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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
LAND-O-DANCE
TOO NOISY, so
NEIGHDORS SUE
Ask Abatement of Hall on
National Road East of
City Limits.

Land-O-Dance may be a celestial
world of terpsichore to some, but to
neighbors it's just a "lot Of noise"
that keeps them from getting their
nightly "shut-eye."
At least the Land-O-Danc hall
on the National road, two miles east
Of the city, is that to its neighbors,
and that's the only dance land
they've had dinned into their ears
since the halls opening on June Is.
Complaints against Land-O-
Dance are voiced with vigor in a
suit filed today in superior court
five requesting abatement of the
dance hall as a public nuisance.
Fear that Land =Dance might
awaken Miss Indiana" atop the
Soldiers and Sailors monument or
other city statues is expressed in
the suit with the assertion: You
can hear the noise for miles around"
THE orchestra plays until the
early hours of the morning. The
hall is brilliantly lighted, so that
sleep is almost impossible" the
abatement suit charges.
Neighbors petitioning for a clamp
on the hilarity at Land-O-Dance
are Jesse o. Cross, Harry K. Harms
and Cecil Brewer.
Defendants named as owners of
the dance hall are Robert Riser,
Herbert Riser and Kathleen M. Hall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
STREET WORK LET
SAP, 685 in Contracts Is
Awarded by Board.

Contracts totaling $42,685.04 for
widening and resurfacing of East
Michigan street were awarded today
by the board of works. All paving
on these projects is to concrete.
Contracts awarded are:
From State avenue to first alley
east of Randolph street, to William
D. Vogel, $6,557.86. This work is
for half of the street only. Wood
ruff Place, along which the job ex-
tends, will pay for paving the other
half.
From Highland avenue to State
avenue, Standard Paving Company,
SIS, 069.5 5
From alley east of Randolph
street to Tecumseh street, w. D.
Vogel, $17,O57.64.
A contract for r~esurfacing and
widening Thirtieth street from Me-
ridian to Capitol avenue, was
awarded to the Standard Paving
Company for S10,692. This paving
will be asphalt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
Youthful Pair Faces Theft
Trial After Capture
With Booty.

Hoosier roasting ears have many
enviable qualities, but walking isn't
one Of them. OF that, Ivan Fowler.
r. r. 7, Box 333, was certain. Thus
when fifty dozen fine ears disap-
peared from his field recently, he
suspected some dark work by
some one.
Consequently he and James Scott,
r. R. Z, Box $40, stood guard in
the corn field Tuesday night, and
when two shadows attracted them,
they captured Albert Leftwick, 16,
of 1017 st. Paul street, and Ray
mond Knapp, 10, Of 444 North VOL
colt street.
Fowler said the youths had loaded
twenty dozen ears in an auto be-
fore they were caught. At police
headquarters both were charged
with petit larceny.
Two gunner held up Phineas
Moroney, night man at a restaur-
ant at 1872 Virginia avenue early
today, bound him with adhesive
tape to a sink, and took SIG.
Burglars looted a grocery at 24lt
Martindale avenue of merchandise
and money totaling more than $50.
Two 12-year-old boys were ar
rested Tuesday night, and, police
say, confessed theft of pearls val
ued at $50 from the dressing room
of Daniel Reed at English's theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
LAWS SEVERITY.
PACKS PRISONS
Flat Sentences Big Factor,
Charities Board Told.

