Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1931 — Page 9

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NAVAL TRUCE MAY HERALD BETTER TIMES Franco-ltalian Pact Likely to Mark Tide’s Turn in Europe. WAR PERIL IS FADING United States and Japan Yet to Approve of New Treaty. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Serip*-Howrd Koreicn Editor WASHINGTON, March 3.—With he Franco-ltalian naval truce the new, man-to-man diplomacy chalks up another victory for itself which may have important consequences ’hroughout the globe. Twenty years ago the naval race between Italy and France would almost certainly have gone on until, eventually, it ended in a barrage of splintering steel and torrents of blood. Today, thanks to the new diplomacy, the nations involved are .baking hands and exchanging mutual congratulations in the belief 'hat one of the major perils to European peace has been removed. Tide May Be Turned Engineered by Great Britain, the agreement has yet to receive the O. K. of the United States and Japan, the other two parties to the London naval pact. But if all goes well with it here and in Tokio, the accord may prove the beginning of the turn of the tide away from war talk and the commencement of greater world confidence and better times. Go-operation of France and Italy is indispensable if the vital world arms conference, scheduled to begin next February, Is to succeed. Upon that conference, European statesmen frankly admit, the whole future trend of Europe depends. Peace or war will be the stake, and, far that reason, the importance of the reported agreement would be difficult to exaggerate. America’s Stake Economic America’s stake in next year s conference largely is economic. Europe can not get back on her feet again until she quits talking and arming for “the next war, and everybody from President Hoover and Secretary Mellon down agrees that America’s prosperity is linked irrevocably with the prosperity of Europe and the rest of the world. Settlement of the dangerous international quarrels now ham-string-ing prosperity, therefore, increasingly is becoming imperative. Recovery irom hard times and unemployment Is dependent upon it. Europe needs gold of which there hardly is enough to go around. But the precious stuff is not forthcoming. and will not be, as long as Ihe war clouds continue to roll darkly across the old world sky. Significant of Change The United States and France together, hold approximately 60 per cent of all the gold there is in the world, and they seem disposed to hold on to it. France hesitates to scatter hers as long as she fears attack, and Americans will make few important long-term loans with a posible war lust around the corner. The Franco-ltalian pact is significant of a possible change in Europe. The two neighbors have quarreled bitterly for a dozen years over Italy’s demand for naval parity. ’All Problems to End' By United Press PARIS, March 3.—The naval accord reached last week at Paris and Rome “merely" was the prelude to ilie rapid ending of all Franco-Ital-iari problems, Aristide Briand, foreign minister, said today, in debating the foreign affairs budget in the Chamber of Commerce. Briand described the accord as another move toward world disarmament. Publication of the terms of the naval accord reached between France, Italy and Great Britain will be delayed until Thursday or Friday, it was stated unofficially, because of the time necessary for the consideration of the agreement by the governments of United States and Japan. Changes in the terms of the i Washington and London naval j treaties will be necessitated by the j new tri-power agreement, it is be- j lieved generally. Limitation of battleships to a i maximum of 25,000 tons, understood j to be one of the stipulations of the agreement, may offer some difficulty in obtaining the approval of the United States and Japan. While some quarters saw this as a posisble delay to an agreement bringing France and Italy within the program of naval limitation to which they declined to commit themselves at the London conference, the French press suggested that the limitation of battleships is the most interesting and important part of the Anglo-French-Italian negotiations. It was pointed out that French and Italian sacrifices in their proposed building programs mostly are technical, as far as could be determined until the text of the agreement is published. Their former positions were relatively unchanged. , except that Italy postponed her de- j man for naval parity until 1936. alumn! hold dinner lowa Group Celebrates Anniversary of University’s Founding. Indianapolis.alumni of lowa uni-' versity celebrated the eighty-fourth anniversary of the founding of the university Monday at a dinner at the Claypool. Professor Martin of the philosophy department of the university spoke. New officers elected were Miss! Anna Keltch, president; Herbert Young, vice-president, and Miss I Genevieve Brown, secretary.

