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John Langdnn-Davies Here is a drawing by Dorothea Tarrot of John Langdon-Davies, who has just written “Man Comes of Age.” It is published by Harper and Brothers. a a a BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. HAVE Just received word from Noble & Noble, publishers of Mew York, that they are very proud of anew publication, “101 Ways to Entertain Your Child.” Here Is a unique arrangement of enough entertainment to cover a period of twenty-eight days as the book is divided into as many parts. One good feature of the programs Js that the material needed is not expensive. Even the playthings suggested are done so that the child will not lose Interest in them. Another publication of this firm which will interest teachers is “Complete Washington Programs for Every Grade.” This will appeal to those who are planning programs for the Washington bicentennial. a a a Harry a. alpert, 820 south Meridian street, is the winner of this week’s book review. He reviews "Gods of Yesterday,” by James Warner Bellah and published by D. Appleton & Cos., as follows : In “Gods of Yesterday." Mr. Bellah brings to his readers the types and characters of a number of the World War airmen. The contest of their attitudes toward life is shown very clearly, although the life of a war aviator is as uneventful on** day as it is thrill filled the next. The nißht before some large attack they are Joyous, singing, merry; not a thought is spent upon the morrow. But on the next riav they are calm and willing, some even eager, to fly into the very face of death. This book is a group of seven short stories. Each story narrates the adventurese of some English. French. Scotch or American air ace. The names are probably fictitious, but their exploits are far more interesting than any fictitious narratives could ever seem to be. "Fear” is the account of a young Englishman’s battle to overcome the most terrible feeling encountered in the war—the fear of fear. How a bov in his teens becomes a weathered, sad. middle-aged man during the course of three months of air warfare is described vividly through the story of this rookie rider of the clouds. Next to the airmen are their mechanics —men to curse, to command, to punish end then to discard. One story tells of the love of a mechanic for his' pilot, an ace who treated his mechanic as human which was a rare exception during those days of ragged-edged nerves. The pilot Is killed, and the lowly 'grease monkey’s' magnificent struggle to 'get even’ forms the nucleus of an inspiring narration. All of the stories describe in detail some manner of aerial warfare. Dog fights, calm air raids, fights among squadrons! and others—each in its turn grips the reader and holds him in fear or in jov throughout the well-told narrative. As soon as Mr. Alpert gets In touch with this department, he will have the choice of one good book out of several.

SAY what you may of Tiffany Thayer, but he never bores his reader. That has been the plaint of many reviewers who call it his only merit, and his newest book, “The Greek,” is no exception in that respect from “Thirteen Men” and “Call Her Savage.” Thayer has his own ideas about Utopia and he brings them about through an almost bloodless revolution, in which Greece seizes the United States under the benevo-lent-dictatorship of Emperor Paris I with Thayer as attorney-general. First act of the new regime is abolition of prohibition; funerals are banned; advertising in any form is prohibited, and book publishers are made to bootleg their wares so America may be made to read. His "reforms” are innumerable and ingenious. Distinctly not recommended to members of the Anti-Saloon League, W. C. T. U., the clergy, or the D. A. R. ff n AMATEUR photography fans will devour “The Sweepstake Murders,” by J. J. Connington, latest mystery offering of Little, Brown & Cos. Nine participants at a stag bridge party form a syndicate and purchase one ticket in the Hospital Sweepstakes lottery on the British Derby. The syndicate’s horse runs second. making the lottery winning more than $1,000,000. One of the syndicate accidentally is killed in an air liner crash increasing each of the others’ shares. The syndicate's funds arc tied up in the courts. One by one, members of the syndicate are murdered in what apparently are accidents, until only four are left. A photographic alibi that was “too perfect” was the murder's alibi. A trifle technical, but ingenious premise. A STATEMENT that King George ' of England threatened to abdicate during a cabinet crisis over the Irish question just before the World war is told in Ford Maddox Ford’s new book of reminiscences, "Return to Yesterday,” published today. He quotes the late C. F. G. Masterman, then Liberal prime minister of England, as his authority. ANEW publishing house, the Roman Press, is bringing out as its first book a Hitherto untranslated novel by Gustave Flaubert called “November.” The novel is autobiographical and never was published until after the author’s death.

