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straight rye whisky. The beasts
daLced over the SnowdriftS like
RENDERS on the way out, Jack
son said, but were bothered by
hiccoughS on the way back.
How one member was blown by
the wind from the corner of
Third avenue and Twelfth street,
three blocks south, around the
corner and into the basement of
the Ninth avenue mission. Even
today he can show frost bite scars
on his ears to prove it.
How workmen started digging
away at a gigantic drift, only to
find it was horSecar, snowbound
for more than two days. with all
passengers safe inside.
How another crew tied an ele-
waited train to the tracks to keep it
from blowing away.
How the courts were closed and
Wall Street deserted, men were
marooned in theif offices and in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
MUD HELPS POLICE
Hit, Run Driver Sticks in
Street Mire.

A muddy street in West Indian
apolis joined the police department
Wednesday in pursuit of an al
legged hit-and-run driver, who also
is charged with vehicle taking.
The mud mired the auto after it
figured in an accident at Pershing
avenue and Morris street, and is
said to have sped away.
Police charged Charles Cousins,
81, of Ais Virginia avenue, with
failure to stop after an accident and
vehicle taking. David Margson, So,
R. R. 2, Box 598, said Cousins struck
his car and fed.
Charles Denton, II, and William
Bible, II, Negroes, were held on
vehicle taking charges today after
a police radio broadcast led to their
arrest in stolen auto Wednesday.
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LEGISLATOR is
SHOT IN HOTEL
GunpIay Follows Drunken
Row in Hosiery.
BIZ United Presa

By United Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March r.
Representative w. U. McCabe was
wounded mysteriously today, a few
hours before adjournment of the
Arkansas legislature, and taken, in
critical condition, to a hospital.
H. G.. Lansdale, Atlanta, was ar
rested and held by police. He de-
MED any connection with the shoot
ing, which occurred in hotel
Hotel officials said McCabe had
been drinking and had created a
disturbance. Lansdale, who occu-
pied q room across a hall from Nc
Cabe, teIephoned the hotel clerk
that eff you don't stop that rum
puS, I will" the clerk said.
McCabe was shot just below the
heart and from point in the hall
outside his door, police said. A re-
volver of the caliber used in the
shooting was found in Lansdale's
room, police said.
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PROHIBITION is
POWDER KEG,
WHITE WARNS
Nation Faces Greatest Peril
in Seventy Years, Says
Kansas Editor.
BOTH PARTIES DIVIDED
West and South Are Held
UnaIterabIy Dry, East Is
Firmly Wet.

After the Democratic national commit
tees stormy session in Washington over
the prohibition issue. The United Press
asked William Allen White. publisher Of
the Emporia Gazette and veteran edi-
toriaI writer Of many campaigns. to out
line his views on the part prohibition VIII
play in the coming eampaiEn. His article,
written exclusively for tho United Press,
follows:
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BAR SUGGESTS COURT
RECEIVERSHIP RULES

Building Fund Announced at
Association Dinner.
Suggested rule to require receivers
to file monthly reports, discussed by
the indianapolis Bar Association at
the Columbia Club, Wednesday
night, would tend to remedy evils
of receiverships, proponents con-
tended.
Marion county judges took rules
of court procedure suggested at the
associations dinner under advise
ment. Several judges and attorneys
debated on rules now in force in
local courts, and Howard S. Young,
president, announced an additional
sum of $1,000 has been received to
be applied to the building fund.
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saloons, and 300 persons, caught
in Grand Central station. slept
on the floor and played euchre.
Earmuffs sold by INSCRIPTIONS
clothing scalpers brought IS
pair.
n
HOW persons marooned in
4 L stalled elevated trains low
cred pals on ropes, had them
filled with hot toddy at the near
est bar and held a three-day re-
vel until rescued.
How Theodorus Van Wyck, poet
and retired attorney, got through
to Mt. Vernon with the first news
and went from house to house,
like a slow motion Paul Revere,
warning wives that their hus-
bands would not return that
night.
How all provisions In the city
finally we're exhausted except
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MYSTERY GIRL
IS BRANDED AS
BRAVES KILLER
Kirkland Defense Charges
Victim Was Struck Down
by Jealous Rival.
REVERSAL is FORECAST
Barrett 0'Hara Declares
Gary Youth Will Be
Set Free.

