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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
SUICIDE ATTEMPT FAILS
Woman States She Tried to End
Life After Domestic Strife,

Taken to city hospital with a
jagged cut in her head, Mrs. Nellie
Stack, 81, mother Il three children,
and hou3ekeeper for John KIM, 2207
Broadway, declared she had inflicted
the wound with razor blade in an
effort to end her life.
Physicians declared the wound
seemed made by a blunt instrument,
but police investigation revealed
KIM and his son, George KIM, 10,
told the same story of the affair.
Mrs. Stack, who has a divorce suit
pending against her husband,
Samuel Stack, blamed domestic
troubles. Her condition is not
serious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
OFFICERS REELECTED
Norman Perry TO Remain as Head
of Columbia Club.

Norman Perry, president, and all
other officers of the Columbia Club
have been reelected, 1t was an
nounced today.
Other officers are: Fred G. Gard
ner, ice-president; Frank A. But
Ter, treasurer, and E. P. Akin, sec
rotary.
Election of the directorate was
held in January.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
ENROLMENT INCREASES
2,049 More Pupils in City Schools
for Second Semester.

Enrolment in indianapolis public
schools increased 2.049 at the open
ing of the second semester over the
corresponding semester Of last year,
William a. Hacker, director of So
cial service, announced Friday.
Second semester enrolment in
high schools, with a total of 1922,
is as follows: Manual, 1854; Short
ridge, 1881; Technical, 1855; Broad
Ripple. 1874; Washington, 1890, and
Crispus Attacks, 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by
police belong to:
Lee Heiny, 6565 Massachusetts,
avenue, Essex coach, found at b.
Sart avenue and Michigan street.
John H. Robinson, 2243 Columbia
avenue. Jordan roadster, found at
Thirtieth street and Columbia ave-
nue..
Ford roadster, no license plates,
found in front of 344 North Au-
dubon road.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
DRUGGIST ENTERS RACE
Howe Abbott Democratic Candidate
for Center Trusteeship.

Howe Abbott, druggist at 602
North Senate avenue, announced to-
day he is candidate for the Demo-
ocratic nomination for Center town.
ship trustee. He has lived here
twenty-nine years and has been &C
tive in party politics, serving as
Thirteenth ward official during the
1928 campaign.
He is member Of the South Me-
ridian Street Civic Club, the Jeffd'-
son Club, Young Democratic Club
and the Masons. He is graduate
Of Indiana university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
Clothing Is Burned

Clothing hung near a stove in
rooms of Thomas Sanders, living
above a grocery at 208 West Morris
street. caught fire at this morn
ing. Awakened by the smoke,
Sanders made his way from the
roms. Firemen confined loss to SIS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
PASS PLAYGROUND BOND
State Tax Board Approves Issue for
School No. 8 Work.

State tax commissioners today
approved a $4,000 bond issue by
the Indianapolis park board for
construction of a playground at No.
8 school, opposite the Real Silk
Hosiery mills.
The board specified $27,700 was
to be expended for purchase of
needed real estate, $500 for expenses
and $1,000 for filling holes where
houses must be RACED.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
SPANKED; TRIES SUICIDE
Boy Takes Poison After Mother
Punished Him for Offense.

After his mother had spanked
him for a minor offenSe, Alfred
Paul, Il, of l040 South Sheffield
avenue, took poison in an attempt
to end his life Friday night. police
said. He was improving at city hos
pital today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
GOOSE GIVEN FUNERAL
Town of Wheeler at Bier of Broad
casting Billy.

BB United Press
WHEELER, Ind, Feb. 15.-School
children here were dismissed Friday
to join citizens in last rites at a
public funeral for Billy the Goose.
The goose, owned by DR.. A..
Knause, died Sunday of pneumonia.
Billy was buried in a child's cas-
ket, covered with flowers and a
velvet pail. DR.. Knause laid a wax
wreath over the grave.
Billy broadcast over Valparaiso
radio station, and it was said had
received offers to appear in the
movies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
Road Contract Granted

w. c. Meneely Company, Frank
fcrt. has been awarded s116,-
22197 contract for paving Go miles
on State Road 43. in Tippecanoe
and White counties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
AIky Runner Meets Death
for mourning Enmity
of 0VerIordS.
TALK POLICE SHAKEUP
Secret Committee Approves
Move to Reorganize
Cops Districts.
BY RAY BLACK,
United Press Stan Correspondent

CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-Racketeer
gunner enforced the vicious law of
gangland with bullets and shot
Tony Lombardo to death Friday
night in defiance of the ultimatum
Of Chicago citizens and police that
the gangs must go.
The killing, committed in an
alley into which the asSassins lured
the 25-year-old alcohol bootlegger,
marred the record Of the police
during a twenty-four- hour period,
that had seen 1920 arrested in the
drive to GUST organized crime from
the city.
Lombardo, not a relative Of the
more notorious Tony Lombardo,
Sicilian leader shot to death two
years ago in the loop. was a petty
thief who, police declared, had
turned to racketeering at the lure
of easy gold.
Gun Found Nearby
He paid for mourning the enmity
of better established overlords OF
the alky traffic, when he fell with
revolver bullets and shotgun slugs
Kidding his head and body. The
double-barreled shotgun used in the
Staying was found fifteen feet away,
both barrels discharged.
Residents, who ran out when the
guns roared. said they saw two men
dash from the alley and flee up a
street.
Reorganization of the police de
partment on the plan in effect in
New York was approved by the Chi
cago Chamber of Commerce, whose
president, Robert Ishsm Randolph,
is head of secret committee of
business men cooperating with the
police in the anti-crime war. The
city council will be asked to
authorize the changes suggested.
BY the provisions of the re-
organization, police districts would
be divided into six inspection areas,
with commanders responsible to a
chief inspector, and there would be
only eight department heads directly
responsible to the police commits
sioner.
Among the hundreds behind jail
bars today was Mike Quirk, former
saloon keeper, rounded up with
seven other leaders and henchmen
of the notorious ODonneu gang of
west side gangsters Wednesday and
subsequently freed.
He was rearrested after being &C
cuSed by Policeman Frank Vitek of
being the man who shot him Sun
day morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
Lady Wesley Is Ill.

LONDON, Feb. 15.--Lady Wesley,
formerly Miss Evelyn Broadstone,
of Superior, Neb., is seriously i'll at
her London residence. Lord Wesley
is head of the Blue Star line.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
College Head to Speak

College Head to Speak
DR.. w. L. Richardson, dean of
Butler university's college of edu-
cation, will address the mothers
club of the kindergarten at Forty
second street and Boulevard place,
Wednesday afternoon, on Pre-
School Children"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
The West Point"

Arthur Murray, noted authority on
ballroom dancing, today describes "Ihe
West Point as the second dance of
Series on stepping in Style" which he
is writing for The Times and NEA Serv-
ice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
CHANGES IN TRAFFIC CONTROL
SEEN HERE IN NEAR FUTURE
Emo Ideas Probably Will Be Given Trial
Following Events of
Past Week.

has been in Office Whitehurst has been
attending a convention of American
highway engineers in Mexico and Cuba.
WhitehurSt would be quite willing to
take a hand at traffic direction, how
ever. He recently introduced a scheme
OF co-ordinating all work involving cuts
in the street surface, for the purpose of
laying water, sewer and gas mains, cleo
trio conduits and so forth, so that the
amount of surface torn up at any one
time is reduced to an absolute mini
mum.
Would Clear Intersections.
''If you can organize the work under
the ground, you can organize 1t on
top" he told Star reporter recently
IF took over the problem the first
thing l would do would be to clear the
intersections. Streets can't carry more
traffic than will move at the intersec-
lions. And at these vital points we
stack car stops, bus stops, hack stands
safety zones and every other kind OF
an obstruction you can think Of
venture to say that there is not a single
place on Wisconsin avenue where you
can enter the avenue from an intersect-
Ing street and make left turn with
out cutting through a safety zone. It's
physically impossible. The thing to dc
with these stops, stands and zones is
to string them out along the street SC
that they cause the minimum hindrance
to the flow of traffic
you may think this is not in my
line, but I tell you 1t ties right in
Whenever We have congestion at inter-
sections, We begin to have requests for
widening streets. This costs money
and takes up good cash that we might
otherwise spend for putting good sur
faces on the streets that we have. Some
kind of coordination is bound to come
don't say that it will be easy to work
out, but it must be done"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
RETIREMENT BILL
AGREEMENT NEAR
Senate and House Conference
Managers May Accept
Measure as 1t Is.

