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Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-26
VOL {: Nj 7
WE:A Their
EE:N[)l)RE:S
Floods, Tornad0es And
Billiards Continue To
Ravagc Wide Areas.
MUCH SUFFERING
Death Toll And Property
Loss Unestimated But
Believed Heavy.
(Ey United Press leased Wirc)

Tuc violence Of he clements. cx-
pressed ia frrakish tornadocs,
Billiards and rain storms and r..
sultant floods was felt in q maiog
portion ef thr United St"tcs to
day.
Seven communities Of central
Georgia and northwestern South
Carolina reported at lcas. 90 dead
and 80 injured in series Of tor
nado,s which followed similar
storms eaflicr in the week in
Texas. Arkansas. Mississippi and
Missouri.
Wyoming and parts OF Colorado
s,ilI were virtually isolated by
hlillards and unreasonable snow
storms. ON rauchcr Was frozen t.
d,.th Air rail and vehicular traf
fir was raralyzad stoc,, suffered
heavily.
Tba Mississippi and its tribu.
,arics, swollen by continued rains,
threatened river towns iu Iowa.
Illinois ail Missouri. Crumulin9
di',ys aud Irvres at Quincy. III.
Canton aud Hannibal. Mo, threat
cred further 10 mandate porJiated
Iowlands where nearly 1000 .dread5
art homeless
Lake Michigan was beating des-
tluctivclv against the lake walls
north Of Chicago, threatening dam
.gc to- beach colonies and coas.
guard stations. Onc man was
rescued from the lake when his
m9ll boat was overturned I'm th-
.nrhu!e.t waters.
CHICAGO. April %. U.H-From
the blizzard swept far west to the
flood menacod Mississippi valley.
man and machrr' battlcd today
.gansI nature.
While Workmcu strengthened
dikes and lrNccs along the swollen
Mississippi river and repaired
Chicago 5 s.a wallis against the
bcatiug waters Of lqkr Michigan,
.pairmep struggled to r.storc
communication lines to isolated
towns Of Colorado and Wyoming.
CIppl,d railroad service MAS the
ut,idp world. ouly contact with
Cheyenne, Wyo. where battered
down telephone and electric wires
cluttorcd the streets and electric
current was shu. of go evol pos
-;hr dc,ils ny ,lcctrocution
From tro snow swept sections of
Wyoming eawr reports of severe
damage to .tocG and the Loss of
lifo George Ross, a e'r.p hcrdpr,
r.olr to death ju a snow bank near
"hnruorolis tNpos,d to the storms
were many sheep hcrdcrs and COW
boys as well aS MANY motorists
whose automobiles were stalled on
snow Blocked highways. Workmcn
went into She s.orm area from
OIdrn, Utah, Denver and Omaha.
Confined on Page EighD
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-26
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
o. E. S, No. 276, 8, Masonic
Temple.
Boxing, 8, CaleXico arena.
Associated Chambers CT Com
merce, Holtville.
Adult English classes, 7,
high school.
Troop 25, B. S. A, 1880, Nc
Cabe school.
Concert, 8, Wilson school.
Fox Imperial Theatre, 1.-THE
Greyhound Limited.
Radio KXO, 6-1O.
TOMORROW
All clubs Achievement Day,
1913, high school.
Episcopal S. S. food sale, M.
o. King store.
Junior matinee, 2:15, Fox
Imperial Theatre.
Story hour, 1890, city
library.
Radio KXo, Ill.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-26

Commercial fishermen and sports
men are having a war in Del Nortc
county over the closing of nets of
the Smith and klamath rivers.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-26

Continued on Page Eight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Forced to Give Addresses

BIZ ScriDDs-HoWdrd Neto8pdper Alliance
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.-The
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company was, forced by federal dry
authorities to divulge the addresses
of confidential phone patrons, Off
Gals of the phone concern said here
today, as public opinion protested
the latest methods of trapping al
legged bootleggers.
1t developed that the street adj
dresses of phone patrons suspected
Of bootlegging were furnished under
compulsion of subpenas issued by.
United States Commissioner Arthur
Fiske. F'iske is under fire Of sharp
legal criticism by lawyers, who hold
that only a district court or federal
grand jury may commander such
records.
I'VE are operating a telephone
service, not branch of law en-
forcement," said Lyle M. Brown,
district phone manager. "Our stand
on the matter is definite. We have
no right to give out these facts, and
we do not intend to do so, unless
under official orders. that compel
US to.
I'VE have repeatedly refused to
give out this information"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19

