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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Utility AppraisaI Is Ordered

BIZ Times Special
MT. VERNON, Ind, Aug. 90
The Mt. Vernon city council has au-
thorized Stranahan, Harris g. Co.,
Toledo, O., to conduct survey and
make an appraisal of the Mt. Yer
non Waterworks Company, the first
step toward municipal ownership
of the utility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
HOUSE PASSES D. c.
BILLBOARD BILL
Amendment to Senate Meas.
ure Gives Commissioners
Power After Hearings.

An amended Senate bill with sufi-
cient teeth" in it to empower the Dis
trict Commissioners to order the re-
moval of thousands Of small advertis-
ing signs plastered over the exterior of
buildings in the District of Columbia
and otherwise regulate and control the
established billboardS of the organized
industry was passed by the House late
yesterday.
Action was taken after various men,
bers of the House had stressed the fact
that with the Federal Government, ex-
pending hundreds of millions of dollars
in the development of the Capital Beau
tiftll, it is imperative that such legisla-
ton be passed to protect the landscape
framing of the beautiful picture of the
Capital City for admiration Of the peo-
pie of the whole country.
Supporters Of the billboard measure
expressed confidence yesterday that the
Senate would accept the House amend
ments, thereby avoiding conference be-
tween the two houses and expediting
the PRONUNCIATION of regulations which
the bill authorizes, In ample time for
the District Commissioners to correct
existing sign evils before the opening
of the 1882 Bicentennial. The action
of the House also was regarded as an
answer to some outside criticism that
the District of Columbia should strive
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BOOM FOR RICHIE
ENTERS Z STATES
Friends of Maryland Governor
Say He Will Be More Than
"Favorite Son."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, February More
than a year before the national party
conventions, friends of Gov. Albert C.
Richie are attempting to set up or
CARNATIONS in every State to further
his candidacy for the Democratic nom
nation.
Today it was announced that Richie
for-President League branches had been
formed in four additional States. bring
ing the number organized since the
first of the year to IL.
Free men and free women again
has been adopted as the slogan of the
campaign for the Maryland Governor
an avowed opponent of the eighteenth
amendment and advocate of States
rights, who took Office for his fourth
consecutive term last month.
Organized by Friends.
The inaugural address, in which Gov.
Ritcnie outlined his position on a num-
Der of national questions. was broad
cast on a Nationwide radio hook-up.
The Ritchie-for- President League
was organized and is financed by
friends and supporters of the Cover
nor, it was stated today by Lawrence
Lockwood, Baltimore political leader,
who is the executive secretary. Edward
A. Gabler of Philadelphia is president,
William A. Powell of New York vice
president, and Leonard Sycle, of Rich
mond, Va, treasurer.
Senator Willard E. Tydings, Demo-
crat, of Maryland, urged in a recent
address that organizations be formed
in every State. Lockwood said today
that printed copies of Gov. Ritchie's
inaugural address would be widely dis
tributed.
More Than Favorite Son.
Gov. Richie will be more than a
'favorite SON candidate in 1882. such
as he was in 1924 and 1925" Lockwood
said. I'VE consider that owen D.
Young's announcement this week that
he is not candidate was factor dis
tinctly favorable to Gov. Richie"
The slogan was taken from section
of the Governors inaugural address in
which he declared against Federal cen
tralization, and spoke of "a demand
that the country return to the safe
harbor of the Constitution and the bill
of rights, and that we be free men and
free women again"
The newest branches Of the Richie
League. Lockwood said, are in Illinois
Massachusetts,, Michigan and Georgia.
Other branches have been formed In
Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland
Virginia, New Jersey, Florida, Connec-
ticut and California.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
BEARS GET PANICKY
AS MARKET SPURTS
Better Political News, Steel Indus
try and Other Factors
Aid Stocks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February THE bears
did some fast back-tracking in the
stock market today.
Reports of Cancellation in the ma
tional political situation, as well as
estimates of continued gains in the
basic steel industry set a-boiling the
bulls kettle, which had been simmering
since Monday. Shorts covered hastily.
Net gains of 81 to Sc were general.
although the best strength appeared IN
so-called speciality shares. Chemicals:
Office equipment issues and. motors
were particularly strong. Bonds MAIN
tanned their upward trend and wheat
and corn rose a cent. Cotton and bar
silver, both of which eased, kept the
days advances in the financial markets
from being unanimous.
Auburn Autos rise Of IS was the
largest for the active stocks. Allied
Chemical United States Industrial Al
cohol and National Lead closed from So
to $475 higher. International Business
Machines gain amounted to SITS and
there were rallies of 81 to 50 in United
States Steel American Can, General
Electric, Westinghouse, Johns-Man-
vile, American Telephone, Consolidated
Gas, North American, New York
Central and several of the motors.
General Motors was strong rising
SIPS net Atchison gained 1897.
The strength extended to the curb
exchange where Electric Bond & Share
jumped about $3.50 to the best price Of
the new year. Vacuum OIL made an
extreme advance Of S., holding most
of the rise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Robinson Charges He Went
Out of Way to Attack
Woodrow Wilson.
B0RAH INTERPRETS TALK
AS STATEMENT OF FACT
Praises Utterance as Restatement
of Policy Established by
Jefferson.
BY the Associated Press.


