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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
TAX COLLECTOR
STARTS ON JOB,
NOTHING TO DO
Johnson Waits on Final
Court Decision on
Chain Stores Levy.

Holding a position that pays s., 500
a year, but with no work to do
as yet-Lewis G. Johnson Of Hart
ford City, store license collection di-
rector, appeared at his new desk in
the statehouSe today.
Henry H. Hornbrook, attorney, APP
peared before the United States ST.
tain a stay Of the ruling of the
preme court today in an effort to OBJ
court in the 'cna1n store" tax case.
The supreme courts recent ruling
held constitutional the 1929 chain
store act" requiring annual license
fees Of from So to $25 from all stores
in the state.
The case was appealed to the high
court by the late Lafayette A. jack
son, head Of the Standard grocer,
who was slain by bandits last week
when he resisted their attempts to
rob his headquarters store.
johnson, former deputy state aud
itor and examiner in the state &C
counts board, admitted he did not
know when he will start to work.
This will depend on the action of
the supreme court on the petition to
stay execution Of the ruling.
Tax collections are to be super
vised by the state board of tax COM
niSSioners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
PAY PROMPTLY
DRIVE OPENED
City Merchants Part Of
Nation. Wide Campaign.

AS an aid to business recovery
indianapolis merchants today joined
in the nationwide campaign of tpe
National Retail Credit Association
to have customers pay bills
promptly"
w. H. Flanders, secretary Of the
Retail Credit Mems Association OF
Indianapolis, said the organization
will concentrate on collection OF
accounts that are overdue ninety
days.
According to a survey by the
United Sttaes department Of CON-
MERGE, more than fifteen billions Of
dollars are tied up in delinquent
retail credit accounts, running an
average period of ninety days." he
said.
Gan educational publicity cam
paign is under way to show all GUS
toners how important it is to meet
their obligations promptly and thus
release as much as possible Of this
tremendous amount Of frozen cap
ital that should be returned to nor
NAL business turnover.
"It is emphatically not the pur-
pose Of this campaign to bring
about any curtailment of The ex-
tension Of credit"
Staff representatives Of the ma
tional association are in Indian
apolis cooperating with the local
bureaus campaign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
YELLING ECONOMY
ACT PROVES FALSE

County commissioners admitted
that instead of the constable, Mrs
Carrie M. McQuay, courthouse ma
iron, now finds time to wedge in the
duties of constable during her hours
at the courthouse.
Vehling said the constabulary hao
been tossed by the wayside, and he
actually did discharge the man who
was holding the place after The
Times exposure Of irregularities in
his Office. He declared he was cut
ting expenses by this and reduction
OF clerks Fay to So day.
When asked why Mrs. McQuay
was no longer working in the COM
missioners' Office and attending to
her regular duties, Commissioner
George Snider admitted she was
aiding the coroner.
&. "Vehling has not adopted the
economy program; we adopted it
for him. We gave him the rnatron
to help him out" Snider further
admitted.
The matron originally was ap-
pointed as nurse to have charge of
the basement, care for minor acct
dent cases of courthouse visitors,
and answer phone calls for county
commissioners when the bailiff was
absent.
This friendly attitude of Snider
and Commissioner Dow Voohies,
however, seems bound for a break
unless Vehling stops his reckless
spending of autopsy funds.
Vehling already has spent $3.50
for autopsies thus far this year
while total expenditures for that
purpose all of last. year only
amounted to $780,.
Expenditures from Jan. ! to NAV
81, 1881, totaled $3.50 as compared
with $1,375 from Jan. / to May 81,
1880. the auditors records dis
close.
''We are through approving au-
topsy expenditures when we spend
as much as we did last year." Com
missioner Snider has declared
Other commissioners and the county
council take a similar attitude, it
is said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Nurse Is SaUi0r
Feeds Whole Town, Acts
as Doctor, in Alaskan
Epidemic.

