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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
AIRPORT BRIDGE
TO Be DELAYED
County Unable to Share
Elevation Cost Now.

Interest in affording the best
possible entrance to the new NUM-
cipal airport, the city works board
has written county commissioners
soliciting their opinion regarding
proposed construction of an over
head bridge over the Pennsylvania
tracks on High School road.
Increased traffic due to the air
ports development, has enhanced
dangers made by sharp turn lead
ing from the present bridge to the
T. H., I. g. E. traction tracks near
by.
The proposed project would cost
approximately 100000 This ex-
pense would be shared by the city
county and railroad company.
Commissioners said they Endorsed
the proposal Of the works board. but
would hesitate to have the county
assume any financial responsibility
in the matter at this time.
I'VE think that the project is a
much needed one. However, the
county can not undertake such
financial obligation at this time, -
Dow w. Vorhies, commissioners
board president, said.
Commissioners Thomas Ellis and
George Snider concurred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
ESPIONAGE DEFENDED
Major YardIey Cites Need
at Town Hall Talk.

IF we are too virtuous to use the
same methods of espionage used by
other nations, then we had better
stop meddling in far eastern and
European politics" Major Hebert o.
Yardley, Worthington, Ind, said at
English's today before a Town Hall
audience.
Yardley was chief of the cryptic
graphic bureau of the United
States military intelligence before
this bureau was eliminated by Sec
rotary of State Stimson on the
ground that the methods employed
were "unethical."
The speaker said he would not
admit the methods were unethical,
but indicated that Stimson would
not have made such rank failure"
at certain foreign conferences if he
had known what certain statesmen
were thinking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
BISHOP Cannon
Wins IN FIGHT
ON INDICTMENT
District of Columbia Judge
SuStainS Demurrer in
Campaign Case.
APPEAL TO BE TAKEN
None of Counts Alleges Any
Criminal 0ffense,
JuriSt Rules.
APPEAL TO BE TAKEN
By United Press

~ ONtLe0 PfeSS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Justice
J. M. Proctor, in District of Column
bia supreme court today, sustained
the demurrers Of Bishop James
Cannon Jr. and Miss Ada L. Bur-
roughs to indictments charging
them with violation of the federal
corrupt practices act.
The indictments grew out Of the
investigation by a senate committee
of Cannon'S activities against Al
fred E. Smith in the 1928 presiden-
tial campaign.
The ruling of Justice Proctor has
the effect of quashing the indict-
ments, unless it is reversed by high
er court. United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover, in charge Of the
prosecution, said he would appeal to
the District of Columbia court of
appeals.
The demurrer was sustained on
the ground that none of the counts
in the indictment against Cannon
alleged any criminal offense.
The Cannon case grew out of
testimony before the senate COM
mittee investigating campaign ex-
penditures. 1t was alleged that
Cannon received some $65,000 for
expenditures in Virginia, where he,
a Democrat, was fighting the can
didacy of Alfred E. Smith for
President in 1928.
Of this amount, it was commended
only a portion was accounted for
in reports filed by Cannon's organ
ization with the clerk of the house
Of representatives. The law re-
quireS reports of all campaign ex-
penditures, it was argued.
The testimony was placed before
a federal grand jury here last fall
and an indictment charging viola
ton of the corrupt practices act was
returned.
Cannon pleaded not guilty and
filed a demurrer. He argued that
the campaign involved the selection
of presidential electors and that
presidential electors are state, and
not federal, officers.
Therefore, he contended, no fed
eral statute requiring reports OF
campaign expenditures applied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
Killer First in Quarter oil
Century to Go From
Here to Doom.

