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BRITON MAY GO 300 MILES AN HOUR

250 CHANGES IN LIQUOR BILL ARE MADE BY HOUSE Final Adoption Today Hold Unlikely Due to Failure of Typists to Complete Engrossment of Measure. BAUER LOSES ONE-MAN REVOLT Majority Party Beats Down Efforts of Terre Haute Democrat and G. O. P. to Amend Ad in inistrat ion M easure. A hattoiy of House of Representatives * engrossing room typists and elerks, who toiled throughout the night, at a late hour this ir. -ruing had not completed engrossment of the adn ni>*ration state liquor control bill and its final adoption at todav's session seemed unlikely. Weary from lack of sleep, the staff went out to . 'vikfast a fie? announcing that more than 250 changes in the original, voted in the I wer house late yesterday, had been written but that completion of engrossment in time to permit a vote this morning was doubtful.

The majority party l>eat down renewed attempts of Rep. Lenhardi Bauer (D. Terre Haute) and the Republicans to amend the measure, but adopted It House resolutions proposed by Democrats. | On two occasions Rep. Bauer rame clr*>e in upsetting the apple rart. but both times his amendments were defeated by roll rail i votes. One of his proposed changes | provided for a single retail license, in place of the triple licenses now in the bill. but it was defeated 53-31. Balloting 48-43. the House turned back another of his proposed amendments which would have . abolished the present importer sys- j tem within 60 days. As the bill now j reads, the importer setup will end on Nov. 15. Rep Justin A Roberts R. No-ble.-wile* forced through an amend-' ment. which provides that there be not less than 10 or more than 100 ; ports of entry for foreign beer. Rep. Herbert H Evans <R.. Newcastle! attempted to kill all the Administration bill and enact the old Nicholson saloon law. but he was decisively defeated. Ilnme Rule \ otrd Down Two other attempts by Republicans to put in a home rule provision, and an effort to prohibit taverns in towns of less than 1000 population failed. County comnnsisoners. the mayor of the largest city in the county, and the excise director each would have one representative on the local control boards according to an amendment proposed by Rep Joseph A Andrew -R.. Lafayette* and later adopted by the House. As previously promised, the administration amended the measure to provide for a state ltquor control commission of five members instead of three, and to provide that twothirds of the revenue collected from license fec> will go to the cities and the other one-third go to the school cities. Rep Fred Barrett D. Indianapolis* said that this latter amendment would enable cities to, balance their budgets. Amendments Are Accepted Amendments which would limit the use and sale of industrial alcohol. and give the commission the power to prescribe rules for the denaturing of alcohol also passed. All (actions agreed to an amendment which allows retailers to renew their licenses without the necessity of examination from local board.' of control. Rep Henry A Enug iD. Evansville* pushed through a change which allows rectifiers to sell to retailers as well as wholesalers. Charging that the provisions in the bill which muted liquor advertising and liquor signs were unconstituttonal. Rep Bennett H Rockey D. Sharpesville* led a successful fight in having these stricken from the measure. Package Sales Approved As amended by Red. Richard James <R Portland* any merchant may take out a license and sell package liquor - This will >tnke out the drug store monopoly. ’ the author claimed. Rep Bauer declared Rep Frank Thomp-on was violating rules of legislative procedure by expressing | the administration's attitude on , each of the proposed amendments. ] •Since when does a law-making 1 body have to stand for this? If it isn't out of order—it sure is something. Rep Bauer charged ’ The chair admits it is •something '• replied Speaker Edward Stein. Stein. Bauer ( lash Latr. open conflict between Speaker Stem and Rep Bauer was renewed when a final attempt of the Terre Haute representative to amend the bill to decrease the gallonage tax on liquor from $1 to 50 rents resulted in his saying: "We've \ been informed we couldn't talk on these amendments, but Id like to say something on this amendment. The Speakers face reddened and he retorted; What do you mean, you can't talk? You've consumed

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about one-half of the time talking on your amendments here this afternoon. Mr Bauer. The chair resents your imputations.’ “I apologize to tne chair and I did not refer to the chair but to members of the House." declared Rep. Bauer. Amendments to strike out NRA provisions of the bill; to limit the power of the central liquor control commission: to force the commission to retain records; to increase the penalty for selling to minors and to prohibit wholesalers from competing with retailers were defeated.