VALPARAISO, Ind, March IL. -
Refreshed by fourteen-hour sleep
and assurance of his attorneys that
they could obtain reversal of a life
imprisonment sentence, Virgil Kirk
land, 20, former Gary high school
football player, appeared almost his
old confident, smiling self again to-
day.
A mystery" woman witness, 1t
was reported, will testify that girl,
jealous of Virgil, had struck Arlene
braves in the head with a milk
bottle at a liquor party.
81 didn't do it." Kirkland said
from his small cell, where he will
remain until Monday when sentence
formally will be passed and he will
be taken to the state prison, "I'm
innocent and this isn't fair"
Youth COllapses in Gel
The jury's verdict that kirkland
had caused the death OF Arlene
braves, his 18-year- sweetheart
by beating her with his fists at the
party in November, ended an eight
een-day trial. Virgil collapsed ex-
hausted on his hard cot when he
was taken to his cell and remained
there fourteen hours.
Barratt O'Hara, defense attorney,
appeared elated at the verdict, he
declared he was satisfied.
There is no question about a re-
versal in this" said O'Hara, "the
states case was built up chiefly on
evidence that my client had as
saulted Miss braves and brought
about her death that way.
Reversal Is Forecast
"The jury decided that he did not
assault her when it returned its
verdict of guilty on the first count
alone, which was by beating There
was no evidence to show that Virgil
beat the girl to death with his fists.
Even the jury said he did not beat
her with anything else, when it
passed up the second charge, which
was beating by blunt intrument.'
"Since he was acquitted of every
other charge than that of beating
the girl to death, he can not be
retired on those other counts:
and, too." he added with a smile,
Eve have just found new
witness, woman, VINO will give
evidence of a nature that am sure
will Startle the prosecution and
free the boy.
Society Is Blamed
"He wasn't the guilty one, re-
member. Society, with it's prohibi-
ton which brought about such gin
parties, is really responsible for
that murder"
Leon Stanford, one of four youths
charged with responsibility for the
girls death with Kirkland, was
brought to the Jail here and will be
tried as an accomplice. Three 9TH
erS, David Thompson, Henry Shirk
and Paul Barton, are still in jail
at Grown Point awaiting trial.
Kirkland met Stanford at the
noon lunch hour, and they ex-
changed stiff greeting. They did
not discuss the trial, guards said.
Speculation was rife in this city
and Gary today over the effect the
kirkland verdict might have upon
the pending trials.
Attorneys for the remaining de-
PENDANTS contend that since it al
ready has been found that Miss
braves died of Kirkland's blow, it
is unreasonable now to charge that
she died Of attacks by the defend
ants yet to be tried.
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REALTOR BLAMES BANKS
Losses on Real Estate Unnecessary,
Board Is Told.

mo bank which has made real
estate loans on a scientific, intelli-
gent and honest appraisal, which
the bank itself should have made,
should have lost any appreciate
amount during the past depression, !"
said Harry S. Kissell, Springfield,
o.. before the Indianapolis Real ES-
tate Board today at the Indianapo-
lis Athletic Club.
KisseIl. president Of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards,
spoke on Real Estate Solidifying
Itself as Safest Investment"
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TREE PLANTING Is
PLANNED BY LEAGUE
Head of Walton Group Speaks to
Civic Committee.

Head of Walton Group Speaks to
Civic Committee.
Plans to plant several thousand
forest trees in Marion county, be-
ginning Arbor day, April 10, were
discussed Wednesday night by How
ard M. Meyer, president Of the In
dianapolis chapter of the Izaak
Walton League.
He addressed members of the CEN
trail committee of south side civic
organizations at the Fountain
Square theater.
Tracts now are being surveyed in
the county as sites for the tree
planting, Meyer said. The surveys
are being made by the state con-
servation department.
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liquid refreshments, and brewers
heroically kept up deliveries by
hitching ten horses to a truck.
How an old gentleman with
fine beard and burnsides became
entirely hidden under icicles
while walking two blocks up
Broadway and, when rescued
from an eight-foot snowdrift by
two policemen was saved by
drinking a quart of hot toddy
through a funnel.
n
LOW, when the storm at last
4 Il began to clear up on Wednes-
day, Chauncey Depew, admitted
the existence Of his railroad" and
the first cargoes of beer from
Staten Island, arriving at the bat
terry, were given a reception COM
parable to that now accorded
transatlantic fliers.
These are only a few Of the
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BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
Editor, The Esnporia Gazette
fConvripht 1921 hrr rr,,thna r-n..A

