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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
Appeal Delays Execution;
Slew Son-in-LaW With
Shotgun.


COOLEEMEE, N. c., Jan. IA
feeble old man, white bearded,
nearly blind, sits calmly in the Da-
vie county jail and awaits the &C
ton Of the high court that must
decide whether he is to go to the
electric chair.
For John Henry Hauser is a muir
derer. The fact that he is 81, with
scarcely the strength to move his
rheumatic body with a cane, was no
legal concern of the judge who
sentenced him after a jury last
September had pronounced him
guilty.
Hauser, the murderer, who looks
like a patriarch, knows we'll that
he has but a little while to live,
even if society decides not to exact
it's toll of a life for a life. But
he doesn't want to die that way.
After all these years of living and
working within the law, of making
a home for his wife (who had her
seventy ninth birthday recently,
and of placidly watching the lower
ing twilight OF life, he doesn't want
to die like a vicious gunman.
Claims Self-Defense
Hauser killed his own SON Law
He admits that, but claims it was
in self-defense.
Since his daughter, Viola Hauser
married Fred S. Styers twelve
years ago, the old couple had made
their home with the Styers here in
Davie county.
1t was last May that a bitter
quarrel arose between the old man
and Styers, who was "a. They ar
gued about the advisability OF
blowing a strip of land.
Hauser was sitting on the back
porch. He says he saw, with his
one feeble eye, his son-in-law adj
vancing on him with a stick. He
seized a shotgun and discharged il
at StyerS at close range. Styers
fell, died instantly. They led HauseI
off to Jail, charged with murder.
During the three-day trial, de-
Tense counsel first tried to show
mental incapacity' of the agec
man to premeditate crime
Abruptly the plea was switched tc
self-defense. The jury called him
guilty.
Many Plead for Leniency
judge John H. Clement pro.
nounced sentence. He said thai
HauSer was to die in the electric
chair Dec. 8. 1881. But counsel sue.
ceeded in placing an appeal before
the state supreme court, and thai
provided an automatic stay of exc
cution.
The case attracted immediate at
tention. Thousands of letters have
come to state and county officials
and to newspapers, pleading fol
leniency for the oldest person ever
to receive death sentence in thL
state.
In the Davie county Jail at Mocks-
vile, N. c., the patriarch sits anc
awaits a fate that will be finally
decided at the summer term of the
supreme court.
Hauser is surprised that so man!
people are concerned with the fatt
of IAN old codger who amt much
good to anybody now" But HI
hopes their appeals will not be II
vain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
Moratorium Plan Drafted
BV United Pres

~ UHited Press
PARIS, Jan. "a Sir Frederick
Leith-Ross, British treasury expert
left for London today, reported to
be carrying the outline of a French
plan for settlement of debts and
separations, which the French and
British would submit jointly to the
United States. The plan. it was
reported, embraced the following
features:
l. A tWo-year moratorium on the
conditional annuities to be paid bv
Germany which correspond to the
allied debt payments to the United
States. The annuities, however,
would be annulled if the United
States agreed to cancel the debts.
2. The unconditional annuities
would be met by creating German
railway bonds bearing a total in
terest Of $500, 900, the equivalent
Of the annuity the railways pay the
international bank at present under
the Young plan. However, 20 help
Germany, payment of interest would
begin only in 1884.
3. If interallied debts are cam
celed, the United States would be
compensated by allotment of a por-
ton OF the railway bonds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
ACTION is FAST ON
YELLING CHARGES

of Mrs Margaret Arnold that Veh1-
ing attempted to obtain $3.50, an au-
tomobile and other property to in
fluence the coroner to return an &C
cidental death verdict in the gas
death of Benjamin Stickel last
March.
In circuit court, prosecutors filed
demurrer, declaring the plea in
abatement in Vehling's behalf did
not constitute cause of action. The
prosecution averred the contention
of Vehling's attorneys, that an i'm
parchment case in Johnson county
should be tried first, is erroneous
because an individual and not the
prosecutor is the plaintiff.
The state law provides a prosecu-
tor must bring impeachment action
against an official.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
JAMES F. ORR DIES
Internal Revenue EmpIoye
SuCCumbS in Hospital.

