Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1933 — Page 3

FEB. 13, 1933_

JAM MAY MEAN ‘OVERTIME' FOR LEGISLATURE Work May Be Unfinished When March 6 Deadline Time Arrives. With only twenty-one days of the legislative session remaining, administration leaders today are showing signs of worry over an eleventh-hour jam, which would result in holding the assembly together past the deadline of March 6. One plan being discussed is to take a three-day recess from March 3 to 6. This would serve the purpose of permitting enrolling clerks to catch up on the flood of bills passed last week. It also would allow Governor Paul V. McNutt and other leading Democrats to attend the inauguration ol President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4. Budget Bill Leads List Os paramount importance among measures awaiting action is the budget bill providing appropriations for all state activities for the next two years. Conferences between McNutt and members of the joint budget committee have been held frequently during the last week, with the result that items appearing „in the bill probably will be adopted without change. Administration members of both houses are determined to hold steady on the appropriations as they now are set forth. To permit amendments from one quarter, they argue, would mean that a flood of amendments would pour in and serve to delay the entire measure. Also included among important measures still pending are repeal of the Wright “bone dry” law, the beer control and tax bill, the control of public utilities and revamping of the public service commission, and the administration's tax program, including the highly controversial sales tax. Other Important Measures Permanent registration of voters, modification or repeal of the primary election laws, old age pensions, reduction of petty loan interest rates, and relief for property owners who are delinquent in taxes also are among the measures yet to be decided. Sevral of these are Democratic platform measures. Sweeping changes in the state’s banking laws would be made in a bill still pending. Minimum wages for teachers, to ( be paid from the state general fund, and repeal or modification of the ; teacher tenure law are sure to hold the limelight during the closing weeks of the session. It was learned today that administration leaders are contemplating j cuts in salaries of city, town and I state office holders as companion ; bills to the one passed last week affecting salaries of county officials. Salary Cut May Continue In the meantime, the salary cut applying to state officers, put into effect last summer, will be continued lor an additional two years if new legislation on this subject fails to Vass. Troublesome legislation affecting regulation and taxation of trucks also is on the calendar for the closing weeks. Storms aroused by both sides always rage around the heads of legislators when truck legislation is being discussed. Increases in fees to be paid by chain stores are to be the subject of a public hearing tonight at 7 before the senate finance committee. Bill increasing the fees already has passed the house and will be discussed at the hearing. WARNS OF CITY HOAX Cheer Broadcasters Seeking No Donations, Says President. Warning was issued today by Mrs. Walter Geisel. president of the Cheer Broadcasting Club, against making donations to solicitors using the name of the club. Members of the organization have been informed that homes are being canvassed by the solicitors. Mrs. Geisel said. No authority has been issued to any one to use the club's name, and no donations are being sought, asserted Mrs. Geisel. JUDGE BILL ATTACKED South Side Civic Clubs Send Protest to House Chairman. Joining with other civic organizations in protesting against a pending bill providing for change in the method of selecting Marion county judges, the central committee of South Side Civic Clutas has written a letter of protest to Miss Bess Robbins (Dem., Indianapolis), chairman of the house committee handling the measure. Recommendation is made for the substitution of a bill providing for ! special, non-partisan elections for naming judges by the public. CHILD IS_ FOUND DEAD 4-Year-Old Boy's Death Is Investigated by Coroner. Melvin Moore, 4-.vear-old son of George P. Moore. 911 Bates street, was found dead'in bed early today. The child had not been ill. police were told. Investigation was being made by Coroner William E. Arbuckle.

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200 ESTIMATED DEAD IN GERMAN IRON WORKS BLAST

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A death toll of 200 or more is'estimated in a terrific gas tank explosion that shattered the industrial section of Neunkirchen, Germany. The picture shows a gfes storage tank on the property of the Neunkirchen iron works, where the blast let go. The works was leveled. Bits of machinery were found miles away. Neunkirchen’s location in the rich German industrial area is shown on the map. The explosion was heard 200 miles away. Many in distant towns reported earthquakes before they learned of the disastrous blast.

