Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1933 — Page 4

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SPECIAL POLICE PATROL ILLINOIS MINING FIELDS Town Virtually Is Under Martial Law: All Schools Are Closed. By United Prrm ZEIGLER, 111., March 29 Hundreds of special police patrolled the Franklin county coal fields today 1 enforcing what amounted to martial law against renewal of factional mine war. The muzzle of a machine gun mounted at the city hall was trained on headquarters of the Progressive Miners of America across the street. School classes were dismissed in sear 1 children may be wounded in an' outbreak. A street fight Monday between! Progressive miners and United Mine j Workers of America caused the deaths of two men and the wounding of another at West Frankfort The specially deputized officers were instructed by Sheriff Browning Robinson to prevent groups foiming, to confiscate firearms, and question any one whose actions ap- j peared suspicious. Orders Roads Guarded The sheriff ordered guards posted I on all roads leading into Franklin county to prevent ingress of a caravan of Central Illinois miners reported en route here. Funeral services were held at West Frankfort today for Frank Ward, Progressive Miners union leader, killed in the street battle Monday. His funeral came a few hours after death of Elmer Donaldson, Eldorado miner, shot in the same affray. Clarence Cooper was wounded and hospital attendants at West Frankfort said he probably would die. Mayor Murphy Smith of Zeigler was in Springfield, where he planned to ask Governor Henry j Horner for permission to establish a provisional government. Tire 1 mayor protested Sheriff Browning's policy of policing the city with deputies. Seven Mines Working Seven Franklin county mines were reported working with normal crews and others with reduced forces. They are manned by United Mine Workers, who ignored the plea of Progressives last Monday to “shake off your chains” and "throw 7 down your tools.” West Frankfort progressives sent a protest to Governor Horner, complaining that United Mine Workers and were "ntimidating and beating miners in their homes.” Their telegram declared that “conditions are so bad in West Frankfort that we were forced to come to Zeigler to send this telegram

What Is It? Certain Something in Reno Makes Women Change Minds. i?;/ United rrrs* RENO, Nev.. March 29.—There's a certain something in Reno that makes people change their minds, Russ Colombo, radio crooner, opined today. His experience, he admitted, was like Rudy Vallee’s in this western divorce center—only different. Russ started west to wed a New York society girl after she obtained her divorce, he said. While he was en route, she wired him she'd changed her mind. Vallee’s wife, the chic Fay Webb, was her consulting lawyers some months ago. She, too, changed her mind—and started back east to her crooning husband after a long-dis-tance telephone conversation with him. Colombo didn't name the girl, who changed her mind. He denied it was Hannah Williams Kahn, wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn, New York orchestra leader and banker's son. “We're just a couple of old friends in a strange city," Colombo said of Miss Williams. “That's right.” she agreed. EDITOR TO GIVE TALK Talcott Powell to Address Real Estate Board Thursday. Talcott Powell, editor of The Times, will be the speaker Thursday noon at the weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board at the Washington. Powell will discuss mutual responsibility of the press and community groups in working toward the common goal of economic recovery. Church to Hold Guest Banquet Church guest night will be observed Thursday night in the revival meeting being conducted by the Rev. R. M. Dodrill, pastor of the College Avenue Baptist church, at the Memorial Baptist church, of which the Rev. George G. Kinsey is pastor. Charles Daugherty is in charge of singing. There are more than 7.0C0 islands in the Philippine group, of which only 2.441 are named.

