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The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
ISLAND LIBERTY
SEEMS ASSURED
Congress Likely to Ignore
Philippines Veto.

By United Press
WASHINGTON April 5.-Cham-
pions of Philippine independence
today confidently predicted that
congress would grant freedom to
the islands despite President Her
bert Hoover's opposition.
Legislation to remedy crime COR
ditions in Hawaii also seemed as
sured.
The 306-to-49 majority by which
the house passed the Hare indie
pendence bill caused Senator Harry
B. Halves Dem, Mo-, a leading
advocate of Philippine freedom, to
predict that a similar measure
would be passed by the senate with
not more than ten votes against it,"
A two-thirds vote of both houses
is sufficient for passage over a presi-
Dental veto.
1t is considered certain that
President Hoover will veto the in
dependence bill when it comes to
him.
Legislation to deal with the Ha-
waiian situation, based on a volumi-
nous report of Seth w. Richardson,
assistant attorney general, already
has been introduced by Senator
Bingham.
The justice department official
reported he found no organized
crime, no important criminal class
and no criminal rackets" in the
islands, but a Crime wave" out of
proportion with the islands small
size.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
Water Hearing Hit

Opinion that recent settlement of
the indianapolis Water Company
rate case is Illegal and announce
ment of an investigation of the
status of $4,000 consumers who will
pay more under the new rate, were
developments today expected to re-
suit in reopening of the case.
George w. Hufsmith, deputy at
torney- general assigned to the pub
lie service commission, believes the
rate settlement effected by Com
missioner Harry K. Cuthbertson Is
illegal for the reason that it was
made without public hearing. In
this stand, he lines up with Com
missioners Howell Ellis and Frank
T. Singleton.
Ellis announced he will investi-
gate the status Of the large con-
sumers, whose payments were in
creased to make up for any revenue
losses to the company when the
minimum rate was changed from
S1.50 to $108, with reduction m the
cubic feet minimum from TOO to
500.
Rates were jumped on all step
rates for consumers between TOO to
10000 cubic feet and what this will
mean will be the subject of his in
vestigation.
1t has been alleged that company
revenues may be increased by the
compromise and the larger con-
sumers may appeal to the courts
if no relief is forthcoming from the
commission.
The 1881 report of the water COM
pany was kept by Cuthbertson for
several days before being made pub
lie at commission headquarters. 1t
shows II per cent dividend pay
ment on common stock, which is
held by Clarence Geist of Philadel-
phia.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
Plane Identified
By United Press

bY ChltcG Press
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, April
5.-Apparent efforts to establish
contact with the Lindbergh baby
kidnapers in this section are being
directed personally by Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh, islanders be-
heved today.
Virtual Identification of one of
four strangers who appeared on
Cuttyhunk island during the week.
end, as the colonel, coupled with the
appearance here Monday of a yellow
plane bearing the Lindbergh reg
istry, left little doubt in the minds
of natives that the stolen baby's
father had made at least two visits
to Martha's Vineyard.
The four men seen on Cuttyhunk
Sunday said they were seeking a
craft named either Nellie" or
"Sallie," believed to be the contact
boat.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

BIZ United Press
VXTASHINGTON, April s.
w Senator Hiram Bingham
CRep., Conn., said today that the
federal government could take
$500, 100000 of revenue ''out of the
pockets of the bootleggers" by
legalizing 4 per cent beer.
L am amazed" Bingham said.
'at the reluctance Of congress to
resort to beer for revenue pur-
poses.
Here are two bodies of a great
congress faced with a tremendous
financial problem. At one stroke
they could raise half billion
dollars on beer which would be
perfectly legal under the Consti-
tuition, and at the same time
eliminate a large part of the tax
alton burden, which otherwise
must be imposed.
Beer offers the most reason
able and equitable means Of rails
ing large revenue. 1t would not
take the money from the pockets
of the poor, or even of the rich.
THAT $500,000, 900 would come
from the pockets of the bootleg
ger by diminishing his business.
1T is true" Bingham continued,
that there is but small chance
that congress will follow a, wise
course with respect to beer. But
I shall not refuse to work for a
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
LESLIE THREATENS
MARTIAL LAW IN
STATE MINE STRIKE
Notice Served on Sullivan County Sheriff
That Peace Must Be Kept or Troops
Will Be Sent to District.

