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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30

THAT'S what the scientists OF
Il the nation think, too As
sembled in several cities of the ma
ton, they today are discussing
everything new under the sun that
has been learned and developed IN
the realm of science in the last year.
In long, learned and ofttimes
ponderous discourses, they have
made known their findings Here
are some of the multitude, in brief,
as told by Science Service:
A disease germ related to the
deadly form that causes African
sleeping sickness has been found In
canaries. Treatment with a SUBJ
stance related to quinine keeps it
down.-Drs. R. D. Maxwell, SYRIA
cuse university, and DR.. c. M. john
son, Johns Hopkins.
The gravitational attraction of
the planets produces tides in the
sun, Just as the sun and moon pro-
duce tides on the earth. These tides
are responsible for sun spotS.-Dr
Dinsmore Alter, Kansas university.
Il
DROGRESS has been made to-
4 ward new varieties of potatoes
earlier, better shaped and heavier
yielding than existing types.-F. A
Krantz, Minnesota agricultural ex-
pertinent station.
Birds have a much higher body
temperature than human beings
They range between 102 and 113 de-
grees. When the air gets cooler
the bird gets warmer, and vice
versus. C. Kendeigh, Baldwin
bird research laboratory.
Remains of a poSt-glacial forest
have been found by excavations in
Minneapolis, enabling scientists to
go botanizing 100000 years ago.
DIR. Professor w. S. Cooper, Uni
verSity of Minnesota.
Position of the moon in the sky
apparently has influence on radio
ransmission.-Dr Harlan T. Stet-
son, Perkins observatory, Ohio Wes-
leyan university.
Fish really do learn in. schools
Goldfish, after several trials, swan
through a maze placed in tank, tc
get their food at the other end.-Dr
Carl Welty, Parsons college.
n
ETHYLENE OXIDE is new
Il poison that will clear out un-
desirable bushes. such as poison ivy
and European barberry, and Their
clear itself out of the soil.-Profes-
sor r. B. Harvey, University OF Min
/ nesota.
Pruning of young cabbage plants
increases the total crop and enable;
the farmer to regulate the size Of
the heads to fit the needs Of The
small family.-Professor c. G. Star
ring. Montana experiment station.
The mind rests itself automat-
itcaAy, stopping work regularly
about three times every minute. If
one is tired the pause viii be more
irregular, more frequent and
longer. That IS natures protection
against mental exhaustion.-Pro-
feSSor Arthur G. Bills, University
of Chicago.
An infants development is like
the unfolding of a flower: he begins
to have motor control in his head
and this gradually goes downward
through the trunk, to the feet last
of all-Professor Mary Shirley
University Of Minnesota.
. q
ID ECORDS of elementary and
N junior high schools show that
an only child actually is superior in
a great many respects to children in
large families, though the impress
sion is that he usually is spoiled and
handicapped by his parents.-Prof
D. a. Worcester, University of Ne
/ braSka.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
48 STATES ARE INVITED
Governors Given Bids to Attend
1888 Chicago Worlds Fair.
'By United Press

ny CHtted FfeSS
CHICAGO, IL, Dec. 30-Chica-
go officially invited the forty eight
states Of the Union today to partici-
pate in its century of progress expo
Sition in 1888.
Letters to the Governors of each
state were signed by Rufus C..
Dawes, brother of Ambassador
Charles G. Dawes and president of
the worlds fair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30

ID ECORDS Of Elementary ano
N junior high schools show that
an only child actually is superior in
a great many respects to children in
large families, Though the impress
sion is that he usually is spoiled and
handicapped by his parents.-Prof
D. a. Worcester, University of Ne
braska.
In addition to the meetings of the
many divisions of the American AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF
Science in Cleveland. other sessions
of scientific organizations are being
held in Cambridge, Mass, and Iowa
CITY Ia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30

Swapping
controversial politics. everybody predicted GO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
NO Sir, Mr.. President
Won Hoover to Lucas.
c.. O. p. Storm Center
BY RAY TUCKER
Times StaH Correspondent

WASHINGTON Dec SOwhen Kentucky
w victory Republican politicians
felt justified advancing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30

England's first census was taken
in 1901, when the population was
1893 600.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
CdbbugeS
and KingS
Like the WaIruS, Nations
Scientists Find Time to
Talk of Many Things.

