Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1931 — Page 1

Clothe a Child for . Christmas

FEET out of stockings, out of shoes, he walks along city streets, looking wide-eyed at the various Santa Clauses. “What do you want, little boy?” they ark. Feet-Out’s wide eyes narrow. He turns his gaze from tinseled things for a glimpse at his footwear, his torn pants. Shoes! Pants! An’ some underclothing for baby sister,” he replies Feet-Out knows his practical economics from the school of boiled beans for dinner, boiled beans for aupper and stove-huddling as a playtime. He knows relief agencies of the Community Fund throughout the year will supply them with coal for the stove. He knows the county trustees will pay the bean-soup bill. But he doesn’t know where warm clothing is coming from to rout the cold chills. Feet-out has heard the jibes of school playmates—youth sometimes is unwittingly unkind—at his useless rags. He knows there’s a chance he’ll hear them during the ensuing winter months unless—unless— tt tt tt WELL, unless you Mister and Missus Citizen do something about it for Santa Claus in the Clothe-a-Child campaign of The Indianapolis Times. Community Fund relief agencies can not hope to make a special effort at Christmastide for the city’s poor. The agencies must have poverty and its clothing problems over 365 days of the year. Each donor to the Clothe-a-Child plan means two like Fcet-Out warmed for the school months. For the social service department of the public schools and relief

THANKS, FARM BUREAU “We’ve raised S6O and we’ll take four children to start with, and maybe we can end up with one or two more.” This boost to the Clothe-a-Child plan came today from the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., 920 Lemcke building. “It makes no difference about th age or sex of the children. We just want boys and girls in need,” office employes of the bureau said. They got them. Merry! Merry! to you Indiana Farm Bureau.

agencies easily will match each pledge to Clothe-a-Child by clothing other children during the year. Each pledge makes charity’s money spread over a wider area. Each pledge is insurance against Indianapolis failing to provide for those born outside the silver spoon and inside the realm of bean soup and mush. And the pledge of a Clothe-a-Child donor is such an easy one to take. tt tt tt YOU merely express the desire to make one boy or girl comfortable and warm for the school days ahead. You adopt him or her for the day when a Manger became a Palace. You are given the child’s name. You go into the home. You decide the child’s needs. They may be many in one child and few in another. The cost varies with the needs. Then knowing his or her needs, you clothe your boy or girl. Some donors have found that they’ve been able to clothe two children instead of one, due to the variation in the individual needs of the children. Pledges to the Clothe-a-Child movement are nearing the 200mark. New donors today, bringing the total to 179 children clothed, follow: Theta chapter of Pi Omicron sorority. Hooaier Athletic Club bouiinjc league (two boys). Statehouse Demoeratic Women's Club. Girls of Bertha Ballard home, 4lt North Delaware. Office of the Indiana Farm Bureau Inr., 930 I.emcke building (two boys and two girls). Sylvia Rebekah lodge (boy and girl). Mrs. East Vermont Street (two children). Lincoln office of Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. (eared for two and took another child.) 1. 1,. Hardin, manager, and David Kirkrun. Atlantir and Pacific grocery, fortv-sixth and Baltimore streets (two boy*). tt tt tt C'tALL Riley 5551—0 r write— and J ask for the ' Clothe-a-Child editor of The Indianapolis Times. He will give you the name of a needy school child between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Each child has been checked for need by the Christmas Clearing House and the social service department of the Indianapolis public schools Community Fund relief agencies are providing the names of worthy children to be clothed. The Times gives you the name of A child. You clothe the youngster that’s your Christmas, that’s the child’s Christmas, and that’s our Christmas.

