Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1935 Edition 02 — Page 2

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ONE LEGISLATOR AT LEAST RECKONS SOCIAL SECURITY AS TOWNSEND PLAN STOPPER ‘They’re Crying for Beefsteak,’ He Said, ‘and You’ve Got to Throw ’em Something’— Hence the Special Session Sentiment. * BY JAMES DOSS The legislator sank somewhat limply into a chair, sighed and said yes, it looked very much as if there would have to he a special session because social security might be the only chance of stopping the Townsend Plan.

“You’ve got to do something to head off these Townsendites,’’ said the legislator, who shall be nameless because that may or may not be his public view and he wasn’t talking for publication. "They’re crying for beefsteak," he said, “and you’ve got to throw ’em something. “A stale bun?" suggested a bystander. "Well," grinned the legislator, ‘‘you'd better make it a bone, just to keep the allegory straight. Anyhow, something has to be done t.o head off these Townsendites." Whether or not the legislator really regards the social security program as "a bone to be tossed the Townsendites” is beside the point. What is important is that he put into words understandable to the man in the street the way many leaders of both parties evaluate social security and their fear of the fast-growing Townsend movement. Political leaders, if they remain such for any length of time, do not have any ostrich-blood in their veins. They may refuse to recognize a political menace publicly, but never when they "let down their hair." There apparently is little doubt that the Townsend pension plan vote is going to be an important factor in the next congressional elections. The Townsend adherents are not at all backward in letting any one know that the movement will place its own tickets in the field wherever satisfactory assurances are not forthcoming from congressional candidates of the two major parties. The Townsends can muster a lot of votes. Jan. 1 probably will see the final touches given the impetus to unseat George V. (Cap) Coffin, untitled but actual head of the Marion County Republican Party for years. Some time ago a reform group within the party announced olans to force the resignation of Wayne Emmelman, county chairman nd Coffin henchman, and to reduce Cap’s voice in future party councils to an occasional whisper. Little has been said since, but the organization with which the reform group hopes to supplent Mr. Emmelman with John Bookwalter is said to be taking concrete form. Prospective announcement of E. Kirk McKinney for Governor still is hanging fire, but the candidacy of the Indiana manager of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. Is taken for granted in political circles. The state administration may be torn with political dissension over the Governor candidacies in the administration, but its spokesmen, particularly in the Greenlee faction, already are “not fearing” Mr. McKinney’s candidacy. There is no doubt that the state administration factions have been trying to make extensive inroads into the big Marion County convention delegation which Mr. McKinnev has controlled and presumably will control again next June. In deprecating the McKinney candidacy, the Statehouse boys bring up a subject that is very distasteful to the VanNuys-Mckinney group That is the handling of the Marion County delegation in the last senatorial convention. Ever since the nomination of now Senator Sherman Minton and the maneuvers thgt preceded the illfated candidacy of then Mayor Reginald 11. Sullivan, Mr. McKinney has bepn charged with poor handling of the delegation. Marion County, it will be recalled, clung to Mr. Sullivan to the last, even when it was obvious that he hadn't a chance, and that convention strategy clearly called for trading. Mr. McKinney’s defenders declare that his apparently poor handling of the delegation was because of too deep a personal loyalty to Senator Frederick VanNuys and that Mr. McKinney, like any good soldier, merely was carrying out his orders. Now the McKinney "antis” are saying that the HOLC leader will not be able to control the 231 Marion County delegates in June in his own cay#b and that he will get fewer votes for the Governor nomination than Mayor Sullivan did for Senator. CHILD LABOR ABUSE REPORTED INCREASING National Committee Says NRA Code Invalidation Reason. if}/ United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 30 Child labor abuses have Increased to such an extent since the invalidation of NRA codes by the United States Supreme Court that conditions now are as bad as they were three years ago, the annua 1 report of the National Child Labor Committee said today. The report recommended that the Federal child labor amendment be adopted as a means toward "the elimination of child labor from our national life forever.” SLAYE" OF EX-WIFE. OFFICER UNDER GUARD Prisoner Once Taken From Jail In Fear of Violence. By United Press TWIN FALLS, Idaho. Nov. 30. The county Jail here was under heavy guard today to forestall possible suminaiy action against Douglas Van Vlack, 32. confessed slayer of his former wife and a state traffic officer. He had been removed to Burley, but was returned here last inght. On the trip back he told escorting officers that he killed Mildred Hook. 422, his former wife whose body was found yesterday. He charged her parents tried to keep them apart.

