Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 156, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1931 — Page 2

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PRESENT PEACE BORN OF FEAR, AVERS PASTOR 'Retail’ Murder by Gangs Denounced Bitterly by the Rev. G. A. Frantz. "The Disappointment of Peace”— a peace of fear that breeds social impurity and pride—was emphasized by Dr. George Arthur Frantz, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in an Armistice sermon Sunday, While he pointed to the evils of war, Dr. Frantz declared that peace, born of fear, also is a menace to mankind's future. ‘‘Universal peace,” he said, “is a time to prevent wholesale slaughter by rule of fear; yet, our present peace allows retail murders by gangs and racketeers. Reign of Terror “It was in a time in the world's history that universal peace reigned when Christ was crucified. Paul was beheaded, and under Nero Christians were thrown to the lions. “Leagues and courts serve, and we pray for their efficacy, but God’s peace is born of better parents than fear. True peace comes first between me and god, then between me and my brother.” Churches of the city Sunday joined in observance of a nationwide call to prayer for world-wide peace by the Federal Council of Churches. Many ministers preached sermons with Armistice day as their theme. Urges New Armistice “Anew armistice requiring the whole world to lay down arms,” was urged by the Rev. Bert R. Johnson, pastor of the Downey avenue Christian church. “In the last three years, the United States has spent millions for armament while millions were out of work,” he said. “We must pursue peace as we did war.” He praised the League of Nations, the World court and the BriandKellogg pact. Excerpts from other sermons include; Cites Modern Jonahs “Men and women who become modern Jonahs by turning their backs on God to seek pleasures of golf and auto riding eventually will land in the whale’s belly of repentance.”—E. Howard Cadle at Cadle tabernacle. “Movies which play up crime and sex are the greatest crime causes of the present generation.”—Former Criminal Judge James A. Collins before Tabernacle Fellowship at Tabernacle Presbyterian church. “Where human lives are used' up in industry, there has been a flagrant disregard for this law of God, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”—The Rev. B. Brooks Shake at Grace Methodist church.

WOULD-BE CAR THIEF CAUGHT ‘RED-HANDED’ Suspect Arrested by Squad in Act of Trying to Crank Auto. Members of a police emergency squad captured a suspect in the act of stealing an automobile in the downtown district shortly before noon today. The suspect, who gave his name as Claude Breedlove, 1341 Hiatt street, was nabbed attempting to crank the car of Claude Webb, 1917 Dexter street, in front of 240 South Pennsylvania street. Breedlove was seen attempting to start the car by Ben Beldon, 1706 Barth avenue, employe in a store nearby, who summoned the emergency Squad. Breedlove said he had been out of work and was stealing the car to go to Illinois to get a job, according to police. He was being questioned by detectives. HELD FOR STREET FIGHT CMy Man Is Slated on Assault Charge; Foe Seriously Hurt. Surrendering to police after seriously injuring Robert Webber, 330 Minkner street, in a fight Sunday afternoon in the 300 block on North Harding street, James Whiteford, 2415 North Olney street, today faced trial on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Webber, who sustained a skull fracture when Whiteford knocked him to the street, was ordered held on a charge of carrying concealed weapons after a loaded revolver was found in his pocket. RINK FROLIC IS SLATED X Armistice Day Event to Be Given at Douglas Park. Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa will sponsor an Armistice day skating party and dance at Douglas park rink at 8 p. m. Wednesday. A championship military exhibition by Premier company A, conducted by Captain William Hall, will be featured at 10 p. m. State staff and music corps of the order, pnder supervision of Colonel Guy Blaine, plso will take part in the drills. Dancing will follow the program of entertainment. LESLIE ON QUAIL HUNT Governor, Four Companions Off on Rockport Expedition. Governor Harry G. Leslie left this afternoon for a two-day quail hunt near Rockport. Fellow nimrods on the trip are John W. Willis, field examiner for the state board of accounts; C. <Dolly) Gray, Indiana manager for the American Aggregates Company, knd Fred and James Cunningham, highway contractors. addressTfound wrong Belmont Avenue Residents Deny Suspect Lives at House Designated. Persons living at 1254 South Belmont avenue today denied Bert Eggers, 40, arrested Friday night on charges of operating an automobile while drunk, lives at that address. He was captured after a chase by a police officer and gave the Belnfont avenue address.