The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things;
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
OF cabbageS and kings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-30
CITY-OWNED
TRAM SYSTEM
PLAN is AIRED
Marott and White Give
Their Views Before
Car Committee.

Continued from Page one)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

liam Folta, under whose name the In
surance had been taken out.
Origin Of Idea.
Bass according to Duty, said the gun
man failed to furnish the body, and
that the idea of killing Pearman oc-
CURED to him in Kansas City March 26
He met Pearman there, he was quoted
as saying, and together they set out for
Columbia in Bass automobile. Pearman
was drinking, and as they neared Roche
port, Mo, Bass, according to his attor-
ney, said he shot Pearman three times
and continued on to his home in Co.
lumbia. He put his car in the garage
and left the body In it that night. The
next day, he was quoted as saying, M
left for Arkansas and deposited the body
on roadside near Gravette, where II
was found March 20.
DR.. Bass was arrested when he came
here to identify the body as that OF
Folta, who had been missing from his
Martinsburg, Mo-, home for II years.
Return to Missouri Aim.
Pearman had assigned the insurance
to Bass as collateral in purported land
deal. Mr.. Duty expressed belief tonight
that his client would be removed to
Missouri for trial, and intimated that
extradition would not be resisted.
Bass in his latest confession, re-
counted that the Pearman plot was the
outgrowth of one in which gunner had
been hired to kill M. j. Dorsey of In
dianapolis, Ind, head of the Northern
States Life Insurance Co. who had as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
BANDIT GETS 10 YRS.
AFTER GUILTY PLEA
William Lindsay, Who Rob.
bed Hamilton Bank,
Changes Stand.
Special pispatch to The Star.


LEESBURG, Va, April 19.-Willian
Francis Lindsay, 20, of Lovettsville, this
county, lone bandit who held up and
robbed the Farmers 81 Merchants Ma
tional Bank of Hamilton, Va, on Janu-
airy of $4,264, and who has been held
in the Leesburg Jail since his capture
three days later at Woodsboro, Md, APP
peared this morning before Judge J. r
H. Alexander at the April term of Cir
cult Court In Loudoun County and
changed his plea of not guilty given al
February term of court to guilty.
BY agreement of the counsel, and on
recommendation of commemorative At
torney John Galleher the court SEN
fenced Lindsay to the State penitentiary
for 10 years. Counsel for Lindsay were
Senator Cecil Conner and Attorney G
r. Harrison
After Lindsay robbed the bank In
Hamilton and locked the cashier, Theo-
dore Reid, in the vault he escaped into
Maryland and eluded his pursuers about
miles from Frederick by abandoning
his car and fleeing into the Catoctin
Mountains, later being captured near
woodsboro. Lindsay's case had been set
for trial on April "a, but was changed
to today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
DR.. SHEPHERD HEADS
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
Election as President of Univer-
sity Expected to End Student
Strike.
BY the Associated Press.


HARROGATE,. Tenn, April 19.-Lin-
coin Memorial University, where a stu
dent strike has been under way for l
days, will have DR.. H. Robinson Ship
herd of New York as its new president
The appointment was announced to-
day by Judge j. H. s. Morrison, acting
president, whom MIR. Shipherd will sue
ceed
DR.. Shipherd is As years old and a
graduate of Harvard University. He Is
native of New York In 1929 he was
appointed by Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur. on a committee to study edu-
cation by radio. He conducted world
wide survey of all phases of educa-
tional broadcasting and made a re-
port last December.
He Is said to be one of the leading
educators in the country. and his cleo.
ton as head of Lincoln Memorial Uni
versity Is expected to bring the stuoen
strike to an end
Clay McCarroll and another expelled
student are bound to Circuit Court al
Tazelwell today under $500 bond fol
disturbing Lincoln Memorial Univer.
sity." The grand jury meeting for reg
ular term Monday will take action II
the case.
Charges of rioting against the two
students was dismissed at the Degin'
ming of the preliminary hearing. Nine
more students were expelled today
bringing the total to IS. Iniur2tioni
were obtained from Judge r. F. Over
ton temporarily restraining the nin'
students from going on the universit!
campus or aiding in the strike"
Prof. and Mrs. e. N. Van Diller
against whom an eviction warrant has
been served, have moved from thei
home on the campus. They are return.
ing to their home in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

Mexican Envoy Starts for Italy.
LAREDO, Tex, April 10 R.-Ezquiel
Padilla, recently appointed Mexican
Minister to Italy, passed through this
York, where he will sail for Rome
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
VOICE IN CONGRESS
FOR D. c. FAVORED
National Representation One
of Three Big Items on Inter-
federation Program.

