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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13

TELLER asked Wilbur to send
~ a small navy ship or planes
from Pensacola. where some OF
Lieutenant Schmdit's classmates
are stationed, to the island OF
the mothers dreams.
IF only to satisfy her yearning
heart and give her peace OF
mind" suggested the congress
man, this should be done"
Wilbur has not replied, al
though the congressman's letter
was mailed on Jan. IS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
HEALTH WEEK PLANNED
20 Committees Named to Arrange
City Observance.

Twenty committees to arrange
plans for obserVances of National
Child Health day, May l, and Ma
tional Child Health week in Indi-
annapolis have been named by Miss
Mary A. Meyers, tuberculosis as
ISOLATION executive secretary, who
is general chairman.
Cooperation of public health
agencies, public, private and pa
rochial schools, kindergartens and
other child welfare agencies, the
thirty-nine agencies of the Indian
apoliS Community Fund, Parent
Teacher Associations and other
city and county civic and welfare
groups was pledged Monday at a
meeting of interested agencies at
the Marion County tuberculosis
Association Offices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13

der was buried, to Center town
ship, Lake county, for a park.
Later the commissioners sold it
to private parties and it eventu-
ally came into the hands of Burke.
Burke. who had an aversion for
war heroes in general and Obi
diah Taylor in particular, uproot-
ed the stone and dumped it into
twenty feet of water. 1t is said
Burke was forced to leave the
community as a result of his
action.
Taylor has at least 1000 de-
scendantS in seventeen states.
They have organized society to
perpetuate his memory.
q q
nBIDIAHS father and five
" brothers also served in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
PERSHING ILL IN PARIS
General Suffers From Flue on Ship
Leviathan.


PARIS, Feb 13.-General John j.
Pershing remained indoors at his
apartment in the Crillon hotel here
today as a precaution against re-
currence of the influenza he suffered
on his way across the Atlantic on
the Leviathan.
He arrived Tuesday from New
York after being confined to his bed
AL the way across the ocean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
Senate BLAST
HITS DRY ACT
Indiana Assembly Asked to
Petition Congress to
Amend Law.

With the Rev. E. S. Shumaker,
superintendent OF the Indiana Anti
Saloon League, in prison but forty
eight hours, Indiana senators were
called upon today to ask congress to
amend the eighteenth amendment
to permit sale OF wine and beer and
regulation OF the entire liquor
traffic.
The request came in the form OF
a resolution introduced by Senator
Chester A. Perkins, South Bend, in
which he roundly scored prohibition
and all it's works, including the die
tation of the Anti-Saloon League,
although not mentioning it by name.
Violates American Principles
absolute prohibition, as contem-
plated by the eighteenth amend
ment, is repugnant to the basic
principles of our federal govern
ment, destructive of local serf-goy-
eminent and the rights of states
and inconsistent with Christian
principles" the opening paragraph
read.
Continuing, the resolution de-
clares that prohibition is f'psycho-
logically uIlsound, destructive OF
respect for law and order, endan-
gers the blessings of liberty, trans
crosses our rights rs citizens of a
free government, disturbs domestic
tranquility, inpairS perfect union,
hinders the general welfare, de-
featS justice, destroys mutual conf
dence, promotes bribery and black
mail and sanctions hypocrisy. du
plicity and deceit
It Disregard the warnings OF
Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Will
son and the resolution declares and
continues:
ut makes liquor forbidden fruit
and its illicit Use strongly appeals
to the adventurous spirit of youth.
ct has removed the social ban
from the use of liquor, substituted
hard liquor for wine and beer, multi
fed most of the good accomplished
by the temperance movement, pro-
duced a powerful and determined
instruction of mercenary outlaws,
enriched and made powerful the
criminal underworld by financing it
through the traffic of bootleggers,
hijackers and racketeers, making 1t
increasingly defiant and dangerous
not only to individual citizens but to
government ITSELF
Peril of Civil War
And beside sail this the Perkins
resolution has it that prohibition
has "debauched public service by
the employment of grating hypo-
critical mercenaries, instituted &C.
clesiaStical government and prosti-
tuted religion by dragging the
church into the secular service of
politics and the business of gov
eminent: created a system of inn
moral and debasing espionage, in
compatible with free government;
developed in the people a growing
spirit to circumvent or boldly disre-
gard any law that is displeasing;
produced a chronic condition of
guerilla warfare, accompanied with
injury, bloodShed and loss of life
and unless modified and rational
lied and reconciled with contempt
rary moral standards may lead to
general civil war, and the overthrow
of our libertarian form of govern
ment and the destruction of our
free institutions.
ut has been tried nine years and
found wanting"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
SHORTRIDGE IS
OvERCROWDED
School Opened 3 Months
Ago Already Filled to
Capacity.

