Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1939 — Page 4

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ARGUMENTS DUE IN FOUNDATION'S | SUIT ON PROFIT §

Baltzell to Hear Oral Points In U. S. Court Here Tomorrow.

Oral arguments on a motion to dismiss a several-million-dollar complaint against the George and Frances Ball Foundation will be heard at 2 p. m. tomorrow before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. In the suit, creditors of the Cleve. land Terminals Building Co. seek!y the difference between the purchase | price of the building company’s col-|

lateral and profits accruing to later | F owners. y

1930 Note Is Cited

The suit charges that the building | § i company in October, 1930, executed! F Je & $23500,000 collateral note. ‘This|F&§¢F | was delivered along with collateral]: AN $ & Y to the Vaness Co, a holding come| ¥ "WR TAN pany, which also executed its collateral note for $16,000,000 which was delivered to the J. P. Morgan & Co, the suit claims. The suit contends that the holding company was controlled by officers of the building company. It also is alleged that the Federal/be 68 tomorrow, New Year's Day is Court here has no jurisdiction in|zronday and their 50th wedding ane this action. The Cleveland Termin- | niversaty comes Tuesday. al Building Co. is undergoing reor-| The Bradfords are going to lump ganization under Section 77-B of|all those anniversaries together the Bankruptcy Act in the Cleve- Monday and celebrate them at one land Federal District Court, the mo- {time at their home, 434 N. Haugh St. tion states, and that court thus has| ‘There'll be a huge dinner for them exclusive jurisdiction, and their five children and as many of their 12 grandchildren as can attend. Their one great-grandchild, Jerry Dillard, will be there, too.

By EARL HOFF Otto M. Bradford went to work for the Link-Belt Co. 55 years ago last Saturday; his wife, Lula, will

Conspiracy Charged The suit states that during Aug-

Mrs. Otto M. Bradford . . . 50 years in the kitchen.

ust, 1935, when the building company was insolvent, the late O. P. and M. J. VanSweringen and Charles L. Bradley, as officers and

Mother Bradford will get a vacation from the kitchen on her wedding anniversary, because the chil dren are going to bring over the

directors, became trustees for the|food. benefit of creditors. Mr. Bradford recalls he went to The plaintiffs allege that the work for the Link-Belt in December, trustees “for the purpose of de-|1884, nine days before there was a frauding the creditors and benefit-|grop hammer for him to operate. ing themselves,” conspired with He was 16 then. He said that the George A. Ball and F. B. Bernard, | Link-Belt Co. then occupied a small Foundation officers also named as|part of the National Malleable Steel defendants, “to acquire the collat-|& Castings Co. plant. The plant was eral deposited under the two notes, dpened officially in January, 1885, he for a nominal and grossly inade- | said, and he has operated the same quate consideration.” drop hammer every day he has

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worked there since then. The hammer has never worn out and Mr. Bradford, although he will be 72 in April, says he hasn't either. Working on the drop hammer, Mr. Bradford pushes a chain link onto a catch, pulls a lever and the hammer drops down to straighten the link. Then he pushes another link onto the catch and pulls the lever again. He does that all day.

Like to See Movies

“It gets dull sometimes, but I al ways come to work,” he said. Mrs. Bradford is interested in her home and has been all her life. And she's all wrapped up in her children, grandchildren and great-grandchild. Together, the couple likes to ate tend movies. “We'd go every night if we could,” Mrs. Bradford said. They also like to listen to the radio in the evenings. Mr. Bradford used to enjoy play(ing his fiddle and drawing pictures. | Back at the turn of the century, he | used to play his fiddle evenings in [an orchestra on a river boat that plied White River north of Wash|ington St. When the boat went to Riverside for a short stay, he played fon it there.

Returned After Year

| But business for pleasure boats {got dull and the captain took the paddle-wheeler down the river to New Orleans. Mr. Bradford has lost [his interest in fiddling and drawing | pictures. | Mr. Bradford hasn't had cone [tinuous service with Link-Belt, He {quit once to take another job, but (he returned after a year. | The five Bradford children who | will come to the Haugh St. home for [the celebration Monday are Mrs. Laurene Hammerschlag, 630 Livings« | ton Ave; Mrs. Daisy Oliman, 3902 | Prospect St.; Chandler A. Bradford, 925 Livingston Ave; William Edward Bradford, 465 N. Haugh St, and Otto Bradford Jr, 336 Southern Ave. After this big celebration, the Bradfords are looking forward to another one Feb. 6. That will be the birthday of Thelma Bradford,

Mr. Bradford . . . 55 years at the drop press.

