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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-29
STOCK SHARES
UNSETTLED AS
RAILS DECLINE
Early Short Covering Is
Responsible for Up
turn.
Average Stock Prices

Average OF thirty industrisls for Thurs
dAv was isi 81. up los. Average OF twenty
rails vas "a S. Of 10. Average Of twenty
afiiities was $40. Up SO. Average az
fortv bonds was 95.03. of II.
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CLEVELAND. May .-Eutter-Extras
27ssc; standards, CSC. Eggs-Extras, lie:
frsts, i6c. Roultry-Heavy fowls. csc;
medium. 2sc: Ieghorn fowls. lie: heavy
ducks. iS922c: old cocks, i2c: geese. 100
i5c Potatoes--Maine Green Mountain,
mostly 81 i20-lb. sack; SlS5 l00-lb sacks;
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BONDS
Other Livestock
BIZ United Press

TOLEDO. May 2s-Hors-Receipts $50.
market. steady at Thursdays best prices:
heavies, s5.25d5.5o: mediums. s575G6:
workers.. s6G6.lo; pigs, S5.75d6. Cattle
Receipts; light; market slow; calves re-
ceipts, light; market. slow. Sheep-Re-
eeipts. light; market. slow.
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Births
Gil

Arthur and Julia Pyke, 4i4 Terrace
Louie and Reba Mcdowell, 269 Mlnkner.
James and Barbara Ganghan. 44S North
Haugh.
Richard and Eunice Miller, 42s. irving
place.
lucky.
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wheat~No. q red. 85isc; No. / hard hal 0i az
@83Hc; No. 2 hard. 82izc: No / mixed.
Sl% @821ac; No. ! northern. .82lzG83Kcs
No. northern. 82Ac. Corn-No. 6 mixed.
low. 5sSS575zc: No. S' yeiiowS 5 &c., No
yellow. 5334c: No. / white. 58%c: No 2
white, 5812@5s3zc: No. 3 white. 5774c:
28c; No. 3 white. 27c: No. white, 24ia a
26c. Rye-None. Barley--374 sec. Tim
othy-s8.25 q875. Clover-Sl0.50Q1750
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By United Press

EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. May 2s.-Hoes-
Receipts. $500; market. moderately active;
top $s25; lew small lots u5 sSis6 55yeT m6Gst
240 lbs. down. s6.159625: 260-300 lbs.
$S85@6: Ssows. largely s4.75@5. Cattle
few loads Texas erased steers on sale:
top medium bulls and vealers steadv::
steers. So: top bulls s375: vealers, So:
Receipts. 1000: market, opened slow at
zoe lower on spring lambs. bidding lower
on sheep: packers taking few spring lambs
others. bulk of lambs. unsoId. including
2oubledecks of Texas clipped lambs and
ss s5 5 spring lambs good and choice,
s5.759725: lambs. 90 lbs down, good and
choice, $625 Q7.50 medium. s5.5066.25;
$50 lbs, medium to choice s1750275:
all weights. Gull and common. $102.
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EAST BUFFALO. May 2s-Hogs-on
sales. 700; market. very slow. few sales
10000 lbs. at $3.50; STEADY to strong
with Yesterdays average: some held high
er. around 25o lbs. butchers. So pigs.
$3.50 so; packing sovs, S4G4.75. Cattle
STEADY at $3.50; cutter cows weak to 25c
lower. mostly s2G3; few up to $3.50: calves,
receipts. 1000; mostly steady. good to
choice vealegs. S8G9. so: common 70 me-
dun kinds. $4-5od7.5o. Sheep-Receipts,
600; lambs abous steady; no choice spring
ers onereo; few medium grades, S9dl0:
sheep held steady mixed shorn ewes and
wetkers So
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INSPECTIONS
Net Changes

By United Press
NEW YORK, May %. = Closing
prices and net changes on principal
stocks traded today on the New
York Stock Exchange:
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LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 7s-Hogs-
s ste az to Sc higher: iso-iso lbs. s6os:
lbs, $3.50; 22o-240 lbs. $685.: 24o-260 lbs.
$3.50: 26o-2So lbs. $5.75: 2So-so0 lbs. $3.50:
s0o-325 lbs. $50; l30-i6o lbs, S5.75; 100
$50 lbs. $3.50; roughs. $3.50 down; TOP
calves. 81; top lambs. SO so.
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BIZ Times Special

