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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-10
WHERE SELL
BEER? RIDDLE
DRAWS BATTLE
Issue Causes Deep Concern
to House Vets, Members
of Committee.
LINKED WITH REPEAL
La Guardia Seeks Strong
Safeguards, Block Pre-
Dry Conditions.
BY MARSHALL M'NEIL
Times stan writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - The
controversial question of how and
where to sell beer to the public has
been opened wide again, and is
causing deep concern in the ways
and means committee and among
vets of the house, where modi-
fication vote may be taken in about
ten days.
The question of repeal of the
eighteenth amendment is linked
with this problem.
Leading brewers and many vets
argue that the beer they want,
containing 80 per cent of alcohol
by weight is mountaineering, and
should be sold with the utmost
freedom within wet states, to yield
the expected revenue and kill off
bootleg brewing.
But now wet bloc headed by
Representative La Guardia (Rep.,
N. W believes that unless the sale
of beer is surrounded with strong
and proper safeguards, preprohibi-
ton conditions will return at least
in part, and that repeal of the
eighteenth amendment will be
doubly difficult.
Wants Repeal Cause Protested
La Guardia wants the brewing,
distribution and retail sale of beer
licensed. He does not admit that
the legal beer proposed will be in
tOYicatiNo hlIt c01ato11dS fhaf oY1v
beverage containing alcohol should
be sold only under governmental
supervision.
wide-open, unlicensed sale of beer,
La Guardia thinks, may provoke
law violations and other conditions,
which would prejudice many per-
sons now repealistS to vote against
repeal when the issue finally is
presented to voters by congress.
He even would go so far as to pro-
tect the investing public against
brewery stock sale promotions, and
have congress decree that the beer
1t legalizeS should be made only by
limited stock dividend corporations.
His whole purpose is to avoid any
situation which might injure the
cause of repeal he says.
Beer as Safety Valve
La Guardia'S statement to the
committee has puzzled some mem
bers, who heretofore have been told
that 80 per cent beer is non
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ly at cost of between $3.50 and
SO.
Fraternities, sororities, lodges,
church societies, individuals, bust
ness offices, just call Riley 1851
and a child's name will be given
to you for your very own at
Christmas time.
Sixty-eight children had been
clothed up to 8 a. m. today.
New donors to the Clothe a
Child drive follow:
In Memory Of a Son.
Just Sorority -four ehiIdren).
w. L. y. W. two boys.
A. NJ. r.
Indiana National bank (boy and giri).
Mrs. East Thirty-sixth.
Freshman class Of Butler college Of
education (giFi and boyl.
Mrs. Eddie Never. ace bowler Of Bowes
Seal-fast team ttook another xir).
College Avenue Man.
The LADY from North Audubon.
C. w. b. class Of the Fountain Square
Christian church.
loTHER DONORS ON PAGE -
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HouU the Market
Opened
BY ELMER c. WALLER
United Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-Week- lend
profit-taking brought irregularity
into the stock market at the open
ing today. Changes, however, we're
mostly fractional. Trading was mod
erately active at the outset but it
quieted down in the early trading.
Interest centered on the foreign
exchange markets. In New York
the pound sterling was up nearly
2 cents at $3.251s, while the French
franc held at 3.909s cents, the point
at which it is profitable to take
French gold. The dollar was strong
in Paris.
The pound sterling commanded a
slight premium for ninety-day de-
livery in the Paris market, indicat-
ing the market had discontinued
the effect on the Dec. Is war debt
payments.
In the stock market. steel COM
mon at 325s, off Is, and later eased
to 1926. American Telephone, Sears
Roebuck, Standard of New Jersey,
Standard of California, Allied
Chemical, Montgomery Ward and
Consolidated Gas were among the
issues making small declines.
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Call Riley 5551-or Urite-and ask for the Clothe
Child editor of The Indianapolis Times
He aCiH give you the of needy school child be-
tlOeen 6 and IL gears DID,
Each child has been checked for need By the Christ
Clearing House and the social service department of
the public schools Community Fund relief agencies
prOvidng the names of 1Corthy children.
The Times gives you the If the child You
clothe the yongster-thats your Christmas, that's the
child's Christmas, and that is oar Christmas.
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Show Must Go On So
Executions Are Delayed