CLERGY PRAISES PICKFORD STORY •Why Not Try God’ Evokes Church Comment and Sermons Here (Continued From Page One) mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.’ “I shall follow this story to be ' continued in your paper with deep : interest.” Dr. Charles Drake Skinner, Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church: "I am sure your readers will be greatly helped by the personal experiences of this well-known and beloved woman. I mentioned this series of articles at the Thanksi giving service in our church yesterday, and also commended your fine | cartoons and articles during the ‘Go-to-Church Campaign.’ “It is my purpose to make use of the article, ‘Why Not Try God?’ in my sermon of Dec. 15.” The Rev. William F. Rothenburger, Third Christian Church: “I have read the first installment by Miss Pickford with interest and shall follow the entire series with anticipated profit. Incidentally. God is the biggest subject on the map. It may well be approached with keen anticipation and, of course, with becoming reverence.” (Dr. Rothenburger tomorrow will preach on Miss Pickford’s subject, "Why Not Try God?”) The Rev. R. D. Leonard, Union Tabernacle Baptist Chuch: ‘‘l believe ’Why Not Try God?’ by Mary Pickford will strengthen and enlighten many persons that have shut God out of their life. After reading this they will open wide the door and let God have the right of way.” The Rev. Bert R. Johnson, Downey Avenue Christian Church: "Thank you for this first installment of the Mary Pickford series. This experience of Miss Pickford's is an illustration of the idea I desire to emphasize in my sermon Sunday. I am sure there is a great need and an urge on the part of the people to discover God and try Him as a healing source for all our ills and as motive for all our acts.” Dr. E. G. Homrighausen, Carrollton Avenue Church: "I am very much interested in the series which The Times is publishing concerning the religious experience of Mary Pickford. Religion like that is indeed news, and of a sort that should make many who think of religion in negative terms see that it is indeed the most vital thing about ordinary living. “I want to thank you for this series. Its publication makes the newspaper function at its highest ;in that it is imparting the great I good news to people of all creeds and walks of life.” The Rev. James Brown: “I had j the opportunity to read ‘Why Not Try God?’ It is truly outstanding iin its message. I shall review it to my congregation. Through the ! prison house of pain, sorrow' and : misunderstanding Mary Pickford describes how she developed a happy, singing faith in God. Every ! Christian w'orker should read her story because it points the way out I of despair and weakness and gives I an impressive picture of God, the way, the truth and the light.” i The Rev. G. B. Green, Baptist Church: "The first chapter of Mary Pickford's personal experience en- : courages us to believe Miss Pickford 1 has learned ‘to write a check’ for daily strength and comfort. The finite can not fully comprehend the infinite, but by the light of revealed | truth confides in the Supreme. A ; small child can not understand the parent's methods, but it can oelieve in them, confident of their superior j understanding. "That seems to be Miss Pickford's : 'glorious adventure.’ It will be mterI esting and instructive.” The Rev. Arthur Mills, Garfield j Christian Church: “There is no question but what the stars of movieland are the most popular figures among America’s millions today. What they say and do both in pictures and in real life is influencing public opinion, particularly among i the youth of our day, in no uncertain manner. "A religious message from one of them is enheartening. and it will reach thousands that the pulpit will not. I welcome such a message.” The Rev. Harry T. Bridwell. Centenary Christian Church: "Contemporary journalism would be greatly enriched, according to my judgment, by the more frequent use of such heart-searching articles. We face the need of a closer fellowship in building a Christian world and I rejoice to note the manv instances i in which The Times is an agent in that ever-challenging task.” BRIDEGROOM SEIZED IN THEFT OF SAFE Youth. 19. and Cousin Admit Trying to Opon it. By United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind„ Nov. 30. Two 19-year-old youths, one a bridegroom of only two days, were under arrest today charged with the theft of a small safe containing $563 j from the Wilkins Food Shop. Joe Fegler, the bridegroom, and his cousin, Herbert Borkenstein, both of Fort Wayne, admitted tak- ! ing the safe to a woods where they attempted to open it. The safe with the money in it ' was found Thursday by hunters.

He saw the great artistry and beauty of the gateway. She saw the ugliness and dirt of the human beings beneath it.

