girls at the school must have a good behavior record to continue in home training and school work. A mark under 80 in conduct throws the girl out of training until her conduct improves. a u tt npHE first day of anew girl at •*- the schools re spent in being acclimated at t le hospital. From the probationary ’ays she is graduated to the laundry, then to keeping house, and then to the kitchen. Uniforms are banned. Girls may dress in print frocks of their own making. The school has eleven cottages for the girls and each cottage is a unit of training in its own right, with its own laundry, kitchen, and individual rooms for girls. The school has no dormitories.

DOPE ANGLE PULLED INTO MURDER TRIAL Defense Tries to Develop Narcotics Caused Rift. By Vuited Press PLYMOUTH, Ind., Jan. 20.—Ad ditional' attempts to prove that traffic in narcotics figured in the slaying of Arthur Pratt, Plymouth restaurant owner, were expected to be made by defense attorneys today in the murder trial of Virgil Barber, 26. Plymouth. Pratt was killed in his restaurant the night of Nov. 14. Several customers identified Barber as the man who fired the shots. One of the state's witnesses Is Prosecutor-Elect Den Kitch, who was present when Pratt was slain. Kitch was asked under crew:• examination by defense attorney William Reed what Pratt sold in his restaurant. “Did you ever see Pratt deliver or sell white capsules,” Reed asked. Kitch replied in the negative. Jealousy over a girl was first believed the motive for the killing, but since attorneys claim they have found evideneg indicating that the sale of drugs figured in the affair. CRASH~~DAMAGES ASKED Woman Sues Railways for S15.000; Auto Hit by Train. A complaint seeking $15,000 damages for automobile accident injuries was filed by Miss Virginia R. Stine against the Pennsylvania railroad and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad in superior court four Thursday. She was riding in a car driven by her father, George H. Stine, when it was struck by a train at Franklin, Feb. 11, 1932, the suit alleges.

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Only one of the eleven cottages is locked. That cottage houses girls who have been returned following escapes or attempts at escape. Escape from the school is easy, but the price of being thrown out of training for a six months’ period keeps the record low. In the building of character through cookery and other domestic science arts, Dr. Sessions believes she is reducing the toll of wrecked homes. “Just as many homes are wrecked by poor cooks as by triangles. Fifty per cent of our girls come from a reptition of this in the girl’s own life,” she says. tt tt tt DESPITE the depression, the the school is able to find a home where the girls are paid a small stipend, usually §3O a month in good times and S2O a month under present conditions, for every girl eligible for parole. “We've families who have had our girls year in and year out and those families take our girls because they know what good housekeepers they are, she said. “A girl never is placed in a home where there’s an unmarried man or a boy over 14. Each

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BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—One of the first requisites to restoring of America’s export trade is stabilization of the world’s money, Irvin T. Bush, industrialist, said today. Bush urged a scaling down of international debts, the establishment of credit insurance facilities for exporters, and a closer knit international merchandising and distributing machine as essential steps toward the recovery of export markets. ‘ The tariff alone is far from being responsible for the disappearance of our export trade,” he deHOUSE COMMITTEE REFUSES SALES TAX Proposed Measure Formally Turned Down. By Vr.itrd Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.—The house ways and means committee today formally refused to consider a general manufacturers sales tax. At the same time the committee voted to sustain the agreement of Democratic leaders not to consider any revenue legislation during the present session. Chairman Collier announced the adverse vote on a combined motion to consider a 2 cent sales tax on gasoline as 14 to 10.

home is investigated by our field workers.” Although the domestic side of the girls’ training is stressed, the school does not neglect the intellectual. One building on the campus is devoted to learning and teaching of subjects ranging from the grades through high school. One-half day is spent in the school and one-half in training in domesticity. Choral clubs, dramatic skits, games, physical exercise are other features of the school. tt tt tt GIRLS between 10 and 18 are taken into the school. “But a girl can stay only until she’s 20. We’ve only had one girl in the years I’ve been here who has stayed for ten years. She was deficient mentally and came to us at 10. Eighty-five per cent of the girls sent to us finish their training and are paroled within three years,” Dr. Sessions explained. And about the best present, Christmas, birthday, or otherwise, that Dr. Sessions looks forward to receiving is a letter from “one of my girls who’s now a good oldfashioned housewife, with children tagging at her apronstrings.”