By United Press
WASHINGTON. June 1.-Cour-
ageous work Of an American
woman, who, with only soup.
castor Oil and aspirin, nursed and
fed an entire Alaskan village
during an influenza epidemic this
spring is revealed in a letter re-
ceived at the department Of
agriculture.
The woman is the wife of E. C..
Gushing, department enploye as
signed to the town Of Golovin,
Alaska, to investigate insects af-
fecting reindeer.
The couple we're caught in the
epidemic that broke out the first
week of April along the Boring
sea coast from Unalakleet to
Nome.
"By April 10, every one in Co
lovin, about 140 people, except my
wife, the missionary, two native
men and woman, were in bed,''
Cushing reported in a letter to
his superior, F. G. Bishopp Of the
bureau of entomology.
Medical aid was not available
and. for four days Mrs. Cushing
took charge Of the entire village
by herself, besides feeding and
looking after the experimental
animals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
filters HURT
IN PLANE LANDING
National Guardsmen Are
Injured in Crash in
PENNSYLVANIA.

Lieutenant Matt G. Carpenter
and Sergeant Ira Lee, Indiana ma
tional guard fliers, injured when
their plane was wrecked in a forced
landing Sunday in the mountains
near Uniontown, Pa, were to be re-
turned to Stout field here late to-
day in a hospital plane.
Carpenter was flying, and Lee was
observer in a national guard obser-
Walton type plane with a squadron
Of ships returning home from the
army air maneuvers when bad
weather forced a landing. The
other planes landed safely, but the
plane plotted by Carpenter came
down in a tree on a golf course.
Carpenter and Lee were bruised
badly, and their plane was damaged
severely, according to word received
here.
The forced landing was made
necessary by thick clouds around
mountain tops, making flying haz-
ardous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
z ERROR WRITS
FILED BY Steve
inundated From Testify
ing, Charge in Petitions.

Two more petitions were filed
today in the action Of D. c. Ste
phenson, former Khan dragon serv-
ing life term for the murder of
Miss Madge G. Oberholtzer, seeking
a writ of error coram nobis from the
supreme court on the ground that
he was inundated from taking the
stand in his own defense during the
trial.
StephenSon's attorneys, Jenkins,
Parker & Brown of Gary, asked
that the supreme court permit them
to be heard either by oral argument
or through additional briefs on the
petition; while Attorney General
James M. Ogden filed a motion
with briefs to strike the petition
for writ of error coram nobis.
The attorney generals briefs
pointed out that the trial was held
in the Hamilton circuit court and
that an appeal from the courts
findings was taken to the supreme
court, therefore a petition coranl
nobis can hot be filed in the high
court which did not render the
Judgment. Hamilton circuit court
has refused such a writ.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01

Press, millionaire Group
Denounced in Report
at Assembly.
~ United Press

~ United Press
PITTSBURGH, June l. - The
millionaire group and the metro
politan press" were denounced for
alleged attempts to defeat. prohibit
ton in a report presented at the
one hundred forty-third general as
sembly Of the Presbyterian church
in the United States today as ses-
sions were resumed.
Attempts to commercialize Sun
day, compulsory military training
and all militarism were condemned
in the report Of the board of Chris
ton education, presented by the
chairman, the Rev. John E. Wish
art, San Francisco.
Other resolutions commended
President Hoover for his stand on
prohibition and approved the world
court and disarmament treaties.
A resolution approving birth con-
troll, similar to the one removed
from the report in divorce and
marriage, was deleted from the edu-
cation report.
The Pennsylvania general assem-
bly, especially was praised for its
action in defeating the recent legis-
lation to legalize Sunday baseball.
All attempts Of sports organizations
or chain motion picture companies
to liberalize the Sabbath day were
scored.
The resolutions were adopted by
overwhelming vote and without pro-
test except on the resolutions on
military training and conscientious
DIRECTORS.
These were attacked by Or. Ctar-
ence Scoville, Long Island. He de-
clared he found evidence Of Com
munisrn doctrines" in official pub
locations of the church.
The resolutions relating TO con-
scientious DIRECTORS asked that steps
be taken to insure the same respect
for the conscience of Presbyterians
as is accorded to those Of the Qua
ker faith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
SIMPLICITY TO
Be ORDER FOR
HOOVER DINNER
Committee Completes Its
Plans; Tarlham Sends
Invitation.

