Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1933 — Page 3

MARCH 29, 1933

CITY WOMEN’S COUNCIL ASKS UTILITY CUTS Voluntary Reductions Urged in Resolutions Sent to Companies. Resolutions asking Indianapolis j utilities to voluntarily reduce rates' were adopted by the Indianapolis Council of Women and the ButlerFalrview Civic Association Tuesday. The council represents about 100 women's clubs, with membership throughout, the city of around 35,000. The resolutions, presented by Mrs. Delbert O. Wilmoth, chairman of the resolutions committee, were j adopted without a dissenting vote. Copies will be sent to the Indi- i anapolis Power and Light Company, Citizens Gas Company. Indianapolis Water Company and the Bell Telephone Company. McNutt to Get Copy They also will be sent to Governor Paul V. McNutt and the public service commission, Mrs. Wilmoth said. Similar action may be taken at the meeting of the Indiana Council of Women to be held next month, which represents a membership of nearly 100,000. The council resolutions set out that the present economic situation has reduced “substantially” the earning power of all people and that all commodity prices, oxcep f utilities, have been reduced materially. Discuss Phone Rates Since the dollar has greater purchasing power now, “it is the general feeling and has been for several years” that utility rates should be reduced, the resolutions continued. A voluntary reduction is asked “consistent with the decreased earning power of the people and in keeping with the lower prices of other commodities." Mrs. B B. McDonald introduced the resolutions at the civic association session. Although no action was taken on a special proposal for the reduction of telephone rates, considerable discussion was devoted to the question. 51.50 Law Is Lauded Several speakers suggested circulation of a petition seeking the reduction, wit h the understanding that *lf the request was not granted, each signer would order his telephone removed. Declaration was made by Gavin L. Payne, principal speaker at the meeting, that the $1.50 tax levy limit law is established so firmly that it never will be removed from the statute books. Co-operation of property owners is essential, however, to prevent avoidance of the law, Payne stated, and urged members of the organization to insist that the levy limit be observed. UTILITY GOUGING LAID AT HIGH COURT'S DOOR Success of “Writing Up" Book Value Laid to Justices’ Attitude. 70/ Scripps-Hownrri Nrwxpapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. March 29.—The success of utility companies in "writing up” the book value of their properties and collecting a “fair” return on inflated values is traced to the attitude of the United States supreme court in a report just filed with the federal trade commission by Judson C. Dickerman, engineerexaminer for the commission. The report deals with the Associated Gas and Electric Company system and its counsel, W. A. Hill, made an unsuccessful effort, a few days ago, to have Dickerman’s comments stricken from the record. John W. Bennett, trial examiner, before whom the utility investigation is being conducted, admitted the report and offered to permit the company (o file an answer to it also for the record. Dickerman called attention to , high electric rates charged by the associated system in a territory v ere the presence of cheap coal would indicate low production costs. GROTTO WRECK SUIT RETRIAL IS ORDERED Rehearing Is Refused by State Supreme Court in Damage Case. Rehearing of the Grotto wreck damage suit, in which the Indiana supreme court reversed a Shelby circuit court decision and hold ;he Union Traction Company liable, has been denied by the high court and the case ordered to re-trial in the lower court. The suit for damages was instituted by Mrs. Oliver Watson, widow of John Watson, a wreck victim. Twenty members of Sahara Grotto were killed when a truck trailer in which they were riding was struck by a traction car at the Emerson avenue crossing on the night of Oct. 14. 1927. Conviction of Walter A. Huffman, 39. former state representative from Elkhart, on a fraudulent check charge, was upheld by the high court. Huffman must serve a one to ten-year sentence in the Indiana state prison. The sentence was imposed by the Elkhart circuit court in 1929. Huffman was a member of the house in the 1925 and 1927 sessions AIRLINE LAYS PLANS Increased Traffic Expected During Century of Progress Exposition. Preparations for increasing service to care for heavy passenger traffic to and from Chicago during the Century of Progress exposition are being made by American Airways, it was announced today by Ted E. Griffin, city traffic manager. The airline plans to provide a complete service for its patrons, per- j mitting fair visitors to buy air transportation and exposition tickets, j make hotel arrangements and obtain information on the fair at the j local American Airways office in the main lobby of the Claypool. Tearoom Employe Is Held Up Francis Howard, 1901 North Tal- | bot street, employe of the Apex tearom, 129 East Sixteenth street, was robbed of approximately S2O by a I bandit who met him as he closed the tearoom Tuesday night. Point- | fJig a revolver at Howard, the bandit forced him to re-enter the place j and give up the contents of the tearoom till. 1

Horse Throws Dietrich; Star Badly Injured

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Marlene Dietrich By United Prr** HOLLYWOOD, March 29.—Marlene Dietrich, German screen beauty, suffered bruises and a possible brain concussion when thrown from a horse she was riding for a motion picture scene, it became known today. Miss Dietrich was under a physician’s care at her Beverly Hills home, and will be unable to work for several days, Paramount studio officials said.