Yo Yo Craze Again Is Sweeping City

YO YO has taken Indianapolis with greater ease than snatching a lollypop from an infant. Besieged less than a week, the city has surrendered to the fascinating pastime of endeavoring to make the little wooden disc, spinning on the end of a string, do tricks. Sunday dinner parties developed into yo yo orgies, and af for bridge, that became an impossibility when it became necessary to divorce the ‘dummy” from his—or her—yo yo at the completion ed each hand. School boys and girls, trekking back to their studies today after the week-end recess, were armed with yo yos and several days of practice, and at least one sore finger, ready to pit thir skill at yo yoing against that of their playmates.

SHOT IN SAVING WOMAN'S LIFE Man’s Foot Is Riddled in Struggle for Gun. Interfering in a quarrel between a young mother and her brother, Owen Wade, 27, of the Illinois hotel, was shot in the foot Sunday night and is in a serious condition today at city hospital. Clayton Frazier, 351 North East street, was being hunted today by police as Wade’s assailant in an argument in which, it was said, Frazier threatened to shoot his sister, Jacqueline Frazier and her 10-months-old baby. Wade had been paying the woman attentions, police said. The quarrel occurred at Georgia and East streets after an alleged drinking party at the home of James Frazier, Clayton’s brother, 231 South East street. Wade is said to have attempted to take a .12-gauge shotgun away from Frazier when the latter threatened his sister. In the struggle, the shotgun was turned downward and discharged. Physicians said amputation of the foot may be necessary. Police said Clayton Frazier and his brother fled after the shooting. The weapon was found in the back yard by police. DRAFT RELIEF BILLS Illinois Legislators Will Convene Thursday. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 9. Legislators today predicted all bills proposed by the state revenue commission for equalizing the state tax burden and providing financial relief for Chicago and Cook county would be ready for presentation to the Legislature when it reconvenes Thursday. Among the bills are measures for a state income and tobacco tax, which are proposed to supplant real estate taxes now amounting to 39 cents on every SIOO valuation of assesable property. An increase in the motor bus and truck rates also are sought. The entire program will be contained in about thirty-five bills. A prospect that the prohibition issue would be injected in the session was contained in announcement by several legislators that they would sponsor repeal of the stare dry days contingent upon repeal or modification of the Volstead act by Congress.

TAKE BROOKS WILL TRIAL OUT OF COUNTY Case Is Sent to Hamilton County by Probate Judge Chambers. Trial of a suit seeking to have a purported 1924 will of the late Bartholcmew D. Brooks, west side Indianapolis business man, declared valid, was taken to Hamilton county today by Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers on a change of venue. Plaintiffs in the case are persons named in the alleged document to receive bequests from the $250,000 estate of Mr. Brooks. The Marion county probate court already has held a 1920 document valid and five persons are under indictment in criminal court in connection with alleged forgery of a third will purported to have been written in 1930. CITY MAN ENDS LIFE Funeral Arrangements Are Made For Michael Maloney, 49. Funeral arrangements were being completed today for Michael Maloney, 49, of 5158 College avenue, who committed suicide Saturday night by leaping into the canal. His body was found Sunday morning at Sixty-third street and the canal. Mr. Maloney was hurt in an accident several months ago and had been depressed for several weeks, due to his inability to work. He came to America from Ireland twenty-five years ago and had lived in this city eight years. A daughter. Miss Marie K. Maloney of Indianapolis, survives him. POOLROOM DRIVE IS ON Arrests Threatened if Operators Block View From Street. Poolrooms with covered windows and doors were the targets of a police drive today. Chief Mike Morrissey instructed officers to arrest poolroom operators who refused to heed warnings to remove obstructions which prevent persons from seeing into the places. Under the city law, proprietors who obstruct vision of windows and doors in poolrooms are liable to prosecution. TAKES FIRST SOLO HOP Chevrolet Official to Use Plane to Visit Auto Agencies. Charles C. Powell, official of the North Side Chevrolet Company, Broad Ripple, took his first solo flight Sunday at municipal airport, it was announced today by Charles C. Hack, airport assistant superintendent. Powell soloed in his own Eaglerock biplane. After obtaining his private license he expects to use the plane to keep in touch with automobile agencies in Columbus, Ind., and Greensburg, Ind., with which he is connoted.