Secretary Stimson's New York speech
on Americas foreign policy was vari.
ously interpreted in Senate debate yes
terday as a return to "traditiona
! American" principles and "a Somewha
stupid attack on Woodrow Wilson"
The speech praising the administra.
tons foreign policy was debated fol
more than an hour, with Chairman
Borah Of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee defending it in the face of at
tack from Democratic Leader Robin
son.
Mr.. Robinson said Mr. Stimson event
out OF his way to make a somewhat
stupid attack on Woodrow Wilson," anc
pointed out what he called "incon.
sistencies" in the Secretary's praise o.
the administration.
He said Mr.. Stimson had "repudi.
ated" the Latin American policies OF
Harding and Coolidge.
Senator Borah interpreted the speech
not as criticism of Wilson, but as a
historical statement of fact, and praised
it as a "restatement of traditional
American policy established by Jeffer-
son and tested for more than 100 years
Debate on Recognition.
The debate focused on Secretary
StimSons statement that "as soon az
it was reported to us, through oul
diplomatic representatives that the new
governments in Bolivia, Peru, Argen-
tina, Brazil and Panama were in con-
troll Of the administrative machinery OF
state, with the apparent acquiescence
OF their people and they were willing
and apparently able to discharge theil
international and convention obliga-
tons, they we're recognized by our
Government"
How does the Secretary escape the
wei! known historical fact that his
predecessors, Mr.. Hughes and Mr.. KEEL
logg, prompted the Central American
States to enter into a treaty binding
eminent established by revolution OF
coup d'etat?" Robinson asked.
NO doubt the Harding and Coolidge
administrations attempted to put into
erect the policy pronounced by VIII
son." Mr.. Borah replied.
THE truth is they found it unwork-
able, and We are now going back to the
traditional American policy, for which
am very glad" -
Robinson Charges Partisanship.
Senator Robinson criticized Mr.. Stim-
son, with whom he served as a member
of the London naval delegation. for in
Jectlng politics into foreign relations by
criticizing Wilson for failure to recog-
nize the Huerta government in Mexico
No great Secretary of State" Mr.
Robinson said, who was profoundly
impressed with his responsibilities
would seek an opportunity to inject
partisan politics into international
affairs
When he does so, justice requires
that his criticism should be fair and
not based on feeling of mere partisan
ship"
Senator Borah replied that In his
opinion the headlines which said Slim
son had scored Wilson policies" were
not supported by the body Of the
address.
THE Secretary states what he con-
ceiveS to be Wilson'S departure from
established American policy as a mat
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
IN COLLISION
IN BINDING STORM
200 Passengers Thrown Into
Panic, but Only Three
Seriously Hurt.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February Caught in
a binding snowstorm in midstream be-
tween the New York and Jersey shores,
the ferry boat Elmira and the freighter
Marion of the Colonial Navigation Co.
sengers aboard the ferry boat were
thrown into panic and three of them
were injured so seriously they were
taken to a hospital.
A gaping hole was torn in the side
of the Marion, bound from New York
for New Bedford, Mass, and she was
forced to return to her berth. The
ferry boat, owned by the Delaware,
Lackawanna g. Western Railroad, was
towed to its slip in Hoboken.
Three Go to Hospital.
Many passengers of the ferry boat
was believed to have suffered minor in
juries.
The three suffering more serious in
juries were taken to st. Francis Hos
pital in Jersey City.
The crash was seen from both shores
and tugs put out Immediately to the
rescue. The 200 ferry boat passengers
were with some dificulty transferred
to the tugs and taken to Jersey City.
The injured are Charles Munson, SIS,
Union City, lacerated left ear; Walter
Webster. 4S, East Orange, fractured left
leg and rib, and Thomas Hallernan, 80,
Jersey City, abrasion right hand.
Capt. Harry Angel of the Marion
said the Elmira was crossing from the
New York to the Jersey shore. He gave
one blast of his whistle, he said, as a
signal to the captain of the ferry
boat that he was going to continue on
his way and that the Elmira was to
cross the Marion's stern.
Instead, he said, the Elmira contin-
ued to approach the Marion at right
angles and struck the freighter amid
ships, tearing a hole 10 feet long and
feet wide in the Marions side above
the water line. Capt. Angel said it
would take three days to repair the
damage.
The extent of the damage to the
terryboat was not determined imme-
diately.
The snowstorm also caused the
grounding of an oil tanker in New York
Harbor and laid 1.8-inch fall on city
streets, somewhat hampering traffic.
Several thousand snow removers were
called out by the STRENGTHENING de-
partment, from the ranks of the unem-
pioyed. They reinforced scores of ma
chimes struggling to keep ahead of the
snowfall, so far the Winters heaviest
here.
Covers Two States.
The storm, Weather Bureau officials
said, was general over New York and
Pennsylvania and might be expected to
delay rail and other traffic 1t was
predicted to continue with diminishing
force until midday tomorrow, the snow
probably turning to rain, with tempera-
lures slightly above freezing.
The tanker Gulf Bird of the Gulf
Refining Co went on the Fort Hamil-
ton mud fats. but was released in an
hour.
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Rr the Associated Press


