Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1931 — Page 3

VDEC. 26, 1931

u. S. HOPES D WINDLE FOR COLLECTION OF WAR DEBTS

reduction seen CERTAIN BEFORE 'HOLIDAY' ENDS Pictured as Cold Shylock, Uncle Sam Again Will Be World's Santa Claus. NATIONS CAN NOT PAY America Loses Credit for Generosity to Save Face of Politicians. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Sennni-Howard Tnrrirn Editor WASHINGTON, Dec, 26.—That the war debts to the United States will not be resumed in 1932 probably never, in their present form—is the unpleasant but rapidly growing conviction in official circles here. .Justified by the international experts. meeting at Basle, there is no longer the remotest chance that Germany will resume reparations pavments after the twelve-month Hoover moratorium ends next July, informed observers declare. By the same token, whether we like it or not., the allies will not. relume payments of intergovernmental debts to each other and to us. A new dpal all the way round, therefore. looms as inevitable between row and next .July. That the United States, in the end, not only will extend the moratorium, but will accept revision and reduction on war debts, likewise is seen here as virtually certain. You can't get blood out of a turnip Generosity Lnrrediled The history nl reparations' and war- debts seems on the point, ol repeating itself. The alies at first insisted Germany would have lo pay the colossal sum of $120,000,000,000. The French .said $200,000,000,000. Today they know they can't collect $10,000,000,000. Similarly when a reduction of the allies’ war debts to us was broached a decade ago, there was a torrent of protest in administration circles. ; "We’ll make ’em pay the last red cent!’ the politicans cried. Whafc actually happened when the debt-funding agreements were signed was that the United States nit the debts an average of 42 per rent. In other words, on a basis of present value at 5 per cent interest, it accepted 58 cents on the dollar. Great, Britain was let off with 72 cents on the dollar, France with 42, Italy 21. Belgium 46. and so on. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, thanks to its strangely paradoxical attitude on the debts question, the United States lost all credit for its very real generosity. U. S. Is Santa Claus Publicly, the administration rie- j liberately played the part of a cold, \ calculating Shylock. In reality it ! was only a good-natured Santa j Claus. In its public statements, cabled i around the. world, it was “making j ’em pay to the last red cent.” Actually it was saying to the allies: | ‘ Just pay us what you think you can spare.” Naturally enough. Europe in genet 1 and the allies in particular played up the Shylock role of Uncle Sam. We admitted, even boasted, | t hat we were hardboiled and t hat we j intended to collect our ounce of I flesh. And the world took us at our own j valuation. Accordingly Uncle Sam, | the Santa Claus, caught in his Shylock disguise, was roasted alive by public opinion. Americans, through their own fault, were execrated. The United States already has cancelled practically every cent of the actual war debts—which it now is admitted is what Washington | should have publicly stressed. But, 1 fearing the effect this might have 1 on domestic politics, it chose to conceal the facts instead. Farce to Be Re-Enacted France, for example, had borrowed approximately $4,000,000,000. Ot this amount. $2,350,000,000 was j borrowed during the war and $1.650 000,000 after the war. As the present, cash value, of her settlement is only $1,680,000,000. reckoned j Bt 5 per rent, in effect we have can- j celled her war debt and are asking ! her to pay only her post-war, or commercial obligation. This holds true of the rest of the i allied war debts, except that of i Britain. She having re-loaned most , of the money we let her have and arranged to get it back, with inter- i est, there was less reason to cancel as big a proportion of her indebted- j ness as. was done for some of the others. Despite the hatred and abuse incurred by the United States abroad because of the previous mishandling of the problem, there Is reason to believe the whole thing is on the point of being re-enacted. 8 DIE IN INDIAN REVOLT Fifty Others Are Wounded as Troops Clash With 500 ’Red Shirts’ By f nilid press PESHAWAR. India. Dec. 26. ; Eight persons were killed and fifty ; others, including the superintendent of police, were wounded today when soldiers fired on a crowd of 500 "red , shirts” followers of Abdul Ghaffir Khan, head of the anti-British movement among frontier tribesmen. The “red shirts” had gathered outside the Kohat cantonment, j When they refused to disperse, police charged, wielding long bamboo sticks. The crowd drove the police back and the military then opened fire. Road to Be Paved The state highway commission | has awarded a contract ‘o the j Midwest Construction Company, Flint, Mich., for paving 12.6 miles on Road 57 between Petersburg and Washington. The contract price was $199,491.91. Cripple Kills Self Py Time* Special ENGLISH. Ind.. Dec. 26.—Desti- j tute and with his wife ill, B. F. Linthicum. 55, Wickliffe, a crippled painter and paper hanger, died on Main street here after swallowing poison.

