Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1933 — Page 6

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$23,200 JEWEL THEFT CHARGED TO HMP HAN Bandit Seized Valuable Gems From City Man and Son, Police Told. Police today are investigating mysterious circumstances cdhnected with the alleged theft of $23,200 worth of diamonds in a holdup late Thursday night. Ralph Huffman, 1933 Central avenue, reported to police early today that he was held up by a man who stepped from hiding near his garage as he started to open it for his chauffeur, Charles King. Huffman said the holdup man took from him a 12’. .-carat diamond valued at $22,700 and also took a diamond ring which his son, Robert Huffman, 7, was wearing. Police, under Lieutenant Ed Schubert and Sergeant Irving Landers, found the telephone in the Huffman home had been ripped from the wall. Huffman formerly was head waiter at the United States veterans’ hospital here. JAPAN IS SEEKING TO DEVELOP GOLD FIELDS Report of Precious Metal Sends Expedition Into Manchuria. By J nitrd Press HARBIN, China, June 16.—Japan has set out to develop the vast gold fields which are reported to exist along tributaries of the Sungari and Amur rivers, north of this city. A first expedition, consisting of about 400 men, departed from here this month and will explore the gold regions, until snows set in in the fall. The expedition, financed by the South Manchurian Railway Company, was assembled at a cost of more than half a million yen, and is composed largely of ex-soldiers, who are armed with artillery and machine guns and accompanied by armored airplanes. The expedition will be divided into three groups when it reaches the gold fields and will establish base headquarters at the village of Chamussu. It is understood the first explorations will be made along the River Wutung, a tributary of the Sungari.

DR. OXNAM AT FORUM Speaks in Hall of Religion at Chicago’s World Fair. By Timrfi Special CHICAGO. June 16. —Dr G. Bromley Oxnam, president of De Pauw university, Greencastle. Ind., was to speak at the Christian Century Forum, Hall of Religion, at A Century of Progress, this afternoon. His subject was, “The Social Purpose of Christianity." Dr. Oxnam is one of the prominent leaders among the younger Protestant ministers with a liberal social and ect outlook. The Christian Cen *um will be he,ld every Friday a. . \in the auditorium of the. Hall 01 Religion. The speaker for June 23 will be Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland. ASSAILS TAX SETUP “Tribute" System Is Flailed Bitterly by Engineer. Setting up taxation as 3. business payment for services or privileges and not as a tribute to be exacted arbitrarily from citizens, was suggested by D. W. Hufford, former engineer for the public service commission, in an address Thursday before the Indianapolis Engineering Society in the Board of Trade building. “Our taxes,” he said, “should be based upon legitimate business methods which would make it certain to be collected, cheaply collected, easy on industry and not discouraging to industry.” BABY AUTOS IN RACE Ten Miniature Cars to Run Around Specially Built Course. A miniature auto race will be held by ten Indianapolis boys Saturday morning at the home of Albert Walsman. 3245 Central avenue. Robert Walsman, 13, his son, sponsoring the race, announced that the race would be 100 laps around an especially constructed 31-foot course. TOWNSEND TO SPEAK Lieutenant-Governor to Give “Pep Talk" for State Fair. Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend. Indiana's $6,000 commissioner of agriculture, will speak at a state fair booster meeting at the English hotel. June 29. it was announced today. Since becoming a full-time officer of the state. Townsend has devoted much of his time to speaking. giveUp beer for jobs Easterners Are Assigned to Forest Camps in Dry Idaho. By United Press. BOISE. Idaho, June 16.—A joke on civilian army workers is that 28,000 of them, coming from wet New York and Boston, must go beerless while laboring in Uncle Sam's forest lands in Idaho.

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•VOLUNTEERS’TAKE HAND IN FIRE ‘EPIDEMIC’ OUTBREAK

'l!ic fire department may be of | J lit ■ some help to resident* of the 2900 - v'- T block. North Pennsylvanai street. * v WgM but there n no doubt that ttr- ’wmaammm- Ir*" „ M volunteer department of tne vi- 7 % fPs u§ c.nt'y moves into action in a Mm hurrv. Tuesday morning there was an epidemic of fires on the nortli HHMpKIRfr, l> side Flames broke out in the Pennsylvania street arr a while F firemen were fighting flames at f JUS-Twenty-fifth street and College _ ] . BHD ' avenue. , i |9|B9 1 a upper left photo shows Mrs. gfe? HhHh Hentv I Raymond Ji . Indiana fIHVHHV poet and lecturer, protecting her j? BCD BH • ;f home at 2869 North Pennsylvania v.' 1 HU| street, with a garden hose. |P" * apHHi B|li[ ,)f}\ Upper Right -M-*yor A Efroym- mSm H jBDB of Mrs Isaac Efroymson, H JELsHB 2901 North Pennsylvania repeating his performance Tuesday for the cameraman. He '**’ dragged himself and a hose to the roof of his home before the V

