Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1933 Edition 02 — Page 3

JULY 1, 1933

U. $. IS MOVING TOWARD PLANNED ECONOMY, URGED BY TEXTILE INDUSTRY CHIEFS

Cotton Group Asks Government to Help It Restrict Production, Prices and Credit; Agree on Forty-Hour Week. BY RUTH FINNEY Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 1 The United States today was within hailing distance of a planned economy. The cotton textile industry has asked the government to help it plan production, prices and credit, and enforce whatever restrictions are agreed upon Other industries arp expected to follow suit. W.’h the industry and the industrial recovery administration in apparent accord on a fortv-hour week and a sl2 and sl3 minimum wage, this new proposal is the biggest item yet to be agreed upon before final submission of the cotton code to President Roosevelt. The cotton textile industry's re-

quest for specific and immediate j planning was submitted in spite of i the fact that congress repeatedly; has shied away from even the most tentative steps toward planned economy, that, the administration has not looked upon it with favor, and that General Hugh S. Johnson lias said he is anxious to avoid anything resembling pricefixing as long as possible. Co-Operation Is Pledged However, it has been predicted by some in recent weeks that the industrial recovery act could not function effectively unless thi* further step was taken. The cotton men have suggested appointment of a committee within the industry "to co-operate with the administrator as a planning and fair practice agency.” This agency would present to the admin- j istration recommendations for drastic trade regulations which he might, if he saw fit, approve and enforce. The committee could, for example, recommend registration of all existing productive machinery, and a requirement that the admiristator approve installation of any further machinery. Such action w'ould fix a much more definite limit on production than the clause at present in the code limiting operation of machinery to eighty hours a w’eek Complex Task Is Faced With it goes a proposal for agreements on prices, and likewise, for giving those who supply credit to the industry, information on general condition “to the end that . . . available credit may be adapted to the needs of such industry considered as a whole and to the needs of small as well as large units.” The industrial recovery administration faces an exceedingly complex and difficult task if these porvisions are agreed to. It must: 1. Decide whether it will permit price levels sufficient to support uneconomical plants, and plants In excess of the productive requirements of the industry; or: 2. Whether it will force these out of business by fixing a price just high enough to permit operation at satisfactory’ wage scales in the most efficient plants. Recommendations Ready Soon In favoring the eighty-hour limit on operation of machines -the administration apparently has inclined toward the first point of view', but the extent to which it might be willing to proceed in this direction is debatable. A decision on these and other points will be made before President Roosevelt arrives back in Washington. The administration hopes to have its recommendations ready for him when he gets here. The code revisions submitted Friday did not extend the wage and hour provisions to any of the numerous excluded workers except white collar office employes, and that is a matter still to be considered. as is the threat of the "stretch-out” forcing workers to operate more machines on their shorter shifts. Pre-War Purchasing Power General Johnson indicated his acquiescence with wage and hour figures in the code after his research assistant. Dr. Alexander Sachs, announced that his figures showed the sl2 and sl3 wages would give the worker pre-depres-sion purchasing power and allowance for a 100 per cent increase in prices. He also declared the forty-hour week for textiles will absorb all textile workers now unemployed, requiring an increase of about 100,000 from the level of October. 1030. BOOTLEGGER SUSPECT WOUNDED BY POLICE Near Death in Hospital After Shooting Fray. By United I'r< s< NEW ALBANY. Ind, July 1. Albert P. Wyzard. 40. suspected bootlegger, was near death in St. Edward's hospital here today, suffering from bullet wounds inflicted in a battle with police. When two policemen entered Wyzard's home to search for liquor, they were held at bay by him and his brother. Fred. As additional officers arrived with tear gas. Fred ran from the house and escaped. He was captured later without a struggle. Albert Wyzard was wounded by' a volley of bullets fired into a small outbuilding into which he escaoed from the house. CELEBRATION TO END Twenty-Fifth Aniversary of Church Is Observed. Celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Sutherland Presbyterian church will close with a silver anniversary service Sunday morning. The Rev. Florizel A. Pfleiderer, pastor, will discuss as his subject, 'Repairing the Altars.” Rain Wednesday caused postponement of the operetta "The Flowers of the Nation,” by Elizabeth Sutton Brown. The play will be given tonight under the direction of Mrs. Lora Lubbe Lackey. Car Operator's Watch Stolen Oliver Beem. 819 North Dearborn street, operator of an East Washington street car, told police he was robbed of a S3O watch Friday night when he stepped off his car at Washington street and Audubon road. The watch was hanging near the operator's seat in the car.