National representation for citizens
Of the District of Columbia, establish
ment Of fiscal commission for the Dis
trict and the economic amalgamation
Of the Washington metropolitan area,
are three Of the projects sought by the
interfederation conference, 1t Is re-
vealed in a codification of the action
Of the conference IN important mat
tiers just compiled by w. 3. Armstrong,
secretary.
The conferences attitude effects the
maturely considered views of its three
constituent members, the District of
Columbia Federation OF Citizens As
sociations, the Montgomery County
Civic Federation and the Arlington
County Civic Federation
The resolution adopted by the con-
ference In regard to national represen-
tation for Westinghouse, states that
the organization supports the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of tie
United States empowering Congress to
grant the citizens Of the District of
Columbia national representation in
the Senate and House Of Representatives
and the electoral college, and to give
to them status before Federal courts.
The conference asks that a commits
sion, selected from Congress and citi-
Zens of the District of Columbia, be
authorized to study and determine the
question of the proportions to be con-
tributed by the Federal Government end
the District Government 10 he annual
expenses of the District government.
Concerning charges made by public
utilities outside the District of Columbia
the conference declares the imaginary
lines Of political boundaries should not
| cause discrimination and that the
metropolitan area of Washington should
be considered as amalgamated from an
| economic point of view as affecting
public services, rates and charges, af-
| fecting the cost of living, and CO.
| operative consideration should be given
all questions so involved by the public
service commissions of the several
| jurisdictions.
| Because of the geographical inter-
relationship between the three iuris-
dictions in the metropolitan area. the
conference has asked full reciprocity
of school facilities.
The codification shows the conference
favors the development OF an airport
| at Gravelly Point, but, because of the
immediate need for port, Endorses the
site selected by the Bingham commits
sion on the Virginia side OF the Potomac
River between the Highway and Airing
ton Memorial Bridges.
| Other projects Endorsed by the con-
ference and included In the code, are
| the establishment of a uniform motor
vehicle code In line with the Hoover
| plan and the Cramton bill for de-
velopment Of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway. Other objectives
sought by the conference include the
removal OF central trolley POLES end the
regulation Of roadside signs, the codi-
ned resolutions ahow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
ALBA is REPORTED
BACK IN BARCELONA
Exiled Monarchist Firebrand Re
turns After Decree Of
Amnesty.

MADRID, April 19.-Dispatches from
Barcelona today said that Santiago
Alba, who was foreign minister Of Spain
when Primo de Rivera established the
dictatorship In 1928, had returned to
that city.
Senior Alba resigned and fed by auto
mobile to Biarritz at that time and
since then has been one Of the anti
dictatorship fifebfands Of the Spanish
exile colony in France. He came back
by virtue of the royal amnesty decree
issued shortly after Gen. Damaso Ber-
enguer formed a government on jan
uary 80 of this year to succeed Primo's
regime.
Recently some Of his friends asked
the government to permit him to adj
dress a mass meeting at Barcelona. This
was denied on the ground that the
country was undergoing a political re-
organization and that the incident
might cause regrettable repercussions.
What course the former cabinet min
lister will take in the present situation
has caused much discussion. Some
observers assert that he has always been
q good moparchist and would not enroll
as a republican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
COMMITTEE STUDIES
TRIANGLE PROBLEMS

