Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1935 Edition 02 — Page 3

NOV. 2, 1935

LEAGUE MAY FIX NOV. 18 AS BOYCOTT DATE Attack on North Front to Reopen, Is Word at Rome. (Continued From Page One) tlons at Rome, Paris and London had as yet no positive outcorr.*- '* It added that "In view of the great complexity of the problem it may be some time before any propo:>t can be made.’’ The full committee also approved a *hird resolution binding League members to help other members receive their present crcuts in Italy when the war is ended. The resolution stipulates these credits which In the main have been amassed under clearing agreements, must be refunded by Italy at their present value. Ras Gugsa Tested Bu I'nitril Pros ROME, Nov. 2.—ln a test of the loyalty of Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa, Tigrean governor who deserted to Italy, the Italian general command has rent him and his 3600 followers ahead of the Italian army to scout the strength of the Ethiopian forces defending Makale, according to Italian press accounts from Asmara. Financial Aid Asked /?;/ I nilril Press GENEVA, Nov. 2.—Ethiopia appealed by wire to the League of Nations today for financial assistance. U. S. Gets “Thanks’ Pil r Hit rj Pros WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. The State Department today received the League of Nations formal acknowledgment and "deep appreciation" of the United States’ recent communication relative to the American attitude toward efforts to restore peace in Africa. Await Fall of Makale nv WEBB MILLER I'nitrd PrfM Staff Correspondent WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY, Nov. 2 Italian soldiers on the northern front are singing the equivalent of the American World War song “Where do we go from here" as they await the word to occupy Makale, their next objective. Their morale and physical condition are excellent after nearly a month v work of consolidating and fortifying their positions on the Aduwa front. It was not a rest period. The soldiers hope to get an answer to the question in their song soon. Roads in the rear of the front area are hung with a mile-high curtain of dust from moving columns and motor trucks. Road Built by Selassie Italy’s occupation of Makale, 50 miles south of Adigrat, will be of tremendous importance because it will place the army within striking distance of the only important highwnv which joins the Tigre country to Addis Ababa. This road ironically enough was constructed by Emperor Haile Selassie and it may be an important factor in his downfall if the Italians decide to move over it toward Addis Ababa. The road extends about 250 miles into Addis Ababa from Maicio, which is about 12 miles north of Lake Asfiangi and about 50 miles south of Makale. The road is 30 feet wide most of the way, wide enough for three lines of traffic. It is constructed of baked soil and is one of five roads in all Ethiopia which can be used by motor traffic even in the dry season. Tanks Highly Useful Once the Italians reach the beginning of tlie Addis Ababa road there may be developed the entirely new phase of mechanized warfare which has been mentioned—use of midget tanks, shoulder high, dashing deeply into the heart of enemy territory toward Addis Ababa. Aside from digging elephant traps in the roads the Ethiopians can do almost nothing against these lleet armored machines. The Ethiopians already have tried digging holes and covering them lightly with soil in an effort to trap tanks, but this failed because the wrong places wore selected and the crews perceived the traps. Army officers are confident that the tanks will show great usefulness, since they are able to go in hilly “ountry where even mules have difficulty, to disperse small concent rail ;vs of the enemy. They also can direct reconnaissance and bombing planes by signal. Drive on Tana Planned B\j t nited Pros ROME. Nov. 2.—A special camel corps comprising 20,000 meh is being formed in Eritrea for a drive on Lake Tana, heart of the gigantic British project for irrigating the Sudan and Egypt, a dispatch from Asmara said today. Mid-November—the date on which the League's economic boycott is to be put into effect—is mentioned as the starting time for the drive. Thousands of camels arc reported already concentrated at bases along the Setit which forms the frontier of Western Eritrea and Ethiopia over toward the Sudan frontier. Other camels are being imported from the Nile lands. Thousands of mules ere to be used also, it is reported, because the difficult terrain, desert, barren land and rugged hills, Is unsuitable for mechanized transport. y Military experts regard the possibility of such a drive as the most serious development since the outbreak of war with Ethiopia. Hard Blow to Britain It would bring the war home to Great Britain ns no other development, perhaps, has done, for Lake Tana is the key to one of the greatest irrigation projects ever conceived. It is the rising point of the Blue Nile that water.' all the Sudan and Egypt. Occasional dispatches have reported the arrival of a surprising number of camels in Eritrea. A dispatch from Asmara Thursday said i 6000 had arrived from Italian Libya to transport munitions and foodstuffs.

