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The Washington times., 1931-04-14
Births, Deaths, Marriages
DEATHS

BARBEE, MARY N.--suddenly, on Mon
day, Apri Is, 1891, at Garfield Hos
mtal MARY v. BARBEE, the wife of
William j. Barbee and mother OF UlyNe
and Helen Barbee.
Funeral seryrars will be conducted from
The ;. II Hines 60, funeral home. %9Ol
Fourteenth Street Northwest, ON Wcuues-
uay uulrruu0n. ANN Is. 1881, at =
u.plurh, Win the Rev, Braskamp, Gunston
tUmult. officiating. lntcrmcnt Will follow
m kU,h creek cemetery.
HEAN, JAMES W.--plssed away, sud
denly, at his Lac rrsldence, 1906 ALI
sou street Northwest, on sunday. April -,
1854. JAMES W BEAN. the beloved hus-
baud OF EdIth H.. Bean.
Funeral services Will DE conducted from
his late residence. 5UG Allison Street
Northwest uu Wednesday morning, April
~ 1874. at $50 o'clock, thence to the
shrine Of the Sacred Heart Catholic
iu4rrh, corner Sixteenth Street and Park
he said at - clUc, Iur the rcpUse Of his
soul lulrrmrut viii follow III ST John :
thapel, Forest Glen, Md; Please omit
iIuWcis. service by Chambers Co
ELLIS, DELLA-Dcpurtcd this life on
Saturday, April IL. 1881. at her. late
residence, 1884 Cherry Hill Street North
west, Mrs. DELLA ELLIS. the devoted
wife OF Joseph Ellis Besides her hus-
band she leaves 10 mourn her departure
one sister. Josephine GaslSIns. also host
OF other relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be conducted on
Wednesday afternoon, April 10. 1881. at
/ O'Clock iNDu the First Baptist Church,
with the Rev James Plun officiating. ke-
mans resting at the W. Ernest Jarvis
West Eud parlurs. Twenty eighth and Dunn
barton Avenue Northwest.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
BEAUTY PAGEANT
/ SUIT IN PROSPECT
Col. EasterWood, Ir., En-
cages Counsel to Contest
/ Award to Kentucky Blond.

By the Associated Press.
GALVESTON, Tex. June 19.-Legal
action attacking the award of the title
miss United States to Anne Lee Fat
terson. 18-year-old Ludlow, KY, olono'
was in prospect today.
I Col. William z. Easterwood, j.,
rallas, Tex, aviation enthusiast, an
nounced he had employed counsel to
contest the award, presented at the
twelfth international pageant OF beauty
here last Monday night.
His charge that there was dlScrlml-
nation against Texas girls was denied
BY Marvin Starr, managing director OF
The pageant.
: 'The caliber of our judges tribunal
speaks for ITSELF" said Starr. Imagine
telling John Held, jr.; Haskell Coffin,
McClelland Barclay, Jules Cannert,
Lee Townsend, Dir. w. f. Huddleston
and Ben Carlton Mead which way to
vote. who to rule out and why"
: ''The friends of the Texas beauties,
Col. Easterwood said, "have no objec-
tions to Miss Northern Kentucky re-
oeiving the award of $500, but we do
insist that they receive justice in the
honors."
], He said the points of contest against
the winner would include 1.-The fact
she has been in commercial movies in
Cincinnati; that she was permitted
to use cosmetics, denied to other con-
testantS, and that she was the only
one who was not required to pay $l0O
for feat.
Z Miss Patterson was runner-up In the
contest for the crown of Miss Uni
verse, which went to Meta Duchateau
17-year-old Belgian girl.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
FRENCH APPROVE
NAVAL PROGRAM
Expenditure Of $20,000,000
Up to 1885 Voted by Cham
ber of Deputies.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Jure l9.--France's naval
construction program for 19S1-32, en-
failing the expenditure of $2o.O0o,0o0
up to 1885, stood approved today, but
a proposal to build a 23,000-ton super
cruiser to match Germany's Deutsch-
land rested in committee for further
consideration.
The Chamber of Deputies adopted by
a vote of 410 to 168 modified program
Wednesday night slashing the proposed
budget by $24,000000. An amendment
referring the capital ship question to a
committee of naval experts was passed
by vote of ASS to Is. A Socialist
motion to table the entire matter was
defeated by a vote of 391 to 1876.
Socialist Deputy Joseph Paul-Boncour,
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, led the attack on the build
ing of powerful fighting vessels, urging
the Deputies that France should not
take the lead in naval armament on the
eve of the 1882 disarmament confer
ence.
Minister Of Marine Dumont cham
pioned the larger appropriation with
the statement that France must meet
the challenge of Germany's "vestpocket
battleship" in order to protect her
colonial possessions. Smaller cruisers
could not. cope with the Deutschland
On account of its great cruising radius,
he said.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
BAPTIST CONGREGATION
OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY
Pastor of West Washington Church
Presides and Former Ministers
Make Addresses.