EMPORIA, Kan. March t.
When one part of 8 country gets
into an emotional state where it
can not understand tile attitude of
another part of the country. the
danger flag should go up.
And when the emotional condi-
ton of both regions rises to a point
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bile accident after
Bren knowingly
lent her husband
a car with de-
fective brakes.
The automobile
overturned be-
tween San Diego
a n d Lag u n a
Beach. Miss Ny
erdS suffered cuts
on the head, a
broken wrist and
a broken right
arm.
Miss Myers also
asked $4,000 med
ical fee.
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II " III q OoO4l hlQ-
naped the capitalist and forced
reconciliation after he had filed
suit to have their marriage an
nulled.
The marital difficulties of the
pair have been given wide publicity
and their disappearance several
weeks ago, when it is charged that
Mrs. Thomasson kidnapped her hus-
band and took. him on second
honeymoon, led to a wide search
for them.
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GOLF COURSE JOBS
WILL BE ASSIGNED
City Links to Open for Season Late
Next Month.


Next Month.
Appointment of professional golf
ers at municipal links was to be
made this afternoon by the park
board.
Ralph Stonehouse, last year pro-
feSSional at Coffin course, will be
assigned to Pleasant Run. Coffin
course will be closed to be rebuilt.
He will succeed Herman Uebele, re-
signed.
Russell Stonehouse will be re-
appointed to Riverside, and Harry
Schopp will be in charge of main
tenance and golf duties at South
Grove.
Clayton W. Schultz will be APP
pointed to the Sarah Shank course.
Selection of a pro for the Douglass
park Negro links will be made later.
Grand opening of the municipal
courses probably will be held the
latter part of April.
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TAXI CURB TO COME UP
Control Ordinance to Be introduced
at Council Meeting.

Rewritten partially to insure in
vincibility against attacks on it's con-
Stitutionality, the taxicab ordinance
will be introduced before city coun-
Gil Monday night.
The measure would give the safe
ty board and council power to con-
troll activities of operating compa-
MES and cab drivers, establish max
imum rates and license fees, and
regulate taxi traffic on the streets.
Four or five companies now operat-
ing are reported behind the bill,
with the United Cab Company
against it.
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Unemployment Aided
BIZ Times Special

% 7 pJLtUB
ANDERSON, Ind, March IL. -
The 500 which would ordinarily
been spent for the annual banquet
of the volunteer fire : partment at
the American Steel nd Wire mill
has been contributed to the Emer-
gency Work Bureau to aid unem-
ployed, and the banquet Cancelled
this year.
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amazing tales which the blizzard
men can recall at their annual
conclaves.
James H. Scarr, weather fore
caster, can recall. however, that
more snow fell in the storm of
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started their annual luncheon at
10 a. m. and will continue as far
into the evening as necessary to
give each member time to relate
his share of the saga. Some of
them wore Palm Beach suits to
indicate their scorn for the mild
winters of the present century.
Only the best of the stories con-
corning the great blizzard were
selected for recounting.
Rivalry among the blizzard men
as to who had the most narrowing
experience during the three days
always has assured several stories
Of rare quality, which even i'm
prove with age and repetition.
y .
THEY tell how Ben jackson. an
l. engineer, succeeded in deliy-
ering a heavy printing press on
the day Of the blizzard by giving
each Of bis four horses a pint of
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700 QUARTS OF BEER
CONFISCATED BY POLICE
Two Are Arrested in Raid and
Charged With Blind Tiger.