LOUISVILLE. XIV. Nav % -uogs-Be-
ceipts. 500: market l0c higher; 225 lbs.
up $3.50; 1925 lbs. s6.15; l3o-I65 lbs.
Q4.losa@stegs s2.35 cattle-Receipts. 100:
market; slow. steady: prime heavy steers
S!G7:oO; heavy shipping steers. S607; me-
S6.25Q 80: common to medium heifers.
s4:50 q 6.25: good, to choice cows, s3.50G5:
s2.50G3: Gamers. sSG250: Bulls IiIS ssS49S::
feeders. S6@7.25: stockers. S45o6675.
Calves-Receipts. 800. market. prospects.
steady. Sheep-Receipts 1900: market
prospects steady. Thursdays Shipments.
Cattle. none; calves. 14s; hogs. 1874: sheep,
1850.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-29
Bystanders Get Fifty Quarts of
Whisky After Auto Collision.

Whisky After Auto Collision.
By United Press
DETROIT, May 29.-An unidenti-
fed motorist brought joy to the
hearts of bystanders Thursday
night when his automobile as
wrecked in a collision.
Crawling out of the wreckage he
produced fifty quarts Of whisky,
which had survived the crash, and
distributed them to the crowd.
Then he disappeared before police
arrived.
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SIGMA CHI HEAD NAMED

Frank Jones Elected President of
Butler Fraternity.
Election Of Frank Jones, 1927
Broadway. as president of the But
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SHEEP AND LAMBS
Other Livestock
By United Press

1851 9d04 ia6aan Nay sooo rs.3g .ssa4
Q6.25; top. S6.25; 230-35o lbs, S5.50@6i0;
PR sht sf5 of bag s s0H5 s $dSo e5de
$69 $40; light weights, 10000 lbs, good
and choice, $6.10G6.25; medium weights,
2o0-250 lbs, good and choice. $5.e096.25;
heavy weights, 25o-35o lbs. good and
c Ct $64og6; packing s9Ws, 275-5oo rs.
pigs. l00-l30 lbs. good and choice, $3.50
go: Cattle-Receipts 1000; calves 1000:
quality plain; firm undertone to ali
classes; majority fed steers ana yearlings
ter cattle and vealers, steers, 100000 los.
good and choice. $6.5007.75; 9o0-1l0o lbs.
good and choice, $6.50@T.75; 11o0-1300 lbs
good ana choice, .$6.25Q7.75; 130o-150o
lbs.. common and medium. ssS62s; heif.
Q7,25 common and medium, $4.5096.2S;
COWS, good and choice, $4@5; common and
medium, S3.25G4; low cutter and cutter,
$ soaS 5s2 bulls Iyear.lings SECLUDED
to medium, SAFE as 85;s -vealers milk fed
good and choice, $4,000: medium, Sc 50
OF; Gull. and common, $5@650; stocker
and feeder cattle, steers. 50o-l05O lbs,
dunn d sl;7596;, sasep-Receipts, io,o9o;
sale; choice clipped lambs, $SI65 to ship
pers; palmer kinds unsold; desirable ma
tive springers $lo@Io;5o; bucks, 81 less;
and lambs; spring lambs, good and choice
$9@lO5O; medium. sS@9; common, sS@8;
ea. 80 lbs. down, good and choice,
SSSg i15 n e HbUI6. s$s7SgS 9l;loo lps
s5@s5 70 eT Sao's so&5S 49, a nights
mon, SlG2.
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By Times Special
By United Press

CHICAGO. May 2s.-CarIots Whest.
l26: corn. 80; oats. l8: rye, O. and ba;-
Lev. 5.
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Bank CIearingS
INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
CHICAGO
Mo- 10

GhlGAGO
May 29-
CledIlNRS , 'sV0t "
Balances ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 9,l00, 90
TREASURY STATEMENT
May %
Net balance for MAY q. 49,. $50, 2l6, e65. 70
expenditures ..:..-t:..S:t:. oe'az6' 93d5-d
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-09
The March Of Progress

