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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
GANG
LOOTS CHATEAU
$1,000 in Furnishings Is
Taken in Robbery.

Continuing operations, a gang Of
apartment house hallway thieves on
Wednesday night stripped the elab-
crate lounging room at the Chateau
apartments, 1901 East Maple road,
of more than $4,000 worth of fur
nishings.
The robbery brings the total loot
of apartment house hallway bur-
glaries here within the last two
weeks to more than $4,000 in fur
niShings and fixtures.
Nine robberies of the kind have
been reported to police and it is
believed that the stolen furnishings
have been sent to Chicago for sale.
That the thefts are work of a
well-organized gang has been estab-
lished, police say. Entering the
apartment houses where the pres
ence of strangers is not noted, the
thieves remove hall furnishings,
floor lamps, rugs and Grapes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
Rush i'm Your Entry for
Times Toy Golf Tourney

Start pointing! That isn't bird but reminder
that golf experts only four days before qca
ton Times Pigmy Golf Tournament.
your ability luck, in the art OF baggng the
elusive pretty good in negotiating the stump and
start pracicng You
those to work into the elimination round
then the championship for the city title
Qualifying Monday H. and continues until Aug r.
with the privilege of shooting rounds you want to IN
trying among the select three and three women who will
represent course.
either tourney
employees and employees of The Times
You shoot many eghteenho rounds like in trying
to qualify
On Page of oday issue of The Times will find COM
pe list of Merely fill out the coupon and give
it to when start play Sign each
at the end of the also with the
eighteen 2 holes will qualify
three and three the elimination round which will
reduce the field the eight and eight lowest
Then the championship with appropriate for the
winners Watch The Times toy page daily for qualifying
and list of
Dates and the for the elimination and championship
matches will be announced with completion the qualifying
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
Highway Group to Fight
Contractors Practice of
SIashing Pay.

Indiana's highway commission
will go on record next week as "un-
alterably opposed" to the practice
disclosed Tuesday by The Times,
of certain state paving contractors
taking advantage of the unemploy-
ment situation to pay wages as low
as IS to 20 cents an hour.
This was the program announced
today by Jess Murden rep, Peru,
member of the state highway COM
mission and close personal friend
Of Governor Harry G. Leslie.
1t has the Endorsement of Di-
rector John j. Brown of the state
highway department, who deplored
the paying of less than living wages
on any state work.
Murden congratulated The Times
for directing attention to the low
wages being paid and said that
there is no excuse for such a Situa-
ton on state road work under pres
ent contracts.
Figured at 50 Cents
These contracts we're all figured
by this commission at q minimum
wage of so cents an hour" Murden
declared. "Of course, technically,
the commission is powerless to force
payment of a decent wage and thus
keep the contractor from taking UNI
due advantage of the present labor
market under these contracts.
But We can and will, if other
commissioners agree with me, raise
our voice officially against this prac-
tice of unwarranted wage cutting.
At the meeting next week I expect
to introduce a resolution condemn
ing this wage cutting and make it
the official stand of this commission
that We shall frown upon contrac-
tors in the future who engage in
such business"
May Go in Contracts
To prevent a repetition of wage
cutting, the matter of putting a
minimum wage clause into next
years contracts will be studied, it
was asserted by Director Brown. He
is of the opinion. however, that this
could not be done without special
legislation.
The state highway law provides
that all contract forms be passed
upon by the attorney general.
Acknowledgement James M. Og-
den indicated today that should the
matter be brought to his attention
he likely would approve minimum
wage clause.
There is nothing in the law that
1 know of to exclude such a clause,
although there is nothing providing
for it either" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
ATTACK IS CHARGED
Youth Is Alleged to Have
AccoSted Child.

An hour after he was alleged to
have enticed a 14-year-old girl into
a home where he roomed at 1904
Meredith avenue. Frank Jones. 10,
was arrested by Motorpolice William
R. Fisher and John L. Wilson near
Southeastern and Arlington avenues
this afternoon.
Charges Of assault and battery
with intent to commit a statutory
offenSe, and carrying concealed
weapons were lodged against Jones.
Officers said he drew a .38-caliber
revolver on them when they arrested
him.
When the officers raided the house
on complaints of neighbors, Jones
and two companions fled. His COM
panions were caught, but released
when they satisfied police they had
no part in the alleged attack. Two
shots from Fishers gun failed to
halt Jones. but he was nabbed with
in an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
insult WILL
SPEED STATE
TRACTION CARS
Smaller lnterurbanS and
/ Faster Time to Be
Stressed in Service.
PLANS ARE TOLD HERE
FeuSteI Calls on Leslie;
Seeks to Revive Interest
in Electric Lines.

