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WORLD HEARS POPE SPEAK OVER RADIO Powerful Vatican Station Opened on Anniversary of Coronation. MARCONI IS HONORED Made Member of Church Science Academy for His Inventions. BV THOMAS MORGAN Unitrd Press Staff Corrrsoondrnt VATICAN CITY, Feb. 12.—Pope Pius XI today broke down the barriers which had separated the head of the Roman Catholic church from the world for three score years, and sent his voice by radio to all parts of the world. Observing the ninth anniversary of his coronation. Pope Pius inaugurated the powerful new Vatican Text of speech on Page One, Seclion Two. wireless station with an address, wishing "the peace of Christ” for all of the faithful. The pope sent his blessing to all of the peoples of the earth, to his ministers, to the priests, all of the faithful, the missionaries, the governments and their peoples, the rich and the poor, the employed and the unemployed, the afflicted and the suffering. Marconi Is Honored After broadcasting of the popes radio message, which was then translated from the Latin for broadcasting to the international radio audience, the pontiff left the radio station and went directly *to the Papal Academy of Sciences. An extraordinary session was held there in* celebration of the coronation anniversary, the inauguration of the new station and to install Senator Gugliclmo Marconi as a member. The pope, beginning his radio speech, said he spoke in the “name of the Prince of the Apostles, by divine comman” for all oeoplcs to hear. “Listen, all people," he said. “Availing ourselves of the work of Senator Marconi, we use and bless, with the aid of God, this wonderful invention. Inaugurates New Station “Hear ye, people of the world, let our first words be: “ ‘Glory to God in the highest and, on earth, peace to men of good will.’ ” The pope said his words ‘shall be peace to all,” particularly to the faithful. "We beg you to be worthy of your divine vocation,” he said in addressing the officials of the church throughout the world. “We implore you to make your people true to Christ and to become the model of your flock. May the Lord Jesus Christ be present to you in all your good work.” In the ceremony at the papal academy, Father Giuseppe Gianfrancheschi, head of the Papal Science Academy, thanked the pontiff for his speech inaugurating the station. Father Gianfrancheschi proposed that Marconi be made a member of the academy in recognition of his efforts in providing the papal state with the station. Speaks to Italians Marconi briefly thanked Father Gianfrancheschi for his invitation to become a member of the academy. The famous inventor said, however, that the new station was due entirely to the interest and efforts of Pope Pius. He said he was happy to accept the membership invitation. Pope Pius then spoke in Italian, saying he was grateful that God allowed him to live to see so many marvels developed by science. He paid tribute to Marconi as an inventor who had permitted the divine word of Qhrist, uttered by the human voice of Christ’s vicar, to be heard throughout the world.

TRIAL BEGUN IN SUIT OF BRIDGE COMPANY Vincennes Firm Asks $6,000 From U. S. on Contract for Spans. Trial of a suit of the Vincennes Bridge Company against the government for approximately $6,000 allegedly due the company on eight bridges erected west of the Rocky mountains began today before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Complaint stated the government deducted this amount when paying for structoral steel furnished by the bridge company. The deduction* were made, the defense alleges, because bridges were not up to specifications. ROB DISPLAY WINDOW Thieves Cut Store Glass and Steal Shirts Valued at SIOO. Thieves who cut display window glass in Carter's haberdashery, 58 Monument circle, Wednesday night, stole shirts valued at .SIOO, A. G. Vivion, manager, reported to police today. Proposes Cats Wear Bells LORAIN, O. Feb. 12—M. P. Romoser had before city council today a proposal that all Lorain cats be licensed and forced to wear bells around their necks to protect the city’s song birds. Fire Destroys Garage Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a double garage in the rear of 122-24 East Forty-seventh street j on Wednesday night with a loss' rs SSOO. Ocupants of the prem-' arc Frank F. Richards and Joseph H. Hyman.

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HYDE ANSWER MAY PASS DROUGHT BILL Response to Senate Demand for ‘Explanation" May Finish Battle Raging Over Compromise Measure.