Santa Retires in Favor of Christmas Stork in Six Homes

I Jt $ Th* six. born in Indianapolis hos * . >#v. ; ** '% W Petals Christmas day, will have t #k $ ,/■ 4L v , * % * content themselves with one preser ' H I for each Christmas and their birth l?*' ' day. WM ' • > w p- ] First was a son born to Mr. an • A g I ft i Mrs. P. H. Collins, 3547 North Em : yjM' 'yjsL Jt m W f j erson avenue, at Methodist hospita v ' p- ff J Mr. and Mrs. John J. Fohle, 75

Upper Left—The Christmas daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bea, 340 South Randolph street, born at 4:16 Friday morning at William H. Coleman hospital. Upper Right—The daughter of Dr., and Mrs. John A. Graves. 5225 East. Tenth street, born Christmas afternoon at Coleman hospital. Lower —Miss Flora Smith, an assistant, supervisor at Methodist hospital, holding the 9-pound son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. La Rue, born Christmas afternoon.

CAPITAL CONFIDENT U. S. WILL RECOVER

Cure for Depression Means Bitter Doses to Make World Well Again. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pre-s Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—This troubled old world shuffles into a new year with woes aplenty but with confidence, so far as Washington is concerned, that if certain bitter doses are taken bravely, the patient will recover the more quickly and live to enjoy robust health again. Above all, Washington now would impress on the country that critical illness requires courageous and not always pleasant treatment. That, it is now felt here, must be realized thoroughly. For months, early in the depression, the administration sought a cure by the magic formula of repeating t,o the country that all would be well in sixty days. Now it is convinced that, the country will recover, but, not by sitting down to wait for something to turn up. Summing up the official view here. America is not bankrupt, but on the contrary has the same huge natural resources, the same business enterprise and ingenuity, and the same sturdy aggressive people it had three years ago. Cites Pregnant Facts But affairs are disjointed temporarily and the following facts must be clearly seen as obstacles to be met: All values have been slashed. Commodity prices are down to 1913 levels, some things, such as wheat being 20 per cent below. Total wage outlays are estimated to have declined at least 45 per cent below July, 1929. Business activity has declined probably 40 per cent from the 1929 peak. Dividends are off at least onethird. Exports, on a value basis, are 40 per cent below last year. Foreign buying power has been shattered. Germany has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy; England, Japan and several other countries have been forced off the gold standard; they no longer are good customers. Normally Cut Off Facing this situation, President Hoover has attempted such remedies as he can devise to help along the natural processes of recovery. Domestically his major recommendation is for the $2,000,000,000 reconstruction finance corporation. It would supply credit to railroads. banks and various industries which are cut off from normal sources of working funds. He has proposed adding $100,000,000 to the capital of the federal farm land

HOOVER CRITICISMS LAND MAN IN JAIL

City Judge Orders Mental Test for Fault-Finding •Democrat.’ Berating President Hoover cost Otto C. Schroeder, 42, Long Lake, Mich., a Christmas dinner Friday and today he was committed to the city hospital psychopathic ward for observation by Muncipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. C. W. Stewart, 1911 East Thirtyeighth street, was looking for a fourth man to whom he could* give a dinner Friday. He told the judge he met Schroeder in front of a downtown bank, where the latter was gazing at a picture of the President and his cabinet. “I don’t think Hoover's a citizen of the United States.” Schroeder said, according to Stewart'* usti-