STATE BOARDS ARE REVAMPED BY 6DVERNDR John L. Moorman Concludes 15 Years’ Service as Prison Trustee. Fifteen years of service as trustee and board chairman at the Indiana state prison W’as terminated today by John L. Moorman (R°p.. Knox). His present four-year appointment w r as not to expire until Feb. 2, 1934. But Governor Paul V. McNutt appointed Robert Grafton, Michigan City, to take Moorman’s place under the state governmental reorganizat ion. The other three prison board members were reappointed. They are J. T. Arbuckle, Rushville; Jess C. Andrews, West Point, and Arthur L. Deniston, Rochester. Additional reorganized boards announced by the Governor today were: School for the Deaf—William Waldschmidt. Cannelton; Mrs. Carl Broo, Kokomo; O H Keller, Winamac Rnd Dr, Ralph S Chappell. Indianapolis. Slate School for the Blind—Albert Stump. Indianapolis; E. O Sneathen. Zionsville; Mrs. A Ij. Moss, Flora, and F. B. Ransom, Indianapolis. Indiana Reformatory—William O. Nelson, Anderson; Carl Houston. Marion. D. Delos Dean. Rensselaer and Frank Hanley, Muncie. Indiana Woman's Prison—Mrs. Louise S Swain. Pendleton; Mrs. Charlotte J. Dunn.< Indianapolis; Miss Margaret Neely, Martinsville, and Mrs. Alice W. Poynte'r, Sullivan. Girls' School- Mrs. John W. Kern, and Mrs. James H Rogers, Indianapolis; Mrs. Florence G. Silverburg, Muncie Mrs. Frances Beadle, Lafayette. Bovs’ School—Guy H. Humphreys, BloomSnyder. Indianapolis. CHEER FOR ROBINSON Senator, On Way to Alaska, Gets Veterans’ Bouquet by Radio. Bp Times Special WASHINGTON. July I.—Senator Arthur Robinson on the high seas somewhere between Seattle and Nome, today received a wireless message containing the text of the resolution adopted Friday at Indianapolis by the state encampment of Spanish-American War Veterans, asking for the senator’s renomination and re-election. The message was received at the senator’s office here this morning and turned over to the navy department to be relayed to his boat by radio. Robinson, a member of the senate committee of territories and insular affairs, is on his w f ay to Alaska to inspect personally the system of Alaskan government. FACES ATTACK CHARGE Man. 66. Held After Complaints by Girls at Playground. Luther Lancaster, 66, of 2824 McPherson street, was arrested late Friday on a charge of attempting criminal assaults on girls in a city playground. Police called to the playground at Broadw’ay and Fall Creek boulevard ; were told by Mrs. Incena Tiernan, | 3825 Graceland avenue, a matron, and Connie Apostle, an instructor. ■ of 3766 Ruckle street that. Lancaster had attempted to attack six girls. DROPS DEAD AT WORK Polk Company Employe Succumbs After Complaining of Heat, Complaining of the heat when he finished work today in the furnace room of tlie Polk Sanitary Milk Company branch. 1250 South West street. Claude Henderson. 68, of 1815 Union street, dropped dead outside the plant while talking to other workmen. Dr. J. A. Salb. deputy coroner, ordered the body to the morgue for an autopsy.

