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GANG LEADER SLAIN, BUT HE SAVES FAMILY Shot Down While Fleeing to Draw Crossfire From Own Auto. Bn United Press NEW YORK, June 20.—Killers of Charles (Vannle) Higgins, "lobsterman.” mackerel fisherman and rum runner, shot down while drawing a gangster crossfire away from his family, were unknown today. The "roughneck’’ racketeer, who had beaten fourteen charges in his efforts to muscle into a position of prominence in New York gangland, died vowing to “get the dirty rats” who shot him and “tried to wipe out his family,” but he didn't name them. He died Sunday afternoon. He was shot early Sunday morning after fulfilling a promise to attend a dance recital with his 7-year-old daughter, Jean, a dancing school pupil. The easy-going Higgins walked to the street with the girl’s hand in his. His wife and mother-in-law were about ten feet distant. An automobile load of gangsters opened fire. Flees to Save Family Higgins shoved the little girl against his sixteen - cylindered roadster, ducked, and started zigzagging down the street to draw attention from his family. * Another car load of executioners caught him in the crossfire. Patrolman Walter Herzer, with Higgins in the navy, picked up the gangster, but he arrived too late to witness the shooting. The career of the racketeer was rather unusual, although it ended in the usual manner. Higgins was not a “spender,” a Broadway night life character, although he figured in at least one cutting scrape a year or more ago. Likes Epensive Neckties His big weakness, friends' said, was expensive neckties which he wore when he didn’t appear in a flannel shirt open at the neck. He always denied rum running activities. Once he was caught on a tug with members of his crew and charged by the coast guards with directing operations of the million-dollar rum fleet off Atlantic City from that tug. ‘l’m just a lobster fisherman, an, admiral in the lobster fleet,” Higgins told them. Another time he announced that he was too drunk to know his companions, or to know where they had been. With Many Racketeers Once he was “just a carpenter,” and another time “a mackerel fisherman," but never was he a rum runner, or a killer, although eight homicide charges had been placed against him. Higgins was an associate of Jack (Legs) Diamond. He had worked with Owney Madden, Broadway figure. He had worked with Ben Sternberg, rum runner, who stepped into an automobile with Higgins one day at Long Beach, and never was seen again. He was a rival of Augie Pisano’s Brooklyn beer mob. He had been involved with New Jersey beer runners. He had “muscled in” on any and all wherever profits could be had. . Higgins’ killers were sought today among those men he had worked and worked with. SEEK 1933 CONVENTION Indianapolis to Make Bid for International Lions Parley. Indianapolis will make a bid for the 1933 international Lions convention. Delegates to the 1932 convention, to be held in Los Angeles, July 19 to 22, were urged at a meeting Sunday in the Washington to work for the convention. An all-state Lions band, directed by J. Q. Eberly of Remington, will boom Indianapolis hopes to gain the convention site at the 1932 meeting. Ninety-six clubs of Indiana will aid the Indianapolis organization in its fight to bring the convention here. Eight thousand delegates would be attracted to the city by the convention. CLUB TO HONOR BUTLER rians Dinner for Ornithologist at Noblcsville Temple. Dinner will be held Friday night by the Hamilton County Nature Study Club in honor of Dr. Amos ♦ W. Butler, Indianapolis ornithologist, at Noblcsville Masonic temple. He is the third person to be so honored by the club, Dr. W. S. Blatchley and Dr. Stanley Coulter having been honored previously. Dr. Butler is founder of the Indiana Audubon Society, the Indiana Academy of Science, the American Forestry Association, the Society of Mammalogists, and is a pioneer social worker In Indiana. PINCH GANG SUSPECT Last of five men accused of stealing clothing valued at $2,000 from a laundry and three cleaning shops, is in custody’. He is Reuben Foxall, 744 North West street, returned Sunday from Dayton, 0., where he was arrested last week. Others held are L. D. Whittock, 438 West Fifteenth street; Perry Jackson, 1332 Roosevelt avenue; his brother Edward, 615 Ogden street, and Sam Perkins, 714 North West street.