phical about it, but did protest to
a guard Il don't rate a rap like
this"
A third slayer, who was to have
died with Brown and Markowitz,
escaped by an eleventh hour COM
mutation fro mGovernor Frank D.
Roosevelt. He was Centre Akiyama,
Japanese butler. convicted of murd-
ering his wealthy employer, j. Will
liam Schatz, Poughkeepsie. His
sentence was committed to life i'm
prisonment.
Doomed prisoners usually are put
to death shortly after IL on Thurs
day nights, but Warden Lewis E.
Lawes, fearing that the executions
might interfere with the revenue in
some way. deferred the execution
until today. Friday nights perform
ance was the final one for the
show, staged by inmates.
Brown and Markowitz killed Po-
lice Sergeant William Onslaught
messy in holdup of cafe in Man
haitian.
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ADVENTURE IS
BRANDED KILLER
WanderWeII Staying Laid to
Young WeIShman.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
LONG BEACH, Cal. Dec. 10.-A
formal complaint charging William
James Guy with the murder of
Captain Walter Wanderwell, soldier
of fortune, will be issued Monday.
the district attorneys office an
nounced today.
Decision to bring the murder
charge followed what police said
was positive Identification of Guy
as the mysterious man at the port
hole" who visited the schooner
Carma Monday night, when Wan
derwell was shot in the back.
Two members of Wanderwell's
crew of thrill and fortune hunters
Cuthbert Wills, engineer, and Ma
rian Smith, 20-year-old Georgia
girl, named Guy as the visitor. Both
told officers they were positive.
Guy, handsome, young Welsh adj
venturer, was located and arrested
Wednesday night after incidents of
his career and that of Wanderwell
furnished police with a possible mo-
tive.
Mrs. Aloha Wanderwell, the
widow, announced that Wanderwell
would be buried at sea.
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me. The boy has done that. I've
got my thanks and my Merry
Christmas just watching his face
glow as the clothing bought for
him was placed on him. We
changed him in the department
store from no underwear and
shredded leather for shoes to
what you see now"
n
A ND when the Clothe Child
L n man was gone, the boy
Herman was his name-enthused
Look, he got me this. See this
warm sweater. Look at my Sheep
lined collar. And do you know
what I had TO eat--lamb chops,
and a coke. and
But the telling. the new clothes
he wore, was too much for him.
He had to lapse into EXPLANATIONS.
That. folks, is an incident in
the clothing Of one child for
Christmas by one Of the donors
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Six Brothers Trapped
in Coal Mine Explosion

He sat motionless, his face SOL
emn, inflexible.
The bodies of three sons already
had been removed along with that
of one other miner trapped by
coal dust explosion.
Reckon there amt much need
my stayin', around" MasSengill said,
reckon all my young uns are dead,
but I'm Stayin' anyhow"
The rescuers who had recovered
the four bodies early today we're
hampered by black damp and had
to wear gas masks. The four bodies
recovered were those of Tom, Gar
rett and Esau Massengill, and Henry
Hubbard.
The blast occurred at an entry
mile and a half from the mines
entrance. Fourteen men working
nearby escaped and spread the
alarm.
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MAYBE it was the ayiator's
1V1 helmet that he put on the
boys head.
Maybe it was the leather gloves,
the shiny shoes. the warm pants
without patches.
Maybe it was the lamb chops
the boy ate after he'd been dressed
by the Clothe-A-C Child man.
But mostly it was just being
made new boy again for year
and not being forced to face
taunts of unthinking schoolmateS
at his rags that did it.
For boy who was clothed in
the drive of The indianapolis
Times to warm every needy child
in the city. with at least one COM
plete outfit. brought in smiles. en-
thusiasm for which he couldn't
find vocabulary. to the Clothe-a-
Child Editors desk.
The man came with him, but he
left hurriedly with Don't thank
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HEAVY SERVICE
COST IS PAID
TO WATER CO.
TWo-FifthS of Bill Is for
That Item, Claim Made
at Hearing.
ATTORNEYS IN CONFLICT
City and Utility Counsel in
Heated Argument Over
Justice of Charges.

