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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
CHURCH
RIOTS SPREAD
Troops Are Hurried to Curb
Burning, LOoting.
lCopvright. 1881. BY United Press

Copyright 1881. BY United Press
MADRID, May 12.-Mobs, fired by
anti-monarchical and anti-religious
enthusiasm, continued to attack and
set fire to churches, converts and
other Roman Catholic institutions
all through Spain today.
Priests, monks and nuns evacu-
ated their residences in several
cities
Martial law was in force in Ma
drid, Seville, Cadlz and Alicante.
Disorders also occurred in Malaga
and Guillena, where serious trouble
was reported. The government
hurried troops to Guillena.
The archbishop of Seville ordered
all monaSteries and converts evac-
uated after the mobs had burned
the Jesuit convent, the Carmelite
church and the church of Buen
SuceSo.
Priceless art objects, vestments
and sacred articles were burned in
the public square.
The prosecutor general of the re-
publican government announced to-
day that he plans to sue King AL
fonso XIII on the ground that he
elaborated in promoting the re-
cent disturbances in Spain to over
throw or discredit the republic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
Quilting Bee Is Held
at Governors Mansion

birthday at the quilting bee by
showing the younger women how
her fingers could fly. Mrs. Ben
jamin was the oldest seamStreSS
at the bee.
Other than the quilt, Mrs. Ben
jamin was the chief attraction.
Mrs. Olive Thomas, home eco
Monies instructor at Central
State Teachers college, baked
three-tier birthday cake large
enough to provide each Of the
$50 guests a generous slice.
Dressed as a girl Of the old
SOUTH" Mrs. Juanita Johnston
Smith, Mrs. MuITay's cousin,
supervised the entertainment pro-
gram of music and dancing.
All guests except the forty-six
seamstresSes were young women,
chosen by Mrs. Murray as chap
erons to keep the grapdmothers
from getting too foxy"
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enough money for lawyers fees,
the $50 divorce registration fee
and a little food.
r u
r IKE scores of others before
IL her, Mrs. Laura D. Davis of
Los Angeles breathed a sigh of
relief today when she left the
courthouse, her divorce papers
from Fred L. Davis tied in blue
ribbon by a hot, but smiling clerk.
Il suppose I'm marked woman
now" she said, but I'm free and
I'm thankful for the Reno divorce
court, heartless and mercenary
though some may believe it.
1T all happened so quickly I
am still in a daze. I don't think
I was on the stand three minutes.
Fifty of us were turned out of
the courts like cans out Of a
factory, but We were glad to have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
Huge Vampire Bats; Fish
With Teeth Peril Party

in Montevideo, Uruguay, recov-
ering from an alligator bite.
Some times we were without
food for days." Newell said, "and
then we ate wild monkeys and
alligator tails"
II was attacked one day in the
radio quarters by this huge YAM
pire bat" Green said. at meas
ured thirty-eig inches from tip
to tip and came flying into the
radio quarters Of the expedition. :"
Il was bitten by a deadly snake
while asleep in a hammock. We
cut the wound, rubbed it with
salt and used serum we had with
us. I expected the wound to be
fatal, but here I am.
"One of our oxen became
begged in the river ddfing one
stage of our trip inland. Within
twenty-five minutes these tiny
fish with teeth had stripped his
carcass bare Of flesh. The fish is
called the Piranha."
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other attorneys and their clients
stamped around impatiently.
r II
"XXTHILE waiting to be called
w I was conscious of the COM
bination of scores of different
powders and perfumes. Once on
the stand I was mostly conscious
OF the sweet-scented breeze float
ing through open windows from
the nearby desert and gardens.
1T seemed as though before I
was comfortably seated the Judge
was saying Judgment for the
plaintiff granted until further
order Of the court and it was all
over-I was finished product of
the mill.
Many women kiss the pillar
and throw their wedding rings in
the river, but I was so excited
forgot to do either"
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did the next one, who cried most
of the time.
= =
XXTHEN the clerk called Davis
w VS.. Davis I felt lump in
my throat. My residence witness
and I were hurried forward, sworn
in and she took the stand to testi-
fy I had lived in Reno six weeks.
when my attorney motioned
me to the stand I was so nervous
I hardly could speak. I wanted
a cigaret more than anything else.
'Mr. Swanson asked me about
two dozen questions as to my resi-
dence in Reno and three questions
about nonsupport, my grounds for
divorce.
Il knew just what to say, but
felt ike I was in a dream, and
answered perfunctorily.
Judge Curler was kind and
sympathetic. He never once
looked at the clock although
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
Arbitration Proposal Of
Associated Employers
Is DiSreqarded.