Many Of the boys and girls who
competed in recent Yo-Yo contests,
sponsored by The Indianapolis
Times, will have opportunity again
to show their skill, in a ''WhooPee
Bali tournament to be conducted
during the Christmas holidays.
This tournament will be con-
Quoted in sixteen sectional and
eight regional centers. Weather
permitting, the sectionals will be
held out of doors. In the case of
unfavorable weather, arrangements
will be made to stage them indoors.
Regionals will be staged at eight
neighborhood theaterS and the
finals will be at a downtown the
alter, to be announced later.
Several hundred youngsters al
ready are owners of WhooPee Ball
sets as pictured above, through CO.
operation of The Times, while many
others have purchased sets at their
neighborhood stores. Ali that is
necessary to enter this tournament
Is to have genuine WhooPee Ball
set and to fill out the entry blank
printed in this issue.
Procure your set, either through
The Times or at your neighborhood
store, select your partner and send
your entry to the WhooPee Ball
tournament manager of The Times
and you are eligible to compete for
the many prizes that will be offered.
Further details concerning Sec
tionaI centers and rules for the
tournament will be printed in early
issues of The Times. Watch for
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
intent TO KILL
THREE CHARGED
Revelation by Woman in
Love Murder.

BIZ Times Special
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Dec. 10.
Mrs. Mary Harvey, sc, for whose
love Louis Maloney killed William
White, intended to take her life
and his own, she testified at an in
quest conducted by Coroner John
H. Foster. Maloney IS in custody
awaiting trial on a first degree MUIR
der charge.
At one time Mrs. Harvey was the
sweetheart of Maloney, but White
Supplanted him in her affections.
She testified that Maloney had re-
marked that he would rather see
her dead than married to another
man, and had threatened to kill
himself. She was formerly en-
ployed as a waitress in Maloney's
restaurant.
White was shot Saturday morning
after Maloney found him at Mrs.
Harveys home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Governor and Member of
Legislature Act in
Federal Court.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
HAMMOND, Ind, Dec. 19.-Ar-
guments on demurrer to a $4,000
damage suit filed against Governor
Harry G. Leslie of Indiana and j..
Glenn Harris Of Gary, a represent
ative in the state legislature. are
being heard today in federal court
here. The suit was filed by Otto
Gresham, Chicago.
Gresham alleges conspiracy on the
part Of Leslie and Harris to pre-
vent Gresham from introducing a
bill in the house of representatives
in 1927 to impeach Judges Linn D.
Hay and James A. Collins of Marion
county. At the time the bill was
introduced Leslie was Speaker OF the
house.
When Gresham introduced the
bill Harris objected TO it on the
grounds that Section / Of the In
diana bill of rights referrerd only to
inhabitants of Indiana, while 1t was
charged Gresham was resident of
Chicago. Leslie upheld the objec-
ton of Harris, the complaint
charged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
INDIANA BELL
SHES At ROLE
OF DRY AGENT
Confidential Addresses to
Be Kept Secret, Unless
Court Orders Move.
WON'T CHANGE POLICY
A. 7. & 7. General Counsel
Ignored Blanket Edict
on Information.

Indiana bootleggers need not lie
awake nights worrying over the
Sanct-ty of their telephones.
For the California precedent Of a
phone company divulging private
line numbers of bootleggers or other
citizens is not followed by the In
diana Bell Telephone Company in
this state.
In San Francisco the public utility,
according to wire reports, revealed
addresses of patrons suspected by
government dry agents under a
blanket court order that required
them to aid the agents whenever
they requested help in tracing phone
calls.
But in Indiana, specific court
order for each individual case under
investigation is required by tele-
phone company officials before in
formation is gwen dry agents.
Must Have Court Order
1--WE have felt" said C. H. Rott-
ger, president of the Indiana Bell
Telephone Company, that, being a
public utility, We are obligated to
serve the public upon application,
as soon as the credit of the appli-
can't has been established.
Eve never have given out infor-
nation as to conversations going out
over our wires, except upon properly
established and formal legal au-
thority.
1.-THE various branches of the gov
eminent have proper legal methods
whereby information can be re-
quired for submission before a prop
erly authorized court. and it is our
present practice and we will, of
course, continue the practice, Of
complying with all such legal re-
quirmentS," he said.
Mandate Was Ignored
Rottger's statement is said to fall
in line with the view of G. M.
Bracelen, vice-preSident and gen.
eral counsel of the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph Company,
who says, About a year ago one
OF our companies was served with
a blanket court order requiring it
to cooperate with government of
f1cials at all times. promptly
instructed the officials to ignore the
order.
1.-THE policy has been, and I see
no reason why it should not be
continued, to require a court order
in advance, naming specific in
dividuals, equivalent to a subpoena
duceS tecum-before turning over
information we regard as con-
f1dential."
Officials of the Indiana Bell ex-
pect to receive q clarified report of
the San Francisco episode, with
suggested procedure, should wire re-
ports bear out that dry agents in
California made raids on informa-
ton supplied by a phone company
under q blanket court order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
INDIANA LEADS U. S.
Corn Club Results Best in
Country.

