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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
U. C. T. WILL ADJOURN
Officers to Be Chosen Today at State
Meeting in KOkomO.
BIZ Times SDeeinL

~ 1 btOS Dp6CtUb
KOKOMO, Ind, May 23-The
annual convention of the Indiana
United Commercial Travellers will
close today with election of off,
GERS and selection of a meeting place
Tor 1882. Cities seeking the next
convention are Marion, Crawfords-
VILE Seymour. Madison and TT.
Wayne.
Officers elected Friday by the
auxiliary are as follows: Mrs. r. o,
Law, Logansport, grand president:
Mrs. B. A. Little, South Bend. grand
vice-president; Mrs. Lillard Krider.
Terre Haute, grand secretary; Mrs
G. T. White, indianapolis, grand
treasurer; Mrs. Lewis Schoe, Fl.
Wayne, grand honorary president.
and Mrs. Harry w. Dodge, indians
apolis, grand past president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
STATE KHAN TO MEET
Convention Announced for Kokomo
on July 3.
By Times Special

BIZ Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind, May %. - Re-
ports are current that the Ku-Klux
Khan will hold a state convention
here July 3, as a part of four-day
celebration to run from July to 5.
1t is said the local klansmen in
tend to make an appeal at the
meeting that state headquarters,
now located in Indianapolis, be
moved to Kokomo.
Each of the reputed 1876 khan or
CARNATIONS in the state is expected
to send delegates to the meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
NEW INSTITUTION HEAD
Ohio Man Chosen Superintendent
of SanatOrium at Rockville.

Oh SanaCOrlum al Rockville.
By Times Special
ROCKVILLE, Ind. May 90
Trustees of Indiana State sanator-
ium, near Rockville, announce DR..
K. V. Pace of Lima, O., has been
elected superintendent of the sana-
forum to succeed DR.. Amos Carter,
who resigned Dec. 1, 1880, after
thirteen years Of service.
DR.. Pace has been superintend-
ent Of the Troy County tuberculosis
hospital at Lima seven years. Pre-
viously he was assistant to his
father who was superintendent of
the Modern Woodmen's hospital at
Colorado Springs, Colo. DR.. Pace
will assume his new post June 1.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Heart Disease Fatal
BIZ Times Speciat

BIZ Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, May %
William a. Stanley. hotel clerk
stricken with heart disease while on
duty. died within an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Church to Be Dedicated

CATION was founded at meeting
July Is, 1866, of fifteen persons.
Logs for the building were provided
by John Whicker, one of the found
ers, and the others hewed them.
The original building was de-
stroyed by fire May 5, 1880, after
being struck by lightning.
The new church cost about $4,000.
The pastor is the Rev. Alonzo F.
Slaughter. Present membership is
1893.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
$4,000 TO INVENTOR
Muncie Man Sells Patent to Elkhart
Company.
By Times SpeciaI

Company.
By Times Special
ELKHART, Ind. May %. - The
Westlake Manufacturing Company
of this city has paid $4,000 to
Burr Munson, Muncie, for the pat
ent on an invention he made while
tinkering in the basement of his
home last winter.
The invention is nickel plated
covering for wood spoke automobile
wheels. Munson said Studebaker
and Marmon automobile makers lid
for the invention, but the Westlake
company made the best offer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
CITIZENS DISCUSS
WIDENING OF ROAD
Takoma Park Association
Takes Up Proposal for I'M
proving Piney Branch.