Members of the West Washington
Baptist Church, Thirty-first and N
streets. observed the sixty-flfth ami
versary of the founding of the church
at exercises last night in the church.
: Rev. Charles B. Austin, pastor for
the past eight years, presided and ad-
dresses were given by two former pas
tors, Rev. George E. Truett and Rev.
William r. Flanagan.
: The history of the church was traced
by its oldest living member, John w.
Newman, who began with the founding
in 1866 with IL members. Rev. H. w.
o. Millington, executive secretary of the
Columbia Baptist Association: r. L.
Haycock, chairman of the board of dea-
cons, and Rev. Samuel Jlldson Porter,
moderator of the Columbia Baptist AS
sociation, were other speakers.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
RAIN BREAKS DROUGHT
IN ALBERTA. SECTIONS
Two-Day Downpour Puts Many
Bridges Out of Commission and
Fills Sloughs.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CALGARY. Alberta, June ia
heavy two-day rain has brought relief
to the drought-stricken fields and pas
tire lands Of Central and Southern
Alberta. @,....
The. general downpour deluged the
country with from one to three inches
Of rain, the -first to fall in some sec
tions in weeks. Highways have been
washed out in many places, bridges
have been put out of commission along
swollen water courses and for the first
time in IL months sloughs are brim-
ming with water.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
NAVY ORDERS

orders issued to officers under date
Of June Is:
Lieut.. Comdr Raymond A. Deming
detached command Submarine Division
/, to Bureau of Engineering.
= Lieut.. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, or
dars April 18 revoked; detached U. S. S.
Tennessee about June is, to Naval Air
Station, Lakehurst, N. j.
Lieut.. Abraham De Somer, relieved
from all active duty about October l.
to home.
Lieut.. Edward R. Durgin, detached
U. S. S. RS, to duty as division engt-
I1eer officer. Submarine Division 4.
Lieut. Charles F. Grishan, detached
command U. S. S. CheWink, to Subma-
rine Base New London, Conn.
Lieut.. Ralph r. Gurley, detached U.
S. S. Argonaut about May IS, to U. S.
S. Litchf1eld as engineer officer; re-
lieved from all active duty about Octo-
her l, to home.
Lieut.. (Junior Grade) william L. Erl-
mann, detached VO Squadron 3B (U.
s S. Oklahoma), to Naval Air Station,
San Diego, Calf.
Ensign Robert w. Germany, jr, de-
tached U. S. S. Maryland about May
20, to communication duty, battleships,
Ensign Allan M. Gray, detached bat
tleshipS, Battle Force, about June 4, to
u. S. S. Oklahoma.
Ensign Denys w. Knoll, detached
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla,
about May 10, to U. S. S. Texas.
Lieut.. Comdr. Joseph B. Logue (Medi-
cal Corps, detached Naval Hospital,
Portsmouth. N H. about June 20; to
Naval Hospital New York.
Lieut.. Comdr. James E. Potter CMedi-
cal Corps, detached Receiving ship,
San Francisco, about May 49,. to Sub
marine Base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone.
Lieut.. ARA B. Chesser (Medical
Corps, detached Naval Air Station,
Pensacola, Fla. to Naval Air Station,
Lieut.. Harry D. Templeton (Medical
Corps, detached Navy Mine Depot,
Yorktown, Va, about June Is; to U.
S. S. Constitution.
Lieut.. (Junior Grade) Lester E. Nc
Donald Medical Corps, detached U.
S. S. Tennessee about May IS; to Naval
Medical School, Washington, D. c.
:, Comdr. Harry W. Blaisdell (Medical
Corps, detached Navy Yard, Boston,
about July 25; to Naval Air Station,
Pensacola, Fla.
Capt. Waldo P. Druley (Construc-
tion Corps). detached aide on staff, Bat
tie Force, about July /; to duty as man
ager of the yard, Navy Yard, Mare
Island. Calf
Lieut.. William C. Pov--1 (Construc-
tion Corps, detached U. S. S. Medusa
about July l; to Navy Yard, Puget
Sound Wash.
Chief Carpenter Leonard H. Lyon,
detached U. S. S. New York; to Navy
lard. Mare Island, Calf.
Chief Pay Clerk John j. Macdonald,
detached U. S. S. Cincinnati about
June IS: to continue treatment, Naval
Hospital New York.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
coLoRED BOYS TO CAMP

