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WIDOW DIES AFTER CHARGING FRIENDS WITH $7,000 THEFT

Mrs. Effie Bull Stricken Following Appearance in Court. CORONER OPENS PROBE Man and Woman Accused of Robbery Still Are in Jail. I Stricken as an aftermath of a robbery and alleged attack, Mrs. Effie Bull, 55, of 1540 North Meridian street, Apt. 3, died today at Methodist hospital of undetermined causes. Dr. John E. Wvttenbach, deputy coroner, immediately opened an investigation, and said at least two and a half hours would be devoted to an autopsy, in view of the circumstances preceding Mrs. Bull’s death. Taken to Hospital Mrs. Bull, widow of Dr. John H. Bull, who was a well-known Indianapolis surgeon, was taken to Methodist hospital at 11 Tuesday night after she was stricken with convulsions. She appeared a few hours earlier In municipal court four against John Cochran, 25, and Mrs. Emily Watkins, 27, of 1129 North Alabama street, friends whom she accused of binding and gagging her and robbing her of jewelry and clothing Valued at approximately $7,000, As she was leaving court, she collapsed in the hallway and was taken into the probation department, where attaches revived her with smelling salts. Mrs. Bull told friends she had been treated for several months for- heart attacks. Held in City Prison Cochran and Mrs. Watkins are held in the county jail in default of $5,000 bond each on charges of robbery and grand larceny. The couple is alleged to have bound Mrs. Bull’s arms with picture wire, gagged her with scraps of paper and a handkerchief and robbed her of a diamond ring and an emerald brooch which Mrs. Bull "said had been in the Bull family for more than 200 years. They also are charged with taking a SSOO sable coat. The jewelry was found on Cochran when he tried to “thumb a ride” on East Washington street from radio patrolmen Charles Clements and Melvin Wilkerson. The coat was found in the checkroom of a downtown hotel. , Mrs. Bull had been in a highly nervous condition since the robbery and particularly since her appearance in court against the two prisoners. according to Mrs. L. V. Wilkinson, occupant of apartment seven of the same building. Rushed to Hospital After staying in the Wilkinson apartment for a time to avoid visitors. Mrs. Bull returned to her own apartment Tuesday night. She was talking to Mrs. Wilkinson and the maid, according to the former, and had seemed to have regained her composure. Suddenly, Mrs. Wilkinson said, Mrs. Bull’s face became contorted, she stiffened in her chair and appeared to be on the verge of collapse. She was rushed to the hospital at 11:45 p. m. and death came at 8:30 a. m. today. Said She Bought Whisky When they pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon in municipal court four to the robbery and grand larcency charges, Cochran and Mrs. Watkins admitted being in Mrs. Bull's apartment and said she had sent out for a pint of whisky and served them drinks. This Mrs. Bull denied. Today, Cochran was questioned in city prison by reporters. “Who brought the liquor?” he was asked. “I'd rather not talk until I see my lawyer.” Cochran retored. Asked the same question again, he countered: “What good would it do * you to know?” “Mrs. Bull just died.” he was informed. Visibly shaken. Cochran asked for a cigaret and inhaled deeply when it was lighted for him. “That's too bad,” he said slowly, “I don't know what we could have done.” * Funeral services have not been grarnged. Times Index Page Book a Day 15 Bridge 9 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Dietz on Science 9 Editorial 4 Financial 13 Fortunes From Depression —a Series 7 Heywood Broun 4 Hickman Theater Reviews 9 Money—History in Pictures 16 Radio 8 School Page 10 Serial Story 15 Sports 12 Talburt Cartoon 4 Vital Statistics 13 Woman's Page 6

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Await Roosevelt Orders on Trade Recovery Bills Future Course of Revival Measures Up to President; Anti-Trust Fight Opened. Bl r RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 10.—The immediate future ofshort work week, minimum wage, industrial recovery and public works legislation rested today with President

M'NOTT URGES MOTHERS' AID Practical Relief Is Best Observance of Day, Says Governor. Practical relief for dependent mothers and children was proposed by Governor Paul V. McNutt today as the best method of observing Mother's Day Sunday. Citing the action of the late President Wilson in designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s day and the subsequent acts of congress and proclamation of President Roosevelt the Governor’s proclamation concludes: “I call upon citizens to observe Sunday, May 14, 1933, as Mother’s day when we not only may express our love and reverence for our own mothers, btu also give sympathetic consideration and practical relief to the needs of that great multitude of mothers and dependent children, who, during recent months and years, through no fault of their own, have been deprived of their usual sources of livelihood. “Thus may we truly honor our own mothers and pay them the highest tribute by pasisng on to others less fortunate something of the ministry that they have bestowed on us.” Bank Receiver Is Sought Appointment of a receiver for the Acton State bank is asked in a petion filed today in superior court five by Philip Lutz Jr., attorneygeneral, in behalf of Richard A. McKinley, state banking commissioner. The state banking department closed the bank a few days ago.

