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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
z ARE Scared
AS CAR FLAMES
Father, Son, g, Burned as
Gasoline ExpIodeS.

Attempting to refill his automobile
when it ran out Of fuel in the $500
block on West Morris street Thurs
day night, Ora Williamson, 80, Of
1850 South Pershin avenue, and his
9-year-old boy were burned severely
when gasoline exploded.
The Williamson car stopped and
Williamson walked to filling sta
ton and returned with a one-gallon
can Of gasoline.
In the dark the father attempted
to pour the gasoline into the tank
The liquid spilled on the autos
hot exhaust pipe and the flames
spread over the car.
Williamson suffered burns on the
arms in rescuing his son from the
blazing car. The boy was burned
about the legs and body.
Firemen extinguished the burning
car and sent Williamson and his son
to the city hospital for first aid
treatment.
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District Department Soon
Will Be Fully
Motorized.

Installation in service early in
August of four more police radio
cruising cars will see the district
department almost completely mo-
torized, Chief Michael Morrissey
said today.
In addition to the four new cars,
all lieutenants' cars will be equipped
with radio, and each provided with
a chauffeur.
The enlargement of the radio
cruiser system will leave only six
teen men patrolling districts afoot.
They will be on Washington street.
Almost simultaneously, police ra-
dio will be installed in the acct
dent prevention bureau, and cam
era will be used to make pictures of
accidents for evidence, the chief
said.
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POLICE IN RIOT
SHOOTING TO Be
GIVEN CRILLING
Negroes Charge Brutality in
Dispersal of Mob at
Theater.

Police participating in the dis
turbance on Indiana avenue
Wednesday night in which a Negro
received several shotgun slugs in
the hand, will be grilled by the
safety board before the board takes
action in the affair, it was an
nounced today.
Charles r. Myers, board president,
and Police Chief Mike Morrissey to-
day were studying testimony Of a
number Of Negro citizens who
visited the board Office late Thurs
day, charging police with brutality
In handling of crowd which gath
cred at the scene Of the shooting.
Testimony of every witness OBJ
tains2ole will be studied by the board
and charges viii be filed against
officers involved If evidence justifles
It. the delegation was told by Nor
rlssey and Myers. The entire safety
board is expected to study the mat
ter at its next meeting Tuesday
Deny ProvocatiOn
Negro witnesses declared Patrol
man Emmanuel Gebauer fired his
shotgun to dispense a crowd at the
entrance of the Walker theater,
without proyocation, endangering
lives OF a number of persons in the
vicinity
Carl Anderson, Negro, Butler uni
versity student, testified he saw po-
lice strike more than a dozen per-
sons and heard them curse and
threaten innocent bystanders.
Cecil Voorhis testified an I'M
identified policeman grabbed him
by the collar, hit him in the face
and struck him with a mace as he
was sitting on the fender Of a car.
Walter Vaughan charged po-
liceman struck him as he was in
q drug store buying a cigar
Return From Hospital
The shooting occurred when a
police squad returned to the vicinity
after taking to city hospital an Off
Ger who had been injured while dis
persing a group of Negro youths al
legged to have been creating a dis
turbance near the theater.
Police had received a letter asking
them to break Up a gang of youths
causing disturbances nightly.
Morrissey denied statements of
the Negro delegation that there
thirty or more policemen involved,
asserting the number did not exceed
t1teen, most of them called out by
q telephone report a riot was in
progress.
A delegation Of Negroes visited the
nome OF Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan
wednesday night after the disturb
ance, it was learned.
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7:oo-The Musical Clock.
7:l5-Coffee Man.
8:00-Breakfast Club.
9.30-Melody Man.
9;50-Standard Nut cooking chat
l0:00-Style Service.
lo:o5-Smiling Ed Mcconnell.
10:20-Reducing facts.
i0:30-Organlogues.
l1:00-Crystal studio
200 Noon-Sue Carolyn.
12:15-Farm program
l2:30-LVestock market reports
12:35-Butter and egg quotations
l2:45-Izaak Walton League.
,l:00-Silent.
WLW (7OO) Cincinnati
SATURDAY
500 International fiddlers.
5:30-Gym classes.
SD & P program (NBCl.
7:0I-Morning devotions.
7:l5-Jim and Walt.
7:3o-Montgomery Ward program NBC).
7:44-Time.
7:45-Ford and Wallace (NBc.
a:00-Dance miniatures (NBC)
8:30-Art talk by Cherry Greve.
6:45-WLW mail bag.
9:00-Organ and vocal solos.
9:30-Livestock reports.
9:40-McCormick' old time fiddlers.
10:0o-Elliot Brock, violin solos.
l0:I5-Swift program (NBCl.
l0:3Q-Livestock reports
10:45-RiVer reports.
10:55-Time signals.
11:00-Governmental elimpses.
11:15-Time.
11:16-Hotel Gibson orchestra
l1:45-Natjonal farm and home period
l2:30-Imperial Ralalaika orchestra.
l:00-Organ matinee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-31
4 POLICE CRUISERS
WILL BE INSTALLED
SLUG, ROB CAB DRIVER
Fares Take Taxi; Gunner Relieve
Motorist of SI4,

