Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1932 — Page 3

OCT. 17, 1932

INDICTMENT OF HOOVER DRAWN UP RY LADOR Administration Anti-Union and ‘Open Shop,’ Says Democrat Broadside. BY MAX STERN Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. The oover administration has been anti-union apd “open shop," according to a broadside issued by Daniel J. Tobin, chairman of the labor division of the Democratic national campaign committee. Labor’s counts against the Republicans, according to Tobin of the teamsters, follows: They not only have “given aid in obstructing’’ payment of the prevailing wage on public works, provided for by the act of March, 1931, but served notice on labor that this bill could not pass if it contained a penalty clause. President Hoover, while commerce secretary, was quoted as having told a house committee, on May 15, 1920, that “the principle of individual freedom requires the open shop.” The first contract given under the Hoover regime was a painting job on the White House, given to a nonunloh contractor. Appointments Are Cited Secretary Lyman T. Wilbur awarded the contract for the socalled “Hoover dam" to the “six companies,” composed of all nonunion contractors. These refused to meet union labor representatives, standards of wages and working conditions were ignored and flouted; safety and health conditions were not protected. Officers of the United Mine Workers appealed in vain for a conference on coal, and Republican leaders in the senate and hou*e blocked the Davis-Kelly bill for suen a conference. President Hoover named Judge John J. Parker for the United States supreme court, and Parker had upheld 336 operators who forced “yellow dog contracts" on miners. Hoover also nominated for the appellate bench Judge James Wilkerson of Chicago, who “was active in developing the worst features of injunction slavery.” He also nominated Judge Kenneth Mackintosh of similar record. Lose 19 Billions Income Army and navy uniforms for hospitalized war veterans are being made by workers getting wages ranging from $3.96 a week to sl3; And, finally, “the workers, clerical and professional people have lost $19,000,000,000 per year income or more in wages under the Hoover administration, more than they gained in the previous nine years." "President Hoover’s attitude,” concludes the statement, “for four has been one of cold and callous indifference to the misery of the unemployed. “He opposed every plan for relief that was drafted or indorsed by the American Federation of Labor. “He killed the prosperity loan. He killed appropriations to feed starving men, women and children.” MORATORIUM DECLARED BY BRAZIL ON DEBTS Sixty-Day Holiday on All Civil Obligations Is Ordered. tfiy United Press RIO DE JANEIRO. Oct. 17. President Getulio Vargas has decreed a general sixty-day jnoratorium on “all civil and commercial obligations in national currency contracted before July 20 in any part of Brazil and affected all debts contracted within the state of Sao Paulo after July 9. The decree was issued to give the country a "breathing spell" in which to recover from the effects of th£ costly three months’ rebellin of Sao Paulo state. CHURCH CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY Observance to Continue Throughout Week for Bethel M. E. Members, * Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Bethel Methodist church, Fiftieth street and Lafayette road, which started Sunday with rally day. will continue throughout the week, with the pastor, the Rev. Lowell Morris, in charge. Activities of the week will include an old-fashioned singing school, love feast and pioneer interior display. remonies will close with observance of home-coming Sunday. TUNNEL BLAST IS FATAL Hard Rock Miner Is Blown to Bits in Famous Moffat Bore. By United Press / V T EST PORTAL, Colo., Oct. 17. A hard rock miner was blown to pieces and another was critically injured in the water bore of the famous Moffatt tunnel Sunday when their air drill struck a stick of dynamite in an old blasting hole. Ralph C. Poucher. 41, veteran miner, was instantly killed. Ed Leddford, 37, was injured. The water bore will carry water from the west slope of the Rockies through the mountains, to. the eastern slope. It is being enlarged. Berries of some sumacs are used as food in Japan, but some other species of sumac are poisonous even to the touch.

Water ‘Gouge’ By L tilted Press KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Oct. 17. —Butter, without the moisture properly removed, cost midwestern merchants approximately $2,000,000 In 1929, ac- ► cording to Dr. J. O. Clark. Chicago. chief of the central division of the federal food and . drug administration. “Merchants paid for 5.000.000 pounds of butter but. in reality, ( received only 500,000 pounds." 'Dr. Clark said. ’The rest was water. The butter averaged from 30 to 50 cents a pound. ’ Dr. Calrk said the condition was being remedied through closer federal and state inspection.

