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Second Section
ROOSEVELT TO
ASK CLEANUP
IN SIXTY DAYS
Short Congress Session Is
Aim, With Quick Action
on Relief Program.
START SET FOR APRIL
Farm Aid, Repeal, Balancing
of Budget, Bank Reform,
and Tariff Stressed.
BY WILLIAM F. KERRY
Vnitrd Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Presi
dent-Elect Roosevelt has informed
Democratic congressional leaders
that the forthcoming special session
must be prepared o deal quickly
with a unified relief program,
’strictly along lines laid down by
the incoming administration.
The extra session is expected to
convene in mid-April. Leaders al
ready are trying to smooth the way
for speedy enactment of legislation
for economic rehabilitation.
Mr. Roosevelt's goal is a sixty-day
session, which would be the shortest
extra meeting of congress in the
memory of legislative veterans.
As far as congressional leaders \
have been informed, the President- ’
elect will ask for a program center- ,
ing around four major objectives. j
Farm Relief First
1. Farm relief: Some variation of
the domestic allotment bounty plan,!
together with mortgage relief for |
debt-burdened farmers.
2. Prohibition repeal, plus modi- I
fleation legislation.
3. Budget balancing: Including !
some sort of tax bill; governmental
economies; thorough reorganization
of executive departments.
4. Banking reform and tariff
leigslation: The tariff measure
probably to grant authority to the
Roosevelt administration to bar
gain with European nations for
reduction of trade barriers.
Congress will be urged to hew to
the line of this program, and then
adjourn quickly. Many in congres- j
sional circles feel the President
■‘elect is doomed to disappointment, I
but they are doing their best to j
make way for his suggestions.
Do Preparatory Work
In linp with this policy,’the house
ways and means committee will
meet soon to reverse its recent "no j
taxation” decision and report a !
continuation of the federal gasoline j
tax. This will be done to relieve
the approaching special session of !
one task.
Other committees in both senate j
and house are plugging away atj
legislation which leaders know must;
fail in the present hodge-poge j
congress. Rather than putting the j
labor down as so much lost motion, j
Democrats contend that they are,
clearing the way for rapid action j
when the Roosevelt congress meets, j
Measures on farm relief, beer,
prohibition repeal, banking and the
Tariff are being put into shape, j
When congress meets again, this j
legislation will be in condition to |
be placed immediately before both
houses. Leaders count on the in
fluence of anew administration,
party loyalty, and heavy Democratic
majorities to rush the program to a
successful conclusion.
Insurgents to Have Say
However, some feel congress will
not be disposed of so easily.
Insurgent groups among both Re- j
publicans and Democrats are pre- j
pared to push other measures.
In the forefront are the currency j
inflationists, constantly gathering j
strength. This group, counting many j
prominent Democrats among its ad
herents, confidently expects* serious j
consideration of its proposals in the
extra session.
Advocates of direct federal un
employment relief measures also arc
exerting strong pressure. Many of j
the senate's so-called progressive
bloc who campaigned for Mr. Roose- |
velt will be found enlisted in the
group.
In addition, there will be strongl
demands for labor legislation, the
five-day week, unemployment insur
ance. and other matters. War debts
may have to be considered.
TRAVELER PITCHES TENT
ON N. Y. HOTEL ROOF
African Guide Says He Has Not
Slept Indoors Since 1928.
Bn T'uitcd Pt'*M*
NEW YORK. Jan. 25.—Colonel
Harry K. Eustace, world traveler,
big game hunter and Afiican guide,
arrived in New York Tuesday night
and pitched his tent on the roof of
a Times square hotel.
Colonel Eustace had written the
hotel management for permission
to live in a tent on the loof while
in the city.
He explained that he has not
slept indoors since 1928. and that he
always sleeps on deck when tra\cl
ing on ships.
He also asked for permission to
cook his own meals on a camp stove
in the tent.
PILOT DIES IN PLANE
Another Man and Stewardess In
jured in Crash Into Vacant House.
Ha United Pres *
EUGENE, Ore.. Jan. 25.—A pilot
was killed and his co-pilot and
stewardess seriously injured when a
twelve-passenger United States air
line plane crashed into a vacant
house here late Tuesday.
Harold Adams. Medford. Ore., was
killed, and Kenneth Householder,
co-pilot, Seattle, and Miss Cornelia
pederman. stewardess, Alameda
Cal., were injured.
