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The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-01
COURT ISSUE RAISED
Decision in Nations Highest Tr-
bunal Cited in Muncie Case.

OcClSlOu III NdIAOA hASACoS AAA-
bunal Cited in Muncie Case.
Bp Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, March Power
of justice of the peace to assess
fine from which he derived f1nan-
cial profit, is the issue raised in a
case before the Delaware circuit
court here.
Howard Ritter, a farmer, on a
charge of violating game laws, was
fined $40 and costs by Justice E. w.
Swain. Clarence w. Dearth, his
counsel in appealing the case,
pointed out a ruling by Chief JUS
tice William Howard Taft of the
United States supreme court, in
which it was held that court, de-
pendent solely on fees from cases
in which defendants are held
guilty, is without jurisdiction to
try criminal matter.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-01
RADIO THEFT SENTENCE
DEFERRED AT MARION
Jury DeIiberated Only 55 Minutes in
Convicting Chicago Man.
~ Times Special

RI Times Special
MARION, Ind, March AFTER
celebrating f1fty-five minutes jury
in Grant circuit court found John
Ginter, 35, Chicago, guilty of grand
larceny. He was charged with the
theft of fifty radio sets valued at
s2,500 from the United States Ra-
dio and Television Corporation here,
Judge o. D. Clawson. who pre-
sided at the trial, has not yet
passed sentence.
Two other affidavits, both charg-
ing grand larceny for the theft of
radio sets from the local factory,
are on file.
Ginter. alleged member of a gang
which stole radio sets worth $25 600
to 100000, denied the charge and
maintained that truck load Of ra-
dio sets was delivered in Chicago ON
orders from an officer of the con-
Germ
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-01
NEW TRIAL TO BE PLEA
Former East Chicago Mayor May
Appeal Liquor Conviction.
By 7fnlcs Special

By 1fmcs SDecidl
HAMMOND, Ind, March 1.-Ra-
leigh P. Hale, former mayor of East
Chicago, and fourteen other defend
ants convicted on charges of con-
spiracy TO violate the liquor laws,
viii appeal for a new trial when
they are arraigned before Federal
Judge Thomas w. Slick for sentence
here Monday.
Defense lawyers have indicated
that in the event new trial motion
is denied, they will take an appeal.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-01
Veteran Railroader Retires

BIZ Times Special
MARTINsVILLE, Ind, March /.
Luther A. Hollis. So, after fifty
years and six months service in the
employ of the Big -Four railroad,
has retired. During the last forty
four years he was a conductor. He
win continue to make his home
here.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-01
Anderson Hotel Sold

bu IfMtS NDtCtut
ANDERSON. Ind, March L.
James H. Robinson has sold his in
terest In the Hotel Stilwell to Lionel
Steele and William Gall and re-
turned to Canton. o., his former
home. Gall has been a clerk at the
hotel for many years.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-01
TWO KILLINGS ALLEGED
Trial Based on Deaths in 1928 VIII
Begin Monday.

XN United PTeSS
LOGANSPORT, Ind, March l.
A special venire of thirty five
names has been drawn here, by the
Cass county commissioners in pre-
paration for the opening of the trial
Monday of John Horace Crockett,
charged with the murder of Jack
Williams and Earl Armstrong at
river camp near here Feb. %, 1928.
Robert J. Arthur will be special
prosecutor in the case.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-01
POLICE CHIEF SUES IN
EFFORT TO GET PAY
Conoersville Employees Miss Pay
Days Due to Appeal Of Case.

