davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
COMMUNITY FUND TO
HOLD ANNUAL DINNER
Committee Named to Arrange Event
March 5 at Hotel.

Tenth annual dinner meeting OF
the Indianapolis Community Fund
is to be held March in the Riley
room of the Claypool hotel, Will
liam H. Insley, president, announced
Saturday.
The committee on arrangements
includes Mrs. Peter c. Reilly, Mrs.
Brandt c. Downey and Mrs. VIII
liam H. Coleman.
An honorary member Of the fund.
selected each year in recognition OF
outstanding and unself1sh service
to the public welfare" will be named
at the meeting Nicholas H. Noycs,
Mortimer c. FurScott, Mrs. Downey,
Fred Hoke and Eco w. Leach nav
been chosen to name this member.
Reservations are being accepted
at the Community Fund Offices, 1923
Meyer-Kiser Bank building. Riley
2406.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
BY ARTHUR MURRAY
Written for NEA Service

THERE'S the languor romanti
Il cally attributed to the south
land in the movement of this dance,
THE Alabama"
The steps are taken sidewise, to
the mans left and the woman's
right. Originated at the University
of Alabama, the dance Is in the
newest collegiate mode.
The Mans Part
Stand with back to center of
room.
Begin with the left foot, take two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
BYRD SHIP FIGHTS GALE
vessel Expected to Arrive at Ice
Barrier by End of Week.
Trited Press

m INittu ftoo
DUNEDIN, N. T.. Feb. 17.-After
successfully battling a heavy south
east gale, Admiral Richerd E. Byrd'S
supply ship, the Eleanor Boiling,
wireleSSed today her position as 400
miles southeast OF Otago Heads. The
Eleanor Boiling is not expected to
reach the ice barrier before the end
Of this week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
TRAVELLERS HEAR TALK
Speaker Says Stock Reduction VIII
Help Reduce Waste.

Distribution is the solution of
present commercial conditions, Clyde
G. Davis OF CORTLAND. N. Y, told
the Unite6' Commercial Travellers at
the annual banquet at the Lincoln
Saturday night.
He declared much waste can be
Eliminated by reduction Of slow
moving stocks of merchandise
Le Roy Martin, senior councillor.
presided at the banquet. A dance
and card party followed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
ROBBERY SERIES
OCCUPIES COPS
OVER WEEKEND
Two HoIdupS, One SIugglng
Reported: Merchandise
Taken From Stores.

With few holdups reported, a long
cries of burglaries occupied police
attention over the weekend.
A Negro bandit took S45 from
Wilbur Abel. %. of 1921 Oliver ave
nue.. Model Laundry Company
driver, late Saturday, police were
told.
Charles Hunter, Is, of 2213 North
Illinois street. taxi driver, reported
he was robbed of So by two Negroes
after he took them To a fictitious
address on TorDett street.
BIrglaries reported we're.
Groceries Robbed
Standard grocery. 1904 Roosevelt
avenue. s25 in merchandise; Stand
ard grocery, $50 West Michigan
street. $50 in groceries; Payne Col
ton. tire shop, $50 Massachusetts
avenue. $50 in cash; Isaac George
grocery. 1882 Brookside avenue, 500
in groceries: Standard grocery, $40
virginia avenue, $50 in groceries;
Billy Grimes tire shop, WoodlaWn
avenue and Shelby street. $40 IN
merchandise: Crunk Hardware Com
panv. 800 West Washington street.
SIS In merchandise
Mrs. Matte Mitchell, Negro. 1884
indianapolis avenue, told police
Negro man and woman visited her
home and. after asking for a drink
of water. he struck her with black
lack and took $3.50 from a box in
the dining room.
Force Car to Curb
Jesse Hall. 1925 East Michigan
street. reported three men in a large
car forced his automobile to the.
curb at Sixteenth and Delaware
streets and demand give up your
liquor" Assured he had none, the
hiiackers permitted him to drive
ahead, he said.
Clarence r. Shriver, 20. Louisville,
was arrested in the dressing rooms
Of q downtown theater and is held
on vagrancy charges.
George Faulkner, living at a down.
town hotel. reported he was robbed
Of $50 and a watch valued at S25
while on a JOY ride with a girl he
knew only as Mary.
Overcoats owned by. J. J. Good,
1902 Otterbein avenue; Robert KEEL
sew. Francis Walters and Earl Whit
cotton, all residents of the New Hall
dormitory, at Indiana Central col
GOO uyere stolen from the college
Sunday, they reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
TARDIEU FORCED TO BED
French Premier Ordered to Take
Four Days of Rest.