To the power of thought Miss Pickford devoted her message yesterday. She dwells today upon the freedom it can bestow. CHAPTER 111 AVERY WISE MAN once said, “We see only our owm thoughts and in some way or other they become externalized as our environment and experience, and so the world w'e seem to be experiencing without, is really the world we are seeing within. How could we possibly think one w r ay and have experiences in the opposite direction?” Isn’t it wonderful to realize that no one in the w'hole world, no government, no bank, no other person, no anything, can interfere with what each of us chooses to think! Like a radio, each one of us may tune in the good and instantly shut off the bad, or let in the bad and switch off the good. Nothing in the world can make you conscious of failure or unhappiness unless you think about it. Nothing in all the world can harm you without your individual consent. Whatever we hold in thought automatically becomes real to us—externalizes itself in experience. Avery remarkable woman whom I know recently lost her husband. They had been very much in love and extremely happy. When I saw' her some w'eeks later she radiated a tranquillity and confidence w'hich was inspiring. I asked how she had achieved it. She said, “All the water in the world can not sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. All the sorrow in the world can not sink a person unless it gets inside the mind. I have kept my mind so full of good thoughts, so full of thoughts for others, that there hasn’t been any room for sorrow and self-pity to get in.” tt tt n I HAVE been glad many times since then that she told me, because I have found that it w'orks. Unlike most w'omen, I have never been able to work out my intimate problems in private. I have to do it in front of the whole

PFAFF, HUGHEL ARE SENTENCED Long Arguments Heard by Federal Judge Robert Baltzell. (Continued From Page One) ferred to by Mr. Nolan as a milliondollar fraud. Associated with the defense was James E. Watson, former United States Senator. Mr. Watson and Mr. McTurnan, also of the defense, blamed losses to customers to conditions outside the control of the defendants. Howard Caughran, assistant District Attorney, in summing up, charged that Mr. Hughel had obtained “more power than an honest man would want or a dishonest man should have” in procuring power of attorney, proxies and key to her lock box from Mrs. Georgia Crosley, widow of a capitalist. Lost 5600.000. Is Claim Mrs. Crosley w r as one of the chief government witnesses Her testimony indicated that she had suffered losses in excess of $600,000 through the, firm’s operations. Another important government witness w'as Eli Lilly, manufacturer and philanthropist, w'ho also testified that he had suffered heavy losses through dealings with the firm. Fred E. Hines, Mr. Pfaff’s attorney, maintained his client was connected with the firm in the last two years only as a salesman and had no knowledge of any fraud, if any fraud existed. Pfaff & Hughel, Inc., filed volun-

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Deaths Among Indiana Residents

ODON—Samuel S. Chamber. Survivors: Sons. Walter. John and Aldo Chambers; daughters, Mrs. Bertha Terry and Mrs. Edna Maynard: sister, Mrs. Mag Johnson. PLAINFIELD—Stephen A. Cawley. 72. Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. Frank Morgan; son, Perle Cawley. CLINTON—Enoch R. Lientz, 81. Survivors: Daughters. Mrs. Clarence Wagner and Mrs. Clarence Ingram; sister. Mrs. Lissie Adams; brothers, Charles, Elmer and A. B. Lientz. FARMLAND—M. D. Meranda, 76. Survivors: Sons, Gail, Burlie, Ortha, Jennings and Carl Meranda; daughter, Mrs. Dolly Clark. MARlON—Thomas A. MeCan, 54, farmer. Survivors: Widow, Marv; son, Thomas Jr.: daughters. Mrs. Fred Echelbarger, Mrs. Kenneth Poe, Mrs. Ted Shae, Misses Edna and Martha McCan; sister, Mrs. U. S. Collins; brother, Willis McCan. Mrs. Marie Long, 38. Survivors: Widower, C. Frank; son Franklin Jr.; parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wright; sister. Miss Grace Wright. BOXLEY—Willard Gilliam. 73, farmer. Survivors: Widow. Lucetta: daughters, Mrs. Ethel Hill and Miss Halcie Gilliam; son, Maurice Gilliam. LAPEL—John Roller. 80. Survivors: Daughters. Mrs. Raymond Lennen and Mrs. Porter Fischer. COLUMBUS—Winfred Beatty, 18. Survivors: Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Beatty. AMlTY—Edgar D. Prichard. 80. farmer. Sons. Emmett and Rev. H. O. Prichard: sisters. Mrs. Ollie Holdcroft and Mrs. Ed Hamblen; brother, William S. Prichard. RALEIGH—Mrs. Cora Martin, 65. Survivors: Sons, Eli and Franklin; sisters, Mrs. Savannah Glidden. SEYMOUR—Jabes H. Woodson. 60. Survivors: Brothers. Ambrose. Louis and Clyde; sisters, Mrs. Cora Jaynes and Mrs. Emma Miller. BLOOMINGTON Vernon Krebbs. 75, farmer. Survivors: Sons, Ross, John. Dave, Lloyd, Leonard and Clifford Krebbs; tarv bankruptcy petition in Federal Court April 8. 1935: Investigation led to a Federal grand jury indictment on six counts of a mail fraud scheme on Oct. 1. Besides Mr. Pfaff and Mr. Hughel, Robert D. Robinson, former treasurer of the firm, was named by the jury. Mr. Robinson was freed at the conclusion of the government’s case when Judge Baltzell sustained a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal.

