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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
IRVlNGT0N MAS0NS TO
INSTALL NEW OFFICERS
Albert NJ. Alexander to Take Of
flee as Worshipful Master.

New officers to be installed by
Irvington Masonic lodge on Friday
night at the lodge home, Johnson
avenue and East Washington street,
are as follows
Albert NJ. Alexander, worShipful
master; Don w. Stewart, senior
warden: Oscar w. Stoehr, Junior
warden; Clinton F. Mitchell, treas
urer; Bloomfield H. Moore, Secre-
tary; Henry M. King, senior dea-
con; Raleigh Burk, junior deacon;
Russell N Gallon, senior steward;
Donald Lafuze, junior steward; the
Rev Mitchell Marble, chaplain: Sam
G.. Campbell. tyler, James Gilpin.
Arthur j Randall and j. Willard
Cordrey, trustees; Ira A. Fox
worthy representative on the Ma
sonic relief board; Tull E. Brown,
organise. and John D. Snedeker,
stereoptician.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
UTILITIES COLLECT TAX
ON FEEDER PAYMENTS
Add Federal Levy to Istallments on
Lines Built by Farmers.

Lines Built by Farmers.
By Scripps-Hopard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-Utility
companies in some parts of the
country are lcvying the 3 per cent
federal electric tax upon INSTALL
ments paid by farmers on feeder
lines to their farms, as we'll as upon
electricity used, the bureau of in
ternal revenue has learned.
Complaint was made by WiScon-
sin farmers through Representative
George j. Schneider (Rep., Wis.,.
In response the bureau has an
nounced that the tax should be lev
led against installmentS, where they
are billed separately and are dis
tinguishable from other charges.
Representative Schneider has re-
quested the Wisconsin public service
commission to force utility compa-
MES to make this distinction on
their bills SO that farmers will not
be taxed on the money they put up
for their own feeder lines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
CLASS TO OPEN
ON MARRIAGE
Butler viii Begin Course
Jan. 27; Available to
All in City.

Stirred by the appalling Marion
county divorce rate Of 40.55 to every
100 marriages, Butler university will
open its first class in marriage Jan.
81. The divorce rate for the entire
nation is only 1875 to each 100 mar
riages.
The course is open to any one,
married or single, studying at the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
AUTOS CRASH IN FOG;
FOUR PERSONS HURT
Machine of Out-of- Town Family
Hits Street Car.

Machine of Out-Of-TOwn Family
Hits Street Car.
Fog obscured vision resulted in
traffic accidents Tuesday night
which injured four persons.
Three members of one family in
CURED cuts and bruises when the
automobile in which they we're rid
ING collided with a street car at
College avenue and Fifty-second
street.
The injured were Miss Margaret
Waite, 81. and DR.. Earl L. Waite, as,
her brother, both of Macy, Ind, and
their sister, Mrs. Emma Horton As,
Rochester, Ind.
Cut on the forehead and injury
of the right leg were incurred by
Vernon Overstreet. 10, of 1925 Col
lege avenue, when a truck driven by
his father, H. o, OverStreet, ran
over a curb in the 900 block, East
Forty-ninth street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
7. B. SEAL DRIVE TO
Be EXTENDED HERE
Civic Agencies to Be Asked
to Lend Aid.

Because Of the effect of economic
conditions on the pr Christmas
sale Of seals of the Marion County
tuberculosis Association, civic
agencies participating in the drive
will be asked to lend assistance in
continuance Of the campaign for
several weeks,
The prolonged campaign viii be
made in last-minlIte effort to pre-
vent income of the association from
being reduced to a point where
public health Will be endangered,
officials said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
DuvaM Opens Headouarters

Temporary headquarters of John
L. Duvall, Republican candidate for
mayor in the primary, have been
opened on the second floor of the
Aetna Trust Company building, %
North Pennsylvania street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
THIEVES TAKE 5000
BOOTY AND ESCAPE
Hotel Cash Register Is Tapped for
S55 as Clerk Sleeps.


