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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
HOOVER DEBT HOLIDAY PLAN STIRS NEW WORLD HOPE
Benefacto1-


BY BNttel PFeSS
EVANSTON, Ill, June a.
Chief Of Police William o.
Freeman, who is a music lover,
put a quietus today on ukeleles
in Evanston.
He ordered his policemen to
arrest all ukelele plunkers at
the first plunk after shutdown
and bring them to jail on
charges of disorderly conduct.
Chief Freeman explained
that anybody guilty of PUNK
ing a ukelele automatically was
guilty of disorder and that,
anyway, he was tired Of all the
discordant ukelele plunking on
Evanston's beaches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
July 4th Tour Arrangd

A low-priced, all-expense tour
from Indianapolis to Chicago fol-
the weekend of July 4 has been ar
ranged by the Pennsylvania railroad
it was announced today. The train
viii leave here at 2:3O a. m, July
4, returning from Chicago at 11:2E
p. m. July 5.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
BARE TRANSFER OF
UTILITY'S PROFITS
INTERURBAN HITS CAR;
MAN HURT CRITICALLY

Injuries May Prove Fatal; Suffers
Skull Fracture, Broken Legs.
Struck by traction car when his
auto stalled on tracks of the In
dianapoliS & Southeastern Railway
at Southeastern avenue, John Head,
R. r. 9, this noon suffered injuries
which may result in his death.
Head was thrown from the car
which was demolished. He sus-
tanned a skull fracture and both
legs were broken. He was taken to
the Methodist hospital.
Bert Alternately, 70, of Rushville.
was operator Of the traction car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
MAN BROWNS AS He
TRIES TO SWIM RIVER
Negro Is Unable to Reach Other
Side Near Pump Station.

Negro Is Unable to Reach Other
Side Near Pump Station.
Attempt to swim White river near
the pumping station Of the Indian
apolis Water Company today re-
suited in the drowning Of Charles
Wilson, Negro, %, of 1855 Holborn
street.
Wilson wa sunable to reach the
other side and his drowning was
witnessed by several boys and fish
ermen in the vicinity who were I'M
able to reach him.
Two dogs, owned by Sylvester
Galloway, Negro, 10, Of the same
address, swan to Wilson as he sank
in answer to his cries for aid.
The body was recovered by police
an hour after the drowning. Wilson
is survived by his estranged wife
and three sons.
This is the seventh accidental
drowning since Jan. 1.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
liquor Cache Is Discovered

Keys to a liquor cache in va
cant house were found by police
Sunday night on Lee Shelton, IT'S
West Market street, next door to the
cache. Several gallons of whisky and
eleven quarts of beer were found.
Shelton was arrested on charge
of operating a blind tiger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
BLACKMAIL PLOT FAILS
Attempt Made 10 Obtain $4,000
From Otterbein Farmer.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
OTTERBEIN, Ind, June 22-An
attempt to obtain $4,000 from
Frank Mann, wealthy farmer Of
this vicinity, through blackmail,
which later was purportedly aban-
doned, is under investigation today.
Mann was directed in a letter to
give the money to Floyd Stillabower,
his employee, and Stillabower was
to take it to the blackmailers.
Stillabower told authorities that he
was accosted by four men who in
structed him to tell Mann to ignore
the demand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
Shot Kills Boy

By Times Special
KNOX, Ind, June ga hunting
trip ended fatally when Horace
Ryan, IA, accidentally killed his IL
year-old brother Jack with a heavy
gauge shotgun. TIE charge entered
the boys abdomen and he was dead
before medical aid could be OBJ
tanned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
Drive Kills Caddy

BIZ UHttcG PTesS
NEW YORK, June 22.-Harold
Marshall, 16, caddy, was killed
when the man for whom he was
caddying on the links of the May
flower Country Club, Staten island,
drove hall which struck Marshall
in the back Of the head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
Hatchery Produces Quail
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
DANVILLE, Ind, June Coon
troversy to a popular belief that
quail eggs can not be Matched arti-
fcially, the Danville electric hatch
cry is exhibiting eighteen 70 e
quail. Only one Of nineteen ec
placed in the hatchery failed to pro-
duce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
Principal Changes Position
By United Press

BY Jnitcd Press
GREENCASTLE, Ind, June o.
G. r. Young. principal of Green
castle high school, has accepted a
similar position at Frankfort. Young
organized an orchestra here which
won the state title this year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
STATE ROADS ARE OILED
Highway Commission Starts Dust
Laying Campaign.

Oiling Of several roads to reduce
dust was started today by the main
tenance department of the state
highwa ycommission.
State Road so, Medora to Sey-
nour, has been oiled, and there are
several detours along the route.
State Road 35 from Salem to Road
so also has ben oiled, but. no detours
are necessary. Wednesday the de-
partment announced oil Of State
Road 81 from Mooresville will be
started with Road 81 as the detour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
INDIAN FIGHTERS FORM
War Veterans to Gather; Camp
Will Be Organized.

