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Second Section IDLE WORKERS BEING REDUCED BY INDUSTRIES Employment of 2,500 at Evansville Expected With in Few Weeks. ANDERSON PLANTS BUSY One Increases Force From 70 Per Cent to Normal and Two to Capacity. BV CHARLES C. STONE Statr Editor. The Time* Improvement in employment con ditions in a number of Indiana cities is the feature of an industrial and business survey of the state for the week ended today. During the week the Certamteed Products plant at Anderson in creased its force from 70 per cent to normal. The Ames Shovel and Tool factory is also employing a full force, as is the Lynch Glass and Machine Company. There has been a slight increase in employment at the Delco-Remy and Guide Lamp Corporation plants. At Evansville Norman L. Kniese, secretary of the Manufacturers and Employers Association, predicts that 2,500 men, now idle, will be working within a few weeks. Servel. Inc., with 2.090 already on the pay roll, expects to increase the force in Feb ruary. The Bucyrus and Iglehart plants are working on double sched ules. Force Will Be 1,000 Within the next few days 1,009 men will be employed in the Gra ham-Paige automobile body plant at Evansville, where all bodies for the light car of that make will be man ufactured tills year. The present force is 400 Executive and engineer ing offices of the General Imple ment Company are to move to Evansville from Racine. Wis., it was announced following a directors' meeting in New York. A board ol directors has been added to personnel of the free employment bureau at Blooming ton with the intention of making it a model of its kind. The Cham ber of Commerce is considering a campaign to induce more industries to locate in the city*. The 19,’9 canning season in the date no’ds pror-pccts for better re sults than in 1929. The Shockley Bros. Company, operating a factory at Whiteland. is offering bonuses to farmers growing tomatoes, making possible a cf Sl* p 9 a ton. Co r n will be bought for sl4 a ton, $1 more th“n last y.ar by the Mor gan Packing Company, operating a plant in Columbus. The Fair land Canning Company Is anew Shelby county concern. It is capitalized at $75,000 Signing of contracts for the season is under way. Columbus Seeks Tannery Columbus business men are meet ing with success in subscribing a SIOO,OOO stock issue to insure re taining for the city the W. W. Mooney & Sons tannery, founded in 1837, control of which the Howes Brothers Company, Boston, Mass., plans to buy. It is proposed to em ploy 200 to 250 men, with an an nual pay roll of $250,000 to $300,000. Plans for erection of an eighty-roam hotel have been announced. The following summary shows conditions in various cities of the state: Kokomo —Officials of the C. I. Togstad Company, in announcing that business for the first two weeks of January showed a considerable increase, said It is planned to in crease the sales force, which at present is composed of 2.199 can vassing agents in all parts of the country. Newcastle —Tire Burke Construc tion Company, whose field has been bridge building, has added airplane hangar construction to its activities. It has adopted a standard steel type in sizes from one to fifty-plane ca pacity. Richmond—Tlie Atlas Underwear Company here has been taken over by the B. V. D. Company. Inc., New York. The deal also includes the Atlas plant at Piqua, O. New Record Forecast Michigan City—Officials of Kar pen Brothers, furniture manufac turers. predict 1930 business will set anew high mark. Plants here man ufacture fiber furniture, Pullman car, airplane and bus seats. The C. A. Dunham Company, heating appliance manufacturer, for which anew plant is being built, has pur chased the Dwyer Equipment Com pany. Chicago. Ft. Wayne—The Steinite Manu facturing Company, radio makers, is being operated by a committee representing creditors, following dis missal of bankruptcy suit in federal court. A reorganization is planned. Representatives of the creditors an nounced a belief that the company can be made a profitable venture, and cite a good demand for its products as a result of a national advertising campaign. The Ft. Wayne Brass and Aluminum Found dry Company, anew concern, has started production. Contracts for remodeling and re-equipping the Allen county Jail at a cost of SBB,OOO, have been awarded. Vincennes—Erection of a $50,000 building for the Vincennes Packing Corporation has been started. Gary—Manufacture of anew floor ing material will be started in the spring by the Municipal Contracting j and Supply Company. Washington—A new factory’ build-, ing is to be erected by the Reliance Manufacturing Company. Full 1 .past'd Wire Service ol the United Pres* Association HOMES SACRIFICED, LUMBER MEN TOLD Nero U Ru T'nite/t Press ADAMS, Mass., Jan. 17.