RAILROADS TO MOVE CITY TICKET OFFICES New City Trust Building to Be Headquarters. Officials of four raihoads and of the Marott-Ayres Realty Cos. announced today that the railroad ticket offices now located in various units of the English Hotel building on Monument Circle will be moved April l to the New City Trust Building. 108 E. Washing‘on-st. The roads whose offices will be be moved are the Pennsylvania. New York Central. Baltimore <fc Ohio and the Monon. The ticket office of the Transcontinental fc Western Air. Inc. which is now in the Pennsylvania office, also will be moved to the new location, as will the Pennsylvania division passenger offices. STATE CHIROPRACTORS TO MARK HEALTH WEEK Free Clinics for Children Will Feature Observance. Chiropractic Health Week will be observed throughout the state next week by the Indiana Chiropractors' Association. Free clinics for the examination of, children 12 or under will be held throughout the state as a memorial to Dr. D. D Palmer, chiropractic s founder.

IT’S SAFE AND SANE Every reader of The Indianapolis Times will have the opportunity to receive scientific and expert instruction on shotgun shooting through The Time.'-Em Roe Shooting School which will open at 1:30 Monday afternoon and continue for a month at the Indianapohs Gun Club. 1340 S. Lyndhurst -dr. Charles E Adams, known throughout the country as an authority on shooting and guns, will be the instructor. The school is dedicated toward furthering safe and sane shooting. Entries may be filed with The Times Shooting Editor.

Stream Pollution Bill Goes to House After Passage in Senate by 38-7 Vote

A three-year fight to outlaw Indiana stream pollution neared a close today as the House of Representatives was to receive the state administration's anti-pollution bill which pased the Senate late yesterday 38-7. The Indianapolis Times, public health workers and representatives of more than 60.000 state sportsmen have waged a relentless fight to assist the state conservation department to have the bill passed. The bill passed the House last week by an overwhelming majority but ran into a snag in the Senate when members from industrial counties charged its provisions would drive industry from the state and endanger the $1.50 tax limitation

Holmes Is Unchanged; Rests Well Doctors Are Encouraged as Justice ‘Holds Own;’ Condition Critical. Itii I nit< and /’rr* WASHINGTON, March 2. Former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was reported today to have i spent a comfortable night. There was no change in his condition. The 93-year-old jurist is ill with pneumonia and is “holding his 1 own,’’ his physicians declared. Dr. Thomas A. Claytor, chief physician to the 93-year-old jurist, I said he was “very much encouraged" by Justice Holmes’ condition ; but that he still was in a critical i condition. • Mr. Holmes is holding his own.” Dr. Claytor said. “I am very much encouraged by the fact he has not lost ground in his fight. He is, however, far from being out of ; danger.” I Few of the steady stream of visitors at the little red brick house on I-st were admitted to the room where the former Supreme Court justice has been ill for several days. Felix Frankfurter, of the Harvard Law school and a close friend of Justice Holmes, said after a visit to ! the house that the jurist was “a shade better.” Justice Holmes, he i said, joked with his attendants. Nevertheless, Dr. Claytor called Dr. W. T. Longcope. of the Johns Hopkins medical school, and Dr. Lewis C. Ecker, of Washington, into consultation. No bulletin has been issued on Justice Holmes’ condic.on. SENATE PASSES S-NRA MEASURE Bill Returned to House for Concurrence in Amendments. The State-NRA bill, shorn of the controversial price-fixing and commercial loss-leader sections passed the Senate 28-22 late yesterday and today was to be returned to the House of Representatives for concurrence in amendments before being sent to Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Each of the 12 Republican Sena- ; tors opposed the measure and they were joined by 10 Democrats. Senators Albright, Anderson, Gottschalk, Hernmer, Hendricks, Janes, Schuler, Swihart, Webb and Wickens. Every Senator was present and voted. Senator Jacob Weiss (D, Indianapolis) stated the amended bill merely supplemented the Federal NRA and offered no chance of conflict with whatever Federal NRA legislation'is adopted in the future. He called it a necessary aid in President Roosevelt’s economic recovery program. “The opposition to this measure has largely been the result of unfair and misleading propaganda from Bourbon newspapers and a I small per cent of non-co-operative industries,” he charged. Senator William E. Jenner <R . Paolii led the minority attack. He J asserted enactment of such legisla- ! tion was unnecessary and would “eventually strangle business.”

