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The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
BEARDED IN HIS DEN
House of David Athlete Is
PinChed for GAMING.

Never play the other fellows
game" means something today to
William Pittard, bewhiskered mem
ber of the House of David basket
ball team.
Pittard had played his own game
Sunday afternoon, when he and his
fellow basket tossers lost a game to
a local five.
The players next entertainment
SO engrossed him in the lobby of
the Plaza hotel he didn't know
what to expect when an intruder"
showed aside the curtain on a booth
in which Pittard was "at play"
The other party in the case was
Sergeant Edwin Kruse, who sought
to use the phone in the hotel lobby.
He asked bellboy where the in
strument could be found and was
waved in the general direction of
the curtained booth.
There he found Pittard extract
ing two nickels, first try winnings,
from a slot machine.
Pittard was charged with gaming
and Leo Schwartz, clerk, faces
counts of keeping a gaming device.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
OPEN RELIEF DRIVE
Legion Asks Contributions
for CitY's Needy.

American Legion posts and aux
iliaries of the city opened a relief
station at 118-120 East New York
street today for the receipt of cloth
irg for distribution to the needy.
Although distribution will not be-
gin until next week, John w. Hano,
Twelfth district commander, is
making an appeal for clothing and
cash donations. Investigation of
applicants will be made through CO.
operation of other relief agencies.
Compensation of persons in
charge of the station will be from
the legion welfare fund. All cash
donations will go into relief work.
James G.. Olive will act as treas
urer of the fund.
Captain Otto Ray, city license in
spector, is general chairman of the
relief organization. Serving with
him will be DR.. Frank E. Long, past
district commander; Gus Meyers,
commander of Osric Mills Watkins
post; Mrs. Richard E. Brann, chair
man of the auxiliary relief organ
ization, and Mrs. Blanche Breed
love, Twelfth district auxiliary
president.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
To End aCough
In a Hurry, Mix
This at Home

To quickly end stubborn coughs due
TO colds, 1t is important to soothe the
intamed membranes, get rid of the
germs and also to aid the system in
wardly to help throw off the trouble.
For these purposes, here is a home
made medicine, far better than anything
you could buy at times the cost. From
any druggist, get 211a ounces of Pinex.
Pour this into pint bottle, and add
plain granulated sugar syrup or strain
ed honey to fill up the pint. This takes
but moment, saves money, and makes
a remedy so effective that you will never
do without, once you have used it.
Keeps perfectly, and children like it.
This simple remedy does three neces-
sary things. First, it loosens the germ
laden phlegm. Second, it soothes away
the inflammation. Third, it is absorbed
into the blood, where it acts directly
on the bronchial tubes. This explains
why it brings snch quick relief. even
in the obstinate coughs which follow
cold epidemics.
PineX is a highly concentrated COM
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 substitute for Pinex.
II is guaranteed to give prompt relief
or money refunded.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
'HAYSEED FARMER
FAKE, SAYS STAR
Seth Parker Here With
'JoneSport Folks at
CadIe Tonight.

There's just as much religion in
people who never step inside a
church, as in regular churchgoers,
if you just can get at it."
This is the philosophy of Phillips
H. Lord, %, known to millions of
radio fans as Seth Parker who
with his "Jonesport folks" will ap-
pear at Cadle tabernacle tonight in
a two-hour program.
Lord, who has won fame through
his radio programs, denies he is an
evangelist, as he has been called,
but says he merely is trying to
present wholesome entertainment to
bring out the good that's in people. :"
He began his radio sketches three
and one-half years ago, when he
heard a rural sketch which did not
ring true"
THE characters were using such
as by gum and by
cracky,'" Lord said. &C.. was born
and reared on a farm and I knew
this program was not genuine. It
didn't have the right touch. So
started writing sketches and putting
in the real life touch.
"I try to use certain subtle
touches that real farmers will rec
ognize as genuine. It's the same
way with sketches about the sea.
T was born beside the sea and know
it. I have been around sailors and
hsherfolk most of my life and know
their habits and dialect"
Lord and his Jonesport folks have
been on tour nine weeks, with only
four nights off. Their itinerary
has taken them from Maine to Vic
toria, B. c.; Seattle, San Diego and
east again. Now they are headed
for Miami. Then they will head
west again, and swing back to the
Atlantic coast.
In addition to Seth Parker, Lord
is the creator of the sketch, Uncle
Abe and David" which he no longer
is able to present, and '"The Stebbins
Boys" which he now directs, but in
which he does not participate. Both
won a strong radio following.
Recently the group completed a
talkie, ''Way Back Home" which has
proven a big success. 1t will be shown
here at the Circle Dec. 18.
He is the author of three books,
writes $4,000 words a week for var
ious popular magazines with his
characters for a subject and has
made a number of phonograph
records.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
HUNT KILLER OF
CITY FIREMAN
Bruce Scott Scales Wall of
Oklahoma Pen.

