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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
HOUSE IS URGED TO
SPEED UP RAIL BILL
Roper Asks Committee for
Quick Action.
BIZ United Press


WASHINGTON, May 8.-Com-
merce Secretary Daniel Roper, pre-
senting the administrations COM
prehenSive program for railroad re-
organization, today urged the house
committee to speed favorable re-
port upon the proposed legislation
Roper, who supervised preparation
of the railroad plan, said in testi-
mony before the committee that the
purpose of the bill is to assist the
railroads to help themselves, and
is essentially experimental"
He described the Set-up which
would control affairs of the carriers
"a transportation co-ordinator and
regional CO. ordinating committees
which would divide the nations
railroads into three general groups
elimination of waSteful Implications
and to bring about decreased cap
italization.
Another section of the bill, Roper
explained, extended jurisdiction OF
the interstate commerce commission
to the supervision of holding com
panies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08

Filing of final report by Brandt C.
Downey, former receiver of the
Washington Bank and Trust Com
pany, opened the way for an audit of
his records of twenty-eight months
operation.
The report now is being audited
by the court. Operating expense of
more than Sill 900 was reported by
Downey, which, with operating ex-
pense of the City Trust Company
under Curtis Rottger, brought the
cost of receiverships, as listed in final
reports, to more than 100000.
Finding that expense of liquidat-
ing the Meyer-Kiser bank during
less than two-year period had
reached approximately 1922, 900,
Thomas E. Garvin, new receiver,
slashed the cost more than $500
monthly last Saturday.
Garvin, former judge in municipal
court one, was appointed by Cox
Thursday and assumed his new du-
ties Friday. The following day ne
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08

A posse, formed by Schmitz' wife,
reached the farmyard few min
utes too late to prevent the Sec
ond shooting.
Dead on Floor
They found Schmitz dead on one
bedroom floor and Day dying on
another.
Day had worked fifteen years on
the 160-acre Schmitz farm in the
rich, fat corn area eight miles west
of here. He had seen Loretta grow
from a 2-year-old baby into a pref
ty girl of II.
When sober, Day was such hard
worker that Schmitz always for
gave him for going on periodic
"sprees.'
Goes On Spree
The laborer started one of these
"SpreeS" week ago.
Saturday night Schmitz went to
a meeting of the Plato Center
school board, of which he was a
member. Loretta went out with
Donald Fitchie, 18. Mrs. Schmitz
and her son, John, II, visited with
a married daughter, Mrs. Erma
Johnson.
When Loretta and Fitchie re-
turned home at p. M, Day pointed
a shotgun at them and told them to
leave. They did.
1--WE went to the schoolhouse and
I told father what had happened, :"
the girl related. HE told me to
go to Erma's. After the meeting.
he took us all home. Oliver wasn't
around then"
Shoots His Employer
The family retired. Early Sun
day Schmitz heard Day prowling
on the porch and told the farm
hand to go to bed. An hour later,
Day opened the door of Schmitz'
bedroom and flashed a light.
I'm going to kill you ALL" he
shouted. and fired the shotgun.
The charge struck Schnitz in the
leg. Despite the wound, he arose
and tried to fight. Day fired again,
Schmitz, struck in the neck, fell
Mrs. Schmitz fled as Day staggered
away.
Day then entered Loretta's bed
room and forced her to accompany
him to his bedroom. He told her tc
get on the bed. She did.
Forced to Kill Man
''Im going to kill you, Loretta,
he told her, and pulled the trigger
of the shotgun. The gun failed tt
work.
Maybe you had better kill me
instead" said the farmland, anc
handed the shotgun to Loretta.
Nov you kill me, or I'll kill you,
he told her.
Il pulled the trigger" she related
'but the gun still wouldn't work. He
came over and fixed it, then stooc
against the wall and told me to xii
him, then to shoot myself.
Il pulled the trigger. He fel
over"
Loretta seized her brother anc
fled from the house just as the posse
galloped into the farmyard.
Day, struck in the abdomen, dice
an hour later in st. Joseph hospita
here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08

