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BOOTLEG BILL
IS PASSED BY
STATESENATE
Gift or Sale of Liquor to
Minor Made Felony
by Measure.
Establishment of a state livestock
✓ farm In proximity to the State
School for Feeble-Minded Youth at
Ft. Wayne, and an Initial appropri
ation of SIOO,OOO for that purpose,
was proposed in one of the eight
een bills introduced in the state
senate today.
Passing three bills, including the
debated measure to make sale or
gift of liquor to a minor a felony,
and adopting committee reports on
nine others, the upper house ad
journed at noon, to reconvene Fri
day at 10 a. m.
Senator Lee J. Hartzell of Ft.
Wayne introduced the bill for the
state stock farm. It provided for
appointment, by the Governor, of a
board of seven trustees, all to be
farmers of experience, who would
receive $75 annually for their serv
ices and direct employment of a
superintendent. The bill would au
thorize the employment on the
farm of youths from the feeble
minded school.
Bootlegger BiU Passes
Without debate, Senator Carl M.
Gray’s “bootlegger bill,” which was
warmly argued Wednesday and
failed by two votes of receiving the
required majority, passed the Sen
ate today, 27 to 22. Only by calling
the absentees was Gray able to
muster the needed majority. He
passed the bill beyond further re
call by a motion to reconsider and
another to table the first motion,
the motion carrying.
Dr. Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana
Anti-Saloon League superintendent,
and Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the
league, both of whom registered to
day as lobbyists “on all temperance
legislation and matters pertaining
thereto,” were in the senate when
the bill passed. They had not been
there when the unfavorable vote was
made Wednesday.
The bill makes the sale or gift of
liquor to a minor a felony rather
than a misdemeanor, and increases
the present thirty days to six
months’ penalty, to from one to two
years’ imprisonment.
Senator Ralph Adams of Shelby
ville, who argued Wednesday that
this was too severe and would make
convictions difficult, came back to
day with a bill of his own, fixing
the penalty for sale or gift of liquor
to a minor at $lO Oto SSOO fine and
from sixty days to one year’s im
prisonment on the Indiana state
farm.
Other Measures Approved
The other two bills passed by the
senate tpday without a dissenting
vote reduce time for keeping an
estate open from a year to six
months, within discretion of the
court, and repealing the cognovit or
judgment note law.
A minority report of judiciary A
committee favoring passage of the
familiar old age pension bill sup-
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LIFE BEGINS ANEW
‘Birth Control’ Family United
Bertha, Otto Jr. knd Edward refTl
Kourim of Cleveland (left to right 111^
above), are to grow up together Hm
like other brothers and sisters
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after the couple had sought a di- •• ,
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was quoted instead as sentencing ■ yjjmV
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* CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. 24.—Com- •
non Pleas Judge Harrison W.
Swing dismissed the divorce peti
ir\rc r\ f Hti/t onH T-Tolon W onrim
Bertha, Otto Jr. knd Edward
Kourim of Cleveland (left to right
above), are to grow up together
like other brothers and sisters
after all.
Otto Kourim (below) has affect
ed a reconciliation with his wife,
after the couple had sought a di
vorce fearing more children, be
ing unable to support them.
Judge Harrison W., created a
nation-wide discussion when he
was quoted instead as sentencing
the couple to practice birth con
trol.
By United Press
CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. 24.—Com
mon Pleas Judge Harrison W.
Ewing dismissed the divorce peti
tions of Otto and Helen Kourim,
control sensation, and today gave his
figures in Cleveland’s recent birth
blessing to the couple as they start
ed life together a.iew.
Attorneys for the couple told
Swing their clients had adjusted
their differences and now are liv
ing together, with their three chil
dren.
“This is no surprise to me,” Evfing
said. “I have been working for a
month to effect a reconciliation.”
Six weeks ago, Ewing refused the
couple a divorce on the grounds that
they might remarry and have more
children. He was quoted as having
ordered them to practice birth con
trol. He attributed their difficulties
to the inability of Kourim to pro
vide for his wife and three children,
planted a majority report for in
definite postponement and the bill
went to the printer and second
reading.
Two resolutions for constitution
al amendments on admission to the
bar and establishment of a state
income tax were withdrawn because
they had not been prepared proper
ly, and reintroduced in correct form.
