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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
STEP in Style

Are you stepping in style?
If you aren't it's your own fault,
for The Times daily Is present.
ing one of the best dancing
series of recent years, written
by Arthur Murray, inter
nationally famed as a dance
expert.
You'll find the third Of the
series today on Page 5. It's
carefully illustrated and d.
agramed, with all the in
structions you need TO get
busy and learn 1t.
Watch for the rest OF these
interesting lessons. Thereu be
twelve In the series.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
Hourly Temperatures

The help
An airplane arrives
all thrills
Of THE Lost Zeppelin which will Thursday
And you'll chance
the ataie pictures made at
it will open Saturday March l.
and picture
which viii bring prizes children In the city,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
BANK CLOSING IS FATAL
Aged Pierceton Resident, Despond
ent, Takes Own Life.

BIZ JNitcd Press
PERFECTION. Ind. Feb. IL
When the Pierceton State bank
failed to open for business today,
Charles Weaver, aged resident Of
Pierceton, could see no hope for re-
covering his savings of a lifetime
which were on deposit in the bank
Overcome by dependency, he
committed suicide by hanging
shortly after it was announced the
bank was taken over by state ex-
aminers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
TWO HURT IN BLAST
Bomb Explosion Hurls Women
From Beds, DemOIishes Store.

BIZ United Press
DETROIT, Feb. 1.-TWO young
women were injured and the gro-
Gerry store of Tony Lafata coma
pletely demolished in a bomb ex~
ploSion here early today.
The blast hurled Alice Nickel, II.
and Mrs. Frances Bernandino, 81,
out of their beds. Both were taken
to receiving hospital for treatment.
Mrs. Bernandino suffered a broken
leg. They live near the Lafata
store. Lafata had received several
threatening letters recently, neigh-
bors told INVESTIGATING officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
Cabinet Given Scare

BIZ United Press
PARIS, Feb. 1.-THE government
Of Premier Tardieu, forced TO absent
himself from the chamber because
of illness, received only a scant ma
jority of twenty votes today when q
vote of confidence was passed on q
minor question.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
SCORE TARIFF VICTORY
Republican Democratic Coalition
SIashes Steel Duty.
Rn limited Press

Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE in
dependent Republican-Democratic
coalition in the senate scored VIC
tory early in today's tariff deba'C
adopting, 80 to 38, an amendment
by Senator Barley, to reduce the
duty on hollow steel bars and hol-
low drill steel.
The amendment eliminated an adj
ditional duty provided by the house
of 1910 cents pound on these
products valued at more than
cents a pound, which was over and
above the existing duties ranging
from $40 cent q pound to 20 per
cent,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
FIRE DAMAGES GARAGE
Overheated Stovepipe Blamed foo
Coal Firm Building Blaze.

Damage of $1,000 resulted from
fire Sunday night in a sheet metal
garage building of the A. B. Kee>
port Company, coal, lime and ce-
ment retailers, $40 North Senate
avenue. An oyerheated stovepipc
is believed to have started ths
blaze.
Fire at the home of F. Allen, ia
Tortett street, was attributed by
f1remen to incendiary origin, after
traces of inf1ammable material were
found. Damage was SIS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
Taft's Condition Unchanged

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. - The
condition of former Chief Justice
Taft was said to be unchanged, al
though he spent comfortable
night. a bulletin signed by his two
physicians said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
TREAT 6,400 CHILDREN
Years Work of 49 School Nurses
Outlined by Health Chief.

Forty-nine school nurses provided
medical treatment 10 6.40o children
In schools last year. according TO
Or. Herman G. Morgan, city health
officer.
Defective teeth were found and
treated for lo447 children during
the year. The report shows that
400 childre:.. suspected OF having
contagious diseases, were treated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
Pujan1as All Day. Slippers to Match

Nadine Henselmeier. POI East
Michigan street, Apt. 6O4, is pic
tured cuddling the latest style OF
embroidered footgear for women
TO her chin.
Below, Nadine, model at the
shoe travellers convention, is
stretching during dummy
wait at a pajama bridge party In
her 1880 heel strap mules.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17

Forward indianapolis campaign
workers reported sl1 ,232 in new sub
scriptions at today's noon luncheon,
bringing the total subscribed to date
to So, 300.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
PILOT KILLED IN BLAST
Aviator on Battleship Victim OF
Catapult Powder Explosion.