James F. Orr, so, of 1916 College
avenue, auditor in the income tax
department in the Federal build
ing, died today in st. Vincent's hos
pital of pneumonia.
He was a brother-in-law of L. A.
Pittenger, president OF Ball Teach
ers' college at Muncie.
Mr.. Orr, who served in the tax
department seven years, came here
from Portland to take the position.
Mr.. Orr attended Indiana univer-
sity, where his only son, James N.
Orr, is a freshman this year. Mr..
Orr was a member of Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity and belonged to
Masonic orders, including knights
Templar, and the Presbyterian
church.
The funeral probably will be held
Thursday, with burial at Muncie.
Survivors besides the son are the
widow, Mrs. Helen Orr; his father
James N. Orr, of Selma, Ind, and
two sisters, Mrs. W. G. Hirons OF
Portland and Mrs. L. A. Pittenger
of Muncie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
1000 REDS ARRESTED

Paris Police Rout Communists
Storming Chamber of Deputies.
By United Press
PARIS. Jan. 12.-Police made
hundreds of arrests as Communists
and other demonstrators attempted
to storm the chamber of deputies
on the reconvening of parliament
today.
Authorities announced arrests in
the vicinity of the chamber would
exceed 1000. Open clashes occurred
between police and demonstrators.
particularly Communists, seeking to
protest the insuficiency of the ur-
employment dole. Police and
mounted troops rode through the
mob, breaking it I'D into smaller
groups
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
SETTLE QUITS
COMMITTEE ON
TAX PROJECT
Farm Bureau Head Prefers
to Let Bush and Myers
Choose Group.
WARNS AGAINST DELAY
AppointeeS Are Expected to
Draft Program for
Special Session.

William H. Settle, president Of
the Indiana Farm Bureau, today
withdrew from the committee
named to appoint a group to draft
tax equalization program for a
special session of the general as
Sembly.
He declared that much loss OF
valuable time would result from the
attempts of himself and John r
bingham, Indianapolis meat packer
to meet and select the committee
and that he felt, to expedite mat
tiers, the men should be named by
Lieutenant-Govern Edgar D. Bush
and House Speaker Walter Myers.
Settle notified Bush of his deci-
sion at a conference today. The
Lieutenant Governor then arranged
meeting with Myers for late this
afternoon when the personnel will
be considered.
In Taxpayers Interest
In announcing his decision to
withdraw, Settle said that he felt
that ut was in the best interests
of the taxpayers that there be no
further delay"
Il had arranged conference
with Mr.. bingham for 10 a. m. Mon
day and, after waiting until noon,
he came into the Office for a few
minutes and said that he was I'M
avoidably delayed in court. We
discussed the program in gener-
alities, and as we could not seem
TO get together on a meeting date,
I feel that it is best for the Lieu
tenant Governor and speaker to
select the personnel.
Further delay is dangerous"
Bush Comes to City
Bush interrupted the pig killing
on his farm at Salem to come to
Indianapolis and confer with Settle
Myers, who is at Seymour ad-
dressing the Rotary Club there, no.
titled Bush that he would return at
4 p. m. when the pair will meet.
A tentative list of nine commit
teemen has been drafted and will
be considered by both when they
confer.
Those considered and their CLASH
f1cationS are as follows: Agriculture
Lewis Taylor, farm bureau vice
president; labor, Thomas N. Taylor
president of the State Federation of
Labor; manufacturing, John E
Friedrich, president of the State
Chamber of Commerce; real estate
Albert Uhl, president of the Indi-
annapolis Real Estate Board; invest
ments, Gavin Payne; banking
Frank D. Stalnaker, president OF
the Indiana National bank; mer-
chants, Victor Kendall, and Settle
and Kinghan as members at large
Denies He Plans Coup
Bush denied that he would make
any attempt to call a special seS-
sion of the general assembly in
event Governor Leslie left the state
1t was reported that Leslie had been
forced to cancel trips because of his
fear that Bush would issue such a
CALL
Attorney-G General James M. Og-
den has declared the Lieutenant
Governor can not take such step.
Meanwhile, the Indiana tax sur
vey committee, appointed by Leslie
in 1880 to study the tax problem
met here Monday.
Attention Of the committee will
be directed to plans for cutting
government costs, announced State
Senator j. Clyde Hoffman, the
chairman.
Data on this subject will be as
sembled and presented to the COM
mittee at meeting Jan. 81, he said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12

driving of drunken autoists and nine
others on the failure of autoists to
heed the speed limit.
The figures were presented on de-
mand of Donald S. Morris, safety
board member, who last Tuesday
declared the city must do some
thing to halt the traffic death
toll"
Today he asked if law could be
enforced to prevent jaywalking.
and police officials told him 1T has
been tried before, but without sue
cess"
Causes Of other accidents we're
numerous, as set out in Owens sur
Vey statistics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
CITY'S AUTO DEATH
RATE is ANALYZED
Drunken drivers.