Final arrangements will be made
this week for the dinner to be given
in honor Of President Herbert Hoo
yer by the Indiana Editorial Asso-
citation at the state Playground on
June IS.
Problems connected with the
dinner and the midsuInmemr meet
ing Of the association were dis
cussed at a luncheon Sunday at the
Columbia Club.
DR.. William @. Dennis, president
Of Earlhafn college, Richmond, has
asked the President to stop at Rich
mond to receive an honorary de-
gree.
Simplicity will mark the Hoover
dinner here. Formal dress will not
be necessary.
The invocation is to be delivered
by the Rev. Charles Woodman, pas
tor Of the West Richmond Friends
church.
President and Mrs. Hoover are
expecting to arrive here at about 4
D. m. June Is. A military escort
viii take them up Meridian street to
the Governors mansion, where they
will be the guests Of Governor and
Mrs. Leslie overnight.
They will be taken to the Manu-
facturers' building at the Playground
at 6 p. m.
The editorial association meeting
will begin at 2 p. m. Sunday, June
IA, at the Columbia Club. A 6
o'clock dinner viii be served and
the principal speaker will be H. l..
Williamson Of Springfield, H., pub
Usher of the National Printer-Jour-
nalist and the United States Pub
Usher.
Business session Of the association
will be held Monday morning and
noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
TURNING POINT
IN DEPRESSION
PREDICTED HERE
White House Survey Shows
Production Uptrend
for April.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON. June 1.-Aa ad-
ministration prediction that the
turning point in the business de-
preston has been reached was cou-
pied today with action by Andrew
Mellon, treasury secretary. to set
the governments own financial
house in order before the end OF the
nScaI year month hence.
w. L. Cooper, retiring director Of
Ine commerce departments bureau
OF foreign and domestic commerce,
said the first quarter of 1891 has
marked the turning point in the
prolonged decline in business which
commenced nearly two years ago"
mellon announced today a long
term bond issue Of $500, 000, 900, one
Q! tne largest since the World war
Liberty loans. which is to take I'D
ShorC-term debts due June Is, and
leave the government in a better
position to begin the new fiscal year
July /.
Favorable Factors" Cited
a deficit close to a billion dollars
Is expected at the end OF the fiscal
year.
The $SoOoOo.ooO issue, which will
be dated June Is and mature
eighteen years later, June IS. 1949
VIII bear the record low interest of
31s per cent. It will be apnlied
partly to refunding $685., Oo0. COO of
treasury certificates due inns *
and s9O,ooo,0O0 in interest payments
on the public debt.
Cooper's optimistic ANALYSIS de-
tailed the favorable factors" men
toned in the recent White House
statement on business.
Retail Buying Encouraging"
He explained that factory produc-
ton showed its fourth consecutive
gain during April, when it was II
per cent aboce the nidwinter level.
MIL consumption Of raw cotton
IN April was the largest in a year
with stocks Of cotton goods reduced
So per cent from levels of q year
ago.
More automobiles were produced
IN April than since last spring.
"A most encouraging develop
n1ent is the recent improvement in
retail buying reflected in the fed
eral reserve boards index Of de-
partment stores sales" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
STATE FIRM IN
HUGE MERCER
MishaWaka Plant Part of
100000 Unit.
By Times Special

hD IHt6S op6CtG5
MIsHAWAKA, Ind, June l. -
Consolidation of the Dodge Manu-
featuring Company of NIishawaka
with Foote Brothers Gear and Ma
chine Company of Chicago, Great
ing $10,000,000 organization, to be
known as the Dodge Foote Cor
poration, the largest unit in the
world engaged in the manufacture
-of machinery for transmission of
power, was announced Sunday
night. Machinery will be moved
from the Chicago factory to the
Mishawaka plant within a month.
When the move has been COM
pleted, operations of the Dodge
plant will be more than doubled.
Copsummation Of the legal details
prior to the moving Of operations is
anticipated within thirty DAYS.
George G. Miller, president of the
Dodge company, will continue as
president Of the Dodge-Foote Cor
poration, and Temple Williams of
Mishawaka will be secretary and
treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
LAKE DRAGGED FOR
EX-SENATOR'S BODY

dentally broke the notorboat's
windshield, cutting his hand. It
was blood from this wound which
spotted both the boat and his shirt,
Billings said.
Miss Hance told police she and
Arrigoni were chatting in the
stern of the launch when she
stepped forward to speak to Billings,
who was in the front cockpit. Re-
turning to her seat a few moments
laSer, she recounted, she noted that
her companion had disappeared.
They searched the surrounding wa
tiers for some time without result,
she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
LAPORTE MAN CHOSEN

