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HIGHWAY CASH SAVED BY PAY AND JOB CUTS Dropping of 1,100 Men From Pay Rolls Brings Part of McNutt Reduction. SOME GET $lB MONTHLY Contract Paving Mileage Is Slashed Half: 5,133 at Work in 1933. Salary and wage cuts 'with some workers reported making as little as j $lB a month), dropping 1,100 laborers ofT the maintanence payroll, and cutting contract paving mileage | in about half accounts for the 29 per rent state highway department 5 saving claimed by Governor Paul V. McNutt. This was revealed by The Times today, in a check of state highway department accounts. In a recent statement to the press, the Governor claimed that the highway department had effected a saving of $1,253,435.21, or 29 per cent during the first five months of 1933. as compared with 1932. Records for June 30 disclose that! while on that date last year there were 263.3 miles of paving work in progress, there were but 158.8 miles this year. 1,100 Men Dropped Chairman James D. Adams said that 1.100 men had been dropped from the maintenance payroll by the new commission. The June 30 figure discloses that employes of all divisions of the depa it ment totaled 5,735 in 1932 and 5,133 in 1933. Although the contract miles of work in progress dropped to 158.8, more men were being employed by contractors, the records show. Last year the contractors were employing 3,532 men on June 30, and this year, 4,519. This is accounted for by the federal government requirement that a thirty-hour week be specified in construction contracts. Minimum wage is written in contracts at 35 cents an hour, giving the laborer a weekly wage of $10.50. Work Two or Three Shifts All contractors are working two shifts and some three, it was explained, and that accounts for the increase in the total number employed. Last season there was no weekly j hour limitation and the minimum! wage was not specified. In the maintenance division of the department, the minimum wage I is 30 cents, with an eight-hour day I and five and one-half day-week as the standard. But in some places the work is 1 on a five-hour day staggered system, with two weeks on and two weeks oil. it was reported. This would give the laborer $lB every four weeks on a six-day week basis. Finances in Good Shape As the Governor reported, department finances are in fine shape, however, so far as bank balances are concerned. It has $10,000,000 available from the federal government that still is untouched and of which not more than $2,000,000 can be spent on pavement this season, con’imissioners estimated. Last year, under the old regime, all but $750,000 of department funds wore under contract by July 1, while this year on the same date there was an uncontracted balance of $4,831,000. Last year $15,748,000 in contracts was let on July 1, and this year $6,803,000. Contracts Held I p Adams explained that contracts were held up for weeks this spring to see whether federal aid would be made available. The federal government withheld $2,000,000 of Indiana aid funds for some time, and when it was made available it swelled the balance to $4,831,000, he said. The $10,000,000 federal funds were also made available July 1. They are to be expended to aid national recovery by pushing pavement and other construction to provide jobs and pay rolls. Dropping of 1.100 men from the maintenance pay roll was explained by Adams by the reduction of maintenance funds made in the 1933 legislature. STATE COP IS INJURED Officer Hurled From Motorcycle When Tire Blows Out. Patrolman Eugene Teague cf the state police was thrown from his motorcycle at Hammond early today, it was reported to A1 Feeney, chief of the state safety department . Treated for minor cuts and bruises at a Hammond hospital, he will resume duty, Feeney said. The accident was caused by a tire blowout. Times Index Page Book Nook 15 Bridge 19 Broun Column 16 Classified 23. 24 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 21 Curious World 25 Dietz, On Science 13 Editorial 16 Financial 21 Fishing 19 Hickman Theater Reviews ... li Obituaries 20 Radio 8 Serial Story 25 Sports 22. 23 Talburt Cartoon 16 Vital Statistics 21 Woman's Page 10, 11