Repeal Winning, 3 to 1; Many Hoover Votes Wet Much Smaller Majorities Given Roosevelt in Same 16 States Approving Ratification. By Bcripps-Hownrd Xncspaper Allianct WASHINGTON. July l.—After the election last November, prohibition leaders pooh-poohed the claim that a substantial number of Americans voted for Franklin Roosevelt because of the outright repeal plank in the Democratic platform. A comparison of the Roosevelt-Hoover vote and the vet-dry vote in the sixteen states that since November have expressed their views on prohibition reveals that Hoover undoubtedly got a great many more wet votes than Roosevelt did dry votes. The Roosevelt-Hoover vote in those sixteen states totaled 20.329.036. Roosevelt plurality was 2.597.740. The wet-drv vote (.incomplete) in those sixteen states totaled 10.323.013. The wet plurality stands at 5.718.537. In the sixteen states. Roosevelt garnered one and one-fourth times as many votes as Hoover. In the same states, Wyoming -and Nevada excluded, the repeal delegate candidates received more than three and one-half times as many votes as the dry candidates. Here is the comparative table: State Roosevelt Hoover Wet Dry BS*n *71.700 739.894 850.546 287.931 Wisconsin 707.410 317.741 648,031 141.518 Rhone Island 144.516 113.101 150.244 20.874 Wyoming 54,370 39,583 Delegates elected at pre- , . cinct mass meetings. New Jersey 806 704 775.406 573.532 90.733 Delaware 57.074 63,519 45 615 13.505 Indiana 862,084 677 184 557 062 312 120 Massachusetts 800.143 736.959 436 356 97 702 New York 2.534.951 1.937 963 1.946.532 247]450 Nevada 28,7n6 12.622 Delegates elected at pre- ... . „ cinct mass meetings. Illinois 1.882 304 1.432.766 1.227.668 341.773 Connecticut 281.193 287.726 236.915 35 349 New Hampshire 100,380 103.629 75 999 ?0 340 lowa 598.019 414 433 377.275 249.943 Cahlornia 1,324.157 847.902 926 199* 292.973* West Virginia 405,124 330.731 210.000* 133.000*

SUCCEEDS MULDOON

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William J.' Bill” Brown 'above), former fight club promoter, is the new member of the New York State Athletic Commission, succeeding the late William Muldoon. Brown. 59. has operated a health resort at Brownsdale-on-the-Hud-son for the last eleven years.

Eyes Front! Don't Watch Horizon. Is Warning to Avoid Airsickness.

B,p Seif nee Sen ice CHICAGO. July 1. Do not watch the horizon when you are in an airplane, if you want to avoid airsickness, or at least escape its worst effects. This advice was offered at the meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by Dr. L. H. Bauer of the aeronautics branch, United States department cf commerce. Although optical effects help to cause airsickness, they are not the only factors. The disturbances set up in the balancing organs of the inner ear are potent causes, but the pulls and sags of the muscles and vital organs, like those experienced in a suddenly moving elevator, apparently play no part in airsickness, Dr. Bauer said. BREWERY BATTLE IS LOOMING FOR CITY War Is Threatened Over Possession of Plant. Possibility of a brewery w'ar, if not a beer w'ar, loomed today with incorporation of the Gold Medal Brewing Company in the office of Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state. Incorporators of the concern were listed as Mark W. Rhodes, Robert J. Rutherford and R. J. Milburn. Capital was listed at 1,000 shares of no par value steck. The battle likely will be over the old Lieber brewery, now being rehabilitated by the Home Brewing Company. The new company had a reservation on the name Gold Medal, which was that of the Lieber beer. Rhodes indicated that they will now' try to get the plant and that, the new incorporation merely provides the machinery. Neither concern, as yet, has a manufacturer's beer permit from the state excise department.

Heads of 2 Closed Banks Absolved by Grand Jury

‘No Acts of Criminal Nature' Found, Says Probe Group's Report. (Continued From Page One) cept that he intended to discuss the matter with Baker. Baker said that he would ask Cox and attorneys who are representing present bank receivers for “specific instances.” “I never have seen the complete files in any of these bank cases, and know only what I have read in the newspapers.” Baker said. “There can be no basis for a special prosecutor and special investigation unless Judge Cox can give me specific facts for investigation.” Criticism of the bank directors and officers was the strongest statement in the grand jury report. Recommendations for changes in