Vets obtained a total of 81 361
names and dry proponents could
obtain only 1855 for the stand
pats" candidates. The repeal Or
ganization made a determined effort
to learn the true sentiment of the
voters on repeal, according to Judge
Smiley Chambers, repeal leader.
One worker in each precinct was
paid SO for the task of circulating
the wet petitions, Judge Chambers
said.
Voting will be by paper ballot on
forty-two wet candidates and an
equal number of drys. Thus, the
question of whether Indiana will
favor repeal of the dry law will be
decided June 6, as the constitutional
convention June 26 is only for the
purpose of formally ratifying the
vote.
Precinct boundaries will be OBJ
served in the election and polls will
be open in every county in the state
from a. m. to o. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
GANDH| FREED
FROM PRISON;
STARTS FAST
British Release Captive,
Fearing Revolt If He
Died in Cell.
SPENT YEAR IN JAIL
Friends Fear Indian Leader
Will Not Survive 21-Day
Starvation Ordeal.
By United Press

By United Press
POONA, India, May 8.-The Ma
hatma Gandhi was released from
prison by British authorities today
at the start of his three weeks fast.
The emaciated leader of Indian
NationaliSm, who, his friends fear,
may not survive the fast, was set
free after more than year in Ye-
ravda Jail for refusing to abandon
his civil disobedience campaign.
He was released because the gov
eminent feared disturbances if he
died in prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
WAR VETERAN HONORED
Order of Purple Heart Awarded
Trucking Contractor.

In recognition of wounds suffered
IN action in the World war, G. P.
Inman, trucking contractor, $40
Kenwood avenue. has been awarded
the Order of the Purple Heart.
While serving as first lieutenant
in the One hundred fiftieth field
artillery (Rainbow division), Inman
was gaSsed twice in major engage
ments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08

S. G. Dawson, SiXty-second
and Keystone avenue, told
The Times today that his ia
Their sold the land to the COM
pany for this price in 1908.
Adjoining the company's twelve
acre Dawson tract, half of which
the appraisers admitted was
swampy and under water each year,
Dawson said he still owned a tract,
all of it on high ground and plated,
which he would sell for less than
one third of the company's valua-
ton rate-making.
Contract Violation Charged
In letter to The Times, Pitts
charges violation of the contract his
father entered into
An attorney employed by him to
study his claim has found deed
executed by the father to Jacob
Burnet and jeremiah jackson on
June 10, 1854.
BY this deed, George w. Pitts con-
veyed "one foot of ground on each
side of the Indiana Central canal,
in addii lon to the present bed and
banks of the same" the legal de-
scription showing that the land was
located south of the aqueduct, be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty
third streets.
The deed included the stipulation
for the purpose of enabling the
owners to widen the same for navi-
cation or hydraulic purposes, the
condition Of the above obligation is
such that in case the canal should
fail and the purposes contemplated
be abandoned, the land shall revert
to the donor
Ice Cutting Banned
Appended to the deed was the
provision that pitts shall enjoy the
privilege of cutting ice in the canal
for the purpose of filling his ice
house."
This provision, Pitts charges, was
violated by the wateer company in
1870 when the company refused his
father the right to cut ice. He con-
tends that by this provision his
father never gave up title to the
land.
THE deed calls for reversion in
case the canal is not used for the
purposes mentioned: namely, for
navigation and hydraulic purposes
Pitts said.
1T is matter of common knowl-
edge that the canal, from a prac-
teal standpoint, never was used for
these purposes"
Claim Is Doubted
Attorneys interested in the canal
title dispute point out that there is
possibility that Pitts and numerous
claimants to other parts of the canal
probably, under the law. have
waived" their rights through
failure to take action for so many
years.
In 1882 in the Burkhart case, filed
by a brOther-in-law of Pitts father,
in somewhat similar situation, the
United States supreme court upheld
the water company's title.
While the canal never was used
for navigation purposes, and was
used for power by companies along
its banks only few years, never
theless it still is being used partly
by the water company for
hydraulic" purposes, it was pointed
out today.
The canal is used for water supply
purposes as far south as the River
side station. From there it flows
south to the Washington street
station, where it is used as the
power to operate the water com
pany's turbines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
SUIT TO CONTEST
WATER co. CANAL
TITLE THREATENS
Iowa Man Considers Legal Action for Strip
of Land Conveyed by His Father
to Utility Corporation.
$1,000 ACRE VALUATION is RIDDLED
Owner of Adjacent Ground Says His Family
Sold Tract for $500 an Acre;
Offers More at Low Price.

Suit contesting the Indianapolis Water Companys title
section of the canal oomed today result of nvest
CATION being conducted by Frank Y Pitts, Mouton Ia
whose father George W. Pitts sold strip of land bordering
the canal in 1854
At the same time it was revealed that the Dawson
tract which appraisers companys pending fed
suit for higher rates value at $500 to $4,000
acre. was sold to the company for $500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
SMOOTH SHOALS PATH

House Rules Committee Acts to
Send Bill to Conference.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 8.-The
house rules committee today report
ed favorably special resolution
which would allow house leaders to
send the Muscle Shoals bill to con-
ference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
JUDGE TURNS DENTIST
InspectS False Teeth, Hands Down
S1S Judgment.