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HOUSE DEBATE ON WAR DEBTS OPENS FRIDAY Leaders Hope Action Will ! Be Finished on Moratorium by Saturday Night. M’FADDEN FIGHTS ON Militant Pennsylvanian Asks Quiz on Federal Reserve Foreign Financing. By United I’ress WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Ratification of the Hoover war debt moratorium will be taken up in the house Friday, Democratic Floor Leader Rainey announced today. Leaders hope house action will be completed by Saturday night. The ways and means committee, in a two-hour closed session, failed to complete its report on the moratorium, and another meeting was called for 2 p. m. Chairman Collier said he expected a report to the house would be drafted at that time. Undersecretary of Treasury Ogden Mills was called back by the committee today and questioned for an hour. Collier said Mills had been asked to clear up certain matters about which the committee questioned Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Cos., fiscal agents for Great Britain, France and Italy. Funds Not Deposited Davidson, in his testimony, denied reports that Great Britain had deposited funds and stood ready to pay the Dec. 15 installment on its debt to the United States, postponed under the moratorium Representative McFadden (Rep., Pa.), who has charged the moratorium was designed to protect private bankers at the expense of the United States government, today asked an investigation of the federal reserve system’s connection with foreign financing. He introduced in the house a resolution calling on the banking committee to investigate the federal reserve banks’ “activities with respect to foreign banks and foreign central banks; their open market operations and acceptance business, and their connection with the American Acceptance Council.” It also would go into their “collaboration with other banks (domestic and foreign) in the operations of such banks in foreign financing.”

Banking Inquiry to Open The senate finance committee Friday will begin an inquiry into operations of international banks in Wall Street. The investigation proposed by McFadden would concern the Federal Reserve system’s part in the activities of these banks. McFadden renewed his attack on President Hoover, saying that a reported finding of financial experts at Basle, Switzerland, that Germany was able to pay unconditional reparations under the Young plan, supported his argument that the moratorium was “put over” by international bankers tp protect their own stake in Germany. The house voted approval of a $208,000,000 appropriation for the veterans' bureau, to be used in payment of veterans’ loan, approved by the last session of congress. Million Is Borrowed World war veterans borrowed $1,227,937 on their adjusted compensation certificates, of which 65 per cent was used for personal and family needs, according to testimony beforeythe house appropriations committee.

The statistics were given by Administrator Prank I. Hines, who based his 65 per cent figure on an estimate compiled from sources “favorable to the veteran.” Hines said he anticipated a heavy demand for further loans this winter because of the economic situation. The bonus loan bill increased the treasury deficit only about $112,000,000, he said. He estimated, however, that full payment of the certificates would cost $2,600,000,000. Manchurian Notes Requested The senate requested Secretary of State Stimson to submit to it all his notes and communications with foreign governments on the subject of Manchuria. The Johnson resolution expressing this request was adopted unanimously. The house passed an appropriation of $120,000 to establish additional federal employment offices under the department of labor. Secretary of Labor Doak had requested an appropriation of $168,000. The house banking and currency committee voted to report favorably a bill to provide $100,000,000 additional capital for the farm loan board. It also decided to proceed at once with consideration of the bill to provide $500,000,000 capital for the finance corporation recommended by the President in his annual message. BOY STRUCK BY TRUCK Lawrence Schneps, 7, Injured on Way to School No. 34. Struck by a truck while walking to school after noon today, Lawrence Schneps, 7, of 2415 Shelby street, a pupil at school No. 34, sustained a fracture of both legs. Cecil Ross, 29. of 2523 Jackson place, driver of the truck, was held blameless by witnesses. The boy was j taken to city hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 34 10 a. m 41 7a. m 34 11 a. m 45 Ba. m 35 12 (noon>.. 48 9 J. m 37 1 p. m 51

Bathtub Blues By United /ire** WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Lawrence Tibbett, opera and concert singer, gave a concert here. It was largely attended and he was roundly applauded. “I love to sing in Washington,” said Tibbett, always gracious. “Oh do you?” gushed a matron. “And Mr. Tibbett, do teU me, where do you like to sing best? “In the bathtub,” answered Tibbett.

