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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-27

7hegrade ofNesO Iso.Vis
recommended for zero
temperature tOGs PutiHtO
each OF the - cars in Ehe
Famous White Fleet.
Next the car sO0s put in
the cold room of a lead
ing automobile company
and kept there all night
at SerO. Then A. A. A.
officials cLOcked the start
Of NetO $50 Wis through
the oil gauge tube.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-27

record of 235 seconds average flow
time in Ii different makes of cars.
Here is final evidence that New
Is0-Vis offers your car positive pro-
lection the year around-summer and
winter. This evidence was gathered
by the White Fleet on the Indian
apolis Speedway-on tours of the
Midwest covering 28l,l4 car miles
and now in these cold room tests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-27

The Contest Board of the American
Automobile Association has certified
that in the tests it conducted this year,
New Iso-Vis
Gave cold weather fabrication
in seconds minutes.
z Did not thin out from dilution.
B Deposited only very small
amount of carbon.
4 Held down wear to a negligible
factor.
Stop the extra wear and tear your
engine has always suffered in cold
weather. Give your car the proved
protection of New Iso-Vis. Change now
to the recommended cold weather
grade at any Standard Oil service
station or dealer.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
AIRSHIP HALT RU UMORS
REVIVED IN BRITAIN
London Daily Predicts Announce
ment on Abandoning Construc-
tion Thursday.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 12.-Rumors that the
government intended to abandon air.
ship construction which have been in
termittent here ever since loss of the
R-101 are again current.
AS far as can be ascertained final
decision has not yet been taken, but
the Daily Mail claimed to have learned
today that the question would come be-
fore the cabinet Wednesday and that
Prime Minister Macdonald probably
would make an announcement in the
Commons during debate on the air es-
Inmates Thursday.
With loss of the R-101 work on air
craft was suspended and only skeleton
stats since have been maintained at
the Cardington airship base. Doubt as
to value of the airship as compared
with their immense cost is supposed to
have had considerable weight with
some Of the governments advisers,
while insistent necessity of economy
in public expenditure is believed also
to have had strong influence toward
abandonment of the craft.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
DYE RACKET THREAT
LAID TO AL CAP0NE
Institute Head Says Promise OF
Protection for Half of Profits
Was Refused.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May l2.-Alphonse Ca
pone. the gang chief, was accused tooay
OF threatening TO seize control OF tne
cleaning and dyeing business in Chlca2o
The accusation was made by DR.. b. M
Squires. chairman of the Cleaners ano
Dyers Institute OF Chicago. who saio
Capone had offered to police the IN
duStry and wipe out competition IN eX-
change for one-hah Of the industry
annual receipts. but that the offer was
refused. The refusal to accept any
such condition was announced follow
ing a meeting yesterday of SO OF the
institutes members.
DR.. Squires said committee Of his
organization had obtained promises from
Mayor Anton j. CSrnak and other ofl-
Gals. assuring protection from the Ca
pone organization. He added that q
group of the cleaners and dyers had
called on Capone in response to an in-
yitation from him and that Capone had
asked for rs per cent Of the profits, later
reducing the figure TO so per cent.
Either you accept my proposition OF
III take charge of the cleaning and
dyeing business, anyway" Capone wal
quoted ~ threatening.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
BANDITS ABDUCT
| CAPITAL WOMAN
Mrs. Grace S. Partridge Held
Up While Visiting Friends
in Alabama.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SELMA, Ala. May 12.-Mrs. Grace
S. Partridge of 1851 Connecticut ave-
nue., Washington, D. c., and her hosts
Mr.. and Mrs. F. T. Raiford of this
city, were abducted by bandits last
night and forced to drive in an auto
mobile so miles to Montgomery before
being released. Mr.. Raiford is pub
Usher of the Selma Times-Journal
While Mrs. Partridge was seated In
an automobile in front of the news
paper Office. waiting for Mr.. and Mrs.
Raiford. she saw her hosts being led
from the plant by two armed men. The
publisher was forced to keep his arms
raised above his head
Mr.. Raiford announced that 1--WE are
going to Montgomery and was pushed
into the machine by one of two men.
Mrs. Raiford then calmly informed Mrs
Partridge that the two men were ban
dts and before ordering them into the
automobile. they had attempted to open
a safe In the Office
Mrs. Partridge, before one of the
men was able to get the machine
started. offered the robbers SIS from
her purse. This men refused the offer
on the ground they would not rob a
woman. The Washingtonian, who is
the mother of Daniel Partridge, Sd. an
attorney with ofice in the Woodward
Building in the National Capital, in
sisted the robbers take the money and
free her hosts and herself. They ac-
cepted the money. but not until they
explained they would use it for gaso-
line for the trip.
During the long ride the three cap
tives conversed freely with the robbers.
When informed by Mrs Partridge that
gums make towards of people," one
of the robbers replied: "Yes, we know" )"
The men declined to give any informa-
ton about their families after being
informed by Mrs. Partridge she would
like to help them.
I'VE can't get intimate in our busi-
ness. lady" she was advised.
The men left the party upon arrival
in Montgomery. They commended Mr.
Raiford, who had driven with a pistol
against his back for his excellent driv-
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Raiford and Mrs
Partridge, after reporting to police in
Montgomery, returned here early today
Evening star., 1931-05-12
MEXICO CITY-TEXAS
HIGHWAY is OPENED
Mexican Official Blasts Last OBJ
struction in Ribbon of
Concrete.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TAMAZANCHULE. San Luis Potosi,
Mexico, May 12.-The United States and
Mexico we're connected today by an In
ternational ribbon of concrete.
The Laredo, Texas, Mexico City high
way was opened last night when Secre-
tary of Communications AlmaZan ex-
ploded dynamite blast which removed
the last stone obstruction separating the
northern and southern links near here.
The first car. occupied by Senor AL
mazan and other government officials,
passed northward over the route a few
minutes later. 1t was met by a second
car containing the Governor of San Luis
Potosi and other state officials, passing
southwark.
An American tourist party which ar
rived from Laredo eight days Sgoy drove.
the second automobile toward Mexico
City. The spot from which the obstruc-
tion was dynamited is at an altitude Of
1000 feet.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
STAIN ABOL|SHES
RATION SYSTEM
Decree Held Effort to Place
Stores on Basis of Those
in Capitalist Countries.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. -..
MOSCOW, May l2.-Premier Molatov
and Joseph Stain, head Of the Com
munist party. issued joint decree to-
day abolishing the card-ration system
for practically all commodities except
food, fuel and certain building mate
rials.
This system has been in operation
more than a year. Due to a purported
scarcity of comodities workers were re-
quired to obtain orders from their
unions or factories to purchase shoes
clothes and other necessities from gov
eminent cooperative stores.
The scheme was described in the de-
cree as having caused growth OF
bureaucracy, an accumulation of large
quantities of goods. maldistribuion OF
products and an artificial shortage.
The decree declares that "the ousting
of the private traders does not mean
that trade will be abolished. but on the
contrary that government and CO.
operative trade must increase"
This statement was interpreted as
meaning that light industry will be
greatly increased and that there is no
shortage of goods. Therefore under
the new "khozraschiot" system, for
which factories and other organizations
are made responsible: the government
will make an effort to place shops and
stores on a basis similar to that exist
ing in capitalist countries.
Opening of eco new shops in Mos
COW, $50 in Leningrad and from 80 to
100 in each of a number of other
cities is ordered by the decree. In
addition to having their salaries in
creased, clerks and Salesmen will re-
ceive commission on goods sold.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
u. S. PAYS 4O-YEAR DEBT TO INDIAN
WHO STOPPED CULT REVOLUTION
Ahpeahtone Receives $500 for House, Promised Him
by Government During 1891 Uprising.

