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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
LARGE BASKETBALL GYMNASIUM PROPOSED
Possibility of Erecting Huge
Structure Here Talked
by Fans.
TOPIC AT TOURNAMENT
Discuss $50O,00O House at
State Playground.

Promotion of a mammoth field
house here to seat from 10000 to
$4,000 persons wherein the State high
school basketball finals, the State
teachers convention and other large
affairs might be held was discussed
today by leaders in Indiana basket
ball circles.
Capitalization of the discussion in
to some plan of action mayAresult
from the talk of the leaders as they
gather for the 1927 net finals at the
Exposition Bldg.
Need Facilities
Talk of better facilities for handl-
ing the crowds at the basketball
tournament and the teachers con-
vention has been rife for two years.
Thousands Of persons have been
turned away from each session OF
the basketball tournament because
the seats that can be crammed into
the Exposition Bldg, the largest in
Indiana, is about $4,000. At least
10000 persons desire to get into the
games each year.
For years the managers of the
State teachers convention have had
trouble housing the general sessions.
Men high in Indiana basketball
who have investigated the POSSIBLE
tiles say that for less than $500, 900
field house, comparable with the
great structures of Michigan and
Iowa universities, could be built at
the Playground.
Concrete Proposed
This structure would consist of
q concrete stadium with permanent
seats, arranged for reserving about
playing space large enough to per-
nit indoor track meets, the whole
rooted with glass and equipped for
heating.
Team rooms, refreshment, rest
rooms and other modern facilities
would be provided.
No definite arrangements for H.
nancing has been formulated. 1t has
been suggested that citizens inter
ested in basketball throughout the
State would be eager to buy up q
bond issue, If the project were made
a public affair and profits from con-
vention rentals and tournaments
used to retire bonds.
$4,000 Surplus
The Indiana State High School
Association has about $4,000 in its
treasury, representing profits from
athletic events of the past sixteen
years. With basketball as popular
as it is this sum will grow rapidly.
1t has been suggested that this bal
'ance might be the neucleus for the
field house fund.
A. L. Trester. permanent secretary
of the athletic association, has
studied the Michigan and Iowa field
houses and also Indianapolis traffic
and building conditions. He is known
to believe it would be wise for the
association board of control to inves-
tigate the possibilities Of a field
house.
The athletic association offices
could be moved from Anderson to
the field house if it were built.
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SCHOLL'S WIFE
Z HELD BY POLICE

Continued From Page u
, 1927-06-02
Notice To Holders Of Savings
bank Books.

ACCORDING to the Board of Die
"A rectors' Resolution of 20 April
1927, Paragraph (e) Of the Regula-
lions has been changed SO as to
read:
All Withdrawals shall be entered
in the Savings Bank Book, and such
payments will as a rule be made to
the person producing the Savings
Bank Book, against entry Of the
amount in the book; but the Bank
is entitled to- demand Identification
and to examine the correctness Of
powers, receipts, etc.
Any amount written off in the
book, shall be deemed and held as
proof eff good and valid payment to
the depositor.
St. Thomas, the 81 May 1927.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF
THE DANISH WEST INDIES.
The DIRECTORS
AXEL Hoist. THAGE.
, 1927-06-02