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NATION-WIDE WAR STARTED ON HOARDING Homer McKee, Indianapolis Advertising Man, One of Campaign Generals. SEEK SLACKER DOLLARS Drive Expected to Prove Needed Tonic for U. S. Business. (Copyright. 1933. bv United Press) CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—A call to arms was sounded over the nation today, in a mighty war against the depression. President Hoover's leaders of the whirlwind campaign announced as the battlefield every city, hamlet and rural community of the country and the weapon as $1,500,000,000 in low-priced, interest-bearing bonds. The drive, backed by the united forces that swept billions into the government’s war-time coffers, will strike at the heart of money-hoard-ing, which has frozen credit and laid a clammy hand on industry. In a stripped-for-action office high in a Chicago newspaper building, the generals of the offensive revealed their plans, simple but farreaching. Homer McKee Is Leader Commander-in-chief is Colonel Frank Knox, sandy-haired newspaper publisher, who puffed at his pipe in the bare room furnished with battered desks as his colleagues outlined the campaign. Released temporarily from his duties as vice-president of the Pullman Company, James Keeley actively will direct the multiple forces shifting into 'action. His helpers are John N. Van Der Vries of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Homer McKee, who was a newspaper cartoonist in Indianapolis before he became a nationally known advertising man. "Nobody but the newspapers and the army could do a job as fast as this,” said McKee. That is what is proposed—an army in which citizens .and their dollars will fight side by side to drive out depression. The fight is on two fronts. First to force money hidden by fear in safe deposit vaults, under matresses and in backyard burying places into circulation. Second, to educate citizens in the function of credit and the far-reaching effects which panicky withdrawal of bank deposits will exert on business. Draft Every Agency All the resources of modem business have been drafted into the depression fighting forces. The press, banks, chambers of commerce, labor unions, fraternal societies, the American Legion, and religious organizations have been called to serve on a war-time basis. For three weeks a barrage will be laid down on the hoarded dollars and their owners. Appeals by every possible medium will be made to educate and enlist citizens. The campaign will be carried into factories and homes and through every degree of society. Bonds as Low as $lO A seven-day “push” will follow the three-week preparation in a drive which the leaders feel positive will tear the depression-frozen dollars from hiding and release a tremendous flow of credit into business’ hardened arteries. Each dollar put back into circulation automatically is multiplied by ten in credit, Colonel Knox explained. The exact character of government securities to, be sold will be determined by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills within a few days. But it already has been decided that denominations will be as small as $lO, that they will bear interest, and that, at least in the smaller denominations they will be readily negotiable for cash. President Hoover himself will usher in the week’s sales drive in a radio address over a nation-wide hookup at the zero hour.

FACTORIES REPORT GAINS IN BUSINESS

BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times An industrial and business survey of Indiana for the week ended today reveals encouraging developments at Elwood, Beech Grove, Cayuga. Columbia City, Washington, Michigan City and South Bend. Operations will be started Monday in all departments of the American tinplate mills at Elwood on a half _ time basis. After being closed for several months, operations have been resumed in the Acme Brick plant at Cayuga. Thirty men are at work. Announcement was made during the week that 1,200 men will be given employment Feb. 15 when operations are resumed in locomotive shops of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Beech Grove. The shops have been idle since Dec. 1. An order for 53.000 yards of upholstering to be used in Hupmobile automobiles, has been placed with the Columbian Woolen Mills. Columbia City. With 550 persons on the pay roll, operations of the Reliance Manufacturing Company at Washington, are on full-time basis. Two orders for a total of 8.000 refrigerators. received by the Cabranette Corporation of Michigan City, will assure steady employment to sixty-five men for the next six months. An announcement by the Bendix Aviation Corporation states that an order to close its wheel and brake division plant at South Bend has been rescinded and operations will continue at least until April 15. An addition is being built to the

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JUST LIKE LINCOLN City Reads by Light of Candles

ABE LINCOLN, whose birth the nation observes today, started his climb to the presidential chair by studying by firelight. On the north side of Indianapolis Thursday night, there were hundreds of Lincolns, who ate dinner, read and stumbled around their homes by firelight, candlelight and coal oil lamps. Those hundreds had no ambitions for the presidential chair. Their ambitions were to hear Amos ’n’ Andy.

