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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

to get a story, and thus enhance
his chances of winning a good
place on the college paper.
Long decided in an instant that
he would help the young man.
He grabbed the telephone. Wood
in an article in the Daily Prince
tonian told what followed:
The Louisianan picked up a
telephone and called the German
embassy. The following CONVEX
sation was heard from his end of
the wire
eff the German ambassad dor
isn't in. give me the highest man
there.
Who am I? This is Huey P.
Long United States senator and
former Governor of Louisiana, ma
tional committeeman and King
fish. What more do you want?
Hello, are you sure you are
the highest man there? Well, I've
got little matter to settle with
your government.
Back in 1880, had to borrow
a dress suit, listen to a seventeen
gun salute, and then apologize to
your government because 1 hap
pened to have on a pair of green
striped pajamas when one of your
naval officers called.
Now my government has been
insulted. I called on your ambas-
sador. We had a nice quiet little
talk and I left.
Now I read in the paper that
people of lesser rank than I, when
they called. got a couple of stems
Of that good, frothy German beer
before they left. What I want to
know is how are you going to fix
1t up?
g Fine. but when shall I call?
Don't worry, IL be there
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John, if he continues his good
behavior, viii be eligible for pa
role within six months. He has
been an inmote of the school since
July. 1881.
n
THE school won't find it hard
a to place John in the world
at large They'll not have a hard
time placing any of the other 425
boys at the school who earn their
merit marks.
But "Bill''-well, that another
problem. Bill is almost 81
years old. And when he's 81 in
November, The state of Indiana
will take a roof from his head,
GUST him from his lodgings, give
him a suit of clean clothes, shoes,
underwear, the little money he has
to his credit. and push him out
of the front door into the street
of joblessnesS and panhandlers.
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half MILLION
SAVING SHOWN
IN ROAD BILL
Highway Cost Will Be Cut
Sharply, Declares Meas
ure Sponsor.
BIDDING PLAN CHANGED
State Penal Institutions to
Provide Competition
on Materials.

More than 100000 in salaries
will be saved by the administration
in highway department ripper
bill" it was claimed by Senator
Jacob Weiss CDem.. Indianapolis.
one of the senators who introduced
the bill in the upper house today.
This saving will be made, it was
explained by Weiss, through the
requirement that bids must be re-
ceived on all maintenance work.
Under the present setup, this
work is done by department en-
ployes.
Other features which Weiss says
will mean great savings are that
nothing can be bought without COM
petitive bidding, and cement or any
other material may be purchased
from Indiana penal institutions.
All But One Bid Alike
This year all but one firm bid
alike on 100000 barrels of cement.
Action on the bids has been de-
layed because prices are 20 cents a
barrel higher than in 1882.
Weiss pointed out that with the
threat of competition from penal
institutions a better price will re-
suit.
Using prison-made goods is not
mandatory in the measure" he de-
clared, however.
Under the bills provisions the
present highway Setup is abolished.
Instead of bipartisan four men,
Der commission, with a full-time
director, a three-member full-time
commission is substituted. The full
time members will be paid 5000 a
year under the bill.
One of the members will be elect
ed to the dictatorship. Separate de-
partmentS of maintenance, con-
struction, and executive will be abol-
iShed and the entire highway de-
partment will function as a whole,
| Weiss explained.
Wage Drop Seen
In receiving maintenance bids.
under the new bill, the work must
/ We dWdIUSu W private contractors
unless the department can do it for
not more than IS per cent of the
bid price.
Although Weiss said the saving
will be III salaries, the departments
annual reports show curtailment of
maintenance will reduce sharply the
wages paid to common labor.
Payments shown in the annual
report during the fiscal year of 1882,
ended Sept. 30, we're as follows:
Garage, S280,309; new buildings,
$26,201; maintenance work wages,
81, 430,032; construction, $995,337:
commissioners, $3.50; other salaries,
1911 ,692, and stenographic salaries,
S37,645.
Senator William Doogs; Thallie
w. Druley and James B. Brewster,
who introduced a bill repeating the
present highway law, will join in
supporting the bill providing the
new setup, Weiss said.
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ROOTLEGGERs, whether of
- liquor or haircuts, are de-
cidedly in disrepute at the pres
ent session of the legislature.
And from bills proposed for
passage at the present general
assembly it is evident that the
roundhouse haircut and the con-
vict clip are about to go the way
of home brew" and hip pocket
flask sellers.
Backed by James c. Shanessy,
general president of the Journey
men BARRIERS International Union.
bill has been brought to atten-
ton of the solons for a barber
board, to be composed of three
members.
Indiana is one of the ten states
in the Union without laws con-
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foster parents. The agents are
guardians against their abuse at
the hands of employers and curb
against any one seeking to give the
boys poor living quarters. and in
sufficient spending money.
Boys placed on farms receive
$12 monthly wage in summer
time, board, lodging and clothing.
In the winter months the month
ly wage is cut to spending money.
One boy of the school has
banking account at the present
time of $3.50 from money earned
on farm
II SCAPES from the school are
IL considerably lower than from
institutions Of similar kind in the
nation. One eastern correctional
school averages twenty escapes
monthly. The escapes in 1882 from
Plainf1eld totaled sixteen.
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BY ARCH STEINEL

