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GUARD LIBERTY. OXNAM PLEADS Views Fate of Tomorrow Up to Men of Today. “Thp liberties for which men died yesterday must be maintained by the men of today if the children of tomorrow are to escape dictatorship,” Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw university president, told more than 1,200 persons at a meeting of the Indianapolis Federation of Par-ent-Teacher Associations at Shortridge high school Wednesday night. ‘‘The early American dreamed of a promised land. He established aj representative government to realize his dream. "Now comes the rising generation, dreaming of an orderly world. Their desire may be realized only as we j maintain those fundamental liberties demanded in the Declaration of Independence and written into the Constitution. We must have freedom of speech, of press, of assemblage. Wc must maintain those conditions which are essential to scientific advance and problem solving.” More than nine hundred persons; attended the dinner preceding the meeting. G. 0. P. PARLEY BACK TO TOMLINSON HALL State Committee to Be Called April 9 on Ball Selection. Tomlinson hall will house the; Republican state convention June 8 and 9, Ivan C. Morgan, G. O. P. state chairman, has announced, j The old Landmark was deserted for Cadle tabernacle in 1928 and 1930. Morgan also announced that a call will be issued for the state com- ! mit tee to assemble here April 9 to j ratify the selection -of George A. Ball of Mrncic as national committeeman to succeed M. Bert Thurman, and to elect a treasurer to j succeed Irving W. Lemaux. Indiana polis banker. , County chairmen and vice- chairmen are invited to be .present at! the meeting. Many will be in the city to atttend the dinner of the ! Republican Editorial Association j that night.

MINISTER IN LOVE CASE HELD INSANE

li<) f 'nttvd Prr* HARRISBURG, 111., March 24.—A strange romance with a girl thirty years his junior today sent the Rev. Lester G. Beers, 47, former pastor of a Methodist church, to a state asylum for the insane, after his scriptural quotations failed to convince a jury of his sanity. The former pastor of the Signal Hill Methodist church at Belleville was ordered removed for observation and treatment to the Anna state asylum, after two minutes’ deliberation by a six-man jury, which included two physicians. From the Bible, out of which he had taken texts for his weekly sermons, Beers read citations which he claimed justified his love for Miss Serena Weil, 17. "But if any man think that he bePNEUMONIA TREATMENT IS REPORTED SUCCESS Riley Hospital Tests Prove Value of Therapy Chambers, Sorority’s Gift. Operation of new therapy chambers for treatment of pneumonia patients at Riley hospital for children has been successful, according to a preliminary report made-Wednesday by the Indiana university medical school research committee headed by Hugh McK. Landon. The chambers were installed under direction of the research department of Psi lota Xi sorority. Dr. W. D. Gatch, acting dean of the university school of medicine, announces an anonymous gift of *5,000 for establishment of a baby clinic.

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BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Corresnondenl T TOLLYWOOD, March 24.—The familiar Hollywood custom of dubbing a comparatively unsuccessful* actor as “the husband of” his more successful actress wife has broken up another of the screen's ideal romances. Ann Harding, who rose to international fame in films, and Harry Bannister, who registered only faintly as a motion picture player, have announced they will seek

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pointing out the husband’s lesser importance, but never has a couple been so candid in admitting it. A note signed by Miss Harding read in part. "We are getting a divorce because, during our three years in the motion picture industry, we have been placed in a position which is untenable. Harry gradually is losing his identity, becoming a background for my activities. and looked upon as ‘Ann Harding’s husband’.” tt tt a THE note said they had decided their only course was to separate so Bannister could win back his position in the theater. “before this unfortunate situation in pictures has a chance to reach us and destroy the love and respect we have for each other.” A note from Bannister confirmed Miss Harding’s. The Bannisters, who have a 4-year-old daughter Jane, were married in New York almost six years ago. f They were equally famed on the stage there, Three and one-half years ago they came to Hollywood. Miss Harding’s blonde, patrician beauty carried her to almost, instant stardom. Bannister got a few good parts at first, then found only bits.