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Italian Air Fleet Lands at Montreal Balbo and Squadron Make Hop From Shediac in Four Hours. BY GILBERT DRAPER Irited Press Staff Correspondent MONTREAL, July 14. General Italo Balbo lea his squadron of twenty-four seaplanes to Montreal j today and at this last scheduled halt on the 6,100-mile journey from Rome to Chicago, the Italian airmen received one of the greatest welcomes of their flight. The lead planes flew over Montreal at 11:49 a. m. (central standard time) after a fast, smoot flight over the lakes and forests of New Brunswick, northern Maine and Eastern Quebec. General Balbo landed his lead plane at 11:51 and the five other planes of the first squadron alighted almost simultaneously. As they landed, the second flight ! of six planes was circling overhead, dropping slowly toward the river. Balbo left Shediac, N. 8.. at 7:52 a. m., making the flying time for the journey exactly four hours. The jetty at Fairchild airport was hung with streamers and bunting to welcome the airmen. Crowds lined (Turn to Page Twelve) M'KINNEY HEAD OF HOME BANK City Works Board President Named Manager of Federal Office. Appointment of E. Kirk McKinney, president of the city works board as manager of the federal | home loan bank in Indiana, was announced today in Washington by jthe bank board. McKinney was ordered by telegraph to be in Washington Tuesday to take the oath of office and confer regarding appointment of a chief appraiser and chief attorney for the Indiana bank, and plan for establishment of branch offices. Principal office will be in Indianapolis and it is likely branches will be opened at Evansville, Ft. Wayne and South Bend. McKinney, it is understood, will J receive a salary of $5,000 a year. Walter C. Boetcher, president of !lhe Marion county council, will I succeed McKinney as works board ; head, it was announced today by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Boetch(Turn to Page Twenty) CITY WOMAN LEAVES ESTATE OF $540,000 Relatives. Institutions Get Bequests in Mrs. Roberts’ Will. An estate valued at $540,000 is disposed of in the will of Mrs. Henrietta West. Robprts, 1321 North Meridian street, widow of James E. Roberts, which was admitted to proj bate today. 9 Harry Van Hummell, Denver, and I the Union Trust Company were ap- ! pointed execu.ors. The trust was accepted by M. M. Dunbar, vicepresident, and Arthur V. Brown Jr., assistant secretary of the bank. Relatives, servants and several ini stitutions are beneficiaries. Included among the institution recipients are | the Christamore Settlement, School foi Crippled Children, Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and St, Paul’s Episcopal church. Hourly Temperatures 8a - m 10 10 a. m 84 ' a - m 12 11 a. m 86 8 a m 11 12 (noon).. 86 9a - m 81 lp. m 89

Jailed ‘Birds’ Brothers Want Freedom After Theft. Return of Pigeons.

Roy and Charles Watkins, brothers, stole six pigeons and now are serving six months each on the Indiana state farm. There since March 15. their release was sought teday by relatives appearing before the state clemency commission. The sentence was pronounced by Mayor John C. Perkins of Lebanon, their home town. He refused to sign the request for clemency. The pigeons had been returned.

‘Scorn American Womanhood? No!’ So Kentucky Mint Julep Wins

BY H. ALLEN SMITH I'nitcd Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. July 13. The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome can not compare with the Kentucky mint julep mixed Thursday by Irvin S. Cobb in a contest with Eddie of the Astor. famous bartender. in the opinion of Heywood Broun who judged the competition. Broun partook of six juleps, enough, accort' lg to Cobb "to fell a horse and wagon." After a half hour's nap and the consumption of three cups of coffee. Broun struggled to a typewriter and began writing an essay on lovely women. He caught himself, however, took a fresh start and awarded honors to Cobb. The contest was held in Cobb's Park avenue apartment. It developed out of a controversy over the potability of the Kentucky