Du L’nitcif Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The fate of the $20,000,000 drought relief compromise depends largely on what Secretary pf Agriculture Hyde says in response to the senate's demand for formal statement as to whether food loans will be granted from the fund, Senator James A Watson ( Ind.i, said after a call at the White House today. The compromise amendment was held up in the senate pending a reply from Hyde, but the United Press was informed the reply would be such as to permit adoption of the project. Watson, following his visit to the White House, would make no forecast of the nature of Hyde's forthcoming communication, but it was

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PAVE WAY FOR BONOS ACTION House Group Expected to Act on Compromise. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—‘The way was opened today by the house ways and means committee for adoption of a compromise veterans’ relief bill to increase the loan limit on adjusted services certificates. It was indicated the committee would vote favorably later today on such a plan. The committee devoted its morning session to hearing Ogden L. Mills, undersecretary of treasury, and Frank T. Hines, director of the veterans bureau, who discussed the approximate cost of loan proposals. A loan bill is the only proposal now being considered by the committee. Representative Fish (Rep., N. Y.) today modified his bill, providing for a 25 pv- cent cash payment, to provide a 25 per cent increase on the loan limit, which would make the limit 47'£ per cent. Neither Mills nor Hines expressed an opinion as to the merit of the loan proposal, according to committee members, but Mills told the committee the treasury still regarded financing of the lo: n bill by a bond issue as rather difficult at this time. CHANGE ZONING PLAN House Committee to Recommend Few Alterations. House committee on congressional reapportionment this afternoon was to recommend that the Core plan, on redistricting the state, be passed with some changes. The revisions arc placing Porter in the new Ninth district and making Lake county a district by itself, and splitting Marion county farther north than Washington street, than as first suggested. The amendment would have the county separation starting at the southwest corner of Center township line, going north on Blackford to the Fifth and Sixth ward boundary lines, then east on Pratt street to Pennsylvania street. From there, the proposed dividing line jogs to St. Clair street and continues east through Tenth street to the Center township line. This would throw all south of this section into the Fourth district which would include Hancock, Shelby, Bartholomew and Decatur counties.

EYES OF WORLD TURNED IN APPEAL TO AMERICA TO BRING BETTER TIMES

This is the first of a series on "The Road to Better Times,” by an international authority, BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor The most colossal opportunity any great government ever had now is knocking at the door of the United States. A depressed, discouraged, tradeavid, job-hungry world, weary of bickering and frightened by tue growing menace of another war, is looking to America to take the initiative in a move to strengthen the machinery for peace and prosperity. Never before has the world faced such a situation as now confronts it, economists agree, for the simple reason that never before have the nations been so dependent lor prosperity, one upon the others. In the past, nations have suffered depressions and come out of them again through their own individual efforts. But today they form a single, highly integrated machine. They are all geared together. When some move backward, all move backward. Prosperity, .ike peace, no longer is a national, out an international problem requiring international leadership and organization. World-wise overproduction; decreased purchasing power; universal unemployment: troubles in Asia; revolutions in Latin America; poli tic al” unrest in Europe, and the

indicated elsewhere the secretary was expected to take the position that loans from the $20,000,000 fund might be used for any purpose relating to the rehabilitation of agriculture. Watson, Republican leader in the senate, and Senator GofF (W. Va.) had an early conferancc with President Hoover regarding the latest turn in the long drawn out battle over relief for drought stricken farmers of the west and south. Hyde was in Louisville, Kv., today to deliver an address. He left Washington Wednesday night after hurried conferences with the President and Republican leaders. Tlie senate expected to receive Hyde's reply by telegraph this afternoon.

Colonel David N. Foster, Who Knew Civil War President, Is Speaker. A man who knew Lincoln spoke today on the life of the Civil war President to members of the general assembly from the senate rostrum. Erect as when he marched with the Army of the Potomac, but white-bearded in testimony of his some 90 years, David N. Foster, Ft. Wayne, spoke for an hour. A personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas, Colonel Foster, then a boy of 17, followed closely the debates in Illinois between the great senator and the man who later became America's best loved President. “Those debates changed me from a Douglas Democrat to a Lincoln Republican,’’ Foster confessed. Campaigned for Lincoln He campaigned for Lincoln, although still not old enough to vote. Then came the war and his enlistment in the Ninth New York militia, going from the home of his father at Newburg, N. Y. At Newburg he had heard Lincoln speak from the train en route to Washington for the inauguration. This was the second time lip had heard him. the first being before the campaign when Lincoln talked at Cooper Union in New York City. “He was three-fourths legs and homely,” Foster declared. “But I believed that God raised him up to save our nation from dissolution.” Members of both houses were present at the Lincoln Day program. Other speakers were Clarence M. Brown, Richmond, and the Rev. Charles Sumner Williams, Negro. Indianapolis. Music was provided by the Green town high school orchestra of which Miss Pauline Shull is director. Holiday for Schools About 60,000 Indianapolis school children were dismissed from the city schools following exercises, Wednesday afternoon, to commemorate the birth of the Civil war president. Albert Stump, Indiana attorney, was scheduled to speak before members of the school of education, Butler university, at the university chapel early this afternoon. Attorney-General James M. Ogden was to address the weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board at noon today. MINE DISASTER DENIED Report That Hundreds are Entombed in Manchuria is False. Du Vnitcd Press MUKDEN, Manchuria, Feb. 12. Manchurian officials , denied today reports circulated in Peiping that hundreds of miners were entombed in the Fushun mines.