Indiana Walther League Elects and
Picks indianapolis for 1882 Session.
By United Press
LA PORTE, Ind, June 1.-Walter
T. Burger, La Porte. was chosen
president of the Indiana district
Walther leagues, and indianapolis
was selected as the 1882 convention
city, at the 1881 convention here.
A. L. Timer, TT. Wayne, was
elected vice president; Miss Eleanor
Hansen, indianapolis, secretary, and
Theodore Lentz, Ft. Wayne. treas
urer. Chester G. Hitzman, Fl.
Wayne, president for the past year,
was chosen field secretary.
A scholarship in Valparaiso uni
versity to be awarded annually, to
an Indiana league member, was
established. and the first grant will
be made next fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Chief Justice
to Be Speaker
for Lao, Glass

Thirty-three students Of the In
diana law school will receive their
bachelor of law degrees at gradua-
ton exercises Wednesday night in
the assembly room Of the Claypool.
Samuel D. Jackson, Ft. Wayne,
former Allen county prosecutor, will
be POSTMASTER at the law schools
alumni banquet preceding the grad
uation exercises. Judge Clarence r.
Martin, chief justice of the Indiana
supreme court, will be principal
speaker at the banquet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
TAX VALUATIONS FALL
Worth of Chickens and Automobiles
Declines Nearly Half.

By Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, June An
drew Garrison, Vanderburg county
assessor, reports that values OF
chickens and automobiles for taxa
ton purposes have declined nearly
half since the personal property
assessment last year.
There are 1888 fewer automobiles
in the county and the valuation for
taxes nearly $2,250,000 lower. There
are more chickens this year than
last, but they are valued at $12,-
900 less.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
s1,215,OOO Suit Shifted

BY Times Special
CROWN POINT. Ind, June L.
A change Of venue from Lake cir
cult court here to the Newton cir
cult court at Kentland has been
taken in the $1,2l5,000 suit of the
Crown Bus line against the South
Shore Motor Coach Corporation,
The Crown line alleges that its once
profitable business was cut by a re-
strictive ordinance passed by the
Gary city council and that it was
finally compelled to sell, the Shore
line being the buyers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Drivers License Revoked
By Times Special

ANDERSON, Ind, June l. - An
order in city court by Judge, Ralph
DAILY deprives George A. Miller, IN
dianapolis, of his drivers license
for year. The court also assessed
fines and court costs to5aling ST.
for intoxication and drunken driv-
ing and suspended a sixty day jail
sentence on condition that the fines
and costs be paid. An automobile
driven by Miller struck a farm
wagon and killed a horse on State
Road 81. Miller paid for damage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
ACTIVITIES TABOO FOR
MARRIED STUDENTS
Runng Follows Disclosure of Three
Husbands in High School.

By Times Special
FRANKFORT, Ind, June L.
Among the 112 students graduated
from Frankfort high school three
were married men, it was an
nounced by school officials. Two
were members of last years basket
ball squad.
Hereafter no married persons will
participate in any extra school &C
tivities, 1t has been decreed by the
city school board. According to the
new ruling, any married person may
attend high school, but can not be a
member Of any team or enter any
competition.
A state law which provides that
all married students must pay tut
ton also will be enforced in the
future, 1t was announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Minister Accepts Call

By Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, June 1.-The
Rev. Morris B. Book, son of the
Rev. and Mrs. William H. Book of
Columbus, has accepted a call to
the pulpit of the Central Christian
church, Orlando. Fla. He was or
dained a minister before he was 90
wears old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
DEATH HALTS FIGHT
TO REGAIN FORTUNE

would do when it appeared on the
market. Millions, he believed, were
again within his grasp.
'He was so near success" she said
last night, that death seems doubly
hard"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Veteran Librarian Dies