Funds of Socialist Party Confiscated by Hitler

BY ERICK KEYSER Ignited Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, May 10.—The Nazi government confiscated funds of the Socialist party and all its affiliated organizations today, a move regarded as one of the most important steps in the second phase of the Hitler “revolution.” This phase is the eradication of Marxism in Germany. The drastic confiscation order destroyed the last vestige of Marxist opposition to the Nezi regime outside the prison camps, where hundreds of Communists and Socialists are held in "protective custody.” It applied to the Socialist party itself, the Reichsbanner, a uniformed "army” of Socialists somewhat similar to the Nazi storm

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Inflation and Farm Relief Given Final Approval of Congress; Up to Roosevelt • Measure Awaits Only Signature of Roosevelt to Become Law; Money and Agriculture Provisions Are Optional With Executive. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 10.—The administration’s unprecedented currency inflation, farm relief and mortgage reduction bill received the filial approval of congress today, and awaits only the requisite signatures to become law.

President Roosevelt assured the nation in an address last Sunday evening that he would resort to inflation “when, as and if necessary.” The bill is in three sections. Its currency inflation and farm relief provisions are discretionary with the President but the third section, providing for scaling down of the farm mortgage debt must become effective. Final approval came today after

PARTY WORRIED ON PATRONAGE House Democratic Chiefs Arrange Conference With Farley. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 10.—House Democratic leaders, disturbed over the administration's delay in distributing patronage, today arranged for a conference Thursday night between the party congressional committee and Postmaster-General James Farley. Notices for the conference were sent out by Majority Leader Joseph Byrns, chairman of the congressional committee.

Roosevelt. The house labor committee plans to report its thirty-hour week bill today, and further action entirely will depend on the administrationcontrolled Democratic leadership of the house. At the same time, the industrial recovery measure on which various groups have been working for weeks is being laid before President Roosevelt this afternoon by Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem., N. Y.). The two bills are not far apart in principle, and if the President decides to sponsor one or the other, or to frame anew measure combining parts of both, there apparently will be little difficulty in uniting congressional support. Meantime, congress will wait word from the White House before making plans regarding either measure. The White House probably will watch with interest a caucus to be held by house Democrats tonight on the subject of modifying anti-trust laws. Forty-nine ■ house Democrats, headed by Representative Joseph B. Shannon (Dem.. Mo.), forced the caucus by petition. This group opposes any change in the antitrust laws, and sees a threat to them in the pending railroad bill and the proposed industrial recovery bill. Its leaders are silent on the President's reference to anti-trust laws in his Sunday night address, in which he declared that prevention of monopolies and unreasonable profits must be continued under the (Turn to Page Eleven) MURPHY TAKES OATH Sworn In As Governor General of Philippine Islands. By United Press DETROIT, May 10.—Frank Murphy. retiring mayor of Detroit, became Governor General of the Philippine Islands today, succeeding Theodore Roosevelt Jr., to the office.

troops, and the Socialist press, numbering 135 newspapers. In the March elections the Socialist party polled 7,100.000 votes. The party membership is estimated at 1.000.000 and the membership of the Reichsbanner at 250.000. The funds of the organizations were collected, however, when they were much stronger. The confiscation followed a long muck-raking campaign which was expected to bring the hearty support of the working classes for the government’s action. The campaign accused the leaders and officials of the party, its unior.i, and banks, of squandering the money of the working people. It established motivation for confiscation which was to save the workers' funds from further squandering.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1933

the senate receded from the socalled Simpson price-fixing amendment. Mr. Roosevelt objected to that authority and at his bidding the house Tuesday re’fused to accept the senate price-fixing amendment. The Thomas currency inflation amendment was accepted by the house without change.

