davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1931-06-18

Nearly $1,000 boys under Is are now
working in English coal mines.
Evening star., 1931-06-18

Dividend rates in dollar. based last ssmi-an
nuaI payment "Ex dividend tPartly
Payable in cash
dividend Plus ~ in stock Plus g.
stock. Plus AZ in in ~ in
Plus year-no regular rata
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Hourly Temperatures
An Editorial.
These Rates Must Come Dozen

One way to help business and to relieve
unemployment distress is to demand fair
rates for electricity and water.
These two utilities are collecting enor-
nous sums each year, far in excess of any
fair return on their investment, and certainly
far too high on the basis of reproduction
which they used to gouge the people during
prosperous years.
The charges to the city itself are re<pon-
sible for a large part of the tax rate which is
worrying the home owner and the business
man.
The reports on file at the statehouse show
that these companies rates are extortionate
and unreasonable. They are burden to every
business. They make living more difficult
for those with reduced incomes
With big industries cutting wages, it is
imperative that the people obtain justice, and
obtain it cslckly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24

Unfortunately, the city has no money
with which to fight rate cases. The tax board
sees to that. There is no appropriation. There
can be none, even to defend the city against
the extortion for water, for fire hydrants
and excessive charges for street lights.
1t is job which must be done by the
combined efforts of earnest citizens who re-
sent injustice and extortion.
The time to act is now. There should be
an organization of community and civic clubs,
a thoroughly aroused organization into
which the secret agents of these corporations
can not crawl, as they crawl into political
parties
The fight must be made, and at once.
Those rates must come down. The high cost
of electricity and water no longer can be
tolerated.
Where and when will the citizens start
this crusade for decency and fair dealing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24

Sights like these will interest
thousands of visitors to municipal
airport Friday, Saturday., and
Sunday, when the new field will
be dedicated with elaborate cere-
mony.
In the upper left picture is an
army squadron in novel for
nation, while the upper right
photograph shows a speed plane
banking, close to the ground to
round a pylon in a race.
Major Jimmy Doolittle, per-
hapS the peer of Americas stunt
f1iers, is shown in lower left. The
picture was taken as Doolittle re-
fueled on his record hop from
California to New York early this
month.
The lower right photo is of the
administration building at the
airport.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
JURY TOLD OF
HUGE RUM RING
Big Stills in Business Area,
Witnesses Say.

Operation of dozen fifty to 150-
gallon whisky stills in downtown
indianapolis was described to the
federal grand jury today, as evil
dence was presented for Indictment
of twelve unidentified persons, it
was learned.
Handwriting experts were to go
before the jury late this afternoon
and were expected to show that
writing on applications for gas and
water service at the places in which
the stills were located was that of
one leader of the alleged rum ring.
Raids on the still were made
during the last few months by po-
licemen and prohibition agents, but
special operatives of the prohibition
department, working under cover
have obtained the evidence pointing
toward a city-wide conspiracy, it is
said.
Those said to be implicated in the
alleged conspiracy will be included
in the final report of the grand
jury, to be presented to Federal
Judge Robert G. Baltzell either late
this afternoon or Friday morning.
More than 200 persons are to be
indicted, it is reported.
One hundred were indicted in the
return made Saturday and those
living in the 1erre Haute division,
where trials are to begin Oct. 5, will
be arraigned Friday.
1t was learned that the grand
jury refused to indict approximately
a score of half-pint bootleggerS
arrested by prohibition agents and
police in the last several months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
MERCURY IN TUMBLE
Warmer Friday, Probably
Showers, Is Forecast.

Cool, snappy weather greeted In
dianapolis this morning when the
mercury stood at SO for the start of
the first full day of autumn which
arrived Wednesday evening.
Temperatures, however, are to in
crease today under fair weather and
bright sunshine to above 80, ]. H.
Arlington, weather bureau chief,
said. Friday will be warmer with
increasing cloudiness and probable
showers Friday afternoon or night.
Cloudiness and showers are to
prevail throughout the state in the
next twenty-four hours, according
to the bureaus forecast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
CONVICT SLAIN
AT PENDLETON.
FATHER SAYS
Son Beaten to Death at
Reformatory, Charges
Parent in Suit.
$4,000 BALM ASKED
Youth Told Her He Was
SIugged by Guard,
Mother Declares.
By Times Special

