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4 National Newspaper 26 Pages Today mitt ispaper VOL. CLI V. NEW SERIES NO. 22,988 LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 9, 1931.

THREE CENTS. ON 1 RAINS AMD BEYOND THIRD ZONK. FIVE CENTS. GHEEN OF 0 DCC 9 1031 0 jj ROE $7,000 Aldermen Pass Compromise Gas Ordinance Laffoon Says He Will Keep Platform Pledges; ARMED MEN GET PAYROLL AT CANDY CO. Bandit Threatens Six Employes, Tosses Cash to His Pals.

Murder Trial ForPearson, tie's Aim Oath As Governor Before Throng HOOVER ASKS HIGHER TAXES IN MESSAGE Statement Indicates Hope of Return of Prosperity In Two Years. SMALL USERS BENEFITED BY SCHEDULE Said to Mean $110,000 More to Company Than Summer Rates. ADOPTED BY COMMITTEE Estimated Saving to Public Compared to Last Year Put At $102,000. A comDromise ordinance said to give the Louisville Gas Electric Company approximately $110,000 more for winter mixed gas from December 1 to Aoril 1 than the summer rates which the aldermen proposed last week to adopt, was passed by the Board of Aldermen Tuesday night. Fiaured on consumption December 1 to April 1 last year, the estimated saving to the public through pass age of the compromise bill, compared to last years winter rates, is 5102.000 according to Mayor William B.

Har rison and the water and gas com mittee which approved the bill. The small consumer, according to the futures issued, will be given a discount of 15 per cent until May 1, GO LAF ta montn arter me mixea gas ceases, This discount is in addition to the per cent penalty discount on gas, AND GOVERNOR LAFFOOJ 3seks to Reinstate 2 Charges Against Slayer Given Commutation to Life. Commonwealth's Attorney W. Clarke Otte will move Wednesday morning in the Criminal Court for reinstatement of two charges of murder against Oscar Pearson. Mr.

Otte announced Tuesday. The motion means that Pearson aeain is in jeopardy of the electric chair, from which he was saved by Executive clemency Monday night. Pearson, charged with killing a Louisville detective and his two civilian assistants, has been convicted twice by Criminal Court juries and sentenced to death for the murder of one of the civilian assistants. He was in a death cell at the Eddyville penitentiary awaiting electrocution when Flem D. Sampson, on the eve of his successor's inauguration as Governor, commuted the sentence to Hie imprisonment.

Charges of murdering the detective and the other civilian assistant were filed away when Pearson was con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) GERMANY CUTS PAY AND RENTS Hindenburg In Emergency Statement; Bruening Attacks Hitler. Berlin, Dec. 8 (UP) President Paul von Hindenburg tonight issued another drastic emergency decree slashing wages, retail nrices and rents from 10 to 25 Der cent, whii tht Government warned the militant Fas- cist Party of Adolph Hitler that it wouid resort to martial law if neces- t' i uiviiuiuw the cabinet. "The Government will not tolerate any pow in Germany except the constitutional power," Chancellor Heinrich Bruening declared in a radio address explainin the Presiden tial decree which gave the cabinet dictatorial powers to prevent political outbreaks. "The Government Is determined to employ every means, even to a state of seige, against anybody attempting to hinder the constitutional organs in fulfillment of their functions," Bruening said.

The soft-voiced, iron-handed Chancellor denounced the Fascist Party, but refrained from an attack on Hitler by recognizing that the Fascist leader has been careful in asserting he is willing to employ only legal means ms campaign to gam power. "It will be a crude contrast to such declarations, if his lieutenants indulge in their plans, inspired by uncontrolled political imagination," Bruening declared in reference to the purported threats of under-leaders of the party to seize power by force. "Protests of legal action are valueless if it is admitted they are binding only until the moment of assumption or power. "It would be still worse If, simultaneously with declarations of legal intention, plans are being prepared for revenge against their political enemies." Bruening also made an appeal to other governments to abandon "inadequate" methods of dealing with the reparations problem. He said only a generous solution would overcome the world economic crisis.