Jaywalking. Drunken drivers.
Speeding.
Those were the chief causes for
Indianapolis terrific traffic death
rate during 1881, according to a
diagnosis of fatalities made today
for the safety board by Lieutenant
Frank Owen.
Last year 11s persons we're killed
in the city limits and f1fty-eight
others lost their lives in traffic ac-
cidents in the county.
Owen told the board twenty-five
pedestrians we're killed because they
did not cross streets at corners.
He laid the blame for deaths of
ten other persons on the reckless
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
Salaries Reduced

By United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. IA 10 per
cent wage cut, affecting 1000 en-
ployes of the Railway Express
Agency, Inc, was in effect today,
dating from Jan /. The reduction
applied to all earning a salary of
$3.50 a month or more.
With announcement of this
action came notice that the
Express Agency would cut the
wages of $4,000 unionized workers
bV Is per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
PLANE CARRIES ILL MAN
tuberculosis Patient Taken Home in
Capitol Airport Ship.

A cabin plane at Capitol airport
was converted into an ambulance
plane Sunday to convey a Sunny
side sanatorium patient to his home
in Johnson, Ind, thirty miles north
west of Evansville.
The patient, Lawrence Smith, who
was unable to stand the long trip
by automobile, because of his con-
dition, was taken by ambulance to
Capitol airport.
AT the airport he was placed in
Travel Air cabin monoplane,
piloted by Don Billinghurst, and
transported speedily TO his home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12

Directors are:
John R. WEIGH
H. H. Hornbrook,
Franklin Vonne-
gut, G. A. If
roymson, w. II,
Insley, j. I. Dis
settle, Edgar H,
Evans and G.. L.
Kirk. No one was
named to succeed
j. A. Hooker, who
d lie d sc yer ]
months ago.
Officers are
WEIGH, president;
Kirk, vice-presi-
cintat and nnnra1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
Publishers sued

BIZ Times Special
SHELBYvILLE. Ind. Jan. IL
Sylvester w. and Anna D. Summons,
former owners of the Morristown
sun, weekly newspaper, have filed
a replevin suit in Shelby circuit
court here against Harry E.. Edward
and Louie Lucas, present publish
ers. Plaintiffs allege failure to make
payments for the paper. and seek its
return and $500 damages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
SMOKE GROUP TO MEET
Hanley, Popp on Program of League
for Friday Session.

Methods of curbing the smoke
nuisance will be discussed at a
meeting of the indianapolis Smoke
Abatement League, and allied or
CARNATIONS, Friday afternoon in the
Big Four building, Meridian and
Maryland streets.
w. A. Hanley, director of engi-
neering for the Eli Lilly g. Co., and
George R. Popp Jr, city combustion
engineer, will be speakers.
Stationary engineers and firemen,
custodians and janitors from all
parts of the city are expected to
attend, according to Roy Johnson,
secretary-manager of the league.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
UTILITIES REGULATED
Holding Companies Get Short
Shrift in California.

EV UHUcd Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Active
state regulation of public utilities
in California has made well known
holding companies conspicuous for
their absence" Examiner Judson G.
Dickerman testified today before the
federal trade commission.
Dickerson reported on the Cali
fornia properties of the North
American Company group.
CALIFORNIA; well supported" state
commission, he said, has made
''write-ups of property accounts
and security issues without actual
investment costs behind them ap-
parently impossible and useless"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
UHL APPOINTED
ON TAX Group
Realtors to Seek Uniform
State, National Taxes.

