Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1933 — Page 11

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‘COMIC STRIP’ GUNMAN GETS SIOO AT HOTEL Clerk Forced to Surrender Money: Bandit Wears Chaplin Mustache. LISTED AS ‘MR. COLLAR’ Cops Stage Futile Search of Terminals After Robbery. A comical bandit who is believed to have a woman accomplice held up the night cleric of the Barton hotel, 505 North Delaware street, early today and robbed him of SIOO at the point of a gun. The bandit described as five feet, four inches tall, had flat feet and effected a “Charlie Chaplin” mustache and a red necktie. Before the holdup, he registered at the hotel for “Mr. and Mrs. Collar, city.” Flees Hotel Later the police in a checkup of city hotels learned that a man answering the description of “Mr. Collar” registered at a hotel near the Barton, Sept. 29, with a woman giving other names. He was not seen at the hotel again until early today following the robbery at the Barton. At 2 a. m. he rushed breathlessly into the hotel and demanded his key. He went to his room returning in a few minutes and announced that he would not be back that night. Shortly after 1 a. m. today Max Hall, night clerk at the Barton, was approached by the “comic strip” bandit. Hall became suspicious of the man's actions and motioned Wesley Daniels, Negro bellboy, not to go out of the hotel for “Mr. Collar's" baggage. Stages Stickup The bandit announced that he would go to the car parked outside the hotel and get his wife. He returned without his wife, but with a businesslike-looking blue steel revolver in his hand. Pushing it into Hall’s ribs he made the clerk hand over SIOO and lie on the floor, while he covered the bellboy. Police searched hotels, bus and railroad terminals in an effort to “collar” the elusive “Mr. Collar.”

GIRL’S KIDNAPER GETS FORTY-YEAR TERM Indianapolis Man Is Sentenced to Long Pen Service. By U itrd Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 3. A forty-year term in the state reformatory, to run concurrently with n life sentence pronounced last week on a kidnaping charge, was imposed upon Elmer Davis, 22, of Indianapolis, in Vigo circiut court here late yesterday. Davis pleaded guilty to charge of robbery while armed and was sentenced to twenty years on each count. He will serve the first forty years in the reformatory and then be transferred to the prison at Michigan City for the remainder of the life term. Garfield Kelly, sentenced to life with Davis in connection with the kidnaping of Evelyn Hyslop and her escort last month, is awaiting trial on the robbery charges. ONE KILLED IN WRECK Tire Blowout Crashes Car; Three Seriously Injured. By United Press HAMMOND. Ind., Oct, 3—One person was killed and three others were injured seriously near here last night when a tire blowout wrecked the automobile in which they were riding. Mrs. Mabel Davis, 31, died In a hospital here. Ellery Petrie. 55, Sherrerville; Hobart Smith. 3. Hammond, and William Cordura, 57, Hammond, were injured seriously. RADIO SCHOOL TO BEGIN Service and Repair Class Will Meet for Fifteen Weeks. Hoyt Moore will conduct a course in radio sendee and repair in connection with the Y. M. C. A. night schools. The class will begin tomorrow night at 7;30, and will meet for two hours each Monday and Wednesday for a period of fifteen weeks. Mr. Moore has been in radio service work in the city for the past twelve years. RAILS AT DEMOCRATS Defeated Candidate Attacks ’OneMan Government.* Elmer Q Lockvear, Republican, who was oefeated for the appellate court bench by his Democratic opponent last year, attacked the national administration before the Irvington Republican Club Monday night. He termed it a ’one-maii government," and criticised congress for following the President's leadership.