Appeals to Nations. "I urgently appeal to all governments to see that the often repeated principles of international solidarity and co-operation are finally put into practice." Explaining the new decree issued by the Prasident as "the only means" of saving Germany from economic collapse, Bruening said it was necessary because (1) of the world economic crisis; (2) the enormous burden (reparations) imposed on Germany and (3) the failure of the Ger- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) NEW INDICTMENTS SEEN FOR STIGLITZ Additional indictments will be sought by W. Clarke Otte, Commonwealth's Attorney, against William G. Stightz, former County cierK, Mr. Otte announced Tuesday after obtaining a continuance of the former clerk's cases until December.

18. Stiglitz is charged with payroll pad ding, conspiracy to defraud and being an accessory to the escape of Miss Evelyn M. Albus, former deputy cleric in charge of automobile licenses. The new indictments would charge embezzlement, Mr. Otte said, and are possible through evidence obtained from Miss Albus since her arrest in New York.

PARADE, $25,000 Is SECTION Takes SECTION Chandler Becomes Lieuten ant Governor; Sampson Tells of Work. Text of Governor Laffoon'g inauEurtl address la on page 14. By JOE HART. By Staff Correspondent. Frankfort Kyr Dec, 8.

A- day of pageantry and festivity connected with the induction of the fortieth Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky was broken by a brief formal programme at noon in front of the Capitol for administration of the oaths of office to Gov. Ruby Laffoon and Lieut. Gov. A. B.

(Happy) Chandler. Governor Laffoon. in the presence of thousands of supporters ot the Democratic ticket throughout the State, received the oath at 12:55 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Chandler took the oath a moment later.

A crowd of cheering supporters laDsed into silence as the two officers came forward, and placing their left hands on the Bible, pledged their lovalty to the Commonwealth. Chief Justice Rfchard Priest Dietzman of the Court of Appeals administered the oaths. Sampson Reviews His Programme. This ceremony was preceded by a speech by Flem D. Sampson, retiring Governor, in which he discussed his DroEramaie of the last four years and pledged support to his successor.

Gov-1 orner Laffoon followed with a short address in which he reiterated his Dromises to carry out the policies of the Democratic platform on which he was elected. An hour after he took office, Govj ernor Laffoon announced the appointment of Brig. Gen. H. H.

Den-hardt. Bowling Gpeen. of the Kentucky National Guard and former Lieutenant Governor, as Adjutant General. He also named Henry Hop-son Holman. Madisonviile, as his secretary.

The inaugural ceremonies, which started with a colorful parade at 11 o'clock in the morning, closed with the inaugural ball in the Capitol at night. Immediately after the oaths were administered, a salute of twenty-one guns was fired by Battery 138th Field Artillery, which had taken part In the parade. Greeted By Supporters. Governor Laffoon then went to the State reception room in the Capitol where he received the felicitations of his supporters. In the receiving line also were Mrs.

Laffoon, Mr. Chandler and Mrs. Chandler. The two officers were accompanied by members of their Dersonal escort committees. A display of fireworks was held on the grounds in the rear at the Cap- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 'Just a Village' Special to The Courier-Jousnal.

Osaka, Dec. 8. Flying from Japan to Manchuria. Every man, woman and Democrat in the world have seen pic tures of Japan's famous mountain peak with the snow on the top, Mt. Fijiyama, but think of flying around it? We come by it this afternoon and what a beautiful country this is to fly oyer.

I didn't know Japan was so mountainous. Had old Gibbons rubbering for a landing field, but there wasn't any. This is just one of the villages of Japan, it only has two million. The papers here tonight predict a fight at Chinchow. Yours.