haveth himself uncomely toward his virign. let him to what he wall; he sinneth not,” the pastor read from I Corinthians, seventh chapter. Action to declare the minister insane was sought by his family when Miss Weil’s father took out a warrant for his arrest on Mann act charges after Beers visited in Missouri and Kansas with the girl. Evidence was introduced showing the pastor had purchased costly jewelry and silk lingerie for her. Friends persuaded Beers to enter a hospital for treatment. While there, Beers admitted, he corresponded with the girl. In the letters he was called “Big Boy” and she signed herself "Sugar.” ‘.’l love the girl better than anything in the world,” Beers said. “I love my wife and three children, also, but it is a different kind of love. If I am cured of my insanity. I would like to re-enter the ministry.” '

DISCOVERY OF PERNICIOUS ANEMIA CAUSE HAILED GREAT STEP BY MEDICAL SCIENCE

By United Press CINCINNATI, March 24.—Scientists here believe they have discovered the cause of pernicious anemia, and advanced treatment of the disease many steps through experiments which have gene quietly forward fer months in the glistening laboratories of the University of Cincinnati. The journal of the American Medical Association, in a preliminary report released to the United Press, described the work as "the most important advance in study of the disease since introduction and development of liver therapy.' Dr. W. B. Castle. Dr. Roger S. Morris and associates found that gastric juices of pernicious anemia patients were lacking in some vital factor. The disease is one of deficiency in red blood cells.

LIBERALS FIND HOPES DASHED BY HIGH COURT Hughes and Roberts Align With ‘Old Guard’ in Two Decisions. RULING UPSETS GIFT TAX Brandeis Gives Outstanding Opinion of Dissent in Oklahoma Case. BY RAY TUCKER, WASHINGTON, March 24—Fail- | ure of the supreme court to become “liberal” as a result of President Hoover’s appointments is shown today by that tribunal's decisions upsetting the gift tax and Oklahoma's statute exercising greater economic control over private industry. Liberals on Capitol Hill, who had hoped that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Justice Owen J. Roberts—Hoover appointees would align themselves with the advanced school of thought frankly expressed disappointment. These decisions provided the first broad opportunity for a test at the present session, and the high hopes aroused by last session's trend vanished. The only two members who 1 favored the estate tax on gifts made within two years of death and Oklahoma’s effort to minimize the dangers of “unbridled competition” in {the ice industry were Justices Brandeis and Stone. The new members, Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, took no part in the case. Voices Historic Dissent There was so much interest in the Oklahoma case, in which Brandeis delivered what may become a historic dissent, that the court today received scores of calls for the print"ed decision. In view of the federal i government’s program for economic assistance and control of industry, ! the cdurt’s action with respect to ! similar efforts by a state provoked I curiosity. I It was recalled that Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho), during ; the debate on the reconstruction : finance corporation, expressed wonderment as to whether it would be | held constitutional if carried to the supreme court. The Oklahoma case arose on a ! statute requiring that ice companies ! obtain certificates of convenience and necessity such as public utilities must have. The New State Ice Company, which had invested $500,000 in its plant after complying with i the law, brought suit against Ernest A. Liebman, who had started to build an ice plant without getting : a certificate. The court decided Liebman had a ; constitutional right to engage in business and that his right could not be abridged by the Oklahoma ! statute. Asks Free Experimentation Citing the latest depression statis- ; tics produced during the senate hearing on the La Follette-Costigan j direct relief measure, Brandeis de- | dared capitalism was believed by i some people to be threatened, and j “unbridled competition” was a principal evil. He referred to proposals for economic control as one means suggested to solve the problem, and | urged the court not to prevent ex- : perimentation along this line in any of the forty-eight states. As did James Bryce in his “American Commonwealth,” Brandeis pointed out that the United States was particularly fortunate, in that ! its federated system furnished t'ortyeight separate laboratories for social and political experiments. He advanced the same idea long | held by former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, that the Constitution | should be interpreted in the light of ! changing social and economic conditions. "This court has the power to stay j such experimentation,” he said. “We may strike down the statute embodying it on the ground that, in | our opinion, it is arbitrary, capricious. or unreasonable .... but in the exercise of this power we ever should be on guard, lest we erect prejudices into legal principles. If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.” Sutherland's Views Differ Brandeis also suggested that the framers of the fourteenth amendment, with its due process clause, could not have meant that it should act forever as a check on changes necessitated by changing conditions. But Justice Sutherland, expressing the majority view, declared that preventing a state from transcending constitutional “limitations” did not constitute a challenge to experimentation. Brandeis and Stone held in the j estate tax case that congress had j the right to enforce inheritance ; taxes with safeguards against dis- : tribution of fortunes in anticipation of death. But Sutherland, in the majority ruling, pointed out that accidental death and honest desire to make gifts were not taken into consideration in the law. Hoover's Finger Launches Ship WASHINGTON, March, 24. President Hoover at 10:01 a. m. today pressed a button in the telegraph room at the White House and launched the Grace line steamer, Santa Rosa, at Kearney, N. J.

