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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Committee Fixes June 10
as Date of Democratic
Convention.
Continued From Page One)

in Indiana was split into hostile fac
tons, it was said.
A slasfing attack on critics Of
President Roosevelt is anticipated
tonight when United States Senator
Alben w. Barley, Kentucky, de-
livers the principal address at the
banquet of the association at the
Claypool.
The resolution also expresses
pity for our erstwhile friend, AL
Smith, and contempt for his So
called Liberty League in his much
publicized speech of Jan. %.
1T was not the Al Smith we
cnce knew and followed and who
was the recipient of the greatest
honor this party could bestow."
Indiana's Senators, Frederick
VanNuys and Sherman Minton, and
Gov. McNutt are to speak tonight,
but Senator Barkley's defense OF
New Deal policies is the scheduled
highlight of the meeting.
The large advance sale OF tickets
led association officer, to hope for
new attendance mark for the
midwinter session..
Hoosier Press Ends Sessions
The Hoosier State Press Associa-
ton, comprised of publishers of the
Indiana Democratic and Republic
an Editorial Association, the Indi-
ana Weekly Press Association and
the Indiana Daily Ne vspaper group,
closed its sessions yes erday after
going on record as being opposed
to consolidation or abandonment OF
any Indiana townships. Confidence
in the township and county forms
of government was affirmed by res
olution.
Gov. McNutt recently gave ap-
prevail to plans for township con-
solidation as recommended by his
Governmental Economy Commits
sion.
The Hoosier association also urged,
in recommendations for coming
social security legislation, that in
dustries with good records of steady
employment be permitted to estab-
fish and maintain their own unem-
ployment insurance reserves, as pro-
vided in the Federal act.
Ned Gorrel of the Winamac
Democrat was awarded the Flor
ence Morgan Grim cup for the
second year in succession.
The cup is awarded for the best
weekly published in the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
STERN JURY TO
HEAR EXPERT
U. S. to Resume Fraud
Case Monday in
Federal Court.

Trial of II officers and statesmen
of the Louis Stern & Co. invest
ment firm on mail fraud charges
is to be resumed Monday in Fed
eral Court.
The government is to attempt to
show through testimony of A. S.
Johnson, local handwriting expert,
that Louis Stern and H. N. Collins,
another firm member, wrote letters
to investors.
The government expects to rest
its case late Monday upon compile
ton of Mr.. Johnsons testimony,
Val Nolan, District Attorney, said.
Witnesses yesterday charged that
the firm attempted to switch its
clients from stocks to Mars Hill
property on which the company had
merely an option.
T. M. Overley, Better Business
Bureau manager, said Mr.. Stern
had called at his office three times
TO protest bulletins of the bureau on
his firms activities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
VENEZUELA THROWS
OUT GOMEZ POLICIES
New Deal Promised After
Day of Rioting.
By United Press

