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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Former Hoover Aid Makes
Flying Stop on Way
to California.

It's the "dough-re-me" now for
Mabel Walker Willebrandt.
Politics is out. Aviation and
her legal work are "aces up in her
public utterances and thought, and,
says she, "Ill take a job and work
for any one that hires me"
Between cigaret puffs and the
churning drum of the motors Of a
T. and w. A. plane today at the
municipal airport the former gov
ernmental dry crusader discussed
her present private life while
making a Stopover here en- route
from Washington, D. c., to San
Diego, Cal.
She wants it distinctly understood
that she represents the fruit grow
ers of California, not the grape or
wine" interests.
I'm attorney for the Aviation
Corporation, too, and ready to work
for any one who employs me as a
lawyer" said the former United
States assistant attorney general.
Asked what part citizens could ex-
pect prohibition to play in the COM
ing presidential election she waved
the question aside with I'm not
saying anything about politics or
prohibition. There's just two things
I'm interested in-my legal work and
aviation"
Mrs. Willebrandt has made sew
eral visits to Indianapolis. She cam
paigned against Al Smith, Demo-
cratic nominee for President, in a
stump tour of Ohio with his wet
leanings as the topic of her at
tackS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
MARTIAL LAW
RULES SPAIN;
RIOTS HALTED
Valencia Is Only City Not
Under Control; Banks
Remain Open.
CARDINAL IN PORTUGAL
ChurChman Held Partly at
Fault in Trouble Leaves
Country.
BIZ United Press

By Untted Press
MADRID, May 13.-Spain, after
two days of rioting and burning of
churches and religious institutions,
began to return to normal today,
with Valencia the only city not in
control.
Martial law was imposed firmly
in the leading cities.
It was disclosed that Cardinal
Segura, primate of Spain, whose
recent pastoral letter on the Cath
Ole attitude toward the republic
was held partly responsible for the
rioting, had left Spain and entered
Portugal.
He was accompanied by his
mother and sister and crossed the
frontier at Caceres, the informa-
ton said.
Miguel Maura. minister Of the
interior, said TO-DAY that in view of
malicious rumors about diSaffection
in the army, he had ordered
strong display Of troops in the
streets of Madrid, ito make
graphic and visual denial" of the
rumorS and serve warning on any
one wishing to create disorder that
the army was ready to repress any
disturbance.
Banks Remain Open
Most of the troops we're with
drawn later.
Maura said he had ordered all
banks to remain open and trans
act normal business. The news
from the provinces, he added, indi-
Gated a return to normal every
where except in Valencia.
Three persons were killed and
five wounded at Cordova when civil
guards repulsed a mob attack on
church. Two of the wounded were
guardsmen. Martial law prevailed,
but numbers of the terrified popu-
lace fed.
In the south, the exodus of panic
stricken refugees was particularly
great. Hundreds, many of them
prominent persons, sought to escape
over the border to Gibraltar.
Ordered Back by Troops
They came in automobiles and
afoot from Malaga, Cadiz, Seville,
Jerez and other cities and towns
where converts, churches and other
religious buildings had been sacked
and burned in the last three days of
rioting.
Soldiers stopped the refugees,
however, and ordered them to re-
turn.
Strict enforcement of martial law
maintained order in Madrid. Army
engineers with machine guns and an
armored car were stationed in the
Plaza Cibeles, the most important
public square in the capital. None
was permitted to approach the
square. Traffic was paralyzed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
STATE WALTHER
FARLEY CALLED
Laporte viii Be Host to
Church Workers.

By Times Special
LAPORTE, Ind. May 13.-This
city will be host to one of the larg-
est meetings in it's history May 81
and June 1, when the Indiana dis
trict of the Walther League will
be in session. Attendance of 1900
to $500 young people is expected.
An inspirational service at 10 a.
m. Sunday, May 81, will open the
meeting. There will be a business
session in the afternoon and in the
evening a fellowship banquet in the
auditorium. This event is expected
to be attended by about 900 per-
sons. The speaker will be j. w.
Bosse, long active in league affairs
in northern Indiana.
A business session will be held at
9 Monday morning, June l, and an
other at ! p. m. A sightseeing trip
to cover Laporte and vicinity will
start at $3.50, concluding the meet
ing,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
BRAND Is OUT OF
PRESIDENTIAL RACE

