Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1931 — Page 1

IT LOOKS LIKE MATE TO OUR CHOLLYCURTIS Vice-President Knows His Mosses and He’s There for the Derby. AND LADY LUCK ENTERS One Rub on Negro Jockey’s Head and White Pilot Is Sure of Victory. BY JOE WILLIAMS Sport* Editor. New York World-Telerram LOUISVILLE. May 15.—A swarthy gentleman, quite elderly and sporting a mustache that seemed a trifle moth eaten, sat back in one of the big mahogany chairs in the office of Colonel Matt Winn, the Derby man. out here Thursday and talked about his days as a jockey. It was easy enough to tell he was an old-timer. It was easy enough, too, to tell that, at heart, he was .a hossman. But there was nothing Labout his dress or manner that implied a current association with pams or thoroughbreds. | He wore one of those soft, crushed, black hats that suggested the old days of Bryan and the free silver issue. In every sartorial detail he reflected the halls of the legislature. Everybody called him Charley. He Likes to See ’Em Run ‘1 always try to see a big race whenever I can,” he said. “Hose racing is the only sport I’m interested Ln. I like to see ’em run. Yes, it’s true I used to ride. I suppose I rode over all the old half mile tracks in the west and the southwest in my day. “I suppose i would be in the game yet if it hadn’t been for my grandmother. She made me quit the track and go to school. “ ‘You’ll. never amount to anything as a jockey,’ she said. “Well, I don’t know about that— I was a pretty good jockey and I had more fun riding than I’ve ever had doing anything else.” The speaker, if you haven’t already guessed, was none other than Mr. Charles Curtis, Vice-President of the United States and a powerful figure in Republican politics. He is here for the Derby, to be run Saturday, and there is nobody around the track who knows more about the competing field than this gentleman. He Knows Hosses It was interesting to hear the Vice-President of the country sit back and tell you why this hoss figures to beat that hoss. It was particularly interesting because his deductions seemed so precisely sound. I have a notion that it amounts to a cardinal crime for a VicePresident to walk up to a mutuel booth and lay a few bobs on the hoss of his choice, but there is no law against Mr. Curtis handing an envelope to an agent and, in that case I’m sure he’d whisper, “don’t let all this chatter about Twenty Grand being a super hoss sway you. Stick with that Mate.” There’s a lot of superstition on the race track. George Ellis rode Mate to a surprise victory in the Preakness last week. That one was supposed to be a two-hoss race, between Twenty Grand and Equipoise. Ellis is a fine Jockey, who doesn t need luck or superstition. You can depend on him in the tight places when the stakes are high. Now Enters Simpson Just to digress for a moment, there are very few Negro jockeys left. The only real good one on the track today is R. Simpson. He is a Kentuckian, and he has been riding well in the south. New, here’s where Ellis and superstition come in. An hour before the Preakness at Pimlico last week, Ellis walked over to Simpson’s barn. “I want to get lucky today,” he said. “Let me rub your head.” There’s an ancient superstition around the track that if a white jockey rubs a colored boy’s head before a big race he will win. Simpson took off his cap. “Take a good long rub, white boy,’’ he laughed. “You’ll need It to beat the big hoss today.” (Twenty Grand is the one they call the big hoss.) You know what happened. Ellis got away •winging with Mate and booted him home. After the race he went back to the barn and handed Simpson SIOO. Here’s Simpson Again “I must have taken a good long rub, because it worked,” said Ellis. A train rolled in f-om Maryland Thursday night, discharging hundreds of Derby enthusiasts. Among them was Simpson. He didn’t come here to ride any hoss or to see the race. He came as Ellis* guest. A few minutes before Ellis climbs on top of Mate to go out after the fiftyseventh Derby Saturday, Ellis will walk over to him and rub h!s bare head, a good, long rub. And this time Simpson, typical of his race, will try to nruster a certain amount of spiritual assistance. The ritual worked at Pimlico. It also yielded the colored boy SIOO. You can’t make Simpson believe it wen t work here. If it works this time Simpson will collect SSOO, in addition to all his expenses to Churchill Downs. I’ve heard of a lot of fantastic gags around the track, but to me this one la tops. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m..... 55 10 a. m 73 7a. m..... 55 11 a. m 74 Ba. m 63 12 (noon).. .76 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 77

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 4

‘Magic Spud’ It Makes Life Pleasure, Says Doak; ‘Cured My Rheumatism.’

