Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1933 Edition 02 — Page 3

SEPT. 23, 1933-

BILLIONS IN RUSSIAN TRADE FOR U.S. AWAITS RECOGNITION OF SOVIET; DECISION IS DUE Gigantic Market to Be Thrown. Open as Union Starts Huge Expansion Program; Second Five-Year Plan Is Begun. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripps-Howard Forpirn Editor WASHINGTON. Sept. 23—At least a billion dollars worth of Russian orders are waiting to be filled by the products of American farms and factories, according to a report made to officials here. The 500,000 bales of cotton, the deal for which now is being.considered. is but a drop in the bucket compared with the trade possibilities following recognition, now regarded as an early probability. Russia's second five year plan, now beginning, calls for 18,750 miles of npw railroads. 7.000 locomotives. 2.000 electric freight engines, 1.000 steam engines. 260,000 freight cars, 50,000 passenger cars, and 5,700.000 tons of steel rails.

During the first five-year plan Russia spent $644,000,000 on water transportation alone. The second five-year plan aims to more than triple that figure. Vast canal, irrigation and hydroelectric projects are to be undertaken and long stretches of railway electrified. Thousands of miles of new highways are to beuilt and the $707,000.000 spent during the last five years on automobile transport is to be exceeded in the next five. Machinery in Demand Some 31,000 miles of air lanes now are in operation in Soviet Russia. This will be increased to 180.000 miles during the next half decade, and enormous fleets of commercial planes will have to be provided for this traffic. Heavy machinery and other typical American products in enormous quantity will be in big demand. If we get into this market now. Washington has been told by business leaders, we should be able to hold on to It for the next fifty years. With 160,000,000 population and growing fast, and with one-fifth the land surface of the globe, Russia has a strong preference for American goods. And as she now is in the midst of a national development such as the world never has seen outside the United States following the 1850s, experts regard her as the most promising market we are likely to see for many years to come. Sees Competitive Credit “I could easily get orders for a billion dollars’ worth of American products,” one nationally known leader reported, "if we could offer competitive credit terms.” Without recognition such terms are impossible, save perhaps in isolated deals financed by the R. P. C. or some similar federal agency. Healthy trade requires that the relations between the two countries be normalized. Consular officials and banks must be able to function. Every other important nation has an advantage over this country because they have recognized the Soviet Union. REALTORS ANNOUNCE NEW BUSINESS LEASES Hat Cleaning Firm to Take Space on Site of Old Denison. Two new business leases, one accasioned by razing of the Denison hotel, have been announced by W. A. Brennan, Inc., local realty firm. The J. R. Hat Cleaners will move from its present location in the Dennison to 37 West Ohio street, on a five-year lease, it is reported. The Morrow’ Nut Shop has opened a store in the Apollo theater building on a long-term lease. Another shop at 18 1 ., East Washington street will be opened later, it is said. The company sells domestic and imported nuts. THIRTY COUPLES STILL GOING IN WALKATHON Audience of 3,000 Present as Contest Reaches Seventy-second Hour. When the walkathon contest at the Manufacturers’ building at the state fair grounds had reached the seventy-two-hour mark Friday night, thirty couples still were left of the original fifty-one couples. The contest, which commenced Tuesday night at 10. will continue until one couple is left to claim the title of world's champion. Three thousand persons attended the event Friday night. BOGUS SALESMAN IS SOUGHTJNFRAUD CASE Poses m Insurance Agent to Collect S2 From City Man. A .bogus insurance salesman was being sought by police today following complaint of George R. Ferguson. 5006 Brookville road, that a man sold him a policy several days ago. collected $2 and failed to deliver the policy. Investigation revealed no such man was employed by the insurance company. Ferguson said. Police have received several reports of similar incidents. CASE MAY GO HIGHER Appeal Likely From Decision Affecting Liability on Bank Stock. Supreme court ruling is expected to be asked on a decision of the appellate court holding that bank stockholders can not be credited for any assessments made to repair depleted capital stocks. The ruling was handed down by the appellate court Friday afternoon in upholding similar findings by Jay circuit court. The lower court held that stockholders of the defunct Merchants bank of Geneva must pay double liability and could not be allowed a 60 per cent credit for payments made before the bank failed.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobile* reported to police as stolen belong to Clarenr* L. Moore. Libera! Kan Pore, coupe. 51-176 Kansas from Terre Haute.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered bv police to F J. Sehmetrer. 4357 Otterbeln avenue. Ford coup*, found in rear of 611 North Blackford street, stripped of license plates 41-799. Ray 8 Peters. 1044 East Washington street. Chrysler coach, found at 3338 Park • avenue, wrecked.