Shortridge high schools new
ST ,300000 building, opened less than
three months ago. is overcrowded,
with 800 more pupils than its $500
normal capacity.
This fact, bearing out predictions
of north side citizens, who years ago
demanded a larger building, but
were blocked by acts of various for
mer school board factions, the Indi-
ana Taxpayers Association and the
state tax board, was brought out at
a school board meeting Tuesday
night.
Superintendent Charles F. Miller
was directed by the board to survey
means of remedying the crowded
condition and report at che next
meeting. Miller started the survey
today.
Enrolment at Peak
Enrolment at new Shortridge is
1890 pupils, more than ever before,
Miller said. A year ago last fall
about six hundred Negro pupils were
transferred to Crispus Attacks Ne
gro high school, but enrolment has
continued TO grow rapidly. Normal
capacity of the new building is
$500 pupils.
At suggestion of Commissioner
Theodore F. Vonnegut, Miller will
consider advisability of removing
domestic science classes from Short
ridge and from Washington high
school, also overcrowded, and shift
pupils desiring this subject to Man
ual Training high shcool, which
can accommodate more.
81 still am opposed to domestic
science and manual training classes
at Shortridge, a classical high
school," Vonnegut said. ''If neces-
sary, I feel we should abolish GER
tain other vocational and semi
vocational subjects to provide more
room at the school"
cit appears that we are to be
forced to zone high schools before
we are ready to do So" President
Charles. W.. Kern remarked.
Little Help at Irvington
Business Director Albert F. Walls
man pointed out that the new r.
Vington hinh school, work on which
is to be started this spring, will re-
lieve Shortridge but little.
He said school finances may per-
NIT a 100000 bond issue for new
Broad Ripple high school this fall,
which would reduce enrolment at
Shortridge somewhat.
In few years as many seats will
be needed in high schools as in
grade buildings, he said.
Walesman was authorized to pur-
chase twenty-five lots adjoining
Washington high school at $4,000,
to provide room for a future addi-
ton, land at Fourteenth street and
Tibbs avenue costing $4,000, as a
site for School 80, and seven lots at
Boulevard place and Forty-nintb
street, costing $27,327, as u site for
School Sc.
Sedan Is Purchased
A Marmon sedan, costing $1,000,
was purchased for the business
and bids for a Car for use
of Luther j.. Dickerson, librarian,
and for twenty microscopes and a
concert grand piano at Shortridge
were received and referred to COM
mittee.
Miller was authorized to attend
the National Department of Super
intendents' seVbn at Cleveland,
Feb. % to March 1.
The board granted forty-one
extension of time to
the general contractor and minor
contractors on Arsenal Technical
high school auditorium, because of
delays caused by bad weather and
in shipments of steel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
BIZ Times Speciag

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Dick
Elliott's movement for more and
better presidential vacations has
struck snag, and the good-natured
Indiana representative wears a
mournful manner these days. For
he has perfectly good and mex
pensive summer White House, but
no President to put into it.
Quite as disappointed as Dick
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
Falls ! Stories to Death

En- Jnitcd Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 1a.-Mrs. Anna
Fiddelman, 81. fell from a seventh
floor window of building here and
was killed. She was the widow of a
Russian soldier killed during the
World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
BY RAY TUCKER
Times star Correspondent

NTASHINGTON, Feb. 10
W Only a white naval uni
form, neatly arranged in his bunk,
was found when an orderly re-
turned with Lieutenant Henry
John Schmidt's polished shoes on
the morning Of Jan. IL as the
battleShip Arkansas steamed
through tropical waters en- route
to Panama.
Search Of the ship failed to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
AL SMITH is IN CUBA

Former New York Governor Comes
to Havana for Rest.
BB United Press
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 13.-Former
Governor Alfred E. Smith of New
York, accompanied by John j. Ras-
kob and party of fourteen, arrived
today on the steamer Shawnee for a
vacation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13