Distinction between what por-
ton of the $108 minimum monthly
water bill Of the average Indian
apolis Water Company patron ac-
tually is paid for water consumed
and what portion is paid for service
engaged the public service commits
sion late Friday night in the hear
ing on the utility's plea for higher
rates.
The average patron actually con-
Sumed only three-ffths of the 500
cubic feet of water allowed him and
the charge on the other two-f1fths
is for service, was the point Harry
K. Cuthbertson, opposition attorney
sought to establish in cross exam
ination of John Jergal, Chicago &C
countant appearing for the COM
pany.
A somewhat heated argument en-
sued when Jergal testified that the
average consumer uses only about
80 cubic feet of water and that he
could consume 500 feet without pay
ing anything additional.
Pays for Service
ooh, so the average consumer re-
ceives only three-f1fths of what he
is entitled to receiver" Cuthbertson
asked the witness.
HE receives all to which he is
entitled retorted Jergal. THE pa
iron pays for more than the actual
water he uses. He pays something
for service"
Then two-f1fths of the $108 paid
by the average householder is for
service?" pursued Cuthbertson.
mo, that isn't true" the witness
retorted.
Cuthbertson then brought out
that consumers in the higher ranges
Of billing pay only for the amount
OF water consumed.
If that's true, there's nothing in
the exhibits you've offered to cause
the public service commission to
change the minimum rates." Cuth-
bertson charged.
Ellis Intervenes
Howell Ellis, presiding member of
the service commission, INTERRUPTED
to point out that this issue is the
one on WI II the commission is
sitting and Will decide the matter
itself.
Effect of the $1.08 rate, which is
an emergency schedule ordered by
the commission preliminary to the
present hearing on permanent rates.
has been a 1927 per cent increase
in the minimum user class. with
decreases in the large user class. it
was shown by company exhibits.
Tbs $1.08 minimum rate, accord
ing to computations of the COM
panys experts, would have marked
effect in reducing the company's
1882 operating revenue by $685.
441.51, as compared with the 1881
figures.
Of this total reduction, it was ex-
planned, $24O,719 would be due to
reduced rates and $127,721 to de-
creased volume of business.
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SENATE IS PROBING
THREAT TO WRITER
Financial Clerk Charged
With Menacing Man.

By OHited Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. = The
senate rules committee today in
vestigated threats made against the
life of newspaper correspondent
by senate employee, who rushed
into the press gallery with a revol-
yer in his hand.
Chairman George H. Moses or
dered the inquiry after the threats
had been brought officially to the
senate'S attention by Senator John
j. Blaine (Rep., Wis., Moses prom
ised the committee would IDEAL
with the matter effectively"
Eye witnesses said the employee
concerned was Charles F. Pace, vet
eran senate financial clerk. Brand
lshing a gun he was said to have
threatened harm to Charles Steven
son, member of the United Press
Washington staff.
An article by Stevenson entitled
Congress CaShes In" appears in
this weeks Liberty magazine. The
article tells of senate expenditures
for mineral water, junkets and
other items. 1t does not mention
PAGES name, but contains this one
sentence referring to the senate fin
ancial clerk:
The senate insists on maintain
ing an official motor car apiece for
its sergeant -arms and its finan-
cial clerk, and sometimes two for
its secretary
Friends of Pace attributed the
incident to the strain of overwork.
They said for some time he had
been carrying on the duties of two
men.
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Bright Spots
By United Press

