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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-10
INSTALL w. J. FAHEY
NEW CHIEF OF ELKS
Takes Post of Exalted Ruler, Sue
ceeding Joseph E. Barron.

William j. Fahey was installed ex-
allied ruler of the indianapolis lodge
of Elks No. IS Friday night at a
meeting which marked the open
ing of the fall season of social and
civic activities for the lodge.
Fahey takes the place of Joseph
E. Barron who resigned. The neg
exalted ruler has been member of
the board of trustees, and has di-
rected the annual orphans outings
and Christmas entertainments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-10
Odd Fellows to Meet

Odd Fellows Of Montgomery
county district will meet at Wayne
town, Saturday night. Guy Little
will direct the degree work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-10
ANNUAL RITES SLATED
Rebekahs to Celebrate 81st Anniver-
sary of Lodges Founding.

Eighty-frst anniversary of the
Rebekah lodge will be celebrated
by Mozart Rebekah lodge No. 1928
Prospect and South East streets
Friday night.
Yearly ceremony of opening the
mite box, proceeds from which are
presented to the Odd Fellow home
in Greensburg, will be a part of the
program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-10

These men will have prominent
parts in the arrangements and
presentation of the Most Excellent
Master degree by the Royal Arch
Chapter Association in the Ma
sonic temple Friday night. Hobson
is cast director, Hitch heads the
reception committee, and Rout-
zahn is chairman of the finance
committee for the event.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-10

Cancer may occur in any tissue
of the body, but certain locations
are more liable to the disease than
Others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-10
FESTIVAL DRAWS 500
Veterans Of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Holds Mardi Gras at TomIinson.

Five hundred persons attended
the first annual mardi gras festival
sponsored by the Veterans of For
eign Wars auxiliary, department of
Indiana, in Tomlinson hall, Satur-
daY night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15

tons. Director W. M. Steuart says
he already has done away with all
his temporary clerks, and is collect
ing all possible statistics by mail.
In the bureau of standards, an
other 10 per cent reduction will
mean the dropping of about 100 en-
ployeS and much testing and other
work done for government depart
mentS will have to be stopped.
In the bureau of lighthouses, an
additional 10 per cent cut would
mean seventy lighthouse keepers
thrown out of work, 100 men on
lightships. and forty office, depot
an field employees. Many light
stations would be closed.
In the United States coast and
geodetic survey. Captain R. S. Pat
ton. director, says that any further
curtailment in appropriations can
be accomplished only by dis
continuing operations essential to
the safety of lives and property at
sea. If it is necessary to place lives
in jeopardy in order to save money,
it can be done by denying appro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15

though processing sympathy with
the measures intention, believe it
unenforceable.
Others say that it is an infringe
ment on states rights; that labor
conditions vary in different states
and are not properly subject to a
single standard of control.
To date only six states have
ratified the observation-disclosures,
Arkansas, California, Montana,
Wisconsin and Colorado.
In three states it has been rati-
fled by one house only; in three
states it never has been consid-
cred; in the remainder it has been
rejected by adverse vote, postpone
ment, or is being held in commit
tee.
Of the nine states which will
hold legislative sessions this year,
Massachusetts,, New York, New
Jersey, Louisiana and Virginia
have programs for Improvement of
local conditions.
Wisconsin's special session in
1882 is expected to act on q bill
restricting the hiring of minors as
a. measure of temporary economic
relief.
II
TN addition to such government
j. agencies as the children's bu-
reau and the White House confer
ence on Child Health and Protec-
ton, several private organizations
are prominently identified with
the child labor movement. The
national Child Labor committee,
National League of Women Voters,
Consumers League, National
Federation of Women's Clubs,
Congress of Parents and Teachers
and the welfare division of the
American Legion all are working
for reform.
The American Federation of La
Dor, vitality concerned with the
cheap competition of more than a
million young workers, especially
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
APRIL Is, 1892