A pale young man who resembled
college student rather than a
twice convicted murderer, who
sneered when he heard his death
sentence pronounced, trembled from
head to foot today when he left
Marion county Jail for death row
at state prison.
His hands shook as he extended
them and handouts snapped. His
lower lip quivered as he talked
and he shivered with cold and
nervousness when he was placed in
the car that took him to Michigan
City.
He was Charles Vernon Witt
convicted 27-year-old slayer of La
fayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis
chain store chief. Witt is scheduled
to die in the prison electric chair
Aug. l.
First in Years From Here
If the supreme court fight OF
that nervous, thin young man fails
he will be the first ever to die or
a conviction from the Boone county
court at Lebanon, and the first in
nearly q quarter century to pay
with his life for a crime committee
in Indianapolis.
The shadows of the gallows of the
early COS, which stood in the ole
Jail yard, near the present court
house, seemed to fall in step behind
Witt in the early morning light as
he walked to the automobile of
Sheriff Wilbur Small.
Only deputy Sheriffs, a newspa-
paper man and a photographer at
tended the killers departure today
Worries About Weather
"It is very cold out this morn
ing?" Witt asked.
Pretty chilly" he was told.
The gunman hunched his top
coat over his shoulders.
81 guess it'll be warm enough in
the car, though" he said. Yeah,
I'm feeling fine. I kind of hate to
leave down here"
His hands trembled and his lower
lip quivered while he talked. He
shifted nervously from one foot to
the other.
Small, and Ernest Richardson and
William Warren, deputies, strolled
to the car with Witt.
There the slayer received the
surprise of his trip and, perhaps.
his life. In addition to the hand
cuffs, Small locked leg shackles on
the convict.
Leg Irons Snapped On
The Shackles, dug out of the
archives of the Marion county jail,
are attached by a heavy chain less
than two feet long.
Witt was damned into the rear
seat of the car between Richard
son and Warren while Small drove.
He stared intently at Small while
the sheriff attached the leg irons.
Well he said, II don't know
whether I'll see any of you boys
again or not. I'm going to take
care of myself. 1 might get a
break before it happens
Louis E. Hamilton, alleged "trig-
ger man" of the Staying, which took
place May q, 1881, still is in Jail
here, pending trial at Lebanon.
Witt went to the state prison at
Michigan City today with two muir
ders laid to him. Less than three
years ago he was serving a life
sentence for the Staying of a Kan
sas City deputy sheriff, but escaped
from the penitertiary.
Branded as tough" by authori-
ties, Witt appeared far more ner-
vous than the ordinary prisoner to-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
BY CHARLES G. STONE
State Editor. The Times

An industrial and business sur
vey of Indiana for the week ended
today reveals encouraging develop
mentS at Elwood, Beech Grove,
Cayuga, Columbia City, Washing
ton, Michigan City and South Bend.
Operations will be started Mon
day in all departments of the
American tinplate mills at Elwood
on a half time basis.
After being closed for several
months, operations have been re-
Sumed in the Acme Brick plant at
Cayuga. Thirty men are at work.
Announcement was made during
the week that 1900 men will be
given employment Feb. is when OPP
erationS are resumed in locomotive
shops of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad at Beech Grove. The shops
have been idle since Dec. l.
An order for $4,000 yards Of up
holstering to be used in Hupmobile
automobiles, has been placed with
the Columbian Wooden Mills, Co.
lumbia City.
With $50 persons on the pay roll,
operations of the Reliance Man
ufacturing Company at Washington,
are on full-time basis.
/ Two orders for a total Of 5000 re-
frigerators. received by the Cabra-
nette Corporation of Michigan City.
will assure steady employment to
sixty-five men for the next six
months.
An announcement by the Bendix
Aviation Corporation states that an
order to close its wheel and brake
division plant at South Bend has
been rescinded and operations viii
continue at least until April is.
An addition is being built to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12

pleas, demands and curses with vim
and vigor.
What's the matter with the
hghtS7" hundreds asked.
They'll be on in y few minutes. -
And, as that conversation took
place, you could hear other girls on
the exchange telling others the
same.
But came and went. Candles
dipped their wax on tablecloths and
housewives did their best in kitch-
ems and dining rooms.
In the civilized sections of the
city where lights were on, the fiji
teen minutes of Amos m Andy
passed peacefully. But in the belt
OF darkness, condemnation of the
utility heaped high.
n
A FTER an hour, the residents
L "A despaired. But still several
hundreds called the light company.
The reply now was that lights will
be On in a little while"
Beer in electric ice boxes got
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
FACTORIES REPORT
GAINS IN BUSINESS