They War on War

Warring on war, these five international figures will be among the speakers at the Goodwill Congress of the World Alliance for International Friendship to be held in Chicago, Nov. 10, 11 and 12. They are (1) Dr. Fred B. Smith, chairman of the executive committee of the Friendship Alliance; (2) Baron Friedrich W. Von Prittwitz, German ambassador to the United States; (3) the Rev. Canon T. Guy Rogers, rector of Birmingham, England, and chaplain to the king; (4) the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, radio minister and vice-president of the alliance, and (5) Major-General John F. O’Ryan, commander of the Twenty-seventh Division of the A. E. F. in France.

TRIO KIDNAPED AND ROBBED OF $4,000

Bandits Steal Lafayette Theater Receipts in Bold Holdup. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 9.—The story of a $4,000 robbery and kidnaping of three persons, including a woman, was told by the victims when they were released on a highway near Lafayette today. The loot, week-end receipts of the Mars, Luna and Family theaters here, was obtained from the safe of the Mars theater. All three are owned and operated by the Fourth Avenue Amusement Company, Louisville, Ky. The bandits kidnaped Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hammer, managers of the theaters, as they left a restaurant. After riding for several city blocks they parked their automobile near the Mars theater. One of the bandits remained in the automobile with Mrs. Hammer and the others escorted Hammer to the movie ehouse, where they threatened him with guns and ordered him to open the safe. Hammer told the bandits he did not know the combination. The men then forced him to call Harry Frederickson, treasurer of the theaters. Hammer complied. When Frederickson arrived, the robbers forced him to open the safe, from which they removed more than $4,000, Hammer said. The bandits then forced the men to return to the Hammer auto. One of the robbers drove the bandit auto, while the other two took Hammer, his wife, and Frederickson several miles into the country. Here they abandoned the commandeered auto and took their victims a quarter mile farther before releasing them, fleeing in their own car. The victims hailed a motorist, who brought them to Lafayette. SIDEWALKS ASKED AS PUPILS’ PROTECTION Group of English Avenue Residents Petition Works Board. Pleading for the safety of their children who attend school No. 82, a group of English avenue residents today petitioned the works’ board to construct sidewalks from Emerson avenue to the school. Although another group of property owners recently opposed the building of sidewalks, the board indicated it might favor the walks for protection of the 178 pupils, many of whom now use the street when going to school. Majority of the persons who filed the petition for new walks were mothers of pupils. The petition was turned over to the city engineer for investigation and proposal concerning the project. MEET ON UTiufTRATES Several Hundred Expected at South Side Club Session. Several hundred persons are expected to attend a public meeting of the central committee of south side civic clubs at 8 Wednesday night at the Garfield park community house. Reports on activities of the utility committee, which is leading the public service commission fight for reduction of Indianapolis light and water rates, will be made. Additional transportation and lighting committee reports also will be read at the session. Reservoir Cost SBO,OOO BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 9. Anew reservoir of the municipal water system will be placed in service within a few &iys. The reservoir cost SBO,OOO.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

It seems no place in the city has been immune, as the yo yo epidemic has swept its way, converting boys and girls, young men and young women, and last, but not least, prim ladies and staid business men into yo yo addicts. Watching the Filipino experts, who have been in the city for the last week, perform with the tops has made the pastime appear easy and has aroused curiosity which, one soon discovers, isn’t easily satisfied. Introduced to the people of Indianapolis some two years ago by The Times, yo yo since has spread over the entire country in such a manner that now the whole nation is yo yo minded. So the warning is out—yo yo will get you, whether you watch out or not.

Rabies Voided By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 9. —“What’s your name?” Hollywood receiving hospital attaches asked a young man' applying for treatment for a dog bite. “Null Void,” he replied. Slightly baffled, they requested him to give it again. “That’s my name,” he answered, explaining he was a student at the Univsrsity of Southern California. Void was brought to the hospital by patrolman Voy Kay Apt, “and I’m not an apartment house, either,” the officer said, belligerently.

