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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
HOUSE ACTS TO
PUSH FARM AID
Program Is Agreed on for
April Special Session.
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA de-
tailed program for taking up farm
and tariff legislation at a special
session in April was agreed on today
by house leaders, following wore:
from President Elect Hoover that
he would abide by their decision.
House leaders have set the date
for. between April 10 and Is, with
the latter as the more desirable
BY that time the ways and means
committee expects to have a tariff
bill ready, and this will be the first
business before the special session
1t is hoped it can be passed within
two weeks, as most of the problems
will be thresheed out in hearings tc
begin Jan. Z.
While the senate is considering
the tariff bill, the house will work
on a farm measure, and on it's pas
sage the lower body will adjourn
until both bills are returned by the
senate for conference. 1t is thought
the two items can be disposed OF
by June Is at the latest.
To prevent intersection of other
legislation, house leaders intend tn
organize only four committees
These will be rules, accounts, ways
and means, and agriculture.
Democratic leaders are said to be
agreeable to this program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
Fans Enjoy 1t

TTEYDLER is mistaken in assum-
Il L ing that the baseball fans de-
rive no enjoyment from the situa-
ton in which an awkward pitcher
walks timidly up to the plate car
rying a bat with him for luck.
As I remember, somewhat
transient twirler was the worst bat
ter I have ever seen, and always his
turn at bat was hailed with huge
delight.
Still, am for the innovation
even though I know that a good
case can be made for the opposition
Chiefly, I welcome the Heydler
heresy as a contribution to the pro-
gressive movement.
And if one national game is to be
reformed, why not another? Poker
has certainly fallen into a rut from
which some brave soul ought to lift
it. Are we mice or men that we
should continue forever to play jack
pots? Jacks or better is slogan
which holds millions in slavery to a
foolish custom. There is no sound
ness in such a scheme.
A pair of Jacks is far higher than
the average hand, and so suffering
Americans all over the land are sit
ting supinely, sweetening gross pots
ahd waiting with an absurd patience
until some one Of the lot shall hold
as much as treys and deuces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
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Ruth to Last Forever

UOU and 7 may live to see the
II day in which Ruth can no
longer retrieve the base hits which
hop past him in the outheld. Even
that mighty wing is not assuredly a
thing of whalebone for all eternity.
But while the earth holds to its
axis and the stars to their oppoint-
ed courses, I cannot conceive any
dire hour in which George Herman
Ruth will not continue to crash the
old apple.
Stirring and dramatic scenes
await us under the kindly dispense
ton of John Heydler. The bases
are filed with Yankees and two men
have been retired. The pitchers
turn, by grace of Heydler, belongs
to Ruth
Upon the bench there is stir as
four Philippians, or make it eight,
come up from the dugont bearing a
litter trimmed in scarlet. At the
plate they pause and assist the oc-
cupant to his feet. AT first the
crowd is silent believing that it is
merely William Howard Taft come
forward to present somebody with a
travelling bag.
Suddenly they recognize the long
white beard, the honest face of Babe
Ruth. The eight attendants relieve
him of his crutches and hand him a
bat. With the count two and three
Babe smashes the ball over the
right field fence and through the
window of a leading citizen. New
York is on its way to victory once
again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
MAIL BRINGS RING AS
THIEF is QUESTIONED

Hammond Man Refuses to Prose-
cute After Return of $4,000 Gem.
By Times Special
HAMMOND, Ind, Dec. 14.-Frank
J. Lapin, "A, Chicago bond sales
man, has escaped prosecution here
by returning to E. N. Bunnell, local
automobile dealer, a $4,000 diamond
ring which he stole at the Bunnell
home.
Bunnell suspected Lapin, a friend
of long standing, when he found the
ring missing. He called Lapin from
Chicago saying he wi4hed to see
him on important business. On ar
rival here Lapin was arrested.
While being questioned by Bun
nell and a detective, a typewriter
letter in which the ring was en-
closed arrived for Bunnell by spe-
cial delivery, and he refused to press
a criminal charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
HELD FOR HIGH JURY
Three Negroes Are Charged
With TheftS.