The fire department may be of some help to residents of the 2900 block, North Pennsylvanai street, but there is no doubt that the volunteer department of the vicinity moves into action in a hurry. Tuesday morning there was an epidemic of fires on the north side. Flames broke out in the Pennsylvania street area while firemen were fighting flames at Twenty-fifth street and College avenue. The upper left photo shows Mrs. Henry I. Raymond Jr„ Indiana poet and lecturer, protecting her home at 2869 North Pennsylvania street with a garden hose. Upper Right—Meyer A. Efroymson, son of Mrs. .Isaac Efroymson, 2901 North Pennsylvania street, is repeating his performance of Tuesday for the cameraman. He dragged himself and a hose to the roof of his home before the firemen arrived. The lower photo shows Mrs. Raymond and Efroymson. Mrs. Raymond is shown with a burned hand in bandages. She incurred the injuries while fighting the blaze.

CHICAGO CO. MAY GET LIBRARY FIXTURE JOB 812,000 Contract Likely to Go to Outstate Concern. Walter G. Warren & Cos.. Chicago, likely will be awarded the $12,000 electrical fixture contract for the new state library, it was reported today by Louis J. Bailey, state librarian and member of the building committee. The board spent Thursday considering various fixture designs and bids from eleven concerns. C. L. Smith Electric Cos., has the wiring contract and and objected when the committee attempted to award the fixtures to Sanborn Electric Cos., without bids. Now neither local firm is likely to get the fixture contract, which will be awarded Tuesday, Bailey said. BOUNTY PUT~OIM SKUNKS Animals Become Pest on Island After Fur Market Slump. By Times Special ' * CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. 1., June 16.—1 t has been a tough year for skunks in Prince Edward Island. Since the first of the year, the government has paid bounty on 1,800 of them. A few years ago they were reared and prized for their fur. But the market went to pieces and skunks wandered over the island until they became such a pest that the government offered a bounty for their extermination. Since April, 1932. when the offer was put into effect, 7,500 skunks have been destroyed on the island, according to the natural resources department of the Canadian National Railways. leslieTs in business Former Governor Associated With Refrigerator Company. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 16. —Harry G. Lesle, former Republican j Governor of Indiana, has become associated with a refrigerator manu- ! facturing concern here, it was j learned today. He will act as supervisor of sales in Indiana and handle all office business. It was understood his family would be moved here. Leslie entered the coal business in Indianapolis and Terre Haute soon after inauguration of his successor. HE'S A FAsYTeLLOW! Breakfast in Seattle, Lunch in ’Frisco, Nothing to Pilot. By T inted Press NEW YORK, June 16.—The fast- ' est traveling man in the United ( States is Johnny Hodgson, United ' Air Lines’ pilot, whose job is to deliver three-mile-a-minute passenger transports from the Boeing Airplane j factory at Seattle to various points !on United Air Lines. Some of his recent trips were: 1 Breakfast at Seattle, lunch in San Francisco and dinner in Seattle the t same day. The next day he flew I from Seattle to Los Angeles in seven hours. Other trips were Cheyenne i to Chicago in five hours. taxes” go” by express ! Citizen Makes Sure That Treasurer Will Get Money. By United Press WALLA WALLA. Wash. June 16. One taxpayer wanted to make sure he met his annual bill. He forwarded the county treasurer $741.43 in currency by express.