Ford of Indiana inter
urban lines, by replacing heavy
rolling stock with light equipment
apd speeding service up to sixty
five and seventy miles an hour, was
the plan announced by Robert M.
Feustel, insult utilities chieftain in
Indiana and newly elected head of
the Indiana railroad, today.
Feustel was at the statehouse to
attend a hearing on property ex-
change of certain insult properties
and called On Governor Harry G..
Leslie.
Speed to Be Stressed
AS president of the Indiana rail-
road, he will be in charge of opera
ton of interurban lines of the old
Union Traction Company, Interstate
at Ft. Wayne and from Indianapolis
to Louisville.
1--WE are going to try and revive
interest in electric transportation in
Indiana" Feustel declared. I'm a
short time. we expect to experiment
with small and fast-moving one
man cars.
1.-The branch lines that can never
be made to pay will be Topped off
from the central system and with
modern method of operation we
will make a big bid for passenger
and fast freight service.
with the hand to mouth mer-
chandising now prevailing, we feel
that there may be a big field for
less than carload lot shipments in
which speed is stressed
Feustel appeared as a witness at
the hearing conducted before Chair
man John w. McCardle of the pub
lie service commission. The plan is
to exchange Northern Indiana Pub
lie Service Company properties at
Lafayette, Kokomo and Crawfords-
vile, for Interstate Public Service
Company properties at Goshen,
Monticello and Warsaw. All are In
sull owned.
The Northern Indiana properties
are valued at $5,36O,593 and Inter
state at $6,1S60oO. Approximately
$4,000 difference would be paid in
cash or stock, if the transfer is al
lowed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
WEBSTER GIVEN
2-TO-14 YEAR
PRISON Term
Judge CritiCiSes Statute in
Announcing Sentence in
BIaCkmaiI Case.

Convicted three weeks ago of
conspiracy to commit blackmail in
a newspaper advertising scheme,
Irving Webster, as, publisher of the
Indiana Journal, Seventh district
G. o. P. newspaper organ, was SEN
fenced today in criminal court to
serve two to fourteen years at the
Indiana state prison.
Made by Special Judge Floyd
Mattice, the finding included a $25
fine. The prison term is made
mandatory by law, although the
court might have suspended the
sentence but for the states OBJ
lection.
Vehemently maintaining he is in
nocent, Webster stands convicted OF
attempting to extort money from
prominent persons in business, po-
litical and civic circles in the city.
The state charged him with threat
ening victims with harmful stories
in the Journal unless they sub
scribed to advertising.
Webster was released under
$1,000 bond, pending appeal.
Sentence Unreasonable"
Making his finding, Mattice told
Webster today that the two to four
teen years penalty is an "unreason-
able sentence" Mattice criticised
the legislature for taking from
courts the right to exercise discre-
ton in the matters of sentence"
IT would dispose of this case with
a fine, provided Webster had the
money, if I was given free rein, .
Mattice declared. The judge said he
would not consider suspending the
Imprisonment sentence.
Ira M. Holmes, defense attorney;
Prosecutor Judson l.. Stark, friends
of Webster and Mattice spent al
most two hours IN q discussion OF
the case before finding was made.
Approve Communication
81 don't think a man of Webster'S
standing in this community ought
to get such a heavy sentence" Mat
tice repeated several times. III it
rests with me 1 will approve COM
mutation of this mans sentence in
a very short time" he declared.
Mattice declared, however, that
Webster, according to this case,
has been a little bit too cocky-like
a bull-in his community"
Holmes was granted sixty days in
which to file bill of exceptions for
appeal of the case. Mattice denied
a motion for new trial. The ap-
peal, according to Holmes. will be
made at the expense of the coun-
ty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1890
IN CORN BELT
IS WORST IN Is YEARS;
WHEAT UP IN TRADING
Pasture Land, Tobacco and
Cotton Fields Are
Parching.