4 AIUIlI ANUUAAIoUAL
self, was in the United States with
Mrs. Robinson when President Elect
Alvero Obregon was assaSsinated
last summer.
Robinson is from Alma, Mich, and
New York.
Gales home was surrounded by
squads of soldiers as it was when
he was president of Mexico.
Gales recently bought an auto
mobile Tuesday he drove through
the streets of the 10 capital alone,
anxious to reveal to his friends and
relatives his skill as a chauffeur.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13.-Mrs.
Thomas Arnold Robinson, daughter
of ex-PreSident Plutarco Gales, was
under guard of secret service men
here today as the result of threats
to kidnap her.
The threats to kidnap Mrs. Rob
inson were sent directly to Gales
Thomas Arnold Robinson, Gales
son-in-law, is an American.
Robinson, who is interested in
various engineering projects in
Mexico and who is an engineer him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-13
WILL DURANT TO TALK
Philosopher to Lecture Sunday at
Kirschbaum Center.

hITstuUduIH NtIVtAs
DR.. Will Durant. teacher, lectur-
er and author of The Story Of
Philosophy" will speak Sunday AZ
BIS p. m. at the Kirschbaum Com
munity Center. His lecture on Is
Democracy a Failure?" win be one
of the numbers of the open forum
courses given each winter Under
auspices of the Jewish Community
Center Association.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
Former Hero Loses His Life When Risks tt to
 Saue Liues Of Others

CORDOVA, Alaska, July 3.-E. F. Mcclure, army radio operator who won fame for bravery in refusing to desert his post when the steamer Starr was wrecked last winter, again risked his life to save others and this time lost.
 Mcclure was riding in a speed boat with several small children and when due to overcrowding in the forward part of the boot, the craft plunged forward and sank in Eyak lake
 Mcclure caught two little tots in his arms and held them aloft from the icy waters until rescue boats neared. When with safety just out of reach, he suddenly collapsed and went down. He was brought to tine surface and rushed to the hospital where two hours effort in artifi- cial respiration failed to have eff feet.
 All the children were saved by an Indian who rushed out in a skiff Mcclure leaves wife and baby
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
p PRESIDENT AND SEC. MELLON IN PERFECT ACCORD
No Difference in Opinion Regarding Possible
 Tax Reduction

WASHINGTON, July 3.-Exist- ence of a difference of opinion be- tween President Hoover and Secre- tary of Treasury Mellon upon the possibility of a Federal tax reduc- ton is denied at the White House.
 A statement emphatically says both the President and Secretary are in complete accord.
 Announcement by the President said the Administration hoped for tax reductions as soon as would be possible but before action takes effect, recent legislation on the Treasury must be determined as well as the prospect of continued high Government revenues and the possibility of curtailing normal ex- penditures.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
HOOVER PLANS CONFERENCE ON
 !. s. CHILL DREN
Child Welfare Leaders of Nation Will Meet
 Project Financed

WASHINGTON, July 3.-Believ- ing that the health of the Nations children is first requisite of equal ity and opportunity, President Hoo- yer has decided to call an assem- ply of child welfare leaders from all sections of the country in Wash ington for conference within the year.
 The project will be financed with S50O,000 which the President has re- ceived from private sources.
 The subjects to be covered at the conference include dependent child ren, regular medical examination in school or public clinics, children's hospitalization adequate milk sup ply, community nurses, teaching of health in schools, child labor and scores of other allied subjects.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
MAJOR FRANCO
 GIVES THANKS {
 TO RESCUERS
Takes Air Tn Aerial Salute to Officers of British
 Carrier Eagle

GIBRALTAR, July 3.--MaJor Ra- mon Franco took the air again this morning and made an aerial salute and farewell thanks to the officers and crew of the British Aircraft Carrier Eagle which pick ed him and his three companions up on the Atlantic Ocean and after they had been missing several days on their attempted flight from Ma drid to New York City.
 Major Franco said the Eagle saved him and his companions from death. As the flier scared over the city, residents rushed to the streets, cheered and waved good bye.
 It is reported that the Spanish Government will bestow honors up- on the British officers of the Eagle.
 Major Franco and his compani- ons are now on their way to Ma drid where varied festivities await them tomorrow including the be- stowal of the Spanish Cross for valor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
MILL VALLEY PARTLY GONE
 RESULT FIRE
Flying Embers Start New Fires in Various Sec-
 tons Mountain Slopes
LOSS IS ALREADY
 ESTIMATED MILLION
Santa Clara Valley Exper- fencing Worst Conhag-
 ration Recent Years