REPEAL IN U. 8. USED TO FOSTER HOME INDUSTRY

Amendment to Conciliate Dry States Used as Weapon in Trade War.

Editor's Note: This is the fourth of a series of dispatches noting some of the assaults against free trade within the United States,

By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 28-—That old demon rum is partly responsible for the current wave of brotherly backbiting among the states. The repeal amendment to the Constitution gives the states power to prohibit or regulate the importation of intoxicants. The provision was intended to protect and conciliate dry states. Instead, it has been used to foster home industry. States have taken advantage of it to help build up whatever liquor industry exists within their own borders, by barring the product of other states. Special taxes and license fees are exacted. Retaliation follows at once. Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida have prepared themselves for all contingencies by enacting that retaliatory taxes may be levied on liquor from any state that discriminates against their products.

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NORTH TO STUDY RAIL RATE SHIFT

State C. of C. Will Join Businessmen at N. Y. Meeting Jan. 5.

Bootleggers Still Active

For the past four years Michigan, Indiana and Ohio have been fighting a beer war. They have used taxes, fees, inspections, ports of entry and

Congressmen

Ludlow Tel

The sudden deaths lately of “a shockingly large number” of Congressmen is evidence of the burden of work and worry that is upon them and their faithfulness to fit, Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) declared here last night. x

He defended politicians as a class, especially those who serve in the House of Representatives and Senate, in a talk before the Indianapolis Press Club. “I want to say as one who has been among them almost a lifetime, that they are not, as so many people seem to think, devoid of worth and genuineness. On the contrary I think that as a rule they seek earnestly and faithfully to discharge their obligations to the last full measure of devotion. “There is a more or less prevalent idea that a politician is a dubious character, with a low mentality and even lower morals, but the highest act of nobility I ever witnessed was the act of a politician, John F. Shafroth of Colorado. “Many years ago I was in the press gallery when Mr. Shafroth secured recognition of the Speaker of the House. What he rose to say was that he had been investigating the election returns and he had come to the conclusion that he had not been elected, although he had

Keep Faith, Is Press Club

been seated as a duly elected and accredited member. He asked that his seat be vacated and that his Republican opponent be sworn in to succeed him. “I had never seen anything like that happen before, and I said to myself, ‘God must be pleased with this honest man.’ ” Congressman Ludlow reminisced on his experiences as an Indianapolis newspaperman and as a Washington correspondent. He reasserted his loyalty to Indianapolis, which, he said, gave him a job when he was a friendless, penniless boy and which has sent him to Congress six times.

GOLD VEIN IS FOUND IN MASSACHUSETTS

WHATLEY, Mass., Dec. 28 (U. P.). Discovery of a new vein of gold near an abandoned mine here was reported yesterday by Harold Orr, a Chicopee milk inspector and amateur geologist. Mr. Orr refused to disclose the location of the ore, but said he was in position to take control of the property if investigation shows he has struck “a mother lode or a bonanza.” The original mine, he said, was assayed at $500 a ton.

THURSDAY, DEC. 28, 1939

OLD CANVASES ‘PUT ON DISPLAY

Exhibit of 12 Works From Early Masters on Loan From N. Y. House.

Twelve original paintings by old masters have been placed on exhibit in the Fireside Gallery of Lyman Bros., Inc. on the Circle. The exhibit, loaned to the Extene sion Division of Indiana University by the E. & A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York City, will be on dis=play through Jan. 6. The paintings, all from the 15th and 16th centuries, are: “St. Thom= as” by Peter Paul Rubens; “Christ on the Cross” by a painter of the workshop of Bernando Daddi; “St. Christophorus” by an Austrian of the Danube School; “The Miracle of the Saintly Bishop. “The Madonna with Saint Spiridon” from the Italian-Byzantine School; “The Holy Family” by Pom=ponio Allegri; “The Madonna With Child and St. John” attributed to Battista di Dossi; “The Holy Family With St. Catherine” by Pietro du Mareschalchi;” the Conversion of St. Paul” by Pieter Coeck Van Aelst. “Madonna and Child” by Van Aelst; “St. Joseph” attributed to Jacob Cornelisz Van Amsterdam, and “The Enthroned Madonna.”

