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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
UTILITY TYLOBBYISTS
DRAW BIG MONEY
FOR FIXING JOBS

nance Companies, $2,077; United
Mine Workers, $1,o66; State Auto
mobile Insurance Company, $l,232;
United Master BARRIERS, $500; Motor
Carriers, $500, and the Indiana AS
sociation Of Optometrists, $455.
The Rev. E. S. Shumaker, sup
erintendent of the Indiana Anti
Saloon League listed no eXpendi-
lures, nor did F han A. Miles, league
attorney. Shumaker spent much Of
the session period at the Indiana
state farm, where he still is serving
contempt sentence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
DISMISS LICENSE CASES
80 Truck Drivers Get Permits After
Arrests.

The drive against commercial
truck drivers lacking city licenses
bore fruit today when thirty-two de-
PENDANTS, arrested Thursday, came
into municipal court with newly ac-
quired licenses.
All the cases were dismissed when
Otto Ray cat ylicense inspector, eX-
amined the certificates and pro-
nounced them Satisfactory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Hunt Gold Egg

Children of the city are to
be guests of the Y. w. A.
at an Easter egg hunt in Uni
versity park Saturday at 8 p. m.
Police and firemen's band
band viii give a concert while
the hunt is in progress, and
mothers will have tea in the Y.
w. G.. A. building, opposite the
park on North Pennsylvania
street.
Miss Bernadine Grow, dra-
mates student at Northwest
ern university, will give an
Easter reading at the tea. In
event of inclement weather,
the hunt will be staged in the
Y. w. social hall and gym
nasiun. A golden egg," filled
with surprises will be the prize
find.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

pieces of life and smiled as ne re-
established his mother in his
home with his wife at Jamestown,
Ind.
Then two weeks ago another
telephone call - Underwoods
home was burning down.
TINE invalid mother was moved
i to another home, without
serious detriment and Underwood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
AN Editorial
Who Failed?

Out in the woman's prison,
Daisy Sullivan of Bloomfield
faces two to fourteen years OF
imprisonment.
She is but IS years Of age,
but has the appearance OF a
girl of 10. So pathetically
tragic is her appearance OF
girlhood that the head Of that
institution could not bring
herself to put the stamp Of
"felon" upon her until more
complete investigation than
was given in Greene county
court can be had.
The transformation from
girl to convict was swift
swifter than ever has happened
before in the courts of this
state.
She was given her sentence OF
from two to fourteen years in prison
within eighteen hours after she had
written the name, clumsily, OF a
former employer to a check Tor
$3.50, and purchased a few oranges
and bananas.
She actually had received but two
oranges. For the law, swift IN
Bloomfield, retrieved $3.50 and the
bananas for which she had spent
one dime. She stood alone in that
court. No friend was notified. her
father did not know of the sentence
until later. No lawyer of Bloomfield
pleaded for pity. No pastor OF any
of the four church was on hand. No
woman in that little city took the
place of mother or big sister IN
her hour Of agony.
It is just possible that many Will
say that the girl is better off in
prison than she was on the outside,
that she is more comfortable than
she had been when washing dishes
for a meager wage, that she will be
more warmly dressed and that her
shoes will not be filled with holes.
That seemed to be the attitude Of
Judge Van Buskirk, who had listened
to the gossip about this girl and
knew little of the evidence. The
man who sWore to the warrant, the
owner of a restaurant where the
girl once had worked, was not in
court to accuse. In fact, the trial
.,tyas merely the confession of the
girl.
No shrewd lawyer examined the
record to find lOOphOles. No one was
there to tell the story. She was
sentenced after officers had whis-
pered to the judge that the girl had
been wild and that some one had
forged other checks, and possibly 1t
might have been this girl
Perhaps Daisy Sullivan can afford
to spend two-to-fourteen years in
prison. She may not regret. For life
has not given her very much worth
while.
But can the great state of Indiana
afford to let it be said that 1t gave
motherless girl of Is a sentence
of this kind?
II r.
The girl failed, of course. But Is
it not more true that the city of
Bloomfield, the church of that city,
it's school system, its good people,
failed more miserably than did this
motherless girl from the quarries?
On Sunday the churches Of the
state will celebrate the most joyous
of holidays. Again the ReSurrec-
ton will evidence the triumph of
life over death, of hope over de-
spair, of eternity over oblivion.
There will be gladness in all
hearts in the name of Him who
brought forgiveness and love.
What Is the answer of Indiana to
the challenge of this girl?
Can it do less than repeat, on this
glad day, His words, when he said:
Go and sin no more"
There is something even more
important than the fate of one girl
involved in the answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
BOOK BIDS RECEIVED
State Board TO Give Decision on
School Texts April /.