Abandonment Of the system Of interur-
ban electric lines in this state as now pro-
posed by a receiver should have been ex-
pected
The lines are no longer profitable. They
do not pay because they are no longer neces-
sary. Their usefulness has been ended by
the cement highway, the truck and bus.
One Of the short lines a decade ago had
receipts Of more than 100000 year. Last
year the total intake was but S25000 More
people Travelled between the towns it connects
chan journeyed decade ago More goods
were transported But the people went in
automobiles and the goods were carried on
trucks.
What is happening to the interurban lines
will very soon come inside the cities The
time is not far distant when street cars will
disappear from city streets. In the march of
progress the machine which furnishes the
most comfort and speed wins Transporta-
ton on rails seems to be doomed.
In this city, the problem of transporta-
ton is an acute one. Something must be
done soon with the present system now in
the hands Of a receiver.
A short time ago George Marott, able
citizen, suggested an elaborate system of
publicly owned BUSES as solution. That
suggestion should be studied by city officials
and philosophical citizens
Privately owned lines are bankrupt. Pub
lie systems must succeed them. The time
seems propitious to get in step with the in
evtable march of progress. indianapolis
could be first if it chooses.
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Tweediedum?

chicago has another colorful mayor in the per-
son of Tony Cermak. In some ways Cermak is more
colorful even than the mamented Big Bill Thomp-
son. whom he ousted But as Chicago has discovered
IN the past to its sorrow-not to mention the expert
ences OF New York and other cities-coor is no subs
tute for courage in a mayor
Cermak may keep his pledge to clean out the
racketeers and municipal corruption. The record in
the past does not leave one completely hopeful Us-
ally it has been a case of tweededum ousting tweedle
dee
In Chicago it happened to be a Republican ring
which was rotten. In New York it is Democratic
ring But in Chicago the Democratic outs have been
fairly thick with the Republican ms as in New York
the Republican outs have shared the spois with the
Democratic ms.
Big Bill was not defeated by the Democrats but
by his Republican followers, who deserted him In
stead Of dividing the Democrats as in earlier bat
ties, he found his own forces divided
The reason for this internal Republican revolt we
do not pretend to know but we have an idea that it
will be the key to future reforn-or lack of reform.
Was the reason a genuine Republican revulson
against graft and crime? Or was it merely that the
Republican politicians discovered that Big Bill had
become too odorous for their purpose and there
fore put him on the spot?
II time proves that the only thing changed at
city hall is the party label doubtless then it will &C.
cur to Chicago that there is no reason for Demo-
cratic and Republican parties in municipal affairs
that honest and efficient municipal administration
is job for nonpartisan and scientific managers
rather than for ward heelers
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Kid Mccoy and Tom Mooney

Norman Selby, known to the prize ring "Kid
Mccoy" is serving twenty years in CALIFORNIA; San
quentin pententiary for alleged mansaughter and
assault to murder his sweetheart
He says he's innocent and has filed with Governor
four states, Ex-Governor Al Smith, Mayor Jimmy
Walker and Senators Copeland and Wagner of New
York
Tom Mooney, one-time labor leader is Kid Nc
Coys fellow prisoner and is doing life for alleged
planting Of a bomb beside parade in San Francisco
years ago. Mooney says he's innocent
SO Judge Griffin, who tried and sentenced him.
former Captain Of Detectives NIatheson who arrested
him. the jurymen who found him guilty, the bulk
of the witnesses against him. the chief among whom
are proved perjurers the present district attorney
many newspapers Of the nation; Catholic Protestant
and Jewish church leaders and organizations; the
American Federation of Labor; United States sena-
tors, Governors authors virtually every who has
taken the time to study the evidence, say his trial
was unfair
This month Moneys volunteer attorney Frank P.
Walsh of New York will plead with Governor Rolph
to pardon Mooney. Again he will present evidence
of Moneys perfect alib the venality of the wit
nesses the rock-rbbed proof that Mooney could not
have committed the crime for which he has served
the best one-hfth of his life.
With no desire to prejudice the plea of Mccoy
the people of America will fail to see the justice of
considering his petition before that of Mooney Mccoy
may be innocent. Mooney is innocent.
Perhaps Mccoy should be pardoned But GER
tainly Mooney should be.
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Views of Times Readers