Isolation? No! No country can be prosperous all by itself. All of us must prosper together, else none of us will prosper very much —Henry Ford. * * a We have found by experience that what affects one country adversely, in time affects the other countries also. No one nation, among the closely knit nations of the world, long can expect to escape a world condition.— Andrew Mellon. a a a Every shift in power, every advance in communications, in trade and finance daily increases the points of contact of one nation with another. —Herbert Hoover.

appearance of Soviet Russia in the markets of the world, says President Hoover, “all have contributed to prolong and deepen” our depression. In fact, he declares, “in the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States* If this is uuc—and nobody for

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BONE DRY LAW IS TARGET OF SEARjNG BLAST Dictation by Stephenson Charged at Hearing on Repeal. HOUSE READY TO ACT Majority Report Expected to Be in Favor of Medicinal Liquor. Whether the Indiana house of representatives really has thrown off the yoke of the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. will be known in approximately twenty-four hours, it appeared today. By then the house committee on public morals will have framed its report to the house on the EganMonnig bill, providing for prescription and sale of medicinal liquor, and on the Galloway-Egan bill for repeal of the Wright bone dry law. Split Is Certain Two divided reports are regarded certain for Friday, thus opening debate on the measures on the floor of the house. It is believed that the majority report of the morals committee favors passage of the medicinal liquor bill, while another majority report will favor indefinite postponement of the repeal bill. For the first time in more than a decade, the drys were placed on the defensive Wednesday night at the hearing on the repeal bill and were forced to pit their stock phrases against concrete facts and figures. Dictated by Stephenson The curtainsjvhich have shrouded the origin and passage of the Wright bone dry law in 1925 were torn aside by Boyd Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis Times, and he exposed - actual facts behind the passage of the law. “You who look askance at we who oppose the Wright law now should know that without the assent of the chief felon of Indiana the bill introduced by Wright never would have become a law,” Gurley said. “David C. Stephenson, now in a convict’s cell at Michigan City, who, in 1925, boasted ‘I am the law,’ dictated the Wright law and dictated its passage, ‘lt was dictated by intolerance, bom in an atmosphere of corruption, and passed in ignorance.”

Blast at Governor “This very bill we are asking you to repeal was celebrated in drunken debauchery at the Claypool hotel on the very night of its passage. Furthermore, it was signed by a Governor who later was indicted for attempting to bribe another Governor and who escaped conviction only by invoking the statuate of limitations. “If you defeat this bill to repeal the Wright bone-dry law. I am asking you to come back—you, Mr. Miles (Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the Inidana Anti-Saloon League), on the last night of this session to these halls and sec what happens, and determine whether your law is working.” Gurley told of his education at a Methodist college where the temperance movement was born and cited that he was the first editor in the United States to refuse a liquor advertisement. Was Crusade Then He related his early allegiance to the cause of temperance, “when,” he said, “temperance was a crusade and reform not a racket!” “This movement,” he declared, "was rushed in by idealism, but has become the comrade of organized hate, bigotry, and intolerance.” “Out of this law has come three things: Disrespect for all law; full prisons; and lack of conscience on (Turn to Page Fourteen)

one moment disputes that it is—then the corollary of the Hoover axiom is that “in the larger view,” only through world co-operation can we hope, in the future, to escape the disaster of recurring slumps. If American workers now are beating the pavements, looking for jobs because of instability and uncertainty in Europe, Asia and Latin America, obviously whatever our country can do to promote confidence and stability abroad should be undertaken immediately, if only to promote dividends and jobs here at home. So, both at home and abroad, political and economic leaders are looking to the United States as the logical power to take the initiative to work out this meaning. From the far Balkans comes a voice expressing the general sentiment: “I foresee a long and unbroken era of prosperity and peace,” said Foreign Minister Marinkovitch of Yugo-Slavia, “provided the United States realizes its all-embracing power and undertakes its implied responsibility of helping clear up the world situation.” If America’s fortunes are tied up, admittedly and irretrievably, with the fortunes of other lands, and if “every shift in power, every advance in communications, in trade and finance daily increases the points of contact” between he&rnd the rest (Tum to Page wtxteen)

