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The Washington times., 1931-07-31

There's got to be more inter
est in the race next year." said
Harridge yesterday, Especially
If the AS set the pace again"
Interest has fallen off this year
because the AS have made a
runaway race of it. None of the
other clubs have played to real
crowds, none have made any
money and in conclusion the
game has suffered.
Clubs to Shift
To stimulate interest President
Harridge is considering a new
proposition earnestly. It calls
for two western clubs opening in
the east on opening day and two
Eastern clubs beginning their
seasons in the West.
This arrangement, if it is
adopted, would cause the
schedule makers plenty of work
but it might prove the best
thing for the game If the old
time interest resulted.
It would be quite an interest
ing thing to see this arrangement
work itself out. AS things now
stand the western clubs do not
come East until the middle of
June and they come all at once.
The eastern clubs go West in a
body in May.
The new arrangement would
call for Western and Eastern
invasions for two clubs only at
one time. Which means that
there would be American League
baseball games in both sections
of the league at all times.
Griff FavOrs 1t
Uncle Clark Griffith is strongly
in favor of it as are most of
the other club owners. Nothing
can be done about it however.
until the annual meeting of the
owners next December.
It's being considered very
strongly now and It's likely to
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
SEATTLE DROPS RUETHER

SEATTLE, Wash, July 81.
Dutch Ruether, veteran left-hand
pitcher and former big league
star, was released by the Seattle
Indians today Ruether said he
expected to sign with another
team within a few days.
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
BETHESDA WINS

Bethesda A, C. defeated the
Franc jewelers. yesterday. 7-3.
Parker limited the losers to seven
hits and famed nine.
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
New Schedule Arrangement
Likely for 1892 Season
By GARRETT WATERS

With interest in this baseball business falling off more and
every day because of the AS big lead for the pennan
American League moguls with President William Harrdge
making get around this situation next year.
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
FISCHER GETS CHANCE TO WORK AGAINST AS
Open Forum, Opened
Nation Wide Problem
Golfers Not FduLtLesS
? For Better GOLfing
What Is the AnslUer?
Mr.. Belt Writes

Letters coming to this bureau from public links golfers
continue keep alive the topic of crowded conditions
thereon and letter in particular commend to your
attention because it seems to such fair viewpoint
attaching much of the blame for conditions the golfers
themselves.
Be that as may what The Washington Times wishes to
do is to conduct fair and open discussion of the matter
not with view crticizng either the golfers or the CON
cessonaires but with the sole purpose Of getting at the
root of the trouble and remedyng it, if possible. go .
If the public links problem is serious now, what WILL II
be year from now? What will it be in two years and IN
five years? Unless the answer is produced public links
golfng is going to become nightmare instead OF a
ALA
The Washington times., 1931-07-31

1Games behind leader.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Pittsburgh, Q: New York, o.
ST. Louis. 10; Chicago. 3.
TODAY'S GAMES
Chicago at st. Louis.
Boston at New York.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
ALEXANDRIA LOOP STARTS

Six teams will open competi-
ton in the Alexandria City Base
ball League Sunday.
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
COB AND PRIMO
SIGNED

NEW YORK, July 31.-Aban-
doning a match between Tommy
Loughran and Jack Sharkey in
August, James j. Johnston has
announced a definite date for a
15-round match between Sharkey
and Primo Carnera, the giant
italian.
The Boston heavyweight and
the 27O-pOund Venetian will
meet at Ebbets Field on Sep
tember %, Johnston said. In
the event the Madison Square
Garden Corporation blocks Car
nera again, as it did in June,
LOughran will substitute.
Johnston planned to use Shar-
key and Loughran in August, but
Sharkey notified him yesterday
he will not be able to box until
September. Sharkey's left hand.
injured In the Walker match, is
still troubling Mm. -
The Washington times., 1931-07-31

Your rental orries room, house
or apartment. can be solved today
through the Rental Columns Of the
Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
Griff Favors 1t

It's being considered very
strongly now and It's likely to
The Washington times., 1931-07-31
THREE OUT OF FOUR
CLEVELAND
WASHINGTON

1Batted for Harder Ia nth.
2Batted for JubiOnOwski la ninth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
DE Voc JURORS
STILL IN DOUBT
Deadlock Unbroken After
Long DeIiberation.