FIXES BOND FOR GANGSUSPECTS Alleged Skating Burglars Held for Criminal Court Action. Three members of an alleged roller skating burglary gang whose members ranged in age from 16 to 23, were placed under bond today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. It is charged the gang, while apparently enjoying roller skating in a section of the north side, in reality were keeping watch on homes to learn when occupants were absent so burglaries could be committed. The accused were accompanied in court by their mothers who clung tc them throughout the proceedings and embraced them as a bailiff prepared to return them to Jail. Those in court were Leo McDaniel, 17, of 3506 Kenwood avenue; Ray Baker, 23, and Eugene Ekland, 16, of 3519 Graceland avenue. All three are charged in indictments with burglary and larceny. Sheaffer set bond of each at $2,500. Failing to give hail, they were taken to jail. Two other members of the alleged gang were indicted May 6. They are Jack Stearns, 17, of 2847 North Talbot street, bond of SIO,OOO, and Lewis Walton, 16, of 27 West Twenty-first street, $5,000 bond. James Wright, 23, of 2920 North Capitol avenue, sixth accused, was not indicted by the grand jury, and he did not appaer in court today. PICKS E. R. BLACK TO HEAD FEDERAL RESERVE Roosevelt Sends Name of New Governor to Senate. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 10.—President Roosevelt today will send to the senate the nomination of Eugene R. Black of Atlanta as governor of the federal reserve board. Black, who will succeed Eugene Meyer, now is governor of the Atlanta federal reserve bank. INDICT 'FOGGY' DEAN ON MURDER COUNT Linked to Jones Killing by Grand Jury Action. Edward (Foggy) pea 4, former west side roadhouse operator, today was indicted by the Marion county grand jury on charges of murder in commission of robbery, in connection with the killing of Sergeant Lester Jones, Indianapolis police officer. Six others already are under indictment in the Jones murder in which the officer was shot down by machine gun fire in the holdup of the Peoples Motor Coach Company garage, Twenty-second and Yandes streets. Also indicted today by the grand jury was Mrs. Marie Winningham, 31, nurse, charged with peforming an illegal operation. Mrs. Winningham was arrested with Dr. Tell C. Waltermire. March 27 after a raid on a North Pennsylvania street residence. Her bond had been increased from $2,000 to $6,000 and today was increased to SIO,OOO, whic hshe was unable to post. INSPECT 26,579 CASES Orders Issued for Correction of 1,475 Fire Hazards Here. A total of 26,573 inspections were made by the corps of thirty inspectors assigned to the “clean-up. paint-up” campaign of the Indianapolis fire department, according to a report compiled by Bernard Lynch, chief of the fire prevention bureau. Orders for correctidh of defects and fire hazards were issued in 1,475 cases, according to Lynch. GIRL FLIES TO ALTAR Former Secretary to Rolph to Marry Marion Business Man. By United Press LOS ANGELES. May 10.—Betty C. Gerke, former flying secretary to Governor James Rolph Jr., was en route by air today to Chicago, where she will marry Lee R. Lindley, Marion (Ind.) business man, Saturday.

PARAGUAY DECURES WAR ON BOLIVIA IN GRAN CHACO DISPUTE

Long Disputed Region Brings War Call

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Here are characteristic types involved in the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute, with a man of the area affected. Upper left is a proposed Tacna-Arica pathway to the sea which some think would settle Bolivia’s claims. Left is a typical Gran Chaco Indian, primitive and fierce. The Bolivian horseman in the center really is characteristic of both countries. Upper right, a Paraguayan beauty.

35 Killed , 150 Injured by Tornado in 2 States Storm Rips Through Southern Kentucky and North Central Tennessee; Heavy Damage. By United Press NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 10.—A tornado that struck in southern Kentucky and north central Tennessee Tuesday night and early today killed at least thirty-five persons and injured 150 or more, reports to Red Cross headquarters here

stated. Reports here listed casualties as follows: Beaty Swamp, Tenn, twenty-five dead and seventy-five injured: Tompkinsville, Ky., eight dead and thirty injured, and Lebanon, Tenn., two dead and ten injured. Reports which could not be . confirmed because telephone and telegraph lines all were down, said many others were killed at Byrdstown, Jamestown, East Port and Jacksboro, Tenn. MINE IS PICKETED, BUT WORK GOES ON Object to 00-Operative System in Use at Somerville. By United Press PRINCETON, Ind., May 10.—Despite the presence of approximately 100 pickets, work was carried on as usual at the Somerville mine No. 2 near here today. Picketing continued to be conducted peacefully, mine authorities said. Burlis McAlister, 25, Booneville, mine employe, reported he was was struck in the face by a picket. The picketers are objecting to operation of the mine on a cooperative basis. They were successful in halting work Monday, but a heavy rain Tuesday dispersed the pickets prior to starting time and operations were resumed.

