Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1933 — Page 15

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.Jeannette Covert Nolan

Covert Nolan, wife of United States District Attorney Val Nolan. taking up her residence in Indianapolis. this city increases its number of successful novelists. Robert M. Mcßride Ai Cos., New York City, has Just published her first adult novel. Second Best." a study of marriage.

BY WALTER D. HIC KMAN DID you ever run up agaiast a mystery novel that just made you go wild because of the writing tricks of the author? If you never have. I am quite sure that will be your reaction to "Thp Prime Minister's Pencil.” by Cecil Ware, who wrote ‘The Figure ot Eight." Thp trick used by the author this time in retarding action and emphasizing every detail of the plot belongs to "The Strange Interlude" family because Christopher Perrin, an investigator of crime, allows the reader to "think” with him as he assembles his facts and clews. I had the impression that this “interlude” trick slowed up the action and it made me impatient and yet it held my interest every second. An interesting thing about this novel la that the title is the key to the mystery. Before you reach Page 70. you hav the knowledge that the prime minister of England was killpd in his office by his own pencil or the pencil he was sharpening. You say this is not so exciting. Will grant that, bin it is the way the author permits Perrin to solve this mystery and weave a chain of exciting events as well as interesting characters which gives this novel most of its entertaining values At. the beginning, the reader is not concerned with the prime minister or his pencil. The first thing of importance that happens is the sudden and strange "death" of Mr. Solway, secretary of the Sir Ethelred Rushburton. a member of parliament. Sir Ethelred does not report the "murder" of his secretary because all official reports show that he died of sleeping sickness. ana You #av that this method of death in no way has any relation to the murder of the prime minister as he was calmly sharpening his own pencil. Will grant that but those responsible for So!wav's death and the attempt upon the life of Perrin himself are the members of a powerful ring. This ring embraces as membership a great doctor and scientist who is so skillful that he can call the atom "brother." And it is the atom—Oh. well, I just must not give away the plot. You wouldn't thank me for doing it. Perrin belongs to the thinking type of an investigator or private defective. He permits you to get info his confidence and he thinks out loud so you can hear his most secret thoughts. And one thing—the author does not tag on a Hollywood ending for the detectives No romance for him with a would-be-heroine 'there really isn’t any heroine) because Perrin is married although you never meet her. The ending of the mystery comes rather sudden but not when you recall that you have heard Perrin thinking for 280 pages. “The Prime Minister's Pencil” is published by the H. C. Kinsey Cos. Inc., and sells for $2. It is comfortable and different detective reading.

Suppose you ■would receive a letter from Houghton-Mifflm Company. publishers, of Boston, and the letter stated that this letter contained death's head '* If I had not noticed from whom the letter was. I probably would have yelled "police.** I saw no deaths head" and so I read on. * Hold a match under the center of thia letter and watch the death's head appear " I did as directed and the "head** appeared. In other words, here is a clever wav of telling me that Houghton-Mifflin soon will publish "Death Behind the Door." by Victor MacClure. This is mighty clever. Now I want to read the book. This invisible mW mystery is mighty clever. • an I isners are “reviving" old and successful books. Meaning that new editions are being prepared. Hough-ton-Mifflin announces anew edition of "A Circuit Rider's Wife," by Corra Harris This book was published twenty-five years ago and the author has received over fifty thousand letters in regard to her autobiographical novel. As you recall. it is the story of a wife of an Itinerant Methc..' FALLIN HOME FATAL M - Tmr - Old Woman Stumbles Against Bed. Injuries Cause Death. it ili it> H Prri PERU. Ind . Aug 18 —A fractured hip suffered by Mrs. Ellen C. Hum. 84. when she fainted and fell against a bed, caused her death Thursday night.

