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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
QUIZ PRESSED
IN EFFORT TO
PURGE COURTS
Judges Garvin and White
Push Crusade Against
Shysters, BondSmen.
ONE LAWYER is BARRED
Paul Scharffin Is Punished
for Solicitation of
Prisoners.
BY DICK MILLER

How does a lawyer or bondsman,
in his Office several blocks away,
know of a mans arrest and confine-
ment in city prison?
How does he learn the prisoners
name, the charge against him, and
other elementary information con-
corning the case, within few min
utes after the arrest is made?
To answer these questions, NUM-
cipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin and
Dan V. White today continued a
probe into alleged racketeering in
city courts by bondsmen and shys-
ter lawyers, and arm-in-arm opera
tons between them, police, and
others connected with police head
quarters, city prison, and the courts.
The investigation of alleged I'M
healthy conditions in criminal city
courts led to citation Saturday of
Paul E. Scharff1n, attorney, for con-
tempt of court, and his disbarment
from the municipal courts for six
months.
Another Implicated
Frank Riley, attorney, faces sim
liar citation. Both were accused OF
soliciting prisoners in the Jail.
Following their citations, the
judges sought to unmask the sys-
tenn by which they and other at
torneys have had access to prisoners
Policemen have been accused, they
say Of carrying cards bearing names
telephone numbers and addresses OF
bondSrnen and lawyers, handed to
prisoners en- route to prison in the
patrol wagon or squad cars.
It also was charged to the judges
that turkeys and others on the in
side of the prison, spying a prisoner
with money, tipped off" bondsmen
and lawyers. Those responsible for
the tips" were rewarded financial
ly, the judges suspect.
Kinney Recounts Trap
Police Chief Jerry Kinney, for
merly detective chief, today re-
counted the trapping of one police
man who tipped off a bondsman.
"A prisoner charged with bur-
glary was sent to headquarters in
the patrol wagon. He was brought
to my Office for questioning. Soon
a bondsman and lawyer appeared
and asked permission to talk with
him, giving another name than that
under which he knew him.
"Suspecting that things weren't
as they should be, I questioned the
prisoner concerning the false name
and he admitted he used an alias
when arrested, but that the arrest
ing officer found a letter In his
pocket bearing his correc name. Tbs
name was that used by the bonds
man, and was known only to the
policeman"
Promises Aid
Promising his cooperation In
stamping out racketeering in the
courts, Chief Kinney said that prac-
tice would end under his reign as
police chief.
Tips on arrests come from two
other sources, according to the
judges. Runners, posted in halls at
headquarters, often recognize prison.
ers who have been in Jail before
and report to their client
Shyster lawyers often have visited
gambling dives, speakeasies and
other dens likely to be raided, and
have wires" who inform them
when an arrest is made.
While little probably can be done
to halt the last method, the others
will be stopped, Judges Garvin and
White declare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
Pn Tir1feR 2nfcinl

BIZ Times Special
VALPARAISO, Ind, Jan. ia
new chapter will be written in VAL
paraiso circuit court here in a story
of a twenty-one year legal battle,
the heroine of which is Mrs. Dru-
silla Carr, 70, now resident of
Miller.
Several times the case, involving
title to q tract Of land which orig
inally contained 100 acres and had
a mile frontage on Lake Michigan
near Miller, has been before the In
diana supreme and appellate courts.
In minor Skirmishes, Mrs. Carr
sometimes lost, but when the case
went to the highest courts she was
almost without exception the victor
and in April, 1929, the state supreme
court handed down a decision which
1t was thought would end the htiga-
zion. 1t was favorable to Mrs. Carr.
Now, however. the Gary Land
Company has sued Mrs. Carr In an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
SCHOOL WAR
GIVES c. 0. P.
ACE in HOLE
Leslie Has Good Excuse to
Call Legislature for
Reapportionment.
MAY FOIL DEMOCRATS
State Can Be RediStricted
to Prepare for Loss of
congressman.
BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY

Urged on by several prominent
G. o. P. politicians, Governor Harry
G.. Leslie was reported today to be
considering seriously demands of
using the 'state-aiders" for a special
session to convene the legislature
and settle reapportionment while
there still is a heavy Republican
majority in both houses of the gen.
eral assembly
Under the law passed by con-
gress, Indiana must be reappor-
toned by 1882. This state will lose
two congressman in the redistrict-
ing. The present HooSier delega-
ton in congress will be reduced
from thirteen to eleven.
Since the matter of reapportion-
ment is in the hands of the general
assembly, to let the matter ride
until the 1881 regular session means
to take a chance on having q
Democratic majority in the house.
G. o. P. Faces Trouble
Both from his own deductU ans and
advice of interested party leaders,
the Governor is awaree of the trou-
Bile that might ensue should the
G. o. P. lose the lower house in
1881, This would give the Demo-
Gratis strong backing for their re-
apportionment demands.
They can not capture the SEN
ate because of the hold-over Re-
publicanS.
At present both houses are over
Whelmingly Republican. Reappor-
tionment could be handled to suit
the party plans and the real bat
ties would be inter-party quarrels
over conflicting ideas of gerryman-
dering.
Leslie has a made to- order excuse
for calling the lawmakers together.
Demands for such action to take
care of state aid school problems in
southern Indiana counties have been
pressing.
Gloomy Picture Painted
Dire pictures of the plight Of
these schools, with inadequate facils
tiles and long unpaid teachers, have
been painted.
Most of these school aid townships
are in Democratic counties, where
there are Democratic county super
irtendents. Should there be flare
back on the special session idea,
the government can cite these de-
mands and declare that it really was
2 Democratic move, rather than one
by his party.
Under the congressional redis-
tricting plan, there will be one con-
gresham for each 100000 popula-
ton. This will be a gain for Lake
county and Indianapolis and loss
for the southern districts.
In Marion county the one con-
gressional seat will remain and a
share will be acquired in another by
a township to be decided upon by
the general assembly.
Lake county will get congress-
man distinctly its own For years
Lake has been represented by the
veteran Will r. Wood of Lafayette.
That he may attempt to continue
to represent that district was seen
in the rumor that he already has
arranged for a permanent address
at Gary hotel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
LINEMAN IS KILLED
Linden Man EIeCtroCuted by
Power Wire.

Bu Times Special
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Ind, Jan. 10.
Coming in contact with an electric
power line carrying $4,000 volts,
Floyd Owens, 81, Linden, was cleo
trocuted near Manchester, north OF
here, early today.
Because of lack Of communica-
ton to the power plant, the power
could not be shut off and the body
dangled from the wire two hours.
owens, an extra lineman work
ing on a repair crew Of the Attica
Power Company, is survivor by his
parents and a brother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
HUNT MISSING Filler
Five Planes Take Off as
Sn0Wstorm AbateS.

Bu United Press
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan.
13.-Taking advantage of tempo
rary lull in the snowstorm, five air.
planes took Off today from Las
Vegas, New, st. George and Milford,
Utah, to continue search for Maury
Graham, missing Western Air eX-
press mail pilot.
Pilots making the search are
Fred Kelly and Alexis Klotz who
left Las Vegas; Fred w. Kelly and
Jimmy James, who left st. George,
and Howard B. Cook, who took Off
from Milford.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
PRINTERS TO MEET
Indiana Unions to Open
Session Saturday.

BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 13.-Sev-
eral hundred delegates will attend
the forty-frst semi-annual Indiana
state conference of Typographical
Unions here Saturday and Sunday,
according to local committees.
Mayor j. H. Mellett of Anderson
will welcome the visitors. The prin-
cipal address will be made by
Charles P. Howard. Indianapolis,
president of the International Typo
graphical Union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
200 Mile Race Over Frozen
Manitoba Slopes Is in
Prospect in March.
BY EMMETT E. KELLEHER
Special NEA Service Writer in Hudson