Three Negroes, sought for several
months by police for their alleged
activities in raiding automobile &C
cessory shops, we're held TO the
grand jury today in municipal court.
They we're captured Thursday night.
The trio are: John Otele, II, of
430 West Wabash street; Lester
Woods, %, of 422 North California
street, and Holsy McKiSsick, 81, of
COG Torbet street.
They we're arrested when de-
tectives found them wheeling a
puShcart containing automobile
parts valued at 5000 which had been
stolen from the Isadore Marcus ac-
cessory shop, 915 North Capitol ave-
nue.. The shop has been visited by
burglars four times in the past few
weeks.
Otele and Woods pleaded guilty,
while McKissick said he had been
paid to help push the cart, and did
not know where its contents came
from.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
COUNCIL Chief
VISIONS CITY
OF 100000
Raub Would Allow Plan
Board to Take Up Its
Duties in Big Way.
LAND PURCHASE URGED
Publication, Identification
and Protection Called
Three Needs.

Looking toward future develop
ment of indianapolis, Edward B.
Raub, ST., president of city council,
today advocated two major propo-
sitions which he believes necessary
to beautify the city and prepare for
a much larger population in the
near future.
He recommended that the city
plan commission, which serves eX-
officio as a board of coming appeals,
be relieved of its board duties, so
that it could study current and flu
ture coming problems, and urged ac-
QUESTION of all property adjoining
both bands Of the city's streams for
new parks.
1.-THE city has not been zoned for
five years" Raub said, "and in this
time no real study of coming prob
lens has been made. The commits
sion just doesn't have time to make
such a study, which is a vital thing
in development of the CITY,"
Raub recommended that a board
of coming appeals be created by city
council.
ut is high time that something
be done about the coming situation, +"
he declared. I'VE must prepare for
a population of 100000 by 1948, and
our coming system must be changed
vitality. The fact that our city plan
commission must waste its time
listening to appeals on coming prob
lens is old-fashioned and unpro-
gressive.
IT belive that eventually the city
will spread to the county limits"
Protection, publication, and beau
LITIGATION are Raub'S three. major
points in his recommendation that
the city gain control of property Oh
both sides of the city'S streams.
1.-THE city needs more parks and
it needs to protect the streams from
industrial plants which would
spring up along river and canal
banks in the future.
THE park board should take i'm
mediate steps to acquire this land.
1t would enhance the value of In
dianapolis to a great extent and
would be big factor in the beauti-
fication program now in progress.
Raub expects to make his recon-
mendations to the city council in
the near future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
JOB PEDDLING
IN-DIXIE Barred
Carolina Federal BerthS
Sold, Says Witness.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Prices
ranging from $50 to $1,000 are paid
for federal offices in South Caro-
lima and have been for several
years, Representative w. F. Steven
son of that state told the senate
patronage investigating committee
Thursday.
Stevenson charged that no ap-
pointment Of rural carrier, post
master or cotton census enumera-
tor had been made in his district
without a cash consideration being
paid.
Joseph w. Talbort, Republican
national committeeman and patron
age referee, was blamed by Steven
son for existing conditions.
collectors are at work in nearly
every county, stevenson said, land
in some instances; those making the
collection are federal officials"
Senator Brookhart, chairman
asked Stevenson to place all afi-
davits and materials he could coll
lect into the record.
Il want to turn this over to the
department of justice and have this
state handled just like Mississippi
has been," Brookhart said.
In Mississippi a federal grand
jury investigation was held and
Perry Howard, Republican leader,
was put on trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
1t Isn't Baseball

DUT there need be no doubt as
D to what the conservatives will
say. Throughout the land will ring
the shout, cit isn't baseball"
John Heydler will need a great
deal of help to win sanction for
his reform and I suggest to him
that he point out an important
way in which his rule will serve
to preserve one of our most famous
national institutions. In effect, this
change should add ten years to the
playing span of Babe Ruth.
Although the eighth wonder of
the world, all must admit that Ruth
can't possibly go on forever. That
mighty bulk of his must impose a
fearful strain upon the feet which
carry him. Statesmen are said to
die at the top, but ballplayers fade
first in the legs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
BLACKMER IS VICTOR
French Officially Denies
u. S. Extradition Plea.

