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PRODUCTION CURB PROVIDED IN NEW SHORT WEEK BILL Measure, Transformed by Amendments Urged by Administration, Now Facing Its First Real Fight in Congress. HOUSE HEARING MAY DELAY ACTION Regulation of Wages and Working Hours and Brake on Too Great Activity in Any Industry Under Consideration. BY RUTH FINNEY', Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 19.—The short week bill, transformed by administration amendments into a business-like measure of far-reaching economic importance, with provisions for regulation of wages as well as working hours, and for curbing over-production, now faces its first real fight in congress.

The house labor committee, which reported the original limited bill favorably on two different occasions, proposes to hold extensive hearings, starting Monday, on the new administration bill Chairman Connery (Dem., Mass.) is suggesting to his committee today that such industrialists as Henry Ford, Gerard Swope. Owen D. Young and others be invited to express their views. Such hearings threaten indefinite delay, and probably will make it necessary for the President to give his militant support if the bill is to be enacted. Control of production, as proposed in the bill, is intended as a further protection to employers against cutthroat competition, and for this reason will be indorsed by part of industry and fought by part. Curb Overproduction The amendment along these lines, submitted to the committee by Labor Secretary Perkins, provides that wherever too great activity in any industry is preventing a fair balance of production and is bringing about unfair competition in interstate commerce, with consequent hardship to other plants and injury to the public welfare, the secretary of labor shall be authorized to limit the total hours during which the offending plants may work. If a suggestion from her, and publicity for offenders, does not bring about the desired results, the products of such factories may be barred from interstate commerce. Fines and imprisonment are provided for violations of this and other sections of the bill. Radical Changes Made The labor secretary could exercise considerable stabilizing control over mines as well as manufactures. She could prevent overexpansion of over-activity at any season which might prevent other plants from maintaining steady production. Unlike other sections of the measure designed to create immediate employment for those who are without jobs at present, this section looks to regularity and permanency of employment. It generally is regarded with favor by those who have advocated modification of the anti-trust laws, and also by those anxious for government economic planning. Other sections also are changed radically by administration amendments. Elastic Limitations Secretary Perkins proposes that the limitation on working hours be made more elastic by provision that for ten weeks in any year industries upon proper showing of need may work as much as forty hours a week. During the rest of the year thirty hours would be the limit. \ Regulation of working hofirs and of "just and reasonable” wages is to be in the hands of boards appointed by the secretary and containing representatives of employers, workers and the consuming public. Wages and working hours thus might be different in different industries, and this elasticity would go far toward making the bill acceptable in the sight of the supreme court, its advocates believe, while a flat minimum wage, fixed for the entire country, probably would be frowned upon. Figures on employment in the United States during March, released today by Secretary Perkins, supplied additional argument in favor of prompt action to relieve unemployment and maintain worker incomes. Decrease in Employment Though a small seasonal increase is usual in March, figures for last month show a decrease of 4.2 per cent in employment in manufacturing industries and 8.2 per cent m pay rolls. Employment was 14.6 percent lower than during March a year ago. while wages were 30.7 per cent lower. "The pronounced decreases in employment and pay rolls in manufacturing industries between February and March, 1933, almost entirely are attributable to the bank holiday,” the labor department said.. The California earthquake and itrikes in Massachusetts also contributed to the decline, while the leverage industry showed a gain in tnticipation of the return of beer. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 48 10 a. m 53 7a. m 49 11 a. m 53 Ba. m 49 12 (noon) .. 55 9 a. m 51 l p. m 58

The Indianapolis Times Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer Thursday.