Houston, Tex., May is.—ah that he is, Secretary of Labor William N. Doak owes to a magic potato. So he smilingly remarked today In commenting on his reelection as editor of the Broth-

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such as Doak always carries. He produced the magic potato In a hotel lobby, as he stood with a group of trainmen, discussing such matters as illness, presidential campaigns, Democratic donkeys and—.magic potatoes. At a pause in the conversation the secretary reached into his pocket and pulled out the potato, which gave evidence of its long service. It was misshapen, but standing up wll. “It stopped my rheumatism,” he said, and after looking at the potato gently and respectifully, replaced it in his pocket. “It stopped mine, too,” said a fellow trainman, as he, too, drew from his pocket the twin of Doak’s spud. And President Hoover, would he need a spud in 1932? No, not in the secretary’s opinion. “If I were betting I’d put my money on . him . Doak added. “He car. have the White House again if he wants it—potato or no potato.”

$10,759,000 IN TAXESARE PAID County May Sue Bank for Checks Payment. With all accounting completed except a few odds and ends, Marion county has collected approximately $10,759,000 of the first installment of 1930 taxes, due this year, according to C. O. Harris, chief deputy county treasiiVer. Harris said final count would not show collections of $11,000,000. Earlier this week he predicted it would be $12,000,000. The figure is below that of collection of 1929 taxes in the first installment in 1930, while the tax rate also is lower this year than last. Included in the figures yet to be tabulated are about $50,000 in checks on the Meyer-Kiser bank, which K as closed since the checks were received. City current tax collections this year were about $9,400,000, as compared with $7,787,000 in 1930, while county current collections this year were $1,009,000, compared with sl,031,000 last year. City delinquent collections this year were $300,000 and county delinquent collections, $50,000. Possibility of suits against the county arising from the checks held on the Meyer-Kiser bank was seen today. The checks were received on or prior to May 4 and the bank closed May 12, eight days later. SAWS LEG CHAIN TO FLEE HOSPITAL WARD Young Negro Faces Charge in Tea Room Holdup. In a carefully prepared getaway, Aaron Frazier, Negro, 21, of 2309 Mart indale avenue, sawed the chain off a leg iron Thursday night and escaped frofn the detention ward at the city hospital. Indiana police were- searching for Frazier, who is charged with the robbery of the Daisy tea room, Thirty-eighth street and College avenue, Feb. 27. Today police arrested Mrs. Adeline Frazier, his wife, who said her husband came to her Thursday night and asked for money. He left at once, she said, but she refused to say where he had gone. Authorities said Frazier was suffering from a contagious skin disease and had been shackled to the bed. Leaving a note addressed to police, Frazier declared he was innocent and said “the Lone Wolf howls again.”

TRUCK EDICT ISSUED Georgia Vehicles Without Indiana Licenses Held. Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. today wired notice to Georgia officials that any truck bearing a Georgia license and traveling on Indiana roads will be impounded until Indiana license plates are purchased. This is the most drastic action ever taken in the annual license wars which confront the secretary of state. Reason for the Georgia blacklist is the impounding by Georgia authorities of a Red Ball truck owned by Ward Hiner and bearing an Indiana license.