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..BY MARY PICKFORD world, for the world knows what is happening to me professionally, domestically and personally almost as soon as Ido myself. And so, in a way, I become at times more or less a target for flying rumors and counter-rumors, hasty judgments and thoughtless gossip. But I’ve learned not to let it leak in. And the more difficult the problem the harder I try to find the Godelement, or the good-element, in people and things, and the more I try to think about others as I would have them think about me. Some years ago when Mr Fairbanks and I were in China we were the guests of a delightful couple, a professor of archeology and his wife. One evening during dinner the husband spoke of taking us the next morning to see a famous gateway, one of the oldest and most beautiful things in China. And his wife said, "Oh, don’t take Mrs. Fairbanks there! The gateway is beautiful, but I never see it because of the filthy, dirty people that are always gathered there. Each of them had their choice. He saw the great beauty and artistry of the gateway. She saw the ugliness and dirt of the human beings beneath it. an THERE is a great deal in life that is fine and beautiful which we refuse to see. We keep our eyes glued on the dangers, che difficulties, the unpleasant things. We soak ourselves in them. They finally occupy our thoughts and these thoughts are manifested in human experience. "Asa man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

daughters. Mrs. Lottie Working, Mrs. Dicie Robinson. Mrs. Bertha Sowaers and Mrs. Lily Parker. YORKTOWN—WiIIiam S. Ladd, 74, farmer. Survivors: Sons, Charles and Roy; sisters, Mrs. Mary Sollars; brother, Charles Ladd. FORT WAYNE—Henry Meyer, 32. Survivors: Widow, Verena; son, Gerald; daughter. Miss Marjorie Meyer; mother, Mrs. Anna Meyer; brothers, Norbert, Leonard, Ambrose, John, Raymond and James Meyer: sisters, Mrs. Raymond Vogelwede, Mrs. Robert Gage and Mrs. Adrian Lichtle. Clem Hartman, 56. Survivors: Widow, Frances; sons, Hubert, Maurice and Richard; daughter, Miss Phvllis Ann Hartman. Mrs. Jessie Ewers Van Wormer, 60. Survivors: Daughters, Misses Mary and Ruth Van Wormer; sisters, Mrs. Frank Miller and Mrs. Cole; brother, Alfred Ewers. Mrs. Dora M. Coleman, 64. Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. Mary Domke; stepdaughter. Mrs. Nancy Galbreath. GARRETT—EarI D. Reed, 31. Survivors: Father, brother and sister. HUNTINGTON—George E. Wilhelm, 62. Survivors: Widow, three sons and two daughters. William F. Strong, 73. DUNKIRK—Mrs. Jennie Nunn. Survivors: Nieces, Mrs. Ralph Stewart and Mrs. Marie Jones, Calvin R. Whetsell, 81, farmer. Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. L. A. Evans; son, Guy; sister, Mrs. Anna Horn. MICHIGAN ClTY—Lawrence F. Mutch, 39. Survivors: Widow'. Margaret; mother, Mrs. Bertha Doll; sisters, Mrs. N.orman A. Leist and Miss Catherine Mutch. Mrs. Johanna Elizabeth Sjoberg. 70. Survivors: Widower, John: sons, Arthur, Edward and Oscar; daughters, Mrs. Howard Schultz and Miss Ellen Sjoberg. James Henry Hampton, 44. Survivors: Widow, Martha: son, Bert; daughters. Mrs. Ethel Seifert. Opal and Gladys Forney; sisters, Mrs. George A. Ahrndt and Miss Mabel Hampton. GOLDSMITH—WiIIar Giliam, 73 Survivor®. Widow. Lucetta: daughter, Mrs. Ethel Hill: sons, Hosie and Maurice; sister, Mrs. Ellen Kelley. GREENTOWN—AIonzo McCann. 54, farmer. Survivors: Widow’, Mary; daughters, Mrs. Fred Echelbarger, Mrs! Kenneth Poe. Mrs. Ted Shane, Edna and Martha McCann; son, Thomas Jr.; brother, Willis; sister, Mrs, U. S. Collins.