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JAMES ALDRICH, I RETIRED CITY | FIREMAN, DEAD Former Battalion Chief Is Taken at Hospital After Illness. Following a long illness, James F. : Aldrich, 72, of 1139 College avenue, ! former battalion chief in the Indi- ; anapolis fire department, died Friday in the city hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2 j Monday in the Ragsdale & Price funeral home, 1219 North Alabama | i street. Burial will be in crown Hill | cemetery. Mr. Aldrich had been a member of | the fire department thirty-six years, \ retiring May 11, 1931, because of j disability. He was stationed at Engine House 2. Roosevelt avenue and j Sixteenth street, during virtually all | his service. He w’as named captain ! in 1901, and promoted to battalion j chief in 1921. He again was ap- I pointed captain in 1922. Asa young man. Mr. Aldrich was j a locomotive engineer on the old | Indianapolis & Vincennes Railroad. ! He was awarded a gold medal sev- I | eral years ago, for fifty years mem- } bership in the Brotherhood of Loco- j motive Engineers. He was a charter member of Oriental lodge, No. 500, F. & A M., Division No. 11, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and Philoxenian lodge, No. 44, I. O. O. F., and a member of the Scottish Rite, Murat I Shrine and Olive Branch Rebekah lodge. | Only survivor is the widow, Mrs.

Clara Aldrich. Artist Is Head Funeral services for Miss Margaret Rudisill, an artist, were to be conducted by the Rev. w. A. Shullenberger, pastor of the Central Christian church, at 3:30 today in her home, 1443 Park avenue. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Miss Rudisill died Thursday in her home. She wrnuld have been 90 today. She was widely known for her paintings in this country and abroad. She had been in semi-re-tirement for many years, but planned to exhibit paintings this summer. First recognition of her work was given by Carl H. Lieber who exhibited some of her paintings in the old Propylaeum. She later exhibited in the Paris salon at Chicago and at the St. Louis (Mo.) exposition. She studied three years in France. "The Goose Girl” is considered her best w'ork. Some of her paintings made while in the United States and abroad hang on the walls of her home, •which her father built in 1874. Miss Rudisill, and a sister Miss Sarah Rudisill, the only survivor, have lived in the home for the last thirty years. IT’S T ‘PANE’ TO HIM Man Shoves Arm Through Window in Argument With Wife. Gesticulation is not a good method of lending emphasis to arguments, Peter Szonolia, 46. of 3010 West Tenth street, learned Friday night. Peter was arguing with Mrs. Szonolia. police were told, and thrust his right arm through a window pane. An artery was severed. Vandals Invade City Cemetery Flower baskets were overturned on graves in Holy Cross cemetery Friday by vandals, according to a report made to the police by Valentine Otts, 38 West Raymond street, caretaker.

state laws reagrding information given directors by officers was made. “After an exhaustive study of the bank situation before us, and realizing that directors of banks, spending only an hour or so once a week or once a month in the affairs of a bank are compelled to accept the statements presented to them by the executive in charge as being facts and pass on them largely from confidence, without knowing their exact values, we, the grand jury, recommned the following,’’ was the statement which preceded the suggestions. The recommendation would make it a criminal offense for a bank officer to make a statement of financial condition to directors without having the “statement approved by a disinterested certified public accountant, to be paid by the state.” A false statement, written or oral, by a bank officer to directors, also would be made a criminal offense. “The practice of giving numbers and description of real estate” ’to directors is “meaningless,” the grand jury declared. Regarding the State Savings, the report declared the grand jurors “have been unable to discover any acts of the officers or directors of this bank within the last five years o fits operation which are of a criminal nature.” Inability to find “any evidence of criminal acts on the part of the directors” of the Washington bank also was declared in the report. Suggestion was made regarding the Washington bank that the prosecutor and the subsequent grand juries "follow the civil actions pending against the officers and directors of this bank in case they should bring to light the implication of any of these men in criminal acts.” Detailed discussion was given the charges against the State Savings in regard to a $40,000 certificate of deposit carried in the assets and the total of obligations of the bank. The grand jury concluded that the officials of the bank were not acting criminally in including the $40,000 in its assets. Error in the bank statement setting forth obligations was dismissed by the jurors as “an inadvertance of the bookkeeper and was not harmfully misleading.” Total of loans on real estate, was shown as $1,098,532.23 and loans on collateral as $380,549.48 in a bank statement, although the sums should have been reversed, with the collateral loans the larger amount. The bookkeeper did not make the correction in transferring the record on the form supplied by the banking department. ,

HEADS RABBIS

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Rabbi Samuel Goldenson, above, of Pittsburgh. Pa., is the new president of the Conference of American Rabbis. He was elected at the rabbis’ convention in Milwaukee, which went on record as favoring American recognition of Russia.