STOCK CARS ONLY, PLAN IN i 500-MILE RACE Rickenbacker Moves to j Make Drastic Change for Speedway Classic. DRIVERS SUPPORT IDEA Safety and Economy Would Be Advanced, View of Duray and Oldfield. By I ililrd Pri ss DETROIT, July 14.—Future automobile races at the Indianapolis motor speedway will be limited | strictly to stock cars if the suggesj tion made today by Colonel E. V. j (Eddie) Rickenbacker, president of | the Speedway corporation, is voted | upon favorably. Rickenbacker urged adoption of the stock car limitation before a meeting of the A. A. A. contest board, directors of the Indianapolis Speedway Corporation, and representatives of nearly all the motor car manufacturers. Rickenbacker also is chairman of the A. A. A. board. Drivers Back Idea ‘ This year's race was marred with a series of fatal accidents which we all regret,” Rickenbacker said, j "Something must be done to make more safe the running of such races in the future and the most apparent means is to reduce speed of the contesting cars. "We propose—with your support—to acomplish this by limiting entries to stock cars.” Both Leon Duray and Barney Oldfield, veteran race drivers, backed the suggestion heartily. "By limiting the entries to stock cars, the race driver will be relieved of a heavy financial burden,” Duray i said. "At present the driver usually has practically all his means tied up in racing vehicles. By interesting . the manufacturer, he would be relieved of the burden.” Oldfield took a similar view. Cost Now Heavy “Today it costs usually between SIO,OOO and $20,000 to place a race ! car on the track. If stock cars only are permitted, it would be passible to get an entry ready for not to exceed $3,000. I foresee the day when all auto races will be limited to stock cars.” Following Rickenbacker’s suggestion, the various representatives were polled individually. It appeared likely that, following a thorough discussion, the A. A. A. contest board members and speedway directors would vote separately on the proposal. The vote was not expected to be reached until late | today. Interests Many Here Indianapolis racing observers today received with interest the report that Colonel E. V. Ricken- ; backer, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, had proposed j to limit the 500-mile Memorial day race to strictly stock automobiles. Veteran racing critics were reluctant to believe the A. A. A. contest board would pass such a rule. I They pointed out that it easily : might result in an "empty field” for j the race. It has been known for the last several years that large automobile manufacturers are unwilling to risk placing entries in the Indianapolis race. Their argument, it is contended, is that a simple twist of racing luck might bring a mishap or tragedy to a car and thus create a situation where commercial sales would suffer, i The manufacturers are said to be- ! beve that participation in the Indianapolis race would place their ! costly investments in peril. Followers of the race, however, believe that Colonel Rickenbacker's .proposal is a courageous and levelheaded attejnpt to bring more safety , and added interest to the auto raci ing sport. COURT ORDER ASKED Building Owner Seeks In Prevent Tenant from Altering Interior. An injunction to prevent a tenant from removing partitions in a building at the northeast corner of Market and Noble streets is sought by Isaac Marks, the owner. In a complaint filed today in i superior -court-four, Marks alleged that John A. Shroyer. who leased the building for two years Feb. 14. ; is attempting to alter the interior. Restraining order and SSOO damla ges is sought' in the complaint.

; mint julep as compared with all Other forms of julep. Eddie of the Astor. who said he is the father of eight children, had shaken hands wdth three Presidents. and mixed mint juleps for a year and a half for Senator Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania, came forward with the "international julep." Broun's official decision follows. Ruling by the Court BY HEYWOOD BROUN 'CcDvriEht. 1933. by United Press* r T"'HE issue involved in this litigation is not one to be approached lightly. It had been the original notion of the court to ask both sides to submit briefs—as voluminous as possible, i But the court is aware that, in Ia case of such momentous importance, delay is dangerous. Ad- . ditional evidence might serve to

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Hoosierdom’s highest lights in literature and drawing—Meredith Nicholson, George Ade and Tom T. McCutcheon—met at the Indiana day celebration at the Chicago World's Fair Thursday and talked over old times. They were three of 35,000 Indianans who attended for the day. The early newspaper work of McQutcheon and Ade was done on the world’s fair of forty years ago.