Editor Times-I, too, am disguised
with our gas and light bills. Is it
possible that either one of these
two companies has felt the depres-
sion, or do they just add more on
to your bill and to mine? 1t would
be interesting to know.
Having lived in other cities, I
truthfully can say that gas and light
bills in Indianapolis are, in some
instances, double what they were
elsewhere.
Yes, we have complained to both
companies, but the next time I
doubt if I can restrain myself from
climbing over the counter to gain
the respect to which a consumer is
entitled. After one of my COM
plants was registered, the company
did send a man out to inspect the
meter.
A few days later I was honored
with a well-written letter advising
that my meter had been inspected
and found to be o. K. Now wouldn't
it have been foolish for them to
admit otherwise? And it surely must
have been, for my bills since then
have been even higher.
1t is folly to think a few of us
can accomplish much toward the
end that we may expected more
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ENHE papers say that we are getting ready to build
Il a very imposing embassy in Paris for accomnoda-
ton Of the American ambassador, which is all right
since nations are supposed to house their foreign rep
reSentatives decently.
But do wish some way could be found to open
the foreign service equally to capable men, whether
they be rich or poor, and about the only way to do
this is to build suitable building and provide for it's
maintenance.
AS is now, the foreign service belongs entirely to
rich men, usually those rich men who have contributed
literally to the campaign fund of the victorious party
Nothing could be more at odds with the philosophy
OF representative government.
1T is true that foreign representatives do not the
important work they once did, the cable and the
wireless having converted them into glorifed mes
senger boys, but they will be continued long
lions endure, for formal purposes, il nothing more
Benjamin Franklin was the greatest ambassador
this country sent to Paris anywhere else for
that matter, but he didn't have any imposing en-
baSsy to operate FROM and because he rented several
rooms in a hotel and kept a horse and buggy John
Adams his associate, accused him of extravaganza.
Thomas jefferson had more respect for Franklin.
In fact Jefferson correctly thought that Franklin was
in class by himself, a conclusion with which the
history is sure to agree for now, after the slow ap
praisa Of century, the quaint figure of the aged
philosopher is rising to its real stature.
Il
XTHEN Jefferson presented his credentials as our
w representative to the French court they said to
him: And so you have come to take the place Of
DR.. franklin"
And jefferson replied: mo man can take the
place of DR.. Franklin! I am only his successor"
Such praise seldom came from the lips of JEFF
ferson
on+ Lo+
admired all that they half consciously were seeking
all that they soon were to demand amid the red light
OF revolution
He stood for justice and the rights of man; he
seemed to them the embodiment Of the progress of
liberty.
He was scientist. inventor, philosopher and friend
OF man and they created him with open arms.
In his doeSkin suit he was more lluStrious than
the king in purple and lace and his picture was
found in palace and in hut. q
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Chemical ANALYSIS

