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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
COMPROMISE VERDICT
IN HEART BALM SUIT
Women Jurors Oppose Damages for
Member of Their Own Sex.

Women Jurors Oppose Damages for
Member of Their Own Sex.
By United Press
PEORIA, ILL.,, Feb. -Four wom-
EN- and eight men were on the jury
that heard the case of Helen Ear-
sein VS.. David Belsley, charging
breach Of promise.
BelSley is so and retired banker.
Miss Harseim, musician, is 80. She
asked 100000 damages. The jury
reported Thursday night after being
out ten hours. Members disclosed
what had taken them SO long.
One man, it was said, held out for
$4,000 verdict.
Three men were for awarding
Miss HarSeim less than that.
AS for the four women, they were
all determined that the girl in the
case Should not have a cent" and
four men agreed with them.
They compromised on a verdict
for $500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
In Legislature
so Years Ago
BY United Press

Elections of county superintend-
ents and teachers-ever an impor-
tant question to residents of a COM
munity-came before the legisla-
tors of fifty years ago in the form
of bill introduced by Representa-
tive E. Cooper of Shelby county.
The measure provided for election
of the superintendent by a general
vote of the people of the counties
and for election of the teachers by
a vote of the people in the districts
where the teachers were to tach.
Prominent visitors in the house
Of representatives were accorded
cordial welcomes and on the occa-
sion Of visit by Senator-elect Ben
jan1in Harrison, the house ad-
journed for ten minutes to allow
the members to greet the new sena-
tor individually.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Arrivals and Departures

Mars Hill Alrport-H. Weir Cook,
Curtiss- Wright Flying Service of
Indiana, Indianapolis to South
Bend and return, Curtiss Robin; T.
and w. A. passengers westbound in
Guided D. F. Creech, Troy, Mo-: j. c.
Fox of New York; Bert Nelson,
Butler university athlete, and east
bound passengers included Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles E. Stevens, 5535 North
Delaware street.
Hoosier Airport - Lawrence L.
AretZ, from Lafayette and return,
Hisso-Robin; Lieutenant Laurence
Genaro, from Schoen field, Fit. Ben
janlin Harrison and return, army
plane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
ASK SURVEYORS TO BE
GRADUATE ENGINEERS
Bill Introduced in Senate Also Fixes
Salaries for Position,

DAA AANA VN0SCU All SCAA6tG ALSO HIACS
Salaries for Position.
County surveyors would have to he
registered engineers and would bear
the title county engineer" If a bill
introduced in the Indiana senate to-
day by Senator William v. Doogs
dem, Dubois, Perry and Spencer
and Ralph Adams (Rep, Fayette,
Rush and Shelby, becomes a law.
Upon taking effect with passage,
the measure would require county
commissioners to appoint a county
engineer, qualified as a registered
engineer, to serve until Dec. 81, 1882,
and successors would be appointed
every two years thereafter.
appointment of any incumbent
county surveyor, who is a registered
engineer, would be mandatory upon
the commissioners for the period
ending Dec. 81, 1882.
Salaries are prescribed in the bill,
ranging from $1,000 in counties of
less than 5000 population, to $4,000
in Marion county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Filters Drop Flowers

Tribute to James c. Patten, for
mer commanding officer of the One
hundred and thirteenth observation
squadron, Indiana national guard
was paid Friday by two pilots, Lieu
tenant Matt G. Carpenter and Ser
geant E. N. Caldwell, who flew over
the Sullivan cemetery and scattered
flowers over Patterns grave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Long Distance Flown

BERLIN, Feb. THE Graf Yep
pelin, that globe-trotting craft Of
the air. jaunted some 144,275 miles
last year in total of 155 flights.
On the flights she carried total
Of 6,278 passengers, $4,000 pieces
of mail and 1876 pounds of freight.
Passenger fares are reported ade-
quately to have covered the costs
of operating the huge air liner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
ACT TO REDUCE SMOKE
Industry Officials Name Committee
to Form City-Wide Board.

Preliminary steps toward forma-
ton of an indianapolis industrial
smoke board to reduce the smoke
nuisance were taken Friday at a
meeting of industrial plant repre-
. sentatives at the Chamber of Com
merce. The committee named to
draft plans for the new industrial
board includes:
W. A. Hanley. engineering director at
Eli Lilly g. Co.. chairman; F. r Lewis.
vfce-president and engineer-architect OF
Kinzan a Co.: r. W Lewis. Central States
Envelope Company: Sam Brown. Brown
Packing Company. and Fred Barton. city
combustion engineer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
PROPOSE WATCHERS AT
PRIMARY ELECTIONS
Bill Would Give Parties Right I'm
der Certain Conditions.

