Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1934 — Page 1

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PROMISES OF POWER SAVINGS CALLED ‘MYTH’ Benefits Expected by City From Merger Never Seen, Is Claim. CHARGE EXPENSES GROW Costs of Operation Rise More Than Revenue, Probers Say. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Timrs Staff Writer Instead of savings being effected after the merger, presumably for the benefit of the public, sworn statements to the public service commission by officials of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company show that expenses have increased more than revenue, The Times was informed today. This state of affairs is revealed in the investigation of ihe light company by Sherman Minton, public counselor, who has obtained an order to show cause why electric rates in Indianapolis should not be reduced. Hearing has been set for Feb. 1. In granting the petition for the merger of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company, Jan. 10, 1927, the public service commission made the following statement: "The evidence clearly shows that a considerable saving can be effected by the unified operation of the two companies. One group of officers, engineers, accountants and clerks can be eliminated entirely. The combined maintenance of duplicate pioperties will be avoided and the waste of money in a competitive effort- to get new business will be ended.” The following statistics, showing total revenues, expenses and grass revenues, as revealed in reports filed with the public service commission, are given for the purpose of showing the increase of each of these figures as compared with the combined figures of the two operating companies prior to the merger. The statistics show that the total average revenue for the last five years amounts to $9,976,416. an average increase of $1,596,567 over the figures for 1926. Expenses Increase, Is Claim This is equal, according to public service investigators, to an average increase in total revenue of 19.05 per cent. The expenses for the last five years average $7,002,357. or an average increase of $1,293,927 over the 1926 period. The above figures which have been reported to the public service commission show that while the total revenues have increased 19.05 per cent, expenses have increased 22 66 per cent. Figures show that the average total revenue for the last five years amounted to $9,976,416, or $1,586,567 more than the revenue of the combined companies <the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company* in 1926. This is equal to an average increase of 19.05 per cent. The expenses for the last five years average $7,002,357, or an average increase of $1,293,927.

Table Is Reproduced The above figures, according to utility experts, show that while the revenues of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company have increased 19.05 per cent, expenses have gone i up 22.66 per cent. An accountant has submitted some adjusted figures on expense J and gross income to the public serv- I ice commission to determine alleged excessive charges against consumers in the matter of total revenues. ! expenses and grass income. As an example of these alleged overcharges, the following “adjusted” figures are shown: Operation Gross Total Expenses Income Revenue (Adjusted) (Adjusted) 1 |!!■•# J <). 166.981 ss,tSß.9its S.'Uf’X.ir.’!) 1929 10,591.022 8.057.890 4.538.132 1980 . 10,151.457 6.254.710 4.202,717 1931 10.102.933 6.257.134 3.845,799 1932 ... 9.260,733 5.671.118 3,589.315 At S 9.976,117 55.976.0t7 51.000.397 The above figures after adjustment for alleged excessve charges of operating expenses show that the average adjusted cost of operation a year during the last five years amouted to $5,976,017. The figures shown by the company in its report to the public service commission shows the average to be $7,002,357 or a pu ported excessive charge against* consumers averaging more than $1,000,000 a year, according to data now before the public service commission. The average return based at 6 per cent which the company is entitled to on correct values for the last five years, as stated previously should be $2,205,489. but the company is earning—after adjustment of expenses by an accountant in computations now in the hands of the public service commission—an average gross income of $4,000,397.

NEXT—What becomes of the dollar the consumer pays for current. PICKET IS SHOT. OTHER MEN BEATEN AT MINE Clash in Pennsylvania Follows Union Recognition Demand />;/ t'nited /Venn WILKES-BARRE. Pa., Jan. 5. A mine picket was shot and several men beaten today in a clash between strikers and workers at the Madria colliery of the Conolon Coal Company. Tha disorder was the first reported since the newly organized United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania renewe'd its claim for recognition by coed operators.

The Indianapolis Times Clearing this afternoon, generally fair tonight and tomorrow followed by somewhat colder temperature; lowest temperature tonight near freezing.