In defense of a dentists bill, Will
liam Marshall, Negro porter, re-
moved his false teeth in municipal
court today and handed them to
Judge Wilfred Bradshaw as Exhibit
A in the case.
Marshall commended he had not
paid S13 due on a bill to Eugene
Williams, dentist, because 1.-THE
teeth were no good"
Examining the shiny upper plate,
which lay on his bench, Judge Brad
shaw ruled:
They look like good teeth to me.
Judgment for $13 against defen-
dant."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
M'NUTT PROMISES TO
PUSH INDIANA COAL
Pledges Aid to Force State Units to
Purchase Product.

Governor Paul " McNutt today
assured a joint committee Of miners
and coal producers that he will sup
port use Of Indiana coal in state
governmental units.
Only state institution not using
Indiana coal now is the Madison
hospital and new boilers will per-
NIT its use there, heetpld the dele
cation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
CHILDREN'S CIRCUS TO
BEGIN PERFORMANCES
Gentry Brothers to Give First
Show This Afternoon

Show This Afternoon
First presentations of the Gen
try Brothers trained animal shows
were to be given today with mat
inee performance at 3:45 and a
night show scheduled for 8, at the
grounds, T'hirty-eighth and Illinois
streets.
The shows arrived Sunday and
were visited by crowds at the
grounds Matinee and night per-
formances also will be given Tues
day and Wednesday on the Illinois
street site.
Thursday and Friday the shows
will be at East Tenth and Linwood
streets and Saturday at East Wash
ington street and Sheridan avenue
Only change in time will be pres
entation of the Saturday matinee
at 2::30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
YOUNG FARMER SHOT
Neighbor Is Questioned by Sheriff !;
At Odds, Is Report.

By United Press
SEYMOUR, Ind, May s. - The
shooting of Marshall Callahan, %
Kurz farmer, was being Investigate
ed today by Sheriff Meredith
Stewart.
Callahan was struck in the chest
and wounded, probably fatally, when
he stepped out of his car near his
home Sunday. Stewart said he would
question Ferdinando Wray, a farm
neighbor, after learning that there
had been trouble between the two
families.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
CINCHES POLITICS PLUM
r. Earl Peters Daughter to Get
Foreign Job, Is Report.

Foreign Job, Is Report.
BIZ United Press
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, May 8.-Miss
Leah Peters, Fl. Wayne, daughter
of r. Earl Peters, Democratic chair
man, may become secretary to
Claude G. Bowers, who will be am
bsssador to Spain.
Peters has held several con-
ference in Washington recently on
Indiana's job patronage and re-
ports in political circles here say
that he has cinched the foreign job
for his daughter
Like her father, Miss Peters is
active in Democratic politics. She
is a graduate of Central high school
here and attended Indiana univer-
sity.
Bowers, now New York editorial
writer, is former Fl. Wayne news
paper man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
Mailman Stays Farmer
Then Forces Daughter
of Victim to Kill Him

Drunken LabOrer Shoots Employer; Compes Girl to Take
Shotgun and Pull Trigger Dies Instantly.
ted Press
ELGIN ILL.,, May 8.-A farmland killed his employer
here Sunday then forced 17yearod girl to kill him
of the stranges tragedies of mdwestern rural his
tory.
The three principals
John Schmtz. Sc farmer shot to death by his employe.
Oliver Day, 48, the farmland SchmitZ.
Loretta Schmtz IT, daughter Day
him with
refused.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
Smashing Drive on Peiping
Is Opened by japanese
BY HERBERT r. EKINS,
United Press STAFF Correspondent

PEIPING China sapanese enrenched in the Myunhsen
artillery Chinese positions today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
Cox to- Continue Probe
of Bank ReceiUerships


bank OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
Hourly Temperatures
Drys Far Outnumbered
by Wet Petition Signers

Sgners petitions
rejection
o petitions more than four
petitions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08

the Mandarin highway, and reached
Yungping, where the highway
crosses the Luanho.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
SENATE PUTS FINAL
0. K. ON RELIEF BILL
Approves Conference Pc
port on Wagner Measure.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 8.-The SEN
ate today adopted the conference
report on the s5OO,O00,OOO Wagner
unemployment relief bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
UTILITY TAX VOTED
Senate Finance Committee Puts
Levy on Producers, Users.