Before the present week draws to a
close the thousands of Government en-
ployes, both in and out of Washington,
may see an agreement reached on the
civil service retirement bill, which has
passed both branches of Congress, but
which has been in conference since early
in April.
Senator Dale, Republican, of Vermont,
chairman of the Senate conferees, is
preparing to arrange within a few days
for a meeting of the Senate and House
managers, and all signs are that when
the meeting is helu the bill will be
accepted substantially as it passed the
House.
While some members of the Senate,
including Senator Dale, still believe
the present retirement system, with
increased annuities as provided in the
Senate bill, is better, it is believed they
will agree TO the new system adopted
by the House in order TO get the legis-
lation through at this session.
The Senate bill provided for a max
imum annuity of $1,000. The House
plan provides for a basic annuity of
$50 a year for each year of service,
making a maximum basic annuity, OF
5000 plus whatever annuity can be pur-
CldSeu py TIE eLlplOye Out Oh his IN
dividual contributions. A deduction of
81 month would be made from The
employees contribution to help meet the
basic annuity. The House bill also pro-
vides, however, that whenever an an
nuity under this plan would be less
than under the Dale bill, the latter
would be substituted.
II the conferees reach an agreement
their report will then go before the
House and Senate for ratification be-
fore final enactment. The House bill
is regarded as having the support OF
the President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
WAR VETERANS PLAN
NAVY YARD PROTEST
Discrimination Charged in Method
of Laying Off Men, 200 Will
Charge Today.

Approximately 200 war veterans, en-
ployed in the Washington Navy Yard,
are expected to assemble this morning
at 10 o'clock at Ninth street and Penn
Sylvania avenue southeast, to draft a
resolution of protest against what they
termed the discrimination being shown
against veterans by yard officials.
Spokesman said yesterday that q
number of veterans had been laid off
with other employees this week and that
more are being slated for discharge soon.
They pointed out employees are required
to have a rating of 80 in order to in
sure employment during the present
retrenchment period and that certain
veterans ratings have been purposely
reduced.
Because of this alleged discrimination
the total number of veterans now en-
ployed at the yard are said to have
banded together and expect to formu-
late plans for action at the meeting
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Three Mondays Reserved for
Chairman Mcleod of
House D. C. Group.
UNOPPOSED MEASURES
TO BE ACTED ON FIRST
Additional Judges Proposal, Police
and Fire Pay Increase and
Boxing Law on Schedule.

Keeping his promise made at the
opening of the present session of Con-
gress, House Leader TilSon has ar
ranged a schedule for action on Dis
trict measures tomorrow and the next
two Mondays.
He has notified Acting Chairman Nc
Leod of the House District committee
that he can have time tomorrow to
bring up non-controverSial measures.
Then next Monday the Gibson bill, pro-
viding for two additional justices OF
the Supreme Court of the District, and
other District measures on the consent
calendar will come up under unanimous
consent or suspension OF the rules.
Chairman Simmons of the subcom-
mittee on District appropriations will
support the District judges legislation.
Two weeks from tomorrow any Dis
trict bills may be called up for action,
including those about which there is
considerable controversy. The entire
day, If necessary, will be available for
District legislation. Most conspicuous
among the measures to come up Is the
bill to increase the pay of police and
firemen, which Is sponsored by the
three business associations-the Board
of Trade, the Washington Chamber of
Commerce and the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association. It has the
support of the District Commissioners,
the Federation of Citizens Associations
and many other important organiza-
tions. The only known objector Is
Chairman Simmons of the subcommit-
tee on District appropriations, who
warned that 1t would entail an increase
in taxes
Among the bills which Acting Chair
man Mcleod hopes to call up tomor-
row as being without serious opposition
are the bill to legalize amateur boxing
in the District, the measure to set up
a real estate board to license all those
engaged in the sale of real estate, the
bill to exempt from taxation the prop
erty on Sixteenth street which is the
national home of the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution, the measure which
has passed the Senate, known as the
combustible refuse bill, providing as
siStance to neighboring communities in
Maryland for disposal of combustible
refuse in the high-powered District in
Generators; the bill prohibiting the sale,
Gus weapons in the District, known as
1.-The gun toting' bill: the Luce bill,
which has passed the Senate. providing
for regulation of the height and exterior
design of private buildings fronting on
certain Government developments, such
as the Capitol grounds and the Mall
triangle and the long pending bill for
relief of Mrs. Jennie Bruce Callahan,
whose husband was killed while on duty
as a fireman, being thrown from fire
apparatus hit by a police car chasing
a rum runner.
Assurance was given last night by
House Leader Tilson that the District
committee will be encouraged to clean
its slate and will have the co-opera-
ton of the House leadership to this
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
LETTERMAN SQUAD RAIDS
FOUR PLACES IN DISTRICT
Three Colored Men Are Arrested
and Quantity of Liquor
Confiscated.