LOAAsCASfhhE HhhPAOJNS NAA'o ~
Days Due to Appeal Of Case.
~ Times SDcciGE
CONNERSVILLE, Ind, March /.
Police Chief Peter P. Fettig, has
fled suit against Forrest c. Goats,
city clerk, and Mabel c. VAIN
wright, city treasurer. seeking pay
ment of salary since Jan. 6, 1880.
Goats has withheld payment be-
cause OF a suit filed by four tax
payers against the city council
which is now pending.
A decision was made by Judge
G. Edwin johnson in favor of the
special committee form of govern
ment, but the case was appealed to
the Indiana supreme court, and will
be heard March 8. Coats has also
refused to pay salaries Of other city
employees.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
SENIORS VISIT WALLA WALlA

The members of the Senior Glass
of the White Bluffs high school un-
der the chaperonage of Mrs. Rob
ert Nitzsche went to Walla Walla,
Wednesday, April 23rd. They started
early in the morning, stopping in Ken
newick for short time, and arriving
in Walla Walla about ten o'clock.
After making arrangements to Wis
it the penitenitiary at two in the af-
ternoon, they went to Whitman Col
lege. Mr.. Drake escorted them thru
several of the buildings, including
the gymnasium, the boys and girls
dormatories, the Memorial building
and conservatory, or ''Noise Factory"
as is its popular name on the campus.
They then drove to Kooskooskie and
had a picnic lunch. They returned to
the penitentiary as planned and were
shown through by a guide. After
another picnic lunch they attended a
picture show at Walla Walla and re-
turned home arriving at two O'Clock
in the morning.
Mrs. Nitrschc says she had lust
as much fun as the youngsters and
that the group was just about the
incest she had ever chaperoned.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
KENNEWIcK and BENTON
CITY ARE VICTORs

The base ball league season was
ushered in last Sunday with two well
played games. White Bluffs lost to
Kennewick at Kennewick by a score
of to and Hartford lost to Ben
ton City at Hanford by a to
score
The game at Kennewick was just
as close as the score indicates. Joe
Wagner went the route for White
Bluffs and pitched an exceptionally
good game, holding the Kennewick
sluggers to three scattered hits. Err
rors were responsible for all of Ken
newick's runs, the local club being
charged with II hobbies. White
Bluffs collected nine hits but was
able only to manufacture two runs
out of them.
The contest at Hanford was an
interesting one. Benton City jumped
into the lead in. the .arly innings and
was never headed although the score
was always close enough to keep
the final issue in doubt. The big
feature of this game was two sue
cessive home runs by Hartman, Han
ford pitcher. The first, one was one of
the longest hits ever made on Han
ford grounds.
The management of the Hanford
club has asked the Spokesman to ex-
press their appreciation for the big
attendance Of White Bluffs fans at
the game Sunday.
Next Sunday Hanford plays with
White Bluffs on the 8latter's grounds
while Kennewick and Benton City will
fight it out at Benton City.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
LARGE EASTER CROWDS

Easter Sunday was observed at the
three White Bluffs churches this year
by special services, each church being
filled to capacity by the worshippers
At st. Mary's Catholic church, where
the floral decorations of daffodils
violets and sprays of white and green
shrubbery were especially beautiful
the services were lent a deeper interest
by the fact that the Easter sermon by
Father Callahan was also his farewell
sermon. High mass was sung by the
white Bluffs choir.
The Lutheran church was also deco
rated and a congregation of eighty
five broke all previous records of at
tendance, according to the pastor of
the church Rev L. c. Krug. Inme-
diately after the sermon, the infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Schicka was christened Mary Louise.
At the Presbyterian church lavish
use Of greenery as background for
daffodil and tulip blooms made a bower
Of springti1ue for the special Sunday
School program that had been prepared
in celebration of the arrival Of Easter.
The Easter sermon was delivered at
this church in tn evening by the paR
tor. Rev. III. "A. Moves.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
TRY ONE OR TWO

