Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1936 — Page 3

FEB. 15, 1936

TOWNSEND PLAN GIVING OREGON'S G. 0. P. 'WILLIES' OARP Clubs Are Powerful in State Politics, Stokes Learns. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Tlrnu Special Writer PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 15—The beneficent figure of Dr. F. E. Townsend broods over Oregon. It fires the aged and indigent with hope, and gives established political leaders the willies. '.’’he virus injected by the California physician has been so effect tive in this neighboring state—--28.000 Townsend Club members are enrolled in this city alone—that no one calculates politics without it. Only one thing appears certain in Oregon, as far as anything in politics ever is certain, and that is that President Roosevelt will carry the state in November—provided there is no Townsend national third party to pull away the voters. There is much talk here of such a party. Chief interest here is what effect | the Townsend Plan will have on the political future of Senator Charles i R. McNary, Republican leader, who is up for re-election. fic.\ary Is Institution Except for the Townsend Plan, no one would worry a minute about j Senator McNary. for he is an insti- I tution here, with Democratic as! well as Republican support, just as j Senator William Bordah is in Idaho and Senator Herman Johnson in California. But the Townsend octopus has I begun to send out its tentacles toward the political machinery of the state, clutching a local leader here and a self-appointed leader there. Asa result, you find timid politicians scurrying to cover. The senatorial and congressional races will have their Townsend-blessed candidates. Noisiest just now is Willis F. i Mahoney, a carpet-bagger from adjoining Washington who came down to Klamath Falls, jumped into politics and was elected Mayor after living there only one year. He is a pushing sort of fellow who is clever at picking issues and going places with them. Defeated for Governor It is he who would have Senator McNary’s scalp. A Democrat, he ran unsuccessfully for the gubernatorial nomination against the present Governor, Gen. Charles H. Martin, the ex-Army officer who served in Congress. Mayor Mahoney publicly accepted the “call” to run against Senator McNary on the Townsend Plan platform at* the Jackson Day Dinner here. When he was included among the speakers on that occasion, word went around that he was going to talk about the Townsend Plan. He was warned not to, and apparently this was the understanding. But the inspiration of the occasion—or Old Hickory, or something—got the better of him and he delivered an oration about the S2OO-a-month pension scheme. He Accepts ‘Nomination* Warren Irwin, a state legislator who runs a piano store, sat* right behind the Mayor. When the speaker concluded, the legislator jumped to his feet before the Mayor could sit down and, raising his arms aloft, he shouted: “I hear a voice in the wilderness —I nominate Willis E. Mahoney for the United States Senate now.” “Well,” said the Mayor, ‘l’ll accept the call.” He’d run, he said, on the Townsend Plan. And if the Democrats wouldn't adopt it, he’d campaign of his own on the issue. On a previous occasion he’d taken the Democrats to task for not trying to beat Senator McNary. He urged them to bury their complex about the Senator's invulnerability. Backers Hope for ‘Break’ McNary champions are hoping for the breaks that time sometimes gives—either that the Townsend plan will have died down by November; that his own advocacy of higher pensions for the aged than now provided by the Administration plan may keep the voters in line, or that present squabbles among the Townsend leadership in the state may destroy the movement. And they are squabbling now. One internal row broke into the open a few* days ago when C. E. Hansen, former hot-dog stand operator, who is ostensibly head of the Townsend clubs in this state, suspended the "angel” of the movement here, one Jack M. Barde. and revoked his license to speak as a representative of the Townsend clubs. Referendum Shows Strength Mr. Barde. son of a junk dealer, who has expanded his father's business and now calls it a steel company, recently went, out and formed his own organization by getting a charter for Townsendites, Inc. This jab at Mr. Hansen led to the retaliation and suspension. How strong the Townsend clubs are was shown in a recent referendum on several issues. The Townsend clubs went on record against a proposed sales tax to finance the state social security program, and their influence, along with that of organized labor and the State Grange, was held responsible for its overwhelming defeat. They would stand for no plan to finance a social security program that was not theirs, and. furthermore, a sales tax now would militate against their proposal for a pyramided transactions tax to finance their own scheme. CITY STUDENTS PLEDGED Five Indianapolis Boys Among 18 Honored by I. U. Fraternity. Timrs Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 15Five Indianapolis students are among 18 new pledges announced here today by officers of the Indiana University chapter of Scabbard and Blade, national military fraternity. The five are William Kendrick, Courtney Wadell, Earl Hoff. Herman W. Fischer and Herbert Queisser. D. H. Roberts Hunted City police today are seeking D. H. Roberts, believed to live here, to tell him his brother, George F.oberu, if, dead in Hurley, Wig,