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OPEN FIGHT ON ‘WAR GUILT LIE’ Germans Seek Removal of Treaty Clause. By United Press BERLIN, Feb. 12.—The reichstag, opening it’s campaign against the “war guilty lie,” adopted a resolution today asking the government to seek abolition of that part oi the treaty of Versailles which places responsibility for the world conflict on Germany. Another resolution protesting against the disarmament of Germany while other powers were failing to observe their armament agreements under the treaty, also was adopted. The adoption of the protest measures came after the legislative body had rejected Communist and Fascist motions to discontinue the Young plan payments, withdraw from the league of nations and crate a frontier guard against Poland. The reichstag adopted a motion, however, favoring opening of negotiations immediately with signatories of the Young plan in the hope of obtaining a revision. The vote on this motion was 314 to 46. BLASTS MASTERS’ BOOK Research Foundation Says It Is Weird Fiction. By United PressDETROIT, Feb. 12.—The Henry B. Joy Historical Research Foundation, one of the prime authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the history of the middle west, today condemned Edgar Lee Masters’ new book “Lincoln, the Man” as a “wierd symposium of fact and fiction.”

JOBLESS NEEDS TOLD December Said to Be One of History’s Worst Months. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Describing unemployment conditions in this country, Francis I. Jones, director of the labor department employment service, said today that December was “one of the worst months in the history of the country-.” “There was little improvement in January, but nothing to brag about,” Jones said. The employment director presented his views before the house irrigation and reclamation committee, urging enactment of a bill, already passed by the senate, which would grant $5,000,000 to the reclamation service to pay contractors on western irrigation projects, so sending work may be completed.

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Police Chief Praises* Men; Bank to Act.

Valor of Patrolman Mowray Johnston and Moris Dodd, teller in the Broad Ripple state bank, during the attempted holdup today in which one man was shot and bandits failed to obtain loot, was commended by police and bank officials“We can say for Johnston that it is just a continuation of his mighty fine record,” Chief Jerry Kinney and Major Herbert Fletcher said. “He’s a good policeman and he’s more valuable every day.” Johnston has been on the force since 1926 and was on traffic duty until early in 1930. Officials of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, of which the Broad Ripple bank is a branch, said they will cite Dodd for his courage in sounding the burglar alarm while in range of the bandits’ guns. He is a star player on the bank’s basketball team and well-known as an athlete.

Jailed Ugain Theodore Luesse, red agitator and leader of unemployed, had returned to his old Jjaunt this afternoon —the city prison. After Judge Paul C. Wetter had released him in municipal court on a vagrancy charge, Captain Otto Ray attempted to reslate him on a similar charge. When Ray stopped Luesse in front of headquarters Luesse pushed Ray away and consequently he now* faces vagrancy and resisting an officer charges under $5,000 bond. Ray said he had learned that after Luesse failed to return to his job at the Riverside nursery he had attempted to organize demonstrations in Martinsville.

RAIN NOT GENERAL Storm Expected to Arrive Soon Will Aid Drought. With only a trace of rain throughout the state Wednesday night, weather forecasters today held but little hope for drought relief in the next twenty-four hours although rain and snow are expected. J. H. Armington, head of the local bureau, said the rain was not general Wednesday night, but the storm expected tonight or Friday probably will touch every part of the state. FUND IS INCREASED Drought Donations Come in to Red Cross. Receipts of the fled Cross drive for drought sufferers today totaled $48,454.52 with today's contributions of $882.52. Incited in the donations was SIOO fifcm A. M. Oslc.

These figured prominently in the attempt to rob the Broad Ripple State bank this morning. Upper left: Miss Marie Simmons, cleaning establishment employe, who called patrolman Mowray Johnstone (lower right), who valorously waged a gun battle with the three bandits, and is believed to have wounded one of them seriously. She is shown in front of bullet-picrccd window of the bank. Upper right: Charles W. Parr, custodian of the building in which the bank is located, wounded by one of the bandits as he peered through the front plate glass window as the alarm sounded. Lower left: The auto in which the bandits drove away from the bank was pierced by bullets from Johnston’s gun. GRANO JURY TO REPORT Federal Piobers to Hand Findings to Judge Baitzcll Friday. Report of the federal grand jury which completed its work Wednesday will be presented to Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Friday morning. The jury was in session eight days hearing evidence on federal law violations. Case of Representative Harry E. Rowbottom, Evansville, First district congressman, charged with “sale” of postal appointments, was among cases that received attention. CHILD TRAVELS ALONE Five-Ycar-Old to Join Grandfather in Albania, By United Press CHERBOURG, Feb. year-eld Joyce Giblin, traveling alone, arrived here today en route from the United States, to join her grandfather, Hermann Bernstein, at Tirana. Bernstein is American minister to Albania. Hold Four in SIB.OOO Theft By United Press DETROIT, Feb. 12.—Four men were arrested here today and held as suspects in the theft of SIB,OOO in jewelry, medals and trophies from Captain Bert Hinkler, noted Austrailian aviator.