Almanac March 20^ 1790-John Tyler, President of US.,bom 1795-The Helvetian Pe|Hillic proclaimed, I&SV Dcwolf Hopper lK)nt. 1^53-Pemocra tic conspiracy discovered in Berlin f 1935*Ant i-democratic conspiracy discoveredin Berlin // '

Play the New Game of Presidents; Win a Prize

Cash and Theater Tickets Will Be Given Victors in Contest. Anew deal h3s come to the American people. The President promised it and the President provided it. Anew game—the game of Presi- j dents—comes to the people of In- j dianapolis. It's fun. It will appeal to every man, woman, and child in the city. | Furthermore, it has distinctive edu-; rational value .and in addition to this it will yield many valuable awards. The Game of Presidents takes in every chief executive this country j has known, beginning with Wash- j ington and continuing on through J the new President. There have been j thirty-one presidents of the United! States. Can you name them? If you can't, don't worry, because j The Times will identify them for! you. All you need is a pair of shears, a little paste, and some clean paper. Instructions Are Simple Then follow a few simple instructions: Beginning Thursday, The Times will publish the photographs of six former Presidents of the United States. Friday, others will appear, and so on until all of them have been published. Each President will be identified. 1. Contestants must save these pictures. When all have been published, clip them out and paste them up in the order that they served. Example: 1. Washington; 2. etc., i etc., etc. 2. After you have all the Presidents, select the one you think is the greatest and then write a letter of not more than 100 words telling which President you like the best and why you think he is the greatest. 3. Mail your letter, together with the pictures of the Presidents, to the PRESIDENT'S GAME EDITOR, care of The Times. Neatness and originality will be important factors in determining the winners. It doesn't matter which President you rhoose: your reasons for choosing him will be the important thing. Appears on Palace Screen Friday the most unusual story of a President ever told will come to the screen at Loew’s Palace theater. It is “Gabriel Over the White House,” starring Walter Huston and featuring the beautiful Karen Morley. The best twenty-five letters will win guest tickets to see “Gabriel Over the White House” at Loew's. A cash prize of $lO will be given for the best, single letter of the lot. For the second best letter $5 will be awarded, and the third best $2.50. So get your shears, paste and paper ready. The Game of Presidents is easy and a lot of fun. It may mean a cash prize and a pair of tickets to see “Gabriel Over the White House” at Loew’s. TRIBUTE TO FOUNDERS Pioneers of Southport Presbyterian Church to Be Honored Thursday. Southport Presbyterian church will hold a centennial commemoration service honoring its founders in connection with the annual meetof the church Thursday night. The Rev. Luther E. Markin, pastor, will rededicate the church, unveiling an engrossed parchment to commemorate the founding. Four girls, clad in white surplices, will bear a miniature "church of consecration” to the altar and unveil it. Howard Smith will discuss the elaborate _entennial to be held in September.

Contract Bridge

BY \V. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League NEW JERSEY may be considered one of our smallest states, but it is one of the most important in the world of bridge. It is at Asbury Park, N. J„ that the annual national summer tournament of the American Bridge League is held, and it is at this tournament that the great national masters’ pair contest is played. Only those who have won a national championship is eligible to participate in this event. Deal, N. J.. this year is the home of the president of the American Bridge League and at Deal annually the twentyfive selected players of the United States participate in the national individual masters' championship event. a a a DEAL also is the home of the acknowledged world's greatest card player and captain of the famous Four Horsemen, P. Hal Sims, who has won more national championships than any other players in the world. Asa matter of record, there are few national cups which do not have the name of Sims engraved upon them. While visiting at the home of Sims recently, the writer received from him the following unusually ! interesting hand. South (Dealer) Spades AKQ8765432 Hearts A K Diamonds None Clubs A While the chances are only one in several million of your being dealt such a hand, let us assume that you are the lucky one. What would be your opening bid? a a a WE see at once that there is a < sure cold grand slam at spades. I know many players will answer. "Well. I would bid two diamonds and try to t get doubled at seven spades." However, Sims had a definite bid for this hand when it was dealt to him at a duplicate game at Deal recently. He is the creator of the original three forcing bid used in the one-over-one system of contract. Let me explain this bid to you. An original three bid is a forcing bid. just the same as an original forcing two bid. However, in the original three bids, you definitely state that you have one solid suit, that you ne’d no trump support from partner, that you do not have over two or three losing cards, and that all you’re interested in is whether partner holds certain high cards—that is, aces or kings. I