Jeritza, ‘Too Busy’ for Movies or New Husband, Pays City Fleeting Visit

Diva Just Misses Wife of Film Magnate Flying Back to Coast. Maria Jeritza. opera star, and recent bride of Winfield R. Sheehan, movie producer, is “too busy” to make a moving picture. She also is too busy with her career to spend much time with her new husband. Madame Jeritza, the former Baroness Pop ir, who married Mr. Sheehan alter her divorce from Baron Popper, gaining the disapproval of her Austrian countrymen, revealed these facts in Indianapolis yesterday. Her blond hair blowing across her face in a raw Hoosier wind at the Municipal Airport, where she stopped for five minutes on her w-ay East for a radio rehearsal in New York, Madame Jeritza shook her head when asked if she hoped to go into the movies. "I am too busy," she said. “From New York I return to my grand opera performances in St. Louis, and then into a radio program. I will not be in California for some time.” Almost simultaneously with the arrival of Madame Jeritza’s eastbound plane was the arrival of the one on which Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton is hurrying to her husband, who is "learning the movie business from the ground up” in Hollywood. “I have been East to enter one of my three sons in an Eastern school," Mrs. Hamilton explained. “I only stayed long enough to do that, and now I am rushing back to my husband." Mr. Hamilton just has finished sound production on Lily Pons’ new picture. He is to experiment in all

Dancing Grasshoppers! There’s Going to Be Rain that’s Sample of Weather Forecasting Signs State Library Preserves.

When the United States government went into the weather soothsaying business, it rejected as too silly for consideration some of the lomely signs of our forefathers and put its faith in store instruments.

LEGISLATION TO BE BEAUTICIANS'TOPIC Law Changes Scheduled for Convention Study. Proposed amendments to the state beauty culture law are to be considered by delegates to the second annual convention of the Indiana Association of Beauticians tomorrow in the Severin. New officers also are to be elected. The first general session is to be held tomorrow night with Dr. T. B. Rhodes, state board of beauty culture examiners president, and Humphrey Harrington, attorney, as speakers. Mr. Harrington will discuss “The Law of the Layman.” Following an address of welcome by Gov. McNutt at 9 a. m. Monday, beauty culturists are to hear lectures and witness demonstrations by nationally known authorities during the remaining three days. A banquet and dance are to be held Wednesday night. John Mueller, Chicago, styles committee chairman of the Chicago and Illinois Hairdressers’ Association and Chicago Hairdressing Academy dean will give demonstrations Monday and Tuesday. GYRO CLUB TO ELECT NEW OFFICERS TUESDAY Two Slates of Candidates Have Been Nominated. The Gyro Club of Indianapolis is to elect officers Tuesday in the Spink-Arms. Two slates of candidates have been nominated. On the President's ticket are Ralph Ittenbach for president; Jess Dunwiddie, vice president; Fred K. Sale, secretary; Art Metzger, treasurer; Joe Goode, sergeant-at-arms, and Joe Waite, Russ Willson, and Lynn Logsdon, directors. On the Finance ticket are Mr. Ittenbach for president; Walter Brant, vice president: Mr. Sale, secretary; Arley Cromlet, treasurer; Walter McClure, sergeant-at-arms, and Mr. Waite, Paul Crosier and Ray Fa tout, directors. WPA ENGINEERS FAVOR MODIFIED ELEVATION Possibility of South Side Project Seen After Conference. Possibility of a modified Works Progress Administration track elevation project on the South Side was seen today following a conference of WPA officials with Mayor Kern and James D. Adams. State Highway Commission chairman, yesterday. Col. George Babcock and Mai. W. D. Styer. WPA regional engineers. indicated they favored elevation of the Belt Railroad from East-st to Meridian-st. POISON DRAUGHT FATAL Robert Mitchell Commits Suicide at His Home. Robert Mitchell, 36, took poison last night at his home. 311 E. St. Clair-st, and died. Mrs. Luella Mitchell, his mother, with whom he lived, told police he had been ill for some time. Vacuum Sweepers Stolen Walter B. Minnesh, 2036 N. Dela-ware-st. told police today that a thief took two vacuum sweepers valued at $299 from his car parked in ! the 100 block E. llth-st. Burglar Enters Meisberger Grocery A burglar broke the window of Meisberger s Grocery last night and stole some tea kettles and canned j good* 1

