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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-12


Immediate congressional action on
the proposals to liberalize the bank
ruptcy laws was promised today by
Speaker Garner, who pledged him
self to throw his influence behind
the La Guardia- McKeown BILL and
bring it before the house next week.
The exact date of consideration will
depend upon time consumed by the
judiciary committee in approving
a final draft.
For the past three weeks, serious
committee room discussion of the
situation has been taking place, with
some of the most conservative law
yers of both houses admitting that
technical Interpretation of the prop
erty provisions of the Constitution
must not be allowed 10 stand in the
way of action.
President Hoover's message to
congress urging immediate action
TO relief of debtors crystallized this
feeling, and was followed by a gath
ering of the authors of various
measures along these lines.
Late Wednesday this group agreed
on a composite bill, which meets the
approval of Solicitor General
Thomas Day Thatcher, and which
will be laid before congress today.
The house judiciary committee will
meet to consider it Friday, and the
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SEVEN DEPUTIES
GUST FAMILY
Look for Trouble When
Parents, Four Children
Are EViCted.

Two emergency squads of seven
deputy sheriffs today evicted Mr..
and Mrs. Cecil Allan and four chill
dren from their home at 1888 Cal
houn street.
According to the sheriff's Office,
the large force was sent in expecta-
ton of trouble"
Only resistance to the eviction
was as objection by Allen against
placing his furniture on a truck to
be taken to storage. He was per-
mitted to take his household goods
to nearby vacant lot, where the
family will continue housekeeping.
Two of the children, Robert, 10,
and Dorothy, 9, were in school at
the time. James, 5, remained with
his parents, while Marie, 2, who has
been i'll, was taken in by neighbors.
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MARSHALL, Ill, Jan. 12.-1n a
sudden, dramatic attempt to ciinch
important evidence that Hubert c..
Moor. Robinson, Ill. teacher and
former Butler university student, be-
came insane prior to murder OF his
wife. Marjorie, Aug. 10, Moor testl-
fed in his own behalf today.
The surprise move Of the de-
Tense. which had been reluctant to
subject Moor to cross-eXsmination,
came after Circuit Judge Charles
A. Shuey ruled that letters written
by Mrs. Moor telling of doubt of the
sanity of her husband, could not
be admitted as evidence.
Shuey's ruling was based on the
fact that no evidence had been in
troduced to show that Moor ever
had read the letters, fact the de-
tense contended preyed on his mind
and aggravated his mental disturb
ance.
Defense attorneys sent Moor to
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By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-Blood stains
on a staircase led police today to
seize the home from which comely
Mrs. Frances Schildhauer said she
watched two men kidnap her hus-
band, Edwin, a short time before
his slain body was found on a lonely
Cicero road.
The stains were found on stair
way leading to the street. A Sec
ton of the staircase was sawed out
and taken to the police laboratory
where chemists pronounced the
stains to be blood Several days
will be required to determine
whether it is human blood.
Captain John Siege, whose logged
inquiry in the Staying has been
pressed for a month, Immediately
placed guards over the home. He
sent experts to ransack the three
apartment house.
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SENATE SKIRMISH IS
TRIUMPH FOR VETS
VoIstead Plea to Congress
Brings Bout of DrYS.