BRAND and Tardieu cabinets, re-
spectively, and members Of the
same left Democratic group in the
senate as Doumer.
Brands withdrawal was con-
strued as definitely clinching Dou-
mer's election.
The first ballot had disclosed a
close contest between BRAND and
Doumer. Doumer had 40 votes and
BRAND 401.
BRAND was understood to con-
tend that the result Of the first bal
lot was not a reflection on his for
eign policies, but the outcome Of
bitter party quarrels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
HOOSIER LIONS
SESSION WILL
OPEN sunday
South Bend viii Be Host
for Convention of
Three Days.
TRIBUTE TO LA SALE
Tuesday Afternoon Pro-
gram Memorial to
French Explorer.
BN Tlmes SpeciaI

By Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 1s.-
The annual convention of Indiana
Lions clubs will convene here Sun
day with an attendance Of more
than three hundred expected for a
three-day program.
Following registration, delegates
will be taken on a sightseeing tour
of the city. Sunday evening they
will attend service at the First
Christian church. of which the Rev.
Elmer Ward Cole past district
governor Of Indiana Lions, is pastor.
Formal Meeting Monday
The first formal meeting will be
held at noon Monday with James
T. Cover. president of the South
Bend club, presiding. Mayor w. r.
Hinkle will give an address of well
come and Carl L. Hibberd, presi-
dent Of the South Bend Chamber
Of Commerce. will speak. The Scot
fish Rite choir will provide the
musical part of the program.
At 3 p. m. there will be business
session with T. o. Plunmer, dis
trict governor, in charge.
Monday night will bring the first
social event of the session to be
known as Stunt Mite" The recently
organized all-State Lions band will
make its first appearance.
Election Tuesday
A song fest and business session
are on the morning program for
Tuesday. Submission of reports and
election Of officers will follow.
A La Sale memorial program will
be held Tuesday afternoon, closing
statewide movement sponsored by
Lions clubs to commemorate the ex-
plorations of LaSalle in northern In
diana and the 250th anniversary of
his council with the Indians near
the site of South Bend. In con-
nection with this part of the pro-
gram, there will be a parade, in
Guiding the all-state band and ten
others from South Bend and sur
rounding cities.
The governors banquet and dance
Tuesday evening will conclude the
session. Earle w. Hodges, New York,
president of Lions International, will
be the banquet speaker. Clarence E.
Manion of the University of Notre
Dame Law school will be toast
master.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

BIZ United Press
VERSAILLES, May 13.-Aristide
BRAND, foreign minister, acting in
concert with the cabinet, announced
today that he was withdrawing his
candidacy for president of the re-
public.
In officially withdrawing his can
didacy, BRAND refused to waive in
favor of Paul Douner, president Of
the senate. He announced that he
was happy to remain foreign minis
ter. He will start for Geneva
Thursday.
The left parties conferred and
decided, after consulting with
BRAND, to present as their candi-
date Senator Pierre Marraud, for
mer minister of interior and minis
ter OF public instruction in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
STOLEN AUTO CRASHES
Three Men, Two Girls Hurt Slight
Iy; Held in Custody.

Three men and two girls were in
jured slightly when a stolen auto
crashed into a street car at Vir-
ginia avenue and Delaware street
early today.
Under arrest are: Arvin Toney,
826 Harrison street; Herschel Lewis,
1880 Harrison street, and Harold
Bender, 1912 West Twenty ninth
street, all held on vagrancy charges.
The girls are held in Marion county
detention home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
FORMER CONVICT is
SLAIN AS 'SQUEALER'

Suspected in Jewel Theft, Prodigy
Believed Silenced by pals"
81 United Press
NEW YORK, May 13.-Vengeance
of former inmates at Sing Sing or
the fact he was feared as a "Squeal-
er" were believed today to have been
the motives behind the Staying Of
Roy Herbert Sloane, scholarly youth
who studied law and argued himself
out of prison.
Sloane was out on $4,000 bail on
charges of being implicated in an
$4,000 jewel robbery when he was
shot to death in front of the Mad
Dot Boat Club, a waterfront cafe.
Two other men were implicated
in the robbery Of the jewels from
the office of Karos e. Stein. Police
expressed the opinion Sloan was
killed to silence him as a witness in
the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Theft OF LEGATION
LIQUOR THWARTED

descending steps which led to the
floor on which the liquor locker was
located.
All of them, he said, were armed.
and warned him to leave the
premises.
Disregarding their threats, he
leaped upon them, at the same time
drawing a revolver and firing two
shots, which lodged in the ceiling.
The shots heightened the thugs
who, after brutally pummenng the
diplomat, rushed out the front door
and sped north on Connecticut
avenue in an automobile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
BLAST ENGULFS CRATER
ON SACRED MOUNTAIN
Hump on Peak Thanking Fujiyama
Reported Gone.