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 205

LAW ‘RINGS BELL’

Attorney First ‘Tagged Out’

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Alexander Bell, . 1.,.n. ..w. s given an opportunity to practice his professional talent, in his own behalf when patrolmen Ernest Haught deft* and Bill Tremp affixed a sticker to his automobile bearing 1933 tags in front of police headquarters today. Mr. Bell was the first motorist in the city to be caught in the drive to abolish last year’s tags. A POLICE officer, displaying all the ardor of an avenging angel, swooped down upon an automobile with 1933 tags, parked directly in front of police headquarters today, and carefully affixed a sticker to the windshield. Thus did Alexander Bell, a lawyer, 3358 Ruckle street, become the first recipient of a police order to appear in court and tell why he was displaying last year’s plates after the deadline.

ALBERT W. LEVI, MERCHANT, DIES Founder of Retail Clothing Group to Be Buried Sunday at Peru. Following an illness of eighteen months. Albert W. Levi, 64, of 1 East Thirty-sixth street, died in his home today. A well-known clothing merchant, he formerly was associated with the Industrial Center. Last rites will be held Sunday at 10 in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Peru, his birthplace. Mr. Levi was founder and secretary of the Indiana Retail’s Men’s Clothing Association and founder and president of the Indianapolis Men's Apparel Club. He was a member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, the Peru, ilnd.) Masonic lodge and the Scottish Rite at Rochester, N. Y. Honorary pallbearers will be A. L. Block, Sol Schloss. Julius •Michaels, Simon Kiser. Sol Kiser, I. L. Oppenheimer and Albert Goldstein. Active pallbearers will be Jack Rohr. Joe Bloch, Jess Mossier, Harry Goldstein. Eli Schloss and Dr. B. M. Gundlefinger. Mr. Levi is survived by his widow, his son. Albert W. Levi Jr., four sisters. Mrs. Saul Munter, all of Indianapolis; Miss Lulu Levi, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Nellie Weiler, Cleveland, and Mrs. Morris Higer, Detroit, and a brother, Ed J. Levi Wilmette, 111.

BEER LAW LEGALITY BEFORE HIGH COURT Constitutionality Is Argued at Statehouse. Constitutionality of the Indiana beer law is the subject of oral arguments today before the supreme court. The case is on appeal from the decision of Judge Virgil S. Reiter of Lake superior court, who held the law unconstitutional. FRENCH GOVERNMENT DECORATES CITY MAN Herbert A. Payne Given Medal for Action at Verdun. Herbert A. Payne, insurance adjuster. 3218 Sutherland avenue, has received from the French government a Verdun Medal which is being awarded to soldiers who took part in the defense of Verdun in the World war. Receiving the medal will mean that Mr. Paynes name will be inscribed in the “Book of Gold" at Verdun. He was a captain in the One hundred fifteenth infantry. Twenty-ninth division. GOOD LIQUOR AID ASKED Federal Official Urges Governors to Help Drive on Adulteration. By l nitrd Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 Federal Alcohol Administrator Choate today sent telegrams to Governors of the twenty-one wet states, urging their co-operation in obtaining evidence of adulterated liquor sales which could be traced to wholesalers and manufacturers.

-Power —Then and Now t The following figures, compiled by an accountant and now being studied by Sherman Minton, public counselor before the public service commission, show that the total revenues of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company are an average of 19.05 per cent higher than the revenues of the combined companies before the merger. ■ Before adjustment by an accountant* Per Cent Per Cent Per Cent Total Increase Operation Operation Gross of Revenue of Revenues Expenses Expenses Revenues Increase 1926 ...$ 8,379,849 100.00 $5,708,430 100.00 $2,671,386 100.00 1928 ... 9,466.934 112.97 6.218,567 108.93 3.248.366 121.15 1929 ... 10.594.022 126.41 7.332.185 128.43 3.261,836 122.10 1930 ... 10,457.457 124.78 7.677.382 134.48 2.780,075 104.06 1931 ... 10,102,933 120.56 7.547.645 132.21 2.555,288 95.65 1932 ... 9,260.733 110.50 6.236.006 109.23 3,024.726 113.22