First skirmish between vets and
drys in the state senate resulted
today in an overwhelming victory
for the vets.
The test came when Senator Fred
A. Egan Dem, Cary brought in
majority report from the public
policy committee favoring passage
of his concurrent resolution memo
rializing congress to modify the VOL
stead act.
Egan is committee chairman.
Senator Elias G. Swihart Dem,
Elkhar0, signed a minority commit
tee report urging that the resolution
be killed by indefinite postponement.
Although he took the floor in be-
half of his report, the majority re-
port prevailed by decisive voice
vote.
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HOUSE SET TO PASS
FARM RELIEF BILL
ST, 000,000,000 Allotment
Measure Up for Vote.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The
house was keyed today to pass the
domestic allotment bill-a S1,000,-
100000 experiment in farm relief.
Democratic leaders predicted the
measure would have considerable
Republican support on the final vote
and be approved by a comfortable
margin.
Recovering from a series of
amendments which threatened the
measure Tuesday, Chairman Jones
of the agriculture committee
whipped Democrats into line
Wednesday and prevented the adj
mission of ludicrous amendments
which would have torn the bill to
pieces. Products on which bourties
would be paid we're limited to hogs,
wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice, dairy
produce and peanuts.
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INTENSE COLD
STOPS WAR ON
JEHOL BORDER
Fighting Between Japanese
and Chinese Is at
StandStiII.
MERCURY is AT ZER(
Use of Water Cooled Ma
chine Guns Is Made
Impossible.
BY HERBERT EKINS
United Press STAFF Correspondent

PEIPING, Jan. 12.-Intense cold
on the southern and eastern from
tiers of Jehol province brought
fighting between Japanese and
Chinese to a standstill today, and
delayed the anticipated japanese
advance toward Jehols capital,
Chengtefu.
Zero temperatures made the use
of water cooled machine guns i'm
possible, and otherwise contributed
to the statement of military activ-
tiles, foreign military observers re-
ported. Shanhaikwan, Chingwantao,
and Shiho were quiet.
During the lull of military action,
foreign diplomatic representatives
planned to go to Marking to keep
closer contact with the Chinese gov
eminent during efforts at concilia-
ton which the League of Nations
will resume at Geneva, Monday.
Premier Is Recalled
Premier Wang Ching Wei has
been recalled from Germany, where
he had been taking cure. but it
was not known here whether he
would proceed direct to China or
stop at Geneva for the league dis
cuSSions.
United States Minister Nelson
Johnson decided not to accompany
the diplomatic delegation to Nam
king, but to remain here and main
tain contact through the consulate
general at Marking.
British Charge d'Affaires E. B. M.
Ingram planned to go to Marking,
and it was expected that the British
minister, Sir Miles Lampson, arriv-
ing at Hong Kong today, would join
French, German, Italian and other
diplomatic representatives at the
capital.
The vernacular press reported a
Japanese attack at Shihemenchai
and described heavy fighting in
which Chinese troops are alleged to
have repulsed the invaders.
Japanese Hold Pass
An unofficial Japanese announce
ment, however, said that the Nip
ponese troops had not advanced be-
yond Chiomenkou, strategic pass
through the Great Wall, which the
Japanese intend to hold without ex-
tending operations south of the
| Great Wall.
Chinese and Japanese announce
ments disputed control of Chiomen-
kou, the ninth gate in the Great
Wall The japanese claimed they
controlled the pass, and Chinese
sources reported that they still held
the strategic point.
Military sources doubted whether
the Great Wall, historic barrier
against invasion, could hold out the
modern Japanese force of 10000 men
supported by airplanes, tanks
armored trains, and all modern in
StrumentS of war
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XXTASHINGTON, Jan. H.
W Marlin Kemmerer, young
Allentown (Pa) clerk, who
terrorized the house on Dec. Is by
waving a loaded revolver from the
gallery, has been released, and
sent home on the promise that he
will be a good boy.
District Attorney Leo A. Rover
acted on recommendation of DR..
D. Percy Hickling, alienist, who
had Kemmerer under observation
for several weeks.
DR.. Hickling found the youth
legally sane and said it would be
better for him to be with his
family than in an institution.
Kemmerer. who is an expert
marksman, was said to be most
contrite about his action.
He promised that if he has any
plans to advance in the future for
the welfare of the country, he will
not attempt such sensational
methods of bringing them to the
attention of congress.
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FOLEY MAY QUIT POST
Told Me He Was Going to Resign
Governor McNutt Says.