Action of recent legislatures in
making mandatory long determin-
ate sentences for certain crimes
was cited as one of the primary
causes of overcrowding in Indiana
penal institutions at the state chart
ties board meeting Tuesday after
noon.
Another cause cited was the
growing number of insane and
mentally-defective men committed
Both were pointed out by John A..
Brown, board secretary, in present.
ing the census for state institutions
as of June 80, 1881. Nearly all state
institutions are overcrowded, the
report disclosed.
"Of 1000 new commitments to
the reformatory between Oct. l.
1880, and June so, 1881, a total Of
1856 had fiat sentences of ten years
each and forty others had SEN
fences ranging from eleven to
twenty-five years each," Brown re-
ported
cat the state prison the men
under life sentence and the insane
criminals constitute about one
fourth Of the population"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
BLAZE SPREADS
OVER 70 MILES
Losing Battle Is Waged in
Western States.
By United Press

By United Press
MISSOULA, Mont, July 30
Weary men in the green of the
forest service huddled about a table
at their headquarters here today
and plotted like generals their war
against fire roaring along many
fronts.
Over a seventy-mile stretch, an
army of fire fighters sought to dig
a huge trench to stop the onrushing
conflagration, which had burned
over 10000 acres of the Pend Oreille
forest of Idaho and, carried for
ward by a gale, ate it way into the
Kootenai forest in Montana.
Reports from Yellowstone Ma
tional park in Wyoming revealed
little change in the fire situation
there. The Basin Greek blaze was
spreading slowly, but vigorous eff
forts of fire fighters had it under
control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
TOWNSHIP TAX
HEARING is SET
Boundary Case Evidence to
Be Aired Tuesday.

Motion to dissolve a restraining
order against the Marion county
board of review and permit the
South Harding street plant of the
Indianapolis Power and Light
Company to be placed on the tax
rolls of Decatur township, will be
heard Tuesday by Judge John A.
Kern Of superior court me.
In hearing the motion on Tues
day, Judge Kern will be forced to
decide a boundary line dispute be-
tween Decatur and Perry town
ships. Each township claims the
new 100000 power plant, on the
Decatur tax roll for fifty years, is
within its environs.
If the restraining order obtained
by Perry township trustees is dis
solved, the power company will be
saved approximately $4,000 in
taxes, it is said. Change in the
course of the White river resulted
in the boundary dispute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
COMPROMISE LOOMS
IN TOWN TEST SUIT
Judge Williams Predicts Agreement
Between City, Business Men.

Judge Williams Predicts Agreement
Between City, Business Men.
Possibility of a compromise set
Element Illuminated the traffic tow
in dispute today when an attorney
told Judge Joseph R. Williams he
believed business men and the city
council could agree on enforcement
Of the new traffic ordinance.
Judge Williams returned to his
bench in superior court two this
morning from a vacation in Wis
conSin, and set about at once to ar
range a decision on the argument.
Then William Boyce, attorney for
business men who have fought the
tow-in clause of the ordnance, said
his clients probably would amend
their complaint if city council
agreed to tow in autos for over
parking as well as for parking in
restricted districts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
BLUEBEARD ON TRIAL
Jury Chosen Tentatively in
Murder Case.
RuEnifed Press

80 CHttNW 9 'N""
EAGLE RIVER, Wis, July 90
Eleven perspiring men and a woman
were in the jury box today at the
opening of the second session of
George w. E. (Jiggs) Perry's trial
on charges of numbering n of six
women he was accused of marrying
bigamously during a Bluebeardian
career which has had few parallels
in modern history.
Of the twelve jurors accepted
tentatively, five were farmers, three
merchants, two summer resort own
ers of this northland Indian coun-
try, another was a retired salesman,
and the twelfth was a woman.
Attorneys indicated some of these
probably would be excused and that
the jury would be completed from
an extra venire which Judge G. M.
Davidson of Beaver Dam ordered
Sheriff Thomas McGregor to bring
today into the fu~rnace-like court
room.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
Veteran Engineer DazedIy
Faces ACCuSerS in
Coroner'S Court.
BIZ United Press