SURRENDERS LAST $3 FOR TOW-IN PENALTY Unemployed Man Pauses to Mail Letter; Car Impounded. Carl Wynn, 2909 East Eighteenth street, who has been unemployed since January, today surrendered his last $3 to repossess his car which was towed in from a no-parking place near the federal building. According to his statement, Wynn halted his car so he could mail a letter. He said he returned a few minutes later to see it being hauled to a garage by the police tow.-in truck. Wynn said he was supporting himself and four others in his family by working for the park board on the emergency work schedule and is receiving food from the Center township trustee. He formerly was a painter. SALESMAN IS MISSING Police Asked to Aid Search for Thomas Clifford, 50. Police today were seeking Thomas Clifford, 50, of 2745 Manker street, oil salesman, who has been missing from his home since last Monday. Relatives told police he was preparing to repair an automobile before reporting for work at the oil company and did not return. Clifford wore a dark suit and gray topcoat. He is six feet tall and has dark hair, streaked with gray. PLAN FOR WOOL WEEK City Stores to Join in National Educational Observance. Indianapolis retail stores will join with thousands throughout the nation next week in observing National Wool Week.' Backed by proclamations, indorsements of senators and chambers of commerce in every city, the campaign is intended to educate the public in the virtues of wool and to give prominence to clothing made of wool. “Wool week” posters will be displayed by local department stores during the week, according to W. E. Balch, manager of the Merchants’ Assoication. ANNUAL ROLL CALL SET Red Cross Charity Drive to Last Until Thanksgiving. Annual roll call ot the American Red Cross in Marion county, outside Indianapolis, will start Armistice day and continue until Thanksgiving day, under the direction of Mrs. Wilbur Johnson, it was announced today by William Fortune, chairman. The roll call in Indianapolis is conducted as a part of the Community Fund solicitation.

OGDEN’S MARION ACTIONJIAPPED Political Gesture, Charge of Muncie Attorney. By Times Special MARION, Ind., Nov. 9.—Attorney General James M. Ogden is hoping desperately that “the lightning of governorship will strike him,” in the opinion of Clarence Benadum, Muncie attorney, expressed during trial of a case in Grant circuit court here after Ogden had opened an investigation of Marion’s reported corruption. Benadum, who has visited Marion frequently, praised the city and county, and the fairness with which he had been treated by courts, juries and prosecution as well as defense attorneys. He scored Ogden’s tactics in the investigation, and said that the official’s charge in an address at South Bend was a palpable political gesture which would avail him but little. 'Key’ Seen in Arrest By Times special MARION, Ind., Nov. 9.—Thomas Arrel, arrested by Peru police on a liquor charge, may prove the key man in an investigation resulting from Attorney-General James M. Ogden’s declaration that Marion is “seething with corruption.” George Hufsmith, Ogden’s deputy, and E. H. Graves, a Marion attorney, are serving as special prosecutors for a grand jury investigating conduct of the office of Harley Hardin, Grant county prosecutor. Arrel is said to be a rival of Harry Miller, reputed king of Marion bootleggers. Ogden, two of his deputies, Earl Stroup and Merle M. Wall, and Arthur Bruner, an investigator, came to Peru following Arrel’s arrest, and filed a charge of transporting liquor, in Miami circuit court. Previously, in Peru city court, Arrel had been fined SIOO each on two liquor charges and sentenced to the penal farm for sixty days. Peru police say they arrested Arrel as he was bringing 132 gallons of alcohol to Marion from Chicago by automobile.

RELIEF AFFAIR WILL BE GIVEN AT CHURCH ‘Old Album’ to Be Presented at East Tenth St. M. E. “The Old Album” will be presented by members of the East Tenth Street M. E. church Tuesday night in the church community house. Mrs. W. T. Randall, program chairman, will be assisted by members of the Sunday school and church in portraying “pages” from an old family album. Admission to the entertainment will be paid with canned goods, staple foods, clothing and money, which will be distributed to the needy by the relief committee of the East Tenth street church. Members of the committee are Mrs. W. F. Holmes, general chairman; Mrs. W. T. Randall, vicechairman; Dr. Clarence Abraham, treasurer; Mrs. Charles Coleman and Earl Thompson.