BUFFALO, N. Y, February IA
tickle wind snatched more than a score
of fishermen from almost certain death
tonight and whirled the ice foe on
which they were trapped out into the
open waters of Lake Erie once again,
raising fresh hopes of rescue If they
could only hold out until dawn.
Only a few degrees, from north by
northeast to east, did the treacherous
wind that sweeps Lake Erie shift, but 1t
was enough to drive the ice foe away
from the black rocks of Sturgeon Point,
where veteran sailors of the Great
Lakes had feared it would be smashed
to fragments with its living freight.
FL Fishermen Missing.
Twenty-one fishermen were missing
from their homes tonight and all were
believed to be drifting helpleSsly several
miles off shore in the grip of waves
dashed to fury by driving wind which
blew throughout the day. The wind
died down late tonight. but long hours
still must elapSe before the turbulent
waters of Lake Erie would sink to their
normal swell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
u. S. MAY GO OUTSIDE SERVICE
FOR SPECIAL STAMP ENGRAVERS
Demand for Designs for 1881 and 1882 Taxing Capacity
of Three Government Experts.

Twelve stamps have been definitely
promised to celebrate the 200th ami
versary of Washington's birth. On
these the Postmaster General has struck
SnagS.
Our first idea was to run portraits
Of Washington at different significant
periods of his life" he said. But the
collected portraits of Washington bore
too little family resemblance
I'VE didn't want to send out stamps
supposedly Washington and have peo-
pie writing us we were mistaken. So
the series we are now designing will in
clude only easily recognizable portraits
and some scenes from his career"
The Postmaster General said that in
so far as mechanical difficulties could
be surmounted, he would supply the
Olympiad series.
Pulaski, the Red Cross and Corn
wallis constitute the 1881 list to date,
with 20 applicants contending for
fourth place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
BANDITS GET S237
IN SIX ROBBER|ES
Chain Store, Laundry Office,
Pedestrians and Occupants
of Autos Held Up.