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MODERN RUSH FOR GOLD GRIPS WORLD

Search for Metal Extends From Frozen North to r Fropics

Collapse of the gold standard and International economic tnaos have caused a universal search for new Roid. Earl Sparling tells the highlights of this first world-wide gold rush in history and discurses its economic implications in a series of articles, the first of which follows. BY EARL SPARLING Times Special Writer THROUGH a hapless world, disunited nation from nation and on the brink of an abyss, there goes today one universal cry: “Gold! More gold!” It is an ancient cry, heard many times before. In its echo wars have been waged and new continents peopled, and races have been slaughtered and wiped almost from the memory of man. Ancient as it is, it has anew portent now. It is the one hope—the one illusion, if you will—on which all the nations can conjoin. More gold, a sudden miraculous abundance of gold, and perhaps the worldwide depression might come to and end and prosperity reign again among men. So, from one side of the earth to another, mankind is searching for new gold: not one nation, nor two nations, but the whole world—the first world-wide gold rush in history. The search extends from worn-out placers in exhausted mining country to wild frozen wastes and tropical jungles which white men have scarcely penetrated before. In thousands of placer regions, where men once panned SIOO to SSOO a day, the destitute unemployed of 1933 are contehted to dig 50 cents to a dollar a day of gold.

In the untouched wilds more experieced miners, the true prospectors, dig just as laboriously. For them, though some of them may never get a dollar a day nor find any gold at all, there are dangers, deaths and the chance of untold wealth. And the chance of saving capitalistic civilization. One great find of anew gold reef might do it. Why the discovery of a vast new gold field—a discovery comparable to the finding of gold in California, in South Africa ox along the Yukon—might break the depression and save civilization as it now exists is one of the simplest facts of economics, one of the very few facts upon which all economists can agree. To put it one w T ay, an abundance of gold would mean cheaper money and therefore higher prices for all commodities. It would mean a natural inflation and an international return to the gold standard. To put it another way, new gold magically would lighten the debts no burdening the world. When the World war ended the western nations found themselves owing billions of dollars, and the nations have not yet found any way of producing such a fabulous amount of money. a tt tt TENS of years of booming trade among the nations might wipe out the debt, but even ordinary international trade has come virtually to a standstill, and in that impasse the mere interest on the debt is bankrupting the world. New gold might save civilization because new gold is new money. No nation can hope today to wipe out its debt by producing more growing stuff from the earth or more machines from its factories. But it might if it could dig new gold from the earth, for gold is the one commodity of which there is not and never has been an overproduction. Any nation will take it from any nation which has it or can get it. Thus, there is the ironical paradox of mankind trying to save a machine civilization by digging primitively into the earth with pick and shovel—and digging for a shining magpie's metal which at best has been far less useful to man than iron or coal or even potter's clay. No, not quite as primitively as once. Up along the Yukon and out in the once Golden West, where city-bred men are flocking to rework exhausted diggings, where ghost town dead more than half a century are coming alive, the delving is what it always was —pick and shovel and backbreaking labor. But in farther away places where the search for anew gold reef goes on, prospects are using civilization's newest machine. the airplane. And on that rests the best hope. The airplane able to take man where he has not been before may yet uncover a new gold field such as needed. The airplane has taken the searchers into the fastnesses of New Guinea, and they found gold. With gold discovered, the airplane carried tons of necessary mining equipment over the jungles. This was an epic achievement in the world-wide gold rush. THE Bulolo gold fields of New Guinea lie fifty-five miles inland from Lae, on the northeast

‘Were Innocent/ Plea of Prisoners in Police Patrol

THE somber hulk of the "Black Maria,” the police patrol car, drew up in front of headquarters with two prisoners chained in the back end. “Well, here are a couple of more innocent guys,” the patrolman exclaimed as he marched the men in to have them slated. “Innocent guys?” the reporter asked in wonderment. “Sure.” replied the policeman, “a guilty man never climbed in the back of the Black Maria’—” He paused with his eyes twinkling.