Dozens of book concern repre-
sentatives were on hand in the Of
fee of Roy P. Wisehart, state su-
perintendent of public instruction,
today for the opening of bids on
books for elementary reading, writ
ing and arithmetic.
Decision on bids is to be rendered
by the state education board April 1.
Those approved are given o. K. for
school use for the next five years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

An automobile driven by Rich
ard L. Lowther Jr., had struck
julius A. Underwood's car at
Fifty-second street and College
avenue. A manslaughter indict-
ment charges the youth was driv
ing fifty miles an hour.
Underwood's mother has not re-
covered. Her mind is practically
a blank about the accident.
The son picked up the broken
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
DOG GETS $3.50 CASKET
Canine Put to Rest With Elahorats
Funeral Rites.

BY LWlLCU FTts3
GREENSBURG, Pa, March "a
Teddy, valuable TERROR, was in
canine heaven today with such
formaity as could be bestowed upon
him by his grief stricken owner, II.
H. Kettering Of New Alexandria.
A casket valued at $500 and hand
some floral pieces attended the last
rites of the 15-year-old dog.
A Greensburg undertaken had
charges OF the funeral services. The
dog was buried in the Rettering
family plot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
Staying IN BRAWL
Youth Wanted for Death as
Tot Escapes.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
TAB, Ind, March 29-John
Daggs, 40, is dead with a bullet hole
in his left breas as the result Of
a drunken brawl here Thursday
night. Voris Wilson, 10, said to
have fired the shot. escaped.
Warren county authorities have
sent a description of the alleged
slayer to police chiefs and Sheriffs
throughout the state. He is feet
10 inches tall, weighs about $50
pounds, and has shiny black hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
$15O,OOO BRAZIL FIRE
Business Buildings De-
Stroyed by Flames.

BIZ United Press
BRAZIL, Ind, March 29.-Dam-
ages totaling $15o,O00 we're caused
here today when fire of unknown
origin partly destroyed the Sher-
fey Kidd Furniture Company and
M. L. Smith, haberdasher build
ings.
Dense smoke which filled the
buildings hampered seriously the
efforts of the local fire department
which was aided by a company from
Terre Haute.
The blaze was said to have started
in the basement.
The Terre Haute department
made the sixteen-mile trip here in
eighteen minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
REVERSE DALE DECISION
Rule Against Judge Dearth in Case
of Muncie Editor.

On confession of error, the In
diana appellate court Thursday re-
versed Judgment of Judge Clarence
w. Dearth Of Muncie. in the last Of
four appeals carried to the high
court by George Dale, Muncie pub
Usher.
On charge of criminal libel
brought by Raymond Warner Of
Muncie, Dale was found guilty in
Dearth's court and fined 500 and
sentenced to the Indiana state farm
for six months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
CIVIC cLUBC TO ELECT
Federation VIII Meet Tonight;
Manager Friend to Speak.

Officers will be nominated and
elected by the Indianapolis Fedora
ton of Community Civic Clubs to-
night. O'Clock, at the Chamber OF
Commerce.
Claude H. Anderson, City Man
ager League secretary, will speak on
the city manager form OF govern
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
TROLLEY PAY HEARING
POSTPONEMENT DENIED
Wage Boost to Be Argued Before
Commission April 10.