DiSregarding the arbitration pro-
poSal advanced by the Associated
Construction Employers, various
labor crafts which need not deal
directly with this group, have be-
gun a series of wage scale confer
ences with employing master crafts
men, it was learned today.
Labor groups still are adamant
in their refusal to accept the 20
per cent wage reduction, and even
those four groups which must deal
directly with the construction con-
tractors have signified this.
These crafts are the iron work
erS, cement finiShers, carpenters
and hosting engineers.
A letter sent to the Employers
association Monday by Thomas M
Dexter, secretary of the cement
finishers local, declared that his or
ganization is mot reconciled" to the
arbitration proposal advanced last
week by the association.
Dexter said, however, that a COM
mittee from his union is willing to
meet with the employer organiza-
ton to discuss the matter and,
pending such negotiations, are will
ing to return at the 1880 or exist
ing scale of pay.
Plasterers and painters met Mon
day night with the master or en-
ployer groups to discuss wage
scales, disregarding the Associated
Construction Employers.
Union representatives say that in
the past all wage agreements have
been made between the master and
the craftsmen and the Associated
Employers is a comparatively new
organization which attempted to
set aside this custom
AS a result of this move which
was attended by an announcement
Of a 20 per cent wage cut, construc-
ton operations totaling approx
mately so per cent were halted in
Marion county, thus tying up several
million dollars in projects.
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it that way rather than long
drawn out trials that only renew
the heartaches.
MY case was set for 3 My
NAattorney. Harry Swanson, had
so many other cases he couldn't
give me much time. But We held
a dress rehearsal in his Office in
the morning.
He made sure above all else
that 7 remembered the testimony
about my six weeks residence
here-the reason for the divorce
seems secondary in Reno.
when We went to the court
house, I had to take my place in
line. Watching these ahead of
me get divorced by the ten
minute hearing process.
Most of the women we're in
modish afternoon gowns though
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12

The thing from which Thomas
Shroyer, A, of 1851 Kentucky ave-
nue., attempted to escape by seeking
suicide occurred at noon today when
Federal Judge Robert G. Baltzell
found him guilty on charges of
counterfeiting and conspiring to
pass bogus $40 bills.
Shroyer's attempt to end his life
by gas early today failed when Mr..
and Mrs. Mark Sheets, with whom
he made his home above his horse
and mule barn, returned to their
rooms and found all entrances
locked.
Breaking through a window they
found the horse dealer lying on the
floor with four gas jets opened to
the maximum extent.
They carried Shroyer outside and
called police. He revived and re-
turned to federal court and later
took the stand in his own defense.
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band of six alleged counterfeiters
who pleaded not guilty.
Step by step, operations of the
gang were traced Monday by Rus
sell Lockwood, 10, of 1883 Lambert
street, who related how Shroyer gave
him the bogus SO bills to pass at
gasoline stations along the route
from indianapolis to st. LOUIS
Charles Macy, federal secret
service operative. testified that
forty or fifty of the bogus SO bills
were passed in Indiana.
Planning his suicide, Shroyer had
written note which police found
in his gaS-filled apartment. In it,
Shroyer attacked as untrue virtual
ly all of Lockwood's testimony and
said Il don't feel I've got a chance"
Eve tried to live right, but this
seems to be the only thing to do"
the note added.
Besides Shroyer and Lockwood, the
four under arrest and awaiting SEN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12