BIZ United Press
PARIS, Dec. 14-Frances rejec-
ton of the United States demand
for the extradition of Henry M.
Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome
witness, was made official today.
The decision of the court of &C
cusatlonS rejecting the demands
reached the ministry of justice.
The ministry informed the for
eign Office of the decision and the
foreign office communicated it at
once to the American embassy.
The decision leaves Blackmer free
to remain in France unmolested,
although he has no passport visa to
visit other European countries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
Raises Ones Dignity

HOWEVER, it is we'll to warn
II John Heydler that he is over
looking one important factor i'll
mass psychology. Fans go to base
ball games largely to watch super
men performing prodigies of which
we ordinary mortals are not Ca
pable.
When the shortstop makes a sud-
den dive and snares a smoking
liner, we are pleased. Each one
feels that he himself in some mys-
ferrous way has done this mighty
thing. The dignity of all mankind
is raised by the prowess of a single
individual We are not all frail and
miserable sinners when one of US
can make catch like that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14

into one in which Joyce Larkin
and Beatrice Treutet were riding.
Joyce and Beatrice, both 10 and
athletically built, leaped from
their machine, and, assuming a
woman's prerogative for the first
and last words, opened up on
Sam and his companion some
thing like this:
what do you mean by bump
ing our carp" Joyce demanded.
Sam said nothing; his compan-
ion said the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
d SPEECHES. BY FAIR MATDENs, BUT HE'S USED TO 1T

however, and came back to push
Joyce and Beatrice again.
n
TINE scene was terrible. Smash,
Il bang, crash. 1t was the light
ming blows Of the girls that re-
sounded on the jaws of Sam and
his friend.
"Dubs, show some fight" and
towards" came from fight fans
in the crowd. Sam and his COM
panion we're loudly booed. Encour-
aged by the crowd, the girls had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
MELLON WILL
STAY AT POST
Treasurer Tells Hoover He's
Willing to Remain.
By Times Special

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Presi-
dent Elect Hoover has informed
Secretary Mellon that he intends
to reappoint Mellon to the cabinet
and Mellon has informed Hoover he
will accept, it was learned author
itatively today.
Hoover's decision with reference to
the treasury post was discussed
among senators today with a view
to putting an end to gossip circu-
lated the past few days that Mellon
was slated for retirement in'the new
administration.
There have also been reports that
Hoover was indifferent to Mellon be-
cause Mellon failed cordially to en-
dorse his candidacy at the outset
of his campaign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14

said So emphatically. Smack,
bang, smash.
Poor SAM" the crowd unused
as they saw him Keeling under the
punches from the angry Joyce.
Sans companion attempted to
interfere, but Beatrice's well-de-
veloped right caught him on the
chin or Whereabouts and he went
back in the general direction of
his seat.
Sam and his companion took
their punishment in silence. They
were gluttons for punishment,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14

the men on the verge of knock
outs when a policeman stepped
into the circle and tossed the
sponge"
The crowd cheered Justify for
Joyce and Beatrice. They smiled
like true champions as they
stepped into their car.
Sam rested on the laws arm and
took pencil from his pocket.
1--WE are deaf mutes," he wrote.
Sam and his companion we're
booked for disorderly conduct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
MUTINY IS FEARED
Vessel, Nearing Honolulu,
Asks Aid.

BIZ United Press
HONOLULU, T. H, Dec. 14.-Mu-
tiny was believed imminent on the
motor ship Carlisle as it neared
this port today.
Having serious trouble with
crew." a message from the ship to
local police said Thursday night.
please meet us with interpreter
familiar with Shanghai Chinese"
A similar message was sent to
the ships agents here, Fred L. Wax
dron, Ltd.
The Carlisle is due here at day.
break. 1t is en- route to San Fran
cisco, its home port, from the Gill
bert islands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
Holds GAS co.
TRANSFER CAN
Be MADE NOW
City Can Redeem Stock at
Once, Take Possession,
MaCFaII Thinks.
rs YEARS ONLY LIMIT
Contract Does Not Mean
Delay Necessary Till
Aug. 80, 1880.