~ IRmeS Special
ANDERSON, Ind, Sept. "a
Alleging his son, Robert McCurdy
died of injuries inflicted by an In
diana state reformatory guard, Will
liam A. McCurdy, Anderson, has
filed suit against A. F. Miles, super
intendent of the institution, de-
manding $4,000 damages. The ac-
ton is pending in Madison Superior
court.
McCurdy died at his parents
home here four days after he was
removed from the reformatory hos
pital in an unconscious condition.
The complaint tells the parents
version of the story. The mother,
Mrs. Alice McCurdy, said she visited
her son at the reformatory May Is,
when he told her he was struck
twice by a guard in the shirt
factory, where he was employed as
an inmate laborer.
Smuggling Is Charged
Trouble started when the youth
turned out unsatisfactory work. He
told his mother defective eyes pre-
vented him from doing work to the
approval of the guard, who repri-
manded him.
On June 2, it is alleged, the guard.
whose name, incidentally, is
Slaughter, again reprimanded Nc
Curdy. He then struck him on the
head with a blackjack and after the
prisoner had been knocked down
continued to beat him, the COM
plant says.
Continuing, the complaint AYERS
McCurdy was removed to the guard
house and again beaten and
knocked down. Unconscious, he
was then removed to the institution
hospital, the father charges.
Four days later Mrs. McCurdy
received a letter from the reforma-
tory telling her that her son was
sick and advising that she postpone
her scheduled visit until after he
had recovered. His condition was
represented as not being serious.
Blow to Skull Blamed
The mother learned on June IL
that her son was in critical condi-
ton and rushed to the reformatory.
He barely recognized her. The fol-
lowing day, after two outside ply
Sicians had examined the stricken
inmate, he was removed from the
hospital and brought to his home
here. He died four days later with
out regaining consciousness.
Death was attributed to brain
fever, alleged to have originated
from a blow at the base of the skull.
Miles is named defendant on the
theory that he is responsible for
acts of the guards in his employ.
The parents believe their sons life
might have been saved if they had
been advised of his condition in time
to engage services of physicians
outside of the reformatory.
McCurdy was sentenced from JEFF
fersonville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
BANK HEAD SUICIDE
Books PrObed in Death of
LOganSport Man.
By United Press


LOGANSPORT, Ind, Sept. a.
State bank examiners scanned
records of the Logansport Loan and
Trust bank today seeking a possible
motive for the suicide of its pres
ident, George E. Hilton, so. The
bank will be closed until Monday.
pending completion of the examina-
ton.
Hilton's body was found in his
automobile several miles southeast
of LoganSport, with three bullet
wounds. A revolver was under his
head. He had not been seen since
he has conferred with the examiners
earlier in the day.
B. F. Long, attorney for the two
million dollar bank, said examiners
had reported to him that an in
vestigation thus far had revealed
no discrepancies in the records.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
GAS THIEVES JAILED
Stole to Drive Wife to New
Job. Court Told.

Stealing gasoline SO that you can
take your wife to work at the first
job she's had in months is punish
able by fine of 81 and costs and
ninety days in the Indiana state
farm.
This was what Clarence and
George Massingale, cousins of 2916
East Twenty-sixth street, learned
today in the municipal court Of
Judge William H Sheaffer.
The Massingales admitted the
gasoline theft but George testified
he took the gas so that Clarences
wife could be taken in their car to
a new job she'd obtained. The
Massingales have been UNEMPLOYED
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Lend a Hand

Editor Times-At the Marion
county infirmary there are a
great many Of us who are base
ball fans.
We have a radio here and
it needs some radio repairman
TO work on it. We do not think
it is in bad shape. but there is
no one here who can repair it.
We are anxious to have it re-
paired for the world series
games.
We are asking you to run an
item in your paper that some
charity organization could do
nate a man TO repair it.
! am sure the inmates will be
thankftN to you. I wish you
could hear Of the good will that
these old men and invalids
speak OF The indianapolis
Times.
INMATES MARION COUNTY
HOME.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
FORCE SLASH STIRS
ASSESSORS WRATH
County Will Suffer Heavy
Tax Loss, Declares
McCIoSkey.
BY SHELDON KEY