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‘Futile’ Mercy Husband Who Pleaded for Love Rival Sues Wife for Divorce. TNTERCESSION in court in favor A of "the other man" in a matrimonial triangle didn’t pay, Louis Summerton, 33, of 2510 Southeastern avenue, charged today when he filed suit in superior court two for divorce from Mrs. Carrie A. Summerton and custody of their 8-year-old daughter. Several weeks ago Mrs. Summerton and Robert Byers, alleged “other man,” were convicted in juvenile court of contributing to child neglect. Judge John F. Geckler lashing Byers unmercifully for his attentions to Mrs. Summerton. Geckler fined and sentenced Byers, but when Summerton said he had no desire to see his rival go to jail, suspended judgment on a condition that Byers and Mrs. Summerton stop seeing each other. Today, Summerton charged in his divorce action, that his wife and Byers failed to heed the court's admonition and were together two hours after leaving the courtroom. Summerton asserted he had an adequate income from his profession of commercial artist, but that his wife was “cold and indifferent to him and associated with other men against his wishes.” Byers was the only co-respondent named.

LINDBERGHS START CROSS-COUNTRY TRIP Return to Airways for First Time Since Tragedy. Rjt I nited Press NEWARK, N. J., Apil 19.—America's most-famous flying couple—the Lindberghs—returned to the airways today. With Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at the controls, they left on a trans-continental flight at 12:03 p. m. in a Lockheed Vega monoplane. It was the Lindberghs’ first long flight together since the kidnaping of their first child, Charles Augustus Jr. Lindbergh said he planned to stop at Camden, N. J.. where they will receive weather reports before deciding on the next destination.

Enrolling of State Forest Corps to Start Thursday

Enrollment of Indiana's quota of 6.500 young men for the national forest unemployment relief corps will get under way in Indianapolis and throughout the state Thursday. Quotas for each county were announced today at the office of Governor Paul V. McNutt by Fred Hoke, chairman of the state unemployment relief commission. The commission, through its local branches throughout the state, will handle the enrollment and select those to be sent to camps when the federal government is ready for them. Hoke said. Enrollment in Marion county will Times Index Page Births and Djwii*** 11 Book a Day 13 Bridge 14 Classified 12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World 11 Dietz on Science 14 Editorial 4 Financial 11 Germany—A Ten-Day Tour 7 Hickman—Theater Reviews 7 House of Morgan—A Series 9 Obituaries 5 Radio 8 School Page 8 Serial Story 13 Sports 10 Wiggam Cartoon 14 Woman s Page *..... 6

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Dr. William Guthrie By Timm Special NEW YORK. April 19.—Dr. William Guthrie, Episcopal clergyman, who waged a nine-year battle with Bishop William T. Manning, emerged victor in a clash Tuesday that threatened his position, electing his own slate of candidates for the vestry of St. Mark’s-in-the Bouwerie, east side church. Dr. Guthrie presented his ticket after charging that certain members of the present vestry were interested more in property than in souls and that “they would throw Jesus Christ out of the church because he didn’t have enough swank.”

JAPANESE BOMB U. S. MISSION Methodist Property Believed Total Loss After Air Raid by Nipponese. BY HERBERT EKINS, United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1933. bv United Press) PEIPING, China, April 19.—American Methodist mission property under the American flag at Miyunhsien has been bombed by Japanese airplanes, the Rev. Mark W. Brown, secretary of the North China conference of the Methodist Episcopal church,-announced today. General Yo Ying-Ching, minister of war, also revealed that an unnamed American missionary or mission worker at Miyunhsien had been killed. Dr. Brown said the mission property had been struck repeatedly by bombs and numerous buildings destroyed. The Chinese pastor of the mission took refuge in Peiping after hiding in a dugout while the mission. over which the flag floated, clattered to earth. The pastor, interviewed here by the United Press, said: "I was working in the mission when twelve airplanes arrived, dropping eighty bombs and devastating the town. “The bombs were very large. For example, one bomb knocked down a thirty-foot wall of brick and stone surrounding the mission. “Another air raid occurred after I left the town for Peiping. I believe the American mission property there is a total loss.” BILL PASSING CHARGED Counterfeiting Evidence Against Man and Woman to Be Heard. Federal warrants charging passing of counterfeit S2O lulls were to be issued today against Mrs. Lena Farber and George Mathews, suspects held under SIO,OOO bond each since last Thursday. Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner, was to hear evidence in cases of both defendants this afternoon.