a divorce. Back of their decision, they let it be known, was Hollywood’s insistence on speaking of Bannister as “Mr. Ann Harding.” Other film marriages have been ended by this custom of pla y fully or caustically

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ROYAL MOUNTED TAKES TO AIR

Chief of Canada s Famed Police Force Was War Ace

OTTAWA, March 24.—“—and get him by air!” To the famous slogan, “get your man,” of Canada's Royal Mounted Police, that picturesque “army” of 1,20D red-coated men whose beat extends to within 700 miles of the north pole, soon may be added these words. For under Major-General James H. Macßrien, noted Canadian aviator who has been named chief of this world-renowned band of man-hunters, Canada's “Mounties” are taking to the air. For much of their work,’planes are supplanting their equipment of horses, dog sleds and snowshoes, long used in patrolling their lonely Arctic domain. Recently, General Macßrien’s men used airplanes to search out and bomb the retreat of a mad trapper who had defied the “Mounties” after murdering one of their number. That expedition having “got its man,” it now is expected that the airplane will become an increasing aid in patrolling northern Canada's bad lands, especially since the new chief is one of the outstanding amateur pilots in the Dominion. n st a GENERAL MACBRIEN'S own life has been as colorful as that of the picturesque police organization that he heads. The new chief is a soldier—s 4 years old now, but straight as an arrow and as hard as nails as the result of 31 years in the army. He joined up when he was 19, leaving his books and studies and his intended career as a school teacher, for adventure with the British expeditionary forces to South Africa in the Boer war of 1897. He returned safe and sound to his home at Port Perry, Ont., and then joined the Northwest Mounted Police as a trooper in the early days of settlement of western Canada. Leaving the mounted at the end of his term, General MacBrien went back to the army, was promoted steadily and came out of the World war a fullfledged major-general. tt tt tt THE story is told that during his early service in France he took his first airplane flight as an observer. He liked it, and began to fly more. Later, before his troops went into an attack, General MacBrien personally flew over the enemy positions to better plan the action, risking anti-aircraft

J. P. Morgan Pleads for 'Block Aid’ Plan in His Radio Debut

Famed Banker Enjoys His Experience; Broadcasts From Palatial Home. | By United Press |: NEW YORK, March 24.—J. P. i Morgan, international banker, who had not''spoken publicly in a decade, talked of unemployment relief to a world-wide audience in his radio debut Wednesday night as he sat in the fireplace-wajmed library ;of his home, flanked by microphones that had given many a j public speaker “mike fright.” The financier evidently enjoyed the experience. He ended his fiveminute, calmly delivered message, then asked the engineers who switched him off: “Is it all over?” And he beamed his satisfaction as they congratulated him on his poise. Calls It Wonderful “What do you think of talking to the whole world? they asked. “It’s wonderful,” he said, “simply wonderful.” He sat at his desk in the darkpaneled room of his Madison avenue house. The wood fire in the great hearth crackled merrilly, and contributed to the comfortable atmosphere inspired by books and easy chairs. ' The microphones caried his words to station WJZ of the NBC and from there the talk was broadcast over America. Short waves carried the message abroad. Morgan, dressed in a dinner j jacket—for the broadcast came at 8 p. m. and it is his custom to have dinner about B:3o—held a copy of his speech in his hand and enunciated each word clearly and distinctly. The manuscript was in long hand. Urges “Block Aid” The financier urged communities everywhere to consider the advantages of the neighborhood block-to-block campaign, which formally opens in New York next Monday, as “a way out of the worst of their difficulties,” and the only plain that I have seen or heard of by which a great sum may be raised over a period of months and without undue hardship on any giver.” On his desk those present noticed some crossword puzzles. At the conclusion of the address, Morgan, in a brief radio ceremony, was awarded the first “block-aid