Levy on Producers, Users.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 8.-The SEN
ate finance committee today voted
to impose 2 per cent tax on the
producers of domestic and COM
mercial electric energy and l per
cent tax on the user of industrial
energy.
The transfers would go into effect
Sept. l, 1888.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
$1,000 ROBBERS LOOT
Series of HOIdups and BurgIaries
Staged in Miami County.

NVaseU III NIIaIIII OUuII1y'
By United Press
PERU, Ind, May 8.-A series of
holdups and burglaries in Miami
county over the weekend Melted
more than $1,000 in cash and other
loot.
w. B. Perry, filling station
proprietor, was robbed of 500 after
being tied up with wire. M. G..
Scott, taxi driver, was kidnapped,
driven into the country and robbed
of his taXicab. He was released.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-08
800 JOIN BONUS ARMY
Leave Here for 1888 March on Wash
ington; 12O Go BY trucks.

Under the command of Ellis
Campbell and George Miller. more
than 800 World tv'sf veterans left
here Sunday to Idkn the 1888 bonus
army in Washington
One hundred twenty Of the vet
Grams were reported to have left by
truck, 1874 by freight cars over the
Big -Four railroad and thirty-seyen
in automobiles
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14
SCHOOLS WILL
OPEN MONDAY
Continued From Page II

grammar schools is the appearance
OF a new superintendent. Guy A
Weakley. succeeding 3. NJ. Gruwell
who resigned after eight years as
head of the local schools, to enter
business.
Weakley has been director of re-
search and guidance for Glendale
schools and was formerly superin-
tendent of the La Crescenta schools
He comes to El Centro with ex-
cellent scholastic and executive cre-
dentials. and with a reputation for
being an active worker in civic un-
/ dertakingS.
A complete list of grammar school
! teachers and their assignments, was
printed in the Press of August
For the benefit of parents who may
have been out of the valley at that
/ time, the list is repeated here as
/ follows:
Harding School-Gene Edgar, kim
| dergarten; Rosalie Perkins, 1B:
Irene Mccoy, 1B: Doris Waehler
Ia: Catherine Roberts, 2B; EStelle
Reid. 2B: Geraldine Shaw. "a; Jo-
sephine King, 3B; Juanita McIn-
tire, 3B; Irene Varney, 3A; Wini-
fred Wilson, 4B.
East Side School-Ruth Simms, l !:
zenobia Payne, 2; Emily Robertson,
3 and 4; Lucille Culberson, 5 and g.:
Arthur Prince (principaD 7 and g.:
Clothilde Curry; Gladys Gier, sew
ing; w. A. Jackson, manual train
ing.
Lincoln School - Sophia Dunlap.
ungraded opportunity Beth Shaw
"A; Buick Underwood, 5B; Mary
Griffin, 5B; Eunice Hunter. 5A;
Fannie McCrory, 6B; Nora Epler
(principaD 6B.
Mckinley School = Amy Miller,
kindergarten; Shirley Simpson. 1B:
Margaret Lanier, Ia; Eunice Sprin-
kle, 2B; Nilla Harris, "a and 3A;
Elsie Couch, 3B; Margaret Hedrick
(principaD "A; Vera McElvaney.
Americanization.
Wilson School Rees Louise
Stewart, Lucille zurcher, Harriet
Raab, c. G. Montgomery, Mildred
Smith, Eva Walker, Dorothy Shiv-
ley, Mary Baker, Hazel Velman.
Special teachers are: Mrs. Doro-
thy Armstrong, relief for principals;
Edith Eicke, nurse; and Laura Red
den, music.
The East Side schools, with w. A.
Payne at the head of the junior
college and high school depart
ments, and Arthur Prince, principal
of the grammar school, are prepar-
ing for an active year.
Education on the East Side has
kept pace with the development of
the rest of the city's educational in
stitutions, and the high standard
maintained by the school supervi-
sors in that section have won the
oommendation of local and state
school authorities.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14
REAL ESTATE
MEN TO HEAR
STATE CHIEF

Tonight's chamber of commerce
dinner, the first meeting of the
fall season, promises to be a very
interesting gatnering and repre-
sentatives from the various valley
cities will be present to greet Joseph
| p. Smith and Thomas j. Murphy
of the state real estate depart
ment, who will be the srSkG OF
the evening.
Smith and Murphy arrived in the
valley this afternoon for the pur-
pose of making several inspection
tours in connection with the de-
partment work in this county. They
will remain in Imperial Valley un-
til tomorrow to complete these sur
veys.
Dinner is being served at the
Hotel Barbara Worth at $50 o.
clock and realtors. title insurance
representatives and others interested
in real estate will be in in attend
ance to hear the speakers whose
subject will be the real state act
recently made a state law. w. H.
Tyler, Jr., states that this meet
ing is not limited to chamber mem
bers but that all persons interested
in this subject will be welcome.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14
LOCAL. PASTOR
ETURNS HOME