BY ARCH STEINEL
LIES the boy without a chance.
l. Il Indiana has stamped paid
in full" on his record at the In
diana Boys School at Plainfield.
For one year he has been due
to 60 out into the world and
demonstrate that he can beat
back, but no one will take him.
The army and the navy turned
him down. Employers, depres-
sion-haunted, have refused to give
him opportunity to show the train
ing and good record inculcated in
him during his eight years in the
boys school.
But on November of this year
the state will shove him out into
a world of breadlines, job hunt
erS and force him to battle, with
out home or guiding hand, against
the tentacleS of poverty, crime
and hopelesSnesS.
They call him just plain Bill"
at the boys school,
Bill has a number-ll ,0O9.
DUT standards in kindness,
- discipline and character
building change over the years
and for the first time in sixty
five years of the states operation
of a school of correction, the
numbers have been dropped from
the 425 boys at the Plainfeld
school.
The new system of keeping rec
ords on the boys by names instead
of numbers was instituted by o. A.
Negus, superintendent of the
school, within the last six weeks.
But although Bill has ceased
to be a number" he sees no
hope, nor does Negus, for oppor-
tunity to show what his 1I5
pounds of man power can do in
the marts of business.
Bill could be placed on a farm,
but he isn't a farm boy. He is
finished cobbler through train
ing in the schools shop. He can
use a typewriter. He can clerk
in store. He'd make a brawny
sailor, a burly soldier. But en-
listmentS are at low ebb, and so
there's no chance for him in the
uniform.
For an entire year, all the
months of good credits that have
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made him eligible for parole, Ne
gus and the boys school staff
have searched for a job for him.
WE almost thought We had
w one at an Indianapolis
plant, but the superintendent died
the day he promised Bill a job
and now that promise has been
carried to the grave" Negus eX-
planned.
Periodically, Bill is permitted to
leave the institution to hunt a
place for himself in a world he
hardly knows, but he always re-
turns empty handed and shrug-
ging his shoulders at the futility
of combating a system that gives
him no opportunity to show wha
he can do.
I'll be 81 in November, won't
I, Mr.. Negus? Then I'll have to
go. I'd rather stay here than
join the line of jobless. I'd have a
clean bed, good food, here. Blu
they won't let me stay" Bill ex-
planned in the superintendent s
office today.
Bills story is one of youthful
incorrigibility, of the vigor of the
adolescence that couldn't be tied
down to routine. Deviltry and
not dishonesty placed him in
Plainf1eld at the age Of Il.
He came from a home in ST..
Joseph county that was broken to
bits by death and life, too.
LIS father, construction
Il Il engineer, erected a home in
South Bend and paid for it. He
had approximately $4,000 in the
bank the day he died.
Bill was at Plainfeld when the
father died. Later he went to his
home to find his mother. He
could not find her. No one at the
bank knew of his fathers account,
nor the whereabouts of his
mother.
A cold gravestone, an aunt who
did not know where his mother
was, two brothers who had
dropped out of his life, left Bill
without family.
The boys school became his
parent. Negus became his father
mother and the state of Indiana
his godfather.
But godfather says that Bill
must go On his own in November
and his father mother can't figure
out what's going to become of the
youth.
DERPLEXED by the problem,
Il Negus today explained the
ease with which the majority of
the boys Of the school are placed
on farms during their period Of
parole from the school until they
attain the age of 81.
Outside of Bill, there's only one
other boy at the school that we
can't place. He's in about the
same boat as Bill. He's not fitted
to become a farmer or to even
attempt farming. He's ready to
take mans job in the world of
trade" he said.
The school has 600 boys out on
parole. The 600 look to the two
field agents of the school as their
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ShanesSy points out that the
man or woman who receives a
hair cut in Indiana has no guar
antee against the possibility that
the operator working on him or
her has a communicable disease.
Aside from the angle of clean
illness and danger Of disease, the
licensed barber must know his
barbering science, and the barber
OF today no longer is the barber
OF Mother Goose, Barber. barber
shave a pig. how many hairs to
make wig?"
A board Of examiners for bar
bers. Shanessy says, will bring the
profession to a higher level. and
do much to alleviate the depres-
sion in the trade from bootleg"
shops.
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MOUe to Lift Load Off
Farmer Pushed in House