BIZ IHfted Press
Drought conditions, particularly in
the corn belt, today had reached
disastrous proportions without par
allel in more than twenty-five years.
The weather bureau reported wide
spread rainless havoc.
Corn, pasture land, tobacco and
cotton fields are parching. Stock
also is suffering.
Meanwhile, the final stages of the
harvest are pouring into storage
spaces a great wheat crop as prices
for that grain approach pre-war de-
preston lows.
Federal agencies are struggling
with the problems of over produc-
ton and low prices in numerous
farm commodities. But no salts
factory aid is available for the
farmers, who are watching their
crops burn beneath blisterif1g cloud
less skies.
Chairman Legge of the farm board
will leave today, on northwestern
GOuT 10 plGdQ 1OI IGQuCOlOll O4 WLlCdC
acreage as an aid in solving the
problem.
He will meet with wheat produc-
ers in Indianapolis Friday and spend
the weekend in Chicago, leaving
Monday for Caldwell, Ida, where he
and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde
will discuss dairy problems.
Reports to the weather bureau
from the. corn belt state most of the
Missouri crop has been ruined by
the drought.
Much of Ohio's corn is stunted,
while the crop in Illinois and Indi-
ana has suffered greatly except in
the northern parts of these states.
Showers have somewhat protected
Kansas corn, but in neighborlng
Oklahoma, upland fields are ruined
and bottom lands are beginning to
suffer from lack of moisture.
In Iowa, Nebraska and South Da-
kota, burning has begun but con-
siderable portion of the crop still is
in fair condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
SET FOR
LANTERN FETE
Annual Spades Event to
Draw Thousands.

Workers today we're dressing
Spades park and homes nearby
with gala decorations and thou
sands of lanterns that will light
the park and adjacent streets to-
night at the fifteenth annual feast
of lanterns.
Residents of the neighborhood
are vying for honors in decoration
of their homes, for which prizes will
be awarded.
The fete is expected to climax all
other previous events, the beauty of
which has attracted crowds of many
thousands to Spades annually. Will
liam Demmary, 1886 Coyner avenue,
president of the Brookside Civic
League, which is sponsoring the fes-
tival, has announced a long list Of
prizes.
Streets will be blocked off for
dancing. The Brookside Night
Hawks will furnish the music.
Children from Brookside, Bright
wood, Spades, Oak Hill and Morris
Square Fairgrounds will entertain
with dances and a minuets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31

Dressed in overalls, Charlene
Powers, alias Charlene Virgins, %,
of Memphis, Tenn, and Lexington,
KY, planned to crown herself queen
of a highway bandit gang, police
here today declared her alleged con-
fession thoWs.
Two men companions who declare
they were hitch-hiking when she
offered them a ride in the car she
was driving and then suggested they
hold up an aged man whom she
previously had given a lift were held
with her.
All three we're to be returned to
Lebanon, Ind, where w. E. Hogan,
81, of Pennsylvania, is in a serious
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
FAIL TO INDICT ON
BRUNDIDGE STORY

and investigators working solely on
the Lingle case"
Bernard De Vry, real estate opera
tor and foreman of the jury, sub
mitted the report to Chief Justice
Dennis j. Normoyle of the criminal
court, after hearing the testimony
of a dozen newspaper men and pub
lie officials.
The report held much of Brund-
idge's testimony was hereSay and
that although certain of the charges
we're admitted by the newspaper
men called before the jury none
constituted indictment offenses.
The grand jury later returned a
supplementary report calling on
Mayor Thompson to reinstate Cap
tain John Siege as chief of detec-
tiveS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31

1t is thus another trouser seat
is saved from the severe stone
wall and another man is assured
a meal and a nights lodging.
Thousands have sat on the stone
wall that serves as a bench for
the employment agency Jobs
seek them and motor right up to
their front porch, but they don't
seek jobs.
No registrar is there to quiz for
credentials, for to the swift of foot
goes the job.
The lineup on the stone wall
begins at s a. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
STORE wall is JOB BUREAU PRIZE TO sWFTEsT FooT

"Them's 'come-you-nists' reds,
you know-they're trying to stir
us up. They amt Citing no.
where. No, it's tough shedding
now. 1t used to be you could get
jury jobs in there" He pointed
to the courthouse.
= 9
WOU can't now. Jury-serving
i is on the bum except in
justice courts, and they pay only
a dollar day. If it keeps up
we're all going to hijacking. Say
We had ought to blow up.
Here comes one Of them come
you-nists.' I got to go; here comes
a trucker looking for a man.
S-long."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31