-Four indianapolis senators joined
Friday in introduction of a bill
which will permit &c per cent of
primary candidates of any political
party to have one watcher at each
polling place.
The bill was brought in by Will
liam D. Boyce. former Indiana DOLLS
city clerk on the Republican ticket.
who secured its passage in the house
in 1929
Senators joining in its introduce
ton today were Republicans John
Niblack, Robert Moorhead and Win
field Miller. and Edgar Perkins, a
Democrat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Nav Hike Airport Fund

Stout field, Mars Hill airport, may
receive a larger appropriation than
the $4,000 already voted it by the
house ways and means committee.
After viewing the field and see
ing need of adequate housing for
the One hundred thirteenth OBJ
servation squadron, Indiana ma
tional guard, Representative Hardin
S. Linke, ways and means chair
man, expressed the belief $4,000
is not enough, and intimated the
committee may recommend an in
crease when the bill comes up for
second reading.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
DEPORTATION PLANNED
Aliens Will Be Sent Home to Re-
lieve Unemployment.

NEW YORK, Feb. 7-several
hundred aliens caught by federal
and local officials in the New York
area within the last two weeks will
be deported to relieve the unem-
ployment crisis, Benjamin M. Day,
New York commissioner of immi-
grafton, said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07

light Of the medi-
c al world is
turned on Baby
John, 7-months-
old son of Robert
Wheatley of this
city. The child
h as wo fully
developed tongues.
There is no other
similar C a s e on
record, according
to medical pro-
fesSors of west
ern Ontario, who
W er e interviewed
re ar ding the
case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Aids Grapefruit Culture

By United Press
TUNIS, Feb. 7-On the invita-
ton of the French government
Professor r. w. Hodson Of the
University of California has ar
rived in Tunis, where he will spend
a year helping the French to grow
grapefruit and generally advise or
agricultural questions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
AUiatiOn
Wins Honorary Title

Honorary title of colonel will be
conferred tonight on Walker w.
WlnSlow, Indianapolis, president of
the Indiana Aviation Corporation
by Governor F. D. Sampson of
Frankfort, KY.
Winslow will be commissioned as
a colonel on the Governor of Ken
tucky's staff, an honor that has
been conferred on several Indiana
men. Colonel Everett F. Mccoy,
Colonel M. M. Andrews, Robert c.
WinSlow and Stuart Dean accom-
panied the candidate to Frankfort
today by plane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Would Enioin Gould Casino

Be United Press
NICE, France, Feb. 7.-Operators
Of the municipal Casino fled suit
to-day in an effort to prevent Frank
Jay Gould from operating gaming
tables at his Casino here The mu-
nicipal Casino claims to hold a
ninety nine-year monopoly on gam
ing at Nice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
CHAPLIN ACCLAIMED
FUNNIEST BY CRITICS
Blaze New York Thinks Latest Pic
ture, without Speech, Good.


ture, without Speech. Good.
Bu United Press
NEW YORK. Feb. New York
motion picture critics today greeted
City Lights" Charlie Chaplin's first
picture in three years, as demon
stration of what one critic called
-,the eloquence of silence" after the
films opening Friday night at the
George M. Cohan theater
Mordaunt Hall in the Times called
Chaplin the 20. Henry of the
screen"
Richard Watts Jr. in the Herald
Tribune said: "'City Lights is i'm
portant because it is very brilliant
film"
Too busy laughing to reflect
much on the absence of speech,
was the World critics comment
The Daily News reviewer said
you react exactly as you did ten
years ago"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
LEWIS TELLS BRITONS
THEY HAVE RABBITS

Character in Novel Not Confined to
U. S.. Author Asserts.
By United Press
LONDON, Feb. 7.-Sinclair Lewis.
American author who was awarded
the Nobel literature prize, told
Britons that the character he pre-
sented in his novel, Rabbit" -four
iSheS in England as well as America.
But the Rabbits in England are
not in the village" the author said
in press interview. They are in
the industrial towns. Your Speci-
mems are more cultured and COM
plicated than ours, but they are the
same at heart"
Lewis said there appears to Rs
less vitality in the air nevada s
throughout the world
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
BILL WOULD CHANGE
TRUSTEE ELECTIONS
Senate Measure Designed to Pre-
vent /. U. Board Vote Control