A cab driver was slugged and
robbed, and gunner held up a
motorist here Thursday night, &C
cording to police records today.
Two fares ordered Carlton Moul-
den, Is, of GIT East Market street,
taxi driver, to go to Udell street and
Northwestern avenue, and en- route
slugged him. They took 81 and the
cab.
Arthur Swanagan, 2943 Shriver
avenue, surrendered S14 to bandits
at Thirtieth and California streets.
Frank Arbizonne, 538 South Ala
bama street, said sneak thief stole
$38 from his room while he slept.
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RUM RUNNERS JAILED
Pair Captured With Liquor Cargo
Given Two Months.

FFV
Two men were in the county jail
today under sentences for liquor vi
olations after police testified in
municipal court Thursday that they
had captured them with weapons
and a $1,000 liquor cargo, after a
sixty -mile-an-hour chase in West
Indianapolis.
Horace Hiatt was sentenced to
serve two months Imprisonment
and fined 500 ON charge of oper-
ating a blind tiger, plus 500 fine
for carrying concealed weapons.
His companion, Lester Holmes, $3.50
given a similar sentence and fined
500 on the liquor charge.
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VISIT STEVE IN CELL
Duiberger, KOttkamp to Confer on
Campaign for Pardon.

Elias w. Dulberger and H. Kott-
kamp, leaders in the campaign to
win a pardon for D. G. Stephenson.
were to visit the former Khan
dragon in his cell at the Michigan
City state prison today
Petition blanks are being sent
into each county in the state by
the organization, which hopes to
have 100000 signatures within sixty
days
A radio talk explaining purpose
of the organization is scheduled fop
8:45 tonight over WFRM. Kott-
kamp said.
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Street Protection urred

By Times Special
PERU, Ind, July 31.-Heeding a
petition bearing more than 200
signatures, the city council promises
drastic action to prevent damaging
of streets by overloaded trucks.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Rooneys Reunited, Pat
And Son, Ma and
Doris Happy

NEW YORK, March 27.-Hap-
py days are here again for the
Rooneys, Pat and Pat, and Mrs.
Pat and the lovely daughter-in-
law, Doris Dawson Rooney. Pat
and his dad, and his mother and
young Mrs. Pat all made up
last night, following strenuous
efforts at reconciliation made
by friends of them all, and the
sage advice of a lawyer.
Pat Rooney and his son, who
split up one of the most famous
dancing teams in America be-
cause Pat wouldn't have his
mother talk about his wife, will
appear again together in their
hoofing act on April Is.
Mrs. Rooney, in tears, kissed
her daughter.in-law and her son,
promised she'd never say unkind
and jealous things again.
Everybody had luncheon up at
the Rooney home, 1920 Broad
way.
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tween light waves Of various
kinds. Compton said:
"By light we mean all kinds
Of electromagnetic waves In
space that travel with the
speed Of visible light, $4,000
miles o second.
"Waves lengths Of different
kinds Of radiatiOns are differ
ent. Also the energy of the
phOtOns of each kind is differ
ent. The shorter the wave
length, the greater the energy
of its phOtOn.
Wave Lengths Vary
"Take the $4,000 meter wave
length Of Q radio wave. On the
opposite end Of the scale, con-
slider the minute wave length
Of the cOsmic rays.
"If the cOsmic rays wave
length Is enlarged to the thick
ness Of postal card, the radio
wave, in proportion, should
have to be heightened so that
it spans the distance between
the earth and some near star,
like Sirius. Sirius Is S1,0OO,.
OOO,OOO.0OO miles away"
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YOUTH GUARDED
IN STRANGL|NG