Marion county may lose thou
sands of dollars in taxes next year
because the county council has
ousted twenty-seven deputies from
the Center township assessors force
as an economy measure, which John
G. McCloskey, Center township as
SCISSOR, brands as 'near-sighted
economy"
McCloSkey fears that large stocks
of hidden warehouse stores, hereto
fore ferreted out by deputier trained
especially to assess business con-
Germs, may go untaxed.
The council carried out it's So
called budget economy program by
cutting thirteen business" deputies
from the pay roll.
Best Men Out
Those thirteen deputies were the
best I had on my force" McCloskey
declared today, land they assessed
twenty-seven or twenty EIGHT mil
lion dollars of the total fifty mil
lions taxable as personal property. .
The assessor also predicts his
plans to check all unlisted automo-
bileS may go awry, unless these dep
utieS are reinStated. He will make
this appeal to the state tax board.
This work in 1880 resulted in the
assessors Office finding automobiles
valued at $1,700,OOO, which had
escaped taxation previously. This
assessment put SAT, 266 extra money
in the county treasury.
To get all taxables on the asses
sor'S books, McCloskey must mail
notices on 100000 items to tax
payers, besides $4,000 automobile
notices.
This will be impossible now. al
though required by law" the Center
assessor points out, because the
council allowed me only 5000 for
postage, when need several times
that amount"
Request of the usual 165 deputies
for f1fty-two days time ignored by
law for assessment, was ignored by
the council, which appropriated only
funds enough to hire $50 deputies
for forty-flve days.
Can't Complete Work
ut will be impossible to complete
assessment of all real estate in Gen.
ter township, which includes most
OF the city, in that restricted Pc
ROD" McCloskey declared.
He scored councilmen for tarnper-
ing with office help when they did
not take the trouble to investigate
and see what actually is needed"
Plans for reaSSeSSment of Center
township real estate, the first since
1912, have been announced by Nc
Closkey. With the aid of sixteen
men, familiar with real estate values
and furnished by the Indianapolis
real estate board, the work will start
Monday.
The council slashed an appropria-
ton for this work from $4,000 as
requested to $500. Building in the
mile square will be assessed person.
ally by McCloSkey and Theodore
Dammeyer, chief deputy who pro-
pose to fix a uniform basic rate
value a square foot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Wages of Sin
Also SIaShed
by Al Cabone
BV United Preae

By United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Al Ca
pone has cut salaries, too.
Reports from his headquarters
in the Lexington hotel, in the
notorious Twenty-second street
district, indicate that AL has
sent down a wage cut order,
similar to those announced by
industrial firms all over the
country.
Other reports indicated the
reason. Saloons are moving
only about one-third the
amount of beer and hard
liquor that went over the bar
in the days of prosperity.
Likewise, gambling houses
were said to be turning in con-
siderably less to the Capone
Golfers, although the "big bull
let" is facing a costly trial in
federal court next month and
needs the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
EDISON MUCH BETTER

Inventor Has Excellent Chance 70,
Complete Recovery, Says Doctor.
b. United Press
WEST ORANGE, N. j., Sept. "a
Thomas A. Edison has an ex-
cellent chance for almost complete
recovery from his illness, his physi-
clans said today.
The physician, DR.. Hubert S
Howe, said it was Incorrect to say
that Edison had suffered a relapse
as reported earlier.
Mr.. Edison had a very good
nights rest and ate substantial
breakfast" DR.. Howe said. HE is
suffering from uremic poisoning
and it is natural condition of ure-
mic poisoning that the patient
sometimes seems slightly confused
by ordinary things"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
SELL BENEFIT TICKETS
Agencies Opened for Game Between
Indians, Power and Light.

AAAAdAos OWCE anu Light.
Sale of tickets for the benefit ball
game to be staged at Perry stadium
Monday between the Indians and
the indianapolis Power and Light
Company amateur team opened to-
day at the Circle offices of the light
company and the Claypool pharm-
acy.
Proceeds of the game, which will
go into the fund of the Emergency
Work Committee, Inc, viii be used
for the benefit of needy unemployed.
Regular prices of 81 for reserved
seats and SIPS for box seats win
prevail. Tickets also will be on sale
at the Chamber of Commerce and
at the stadium
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
SUPPORT FOR PACIFIsTS
Churchmen, Editors to Back War
Stand of Macintosh.


NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-Forty-
eight prominent churchmen, reli-
gious editors and publicists have
signed petition which will be sent
to President Hoover and congress,
expressing their belief in the prin-
ciples expressed by Professor Doug
las Clyde Macintosh, former Cana
dian army chaplain, and Miss Marie
Bland, war nurse, which kept them
from citizenship last May.
Several Signers said they would
find it impossible to give military
service in war. while others could
not promise to support the govern
ment unless they had a chance to
consider the moral issues involved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
STRIKE FOR PAY BOOST
Roof Workers Undisturbed by Gen.
eraI Wage Slashes.
a ITnited Preka

z
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-In
the midst of wage cut announce
ments affecting hundreds of thou
sands of workers, the men employed
to lay the roof on a new agricultural
department building struck today
for IS cents an hour increase.
They have been getting 90 cents 81
hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
TRACTION PLAN
WOULD CREATE
WORK FOR 100
Labor Sharing Proposal Is
Advanced at Hearing on
Wage Appeal.
56-H0UR WEEK Is BASIS
Time Inequality Should Be
LeveIed, Utility Board
Member Urges.
So HOUR WEEK IS BASIS
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY

One hundred or more additional
carmen could be employed by the
Indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany without additional cost, under
a labor sharing plan proposed by
Commissioner Harry x. Cuthbert-
son at hearing before the pub
lie service commission today.
The hearing was an oral argu-
'nent on wage and working condi-
ton appeal before Commissioner
Frank Singleton.
Attorneys for the petitioners again
tried to introduce the eight-hour
day idea, banned by Singleton when
the evidence was heard, because it
was not a. grievance listed in the
original complaint and had not
passed through channels which the
contract provides.
Schedule Undisturbed
But by a series of questions asked
both attorneys for the workers and
the company, Cuthertson unfolded
a plan which would not interfere
with a single run schedule of the
seven-day car service.
1t would limit working time to
fifty-six hours a week, thus elimi-
mating the twelve-hour seven-day
week runs by splitting the week and
giving employment to another man.
Cuthbertson pointed out that it
also would eliminate the present al
legged condition, where some men
have as much as eighty-four hours
a week at As cents an hour and
others, on the extra board, get part
time work that nets as low as So to
So a week.
Introduces Amendment
Attempting to capitalize on the
Cuthbertson idea, j. S. Fenster-
macher introduced an amendment
for the petitioners. 1t was. designed
originally to introduce the eight
hour day, but he changed it to the
fifty-six-hour week.
Singleton took the matter under
advisement. Such an amendment
first must be placed before the COM
pany officials and come TO the COM
mission in regular order on appeal,
it was pointed out.
Both Fenstermacher and Asa j.
Smith, attorneys for petitioners, at
tempted to put across the eight
hour day idea by requiring the
company to pay time and one-half
for overtime.
This proposal was argued against
by David E. Watson, attorney for
the company. He contended that
a 100000 revenue drop this year
makes further labor expenditures
impossible.
No Increased Cost
Cuthbertson pointed out that UNI
der his plan of labor sharing" no
increased costs would be involved
and each job that is created at a
living wage aids immensely in solv-
ing the present problem of unem-
ployment and increasing doles from
charity.
Il know you can prevent consid-
Grafton of such a proposal by
technicalities and it isn't involved
in this petition, but it is contri-
button which this company could
make to the community" Cuthbert-
son declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Hoover Silent

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Sept. "a
President Hoover was in
formed this afternoon Of the
legion beer vote. His spokes-
man at the White House said
Mr.. Hoover did not desire to
comment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
GUNS MENACE FARMERS

Upton, Ia, Sept. 24-National
guardsmen with machine guns and
rifles blocked of a six-mile square
today and state veterinarians began
testing cattle in defiance Of pro-
testing farmers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
LETTER is TRIAL ISSUE
Note of Apology Purported to Have
Been Penned by Pastor.

D "StUI,
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. PA let
ter of apology, purporting to have
been written by the Rev. w. A.
Shelton. southern Methodist minis
ter, to his former secretary and ac-
cuser in a church trial, was identi-
ned today by the secretary's coun-
sci.
Existence of the letter was un-
known until copies of it were sent
anonymously today to newspapers.
1t purported to alopogize for adj
yances allegedly made by Shelton
to Hiss Carrie Williams, the secre-
tarylsJ.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Taxi Driver Stuck Up for So

A pair of two-gun Negro bandits
robbed Chester Ingersoll, %, of 9S2
Bellefontaine street, taxi driver, of
So when they halted him at Twenty
first street and College avenue,
Wednesday night. he told police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
MURDER CASE SHIFTED
Accused Slayer of Wife to Face Trial
in Shelby County.