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When George A. Davidson Jr., young motion picture test editor, was found shot to death in his Hollywood apartment, Mrs. Constance Smith, above, told police he had ended his life. She had been with him at the time, she said. Davidson's mother, however, has notified the authorities that she has proof he did not shoot himself and asked them to hold “all material witnesses. * Mrs. Smith, sister of a film actress, said her husband and two children live in Dallas, Tex. The inquest will be held today.

The Day's Political Roundup

Hoover Plans New Tour; Thomas Scorches Rivals; Roosevelt Mum on Bonus

By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Another invasion of the middle west, where a crucial bloc of states may decide the election, has been proposed to President Hoover by Republican leaders, pleased with the reaction to his campaign speech at Cleveland, Saturday. Pressure is being brought to bear to get the President to speak at Detroit—possibly this coming weekend. At the White House, officials said “nothing has been decided yet,” but admitted strenuous efforts were being made to prevail on the chief executive to make the trip. All that Walter Newton, the President's political secretary, would say, I however, was “his campaign plans are vague for the moment.” The “fighting role” that Mr. Hoover has assumed, as when he lashed out in his Cleveland address at charges made by the Democratic opposition, has encouraged party leaders. In addition they were pleased at the reception he received on the Ohio trip. Roosevelt Drafts Speech BY FREDERICK A. STORM I United Press Staff Correspondent HYDE PARK. N. Y., Oct. 17. Meeting with advisers, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt Sunday put the finishing touches to plans for his second invasion of the middle west in his bid for the presidency Roosevelt spent most of the day working upon his major speeches | scheduled for St. Louis. Pittsburgh and Baltimore. “Was your bonus address among those?” the Governor was asked. "I am not going to talk about the bonus at this time,” Roosevelt remarked. He appeared slightly annoyed at the question. “I’ll shoot when I am ready,” he declared in reference to the bonus | issue. The Governor revealed that he heard part ( of President Hoover’s Cleveland address. “What did you think of it?” he was asked. He smiled and indicated with a shake of the head that he had no comment to make. 5,000 Hear Thomas ' By United Press TULSA. Okla., Oct. 17.—Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, assailed both major par- ! ties and advocated voting of a $20,000,000 bond issue for housing unemployed, in a campaign speech here Sunday night before more j than 5,000 persons. At Oklahoma City, in the afternoon. Thomas predicted the elecI lion of his Democratic opponent, Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying “Governor Roosevelt, the dirt farmer of Hyde Park, will win.” “In 1916 people voted for Wilson and peace, and got Wilson,” Thomas , said here. "In 1920 they voted for Harding and normalcy, and got Harding. In 1924 they voted to keep cool with Coolidge. and got the hottest gambling period in Wall Street's history. "In 1928 they voted for' Hoover and prosperity, and got Hoover.” Ford on Air for Hoover By Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Making his first radio . ppearance in the national political campaign, Henry Ford will speak in behalf of Presfdent Hoover Wednesday, Oct. 19, over an NBC network, during a week which will be marked by sixteen regularly weekly broadcasts and several special features presented by the Republican national committee. Ford, whose radio appearances are a rarity, will speak from his office in Dearborn, Mich., from 7:30 to 7:45 p. m. central time. Mud-Slinging Denied Denial that instruction has been given Indiana Democratic campaign speakers to attack or call attention to President Hoover's pre-presi-dential foreign mining career was issued today by R. Earl Peters, st&te chairman. In his Cleveland speech Satur- 1 day, the President described as j "calumny” a statement from a copy,