such a wonderful ration per day to say
they are consuming all the revenues they
produce. Another matter | want to talk
about see that it takes a considerable
sum to collect the dues at the Customs.
If the figures shown on the Budget are
correct it is better to do away with the
Custom House entirely and as the sugar is
shipped the money could be deposited
in the Despatching Secretary's Office, by
doing so we would effect a large saving.
1t costs between twelve and fourteen
thousand dollars to collect this tax.
End Member for Frederiksted Town
(Br0aU) remarked: Mr.. Chairman, | rise
to support the last speaker. In regard to
the Custom Dues | find that the differ
ence between the ggs8 and the net are
too large. l happened to know that It
cost the public lie. on a dollar TO collect
money in Frederiksted and in Christian
sted 13c. on the dollar. The difference
goes towards the support of the Custom
Office in st. Thomas. If we spend as high
as 13c. on the dollar to collect the Gus
tom Dues we would be spending a con-
siderable amount all of which goes to
st. Thomas.
Bird Member for Frederiksted Country
District Andersen, remarked: Mr.. Chair
man, | have been against the procedure
adopted in the collection of Custom Dues
since | came to this Council. 1t is an
injustice to st. CrOiX to spend our sugar
money towards maintaining a custom
house in St. Thomas. That gives St. Tho
mas an undue advantage over St. CroiX.
ST. Thomas takes over SIS, 600 yearly from
ST. CrOiX to make a show over there.
Although it has been impossible to get
the figures hitherto. this year it appears
on the budget. 1t we figure that they
have taken -four or live thousand dollars
trCm 81. CrOiX for ten years, consider
that jaIs Municipality is within It's rights
to collect $50, eco from St Ihcmas. 5lh
Appointed Member armstrong; touched
a very sensitive point when he said aboI-
ish the Custom House entirely. We made
the suggestion while up North that the
Federal Government take over the Gus
tom Department entirely. Talking about
contributions from ST. Thomas towards
our institutions here, it is unfair to St.
Croix that prisoners sent here from St.
Thomas only pay for the little food they
eat, while it costs St CrOiX a considerable
amount to maintain this institution. In d
letter received it is stated by the Chief
Municipal Physician that of the 46 in
mates at the Insane Asylum during the
month of March OF the present year onIy.7
are from ST. Thomas. 1t is strange to know
that there is more insanity in this island
than in ST.. Thomas. And of the 80
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standing Committee Of the Council for
going into details, and the information
we get from the Municipal Committee IS
very Important especially when we are
confined to general remarks on both
sides of the Budget. | wish to make a
few remarks. We have a budget
with a deficit of Frcs. 500, 1892 IS; | am
certainly against having q budget be-
fore this Council with a deficit, and with
out any statement as to how 1T is gong
to be made up. Of course, | know the
answer. The answer will be that the
money is going TO come from Federal
funds; out of the Congressional apprO-
priation for these islands. But | want
to say that the day is going to come
when Congress is going to stop apprO-
priating money for these islands. The
American Taxpayers are not going to
stand for that. 1t is not fair to US to
ask US to pass upon a budget with a
large deficit without knowing how the
deficit has been worked out, whether real
or otherwise. The Municipal Committee
should stop fu%nctioning. If members OF
Council are to 60 out and work out
things for themselves then the Munich
pal Committee should stop functioning.
So long as Congress can be imposed
upon to supply money to cover the def
cit on our budget any measure that Is
introduced in this Council to lift this
community out or its present stage will
not be considered favorably. We have
under Miscellaneous. on the revenue side
of the budget Frcs. rs, 1000, | wonder If
the Chairman Of the Council or Govern
ment can tell me whether or not all the
fees collected at the hospitals and else
where are included in this item? | I'M
derstand that patients are charged soc.
for attendance at the hospitals, | do not
know il that is true. [ see under Sundry
Revenues, Item 2, Revenues from The
the Prison Frcs. l, 750. That's very
small. Prisoners are sentenced to hard
labor and | aA surprised to see that this
is all they are able to produce. | think
the Warden Of the ~PeniLentlary or the
Director of Police should give some eX-
PLANTATION in regard to this matter. Then
we have Fees from the Custom House.
don't know what these are. | think
that's all | have to say in a general way;
| will com back to the budget later. /
need the information asked.
5th Appointed Member (ArmStrORg)
remarked: Mir. Chairman, | can answer
the question about the prisoners. | pass
by the Penitentiary every day and | see
that the prisoners are doing nothing at
all. The Honorable LIST Appointed Mem
Der happens to be the Judge, in one
Monday he sentenced Is persons to the
" -I
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After a greeting equaling in
warmth that given his opponent, SEN
ator Borah, while voicing disagree.
ment with many of DR.. Buffers opin-
ions, declared ne had "only the high
est admiration for the man who goes
out and sincerely expresses his view
to the public on this important ques'
ton"
The audience grew particularly en-.
thusiastic when the Senator asserted
that every one recognizes that the
LIQUOR traffic is a curse to the human
family and must be dealt with by law
in some way i'm order to protect the
public interest
He appealed for a "full and fair
trial" OF the legislation under which
the American people eight years ago
deliberately outlawed Intoxicating
liquor for beverage purposes" and ex-
pressed his conviction that prohibition
could be enforced.
II believe" he shouted ''the Re-
publican party should declare for the
amendment and for its enforcement
and make the same sublime and dar-
ing fight against this evil that it made
against the evil of slavery. two evils
which the immortal Lincoln associated
together as the greatest evils of the
human race"
Quotes From Amendment.
Quoting from the eighteenth
amendment and the Supreme Court
decision declaring it operative
throughout the territorial limits Of the
United States. he declared:
IF the legislation OF the United
States as construed by the Supreme
Courst is not the law, then there Is
no law. If the Constitution of the
United States as construed by the high
est judicial tribunal be disregarded,
then there is for our people no rule
of conduct, no order. no restraint, no
protection, no stability, no government.
Every man becomes Jaw unto him.
self, and every faction that is strong
enough becomes sovereign"
Agreeing with Mr.. Butler that this
is not a wet or dry question" Sena-
tor Borah described 1t as a govern
mental question, without the proper
