Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1933 — Page 5

I EB. 23, 1933

MAJORITY RULE DEMANDED ON REPEAL ISSUE Proposal That Delegates Be . Elected at Large Made by Lawyers. BV HERBERT LITTLE Timf* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—A proposal that delegates to repeal conventions be elected at large, with all voters of each state voting simply for a repeal slate or an antirepeal slate of candidates, has been submitted to the state legislatures now in session by the voluntary committee of lawyers working for "Repeal. Joseph H. Choate Jr. of New York and other men on this committee have prepared a general bill, with provisions to be modified to conform to each state's election laws, to carry out this plan. This plan already has been taken under consideration in many of the forty-two state legislatures now sitting, according to Jouett Shouse, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Some drys have proposed that the convention delegates be elected by congressional districts, or from each county or state legislative district. This is opposed on the ground -that the city population, which has increased since the districts were laid out, would not be given adequate representation. Express Majority’s Will Shouse pointed out that the atlarge election system if followed will give “the direct and definite expression of a majority of each state.’’ “Thus,” he said, “there wall be avoided any opportunity to defeat the popular will through a mode of selecting delegates from gerrymandered districts which are not in any ftrue senre representative, “While, of course, under the plan of having the legislatures create the conventions and provide for the elections incident thereto it will not be possible to secure absolute uniformity as to representation in the conventions, yet all states alike may provide for the election of delegates by a state-wide vote and thus secure In the most definite sense an expression of the popular will. Must Not Restrict Vote “As I heretofore have said, unless a majority of the people in thirty-six states want the eighteenth amendment repealed, it should remain as a basic part of •the Constitution, but there must not be allowed any attempt to restrict or to pervert a direct expression of a majority by permitting the establishment of conventions so constituted as to be unrepresentative. “With the opportunity through the election of delegates to hold a popular referendum on the question of repeal or retention of the eighteenth amendment, our association is convinced that not merely thirty-six states will ratify the repeal resolution, but that there will be an overwhelming verdict in behalf of ratification in many more than the thirty-six that are required.”

PRETTY DIVORCEE SLAIN Confession Is Claimed from Alleged Killer; Jealousy Blamed. By I nili il I’rcss OTTAWA, 111., Feb. 23.—Mrs. Patsy Shubnell, pretty 21-year-old Chicago divorcee, was shot and killed today in the home of John McCormick hero. Sheriff E. J. Welter arrested Arthur Ringney, 46. of Hannibal, Mo., and claimed Ringney confessed the slaying. Tile sheriff attributed the shooting to jealousy.

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40-Year-Old Bourbon to Stay Caged, Repeal or Not

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ILLINOIS LIFE DEALORDERED Associated Mutuals Will Take Over Business of Defunct Company. By 1 nilcrl Press CHICAGO. Feb. 23.—The Associated Mutuals Insurance Company of Boston was authorized by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson today to take over the business of the defunct Illinois Life Insurance Company. Judge Wilkerson instructed General Abel Davis, receiver for the Illinois life, to enter negotiations with the Assocated Mutuals wth a view toward working out a plan under which the latter concern will form anew company and reinsure the policies of the Illinois Life. The Associated Mutuals w r as one of thirteen insurance companies that had made proposals for taking over the Illinois life business. , The Boston company, composed of several separate mutual concerns, proposes to form a separate company to handle the business of the Illinois Life which amounts to in excess of $130,000,000.

Andrew J. Stephans

Untouched Whisky Will Be Willed to Grandson, Says City Man. Repeal may come. It may unlock the doors of Kentucky distilleries, ! but there's one bottle of Cedar Brook sour mash whisky in Indianapolis that it won't be able to get out of its wire cage. The bottle, full of 40-year-old Bourbon, is shown in its gilded cage in the hands of its owner, Andrew J. Stephans, 85, of 210 North Walcott street. ‘Nope it won't be opened if proI hibition goes. It'll stay right where | it is in that cage and when I die : my grandson will find he inherits it in my will,” Stephans says. The Cedar Brook, condemned to solitary confinement, was obtained :by Stephans Aug. 10 1897. At that I time it could be purchased for 75 cents. Stephans was property man at I police headquarters. It was brought | to headquarters as a portion of loot ! recovered after the robbery of a ! liquor storeroom. No one claimed it and. after thir- ! ty-one years service in the department, Stephans took the aged bottle with him upon his retirement. 4He keeps it in a safety deposit box ‘or his grandson, Joseph Newman, 5, of Los Angeles, and not for the return of legalized "hiccoughs.”