BANK ROBBERS LEAVE NO CLEW Hunt for Roachdale Bandit Gang Is Fruitless. By Times Special ROACHDALE, Ind., Dec. 17.—Indiana authorities today were without clews in their search for the ten bandits who .nvaded this town early Wednesday and fled with $5,000 in cash and bonds, after terrorizing the town and blasting a safe in the Roachdale bank. Officers of the institution today prepared to resume business after money had been sent fcom "ndianapolis banks. Financial loss, and damage of $3,000 to the building, caused by four blasts of explosives used in wrecking the safe, are covered by insurance. The bandits, who cut light, phone, and railroad communication lines, left no trace. None of the residents saw' the automobile in which the outlaws fled the town. Descriptions of three of the men were given Deputy Sheriff Ed Hooser, by F. R. Jarvis, Monon and B. & O* railroads stationmaster. Jarvis was kidnaped from the station and taken to the phone exchange above the bank, where he was imprisoned an hour with Pauline Smith, 17, operator, and her small sister, Marjorie, 7. Railroad and private detectives are working on the case.

f PUSHES COP AROUND’ Stolen Car’s Driver Then Makes Getaway. Traffic officer C. R. Peak is just l another citizen to one Indianapolis automobile thief. Driving east on New York street late Wednesday, Peak was struck by an automobile which crowded him to the curb. Peak pursued the well-dressed autoist an 4 yelled to him to "pull over there. The motorist, however, merely made a gesture which is an insult in any language, and turned north in Noble street. Peak lost trace of the driver and learned the car he was chasing had been stolen shortly before the accident from Carl Jones, 236 Christian avenue. The car was found later Wednesday in front of 1117 East Michigan street. Peak says when the autoist is caught he will be charged with auto theft, reckless driving, failure to observe a traffic signal, failure to stop after an accident, and failure to observe a preferential street.

BLUEBEARD JO PEN Powers Silent on Trip to Death House. By United Press CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Dec. 17. Harry F. Powers, convicted of murder in the death of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, Worcester, Mass., was taken today to the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville where he is under sentence to be hanged March 18. Sheriff W. B. Grimm and several state policemen placed Powers in an automobile and guarded him on the trip to the penitentiary. When asked if he had anything to say as he left the county jail here, Powers said “No.” TRUCKING BATTLE ON Cuthbertson Has Impressive Support in War on Snyder. Testimony was to be resumed before the public service commission today in Commissioner “ Harry K. Cuthbertson’s effort to show that truck lines operated by Tom Snyder are defying commission orders. Railroads, traction lines and certified truck operators are backing Cuthbertson’s fight.

KANSAS CITY WOMAN, HEAD OF GARMENT CO., IS HELD BY KIDNAPERS

By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 17. Mrs. Nell Donnelly, head of the $3,000,000 Donnelly Garment Company here, was reported held by kidnapers today for $75,000 ransom. From sources close fft the family, it was learned that Mrs. Donnelly was seized by kidnapers Wednesday night. Mrs. Donnelly was forced by the kidnapers to write letters to her family, in which she said that she had been threatened with death unless $75,h00 was paid as directed by the kidnapers, it was learned from these sources. The letters threatened death for her if police were notified. Members of the family stressed the fact that they were not responsible for -publication of the re-