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Pullman s Idea Changed Nation’s Habits , Built Huge Industry

Did you ever stop to think how many men would be unemployed today if the average American had no more personal possessions than he had, say, 100 years ago? No radio, no movies, no phoncjrraph, no refrigerator, no camera, no automolbile, none of the thousand and one

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Writer BECAUSE George Mortimer Pullman had an idea, there are nearly 40,000 Jobs in American industry today that did not exist just 100 years ago when Pullman was born at Brocton, N. Y., March 3, 1831. Pullman was one of the men whose ideas have created new needs and jobs for the world. The railroad itself was born in this country at just about the same time as Pullman, and by the

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Miss Dolly Amey, 16 (above), lias filed a $150,000 breach of promise suit in Independence, Kan., against Glen W. Dickinson, Kansas City (Mo.) theater owner. Miss Dickinson, who has won many bathing beauty contests at Kansas City, and who competed last year for the national beauty crown at Miami, claims that Dickinson promised to marry her, and then failed to do so, being already married.

SCHOOL BOOKS CAUSE DISPUTE Divided Report Probable on Multiple Listing. Pros and cons of the multiple text book adoption plan were heard by the senate committee on education in the supreme court room Monday night and a divided committee report is expected in the senate today. Arguments for permitting the state board of education to list more than one text in the official adoption were presented by President L. A. Pittenger of Ball State Teachers college, Muncie, and Mrs. Martha Whitacre, Richmond, both board members, and Superintendent J. C. McCombs of the Allen county schools. That prices would be higher under the multiple listing plan was the contention made by Edward Barry of Indianapolis Typographical Union No. 1. L. L. Needier, secretary of the Indiana Farm Bureau, spoke in favor of the text book rental system. Representatives Garritt M. Bates and Russell J. Dean, Secretary Guy S. McCoy of the Indianapolis Typographical Union, and J. Otto Lee, secretary of the state printing board, also spoke against the mutiple listing. Injuries Cause Death RUSSIAVILLE, Ind., March 3. James E. Waters, 68, died at his home near here of injuries suffered when crushed by a tractor.

Loses His Arch-Fiend

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Sax Rohmer, noted author of mystery stories, is pictured above with his wife. He is in this country to look the American market over for new Minister characters to put in Ids books, replacing Fu Manchu, the arch-fiend.

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time he was 25—that is, in the middle 1850 s—there were alreadysleeping cars. But they were horrible affairs. The earliest version was divided into four compartments, in each of which three bunks, one above the other, were built against the wall. Passengers flung themselves down, fully dressed, on rough mattresses in the bunks, drew their overcoats or shawls over them, and fought for sl;ep as they lurched through the night, doubt-

NORRIS BLAST BRANDS G. 0. P. RULE ‘FAILURE’ Hoover Administration Hit for Declining to Meet Emergencies, By Scripps-H award Sewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 2. —The Seventy-first congress, which adjourns Wednesday, has been a “failure and a disappointment’ in the opinion of Senator George W. Norris, veteran progressive, of Nebraska. “On the whole,” he said, “it has been a cowardly congress, which has dodged its responsibilities and has submerged the interests of the many to the welfare of the few. “It has turned its back on the legitimate expectations of the people to satisfy the dictates of politics. “It is going home with its calendars and committ -j dockets crowded with essential social and economic legislation, all for the good of the people, and much of it calculated to speed up the business recovery of the nation. Excuse after excuse was found to prevent the enactment of these laws. No Pledges Redeemed “This congress started out with the idea of redeeming the promises made in the Republican party plati form and by President Hoover in j his speeches in the campaign. I ! think it is fair to say that not one | of these pledges has been redeemed. “First, the platform promised to ! put the farmer on an equality with the manufacturer. Through the influence of President Hoover, every practical plan for farm relief was defeated. “President Hoover had his own way in the enactment of the farm relief bill, of which the farm board is a part. This has been a failurq and I don’t blame the farm board. Under Hoover’s law, it w T as unable to meet the farmers’ problem, although it spent $500,000,000 in the attempt. “Second, the platform promised to pass a tariff law that would place the farmer on an equality with the protected industrial interests. The law as it was passed and signed by Mr. Hoover only has not failed to do this, but it has placed the farmer in a worse dilemma than he was before. Defeat Injunction Curb n “Third, the platform promised an anti-injunction bill. Through the influence of President Hoover, himself, the progressives of the senate who have tried to redesm this promise have been defeated. Mr. Hoover, and his supporters, have not up to this hour offered a substitute for the bill which we tried to pass. “In the midst of plenty, while food products are selling for less than their cost of production, millions of people are hungry. The textile mills are shut down, other factories are closed. Thousands of men and women have not clothing enough to keep them warm. “The administration thus far—both congress and the White House —has been a failure and a disappointment.”