PLEADS GUILTY IN RUM MURDER Indianapolis Man Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Slaying. I‘il I'iiitcd Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 13. John Smith, 38, Indianapolis, was permitted to enter a plea of guilty on charges of second degree murder today w'hen his case was called for trial in Hamilton circuit court. He was indicted by the Marion county grand jury on charges of first degree murder growing out of the death of Thornton Lamont, who was killed in an argument over liquor. Conviction would have carried a penalty of death in the electric chair. State and defense counsel agreed to the plea of guilty on the lesser charge when Smith expressed fear of the electric chair. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Michigan City.

CALL MASS MEETING OF STATE FARMERS 10,000 Expected to Attend Session Here to Discuss Tax Strike. Home owners must “strike while the iron is not” and “demand fair treatment,” said letters received today by presidents of county farm bureau branches throughout the state. The letters, written by William H. Settle, president of the Indiana farm bureau, calls a meeting of farmers and property owners in the Claypool Thursday afternoon at 1. At the meeting, the advisability of calling a “holiday tax strike” pending favorable legislation by the general assembly,” and broadening the tax base, will be determined, bureau members said. Ten thousand persons are expected to attend. The farm bureau legislative program calls for tapping new sources of revenues, to replace property taxes, including levies on sales, incomes and intangibles. MERCURY TO STAY AT NORMAL. IS FORECAST Cooler Weather Predicted for Tuesday; No Drastic Drops Expected. Indianapolis is scheduled for a period of normal winter weather tonight and Tuesday, with probably rain or snow, according to a weather bureau forecast. Temperatures today were from 12 to 18 degrees higher than Sunday over the entire state as sunshine replaced last week's wintry sky and frigid weather. Thermometer readings were in vincinity of the freezing mark Sunday night. Tuesday will be slightly colder, but no drastic mercury drop is expected, J. H. Armington, meterologist, said. Temperature readings in western states today still were near the zero level, but severe winter appeared to have loosened its grip in northern Canada, where last week's storm originated, Armington said. FOUR WIN TOP HONORS Indianapolis Students Rank Highest in Franklin Classes. By Times Syccial FRANKLIN, Ind., Feb. 13.—Four Indianapolis students at Franklin college here ranked among the highest in their classes, according to announcement of mid-year grades. Miss Mary Owen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percival Owen of 402 North Meridian street, is the highest ranking freshman. Other ranking students are Vance Waggoner, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. W’aggoner, R. F. D. 1: Miss Beatrice Roehm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Roehm. 203 North Arsenal avenue, and Miss Katherine Lee. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby C. Lee, 1010 Ashland avenue.

Disastrous Floods Peril Two Chinese Provinces

By I'nitcd Prigg PEIPING, Feb. 13. —Disastrous floods were reported today to be threatening two provinces of China, one of which still was crushed by the effects of an earthquake which, according to some estimates took 70.000 lives. Wholesale destruction of life by flood was feared in the distant inland province of Kansu, where the earthquake occurred last December. Shantung province, on the YellowSea, also was threatened, ice floes from high mountain gorges sending the Yellow river level rapidly upward. Dykes alrear'v were reported crumbling in Shantung and