cial silver medal for his services by
President Cleveland and was promised
a house to cost not more than $500.
Year after year he waited for the house.
Dr. Smith quotes his own letter. writ
ten last Summer to the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs:
"I am a Kiowan Indian going on 73
years OF age. was selected as chief
by my people many years ago and have
been loyal to the Government and
worked for many years for the uplifting
of my people. I have encouraged them
to put their children in school and take
up their work in farming and other
things, the same as white people.
I'm 1890 the doctrine, or teaching,
known as the Messiah craze, spread
among the Indians of the United
States. as you have no doubt read.
False teachers among our people were
telling the Indians that Jesus was COM
Continued on Page 2. Column g.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
Concentration Is Necessary
for Economic Operation,
He Asserts.
U. S. BUREAUS MAY USE
STATIONS LEFT VACANT
War Department Has Quit IS Sites
for Troops in Past Year,
President Points Out.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover said today that the
general staff of the Army planned to
abandon between 20 and 80 Army
posts in various parts OF the country.
Post concentration, the President said,
was necessary If the Army obtains the
maximum use CT its facilities and oper-
ates In the most economic manner
possible.
The Army, he said has abandoned
Is posts during the last two years.
May Use Posts for U. 8.
Mr.. Hoover said he would appoint
a committee from the Army, the Justice
Department, Agriculture Department,
and the Veterans Bureau, to 1nvesti-
gate the possible use of the abandoned
posts by those departments.
This. he said, should effect economies
in the work of those departments
Some of the posts, he added, might be
of great value to the States as inst1-
tutions, educational or otherwise.
Such use of the posts he believed
would relieve the feeling Of deprivation
which local communities have when
Army posts or other Government ac-
Expects Real Saving"
The President said that about a
month ago he had called on the gen.
eral staff for a renewed study Of Army
post concentrations and that he ex-
pected a "real saving" to result from
the move to concentrate the Army in
number of large posts, most OF them on
the coasts.
Some two-score forts, mostly scat
tered along the coast, are said to be
on the list of consideration in connec-
ton with the administrations plan to
reduce military expenditures by elm
mating useless Army posts. Many OF
these forts are rich in historic lore. but
few of them are used for any purpose
other than to garrison troops In need
of housing facilities.
Fort Hunt and Fort Washington, on
opposite sides of the Potomac a few
miles below the Capital, are understood
to be on the doubtful list. Fort Hunt.
with its officers and 81 men. is on the
Virginia side, and Is considered typical
of posts no longer having strategic value
from a military standpoint. Like Fort
washington. it was built to protect
Washington from an invading feet. Its
defenses are obsolete and some of its
equipment is in decay. A crumbling
wooden wharf. reached by a precariouS
road. harks back to better days.
The suggestion has been made that
Fort Hunt, at least, could be aban-
doned or possibly consolidated with
Fort Washington, where there are now
on duty a score Of officers and more
than 500 men.
Abandonment of Fort Hunt undoubt-
edly would be protested by persons who
are reluctant to obliterate points Of his
toric interest near the Capital
President Hoover's plan Of using as
many of the abandoned posts as pcssi-
BILE for other governmental purposes
will serve to forestall much of the op-
position, 1t is expected. He believes
some of the posts may be of value fer
veterans hospitals, experimental farms
or prison camps.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The Government at last has paid a
40-year debt to a man who stopped a
revolution.
The strange story Of Ahpeahtone, a
Kiowa Indian, is revealed in the last
issue of the American Journal of An
thropology by DR.. Maurice o. Smith,
who at the time of his death early last
fall was a collaboration Of the Smith
Sonian Institution.
Dr. Smith interviewed the Indian at
his home near Carnegie, Okla. Back
in 1891 Ahpeahtone was the principal
influence among the plains tribes in
stopping the spread of the wierd ghost
dance craze which was running like
wildfire over the prairies and threatened
a "holy war" Of the first magnitude.
At that time he was presented spe-
Evening star., 1931-05-12
George V Laughs
AS Chewing Gum
Ensnares Pianist
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 12.-It took
chewing gum, grand piano and
the American comedian, Al
Trahan, really to make King
George laugh at the command"
performance at the Palladium
Hall last night.
His aiesty sat with Queen
Mary in an attitude of restrained
kingly pleasure through most of
a long charity bill, but when
the American comedian involved
himself in chewing gum, which
stuck his fingers to the piano
keys and himself to the stool, he
appeared to be delighted.
Charlie Chaplin turned down
his command" invitation on the
ground that he was a motion
picture actor, not a vaudeville
performer.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
MOVE TO PROTECT
MAYFLOWER BONDS
Mrs. WiIIebrandt Named
CounseI-Committee Urges
United Action.