81 THE LOGICAL I THING TO DO g| Church and other Sunday acW& tivities occupy your mind on ■ this important day—why not H leave the planning of meals to ■ our expert dietitian who offers ■ you a Sunday Towne Dinner H with Beverage and Dessert ■ that you’ll find difficult to j ■ duplicate at this low price. ■ Children —Half Portion

That is what you will find and prove if you will just try it. Os course you have heard it many times. Perhaps you thought it was only a nice sounding sentiment. Do you realize that it means that whatever is happening to you or to me at this very minute is absolutely the result of what each of us has been putting into nur minds, what each of us has been thinking for years? And do you realize that what will happen tomorrow will be the result, in a great degree, of what you are thinking today? You and I can not possibly escape the result of our thoughts. So our concern is not really with external things at all, these things being secondary, but with our thoughts. Let’s go into the laboratory of our minds and see about all this. / tt tt tt THE first thing you find is—l am. All right. How do you know you are? Because you can think about it. The moment you can’t think about it you have no consciousness of existence and so, you just are not. Then what is the primary fact of existence? Why, thought, of course. The power of thinking. Take that away and man is nothing. Your mind knows that you are and that makes you. Your thinking is the medium through which everything comes to you. Then, thought is the most vital and essential thing about man; that which connects each of us with this wonderful, precious gift of life. Then oughtn’t thinking to come first? Oughtn’t it to be the power? Doesn’t it seem rather silly to believe that this great force, this one necessary force, is just something that can be ruled by the body, by conditions, and by outside beliefs, and that we can’t individually do anything about it? We’ve put the cart before the horse, not only in this, but in most of our theories of existence. .Thought is the great power of the universe—not body, nor matter, nor conditions. MONDAY—God’s Broadcasting Station. (Copyright, 1935, by the Pickford Corporation. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate).

BUNKER HlLL—Mansom G. Loman, 65. Survivors: Widow. Mattie; daughters, Mrs. Donald Downs, Mrs. Brooxie "Smith and Gladys Loman; son, Merl. EAST UNION—Mrs. Carey H. Burton, 62 Survivors: Widow, Carey; sons, Earl and Clyde Burton. QUAKERTOWN—Marion Snyder, 80. Survivor: Nephew, Forest Grist. CONNERSVILLE—CharIes O. Parvis. 7Q. Survivors: Widow, Lily; daughters, Mrs. Cecile Hudson, Mrs. Ellis Berkhiser and Mrs. George Combess; sons, Fred, Arthur, Norman and Harry. ROSSVILLE—Mrs. Elizabeth Replogle, 70. Survivors: Widower, William; sons, Fred and Frank; daughters, Mrs. Jerry Holsinger and Mrs. Ferris Hylton: sisters, Miss Amanda Metzger, Mrs. Mary and Mrs. Ella Wolf, Mrs. Dora Roberts, Mrs. Emma Constant and Mrs. Susan Pettit; brothers, Harrison, Allen, Cyrus, Henry, Amos and John Metzger. BOSWELL—Miss Rosetta Jane Sigler. Survivors: Half-brother, Wallace James; niece. Mrs. Marie Haubich. BUNKER HlLL—Manson G. Loman, Survivors: Widow'; son, Merle; daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Downs, Mrs. Gladvs Schrock and Mrs. Brooksie Smith. BOONVILLE—Miss Frieda Augusta Inderrieden. 33. Survivors: Mother, Mrs. Charles Inderrieden; sister, Mrs. Norena Brizius. EVANSVILLE—WiIIiam S. Kamm. 58. Survivors: Widow, Leola; daughter. Miss Helen Kamm; sisters, Mrs. Jacob Felker, Mrs. John Hillenbrand and Miss Clara Kamm. JEFFERSONVILLE—Rov Gaither, 36. Survivors: Widow, Rose Ann; father, George; brothers, George Jr., Charles, Harry and Frank. William Mitchell. 65. Survivors: Widow. Mrs. Ernest Mitchell: sister. Mrs. Julia Steele; brother. Charles M. Mitchell. ELIVOOD—Mrs. Mary A. Downs. 83. Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. Irene Hancher; sons. Charles, Frank, J. P and A. G. Downs. Mrs. Marry E. Smith. 62. Survivors: Widower. Ira: daughters. Mrs. Delcie Brooks. Mrs. Sylvia Goins, Mrs. Martha Janes, Mrs, Irma Simms and Mrs. Martha Bright; sons, William, Jasper. Everett, Clarence, Wavne and John Smith; sisters, Mrs. Lydia Smith, Mrs. Clara Crull, Mrs. Ellen Jones and Mrs. Caroline Shrouk: brothers, Samuel, Amberson and Oliver Bright.