begin at 8:30 a. m. at Tomlinson hall. A. Kiefer Mayer is county chairman and George F. Gill, manager of the emergency work committee, will be in direct charge. Marion county’s quota has been set at 980. Those enrolled must be between 18 and 25, single. American citizens, and a member of a family receiving poor relief. They must agree to assign $25 of their S3O monthly pay to their families. Need and not politics will dictate who will be sent to camp first, it was emphasized by Governor McNutt. When the federal government notifies the state it is ready to take these enrolled, groups will be given medical examinations and those passing the tests sent to Camp Knox. Ky. There they will undergo a two weeks’ training period before being sent into the forests. Indiana state forest camps will be given the first assignment of those finishing the training period. It may be that as many as 2.000 will be used in the state, it was announced. County quotas were based on poor relief rolls, largest assignment being Marion county. Lake county is second with 767. Quotas in some of the small rural counties run as low as two.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933

AUTO RIDDLED, CITY BUSINESS MENROBBED Blame Gang Fleeing From $40,000 Terre Haute Bank Fund Looting. 11 BULLETS HIT CAR Local Citizens Returning From Chicago When Outlaws Start Firing. Their automobile riddled by eleven bullets, two Indianapolis business men were robbed of a small amount of money last midnight four miles north of Morocco by gunmen believed the same who took $40,000 from two bank messengers at Terre Haute Tuesday afternoon. J. W. McDonald, 50, of 213 Seville apartments, and William E. Mize, 37, of 308 Sheldrake apartments, were returning from a business trip to Chicago with McDonald driving Mize's Chrysler sedan while Mize was sleeping. The gunmen, driving a Ford Veight, the same type car used in the Terre Haute robbery, passed McDonald and Mize going north, turned and came back and opened fire as they neared the Indianapolis men's car. Three bullets thudded into the Chrysler in the first one embedding itself in the upholstering about four inches from Mize's head. Mize awoke. Chase at 85 Miles an Hour The Indianapolis men increased their speed to eighty-five miles an hour, but the gunmen kept pouring bullets into the car and punctured a rear tire of the Chrysler, which swerved crazily toward a ditch, and nearly overturned before McDonald succeeded in getting it under control to bring it to a halt. Two of the gunmen got out of the Ford and jerked McDonald and Mize from their car, one of them shouting: “Why in hell didn’t you stop?” As he spoke, the hoodlum smashed Mize across the mouth with the butt of his .38-caliber police pistol, knocking out several teeth. He searched Mize, taking some change and his watch. Threatened With Death McDonald had shoved his billfold into the cushions of the seat, but lost some change and a brief case containing patent papers on which he and Mize had gone to the Fairbanks Morse plant at Chicago to confer. “You've got more money,” the bandit who had struck Mize told him. “I'm going to count ten, and (Turn to Page Five)

TROOPS RUSH TO GUARDAtt LEVEES Dynamiting by 300 Men Brings Action in Mississippi. By United Prres JACKSON, Miss., April 19.—M. S. Conner today ordered national guardsmen into the flooded district of northern Mississippi, where 300 men Tuesday night dynamited a main levee on the Tallahatchie river. Acting on orders from the Governor. Company F, 155th infantry, Mississippi national guard, stationed at Clarksdale, left immediately for Glendora. They will have orders to shoot to kill any one molesting the levees. . BOY DIES; FATHER HELD Accused of Causing Death by Giving Lad, 7, Alcohol. By l nited Preex BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 19. John Davidson, 48, unemployed stone worker, was charged with the death of his 7-year-old son Robert in a verdict by Coroner Ben R. Ross today. “Death by acute alcoholic poisoning, the alcohol administered by the father of the deceased,” was the verdict after examination of the boy’s stomach by Herman T. Briscoe, Indiana university chemistry professor.