Job Grabber New Knitting Machine Does Work of More Than 3,000 Persons. | By l'tiiled Press NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—An exhibit of interest to technocrats was shoyn to the public today in the Grand Central Palace when the knitwear industrial exposition opens. It is a knitting machine which enables one operator to do the work of more than 3,000 persons knitting by hand. It has twentyfour yarn feeds, an increase of sixteen over earlier models. This makes possible the production of fifty square yards of fabric an hour. One person can operate four such machines. DOZEN STORES AND HOMESARE LOOTED Loot Valued at Over S2OO, Police Report. Thieves ransacked a dozen homes and stores during the week-end, obtaining cash and valuables worth more than S2OO, police said. After fire damaged roof cf his home at 430 South West street Sunday morning, William Reed reported theft from the house of goods worth about .SSO. Burglars wrecked counters and display cases and obtained unestimated amount of loot in a pharmacy at 602 South Illinois street Sunday night. Other thefts: Thomas H. Cox, 508 Laurel street, $10; Mrs. Fred Brow'n, 4011 Eao, New r York street, S4O; Albert Sterne, 3060 North Meridian street, unestimated; Stoke pharmacy, 226 North Meridian street, S3O; Edward W. Miller, 1208 East Tabor street, $1,650 in bonds; Orville C. Brown, 920 North Alabama street, $100; Gerald McDaniels, 5156 Manlove avenue, $45; Alton Flint, 542 Holly street, S2B; A. & P. store, 2668 Northwestern avenue, unestimated, and Standard grocery, 2604 North Capitol avenue, unestimated. BROTHERS ARE JAILED Arrested After Police Are Attracted by Woman’s Screams. Two men w r ere arrested on blind tiger charges early Sunday when police entered an apartment at 522 Fletcher avenue after their attention had ben attracted by a woman's screams. Luther Blair, brother of Milton Blair, accupant of the apartment, was sent to city hospital for treatment of a severed artery in his wrist, received from a fragment of a glass jug which he broke in the sink as police entered. Luther Blair was charged with drunkenness and resisting an officer. Miss Clydia Hayes, 24. of 332’Virginia avenue, was arrested on a vagrancy charge. Police said they confiscated several bottles of home brew. BEATEN BANDIT FLEES Gas Station Attendant Bests Robber in Fistic Battle. A bruised head was the booty of a bandit who Sunday afternoon attempted to rob Orville Grider, 21, of 4314 Schofield avenue, attendant at a gas station at McCarty street and Maaison avenue. Responding to the gunman’s order, Grider started to hand over a roll of bills. The bandit became careless and lowered his revolver, in reaching for the money. Grider seized the weapon with one hand and struck the thug in the face with his other hand. In the struggle that followed, Grider got possession of the gun and struck the bandit on the head. The gunman fled. Police said the weapon was not loaded.

' coolies were working desperately to rebuild them before the water rose too high. The first official, but wholly incomplete, reports from the Kansu province earthquake to the headquarters of the China international famine relief, brought by foreigners traveling by camel, said 800 houses had been destroyed in mountains and towns. The earthquake was reported to have rocked the entire Kansu plateau for a radius of 100 miles. Kansu's population is estimated at 6.000.000. Foreigners who brought first news of the disaster said the earthquake destroyed scores of i towns and villages.

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HOOSIER BUNK BANDITS SLAIN Killed by Police in Gun Battle After Arrest at St. Louis. BtJ United Press ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13.—Authorities here today dug into the past of Jack Butler, slain by police, in an effort to identify his slain companion, while Indaina authorities, who identified them as Washington, Ind., bank robbers, sought to connect them with other recent bank holdups. The two men were shot to death by Deputy Constable Charles Bradley Jr., in a gun battle In a police car, when they were arrested on a speeding charge, late Saturday As the police car started toward Clayton, the county seat, one of the bandits said: “Let’s give ’em the works.” Arthur Lazear, also an officer, who was driving the car, was shot through the arm. Bradley, r.ding on the running board, shot both men to death. When police found a grip containing nearly $5,000 in the speeders’ car, the pair were suspected ox being the bandits who earlier had held up the State Bank of Washington, Ind. Police communicated with authorities there. Two Washington officers came here early Sunday and identified them as the bandits. They said one of the men was Jack Butler, married in Kansas City a week ago. F. C. Huntington, Indianapolis, investigator for the American Surety Company, who viewed the bodies, said the pair fitted the description of the bandits who held up a bank at Lyons, Ind., recently and one in Tennessee. DIARY OF SUSPECT •TELLS ALL,’ IS CLAIM Tennessee Man Confesses Theft Here, Police Assert. Investigation of the past life of Charles M. Cole, 22, Nashville, Tenn., was simplified for police Saturday because Cole carefully had kept a diary during his stay in Indianapolis. Entries in the book included a brief account of the theft of an automobile, an accident in which it was wrecked and the robbery of an east side home, police said. Cole was arrested for investigation in connection with an automobile theft, and the diary was found in his possession. Confronted with it, Cole is said to have admitted stealing, an automobile from V. M. Concannon, 4612 East Michigan street, and entering the home of Mrs. Fred Brown of 4011 East New York street, last Wednesday, he is alleged to have obtained jewelry valued at S3O. FIRE DESTROYS CHURCH Flames Are Discovered Soon After Sunday Morning Service Ends. Shortly after the morning service had ended, fire Sunday destroyed the Maywood Methodist church, a one-story frame structure, causing loss estimated by firemen at $1,500. Charles Fancher, 14, Maywood, discovered the blaze, which originated from an overheated furnace. Indianapolis fire apparatus was summoned, but was unable to halt progress of the fire.