Months Program on Chesapeake
Bay to Start July 6.
Camp Young, provided by the Y. M.
G. A. and the Boy Scouts to furnish
suitable camping facilities for colored
boys of the city, will open July for a
months program, the Twelfth Street
Branch of the Y. M. c. A. has an
nounced.
Arthur, o. Waller, assistant director
of physical education at Howard Uni
versity, will be director of the camp,
with Grafton j. Daniel as his assistant.
Camp Young is located in Calvert
County, Md, on the Chesapeake Bay,
near Prince Frederick.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
Michigan Bank Fails to Open.

WAYNE, Mich, June 10 (P9.-The
Wayne Savings Bank, oldest and largest
bank in this Detroit suburb, failed to
open today. A notice posted by the
directors stated the bank was closed
for reorganization. No statement of
assets and liabilities was Immediately
available
Evening star., 1931-06-19
Nature
Warns You

An inactive liver is natures warm
ing that it is time for action. Head
aches, siuggishness and that de-
pressed feeling are signs of faulty
elimination, known as constipation.
Flush away all poisonous waste mat
ter from your intestinal tract with
HEXASOL, the dependable saline
laxative. Feel like yourself again.
Stir a spoonful in a glass of water
ard drink your own health. HEX
ASOL costs cHly c9c for generous
battle.
Evening star., 1931-06-19
U. S. HIKERS DEPORTED
Canal Zone Authorities Check Trio
on Way to Brazil.

CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, June 10
(R.-Earl Robinson, his brother, VIII
loughby, and ]. W.. Finnegan, Los
Angeles youths, said to have started
out to hike to Rio de Janeiro, are
on their way to Port Limon after hav-
ing been deported yesterday. Canal
Zone authorities declined to permit
them to enter because they were with
out visible means of support. The young
men left Los Angeles in April.
Evening star., 1931-06-19

Admission prices to best movie thea
ters in Guatemala have been fixed at
$1.25 for orchestra seats and cents
for those in the gallery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Grip Is Unbroken
By United Press

ny CHttU IFCSS
CHICAGO, July 1.-The June
heat wave extended into July to-
day and carried into new territory
the Scorching temperatures which
have caused nearly 500 deaths,
widespread crop damage, and in
tense suffering in the last week.
Government weather observers
refused to predict when cooler
weather may arrive. The hot spell
may last for several days more,
they said, and it amy end to-
night or Thursday.
The eastern Seaboard received to-
day the full blast from the summer
furnace. Temperatures between 90
and 100 above prevailed over almost
the entire section between the Rocky
Mountains and the Atlantic.
Contrasting the sultry winds and
hot sunshine over the rest of the
nation, frosty temperatures pre-
vailed in the state of Washington
and in other sections west of the
Rockies. Relief in the midwest and
eastern sections of the country must
come in the form of cool breezes
from that egion, it was said.
Among cities wich recorded tenn
peratures above the century mark
in the last twenty-four hours were
Milwaukee, Atlanta, Birmingham,
Huron, S. D.; Little Rock, Ark. /;
Peoria, Ill, and Evansville, Ind.
Moorhead, MINI; Monticello, Ca;
Scores of cities in many states had
temperatures above 80.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
UTILITY PROFIT
RIGHT UPHELD
Supreme Court ReverSes
CaSS Tribunal.

Municipal utilities may operate to
make profit on investment, Indi-
ana's supreme court ruled today, in
a three to two decision reversing
the CasS circuit court in the Lo-
gansport case.
Jere West, now a member of the
public service commission, wrote the
lower court decision while sitting as
special judge in 1926. He held a
municipal utility must be operated
so only current expense is derived
from rates.
The case, brought to overthrow a
public service commission rate re-
duction order, was appealed by the
city Of Logansport on behalf Of its
municipality owned electric plant.
Profits from the plant have been
used there to construct city build
ings.
The majority opinion of the
court, reversing the West ruling,
was written by Chief Justice Clar-
ence r. Martin. Judges julius
Travis and David Myers dissented.
Contention of the city that NUM-
cipal plants are not within public
service commission jurisdiction was
not upheld by the court. The COM
mission has jurisdiction, but must
make rates high enough to permit
interest on investment, although
not enough to pay taxes which
would be levied were the plant not
publicly owned, the opinion held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
ELECTROCUTED
AS He STRINGS
RADIO AERIAL
Glove Company Manager Is
Killed as He Works on
Factory Roof.
CROSSES UTILITY LINE
Victim FeIIed With Terrific
Force; Nearly Saved
With PuImotor.