Indian war veterans of Indian
apoliS will meet next Sunday after
noon at the home of James E. Will
son, 625 North Delaware street
to organize a camp to be known as
the Indian War Veterans of In
diana. Wilson is temporary chair
man Of the group
There are thirty-f1ve veterans of
the Indian wars in Indiana. Many
are expected to be here for the
meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
ORDER HUGE PIPELINE
Foreign Oil Company to Spend
S13,65O,OOO on Project.
By United Press

By United Press
PARIS, June 22.-The Irak Pc
troleum Company, which combines
the American, French and British
oil interests in the development and
exploitation Of the Mosul oil fields,
placed orders today for $13,650, 900
worth of material required in the
building Of the great Y-shaped pipe
line which is to carry the oil from
the TigriS to the Mediterranean.
French and British firms benefit
mostly from the costly orders placed
for building material, with America
providing a certain amount of the
technical equipment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
Mine Gas Kills Boy

BIZ United Press
+ WASHINGTON, Ind, June 81
Black damp in coal mine near
here in which Courtlad Drew, 10,
was playing, ended the boys life.
He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
4 .Ine Drew.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
HOOVER GETS HUGE PIE
Also Receives Invitation to Attend
Michigan Cherry Festival.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, June 22.-Presi-
dent Hoover received today a huge
pie and an invitation to attend the
Traverse City (Mich) cherry festi-
val, July Is, is, II.
Both we're presented to him at
the White House by Miss Maxine
Weaver, 17-year-old Traverse City
high school girl who came here by
air for that purpose. Mr.. Hoover
accepted the pie, but took the in
.vitation under advisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
Women Left s1O3.0O Estate

PERU, Ind, June 22.-The estate
Of Mrs. Mary Ann Butt has been
appraised at 100000 for inheritance
tax purposes. There are eight heirs
Six children and two grand
children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
YALE BACKS EXPLORERS
University to Send Party Into
Himalayas Next Year.


By United Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 22.-
Yale university will sponsor an ex-
petition next year into the Hima-
layas of India and western Tibet,
a region which scientists. believe
holds greater promise of producing
the missing link between man and
ape than the northern Asiatic re-
gion, where Roy Chapman Andrews
has concentrated his search for
years.
The personnel of the expedition
will consist Of three men and a
woman, Dr. and Mrs. Hellmut De
Terra, G. Evelyn Hutchinson and
George Z. Lewis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
PIONEER PAGEANT SET
Postponed Event to Be Held Next
Sunday at Christian Park.

Pioneer pageant will be presented
next Sunday afternoon at at
Christian park, it was announced to-
day after rain delayed the presenta-
ton Sunday.
Three hundred children will take
part in the affair concentrating
purchase Of the ground 100 years
ago by the relatives of Mrs. Edna
Christian, who wrote the pageant.
The new community house at the
park was dedicated Sunday. Cere-
monies were attended by Mrs,
Christian and city officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
Evansville Boy browns

BIZ United Press
q EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 22.--
Drowning claimed the life of Bobby
.McNeely, 8, Evansville, while the
family was bathing at Cypress
<beach, on the Ohio river. The
body was recovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22

SOUTHB END, Ind, June a.
Injuries suffered May 26 when he
ran into. the side Of moving truck
proved fatal to Eugene 10y, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. George 10y.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
AIR H0NEYMO0NERS DIE
Newlyweds Killed as Plane Hits
Tree Top, Nose Dives.

BIZ United Press
PELHAM MANOR, N. ", June %.
An airplane crash took the lives
of Myron F. Hutchinson, eastern
sales manager of the Stinson Air
plane Company of Detroit. and his
bride, Sunday while they were on
an aerial honeymoon.
The couple was bound from Bos-
ton to Roosevelt field when the
plane, apparently out Of control, hit
p tree top and nose-dived into the
ground.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
JOBLESS; GETS $4,000
Unemployed Factory Worker Named
Heir of New York Doctor.
BIZ United Pr,

By United Press
ST. CHARLES. H., June o.
Delbert Durham, a factory worker
who hasn't been able to find work
for three months, has been noti-
fed that he was left $4,000 by DR.
E. L. Prescott, New York physician
with whom he lived when he was a
boy. He will go to New York this
week to get the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22

More than 1000 Japanese ships
have been equipped with radio tel
egraph equipment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-22
MAYORS BEST PAL
is HIS DOWNFALL
ONO

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan is
seen here playing with Mike, his
faithful Collie, before the accident
over the weekend in which Mike,
while romping, caused the mayor
to fall, spraining his ankle Sc
vereIy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
DROP STEEL MERGER
Bethlehem Voids Contract
With Youngstown Firm.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Plans for
the billion-dollar consolidation of
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation
and the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company have been Cancelled,
Eugene G. Grace, president of
Bethlehem, said today.
Grace said that, because of
changed conditions, it was imprac-
ticable to carry out the contract
made in March, 1880, for the merg-
ing of the two companies and that
Bethlehem had exercised it's option
and Cancelled the contract.
The original merger agreement
was made the basis for the greatest
and one of the most bitter court
battles in American financial his
tory and created furore in bank
ing and steel circles for many
months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
Intimidation Is Charged in
Effort at Delinquency
Collections.