Pleas Greenlee Indorsed in Appeal by Minton at Home-Town Rally

Lutz and Other Prominent Officials Are Present at Shelbyville. (Continued From Page One) est and fearless representative of the taxpayers.” Others who made short talks were A1 Johnson, a deputy attorney general and state organizer of the Young Democrats; Carl Gray, Petersburg, member of the state police board; State Senator Claude Mcßride, Jeffersonville, and Russell Dean, Indianapolis. Indirect Slap at McKinney Mr. Dean, who was defeated for Marion County prosecutor in the last election, said that Marion County’s big delegation is safe for Mr. Greenlee. In what was interpreted as an indirect attack on the candidacy of E. Kirk McKinney, former Home Owners’ Loan Corp. h • Mr. Dean said: 1 Marion County is tired of chasing rainbows and supporting stalking horse candidates. A so-called leader has been put up who is not popular with the rank and file of Democrats, but we are going to elect delegates who will not block the convention this time.” Mr. Greenlee, in discussing his platform for Governor, said he believes tax laws should be amended to exempt from taxation household furniture up to SSOO and that the tax on homesteads should be lowered. Picas Raps Centralization Increasing gross income tax receipts should make it possible to eliminate the state property tax, he said. Declaring himself for an adequate old-age pension law, Mr. Greenlee vigorously attacked the centralization of authority program being pushed by Gov. McNutt and his advisers. “The township form of government is the most democratic we know,” Mr. Greenlee said. “It is an outgrowth of the old town meeting and gives folk who are too busy on the farm to study and investigate the distant workings of government a chance to vote for responsible office holders whom they know personally and intimately. “Call it a heritage of the oxcart days or what you will, but the township as a unit of government must be maintained.” Predicts Vicious Campaign Warning that the political campaign would be a vicious one, Senator Minton said, "We know that the chief difficulty will be to penetrate the smoke screen of the enemy. “Every obstacle known to the art will be used by the enemy, seconded by the partisan, prostituted and kept press of the country. Misrepresentation and falsification of the record will be resorted to by the opposition to confuse the people and befuddle the issue. “But the issue is clear cut today. It is a fight on the one hand between entrenched greed and special privileges, the forces of the reactionary and the standpatter, and, on the other, the liberal and progressive forces of the country.” Lauds McNutt Regime Referring to the state administration, Senator Minton said, “Unlike Gov. Alf Landon, the so-called ‘Kansas Coolidge.’ Gov. McNutt has really balanced the budget, reduced taxes on tangible property without closing schools or chiseling the Federal government out of the money to meet the relief load. “No man can have or deserves to have the Democratic nomination for Governor of Indiana who does not wholeheartedly indorse the splendid administration of Gov. McNutt.” Attacking the Manufacturers’ Associations, National Chamber of Commerce and Liberty League, he said, “Those who cry ‘balance the budget’ are the du Ponts, Raskobs and their business associates who contributed to the Liberty League $280,000. Decries Budget Talk “They are very sensitive about an unbalanced budget now, but they weren’t always so sensitive. Back in 1917 and 1918, these same du Ponts were selling munitions of war to be used in killing American boys and every day of that war the budget was unbalanced. “It was all right for the government to sell Liberty Bonds to you then to get the money to meet the budget deficit, pay the du Ponts and ‘heir crowd for munitions, but it is all wrong now to have an unbalanced budget and sell government bonds to meet the deficit in order to feed starving men and women of this country who are the helpless victims of a damnable depression not of their own making. Challenged Is Hurled “We want to balance it as soon as possible, but we will not balance it. on the anguish and tears of starving men, women and children. It was not humanly passible, in this depression, to balance the budget and nobody knows it better than the opposition. “I challenge the privileged classes that have waxed fat at the public trough and the Liberty League io tell the people of this country if they would have balanced the budget when doing so would have required banks to close, never to reopen, farms and homes sold, never to be recovered; business to collapse and countless thousands to face starvation.”

