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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20
COMMUNIST PARTY
! HAS PUR|F |CAI|0N
$4,000 Of 200, 900 Members
Are Expelled by Leaders of
> Soviet Organization.
Nv Radio to The Star and the Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1880.

" Daily News Copyright, 1880,
MOSCOW, U. s. 8. r., May 20
Throughout the Soviet Union the Com
munist party for some months past has
been housekeeping and 1t Is now tab
mating and making public the results
This process is known formally as
In general, the great work entailed
has been done by workmen. poor
peasants, rural servants and old revo-
iutionaries and not by what Il known
as the employe class, which includes the
largest percentage OF mentally trained
men and women and has involved an
astonishingly large number OF exami-
nations into the records OF lndlVlouai
party members.
In the Moscow district alone more
than 100000 party members have been
examined, of whom about $4,000 have
been expelled. In most cases such ex-
pulsion means no more than exile from
the party, but in the cases OF some
oficials in industrial or other estab-
lishments, expulsion involves the loss
Of jobs.
Causes Of Expulsion.
Most of those suffering expulsion are
20 punished because they are either In
fected with political indifference" or
are political strangers. men ano
women convicted of political indiffer-
ence are, of course, lacking in zeal for
the cause of Communism.
The case of political strangers Is
somewhat harder of analysis, but the
term carries the inference that while
o political stranger may have sufhcient
zeal. his or her brain process is not
adapted to the needs of Communism
For instance, Kulak or rich peasant
is not fitted as regards his fundamental
theology for successful membership in
the party.
other causes of expulsion are drunk.
enness, embezzlement, taking brides and
laziness. Among the undesirables the
examinations have disclosed many with
right opportunist ideas as well as ad.
herents of counter revolutionary Trotz-
kyism.
Right Wing Discovered.
A right wing is found in the state
trade department as well as In the
commissariat of finance, according tc
the Pravda. organ of the Russian Com.
Munist party.
Results of this publication made pub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20

collected ut Rock Springs from alleged
bootleggers and speakeasy proprietors
through passage of "occupational taS
ordinances" and lists q number OF pay
ments under these ordinances to City
Treasurer Ralph Harms and Police
Magistrate Il. Il. johnson. In addition,
the indictment cites alleged visits by
Mayor Burning and other city omctak
to alleged speakeasies and the drinking
of liquor by them.
Payments made under the ordinances,
the indictment stated, ranged from $50
to $165.25.
The counciImen were involved in the
conspiracy by their alleged approval OF
the ordinances levying the tax"
The Thermopolis Indictment includes
the charge that Mayor Charles Hoof-
male on June 1. 1926. instructed James
D. Atfield. city marshal, to regulate the
sale of liquor by causing to be col
lected from each of those persons then
engaged in the sale Of intoxicating
liquor in Thermopolis a monthly or
periodical fine"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20

lie show that the Soviet cells in gov
ermental, industrial and other organic
cations and groups are not fulfilling
their most important duty by actively
participating In the fight against routine
development, the growth of bureau-
cracy and stagnation.
The publication process has been
hurried to a conclusion in order to be
ended before the sixteenth Communist
party congress to be held in Moscow
next month.
Among those dropped from the party
rolls are q considerable number whose
records show that they have protected
nepmen (small traders) and kulaks
and lacked sympathy in dealing with
the peasants and the laboring masses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20
MARINE STILL DENIES
GUILT OF KILLING
Maintains Innocence in Face Of
Screamed Charges Of
Widow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOMS RIVER, N. J., May 20.-In
the face of Mrs. Robert Evans shouted
accusation that you killed my hus-
band" Lester J. Ungerdown, q Marine
stationed at the Lakehurst Naval Air
Station, repeated last night denial
that he killed Evans and Albeit Duffy.
Authorities said Mrs. Evans first told
them Duffy and Evans shot each other
last Friday during celebration of
their discharge from the Navy. but yes
terday she said she had seen Unger-
down and two other men approach the
kitchen Of her home that night and
start shooting with rides.
/. ocean County Prosecutor J. Mercer
Davis said he believed there were only
two men and that he expected to ar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20

rest the second suspect tomorrow. He
added that q search 81 the Marine
quarters had accounted for every rife
except the one issued TO Ungerdown,
who Is charged with the murder. Mrs.
Evans is held without bail as mate
rial witness. $
Davis described Ungerdown, whose
home Is In Weatherford, Tex, as "a
Texas longhorn" and the coolest man
ever saw
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20
FOUR TEST POOL SITES
RECOMMENDED TO NAVY
Park and Planning Commission
Approves Suggested Areas
with Rock Foundation.