Nationwide search is under way
for Bruce Scott, alias Charles Stan
ley, gun slayer of an Indianapolis
fireman, who escaped from the Ok
lahoma state prison in McAlester
Friday night by scaling a prison
wall.
Scott was convicted of bank rob-
berry in Oklahoma in May and was
serving a life sentence.
Scott shot and killed Henry Mil
likan, 40, of 525 South Alabama
street, a city fireman, in a gunf1ght
with police near Virginia avenue
and New Jersey street, Jan. 10, a
few days after his escape from the
Indiana reformatory.
Scott made his escape from the
western prison by changing cells
with a convict serving time for auto
theft. Guards fired several times
at Scott as he scaled the wall, with
the aid Of plank, but the convict
made a safe getaway.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
RATE PARLEY
is POSTPONED
Utilities Meeting Delayed
Until Dec. II.

Postponement of the conference
On electric utility rate reductions
from next Thursday until Dec. II
was announced today by Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan.
On that date, the mayor and his
committee, representing petitioners
for lower electric rates, will meet
with officials of the Indianapolis
Power and Light Company for pur-
poses of compromising on a rate
schedule.
Change in the date for the hear
ing on water rate reductions, from
Tuesday until Dec. IA, already has
been announced.
The conferences were called by
Harry K. Cuthbertson, public serv-
ice commissioner, who suggested the
compromise method and who will sit
as arbiter at the hearings.
Further data to support their ap-
peal for reductions by the Indian
apoIis Water Company will be gath
cred by members Of the water COM
mittee at another meeting this week.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
CITY GRAIN BROKER
is TAKEN BY DEATH
Otis V. Hicks Passes at
Hospital; Funeral Is
Set for tuesday,.

Otis V. Hicks, Sd, of 3510 North
Meridian street, Indianapolis grain
broker with offices in the Board of
Trade building, died at Methodist
hospital Sunday after an illness of
three months.
Funeral services will be at $50
Tuesday in the Kirby-Dinn mortuary
and at 10 in SIS. Peter and Paul
cathedral. Burial will be in Holy
Cross cemetery.
Funeral services were to be held
at $3.50 today in Shirley Bros chapel
for Mrs. Laura Mckay, 81, of 633
South New Jersey street, resident
of Indianapolis sixty-three years,
who died Sunday in the Robert w.
Long hospital. Burial will be in
Crown Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Mckay was a first cousin of
James Whitcomb Riley and was
about the same age as the poet
when they played together as chill
dren.
Last rites for Harry P. Smith, II,
former hotel clerk, who died Satur-
day at his home, 1881 Tyron drive,
we're to be held at 2 today in the
home.
Services for Mrs. Emma Decker
Rosenberg, 1110 North Arsenal ave
nue., who died Saturday, were to he
held in the home at 2:30 today, with
burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs.
Rosenberg had lived here all her
life
Funeral services for Charles F.
Miller, so, who committed suicide
Friday in his room at the Y. M. c. A.
were to be held at 2 today in the
McNeely & Son mortuary, with
burial in Crown Hill cemetery.
John A. Schultz, 48, of 1131 North
Capitol avenue, died Saturday in
Sunnyside sanatorium. Services
were to be held in Huntington, Ind,
at today.
Last rites for Glen Overmyer, 40,
poultry commission merchant, who
died Saturday, were held at $50
today in the Conkle mortuary.
Other services were to be held at
? today in Rochester, his former
home.
Frank j. Smock, 81, of lis North
Belmont avenue, Big Four pasSen-
ger conductor thirty-three years,
died Saturday at Methodist hos
pital. He had been i'll about a
month.
Services were held at today in
ST. Anthony's Catholic church.
Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery.
Born in Evansville, Mr.. Smock came
to indianapolis forty-flve years ago.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
SECOND SALARY SUIT
FILED AGAINST COUNTY
Deluge of Court Actions Predicted
After Corydon's Victory.

