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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
KLGORE RESIGNS POST
AS RECREATION CHIEF

Resignation of David Kilgore,
1857 Carrollton avenue, as city
recreation director, was expected to
be rendered to A. c. Sallee today.
Kilgore, in conference with Sallee
late Friday, stated he was going to
resign, to take effect prior to March
Is. His resignation probably will
come before the park board for &C
ceptance Thursday.
Canvass of the board today indi-
Gated it would be accepted.
Kilgore assumed the position at
the beginning Of the present admin
istration of Mayor Reginald H. Sui
Ivan. Since then he has been
the storm center in controversies
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
BONUS VETO is
DUE NEXT WEEK
Hoover's Action Expected to
Be, Futile.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. d. - The
veterans loan bill went the rounds
of the government departments to-
day, collecting arguments why it
should not become a law.
President Hoover dispatched it TO
department heads for official re-
ports before writing an. apparently
futile veto message upon it, prob
ably next Tuesday or Wednesday.
That the bill will be vetoed and
the veto overriden by congress be-
fore adjournment March now
seems a foregone conclusion.
Mr.. Hoover announced late Fri
day he is preparing to act upon the
measure the middle of next week.
Senator David Reed (Rep., Pa
serving as spokesman for the exec
utive in the senate, then announced
that the action of which the Presi-
dent spoke would be a veto.
Mechanics Of administrative con-
sideration of the bill will, however,
require several days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
BOY NERVOUS AS
GARY TRIAL NEARS
Girls Death Caused by Accidental FALL to Be Defense of
Virgil Kirkland in Attack Case.
By Times Special


VALPARAISO, a county Jail
Kirkland awaited
alleged pretty
weekend gin party in Gary last Nov 20.
Opening Porter circuit court Monday night his will be the first Of
five trials the Four other youths Lake county JAIL all
charged with attacking and beating the blonde high school student
nicting fatal injuries
Kirkland who popular high school athlete
him the electric chair
doors him for e or it free the boy naming
Miss death unfortunate tragedy youthful recklessne
incident that under youths of morals might
in VIRTUALLY in the nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The
compromise Muscle Shoals bill went
its weary way into the senate today
along the same path from the house
taken by the veterans loan bill. 1t
will follow the veterans bill within
a few hours to President Hoover's
desk.
Through a break in Republican
ranks, similar to that which oc-
Cured on the veterans bill though
not as wide, the Muscle Shoals
measure was approved by the house
Friday night. The vote was 216 to
Isl.
Senate acceptance of the compro-
mise is foreordained, and is expected
to be speedy. The bill probably will
reach the White House before night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
TO TORCH
TRIAL ARE FOUGHT

Opening shots in Harold Herbert
Schroeder's battle to escape the
electric chair in his criminal court
murder trial, starting Tuesday, were
fired today when Ira M. Holmes, the
Alabaman's attorney, attempted to
file a petition objecting to the issu-
ance of tickets for danission to the
trial.
Judge Frank P. Baker declined to
permit filing after explaining the
situation to Holmes.
Issuing Of tickets would violate
the constitutional rights of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

giving Chicago men an oppor-
tunity to bid.
Alderman Albert also made new
graft charges in a statement that
So, 600, 900 was lost to the city in
1880 alone because of crooked
contractor rings"
q
MAYOR THOMPSON, handi-
1V1 capped by hoarseness. had
half a dozen meetings scheduled
for today. He rode from hall to
hall on 3 raised cushion in an
open car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
BIG Bill BIDS ON RAISED CUSHION IN oPEN CAR So AL

dates, William Hale Thompson.
John H. Lyle and Arthur F. Al
bert, made their final pleas Of
the week at numerous ward and
loop meetings and in speeches
broadcast by radio.
NEW charges of graft, lunacy,
1 immortality. pending violence
and alliances with gangsters were
made and denied as the oandi-
dates shouted themselves hoarse.
Such expressions as ''sinkholes, .
'lecherous. and 'lascivie'us" we're
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

with the park board over swimming
pools and community houses.
Formerly Butler university
athlete and graduate, Kilgore held
a recreation post in an eastern city
before coming here.
Announcement of his successor
probably will be made by the park
board Thursday, Sallee said. Kill
gore did not make public what his
future plans are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
Boots Cnt-OutS COMING

