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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
RASKOB POLLS PARTY
Seeks Ideas on Dry Issue
for 1892 Platform.
By United Press

BY United Press
WASHINGTON, April 6.-If
Democratic prohibitionists have a
better plan for solving the liquor
problem, John j. Raskob is anxious
to hear about it.
The Democratic national chair
man has sent to all members of
the national committee a letter call
ing for suggestions for possible en-
bodiment in the 1882 platform, and
particularly stressing the prohibition
issue.
In this connection Raskob said:
Perhaps it (prohibitiom is a
dangerous complication. So is can
Ger a dangerous complication. How
silly it would be to disregard the
symptoms of cancer. How silly it
must be for the Democratic party
to disregard the prohibition issue
because of its supposed PERIL"
Attacking the assumption that
the two major parties are invet-
crate enemies, Raskob said they
should be regarded instead as "ir1-
struments of service"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
PASTOR, HELD IN
KILLING, WISHES
HE COULD DIE
Accused of Shooting Down
Minister Who Took
His Church.

NEVADA, Mo, April ga 81
year-old minister, accused of shoot
ing to death the 43-year-old
evangelist who succeeded him as
pastor at the little log church at
Halley's bluff, was quoted today
by authorities, who held him, as
praying. that he could die also"
Preliminary hearing for the Rev.
j. A. Brown was scheduled for about
the same hour that coroner's
inquest was scheduled to be held
over the body of the Rev. George
Rider, 43, of Kansas City.
Rider, who came here three weeks
ago to succeed Brown as pastor, was
shot Saturday afternoon when he
went to Browns home to ask Brown
to preach for him Easter Sunday.
Rider died Sunday. His last words
were a. prayer that the man who
had shot him be forgiven.
Brown resigned from the psstorate
last December after a, community
wide controversy, in which some
members of his congregation OBJ
jected to his sermon. Rider arrived
three weeks ago and opened a
revival, it was said Brown received
him .coldly. -
When Rider learned Saturday
that his sister-in-law had died in
Kansas City. he and Mrs. Rider
went to Browns home to ask Brown
to conduct the Easter services so
they might 60 to Kansas City for
the funeral.
Witnesses said Rider was shot
near Browns doorstep.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

Jackie Cooper but Jackie Cooper
erased a lot of that feeling. Here
is a character that remains a boy
looking out onto a world that is
the world of youth. That. is the
charm of the story and the movie.
Skippy'5 dog is caught by the dog
catcher. That is genuine tragedy
for a boy and Cooper puts over that
scene. Then his little boy pal dies
here is O. funeral of youth by
youth. Cooper will get into your
heart. He landed into mine.
There probably is going to be
many people who will miss ''Skippy'
because they feel it is just for
kids" Then you are wrong.
Here is a, movie that will appeal
to all ages just as tom Sawyer"
Don't be too up stage and pass
up "Skippy." You will be sorry.
And I told you 1 had a weakness
for the name of Skippy.-
Now at the Circle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06


hold, things begin to happen. The
head of the house asks him to con-
meet the battery to powerful
series of sets. The man declares
that he is able to connect up with
sound of the ages and in second
fantastic announcement about
King Arthur's court is announced.
Rogers is struck over the head when
a heavy piece OF armor such as
knights wore in the old days, falls
over.
Will then starts through the ages
when Arthur ruled kingdom with
out a bathtub. Will is poked in the
rib by knight in armor and on a
horse.
Will soon decides that this guy
means business. The knight speaks
his own language and finally Rog-
ers wisecracks, "Can'st thou telleSt
me where in the hellest I am istP"
From then OH the movie is one of
the sinartest satires upon King
Arthur and his court that the screen
has reflected.
Will saves his own head by
claiming he is a. magician. He pro-
duces a modern cigar lighter and
the darn thing works. That is a
miracle in any day.
Rogers and Clarence nearly meet
death by being burned at the stake,
but Will has a date book showing
on that day there was to be an
eclipse of the sun. clarence is the
boy who is nutty over King Ar
thurs daughter, but the king will
not permit the marriage because
Clarence. is not a. blue or red blood,
not because of his name.)
SO Will is able to cast cloud over
the sun. That saves the lives of
Will and Clarence. And Will is
rewarded by being made Sir Boss,
the headman.
Sir Boss brings all modern equip
ment to King Arthur's court, in
Guiding chewing gum, the telephone,
roller skates, the airplane and even
the Austin automobile and the
fighting tanks.
"A Connecticut Yankee is one
of the smartest movies of the year
Here is Will Rogers sl1lartly wise
cracking and handing out many a
laugh. Here is a big production.
One of the treats of the season.
Now at the Apollo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
Winners Are
Announced.