! Six hold-ups, all committed by
youthful armed bandits in widely sep
arated parts of the city, kept the police
radios popping last night. A chain
store in which were a dozen customers
and four clerks and a laundry Office oc-
cupied by lone girl clerk were held
up and robbed, the bandits in each case
walking away unmolested with the con-
tents of the cash registers.
In the third case the bandit posed as
policeman and robbed a 65-year-old
colored man. The fourth netted lone
bandit Sc cents after he had compelled
his victims to drive their automobile
from the Mayfower Hotel to Lafayette
Square.
The Sanitary Grocery Co. branch
store at 404 Thirteenth street northeast
was held up shortly after o'clock by
two young bandits, who threatened a
dozen customers and four clerks with
drawn revolvers while taking $145 from
two cash registers. They escaped down
a dark alley beside the store.
A lone young bandit walked in the
Palace Laundry Co.'S branch Office at
3l4 Twenty-flrst street shortly after
$50 o'clock, held up Miss Majorie
Boatwright, 706 E street northeast,
alone in the store at the time, robbed
the cash register of about $22 and fed
to safety into the Navy Department
Building a short distance away.
Customers UnmOIested.
The grocery store robbery was COM
pleted quietly, none of the frightened
customers or clerks offering any re-
sistance to the bandits, who walked
into the store with drawn revolvers,
ordering the occupants of the store:
Stand back, keep quiet and we won't
hurt you. Don't try to get out"
While one Of the men rif1ed two
cash registers, taking $40 from the till
in the grocery department and SIS from
the meat department, the other man
threatened the silent occupants of the
store with his weapon. He seemed to
be nervous and the hand holding the
revolver shook noticeably, several of
those present reported. No effort was
made to rob the customers, though one
woman had money in her hand, and
after cleaning out the cash registers,
the two men backed out the door,
turned into the alley and disappeared,
They were reported to have gotten into
an automobile, the license number of
which was reported 10 detectives, at
the far end of the alley.
The store manager, r. L. Berkebile.
had gone out of the place a few
minutes before the robbery, leaving
Robert L. Swami, 1714 Massachusetts
avenue southeast, in charge. Among
the customers in the store were two
women, Mrs. Walter Fuller, 1923 Ten
nessee avenue northeast, and Mrs. Irene
Deane, 4l2 Fourteenth street northeast.
There wasn't much confusion dur
ing the robbery" Mrs. Fuller said.
THE men walked in with guns in
their hands and told us to back I'D
and keep quiet. did just what they
told me-
EIude Radio Cars.
Both bandits were described as being
young men, each about 25 years old.
One was described as weighing about
ITO pounds, feet inches tall, with
light hair and thin face, gray suit, cap
and no overcoat. The other weighed
about 165 pounds, was 5 feet inches
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
By the Associated Press.


MARION, N. c., February FEED
ing on drought-dried pines and under
brush, and occasionally preying on the
home of some mountain family, two
forest fires ragged today over thousands
of acres of virgin forest lands in Nc
Donald County.
To the north Of Marion mountain
roads were dotted here and there with
men and women, some carrying chill
dren or personal effects, others leading
live stock, and still others driving carts
loaded with household goods, all fee
ing from spots where heaps of ashes
and bits of twisted iron utensils marked
what had been their homes.
Just how badly hit the mountain folk
are could not be determined. Many of
the cabins. situated in the rugged coun-
try, are surrounded by clearings SUM-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
MOUNTAIN FOLK FLEE FIRES
SWEEPING BIG FOREST AREAS
DroughtDried Pines in North Carolina Feed Flames al
Many Cabins Fall Prey.

cient to save them. but still others are
built right in the brush.
Streams large enough to check the
path of the flames are few, and offer
little protection to the homes of a peo-
pie who depend on grazing cattle or
Sheep and raising a little corn for a
living.
South of Marion another fire Of
smaller proportions was raging, but was
not doing such great damage, since the
forests there are less dense than in the
area betwe,n here and Spruce Pine.
Volunteers and firefighters employed
by the State, the latter having re-
turned to work after period in which
no money was forthcoming. sought to
quell the flames, with little success.
Hope for rain, absent for several weeks,
was aroused as this morning dawned
damp and dreary, but the fog gave way
to more sunshine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Shift in Ocean Bed
Seen as Cause of
New Zealand Quake
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, February 7.
Capt. T. j. j. See, Government
astronomer at Mare Island Naval
Station, said today the New Zea-
land earthquake was caused by
shifting of the ocean bed Incl
dent to the formation of an enor-
nous new mountain range in the
Western Pacific similar to the
Andes of South America.
Running diagonally from New
Zealand almost to San Francisco
there is a trough of water about
four miles deep" Capt. See said.
The pressure of this water is
pushing up the ocean floor in one
direction and leakage of water
from the trough into the hot
lava below creates steam which
shoves the lava up under North
Island"
See said a similar condition ex-
listed off Alaska. He first an
nounced his theory of the cause
Of earthquakes in 1906 In an
article in the Journal of the
American Philosophical Society
at Philadelphia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
BY the Associated Press.