BV United Press
PARIS, Feb. 17.-Forced to take
to his bed by a combination of
grip. laryngitiS and strain from
overwork. Premier Andre Tardieu
Will not be able to return to Lon
don on Wednesday as he had
planned.
Although the premier's tenn
peratue. which stood at 1909 Sun
day. had receded somewhat his
physician, Dr. Jean Yacoel, said he
must have at least four days of rest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
~ Ten Is;IS:(9Ey::,l|,sIS!9
Benefited

"For two years | suffered
with irregularities, frequent
headaches and general weak
ness. | tried various medicines
but all TO no avail. | read about
your highly praised medicine,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, gave it a trial and
obtained wonderful results
from it. | am a stenographer
and bookkeeper and | have
recommended the Vegetable
Compound to other girls who
work. Stella T. Culkosky,
2413 Delduare Street, GarJ,
Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17

Arthur Murray, noted authority on
ballroom dancing, today describes THE
AIabama"-tbird of = series of twelve
dances in the series on stepping In
style" which he Is writing for The Times
and NEA Service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17

A limited number to choose
from. Included are crepes, sat
ms and others in plain cOlOrs and
beautiful prints. Former
priced So. Some are slightly
damaged or sOiled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24

said, was that II the commission form
of government Is adopted at the COM
ing election some Of the best material
for public office in the county would be
barred under the present rule from
seeking the Offices to be so created.
At the September meeting of the
Civic Federation, F. E. Mann, delegate
from the Cherrydale Citizens Associa-
ton. introduced a resolution looking
toward such move and the president
appointed committee for the purpose
This committee is headed by Hugh
McGrath, an attorney
The committee has never had a
meeting and will probably accomplish
little until after the coming election.
since McGrath, along with other promi-
nent workers in the federation, IS de-
voting all OF his time to campaigning
for the county manager form of gov
eminent.
The present plans of the committee
are to first get list of all of the Fed
eral employees residing in the county
and then to estimate their percent
age OF the total number of voters. This
information will be turned over to the
Civil Service Commission with a re-
quest that these people be permitted
to participate in county politics only.
II necessary, 1t was said, the euuest
will be carried to the President. ~
Even II change in the form of
government is effected on November 4.
the committee feels that it has plenty
of time to devote to the Civil Service
Commission, since the act under which
a change in government is permitted
provides that members of the govern
ing body shall be elected at the next
general election, which will not take
place until November, 1881, those elect
ed to take Office January /, 1882
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
BINGHAM REPORTS
ON SAMOAN VISIT
Tells President Of Plans for Formal
I Recommendations to
Be Made.

Senator Bingham of Connecticut, who
headed the commission appointed by
President Hoover to study conditions in
the Samoan Islands with a view to de-
termining necessary changes In the
laws governing that peninsular possess
sion, gave a brief accounting to the
President at the White House today, and
told him about the recommendations
the commission would formally submit
to him.
According to the Connecticut Senator,
the recommendations in brief win in
clude giving to the Samoans a bill of
rights somewhat similar to those of
Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
American citizenship will be extended,
but not to the extent Of bringing the
Samoans under the Constitution. The
recommendation will also include modi-
fication of the Navy control of Samoa
and win set up legislature composed Of
natives, provide courts of justice and ex-
tend the right of appeal to the Federal
court in Hawaii There will be a gov
ernor with authority to veto native
made laws, but without the absolute
authority the present naval governor
now has.
Senator Bingham stated that the
present Navy control in the Samoan
Islands is an evidence of the most I'M
limited autocracy that the world has
ever seen. This, he said, is due to the
fact that the Navy governor has full
authority to make laws and deal out
punishment. Although the committee
recommends modifying this control, it
will go on record commencing the Navy
for the highly satisfactory manner in
which It has handled the affairs of this
United States possession in the South
Seas. Senator Bingham said that the
Nays management, while 1t had been
autocratic, has been highly benevolent.
Great attention has been paid to SAM
tation, education and the economic de-
yelopment of Samoa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
GLOOMY DAYS