: Paging Noah Webster Attorneys for City Will Use Definition of ‘Dance’ in Effort to Stop Walkathon. WEBSTER, the fellow who knew’ all the w’ords and answers, but who never heard of or saw’ a “walkathon,” may cause its discontinuance. James Deery, city attorney, and Herbert M. Spencer, his assistant, in preparing to defend the city of Indianapolis in an injunction suit which restrains police from interfering w’ith the walkathon at the state fair grounds will base their defense on the definition of the word “dance” as defined in Webster’s New’ International Dictionary.

Pushing the large volume around the office on wheels, Deery asserts that the words “dance” and "w’alk” are synonymous. “To dance,” according to the dictionary, and a phrase included in the city ordinance which is under fire—is defined as: “To perform, either alone or w’ith others, a regular succession of movements, commonly to the sound of music. Or to “bob up and down as a mote in the air.” Or “to execute serpentine movements or evolutions, compared to the old dance called the “hay.”

Veteran City Realtor Is Dead After Short Illness

Melvin G. Edington, 64, Succumbs at Hospital; Rites Sunday. Following an illness of two weeks, Melvin Grey Edington 64, of 795 West drive, Woodruff Placed real estate dealer in Indianapolis for fifteen years, died Friday in St. Vincent's hospital. Funeral services will be held at Lyons, his former home, at 2 Sunday afternoon. Burial will be at Prairie chapel, near Lyons. Mr. Edington was born at Dresden, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edington. He married Miss Stella Ann Meredith, who died in 1914. He was in the lumber and real estate business at Lyons before he came to Indianapolis. Surviving him are his mother, Mrs. Docia Edington. Bedford; two daughters, Miss Cledie Edington and Miss Mary Edington of Indianapolis; two sons, J. Frank Edington of Beaumont, Tex., and Harley N. Edington, Indianapolis; three sisters. Mrs. Gordia Brandon, Robison; Mrs. Edna Inman, Owensburg, and Mrs. Georgia Hurt, Vincennes, and two brothers, Adolphus Edington, Bedford, and Charles Edington. Miami, Fla. Infection Proves Fatal Tetanus infection from a splinter wound caused the death of Catherine Stoner, 10. of 344 North Addison street, who died at 7 Friday morning at the Methodist hospital. She was a pupil at school No. 50. Survivors are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stoner, and a brother. Willard Stoner, 14. Funeral services will be held in the Holy Trinity Catholic church Monday morning at 9. Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery. Hows Rites Sunday Last rites for Frank G. Hows, 54. of 2419 Central avenue, who died Friday in the United States Veterans' Bureau hospital, will be held in the home at 3 Sunday afternoon. Mr. Hows, a veteran of the Span-ish-American war. became seriously ill Monday and had been in failing health for about two years. He was born in Warren and had been a resident of Indianapolis thirty years. Surviving him are tvg> daughters, Mary Louise Hows and Betty June Hows: a sister. Miss Carrie M. Hows, a stenographer in the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America, with whom he made his home, and three brothers, John A. Hows. Whiting; D. G. Hows, Carona, Cal., and William C. Hows, Greenfield. , t City Native Succumbs According to word received by relatives in this city, Daniel J. Lynch. 34. a native of Indianapolis, died unexpectedly Wednesday in a Syracuse (N. Y.) hospital. Mr. Lynch lived in Syracuse the last j eighj years, during which time he traveled, doing promotion work. A brother. Bernard A. Lynch, is i chief of the fire prevention bureau of the Indianapolis fire department. 1 and another brother, Thomas A. Lynch, is a traffic policeman. Funeral services will be held in

Meets Death as He Swerves Car to Save Dog’s Life

In an attempt to save the life of a dog Friday Esque Sparr, 38, Ft. Wayne, met his own death here When he swerved his car at Emerson avenue and state Road 67, crashing into a heavy truck. Sparr was killed instantly, and the dog. unable to scramble to safety despite Sparr's desperate effect to save it. was crushed beneath the wheels of the truck driven by Ira Coates, Muncie. who was injured slightly. Other passengers In Sparr’s car were injured, but are improving at city hospital today. They are Mrs. Lora Sparr. widow of the driver; Mrs. J. H, Brucks and Mrs. Estella Adler both of Ft. Wayne, and John Galloway of Wolf Lake.