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WILKES BOOTH BODY IS FOUND, DOCTORSTHINK Mummy in Chicago Is That of Lincoln’s Assassin, Tests Indicated. X-RAY SUPPORTS VIEW Leg Fracture, Crushed Hand and Eyebrow Scar Add Weight to Theory. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—A jury of prominent physicians drafted today a verdict adding to the evidence that John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, rather than dying the ignoble death of a cornered fugitive, lived for years after, finally to perish by his own hand. The verdict, to be announced in a few days, is the result of an investigation by Dr. Herman M. Bundesen, Chicago health commissioner; Dr. Edward Miloslavich, noted Milwaukee pathologist, and other men of science. They have examined, in the offices of Dr. Orlando F. Scott, alienist, the mummified body, “owned” by a Chicago woman, of John St. Helen, who committed suicide in Oklahoma in 1903, after twice “confessing” that he was John Wilkes Booth. If that admission is true, then Booth’s mummy has been carted around the country for years as a sideshow exhibit, and the body of an innocent man lies in Booth’s; grave at Baltimore. Similarities arc Found The physicians, however, will not pass judgment on the mummy's identity, but will rest with statements of fact adduced through scientific means. Their statements, the United Press learned today, will include the following: The mummy of John St. Helen has a thickening toward the extremity of the fibula, or small bone, of the right foot, such as would be caused by a fracture, and there is evidence of a callous from the same cause. The mummy has a distorted right 'thumb which originated through some crushing accident, rather than congenitally. It has a right eyebrow higher than the left, across which there runs what appears to be a scar. X-Ray Reveals Points points of identity were brought out through X-ray photographs made in the last week and supplemented by surgery. How they match Booth’s physical abnormalities is shown by the following: When Booth leaped from President Lincoln’s box at Ford’s theater in Washington, he fractured his right leg. Years before, at the age of 10 or 12, while watching his father on the stage, Booth tangled his right hand in a windlass, crushing it. Booth’s right eyebrow was higher than the left and an old injury had left a scar. Dr. Miloslavich declared today that he believed the three points of identification “have proved almost without doubt” that St. Helen was Booth. Doctor Is Enthusiastic Dr. Miloslavich added that he was “very enthusiastic” over the results of the investigation. He said he planned to examine skin from the back of the mummy’s neck, where Booth was known to have had an infection. History records that Booth was killed by government agents and troopers in a barn at Bowling Green, Va., on April 26, 1865. Many believe, however, that the real Booth escaped and fled to Texas. There in 1875, John St. Helen confessed to Finis L. Bates, former attorney-general of Tennessee, that he was Booth. HELD AS EMBEZZLER Former Warren County Treasurer Faces Shortage Charge. By United Press WILLIAMSPORT, Ind., Dec. 17. —Emerson Davis, former treasurer of Warren county, was being held in jail here today while charges of embezzlement against him are prepared. Davis, accused of embezzling approximately $35,000 in county funds, left here in March, 1929. He surrendered to a bonding company in Indianapolis and was returned here by Sheriff J. V. Jordan.

ports and said that they were willing to comply with all demands of the kidnapers. The Kansas City Journal Post learned that the entire matter had been placed in the hands of former Senator James A. Reed, Kansas City attorney. By United Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Dec. 17. —James A. Reed, former United States senator, left here hastily today for Kansas City. Reed hurried from the federal courtroom, where he was appearing in a trial, explaining that a client of his had been kidnaped and was being held for $75,00 ransom. He attempted to get an airplane and, failing in that, set out by automobile for Kansas Cifey.

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BRITAIN PLANS HALT ON NAVY 1932 Building Program May Be Suspended. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 17.—The Daily Herald said today that the government is considtering temporary suspension of the entire naval building program for 1932, with exception of submarines. * Permanence of the suspension, it is said, would depend on results of the world disarmament conference at Geneva. The newspaper understood that the government hoped to give the British delegation a strong weapon for pressing naval and army reductions in Europe and save millions of pound sterling. According to the Daily Herald, the admiralty is agreeable to the plan. Ships involved in the suspension were said to be two 7,000 and one 5,000-ton armored cruiser, one flotilla leader, eight destroyers, four sloops, one gunboat and ’♦wo auxiliary craft.

INTRUDER IS JAILED ‘Annoyer’ of Governor Also Gets $25 Fine. Ralph Clark, R. R. 5, who forced his way into the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie three weeks ago during the Indianapolis demonstration of “hunger marchers,” today was sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $25 and costs. The judgment was assessed by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on a disorderly conduct charge. Police forced Clark from the Governor’s office and the statehouse. They arrested him after he charged the police line severai times. # It was alleged he was not one of a committee appointed to confer with Leslie on unemployment relief measures. Remainder of the “hunger marchers” continued to Washington the following day. DR. KANE RESIGNS POST Quits After Arrest; Announcement Withheld to Avert Prejudice. By United Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 17. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 111, recently acquitted at Hampton, Va., of a charge of drowning his wife, has resigned as head of the romance languages department of the University of Tennessee. Dean James D. Hoskins explained that Kane after being arrested tendered his resignation, but that to avoid prejudicing his case, no public announcement was made at that time. ARMS CONFEREE NAMED Senator Swanson (Dem., Va.), Picked for Geneva Parley. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Senator Claude A. Swanson, Democrat of Virginia, will be a member of the American delegation to the international disarmament conference in Geneva next February, the White House announced today.