BU Lnited PTess
TOXIC, May 13.-The Hohei
crater on Mt. Fujiyama, Japan's
sacred mountain, was reported to
have disappeared today after
mysterious explosion.
Hohei crater formed hump on
one of the mountains thanking Full
yama. an extinct volcano. It was
believed that the crater disappeared
as the result Of the explosion on
landslide. No earth tremors were
felt.
The mountain was covered with
heavy clouds after the explosion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
CONTRACT TO
HINGE ON PLOT
TRIAL VERDICT
Conservation Chief Holds
Up Signing for Purchase
From Indicted Man.
STATE POLICIES CLASH
Highway Board Buys Stone
From Contractor Held
for 'Lootinq.'

Although his department never
has been connected with the con-
spiracy for which Ralph Rogers.
Bloomington stone contractor, now
is on trial, Director Richard Ilieber
Of the state conservation depart
ment announced today that the
stone contract on which Rogers was
low bidder will not be signed BY
him until Rogers is acquitted.
This policy is exactly opposite to
that pursued by the state highway
department.
Rogers was indicted by the Mon
roe county grand jury for conspir-
acy growing out of the alleged
short delivery, through check-ofT
padding, of hundreds of tons of
stone to the maintenance division
Of the state highway department.
Continues Dealing With Him
The scheme was alleged to have
been worked in 1928 by collision
with department employees. William
L. Sayer, then Bloomington district
superintendent for the highway de-
partment, also was indicted.
Although the indictments were
returned March Is, 1880, the high
way commission has continued to
purchase thousands of dollars worth
of stone from Rogers and on Feb.
"a, 1881, awarded a $280,0O0 paving
contract to U. r. Price Company.
in which Rogers is a partner.
Conservation commission engi-
neerS received bids for some $4,000
worth of stone for a road in the
Brown county state park. Rogers
was low bidder by some $4,000. He
signed the contract and sent it to
Lieber.
But before the conservation di-
rector affixed his signature, the in
dicted stone contractor took the
stand in his defense and cited the
state highway and conservation
contracts as evidence of good
character.
Contract Not Signed
Lieber sent the contract to the
office of Attorney General James
M. Ogden today, to show that it
was not signed by him and there
fore is not a contract, as Rogers
testified.
Lieber further declared that it
will not be signed unless Rogers
is found not guilty.
Il hate to lose the $4,000, but it is
best for public policy" Lieber de-
clared.
Director John j. Brown of the
state highway department defended
their purchases from Rogers on
Tuesday. Whether Lieber's leader
ship would cause a change could not
be learned. No one was in highway
department offices this morning who
knew where Brown or any depart
ment head had gone.
Commissions Missing
All were reported out and expect
ed back Thursday. It was said a
commission meeting was being con-
Quoted somewhere, but even the
commission publicity man admitted
no knowledge of it.
1t was recalled that a secret meet
ing at the Lake Manitou cottage of
Commissioner Jess Murden last
year resulted in failure to collect
federal aid, due to shifting of de-
partmental funds.
The matter was investigated by a
senate committee and all highway
hands admitted the failure, but
promised to collect everything this
season.
Ogden has two deputies pros
ecutlng the Rogers case. Action of
the highway department gives the
appearance of the state being
divided against itself. it was pointed
out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

Wilhelm billed special type Of streamline" frog has special
nurse give him daily bath in reduce wind resist
ance while jumping At least the jubilee hackers that adj
information.
jumper will be zenobia for his face value
$1,000 by the Kwans Club
5o-gaon moined bath tub filled he
won't feel lost.
The jubilee also will include La Fiesta del Squirt" fighting
contest between engines eghty-one old
everybody piece rope calav
nng with the sign
Go as far you like. The rope your limit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
SET MARDI GRAS DATE