Effort to thwart alleged control
Of election of alumni trustees for
Indiana university by Bloomington
alumni is the basis of bill in the
senate today.
Under provisions of the measure,
plurality of votes mailed in by the
alumni will determine the winner.
At present a majority is required
and it is charged that the majority
is provided by the Bloomington
alumni after the mail vote is in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
AIR LINE TO EUROPE
BY 1884, Is FORECAST
Regular Schedules Predicted If
Cnnpresx Aids Rackea.x

Regular Schedules Predicted If
Congress Aids BackerS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-P. w.
Litchf1eld, president of the Good
year Zeppelin Corporation, said
today that an airship line to
Europe will operate on regular
schedule by 1884, if congress author
'iZes mail contracts.
Litchf1eld testified before the
senate commerce committee in be-
half of the McNary-Parker bill,
which provides for awarding air.
ship mail contracts as soon as active
transoceanic operations are under
way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Spanish King to Call Election

MADRID, Feb. king Alfonso
XIII has signed decree calling for
general elections in March, the
United Press learned today, al
though the decree probably will not
be published until Sunday. The
elections viii be the first since 1923,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
WHISKY PERMIT ISSUED
Government Grants Right to DistilI
100000 Gallons.
~ Lnited Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. PERMITS
for manufacture Of an additional
100000 gallons Of bourbon and rye
whisky for medicinal purposes are
being issued by the treasury depart
ment.
Six distilleries in Kentucky and
Pennsylvania are authorized to pro-
duce the whisky under the permits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
CITY WOMEN EAGER
FOR GOLF LESSONS
May Join Ranks of Times
Contestants; Few Days
Left for ESSAYS.

Popularity of golf with women of
indianapolis has been demonstrated
strikingly during the last three days
by the flood of letters received in
The Times essay contest, by which
forty city girls will get free golf
lessons.
Business girls, unemployed girls
and married women are vying for
the chance to get free instruction
at the Smith-Nelson academy, sec
ond floor Board of Trade building.
The ten girls who write the best
essays received by The Times Golf
Contest Editor, poStmarked before
midnight, Wednesday, Feb. II, will
form the first class. They will re-
ceive lessons from Roy Smith, pro
at the Avalon Country Club, and
Dick Nelson, Meridian Hills pro,
starting Monday, Feb. Is, at p. M,
to last an hour.
Write Your Essay
Instruction also will be given
Wednesday and Friday nights, the
first group to get a two weeks
course.
Three other groups of ten each
will be given tutoring in the old
Scotch game for two-week periods,
following the finish of work by the
first class.
Topic of the essay, which should
be no longer than $50 words, is
why I Would Like to Take Up
Golf" Typewrite it or use your
pen.
There's no hard and fast age
limit. Beginners who never have
swung club are eligible, as are
chose who have been out on the
links a few times and want to
improve their game.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
CHILD DIES OF BURNS
Negro Girl, 3, Succumbs After FAN
Into Tub of Scalding Water.

Burns suffered Friday afternoon
when she fell into tub of scalding
water proved fatal to Evelyn Bur-
rell, Negro, 8. of 1897 South West
street early today. She died at city
hospital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Dogs Chase Fawn to Death in City

By United Press
MIDDLErOwN, N. Y, Feb. T.
A pack of dogs chased a fawn
through this city until it leaped up
bank to the roof of shed. and
then, poised for moment on the
edge of the roof. it plunged to its
deaoh on the other size.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
Another Chance Given

If your essay doesn't click the
first time, your offering still will
be considered in the last three laps
OF the contest, or you can send in
another one If you think you can
improve your initial offering.
When all the classes are over, a
tournament will be staged on one Of
the city courses, to determine which
pupil has benefited most by the in
Struction.
Just a few days left. Get in the
running now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
-O'''' INSTITUTIONS