NOTRE DAME DEAN CLAIMED BY DEATH Colonel William Hoynes Is Taken at South Bend. B}f 7 nitrd Press SOUTH BEND. Ind., March 29. Colonel William Hoynes, 87, dean emeritus of the Notre Dame university law department, died Tuesday in St. Joseph’s hospital after a month’s illness. Colonel Hoynes was a native of County Kilkenny, Ireland. He served in the Union army during the Civil war and was graduated from the University of Michigan la// school in i372. He was made head of the law department at Notre Dame in 1883 and retired in 1918, after serving thirtyfive years. He was made a knight of St. Gregory by Pope Pius X in 1912. Funeral services will be held at Sacred Heart church at Notre Dame. PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS ROOSEVELT’S WEAPON Re-Survey of All Promised in Hoover Regime to Be Made. By Scripp*-Itou-ard Xctcspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, March 27.—1n addition to patronage, the administration has anew weapon ready for use in its fight for work relief for unemployed men, if congress proves recalctrant on this subject. A re-survey of all public works projects hertofore undertaken is proposed. The new administration will determine which postoffices, customs houses, wharves and jetties are needed at present, and which are not. All letting of contracts for such work stopped March 4. Budget Director Lewis Douglas disclosed this new policy at the joint hearing of house and senate labor committees on the administration bill for civilian conservation camps. Members of congress exhibited immediate concern over work which had been promised for their districts. The new survey is possible under existing legislation because the public works section of the relief bill adopted last July left it optional with the President to decide what work should be undertaken. PHOTO EXPERTS ELECT Master Finishers Name H. H. Carter of Seymour President. The Master Photo Finishers of Indiana meeting in the Lincoln Monday. elected H. H. Carter of Seymour as their new president. A discussion was held on the technical and sales problems of the photo finishers. Airport Crew Quells Fire Quick action by members of the fire crew of the Indiana national guard airport saved a cottage owned by George Mays, near the a. r port, from destruction by fire Tuesday. The flames were confined to the roof. The blaze resulted from sparks from a flue which ignited a bird's nest in eaves of the house.

Deny Whisky for Medicine Price to Be Exorbitant

GENERAL belief that price of i medicinal whisky to be sold in Indianapolis as soon as legal machinery is arranged, probably in a week, will be exorbitant, was ! contradicted today by distillery representatives. Indianapolis citizens will be able to purchase rare old brands of medicinal whisky, some of it aged seventeen years in wood, at prices equal to or below those of Canadian liquor commissions, ranging from $2 to $3.75 retail for ] full pints, according to L. Michael Condon, local representative of a Louisville distillery. "Many fine old brands, such as •I. W. Harper,’ and “Old Warwick,' aged in wood seventeen years, can be scld for frem $2.50 to $2.75 a point," he said.