ROBBED, VICTIM ‘GETS HIS MAN’ Dale Miller, Baseball Club Official, Turns Sleuth, Nabs Thief. Dale Miller, 5235 Park avenue, popular basketball official and secretary of the Indianapolis basball club, turned detective, and today a Negro car thief went to the state penal farm. During the winter Miller spends a great deal of his time in detecting fouls by overzealous basketball players, but several days ago he detected Hubert Hampshire. 23, Negro, trying to loot several parked cars. Miller's car was parked on Market street and, when he returned, he found his coat was missing. So were the golf clubs and bag of Willard Bonner, Ft. Wayne, parked nearby. Miller was given a description of the car looter. “Look for a Negro wearing a white cap. white shirt and bright green suspenders, who just went down that alley.” a passerby told Miller. Miller started cruising, and picked up the Negro’s trail. He lost him several times, but continued. Finally. Miller spotted two motorcycle officers and enlisted their aid. Today in municipal court three. Judge Dewey E. Myers sent Hampshire back to the state farm for his fifth sojourn for looting parked cars. Hampshire was fined $lO and costs, and was sentenced to ninety days.

confuse, rather than clarify, the isssue. Strictly speaking, the case concerns human rather than wholly legalistic values. The tradition of these United §tates can not be overlooked in rendering judgment. The testimony of Colonel Soule Smith has been called to the | court's attention. Colonel Smith, a Confederate veteran, wrote: "The crushing of the mint makes its nearness more apparent. Like a woman's heart, it gives its sweetest aroma when bruised." As in the case of roast pork as reported by Charles Lamb the discovery of the Kentucky Julep owes something to chance. Lamb has recorded that the merits of crackling first were identified when a house burned down. Soon conflagrations raced throughout China. The first Bourbon whisky of the | proper sort was found when a bolt of lightning hit a barrel of com i liquor and charred the receptacle.

Below—These five charming Tri Kappa hostesses for Indiana day at the fair did not neglect even the goldfish in the pond at the Indiana exhibit. Left to right, they are: Misses Mary Louise Campbell, Auburn. Ind.; Betty Bryant, Shelbyville, and Ruth Copeland, Logansport and Mrs. Frank Barnes and Mrs. Rushton Smith, Ladoga, Ind.

Court Orders Smash on Alleged Baseball Pool Renewed smash to curb the purported activities of Emil Rahke, alleged baseball lottery king, was begun today by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker ordered a grand jury investigation of the case'in which Rahke recently was freed on a technicality in municipal court four. Rahke’s establishment, the Silent Salesmen Company, 14 North East street, was raided some time ago by police under Sergeant Edwin Kruse and several thousand pool tickets confiscated.

WORLD PARLEY WILL RECESS IN 2 WEEKS ■ Failure Admitted: End Set for July 27. By United Press LONDON. July 14.—Tacitly confessing their inability to make progress,, the general staff of the world economic conference the j so-called little bureau or steering committee—today decided to ar- j range a recess for July 27. BOAT OVERTURNSr7O DIE , , . . Russian Excursion Steamer Tragedy Occurs on Volga River. By United Press MOSCOW. July 14—Seventy persons drowned today when an excursion boat carrying 250 workers and their families overturned at Jaroslavl, on the Volga river. Street Car Man Is Robbed Ira Cook. 2321 Kenwood avenue, Northwestern street car operator, told police a Negro gunman boarded his car early today and robbed him of $7.76 in cash and 160 tokens.

After-that every man left his barrels out in the storm and, quite unlike Ajax, who defied the lightning. implored the bolts to strike home. The mint julep of Kentucky is part of the American tradition. The pilgrims landed upon Plymouth Rock, and the natives of the great southland were inspired to find a far more happy landing. The court can not find in its heart to say “nay” to the ritualistic beverage which has come out of the very soil of the American commonwealth. To deny its preeminent virtues would be to scorn and make a mockery of American womanhood. Judgment is rendered in favor of Mr. Cobb and the mint julep compounded out of Kentucky Bourbon. Eddie of the Astor is guilty of a heresy in using brandy as a base. In passing, the court takes oc-

Two days ago, Municipal Judge! William H. Sheaffer discharged j Rahke on a defense motion to quash the affidavit and suppress the evi- j dence, Harvey Grabill, Rahke's attorney, contending the affidavit was| faulty. Baker's reopening cf the case today came when he continued the appeals of Albert Bedy, 812 South Illinois street, and William Fifer, 922 North Illinois street. They were fined SIOO and costs and $lO and costs, respectively, in municipal court three and new trials denied. In continuing the appeals, Baker ordered' the prosecuting attorney’s office to call Bedy and Fifer before the grand jury “in order to get at the bottom of the Rahke case.” Kruse also was instructed to appear before the grand jury. With the statement that “there's no need to get the little fellows when we ought to get the big ones,” Baker reversed Sheaffer on the conviction of seven men arrested in a rhum game raid at 2025 North Rural street. Max Massie.. 2127 North Rural street, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced ten days in that case for keeping a gaming house. Six others were fined $lO and costs and given ten-day sentences on charges of visiting a gaming house.

