Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1932 — Page 3

OCT. 1, 1932

‘SYNTHETIC' IS THOMAS' VIEW OF ROOSEVELT Socialist Nominee Adds New Adjective to His Former ‘Fanatic’ Description. R!l I llitl ll Prt ** MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. I.—Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate Tor President, had this to say in a speech here about his opponents, Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Hoover: “I called Governor Roosevelt a fanatic some time ago. Now whatever I called him would be prefaced with the adjective 'synthetic.' He is a terrible statesman, but a good politician. "The depression is unjustly being laid to President Hoover. That's giving him too much credit. He isn't big enough to cause such a crisis. "He recently declared a moratorium on repayment of seed loans. That w-as o. k., but it begins to look like he will declare moratoriums on ever increasing loans until after election.” Thomas spoke before audiences of labor organizers, university students and party adherents. He stressed the Socialist agricultural program Thomas said Roosevelt’s leadership, if he is elected, will be that of a "weathervane.” Os the Socialist agriculture program Thomas said: "The fundamental concept of this program is that the farmer can look for no panacea until anew social and economic order is established.” Thomas criticised the nomination of John B. Chappie as Wisconsin senator. “That progressive state sank to anew low' level when it elected a cheap, lying, muck-raking demagog like John Chappie.”

$35,000,000 IS LOSS (Copyrieht. 1932 tav United Press) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct. 7.—Casualties in the hurricane of great intensity which struck Puerto Rico early on the evening of Sept. 26, are 204 dead and about 2,000 injured, with all but a few districts reported, James R. Beverley, governor, announced Friday. The property loss can not be estimated, but seems certain to be more than $35,000,000. Thousands of private homes are destroyed. In the path of the hurricane, more than 50 per cent of thp people are homeless. Scarcely a. building is left standing in several towns. INFANTILE PARALYSIS SPREAD IS UNLIKELY Sharp Outbreak in Pennsylvania Is Only Alarming Factor. Bn Science Service WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—Health officials are not alarmed over the infantile paralysis situation this season. While Philadelphia and adjacent territory has suffered a sharp outbreak, there has been only the expected seasonal increase in the rest of the country. More than half of the cases reported to the United States public health service here for the entire country for the week of Sept. 24 were from Pennsylvania, which reported 156 cases. Os these, sixtyfive were reported from Philadelphia. The total reported, for the United States was 293. Figures indicate that the outbreak in Pennsylvania is on the wane. In New Jersey there has been a slight increase from forty cases for the week of Sept. 17 to fifty-one for the week of Sept. 24. This was the only state besides Pennsylvania reporting a . large number of cases of the disease. SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED Skull and Crescent at Indiana U. to Make Award. By Time.t Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. Oct. 1. —Skull and Crescent, honorary sophomore fraternity at Indiana university, will give a scholarship of SSO each fall to the sophomore who makes the oustanding record in ex-tra-curricular activities during his freshman year. Albert Highley, Lafayette, chairman of the organization's scholarship committee, is in charge of establishing of the scholarship. Other members of the committee are: t Ross Lockridge Jr.. Bloomington: Robert Gorrell, Bremen, and John A.v. Jasonville. Purpose of the scholarship is to encourage freshmen to participate in extra-curricular activities. “Y” to Hold Indiana IT.l T . Drive By I nun sp< rial BLOOMINGTON, Oct. I—Herman Brecht of Indianapolis will direct the Y. M. C. A. drive at Indiana university, beginning Oct. 10. The goal will be for 5750 for operating expenses. Brecht will be assisted by E. Gayle Fitzsimmons. Kokomo; Joseph Eichhorn. Bluffton; James Mentzer. Mentone, and La Mar Rensberger. Goshen. Football Star in Pulpit By Timm Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., Oct. I. Robert Baldridge, who was graduated from De Pauw last June and was one of the four "Fighting Parsons on the De Pauw football team, has been made assistant pastor to the Rev. W. Henry McLean of the First Methodist church, in Bloomington.