The little commemorative postage
stamp has become considerable 'chore
for the Postmaster General.
Four such stamps suffice in any or
binary year, but Postmaster General
Brown may have to turn out five times
that number in 1892. And he also has
1881 troubles.
The George Washington Bicentennial
and the Olympiad to be held in Los
Angeles each call for series Of stamps,
not to mention other events with claim
to commemoration.
With but three engravers qualified to
do the highly technical job of making
stamp plates, the Postmaster General
said he might have to turn for addi-
tional engravers to the commercial
money-making field - United States
concerns that engrave paper moneys
for certain foreign governments. They
know the technique Of intricate, mimi
tesimal scrolls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
CHICAG0ANS SUGGEST
FIRING ALL OF POLICE
Citizens Committee Quiz Hints Re-
course to Wholesale
Requirements.
BY the Associated Press.

6y Lne ASSoClhLeu FIesS'
CHICAGO, February 7.-An entire
new police force for Chicago was sug-
gested in the report of the Citizens
Police Committee, made public today
The report said the committee is
considering seriously the feasibility of
seeking dismissal of the present force
in its entirety, enrolling a complete
force to operate under new statutes.
1T is quite within the range of pos
sibility that the shortest road to police
rehabilitation would involve mastering
out the entire police personnel and
substitution of new force under new
leadership and guided by new statutory
arrangements" the report states.
The Citizens Police Committee was
formed in January, 1929 to make a
thorough study of Chicago's police prob
lens and report on possible remedies.
Frank j. Loesch, member of the
Wickersham Commission, and Walter
Din Scott, president Of Northwestern
University, are among its members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
FUNERAL COSTS $4,000
10000 See Cortege of Joseph Ca
tania, Bronx Bootlegger.

NEW YORK, February z lP.-Ad-
miring friends sent $4,000 worth CT
flowers which filled 40 cars of the
funeral cortege of Joseph Catania,
Bronx bootlegger. today. Mourners
filled IS more cars and the body was
moved in a $4,000 casket of statuary
bronze The casket was placed in q
temporary receiving vault at Woodlawn
Cemetery until $4,000 vault in an
other cemetery is completed.
Ten thousand persons lined the
streets, while scores Of detectives
watched for disorders. The police
searched some 80 of the mourners for
weapons,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
WITNESSES MISSING

NEW YORK. February 7 (P).-Moves
to indict policemen charged at a magis-
trates' inquiry with vice graft received
a setback today when the district at
torney learned 40 women who were to
have been witnesses before the grand
jury were missing
Two detectives and "Chile" Acuna.
former vice spy, searched q week in
vain for the missing women.
James G. Wallace, assistant district
attorney, was instructed to prepare for
immediate trial the cases of seven DO
licemen already indicted for perjury in
connection with alleged framing" of
vice cases. He hopes to have the first
Of the trials underway by February 16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Thieves Get $50, 1000 Gems.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, February 7 (P).
Mrs. Louis Rothenhal Of Detroit, re-
ported to Miami Beach police today
thieves broke into the bed room of her
Winter home while she was away and
took jewelYy valued at between 100000
and $4,000. Her loss included three
large diamond bracelets, a pearl brace
let with diamond clasp, a diamond
brooch, two diamond rings and other
articles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Colds Adopt Cotton Clothes to Aid

COLUMBIA, Mo-, February P)-
Co-eds of the University of Missouri
have come to the rescue of the dis
tressed Southern cotton planters by
adopting a resolution that they make
their Spring wardrobes out of cotton,
including their stockings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
GALE DRIVES FL ON ICE
INTO OPEN WATER OF ERIE
Tickle Wind S1iatches Fishermen From
Almost Certain Death on Rocks,
But Peril Continues.

Fifty-seven men in all were trapped
on floating ice when a blizzard swept
down upon the lake out of the north
east. cutting them off from shore by a
binding curtain of snoWwhich, for sew
eral hours, was made more intense by
fog. Thirty-six of these hardy Great
Lakes fishermen fought their own way
to shore over miles of broken ice and
open water or were rescued by Coast
Guard crews who fought their way
through the treacherouS waters Of the
lake to reach them.