WILL ROGERS. i 1 1 in county since January 1. One Killed Tuesday. None Injured Tuesday. 11 Then ApDRE OF and.

should not be conrusea witn it, the statement said. The 15 per cent discount can be obtained even after the consumer loses his penalty discount for lack of prompt payment, the ordinance said. The ordinance, contains exactly the same basic rates as all others passed during the last decade, the discount being the compromise. An additional new feature is a provision that should the company bring in more natural gas before April 1, the Aldermen reserve the right to lower the rates further or to order the heat value to be increased above 850 British thermal units, as now provided. It also provides that should any consumer think he is inconvenienced too much by the time lapse between reading his meter and the dates the ordinance becomes effective, he may request in writing that his meter be read at as near a date the change is effective as possible.

Hubley Gives Figures. George W. Hubley, Public Utilities Bureau engineer, said in reply to a question Tuesday night that the company's gross revenues will be increased $110,000 over the amount the franchise rates would yield for the four months in question, taking last year's consumption figures. When the ordinance was reported out, Clay McCandless, chairman of tha, water and gas committee, re- sBorted it favorably. He read the Amendments.

After these were- read. jonn unanaier, attorney, requested the floor and said that after hearing the ordinance read "and being advised by a man who knows more about figures than I do, I believe the ordinance sounds better than it is." He requested time to make a statement or setting a time for a public hearing at which the new ordinance could be threshed out. Frank E. Johnson, president of the board, informed Mr. Chandler that he proposed to read the ordinance and felt sure that when it was read, if Mr.

Chandler "listened attentively, he would be sure to find that the ordinance as amended is a better one than that proposed last week'" Chandler Ask Hearing. Mr. Chandler said the company and the city officials had been meeting since Saturday and had plenty of time to analyze the measure, but the public had no time to do the same, and he requested ten minutes for a statement. Mr. Johnson replied that "this is a regular meeting of the board and neither the company nor the public Is represented officially.

A committee of this board has had this ordinance under consideration and has given more time and serious thought to this measure than any other in the history of this board, at least since I've been in it. The public, in this matter, will have to have faith in its Board of Aldermen. This ordinance gives relief to the little con- OF CROWD AT INAUGURATION. WOMAN GIVES ALARM Police Cars Seek Muddy Roadster In Which Yeggs Escaped. A small bandit wearing a red sweater scrambled through the office cage window at the Bradas Gheena candy manufacturing plant, 817 South Floyd Street, at 5:15 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, fifteen minutes before clos ing time, waved six employes to th floor with his pistol, swept a $7,000 enveloped payroll into a satchel, tossed the bag to two confederates and ran from the building with them.

"Three men are holding up Bradas Gheens, 817 South Floyd. They're in the plant now. Please send help!" was the telephone message flashed to Desk Sergt. Edward Sullivan. Miss Ida Louthen, gray-haired cashier, had defied the bandit's com mand, had run out of the office and seized a telephone) In another part of the plant.

Before the bandits had started their mud-spattered roadster, five police squad, cars were dashing to the scene. Miss Louthen, who had asked the three men what their errand was, and who had told they were waiting for a man who worked in the plant, had become suspicious. She was just starting to walk to the cesic of A. F. Brown, the office manager, to tell him she did not like the looks of the trio, when the red-sweatered bandit plunged through the window.

Waving a pistol, he shouted to the office force to drop to the floor. Miss Louthen ignored the command and walked coolly toward another office where there Is a telephone. "Look out 'or they'll shoot, Mr. Brown cautioned the cashier. But Miss Louthen reached a corridor in an from the cashier's hurriedly Into the other office and flashed the message to the police.

The red-sweatered bandit opened the satchel while one of his companions lunged through the window, waving a pistol and seeing that no one gave an alarm. The first bandit raked his arm along the marble counter and in one sweep brushed the carefully lined-up pay-envelopes Into the satchel. He handed the satchel to his confederate while the third man stayed near the front of the building -in order to give an alarm. The three left together. Police Cars Reach Scene.

Almost immediately the police cars reached the building and the noise of their arrival gave the approximate ly 350 employes of the plant their first warning that their pay envelopes had been stolen. Detective Sergts. Oscar Bottoms and John Day were confident that the mud-spattered roadster they met in the neighborhood of the plant while on the way to the scene, contained the bandits. The building, which once was ft large residence, is approximately fifty feet from the sidewalk, with a lawn in front. The plant adjoins the office building.