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coast of the island. Five ranges of mountains must be crossed to get to the gold. By trail, through valley jungles and over rocky heights, the trip requires two weeks and more. The airplane makes it in seventy-five minutes. The British company developing the Bulolo fields uses two tri-mo-tored Junker planes, which make five round trips each day. All seats were removed from one plane and a hatch was cut in the top of the cabin. Into it was loaded a steel shaft that weighed 6.950 pounds and the plane lifted it 6,000- feet and landed it safely at the fields. Another day the plane transported a three-ton boiler. Hundreds of trips were made, but the camp is now equipped with dredges that weigh 1,200 tons each, with steam engines, tractors, a sawmill and a complete hydroeelectric plant. How much gold the Bulolo field will produce, nobody knows. Whatever amount, it will be just that much added to the world supply. Meanwhile, the search goes on in a dozen other formerly impenetrable spots. Airplanes are carrying men into white wastes of northern Canada. The planes carry prosper-

Utility Office Closing Rapped by State Chief

McCart Declares' Patrons ‘Cheated’ es Chance to Pay Bills. Custom of certain Indianapolis utilities and others throughout the state closing their offices Saturday afternoon and then charging a penalty to patrons who were unable to pay bills until Monday, has been condemned by Chairman Perry McCart of the public service commission. Mr. McCart offered some advice to officials of these companies on creation of good will at the hearing on abolition of gross rates Monday. “Many working people get paid at noon on Saturday, ‘‘Mr. McCart said. ‘‘They hurry over to the utility office, only to find the door closed in their face. ‘‘Then if the ten days for payment have expired, they return on Monday and are assessed a 10 per cent penalty. It would be a simple matter, it seem to me, to have some one stay at the office and take the money. I am sure that it would more than pay for the cost of such service in increased good will.” The Indiana Bell Telephone Company is the only local utility to keep its office open Saturday afternoon. SCHWAB IS RECOVERING Bethlehem Steel Chief Reported Doing ‘‘Very Good.” By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-The condition of Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, was described at Doctor’s hospital today as “very good.” Attaches said he was suffering from fatigue.

“ —That is, not guilty until he tells it to the judge the next day.” a it tt T7>OR nearly a quarter of a century, four members of the police force have been listening to the tales of woe of countless prisoners en route to the police station. Harry Cooney. John Richter. Henry Fields and Oliver Henry all twenty-four-year men on the force, have served on the patrol run. In that time they have hustled thousands of law violators up the

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—Acme Photos. Goldfield, Nev„ twenty-five years ago. In the mountains nearby a new gold rush is on today following discovery of nuggets by two boys. Below—James Dixon, prospector of Bret Harte’s Northern California, holding nuggets worth SSOO which he recently uncovered.

tors, tools, supplies, dogs. Down upon some frozen lake settles such a plane. The prospectors unload the dogs, drain the motors of oil, anchor the skis by pouring water upon them and set forth by team to find gold where they can find it. Perhaps somewhere in the white north, some place where the prospectors of two decades ago could never hope to go, these men will find anew Yukon and put factory hands back to work around the world. Other airplanes soar above the jungles of Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Peru. The Aztecs, the Incas and the Mayans were all gold lovers. They were mining gold centuries before Columbus discovered America and were turning it into not only ornaments for their princes, but into plates and pitchers for everyday use. tt tt WHERE did all that gold come from? Perhaps somewhere in the highlands from Costa Rica to Peru there is a gold mine which Pizarro and Cortez, even with the rivers of blood they let

Depression Attorneys Flourish in City; 1,009 Strong.

DESPITE the depression, there are more attorneys in Indianapolis than during the past two years, according to the 1933 edition of the Barnett & Patton lawyers’ guide, compiled by Huber Patton. The guide lists 1,009 lawyers, as compared to 977 in 1932 and 946 in 1931. Os the total number, 842 have been placed in age groupings, showing that eight attorneys from 80 to 88 are engaged in practice. The largest group is 230, from 30 to 49 years old. JEWISH AGENCY WILL BE AIDED BY SINGER Vocalist Will Raise Funds for Hospital Ambulances. Jewish colonization of the Soviet Union will be aided in a concert tomorrow night at the Woman's Department Club, 1702 North Meridian street, when Miss Isa Kremer, ballad singer, gives a concert. The concert will be under the auspices of the Icor, an organization to aid colonization in the soviet states. The Icor has sent $250,000 in machinery to pioneers in Biro-Bid-jan. Miss Kremer's concert will seek to raise funds for three hospital ambulances.