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assigned to work today in the
shirt factory at Providence county
jail.
At Portsmouth the body of
Miss Verna e. Russell, 20, student
nurse-the girl Hathaway stands
accused Of strangling at midnight
on a lonely road in Tiverton-
was awaiting burial.
Developments in the case were: !:
Accidental death looming as
the defenSe-Hathaway to claim
his innocence, asserting that the
girl died while struggling and
that there was no intent to mur-
der.
kOld-Up Story PrObed
Further investigation of the
story that Hathaway told his
friend. Vernon Victor Calvin,
that two hold-up men took the
girl from Hathaway'S car is be
ing made.
Reports from Fall River hat
investigators had learned that
the tryst between Hathaway and
Miss Russell was scheduled fol
a spot near the hospital where
she was studying. This is in
Massachusetts, where the penalty
for murder is death in the elec-
trio chair. In Rhode Island the
punishment is life imprisonment.
Plans were made by Attorney
General Benjamin M. Lyman, OF
Rhode Island, to visit Hathaway
in Jail to get his story.
The disclosure was made by a
distant relative of Hathaway'S in
Boston that the "play boy" was
in his uncle's home there while
200 police combed the city, and
the further disclosure that he
had travelled back and forth to
New York city by passenger
motor coach.
Sweeping investigation, incIud
ing 200 written reports by police
of Boston, was ordered by Police
Commissioner Eugene G. Huffman
as to why police failed to appre
hend Hathaway in that city.
Hathaway's loyal parents and
brothers as well as his counsel,
Attorney Samuel I. Jacobs, ex.
pressed implicit faith in the young
mans innocence.
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TAKES BR|BE
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in the office of Bastress in the
Municipal Building in the pres
ence of witnesses.
BastreSS' reputed confession was
the latest-and one Of the most
senSational-of the scandals az
fecting the administration OF
Mayor James j. Walker, which
is now under fire and soon to be
subjected to investigation by a
legislative committee.
See Tammany Hand
BastreSs' arrest was construed
in some quarters as the first step
in a movement from within" to
clean up certain bad spots" in
the Walker administration.
Within the last week or so,
Police Commissioner Edward P.
Mulrooney has been taking sum-
mary action against members OF
the vice squad who have been
involved in the framing" OF
women on immortality charges.
Bastress first confessed to ac-
cepting the bribe to Commls-
sioner Of Accounts James A. Hig-
gins, according to Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Hastings. Months
ago Mayor Walker assigned Hlg-
gins to investigate certain de-
partmentS of his administration.
Jury to Get Charge
The bribery charge on which
BastreSs was arrested is to be
presented to the Grand Jury for
indictment of the city official
Hastings said. ,
BastreSs resigned only last
week. His resignation was fol
lowed by that Of Charles Brady,
superintendent of the bureau.
The accused official was ar
rested on orders ~ Assistant
District Attorney Hastings. When
placed in "the line up" at police
headquarters, he had nothing to
say" when the charge was read
to him.
Ever been arrested before?" he
was asked. ....
mo-" replied BaStress.
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n, Y. CLUB BARS
ID JOCKEYS
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Harry Richards, C. Eames, s.
Hicks, Alfred Nicolai, Harry
Howard.
In addition, the Jocky Club
tabled the requests for licenses
from Jockeys Eddie Ambrose, of
Baltimore; Willie Smith and R.
Zucchini.
13 Trainers Banned
The trainers whose licenses
were tabled are John Bell, who
handled several horses for Mrs.
B. Chapman, of Laurel, during
the recent meeting at Miami; W.
R. Padgett, w. F. Dougherty,
Phillip Finimore, r. D. Osmer,
P. R. Peroni, c. j. Smith, Peter
Stire, Louis Meripol, Edward Hay.
ward, Leroy James, A. w. Koi-
vulo, and Jack Carter.
The majority of the jockeys and
trainers involved are now in
Maryland. Before they can work
on any State track this spring,
they must get the New York ban
lifted.
Jockeys Well Known
Jockey Louis Morris has been
affiliated with the E. K. Bryson
establishment for the past seven
years and has long been a favor.
ite with Maryland racing fans.
Tommy McTaggart, who was
formerly one of Americas great.
est race riders, was employed by
C. D. Widener and rode st. James
when that colt swept everything
before him. in New York.
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INCOME
To Be Barred
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interrupted by court adjourn
ment, brought out a startling de-
tail of Lingle's private life, in
which he came to be known as
ChicagO's unofficial police chief
and banked an annual income Of
$4,000 on lis nominal wage as
a news-gatherer.
Sought to Buy Horses
Applegate testified that Lingle,
three days before he was put on
the spot" approached him and
said he wanted to buy two good
race horses. When informed
that they would cost around
$4,000 or $4,000, Lingle told
Applegate to "look around" for
them, according to the witness.
This testimony. together with
Applegate's admissions that he
and Lingle often borrowed money
from one another and that he
had caShed $500, $1,000 and
$1.500 checks for the reporter,
were to be the targets for De-
fense Attorney Harry Cantwell' s
crosS-examination today.
Two other witnesses identified
Brothers during yesterdays Ses-
sion. They were Patrick Camp
bell, plumber and truck driver,
and Daniel D. Mills, collegiate
cab driver.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Mrs. Burke, Gangster's
Wife, Taken in CUSTODY