AIRPORT BRIDGE TO BE RELAYED County Unable to Share Elevation Cost Now. Interest in affording the best possible entrance to the new municipal airport, the city works board has written county commissioners soliciting their opinion regarding proposed construction of an overhead bridge over the Pennsylvania tracks on High School road. Increased traffic due to the airport’s development, has enhanced dangers made by a sharp turn leadI ing from the present bridge to the T. H., I. & E. traction tracks near by. The proposed project would cost approximately SIOO,OOO. This expense would be shared by the city, county and railroad company. Commissioners said they indorsed the proposal of the works board, but would hesitate to have the county assume any financial responsibility In the matter at this time. “We think that the project is a much needed one. However, the county can not undertake such financial obligation at this time,” Dow W. Vorhies, commissioners’ board president, said. Commissioners Thomas Ellis and George Snider concurred. ESPIONAGE DEFENDED Major Yardley Cites Need at Town Hall Talk. “If we are too virtuous to use the same methods of espionage used by other nations, then we had better stop meddling in far eastern and European politics,” Major Hebert O. Yardley, Worthington, Ind., said at English’s today before a Town Hall audience. Yardley was chief of the cryptographic bureau of the United States military intelligence before this bureau was eliminated by Secretary of State Stimson on the ground that the methods employed were “unethical.” The speaker said he would not admit the methods were unethical, but indicated that Stimson “would not have made such a rank failure” at certain foreign conferences if he had known what certain statesmen were thinking. locaTpair accused IN TOLEDO ROBBERIES Returned to Ohio to Face Charges for Two Bank Holdups. Two Indianapolis men, charged with participating in robbery of two Toledo (O.) banks, were returned today, after Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker released them to Toledo detectives. Testimony before Judge Baker Thursday afternoon showed the men were held here in connection with an automobile theft and holdup* They were Edward Lee, 30, of 505 North Noble street, and Earl Roberts, 30, of 1410 Deloss street, arrested here a week ago. Police said each had served ten years in state reformatory at Pendleton. They had been on parole four months. More than $3,300 was taken from the Toledo banks, robbed Dec. 28, 1931, and Jan. 2, 1932. Two other bandits caught several weeks ago, are reported to have implicated Lee and Roberts. Dynamite Fails to Explode Vandals tossed a stick of dynamite into a poolroom at 1656 English avenue, early today, but the charge failed to explode, Ralph Collier, owner, reported to detectives. Collier said the fuse had burned half way.

plant of the Pitman-Moore Company- at Zionsville. A million dollars will be brought into the community surrounding Decatur next fall through operation of the plant formerly owned by the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company, which will be leased by the Great Lakes Sugar Company of Toledo, O. Contracts have already been signed with sugar beet growers.

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932

For, at 5:45, as the news gatherer of a national magazine was to broadcast, lights in hundreds of homes went out. In others, nearby the lights flickered and faded, but came back strong. In those fifteen minutes before the two-man blackface team in New York was to tell about its new car and Lightnin’ was to make phone love to his girl, the $40,000,000 Indianapolis utility that cheated its public of the broadcast . received hundreds of calls. a a a GIRLS on the switchboard at the Indianapolis Power and Light Company tossed aside their phone operator’s personality and replied to