The winners in the Charlie Chap
lin review contest conducted ty The
indianapolis Times and the Petace
theater when CITY Lights vas
shown for two weeks, have 1een
selected from hundreds of reviews.
A total of $35 is awarded as fol-
lows: First prize of SIS to- Will
liam M. Reynolds, 80 North Healing
avenue; second prize of $40 to Mrs.
Eva Marsteller, 427 North Chester
avenue; third prize. of SIS to John
E. Kleinhenz, P. o. Box No. 1241
Indianapolis; and, fourth prize of
S. to Kaythryn Murbarger, 1913
West Michigan street.
The prizes will be mailed shortly
to the winners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
PARKING BAN
TO STIR FIGHT
Expect Protest on Proposed
Plaza Ordinance.

Protest against elimination Of
parking about the World war me-
mortal plaza is expected from sew
eral organizations when city coun.
Gil acts tonight on the new CITY.
traffic ordinance,
The council is expected to pass
the ordinance in its present form
except for the plaza provision
which may be amended or killed.
The ordinance empowers police
to impound cars improperly parked
and includes blow at sll-day park
ing by banning parking in the
downtown area from 7 to e:l5 q. m.
Another important section pro-
vides traffic on four-lane streets
shall keep TO the right, EXCEPT 10
go around traffic moving ahead. It.
abolisheS the present slow and asst
lanes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

hop off into the water. Even that
scene is rather tame these days.
Then Joan's dad drops dead when
he loses every cent on the market.
Father nicely drops dead. That al
lows Joan and her brother to paddle
their own canoe, now yacht. And
can you guess what Joan does to
make a living? She becomes a So
ciety reporter on large paper.
oh. dear.
This movie really does not get
started until Joan rapidly develops
from a society cub into a feature
writer sent out to find who shot
and killed the best reporter on the
paper.
And she does. 1t is her own
brother WHO turned gangster and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
MINISTERS SOON TO
Benefit BY PENSION
Membership Certificates Mailed to
1000 Participants.


Ministers and missionaries of the
Disciples of Christ churches in the
United States and Canada, will be-
gin to benefit Immediately under
the pension system inaugurated re-
Gently, trustees of the pension fund
here announced today.
Certificates of membership, dated
April l, are being mailed to more
than 1000 participants.
Sunday, May II. has been desig-
mated as mobilization day when
church members will begin a
nationwide canvass to complete
raising for the pension fund an in
itial reserve of 100000 toward
which $1,5O0,0o0 already has been
subscribed. This effort will be led
by 1000 selected leaders who have
volunteered their services.
Age retirement benefits under the
pension plan, fund officials explain,
depend largely upon the raising of
this reserve fund. When age re-
tirement benefits become effective
the entire pension system as APP
proved by members of Christian
churches in the United States and
Canada will be in full operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
KING GEORGE IS ILL
Britain Is Disturbed Over
Laryngitis Renewal.