100 FLOATS IN GROTTO PARADE Mardi Gras to Be Held in City Tonight; Line of March Fixed. A mardi gras, with the spirit of the New' Orleans event, will be held in Indianapolis tonight, when a large and colorful parade will move through the downtown section. The parade, sponsored by Sahara Grotto as an advertisement for a July 4 celebration to be held at Butler Bowl. Tuesday night, will assemble at Ninth and Pennsylvania street. Local business houses, fraternal, social and labor organizations have been invited to join the parade. More than 100 floats, in addition to many bands, drum corps, drill teams and glee clubs will take part. Route of the parade, will be south on Pennsylvania to Washington street, w r est on Washington to Capitol avenue, north on Capitol to Market street, east on Market to the Circle, and north on Meridian to St. Clair street, the disbanding point.

It May Be Neptune The Ghost Walks—Through the Waters of White River; Eerie, What? POLICE are going to attempt to lay the “Phantom of Riverside Park” tonight. Shortly after 4 a. m. today, Merle Davis. 1321 West Thirtieth street, and Richard Ringer. 6132 Cornell avenue, were asleep in canoes under the Thirtieth street bridge over White river. They were awakened by a loud splash, much too loud for the kind

of fish that frequent the river ther Rubbing their eyes and peering through the pale shadows of the false dawn, their eyes met an eerie spectacle. A man, fully dressed, was wading across the river. When he reached the west bank, they told police, he turned and started wading back toward the east bank. Davis and Ringer started to paddle under the bridge toward the man ’ and when their canoes emerged, he had vanished. a a a PATROLMEN DON MILBURN and William Gillespie investigated, but they’d never had much experience with phantoms, and they summoned Lieutenant Leo Troutman and Sergeant Fred Hague. The latter investigated along the banks, but found no trace of a landing and the mysterious river denizen was out of the sight of Davis and Ringer for only a few moments. Ringer than recalled that he had seen a man, fully dressed, enter the river Friday near the island, but thought the man merely was without a bathing suit and preferred a soaking to suffering from the heat. a a a POLICE several days ago had a report from a taxi driver that he took a passenger to that part of the river at night and the man paid a 60-cent cab bill with 95 cents, saying “You may as well take it all—l won’t need it.” HOME BREW EXPLODES Negro Woman Incurs Cuts When Bottle Bursts. A bottle of home brew on a shelf in the cellar at the home of Mrs. Seville West, 22. Negro. 726 North California street, exploded when she moved the bottle today. Mrs. West is in city hospital with lacerations of the face, arms and legs. FIREMEN’S BAND TO PLAY Concert to Be Given Sunday Night at Sunshine Mission. The fireman's band will present a concert Sunday night in the Sunshine Mission. Other programs for the week include an address Thursday night by the Rev. L, W. Simmons, superintendent of the Sundav school; and one Friday night by Miss Bertha McCallie of the Edgewood M. E. church.

CORRECTION Tho Item appearing in our large ad of Friday. June noth, reading: (Boys', Girls' and Men’s Patent Dress Straps) should hare read MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S {Ki* PATENT DRESS mm** W, Jfe, STRAPS /U c Hundreds of pairs of pretty & \ cut-out T-strnp patterns, also many styles in two-tone flB Schiff’s Outlet Shoe Stores m — 203 W - Washington .. STORES — I,UnoU st * W