Twas a great break for the lovers, anyhow . .. pleas, demands and curses with vim and vigor. “What’s the matter with the lights?” hundreds asked. “They’ll be on in a few minutes.” And, as that conversation took place, you could hear other girls on the exchange telling others the same. But 6 came and went. Candles dipped their wax on tablecloths and housewives did their best in kitchens and dining rooms. In the civilized sections of the city where lights were on, the fifteen minutes of Amos ’n’ Andy passed peacefully. But in the belt of darkness, condemnation of the utility heaped high. a a a AFTER an hour, the residents despaired. But still several hundreds called the light company. The reply now was that “lights will be on in a little while.” Beer in electric ice boxes got

Stumbled about their homes by firelight . . . warm. And the light of candles fell on electric clocks that had stopped at 5M5. Street lights remained untouched by the light trouble, which, an official of the company who had to pass up a church dinner and recruit men to do repair work, said was caused by a transformer which failed. Two hours after the last flicker, the lights still were not on. Most of the residents, tired of candlelights, went to movies or for rides, leaving dishes unwashed. ana OTHERS visited across the street or around the corner, where lights on another circuit shone in defiance. Shortly before 9 the lights returned. The affected district was north of Thirty-fourth street on Illinois, Capitol, Kenwood, Graceland and several streets west. The condition

Tired of candlelight ... they went to the movies . . , struck the high and low, with candles flickering in homes in the wealthy section on North Illinois street and in little cottages on Graceland avenue. The transformer break also darkened the west side of Illinois street as far south as Fall creek, while lights blazed on the east aide. Arrest Follows Booze Raid Robert Walsh, 141 West Twentieth street, faces trial today on a Hind tiger charge after police raid 3 his home Thursday, claiming they confiscated thirty-one quarts of home brew’.

BISHOP CANNON WINS IN FIGHT ON INDICTMENT District of Columbia Judge Sustains Demurrer in Campaign Case. APPEAL TO BE TAKEN None of Counts Alleges Any Criminal Offense, Jurist Rules. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Justice J. M. Proctor, in District of Columbia supreme court today, sustained the demurrers of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Miss Ada L. Burroughs to indictments charging them with violation of the federal corrupt practices act. The indictments grew out of the investigation by a senate committee of Cannon’s activities against Alfred E. Smith in the 1928 presidential campaign. The ruling of Justice Proctor has the effect of quashing the indictments, unless it is reversed by a higher court. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, in charge of the prosecution, said he would appeal to the District of Columbia court of appeals. The demurrer was sustained on the ground that none of the counts in the indictment against Cannon alleged any criminal offense. The Cannon case grew out of testimony before the senate committee investigating campaign expenditures. It was alleged that Cannon received some $65,000 for expenditures in Virginia, where he, a Democrat, was fighting the candidacy of Alfred E. Smith for President in 1928. Os this amount, it was contended only a portion was accounted for in reports filed by Cannon’s organization with the clerk of the house of representatives. The law requires reports of all campaign expenditures, it was argued. The testimony was placed before a federal grand jury here last fall and an indictment charging violation of the corrupt practices act was returned. Cannon pleaded not guilty and filed a demurrer. He argued that the campaign involved the selection of presidential electors and that presidential electors are state, and not federal, officers. Therefore, he contended, no federal statute requiring reports ol campaign expenditures applied.

CONTRACT r- HowTo Score It SIDMDGL©

BY WM. E. M’KENNEY ' Secretary, American Bridge League T TNDOUBTEDLY, the scoring of contract has been the most confusing factor to the beginner. While there is nothing really complicated about it, there is a lot more to contract bridge scoring than there was to auction, and if you will remember, you did have to learn hew to score at auction. To play contract successfully, you must understand thoroughly how to score it. So that our readers will become thoroughly familiar with contract scoring, we will present a series of six articles showing how to score a double rubber at contract bridge. Practically every situation that can arise at the bridge table will be explained in this short series. We suggest that you clip the articles for future reference. Try scoring a rubber at contract yourself. If a situation comes up that puzzles you, these articles will clear the situation for you. Beside each figure in the score you will find a small letter in parentheses. Following is the detailed information on each of the various scoring problems. We will call the “We” side North and South, and the “They” side East and West. (a) Bid One—Made One—Opponents Hold Honors North and South get the contract for one no trump. Only one no trump is made, therefore North and South score 35 points in their point or trick score, below the line. East, however, held four aces in his hand, therefore East and West score 150 points above the line in their honor score. (b) Bid Two—Made Four The final contract for North and South was two spades. They made four spades, but as only two spades' were bid, just two can be scored toward game, therefore below the

