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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
S6OO,OOO,OOO
IS J.. S. SHARE
OF LIQUOR TAX
Total Collected Since Repeal
Is Short of Estimate
Made by Vets.
By United Press

BIZ nfted Press
WASHINGTON, April Liquor
and beer have furnished the Federal
government with more than $780,
0OO,0 900 in tax revenues during the
last % months, Treasury figures dis
closed today.
Although this sum is far below the
optimistic pre-repeal predictions OF
vets" it furnished the government
with about 81 in every $40 Of its in
come since repeal.
Treasury statistics showed S56l,-
4O1. 099 was collected in taxes on
domestic spirits, beer and wines
since April 1888, when beer was first
legalized. Full repeal came in De-
cember. 1888.
In addition to these taxes, the
Federal government collected about
$50, 900 900 in customs duties on i'm
ported liquor during the same
period. More millions were collected
by states and cities.
Optimistic advocates of repeal
estimated liquor would provide
$4,000 1000 annually in Federal
taxes. Small collections have caused
increased demands for congressional
action to lower both domestic and
import duties.
This. they said. would increase
popular consumption OF liquor
through lower prices.
Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary
of the Treasury, has opposed this
course, asserting that through rigid
enforcement of present liquor laws
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the collections could be increased.
He has frightened up the enforce
ment agencies in efforts to trace
supplies of sugar. molasses and
other products of illegal stills, and
crack down" on the North Atlantic
rum row" through international
agreements with Newfoundland,
Cuba and Canada.
Efforts are being made to reach
an understanding with the French
government on that republics is
land possessions in the North At
lantic, which r being used as al
legged bases for liquor running.
With revenues steadily climbing
through the rigid enforcement pro-
gram, officials believe total collec-
tons since legalization of beer may
reach ST, 1000, 100000 by Jan. l, 1886.
They are pouring in at the rate OF
more than 1000, 900 daily.
Figures at the Treasury showed
Americans are drinking substantially
more beer than hard liquors. Total
domestic tax collections since April
1888, on beer were $342, 165, 189
against s219, 235, $40 for liquor and
wines.
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with knitting roots. will stop ero-
sion in a few years. save the land,
and allow the native hardwoods to
seed and grow.
It's not exactly an Aladdin's lamp
Job. It takes 40 to so years to grow
a crop Of native trees. But, even
tually. besides saving the land and
preventing floods. the land will pro-
duce timber for industry and COM
merce, to be sold with a profit for
the state.
Private capital has not yet been
able to finance such a long-term
investment. Governmental agencies
are alone able to swing it.
That's the program which has
been started in southern Indiana.
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ROOSEVELT ON
VACATION TRIP
SHOWN IN FILM
President Shown Boarding
Destroyer for Transfer
to NourmahaI.

President R~oosevelt's arrival at
Jacksonville, Fla, for a short vaca-
tion-fshing trip is to be seen in
the current issue of The Indianapo-
lis Times Universal Newsreel, which
has Graham McNamee as its talk
ing reporter.
The chief executive is shown leav-
ing the presidential spec IL on which
he made an overnight run from the
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silt. formerly productive topsoil.
carried 70 the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi to cover one square mile Of
territory 70 the depth Of 332 feet.
That's 48 feet higher than the tip
Of the Soldiers and Sailors MOnu-
ment is from the street.
The United States government is
responsible for those figures, and
also for these.
$50 Tons a Second
Feb. 5. 1892. the Ohio River was
40 flood stage. Two samples of
water we're taken from the river
between Louisville and Jacksonville.
They show that the Ohio was TAX
ing soil. mostly from Indiana, at the
ate OF SOS tons A second. equal to
the load Of lib trucks, each with a
three-ton load, each minute.
That's because forest fires burn
the trees that provide the leaves
that absorb the moisture and hus-
band II for the grass-the grass
whose roots keep the soil at home
and don't let It go gadding futilely
down the Ohio and into the Missis-
Sippl to get in the way of another
Misrepresentation.
That's because the AK fells the
trees. and leaves the unguarded
slopes to act as a shoot-the-chute
for the rains that fall, to send them
as torrents into the fields and the
valleys. There. they pick up the
soil from cultivated fields and this
soil ends up as another great ma
tiOnal problem-silt in the Missis-
Sippl.
Millions of Trees Planted
To combat this. the State Depart
ment Of Conservation, working with
Federal agencies. is planting mil
lions OF black spruce trees a year.
They are planted on slopes that
first are damned with earthen
dams 10 collect silt.
These trees. fast growing and
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A certain state forester set out
one day last year for a small town
in the sub-marginal land area Of
southern Indiana 20 see whether
the natives knew the reason for so
many forest fires.
Wen" exclaimed a native, q
reckon the BOYS are burning the
woods 70 kill the rattlesnakes.
And the state forester felt that
that probably was what was hap
pening. But there aTe very few rat
tlesnakes IN Indiana and any rattle
snake with sense enough 10 bite
would duck down a hole 70 safely
escare any FIRE his enemies could
set for him.
This forester found. too. that
MANY Of the farmers down there
annually in the spring burned their
pasture land grass.
That's 70 green 10 up. they ex-
plain.
Action Is 'Farm-Suioide'
We'll. the forester explained. burn
ing dead grass takes away from the
soil the fertilizer that 6ecaylng
grass would have provided and
doesn't hurry any faster than two
weeks the growth OF the green
grass
In other words. the forester said.
the livestock. because Of this habitu-
Al destruction Of decaylng vegetable
life sre annually put on a simmer
and simmer pasture diet.
The forester said many Of these
farmers actually set afIre stretches
Of woods. 70 green them up They
don't realize and haven't yet &C.
cepted a scientific version that such
a procedure Is virtually farm
suicide.
some Of them. land owners even.
will sit on their front porches and
watch Civilian Conservation Corps
troops fight a fire that Is doing in
Calculable damage to their land. the
forester said They don't get eX-
cited until the fire gets near their
home.
Silt Hampers Navigation
Cause-They don't know about
soil erosion.
Efect-Hundreds Of tons Of rich
Indiana tOpsOil annually gets in the
way Of river boats at the mouth Of
the Mississippi. and dreggerS spend
millions pushing II aside and build
ing leveeS.
Every 365 days there Is enough
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Indianapolis Tomorrow