FOUR BILLS SIGNED New Laws Affecting Only Indianapolis Approved. Four new laws were added to the Indiana statute books today when Governor Harry G. Leslie signed senate bills applicable only to Indianapolis. measures, introduced by Senators Winfield Miller and Edgar A. Perkins, permit cities to tum into the general fund money on deposit as a guaranty for more than a year, authorize transfer or loan of property from one city department to another, establish a city appraisal board and provide for court appeal by cities without appeal bond. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 36 10 a. m 40 7a. m 36 11 a. m 40 Ba. m 37 12 (nqjn).. 47 9 a m 38 Ip. if 51

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MACHINE GUN IS WEAPON OF BANDIT TRIO Custodian at Scene of Attempted Robbery Is Wounded in Chest. COP IN BULLET DUEL Fires at Outlaws as They Escape; One of Three Believed Hurt. Three bandits, with at least one machine gun, shot a man in an unsuccessful attempt to rob the Broad Ripple State bank, Sixtythird and Bellefontaine streets, today and escaped after a gun battle with a policeman. They arc believed to have doubled back north after speeding south more than a mile, eluding police squads to head for northwestern Indiana, from where they are presumed to have come. Charles W. Parr, 54, of 815 East, Main street, custodian of the bank building, is in city hospital with a wound in his chest, but physicians who made an X-ray examination said they did not tfclievc the slug penetrated his lung. One of the bandit trio is believed wounded seriously by patrolman Mowray Johnston, who dashed from a cleaning establishment across the street from the bank and fought, a gun battle with the gang at a distance of less than thirty feet. Fires at Fleeing Bandits As two of the men dragged the third into the auto and sped south on Bellefontaine street, Johnston commandeered a truck and gave chase. The bandits returned Johnston's pistol fire with bursts from a mai chine gun, abandoned their machine ! at Fifty-ninth street and College I avenue, carried the wounded man i into a black studebaker sedan and sped away on Fifty-ninth street before the truck arrived at the intersection. ‘ Police later learned a fourth man was awaiting the others in the Studebaker. Three of Johnston's bullets hit the rear of the fleeing machine Different license plates on the front and rear of the car were issued to persons in Lafayette, and in the car police found a Highway map with routes marked to Chicago, via Danville, and to Paducah, Ky. Threatened With Gun The Studebaker is thought to have turned from Fifty-ninth street south on Capitol avenue, whirled west as soon as it was out of sight of pursuers, and finally to have headed northwest on State Road 29, toward Logansport, Lafayette, or perhaps Chicago. The bandits alighted in front cl the bank from anew, blue Chevrolet coach. Two entered, and one. a large man. described as more than six feet tall and weighing more than 200 pounds, requested a cashier’s check from Morris Dodd, teller, giving the name of C. L. Bunn. As Dodd wrote it out, the big man pulled a machine gun from his coat, and commanded Dodd: “Stick ’em up, you!” Woman Summons Policeman The other bandit, a small man, not more than five and one-half feet tall, and weighing about 125 pounds, also produced a gun, and threatened other employes. Dodd stepped on a burglar alarm button, and the alarm on the outside of the bank set up a clamor. Just then F, C. Carter. 4805 College avenue, a customer, walked into the bank, followed by the third bandit. The giant whirled around to see why the door had opened, noted his companion had covered Carter, and as he spun back to force Dodd to hand over the money, he saw Parr looking in the window. His machine gun barked once. Crossing the street to the bank. Miss Marie Simmons, employe of a cleaning establishment, saw Parr stagger to a pharmacy near by and collapse. She heard the alarm and ran back to summon Johnston, standing in the shop. Bullet Hits One of Bandits Running across the street as the bandits fled the bank after the shooting, Johnston opened fire as the trio came out of the door. One of them shot four tinys at him, the bullets whistling past his head. He hit the smallest man, he believes, in the leg, and as the bandit hobbled to the machine he drew a bead between his shoulders and fired again. Then the small man crumpled, and the giant dragged him into the car and drove away. In the bank besides Dodd and Carter were Miss Mary Sheets, bookkeeper Robert Roe, bookkeeper, and Miss Hazel Newby, assistant cashier. William Dawson, president, sat in his private office near the front of the bank. The institution is a subsidiary es Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. Bridge Contract Awarded McGrath Construction Company of Naperville, HI., was awarded a $9,736.67 contract for a bridge on state road 43, near Cloverdale In Putnam county, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown ff the state highway department.