Petition of the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company to postpone hear
ing of the wage and condition
arbitration appeal filed by employees
was denied today by the public serv-
ice commission.
Hearing date was set by the COM
missioners for April 10. at 10 a. m.
The company had asked delay
until January, 1880, on the ground
that a AGENT increase had been
granted carmen since the original
appeal petition was filed in October,
1925.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

Talisman rose and the California
Gala lily.
Anyone from newspaper reporters
to oil miIIionaires can buy roses.
They are priced from 81 to $25 a
dozen.
Roses are outranked only by lilies
in popularity. The Easter lily tops
the list. They are priced from Sc
to SO a dozen. Lilies of the valley
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

are in great demand, too, florists
say. Next in popularity are sweet
peas, jonquils and tulips.
Use of the telegraph is becoming
more universal this year. "The
telegraphing Of flowers increased
more than 100000 last month" +"
said Irwin Bertermann, local florist.
There were not many orchids
wired, of course, at $50 a dozen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
OPERA SINGER ASKS
$25O,0O0 FOR SLANDER
Lydia Lingren Has Papers Served ON
Julia CIausen.

julia CiauSen.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 29.-First
papers in a $25o,O00 slander suit
brought by Lydia Lingren, opera.
singer and one time protege of Mary
Garden, against Julia Claussen,
singer of the Metropolitan Opera
company, were filed, without details,
today in the supreme court.
Miss Claussen was served with a
summons by Bernard I. Schulman,
March 81, at 225 West End avenue.
Miss Claussen must now file a notice
o. appearance within twenty days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
3 IN FAMILY REACH 100
Daughter Centenerian; Father Died
at 1O4; Mother at Century Mark.
BIZ United Press

BIT JNiItH PFtSS
QUINCY, Mass, March 29.-Miss
Josephine Pauling, whose father
died at 104, and whose mother was
killed in an accident when 100 years
old, celebrated her Tooth birthday
at her home here today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

H VERYONE can have flowers this
~ Easter, local florists say, be-
cause there are more flowers on the
market and the prices are lower.
In addition to the scores of varie-
ties offered for years, there are sew
eral new kinds. Among them are
the Joan Hill rose, the Gaiety rose,
the Mrs. F.. r. Pearson rose, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
BANK REPORT MARCH 27

Comptroller of Currency Issues
National Call.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 29.-
Comptroller of Currency j. w. Pole
issued today a call for reports of
the condition of national banks as If
March 81, 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
GIRL HIT-RUN VICTIM
Skull Fractured, Condition Serious;
Can Not Recall Accident,

Christina Careless, Is, of 315
Blake street, is in the city hospital
today with a fractured skull. She
is believed to have been the victim
of a hit-and-run driver several days
ago. AT that time she was taken
home. but could remember nothing
of the accident. Her condition was
not thought serious until Thursday
when she was taken to the hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
EARLY ACTION SEEN
ON DISTRICT BILLS
Senate Committee Expected to Take
Up Regulatory Proposals
Early in January.

Proposed legislation relating TO sale
OF securities. to provide plan for reg
ulation OF the real estate business IN
define the method of foreclosinR mort
cages and to give the District a conn
prehensive insurance code are expected
to be among important questions con-
sidered by the Senate District commits
tee when the regular session gets under
way again after the Christmas recess.
All four Of these questions are being
studied by subcommittee, headed by
Senator Blaine, Republican, Of wiscon-
sin, which will report recommendations
to the entire committee, Of which Sen.
ator Capper is chairman.
Considerable time was devoted to the
propoSted new code Of insurance laws
IN the last Congress, but 1t did not
reach final vote in both branches Of
Congress.
On the other three subjects the Blaine
subcommittee is having information
compiled preparatory to deciding what
legislation 1t will recommend. It Is
probable the committee will hold hear
ings on these questions after the sub
committee has reported.
The first question the Senate com.
mittee will take up after the recess
ends on January 6. however, will be
the street railway merger resolution as
recently revised by the Public Utilities
Commission. The committee already
has decided to hold q public hearing on
this plan early in January, the exact
date to be announced later, to ascer-
tain the public viewpoint toward this
modified proposal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
Policemen Reduce
WaistIines Along
With Lawlessness
Electric Machine Used to
Keep Men in Condition
at Two Precincts