By UntteG Press
CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 49,
The iron dictatorship of Gen. Juan
Vicente Gomez, which endured %
years and was his monument, was
believed smashed today, less than
two months after his death.
A day of rioting in which four
persons were killed and Is injured
ended with bitter enemies of the
Gomez regime in key posts and with
President Eleazar Lopez Contreras,
to whom Gomez willed his power,
promising the country a new deal.
Gen. Gomez, fabulously wealthy,
bachelor father of a family of 30
offspring ranging from infancy to
middle age, planned that his dicta-
torShip--Started when MuSsolini
was 25-year old Socialist and Hit
Ter was youth of 19-should
carry on.
But Lopez Contreras from the
moment he became provisional pres
ident in December showed a strong
disposition to disapprove any ex-
cesses of the Gomez period, and to
placate the people by reforms.
A press censorship law issued by
Gen. Felix Galavis, governor of the
Caracas district, brought yesterdays
riots. Thousands of people turned
out in a demonstration in support
of publishers who refused to issue
their papers. A general strike spread
quickly from Caracas to other
towns. Soldiers here fired upon
demonstrators. Mobs looted and
burned property of Gomez adher-
ents.
Conditions were reported quiet
today. Damage done by mobs seek
ing to avenge the shooting was esti-
mated at 100000.
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This was news. Even the city
and state police, hospitals and fire
department were scooped.
Where was this explosion and
when did it happen?" the ex-re-
porter was asked.
Northwest of here at about
1890" he answered, and the chase
was on.
MEANWHILE The Times tele-
4V4 phone operator surveyed a
red-lighted board and explained
that an explosion had been re-
ported, but nothing definite was
known. The police and fire de-
partments also received many
calls and gave the same answer.
The Weather Bureau was GER
tain there had been no atmos-
pheric disturbances today, but an
earthquake, shaking buildings, had
been reported on the North Side,
and what was it all about?
A call to Butler University re-
vealed everything quiet on the
campus. The fire station at Broad
Ripple said workmen had been
blasting a tunnel under the race
track at the State Playground this
week but the men were not work
ing today.
A Broad Ripple tavern owner
said none of his bottles had lost
their heads; that he heard the ex-
plosion, and that it was south and
west of him. A woman at Traders
Point had heard it.
About that time the ex-reporter
called back.
tits happened. That explosion
is back again"
a WOMAN at 43rd-st and
"A Graceland-av recalled, with
horror, reading a newspaper ar
ticle yesterday about the world
coming to an end today. She
wanted something done about it.
The chase rolled on. No, they
aren't blasting at the new Naval
Reserve Armory today. No, the
gravel company isn't dynamiting
today. Nothing was being blasted
at Crown Hill.
Dale Miller, indianapolis Base
ball Club official, was called at the
Perry Stadium.
Did you hear an explosion,
Dale?"
yes" came the quick reply
Where was it?"
That's what we want to know"
"well, its south and west of
here"
An Evans Milling Co. official
said WPA workers were blasting
out an old concrete wall on White
River near New York-st. WPA
officials said their employees didn't
work today.
A Times reporter who lives on
the North Side walked into the
Office.
Did you hear an explosion and
where was it?"
Eyes, and it was up in the air."
he said.
This went on for several min
utes until police said they were
informed WPA workers had been
blasting on the bank of White
River near New York-st.
That's where the matter stands
now,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
DRIVE ON SUSPENDED
CAR DRIVERS OPENS
Names to Be Posted With
Police Courts.

Guy Caldwell, now serving CO.
day term at the Indiana State Farm
for drunken driving, has new
troubles today. A warrant for his
arrest on charges of operating a
motor vehicle after suspension Of
drivers license has been issued.
Caldwell, who is 43 and lives at
422 N. Chester st, is the first victim
of campaign to halt driving by
previous offenders, according to
Municipal Judge Charles Karabell.
Caldwell's license was suspended
July l, 1885, and he was arrested
for drunken driving Jan. 81, 1886.
AS a part of the traffic drive, a
list of motorists whose drivers Ii
censes have been suspended is to
be filed in the traffic department
and in each of the municipal courts,
according to Benjamin Friedman,
director of the financial response
bility division of the State Auto
License Bureau, who conferred with
Judge Karabell yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
HARR0D NAMED HEAD
OF COLUMBIA CLUB
Harry S. Hanna to Replace
Frank Butler on Board.

New officers of the Columbia Club
tJday are Clifford L. Harrod, presi-
dent; John K. Ruckelshaus, vice
president; Irving Lemaux, treasur-
er, and E. Park Akin, secretary.
Harry S. Hanna was named yes
terday to fill the vacancy on the
board of directors caused by the
recent death of Frank A. Butler.
Mr.. Akin was the only officer re-
elected. He has served Is years as
club secretary and manager.
The Columbia Club Realty Co.
elected Fred c Gardner, president;
John c. Ruckelshaus, vice presi-
dent; Mr.. Akin, secretary, and Mr..
Lemaux, treasurer.
Committee appointments are to
be announced soon, Mr.. Harrod
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Coal Raid
II Held in Creston, Ia,.
After Foray on Fuel
Yard

By UEtted Press
CRESTON, Ia, Feb. i5.-Eleven
~ men, arrested after 100 men
raided the Burlington Railroad
coal yards, today conten led they
were driven to "appropr ite" coal
as the result of the flu famine
in the state.
Authorities said Gh re was
plenty of coal for every one in
Creston. They claimed the men
could have obtained fuel by ap-
plying to relief headquarters.
G. G. Palmer, special agent for
the railroad, conferred with COM
pany officials today On possible
charges to be placed against the
men who have been held in coun-
ty Jail without charge.
Coal Needed, Men Say
IT had only two buckets of coal
left to keep my house warm for
my wife and four children" Ray
Tillotson, one of the prisoners,
said. Il couldn't stand by and see
my family suffer"
Ralph Harm, whose wife is ex-
pecting fourth child, explained
there was nothing else to do"
Earl Fezetei said his 4-month-
old baby was i'll in chilly home.
Sheriff j. r. Ewing and Mayor
Ray Emerson inspected homes of
all of the men and reported that
coal supplies were low in only
three homes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
FRANKFORT HUNGER
STRIKER ENDS FAST
Don't Let Me DIE Radio
Technician Pleads.
United States Weather Bureau
Times Special