Sherman Emerson Celebration to
Be Held July % and rs.
Sherman Emerson Civic League
annual mardi gras will be held July
% and Is, it was decided at a meet
ing of the league Tuesday night at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd z.
Baber, 1925 North Bancroft street.
Committee chairmen named are:
Al Muehlbacher. civic league concessions;
c. McConahay. finance; Baber. light; Arch
Hinch. police and safety: Albert Neuer-
burg stand space: L. K. Harlow. pro-
gram; Mrs. Harlow. decorations. and John
Z. Keller. children's contests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Second Section
And It's Crackin' That Is
Crackin' When Corn
bread Clicks EN-.
BY II. ALLEN SMITH
limited Press staff correspondent

NEW YORK, May 13.-Corn-
IN bread Stokes, late Of the Ken
tuckv hills. sat in a Fourth avenue
office building today, stared down
at the jangle of traffic in the
street. and shed a bitter tear for
/. the passing Of a noble art.
For Cornbread Stokes is one of
the last. II not the last, of the cow
rib bone-crackers. Cornbread comes
from Kentucky, where, back in the
hills. they actually used to crack
bones. And today, rather sadly, he
pulled a handful of COW ribs out of
his coat pocket.
In a moment the room rever-
berated with the roar Of cracking
bones.
That there" he explained, "is
what call the machine gun" Then
Cornbread cut loose with his
Cricket" Next came horses trot-
tin" and then ''horses gallopin."
BY that time Cornbread had proved
his point.
Il been crackin' bones" he said,
"ever since I was big enough to
hold on to COW rib. Down on my
paws farm I used to get all the
ribs often the COWS, and I found
some mighty fine COW ribs in my
day. Cow ribs is best for bone
crackin' excepting only that they
get dry and start crackin'. I mean
actually crackin'. Not just crackin. j."
CORNBREAD used TO be the
~ star all through his district
whenever the boys had a barbe-
cue. He built up quite reputa-
ton in the hill county as a bone
cracker and one day he just sud-
denly decided to come to New
York and see if Broadway wouldn't
enjoy a good old-fashioned bone
cracker
He tried the booking offices
here, but nobody seemed to get
the idea.
Then one night" he said, Il
got into one of these here night
clubs, thinkin' it was Hungarian
restaurant. I was settin' there
at the table and the people was
dancin' and the music was playin'.
All of sudden they started
playin' a two-step and I picked
up a couple of forks and started
crackin' them.
We'll, sir, purity soon they shut
of the orchestra and a hundred
people, I reckon, gathered around
me. Then I got out my bones,
which always pack around with
me, and started crackin' them"
NORNBREAD'S celebrity as a
~ result of that night club in
cident, has at last brought rec
ognition to this art. He has been
signed up to crack bones over the
radio.
'Bope-crackin'," he said. els the
purtieSt music you can think of
when a real good cracker does it.
Now you take me. 1 was out to
a party's house one night and they
turned the radio on to one of
these sympathy orchestras from
Philadelphia.
We'll, sir, I got out my bones
and cracked to the sympathy con-
cert, and I want to tell you I i'm
proved that music. Every good
sympathy orchestra ought to have
a bone-cracker or two"
The best music for bone crack
ing, Cornbread said, is the old
time stuff, like who threw tn
Overalls In Mrs. Murphy's Chow
der" and "Cnmbin' tn Golden
Stair"
You got to have two-step music
for crackin'," he said. You can't
crack bones proper to this croonin'.
His first name, he said, is Her.
bert, but everybody calls him Corn
bread.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
SETTLE GETS OUT OF
CORN BELT COMMITTEE
Quits Because Group Seeks to Dis
credit Farm Board, He Says.

Withdrawal from the corn belt
committee, an organization spon-
soring legislation for farmers, by
the Indiana farm bureau was an
nounced today by William H. Settle,
president of the bureau.
Settle charged the withdrawal at
a recent meeting in DeS MoineS, Ia,
was due to alleged designs of the
committee TO discredit the activities
Of the federal farm board.
He charged William Hirth of Co.
lumbia. Mo-. was responsible for the
bolt by Indiana's bureau and those
Of seven other states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
$4,000 IN GIFTS GOES
TO U. OF CALIFORNIA
2,670 Seniors to Graduate at 6Sth
Commencement of School.