SHOALS PLANT LEAVES HANDS OF WAR OFFICE Giant Tennessee River Project Is Given Over to Valley Authority. BY MARSHALL M NEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July I.—The first major move in the great NorrisRoosevelt development of the Tennessee river basin occurred today when the Tennessee Valley Authority formally took over the $150,000,000 Muscle Shoals plant from the war department. At the same time it w T as learned that army engineers’ plans for construction of locks for dam No. 3, above Muscle Shoals, had been changed so that greater power development would be possible when that dam is built by the authority. Original plans made by the engineers were criticised in connection w’ith the so-called Muscle Shoals “scandal” revealed late in May. Work Goes On at Locks Then it was reported that after a presidential investigation, construction of the locks had been stopped. But engineers today said no such orders had ever been received, the work going on unhindered. Under the order changing the design of the locks the dam's elevation will be increased from twelve to seventeen feet, increasing its capacity for pow'er generation. The army engineers, who are responsible for navigation facilities, in United States rivers and harbors, are constructing the locks at. dam No. 3 because they are navigation facilities. Cheap Power to Be Sold An announcement from the war department said that “this change in design involves more extensive construction than was contemplated in the contract as originally awarded.” Original expenditure was esti mated at about $1,100,000 and the change in design will cause additional expenditure of about $425,000. The first task of the Tennessee Valley Authority, after taking over Muscle Shoals today, will be to take an inventory of the valuable property. Within a few months, according to present expectation, it will be ready to furnish cheap Muscle Shoals power to customers in the vicinity.

STATE BANKS TO PAY GROSS RECEIPTS TAX National Institutions Exempted From 1 Per Cent Levy. State banks were handed a 1 per cent handicap in doing business with competing national banks in Indiana today. Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr. ruled that the state banks must pay the 1 per cent gross receipts tax, but national banks need not. The levy will be on gross bank earnings. Pointing out that the state can not tax national banks in this manner because of federal law. Lutz said it was but another steo toward nationalization of banking. GARDEN PARTY IS SET Young People’s Church Class Will Stage Lawn Fete. A garden party for the young married peoples class of the Irvington M. E. church will be held on the lawn of the church Friday. The lawn on North Audubon circle will be decorated with Japanese lanterns and electric flood lights. The program, in two parts, will feature Vaughn Cornish in baritone solos; Imogene Pierson, xylophonist, and the Nessler harp ensemble. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lindstaedt, assisted by Mrs. Edgar Rennoe and Gerald Shortridge are in charge of the arrangements.

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beso U ng n ?o! si!eS reDorted 10 °lice as stolen •D„ Da £ re J! Phi! P°t. 90 South Fourth street Grove, Ford coupe, 639-618, from Sena.e avenue and Market street. *? a n v £? r si k Q -.. 5332 Dewey avenue, Chrysler fngtori sTreets. * Ne * Jersey and Wash ‘ str C eef rl niH?' 5, heele J- 2308 Morris rivet 1 , 1 0! 5 5r ?. 0b1 - e sedan. 9-853, from New Jersej and Vermont streets Young. 4927 West Vermont street. Chevrolet touring, 46-741, from 700 West Maryland street. Sam Johnson. 1816 South Emerson avenue, Plymouth sedan. 129-062. from Thirtieth street and Northwestern avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Overland Freight Lines, 1192 Kentucky avenue. Peerless sedan, found on parking lot near 1192 Kentucky avenue. Ford touring. 25-02'5. no certificate of title, found at 1100 Burdsai parkway, automobile partly stripped.

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Accused of receiving stolen property in the form of money obtained in a robbery of the Burlington ilnd.) State bank, Sol C. Bodner. Indianapolis attorney, with offices in the Meyer-Kiser building, was indicted today by the Marion county grand jury. Story on Page One.