BOY SCOUT COUNCIL WILL MEET NOV. 17 Officers to Be Elected at Annual Session in North M. E. Church. Indianapolis and Central Indiana Council, governing body of the Boy Scouts in this district, will hold its annual meeting in the North Methodist Episcopal church, Thirtyeighth and Meridian streets, Nov. 17. Annual election of officers and reports of committees will be the chief business transacted. Plans will be discussed for presentation of a George Washington 1932 calendar to each school in Indianapolis and Marion county. Final arrangements for the event were made this noon by a committee composed of W. D. Hamer, chairman; Wallace Lee and Irving Williams. Southport scouts and their parents will meet at the Southport grade school Friday night at 6:30 to organize a Southport community troop. Herbert Montgomery will be ingcharge of the meeting. NAB TWO AS ‘FENCES’ Grocer, Restaurant Owner Are Held as Stolen Goods Receivers. A grocer and restaurant operator were held today by police on charges of receiving goods stolen recently from a warehouse of Schnull & Cos., wholesale grocers, at 2123 Northwestern avenue. Under arrest are Dubois Cardwell, 39, of 339 Indiana avenue, restaurant owner, and Thomas Charles, 375 West Twelfth street. Four Negroes are under arrest on charges of looting the warehouse. COLDS Remember that there is noth- I ing like Bromo Quinine to drive | the infection out of the system ;; before it has time to spread. LAXATIVE Bromo quinine jl <£ [

DEGREASED GAS SALES IN U. S. ARE PREDICTED Production Cuts Urged in Oil Report as Aid to Industry. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-A decreased demand of 1.6 per cent for gasoline manufactured in the United States for the period from Oct. 1, 1931, to June 30, 1932, was predicted today by the voluntary committee on petroleum economics in a report to the federal oil conservation board. The committee also estimated that demand for crude oil during the samee nine months would show a drop of 2.1 per cent. United States demand for gasoline was estimated at 289,000,000 barrels for the period, an increase of 1.9 per cent as compared with the same period last year. Foreign demand for United States produced gasoline was placed at 30,945,000 barrels, a decrease of 19.2 per cent from thee 38,297,000 barrels purchased on the nine months period ending June 30 this year. Supply on Increase Crude oil demand of the United States was placed by the committee at 633,100,000 barrels, a decrease of 3.2 per cent for the nine months. The committee expects, however that a substantial increase in crude oil exports will partially counterbalance this decrease in domestic crude oil demand, leaving a total decrease of 2.1 per cent. The board estimated an increase of 3.6 per cent in the crude oil supp.y to be drawn during the nine months period from domestic sources, with a drop of 38 per cent in infport supply and a practical cessation of supplies drawn from storage. Production Cut Urged The committee recommended to the oil conservation board further curtailment of United States fuel oil production as “essential to the maintenance of economic stocks.” The committee pointed out that although gas oil and fuel oil production this year, has for each month except August, been less than for the corresponding months of 1930, the stocks of these oils have been increasing. This condition, the committee adds, is caused by a decline in fuel demand. In view of this decline in fuel oil demand the committee recommended the manufacture of relatively more gasoline and less fuel oil from the crude petroleum refined in the United States.

14 COUNTIES AT WORK ON BICENTENARY PLANS Local Organizations Completed in Many State Districts. Local organizations have been completed in fourteen counties for observance of the George Washington bicentenary, it 1 was announced today by Hugh McK. Landon, chairman of the Indiana commission 1 . Nine other county organizations are nearing completion and work has started in seven new counties and is well under way in twenty, he reported. Co-operation with committees appointed by mayors and postmasters by federal request is asked. Purpose of the bicentenary organization is to teach and dramatize the life and purpose of Washington in every county in Indiana and throughout the United States according to Miller Hamilton, executive secretary.