BE EIWI&EAI 4. hELAEAEh
Special NEA Service Writer in Hudson
Bay Region
Copyright, 1880, NEA Service. Inc,l
THE PAS, Manitoba, Jan. ia
200-mile race over the frozen slopes
of Manitoba for the dog-mushing
championship of the world
This is the event that is in pros
pect for Manitoba sportsmen in
March, with Emil st. GODDARD chal-
longing Leonhard Seppala to an en-
durance test that will determine
which of the two is the better.
st. GODDARD, youthful French-Ca-
madam who makes an annual GUS
tom of winning the great dog derby
here, issues his challenge to Sep
pala, veteran of the Alaskan SHOWS.
The championship of the world,
by common consent, lies between
these two men.
st. GODDARD, youthful and skillful,
has won the gruelling Pas derby
five times and has established him
self as the greatest dog driver in
northwest Canada.
Veteran at Business
Seppala, a veteran at the bust
ness, gained worldwide fame in
Alaska a few years ago by carrying
diphtheria serum to Nome across
many miles of frozen wastes.
He wins the New Hampshire and
Quebec dog derbies about as regu-
larry as st. GODDARD wins The Pas
event.
Seppala has never raced at The
Pas. st. GODDARD often goes east
to race, but does not quite have the
good fortune there that he has here.
He won the Quebec championship
two years ago, but last year finished
second in it to Seppala. Now he
wants to race Seppala over the fro
zen Manitoba course.
200 Miles Across Shows
The derby here runs from The
Pas to the great Film Flon mine
200 miles of pulling, with silver
cup and $4,000 in cash prizes up for
competition. It is a harder grind
than either the New Hampshire or
Quebec races, and conditions here
are usually more like Alaskan con-
dldons than they are in the east.
This hardly would bother Seppala.
He gained his great fame in Alaska,
where he is remembered for winning
the All-Alaska sweepstakes in 1915,
as we'll as for his famous dash to
Nome.
Seppala learned his trade from
the famous Shorty Allyn, who was
considered-up to Seppala's time
Alaska's greatest dog nusher.
After beating st. GODDARD three
years ago in the New England dog
derby, Seppala called st. GODDARD
"the best young dog musher 1 have
ever SEEN" and said that he had
won solely because his DOGS were in
better shape than st. Godard'S.
Trains Dogs for Endurance
st. GODDARD has been training his
dogs for endurance rather than
speed. and believes that in the 200
mile race here they would stand 2
better chance than they do in the
shorter races In the east.
Other well-known drivers Of the
northland have entered. includinn
Shorty Russick. Earl Bridges, San
Pranteau. Donald Fleet, Hector and
Gabriel Campbell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
YALE GETS LARGE FUND
Edward Hardness Gift Sufficient Ia
Finance Quadrangle.

TfTNN
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. 13.-
Edward S. Hardness, New York
philanthropist, has given his alma
mater, Yale university, funds suff-
Gent to realize its plan for great
quadrangle, according to announces
ment by President James r. Angel.
The sum is expected to match the
Sl30G0000 which Hardness gave
Harvard for its house plan" De-
tails Of the benefaction will not be
revealed until Feb. %.
Hardness benefactions to uni
versities, museums, hospitals and
other institutions, total nearly
500 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
ABANDON RIDDLED AUTO
Police Puzzled by Problem of Car
Left at Garage.

LEU at OdIdSCs
An automobile, bullet ridden, was
left this morning at the Wilbur
Shaw garage, 3345 Central avenue,
by Negro who left the garage with
no explanation.
Police, notified by Shaw, found
the windshield of the car shot out,
the rear glass shot out and bullet
hole in a door. The bullet had
struck the steel sash and shattered
the door glass.
The car, Grafam-Paige, almost
new, bore a license issued to Harry
Lang, 1907 North Meridian street.
Police had no reports of its left.
Investigation by police showed
that Harry Lang formerly roomed
at the residence of Mrs. Ella O'Dell,
1907 North Meridian street, but left
there in October. The Negro who
left the car told another Negro
nearby that they are after me for
bootlegging," police were told.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
True to Type

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 49,
Your neighbor isn't the only
one who borrows books and
forgets to return them.
Forty years ago the state
department loaned the court Of
claims 100 volumes Of records
relating to old French and
Spanish claims against the
United States. Last month the
department wrote court OH
Gals suggesting forty years was
long enough to keep borrowed
books. True to borrowers hab-
its, the court replied the de-
partment could have the books
if it would send after them. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
DENY BRADFOR SUIT
Supreme Court BaIkS Move
Against Watson.