53-Cent Stamp Byrd Issue for Sale to U. S. Collectors.

Bu United Press Tic WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. V\ Admiral Richard E. Byrd is going to have a special 3-cent postage stamp, which will cost 53 cents, for his special use in the Antarctic this winter. PostmasterGeneral James A. Farley announced today. The stamp is for use only on letters mailed from "Little America,” Byrd's base in the far south. Farley said if any stamp collectors wanted to have a letter mailed to them from Byrd’s headquarters they should send the letter and 53 cents to the Norfolk, Va„ postmaster before Oct. 8. The 3 cents will pay for the stamp, which is big and blue, and decorated with a picture of the globe, and the 50 cents will pay for the service charge, thereby resulting in cash profit to the postoffice department.

Upon these definitions, Deery, w’ho has watched the "walkathon for the last few night, will base his petition to the court asking that the temporary injunction now in effect be dissolved, so that police may act. “There is plenty of serpentine movements in this ‘walkathon,’ Deery. declared. “Asa matter of fact, it’s a shame Webster could not have seen it. His definition would ' be most interesting and enlightening.”

the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lynch, 275 North Addison street, Monday morning at 8:30 and at 9 in St. John’s Catholic church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Survivors are the parents, three brothers, Bernard Lynch, Thomas Lynch and Timothy Lynch, all of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Soller of Lafayette. Heart Attack Fatal Heart trouble caused the death of Eugene Boyden, 77, of 2705 North Sherman drive, who fell dead in his home at 2:50 this morning. Surviving him is his wife. Mrs. Lola Boyden.

STATE BOARD FACES • SCHOOL FUND WORK Local Adjustment Groups Passed Up Task. Indianas state tax board stands ready to correct and revise downward any budgets that failed to take into proper consideration the state’s proposed payments for schools, Governor Paul V. McNutt declared today. It appeared that local tax adjustment boards are going to leave much of this for the state board to do, according to reports from variI ous counties. Adjustment boards must set rates by Oct. 1, and appeal must be taken to the state board by Oct. 10. ACCIDENTS AT HOMES INJURE THREE PERSONS Boy Receives Hatchet Wound and Two Are Hurt in Falls. Elmer Cunningham, 10. of 212 Concordia street, inflicted a deep gash in his foot with a hatchet while chopping wood at his home Friday. He was taken to city hospital by police. Paul Brown, 18, living norjtheast of the city, sustained a broken arm Friday when he fell from a horse at his home. He was treated at Robert Long hospital. Falling downstairs at her home, Miss Lena Dale, 56. of 108 West North street, sustained a fracture of the arm. She was taken to city hospital in an ambulance. PROBE ROBBERY TIP Man and Woman Are Sought in Hoidups of Hotels. Police today were investigating a report that two men and a woman, seen displaying a large sum of money in a downtown hotel room, left hurriedly early Thursday, following the Antlers and Roosevelt hotels holdups. Porter at the hotel mentioned in the report told police he was called to the room of the two men early Thursday to carry out their grips, and that when he opened the door, he saw the rolls of money on the bed. The three left in an automobile.

Sparr's automobile was coming toward the city. The truck, operated by the Federal Trucking Company of Indianapolis, was outbound. Lester Miller. 32. Findlay. 0., was arrested on drunken driving charge, following a collision at Noble and New York streets Friday night, in which Miss Katitleen Davidson. 28. of R. R. 1, Box 155. suffered injuries to neck and back and was taken to city hospital. Miller's car was in collision with one driven by Walter Richetts of R. R. 1, Box 155, who told police he chased Miller to the 1200 block of East Washington street, where* he held him until arrival of police. In a chase through corridors of