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ROOSEVELT ORDERS U. S. OFF GOLD STANDARD IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Defense Case Is Rested in Ruth Judd Sanity Trial Succession of Expert Witnesses Testify the Blond Killer Is Mentally Unbalanced. BY GALE D. YVALLACE United Press Staff Correspondent COUTROOM, FLORENCE, Ariz., April 19.—The defense in the sanity hearing of Winnie Ruth Judd, condemned murderess, rested its case unexpectedly today. State's attorneys protested they were not ready to proceed immediately and Judge E. L. Green granted a recess until late afternoon.

The defense brought its case toward a close Tuesday with a succession of expert witnesses, who testified that Mrs. Judd is “completely unbalanced” and a “true case of dementia praecox.” “Sarah Bernhardt couldn’t put on such deception,” declared Dr. H. E. Pinkerton of Coolidge. Ariz., asserting that Mrs. Judd was not malingering. “She is becoming insane by progressive stages,” he said. “She talks freely of the bloody trunk in which

DEATH CLAIMS T. H'REILLY Detective Is Taken at ' Veterans’ Hospital After Long War on Crooks. Eighteen years of warfare against lawbreakers ended at the United States Veterans’ hospital Tuesday with the death of Thomas Joseph O’Reilly, 39, private detective. Death came after a long illness from a lung affliction. Known to friends and close acquaintances as Tom Reilly, the de-

tective, w r ho frequently worked as a free lance, he was credited with giving the tip which led to the arrest of Charles Vernon Witt and Louis Hamilton, who are awaiting death in the electric chair for the murder of Lafayette Jackson, Inda inapolis chain grocer, during a robbery attempt. Mr. O'Reilly also took an active part

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in investigation of the Harold Herbert Schroedsr case, one of the outstanding death mysteries in Indiana’s history. Schroeder’s fire-wrecked automobile was found at a lonely spot on the High School road. In it was the charred body of a man whose identity never has been established. Theory was developed that Schroeder attempted an insurance hoax, but he was captured later in (Turn to Page Three) TWO ARE ACCUSED OF ROBBING BOY MUSICIANS Turned Over by City Police for Trial at Danville, Ind. Two men arrested by local detectives were turned over to Hendricks county authorities today for trial at Danville on burglary and larceny charges. The prisoners, Richard Dye. Montclair, Ind., and Norrell Lisher, 220 North Illinois street, each 23, are accused of stealing five horns belonging to members of the Indiana Boys school band at Plainfield. In addition, a burglary charge stands against Dye here. He is accused of stealing furniture valued at SIOO from his mother-in-law, Mrs. Nellie Swigett, 239 North Illinois street, apartment 212. All the horns were recovered. Detectives said they trailed Dye and Lisher from pawn shop to pawn shop w'here they tried to dispose of the instruments.

Convict Britons; Embargo Ordered on Soviet Goods

BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, April 19.—E ngl an and struck back at Soviet Russia today for conviction of five British subjects on espionage charges. King George and the privy council declared an 80 per cent embargo on Russian imports and the Metro-politan-Vickers Company, employei of the convicted men. ordered an immediate appeal on behalf of two defendants who were sent to prison. The partial embargo, amounting practically to declaration of an economic war, will become effective April 26. Embargoed items included timber, petroleum, grain, raw cotton and butter. Verdict to Be Appealed BY EUGENE LYONS V'nited Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, April 19—William MacDonald and W. H. Thornton, British subjects, were lodged behind the grim walls of Liubianka prison today, sentenced to penal servitude

the bodies of Mrs. Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, her victims, were found. She knows no signs of emotion, because her emotions have deteriorated.” Dr. George Stephens, former superintendent of the state hospital, was the last witness Tuesday. “I found after she came to the state prison she was insane,” he declared, and also asserted that her mother, Mrs. H. J. M’Kinnell, was not stable in mentality.

Sly Banditry Crafty Gunman Tricks Bank Cashier, Flees With $5,000.