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 3.-More homes in the vicinity of Mill Valley are en- dangered by fire which has already reduced part in ashes.
 Flying embers have started new fires among homes on Cascade Canyon on the slope of Mount Tamalpais and along the Conte Madeira Ridge. 1t is estimated that 130 homes have been damaged or entirely destroyed.
 The loss is in excess of ST. 100000.
 Debris was thrown high in lthe air by the force of the | fire which menaced property over the wide area. !, Millionaires, tradesmen, ser wants and volunteers labored side by side to save little ic O tages and pretentious homes. The water supply was greatly lowered by the all night demand.
 This afternoon flames are Imenacing the famous tavern lon Meant Tamalpais. i It is reported that unless plenty of men are available
 at once, another heavily pop
 ulated section containing cost Fly homes is doomed.
 The Thirteenth Infantry conting- ent, which has been sent to fight the blaze, returned to Presidio but the fire departments of half a doz- en nearly towns stayed. Man power rather than water power are relied upon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
NEWSPAPERS PLANE STARTS
 ON LONG TRIP
'Untin . Takes Air at Chi cago for Berlin-Three
 Men Are Aboard

CHICAGO, July 3.-The Chicago Tribune's amphibian plane "Untin' bowler took off today on the first leg of a flight to Berlin.
 The plane is named from cer- tain type of hat in England called the hunting bowler. It is believed that Col. R. A. Mccormick, the planes owner, took a fancy to the name and gave it to the ship. Hunting is pronounced "untin"
 Two Pilots, Robert Cast and Parker Cramer, and the aviator editor of the Tribune, Robert Wood, are aboard the plane
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
CHAIRMAN OF
 FARM RELIEF
 BOARD NAMED
Honor Falls to California Man-Five Members
 of Eight Accept

WASHINGTON, July 3.-AleXan- der H. Legge, of Chicago, and Charles c. Teague, of Los Angeles, have accepted appointment of the Farm Relief Board which com- pletes five of the eight which will constitute the Board.
 Teague will be chairman for one year at least. He accepted appoint ment only for a year and then on condition that. he be chairman.
 The other three who previously accepted appointment are Carl Will Hams, of Oklahoma; James Costone, of Kentucky, and c. B. Benman, of Missouri.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
JUNEAU BAND TO BE
 BUSY JULY FOURTH

The Juneau City Band will be a busy organization during the July Fourth festivities. Tonight they will give a parade and march to the Fair Building as a starter to the American Legion Smoker. To- morrow morning from 10 to Il o'clock, a concert will be given either in front of the Palace The atre or at Triangle corner. At Il o'clock the band will play the open ing number on the patriotic serv- ices given at the Palace. In the afternoon music will be furnished at the baseball game and the days work will end with concert at Triangle Corner from 7:30 to 8:30 lo'clock.
 The band has been practicing with augmented nun mbers on splendid programs to be given at all appearances tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
TWO FIRES ARE RAGING IN CALIFORNIA
RIGHT TO DIE DENIED
 BY FRENCH THINKERS
By JOHN EVANS "A. F. Staff Writer)