THE doctors gave gastric juice of a normal person orally. There was no result. They then injected the normal juice between muscles of patients. 'Within a few hours there was an increase in the red cell count. This increase continued over a long period. “The nature of this active principle in normal gastric juice is unknown,” said the report. The red cells are created by activity of the bone marrow. The experimenters have concluded normal juice, containing the active principle which they have named “addisin,” stimulates the bone marrow. They believe it is secreted from the stomach internally. Dr. J. H. J. Upham, widely known Ohio specialist in treatment of pernicious anemia, a quiet man with thin, white hair, read reports of the experiments with little gestures of excitement.

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shells and attack by German planes. He is said to have been th£ only general who did this—but then he was the youngest, and flying was a young man's game. Back in Canada, he was put in charge of the Dominion's defenses and having seen the effect of aviation in war time he followed its development closely. He went so far as to take a full course in aviation at a Canadian army training field and came out with his pilot’s certificate. In 1927, General Macßrien found himself in the position of other generals who have to depend on their salary. His pay was insufficient to uphold his position as Canada’s chief-of-staff and give his five children college educations. He resigned to enter commercial aviation as general transport manager of a large aviation concern, spent much of his time in the air and began organizing Canadian flying clubs. tt tt TIE made two trans-Canada -*■ jaunts in his personal sport plane, a feat accomplished by few amateur pilots and by no one else anywhere near his 50 years of age. As chief of the “Mounties,” to which position he was named last summer, General Macßrien operates in an entirely new field. Before, he planned Canada's defenses only along the 3,000-mile international boundary, along the

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badge,” a small strip of multicolored ribbon by which all contributors to the campaign are to be identified. “I am conscious of the fact that it is not difficult in times such as the present to discover want,” Morgan said. “But I must remind you that many people are too proud and too brave to reveal their necessities to charitable organizations or to state and city relief agencies. “These people suffer in silence; often they suffer until parents and children are seriously ill. “But with ten or more block aiders going their rounds in every block, I am sure these families will be discovered and the discovery will lead to prompt relief. . . . “We have reached a point where the aid of governments, or the gifts of individuals, no matter how generous, are insufficient to meet

Now led by Major General James H. Macßrien, noted Canadian aviator and war hero, Canada’s famous Royal Mounted Police are turning to airplanes In protecting the vast stretches over which their patrols extend. General Macßrien, alert and vigorous veteran, is shown at upper left above. Center is a trooper in action on one of the splendid horses mounted police gradually are abandoning for airplanes under their new leader's policies.

Atlantic and Pacific coasts and along the Alaska-Yukon boundary. Now he studies maps of northern Canada from the fringe of civilization all the w*ay to the north pole, for this is now his territory. Their northernmost police post is only 700 miles from the pole. It is at Bache peninsula, Ellesmere island, in the bleak Arctic. * n tt ADVENTUROUS young men of every nationality seek to join this picturesque police force and General Macßrien has to turn down thousands of applica-

the conditions which have come upon us. So we must all do our bit. “The block aid is the right idea—it involves going to everybody—to those who have little and to those who have much—and asking for help for relief work in such small amounts that no one who has seen with his own eyes or heard from others of the greatness of the need will hesitate to give the sum asked for.”

Ah Pardon Me! Safety Board Head’s Wife Almost Is Handed a Sticker.