Trafic and transit problems raised
by the new public buildings program
ia the triangle were discussed infor-
maily yesterday by a joint committee,
made up Of representatives Of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, including the Engineer Com
missioner of the District and rep
resentative of the Office Of the super
yising architect of the Treasury.
Lieut.. Col. u. s. Grant, Sd, vice chair
man and executive officer of the COM
mission, explained later that an effort
will be made to obtain the views OF the
street car and bus companies Of the
city and of various experts who have
made O study of the problem, with q
view to working out the best solution
for taking care Of the various inter-
ests affected"
Owing to the completely of the prob
lem, the colonel explained, the various
phases are to be studied separately If
possible This committee which met
in the conference room of the COM
mission at the Navy Department Build
ing is separate from the citizens COM
mittee, composed of various civic
groups, which Is likewise studying the
situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
old STAGE Brings
HOOVER INVITATION
Girls in Ancient Costumes
Tell President of WinCheS-
ter Blossom Fete.

The White House had a taste Of for
mer days yesterday when a nineteenth
century stage coach loaded with pretty
girls in period costumes arrived with
an invitation to President Hoover to
attend the coming apple blossom festt-
val at Winchester, Va.
The ancient equipage also contained
crate of choice Virginia apples for
the First Lady. 1t was drawn by four
iron gray horses and attended by OUT
riders in the traditional red, black and
white of the hunt.
The coach was in service between
Winchester and Harrisonburg early in
the nineteenth century. It was reno
waited and outfitted by j. e. Keyser,
well-to-do breeder Of horses Of Flint
Hill, Va.
The turnout attracted considerable
attention on the way up to Washington,
and created several lesser traffic jams In
towns which it passed through en- route.
The horses were unhitched at the Rid
ing and Hunt Club yesterday afternoon
and will be shipped back to Virginia,
together with the stage coach.
In addition to Mr.. Keyser, his wife and
young daughter, the party included
Miss Catherine Byrd and Miss Mary
Bell Bear.
Foreign investments in Brazil were
raCantIv asthma tad at GO 0TA mn mn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

Manila, p. T., has new association to
promote the sale of higher-grade cigars
in the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Firemen Work Fast.

Speedy work by firemen of No. 2;
engine company kept fire on the Sec
ond floor of the Potomac Laun.
dry at Eighteenth and d streets within
bounds last night and the damage
caused by the flames was said to bt
negligible. The blaze started In a pile
Of trash and was extinShished before
1t could spread.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
BASS CONFESSION
| EXCLUDES GANG"
Arkansas Prisoner Makes
"CIean Breast" of Killing
Pearman for Insurance.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BENTONVILLE, Ark, April 19.-Dr
A. j. Bass, retired dentist of Columbia,
Mo-, held in Jail here on first-degree
murder charge, tonight in a clean
breast of the whole affair" confessed he
alone shot William Robert Pearman to
death to collect 5000 900 on his life. His
attorney, John r. Duty of Rogers, Ark
in announcing that the confession had
been made, said DR.. Bass asserted st.
Louis gangsters had no part in the af-
fair.
Duty quoted Bass as saying glnman
had agreed to furnish body to be
taken over the Arkansas line in an au-
tomobile, the body and car to be burned
and the body identified as that of Will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
DEAD PRISONERS PLAY II
ROYALTIES ADJUSTED
Mother and Widow Share 30 Per
Cent of Returns From Production
Following Controversy.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Final arr.
rangements for the disposition Of the
auditors royalties for the Broadway
play, THE Last Mile" have been made,
the producer announced yesterday.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Ella Blake of
Amarillo, Tex, mother of the executed
man whose sketch, 1.-THE Law Takes Its
TOLL" was used by John Wexley as the
basis of 1.-The Last Mile" came to New.
York. After several conferences, she
received an award Of 20 per cent Of the
royalties.
Later the widow, Mrs. Blanche Blake
of Oklahoma City, also entered claim
for share Under the present arrange
ment she will receive one-third OF the
20 per cent and the mother two-thirds.
Robert Blake wrote the sketch last
Spring shortly before his execution in
Texas prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
ARMS SALES CURBED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NANKING, April 19-Nanking has
declared open war on all foreign i'm
porters engaged in the promiscuous
selling Of firearms and other war ma
terials
Hereafter a dealer who sells a con-
signment of rifles or pistols without the
permission of the national government
will find himself brought before a
consular court or, If his country has
abolished extraordinarily before a
Chinese court on criminal charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

signed 100000 insurance to Bass as
collateral for a loan on land owned
near Texarkana. This plot collapsed
when Dorsey Cancelled the insurance
Bass was quoted as saying.
Bass recounted tale of financial re-
verses, and of threats he said had been
made against him after the Dorsey plot
failed.
Duty said If he is brought to trial
Bass probably will plead insanity. Bass
who Is SIS years old, formerly was
wealthy. He once was regarded as a
large land Spectator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