Maria Jeritza . . . she’s busy fields of moving picture production, Mrs. Hamilton explained. "Am I interested in the movies? No, I only stay there to be near my husband,” she said. The roar of TWA motors drowned out conversation. Madame Jeritza, her bright green suit clinging to her slender ankles, clinbed into the plane. It took her into activities which will keep her away from pro-ducer-husband Sheehan much of the time. Mrs. Hamilton scurried aboard the west-bound plane which was to return her to movie-minded Mr. Hamilton. Just a couple of girls with different ideas!

Some persons still think this was a great mistake, especially around this time of the year when it is a matter of breathless importance that we all know what kind of a winter we’re going to have. All of those signs have been preserved carefully by the Indiana State Library, and it’s not a bit too early to be bringing them out so every one can settle, according to his own tastes in superstition, what to expect from this winter. Our forefathers put explicit faith in the adage that a hard winter is sure to come if animals have heavy coats of fur, and that if a cat sits with its back to the fire, cold weather will follow. If the wind comes down the chimney the weather will be very cold, and when a large number of tumble bugs are seen in the fall the winter will be hard. Thunder as Sign Just as many foggy mornings as there are in January, there will be as* frosty mornings in May, and on the same days. Moreover, if it thunders in February the goose eggs won’t hatch. There will be as many snows in the winter as there are rains in August, If it thunders in December there will be cold weather, and butterflies in the fall are the sign of the same. Not to mention the fact that if a dog howls at the moon you may expect snow. If your frost-bitten feet itch, it will snow, and if a fruit tree blooms twice in the year a hard winter is in order. If the fire sighs there will be cold weather; if it spits there will be snow, and if it crackles with a fluffy sound there will be a cold snap. Many Grapes Mean Cold If frost hangs on the timber late in the morning, snow may be expected. and if the gate keeps slamming there will be cold weather. A heavy grape crop forecasts a hard winter. If a mule looks toward the north there is bound to be a cold wave. If geese fly low the winter will be mild and if they fly high it will be hard. If a grasshopper is seen dancing there will be rain within three days, and 90 days after the first katydid is heard there will be frost. When pigs squeal there will be a cold spell, if the nut crop is heavy the winter will be tough, and if the squirrels gather them, more of the same. There will be cold weather when hogs begin to build their beds, but "hen peacocks cry a great deal in the winter the cold weather is about over. This gives you a general idea of how to get the weather low-down—-keep an eye on the eye of the donkey and forget the weather maps. You probably couldn't understand them, anyway. Woman Robbed on Street Mrs. Ernest Lawler. 118 W. 13thst. was robbed of $lB by a footpad last night at Illinois and 14th-st.

Skip It If you are a prisoner in the Indiana State Reformatory or the Indiana Slate Prison a fine and sentence for contempt of court doesn't mean a thing. At least that was the ruling yesterday of Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz. He said that James Lee, Brazil, serving 3-to-10 years in the reformatory on burglary charges need not pay a SSOO fine and serve a three months sentence for court contempt. Lee had refused to testify while a prisoner in the institution. Mr LOtz declared the sentences run concurrently and that Lee. who is eligible for parole, can be paroled without serving the additional days in prison. Lee was sentenced in 1932. The contempt sentence was given by a Clay County judge.

