Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1932 — Page 3

FEB. 17, 1932_

TRENCHES SAVE CHINESE FROM SWIFT DEFEAT Japanese Need Bigger Guns to Rout Shanghai Foe, Says General Butler. Thii U the (bird of i irrlri of interrlf with Major General Smedley D. Butler. C. 8. M. C. retired, who commanded a brirade of American marine* at Shanehai durlnt 1927, *2B and ’29. BY PAUL COMLEY FRENCH United Pres* Staff Corresnondent (Convrlsht. 1932. bv United Prerst NEWTON SQUARE, Pa., Feb. 17. —Chinese troops have learned the defensive value of trenches, MajorGeneral Smedley D. Butler declared as we discussed the military situation around Shanghai, before the former marine leader left on a lecture tour in Texas. ‘The World war first demonstrated the defense value of trenches,” Butler told me. “While a study of military history throughout the ages will reveal the use of trenches for centuries, it was not until the World war that they became such an important means of defense. “That fact, together with the increased fighting ability of the Chinese regulars and their heightened morale, is largely responsible for the stubborn resistance they have made at the Woosung forts and in Chapei. Bigger Guns Needed “Naturally trenches can be demolished like other fortifications with the proper artillery and the most effective thing the Japanese can do from the military standpoint will be to take over heavier guns from home. ' Even with the use of bigger guns, tbn Chinese can hold on for a long time.” Properly constructed trenches can stand a lot of hammering by field artillery,” he said, “as well as concentrated fire from naval vessels. Apparently the Chinese have learned that fact or they would have been driven out by the first barrage laid down by the Japanese fleet. China’s Strength Puzzle “Despite the fact that I know the terrain and the general defensive and offensive characteristics of the ground around Shanghai and out to the Woosung forts, it is rather hard to arrive at a very accurate picture of the possibilities of the Chinese repelling the Japanese without knowing the number of men on both sides and their equipment. “Frequently a well disciplined force, properly equipped, can defeat many times its number of poorly trained opponents. It looks as though the Japanese have about everything needed for a modern military campaign. What the Chinese have or will be able to obtain, is a question. “And on the point will hinge the continued Chinese defense of Shanghai.” PARHAM ANNOUNCES SHERIFF CANDIDACY Ex-Policeman Seeks Democratic Nomination in May 3 Primary. Carl J. Parham, 846 Fletcher av- < nue, independent Democrat, has announced for the Democratic nomination for sheriff in the May 3 primary. He is the owner of the Parham Manufacturing and Sales Company and also manager of the State Adjustment Bureau. Parham was a member of the police force in 1928 and 1929, is married and has two children. HEALTH CHIEF WARS ON MILK PEDDLERS Mi rgan Starts Drive Against Housc-to-House Bucket Sales. War on peddlers who dispense milk from house to house in buckets and cans has been renewed by Dr. H. G. Morgan, city health of-

licer. Morgan has sent letters to all milk companies asking them not to sell unpasteurized milk or unbottlcd milk to peddlers. Sale of bulk milk on the streets is insanitary and can not be tolerated, he asserted. LESLIE AT DEDICATION Attends Ceremony at School as Political Aid’s Guest. Governor Harry G. Leslie today attended the dedication of anew township high school at South Whitley, as a guest of Fred Fox, Leslie's Whitley county campaign manager in the last election. State Highway Commissioner Arthur Sapp and James Showalter, state tax board members, also were guests of Fox. 03TAIN 225 MEMBERS K rshbaum Workers Report Success of Six-Day Campaign. Two hundred twenty-five new members were obtained in Kirshbaum Center’s six-day membership campaign, reports submitted Tuesday night at the final meeting showed. Mrs. J. A. Goodman was named chairman of a committee to visit, during the next few weeks, persons not reached in the campaign. NEW FIRM TAKES LEASE Reliable Paint and Body Company Takes Scioto Street Building. A three-story brick building at 916 Scioto street has been leased by the newly formed Reliable Paint ana Body Company, Inc., of which Paul Ritter is president and manager and Harry G. Alexander is secretary-treasurer. The firm will repair, recondition and paint automobiles. Game Preserve to Be Inspected Ralph Wilcox, state forester, and the conservation committee of the Indiana department of the American Legion of which he is chairman, will meet Saturday and Sunday at the Keever hotel at Rensselaer. The committeemen will inspect the Jaspe”'Pulaski county game preserve.