Nation Sticks to Humor in Spite of Gold Scare

Incidents in Capital Show Country Looked on Bright Side. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 16.—How the American people kept their humor during the gold scare of some months ago clearly is shown in numerous incidents connected with Attorney-General Cummings’ present drive against hoarders. Though tinged with regret, and now and then tinctured with bitter wit, the letters describing the return of gold to federal vaults often are quite humorous. One man who recently came to Washington from a -western city, and gave up $4,000 he had hoarded for more than a year, willingly responded to the patriotic plea, but there was a wistful note in his response.^ !‘X ' don’t mind giving up the $4,000 —that is, not much,” he wrote. “But lam going to stay in Washington for awhile, and I’d like to go around and look at my $4,000 now and then.” Another man, a resident of New York, had $l,lOO to lose for his country. He returned S9OO, assigned SIOO to himself, and SIOO to his brother—a perfectly legal operation, we are told. A few days later tl\e man and his wife were much richer through the arrival of anew baby. So, as a postscript to his letter telling of his return of gold, this parent-patriot informed the. at-torney-general that he had named the child “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” A sub-postscript explained: “The ‘D’ is for ‘depression.’ ” Then there was the man who included in his letter of notification the suggestion that Uncle Sam should hereafter be portrayed “goldilocks.” PLANES AID MINING Make Possible Opening of Quartz District in Far North. By United Press EDMONTON. Alta., June 16. Mining engineers and explorers are entering anew mineral field at Mt. Selwyn, on the upper waters / of Peace river, this year. Toronto interests have staked many claims in a quartz gold district and machinery will be shipped into the district by airplane for development of the deposits. Development of the region was held up for years by lack of transportation facilities, but this problem has been solved by air travel.

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Luckless Lou Survives Speedway Peril; New Car Struck by Farmer’s Truck.

By Times Special PUEBLO, Colo., June 16.—Five hundred miles of burning, skidding, 100-mile-an-hour speed and victory, gold, and anew car, with not an accident or a scratch, w-as the luck of Louis Meyer, 1933 and 1928 Indianapolis speedway race winner. But driving quietly down a street at a city gait in the roadster he wxm in the race, Mayer’s car was struck by a farmer’s truck. A fender was nicked. Mrs. , Meyer and their child were shaken up. “Here’s $2, all I got, for the fender,” proffered the farmer. “Nothing doing!, Put in your pocket. It'd be a black cat to me in the next big race,” retorted Louis, as he shifted gears and continued his trip with his nicked coupe to his home in Huntington Park, Cal. CONVICT, 89, IS FREED Feeble and Almost Blind, Aged Man Is Given Parole. By United Press JEFFERSON CITY, MO.. June 16. —The oldest convict in Missouri and one of the oldest in the country received the privilege today of leaving state prison a free man. William Pine, 89, feeble and almost blind, received his freedom through a parole issued by Governor Guy B. Park. Pine was sentenced to the prison from Nevada, Mo., on March 21, 1927, for killing a man. He surrendered immediately after the killing and pleaded self defense, but was sentenced to serve twenty-five years. NO PLACE FOR A FAN It Falls From Ceiling Into Crowd of “Avenoo” Dancers. There was “tragedy” and commotion at the Paradise ballroom Thursday night. While several of the “avenue” couples were tripping the light fantastic an electric fan fell from the ceiling. A man and a woman w r ere injured slightly and treated at city hospital.

PERIL IS SEEN FOR ROOSEVELT IN DEBTCLASH Political Fortunes May Be Wrecked If Misstep Is Taken. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, June 16.—Under conditions of extraordinary danger to the political fortunes of President Roosevelt, the final war debt negotiations will begin here shortly after July 4, it is learned. In refusing to appoint anew World war foreign debt commission, composed chiefly of members of congress, which alone has authority to alter the debtors’ contracts to pay, friends of the President fear he is riding for a fall, perhaps a disastrous one. Regardless of the common fact that he lacks the power to change the dotting of an “I” or the crossing of a “T” in the existing settlements, the debtor nations have given full warning that whatever he may do —pr even may not do—will settle for them the fate of the debts. Default Is Probable There is every indication that should the President refuse to reduce the debts to the satisfaction of the debtors, they plan to default wholesale or repudiate. On the other hand, should he recommend to congress the sweeping reductions which it now is known they will press upon him, the belief is widespread here that congress flatly would refuse to back him up. In the latter case, those behind the scenes assert without equivocation the debtor nations are prepared to use the situation to their advantage. They would seize upon it as a pretext for refusing further payments, on the ground that the President morally had released them from further obligation. Congress they simply would ignore. Precedent in History For this, it is observed, there is ample precedent in the history of reparations and war debts themselves—a precedent which carries a warning against any appearance of a clash between the President and congress on this highly explosive subject. On the eve of the Lausanne conference last year, the United States took specific pains to inform the allied powers that this country would not view with sympathy any cancellation of German reparations being made contingent on cancellation of the war debts owed to the American government. Despite this warning, the allies—having become convinced that Germany never again would make any more payments on reparations any-way-proceeded to accept 10 cents on the dollar—provided America would do as much for them. Now, the allies contend, America is bound morally to reduce the war debts in line with their “generous gesture” at Lausanne. 'The precedent of the Hoover moratorium—upon which France bases her default—is likewise cited as a case in point. HONOR GIVEN TO CO-ED Awarded Master of Science Degree at Butler Exercises. Miss Joanna Guss, 20, of Nashville, Ind., wm? awarded a master of science degree at the seventyeighth annual commencement exercises of Butler university Monday. Miss Guss is one of the youngest students ever to receive a graduate degree from Butler. She enrolled at the university in 1929 and completed her undergraduate work in three years. An additional year’s study earned her the advanced degree.