priations and thereby compelling us
to lay up ships engaged in survey
work"
The bureau of fisheries report saws
they already have been cut 20 per
cent below 1892 appropriations and
an additional $780, 100 cut will mean
closing fish cultural stations. and
the abandonment of cooperative
projects to maintain the supply Of
fish in the national forests and
parks in conjunction with in
dividual states.
The patent office is already seven
months behind in its work. and can
suffer no more curtailments in APP
preparations, without disastrous re-
suits, which will be felt throughout
the country" Commissioner Thomas
E. Robertson says.
The bureau of mines says they
already have suffered more cuYtail-
mentS than other bureaus. as the
Douglas amendments, added on the
floor, put their appropriations down
$194,615 below the amount recon-
mended by the house committee.
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is interested in securing ratifica-
ton of the amendment.
The Presidents Organization
for Unemployment Relief is pro-
noting a nationwide back-to-
school movement.
When the complete 1880 census
figures are available, opponents of
child labor will have fresh statis-
teal ammunition with which to
lombard backward states.
There will be a call for a gen.
eral upward revision of compul-
sorry school age laws.
Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the
children's bureau, has estimated
that if these laws were brought
up to a 15-year level all over the
country, a quarter of a million
children would be released from
industry.
Sociologists are prepared to say
that child labor is a social irri-
tant; that it creates bad feeling
between employers and working
classes; that it's abolition would
create a favorable effect on the
unemployment situation far be-
yond the actual number involved.
n y
T ECONOMISTS will tell how
H. child labor acts as a depres-
SAINT on adult wage scales, since
immature minors and their elders
are in direct competition in many
industries, and especially when
business is slack. They will pre-
dict the tonic effect of increased
spending power of adults when
children are forced out of indus
try.
Although organized industry
heretofore has been blamed for
opposing legal regulation of child
labor, in e. number of recent in
stances, employers themselves
have taken the lead in reform.
Indicative also of the changing
attitude toward child labor of
other progressive concerns is this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
U. S. SCIENTIFIC
WORK MENACED
BY SENATE AK
Bureaus Protest Another 10
Per Cent Appropriation
Cut Will Be Serious.

/ By Science Serrfce
WASHINGTON, April l5.-If the
senate insists upon the enforcement
of its mandate to its appropriations
committee, to reduce by 10 per cent
the state, justice, commerce and
labor appropriation bills as sent to
the senate by the house, there will
be serious curtailment of the
scientific work of the government
in many branches.
This is apparent from a study of
the memoranda sent to the secre-
taries of the department by the
various bureau chiefs.
For example in the radio division
of the commerce department, w
D. Terrell, director, states that to
accomplish an additional reduction
of $4,000, it will be necessary to
abolish twenty-three field positions,
and close the field offices at Dallas,
Texas; Kansas City, Mo-; st. Paul,
Mimi, and Denver, Colo. Also the
items of instruments, rent, sup
plies and travel will have to be cut
an extra $4,000.
Aviation to Suffer
| Similarly writes Colonel Clarence
M. Young, assistant secretary OF
commerce for aeronauticS:
Should our appropriation for air.
craft in commerce as passed by the
house ($1, 301, 160) be further reduced
by $4,000, it will necessitate de-
creasing personnel to an extent that
seriously will jeopardize the safety
of civil and commercial aircraft OPP
erations." Forty employees will have
to go, if this reduction is required,
Colonel Young states.
Reductions already made will
make necessary the elimination of
many Always caretakers and cur
tailment of maintenance operators,
under the item of "air navigation
facilities" Colonel Young explains.
The item as it now stands is 81 $780,
500.
There will have to be suspension
of 5000 miles of airway lighting,
1900 miles of teletype weather re-
porting circuits, eight radio COM
munication stations and fourteen
radio range beacons. Around 286
employees. mainly radio operators and
airways keepers, would have to go.
Census Bureau SlaShed
The bureau of the census says that
its original estimate of a required
$445, 900 for collection and tabula-
ton of statistics already has been
reduced to $280,000 as a result of
three cuts-one by the bureau of the
budget, one by oroer of the secre-
tary of commerce, and another by
the house committee on appropria-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
SCIENCE DOUBTS
VALUE OF new
DEADLY WEAPON
Past Failures on Part of
Inventors Add to Their
SkepticiSm.