BY United Press
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23.-Weary
jurors in the Daisy De Voc grand
theft case returned to Judge
William c.. Doran's courtroom at
$50 a. m. today, and were locked
up for further elaboration on the
fate of the former secretary to
Clara Bow.
The jurorS-SeVen men and five
women-all showed the effects of
the long strain they have expert
enced since they received the case
late Wednesday.
The jury gave no indication that
it was nearer to a verdict than
Thursday night when it was
ordered to a hotel for the night,
apparently hopeleSsly deadlocked.
Miss De Voc is accused of thirty
five counts of grand theft involving
approximately $4,000 of Clara
Bows money, jewels and clothing.
Judge Doran instructed the jury it
must vote on each. count separately.
Three times Thursday night the
jury appeared to express doubts on
the possibility of reaching a decision
on the tllirty-f1ve counts, each. OF
which had to be voted OH separately.
Mrs. Iva B. Pratt cried when she
was questioned By the Judge and
seemed on theayerge of nervous cx-
haustior.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
HINT HOOVER TO EXPLAIN
VIEWS ON DRY REVISION
Varied interpretations of Presidents Stand on Report
May Be Clarified With Statement Today.
By United Press

BY OntteQ Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-An eff
fort was being made in some quar-
tiers today to induce President Hoo
yer to clarity the various "interpre-
tations" of his stand on revision Of
the eighteenth amendment.
At the White House it was said
the President might offer an ex-
PLANTATION later today.
Unoficially there already has
come from the White House in
formally the explanation that in
standing against the possible pro-
posed revision suggested in the
Wickerham report. President Hoo
yer did not imply he necessarily
was against any revision whatever.
1t was insisted he has open mind
on the question.
Senator Simeon D. Fess, Repub-
lican national committee chairman,
said the President had an open
mind on revision of the eighteenth
amendment but was against any
plan which would throw prohibit
ton back into the hands of congress
in way that would harrass it for
9. hundred years.
Meanwhile, Senator Miilard E.
Tydings Dem, Md temporarily
was blocked by rules in an effort
to bring up his resolution calling
for a senate investigation as to
whether pressure was exerted on
the Wickersham commission. His
action will be the signal for open
ing of debate on the Wickersham
report.
Senator Royal S. Copeland Dem,
N. ", physician offered a resolution
today to rescind restrictions on
medicinal liquor, saying this was the
only point he could find on which
the commission was unanimous.
Official tolerance of the sale Of
grape juice concentrates which he
described as IAN absolute violation
Of the spirit if net the latter Of the
law was attacke in the house BY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
RHOADES DRAWS
LIGHT SENTENCE
PoIiceman'S Killer to Serve
2-to-21 Years.
BIZ United Press

By UHtteG Press
PRINCETON, Ind, Jan. 23.-
Dreyfus Rhoades today was SEN
fenced to two to twenty-one years
in the state prison by Special Judge
Charles o. Baltzell after sealed
verdict of guilty of voluntary man.
slaughter was read in Gibson cir
cult court this morning.
The jurors returned the verdict
after celebrating five hours.
Rhoades, twice previously sem
fenced to die on a charge of muir
der in the Staying April /, 1926, of
Simon Carrie, Vincennes policeman,
cried when the verdict was read.
Arrested on a charge of first de-
gree murder when Carrie was shot
while questioning Rhoades and AL
bert King after they allegedly had
passed counterfeit money, Rhoades
entered plea of guilty and was
sentenced to die in the electric
chair. King was sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Rhoades asked a new trial shortly
before his execution date and was
granted number of execution stays
before the state supreme court
granted new trial.
Tried in Gibson county, Rhoades
was found guilty on the murder
charge and @gain sentenced to be
electrocuted. He Immediately filed
a motion for another trial, which
was granted last year by the state
supreme court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
WAGE CUTS SLAPPED
Mine Workers Head Favors
Present Agreements.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Wage re-
auctions as a means of solving the
problems incident to the present
business depression were denounced
last night by John L. Lewis, presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers
of America, speaking before the An
thracite Club.
Lewis contrasted the wage cuts
under way in some industries with
the action of the anthracite opera
tors last summer in signing agree
ments covering the next five years,
continuing the same wages and
working conditions as now in effect.
This action, in the midst of the
most vicious and far-reaching panic
in the last half century will go
down in history as far sighted in
dustrial craftsmanship" he declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
EWALD CASE CLOSED
Ex-J Judge, Politicians Freed
of Fraud Charges.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-The case
of George F. Ewald, charged with
buying city magistracy for $4,000.
which proved to be the starting
point of general investigation of
the whole political-judicial system
Of New York, was closed today with
a dismissal of all indictments.
The five defendants, Ewald and
his wife, Martin J. Healy, Tammany
district leader: Thomas T. Tom
Nancy. his lieutenant, and DR..
Francis M. Schirp, former chair
man Of the political committee Of
the SteEben society, thus we're
cleared of all charges as far as The
city and state are concerned. Ewald
and DR.. Schirp, however, still are
under federal indictment for mail
fraud in connection with the Cot
ter Butte Mining Company, of
which Ewald formerly was a di-
rector.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
FINDS BANDIT SUSPECT
IN WALK TO WORK
Butcher Recognizes Alleged Holdup
Man and Causes Arrest.