Judge Dawson Denies Delay In Brown Case Tells Government Attorneys Trial to Be Held January 11. After hearing a request by the Government for another continuance in the trials of James B. Brown, former president of the National Bank of Kentucky, Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson Tuesday declined to reassign the cases and said he Intended to have the trial on January 11, the date previously set, if possible. united states District Attorney Thomas J.

Sparks told the court that James E. Wharton, special assistant from the Attorney General's office at Washington, who will aid in prosecution of the case, would be busy at that time and could not come to Louisville. Judge Dawson said he was opposed to continuance and asked Arthur B. Bensinger, attorney for Mr. Brown, whether the witnesses could not be assembled in brief time.

The attor ney said that it depended on which indictment was to be tried first. Mr. Sparks said later he was in touch with Mr. Wharton, who would try to make arrangements to be her for that date. The Courier-Journal Offers a Booklet On How to Get Ahead.

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0 C. I inclose herewith 6 cents In coin or stamps 'coin preferredi for copt of The Courier-Journal booklet. "How to Get Ahead." Name Street Citv State At Grain Elevator DOLE IS OPPOSED President Recommends Setting Up Reconstruction Corporation. The text of President Hoover's message to Congress is on pane 10. By TJLRIC The Courier-Journal Washington Bureau Washington, Dec.

8. Formalities I concluded and a Presidential message before it, Congress settled down today i for hostilities. Strife developed promptly in the 1 Senate, where Insurgent Republicans deadlocked that body on the question of re-electing Senator George H. Moses to the post of President Pro Tem and threatened, after three futile ballots, to make the fight an interminable one. on the House side a minor rut in Democratic unity was revealed in a quarrel over the status of Rules Committee members.

Many other gathering issues promised But it was the Presidents message that laid the basis for major conten tion. Called an uninspiring and dis appointing document by the Demo crats, and applauded only feebly by members of his own party, Mr. Hoover's programme spurred the ef forts of those Democratic leaders who have been detailed to the task of putting their party's own legislative i agenda before the country. These I Democratic programme' makers had waited to hear from Mr. Hoover be- Iore araiting tneu- plans.

Floor Debate Is Set. Almost as soon as the message had been read today. Representative Rainev. Democratic floor leader, announced that it would be taken up tomorrow in Committee of the Whole House. This meant there would be an oratorical field day on the subject.

No one could recall a previous instance when unrestrained debate was invited upon a message in this way. Mr. Hoover's communication was Ditched in general on the relief of business and the expansion of credit. It is a reluctant admission that taxes must be increased, on a "temporary" basis: a recital of the emergency measures Mr. Hoover already had promoted: a proposal for a reconstruction corporation along the lines of the old.

war finance corporation, as a "bulwark" to confidence; a svstem of home-loan discount banks in accordance with his previous recommendations and certain changes, some of them controversial, in the Federal Reserve and Land Bank structures. It opposed the so-called "dole," or direct-relief method, for aiding the unemployed. It declared against general Congressional revision of the tariff. It aligned the President against further expansion of the Federal public works programme while the Treasury is depleted. It opposed further expenditures for veterans, even the rectification of present admitted Injustices in the law which would call for such further expenditures.

It defended the Farm Board as having "cushioned" the farmer. It omitted all mention of prohibition, but promised later recommendations "looking to the strengthening of criminal law enforcement and improvement in judicial procedure connected therewith." It contained generalities concerning disarmament. It said that foreign affairs, probably meaning to include the one-year debt moratorium, would be dealt with in a later message Hopes for New Boom. In its broader outlines, Mr. Hoover's message was read as one pinned to the hope that the boom daysj of 1928 would come back again, one ignoring the conviction of the realists among the economists that deflation in a large measure must be written off, new levels accepted and a fresh start made.