ME various artificial musks are
L at the basis Of the perfume in
duStry today and as a result the
industry is definitely a department
of chemistry.
The chemist has shown time after
time how synthetic product can
be substituted for natural product
which is difficult and expensive to
obtain.
The chemist in many cases has
taken the natural product and
analysed it, discovering what the
active agent in it was.
Then he set about to devise a
cheaper and easier way of obtain
ing it. Thus, as already mentioned.
the chemist succeeded in making
phenylethyl alcohol, which occurs in
natural altar Of roses.
At one time, perfumers thought
that each substance used to make
perfumes yielded a single chemical
substance. Thus, for example il
was supposed that the oil pressed
from lemon peel was a single sub
stance.
The chemist showed that this as
not the case. The oil is a mixture
OF substances, some accounting for
the flavor and others actually de-
tracing from it.
The principal odor Of lemon is due
to the presence of a substance called
citral. But lemon oil is only about
7 per cent citral.
The same thing has been demon
strated in the case Of peppermint
oil, the oil from orange peels. and
other cases.
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to tariff protection and to other forms OF indirect
taxation which tend favor the few at the expense
OF the many to make the rich richer and the poor
poorer.
10 We also invite the cooperation Of all Amer
leans who, though not prepared to favor for the
United States entire freedom Of trade such as that
between our forty-eight states on which American
prosperity has been built are ready to join with us
IN working for tariff reduction in the interest of our
12OOOOooo people as consumers and, by thus widen
ing the home market, in the interest also Of American
producers"
During the last generation free traders have been
viewed by the right thinkers" as cranks, dreamers
and Wsionares. But the anthology Of supporting
opinion which the league published along with its
decalog indicates that many of our greatest bankers
and industrialists coming to doubt the super
stttion that the protective tariff system is dviney
revealed dogma comparable to the Virgin birth Or
the immortality of the soul
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reasonable gas and light bills. How
ever, feel safe in assuming there
are quite a number who would like
to see this accomplished. There is
way. Organize. 1 wonder if
there is a hall in indianapolis large
enough to hold a gathering of this
kind.
Would like to hear more from E.
A. and others along this line.
P. D. @.
Editor Times-That place in the
ranks Of sportsmen and gentlemen
made vacant by the untimely death
Of Knute Rockne long will remain
untitled.
AS far as the layman is concerned
aviation has, by this tragedy, suf-
fered its most severe blow. The ship
in which Mr. Rockne rode was not
craft Of war; it was not an ex-
perimental plane; it should not have
been an unsafe vehicle; and it
should have been, and probably was.
under control Of an experienced
pilot.
Accordingly, the public deserves
an authoritative explanation of what
caused this wreck.
For many years the department
Of commerce has investigated every
major airplane crash. 1t has, how
ever, been the policy Of the depart
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-09

TNEE depression has led to some
4 rather curious consequences.
Money is hard to get, not only for
promotion Of new business, but for
continuance of old business, even
along reduced lines, yet there seems
to be plenty of it on hand.
The state Of New York Just has
borrowed $34,OOO,OO0 at the lowest
rate of interest in twenty-five years
-312 per cent.
Last month the United States
government borrowed 1894, OOO,OO
at 33s per cent.
Savings bank deposits have in
creased throughout the country,
though they pay only 4 or Az per
cent.
If such conditions prove anything;
it is that those who have money,
whether in large Or small amounts,
are suffering from tin1idity.
The difference between what
f1nanciers regard as gilt-edged Sc
curity and what they classify as
reasonable business investments, has
grown too great for commercial
health.
We are not going to put our I'M
employed back to work as long as
industry has to pay twice as much
for money as savings banks, and
three times as much as the call
market.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-09
"OnlinOus''

"Ominous, formidable, challenging" are the ad.
Jectiyes applied by DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur secretary
OF the interior to the black density Of Americas ilIt
eracy.
The 1920 figures of 100000 illterates, all but 5Oo
600 Of whom were over 20, are being reduced some
what but all too slowly. Late census returns so fal
show 1875 per cent reduction in sixteen states or
total Of 147158 persons who learned to read and write
in these states in ten years
At this rate it would take seventy years to eradicate
uliteracy in the United States
a drive is on, however by the national advisory
committee on iIiteracy, of which Wilbur is chairman
and its effects do not show in the census count tc
date
All honor to the men and women in this move
ment They are striking at the root of our evils
When ignorance vanishes democracy can enter and
not until then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-09
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -

In thirty-one out Of forty eight
cases, diabetes came first and the
perniciOus anelnia followed; in four
cases, the pernicious anemia &C.
Cured first, and in the other in
stances it was impossible to say.
The physicians are inclined to be-
lieve that there is family in
fluence in this relationship between
diabetes and pernicious anemia.
Thus, in one family man SO
years old had perniciouS anemia, a
brother had had excretions of sugar
and pernicious anemia, sister SIS
years of age had pernicious anemia,
brother aged so had diabetes, a
brother aged 40 was well, the
mother died of diabetes and the
father had eXcretion of sugar and
died Of an infected foot with gan
creme.
The fathers brother had anenia
from which he died, and the
fathers sister died at the age of 30
from pneumonia.
The mothers sister had diabetes,
but one brother of the mother died
of old age.
The grandfather of the patient
died Of pernicious anemia, and it is