Catapult Powder Explosion.
By United Press
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Feb.
l7.-Lieutenant James Maser. senior
aviator aboard the battleship
Nevada, was killed in an explosion
of powder from the ships airplane
catapult Sunday.
Lieutenant Maser was standing
beside girder supervising the
catapulting of a plane during flying
practice. Two fliers who occupied
the catapulted plane were unaware
of the tragedy until they returned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
M'NAUGHT GETS POST
Given Appointment as Roll Clerk
in Barrett Law Department.

in Barrett Law Department.
Frank Mcknight, 1854 Kenwood
avenue, today was appointed roll
clerk in the Barrett law department,
by the board OF works. Mrs. Frata
McCabe, 20 Johnson avenue, was
named works board stenographer.
Albert n. Losche, city purchasing
agent, named william Gibson, Sixth
ward Democrat, assisting purchas-
ing agent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17

If you follow The
Times comic page every
day, you know who
made that xord famous
in the United States
bombastic Major Amos
Hoople, the leading
character of Gene
Ahern's famous cartoon.
Our Boarding House.
We are not talking
like the Major when we
say that he Is as well
known as any man in
public life today. In
fact, he admits it.
You will get laugh
every day out of the
Major and his friends
on the comic page.
|A-R-Runpf!
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

country. Both state and national
prizes will be awarded, and one
pupil and one teacher, first nation
al winners in their respective con-
tests, will be taken to Washington
as guests of the Highway Educa-
ton Board for a week. While in
Washington they also will be pre-
sented with their national prizes.
A total of $500 in cash prizes
and medals is offered to winning
contestants, the prizes being do
mated by the National automobile
Chamber of Commerce. In the
contest for pupils, 442 medals and
the same number of cash prizes
are awarded, in addition to three
national prizes. In the contest for
teachers there are no state prizes,
but three national prizes are Civ
en-. The teacher writing the best
lesson on street and highway safe
ty receives a cash prizes of $500
and a trip to Washington with all
expenses paid. That teacher writ
ing the second best lesson receives
check for $500, while the third
best lesson is awarded a prize of
5000. Gold, silver, and bronze
medals are awarded to first, sec
ond and third prize winners of
each state in the contest for school
children, in addition to checks for
SIS, $40 and $5 respectively. Each
state has one first and one second
prize winner, while the number of
third prizes depends upon the
number of elementary school chill
dren enrolled. Thus, Nevada and
several other states, where the
number of elementary school chill
dren is comparatively small, are
awarded but one third prize, while
Pennsylvania is allotted % and
New York 25. Following the Sc
lection of the best papers for each
of the 81 states and territories, the
essays and the lessons are entered
in competition for the national
prizes. These papers are passed
upon by a committee of three
judges generally representing the
field of education, literature and
business. First prize winner in the
national contest for pupils in addi-
ton to being brought to Washing
ton as the guest Of the board, is
presented with gold watch while
in the National Capitol. Second
and third prize winners in the es-
say contest receive gold watches.
The date on which essays and les
sons must be handed to the school
principal is May g. Essays must
be not more than 500 words in
length and each contestant is re-
quired to submit an Illustration.
either original or slipped from
magazine or newspaper, that is
pertinent to the question of safety
education. A selection from these
illustrations will be used by the
board in preparing a safety poster
for the contest in 1881. Safety
lessons must be between 1000 and
1000 words and may take the
form which the teacher thinks best
presents the subject, such as a lee
ture, recitation, game or drama
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26
TEACHERS AND PUPILS TO
ENTER THE SAFETY CONTEST
422 ESSAYISTS TO RECEIVE
CASH AWARDS AND MEDALS
Many to Participate in Essay and
Letter Contests for Schools An
nounced by Highway Board