tended that the burden involved will
be no greater than consumers bore
in pre-war times.
The Roosevelt plan" for meeting
the farm debt situation is being
drafted by Fred Lee. attorney for
farm organizations which support it
and the domestic allotment plan.
But before being submitted to a
standing committee of the house it
probably will be discussed again by
the informal Democratic committee
on farm relief.
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trolling the barber profession,
sanitation of shops, or health Of
the workers who live by their
shears and razor.
r
nURING the boom Of the bob
~ fad among women, every
house around the corner became
an unlicensed beauty shop, with a
housewife dividing her time be-
tween shouting at her children,
Now, Johnny, keep out of the
cookie jar" and How did you
want the back of your neck
clipped. close and high?"
Anyone with the price of pair
Of shears or clippers could become
bobber of locks and with this
the BARRIERS claim came the re-
sultant advent of their first bust
ness depression.
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They claim that this unfair
competition of unskilled labor, that
ordinarily was confined to wash
ing pots and pans or cooking the
husbands supper, hit them in
years of prosperity and resulted
in empty barber chairs.
The proposed law would compel
beauty shops to hire licensed hair
trimmerS. The beauticians are
in favor of the law, for they are
furthering an act before the
legislature that will weed out the
home beauty shop, with its giving
of permanents between the heat
ing of waffle irons and frying
the noon meal of mush.
y
INDIANA rejected former at
Il tempt to obtain a BARRIERS
license law.
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Three Election Bills Are
GiUen Favorable Reports

Three important bills affecting
elections were recommended for
passage today to the state senate by
its committee on elections.
The White-Webb bill, designed to
eliminate mushroom pol itic a ]
parties, provides that signatures of l
per cent Of the total vote for Sec
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formed Coun-
selor Rudolph
Leitner that the
German govern
ment had in
suit e d" t h e
United States.
The diplomat,
a t er several
a n Xious mo-
ments, learned
that the "insult"
was that Long
had not been
treated to beer
when he called
at the embassy.
HerleStOn R.
Wood, Princeton
university stu
dent. was eager
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
DIR. Soland to Lebanon
By Times Special

By Times Special
LEBANON, Ind, Jan. 13.-Dr
Emerson j. Soland, Indianapolis eye
specialist, will take charge of the
Mcdaniel Jewelry Company's OPTIC
metry business here, according to
an announcement by Francis Nc
Daniel Of the company Thursday.
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FIGHT RABIES SPREAD

By United Pr 3
MT. VERNON, Ind, Jan. 49,
Posey county was under quarantine
for rabies today with fifteen per-
sons taking pasteur treatments.
Three cities, including Mt. Vernon,
reported outbreaks of rabies among
dogs, swine and cattle.
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Cheated Huey
So kingfish Calls Ger
man Embassy and Is
Assured of Beer.