—A modem counterpart of Nero who fiddled while Rome burned Is Carl Erdecki. Carl fiddled while hLs home burned. Flames crackling through kitchen walls did not disturb him as he sat in the parlor, bow in hand and violin on shoulder. When firemen arrived to do their duty he resented their interference and refused to leave. The firemen called the police and the police called Carl out of the house. COUNTY COUNCIL TO TALK FUNOS Employes Ready to Battle for Appropriations. Reinstatement of about $40,620 in the 1930 salaries of county em ployes will be considered by the county council at its meeting Jan. 27, County Auditor Harry Dunn an nounced today. The amount involved was clipped from the budget requests of county officials in December, affecting the salaries of court bailffs, clerks, re porters and other county employes. In some instances, raises which were denied will be up for consideration again. Appropriation of about $20,000 for operation of five county insti tutions also will be considered. Unless the council allows $16,700 for salaries of juvenile court per sonnel suits will be filed to force the appropriation of the money, it was said. Other employes contem plate similar action and several have declined to accept this month’s salary unless the raise is included. LAWYER ENTERS JUDGESHIP RAGE Williams Is Candidate for Superior Court Two. Joseph R. Williams, attorney, to day announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for judge of superior court two. Williams was the party’s nominee for the circuit bench in 1926, but was defeated by Judge Harry O. I Chamberlin. Williams, 58. is married and has one child. He was born on a farm ;ncar Madison. After attending the public schools there he went to i Hanover college. Williams has been identified with ! ‘"arming interests and for several ’ ears was a director of the Irvington State bank. He now is attorney for the Depositors’ Protective Associa tion cf the defunct J. F. Wild & Cos. State bank. Besides being a member of the -tate and county bar associations, he belongs to the Knights of Pyth tas. Red Men, Indiana Democratic Club and Baptist church. MAN INJURED BY TRUCK Thomas Gee, 51, of 528 Stevens stieet, employed as a yardman by the Monument Coal Company, Noble and Washington streets, was injured seriously this morning when a coal truck backed up. knocked him down and passing over his chest. He was taken to Christian hospital. William Kunzelman, 24, of 2023 Lee street was driver of the truck G. O. P. Seeks Strong Opponent for Ludlow Orbison Stresses Need of Centering Effort on Congressman. Necessity for nominating a strong congressional candidate to oppose Louis Ludlow, Seventh district in cumbent, was stressed by Telford B. Orbison, assistant district attorney, at a dinner meeting of the Marion County Junior Republican central committee Thursday night at the Meridian Chicken Dinner home. “You may expect the Democrats to say little about their other can didates and much about Ludlow, GRAIN GROUP NAMED Leslie Appoints Three for Survey Job. Appointment of three members of a grain survey commission authorized by the 1929 legislature was made today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. He named A. T. Wiancko, Purdue university; Elmei Hutchinson, Ar lington. and J. L. Davis, Seymour, to the commission. In accordance with the act the commission will “make a survey of the wheat, corn, oats and other grain crops in this state for the purpose of improving the economic resources of the state through fac tors affecting the character, yields, quality, productivity and market ability of such grains.” The commission will repeat semi annually to the Governor. The Indianapolis Times Domesticity Is Emphasized as Needed Stability for America. ‘•Homes are sacrificed that high ways may be filled with roisterers, intent upon speed and vanity,” C. E. Steelman of Chicago, Celotex Company president and vice-presi dent of the national home mod ernizing bureau, told delegates at the convention of the Indiana Re tail Lumber Dealers’ Association in the Claypool Thursday. He emphasized the value of the home as a stabilizing factor in America’s future. “Statistical evi dence of sacrifice of the home for other things is shown ii\ the marked decrease in construction of single-family dwellings and cor responding increase in construction of multi-family dwellings,” he said. “Families, children are existing— not truly living. If the idea of home is to be shattered, if transi tory pleasures are to supplant it, the stability of the American peo ple is threatened. This country needs a back-to-the-home move ment. “By this. I mean, individual dwellings, the old-fashioned home. The flame of the home first must be rekindled. Its flame must dis pel the illusion of false and unen during pleasures. ‘Back to the home’ might well be the keynote of anew crusade.” The heme modernizing bureau of which Stedman is vice-president, was organized two years ago for the purpose of urging people to modernize their small dwellings. Its program Is confined to publicity and education in that field, and its goal for this year is two billion dol lars worth of remodeling and home modern’zing in America. The Indiana Retail Lumbermen's Association closed its annual con vention with a banquet Thursday night, following the annual election of association officers. Lewis Walker, Terre Haute, was elected president, and E. L. Coch ran. Flora, was named vice-presi dent. New directors include Earl Miller of Madison; Loren McDonald, Bloomfield; E. L. Calloway, Fow ler, and Wallace Wolfe, Lafayette. Harry M. Moore is treasurer and