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Texas Puts Garner Into Race for White House

Speaker Says It’s All a Mystery to Him, After Senators Act. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Friends of Speaker John N. Garner of Texas have put him formally into the Democratic presidential race. His first comment was, “I don’t give a damn.” This amiable Democrat was put forward in a statement by the two Texas senators, Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally. They said the Texas delegation would present his name to the Democratic national convention. Their joint statement emphasized that Garner was offered as a candidate “in no narrow sectional sense.” “I don’t know a damn thing about it,” Garner said pleasantly, when the United Press asked him about the statement. “Is it okay with you?” he was asked. “I can’t okay it because I never saw a word of it and I don’t give a damn,” Garner replied. “That’s about all I can say, old chap.” Garner has won great personal popularity in the house. Since he was elected Speaker when the Democrats took control last December, he has ruled the house with an iron hand. His secret is that he does it with a smile. Time after time, when Hoover emergency measures have come up, Garner has thrown the house parliamentary machinery into high gear and swept over potential opposition among his Democratic following. This week he put through the - CONFERENCE TODAY ON DETENTION HOME SITE Women’s Organizations to Talk to County Commissioners. Representatives of women's organizations were to confer this afternoon with Marion county commissioners on anew juvenile detention home site. The matter has been studied by the commissioners, 'who said that a site opposite the Athenaeum, East Michigan street and Massachusetts avenue, is receiving consideration. It is said it can be bought for $29,000. Another proposed site, under consideration for some time, is at North Alabama and Ogden streets. This price is said to be $27,500.

PETITION ON TRACTION SALE TO BE HEARD Security Holders Expected to Buy Street Railway Property. Hearing on a petition to sell property of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company at auction will be held March 21 before Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. George C. Forrey, receiver for the company, filed the petition. Holders of the company’s security are expected to purchase the property. Organization of two new corporations, one to control lines and the other to have title to the Traction Terminal building and adjacent real estate, is planned. Investment of approximately $5,000,00 is provided for in the plans. New trolley cars, electric busses and motor coaches will be bought. ORDER STREET LIGHTS Power Company Gets Edict for Corner Installations. The works board today issued orders to the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to install street lights at the following intersections: Chadwick and McCarthy streets: Seventeenth and Mllburn streets: St. Joseph between Arlington and Anderson avenues: Ninth street, between Arlington and Anderson: Shannon avenue and Sixteenth ! street: Ketcham and Vermont streets: Twenty-eighth and Wood street; Twentyfirst street and Arsenal avenue: Plltvseventh and North New Jersey streets, and College avenue and Eleventh street. GUARD CAMP DATE SET Annual Training Period Will Be Held Aug. 7 to 21, Tombaugh Told. Date for the annual Indiana national guard encampment has been set tentatively for Aug. 7 to 21, Ad-jutant-General Paul Tombaugh announced today. The date was fixed by Major Hugh H Drum, Fifth corps area commander. Worker Fatally Stricken ..Walter Wiggans, 40, of 1321 West Twenty-sixth street, employe of the Indianapolis Water Company, died of heart disease while on duty at the Fall Creek pumping station.

of bread displayed at the convention. Miss Edna Johnson, 6620 East Washington street, is getting the oven’s measurements in the photo. The oven is a replica of the large Master Baker ovens manufactured by the Cincinnati Oven Company, Batavia, O. It is gas fired and actually bakes miniature loaves, rolls, pies and cakes.

Steagall banking bill in one short afternoon. There is some smoldering resentment at these methods, but Garner only crinkles his face into more of a smile and laughs it off.

One Shave in 77 Years, Boast of City Man, 99

Youngest Son, 61, Says He Never Has Really Seen His Father’s Face. Barber shops would file voluntary bankruptcy petition if they had to depend on the trade of Charles M. Semones, 99, of 548 Exeter street, to keep creditors away fronf the door. Semones was 99 Tuesday, and he hasn’t shaved but once since 1855. In fact about the best birthday celebration any one could think cf for his one-hundredth birthday in 1933 would be to put him in a barber shop chair, and let the tonsorial expert shear and shear. It has been so long since Semmons shaved that his son Charles Jr. with whom he lives, declares that although he’s 61, he can’t remember the time when he actually saw his dad’s face. Semmons doesn’t attribute his longevity to being a “tetotaler,” nonuse of tobacco, or patent medicines. He tossed off “three-fingers” when they were “three-fingers” and not a handful of dynamite. He’s used nicotine since boyhood. He was born in Franklin county, Kentucky, in 1833 and “is proud of it.” He hasn’t reached the dotage when he yearns for an airplane ride to round out his centrry on earth.