Veritable deluge of salary suits
in protest of the county councils
budget slashes is threatened by
court attaches since John Corydon,
bailiffe of the circuit court won his
fight to keep his annual pay at
$4,000.
The second of these actions was
started by Theodore c. Kempf,
chief clerk of the circuit court, who
filed a petition with the court that
it mandate councilmen and Harry
Dunn, county auditor to restore his
1882 salary to $4,000, the amount set
originally in 1925 by Judge Harry O..
Chamberlin. The council reduced
the clerks annual salary to $1.62O.
Kempf's complaints also asks that
the county be inundated to pay him
$500 this year, the difference be-
tween the $500 set by the court and
the $1,000 appropriated by a pre-
ceding council.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
QUIZ WILL BARE
USE OF MONEY
PAID TO insult
Surplus Claimed by Huge
Utility Far Too Large,
Says Accountant.

By Scripps-H H0lcdrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. Some
seven million consumers of insult
utility companies will learn from the
federal trade commission, within the
next few weeks, what becomes of
the dollars they pay in monthly
light bills.
A smaller number of investors in
these same companies learned, dur
ing the last week, details of the sur
pAs and profits of Middle West
Utilities Company, principal holding
company of the insult group.
Asel R. Colbert, accountant, who
examined the company's books for
the commission, reported that the
surplus claimed by the company
should, in his opinion, have been
only a little more than third as
large.
"The surplus of the Middle West
Utilities Company as of Sept. 30,
1880, was expressed in two accounts,
as follows" Colbert said:
Capital surplus, $22,115,762.32; sur
plus (termed earned surplus in an
nual report of company for 1920
$13,532, ,928.51.
Not Earned Surplus
This surplus account did not
only represent the earned surplus
of the company, but recorded ap-
probation of investments, financing
charges, premiums on stocks and
other items which, in the opinion
of the examiner, do not constitute
earned surplus
Discussing profit on sales or ex-
changes of securities and properties
and revaluations of them Colbert
said:
"A total of $2S,196,229.5 was
recorded as income from this source.
which may be accounted for as fol-
lows:
profit on sale of securities and
properties to subsidiaries, $17,710,-
1921.
Profit on sale of securities to out
side companies, $8,220,526.
Profit on sale of Middle West
Utility company's own securities,
$732 ,694.32.
Appreciation recorded through
revaluation of securities (net)
$1,371, ,712.56.
Unapportioned as between sales to
subsidiaries and outsiders, but con-
sisting principally of profit on sales
to outsiders, $3.50, ,429.15.
'Writeup' of Values
"A considerable portion of the
profits recorded on sales to sub
salaries has been based on Sc
curity exchanges, with values as
signed to the securities received
measuring the amount of profit. IN
a number of cases, such so-called
profits have been nothing more in
effect than writeup of investment
security values and represent no
realized earnings Of the Middle West
Utilities Company"
Subsidiaries of Middle West Util-
tiles serve 1924 communities with
electricity, gas and ice. Among
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
Japanese in Action
BY ID. G BESS
unlted Press stan COrrespOnd dent

MUKDEN, Manchuria, Dec. T.
japanese troops were in action to-
day against Chinese units identified
here as bandits or disbanded SOL
diers.
A Japanese battalion went into
action early today against 1000
Chinese, said to be disbanded troops,
at Hsin Chen-Tze, twenty miles
north of Mukden. Headquarters
reported that airplanes were used
effectively.
Part of a large number of irreg-
ular Chinese we're captured and dis
armed Sunday night In the Changtu
district. Chinese casualties we're
estimated at 100.
Japanese headquarters reported
continuation o. Chinese military
preparations and alleged that Mar
shall Chang Hseuh-Lang'S army
was digging trenches southeast Of
Chinchow.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
The Gty
i'm Brief
TUESDAY EVENTS

TUESDAY EVENTS
Chamber of Commerce election, Cham
International Travel Society. $3.50 D.
M. Washington.
Rotary Club luncheon. C1aypoOl.
GyrO Club luncheon. Spink-ArmS.
MercatOr Club luncheon. Columbia
Architectural Club luncheon. Architects
Young Lawyers Club luncheon. wash
Republican Veterans luncheon. Board
indianapolis Cha pter. American Chemi-
cal Society. luncheon. Severin.
University of Michigan Alumni lunch
Indiana League for the Hard of Hear
ing. D. M. Stokes building.
Purchasing Agents Association lunch
Theta Chi luncheon. WashinEton.
Universal Club luncheon. Columbia
Club.
Forum discussion of what Brings
About Industrial Depression?" will
be led by Eben H. Wolcott
in the meeting at the Central Y. M.
C. A. tonight The meeting is the
first of a series of ten on problems
concerning development Of leader
ship on successive Monday nights.
DIR. Frank o. Beck. Chicago, will
speak on Whats New in Russia" :"
at the dinner of the Mems Club of
the North M. E. church, Maple road
and Meridian street, at $50 Tues
day. DR.. Beck, formerly on the
Northwestern university staff, re-
Gently returned from an extensive
visit in Russia.
Broad Ripple Social Club will
sponsor a public card party Satur-
day night at Odd Fellows hall, Ri
viera avenue and Bellefontaine
street.
Two indianapolis young men, A.
V. Fox, r. r. II, and D. S. Nc
CloSkey, 1927 North Chester street,
were among twenty-Six University of
Illinois students initiated into Tau
NJ Tau, honorary engineering fra
ternity, Saturday at Urbana, III.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
S. MERIDIAN CIVIC CLUB
ELECTS KIRCH LEADER