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

GOP PULLS GUN, OPENS FIRE ON GARAGETHIEVES Two Routed Under Hail of Bullets as Robbery Is Frustrated. Two burglars who attempted to break into the garage of L. A. Harnish at 3301 East Tenth street early today escaped amid a hail of bullets when they were chased by George Wilson, merchant policeman. x Wilson said he fired a number of shots at the burglars when they ran. A window of the garage was broken, but nothing had been stolen. John Stout, 23, Bridgeport, filling station employe at the National and Harding roads, was taken for a ride by bandits Friday night, but was not harmed. Attendant Is Kidnaped Two gunmen, who purchased two gallons of gasoline, drew’ guns, forced Stout into the car, robbed him of sls and put him out of the car several miles away. Yeggmen jimmied their way into the Davis Fuel Company office, 1310 West Twenty-ninth street, Friday night, knocked the combination from the safe, but failed to get the safe open. They left several good samples of their fingerprints, which were photographed by police. Home Is Ransacked Home of Bert Fowler, 37 North Mount street, was ransacked by a passkey burglar, who took a revolver but overlooked several diamond rings and watches. Police were called to the home of Mrs. Ray McCreery, 4219 Guilford avenue, who reported she discovered a burglar in her home, who escaped without taking any loot.

FOUNDING DATE TD BE MARKED Second Moravian Church Celebration Will Open Sunday. Activities for the thirteenth anniversary services of the Second Moravian Episcopal Church will commence Sunday with Rally and Promotion day in the church school at 10 a. m. The Rev. George C. Westphal, pastor, will conduct the services. Following a basket dinner in the social room at noon members will observe the anniversary love feast at 3 p. m. At that time the members will follow the old church custom of drinking coffee and eating rolls in a common meal. Dr. Frederick Kershner, dean of the college of religion at Butler university, will be the principal speaker of the afternoon. Members of the Hope (Ind.) Moravian congregation' and the First church of this city will attend. The Rev. E. Drebert, pastor of the Hope church; the Rev. Samuel Wedman. pastor of the First church, and the Rev. Joseph A. Mears, pastor of the First United Presbyterian church of this city, will bring greetings. Mr. Drebert will preach the sermon at the evening service. The anniversary celebration of the holy communion will conclude the service. The choir, directed by Mrs. Dona Lee, will provide music for the afternoon and evening services.

Committees Chosen for Cathedral School Fete

INDIANA FIRMS GIVEN PROMISE OF ‘BREAK’ State Purchasing Policy Outlined After Protest. “State purchases will be awarded to the lowest bidder in all cases, but everything being equal. Indiana firms will be favored.” This was the rule laid down today by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Its announcement was brought about by a protest from an Indianapolis paper company because of award of a contract to a St. Louis firm which had underbid them 21 cents a case on paper. NEW BARBERS’ SCHOOL OF SCIENCE DEDICATED Institution’s Goal to Raise Profession “To Greater Heights.” A step to “elevate the trade of barber to greater heights” w r as commended this morning at the dedication of the Barber School of Science at 342 East Washington street. “To make proficient in the art of shaving and haircutting” is the aim of the school, according to Leon Worthall, the educational director. The curriculum will include elementary chemistry, bacteriology, histology of the hair and skin, light therapy, physio-mechano-therapy, memory training and business economics. James C. Shanessy, general president of the Journeymen Barbers International Union, spoke at the dedicatory ceremonies.

city hospital Friday night, Leland C. Morgan, 27, of 4914 East Tenth street, was recaptured by police, after he attempteed to escape from the detention ward, having been committed on a drunken driving charge, following an auto accident* at Pennsylvania and Washington streets. Miss Dorothy Swanner, 21, of 2922 Jackson street, riding in Morgan's car, suffered lacerations of the face. She told police that Morgan hit a parked car at the street intersection and crashed into a safety zone guard. Mrs. Iva Clark, 32, of 212 North East street, was dragged twentyfive feet Friday night under an au-

JOHN GILBERT’S NEW LEADING LADY

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Introducing Miss Susan Ann Gilbert, the six-weeks-old young lady at the right. Her mother, wife of John Gilbert of the films, known professionally as Virginia Bruce, looks on admiringly as Susan Ann .makes her camera debut.