The county superintendent's office
recently gave survey test in spell
ing throughout the county in grades
two to eight, using for each grade
fifty of the most difficult words in the
years work. Considering that the
words were selected for their diff
Guilty, the following grades earned
were very satisfactory:
Grade Q earned an average of 80
per cent; grade 8 averaged SO per
cent; grade 4, So per cent; grade S,
63 per cent; grade 6, 62 per cent /;
grade 7, II per cent; grade, 8, rs
per cent. ~
Here are ten words of those fire.
quently missed in each grade. Try
them on the members of your family.
Grade Q: tall, make, little, has, our,
they, this, nest, song, try.
Grade 8: sleigh, answer, wrong,
dirty, pencil, money, blue, don't, fruit,
goes.
Grade A.: built, fierce, juice, severe,
raisins, tongue, lounge, choosing,
eighty, ache.
Grade S: doesn't, soldier, gnaw, bis
cult, injure, height, laundry, lawyer,
bicycle, veil.
Grade 6: accept, bouquet, challenge,
conquer, almanac, excursion, geranium.
sieve, chauffeur, bungalow.
Grade 7: experience, asparagus,
rhyme, triumph, privilege, reservoir,
dialogue, absolutely, courteous, coyote.
Grade 8: apparatus, employee, quar-
antine, physician, aisle, acknowledge,
conspicuous, cruise, caucus, victuals
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
WOMAN'S CLUB NOTES

The thirty-thi semi-annual con-
vention of the Yakima Valley Dis
trict Federation will be held at Pros
ser, Friday, May 2, 1880. at 10 am,
in the auditorium of the Senior high
school building. The executive board
will meet at $3.50 a. m.
The program, in charge of Mrs. O.
K. Williamson of Prosser, is on the
subject of public welfare. Mrs. Oscar
Follansbee of Zillah will conduct the
club institute on "How May Your
Club Best Serve the General We'll
fare 0, Your Community"
Mrs. George Norman Campbell,
president of the Washington State
Federation of Woman's clubs, will be
present and will address the meeting.
She will be the guest of honor at an
informal reception following the af-
ternoon session.
Moderated clubs are also in
vited to attend.
A business meeting of the club on
Wednesday afternoon, April &c. will
have several interesting subjects up
for discussion and it is hoped that all
members who can will attend.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
WILL TEACH IN CHICAGO

George Wheeler, White Bluffs high
school graduate of '25, Reed college
graduate of '29 and for the last year
an instructor at the latter place, will
teach at the Chicago University next
year, having been awarded an as
sistantship in the department of
Economics. Mrs. Wheeler, who
recently wol scholarship in the de-
partment of foreign languages in the
University of Wisconsin, will not
take advantage of it but will go with
her husband to Chicago where she
has been awarded another scholar
ship. Both young people expect to
visit a few weeks in White Bluffs
this summer.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
EXPLORING COLUMBIA

DR.. Congdon and his son, Russell
Congdon of Wenatchee drove down
to Wahluke Thursday of last week,
bringing with them a canvas boa
which they launched there Friday ard
drifted down the Columbia to Pasco.
They are students of Indian history
and find much to interest them along
the Columbia river, great part of
which territory they have already
explored. Previous to their trip last
week. they had never been on that
stretch of the river between White
Bluffs and Pasco. They had a camping
outfit with them and expected to
take two or three days on the trip to
Pasco.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25
ATTEND ROAD MEETING

D. S. Wilkinson, William Schwisow,
w. j. Kinkaid and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Gilhuly were in Yakima Wednesday
to attend the loop paved highway
meeting.
The proposed route for this loop is
from Seattle over Snoqualmie Pass
to Ellensburg, Yakima, Pasco, Walla
Walla to Spokane. The return is
over the Sunset Highway to- Daven-
port, Waterville and Wenatchee.
Leaving Wenatchee the route will be
over Stevens Pass to Everett and the
Puget Sound country.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25

A card dated at Chicago Friday
morning, April IS, from ]. M. Pip
kin says that they arrived there that
morning after fine trip. In South
Dakota the day before, there was
snow en- the ground to depth of
three inches while in Chicago it was
raining and had been for three days
and the ground everywhere, he said,
was covered with water.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25

H. H. Hiatt was Wenatchee visito,
the first of the week, driving up Mon
day evening Mr.. Hiatt says that the
apples blossoms in the Wenatchee Val
ley are all out although about five days
behind this valley.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25

Harry Coleman has purchased a 20
acre tract of land four and a half
miles southwest of Sunnyside and
moved his family and household goods
over there this week
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-25

Fred M. We'll has been over
from Seattle this week spending a
few days at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28
Victory at Iasti