The National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission yesterday recommend
ed to the Navy Department and the au-
thorities Of the Washington Navy Yard
four suggested sites for a new testing
pool for miniature vessels. Charles w.
Eliot, I'd, city planner of the commits
sion, conferred with Capt. willis Nc
Dowell and other naval officials. on the
proposed sites and the commission con-
Cured in the findings Of its stair.
While the potential sites Of the new
pool were not made public, the COM
mission explained that the new pool
must have q rock foundation. It Is pro-
posed that this new pool viii be about
1000 by 800 feet.
New vessels for the Navy, as well as
those for private concerns, have been
tested in miniature at the model basin
at the Washington Navy Yard, but now
it has been decided that d larger pool
is necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20
WAR VETERAN, 81, DIES

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 20 Up.
Nicholas Mckinney, 81, a veteran of
the Civil War, who was a bridegroom
at e5, died at his home here yester-
day. He is survived by his widow, who
Is "a.
"If was sure of living years long
er, I'd buy one of those things" Me-
Kinney said recently concerning the
contemplated purchase of radio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20
Paints Interiors Only.

PARIS, May 40 HY.-Walter Gay,
rs, dean Of American painters in
France, specializes on interiors and
never does human figures. The late
Ambassador Herrick commissioned Gay
to do four interiors of the American
embassy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20
NEW VANDERBILT HEIREss
Daughter Born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Z. T. Smith.

NEW YORK, May 20 lP.-Another
Vanderbilt heiress arrived Sunday, It
became known yesterday.
An 8-pound daughter was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl e. r. Smith. Her
mother is the former Consuelo Wander
bilt, daughter of william K. Wander
bilt, I'd.
She Is the second daughter of the
Smiths and some day will probably in
herit millions.
Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belmont, now in
Paris, is great-grandmother Of the
Smith children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-20

We say "as surly as bear" but 1t is
fairly well known that all bears. except
the Polar bear, are good-humored and
even-tempered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
MYERS OPPOSES
LAWS REVISION
High Court Judge Believes
Time Is Not Ripe.

Judge David A. Myers of the In
diana supreme court thinks HoosierS
are not feeling right" at this time
to rewrite their Constitution.
He led an attack On the proposed
constitutional convention at the In
dianapolis Bar Association dinner
meeting at the Athletic Club
Wednesday night.
Supreme, appellate and circuit
judges were guests at the meeting.
Several supported Myers in urging
that the constitutional convention
be voted down in November.
"There is some agitation for a
new Constitution in Indiana" Myers
declared. But this agitation does
not come from the body of the
bar but from certain people who
want to put something in a Con-
stitution because they do not know
of any other place to put it.
II feel that this commonwealth
is not in a state of feeling to re-
write successfully the Constitution.
Myers also defended the supreme
court, which has been the butt OF
numerous attacks because of having
the most crowded docket in his
tory"
He said members of the court
ARE striving honestly to get at the
correct results of all cases before
them"
Chief Judge Noel c. Neal of the
appellate court cited figures show
ing that their docket is clear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09

Arthur Court won't stay out OF
headlines. Though he bemoans con-
tinued front page appearances, cpl
sodes of his life since a British
thoroughbred, Trigo, enriched him
$4,000 fifteen months ago, have
deviated sufficiently from the ordi-
nary gamut of Hoosier existence to
arouse interest of his neighbors.
For instance, Court at present has
an abode in Hamilton county Jail
at Noblesville, because county au-
thorities say, besides owning two
expensive farms, he possessed a
small quantity of liquor when they
dropped around to his country home
one day with a search warrant.
His Jail residence may be en-
forced until he is tried on the
liquor charge late this month or ir
November. The man who a year
ago could have signed bonds for g
handful of felons today can't sup
ply $1,000 bail for his liberty until
the trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
COURT JUST CAN'T
DODGE LIMELIGHT