LICENSE DEADLINE NEAR
1933 Plates for Auto Must Be
Bought by Jan. 31.
Deadline for the purchase of 1932
automobile license plates remains at
Jan. 31, Frank Mayr Jr., secretary ol
state, said today.
Volume of sales Is running behind
last year by approximately 20 per
cent, according to Mayr.
Full t,-aspU Wire Service of
the United Press Association
KingJohnD.il
World's Master Showman
Is Strange Title for
•Rockefeller.
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Writer
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—When
John D. Rockefeller Jr. was
a young man entering his father’s
office, he must have anticipated
a career of great wealth and power
and accomplishment.
These things would come in the
natural course of events in the
management of a mighty fortune.
But he never dreamed that some
day he would
become the
world’s great
est showman!
That he is,
however,
whether he
likes the ap
pellation or
not. John Da
vison Rocke
feller Jr. owns
or controls
huge blocks of
stock in some
£r*
John D. Jr.
of this nation's biggest entertain
ment enterprises, and he has built
the largest entertainment center
in the world.
Movie cameras click, chorus
girls prance, and crooners croon
to the tune of Rockefeller mil
lions.
All this is strangely incongruous
in the light of Rockefeller train
ing and traditions. Asa boy,
John D. Jr. wasn’t allowed to at
tend the theater at all, and his
15 cents a week spending money
wouldn’t have bought a ticket
anyway.
The sequence of events which
were to make him an entertain
ment magnate started in 1929. He
had leased almost thiee square
blocks in mid-town Manhattan,
and there expected to launch an
ambitious enterprise in ctiy plan
ning and provide anew home for
the Metropolitan opera.
a n n
BUT the Metropolitan backed
out, politely but flatly, and left
the younger Rockefeller holding
an 87-year lease on a lot of old
stores and brownstone houses,
with rental charges amounting to
nearly $3,000,000 annually.
Then was conceived the idea of
“a huge cultural and amusement
center, combining the arts and the
entertainment fields.” First it w-as
called Radio City, then Metropoli
tan Square, finally Rockefeller
Center. National Broadcasting
Company, Radio Corporation of
America and Radio - Keith -Or -
pheum came in to help pay the
rent.
Plans were made for the biggest
office building in the world, the
biggest theater in the world, the
finest movie palqce in the world—
and many another “largest,” “most
beautiful” and “most costly” this
and that.
Most of these have been built,
and construction on the remainder
is continuing. John D. Jr„ per
sonally has guaranteed a mortgage
loan of $65,000,000 (also the big
gest in the world) to furnish ready
money for the work.
So Rockfeller Center stands to
day as the last and greatest monu
ment to the easy-money boom
times of the twenties.
n a a
TY OCKEFELLER was forced to
extra millions to buy
unexpired leases in the area,
many of these leases on buildings
W'hich housed speakeasies.
Then Samuel Rothafel, who
went into the movie business and
became a specialist in the spec
tacular under the name of Roxy,
w r as named as director of the en
tertainment enterprises in Rocke
feller Center
While the capitalist supplied
the money, things W'ere carried
forward on a grand scale. Roxy is
articulate only when he talks in
superlatives.
After a few' short weeks, the
vast Music Hall had a severe case
of box-office trouble and has been
changed to a movie theater. The
movie theater, in turn, probably
will become a vaudeville house, or
may be closed entirely.
Meanwhile, troubles have come
from other quarters. Agents are
wondering how they possibly can
rent the 4,200,000 square feet of
office space that will be available,
or the special buildings that were
to have been built for foreign
countries, or the mile of shop
frontage that will be installed in
the development.
Both the National Broadcasting
Company and the Radio Corpora
tion find that they don’t need
anything like the amount of office
and studio space they originaly
contracted for. So they have ad
justed their rental commitments
by turning over blocks of stock.
Rockefeller thus has acquired
100,000 shares of common stock
in RKO. and 100.000 shares of
A-preferred in the Radio Corpora
tion.
RANSACK TWO SCHOOLS
Thieves Break Glass in J)oors to
Enter Buildings.
Two public schools were entered
Tuesday night by thieves, who en
tered by breaking glass in doors.
At School 30. 40 Miley avenue,
the entire building had been ran
sacked. but nothing of value was
reported missing.
Seven hundred pencils and two
indoor baseballs were taken from
School 16, Bloomington and Mar
ket streets.