By United Prres Syracuse, ind., April 19.— a lone bandit robbed the Syracuse state bank of approximately $5,000 today and sped east out of town in an automobile belonging to Sol Miller, cashier of the institution. According to Miller, the bandit telephoned the bank from a farmhouse, saying that he was connected with the state banking department, that his car had broken down and asking the cashier to come after him. Miller said he drove his machine to the appointed spot and was held up by the bandit, who forced him out of the automobile at the point of a revolver. The bandit then drove the stolen car to the bank, robbed the institution and fled in the cashier’s machine.

TRIO OVERCOME BY LEAKINGGAS FUMES Two Women, Man Found in House Unconscious. Found unconscious from fumes emanating from a leakihg basement gas heater pipe, two women and a man were in critical condition today at city hospital. They are Miss Ada Miller, 42. of 1221 East Raymond street; Miss Hazel Lester, who lives with her, and Albert Barker, 24, of 1810 Shelby street. The three were found unconscious in the Raymond street house by neighbors and were rushed to city hospital. Barker w 7 as lying on the kitchen floor, with his coat partly on. Miss Miller was found lying on the bathroom floor and Miss Lefter on a bed. URGES U. S. CAUTION Keep Finger Out of Oriental Pie, Says Far Eastern Prober. “America's best policy would be to mind her own business and to cultivate a friendship with oriental countries,” said Dr. Charles P. Emerson, member of the fact-find-ing commission sent to the far east lats year by the Laymen's Mission Movement, in an address to the Rotary Club Tuesday. “It is no temporary squabble as might take place between two South American countries,” Dr. Emerson said. “That which is happening in the Orient today has been m the course of preparation for centuries.”

for sabotage and espionage against the Soviet state. Their four countrymen and codefendants prepared for a hurried departure Thursday from Russia Allan Monkhouse, John Cushny, and Charles Nordwall were found guilty, but were sentenced to banishment alone. A. W. Gregory was acquitted. Defense counsel prepared appeals for MacDonald and Thornton to be presented within forty-eight hours, as required by Soviet law. They will ask commutation of the prison terms to banishment. If the sentences are carried out, MacDonald must serve two years and Thornton three. Gregory, who is free to remain in Russia, decided to rccompany his colleagues to England. Severe penalties had been anticipated, especially for the eleven Russians defendants but the sentences were comparatively light, ranging from one to ten years in prison. One of the Russians, Ivan Zivert, was acquitted.

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Value of Dollar Drops Drastically Abroad With Edict That No More Precious Metal Will Be Shipped. COMMODITY PRICE RISE SOUGHT Europe Regards Move As Strategy to Provide President Ammunition in Economic Conferences. % By United Press The value of the dollar dropped drastically in the world's foreign exchange markets today and the decline became strongly emphasized towards noon, when it became known that the government would take no steps to support the dollar abroad.

RELEASE NEAR, FACTOR THINKS Contact With Abductors of Youth Renewed Through Gang Envoys. BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1933. bv United Pressi CHICAGO, April 19.—John (Jake the Barber) Factor, whose glib tongue lifted him from poverty to the parlors of European nobility, today b lieved the return of his kidnaped son was imminent after contact with the abductors had been renewed through gang emissaries. Factor said he had been assured that the son, Jerome, a studious youth of 19, was in good health, and had not been harmed by the kidnapers, who have held him since last Wednesday for $50,000 ransom. Center of efforts to obtain the boy’s freedom was the Morrison hotel in the Chicago where Factor protected against intruders by a guard of friends, had a suite high above the street. In a bungalow, on the hotel roof was the mother of the youth, Mrs. Leon Marcus, Factor's first wife. With her was the promoter's second wife and his 6-year-old son. Police were busy questioning three suspects in the abduction arrested through information obtained from six gangsters who were working independently of officials to obtain the youth’s release. Factor declared the renewed contact with the abductors had been made by two associates of the six gang leaders who had escaped a surprise police raid. Police released the six gangsters who had been dubbed the “gangsters’ secret six,” and they scattered immediately to underworld haunts, where it was believed the final negotiations for the youth’s freedom would be consumated. BLACKSMITHS HELD ON HORSE TORTURE COUNT Caused Animal to Bite Off Its Tongue; Owner Charges. Trial of two blacksmiths charged by humane officers with cruelty to a horse, causing it to bite off its tongue, today was continued until April 25 by Paul Rochford, judge pro tem in Municipal court 3. Defendants were James Royston. 50. operator of a blacksmith shop at 426 Shelby street, and his helper, Madison Glore, 1302 Fletcher avenue. James Brown. 1015 Holliday street, owner of the animal, said the defendants, angered because it would not hold still to be shod, pulled the animal’s tongue out of its mouth to control its actions, the tongue being bitten off in the process. The horse was killed by Humane Sergeants C. C. Quack and William Dever. ARREST~U. S. SQLIDERS Japanese Hold Americans for Taking Pictures of Troop Movements. By United Preen TOKIO, April 19. —Two American soldiers were arrested Monday by Japanese military authorities near Matsaochwang, China, while they were photographing Nipponese troop movements, advices to the NipponDemmo news agency from Chingwantao said today.

