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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
II ARE NABBED
BY DRY AGENTS
New Albany, MartinsviIIe
Regions Are Raided.

Federal prohibition squads from
Indianapolis pounced on the New
Albany and MartinSville regions
Tuesday, and today reported that
in eleven raids at New Albany eight
persons were convicted and fined
and that three persons are held. in
Jail at Martinsville.
Those found guilty at New Al
bany by Mayor c. B. McClinn were
John Bishop, Robert M. Fisher, Ed
McCartin, Clara Stoner, Lawrence
Kennedy, William c. Dowdle, Will
liam Daggs and Fred Loves.
Daggs and Loves we're given
sixty days on the state farm in adj
dition to fines of $100 and costs
which were levied on the others
who pleaded guilty. George Hines
Negro; Charles Bodine, Negro, and
Goldie Linton, all pleaded not
guilty.
The federal men reported that
those held at Martinsville on booze
charges are Vernon Kemp, Morgan
ton; Edward Snyder, Morgantown
and James o. Richardson, Martins
vile.
Bailey Bennett, in charge of the
federal bureau here, declared that
in New Albany raids more than 18C
quarts Of whisky were seized and
more than ninety quarts of beer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
Mothers, Mix This
At Home for
a Bad Cough

You'll be pleasantly surprised when
you make up this simple home mixture
and try it for distressing cough due
to a cold 1t takes but a moment to
mix, costs little, and saves money. but
it can be depended upon to give quick
and lasting relief.
Get 212 ounces of Pinex from any
druggist. Pour this into a pint bottle:
then fill it with plain granulsted sugar
syrup or strained honey. The full pint
thus made costs no more than a small
bottle Of ready-made medicine, yet it is
much more effective. 1t is pure, keeps
perfectly and children love its pleasant
taste.
This simple remedy has a remark
able three-fold action. 1t goes right 10
the seat Of trouble, loosens the germ
laden phlegm, and soothes away the
inflammation. Part of the medicine is
absorbed into the blood, where it acts
directly upon the bronchial tubes and
thus helps inwardly to throw off the
whole trouble with surprising ease.
Pinex is a highly concentrated conn
pound of Norway Pine, containing the
active agent Of creosote, in a refined,
palatable form, and known as one of
the greatest medicinal agents for severe
coughs and bronchial irritations.
Do not accept a substitute for Pinex.
It is guaranteed to give prompt relief
or money refunded. !"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
3 ESCAPE DROWNING
Swim to Bridge After Boat
CapSizeS in River.

Two boys and man escaped
drowning in White river Tuesday
afternoon when they swan to the
base of the Kentucky avenue bridge.
after their homemade boat capSized
when it struck an old piling in the
stream
They are: John Miller, 80, and
Roy johnson, II, both Of 1873 Chad
wick street, and Raymond Hilton,
Is, of 432 Chadwick street.
Suffering from exposure, they
we're treated at city hospital and
then taken home. They were res
cued from the bridge support by
f1remen, who lowered ropes.
They told police they had COM
pleted construction of the boat
Tuesday and were testing it when
the upset occurred near the scene
of a similar accident last week in
which four boys likewise were res
cued by firemen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
COUNCIL SETUP
TO STAY SAME
Present Officers Likely to
Be Reflected.

Present officers of the city coun-
ell probably will be reelected for
1882, at election Monday noon
statements made today by several
councilmen indicate.
Customary confusion usually ap-
parent at this time of year on who
shall preside over the council, is
absent this year.
Although it will be contrary to
precedent, Ernest C. Ropkey, head
of the Indianapolis Engraving Com
pany, is expected to be retained for
a third term as council president
One year has been the average
length of the presiding officers
term.
Leo F. WEIGH, president OF
the council, also probably will be
reelected at the meeting Monday,
reports indicate.
WEIGH was mentioned as a pos
sible next president, but declared
today I am not a candidate. and
don't see any reason for
change"
Ropkey declared he was not as
piring to reelection to the presi-
dents chair, but will serve, if re-
elected"
Other councilmen who said they
"do not anticipate any change in
the councils officers" were Fred c.
Gardner, James A. Houck, Maurice
E. Tenant and George A, Henry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
FACES DEATH CHARGE
Detectives Say Hit-and-R Run
MotoriSt ConfeSSeS.