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things which we regard as necessary to our lives today. With modern manufacturing methods, all the things that were regarded as necessary in 1830 could be created by a mere handful of workmen. But men have ideas, and these create new needs, and new needs create jobs. One

| less marveling at the ingenuity of modern invention. Sleeping cars weren’t much beti ter than that when Pullman was a young man. The bunks still were mere shelves along the walls, but bedding was available, candles furnished the light, and a smoky stove gave forth futile heat. it a u IT was about this time that George Pullman made a night trip from Buffalo to Westfield. He rolled and tossed and smothered and froze, and arrived with a

First Drink in 29 Years Likely to Cost Position By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., March 3.—Conviction in city court here of M. B. Pennington, 59, Elwood, a salesman, on a charge of operating an automobile while drunk, followed taking of his first drink in twenty-nine years and may cost him his position. Judge George Shenk imposed a fine of $35 and a thirty-day penal farm term, the latter suspended. Pennington told the court he had never been in trouble before. His counsel made an effort to induce the co-art to arrange the penalty so that Pennington would not lose his automobile driver’s license, as it is necessary for him to travel by motor m his work. However, the request was refused Judge Shenk pointing out that revocation for a period of one year is mandatory in drunk driving cases, an. of which must be reported to the office of the secretary of state, which issues licenses. SCOUrCHIPTWNING Second Session of Twelve Weeks’ Course Is Held at Church. Second session of the Boy Scout leaders twelve weeks’ training course was held Monday night at the Central Christian church. Seventeen new members were enrolled. S. L. Norton, assistant scout executive, has charge of the meetings, assisted by Howard Wheeler.

74—AND ON THE JOB

Queen of Newsies Busy and Happy

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Mrs. Paulina Kiney, alias “Grandma-Saliie-Susie-Mandy-Margaret,” selling papers at her stand. MRS. PAULINA KINEY, newsy in front of the Continental building, celebrated her 74th birthday today just like any other working day—selling papers. And for the benefit of her customers who’d never recognize who “Mrs. Paulina Kiney” is, they’ll be glad to know that “Grandma,” “Susie,'” “Sallie,” “Mandy,” “Margaret” all celebrated the day parceling out The Times. ‘They’d never know me as ‘Mrs. Paulina Kiney,’ so just tell them that Grandma-Susie-Sallie-Margaret’ are having a birthday. That’s me. I answer to all of them. I’m Susie to one and Sallie to another,” she laughingly explained as she waved papers at passersby. Hi there, Rabbit! she called after the retreating form of a man who and congratulated her. A square away, near the Circle Tower, her husband. William, cried, “Daily paper, Times.” ' No, were not going to have a birthday cake. Just keep on selling. But watch me beat him with sales today,” she declared.