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Jobless Girl, Frantic, Turns Purse Grabber

Miss Esther O’Brien

Tearful Esther O’Brien at city prison after police said she had confessed to stealing women's purses in Catholic churches. Esther tried to. find work, everywhere. For six unemployed months, she has been hearing the chant, “We don't need anybody.” Esther’s mother and sister are working to maintain their home, but Esther couldn’t have “any of the little things” she wanted. „ “I just had to have money,” she says. So, today, Esther O’Brien, 21, of 3127 Northwestern avenue, is in the city prison where she faces a charge of stealing purses from women in Catholic churches of the city. Officers say she confessed stealing the purses of thirty-five women, as they knelt in prayer. While her victims worshipped, detectives claim, Esther would seize one or two purses from the church seats and flee. She is charged with petit larceny.

HELD KILLER Father Is Branded Slayer by State Authorities. By United Press TELL CITY, Ind., Nov. 9.—A father who liked to dance at a dance hall operated by his son near her, was in jail today charged with murdering the son after the latter ordered his father to leave the floor. Police learned that William Jennings Bryan Taylor, 34, operator of the dance hall, was shot down during an argument with W. L. Taylor, 69. The elder Taylor, police were told, objected when his son attempted to clear the floor. CAR STOLEN; FINDS IT, PLUS A ‘BONUS’ Victim Discovers Set of New Golf Clubs in Rear Seat. Ernest Losh, 1523 North Capitol avenue, has the distinction today of being the only motorist to profit by having his car stolen. Sunday night Losh parked his car in front of 14G9 North Capitol avenue, and after visiting friends, returned to find the automobile had been stolen. Losh and the friend began a search of the neighborhood and found the stolen car at Twentyfirst and Illinois streets. In the rear seat they found a bag of new golf clubs, on which was printed the name, “Roy C. Smith.” Losh turned the clubs over to the police.

.■NOV. 9, 1931

‘DEMAGOGUE,’ IS BRAND PUT ON PAUyNUTT Candidate for Governor Is Challenged to Debate by Cuthbertson. Because Paul V. McNutt declared in a speech at Columbus that if the Democrats win the next election, the present personnel of the publio service commission will be abolished “in toto,” Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson has challenged him to a public debate. Cuthbertson wrote a seven-page letter to McNutt, charging him with demagoguery. He set out in the letter that he was writing as a “citizen and Democrat.” Not only does he want to defend the public service commissioners in debate, b it public officials generally. In addition, he charges McNutt has handicapped commission control of utilities by drafting an incorporation act which makes company mergers and corporation combines too easy. In conclusion, Cuthbertson compared his World war record with McNutt’s, he having served overseas. McNutt, contender for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, is past national commander of tha American Legion and dean of the Indiana university law school. He has not answered the Cuthbertson letter. ANN UAL CIVIL LEGION CONVENTION STARTS Resolution Opposing Appropriation for Hospitals Before Group Resolution opposing appropriation of $1,000,000,000 by congress for veterans’ hospitals will be considered at the sixth annual national convention of the Civil Legion, which opened today at the Lincoln. The organization is composed of civilians who served during the World war in nonmilitary patriotic divisions. The legion is expected to recommend following advice of the American Medical Association, which favors using space in civilian hospitals for treatment ,of disabled soldiers. Speakers today were to includ® Charles H. Brouch, wartime Governor of Arkansas, and Albert E. Slepeer, Michigan wartime Governor. PARKED MJTOS LOOTED Merchandise Valued at $lB4 Is Reported Stolen. Theft from automobiles of merchandise valued at a total of $lB4 was reported today to police. Clothing vqlued at $127 was taken from a car parked in the 2200 block Ralston avenue, Miss Mary Rees of Columbus, 0., reported. Other losses reported, and amounts are: Herbert Hall, 925 North Olney street, $5; John Stickle, 2215 Valley avenue, value unestima<ted; Maurice Goodwin, 1211 West Thirty-second street, S2O; Vaii Kespo’nl, 1140 West Thirty-second street, sls, and Donald Drake, 5716 Lowell avenue, sl7. NEW" BOOKS' RECEIVED Seven Volumes Added to Shelves at Business Library. New books offered this week at the business branch library include; “Ford Men and Methods,” by Norwood; “Mailing List Handbook,” by Dartnell; “The General Strike,” by Crook; “Autobiography of a Successful Insurance Agency,” by Cole; “The Ethics of a Profession,” by Richardson; Moody’s “Manual of Investments,” and “Education for Business,” by Lyon.