WOMAN WRITES BEST PLATFORM IN TIMES CONTEST

A WOMAN was the victor in the Party Platform contest of The Indianapolis Time*. Miss Rebecca Bennett, 2233 North Pennsylvania street, was awarded the $lO prize for the most concise platform among several hundred entries examined by Judges. Her platform was within six words of the contest limit, 250. Its clarity, vision and handling of national problems was such that it might be *termed a “non-partisan" platform, good for adoption by either of the major parties. The platform follows: "We hold that all men are endowed with certain Inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-

PET MONKEY MEANS TROUBLE IN YOUR HOME Bears Also Lose Sweet Temper, Grow Grouchy, After Passing Cub Stage

For thJrtv-thre rear* Ravtnond L. Ditmars has lived among wild animals, not In the tunrl but In the midat of New York Cltv. During that time he has been curator of reotlles and mammals at Bronx Park. This Is one of a series recounting his adventures, which are no less excltlna beesuse they did not take nlace In the heart of Africa. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times-World Staff Writer (Convrlßht. 1932. bv The New York WorldTeleeram Coro t “TT’B that man with squirrel A trouble,” said Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars as he hung up the telephone. “He’s a sad case. Almost as sad as the copperhead lldy.” Os course, after that he had to explain. \ He lighted his thin-stemmed pipe, l closed the window against the; Bronx park’s peacock’s plaint and spoke a while of the strange requests and suggestions with which ; the metropolitan public favors the New York Zoological Society. “The squirrel trouble man lives In j Westchester,” he said. “He has a i fine house, good grounds, family, all i the common aspects of comfort. But gray squirrels are making him j old before his time. “They put his lights out, eating insulation off the wires. They keep i him awake nights, chewing in the I trees. Now he says he ran into four j of them in the cellar today and ; they were looking for a fight.” Dr. Ditmars told him to get state permission to shoot and trap; he got it, along with copious literature telling him how to set his snares; but the squirrels keep coming. Asa last resort he hopes his peers will let him try poison. an* “OUT the copperhead woman’s 13 predicament is even worse. Her house must have been built on a snake pit. Rattlesnakes and copperheads. The rattlesnakes don’t bother her much, but the copperheads infest the house. “She says they look so much like a # pattern in her carpet she can’t distinguish them. They give a turn sometimes.” He told her that attrition by trap or poison would be futile, that the best thing she could do would be to have the grounds around her home cleared, underbrush removed, rock ledges that might appeal to snakes ripped out. “She kept on writing, though. She thought there must be something she could do besides that. Finally she told us she'd concluded we didn’t know what we were up to.” So he wrote her the only other suggestion t he could make was to get a carpet with anew design. “Her trouble wasn’t extraordinary. Snakes venture out over a radius of several miles in summer, but as fall comes on they invariably get back to the pit they know as home. They

GASOLINE, OIL PRICES RAISED

Standard Announces Boost to Cover New Tax. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) was first to announce that higher prices for gasoline and oil will become effective Tuesday, the date when collection of new federal general taxes wil be started. Offices of the Standard company in Chicago announced today the price of gasoline will be raised 1.1 cents and oil 4 cents a gallon. The tax on gasoline is 1 cent, but the company explained it added a tenth of a cent to pay in part a tax on pipeline transportation of oil, expense of collection and to include credit losses of taxes paid in advance of collection. Shell Petroleum Corporation announces its prices will be advanced only to the extent of the tax—l cent a gallon on gasoline and 4 cents per gallon on oil. Mid-West-em Petroleum Corporation will advance the price of gasoline 1.1 cent a gallon, but no decision has yet been reached on oil prices.