How mournful is the startled scout
who finds his hair Is falling out. He's
been. renowned for many blocks, be-
cause of flowing raven locks his ring
lets, glossy and undyed. have filled his
breast with honest pride. And now
he feels q bleak despair; his brush and
comb are filled with hair, which should
be sticking to his head; it is an hour of
ghastly dread. And now he'll make the
drugstore round, and buy restorers by
the pound, and soak his head with wal
nut stain, and other dope, and all in
vain. He'll send his coin to breezy
lads who I'LL some magazines with
ads in which they promise to restore the
crop of hair he had of yore. The more
he buys, the more he dopeS, the slend-
erer becomes his hopes; he sees the bald
spot growing big, and goes and buys
himself a wig, and he avoids his fell
Iowmen, and he will never smile again.
It is a frightful thing TO note that he's
outgrown his vest and coat. The clothes
that were quite loose last year now
tighter than drum appear; he always
had a princely shape which stylish
tailors loved to drape; and now he finds
and groans thereat, that he is piling on
the fat "Ah. WELL" he thinks, "I've
soap. which will by proper use, retard,
the growth of tallow and of lard" He
buys such nostrums at the store, and
every day he's weighing more. He buys
himself a patent belt, composed Of
canvas wire and felt and cheerily goes
forth to weigh, and finds he gains two
pounds day. Oh, there are dark and
solemn days, which come to all poor
mortal Jays, and we can only stand the
gan, and try to spring little laugh.
WALT MASON.
(Copyright. 1885,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
.K|WAN|S CLUBS
BEGIN CONVENTION
Meeting at Norfolk Told of
Work Among Crippled
Children.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NORFOLK, Va, october 24.-Wash-
ington has become nationally known for
its work among crippled children since
the Kiwanis Club work started here in
1928, Edwin F. Hill, lieutenant gov
ernor of the first district, reported at a
trustees conference which opened the
twelfth annual convention of the
Kiwanis Clubs of the capital district
last night The conference will continue
through Saturday.
Since the club work started in the
National Capital $50 children have been
given treatment or rehabilitated, while
today about 100 children are receiving
disqualification and surgical, nursing or
financial assistance from the Washing
ton club, Mr.. Hill reported.
The two crippled children's schools
secured by the club have proved their
worth and are being used to good adj
vantage, he declared. Gratifying CO.
operation has been received from the
Army, Navy, Marine and Almas Temple
Shrine Bands. and the Tuesday Eve
ming Music Club in the clubs program
of entertainment for institutional shut
ms, the report stated.
other lieutenant governors who re-
ported were Rev. Francis Hume Scott,
third division; David Nelson Sutton,
son, sixth division. District Gov. Jesse
H. Bindord presided at the trustees
conference. Simultaneous conferences
of presidents and secretaries were con-
Quoted by haywood o. Lawrence OF
Portsmouth and Asa w. Howard OF
Roanoke, respectively.
More than 400 persons attended the
opening session of the general con-
vention in the Cavalier Hotel, Virginia
Beach, last night.
The visitors were welcomed by Robert
r. Hasler, president of the Norfolk Club,
Russell S. Parkinson, past district gov
ernor, responding. Others to speak at
the opening session were John j.
Wicker, jr.; Rev. Roland p. Wagner,
Merle Towner and Berry Plummer.
Music was furnished by Fred East, Will
liam F. Raymond and Robert F. Thomas
of Washington, while the Portsmouth
Club entertained with stunt.
An address by Harry G. Kimbau, i'm
mediate past governor Of the district,
detailing the high lights of Kiwanis
accomplishments in the territory for
1880, was one Of the features Of today's
program.
Mr.. Kimball enumerated nearly 14o
different ways in which the 48 clubs
of the district are working out the OBJ
jectives of Kiwanis in their commune
ties, reporting "a faithful and energetic
attention to KiwaniS work." and adding
that nowhere in KiwaniS can there be
found more loyal, more capable and
more devoted men than are in large
numbers in the Capital district.
Today's program also calls for adj
dresses by DR.. William Moseley Brown,
Past Gov. Robert w. Kline. DR.. Will
liam Samuel Hess and Roe Fulkerson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24