dared in an exclusive interview with the United Press. ” “It is the reduced buying power of the world, the financial instability of foreign markets, the gold embargoes set up in numerous countries and the final demoralization of international monetary exchange that paralyzes our efforts to trade abroad today.” Chairman of the board of the Bush terminal, whose export docks and warehousing facilities feature New York’s once busy waterfront, Bush believes that, regardless of tariffs, American goods would be purchased abroad if world stability could be regained. “The key-log of the jam which holds world trade in stagnation is the staggering burden of uncollectable international indebtedness, assumed on high commodity levels and manifestly out of line wih today's realities,” he said. “I do not wish to be understood as being in favor of cancellation of these debts. Some part of them can and should be paid. But I believe that they should be scaled down, and that they should be removed from the realm of politics.” URGES CANAD/TsYSTEM British Columbia Plan Is Advised for Indiana Use. Petition urging that Indiana adopt the British Columbia system of liquor control, signed by the Rev. S. M. Hutchinson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Seymour, was presented in the house of representatives today by Representative Ray Gilbert iDem., Seymour!.

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HEATED ARGUMENTS HEARD ON MOVEMENT TO REPEAL TEACHER TENURE STATUTE Present Law Undemocratic and Unfair, Is Charge Hurled at Senate Education Committee Meeting - . DEFENDERS PRESENT STRONG CASE Instructor Is Safeguarded on Job From Religious and Political Influences, Declaration of Proponents. Indiana’s teacher tenure law was branded both a menace and an aid to the state's schools, with teachers and administrative officials on both sides, at a hearing- held Thursday afternoon by the senate education committee on a bill which would repeal the law. The hearing held in the supreme court room, was attended by more than 200 persons, and speakers for both sides were applauded. The committee, headed by Senator John C. Gorman (Dem., Princeton), is expected to report its recommendation on the repeal bill today.

STATE DRYS TO BATTLEREPEAL Rally Scheduled for Jan. 31 in Roberts Park M. E. Church. Dry forces of the state will be mobilized into an army to battle prohibition repeal, at a rally Jan. 31 in Roberts Park M. E. church. Dr. James A. Crain, Indianapolis, Disciples of Christ temperance and social welfare board chairman and national prohibition figure, issued the call for the meeting. Joining in the call were James Bingham, W. A. Guthrie, Alfred L. Moudy, Edgar H. Evans, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, the Rev. E. W. Cole, Dr. Homer J. Hall, Mrs. Charles Mueller, the Rev. T. J. Gore, Le Roy Lewis, Mrs. Bertha Anthony, Merle Sidener, Ralph Huddleson, and others. A number of dry leaders will speak and plans for creation of committees in each county and town in the state will be made. A state committee to direct the work will be organized. The provisional committee calling the meeting is composed of representatives of several dry organizations, including the Flying Squadron Foundation. W. C.T. U., Anti-Saloon League, Good Templars, church temperance boards and others.

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for filing returns of income for 1932 have been sent to persons who filed returns last year. Failure to receive a form, however, does not relieve a taxpayer of his obligation to file his return and pay the tax on time, on or before March 15, if the return is made on the calendar-year basis, as is the case of most individuals. Lowering of the personal exemption will require many hundreds of thousands of individuals to file returns this year who did not do so in 1932. Forms may be obtained upon request, written or personal from the offices of collectors of internal revenue and deputy collectors. Persons whose net income for 1932 was derived chiefly from salary or wages and was not in excess of $5,000 should make their returns on Form 1040A, a single sheet. Persons whose net income was in excess of $5,000, or, regardless of amount, was derived from a business, profession, rents or sale of property, are required to use a larger form, 1040. Failure to use the proper form presents difficulties to both the taxpayer and the bureau of internal revenue. Therefore, it is emphasized that a taxpayer engaged in a business or profession from which he derived a net income of less than $5,000 is required to use the larger form. The return must be filed with the collector of internal revenue for the district in which the taxpayer has his legal residence or principal place of business on or before midnight of March 15, 1933. The tax may be paid in full at the time of filing the return or in four equal installments, due on or before March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15. HICKS RITES SATURDAY Funeral Services for Former Teacher Are Arranged. Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie V. Hicks, 31, who died Thursday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob RofTner, 2022 West Michigan street, will be held at 2 Saturday in the Conkle funeral home, 1934 West Michigan street. Burial will be in Washington Park cemeterq. Mrs. Hicks served ten years as a teacher at School 9, but was forced to retire a year ago because of illness. She was a member of Indianapolis Chapter, No. 393, Order of Eastern Star. STERN IS GIVEN DINNER Farewell Party Is Arranged by Local Newspaper Men for Secretary. Farewell dinner in honpr of Ben Stern, former political writer of The Times, who recently received an appointment as secretary to SenatorElect Frederick Van Nuys, was given by local newspaper men Thursdaynight at the Washington. Van Nuys, Governor Paul V. McNutt, Frank McHale and members of the legislature were present, together with staff members of local j newspaper and press associations.