ANNOUNCE P. 0. EXAMS Rural Carrier Applications Must Be in Capital by March 6. Examine cions for the position of rural carrier at the Indianapolis postoffice were announced today by Frank J. Boatman, local civil service secretary. Room 421 Federal Building. Aplications must be on file in Washington at the Civil Service Commission offices by March 6.

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Sunrise 8:38 Sunset 5:21 TEMPERATURE —Feb. 15, 1935 7 a. m 43 1 p. m 44 —Today—--5 a. m 5 8 a. n 7 7 a. m 6 9 a. m 14 BAROMETER 7 a. m 30.18 I .ecipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m ...0.00 total precipitation since Jan. 1 3.03 Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.32 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather Bar Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 29.70 34 Bismarck. N. D Clear 30.50 —34 Boston . Cloudy 29 96 24 Chicago Cloudy 30 28 0 Cincinnati Clear 30.16 16 Denver PtCldy 29.84 0 Dodge City, Kas Cloudy 30.10 —2 Helena. Mont. Clear 30.28 —32 Jacksonville. Fla Cloudy 29.88 54 Kansas City, Mo. ... PtCldy 30.26 —6 Little Rock, Ark Cloudy 30.02 24 Los Angeles Clear 29.80 50 Miami, Fla Cloudy 29.90 70 Minneapolis PtCldy 30.38 —lB Mobile, Ala Cloudy 29.84 46 New Orleans Cloudy 29.86 46 New York Snow 30.00 32 Okla. City. Okla Clear 30.02 10 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 30.38 —lO Pittsburgh Snow 30.10 20 Portland, Ore. Clear 29.94 18 San Antonio. Tex. ...Clear 29.94 32 San Francisco PtCldy 29.70 50 St. Louis Clear 30.20 2 Tampa. Fla. Cloudy 29.86 44 Washington, D. C. ...Cloudy 30.02 34 ENGINEERS ARE TO MEET HERE ON WEDNESDAY 4 State Groups to Hold Combined Session at Lincoln. Annual combined meeting of four state engineering organizations is to be held Wednesday in the Lincoln. The organizations are the Indiana Engineering Society; central Indiana section, American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Indiana section, American Society of Civil Engineers, and Indianapolis section, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The fifty-sixth annual meeting of the Indiana Engineering Society is to open at 10:30, to be followed by an all-engineer luncheon. A business meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers is to be held at 1. General Meeting Arranged Speakers at a meeting of all groups at 2 are to be Ivan Jacks, utilities engineer, speaking on “Municipal Works in Poland;” C. C. Knipmeyer, Terre Haute, chairman, state engineers’ registration board, “Operation of the New Indiana Engineers’ Registration Law,” and F. A. Cowan, New York telephone engineer, “Trans-oceanic Telephony.” Speakers at the night banquet are to be A. A. Potter, Purdue University engineering dean and American Engineering Council president; Daniel W. Mead, Madison, Wis., American Society of Civil Engineers’ president and engineering professor, University of Wisconsin, and Joe Rand Beckett, Indianapolis attorney. Officers Are Listed Officers of the groups are: Indiana Engineering Society—W. A. Hanley, Indianapolis, president; R. L. McCormick, Terre Haute, vice president, and W. A. Knapp, Lafayette, secretary-treasurer. American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Indiana section—C. A. Cora, Indianapolis, chairman; D, T. Canfield, Lafayete, vice chairman, and F. L. Stanley, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer. American Society of Civil Engineers. Indiana section—J. W. Wheeler. Indians, nolis, president; Mr. McCormick, v*ce president, and F. Kellam, Indianapolis, secretarytreasurer. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Indianapolis section—J. H. Maguire, Kokomo, chairman; J. B. Marsh, Hagerstown, vice chairman, and J. C. Siegesmund, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer.