At this auspicious moment, the man who had had the temerity to drive his chariot with the delinquent tags up under the very noses of the cops, was himself in police headquarters attending to his law business. Mr. Bell's car, parked in front of the Marion county jail on Alabama street, with the offending brown j and white 1933 tags displayed fore j and aft, was spotted by Lieutenant Louis Johnson. At the moment of intrusion of the i offending plates, the lieutenant was 1 in deep thought. He was planning the details of the dragnet which he intends to spread over the city today i to cap* ure motorists who insist on using las> year’s tags. Mr. Bell jumped lightly from his; car and walked briskly into head- , quarters. In a horrified whisper, Lieutenant | Johnson beckoned to patrolman Ernest Haught. “Do you see what I see,” he whis- ; pered hoarsely. Patrolman Haught saw and act- , ed with precision. He stalked across I the street and pasted Mr. Bell’s car 1 with a sticker: Chief Mike Morrissey said he had received word from state officials asking him to begin enforcement of the automobile license law today. Drivers will be arrested and taken to city prison and their cars will be sent to the nearest garage, the chief! said.

You, Too, Captain? Captain Otto Pettit has a lot of sympathy for timid motorists who, still driving with 1933 license plates, skulked down alleys, keeping a weather eye open for the dreaded motorcycle cop. In fact, the doughty captain, himself, was seen today furtively driving his car, without the new license plates. Captain Pettit, he explained to “kidders” at the police station, paid for 1934 license plates at a branch station last Sunday. The supply of plates having been exhausted, the branch operator promised to mail the plates by Tuesday. Today, the captain still was waiting for the plates. “I don’t think any one who has paid for plates that haven't been delivered should be arrested,” defended the captain, as he exhibited his receipt. Receipts Are 0. K. Motorists who have been unable to obtain 1934 aufQ. license plates through no fault of their own were given an “out” today by A1 G. Feeney, state safety director. Mr. Feeney announced that state police have been ordered not to arrest motorists who do not have license plates, but in lieu have receipts showing they have paid for plates -which have not yet been delivered. This is the position in which many auto owners find themselves, Mr. Feeney said, because the lastminute rush at the license branches hes made it impossible to effect deliveries. Frank Finney, auto license division chief, joined Mr. Feeney in the belief that arrests should not be made where the motorist has a receipt for his plates. Chief Mike Morrissey could not be reached for comment on the Feeney announcement, but it w-as presumed city police would adopt a similar attitude since only one sticker had been issued up to noon today. Mr. Feeney said state police had been active throughout the state against willful violators. Approximately twenty-eight drivers have been arrested and between forty and fifty cars have been impounded. Mr. * Feeney said.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934

VICTIM’S PLEA FAILS TO SAVE BLACKMAILER William H. Coleman Weeps Asking Freedom for Threat Writer. JUDGE CITES REASON Request of Blaine Miller Also Refused: Accused Sent to Prison. Weeping openly as he testified in criminal court today, William H. Coleman, wealthy philanthropist and donor of the Coleman hospital, pleaded in vain for the freedom of a man who had tried to blackmail him last October. "I have no wish to prosecute this unfortunate man,” Mr. Coleman told Judge Frank P. Baker, "I believe he attempted to blackmail me because his nerves were frayed in a futile search for a job.” While the kindly philanthropist pleaded for him, the prisoner, Walter Dillman, who had pleaded guilty, wrung his hands in anguish and finally burst into loud sobs. He was arrested shortly after he nad been charged with writing j threatening letters to Mr. Coleman, Blaine H. Miller, 3433 Washington boulevard, president of the Excelsior Laundry Company and Ward Hackleman, insurance man, of 1314 West Thirty-sixth street, last fall.

Commends Kindly Attitude Mr. Hackleman was not in court, but Mr. Miller joined Mr. Coleman in a plea to the court to liberate the alleged blackmailer. “Like Mr. Coleman,” said Mr. Miller, “I do not wish to see this young man sent to jail. I feel that he has been very foolish. But I must confess that the letter which he wrote caused great alarm in my family for more than two weeks.” In the letters which Dillman wrote to influential men. he threatened to bomb their homes if the money which he demanded were not produced, according to the police. Detectives said that Dillman demanded $3,500 from Mr. Coleman in the letter which he wrote to the philanthopist on Oct. 20. Commending Mr. Coleman and Mr. Miller on their kindly attitude, Judge Baker explained that it would be necessary to send Dillman to the Indiana state prison for a term of one to five years. Wife, Children in Court “If I set this man free, I would be encouraging others,” Judge Baker said in explaining his sentence. He added that he would file a recommendation for the prisoner's release at the end of one year, providing that his conduct in prison warrants such a recommendation. As Dillman, his shoulders bowed with grief, was being led from the courtroom, Mr. Coleman, still visibly affected, shook thq prisoner’s hand and patted the heads of Dillman'?; children, who, with their mother, joined the prisoner just outI side the courtroom.