Indiana University
Bloomington division. Extension
division. Extension. social
James Whitcomb Riley hospital
VIM. H. Coleman hospital.
Robert W. Long hospital.
School Of Medicine. Nurses
Training school .......s,... $4,000
School of Dentistry ......... 100000
ENGINEERING and general. 49,. 5000 600
Direct assessments. ETC.. Agri-
cultural extension .......... 100, 900
Agricultural Exp Sta...... $4,000
Indiana State Teachers college. $4,000
Ball State Teachers college,. 100000
School for the Blind ........... 157.36l
School for the Deaf ......... 1858 900
Soldiers and Sailors colored
State Soldiers Home ....... $4,000
State Sanatorium ......:....., 303. 900
and Farm Colony 1iy->' ......... 1917. 800
Village for epileptics .....,.... 628 800
Central State hospital ........ 1925, 900
Richmond State hospital ...... $50, 900
Logansport State hospital ...... $50. 500
Madison State hospital ........ 1000
Evansville State hospital ....,. 40l 900
State prison .,,.,,.,......,..,. 1,170050
Reformatory Northumberland. 962 900
Penal farm ,.,...,,..,...... 433. 500
WomanS prison .,.,......,..,. 114, 800
Boys school ................. 367. 450
Industrial Aid for the blind. -. $3.50
State Agricultural Board,
Totals $40, 0s4, 2sl
Grand total .................$2 7, 947, $50
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
TOY GOLF A FAILURE
English Refuse 10 Accept Latest
American Craze.
81 Unstcd Press

r LONDON, Feb. Midget golf in
England has failed. 1t is estimated
that $T50, 900 has been lost by pro-
meters vainly trying to make il a
craze.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
POLL DECLARED WRONG

Colorado President Protests Student
Liquor Survey Results.
By United Press
BOULDER, Colo, Feb. IA stu
dent newspaper poll which indi-
Gated that a majority of the stu
dents at the University OF Colorado
drank an average of Sc worth of
liquor a month was protested to-
day by George Norlin. president,
who characterized the survey as
ridiculous"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
AIR RECORD IS SOUGHT
Veteran Jumper to Try Two Mile
Drop without Aid of Chute.

GLENDALE, Cal, Feb. Dick
Terry, veteran parachute Jumper,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
.27 MILLIONS IN
BUDGET PLACED
BEFORE LESLIE
Sum Asked for Institutions
and Departments by
Committee.

Departmental and institutional
recommendations totaling s27,947, :
030 are contained in the appropria-
tons measure for 1878, prepared
by the state budget committee and
introduced in the house Of repre-
sentativeS Friday.
Offices, boards, commissions and
departments have appropriations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-07
BABY HAS TWO TONGUES
Canadian Medical Professors Study
Remarkable Infant.

LONDON, Ontario, Feb. Spot
The Washington times., 1931-08-08
FIRM
REPORTS SALES

Phillips 81 Caldwell, exclusive
representatives for the Union
Market Terminal, Fifth Street and
Florida Avenue Northeast report
the following sales during the past
week:
Lot 20, in Square 1888, being
AIS Morst ST., to Theodore H.
Chaconas, president of the Co
lumbia Wholesale Confectionery
Company. This is a two-story,
fire proof building, 20 by IS feet,
containing an elevator and is
occupied by the confectionery
company.
In Retail Section
Nos. All and 413 Morse
ST., to George x. Doonis. These
buildings are also 20 by IS feet
each, and are Of fireproof con-
struction. The building at All
Morse st. is equipped with q re-
frigeration box for the handling of
meats.
Also 400 Morse st. to Nathan
Kronman, also being 20 by IS
feet, fireproof building. having an
elevator and refrigeration box for
meats.
All of these buildings are 10
Gated in the retail section Of the
Union Market, three of which
having five-year leases, and were
purchased as investments.
Plans have just been tiled by
the Charles H. Tompk:ns Com
pany for the construction Of the
following buildings:
Sanitary Beef Building
A building, 80 by IS feet, for
the Sanitary Beef Company: one
40 by 90 feet for the Oriental
Paper and Bag Company. and five
buildings, 20 by 70 feet with a
canopy of 49 feet. for the Joseph
Phillips Company. All Of these
buildings will be of flreproof
construction and will carry out
the same type of architecture as
for the previous six groups 10
Gated in the Union Market Ter
minal, and consisting of "a build
ingS.
The Washington times., 1931-08-08
REAL TORS PLAN
|SSTATE MEET