Governor Harry G. Leslie today notice
ivan county that peace must be kept during the there
OF ne VIII eau out the Indiana national
Inc same oro applies throughout the
chief executive declared. ~
Leslie called Sheriff Wesley told him that rebelo1s
miners must be curbed state troops be
am not going politics this affair." told
he sert 1 am not interested
is running" - w
replying to the sheff contention money employ
deputies
che sullivan county commissioners and money
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
INDIANA BELL
CUTS JOBS TO
SAVE PROFITS
Operating Revenue Drop Is
Offset Largely by Dial
Phone installation.
WAGES DOWN S455,73S
Annual Report Viewed as
Good Argument for
Rate Slash.
BY DANIEL KIDNEY
Operating revenues of the Indi-

Operating revenues of the Indi-
ana Bell Telephone Company de-
clined $500, ,S75.O2 in 1881, but the
company made up most of this
shortage by saving S455, 1870 in
wages to operators, its annual re-
port, on file with the public service
commission, declared today.
The report, authorities say, offers
ample ammunition for launching q
drive for reduced phone rates in In
dianapolis, which is part of the IN
diana Bell system.
1t showed that although revenues
fell off as compared with 1890, the
company increased its dividend ap-
preparations to S2,640,000, which is
$240,000 more than in 1880.
The huge saving in operators
wages was Que in part to installa-
ton of Indianapolis dial phones, a
technical improvement which has
put the burden of making connec-
ton on the subscribers without any
refund by reducing rates.
Company Only Beneficiary
Dial phones thus far have added
only to the problem of unemploy-
ment by forcing operators off the
Switchboards and no direct benefit
has accrued to any one but the COM
pany which is owned by the Amer
ican Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany
This latter company continues to
receive tribute of s187,441.O1 "by
9greem"ct," the annual report
shows.
Total operating revenues for 1891
are set out at $12 1850, ,633.77 and ex-
penses at $8,168, ,7S7.O4, leaving a net
from operations of $4,691, ,846.73.
Incorporating revenues added
another $101, ,91019.
Revenue from RI b r
amounted to $9,369 ,229.66, a loss of
but $347 ,273.12 from the previous
year. Revenues from private ex-
changes increased $22,431.07, the
new total being $41, ,702.24.
Tolls Are Down
Tolls for the system dropped
$257, ,046.65.
Operators wages for 1881 were
81 ,489 ,499.35, decrease of s455,-
1879.
Promotion expenses was doomed
by $38,01843, to $184,25191.
Officials salaries didn't suffer like
those of the phone girls, the total
cut here being listed at only
S1,518.24. The 1881 payment to Off
cials was $94,5O8.29.
The company does carry on
relief and pension system for en-
ployes and increased payments on
this score. during the year by Sill
66033, outlay for the state being
$245 ,442.31.
Harry K. Cuthbertson, public SER
vice commissioner, who engineered
compromise. and meager rate cuts
in Indianapolis for water and cleo
tricity, has announced he is con-
templating letting the phone com
pany have one of those same set
Elements.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
FIND NEW CLEW
IN LINDY HUNT
Lone Eagle Returns After
Mysterious Trips.

By bNUed Press
HOPEWELL, N. j., April 5.-New
information has reached police in
vestigators in the Lindbergh kid
naping case adding to the recently
increased activities which have in
cluded mysterious trips by Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh, they reported
today.
Linobergh returned to his estate
early this morning after mysteri-
GUS airplane trip Monday-the sec
ond in two days. His private plane
was seen last evening over the
Martha's Vineyard section off the
Massachusetts, coast.
Monday night it was reported that
lights cleaned from the nursery
from which the curly haired child
was stolen. That room had been
dark every night since March l..
when the child was kidnapped.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

DELEGATION of five from
IL Commonwealth college. Mena,
Ark, is in Indianapolis today for
two meetings prior to continuing
a motor trip to Bell and Harlan
counties, Kentucky, to extend aid
to striking coal miners.
Meetings slated today are at the
Columbia Conserve Company
plant, 1735 Churchman avenue,
and tonight at the Workers CEN
ter, 9321a South Meridian street.
Lucien Koch, "a, president Of
the college, heads the group.
which is selling copies of the Bill
of Rights-the first ten amend
ments to the United States Con-
stitution. Proceeds will form re-
lief fund for the miners.
There are probably few
Americans Koch says, who still
prize this quaint old document or
would be curious to know about
the rights which free Americans
enjoyed in the days of Thomas
Jefferson"
II OCH said copies will be given
N to sheriffs and other officials
Of the counties, who have been
accused of using czarist methods
in dealing with the miners.
The delegation includes Sam
Sandberg, wounded World war
veteran.
"I want to see some of the free
dom I fought for in France,
Sandberg declared.
Others in the group are Harold
Coy. member of the Common
wealth faculty; Leo Gruilow and
Isaac Greenberg, students.
Koch states the trip is sponsored
by the American Civil Liberties
Union, which is prepared to ap-
peal to federal court for an in
junction in case officials of the
county seek to bar the delegation,
the fate which befeu group of
eastern university students.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
BIZ Tnited Press