Times Sponsors Teaching of New Hollywood Tango

Gene LaVerne, Dance Creator, to Give Lessons on Indiana Roof. The Hollywood tango is here! Or, at least it will be here next Monday, when Gene LaVerne, famous dance creator teacher will appear at the Indiana roof to offer free dance instructions to Times readers and patrons of the Indiana Roof. Dance masters and ballroom experts all over the country have been predicting a change in dancing since 3.2 beer became a legal beverage. LaVerne, favorite movie star dance instructor, heard the warning and heeded. The result was the Hollywood tango which he introduced in the movie colony, where it was acclaimed by such stars as Carole Lombard, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Jean Harlow, Gloria Stuart, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Jordan, Claudette Colbert, Helen Twelvetrees and scores of others. Among the Hollywood actors who have approved the new dance are George Raft, Richard Arlen, Lew Ayres, Joel McCrea, Tom ’ Brown, and even little Dickie Moore, juvenile star. Now The Times and the Indiana Roof offer a series of six lessons free to Times readers. The instruction, which will start next Monday night, will be given by LaVerne from 7:30 to 8:30 each night on the roof. Diagrams and instructions on the tango will appear in The Times each night starting Monday. Readers who can not avail themselves of the free lessons to be given on the Indiana roof should follow these instructions and diagrams closely.

Chairmen Select Aids for Fair to Be Held Oct. 6 and 7. Committees to take charge of the Cathedral high school fair Oct. 6 and 7 on the school ground were named today. Mrs. Daniel McCool, chairman cf the ice cream booth, has selected the Mesdames M. A. McCoy, John Quinn, Thomas Lanahan, Charles Jonas, John Feeney, Henry Wolfla, Thomas Blackwell, Edward Meunier, David Connor, Phillip Mann and Daniel Doyle to assist her. Ten ponies and a merry-go-round for the children will be in charge of Mrs. George A. Smith, assisted by Mrs. Leroy Keach, Mrs. George Knue, Mrs. William Brennan, Mrs. Walter Kibbler and Mrs. Joseph Hoffman. Mrs. Glenn Cruzan, chairman of the home-made candy booth, has named as her aids, Mrs. Joseph J. Argus, Mrs. John J. Bulger, Mrs. A. E. Coddongton, Mrs. T. E. Courtney, Mrs. Bert F. Deery, Mrs. Leo Hammelgam, Mrs. Louis P. Kirsch, Mrs. W. F. Koss, Mrs. Leland Merrill, Mrs. R. J. McManus, Mrs. J. F. C’Mahoney, Mrs. W. H. O’Brien, Mrs. Herbert C. Smith, Mrs. B. C. Steinberger and Donald Shimer. The Lady Bountiful booth committee, of which Mrs. Timothy J. McMahon is chairman, will include Mrs. Harry Connor, Mrs. Charles Dexler, Mrs. Thad Brown, Mrs. John Moriarty, Mrs. Ignatius Godecker, Mrs. Andy Donlan, Mrs. George Maude, Mrs. Leonard Harrell, Mrs. Law’rence McMahon, Mrs. George McDonald, Mrs. Nicholas Billman. Mrs. Karl Ruddell and Mrs. William Keisle.

tomobile driven by Mrs. Esther Giier, 23. of 511 North New Jersey street, who was arrested charged with drunken driving, and assault and battery. Witnesses told police that Mrs. Clark, walking in front of a filling station at New r York and East streets, was struck by Mrs. Guier's car and dragged on the ground when her clothes caught on the automobile. She suffered bruises and friction burns of the body. Patrolman John Finney, 50, of 723 North DeQuincy street, was slightly injured when the police car in which he was riding, collided with another car at Noble and New York streets Friday.

JURY INDICTS SHEAD KILLER • Confession Reported in Slaying of Local Man’s Brother. A Passaic county, New Jersey, grand jury has indicted the alleged slayer of Lawrence Shead, brother of Walter Shead, local publicity man and former Indianapolis newspaper man, it was learned here today. An alleged confession of Louis K. Neu that he killed Mr. Shead in Mr. Shead’s Paterson (N. J.) apartment was basis of the indictment, it was said. Neu, also said to have confessed slaying Sheffield Clark in New Orleans, is sought by Louisiana authorities, but extradition will not be granted, announcement by Emerson L. Richards, acting Governor, indicated. Mr. Richards refused to act immediately on the Louisiana request. Telegram urging Governor Richards to grant extradition has been received from Sheffield Clark Jr., the murdered man’s son. “Would appreciate your honoring requisition from Louisiana for the brutal murder of my father,” Clark telegraphed. Walter Shead accompanied the body of his brother to Oklahoma, former home of the family.