the Embry-Riddle Cincinnati-In-dianapolis-Chicago line, is a far cry from the first* northbound plane (upper), snapped as it left Cincinnati four years ago today. Stanley C. (Jiggs) Huffman (in-

BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM, Times Aviation Editor. INDIANAPOLIS today observed the fourth anniversary of inauguration of regular air mail service,' linking it with other major cities of the nation. It was just four years ago today, on a disagreeable winter day, when the first plane on EmbryRiddle’s Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Chicago air mail and passenger line touched its wheels at Stout field, the national guard airport, then the only available landing place. The first plane, southbound, arrived at 9 a. m., piloted by Lieutenant Homer Rader, who, through misunderstanding over the time of arrival, was late and was met only by newspapermen, a mail truck and officials. A better reception was accorded Stanley C. (Jiggs) Huffman, now operations manager of EmbryRiddle division, American Air-‘ ways, Inc:, who piloted the first northbound plane, arriving at 3:30 p. m. u tt tt HUFFMAN was met by 200 citizens and officials who braved the chilly weather to celebrate inauguration of the service. He left for Chicago at 4 p. m„ bearing more than 5,000 air mail letters dispatched from Indianapolis. Encountering stiff headwinds and a snowstorm near Frankfort, Huffman returned and, being unable to find the airport in the (Turn to Page 1, Second Section) RISKS LIFE FOR BREAD Man Steals Loaf and Runs; Cop’s Shot Misses. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Dec. 17.—A man risked his life Wednesday night for a loaf of bread he had stolen from a store. As'he bed with the bread, a policeman called to him to stop. The man continued to run and the officer fired one shot. It failed to take effect and the thief disappeared.

‘COPPER NO r IS DEAD; TIM MACKASSEY SERVED FOR YEARS IN ‘TUNNEL’

BY HEZE CLARK The career of “Copper No. 1,” whom thousands knew in the days when the old street car and pedestrian tunnel existed under the Union station, ended in death today. That “copper,” who for thirty i years kept the distinction of wearing badge No. 1, was “Tim”! Mackassey. He died this morning at his home, j 220 North Summit avenue, after a: short illness. “Tim” was retired on pension ten years ago. Officer Mackassey for years was stationed in the tunnel “guard-1 house,” established by authorities after the tunnel became the haunt : of thugs who prayed on the unwary in the dark. The “guardhouse” was a tiny shanty midway in the tunnel. There a vigilant outlook was kept for pickpockets and footpads until the peril of arrest became so great that the “guardhouse” was abandoned. His pronounced Irish brogue and his sense of humor led his fellow officers to call him. the “comedian” of the force. One recalled today by

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REPORT MAPPED ON REPARATIONS Young Plan Group Expected to Avoid Decision. By United Press BASLE, Switzerland, Dec. 17. The final draft of the report of the Young plan advisory committee was expected to be completed today, leaving practical decisions on Germany’s capacity to pay reparations, to an international debts and reparations conference early next year. The impression of the delegates appeared to be that Germany still possesses wealth which • may be mobilized, although the committee was not expected to attempt an estimate of the amount available for reparations. The Italians, Americans and Japanese favored a report giving brief conclusions and letting a governmental conference resume the searching examination of Germany’s wealth. The British and French favored a full detailed report, but one absolving the committee from too specific commitments. POLA FIGHTING DEATH Film Star Suffers Considerable Pain, but Gets Some Rest. By United Press SANTA MONICA, Cal., Dec. 17. Pola Negri, motion picture star, continued her battle against death today. Although she suffered considerable pain, she rested some, a bulletin by Dr. Leo J. Madsen said. “Miss Negri still is suffering, but rested some, aided by sedatives. Temperature 99.7, pulse 110,” Dr. Madsen, her personal physician, said in the bulletin.