BIZ Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Dec. 19.-In-
diana again has won the national
corn growing championship with los
growers In thirty-f1ve different
counties producing official yields of
100 bushels or more an acre. This
is by far the largest number of
growers in any state producing 100
bushels or more In one year. c. c..
Van Hoy, Loogootee, Martin county,
won Indiana honors for 1929 with
yield Of 1907 bushels an acre.
These records were made in the
Corn Club contest, spon-
sored by the Indiana Corn Growers
Association In cooperation with
Purdue university, in which 709
growers in seventy-four counties
completed the project and checked
yields. Yields Of all plots were CAL
culated on the basis of a market
grade Of No. 3 corn. Winners were
announced by NJ. o. Pence Of the
extension staff of Purdue,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19

Eight HooSiers are among prize
winners in a national essay contest
ON why Fifty Degrees Is the Dan
ger Point" sponsored by the Ma
tional Food Preservation Council,
with headquarters in New York.
The largest prize won by a Hoo
sier, $500, went to Miss F. Fern Fer
neau, Fl. Wayne, winner of fifth
place. Miss Mabel Millspaugh, An
derson, who has been a victor in
similar contests, won 500. She was
one of group of twenty five fol-
lowing the winners of the first ten
prizes.
Six Indianapolis residents won SIS
each offered writer's of essays which
received honorable mention. The
six are as follows:
Miss Olga Marie Bonke, 21I4
North New Jersey street; w. j.
Veesner, So Downey avenue; Orange
E. McMeans, 591 Middle drive,
Woodruff Place; Claude E. Sutton,
is North Bosart avenue: j. L. Dill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
SCHOOL HEADS
ASK CALL FOR
LEGISLATURE
Committee to Visit Leslie
ian. d With Request
for Action.
GOVERNOR is RECEPTIVE
Executive Says He Will
Welcome Conference
on Situation.
GOVERNOR is RECEPTIVE

Plea that Governor Harry G. Les
lie to call a special session OF
the state legislature to furnish
relief to the bankrupt state
aid schools in southern Indiana will
be made to the Governor Jan. by
a committee of five selected at the
Shoals conference of county schools
superintendent last Friday.
Leslie today received letter from
Thomas S. Jones, Corydon attorney
and chairman CT the superintend-
entS' committee, asking they be
given an opportunity to lay data
before him Jan. 4, showing necessity
for special session.
The Governor replied that he
would welcome such a conference
and that the members of the state
aid commission appointed Monday
would attend.
Committee to Meet
A meeting of the superintendent
committee will be held in the Office
here of Lewis Taylor, committee
member and vice president of the
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
in the Lemcke building Jan. to
assemble all data to be presented
the Governor.
Members of the committee, be-
sides Jones and Taylor. are State
Senator Carl Gray of Petersburg;
State Representative Claude Malott
of Bloomington and Oliver Nc
superintendent.
Jones, in written statement, de-
clared the superintendent commit
tee will be glad to assist the state
aid commission.
THE officials and citizens of state
aid corporations welcome a COM
plete, impartial investigation and
study of their problem, as they are
confident their cause is just" Jones
said.
Want General Survey
state aid communities feel, how
ever, that a general survey Of this
situation to remedy it permanently
with perhaps the adoption of leg
islation to change materially@ the
whole plan of raising school revenue
and the disbursement thereof, and
measures incidental thereto will not
reach the present demand for i'm
mediate relief, the providing of suff1-
cient funds for the present opera
ton of the schools. and the imme-
diate provisions for the payment of
unpaid teachers and for the pay
ment Of other obligations incurred
in good faith. under the pledge con-
tanned in the state aid law.
Broad, temporary relief now, II
a permanent plan can not be
worked out hrrriedly, is essential;
sane. permanent plans must follow
If such legislation is impossible at
special session.
Action Must Be Soon
1.-THE demands for relief now,
however, which arise out of real
necessity, can not be met fairly by
legislation postponed until a regular
session Of the legislature" Jones
said.
Leslie today announced he had re-
ceived a letter from r. v. Ellington,
Martin county school superinten-
dent, who called the Shoals meet
ing, recommending E. E. Ramsey,
Of the faculty of the Indiana State
Teachers college at Terre Haute, for
post on the state aid commission.
The letter arrived too late for
Ramsey's name to be included, but
Leslie has replied Ramsey will be
welcome to attend all sessions of the
commission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
OFFICIAL RAPS
RUM EVIDENCE
Gary Councilman Refers to
Scum
BIZ Times Speci1I