NTASHINGTON, April s.
w Senator Morris Sheppard
Dem, Tex, author of the
eighteenth amendment and it's
stanchest supporter in the upper
chamber, believes a tax on beer
would create waste and crime"
He is confident that efforts of
senate anti-prohibitionists to le-
galize beer through the tax bill
will be more decisively defeated
than they were in the house"
The vets could not get more
than twenty-four votes for their
petition, and I doubt very seri-
ouSly whether they can muster
that many for a beer tax Shep-
pard said.
He was referring to the senate
petition for a vote on the 4 per
cent beer bill which Senator Hi
ram Bingham Rep., Conn., in
troduced before the tax measure
came up.
There can only be so much
employment for every thousand
of dollars of capital engaged in
industry. The money which would
finance the production of beer
would be taken from property
productive capital" Bingham said.
when you think of the money
it would take from the public to
pay this tax, the proposition is
even more unthinkable. To raise
a tax of 5000 100000 you would
have to sell s1,O00,0O 900 worth
Of beer, a wasteful and injurious
product.
The people would have to
spend 81 200, ,000,O 900 in order to
give the government 100000, 900
in revenue.
All this money would have to
come from sources from which it
might otherwise flow into chan
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
$4,000 FARMS SOLD
AuCtioned in Mississippi to
Pay Taxes.
By United Press

By United Press
JACKSON. Miss, April 5.-Thou-
sands of MissisSippi's citizens, be-
reft of their lands and homes, were
destitute today, as this poverty
stricken state took frantic measures
to Stave off bankruptcy by selling
$4,000 Mississippi farms at public
auction for taxes.
The lands that were sold en-
braced 100000 acres, e-four5h
the total area of this state.
The farmers, impoverished by a
low cotton market and crop fail
ures, will not be evicted from their
homes. They will be given two
years in which to redeem their
lands. Buyers Monday were given
tax title certificates.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

militant warrior who pleaded for
John Scopes, the Chicago thrill
slayers, the Los Angeles Times
bombers, and George Pettibone of
Idaho.
Mrs. Grace Bell Fortescue, New
York and Washington socialite, and
her three men co-defendants shared
none of Darrow's emotion.
Seated beside him at a counsel
table, they watched as he parried
for a chance to link their asserted
victim, Joe Kahahawai, with an at
tack on Mrs. Fortescues daughter,
Thalia Fortescue Massie.
The patrician society woman's
son-in-law, Lieutenant Thomas H.
MaSsie, jointly accused with her,
leaned forward and gripped his
chair as the name of his girl-wife
was mentioned. The other two de-
PENDANTS, E. j. Lord and Albert O.
Jones, navy enlisted men, apparent
ly were embarrassed in the strange
surroundings.
Clash With Prosecutor
Darrow questioned Kenneth
Bankston, an American venireman
as the first days session drew to a
close. His queries indicated a de-
Tense plan to submit their case
without introduction Of evidence.
John Kelly, ready-tongued public
prosecutor, opposed this. Quickly he
interposed a question to BankSton,
Are you willing to return a verdict
understanding that the guilt or in
nocence of Kahahawai in the Ala
Moana (the Massie attack caSe) has
nothing to do with the present
trial?"
Darrow leaped to his feet anc
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The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
LABORATORIES
DENY ANIMALS
ARE MISUSED
Humane Society Prepares
to Take Court Action on
Cruelty Charges.
PRACTICES ARE UPHELD
Dogs Are Not Injured in
Experiments, Humanity
Is Aided, Firm Says.