SUIT IS FILED TO BLOCK BAN BN DOGRACES Chicago Promoter Secures Lease on Noblesville Road Track. PLANS TO BAR GAMING Purses Would Be Paid Entirely Out of Gate Receipts, He Declares. First move toward resuming greyhound racing here was taken today, with filing of a suit in superior court five asking that Sheriff Charles Sumner be enjoined from interfering with the running of such races at the Indiana Kennel Club track on the Noblesville road. Lease on the twenty-four acres of ground, , the grandstand and the track has been obtained by Alva Spindler of Chicago, who is seeking the injunction. Preparatory work toward reconditioning the track has been started. Spindler announced that if the court grants the injunction he will operate the track without any kind of gambling and purses will be paid out of the general grandstand admissions. Plans Breeding Farm Not only will the Kennel club be used for racing, according to Spindler, but a greyhound farm for breeding and rearing of thoroughbreds. .will be conducted. there. In the opinion of Spindler and his attorney, Joseph T. Markey, the Indiana statutes do not forbid dog racing, which will be conducted on the same principles as county fair events, but do forbid gambling on results of races. Will Ban Gambling “Gambling will not be permitted, Spindler declared in discussing this phase of the racing. “We shall operate the track on the idea that greyhound racing is solely an entertainment.” Approximately SIOO,OOO was spent in setting up the track by the defunct Indiana Kennel Club, Ltd., which operated just a week in the summer of 1929 and was forced out of business by the arrest of the operators on gambling charges, when a betting system called the “investment plan” was put in operation. AUTOS SOUGHT FOR MEMORIAL DAY RITES Free Transportation for Aged War Veterans Asked in Legion Plea. Plea for fifty automobiles to transport Civil war veterans to and from Memorial day ceremonies in the city was made today by a committee of the Seventh district American Legion, in charge of transportation for the services. “We realize the races that day will - hinder us, but still we are asking generous citizens who are not planning to attend the races to help us,” said Captain Jesse Ray of Engine House 3, chairman of the committee. Twenty-five cars will be needed in the morning and a like number in the afternoon, said Captain Ray. He can be reached at the fire station, Drexel 5991, or at home, Drexel 4119-R, by phone.

erhood of Rail- [ way Trainmen’s magazine. A magic potato, he said, | “brings all kinds of good luck,” stops rheumatism, and is “even good for n e ure sthenia,” especially if it happens to be an 1 Irish potato, grown flat and shiny from use,

MOTORISTS GIVEN TIME TO LEARN TRAFFIC CODE

The new traffic ordinance, with its drastic parking regulations, became effective today, but police refrained from enforcing its provisions, giving motorists until June 1 to become familiar with the new law. The provision banning parking in the central traffic area, bounded roughly by Vermont, Alabama, South and Senate between 7 and 9:15 a. m., was disregarded generally, 108 cars being counted on Washington street between Senate and Alabama at 8 a. m. Other streets in the area also were filled with parked cars. As soon as parking signs are received probably Saturday, they will be installed and from that time until June 1 motorists will be given warning stickers, Captain Lewis Johnson said. The ordinance bans parking on Monument circle and its approaches and around the war memorial block

m BANK FAILURES FEWER Optimism Expressed by Financier in Atlantic City Meeting. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY, May 15.—An improvement of general business conditions is indicated clearly in the sharp decrease in the number of bank failures, and the vast bulk of weak banking units have been eliminated, Rome C. Stephenson, president of the American Bankers’ Association, told the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bankers’ Association today. Postoffice Architect Chosen WASHINGTON, May 15.—Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon announced today that P. R. L. Hogner, New Kensington, Pa., has been selected as architect for the proposed new postoffice building in New Kensington.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 15,1931

Gay Broadway ‘Night Ryder’ Is Sent to Prison

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Pleads Guilty to Stealing $95,000; Gets 3 to 10 • Years in Sing Sing. By United Press NEW YORK, May 15.—Harold Russell Ryder, “Broadway play boy,” who was said to have spent $500,000 a year in the night clubs along the “Great White Way” was sentenced today to from three to ten years in Sing Sing prison on his plea of guilty to grand larceny. The specific charge was of stealing $95,000 from the account of John Vanneck, president of the Equitable Holding Company, who was a customer of the brokerage firm of Woody & Cos. in which Ryder was a partner. The firm failed for $1,700,000 last fall. ARREST RACER FORMING Milton Jones, His Mechanic Are Fined. Snorts of exhausts of race cars and the hum of tires over the bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were far distant echoes to Milton Jones, race driver, and Jerry Eaucks, his mechanic, for a few hours today. Instead they were closeted in the confines of a municipal court. And when they left, Jones had paid $5 and costs and Haucks $1 and costs. Jones was convicted on speeding charges and Haucks for disorderly conduct. and Haucks, according to testimony given Judge William H. Sheaffer, were clicking it off at 65 on West Sixteenth street en route to the speedway Thursday afternoon. They passed a car driven by detectives and then Motor Policeman Ray Moistner passed them. Moistner testified that Haucks “got tough” and a crowd of more than three hundred gathered. This group was increased by two in the persons of Detectives John Dugan and Harry Mason, whose car Jones had passed. Dugan explained he was an officer and Haucks piled out of the car, taking a hefty right swing at Mason; the officers testified. Champ Clark’s Son in Race By United Press ST. LOUIS, May 15.—Colonel Bennett C. Clark, son of the late Champ Clark, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States senator from Missouri, following the definite withdrawal of Senator Harry B. Hawes.