DEATH CLAIMS FORD CO. CITY FACTORY CHIEF Albert H. Geisel Is Taken Following Illness of Two Years. Following an illness of two years, Albert H. Geisel. 55, of 419 North DeQuincy street, night superintendent of the Ford Motor Car Company branch here, died Tuesday in the city hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2 Friday in the Paul E. Dorsey undertaking establishment. New York and Chester streets. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Mr. Geisel was a member of the Indiana Order of Odd Fellows, Logan lodge, F. & A. M., and the Emerson Avenue Baptist church. Former City Woman Dies Funeral services for Mrs. Josephine Davis Grove, 67, former Indianapolis resident, who died Tuesday at her home in Utica, 111., will be held there at 2 Friday afternoon, followed by burial in the Oak Hill | cemetery at Utica. Mrs. Grove, a daughter of Mr. I and Mrs. William E. Davis, was born | March 1. 1866. In girlhood, she was ' an active member of the Grace M. E. church when it stood at the northeast corner of Market and East street. Later she became affiliated with the Roberts Park M. E. church. In 1896 she became the bride of Henry Parr Grove of Utica. She | leaves her husband; two sisters. Misses Mary Elizabeth and Helen Davis, and a brother, Harry Davis, j all of Indianapolis. Mrs. Grove was a member of Caroline Scott Harrison chapter, D. ■ A. R„ of this city. Taken at Cleveland Mrs. Joseph A. Farrell, former Danville and Indianapolis woman, is dead at her home in Cleveland, relatives here have been informed. Funeral services will be held here .at the Finn Brothers mortuary, j Survivors of Mrs. Farrell include the husband; two daughters, Mrs. ! Nellie First and Miss Enna Farrell, j and a son, Harry Farrell, Cleveland; four sisters, Mrs. Nellie Hankins, Mrs. Amelia Mason, and Miss Emma Gates, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Carrie, McCord, McCordsville, Ind., and a brother, Ed Gates, Batesville, Ind. HOOVER GIVEN BACKING OF CZARIST RUSSIANS Former President Described “Near and Dear to Our Hearts.” | Up Rcrippn-Haward Newspaper Alliance ; WASHINGTON, March 29.—That Herbert Hoover was the choice for President of Czarist Russian emigres in the United States is revealed in a campaign manifesto, circulated in New York on Nov. 1 by the "Brotherhood of Russian Truth.” Under the heading "Stupidity or Treachery,” there was published in the Novoye Russkoye Slavo a fullpage article by Anastase A. Vonsiatsky, United States represntative of the brotherhood's “Fund for the Liberalization of Russia in the Memory of the Martyred Czar Nicholas II.” In this article “white” Americanized Russians, who voted for Roosevelt are given the choice of being stamped stupid or treacherous to “our Russian cause.” Hoover is described as “near and dear to our hearts,” and his activities in the American Relief Association in behalf of the emigres highly praised. “But,” added the writer, “the Russian people are more than all obligated to Hoover in that, in the post of President he, notwithstanding all the pressure from the outside, did not wish even to consider recognition by the United States of that band of international robbers calling | themselves the government of the U. S. S. R.” * ADDRESS 300 LAYMEN Missionary Leaders Give Talks at Third Christian Church. The hunger for God, despite wars and dissensions, in the world was related by two missionary leaders to 390 laymen of the Disciples of Christ churches of the city Tuesday night in the Third Christian church. The speakers were Dr. Samuel | Guy Inman, executive secretary of the committee on co-operation in | Latin-America, and Dr. Stephen J. Corey, president of the United I Christian Missionary Society. PASTOR’S HOME ROBBED Two Watches, SSOO in Cash Are Stolen, Report to Police. Two watches and SSOO in cash were stolen from his home at 379 North Warman avenue Tuesday night, the Rev. A. H. Busald. pastor of St. Anthony's church, reported to police. Name “Un-American;” Now Lemon lin L niteU Press JERSEY CITY. March 29 Charles Walter Lemanski, 25, of Bayonne, believed his name was “too un-American.” and Tuesday County Judge Thomas H. Brown granted him permission to change it to • “Lemon.”

"Excluding the cost of obtaining prescriptions, price of the 17-year-old brands to be sold in Indianapolis for medicinal purposes will be less than that of much younger Canadian whiskies." Condon explained that a fiftygallon barrel of whisky will evaporate about one gallon a year, resulting in loss of seventeen gallons in seventeen years, accounting for a higher price for the older whiskies. The government requires that all whisky sold be aged in wood at least four years, and dealers believe that by this summer ali the older stocks will have exhausted and the less expensive 4-year-old stocks will be available at reduced prices.

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SIFTS BANK COVERUP

Ferdinand Pecora, above, special counsel for the senate committee on banking and currency, launched an investigation of affairs of the Harriman National Bank and Trust Company, New York, after George Z. Medalie, United States attorney, disclosed he had withheld prosecution of Joseph W. Harriman, former chariman of the bank, last December at the direction of the department of justice.

CO-EDS SCORN ALTAR MARCH Or at Least They Do Now: Males Think They’re Fibbing. Bachelor degrees, not of the college kind, will be the lot of those males who cast eyes of love teeming with the desire for a sock-damer at Indiana Central colleges misses. Plain and fancy housework, thumping a fevered iron over a newly starched shirt, has lost caste at the college, a questionnaire reveals and the old spirit of Eggleston's “Hoosier Schoolmaster” still lives in the state. For eighty out of ninety-three coeds at the school declare they’ll swing the ferule and use chalk dust for face powder in preference to other occupations. But the male “studes,” brutish and skeptical as usual, declare that the eighty wishing to take the vows of A. B. C.s instead of matrimony, answered the questionnaire with tongue-in-cheek and a weather eye open for a purchaser of baked beans and baby perambulators. The Reflector, the college paper, points out that one couldn't expect co-educational statistics to read: “Wanted—One hundred jobs in one hundred kitchens.” “No that would be a disgrace to higher learning, but co-eds still are women in spite of all. And women will be that way,” the Reflector says.