Modern science and the creed of
the State Federation of Humane
Societies cNashed today, with pros
pect of court battle to decide the
issue.
William P. Hargon, humane Off
Ger of the federation, left here at
noon for NobleSville, to file charges
against the Pitman- Moore Com
pany, with laboratories near Zions-
vile, alleging cruelty to animals in
experimentation work.
Hargon, after a visit to the Pit
man-Moore establishment Saturday,
1ayed practices of the firm, declar-
ing conditions under which animals
were kept and used in operations
were inhumane and insanitary.
Defend Firms Methods
In reply, laboratory officials de-
Tended their practices as of great
benefit to humanity, in full accord
with the best of modern scientific
methods, and adhering to the let
ter of government rules regulating
laboratories.
1T is not uncommon to hear
rumors that such and such a labora-
tory steals dogs and subjects them
to cruel and inhumane treatment"
said their statement. Probably
more people are interested in the
welfare of the dog than any other
animal.
Such rumors almost invariably
are false and the result of gossip
or false propaganda. During the
last two years, the Pitman- Moore
biological laboratories have pur-
chased approximately 500 dogs.
During this period, no dog so pur-
chased has been identified as stolen
property.
Persons seeking lost animals are
permitted to inspect all dogs on the
premises at any time, and those in
charge always are willing to assist
in restoring any dog to it's owner. .
Benefit to Dogs
Dogs are used in the laboratory
for the preparation of serum and
vaccine for a prevention and con-
troll of canine distemper. This is
the only product which has been
found useful in controlling this dis
ease and necessarily is prepared
from dogs.
THE Importance of these prod
ucts is appreciated fully when it is
realized that one dog supplies
quantity of product which will pre-
vent the disease in 100 or more
valuable dogs.
Most laboratory procedures in
connection with the preparation of
serums and antitoxins are prac-
tically painless, causing no more
pain than the giving of hypoder-
mic Injections
MiStreatment of dogs is charged
by Hargon and by Captain Otto
Turn to Page 12)
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

VOI4 " IIIIdIIIo 10 ItII
Billy Mitch he better not make any
more frey speeches or we will be
after him, too"
William Mitch, Terre Haute, was
reported to be in the district talk
ing as an organizer for the United
Mine Workers of America.
According to Henry Smith, Star
burn mine operator, these speeches
were inflammatory. Smith called L.
o. Chasey, Leslie's secretary, Mon
day night and reported on the sit
uation both at his mine at She'll
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
UNFAIR COMPETITION

California L. Men Protest Co-eds
Use Wiles on Male Instructors.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, April 5.-Assert-
ed use of feminine wiles" to gain
grades from masculine instructors
at the University of California at
Los Angeles caused a male revolt
on the campus today. led by the
college newspaper. with a demand
for more women professors proof
against coed Establishments.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

ican on or
Slayers."
Calm and un-
ruffled until a
W or d y conflict
over the "un-
written law" ap-
peared to go
a g aims S t him,
Darrow t hr e W
aside his pose as
if it were his
loos e fitting
coat.
Shouting and
gesticulating to
judge and venire
in the crowded
little court, he
again was the
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
MAN, IS, NABBED AS
DRY LAW WOLATOR

TOO Old to Get JOb;" Beer Kegs
Speakie's Only Chairs.
By United Press
HACKENsACK, N. J., April s.
Bergen county's Oldest liquor law
violator "on the records" and its
barest speakeasy with simplest set
ting and furnishings-four beer
kegs for settings and rough table
for furnishings, were revealed in a
hearing here.
Henry Sorensen, S6, faced the
court as a result of a raid.
MY money was almost gone" he
said. Il couldn't get a job; I was
too old to get job and sold liquor
to support myself and wife he
said. Mrs. Sorensen is 80.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

cause merely for the reason that
the fight is just beginning.
1T would not be necessary to
fix any new beer taxes. They are
a holdoyer at IS or Sc a barrel
from pre-Volstead days.
That rate amounts to about 2
cents a pint bottle, and it would
raise $500, ,OO0, 900 for the federal
treasury.
The amendment L propose to
offer merely would change the
volstead act by making it ef-
fective only on beverages con-
tanning more than per cent of
alcohol
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
DARROW GlRDS FOR
BATTLE IN HAWAII
MARRYING J. P, 10,
GETS 112 PROPOSALS S
Quest for Second Wife Brings Bids
from All Parts of Country.


By United Press
EVANSTON, Ill, April 5.-Justice
of Peace Samuel Harrison, who an
nounced he was looking for wife
on his seventy-ninth birthday last
week, had 112 proposal letters and a
dozen phone calls today to help him
select a second mate.
That's what a man gets when he
publicly admits he might remarry.
They've written from Tulsa, Okla,
and from Salem, Mass. Why, I've
been so busy haven't had time for
lunch,'' said Cook county's oldest
justice.
He has married more than 1900
couples, and from his experience he
has evolved some theories he would
like to try out.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
Again Militant Warrior Who
Conducted Many Great
Legal Conflicts.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press staff Correspondent