Trial of OruS Corwin Taylor,
charged with first degree murder for
the death of his wife, was trans
ferred to the Shelby county circuit
court at Shelbyville today.
Plea of Taylor to a voluntary
manslaughter charge in the case
was refused Wednesday by Criminal
Judge Frank P. Baker. Motion for
change of venue was filed by Tay-
lor's attorney, Ernest Maholm.
The defendant told the court my
wife nagged me continuously, but
the killing was accidental"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
HELD TO GRAND JURY
Mexican Charged With Attempting
to Kill Arresting Cop.

70 AII1 EAAHNStlAHb lOUps
Charged with shooting and at
tempting to kill patrolman John
OBrien, Tom Alameda, Mexican,
today was bound over to the county
grand jury under $4,000 bond. He
is alleged to have fired at the Of
ficer when the latter stopped him
and a companion for questioning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
LegionVote
on Dry Law
BIZ United Press

By United Press
DETROIT, Sept. 24.-The roll
call of the American Legion by
States on the resolution calling on
congress to hold a nationwide re-
ferendum to repeal or modify the
eighteenth amendment follows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
F0ILS ATTACK ATTEMPT
South Side Woman Swings Right to
Head; Youth FIeeS.

Head; Youth FIees.
A right swing to the face admin
istered by Mrs. Nellie Toner, 932
East Raymond street, blocked at
temptS of youth to attack her
Wednesday night, Mrs. Toner told
police today.
The youth stepped from an alley
near Raymond and Napoleon streets
and grabbed her, she told officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
U. S. MOVES FOR
PEACE IN ORIENT
StlmSon Seeks to Reconcile
Japan and China.
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD
ITnifed Presa Star Cnrrernnnann4


WASHINGTON, Sept. "a. - The
United States, for the second time
in two years, was engaged today in
an effort to bring peace to the
Orient.
Secretary of State Stimson has
urged China and Japan to cease
hostilities in Manchuria and to
withdraw their troops. Under diff
ferent conditions, he invoked the
Kellogg anti-war pact in 1929 to
allay hostilities between China and
Russia when those two nations were
fighting over the Chinese Eastern
railway.
The secretary proceeded by two
means to conciliate the Sino-Jap-
aneSe quarrel.
First, he spoke personally to the
Japanese ambassador, KatSuji De-
buchi, and the Chinese charge DAFT
fairies, Yung Kwai, asking that their
governments preserve peace in
Manchuria. He is understood to
have told Debuchi he hoped the two
governments could settle their dis
putes without intervention of other
powers.
Second, Stimson informed the
League of Nations Wednesday night
that he was sending China and
Japan peace notes similar" to those
sent by the league.
By United Press
GENEVA, Sept. 24.-Eforts of the
League of Nations to settle the Sino-
Japanese dispute over Manchuria
were deadlocked today.
The apparent embarrassment of
the league leaders regarding their
ability to deal with the situation.
obvious since China requested i'm
mediate league intervention to pre-
vent endangering of peace, was evil
dent throughout the negotiations.
A secret session of the league
council, called Wednesday night to
consider China's demands and
Japan's counter-claims, ended with
out definite progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Heads Up! Thrills VIII
Fill Aj1po1tS Program

Stunts Of Every Description Scheduled for Dedi-
cation Event; Major Jimmy DooEittle Will :
Be One of Famous Sky Riders on Scene
to Entertain for Three Days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
LEGION VETS SWEEP TO
VICTORY; DEMAND DRY
LAW VOTE, 1908 TO 1874
Congress Called On to
Order Referendum for
Repeal or Modification.
WILD SCENE ENSUES
Prohibition Advocates on
Committee Are Unable
to Stem Tide.

81 JHifed Press
DEIKUII, Sept. "a. - The
American Legion today voted to
uphold President HOOver's plea
and make no demand for an inn
mediate cash bonus payment. The
official vote was 9O2 to 5O7.