Committees reported favorably on
the workmen’s compensation biL,
the Cooper bill defining reckless
driving and fixing speed limits in
towns, and the Nejdl bill requiring
drivers of stalled trucks and busses
to light flares ahead and behind the
stopped vehicles.
Senator John L. Niblack of In
and blamed juvenile court officials
for not supplying them with birth
control information.
Custody of Otto Jr., year-old son,
Jien was awarded to Mrs. Kourim
and that of Edward, 2, and Bertha,
4, to theL father.
Attorney Nellie V. Keeley, repre
senting Mrs. Kourim, said the cou
ple were reunited and planned to
move to Alliance, O.
“I am very much pleased,” said
Ewing. “These three children
should be reared together in a home
with both their parents. I never or
dered the couple to practice birth
control while living together and I
have no control over their relations
as man and wife. My only wish is
for their happiness.”
dianapolis introduced a resolution
for appointment of a criminal sur
vey commission to report recom
mendations for recodification of
Indiana’s criminal laws to the 1931
legislature.
A salary increase bill came from
Senator Earl Rowley of Laporte,
which would boost the state-paid
salaries of al Icircuit and superior
salaries of all circuit and superior
Going Representative Victor
Ahrens of Evansville one better,
Senator John C. Sherwood of
Mitchell entered a bill to reduce the
legal rate of interest on loans under
o„u0 from 3‘_> to IV2 per cent.
Ahrens, Wednesday, sent in a house
bill to reduce the rate to 2 per cent.
. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
BILL AMS TO
ABOLISH PUBLIC
SERVICEJOARD
Draft in House Deals Blow
at Inflated Valuations
by Utilities.
A blow at inflated valuations of
public utilities for rate-making pur
poses was struck today in two bills
introduced in the house of repre
sentatives by Representative Cecil
J. Kistler of Alcott and Goresst
Knepper of Etna Green.
The first bill abolishes the public
service commission while the second
recreates the commission as it is
today but changes five sections of
the law governing valuation for rate
making purposes.
Under this proposed statute, rates
will be fixed on actual purchase
value instead of appraisals.
Sponsors of the bill declare that
under the present system the util
ities collect rates in accordance with
their high valuation but do not pay
taxes on the same figures.
“It will be a leveler and make it
possible not only for rates to be re
duced but for the fair assessment of
the utilities,” Kistler said.
Complete chqckage on the num
ber of gallons of gasoline sold in
Indiana so that the state will not be
defrauded of the gas tax through
illegally sold and smuggled gasoline
is provided in a bill introduced
today by Representative Thomas
Grant of Lowell.
The bill requires that all state
gasoline dealers be licensed by pay
ment of $1 fee and file bond not
to exceed SIO,OOO with the auditor
of stete to guarantee payment of
tax.
Monthly reports must be filed
with the auditor by wholesale gaso
j line dealers and common carriers
I to show amount, and to whom gaso
line has been shipped. A penalty
of from $25 to SI,OOO is provided for
violation of the terms of the law.
A SSO to SSOO fine and imprison
ment of between thirty and sixty
days for sale, trade or taking of an
automobile into another state, when
there are delinquent taxes charged
against the vehicles was introduced
by Representative Willia H. Lee, of
Princeton.
Fixing of salaries of justices of
the peace in Indianapolis at $2,500
a year and their clerks at $1,500 a
year is provided in a bill introduced
by Henry F. Kottkamp, of Indian
apolis. They now receive fees,
collected by themselves, for services.
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GIVES BUSINESS SCHOOL
Northwestern Gets $3,000,000 to
Train Executives.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—Believing
that the business education of
America’s youth has been neglected,
Frederick Carelton Austin, million
aire Chicago manufacturer, has pre
sented to Northwesterr university
property valued at SC.J>OO,OOO, the
income of which is to be used to
train business executives.
PROPOSE SALES
TAX FORSTATE
Senate Bills Provide Two
Bodies to Study Plan.
Appointment of two commissions
to investigate the revenues and ex
penditures of all state departments,
and the tax system, with a view to
supplanting the property tax with
a sales tax, was asked in two bills
introduced in the state senate by
Senator Joe Rand Beckett, Indian
apolis.
Each committee would have nine
members, appointed by the Gov
ernor, regardless of politics. The
first would report the feasibility of
the sales tax. with recommenda
tions, to the legislature of 1931. The.
other would "study the subject of
expenditures and administration or
ganization,” making its recommen
dations for the elimination or con
solidation of boards or commissions
to the 1931 legislature.