25 Per Cent Cut in Utility Rates,
New Officers Goal.
Newly elected officers of the
South Meridian Street Civic Club
are recommending a 25 per cent
reduction in all utility rates, gas.
light, water and telephone, accord
ing to letters sent out by the club.
These officers, chosen at a meet
ing in DruidS' hall Friday night,
are headed by John G. Kirch, presi-
dent; Fred Strack, vice president;
Louis Koerner Jr., secretary:
Charles Springman, treasurer, and
A. j. Voigt, j. Henry Brinkman and
Nicholas Noe, trustees. All except
Brinkman served last year.
The club will ask Representative
Louis Ludlow to seek legislation in
congress regulating truck and bus
lines.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
SIDEWALKS TO BE LAID
FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN
Works Board Answers Pleas of
Mothers for Needed Paving.


In answer to pleadingS of mothers
for safety of their school children,
the works board today adopted a
resolution for laying sidewalks from
Emerson avenue to Worcester ave-
nue. on English avenue.
Mothers demanded the walks be-
cause about 200 children must walk
in the street on their way to school.
Only one property owner objected
to the improvement
Several property owners protested
against paving Lynn street, from
the B. & O. railroad to New York
street at a first hearing on the pro-
posed improvement.
They requested the board to block
the resolution unless the Polar Ice
and Fuel Company, which agreed to
pay IS per cent of the cost, would
assume one-half the assessment OBJ
legation. The board postponed &C
ton on this condition. Estimated
cost of the improvement is $5,27O.40
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
League Plan Approved
BY MILES w. VAUGHN


TOXIC, Dec. Japan instructed
the Japanese delegate to the League
of Nations council meeting at Paris
today to accept the leagues resolu-
tion for settlement Of the Manchur-
ian dispute, reserving freedom of
action for the Japanese army.
Acceptance also applied to Aris-
tide Brands presidential declara-
tion regarding the right of the army
to suppress bandits, with the same
provision for a reservation.
1t was believed that the councils
final action then would be appoint
ment of a commission of inquiry un-
der article v of the league covenant,
without Japanese or Chinese con-
sent.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
ONLY ACTION BY
u. S. CAN KEEP
NATION WHOLE
Congress ApathetiC Toward
Crisis Threatening Huge
Loss in Trade.
JAPAN READY TO STRIKE
Attack on ChinChoW to Be
Death Blow TO Peace
Negotiations.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scriDps-Howsrd Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Events
in Manchuria are moving swiftly
toward another explosion.
Unless the administration snaps
out Of its lukeWarm attitude to-
ward preventing war in the Far
East, and congress betrayS a keener
interest in what is going on out
there, dismembered China soon
may slam the door to billions of
dollars worth of American trade.
At Chinchow, on Manchuria's eX-
treme southwestern border. a force
Of some 10000 Chinese is quar-
tered, in momentary expectation of
attack. Japan, having dehed the
United States and the League of
Nations, and taken all the rest of
Manchuria, has warned the Chinese
they must go. This they refuse to
do. They say they will die fight
ing.
Further japanese aggression, it is
said here. will mean the collapse of
peace Negotiations and probably the
beginning of a Chinese Japanese
war, the vast spread of which no.
body dares predict.
War Cost Would Be Huge
After nearly three months of wait
ing for the Kellogg pact, the nine
power treaty, and the covenant of
the league to stop Japanese aggres-
sion against their country, Chinas
population now is demanding
action. If Chinchow is attacked,
they will almost certainly get out
of hand.
War, even if by miracle it can
be confined to China and Japan,
would cost the United States hun
dreds Of millions, if not billions, of
dollars annually.
Germany is hungrier for colonies
today than she ever was. And she
was among the leaders when, in
1900, China'S dismemberment was
prevented only by the strong stand
of the United States. So is Italy,
which country tried to bite off
piece of China a third of a century
ago, and failed.
Nations Are Greedy
Great Britain, her dominions
gone and her hold on India and
her remaining colonies slipping,
might see in the Chinese debacle her
chance to recoup. And France, al
ready in possession of territory torn
from south China, would not be
averse to acquiring a little more.
Only the United StateS-which
presumably, would not join in pick
ing PROSTATE China's bones-would
be left outside, its most promising
future market gone.
Partition of China among Japan
and the other great powers would
mean the end of the American pol
icy of the open door. Instead, the
new masters of that part of Asia
would build tariff walls to keep the
fast developing trade for them
selves.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07