By UHlteG Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn, July %
William A. Rice, 69-year-old rail-
road engineer whose only Flemish
on a record of forty years service
with the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad was the
Fourth of July eve collision between
the Merchants Limited and a local
train, fought back today against a
~coroner'S finding holding him
criminally responsible for the wreck.
Deputy Coroner Nathan G. Sachs
held Rice to blame for the head-on
collision in which James F. Russ,
70, Shreveport, Louisiana merchant
was killed, and two score other per-
sons injured near the New Haven
railroad station.
Rice, dazed, trembling, and evil
IDENTIFY aged by the strain of the
accusation, was arraigned in
superior court a few hours after the
finding was issued.
1.-THE railroad is more responsible
in every way, shape and manner
than i am" he declared. 81 never
expected to be held criminally
responsible.
THE railroad should not have
permitted me and my train to pass
that signal and enter into that
1,400-foot stretch with a train COM
posed Of obsolete equipment, when
a train like the Merchants Limited
was approaching from the opposite
direction. You will notice the rail-
road has not used a wooden car
since the accident"
Rice had difficulty in raising $1,000
bond. He telephoned to several
officials Of the railroad, but was
unable to obtain the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
SHOT FATAL TO BABY

Mother Alleges Man Who Held Gun
Aimed at Her.
By Times Special
GARY, Lid, July 2S.-James
Haines, %, Negro, is under arrest
as a result of the fatal shooting of
James Matthews, 15-month-old son
of James and Margaret Matthews,
Negroes.
The accused man maintains the
tragedy was due to an accident, but
the baby's mother asserts a shot
aimed at her struck the baby, which
suffered a wound in the abdomen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
RULES ON STATE COAL
Per Ton Cost Basis for Outside
Buying Banned by Ogden.

British thermal units and not per
ton cost, must determine whether
any governmental unit may buy
other than Indiana coal for public
use, 1t was ruled today by Attorney
General James NJ. Ogden.
The ruling was. asked by l.. o.
ChaSsey, secretary to Governor
Harry G. Leslie.
1t was an Interpretation of the
1881 statute requiring the use of
Indiana coal by governmental units.
where the price difference is not
greater than 10 per cent. The B.
T. U. test on Indiana coal is high
and the ruling gives the state mines
an additional advantage, it was
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
THREATENS BREAD WAR

I'll Use Prison Products to Force
Lower Price, Says Alfalfa Bill.
By United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 29.-
Bread manufacturers will be Gov
ernor w. H. Murray's next target in
his war for lower costs Of living in
Oklahoma. he announced today.
The chic executive is gathering
information on production costs Of
bread and said he would use penal
institutions to fight bakers and force
lower prices. TN view of wheat
selling at 80 cents a hushel, bread
prices are ridiculous" the Governor
said. I'VE can sell prison bread to
force bakers to lower their prices"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
WHITEWASH IS
LAID TO LESLIE
CRIME PROBERS
Refused to Hit Tactics of
Parole Board, Says
Ex- Member.

Governor Harry G. Leslie's crime
commission, which turned in a re-
port January, 1881. was fully aware
of the conduct Of the Indiana state
prison trustees in parole matters,
but declined to make such criticism
as has been made in the Wicker
sham report.
This allegation was made today
by Captain Howard Smith Of the
state police, who was a member of
the commission. Smith at the time
was on the staff of the Indianapolis
Star and had written a series of
stories on crime and the courts.
He was appointed to the commits
sion by the Governor and incurred
the animoSity of some Of the old
time Indiana prison experts by
wanting to report such matters as
the Wickersham report contains.
Prisoners Are Rallied
Recently Smith became a captain
Of the state police, where he hopes
to make effective some of his So
Geological studies. He is a member
Of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic honor
society, and majored in social sci-
inece at Columbia university.
Every member of the so-called
crime commission knew how prison
ers are rallied at when they appear
before the prison trustees sitting
as a board of parole" Smith said.
For we held a commission meet
ing and sat in with the trustees on
one such hearing.
1T was conducted exactly as rep
resented in the Wickersham report.
This report was made by Winthrop
D. Lane, who is himself a Hoosier.
He is the son of Chester T. Lane,
principal of FIT. Wayne high school
for half a century.
Defends Hoover Prober
81 am sure that Lane is thor
oughly a competent investigator.
The criticism has been made that
he was at the prison but half a day.
About ten minutes of listening to a
trustee lecture a prisoner before a
crowd would be long enough for any
authority on penology to decide that
the system should be changed"
Smith says that abolition of the
central pardon and parole boarH
was "a step backward" and that the
matters are being handled now
"about as stupidity as possible"
The crime commission report had
a chapter on parole, in which it
dealt vaguely with the subject. Tt
neither advocated a central nor in
stitutional system, but did say there
should be complete history records
on each prisoner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
COST OF WAR BLAMED