Harry Irick, detective, is remembered by practically every older member of the department. The episode occurred on “Irish Hill” on Noble street near the downtown district, where Mackassey patrolled a beat. Irick then was a sergeant. On a cold night in midwinter, he entered the waiting room of a doctor’s office on the hill to get warm. There, Irick said, he found Mackassey and his “partner,” “Scotty, the Cop,” asleep by 'a large stove. When Irick closed the door, Mackassey awoke, springing to attention. But “Scotty” slept on. Mackassey lifted his “billy” and hit Scotty a resounding blow on the head. Scotty awoke, Irick said, and Mackassey, fully awake, berated his partner for sleeping on the job. “Mackassey never slept on the job again,” Irick said today. He is’ survived by the widow, Bridget; a son John of Indianapolis and a nephew, Michael Hynes, a member of the detective department. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

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PARLEY GIVES HOPE FOR CUT IN LIGHT RATE Utility Chiefs Are Willing to Confer Further on Reduction Request. SULLIVAN POINTS WAY Mayor Shows How Operating Costs of Company Can Be Sliced. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Indianapolis Power and Light Company officials came into the first rate reduction conference with city officials and citizens today in a conciliatory mood. They didn’t say yes; they didn’t say no; nor did they even say maybe the rates will be reduced. But they did agree to furnish all data requested, and carry on further conversations, with the idea of an exchange of viewpoint and hope of some settlement. Earlier in the week, the Indianapolis Water Company officials attended a similar conference and a fifteen-page statement of their position was read, which meant, “nothing doing for reduced rates.” They also agreed to hold further meetings, however. Sullivan States Position These conferences, arranged by Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson of the public service commission, are being held in his office at the statehouse. Cuthbertson suggested trying the conference plan of comprdtnise after the city administration, south side civic clubs and groups of interested citizens filed petitions for electric and water rate reductions. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan stated the position of petitioners at the opening of the session with the light company this morning. He pointed out that all other commodities have come down in cost to the consumer, but light rates remain at the peak of prosperity years. Shows Ways to Reduce He.then pointed out four possible points for cutting operating expenses of the company. Coal is being purchased by the company through a subsidiary company at a cost of $300,000 above the market price in 1930, the mayor said. Another $350,000 was expended for purchase of current above that which it would have cost the company to manufacture it. Salaries of officials now are $114,842, while in 1927, before the merger, the two electric companies paid but $57,940 in officers’ salaries. Average cost per customer in general expense in 1930 was $3.74, while before the merger it was but $2.96. Made Up by Rate Payers A $200,060 loss was recorded for the merchandising business of the company between 1927 and 1930. This had to be made up by the rate payers. Mayor Sullivan also contended that the book value of the two companies was approximately $22,892,363.82 and, in the absence of an appraisal of plant or equipment, it was boosted to $40,000,000 by the merger. This resulted in an increase of $17,107,638 above the book value of the combined properties, he pointed out. Following the merger, authority was given to issue 600,000 shares of no par value common stock to represent an equity of $1,060,000, the mayor asserted. High Dividends Paid On this stock dividends of 26 per cent in 1927, 36 per cent in 1928, 48 per cent in 1929 and 50 per cent in 1930 have been paid, he said. “To pay this 50 per cent dividend in 1930, it was necessary to draw on the surplus the sum of $162,343.47,” Mayor Sullivan concluded. “These enormous dividends on common stock were paid after meeting all operating expenses, taxes, depreciation, interest on outstanding bonds and dividends on preferred stock.” President C. L. Harrod of the company replied to these charges by declaring that the mayor and petitioners didn’t “get the proper picture.” Harrod to Give Figures He will paint for them at future meetings, first of which was scheduled for next Tuesday, when it was agreed they will discuss the price of coal. A lease prevents abandoning the business at “Daylight Comer” before May, 1933, and the company must- purchase current from Insull under a contract made In 1925 for a ten-year period, Harrod explained. He also contended that the holding company method of coal purchase Is a necessary protection on supply, and that over a ten-year period the cost will be below an open market purchase plan. CHUR CHILL IS BETTER Statesman Recovers Sufficiently to Sit up and Smoke. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—Winston Churchill, British statesman, was permitted to sit up in bed and smoke a cigar today. Physicians said he was recovering rapidly from the pleurisy which developed following his injury in an automobile accident Sunday. Reports that he would broadcast reassurance of his condition to London, were denied by Dr. Otto Pickardt, who has been attending him. Mr. Churchill has no intention of broadcasting at present. Dr. Pickardt said. “He is in no condition to do so, although rapidly improving.”