William Smith Turpin, IS, Of 649T
Broadway, manager OF the Indian
apolis Glove Company, was electro
cuted this morning on the roof Of
the company's building, 1917 North
Senate avenue, as he attempted to
erect a radio aerial.
City hospital physicians worked
with a pulmotor and administered
artificial respiration in an effort to
save Mr.. Turpin, and for some time
they believed he might live.
Mr.. Turpin and his brother-ir-
law, Earl Wrinkle, 20, of the same
address, had strung the aerial from
q smokestack to the forepart Of the
building. Mr.. Turpin cast the wire
over the building in order to run
it into his Office. AS he did so, the
wire crossed a utility power line
carrying $4,000 volts.
Hurled to Roof
simultaneously with the terrific
flash, Mr.. Turpin was hurled to the
roof, still clutching the radio wire.
Wrinkle grabbed a section Of in
sulated wire and pulled the aerial
from Mr.. Turpin's grasp.
Answering Wrinkles cries for help,
three Negro employees of the COM
pany carried Mr.. Turpin to another
section Of the roof, where first aid
was administered.
Prominent in activities of the
Chamber of Commerce, Mr.. Turpir
came here nine years ago as man
ager of the company. Previously he
had lived in Highbridge, KY, and
GAINESVILLE, O.
Plant Is Closed
Wrinkle, nearly PROSTATE from
grief, told police Mr.. Turpin had
been experimenting with a radio
and was preparing to test it in the
company's Offices today. An cleo
trician was to arrive later to COM
plete the hookup.
Surviving him are the widow, Mrs.
Georgia Turpin, and his sisters
children, Earl Wrinkle, 90; Helen
Wrinkle, IA, and Bernice Wrinkle, 8.
Three hundred women employees
Of the company became hysterical
and the plant was closed for the
day. The body was taken to Elan
ner & Buchanan mortuary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Witt and Hamilton Appear
in Court to Deny Jack
son SLaYInQ.

Anxious stares of their families
leaving them not once during the
proceedings, Louis e. Hamilton and
Charles Vernon Witt were srraigned
in criminal court today as the muir
derers Of Lafayette A. jackson,
wealthy chain grocery owner.
Through their attorney they
pleaded not guilty to two indict-
ments. One was for first-degree
murder, and the second on which
the state will prosecute, is for muir
der during commission of crime,
mandatory penalty for which under
the Indiana law Is death.
The pair will be tried July Is,
Judge Frank P. Baker said, follow
ing arraignment, and Ira M. Holmes,
defense attorney, promised to be
ready for trial by that date.
The courtroom was jammed today
for the first time since the Schroe-
der muder trial at Witt and Hamil-
ton were brought under heavy guard
before Judge Baker.
Both Freshly Shaved
Wits father and mother, and
Hamilton'S father, bride and pretty
sister stood near the entrance to
the prisoners box as the youths
entered the room.
There were brief embraces, tears
in the eyes of the families and
smiles on the lips of the accused
men, before Floyd Mattice, chief
deputy prosecutor, read the indict-
mentS.
Both men had improved their ap-
pearance since Monday when ar
raignment date was set. Hamilton
was freshly shaved, wore a newly
pressed tan suit and a new tie,
while Witt likewise was shaved and
wore a dark blue suit.
AS her son sat down, Mrs. Witt,
beyond middle age, tossed the
room and kissed him again.
To each of the indictments
Holmes pleaded not guilty, and
then, reminding the Judge that to-
day is visiting day at Marion coun-
ty Jail, he asked permission to con-
fer with the prisoners and their
families this afternoon.
After this meeting, he said, he
will tell Prosecutor Herbert Wilson
whether he will make any change
in trial plans.
Files Damage Suit
It was a visit to Hamilton Mon
day afternoon that led Holmes into
newspaper headlines and to a ply
sician'S office In argument with
Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner
ended In a pugilistic encounter
from which Holmes came of with
a bruised nose and cut forehead.
Today a $4,000 damage suit was
pending against the sheriff in Mar
ion circuit court, Holmes asking
that amount for personal damage
in the fray. The sheriff laughed at
the suit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01

Flier'S Wife on Way East to
Meet Mate.