nv Unlte0 RreSS
Pilot Radio and Tube Corpora
ton reports November sales of
$134,263, increase of 23.6 per cent
over November, 1881.
Novadel-Agene Corporation de-
clareS quarterly dividend of $1.25
a share on common, compared
with 81 share in the preceding
quarter,
International Cement Corpora
ton posts advance of 10 cents a
barrel in cement prices.
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul g.
Pacific railroad reports revenue
freight loadings for week ended
Dec. of 20,999 cars, against 20,223
cars in preceding week.
Interstate commerce commits
sion reports September railroad
employment was given to 1,070,44
persons, against 996,312 in August.
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Pair Lives "a Additional
Hours, Until After Sing
Sings Musical Play.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
OSSINING, N. Y, Dec. 10.-Two
youths who received a respite from
death of twenty-four hours to dispel
gloom while Sing Sing went on with
its musical revue were electrocuted
early today for the murder Of a
New York policeman.
The young slayers, Charles Mar
kowitz, 81, and Joseph Brown, 20,
were calm as they went to the cleo
trio chair. Both had reconciled
themselves to their fate long before
they entered the death chamber.
IF we've got to go, we've got to
go, and that's that" was Browns
remark.
Markowitz equally was philoso-
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Until the last, confident he
would not die, Gray talked
only of his children, twin
daughters, Jean and Jeanette,
10; Caroline, 6, and Jack, 2.
take care of them while I'm
here" Carey said before he died.
Police and deputy Sheriffs, mean
while are conducting an investiga-
ton to determine whether Gray,
supposedly searching for the home
of friend in Mars Hill, mistook the
GaSvoda residence where he partial
ly had ripped a screen from q rear
door.
Fires Twice Through window
Gasdova, who is not held by po-
lice, asserted he lay in waiting Fri
day night for a prowler who several
times recently attempted to gain
entrance to the house
Gasdova said he heard sound of
the screen being ripped. He seized
the shotgun and fired twice through
window.
Before he died, Gray told his wife,
who hurriedly had been summoned
to the hospital, that he lay on the
ground for some time before aid
reached him.
I was shot from an upstairs
window. Not satisfied with that
they shot me second time" Gray
gasped.
Worried About Christmas Funds
Early sFriday night Gray. who
faces trial soon in criminal court
on charges of burglary and grand
larceny, left his home with
friend ostensibly in search of work.
He had told his wife he was wor-
ried about obtaining money for
Christmas fob his children.
The friend was to take Gray to
battery shop on Madison avenue in.
search of work. Whether they ever
visited the garage is not known.
Then, Gray was to have gone
alone to the home of a boyhood
friend, in Mars Hill. Gray was shot
less than two hours after he left
his home
Sought Work for Year
The widow, Mrs. Eileen Gray, told
police and deputy sheriffs that her
husband had been searching for
work for almost a year. Gray had
worked at odd jobs.
Police records show Gray was in
dicted in May on the burglary
charge with two companions in con-
nection with footing of a Kroger
store at 2145 Madison avenue. Most
Of the loot was recovered in a ga
rage at Gray's home, police said.
After being arrested, Gray with
his family, was forced to move into
the home of Mrs. Gray's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. D. Thomas of the
Lee street address.
Other survivors are his father.
Louis Gray, GAL Arbor avenue.
Arrangements for the funeral
have not been made.
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SCOUTS TO CELEBRATE
Troop so to Observe Sixth Ami
versary Next Friday Night.

Sixth anniversary of Troop so, Boy
Scouts, will be observed at dinner
Friday night in Carrollton Avenue
Reformed church, where the troop
holds its regular meetings. Two
hundred persons are expected to at
tend.
Honor guests win be F. o. Belzer,
Scout executive; the Rev. E. G.
Homrighausen. pastor; the Rev.
Ernest N. Evans. secretary of the
Church Federation of indianapolis;
Fred Carson. former Scout master,
and a number of neighborhood
Scout masters.
Included on the program will be
a playlet by group of actors from
Broadway M. E. church.
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The snow apparently had little
effect on traffic. All street cars,
inteurbans and trains were reported
running on schedule. Airplane
service was maintained.
indianapolis Railways, Inc, was
running snow sweepers over street
car routes, as was the Indiana Rail
ways traction line.
Lowest temperature was reached
at 5 5his morning when the mercury
touched Is. Low Thursday night
was Is.
Snow is falling from the Rocky
mountains to the Atlantic coast and
rain and sleet storms are raging in
the south. Cairo, III, was buried
under more than an inch of sleet
early today, according to the wealth
er bureau.
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FATHER OF FOUR IS
SLAIN AS PROWLER
Clasps Last Plea for Care of Children, Four
Hours After Receiving Shotgun Wounds
From Mars Hill Resident.
SEARCHING FOR FRIENDS HOME
But Assailant Says Intruder Had Partially
Torn Screen Off His Back Door When
He Fired at Him Twice

After gaSpng last plea for of his four children
Rex Gray 3d. of 1888 Lee street. died early today at city
hospital of bullet wound received when he alleged to
have attempted to enter house in Mars Hills.
Gray succumbed in presence of his wife and parents
four hours after part of his abdomen away by
blast from shotgun in the hands of Anthony j. Gasvoda 81
Mars Hill resident
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BANDITS KIDNAP,
TORTURE VICTIM
Bakery EmpIoye, Robbed of
$35, Seriously Hurt.