NIGHT SCHOOL Business men give preference to those who are preparing for better positions. Spend part of your evenings profitably by attending night school. Courses offered here in Accounting Typewriting. Stenography. Secretarial, and other bustnew anbjects. Low cost. Bulletin li. rr. Central Business College AreMten* t *• * Pennsvlyanis and . ermo tS! Ild an.polu

YOU’RE SURE LOSER

Slot Machines Get Your Dough

4 ■mmm - r* II ' i r i '■ * % * *jj I 1 S^h^^B|h9H^^^^Hh ®| | l|r?|\ pf |£< * - WfcMy'or&&*r !s&< JL £ TIsSI I

You can’t beat a slot machine —or this particular contrivance, anyW'ay—because its intricate mechanism is so arranged that the percentage is all against you. Dr. C. C. Clark, an assistant to Dr. E. E. Free, of New York university, here is shown pointing to the perforated discs which spell bad news for nickel gamblers. ALL you do is drop in a nickel or a quarter, pull the lever and the money rolls out—sometimes. But you can't get rich playing the slot machines, which, rumor persists, occasionally have been seen 1 in Indianapolis places of business. You may have found out, after ruefully surveying your empty pockets. Now along come the experts, to make assurance doubly sure.

When you drop your nickel—or quarter—or half—in a three-wheel fruit symbol slot machine you have, if the machine is one of the relatively honest type: One chance in 8 1-3 of getting two slugs back. One chance in 12' 2 of getting four. One chance in 83 1-3 of getting eight. One chance in 250 of getting twelve. One chance in 500 of getting sixteen. One chance in 1,000 of getting a jackpot. tt a a OUT of 1.000 slugs put in, if you happen to hit the mathematiical average of results, you will receive 756. On a nickel machine this means that for SSO you should get back $37.80. If the pleasure of pulling the lever 1.000 times is worth $12.20, you may consider yourself even. General science students at New York university, under the direction of Dr. E. E. Free, who teaches science as a hobby, obtained a machine, took it apart, discovered just how it worked, and f then calculated these averages. The machine was not played, however, to test whether mechanical influences interfered seriously with the mathematics. The machine used was far more "liberal”—that is, it gave more

Turn Your Smart Cracks Into Money; Write a Gag

$25 in Prizes and Tickets to Palace Theater Are . Offered in Contest. The Indianapolis Times "Gotta Gag - ’ contest has been under way for only two days, but already scores of readers have submitted "gags" for Laurel and Hardy's next feature picture. For the best four entries. Laurel and Hardy are offering prizes of $lO, 57.50, $5 and $2.50, with ten additional prizes of two guest tickets to Loews Palace, where Laurel and Hardy now are being seen in "Pack Up Your Troubles.” Engagement of this film is an exclusive for the Loew* theater in this city. This one engagement at the Palace, then gone from this city forever So many gags are included in "Pack Up Your Troubles" that Laurel and Hardy need some more before they can start work on their nexi full-length feature comedy. Hence the Gotta Gag contest. "Gags." as they are manufactured by expensive "gag men" in Hollywood, are anything which will make an audience laugh. B” that definition. "Pack Up Your Troubles" is one long gag from start to finish, and that's what Laurel and Hardy want their next feature picture to be, too. Rules of the Gotta Gag contest are simple. It is suggested that entrants first see "Pack Up Your Troubles." Then, while the type of comedy for which Laurel and Hardy are famous is fresh in their minds, they are to write but one to five gags which they believe funny enough for the comedians' next picture, and send them to the Gotta Gag Editor of The Times. Be sure that your gags are in the mail not later than midnight. Friday. Oct. 7. the closing date of the contest. Winners will be announced in The Times as soon as possible thereafter.