Breaking through two heavily barri-
caded doors of an alleged speakeaSy IN
Leeds court yesterday afternoon Police
Sergt Oscar j. Letterman'S vice squad
seized small quantity of whisky and
captured a man who they described as
a proprietor after he had dashed out
rear door and ran four blocks from
the scene.
The man, William Keeny, colored.
was taken to the first precinct and
charged with illegal possession and sale
of liquor and maintaining a nuisance.
The vice squad arrested Walter
James, colored, of 2130 Eighth street in
a raid on his home earlier in the day
and booked him at the first precinct for
sale and possession Of 100 quarts OF
whisky.
A raid on a home in Navy place
southeast resulted in the arrest OF
Charles A. Grandson, %, colored, on
charges of sale and possession of five
pints of whisky.
Information that a vacant house in
the TOO block of Eighth street SOUTH
east led to the discovery Of 50 quarts
of whisky. There was no one in the
house at the time and no arrests were
made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
MOTOR CYCLE POLICEMAN
is INJURED IN COLLISION
Wayne Carr of Arlington County
Taken to Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital.

Motor Cycle Policeman Wayne Carr of
the Arlington County, Va. police force
was badly injured last night in an ac-
cident on the Lee Highway at Cherry
dale, Va, when an automobile drove
out of a side street and was in COLI
sion with his motor cycle, throwing the
officer from his machine.
James A. Phillips of Franklin Park,
Va, said to be the driver of the car,
took Carr to the Georgetown University
Hospital, where he was found to have a
possible fracture of the leg, and lacera-
lions of the scalp and both legs.
Phillips was released on his personal
bond to appear before commemorative
Attorney William G. Cloth at the Ar
lington County Court House tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock for questioning.
Carr was proceeding down the Lee
Highway en- route to Falls Church about
10 o'clock when the machine driven by
Phillips came out of Edgewood avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
H|T-AND-RUN CAR
INJURIES SERIOUS
Hospitals Receive Several
Persons Who Were in
Traffic Crashes.