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Kt. Hon H. B. Lees-Smith Final lecture of the Indianapolis Town Hall series will be delivered at 10:30 Friday morning in the ballroom of the Columbia Club by Rt Hon. H. B. Lees-Smith, member of the British cabinet under two administrations, having served as postmaster-general and minister of education. “What’s Wrong With Europe?” will be the subject of Lees-Smith. He will explain why, thirteen years after the World war, Europe still is filled with hatred, fear and the military spirti. He is the author of several books, including “India and the Tariff Problem” and “Studies in Indian Economics.”

BRAND SCHOOL AS ‘EYESORE’ Board Admits Insanitary Conditions, Promises Early Remedy. Complaint from parents that lives | of pupils at School 87. at 2402 Paris j avenue, are endangered by improper housing conditions was taken under advisement by the school board Tuesday night. The board received a letter from the school’s Parent-Teacher Association. urging consideration be given the school, whenever the board can resume its building program. The letter alleged insanitary conditions have become the source of much sickness among children. “Moreover, the school remains a fire hazard in spite of improvements made during the year,” the letter said. School officials stated 391 pupils attend the school.

City’s ‘Unknown’ Traced by Postoffice Sleuth

Force of Fifteen Is Kept Busy Handling Mail Sent Improperly. Hunting for the city’s unknown residents, for whom more than 2.000 letters arrive daily at the Indianapolis postoffice, requires a force of fifteen people. O. L. Hittle. gray-haired foreman, and his assistants in t'he director

When you open with a three oid, .vour partner, if he holds an ace, must respond with that suit. If he holds two aces, he must respond first with the ace of trump and then, if the original bidder replies with no trump, he should next show his second ace. For example, suppose you were to open with a bid of three hearts and partner held the ace of spades and j the ace of diamonds. His proper response would be three spades—even though it were a : singleton of spades. Now, if the original bidder bid | three no trump, then the partner ; must respond with four diamonds, ! regardless of the diamond strength, J as long as he holds an ace. a a a THEREFORE, when this hand was dealt. Sims was not inj terested in simply playing the hand for a grand slam at spades. He saw an opportunity to play the hand at no trump if his partner held the ace of diamonds, so ! his original bid was three spades. This forced partner to respond ! with any suit in which he holds an ace. Now if his partner were to respond .with three no trump. Sims, of course, would play the hand at ; seven spades. However, if partner held the ace 1 of diamonds he would respond with four diamonds, and this is all the ; information Sims needs to arrive at j a contract of seven no trump. While the hand presents no play- ! ing problem, I believe it presents ! one of the most unusual and inter- | esting bidding problems of the year. i (Copyright. 1033. by NEA Service. Ire.'

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

STATE VICTOR IN CLASH OVER CEMENT PRICE Commission Will Permit Contractors to Make Product Purchases. First round in the cement price battle of the state highway commission and cement manufacturers was won today by the commission when it announced that 800.000 barrels oi the 1.400,000 barrels of cement it had been planned to buy will be purchased by contractors, instead of the state. The commission's action was the climax of attempts to get bids at varying prices. On the first attempt, cement companies offered practically the same prices. The commission rejected all bids and readvertised, and required bidders to make noncollusion affidavits and provide bonds. i The second set of bids showed little price variations. Contractors Buy Cheaper In announcing the decision to have contractors buy the 800.000! barrels, James Adams, commissionj chairman, said he had information j that contractors have been able to j buy 20 cents a barrel cheaper in small quantities than the commis-! sion, which sometimes purchased 2,000.000 barrels. The chairman also commented on the fact that last year’s base price at cement factories was 70 cents a barrel, while this year the price is