Formation of committee to protect
"the interests of holsers of bonds and
other securities sold by or through the
American Bond & Mortgage Co." and
the employment of Mrs. Mabcl Walker
Willebrandt as general counsel was made
known today in letter to bondholders
of the Mayfiower Hotel Co.
Urge United Action.
The letter, addressed to holders OF
second mortgage bonds of the hotel
company, urged "the necessity for
united action through the medium OF
our independent protective committee"
Every days delay permits the 'prin-
cipal stockholders to consolidate an
advantage which only the most vigorous
action on our part can overcome" 1t
said.
The Maynower Hotel is one Of the
several large properties located in yari-
GUS big cities which were nnanced by
the American Bond and Mortgage Co,
whose activities are now under lnvesti-
CATION by the Department OF Justice.
The Independent Protective Commit
fee is headed by Ernest C. Mulvey,
chairman. a Brattleboro, Mass, banker.
Harry A. Brown Of Boston Is secretary
and John D. Colgan is in charge of the
New York office.
Methods Assailed.
The communication assated the
financing methods employed in connec-
ton with the Mayfiower project and
said:
AT the request of many bondholders
OF the above issue second mortgage
to,1d, ~ tt,a AEa avfouer Hotel Coz the
independent Protective Committee has
studied the reorganization plan pro-
posed by certain principal stockholders
Of the Mayfower Hotel Co. under date
of March 25, 1881. We advise its re-
jecticn by all bondholders. We invite
you to deposit your bonds with our
committee for the concerted action
which the amazing proposals In the
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1931-05-12
EYNON LEADS GOLFERS
AS RAIN HIKES SCORES
Columbia Country Club Champion
Shoots IT in Qualifying
Round of Tourney.