Ray of Hope Poll Tax Illegal, Tag Seekers Told.

MOTORISTS arrested for not having 1934 license plates and who were refused plates because they could not produce poll tax receipts, today had a defender in the person of Sol Bodner, attorney. Mr. Bodner charged that the license bureau provision requiring poll tax receipts to be shown before licenses will be issued, is unconstitutional for the reason that its applies only to men, and not to women, whio do not pay poll tax, and therefor is “class legislation.” Nine Die in French Flood By United Press COLMAR, France, Jan. 5. —Nine persons drowned when the village of Orbey was flooded today by a broken sluice from an artificial lake used by a power plant 3,000 feet up in the Vosges mountains. Orchestra Leader Dies By United Press MADISON. Wis., Jan. s.—Vernon Bestor. 55, one-time Broadway musical show' conductor and brother of Don Bestor. widely known eastern dance band leader, died at his home here yesterday. Employed by the Shuberts, he led orchestras in “Blossom Time” and other hits. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 45 10 a. m 41 7 a. m 45 11 a. m 41 8 a.m 41 12 a. m 41 9 a. m 41 1 p. m 42 Times Index Page. Berg Cartoon 18 Bridge 13 Broun 17 Classified 24, 25 Comics 27 Congress Page 14 Crossword Puzzle 20 Curious World 27 Editorial 18 Financial 26 Food Section 19, 20 Hickman—Theaters 17 Hunting 10 Pegler 17 Radio 9 Sports 22, 23 State News 10 Unknown Blond 27 Woman's Pages 12. 13 Your Health 20

Prison Walls, Love, Rum Ruined Dillinger, - Aging Father Asserts

(Photos on page 6) BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Times Staff Writer MOORESVILLE, Jan. s.—As police knocked vigorously at the white farmhouse door, stocky John Dillinger, paroled from the Indiana state prison only a few weeks before, hid in the barn. A crime had been committed in Indianapolis that night and police clamoring for an arrest, visited the rambling farm near Mooresville where Dillinger was living with his family.

BANK CALL IS ISSUED BY U. S. * " State Follows Example of Comptroller in Asking Statements. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. The comptroller, of the currency today called on all national banks to report their condition as of Dec. 30, 1933. A call for the condition of state banks as of Dec. 30 was issued today by the state department of financial institutions. $176,000,000 PAID TO CWA EMPLOYES Average of §SO Monthly for 4,150,000 Workers, Hopkins Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. s—lncomplete reports ‘to Civil Works Administrator Harry L. Hopkins indicate that $176,000,000 has been paid in wages to formerly unemployed workers who have been given jobs on civil works, it was learned today. The CWA wages were said to b at an average rate of about SSO a month for the 4,150,000 persons who have been taken from direct relief rolls and given jobs. Mr. Hopkins said the $176,000,000 represented the pay roll up to Dec. 28. The figure does not include expenditures for materials. Mr. Hopkins announced simultaneously that the federal emergency relief administration up to Dec. 31 had granted a total of $324,428,488 to the forty-eight states, four territories and the District of Columbia out of its $500,000,000 relief fund.