1Ganslaughter charges were to be
filed today against Stanley Ule, 81,
of TIC North Warman avenue, fol-
lowing an alleged confession that he
was the hit-and-run driver who ia
tally injured a pedestrian on Dec. 10.
The accident occurred at New
York and Geisendorff streets, when
John Batkin, 60, of 1913 Douglass
street, was hurled thirty-five feet by
a speeding automobile.
The driver, witnesses said, stopped
and then fled. Batkin died an hour
later at city hospital.
Ule, according to detectives Louis
Fossatti and Patrick Roache, who
arrested him at his home, admitted
fleeing from the accident because he
was afraid"
Ule is married and has child, 2.
Police said he has been arrested
previously on a blind tiger charge
and is under probation in Municipal
Judge William H. Sheaffer's court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
DELAY AGENTS TRIAL
Witnesses Fail to Appear in
Shooting Case.

Additional continuance was grant,
ed Patrick Currie, two-gun federal
dry agent, today in municipal court
when trial of charges Of drunken
ness and disorderly conduct was
postponed until this afternoon.
Currie, alleged to have shot up
the Happy Hour barbecue on the
Rockville road, Oct. IS, has obtained
series of continuances. This
morning, none of the witnesses was
in court and attaches said the case
had been set for later in the day.
Prohibition authorities, it is re-
ported, have probed the case, but
have not taken any action against
Currie The agent was arrested
after he fired revolver several
times at the barbecue, following an
alteration over a gasoline purchase.
Continuance dates in the case
have been Oct. IS and 80, Nov. 20
and Dec. 2, II and 80.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
Four Youths Draw Fines
and Revocation of
DRIVING Licenses.

Four youths, including two high
school pupils and a college student,
had their holidays spoiled in munich
pal court today when they faced
charges of violating traffic laws.
Charles Wade, 1890 South Senate
avenue, took it on the chin from
Wilbur RoySe, special judge. in no
uncertain terms. Wade had been
fined $40 and costs, with the costs
suspended, for travelling forty-five
miles an hour.
Royse directed him to wait in the
courtroom Wade spent his time
making faces" and irritating head
gestures at matrons and officers in
the rear of the court.
witnessing the pantomime, Royse
again summoned Wade before the
bench.
RevOkes Costs Suspension
You can't get away with your act
in here, young man" Royse said.
1.-THE cost suspension is revoked and
that will add something to your
fine, believe me-"
Asserting the speedometer on his
car did not register 45, as charged
by police, Harold Engleman. 10, of
245 Blue Ridge road, high school
pupil was shorn of his driving priv
ileges for ninety days by Royse.
Police said they thought the
speedometer might have been out of
Engleman's view, because he had
three other persons in the drivers
seat. A fine of $25 and costs was
suspended.
Charged with reckless driving and
speeding, William White, IS, of 5134
East Michigan street, another high
school pupil, protested to Royse he
wasn't on the left side of the
street all the time
Would Have Hit Something
"I don't see how you could have
been, there all the time" Royse said.
you might have hit something or
some one"
White was assessed 81 and costs
for reckless driving, a SIS speeding
fine was suspended and his drivers
license revoked for ninety days.
Maurice Kaplan, 10, OF 1861 Mar
tindale avenue, Purdue university
student, admitted driving forty
miles an hour. His drivers license
was revoked for thirty days and a
$40 fine suspended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
Film i'm COI0rS

y CWtttu f1eSS
BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Dec.
30.-Perfection of a new film
which will make photography
in natural colorS possible for
the first time was announced
today at the Agfa Ansco labo-
ratories.
The film requires no filters.
Under favorable conditions,
snapshots may be made in
color without use of a tripod.
The film requires three times
the normal exposure necessary
for an ordinary black and
white negative.
The new color process is
actually not a single film, but
three distinct sensitized sur
faces, superimposed in what is
known as tripach arrange
ment and wound on a spool
in the same manner as an
ordinary film.
Each of the three surfaces is
sensitive to one primary color
only.
They make as many prints
as are desired.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
FLOOD MENACE
is BATTLED ON
11-MILE FRONT
Convict Gangs Toll Beside
Citizen Army to Avert
LeVee Break.
BIZ United Press

| BIZ United Press
GLENDORA, Miss, Dec. 3d.
Convicts were rushed from one vii
lage to another. in this sector today
in an attempt to bride the raging
Tallahatchie river, as its food
waters Tapped at levees along an
eleven-mile front.
Citizens worked beside felons in
piling. sandbags against weakened
levees as the river showed steady
rise.
Forty families were reported
marooned on little islands in a
25,000-acre flood area after the
Cassidy Bayou levee broke near
here. Weakening Of other embank-
ments increased their peril
A constant patrol is maintained
along the river front, watching for
weak spots in the levee. AS soon as
one appears, an alarm is given and
convict gangs are rushed to the
scene.
If the Tallahatchie continues to
rise throughout the day, a general
crumbling of the levee is expected.
Rivermen saw a ray of hope in
clear skies, the sun having shone
for four consecutive days. They
agreed that further rains would
place the entire countryside in great
danger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
SPEND TOUGH DAY
IN TRAFFIC COURT
Gloom Doomed
BIZ United Press