conception and solution Of which there
can be no orderly regulated lives for
1870 100000 people"
I'VE do not propose in this coun.
try" he Numbered. ito abandon a
Government of law for a Government
of force, and We do not propose to sur
eminent in the repeal of law for the
disregard and defiance and the nullifi-
cation Of those who do not like the
law. The Americas people can and in
the end will enforce any provision of
the Constitution which they in their
wisdom see fit to put into the Constitu-
ton of the United States"
Admits Serious Status.
Admitting that he knew "how seri-
GUS the condition is" with respect to
violation of the liquor laws and add
ing that he was not attempting to
deny and seeking to minimize the de-
moralizing and destructive effect upon
the state and up the Nation he
said:
Having deliberately entered upon
the task of outiawing liquor traffic and
now finding that task a most difficult
| one, what are you going to do about
It? Having started the battle against
this evil, when are you going to sur
| render? Having started the fight,
when are you going to quit?"
| A roar Of applause swept over the
hall, when a voice in the balcony
shouted in reply, Never"
Senator Borah said that the coun-
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ment TO a minimum. and that will. give
| VI a solution OF this problem without
/ attacking and undermining our Gov
| eminent, by building up at Washing.
| ton another great Federal bureauc.
| racy.''
Cowardice and Hypocrisy.
DR.. Butler declared: You are face
| To face with notification every time
| you attempt by law. in advance Of pub
Tic opinion, to settle n question whether
grave or whether small.
And the pity of II nli--and here I
know the Senator and are in agree.
nent--is the cowardice, hypocrisy. the
| lawaesaness In high places--the men
who, with smile upon their lips, vote
and speak one way and drink an
| other"
| lie concluded with a plea for men
! whom the lust OF Office does not kill,
men whom the spoils OF Office cannot
buy, men who possess opinion and win,
men who have honor, men who will
not lie"
Upshaw II Raped.
The cry for enforcement in some
| quarters led TO comparison by DIR.
Butler OF the eighteenth and earlier
amendments.
/ do you realize" he asked. that
| the fifteenth amendment deals with a
| fundamental right Of citizenship and
not a human being I'm all this land
talks about enforcing Il? 1t was in
1890, / think, when Henry Cabot
Lodge. then a Representative in Con.
gress from Massachusetts,, introduced
the last bill TO enforce that amend
| ment.
tsT rhao~ya fhot .o~.a - <,.. S.tn~- l.
In the Senate and House from the
| South are much concerned about Law
enforcement. One Of them, Congress
man Upshaw, who spent a great deal
| Of his time In asking that / be de
ported-if you ask him to enforce
the fifteenth amendment or the four
teenth. he would have paralysis.
why. II we enforced the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments. that volu
BILE gentleman, instead Of occupying
for some years a seat on the floor OF
the House of Representatives. would
have been spraying a boil weevil or
a Georgia cotton plantation"
Borah Opposes Control.
Senator Borah was emphatic in de
crying government control.
1--WE have been hesitating long dowr
in Washington about government
ownership of muscle shoals. but how
simple and incidental that would bt
in comparison with government manu-
facture. sale and distribution of liquor
to 10000, 900 people.
I'VE have turned away from gov
eminent ownership Of railroads, we
have worried and agonized over q
few government ships, we shuddereC
at the thought of government owner
ship of the coal mines, yet muscle
shoals. railroads, ships and coal would
not so test these institutions as gov
eminent control, manufacture ant
sale of intoxicating liquor"
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DR.. Butler said. 1.-The only hope and
the only cure is the repeal or the
eighteenth amendment. =.
There is no use in talking about
tinkerinz with the VoIstead law, about
notification, although notification has
become perhaps the convenient and
the cowardly American method OF
dealing with laws which we do not
like" he said.
DR.. Butler brought applause when
he told OF his own early political eX
periences and of casting vote for q
declaration against liquor traffic when
member of q New Jersey State con
vention in 1886.
"Why shouldn't the Republican
party reassert its moral leadership
undertake the restoration of the Gov
eminent of the United States, estab
Iished by the Constitution, and repeal
this amendment. not as an end IN
itself-that would be Iiegative-but as
the first step toward a direct con
structive and a successful handling OF
this great social problem?" he asked
DIR. Butler said that he, and tens OF
thousands like him. should ask the
State of New York to institute some
system DdSSQ lIOsC WuiCAi lIdFS
been so successful in Scandinavia and
Quebec--the absolute abolition of the
saloon and the private traffic in in
toxicating liquor and substituting linn
tied sale of liquor for private use.
Progress in Temperance.
''Tn the State OF New York he
said, I'VE could accept, obey and en-.
force that law, and we should be on
the way toward that progress in tenn
perance which we were happily fol.
lowing when 1919 and 1920 came upon
us and this tremendous debacle over.
took u.s."
DR.. Butler reminded his audience OF
the danger that confronts a party
without courage" He claimed the
present situation to be similar to 1850
and 1852.
THE Clay compromise of 1850 was
hailed as settling the question of slav.
cry forever" he asserted. "All poll
ticians said then, as they say now,
Hush, hush, don't mention this sub
ject.
He then related how the Wing party
passed out of existence after the con.
vention of 1852 because it dared not
nominate Fillmore, as he had declared
for the Clay compromise, nor Webster,
because Of his stand. They nominated
Winfield Scott, who. DIR. Butler said
had no record on the subject" and
carried four States.
In Defiant Attitude.
Adopting a defiant attitude, DR.. But.
Ter declared in ringing tones:
THE fight is on, and it is to be a
fight to the finish. The battle will be
fought by men not mannikins; with
principles, not platitudes. No matter
what may be the evasions and 81.
lences of party platforms, no candidate
for high Office win be permitted to
shelter himself behind the papier
mache breastwork of law enforce
ment; he will have to stand up and de-
clare whether he is for the Federal
Union established by the Constitution
or against 1t: whether he is for the
forbidden and abhorrent eighteenth
amendment, which has been forced
into the Constitution, or against it
whether he Is for freedom of religion
of speech and of the press, of the
rights of assembly and petition, oil
against them; in short, whether he Ii
for the protection of the powers re
served to the States respectively and
to the people, or against it,"
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COWBOY" PAYS AGAIN.