bounded by North, Meridian, Michigan and Pennsylvania streets, at all times. It also requires traffic on twolane streets to keep in the lane nearest the curb except when passing another car. Police today concentrated on enforcing the ordinance provision banning angle parking. All cars now must be parked flat to the curb everywhere in the city. Johnson today asked The Times to aid in correcting a misinterpretation of the ordinance relative to left turns at automatic traffic signals. The turns are made the same as always. Motorists shall halt their cars in the center of the street, angled to the left until the sign changes. “Do not drive to the right side of the thoroughfare but keep to the right of the center of the street, Johnson said. •

4 ESCAPE DEATH Crippled Tlane Brought to Safe Landing. By United Press BETTIS FIELD. McKeesport, Pa., May 15.—Three women passengers and a pilot, marooned in the air for an hour because of a crippled landing gear, escaped injury when the plane was brought to landing here today. When the damaged wheel was noticed planes were sent to the air. “Skippy” Taylor, air mail pilot with a sign "broken wheel” hastily painted on the side of an airplane, speeded ahead of the transport. Weiblin saw the sign and nodded his head to indicate he understood the •warning. He turned the ship about and headed for the airport.

FRANCE AND GERMANY ‘AT CROSSROADS’ Key to Peace of Europe in Their Hands as Geneva Parley Opens. BRIAND IS CHIEF ACTOR Faces Ex-Foes Over Rhine as Real Cause of His Presidency Defeat. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Boward Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May 15.—As fateful a gathering as the council of the League of Nations ever held, perhaps, begins today at Geneva. France and Germany, which hold the key to European peace, are expected to play the star roles. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, smarting under his humiliating defeat as candidate for the presidency, will face Germany, the real cause of his humiliation. No actor on any stage ever was watched more closely or listened to than he will be at Geneva. Briand’s defeat brings Germany and France to the crossroads. And the paths they now choose may lead to the very disaster from which the French foreign minister tried for years to save them. Ideals are Repudiated Briand’s humiliation at Versailles was far more than something merely personal or political. It was fundamental. His ideals as well as his works stand repudiated by his own national assembly. Not that France is less ardent for peace than Briand. She knows peace is vital to her. But hereafter she will try to obtain it by a different way. She likely will revert to the methods of Clemenceau, who had more faith in table-pounding, when dealing with Germany, than in hand-shaking. Given the present mood of Europe that may be dangerous. Germany, on her side, goes to Geneva regretting the fate of Briand. The Berlin press calls May 13 “a black day for Europe.” Whatever it was, she has herself to blame. Germany’s Own Fault All the time that Briand has been performing the miracle of winning a nervous, suspicious France over to his policy of hands across the Rhine, asking nothing better than to play ball with Germany. Following almost every advance made by Briand, the German Nationalists or Fascists did something to weaken his position at home. After Locarno, tjiere were antiFrench demonstrations in Berlin and elsewhere. After the evacuation of the Rhineland, there were anti-French riots throughout that region. After the last of the allied troops left German soil, Fascists, Nationalists and Communists piled up astounding anti-French and antitreaty totals in the elections. Slap Briand in Face Finally, as a sort of reply to Briand’s last plan of a united Europe to bring back peace and prosperity for all, Germany sprang the biggest surprise of all—an AustroGerman customs union secretly agreed upon between Vienna and Berlin. As the French view it, every time Briand held out his hand he received a slap in the face. Now they have discarded him and his plan, for an indefinite period at least, and are preparing to try new men and methods. Tribute to Briand By United Press GENEVA, May 15.—A tribute to Aristide Briand, French foreign minister, as “the league’s grand old man and a great international statesman” was paid today by Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, as the European federation commission opened. He arose as soon as Briand, as chairman, called the meeting to order, and made his speech with reference to the probability that Briand probably will soon retire from league affairs. BURNS FATAL TO THIRD Baby Victim of Burns in Fire That Claimed Two at Warsaw. By United Press WARSAW, Ind., May* 15.—Loren Rosbrugh, 13-months-old son of Mrs. William Rosbrugh, Etna Green, died in a hospital here of burns suffered at his home Thursday when Mrs. James Forbes, 32, poured oil on a stove. Mrs. Forbes and her daughter, Genevieve, 2, died a few hours after the blast.