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CUBA STARTED ON ROUTE OF ITS ‘NEW DEAL' President Calls Opening Cabinet Session: Meets U. S. Ambassador. BY LAWRENCE S. HAAS t'ntted Pmi Staff Correspondent HAVANA. Aug. 18 President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes called his cabinet together for its first official session today, planning prompt action to start Cuba's new deal. The new president conferred with Sumner Welles. American ambassador. and had a series of talks with individual cabinet ministers. Following Welles' announcement that he had instructions to establish official relations with the new government. Edwards Bello, Chilean charge d'affaires, announced that he would notify De Cespedes of Chile's recognition and Mexican Charge d'Affaires Spmdola said that Mexico automatically recognized the government when it took office. Students to Give Support The directorate of the powerful students' organization notified the government that it would have the students' support., provided it dissolved the present congress. At Santiago, 1.000 demonstrating students demanded that the deposed president. Gerardo Machado, be held responsible for the murder of the student Mello, assassinated in Mexico City, apparently by Porrista gunmen. The labor situation continued to cause the government anxiety. Secretary of Treasury Joaquin Martinez Saenz appealed to port employers to accede to the dock workers' demands for union recognition. They refused, but continued for another day their offer to increase wages. ABC Gains Power As to the political situation, the ABC revolutionary organization, until a week ago a highly secret organization. whose members were hunted throughout the country, was becoming a powerful party. Martinez Saenz, the treasury secretary, is its leader. There was opposition to the calling of an early election, as it is feared that politicians of the old school would emerge as leaders. To defer the election until November. 1934, as the ABC organization insists. would give the younger leaders a chance to take their places in government. Two new government appointments of importance were confirmed today—General Carlas Garcia Velez, now in New York, as ambasasdor to Spain, and Rafael Angulo, a newspaper man, as mayor of Havana.

Violence Continue* Octavio de Cespedes. brother of former minister of public works. Carlos Miguel de Cespedes—not related to the president—was a political prisoner today. Sporadic instances of violence continued. Sergeant Ricardo Herrera, chauffeur to the former secretary’ of war, Alberto Herrera, was killed in front of the central police station. Ampara Gonzalez, of the secret police, charged with the assassination eight years ago of Armando Andres, director of the newspaper El Dia. was killed by soldiers. Soldiers at Pinar del Rio rescued Julio Andova. member of the Machadista porra, from lynching at the hands of a crowd. A former policeman was killed by a mob at Camaguey. GERMAN SOCIETIES TO HOLD ‘MUTTERSPRACHE’ Game*. Concert. Dancing, Features of Annual Event Sunday. A football game, band concert, singing, dances and gymnastic exercises. will feature the annual "Muttersprache" of the Indianapolis Association of German Societies. Sunday at Columbia park. The annual meeting is known as "German Day" and the association fosters German art. literature, music, gymnastics, and culture. Henry Hagemeier is president and Fritz Hessmer. vice-president. Other officers of the association are: Michael Ostermeier. sescretary; William Stoefller. financial secretary: Henry Wilkins, treasurer, and George Lehman and Thomas Weilhamer, trustees. The celebration begins at 11 a m and ends at the conclusion of the dance, set for 6 30 p. m. F Mver's band wil give a concert. Gymnastic exercises will be given by the Indianapolis Turnverein and South Side Turners.

Defense Against Court Fight on NRA Perfected By Smppi-Hotcard \etctpaprr .lllianre WASHINGTON. Aug. 18.—Legal experts of President Roosevelt's national recovery administration have developed what they believe is an air-tight defense against anticipated attempts to overthrow the new deal program in the courts. Donald Richberg. counsel of NRA. revealed today that his staff of lawyers, in an intensive research extending over several weeks, has devisod several lines of defense in expectation of attacks, some of which now are in the air.

“I believe we can stop any attack on the industrial recovery program." the chief of the legal staff said today. One line of defense, for which he has discovered several precedents is that the President of the United States can not be enjoined. How broadly this may be interpreted was shown in the first case brought against the P—sident's program. that involving an injunction sought by Texas oil refiners in the District of Columbia supreme court. The refiners sought to enjoin Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes from applying so-called "hot oil" regulations. Justice Joseph Cox referred to the emergency cited in the act and held that Secretary Ickes was an agent of President Roosevelt in the emergency and could not be

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CUBA IS TROPICAL RESERVOIR’ FOR U. S.