Immediate redemption of the
100000 Citizens Gas Company
common stock and conveyance of
the property to the city is not pre-
vented by the twenty-five-year con-
tract between the city and the util-
ity, in the opinion of Russell T.
MacFall, attorney.
MacFall, former sanitary commits
sion president, heads a committee
OF the Indianapolis Engineering So
ciety which is studying the plan for
the utility to be turned over to the
city. MacFall wrote a letter to
Corporation Counsel John w. Holtz-
mann setting forth his opinion on
whether the contract postpones the
action until expiration of a twenty
five-year franchise period, Aug. 80,
1880.
Hoffman, who was mayor in 1905
when the franchise was granted,
and Mayor L. Ert Slack plan steps
to enforce the citys claim and save
the earning of the gas company for
the public.
Limit for Operation
"The twenty-five years is not the
franchise term, but the limit Of time
within which the company shall
operate the plant and apply the net
profits to the redemption and re-
payment of the common capital
stock When all common stock is
redeemed, the duty of the trustees
and directors is at that time to
convey the property and gas plant
to the city of Indianapolis, and to
wind up the company.
IF this is not done within the
twenty-five years, it becomes the
duty of trustees and directors to
mortgage the property, upon request
OF the board of works, for such sum
as will repay and redeem the COM
mon capital stock, and thereupon to
convey the gas plant property to
the CITY," the letter stated.
"The contract with the city, made
Aug. 80, 1905, and the contract with
the owners of the common stock,
evidenced by the articles Of incor-
poration, by the stock certificates,
and by the trustees certificate, re-
quires that all earnings in excess of
certain enumerated items shall from
time to time be applied to redemp-
ton and repayment of common
stock.
Owner Gets Repaid
"By SO doing, the owner of the
stock gets his money back accord
ing to his contract, and the COM
pany and the city save half the in
terest charge.
Surrender of the charter in 1921
and obtaining of an indefinite per-
init to operate under the Public
Service commission does not annul
the contract provision for applying
the profits to redemption of COM
mon capital stock and did not oper-
ate to annul the provision that the
gas company plant and property
ultimately should be conveyed to
the city," MacFall advised.
when all common stock has been
redeemed and retired, as provided,
either out of the excess earnings or
proceeds of a mortgage of the prop
erty by the board of directors, upon
request of the board of works, the
property should pass to control Of
the CITY," MacFall said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14

NC OIlS IIldn W
pose for the pic
ture at the top
and another to
write the stuff.
This, of course,
would put me in
a quandary, for
ofhand I don't
know in which of
these two fields
my talents would
find widest scope.
Heydler will be
lucky if h e
escapes b in g
called a bolShe-
visit and pointed
at as one tainted
with soviet gold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
EVANSVILLE MAN IS
NAMED OGDEN'S AID
Attorney G eneraI-El Refuses to
Discuss Ross ReappOintment.

Discuss Ross ReappOintment.
Charles F. Werner, Evansville,
Ind, today was appointed first as
sistant encouragement of Indi-
ana, effective Jan. l, by James M.
Ogden, attorney general-elect.
Ogden also appointed Merl M.
Wall, Logansport, a deputy attor-
ney-general. He refused to discuss
report that Conner Ross, deputy
in charge Of highway cases, will be
the only member of Attorney-Gen
eral Arthur L. Giliom's staff re-
tanned by him.
Werner is native of Eu Claire.
Wis. He has practiced law in
Evansville since he graduated from
the University of Michigan. He has
been deputy prosecutor of Van
derburgh county, a department of
justice agent and now is federal
referee in bankruptcy. He succeeds
Edward Frankling White, who has
served for sixteen years.
Wall is prosecutor of Cass
county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
I Z '
SEEMS

BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

IF JOHN HEYDLER succeeds in
4 putting over his suggestion that
the pitcher have a man to bat for
him throughout the game he will
revolutionize more than baseball.
I'm all for this change in the
rules.
The practice might we'll be ex-
extended to columnists. There could
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
MT. KATAHDIN SHRlNKS

New England Peak Shows Sinking
Of Seven Feet in 20 years.
BB United Press
AUGUSTA, Me-, Dec. 14.-Mt.
Katahdin, one of New England's
loftiest peaks, appears to be shrink
ing slowly
Twenty-Five years ago measure
ment of the mountain showed 1t to
be SITS feet high. On remeasure-
ing it recently, state authorities
found its altitude to be only 5,26S
feet,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14

