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The Washington times., 1931-02-03
JOAN BENNETT
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JOAN BENNETT
FRIENDS OF Joan Bennett,
film star, and John w. Con-
sidine, jr., film producer, today
declared that the romance be-
tween the couple had been dis
rupted.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
EARTH To QUAKE
IF VETERANS
ARE PAID
National City Bank Head Sees
Worldwide Harm to Come
of Cash Bonus Bond Issue

Immediate cash payment of the
$3,500,000,000 soldiers bonus"
through sale of Government bonds
would have a depressing effect
upon the whole world, George E.
Roberts, vice president OF the
National City Bank of New York,
told the House Ways and Means
Committee today.
Among it's evil results, he said,
probably would be the stopping
of foreign financing in this coun-
try for several years. This, he
said, would prevent recovery Of
other countries and check Amer
ica's export trade.
Mr.. Stephenson said that float
ing of a huge bond issue to pay
the certificates would depress the
price of bonds, perhaps raise
taxes and make more difficult
the financing of legitimate in
dustry.
Speaking of the world situa-
ton, Roberts said one of the diff
ficulties was that foreign coun-
tries had been drained Of gold
to pay the United States. The
Bank of England, he said, is find
ing difficulty in maintaining its
reserve.
Thornton Cooke, president Of
the Columbia National Bank, Of
Kansas City, Mo, also opposed
cash payment.
He suggested that Congress
might give aid directly to the
100000 to 100000 unemployed
veterans.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
Walsh Seeks NeW
World Court Vote

A motion to reconsider its post
ponement of action on the world
court protocol until next Decem.
ber was made at today'S session
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee by Senator Walsh
CD of Montana.
Walsh, who was absent from
the session at which the post
ponement was voted by 10 to 9,
favorS immediate consideration
of the court. The committee
debated the regularity of Walsh's
motion, but no decision reached.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
SCHOOL BOYS
CRUSHED IN
CLASSES
Fires Continue to Sweep
Towns; Thousands Home
less; Many Still in Wreckage
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Continued From Page y
which was also razed by the
quake, meeting with the citizens
relief committee of that town,
estimated that the number OF
dead in Hastings will be nearly
100. Many bodies are still buried
under the debris.
Nine Babies Rescued
Captain Delaney, matron Of the
Salvation Army maternity home
in Napier, arrived in Wellington
tonight, bringing with her nine
babies from the home. She said:
when I felt the first quake
1 rushed out of the home into
the garden where five babies
were having sun baths. / was
Mortified as 1 saw the chin
ney of the home tOpple over
and fall among the cradles.
although the babies were
covered with bricks and NOR
tar. by some lucky chance not
one Of them was injured"
Refugees pouring into yelling
ton by every incoming train have
only the vagueSt ideas as to the
extent of the damage. They know
only what happened to them per-
sonally.
Napier Is ShambIes
Director Muir, of the Napier
relief workers, wireleSsed that
Napier is a veritable shambles.
with dead. dying and injured
lying in the streets and injured
victims crowding hopelessly into
the underStaffed dressing stations.
An operation which was being
performed in a private hospital
was interrupted by the first
quake. The patient was immedi-
ately transferred to the open air
where the operation was COM
pleted successfully by the light of
the flames of the burning city.
One of the minor tragedies of
the catastrophe is that while
Napier survivors are in want of
food, 10000 carcasses of meat are
rotting in the Wairoa Refrigera-
tion Works. so miles north of
Napier. The refrigeration system
was damaged by the quake.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
Auto Test Stations
For Alexandria Sci

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. A.
Sergt. Edward McDermott has
appointed the Belle Haven
Garage, Carter Motor Company
Central Garage and C. Leo Nc
Kenney official testing stations
to test headlights, brakes and
horns. Under a recent ruling Of
the director of motor vehicles
all automobiles and trucks must
be tested periodically.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03
Alien Net Gets 1O3;
DeDOrtdtiOn Likely

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 QN.SO.
Beginning a drive against aliens
illegally in this country. Federal
agents and New York city police
yesterday rounded up l03 men.
They were taken to Ellis Island
for examination and probable de-
portation.
The Washington times., 1931-02-03