BIZ Times SpecidI
GARY, Ind, Dec. 19.-"The scum
of the earth" presents most of the
testimony on which federal indict-
mentS were returned in Lake county
conspiracy cases, A. B. Whitlock.
member Of the Gary city council,
declared at a session of the body.
One of three conspiracy cases re-
ferred to bore the name of Whit
lock. All seventeen defendants were
released after Judge Thomas w.
Slick sustained a motion by Dis
trict Attorney Oliver M. LOOMS to
dismiss the charges. LOOMS said
there was a variance in stories the
witnesses told the grand jury and
those they proposed to tell at the
trial.
Whitlock was chairman Of a city
council investigating committee
which began to function in May
following reports of official corrup-
ton there in connection with traffic
in liquor.
According to Whitlock, several
persons who urged the inquiry we're
prompted by personal and political
motives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Otis F. Calvin, IS, Is
Thought to Be in Dazed
Condition.

Belief that Otis F. Calvin, IS,
president of the indianapolis Sand
and Gravel Company, who diSap~
peared from his home, 1880 Grace
land avenue, may be alive and
wandering about the city in a men
tally dazed condition was supported
today by reports to the family that
Calvin was seen Saturday night.
He appeared at Marguerite S
Beauty shop, Thirteenth and Penn
sylvania streets, operated by Mrs.
Margaret Stephen, and begged for
food. Mrs. Stephen had not seen
him for more than four years and
did not know he was missing.
Later when she saw his picture in
The Indianapolis Times, she re-
called his identity.
He was in such condition that
women in the beauty shop at the
time took up a collection for him,
raising $1.75. Mrs. Stephen took
him to a nearby restaurant where,
evidently famished, he grabbed the
bread and butter and then, collect
ing himself, withheld his eagerness
until his meal was served, Mrs.
Stephen said.
Mrs. Stephen called the Rescue
Mission to obtain lodging for him
and started him for the Mission,
but he did not appear there. He
talked in bewildered manner, she
reported.
Calvin had suffered from illness
resulting in a nervous breakdown.
He left his home Friday to buy a
cigar and disappeared. Search of a
water-filled gravel pit at the sand
and gravel pit, in which dynamite
was used, failed to reveal his body
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
TWO DESERT PLANE
Machine Left in Field Near
Lagrange.
By United Press

By United Press
LAGRANGE, Ind, Dec. i9.-An
abandoned airplane, which the
pilots apparently do not intend to
reclaim, is puzzling authorities
here.
A two-passenger Waco biplane
was landed in field on the Walter
Atwater farm, six miles west Of
Lagrange. Two men about Is years
old asked Atwater's son to drive
them to Lagrange, and told him
he might have some clothing which
was in the plane, as payment.
Ownership of the plane was being
sought through its numbering. Off
Gals have communicated with the
manufacturers in Troy. o.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
BLAST RACES STILL
Officers Dynamite $4,000
Outfit Near Dana.

BIZ Times SDeciGl
DANA, Ind, Dec. l9.-Dynamite
was used by officers in wrecking
huge $4,000 liquor still seized in
raid near here a week ago.
The still was located on the farm
OF j. D. Sturm, who with seven
other men are charged with violat-
ing the federal dry law. Others
accused are Albert Moore, Tom
Crome, Angelo Steffani, Theodore
and William Choleva, all of Clinton;
Joe Probask, Shephardsville, and
Carl SnodgraSs, Dana,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
FIRM HEAD
MAY BE IN CITY
Bullet Spells
a BeQtitude

BIZ Times SDecidl
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec.
19.-"Shot be the peacemaker"
is the version of one of the
BeatitudeS John Stevens, %,
is qualified to give. He tried
to act as a peacemaker in a
quarrel between George Har-
mon, So, and his brother Eliza,
80, and was shot in the right
wrist. George is accused Of in
fiicting the wound. The
brothers were quarreling over
money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
FRESH ARTICLES APPEAR
Literary Efforts of Butler Students
Published in New Pamphlet.