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HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

The British pound sterling gained nearly 5 cents, and was quoted at $3.57%. The gain in the pound was reflected in the Canadian dollar, quoted at 85 cents, a gain of % cents. The currencies of France, Italy. Switzerland, Belgium, Germany arid the Netherlands sold above their par at gains of 10 to 85 points, and Scandinatian currency jumped from 15 to 30 points. In Washington, it was explained that the government's decision was in an attempt to raise commodity prices in the United States and that it was only temporary, the President hoping for an eventual return of all nations to the gold standard. Washington, federal reserve bank district governors met to consider means of loosening credit. Europe, and especially London, regarded the dollar’s drop as clever manipulation by America to improve its position in the negotiations with Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald and other European leaders over debts and general economic problems. No Gold to Be Shipped By l nited Preen WASHINGTON, April 19. The administration, it was learned authoritatively today, will not support the dollar abroad through gold shipments. This decision was reached, it was said by friends of President Roosevelt, in an effort to raise commodity prices. The only gold that the government will allow to be exported will be that earmarked for foreign governments and balances for trade movements in accordance with previously laid down regulations. The decision not to support the dollar was said to be the newest step in President Roosevelt’s program for world stabilization of exchanges. AH in Same Boat The dollar will be left to take care of itself in world markets, it was explained. The move on the part of this government is looked upon a-s constructive, and as putting the government in the same position as other nations. Though officials did not in so many words describe this action as taking the United States off of the gold standard, it generally was regarded in Washington as amounting to that. Some officials suggested that the action might be described as a move toward a controlled price level. The effect, some explained, is to allow the dollar to shake down to its natural world level in the same way that the British pound has been reduced in value through the natural process in trade. Taking Another Route Once the leading currencies of the world reach their normal levels, the way will be cleared, perhaps at the coming world economic conference, for an international understanding which each country would revalue the gold content of its curency on the trade basis which develops out of the present situation. President Roosevelt’s action is expected to result in prompt burial of pending inflation and currency expansion measures in congress, because he is taking another route toward the same object of the direct inflationists, the raising of prices. It was explained in sources close to the White House that the move was expected to have an almost immediate effect upon both domestic and international commodity prices. Seeks Controlled Level A good many commodities, it was said, are sold in terms of world trade and on a gold basis, cotton for example, being one of them. Friends of the President were hopeful that r '*ton prices would be one of the fl- st to mount. In White House sources it was learned that no new licenses have been issued for the export of gold and that the export of the precious metal which took place Saturday had been verbally approved previously. Another thing that the President was said to be striving for was a controlled price level. His associates said he hoped also to get the world as a whole back on the gold standard. REPORT WAGNER BILL Unemployment Relief Measure Finally Is Given to House. By United Pree* WASHINGTON. April 19. The house banking and currency committee, after weeks of delay, today reported favorably the $500,000,000 Wagner-La Follette unemployment relief bill.