Indianapolis residents who are
delinquent in tax payments are be-
ing inundated by a summons be-
fore court proceedings" which is
being sent out from the county
treasurer's office, attorneys charged
today.
This so-called summons
which, lawyers assert, the law
makes no PROVISIONS mailed to
delinquents by John D. Henderson,
contract collector for County Treas
urer Clyde Robinson.
Henderson'S contract expires
when Robinson retires from office
Jan. /. The county treasurers share
of collections of delinquent taxes
made after the first of next year
will be paid to Timothy Sexton,
treasurer elect.
Attorneys say the alleged sum
mons" is a squeeze" measure re-
sorted to by Henderson to collect as
much of the delinquent total as pos
sible before his contract ends.
Robinson gets 6 per cent of the
10 per cent penalty on delinquent
taxes. This makes the treasurer's
Office the most profitable in the
county.
Henderson has collected on Is per
cent of the $4,000 delinquent notices
mailed since May.
From each delinquent, Henderson
is paid a $3.50 demand fee, and 10
cents mile for messengers serving
delinquent tax notices.
Henderson admitted that since
May he has earned SOS, 900 in fees
and mileage, but stated that his ex-
penses have been $4,000.
Robinson, under their contract,
gets a percentage Of fees and mile
age paid Henderson, in addition to
the 6 per cent penalty.
A total of $685. 900, taxes de-
linquent in 1880 was carried over
into this year. On May 1, 1857,
1896, 900 more became delinquent.
OF this sum, according to Hend-
erson, more than $225, 900 has been
collected since May l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
EDISON STILL
is IN STUPOR
Inventor Rests Well; No
Sign of Emergency.
By United Press

By Untted Press
WEST ORANGE, N. j., Oct. 15.-
Thomas A. Edison has not reused
from his stupor for the past
twenty-four hours, but there is nc
indication of an immediate emer-
gency, his physician reported today
The bulletin, signed by DR.. Hubert
S. Howe, read
During the last twenty-foul
hours, Mr.. Edison has not reused
He shows no signs of discomfort
simply resting quietly. There is nc
evidence of emergency"
1t was explained that the term
reused" used by DR.. Howe meant
reused from the stupor in which
Edison has been for several days
The bulletin issued by Charles
Edison, this morning, spoke OF
Edison awakening. This meant that
he simply opened his eyes.
Edison now has been twenty -four
hours without either food Or water
and total of ten days without any
fluid of any kind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
HOURS OF CITYS STREET
WORKERS ARE SLASHED

ed to keep the full force Of men
working on the reduced schedule
throughout the winter.
He said my budget has been
pared until the department would
not have help enough to cope with
an emergency, such as a heavy
storm that might litter the streets"
Funds remaining in the division
Of street sanitation no longer viii
permit forty-hour week, therefore
1t becomes necessary to reduce the
hours to a thirty-two-hour week
schedule beginning at once" the or
der stated.
Laborers are receiving As cents an
hour, which under the new schedule
will mean $40 a week. Other
helpers get so cents an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15

Lack of funds in his budget was
the reason given today by Street
Commissioner William H. Winship
for reducing the working week of
nearly two hundred employees from
forty hours to thirty-two hours a
week.
This will mean loss in wages TO
112 laborers, thirteen truck drivers,
ten fiushers and helpers and two
power-sweeper men in the street
sanitation division.
MY funds are running low and
it was necessary either to fire some
help or cut the working week. /
did not choose to fire any of my
men," Winship explained today.
Winship indicated that he intend
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
Russia Keeps Watch
By United Press

By JnIted PTe8s
MOSCOW, Oct. Is. = Soviet off,
Gals kept close watch today On the
United States policy toward Man.
churia.
The newspaper Pravda said Wash
ington was alarmed at the extent on
japanese encroachment in China
and anxious to safeguard it's own
preferential rights to rob China. +"
using the league to veil its first
steps in that direction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
$4,000 GIFT
SPURS C|TYS
RELIEF DRIVE
Community Fund Campaign
Is Off to Flying Start;
Donated by Lilly.
SUCCESS is FORECAST
Dr.. George E. Vincent, One
of Hoover's Leaders, Is
Speaker.