FACTIONS FIGHT AS G. A. R. CONVENES

Dispute Flares Over Move to Shift Offices From Capitol. Du Timet Special RICHMOND, Ind., June 20.—Registration and other preliminaries occupied the attention of delegates and visitors as the fifty-third annual encampment of the Indiana department, Grand Army of the Republic, opened here today for a session of four days, the climax of which will be reached Thursday when officers will be elected. A factional fight has developed over a purported movement to take G. A. R: headquarters from the statehouse in Indianapolis and to do away with the annual appropriation for the organization from state funds. Twenty-five veterans are here today, and it is expected fifty more will arrive by Wednesday for the annual campfire meeting at 7:30 p. m. The meeting has brought 1,000

ness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. That these rights now are imperiled by a faulty economic structure and it behooves a free people to secure them by exercising their just powers to control such factors as vitally affect their safety and well-being. "Since concentration of wealth gives to the few too great a power over the welfare of the many, w’e would compel a more equal distribution of the profits of industry, lower prices and higher wages, increased employment by shorter working hours and by old age and disability pensions and unemployment insurance. “We-would encourage stabilization

; f% illy Monkeys in maturity are alwav 4 ppt dangerous pets, says Dr. Ditmar? '% TißjgMfei&NSlgJir.ffllllmhave around in the friskiness ip JHLjJpr 'yjjjS Bir maturity turns amiability ir A * *■ WTOii logwjealousy. He toils owners that ' " '% W ll3g& grownup monkev may regard ever M iyyi§\, W friend s greeting as reason for i . suddqn. purposeful attack. . (I'i a down the ultimatum that they a - ' not : safe p€ts ' „ „ iVX poor companions, too. O }m: V 1 M man wrote me his bear was petti r: ffitT’nl him into a fix It had been afr ' playful cub But as :t grew old lllililP <’ jllPlllilfl? ;r * it began to disturb the neighbors. ||f bawled all night. <h, Vv house, but when it outgrew the 1 ine room tllry P L1 * out in 1 BmiMpF'* - JBipyip Vk U backyard. g|asg| : % > AX. It couldn't get along without t fgg||§| S '* domestic, atmosphere and ruddli: WUmt A* T I had to tell them thev and oitT '• i algpipilF , • * have to let it bawl or take a char with it. again inside with them.” ~ *'•' He sympathizes. For he has Squirrels about hmisrs are amns- agtfflH H ways had from one to 100 pets ing, but can he devastating pests. ..his own—just now the favorite i< n? ■ king snake he keeps in his librar; \cr change their permanent and for years, up and down l “I know some pits where they’ve ■ ■ v „ t %. , a howling monkey, were insepai ed for thirty years. Igo back I %/ WL ble companions, ery once in a while to study them * ;Vf - The frankly curious, of course, i to get one. n - n ' responsible for the park’s major ve. for thousands of years. I've - -u, —— sl^ e J?. s ' .. n rocks worn smooth—by snake 1 ...mtM . ”.L

Squirrels about houses are amusing, but can be devastating pests. never change their permanent shelter. “I know some pits where they’ve lived for thirty years. I go back every once in a while to study them or to get one. Some pits have been snake homes for hundreds of years. Some, I believe, for thousands of years. I’ve seen rocks worn smooth—by snake bodies.” nan CALLS for help in freeing humans from the designs of wild creatures come to him often, but not so often as the calls from those who keep wild creatures as pets. “What shall I do for my monkey with rickets?” It is a frequent, anxious query. ,

RUTH HYATT WINS $5 ON SALES SLIP

Other Awards Are Made in Times Contest; Ends June 30. Saturday’s winner in The Times Lucky Sales Slip contest was Ruth Hyatt, 815 East Twenty-seventh street, who receives $5 for first prize. In this contest, which runs until June 30, there are six daily cash awards and also four sets of two tickets each to the Apollo theater, where this week Joan Bennett in “Week Ends Only” is showing. At the end of the competition there will be many grand prizes. Send in your sales slips today. They may win you that extra money you want. Miss Hyatt’s winning slogan was;. In Friday night's Times, Kroger’s bargains we seek, And always stock up. For the following week. Second prize of $3 goes to Mrs. Irwin L. Neville, 440 South Arlington avenue, who sent in the following, with her L. E. Morrison & Cos. sales slip; A graduation gift to buy. So to L. E. Morrison I did hie. There I found a bargain to save dimes, Just as advertised in The Times. Other winners included Mrs.

persons to Richmond, representing five organizations allied with the G. A. R., which are also holding annual sessions. A state chapter of the Federated Patriotic Society was formed at a meeting Sunday of representatives of the various organizations. Joseph B. Henninger, Indianapolis, was elected president; Mrs. Ella Hughes, Terre Haute, active president; Mrs. Gertrude Fox, Ft. Wayne, first vice-president; Mrs. Kate Habig, Princeton, second vice-presi-dent; Mrs. Edna Pauley, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer. Executive board members are: D. N. Foster, Ft. Wayne; Mrs. Pauley; Gladys Martin, Richmond; Miss Olive Williams, Ft. Wayne, and Benjamin Stahl, Terre Haute. The society is composed of representatives of the G. A. R., Woman's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans and its auxiliary, Ladies of the G. A. R., and Daughters of Union Veterans. Candidates for commander are James Bowden of Muncie, opposing removal of the headquarters, and Will Cooper and Frank Hay, I both of Indianapolis.

of production by planning and secure to farmer and city dweljer a buying power that will permit their mutual consumption of goods. We would prohibit unsound speculation and secure bank deposits. "We would co-operate with other nations in seeking solutions to world problems, lower tariffs, recognize Russia, confer on trade conditions and the status of silver, consider debts and reparations only from the standpoint of what is best for the future of all concerned, and work incessantly for disarmament and peace. "We would repeal the eighteenth amendment as soon as possible and immediately amend the Volstead act to permit the taxation of beer and

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wines to help finance extensive public works and federal aid to the unemployed.” Favors Short Platform B’j United Presi CHICAGO, June 20.—Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic national executive committee, today said he favored adoption of a short platform. “I received a draft of a complete platform today which was only 300 words long,” Shouse said. "It was s< remarkable that I am trying to get permission from the authors to make it public. "We would get a large vote of thanks from everybody if we made our platform short.” he added.

“My little alligator s gone numb. Can’t I do anything?” “Don’t let the temperature drop below 70 and he’ll be all right. Never mind if he doesn’t eat in the winter. Alligators, up here, don’t.” Monkeys in private homes soon or late mean trouble, Dr. Ditmars said. They are pleasant enough to

BLAZING TORCH SCATTERS COPS 0 Races Through Station With Flaming Umbrella. Matt vandererf, 1241 North Pennsylvania street, rushed pell mel* through a police station corridor today waving a flaming to'rch above his head. “Hey, lookout, gimmie room,” he cried. A milling throng of persons at the exit of a municipal courtroom parted, forming a lane for the running figure. Vandererf reached the head of the stairs leading down to the first floor. He gave a leap, landing half way down, then leaped again. The flames licked perilously near his face. Out of door of the police station Vandererf ran, smoke and excited police and spectators trailing behind him. Vandererf swung north in Alabama street to an alley beside headquarters. He dashed into the alley toward a puddle left by rain early today. Vandererf dropped the torch into the puddle, where the flames sizzled and died. To questioners, Vandererf revealed he had visited a friend in the prosecutor's office, and that while talking he thoughtless attempted to extinguish a cigaret by tamping it with the tip of his umbrella. The umbrella tip was made of celluloid. Three Die in Plane Crash OTTAWA. 111., June 20.—Three men died here Sunday in the crash of a plane piloted by Harry Hill, 30, Streator. The dead were Hill, John Marshall, 20, of San Francisco, and Bert Lorenz, 21, Streator.

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Monkeys in maturity are always dangerous pets, says Dr. Ditmars. have around In the frtskiness of youth. But maturity turns amiability into jealousy. He tells owners that a grownup monkey may regard even a friend’s greeting as reason for a sudden, purposeful attack. As tactfully as he can he lays down the ultimatum that they are not safe pets. • a a a “•m yraturity makes pet bears rather IVA poor companions, too. One man wrote me his bear was getting him into a fix. It had been a fine, playful cub. But as it grew older, it began to disturb the neighbors. It bawled all night. “I found it used to sleep In the house, but when it outgrew the living room they put it out in the backyard. “It couldn’t get along without the domestic atmosphere and cuddling. I had to tell them they’d either have to let it bawl or take a chance with it. again inside with them.” He sympathizes. For he has always had from one to 100 pets of his own—just now the favorite is a king snake he keeps in his library—and for years, up and down the world, his daughter Gladys and Red, a howling monkey, were inseparable companions. ' The frankly curious, of course, are responsible for the park’s majority of questions. “Plesae tell us how the elephant sleeps.” “Standing up. In twenty-two years neither the night watchman nor I have ever seen him lie down.” “Is the sloth always that way?” “Yes, he spends his whole life hanging upside down.” “Does the ant eater really eat ants?” “Every once in a while about a quarter of a million.” “I’ve something for the park. Really, I never saw anything like it

GOLF WINNERS TO RECEIVE AWARDS

Marble Champion Also to Get His Prize at Lyric Theater Tuesday. Winners of prizes in the recent Indianapolis Times schoolboy golf tournament will receive their rewards on the stage of the Lyric theater Tuesday night at 8. Neal Mclntyre,. state open golf champion, will be master of ceremonies and present the awards. Billy Reed, champion, will receive the Indianapolis Times trophy and prizes will be given Richard Keil, runner-up, and the other semi-finalists and quarter finalists in the championship flight. Robert O’Connor, grade school champion, and Tom David, winner of the championship consolation SHARKEY-SCHMELING FIGHT GOING ON AIR McNamee to Broadcast Big Fight From Ringside. Battle between Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey for the world’s heavyweight championship Tuesday night at 8 (Central Standard Time) at Madison Square Garden, will be carried blow by blow by the National Broadcasting Company and a nation-wide network of stations. Graham McNamee, assisted by Charles Francis Ci, author of numerous fight stories, will alternate in describing the fight. Stations certain of carrying the broadcast are; WENR, WTAM. WSM, WSB. WDAF, and WBAP. Other stations of the NBC chain probably will join the hookup as all commercial programs for the time of the fight have been canceled.

before. A snake with a gold neck- j lace.” “Thanks, Just the same. But it’s pale gray, opalescent, isn’t it? It’s a ring snake. The necklace is a kind of orange-colored ring. There are a good many in these parts coming out in the spring.” a a a CROSSWORD puzzlers have been particularly frequent clients by mail and telephone this spring. The curates’ thinks they have been in a contest, so many have queried about a single word. “They wanted to know the name for a ’shorn sheep.’ ” He had to confess that stumped him, and all he could do was suggest they call the shepherd in Central park. Another wanted the five-letter name of “an animal that is a reptile and spelled something like skunk.” She had passed up “skunk,” she said, because she understood skunks were not reptilian. “You’re thinking of a notchedtongued lizard,” Dr. Ditmars advised. “It’s one of the Scinus officinalis and it’s called a skink.” Blue-eyed John Cromartie, 27, five feet eleven inches, was not dealt with so easily. He wanted to enter the zoo as a specimen, and his proposal, made back in 1924, still echoes occasionally in cloisters where the talk turns to anthropology. The collection of animals was not complete, lacking an example of Homo sapiens, he pointed out, and he offered to stop the gap. a a a “TT would complete the collecA tion,” his proposal said, “and it would impress upon the mind ol the visitor a comparison which he is not always quick to make for himself. “If placed in a cage between the orang-utan and the chimpanzee, an ordinary member of the human race would arrest the attention of every one who entered the large apehouse. “Every child would grow up imbued with the outlook of a Darwin, and would become aware not only of his own exact place in the animal kingdom, but also in what he differed, from the apes. “I would suggest that such a speciment be shown as far as possible In his natural surroundings as he exists at the present time. “That is to say, in ordinary costume and employed in some ordinary pursuit. Thus his cage should be furnished with chairs and a table and with bookcases. “To show my good faith, I beg to offer myself for exhibition, subject to certain reservations which will not be found of an unreasonable nature.” The offer was declined.