"You know you were in the
wrong" This from Beatrice.
More silence from Sans car.
"Say something" chorused the
girls.
II
OHAGRINED at their inability
~ to get an argument, the girls
started for the rear of Sans car
to get the license number.
Sam made his first mistake. He
foolishly leaped from his ma
chine and pushed Joyce.
Joyce wouldn't be pushed. She
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14

He has, without fear of conse-
quences, attacked our national con-
servatism in a vital spot. Within a
few days the Standpatters will be
after him in full cry.
AS yet there have been merely a
few sleepy growls and vague rum
blings. It takes a standpatter some
little time to roll over and get his
shoes and socks on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
SMOKING COSTS DOLE
Men Dismissed From Job Over
Nicotine Get No Aid.

LONDON, Dec. 14.-You can't
smoke on the job if you want to get
in on the government dole.
The unemployment insurance UNI
pire Of the Irish Free State recent
ly ruled that a worker, who was
dismissed because he smoked while
ut work, will not receive unemploy-
ment dole for the first three weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
BY w. F. SULLIVAN
W. AAAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
HTGA~N nAn "A CiIoVaO

United Press Stan CORRESPONDENT
CHICAGO, Dec. 14.-Silence
~ may stem the oratorical tide
for an irate wife, but when a
strange female starts an argument
on street corner, a man either
must say something or get ready
for fistic encounter.
Take the unfortunate case of
Sam Meyer and a companion.
Sam was driving along the boule-
ward today when his car crashed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
DRIVER HELD TO JURY
Alleged Hit-Run MOtOrist to Face
Trial.

Leon Elliott, 81, Speedway, alleged
hit-and-run driver, who struck Po-
lice Sergeant Frank Wooden last
month, was bound over to the grand
jury by Municipal Judge Paul G.
Wetter.
Elliott faces charges of driving
while intoxicated, assault and bat
terry, failure to stop after an acct
dent and drunkenness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-14
Here's Your Chance to Get
a Real Psyche With
Little Trouble.

IF you have the cowbell colly-
Il wobbles, known also as the
ding-ding- dings, peculiar to Indi-
annapolis, the COLLINS are hot on
your trail, according to all the
docs who wear corrugated browS
and buffalo robe whiskers.
And, on the other hands, if the
dings haven't got you you're going
to live long and happy ever after
ward.
City folks, say these medical
waifles with bullying cerebrums,
are under terrific strain, what
with all the noises of urban life,
the rush and hustle and hurry
and scurry, driven during all
their waking time with the urge
to crowd just a little more into
each moment of the day.
So just to see If you are one of
these helter-skelter persons, or
otherwise, you can be analzed by
an expert.
For ten days John G. Bret
zenheimer, noted psychoanalyst,
will diagnose your case, provided
you want to be tied in a Psyche
knot, and it won't cost you a dime
or a moment of pain.
Z VERY day, for ten days, The
II Times photographer will
snap a group of people at Wash
ington and Illinois, or Washing
ton and Meridian, as they mill.
jostle, and push at the curb edge.
waiting for the ding-ding- ding of
the traffic bell which tells them
that they may scuttle across to
the opposite curb.
Here, says MIR. Bretzenheimer,
every man, woman, or child shows
in his or her face the amount or
lack of strain under which he or
she is laboring.
The idea is this: Watch The
Times photograph daily, to see
if you are in the group. If you
are, study your expression. Then
try to diagnose your own case,
whether you are under great,
little, or no strain, carefree, or
whatnot, whether the traffic
tangle is affecting your temper or
your ability to think clearly, or
your appetite, or your ability to
sleep. If you're not in the group,
send in a diagnosis, anyhow, of
anyone you want to study in the
group. These diagnoses will not
be published.
nR. BRETzENHEIMER will
~ look over the diagnoses every
day and tell you how close you
are to being right To the three
who send in the most nearly cor
rect answers, three pairs of tick
cts to the Apollo theater will be
awarded daily.
And when the contest is ended,
in ten days, two IS books will
be awarded to the two best an
swers for the entire ten days
Exploring Your Mind" by AL
fred Edward Wiggam, who knows
more about all that hooey than
the guy who invented it. This
book is placed on the market by
Bobbs-Merrill, may be obtained at
all newsstands for $3.50, and
promises to be one of the seasons
best sellers.