VXTHAT surprise! Boots
wv nearly turnbled from her
chair when she heard she's 60
ing to have a new wardrobe and
is coming to girls and boys who
read this newspaper as a paper
doll cutout.
Edgar Martin, who draws the
comic strip, Boots and Her
Buddies," has provided a series
of beautiful costumes. There is
a fine new picture of Boots, :"
too. You can cut out the dresses,
color them and fit them to her
figure. Save the drawings every
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

Everybody wants to see their
mayor" he explained, smiling, as
he waved his cowboy hat at gasp
ing pedestrians.
Thompson charged at each ap-
pearance that Lyle is "nutty," and
ridiculed him for displaying ma
chine guns as symbols Of
Thompsonism." The real Thomp-
sonism," he declared. is repre-
sented in Chicago's skyline and in
millions Of dollars in public i'm
provements completed during his
three administrations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

tossed into the fray to be added
to the long list of bitter per-
sonal remarks exchanged earlier
by Mayor Thompson and Judge
Lyle.
These new invectiveS were con.
tributed by George o. Fairweather
business manager for the Univer-
Sity of Chicago, in describing
brrlesque theaters which he said
Lyle was "a patron of. a habitue
in. a former attorney q, and a
former stockholder, il not
present stakeholder in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

THE State-CongreSs theater,
Il which Fairweather, a sup
porter Of Alderman Albert, men
toned specifically, was closed a
few hours after the statement
was issued. Attendants said the
closing was because of a broken
switchboard.
New graft accusals we're made
by Lyle in charging that Thonp-
son is planning, ''for reasons Of
his own" to put construction Of
the new subway into the hands of
New York contractors without
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
By United Press

By United Press
LIMA, Peru, Feb. 2l.-The pro-
visional government of Luis M.
Sanchez Cerro continued to control
Peru under martial law today fol-
lowing an uprising.
A battle Friday night ct the his
toric fort of Real Filipe, adjoining
Callao, cost sixty lives, including
one American.
The American, Reginald A. Skid
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
In the Air

Weather conditions in the air at
8 a. m:
Northwest wind, 5 miles an hour;
barometric pressure, 1898 at sea
level; temperature, 5; ceiling, 1000
feet; visibility one and one-haif
miles; field, good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

for the coming season is told in a series of five
articles which will appear on the Home Page
of The Times starting next Monday
These articles have been prepared especially
for The Times by Mrs. Annette Guth, sewing
expert Of the Home Making Center, New York
City.
It's series that women readers will welcome,
smart to be thrifty.
Mrs Guth gives detailed directions for
making over last years ensembles, frocks and
suits for wear the coming spring. Her advice
will have to do with types of clothes that were
in vogue last season and can be made so this
season.
Mrs Guth has the advantage Of knowing
how to sew and how to teach. She has
fashioned all types of outfits for the elite
in the east and in addition has taught sew
ing to thousands of girls and matrons in
The first of her articles will appear Monday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