Vast Riches Are Inclosed in Low Green Shores of Island

The hopkpr along Uxr Prado in Havana pry the prudent boards from their windows Tramears and headlong Jitney buses resume peaceable travel! American men-of-war steam out of the harbor under the guns of ancient Morro. Ha-.ana gradually resumes It* gav tranquility Cuba Pearl of the Antilles, again la liberated What does the newest West Indian revolution mean to Americans apart from Caribbean tourist* tugar factors and plethoric connoisseur* who order tl 50 cigar* direct from Havana' Forrest Davla today trace* the high spots of Cuban-Amertcan relations m the first of a series of articles BY FORREST DAVIS Timet Special Writer Havana Aug. is— in 1826 John Quincy Adams—Yankee, scholar, man of the world, first diplomat of his time and sixth President of the United States—intervened obliquely in Cuban affairs. Adams, in effect, forbade Mexico and Colombia, newly liberated and eager to spread the graces and bounties of republicanism, to invade Cuba and Porto Rico. The Monroe Doctrine was the main rubric in Adams' canon of American independence. He feared the islands might fall from Spain's nerveless grasp into that of a strong European power —England or France—and thus become a strategic smooth-bore aimed at the Mississippi valley, America's heart. The United States may be said to have become conscious of Cuba in 1826. In the century intervening Cuba has tantalized American statecraft. Until 1898 our policy toyed with the idea of annexation. In that year Cuba became a ward of this country. The reasons for America's profound pre-occupation with Cuba in recent weeks are obvious, as the motives for our century-old interest become apparent upon a look at the map. Cuba's thin, 750-mile crescent stands athwart the Caribbean. Its western end obtrudes into the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico, North America's Mediterranean. The distances from Florida's southerly tip and Yucatan's easterly span a bare 100 miles. Cuba is our Gibraltar. a a a POLITICALLY, mastery of Cuba by a world power implies control of the West Indies. Economically, this country's stake in Cuba, always important since Spain’s trading monopoly was broken, has grown immeasurably larger during the last few weeks. Until the depression Cuba, next to Canada, bought more American goods than any of our neighbors in this hemisphere. The low. green shores, first sight of which in October. 1492. moved the long-headed Columbus to regret the limitations of his sailors’ vocabulary inclose riches never adequately exploited. It is bromidic to say that Cuba is the world's sugar bowl, but true, nevertheless. The island holds, beside its cane and incomparable cigar leaf, sisal for the wheat combines of Kansas, mahogany in prodigal forests. dyewoods for khaki cloth, high-grade copper, iron ore deposits, indigo and spices. It is America's prime tropical reservoir. And if the United States, embarked on its new hard bitten course of economic nationalism in a naughty world, is to make itself roomily self-sufficient it requires a productive stabilized economic empire in the tropics. a u u '"f-'HAT motive may. or may not. be the source of our latest intervention in Cuba—a neat

Repeal Victory Seen in Missouri Vote Saturday By I'nilrd Prm* , JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. Aug. 18.—Missouri votes Saturday on ratification of repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and every indication today pointed to its becoming the twenty-second consecutive state to join the wet parade.

Drys as well as wets conceded for the most part that the. state would vote by a substantial majority to remove the prohibition amendment from the federal Constitution. The St. Louis district's witness is traditional. At Kansas City, the state's other large city, a mass meeting was held this week. Every speaker pointed his comment to preparedness for control of liquor after repeal of the eighteenth amendment. State-aide sentiment was comparable. Nevertheless, repeal leaders urged their followers to take no chances, to turn out in as great numbers as possible, “to show the country how we really feel about it.” The drys concentrated their cam-

enjoined, since the President could not be enjoined. Asked today if this line of defense would be employed generally. Mr. Richberg smiled wisely: •'lll have to give away a secret,” he said. "I had the research staff working on that point for several weeks. But that is only one line of defense. We have worked out several others." There are reports current that a New England industrial group is about ready to challenge the constitutionality of the industrial recovery act. The Texas group Is expected to take its case to the court of appeals .here. It may reach the supreme I court of the United States.

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diploma tic job accomplished by Sumner Welles. Such an interpretation fits the revealed facts. Our new economic policy—signalized by the industrial recovery act and President Roosevelt's blunt repudiation of currency stabilization at London—will function best in a harmonious Cuba. Gerardo Machado stood in the path of a disciplined economy in the island. Therefore. Machado, the tyrant who first applied North American big business methods to the presidency, must go. He went with a minimum of fuss. That would be the plain, common sense of the situation as Franklin Roosevelt found it upon inauguration; the realpolitik, as the Germans say. We never have, since 1826. overlooked our seif-interest in Cuba. Adams may have balked Cuba's desire for freedom from the greedy dons by sixty years. We declined to abet the republican cause during the ten years’ rebellion, circa 1868. Cuba, purged of Machado, seemlftgly is to be granted American markets and brought under the benefits of an integrated economy; the new’ deal in the Caribbean. Barred out of nationalistic Europe, is the United States resuming its southward march of the 1820's, following anew concept of “manifest destiny”? ana IN 1826, we checked the liberating designs of Cuba's mainland neighbors. In the 1840s a substantial party in Cuba, urged on by influential Americans, hoped for annexation and the status of statehood. The Cuban war of liberation in the 189>)s brought us in as liberators. What will be the next turn in the long-sustained relationship between the giant of the north and