of instructions supposed to have been issued by the Democratic national committee to its speakers, purporting to imply that Hoover "had engaged in the slavery of human beings through contracting cheap Chinese labor in his early engineering days.” Denying that he had done this, President Hoover attacked the Democrats for issuing such instructions. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, representing the national committee on a visit here today, also denied having seen such instructions or heard of their being issued. “I have, of course, read articles about the President's mining career,” as well as other accounts of his engineering exploits, but never have considered* using them,” Harrison said. Van Nuys at Old Home By Times Special FALMOUTH, Ind., Oct. 17.—While thousands of his friends gathered in his honor, Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic senatorial nominee today, in an address at his birthplace here, expressed his confidence that "Indiana wilf not fail to do its part in this crisis confronting the nation.” Ritchie, Allen to Speak i By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Governor Albert J. Ritchie of Maryland, one of the “favorite son" candidates for | the Democratic presidential nomination, and Henry J. Allen, former United States senator and Kansas Governor, will debate issues of the campaign here tonight, the Republican national committee announced today. Allen and Ritchie will speak at Northwestern university’s downtown campus. Rally in Rushville A delegation from the Irvington Republican Club will attend the old-fashioned rally and torchlight | parade in Rushville Tuesday night. William L. Harding, former lowa : Governor, will address the rally, and Mrs Arthur Robinson, wife of I the junior senator, will speak during the afternoon. County Candidates Speak Democratic candidates for county offices will be speakers at a mass meeting Tuesday night at 915 West Michigan street, ' with Henry B. \Walker, precinct committeeman, in charge. Name Hoover Committee Additional members of the executive committee of the HooverCurtis Club of Marion county were announced today by Claude H. Anderson. chairman. They are: Charles L. Coffin, George L. Dennv, Dr. R. Frank. Dennv. Mrs. Brandt C. Downey oames H . Drill Mrs. Robert Elliott. Lewis B. Ewbank. William H. Faust. Charles W tield. Fred C. Gardner. Carl At. Geuoel Elbert Glass, the Rev. Henrv Herod, Dr! Poster J. Hudson. John S. Hunt. William H. Insley. O. Louis Isensee, W. Frank £°" e * Arthur E. Julian Mrs. Thomas R. Kackley. Harold Koch. Mrs. A. C McWil- &• A u* h n r T -^ la Y fleld - Mrs R - Harry Miller. Walter Montgomery. Donald A Morrison. John C. Muesiug. Kenneth BadOlcott Moses A. Rabb. Miss Elizabe h Ramev. William R. Riger. John C. Ruckelshaus. John K. Ruckelshaus. A:Ruddell. Jacob E. Shewmon. Arthur G. Simpson Firman C. Sims. Dr. Hal P. Snvttl - Harold E. Sutherlin. Frank A. Svmmes. William L. Tavlor. George D Thornton Mrs. Earl Townsend. William Wallace Turpin, Walter J. Twiname, Paul £• Wetter. George t. • Wheldon, Dan V WhHe. Mrs. H. P. Willwerth. L. Roy National Party to Meet Nationalist party rally will be held tonight at 7:45 at 2619 West Washington street. Speakers will be Floyd S. Hubbard. J. M. Noe, L. W. Heagy and Forrest L. Hackley. Music will be furnished by the Thirteenth ward band. Gunmen Loot Oil Stations Two gunmen robbed Ben Scalf, 29. attendant at the Sinclair station, 5401 East Washington street, Sunday night, taking checks and an unestimated amount of money. Nearly an hour later, they obtained sls from Joseph Belier, attendant at the Standard station 3801 East Michigan street.