Stressing the need on the part of
school children to set a good ex-
ample in safety on the nations S
highways, Thos. H. Macdonald,
chairman of the Highway Educa-
tion Board, Washington, d. c., and
Chief of the United States Bureau
of Public Roads, has announced
completion of the plans for the
ninth annual street and highway
safety campaign for elementary
school children and teachers thru
out the United States. This cam
paign, consisting of two contests,
one for children, the other for
teachers, is conducted by the
board in cooperation with State,
county and municipal educational
authorities. The one contest, open
to all elecentary school pupils of
the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grades, IA years of age and under,
is for the best essays on the sub
ject: What 1 am Doing to Set a
Good Example in Safety on the
Highways" while the other, open
to all elementary school teachers,
is for the best lessons on the SUBJ
ject: Teaching the Essentials of
Street and Highway Safety" The
two contests are conducted stimuli
taneously in the schools of the
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

town to Mt Pleasant (widening
and resurfacing) three ard two
tenths miles; Clayton to Delaney,
four and two-tenths miles, con-
crete. Kent County Pennington
to Williamsville, three and one
half miles (concrete). Sussex
County-To DUPONT Road, four
and eight-tenths miles, (concrete) ;
Greenwood to Bridgeville, Wooden
hawk road two and three-tenth
miles (concrete); Seaford to At
lanta, one mile, (concrete); Will
Evansville to Bayville. one mile
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

(slag); Millsboro to Zoar Church
four and one-half miles, gravel
Police Station to Bakers Corner
(station at Bridgeville) one mile
(concrete); Small piece Of road at
Ellendale Crossing elimination
(cinders) half a mile. The Stat
Highway will also build sidewalk
in Seaford around the new school
building.
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

children, a daughter, is at present
lin Philadelphia suffering from
|diphtheria and is quarantined in
that city. Funeral services were
held Thursday afternoon at two
O'Clock.
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

Edward Clark, Dover barber,
and a native of Dover, died at his
home in Dover, late Sunday night,
February 16. He was So years of
age and is survived by his wife
and several children. One of the
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26
NEW SURFACES FOR ROADS
Pennington to WilliamsvilIe Is
Among Those Recommended

Roads recommended for improve
ment this year by the State High
way Department as approved by
the State Highway Commission at
their February meeting include the
following: fIew Castle County
Newark to the Maryland line one
and four-tenths of a mile; Middle
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

Albert r. Actenberg, a young
boy of Little Creek, who was sent
Ito the New Castle County Work
Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

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Smyrna times., 1930-02-26

70. b. factory, Lansing,
Michig IN. Spare Tire
and bumpers Extra
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
HORSES AND MULES
BURN ON U. S. FARM
$15, 900 Arlington Blaze includes
Loss of Machinery and
Equipment.

Six horses, four mules and quantity
Of farm machinery and laboratory
equipment were destroyed in 5000
blaze that early this morning RACED a
barn on the Government experimental
farm at Arlington. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
The blaze was discovered shortly after
IL o'clock by j. w. Weeks, a Waterman,
who summoned W. e. Willis, stable fore
man, who lives nearby. At the same
time q. Frank Allwine, chief of the JEFF
ferson District Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, Virginia Highlands, Va, saw the
blaze as he was crossing the Highway
Bridge and turned in the alarm.
TWO Washington companies and the
volunteer companies of jefferson dis
trict Arlington. East Arlington. Claren
don, BallSton, Cherrydale and Halls Hill,
all Arlington County, answered the
alarm, but found the building too far
gone to save it. They did. however, pre-
vent spread CT the blaze to nearby build
ings.
This is the second fire in little more
than year at the experimental farm,
blaze April II Of last year destroying
one of the main buildings. According
to Willis, part of the building de-
stroyed this morning was the first to be
erected on the place, approximately rs
years ago.
officials said the building itself was
of little value. most of the loss being
occasicned by the destruction of num-
Der of electric motors and laboratory
equipment The horses and mules were
not valuable animals, il was said.
Because of its intensity, the flre could
be seen from many points in Washing
ton and nearby Virginia and quickly at
tracted large crowd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
ADMIRAL BUTLER
FLIES TO SARATOGA
Naval officer Joins Big Craft to
Cruise Through Canal
to Pacific.
Rear Admiral H. v. Butler, retiring