The proposal of the District Commits
sioners to widen Piney Branch road
from Butternut street to the contem-
plated underpass beneath the tracks of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
Fern street from 80 feet to 80 feet
instead of 100 feet, as recommended
by the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission. was discussed at
the meeting of the Takoma Park Citi-
zens' Association at the Takoma Park
branch of the Washington Public Lii
brary last night
A report on the widening was pre-
scented by Burt w. Andrews, chairman
of the Streets and Lights Committee of
the association. The association voted
to protest against assessing the cost of
the improvement against property own
ers in the vicinity of Piney Branch
road, in view of the fact that the en-
tire District, they said, is to be bene-
flied
S. E. Blassingham reported that the
sum of $4,000 had been included in the
estimates for improving the grounds Of
the Takoma Park public school. AS
chairman of the School Committee. he
stated that the new Paul Junior High
School was being taxed to its utmost
and that the February classes would
occupy the old Brightwood School, in
addition to the Paul School Efforts
we're now under way, he said, for Sc
curing an additional wing to the new
high school, which was completed last
year.
Louis Dautona was elected a mem
Der of the association.
President Herbert Walton Rutledge
announced that DR.. George Havenner,
president of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations, would be the guest
speaker at the February meeting of
the association The Chesapeake 81
Potomac Telephone Glee Club, with
telephone talkies, will be at the same
meeting
Joseph d. kaufman of the Com
munity Chest Speakers Bureau told of
the work Of the Chest during the past
year, OF its accomplishments and the
need of increased donations in the
drive now under way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
.BROSSARD SCORED
FOR SUGAR TARIFF
Robinson BIameS Hoover Ap-
pointee for "DiSrepute" of
Former Commission.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Robinson, the Democratic
leader, declared in the Senate today
that the "disrepute" which came to the
former Tariff Commission and necessi-
tated its reorganization was "attribut-
able in part at least to the proceedings,
methods and acts" OF Edgar B. Bros
sard, Republican, member from Utah.
Resuming the Democratic Republican
Independent contest against Brossards
confirmation, the Democratic chieftain
asSailed the Tariff Commission and its
administration of the flexible provision.
He criticized BrosSard's connection with
the sugar tariff.
THE breakdown, and I might say
scandal, which required reorganiza-
tion,' he asserted, was brought about
largely by bad appointments to the
commission.
bad" he added, but 1 use 1t in the
sense they did not possess the capacity
for the performance of their duties as
the statutes required"
Four of the Tariff Commission NOM
inees were confirmed yesterday. Bros
sard was the fifth to be considered.
With his appointment acted on, only
one other remained to be considered
Lincoln Dixon, Democrat, Of Indiana
and the latter faces no opposition
Republican leaders claimed Brossard
would be confirmed, but looked for a
close vote.
Robinson said if the Tariff Commits
sion lis to serve material part of the
end for which it was intended-that of
political and economic shock absorber-
only men of impartiality, frankness and
unquestioned ability are to become
members"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
|RASKOB DEFENDS
HIS GUARDIANSHIP
Denies .CoIumnist's Charge
He Practically Bought and
Paid for Party"

BY the Associated Press.
A direct defense against criticism of
his Craftsmanship of the Democratic
National Committee was made last
night by John j. Raskob.
He made public letter addressed to
Frank r. Kent, columnist for the Bal
timore Sun, terming untrue statements
Kent had written concerning him in a
recent article. The chairman summed
up Kent's assertions as go in short,
that I have bought and paid for the
party"
None of these statements is true, "
said the statement. Il am one OF a
group of men indorsing the only COM
mittee note outstanding. I have as
sumed none of the liabilities and none
of the debts of the committee. Mr..
(Jouett) Shouse was unknown to me
previous to the 1928 campaign, and was
selected as chairman of the executive
committee of the Democratic National
Committee by members of that COM
mittee after long and careful consid-
Grafton of several important names and
after consulting with other strong party
leaders.
THE million-dollar reduction in the
party debt" he continued, was made
not by me, but by close friends and
associates of Gov. Smith. who felt
great responsibility for large part of
our deficit and met it. I am loaning
money to the National Committee,
which will be repaid"
Raskob said the party's defeat in
1928 and current depressed conditions
had made fund raising hard, but that
his confidence in the party's principles
gave him a great sense of security"
in its virility and ability to repay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
Fourth District Includes d. c., Mary
land, Two Virginias and Two Carolinas.