HARDWARE GROUP MEET
Second Session of State Parley Is
Held at Claypool.
Second business meeting of the
Retail Hardware Dealers' Associa
tion. in session at the Claypool was
held in the convention hall today
and exhibits of thirty-three com
panies were shown.
Other business meetings will be
held Thursday and Friday morn
ings, a’d exhibits will be shown each
day. Thursday's exhibit will close
at 6 tjfhen the annual banquet will
be held.
The Indianapolis Times
BIG SHIPPERS
ASK SLASH IN
FREIGHT RATES
Present Charges So High as
to Constitute Subsidy,
I. C. C. Told.
WANT IMMEDIATE CUT
Petition Comes in Conflict
With Plea for Extension
by Carriers.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Charg
ing that present freight rates are
so high as to constitute a subsidy
to railroads, major shipping indus
tries today demanded an immediate
downward revision of rates, to com
bat the depression.
The demands for reduction to a
basis comparable with present low
commodity prices was presented to
the interstate commerce commission
by organizations representing a
large proportion of the nation's
shippers.
The joint petition is on behalf of
the principal farm organizations,
the National Coal Association and
the National Lumber Manufactur
ers' Association. They charge that
industry in general is being forced
to pay rates maintained at an
artificially high level.
The farm organizations joining
in the petition include the Farm
ers’ Union, the National Grange and
the American Farm Bureau Federa
tion. The coal association represents
the bituminous industry and the
lumber association represents the
lumber industry in thirty-six states.
The effort to reduce the rates
comes at a time when the carriers,
struggling under mountainous debts,
are demanding that the I. C. C. give
them authority to extend emergency
freight surcharges beyond March
31.
Shippers want the surcharges can
celled. The National Coal Associa
tion has charged that the 6 cents a
ton emergency surcharge on bitu
minous coal shipments has caused
curtailment of coal production and
made prices so high that consumers
are turning to oil and other coal
substitutes.
Thimble Steins
Wisconsin Legislator
Scoffs at 5 Cent
Beer Chances.
By Times Special
MADISON, Wis.. Jan. 25
Wisconsin legislators ap
pealed to congress Tuesday for
"pure beer at 5 cents a glass,” but
before they did so one of their
own members, who professed to
be an "expert,” warned them that
if beer came back at that price it
probably would be in thimble-sized
schooners.
“I was in the saloon business
before and after prohibtion,” Sen
ator Walter Polakowski, Milwau
kee, confessed to his colleagues,
then added hastily:
"But I’m not n it any longer,
so I can speak as an authority
on this subject.”
While the Milwaukee Socialist
continued his discussion, other
legislators hurriedly thumbed
through senate records, and found
he was listed there as a “master
upholster.”
Other ’egislators chided Pola
kowski later for his “slip” and
said unquestonably it was the
first time in history a senator
“confessed” to a state body that
he had sold beer "after prohibi
tion.”
LIGHTNING HITS PLANT
175-Foot Smoke Stack Falls on
Utility Building: Damage Heavy.
By United Press
PRINCETON. Ind., Jan. 25.
Damage estimated at several thou
sand dollars was caused here early
today when a i75-foot smoke stack
of the Public Service Company was
struck by lightning. Tons of brick
fell on the building, damaging it
and machinery. Lights were out for
half an hour.
Mob Attacks Policewoman
Bii United Press
DETROIT. Jan. 25.—A mob at
tacked Miss Elenore L. Hutzel, 43.
head of the woman's division. De
troit police department, late Tues
day, when she attempted to arrest
a girl suspected of being a runaway,
in the Negro section here. Police
summoned to the scene, rescued Miss
Hutzel.
Good Beer Is Coming Back, Vows Ruppert
BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Jan. 25.—‘Don't
worry.” said Colonel Jacob Rup
pert. “the Bock beer signs will go
up in the spring.”
Short, red-faced, genial and ex
plosive. Ruppert sat behind a
luxurious desk
in his luxuri
ous offices atop
the great Ja
cob Ruppert
brewery in
Manh all an,
beaming in an
ticipation of
happier days.
‘‘lf this ses
sion of con
gress doesn't
do it, the spe
cial session
will,” he said.