Architectural Club, luncheon,
Architects and Builders Building.
Gyro Club. luncheon, Spink-Arms.
jewelers. GuIIc, dinner, Washing
ton.
Mercator Club. luncheon, Column
bia Club.
Phi Gamma Delta, dinner, Athe-
naeum.
Rotary Club. luncheon, Claypool.
Universal Club. luncheon, Column
bia Club.
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capital and boarding the destroyer
Farragut on his way to Vincent
Astor's yacht, Nourmahal.
Other important events to De seen
in the current reel include the de-
parture from San Francisco Of men
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APRIL 1, 1888

and materials to build air bases on
Wake and Midway Islands for the
use of trans-Pacifc planes on regu-
lar flights; a one-man rotary snow
pillow invented by a resident Of Hood
River, Ore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
GRASS BURNING
IS BLAMED FOR
STATE EROSION
Millions OF Tons of Top Soil
Washed Away From
Southern Farms.

Edltcr's Not-This D the frst ~ tuo
articles On soil erosion. some - its
oausrs and results. and. nartieuiarlF-
sofl erosion in Indiana These articles
are based on information supplied ~
the state Conservation Department and
Federal arrurtFs-
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
H|NDUS PRAISES
SOVIET GAINS

Russia, q new republic released
from the ShackleS of a Czarist
regime, is making constructive
contributions to her citizens, an
audience at Town Hall was told
last night.
The speaker, Russian born Maui
rice Hindus, author of books on
Soviet Russia, brushed aside the
current concept of RECOMMENDATION,
terror and destructive forces in
the land of Communism. and
painted in its place a picture Of
a progressive, epoch-making coun-
try. The lecturer admitted some
defects in the Communist struc-
ture, but, on the whole, avowed
his faith in the framework.
Mr.. Hindus declared the revo-
luton is still in progress and
that many of the liberties prom
ised the people by their leaders
are still lacking. While Capital
ism solves the problem of produc-
ton it remains for Communism
to evolve system of distribution,
the speaker declared. But, he
added, Soviet Russia today has
nothing to distribute: He said:
Russia never had a sense of
natiOnhOOd. The peasants were
never patriotic in their whole
history. This was true in all
nOn-induStrialiZed countries. 1t
was the machine which stirred
up q Russian nationalism. 1t
stirred for the first time a
spirit of and conception of
natiOnhOOd. The machine re-
fused a new stream of energy"
The speaker admitted Soviet
leaders bungled the application
of their principles of Commun-
ism.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
BARBARA FACES
DIVORCE SNAG