PICTURES FROM NEW ZEALAND
HERE ARE TYPICAL from North Island
New Zealand where an earthquake has taken toll of
more than 100 lives Sheeprasing, tmbercutting, and
whaling off the coast are of the industries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
BEGIN RENO DEATH
TRIAL OF DENTIST
Hurled FianCee From Auto
to Her Death, Charge
Made by State.
BIZ Unitcd Press

DU CUtttC lfNoo
RENO, New, Dec. 16.-Nevada's
six weeks divorces, whirling roulette
wheels and absence of dry laws
figured today in the trial of Dr. Carl
P. Andre, young Paramount CIV. Va
dentist, accused Of Staying his as
serted fiancee, winsome Mrs. Mar
tina Hutchinson.
A jury of twelve men chosen in
the first day of trial began the
hearing with visit to the spot
where the state charges DR.. Andre
pushed Mrs. Hutchinson, daughter
of Paramount coal operator, from
his speeding automobile to her
death.
A few miles beyond the scene of
the mishap was the Lazy Me dude"
ranch, owned by Cornelius Wander
bilt Jr., favorite retreat of divorce
colonists where DR.. Andre and the
girl assertedly quarreled on the aft
ernoon of her death, Sept. Is.
Prosecutors declare guests at the
ranch, including Mrs. Grace lib
bett, divorced wife of Lawrence lib
bett, the singer, witnessed the quar-
rel and may testify.
Mrs. Hutchinson was said to have
followed the dentist here on his
promise to marry her after obtain
ing a divorce. On arriving, DR..
Andre claimed she joined in the
colonys feverish search for pleasure
at night clubs, dude ranches, and
the Reno gaming rialto.
The dentist has maintained Mrs.
Hutchinson either jumped or fell
from the automobile as it struck a
bump.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
That .SShOOting!

BIZ United Press
GREENSBURG, Pa, Dec. 16..
John Pershing, Derry, Pa,
was about to fire at a deer
when a bullet from another
hunters rife entered the bar
rel Of his gun. Pershing's
gun exploded, mangling his
hand. The hunters had aimed
at the same deer from opposite
directions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
STARvES SELF
TO FEED BABY
GirI-Mother CoIIapSeS in
Toledo Street.
By United Press

By United Press
TOLEDO, O., Dec. ia 19-year-
old mother who spent her last dime
for food for her baby and then COL
lapsed from hunger, today lay in a
Toledo hospital, reading the want
ad columns in resumed search for
a job.
The girl mother, who said she was
Mrs. Betty Stahlhurt of Hammond,
Ind, was found unconscious on a
sidewalk, clutching her 2-year-old
son Billy to her breast. She had
not eaten for two days.
Only a few minutes earlier, she
walked into restaurant.
Just some milk and cereal for the
baby" she told the waiter.
THAT will be dime, won't it?
I'm not hungry"
After the child had eaten, she
picked the last dime from her
shabby purse, walked out into the
wintry night and collapsed.
Refreshed by food and warmth,
the girl said her parents in Ham
mond refused to take her in unless
she deserted her jobless husband.
After visiting friends in Cuyahoga
Falls, o., she returned to Toledo,
where she tramped the streets in a
futile quest for a job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
A|RLINES CUT RATES
Express Costs SIaShed AL
most in Two.

By ScrippS-HooGrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec Is. = The
nations airlines, faced with the
necessity of increasing their reve-
nue., today started a drive to build
up an immense volume of air ex-
press.
A radical cut in rates was an
nounced by the Railway Express
Agency and five air transport COM
panies associated in the express
venture.
It is the first cut in rates since
the express agency hooked up with
the airlines in 1927 and offered air
services to express shippers.
The rate cuts run as high as so
per cent. A ten-pound package
now can go from New York to San
Francisco in thirty-one hours for
$3.50, instead Of $26 as formerly.
Airlines associated with the ex-
press agency are United Airlines
American Always, Western Air Ex-
press, Northwest Anyways and Ma
tional Parks Always.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
SKI GIRL BACK
WITH her BABY
ScornS Mother, Returns to
Lovers Wife.
By United Press

By United Press
MINEOLA, L. l., Dec 16.-Miss
May Gledhill, Canadian ski girl"
and unwed mother, was reunited
with her baby and Mrs. William
Conner, wife of the father of her
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
THOUGHT SHE WOULD
Die FROM ASTHMA
Tried Everything, But Finally Found
Quick and Lasting Relief.