$1.20. Five Companies Get Orders Five companies, given orders for 120,000 barrels each, will provide the 600,000 barrels to be bought by the state. The companies are: The Aetna of Michigan, which bid from 1 to 5 cents under other manufacturers for northeastern Indiana delivery. Louisville Cement Company, with a factory at Speeds, Ind., which j was held to a bid on 50,000 barrels ] to be delivered at Valparaiso, Ind., 1 despite an error by which it offered j a low price. Other companies are the Lehigh j of Mitchell, Ind.; Lone Star, Lime-; dale. Ind., and Universal, Buffington, Ind. 2 BANKERS SENTENCED Former Martinsville Trust Officers Ordered. to Prison. By United Press MARTINSVILLE, Ind., March 29. | —Two former officers of the closed i Martinsville Trust Company were sentenced to prison terms Tuesday after Special Judge Fremont Miller overruled motions for anew | trial. C. O. Abbott, former vice-presi- | dent of the bank, was sentenced to | one to ten years on a grand larj ceny conviction. C. A. Avery, former secretary of the institution, I was sentenced to fourteen years on 1 a forgery charge.

and general delivery division, handle the task. Few letters fail to reach a destination. Hittle has supervised delivery of approximately a million letters to unknown addresses during his nineteen years in that department. Messages, improperly addressed, come from all parts of the world. Those postmarked foreign are advertised weekly on a bulletin board i in the corridor at the postoffice, j which helps locate many addressees. In Service Thirty Years This week are posted names of persons for whom letters from Budapest. London. Belfast and Breforsendelser are waiting. Hittle has been in the postal service thirty years and says his job 1 gets easier each year. “People are more careful to address letters properly than they j were several years ago. Even letters with foreign postmarks are not i as hard to deliver.” Hittle explains. •‘English is used more often now and senders have learned the necessity of putting return addresses on letters and parcels" Average Much Lower This prevents many letters from going to the dead letter office at Washington. Letters from foreign ports that were undeliverable once numbered fifty to sixty daily, but now average from ten to twelve a day, he declares. If an addressee of a foreign letter is not located in thirty days, it is advertised for a week, then I returned to the exchange division! for return to the sender. Hittle says his department is able ! to locate 60 per cent of the un-I known addresses, while practically j all other letters are returned to, senders.

Very Low Round -Trip Fares EACH WEEK-END CHICAGO .... $5.00 I Good going on all trains Fridavs. Saturdays ; and Sundavs. also early morning trains j Mondays. Return limit Monday night. Coach service. CHICAGO . . . . $8.30 j Good going on all trains from 10:55 a. m i Friday until 10:55 a. m. train Sunday l Return limit Monday night following. Good jin sleeping cars at 25 r 7 reduction in Pull- ; man fares for round triD and in parlor j cars at regular seat fares. Coach Fares Next Saturday CLEVELAND . . $4.50 Leave 10:55 and. m. or 11:00 p. m. Return I on any train until 3:00 a. m. Monday DETROIT . . . $4.50 TOLEDO .... $4.00 Leave 11:00 and. m. Return on any train Sunday. Next Sunday ST. LOUIS . . . $4.50 I Leave 12 35 a m . 2:45 a. m.. or 8:15 a* m. I j Return on anv train same dav. CINCINNATI . . $2.50 Greensburg, 51.25 Shelbyville, $.75 i Leave 7:45 a. m. Return on anv train j same day a EE THE BEATTIFIL NEW CINCINNATI I’NION TERMINAL. Full particulars at 112 Monument Circle. ; Rllev 2442. and Onion Station. Riley 3355. | BIG FOUR ROUTE