Success of retirement liberalizatio
legislation at this session of Congress is
virtually assured, as the Presidents ap-
prevail OF the new Lehlbach bill is taken
for granted. The Federal employees, to
whom the delayed enactment of this
legislation means so much, are in
debted primarily to four men who
worked long and hard to bring it about.
Senator Dale, chairman of the Senate
civil Service committee, gracefully
yielded his position as author and
champion of his own measure, previous
ly passed by the Senate, and zealously
piloted the new bill through conference
and final approval. Chairman Lehlbach
of the House Civil Service committee
took the responsibility, at the last min
ute, for shelving the old bill in favor Of
a new and more complicated measure
and saw it through the House. Luther
Grafton of Federal Employees, and r. H.
Alcorn, chairman of the Joint Confer
ence on Civil Service Retirement, both
have worked for many years for the
success that appears in sight today. To
Mr.. Alcorn, especially, congressional &C.
ton on the retirement bill eliminates
long period, during which he has
faithfully and efficiently fought for the
principle of adequate retirement law for
the Government workers. His ready
knowledge of the points involved, his
unfailing courtesy and tact and his
daily persistence may be counted
among the most effective weapons in
the hands of the Federal employees who
have won the victory.
The fight for adequate retirement
law has been a hard one. The apparent
represented in the new bill
and the ready acquiescence of Congress
make the victory more pleasing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28

that somebody who had been dickering
for the return Of the jewels had paid
over the money just before the detectives
entered and that the prisoners suspect
ed trap and wished to get rid Of pos
sibly marked bills.
Evidently this story is not yet fully
told. Indeed the recovery of the jewels
Is only the first chapter of what may
be long and complicated tale. The
thieving has been on a large scale. The
loot includes entire cases and trays OF
gems and ornaments clearly from store
stocks. These were no pikers who con-
Quoted this illegal enterprise They
were six and seven figure operators
Question arises whether the gentleman
who rented safety boxes in several diff
ferent banks was in the habit of keep
ing his collateral for long periods
and how he disposed of it when it was
forfeited. Despite his plea of being
merely q lender of money, he looks
strikingly like fence" The full I'M
ravelment of this case may bring to
light some amazing facts regarding the
jewelry trade as we'll as criminal enter
prize in America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28
The Baker Murder Case.

The detention by military authorities
Of man who has confessed. repudiated
his confession and then offered other
details pertaining to the atrocious MUIR
der of Mary Baker presents a situation
that is apparently no less bafiing to the
authorities than the actual solution Of
the crime itself.
Leaving aside the question of the
guilt or innocence of this suspect, which
is of course a matter that only the
courts may determine, the Washington
police hold the theory that If certain
evidence now lacking came to light that
| unquestionably linked the man with the
murder, their only recourse would be to
seek a warrant for his arrest on a
| charge of assault. The murder, they
believe, was committed out of their
Jurisdiction.
The Arlington authorities. on the
other hand, have stated publicly that
there is insufficient evidence against
the man, despite his confession, to war
rant bringing him before grand jury.
An indictment, much less a conviction,
would be hard to obtain.
Meanwhile the military authorities,
after examining the man to determine
his sanity, are holding him for further
questioning by civil police. He may
have committed some breach Of military
regulations, relatively trivial, but it has
been stated that unless the civil author
tiles demand his arrest, he cannot be
indefinitely held.
It is obvious that the case is one
where the Federal Government should
decide its own course, regardless of the
action of the local authorities. The De-
partment of Justice, already interested
in the case, may well take it over with
the determination to see it through to
finish. No clash of local jurisdictions
must be allowed to interfere. There is
enough evidence that the murder was
committed on Federal property to war
rant exclusive Federal jurisdiction. The
man held may be innocent, and his
confession" the rawlings of depraved
mind. But Of this there is doubt, and
no stone can be left unturned If the
public is to be satisfied that the deten-
ton and confession of the soldier are
clues to the identity of the murderer
that have been found utterly worthless
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28
Food Relief Organization
Saved Hungary in Crisis