81 science Service
WASHINGTON, April IS Claim
OF an invention of deadly weapon
OF obstruction giving the nation DOS
sesSing 1t command of world mill
tary affairs, which congress now is
considering, is viewed with skep-
ticism in scientific circles.
Extreme secrecy and broad claims
90 not inspire the confidence Of au-
tnorlties in the world of science.
II the resolution introduced to
give exceptional consideration to this
claimed invention of Lester P. Bar
low OF Stamford, Conn, should be
passed, congress would not be fol-
lowing the path Of recognized scien-
Jinc endeavor or that Of the patent
system for protection of inventors
and Of the public.
Scientists here recall that several
years ago congress appointed a com
mlttee to investigate an invention
SAID to extract free available power
from the atmosphere. But the in
ventorg Garabed T. Giragossian.
1alled to submit his apparatus to the
committee.
Gets Another Hearing
Singularly, another resolution con-
corning an invention of Mr.. Gira-
gossian has been introduced into
the house during the present session
of congress.
Another proposal for getting guam
titles of power cheaply, which failed
to meet tests. is that of Lester j.
Henderson,. 1t was reported widely
in newspapers in the early part Of
1873. Inventor Henderson, intended
TO get power from the electricity of
the atmosphere.
An apparatus which received wide
spread publicity about thirty years
ago was the Kelley motor. It de-
veioped that the machine was a
lake, power to run the motor being
supplied as compressed air through
a hollow tube concealed in the leg
Of table on which the machine
rested.
Recognized scientists always well
come the consideration of new pro-
posals, but they insist that full de-
tails be given and that claims be
made for only that which has been
accomplished in actual experiment.
AS rule, inventions announced
with the secrecy and broad claims
accorded the Barlow instrument of
war, seldom become important.
Former Plan Rejected
Barlows claims for the new in
vention link it with an invention of
f7viug torpedo that he submitted
to the navy department in 1917. 1t
is said that the device now being
considered will destroy cities and
forces of men a thousand or more
miles from its operators.
The 1917 suggestion was examined
by the navy and declined. Barlow
also is said to have submitted ideas
for a submarine escape device. In
reply to an inquiry, the army could
NJ md record Of contact with the
inventor.
The name of Lester P. Barlow is
not in the latest membership lists
of the American Association for the
Advancement Of Scierce, the Amer
lean Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers or the Society of American
Military Engineers.
Neither is he recorded by the
most recent Who's Who in America
or by American Men of Science,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15

statement from the official organ
of the National Association of
Manufacturers:
Employers generally recognize
that child labor is not profitable.
. They do not want it.
Immature children are not
capable of handling to advantage
expensive and complicated ma
chinery."
So directors of the present cam
paign expect to be hampered more
by sheer inertia than by organ
lied opposition. But economic
arguments are expected to over
come public indifference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
BY PAUL HARRISON,
MA Service Writer