cealed on the person.
He argued that courts and
agents ought not to be expected to
prevent the making of liquor in
the home for noncommercial pur-
poses" nor ito stop the consump-
ton Of such liquors any more
than the courts and police are ex-
pected to stop a game of bridge
in a private home with no COM
nercial profit.
Praises Prohibition
Going into detail into the eff
feet of prohibition upon young
persons, Woodcock offered a sum-
mary Of opinions from thirty ed
ucators. On the bases of these he
reported:
School attendance laws ar bet
ter enforced.
High school enrolment is far
greater.
Use of liquor does not in large
measure contribute to juvenile
delinquency.
There is less drinking by both
boys and girls than before pro-
hibition.
Home condition insofar as they
affect school attendance are far
greater.
There is less drinking at social
gatherings attended by youths of
high school age.
mo one can read this evidence"
the prohibition director said. "and
be anything but optimistic regard
ing American youth of the high
school age"
Opposes Federal Dispensaries
In concluding, Woodcock opposed
federal liquor dispenSaries and said
that if the eighteenth amendment
were changed the responsibility for
liquor sales should be on the states.
He added that for congress to at
tempt to solve the problem merely
by repeating the Volstead act would
be "unthinkable.
Reports of the investigations of
Dennison and Albert E. Sawyer in
behalf of the commission differed
from Woodcock's conclusions in that
they thought the small violator
could not be ignored in any enforce
ment plan.
More Shoppers Proposed
Among their recommendations
were:
Sixty per cent increase in num-
Der of prohibition agents.
Abolition Of practice of requir-
ing agents to drink in order to OBJ
tain evidence.
Extreme care in issuing indus
trial alcohol permits.
Closer cooperation between
permit and enforcement author
tiles.
Adoption Of a nationwide sys-
tenn for exchange of information
relating to criminal activities, and
creation of clearing house for
the information in Washington.
Creation Of a plain clothes
squad to operate at intervals over
various border areas to supple
ment the uniformed force.
The investigation also indicated
it might be well to compel manu-
facturers of near beer to refrain
from making excessively alcoholic
beer as part of the process, per-
haps limiting the content during
manufacture to 21s per cent.
Labor Leaders Want Beer
The dozen representatives of la
Dor who testified before the COM
mission MAJ %, 1880, made gen.
eral observations that:
Workers have been driven hg
prohibition to hard liquor and
inferior home brew.
Legalization Of beer with great
er alcoholic content would be de-
sirable.
Absolute prohibition creates re-
sentiment. can not be enforced and
causes diSrespect for law.
More women and young people
are drinking hard" liquor.
Hourly temperatures
s q. M. 80 8 q m a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. Feb. 2l.-Candi-
~ dates for the Republican
nomination to become Worlds
fair mayor of Chicago brought to
a climax today the campaigns
which during the last week have
created one of the most amaz-
ing political furores in the city's
history.
Still admitting that any last
minute "break" might infiuence
thousands of voters one way or
another, the principal candi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
AMERICAN Is KILLED IN
PERU REBEL UPRISING

more of Bethlehem, Pa. was killed
by a stray bullet while lunching at
the Foreign Club.
The rebels, under leadership of
General Pablo Martinez, retreated
to the ancient fort after an unsuc-
cessful attempt to seize the presi-
Dental palace here.
1t is rumored the insurgents
sought to free Augusta. B. Leguia,
former president oveTthrown by
the present regime last fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
I HOURS
TO GET NEGRO
OUT OF Cell
Barrieaded Prisoner Holds
Cops at Bay Despite Tear
Gas Barrage.
BLAME LYNCHING FEAR
Near Race Riot Averted at
Richmond by Pleas of
CoI0red Leaders.
By Times Special

By Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Feb. 21.-After
a battle Of seven hours, during
which the county's supply of tear
gas practically was exhausted and
the Jail partially wrecked, squad
of county authorities and city
police finally succeeded early this
morning in dislodging Claude Lewis,
38, Negro, from cell where he had
barricaded himself.
Lewis is awaiting trial on d charge
of shooting Officer Moses Shores
several months ago.
White prisoners are said to have
told Lewis that he was going to be
lynched.
This information was conveyed
to Negro friends of Lewis in note
which he placed in a Bible he re-
turned to his mother. 1t nearly
precipitated a race clash and 1t
was not until DR.. w. G. Huffman
and Cornelius Richardson, widely
known Negro residents, assured
their people that there would be
no such action, was this threat
eliminated.
Turnkey Driven Out
Friday afternoon Lewis refused to
allow turnkey Roy Wenger to enter
a large cell, containing about TWEEN
ty-f1ve prisoners. He was armed
with a broomstick and the wringer
rollers from a mop bucket in ward
ing off the official, but with the aid
Of some TRUSTEES, Wenger succeeded
in Subduing the Negro and trans
ferred him to the Solitary conflne-
ment cell which is in the upper part
of the Jail.
Lewis started a campaign of de-
struction which included tearing
radiator from the floor, breaking
out the windows of his cell, and
tearing bed to pieces.
Officers who attempted to get to
the cell were forced to face a bar
rage Of broken glass, pieces of iron
pipe and boards.
IL Gas Smells Used
Tear gas bombs were brought into
play. They succeeded only in bring
ing distress to the wielders of the
guns as Lewis did not seem to be
bothered by the gas. Broken
windows. allowed plenty of air to
filter in, and the gas seemingly took
no effect.
Not until a dozen gas shells,
which cost SIG each, and a half
dozen smaller ones, at half the
price, had been used, was it dis
covered that the plan would not
work.
At this morning five officers
went to Lewis cell. The first to
enter, Police Captain Erwin House
man, received blow on the jaw,
but Lewis was captured.
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However, with the defense most
recently plotted by Kirkland'S at
torneys, Barrett O'Hara, former
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, and
o. B. Thiel of Gary, the jury to be
selected from a special venire drawn
to report Monday, may find the
girls death simply an accident.
Thiel has said he will produce ex-
pert medical testimony to show that
a cerebral hemorrhage suffered by
the girl was incurred when she fell
and struck her head.
State to Ask Death
Countering this evidence the state
expects to produce equally expert
medical testimony to the effect that
Miss braves was attacked GRIM
inally several times, and that the
attacks with accompany shock and
a hemorrhage in the brain produced
death.
The state will ask the death pen
atty, under a statute that makes
mandatory the electric chair for
death following criminal assault.
OF more than two-score witnesses,
who have been summoned in the
case, only few will appear in
Kirkland's behalf. They will in
clude his parents, whose persistent
sympathy the boy says has sus-
tanned his courage during imprison-
ment, an uncle and few friends,
besides the physicians.
A romantic strain may enter the
trial if Kirkland's sweetheart, a CO.
ed III an Ohio college, appears in
the courtroom to take the stand in
her lovers behalf.
Identity Is Guarded
In letters that friends have
smuggled to him she has promised
to come back to help, if she can, but
Kirkland has declared he forbade
her to reveal herself. He has
guarded her identity carefully.
In brief the story that the state
will present to the jury will de-
scribe the gathering at the home
of David Thompson, one of the
four other defendants, Saturday
night, Nov. 90.
There had been a gallon or more
alcohol purchased. together with
several gallons of wine. 1t was to
have been, to that group as to
many others since prohibition, a
drinking party at home, with
highballs, song, dances, perhaps a
petting party or Two, and food at
midnight or later before the crowd
broke up.
Sometime during the party
Kirkland and Miss braves walked
to the front porch. Later the boy
said he had taken her there when
she became i'll. 1t is there, the
state alleges, that Kirkland attacked
her, afterward placing her in an
automobile.
Rushed to Doctors Home
Thompson. Harry Shirk, Leon
Stanford and Don Barton got into
the car with Kirkland, and they
drove away. stopping at a restau-
rant to purchase sandwiches. The
state alleges that each of the men
attacked the girl, who then was
unconscious.
They returned to the Thompson
home, where one of the boys dis
covered the girl was dead. They
rushed her to a physicians home
and fled. Next day Kirkland was
arrested when he notified the girls
parents Of her death, and arrest of
the others followed in a few hours.
Widespread interest of the case
has presaged courtroom crowds
breaking all records here during the
entire trial. Judge Grant Crum-
packer has issued an order prohibit
ing children under IS from attend
ing the hearing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
Mine Blast Kills IA
By United Press

By UNlted Pf6SS
LONDON, Feb. 21.-Bodies of
fourteen dead and fourteen injured
victims have been recovered from
the pit of mine wrecked in mine
damp explosion at Eschweiler, near
AK La Chapelle. Fate of thirteen
others known to be below the sur
face is undetermined
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
HOG MARKET MOVES
DOWN AT CITY YARDS
Cattle Mostly Stationary; veals
Hold Steady Trend.