"THAT'S the best time, buddy,
l. if you're out of job.
Transfer jobs-that's the kind to
get, and that's about all. outside
of farmers, of course. that come
here to hire men. Why, say, L
wouldn't do nothing else but
transfer jobs. They always call
for me and wait sometimes until
I get to the truck instid of taking
some younger man." vouched One
Eye, who's had ten years expert
ence wearing out the courthouse
stone.
Tough Shedding now, though.
Before hard times you could make
as high as $18 coming on and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
Wheat Hits Low Level

. CHICAGO, July 31.-The price of
wheat zoomed down in a swirl of
ticker tape on all American marts
Wednesday to levels unseen since
the pre-war depression of 1914.
July wheat sold at 81% cents a
bushel at Minneapolis and 1875
cents at Chicago. September wheat
at Milwaukee touched 1874 cents a
bushel and at Chicago thu bottom
was 85A cents. Freight charges
caused the price differences on the
two markets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
No State Rain Near

Indiana's drought will continue
unbroken for the next twenty-four
to forty-eight hours, and no wealth
er conditions indicate any rainfall
in the near future, United States
weather bureau officials declared to-
day.
Predictions of fair weather, with
little change in temperature, for the
next twenty-four hours were made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, July 31.-In its report
on the Alfred ]. Lingle murder and
subsequent charges of racketeering
by certain other Chicago newspaper
men, the Cook county grand jury
today gave credence to some of the
charges made by Harry T. Brund-
idge, st. Louis star reporter, but de-
clined to indict any of the men
Brundidge named on the grounds
that the evidence was not sub
stantiated."
In concluding their report, the
grand jurors said they had every
reason to believe that the Lingle
murder will soon be solved" and ex-
horted the citizens of Chicago to
cooperate with the states attorney
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31

going of jobs by waiting for 'em
at this corner. Now, well, 81 a
week would be good" he said.
When a bent reader of
Observation-Disclosures magazine was
pointed out as an unlikely seeker
of work, ne-Eyed smiled, Him
it all depends on how good the
story is when the transfer men
pass and yell for help. Say, buddy,
do you know we've helped move
and tear down foundations Of
some of the biggest buildings in
this here city?"
Pride keyed his face and then
his gaze shifted to a group of
men nearby and he scowleds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
STATE TO ACT
ONLOW WAGES
IN ROAD WORK
TzCin Family
By Science Serrice

By Science Serrice
CHARDON, O.. July 81
The third set of twins-a boy
and a girl-was born here
Wednesday night to Mr.. and
Mrs. o. w. Stamm. The
Stamms' first twins we're
born twenty years ago. Three
years ago the second pair was
born.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
WITNESS FOR
STATE MAKES
MOONEY PLEA
Ex-0ffiCer Tells Supreme
Justices Pair Should
Win CIemenCy.
GOVERNOR TO ACT SOON
Promises to Present Key
Before Pardon Board
! Within Few Days.

BU Tinted Press
SAN FRANCISCO, July 81. -
Captain Charles Golf. in charge
of the bomb detail during the in
vestigation Of the San Francisco
Preparedness day bombing in
1916. declined today TO recon-
mend a pardon for Warren K.
Billings, although he had previ-
ously suggested that executive
clemency be extended to Thomas
J. Mooney. Goh was lieuten-
ant under Duncan Matheson
when Billings and Mooney were
arrested. Declining to follow his
former chief, Golf insisted today
that the cases we're not similar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
Bride?
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
YUMA, Ariz., July 31.-A
24-year-old Troy IN. " girl
today offered herself in mar
riage to any young man will
ing to provide a home for her
father and mother.
In a letter to a newspaper
here, Miss Catherine Charron,
described herself as pretty and
petite. Don't think I'm a gold
digger" she wrote. "All I want
is a home for my folks"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
ALLEGED KNlFER HELD
Negro Woman Arrested Charged
With Stabbing Man.

Following a cutting scrape this
morning in which Sherman Orange,
Negro, IS. of 14l7 East Seventeenth
street, was wounded severely, police
found his alleged aSSailant, Evelyn
Bowling, Negro. 20. in a house in
the 400 block on Missouri street.
She is charged with assault and
battery with intent to kill. Police
aIege she knitted Orange in a brawl
at 7i3 North Senate avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
BY ARCH STEINEL.