Discouraged sufferers from asth-
ma or bronchial cough should read
this message from Mrs. M. Corn, GIT
Buchanan St., indianapolis:
II had asthma in severe form. Two
years ago l really thought l was going
10 die. | tried all kinds of Treatments,
but the bad attacks continued until
tried Nacor in April, 1890. ! took two
bottles and then found | needed no
medicine whatever The trouble has
disappeared entirely. and l. am feeling
Just fine. Am doing mys homework
again and am gaining back my weight"
Hundreds of people who suffered for
years from asthma and bronchial
coughs state that their trouble left
aud has not returned. Their letters
aud booklet of vital information will
be sent free by Nacor Medicine Co.
sos state Life Bldg. Indianapolis. Ind.
Write for this free information. and
hld out how thousands have found
&Sfing relief -Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
REPEAL DEFICIT
With DRY Act
is WET SLOGAN
Revenue Slump Spurs New
Attack on Prohibition in
Congress.

BIZ Scripps-HotoGrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.-"Re-
peal the prohibition act and with
it the deficit" will be the fighting
slogan of vets in congress this win
ter.
With the new session only a week
old it already is apparent that the
relationship between prohibition
and the pocket-book is going, to be
stressed as never before in the COM
ing months.
A billion dollars of the deficit
could be wiped out by repeal of the
eighteenth amendment, RepreSen-
tative A. J. SABBATH, of Illinois, be-
lieveS
He has fired the first shot in the
economic attack upon the dry law
with a repeal bill which sets forth
in it's title that it is designed ito
reduce taxation by obtaining for the
government instead of bootleggers,
revenue from the sale of medicinal
beer and Wines
Billion Dollar Revenue Seen
SABBATH estimates that return of
light wine and beers would mean a
revenue of half billion dollars an
nually for the federal government
in taxes.
To legalize the use of liquor under
some such system as Sweden'S
Bratt plan, at the same time rid
ding the federal government of it's
annual bill for prohibition enforce
ment, would mean another half
billion dollars in the treasury, he
believes.
Drys as we'll as vets have felt the
persuasive force of this practical
argument against prohibition in re-
cent months.
Representative William E. Hull, of
Illinois, heretofore a dry, in a
speech in the house, stated that the
economic situation largely has been
responsible for revising his view
point, adding Il know of no way
where a tax could be distributed so
evenly over the country or made
with better consideration than a tax
on beer"
66,OOO,OOO Barrels in 1914
Hull, using as a basis the amount
of beer brewed in 1914, which was
100000 barrels, figures that a SIS
barrel tax would yield the federal
government revenues amounting to
$33 100000 annually.
This is a conservative estimate
compared with that of the ASsocia-
ton Against the Prohibition
Amendment.
It assumes that the tax of Sc a
barrel imposed on beer during the
war would remain. Figuring then
from the assumption that the per
capita consumption of all liquors
would remain what it was before
prohibition, it estimates that the
probable federal revenue from alco-
holic beverages would amount, each
year, to $906, 402 ,224.
This, of course, presuppoSes re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment
and the return of liquors as well as
wine and beer, while Hull's estimate
took into account beer only.
In 1919 the federal government
actually did collect $484 100000 ir
liquor taxes, comprising 10 per cent
Of its total revenue.
In connection with the question
of revenues, the cost of prohibition
enforcement is being considered
The bureau of prohibition spent
$11, 100000 last year and will spenc
approximately the same amount
this year.
Expenditures on account of prohi-
bition in the federal courts anc
prisons, the coast guard and the
bureau of industrial alcohol run the
cost of enforcement up to $45,.
100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
.I0ve child. in the conner nome

love child" in the Conner home
today.
The girl whose strange role in a
love triangle was revealed after her
collapse, Nov. 81, left the Nassau
hospital Tuesday. Mrs. Anne Peel
Gledhill, her mother. called for her
and the two left without revealing
their destination.
1t was intimated that mother and
daughter had parted ways when
Miss Gledhill refused to go to her
parents home in Montreal without
her baby. Mrs. Gledhill had in
sisted that she would have nothing
to do with her daughters child.
Mrs. Conner and May are reported
to have agreed that the unwed
mother is to stay in the Conner
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
BICYCLIST IS INJURED

An automobile driven by Kenneth
Coelling, 20, of 1887 North Olney
street, overturned early today at
Twenty-fifth street and Arsenal
avenue, after striking Mac Sachs,
so, of 1881 North New Jersey street,
a bicyclist. Sachs was injured Seri-
ously and is in city hospital. Coel-
ling's car overturned as he swerved
In an effort to avoid striking Sachs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
GROCERY IS TO OPEN
Sears Roebuck Will Hold
Formal Celebration.