AeNCOSAAAlNS AAAAC6S0 AAOA0AH
Man and Causes Arrest.
Walking to work this morning
Charles Hall, butcher in a Kroger
grocery at 1923 Central avenue, saw
A man he said he recognized as a
bandit who held UP the store last
week.
Police under Sergeant Eugene
Eldridge arrested Marion Bryant
"a. in his apartment at 1407 Broad
way. and took him before Hall and
Lawrence Harvey. manager of the
store, who identified him as the
bandit.
Police this afternoon said they
will question the youth in connec-
ton with the murder of Lewis E.
Davidson, Standard grocery store
manager, several weeks ago.
After Bryant'S arrest police said
they found a revolver containing
bullets similar to the one which
killed Davidson, concealed in his
apartment.
Police also arrested John Gull
man, 81, r. r. d, Box 81, as
Bryant's accomplice in the Kroger
holdup.
Bryant is held on vagrancy
charge, in lieu of S., 1000 bonds. Police
say he came here from Kansas City
A year ago in an auto with two
bullet holes it in. He was unable
TO explain how they got in the car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
ARMS FARLEY
DATE IS SET
World Conference Will Be
Held Feb. 2, 1882.
By United Press

By United Press
+ GENEVA, Jan. 23.-The world
disarmament conference will be
convened Feb. 2, 1882, the council
of the League of Nations decided
today after deliberations on the
most favorable date for calling the
long-awaited meeting for reduction
and limitation of war materials.
The chairman of the conference
will be announced at the May SEES
Sions Of the council.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
STATE PAVING, GRADING
CONTRACTS ARE SIGNED
Projects Will Provide Work for
JObIess, Starts Early.

The state highway commission
signed one paving and one grading
project this morning, bids for which
were opened Jan. IS.
The paving project is state Road
Is, from Goshen to the junction of
U. S. 20, total of 40 miles in Elk
hart county, to Rieth-Riley Con-
struction Company, Goshen, $73,-
2o5.97; and grading project is state
Road IS from Haysville to Loogoo-
tee, thirteen miles in Dubois and
Martin counties, to the Foulkes
Contracting Company, Terre Haute,
SAG, 435.10.
Road officials said the grading
project will provide considerable
employment in that section of
southern Indiana and that work
can start on this much earlier than
is permissible on a paving project
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

Representative Cellar Dem, N. ",
a wet leader.
Celler invoked the Wickersham
report to back up his, charges.
The senate today passed the agri-
cultural appropriation bill, provid-
ing approximately $214,00O,0O0 for
the next fiscal year.
While the senate was acting,
House Speaker Longworth formally
sent the interior department bill to
the appropriations committee for
hearings, in an effort to defeat CT
reduce the s25,0OO,OOO Red Cross re-
lief fund added by the senate.
Chairman Cramton said it was his
plan to call Red Cross officials Sat-
urday to testify.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
HOUSE PASSES
BILL TO DROP
TAX PENALTY
Measure Would Relieve
Delinquent Owners OF
10 Per Cent Fee.
PARTY LINES BROKEN
Act to Aid Proprietors of
Small Homes to Re-
deem Property.

