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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-01

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
Retiring Recreation Chief
Advises Elimination of
Position.

Clash between David Kilgore, city
recreation director, and Miss Julia
Landers, assistant, Of several
months standing grew more bitter
today.
In his resignation, to take effect
March Is, Kilgore suggested to the
park board that it abolish the as
sistant's position. 1t is unnecessary
in the department, he said.
He added that if the position
must be continued, duties of the
director and his assistant should be
defined clearly in order that con-
flictS between them might be
minimized.
Kilgore charged Miss Landers
with malicious efforts to under
mine MIN and his work, and told the
board a repetition of this condition
should be avoided
In a verbal statement, Kilgore
alleged that Miss Landers was the
instigator Of much of the trouble
centering about community houses
and civic clubs last summer and
fall, and accused her as well of
authorship of several anonymous
letters addressed to the park board
and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan
criticising the recreation depart
ment's work.
Kilgore said he made the SUCCESS
tons with the thought in mind that
he was aiding his home city. While
not officially announced, it is said
he has offered to continue in the
department as assistant to H. w.
CWally) Middlesworth, named to
succeed him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
COUNTY SALARY BILL
NEARS FINAL FORM

Representatives who are salary
grabbing" for the officials in their
home counties by amending the
Democratic platform pledge straight
salary bill, were told to get their
changes and increases in by noon
today so that single amendment
might be drawn, Earl Crawford
CUnion and Wayne, Democratic
caucus chairman, announced.
The salary bill would turn sew
eral millions collected in fees by
county officials into the county
general funds and place all officials
on salaries, it is declared.
The amendments were discussed
at a Democratic caucus Wednesday
night when it was also decided to
make the bill, If passed, become
effective Jan. /, 1892.
This would put the bill into force
after the terms of many county Of
ficials had expired, it was pointed
out by Representative Balthase-
Hoffman Oake and Porter.
mo one had the audacity during
the campaign to- suggest that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
IS FINED
Luesse Is Convicted on
vagrancy Charge.

Convicted on one of three vag-
rancy charges, Theodore Luesse, 80,
of 933 South Senate avenue, red
agitator and unemployed leader, to-
day was fined $50 and costs by
Municipal Judge Paul C.. Wetter.
The other vagrancy charges were
dismissed and judgment was with
held on the allegation that Luesse
resisted arrest by Captain Otto Ray,
Feb. IL.
Luesse, through his attorney, Mil
ton Siegel, appealed the vagrancy
conviction to criminal court APP
peal bond of 5000 was posted by
Perry Wyatt. 208 Sanders street.
Ray produced park board records
to show LueSse had worked thirteen
hours in two weeks, and then never
collected his pay. He also testified
Luesse had patronized the soup
house for unemployed.
The unemployed leader was ar
rested again Wednesday afternoon
following speech on the state
house steps as part of an interna-
tional demonstration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
NINE FIREMEN HURT
Two Trucks Damaged in
Crash at Anderson.

By Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, Feb. 26.-When
city f1remen from No. subStation
miSread the alarm signal tape and
started to the wrong place, they
caused an accident that caused
minor injuries to nine f1remen, and
disabled two trucks.
The collision occurred at Thir-
teenth street and Madison avenue,
when the pumper, driven by Carl
Phillips, turned suddenly into Thir-
teenth street directly in front of a
heavy truck from central station,
which was being driven by Joseph
Phillips. The drivers are not rela-
tiveS.
Firemen were hurled from the
trucks impact, but none was in
jured seriously.
Another station unit, responding
to the same alarm, continued to the
intersection where the alarm was
reported, and extinguished the blaze.
The damaged trucks will be out of
service two or three weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
DrieSt EUer

This official weather bureau
summary describing conditions
during the crop-maturing sea-
son of last year shows clearly
why the relief is necessary for
hungry drought sufferers:
For the summer season
(June to Augusta Arkansas
with but little more than a
third of the normal rainfall,
was relatively the driest state
east of the Rocky mountains,
followed by Kentucky with A
per cent; Mississippi, At per
cent, and Maryland and Della
ware, e per cent.
eft was the driest summer
on record in Arkansas, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi,
West Virginia, Virginia and
Maryland, and the driest since
1894 in Michigan, Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
I'm Arkansas, June and
July had only about one-fifth
of the normal rainfall, while
the total for the summer (4.19
incheS) was nearly 80 per
cent less than the previous
low record of 5.84 in 1896.
For the year as a whole,
forty of the forty EIGHT states
had less than normal rainfall"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
BOXING BILL PASSES
Commission Measure Wins
in House, $500.