Z FWASHINGToN, Jan. 13.-The SUI
preme court today denied Ralph
B. Bradford, Gary, Ind, permission
to file a mandamus suit designed to
compel Federal Judge Slick to con-
slider and try Bradford's 100000
libel suit against Senator James E.
Watson Rep.. Ind.) and others.
Slick dismissed the suit, which
was based on remarks made by
Watson about Bradford in a con-
troversy over alleged political prac-
tees in northern Indiana,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
NEW BOND is ORDERED
Alleged Liquor Law Violator Must
Provide Other Court Bail.

Holding a $4,000 bond not prop
erly secured, George R. Jeffrey,
United States district attorney, TO-
day ordered Jack Bell, Terre Haute,
into court tc post new bond.
Bell is charged with liquor law
violation and gave $4,000 bond in
September.
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- - = - = . . - =
speech and coach
of the intersec-
tional varsity de-
batting squad, is
giving fin a l
touches to the
squad for opening
Of the season.
he Women'S
squad will open
the season with a
dual debate with
the University Of
Detroit, Jan. 80.
The wo m e n S
squad will meet
Wheaton college,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
Ny old Pal

SH United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 49, They
had not seen each other since
they were classmates in grade
school, but they did not speak.
James E. Robinson, brokers
cashier, sat quietly at a table
in the roadhouSe while a man
he told police was George Nc
Dermott, his old school friend,
trained a Sawedoff shotgun on
the crowd and other bandits
took $1,000 in cash and $4,000
in jewelry from the patrons.
Police waited at McDermott's
home today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
AWARDED GOLD MEDAL
Former Local Man Is HonOred by
Foundryman's Association.
Harry A. Schwartz, fl

necteC WlLh JIle
National Malleable
and Steel Casting
Company, Indian
apolis, has been
awarded the 1880
John A. p e n t o n
gold medal of the
American Foun =
drymen's ASsocia-
ton. The award is
made for his con-
tributions to the
field of research on
malleable iron.
Schwartz now is
m a ma G er OF re-
search for the Ma
tion al Malleable
and Steel Casting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
CLUB HEADS TO MEET
State Lions Officers Will Discuss
Foundation for Blind.

Foundation for Blind.
Lions club officers of the state
who will meet here Jan. % will be
Indianapolis Lions Club luncheon
guests.
The foundation for the blind will
be considered by the state officers
in the business session at 2 p. m.
A banquet will be held at $50 with
Melvin Jones, secretary-genera as
speaker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
Hitch-Hikers Rnh

MISHAWAEA, Ind, Jan. -
Kindness to hitch mixers cost John
Canaan, near Flkhart, s16 when two
men he picked up at Elkhar and
carried to Mishawak held him up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
Wife of Official Dies

BIZ Times Special
COLUMBUS. Ind, Jan. 13.-Mrs.
Carrie Williamson, rs, wife OF
Charles H. Williamson, trustee of
Columbus township, died at her
home here following q long illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
WILLIAM C. EGAN DIES
Requested That Body Be Cremated
and Ashes Strewn in Garden.

BIZ Unifed Press
CHICAGO, Jan. Is. - William
Constantine Egan, 80, nationally
known horticulturist, was dead to-
day at his Highland Park estate,
Egandale. Just before he died Sum-
Gay, he requested that his body be
cremated and the ashes strewn over
the flowers in his beautiful gardens.
Many flower varieties had been
narled after him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13

March 7 and University Of Gin
natl March Il, while men will meet
Bucknell and Loyola, dates for
which have not been set.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13

Company at Cleveland. He is a
graduate Of Rose Polytechnic insti-
Etute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
7NS9-

Driving his famous team above
is Leonhard Seppala, noted Alaskan
musher and hero of the historic
dash to Nome with the diphtheria
serum, who has been challenged
to a 200-mile race across the
Canadian SHOWS by Emil st. God
ard, youthful French-Canadian.
In the circle st. GODDARD is shown
with his famous lead dog Toby,
who has taken part in eleven of
the thirteen races in which his
master has competed in the last
five years, eight of them being
victories, and all but one finish
being "in the money" Below is
a closeup of Seppala.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-13
DEBATERS ARE TUTORED
c. H. Walters Coaches Butler Squad
For Coming Meets.