RENO, New, April / G.NS0.
Over Princess Barbara Hutton
Mdivani's divorce horizon there
swept cloud today, bringing a
frown to the pretty blonde brow
Of the "five-and-ten" heiress and
stern edict from her attorneys.
They said in unison:
1.-THE princess will have moth.
ing to say"
Cause of the speech restriction
was a report that one of Reno's
two district judges who decide
all divorce matters may question
the slender young matron's in,
tention of establishing a perma-
nent residence in Nevada.
The jurist told international
News Service he didn't like Bar
bara'S purported announcement
in London that she was going to
Reno to sever her bonds of ma
trimony with Alexis, youngest OF
the marrying Mdivanis."
The possibility was seen this
judge might refuse to heed he1
pleas for freedom on the ground
her intention of becoming a per
manent resident of the State is
doubtful.
And to avoid any more such
possible complications the heireSs
legal representatives admitted In
effect, they have instructed theil
fair client to smile but say moth
ing.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
LYNCH ASSUMES
P. D, DUTIES

ALEXANDRIA, April 1.-Ferdi-
nand Clinton Knight. who has
held the postmastership since
1922, today turned over the keys
of his office to the newly ap-
pointed acting postmaster, J. owen
Lynch.
Mr.. Lynch was appointed on
the recommendation of Represent.
alive Howard w. Smith following
a split in the Democratic COM
mittee, which was unable to agree
on man for the post.
C. C. Carlin, jr., chairman Of
the committee, was the other as
pirant for the $500 job and Rep
resentative Smith announced in
January that the appointment
would be deferred until after the
August primary. However, last
month a petition signed by a num-
Der of councilmen indorSing Mr..
Carlin for the, position did not
find favor with the Representa-
tive, and the appointment of Mr..
Lynch was announced a few days
later.
Mr.. Knight will join his father
and brother in the Knights store,
where he worked before assuming
the postmastership. During Mr..
Knights term of office a new
$245, 900 building has been erected,
replacing the old post office built
in 1856. Mr.. Knight cited the
fact that receipts have doubled
since 1922. Last year they
amounted to 100000.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
HOMES 7 EA'
DEFENDED ?
FIRST LADY
ReedsviIIe Project Is MAJ
Poverty More BearabIe
She Declares
Mrs. Roosevelt today def
the Reedville wv. Va) subsis

Mrs. Roosevelt today def
the Reedville (W. Va subsis
homestead as an effort to Great
for those people who have en-
dured poverty a more bearable
poverty"
Answering at her press confer
ence a recent magazine article in
which the subsistence homestead
program was attacked as a trend
toward the old company town, I"
the Presidents wife, who has
sponsored the Reedsville project,
declared that the idea behind the
program is to foster a community
life without making the home.
steaoers. dependent on the Gov
eminent.
Improvement Claimed
The article charged that the
homestead program is making
poverty permanent" but Mrs.
Roosevelt answered:
"The poor are always with us.
What we are trying to do Is to
create for those who have had
poverty a more bearable poverty.
ut has been interesting to no
tice the change among. the
Reedsville hOmesteaderS from
the terror of insecurity, which
they had when they first came
there, to a feeling of commun-
ity spirit"
Mrs. Roosevelt denied that the
project tends toward company
town, declaring the homesteaders
are not tied to the land, nor
do they lose the investment they
make in their homes when they
want to sell.
Gets Gift Dresses
Mrs. Roosevelt displayed two
dresses, made of pineapple and
banana fiber, presented as a good
will gift from the Philippines.
The banana-fiber gown, she ex.
planned, cannot be washed, but
the other, a blue dress tied with
a brown bow, can be washed and
washed and washed"
The gowns were presented to
her as a result of a magazine ar.
ticle written by Mrs. Roosevelt a
few months ago, in which she
urged American women to interest
themselves in the problems Of
the Philippines.
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REICH IS VICTOR
IN ROW WITH
L|THUAN|A
3 Nations Protest Sentences
Imposed on Nazis
in MemeI

LONDON, April 81 0NS0
Representing a major diplomatic
victory for Germany, Great Brit,
ain, France, and italy have made
representations to the Lithuan,
ian government regarding Memel,
Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon
announced in the House Of Com
mons today.
The tri-partite representations
charged the Mcneil situation Is
incompatible with the principles
Of autonomy. granted. in the ter.
ritoly by statute" and declared it
is the duty Of the Lithuanian
Cover nment to bring the situation
to an end without delay"
For months, Germany has been
demanding international interven-
vention in Memel, where the
Reich charges the German minor.
ity has been stripped Of rights
and prerogatives guaranteed by
the statute.
Ninety Nazis Sentenced
The German agitation reached
its climax recently when more
than 80 German Nazis were con
victed and sentenced to death or
long prison terms for an alleged
plot to overthrow Lithuanian rule
in Mcneil and establish a NaI re.
CINE. Four of the NaziS were
sentenced to die.
German residents Of Memel, &C
cording to the German view, were
Disseminated against when Lithu-
ania was placed under a dictator
ship.
German Teachers OuSted
German school teachers were
dismissed and German officials
reduced to minimum. the Reich
complained, and even study of the
German language was practically
abolished in favor of Lithuanian.
The Mcneil statute, guaranteed
by several nations, provided for
complete autonomy under Lthu-
anian mandate. Dissatisfaction
of the German population with
recent measures taken by the
Lithuanian government has long
been regarded as an exceedingly
dangerous factor in the European
situation.
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? Women Faint
At Inquest
On Coast