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‘NEW DEAL’ ON FOR STATE’S GAME WARDENS

New faces and new uniforms are part of the new deal” as it affects state game wardens. Officers now in charge are (left to right, rear row' Earl M. Spradley, superintendent of wardens; Kenneth M. Kunkel, chief of the fish and game division of the state conservation department, and James Vandenbark, assistant chief. Front row, Warden Captains Charles Weser, John T. Roll, R. D. Fleming, and Coz Haase.

LIFE-LONG DRIFTER AT 83 LONGS FOR ROAD Advises Modem Boy to “Stay at Home; Finds Going Harder. By United Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 16. —A homeless drifter since a boy of 7, Thomas (Dad) Whitlock. 83, whose restless feet have carried him to all parts of the United States, expects to continue his hobo life for at least twenty more years. Food is harder to get nowadays, Whitlock said, but he added that he hadn’t worked a day in forty-three years and never had gone hungry. A lesson learned too late, according to Dad, is that men should stay in one place and work hard. He advises boys to ‘get off the road.” A bit of advice offered to all “stay-at-homes” by the aged wanderer was: “Never lend money to relatives. It^n’tjyise.” LEVELS OFF MOUNTAINS Residents of Italian Peaks Being Located in Lowlands. By United Press ROME, June 16.—Mussolini now has taken up the task of figuratively leveling off the mountains to take care of his increasing population. Today, this has become a problem. Wherever possible, thousands of villagers are being persuaded tc abandon their homes inconveniently located on mountain tops and settle on level land. Ifi many cases, anc especially in southern Italy, this has been successful. The present drive concerning the mountainous regions embraces reforestation plans, adequate pasturage space, gardening and finally, cattle breeding. No less than one-third of the Italian communes, numbering 7,311 tc date, are perched on mountain tops. CAUGHT IN AUTO CHASE City Motorist Held After Weighted Hose Is Found in Car. Following an automobile chase by police, Carroll Martin, 1659 Park avenue, was arrested Thursday at Jefferson and Washington streets. A weighted rubber hose was found in his possession, according to the police, who chased him when he failed to stop at a preferential street. He is held on a charge of carrying concealed weapons.

Lot of Talk Congress Members Spoke 36,000,000 Words, Says Professor.

By United Press \\T ASHINGTON, June 16. * When congress adjourned today, Professor W. Hayer Yeager of George Washington university got out pencil and paper, did a bit of quick arithmetic, and came up with the calculation that members of the house and senate had spoken 36.000,000 words this session. Professor Yeager , then laid the words end to end and figured some more. Printed in small newspaper type, he said, the words would reach from Washington to New York and seven miles beyond.

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VIRGIL KIRKLAND PLEAS WILL BE HEARDMONDAY Fight for Liberty to Come Before Superior Judge at Anderson. Hearing op the Virgil Kirkland habeas corpus petition will commence Monday at 1:30 p. m.. in Madison superior court, the attor-ney-generals office was notified today. Deputy Edward Barce has been assigned to the case by AttorneyGeneral Philip Lutz Jr. Judge Bartlett H. Campbell will preside. Kirkland's attorneys are seeking his release from the Indiana state reformatory on the grounds that his minimum time of one year long since has expired. Reformatory trustees have refused to release the Gary youth on the theory that he should be punished more severely for his part in the slaying of Arlene Draves. Gary high school girl. Kirkland once was found guilty of her murder and given life imprisonment. But a retrial before Judge Grant Crumpacker in Valparaiso resulted in a one to ten-year sen- ' fence. Crumpacker s son was defense counsel. The Draves girl was brought, al- | most naked and dead, to a doctor’s office after having been assaulted I repeatedly by Kirkland and comI panions on a wild party. CHAMBERS TO SPEAK Probate Judge to Address Young Democrats. Judge Smiley N. Chambers ot Marion probate court will be principal speaker at the monthly meeting of the Tenth Ward Young Democrats club Monday night aft Cottage and Olive streets. According to announcements, tha meeting will be in celebration of the wet victory. Special entertainment has been provided by the committee. Members of the committee are Raymond Moats, Wilfred Schwartz and Ray Horner.