By United Press
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 10.-Three
bandits kidnapped and tortured Hen
ry Brown, so, Friday night, after
robbing the Jones bakery, where he
he is employed, of $35.
Brown was reported in a serious
condition today, suffering from
burns and exposure. He was slugged,
backed against a hot stove and
then forced to walk several miles
back to the city in near zero
weather without hat or coat.
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In the Air

Weather conditions at a. M:
Northeast wind, II miles an hour,
gusty; temperature, IS; barometric
pressure, 1929 at sea level; general
condition, overcast, light snow
smoky; ceiling, estimated TOO feet;
visibility, mile; field, good.
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to The Times campaign. Every
hour of the day the same thing
happens. Poverty is turned into
warmth and wen-being. Chilled
hands are gIoved. Stockings are
placed on toes raw from cold.
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And. listen, folks. If you so
much as get a chance to talk to
telephone operator in the Lincoln
Office Of the Indiana Bell today,
give her a CHEEKY word.
If you know bowler at the
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SUED FOR LOVE BALM

Illinois Woman Seeks $4,000 After
Doctor WEEDS Terre Haute Sweethea
MORRIS, Ill. Dec. 10-Dr. F.
w. Graham, Morris, prominent
Grundy county physician, was made
defendant in $4,000 breach of
promise suit filed Friday by at
torneys for Helen Deutscher, Chi
cago.
Miss Deutscher charges that DR..
Graham asked her to marry him in
Chicago last July and that he
married Clara Russell, Terre Haute,
Ind, less than two months later.
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49, Year old Mountaineer
Father Waits at Mouth
of Shaft.

By nited Press
YANCEY, KY, Dec. 1O.-Rescue
crews today removed the bodies
of the last twenty-three coal
miners, whose lives were snuffed
out in an explosion in the Zero
mine late Friday.
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"a Inch Snowfall Here;
Cold Weather to Continue
White Mantle Likely to Grow Deeper Tonight
and Sunday, Says Weather Bureau;
Transportation on Schedule.

For second Indianapolis today under
Although not that the blizzard last month the
possibility will increased tonight
Sunday.
of
weather
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BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
YANCEY, KY. Dec. 10.-J. M.
MaSSengill. 78-year-old mountain
patrician. fingered at the mouth of
coal mine near here today where
six of his sons were trapped with
seventeen others by a blast.
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Chicago Stocks Opening

lby AbbotL Hoppln & Col
Dec. To-
Ass0 Tel Uttl. itCom Edison 49,. 7S
cities Service. as Middlewest ..... =
Cord Corp 49,. 5lsiWalgreen Stores l4ss
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Foreign Exchange

tBy Abbott. Hoppin & Co..
Dec IL
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Capital
EDITION

PRICE TW CENTS
Outside Marion County. Cents
Evening star., 1932-11-25

ths United States Public Health serv-
ice TO attend the conference, which has
been called by the Health Committee Of
the League Of Nations to consider
methods Of studying the effects Of the
economic depression on health. He was
associated with the United States Pub
lie Health Service at Washington In
1915, was director of food and nutri-
tions In the medical department of the
United States Army during the World
War and chairman Of the Committee on
war.
Evening star., 1932-11-25

violence to the letter or spirit Of the
eighteenth amendment or the Volstead
act"
Under Pearson's plan, the cargo
would be placed in bonded warehouses
under the control of the island gov
eminent, to permit ships en- route from
European ports to the Panama Canal
to stop there and land shipments for
other Caribbean islands.
Pearson said when the United States
bought the islands 1t incurred an obli-
cation to help the islanders to work out
an economic and political condition
and a standard OF living which will be
up to the best traditions Of the United
States"
"As yet" he added, "the Virgin
Islanders are not able to support them
selves in q manner to maintain the
standard Of living which the United
States has encouraged them to under
take"
Evening star., 1932-11-25
tailspin just a. 1t was about to plunge

tailspin Just ~ It was about TO plunge
into q house.
The two had gone aloft with Miss
Gibson at the controls to capture a
large balloon released by a department
store in an advertising stunt. She made
five futile dives, but hit the balloon on
the sixth try.
It tangled in the left wing and the
Gibson over the side. Her foot caught
in the safety strap on her seat, how
ever, and she was able to pull herself
back as Copeland, who seized the con-
trols, ieveled the plane out just over
the heads of Mortified spectators.
They landed safely at Roosevelt Field.
Evening star., 1932-11-25

ing to kill neighbor. which caused the
siege.
Deputies said the tear gas within the
house was enough TO have set an army
to weeping. But Menzimeier said after
He was captured by deputies who
pounced on him with o neighbor who
induced him to leave his house on the
pretext Of wishing to buy some corn.