banks to cope with mortgage foreI closures. He has proposed a system of home discount banks to ease the burdens of mortgaged home owners. Congress is rushing these measures Leaders in both parties, subordinating ordinary politics, are co-operat-ing. There is a general conviction in congress, regardless of party, that the administration's recovery mea- , sures must be supported. KIRBY PAGE TO SPEAK AT CLUB Editor, Lecturer to Address Group Here. Jan. 4. Kirby Page, magazine editor and j lecturer, will speak on "The Disarmament Conference and the. ; World Economic Situation” at a : luncheon of the Indiana Council of | International Relations Jan. 4 at 1 the Columbia Club, it was an- ! nounced today. j He also will attend informal dinner of members of .the council in j the Spink-Arms. Page will speak on I current happenings and their rela- ' tion to the peace movement. The ; talk at the Columbia Club will be i open to the public. In charge of arrangements for i the lecture is Dr. James A. Woodj burn, president of the council's j executive board. Sponsors include: E. T. Albertson. Bishop Edgar Blake, Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Mrs. A. T. Coate, I. C. Dawes. Rabbi M. M. Feuer- ! liclit, the Rev. George A. Franz, the Rev. I Father Francis Gavisk. Professor J. J. ; Haramv, Dr. Amos S Hershsv, Louis Howland, Dr. Frederick Kerschner, Dr. G. ! Bromley Oxnam. Dr. Tolbert Reavis. the Rev. W. A. Shullenbereer, Rabbi Milton Steinberg, J. F. Thornton and the Rev. | Frank S. C. Wicks. OFFICE TANGLE LOOMS Two Prosecutors May Share Some Posts; Law Not Clarified. | In the absence of a decision by the j supreme court on the validity of the 1929 prosecutor's election law, it ap- ; peared today several offices of prose- : luting attorneys throughout the state will be shared by two men after Jan. 1. The law* provided incumbents in thirteen circuits should remain in office an extra year in order that all prosecutors in the state would be elected in 1932 election. Acquitted of Slaying ENGLISH, Ind., Dec. 26.—A Crawford circuit court jury acquitted Gardner Hawkins. 35, Tobinsport, Ky.. of the slaying of Roy Little in Perry county July 19.

mony. "He was born in lowa of English parents. I'm a lawyer and Hoover's been an employe of the British government for twenty years. "What the President had better do is get jobs for some of the fellows out of work.” An elderly man, whose name was not obtained, joined Stewart and Schroeder. and the latter repeated his accusations, Stewart told the court. •‘There's an organization in this country that will get Hoover yet. Schroeder was alleged to have said. Asked in court today whether he was a Communist, Schroeder replied "I'm a Democrat.” Stewart said he called officers after Schroeder continued to criticise the President and his administration. "But I dicha't get that Christmas dinner,’ Schroeder told Cameron.

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One Infant Misses Yule Day by Only Five Minutes. | Christmas in years to come will mean a double celebration to six new residents of Indianapolis. The six, born in Indianapolis hospitals Christmas day, will have to : content themselves with one present for each Christmas and their birthday. First was a son born to Mr. and i Mrs. P. H. Collins, 3547 North Em- ! erson avenue, at Methodist hospital. I Mr. and Mrs. John J. Fohle, 755 | East Morris street, became parents of an eight-pound sen in St. Francis hospital at 4.07 a. m. Friday. Nine minutes later a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bea 340 South Randolph street, in Wil- | liam H. Coleman hospital. Shortly after noon a nine-pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. La Rue, 326 North Emerson avenue, in Methodist hospital. A j girl was born to Dr. and Mrs. John | W. Graves, 5225 East Tenth street, at 4:45 p. m. in Coleman hospital. The last to arrive was a girl born to Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Atkins, 1321 : North Meridian street, at 10:45 Fri- ' day night, in Methodist hospital. A seventh child, born to Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Mabrey, New Augusta, in Methodist hospital, at 11:55 p. m, Thursday, missed being a Christmas j j baby by only five minutes. IFIRE TRAPS 48 IN APARTMENTS Entire Family Killed; Five! Dead, Twelve Missing. I By United Pres* SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 26. j Fire enveloped the New Court | apartments early today, trapping j forty-eight roomers and killing at least five persons, including an entire. family. Police, predicted the death toll would be greater. A checkup several hours after the fire had leveled the building showed j that twelve persons were missing. ; The other thirty-one occupants, ; including several children, either j reached safety via fire escapes or i were carried over ladders by firemen. j The dead: Samuel Knight, janitor; Mrs. Samuel Knight; their infant daughter, 1; Robert North, 62, a porter, and one unidentified man. Shortly before noon firemen reported seeing what appeared to be two more bodies in the third floor ruins. A dozen persons remained unaccounted for, including John Kelly, arf elderly watchman; a man known | as “Whitie,” and a young couple assigned to a room less than two hours before the fire broke out. DIESEL TO BE STOPPED Oil-Burning Truck Has Shattered AH Continuous Run Records. Engine of the Cummins Diesel ! truck was to be stopped at the In- i dianapolis Motor Speedway this! afternoon at the completion ol ! fourteen days of continuous run- j I ning. At 10 today, the truck passed the I 14,425-mile mark at an average ' speed of 43.44 miles an hour. At 2 j this afternoon the truck will have gone approximately 14.583 miles. The • narks break all existing noni stop records. j Jay Chambers was at the wheel j of the vehicle in the last hours of j the run, and C. L. Cummins, in- ! ventor and builder, had returned today from Columbus, Ind., his home. Stolen Watch Found FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 26. A watch stolen from the home of i Isaac T. Bice here Nov. 16, was J found in a pile of leaves in a gut- : ter by Mrs George Dillow. The watch was presented to Bice thirty years ago. Young Athlete Killed JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Dec. 26. —Hollie Doughty, 17, star basketball player of the Silver Creek township high school, died in a hospital here as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