BIZ Z NIIcH PfcSS
NTASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The
w newest tale about Senator
Huey Long is a fantastic, but true
story of how he gave the German
embassy the scare of its life
merely to manufacture a good
yarn for q college journalism
student.
Long telephoned the embassy,
and in a thunderous voice in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13
AIRPORT'S PROGRAM
FOR 1888 OUTLINED
Passengers Clearing Here Increase
Almost 5000, Report Shows.

Almost 0,UUU, report SnOWS.
Pointing to an increase in the
last year of almost 5000 in total
passengers clearing the Indianap-
oils airport, Major Charles E. Cox
Jr, airport superintendent, Thurs
day outlined the program of acti-
vities for 1888.
Main event Of the year will be
two Gays of air races, Sept. and
10. Pushmobile racing, begun last
year, will be continued, and plans
have been made for the setting up
Of golf driving range.
Passengers clearing the port dur
ing 1882 totaled 1875, as against
1892 in the previous year. Figures
revealed 1887 transport planes
cleared the port last year, and o.
325 in 1881.
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LECTURES TO BE GIVEN
DR.. d. w. Kurtz, World Traveller,
Will Speak in City.

DR.. D. w. Kurtz of Chicago, world
traveller and lecturer, will give a
series of lectures on The Great
Doctrines of the Bible" at Grace
Church of the Brethren, Capitol
avenue and Thirty-second street.
First lecture will be given at 7:30
tonight and will continue at same
time Saturday and Sunday nights.
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BONDSMAN FINED $40
ON DRINKING CHARGE
30-Day Jail Term Is Suspended by
Judge Cameron.

Henry Sleets, AZ, Negro bondsman,
was fined $40 and costs and given
suspended thirty day sentence in
jail by Municipal Judge Clifton r.
Cameron Thursday afternoon on a
drunkenness charge preferred after
an automobile accident Nov. 10.
Sleets was given years proba-
ton for payment of the fine.
Charges of operating motor We
hicle while under the influence of
liquor and failure to display driv-
er's license were dismissed on prose-
cutors motion.
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A book that is being read these
days is "A Good Mans Love-" by
F. M. Delafield and published by
Harper and Brothers. 1t is a
satire, nicely written, on society
and marriage. 1t was recently one
Of the months selections of the
Book League Of America.
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$50 Theft Is Reported

Charles r. Dawson. owner of a
grocery at col North Gray street,
reported to police this morning that
the store had been entered Thurs
day night and $50 which he had
hidden was missing.
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Player Piano
Sold Second Day
at Cost of "a Cents

PLAYER PIANO-Bench and rolls;
SIS. 955 W. 35th st. HE-eSss.
The adj above appeared
in The Times two days at
cost of only j4c Ii sold
the player piano belonging
TO Mrs. Alice Meyer for
cash. This is just one ex-
ample of the results OBJ
tanned by Times Want Ad
users.
Try a Times Want Al il Won
have an extra piece Of house
hold furniture that yon wish 20
convert into cash. The cost is
only 5 cents word.
Phone RI. 5551 or YOU can
bring your ad to Times Want
Ad Headquarters, PA West
Maryland street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

The mid-winter issue Of THE
Hound and Horn the edition for
January, February and March. con-
tains a startling article relative to
the present status of American
civilization The article is called
America Deserta," and is by Muriel
Draper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-13