Boy Scouts Take Over Government Reins for Day; Conduct High Offices

H. Foster Clippinger Jr. Acts as Governor for One Hour. Boy Scouts of Indianapolis held the reigns of government today for an hour as heads of municipal, state and federal offices. H. Foster Clippinger Jr. of Troop 18 was the acting Governor. Clippinger. upon arriving at the Governor’s office, found Governor Paul V. McNutt missing. McNutt once was a Boy Scout commissioner in Bloomington. James McNamara of Troop 94 became police chief, and assisted Chief Mike Morrissey. Billy Craigle of Troop 3 was temporary fire department chief, with Chief E. Harry Voshell standing by in case of any “third alarms.” Alvin Cohen Is Mayor Alvin Cohen of Troop 78 “succeeded” Reginald H. Sullivan as mayor, and Billy McWorkman of Troop 80 was the city’s chief Gamewell operator. Leslie D. Clancy, postmaster, relinquished his position to Frederick Rosebrock of Troop 72. and Luther L, Dickerson, city librarian, turned his office over to Albert Fessler of Troop 60. Billy Evans of Troop 23. held the position of head of the police accident prevention bureau. The Scouts were selected by F. O. Belzer, Scout executive, Tuesday, on recommendation of scoutmasters. Each Scout holding one of the positions has attained the rank of Eagle Scout during the last year. Boys to Direct Traffic Kiwanis Club members were entertained in a Scout day program in the Columbia Club. The program was in charge of Chris Wagner and Belzer. Thursday, Scouts who have attained Star rank or above during

ua ni x Made America! Faces ever westward . . . fighting on against discouraging odds and seeking new lands to conquer , . . America’s pioneers, with their daring and perseverance, laid the solid foundation of courage upon which this country has progressed and prospered. We believe in the ability and daring of the American people. We believe that the future of Indiana and Indianapolis is typified by a stable, prosperous past. We believe that it is every organization’s duty to display the same courage and daring of our pioneers. We believe that Block’s is obligated to the community it serves . . . obligated to strike with ffull strength at any difficulties that obstruct the onward march of progress in this great community. Block’s is doing its share to promote confidence. “Value” is the cry of shoppers. And at Block’s ... today .. . tomorrow ... and every day... that demand is most completely filled. .mi

McWorkman Rosebrock Fessler Evans

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the last year, will direct traffic on downtown corners from noon until 1 p. m. Two hundred and seventy-five Scouts and their fathers attended the annual father and son banquet held Tuesday night in the Central Christian church. RESULTS AT 3c A WORD, To rent that vacancy—sell that fur-niture-trade what you don’t need for what you want—just remember that a Times Want Ad cost less than those of any other Indianapolis paper. Call RI-5551.

PLAYLETS TO BE GIVEN Warren Central Senior Pupils io Perform Friday Night. Senior pupils of Warren Central high school will present three oneact playlets Friday night in the auditorium. The plays are sponsored by dramatic teachers of the school and scenery arrangements and settings are being directed by the art. department.

.MARCH 29, 1933

3,300 FEDERAL EMPLOYES HERE KIT BY PAY CUT Largest Slice to Come Out of Postal Division: Effective Saturday. The 15 per cent cut in pay of federal offices and employes, ordered by President Roosevelt’s economy bill, will affect approximately 3.300 Indianapolis employes when it is enforced Saturday. The reduction is effective from April 1 to June 30. 1933, and is made on the basis of a survey of living costs. This number includes 1.540 Indiana rural mail carriers, paid out of the local postofflee. and about 500 railway mail clerks whose pay checks come from division headquarters outside Indianapolis. Largest slice in any single pay roll will be in the postal department Salaries of 1,100 local post office employes will be reduced a total of approximately $45,000 monthly, Leslie D. Clancy, postmaster, estimated today. Rural carriers, paid from this office. will receive a monthly reduction of approximately $65,000. New pay roll to rural carriers will total about $90,000 semi-monthly, while the local office will pay employes approximately $67,500 semi-month-ly under the revised schedule. The internal revenue collector’s office has the second largest group of employes affected by the cut. Seventy persons are employed under Collector E. E. Neal. The prohibition department, with twenty-two employes is third largest, while the marshal’s office, district clerk's office and federal court employ a total of thirty persons. Other federal employes are scattered among the United States customs office, moat ispection bureau, division of agriculture, secret service and postal inspection division.