“And anotheY
thing is that
it's going to
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iS
Ruppert
be good beej\
This 3.05 per cent alcoholic con-
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933
LET’S HAVE AN ARTISTS’ TRUCE
Indiana 's World Fair Muralist Prefers Work to War
Left—Thomas Hart Benton, New York artist and muralist, waves
the dove of peace at his critics in his improvised studio in Germania
hall. Benton is digging fo~ some modelling clay and not another dove
from a cote.
Upper—One of the first preliminary sketches in pen and ink of a
BY ARCH STEINEL.
AMID memories of pretzels and
beer spigots, and after stum
bling up two flights of dark stairs
at old Germania hall, 37 South
Delaware street, the dove of peace
has landed in the hands of
Thomas Hart Benton, New York
mural designer and artist.
Benton waved the olive branch
today at other Indiana artists.
They have critised his appoint
ment by the department of con
servation to the post of mural
decorator for the Indiana building
at the Chicago world’s fair.
Between puffs on an Egyptian
cigaret, or one of those artistically
well-caked pipes, Benton tried to
put all the green apples of envy
back into the barrel, offering to
use students of his chief critic,
Elmer E. Taflinger, to aid him in
IRISH ELECTION
RIOTS QUELLED
‘Armies’ of De Valera and
Cosgrave Battle as
Votes Are Cast.
BY GEORGE MACDONAGH
United Press Staff Correspondent
DUBLIN. Jan. 25.—Street fights
and rioting in many parts of the
Free State during the general elec
tion were revealed today as counting
of the vote began. Supporters of
both President Eamon De Valera
and ex-President William T. Cos
grave made many charges of “re
peaters.”
Several arrests for illegal voting
were reported.
The most serious fighting was re
ported from Ashburton, County
Monachan, where troops were called
out.
A heavy vote was cast and the
race between De Valera and Cos
grave for control of the new dail
was expected to be close. Officials
of the army and the police said
most of the disturbances were minor.
Supporters of Cosgrave had the
upper hand in the Ashburton fight
until Republican reinforcements ar
rived from Donaghmoyne. The po
lice were unable to control the sit
uation and sent for the military.
Clashes between members of the
"Republican army,” supporting De
Valera, and the “white army,” back
ing Cosgrave, were reported from
Allyeonry and other towns.
Cosgrave was believed to have won
a comfortable majority in Cork.
Unofficial surveys indicated that
Cosgrave did well in the cities,
while the majority of the farmers
supported De Valera.
Coalition Government Rejected
By United Press
CAPETOWN, South Africa, Jan.
25.—Premier J. B. M. Hertzog re
jected an appeal by General J. C.
Smuts, leader of the South African
party, in the lower house Monday
for the formation of a coalition
government.
tent by weight they’re talking
about in Washington will be per
fectly satisfactory. It’s the equiva
lent of 3.8 alcoholic content by
content to the beers most popu
lar before prohibition, higher than
some,”
A stocky, compact figure in his
double-breasted blue suit, Rup
pert, owner of the New York Yan
kees. was not thinking of Babe
Ruth's salary. Beer, far closer to
his heart, was his pre-occupation.
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“npHE good beer will be a fine
thing for the country,” he
said.
*T'm serious when I say that it
will do a lot to stem this depres
sion. It's the psychological side of
the thing that I mean. Os course,
we know that, with a $5 federal
tax and a $1 state tax, beer con
sumption would bring tax receipts
of at least $125,000,000 annually if
the federal prohibition-authorities
are right when they say that 22,-
squaring up and doing prelimi
nary work on his murals.
“Sure, I’m going to use some of
Taft’s pupils. Why not? He's a
good fellow, even if he does want/
to change nis birthplace through
a court suit because I was award
ed the job,” said Benton between
puffs and the “wham” of a ham
mer or sing-song of a saw as a
carpenter erected bases for his
murals.
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“T T E can come down and help
STL me himself if he wants to,”
he chuckled as he waved "dovey”
as high as waiters waved trays
of beer mugs in the good old days
in the hall where Benton now
models clay figures for his murals.
Digging down in a pa.il of gray
clay and patting on a lady’s dress
with agile fingers, he explained
Saving World
Letter Writers’ Views Are
Given Attention by
Roosevelt.
By United Pr?s*
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The
thousands who write Presi
dent-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
their ideas of how to bring back
good times may be assured that if
their plans appear to hold any
germ of a workable idea, they are
being summarized, filed and
cross-indexed for future use by
Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers.
Even the proposals which seem
too far-fetched to merit con
sideration are scanned at least
three times before being dis
carded.
Mr. Roosevlet's correspondence,
always heavy, has increased to an
average of 1,000 letters received
daily.
A staff of fifty is kept busy in
New York reading, classifying
them, referring the most impor
tant to the President-elect, and
answering an enormous number.
Some 220.000 replies have gone
out from the New York headquar
ters.
Letters pour into Mr. Roose
velt's New York and Hyde Park
homes, the Democratic national
headquarters, and the “Little
White House” at Warm Springs.
None has been addressed to him
at the White House here, but one
was sent to “the unforgotten man,
New York.” It was delivered with
out delay to the President-elect's
town house.
Currency legislation is the most
popular subject ith those ad
vancing “plans” to bring back
prosperity.
Reduce French Arms Budget
By United Press
PARIS. Jan. 25.—A budget project
drastically reducing the military
provisions of finance minister Henry
Cheron's proposals was adopted
Monday by the finance commission
of the chamber of deputies, 16 to 11.
000.000 barrels of beer now are be
ing brewed illegally.
“We know that at least 75.000
men will be employed in the in
dustry. that sixty collateral indus
tries. trucking, bottling, and dis
tributing, will benefit, that from
150 to 200 million dollars will be
spent for re-equipment.
"But what I'm talking about is
the psychological effect of a good
5-cent glass of beer.
"We're probably the only gin
drinking country in the world to- <
day. But we’re not a happy coun
try with it. The new beer will be
sold on draught in clubs, res
taurants, and hotels. That means
we can have the clean, beautiful
beer gardens back in the summer
time, instead of a lot of dirty
speakeasies and roadhouses.
ana
advertising, which will be
largely through newspapers,
will stress the temperance
the health and nutrition value of
Exclusive photos b y Dick Miller. Times Staff Photoßrapner.
section of the murals done by Benton. The completed murais may
differ radically from the first sketches.
Lower Left—Benton at work modelling in clay.
Lower Right—A section from one of the studies in clay which is a
part of Benton's preliminary work.
hpw it would be three weeks be
fore he began the work of spray
ing on Gesso, a plaster-like sub
stance, and starting the first
murals.
Sixteen wooden foundations for
the murals, 18 by 12 feet each,
must be clamped together before
cloth can be laid and the paint
sprayed.
“It'll be a sight, this hall, when
we start spraying. And the only
way we can get the murals out
when completed will be to tear
away a portion of the wall lead
ing out of this auditorium,” Ben
ton explained.
Actual painting from persons
will not begin before the next ten
days.
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BENTON'S process is to make a
rough drawing of a set or
section of the mural, then to
GOES ON STAND,
DENIES MURDER
Virgil Barber Asserts His
Mind Was a Blank
at Time.
By United Press
PLYMOUTH, Ind., Jan. 25.—Vir
gil Barber, 26. was to be recalled
for cross-examination today in his
trial on charges of murdering Ar
thur Pratt, Plymouth restaurant
owner.
Prosecuting attorneys are at
tempting to break down his story
that he can not remember any in
cidents of the shooting.
Barber cried hysterically while
under questioning late Tuesday.
When asked by Defense Attorney
William Reed whether he had shot
Pratt, the prisoner muttered:
“No.”
He told of going to South Bend
the day before the shooting with
Carl Hand. Barber said he remem
bered taking many drinks and that
his mind became a blank, for sev
eral hours.
“You told Attorney Reed you did
not IjdlL Pratt,” Prosecutor George
Stevens said.
“How do you know you did not
kill him if you do not remember any
thing that happened?”
“I know I wouldn’t ever have
killed a man,” Barber answered.
Drs. R. F. Stephens and Harry
Knott, appointed by the court to
examine Barber’s mentality, testified
that he was sane.
TORNADO KILLS WOMAN
Ten Houses Demolished in Georgie
Town; One Other Injured.
By United Press
MOULTRIE, Ga., Jan. 25.—One
woman was killed and another crit
ically injured when a tornado de
molished ten homes at Barwick,
a small town twenty-five miles south
of here, today. Mrs. Della Cone was
killed and a Mrs. Miller injured.
beer. Let people have good beer,
and let them have it the right
way, in the home and in nice sur
roundings, and you'll hear a lot
less about depression and des
pair.”