To the Editor OF The Star:
In his very interesting address over
the radio Sunday afternoon the Hun
garian Minister spoke of the apprecia-
ton felt by the people of his country OF
the activities in Hungary OF the Ameri-
can Relief Administration after the Boil
shevist regime at Budapest had been
overthrown. In this connection there
Is an incident which contributed in no
small measure to that end which has
not received the attention 1t deserves.
During those momentous four months
of gangster absolutism in Hungary the
group then in power in Austria scarcely
concealed their sympathies for the Boil
shevist cause, and at one moment gave
unmistakable evidences OF an intention
to convert Austria into Soviet state.
Mr.. Hoover's organization was rush.
ing food to the starving citlzeps OF
Vienna. On learning, however, OF the
imminence of those already hardly tried
people being subjected to still greater
sufferingS, inspired, as always, to re-
lieve the starving, without regard to
political creed, as evidenced later dur
ing the famine in Russia, Mr.. Hoover,
I am credibly informed, caused the
Viennese authorities to be warned that
such a step would automatically cause
the flow of foodstuffs to cease.
The news spread. The maSqueradlng
Red officials did not dare publicly TO
assume responsibility for plunging the
Austrian proletariat into hopeless star
walton. The country was saved from q
reign of terror. Bolshevist Hungary re-
manned isolated, and Communist SYM
pathizers in neighboring countries took
note
What Austria, and possibly all Eu-
rope, ESCAPED due to that message may
be imagined u. GRANT-SMITH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28

! Are plants grateful for attention?
! Human beings cal flowers grateful"
when they respond to sunshine, water,
| fertilizer.
When proper growth succeeds upon
| proper nourishment. moisture and the
suns ultraviolet in the right quanti-
! ties, 1t seems fitting to say that the
| plant is grateful.
| The grass, then, is the most grateful
of all growing things.
A little water, either from the skies
or the hose, will cause plot OF grass
to set up a veritable hymn.
The sensitive can hear 1t.
X y X
The song of the grass Is not in sounds
so much as in waves of color.
Light green blades take on darker
color, a tone which mankind has be-
come accustomed to call healthy" in
| grass.
This response is one of the most
satisfying in the plant kingdom to the
beholder, and surely 1t must be to the
grass itself.
Here is the humblest Of weeds, yet
the one upon which every garden, large
| or small, elaborate or modest, depends
| for beauty, in the last analysis.
| Far too many householders forget
the true place of grass in the garden
| picture.
Without it no garden can be a real
success; with it no garden can be called
a failure.
II we had to choose between flowers
| and no grass or grass and no flowers,
we would take the latter without hesita-
| ton, although we love the bright beau
ties of Towering things as well as most
people
What makes up the garden picture,
after all?
Grass. trees. shrubs, flowers, sky,
clouds-these are the essential natural
elements. Many small gardens only
have grass and flowers, with the eternal
cannot always be sure of the clouds.
Trees often are lacking. Except on
roof gardens there ought always TO be
grass.
The grass Is the one essential ele-
ment every garden can have. We have
seen pictures of japanese gardens made
by composition OF sand and rock, with
shrubs: they may be picturesque. espe-
cially in their natural setting, but one
scarcely can call them as appealing IS
a grassy garden with flowers.
In going around a great city and its
suburbs, one is struck by the number
Of bare places where grass could be
grown as easily as not.
Sometimes these places are covered
with vines, or other ground cover, as
they are called. Often these are no
improvement upon plain dirt, since
they are unnatural in city settings.
Every one has seem railroad en-
bankments converted INTO things of
beauty by the planting Of climbing roses.
The certain rough effect secured is ex-
actly right for the situation.
In most home grounds, however,
grass is the only true ground cover. The
very situation calls for grass, as nine
hundred and ninety-nine out of a thou
sand persons would admit.
Why not, then, have it?
\ \ II
The reason most persons do not have
good grass, we are convinced, is that
they forget that grass is the one nat
ural ground cover. In other words, they
come to look upon 1t, under certain
conditions, as difficult of growth, when
all the time the grass Is bursting to
grow right there.
But one must know his grasses. There