By JHlted Press
CLEVELAND, Dec. 80. A
symphony of noise will be
Cleveland's psychology plot
Saturday to chase away old
man gloom and restore opti-
mism to the minds of the
citizenry.
Ten minutes before noon,
church bells, factory whistles
and automobile horns will set
up the din in a ten-minute
clamor against the depression.
Radio stations will broadcast
the tumult, together with brief
pep" talks.
Stop kicking-start ringing
the bell' is the slogan adopted
for the occasion by the Cleve-
land civic board.
we expect the celebration
to be at once a dirge for the
depression and a party for the
new year." Fred H. Galley,
chairman said. If every Cleve-
lander could keep actuated by
that sentiment, the atmosphere
would be more optimistic and
people who have money would
spend more"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
OPPOSE WET BALLOT
Join Thirty-TwO Dry Organizations
Fighting Referendum.

Asserting the only fair vote on
prohibition can be made by congress
sional districts, executive committee
of the board Of temperance and So
cial welfare of the Disciples of
Christ Tuesday opposed a national
referendum on the eighteenth
amendment.
The committee, in session at the
Chamber Of Commerce, heard the
report Of the Rev. James A. Grain,
general secretary of the temperance
board, which stressed "unalterable
opposition to any proposal to modify,
repeal, or resubmit the eighteenth
amendment"
Grain said the national prohibi-
ton board, with which thirty-two
other dry organizations are affiliat-
ed, regards the referendum move as
wet plans"
The national board now is making
plans to enter the presidential cam
paign. The Rev. E. L. Day of Mar
tinsville, presided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
BREAD, NOT BOOZE, IS
ISSUE, SAYS DANIELS
Former Secretary of Navy Gives O.
L 70 RnnsnNnIt and Ralrar

Former Secretary of Navy Gives o.
X. to Roosevelt and Baker.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Bread, not
booze, will be the issue in the 1892
presidential campaign, Josephus
Daniels, secretary of the navy in
the Wilson administration, believes.
A Wilsonian Democrat is needed
to lead the people out of the eco
nomic wilderness, Daniels said in
calling for a liberal and progress
sive candidate" Franklin D. Roose-
welt and Newton D. Baker both we're
approved by Daniels.
The people" he said, will unite
behind a leader who can point the
way to better times, who will get
rid of the Hawley-Smoot tariff act
and will unseat the privileged who
have been in the saddle since 1920
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
HANDS OFF OUR !
DEBTS, JOHNSON
WARNS EUROPE
American People 100 to |
Against Cancellation,
Says Senator.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3o.-Senator
Hiram johnson (Rep., CALI issued
here today a warning to Europe and
the White House that American
debts must not be tempered with.
Commenting on a United Press
dispatch from abroad indicating
that Britain and France are getting
together to seek debt concessions,
the senator said:
The American people are 100 TO
against debt reduction or cam
I collation."
I have not the slightest objec-
ton to Europe getting together on
European debts" said johnson.
Let Europe settle her intergovern-
ment debts just as she sees fit. But
l do not wish Europe to settle our
debts.
johnson said he felt there is
some justification for the conclu-
sion Europe apparently reached
about the attitude of the United
States
Cites Moratorium
He cited the granting of the
moratorium by President Hoover,
its approval by congress and the
Presidents statement that the war
debt commission should be re-cre-
ated to study debts once more, as
basis for Europe's belief that
debts can be reduced or Cancelled.
Europe knows what was agreed
to between Laval end our Presi-
dent" he said, referring to the
visit of the French premier to
Washington. "Of course, we do not
Europe could not understand
men voting for moratorium by
telegraph and then holding their
hands and saying Never again"
that they we're opposed to reduce
ton or cancellation.
Don't Know Sentiment
The trouble was those in high
places did not understand the
American people. They are 100 to
l against debt reduction or cancel
lation and the gentlemen who were
for a moratorium are just learning
that fact.
However unpalatable it may be,
Europe must learn the same thing
Chairman Collier of the house
ways and means committee, COM
menting on reports of a concen-
trated British drive to force revi-
sion or reputation of the war debts,
said that he was unalterably OPP
posed to any revision or cancella-
ton.
"As for foreign attacks on con-
gress for its debt attitude" Collier
said: 1--WE are used to that sort of
thing, and few broadsides from
foreign papers won't disturb us 10
any extent"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
SHOOTS FARMER WHO
OPPOSED HIS ROMANCE
Suitor of Wounded Mans Sister is
Caught by Posse.