plant of the Pitman-Moore Com
pany' at Zionsville.
A million dollars will be brought
into the community surrounding
Decatur next fall through operation
of the plant formerly owned by the
Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company
which will ne leased by the Great
Lakes Sugar Company of Toledo, o.
Contracts have already been signed
with sugar beet growers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
BRAND SHERIFF
AS BANDIT AID
Jurors Told BIaCkford Co.
Official Helped Robbers.

By United Press
PORTLAND, Ind, Feb. IA de-
scription of Ira Barton'S actions
last Dec. "a, the day the First State
bank of Dunkirk was robbed, was
before a jury today as the state
presented additional testimony de-
signed to show that Barton was an
accessory to the holdup. Barton at
the time was sheriff of Blackford
county.
Three officials of the Dunkirk
bank described the robbery,
A few minutes before the hold
up, Mayor John White of Dun
kirk testified, Barton was at the
city building inquiring as to the
whereabouts of the chief of police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
CONTRACT = HowTo Score 1t
Z:ysElBRIDCEG ~

line in the trick score, North and
South score 30 points each for the
two spades bid and made, or go
points.
AS they made four spades, they
score the two overtricks above the
line in their honor score at so
points each, or 100 points.
North and South now have IS
points toward game.
(copyright. 1882 NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
Few Hear Broadcast
By United Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The papal
blessing Of Pope Plus xI, broad
cast from Vatican City's radio sta
ton, HVJ, at a. m. central time)
today, was picked up by only a few
short wave set operators in the
United States, according to officials
OF the National Broadcasting Com
pany. Climatic conditions over the
Atlantic and along the eastern
coast made for poor reception, they
reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
LOCAL PAIR ACCUSED
IN TOLEDO ROBBERIES
Returned to Ohio to Face Charges
for Two Bank HOldups.

Two Indianapolis men, charged
with participating in robbery Of
two Toledo (O) banks, were re-
turned today, after Criminal Judge
Frank P. Baker released them to
Toledo detectives.
Testimony before Judge Baker
Thursday afternoon showed the
men were held here in connection
with an automobile theft and hold
upA
They were Edward Lee, 80, of sos
North Noble street, and Earl Rob-
erts, 80, Of 1410 Deloss street, ar
rested here week ago. Police said
each had served ten years in state
reformatory at Pendleton. They
had been on parole four months.
More than $4,000 was taken from
the Toledo banks, robbed Dec. %,
1881, and Jan. 2, 1892. Two other
bandits caught several weeks ago,
are reported to have implicated Lee
and Roberts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12

For, at 5:45, as the news gatherer
Of national magazine was to
broadcast, lights in hundreds of
homes went out. In others, nearby
the lights f1ickered and faded, but
came back strong.
In those fifteen minutes before
the two-man blackface team in New
York was to tell about it's new car
and Lightnin' was to make phone
love to his girl, the $4o,0Oo.O00 In
dianapolis utility that cheated its
public Of the broadcast received
hundreds Of calls.
Il
TIRLS on the switchboard at the
" indianapolis Power and Light
Company tossed aside their phone
operators personality and replied to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12

struck the high and low, with can
dies Pickering in homes in the
wealthy section on North Illinois
street and in little cottages on
Graceland avenue.
The transformer break also dark
ened the west side of Illinois street
as far south as Fall creek, while
lights blazed on the east side.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
Homer Mckee Is Leader