Court was arrested at his second
farm, a 200-acre patch in Bartholo-
NEW county, near Jonesville, on
Wednesday, charged with contempt
Of court. He was to have appeared
in Hamilton circuit court Monday,
but remained at work on the farm.
Almost year and a half ago,
Court, a stationary engineer here.
wiped his oily hands nervously as a
newSpaperman told him that a 81
lottery ticket on the British derby
had placed S84, 900 in his lap.
From that minute Courts troubles
began. Statesmen preyed on him.
In exchange for goodly portion
of the $4,000 left him with farms,
expensive automobiles. mining stock
and other baubles that attracted
the new-rich eye.
Only recently, while he visited in
indianapolis, a thief made away
with $500, his last cash supply. He
still owns the two farms, one on
the .Allisonville road, and the other
near Jonesville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
It's Mother
She's the Sweetest Girl
in Town, Say Times
Contest Letters.
"1THE Sweetest Girl in indian
l. apolis is my mother"

l. apolis is my mother"
That is the contention of seven
of the first ten entrants in The
Times Sweetest Girl" contest, in
which prize of 5000 will be
awarded the winning candidate
and $25 will be given the one
who dominates the victor.
Twenty-Five entries were re-
ceived the first day and scores
more are expected before the con-
test ends Saturday at midnight.
The Sweetest Grip in Indian
apolis may be your mothers, your
grandmother, your wife, your sis
ter, or one of your friends in the
neighborhood. She may be a home
maker, or she may work in fac
tory, Office or department store.
She need not be beautiful in the
ordinary sense. This is not a
beauty contest of the hackneyed
kind. But her character must be
beautiful.
TINE Sweetest GlrP' Will be one
Il who always is kind and con-
siderate, ever ready to lend help
ing hand, one who has outstand-
ing sweetness of character, one to
whom you would go in time of
trouble for comfort.
This girl or woman will be mod
est. She will not nominate her
self for the honor. So it's up to
you, Times reader, to do the
nominating. Write a letter, 800
words or less, to describe her, Civ
ing her name, address, and the
qualifications you think she has
for the title Of Sweetest Girl"
Send your letter to the Sweetest
Girl Contest Editor of The Times
before midnight Saturday. An
nouncement of the winner will be
made at meeting of the judges
Oct. Is, and it will be printed in
The Times Oct. II.
TINE Sweetest Girl contest is
Il being conducted by The
Times in conjunction with candy
dealers and manufacturers of In
dianapolis, preceding Sweetest
day." Saturday, Oct. 18, which
will be nationally observed.
The candy industry chooses this
time of year to spread joy among
orphans, cripples, shut-ins and all
others who may benefit by their
kindness, distributing thousands
of dollars worth of CONNECTIONS
among them. This contest is a
part of their program of promot-
ing happiness throughout the ma
ton on this day.
In addition to the prize of 5000
given the Sweetest Girl" here,
the nominator gets $25 as re-
ward in helping the judges to
find her. Then, with the city
contest won, indianapolis Sweet
est Girl has a chance to win
the national prize, a trip to
Havana during the mid-winter
carnival
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
AT
DEDICATION OF
STATE BRIDGE
Governor Speaks as Span
Over White River Is Put
in Service.

BIZ United Press
PETERSBURG, Ind, Oct. g.
Several thousand persons from this
section of the state gathered on the
Pike county side of White river to-
day for the program formally
dedicating and opening the new
$275,OOO steel and concrete bridge,
built jointly by Knox and Pike
counties.
Governor Harry G. Leslie, as
one of the principal speakers,
enumerated some of the accomplish
ments of the state highway depart
ment, and pointed out that in the
past two years more than 1,1O0 miles
of roads were made all-season dust
less highways, and more than 300
miles paved.
Compared to other states, Indiana
has outstanding accomplishments in
it's road progress at low cost of con-
struction and maintenance, he said.
Speaking for the highway COM
mission, Albert j. Wedeking, chair
man, presented a brief history
leaQ1ng up 10 COIlSCruCt1OH VI Clle
bridge. He compared road condi-
lions in southern Indiana today
with a decade ago, when many
towns were isolated for lack of ade-
ouate highways. The Petersburg
bridge. he said, will insure all-sea-
son traffic between this city anc
Vincennes, previously blocked sew
eral times each year by flood wa
tiers.
Wedeking spoke at length on flu
ture plans Of the highway depart
ment. He said it expects to alb
sorb into the state system approx
mately 1,400 additional miles Of
highway; pave U. S. highway 81
across Indiana to each state line;
pave Road 81, the route in the de-
velopment of a paved road system
to serve every county seat anc
town.
The new bridge is mile north Of
the city. The main structure has
three spans of 200 feet and two enc
spans of eighty-four feet. The en-
tire structure is 1862 feet long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09