Suspending the constitutional
rules, the Indiana house today
passed. 70 to 3, bill which would
relieve owners of real estate which
is sold for taxation, of the 10 per
cent penalty required for the
property's redemption.
The bill was introduced by Rep
resentative Jacob Weiss Dem.,
Marion) as measure of relief to
tax delinquents whose property will
be sold throughout the state Feb. 9.
Party lines we're broken, Demo
Gratis and Republicans joining II
the debate on the bill which is in
tended to benefit the small home
owner who has been hard hit by
the economic depression that he
can not pay his taxes.
The bill does not declare mora
forum on tax payments but simply
takes off the 10 per cent penalty in
CURED by owners of property, upon
which taxes are due.
Affects Only This Year
The suspension would not be in
force on next years tax sales as its
period of existence would terminate
Dec. 81, 1881 1t will not affect
current 1880 taxes payable in 1881.
Under provisions the owner of de-
linquent tax property would have
to pay the state interest fee of
per cent but would not pay the
tax buyer the 10 per cent.
In presenting his motion, Weiss
pointed out the need for speedy ac-
ton in order that the law may be
in force by the tax sale date,
Feb. 10.
Dclinquencies on Increase
With evidence of the dire need
for immediate relief for farmers and
small property owners who are in
distress facing us on every hand il
becomes the duty of this body tt
do everything in it's power to pro-
vide relief for those whose property
is to go under the hammer at the
sheriff,s sale in February" Weiss
said.
He pointed out that where de.
linquencies in Indiana amounted tt
$3,706,916 in 1929 they have in
creased to $4,895, 625.77 in 1890. anc
unless some method of relief is
provided the remainder of the life
savings of many good, but UNI
fortunate, citizens will be swept
away"
Although Representative James
M. Knapp (Wayne), Republican
floor leader, voted against the mo-
ton to suspend the rules because he
felt there was sufficient time to con-
slider the bill in the ordinary course
of business, he voted for its passage
as did many who felt as Knapp did
Three Against Measure
Three Marion county representa-.
tiveS who voted against passage Of
the relief measure were Gerritt M
Bates, Russell j. Dean and Clyde
Karrer. Bates also spoke against it
Bills passed on third reading in
cluded repeal of the act authorizing
sale of park lands by fourth-class
cities, excepting Mishawska and
Michigan City, and amendment to
the legal holidays law to validate
payment and acceptance of checks
or other instruments, and transac-
tons on holidays or Saturday after
moons when banks are closed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
new SCHOOL
FOR 800 NOW
IN FIRE TRAP
Board Acts to Construct
Modern Building for
No. Sc Pupils.
ARCHITECTS ARE NAMED
Old Broad Ripple High
Structure Is Labeled
Blaze Hazard.

Menace to the lives of 800 pupils
of School Sc, Martindale avenue
and Twenty-fourth street, exposed
a week ago in The Times, will be
removed Immediately, the school
board decided today.
1t began plans for construction
of new, fireproof building to re-
place an old township structure
and a cluster of one-story, frame
portable buildings that now COM
prise the schools building equip
ment.
That conditions in several city
schools are more serious than it was
learned at first, was disclosed with
revelation that the old structure at
Broad Ripple high school is one of
the most hazardous in the system.
Architects Arc Named
The school board named Charles
zimmerman. engineer, and d. A.
Bohlen & Sons, architects. for the
new school.
Before the school board more
than week ago, Mrs. Lottie Free
man, president of the Parent Teach
er Association, deplored use OF the
old buildings at School Sc, which she
said was a veritable fire-trap. The
Indiana bureau also branded the
school a fire trap.
Corridors were blocked with coat
racks and other furniture. and
windows were so high no children
could get out of them, she declared.
The buildings were heated with hot
air furnaces.
Broad Ripple Action Asked
1t is reported a group of Broad
Ripple citizens already has called
upon school officials and demanded
measures be taken Immediately to
correct the situation there.
Exit facilities in both buildings
at Broad Ripple ARE very def
Gent" according to a report of the
Indiana inspection bureau, which
made a survey OF this and other
school properties for insurance pur-
poses, and found many neglected
fire hazards
THE old Broad Ripple building
known as East Hall is one of the
most dangerous in the school sys-
tenn" the report said.
Combination of wood, shingle
roof, hot air furnace and single
open stairway form severe life and
fire hazards" it stated.
Unsafe for p,,riI~
The inspection bureau declared,
1--WE consider the second floor of
this building unsafe for school pur-
poses"
Such abandonment would mean
the school board must erect new
quarters at Broad Ripple, which,
school officials declare, is impossible
with funds on hand.
The building was erected in 1870.
is two stories high and is used for
class TecitationS.
A large number of other necessary
building repairs and construction.
now being made by the school board,
is expected to cause delay in at
tending to conditions outlined in
Cle bureau report.
Another Fire Menace
Among other disclosures in the
three-volune report of the inspec-
ton bureau is a situation said to
present potential danger to pupils
at School 80, located at S01 South
State avenue.
In the cast wing of this build
ing" the report states, "all of which
is Of quick-burning construction,
the single open stairway makes pos
sible trapping of 160 children with
no means Of escape, if this stairway
were blocked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
No10 We Kno70 Who Buys All These
Etiquette Books: It's Our BURGLARS