Times Special
FRANKFORT, Ind, Feb. 49,
my God, don't let me starve to
death!"
With this cry George Everett
Farrell, 30-year- unemployed In
dianapolis radio technician, gave UP
his 288-hour hunger strike last night.
He is in local hospital.
Weakened and emaciated, his skin
dry and feverish, lips cracked and
parched, Farrell lost 10 pounds since
Feb. 2, when he said he last ate and
drank.
A warning by physicians that he
could not live only two days more if
he continued the strike is believed
to have prompted him to break the
fast.
Farrell claimed the ordeal was
protest against alleged unjust distri-
button of the $24,700 estate of his
grandfather, George Humberg, re-
tired Jackson Township farmer,
who hanged himself in 1882.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
FORMER TREASURE AID
FLAYS MONEY POLICY

Ballantine Says Federal Deficit Not
Shown in Budget Message.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.--Attacking
the financial policies of the New
Deal" former Undersecretary of
the Treasury Arthur A. Ballantine
declared today that the Presidents
budget message to Congress did
not indicate the staggering figure, :"
OF the Federal deficit for 1887.
Addressing a luncheon of the
Columbia University Club, he re-
marked that if the finances of the
Administration are not put in
order" we shall have little real
choice in the way American life is
to be shaped"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
DIES ON oUILLOTINE
French Tough Guy Executed for
Numbering Underworld Women.
By United Press

By tHlftu PTtSs
AVIGNON, France, Feb. 49,
Michel Nicolini, tough guy" of this
historic City of the Popes, died on
the guillotine today, somewhat sur
prised that members of his gang
did not snatch hira from the knife
of M Henri Anatc: Deibler. vet
eran executioner.
Nicolini. known as Mike the
Corsican," was convicted of muir
dering the Algerian beauty Quer-
dia Zen 1kleff and also Nine Lily
Montagard, owner of a palace Of
joy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
LEADERS BELIEVE THEY
CAN BLOCK INITIATION
New Deal Supporters in House
Claim Added Strength.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-House
Administration leaders claimed
strength today to prevent action
this session on inf1ationary and
other legislative proposals lacking
New Deal apprival.
Inf1ationists seeking passage OF
the $3,000,000,000 Frazier-Lemke
farm mortgage bill lost ground as
Administration leaders secured
withdrawal of additional names
from the petition to force a House
vote on the measure.
Rep. Patrick Boland of Pennsyl-
vania, Democratic Party whip, an
nounced the number of names on
the petition had been reduced from
215 to 200. 1t would require 218
names to force the bill to the floor.
1.-THE House is very evidently
against imitation" Mr. Boland said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
INQUEST ORDERED INTO
DEATH AT lOGANSPORT
Body Found Near Wabash Tracks
Brings Coroner's Decision.

Times Special
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Feb. 49,
Coroner M. B. Stewart Monday is
to open an inquest into the death
of Elmer C. Kinzie, 34-year-old
credit society organizer, whose body
was found early yesterday on the
Wabash railway tracks, east of
here.
Kinzie, who left here two months
ago to work in Marion, apparently
fell from train or was struck by
one, authorities believe. The inquest
was ordered, however, after Charles
T. Harvey, truck driver, reported
seeing Kinzie walking along the
tracks Thursday afternoon.
The body was discovered by rail-
road section workers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
NEW HOME DESTROYED
Flames Cause Loss of $4,000 at
Property of Mayors Brother.

William C. Kern, brother of
Mayor Kern, was packed up and
ready to move, but plans have been
called of today.
A $4,000 fire destroyed his new
ly constructed home at 56th-st, near
Big Eagle creek. City fire appara-
tus could not reach the blaze due
20 icy roads. The Kerns now live
at 1888 North PensNylvania-st,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
CHICAGO DAILY NEWS
SHIFT Is ANNOUNCED
Advancement in Editorial Staff
Workers Are Made.