Formal opening of the new base
ment grocery of rs-Roebuck &
Co., will be held Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. The store, located
in the southwest section of the
basement, is equipped with electric
refrigeration in meat, fruit and
vegetable departments.
Full lines of canned goods and
staples are offered at bargain
prices. These lines include local
and nationally advertised merchan-
disc. Pastries and bakery goods
fresh each day are available.
Fresh and smoked meats of all
kinds are offered in the butcher
shop. Delicatessen goods will also
be sold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
RUBEN'S BOND HALVED
Baker Cuts Surety Asked for Bond
Suspect to $500.

Bond in the case of Sam Ruben,
Chicago, alleged to be implicated in
sale of bonds reported to have been
part of the $4,000 haul made by
New York bandits, was reduced from
$4,000 to $500 today by Judge
Frank Baker, in criminal court.
Ruben is held with George Shee-
han, Indianapolis attorney. 1t is
charged they sold $4,000 of the
bonds here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Child Dies of Dipbtheria

BV Times Special
BEDFORD, Ind, Dec. 16.-Diph-
liberia caused the death of Betty
June Hill, 2, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Hill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Auto Display Banned
BIZ Times Special

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 10
Exhibition of Al Capone's armored
automobile for an admission fee of
10 cents has been stopped here by
police. The car, exhibited by Carl
Felgar. Kansas City, was seized on
the ground that 1929 Indiana law
forbids possession of armored cars,
except by police or banks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Two Charges Filed
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 16.-
Alexis Coquillard, local insurance
dealer, has filed charges of intoxi-
cation and malicious trespass in city
court against Louis LaFortune, for
merly of this city and now living in
Racine, Wis. LaFortune was ar
rested after police had been sum-
moned to the Coquillard residence
on complaint that he was attempt
ing to force his way into the house.
William Harris, a taXicab driver,
was arrested with LaFortune.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
DEC. 16, 1891.

home until Conner is released from
Vermont state prison, where he is
serving a sentence for forgery.
II have no regrets" Miss GledhilI
said. II loved Ernie Conner. I
shall always love him. I love my
baby and no one shall ever take him
from NE. Ernie is paying his debt
to society. In short while he will
be free. We are going away and he
is going to make a man of himself
again"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Mans Body Found

SPbCtUb
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. Is. -
Police are attempting to learn iden-
tity of a man whose unclothed body
was found in wooded tract along
the st. Joseph River. He apparently
had died of exposure while taking
bath in the stream. A vest pocket
dictionary with the name Theodore
J. Meckling written in it and the
initials wv. j. K" tattoed on the
right arm are discordant conflict
ing cleWs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
TWO SONS PLAY
INNOCENT PART
IN RAID DEATH
Suspect Falls Dead When
Confronted by Rum at
Conference