LOS ANGELES, Cal. April /.
Drama Stalked through the in.
quest room of the Los Angeles
coroner's office here yesterday
when the mother and sister of
James r. Cole, 81. recently shot
to death by Mrs. Alive Won
Pritchen Haggerty, %, collapsed
with hysteria and were ordered
from the room.
The relatives Of Cole were at
tending a hearing into his
death which occurred March
"a when he allegedly attempted
to break into Mrs. Haggerty's
home.
Following the removal Of the
two Cole women, Mrs. Haggerty
was exonerated after she had
testified that she had received
abusive treatment at his hands
during tae friendship.
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M'GEE REFUSED
STATE APPEAL

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April /.
Unless the United States Supreme
Court should intervene or the
Governor grant a communication of
sentence. Walter H. MCGEE will
be the first man in the United
States to pay with his life for
kidnapping.
MCGEE sat in his cell today,
the Missouri Supreme Court hav-
ing refused his appeal from the
death sentence for the kidnapping
of Miss, Mary McElroy, daughter
Of City Manager H. F. McElroy.
When Deputy Sheriff John
Kelley informed MCGEE his appeal
had been denied, the condemned
man announced he was mot sur.
prised" but indicated he will carry
the fight for his life to the Fed,
eral courts.
Attorneys said however that he
has little hope of having the high.
est court in the land set the judge,
ment saide, and the governor has
already indicated that he will re-
fuse to commute the sentence
feeling that kidnapers should be
executed as a warning to others
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MELLON TELLS
HUGE LOSSES
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purpose of deduction allowable
for that respect. The Pitts
burgh coal stock was the out
standing stock in which l had
sustained a loss. 1t was a stock
that IfeIt was most suitable to
use for the purpose.
"At the time 1 knew I could
not sell the stock on an ex-
change. 1t was so large a lot
that it was impossible. The
only place where it seemed 1
might make a sale was Union
Trust
STOCK ACCEPTED
The ruler of the House Of
Mellon" then told how he dis
cussed the stock with Henry C
McEldowney, president of Unior
Trust Company, who died re
Gently.
After a brief discussion on the
stock and the 100000 Mr.. Mel
lon sought the witness said Nc
Eldowney said:
"'All right, send it up and
I'll take it,"
Then Mr.. Mellon said, he in
formed his secretary, Howard
Johnson, of the sale and told hin
to apply the 100000 on a note h
had at the Union Trust Company
did you know how the GER
tificates on your 1852 shares
were held?"
II knew that a large portion
was in my own folio and that
another portion was in the joint
account IA joint account be-
tween Andrew and his brother,
the late Richard B. Mellon.
Mr.. johnson was familiar with
that when 1 told him to get the
stock together"
Did you say anything to Mr..
r. B. MellOn?"
Eyes. / told him I wanted to
sell my coal common and that I
wanted to take up my stock in
the joint account and he under
stood. There was no dissent"
STOCK WORSE NOW
Mr.. Mellon agreed with Mr.. Ho
gan that the intrinsic value of thu
coal stock is worse now than il
was then" and asserted he hac
no desire to have a voting voice
in the coal company.
Mr.. Mellon then voiced EN-
phatic denial that he had ar
agreement with McEldowney TO,
repurchasing the coal stock which
was bought by Coalesced Com
pany, Mellon family firm, early
in 1882. Mr.. Hogan asked:
did you at that time have
any agreement with Mr.. Noel
downOy for repurchase of that
StOck?"
mot any whatever"
"Or any part of it,"
"NOr any part of it."
"Did COalesced Company
ever enter your mind as a pur-
chaSer?"
ut did not. I rever thought
of COalesced as a purchaser"
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Alagna Is Ready
To Quit Hospital