By United Press
NEW YORK, May 1.-Two
members of an American ex-
petition into the Brazilian jungles
returned today aboard the steam
er American Legion with tales of
vampire bats, thirty eight inches
from tip to tip, and four-inch fish
with teeth that will attack any
thing entering the water in which
they live.
The men were John Newell Of
Kalamazoo, Mich, sound engineer
and radio operator for the group,
and William Green Jr., of Trenton
N. j., zoologist.
Green was recovering from the
bite of a poisonous snake.
Newell and other members of
the party had suffered fever and
sun stroke.
They reported Alexander CTiger
Nam Siemal, leader of the ex-
petition, had been in hospital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
BY ]. w. MITCHELL
United Press staff Correspondent

OKLAHOMA CITY, May H.
A pictorial history of Oklahoma,
one Of the last frontiers, was
stitched today into a huge quilt
frame at Governor w. H. (Alfalfa
Bid Murray's mansion.
The nimble fingers of forty-siX
pioneer Oklahoma women, all past
the age of rs, were busily engaged
in sewing the quilt of Oklahoma"
at a statewide quilting bee.
The finished quilt, twenty-six
square feet of painstaking designs,
will be displayed in the state his
torical building, as a memento of
the handicraft of those who were
the sole providers Of the first Ok
lahoma wardrobeS.
Mrs. Margaret Benjamin, Ed
mond, Okla. observed her 92d
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
ICE EXPERT TO POLE

Lieutenant Commander Smith Will
Fly North Aboard Graf Zeppelin.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 12.-Lieu-
tenant Commander Edward H.
Smith, who knows more about ice
bergs than any other American, will
fly to the north pole aboard the
1irigible Graf Zeppelin this sum
mer, the coast guard announced to-
day.
Data which he will obtain on the
polar trip will enable him to make
more accurate predictions about the
number and location of icebergs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
FAIR WEATHER NEAR
Break in Rain, Cold Is Due
Wednesday, Forecast.

Break in the unsettled and cool
weather that has prevailed several
days is due Wednesday, the weather
bureau forecast today.
Partly cloudy conditions are to
continue today and tonight but In
dianapolis and Indiana are promised
to awaken to sunshine Wednesday.
The break in the unpleasant wealth
er also will bring rising temper
atures in Indianapolis and all parts
Of the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
Father and Mother Among
IL Missionaries to Be
Ordained Tonight.
BY ARCH STEINEL


If you had the choice of rearing
your 10-weeks-old baby in land
of "hit-and-run" drivers or in the
Belgian Congo of Africa where
sleeping sickness turks in insect
bites and malaria is as frequent as
a cold, what would you do?
You'd probably stick to America
and the amorous automobiles that
just love to run children down.
But if you were DR.. and Mrs. DON
aid Hall Baker of Cleveland, O.,
missionaries, you'd have no more
fear of the canniEal Congo than a
"stop-light-skipper"
DR.. and Mrs. Baker are two of the
twelve missionaries to be ordained
tonight in Graham chapel of the
United Christian Missionary Society
in Irvington to go to missions in
foreign lands.
Baby Sails July II
The couple will sail July II with
their baby, Lauretta Ann, 10 weeks
old, en- route to the land OF Liv-
lngSCOne ana aIllgaJOrS.
1--WE have no fear that Lauretta
will suffer from the climatic condi-
tiOns in the Congo. The tse tse fly
which carries sleeping sickness is
our worst enemy" said DR.. Baker.
I'm physician and with the
good care her mother will give her
we need not worry. It's seldom,
other missionaries say, that people
not accustomed to the climate in
the Congo have become seriously
ILL.,"
we just couldn't go without her."
echoed the mother.
And Lauretta's assent is a couple
of COOS.
In the Congo she will be known
as "bonojo' which is "Congoese"
for Child"
Another Goes to China
Her days of baby caps are over
for the stn's rays pierce and burn
in this district along the equator
with the result that she'll wear pith
helmets as soon as she arrives at
the mission station 1,70O miles up the
Congo river. The Bakers will remain
in the Congo three years before they
are furloughed
While Lauretta becomes a 10
weeks-old adventures, the youngest
missionary to be ordained, tonight
will go to China to head a hospital
training school for Chinese nurses.
She is Miss Ruth McElroy of
Alton, Okla.
Miss McElroy sails Aug. from
San Francisco for Nantung Chow,
China. She will serve five years
in China.
Other missionaries to be ordained
tonight are: Mrs. George w. Horton,
Miss Vesta Marie McCune, Miss
Edna Poole. Miss Ina L. Foster, Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel F. Goodsel, Dr.
and Mrs. Paul L. Slater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
BY EARL H. LEFT
limited Press Staff Correspondent