BIZ United Press.
WINDSOR, England, April GA
slight renewal of King Georges
Laryngitis complaint caused some
concern throughout Britain today,
but was described by the kings
physicians as not at all serious.
The king was said to be progress
ing as well as could be expected
in view of the old trouble which al
most cost his life two years ago.
King George was, not, however,
confined to his bed over the week
end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

Yankee" than any
time in his career.
I had the feeling
that many times
when I was about
ready to fall out
in the aisle with
laughter, that the
Jokes we're Roger
isms and nothing
else but. That is
sufficient. It takes
the story a little
while to get start
ed but when Rog-
erS as a radio
salesman delivers
a battery to a,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

busy teaching him
to be a canine gen.
tlelnan, with vari-
GUS degrees of sue
cess. / was fond
of "Skippy" in
print and I am just
as wild over the
way little Jackie
Cooper has brought
him to life on the
talking screen. You
know I am getting
pretty well fed up
on these so-called
child actors, either
in flesh or shadow,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

kitchen sink. The
story starts out in
one of those blazeS
Of W e alt h - this
time q huge yacht
ing party. Joan
Crawford is t he
very m o d c r n
daughter of a ire
mendously + j C h
broker. She and
h er brother are
just MASTERS. The
high light of the
y a C h t party is
when the young
people throw off
their fine clothes
and clad only in
Lls Ss -,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
MINERS STARvE
IN ". VIRGINIA.
SENATORS TOLD
Conditions Are DepIorabIe,
Pr0bers Learn, From Union
list: Companies Blamed.


BIZ Scripps-Ho,oord Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, April s.--Ameri-
can industrislism as it works in the
West Virginia coal fields was pic
tured for the Wagner senate COM
mittee on unemployment insurance
at its first meeting here when B. A.
Scott, West Virginia miner and
unionist, told the committee that
men. women and children we're
starving in the coal fields of his
state.
The first official act of the COM
nittee was to vote on motion of
Senator Glenn (Rep, lid to bring
SCOTS recital to the attention Of
Judge John Barton Payne of the
American Red Gross.
People are starving in the iso-
lated coal regions of southern West
Virginia" Scott testified THE Red
Cross tells us that they feed only
those IN the cities. The only relief
NE have for the lobless miners
families is what is left of state
appropriation of $685. 900 TO go to
forty eight counties. This is about
gone. I would say that among at
least eight thousand families there
is not five pounds of food in each
house"
30 Per Cent Joblcss
About 30 per cent of the men
are totally unemployed he said.
Some 40 per cent more are work
ing one, two, or three days a week.
There is no work except in the coal
mines, and conditions in the coal
mines of West Virginia border on
feudalism.
"All the workers live in company
houses, and are treated by company
doctors. Most companies force the
workers to sign yelloW-dog con-
tracts Any one speaking of union
ism is fired and dispossessed. They
receive no money, only company
script called tin money" This is
good at the company store only, and
prices at the company store are ex-
orbitant.
THE miners work by the piece,
getting % cents tori They work
nine to twelve hours a day. The
wages run from So day to $3.50,
and there is no overtime They
have to buy their own explosives.
The workers average 140 to $50
days year when they work. Only
one company extends credit to the
1obless, This is 81 day family.
Infant Diseases Spread
Miners families are not allowed
to keep hogs or cows. The usual
diet is flour, salt meat, potatoes,
coffee. lard, canned milk For but
ter they use margarine that costs
20 cents a pound in script compared
with 10 cents for two pounds else
where.
Ricketts, and every sort of infant
disease have made terrible inroads.
When a miner dies his eldest son
1nherits his debt to the company.
And 80 per cent of the miners are
In debt to the companies month
after month in normal times. Com
pany scrip, the only legal tender,
is discounted one-fourth if miners
wish to buy outside of company
stores. A movie picture house near
Ward has sign: Tickets for adults
80 cents; in scrip As cents. Few
dare to trade outside the company
I'm addition to all this a month
ago the men in many companies
were given a 10 per cent wage cut.
It appears on the long list of de-
auctions in their pay envelope as
sundries They wanted to hide the
wage cut"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
JOAN BECOMES A
NEWSPAPER REPORTER

Dance Fools, Dance" is what
might be called a topical movie be-
cause the major parts of the story
are based upon the killing of a
newspaper reporter by gangsters in
a tunnel and the shooting down of
seven rival gangsters in garage.
Here is a gangster story with
about everything in it but the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
Two Delphi Men Killed