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The Indiana Chamber of Commerce will join businessmen of other Northern states at a confer-

absolute embargoes. Michigan-In-diana relations have improved, but Michigan-Ohio and Indiana-Ohio conflict continues.

ence in New York Jan. 5 on fur-| A) this retaliatory tax and tariff| ther action against freight rateibusiness in liquor has spread the! changes favoring Southern states.|feeling of war among the states and | H. A. Hollopeter, traffic director Suggested the means by which trade | ‘ {barriers have been extended to other of the Indiana chamber, announced | ,..qy cts AS a matter of fact. | that he will attend the New York ~ H eeting. He conferred yesterday prison-made goods are the only | ; kb phn HW maew Other product which states may stop | with Governor M. Clifford Town- legally at their borders send. : ar : But so forgetful had the entire Ponder Rehearing country become of the principle of Recently the Interstate Commerce [free trade among the states that a Commission at Washington granted |few years ago Congress seriously the petition of Southern states for considered regulating wages and readjustment of the rates. The hours in industry by the prison- | Commission granted reductions on|goods method; that is, by halting less brid half he commodities low-wage products at a state line, requested, Mr. Hollopeter said. The New York conference will be Bootlegger Stays On held to determine whether North-| One of liquor's old ills—the bootern businessmen will fight for a re-|legger—remains with us, as well as hearing. its newest one, Governor Townsend, who joined| Prohibitive state taxes on both! Indiana businessmen in a campaign | liquor and cigaret encourage boot-| against the revisions, has declined leg trade. Twenty states tax to- | to comment on the recent ICC or-|pacco. Some of them charge as der. Tt is believed that the Gov-|much as 3 cents on a package of ernor's silence on the subject has cigarets,. Texas and Oklahoma political significance. forbid the traveler to bring more McNutt for ‘Equality’ than 40 cigarets into the state, and

the seal on the two packages that Recently, governors of several > E

Southern states asked Paul V. M are allowed must be broken. That | : A a + MC= may explain the high percentage of | Nutt, Federal Security Adminis IiRYy sep win hy .

trat talented roll-your-own citizens berator, if his stand on the rate case|ing discovered along the highways was the same as that of Governor

Townsend by Ernie Pyle. IS 3 In the wake o fsales taxes, use Frank M. McHale, McNutt-for- the Wa Seles 3a

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daughter of Chandler; Dorothy Chandler, daughter of Otto Jr. and| > resident manager, told the South- | Melvin Ollman, son of Mrs. Ollman, | ®' governors that Mr. McNutt's They'll be 19, 20 and 21 respectively. | POSition was for “equality for all

taxes have pushed their way across the continent from west to east. Use taxes were invented in the State of Washington because so many citi-

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HINT MARTIAL LAW IN ERIN DUBLIN, Dec. 28 (U. P.)) —Martial law may be imposed throughout Ireland as a result of the raid on the national ammunition magazine Saturday by armed men who seized 170,000 rounds of ammunition, it was | indicated today.

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states. zens were making purchases outside

the state to avoid sales taxes. Automobiles, particularly, were being brought elsewhere, So the use tax, the most imperfectly disguised tariff ——— yet, came into being. States fix it . at the same rate as their sales tax, | Forty Marion County farmers and land collect it on every object in a! soil experts met at the office of stata on which the owner cannot | County Agricultural Agent Horace Prove he has paid a sales tax. 18 States Have Use Tax

In 1937 the U. S. Supreme Court | upheld the Washington use tax, and | now 18 states have them. To the ingenuity of state officials | in finding new ways to “help” the home team there has been practically no limit. Thirty states have laws favoring local residents in public employment. Twenty-eight favor local produce in buying for state institutions. Seven levy discriminatory taxes against out-of-state corporations. Twenty-five do what they can to make it hard for out-of-state lifeinsurance companies, 21 for fireinsurance companies.

NEXT-—It one state should try] self-sufficiency.

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40 COUNTY FARMERS ADVISED ON LAND USE

cussion of the proper types of crops | for various soils. The meeting was under the direction of J. C. Bottom, Purdue University land use specialist. Those attending represented every township in the County. Within the next few months those attending today's forum will conduct meetings in the townships to present land use advice to farmers.

STUDIO BANS WORK

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 (U. P.) — Clark Gable had his voice back today, but his movie studio ordered Advertisement

him home to recuperate completely from an attack of laryngitis. HIT HEAD Mr. Gable went to the Cedars of | Lebanon Hospital last week and for | COLD MISERY

some days he communicated by Right Where It Hits Youl

| . and upper throat. yesterday for stealing a Stradivarius | What s more,

violin valued at $15,000 from Charles | when used at first y Jaffe, of Upper Darby, Pa. He sold i - the violin to a nightclub musician for $20. The musician sold it again for $80 before it was traced and re-

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