When Harold Gatty, one of the
world fliers, reaches Roosevelt field,
N. Y, tonight a surprise will await
him.
Mrs. Gatty took her first air trip
from Los Angeles to New York via
TranScontinental & Western Air,
passing through Indianapolis today,
to greet her famous husband when
he lands.
The TWA plane landed at munich
pal airport at p. m. 1t did not
leave Immediately, awaiting weather
reports because of threatening skies.
Through The Times, the Cleve-
land Press and United Press Asso-
Citations, Mrs. Gatty hoped to tell
her husband when he landed at
Cleveland that she was aboard the
transport ship, and asked that he
get in radio communication with the
TWA plane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Note Received Pleasantly
BIZ United Press


WASHINGTON, July 1-Presi-
dent Hoover's latest memorandum
on the war debt negotiations, pre-
sented to France today through
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon,
has been received very pleasantly
by France, acting Secretary Of
State William r. Castle said this
afternoon.
He discussed the reception OF the
note with the press after long
conference with President Hoover.
He pronounced the situation
very cheerful on leaving the
White House.
Castle explained the memoran-
dunn covered virtually the same
ground as an administration state
ment to the press Tuesday night,
pointing out three issues on which
agreement had not been reached.
The Hoover memorandum, Castle
explained, must be regarded only
as a statement Of the American
position at present and not as a
final reply to the French.
The document was drafted and
dispatched to Paris Tuesday night
by Castle and Senator Dwight w.
Morrow, whom Mr.. Hoover called
to assist in the negotiations.
AT the same time, Castle vigor-
ously denied reports that the United
States had discussed With other ma
lions a plan to carry out the Hoover
debt suspension proposal without
cooperation of France.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01

By United Press
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July l.
The monoplane, Winnie Mae, home
ward bound near the end of mans
swiftest globe-gtrdling. journey, was
speeding through the skies this
afternoon somewhere over the
United States, near the Canadian
border.
Wiley Post, pilot, and Harold
Gatty, navigator, rested after a
sound nights sleep, climbed into
their speedy plane at 3:S9 a. m.
(4:39 a. m. Indianapolis time) i,
waved goodbye to Edmonton, Al
berta, and scared away on the final
phase of their phenomenal fight
back to New York.
They nosed their machine into
the wind which blew out, of a rainy
gray dawn and vanished southwark.
They were unreported until $3.50
a. m. Indianapolis time) when NC
lavish, Manitoba, called Winnipeg
with the information that the plane
had passed over that village. Nc
lavish is thirty threee miles south
west OF Winnipeg.
Previous to that, unconfrned re-
ports said they had passed over
Saskatoon, SaSk., at $40 and the
reports indicated the filters were
averaging around 145 miles an hour
The f1ierS said they expected to
make one stop for refueling at
Cleveland and hurry on to New
York. They hoped to reach Roose-
Velt field, New York, soon after dark
tonight.
The weather had cleared consid-
eraoly as dawn frightened. A forty-
nVe-mile-an-hour tail wind speeded
tnem on their way across the North
American continent toward the
achievement of their daring goal.
The fliers were up at 2:3o a. M
after eight hours sleep. They ate a
nearly breakfast and then inspected
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
REDS CITE PROGRESS
Claim Swear Plan Success
at Halfway Point.

By United Press
MOSCOW, July 1.-The Soviet
press, celebrating the completion of
the first half of the third and de-
cisiye" year of the five-year plan,
devoted pages today to unemploy-
ment and economic chaos" in the
capitalist nations, contrasted with
progress here.
The outstanding achievement OF
the last six months was given as
agricultural-55 per cent of the
peasantry collectiYized; 10000, 600
hectares Of spring sowing accom-
plished, compared with $4,000, 900 in
1880, and 100000 hectares of cot
ton planted, 100000 more than in
1880.
simultaneously, substantial in
creases in the production of oil,
electric power and machinery were
claimed. Serious failures were adj
mitted, especially in transportation.
The general industrial growth has
been behind the plan, but the mar
gin was expected to be made up in
the latter half Of the year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
CITY GOES ON A JAG!

But Only Water Is Consumed; Tues
day Total 4S.2 Million Gallons.
Water was the cry of Indian
apolis Tuesday.
AS the mercury mounted during
the twenty-four hours, so did the
water consumption. When the day
ended the total was 492 million gall
Ions, an increase of q per cent over
the general daily average, officials
Of the Indianapolis Water Company
reported.
The rush hour. between and 8
p. m. Tuesday caused use Of much
more.
Officials said if the consumption
Of this hour had been maintained
for twenty-four hours the days run
would have been 98.4 million gallons.