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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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SATURDAY, DEC. 30, 1939

U. S. MAY STOP TRADE BARRIERS

IF STATES DON'T

Federal Interest Has Stimulated Council to Attempt Co-operation. |

Stilt Skater Stars in Revue

BOARD TO MAKE RETA POLICE CHANGES “Sg, INIGHER RANKS

Further Revamping to Fol low Detective Shakeup, | dv i | Wellowship Elects=Paul L. BoardAlready n Effect, oy — a

CITY GARBAGE CREWS TO WORK NEW YEAR'S”

iF. RE TOBIN ASSALL

There will be no New Year's Day holiday for the City garbage col= lections crew, according to Ray

. Herner, City Collections Superine

be Brands Proposed Ban on tendent.

“n > \ Mr. Hen . hat h ntir ol Campaign Gifts as r. Herner said that the entirs

[force would collect garbage Monday WwW according to the regular schedule; ‘Brutally Unfair,

|Special arrangements are being made to collect discarded Christ : mas trees, he said, but it would | Opposition to a proposal to bar greatly simplify tree collections if [labor unions from contributing to pouseholders would remove oOrnas political campaign funds is Voiced ments and tinsel from them before

2 f PRE 5

Townvend 4 Elects—Oscar Mont= gomery today assumed his duties as

lof the Men's Fellowship of the Wal- president of the Belmont Townsend today lace Street Presbyterian Church. Club 4. Also elected to office studied further changes in the Mr. Boardman succeeds Dr. Wesley at a meeting Thursday was Mis. [Police Department personnel after L. VanOsdol. Others elected are C. Bertrand Cavis, who was named [revamping the detective department W. Lowe, first vice president; Ralph secretary-treasurer. yesterday. | Swingley, second vice president; H. |

by Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis | placing them out for collection, .

in an editorial in the January issue |of the official magazine of the In-| [ternational Brotherhood of Team- | sters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and

Butler Pians Registration—Pre- Helpers of America.

This is the Yast of » | Safety Board members

oh interstate ‘trade

(Editor's Note: series of articles barriers.

By RUTH FINNEY |

Times Special Writer |

Glenn

Friermood

Mr. Lobin is president of the

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—From | all directions, officials are on the |

march to save the Union. If the march has not begun too late we may, one ‘day, have free trade again | among the states. | Federal interest in the problem | has stimulated state officials to try | to solve it for themselves. The Fed- | eral ‘Government has authority to put an abrupt end to the whole thing, if it wishes, but the states are afraid they may pretty well | come to an end at the same time, if this happens. The Council of State Govern-

ments had a conference on the subject in Chicago last April and made plans for attempting to do away with trade-barrier legislation by compacts among the states. Tt has inaugurated a series of regional conferences on the subject which have been continuing ever since. Forty states have set up commissions on interstate co-operation.

Urge Uniform Dairy Rules

The conference recommended that uniform minimum standards of inspection be set up for the dairy in-| dustry, and that any state meeting | these standards be allowed to ship] across state borders. It also dis- | cussed uniform legislation for regu- | lation of truckers, Agriculture Secretary Henry A Wallace has suggested that joint state-Federal milk inspection serve ices might be set up to inspect the farms of any dairymen who wished to «hip milk across state lines, { He has also suggested that uni- | form legislation to regulate the size and shape of containers be drafted by Federal and state officials jgintly, and that a Federal framework an truck regulation be devised, into which state laws might fit without hampering normal trade, From another source has come the suggestion that all quarantine regulations, such as those which now bar trade in nursery stock, cattle, citrus fruits and other commodities, be made subject to approval of the Agriculture Secretary. Under the Constitution it has been held that state quarantines are superseded when national quarantine regulations are imposed under Congressional authority,

Barrier Laws Relaxed

Meanwhile, a few states already have relaxed their barrier laws Only two states passed new re strictive legislation last winter, when most of the legislatures met. Some 20 states either defeated proposed barrier legislation or relaxed existing laws. The courts have sustained the constitutionality of chain-store taxes and of the state use taxes. But a new order is appearing in the courts, Last February the Supreme Court invalidated a tax which Florida had attempted to levy against cement coming from abroad This decision has been hailed in some quarters as possibly heralding a change of heart toward some of the measures previously passed upon. | Mayvor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York thinks one of the most practical ways of attacking the problem is by a uniform income, in-

HELD UP FOR 20

TIME IN. WEEK

North Side Filling Station Operator Kicked When Pair Returns.