Commencement of School.
BIZ United Press
BERKELEY, Cal, May 13.-Gifts
Of 100000 to the University of CAL
Hernia we're announced by Presi-
dent Robert Gordon Sprodl today
prior to graduation of 1850 seniors
at the sixty-eighth commencement
exercises.
The gifts included a total of
S12,500 for the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography at La Jolla, Cal,
of which $500 was given by Robert
P. Scripps and $4,000 by the Los
Angeles Gas and Electric Corpora
ton.
Another gift of $4,000 was from
the estate CT Phoebe A. Hearst.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Alfonso Is Blamed

~ CntteU Press
LONDON, May ia Madrid
dispatch to the London Daily Ex-
press today said Attorney General
Gallarza had asserted the repub-
lican government of Spain intended
to apply to France for extradition
of Alfonso XIII, former king.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
MRS. C0AP.STICK TO BE
BURIED ON THURSDAY
Wife of State Chamber of Com
merce's Traffic Manager Expires.

Last rites for Mrs. Rilla Coap-
stick, wife Of r. B. Coapstick. 1888
Brentwood avenue, traffic manager
OF the Indiana State Chamber Of
Commerce, will be held at 2 Thurs
day afternoon. Services will be he'd
at the w. H. Richardson undertake
ing establishment, 1901 North Me-
ridian street, and burial will be in
Washington Park cemetery. Mrs.
Coapstic6 died Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coapstick came to
indianapolis twelve years ago and
formerly lived in TT. Wayne.
Survivors, in addition to the hus-
band, are two sons, Ronald and
Glenn Coapstick of indianapolis.
and two daughters, Mrs. Fred VIII
son Of TT. Wayne and Mrs. Edwin
Wilson Of indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
STATE H0MEOPATHS
HERE FOR MEETING
Indiana Institute of Homeopathy
Head to Preside.

DR.. A. w. Records Of Franklin,
president Of the Indiana Institute
OF Homeopathy, will preside at the
Institutes annual banquet tonight
at the Columbia Club.
Homeopathic physicians from
throughout the state we're in at
tendance today at the organiza-
tons sixty-f1fth annual meeting,
which win end Thursday.
Speakers at the banquet will in
clude DR.. Lester E. Seimons, Cleve-
land, O., and Frank w. Lynch, Chi
cago, executive. secretary of round
table international.
Professional problems are holding
the attention Of the physicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
BUST GIFT TO STATE
George Washington Statue win Be
Presented by Commission.

Indiana'S state Capitol will re-
ceiye a plaster bust OF Washington
such as the George Washington BIZ
centennial commission is presenting
every senator and representative in
congress.
The presentation late this month
may be made the occasion of a
public ceremony in the statehouse,
with Congressman Louis Ludlow
making the presentation in behalf
of the commission.
The bust IS a copy Of the one ex-
ecuted by Joseph Nollekens, English
sculptor of the late eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

NGELS CAMP May 1ld timers Of the mother lode coun-
try pastered bear their boots
today preparation Twans great
frog Jumping jubilee here
Every since Twain the jumping frog
Caaveras inedulou world the
hermages in the old gold watch coaking
denzens perform.
This the old timers promise jumping jubilee
than international
Wilhelm holder of
ing broad jump
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
HAND SCALDED
Hot Gravy Sears Tots Exploring
Fingers at Table.

Exploring fingers of Robert stew
enson, 18-months-old, of 2420 North
Talbot street, were responsible for
his residence in city hospital today.
The baby pulled a bowl of hot gravy
over on himself at his home Tues
day. His condition is not serious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
SCORES LIQUOR. CASES
BaItzeII Again Criticises Minor
Cases in Federal Court.

Prosecution of minor liquor Of
lenses in federal court was scored
again Tuesday by Federal Judge
Robert c. Baltzell, when William
(Gippy) Gavin, was brought before
the judge on charges of mainte-
nance of a nuisance in a poolroom
at 2p4 South Illinois street.
Gavin and Peter Lukaszvich
pleaded guilty, and Edward Beyers
was found not guilty. Sentence on
the first two will be pronounced
later, the judge said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
TO WAIT FOR
CONVICTED BANDIT

Left, Mrs. James
COrdell, wife of
One of two BAN
Its sentenced in
criminal court to-
day.
Above, Corden,
her husband, and,
below, Charles L.
Palmer, CordeH's
accomplish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Barber Kills Self

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 49,
III health was blamed for the suicide
here Of Joseph Kohajda. A, who shot
himself to death in a rear room
of his barber shop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Eagle Shot Down

By Times Special
STROH, Ind, May 13.-An eagle
which swooped down on litter of
six pigs at the farm of John Bell,
near here, and succeeded in picking
up one, was shot down by Bell.