Literary compositions Of fresh
men appear In new pamphlet pub
lished by the English department at
Butler university, the first copy of
which appeared this week.
Articles by Clifford Marshal,
Dorothy Wright, Thelnna Flack,
Evelyn Bentley. Lewis Robbins,
Agnes Postma, Helen Johnston and
Marian Roesener, all freshmen, ap-
pear.
George Schumacher and Corinne
yelling, English instructors, edit
the pamphlet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
LAWRENCE TURNS OUT
FOR TOWN ELECTION
Eighty-F Four Votes Cast in First Bal
loting of New Corporation.

Despite the inclement weather on
Wednesday, eighty-four voters
turned out in Lawrence, northeast
of Indianapolis, to cast their ballots
in the first election Of the recently
incorporated town.
There was but one ticket and all
on it were elected. They are: Trus-
tees. H. J. McFadden, Frank G..
Lewis, j. Thomas Plummer, Ennis l..
Yorker and DR.. Samuel Records;
town clerk. H. j. Day; town treas
urer, Charles Dunn.
Lewis, Yorker and DR.. Records will
serve four-year terms as trustees, the
others two-year terms A town
marshal will be named soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
CITY HALL GETS TREE
Employees to Exchange Gifts Around
25-Foot Spruce.

A twenty-f1ve-foot Christmas tree
was placed and decorated today at
the city hall.
The tree was placed in the center
of the buildings rotunda~ Colored
lights, festoons, tinsel and large
star grace the tree.
At II a. m. Tuesday city hall en-
ployes will hold a Christmas cele-
bration around the tree. Gifts will
be exchanged.
Jesse Mcclure, recreational direc-
tor, and George Morgan, assistant
superintendent Of parks, decorated
tbs tZaA a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
QUAIL SEASON TO CLOSE
Game Regulations Pointed Out by
Conservation Denartmeut.

Game Regulations Pointed Out by
Conservation Department.
Friday is the last day for lawful
quail shooting In Indiana, George
N. Mannfeld, chief of the fish and
game division of the state conserva-
ton department, pointed out today,
in warning all nimrods regarding
Violations.
He also directed attention to the
closing of the rabbit season Jan. 10.
Wild ducks and geese may not be
shot lawfully until after Jan. Is
New hunting, fishing and trapping
licenses for 1880 go on sale Friday,
Mannfeld announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
I LESLIE DEMURS IN
SUIT ASKING $4,000
Man, 90, Takes
Fifth Bride

BIZ Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 10.
Thomas H. Howard, SO, of
this city has obtained a IL
cense at the county clerks
Office for his fifth marriage.
In his application he stated
that he lost four wives by
death, the last in October. He
is to marry Mrs. Rosetta Butts,
who has also been previously
married, her husband having
died in 1926.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
STEAL COSTLY DRESSES
Thieves Take Over $4,000 In Gowns
From Local Store.

Between $4,000 and $4,000 worth
of women's dresses, many of i'm
ported models, were stolen by bur-
glars Wednesday night from the
Marie Ruth Ladies' Dress Shop, at
1856 Monument circle.
The burglars entered through a
Meridian street door, and apparent
ly moved their loot out rear door.
Freeman D. Munson reported the
burglary to police today. The en-
tire store was ransacked and the
burglars made a selection from the
finest of the wares, Munson re-
ported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
$4,000 FOR DRAINAGE

BIZ Times Special
NOBLESVLLLE, Ind. Dec. 49,
Contracts for the construction of
the Collier. Anderson, Jackson and
Schlater drains to be awarded Dec.
%, cover four of the largest pro-
jects of the kind planned in this
part of the state in several years.
The total cost will be $125, 900.
The drains will affect farm land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
Safety Worker Speaks

BIZ Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 19.-T. r.
McCampbell, indianapolis. super
vising safety agent of the Big -Four
railroad company gave an address
before the Kiwanis club at this
weeks meeting on The Railroads
Side of the Grade Crossing Acct
dent Situation"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
JEUP HEADS CITY BOARD
Ross Takes Vacated Place AZ
Sanitary Vice-President.

B. J. T. Jeup. vicepresident of the
city sanitary board, was elected
president of the body at meeting
today.
o. G. Ross, Republican member of
the board, was named vicepresident.
Jeup is Democratic. A. H. Moore.
city engineer. is the third member
of the board.
The law firm of Baker and Daniels
was retained as counsel for the city
sanitation body.