Albert E. Uhl, chairman of the
taxation committee of the Indian
apolis Real Estate Board, today was
appointed a member of the national
committee on state and national
taxation of the National Association
of Real Estate Boards, by L. T
Stevenson, national president.
This national committee, to be
composed of representative from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12

each state, will
draft a uniform
program of state
and national tax
alton which the
real estate boards
of the country
will attempt to
have adopted.
A report on
taxation by the
national research
d e p ar t ment Of
real estate boards
will be submitted
to a. national
meeting of real
tors in st. Louis
next week. After
acti0n nv tha
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
ARMY DUMP FOUND
BY SCHOOL YOUTHS

Cook, IS, of 1872 South Oakland ave-
nue., and Ward Watson, IL, Of BAIT
Southeastern avenue.
The helmets, the boys told police,
will be used to play real war"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12

convention, the proposals will be
turned over to the national taxa
ton committee to work out.
Uhl today wired Stevenson his
acceptance Of the post.
I feel that real estate has borne
more than its share of taxation for
some time" Uhl stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
Post Attacks CanceIinu
"a Enited Prees

hU DHtttu PTes8
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12-The
Saturday Evening Post today came
out with an attack on proposals for
cancellation or drastic reductions Of
war debts owed the United States
by European nations.
In an editorial written by it's
editor, George Horace Lorimer. il
said that should Europe refuse dras-
tic disarmament and America agreed
to drastic reduction in debts. il
would be pouring money down
rat hole"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
Judge wilkerson Is Advanced

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. t2.-Judge
James H. Wilkerson of Chicago was
nominated today by President Hoo
yer for the position of United States
judge, circuit court Of appeals, Sew
enth district.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
MUSSOLIN| FOR I
CANCELLATION
OF WAR DEBTS
No Alternative Between
Reputation or Chaos,
Says Premier.
CITES GERMAN POVERTY
Civilization of White Race
in Danger, Says Article
in Milan Paper.
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

ROME, Jan. 12.-Premier Benito
Mussolini went on record today for
cancellation of war debts and
reparationS.
The United Press learned that
Mussolini was the author of an
article in the Milan newspaper
Popolo O'Iitaha which said there
was mo alternative between repu-
diation Of debts-or chaos
THAT represents the clear and
direct policy of the Italian govern
ment," a foreign Office spokesman
told the correspondent. NO further
explanation is necessary, as the
article covered ALL
The entire Italian press pub
hshed the article under Streamsr
headlines such as Now Is the
Time to Close the War Accounts.
Lausanne Must Finish With A,
Clean Slate. Reputation or Chaos"
Civilization Menaced
The article said civilization was
threatened and that the world eco
nomic condition must be improved
in 1882. Otherwise, it can not be
expected that humanity will not re-
volt"
The articles said that unless the
Lausanne conference ended with a
common sponging of the slate" it
was better to declare a moratorium
on such conferences. The paper
was edited for years by the late Ar
naldo Mussolini, brother of the
premier, and often reflects II Duce's
views.
simultaneously, a foreign office
spokesman said Italy favored "a
radical solution of the debts and
reparatlons question" and that the
government was not particularly
disturbed by Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening's declaration that Ger
many can not resume reparations
payments.
Must Be Sacrificed
The spokesman said that Italv
wished the whole debts and repara-
tons discussion completely re-
moved from international affairs"
meaning that political issues must
be sacrificed for settlement of
financial problems leading to world
economic recovery.
The article in Popolo D'Italia said
the world was wondering whether
the problem of debt and reparatjons
would be settled at Lausanne or
again postponed; whether the gov
ernmentS of Europe again would
display the tremendous lack of will
power" which seems to paralyze
them whenever they are facing a
world problem; it added that if
Lausanne was unable to unite the
knot, 1T would be better that the
conference not be convened, and es-
tablish a moratorium on these con-
ferences."
Lausanne should end with a
common sponging of the slate" the
article said. ut should be finished
with cancellation of credits and
debts"
Tragic Balance Sheet
MusSolini defined debts and repa-
rations as "the tragic war balance
sheet" in a recent speech at Naples.
The Basic report of the Young
plan advisory committee clearly
proves Germanys untenable eco
nomlc and financial situation. It is
possible that Germany never sin
cerely wished to pay the tribute i'm
posed by the Versailles treaty. but
IN the meantime, Germany's crisis
has become a world crisis and it is
not improving, despite optimistic re-
ports from across the ocean," the
article continued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
SCIENTIST FOUND, DAzED
Texas University Students Locate
Professor Wandering in Woods.