MOVING day turns Mister
I'VE Average Man into a "dod-
ger'' who would rival those hired
by carniyals for GLIDING baseballs
flung by jewellers, and it's no diff
ferent with Meredith Nicholson,
Hoosier novelist.
Nicholson moved Wednesday
from his Golden Hill residence
to an imposing new colonial type
mansion at SAT- North Meridian
street.
Today Mrs. Nicholson, in re-
porting on the writer's capability
to tack carpets, hang pictures and
hang doors, said, Hes a pretty
good dodger when it comes to
moving time
The Nicholson's new home is
located on q hillock north of
Fifty-fourth street. 1t is con-
structed of red colonial brick We
neer, trimmed in Bedford lime
stone. The roof is Of black slate.
Eight wood columns guard the
porch. The home has six bed
rooms and five baths.
The entryway is floored in
marble. The hall contains a
circular stairway, with a living
room, solarium, dining room, Ii
brary, breakfast room and kitchen
on the first floor.
The houses color scheme is an
tique ivory, with fixtures of colo
NAL design.
A three-car garage in the rear
of the residence is of the same
construction as the home.
The properly has a depth of 300
feet, with 1)O-foot frontage on
Meridian street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
CITY WARES SHOWN
indianapolis Day Observed
at Exposition.

Wares Of indianapolis industries
we're arrayed before citizens today
attending the Indianapolis day.
program at the Indiana Industrial
Exposition in the cattle barn at
the state Playground.
Exhibitors we're laying plans to-
day for the big display of the show
Friday, designated as Manufacture
ers' day in honor of those who have
made the show possible.
A banquet for exhibitors and
guests will be held at the Claypool
Friday night.
At Educational day Saturday, the
closing of the show, exhibits OF
various Indiana educational insti-
buttons will be featured. Groups of
school children will attend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
CHECK fire HAZARDS
Inspectors Working in Four
North Side Districts.

City-wide fire prevention week
activities moved to the northwest
section of the city today with a pro-
gram scheduled for tonight at Mu-
nicipal Gardens community center,
White river and Seventeenth street.
During the day inspectors of the
fire prevention bureau inspected in
four districts bounded by Thirtieth
and Eighteenth streets, Concord
street and Northwestern avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
MIGHTY FLEET
TORULE IN AIR
IS JAP AN GOAL
Mammoth Sham Battle at
Sea Will Demonstrate
Nations Needs.
HOPE TO TRIPLE FORCE
Money Saved by Limiting
Navy May Be Spent in
Sky Defense.
HOPE TO TRIPLE FORCE
BY WILLIAM PHILIP STMMS
ScriDDs-HOward Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-"In the
seas somewhere south Of Japan, y
as Toxic puts it, "the Japanese navy
is preparing to fight a titanic sham
battle to pave the way for doubling
or TRIPPING the empires air forces.
Following what appears to be the
accepted policy of other powers
Japan intends using money saved
at the London naval conference to
make herself stronger in the air.
Despite the worlds best efforts to
limit ornaments, therefore, not
even the surface of this great prob
lem has been scratched. Money
saved by limiting one arm, as hap
pened after the Washington confer
ence of 1922, Immediately is ear
marked to increase the strength OF
another.
No Limit in Air
Britain, America and Japan, the
three leading sea powers, have
agreed to limit their navieS, but
their armies, air forces and all the
other newer and far more deadly
weapons of war now emerging from
the fertile brain of science have only
the sky for limit.
Realizing the danger, the League
of Nations, at Geneva, tried to fix
a date for general disarmament
meeting, but was forced to adjourn
without doing so, on account of the
present unsettled condition of the
universe.
At London, Japan agreed to a
reduction of $4,000 tons in SUBJ
marines in exchange for slight
increase in other directions. So the
japanese naval maneuvers TIE week
of Oct. 20 to %, somewhere between
Yokohama and Manila, are designed
to demonstrate how much the
London agreement weakened her.
Drive for Increase
Already, however. a drive for q
greater air force is on. japanese
ratification, in fact, was partly
contingent upon aerial expansion
ADDIOAlIIldC G1y pAOO,UOO,UOO WdS
saved at London out of eth next
five-year program and the navy
general staff plans to spend most
of this on aircraft.
The staff wants to spend $225,-
100000 on the navy, but the politi-
clans, with an eye on the elections
want to limit the amount to $175,-
900, 900.
Emperor Hirohito will command
from his flagship during the fina
phases the battle. About seventy
first line ships will be in action al
one time The "blue fleet" will de-
fend the empire from a base in the
southern part of the islands, steam
ing out to meet the red fleet
coming up from the general di.
rection of the Philippines.
Naval tacticians admit that the
smaller the navies of the world be-
come, and the larger the air forces
the stronger Japan will be in the
western Pacific.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
EX-ARMY Filler
CRASH VICTIM
Hired to Bring Back Plane
Stolen at Marion.