She will be accompanied by I. R Korenman, pianist.

steps of the “Black Maria” only to learn from the prisoners—by their admission—that they are as innocent as the lilies of the field. “Nearly all of the prisoners want to tell us their troubles,” . said officer Richter, veteran policeman in the patrol. “Most of them claim that they have political pull. They assert that they are buddies of every one from the chief of police to the Governor and that they play pinochle with the mayor besides.'’

loose, were unable to find. The airplanes of 1933 are soaring and the prospectors are covering in a day a territory that would have required years only, a decade ago. No such lost mine has been found, but there is a story that indicates it may be—or, at least, what the world-wide gold rush means. Down in the jungles of Panama a group of prospectors stumbled upon an old mine the Spaniards abandoned to the jungles more than three centuries ago. They discovered it still contained gold in paying quantities. A Canadian mining company got interested and provided working capital. “And out of Toronto roared an airplane—not bound for the White North, but for the jungled south. In the plane was Noah A. Timmins, 73, grand old man of Canadian mining. Far up in northern Ontario there is a town named for him. Years ago, as a hit-or-miss prospector, he discovered one of the finest producing gold mines, and today he owns stock in several of the greatest producing gold mines in the north.

RETAIL MARKUP LIMIT IS URGED Grocers, Meat Dealers to Ask U. S. Aid in Code Hearings. A minimum markup cost—the sale of merchandise at replacement cost plus 10 per cent—may be sought by the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers’ Association. Relief will be needed by the grocers and butchers unless the markup cost is permitted, it was announced by Fred W. Stensberger, president of the association, following last night’s meeting of the body in the Hoosier Athletic Club. The government, has refused the markup, but hearings are scheduled for Oct. 5 and 9 to decide the matter. Codes for wages and hours under the NRA have been completed. Members of the association were urged to send President Roosevelt a telegram asking that the minimum markup clause be approved. ACTRESS_/DOING WELL’ Sylvia Sidney Recovering From Second Throat Operation. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Sylvia Sidney, screen star, who underwent a second operation for throat trouble last week, was reported today to be “doing very well.” Rugs Are Stolen From House Rugs and other articles valued at more than SIOO were stolen Monday from an unoccupied furnished house at 2858 North Olney street, according to a report to police by the owner, Mrs. Fred Olson, 2921 North Ol- > ney street.

TTHE patrolmen have come to listen sympathetically to the pleas of their “passengers.” When a man does not talk it is invariable a sign that he watching, the policemen claim. “Our worst trouble is with thieves,” one of the patrolmen stated. “They sit in the back of the wagon and do not say a word. As they have little to gain by coming in with us, mast of them watch for the first chance to escape.

But gold, as every old prospector will tell you, is where you And it. And it is easier hunting for it now, for the burro’s tail is no longer the prospector’s compass; the prospector has been given wings. One of them may save machine civilization. But that, it should be added, is farthest from their thoughts. What drives them forth, prospector and humble placer miner alike, is the price of gold. With gold selling in the open market at around $32, with a dozen countries giving a bounty beyond that and grub-staking any adventurer who is willing to seek, gold hunting has become a good business as business goes these days. Even if a prospector does not find anew gold reef he can make a living working some spot that could not be worked profitably when the gold standard was in order and gold was worth only $20.67 an ounce.

Next—Another article on the hunger for gold.