The glamour and prestige that
surrounded the all-powerful
brewing industry in other days
lingers at the Ruppert plant. Al
though now devoted to milder
brews, it stands ready to create
“the good beer” on a moment’s
notice.
The foyer of the fortress-like
building, is in its marble and
granite simplicity as sedate as
any first national bank. A grand
father’s clock ticks in one corner.
White-haired old attendants, ven
erable with- years of service, re
ceive visitors with courtely
aplomb.
George Washington's own re
cipe for making beer is a treas
ured item in the files of the old
brewery. The original was written
in Washington's own handwriting.
Second Section
Entered as Second-Class Matter
at Postoffice, Indtanapolia
model it in miniature in clay, fol
lowed by a small painting. The
last step is enlarging the small
painting into a larger mural.
He has put up a homemade sign
on the dark stairs leading to
Germania hall, barring visitors,
and threatens to place a guard if
necessary to keep his studio in
the old beer hall inviolate.
A nearby commission house
amply has fortified any guard
that Benton might place at the
bottom of the stairs by stacking
up boxes of cocoanuts for bombing
purposes.
The first set of models for the
murals being pinched into clay
by Benton deal with Indiana's
early history.
He says close observers may be
able to pick out. actual portraits
of prominent Hoosiers after the
murals are finished.
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HIS main worry is not the envy
or criticism clouding the
state over his appointment, but
the time he's got to do it in.
"Even if I find it impossible to
finish here by June 1. I'll finish
after I get them to Chicago. My
hours? Seven o'clock every
morning until I get tired and
right now is a good time to come
see me, for I always have a let
down in the late afternoon." Ben
ton concluded, as he waved a "so
long” with the stem of his pipe
and permitted the dove of peace
to stumble down the stairs to be
publicized.
MORTGAGE BILL IS
DISGARDEDJN HOUSE
Redemption Extension Move
Is Shoved Aside.
Bill which its authors declared
would give protection to the small
home owner was killed in the house
of representatives today by adop
tion of an indefinite postponement
motion.
The measure provided for exten
sion from one to three years of the
period in which the owner of a
mortgaged home could obtain re
demption.
Representative Henry J. Richard
son Jr. <Dem., Indianapolis), who
with Representative Fred S. Gallo
way iDem., Indianapolis), sponsors
of the bill, declared loan companies
had threatened to stop lending if
the bill became law. He asserted
the threat was idle as “the small
home owner has been unable to get
loans since 1929.”
BRANDS STORY WRONG
Jesse Green Denies Statement He
Sought to Obtain Food.
Statement in a story Tuesday
that Jesse Green. 2138 Eastern
avenue, made an attempt to obtain
food from a representative of the
Center township trustee, was er
roneous, Green said today.
Green asserted that he had taken
his brother Marion, to the home of
Mrs. Charles Tyre, 2743 North Olney
street, to obtain license plates of
Marion Green's for the latter’s car.
Jesse Green said he plates were
held by the township trustee. Jesse
Green said he has been employed
regularly and never has obtained
aid from the trustee’s office.
ROBBER GETS 25 YEARS
Nor/h Tudson Bank Bandit Pleads
Guilty: Given Heavy Penalty.
Bff f nit rd Prr*x
KNOX. Ind., Jan. 25.—Mike Kish.
24. Gary, was sentenced to twenty
five years in the state reformatory
when he pleaded guilty on charges
of robbing the North Judson State
bank. Jan. 17. Judge William C.
Pentecost of Starke circuit court
pronounced sentence.
Kish admitted he as one of the
five bandits who kidnaped an assist
ant cashier in the holdup. The kid
naping charge was dropped on his
plea of guil’y.
Seek to Identify Auto Yictim
By I Hited Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 25.
The body of a man fatally injured
in an automobile accident remained
unidentified today. He was struck
while walking along a road between
Huntingburg and Jasper. TJie name
of a Muncie tailor was found in his
coat.
MANY FEDERAL
JOBS WILL BE
OPEN IN STATE
Van Nuys to Be Supreme
Arbiter in Task of
Awarding Plums.
SIX ESPECIALLY JUICY
Customs. Revenue Posts,
Marshal and Attorney
Berths to Fill.
BY WALKER STOXE
Time* Staff Writer
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 —Senate
Document 173. just off the presses
of the government printing office,
promises to be a best seller" among
"deserving Democrats." who are try
ing to find out where and how to
get federal jobs.