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Held up by two men who robbed |

him only a week ago, Harold Gibbs, |

operator of a filling station at 2002 N. Capitol Ave, was beaten and robbed of $35 last night. Mr. Gibbs told pdlice he recog-

nized the men as they entered the!

station.

out the door, but one of them

He said he started to run |

drew a gun and threatened to Kill |

him if he left. The bandits forced their victim to lie on the floor.

When they asked him where his |

money was, Mr, Gibbs raised up and one of the kicked him in the back of the nead, he said. Two witnesses saw police said. They were Harry MeKinzie, 2951 Graceland Ave, and M. J. Taylor, 2171 N. Capitol Ave. After robbing Fred Hogg, 237: E. Ninth St. taxicab driver, of $2 last night, two young bandits gave him back 50 cents.

Police said the driver picked the! youths up at a downtown hotel and |

was told to drive them to Morris and West Sts.

to take his but he talked them out of it, Mrs. Grace Humphrey, 2108 Nowland Ave, reported her purse containing a small amount of money was grabbed by a youth at 11th St. and Jefferson Ave.

‘TEAR GAS’ TREBLES

the holdup, !

There they held him | : up. He told police the boys wanted —John Frank Reavis, cab for another holdup,

Fritz Dietl makes it harder for himself but more thrilling for the audience by skating on stilts in the All-Star European Yee Revie now showing at the Coliseum, Fritz, plus his stilts, is 8 feet high as he glides over the spangled ice. We's one of the stars of the company of 60 from London, England, which is making Ws world premiere in the new Fair Grounds arena. The troupe will conclude its en-

gagement here Monday night. To |

celebrate the advent of the New Year, the company will present a special midnight performance tomorrow night, The featured star of the show is the petite Audrey Peppe, Olympics star, and the anly Amer. jcan-born member of the cast.

Kill Wolf at New Bethel

Deep snow near New Bethel and the determination of nine hunters today had brought the downfall of a marauding wolf in Franklin Township and earned for the hunters a $2 bounty. Led by Ancel Hartman, a farmer living south of New Bethel, the hunters started after the wolf Wednesday. Throughout the day, Thursday and yesterday, they followed the trail. Yesterday afternoon they cornered him in a woods west of New Bethel and

| drove him into the open.

Although another of the nine shot the wolf first—through the nose with a high power rifie bullet—Herman Schaekel got the credit for the kill. He blasted the wolf with a 12-pauge shotgun. The animal's body, weighing about 65 pounds, is now on Mr.

| Hartman's farm, R. R. 5, Box 419.

Franklin Township residents said the wolf has heen seen In the neighborhood for nearly a vear. The animal is believed to have been responsible for the death of several sheep and Digs.

EX-LOCAL RESIDENT SOUGHT IN SLAYING

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30

26, candy salesman, habitue of Bast Side bars and one-time “king of the trombone,” was sought by police today for questioning in the slaying of 17-year-old blond Jerry Burns, whose nude body was found Thursday in an abandoned coal yard.

| | In Reavis’ rooming house police found letters describing him as the

TOMATO TEST CROP iy of the trombone” and a for-

COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 30 (U.P).

~ house

resident of Indianapolis. Nita Randall, owner, said

er Mrs, the rooming

that Reavis

heritance and excise tax in all the The use of “tear gas” to raise bigger packed his belonging and left his states, to eliminate the competition crops of tomatoes was suggested to- room about 5:30 a. m. Thursday

among them for revenues. He would have the Federal Government fix the tax rates and do all the tax collecting. “We cannot have 48 separate economies or we shall have greater chaos than we have today,” Mr. LaGuardia said at a Chicago forum on taxes, During the worst of the migration of impoverished Southern families to the West, Los Angeles County set up immigration stations for a time and tried to turn back families without sufficient cash.

tempted, was quickly dropped. U. S. Ready to Act

I! the states do not solve the problem by conference and compact | the Federal Government stands | ready to act. Legislation proposing | a study of the subject and possible remedies is pending before Congress, The Interstate Commerce Commission has just taken the first step toward equalization of freight rates between the North and South, looking toward elimination of a barrier that has restricted free trade among tne states for many years

day at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Tear Gas (chloropicrin scientists) was used to treble the

tomato crop at the Rhode Island Experiment Station by Fred K. Crandall and Frank I. Howard. It was spread, 200 pounds to the acre, to fumigate the soil and remove injurious bacteria. The average pro=

year,

Although the experimenters said when he tried in vain to save his] the “tear gas” process was expen- home. |

sive, it appeared profitable,

MACHINE CRACKS DOWN

This plan, duction of Grade A tomatoes in- | probably the most flagrant viola- creased 137 per cent in 1937, 358 per After saving his parents, tion of the Constitution so far at- cent in 1938 and 243 per cent this |brothers and one sister, 13-year-od!