Reducing crime Is not the sole objec-
tive Of the battle in which some Of the
biggest men here are engaged.
Reducing crime, to q stout guardian
of the law, is simple as passing up q
banana stand compared to COM
pared to well, reducing crime is
simple compared to just plain reducing.
However, there is a veil-even at such
busy police stations as Nos. and H.
II one is rash enough to presume that
the 100 officers there are girding them
selves for battle with a couple of cleo
trio exercise machine, please 60 on
presuming.
Machines Are Kept Busy.
A peep into the squad room at either
precinct shows the machine installed
and greatly in demand. On an inclined
platform stands q policeman leaning
against q broad band which Is agitated
in rather rough manner.
Sometimes the policeman shakes and
laughs and sometimes he just shakes,
but he must get his exercise and move
on because the vibrators are popular.
Men Bought Devices.
According to Lieut.. Gus Lauten Of
No. g.: "a policeman finds it easy to
keep his legs in condition, what with
all that walking. But the rest of him
is something else again, particularly the
section Just above the belt and some
what below the badge The officers
and men bought the machine by popu-
lar subscription and seem satisfied with
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
SMITH CASE PLEAS
ASSA|LED BY ROVER
Demurrer and Replication
Filed in Court in Support
of Indictments.

District Attorney Leo A. Rover yes
terday advanced his reasons why the
indictments returned by the December
grand jury against officials of the r
H. Smith Co. should not be abated or
declared void.
Attorneys for five of the sevtn de-
PENDANTS had set forth 80 reasons why
the indictments, which charged use of
the mails to defraud, should be abated.
The pleas in abatement were filed by
Wilton j. Lambert and Rudolph H.
Yeatman, representing Daniel r. Girls
singer, G. Bryan Pitts, G. Ebert Ana
dale, Samuel j. Henry and John H.
Edwards, jr.
Two Not Included.
Representative Frederick NJ Zihl-
man, chairman of the House District
committee, and Henry G. Maddux, also
indicted, were not included in the pleas
filed.
whether Mr.. zihlman will attack the
indictment pending against him hinges
upon the outcome of conference to-
morrow between his attorneys, Mr..
Lambert and Alvin L. Newmyer. Mr..
Zihlman, however, has indicated his de-
sire for a speedy trial, and there is some
doubt as to whether he will attempt to
have the jury's true bill squashed.
The district attorneys answer to the
pleas in abatement was in the form OF
a demurrer and a replication.
One of the points covered in the de-
murrer was the question raised as to
the eligibility Of women to serve on
grand juries. Mr.. Rover pointed out
that the act of Congress of February
%, 1927, made it possible for women to
serve on all juries, including grand
juries.
Technical Questions Raised.
In his replication he takes up each of
the questions raised by the defense,
virtually all of which concerned alleged
technical irregularities in the formation
and procedure of the grand jury, and
denies them categorically.
Concluding, Mr.. Rover says: THE
United States AYERS the fact to be that
the pleas in abatement herein have been
filed unseasonably, and that there is no
showing that the matters set forth did
not come to the attention of the de-
PENDANTS or their counsel a considerable
time prior to the filing of these pleas.
The defendants have in no wise been
prejudiced by the matters set forth in
the pleas in abatement, nor is there
any showing or contention that they
have so been prejudiced."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
TRADE CONFERENCE
HAILED BY LEADERS
Thorpe Says Plan Should Be
Decidedly advantageous
to Capital.