C H. Walters, instructor in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
Hoover Relief Projects
Departments AHOcdfed Various Funds With Fed
erGl Highway Item of $8O,OOO,OOO Largest.
$4,62O,OOO for Public Works.

BY the Associated Press.
This is how President Hoover pro-
poses to expend $15o,oO0,oO0 TO reiieVe
unemployment:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
.WETS CHALLENGED
|. FORDEF|N|TE PLAN
Dr.. Clarence True Wilson
Asks lust What Change
Foes Would Adopt.

The challenge to the vets 10 propose
some specific substitute for the proli-
bition laws, which temperance leaders
have thrown out more frequently In
recent agitation of the question, was
emphasized in statement yesterday
by DR.. Clarence True Wilson, general
secretary of the Methodist Board Of
Temperance.
DR.. Wilson said he would favor n ma
tional prohibition referendum II the
vets would harmonic on o single al
tentative. He pointed out that he spoke
as an individual, and not for his or
ganization.
''If the Association Against the Pre-.
hibition Amendment will tell us what
it is working for" DR.. Wilson said, 81
for one-and am only one-would
be glad to help devise plan by which
the two rcpositions-prohi and
the proposed substitute of the wet
group-might be put before the Amer
lean people for an intelligent choice
in a constitutional referendum"
Substitutes Suggested.
No stipulation was made concerpS1
the substitute. The legalization OF p~Ss
and wine. the return Of the saluNM
Government ownership and the CWy<p
dian system were among the poseSAx >
alternatives named in the statement.
Various dry leaders have opposed the
proposal.
Further assurance was given, how
ever, that the issue would be raised be-
fore series of temperance meetings
beginning here Monday. Under present
plans the matter win be discussed at
the National Temperance Council De-
cember and 9, to be attended by a
group of individual dry leaders.
Since the council is empowered TO
take no action without unanimous con-
sent. it has been planned to bring the
subject up again at the national con-
ference OF organizations supporting the
eighteenth amendment meeting Decen1-
Der 10, attended by delegates from 80
dry groups.
Or. Wilson said the proposal also will
be laid before the meeting on Decen1-
Der of the board Of managers OF the
Methodist Board Of Temperance.
wouldn't Oppose Vote.
DR.. Wilson contended "there is no
plan in the wet group to benefit the
country by giving us something better
than prohibition"
II so much believe in the right Of the
people to rule their own country" he
said, that would not object TO having
this question come up now and every
10 years as long as I live and as long
as anybody lives. If the referendum did
not do any other good, it would make
the vets of the country put up some
thing constructive to unity their own
thought and let the country know what
they are trying to do"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
PROPERTY OWNERS
TURN DOWN VALUES
Government Takes Possession of
All But 90 Parcels in Post
Office Site.

With the exception Of 20 parcels,
whose owners have expressed unwilling
ness to accept the award of a commits
sion of three citizens, the United States
will take possession at once of the entire
four squares lying between Pennsylvania
avenue and B street, Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets as the site of the
Post once Department and other build
ings in the Federal triangle program.
Chief Justice Wheat has signed an
order ratifying the award as to the re-
naming parcels, of which there were
AZ In the original proceeding for con-
demnation.
Under the old condemnation law an
owner dissatisfied with an award had
the right to appeal to a jury of seven
citizens TO sit in review of the finding
OF the commission. This condemnation
proceeding involving squares 292 to 295
Is the last one to be covered by the
method OF procedure under the old law.
All pending proceedings to acquire
land for Government use come under
the new law, which substitutes a Jury
Of nve citizens sitting in the presence
Of q justice Of the court, with an APP
peal to the District Court of Appeals
from their decision.
Chief Justice Wheat ordered the
Jury Commission to summon so per-
sons to appear in court December Is,
from whom are to be selected jury of
seven TO retry the question of the val
uation of the 20 parcels, which were ex-
cepted from the order of court confirm
ing the commissions award.
The Government was represented by
Special Assistant to the Attorney Cen
eral Henry H. Classic and by Arthur G.
Lambert and Alexander H. Bell. jr.,
special assistants to United States At
torney Rover.