paign and hope for victory on alleged unconstitutionality of the machinery set up for the repeal election. Threats even have been made to take an appeal to the supreme court of the United States. CITY REALTORS TO GO TO CHICAGO SESSION Payne, Holme* to Aid In Drafting National NRA Code. Drafting of a code for realtors and home builders will be started Saturday at Chicago, at a meeting of the national realty board, in which two Indianapolis board members will participate. Gavin L. Payne, director of the national association, and Lawrence G. Holmes. Indianapolis board executive secretary, will go to Chicago to help form the code for the NRA. Payne will present at the conference the view’s of local and state realtors, outlined at meetings of the local code committee, of which Thomas F. Carson is chairman. Other members are Frank E. Gates, Ralph E. Hueber. Henry E. Ostrom. Holmes and Payne. The code will cover real estate brokerage, property management, brokerage of real estate loans, and real estate appraisals.

KIDNAPED BY BANDIT Kansas City Man Forced to Drive 40 Miles, When Released. 8y United Pret * KANSAS CITY. Kan . Aug. 18.— William D. Partin, 52, laundry owner. feared to be the victim of kidnapers. returned home at daybreak today and reported he was forced by a bandit to drive forty miles. The bandit awaited him when he and his wife entered their driveway near midnight, intimidated Partin with a pistol when his wife entered the house to unlock the basement garage door, and when he failed to find any money on his vicj titn, forced him to drive to a spot near Lawrence. Kan., where the •bandit leaped out and fled.

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Right, The lonely lookout of the ancient Fuerza Castle on the shores of Cuba.

♦he alert, vivid, richly-endowed major Antilla? Cuba's original inhabitants, partly gentle Arawak Indians and partly warlike Carbis, dwelt In comparative peace. They were not tempered or made savage by the

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enemies of the northern continental Indians, frost and wild beasts. But peace has abided only rarely in Cuba since the Spaniards, avid for gold, established settlements on the southern coast in 1512 The

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Map showing the strategical importance of the island of Cuba stretched across the Gulf of Mexico. rontinguous to possessions of many powers and above—the City of Havana from the ramparts of the Old Fort Cabanas, wihch adjoins Morro Castle. native population vanished under the sword, unaccustomed toil and European diseases. For two centuries the island was a military outpost, through which swarmed conquistadores bound for Mexico. Louisiana. Florida. Peru, Granada, Venezuela and gold. a a a THE coasts were harassed by freebooters. Sir Francis Drake, sailing for Elizabeth, broke the Spanish sea power in the end of the sixteenth century. The insurrections against Spanish misrule on the mainlands left Cuba undisturbed. But in 1868. the Creole planters arose against the overseas "intransigeants" and Cuba's modern history began. The rebellion against Machado may mark the opening of anew phase in the island's tumultuous history.

60,000 PUPILS WILL RESUME WORK SEPT. 5 Enrollment for Grades Is Expected to Be About Same as in 1932. Approximately 60.000 city grade school pupils are expected to answer the opening bell of the new term, Tueesday morning. Sept. 5. The enrollment will be approximately the same as last year. "There is no wav of making an exact estimate of the enrollment for the coming year," D T. Weir, assistant superintendent of schools, said, ' but about, the same enrollment as we had last year Is expected " Public high schools will open the same day, for enrollment. Regular studies in all the schools will begin Wednesday morning. Sept. 6.

County Schools Open Sept. 11 County schools will open Sept 11. according to J. Malcom Dunn, superintendent of the county schools, and an increase of about 350 in enrollment is expected. County schools will operate on an eight-month basis this year, with exception of Center township schools, which have signed contracts for a nine-month term, and Speedway and Beech Grove schools, separate corporations, which also will operate on the nine-month basis. Dates of opening of parochial schools in the city, have not been announced, but they probably will begin enrollment Sept. 11. with regular schedule to start the following day. Little Change In Buildings The same number of public schools, according to Wpir, will be operated this year, with no changes in buildings with exception of minor repair and remodeling work at some schools, and removal of the second floor study rooms of School 55. Enrollment of that school is pxpected to be decreased this year, because of the reduction of space, necessitating transfer of junior high pupils to other schools. Those pupils will be transferred to Schools 33 and 38. No work permits will be issued this year to children under 16.. Appointments of teachers for the city schools already have been made, but several assignments remain to be made. Number of city teachers this year will be decreased more than fifty, according to Weir. County schools, which last year averaged a daily attendance of 11,PBB in the thirty-one grade and eleven high schools, probably will retain the 402 teachers. Junior high system, inaugurated last year in both city and county schools, proved successful in the first year and will be continued this year, according to Weir and Dunn. Opening meeting of city teachers will be held Sept. 1 at 9 at the Technical high school auditorium.