SIS as Clerk Sleeps.
Thieves booty totaled less than
$500 in burglaries Of stores, homes
and downtown concerns Tuesday
night, police said today.
Thirty pounds of butter were
stolen by three Negro youths who
were seen to loot a Pittsford Pie
Company truck at Fifteenth street
and Senate avenue.
Walter Ross, Sc, of 118 West
Eighteenth street, night clerk in the
Lorraine hotel. reported he fell
asleep during the night and thief
took S55 from a cash register.
Other theftS: B. Cohen store. 463
West Washington street, $40; John
Kentrick. COS Pleasant Run boule-
ward, SIS; Voorhis Tire and Bat
terry Company. 61S Virginia avenue,
unestimated. and the Gold Bond
bakery Supply Company, SO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
BEST MINDS
TO AID SENATE
ECONOMIC QUIZ
'WlSeSt, SaneSt' Methods to
Fight Depression to
Be Sought.
BY LEO r. SACK
Times STAFF Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The
best minds professional and
financial, are to be asked BY the
senate to help point the way out
Of the depression.
Advice Of economists. hnanciers
and statesmen will be sought as to
the "wisest and sanest" methods of
dealing with the domestic and in
ternational situations, according to
Senator Pat Harrison Dem, Miss
sponsor Of the proposal, who hopes
they will be able to chart a course to
guiGe the nation.
Senator Harrison, who succeeds to
the Craftsmanship Of the finance
committee March 4. has prepared
a resolution, which he will introduce
next week directing the committee
to make an immediate study of the
whole economic situation with a
view Of obtaining constructive
suggestions.
Both Sides to Be Studied
His plan has the approval of his
Democratic and Republican as
sociates on the committee, and is
expected to be adopted by the
senate.
Thereafter, invitations will be for
warded to a selected group of au-
thOrities inviting tneir views as to
what procedure the nation should
follow to restore economic stability.
Senator Harrison says representa-
tives Of all schools Of thought will
be included
The committees will seek the best
possible information, for example,
on both sides of the imitation ques-
ton. 1t will seek advice on sug-
gested reduction of interest rates,
on the silver question and all re-
lated issues.
Symposium of Best Thought
I'VE hope" Senator Harrison
said, ito make this a consequential
symposium Of the best thought OBJ
tainable.
For three years we have CROPPED
in economic despair The situation
has not improved either at home
or abroad We know that COM
modify prices must be increased,
that international exchanges must
be stabilized-but how? Methods
adopted heretofore have been mere
ly palliative"
4 am hopeful that hearings will
begin early in January so that by
March We will have a composite
picture Of the best position as to
what is necessary" he declared.
Until invitations are forwarded he
will not disclose those to be invited
to testify.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
FOWLER HEADS SOCIETY
indianapolis Engineers Elect Their
Officers at Meeting.

Emmett @. Fowler was elected
president of the indianapolis Engi-
neering Society at a meeting of
directors Tuesday night at the Ant
lers. other officers named were j.
r. Monaghan, vice-president; Dan
lei B. Luten, secretary, and H. F.
Osler, treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
Universal Club to Install

Following installation of Albert
L. Rust as president of the Univer-
sal Club Tuesday, other new officers
will be installed at meeting next
Tuesday in the Columbia Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
Woman Injured in FAN

Miss Sadie Gardner. SO, of 622
East Thirty-fou street, suffered
a cut on the nose Tuesday night
when she tripped and fell while
walking in the 200 block East Ohio
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press STAFF Correspondent
(Copyricbt 1932 bv united pressl


BERLIN Dec 28The
colny current difficulties
recent drastic changes the program proposed
for its grain collection system
Russian sources generally regarded reliable told the
that there undoubtedly opposition
faction with his regime than position
of Nrtla dictat Of Russia
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-28
Strong Opposition Faced
by Stain, Soviet Chief
Concessions to Peasants Expected to Curb Rise of Blame
Heaped on Dictator for Difficulties

Of Soviet
mostly favorable
cef of a
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
SCHOOL PATROL
WAITS GONG

The Schoolboy Patrol. youthful
guardians of child safety, will be
on the job for the opening of
schools Monday morning.
More than 1000 boys, patrolling
ITO schools, have been informed
that they are to be at their posts
early Monday to guide their
young schoolmates across the
streets to safety.
This years patrol was organized
at the close of the last school
year in June from the regulars
and alternates promoted to per.
manent posts.
One policeman from each pre-.
cinct will cooperate this year
with the patrol and the Traffic
Department will continue it's pol
icy of detailing as many men as
possible to the vicinity of the
schools during school hours.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
What About LiQuor?