Rear Admiral H. " Butler, retiring
commander of the aircraft squadrons,
battle feet, who will haul down MS
flag" In Pacific waters toward the end
of June, left the National Capital by
cir this morning to board the U. S. s.
Saratoga, which was to weigh anchor
Immediately and leave for San Diego
Calf. via the Panama Canal.
Admiral Butler was flown from the
Anacostia Naval Air Station in Loen-
ing OILS amphibian. piloted by Lieut..
r p. Jeter, former flag off1cer OF the
aircraft Suuadrons. Jeter was to land
Admiral Butler. on the flight deck of
the Saratoga and return to the Capital
this Afternoon.
All of the combat squadrons Of the
Saratoga, which have been engaged in
Joint Arlny-Navy coast defense maneu-
vers in Long Island Sound, have been
taken aboard for the cruise to home
waters except VT-2B torpedo and
bombardment squadron, which has been
left behind to be QUILTED with new
planes.
The officers and men of the squadron
will go to Cleveland, where they are to
take delivery of Is new type TG-1
Great Lakes torpedo planes before July
/ and fly them to San Diego to rejoin
the carrier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Party cloudy
and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair; mod
crate west winds.
Maryland-cloudy and cooler tonight;
tomorrow fair, cooler in east and CEN
tral portions; fresh west winds.
Viginia-Partly cloudy and cooler
tonight, cooler In east portion; fresh
west winds
West Virginia-Partly cloudy, slightly
cooler tonight; tomorrow fair with slow
ly rising temperature in west portion.
Temperatures for "a Hours.
Thermometer-4 pm, "a; 8 pm, So;
IL midnight, Il; am, 60; 8 am, II;
noon, "a.
Barometer pm, 29s7; 8 pm,
1888; IL midnight, 1886; am, 1885;
8 am, 1899; noon, 1891.
Highest temperature, 80, occurred at
1915 pm, yesterday
Lowest temperature, So, occurred at
1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 81; lowest, 60.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey)
Today-Low tide, l1:44 am. and
1853 pm; high tide, 4;56 am. and
5:22 pm.
Tomorrow--Low tide 12:36tpm.; high
tide, S:45 am. and 6:l4 PM
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 4:42 am; sun sets
1881 pm
Tomorrow-Sun rises 4:42 am; sun
sets 1882 pm.
Moon rises 90 n m sets 2.1o m
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
VETERAN FACES
ASSAULT CHARGES
One of Three Girls Found in
Home Reported CriminalIy
Attacked.

Facing charges for which the maxi
mum penalty Is death, Zenas Ellithrope,
49-year-old World War veteran, of 1916
N street, was to be arraigned in Police
Court today on two counts of attempted
carnal knowledge. He had been in Gus
tody at the seventh precinct since
Thursday, when information given police
by a neignbor resulted in his arrest
while three young girls were at his
home.
Ellithrepe, it is alleged, has for more
than a year been enticing girls ranging
from 10 to 16 years of age to his home
for immoral purposes. Reports of Gal
linger Hospital physicians following their
examination of the girls found at Eli
thrope's home Thursday revealed that
one had been criminaIly assaulted.
The former soldier was placed under
arrest by Policeman A. E. Smoot Byron
Mcclure and H. A. Reed after woman
living in the 5000 block of N street tele-
pnoned police that Ellithrope had just
taken three little girls into his house.
The girls, the oldest of whom is 10,
were turned over to Policewomen F. M.
C. Byrd and N. X Adams at the Wom-
ems Bureau for questioning.
Ellithrope was taken to No. 7 precinct
and held for investigation until last
night, when formal charges were pre-
ferred. When booked he told police he
worked as a laborer after leaving the
Army until a year ago, when he was
forced to quit his employment because
OF illness. He has since been a regular
patient at Mount Alto Hospital
The filing of the attempted carnal
knowledge charges early last night fol-
lowed receipt of the reports from Gal
finger Hospital physicians and the
statements which the girls made to Po-
hcewomen Byrd and Adams.
Police are said to be also investigating
three other similar cases against him.
Eliithrope, widower, has two chill
dren. son and daughter, the Oldest of
which is IL. Both are being cared for
in a. foster home. The mother died
about seven years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
CAPT. REILLY DIES
AFTER OPERATION
Funeral Services of Veteran
Police Officer to Be
Monday Morning.