strongly anti-American and anti-Brit-
ish, accusing these nations of helping
the Nationalist.
when the Reds asked my national
ity," said Father de Jenlis, land I re-
piled French they answered: All right.
but if you are American or British we
will kill you, because they oppose u.s.
At Nanchang the Dutch priest, Father
Breucker, joined Father de Jenlis and
Bishop Magnani and also came to
Shanghai.
Father Bieucker walked 90 miles
through the Red-infested countryside
to Nanchang, lodging Communists by
travelling at night and hiding in the
daytime, making the journey in seven
days.
Father Breucker said he believed
Bishop Sheehan of Streator, ILL.,, who
escaped from Jaochow with Reds at his
heels, was hiding in the mountains near
Fuchow. The whereabouts of two other
fleeing Americans, Father Altenburg of
Milwaukee and Leo Moore of Perryville,
Mo-, was not known.
GTrNRnAT RIMS GANTTET
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
CAMPAIGN LATENT
Fight to Free Federal En-
pIoyes From Ban Held
Up in Arlington.
BY a STAR correspondent Of rhe Star.

CLARENDON, Va, October "a
Aside from the appointment of COM
mittee to formulate the plans by which
Arlington County Civic Federation has
taken no further steps toward the
emancipation" of Federal Government
employees in the county from the nom
political rule of the United States
Civil Service Commission, it was learn
ed today from member of the COM
mittee.
At the meeting of the inter-federa-
ton conference Monday night william
G. Hull, president of the Arlington
County Civic Federation, informed
other delegates that his organization
was planning to ask that Federal en-
ployes residing in the county be per-
mitted to participate in local politics
One of the reasons for this move. he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
RECKLESS DRIVING
Jury RIGHT ARGUED
U. S. Supreme Court to Set
tie Constitutional Guaran-
tee in Local Case.

The United States Supreme Court
has taken under advisement the ques-
ton of whether reckless driving in the
District traffic code is serious offense
emitting person to trial by jury, OF
whether it falls in the class of petty
offenses, which are tryable without a
jury.
The court heard arguments on the
case yesterday afternoon, with Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Robert E
Lynch presenting the Districts view
that 1t Is a petty offense not requiring
a jury trial. Attorney William b
O'Connell made the legal arguments in
support of trial by Jury in such cases.
O'Connell was counsel for William H.
Colts, who was denied a jury trial in
Police Court on the charge of reckless
driving and was then convicted by the
court. The District Court of Appeals,
however, reversed the Police Court, hold
ing a jury trial should have been al
lowed. The District government asked
q review by the highest court on the
ground that, the Court of Appeals
erred
The legal arguments yesterday touched
on the broad question of where the line
may be drawn between criminal of
lenses, for which trial by jury is guar
anteed in the Constitution, and petty
ordinances, which may be tried by a
magistrate without jury.
Early British Law Cited.
When a member of the court asked
If there was any offense in common
law comparable to reckless driving,
Corporation Counsel Lynch referred to
q law passed by the British Parliament
in 1773, before the American Revolu-
ton, fixing penalties for negligent driv-
ing of horses and carriages. He said
the terms of that law indicated that
In those early times the nearest thing
to reckless driving was looked upon as
q petty offense.
Counsel for the District cited num-
Der of decisions in State courts to sup
port its contention, and also relied
largely on the Schick case in which,
District counsel said, the court sustained
the waiver of a jury in a trial where
the maximum punishment was $50. In
that case, the District counsel argued,
the court held that the provisions of
the Constitution for trial by jury did
not extend to petty offenses. The PEN
atty for. first offense of reckless driv-
ing in the District is from $25 to 500
or from 10 to 80 days.
Local Traffic Code Amended.
In passing the local traffic law, Con-
gress demanded the District Code to
provide that in all cases in which the
accused would not be entitled to a jury
trial by force of the Constitution, the
trial shall be by the court, except that
when the penalty may be more than
$500 or more than 80 days defendant
could demand jury trial. Since the
penalty in the reckless driving case is
below these limits, the case hinges on
whether the offense is one for which
the Constitution requires a jury trial.
In addition to relying on the Consti-
tuition, O'Connell questioned the right
as the test for determining the right to
trial by jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
MASSACRE At KAN
RELATED BY PRIEST
Bishop, Tortured With Strips
of Iron, Unable to Tell
of Experiences.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI october pa first
hand account of the massacre at Khan
and the kidnapping and torture of Cath
olic missionaries there was related here
today by Rev. Father De Jenlis, French
priest who estimated the number slain
at 1000.
Rev. Father De Jenlis and the italian
Bishop Magnani of the Lazarist Mis-
sion at Khan, were among the 16 mis-
sionaries kidnapped when Communists
overran the Central Kiangsi Province
city october S. The bishop and the
French priest were released and sent
to Kiukiang to carry the demand OF
the Reds for ransom money amounting
to $1o,O0O;0oO Mexican ($3,5oo,ooo
American money!.
Says Slaughter Reports Exaggerated.
Father De Jenlis said Chinese reports
that 5000 persons had been slaughtered
were gross exaggerations' and that
any accounts of still greater numbers
having been slain were "baseless and
imaginary"
AS the result of beatings at, the hands
of Reds, who used strips of iron to in
flict torture Bishop Magnani was UNI
able to relate his experience. Father
feet health, easily withstood the eX-
perience, however, and related how the
Reds overran the city.
Communists numbering 10000 en-
tered Khan on the morning of october
5, Father De JenliS said, capturing the
city and taking control of everything.
During the ensuing 10 days, the
priest asserted, the Communists killed
about 1000 persons. He believed the
number slain after his departure on
october Is would make an additional
1000, bringing the total killing to 1000.
Father De Jenlis said the Reds did
not seem particularly bloodthirsty,
except when resisted
POpulace Feigning Communism.
The French priest asserted the num-
Der Of killings had been held to a rel
atively low figure because the populace
had profesSed to accept Communist
tenets. knowing that by doing this their
lives would be saved.
The Il captured missionaries, he said,
were being well treated when he and
Bishop Magnani left, with the exception
of one Chinese priest who was killed
because he was a Christian"
Another priest was taken into the
country. Bishop Magnani and another
French priest now held at Khan were
bound and beaten, said Father De Jenlis,
because they were Imperialists."
Father De Jenlis said the principal
interest of the Reds was in footing the
city, which they did with great
thoroughneSs.
Father de Jenlis said the Reds. were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
SCENT FARE ACCEPTED
AS AID IN DEPRESSION
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., october 24.-Public
Service Co-ordinated Transport, a bus
and trolley company, will temporarily
drop its application for an increase in
fares and return to the fiat scent rate
in established zones Thomas N. McCar-
ter, president, advised the State Board
of Public Utility Commissions yesterday.
McCarter said the move would be
made Ito aid business depression"
The company now charges 10-cent
cash fare and sells 10 tokens for so
cents. Its application for higher fares
called for Decent cash fare and four
token for quarter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR JOHN E. BENTON
Assistant Auditor of American Sc
curity e. Trust Co. Buried at
Rock Creek Cemetery.