It was criticised at the Capitol mainly because, while insisting that only a temporary emergency besets (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) TRUST CO. TO PAY $480,000 DIVIDEND A dividend of approximately constituting a 5 per cent distribution which was due Christmas Eve, will be credited Wednesday to accounts of depositors in the Louisville Trust Company, it was announced Tuesday by officers of the institution. The move will make the funds available for Christmas shopping, it was pointed out. sixtieth hand of the 150-rubber match. Only one hand has been passed out.

Only one slam has been contracted. Lenz made it at the second session. It was a little slam. Two rubbers of the second session involved a 700 bonus for leaving the (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) Ask Me Another 1 Who was Romulus' twin brother? 2 What is pulque? 3 What is a claque? 4 What was Tyburn Tree? 5 Who was Grouchy? Answers to today's "Ask Me Anoth er are on tne Dae page. Fire Loss Flames Damage Structure Owned By Oscar Farmer Sons.

Flames broke out in the four-story grain elevator of Oscar Farmer Sons, 213 North Fifteenth Street, at 5:25 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and destroyed between 25,000 and 50,000 bushels of wheat feed and oats. The total damage, including the structure, was estimated at between $20,000 and $25,000. Two alarms were sounded and two other engine companies were dispatched to the scene. A huge column of flame and smoke shot skyward from the frame structure. Firemen mounted adjoining buildings and poured streams of water on the blaze from every direction.

The elevator is behind the feed plant proper and is separated from it by a steel partition. H. K. Blandford, president of the company, said the plant has been stocked to capacity during the past two days, the firm taking advantage of the slump in the grain market. Several cars of feed remained on the tracks and had not yet been loaded into the plant.

The elevator, however, did not contain its full capacity. Blandford estimated that water which-'ran into the plant caused ap-Droximately $5,000 damage, which he included in the total estimate. The fire was the first the company has (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) GOVERNOR SAMPSON. WARRANTS NAME 2 LEAF GROWERS Shelbyville Warehousemen to Ignore Demand for 3-Day Suspension. Special to The Courier-Journal.

Shelbyville, Dec. 8. No attention will be paid to the demand for a three-day suspension of sales made today by farmers after disorders halt' ed the opening sales of burley to bacco on the market here, J. Ray Wakefield, supervisor of sales, announced tonight as members of the Shelbyville Tobacco Exchange swore out warrants for the alleged leaders in today's demonstration, in which one floor manager was kitked on the head and knocked down. Sales will be resumed tomorrow.

Charges of inciting to riot, banding and confederating together and fle struction of public property were made In warrants issued tonight against Boss Smither and W. Brewer, farmers oj the! nortnern part oi anei bv Countv. Harry Martin, part owner of the Growers Loose Leaf Floor, was kicked on the head and floored by a farmer standing on a pile of tobacco, as ne tried to eiect a man creating a dis turbance, after Smither is said to have mounted a pile of tobacco ana addressed the crowd, declaring the farmers were "being robbed" and would not continue to sell at such prices. Alter the sale was ordered ciosea (Continued on Page 7.) white, in velvets, sophisticated crepes, gleaming satins and rustling taffetas, were displayed by charming women Irom every section of Kentucky and other States. Bodices with aeep decolletages sparkled with encrustations and embroidered motifs of rhinestones, brilliants and seed pearls.

Skirts were cleverly draped into sleek, suave lines, or frankly ruffled, tiered and bustled. Slippers matching the gowns or slippers in startling contrast were seen, with pipings and straps of gold and silver kid, or buckles and heels of twinkling rhinestones. Waist and hip length jackets of fur or velvet completed the costumes. Before the doors of the State re- Continued on Page VkSumer, tne man wno nas never contained any relief and who in all argu DEFENSE HINTED IN KEYES SUIT Plan to Claim Bank of Ky. Was Solvent, U.

S. Shared In Closing Indicated. Intimation that evidence will be introduced later in the $14,000,000 action of Paul C. Keyes, receiver for the National Bank of Kentucky, against directors of the bank, in an attempt to show that the United States Government, through a representative on the ground, shared responsibility for closing the institution, was given Tuesday by W. W.