Gentlemen’!i Fine flnthes to Measure KAHN VO Second Floor*- Kahn Building Meridian at Washington

ALL-WOOL MADE-TO-MEASURE PANTS $5.00 FROM * <lO *l2 WOOLENS LEON * KB,HT Li Uv/ Is r \n ok Ul tl>T NEW IQKh STREET

chance to the player—than the machine most frequently found around Indianapolis. The machine analyzed pays, theoretically, 75.6 per cent of the money put in. The standard machine used here pays only 67.6 per cent, and some are adjusted to give the "house” a still larger percentage than 32.4. tt tt tt ONE of ihe tricks which fools the players on the machines, the investigators discovered, is that of the twenty fruit and bar symbols on each wheel only ten are "alive.” That is, the machine is so adjusted -hat each wheel can stop revolving on only ten of the symbols, and the other ten might as w’ell be blank. Each wheel has one "live” bar and nine other “live” symbols. The chance of the wheels stopping on the bar is, therefore, one in ten. The chance of three bars coming up thus becomes one in a thousand. The “liberal” nature of the wheel examined, as compared to the standard type, lies chiefly in the fact that oh the third wheel it contains an extra "live” lemon. This increases the number of times the combination of two cherries and a lemon—four slugs—appears, as compared to the combination of two cherries and other symbols which pay two slugs only.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: H N. Helmar, R. R, 10. Box 435. Chevrolet sedan. 121-152, from Fourteenth and Meridian streets. Dr. John A. Lambert. 2822 North New Jersey street. Ford sedan. 40-032. from garage in rear of 2822 North New Jersey street. Guy Robbins. 734 East Twenty-eighth street. Chevrolet cofeh. 41-600. from North and Meridian streets.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: George F. Dalby. 2336 Kenwood avenue, Pontiac coarh, found at Belmont and Washington streets. J. H. Frazier. Advance. Ind.. Buick coach, found on parking lot at 318 West Market street. Mrs. J. B. Tutewiler. 1517 Park avenue. Hudson sedan. 1100 Hiawatha street. Roland P. Rhodes, 331 North Temple avenue. Dodge sedan, found near Greenwood, Ind. DE PAUW HOP COST CUT First Dance of Season Will Be at Reduced Price. By Titun Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. I. DeFauw university's first dance of the season will be held tonight following the initial football game and will be known as a "Depression Hop." The usual price of 50 cents a person will be drastically cut and is expected to set the pace for prices o£ all dances this year. Dean L. H. Dirks is making a special effort to get the cost of entertainment lowered this year. Ex-Mavor Is Sentenced B>i l n i ted Prcx FLORENCE, Ala.. Oct. I.—W. S. Eastep. former Florence mayor, was found guilty today on a charge of embezzling $11,600 in public funds, and was sentenced to from four to five years in prison.

The Strong Old Bank of Indiana The Indiana National Bank Os Indianapolis

WOUTLET 7/SHOE STORES] L€UA9l£ SbOES £.T LOWEST FR'CEsB

•k Safety for Savings Fletcher American NATIONAL BANK Southeast of Market and r enntvlvamo

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

U. S. RAILWAYS TO PUT 15,000 BACK TO WORK Seasonal Traffic Gains Are Reported by Lines Through Nation. B Vnited Pres* Seasonal increases in railroad ! traffic on some lines and better than seasonal increases on others have resulted in improved earnings reports for ihe last two months, j and will produce jobs for at least ! 15,000 workmen before Oct. 15, a United Press survey showed today. The nation’s frieght traffic deI dined in the corresponding period of 1930 and 1931. Most* of the workmen to be re- | called are locomotive and car repair men, but in the northwest, there has been such an increase in | traffic that many train crew's are being added. These increases do not mean that i the total number of employed railj road workmen will equal the numj ber on jobs in 1931. This is in line with general employment conditions as reviewed Thursday by William L. Greene, president of the American Federation of Labor. He said: "While the improvement is not enough to show a definite upturn as yet, restoration of the normal seasonal trend suggests returning confidence. His report estimated the total number of unemployed in August at 11.500,000, an increase of 100,000 over July. The increase, he said, was due to layoffs on farms and in small industries. Os the railway workmen to be reemployed, about 10.000 were reported by eastern lines, 3,500 by middlewestern lines, and 1,500 in the far west. The principal increases in railway traffic were in grain, coal and cotton I shipments.

Sent to Prison for Life at 15, Jesse Pomeroy Dies Behind Bars at 72

By United Press T>Rir>GEWATER, Mass., Oct. 1. —Jesse Harding Pomeroy, 72, -U America's oldest lifer in point of time served, died suddenly Thurs day night while still paying the penalty for a murder committed shortly after the Civil w r ar. Gray and frail after fifty-six years' imprisonment—thirty-eight of those in "solitary”—he finally succumbed to heart disease at the Bridge-

w'ater state farm, but not until he had outlived all twelve of the jurors w 7 ho doomed him to the gallows when he was a boy of 15. Had he lived until Nov. 29, he would have celebrated another birthday anniversary, probably in the usual way, by penning a poem similar to scores of others he wrote —poems that found a silver lining in every cloud. The first thirty-eight years of prison life were passed in solitary confinement, as ordered by the court when the death sentence was commuted. Pomeroy saw no one, and talked with no one, except his mother and a jailer. H e lived with only his beloved books as solace, behind a solid door that had not even bars through which he could see into the corridor. Food and water were shoved through a crevice. It was Jesse’s proud boast that he was a self-made man in the strictest sense of the word. He learned half a dozen languages. He spoke and wrote French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and English with native ease. He had a superficial

knowledge of other tongues. Time after time, efforts to gain his freedom failed, the state contending that his mental status made it unwise. The last appeal for liberty was rejected only a year ago. Pomeroy himself made no less than seven attempts to break prison. The last one at the state farm here in June, 1930.

ATHLETES ARE BARRED None Can Run for Class Offices at Indiana U. By Timex Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. I. No Indiana university athlete now in training will be permitted to run for a class office at the university, according to political groups on the campus. This conclusion was reached following a movement among campus organizations to exclude athletes and do away with dissension among team members. It is the consensus among students and faculty at the university that participation of athletes in campus politics would be in direct opposition to the program of the athletic department and the coaches in making for better teamwork. CLASS GARBISDONNED De Pauw Students Wear Senior Cords for First Time. By Timex Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., Oct. I. De Pauw university seniors will get the jump on the rest of the campus when it comes to donning their class garbs. The senior cords make their initial appearance at the first football game of the season today against Manchester college. Freshmen caps and other class garbs will not appear until Old Gold day, Oct. 22. This is the annual home-coming celebration.

1874-1932 Since 1874—with a background of more than fifty-eight years of experience—the Celtic Savings and Loan Association has been investing the funds of thousands of people—by assisting others in the securing of homes. First mortgages on well-located Marion county real estate—which we believe to be one of the soundest investments known. Assets $13,787,241.11 Celtic Savings and Loan Association Member of the Marion County League 23 W. Ohio St.

Butler Student Sells Second Juvenile Tale

- . M Bp '■

James Foster A second adventure story by James Foster, 19, Butler university ; sophomore, has been accepted by jA. L. Burt Company New York ! publishers. Foster's first story was accepted j last spring. "Captured by the Arabs”-is the title of the new book. It will appear this fall simultai neously with the first, "Lost in the Wilds of Brazil,” Foster's freshman English professor, who gave him B— in the course, expressed indignation last year when that fact was made public. He asserted that his reputation was injured when the news was featured over the country. Library reading and imagination, Foster says, are his only aids in picturing far countries. He intends to more than pay his way through college with a series featuring various parts of the world.

Mlffinir ? lift

Jesse Harding Pomeroy

ROB BANKi TWO SHOT By United Prcxx WAHPEON, N. D„ Oct. I.—Five machine gun bandits held up the Citizens National bank of Wahpeton Friday and escaped through a hail of gun fire which resulted in wounds to two kidnaped girl victims.

3% Paid on Savings Security Trust Cos. 11l North Pennsylvania Street

LOANS AT REASONABLE RATES FOB ALL WORTHY PURPOSES The Indianapolis Morris Plan Company Delpware and Ohio Sts. Riley 1536

TRUSSES For Every Kind of Rupture. Abdominal Supports Fitted by Experts HAAG’S' 129 West Washington Street

EVANGELISTIC DRIVE MAPPED BY 19 CHURCHES Baptist Teams Training for Campaign in Clinic; Meet Monday Night. Members of the evangelistic teams of Marion county Baptist churches will meet at the Woodruff Place Baptist church Monday night in the second session of the Baptist training clinic preparatory to evangelistic campaigns in nineteen churches. First of the campaigns will open Oct. 17 at Emmanuel Baptist church. Woodlawn and Laurel avenues, in charge of a team of workers from Cumberland, headed by the Rev! O. A. Cook. The Rev. H. C. Lince, Emmanuel pastor, will lead a team of his own workers in a return engagement at Cumberland. The Rev. Louis G. Crafton, president of the Baptist Ministers Association of Indianapolis, will lead a team of workers from the Garfield park church in a revival meeting starting Nov. 1 at New Bethel Baptist church. Churches Map Campaigns This service also will be returned by the Rev. W. F. Buckner and a team of workers from New 7 Bethel.! The Rev. R. H. Lindstrom and a team from Southport will be in charge of services Oct. 30 at Beech Grove. Baptists headed by their pastor, the Rev. Fred Postma, will assist the Bluff Avenue church Nov. 21 to Dec. 4 and at Acton during the entire month of February. Workers from the First Baptist church headed by the Rev. O. R. McKay' will assist the Exeter Avenue Baptist church Nov. 7-20. Beginning Nov. 13, the Rev. T. J. Parsons, executive secretary of the Indiana Baptist Convention, will assist the College Avenue Baptist church i$ two weeks of co-opera-tion with workers furnished by the Thirty-First Street Baptist church. The Rev. R. M. Dodrill, College avenue pastor, will hold a meeting at Memorial Baptist church a week prior to Easter. Male Chorus to Sing North Baptist church, Fifty-sec-ond street and Sangster avenue, will be assisted by the Rev. Ison H. Farris and workers from Calvary Baptist church. Hillcrest Baptist church, assisted by the Rev. Walter Ray, will hold a meeting at Garden Baptist church Dec. 26 to Jan. 8. The meeting Monday night will be addressee?* by the Rev. William Parsons on "Lighting the Fire.” Members of the Indianapolis Association Male Chorus will attend the Monday meeting and arrange for use of the chorus at the evangelistic meetings. Their first regular engagement will be Oct. 9 at Garden Baptist church, when the Rev. Morris H. Coers, pastor of the Thirty-first Street Baptist church, will speak on “A Fighting Religion.” DAVIS AID RETORTS HEATEDLY AT TRIAL Bj/ United Press NEW YORK, Oct. I.—Joseph A. Jenkins, star defense witness in the lottery tria'i of Senator James J. Davis, was subjected to a slashing cross-examination today by Louis M. Treadwell, government prosecutor. Jenkins, with Fred W. Jones, assertedly took over Davis’ organization contract with the Moose for $600,000, when Treadwell demanded to know w'hy no written agreement was made, Jenkins replied passionately: "I’ve known Jim Davis for twenty years. I know his word is his bond. I've known Fred Jones for twentyfive years. I know his word is his bond. It wasn't an arrangement between three strangers. It was between three old friends.”

ax Important Member of your Family

The telephone is something more than an instrument to carry your voice across the miles. It is a most important member of your familv. Faithfully, constantly, cheerfully it serves you. Keeps you in touch with friends. Stands guardian over your home. Helps to put more pleasure and achievement into life and living. And does it all so capably. When you are moving, you keep your telephone in the old home until the last van has gone and you place the key in the lock for the final turn. You arrange in advance to have a telephone readv at the new address so there will

IXBIAXA BELL TELE PHO X E COMPAXY I

Funeral Rites Arranged for Charles Oakes

;

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Oakes Funeral services will be held at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary at 4 Saturday for Charles W. Cakes. 88. former Indianapolis resident, who died Tuesday at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Oakes was the last member of his class at Ohio Wesleyan university. He was a member of the York Rite, G. A. R. and prominent in the work of the Park Temple M. E. church at Ft. Lauderdale. He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Ella D. Oakes, with whom he celebrated their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary July 1. Mr. Oakes formerly was schools superintendent at Norwalk. 0., and also at Bellefontaine, 0., when Kin Hubbard was a pupil there. "Mrs. Oakes’ father was 92 at the time of his death. Thus father and son had lived under the administration of every President of the United States from George Washington to Herbert Hoover. In addition to the widow 7 , Mr. Oakes is survived by a son, Warren D. Oakes; a daughter, Mrs. Joseph S. Geode of Indianapolis, and eight grandchildren. STATE GIRL KILLED By Untied Press KOKOMO. Ind.. Oct. I—Miss Jeanette Miller, clerk in a Kokomo store, was killed Friday and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Miller, Seymour, were injured seriously in an automobile accident one mile northwest of Greentown. The family was en route to Kokomo.

Around South America * Winter 1933 Visiting 11 Colorful Countries and 36 Colorful Cities South America—colorful travel—the cruise tour extraordinary—down the fascinating West Coast, an ever changing panorama. The beautiful Caribbean Sea. The towering, snow-capped peaks of the Andes. The beautiful lakes. The ancient civilization. The Inca Empire. Majestic Iguazu Falls. The brilliant East Coast, its large cities, parks, avenues, theaters. Rio de Janeiro, with miles of beaches. South America has become the adventure of the age—it is the place to see. More than any other continent—it is a land of contrasts, where you will meet the extremes of scenery and civilization. For the American traveler who wishes to escape the cold northern winter climate, there is no finer trip to be had than the South American trip, RICHARD A. KCRTZ. Manager Travel Bureau The Leading Travel Bureau of Indianapolis. feUNION TRUSTS ■ 1 ' 1 120 E. Market St. RI ley 5341

DOCKET OF 4-00 CASES TO FACE SUPREME COURT Justices Will Take Action on Scottsboro Appeal and Booze ‘Trap.’ BY HERBERT LITTLE Tim** sun Writer WASHINGTON. Oct. I.—The supreme court will go to work Monday. after a four-mouths vacation, on an accumulated docker of more than 400 cases, which includes important legal and economic questions of taxation, railroads, motor transportation. natural resources and the tariff. The nine justices have spent their vacations at seashore, mountains and abroad, interspersing work with rest. The briefs in the various cases accompanied the justices during the summer, despite the doffing of the court's heavy black silk robes. Among criminal appeals to be heard by the court, chief public interest attaches to the internationally known Scottsboro case. The court will hear arguments, probably in its second week, on this appeal by seven Alabama Negroes from death sentences imposed following their conviction of an assault on two white girls. This case has been agitated by radical and liberal organizations as a test of racial discrimination, and charges have been made that a meb intimidated the trial jury during its consideration of the cases. A prohibition case appealed to the court involves the validity of the practice of prohibition agents inducing people to sell them liquor so they can make an arrest. This case w 7 as appealed by a North Carolina man. who established that tht agent established a friendship by chatting about their days in the A. E. F., where both served in the same division, before inducing him to obtain liquor. Dogs are allowed to roam free and rats are chained in French Indo-China. There the women wear trousers and men skirts; children are given numbers instead of names.

MERIDIAN AUTO LAUNDRY FRED H. BOWEN, Mgr. Now at Its New, Modern Quarters 824 N. Meridian Opposite Public Library We Invite Your Inspection

be no break in your contact with the world. When a young couple starts housekeeping. When there is illness in the home. When some* body goes away. When distances are great. When emergencies arise. On all of these occasions the telephone earn? its right to family membership. Day or night, any part of the telephone com* pany'g army of skilled workers, intricate equipment, and millions of miles of wire is at your command. It is our Company's constant endeavor to make the telephone worth more and more to every subscriber*

PAGE 3