PARIS, July 3.-The right t. die, often claimed by the sick and the unhappy, is up for discussion again. It became a topic of the day, when Richard Corbett, young Englishman charged with murder, wrote an open letter seeking to jus tify himself in killing his mother to end her long agony.
 Doctors, lawyers and philoso- phers in France all deny mans au- thority to kill except as legal pun ishment and presumably in war and self defense.
 Ancestral respect for human life," is offered by Professor Henri Roger, dean of the faculty of medi- cine, as a solid moral barrier against abuses that should be keLt inviolate.
 It is the physicians mission to prolong life, says Professor Char ss Richet, member of the Academy of Medicine and noted for his psychic research. Quite aside from the moral aspect, Dr. Richet opposes two arguments to the theory that the state be allowed to kill those who wish to die to end their suf : fering. He asserts there never can be absolute certainty that the pa- tient wants to die, or won't chance his mind, and there always is the possibility of an erroneous diagno- sis. Science, he says, every day discovers new methods of relief.
 For the philosophers, the Abbe Peillaube, dean of the faculty of philosophy of the Catholic insti- ute, stands rigidly on the thesis that the right to destroy human life does not belong to us."
 Even from the standpoint of law Edouard Le Roy, professor at the College of France, finds there art too great difficulties.
 Any effort to legislate on such matter" he says, would lead the public to ask more. From an in- dividualastic point of view, why limit the right of suicide to incura- bles?" And, in any case, to en- trust the state with authority tc decide the right of suicide, "woulc be to give it, after all. to men who are subject to the same influence: and errors of judgment as all other men"
 The whole matter is thrown back into the realm of morals by Pro- lessor Berthelemy, dean of the lau faculty of the University of Paris Law" he explains, lis simply that part of the moral code fol which respect may be exacted D, force.' Therefore, the mater O killing for mercy should be examia i ed first of all on moral grounds and if it doesn't fit in it should mol be considered as possible law. Ant he rejects it on moral grounds. :! All these authorities admit there are border-line cases where deatf might be a mercy, but all hold fas to the supreme law, Thou shall not kill"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
Prince and Princess
 Retire from World

MILAN, Italy, July 3. - Prince and Princess of Biscari, Sicily, have taken up life behind church cloist- CTS, eschewing forevermore things of the worldly life. Two days ago Prince Castelo was ordained priest and yesterday he himself bestowed the veil on his wife whom he mar ried 25 years ago. Both decided some years ago to retire to the monastic life, starting novice work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
Cordoua Man Named Asst. Dist. Attorney
 M Third Diuision

SEWARD, Alaska. July 3.-Ed- ward P. Harwood has been appoint ed Assitant United States District Attorney at the Third Division. Alaska, with his headquarters at Seward. This is according to tele- graphic announcement received here from Washington from Attorney General William D. Mitchell.
 MT. Harwood, is now Unite d States Commissioner at Cordova where he has resided for years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
ADMITS THEFT
 OF LARGE SUM
Whatcom County Official, Missing Several Days,
 Surrenders

BELLINGHAM, Wash, July B. Edward Melhart, cashier of the Whatcom County Treasurer's office, who has been missing several days, has surrendered and is in the Coun- ty iail It is said he has con- fessed to a Deputy Sheriff to a theft of $2l 900 of the county funds.
 Melhart is said to have been in San Francisco endeavoring to raise funds to pay back the money which he lost in bets on football games and prize fights.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
Border PatrOI
 Reducing Rum Running No,u

DETROIT, Mich, July 3.-Fig- ures received by Walter s. Petty Acting Collector of Customs, from the Canadian Government, said in- dications are that the Border Pa- trol is reducing the flow of liquor into the United States. The fig ures show a reduction of liquor across the river each month, June showing 43,000 cases as compared with 68,00o in May and 71,000 cases in April.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
Slayer of Little
 Girl Found Guilty;
 NO Leniency Plea

UKIAH, Cal, July 3.-Thomas Rehew, woodsman, accused of at tacking and strangling to death seven-year- T heresa Johnson, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. The, jury of five women and seven men returned the verdict after deliberating less than half an hour.
 The crime occurred a month ago.
 Judge H. L. Preston will pass sen- tence Saturday, the jury having made no recommendation for leni- ency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
FIRES ARE RAGING
 SANTA CLARA VALLEY

SAN JOSE, Cal, July 3.-Moun- tain fires in the Santa Clara Val ley are termed the worst in recent years by the fire wardens who are directing efforts of 500 men. Over 1000 acres of timber and grazing land have been destroyed
 For time the fire threatened the summer colony but was con- trolleo after four residences had been destroyed.
 Railroads have rushed special trains of laborers and equipment into the section.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-03
Good Expression
 From Int. Sec. to People of Alaska

The following message has } been received at the office , of Gov. George A. Parks, which explains it self and
 , carries a greeting to all
 } Alaskans:
 Palo Alto, Cal,
 June 2, 1929. , Governor of Alaska:
 , On this Fourth of July, l
 , wish to extend to you and to , the people of Alaska the , most cordial expressions Of
 , the Department of the In- , terior and to personally offer , my best wishes.
 , RAY LYMAN WILBUR, } Secretary of the Interior.