WHAT’S sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander—in theory at least. And, as a result of a too diligent effort to enforce traffic rules impartially, one ntember of the police department was blushing in confusion today as he thought of the terrible mistake he almost made. Seeing a sedan parked in a safety zone near the city hall Wednesday, the officer prepared to give a sticker to the woman sitting in the driver’s seat. “You can’t park here, lady,” he admonished. And then he learned, to his dismay, that-he had been about to commit the unforgivable crime of putting a sticker on the car of one of his bosses, Charles R. Myers, president of the safety board, which directs the police department in enforcement of laws, traffic and otherwise. had asked Mrs. Myers to bring the car to the city hall and take him to the city dog pound. Mrs. Myers continued to wait for the safety board president, but moved across the street to the city garage. GIVE PAGEANYTrTECH Joint Tree Day and Washington Rites Held at School. A pageant, combining celebration of the annual senior tree day and the Washington bicentennial was presented Wednesday by the senior class of Technical high school in tfhe school auditorium. The program was titled “The Call of 1732, and the Answer of 1932.”

TTE paused to say that a few years ago the disease was fatal and told how he had struggled to prolong a patient's life five years with palliatives. “This addisin is comparable to insulin used for diabetes,” he said. “It’s very important. In diabetes they learned the pancreas had ceased tc secrete insulin, a functional breakdown. Injected insulin arrests diabetes. Injected insulin, these men have found, has brought an increase in the red cells, restored a function which failed and caused the trouble.” The doctor said that if it were possible to learn just how addisin is secreted and why this function has ceased, experimenters could seek means to overcome the deficiency and the. disease. f .

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tions every year for only British subjects are eligible. Recruits must be physically fit, unmarried, betw-een 22 and 40 years of age, weigh at least 175 pounds and stand at least five feet in height. Three years is the term of enlistment and the pay runs from $2 a day up, depending on rank and seniority. General Macßrien makes his home and his headquarters in Ottawa. As the commander-in-chief of the mounted police, he can be seen at practically all state functions resplendent in scarlet and gold and the feathered hat of his rank.

STUDENT HELD FOR GUN FIGHT I . Claims Self-Defense Over Co-Ed Kidnaping Affair. By United Press COLUMBIA, Mo., March 24.—A Missouri university law student, who shot and wounded three students in the enginee*’ school when they sought to haze him for kidnaping their prom queen, fired in self-defense, he claimed today. Burnis Frederick was at liberty on SI,OOO bond, charged with carrying concealed weapons after his admission that he shot Frank Luckey, Jerry Cebe and Frank Love. Luckey is in the hospital, near death. “A gang rushed me as I stepped out of my rooming house,” Frederic said. "Somebody hit me, and I don’t remember when I started shooting. I don’t see what else I could have done.” Frederick had been identified as one of the four law students who abducted Miss Mary Louise Butterfield of Kansas City last Saturday and held her captive until it was too late for the engineers to crown her queen of their annual ball. CANNING PLANT BOOMS Production Will Be Doubled This Year at Brazil. By T'nited Press BRAZIL, Ind.. March 24.—Production at the Libby, McNeill & Libby plant, canners, will be doubled this year, it was announced today by officials of the company. Number of employes also will be twice as large as last year, officials said. More than 3,000 acres of tomatoes have been contracted for this year, twice as great as the number contracted in any previous year! The period of operation also will be extended. BUSSES TO AVOID CIRCLE Downtown Rerouting Sunday Will Leave Monument Open for Service. In order to avoid traffic complications during the sunrise Easter services Sunday at 6:30 on the north steps of the Monument, People's Motor Coach Company busses will be between 6 and 7:30. The busses will be rerouted west on Ohio street to Illinois street, south to Market and around the south section of the Circle, then proceeding on the regular Market street route.