COX TO RULE IN CITY MILK WAR Verdict in Hauling Battle to Be Handed Down on Wednesday. Ruling in the city’s “milk war” will be given Wednesday by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, according to announcement at conclusion of testimony late Friday night. Night court was held to permit attorneys to make closing arguments and written briefs were filed for study by Cox. The temporary restraining order, enjoining members of the Indianapolis Dairy Producers’ Council from molesting haulers of milk for the Polk Sanitary Milk Company, will remain in effect. The order was granted a Ter haulers and the Polk company alleged the council representatives threatened to take away their routes. Testimony Friday and during the night session was unmarked by sensational developments, as a long list of plaintiff's witnesses filed to the stand to tell of statements made by council representatives. In his closing statement, Thomas E. Garvin, attorney for the council, declared that the council, representing the producers who employ the haulers, has a "perfect right” to control the hauling. Contention of Sidney Miller, plaintiffs’ attorney was that the haulers have a vested right in their routes and will suffer loss if deprived of them. KIRKLAND OPENS NEW FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Judge Erred in Gary Trial, Petition Contends. By United Press VALPARAISO. Ind., July 1. A new attempt to obtain the release of Virgil Kirkland, Gary youth, from the state reformatory where he is serving a one to. ten years sentence im connection with the death of Arlene Draves, was on file before Judge Charles W. Jensen in Porter circuit court today. Oscar Thiel, Gary attorney, filed the motion to void the judgment under which Kirkland was imprisoned after conviction on a charge of assault and battery with intent to assault Miss Draves. She died after a drinking party attended by Kirkland and several other Gary youths. The petition charged that Judge Grant CrumpacNer erred in sentencing Kirkland on a lesser crime than the one for which he was indicted. First arguments can not be heard before the September term of court, Judge Jensen said.

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BANK RECEIVER RACKETS DEALT CRUSHING BLOW New Act Outlaws ‘Friendly’ Liquidations: Board Takes Office. End of the bank receivership "racket” in Indiana was predicted today with the new commission on financial institutions tpkmg office and the complete new banking act taking effect. Under the act the department will handle receiverships in the future and they no longer will be placed in hands of lawyer friends of the courts. All voluntary liquidations will be taken over by the department at once and .several courts have signified their intention of transferring present receiverships to them, the commissioners stated. Oaths Administered It is estimated that nearly SIOO.000.000 of assets will be liquidated by the department. Justice Michael Fansler of the supreme court administered the oath to the new commissioners this morning. They then held their first official meeting in the office of Richard A. McKinley, director of the financial institutions department. Members of the commission ere Robert Batton. Marion, chairman} Oscar P. Welborn, Indianapolis, vice-chairman; Harvey Hartsock, Indianapolis, Myron Gray, Muncie, and C. M. Setser, Columbus. McKinley, who came from Richmond, is chief administrative officer and the department has four divisions. Barr Stays on Post Thomas D. Barr, former assistant state banking commissioner under the Republican regime, remains for the present as acting supervisor of the bank division and McKinley's assistant. When he retires he will become a field examiner for the state accounts board, already having been named to that post by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Rehabilitation of restricted banks was the first problem set by the commissioners for solution. They announced they will seek to put all state banks on an unrestricted basis as soon as possible, and liquidate those which can not make the grade. R. A. GRAHAM NAMEO RETAILERS’ PRESIDENT State Association Selects Officers, Executive Committee. Directors of the Marion county division of the Associated Retailers of Indiana', elected R. A. Graham of the Graham Furniture Company, president of the organization Friday. The election was held in the state headquarters, 613 State Life building. Other officers elected are Clearence R. Greene, former president of the Allied Florists of Indianapolis, vice-president; Mrs. M. M. Fritsch, secretary of .the Furniture Association of Indianapolis, secretary, and Victor C. Kendall, treasurer of L. S. Ayres & Cos., treasurer. Members of the executive committee are Walter Wolf, secretarytreasurer of H. P. Wasson & Cos.; R. H. Losey, president of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association, and Reginald Garstang, president of the Indianapolis Jewelers’ guild. FOUR INJURED IN CRASH Auto Smashed Into Steel Safety Zone Guard. An automobile containing four persons was hurled against a steel safety zone guard at Washington and Alabama streets Friday night as a result of a tire blowout, causing injury of all occupants. The car. driven by Elmer Glenn, 27, Massilon, O, was en route to Du Quoin, 111., John Glenn, 20, of Du Quoin, suffered a fractured nose, lacerations and the head and neck injuries. Mrs. Cornelia Glenn, 25, and Mrs. Mary Edwards, the other passengers, and the driver incurred minor bruises.