C. D. Root, Crown Point, secretary. ALIBI FAILS IN COURT Prisoner Thought Judge Wanted to Get Rid of Him. “Judge, I figured that was just your way of getting rid of me," Rob ert Franklin, 36, of 3019 East Thirty second street, told Judge Thomas E. Garvin in municipal court Thursday afternoon. Franklin, charged with intoxica tion, had been released on his own recognizance and had failed to ap pear in court for trial. Rearrested on a bench warrant, he faced Judge Garvin with the explanation: "I’ll get rid of you all right,” Judge Garvin replied. “Ten days' in Jail.” $ ....... < ■ v ' ■ :: - ' PW ■ - - : ■ U g ,•? g:.;. . who is at the crest of his popular ity,” Orbison said. "Consequently the fight will center on the congres sional race and we must back a strong man for the place.” James Bradford, 1440 West Twen ty-seventh street, was named chair man of the Marion county organiza tio He announced headquarters would be opened at once in the Guaranty building, where organiza tion work among young Republicans will be launched. Bradford declared against the or ganization pledging support to any individual candidates in the primary, and added: “The junior organization will be a constant source of supply of workers for the Republican party. It will place party welfare above its own.” Rae W. Powell, state junior chair man. presided. Bradford has been active in Re publican politics, having been elected precinct committeemlh in the last three elections. He served as Fourth ward delegate to the state convention. He is a member of the Masonic lodge, Marion club, River side Civic League, L. O. O. M. and is employed by the Indianapolis Commercial. NAME PERSONNEL HEADS Frank C. Jones, superint indent cf Bemis Bay Company, was elected president of the Indianapolis Per sonnel Association at the twelfth annual dinner at the Lincoln Thurs day night. Jones succeeds J. L. Slutzky. Other officers elected were W. R. Allen, vice-president; George E. Gill, treas urer; A. F. Williams, secretary, and Earl Beck, W. G. Dorsett, J. B. Wil lard, E. E. Overton and Slutzky, di rectors. I INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930 SMOOT MOVES TO HIKE SUGAR IMPORT DUTIES Two Other Suggestions Are Offered to Rescind Senate Action. CUBANS TOAST DEFEAT Maximum Penalty, Gratuity Plans Are Advanced by Solons. "'Washington, Jan. 17. Re fusing to abide by the senate’s de cision to retain existing sugar duties, advocates of a higher duty started several counter moves today to re scind the senate action. An amendment was proposed by Chairman Smoot of the finance committee to provide an increase of the present duty of 1.76 cents a pound to 2 cents a pound. At the same time, Senator Brous sard (Dem., La.) offered an amend ment to put a duty on Philippine imports whenever the imports ex ceeded 600,00 tons a year. Asa third step. Senator Howell (Rep., Neb.) brought up for discus sion the farm bloc bounty plan whereby a treasury gratuity of 44-100 of a cent a pound would be paid producers, to be divided 90 per cent for the farmer and 10 per cent for the miller The three amendments reopened the whole sugar question, which was thought to have been determined at least temporarily Thursday, when the senate adopted, 48 to 38, the Harrison amendment retaining the 1.76-cent rate. Smoot’s amendment was a com promise proposal following the de feat of the committee amendment which provided a 2.20-cent duty. The Broussard amendment was considered to have the best chance of adoption. The debate has developed a wide spread sentiment in the senate that | free sugar from the Philippines is somewhat responsible for the deplet * ed condition of the American sugar i industry. Imports last year were I around 600,000 pounds, so the amendment would not affect the j Philippines unless the importations should be increased. In presenting his amendment, Smoot read a newspaper article stating that a toast was drunk in the Cuban embassy here when the news was received Thursday of the senate’s decision. FIGHTS DISBARMENT Ben Lindsey Tells His Side to California Bar. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.—Ben B. Lindsey, advocate of companion ate marriage, author, lecturer and former judge of Denver’s juvenile court, battled today before the fifteen governors of the California bar for his right to practice law in the state. When he was disbarred in Col orado on charges of accepting $47,500 from Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes while acting for her in an action to break th® will of her multimil lionaire husband, a similar ouster move was started here. The appeal today was before a i dosed session of the bar governors. Flood Spreads Over Wide Area ' * ~ V .. —Photos by A. A. Mercey, Vincennes. Top photo, comprehensive view of the While river bottom, and bridge on U. S. highway 41, look ing northeast from hill behind the White River inn (in the fore ground). In the distance (seen over the bridge) the highway is blocked by fleodwaters. Second photo, from top, view of Hazelten, locking east from the bridge, with the connecting road to Hazelton (shown in the fore ground) flooded. Third photo, Wabash river bridge at Vincennes as the flood waters rose above the 25-foot level to establish anew record. Fourth photo, workmen staking off inundated county road near Decker levee break for guide nee of motorists who continued to “navigate” the highway. Map, (at the side) showing the flood-stricken area in Knox coun ty. In the upper left corner heavy dotted lines show location of the Emison levee, with the arrow indicating the point of the levee break that flooded an area to the scuth, seven miles long and a rule wide. At the bottom of the map is Hazelton, flooded by White river, and just above it (shown by heavy dotted line) the Decker levee, with arrow indicating the break that flooded 6.500 acres, and permitted flood waters to on Vinoenn°s from the south. The “Hazelton fill,” protected by na tional guardsmen aftor rumored threats of blasting. is located on IT. S. 41. just north of Hazelton. The stream meeting the White river just above Decker is the River Duchee. RADICALS GIVE BOND Not Guilty Pleas Entered in Riot Arraignment. Bu United Press NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 17. Nineteen so-called radical unionisits j pleaded not guilty in district court today when arraigned on charges of ! loitering, disturbing the peace, or assault and battery in connection with Thursday’s clash between mill workers and police. At the request of Harry Hoffman of Boston, representing the interna- I tional labor defense, the cases were continued until Jan. 31, all the de fendants being admitted to bail. CONVENTION FOR CITY WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The Association of American College Frofessors will hold its next annual convention in Indianapolis during the third week of January, 1931, it v.as announced here today. The executive committee of the association will meet Feb. 25 to out line the program for the 1931 con vention. * * J WIENER oelandvil’^f Vls Edw£rdßport JGTOTI ~•*** I ucevllle C? j Iceville * U STEEN 1 •itch; on. \- >8 Whe^Tfanc S' ♦ l > Monroe City j 33 I S 0 11 1 ie 3 /- , „ 8881111 LEVIES RUM BLAMED FOR TRAMPLING ATTACK White mule was blamed by Albert L. Johnson, 50, of Shelbyville, today for his alleged attack on Mrs. Mar garet Keesee, 80, and Robert New ton, 63, roomers at 520 West Pearl street, Thursday night, and his fif teen-minute battle with seven police officers. Mrs. Keessee is in a serious con dition at city hospital, suffering from cuts and bruises made by Johnson’s hob-nailed shoes with which he trampled her and Newton afLer knocking them down. Denying he is a drug addict, John- BABY IS FIRE VICTIM Twin, One of Two Sur vivors, Dies at Hospital. A fire that followed a gasoline explosion in a small Mars Hill bungalow Jan. 7 today had only one survivor, after the death in city hospital this morning of Everett Kluesner, one of 6-month-old twins orphaned by the blaze. His sister Evelyn is in a critical condition, physicians at the hospital say. Their parents, two sisters and a brother died within a few hours after the explosion. Funeral arrangements are not completed, pending arrival here of the babies’ grandparents lrom Terre Haute and Peoria, 111. Phy sicians hold little hope for recovery of the other twin. CHEAP RINGS RUSF FOR FUNDS, CHARGE Chicago Man Held for Defrauding Filling Station Attendants. A number of cheap rings were found in possession cf Edward J. Haley, 40, of Chicago, arrested Thursday night cn a vagrancy charge and identified today by a number of filling station attendants as the motorist they alleged de frauded them out of money. Haley visited filling stations, it is charged, and pleading himself out of funds and in a hurry to reach Elkhart and other cities, put up the rings as security for “loans” from the filling station attendants. Ordi narily he received from $3 to $5 for the rings, which police say are worth 50 cents. Charges of obtaining money un der false pretenses probably will be : placed against him. Second Section Enter-“l as Second-Class Mutter at CostofTice. Indlananotla son today blamed drink for his ac tions. He denied remembering the fight in which police used maces freely to subdue him. “I met a man on West Washing ton street and he gave me two or three drinks,” Johnson said. “Then I went to the home of Mrs. Daisy Johnson to get her some coal. She is not a relative, but I have known her for along time. “I do not remember having a fight and I do not know what hap pened after taking those three drinks. I never used dope in my life. It was white mule, and, oh, what a kick it had. Please get me a drink of water.” Mrs. Johnson fled when Johnson, while eating, became infuriated at the food and threatened the lives of those present, .police were told. Johnson knocked Mrs. Keesee down, then floored Newton and was kick ing them when police broke down a door. He attacked the patrolman and detective who first appeared and two squads of motor policemen were sent as reinforcements. He battled the entire squad for several minutes before being handcuffed. He is charged with assault and bat tery with intent to kill. ASKS ARSON WARRANTS Seven Bentonville Youths Face Charge for Prank. Request for warrants charging seven young Bentonville men with arson was made today of the Fay ette county prosecuting attorney by Alfred B. Hogston, state