Real estate men will assemble
this fall in many States for con-
claves at which the most modern
methods for their business will be
the main topics on programs. The
following dates are set and the
following speakers from the Ma
tional Association Of Real Estate
Boards are promised:
Alabama Real Estate ASsocia.
ton, August 20 and 81, Guy W.
Ellis, former president Of the De-
troit Real Estate Board, now on
the National Association staff /;
Florida Association of Real Estate
Boards, Lakeland, November 16
to 20; Massachusetts, Association
Of Real Estate Boards, Salem, Sep
tember % to 30, EErbert U. Mel
son, executive secretary Of the Ma
tional Association; New York State
Association Of Real Estate Boards,
Lake George, September "a to rs,
Mr.. KiSSell; North Carolina Asso-
ciation of Real Estate Boards, Dur.
ham, October 9 and 10, Mr.. Kis.
sell; Virginia Real Estate Associa-
ticn, Newport, October 8 to 10,
Mr.. KiSSell.
The Washington times., 1931-08-08
STYLE
HOME UNDER
ERECTION
A Unique Residence Is the
Plan of DR.. and Mrs. Perry
In Massachusetts Park

Much interest is being dis
played in the new home which
is being erected at 2613 Thirty
first Street, in the Massachusetts,
park section, for DR.. and Mrs.
Mathew White Perry.
This home is a modern adap-
ton of the Norman French style
of architecture after plans by
Joseph A. Parks, Washington
architect, and is being con-
tructed by the home construction
division of Sears, Roebuck and
Company, the total cost, in
cluding buildings, land, equip
ment and furnishings, being esti-
mated at close to $4,000.
On Wooded Hillside
The site is a wooded, hillside
plot having a frontage of so
feet and a depth Of 130 feet The
exterior construction Of the new
house will be Of brick, which will
be painted white. The tall oak
trees standing on the site and
the lawns and gardens planned
will form a background for the
bright aspect Of the building. The
roof will be of dark slate.
The house will contain nine
main rooms, three baths, an ex-
ira lavatory and q two-car built
in garage, and will include q
large recreation room.
One Of the features Of the
construction will be the absence
of exposed woodwork on the ex-
terror Of the building. The garage
entrance will be from the front
and will lead into q court so
arranged that, with the placing
of walls and a gate, the garage
doors will not be visible from
the street.
Four Levels In Rear
Due to the slope Of the site,
the house will be of two stories
in the front and will have four
floor levels at the rear, all above
ground. The rear elevation will
be broken by a series Of arched
windows in the lower story, a
large partly covered balcony
above, and a series Of dormers at
the cornice line.
The Washington times., 1931-08-08
GETS
PARKS JOB

Extension and coordination of
the historical research work in
the national park and monument
system is assured through the
appointment Of Verne E. Chate.
lain as park historian Of the
National Park Service. with head
quarters here.
Acting Director Cammerer. Of
that service, who made the an
nouncement, stated Mr.. Chatelain
has been engaged in educational
and historical work for the past
Is years, and Is unusually we'll
fitted for the work that lies
before him.
At the time Of his appointment
to park work. the new historian
was serving as head of the de-
partment Of history and other
social sciences in the Nebraska
State Teachers College.
The Washington times., 1931-08-08
FETE YEAR FLAG
DISPLAY PLAN

Participation Of at least eight
States and six nationally known
organizations IN the Bicentennial
Flag Day celebration here next
year has been assured the District
of Columbia Commission for the
George Washington Bicentennial.
1t is believed that many other
States will agree to participate in
the celebration here before June
IA, when 1t is scheduled to take
place, and that Washington will
see the largest flag display ever
arranged.
The organizations which plan
to participate are the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars, the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, the
American Gold Star Mothers, the
Order of Eastern Star, the Order
Of Ahepa, a Greek-American or
gan1zation, and the ASSociazione
Nagionale Combattente Italiani,
Inc, which includes in its ranks
many Italian war veterans,
The Washington times., 1931-08-08
FARM SALES To
SHOW RECORD

CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-Farm land
sales totalling more than $1,000
600 were made by the Federal
Land Bank Of Columbia, s. c.,
during the first five months of
1881 which represents the great
est amount Of land ever sold by
the bank in q silimar length Of
time, points out the National
Association Of Real Estate Boards.
The association quotes F. H.
Daniel, president Of the Columbia
bank, who less than so days ago
reported no difficulty in selling
its forecloSed property, stated
that business men as well as
farmers are becoming interested
in purchasing farm land in this
territory. and that the farmers,
feeling more confident, are max.
ing a determined effort to pay
their taxes and installments on
their loans"
The territory covered by this
bank includes North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida.