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ARREST BONUS LEADER AFTER POLICE CLASH Veterans Are Hurled Into Gutters as Cops Resist Left Wing March. WHITE HOUSE GUARDED Officer’s Gun Grabbed From Holster; Exhorter of Rioters Freed. By I nilnl press WASHINGTON. July 25.—John Pare, leader of the “left wing” * b:nus marchers, and eight others were arrested on a charge of inciting a riot this afternoon. Police charged Pace urged his followers to break police lines and go to the White House, despite police orders. Police were not as patient as in the similar attempt last week and pushed the veterans back forcefully in some cases sending them sprawling into the gutters. Police shunted the would-be pickets awa> from the White House r at the intersection of Pennsylvania and New York avenues and Fifteenth street. The treasury department is at that corner. • There were about seventy-five marchers in the bannerless parade. “We want our bonus,” some shouted. “We demand an extra session of Congress to give us our back pay,” Pace demanded. Half as many police as marchers were in the street at the treasury corner. The veterans moved half a block up New York avenue and away from the White House, but broke across the street and started back toward their objective. Grabs Cop's Gun Scattered fights and disorders excited lunch time crowds at the intersection of Fifteenth and F streets in the center of the fashionable shopping district. Plainclothes men chased an unidentified marcher who was alleged to have yanked a gun from a policeman's holster. The man was believed to have escaped. Trouble in the shopping district came when police sought to compel \he marchers to use the street instead of the sidewalk. A marcher w'ho refused to walk in the street was hurled from the sidewalk by a plainclothosman.: There were sheuts of protest from the marchers. Three plainclothesmen seized the recalcitrant parader and his comrades closed in to defend him. A Negro in a blue shirt was the first of the rescue crew. A plain clothesman seized him and removed him from the fracas. The chase after the man a'leged to have seized a gun started from that melee. The man darted among the crowd with perspiring plainclothesmen running after him. Squad Cars Called Downtown streets echoed with the sirens of hurrying police cars. A taxi backed up to the west executive avenue entrance to the White House grounds and discharged a policeman and a parader. The latter was hustled into a patrol wagon. One bonus marcher, short with a fighting jaw, stood in the crowd at the corner of Fifteenth and New York avenue, shouting: “One. two. three, four, five, six, seven, come and get me.” Police finally came and got him. taking him to the city jail. He gave them a lively fight and when sub- , dued his shirt was gone. General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of police, as usual during the bonus demonstrations, took up his station in front of the White House and directed operations from there. “Take it easy," he told his men. "Everything's all right.” * Motorcycle squads were sent out. to patrol the immediate vicinity af the White House, police lines were d*awn around the area, and two pairol wagons were stationed nearby for use in emergency. Leader Climbs Tree Walter Eicker, co-leader with the arrested John Pace, went up a tree. The tree is at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. From his perch Eicker exhorted men without earshot to stand fast for the bonus. A crowd observed, with some amusement, the efforts of police to persuade Eicker to descend. Two detectives climbed the tree. With their free hands thev closed Eicker's mouth. Speeehless.‘the left wing leader descended, leaving the detectives in the boughs, a detail of three policemen welcomed Eicker back to earth, put him in a taxicab and took him to jail. Pace was arrested at about the same time. About 100 policemen surrounded the White House. Gates were closed and locked. The disturbance did not get nearer than a block to the White House grounds and was much further from the mansidh and the executive offices.

CRUSHED BY ‘HEAVE HO' Jetgrr Suspect Hides Behind Door; , Cops Break It In. Having peek-a-boo with policemen landed Oad Glover. 60, of 2351 Central avenue, in city hospital with a dislocated shoulder. Glover dodged behind a door in the house when police appeared with a search warrant. The cops “heave’hoed" and the door went in, and Glover went over on the floor, sustaining the injury. Police said they found a gallon of whisky. Oad and his son Herman, 33, were arrested on blind tiger charges.

The Indianapolis Times Generally fair and slightly wanner tonight, becoming unsettled with probably local showers or thunderstorms Tuesday.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 64

Thousands See Dedication Play at New Coffm Golf Course

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GRAIN DEALERS SEE ‘CHAOS’ IN 60-DAY TRADING HALT EDICT

Momentus Battle Is Fought Over Ban on Chicago Futures Deals. By I nilnl Pn ss CHICAGO. July 25.—Ultimatums were exchanged today by Peter B. Carey, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, and George S. Milnor, general manager of the Farmers’ National Grain Corporation as both promised a finish fight in their war over g r ain marketing rights. While Careey and Milnor fought ever the Washington order suspending for sixty days, the Chicago Board of Trade, largest wheat market in the world, prices went up fractionally at the opening, but selling depressed the quotations to a cent under Saturdays’ lows. The suspension order is to be effective in fifteen days. Later they rallied to stand about ■"i cent lower. “We will carry the battle to the United States supreme court, rather than allow the Farmers’ National membership in the clearing association,” said Carey. Row Over Wine Peal “Os course, we'll get into the clearing association,” remarked Milnor. “The law provides us thatl right. If the Board of Trade wants to commit suicide rather than let us in. that's up to them.” Enlivening the war between giants of the grain trade, fought in the world's greatest grain exchange, was a dispute over three barrels of wine. The Chicago Tribune printed a story today which said that the three barrels of wine constituted part of the compensation given by the Farmers’ National when it purchased the Updike Grain Company more than a year ago. The Tribune quoted what it represented s records of a meeting of the Board of Trade directors. The story gave as testimony from F. J. Thatcher, a large stockholder in the Updike company, the statement that the wine was given to J. F. Florentine Jr., floor trader, for one share of Updike stock. Selling Avalanche Feared Officials of the Farmers' National denied today that they had anything to do with the wine deal. They said they dealt only with Nels Updike and Trasher and that they paid them in cash. They explained the wine deal, as one between Tratcher and Florentine, who, they said, held a share of stock for qualifying pur T poses. Carey promised to fight the suspension order through the courts to the United States supreme court, if (Tnrn to Page 10)

KAISER WILL RETURN TO GERMAN THRONE, SAYS SON IN SPEECH FOR HITLER BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN. July 25.—Seizure of control in Prussia by the militaristmonarchist government of Chancellor Franz von Papen was upheld today by the supreme court, as the fourth son of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II predicted his father would return to Germany scon and that a third empire was “within sight.” The ousted Prussian ministers lost their petition to the supreme court for an injunction to break Von Papen's iron rule. The ministers asked that Von Papen, as reich's commissioner in Prussia, be restrained from administering Prussian affairs until the supreme court ruled or. the constitutionality of his decrees. Through them he seized the power of the Prussian government and the police force of 90.000 men. The constitutionality of the decrees was challenged in a second petition, filed by the Bavarian and Baden state governments. President Paul von Hindenburg will end the military rule Tuesday, it was said reliably today. Prince August Wilhelm, now a Nazi and ardent supporter of Adolph Hitler, said in an election speech that the recent changes in the German political situation were unimportant compared with those about to take place.

The recent changes returned the old aristocracy that ruled in the da} of the Hohenzollerns back in power they had not held since the establishment of the republic after the World war. The prince told an enthusiastic audience that his father would soon be home again, and that a third German empire was “within sight.” The “recent changes to which he referred, comprised the seizure of the Prussian administration by the Von Papen cabinet, giving the “all monocle” regime even gres n power than that enjoyed by the user. “For thirteen years the soul of Germany has been smothered under foreign influences, but the first step of liberation has just been taken." August Wilfrelm said. “Prussia’s iron fist again has been raised, and her enemies soon will be scattered.” The prince denounced marxism and attacked the regime of Soviet

You Pay Every way you turn, the new taxes hit you. When you eat, sleep, walk, ride, or just sit around, you’re paying and paying. Just so you’ll know how the new imposts affect you, The Times presents today, on Page 2, the first of a series showing the far-reaching effects of the tax laws. For the twenty days a short article will appear daily, telling you just where you’re affected. Read the first one today, and watch for the succeeding articles.

BOY. 8, IS HELD IN PAL'S DEATH Didn't Have Penny, Lad Is Killed by Rock. ftii ( nilnl Press CLEVELAND. July s.—Louis Sedey. 8. was dead today because he didn't have a penny to watch ani other 8-year-old lay play clown in a back yard circus. The circus was a week ago today. Louis went. But he didn’t have a penny for admission and the clown boy sent him home to get one. To enforce his command, the clown boy hurled a four-inch rock that struck Louis on the head. His mother dressed the wound and for a week he played with other boys, although he appeared very sleepy. He went into a coma Sunday afternoon and died from a blood clot on the brain. The clown boy is held in juvenile detention home. He admits throwini the rock. “Sure I threw the stone,” he said. “Louis didn't have a penny to see the circus.” He doesn’t seem to understand that he may be charged with murder under an Ohio law that says any one who can reason can be charged with murder. NAB 57 DUNES DRIVERS Motorists Slated on Charges of Reckless Driving by Cops. Fifty-seven motorists were arrested on the Dunes highway Sunday on charges of reckless driving, the result of a campaign by a force of ten state policemen.

Russia. “Prussia has freed herself from hateful foreign importations,” he said. “Reds and Marxists never again will raise their'heads on her sacred soil. “Boys are now playing soldiers in every Prussian village, whereas pacifist teachers after the war discouraged such games.” August Wilhelm rebuked the Bavarian government for its opposition to Hitler's fascists, and paid glowing tribute to the Nazi chief. The prince's declarations inspired Alfred Hugenberg and the nationalists to greater efforts to increase their vote in next Sunday's reichstag elections. The enemies of the Hohenzollerns and the Von Papen regime also brought up their big election guns for the final week of the campaign, and one militant editor demanded a plebiscite to unseat President Von Hmdenburg. and impeach the supreme court.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932

‘LIFE IN A DAY’ DASH STARTED BY DOOLITTLE Flier, Washington Kin to Duplicate Travels of First President. Bv I'nited Press I Speeding across the eastern seai board at 200 miles per hour, Major | James Dooiittie, aviation speed king, | today was attempting to cover, in a dawn-to-dusk flight, all points in ; fourteen states which President George Washington covered in a | lifetime- * Under the quivering fuselage of his low-wingea monoplane flashed White Plains, Valley Forge, the Delaware river, the quiet-pillared mansion that Washington called home. Strapped in the cockpit as DcoI little began the fantastic 2,900 1 mile dash, was Miss Anne Madison j Washington, quiet maiden lady of j some fifty years, whose square jaw, | broad face and long nose mark her | kinship to the first President, Great-great-great grandniece cf ! George Washington, the events of I the bicentennial year had lifted her | from the sheltered calm of an unostentatious Washington hotel and j hurled her skyward as a symbol. Oil Firm Loans Plane Congressman Sol Bloom had seen her as the logical passenger when Doolittle set forth to celebrate the 157th anniversary of the founding of the United States postal serviceAn oil company had lent a plane. The skies were blue at 5 a. m. | (E. D. TANARUS., as-the plane shot into the a.':- at Kittery. Me., and Miss Washj ington was off on the second air- | plane flight of her life. Long white | combers rolled in from seaward, | breaking along the sandy beaches. | Massachusetts was a checkered map below: wood-smeke at breakfast fires curling upward; milkmen | clumping through the silent streets | about Bunker Hill as the plane torpedoed past Boston. Driving for speed, yet scheduled | to drop twenty-nine pieces of mail at as many cities, Doolittle was | hedge-hopping the towns, rising, | diving, pushing the plane at 230 ; miles an hour on the stairghtaways J —Providence at 5:35 a. m.; New 'Haven at 6:15: Brooklyn at 6:45, and then into the real Washington I country—south into Jersey, the | footsore, bloody trail the continental j armies trod. “Time of Her Life” Sleep commuters at Morriwstown | blinked and looked upward as the thundering airbolt smashed by above. It was five minutes flight from Philadelphia at 7:45 (where once the Hessians danced and fed), to Valley Forge at 7:50, where gravestones stand white upon the little rolling hills. That was a detour and the yammering nose of the plane turned south by east again at. Wilmington, drowsy Baltimore, the chaste colonial dignity of Annapolis and Washington itself at last, 8:45 a. m. “Having the time of my life,” Miss Ann Madison Washington, fluttered. “It’s certainly thrilling.” Best Yet Ahead The best was yet ahead. A mad dash was next to Mt. Vernon, Wakefield, Va„ birthplace of George Washington, Williamsburg and Yorktpwn. scene of his final victory. Then the plane was to fly to Warm Springs and Winchester over Ft. Necesisty to Pittsburgh, south to Point Pleasant, W. Va., north by way of Pomeroy, 0., bask to Waterfold. Pa., the site of Ft. Le Boef, Rome, N. Y., and the Mohawk valley. After that the route led east over teeming Albany and south again, through the cool twilight, and with the afterglow’ red above the Cat-1 skills, down the dizzy gorge past I West Point on the Hudson, guided by the lights of villages, until Manhattan itself would rise again on the horizon, jeweled with a million lights and draped with the necklace of the lighted George Washington bridge.

Hoover Fortune Shrinks $3,300,000 in 18 Years By L nited Prett NEW YORK. July 25.—President Hoover has lost more than 53.300.000 of his personal fortune, according to the magazine, Fortune, which estimated it has dwindled to about $700,000 since 1914. The President's income was about SIOO.OOO annually when ne was 30, it said. Five thousand of that was salary as an engineer; 135 " ncome from financing. Mr. Hoover lost much of his 1914 fortune estimated a 54.000.000 in the Interna‘.ional Development Company formed in 1920; he lost a quarter million in a newspaper venture, and lost heaxily in ihe industrial and financial depression, the magazine said.

Four thousand golf addicts walked eighteen holes on the new Coffin golf course Sunday to view Gene Sarazen and_ Tommy Armour, internationally famous golfers, stroke the dedication of the fairways and greens. The panorama, taken at the fourth green, shows how the hundreds lined up to see the putting. Many of them are grouped around the green, to

NAB WIDOW ON FRAUD CHARGE Young Jobless Mother Is Held for Grand Jury. Mrs. Norma Bray, 21, pretty jobless stenographer widowed four months ago when her husband was killed in an automobile accident, used another woman’s charge account at a downtown department store to obtain clothing for herself and baby, according to evidence gathered by detectives. She waived examination before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, and was held to the graml jury under SI,OOO bond on a false pretense charge. Admitting that life had been difficult for herself and baby—sines the death of the husband and father, Mrs. Bray, living at 631 Park avenue, was reluctant to talk. She said she was graduated from the high school of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ orphans home at Knightstown and worked six months as a stenographer. Later she worked as an extra saleswoman at the store where it she alleged to have obtained the goods, learning the name of a woman, living in a fashionable north side apartment hotel, who had a charge account. Arrest Mrs. Bray, accused of obtaining* merchandise worth $94.63, was made at the store Saturday, when it is alleged she tried to make additional purchases. The husband was killed four miles east of Greenfield when an automobile he was driving collided with a truck.

STAGE STAR FIGHTS TO KEEP HIS WHISKERS Harmonica Star Goes to Court to Make Loew’s Accept Contract. By United f’resa NEW YORK, July 25—Borah Minevltch, vaudeville star moved today to keep his $2,000-a-week job without jeopardizing his recently acquired growth of fine brown whiskers. His attorney, George Boochever, announced that summons and complaint were to be served and filed in supreme court in an action to force the Loew’s booking office to abide by its contract without having the harmonica player obey orders to shear off his beard. According to Boochever. Louis K. Sidney, production manager of Loew's, engaged Minevitch, recently returned from Europe, by wireless. When he saw the actor's new facial adornment, he demanded its removal. Minevitch refused and the contract w f as cancelled on the grounds that when he was clean-shaven “he had sex appeal.” Burglar Suspect Is Nabbed Edward Lisher, 27, of 408 East Louisiana street, apartment 24, faces charges of vagrancy and drawing a deadly weapon as a result of his arrest early today after police discovered an attempt had been made to break into the Calvin Fletcher school, 520 Virginia avenue.

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the right, while others took advantage of a knoll on the fairway for a birdseye view of the experts. Ralph Stonehouse and Neal Mclntyre, local pros, who played the famous invaders, broke even. Below (left to right) are Sarazen, 1932 British and American open champion; Armour, 1931 British champion; Mclntyre, four times Indiana open champion, and Stonehouse, runner-up for the Hoosier title.

Olympic Games It is a long streach from ancient Olympia to modern Los Angeles, from the granddaddy of athletic contests to the modern international athletic games. DO YOU KNOW? Why girls were not allowed at the Greek Olympics? Whether Greek athletes competed completely nude? Whether religion entered into ancient Greek athletics? That the pancratium was an amazing contest? Why athletes erected statues of themselves? What ancient contest is too rough for modern sport? What races were run in the ancient Olympics? Read the Science Service series, beginning today on Page 3.

MERCURY ON RISE Slightly Warmer Weather Due, Says Forecaster. Temperature slightly higher than the maximum of 86 Sunday is probable today, according to J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief. With showers or thunder storms probable Tuesday, Armington does not expect temperatures will be as high as prevailed last week when a new high of 97 was reached, but he made it plain that the hot wave is not ended definitely.

JUDGE TO FREE MEN WHO TURN THIEVES TO FEED THEIR WIVES, CHILDREN

By United Press ' PHILADELPHIA, July 25 Men who steal to feed their families will receive no punishment In municipal court. Judge William M Lewis declared when court convened today. Recent cases, he said, had revealed to him the dangerous pressure of near-starvation on unemployed men. “If a man is brought before me on a charge of theft.” he said. “I will not sentence him to jail, if it is proved that he has stolen to feed his family. “What I will do is to put him on probation, entailing regular visits to probation officers. The majority of cases which I have handled in this manner have been justified. I have had many unemployed men, arrested for theft, say to me: ’Put me in jail and keep me there until you can give me a job.’ “Naturally I can't do that, but it is a striking indication of the effect of present trying conditions on the morale of our men.”

Judge Lewis said it would be necessary, of course, to differentiate between the man whose act is motivated by the starvation of his family and the man who really is a criminal type. “I am a firm believer in the ultimate san.ty of our people,” he said. “I think they are innately sound, but I believe that unless relief of some sort is forthcoming shortly these people are going to rise up and take things into their own hands. There is no telling to what lengths desperate men, goaded by starvation of their families, will go.” For the last month, Philadelphia's unemployed, numbering approximately 60,000 families or 250,000 individuals have not received money or food from the unemployment committee. The committee which administered $5,000,000 raised by public subscription, through the winter and an additional $2,500,000 provided by the state legislature in the $10,000,000 Talbot relief bill, was disbanded at that time, its funds exhausted. Then the legislature went into! another special session and during the days and weeks of discussion over relief legislation, Philadelphia’s near starving have lived in hope. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 68 10 a. m 81 7a. m 71 11 p. m 83 Ba. m 76 12 (noon).. 84 9a m 78 Ip. m 85

DENY MELLON TO QUIT POST British Reports Are Wrong, Says State Department. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 25.—The state department said today it had no reason to believe that Andrew W. Mellon, ambassador to Great Britain planned to resign. It characterized British press reports of his resignation as mere speculation. Backs War Debt Cut By United Press LONDON, July 25.—Andrew W. Mellon, former secretary of the treasury, will resign his post as ambassador during his present visit to America, London newspapers said today in discussing war debts and reparations settlements. The ambassador feels that a younger man should handle important questions such as war debts, which are expected to - be discussed by the United States and her European debtors, the Laborite Daily Herald said. The Herald predicted Mellon's resignation would be submitted to President Hoover soon after his arrival in America this week. The Sunday Dispatch quoted official circles as saying that Mellon would not 'return to his post here. The newspaper commented on the fact that the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Rr-ald Lindsay,, no,w ,s en route to London. Mellon sailed for New York last week with his son Paul. He said his trip w r as private.

GARBO FOOLS 'EM Horde of Reporters Meets Train; No Greta. By United J'rntu NEW YORK, July 25.—Greta Garbo, Swedish film star, continued her elusive character today, though it was reported on cx>d authority that she had reached New York from the Pacific coast preparatory to sailing for Europe. Reporters and cameramen met every incoming train at both the Grand Central terminal and the Pennsylvania station, but there was no sign of Garbo. She was supposed to have been aboard the Fifth Avenue special of the New York Central, but when it arrived, a thorough search was made of each car with no results. Train officials professed ignorance of the movie star’s movements. Glider Champion Is Killed By United Prees COLOGNE. July 25.—Gunther Groenhoff, world's champion glider, was killed here when he jumped from a rudderless machine and his parachute failed to open.

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ROADS BOARD UNDER FIRE IN SENATEPROBE Determined Effort Made to Split Huge Fund of Highway Bureau. SPENDING PLANS LAID Department Proceeds With Moves Costing Millions, Despite Inquiry. Despite state-wide demands for diversions of gasoline tax and automobile license funds to block control by the Indiana highway department, commissioners already have arranged to spend $5,260,090 of the 1933 budget. This was revealed today at the senate hearing, which may result in demand by the legislature that the highway division “keep out of pcli- \ tics.” The roads committee of the senate learndd of the proposed expend- ■ itures in questioning Ralph Simp- ! son, assistant state highway director. Spotlight of legislative activities w s to be transferred to the house of representatives this afternoon, when vote is slated on the bill to repeal the Wright bone dry law. Senate Watches House Wet and dry lines were drawn throughout the morning, as representatives returned to their posts after the week-end. Senators, resuming their routine duties at the halfway mark of the special session, had then “ears to the ground” on the house vote. Simpson's testimony revealed that the commission plans to continue the largest construction program in state history although commissioners are aware of the protests. The commissioners’ battle, apparent from the testimony before the committee, will be to keep the I $24,000,000 fund intact. Simpson's report was an estimate | of how much funds will be avail- . able if the bills to divert gas and j license funds on a 50-50 basis are passed. Expects Drop in Funds He placed the gasoline tax figure at $8,000,000; automobile licenses, $2,500,000, and federal aid at $13,200,000. This is several million short of present figures, but Simpson explained he expects both the license fees and gas tax to bring in less next year. At the close of his statement, Simpson was taken to task by John H. Aiken, Ft. Wayne, representative of the Hoosier Taxpayers’ Union, on the grounds that it is wrong to | “spend” the 1933 funds before knowing what will be available. Simpson replied that it “has been an old custom” of the department. Chairman John H. Sherwcod 'Rep.), Mitchell, of the roads committee. took great care to see that no commissioner was offended. His aid in their defense last year I resulted in anew paved road past his farm. Queried on Pressure But he wouldn’t let any one go into the matter, although Senator Winfield Miller (Rep.), Indianapolis, did ask about the pressure brought to bear on Senator William V. Doogs (Dem.), Cannelton, to get him to remove his name from the senate fund diversion bill. Sherwood sought to hush the matter, but Chairman Albert J. Wedeking (Rep.), Dale, of the state highway commission, wanted to explain. “Oh, of course, Mr. Wedekin. if you want to explain you may,” Sherwood said. So Wedeking said the reason they decided not to spend $75,000 to improve a road near Cannelton was not because Doogs was author of the bill, but because the bill wouldn’t leave enough money to make such an expenditure. That the Weiss repealer will be passed is not doubted by house wets, who claim a large margin of victory. Its fortunes in the senate will be precarious, although liberals in the upper house are confident of ultimate victory. Bans Obnoxious Clause The new prohibition bill, if enacted, will remove the Wright law’s obnoxious search and seizure on hearsay, making personal knowledge the requirement for issuance of a warrant. It legalizes prescription and sale of medicinal whisky with 50 cents a pint tax, and makes the definition of spirituous liquors corresond with federal requirements If there is liberalization by congress on beer, the state statutes will correspond under the Weiss bill.

LADY’S WHITE GOLD WRIST WATCH RETURNED A white gold wrist watch and fountain pen slipped from the purse of Mrs. J T. McAter. 833 North Temple. She placed a three-line lost ad in The Times. The next morning a Times reader had returned the lost articles to the owner. She received as a reward two guest tickets to the Indiana theater. Times Lost Adds Only 10 Cents a Line Cali RI. 5551