Hockey Stick Splinters Result in Lad’s Death

Eleven-vear-old Donald Robbins died‘today as the aftermath of a neighborhood hockey game two weeks ago. He contracted tetanus from wounds which splinters from his stick inflicted when he tripped and fell. Donald lived at 734 E. 28th-st and he had joined a roller skate hockey game in a paved alley near his home. When he began he had a broomstick, smooth and splinterless, but he played so hard he broke that one. So. he foraged around and found another stick—not ideal for the game because it had a lot of splinters on it. But Donald wanted to play, so he went ahead. Then he trapped and two splinters went into his nose. His mother.

law in many communities that might be forced to install adequate sewage disposal plants. Opponents finally forced through an amendment that would give local instead of Marion County courts jurisdiction in appeals from rulings of the proposed pollution board. Supporters of the measure still feared a stiff battle as the bill came up for passage yesterday, but Senator Daniel D. Lynch >D.. Hammond* was the only opponent to take the floor. ‘Five minutes isn't long enough to tell all the bad things about this bill,'' he declared. "If we pass it we will be baptising the Republican party."

Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Sunday. Colder Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935

GREEK REVOLT IS CRUSHED IN FIERCE BATTLE Warships, Coast Artillery and Planes Scatter Rebel Forces. LEADERS FACE DEATH Army and Navy Divided in Loyalty: Venizelos Is , Insurgents’ Chief. (Copyright. 1935, by United Press) ATHENS, March 2. Bombing planes and field and coast artillery' were brought into action by the 1 government today to suppress a ! lightning-like revolt of army and navy elements aimed at putting j Eleutherois Venizelos in power. Four rebel warships were trapped in the harbor of Piraeus, the port of Athens, and bombarded from the shore. Two merchant ships were sunk at the entrance to Salonica harbor to the north to prevent the escape of rebel ships or an attempt by the rebels to enter. Bombing airplanes roared over the ancient Aegean Sea, where the Greek children of the gods rowed their galleys to take Helen from her lover Pails at Troy, pursuing five warships which escaped in rebels’ hands. Breaks Without Warning The revolt broke without warning to the public—though the government had expected it—simultaneously at sea and land. Soldiers of the Evzones garrison, on the outskirts of the capital, returned the fire. Several rebels were reported killed. The government claimed in a communique that the garrison w'as subdued. The rebel warships which were at sea were heading for Crete, to the soutli, birthplace of Venizelos, four-time premier and for years a leading European statesman. Aerial bombs, raining concentrated death on the rebel fleet, crippled a destroyer and were reported to have damaged the cruiser Averoff, flagship of the Greek fleet, a ship of 9400 tons with the crew of 670 officers and men. Two Planes Damaged Two governmental airplanes w’ere damaged by fire from the rebels. The Averoff carries two three-inch Vickers anti-aircraft guns. Bomb after bomb rained down ruthlessly over the fleeing ships. They w r ere in a desperate race to cover the 150 miles to Venizelos’ home, hoping that he would lead them. Two bonds scored hits on the Averoff as its men worked their anti-aircraft guns. The airplanes were shuttling at top speed between shore and sea. At each halt they took on new loads of gombs. Late arrivals got orders to sink all the worships without mercy unless they ran up the white flag at once. Premier Panagiotis Tsaldaris in frequent statements asserted that the situation was under control and that the revolt had failed. The revolt ha dthree main phases. The first, civilian and general, was under former Gen. Papoulas. as I apparent chief of staff.

Mrs. Linna Pugh Robbins, thought all of the pieces of wood had been removed anc that the wound would heal. However, a week ago Donald complained that his back hurt. His mother immediately called a doctor who, in turn, gave him a shot for tetanus and sent him to City Hospital for an emergency operation. More pieces of the splinter were taken out of his nose, but it was too late. He died this morning. He was a member of School 76 and carried a route for the Indianapolis News. He leaves his mother, his father, E. Guy Robbins, a salesman; a brother, Richard. 16. and a sister. Martha 13. Funeral arrangements havt lot yet been completed.

I "I would hate to baptise even a Republican in the filthy rivers of Indiana.’’ replied Senator Jesse E. Wade <D., Mt. Vernon'. The measure gives the state health board, a division of the Commerce and Industry department. jurisdiction in the control of lake and stream pollution. It provides for hearings before a pollution board after administrative officers have investigated. More than T4OO miles of public water in Indiana are so poisoned as to be deleterious to public health, livestock raising and fish and animal life, according to a recent report of the State Planning l Board.

SEEKS NEW WORLD'S SPEED RECORD

Sir Malcolm Campbell . . . No nerves.

Senate Committee Will Revise State Police Bill Changes Authorized at Majority Caucus After Feeney Objections Halt Passage of Measure. Senate disagreement on the details of a bill to reorganze the state police force was to be ironed out today by a committee authorized at a two-hour caucus attended by 34 of her 38 Democratic Senators late yesterday.