THREE campaigns now are I'M
Il der way for abolition of child
labor.
One seeks ratification of the
twentieth amendment, which
would give congress the right to
regulate the employment of per-
sons less than 1S years old.
Another is driving toward more
legislative restrictions in the vari-
Gus states.
The third, mainly measure of
emergency unemployment relief, is
trying to return to the schools as
many as possible Of the millions
Of children who either are COM
pletely idle or are working for
wages.
With the name of President
Hoover heading the list. the indi-
Wduals and organizations backing
the fight comprise by far the most
powerful group ever concerned
with the young toilers of America.
What could be a better time
to strike" they ask, than when
there are millions of adult workers
in distress for lack of jobs?p
Also, for the first time, the
movement finds itself without or
gained opposition and with
clearly defined program which can
encounter none of the constitu-
tional stumbling blocks which
twice before have defeated it.
A FTER more than a decade of
L A agitation by various agencies
the National Child Labor COM
mittee was incorporated by act of
congress in 1907-the first federal
legislation was passed in 1916 and
went into effect in 1917.
1t was intended to operate I'M
der the power of the government
to control interstate commerce,
and the bill prohibited the ship
ment of products in the manufac-
ture of which children under IA
were employed.
The law was in operation nine
months. but was declared uncon-
stitutional by 5-4 decision of the
United States supreme court be-
cause of its indirect application.
But congress seemed convinced
that federal control of the prob
lem was a public necessity. So
different plan soon was devised.
The revenue act of 1919 i'm
posed tax upon the profits of all
mines and manufacturing eStah-
lishments employing children in
violation of certain standards.
This measure was in effect three
years, but in 1922 it also was de-
clared unconstitutional.
Each President of the United
States since the time of Roosevelt,
who established the children's bu-
reau of the department of labor.
has favored child labor reform.
Wilson, Harding and Coolidge all
pointedly suggested that if the
working children of this country
are beyond federal protection now
constitutional limitations should
be extended to include them.
= n
GO in 1924 congress acted on a
~ joint resolution giving con-
gress the power to limit, regulate
and prohibit the labor of persons
under IS years of age. 1t passed
the house by vote of 297 to SO,
and the senate by 81 to %.
This is the twentieth amend
ment. which to become operative,
must be ratified by thirty-six
states.
Opposition to the amendment
has been offered along several
lines in the past. Some critics, al
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what IA this richest Of nations EelnK
10 do about the problem Of child labor?
The following article. the last Of a series
Of three written for The Times. tells
about the plans Of various government
and private agencies for the correction
Of present conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
Father Gavisk Recovering

Msgr. Francis H. Gavisk, chan
cellor of the indianapolis diocese of
the Roman Catholic church, is re-
ported recovering from a severe
bronchial cold at st. Vincent's hos
pital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
RECORD HIGHEST FIGHT
Scot, Irish Windowashers Battle
OH Empire States S7th Floor.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, April 15.-Charles
Campbell, Scot, and Patrick
Dougherty, an Irishman, battled
eighty-seven floors above Fifth ave-
nue. in the Empire State tower over
which was the better window
cleaner-the highest fight on record
here.
Campbell went to The hospital in
an ambulance; Dougherty went to
the station in the black maria, and
was held in 500 bail.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05

ant part in the fornalities. Mrs. Hoover herself will review the an- nual color day parade at Wooster College, sharing honors with Miss Eirna Sage at Marion, O., Queen of the May.
 In a bower like setting of ivy clad walls and tree -coversd cam pus this pageant on the 100th anniyersity of the birth of Goethe will seek to portray the famous Germans theory of the art of poetry.
 In the historical pageant by the city in the afternoon, at which Mrs. Hoover will be a guest of honor, there will be an episode depicting the coming to Wooster of William Henry.
 Another episode will depict the founding of Wooster College, A cast of nearly 1000 persons is be- ng assembled for the event.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
HOOVER ASKED
 ID GIVE VIEWS
 ON DRY ISSUE
Senator Ty din gs Wants President to Speak
 Up Right Now
QUESTION OF TAX
 ON BEER IS RAISED
Committee Refuses to h. crease Income Taxes
 to Wartime Level

WASHINGTON, May s. Presi dent Hoover was called upon in the Senate today by Senator Mill lard E T'ydings, Democrat of Mary land, to state his views on Pro- hibition before the tax bill is pass ed and it is too late to tax beer
 Wet or Modification
 Senator Tydings said Cabinet members indicated President Hoov- CT would agree to some sort of a wet or modification" platform while Chairman Fess, of the Re- publican National Committee, said the Republican Party will remain dry"
 "A tax on beer alone would raise half billion dollars and make all of these nuisance taxes unneces- sary," said Senator Tydings. If he is going to favor modification now is the time and not on the death bed"
 No Income Tax Raise
 The Senate Finance Committee refused to raise the income taxes to wartime levels as part of the effort to find $1O0,000,O00 additional annual revenue, which Senator Reed Smoot said was needed to produce a balanced budget.
 The one per cent sales tax pro- posal was also rejected by the Sen- ate Finance Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05