Despite charges that "the state
is going into partnership with social
parasites" the Indiana house Of
representatives late Wednesday
ps. sed the boxing commission bill,
So to 20.
All boxing bouts would be placed
under state supervision and pro-
meters and participants licensed by
the commission. The measure also
would permit decisions to be given
by the referee and two judges to
be appointed by the commission.
Representative Herbert P. Kenney
Dem., Floyd, coauthor, asserted
during debate the bill would raise
at least 100000 for the state during
its first year of operation. Oppose
ton to the bill was led by Repre-
sentative John F. White (Den.,
Marion).
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
YELLOW KID is
IN JAIL AGAIN
Re- Enters Confidence Rae
ket, Farmers Charge.
By United Press

By United Press
HAMMOND, Ind, Feb. 90
Joseph yellow Kid We'll, Chicago
confidence man who announced his
retirement from the racket last
year, was in Hammond Jail today
charged by several Indiana farmers
with having re-entered the pro
feSSion."
We'll, 1t was charged, met the
victims recently, telling them that
he was a big real estate operator
from Chicago interested in the pur-
chase of large tracts Of Indiana
land.
The farmers claimed that their
interest, stimulated by the Yellow
Kids sales talk, suddenly dinin-
ished when they found themselves
relieved of several thousand dol
lars by way of the confidence route.
We'll, wearing his customary yell
low kid gloves, but minus his
famous whiskers, was arrested
Wednesday in the company of Ell
mer Whitley, Max Hoppe and Ar
thur Bourbon, all of Chicago. The
four were held without formal
charges, but police indicated that
they would be charged with fraud.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
RESORT RADIED
BY U. S. AGENTS
Dry Squad Reports Gaming
ParaphernaIia Seized.

Special prohibition agents re-
turned to Indianapolis today with
firearms, gambling account books,
and other evidence, which they re-
port they obtained in raid of The
Pines, alleged gambling resort and
roadhouse, near New Albany,
Wednesday night.
The agents, headed by Ben F.
Hargrove, arrested three men on
gambling charges, detained twenty
seven employees and seized $4,000
worth of gambling paraphernalia,
they reported.
Alleged owners of the establish
ment, charged with violating the
national prohibition law and main
tanning a nuisance, are held under
bond. They are Harry Daley,
August Bower, Charles w. Walford
and Gus Kamer.
More than $50 guests we're at
the roadhouse when Hargrove and
agents, James Lavely and Warren
P. Allender, entered. New Albany
police and county sheriffs aided in
the raid. Eight guests, including
two women, who the agents said
had liquor, were held as material
witnesses. Two truck loads of slot
machines, four dice tables, and two
roulette wheels were taken to the
New Albany police station, the
agents declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
TOBACCO LEVY is
DOWNED IN HOUSE

yet here's bill aimed at his tobacco
and there's another one coming up
aimed at his home brew. If We pass
this bill putting a 10 per cent tax
on the invoices of tobacco whole
salers, jobbers and dealers, it means
the poor man is going to have to
stand the tax eventually or the state
will lose some business.
This legislature has refused to
pass medicinal whisky bill on the
grounds that it would put boot
Logging in the hands of the doctors
and druggists You'll make tobacco
bootleggers out of 10000 tobacco
dealers if ye .lass this bill"
Representatives Hardin S. Linke
(Dem., Bartholomew and John M.
Cantley Dem., Cass) defended the
measure, both asserting the pro-
posed tax is a small one and that
other states have no difnculty in
collecting it. :
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26