Forty additional Federal agents for
enforcement of prohibition are to be
placed in the fourth district. which in
cludes the District of Columbia, Mary
land, the two Virginias and the two
Carolinas, under the increase of S2,-
369500 in appropriations for prohibi-
ton enforcement asked by the Depart
ment of Justice and Endorsed by the
House Appropriations Committee in its
report on the bill today. These new
agents will be in addition to the pres
ent force of lat agents and five inves-
tigators in the same area.
This information was made public to-
day as disclosed in hearings on pro-
posed appropriation when Amos w. w.
Woodcock, director of the Bureau Of
Prohibition was questioned In regard
to the 500 additional agents.
Col. Woodcock declined to tell how
many employees of his bureau are ac-
tive in the enforcement of the prohibi-
ton law of the District of Columbia,
when questioned by Representative
Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts,,
recognized as wet leader IN the House,
who is member of the subcommittee
which conducted the hearings. Col.
Woodcock said he thought it would be
detrimental to enforcement activities TO
disclose how many agents are employed
IN this particular place."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
CITIZENS ASK REMOVAL
OF OLD AQUEDUCT BRIDGE
Georgetown Progressives Anticipat-
ing Bicentennial-Wom Urged
for Juvenile Court.

The Progressive Citizens Association
Of Georgetown last night adopted a
resolution requesting that the old Aque-
duct Bridge Of Georgetown be removed
before the Washington Bicentennial
next year.
increase in salary be given teachers in
vocational schools A letter written by
the secretary to President Hoover re-
questing that Mrs. Eta Taggart be con-
sidered as a candidate to fill the next
vacancy occurring on the Juvenile
Court bench, was Endorsed by the as
ISOLATION.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan, president.
presided at the meeting, which was
held at the Hyde School, o street near
Wisconsin avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13

Langdon had said something about
looking under the couch and finding a
half-gallon of liquor Beulah told me
later that she explained to Langdon
that if he did look he would only find
some cider"
Again the line of questioning was
changed.
Did Beulah have a comb and brush
and mirror upstairs at her homer" asked
Whelan.
Yes replied the witness.
She was asked if she had ever seen
the comb and brush and mirror down.
stairs. and she said she did not re-
member.
Reason for Trip.
O,Shea then asked Mrs. Bargfrede
why Beulah had made a trip to Kansas
several years ago. The girl replied:
"Beulah said she wanted to get away
from her brother David"
did she say anything about wanting
to get away from her father?" asked
O'Shea
No. replied the witness.
After Mrs. Bargfrede finished testify
ing yesterday, she remarked to friends
that she was surprised that she had not
been questioned about Beulah's rela-
lions with her family. This remark was
responsible for her being recalled. She
created sensation at the inquiry yes
terday with her testimony TO the effect
that she had been asked to say nothing
about the gun in the stove
She said she overheard this remark
when it was made by Mrs Ethel Linn
eriek, a sister-in-law of the dead girl,
and that Mrs. Dora Limerick then asked
her not to repeat it.
Mrs. Bargfrede told police that the
gun referred to must have been in a
coal stove known to have been burning
in the death room at about the time
the conversation took place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
QUINCY ADAMS SCHOOL
ACCIDENTS PROTESTED
Kalorama Citizens Association
Asks Traffic Director to Improve
Highway Conditions

Pointing out that three accidents
have occurred recently in front of the
Quincy Adams School, the Kalorama
Citizens Association, meeting last night
at the school, passed a resolution ask
ing the director of traffic to improve
traffic conditions at that point.
The purchase of the Smith estate at
Nineteenth and Columbia road for "a
public park and branch of the Public
Library was favored in q resolution
passed by the group.
The association was told by DR..
George F. Bowerman that a library
would be appropriate" in the section
and pointed out that one-third of the
population of the District lacks proper
library facilities and that a number of
communities are asking for branch Ii
braries.
A. o. Stanley, former Governor Of
Kentucky and former Senator from
that State, spoke for the Community
Chest. Tracey Ansell was Endorsed as
a new member of the group. Mrs. Edna
L. johnson presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13