PLAINFIELD, Ind, June !. -
Funeral services were held today for
Miss Belle Hanna, II, who died Of
apoplexy at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Ernest Cooper. She was a
member Of the D. A. R.. Depart
ment Club, Methodist church and
Kappa Alpha Theta. For thirty
years she was head Of the Green
castle city library.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
TWO SUSPECTS HELD
indianapolis Men Had S275 in
Banks Money Sacks.
BV Times Special

81 I tnteS SpeCtdt
LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 1.-Sus-
pected Of committing several crimes,
william Covington and William
Spoon, who told police their homes
are in indianapolis. are in Gus
tody here. They were arrested after
an automobile they occupied struck
a curb. The machine contained a
card bearing the name Of Karl Won
Willer, Chicago Heights, ILL.,, and
also bore an address on fremont
avenue, indianapolis.
The men were found in possession
OF S275 contained in money sacks
bearing names of banks at Indian
apolis and Joliet, III. They explained
carrying Of firearms by saying they
were booze runners operating out
of Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Community Fund Relief
Cost Far OUeY Last Year

Meeting of relief agencies indianapolis
Community disburse $9O3o13
its fiscal ended April &c. 1881 than the period
according audited today
fund president.
Total expenditures for the months 1892
report stated Receipts during the half amounted to
More allotted
lief agencies during the period
cared total OF 709 relief families
and nursing care care OF the aged orphans and other dependents
Organizations CLASSIFIED terhuding
pendures of than their appropriations
relief
May but the number still is far above
i 49,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Bank Robber Convicted
By Times SpecicI

PETERSBURG, Ind, June AL
vim Elkins faces a prison term Of
ten years to life for the robbery of
the Peoples Loan and Trust Com
pany bank here Jan %. A jury in
Pike circuit court convicted him
after five hours deliberation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Mail Carriers to Meet

By Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, June L.
Attendance Of approximately 300 Is
expected here July 10 to n for the
convention of the Indiana Rural
Letter Carriers Association. Speak
ers will include Arch Coleman, first
assistant general.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
City Sued for $4,000

BIZ Times Special
FRANKLIN, Ind, June AL
Ieging lands they own have beer
damaged through pollution Of
Young's creek, Loring @. and FL
FORA Deer and Ed Hardin have filed
suits against the city of Franklin
for a total of $4,000 damages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Vacated Constable Posi-
Now Filled by Matron in
Part Time
BY SHELDON KEY

Loudly acclaimed move of Coro-
ner Fred w. Vehling when he re-
Gently announced abolition of the
illegal post of constable in his Of
fee, took on the appearance of a
farce today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01

BIZ Times speoiaI

BIZ times Spect0t
SOUTH BEND, Ind. June Ia
man clad only in underwear who
attempted 10 drag Mrs. Ruby Allen
into his automobile, was thwarteo
by a foxterrier which had ran tc
greet her as she approached her
sisters home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Crash Injuries Fatal
By United Press

By United Press
LA PORTE, Ind, June Leon
j. Lucy, %, Flint, Mich, died in
hospital here of injuries suffered
when. the automobile in which he
was riding collided with another on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
curfew May Be Enforced

BIZ Times Special
PERU, Ind, June Mayor John
E. Yarling says he is considering
instructing police to enforce Peru's
curfew ordinance which was passed
eight years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-01
Motorist Killed

By United Press
COLBURN, Ind, June DIR. C..
A. Hooker, 80, was killed near here
when his automobile was struck by
an interurban car. His wife and
two children were injured, but are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
IRVING co. SHOE
STRIKE IS WON
Discharged Worker Is
Re-InStated

NEW YORK-After twenty-four
hours of strike, the United Action of
the shoe workers of the w. Irving
Shoe Company, at Is E. 10th ST., I'M
der the leadership of the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
won their fight for the re-instate-
ment of the discharged worker, the
recognition of the shop committee,
and no more hiring and firing by
contractors in the shop, without the
consent of the workers. After a
stormy session of serveral hours dur
ing which time the boss tried hard
to have the Booze and Shoe so-called
Union come in to organize the shop,
the workers refused to have anything
to do with the Boot and Shoe and
many of the shoe workers joined the
Shoe and Leather Workers Indus
trial Union.
The workers returned to work as a
united body.