For the first, $20,000 would be. ap
propriated, and for the second $35,-
000; Members of the tv j commis
sions would receive a per diem of
$lO and their expenses.
Wabash Entrance Change
Bv Times Special
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan.
24.—Foreign language study is no
longer a requirement for entrance to
Wabash College.
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MORROW HELD
‘OUT’ AS LIKELY
CABINETCHOIGE
Confers With Hoover; Will
Return to Post in
Mexico.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES,
United Press Staff Correspondent
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 24.
Dwight Morrow, ambassador to
Mexico, was regarded as removed
definitely from the picture as prob
able secretary of state after his con
ference here today with President-
Elect Herbert Hoover.
Morrow plans to return to his
post in Mexico City early next week
and it was indicated he expects to
remain there after Mar. 4. Morrow
declined to discuss his conference
with President-Elect Hoover, which
lasted nearly three hours. He- ex
pects to leave here this afternoon
for New York, sailing for Mexico
City early next week. He expects
to stop one day in Washington.
The ambassador gave the Presi
dent-elect a general review of
Mexican affairs. He urged upon
Hoover, it is understood, a visit to
Mexico during his administration.
Such a visit, he feels, would aid in
bringing the two republics still
closer together. Hoover plans to
make such a trip at some time dur
ing his administration.
The President-elect, Mrs. Hoover
and a party of friends left the
Penney estate at 11:00 shortly after
Morrow’s departure, for a three-day
fishing trip.
The party embarked in the two
yachts which will carry them to
Angel Fish creek thirty miles from
here, off the Florida keys.
Mr. Hoover expects to return Sat
urday night or Sunday.
Morrow arrived here from Nas
sau, where he has been on a vaca
tion. The ambassador had been
mentioned soon after election for
'LOOKS TO WORLD FAIR
Bill Introduced to Provide Indiana
Exhibit in Chicago.
Creation of an Indiana commis
sion of nine to represent Indiana
at the Chicago world’s fair in 1933
and to see that industrial and agri
cultural exhibits are presented and
that this state obtain recognition
is provided in a bill introduced by
State Representative John W. Scott
of Gary. The members of the com
mission are to serve without pay.
secretary of state and quite an ac
tive campaign has been carried on
by his friends. He was generally
regarded as a man of too independ
ent views to take over the handling
of foreign affairs in the adminis
tration of Hoover, who, it is gener
ally believed, intends to be his own
secretary of state.
There still is much for Morrow to
do in Mexico and he is expected to
remain at his post there furthering
the cordial relations between the
two countries.
Four secret service men accom
panied the fishing party, utilizing a
small coast guard vessel.
Neither one of the yachts carries
a radio, so that Hoover will be com
pletely out of touch with affairs.
However, he intends to do some
work. Two stenographers, but no
newspaper men accompanied the
party.
Adopt Procedure Resolution
A concurrent resolution requiring
all bills introduced in the Indiana
legislature when amendatory of
existing statutes to cite in a foot
note the number of the section
affected as listed in Burns an
notated statutes of 1926 was intro
duced Wednesday by Representative
John W. Scott, of Gary, and im
mediately adopted and ordered sent
on to the senate.
Train Kills Elkhart Man
ELKHART, Ind., Jan. 24.—James
F. English, 49, was killed whn a
New York Central train struck his
automobile at a crossing here- The
car skidded on an icy street into the
train’s path.
-JAN. 24, 1929
BARE STORY OF
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‘QUICKTRIGGERS’
Coast Guardsmen Fired at
Another Car on Night
of Killing.
By United'Press
ELMIRA, N. Y., Jan. 24.—Testi
mony that the two coast guardsmen
on trial here for fatally wounding
Jacob Hanson, prominent Niagara
Falls citizen, had fired upon an
other automobile the same night
Hanson was shot, was brought out
by the prosecution today.
The automobile was hit three
times, but the occupants were un
harmed.
Chris Dew, a coast guard, who
was with Glenn Jennings, one of
the guards on trial, was on the wit
ness stand when Raymond A.
Knowles, the presecutor, turned to
the full benches of spectators and
called for Joseph H. Stearns.
Stearns arose.
Knowles asked Dew if he recog
nized Stearns, but the witness said
he did not.
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