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FUNERAL RITES SCHEDULED FOR WAR VETERANS National Guard Instructor, Auto Firm Employe to Be Buried Thursday. Funeral services for two World war veterans, one of whom was assistant manager of the Marmon Motor Car Company’s used car sales department, the other sergeantinstructor at the Indiana national guard armory, will be held Thursday. Last rites for William D. Gross, 33, of the Marmon company will be held Thursday afternoon at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Gross was born in this city, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gross. He was graduated from Shortridge high school and Ohio Military academy at Cincinnati. During the World war, he was attached to the aviation service, but had not completed his training when the armistice became effective. Mr. Gross participated in many dirt track auto races in Indiana, Ohio and Texas. He formerly was a member of the Speedway Motor Company. Since leaving this motor company, he was engaged in automobile sales work for various agencies and had been employed by the Marmon company six years. He was a member of the Masonic order. He was married to Miss Jane Friedman of this city in 1921. Full military honors will be accorded George W. Holmes, 37, ser-geant-instructor at the Indiana National Guard Armory, at Crown Hill cemetery Thursday afternoon, following funeral services at 1:30 in the Shirley funeral home, 946 North Illinois street. The last volley will be fired by a squad to be provided by Hoosier

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Charles M. Semones “II stay on the ground for mine,” he says. Fie has three other sons besides Charles Jr. The oldest is 76 and Charles Jr. is the youngest. Semones scorns birthday cakes, and “anyway where could they find enough candles to put on it?” he asks. He doesn’t count on birthdays like some folk do chickens. “It’ll be tough, the way I feel now. for me to live to be one hundred,” he says.

Shot the Roll By United Frees LOS ANGELES. Feb. 17. A small boy’s target rifle brought SII,OOO back into circulation today. Eleven bullet-torn SI,OOO bills were presented to Laswell A. Cos., members of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, in payment for securities which a well-dressed customer ordered. The man explained his son had “shot the roll.” The money had been hoarded in a tobacco tin. The 10-year-old found the tin and used it as a target for a .22caliber rifle.

post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the post of which Sergeant Holmes was a member. Mr. Holmes died Tuesday of tuberculosis in the veterans’ administration home in Dayton, O. Sefgeant Holmes enlisted in the army in 1911. Asa member of the One hundred sixty-sixth coast artillery, he was sent to France in 1917. He took part in five major engagements, was wounded and gassed in action and was cited for gallantry when he repaired a telephone line under fire. Following his discharge in 1920, he returned to Indianapolis and became instructor to the Indiana national guard, and also acted as custodian of the Armory. His wife, the former Miss Edith Norris of this city, died Dec. 28, 1931. Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie P. Matheson, former Madison (Ind.) resident, will be conducted at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary at 2 Thursday afternoon, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Matheson came to Indiar*apolis with her parents thirty years ago. Twenty years ago she was married to Robert W. Matheson. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star. Funeral services for Walter H. iLarmore, 71, Indianapolis resident twenty-three years, who died today at his home, 902 Villa avenue, after illness of seven years, will be held in the Wald funeral home, 1222 Union street, at 2 Friday. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery.

AUTO SHOW IS SALESSUCCESS High-Priced Models Sell, Exhibitors Report. There are auto shows and auto shows, and some are looking-glasses. But the 1932 auto show at the state fairground isn’t a “lookingglass” show. Officials of the exhibition today declared that the five days of letting the public see this year’s motordom firmly tagged the 1932 exhibition as a “selling-show.” “High-priced cars are selling as well as the lower-priced models. People are coming to buy as well as to see,” one official said. One of cars in the fourfigure class reported five sales. “And that’s a record considering the fact that our prices and values are more for the appreciation of the moneyed man than for the installment .plan purchaser of modest models,” the exhibitor said.

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BICENTENNIAL PLANSREADY City’s Observance to Open Next Monday Night. The city's week-long program celebrating the two hundredth birthday anniversary of the birth of George Washington will open Monday night in Cadle tabernacle in

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JAPANESE WILL SPEAK Writer, His Novel Just Released, to Be on Town Hail Program. ‘ The Mother,” a novel by Yusuko Tsuruml, who will speak at 11 Friday at English's theater under auspices of Indianapolis Town Hall, was released in America Tuesday. Written in 1929, more than 200.000 copies have been sold in Japan. The edition has been translated Into English by the author, who was feted Saturday night at a testimonial dinner in New York by the New York Town Hall.