Crawford, member of counsel defending the directors. Mr. Crawford referred to the mat ter after Judge W. P. Sandidge, special master in the asked him the object of a question he directed at Mrs.

A. E. Latta, owner of Wakefield about her reference to H. P. Preston, an officer of the Trans- amenca Corporation.

"We intend to connect this with (Continued on Page 13.) Calendar of Events Wednesday. Joint Conference of Contact Committees, 9 a.m., Brown Hotel; convention. Kentucky Ice Manufacturers' Association, 9 a.m., The Kentucky; meeting. Mercator Club, 12:15 p.m., Brown Hotel; luncheon-meeting. Kiwanis Club, 12:15 p.m., The Kentucky luncheon-meeting.

American Business Club, 12:15 p.m., The Kentucky; luncheon-meeting. Builders" Exchange of Louisville, 12:15 The Seelbach: luncheon-meeting. Reserve Officers' Luncheon Club, 12:15 p.m.. The Seelbach; luncheon-meeting. B'nai B'rith Lodge, 12:15 p.m., The Kentucky; luncheon-meeting.

Secretaries' Club, 12:30 p.m., The Kentucky; fcincheon-meeting. Hielo Club, 12:30 The Kentucky; luncheon-meeting. Electric and Radio Division, Louisville Credit Men's Association, 6:15 p.m.. The Seelbach; dinner-meeting. Transportation Club of Louisville, 6:30 p.m., Brown Hotel; dinner-meeting.

Barristers' Club, 6:30 p.m., Brown Hotel; dinner-meeting. American Institute of Banking, 6 pjn, The Kentucky; dinner-meeting. Reception and Ball In Honor of Laffoons Climax to Inauguration Marble Halls of Capitol Furnish Background for Beautiful Women of Kentucky, Other States. Lenz Leads Culbertsons At End Of Tenth Rubber By 2, 075 Points Challenger Wasers Another $1,000 With Jacoby At 2 to 1 On Outcome. ments beiore tnis ooara ana au arguments used in last week's public hearing, is the man who needs relief." Mr.

Johnson then read the measure and it was passed unanimously. The board adjourned after a few routine transactions, and Mr. Chandler pointed out that the greatest saving under the new bill will be 33 cents per consumer per month. Mayor William B. Harrison, in a.

discussion with Mr. Chandler admitted the maximum saving possible per consumer was 33 cents per month. In a general discussion that fol- (Continuefl on Page 5, Column 1.) THE WEAUlER. Kentucky Rain, rising temperature Thursday cloudy. Tennessee Cloudy Wednesday and Thursday, with rain in central and east portion Wednesday; slowly rising temperature.

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28 .28 .28 .28 .29 29 .29 .30 .32 .33 .34 .36 .34 .32 ..33 ..33 ..33 By AGXES SIMCOX HEXDESSOX. The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau. Frankfort, Dec. 8. A brilliant climax to a gala day was the reception and ball tonight in honor of Kentucky's fortieth Governor, Ruby Laffoon, and Mrs.

Laffoon. The Capitol building assumed a festive air, its marble halls and broad stairways affording a periect background for the parade of beautifully gowned womei. Scintillating jewel shades, dusty pastels and the new ice pastels, as well as fashion's pets, black and WHAS And other radio programmes will be found on page 18. New York, Dec. 9 (Wednesday) iA) Sidney S.

Lenz and Oswald Jacoby sith their official system of contract bridge gained ground on Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson and the Culbertson system in the second session oi trreir challenge match which ended this morning. After ten rubbers of the series had been played Lenz and Jacoby were 2.075 points in the lead, a gain of 360 points from what they acquired in the first session. Seven rubbers were played in the second session, of which Lenz and Jacoby won four and the rubber standing of the series became Lenz and Jacoby.

seven; Culbertsons, three. When the match Is resumed Thursday night the players will be on the 4 -1'.