The prohibition question has mysteriously dropped out
of the campaign Three events noted after the party
platforms published Mr. Hoovers reinforced bid for
the wet vote Mr. Curtiss solid concrete stand for the
drys and the direct challenge of Mr. Roosevelt in the
New Jersey speech The rest is silence AS one of
Oscar Wdes characters says: the suspense is awful;
, hope it continues.
1 should be glad if the Eighteenth Amendment
repealed because then could go the wagon with
clear conscience with feeling of cowardice with
regret that l letting my country down. | would
rather like to go the for while because am
as weary as Mr. Joseph Hergesheimer of bad gin and
weak whiskey. And some three years ago began to
protest against the religion Of compulsory drinking which
the politics of compulsory prohibition had brought into
America. The great advantages which repeal will bring
to not economic, but personal and social
A Happy Time
We shall longer be compelled to drink the ancient
entertainments which went with liquor will reappear-
and the ancient good manners; shall feel free to
refuse liquor without explanation and to deny ourselves
it's consultations without feeling that aiding
fraud and Hypocrisy We shall also be able to get
wine and beer and at last be in position to say that
gin is bad drink and that every drink made of gin,
admitting any part of gin, is by that much also
bad drink We shall whskey for it's proper purpose
in emergencies, when nothing else will do.
would like the depression to end, too, and for about
the It would free minds and our
spirits Between prohibition and bad times man is
compelled to think of lot of things he'd rather hear
nothing more of.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
RAID TIME SHY
SPLIT INSTANT
Times Staff Photo

A split second made a lot of
difference where Joseph Caldwell,
colored, %, of the 400 block of G
Place Northwest, was concerned.
1t saved him from a charge of
selling liquor, Assistant District
Attorney James R. Kirkland said
today. Raiders entered the G
Place house just as Joseph was
pouring out a drink for a man
who later told police he had come
there to buy one. The transaction
was never completed.
However, Caldwell and another
occupant of the house, Bertie
King, colored, %, we're charged
with possession of a half gallon
found under a stairway, They de-
manded a jury trial and were held
under $500 bond each before
Judge Gus A. Schuldt.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
|NSURANCERATE
BOOST DELAY
. REQUESTED
Chamber of Commerce Asks
More Data Before Making
Any Recommendations

Postponement of a 26.9 per
cent increase in compensation
insurance rates imposed on en-
ployers of the District was re-
quested by a fact-finding group
of the Washington Chamber of
Commerce today.
Conceding that some boost in
the rates may be justified, Wal
ter c. Balderston, chairman of
the subcommittee of the law and
legislation committee, reported
that definite recommendations
cannot be made until detailed in
formation of local. experiences is
obtained.
Data Is Delayed
Data promised by a representa-.
tive of the National Council of
Compensation Insurance, the rate.
making body, has not been forth
coming, he said.
The rates decided upon for the
National Capital, he said, were
estimates based on the expert
ences of neighboring States. But
insuring companies, he said, have
not been able to demonstrate to
the committee that the rates are
justified locally.
The increased rates, effective
July 1, now apply only to new
business, the insuring companies
having decided not to make
retroactive. The estimated say.
ing is more than 100000.
Paid $1,452,OOO
District employers in 1880 paid
premiums amounting to $1,452,'
600, and the companies that year
paid out benefit claims of $50.
S12, leaving $481,088 for ex.
penSes, the report said.
Only $71 of each $100 collected
in premiums in 1929 went to pay
benefits nationally, it was said.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
SKATERS FIGHT.
HOLDS MAN

Howard F. Clements. colored,
of the 200 block of Fifteenth St.
N. E., is being questioned by
police today following his arrest
in connection with an alteration
last night between a group Of
colored men and several white
youths roller skating near the
Navy Building.
Police were today not aware
of what started the fracas, but
Clements is alleged to have
struck Raymond zell, 18, of the
400 block E st. S. W., in the
face and then fired several shots
from a revolver at others after
accosting Zell with:
II don't like your looks"
A passerby gave police the
number of the automobile used
by the colored men in fleeing
from the scene which was later
picked up by Ninth precinct po-
lice. It's driver, Clements. was
later identified, police said, by
Zell as his aSSailant.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
PAY SLASH HITS
ARMY WIDOW

The grim wheels of the Econmy
Act continued to turn today tc
reduce by 8.3 per cent the gratu
ity which the Government pays
to widows of deceased service
men.
Comptroller General J. R. Nc
Carl ruled that the $2,160, repre-
Senting six months pay of Hugh
C. Minter, first lieutenant All
Corps, killed July 8, awarded to
his widow, Mrs. Rose L. Minter
under Act of December II, 1919
must be reduced 8.3 per cent in
strict Interpretation Of the econ
omy law.
The decision pointed out that
while the money could not prop
erly be considered as pay" for
the deceased flying officer. it
was based on his rate of pay
and that if the officer had lived
he would have been curtailed a
months pay, hence the gratuity
must be reduced.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
JUDGES SALARY
GUT STAYS