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DEMOCRATS TO RULE SENATE, SURVEYSHOWS Picturesque and Powerful Members of Old Guard Slated for Gate. BY RAY TUCKER Time* Stiff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—A Democratic senate, bereft of several picturesque and powerful members of the Republican old guard, will be elected in November if present portents are correct. Reports indicate that election day may see the most murderous slaughter of veteran warriors in many years. The chamber may miss the wit of Senators Gedrge H. Moses of New Hampshire the good nature of “Sunny Jim” Watson of Indiana, the solemnity of Reed Smoot of Utah and the prohibition fervor of Wesley L. Jones of Washington, author of the “five and ten” law. These four men, whose combined senatorial service totals eighty-two years, are reported to be in danger. The extent of such a catastrophe is measured by the prominent positions they occupy. Moses is president pro tern., Watson is majority leader, Jones is the driest member, now that Senator Morris Sheppard (Dem., Texas), has accepted the Democratic repeal plank, and Smoot is the high priest of protection, for his helpmate in framing the Haw-ley-Smoot tariff bill was defeated in the primary. Expect Democratic Control In their respective fields these four have no rivals, and have been towers of strength to Republican administrations. Even if the predicted landslide does not materialize, it is expected the Democrats will take control of the senate for the first time since 1918. when an anti-Wilson revolution placed the Republicans in power on both sides of the capitol. More optimistic Democratic estimates indicate the next senate will consist of fifty-four Democrats, forty-one Republicans and one Farmer-Labor member. Other predictions suggest an alignment of fifty Democrats, forty-five Republicans and one Farmer-Labor member. The prospect of a shift in power lies in the fact that only one sitting Democrat is believed to face defeat, while seven Republicans are having a hard time, and at least three are regarded as certain to fall. The lone Democrat is Senator George McGill of Kansas, although he does not concede his defeat. Seven G. O. P. Seats in Peril Six of the seven Republican seats in jeopardy are those of Senators Otis F. Glenn (111.), Jones, Moses, Samuel Shortridge of California, Smoot and Watson. The seventh was held by the late Charles W: Waterman (Colo.) and temporarily is occupied by Walter Walker through appointment. It is to be filled by anew man in November. Should the Democrats win all these seven seats, the lineup would be fifty-four as against forty-one, and one Farmer-Labor member. It generally is believed, however, that the Democrats have their best chances in Illinois, Utah and Indiana, with the prospect that the Republicans may hold the other seats. If only these three places are won by the Democrats, and that in Kansas lost, the senate will consist of fifty Democrats, forty-five Republicans and Senator Shipstead of Minnesota. ENDS ‘LIFE’ 0 C STATE PAPER,'FOUNDED IN 1876 New Harmony Register Equipment to Be Preserved as Relics* By United Press NEW HARMONY, Ind., Oct. 17. The New Harmony Register, weekly newspaper owned and operated for fifty-six years by one family, will suspend publication with its issue this week. T|te paper was founded as a Democratic weekly in 1876 by Charles Slater. Thirty-eight years ago it passed into the hands of his son, Harry T. Slater, its present owner. Equipment of the Register includes a Washington hand press, numerous fonts of wooden type, and hand carved wood cuts. Slater has refused to sell either equipment of the plant or the paper’s name. Instead, he will turn all physical properties over to persons interested m preserving them as museum pieces. Recently, the publisher refused offers to sell some of his equipment to Henry Ford for use in the latter’s “village of the past” at Dearborn. Slater, who is 77, will retire.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen oeiong to: E. C. Hackleman. 1201 North Alabama K otA roadster. 117-219, from 1201 North Alabama street. Lillian Case 1129 East Market street. ™ da i\ 7B ; 27s .’ Uom m fron t or 1129 East Market street. Maggie Bradshaw, 329 South Randolph treet. Oakland sedan, 15-449, from Oriental and Washington streets. William A. Biharv. 3004 Barth avenue Ohfo°ftreet aCh ' fr °9 15611316 avenue and Vernon Howard. 971 King avenue. Ford coupe, from rear of home. Mrs. Ralph Cullipher. 1739 West Tenth street. Anderson. Ind.. Essex coach, from New Jersey and Market streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by nolice > belong to: Laura Beard. 447 South Harding street. Chrysler coach, found at Tenth street and Hawthorne lane. Louis Slintrer. 2408 North Talbot street. Graham Paige sedan, found at Raymond and Linden streets. Carl W. Abbott. 1409 East LaGranae avenue. Ford coupe, found at State avenue and Raymond street, stripped.Clarence Clark. 2245 North Dearborn street. Oakland coach, found it 4300 Massachusetts avenue. Henry William Reuter. 1411 Sharon avenue. Plymouth roadster, found at 2561 West Morris street, wrecked. Elbert Tompkins. 2326 Daisy street. Chevrolet truck, found at Morris and. Meridian streets. ~ David O. Burton. 621 Bradlev street. Essex coupe. found at 12 West Market street. H. K*auer. 3541 North Meridian street. Chrysler roadster, found at 2501 Brookside avenue. \ Howard' l Apple. Oaklandon. Ind.. Essex coach, found in front of 512 East New York street. H. W. Forsythe, Noblesville. Hudson 1 coach, found in front of 413 Massachusettes avenue. Chevrolet coach, no license plates, motor number 3067540. found at Sherman drive and Washington street. Dewev Wilson. Greenfield. Ind.. R. R. 4. Studebaker sedan, found at 1325 Hartford street. Maggie Bradshaw. 329 Bouth Randolph ,tr Oakland sedan, found at Oriental and Washington streets.

Tyrolean Beauty, at 24, Never Has Had Date; Amazed by U. S.

Rules of Conduct Strict in Belle’s Native Land, So She’s Unspoiled. BY DONNA RISHER Times Stiff Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—She never has ridden in a taxi with a man. She never has brandished a silver cocktail shaker or flashed a lighter to a cigaret. She never has had a date, blind or otherwise, and her only engagements with an admirer were chaperoned walks through the village street on Sunday. Once in her unspoiled 24 years, she was out until 1 a. m.—with the consent of her parents. And yet. Hertha Zwerger, sweet and blonde, is considered in her mountain-bound village of Innsbruck, Austria, a “modern girl”.one who represents the “average European.” Because of this modernity, Hertha is here to visit and to get a line on the “true American home.” This fall and winter she will be a guest in scores of homes of students who met her last summer while attending the American Peoples college at Oetz, in the Tyrolean Alps. She will marvel over- the American necessities of bath tubs, hot water taps, radios and French telephones in homes in New York, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and as far west as Lincoln, Neb.

DANK RECEIVER CUTSOWN FEE Fourth Dividend May Be Paid Wild Depositors. Reduction of 12 per cent in cost of managing recievership of the defunct J. F. Wild & Cos. State bank, closed in 1927, and a 50 per cent fee cut for Richard L. Lowther, receiver, are outstanding points in the receiver’s annual report filed today with Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers. Asserting a fourth dividend is in prospect for the 15,000 depositors, Lowther reported that the receiver now has on hand $3,573 in cash and $563,133 in unliquidated assets, exclusive of $1,800,000 Mn notes and mortgages on Florida property. Cost of management of the Florida properties has been cut 50 per cent in the last year, Lowther said. Formerly paid SIO,OOO a year, Lowther now receives $5,000 a year. The receiver revealed that payment of the fourth dividend now depends on payment by Frank Millikan of a $50,000 “accommation” note placed with the bank’s directors pryor to the closing. Payments totaling 62(4 per cent of deposits already has been paid depositors, Lowther reported. HERRIOT GAINS POWER IN FRENCH ELECTIONS Wins Added Prestige When Nine New Followers Are Chosen. By United Press PARIS, Oct. 17. —Premier Edouard Herriot, who in recent weeks has been pushing a determined French policy on the question of German arms equality, gained added prestige Sunday in the senatorial elections, in which a further swing to the left was recorded. Official results of the election gave the left Democrats, allied with Herriot, a gain of nine seats while the Socialist party lost one. The Dem-ocratic-Republican Union party lost two and the Republican Union lost two. Left Republicans lost two and right Republicans lost one. It has been known that Herriot has been nervous over the reaction of the chamber of deputies toward his foreign policy, especially as regards the German arms question. It now seems likely that the chamber will accord him a vote of confidence, since both the chamber and the senate are of a left wing complexion. WOMEN SWING FISTS IN COURTROOM FIGHT Sheriff Separates Opposing Witnesses Over Child’s Custody. Angered after testifying for’ opposing parties in a court contest over custody of a 4-year-old child, two women were separated by a deputy sheriff after staging a fist fight today in superior court three. Mrs. Stella Bell, 315 North Liberty street, appearing as a witness for the wife of a divorced couple, struggled in the courtroom doorway with Edith Carmichael, 222 Spring street, witness for the husband, but neither were hurt. The husband, George T. Davis, 27 Jenny lane, is seeking custody of the child, Patsy Ruth Davis, 4, placed in charge of a grandparent, after divorce was granted the mother, Mrs. Loretta J. Davis, 5230 East Tenth street, several months ago. Deputy Sheriff Joe Tragesser halted the fight and remained in the courtroom while the hearing, scheduled to require a day, was continued. - Killed While Repairing Tire By United Press TIPTON, Ind., Oct. 17.—Struck while repairing an automobile tire, Robert Marsh, 24, Marion, was killed on United States road 31, southwest of here, today. Marsh, who was accompanied by three other persons, was returning from Indianapolis.

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When her visits are completed she will take back to Europe—if by that time she is able to articulate — the results of her insight into American life. Today Hertha. round-eyed with wonderment, is visiting in the home of Miss Genevieve Fox in Garden City, L. I. She is skimming over the roads in Miss Fox’s roadster, eating for the first time the American dish of ham and eggs and watching the

‘Profound Change’ Urged in Orient Mission Field

Swing From Sectarianism in Work Proposed by Commission. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Urgent need of a. “profound tranformation of the church in the mission field of the Orient,” with a swing away from sectarianism and denominationalism as one of the first things to be considered, is recommended by the apprasal commission, Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, just released. “The main direction indicated is away from sectarianism toward unity and co-operation, and away from a religion focused upon doctrine toward a religion focused upon the vital issues of life for the individual and for the social environment in which the individual lives,” the report declared. The commission, comprised of fifteen leading churchmen representing seven denominations, returned recently from a nine months’ examination of missions in China, Japan, India and Burma. Large churches were, in the main, found to be keeping pace with the times, but among the numerous smaller bodies it was found that “the standard nreaching is far too doctrinal and is a complicated system of ideas instead of being a thrilling way of life.” Even so, the foreign missions were credited in the report with maintaining a more advanced viewpoint and a more encouraging attitude than the churches at home. Origin of the missionery movement at a time when the church was divided, is deplored, and many of the evils existing both at home and abroad today are traced to this, referred to as constituting “a major scandal of Christianity for those who look upon it from the outside.” DISCHARGEHUNGJ'JRY IN TRIAL OF WOMAN Preparations to Be Made for Second Case Against Mrs. Gentry. By United Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 17. —Preparations for a second trial of Mrs. Elmer Gentry, bank robbery conspiracy suspect, were to be started here today following the failure of a jury to reach a verdict in her first trial. After twenty-four hours’ deliberation, the jury in Blackford circuit court reported failure to agree. It was ordered to continue deliberations, but after another hour was discharged. Mrs. Gentry was accused of conspiracy in robbery of the Citizens State bank here July 8, 1931. Killed by Hit-Run Car KIRKLIN, Ind., Oct. 17.—Fatal injuries were suffered by Mrs. Dorothy Ramey, 52, here when she was struck by an automobile as she crossed a street. The driver of the auto fled. REMOVED BLOOD CLOTS Sluggish kidneys allow poisons to upset your whole system. Diurex Pills is a stimulant diuretic, increase the activity of the kidneys and thus aid in the elimination of waste impurities. Are recommended everywhere. Ask your neighbor! Diurex Pills, a Diuretic and Stimulant for the Kidneys.

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general wheels go round in the Fox home. “It must be easy,” commented Hertha speaking in distinctively good English, “for young girls to get husbands over here.” In Herthas Tyrol, the ways are so different. Take last Christmas. ; when the beautiful Austrian girl ! was ill with scarlet fever. The proprieties of the occasion were as j important as the cure. “My mother and father made a ‘ social call upon the doctor who was | to attend me,” began Hertha, smil- ! ing broadly. “Next day the doctor was invited to our home to 4 o’clock ‘jause.’ (We had walffles with whipped cream and hot chocolate.) “After the young man departed, j my parents decided he was eligible j to attend me. I went to the hospital I and shortly afterward recovered.” But it was the marriage of Heri tha’s girl friend that set a record in tne Tyrol for bad manner. “My girl friend," continued Hertha, "kept company with one of the j village boys for three years. By keeping company, I mean they took walks on Sunday and let it be known among their friends that they were sweethearts. “Durin those three years the young man did not ask the girl’s mother for her daughter’s hand. That is an ironclaid custom in our country. * The couple were married last year. Ever since that new husband has had the angriest mother-in-law in all Innsbruck.” Hertha is to see a football game, a speakeasy and a musical comedy this week.