‘Bad Men’ Renege, Cops ‘Call Bluff in Grilling

Three in Prank Forced to Spend Sleepless Night After Escapade. In these days of manhunts and fugitive convicts, it doesn't pay to cry “wolf.” Bert Sprague, 23, of 5661 Madison avenue, and his friends, Charles Haynes, 20, and Roscoe Scott, 22, both of Freetown, have learned this lesson after a sleepless night and a workout by the police. “Never again,” the three chorused, as police left Sprague’s home early today. Their trouble started when a garage owner at Greenwood telephoned the sheriff’s office shortly before midnight to say that three suspicious men in a maroon sedan stopped for gas and were headed toward Indianapolis. Later, the proprietor of a filling station at 5319 West Washington street reported that a boy had come into the station saying that he had left three “suspicious” men south of Greenwood after their ’’maroon sedan” had struck a bridge. The boy said he had been given a lift by the three men. Acting on the boy's information, police went to Srague’s nome, where they found three young men divesting themselves of overalls. For several minutes the police subjected the trio to a grilling. Sprague and his friends explained that they bought overalls and started for Terre Haute. On the way they picked up the boy who was hitchhiking. They told him they were bandits from Chicago. The boy tried to get out of the car at Greenwood. When they were forced to stop because of the accident, he “legged” it away as fast as he could run.

“And we have the least trouble with women. They usually come with us peacefully though they, too, do their share of talking.” One of the policemen relates that recently the “Black Maria” went on a run where a married couple had been drinking and were arrested for fighting in their home. On the way down to tk: station in the wagon the wife had a change of heart and inquired of the patrolman: “Do you have any objection to us spooning in here?”

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CLASH FORECAST ON STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SETUP AT NATIONAL PARLEY HERE ‘Socialization’ and ‘Rugged Individualism’ Views May Ignite Fuse of Debate in American Group’s Conference. DR. FISHBEIN WILL BE SPEAKER Indiana Medical Association Also Supports McNutt System in Controlling Public Aid Division. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer Possibility of a clash between the two viewpoints in modern medical practice that of “rugged individualism” and “socialization” —loomed for the American Public Health Association, meeting here, when it appeared today that the Indiana health department may be brought up for discussion.

CRUSADE BEGUN BY Y. M. C. A. Drive Is Intended to Bring 500 New Members Into Group. The Young Men’s Christian Association last night opened its “health and happiness crusade” in the form of a membership campaign intended to bring 500 more persons into the organization. Fermor S. Cannon, general chairman, presided over a dinner at which two hundred members were present. George A. Vail Dyke spoke on the plan of action. Others introduced were C. A. Tevebaugh, state general secretary: Fred W. Kickens, recently appointed physical director; Jesse J. P. McClure, chairman boys’ division campaign, and H. J. Richardson, representing the Senate avenue branch. Particular stress was laid on the opportunities afforded by night school, the Y. M. C. A. being the first institution to offer this facility to those unable to receive day school instruction. The campaign will close Oct. 11, Founder’s day of the organization, commemorating the 112th anniversary of the Y. M. C. A. FIRM MOVES QUARTERS Jacobs Outdoor Shop to Occupy Board of Trade Space. New and larger quarters are to be occupied by Jacobs Outdoor Shop at 9 East Ohio street, in the Board of Trade building. Removal from 15 North Pennsylvania street is expected to be completed in time to open the new quarters this week. Belief that fall business will bring a heavier demand for riding, sports and camp equipment .the larger space will be utilized at once with more stock.

Hoosier Byrd Second Pilot Is Nephew Local Persons.