Announcement of the 1880 Washing
ton buSiress conference, called by the
Washington Chamber of Commerce for
January 81, has aroused widespread IN
terest among commercial leaders in the
plan to present fact survey Of pro-
posed and pending public and private
expenditure for the civic and CONNER
cial advancement of the National Cap
ital.
In accepting the invitation to address
the representatives of Washington busi-
ness Arms. Merle Thorpe, editor Of The
Nations Business, said:
The plan to hold q Washington
business conference In line with the re-
cent national gatherings sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States should be decidedly adj
vantageous to Washington. Every city
has q plan of future business develop
ment which is unknown in detail to its
citizens. Any movement which creates
a wider understanding of properly or
ganized local effort for business promo
ton is q decided asset to the COM
munity."
Under the direction Of President
Charles w. Darr there is now being
compiled at chamber Headquarters a
list of the names Of representative
leaders In the industrial, construction,
commercial and financial fields, who
will be specially invited to attend the
conference at the Mayfiower Hotel.
The purpose of the conference is to
describe first the steps which have
been taken nationally in response to
the call Of President Hoover and then
to build up from individual reports of
local business leaders q picture of local
business prospects for 1890. The facts
secured In this way will be assembled
and embodied In a report to the ma
tional business survey conference, in re-
Spouse to the request Of its chairman
Julius H. Barnes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
BUILDING WORKMAN
INSTANTLY KILLED
Commerce Department Construction
Fatality First Since Work
Began.

Falling 80 feet down an elevator shaft
from the top Of the new Department Of
Commerce Building at Fourteenth and
D streets TO the fourth floor of the
structure, Joseph Curtis, colored, Of lot
L street, was instantly killed late yes
terday afternoon. Curtis was about As
years old.
A group of workers was leaving the
building shortly before $50 o'clock
when they heard a sickening thud.
Rushing to the elevator shaft to inves-
tigate they found Curtis lifeless body
on the fourth floor.
II Is believed that the body. falling
through the shaft, struck pulley sus-
pended just above the fourth floor,
which detected it and broke the drop
toward the ground.
Curtis death is the first fatality
among the large force of workmen en-
ployed on the Commerce Building.
Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers
viewed the body and ordered an in
quest held Monday morning at 10
o'clock at the District Morgue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
MERCHANTS CLOSE
|. 1929 WITH GAIN IN
|. BUSINESS VOLUME
Christmas Trading Slightly
Below High Record of
Previous Year.
INCLEMENT DAYS BLAMED
FOR DECEMBER DECREASE
More Gift Buying Noted by De.
partment Stores and
Others Here.

Retail trade in Washington. during
the Christmas shopping season was very
slightly below the record-b breaking vol.
unne attained last December, but the
total for the year, generally, vas ahead
OF 1928, according to reports obtained
by The Star from the larger DEPART
ment stores yesterday.
Leading merchants were pratified
with the Christmas shopping results as
wen as being especially pleased with
the yearly total, in the light of the
stock market depressions In October
ana November, which gave rise to some
fears that this situation would seriouslv
AFFECT December trading.
1t Is pointed out also that the De-
cemner reports are encouraging because
OF the belief that the number Of davs of
mclement weather In December this
year 70 some extent reduced the VOL
period. '--'''
All Report Good Business.
All department store heads, questioned
aoout their trade during the whole wear
now enolng, reported that their business
Was anead OF 1928, and some found that
tner sales volume was well ahead" of
the preceding year.
Executives Of most of the LARGER
stores report that the Christmas trade
was about the same" as during last
December, with others stating that
their total business this December was
slightly less than in the same month
OF last year. On the other hand, one
store reported that the volume In this
december showed the greatest percent
age OF gain OF any month in the last
year, including last December.
The consensus was, generally. that
tnere was more gift buying this wear
tnan last, but with a tendency on the
part OF customers to some extent to
puy FEWER OF the more costly gifts.
while buying more Of those of less ex.
pensiVe character. Thus, apparently.
while there were more customers ana
more purchases this Christmas season
IMAM last, the total sales volume did
noC snow any real gain ovsr last year,
IN some cases the volume Of sales being
ABOUT the same, and in some cases
being slightly less.
Report Trade Equal.
/. The December report of thu Federal
Reserve Board for Washington Is NOT
yet available. The index for November
was the same as for November, 1928.
ington for the first IL months of this
year show that trade here has been
the equal or better than during 1928,
month by month.
In February, July and November the
INDEX numbers were the same as for
the corresponding months Of 1928. In
an oCner months, except December, the
totals were higher than in last year.
Leading merchants are encouraged by
business this month because Of the
1act that trade here In December. 1928.
made remarkable advance over All
previous years, and the recent hap
penings IN the stock market have not
caused as much an effect on trade here
as some had anticipated