companies in the insult group is the
Great Lakes Radio Broadcasting
Company, which owns Station
WENR in Chicago, and operated it
until it was leased recently to Ma
tional Broadcasting Company.
At the top Of the organization of
insult companies are insult Utilities
Investments, Inc, and Corporation
Securities Company of Chicago. In
the latter group, insult, Marshall
Field Company, Swift & Company,
and Halsey, Stuart & Company are
all represented IL the directorate.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
$220,000 BILL UP TO
MEET POOR AID DEBTS
Ordinance Is introduced at Special
Session of County Council.


Ordinance for obtaining a tempo
rary loan of $22O,000 to meet poor
relief expenditures in five town
ships was introduced today at a
special session of the county coun-
Gil. The ordinance and other finan-
cial proposals introduced will be
acted on finally by the council
Tuesday.
Majority of the poor relief issue,
S2O5 1892, will be used in Center
township with the remainder divided
in Perry, Washington, Wayne and
Warren districts.
Other ordinances presented the
council:
Appropriation of an additional
5000 to boost the annual salary of
John Corydon, circuit court bailiff,
to S2,400 as ordered by the court;
S27l for per diem pay of Warren
township assessor, and S700 to meet
criminal court jury expenses.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
For Bad Sores
Even of Long Standing

II had four large sores as big as
a nalf dollar for , years and Peter
sons Ointment has healed them all
and I am very g.ad to let anyone
know about your Ointment. From
a true friend, George Hempstalk, E"
West Haven, Conn.
Peterson's Ointment quickly ends
chafing. pimples. itching skin or sore
feet. IS cents a big box-all druggists.
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07

sive police drive against traffic law
violatorS.
William I. Moreland, II, of 1888
Shepard street.
100 : = :'."::j: 3 =: : : !: !: !: :. :: :: s !:
been driven by
Claude Owens, 1925 Shelby street
Apartment /.
Owens, arrested a few hours after
the accident Saturday night by Ser
geant Kent Yoh, is charged with
manSlaughter.
Lieutenant Frank Owen was in
jured critically and Detectives Will
liam Stalcup and William Kurrasch
cut and bruised when the police car
in which they we're riding was
struck by an auto operated by Al
bert H. Ward, 30, of 81 West Forty
sixth street, Sunday night at Broad
way and Sixteenth street.
Driver Is Arrested
Owen, head of the accident pre-
veiltion bureau, who with the other
officers, was working on the alleged
hit-and-run murder of Mrs. Nettie
Bertram, is in city hospital He is
suffering from fracture of three
ribs, cuts, leg fracture and internal
injuries.
The detectives were taken to their
homes after medical treatment.
Ward faces charges of drunkenness,
driving while drunk and failure to
give a police car the right of way.
Arrest of Claude Owens on the
charge of Morelands auto death
and his alleged confession resulted
from pursuit by George Grinsteiner,
undertaken, 522 East Market street,
of The alleged killers car. He OBJ
tanned the license number, which
he turned over to police.
Carried 100 Feet by Car
Moreland, watchman for the In
dianapolis Street Railway Company,
was sanding rails when struck. He
was carried more than 100 feet
along the tracks by the car. Grin
steiner, driving behind the accident
car, struck the watchmans body
as it fell to the pavement.
An unidentified man yelled at
Grinsteiner to pursue the driver of
the car which struck Moreland.
Lieutenant Owen and other Of
f1cers were en- route to Nineteenth
street and Ashland avenue, in
search of another lead" in the
Bertram killing. when the accident
occurred.
Ward is alleged to have told them
he didn't give a damn if they were
police; drivers on Sixteenth street
always have the right of way"
Owen was thrown from the front
seat and Kurrasch was unconscious
for several minutes after the acci-
dent.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-07
BIZ United Press

NEW YORK, 7-Sxeen- -year-old Krukowski
wouldn't again" until her od-fashoned
dies" Christmas
Krukowski buried today potters' field.
from o
country" the end
The girl believed year that
before she 90 would
scoded and promised whipping if she dobeyed him
left
Tuesday read:
Dearest mother happy m working you.