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LEGION PARADE CLEANUP WINS BOARDSUPPORT Des Moines Man Is Named Legislative Committee Chairman. Commander J. Ray Murphy’s plea for elimination of "objectionable features" in American Legion parades today won the support of James P. Ringley, Chicago, chairman of the national convention liaison committee. Addressing the national executive committee, Mr. Ringley promised that his committee would be present at formation points at next year's parade in Cleveland to see "that all objectionable features are removed.’’ Nudity and other unsightly features of the recent parade in St. Louis were condemned earlier in the week by Commander Murphy. Robert Colflesh, Des Moines, was named chairman of the national legislative committee. A report on the investigation into Ihe ueath of at least 200 World War veterans in the Florida hurricane was being considered. Quimby Melton, Griffin, Ga., investigating committee chairman, made a preliminary report urging congressional action. CADET OFFICERS ARE NAMED FORJI. 0. T. C. Army Instructor Selects Manual Training Aids. Cadet and non-commissioned officers of Manual Training High School R. O. T. C. unit were named today by Sergt Robert M. French, regular Army instructor. Helmut M. Schulz was named cadet major in command of the unit. Other officers: Cadet captains, Roscoe Miller, Robert E. Hall, David Sudduth and Lewis Kemmerer; first lieutenants, Phillip Myers, Russell O. Burger, Charles Broughard, Paul Jolliff, and Carl Rieck. Second lieutenants, Fred H. Kleifgen, S. R. Alvey and Perry Key; first sergeants, Sam Shapiro and Roy W. Brandes; staff sergeants, Norval Hamilton, Martin Dorfman and George Ardelean.

TWO G.O.P. WOMEN SEEK NATIONAL POST Cunningham Successor to Be Named Dec. 6. Mrs. Eleanor Barker Snodgrass of Nashville and Mrs. Grace Urbahns Reynolds, Cambridge City, are two active candidates for the post of Republican national committeewoman. Successor to Miss Dorothy Cunningham, who died in July, is to be named at a meeting of the G. O. P. State Committee Dec. 6. Other women mentioned for the post are Mrs. Sedalia Donner, Greencastle; Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank, Indianapolis, and Miss Mary Sleeth, Rushville. ITALIAN PROPAGANDA FAILING. CASTLE SAYS Ex-Under Secretary of State Is Speaker at Town Hall. “America is thinking too much about war,” said William R. Castle, former under-secretary of state, in his Town Hall lecture at the Columbia Club today. “This present outbreak need not bring despair,” he said. “The world would have looked on cynically 20 years ago, but today Italy must excuse her actions daily, and .ier propaganda is failing in her own opinion as well as in the eyes of the world.” Speaking of America’s position, he said, “If we go in for neutrality from a purely selfish point of view, we should tell the belligerents that we would sell them anything they wanted if they would come sos it in their own ships and carry it away. “A successful foreign policy, our own included, must be based on enlightened self-interest. We must defend our rights and our interests —at least any which are worth preserving.” POSTOFFICE REPORTS RECEIPTS INCREASE 4.4 Per Cent Rise Over October of Last Year Indianapolis postoffice receipts for October showed an increase of $14.681, or 4.4 per cent over October 1934, Adolph Seidensticker, postmaster, announced today. Total receipts were $345,366.45 for the month. Permit mail brought in $104,023, an increase of $9977 and stamp sales were up to $227,915. an increase of $4075 over the 1934 period. MORE SERVICE DESIRED Bus Situation Slated on Program of Perry Township Group. Additional bus service to University Heights is to be urged Mondaynight at a meeting of Perry Township Civic League in University Heights school. Organized a year ago the league has been active in the township's civic affairs, urging among other things elevation of South Side Belt tracks. Alfred C. Baumgart is chairman. Robbed in City Hospital An unidentified Negro last night struck Mrs. H. B. Shoup, 345 Limestone-av, wife of an interne at City Hospital, in the hospital and robbed her of her purse containing $2.75. Crushed Between Trucks By United Pres * SHELBYVILLE. Ind., Nov 2.—Virgil Bennett, 31, died in a hospital here last night from injuries suffered when he was crushed between two trucks late yesterday.

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BAKER REVIEWS PROBLEM CHILD Detroit Psychologist Speaks at Conference of Educators. Majority of school children are normal and it is not right for teachers and attendance officers to view every pupil in terms of his intelligence rating. So spoke Dr. Harry J. Baker, director of the psychological clinic, Detroit, today to the 250 delegates to the Tristate Conference on Pupil Personnel at the Claypool. Dr. Baker said that those who work w'ith problem pupils are like mechanics in a garage and are striving always to make better children out of their charges. Nominees for offices, to be voted on at an afternoon business session, are John F. Thomas, Detroit, assist - ant schools superintendent, for president; W. A. Hacker, Indianapolis, assistant schools superintendent, for vice 9 president; Samuel Fogle, director of attendance, Cincinnati, for secretary, and Miss Helen Dernbach, director of educational guidance, South Bend, for treasurer. Attendance officers elected state association executives are Albert Miller, Bedford, president; Miss Keziah Stright, Gary, secretarytreasurer, and Miss Lulu Wertz, Flat Rock, assistant treasurer.