On the Flash Saturday is Derby day. Hot off the United Press wires will come the flash that will tell the world wffiat horse is victor in the greatest race of the year. And in a .flash The Times Pink Extra will be on the street, in your hands, with the great story of a great race. Joe Williams is there; George Kirksey is there. And there’ll be a topnotch staff of experts with them to cover the race for The Times readers from every angle. Watch every edition of The Times Saturday for the latest and best Derby stories.

BANKER, ON STAND, AIDS IN FIGHT ON LAST BROOKS WILL

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Mr. and Mrs. Roger Q. Williams By United Press JAMAICA, N. Y., May 15.—Mrs. Carrie T. Williams, wife of Roger Q. Williams, flier, who flew to Rome, today applied for separation on charges of desertion and nonsupport. She asked $250 a week alimony and $5,000 counsel fees. Williams denied Mrs. Williams’ charges and asked, through counsel, to be released from civil prison in Manhattan where he is held for non-payment of alimony. HUNT WOMAN WITNESS FOR KIRKLAND GASE Waitress Vanishes on Eve of Scheduled Testimony in Trial. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., May 15.—One of the state’s principal witnesses in Virgil Kirkland’s first trial on charges of murdering Arlene Draves was declared today to have disappeared when the second trial started three and one-half weeks ago. Prosecutor Robert G. Estil interrupted his representation of testimony against the young athlete to dispatch an order to Sheriff Roy Holley of Gary for the arrest of Victoria Leonard, 33-year-old waitress. Miss Leonard, sweetheart of a youth awaiting, death in the electric chair in Illinois for the murder of a banker, vanished as the second trial of Kirkland started, without notifying the prosecution of her departure, and has not been seen since, Estil announced. Testimony Called Vital He declared the state considered her testimony vital to its case against young Kirkland. Sheriff Holley was instructed to make every effort to find her quickly. The prosecution had intended to call her today. Miss Leonard was employed In the lunchroom where Kirkland and two companions appeared after the drinking part at the David Thompson home in Gary, where Arlene allegedly was attacked and beaten so severely, that she died. While Arlene was in an automobile outside the lunchroom, Kirkland rejoined his companions inside, and washed blood from his hands, Miss Leonard testified at the youth’s first trial. Sweetheart Awaits Chair Miss Leonard was the sweetheart of Charles Rocco, one of two young men convicted of killing Courtney Merrill, South Chicago banker, in an attempted holdup, and now awaiting electrocution. Prosecutor Estil announced that if Kirkland is convicted, a verdict which would carry the death penalty, he will have the charges against Kirkland’s four companions changed to assault and battery with intent to commit criminal attack. SNEAK THIEF GETS $46 Bookkeeper Steps Out of Office for Minute and Register Is Rifled. While Miss Shirley Baum, 1715 Ashland avenue, bookkeeper of the Capitol Loan Company, 1102% Prospect street, was out of the office for a few minutes this noon a sneak thief stole $46 from the cash register, she reported to police.