TRANSFER wagons pull close
u to the curb at the southeast
corner of the Marion county
courthouse. A drivers foot clamps
on the brake and his motioning
finger precipitateS the charge.
Men, who. but a moment be-
fore, were dull bent figures sit
ting on a stone wall holding their
knees. charge the transfer truck.
There's a conference and one.
maybe two, excited males are mo-
toned TO a seat beside the driver.
And thus another man has been
hired from the city's open-air en-
ployment agency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
ThOrny Victory

BU UNITED PTes8
YUMA, Ariz., July 31.-Law-
renee Peters, 10, a neWsboy,
claimed today a worlds record
for cactus sitting after his de-
scent from a thorny perch
which he had occupied for 118
hours and Al minutes. Law
rence's parents called him
down when they noticed he
looked uncomfortable in the
112 degree temperature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
MURDER IS CHARGED
Man Is Named as Killer of
Detroit Attorney.

BIZ United Press
DETROIT, July 31.-Angelo Livec-
chi, arrested in the LaSalle hotel a
few hours after Gerald E. Buckley
was murdered there by three gum
men, today was charged with muir
der in the Staying.
The murder warrant was recon-
mended by James E. Chenot, prose-
cutting attorney.
Livecchi has been held by police
since the murder, July %. His re-
lease on a writ of habeaS corpus was
to have been sought today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-31
BY MAX STERN
Times STAFF Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July 81
Duncan Matheson. former police
captain in charge of the bomb squad
which helped build the Mooney
Billings prosecution, Wednesday
told the seven justices of the SUI
preme court that he believed
Mooney and Billings SHOULD be par
doned.
The policeman, now city treas
urer. was put on the stand by
Charles H. Fickert's spokesman,
Fred Berry. to refute the charges
of John Macdonald that Captain
Goff and Fickert, had coached him
into perjury.
Matheson. however. turned out
10 be the biggest trump yet played
by Mooney and Billings lawyers,
Frank J. Walsh and Edwin
Mackenzie. The latter read let
ter written by Nfatheson six years
ago to Mooney promising to sup
port his plea for clemency.
do you still adhere to all these
principles" asked Mackenzie.
GU kldllfEoDlA dl4oMCANds
Justice Langdon asked Matheson
why he had joined in the plea for
Clemency. He replied that he could
not recognize the pictures of the
MONEYS introduced in their trials.
He said there was ito much dis
crepancy" in the testimony to per-
NIT certainty In a case built upon
81
He called Macdonald a romancer
suffering from mental despair"
Oman Story Shaken
You have doubt now as to the
guilt of the petitioner, Warren K.
Billings?" Justice Preston asked.
II have" replied MatheSon.
Matheson's letter read into the
records follows in part:
I am convinced beyond any ques-
ton of doubt that your rights were
violated and that you we're entitled
TO a new trial, and fully concur in
the opinion of the trial judge and
the attorney general. This Is not
possible now. because of legal limi-
tations and your only available re-
lief is executive clemency. to which,
I am convinced, you are fully en-
titled.
after all the sanctity Of the
court and a fair trial stand over
and above any offense that may be
committed. regardless Of the enor-
nifty thereof. Because that is the
very foundation of our government
and, therefore, must not be tres
passed upon
From the faltering words OF Mac
Donald, attorneys for Billings shook
the Oman story of an auto bring
ing the alleged bombers to the ex-
plosion scene
Motive Established
They established motive for the
Macdonald confession by showing
that he is a Catholic and considered
himself dying in Trenton in 1921.
They showed that he was down to
his last dollar in 1916 when he told
his weird story to the police with
obvious hope of reward.
Fickert himself took part in the
hearing Wednesday by croSs-exam-
lining Macdonald. but the latter
stuck stubbornly to his story, blam-
ing Fickert for the false identifica-
tions. The session ended Wednes-
day night with Justice Preston try
ing to make Macdonald assume all
the blame and exculpate the officers
Of the law.
Governor Young has promised
Immediately to arrange a hearing
for Macdonald before the advisory
pardon board. 1t viii take place in
Sacramento, probably on Saturday
or early next week. Then Mac
Donald will be free to resume his
wanderingS.