NEW YORK, April 1.-,George
I. Alagna, who was first assist,
ant wireless operator on the
Moro Castle, and who attempted
suicide by inhaling Illuminating
gas early Saturday, was pro.
nounced fit for discharge from
Bellevue Hospital today when
ever some responsible person
should call for him.
Alagna asserted that Bellevue
physicians were trying to rail
road" him into an insane asylum,
but they scoffed at his statement.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
HITS BUS,
MAN BELIEVED
NEAR DEATH
Merrymakers Crash Into
Stalled Vehicle; 10 Others
Hurt in Capital Area

An all-night party in Washing
ton ended in an automobile crash
on the Baltimore Washington
highway near Beltsville early to-
day, sending one of the merry
makers to Providence Hospital
where his condition was said to
be. critical.
The crash occurred when the
party Of two couples, returning on
the slippery highway to Baltimore
in an early morning fog, collided
with a bus parked at the side OF
the road.
Skull Fractured
The injured man was said to be
j. T. Brady, Of Farragut Street,
Baltimore. He received fracture
of the skull and Is not expected
to recover.
Other members Of the party
escaped injury. The driver of
the automobile mysteriously dis
appeared after giving his name
to Hyattsville police as Thomas
S. .McCarty, of the 800 block
Seventh st. N. E.
The two women are being held
at Hyattsville police station, pend
ing the outcome Of the injuries
to the dying man. They gave
their names as Evelyn Wright
and Mildred Hurst, both of the
5000 block Sixteenth st. N. w.
They told police McCarty had
previously identified himself as
Edward McNaUlty, of the 1000
block Sixteenth st. N. w.
Bus Driver Escapes
The bus, bound for Baltimore,
was parked at the side of the
road for repairs. The driver of
the bus, Robert Burwell, of the
HOO block L st. N. w., escaped
injury.
Four were hurt in a collision Of
two automobiles on the Frederick
Pike near Middlebrook, Md. The
cars were driven by DR.. Richard
Diehl, SO, of Hagerstown, Md,
and A. G. Singstock, of the 1900
block Pennsylvania Ave. S. E. DR..
Diehl with Mrs. Louise Diehl, 38,
and Miss Madeline Hoover, SO,
also of Hagerstown, are in Fred
erick County Hospital suffering
severe head and body. injuries,
while Mr.. Singstock is in George
town Hospital with a broken leg.
Two Hurt on Car Tracks
MRS. Bertha Cline, %, of Capitol
Heights, Md, was severity injured
when an automobile in which she
was riding crashed into a tele,
phone pole near Largo, Md. She
is in Casualty Hospital.
While working on street car
tracks at Florida and New Jer-
sey Avenues, Northwest, John
Cusick, 40, Mt. Rainier, Md, and
Richard Remy, A, of HyattSville,
Md, received decorations an d
body injuries when knocked down
by an automobile said by police
to have been driven by Jack l..
Hodges, jr., 1900 block D ST..
N. w. The men were treated at
Emergency Hospital.
Benjamin Hancock, Is, 1000
block Thirteenth st. S. W., his
wife. Pearle, 81, and the 49,
month-old daughter, Betty Anne,
were treated at Providence Hos
pital for injuries received when
their automobile struck a pole at
Gordons Corner, Md.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Today in
Congress
HOUSE

HOUSE
The House meets at noon to
consider the conference report on
the Works Relief bill.
Committees
10 A.M-Indian Affairs sub,
committee.
10 ANYWAYS and Means sub.
committee. Executive session.
10 A.M.-Public Lands Commit.
tee.
1890 A.M.-Nood Control Com.
mittee.
2 P.M.-Ways and Means Com.
mittee. Executive session.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
COUNTY FIGHTS
AIRPORT BUY

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, April 1.-Opposition to the
proposal that the Government
purchase Washington Airport as
q municipal flying field for the
National Capital is expressed in a
resolution passed by the Arlington
county board of commissioners.
The resolution was ordered sent
to the Virginia Senators, Carter
Glass and Harry F. Byrd, and
Representative Howard w. Smith,
sponsor Of the bill which calls for
Gravelly Point as the new site for
the airport.
Loss to the county Of thousands
Of dollars in taxes paid by the
present Washington airpor! organ
iZation formed the basis of the
protest contained in the resolu-
ton.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Visit Is Expected
By Polish Banker

DR.. Henryk Gruber, president Of
Poland's largest banking institu-
ton, will visit Washington April
IS to discuss the Presidents re-
covery program and its results
with Government officials.
Due to arrive tomorrow on the
Olympic, DR.. Gruber will visit a
number of Eastern cities, making
a study of banking methods be-
fore his visit to washington.