Reform Association Head Expresses
View on Business Depression.
By Times Special
WARSAW, Ind. July 29.-In the
first of a series of addresses on the
Winona Lake program, DR.. R. H
Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa, president OF
the National Reform Association.
declared one Of the principal causes
of the present business depression Is
the cost of the World war. Mantle
nance of national ornaments was
given as another cause.
DR.. Martin placed the total cost
Of the war at $685., 600, 900 900 point
ing out that sum exceeds the total
wealth of the United States.
I'VE must put an end to var II
We want get rid Of financial de-
preston" the speaker declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
Host Slays Guest

FIT. WAYNE, Ind. July o.
Michael McKerning. n, is dead of
a bullet wound inflicted by Airing
ton Watson, in whose home he vas
a guest. 1t is said McKerning inter-
fered in a quarrel between Watson
and his wife. Watson attempted
suicide by shooting when police ar
rived to arrest him, but q revolver
was taken from him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29

MEMPHIS, July 29.-The
use of home brew as a cure
for pellagra is being discussed
in medical circles this week,
after a survey revealed forty
four cases in Shelby county.
Three bottles Of home brew
a day will bring about a steady
improvement and ultimate
cure. said a physician who OBJ
jected to the use Of his name.
Il had occasion to run tests
on 5000 cases in cotton mills.
and, although no other feature
OF their diet was changed, they
were allowed to drink home
brew under medical supervi-
J sion. Without exception they
showed improvement" the doc
tor said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
Fatal Date
BIZ United Press

Bg United Press
LONDON, July 29.-Seven-
teen years ago today-July 90,
1914-the first shot in the
greatest war the world yet has
known was fired.
In the thirteen years since
it ended in 1918, the powers
have sought to gain peace per-
manently through such efforts
at the League Of Nations and
conferences on arms limitation.
Efforts at present are aimed
at a world arms limitation
agreement, to be sought at the
arms parley in Geneva next
February.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
Train Kills Boy
Bn United Press

~ LWFttW FFoo
ROCKVILLE, Ind, July 29-
Joseph Addington. 9, was killed in
stantly when the truck in which he
was riding, driven by his brother
George, vas demolished by a
Pennsylvania passenger train here.
George, suffering severe injuries,
was taken to q Portland hospital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
FEAR HICC0UGH DEATH
Doctors Hold Little Hope for Pa
tient, Victim % Days.

DOcIorS HOiu LdCCIe nope o Pa
tient, Victim % Days.
By United Press
CHICAGO, July ga twenty
nine-day attack of hiccoughs placed
Christ Karzas, 53-year-old patient
in the University hospital, near
death today. For the first time
since the convulsive movements be-
gan, science conquered the attack
Tuesday night, but the hiccoughs
began again today and continued
for twenty minutes without pause.
DR.. Adolph Kraft. attending ply.
sician, said Karzas' condition APP
peared due to hardening of the ar
teries, complicated by heart trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
CANDIDATE ENDS REST
Aspirant to Kentucky GOvernOrship
Leaves Martinsville.
By United Press

DV CNtltu russ
MARTINSVILLE. Ind, July 20
Judge Ruby Laffoon, Democrat
gubernatorial candidate in Ken
lucky, planned to leave here today
after a ten-day rest to begin the
fall campaign. Judge Laffoon, who
was nominated almost unanimously
at a recent convention of his party,
said he would go directly to his
home in Madisonville, KY.
More than a week ago he came
here to recover from injuries
suffered in an automobile accident.
He expressed confidence in a
Democratic victory this fall. He
said he was pleased by the harmony
that prevailed in the party's ranks
and believed It indicated a recovery
from the defeat of 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
GREENFIELD GIRL Is
HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Car Crashes Into Tree When
Mother Loses Control.