Thus far there nas been only a
limited printing of Senate Docu
ment 173, which lists more than
100.000 government positions not
protected by civil service laws. Two
copies have been furnished to each
of the ninety-six senators and one
copy to each of the 435 represent
atives. The volumes are available
I to the public at 40 cents apiece.
| The document, listing as it does
j all patronage posts, salaries, loca-
I tions, etc., no doubt will be a great
help to lay Democrats, who, after
twelve years away from the public
trough." have not known where to
turn for a share of the “loot.”
Van Nuys Is Arbiter
Senator-Elect Frederick Van Nuys
will be the supreme arbiter of all
Indiana joos, except the postmaster
ships, which will be distributed by
the Democratic congressmen.
The six .eading positions in In
diana. for which appointments are
made by the President, with advice
and consent of the senate, are: Col
lector of internal revenue, $7,000 a
year; collector of customs, $4,800;
United States attorney, $6,000, and
United States marshal, $5,000, all
with offices in Inoianapolis; United
States attorney and United States
marshal, at South Bend, $6,000 and
$4,800. respectively.
Vacancies will occur in all these
offices soon after March 4, with the
exception of the office of United
States marshal in Indianapolis,
which appointment runs until Feb.
23, 1935, unless the incumbent is
forced to resign, and the customs
collecter, whose term expires about
the same time.
The salaries above, as well as
those listed hereafter, are tempor
arily lower by 8 1-3 per cent, under
terms of the economy act.
Many Revenue Jobs
Under the collector of infernal
revenue are fifty-eight deputy
collectors, who will be appointed by
the new collector, presumably on
the advice of Senator Van Nuys and
others high in state party councils.
Salaries of the deputy collectors
range from $4,600 to $1,260 a year.
Under the United States attorney
at Indianapolis are two assistants,
$5,000 and $3,300, and a clerk. $2,160.
Under the United States attorney at
South Bend are two assistants,
$4,600 and $3,200, and a clerk, $2,040.
Under the United States marshal
at Indianapolis are seven deputies,
with salaries ranging from $2,600
to $1,500, and under the United
States marshal at South Bend are
six deputies, from $2,100 to $1,500.
Offer Berths Here
Other Indianapolis jobs include:
Treasury department, four national
bank examiners, $4,200, $3,900, $2,400
and $1,500; labor department, con
ciliation commissioner, sl2 per
diem; state director of employment,
$3,500; manager, $2,400; special
agent, $2,000; stenographer, $1,620
and clerk. $1,440; Veterans’ admin
istration, three doctors emloyed on
part time, 380 employed on fee
basis, 28 dentists on fee basis; 40
hospital attendants. SI,BOO to $1,020;
four cooks, $1,860 to $1,500; federal
farm loan bureau, land bank ex
aminer, $1,925, and three land bank
appraisers on a per diem basis;
supervising architect's office <at the
federal building), janitor, $1,800;
elevator conductor, $1,320; and
traffic representative of the Inland
Waterways Corporation, $1,930.
There are ten positions in the
agriculture extension service, with
salaries ranging from $3,744 to
$1,944, but the bulk of these salaries
come from state funds, and the
state therefore has the appointing
power.
FRED W. ASHBAUGH
FUNERAL RITES SET
K. of C. Overseas War Worker Died
Sunday in Hospital.
Funeral services for Fred W. Ash
baugh, 43. of 532 North Emerson
avenue, who died Sunday in the St.
Vincent’s hospital after a long ill
ness were held at 9 this morning in
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic
church. Burial was in Holy Cross
cemetery.
Mr. Ashbaugh was one of the
first Knights of Columbus war re
lief secretaries to serve overseas
during the World war.
He was sent to Europe in June.
1917. He was stationed in Paris and
carried supplies to the front lines
by motorcycle, being frequently
under shell fire.
ABSENTEE BALLOTING
BILL IS INTRODUCED
Measure Would Permit 111 Persons,
Those Away From City, to Vote.
An election bill providing for ab
sentee voting of persons ill or ab
sent from their precincts on election
day, has been introduced in the
house by Representatives William J.
Black <Dem., Anderson* and Wil
liam H. Lee <Dem.. Princeton).
Illness, the bill provides, must be
attested by a physician's certificate,
and absentees, unable to vote be
cause of business absence, must file
applications not less than two days
preceding the election. Applica
tions by mail are charged a 23-cent
fee.