NNOIlGuluSO ClOII Il AoO ago.
an independent in Alabama in the last
election, ordered all but one of the edi-
tions sent to Alabama and paid for them
himself
Those sent to Montana we're described
as intended in behalf of Judge Albert
j. Galen, Republican, who was defeated
by Senator Walsh, Democrat.
Asked by Nye why allegedly wet
Democratic cartoons should be sent into
Montana for Galen when he was re-
garded as wet" and Walsh as dry"
Creetch said the talk was Walsh had
little bit more sense and probably
would be more dangerous"
1t was possible that Walsh was OPP
posed in such manner, he added. be-
cause of other considerations-'po possibly
power"
Creetch Quotes StengIe.
Creetch said Charles 1. Stengle of the
publishing company had told him he
had advised Lucas early in December
that he 0ucas) would have to give
some name to stand responsible" for
the anti-Norris literature because the
transaction was to be investigated.
Stengle said Lucas pulled down
book" and selected the name John M
might have been county or precinct
committeeman"
Creetch said Stengle told him Lucas
didn't get the name 'Fatters' from a
letter, as he had testified"
j. Matt Chiffon, Republican national
committeeman for Kentucky. testified
regarding receipt and expenditure of
$4,000 from Lucas for use in five con-
gressional districts.
This money was part of a $500
special campaign account set up by the
Republican National Committee last
october to help House candidates. He
said he kept no records of receipts and
expenditures but turned over the Sc. 500
to persons, all of the names of whom
he could not remember, for election day
expenses, auto hire, etc.
Says Report Unnecessary.
The money. he said, was distributed
as follows: 81 900 each in the fourth
and sixth districts and 81 500 each in
the seventh, eighth and ninth districts.
He said he made no report to the
secretary of state of Kentucky of the
expenditures because the law does nct
require 1t. He filed a report to the
clerk of the House, but learned this
was unnecessary
The parties to whom the money was
given by him were not included in the
House report.
Nye said the House candidates re-
ceiving the money had not revealed
such receipts in their reports.
THE money was not given to the
candidates; it was distributed in the
districts" Chiffon rejoined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
=. ZoNING MANAGER ACTS.
Proposes Special Permits for Highway
BilIbOards in Fairfax County.

Removal of sigpboard regulation from
the coming ordinance to the Board of
County Supervisors will be recommend
ed at tomorrow's meeting of the gov
erning body of Arlington County by
Robert Fl: Forman, county coming ad-
ministrator
While the Board of Supervisors now
has the power to deny permits in any
area in which they might be permitted
under the coming ordinance, Forman be-
lieves that since signboards are at all
times controversial, they should be
placed under special permit and posi-
bly, taxed high enough to curb their
general erection.
Although billboards are permitted
only in commercial areas, Forman point
ed out, their elimination generally from
the approaches to Washington is sought
and these approaches are for the most
part Zoned commercial.
The land surrounding the approaches
to the new Arlington Memorial Bridge,
with the exception of that owned by
the Federal Government, he said, was
designed as commercial, and the cree
ton Of billboards there would be pos
sible under the coming ordinance. The
same situation exists with respect to the
Key Bridge and to all of the main high
ways, since these, being generally trav-
eled, have a number of commercial
sections in which billboard erection is
permitted under the ordinance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
RELATIVES OF DEAD MAN
TO BE SOUGHT BY POLICE
Son, Daughter and Twin Brother
of Frank T. Finch Believed
Residing in Middle West.

A Nationwide effort is being made
by Washington police to locate rela-
tives of Frank T. Finch, 62-year-old
contracting engineer, who died five
days ago at the Georgetown University
Hospital. His body still lies unclaimed
at the District Morgue.
Finch came here recently from Cleve-
land and was rooming at 1921 New
Hampshire avenue when taken i'll with
pneumonia on December 80. Coroner j.
Ramsay Nevitt issued a certificate of
death from natural causes when he
died Thursday.
The man worked for Stroman 81 Co.,
in Cleveland, prior to coming to the
Capital in a futile search for employ
ment. Detectives learned that Finch, a
native of Iowa. has a son, daughter
and twin brother living somewhere in
the Middle West. Finch resided for
some time in Kansas City, Mo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
BODY TOHLOT
SITE OF MEMO
Decision VIII Be Reached at
Three-Day Meeting Start.
ing Thursday.