BRUNO'S REPRIEVE TO EXPIRE TONIGHT Justice Trenchard to Set New Execution Date. By United Press TRENTON. N. J„ Feb. 15—The latest legal barrier to Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s execution will lift automatically at midnight tonight when his 30-day reprieve expires. Some day next week Justice Thomas W. Trenchard is expected to set anew date for the execution, which under law* can not be earlier than the week of March 17. Meanwhile, Hauptmann, reportedly worried by the end of his reprieve, prepared for another visit tomorrow from Samuel S. Leibowitz, New York criminal lawyer, who has promised to help him if he will talk freely. Leibowitz has indicated Hauptmann must give his decision tomorrow, or he will withdraw from the case. THRILL OF DISCOVERING LAND TO BE RELATED Explorer to Illustrate Lecture March 4 With Movies. The thrill of sighting land never before charted by man is to be related by Capt. Irving Johnson March 4 in Caleb Mills Hall. Motion pictures are to illustrate his lecture. Capt. Johnson, his wife and 14 volunteers toured the world on his schooner, Yankee. One film. sequence is to show discovery of five islands north of New* Guinea. Before he became master of Yankee. Capt. Johnson spent his summers yachting, winters cruising the world on steamers. He went to scat at 18. Grows Big Vegetables PALMER. Alaska. Feb. 15.—Matanuska colonists have produced potatoes which weigh four pounds each, enough to feed an entire family, cabbages \yhich weigh 21 pounds, and pea pods 10 inches long,

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Lady Luck Guides Car in Plunge Over River Wall

This is a funny place for an auto to be, but there was nothing Harry Howard, the driver, could do about it. However, reflected Mr. Howard at his home, 1262 W. Washingtonst, today, things could have been much worse. He was driving along White River-blvd near Saulcy-st yesterday when the car skidded off the icy pavement, shot between two trees and down a steep 100-foot flood wall.

WPA Actors to Give Series of Plays Here Dr. Lee Norvelle, Project Director, Hopes to Secure Keith’s for Offerings; Rehearsals Start Monday. Indiana’s unit of the Federal Theater project is to present its first play at B. F. Keith’s Theater within three weeks. Dr. Lee Norvelle, Indiana University speech department head and project director, announced todav.

Upon completion of negotiations for lease of the house to the WPA, a stock company composed of Federal workers is to present productions each week for five months. Intensive rehearsals are to begin at the theater at 8:30 Monday morning. The cast was taken from work projects and direct relief rolls and has been holding a series of preliminary meetings. The theater is to be obtained free, Dr. Norvelle said. Since operating costs will be low, and since all salaries are to be paid from Federal funds, low prices will prevail for all performances. Blocks of seats are to be reserved for persons on relief who otherwise would be unable to go to the theater, Dr. Norvelle said. Groundwork for this project was laid in November, when Dr. Norvelle was named director. Approximately 800 persons on WPA jobs were found to have had amateur or professional theatrical experience. Most of them. Dr. Norvelle said, resided in Marion County.

HARROD NAMED HEAD OF COLUMBIA GLOB Harry S. Hanna to Replace Frank Butler on Board. New officers of the Columbia Club today are G’ifford L. Harrod, president; John K. Ruckelshaus, vice president; Irving Lemaux, treasurer, and E. Park Akin, secretary. Harry S. Hanna was named yesterday to fill the vacancy on the board of directors caused by the recent death of Frank A. Butler. Mr. Akin was the only officer reelected. He has served 16 years as club secretary and manager. The Columbia Club Realty Cos. elected Fred C Gardner, president; John C. Ruckelshaus, vice president; Mr. Akin, secretary, and Mr. Lemaux. treasurer. Committee appointments are to be announced soon, Mr. Harrod said. SCORES UNIQUE TARGET Marksman Kills Pheasant Through Window While 111 in Bed. By United Press GRANTS. 0., Feb. 15.—Irvin Grant is just as good a shot when he’s sick in bed as when he's well. He lay ill when he heard a squawking. His wife brought a shotgun, threw up the window, and Grant shot a large cock pheasant from his bed. CRIME HITS NEW LAW Counterfeiters Issue Fake Tax Tokens Worth One-Fifth of a Cent. By United Press TOPPENISH, Wash., Feb. 15. Counterfeiters hit anew low here recently. They passed off gake tokens with holes punched in them in place of the stat etax tokens. Thetax tokens are valued at onefifth cent each. Recovers From Wreck Injuries John Wooten. 24. of 1624 W. 34thst. is recovering today in City Hospital from a fractured left leg. He was injured last night when struck by an auto driven by Fred Kisser Jr., 34, of 1913 Howard-st, at 16th and Meridian-sts. Townsend Club to Meet Townsend Club No. 2 is to resume meetings Monday night at 7:30 in the First United Presbyterian Church, 22nd-st and