ID EMO, New, May 12.-Perma-
N nent and temporary resi-
dents of Reno. where it takes six
months to get fishing license
and six weeks to get a divorce,
saw another group of divorces
piloted today through the mill in
Washoe county's courthouse.
In the lineup outside the court
house of Judge Ben Curler and
Thomas Moran today waited
women worth millions. gowned
In the latest Paris creations, rub
bing shoulders with mattresses
and stenographers.
The wealthy had spent their six
weeks of Reno's cure" at the hot
springs and the many gambling
and night clubs.
The others had found positions
or worked at odd jobs TO get
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
BACK IN U. S.

Famous Evangelist Says She Lost
Thirty Pounds on World Trip.
BIZ United Press
JERSEY CITY. N. j., May 12-
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, the Cal
ifornia evangelist, on an around
the-world trip, returned to the
United States today aboard the Dol
lar liner President Garfield, bring
ing a partly-finished manuscript of
a seyen-scene allegorical play, based
on incidents in the Bible.
She said that she weighs thirty
pounds less than when she started
her trip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
JUDGE SEEKS REASON
FOR WILLS ABSENCE
Orders Attorney to Explain Why
Document Not Probated.

Orders Attorney to Explain Why
Document Not Probated.
Probate Judge Smiley N. Cham
bers today appointed Fred c. Cause.
attorney and former probate Judge
Of Marion county, to appear before
the Indiana supreme court, May Is.
to answer writ of mandate served
on Chambers by the higher court
and explain why the will Of Mrs.
Ida Huddleston McClintock has not
been probated.
The writ was issued on petition
Of Donald E. Rider ST., executor
of Mrs. McClintock's will.
Judge Chambers said today that
he had ordered that the will Be
probated as soon. as an affidavit Of
the death of Mrs. McCIintock could
be produced
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
EIwood Petitions on Paving

LA"Oou OeA0AOAAS VA "FAAS
City of Elwood today petitioned
the public service commission to
require the Indiana Railroad Com
pany to pave the right-of-way on
Elwood streets if tracks are removed
should the petition to abandon the
road be approved by the commits
sion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12
CONVICT COUNTERFEITER
AFTER SUICIDE TRY FAILS
Thomas Shroyer, Found in Gas-FiIed Room Earlier in
Day, Is Found Guilty in U. S. Court.

tence on guilty pleas are: Clarence
j. Cones, Roy Lockwood, Russells
brother; Clifford Roe, an engraver,
and Fred Windman, 1908 Morgan
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12

BREMEN, Ind, May 12-Philip
Seldom. 40, was found dead in the
garage at his home here, a victim
of carbon monoXide gas. He had
been working on the engine of his
car.
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other attorneys and their clients
stamped around impatiently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-12

did the next one, who cried most
of the time.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-29
NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD
OF EQUALIZATION IMPERIAL
IRRIGATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai
the Assessor of the Imperial Irriga-
ton District, having completed his
assessment book for the year 1881
has delivered the said assessment
book to the Secretary of the Board
of Directors who now has it in his
office in the Masonic Building, Ell
Centric, California, where it will re-
main for the inspection of all per-
sons interested until September ],
1881.
The Board cf Directors acting as
a Board of Equalization Of said I'M
perial Irrigation District will meet
to equalize assessments on Septem-
Der /, 1881, at 10 o'clock a. M. and
continue in session from time to
time thereafter as long as may be
necessary, not to exceed ten days,
exclusive of Sundays, at the office
of the Board of Directors, in the
Masonic Building, Ell Centric, Cali
fornia, to hear and determine such
objections to the valuations and as
sessmentS as may come before them.
BY order of the Board Of Directors.
F. H. McIVER,
Secretary of The Board of Directors.
Aug. 4-Sept /, inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-29
HAYS BELIEVES
VALLEY FACING
GOOD CHANCE