DENVER MAN HEADS ALUMNI AT DE PAUW Thorntown Native to Lead State Organization. Marion county alumni of DePauw university today were notified of appointment of Dr. Ezra M. Cox, Denver, as secretary of the DePauw Alumni Association and university field secretary. He is a DePauw graduate in the class of 1912, and is a native of Thorntown. entering the university from Frankfort Dr. Cox plans to meet with alumni groups in each courty and help them to organize county groups or clubs. DePauw will observe its one hundredth anniversary in 1937. Alumni will have an important part in the celebration. THEFT SUSPECTS FACE PROBE BY GRAND JURY Brothers Bound Over in Attempt to Loot Drug Store. Leonard L. Goodwin, 21. and his brother, William, 18, both of 806 Howard street, arrested early Friday in connection with a burglary attempt at a Haag drug store, 3514 College avenue, today faced investigation by the Marion county grand jury. They were held to the jury by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers on automobile banditry, burglary and vehicle taking charges after they are alleged to have signed confessions. GROSS RATE IS FOUGHT State Board Acts to End Charge by Upstate Utility. The public service commission today took action in eliminating gross rate charges in rate reduction orders for seven small towns served by the Northern Indiana Power Company. They are Bridgeton, Riley, Rosedale, Carbon, Lyford, Mulberry and Twelve Mile. Rate reductions ranged from 7 to 13.4 per cent, a total saving of $2,904 annually, commissioners said. BUS TRYOUT EXTENDED Sixty Days More Granted f<jr Troy Avenue Service. Indianapolis Railways, Inc., was granted another extension of sixty days for trial operation of its Troy avenue bus line by order of the public service commission today. The commission also issued a certificate of operation to Logan Smith for the Drexel Gardens bus line, formerly operated by Charles Copes. The line serves the municipal airport. '

ROOSEVELT TO CLOSE BANKS REFUSING AID IN SWEEPING . MOVE TOPAY DEPOSITORS Administration Objective to Free Frozen Assets Will Be Made Compulsory; Billions May Be Released Under Program. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.—Once more President Roosevelt appears to have emerged from a skirmish with outright inflationists in command of the field. Practically no one in Washington now believes that he can be stampeded into printing greenbacks, at least in the near future. Events this week convinced Washington than at least until congress meets, Mr. Roosevelt is confident of remaining master of the situation. The President embarked today upon a giant credit expansion pro-gram-indirect inflation—which now embraces direct loans to cotton farmers and in a few days will produce a sweeping plan to pay off depositors of closed banks.

PRIZE IS WON BY CITY PAPER Indianapolis Commercial Is Given Award by Legal Editors. First prize of SIOO for attractive appearance of a court and commercial newspaper was won by the Indianapolis Commercial at the closing session of the fourth annual convention of legal paper editors at the Columbia Club Friday. The annual award is offered by H. B. Morse, editor of the St. Louis (Mo.) Daily Record. Second prize of SSO was won by the Philadelphia Intelligencer. Edward Warfield of the Baltimore Daily Record was elected president of the Associated Court and Commercial Newspapers. Other officers are A. A. McDonald, re-elected first vice-president; Edgar W. Stratton, second vice-president; Harry L. Doud, re-elected secretary-treasurer, and Charles A. Barringer, executive committee member. Columbus, 0., was selected for the 1934 convention city. Mark Gray, editor of the Indianapolis Commercial, was in charge of convention arrangements here. DRIVER HURT BADLY AS AUTO HITS TREE Victim Believed to Be C. N. Stuckey of Cedarville, 0. Seriously injured when his automobile left the road and crashed into a tree on State Road 67 near Glenn’s Valley today, a man believed to be C. N. Stuckey, Cedarsville, 0., is in city hospital with a possible skull fracture and internal injuries. The unofficial identification was made by police from papers and check books found in the man’s clothing. '

> He’s Electric Neon Tube Glows When Held Near Man.