By United Press
CHICAGO. Feb. Exchanges in
editorial staff organization were an
nounced today by the Chicago
Daily News.
Paul Scott Mowrer, who has been
associate editor, becomes editor Of
the paper.
Hal O'Flaherty becomes managing
editor, succeeding the late Henry
Justin Smith.
John Craig Is advanced from city
editor to news editor; Lewis Hunt
from assistant city editor to city
editor, and Glen Lane is made
assistant city editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
AAA BENEFIT CHECKS
HELD UP TWO WEEKS
Wording of Appropriation Measure
Blamed for Delay.


Blamed for Delay.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Dis-
tribution of benefit payments to
farmers on AAA crop reduction con-
tracts performed prior to invali-
dalton of AAA are to be held up
approximately two weeks, 1t was
learned today.
Delay was necessitated because
of the way in which the part Of
the deficiency appropriation bill
appropriating s296,000,000 for this
purpose was worded, officials said.
Officials had hoped to start dis
tributing the checks next week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
TINY INFANT THRIVES
ON ITS SPECIAL DIET

CHIIuJ weighing ID OuHCtS dt DII III4
Is Kept in Incubator.
By United Press
OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 15.-Imme-
date danger no longer exists for
Nancy Lee Vogt, who weighed only
Is ounces when she was born two
months prematurely, hysicians
said today
The child is thriving on increased
milk and calcium bone building
fluids, although she can not be re-
moved from the hospital incubator
for several days to determine ex-
tent of the progress, they said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Child Killed by Train

MISHAWAKA, Ind, Feb. Is
Kenneth Goodsell, 7, was killed in
stantly today when he was struck
by an eastbound New York Central
freight train at a crossing near his
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Honor Abraham Lincoln

Tributes to Abraham Lincoln were
on the program at a meeting of the
First and Second Ward Republican
Club last night in Con1pton's Hall,
POOL Winter-av.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Townsend Club to Meet

Townsend Club No. 2 is to resume
meetings Monday night at 7:30 in
the First United Presbyterian
Church. 22nd-st and Park-ay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
MURDERER Is EXECUTED
Killer of Two Colorado Men Dies in
Lethal Chamber.

By United Press
CANON CITY, Colo. Feb IS
Prison records were closed today on
the case of Otis Mcdaniel, murderer,
who went to death last night in the
lethal gas chamber at the state
prison. He was convicted in the
Staying of James Westfall, a rancher,
and w. w. Dunlap, a sheriff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
ALFONSO'S SON BETTER
TransfusiOns Successful, Counts
Physicians Say.

By United Press
HAVANA. Feb. 15.-Tne Count of
Covadonga, eldest son of former
King Alfonso of Spain, was reported
somewhat better today in his battle
for life against haemophilia.
Three long blood transfusions
proved successful, his physicians
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
DRUG VICTIM SAVED BY
BLOWS, FORCED WALK
Woman Kept on Feet, Frequently
Struck to Bar Fatal Sleep.

Struck to Bar Fatal Sleep.
Tired and bruised, but still alive,
Mrs. Ruth Downey, 80, returned to
her home at 2510 Ransdell-st today
from City Hospital after completing
near-record walkathon.
Hospital employees and police led
Mrs. Downey through corridors of
the institution yesterday, OCCASION
ally striking her with a police slap
stick, to keep her awake after she
had taken an overdose of narcotics.
Sleep would have brought death,
physicians said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
ELIHU ROOT IS 81 TODAY
Former State Secretary Foxes Fun
at Friends on Birthday.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. I5.-Elihu Root,
former Secretary of State, cele-
brated his 9lst birthday ami
versary today with bit OF
genial fun-poking at friends who
honored him as ''one of the wisest
OF men and the elder statesman
OF America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
North Side is Booming
It's Up In the Air Says One Informant; and
That's Just Where Reporters Are After Search.
THINGS are booming in indianapolis.


thorough north central west sides con-
WINGED reporters today
started with call from the North
to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-06
"SmiIin' Thru"
At Little

"Smilin' Thru" one of the most
beloved romances of the modern
theater, will be revived at the
Little Theater next week, begin
ming Sunday, in its most popular
version - the record-breaking
talkie starring Norma Shearer,
Fredric March and Leslie Howard
The roles of Monyeen and
Kathleen, heroines of the two
generations involved in the fam
Gus story of loves triumph over
bitterness and despair, were pre-
viously played by Jane Cowl on
the stage and by Norma Talmadge
on the silent screen. The current
version, which many critics claim
offers Norma Shearer at her best,
won Photoplay Magazines gold
medal as the finest picture of
1882. Through it's reissue two sea-
sons ago, it also stands as one of
the handful of pictures ever sue
cessfully revived in major first
run" theaters.
In addition to Miss Shearer,
March and Howard, who are the
principals in the story which ex-
tends from the late 10Th century
to the World war, the cast in
cludes o. P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes,
David Terrence and Beryl Mercer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-06
M OWE
CLOCK