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BRAND SHERIFF AS BANDIT AID Jurors Told Blackford Cos. Official Helped Robbers. By United Press PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 12.—A description of Ira Barton’s actions last Dec. 24, the day the First State bank of Dunkirk was robbed, was before a jury today as the state presented additional testimony designed to show that Barton was an accessory to the holdup. Barton at the time was sheriff of Blackford county. Three officials of the Dunkirk bank described the robbery, A few minutes before the holdup, Mayor John White of Dunkirk testified, Barton was at the city building inquiring as to the whereabouts of the chief of police.

line in the trick score, North and South score 30 points each for the two spades bid and made, or 60 points. As they made four spades, they score the two overtricks above the line in their honor score at 50 points each, or 100 points. North and South now have 95 points toward game. (Convrieht. 1932. NEA Service. Inc.)

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Killer First in Quarter of Century to Go From Here to Doom. A pale young man who resembled a college student rather than a twice-convicted murderer, who sneered when he heard his death sentence pronounced, trembled from head to foot today when he left Marion county jail for death row at state prison. His hands shook as he extended them and handcuffs snapped. His lower lip quivered as he talked, and he shivered w’ith cold and nervousness when he was placed in the car that took him to Michigan City. He was Charles Vernon Witt, convicted 27-year-old slayer of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store chief. Witt is scheduled to die in the prison electric chair Aug. 1. First in Years From Here If the supreme court fight of that nervous, thin young man fails, he will be the first ever to die on a conviction from the Boone county court at Lebanon, and the first in nearly a quarter-century to pay with his life for a crime committed in Indianapolis. The shadows of the gallows of the early 90’s, which stood in the old jail yard, near the present courthouse, seemed to fall in step behind Witt in the early morning light as he walked to the automobile of Sheriff Wilbur Small. Only deputy sheriffs, a newspapaper man and a photographer attended the killer’s departure today. „ Worries About Weather “It is very cold out this morning?” Witt asked. “Pretty chilly,” he was told. The gunman hunched his topcoat over his shoulders. “I guess it’ll be warm enough in the car, though,” he said. “Yeah, I’m feeling fine. I kind of hate to leave down here.” His hands trembled and his lower lip quivered while he talked. He shifted nervously from one foot to the other. Small, and Ernest Richardson and William Warren, deputies, strolled to the car with Witt. There the slayer received the surprise of his trip and, perhaps, his life. In addition to the handcuffs, Small locked leg shackles on the convict. Leg Irons Snapped On The shackles, dug out of the archives of the Marion county jail, are attached by a heavy chain less than two feet long. Witt was jammed into the rear seat of the car between Richardson and Warren while Small drove. He stared intently at Small while the sheriff attached the leg irons. “Well,” he said, “I don’t know whether I’ll see any of you boys again or not. I’m going to take care of myself. I might get a break before it happens.” Louis E. Hamilton, alleged “trigger man” of the slaying, which took place May 27, 1931, still is in Jail here, pending trial at Lebanon. Witt went to the state prison at Michigan City today with two murders laid to him. Less than three years ago he was serving a life sentence for the slaying of a Kansas City deputy sheriff, but escaped from the penitentiary. Branded as “tough” by authorities, Witt appeared far more nervous than the ordinary prisoner today.