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NATION'S RELIEF NEEDS WILL BE TOLD CONGRESS Senate to Begin Hearings on La Follette-Costigan Bills Monday. B’i Serippg-Hmeant \ctcf paper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Several of the country's foremost adminisi trators of relief to the unemployed | have been asked to testify at the hearings which will begin Monday before the senate committee on manufacturers, on the Costigan and La Follette'bills for direct relief. The two measures have many points of similarity and agree in principle, although differing in details. Both embody the policy of making federal funds applicable to state or county agencies of relief, when such aid is requested by local governments in accordance with prescribed requirements. In the Costigan bill, the principle of federal aid as ndw used in financing public highways is employed, to encourage local governments to match a portion of the government’s funds with appropriai tions of their own. The La Follette measure would make $250,000,000 available at once: the Costigan act would appropriate $125,000,000 for the balance of the present fiscal year and $250,000,000 i for the next. j Among those asked to appear are ; Jacob Billikopf. director of the Federation of Jewish Charities, of Philadephia; Walter West, secretary of the American Association of Social Workers, of New York City; William Hodson of the New York ! Social Welfare Council of New York City; Paul Kellogg, editor of | the Survey, and Ralph Hurlin of the Russell Sage Foundation. The hearings are expected to throw accurate light on the ability or inability of private relief to meet the demands of the coming winter. HUGE SOM PAID BACK IN TAXES Four Firms’ Refunds Are More Than Million. By tailed Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The government is paying back to taxpayers $65,000,000 in tax refunds for the 1931 fiscal year. The treasury department sent to congress today the list of refunds as required by law. The total refunds for 1931 were approximately half those for 1930, which totaled $126,000,000. The Prairie Pipe Line Company. Independence, Kan., received the largest refund, $1,784,000. A subsidiary, the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, received an additional $531,000. The Illinois Central railroad collected $1,158,675, and the United Verde Copper Company of Arizona, $1,047,399. They were the only refunds over $1,000,000 although there were several over the half million dollar mark. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon received a refund on his personal income tax of $86,938. John D. Rockefeller collected a refund of $31,324 and John D. Rockefeller Jr., $1,804. CAR HURLED SEVERAL YARDS BY FREIGHT Cuts and Bruises Only Injuries in Crossing Crash. Three persons narrowly escaped death today when their car was hurled several yards by a freight train at the Morris street crossing of the Belt railroad. Frank Simpson, 23, of Orleans, Ind., sustained arm cuts, and his wife, Phyllis, 18, and Mrs. A, J. Gardner, 53, of Campbellsburg, were shaken. Simpson claimed there was no warning signal of the train’s approach. although other witnesses claimed the signal lights were flashing. The car was hurled from the j track by the B. & O. train and barely missed the shanty of B. F. Uhl, Bridgeport, Indianapolis Street Railway Company flagman. H. O. Newton, 59 North Mount street, was conductor, and Patrick ! Brooks, 2400 West Washington ! street, engineer of the train. THIEVES DISAPPOINTED Break Irto Autos, but Find Loot Hardiy W’orth Effort. Meager gains rewarded automobile looters Friday night, according to reports to police today. Mrs. Melesa K. Polk, 5276 Pleasant Run boulevard, informed officers an umbrella and clothes, valued at $25, was stolen from her car. Other thefts were reported by Ira J. Baker, 5328 Burgess avenue, and Carl Sommer, 1132 Pleasant street. Baker said thieves smashed a window in his car to steal a s2l overcoat and Sommer said clothing valuel at $lO was taken from his car.