By United Press
DELPHI, Ind, April 6.-vincent
Ray, 40, and Everett Crunnp, As, both
of Delphi, were killed Instantly to-
day when the automobile driven by
Cruilp was struck by an eastbound
Wabash passenger train.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
HERE rs A MOVIE
FOR ALL CHILDREN

l have many weaknesses, but one
of them is my fondness for the
name of Skippy.
l so liked the name when Percy
Crosby brought out his comic strip
and then the novel, "Skippy," that
! named my fov terrier Skippy.
When Skippy the First passed on
l so regretted his passing that ]
now have a new terrier, this time
it is SkippY the Second, and l am
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

crook The ending is meldodramatic
and a little soft soapy.
The lesE part of this picture is
the best. You know I do not rave
over the ability of Joan Crawford.
The best thing in the movies are
the types playing the gangsters.
And yet, Dance Fools, Dance" is
the box Office. Be your own judge
as usual. To me it is Just another
movie.
Now at the Palace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
We OLD MAN ROGERS
: WEARS A TIN SUIT
viii Lands Back in King Arthurs Court in Ye Old Days
and Changes the Strange Fashions Of That Day.
BY WAITER D. HICKMAN

imagine VIII Rogers wisecrackng before Arthur and
~ his bstn court in the days when cigar lighters and battubS
unknown?
viii king those things
flock of automobiles
am trying to tell you about the Vies and best Of unmakers
VIII Rogers in "A Connecticut Yankee talking of this
Mark Twain story Lots Of liberties have
can forgive VIII Rogers anything washing Tvs neck
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
BABY FALLS ID FEET
Child in Critical Condition as Re-
suit of Tumble.

SuiC VI 1umDles
A 2-year-old child was in crit
ical condition in Methodist hos
pital today as result of 14-foot
fall Sunday afternoon.
The baby was Anna Campbell, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Campbell, 1925 Ingram street, who
tumbled from g second-story win
dow at her home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

More than half the entire popu-
lation of New York state is concen-
trated in the several boroughs of
the metropolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
PROMISE 10000 JOBS

Chicago Auto Trade Association
Announces Spring Sales Drive.
BVsLntted Press
CHICAGO. April 6.-The Chi
cago Automobile Trade Association
announced today that additional
jobs for 10000 persons would be
provided this month by its men,
bers in a spring sales drive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06

dIl SOi1B 10 ItldhC tIilS sweeping
assertion-Will Rogers is funIiier
and wiser in The Connecticut
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
FLYING MA AM
To Be BRIDE

NEW YORK. May 15.-well,
william c. (BilD Patterson, re-
Gently first lieutenant, A. E. F.,
Twenty-third Aerial Photographic
Section, went completely up in
the air the first minute he laid
eyes upon Miss Edna Usher,
pretty 24-year-old Tyrone, Pa,
high school teacher.
Miss Usher teaches physical
education at Tyrone-but she
went up in the air with Bill to
learn flying. She was only 81
then-that was three years ago
and, thanks to Bills ability as an
instructor, she since has won for
herself the nickname of "the fly
ing schoolma am"
Today the announcement was
made that Bill and "the flying
schoolma'am" expect to do a lot
Of flying together on and after
June /. They're going to fly
around the United States on their
honeymoon. The wedding will
take place in Chelsea Presbyterian
Church, here, on West Twenty
third Street.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
MEDAL IS GIVEN
To EDUCATOR

NEW YORK, May 15.-A bal
lot taken at Town Hall gave to
Miss Martha McChesney Berry,
director of the Berry School for
Mountain Children, at Mt. Berry,
Ca, the third annual medal OF
honor of the Town Hall Club.
The honor is given to the per,
son who in the opinion Of the
club members achieved an ac-
complishment of lasting merit"
in each year. Representative
Ruth Pratt received the first
award in 1929 and United States
Senator Dwight w. Morrow won
the second, last year.
Miss Berry's claims to the
honor were presented by Mrs.
James Russell Parsons, a leader
in Republican affairs in New
York. She said that she had
visited Miss Berry's school and
seen the hundreds Of hill chill
dren come to it, ragged and i'll.
fed, and watched them thrive
under its teaching and care.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
TRAFFIC CRASH
SPILLS SUGAR