Judges of the District Supreme
Court and District Court of Ap,
peals who have received cuts
under the Economy Act will have
no legal redress according to the
Department of Justice.
The District justices, according
to the department, do not come
under the Constitutional clause
which protects judges in the
United States courts from any
salary reduction during their
terms of office.
Under a ruling by Comptroller
General McCarl, the Department
OF Justice, which handles the
salary checks of the local jurists,
cut the pay of all justices whose
salaries were $4,000 a year or
over.
Justices OF the District Court
of Appeals heretofore received
$12,500 and those of the District
Supreme Court $4,000. Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the
latter court, before the pay cut,
received $10,500.
Judges in Federal courts else.
where than in the District are
protected by the Constitution
against salary cuts.
To comply with the suggestion
in the Economy Act it will be
necessary for them to voluntarily
return a percentage of their pay
checks to the Treasury Depart
ment. It is understood, however,
that so far only one of these
judges has made this voluntary
contribution to the Treasury
fund.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
TAXI CHAUFFEUR
GRAPPLES WITH.
ASSA|LANTS
Benjamin Zasin Saves Cash
BY Putting Up Fight; Another
Driver Robbed

Held up at the point of a
pistol in the gasoline station
at Twenty-second and Virginia
Avenue Northwest, where he
is manager, Maynard H. link,
of Alexandria, Va, was robbed
of S. by three colored bandits
early today.
Troy H. Boiling, a taxicab
driver, of the first block of
Massachusetts, Avenue Northwest,
said two colored men covered
him with a pistol and robbed
him OF $3.50 last midnight at
South Capitol and M Streets.
The pluck of BENJAMIN Zarin,
a taxicab driver, of the 900 block
Irwin st. N. W., saved him from
being robbed by two colored men
at First and M Streets Northeast,
after one of them had stunned
him with a blow on the head.
zarin told police he grabbed one
of the men but the other es-
capped. The man he held gave
the name of William Jackson, of
the first block of L Street North
west. He will be given a hearing
today.
Rudolph M. Kaufman, of the
first block of Melrose Street,
Chevy Chase, Md, reported that
while his family was absent from
the home last night someone
forced an entrance, ransacked
the house but took nothing.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15

ings, totaling $6,2OO.0OO: four
schools and colleges, totaling ST..
95O,000; one apartment building,
100000; 81 dwellings below $780,.
900. totaling $233, 300, and three
dwellings over $4,000, totaling
$4,000.
Other Projects Planned
Contemplated new building in
the District totals $4,000, 900. This
Continued on Page 10, Col. s.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
ARMY To SPEND
S4,000,000 IN
THIS AREA
Walter Reed Hospital and
Boiling Field Among
BenefiCiarieS

Approximately 50, 100000 will
be expended between Novem-
Der / and March next for build
ing Of military establishments,
improvements, installation Of
machinery and other appliances
in the District and at nearby
military posts.
It is expected at the War De-
partment that this money will be
made available when contracts
will be let.
For improvements at Walter
Reed General Hospital $4,000
has been set aside. OF this, $120,-
600 will be used for building non-
commissioned officers quarters;
100000 for nurses quarters.
Completion of barracks at Fort
Myer will take 100000, while
SIC, 900 has been appropriated for
officers quarters at Edgewood
Arsenal, Md; $4,000 for a quar-
termaster department hospital at
Holabird, Md; $150,000 for hos
pital at Ford Howard, Md, and
$40, 900 for non-commissioned Of
ficers' quarters at Fort Hoyle,
Md; $150,000 has been approved
for officers quarters at Fort
Humphreys, Va.
Nearly $1,OoO,0OO will be ex-
pended at Boiling Field for non'
commissioned officers quarters,
dispensary, post exchange, thea
ter, gymnasium. officers mess
and a central heating plant.
New buildings and improve
ments amounting to approx
mately $467 900 at Langley Field
have been decided upon.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
District Has Leading Part
In u. s. Building Gain