BIZ United Press
ROSEVILLE, Mich, Oct. 9.-In
the crash of an airplane reported
stolen at Marion, Ind, and recov-
cred near here by Detroit detectives,
Julius Kelly, 80, former United
States army fier, was killed and
Detective Peter Sprott, 80, of De-
troit, was injured seriously late
Wednesday.
Kelley and Sprott had taken off
in the recovered plane and were
circling Packard field when the tiny
monocoupe crashed from an alti-
tude of about 10G feet.
The plane recently was reported
stolen by Lee Phelps of Marion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
Lmdy J: to Choose O70n
Life Work, Says Father

United Prtss
NEW 9Charles Augustus Lndbergh Jr will choose
according interview with
the November issue Of the Pictorial Review
Lndbergh laughed when the interviewer asked him
plans for his sons future
Our hardly reached the have his future de-
for quoted saying land
case question best decide for himself when the time
comes"
clothing received before the birth Of
the baby, Lindbergh said
without explanation he
could they be given
charitable organizations without appearing signal lack
o appreciation"
Colonel Lndbergh Lndbergh plan
Mexico and South America again extended tour
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
Girl IN PRISON
FOR CAP THEFT.
MERCY ASKED
Plea Viewed as Political
Activity by Leslie;
0ffenSe Petty.

Governor Harry G. Leslie today
was inclined to view as a political
document the letter of Attorney S.
C. KiYett of Martinsyille, asking
parole or pardon for Miss Frances
Haase, %, of Martinsville, who is
serving a one-to-eight-year SEN
tence for theft at the Indiana
Woman's prison.
Kivett is campaigning against
Judge Joseph w. Williams of Nor
gan circuit court, who passed the
sentence and who is seeking re-
election on the Republican ticket,
it was said.
The Martinsville attorney. who
aided the prosecutor in sending the
girl to prison, wrote the Governor
a long letter assailing the judge for
passing the sentence and refusing
to be a party to parole petition.
Convicted for Cap Theft
According to the appellate court
record, the girl was found guilty
of stealing a $3.50 boys leather cap
from the Kelso e. Son store at Mar
tiNsville on Oct. Is, 1926. Sentenced
% prison and fined 81, the case was
appealed by her attorney, John E.
-edwick, and only recently was af-
nrmed by the appellate court.
When arrested, the girl. 18 years
old was a. senior in Martinsville
high school. She was reported at
the time as the leader of a group
of petty thieves among the girl stu
dents.
Kivett was appointed by Judge
williams to aid the prosecutor in
blocking motion for a new trial
In his letter to Leslie, he points
out that the store owners and
Prosecutor William Bray favor ex-
ecutive clemency, but the judge does
not. although he has asked it for
bank bandits in the past. He says
the cap was worth only SO cents.
Attorney Is Confused
Mrs. Frank M. Hohenberger OF
Martinsville has joined Kivett in
the clemency plea.
1t was recalled today that when
Sedwick made oral argument be-
fore the appellate court he seemed
a bit befuddled when asked for
dates. Finally, he blurted out to
the judges:
Say, if you don't understand this
case, I can't help it. I can't be on
the bench and argue here, too
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
APPEALS BEFORE COURT
Holt, Butler Petitions Studied by
United States Tribunal.

The United States circuit court of
appeals in Chicago today had under
advisement the appeals of Olin R.
Holt and Ora c. Butler, both of
Kokomo, from their conviction in
federal court here on charges of
conspiracy to violate the prohibition
law.
Arguments on the appeal were
heard in Chicago Wednesday by
Judges E. A. Evans, win M. Sparks
and George NJ Page.
Indicted here last May, the men
we're convicted of having formed
the Hoosier Protective Association,
membership in which entitled the
holder to counsel when arrested on
prohibition charges.