First speaker for repeal was the author, Senator Henry F. Schricker (Dem., Knox), and he also closed the discussion. A good teacher does not need a tenure law, Schricker asserted. The law gives a teacher who serves continuously in a school unit a life contract, which can not be terminated except for grave cause and after a hearing. Law Called Undemocratic Schricker, who stated he married a school teacher and has three children in school and has served as a school board member, charged the tenure law has been a constant source of agitation since its passage, and is undemocratic in principle. The law is unpopular and does not work, the repeal advocate said. He asserted that if the matter were put up to the people of the state they would vote for repeal and also would repeal the teacher minimum wage and retirement fund plan. Floyd E. James, school superintendent of Scott county, said that of seventy-two teachers in the county only eight favored tenure. Alonzo M. Lindley of Kingman, former state senator, said he had voted in previous sessions to repeal the tenure law, and branded it undemocratic in principle. Bars Young Teachers Assurance of lifetime jobs to teachers bars the way to young persons entering the profession, according to Otto Heise, Pulaski county resident. The life job holder loses respect of his neighbors, according to Wilbur Shirey, principal of the New Lisbon schools. Announcing the result of a survey in eighty-three counties, Edward Fisher, superintendent of Parke county schools, said sixtynine held the tenure law unsatisfactory; twelve, partly satisfactory, and only two satisfactory. Argument against repeal was opend by Dean H. L. Smith of the Indiana university school of education. He declared that the only countries which do not have teacher tenure are Iraq, China and India. Two Uphold Law Replying to the contention of repeal advocates that the law makes removal of an unsatisfactory teacher difficult, Donald Dushane, Columbus superintendent, pointed to the provision for a hearing and declared the time is past when removal of a teacher “can be settled in a back room behind locked doors.” D. W. Horton, Muncie superintendent, and Fred Mullin, school board member, both asserted the law keeps politics out of school administration. Instead of being contrary to the American principle, the tenure system is in accord with it, Robert B. Hougham, Johnson county superintendent, asserted. He cited the civil service plan applying to federal employes, and pointed out that United States supreme court justices have life tenure. Defended by Miss Fry When the tenure issue was placed before Indiana teachers in convention, only four out of between 11,000 and 12,000 opposed it, according to Miss Mattie B. Fry, Anderson supervisor, and former president of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. The tenure law, she declared, lifts from teachers the fear of being discharged overnight for personal, political, or religious reasons. Welfare of children should be the first consideration. Miss Fry said. Indiana boys and girls have suffered enough because of retrenchment ip school expenditures, she continued, without the added injury of evils she declared would follow repeal of tefture. Others heard in support of the law were Philip Zoercher, state tax board member; Mrs. S. M. Myers, president, Indianapolis Federation Parent-Teacher Associations; Miss Edith Van Winkle, Vigo county teacher, and Miss Clara Rathbon of Logansport, former state association president. SALOONS ARE DEFENDED Milwaukee Barkeepers Organize ♦# Fight High Fees. By United Frets MILWAUKEE. Wis„ Jan. 20. Saloon keepers of Milwaukee, preparing for the return of beer, have organized to fight high license fees and the “general public attitude that makes us crooks and criminals.” The official title of their organization is “the Wisconsin Refreshment Parlor Operators’ Association." but to each other they are merely "we boys who run saloons.”