By United Press Tacoma, wash., sept. 23. The nerves of Martin Bodker are all tangled up. The Enumclaw (Wash.) dairyman, known as the “human radio,” generated so much electricity that he ignited a Neon tube held near his body Friday. The tube, similar to those used in commercial signs, cast enough glow to light up a dark room. Dr. S. A. Huntington of Tacom* and William Guston, radio technician, loosed radio frequencies of high intensity on Bodker. They are designing equipment u’hich Bodker hopes will relieve him of intense pain and physical collapse suffered when he hears a radio broadcast. “The man is an electro-chemi-cal entity,” said Dr. Huntington. He explained that the rare affliction probably is caused by interlacing of nerves. BEER MADE TARGET OF ATTORNEY FEE CLAIM Chapter Added to Court History of Seized Beverage. A carload of beer, illegal importation of which involved H. M. Fox, Pittsburgh, and several associates in a legal tangle, today added another chapter to its voluminous court history. James A. Collins, former criminal court judge, and attorney for Fox in the trial in which Fox was fined SSO and costs in municipal court, today filed a suit to attach the beer to guarantee a S4OO attorney fee judgment he is seeking for Fox’s defense. Cox, to whom the warehouse receipts for the beer were turned over several days ago by deputy prosecutors, asks to intervene in the suit brought by four bondsmen in which attachment of the beer is asked to guarantee payment of SBOO fees for providing bail for Fox and his associates.

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Federal reserve experts, it was learned today, practically have completed a plan to unlock $2,000,000,000 of frozen deposits by government purchase of preferred stock on a large scale. The objective is to pay off depositors and set aside slow assets for gradual liquidation. Banks which do not co-operate will be forced into liquidation. The plan will be ready for announcement next week. This plan, coupled with the steps taken to raise cotton and other agricultural prices, represents a gigantic move to expand credit and put money into circulation and thus meets the aims of the once more rampant inflationists by what Presideht Roosevelt regards as sounder and safer means. Cotton Loans Outlined Perhaps late today, certainly on Monday, the agriculture department will announce details of a plan outlined at the White House Friday for loans to farmers, at 10 cents a pound, on this year’s cotton in their possession in exchange for commitments to reduce acreage next year in accordance with the administration’s program. This will result in withholding cotton from the market and should stabilize the price at once. The President counts upon his other credit expansion measures £o spur the price still further. Cotton now is around 8 cents e pound. This price-boosting plan comes on top of allotment of $75,000,000 for purchase of surplus agricultural products to feed and clothe the unemployed this winter. Both followed quickly on the recent cotton convention which revealed to the administration the threat of aroused farmers. Urge Coal for Needy Today, also, the administration was considering adding coal to the commodities that might be purchased to aid the needy. Economic experts long have regarded the frozen bank deposits ?s a chief deterrent to the recovery program. Freeing of this store of money, they have argued, would contribute to the advance more than any other one thing and.would be particularly helpful now ‘ that the public works program has failed to come up to expectations. They finally have won President Roosevelt over to the idea that prompt action is needed because of the slow course of the treasury. While the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has bought preferred stock in some ninety banks to hasten reopening, banks have not been quick to take advantage of this assistance. The new plan virtually will be compulsory. It will mean enlarged government control over the country’s banking structure. Alternative Is Debated An alternative plan was considered. This would entail issuance of greenbacks under the inflation act to pay off depositors of closed banks. Bonds first would have to be issued to comply with the act, and then these would be retired by greenbacks. Some within the inner circle preferred this plan but the more conservative won out. President Roosevelt still harbors a taboo against “printing press’’ money, despite the terrific pressure that has been borught upon him within thei last few days by responsible party leaders for direct currency inflation.

THIEVES GET $44 LOOT FROM THREE GARAGES Autos Stripped of Accessories at Homes of Owners. Burglars broke into three city garages Friday night and stripped automobiles of tires and accessories valued at more than $44. Frank Urrell, 2446 Carrollton avenue, reported his garage entered and $24 worth of tires stolen. J. H. Petree, 2830 Brookside avenue, found his garage broken into and tires and accessories worth S2O stolen. Police were called to the home of John Virgin, 1528 Bellefontaine street, where they found the garage door broken. Mr. Virgin a mute, who also is unable to write, could not give police a valuation on the articles missing. POLICE SEEKING THREE Another Man Captured When Found in Store at Knightstown. Indianapolis police were on the lookout today for three men who escaped when they were trapped in a store at Knightstown early today. Knightstown police captured a fourth intruder. The three who escaped fled in the dirdfction of Indianapolis.