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POPE’S PRAYER APPEALS FOR WORLDJ’EACE Pontiff’s Broadcast Viewed Inspiration to Geneva Arms Parley. CORONATION OBSERVED Pageantry Marks Scene at St. Peter’s Tomb Before Huge Audience, BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Corresoondent VATICAN CITY, Feb. 12.—Pope Pius Xi appealed today for “peace which now seems to escape the searches of men.” His message was broadcast through the Vatican City radio station on the tenth anniversary of the Pope's coronation. Unfavorable conditions prevented the speech from being picked up across the Atlantic. The pontiff’s remarks were considered an inspiration to world disarmament delegates now meeting at Gene va. The plea for peace was made in circumstances reminiscent of the actual coronation of Pius XI. The Pope sat on a throne high above the multitude before the tomb of St. Peter. His tiara was removed during his speech, then replaced by Cardinal Laurenti. The pontiff, wearing his pontifical robes and his triple crown, was carried to St. Peter’s on a throne chair in a colorful scene suggesting the court of a potentate of ancient times. He was preceded by the Swiss guards in brilliant uniforms, and bearers of the “flabellae" waved their large ostrich feather fans on each side of the chair. Thinks Providence The pope addressed his remarks to “many of our dear sons who desire to hear from afar—as you, my dear sons, who are near me—the voice of the father and have from the vigor of Christ the word of faith and comfort." “We thank providence for giving us the joy of this celebration in a moment of such trial and great suffering for the mass of the people and such anxiety for their governors in a moment of such painful search for peace and means to assure it. “The Holy Virgin, whose miraculous apparition we celebrated Thursday, inspires us to satisfy our pious desires and invite the far-off sons to offer prayer to God,” the pope said. “We ask pardon in the spirit of penitence for our sins. We present our tribulations to God’s infinite mercy asking him for peace which now seems to escape the searches of men.” The pontiff descended from his private apartments into the vestment hall, and after receiving the homage of the cardinals assembled there, donned his pontifical robes, over which he wore the rich and flowing “faldistoria.” a mantle woven in red and gold. Pope Blesses Crowd While the pope was being robed, a colorful procession formed outside the vestment hall to escort him to St. Peter’s. Secret chamberlains, consistorial attorneys, notaries and prelates formed the first section of the cortege and they were followed by bishops, archbishops and cardinals. The pope blessed the crowd assembled at St. Peter’s as he passed along in his throne chair. Behind him came the noble guard, members of the Rome aristocracy and the Palatine guard. The procession re-formed after mass and the papal allocution. The holy father received the homage and congratulations of the cardinals and high Vatican authorities at the vestment hall. “We invite the dearest sons to pray with the words of the sacred liturgy itself, which the church, as the incomparable mistress of prayer, puts in our mouths and hearts, and recommends for our meditation. Let us pray in perfect union of mind and heart for this most necessary peace,” the pontiff said. Gives Apostolic Blessing The pope then prayed in Latin and gave the apostolic benediction, “Urbis et orbis,” or to “the city and the world.” Crowds in Rome and near the Vatican heard the speech through loudspeakers. Many knelt in the streets. Mrs. Rachele Mussolini, wife of the premier, attended the services incognito. Cardinal Laurenti stood at the I pope’s right. Cardinal Bisletl at his left, and Monsignor Carlo Respighi, master of ceremonies, behind the throne. The pope spoke in a low voice, but showed evidence of his excellent health for his 74 years. The microphone was not visible to the crowd. Few Hear Broadcast By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—The papal blessing of Pope Pius XI, broadcast from Vatican City’s radio station, HVJ, at 5 a. m. (central time) today, was picked up by only a few short wave set operators in the United States, according to officials of the National Broadcasting Company. Climatic conditions over the Atlantic and along the eastern coast made for poor reception, they reported. ROOSEVELT FILES AGAIN New York Governor Enters Primary Race in Georgia. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 12.—Governor Franklin D Roosevelt formally has entered nis name in the Georgia presidential preference primary of March 23, Major John S. Cohen, Democratic national committeeman from Georgia, announced here today.