SANITATION OFFICIALS TO MEET AT LINTON District Assembly to Further Closer Co-operation. 'fimes Special LINTON, Ind., Nov. 30.—Plans for a district meeting of sanitation supervisors here Thursday have been announced by Clyde E. Williams, Indianapolis, assistant state director of community sanitation work. A program to promote closer cooperation among supervisors is to be the principal subject discussed, he disclosed.

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STATE TO BEGIN PUBLIC SAFETY FIVE-YEAR PLAN Campaign to Start Jan. 1 to Reduce Traffic Toll 35 Per Cent. The Five-Year-Plan, a communism of spirit of safety-minded folk instead of the communism of a nation, will try to ride death from Indiana highways beginning Jan. 1 and continuing through 1940. Under leadership of the accident prevention bureau of the Department of Safety and Donald F. Stiver, state safety director and police superintendent, Indiana is to participate in a nation-wide campaign to reduce vehicular traffic deaths 35 per cent within five years. The National Safety Council, the Hoosier Motor Club, city accident prevention bureaus, and safety organizations, co-operating agencies, hope that a 7 per cent decrease in traffic deaths can be effected yearly. Highway Patrol Inadequate "Our highway patrol is woefully undermanned, but we hope to make the public accident-minded and tneicby decrease the death toll in the state,” Mr. Stiver said. The drive, as approved by Mr. Stiver and outlined through the National Safety Council, Is opposed to spasmodic safety campaigns as not bringing "permanent results.” The five-year campaign, largely educational, will include a broad program of engineering and enforcement activities. New ways of appealing to the responsibility and sportsmanship of the motorist are to be sought. Other aims are: 1. State-wide school safety protrams. 2. Adoption of uniform laws with standard drivers' license legislation, 3. Adequate state highway patrols. 4. Standardization of accident reports. Hope to Save 38,000 Lives It is the hope of the National Safety Council that 38.000 lives can be saved during the operation of v he Five-Year Plan. Indorsing the campaign in behalf of the Hoosier Motor Club, Todd Stoops, club secretary-manager, urged more intelligent enforcement of traffic laws as one method of reducing fatalities. "The actual patrolling of the streets by motorcycle patrolmen dr ly is beneficial in preventing accidents,” Mr. Stoops said. 'Our club will give every possible co-operation,” he added. FATHER OF 8 DRAWS MO-YEAR SENTENCE Steuben County Farmer Pleads Guilty to Shooting Charge. By United Press LA GRANGE, Ind„ Nov. 30—William Parks, 56, Steuben County farmer, father of eight children, today was under sentence of ons to ten years at the state prison after pleading guilty to a charge of attempted murder. Parks was arrested in 1933 after he confessed wounding his brother-in-law, Leo Cameron, with a shotgun. He was adjudged insane by Steuben County authorities and was sent to the State Hospital at Richmond. He w'as released about six weeks ago, however, and brought to La Grange Circuit Court on a change of venue to stand trial. DRIVER DIES IN BLAZE AS TRUCK CRASHES Hits Railroad Underpass; Owner Thrown Clear. By United Press HUNTINGTON. Ind., Nov. 30 Arthur Adams, 40, St. Louis, died early today in the flaming wreckage of a truck which struck the middle pier of an Erie railroad underpass on U. S. Road 24 east of here. Anthony Diponio, Detroit, owner of the truck, was riding with Adams. He was asleep and was thrown clear of the wreckage. The truck w'as bound for Evansville with a load of linings for automobile bodies.