Have received word from Live
right, Inc, that Theodore Dresser
has written a new novel, The
Stoic," as the third volume of The
,Trilogy of Desire" of which The
Financier" was the first volume. and
The Titan" the second. Publica-
ton date is not announced as yet.
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IAN ~ 1000
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Based on sales reports in their
stores all over the country, Bran-
tano'S. New York, lists the following
as the best sellers in fiction: Flow
ering Wilderness" by GalSworthy:
"Munity on the Bounty" by Nord-
hoff and Hall; Public Faces" by
Harold Nicolson; Never Ask the
End" by ISbale Peterson; Peter
Ashley" by Du Bose Hayward. and
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosa
mond Lehman.
Evening star., 1933-08-27

An intimate moment in the Beery household. Wallace
Beery receives little token of reward from his
adopted daughter Carol after consenng let her 60
along his vacation trip Europe owde World Phoos
Evening star., 1933-08-27

The modern divorce McCeland Barclay illustrator ana
his wife and model Helene Barclay held tins )ovia
FIRST meeting after their divorce arrival by plane
at Los Angeles 1t just friendly divorce they explained
to better suit her ambitions for movie career n..
Evening star., 1933-09-07

member Of the executive council, repre-
senting the Department Of Northern
Virginia. ,*~ 5
And there may never Be another
bivouack where the stars and bars nan
st the masts and the rebel yells echo
across the hills. They'll decide later
whether they'll ever meet again for an
honest-to-goodness reunion. This Il the
ffFst year there has been no reunion
since the confederacy collapsed at Apo.
mattox. -, s
Played Yesterday.
Yesterday the veterans played. Cigars
were free and there were pretty girls
to show themA around They laughed
and talked and slapped their knees and
lolled around Q hotel lobby.
Several veterans brought their serv-
ants with them. The body guards
black as cypress swamp at midnight
shuf1ed through the hotel lobbies,
places where colored men are seldom
seen. White men gave them chairs
and white women saw to their needs.
They were honored. revered-the last
Evening star., 1933-09-07

link between IN ase when black desh
was bartefed and new era' of Tor
gotten men.
Most q. the veterans wore braid.
There was something poignant about
them. and yet It wasn't aad. There
was sQmethhg gallant about them.
They are the South. They didn't seem
upset over possibility Of no more re-
unions. They don't know whether
they'll be alive next year.
Evening star., 1933-09-07

United Confederate Veterans and Sons
OF Veterans for the next year.
Hopkins was elected commander IN
chief Of the 3. G. ", succeeding Dr..
w. r. Dancy Of Savannah, Ga. while
the veterans In q business session de-
cided to continue Gen. Atkinson rs COM
mander until the next reunion.
Only the oflcers and Executive Com
mittee Of the veterans met here. They
closed their session today after morn
ing meeting to discuss plans for the re-
sumption Of the annual reunions.
Other Onlcers Chosen.
Vice commanders Of the Sons Of Vet
erans elected included DR.. Nathan A.
Seagle of New York for the Department
of Northern Virginia: Maj. Jere @.
Dennis bf Dadeville. Ala, for the De-
partment Of Tennessee. and Gen. j. 8.
Utley for the Transmississippi Depart
ment.
Dr. Lendon c. Bell of Columbus, Ohio.
was elected grand historian, and John
Ashley Jones Of Atlanta was chosen .
Evening star., 1933-09-07
AUTOPSY PLANNED

An autopsy will be performed on thu
body Of Miss Mankie B. Noble, IS, Of
2146 Florida avenue, who died u
Emergency Hospital yesterday follow.
ing q fall down q Night Of stairs a
her home nearly week ago. Her back
was severely injured In the fall.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
called the autopsy to determine II death
was due to the injury or natural
causes. l~lA
Evening star., 1933-09-07
SOUTH'S VETERANS
CHOOSE LEADERS
Gen. Homer T. Atkinson Is
Named to Command Con-
federates Another Year.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, September Cen. Homer
r. Atkinson Of Petersburg. Va. and
walter L. Hopkins of Richmond, Va,
yesterday were selected to head the
Evening star., 1933-09-07

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Evening star., 1933-09-07

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