-In turn, “Bill” at his corner accepted 'the wifely challenge with “Watch me beat her.” “Five years ago,” Mrs. Kiney explained, “he and I were povertystricken. We were too old to get jobs. He’s 74, too, you know. So we decided to sell papers and now, where we didn’t lAve any home, we’ve got a little house at 1302

FU MANCHU TAKEN FOR RIDE’ BY U. S. GANGSTERS

BY GENE COHN NEA Service Writer YORK, March 3.—Fu Manchu. most sinister of contemporary villains, has been “taken for a ride.” After eight years of devilish, macabre exploits, this slant-eyed prince of evil has been “put on the spot ’ by our own American gangsters, racketeers and gunmen. All this is admitted reluctantly by Sax Rohmer,, who introduced the oriental arch-fiend to millions of persons over the land. Rohmer now is engaged in prowling through the gang handouts of New York and Chicago, guided by “undercover” men and friendly racketeers. He’s looking the American market over for new sinister characters and he concedes that they have been “chiseling in’* on Fu Manchu’s racket.

lame back after a sleepless night. Then Pullman had his big idea, namely, that there was really no reason why night train riding should not be comfortable. In 1858 he went to Bloomington, 111., an dgot the co-operation of the Chicago & Alton. The railroad furnished two old coaches, and at a cost of about SI,OOO each, Pullman converted them into the grand-daddy of the modern sleeping cars. He built into them ten sections on each side, a linen closet, and two washrooms. The cars were upholstered in plush, lighted with oil lamps, heated with box stoves, and the brakemau made up the beds. tt u a THE backs of the seats were hinged and fell downward to the level of the seat to form the “lower berth.” The “uppers” simply were suspended from the ceiling by four ropes at the corners and hauled up at night to the ceiling, which was only a little more than six feet high. Soon, however, Pullman surpassed all previous dreams of luxury by building “The Pioneer,” which cost $20,000. This was the first car with the hinged upper berth, which was to become the distinguishing feature of American sleeping cars. “The Pioneer” was larger and heavier than any previous car, and actually had springs, hitherto unheard of, and solid rubber shock-absorbers, which was almost sinful luxury. * tt u PUBLIC support followed, the business grew, and extended. Plants were established in Detroit, Elmira, N. Y., and Wilmington, Del. At first railroads built and operated their own sleepers, and other competition was fierce. But Pullman gradually absorbed them all. Further consolidations took place, and Pullman’s idea became the means of furnishing work to some 40,000 men engaged in creating and maintaining something which had not existed before. Nearly 30,000 of these operate, maintain and repair cars in use, and anywhere up to 10,000 build the cars, depending on current demand.

Le Grande avenue almost paid for.” tt tt tt THE . proposed old-age pension law for Indiana was broached and she scoffed at pensions. “I’d want to die when I can’t work. No pensions for us. We’ll keep on selling papers. Just been sick once since I started. After I got well the doctor said I shouldn’t go back to the stand. I

In the face of so much real life blood and thunder, a good old-fashioned hair raiser finds real competition, he admits a bit sadly. a a a SO Rohmer has turned temporarily to a piratical sort of cuss he calls Yulan Hee See, who runs slave girls and opium across the Red sea. This is a bit closer to the rumrunning sort of thing familiar to American audiences. Some day Fu Manchu may be resurrected, but he doesn't know when. However, Fu's creator is quick to rush to the defense of his villain and to condemn the gangsters and racketeers. “At least Fu Manchu lived because I made him a mysterious and romantic figure,” says Rohmer. “And opinion that your gang or problem will be

of many such men was George Pullman, of sleeping car fame, and the story pf his idea is told here. Next week another story will appear in The Times on “Ideas That Have Made Jobs for Thousands.” It will concern the rubber industry.

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UTILITIES BILL STILLONSHELF Measure Passed 5 Weeks , Ago Is in Committee,, Five weeks after its- passage by the Indiana senate, a utility regulatory measure against which utility interests have thrown their weight awaits action by the house Judiciary B committee. The bill, introduced by Senator Robert L. Moorhead, would amend public service commisison laws to give the commission power to reject mergers not proposed “in the public interest” and extending commission jurisdiction to cover rural utility properties. Under its provisions, each city town and village would become a separate unit for rate making. It is this provision which has aroused the vigorous opposition of utility lobbyists. Having passed the senate, 37 to 3, Jan. 28, the bill was sent to the house and referred to the Judi tary B committee of which Chester K. Watson (Dem., Allen and Whitley), Ft, Wayne attorney, is chairman. FIVE DIE IN FLAMES Three Children, Parents Lose Lives in Home. By United Press TARENTUM, Pa,. March 3.—Five persons were burned to death today when fire trapped them in the second floor of their frame house in; Russelton, near here. The dead; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels, about 45; and their children, Mary, Frank Jr. and Patrick Daniels, all under 10 years of age.