OFFICIAL OF CLOSED BANKS TRIES TO END HIS LIFE

Lying on the garage floor near the exhaust of his car, which was running, John Pullen, 50, of 413 Buckingham drive, former official of two state banks which closed in December, attempted to take his life today. Following first aid treatment at his home, Pullen was rushed to city hospital where he received oxygen treatments. Later he was removed to the Methodist hospital. His condition was reported as “fair” by physician. Pullen had gone to the garage at 5 a, m- His brother-in-law, William Guynn, 52, of the same address, found him at 7:30. Pullen lay with his head at the end of the exhaust. He had covered his head with an overcoat, which, police said, possibly prevented his death. Pullen was president of the Citizens State bank, 2600 West Michigan street, and vice-president of the Maple Road State bank, Thirtyeighth and Illinois streets. The west side institution closed the morning of Dec. 30 and in the afternoon the Maple road bank was closed. Recently, according to Mrs. Gertrude Pullen, his wife, Pullen has been in ill health. He returned from Martinsville Sunday. Fim aid was administered Pullen

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Donald Morris’ Testimony Bolsters Fraud Claims of Charity Groups. Personal letters to bolster claims of relatives along with those of two charity organizations to the $209,000 estate of Bartholomew D. Brooks, Indianapolis business man, were introduced today in probate court. Several relatives and the charity groups, the Indianapolis Home for Aged Women and the Indianapolis chapter, American Red Cross, beneficiaries under a will signed June 22, 1920, are attempting to show fraud in connection with another will, signed shortly before Brooks’ death, June 1, 1930. Donald S. Morris, vice-president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, administrator of Brook's estate, witness for the charity organizations, testified this morning and identified letters, papers and the 1920 will taken from a small safe in Brooks’ home after hvs death. This is the will favorable to the charities agencies. Valued at $209,000 Inventory of the estate at present appraisement, presented by Morris, listed its valuation at $209,000. Included are 121 pieces of property valued at $138,000 and $71,000 in personal property, Morris told the court. Testimony of Morris that small envelopes of money, hidden in bureau drawers, under rugs and about the home of Brooks were found after his death will be used by the plaintiffs to support their claim he was of unsound mind when he signed the 1930 will, leaving major portion of the estate to a former employe, Robert Hackney. Two cousins, Wilbur Clark, Clayton, Del., and William Clark, Baltimore, Md., were in court today. Salem D. Clark, attorney, is representing twenty-three cousins in the case. A half-sister, Mrs. lone Stubbs, mentioned in the 1920 will, lives at Dallas, Tex. Notes Against Hackney Shown Notes held by Brooks against Hackney were introduced by the plaintiffs that Hackney was treated as a stranger by Brooks and not tSS the personal friend and business advisor, as the defense is claiming. The notes, one for $3,000 and another for $1,350 were made shortly before Brooks' death. Only six relatives were mentioned in the 1930 will, while by terms of the 1920 document more than fifteen relatives received bequests averaging $3,000 each. Testimony of six remaining witnesses for the charity organizations is expected to be completed Monday, finishing two weeks the case has been on trial before Smiley N. Chambers. The defense probably will require another two weeks to put approximately 100 witnesses on the stand, it is reported. Jay F. Wood, Northwestern university professor and expert on legal documents, told the court late Thursday “he did believe there could be the slightest chance he was ! wrong in his statement," presented earlier in the day, and purporting to show Brooks signed a blank piece of paper on which the will afterwards was typed. Look Through Microscope On photographic reprints of the will, sixteen times the original size, Wood indicated to jurors how two typewriters were used in writing the 1920 document and how the signature of Brooks’ and the witnesses were of different ink. This testimony was flaunted in the face of previous acknowledgement by the defense that Brooks and witnesse signed their names at I the same time, using the same foun- | tain pen. Jurors were allowed to look I through a microscope and view for ! themselves the things that Wood ; told the court from the witncSr stand. Checks given by Erooks to his ! relatives as Christmas presents over Ia period of years were among evii dence introduces in support of the i relatives claims this morning.