Charged With Blind Tiger.
Sergeant Eldridge's police blot
ter squad arrested two persons and
conf1scated TOO quarts of home brew
and a small amount of gin and al
cohol at SO west Thirteenth street
Wednesday night. Mrs. Doris Camp
bell and Thomas Campbell were
charged with blind tiger.
Frank Drybread, 705 East North
street, was held for blind tiger, and
Miss Charlotte Gibson, same adj
dress, was charged as a vagrant
when Sergeant John Eisenhut's dry
squad halted their car at Capitol
avenue and Fourteenth street,
Wednesday, obtaining, they said, a
small amount of synthetic whisky.
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wealthy husband,
Hugh w. Thomas
son, and causing
him to be secreted
against his will.
The warrant on
which Mrs. Thorn
aSson was arrested
was sworn out by
Mrs. Ella Bowles,
Thomasson's sec
ond cousin, who
C h arg d Mrs.
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Wnere people can
not admit the
honesty of the
other side nor its
intelligence, the
danger flag should
begiH to wave a
real warming.
America is ap-
preaching such a
danger now as the
land has not faced
for seventy years.
Prohi billion is
maxine q cario,,c
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traffic, and left wealth of stories
for posterity, was commemorated
today at a meeting of the blizzard
men of 1888.
The blizzard men, all hardy
survivors of the historic blow"
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Ralph Blum, and Bren were sued
by Bernice Judis, New York, a
friend of Miss Myers.
She asked $4,000 damages and
$4,000 medical fees for injuries she
received.
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GIRL, 18, HELD AS
HIT, RUN CAR DRIVER

ShOrtridge Pupil Is Charged With
Hitting Negro Youth.
Miss Ruth Bannister, 10, of 1850
Goodlet avenue, Shortridge high
school pupil, today was held on
charges of failing TO stop after an
accident in connection with a hit
and run accident March 5 in which
Charles Hassell, 20, Negro, of the
Negro Y. M. G. A, was struck and
injured. The accident occurred on
Indiana avenue.
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CARMEL MYERS ASKS
$4,000 IN DAMAGES

Owner Sued for Injuries Suffered
in Car He Loaned.
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, March IL
Carmel Myers, screen actress, has
asked $4,000 damages from Milton
G. Bren, theatrical agent, charging
that She was injured in an automo-
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Man Hauling Bids Filed

ANDERSON, Ind, March u. -
Twenty bids are being considered
for the contract to haul United
States mail in Anderson.
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WIFE ACCUSED OF
ABDUCTING HUSBAND
By United Press

Caused Rich Mate to Be Secreted
Against win, Is Charge.
By United Press
CLAYTON, Mo-, March 12.-Mrs.
Grace Thomasson was at liberty I'M
der $1,000 bond today after her ar
rest on a charge of kidnapping her
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BY United Press

BY United Press
NEW YORK, March 12.-The
IN famous blizzard of 'S8, which
forty-three years ago today de-
Scended upon New York, tied up
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General Motors 1880 earnings estimated
at s3.1f a common share against S5.49 q
In 1910
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E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. and
subsidiaries 1880 net $4.64 share on TO-
7S3.555 average common share outStand-
ing during year against $709 q share on
10.196.777 average common shares out
standing in 1929.
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SENATE CALENDAR
Senate Bms introduced Ian 90