The girl's body was found about 6 o'clock. A four-inch piece of a butcher's knife which was taken from

Randall as a part of one missing from her kitchen.

BOY SAVES FAMILY, THEN DIES IN FIR

ANTWERP, O.,, Dec. 30 (U, P.)

| Norman Carr was burned to death

| The boy was awakenad hy

WU. P).|

the | to the Rirl's back, was identified by Mus,

three!

the, PARIS, Dec. 30 (U. P).—Best |smoke shortly after midnight and available estimates today were that leroused his family, After the fam. the war is costing Europe around CINCINNATI, O.. Dec. 30 (U. P). ily had reached safety, father and $150,000000 daily above ora

| Several changes among the de- | M. Gibson, third vice president; J. (pariment's high-ranking personnel R. McWhirter, secretary, and Wil= [will be made after the first of the liam Wilson, treasurer, |year, Leroy J. Keach, Board president, said. Provision for the changes | (have been made in the 1940 budget. ! | Taking the first stride in its plan to “streamline” the force, the Board | | yesterday demoted 31 of the 53] (members of the detective depart= ment below the rank of lieutenant. |

1980 Payroll Cut |

| By making the demotions, the | Board automatically cut $6022 64 off | [the department's 1940 payrolls. | The Board did not reach a de-| [cision in the proposed changes [among higher-ranking officers, | Tt was understood, however, that | ‘Board members were considering | the promotion of Albert G. Perrott, a lieutenant in the identification | (bureau, to captain, and of Robert L. Batts, police radio director, to | deputy inspector. In addition, two! more deputy inspectors will be named. | Many Are Demoted

Demotions in the detective de-| {partment were: Three detective sergeants to acting sergeants at ne {decrease in pay, 11 sergeants and fone acting sergeant receiving $2202.50 a year to patrolmen at $2047.28 a year, and eight sergeants [and eight acting sergeants to acting investigators at $2100 a year, | Mr, Soh dee that acting | sergeants and acting investigators | , . were on trial and would hot receive | . CUmer Officers to be seated are full rank until they had served a MH E. Menhennett, senior warden;

[year's probationary period. | Ral Hollenbeck, junior warden; H.

SUIT ATTACKS frig TV. E. Clark, seontor ~ THEATER FEES

deacon; Thomas Gould, junior |

Leora Rothenberger (above) will be installed as master of North Park Lodge 646, F. and A. M., at ceremonies Monday night at the ledge temple, 30th and Clifton Sts,

{ | deacon; Ernest HWuhn, senior steward; Ben H. Holmes, junior Steward, and C. E. McCormick, tyler. A dinner at 6:30 p. m. will precede the installation,

Action by Hollywood Corp. Asks Judgment Voiding $100 License.

Quartet to Sing=-A quartet com= posed of John Moriarity, John Roney, Eugene Strack and John Va nBenton will sing for the Catho= {lic Vesper Services at 4 p. m. to{morrow at the Veterans’ Hospital | Miss Helen Nelis will be the accom|panist. The Rev. Walter Nugent, chaplain, will preach,

A suit seeking a declaratory judg ‘ment on the validity of the City's $100 annual theater license fee to|day was on file in Superior Court 3. { The suit, brought yesterday by | the Hollywood Theater Corp., ndi- | Snance, contends that a 1925 or-

Toot Safe of $91-<Burglars last night battered the combination from a safe at the Standard Grocery, 2701 WwW. 10th St, and stole $91 in cash and checks. Rov Kins sey, 965 King Ave, told police the thieves entered through an unlocked coal chute,