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WET DISSENSION MAY SAVE DRY LAWJMLAIM House Will Not Pass Senate Repeal Bill, Says L. E. York. Dissension among wet leaders is the hope of prohibition, according to L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, who spoke at the convention of state dry leaders today at the First Baptist church. York reviewed the national and state actions of the wet forces in attempting to repeal prohibition bills. He cited the disapproval of avowed wets with special privileges he alleged were to be given the French Lick hotel by the beer bill. “Even if the national repeal law were to pass the senate. I do not think it would be accepted by the house,” he said. Sees Corruption Looming The passing of the repeal law in Indiana rests entirely upon Governor Paul McNutt, according to York. “If the Governor is not in favor of the beer bill it will not go through,” he said. “The passing of this bill w’ill give a chance for more corruption in this state than ever before. The power of the Governor to appoint brewers and other officials dealing with it, is unlimited.” Representatives of towns were present at the meeting. Dr. C. H. Winders, former executive secretary of the Indianapolis Church Federation, and now a lecturer for the Anti-Saloon League, was named permanent chairman. Whisky Containers Displayed Dr. Winders denied that the results of the past eleciton were an indication that the people wanted repeal of the prohibition laws. “An economic situation, and not a wet and dry proposition, swept these officers into power,” he said. Two whisky containers, said to be duplicates of those sent to druggists throughout the state, were displayed by Rev. J. R. Stelle, Fortville, prominent in the Dry Knights of America. They are sent out by a Louisville distiller, in anticipation of the return of liquor. Dr. Stelle said. M’NUTT TO ADDRESS DEMOCRATIC EDITORS First Important Speech to Be Given at Banquet Friday Night. Governor Paul V. McNutt, will deliver his first important public address since his inauguration, before members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, newspapermen and advertising men attending a banquet at the Claypool Friday night. Conferences will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday, by state newspaper and advertising representatives. “The Business of Government” will be McNutt’s subject Clarence P. Wolfe, president of the editorial association, will preside, and a dance will follow. The meeting is expected to be the largest of the association held in the state in twenty-five years and the Indiana Weekly Press Association, the Indianapolis Advertising Club and the Indiana University journalism short courses are combining annual meetings with the three-day session.

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recommendations to the dairy companies of Chicago. The dairymen probably will demand that the retail price of milk be increased from 9 to 10 cents a quart. HITS SCHOOL SLASHES President of Unitarian Laymen Assails Education Budget Cuts. Warning against too drastic cuts in education budgets was sounder Sunday by Herbert C. Parsons, Boston, president of the Unitarian Laymen’s League, in an address at the closing session of the league's midwestern convention. The meeting was held at the All Souls' Unitarian church. “There is no reason why an orgy of spending should be followed by an orgy in saving." he declared. “In each case the action is without reasoning or calculation." Budgets are being reduced by financial leaders without conferring with educators. Parsons charged, which has resulted in severe lass in the school curriculum.