BLOOMINGTON NATIVE DIES AT HOME HERE Mrs. J. F. Forsythe Leaves Six Sons; Funeral Tomorrow. Mrs. J. F. Forsythe, 68, of 121 ! South Oriental street, died at her home today following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2:30 tomorrow and at Bloomington, Ind., at 2 Monday Burial will be in Bloomington, where Mrs. Forsythe was born and resided until she moved to Indianapolis fourteen years ago. Surviving her are six sons, Rex and Clarence Forsythe, Bloomington, and Guy, King, Charles and Max Forsythe, all of Indianapolis. SCHOOL. TWO BUSINESS PLACES YIELD LOOT Three Burglars Committed in East Side Section. Three small burglaries in the vicinity of Beville avenue and East Michigan street were reported to the police early today. Thieves broken into school No. 15, Beville avenue and East Michigan street, ransacking desks and stealing an undetermined amount of school property. Shortly after police were notified that thieves had entered the grocery of Dan Weil. 3746 East Michigan street, taking articles valued at $4. James Jeffries, proprietor of a barber shop at 3742 East Michigan street, reported that the shop was entered and an undetermined amount of loot taken. SCIENTECH CLUB BOOKS CONSULTING ENGINEER Samuel S. Wyer Will Speak at Weekly Luncheon. Members of the Scientech Club of Indianapolis will hear Samuel S. Wyer, Columbus (O.) consulting engineer, at the next meeting, which will be held Monday in the Columbia Club. New officers elected at the last meeting will preside. They are W. C. Mabee. president; N. T. Puckett, vice-president; H. A. Minturn. secretary; Arthur M. Hood, treasurer, and I. L. Miller, C. A. Ammerman, Homer Rupard, C. N. "Warren, and Dan Luten. directors. FRED BRIER HONORED BY INSURANCE GROUP Elected President by City Association; Other Officers Named. Members of the Mutual Insurance Association of Indianapolis elected new officers yesterday in a meeting at the Columbia Club. Fred A. Brier is the new president. Other officers are Glen T. Beall, vice-president; E. A. Burtzloff. vicepresident; Miss Nellie Allemond. John Lau and Carl Jones, executive committee, and Mrs. Marie L. Huffman, secretary. Grocery Store Entewd Thieves entered a Kroger grocery at 111 East Thirty-fourth street early today by picking a lock on the door. Floyd Grimes. 947 Kealing avenue. Kroger truck driver, discovered the open door and notified police. The loot has not been deter - , mined.

His father, John Sr., a kindly old man of 70, soft-eyed and toilmarked, found John cowering in the darkness of the barn with a gun in his hand. “Put that gun away, son,” the father entreated. “You were home when the crime occurred. Give yourself up to the police.” John left that night never to return until after his sensational flight from a small Lima (O. * jail, in which a sheriff was slain. Then, flying through, he stayed only for a few bitter words against society that he felt had wronged him. Now a dread legend follows him as federal public enemy No. 1, leader of the Indiana terror mob. a a a A REVIEW of young Dillinger’s early life shows no evidence of the criminal life he was to lead, except an occasional mischieviousness, before he went to prison. His father, a respected citizen of this small town, even now can not assemble the whole picture of his son’s life. Four factors, he claims, led to the criminal makeup. When John Jr. was only 3 years old his mother died, leaving him in the care of a sister, Audrey, ten years older. With no children near his age. he was a lonely, spirited boy. The second factor is a hitherto unknown chronicle of his life. When he was 17, the age of sensitive adolescence, he fell deeply in love with a girl. Her parents tore the two apart, leaving Dillinger broken and embittered. Later he married. The marriage, never satisfactory, ended in a divorce when Dillinger was sent to the Indiana reformatory at 21. The third was when Dillinger, drinking with a man ten years his senior, Ed Singleton, robbed and beat an aged grocer. The elder Dillinger, unlearned in the way of law or the courts, instructed his son to plead guilty. John Sr. brames the judge for giving his son the minimum sentence of ten years. His accomplice, turning state's evidence, was given eight years. The story is whispered around Mooresville now that Singleton lives in dread for fear that Dillinger may return to avenge. a u tt THE fourth was while he was in the reformatory he was transferred to Michigan City, presumably for misconduct. The hatred of society rancored in his breast, and at the state prison he was associated with hardened criminals, who fired his hate and tempted his criminal ambition. Only a few hours after his stepmother had died, John returned to the farm with his father. His father noticed a subtle change in the boy, not apparent on the outside, but burning furiously within. John helped his father with the corn, went hunting with him, but always there was a restlessness stirring him. He made frequent trips to Indianapolis, where it if suspected he leagued with his outlaw r confederates. His pictures as a boy show what neighbors, friends and even stolid merchants of Mooresville have claimed that he was a normal boy of a middleclass family. He lived as a boy at 2053 Cooper street in Indanapolis, while his father operated a small grocery. His one interest apparently was in mechanics. He worked for James Burcham as a mechanic in a shop on Kentucky avenue, where he apparently was cohtented. Even after the family moved to Mooresville, John drove back and forth to work. People of Mooresville steadyfastly claim that he was a "goodhearted boy, nothing unusual about him.” A merchant who signed his parole told the writer, “I believed I was right in signing that parole. We all thought he had a "raw- deal.” The old grocer, whom John had attacked, signed the parole request. tt ts tt Today, as one steps into the humble Dillinger farmhouse, a motto over the door proclaims, "Be Kind to Each Other.” Children, John's stepsisters, scamper about the house. There is a spirit of naive faith in his son behind John Sr., who plaintively can not grasp the significance of his son's actions. Other children have been honor students at school. A visitor is caught with the same spirit, the perplexing question, “What are the reasons for John's behavior?” Once police stampeded to the farm. They abruptly asked John Sr., “What would you do if your son came here to stay?” Mr. Dillinger confesses the questioned disturbed his conscience. His respect for law and order was caught off balance. He replied, thinking of his son as a hunted fugitive, “What would you do if you were a father?” John Sr. does not condone his son's crime career, but there lingers in his mind a hope, rather than a conviction, that John was not guilty of all the crimes of which he has been suspected. He has a warrant of faith, a letter penciled by John when jailed at Lima, signed “Johnnie.” In that letter the man branded now as an arch-criminal said that he was “not guilty of everything.” John Sr. waits now. shaken, for a radio flash that his son has been killed in a gun duel. The rest of the country waits, too, but in a different spirit. A father's love confuses all values!

Entered a* Second Ciaaa Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

MOVE TO INCREASE LIQUOR TAX RATES BEATEN IN HOUSE Attempt to Amend Bill Defeated by Voice Vote; First Oratorical Outburst of Session Is Uncorked. HOPE FOR PASSAGE LATE TODAY, Majority Leaders Push for Early Action; Debate, Boisterous for Most Part, Becomes Disorderly. By United Press t WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—The house by a voice vote today defeated attempts of Representative John O'Connor (Dem., N. Y.) to amend the liquor tax hill by increasing the tax on distilled spirits of $2 to $4 per gallon. The amendment to lower the tax to $1.50 was defeated on a rising vote, 39 to 143. Representative O’Connor’s amendment, which would require bottled whisky to be labeled to indicate the age. in the case of bonded liquor and the content in the case of blended or compounded spirit, was ruled out on a point of order raised by Majority Leader Joseph W. Byrns.

PROBE 'BOOTLEG FLOOD' CHARGES U. S. Investigates Activities of Notorious Gangs in Midwest. By United Press CHICAGO. Jan. s.—Secret orders from Washington today launched a tri-state investigation by internal revenue agents of reports that remnants of the Capone and other notorious Chicago gangs are flooding the midwest with cheap bootleg liquorRevenue agents said they had information indicating several million gallons of bootleg and cut whisky had been fed into legitimate liquor channels by gangsters and bootleggers of the prohibition era. Widespread arrests in the conspiracy were understood to be imminent.

Financial Fall Defendant Lacks Funds for Attorney.

MONEY is pretty scarce with Adrian Patterson, 30, Negro, arraigned today on robbery and petit larceny charges, criminal court attaches decided. Explaining that lie didn’t know whether or not lie was guilty. Patterson was asked if he had funds . to employ an attorney. “Judge, I havn’t get enough money to buy a mosquito a wrestling jacket,” Patterson replied. When the roars of merriment died down in the courtroom. Judge Frank P. Baker appointed James A. Bryant to act as attorney for the defendant. Trial will be set later. RETAIL BEER PRICES HERE NOT TO CHANGE Rise of SI a Barrel Won't Affect Drinker, Is Word. A good 10-cent glass of beer will be procurable in Indianapolis despite a rise of $1 a barrel, effective Monday, it was learned today. According to John Burke, importer, of 31 East Georgia street, the twelve breweries in Indiana today sent notice to retailers that after Monday beer will cost sl7 a barrel instead of sl6. Mr. Burke said that no price increases are contemplated in beer from other states. In fact, the price of Milwaukee beer has been cut twice recently, according to Mr. Burke. ECHO OF MTRAY CASE Anderson Man Ordered to Pay on Note of Former Governor. A sequel to the financial difficulties which sent former Governor Warren T. McCray to the federal penitentiary was enacted today as John M. Larramore, Anderson, was ordered to pay $3,075.22 as a result of a note he signed for Mr. McCray. The suit was held in the supreme court here. AL FEENEY ASSIGNED TO STILL ANOTHER JOB Becomes Secretary of Fire Council, His Eighth Position. A1 G. Feeney, state director of safety, etc., today assumed the duties of the eighth position he holds under the McNutt administration. Member of the state building council by virtue of his post of state fire marshal, Mr. Feeney today was elected the council secretary. HOSPITAL STAFF MEETS Methodist Medical Society to Hear Dr. Charles Emerson. Members of the Medical Staff Society of Methodist hospital will meet tonight at the hospital. Principal address will be made by Dr. Charles P. Emerson, who will present a case of myelemia and discuss allied conditions.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

The house leadership was driving for passage before nightfall, despite the controversial amendments designed to change the proposed tax rates. Majority leaders hoped to adjourn the house until Monday after passage of the big revenue measure which developed from repeal. Mr. O'Connor was the first to get the floor of several members seeking to impose higher or lower rates. Asks Measure’s Defeat The $4 rate, he said, on the basis of current prices, would be lower than it was before prohibition on a percentage basis. “We have penalized the veterans and I see no reason why we should seek to benefit a handful of distillers,” he said. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the ways and means committee begged the house to defeat Mrs. O'Connor's’ amendment because it would divert business to boo&Jez, channels. Representative Tom D. McKeown (Dem., Okla.i. urged that the profit be taken out of the liquor business. “My theory is that if you take the profit out of liquor and out of war you will have peace on earth/' McKeown shouted. “Have You Tried It” Mr. McKeown said he was convinced bootleg liquor w'ould “make a cat spit in a bulldog's face.” “Have you tried any of the stuff the so- called legitimate distillers are selling?” Mr. O'Connor asked. “No, I haven't," Mr. McKeowm said. “I’d advise you not to,” the New Yorker commented. After Mr. O'Connor's amendment was voted down, Representative Everett M. Dirksen (Rep., 111.) introduced an amendment for a $1.50 whisky tax, which he urged as necessary if the illicit industry is to be driven out. The “Clowning” Starts Debate, boisterous for the most part, became disorderly when Representative Fred A. Britten 'Rep* 111.) broke into a speech by Representative Joseph Sabath 'Dem., 111.) to ask when the latter was “going to return the bottle of gin you borrowed from me three years ago.” Mr. Britten. Chicago rival of Mr. Sabath, interjected his question after the latter had refused to yield for a question. He tried to continue his plea for accurate labeling of spirits bottles, but Mr. Britten insisted on his question. Speaker Henry T. Rainey vainly sought to restore order w>ith his gavel and Mr. Sabath yielded the floor amid the roaring laughter of members. 800 MILLIONS BACK TAXES SOUGHT BY U. S. Quota Plan to Reach Goal Announced by Treasury. By United Prt ss WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—A new drive to collect approximately SBOO,000,000 in back government taxes through a “quota” system for revenue collectors was revealed today by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau.

DISCUSS TRUCK CODE D. F. Mitzner to Discuss Terms at Session Tonight. Explanation of the trucking code’s wage scale, hours of labor and methods of setting up fair competition will be made by D. F. Mitzner tonight in the Lincoln. A general discussion will be held, in which questions dealing with interpretations of the code will be answered. A Coal Record The Times, in today’s Want Ad section, is publishing the largest volume of coal advertising in its history and one of the largest volumes ever published by an Indianapolis newspaper. If you ”re in need of coal, turn back to the “CASH COAL MART” in the Want Ad section.