Rear admiral richard e. BYRD will take a Hoosier on his trip to the south polar regions. ■William M. Bowlin, second pilot of the exploration party to visit Little America, is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Mae Shannon, 1612 Central avenue. Mr. Bowlin w%ts with Captain John Rogers, U. S. N„ on his attempt to span the Pacific in a flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii. The pair were missing several days before being rescued. GUY PAVING PLANS SPURRED BY COUNCIL Ordinance Speeds Program for Federal Aid. The program to construct four miles of city streets with $700,000 provided by the federal public highways fund, was furthered Monday by passage of a city ordinance authorizing the mayor to proceed with negotiations with the federal government. In order to obtain federal support in the street building project, the mayor must enter into an agreement practically pledging the city to maintain the streets. Streets to be constructed are Sixteenth street, from Northwestern avenue to the Emrichsville bridge; Lafayette road, from Sixteenth street three blocks northward; Northwestern avenue, from Sixteenth to Thirty-eighth streets, and West street from Sixteenth street southward to the Bluff road south of the city. A proposed bridge will be erected over Fall creek at Sixteenth street, if the project materializes, and a new bridge will be erected over the creek at Thirty-eighth street and a section of Emerichsville bridge will be cut off to eliminate a sharp turn.

The meeting is scheduled Oct. 9-12. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and special writer for The Times, is scheduled to speak the first day. It has been reported that he may launch into praise of the health department setup as reorganized by Governor Paul V. McNi t, through the Indiana Medical Association. Plan Was Scored This putting of public health under control of organized medicine was criticised severely recently in the Survey-Graphic by Dean C. E. A. Winslow of the public health department of Yale university. Dean Winslow is scheduled to attend the meeting here and it is predicted that if the subject is brought up, hot debate will follow. Even the famed Wilbur report, which recommended extension of socialized medicine as opposed to the traditional individualized practice, may be mentioned, it is predicted by some observers. McNutt Is Lauded This report on the cost of medical care was made under the administration of President Hoover and since has been the focal point of attack by both state and national medical associations. Their viewpoint was expressed recently at the meeting of the Indiana Medical Association at French Lick. Throughout the session, the plea was made for retention and extension of “rugged individualism” in medical practice. Governor McNutt was a guest speaker and highly praised for letting the medical association run his health department.

STATE TROOPS READY TO QUELL MINE STRIFE Adjutant Reports on Survey of Southern Indiana Fields. State troops are ready for trouble in the southern Indiana coal fields, according to Adjutant-General Elmer F. Straub. Following an airplane flight to the district Monday, the adjutantgeneral was told by Major Morman L. Thompson, who attended a conference of national guard officers at Shakamak park, that considerable unrest existed in the coal fields. “The troops in southern Indiana are ready to move if necesssary,” the adjutant-general declared. MISHAP HALTS RECORD HOP TRY BY MOLLISONS| Cracked Undercarriage Blocks Takeoff of Flying Couple in Canada. By United Press WASAGA BEACH, Ontario, Oct. 3. —The attempt of Captain and Mrs. James A. Mollison, England’s famous flying couple, to take off for Bagdad in an attempt on the long distance record, failed today when the left under carriage of their plane, Seafarer 11, cracked. BARRISTERS WILL MEET October Session to Be Wednesday at Columbia Club. The regular October meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association will be held on Wednesday at 6:30 p. m., at the Columbia Club. The association at this meeting is the guest of the bench and bar of the counties surrounding Marion county and approximately seventyfive lawyers are expected to attend from out of town. CLUB WILL HOLD TEA Women’s Society of Methodist Church to Entertain. The Roberts Park M. E. church women's Club will hold a Chrysanthemum tea at 3; 30 next Thursday afternoon at the church. A musical program will be given by Miss Jane Johnson Burroughs, Miss Maxine Moore and Mr. Dale Young. Mrs. B. R. Callis is in charge of the entertainment. POLICE PATROL LINE State Officers Watch for Man Wanted in Michigan. Detail of Indiana state police is stationed today in St. Joseph county, at the Indiana-Michigan state line, aiding in an effort to arrest a man wanted in Michigan for the murder of a farmer Monday night. Lieutenant Ray Fisher of Lagrange is in command of the detail, which was requested by the Michigan state police.