The supposed victim of q hit-and-
run motorist, David Green, %, of Man.
huin, w. Va, who is reported to have
escaped from Gallinger Hospital, was
found in a serious condition on the
Baltimore Pike, near Branchville, Md,
about o'clock last night. He was
brought to Casualty Hospital where
physicians late last night pronounced
his condition as undetermined.
When informed of the accident by
passersby who came upon the injured
man, the Prince Georges County rescue
squad went to the scene and brought
the man to the local hospital
Green was treated for possible frac-
ture of the skull, a confusion of the
back and internal injuries by Dr. Louis
Jimal of the hospital staff. The man
talked incoherently whon questioned
by C. M. Hughes, ninth precinct po-
iceman, but was able to identify him.
self.
Arrested more than a week ago on a
charge Of vagrancy, Green was sent to
Gallinger Hospital for a mental obser-
walton, and escaped Friday night. He
is believed to have been walking to
Baltimore when injured.
Hit by Street Car.
Serious injuries were suffered late
yesterday by John D. Wilson, 70, of
1882 Columbia road, when struck by
w. r. E. Co. street car while crossing
the street in front of 1890 Columbia
road. The injured man was removed to
Garfield Hospital.
Following an automobile collision at
Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, yesterday afternoon, Cathe-
rine Louise Clark 18 months old, of TIC
Twelfth street southeast, was taken to
Casualty Hospital suffering severe head
injuries.
The child was riding in a machine
driven by her mother Mrs. Mollie B.
Clark. The second car, police say, was
operated by H. L. Dove of the 100 block
avenue.
Treated for Burns.
Mrs. Wilma Willett, As years old. of
Lee Heights Clarendon, Va, was given
treatment at the Emergency Hospital
for severe brush burns of both legs and
arms following collision between two
at Virginia avenue and
Twentieth street.
Mrs. Willett was riding in a car
driven by her husband, F. j. Willett,
SIS, which was in a crash with an auto
mobile operated by John j. Allen, 35,
of 900 Seventeenth street.
Earl Hill. colored, years old, of
1874 P street, was cut and bruised
yesterday afternoon, when an automible
operated by j. Addison Hicks, so, of
East Falls Church, Va, struck him at
Seventeenth and @ streets while the
boys was pushing toy wagon. The boy
was treated at Emergency Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
HITS POLITICS IN JUDICIARY
Stone Pleas for Lawyers to Aid In Sc.
lecting Judges.

A plea that lawyers be allowed more
voice in the selection of judges for
the good of the BENCH" as well as
for the bar, was made by Justice Royal
A. Stone of the Supreme Court of MN
nesota last night at the annual banquet
of the American Law Institute, in the
Mayflower Hotel.
Approximately 600 leading jurists
and members of the bar, including At
torney General Mitchell as a guest of
honor, attended the function, and heard
also from former Senator George Whar-
ton Pepper of Pennsylvania and Henry
u. Sims of Birmingham, Ala, presi-
dent of the American Bar Association,
arguments advanced for reforms in the
administration of justice. George w.
Wickersham, chairman of the Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission and
president of the institute, presided.
Justice Stone warned that 1.-The de-
servedly high standing of the Federal
courts. won by nearly a century and
half of judges appointed on their
professional merits, must not be
jeopardized by the selection of new
judges On their political merits, the
latter to be judges exclusively by their
friends and political debtors in the
Senate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
CONCERT TO BE GIVEN
Salvation Army Staff Band From
Atlanta to Appear Here.

The Salvation Army staff Band from
Atlanta, Ga, on its way to New York
the army, will play a concert at Sal
walton Army headquarters, COG e street,
Wednesday night.
The band Is composed of members of
the clerical and administration staff of
the Atlanta headquarters. The music
1t plays is all composed by Salvation
Army composers.
There Is no charge for admission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
CITY COMMISSIONERS
TO BE HONOR GUESTS
May Meeting of Chamber of Com
merce Will Be Held Tues
day Evening.

The newly appointed Commissioners
Of the District, DR.. Luther Reichelder-
fer and Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby,
together with Col William B. L,adue,
engineer Commissioner, will be guests
of honor at the May meeting of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday evening in the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Strickland Gillian, poet, lecturer and
humorist, is to be the principal speaker.
John j. Hall of the National Bureau
of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
will be present at the meeting at the
request of the chambers police and
fire protection committee. He will pre-
sent a plan for "save-a-life" cam
paign in Washington TRAFFIC Director
William H. Harland and Inspector Ern-
est w. Brown and Lieut.. Benjamin A.
Lamb of the Traffic Bureau also have
been invited to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
SWINE4ER GETS CASH
FOR MYTHICAL CHURCH
Citizens Who Gave for Bradbury
Methodist Church, Fund Com
plain to Police.

A swindler operating under the guise
of a minister, and soliciting funds for
the Bradbury Methodist Church at
Ninth and K Streets" was the object
of a city-wide police search last night,
following report made to No. l3 sta
ton that several persons living in that
precinct have been victimized by the
man.
Several persons who contributed
small sums, only to find out later that
there is no Bradbury Church in this
city, described the man to police as
appearing TO be about 40 years old,
S feet z inches tall and weighing $50
pounds. He was wearing q gray suit.
brown felt hat and was carrying a
black brief case. police were told.