TCopYrlght. 1857, OV United Pressl
HONOLULU, April 5.-Half
dozen prospective jurors drawn
from Hawaii's strange melting pot"
occupied the box today as Clarence
Darrow dropped his studied wari-
ness and like a roaring lion pre-
pared for the second days battle in
the defense Of four accused Amer
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

burne and the Summeryille mine at
Sullivan. N@#
The latter mine, operated on a
so-called cooperative basis, has had
the fan turned off so miners were
unable to work and threats to burn
down the tipple had been made,
Smith asserted.
Leslie today conferred with Har-
vey Cartwright, secretary for the
mine owners association, and also
with Adjutant-Gener Paul Tom
baugh, who has charge of the ma
tional guard.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
DEBT FARLEY DENIED
Stimson to Stick to Arms
Discussion, Hoover Insists.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 5.-Presi-
dent Hoover said today that he had
requested Secretary of State Slim
son to go to Geneva to promote
more definite steps to relieve the
worlds arms burden.
He emphasized that Stimson
would not discuss war debts.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
PAINT THREAT ON HOUSE
Police Seek PrOwlers Who Warned
ROOmers Must Be Ousted.

Police were given instructions to-
day to keep a close watch on the
home OF Mrs. Margaret Siler, 10, of
1246 West Twenty ninth street. who
reported that providers have been
active at the home several months
and recently used black paint in
placing threats on the outside of
the home, one reading Get rid of
the roomers."
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
HOLMES LISTED WRONG

Candidate for Congress NOmina-
tion Is a Republican.
Ira M Holmes, attorney, 1906
Ruckle street, is a Republican cam
didate for the nomination as con-
gressman from the Twelfth district,
instead of a Democratic candidate,
as listed in The Times Monday.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05

NTIPRoHIBTTIoNISTS beer issue the
again the senate takes the tax bill.
rep, leading fight egalize per
beer and proposal
today with
atOr Morris Sheppard Dem Tex, author the
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
GUARD UTAH GOVERNOR
Police Stationed After Recent Of
Threatening Letter.
BV United Press

SALT LAKE CITY, April 5.-Po-
lice squads guarded the home of
Governor George H. Dern today be-
cause Of a letter which threatened
the life of the Governor and that of
one Of his sons.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-05
VITAMIN C is ISOLATED

Lemon Juice Yields Health Factor
Used in Scurvy Treatment.
By United Press
PITTSBURGH, April 5.-Vita-
min C-the anti-Scurvy vitamin-
has been isolated and identified
DR.. G. G, King. 35-year- r-old Uni
versity of Pittsburgh professor
claimed today.
The long sought vitamin was OBJ
tanned from lemon juice. It's isola-
lation will make possible further
study of the specific role it plays in
the body.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-16

FOR SALE-First class 20-fOOt boat built special for Outboard engine with 8 h.p. Johnson; tools, extra parts; all as good as new. Sacri- flee. Inquire Gateway.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-16
sOUTHBOUND PASSENGER
 LISTING ON LINER YUKON

The SS Yukon, leaving Friday evening for Seattle and wayports, carried the following list of pas Sengers:
 To Seattle-John McKenory, Mrs. John Meyer, Frank Gleason, MT. and Mrs. H. w. Barnhill, William F. Barber, w. G. Smith, MT. and Mrs. Chester F. Johnson, Fred Busch
 To Juneau-F. s. Fellows, Geo. B. Phillips, Louis Leible, Harlan H. Gubser, Margaret Harvey, E. w. Anderson.
 To Latouche - Geo. Orlin, Kahn BalioS.
 To Cordova-H. B. Crewson, Ar thur H. Miller, Florence L. Nafstad.
 To Valdez-W. B. Shore, A. Young Cramz, E. Miller.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-16
LAKE RENAL ICE

Thirty-Six inches of ice still cov- CTS Lake Kenai. A peculiar circum- stance is brought to mind in con- nection with this ice sheet. Old timers in the lake country are au- thority for the statement that the ice in Kenai Lake always goes out simultaneously with that of the Nenana River, or on the day fol- lowing.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-16
D|MOND |S UNABLE ID
 FLY ID ANCHORAGE

The clements were again against Senator A. J. Dimond Friday, Dem ocratic candidate for Delegate to Congress, who has been trying for the last two days to fly from Cor dova to Anchorage in order to broadcast a campaign speech over KFQD.
 MT. Dimond was to speak into the mike" Thursday but failed to arrive because of inclement Wea- ther. It was thought he would ar rive yestreday but another tele-
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-16

gram from the popular candidate to KFQD said ice conditions on Lake Eyak, Cordova, were such that all planes equipped with skis were taken away and there is no chance now of taking off from there. There may be a pontoon- equipped plane showing up; if so, MT. Dimond will probably hop over.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-16

Because of frost and muddy con- ditions, the Anchorage-Lake Spe- nard road was closed yesterday The road is virtually impossible and must have a chance to dry out before being reopened to traf fic.