Commander in-chief is Colonel
Frank Knox, sandy-haired news
paper publisher who pulled at his
pipe in the bare room furnished
with battered desks as his colleagues
outlined the campaign.
Released temporarily from his
duties as vice-president Of the Pull
man Company, James Kelley ac-
lively will direct the multiple forces
shifting into action. His helpers are
John N. Van Der Vries of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, and
Homer Mckee, who was a news
paper cartoonist in Indianapolis be-
fore he became a nationally known
advertising man.
Nobody but the newspapers and
the army could do job as fast as
this" said Mckee. That is what is
proposed-an army in which citizens
and their dollars will fight side by
side to drive out depression.
The fight is on two fronts. First
to force money hidden by fear in
safe deposit vaults, under mattresses
and in backyard burying places into
circulation. Second, to educate citi-
zens in the function of credit and
the far-reaching effects which
panicky withdrawal of bank deposits
will exert on business.
Draft Every Agency
All the resources of modern bust
ness have been drafted into the de-
preston fighting forces. The press,
banks, chambers of commerce, labor
unions, fraternal societies, the
American Legion and religious or
CARNATIONS have been called to
serve on a wartime basis.
For three weeks a barrage will be
laid down on the boarded dollars
and their owners. Appeals by every
possible medium will be made TO
educate and enlist citizens. The
campaign will be carried into fac
tories and homes and through every
degree of society.
Bonds as Low as $40
A seven-day push" will follow
the three-week preparation in a
drive which the leaders feel positive
will tear the depression-frozen dol
lars from hiding and release a ire
mendous flow of credit into bust
ness hardened arteries.
Each dollar put back into circu-
lation automatically is multiplied by
ten in credit, Colonel Knox ex-
planned.
The exact character of govern
ment securities to be sold will be
determined by Secretary of the
Treasury Ogden Mills within few
days. But it already has been de-
cided that denominations will be
as small as $40, that they will bear
interest, and that, at least in the
smaller denominations they will be
readily negotiable for cash.
President Hoover himself will
usher in the weeks sales drive in
radio address over a nation wide
hookup at the zero hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
Dynamite Fails to Explode

Vandals tossed a stick of dynamite
into a poolroom at 1856 English
avenue, early today, but the charge
failed to explode, Ralph Collier,
owner, reported to detectives. Collier
said the fuse had burned half way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
JUST LIKE LINCOLN
City Reads by Light of Candles

BE LINCOLN whose birth the today
climb to the presidential by studying by
the north side Of indianapolis Thursday night
by freight candlelight and coal oil
Those hundreds the
Amos n ANDY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
Arrest Follows Booze Raid

Robert Walsh, 141 West Twentieth
street, faces trial today on a Find
tiger charge after police raid his
home Thursday, claiming they con-
flscated thirty-one quarts of home
brew.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
Stumbled about their homes by
freight ...

NSuDACu dUOuC CHciF MONIES Oy
freight -.
warm. And the light of candles
fell on electric clocks that had
stopped at 5:45.
Street lights remained untouched
By the light trouble, which, an off,
cial of the company who had to
pass up a church dinner and re-
cruit men to do repair work, said
was caused by a transformer which
failed.
Two hours after the last flicker,
the lights still were not on.
Most of the residents, tired of
candlelghtS, went to movies or for
rides, leaving dishes unwashed.
y
OTHERS visited across the street
~ or around the corner, where
lights on another circuit shone in
defiance.
Shortly before 9 the lights re-
turned.
The affected district was north
of Thirty-fourth street on Illinois,
Capitol, Kenwood, Graceland and
several streets west. The condition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
Bid One-Made Developments
Hold HonorS
Bid Two-Made Four

The final contract for North and
South was two spades. They made
four spades, but as only two spades
were bid, just two can be scored
toward game. therefore below the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
BY VIM. e. M'KENNEY
Secretary, American Bridge League