Or. J. L. CASTOR. pastor Second
BAPTIST church. Brighton near Sec
onu. returned from a month s vaca-
ton in the east and south. this
week He visited his parents in st.
Louis, MO. enroute to the National
Baptist Convention of America
which met in Memphis, Tenn. where
he was one Of the convention speak
ers. He was also the guest speaker
at the Pilgrim Baptist church of
Chicago the first Sunday in Sep
tember. Following this engagement,
he took in the Century of Progress
exposition.
Many other places were visited
ia Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ten
nessee and Oklahoma. where he
was in great demand as a speaker
Service at Second church, which
have held up splendidly well during
my absence, will begin in full swing
next Sunday. including our Sunday
school for Spanish speaking peo-
pie. . said the pastor. Rev. David
Campbell Of Brawley was in charge
during DR.. Castor s absence.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14
WILL
RAISE PRICES

Effective Sunday, September IT,
with the opening of "Tugboat An
ME-, the United Artists theatre, Ell
Centro will make a slight advance
in their admission scale. Balcony
seats, where heretofore have been
25 cents, will be raised to 35 cents
according to announcement made
by Jimmie Andrus, manager, today.
He further stated that this slight
increase at the United Artists will
be followed by similar increases in
all theatres in Imperial Valley, due
to increased operating costs ano
picture prices.
Studios are spending more
money than ever before in the pro-
duction of pictures for the 1933-34
season, in addition to other increas-
es in production costs due to new
and higher wage scales. These costs
must be reflected in the film rem
tails paid by theatres, which, in
turn, Gill make greatly reduced
prices impossible" he said.
''InaSmuch as the United Artists
theatre is the first theatre in the
valley to show the new seasons pro-
duct, they must, likewise,be first
to institute the slight raise. Other
valley theatres will follow with
similar increases within the next
few weeks, Andrus predicted.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14

Glass c, best five cows in one
herd (nine months tesD:
Lbs.
Owner B.F.
H. G. Farnsworth, Ell Centro. .2731 2
Len Bucket, Ell Centro............,l839.o %
w. A. Scheniman, El Centro. 1888
L. C. Avis, Imperial...,.........l764.6 4.6
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14
SONES LEAVES
RELIEF BOARD

Charles E. Sones, member of the
El Centro relief board, and its
treasurer, has submitted his resig-
nation to DR.. N. E. Dupont, chair
man of the board, in the following
letter received by the chairman:
This is to notify you that I am
hereby rendering my resignition as
a member of the board, effective
at once, and ask that you appoint
someone to audit the books of the
treasurer and designate to whom
the funds of the board are to be
turned over.
II am sorry this action is neces-
sary, but I felt that my health is
of first consideration.
Thanking you for your prompt
action, am,
Very truly yours,
Charles E. Sones.
DR.. Dupont today expressed his
regret, both personally and as a
member of the board, on the resig-
nation. 1.-THE knowledge that
/ Chuck Sones was member of the
board, and handled its finances,
| was of inestimable value to us dur
ing the years the relief board has
functioned," he said. cali Ell Gen.
| tro knows 'Chuck's' splendid repu-
tation and his position as treasurer
was sufficient assurance that all
funds for relief would be handled
properly. I know other members OF
the board feel as l do and will re-
gret that he has seen fit to resign
At the same time I feel certain
they share my wish that his health
will rapidly be restored to him"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14
INLAND Store
Reports Theft

According to report made yes
terday afternoon to the sheriff, the
hardware store of Simpson ana
Nofsinger in INLAND was burglar
lied on Tuesday night and the fol-
lowing articles stolen:
A Remington l2-gauge pump
shotgun: a U. S. .38 calibre pistol,
fite shooter: several dozen pocket
knives: four Ingersoll watches, two
wrist watches and a quantity oi
shells. Authorities are inciineo 10
believe that this may be the WORK
of boys who have been active III
thieving operations in the county
lately. Descriptions OF the stolen
property have been broadcast IN an
effort TO get clues to the identity
of the thieves.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-14

Glass B, highest producing first
calf heifer: