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CITY TROLLEY
FRANCHISE WITH
INSULL STUDIED
Series of Public Meetings to
Be Held Regarding
Proposal.
A series of public meetings ■will
be held within the next few weeks
when the question of the city enter
ing into a franchise with the Insull
interests and the attitude of the
public toward the reorganization of
t,he Indianapolis Street Car Com
pany will be sought, E. Kirk Mc-
Kinney, chairman of the board of
public works and chairman of the
city’s committee on the franchise,
declared today.
McKinney and members of the
committee today received the type
written volume of eighty pages
which sets out the rehabilitation
program and the terms of the pro
posed “service at cast” franchise.
A copy was left with Mayor Reg
inald H. Sullivan at St. Vincent's
hospital, where he is confined.
McKinney said his committee and
the works board would require a
week or ten days for intensive study
of the proposed franchise before
proceeding with hearings.
The plan coincides in the main
with that which was published
when the announcement of the re
organization program was made two
months ago.
Valued at $11,250,000
The outstanding feature is the
valuation of the property of the
street car company at $11,250,000.
This valuation is exclusive of the
Traction Terminal building and
adjacent real estate.
Securities said to total more
than $18,000,000 had been issued
by the former operators of the com
pany and the reduction in valuation
represents a loss to stockholders of
$6,750,000.
Immediate expendituret of $9,-
000,000 on new equipment, tracks
and overhead work, is promised in
the franchise.
The franchise also leaves open a
path toward the purchase of the
street car system by the city. It
provides that the lines may be
purchased after six months’ notice
for $11,250,000, plus any capital in
vestments made by the corporation.
This would make the purchase
price, after the new rolling stock
and equipment is purchased, ap
proximately $20,000,000.
Fares May Go Up or Down
If the city should agree to the
terms of the franchise a legalizing
act will be submitted to the 1931
legislature which would provide for
a city transportation commission
and take from the public service
commission the power to fix bus and
street car fares in Indianapolis.
This is extremely vital as the
main point of the franchise is pre
dicated upon the “service at cost
feature” whereby a fare index ac
count of $500,000 is established and
irom this will be paid all operating
expenses, which includes salaries
and power costs.
In event that this reserve falls, a
certain percentage, as yet unspeci
fied, below the $500,000 during a
three month’s period, fares will b
increased; and if the index account
shows an increase fares will be de
creased.
DISPUTED POINTS IN
LIQUOR LAW CLEARED
Improvement in Enforcement Cited
in Justice Official’s Report.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Govern
ment officials in charge of prohibi
tion enforcement were aided mate
rially during the past year by the
clearing up of several disputed
points important to enforcement,
Assistant Attorney-General Young
quist pointed out in his annual re
port made public today.
Youngquist, successor to Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt in
charge of prohibition cases for the
justice department, noted a marked
improvement in the handling of
prosecutions, saying enforcement
officers as a rule filed stronger and
better cases during the last fiscal
year.
The report showed jail and prison
sentences were imposed in 27,709
cases from July 1, 1929, to July 1,
1930. This was an increase of 6,107
over the previous twelve months.
The average length of sentences in
creased in even greater proportion,
Youngquist stated.
FIGHT FOR TARIFF
ON OIL IS REVIVED
Senator Shortridge of California
Will Bring Up Issue Again.
By Scrivvs-Hotcard Xetesuaver Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—The pro
posed sl-a-barrel tariff on oil, like
Banquo's ghost, will not down. Sen
ator Sam Shortridge <Rep., Cal.)
said today he will bring the issue
again on the senate floor and seek
to rally the protectionists to its sup
port.
The oil tariff was defeated at last
session by a vote of 45 to 33 when
it was proposed by Senator Elmer
Thomas (Dem., Okla.).
“I care not,” said Shortridge,
• whether certain of the big oil com
panies with holdings abroad oppose
it. In my state we are trying to
curtail the production of oil and at
the same time millions of barrels
are being shipped into this country
duty free from Venezuela and else
where.”
FINANCE ASSOCIATION
WILL HOLD BANQUET
Indiana Loan Firm Heads to Hear
Address by City Banker.
A banquet tonight with John P.
Collett, manager of the analytical
department of the Fletcher-Amer
lcan Company, as the speaker, will
feature the opening of the two-day
sessions of the Hoosier Association
of Finance Companies at the Lin
coln.
The convention brought forty
managers of state finance com
panies to the city.
Collett will discuss business con
ditions, and gave the history of
panic* and a forecast on business.
Officers of the association, which
is composed of independent finance
companies of the state, are: Donald
Jameson. Indianapolis, president; C.
W. Bowman. Winchester, vice-presi
dent; Paul Jones. Marion, secretary
treasurer, and Fred V. Chew, Bloom
sryrton, manager.
MOTHER JONES IS
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Li:. . . s .
Mother Jones, as sketched shortly before her death
Fought for 50 Years in
Battle Lines of
Labor Wars.
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in-law. and Fowler. It soon was
apparent that Mother Jones’ last
struggle had ended.
Last May 1 Mother Jones —she
was seldom know T n by her full
name of Mrs. Mary Harris Jones —
celebrated her 100th birthday.
Labor leaders from all over the
country gathered at the Burgess
home.
The day was a great one for
Mother Jones in another respect,
for a telegram arrived from John
D. Rockefeller Jr., of the family
against whom she had fought bit
terly.
“He’s a damn good sport,” said
Mother Jones with her picturesque
method of expression. “I’ve licked
him many times, but now we’ve
made peace.”
On the ninety-first birthday of
John D. Rockefeller Sr., Mother
Jones wired him:
“Thank God we have some men
in the world yet as good as you.”
Mother Jones had been to jail be
cause of her agitation against Rock
efeller interests.
In black dress and bonnet she had
gone into the fields and led the men
into battle against the things*the
family represented.
Held Some Old Enmities
She had seen machine gun and
bayonet in action, as in the Lud
low (Colo.) killings of 1914, when
mine guards shot down twenty-one
women and children and a dozen
men
Other old-time enmities were not
so easily forgotten. She gave SI,OOO
a few weeks ago to continue her
campaign against President John
L. Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers of America.
Later she tore up her will and
contributed her savings, about $lO,-
000, to the cause of labor.
Mother Jones remembered all her
life the day British soldiers broke
into their little home in Cork and
ransacked the place looking for
her father, even tearing down a
chimney. He had escaped from
jail, and with seven others took a
boat to the United States. A year
later he sent for the family, and
they lived first in Vermont.
Educated in Convent
Mary Harris—that was her name
then—was educated in a Montreal
convent.
She married George Jones of
Memphis, Tenn., in 1861, the first
year of the Civil War, and was a
nurse during the struggle between
the North and South.
Asa young mother she faced her
first tragedy and learned the
fortitude which later enabled her to
face judges and jails calmly.
Her husband and three children
died in a yellow fever epidemic.
She prepared their bodies for the
death cart and sat alone in the
house ten days before the quaran
tine was lifted.
Then she bravely took up her
life again and established a dress
free!
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making shop in Chicago. Her shop
was destroyed in the Chicago fire.
Then the Haymarket riots oc
curred. This was the inciting inci
dent which inspired the career that
is now almost a national legend.
For fifty years she was in the
forefront of labor’s battles.
Once she bluffed a band of gun
men in West Virginia by pretending
that she had a large number of
armed nffhers at her call.
She marched right up into the
face of a machine gun and tore the
weapon away from those who were
ready to use it. She told a Gov
ernor of Colorado once to “go to
hell.”
STARS TO PLAY
RADIOJUGE
WFBM Broadcasts Second
Game of Series.
Second of the season’s bridge by
radio games will be broadcast over
station WFBM, Tuesday, at 4:30.
Four outstanding players from as
many different states will partici
pate under direction of Milton C.
Work. Sidney S. Lenz of New York
will occupy the South position as
dealer. His partner will be Mrs.
John Munce Jr. of Alexandria, Va.,
and they will be opposed by Mrs.
Wistar Morris Chubb of South Or
ange, N. J., West, and Mr. Chris
tian A. Herter of Boston, East.
The hands they will hold follow:
“South,” the Dealer, holds:
Spades 8 spot 6 5
Hearts K O J 10 6
Diamonds K J 9 7
Clubs Q
“West” holds:
Spades K J 9 4 3
Hearts A 8 spot 7 4
Diamonds A Q 10
Clubs A
“North” holds:
Spades A Q
Hearts 9 5 3 2
Diamonds None
Clubs K J 10 8 Spot 5 4 2
“East” holds:
Spades 10 7 2
Hearts None
Diamonds 8 spot 6 5 4 3 2
Clubs 9 7 6 3 J
MENACES COP WITH
UNLOADED SHOTGUN
Man Is Held on Charges of Draw
ing Deadly Weapon, Vagrancy.
Motor Foliceiran William Engle
bright played a nerve-wracking
game of tag with the double muz
zle of a shotgun for a few minutes
early today before he and Motor
Policeman Charles Bernauer arrest
ed Francis Lepper, Dayton, 0., in a
rooming house at 613 Eastern ave
nue.
They had gone to the rooming
house to investigate complaints
Irving Jacobs, 1026 Beville avenue,
had made against his separated
wife, who, he said, lived at the
rooming house.
Lepper, in hunting clothes,
threatened Englebright with the
shotgun, then laid it down. Exami
nation of the gun after Lepper was
in custody revealed it was unloaded.
Lepper is charged with vagrancy
and drawing a deadly weapon.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
NEW SHERIFF
APPOINTS 36
AS ASSISTANTS
Wiltsie, Republican, Is Re
tained by Sumner as
Chief Deputy.
Appointment of thirty-six depu
ties, clerks and jailers to take office
Jan, 1 were announced today by
Democratic Sheriff-elect Charles
Sumner. t
At the same time, Sumner de
clared he will reduce the sheriff's
force from 50 to 40, instituting an
immediate savings of SIB,OOO a year.
Appointees were ordered by the
sheriff-elect to resign from their
posts in the county Democratic or
ganization before Jan. 1.
Wiltsie Is Retained
In recognition of the twenty-two
years' service of Anson B. Wiltsie,
2824 Washington#boulevard, as chief
deputy and the necessity of having
an experienced man in charge of the
paper work in the sheriff’s office,
Sumner declared he would retain
him as chief deputy, although a Re
publican. The post pays $3,000.
Herman F. Rikhoff, 5111 Wash
ington boulevard, police chief in the
law Shank administration, is ap
pointed chief of the road patrol at
a salary of $2,400. Rikhoff will suc
ceed Harry L. Bendel.
Boyce Succeeds Snider
John E. Boyce, 841 South Per
shing avnue, ex-service man and
army officer, will succeed Rollin
Snider as chief jailer at a sal
ary of $2,400. Fabian W. Biemer,
20 North Highland avenue, for
mer superintendent of the city
garage, and ex-service man, will be
turnkey, $2,400, and Wesley A.
Stout, 1826 North Capitol avenue,
one time candidate for the nom
ination for sheriff, assistant turn
key, $2,100.
Miss Eleanor Hussey, 31 North
Highland avenue, attached to the
Pennsylvania railroad police office,
chief clerk, $1,800; Miss Juanita
Buttz, 1102 North Butler avenue,
stenographer at police head quar
ters, stenographer, $1,500, and Miss
Helen F. Moriarity, 2623 Paris ave
nue, matron at the Garfield swim
ming pool, matron at the jail, $960
and lodging.
Five Ex-Cops Named
Deputy sheriffs appointed include
five ex-policemen. Deputies are
paid $1,920 a year. They are:
Clarence B. Walters. 1107 North Jeffer
son avenue: Ralph L. Hitch. Butler grad
uate and former newspaperman. 3645 North
Illinois street: Charles G. McCalllster, 3154
North Capitol avenue; Howard Brennan,
1317 West Thirty-sixth street: Ithomer
Douglass, 108 West North street: Thomas
E. Bell. 248 North Keystone avenue:
Michael F. Lane. 814 North Pine street;
Charles Hanlein. 2610 East Washington
street, and James F. Cunningham. 48 North
Dearborn street: Charles E. Lynch. 239
North Randolph street: Pearl O. Craig.
1508 Linden street: August Gatto, 515 East
Merrill street: Thomas J. Scanlon. 832
Church street: Elmer R. Dailey. 1729 Union
street: Michael Barer. 7034 South Delaware
street: Henry Dilger. 1443 South Illinois
street: Edward Kasenbrocl:, 1225 West Ray
street: Patrick Kinney. 102 Kochne street:
Lewis Mikesell. 304 South Meridian street:
John R. Wright. 4802 College avenue: Har
ry J. Cook. R. R 5. Bex 45; Alexis Riley.
Oakiandon: Frank Lindsey. 423 Concord
street, and Waldo B. Carter. 5518 East
Washington street.
Four Negro deputies also were ap
pointed: Jack Leslie, 1217 East Six
teenth street, former policeman and
pugilist; Henry Garfield Lee, 1434
North Missouri street, former guard
at the workhouse; Henry B. Walker,
419 Agnes street, and John Brewing
ton, 514 North Senate avenue.
BOARD TO VISIT ALL
STATE INSTITUTIONS
Budget Committee Is on Two Weeks’
Tour of Indiana Asylums.
A two weeks’ tour of all state in
stitutions began today when she
state budget committee left in a
special bus to visit Knightstown,
Newcastle and Richmond.
The committee, headed by State
Senator Byron E. Huff, Martins
ville, will return to Indianapolis
Tuesday night after visiting the
eastern institutions and will leave
Wednesday for a trip to asylums in
the northern section of the state.
ASTMTREMSraT
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D. J. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane
Building, St. Mary’s, Kan., manufac
tures a treatment for Asthma in
which he has so much confidence
that he sends a $1.25 bottle by mail
to anyone who will write him for it.
His offer is that he is to be paid
for this bottle after you are com
pletely satisfied and the one taking
the treatment to be the judge. Send
your name and address today.—Ad
vertisement.
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Grover C. Garrott
Direction of Indiana’s state po
lice today was assumed by Grov
er C. Garrott, Democrat, Frank
fort, who succeeded Chief Robert
L. Humes. Garrott was appointed
to the post by Frank Mayr Jr.,
South Bend, whp today became
secretary of state, succeeding Otto
G. Fifield, Republican.
GASOLINE, OIL STOLEN
600 Gallons of Auto Fuel Reported
Missing From Station.
A burglar who must have been
equipped with a tank car visited a
Great Western oil station at 3650
West Sixteenth street Sunday night.
A checkup today showed 600 gal
lons of gasoline and twenty-five gal
lons of oil missing, total value
$125.50. H. Owen, 1612 Somerset ave
nue, manager of the station, report
ed the loss to the police.
Switzerland Taking Census
By United Press
ZURICH, Dec. I.—Experts esti
mated Switzerland’s population at
4,100,000 in the census which began
today, compared with 3,880,000 in the
census of 1920.
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13 ARE GIVEN
JOBS ON STATE
, POLICE FORCE
Appointments Announced
by Grover C. Garrott,
New Chief.
Thirteen appointments to the
state police force were announced
today by Grover C. Garrott, Frank
fort, newly appointed Democratic
chief. They were:
Lieutenants: John Hamilton, Sullivan:
Rex R. Risher, South Bend: John Weir,
Salem, and A1 Romine, Indianapolis.
Patrolmen: Guy Engle. Corbon: William
Wittmer, Tell City; Ralph C. Liggett. War
saw; Matthew App. Ft. Wayne; William
De Mont: Knox; Roy L. King, Kokomo;
Carl H. Springmier, Greensburg: George
Gilby, Indianapolis, and Fred L. Jones,
Shelbyville.
Risher and King are both avia
tors, King owning his own plane,
a Waco 10.
All were ordered to report for
duty at noon today. Approximately
twenty-five remain to be appointed.
Robert L. Humes, the outgoing
chief, was on hand at the statehouse
to turn the keys of his office ovet to
Garrott, but none of Humes’ staff
of forty-five Republicans reported.
Garrott, , Saturday, had informed
Humes by letter that he wished the
dismissal of the entire force before
assuming the office today.
He declined Humes’ offer of a
helping hand until he became
familiar with working of the de
partment.
LANDSLIDE KILLS TWO
By United Press
■ SAN MATEO, Cal., Dec. I.—Two
persons were killed and one
ly injured at Lobitos Glen, near
here, Sunday when a gigantic slide
of earth and rocks swept suddenly
over a picnic party. Three other
persons ran toward the beach and
escaped.
The dead are Mrs. Angela Barth,
San Mateo, apd Edwin Henry Mor
gan, Roseville, Cal., a recent Stan
ford university graduate.
U. OF CHICAGO BUYS
SITE OF ARMAGEDDON
Plot of Land Near Haifa Is Famous
Throughout Biblical History.
CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Armageddon,
a plot of land near Haifa, Palestine,
where kings of the earth met for
the struggle against the kingdom of
God, has been purchased by the
Oriental Institute of the University
of Chicago.
Dr. James H. Breasted, director of
the institute, said $3,500 was paid
for Armageddon, which was famous
throughout Biblical history.
Breasted also said that the in
stitute paid three years rental on
the pl.ioe to natives who did not own
it. Mrs. Mary Oliphant was found
to be the rightful owner.
The land is fifteen miles from
Haifa.
SET AIR SAFETY MARK
Plane Line Pilots Fly 500,000 Miles
Without Accident.
DENVER, Colo., Dec. I.—A rec
ord of having flown 500,000 miles,
transporting thousands of passen
gers, without injury to a single
passenger, pilot or employe was
established in September by Mid
continent Air Express.
Round Trip CHICAGO
Tickets on sale daily November 27 to December 3,
inclusive. Return limit December 9.
Account
International Livestock Exposition
Five Trains Daily
Lv. Indpls 12:00 noon 2:45 p. m. 5:00 p. m. 12:10 a. m. 1:55 a. m.
Ar. Chicago .. 4:30 p. m. 7:25 p. m. 9:25 p. m. 5:40 a. m. 7:35 a. m.
Tickets and reservations at City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle,
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BIG FOUR ROUTE
.DEC. 1, 1930
WHEELER FLAYS
INDIAN BUREAU
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‘Mismanaged, Incompe
tent,’ Says Senator.
By Scripps-Hoicard Xeicspnper AUinncei
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—“ Our
findings indicate that the Indian
bureau is the most completely mis
managed and incompetent bureau
in our government,” said Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, just returned
from an investigation by the senate
committee on Indian affairs in Ok
lahoma, Mississippi and Texas.
Senator Wheeler said “the facts
disclosed warrant the overhauling
of the Indian bureau from top to
bottonv”
Wheeler found "an army of em
ployes giving most of their atten
tion to supervising the estates of
wealthy Indians, while neglecting
numerous others living in dire pov
erty.”
“We were unable to find,” he said,
“a single instance in which an In
dian farmer had been given either
assistance or advice by any so
called farm expert.”