The District of Columbia is tax.
ing .cading part in the upswing
of building activities throughout
the country, according to a survey
published by the American
Architect today.
The survey, based on direct re-
ports from 1886 representative
architects. and other sources,
shows that building and moderniz-
ing projects now already financed
amount to $572.738, 900.
Contemplated construc ton
reaches an additional figure of
$1.181, ,06S, 900.
Building in the National Capital
for the coming year, according to
the survey, will total $44,558, 900.
This does not include the Federal
building projects nor minor
projects not under the supervision
of architects.
Only Nine States Ahead
The District estimate is ex-
ceeded by those in only nine
States. With the possible excep.
ton of Minnesota and California,
these are admittedly the leading
industrial States.
New building now under plan
ming and already financed in the
District totals $27,4O0,O0O. This
figure includes 10 hospitals and
institutions, on which work has
been authorized, totaling $780,.
900; three office buildings. total.
ing $6,150.00O; three public build.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
NeU OheU ShOLOn1
Rabbi to Take Post

Rabbi Zemach Yarkohey, who
succeeds Rabbi J. T. Loeb as
rabbi and teacher of the Ohev
Sholom Congregation at Fifth
and I Streets Northwest, will be-
gin his new duties tomorrow.
Rabbi Loeb, who is under con-
tract to the Jewish Educational
Association, is transferred to the
synagogue at Eighth and Shep-
herd Streets Northwest. During
the holidays beginning October 1
he will conduct a temporary
synagogue in the Joppa Lodge
Building at Eighth and Upshur
Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
Appeal Cites Need
Of Children For
School Clothes

Children of unemployed pa
rents must be properly clothed,
so they, too, may enter school
promptly.
With this statement, the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter of
the American Red Cross again
appealed today for volunteer
workers to assist in making gar
ments.
Workers are needed for the
assembling and making of gar
ments. At present, garments
for school children which are
all cut and assembled may be
had at the chapter house, 1870
E st, N, w,
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
Property Staff Set
To MOUe in October

Offices of the Alien Property
Custodian the Tower Building,
Fourteenth and K Streets North
west, will be moved shortly to the
Hurley-Wright building, H. A,
Candland, secretary of the Public
Buildings Commission, announced
today.
The move will result in an an
nual saving to the Government Of
nearly $4,000. Transfer of equip
ment will be effected between
October and IA.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
Trio GndWOn11n Held
Under LIQUOR Bonds

Three colored men and a col
ored woman were placed under
1000 bond on charges of trans.
portation and possession of liquor
by U. S. Commissioner j. Frank
Parran at Upper Marlboro yes
terday. They were Edna Bryant,
Samuel JeffrieS and Robert and
George Walker. They were ar
rested near Silver Hill.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
TheGter Company
Is Sued for $4,000

The Cosmos Theater Co.,
operating the Earle Theater, to-
day was: sued for $4,000 in Dis.
trict Supreme Court by Mrs.
Catherine Scott. 400 block Mass
achuSettS Ave. N. w., as the re-
suit of the alleged election of
Mrs. Scott and her daughter
from the theater.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15
WOnaGnDOCtOr'ST s Trial
POStDOned One Week

The trial of DR.. Edith S. Cole,
of the 800 block of Sixteenth st.
N. W.. scheduled for Police Court
at HyattsVille yesterday, was
postponed until next week.
DR.. Cole is alleged to have
struck Chief of Police H. L. MO
Cormick, of Colmar Manor, when
he tried to arrest her on a traf-
fic charge.
The Washington times., 1932-09-15

GTLBERr sELDEs Yet from time to time l nave my
doubts That the presidency is not good job grows
clearer every day. that not spiritually qualified
is no less certain What brings it home to me is the
list of childhood reading remembered in the Cosmopolitan
Magazine by ex-President Coolidge It is sober list
and serious one and pleased to find our former
head of Government putting down the of school
books among the poems and biographies. l am sure
that my ideas of American history came from text
book but whether it Barnes Montgomery can
not remember; and there Fourth Reader which
incucated noble emotions; and Primer of Health
pretty good.
Not Qualified
But there it ends. Although of those
comfortable little boys who always reading and have
to be booted out to play and get their health do not
remember what I read until l was about 12 when, in
the natural of events, I went through "Uncle
Toms Cabin Gn the thickest shortest, fattest little
book I've ever SEEM and I ruined my eyes David
Copperfied." Before that my memory is a blank
cannot say what formed my mind my STYLE bringing
them to the pitch perfection in which find them
today. e. :-..
1t seems in fact obligatory for Presidents to have
clearly marked childhoods. My owns blur I do not
qualify