Foreign investments in Brazil wer,
recently estimated at $2,274 ,00O, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-09-25

house, ana sometimes = savings bank.
tied together by some form OF
stock holdings and operated as com
plemeAtary elements In an organiza-
ton rendering complete financial serv-
ices. We have held that such groups
are similar to a departmentalized bank
and different in the purposes and op-
erations from a chain OF group bank
Ing system.
"For purposes Of the present report
we define chain or group banks as sys-
TENS in which centralized control,
whether corporate or personal and
either rigid or informal, directs the
operations Of two or more complete
banks, not functionally complement
tary. each working on it's own capital
and under It's W personnel and To-
Gated In one or more cities or states
Commenting on the question wheth-
er the rapid development OF chain
banking was In the nature Oh Z reac-
ton against restrictions imposed on
branch banking by the banking laws
In many states the report says That
observation does not wholly confirm
this theory since chain banking 10
prevalent in some states where vlr-
tually no restriction is imposed on
branch banking, as we'll as IN those
where the establishment OF branch
banks is prohibited. 1t adds:
The Question Of Branch Banking
"However the facts do show that
anti-branch banking laws have been =
factor In some cases, and probably IN
some section In the spread OF chaln
banking. Instances have come to our
attention where expansion along chain
bank lines has been carried out by
state banks whose expansion along
branch bank lines was stopped by the
passing Of state laws prohibiting fur
Their branches. Yet whether expansion
would have been along branch bank
lines il the laws had imposed no bar
riers, it is impossible to say. There
Is obviously a we'll developed banking
opinion in some sections that the chain
bank method brings to outlying banks
the strength and efficiency of a big
organization without depriving them
of their local individuality and sympa
thies. In view Of the mixed factors
noted, we feel It Is unsafe to general
lie as to what bearing branch Backing
laws have on chain developments.
"The recent era of rapid chain bank
developments T. found SPECIFIC re
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-09-25
BANKERS FIND GROUP
BANKING WIDESPREAD
Over 13 Billion Dollars Of Bank
Assets in Affiliated Systems
Numbering 1850 Members
In Nearly Every State.

Over 1850 banks with more than
thirteen billion dollars in sourc
are shown to be associated with chain
or group banking systems In the
United States In facts recently gath
cred by the Economic Policy Commits
sion Of the American Bankers Asso-
citation. The chairman OF the com.
mission, Il. S. Hecht OF New Orleans,
pointed out that the facts indicate that
almost 7la per cent OF our banks and
over Is per cent of our banking re-
sources are in the great net Of group
or chain banking that now covers al
most every part Of the country"
The commissions facts comprised
chain and group banking affiliations In
Me broadcast sense Of the term. the re-
port said. They included those groups
In which the controlling element was
q particular bank, there being report
ed Is instances Of this class involving
4O7 banks and about $6.473, 900 900 In
combined banking resources. They
included also groups in which a non
banking holding company, not sub
sidiary to any particular bank, was In
control and OF this class % instances
were found, involving $50 banks and
nearly $685.. 900. 900 in resources. The
report also included groupings IN
which control was exercised by In
dividual persons and these cases mum.
bered 1877. involving 1.071 banks and
about $1,468, 900 900 In assets.
The Total Figures
The total was over $13,275,00O 900 In
aggregate %esources. Some OF the sys-
tens comprised so to 100 banks each.
Head offices OF the groups were found
in all jurisdictions, but nine OF the
states and the District of Columbia.
"We have not included In these fg-
ures," the report eag's, banking
groups in which a commercial bank. a
trust company and an investment
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-09-25

Miss Marie Ertner is making her
home with her aunt and uncle Mr.. and
Mrs. George Stringer while attend
ing school.