BRITISH POUND DIPS TO LOW SINCE 1933 Sterling Reaches $4.78 in Term of American Dollar. By United Press LONDON, March 2.—The pound went to its lowest price since 1933 today, with its dollar quotation at $4.78. Speculators were reported to be withdrawing large sums from London. The foreign exchange market was excited. Dealers were flooded with orders and London-Paris telephones were busy. It was learned that all of £362,000 ($1,733,980 at $4.79, the rate prevailing when the gold price was set) went to Paris. Gold reached anew sterling high as the pound declined, at 146 shillings 10 '■> pence, up 1 shilling 9 1 i pence from yesterday. The dollar price was $35.17*2 an ounce, not a new high. By United Press NEW YORK, March 2.—Gold and silver mining issues continued to feature the stock market at the opening today. They were up fractions to a point, while the general list also displayed a firmer tendency in dull trading. (Bv Thomson & McKinnon* 10:00 A. M Prev. N. Y Close. Am Can in 3 * 117% J I Case 57 56'/* Proctor & Gamble 49% 49'* Loews 36% 36 Mont Ward 25Vi 25'* Sears Roebuck 33'i 33% Am Radiator 12% 12% Johns-Mans 46% 46% Natl Distillers 27 27 Natl Dairv 167s 16% Borden & Cos .. 24% 24% A T & T .. 105% 105% Cons Gas 18', 18', Western tn 26% 26% Nor Am Cos ... 11% It 1 . Beth Steel 27% 27% Lorillard 20'4 20% Duoont 92% 02% Cons Oil j.. 7% 7' 2 SO of Ind 24% 24% Sconey Vac 13 12% Un Aircraft 12% 11% Douglas 21 20% Anaconda 10% 10% Cerro Depaso 44% 44% Tex Gulf 33 33 U S Smelt 122% 121%

Score Card of Indianapolis Basketball Sectional

Beech Grove (20).... \ Thursday, 7:00 p. M. ■ New Bethel (20) \ New Bethel (26) ) ' / Friday. 4:00 P. M. Shortridge \ Shortridge (34) \ l j Thursday, 8:00 p. m. j Shortridge (36) / / Broad Ripple (14) ...) f Saturday, 2:00 P. M. ) * Decatur Central (22). \ I Thursday, 9:00 P. M. Castleton (16) \ j Castleton (24) ) J 1 .5 Friday. 7:00 p. M. Manual / Manual (30) J \ .Friday. 9:<*o A. M. Manual (22) / = New Augusta (23) ...) rj SEMI-FINALS FINALS f y Ben Davis (49) \ Saturday. S:00 P. M. ~ Friday, 10:00 a. M. Ben Davis '3O) \ ■© Oaklandon (17) ) / 9* Friday. i:oo p. M. Ben Davis ,\ 5; Washington (35).... ) ' \ 1 "3 Friday. 11:00 A. Jf. . " ashington (17) ) / .5 Lawrence (21) / Saturday. 3:00 P. M. / J Technical (26) \ I Friday, 2 00 P. M. Technical (20) \ I Warren Central (18)../ I Friday, 9:00 P. M. Southport / Southport (20) A Friday. 3:00 P. M. Southport (23) / Acton (18) )

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A1 G. Feeney, state safety director, has opposed enactment of the Shricker bill which would create a bi-partisan board to have* general supervision over the force. Sufficient Senators supported his ideas Thursday to send the bill back to committee with instructions to strike out the board feature. Considering the statement made by Senator Jacob Weiss <D., Indianapolis), before yesterday’s caucus, that the administration is determined to pass the bill in its present form, the agreement to name a compromise committee was looked upon as another victory for Mr. Feeney’s supporters. The committee will be named by Senator J. Bright Webb <D., Indianapolis), leader of the forces opposing the board plan, and Senator Schricker, author of the police bill. After the conference, Senator Weiss declared the caucus action was for the best interests of the Democratic party. Yesterday Gov. Paul V. McNutt conferred with Senate leaders and Mr. Feeney. During the conference, it was reported, Mr. Feeney offered to resign immediately if his opposition to the board plan is embarassing to the administration. Mr. Feeney also was reported to have told the Governor of his personal esteem for the executive, but adhered to his idea that the board feature of the Schricker bill would divide responsibility for the proper functioning of the police force. Senator Walter S. Chambers (D., Newcastle), suggested formation of the committee representing the compromise factions. Senators Webb and Schricker expected to announce their appointments today.

TODAY’S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m .... 46 8 a. m 49 7 a. m 47 9 a- m 52 Sunrise tomorrow, 6:15; sets, 5:39. Sunrise Monday, 6:14; sets, 5:40.