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Life of Elephant Saved by Portland Mayor as Beast Goes on Rampage

Halts Tusko’s Foray, After Police Decree Death. BY HERBERT LUNDY United Press Staff Correspondent PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 26. ; Tusko, biggest of them all, trumpeted at a firing squad of determined policemen today, his life saved by a Frank Merriwell finish ' staged by Mayor George Baker. The largest elephant in captivity i went Berserk Christmas day and started on another of the gigantic stress which have marked his fiftytwo years of life, but today he again was docile. He snapped all but one of the heavy chains which circled his legs, j tore his trunk from the chain which | lashed it to his broken tusks, knocked a partition on his slumbering owners, and pushed a wall out of the building which housed him. He stood triumphantly with a wicked glitter in his pig-like eyes amid the wreckage of his home. Death Is Ordered A six-ton, apparently crazed elephant, held in leash by a single chain, appeared bent on destroying everything in sight. He was virtually in the center of the east side Portland business district. Jack O'Grady and Bayard (Sleepy) Gray, who bought Tusko for his feed bill after he had been abandoned at the Oregon state fair, lost no time in calling police. Chief Leon Jenkins took one look at the situation and ordered Tusko killed. Lives and property might be *ori feited if Tusko freed himself of the last chain. It was then, however, that Mayor Baker entered the drama. Chief Jenkins telephoned him, announcj ing that a picked rifle squad of ten police marksmen was about to dispatch Tusko. They hesitated only because they feared spra3dng lead near busy street. Portland takes its pets seriously and Mayor Baker knows it. The riflemen were stayed. And Tusko caught the spirit of the occasion himself. When he crashed through the wall, the warm sunshine calmed his shattered nerves, on edge from months of close confinement, and a lack of pachyderm companionship. Caught in Trap Apples, carrots and hay were tossed to him. He devoured them. He amused himself by tearing large sections of sheet iron from the wrecked wall. Late in the day, with the single chain still holding out, but with motorcycle side cars on which submachine guns were mounted standing by for an elephant hunt, Tusko was conquered. A huge cable loop was hidden under hay. Tusko stepped into the trap, and a winch mounted on a truck tightened ' the bond. Other legs were trapped then, and Tusko was forced back into the building. , Mayor Baker planned to propose an appropriation to build Tusko a roomy, steel fence inclosure when the council met today. For Tusko is a figure of importance in Portland. FORMER CITY MAN DIES IN PITTSBURGH W. P. Shooler, Brother of Local Woman, Succumbs; Burial Here. Word has been recived by Mrs. John Cade, 3933 Broadway, of the death of her brother, W. P. Shooler : of Pittsburgh, formerly buyer in the men’s furnishing department of ; Pettis Dry Goods Company. Mr. Shooler died Friday in Pitts- ! burgh, where he was merchandise j manager in the downstairs store of ! Gimbel Brothers. Funeral services will be held on 1 Monday at 3:30 in Flanner & Bu-| chanan mortuary, with burial in' Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Shooler is surivived by the widow, three children, his parents and a sister in Kansas City. Mo. He was a member of the Pentalpha lodge of Masons and Scottish Rite of Boston, Mass. MANY GIFTS SENT TO INJURED ATHLETE Friends at Tech Remember Taylor, Hurt on Gridiron. Friends of Tommy Taylor, Technical high school football olayer, injured in the Tech-Manual"game, Oct. 23, "came, bearing gifts,” Friday. Tommy, who is suffering from two broken vertebrae, received friends all day long. Gifts included books and flowers Christmas eve, members of the Tech Concert Club sang Christmas carols and presented him with a small Christmas tree decorated with tinsel and lights. Tommy is much improved, following his day of Christmas greetings, according to Miss Wilma Sha,ull, his private nurse.

No Go, Officer By United Pres * WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 —A young Washington woman has learned by experience that it pays to know a foreign language. Stopped by a traffic officer after she had passed a red light, she listened in blank silence vhile he lectured her at length, then responded in perfect finishing school French: "Je ne comprends pas un met.” The disgusted policeman replied: “Ah, you’ie just another ot them oreigners,’’ and let her go. after pointing repeatedly at a red light and saving, slowly and distinctly: "Red, no go; red, no go.”