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 81
U.N.SO.-Mrs. Bonnie Burke, wife
of Fred Burke, murder suspect
captured near st. Joseph, was in
police custody here today.
Seized last night, she said she
did not know of her husbands
record; she explained that she
thought he had been working as a
salesman.
she had married last summer.
Police learned that Burke had
divided his time between the home
he and his wife had here and her
fathers farm near st. Joseph.
Burke had completed negotia-
tions last week to build a $4,000
home here, it was disclosed.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
WOODS ADVISES
.FORESTALL|NG
:SLUMPS
Increase Public Construction
When Depression Nears, Is
Tip of Emergency Group

NEW YORK, March 27.-The
development of significant infor-
nation on business conditions
will aid in forestalling future
periods of industrial depression,
Col. Arthur Woods, chairman OF
the Presidents emergency COM
mittee for employment, today
predicted at a luncheon of the
New York building congress.
Urges Speeding Works
Colonel Woods also advocated
an increase in the construction OF
public works at the beginning OF
q depression era, to be made pos
sible by the prompt expedition Of
projects already planned by Fed
eral, State and local authorities.
Colonel Woods said that in
formation on the condition OF
business was steadily becoming
more comprehensive, significant,
and prompt. He continued:
Just Ran Into 1t
Information on the great ex-
tent of brokers' loans has been
available, as well as detailed in
formation on stocks of goods,
which were accommodating pretty
heavily in some industries. Yet,
we ran into this last depression
without much idea as to when
it was coming, how severe 1t
would be, or how long it would
last"
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Admiral Byrd Talks
On Pole Trip Tonight

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
will make his second appearance
before the National Geographic
Society since his return from the
South Pole, tonight at the Wash.
gton Auditorium.
..e will tell The story of life at
Little America and the conquest
of the South Pole by airplane. He
will illustrate this story with a
9,0O0-foot film, many of the pic
having never been shown
before.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Coon Dog Wins Medal
For Saving Collie

: RICHMOND, Va, March 28.-
Red" coon dog belonging to
A. A. Babcock, of Gladstone, Va,
was awarded a Spratt dog hero
medal at Sweet Briar College, Va.
The award was for saving the
life of q crippled collie dog at
Gladstone a year ago.
Red fed the collie his own
food for a week and when fol-
lowed, the collie was located at
the bottom of an abandoned
shaft,
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Price of Steel Rails
Being PrObed by u. S.

Investigation Of the alleged uni.
form prices in the sale of steel
rails to railroads has been started
by the Department of Justice, At
torney General Mitchell an.
nounced yesterday.
The inquiry was requested by
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, data on the subject hav.
ing been furnished by Senator
CouzenS, of Michigan. Mr..
Mitchell said it is indicated all
steel companies are offering rails
at the same figure.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
BOhn aluminium Co.
Profits Are Hi0heT

DETROIT, March 27.-Cha. lies
B. Bohn, president of Bohn Alum.
mum & Brass Corp, told stock
holders at the annual meeting
earnings for the quarter ending
March 81, 1881, would be some
where in the neighborhood of
$1.25 a share.
In the first quarter of 1880,
net profit was 1895, 1886, or $1.12
a share, on 352,418 common
shares.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
6. D. P. To KEEP
|. ITS CONTROL
Of SENATE
Progressives Make No Moves
For Pact With Democrats;
Latter Plan to Sit Tight