ROOSEVELT IS FAR AHEAD ON DELEGATE LIST Organization Work of High Order Bears Results in Early Primaries. FORESEE EASY VICTORY N. Y. Governor's Backers Say He Will Be Nominated on. First Ballot. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Prfis St*(T Corresnondftit WASHINGTON. March 24—Organization work begun long ago is yielding its spring harvest of delegates for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. It has put him well ahead in the sweep toward the Democratic national convention, three months hence. Winning of the Georgia primary j adds twenty-eight delegates to : Roosevelt’s list, although the dele- | gates actually will not be selected i until next month. Counting them as already chosen, Roosevelt now has a total of ninety-one delegates. The only other Democratic can- | didate for whom delegates actually I have been chosen is Governor William H. Murray of Oklahoma. He has his own state’s twenty-two and one from North Dakota stowed away in his pocket. Makes Clean Swpep Roosevelt delegates have been selected as follows: Minnesota, 24 (subject to contest). New Hampshire. 8. North Dakota, 9. Washington State, 16. Alaska, 6. Roosevelt workers are growing more confident daily. Their can- ; didate has nosed out former Governor Alfred E. Smith in New ’Hampshire and Minnesota, Murray in North Dakota, and an unauthorized advocate of Speaker John N. Garner in Georgia. Homer Cummings, one of the Roosevelt board of strategy and ! former chairman of the Democratic ; national committee, predicts the ! Governor’s nomination on the first ! ballot. He says Roosevelt is first | choice in thirty-five states and ■ second choice in most of the others. Organization Gets Results This early blooming of Roosevelt | delegates is, like ali early spring flowering, the result of patient tilling of the soil weeks and months in advance. In politics, practically nothing takes the place of organization. Popularity, endorsements, publi- | city, straw votes and all such window dressing count for little as | compared with hard, early, field ! organization. j Roosevelt’s men have, been on I the job for months. His agents were ! moving, selecting local managers, j making alliances with Democratic state bosses. When the Democratic i national committee met here several I months ago, Roosevelt workers | buttonholed every man and woman on the committee. They kept elaborate charts which listed the pledges, preferences, and connections of every member of the national committee. Canvass AH Congressmen They have canvassed practically every Democratic member of the house and senate in the last three months. Democratic Governors have kept up a procession to the Governor’s mansion at Albany, each visitor departing in a cloud of vague complimentary vice - presidential talk. This is the work that now is bearing fruit. It was responsible for the overwhelming defeat of Smith in New Hampshire. Months ago the Roosevelt people made an alliance with the real Democratic factor in New Hampshire, Robert Jackson. | He merely ordered his organization to go down the line for Roose- | velt. When Smith came in, every- ! body was sorry, but they already were pledged to Roosevelt. The same thing happened in North Dakota, where Alfalfa Bill Murray got the cheers, but Roosevelt ] harvested the votes. Georgia Slaked Out Early Georgia was staked off by Roose- : velt last year when political leaders i of the state went to Warm Springs ! and pledged their allegiance. Long ! ago Roosevelt's managers knew that Washington state was the first to | select delegates and made every j effort to line it up for psychological i effect. They likewise have aimed at every early contest, so that they have a running start now for the more. ! difficult tests in Massachusetts—one of Smith’s great domains—and Pennsylvania. Roosevelt’s early showing is due in considerable part to the hard work of a strange pair of managers —James Farley. Democratic state chairman of New York, and Louis Howe, long a personal aid to Roosevelt. Farley is huge, powerfully built and genial, bouncing all over the country—the other a thin, diminutive ex-newspaper man. dour, almost as hard-boiled as a character in a newspaper play. TRAIN TIME CHANGED Pennsylvania “American’s” Arrival From East to Be Advanced. Earlier arrival from New York and eastern points will be afforded Indianapolis patrons on the American, Pennsylvania railroad limited, with anew schedule, effective Sunday. The train will leave New York at 6:15 p. m.. arriving here at 11:13 a. m., forty-eight minutes earlier than on the previous schedule. Departure for Terre Haute and St. Louise will be at 11:25 a. m.. forty minutes earlier than previously. Wife of Purdue Professor Dies LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 24. Mrs. Lida B. Ainsworth, 35, wife of Professor Harry F. Ainsworth of Purdue university, died Wednesday, following an emergency operation for appendicitis last week. Besides the husband, four children survive her.