EIRE PRESSES FIGHT | TO COMBAT I. R. A

DUBLIN, Dec, Government

dinance, under which the fee is (collected, has been nuiliffed by a 1937 State law, according to Ezra Weiss, plaintifi's counsel. Named as defendants in the suit {are the Safety Board, Fire Chief [Fred CC. Xennedy, Police Chief | Michael Morrissey, City Building Supervisor George R. Popp Jr. and City Controller James E. Deery,

| Seeks to Avoid Fee

The plaintiff asks that it be reI of Jayne hoy Wg en = in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (falls due Jan. 1. The fee originally | ; : Fe. |was to cover the cost of regulation| Tarliament was ordered (by the City of theater construction emergency session Wednesday [and operation, but since 1937 the [State Fire Marshal's office has taken over this function, the suit contends. | The plaintiff asserts that the City | fee, therefore, is merely a tax and is not justified, according to Mr. Weiss, He said that the suit will determine the validity of municipal | license fees on theaters throughout | Indiana,

City to Await Judgment

30 (J, moved

P) today

The to

lactivities of the Irish Republican | Army as a new outbreak occurred

into to

particularly to suspects without trial A bomb exploded last night in the Belfast branch office of the Dublin Trish Press, causing considerable

damage.

MEAT BAN IN HUNGARY BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec, 30 | (U, P) Hungarians must not eat | meat on Mondays and F Jan. 1, the Government

imprison

decreed

H. Knight said the City will not | were attempt to collect next year's fees... until a judgment has been made, | The Hollywood Theater Corp. is {a member of the Associated Theater Owners of Indiana, which has taken an interest in the proposed

excepted in the ruling.

® Stage Dancing

suit, Mr. Weiss said. Develop

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WAR COSTS EUROPE $50,000,000 DAILY

CARLILE

224 N. PENNSYLVANIA

* Teachers in Indiana Soldiers &

— Headline: “Slot Machine Cracks son returned to the house to fight budgetary expenditures.

Down on Policeman.”

armed bandit.”

two toes,

Greetings to the Citizens of Indiana

Purdue University Welcomes the Opportunity

T'o Continue and Expand Its Services to the State During 1940, the University, as a servant of the people of the

Provided by the

NEW YEAR

state and nation, will focus its attention on—

Undergraduate and graduate* instruction for close to 8,000

students.

Direct, practical help for from 35,000 to 43,000 citizens through the medium of short courses, conferences and conventions held

on the campus.

Direct aid for over 3,000,000 Indiana residents through various

extension services.

A continuation of significant research projects.

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

LAFAYETTE, IND.

Second Semester Registration—January 30-31. Eight Weeks’ Winter Course in Agriculture Starts January 15

Write Registrar for Catalog

This “news” the blaze, [was written when Patrolman George | Rees became the victim of a ‘“‘one- guished the fire in the downstairs, Rees and fellow | then the lad started for the attic, officers were moving siot machines where the blaze is thought to ha in the police property room when originated. one machine fell from a stand and | struck Rees on the foot, fracturing come.

Using buckets, the two extin-

Apparently the vouth was overs His father tried to reach him but was driven back by the flames,

ve | "

N was spending $10,000,000 a day for

| |

1 TREE-BURNING Skid

i, Timer Special

||| (Haseman's Grove) by Jan. 2, we,

{ INFIRMARY INMATE 63 YEARS IS DEAD Registration for the second semester day classes will be held

Jan. 30 and for evening classes, Jan, 29, Pre-registration

[| The estimates were listed as fol-| [ lows: Great Britain-—$33,000,000. France—$22,500,000. Germany-—$45,000.000. Russia--$22.500,000. | Finland and small neutral nations iwhich have mobilized for self-de-|fense are estimated to be spending la total of $30,000,000 daily. { In this connection, official British | sources said yesterday that Britain

war munitions alone. The French Parliament has acted on a budget calling for expenditure of $1,773,000,000.