Funeral services for John E. Benton,
SO years old, assistant auditor of the
American Security & Trust Co., who
died Wednesday, were held this after
noon at the residence, 1913 Lanier place.
Interment was in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mr. Benton, a native of Washington,
had been connected with local banks
for more than 40 years. In 1918 he
became associated with the Home Saw
ings Bank. When this institution was
taken over the following year by the
American Security g. Trust Co.. he
was appointed to the position of as
sistant auditor.
Mr.. Benton is survived by his widow,
a sister, Mrs. Charles H Clifford of
Pasadena, Calf, and half-brother,
Ralph w. Benton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
GUNBOAT RUNS GANTLET.
Communist Batteries Along Yangtze
Attack British Vessel.

ICHANG, China, october "a N9.-
The British gunboat Gannett arrived
here from Hankow today and reported
it was attacked six times by Com
munist shore batteries during the 300
mile voyage up the Tangtze River. The
warship suffered no damage, however.
Officers of the Gannett said Com
munist activity along the Yangtze in
Hupeh Province was decidedly on the
increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
Observe 7oth wedding Anniversary

ST. JOHNS, Mich, October "a OPD.-
MIR and Mrs. Emmett Nichols, residents
of this community SO years, will OBJ
serve their SEVENTEEN wedding anniver-
sary tomorrow. Mr.. Nichols is SO years
old, and his wife is 8 years his junior.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24

political meeting while President Paul
Lcebe of the Reichstag was speaking.
Six persons received medical treat
ment. The bombs were thrown BY
political opponents of the Socialists.
Evening star., 1930-12-01
Bow Hunter Is Shot.

LYNCHBURG, Va. December 1 (Spe-
ciaD Leonard Drinkard, IL, son of L.
w. Drinkard, of Six Mile Bridge, Camp
bell County, was seriously wounded
when shot in the head while hunting
He placed his shotgun down and as he
did so it was discharged. He is being
attended at Memorial Hospital here.