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LONE LOBBYIST HOPES TO KEEP OKLAHOMA DRY Lawyer of Anti-Saloon League Big Figure in Legislation. By Scripps-Hoicard Xeicspapcr Alliance OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 23. Some people are looking to one man to keep Oklahoma in the dry column while the rest of the nation is going wet. He is H. T. Laughoaum. dean of the statehouse lobbyists, who has figured in more legislation since statehood than any other man. Without any official connection, Laughbaum, Anti-Saloon League attorney, has had the privileges of the floor in both senate and house of representatives since the first legislature, and even had a seat at the press table at one period. At his home, Laughbaum will sit calmly reading “The Wet Parade,” by Upton Sinclair, and glance up long enough to tell you in a matter - of-face tone, “'I set up the machinery for killing house joint resolution No. 13, by Coe, which would repeal state prohibition.” Pressed for details, he becomes evasive. “That’s our secret,” he says. Friend of Alfalfa Bill Laughbaum came to Oklahoma from Denver before statehood and participated with his “close friend Bill Murray” in the constitutional convention. In fact it was in Guthrie during the early days that Laughbaum organized his powerful Anti-Saloon League lobby. “As attorney for the Anti-Saloon League, I opened offices in Guthrie and the night before the constitutional convention opened I called the twenty-two delegates friendly to the Anti-Saloon League into my office. “I said to them: I can’t possibly get in touch with all of you during the turmoil of this convention but there is Roy Allen of Duncan, who is the first man on the roll call. I can reach him. You fellow’s w 7 atch the way he votes, and you follow him. Vote exactly the way he does. That was the strategy we followed at the constitutional convention. It enabled us to put prohibition into the state Constitution.” Drafted Dry Resolution It was at the constitutional convention that Laughbaum threw his support, w’hich has continued to this day, to Governor Murray. Os all his achievements he looks back w : ith greatest pride to the time he drafted the Oklahoma resolution ratifying the eighteenth amendment. Once in a w’hile, Laughbaum joins forces with some of the other lobbyists. But not often. He prefers to play a lone hand. Laughbaum is confident he can keep Oklahoma in the dry column. JOHN A. LYONS NEW H, A. CORESIDENT Elected at Annual Meeting of Organization. At the annual election of the Hoosier Athletic Club Wednesday night, John A. Lyons was named president, succeeding E. E. McFerren. Other officers are L. M. Fehrenbach, first vice-president; Otto Roos, second vice-president; Edward F. Scherer, recording secretary; John L. Nicholson, corresponding secretary, and A, F. Westlund, treasurer. The Smithsonian Institution has received for exhibition the airship Pilgrim, the "first airship designed for inflation with helium gas.

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Mrs. Roosevelt Donates $60,000 Earnings to Poor BY GILBERT SWAN Times Staff Writer NEW YORK. Feb. 23.—A friend of Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt's tells I me that since Mr. Roosevelt was nominated for the presidency last November, Mrs. Roosevelt has made $60,000 on articles, speaking, indorsing —just $15,000 less than her husband's yearly salary will be. as President. She has turned everv cent of it over to charity.

Mrs. Roosevelt

Refund National Debt by . Legal Tender Notes, Is Plea

Non-Interest Basis Urged in Proposal to Spur U. S. Trade. By Scripps-Hoicard Xeicspapcr Alliance DAYTON, 0., Feb. 23.—The suggestion that the government can refund much of the national debt by issuing non-interest-bearing notes stimulating business thereby without inflating the money system, was made today by John F. Ohmer, president of the Ohmer Fare Register Company here. His plan is for congress to authorize the refunding of the several billions in bonds which the government can call this year, by giving in exchange United States notes of small and convenient denominations, which w’ould be legal tender, in values of from $lO to SIOO each. He estimates this would save the government about $500,000,000 in interest charges, and to that extent enable the government to balance its budget. These notes with the circulation privilege would stimulate business activity to a marked degree, Ohmer believes. “Money must be put to work, and large banking interests as well as private holders of government securities, would seek investment for these non-interest-bearing notes,” he said. “The incentive to invest captal in tax-free federal interestbearing securities would be removed, and, consequently, this would mean an automatic increase in income taxes.” Ohmer said this plan would not involve inflation, and specified that the issue of “legal tender” would apply only in refunding outstanding securities—now aggregating about s2o,ooo.ooo,ooo—and not to any new government borrowings. He would have congress specify that the purchasing power of the new notes would be equal to that of Male Chorus to Give Program Program by the Rodeheaver male chorus of twenty voices will be presented at the First United Brethren church, Park avenue and Walnut street, at 7:45 Friday night under auspices of the Brotherhood Bible class. The chorus is directed by : Charles W. Daugherty.

She gave $5,000 to the White Plains Athletic Association, for some special work they are doing among women, and she has given certain amounts weekly to Mrs. Harvey D. Gibson, for the emergency unemployment committee, to Harry Hopkins for his unemployment fund, and to the Woman's Trade Union League. She has given, on alternate weeks, money to the Salvation Army and to the Henry Street Settlement, for its visiting nurses. She has given lump sums to the Volunteers of America, the Y. W C. A., the Y. W. H. A. and the Catholic organization that works with women, the Children's Aid, “Save a Child Fund” and other philanthropic organizations in which she is interested. Mrs. Roosevelt, long known for her interest in the Women's Trade Union League, refused, it seems, to have her inaugural clothes made by a well-known upper Fifth avenue dress house, because it has maintained a non-union organization among its dressmakers.

any money now circulating. The new notes would have a fixed maturity date, w’hen they would be retired with regular currency.

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WALTER MYERS JR, IS STRICKEN AT YALE Emergency Operation Made for Appendicitis. Walter Myers Jr.. 18. :on of the former Speaker of the Indiana

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house of representatives, is critically ill in a New Haven (Conn.* hospital following an emergency operation for appendicitis. He is a sophomore at Yale university. Mr. and Mrs. Myers left Indianapolis by plane this morning and were expected to be at the sons bedside lat? today. Young Myers is a graduate of Shortridge high 1 school.

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