Governor Paul v. McNutt reported
today that M. E. Foley, Indianapolis
attorney, and member of the Indi-
ana state prison board for nearly a
quarter of a century, will resign.
He told me that he was going
to resign, but have not yet received
his formal resignation, McNutt de-
clared.
Foley is a Democrat. He denied
he would resign after his confer
ence with McNutt.
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I At the same time, a bill
which would levy a tobacco
tax of approximately $780,
900 annually for old age PEN
sions for persons over 65 was
being prepared by Represen-
tative William j. Black of An
derson. 1t will be introduced
soon, Black said.
Permanent Registration Kept
The registration measure, twenty
one pages in length, is an admin
istration project and provides for
every eXigency, with fines, imprison-
ment and Northumberland as
penalties.
Under it's terms, permanent
registration is kept and the voter
need not re-register as long as he
remains a resident of the same
county. Expenses are to be paid
from the city or county general
funds, as are election expenses.
The circuit clerk is made ex-
officio registration officer and town.
ship assessors would serve as depu-
! ties.
Registration, the bill provides,
would begin Jan. Is, 1884, continue
to the twenty-ninth day preceding
the primary, be resumed on Ma, IS,
1884, and continue until the twenty
ninth day preceding the general
election. No 1888 election is af-
fected
Registration would be by affidavit
and doubtful voters would be forced
to show signatures on demand of
the election board. During January
after any election, the circuit clerk
is required to examine registration
lists and strike from them names
of persons not voting within two
/ years.
Punishable by Fine, Jail
Death lists also are to be checked
repeatedly against the registration
record, to keep it up to date.
Making a false statement will be
punishable by fines up to 500 and
Jail terms up to ninety days, along
with observation-disclosures for any
period.
The assembly renewed attempts
to cut profits on small loans, when
a measure was introduced by Sem
ator William P. Dennigan (Dem.,
Vincennes), making IL per cent a
month the legal rate on all loans
less than $500.
Provision also is made in the bill
to prevent any revamping of the
principal sum of the loan in favor
of the lender.
Under the Black proposal, revenue
for old age pensions would be OBJ
tanned by a levy of l cent on each
ten cigarets sold, and Of 10 per cent
on retail sales of cigars and tobac-
CO. Stamps would be issued and
the excise collected by the state
auditor and placed in a special fund.
SIS Pension Limit
Pension Of $25 would be paid to
persons who have no other income
sufficient to provide for their care.
Half would be paid by the state and
half by the county, with county
commissioners acting as a board of
judges, invested with power of re-
lection of applications.
Petitioners under the measure
would be required to reside for ff-
teen years in the county in which
application is made. No pension
would be granted inmates or pa
tents of charitable institutions. The
law would be effective Jan. l, 1884.
Thirteen new bills and che reso-
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DEPUTY, PRISONER
SLAIN FROM AMBUSH
Murdered in Feud- Torn
Kentucky District.
By United Press

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JACKSON, KY, Jan. IA depu-
ty sheriff and his prisoner were shot
to death here today from ambush.
The victims were Deputy Sheriff
James Marshall, 40, and Richard
Jet, 60, farmer, whom Marshall
was walking to the Breathit county
Jail on minor charge.
The slayers escaped without being
seen. 1t was believed that Mar
shall was slain for revenge and Jet
was an innocent victim.
jackson is the county seat of
Breathit county, which became
known as Bloody Breathit" during
the notorious feud between the Hat
field and Mccoy families of noun
talneers years ago.
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IT'S A HARD MONTH,
so BLAME IT ON 18TH
Violent Deaths May Set Record. If
the Pace Keeps Up.