Z NIGHTHOOD lowered in strange soil early
IN today when three young women awoke to
find burglars flashlight playing around their
bedroom
simultaneously, Mrs. Eileen Beal and Misses
Opal and Faun Hale 3009 North Illinois street
suppressed instructive screams but their move
nlents attracted the burglars attention.
From behind the glare that flooded them with
light the young women heard a chiyalrouS voice
in apology:
"Oh. really, I'm sorry. Excuse me- I didn't
know this room was occupied by ladies'"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
Four Wheel Brakes for Cupid Is
2-Week Notice Wedding Bill Aim
Lake County's Representative Who Gives
Crown Point as His Horrible Example
Sponsors Measure; Judges Opinions
Differ on Move to Reduce Dasning
Romance to Slow Crawl.
Romance to Slow Crawl.

TOUR Cupid bill introduced
by Representative Fred Egan Oe Lake. in whose baiiVk he
victims
hymena plunged their eeure repentance
wuod ostran contemplation of his
while the ink still drips the license to
would the
age permits merits which legislators divorce court judges
wild motion
by prohibition of the wedding until application
the license
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
FIRE DAMAGES HOME
Loss at Roosevelt Estate
Estimated at $1,000.
By United Press

By United Press
OYSTER BAY, L. L, Jan. %
Sycamore Hill, the home of the late
President Theodore Roosevelt, and
now occupied by his widow, Mrs.
Edith Carow Roosevelt, was dam
aged to the extent of $1,000 Thurs
day night by fire thought to have
started from chimney sparks.
The blaze was discovered by
Robert Gillespie, superintendent of
the estate. An alarm brought fire
men from Oyster Bay, who soon
extinguished the flames.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
HOUSE REJECTS PLAN
PROPOSED BY SENATE
Blocks Move to Use LesIie's Fund
for Probe Groups Expenses.

The Indiana senate's efforts to
include payment of expenses Of
the law enforcement commission
in reimbur sement from Governor
Harry G. Leslie's emergency con-
tingent fund today was rejected by
the house with only ono dissenting
vote.
Action was on the house concur
rent resolution Of Representative
DELPHI L. McKesson Dem, Mar
shalD, majority floor leader, which
called for payment of the state
shool aid and tax survey commits
sions' expenses.
McKeSson, before the vote, at
tackled the senate amendment
pointing out many members of the
law enforcement group are on the
public pay roll.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

ton tailed with
that of one Of
three men who
Mrs. M yrtle
Tanner Black =
lidge, collector
of internal rev.
e nue., insisted
feeced her in a
faro game at
Springfield.
Although con-
tending that she
had been beaten
in the gambling
G a m C M S .
Blacklidge ad
m it e d t II c
money she lost
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
Aged Man Fatally Hurt

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 23.-
Lafayette Burwell. 81, died in hos
pital here of injuries received when
he was struck by an automobile
while alighting from street car.
The driver of the automobile did
not stop after the accident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
Faculty Member Initiated


GREENCASTLE, Ind, Jan. 23.-
Professor Harold link, member of
the De Paw university faculty, has
been initiated by Blue Key, hon
orary senior fraternity. Professor
link is the first faculty member
to be elected since the chapter was
Tydings Move Blocked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
HOOvers Entertain Justices
81 nifed Press

By HtteG Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hoover Thursday
night give their annual dinner to
the supreme court. 1t was the
fourth official dinner party of the
White House season. All the JUS
tees of the court attended except
Justices Brandeis, Holmes and
Sutherland.