change become effective after our
candidates went out of office" he
said. Il do not know why we should
bubble at the present time"
The caucus followed the after
non session of the house at which
were introduced maelstrom of
amendments to separate measure
which would fix the salaries and
deputy hire Of the prosecutors of
the state. The bill was advanced to
engroSsment after fifty-five amend
ments had been included, forty-one
of which slashed the proposed ex-
penditures in some way or another
and fourteen granted increases.
The bill boosts the salary of the
Marion county prosecutor from
$500 to $4,000 and provided for
an appropriation of $4,000 for
deputy hire.
This was not deemed sufficient
by Representative Russell j. Dean
Dem-, Marion), who is said to have
his eyes on deputy prosecutorship.
Dean introduced an amendment
boosting the deputy hire allowance
TO $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
THIEF BELIEVED GUILTY
IN Staying OF FARMER

Body With BulIet-Pierced Head
Found in Granary Near Princeton.
By Times Special
PRINCETON, Ind, Feb. 26.-Gib-
son county authorities are searching
for a person believed engaged in
theft, who killed Marion White, SO,
farmer, as he did his evening chores
at his farm, four miles northeast of
here. A .32-caliber bullet passed
through his head and was imbed-
ded in the wall of a granary, where
he was picking up corn.
No clew to identity of the slayer
has been found. The body of White
was found by the owner of the farm,
DR.. j. Cunningham, and neighbor,
Albert Landers, who started search
when they became alarmed because
White had been absent from the
house an hour.
Thefts of grain and livestock from
farms in the vicinity have been nu-
merouS of late, leading to the theory
that a thief committed the murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26

AsSailed as vicious legislation"
and aimed at the poor mans
pocketbook," the Galloway Black
tobacco tax bill went down in de-
feat in the Indiana house of repre-
Sentatives late Wednesday by the
close vote Of 50-42.
No sooner was the bill brought
out for third reading than Repre-
sentative Russell j. Dean dem,
Marionl introduced a motion for
indefinite postponement.
This was the signal for half
dozen representatives to demand the
chairs recognition with Represen-
tative John D. T. Bold Oem., Van
derbur), the most agile in get
ting on his feet.
This session of the legislature is
supposed to be poor mans
session. asserted Bold. Its sup
posed to help the poor man and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
UTILITIES CURB
BILLS NEARING
FINAL BALLOT
Abolition OF State Commits
sion and Rate Making
Change Provided.
VALIDITY IN QUESTION
Federal Court Decisions for
Reproduction Cost Basis
Cited in House.

Having successfully weathered
tWo storms, proponents of the two
bills, one of which would change
the rate-making valuations of the
public service commission and the
other abolish the commission, were
preparing today for the third trial
at arms, which viii come when the
bill is handed down in the house
or representatives for final passage.
Both measures successfully ran
the gauntlet on second reading late
Wednesday and were sent ON to en-
grossment. An amendment was de-
feated which would have prevented
z chaotic condition which would
arise in event the first bill, abolish
ing the public service commission,
we're passed and the second recre-
ating 1t with minor changes were
defeated.
This amendment would have con-
tinued the commissions authority
over trucks and buses which it does
not possess under the 1913 railroad,
commission act.
1t is necessary to pass one bill
abolishing the commission and an
other recreating it, but with the
provision that valuations for rate
making purposes shall be on the
basis of cost less depreciation in
stead of the present system Of re-
production value In order to make
any changes, as the public service
commission act is contractual
statute Representative Cecil j.
Kistler Rep., Elkhart) pointed out.
Amendment Lost
Motion of Representative John
D. r. Bold Dem, Vanderburg) to
table the amendment, was carried
on a division showing AZ ayes and
81 noes.
You might just as well kill the
bills" declared Kistler, because
chaos will result If the measures are
passed without the amendment"
He later declared that an attempt to
insert the amendment will be made
in the senate.
THE people of Indiana are as vi
tally interested in remedial legisla-
ton on utility rates as on taxa
ton reform" he said. Cut the
rates, as this bill would provide,
and you would save more than
enough to pay the taxes.
IF you do not pass these bills,
the highway robbery by the utilities
will be continued"
Material Costs Less
Klstler quoted Babson, authority
on economics, on the fact that ma
terial used by utilities are 20 per
cent lower in cost than two years
ago and declared this is one reason
why the rates should be reduced.
Admitting that highway robbery
has been perpetrated by the utilities
in their rate making, Bold declared
that the legislature could not
change the method of fixing the
rates. This is because, he said,
federal courts have declared that
reproduction value should be the
basis of fixing the rates and this has
crippled remedial legislation by state
bodies.
THE federal courts have set up a
monopoly and we can do nothing
about it, and therefore there is no
reason to attempt to bring chaos in
utility regulation by abolishing the
public service commission.
A roll call showed as to Al against
postponing the bill. The companion
measure was also advanced by a
voice vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
STILL, % GALLONS OF
MASH TAKEN BY POLICE
Workmen Find Liquor Plant in
Bathroom of House.

A i00-gallon still in operation,
discovered by three workmen called
TO make repairs at the house, to-
getl1er with fifteen gallons of
moonshine and twenty-five barrels
Of mash, was seized by a police
SQUAD under Lieutenant Lester
Jones, at go North La Sale street,
today.
A woman at the house when the
workmen made the discovery es-
capped In sedan which was driven
in front of the house before police
arrived.
The still, located in a second floor
bathroom, was discovered after the
workmen, under a trap door found
gas pipe connected back OF the
meter. leading TO the bathroom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
SUIT AGAINST ESTATE

Niece of Late ShelhyviIle Newspaper
Publisher Seeks $500.
By Times Special
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Feb. 90
Mrs. Annette c. CofFman, So, niece
of the late T. E. Goodrich, Shelby
vile newspaper publisher, has filed
a claim for S2,676 against his estate.
She alleges that in 1929, she was
employed as social service worker
in Springfield, H., at salary of
$275 month, but her uncle induced
her to give up the position and come
here to assist him in publishing the
paper. For the work, Mrs. Coffman
says, she received no compensation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
STREET PLAN APPROVED
Works Board Will Resurface and
Widen New York Street.


Approval of plans and estimates
for widening and resurfacing of
East New York street, Gale street
to Emerson avenue, has been made
by Tie works board today. 1t will
be a sixty-foot street and forty
five-foot roadway with estimated
cost of Sl2i, 760. Advertisement for
bids will be made this week.
Plans for the widening of West
New York street, from Blake to
Beauty avenue, also have been COM
pleted.
Engineering department plans call
for a thirty-six-foot roadway with
present twenty-four-foot roadway
resurfaced. Engineers estimate of
cost is $29,205.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
Elephant Eggs

By United Press
DETROIT, Feb. 26.-Mayor
Frank Murphy's ideas on
. zoology suffered a sudden up
set today when he received a
Letter from Jack Lee Baulden,
Dallas, Tex. requesting a ship
ment Of white elephant eggs
from the Detroit ZOO.
Baulden wrote that his un-
Gle wished to make the Dallas
zoe present of Matching Of
such eggs, and that he knew
Detroit had some white ele-
plants.
Mayor Murphy is writing to
tell his Dallas correspondent
that while Detroit has it's
share of a big city's white eIe-
plants, none Of them lays eggs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
Action by Governor
Bills signed Feb. Is

Bills signed Feb. Is
H. b. 10 fDouglassl -Authorlzes and re-
cufres towns in which volunteer IRE COM
panies exist to insure members in event OF
injury or death while on duty. Provides
for maximum compensation OF $1,000 pay
able at the rate OF SIS q week for dis
abiement and $4,000 IN event Of death.
Bills signed Feb, 26
II. - ~ Rates Defending the powers
and duties OF the indianapolis city coun-
ell and board OF works In respect 10
establishment and operation OF municipal
airport, giving the works board sole power
over administration Of the airport.
II. B. III tWatSonl --Clarifying track
elevation Law and bringing Fl Wayne
witkln ia provisions,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
AIDS JOB,
PLEA OF KILGORE
Scare Cure
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 26.-
Effie (Strings) Harper, Ball
college basketball center, has
found a cure for influenza. The
athlete had been suffering
from the disease and was en-
route home to go to bed. See
ing a crowd at a filling sta
ton where his brother is en-
ployed, Harper believed his
brother had been shot by a
holdup man. He rushed to the
station to find that his brother
had shot young bandit.
Harper forgot the influenza
and returned to basketball
practice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
TRAINS KILL THREE
Two Strike Automobile at
ArCoIa Crossing.
Rn Initial prees

By United Press
ARCOLA, Ind, Feb. 26.-A double
crossing crash here on Wednesday
caused death of the three occupants
of an automobile when it was struck
by two Pennsylvania trains.
Charles Piatt. 81, driver; John
Hoffener, 81, and Piatt's foster son,
Robert, 5, we're killed.
Piatt apparently did not see either
of the approaching trains. A freight
struck the auto first, throwing it
into tie path Of passenger
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
PRINTING MACHINE FOR
RADIO USE PERFECTED
Device Uses Keyboard Similar to
Keyboard in Sending.

By United Press
DETROIT, Feb. ga machine
which transmits written words by
radio and reproduces them instantly
at any distant point or points in the
same manner as a telegraph printer
circuit has been perfected by Glenn
w. Watson, salesman.
The sending apparatus resembles
a typewriter to which has been at
tached a revolving disc, and the re-
ceiving set is of similar construc-
ton.
AS the letter key on the sending
machine is depressed, is character
istic impulse is sent over the air,
causing the disc to revolve. When
the impulse is received, the disc on
the receiving set is turned so that
the same letter is printed by the re-
ceiving apparatus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
BAND TO GIVE CONCERT
75-Piece ShOrtridge Organization to
Present Free Recital.

The seventy five piece Shortridge
high school band will present a free
recital at p. m. Sunday in Caleb
Mills hall. The concert will be first
Of a series.
The band will be directed by j. w.
Wainwright, head of the music de-
partment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
Back for Another Term

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 20
George Bowen, arrested at the gate
OF the state penal farm as he con-
cluded serving a term, is under
sentence to spend another six
months there, following conviction
of burglary, the. same charge on
which he was first committed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
PATIENTS ON INCREASE
Hospitals Show Large Gain Over
1880 Period.

Indiana university hospitals in Jan
uary served 679 more patients than
during January, 1880, it was an
nounced today by DR.. Edward T.
Thompson, hospitals and medical
school administrators.
Riley, Coleman and Long hos
pitfalls cared for 116 patients in Jan
uary, as compared, to 1,437 year
ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
SPREE IN JAIL COSTS
PRISONERS PRIVILEGES
Newspapers and Late Hours Banned
by Sheriff at NoblesviIle.

By Times Special
NOBLESvILLE, Ind, Feb. 26.-
Sheriff Frank Hattery found that
prisoners in the Hamilton county
Jail here broke a lock on a cell
where conf1scated liquor was stored
and much of the liquor was drunk
by five men, one of them being
Charles McCammon of Indianap-
oils, charged with the murder of
Owen Crickmore, filling station at
tendant, last October.
The sheriff found nothing in the
Jail with which the men might have
broken the lock, and believes they
kicked it off.
AS a penalty, Hattery has refused
newspapers to prisoners; he will not
permit them to smoke, and all lights
in the jail go out at $3.50 p. m. In
the past prisoners have been per-
mitted to remain up as long as they
desired to read or play cards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
Club Initiates Mayor

2 U tUFco . ptttUI
GREENSBURG, Ind, Feb. &c.
Mayor Cicero F. Northern was in
Quoted by the Greensburg Kiwanis
Club, this week as an honorary
member. The ceremony was in
charge Of Mayor Samuel L. Trabue
OF Rushyille, for many years an ac-
tive member of the club of this city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
State Senator Ill

ID Times Special
BOSTON. Ind, Feb. 26.-State
Senator Thollie Druley is confined
to his home near here by illness. He
arrived home Sunday and was or
dered to bed by his physician.
Members of his family stated that it
is thought his illness is not serious.