Maybe the superstitious will lay it
on to the fact that the month of
January has a Friday. the
Thirteenth, but regardless, the
month in its first eleven days of the
New Year is bidding for a record of
violent deaths and coroner cases.
In the first eleven days the office
of Coroner w. E. Arbuckle has re-
ceived forty-four cases to be in
vestigated and out of the forty-four
violent deaths have occurred in
almost one-half of the cases.
If the month continues at the
present rate it will hold an all-time
record for morbidity from violent
causes.
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SHIPS RADIO FOR AID
S. o. s. Calls Picked Up by Coast
Guard; Collision is Feared.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.-Dis-
treSs calls from two ships, the tank
er MANU- OF the N. Y. K. line. and
the General Pershing of the States
line, were picked up by the coast
guard radio station here today.
The positions given would place
both vessels near Japan. The dis
tress signals did not state the cause.
1t was believed the vessels might
have collided.
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SLAPPER-KIL
is GIVEN Term
Father of Two Is Sentenced
to 1-to-10 Years for
Wife'S Death.

Fred Cossand, "a, of 819 Chad
wick street, father of two mother
less children, was sentenced to the
state farm for one to ten years to-
day for the slapping to death of his
wife. Cossand pleaded guilty 10 a
manslaughter charge in criminal
court.
He confessed slapping his wife,
Mrs. Fannie Cossand. while she lay
i'll in bed She died June 25, two
weeks after Cossand struck the
fatal blow.
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MINING STORE BOMBED
Dynamite Explosion Skaters Win
dOws; Clews Are Lacking.

bV HttcN FftSS
SULLIVAN, Ind, Jan. 12.-An
explosion of dynamite shattered
windows in a small store owned by
Robert Highfeld at MILFORD, min
ing community seven miles north
east Of here, early today officials
said they were without clews as to
who was responsible.
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DEATH TAKES BUILDER
OF TRACKLESS TRAINS
Harry o. MCGEE Succumbs at
Miami, Fla; Won Fame Here.


Following an illness of a year,
Harry o. MCGEE, At, of $3.50 Gull
ford avenue, inventor and builder
of trackless trains, died Tuesday in
Miami, Fla.
Mr.. MCGEE became famous in
1915, when he raced q crack express
train from here to Terre Haute, a
distance of seventy-two miles, over
dirt and gravel roads, beating the
time of the train by twelve minutes,
with a stock model car.
Two years later he built the first
trackless train, a replica of a rail-
road engine, driven by an automo-
bile motor.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
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new STATE Law
ON REGISTRATION
ASKED In HOUSE
Strong Penalties Provided for Violation;
Old Age Pension Measure Soon to Be
introduced by Representative Black.
SLASH SOUGHT IN RATES ON LOANS
Is Per Cent Annually Is Recommendation;
Repeal of Teacher Tenure Act to Be
REQUESTED of LEGISLATORS.

bill to revamp state registration laws, proposal
levy special tax to finance odage pensions, and intro
duction of affecting interest rates of loan
paies occupied the legislature today members began full
fllment of Democratic platform pledges
Comprehensive changes in registration laws including
permanent registration of voters provided in bill intro
duced the house by Representative j. Frank REGISTER
(Dem. Bloomington.
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GUILTY IN CHECK CASE
Woman Is Sent to Prison to Serve
Four Month Term.

Confessing she cashed numerous
checks for two men who escaped,
Miss Irene Seidelmen, 81, today was
sent to the woman's prison for
four months.
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker
imposed the sentence on a charge
that Miss Seidelmen defrauded a
downtown store Of $3.50 through
worthless check.
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PICK "a PLATE COL0RS
White Numerals on Blue Chosen for
Next Years Auto Licenses.

While Indiana's maroon and
white 1888 automobile license plates
are being sold by the hundreds
daily, Secretary of State Frank
Mayr Jr., and James E. Carpenter,
chief of the automobile license bu-
reau, decided upon the colors for
next year today.
White numerals on a dark blue
background was the decision
reached by the state officials.
Manufacture of the 1884 plates
will commence shortly at the Indi-
ana state prison, Carpenter said.
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Speed Is Promised on
Bill to Help Debtors
Congress Leaders Agree on Measure to Tighten Crush
ing Burden; Hoover Spurs Drive
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON JAN 12WaShingon has the grave
import OF news from all parts of the country that farmers
tractors
completey-equipped farm for $116
Before the week legislation debtors from
o-cruShng burden OF debtand at
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B0LIVIANS ARE ROUTED
Paraguay Troops Win Skirmish in
Gran Chaco Sector.