casion to condemn with the utmost vigor as communistic, atheistic, and against the dignity of man. such grass violations of the code as the use of rye whisky, or that great abomination, the gin julep. But if either litigant would like to try the case all over again, the court will be pleased to sit. • Scorn for Bourbon “T"\ON'T put Bourbon into anything but a Kc-ntuckian—” With this admonition “Doc" Allen—Dr. H. R. Allen, professionally, 1843 North Illinois street —today entered the great mint julep controversy raging along the eastern seaboard. “I have sampled mint juleps all over the country,” Allen declared, "and I can speak highly of the merits of the juleps concocted in Louisiana, Tennessee. Georgia, and even New York, where rye, a civ-

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LONG STRETCH OF TORTURE SPENT BY LUESSE IN ‘HOLE’ ‘Red’ Leader, Doomed by His Record to Punishment in Penal Farm Dungeon, Relates Horrors He Saw. MEN WORKED TO EXHAUSTION POINT Scores Poisoned by Unfit Food, Declares Negro Cook; Cluboing of Inmates for Petty Offenses Charged. BY ARC H STEINEL “Let Him Renew His Hope Who Enters Here." Scrolled in black faded letters high on the arched entrance of the Indiana state penal farm is this phrase. All who enter see it. All touring motorists from U. S. highway No. 40 pass it by and read. Rut in a sub-basement in one of the farm buildings a few squares away no motto of hope blazons the areaway to a ceilblock of thin ventilation and thinner daylight.

‘DARED/ FIRES GUN; PAL KURT Taunted as ‘Fraidy Cat,’ Boy, 11, Pulls Trigger of Revolver. Boyish taunt of “fraidy cat” isn't funny today for 10-year-old Charles Richards. 1715 Hoyt avenue. There is a hole in his right elbow where a .38-caliber bullet passed through Thursday afternoon. Charles and a playmate, Jaseph Strout, 111, of 1705 Hoyt avenue, were at the Strout home in the absence of the family, and in a hiding place found a .38-caliber -revolver belonging to Strout’s father. Joe held the revolver as he and the other boy admired the carved handle and burnished barrel. Joe goes on with the story from the point where Charles dared him to shoot. “You’re a fraidy cat,” Chuck said to me, and I pulled the trigger.” Chuck yelled, and fell to the floor. Joe helped him to a nearby drug store where a tourniquet was applied, stopping a copious flow of blood. Police were called. Joe first told a story that a stray bullet struck his playmate while they were in the backyard of the Strout home. But before Chuck was taken away to city hospital, Joe got around to telling the facts of the case. After treatment, the Richards boy was returned home. Joe has gone away for a short visit. ROBINS” PRIZE PARENTS Birds, in Cherry Tree, Expected to Hatch Their Fourth Family. By United. Press KOKOMO. Ind., July 14.—An ambitious pair of robins are making their home in a cherry tree owned by Presley Alexander. The mother robin already has hatched three broods of fledglings this year, and Alexander believes she is preparing to raise a fourth family.