couldn’t stay away. I feel better outside,” she said. Mrs. Kiney came to the United States from Germany at the age of 12. Her only lapse ; nto the vernacular of her nativity is an occasional “Yah!” in answer to questions. She formerly was in charge of a news stand at Market an<l the Circle, in front of the Circle Tower building. Inclement weather holds no terror for her. She’s at work, rain or shine. Housewifely duties are carried on despite her news-selling. “I cook breakfast for my husband, brush up the house. Noon meal we eat in a lunch room downtown and nights we cook at home,” she said.

solved —if it is—by the cheap and sordid methods they themselves employ. “The public seems to have become accustomed to them over here, though it’s beyond me to figure out how they ever got so well organized and strongly intrenched. ana "DUT whatever romance may have attached to these figures in the beginning is dying. They have become too petty and crooked. “Yes, Fu Manchu may have been an arch-villain and all that. But, remember, he never did anything for gain. “His intrigues were largely political. He was an individual, a personality—not a product of gang and mass criminality. “I have made quite a study of

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STATE AID FOR SCHOOLS LOSES Financing Plan Is Beaten in Senate, 29-12, The problem of financing public schools through state aid today was back in the same position in which it was taken up by the 1929 session of the legislature.

The senate Monday rejected recommendations of the state school aid survey commission authorized by the 1929 legislature to study the situation and report at this session. Recommendations of the commission, drawn up after nearly a year’s study, were embodied in the Lindley senate bill which was killed by that body with a vote of 12 to 29. It provided for creation of a state aid board of review which would compile school costs and report its findings to the 1933 legislature in order that accurate appropriations could be made for maintenance of the schools. The bill was aimed at distribution of the costs of schools throughout the state on an equal basis and was opposed vigorously by the large cities which would have been compelled to pay more into the state school fund than they would have received. EVANSVILLE MAN SHOT Objection to Wife’s Drinking Ends in Serious Wound By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 3.—A critical gunshot wound was suffered by Aiken Boemle, 30, as the result of a scuffle precipitated by his remonstrance because his wife drank beer. Mrs. Boemle told police the shooting was accidental, and that when she saw that her husband was perhaps fatally injured she got another gun and endeavored to commit suicide, but missed. Electricity Kills Boy By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., March 3. Harry Creech, 15, oldest of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creech, is dead, a victim of electrocution. He grasped a wire carrying 8,000 volts after scaling a pole. It was necessary to shut off the current before the boy’s body i could be removed from the pole. Lineman Killed By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., March 3. —Fatal injuries were suffered by George Targett, 28, lineman employed by the T. H., I. & E. Traction Company, when a pole on which he was working fell.

villains, in and out of fiction. The public will accept a villain quite as quickly as it will a hero—in fact, history seems to have quite a preference for personalities who were slightly or totally wicked. “Outside of a group of good church people, who can name more than three or four saints? But every youngster knows all abput Cleopatra. “Francois Villion remains one of the most romantic of the poetic figures, though he was a drunkard, a thief 2nd an all-round rascal. “It’s this romantic element that your gangsters are forgetting about. They’re too greedy, too money mad, too practical to become heroic villains. “I have a theory that your public will not stand for them a great deal longer, for after all. the Amercans are a romance-loving people.”