Suitor of Wounded Mans Sister is
Caught by Posse.
81 United Press
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Dec.
30. A posse of 100 men today
trapped Charles Uselman, 35, st.
Louis, who is alleged to have
wounded a Chippewa county
farmer because refused permission
to call on the latter'S sister.
The farmer, Werner Johnson, was
shot in the face and body at his
home Tuesday night. He had OPP
posed Uselman's attentions to his
sister, Mrs. Eunice Bennett, 35.
The farmers neighbors formed
into posse, but lost Uselmans
trail. They searched all night. At
dawn, Uselman was surrounded in
a farmhouse ten miles east of here.
He surrendered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
New Storm PeriIS Coast
81 United Press


SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3O.-A
new storm approached the Pacific
coast from the north today, as snow
and rain continued to deluge choked
mountain passes and swollen rivers.
While the entire northwest was
recovering from the furious gales
over the weekend, storm warnings
were posted on the northern Cali
fornia coast and at Che entrance
to Puget sound, in Washington.
Light downpours already have
fallen. More snow was reported in
mountain sections, where heavy
packs have blocked train and au-
tomobile traffic for days. The flood
situation in the lowlandS was less
acute, but rivers continued to rise,
Flooding valleys, farms, and ruin
ing crops
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
U. S. RELIEF is
URGED TO HALT
FAMINE MARCH
Labor Witness Tells Senate
Committee That Federal
Aid Must Come.
Continued from Page II

in 1929 was only s5,15O,OOOOO, he
said.
The labor representative sharply
complained of industry's dividend
and wage cutting policies, explain
ing that "only 1927 firms have re-
duced or omitted dividends through
October Of this year, while in man
ufacturing industries alone $500
firms have reduced wages"
He cited the Bibb Manufacturing
Company, which, he said, was a
$25,000,000 textile corporation,
operating mills in central and west
ern Georgia with headquarters at
Macon.
McGrady said the company in
seventeen years had paid its stock
holders 148 per cent in cash
dividends and $40 per cent in stock
dividends and that quarterly
dividends have been maintained
throughout the depression.
Slash Pay for Dividends
He added that in 1880 the COM
pany declared its regular 6 per cent
dividend and drew $5,O00,000 from
its surplus to retire all per cent
preferred stock distributed as a
stock dividend in 1925.
In the last year." McGrady said,
this company has slaShed the
wages of its workers from one to
three times, cutting their original
wage payments in half or more.
eff these employers of labor are
not going to pay their workers
decent wages" McGrady said, then
we insist that a large share of
their profits should be taken away
from them by taxation"
McGrady said American workmen
were despairing and that one might
wonder about the future safety of
our institutions"
Grave Emergency Cited
McGrady said the American Fed
Grafton of Labor never before had
Endorsed proposals for federal re-
lief appropriations and was doing SO
at this time only because of the
emergency situation.
I'VE not only are facing ma
tional emergency" McGrady said,
but one such as we never have
faced before, and we need federal
aid"
Wilbur Newsletter, associated
with Western Reserve university
welfare work in Cleveland, was the
next witness.
1--WE are in the midst of calam-
ity," Newsletter said. I have been
against federal aid, but federal re-
lief is being deliberately falsifed
in being called a dole. My idea of
a dole is that it is a sort of auto
matte handout regardless of need,
Points to Suicides
DR.. Sidney E. Goldstein, chairman
Of the executive committee of the
joint committee on unemployment,
estimated that 100000 to 12,000,-
600 persons are jobless whole or
part time"
THE meaning Of unemployment
is not found in figures and statis-
tics" he said, 'it is found in the
lowered standards Of living, the
weakened resistance of men and
women, increasing sickness and in
sanity, and in the number of sui
cides all over the United States.
THE hospitals and asylumS and
penal institutions are overcrowded
as they never have been. before. The
social consequences of the present
crisis make us realize that unem-
ployment is not only an economic
phenomena, but human catastro-
phe.
THE number of suicides in the
United States nearly has doubled
in the last two years, he said. "be-
cause men and women are not able
to bear the breakdown of our ma
tiOnal life"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
DEMOCRATS ARE
NAMED TO ALL
COUNTY OFFICES
Take Over Courthouse;
Only Two G. O. P. Aids
Are Left.