Capt. Martin Reilly, commander OF
the sixth police precinct, died yester-
day afternoon at Georgetown University
Hospital, where he underwent an OPP
Grafton several weeks ago.
Funeral services will be held at the
home, 1923 Wisconsin avenue, at $3.50
o'clock Monday morning followed by
requiem mass at Holy Trinity Church
at 8 o'clock. Interment will be in
Mount OliveJ Cemetery
Capt Reilly, native of Ireland, was
born March %. 1871, and resided in
Pittsburgh before coming to this city,
He was in traction service prior to
his appointment to a position on the
police force April 4. 1901. July l, 1911,
he was made sergeant and seven years
later was made lieutenant. On Febru-
AIRY is, 1922, ne became captain.
Capt. Reilly had served the depart
ment in numerous capacities in pre-
cincts and at headquarters, and eight
recommendations for meritorious serv-
ice are shown inS his record. Part OF
his service was performed in No IL
precinct, where he was a mounted
officer
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Johanna Reilly, and seven children.
The children are Mrs. Elizabeth r
Manning, Misses Margaret, Helen and
Catherine Reilly and Joseph M, James
F. and John A. Reilly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
JUDGE WHEAT TAKES
SUPREME COURT OATH
Friends Gather in Chamber as JUS
tice .Siddons Administers Oath
to New Chief Justice.

Alfred A. Wheat is now the chief
justice of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia. In the same court
room where but little over a year ago he
was sworn in as an associate justice OF
the court he took the oath as chief
justice this morning. Justice Frederick
L. Siddons, who has been acting as chief
justice since the resignation last De-
cember of former Chief Justice Walter
I. Mccoy. administered the oath.
The court room was filled this morn
ing with lawyers, court attaches and
other friends of the new chief justice,
and following the adjournment OF the
special meeting of the court in general
term they extended their fluctuations to
Chief Justice Wheat. Among those pres
ent were the retired chief justice and
Jesse C. Adkins, who has been named to
fill the vacancy due to the promotion OF
Justice Wheat.
Justice Siddons announced that he
had the agreeable duty to announce the
appointment Of Justice Wheat to be
chief justice and rising, recited the jul
dicial oath, section by section, to the
new official. Chief Justice Wheat then
left his former chair at the extreme
left of the chief justice and took the
place in the middle of the bench.
He dismissed the assemblage with the
remark that the purpose of the meeting
had been speedily and satisfactorily per-
formed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
STATE EXECUTIVES
TO MEET IN UTAH
Thirty Governors Will Attend
important Sessions, Be-
ginning June 80.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


SALT LIKE CITY, Utah, June T.
Governors from more than 80 States
of the United States, and representing
Ga, 266, 900 of the population of the Ma
ton, will convene here on June 80 for
the twenty-second annual National
Conference of Governors. In both the
number of governors who will attend
and in the number of citizens represent
ed by them this will be the biggest
meeting Of its kind ever held in the
country.
Topics of far-reaching Importance are
scheduled for discussion during the three
days of the conference here, following
which the executives will recess to Zion
National Park, where on the morning
of July 4 the new Zion Mount Carmel
highway will be dedicated to public
use Later that day the governors will
reach the Grand Canyon, where, fol-
lowing dinner at the Union Pacific
Grand Canyon Lodge, the concluding
events of the official program will take
place.
While all the details Of the program
have not been completed, it is expected
that Gov. Harry S. Caulfield of Mis-
souri, will discuss the Hawes-Cooper
bill; Gov William @. Conley of West
Virginia will discuss SALES Tax; Gov.
Clyde M. Reed of Kansas, Taxation
OF NaC1OnaI BANKS Gov. FRANKLIN -.
Roosevelt of New York, "Old Age
Pensions" and Gov. Frank C.. Emerson
of wyoming, Public Lands" The sub
ject of unemployment" also is to be
covered, but the assignment of the
topic has not yet been announced.
The opening conference sessions will
be held in the House of Representatives
at the Utah State Capitol in this city.
Opportunities for sightseeing in and
about Salt Lake City are also provided
on the program and on the evening of
June 80 the visiting governors and
other dignitaries will be the guests of
the Utah Society of Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution at banquet.
Following a program of entertain
ment on the last day of the conference
in Salt Lake City the entire delegation,
travelling on a special Union Pacific
train as the guests of the State of
Utah, will leave on a tour of the ma
tional parks of Southern Utah and
Northern Arizona.
President Hoover by telegraph, ma
tional park officials and members of
Congress, in addition to the visiting
governors will have a part in the his
toric ceremony set for the morning of
the Nations national holiday, the
locale being in one of Americas out
standing national parks.