His Dog Days By United Press TOPEKA. Kans., Oct. 17. When the depression left B. H. Purdy without a job, he didn’t have to stand in the breadline nor live with relatives. He trained two dogs to make a living for him. The dogs, of mostly German shepherd parentage, are trained as walking signboards. They attract attention toting theater advertisements. In Denver they were used in a charity drive. Purdy travels from city to city hiring out his dogs.

NEGRO IS HELD FOR CITY GROCER MURDER Suspect Agrees to Extradition From Kentucky. James Banks, Negro, held in Hopkinsville, Ky„ charged with the murder of Sam Ajamie, Indianapolis grocery owner, has agreed to extradition to Indiana, detectives announced today. Banks has been identified as the killer of Ajamie during a holdup Sept. 17 of Ajamie’s grocery at 1448 Roosevelt avenue, by Rogie Ajamie, brother of the slain man, and Joseph Trad, clerk, both of whom grappled with the killer. INSTALL NEW OFFICERS Center Council of Security Benefit Association Elects Heads. Center council oi the Security Benefit Association has elected and installed the following officers for the new term: Lawrence E. Scott, president; Elmer Sellers, vice-presi-dent; Isabel Kiefer, second vicepresident; M. Sourwine, secretary; Myrtle Turpin, financier; Mary Zink, prelate; John Zink, guard; Nettie McCarty, sentinel, and William Wittig, trustee. • Center council has a wellplanned entertainment program for the new term and is working to built up its membership.

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OUTLOOK DARK FOR PROGRESS TOWAROPEACE Disarmament, Manchurian Questions Seen Unlikely to Be Settled. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Serlpps-Howird Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.-So grave has become the impasse over disarmament and Manchuria at Geneva that officials here fear privately that, short of a miracle, a satisfactory settlement of either dispute virtually seems doomed. Adding to the gloom Is the knowledge that the key nations involved France and Germany in one conflict and Japan and China in the other—are convinced they are fighting for their very lives, and the law of self-preservation admits of little or no compromise. A nationalistic, junker-ruled Germany, desperately determined to scrap the treaty of Versailles, Is demanding as a first step, io obtain recognition of her right to arms equality with her neighbors, Law of Self-Preservation. France, persuaded that she will be invaded again if she gives way, just as stubbornly is refusing to meet the German demand. China, shorn of three of her richest provinces, demands that return Manchuria in line with the world peace treaties, while Japan imbued with the idea that expansion in Asia is imperative if she is to survive, categprically refuses to yield. Faced with these pioblems, the League of Nations stands with its back to the wall. Its fate depends upon the outcome. Failure to settle either problem, its most ardent supporters admit, means its destruction —so far, at least, as its usefulness in major field of activity is concerned. The United States, with as much at stake as any other power, is expected to insist upon action. Diplomatically, the administration is prepared to go the limit to save both the disarmament conference and the Manchurian parley. Serious Blow to U. S. If, as President Hoover insisted in his Cleveland speech, the plight of the American people is due to the situation abroad, failure now to do his utmost to help stave off the impending world crisis, would, it is observed, expose him to the charge of amazing inconsistency. Failure of the League of Nations satisfactorily to settle the disarmament and far eastern issues would be a serious blow to the United States. The armaments race which would almost inevitably follow would cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. It would expose American interests in the western Pacific to new dangers and the United States to humiliation and loss of prestige in the Orient. China, it further is stated, almost certainly would go to pieces, possibly partitioned among other powers, and the United States would lose its greatest potential future market. BENEFIT COUNCIL TO HOLD EUCHRE PARTY Masquerade Dance Is Planned for Oct. 26 by Group. Marion council No. 738, Security Benefit Association, will sponsor a public euchre and bunco party at 8:30 Wednesday night in the hall at 116% East Maryland strete. Association members and their friends will participate in a masquerade dance Oct. 26. Committee in charge is com Dosed of Jennie Taylor, Josephine Suesse and John Wills.

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