5. 3. 100 tKetchum. Adams)-ReducinR
aye vd unit LOT tax exemptions of members
OF Oh, veterans OF Foreign Wars from 50 to so.
8. p; 161 ,tAldredge) -Permitting anyone
70 XII dog that has killed. MANNED.
accompanied by his master and providing
not tin sui ItSn e0sb egt shooting dog
ee5sn1nneanor ana tines may be assessed up to
court complete Jurisdiction over all ad-
missions niis;i TO the bar in the state. Judi
S. B. 1853 Dennigan) Enabling Knox
county TO give financial assistance to Vih-
cennes university; permitting levy not n
freeholders. County and Township Bust
s: B. 1874 tDrake)-Permitting railroad
corporated in Indiana to purchase same.
S; 3. les CGorman) Providing rs per
cent deduction in assessments OF intangi-
bles for taxation; (Finance.)
S. B 1876 (Ketchum-Ho lmes) -Proyiding
problem children by classification and pro-
txlding for creation Of special classes where
BENEVOLENT institutions.)
s. B. l67 rtin)-Permitting Logans-
s s1iy from $4,000 to not over $4,000.
S. 3. 1853 CNorris) Simplifying legal
procedure in the cleaning. repair and
maintencane OF bitches: broadening author
Ivy ol county surveyor in matter of in
specIlons. recommending projects and ap-
portloning the costs. Swamp lands and
S. B. 16s Perkins, Providing for On
vision of payments of street Improvement
as between AUDITING property owners anl
city at large on thoroughfare streets.
lClties and towns.)
s. B. 40, (shuii Empowering twenty
five freeholders to petition for School ad-
mlnistratlon economy survey by state
board Of education with requirement that
local school officials must carry out rec
concentrations. LEducation)
S. B. so notwithstanding sale Of
CERTAIN school real estate in TT Wayne.
S. B. So brewster Restricting cene-
terry lot gifts or beouests to use for which
0iS s. s. ava -c nRss
from 50 to 81 fishing license for small
seine OF. trap on Wabash river bordering
Illinois line. a ayes: 0 noes.
s. 3; 68 fSlenker-Kehoel-Re 10
four. the board. OF trustees at Indiana
mating Civil war and supplying World
War veteran membership requirement and
changing name to "Childrens Home" and
permitting other than orphans to enter.
s.. B. 40 tRowlev)-creanne sinking
by levy not to exceed cents. 40 ayes;
S. B. 50 (slenker- Kehoel-Piacing with
Judges decision on placing insane in state
or federal hospital. . ~ ayes: 0 noes
S. 3. SO fA1artin) -Permitting officers Of
life insurance companies to obtain loan
3 noes.
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Lane Bryant Inc. and subsidiaries
companies including Howard Shoe six
months ended Nov. 80. 1890. net profit
s46.OS6 after depreciation. interest and
federal taxes; for twelve months ended
Nov. 80. 1880. net income was SS41. 796
after depreciation. interest and federal
taxes,
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GRANDMOTHER :
IS BABIED' BY
JACK DEMPSEY
Little Old Woman of II Has
Her Thrills in Visit to
'ManaSSa MauIer.'
BY BARRY j. HOLLOWAY
United Press STAR Correspondent

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30.-Mrs.
Ida Barrett Of Wilmington, Del,
quaint little woman Of p. whose
distinction is that she is the grand
mother of EStelle Taylor and. nat
urally, misunderstanding of Jack
Dempsey, was the guest of honor at
a Dempsey reunion today at which
she dlsapproved of nearly every
thing hut the children.
In the first place, Estelle consid-
cred 1t a huge joke that her grand
mother should tip the Pullman
porter with two red apples upon her
arrival Thursday.
ct didn't have room to carry
them" said Mrs. Barrett, ''and !
wasn't going to see them go to
waste
Then Jack and Estelle rar out to
the races, to watch the RUNNING Of
the Estelle Taylor handicap. Mrs.
Barrett stayed home, in the hotel.
Methodist and Dry
I'm Methodist and I'm dry"
she said II don't believe in races,
or playing cards or anything like
that. You children can go ahead
and do as you like, but get back in
time for dinner"
Then there was the matter of
children. Estelle is positive Grand
ma Barrett is not going to be a
great grandmother.
Children aren't in my scheme
Of things at ALL she said. Grandma
Barrett distinctly disapproves that
idea.
On the other hand, the kindI-
ness with which the former heavy
weight champion handed Mrs. Bar
rett about, and showed her the wav
to the fire escape, and otherwise
"babied" her, certainly had it's eff
feet upon the smiling 72-year-old
lady. The pride was in Jacks dis
position, however-not his boxing
record.
First Pullman Ride
At any rate, while the Dempsevs
were out at the races, Mrs. Bar
rett read the papers and, finding a
Methodist-dry article in one of
them, clipped it carefully to send
to friend.
This is the first time in fifty
years EStelle's grandmother has
been away from Wilmington, and
1t Is the first time she has ever
ridden in a Pullman.
Upon her return, EStelle contrib
uted another thought to her plans
for the future-minus children.
I'm going to work and stay with
the stage as long as I can hold
myself together" she said. "And
when I lose my youth, I'll resort to
face lifting to make myself pre-
sentable."