flight, will be rewarded, as will runners-up and losing quarter finalists in those flights. Another feature will be the medal presentation to Billy Dyer, who Friday won the city-wide Indianapolis Times marble championship. He will leave Friday for the east, to compete in the national marble championship. All prize winners will be on the stage and Manager A. J. Kalberer of the Lyric will have all the other boys who qualified in the three flights, but who did not win prizes, as his guests for the show. Every boy who gets a ticket or prize must be at The Times office, 214 West Maryland street, at 7:15 p. m. to receive his ticket. The presentation of the prizes will be made after the vaudeville performance, which ends at 8 p. m. Complete list df prize winners will appear in the Times sports page Tuesday.

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DEBTS REVISION' PLANS FAVORED AT UUSANNE European Powers Frowrf on Full Cancellation as ‘Remedy.’ . BY SAMUEL DASHIELL United Press Staff Correspondent* LAUSANNE. June 20.—Absolute cancellation of war debts and reparations as a remedy for the world’s economic ills, appeared to be considered dut of the question today by most delegates to the Lausanne reparations conference. Since the conference decided to suspend payments due July 1 and to continue suspension during the, reparations meeting, opinion has crystallized in favor of continued recognition of debt obligations, bub with figures revised according ta capacity to pay. It was undeniable that eompleta cancellation, as an experimental theory, was not acceptable to tha United States or France, despita Ratifying indications that Washington might reconsider the debts situation. The larger powers represented agreed that a definite settlement; must be reached here, and Franca and her continental allies appeared* ready to stay at Lausanne indeflnitely until they could take home ki signed program for reparations and debts. Indications that Washington watf taking an active interest in Lau-i sanne convinced the powers that thd* United States had the right to dc-* mand the equivalent of a certified accounting of European which would establish the capacity to pay. , The project that. Germany pay 500,000,000 marks (about $124,000.-* 000) annually seemed to be gaining! ground. It was pointed out that* such a payment would be less thaiY one-third of the Young plan sched4 ules. Kansas Suffers Storm Damage Bn l vital Press WICHITA, Kan., June 20.—Dam* age wrought by heavy winds and near-cloudburst rains in central southern Kansas was estimated today at several hundred thousand dollars. A small tornado struck the! airport here doing damage estimat-* ed at SIOO,OOO. Severe losses wera suffered by the wheat crop. - - One Cent a Day Brings SIOO a Month Over One-Half Million Dollars Already Paid in Cash Benefits. One cent a day ($3.65 per year), invested in a National Protective Policy, will now buy more insurance benefits than can be secured from any other Company for any amount up to $lO per year. This new policy, paying benefits up to SIOO each month of SI,OOO ttt $1,500 at death, is now being sold to all men, women and children, between the ages of 7 and 80 years,' whether employed or not. The benefits for auto of SIOO a month (instead of tha usual SSO a month) is said by many to be alone worth the entire cost of $3.65 per year. Yet this is but on* of the many features of this nevf and unusual policy. 4 The National Protective is tha largest and oldest company of it* kind in the world. It has paid ovep one-half million dollars in cash ter thousands of its policyholders when cash was most needed. Send No Money For 1(1 days’ free inspection of poI ley, simply send name, age, address* beneficiary's name and relationship 11 National Protective Insurance Cos., 414, Pickwick Bulldin:. Kansas City# M.; No medical examination or other reck tape. After reading policy, which wilt be mailed to yon, cither return it oB send $3.65 which pays you p for a' whole year—3os days. Send today wliilo offer is still open.—Advertisement.