NEW YORK, April 9 OP).-Fred-
erick Almy, wealthy cattleman. called
the millionaire cowboy who recently
paid a fine when customs officials
found two crates Of liquor addressed
to him In the suite of Arch Selwyn,
theatrical producer. on board the
Leviathan. was in further legal diff
ficulties yesterday.
A Judgment for $S.623 was obtained
by owen f. Moore, motion picture
actor AMI former husband OF Mary
Pickford, who claimed the amount
was due him on a promissory note.
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AGAIN IN HOSPITAL.

Lincoln Roberts. so years old. an as
sistant building inspector, who sus-
tanned head injuries Wednesday when
struck by a board thrown from the
roof of a structure at Albemarle street
and Murdoch Mill road, which he was
inspecting. was taken to Providence
Hospital today for observation and
further treatment.
The board was thrown accidentally
by a workman. Roberts, whose home
Is at 1929 Green street southeast, was
taken to Georgetown Hospital first and
then sent home, but it was decided
that his condition necessitated further
attention,
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80RAH AND BUTLER
DEBATE ADVANCES
DRY ISSUE TO FORE
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Continued from First page.)
wet into cry State. but a dry state
cannot snip It's dry"
Butler: This battle Is TO be fought
with principles. not platitudes."
BoTah. Il ain a Republican. although
many persons do not thinl: So"
Butler: The attempt to Dragon
the body when the need il - convince
the soul will end only In revolt"
Borah: Liquor is q curse ~ the
human family and must be deNit win
by law"
Says Republic Is Ia Danger.
DIR. Butler contcnded that while all
previous amendments were based On
matters already conaidered by tEe
Constitution, the eighteenth was
founded on matter quite apart.
IF II remains 1t will do the Gov
eminent OF the United States irrcpar-
able harm. II will serve for the prece-
dent of a new and strange substitute
for the Federal republic, and II Will
leave the problem OF the control Of
the liquor traffic absolutely unsolved."
Mr.. Dorah countered with: "It the
Constitution Of the United States as
construed by the highest judicial tri-
bunal be disregarded, then there is
for our people no rule of conduct, TO
order, no restraint, no protection. no
stability, no government. Every man
becomes a law unto himself and every
faction that Is strong enough becomes
sovereign My position is that when
clause is placed in the Constitution,
1t is my duty to uphold that Constitu-
tion."
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BARROW TO MEET WHEELER.
Effects OF Prohibition on Presidential
Candidates" Topic.