Gar CTaSlleS AHIu ATCc WHICH
Mother Loses Control.
Miss Orpha Laverne Young, II,
Greenfield, was cut seriously on the
face today when she was hurled
through the windshield of an auto
mobile driven by her mother, Mrs.
Rosie Young.
Mrs. Young lost control of the
machine and crashed into a tree at
Harlan street and West Pleasant
Run boulevard. The girl was treat
ed at city hospital.
Collision of cars driven by Clar-
ence Mamann, 40, 1868 Hawthorne
boulevard, and William E. Barton,
Sc of 30O2 Fall Greek boulevard, at
New York and Rural streets, result
ed in slight injuries to Barton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
RUPTURE
TEST FREE

If you are considering operation or
purchase Of truss maybe you don't
need either. We have a test that
may open your eyes. Write for free
book now-tomorrow you may for
get. Howard q. Lewis. S. M, 315
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Advertisements
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
DEFENSE PLAN YELLED
Counsel for Slayer of Two Dry
Agents Refuses to Comment.

agents ReIuSeS TO
BIZ Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, July 90
Counsel for George Adams, boot
Logger, who killed Walter N. Gilbert
and John j. Wilson, federal dry
agents, refuses to reveal what the
defense will be to a first degree
murder charge because it might
hurt his case"
In the meantime, the state is pro-
ceeding with gathering evidence
against Adams and now has a list
Of eleven. Identity of nine Of the
witnesses is being withheld. The
other two are Oliver j. Gettle and
G. E. Green. government officers
who were with the slain men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
WATCHERS SEIZE 2
RIFLING CORN FIELD
0. K. ON CHILE REGIME
Premier MOnterO to Be Recognized,
Says Secretary Castle.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 29.-Acting
Secretary of State Castle, in reply
to questions, said today there would
be no question of United States rec
ignition of the new Chilean regime
headed by Premier Juan Esteban
Montero.
He explained Montero succeeded
former President Pedro Opazo by
constitutional means, and hence, the
formers regime was a constitution
al continuation of the latter's.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
DENIES BLAME FOR
RAILROAD DISASTER
BILL FOR ALFALFA BILL
He Claims River, Well Charge Him
for Bridge, Says Sterling.

By United Press
AUSTIN, Tex, July Ex-Governor
Ross Sterling, of Texas says he is
going to send Oklahoma and its
governor, w. H. Murray, a bill for
Texas contribution to building the
free Red river bridge at Denison,
Tex.
Governor Murray is claiming
both sides of the Red river under
that old Spanish treaty" Governor
Sterling remarked, smiling. and
that's all right with us. Well just
bill him for the $200,O 900 we spent
on building those bridges"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
ORDER FINANCIER HELD
Rogers Caldwell Faces Conspiracy
Charge in Bank Case.

OIidI5c III DdIIA Odocs
By United Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July az
Federal Commissioner Julian Camp
bell ordered Rogers Caldwell, former
southern hnancier, held today for
removal to Louisville, to face trial
on a federal indictment charging
conspiracy to misapply 100000 in
funds of thenational bank of Ken
lucky.
Attorneys Yar Caldwell announced
they would a PEAL Campbelrs order
EtQ federal couEA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29

An Argentina inventor has per-
fected an instrument which he
claims will give warning of an ap-
preaching earthquake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29
ouake Rocks Santiago

SANTIAGO, Chile, July ga Sc
we're earthquake rocked Santiago
early today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-29

"I know that horse" said Kirk
wood. I've ridden him and he's
bad. I won't get aboard him again"
Another man seconded Kirk
woods statement.
You don't know how to ride"
Miss Bennett was reported to have
said, jokingly. I'll ride him"
She climbed into the saddle and a
moment later was thrown against
a tree by the plunging steed.