LENTEN RITES ARE Noonday Services to Be Held Again in Christ Church. The seventeenth annual noonday Lenten services are to be started at Christ Church Ash Wednesday, Feb. 26, it was announced today. Services are to be held daily except Saturday and Sunday. Speakers scheduled to appear are the Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Francis, Bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis; the Very Rev. Sidney Sweet, St. Louis. Mo.; the Rt. Rev. Robert N. Spencer, Bishop of West Missouri; the Rev. Arthur N. Sherman of the Forward Movement Commission; the Very Rev. Kirk B. O’Farrell, Detroit, and the Rt. Rev. William Scarlett, Bishop of Missouri. Indianapolis clergy are to assist. In charge of arrangements for the series is a committee which includes Bishop Francis, the Rev. Robert C. Alexander, the Rev. H. O. Boon, the Rev. William Burrows, the Rev. E. A. Powell, the Rev. G. S. Southworth, the Rev. F. H. Tetu, Miss Caroline Howland, Mrs. J. F. Morrison and Arthur D. Pratt. Noonday services first were organized under direction of Miss Howland and sponsored by the Diocesan Board of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Episcopal Church.

TAX APPLIES ON FULL PROPERTY SALE PRICE Intangibles Levy Covers Purchases Made From County. Intangibles tax must be paid on the total purchase price of property now being sold by the Treasurer's office in the delinquent tax sales. John J. Broden, county intangibles tax appraiser, announced today. The tax is figured at 25 cents on each SIOO of property valuation. Property represented by about $450.000 in taxes has been sold to date, according to Fay Wright, chief deputy treasurer. SINGS IN SCHOOL CHOIR Miss Dorothea West Visits Here Before Going ti? St. Louis. Miss Dorothea West, sophomore at Indianapolis State Teachers College, Terre Haute, is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. R. West, 318 Highland-av, before going to St. Louis with The A-Cappella Choir, which is to sing before the American Association of Teachers Colleges, Feb. 21. While there the choir is to sing for a coast-to-coast radio broadcast. Miss West is the only Indianapolis woman in the choir. Park Engineer to Talk at Purdue Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind., Feb. 15. Charles A. Detruk, Indianapolis, state park engineer, is to address members of the Purdue University agricultural staff at their monthly meeting here Monday. Center Squire Is Named Douglas D. Brown, attorney, today is Center township justice of of the peace. He was named yesterday to serve one month by Justice J. P. Manning while Mr. Manning is on vacation. Women to Hold Bingo Party Ladies’ Oriental Shrine is to hold a bingo party at 8 tonight in the hall above Fountain Square Theater, Mrs. O. S. Crooke, chairman., announced. ..... .

All that kept his from getting a chilly bath was the thickness ot the ice at that point. Ten feet to the left there was open water. For a while it appeared that Mr. Howard (shown in the inset) and his car might be forced to spend the rest of the winter there, but both finally were towed up the toboggan-slide wall to safety, little the worse for wear.

BORAH LIKELY TO MAKE RACE IN CALIFORNIA G. 0. P. Presidential Hopeful Anxious to Beat Herbert Hoover. By Scripps-JJ award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Whether Senator William E. Borah challenges the G. O. P. Old Guard in California or not depends on what he learns from a scout he is sending to the coast. The Idahoan today denied reports from Southern California that his hat was in the ring for California’s primary, although his old friend, Charles A. Sunderlin, Los Angeles lawyer and head of the first “Borah-for-President” Club, had announced the race was on. The Senator is also undecided on the Pennsylvania contest. Carl G. Bachmann, chairman of a national “Borah-for-President Committee,” is contacting leaders in Pennsylvania and will lay his recommendations before Mr. Borah by Feb. 20. The deadline there is March 9. Ex-Gov. Gifford Pinchot has advised Senator Borah not to enter because of the heavy expense. It is believed here, however, that there will be Borah tickets in both of these big states, as well as in Ohio and Illinios. If Mr. Borah enters the California primary he will not have the. active support of Senator Hiram Johnson, it is learned. Senator Johnson will remain out of the Republican primary entirely. There’s nothing personal in this. But Mr. Johnson is all set to fight for the New Deal, rather than for any Republican. No Democrat is on friendlier terms with the President than is this New Deal Republican. His voting record has been consistent in support of New Deal measures. If Borah enters the California primary in May he may find himself confronted with two opposition tickets. The “regulars” may send an uninstructed delegation, although Gov. Frank Merriam wants to lead it so as to be in a bar gaining position for the vice pres.dential nomination (with Townsend support.) Herbert Hoover wanst to control it as an uninstructed group, and has sent word to Frank Knox and Gov. Alf Landon to stay out. While Knox i has agreed, it is possible that W. R. Hearst may insist on launching Landon. And with a divided field Mr. Borah is almost certain to win the delegation. With the biggest Western state in his pocket, he would be a powerful figure at Cleveland. And, besides, he would have humbled Mr. Hoover, an ambition he is said to hold dear. LEG lON POSTS TO MEET Seventh District Convention to Be Held at Bicknell. Times Special BICKNELL, Ind.. Feb. 15.—Members of Seventh District American Legion posts and auxiliaries are to hold a mid-winter convention here tomorrow. Following morning sessions of the two groups, a public meeting at Community Hall is to be addressed by Perry Faulkner, Montpelier, O. Judge Seeks Renomination Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15 Circuit Judge John A. Titsworth today announced his candidacy for nomination on the Republican ticket. He was appointed to the bench in 1929, succeeding Judge Will M. Sparks, now on the Federal bench in Chicago. Rotarians to Hear Ross James A. Ross, past president of the Indianapolis Rotary Club, is to be the speaker at the organization's luncheon Tuesday in the Claypool. . Movies to Show Styles A motion picture describing wallpaper styles is to be presented by the Hatfield Paint Cos. at 8 tonight in the Severrn, t

INQUEST ORDERED INTO DEATH AT LOGANSPORT Body Found Near Wabash Tracks Brings Coroner’s Decision. Times Special LOGANSPORT. Ind., Feb. 15. Coroner M. B. Stewart Monday is to open an inquest into the death of Elmer C. Kinzie, 34-year-old credit society organizer, whose body was found early yesterday on the Wabash railway tracks, east of here. Kinzie, who left here two months ago to work in Marion, apparently fell from a train or was struck by one, authorities believe. The inquest was ordered, however, after Charles T. Harvey, a truck driver, reported seeing Kinzie walking along the tracks Thursday afternoon. The body was discovered by railroad section workers.

DR. PANTZER, 78, IS DEAD IN CITY Private Rites for Physician Set for 10 Monday in Home. Private funeral services for Dr. Hugo O. Pantzer, Indianapolis physician for 51 years, are to be held at 10 Monday morning in the home, 717 Middle-dr, Woodruff Place. Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Dr. Pantzer. who was 78, died in St. Vincent’s Hospital yesterday. Born in Sheboygan, Wis., he came to Indianapolis in 1881 and served for a year as dispenser at City Hospital. Later Dr. Pantzer specialized in gynecology. He practiced until he retired in 1932. Dr. Pantzer was a member of the Turnverein, Athenaeum, Maennerchor, Woodstock, Contemporary and University Clubs. Survivors besides the widow, Mrs. Emmy Schmidt Pantzer. are four children, Mrs. Skiles E. Test and Kurt F. Pantzer, Indianapolis, and Miss Margaret Pantzer and Mrs. J. S. Westendarp, New York; a brother. Paul Pantzer, Palo Alto, Cal., and two sisters, Mrs. Carl Lieber, Indianapolis, and Mrs. William Roenitz, Sheboygan. Ray Rites to Be Monday Services for James E. Ray, 1927 Koehne-st, who died yesterday at Methodist Hospital, are to be held Monday in the home. Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Mr. Ray, who was 56, had been general superintendent of the Indianapolis & Southern Bus Lines. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Edna Ray; a daughter. Mrs. Tony Mazza; four brothers, Claude, Guy, Ernest and the Rev. Walter Ray, all of Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Maude Herron of Noblesville and Mrs. Ethel Worland of Clinton. POLICE SEEK BURGLAR Eight Evansville Homes Ransacked in Families’ Absence. Times Special EVANSVILLE. Feb. 15.—Police are seeking a “society page” burglar, charged with ransacking the homes of eight ‘.317111165 who are out of the city on vacation. In each instance, entrance has been gained through windows.

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PIERCE, JOSEPH DEFENSE IS TO START MONDAY Only One Witness Due to Testify for State in Murder Trial. BY JERRY SHERIDAN Time* Staff Writer GREENFIELD. Ind., Feb. 15 —Defense testimony in the trial of Paul Pierce and Donald Joseph, alleged slayers of Detective Orville Quinnette of Indianapolis, is expected to begin Monday. Only one state witness, a Federal ballistics expert, remained when Judge Arthur VanDuyn adjourned court yesterday for the week-end. J. D. Parsons of the Bureau of Investigation. Washington, failed to appear and is to take the stand Monday. Confessions alleged to have been given by the two gunmen were read to the jury yesterday after a long battle over their admissibility. The ju ors were dismissed and Pierce and Joseph placed on the stand to testify that the confessions were obtained under threat of withholding medical attention for their wounds. Lieut. Roy Pope and Detective Jesse McCarthy, who were present when the purported confessions were taken, testified yesterday and the defense waived cross-examina-tion until Monday. Walter A. Whetsell, Indianapolis, chief defense counsel, said today it had not been decided whether the accused pair will take the stand.

AAA BENEFIT CHECKS HELD UP TWO WEEKS Wording of Appropriation Measure Blamed for Delay. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Distribution of benefit payments to farmers on AAA crop reduction contracts performed prior to invalidation of AAA are to be held up approximately two weeks, It was learned today. Delay was necfjsitated because of the way in which the part of the deficiency appropriation bill appropriating $296,000,000 for this purpose was worded, officials said. Officials had hoped to start distributing the checks next week. TINY INFANT THRIVES ON ITS SPECIAL DIET Child, Weighing 15 Ounces at Birth, Is Kept in Incubator. By United Press OAKLAND, Cal., Feb. 15.—Immediate danger no longer exists for Nancy Lee Vogt, who weighed only 15 ounces when she was born two months premauturely, physicians said today. The child is thriving on increased milk and calcium bone-building fluids, although she can not be removed from the hospital incubator for several days to determine extent of the progress, they said. STORE MODERNIZATION TO BE TOPIC FOR TALK Construction League to Hear Plate Glass Worker at Luncheon. Siore front modernization's to be discussed by S. J. Smith, Pittsburgh, at a luncheon of the Indianapolis Construction League Tuesday in the Architects and Builders Bldg. Mr. Smith, associated with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Cos., is to illustrate his speech with moving pictures and records. The topic for the address is to be “Modernize Main Street.” NEW HOME DESTROYED Flames Cause Loss of SIO,OOO at Property of Mayor's Brother. William C. Kern, brother of Mayor Kern, was packed up and ready to move, but plans have been called off today. A SIO,OOO fire destroyed his newly constructed home at 56th-st, near Big Eagle creek. City fire apparatus could not reach the blaze due to icy roads. The Kerns now live at 1838 North Pennsylvania-st. ALFONSO’S SON BETTER Transfusions Successful, Count’s Physicians Say. By United Press HAVANA, Feb. 15.—The Count of Covadonga, eldest son of former King Alfonso of Spain, was reported somewhat better today in his battle for life against haemophilia. Three long blood transfusions proved successful, his physicians said. EUHU ROOT IS 91 TODAY Former State Secretary Pokes Fun at Friends on Birthday. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Elihu Root, former Secretary of State, celebrated his 91st birthday anniversary today with a bit of genial fun-poking at friends who honored him as “one of the wisest of men” and “the elder statesman of America.” Honor Abraham Lincoln Tributes to Abraham Lincoln were on the program at a meeting of the First and Second Ward Republican Club last night in Compton’s Hall, 2001 Winter-av.