With announcement today Of
twenty-four changes in county per-
sonnet, way was cleared for Demo-
cratic assumption of control Of the
courthouse on Jan. /.
Democrats will hold all Offices
bu two. The exceptions are con-
tinuation of the term of George Sni-
der, county commissioner, and Harry
o. Chamberlin, circuit court judge.
New executives who will take Of
fee Jan. l are: Charles Grossart,
county auditor, succeeding Harry
Dunn; Thomas Ellis, county COM
missioner, succeeding John Shearer,
and Timothy P. Sexton, county
treasurer, succeeding Clyde Robin
son.
With Ellis accession, several hun
dred jobs will become Democratic
patronage.
Executive appointments for insti-
tutions were announced several
weeks ago.
Name Physicians
Appointments today by county
commissioners were:
superintendent of the Colored
Orphans Home-Mrs. Susie Mill
gan, Negro, ITO South Keystone
avenue, succeeding Mrs. Emma Du-
vail, salary $1,000.
Physician at the Julietta Asylum
for the Insane-Dr. Charles r.
Reese of Cumberland, succeeding
DR.. Harold r. Cox, and physician at
the county poor farm, DR.. Asa o.
Ruse Of Clermont, succeeding DR.,
R. r. Coble. Salaries are $1,000.
Assistant Custodian of the Court
house-Emanuel Green, Negro, 324
West Twenty-first street, salary
S1.140.
Engineer at Poor Farm-Edward
w. Messmer, 1862 South Sheffield
avenue, salary $1,000.
Others to Be Made
County Garage superintendent
Clarence Meister, 2129 South East
street salary; is 81 500.
Mechanic at County Yards-Da-
vid Taylor of haywood hourly wage
81 cents.
Foreman at Yards-Everett- Nc
Curdy, Traders Point; salary $3.50.
Ten janitors and five elevator OPP
orators at the courthouse also were
appointed. They are Negroes. Sal
airy Of each is $50 a month.
The commissioners expect to make
appointments to subordinate posi-
tions in the highway department,
yards and garag later in the week.
Democratic organization heads
we're consulted in the appointments,
Ellis and Dow Vorhies, incumbent
Democratic commissioner said.
Indications are that Vorhies will
be elected chairman of the commits
sionerS Friday, when Ellis takes Of
flee.
The outgoing commissioner,
Shearer said, today plans to renew
connections as representative of the
Smith Agricultural Chemical Com
pany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
PARK POLICEMAN is
CLAIMED BY DEATH
David Horton Well known to
Douglas, Christian Visitors.

Douglas, Christian Visitors.
A well-known figure to visitors at
Douglas and Christian parks was
David Horton, 10, who died Tuesday
at his home, 30 North Chester ave-
nue., after a brief illness. Less than
three months ago, his wife, Mrs.
Celia Girhart Horton, died.
Mr.. Horton had been a park po-
liceman eight years, following his
retirement after twenty-nine years
service as a travelling salesman for
the international Harvester Com
pany.
Funeral services and burial will
be in Portland where he spent most
of his life, at 2 Thursday. Mr.. Hor-
ton had lived in Indianapolis
fifteen years.
Survivors are a daughter. Mrs.
Thelma A. Shea, with whom he
lived; two sisters Of Richmond, and
a brother of Dayton, o.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-30
URGES DISMISSAL WAGE
Economist Would Have Z. S. Give
Employers Tax Credit.
IN Sclfpps- Holoard Nelcspaper AMianc

BY Sciipps-Hop0rd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The
federal government should en-
courage payment of dismissal wages
in the same manner suggested for
encouragement of unemployment
insurance. Sumner H. Slichter,
professor of business economics at
Harvard university, proposed at the
meeting here of the American As
ISOLATION for Labor Legislation.
This is by means of tax eX-
emptions. Slichter would have the
states pass compulsory dismissal
wage laws, and would have the
federal government then credit to
corporations on their annual tax
part of the sums paid to dismissed
men.