By United Press
AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 12.-Dr. H. j.
Muller, famous scientist on the
University of Texas faculty, was
found today in a dazed condition,
wandering through the wooded
slopes Of Mt. Bonnell, where he was
in the habit Of seeking relaxation
from his laboratory work.
The scientist, who had been miss
ing since he left his home Sunday,
was taken to Seton's infrmary.
Finding of the professor ended
one of the greatest searches in this
section. University students, citi-
zens and peace officers had beaten
through the covered hills
looking for him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
Fordney Born in Indiana
By Times special

HARTFORD CITY, Ind. Jan. Il.
Joseph W. Fordney, 70, for TWEEN.
ty-four years representative in con.
gress from the Eighth Michigan dis
trict. who died last week, was born
in Blackford county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12

manager; Efroymson, treasurer, and
Hornbrook, general counsel. TruS-
tees are Thomas L. Sullivan, Henry
Kahn, G. A. Schnull, Otto Lieber
and Frank G. Daley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-12
REFLECT DIRECTORS
Gas Company Board viii
Remain in Office.

Directors Of the Citizens Gas
Company will continue to hold office
another year as result of the an
nual election Monday.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-07
BRAZIL, AIR, LAND
 FORCES BATTLE REBELS

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept, 7,-The Brazilian Governments air and land forces battered Sac Paula State rebel positions with tons of explosives and prepared for what may be a final dirve against the insurgent forces.
 An official communique said six lCyaIist bombing planes totally de- StrOyed the Itaipus fortress at the entrance to the Port of s antO S which has been held by the Paulis- tas.
 Federal artillery also concluded 48 hours of almost continuous bom- bardment of rebel positions at strategical points W h ere troops have faced each other in sporadic fighting for more than two months Gen. M0ntiro led 15,000 lOyalists into position for a great drive on the PaUlistas from half dozen different points.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-07
JURY RECOMMENDS LIFE IMPRISONMENT
 FOR ECAN, TINN|N

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, T. Frank J. Egan, famed San Fran cisco defender of the poor and AL bert Tinnin, an exconvict, were convicted of the first degree mur- der of Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes. The jury recommended life inn prisonment for both.
 Mrs. Hughes, @ gentle, white haired widow of 67, had been Egan's life long friend and benefactress. She was glowingly proud of his rise rom police patrolman to national repute as a defense lawyer. Lov- lngly, she called him my son..
 The verdict pinned on the attor- ney the responsibility for a heart less murder that apparently had not even anger as a motive. The Jury believed the story of Verne Doran, admittedly one of the kill CTS. His was the story of a mon strous plot, conceived in the shrewd brain of the man who had defend ed 5O,OOO criminal cases. It was a tale of murder in a modern man. her, the victim struck unconscious while her hands were held in false friendship, crushed to death be- heath an automobile and thrown in gutter to simulate a hit and run accident.
 Nowhere in the story was there a trace of pity for the elderly frail woman the jury found was the victim of a man who could sway Jurles to tears, but who knew no mercy or friendship in ordering the killing of a widow for financial gain.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-07
ENORMOUS QUANTITY IF sAUsAGES, BEER
 CONSUMED BERLIN

BERLIN, Sept, 7,-One hundred thousand sausages and 30,000 bot ties of beer were. eaten by Steel Helmet members during their gi- gantio demonstration here when they nassed on local airplane field. The total cost of the dem- onstration for restoration of the monarchy was estimated at from S3OO,OOO to $6OO,OO0; 3,OOO,O0O peo- pie participated, the greatest gath ering assembled since the days of the World War.
 A revival of the war spirit has stirred all, Germany; the demon strators demanded permission to increase armaments or that other nations reduce armament to Ger manyS status.
 Meanwhile, the political battle between Chancellor von Papen and the Nazis, continues unabated. When the Reichtag meets again is undetermined.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-07
EQUAL ARMAMENT

BERLIN, Sept. ', Germany will refuse to participate in any fur ther deliberations of the disarma- ment conferences until the question of military equality with other powers is settled, it was disclos- ed officially when the government published it's memorandum to France demanding the right to an equal armament.