Everett Eynon, Columbia Country
Club champion, took the lead in the
qualifying round of the Chevy Chase
Spring invitation golf tournament to-
day with a card of II. About half of
the field was out.
Eynon went out in 38 and took 80 on
his last nine holes. A drizzling rain
shot the scores up.
B. H. Burroughs, unattached, was
trailing Eynon with 30.
other low scores in the qualifying
Thomas Pitt, Argyle, 80; r. P. David
son. Chevy Chase, and r. M. Gray,
Toronto. SO; I. G. Bogert, Army and
Navy, 85; G. 8. Lyon, Toronto, 86; L.
II. Parker, Congressional, 88. and T.
M Foley, Chevy Chase, and w. r.
Gibbs, Columbia, 80.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
JURY OF MEN IMPANELED
FOR KIRKLAND'S RETRIAL
Prosecutor Dismisses First Tive
Counts of Indictment in
Arlene braves Death.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VALPARAISO, Ind, May 12.-After
332 men and women had been chal-
lenged or excused, a jury of men was
impaneled today to retry Virgil Kirk
land for the murder of Arlene braves,
his companion at a Gary liquor party.
Prosecutor John Underwood i'm
mediately dismissed the first two counts
of the indictment, charging murder by
blows with a blunt instrument. It was
on the latter of these that jury found
him guilty at a former trial and fixed
life imprisonment as the penalty. Judge
Crumpacker allowed q new trial be-
cause of insufficient proof of tha
charge on which conviction was voted.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
BRITISH CONTROLLED COMPANY
GETS u. S. NAVY OIL CONTRACT
Shell Corporation TO Supply 100000 Barrels Produced
in United States or Possessions.

the Union Oil Co., 15s,750 barrels at
$i43,280, and the General Petroleum
Co., $50 barrels at 1857.
Royal Dutch Shell has long been an
important competitor of American COM
panies in the world field. A few years
ago 1t expended its activities to enter
into direct competition with American
concerns in this country.
The Shell Oil Co. is a subsidiary OF
the Shell Union Oil, a holding COM
pany consolidating the Royal Dutch
Shell and Union OIL Co. of Delaware.
It was said at the Navy Department
that the law required the awards to he
made to the Low bidders.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
HELEN UNRECONCILED
WITH KING OF RUMANIA
Official Denial of Reconciliation Is
Published in Bucharest After
Current Rumors.
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST. Rumania. May 12.-An
official denial was published here today
that Queen Helen and King Carol,
estranged monarchs of Rumania, had
become reconciled.
1t was said that no reconciliation
even was contemplated, despite reports
current here, with Queen Helen's sud
den return from Belgrade, that she and
Carol would resume their domestic life,
interrupted by his romantic interlude in
Paris with Mile. Magda Luposcu, red
haired daughter Of a Rumanian scrap
iron dealer.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
BOY ADMITS 2 MURDERS
Quoted as Saying He Slew Couple
for Holding Out Part of Pay.

CANTON. Ohio, May IL (P).-Author-
tiles announced today that Ray Wilt.
17-year-old farm hand, had confessed
he killed Edward B. Thomas. 46, in
valid farmer, and his wife Ethel, A.
Officers said Wilt, who had worked
for Thomas, claimed he killed the
couple because Mrs. Thomas made him
mad "by holding out part of my pay
for an old suit Thomas gave me-"
The bodies of Thomas and his wife,
slain with a hatchet, were found in a
small clothes closet in their farm home
near here Sunday. They had been dead
about a week. Wilt was captured late
yesterday
Evening star., 1931-05-12
u. S. WILL ADMIT ONLY
100000 ALIENS IN 1891
immigration Officials Make Predic-
tion, Citing Lowest Record
Since 1862.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 12-Immigration
officials today predicted that only 100,-
600 aliens would be admitted to the
United States this year. thus setting a
record low for admissions since 1862
That figure is 10000 less than the
number of aliens to enter this country
in 1918, when war measures made i'm
migration almost an impossibility
Consular officials now have the power
to deny alien application on various
grounds, the chief of which Is usually
the contract labor law.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
NATIONALS RAINED OUT
Rain Prevents Opening of Series
With Indians.