YODNG ZIONISTS RESUME FARLEY Butler Avukah Chapter Is Host to Sessions. The Avukah, American student Zionist federation, holding its sixth national convention in Indianapolis, today was in second-day sessions at the Beth-EP temple, Thirty-fourth and Ruckle streets, and tonight the organization will frolic at its forma] dance at the Antlers, The convention opened Friday at Kirshbaum Center. Business sessions were to be held this afternoon with papers being given by David Jacobson, Albert Bilgray and Cyrus Weiler of Hebrew Union college, Cincinnati, and by Solomon Abramov of Western Reserve college, Cleveland. Business sessions are to be held Sunday morning at Kirshbaum Center, and officers will be elected in the afternoon, following the address of Rabbi Bernard Heiler of the University of Michigan Hillei foundation. The conclave will close Sunday night with a mass meeting at the Kirshbaum, Rabbi Julius Gordon of St. Louis delivering the principal address. Mrs. Goldie Meyerson, a member of the delegation from the Palestine Federation of Labor, also will speak, and Cantor Myro Glass of Beth-El temple will give several Hebrew musical numbers. The Butler university chapter is host to the parley. AX WIELDER’S"wiFE~ THREATENS REVENGE “I'll Be Here Next,” Spouse Says as Judge Frees Husband. When George Walker, Negro, 709 West St. Clair street, isn’t working he's mean, says his wife, and when he’s mean he wields a mean ax. So today he appeared before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer on the charge of assault and battery made by his wife, beside whom Walker appeared dwarf-like. She told police "George is a good man, except when he isn’t working, and then he gets awful mean.” Because Walker had no money with which to buy Christmas gifts for his children he marred the day of peace and quiet by swinging an ax at them, the wife said. Mrs. Walker said she wasn’t hit “because she “got out of the way, quick.” Charges were dismissed against Walker, Sheaffer was awarded the ax and Mrs. Walker left the parting remark: “I’ll be m here next because I'm going to kill that man.” Shortage Probe Planned By Times Special MARION, Ind., Dec. 26,—Mayor Jack Edwards announces an investigation will be made tp determine what became ot $1,885 missing from funds of the city water department. Everett McAtee, former chief clerk of the department, was acquitted this week of embezzling the money.

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WIFE OF KIDNAP SUSPECT URGES HIM TO GIVE UP Alleged Leader of Kansas City Woman’s Abductors, in Canada, Belief. 1 By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 26. Complete solution of the kidnaping of Kansas City's leading business woman, Mrs. Neii Quinlan Donnelly, rests with an attractive, middle-aged nurse, police believed today. Mrs. Ethel Depew, wife of Marshall Depew, alleged leader of the i daring gang of abductors, will be returned here from Gloomsburg, ! Pa., where she was arrested shortly after her husband left there. He is believed hiding across the Canadian i border from Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Depew admitted she served as nurse to Mrs. Donnelly’s husband a year ago. Police believe she supplied kidnapers with ini formation regarding the Donnelly ! family and household to make possible the plot. Three other members of.the gang ■ already are in jail here. Lacy Browning and Paul Scheldt, Kansas farmers, admitted they were to receive $6,000 of the $75,000 ransom money for supplying a house where j the abductors could hold Mrs. Donnelly. Charley Mplc. hotel clerk and j convicted bootlegger, was identified j by Mrs. Donnelly as one of the two 1 men who stood guard over her for the thirty-six hours she was held ; before her release. “I think I will be able to get my husband to surrender, if we only can find him,” Mrs. Depew told officers. “I'm not going to fight extradition back to Missouri as I want to face this thing and get it over with. I am innocent.” Mrs. Donnelly, millionaire manunfacturer of house dresses and , aprons, was released unharmed although the kidnapers had | threatened to blind her if her husband refused to pay the $75,000 they demanded. GLASTONBURY THORN AGAIN BLOSSOMS Legendary Sprout From Holy Staff Fulfills Tradition. By V nited Pri’xx WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The “holy thorn of Glastonbury” blossomed Friday in the close of Washington cathedral, thereby living up to the tradition that it “blossoms at Christmas, mindful of our Lord," as Tennyson described it. Tennyson wrote of the original Glastonbury thorn tree at Glastonbury, England, said by legend to have sprouted from the staff of : Joseph of Arimathea, in whose family vault Jesus Christ was under- | stood to have been buried. According to the legend, Joseph went to | England late in life as an evangelist. When he reached what now is Glastonbury, he stuck his staff in the ground. The story has it that the staff took root, grew into quite a tree, and blossomed every year at Christ - i mas. A Puritan fanatic cut it down !in the sevententh century, but ifc grew up again. The cutting in Washington, planted thirty years ago, first bloomed on Christmas, 1918, after the end of the World war. NICK ALEXANDER DIES Kahn Employe Had Resided in City Twenty-Five Years. Nick Alexander, 52, a native of Asia Minor, died early today at} his residence, 973 North West street, after an illness of two months. He was a resident of Indianapolis 25 years. Funeral services will be held at 2 Monday afternoon at the Greek Orthodox church, 231 North West street. Mr. Alexander was an employe of the Kahn Tailoring Company for several years. Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander; a sister, Mrs. Angella Paris, and a brother, Harry Alexander.