UNDOUBTEDLY, the scoring of
~ contract has been the most
confusing factor to the beginner.
While there is nothing really COM
plicated about it, there is lot more
to contract bridge scoring than
there was to auction, and if you will
remember, you did have to learn
how to score at auction.
To play contract successfully.
you must understand thoroughly
how to score it.
So that our readers will become
thoroughly familiar with contract
scoring, we will present a series of
six articles showing how to score a
double rubber at contract bridge.
Practically every situation that
can arise at the bridge table will
be explained in this short series.
We suggest that you clip the articles
for future reference.
Try scoring rubber at contract
yourself. If a situation comes up
that puzzles you, these articles will
clear the situation for you.
Beside each figure in the score
you will find small letter in pa
rentheses. Following is the de-
tailed information on each of the
various scoring problems. We will
call the eve" side North and South.
and the They" side East and West.
(a)
Bid One-Made One-Opponents
Hold Honors
North and South get the contract
for one no trump. Only one no
trump is made, therefore North and
South score IS points in their point
or trick score, below the line. East,
however, held four aces in his hand,
therefore East and West score $50
points above the line in their honor
score.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
ROOSEVELT FILES AGAIN
New York Governor Enters Primary
Race ira Georgia.
By United Press

BIZ Lnited Press
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 12-Gover-
nor Franklin Z. Roosevelt formally
has entered MS name in the Geor-
gia presidential preference primary
of March %, Major John S. Cohen,
Democratic national committeeman
from Georgia, announced here to-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-12
NATIONWIDE
WAR STARTED
ON BOARDING
Homer Mckee, indianapolis
Advertising Man, One of
Campaign Generals.
SEEK STACKER DOLLARS
Drive Expected to Prove
Needed Tonic for U. S.
Business.
Ccopyright. 1882. bv United Press

Copyright 1882. BY United Press
CHICAGO. Feb. IA call to
arms was sounded over the nation
today, in a mighty war against the
depression.
President Hoover's leaders Of the
whirlwind campaign announced as
the battlefield every city, hamlet
and rural community of the coun-
try and the weapon as $1,000 100000
in low-priced, Understanding
bonds.
The drive, backed by the united
forces that swept billions INTO the
governments wartime Golfers, will
strike at the heart of money-hoard-
ing, which has frozen credit and
laid a clammy hand on industry.
In a stripped-for-action office
high in a Chicago newspaper build
ing, the generals of the offensive
revealed their plans, simple but far
reaching.
Evening star., 1932-08-14

Surrogate James A. Foley so ruled
today, basing his decision on an agree
ment signed in 1928 by Gov. Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania and his
brother, Amos r. E. Pinchot, the next
Of kin. Mrs. Hopkinson had married
British diplomat the year previous,
but Gov. Pinchot and his brother agreed
she was to receive the income on the
trust fund, despite her residence abroad.
Emo, who died in 1915, stipulated in
his will that his great-niece was to
forfeit the money to Columbia Uni
versity If she lived elsewhere than in
the United States A ruling was sought
when Mrs. Hopkinson accompanied her
husband from washington to his new
post at Stockholm.
Evening star., 1932-08-14
MRS. BILBO WANTS LONG
TO HELP IN CAMPAIGN
Wife of Former Mississippi Cover
nor Asks Senator's Aid After See
ing Result in Arkansas Race.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON. Miss, August 13-A new
bid for the services of Senator Huey P.
Long, Louisiana's "kingfsh," and his
sound trucks in a congressional cam
paign was sent to him today by Mrs.
Theodore G. Bilbo, wife of the former
Mississippi Governor.
Mrs. Bilbo, in revealing that she had
dispatched telegram to Senator Long,
made known her intention of entering
the race for one of Mississippi's seven
congressional seats, provided the State
Democratic Executive Committee de-
clares the primary from the State at
large and thus opens the field to new
candidates
Mississippi's redistricting act recently
was declared invalid and court action
is awaited to determine the status of
candidates in the primary August %.
Twice the States first lady. Mrs.
Bilbo, will be in the unusual position of
running against her husband if she
enters the race, since the former Gov
ernor now is stumping the State in be-
halp of his own candidacy for con-
gressional seat from the State at large.
She emphasized, however, that she
would lin no wise" oppose her husband
Senator Long had not answered her
telegram tonight.