fire mar shal. According to H. R. McCune of the arson division of the fire chief’s office, the youths confessed to ig niting two strawstacks on the Minor D. Thcmas farm, near B.:n tcnvil’e, as a Halloween prank. HEFLIN ASSAILS POPE Calls Encyclical on Education At tack on Schools. B’t United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The pope’s recent encyclical on education was assailed Thursday in the senate by Senator Heflin (Dem., Ala.) as “the boldest and most vicious as sault upon the American public school system that has come from Pope Plus since he became Catholic king.” HOOVER GIVEN CZAR’S POWER, BECK ASSERTS Flexible Tariff Provision Voted by House Called Blow at Liberty. <> SPEAKS TO STATE BAR Pennsylvania Member of Congress Cites Perils to Constitution. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Flexible tariff provisions, as voted by the house, give President Hoover ' more autocratic power than any modern monarch, with the possible exception of the late Czar of Rus sia.” “To give the President the power to raise and lower taxes is to thrust aside an eternal principle of Amer ican liberty and to disregard the en tire history of English liberties. “Yet this was done with little or no discussion of principles in the house. Debate there centered about the question of whether It was bet ter for congress to delegate Its tariff powers to the President alone or to a commission.” This was the picture of present congressional acumen painted for members of the Indiana State Bar Association at their midwinter ban quet at the Columbia Club Thurs day night by a member of the house, Congressman James M. Beck of Pennsylvania. Prophecy Carried Out Beck, former solicitor-general of the United States, is recognized as one of America's outstanding con stitutional authorities. He drew the picture of the present congress to indicate that the Washington prophecy of undermining the Con stitution from within is going on today. “The founding fathers gave to the house the sole power to raise rev enues,” Congressman Beck declared. “When this is transferred to the chief executive, it is an abandon ment of a basic principles of both American and English liberty.” He pointed out that in the In stance of sugar alone the President, under the original house bill, would be able to raise consumers’ costa $100,090,000 on each one-point spread and to ruin absolutely the best sugar industry, if he desired. Growing loss of state’s rights and the tendency of the national gov ernment to look on states as so many governmental departments was deplored by the speaker. State’s Rights Trampled He cited the rejection of Smith of Illinois and Vare of Pennsylvania by the senate as glaring examples of the disregard cf the right of the state to choose any one it desires as senator. Beck succeeded to the Vare seat In the house when the rejected senator won the seat he didn’t hold. Pointing out that Vare spent large sums to get that seat, Congress man Beck’s tongue slipped in telling cf the majority polled for Vare in Pennsylvania he asserted: “He won by $129,000.” Noting his error, he corrected U lo votes. “The Constitution is not static, but a living organism,” he con tinued,” having within both the power of growth and decay. Nation of Pragmatists “It will be what the people make it. At present, in my opinion, there is little or no constitutional con sciousness in America. We spend no time considering eternal princi ples. We are a nation of pragma tists, made so by our mechanical civilization. “Cur god Is efficiency and our eternity but today. “Our forefathers would not have welcomed an eighteenth amend ment. They were able to Isolate a question ni its eternal significance. “If to be rich is the supreme good, then ail Is well in our country. But if principles of enduring liberty and ordered freedom are worth while, then we are not In such a happy state. “I want to leave this warning: We can tear down our Constitution 'n a but we can not replace it.” Beck’s address closed the mid winter meeting of the state bar, the program of which was held through out the day. At noon the visiting attorneys were guests at luncheon of the Indianapolis Bar Association. Attorney-General James M. Og den, president of the state associa tion, presided throughout the day end was toastmaster at the banquet. Honor guests included Governor Harry G. Leslie, Meredith Nicholson, Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell and leading members of bench and bar. HELD FOR BUS DEATH Driver Bound to Grand Jury on Manslaughter Charge. Charged with involuntary man* slaughter, Robert Fu'.ton, 35, of 2039 Roosevelt avenue, was bound to the grand jury under SI,OOO bond in municipal court Thursday. ! Fulton, an employe of the Indl- I anapolls Street Railway Company, i is alleged to have been the driver of a bus which collided with a ma chine driven by Nick Lux, 3601 Cap itol avenue. Sept. 29, at Sixteenth and Meridian street s. Mrs. Katherine Lux, wife of the car driver, was injured fatally in the accident. Woman. 22, Wed Twice MARION, Ind.. Jan. 17.—Divorced for the second time and married the same day to Houston Ringer, 23, was. the experience ol Lillie O’Ban ion, 22. * f