Luther Conard, TIC G st. N.
E., a motorman for the Capital
Traction Company, was severely
cut by flying glass when the
street car he was operating col
lided with a loaded truck at
Eighth Street and Maryland Ave
nue. Northeast, early today.
Several passengers on the street
car we're thrown from their seats
by the impact but were not in
jured.
William Dorsey, colored. of
Baltimore, Md, the driver of the
truck. was thrown to the street
but escaped unhurt.
The trucks load of sugar was
scattered about the intersection
Conard was treated at Casu.
atty Hospital for cuts and bruises,
He later returned home.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Ticker Tape ShOwer
On NOtables Hit
Bv N. Y. Board

NEW YORK, May 15.-There
will be no more showers Of
ticker tape and torn telephone
books as returning heroes ride
up the canyon of Lower Broad
way to receive the city's greet
ings, if the New York Board
of Trade has its way.
At it's monthly meeting the
board urged the mayor. and all
business organizations to CO.
operate in substituting "a more
suitable and dignified" welcome.
The committee said:
cit is a poor tribute to a
great parsonage to empty a
waste basket over him."
The fire hazard from paper
lodging on the roofs and in
the crevices of buildings and
the expense of removing the
litter from the streets, was
pointed out.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Hair Tonic Makers Plan
War on BoOtLeggerS

1t appears that the Ed Pinaud
Company, as well as several other
organizations offering prepara.
tions which are composed in some
measure of alcohol, have been up
against a pretty tough racket for
several months now, and they'W
about decided that they've had
enough of it.
The old "muscling in" gag has
been employed to the certain ad'
vantage of bootleggers throughout
New York and the East, and bar
Der shops are no less subject to
attacks than are contractors
builders and other businesses
more commonly associated with
the racket.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15

NEW YORK, May 15.-An ef-
fective remedy for the latest
racket in hair tonics and other
patent medicines was outlined by
J. j. Quinn, vice president OF E.
Pinaud's, Inc, and his legal repre-
sentative, George S. Leisure. VINO
recently returned from France.
Mr.. Quinn said:
'Tt would tip our hands to
the bOOtleggers If we divulged
what we've learned from other
governments, but we have
enough information to ask for
decisive Federal legislation to
curb the Illegal diversion Of in
dustrial alcohol through fake
permits"
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Purchase of RaiLUUGy
Is Approved by u. S.

Examiners Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission yesterday
recommended that the Missouri
Pacific be authorized to purchase
the capital stock of the North.
west Oklahoma railroad.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
VANDENBERG SAILS

MANILA; May is UNS0 Sen.
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg, OF
Michigan, yesterday sailed for the
United States on the steamer
President Wilson.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
GARDEN CLUB MEET

The regular meeting of the
Community Garden Club of Rock
vile is being held this afternoon
at the Bishops Garden, Wash
ington Cathedral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13
Approval Given
Synthetic Air for
Deep Sea Divers
Capt. Danenhower, Who
Will Accompany Wilkins,
Tests Helium Effects.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, February 13.-Syn-
thetic air, composed OF helium and
oxygen, as a means of sustaining the
respiration of deep sea divers has re-
ceived the approval of Capt. Sloan
Danenhower, widely known submarine
and salvage engineer.
Capt. Danenhower, who will command
the wilkins submarine Nautilus on its
underseas dash to the North Pole this
Summer made diving test at the Phil
adelphia Navy Yard Tuesday in which
the synthetic air was used.
mo one has ever been under water
before with helium," Danenhower said,
as he came up from the bottom of the
Delaware River. THE taste and smell
are different from ordinary air. think
its use is entirely feasible
The advantage of using helium-
oxygen. he explained, is that it will
diminish the tendency for divers to get
the bends" after emerging from great
depths. The bends" are a type of
severe cramps.
Also" he said, cit will increase the
efficiency of divers as to the depth they
can go, the time they can work under
the surface and the speed with which
they can go through the decomposition
process.
Ordinary air has considerable nitro
gen In it, and this, under great pres
sure, dissolves in the blood When the
pressure Is decreased the nitrogen ex-
pands in the circulatory system, and If
this happens too suddenly the diver gets
the bends"