LINTON TO CONDUCT

| {

strengthen its means of combating

give the Government wider powers, |

rdavs dees |

City Corporation Counsel Edward ioday, Fish, game, bacon and fats |

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Seventh Year in Downtown Indianapolis

INDIANA LAW SCHOOL

OF INDIANAPOLIS Operating Under the Rules of

The American Bar Association and The Supreme Court of Indiana

DAY and EVENING CLASSES Second Semester Begins Jan. 29, 1940

A Catalogue Is Mailed Upon Request

13468 North Delaware St, Riley 2890

registration activity for the second | ‘semester of the Butler University |1camsters Union. Evening Division will open Jan, 8, | Such procedure is not only according to George F. Leonard, di- | (horoughly dangerous but brutally ‘vector. The pre-registration period | Ih iair to the trade union movelwill close Jan. 27. The official reg- Ment,’ he wrote,

istration period, when fees are to be | "ka > Wade tal progress paid, will be Jan, 20-Feb. 3. (in the cleanliness of elections, but

(it will not have reached its final | Honor Skelton—Robert FE. Skel- 2oal until by the contributions of ton, commander of the Tillman H, its members it helps towards the Harpole Post 249, American Legion, election of its friends to important since 1938, will be honored Wednes- Positions,” he asserted. ‘day evening with a birthday party | He pointed out that such a at the post. He will be presented a Pridie” on labor would be difficult gift. Ex-service men in the city 0 remove once it was enacted and, have been invited to attend. that “labor leaders should not per= | [mit the bitterness of our present | Morrissey at Home—Police Chief division (between the A. F. of L. Michael Morrissey was at home to=- and the C. I. 0.) to blind us to the day recovering from a stomach ail- extent that we would advocate legment which sent him te St. Vine |islation that may shackle or retard lcent’s Hospital for several days. He Our progress in the years to come.” was released vesterday and is exs | - a Say pected to remain at home several: 3 HELD IN LIQUOR RAIDS more days before returning to head- Three persons were slated on quUATTers. [charges of violating the 1935 Bev.

cs—— r—— erage Act Jast night after police MANN SEES ALLIES 500 i three houses in the 400 and VICTORIOUS IN YEAR

Teacher of Singing

Private Instructions

STUDIO 1608 N. Delaware St. N. W, Cor, Delaware & 16th

Studio Now Open HE. 1662

WINTER TERM TO BEGIN JANUARY 2

Many wha started their contse here twelve in fAfteen months age are holding desirable, om - ising positions today oung people, both men and women, are nang the definite. aperific training offered in business sols * th he direct, s*ective, reThis in the

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Kokomo, NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (U, P.).— | The war in Europe is one of sus | preme moral issues—Democracy vs. | Hitlerism—and the Allies will win it | by next Christmas, Thomas Mann, exiled German author and Nobel Prize winner, predicted yesterday. In an interview published by the New York World-Telegram, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, the | author of “The Magic Mountain,” |. — “Buddenbrooks,” and “The Coming | | Victory of Democracy,” said he was | [confident that the “high aims” of the Allies would prevail over the new Germany and that democracy would flourish once again in that land. Mr. Mann makes his home with his family at Princeton University,

Second Semester Begins February 5th

Courvex in: ainting and Sculpture Commercial Art Teachers Training

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iu A Make 1940 Musical Year

Our faculty of 80 expert teachers are available to students of all ages,

We offer bachelor and master degrees in our Collegiate Department,

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Second Semester Begins February 5, 1940

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At Indianapolis: Extension Classes—Beginning Feb, 5 Downtown, Convenient Evening Hours, Inexpensive—121 Classes in Business Administration, Beginning and Advanced Accounting, Chemistry, Economics, Education, English, Engineering Drawing, French, German Government, History, Hygiene, Journalism, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and Zoology. February Semester also will provide popular low-cost lectures in Recent Relationships of the Orient with the Western World, Lectures in Natural Science, Mexico—DPast and Pres-

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LINTON, Ind. Dec. 30.—Linton is | | going to make a party out of getting (rid of its Christmas tree. | Street Commissioner A, B. Me- { “If residents of this community | will take their Christmas trees to |the pile just west of City Park

The

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| promise a big fire and a good time.” The date of the community bon- | fire is to be set later,

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sity campus. ministrators,

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VALPARAISO, Ind, Dec. 30 (U, P.) Funeral services will be held here today for James Shinabarger, (an inmate of the Porter County | | Infirmary for 63 years, who died yesterday. He was 84, | Mr, Shinabarger entered the in- | firmary on July 8, 18%, following! An accident which affected his | ‘memory, Services will be held at

activities will start Jan. 8.

and business administration,

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||| Donald issued this notice:

University’s New Ad-

Ask your friends about the new spirit on the Butler Univer= Visit the Campus and talk with our Ad-

Conservatory of Music and the John Herron Art Institute make their facilities available to Butler students,

Complete cultural and professional courses are offered In the colleges of liberal arts and sciences, religion, education

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