by Dr. J. E. Sharp, 433 Buckingham drive. The Citizens State bank was taken over Jan. 8 by the Fletcher Trust Company at the request of the state banking department, and George P. Torrence, vice-president of the Link Belt Company, and a director of the Fletcher Trust Company, was made president of the institution. In a statement today, Evans Woollen, president of the Fletcher Trust Company, said: “At the request of the state bank department, the Fletcher company acquired all the capital stock of the Citizens under agreement that, at the end of a year, the trust company would pay to the shareholders of the Citizens a certain sum contingent on the liquidation of its assets.” “The board thereupon was reorganized with representatives of the trust company in all positions except one. Into that one position Pullen was placed that the old shareholders might have representation in observing the liquidation of the assets in which they had a contingent interest. Pullen otherwise has no connection with the Citizens bank. The Fletcher company is wholly therefore.” "

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PONTIFF URGES NEARER EQUAL WEALTHSHARE Reconstruction of Entire Capital, Labor System Proposed by Pope. JUST WAGE NECESSARY Communism and Socialism Are Assailed in Church Head’s Statement. BY FRANCIS REA United Press Staff Corresoonden* VATICAN CITY, May 15.—Reconstruction of the world’s entire economic system to bring about a more equitable distribution of wealth between capital and labor was set forth as a principle today

by Pope Pius XI in the most significant pronouncement of the church sinoe the time of Leo XIU. The pope, addressing 7,000 pilgrims of various nationalities gathered to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Pope Leo’s famous encyclical on labor, “Rerum Novarum,” introduced a summary of his own forthcoming ency-

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clical which had been distributed in printed form to his auditors, reaffirming and elaborating in the light, of modern conditions his predceessor’s pronouncements. The pope’s address was broadcast from the Vatican city radio station and rebroadcast in America, so that millions were ' enabled to listen in on the historic occasion. In the past, the pope said, in the summary of the encyclical, there has been an unquestioned excessive and unjust disproportion of the commodities of life between capital and labor, and immense riches were accumulated in the hands of the few while the proletariat had nothing of their own save their hands and the sweat of thfcir brow Rebuild Whole System "Therefore,” he continued, “it absolutely is necessary to reconstruct the whole economic system by bringing it back to the requirements of social justice so as to insure more equitable distribution of the united proceeds of capital and labor. ‘‘Thus will be achieved that uplifting of the proletariat which Popo Leo XIII so ardently desired. "The differences in social conditions of the human family which have been wisely decreed by the Creator must not and can not ever be abolished, but on the other hand the condition of the proletariat can not forever be the normal condition of the bulk of mankind.” In the above passage, the pope made it clear that the reducing of all mankind to a common level, as sought in Soviet Russia, is opposed by the church. Just Wage Is Necessary Significant phrases from the pope’s pronouncement follow: “Wages must be such as to satisfy the legitimate requirements of the honest workman, not only for his person, but for his family to better their conditions. "Work is not any kind of salable commodity, but one wherein the human dignity of the workingman must always bt respected. All oppoistion between classes must cease.” Free and unbridled competition ha3 been succeeded by an exaggerated concentration in the hands of a few of the whole economic power, not only of a single nation but of the entire world. Thus the concentration of this power degenerates into tyrannical depositism ” Remedies Are Suggested "It is well-known that the teach.ngs of Communism can in no wise be reconciled with the doctrine of the church. It is not possible to be simultaneously a good Catholic and a truSocialist.” The pope suggested remedies for present evils. • sa “* the root of disorder, both in the economic and social world aes in men fixing their eyes on earthly goods without heeding God and things eternal. ♦ Principal remedy, there,re ’ continued, "must be applied to the root itself by raising up ?® n ’ s hearts and minds to God and filling them with nobler and purer aspirations.” u. S. FOREIGN SALES UP Industrial Machinery Export Highest Since Post War Boom 3y United Press J ON ’ May 15 -Due to trip.ed purchases from Russia to carry out her five-year plan, United States sales of industrial machinery to Europe reached the highest level in 1930 since the post war boom year of 1320, the commerce department announced today. VETERANS OF THE GAME Man, 86, Weds Third Time, It’s Fourth for Woman, 76 3y United Press KANSAS CITY, Kan., May 15— J. J. Ashline, 86, began' today his third marital venture and his bride, the former Mrs. Ella Stolbert, 76, began her fourth. Ashline served with Grant’s army on the Potomac in the Civil war. Mrs. Ashline's first three husbands were ministers •