NEW YORK. April . CP).--Clarence
barrow and Wayne b. Wheeler viii
debate prohibition in Carnegie Hall
April %. The subject will be "Prohi-
bition and Its Effects Upon 1928 Pres
idential Candidates"
The Washington times., 1927-12-09
40, 900 Expected to Attend
January Orange Festival

WINTER HAVEN, Fla, Dec. B.
The Polk county orange festival
will be staged here January 36, 27
and 2S. The festival has become
one of the outstanding expositions
in Florida.
Winter Haven is the acknowl.
edged citrus capital Of the state.
The first Poly county orange
festival was held in January 1924.
More than ten thousand people at.
tended. The festival will be on a
larger scale than ever. August
Fischer. head OF the clty's recrea.
ton department, has been named
general chairman Of the associa-
tion, with Geo. F. Sampson, secre.
tary of the Chamber Of Commerce,
as vice chairman. Fifteen com.
mittees are working.
The festival will have not only
the usual representation of COM
mercial and decorative booths, street
parades and decorated floats and
amusement features, but it win
concentrate more fully than ever
on carrying out the citrus idea.
Booth holders, no matter what line
OF business they may be in, must
combine the citrus theme in the
decorations.
More than 10000 people are ex-
pected to attend the festival.
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sf. PETERSBURG. FLA.
The Washington times., 1927-12-09
RESORT LURES
WRITER'S AND
BALL PLAYERS
By c. B. AFFORD

CLEARWATER. Fla. Dec g.
With the beautiful new Memorial
Causeway to Clearwater Beach on
the gulf new a reality. and with
the city's five golf courses in the
best condition. never was Clear.
water in so excellent a position
to entertain a capacity crowd.
November and early December
registrations of arrivals at the
Chamber OF Commerce foreshadow
so per cent more tourists here this
winter.
VAUGHAN THERE
Samuel Vauclain arrived in the
middle Of December to begin his
midwinter fishing. Sewell Ford.
noted author. and "Dazzy" Vance,
Brooklyn National League pitcher,
opened their homes here about the
same time and may be seen daily
on the golf course. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold w. Bonwit. of New York
city. and Norman and Lyman
Beecher, of Asheville, are on the
long list of notables who have Sc
lected Clearwater for their winter
homes.
Literally thousands come to
Clearwater each winter by motor
and by rail for golf and the beaches
alone. but the other sports that
the tourists enjoy, rogue, tennis,
laWn bowling, horseshoe pitching,
chess. checkers. and other table
games. are available to them with
more facilities than ever before in
the city's beautiful estate park on
Clearwater's hilltop waterfront.
Nearby. in this park. Rocco
Grella's band will play again. open.
ing his twice-daily season Of con.
certs on Christmas day.
BRING YOUR PLANE
For the ultramodern tourist or
business man who brings his plane
South this winter. Clearwater has
one of Florida's best and most con.
veniently located flying fields, just
a 10. minute drive from the
hotel section. Several planes are
already there. and flying instruc-
tion and care are available.