‘Cure’ Is Begun President's Son Files Divorce Petition in Nevada Court. By United Press MINDEN. Nev., July 14.—Elliott Roosevelt, 22-vear-old son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, filed suit for divorce here today from his wife Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, daughter of a Pennsylvania steel magnet. He charged “extreme mental cruelty.” The action paved the way for a cross-suit which Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to file Monday, and under which she will be granted the decree. It was a typical Nevada divorce document because it revealed nothing more than the barest details.

ilized drink, is used as a base. “But when it comes to Bourbon, Irvin S. Cobb and all his cohorts, nothwithstanding. I most vehemently draw the line. It's all right for people who like a strong tobacco taste in their beverages to resort to Bourbon, but I contend that its not a drink lor connoseurs.” The "Doc,” who is known to thousands of Speedway fans for his work in the emergency hospital for more than seven years, shook his massive fist end positively snorted. “Why, it’s a sacrilege to compare Bourbon with rye,” he declared. “I've never seen a barrel of Bourbon yet which didn't have a large plug of tobacco stuck in it to help the aging Our Kentucky neighbors claim that tobacco lends bouquet, color and flavor. 'Flavor, mind you.’ ” “If folks like their tobacco in that form, its all right with me.”

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I It’s the “hole.” A feared I place for the beatings which former inmates charge have taken place there, feared for the hours when a prisoner 5 stands handcuffed to a cell I door on a diet of bread and i water. "With only ten more days of his sentence to serve, Armett (Arment) and Craig came into the hole where ! I also was a prisoner to curse and abuse him. He resisted the club- | bing they began to give him,” | vouches the sworn statement of one man who knew that “hole," every : bar of it, every freshet of air, every sunlight shadow that peeped into it. Record Precedes Luesse The man was Theodore Luesse, Indiana’s political prisoner, referring to another prisoner's experience | in the “hole,” Placed there by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker with the judgment of “a menace'to society,” for interi sering with an eviction in Indian- ; apolis, Luesse found that his record of Communistic activities and attempts at gaining converts to radicalism had preceded him to the ; farm. “So you're a Communist, are you? Well, we know how to handle fellows j like you. We’ll take that out of | you,” Luesse’s affidavit charges he was told by E. L. Arment, assistant ; superintendent of the farm in charge of discipline during the illness of | Clifford W. Craig, superintendent. I He' served twenty-one months at | the state farm. Many prisoners sent to the state reformatory for major offenses are released before that period of time. Nine Days in Hole He served nine days in the “hole” 1 at one stretch and was handcuffed j daily from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. to the I bars of his cell, he declares. ; No brief for Luesse’s record as a i conscientious objector, and the long I police record he made in clashing j with the law over his right of free 1 speech, in protest of evictions, is made. He' became the city’s byword for j “Red.” He carried that to the state farm. “I arrived at the farm . . . May 25, 1931. Next day I was put on the No. 10 flying squad, removing di’-t from a bed of rock and carrying : it up to a thirty-foot embankment, i says Luesse’s sworn statement. Ran at Work “We had to run up and down all day long, with a guard and three trusties carrying clubs, forcing us to hurry. The first day two prisoners were knocked down, clubbed and kicked, one named Fisher, from South Bend, and the other named I Albert Mueller, Indianapolis. I “These two men were beaten because they didn’t go fast enough. Fisher was beaten so badly that he was injured internally . . . ‘"The work, running up and down i .. . was exhausting and the first five of us fell down and pretended fx> be unconscious. The guard threatened i to club and kick us, but didn’t. “‘I was weak. We were taken to the hospital long enough to get a dose of salts. Then we were taken to the captain's office and I complained about the work and the J clubbing. “Warned by Captain” "He warned me not to start anyI thing. Later, he issued orders to , the guards and prisoner-trusties to throw away their pick handles and he would take care of the prisoner in his private office,’’ the sworn statement of Luesse says. “He did not touch me. He tried grabbing my hair, but I squared off at him and he drew back. “About six months after I arrived ... I was refused a meal because I had gotten a piece of bread from % fellow prisoner who gave it to me. Armett refused to let me go into dinner. “While reading aloud one Sunday, ' the guard snatched the book away from me and told me to report to the office. Armett < Arment) threatened to hit and kick me and agaij® I squared off and kept him off me. He took the book away. The book was a history of the human race, j “Struggle for Existence,” by Miles. Watched for Reading Matter “Armett allowed me no reading matter that might improve me . . . Just detective magazines and pulp love stories. He instructed guards to watch me very closely for any reading matter,” the affidavit declares. Luesse recites how he was (Turn to Page Thirteen)