ROAD BOARD’S FATE RESTS IN SENATE* Replacing Commission With Bipartisan Group to Be Considered, PROBE THRUST PARRIED Failure to Get Federal Aid Money Declared Justified Under Conditions, “If congress had made $50,000,000 in federal aid for state highways available as unemployment relief in 1930, the present state highwaycommission and Director John J Brown would not have collected $1 of it.” With this charge of Senator Anderson Ketchum (Dem.. Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin and Union) having been made on the senate floor Monday afternoon, senators today were to consider the advisability of abolishing the present commission set-up and substituting a fulltime bipartisan commission of four members. The bill creating this change is up for passage on third reading. Senators Ketchum and Charles L. Strey 'Reps., Kosciusko and Wabash) are its authors. Strey and Ketchum signed a minority report of the senate investigation committee criticising Brown and the commissioners for then failure to collect some $6,000,000 in federal aid during the fiscal vear 1930. Majority Report Adopted Ketchum defended the report throughout the Monday afternoon session, but a majority committee report was adopted' after an unsuccessful effort to kill both of them The majority report, facts of which were largely the same in regard to testimony before the committee, carried conclusions favoring the commission. These conclusions were that 1933 conditions were “unusual” and that the commission was “justified” in its failure to collect the federal aid funds.

Both reports pointed out that in addition to failure to collect the federal aid, the commisison borrowed $1,600,000 from the cities’, counties’ and towns’ share of the gasoline tax, went into debt $900,000 to contractors and stalled off payments on some contracts until April of this year. Senator James J, Nejdl (Rep., Lake), sought to put off both reports until the 1933 legislature on the grounds that they didn’t she, the commissioners were “crooked. ’ In arguing for this move he asserted that “if they were crooked the matter should be before the grand jury and not the senate any way. Ketchum declared the Nejdl motion an affront to the committee, which “has labored diligently and taken its work seriously.” Brown, Commissioners and department heads had been called as committee witnesses. Failed in Emergency “In the only emergency test that, the present state highway commitsion has ever faced, they hava failed,” Ketchum charged. He then proceeded to a, detailed defense of the minority report In replv, Nejdl charged that the entire investigation was instigated because Senator Strey failed to cactate location of pavement of the Hills-to-Lakes highway through his home town of Wabash. Feeling that the minority report, contained a personal affront to Commissioner Jess Murden (Rep, Peru), Senator Harry K. Cuthber; ’ son (Dem., Howard and Miami) took the floor against the minor!tv report and under questioning toid Strey that “if you are too dense to understand what it is all about, I can’t help it.” Murden, he said, was his neighbor and an upstanding Peru citizen with children in the public schooK He should not be criticised for seeing a dump truck to a contractor building, a state road near Peru, he asserted. Murden had testified before the -ojunittee that such a sale had been made when he was in the Ford jusiness, as well as commissioner It received the O. K. of Attorney - General James M. Ogden in a letter to Strey, who was committee chairman. Senators Holmes and Deunigr.ii defended their report and the iormer took issue with Director Brown’s criticism of the commi;:ee’s failure to employ auditors to investigate federal aid expenditure “The commission in 1930 increased employment by not slavishly sticking to the federal aid program.” Holmes declared. menTwoman held ~ AFTER POLICE RAIDS V Four Are Arrested on Liquor and Gambling Evidence. Three men and a woman todav vere held by police following a ■eries of liquor and gambling raids donday. Raid on the home of Amos McCracken, 2283 Union street, police aid, revealed a quantity of lottery ickets, beer, whisky and empty botles. McCracken was charged with iperating a blind tiger and lotterv. Pauline Hibbitt, 2414 Caroline treet, was charged with blind tiger ollowing alleged confiscation of tome brew and a small amount of ilcohol by police. Nicholas Budack, 1202 Nordyke ivenue, was arrested on liquor barges following another raid. His ;rother-in-law, Daniel Gogan, 1039 Vest Morris street, was arrested cn l similar charge in a second raid. Jobless Men to Be Caddies iy t'nited Prtas WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 3. -Unemployed men will replace boys is caddies on Westchester golf courses this summer, If the plans of Charles C. Webster, director of the .Vhite Plains unemployment bureau ire successful