Two boys are grief-stricken today
for the part they played Tuesday
afternoon in the death of their
father, Homer N. Ingersoll, So, Of
932 Bellefontaine street, a former
circus employee. who had been SELL
ing liquor for two years to save his
family from starvation.
AS Edward Ingersoll. 9, ran to
school Tuesday afternoon he passed
three men.
Buddy, where do the Ingersolls
Dve?" one of the men asked.
Right there the boy said.
That's my fathers house"
He ran on to school, not know
ing that, when he returned three
hours later, life would have left his
father.
They Were Cops
The men were Sergeant John
Eisenhut, Freeman Smock and Otto
Fulton.
They told Ingersoll they we're
police and were admitted by him
with the warning they must remain
quiet because his wife, Bertha, was
III in another room.
Ingersoll and the officers went
to the kitchen Eisenhut told him
they had several complaints he had
been selling liquor, but had no
proof.
Ingersoll clutched his chest as
though in pain.
Don't get excited Eisenhut said.
I'VE aren't going to arrest you. We
haven't any warrant We just want
to talk this matter over with you"
III Two Years
I've been sick a couple of years.
Ingersoll said.
AS he talked to the officers, the
basement door leading into the
kitchen opened, and Chester, 10,
stepped into the room. Police spied
empty bottles on a stairway shelf.
Accompanied by Chester the pa
trolmen went to the basement.
Eisenhut continued his CONVERSE
ton with Ingersoll, telling him he
had been informed the liquor was
kept in a coffee pot in the kitchen.
Again the basement door swung
open. Chester and the officers came
into the room.
One of the officers carried an
empty gallon jug but the other
carried one full of corn whisky.
Falls on Table, Dead
Ingersoll started, his eyes widened
and he stiffened in the chair. He
collapsed on the table-dead.
Mrs. Ingersoll arose from her sick
bed when her husbands body was
carried into the bedroom.
He has been sick two years and
hasn't been able to do anything"
she sobbed to police and a Times
reporter. "He sold liquor to keep
us going. He has been doing it for
two years, but he did it himself. He
wouldn't let Chester touch it"
Mrs. Ingersoll said the family had
been poverty stricken since her hus-
band lost his job as an advance
agent for Ringing Brothers circus.
Before that, the family operated a
grocery at Tenth street and Senate
avenue.
No Regular Meals
TITS been hard going and now it
will be worse without father" Ches-
ter said I've been able to get
work few days now and then, but
it wasn't much. We haven't eaten
very regularly lately. I don't know
what We'll do now"
Edward was shocked by his IA
theirs d2ath and today fondled a
toy police badge and billy on which
his fathers head fell on the kitchen
table when he collapsed.
II didn't know what those men
wanted" the boy sobbed
Ingersoll's body probably will be
taken to Washington, Ind, his
birthDlace for burial
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Former Official Dies

By IWtS NptCtut
HARRODSBURG, Ind, Dec. 10
Funeral services will be held Thurs
day for Cleveland Heltenburg, At, a
former trustee of Clear Greek town..
ship, who died at his home near
here Tuesday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25

the levy for sinking fund purposes
on the 1892 assessments as the city
is far from out of debt.
More care should be exercised be-
fore claims are allowed for payment,
to see that they are fully itemized
showing dates that work or materi-
ais were furnished; also that they
are properly signed and sworn to.
Your attention is called to the fol-
lowing claims:
No. SAP, Farmer-Labor Temple
Association, $1,000; this claim is not
sworn to.
No. 54s2F, Oliver Gunderson. $500;
not sworn to.
No. 55O7F, Producers News, $14.9S;
not sworn to.
No. 1894, Chas. Morris. $4,000
shows So hours work; there are no
dates showing when work was done,
nothing to indicate where work was
done. All claims should be self ex-
planatory so that any taxpayer can
look at a claim and know what his
money was expended for.
The Annual Reports for the fiscal
year 1930-31, which closed on June
30,1931, had not been filed with the
State Examiner at the time this ex-
animation was made. These reports
are due not later than sixty days
which means that they are due not
later than August 31st of each year.
1t would be just as easy to get these
reports out promptly at the close Of
the year as to wait until the last
minute to do so.
1881 examination fees not paid.
Respectfully submitted,
G. N. ROBERTSON,
State Examiner
Per r. N. HAWKINS,
Asst. State Examiner.
B. A RISLEY,
Deputy State Examiner.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25

war. Is it justifiable ever to en-
gage in war-esjecially now that
we know that another war will
mean the determination of west
ern civilization How can war be
eliminated? Does the League of
Nations provide the proper meth
cd? Among other subjects to be
discussed this winter, if time per-
mits, will be such as India, Russia,
our changing morality, the Ameri-
can negro, etc. l ask again, s.se
there not so young people VINO will
come to Nysted this. our first
winter and share fellowship with
us in our discussions, in our group
singing, in gymnastics. in basket
ball, in folkdances and in every
thing serving to enrich life?
We are arranging with the Pub
lie library in Omaha to secure all
the books necessary to get in
touch with each of the above men
toned subjects.
On the faculty will be found
amongst others, C. P. HOjbjerg
Otto Hoiberg, Chris Christensen
Dagmar Bobjerg, and the under
signed. That such force does not
lack the outward qualifications tC
teach will be seen from the fact
that it is composed of members
the majority of whom are holders
of high university degrees. l an