According to Manager Robert
Hays, of the Ell Centre Chamber OF
Commerce, the situation in Nevada,
Wyoming, Utah, Montana, and Id
aho offer a splendid opportunity
for Imperial Valley cattle men and
livestock raisers to increase their
herds this winter. Hays recently
returned from a conference at Salt
Lake City called by Governor Dern,
of Utah, which he attended with
John w. Donohue, district passen-
ger and freight agent of the South
ern Pacific and a director of the
chamber, as representatives of the
Ell Centre Chamber of Commerce.
Plans were discussed at this meet
ing for bringing feeder cattle for
fattening into Imperial Valley and
thence to the Los Angeles market.
While in Salt Lake City and in
contact with cattlemen of the north
west, Hays ascertained that at the
prices which feeder cattle will aV-
erage during the next few months,
there exists an unusually wide
spread in favor of Imperial Valley
stockmen and cattle feeders, and
he is calling attention of a number
of Imperial Valley cattlemen to
the situation existing in the north
west, and to the opportunity of
purchasing cattle which must go on
| the market at lower than normal
prices due to lack of feed.
The chamber of commerce man.
| ager states that the cattle of these
northwestern states are perhaps
superior to the feeders brought in
from Arizona and New Mexico, be-
cause they are reported to be of a
| breed which fattens more quickly
In addition it is possible that rail-
road rates which are somewhat
lower than existing tariffs will be
established due to the emergency
TO permit these cattle from the
drought-stricken area to reach more
favorable pasturage.
Chamber of commerce directors
are much gratified at the results
being obtained through the move
which the chamber initiated to
bring feeder cattle to Imperial Val
ley from the affected areas for
winter feeding. Normally Imperial
Valley feeds about 10000 head OF
steers and perhaps twice that num-
Der of lambs each winter, and sur
veys have revealed that feed for q
much larger number of animals is
available if properly utilized. 1t is
with the idea of increasing the use
of Imperial county paSturage that
the movement was inaugurated tC
bring more northwestern cattle tt
Imperial Valley and Director Dono-
hue and Manager Hays were dele
gated to attend Governor Dern'S
conference at Salt Lake City last
week and present to the assembled
cattle men Imperial Valleys facil.
tiles for handling and feeding q
large number of cattle and Sheep
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-29
Oldest Triplets
Have Birthday

MILFORD, Ill, Aug. 90. U.P) -
Two brothers and a sister, believed
to be the oldest triplets in the world,
celebrated their 72nd birthdays here
recently. The trio are William I'm
derstock and Mrs. Josephine I'M
derStock Blessing, both of Kanka-
kee, and John Understood, Condo,
S. D.
John Understood, who resides on
a farm in South Dakota, makes it
an annual event to drive here for
the celebration OF his own and his
brothers and sisters birthday.
The triplets were born in Naper-
vile in 1859. All of them weighed
at least seven pounds at birth and
at six months the trio were entered
in the first baby show ever held at
the Illinois state fair. Each was
adjudged physically perfect.
Today at 70 they all have retained
their health and all appear to be in
the best of physical condition.
1t is said that John and William,
until the bal6sheaded stage was
reached, looked SO much alike their
friends couldn't tell them apart.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-29
Poultry For Sale

FOR SALE-75 Red and 125 Rock
5-months-old pullets, extra large
at 75c and Csc. Also about 900
81 -months-old White Leghorns.
Mrs. Larkin, 2l2 miles north OF
San Diego highway on Elder
Canal. 29t2