The exact location, near the Lincoln
Memorial Rejecting Pool, of the Dis
trict of Columbia World War Memorial
will be taken up by the National Capt..
tai Park and Planning Commission
during its three-day meeting. commence
ing Thursday. The commission will
inaugurate new policy by taking a
field inspection trip, as a body, along
the proposed fort drive, that will link
up with the old Civil War forts encir-
cling Washington.
A special committee, consisting of
Frederic A. Delano, commission chair
man; Maj. John c. Gottwals, Engineer
Commissioner of the District, and Lieut.
Col. U. s. Grant, 3d. executive officer of
the commission, is expected to report
on proposals for the location of the new
War and Navy Department Buildings.
To Discuss Legislation.
The legislative program, embracing
the proposed omnibus street closing bill.
Encouragement of traffic control and
elimination of alley dwellings, will be
brought before the commission and
discussed. The present status of the
proposed acts, and the likelihood of
their being passed at the present ses-
sion OF Congress, will receive attention.
The transit situation of the triangle
Col Grant and the recently formulated
Beeler report, prepared at the instance
CT the transportation companies, will
form the basis of the discussion.
Charles w. Eliot I'd, director of plan
ming, viii acquatnt the commission
with the plans for development 'of B
street south William T. Partridge, con-
sulting architect of the commission, will
discuss the present status of the pro-
posed sunken gardens surrounding the
Washington Monument. Mr.. Eliot will
bring forward the proposal to establish
another museum in the National Cap
ital, depicting objects of particular in
tereSt TO Washingtonians, and mechani.
cal advances, and he will discourse on
additional plans for the creation of the
proposed Avenue of The States, which
would take the place of East Capitol
street.
Consider Monumental Entrances.
Additional attention will be given 70
the proposed monumental entrances TO
the District of Columbia, and the COM
mission will discuss the comments Of
the Fine Arts Commission upon this
plan. The Garden Club of America is
sponsoring this project. and Mrs. Frank
B. Noyes has brought the matter to the
attention of the commission.
Studies made by the staff Of the
commission of plazas, squares and cir
Giles all over the city will be produced
for the commissions discussion by Mr..
Eliot. Maj Gottwals will bring to the
commissions attention the various high
way changes that have been recently
proposed.
Following his recent presentation of
the trend of population of the District
OF Columbia. Mr.. Eliot will direct the
interest of the commission to the swing
of population in adjacent Maryland and
Virginia. Capt. E. N Chisholm, IT.,
engineer of the commission, explained
today that this information is neces-
sary in the planning of streets and of
sewer and water development and other
municipal improvements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
PARIS DIVORCES BINDING
IF NOT PROVED CORRUPT
State Department Decides Them Le-
gal in Certain Conditions-Mex-
lean DEGREES Declared Problem.

Paris divorces, the legality of which
recently aroused SO much criticism
may be considered binding, in the abb
Sence of proof of charges of sharp
practice among American attorneys
practlcing in the French divorce courts,
the State Department has ruled. But
the issue is not so clear in the matter
of Mexican divorces, which have Of
fered more complex problem to the
department
The French government has investi-
gated the charges of sharp practice
leveled at American attorneys prac-
ticing in the Paris courts, but the in
quiries have failed to bring proof The
investigation was closely watched by
the American embassy in Paris, since
proof of the charges might have re-
suited in invalidation of cases in which
the alleged Irregularities occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
CHIMNEY HIDING PLACE TOO HOT
FOR HOLD-UP MAN EVADING POLICE
Detectives Put Out Furnace Fire and Firemen Cut Hole
in Wall to Effect Capture.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January l3.-There was
entirely too much heat in the chimney
In which Charles Benjamin Jones, col
cred, got bunkered last night.
He got there by series of mistakes
The first was the fact that he and his
companion, Mitchell Hamilton, at
tempted to hold up two men who turned
out to be Detectives Edward Hazard
and Kenneth Ebey. The next was that
he removed his clothing at his home
after he had fed from the detectives
and before he crawled into the top of
THE chimney.
His intention was TO hold onto the top
with his hands, but the bricks were
so hot he had to let 60, and he started
to slide down toward the basement,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13

where a red-hot fire was burning in
the furnace Between the third and
second floors the chimney makes a cou-
pie of right and left turns, wedging
him firmly in his uncomfortable posi-
ton.
Help" came a faint cry from the
chimney. II was heard by the detec-
tives.
ok" said one of the officers.
Hurry" said Mr.. Jones, Its blister
ing down here. Have them put out
that fire."
Ebey did The Fire Department cut
a section from the side Of the building
and extracted Jones, who was wrapped
in a blanket, taken to Q hospital and
then to police station.