to Oregon in 1846 and tried to get Lincoln appointed Governor of the Territory, and Lincoln declined.
 Before Lincoln was inaugural ed as Presdent( he wrote to Elder and asked if there were any post which he desired. The clergyman picked the Indian agency at Olym- pia, Wash, and took his foster son there in 1861.
 Lincoln App0intee
 Soon thereafter the interpreter attached to the post resigned and Elder recommended the 10-year -old boy for the place but there were other aspirants for the $500 a year job and competitive ex- animation was held with three Indians and two whites as judg- es. They voted to l for young Dru1y and he held the place five years.
 Schooling followed at the Olym- pia high school and at Chris tian College, Monmouth, Ore. Then he served an apprenticeship as a compositor in Seattle and Port land but changed to the editorial department as reporter in Van couver, B. 0. that being in 1870. Considering this sufficient exper- fence, he established a newspaper of his own at Monmouth and ran it two years.
 Investments in mining stocks
 fContfnueu sn Page Six)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
SURPRISE MOVE IS EXECUTED IN HONOLULU CASE
H nor Staying Principals Sentenced to Ten
 Years, Hard Labor
COMPUTATION IS
 QUICKLY GRANTED
One Hour in Custody, then Given Liberty-Move
 for Pardon

HONOLULU, H. l., May 5. |-Springing a surprise move, the four Massie defendants were yesterday afternoon sen- fenced to ten years imprison- ment at hard labor.
 Gov. Lawrence M. Judd, by previous agreement, immed- lately co m m u t e d the sen- tences of each defendant to one hour in custody.
 Owing to the surprise ac- tion, only a few were present when sentence was passed by Judge Charles S. Davis.
 The defendants were taken from the Judiciary Building across the street to Iolani Palace where they remained in the large reception room With friends, under nominal surveillance of the authorities, for one hour and were then freed.
 Four Involved
 The defendants are Lieut.. Thomas H. Massie, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, A. O. Jones and E. J. Lord. They were convicted last week of man. slaughter in the killing of Joseph Kahahawai, young Hawaiian, who assaulted Lieut.. Massie's wife.
 Thus practically ends one chapter in the Hawaiian crime wave" re- sulting from assaults on white wom- en and which stirred the islands as well as the entire United States. calling for an investigation by the Department of Justice, authorized by Congress, upheaval in local af- fairs and officials. Clarence Dar- row, veteran criminal attorney, was the leading defense counsel. The jury recommended leniency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05
ARREST MADE IN LINDbERCH
 KIDNAP CASE
Gaston Means Secured $100,000 on Promise
 to Recover Baby

WASHINGTON, May 5.-Gaston Means, former Department of Jus tice Agent, who served term in the Fe ederal Prison at Atlanta, Georgia, for accepting a bribe, has been arrested.
 It is charged that Means em- bezzled slO0,000 from Mrs. Edward Mclean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post on represen- tations he would recover the kid- naped baby of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh.
 The warrant said that shortly after the abduction of the baby, Means represented to Mrs. Mclean he was in contact with the kid- napers and received S100,O00 from her on his assurance he could bring about the infants return.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-05

WOOSTER, Ohio, May 5.-Attel May IA Mrs. Herbert Hoover may sign her name, Lou Henry Hoover LILO"
 The honorary degree of ''litera- rum hllmaniorum doctor or doc- tor of letters of huinanitie5, is to be conferred bg Wooster College upon the nations First Lady as the city of Wooster celebrates it's 125th anniversary.
 Mrs. Hoover's great-grandfathe William Henry, came to Wooster as pioneer The first four streets were named for the founders, and one of those thoroughfares is Hen ny Street.
 Mrs. Hoover never lived in Woo ster, as her father moved to Wa terloo, To-, in 1872, but she has visited the city twice in recent years tracing the facts concern ing her ancestors.
 Pageantry will play an import