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PAY TELEPHONE NICKEL RACKET CHARGER HERE Suspect Accused of Preying on Jobless Is Freed by Sheaffer. An alleged pay phone racketeer; who preyed on the hordes of unem- ! ployed seeking jobs at the state- j house and city hall today was discharged in municipal court four by I Judge William H. Sheaffer because , of inability of police to find a complaining witness. He was Paul Cox. 1526 East Twelfth street, arrested on a technical charge of vagrancy after an investigation by detectives and telephone company inspectors. The statehouse and city hall pay phones do a heavy daily business ordinarily and this has been increased by the presence of job seekers who make frequent calls to this friend and that in an effort to enlist influence to be used in obtaining an appointment. Cox, according to detectives, used j an ordinary paper napkin and a hook made of fine wire to despoil j pay phones of dozens of nickels, i Here is the alleged method of op- j elation: The napkin would be stuffed high up into the coin return slot so no J glimpse of white was visible. Thus,! on a call where the connection was i not completed, the napkin would catch the returning coins soundlessly. The wire hook would dislodge the ! napkin and cascade the accumu-! lated coins into the slot. Under statutes covering theft and embezzlement, complaint by a person who has suffered from the act is necessary. Police were unable to find any one 1 who would charge the theft of a nickel, so Sheaffer was forced to discharge Cox. CLIPS PLATFORM PLANK TO ‘WRITE’ MESSAGE New Story Reflects Informality Now Prevaiing in White House. Hi/ United Press WASHINGTON, March 29.—The latest story about Rooseveltian informality in the White House: The President was getting ready to write his historic 72-word beer message to congress. Laughingly he called Stephen T. Early, the press liason secretary. “Steve,” said Mr. Roosevelt, “bring me a copy of the Democratic platform.” “Steve” did. The President snipped out the short prohibition plank with a pair of scissors, pasted it on a sheet of paper, wrote a few lines above and below and signed it. He sent it to be copied and mimeographed. The result was one of the shortest presidential messages on record. House Vacant? Let a Times Want Ad and a FREE listing in The Times Spring Rental Directory do the job of renting. Call Riley 5551 for complete information.

State’s Champion Fiddler to Play at World Fair

Contest Will Be Held Here to Select Best OldTime Musician. Contest for old time fiddlers and bands will be held Saturday. April 8, at Cadle tabernacle to pick a state champion to be entered in a national contest to be held in Chicago during the Century of Progress World's fair?

Justice Van Devanter to Quit U. S. Supreme Court

Speculation Centers About Hiram Johnson as His Successor. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Speeial Writer WASHINGTON. March 29. Justice Willis Van Devanter of the United States supreme court will retire within the next two months, it is believed here on the basis of apparently reliable information. His retirement will give President Roosevelt his first opportunity to strengthen the liberal minority on the supreme court, possibly to transform it into a majority. The appointment will go to the

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Tire National Fiddlers’ Association is sponsoring the contests. In addition to the champion, cash awards will be made to several of the best contestants. Judging will be solely on the basis of audience applause. All expenses of the state champion in connection with participating in the national contest will be paid by the Fiddlers' Association. There will be two performances in the state contest, at 2:30 and 8 p. m.

west, it is believed, and speculation centers about the name of Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California. Justice Van Devanter was appointed from Wyoming, and his retirement would leave the west with no representative except Justice Sutherland of Salt Lake City. Justice Van Devanter was appointed to the court in 1910 by former President Taft. Earlier he had been ’ selected for a place on the circuit court by Theodore Roosevelt. He was an assistant attorneygeneral under former President McKinley. and had been prominent in Republican politics for years before that. He will be 74 years old in April.

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JIM WATSON TO STAY IN CITY Reiterates Decision Not to Seek Elective Office: to Be Rushville Voter. Former Senator James F. Watson will make Indianapolis his future headquarters, although his voting ' residence will be in his former home ■ at Rushville. he announced Tuesday. Watson has taken a room in the suite of the law firm of White, Wright & Boeman in the Merchants bank building. While his work will take him frequently to Washington and to Chicago. the former senator said he had decided not to follow the example of many former members of congress, who will remain, in Washington. Watson reiterated his decision not Ito seek an elective office. He said that if still in the senate he would ; have voted for every Roosevelt measure up to this time, but expressed doubt as to effectiveness of the President's agricultural relief measure. Operation of the new Indiana beer 1 law for several months before the ! special constitutional election would j tend to hurt the wet cause, he said. Watson is staying at the Columbia I Club, pending the arrival here of : Mrs. Watson in about ten days. The former senator is to speak at the I forty-fourth annual beefsteak din- ; ner of the Columbia Club Thursday