The pork market today at the
local stockyards showed decline,
with prices ranging unevenly lower,
opening around Is cents lower and
later trade IS cents of. The bulk,
100 to 800 pounds. sold at $6.65 to
SITS. Early top held at SITS. Re-
ceipts were $500. Holdovers. SO.
Cattle market mostly stationary,
with few slaughter classes Of steers
nominal. Receipts were estimated
az 100. Vealers held steady, selling
al $40 down. Receipts were 200.
Sheep and lambs we're scarce, with
g good and choice grade of lambs
salable, selling at So. Receipts, TOO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
LEGION DRIVE CLOSES
Officials Believe Membership Goal
Has Been Reached.

Final check of the American Lee
gion Seventh district membership
drive today, prior to its closing at
midnight tonight, revealed 300 new
members, an average of ten mem
bers post. Quota for the district
is 1850. This is expected to be
reached when all reports are re-
ceived tonight. Bruce P. Robson
post Is leading.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21

and you'll have complete Of pretty dolls
The first Boots" paper doll cut-Out mill appear the
comic page of The Times Monday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-21
Last Years Dress Can
Be Made OUeY for 1881

New styles for old Last clothes need not be discarded
How they be transformed into creations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
Business Notes

NEW YORK, October 16.-Following
the squirt in consumer purchasing last
Monday. retail trade has again eased
off, reports from store executives in New
York indicate. Results are notably
spotty in the apparel departments and.
deSpite~the late date sustained seasonal
purchasing has not yet materialiZed.
Both coats and dresses are affected, the
situation in the latter merchandise
being reflected in substantial returns
and delayed bordering.
The scarcity of certain part-wool
blanket constructions became more
acute during the week when last-minute
orders from jobberS and retail buyers
reached the New York market in fair
sized volume, selling agents report.
Some mills are sold up for several weeks
in advance on these styles and cannot
promise definite delivery dates.
Spring curtain orders will be placed
later this season than in any similar
period in the last five years, according
to reports in the New York wholesale
trade. Spotty conditions prevailing in
the market have made curtain manu-
facturerS uncertain regarding Spring
demand and they are planning to stay
out Of the market until late January,
and possibly until February.
Slowing up has developed in current
orders for broad silks, the trading being
done rejecting weather conditions from
day to day New business from the APP
parel trades has been held down, while
retailers are largely concentrating on
silks for promotional events. AS re-
suit, price competition In the trade Is
somewhat keener than 1t was several
weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
DECLINE IN FREIGHT
TRAFFIC REPORTED
Bureau of Railway Economics
Notes Drop in Glass l
Business.

Based on reports received from rail-
roads, the Bureau of Railway Econom-
les has announced that the volume of
freight traffic handled by the class
railroads of this country in the first
eight months of 1881 amounted to
233. 954, 307 900 net tone miles.
This was a reduction Of 81 ,308, AS
900 net ton-miles, or l8 per cent I'M
der the corresponding period in 1880,
and reduction Of 91,514, 1874 900 net
ton-miles or 261 per cent under the
same period in 1929.
Railroads of the Eastern district for
the first eight months of 1881 reported
reduction of 179 per cent in the
volume of freight traffic handled COM
pared with the same period in 1880,
while the Southern district reported a
decrease of 178 per cent. The West
ern district reported decrease OF 1872
per cent.
For the month Of August freight
traffic handled by the class l railroads
amounted to 29.347, 1925, 900 net ton
miles Compared with August, 1890,
this was a reduction of 8,074 682, 900
net on-miles, or -2l.6 per c~.E, and a
reduction of 15,6o2. 1928, 900 net ton
miles or 34.7 per cent under August,
1929.
In the Eastern district the volume
Of freight trafic handled in August
was reduction OF 1913 per cent COM
pared with the same month in 1890,
while the Southern district reported a
decrease Of 1919 per cent. The West
ern district reported decrease OF
24.0 per cent