Judge Geckler Charges Perjury in Kidnap Case Robert M. Layton, Father of Betty Joan, 5, and Attorney Rebuked From Bench in Juvenile Court.

Robert M. Layton, 26, and his attorney, Louis Rosenberg were discharged on contempt charges before Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler today after they had filed an answer denying the citation. Mr. Layton had been accused of violating a court order by kidnaping his daughter, Betty Joan, 5. Judge Geckler refused to discharge them on a motion by Paul C. Wetter, defense counsel, necessitating filing of the answer. Judge Geckler, after releasing the defendants, charged that "there had been more perjury in this case than in any other in this court." Mr. Rosenberg attempted to ir - terrup'u but T ndge Geckler continued: “I dor t. want to hear from you at ell. I'm not through with this case. In the remaining years I have on this bench 1 m going to find out CIVIL SERVICE PLACES OPEN IN THREE GROUPS Examinations to Be Held Soon, Official Announces. Federal Civil Service examinations are to be held shortly for junior genetists, home extension agents and occupational therapy aids. F. J. Boatman, Ci"il Service secretary. headquarters, 421 Federal Building, said today full information on the examinations could be obtained at his office. The examinations scheduled and the salaries paid follow: Junior geneticist, $2600 yearly: junior home extension agent. $2000; social economists. S2OO to $46000, and occupational therapy aids, $1440 to SI6OO. EXPLAINS WHY ROBBERY HAPPENED ELSEWHERE Sleeping Place Operator Says Victim Wasn’t His Patron. George McKay, owner of a sleeping place at 24 S. Illinois-st, today told The Indianapolis Times that Roland Waldvogel, 616 Lexingtonav, could not have been robbed at his place as Mr. Waldvogel reported to police. Reason is, Mr. McKay said, that the robbery victim did not sleep there. Mr. Waldvogel had reported he was robbed of S2B that had been pinned to his clothing. MAIL EMPLOYE RETIRES Guy P. Barber Had Watched Service Develop 41 Years. Guy P. Barber. 4030 Guilford-av. today is faced with the problem of finding a suitable hobby after 41 years in the railway mail service. Retired Thursday, Mr. Barber, who is 62, has watched development of the railway mail from the early days of rattling wooden railway cars to present-day efficiency. National Progressives to Meet The National Progressive Party will meet at 2 tomorrow in the English to discuss fall plans.

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SOCIAL WORK TO BE STATE SESSION TOPIC Indiana Conference Will Open Wednesday; Ohio Official to Speak. H. H. Shirer, chief of the bureau of institutions and agencies of the Ohio Department of Public Welfare, is to address the forty-fourth annual session of the Indiana State Conference on Social Work here next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. He will speak on "Modern Trends in the Care of the Aged and Poor" and will address his remarks specifically to the division of county charities. More than 1200 Indiana social workers are expected at the conference. The general sessions are to be preceded by six study courses which are to hold classes Nov. 5 and 6. This is anew feature of the conference. designed To give those doing welfare work an opportunity to study social work methods. According to Dr. Max A. Bahr, Central State Hospital and conference president, they are not a substitute for regular social work training, but are designed as supplementary training to public and private agency workers. General sessions are to start Wednesday night, and continue through Friday night. Seven divisions are to hold meetings during the day. The divisions and their chairmen are: * Children. Mrs. Mary Ellen George, Indianapolis; community organization, Dr. Mary A. Waldron. Bloomington; county charities, Mrs. Myra Stewart Gordon, Logansport; delinquency and correction, Ralph Howard, Greencastle; family, Miss Eleanore Jones, Indianapolis; health, Dr. Verne K. Harvey, Indianapolis, and character and group work, E. A. Brunoehler, Brazil. Twelve exhibits are to be displayed on the mezzanine floor of the Claypool, where most of the sessions are to be held. They include exhibitions by the prison industries, the group work agencies, the Needlework Guild, the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, the children’s bureau, the Marion County Detention Home, the Social Museum of De Pauw University and three divisions of the Works Progress Administration.

if there has been perjury in this case and take it to the grand jury." At a hearing Thursday Betty Joan Layton temporarily was declared a ward of the court and is in the Board of Children's Guardians Home.

Murder Puzzle Times Special NOBLES VILLE, Nov. 2, Plea of Robert Ingersoll for release on a habeas corpus petition from a life sentence for murder today proved puzzling to former Judge Fred E. Hines. Ingersoll is seeking release on the ground that women were excluded from the jury that convicted him. “But Ingersoll was sentenced on his plea of guilty and no jury was involved,” commented Mr. Hines. The circumstances are clear inhis mind because h? was the sentencing judge, he added. Sentenced at the same Ume was Ingersoll’s companion, Floyd Strange, Indianapolis. They admitted the slaying of Owen Creekmore in a filliing station holdup on State Road 13, south of Noblesville, four years ago. The pair fled to California, where they were captured. They were indicted and pleaded guilty without questioning the indictments, Mr. Hines said. Mr. Hines promised to be helpful to the attorney general’s office in its opposition to Ingersoll's release. Strang recently attempted an escape from the state prison.

OCTOBER MARRIAGES EXCEED 'BOOM’ YEAR 414 for Last Month Greater Than in October, 1929. Jud West, red-haired county marriage license clerk, noted with pride today that the month of October set an all-time record for marriage license sales. No October of previous years reached the 414 mark of 1935, Mr. West said. In the boom year of 1929 only 380 obtained licenses in October. Pressed for a reason, Mr. West guessed it was the employment of hundreds by the Works Progress Administration. “Any way you look at it, business is a lot better. A total of 3338 already have bought licenses this year in Marion County,” Mr. West said. FLEMING IS SPEAKER Customs Collector Will Address Indiana University Club. Wray Fleming, Federal customs collector, is to speak to the Indiana University Club on customs activities at a luncheon Monday in the Columbia Club.

OFFICIAL WEATHER I I‘nltfd States Weather Unrein Sunrise fi:lS Sunset tI: TEMPERATURE —Noe. 2, 1934 — 7 a. 2S lp.m. 16 —Today—--6 a. m 43 10 a. m 44 *i. in 4J> 11 a. m ....... 46 6 p. m 43 12 a. m 47 9 a. m 44 1 p. m 4* BAROMETER 7 a. m 30.30 1 p. m SO 2.6 Precipitation 74 hrs. endma 7 a m. 020 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 32 53 Deficiency since Jan 1 1 24 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station Weather. Bar Temp. Amarillo. Tex Cloudy 30 00 52 Bismarck. N D Clear 30 66 2 Boston Cloudy 30 18 50 Chicaeo Cloudy 30 38 44 Cincinnati Ram 30.28 50 Denver Cloudy 30 24 18 Dodse Citv Kas Rain 30 20 36 Helena. Mont Snow 30 42 4 Jacksonville. Fla. ... Clear 30 02 60 Kansas City. Mo Rain 30 24 40 Little Rock. Ark. ... Cloudy 30.24 52 Los Angeles Rain 29 96 52 Miami. Fla Clear 29 98 68 Minneapolis Cloudy 30.50 22 Mobile. Ala Clear 30 10 66 New Orleans Clear 30 12 70 New York Rain 30 12 60 Okla. City Okla Cloudy 30 18 44 Omaha. Neb Cloudv 30 34 36 Pittsburgh C'ioudy 30.22 46 Portland. Ore Clear 30 26 30 San Antonio. Tex Cloudy 30 06 62 San Francisco Cloudy 29 90 48 St. Louis Cloudy 30 28 40 Tampa. Fla. Clear 30.02 66 Washington. D. C Cloudy 30 12 64 3 PRISONERS ARE DENIED NEW TRIALS Supreme Court Refuses to Grant New Hearings. Appeals of three men serving State Prison terms, one an Indianapolis man under life sentence, were denied today by the Indiana Supreme Court. Thaddeus Quinn, Indianapolis, convicted of the robbery of the First State Bank of Morgantown in 1933, was denied a trj,gl and the court held a retrial would be "a useless and needless ceremony.” Quinn contended that he was only 19 at the time of conviction and did not understand courtroom procedure or the severity of the punishment which resulted in his plea of guilty. Quinn and an accomplice obtained SSOOO in the holdup. The court also sustained the convictions of Isadore Koby, Versailles, serving a 10-year-sentence on robbery charges, and the 25-year-sen-tence for robbery received by James Davis for the holdup of the State Exchange bank at Culver, in 1934.