More Men Given Jobs and Pay Raises Granted in Many of U. S. Industries

(Local Business Story, Page Thirteen) By United Press NEW YORK. May 10.—Response to President Roosevelt's appeal for industrial pay increases was reported today in United Press dispatches from widely separated cities, which told of rises of from 5 to 12 H per cent. Supplementing Tuesday’s reports of more pay for 50,000 men in twen-ty-five states, such industrial centers as Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Lowell, Mass., sent news of higher wages in automotive, baking, ice cream manufacturing, dress manufacturing, silk mill, and chain cafeteria lines. Optimistic reports of other sorts, based on expectation of stimulated prices and generally improving condtiions, were plentiful. A Binghamton (N. Y.) shoe manufacturing company assured 14,000 employes of full time work for the better part of the summer. Production of electrtc power in the week ended May 6 showed an increase for the first time in 151 weeks. Iron Age reported iron and steel buying as coming from “an everwidening circle” of consumers. A Cleveland dispatch said that, for the first time in two years, steel

BONUS TROOPS REACNCAPITAL First of 1933 Army in Washington; Will Be Moved to Fort. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 10.—The 1933 bonus army prepared to pitch its tents near the capitol today as an advance contingent of 2,000 World War veterans was reported to have arrived. This figure was announced by the police as its count of demonstrating veterans in the District of Columbia. Hundreds more were reported arriving. More than 8,500 are expected. Near the scene of last year’s bonus disturbance on Pennsylvania avenue, soldiers were setting up an army tent to register the arrivals. Veterans registered were to be moved to Ft. Hunt, Va„ ten miles down the Potomac, this afternoon. At Ft. Hunt an infantry company set up 200 new army tents to take care of the housing.

By United Press YORK, May 10.—Unfilled orders of the United States Steel Corporation at the end of April showed the first increase over the preceding month since October, 1932, a company statement showed today. Unfilled orders were at 1.864,574 tons, an increase of 23,572 tons over the March 31 total. Unfilled orders on hand March 31 were 1.841,002; on Feb. 28, 1,854,200 tons, and on Jan. 31, 1.898,644. Unfilled orders on hand April 30, 1932, were 2,326,926 tons. production in that area had passed the halfway rr.ark, rising to 54 per cent of capacity Largest monthly increase in factory employment in New York state since 1914 was reported by the industrial commissioner. A Michigan steel company, with a new high mark pay roll totaling 4.000, announced it would hire 300 more men to carry out a $250,000 replacement and construction program. Miners, business men, and operators of Lykens, Pa., are planning reopening of a colliery under a co-

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LESLIE PLANS CONGRESS RACE Likely to Run, He Says, but Refuses to Give Definite Word. Former Governor Harry G. Leslie is “considering very strongly’’ running for congress next year from his home district, the Second, but denied today he had decided definitely to make the race. The former Governor said he expected to make a decision within a month, after he returns to Lafayette “to look things over and see what they look like," and find out how local Republican organizations at Lafayette view his prospects. “I won’t say ‘no’ right now to running, because I may do it. However, I’ve several things in mind,” Leslie said. He expressed himself in reply to questioning on an interview in the Purdue Exponent, campus paper of the former Governor’s alma mater. The Exponent said Leslie asserted Sunday he had decided definitely to become a candidate. BINGHAM REFUSES TO WEAR KNEE BREECHES Won't Touch ’Em, Says New Ambassador as He Leaves. By United Press * " NEW YORK, May 10—The new United States liner Washington sailed on her maiden voyage to Europe today with Robert W. Bingham, new ambassador to the court of St. James, among the passengers. Before leaving, Bingham told newspaper men he would not wear knee breeches at court functions in London. “But our last few ambassadors have worn them,” he was told. “Well, I won't,” Bingham replied with emphasis.