ASUNCION. Paraguay, Jan. ~
Paraguayan troops routed Bolivians
in the Nanawa sector of the Gran
Chaco, resulting in thirty Bolivian
dead and fifteen wounded, a semi
official announcement said today.
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S31,OOO,OOO
PARED FROM
ARMY FUNDS
Drastic Reduction Urged by
House Appropriations
Committee.
SCoRN Ho0VER'S IDEAS
National Guard Budget Is
Stepped Up by
Representatives.

~ fHftfn Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. IA re-
duction of more than $31 100000 in
army funds for the next fiscal year
was urged by the house appropria-
tons committee today in the face
of warnings from General Douglas
Macarthur, chief of staff, that
world conditions are unsettled and
provocative.
The committee reported faVorably
war department supply bill carry
ing $273,O79, 588 for military &C
tiWtles and S72,753,994 for harbor
improvement, flood control, and
other extra military work.
The army itself would receive
$4,651 ,253 less than President Hoo
Ver's recommendations.
Chairman Ross Collins Dem,
Miss) argued in support of the
economies that the efficiency of
the regular establishment has not
been impaired one iota.'
Macarthur Makes Plea
The committee acted after hear
ings in which General Macarthur
testified that we are living in
troublesome times, world conditions
are unsettled and provocative. Many
nations are passing through eco
nomic crises.
The tense situation in the far
cast emphasizes again the untrust-
worthineSs of treaties as complete
safeguards to international peace.
The Geneva conference for nearly
year has been studying a formula
for effecting universal reductions in
land ornaments. The results to
date have been virtually negligible.
The United States now is the
seventeenth ranking nation in mill
tary strength. AS virtually all other
nations are incre aSing their
strengths, it is possible that in the
near future the United States will
drop even farther in the relative
list"
Reject Hoover Ideas
President Hoover's recommends
lions for extensive economies in
funds for the national guard we're
rejected by the committee, which
actually made savings in other
branches to increase this appropria-
ton $9,134,651 over the current year
and 1854, 542 over the budget.
This will permit the guard to con-
tinue regular drill and pay Sched-
ules. 1t also allows the expenditure
of more than $1,4OOO00 for motor
lied equipment.
No reduction was made in the
present commissioned or enlisted
personnel. The reserve officers
training corps will be put on a
shortened training period recon-
mended in the budget, and subsist-
ence communication of advanced stu
dents and the ration allowance at
camps will be reduced.
Cut Uniform Quota
The 100000 allowed for uniforms
for this unit was cut in half.
No provision whatever was made
for citizen military training camp
activities, although the budget
recommended $1,000,000, which
would have permitted $4,000 young
men to obtain summer training.
The army air corps allowances
totaled $23,3241S5, in addition to
contract authorization of $3,000,0 900
for airplanes and equipment.
The bill appropriates 500, 1888, 129
for river and harbor projects and
$19,653 424 for Mississippi river flood
control. These appropriations are
unchanged from President Hoover's
budget recommendations, already
made public.
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CABINET QUITS
Premier Who Took Office Last No.
Resigns From Post.

By JHitCd Press
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 12-The
cabinet of Premier Panayoti Tsal-
darts, formed last Nov. 4, resigned
today.
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BANK BUSINESS BOOMS
Petoskey Institution Reports 1892
As Best Year in History.

BIZ United Pr S.
PETOSKEY, Mich, Jan. 12.-The
First National bank of Petoskey re-
ported today that its business last
year was the best in the fifty-four
years since its organization. The
bank listed deposits totaling S2,000,-
600, the largest in its history.