CAMPBELL ON BEACH READY FOR ATTEMPT Sir Malcolm to Make Speed Run at Daytona in Bluebird; Strives to Break Own 272-Miles-An-Hour Mark. ALL IN READINESS FOR SPECTACLE Crowds Line 11-Mile-Long Course As Famed Englishman Wheels Out Giant Racing Car for Assault on World’s Record. BY HENRY M'LEMORE DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 2. Sir Malcolm Campbell, icy nerved Englishman, attempts today to travel faster on land than man has ever traveled before. In hi3 long super-powered Bluebird racer, he will try to attain a speed of 300 miles an hour. Daytona Beach was in perfect condition for the daring and dangerous drive. A brisk northeast wind and high tides had for 48 hours scrubbed its face, leaving it hard, smooth and fast.

CAGE TOURNEY PLAY RESUMED 64 Sectional Survivors to Be Determined in Games Today. BY DICK MILLER Times Staff Writer Indiana's annual high school basketball tournament neared the end of its first and biggest step toward determining the 1935 cage champion today as windup elimination games were played in 64 sectional centers. Before midnight the field of 781 teams that were in the classic before the first games were played Thursday night will have dwindled to 64. Next Saturday the 64 sectional winners will gather in 16 regional centers —four to each center —and from each of those regionals will come a champion to play in the final games at Butler fieldhouse, March 15 and 16. Fifteen games over the two-day stretch will determine the unchallenged twenty-fourth Indiana High School Athletic Association chf mpion. Two ex-state champions were eliminated yesterday. Washington, winner in 1930, was defeated by little Montgomery, 20-18, and Wingate, winner in 1913 and 1914, was eliminated by Linden, 36-33. Two of last year's 16 finalists. Technical of Indianapolis and Beaver Dam. likewise tumbled yesterday. Michigan City, Logansport, Jeffersonville, Jeff of Lafayette, Anderson, Emerson of Gary, Muncie, New Albany, Newcastle and other favorites all came through the opening action, most of them by top-heavy victories. Rotary to Hear Allison Everet E. Allison, steinhart Grain Cos. treasurer and manager, will speak on “Grain—lts Agriculture and Market” before the Rotary Club Tuesday at the Claypool.

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Campbell was to push the throttle down on Bluebird at 10:27 a. m. (Indianapolis time), ebb tide, for his rocket-like passage down a | narrow pathway bound on i one side by the rolling Atlantic and ! on the other by treacherous dunes. It was on these dunes that Lee Bible wrecked his racer and lost his life on March 13, 1929. Hundreds will watch Campbell’s assault on his own speed record (272.108 miles an hoar, established here two years ago). Among the spectators will be Lady Campbell and their 11-year-old daughter Jean. Two Runs to Be Made Campbell will make two runs, as he must make two trips through the measured mile, one to the south, one to the north. He will start his southward journey just below the city pier, and pull up at the inlet eleven miles away. Then, after a quick inspection of the motor and a change qf tires, he will circle about and blaze northward. The measured mile, marked by giant yellow bulleyes, and guarded by delicate timing wires, is in the exact center of the course, giving him a five-mile running start in both directions. He needs it all, for Bluebird, hard as she is to reach top speed, is more difficult to stop. Campbell dare not lift his foot off the throttle quickly, as the deceleration wou.J send the machine into somersaults. He must ease it off ever so gently, and he must apply the brakes in the same careful manner. Just “Test,” He Says Campbell said yesterday afternoon he would make a “test” run. It is no secret, however, that Campbell supplies the word “test” only to protect himself in case a mechanical defect or a bad beach makes anew record impossible. Every mark he has ever established on Daytona Beach was on a “test” spin. News that Sir Malcolm would make a run spread quickly. Thousands began to assemble long before the time for the start. They spread out over the 11-mile stretch. WELL DRILLERS HOLD ANNUAL CONFERENCE Business of Group Stimulated by Drought, Members T nd. The drought brought relief to well drillers of this state, no matter what distress it brought to other businesses, it was disclosed today by officers of the Indiana Well Drillers’ Association in the second day of its annual convention at the Severin. Coupled with the drought to revive the drilling business is the increased activity in agrizulturai industry, association officers said. B. A. Poole, state board of health, was to speak today on “Ground Water Sanitation.” The association will elect officers and hear the reports of the secretary and treasurer late today. Times Index Page Bridge 5 Broun 7 Church Services 8 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 8 Financial 14 Hickman-Theaters 8 Junior Aviation 2-8 Napoleon’s Letters 7 Pegler 1 Piano Lesson 5 Radio 11 Shooting School 2 Sports .10-11 State News 8 Womans Pages.,.. 4-5