Spurred by the $4,000 gift Of Eli
Lilly & Co., workers in the 1892
Community Fund campaign swung
into action today to accomplish the
gigantic task of raising $1,043, 686
for relief of the needy.
The gift, revealed at a dinner and
meeting at Foster hall, on the Eli
Lilly estatee, was the first of the
campaign, opening today, and was
announced by Arthur V. Brown,
campaign director.
The sum was donated by employees,
active stockholders and the cor
poration of Eli Lilly & Co.
Asserting Indianapolis will meet
the call to aid, DR.. George E. Vim
cent, former president of the Uni
versity of Minnesota and former di-
rector of the Rockefeller Founda-
ton, declared there is no greater
achievement in the nation than de-
velopment of relief agencies.
Up to Big GiverS
This is no child's play" he said.
Charity once was considered lux
ury, to be paid out of our surplus.
Now we are coming to the point
where we will find out what kind of
stuff we are made of. We are going
to carry this campaign to a success
full conclusion, not only in Indian
apolis, but throughout the nation"
DIR. Vincent came to Indianapoli,
at the request Of not only the loca
community Fund organization, but
of President Hoover, Of whose
emergency employment committee
he is a member.
j. K. Lilly, head of the firm Civ.
ing the $4,000 donation, asserted
the campaign this year will depend
more than ever on the big givers.
1.-THE moderate giver this yeal
may not be able to increase his sub
Scription,' Lilly said.
$4,000 Given Work
Brown characterized the cam.
paign as an important one.
The big gifts committee is ex-
pected to raise 70 per cent of the
money" he said, land will do it,"
Activities of the fund and the
emergency. work committee were
depicted in film shown at the
meeting. The work committee pro-
vided employment for $4,000 mer
last winter, it was pointed out.
Paul @. Richey, division chair
man, told members of the commit
tee that 1913 per cent of the money
subscribed in last years campaign
went for direct relief, with other
additions bringing the total to sc
per cent.
The fund paid rent for 4,2O7 FAM
lilies, fed and lodged 81, 100 men, was
responsible for 1888 visits BY
nurses, and distributed 1850
quarts of milk to families where
children were i'll.
Brown characterized the Eli Lily
& Co. gift as magnificent gift
assuring success"
David e. Liggett, executive Sec
rotary of the fund, and Evans
Woollen, divisional chairman, were
speakers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
Washington in Quandary
3D. United Press

u y DWfItu FTt68
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15-Japan's
refusal to assent to American par
ticipation in the League of Ma
lions council deliberations over the
Manchurian crisis threw a grave OBJ
stacle today into efforts of world
powers to prevent war in the Orient
This puts us right back where
we we're" one state department Of
fetal said.
In veiw of Japar's attitude, e vas
uncertain here whether Secretary
Of State Stimson further would
press his effort to place. an Ameri-
can representative in the League OF
Nations council meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
FOREIGN WAR VETERANS
WILL BATTLE FOR BONUS

/. Immediate cash payments.
2. Pensions for World war widows
and orphans.
3. Equalization of all pensions
of veterans of all wars"
4. Pensions for those suffering
from physical disabilities"
He announced plans for an ex-
tensive nationwide campaign that
will carry the issue of immediate
cash payment of compensation GER
tificates direct to the people"
Petitions are being circulated he
said, and nationwide newspaper
poll VIII be conducted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
HAMILTON FISH WILL
TALK HERE TONIGHT

Congress Investigator of Red Ac-
tivitieS to Speak at CadIe.
Hamilton Fish Jr, chairman of
the congressional committee inves-
tigating Communistic propaganda,
arrived here late this morn
ing for an address before an Amer
icanization meeting in Cadle taber-
nacle at 8 tonight.
Officials Of the Veterans of For
eign Wars, which is sponsoring the
meeting, said plans were complete.
Guests Of honor will include SEN
ator James z. Watson, L. @. Cha
sey, secretary to the Governor, and
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
Chicago Dean to Talk Here

DR.. Charles H. Judd, dean of the
school of education at the Univer-
sity of Chicago. will address the In
diana Schoolmen's Club at the
Lincoln next Wednesday night, it
was announced today by o. H.
Greist, secretary. THE One Man
Circus is the title Of an address to
be given by Jimmy Trimble, Terre
Haute. The meeting will be pre-
coded by a dinner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15

Macdonald Is Forced to Abandon
Speech Before Miners.
By United Press
SHOTTON, England, Oct. IS
Premier j. Ramsay Macdonald was
howled down by a hostile audience
of miners when he tried to make a
campaign speech today.
Macdonald, tired and hoarse from
his recent speeches, appealed for
quiet.
''Howls never cowed me and never
WILL" he said. Renewed yelling was
precipitated and the premier was
unable to go on. 1t was the most
open antagonism he has encoun-
tered so far.