CLEVELAND, May II (P.-Rain to-
day prevented the Cleveland Indians
and the Washington Nationals from
opening the first series between these
two teams this season.
The Nationals will be here until
Thursday, after which they will move
on to st. Louis to open a series on Fri.
day.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
School Contests Postponed.

Because of the rain the Eastern
Western base ball and tennis public
high school championship contests
scheduled this afternoon were postponed
until tomorrow afternoon. Both will
start at $3.50 o'clock, the ball game in
the Eastern Stadium and the tennis
match on the Monument courts.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
BY the Associated Press.


The Navy Department today awarded
contracts for 100000 barrels of oil at
a cost of $2,260. 100 to the Shell OH Co,
an American offshoot of the British
controlled Royal Dutch Shell Co.
In addition, contracts for 216,000 bar
rels at $204, $40 were awarded the Union
Oil Co. of California and 100000 bar
rels at $95,250 to the Associated Oil Co.
The contracts stipulate that the oil
must be produced in the United States
or It's possessions. The figures were for
grade B fuel oil for delivery at West
Coast navy yards and stations.
Contracts for Diesel Oil were awarded
Evening star., 1931-05-12
Teachers Face Pay Cut.

AKRON, Ohio, May IL CP).-Board
of Education has voted to cut two weeks
pay from the salary of each teacher in
the city school, and from every employe
OF the school system, in an effort to
make up an estimated shortage Of
$500, 900 In taxation revenue.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
Fire Sweeps College.

KINGSTON. Ontario, May IL [P1.-
Fire of undetermined origin today
wrecked the left wing Of the admins
tration building of the Royal Military
College. The loss probably will exceed
500, ,OOG.
Evening star., 1931-05-12
AMERICAN is SLAIN
Samuel Prais, Address Unknown,
Killed in Tampico.

MEXICO CITY, May IL (P.-Dis-
patches from Tampico to the news
paper FL Universal today said an Ameri-
can named Samuel Prais, whose address
in the United States was not given, was
murdered by several unidentified men
in his home on the outskirts of Tam
pico yesterday.
Evening star., 1931-05-12

Choice of Longworth Successor tc
Be Made November

DC MdUe NOVemDer 5.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May IL OP).-A
special election will be held in the first
Ohio congressional district, November
3, to select Representative to succeed
the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth,
Gov. White announced today.
Candidates will be nominated at the
regular primary August II.
Evening star., 1931-05-12

Radio Programs on Page ca
Evening star., 1931-05-12
WEATHER.

10. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy and continued cool tonight ana
tomorrow. with showers tonight, possibly
ending tomorrow morning.
Highest. "A, at ais pm.
yesterday; lowest. 54, at 8 am. today.
Full report on page 8.
Evening star., 1931-05-12

Closing NY. Markets, Pages l3, las
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-02
MAYOR CURLEY OF BOSTON TO VISIT :.
 KING OF ITALY
Had an Audience With Pope Plus Yesterday - Will See King Victor En- manual Wednesday

Rome, June 2-(U. P.) Mayor James M. Curley of Boston prepar-
 ed to-day for an audience with
 King Victor Emmanuel at the
 Quirinal Palace. Mayor Curley al- ready has been received by Pope Plus xI and Premier Benito Mus solini. He was accompanied by his
 daughter, Mary, and Edmond Is Dolan, city treasurer, when he was received by the pope yesterday. Mayor Curleys. audience with King Victor Emmanuel was arranged from 10:30 a. m. tomorrow. 1t was announced this morning.
 The mayors program to-day in- cluded a courtesy call on United States Ambassador John Garrett at noon and visit to the Vatican H. brary during the afternoon. He intends to depart for Paris to-mor- row afternoon. After visiting the Capitoline Meuseum yesterday,
 Mayor Curley and his party we're guests at a tea and reception at the capitol given by Vice-Governor Conte D'Ancora. The Italian ani- bassador at Washington. Giacona0 DeMartino and Mrs Martino. and members of the United States ern-
 bassy staff in Rome attended. Mayor Curley announced that he and his party will receive cona- muion at a memorial mass at St Peters in memory of the late Mrs Curley and their son James at s. a~ m. tomorrow. M