Republican insurgents, though
constantly at odds with the
Hoover Administration, have no
present intention of aiding the
Democrats to organize the Senatn
in the new Congress, Senator
Norris (RO of Nebraska, insur.
gent leader. announced today.
Norris said the insurgents had
ignored the organization of the
next Senate in their conferences
over legislative programs, and
consequently there had been mo
talk" of boiling to the Demo-
Gratis. He indicated there would
be no Opel. alliance between
Democrats and insurgents, except
on legislation, unless there were
very unexpected developments be.
tween now and December.
Control Still in Doubt
If the insurgents vote with the
Administration, the Republicans
will be able to organize the next
Senate out only by a bare major.
ity. AS a result of the 1880 elec-
tions, the new Senate will line
up with 48 Republicans, l Farmer
Laborite (who has voted with
them on organiZation), and Al
Democrats.
Administration Republicans will
be aided too in organizing the
new Senate by the fact that
Democratic leaders are unwilling
to assume the responsibility for
controlling the Senate when they
will be unable to enact any leeis.
lation, without the help Of the
Hoover Administration.
The Democrats much prefer to
sit on the sidelines, watching a
Republican Congress futilely try
to enact legislation and waiting
for the 1882 campaign to make
their effort to secure control Of
the whole Congress.
Hold Committee Posts
An Insurgent bolt to the Demo-
Gratis likewise would be surprising
because nine prOgreSSives and two
other Independent Republicans
are chairmen of important Senate
committees under Republican
rule. If the Insurgents put the
Democrats in power, they would
lose these committee chairman
ships.
The list includes these pro-
gressive chairmen: Norris, Of Ju.
dietary; Borah, of Foreign Rela.
tions; La Toilette. of Manufac-
turers; Nye, of Public Lands:
Howell, of Claims; Norbeck, of
Banking and Currency; Frazier.
of Indian Affairs; Schall, of In.
teroceanic Canals, and Ship
stead. of Printing. Then there
are Johnson, chairman of Com
merce, and Couzens, chairman Of
Interstate Commerce.
But Norris insisted that re-
tention of his Craftsmanship would
not influence his vote on organi.
Zation. He observed:
I'D just as soon give it up
as keep it. / wouldn't walk
across the street to hold it,"
Past Action Recalled
It was recalled that a few
years ago, Norris voluntarily re-
signed his Craftsmanship of the
important Senate Agriculture
Committee just in the midst Of
farm relief row. He did this
to gain more time for conduct
ing the progressive battles on
legislative issues.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Lottery Winner Must
Pay 213,S247 Tax

If Clayton Woods of Buffalo,
won the $886,360 he is reported
to have realized on the Grand
National Sweepstakes his Uncle
Samuel is going to step in and
take some $213,247 of it.
Treasury officials estimated to-
day that this would be the Gov
ernment'S share Of the winning
under the income tax law.
If Woods can establish that
other members of his family held
part of the ticket his taxes will
be correspondingly reduced.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Fisherman'S Net
Yields Dead COU

FREDERICKSBURG, March %.
A trap fisherman in visiting his
traps found in one Of them seven
herring and COW with her
throat cut. The fisherman is
completely at loss to account for
his catch.
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HOLDS
WEST IN GRIP

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hit 16 below zero, and at Chey-
enne, Wyo., the mercury stood at
4 below.
Idaho and Utah likewise were
covered by a heavy snow blanket.
Texas and southern Oklahoma
were hit by alternating wind,
rain, sleet and snow storms.
Big Winds Follow
Throughout the eastward prog
ress of the blizzard it was pre-
ceded by rain and winds, some Of
which reached a 60-mile-anhour
velocity.
DENVER, March 81 GN.SD.
Thermometers in the Rocky
Mountain region plunged to the
lowest depths of the winter to-
day as a storm, lashed by a gale
that reached a velocity of 72
miles an hour in places, ragged
from Canada to Mexico.
At Denver, the Weather Bu,
reau thermometer showed the
first below-zero reading of the
winter, reaching one below.
Heavy rains possibly tonight
and tomorrow are forecast by the
Weather Bureau.
There are no marked changes in
temperature in sight for the next
36 hours, according to the bureau.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
PRIZE
W|NNERF|RE
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with my money If I won.
"NOw you ask me what I
will do with the money now
that / have won?
81 will say 1 am going to buy
a home and pay cash for it.
CASH. That's the way to
buy things. It's the only way.
81 have worked hard in a
factory for the past six years.
Now 1 am going to take 1t
easy"
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
CONDITION OF TREASURY

The Treasury balance as of
March Is: $625, 1886, 150.79; ex-
penditures, $5,663,618.07; customs
receipts, $25,513,552.37.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27
Photo ny International
MRS, HELEN LINGLE

THE TRIAL of Leo Brothers,
charged with the murder of
Alfred Jake" Lingle, Chicago
newspaper man, is being at
tended by Mrs. Helen Sullivan
Lingle, widow Of the slain re-
porter.
The Washington times., 1931-03-27

LOUIS MORRIS
THE APPLICATION Of Jockey
Louis Morris Of Washington for
a riding license has been denied
by the Jockey Club Of New
York, it became known today.
The ruling will prohibit Morris
from riding at the Bowie spring
meeting.