GOVERNMENT ISSUES PUT TOC. OF C. VOTE Local Organization Aids in National Ballot. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the United States Chamber of Commerce, has sent ballots to its members to vote on four questions on governmental trends. They are: Should there be extension of Federal jurisdiction into matters of state and local concern? Should the Federal government at the present time exercise Federal spending power without relation to revenues? Should there be government competition with private enterprise —for regulatory or other purposes? Should all grants of authority by Congress to the executive department of the Federal government be within clearly defined limits? MILK PRICES ARE FIXED Feeney Announces Rates for Period From Oct. 16 to 31. Milk prices for the delivery period from Oct. 16 to 31 were announced yesterday by A1 Feeney, milk administrator for the Marion County area. They are: Class 1, $1.85 a hundredweight: Class 2, $1.45, and Class 3, $1.28. These prices will be paid by distributors to producers. Shortridge Scouts Elect The Shortridge High School Scout club yesterday elected Bob King president; Chester Stayton, vicepresident; and and Malcolm King, secretary. The club will sponsor field trips to study nature life.

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QUIET SESSION SEEN AS GOAL OF GOVERNOR McNutt Aids Are Reported Watching Activities of Lobbies. BY JAMES DOSS Timrs StafT Waiter If the special session of the Leglsj lature is held in December, it appeared likely today that the state j administration slogan will be "Get ; the boys out of the Statehouse by | Christmas." With this in view, administration leaders are reported obtaining various commitments to consider only a set program whether the session is held in December or January. The administration is said to look with trepidation on the advance activities of three big lobbies, which will present demands if the special session is called primarily for lining up Indiaa with the Federal Social Security Act. Three Lobbies Very Active These three big lobbies are the ■ liquor, sales tax and $1.50 tax limij tation groups. There will be minor groups represented, too, but these ! three are expected to be the most insistent. The $1.50 limitation group—they want elimination of the emergency clause that voids the act—always is active. The liquor interests want several provisions of the liquor act changed and the sales tax proponents want that revenue form substistuted for the gross income tax law. They are laying plans now in view of the apparent inevitability of a special session. The Governor persistently has remained silent on the possibilities of a session, but has indicated in guarded statements that the Social Security Board may not look with favor on the Indiana old-age pension law in its present form. Reports Differ on Dates Chief obstacles to Federal acceptance of the Indiana law are the long residence requirement and absence of a right of appeal in pension rejections. The national security board Is functioning somewhat haphazardly because of lack of funds, but the board appropriation is scheduled for inclusion in the first deficiency appropriation when congress reconvenes. Political Mischief Feared Although a special session can un 40 days under the State Constitution, most political observers believe Gov. McNutt and his advisers would prefer one that would get the social security legislation out of the way and speedily be adjourned. This reported desire is said to be actuated by motives of economy and fear of the political mischief that might be done if the legislators stay the longest possible time. RECEIPTS SHOW TAXES LESS 100 YEARS AGO New Augusta Painter Has Evidence to Prove Point. One hundred years ago Seth Curtis, owner of 40 acres near New Augusta, paid $2.34 in current and delinquent taxes to C. Vickers, tax collector. The $2.34 represented state and county taxes. Today his 84-year-old son-in-law, W. L. Dougherty, New Augusta painter, paid Marion County $5.30 for taxes on a house and lot. Old tax receipts dating back to 1833 are in M~ Dougherty’s possession S r th Curtis placed his receipts in tightly-rolled calfskin to preserve them. Named to Foreign Post Ferdinand Mayer, brother of Mrs. Russell J. Ryan, has been appointed to the United States Consular Service at Berlin, she was notified yesterday. He is a former Indianapolis resident and was a delegate to the disarmament conference at Geneva, Switzerland. I. U. Club to Hear Fleming Wray Fleming, chief customs collector, is to speak Monday at a luncheon of the Indiana University Club at the Columbia Club on “Indianapolis as a Customs Port.”