FOX-R bert Montgomery in
Trouble for Two" II a. M, AS,
4:30, 1920. 1905 p. m. Overture,
1890, BIS, sos, $50 p. m.
Stage, los, $50, $40, 9:25
pm.
EARLE-Mary Ellis Fatal Lady"
1885 a. M. 1885, 4:25, 7:20.
10 p. m. Stage-12:40, $50,
6:25, 9:05 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Janet Gaynor in
Small Town Girl" 1855 a. m;
2:25. ASS, ITO. $40 p. m.
BELASCO - The Guardsman, "
1908, 2:o6, 4:O4, 500, 8. 9;58
p. m.
PALACE Ronald Colman in I'm
der Two Flags" HAS a. m,
2:10, 4:35, TOO, $50 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Irene Dunno in
SHOW Boat" 11:15 a. m, 1:19,
1925. 5:27, 7:51, 9:35 p. m.
TROP OLITAN-Grace
Moore in King Steps Out"
1884 a. M, 1874, 3:34, 5:34, 1884,
9:35 p. m.
LITTLE-"The Unfinished Sym
phony.' HOS a. M; Ill, 3:17,
5:23, 1929, 9:1O p. m.
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Williams
Is Coming

Forgotten Faces" a story that
dramatically relates an all
consuming love and has Herbert
Marshall and Gertrude Michael
as its co-stars, will be the fea'
ture screen attraction Loew's Fox
has booked for the new week
starting Friday, June IL.
Herb Williams, celebrated comic
of stage and screen popularity,
and Donald Novis, one of radios
most welcome singers, are tenta-
lively slated to headline the new
stage bill.
James Burke. Robert Cum
mings, Jane nodes, Robert
Checker, Alonzo Price, Arthur
Hohl and others support the Her
bert Marshall-Gertrude Michael
combine in Forgotten Faces" in
an intriguing story that tells
of a mans struggle to protect
something he loves-his daugh-
ter-from the one person in the
world who can truly hurt her
her own mother.
News events, a comedy and
other vaudeville acts will en-
nance the new program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-06
Swing Movie
For Palace

Right in line with the nations
swing to swing" music comes the
first swing cartoon. THE Old
Mill Pond" which will be shown
at Loew's Palace Theater the week
of Friday, June IL, as a major
supplementary on the program
featuring Fury"
1t is guaranteed to set audiences
tapping their heels and toes under
their seats, so infectious is its
music. Created by that extremely
enterprising young team known as
Harman-Ising, this cartoon has
already won many of America s
severeSt critics. 1t caricatureS in
thoroughly delightful manner
several. of the better-known sepia
high priests of rhythm.
The Palace management as we'll
as M-G-M, producers of this short
subject novelty, firmly believe that
1.-The Old Mill Pond" strikes new
high note in cartoon whimsy, in
matchless color and unusual story
treatment. It's filled with rousing
rhythm that's said to be perfectly
SynchroniZed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-06
Ted Lewis Due
Soon at Earle

Armed with saxophones, clari-
nets, violins, trumpets, trombones,
blondes, brunettes, red heads, fast
stepping and tuneful lads, Ted
Lewis, Americas premier show
man, together with his celebrated
old battered high hat, and his
WorldfamouS orchestra, will come
to the Earle Theater, Friday, June
IL. His booking was announced
today by j. j. Payette, Warner
Brothers general zone manager
for the Washington territory.
Lewis is the mood man of con-
temporary American music, a
sleight-of-hand artist, who with his
bag of tricks, can evoke sobbing
syncopation or crazy cacaphony
at will. His current stage produc-
ton features the Radio Aces, a
harmony trio, who furnish mel,
odiouS background throughout
the presentation, in addition to
their own unique speciality mum
bers.
For more varied steps there are
Nascha, exotic Hawaiian dancer,
and petite Edna Strong. And to
round out a show replete with
musical entertainment, there are
Charlie Snowfall" Whittier, and
those dancing fools, the Hi Hat
tiers. three pairs of legs moving as
one.
The Ted Lewis Rhythm Rhap-
sody is a stage production that is
an entertainment fantasy from
start to finish.