operative agreement to alleviate unemployment. In Tarrytown, N. Y., General Motors announced the manufacture ol automobiles would begin at its plant, giving employment to more than 300 men. At Los Angeles the large Boos Brothers Cafeteria Cos. announced a 5 per cent wage increase. In the south. Macon, Ga., textile mills stepped up operations to a 24hour basis; workers were called back by the Commercial National Manufacturing Cos., Athens, Ga.; the Nancy Hart Clothing Manufacturing Cos., Hartwell, Ga., and tobacco factories in the Richmond, Va., area. Car loadings of the Nashville. Chattanooga <fc St. Louis railroad for April were 13.5 per cent higher than for the same month in 1932 and the soutnern manager of the Dictaphone Company announced an increase in sales volume of 22 per cent in the first quarter of the year. A 10 per cent wage increase for the 1,200 employes of the Lowell i Mass.) silk mills, effective Monday, was announced. In Philadelphia, Biberman Brothers, Inc., dress manufacturers, announced a 5 per cent wage increase and the Supreme Shirt Company announced a 10 per cent increase.

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First Time Formal Call to Conflict Is Issued Since 1918. MANY THOUSANDS DIE Every Modern Device Used by Nations in Hostilities. By United Press ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 10.—Paraguay declared war on Bolivia today. It was the first formal declaration of war since Guatemala declared war on the Central Powers in 1918. The President signed the decree declaring war under special powers recently voted by congress. The declaration was based on "Bolivian aggression and violation of the territorial integrity of Paraguay beginning with the Bolivian attack on Piliantuta on June 15. 1932,” and also in view of the failure of all peace efforts. Threaten Death of Prisoners The conflict was brought to anew crisis in the last week when President Eusebio Ayala of Paraguay, who signed the declaration today, annouced that if the Bolivians continued to bomb Paraguayan towns “The defenseless population will sacrifice lives—those of Bolivian prisoners—in retaliation.” Bolivia retorted that if Paraguay killed a single Bolivian prisoner, Bolivian military planes would bombard the capital, Asuncion, and other Paraguayan cities. Bolivian planes last week dropped bombs at Porta Pinasco and Casa do on the Paraguay river, killing seven civilians and endangering American and other foreign property. Seek to Cut Off Supplies George Lohman, an American, complained to the foreign office Tuesday that Bolivian airplanes had bombed his property in the Gran Chaco for minutes, causing much damage. The purpose of today’s declaration, foreign observers here believed, mainly was to force the hand of Argentina and Chile. It was hoped that making the war formal would force both nations to declare their neutrality, thus cutting off exports of munitions and supplies to Bolivia and bringing her to terms. The efforts of the League of Nations and the moral force of the Kellogg pact hitherto have kept nations from declaring war, despite the outbreak of hostilities, such as between Japan and China, Colombia and Peru, Greece and Turkey, and similar incidents. Fight for Nearly Year The warfare between Paraguay and Bolivia has been in progress for nearly a year, since June 15 last, and has been of a most sanguinary nature, fought with every device of modern war, including airplanes, tanks, artillery and machine guns. Casualties have numbered many thousands, the number never having been accurately estimated, although almost certainly more than 20.000. Nineteen nations of the western hemisphere solemnly warned the two belligerents last August that they would not recognize territorial gains won by force of arms. Paraguay, which took the formal step of war today, is an adherent of the Kellogg pact, which binds nations not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. Dispute 50 Years Old The dispute is over possession of the Gran Chaco, an unfertile, pearshaped region often mistakenly called a jungle—of about 100.000 square miles lying between Paraguay and Bolivia. It is bordered on the east by the Paraguay river. It touches also on Argentina and Brazil. The dispute has been in progress for more than fifty years. Landlocked Bolivia having, been blocked on the west coast bitterly is determined to get an outlet to the sea by extending her borders to the navigable portions of the Paraguay river, the Paraguayans charge. On the other hand. Paraguay wants to make up for the territory she lost in the war with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 50 10 a. m 51 7 a. m 52 11 a. m 52 8 a. m 52 12 (noon).. 55 9 a. m 51 1 p. m 57 Today’s Short Story People renting rooms like homecooked meals. If you have a vacant room and serve meals, advertise this fact as Mrs. A. L. Tilford did. She listed her vacant room in The Times Board and Room column. Numerous persons responded to her little 12word ad costing but SI.OB. COLLEGE. 3268—-Lovely, airy room, unusual home, meals optional. Garage. TA-6980. IrOW’S THE TIME to fill your rooms with reliable tennants for the summer months. For a small investment in a Times Want Ad, you can assure yourself of a steady income for months to come. Call RI. 5551 or come to Want Ad Headquarters, 214 W. Maryland street.