Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1933 — Page 3

NOV. 18, 1933

RECOGNITION TO AID CITY FIRMS, WELLS CLAIMS State Exports to Russia May Reach Former Mark of $10,000,000. Indiana and national export trade should boom as the result of official recognition of Russia yesterday, according to Francis Wells, manager of the local Department of Commerce office. During the peak year of exports to Russia in 1930. Indiana's sales amounted to $8,000,000 to $10,000,000.000 of the total $111,000,000, estimated Mr. Wells. The heavy exports slump in 1931 and 1932 was caused by difficulty in arranging a suitable trade agreement. he believes, together with the world depression and the Russian crop failure. All I’rttduction Goods Recognition again should send United States exports up to the 1930 mark. Mr, Wells believes. Practically all the exports were “production goods' and not “consumption goods. ’ Mr. Wells pointed out. Automobiles, tractors, trucks, tools and dies for toolmaking and all types of machinery headed the list. The F. H. Langsenkamp Company, which has had continuous trade relations with the Amtorg Trade Corporation, Soviet trade agency in the United States, since 1924 is perhaps the most consistent Indianapolis exporter to Russia. City Plants Hopeful H. C. Atkins, president of the E. C. Atkins & Cos., Inc. which has been exporting a small volume to Russia, believes that recognition might aid in a resumption of trade relations. J. S Watson, vice-president of the Link-Belt Company, said that his firm had had some export business with Russia during the last few years. He advanced the theory that recogintion might benefit trade “if they (Russia) can get the money.” 20-YEAR MEN OF CITY RAILWAYS TO MEET Louis J. Borinstein Will Be Speaker at Banquet Tuesday, Principal speaker at the sixth annual banquet of the TwentyYear Club of the Indianapolis Railways Tuesday night at the SpinkArms, will be Louis J. Borinstein, Chamber of Commerce president. Other speakers will include Charles W. Chase, street railway president, end James P. Tretton, general manager. The club has 235 members, each having served more than twenty years with the company. OFFER TRAIN-SHIP TRIP it Grace Line and Pennsylvania Railroad Map New Itinerary. Anew plan, by which travelers may make a trans-continental trip through the United States and to Central and South America, has been arranged by the Grace Line and the Pennsylvania railroad. Tickets, which may be purchased at all Grace Line or Pennsylvania railroad offices, will be good for one year from the date of sale, and will provide liberal stop-over privileges at all points. The steamer portion of the trip includes calls at Havana, Colombia, the Panama Canal, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. HELD ON LIQUOR COUNT f ify Man Arrested After Alleged Fight at Filling Station. Police today were investigating incidents surrounding a fight last night at a filling station at Thirtieth and Delaware streets. James Quackenbush, 49. of R. R. 12. Box 372. is held on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while drunk and reckless driving, in connection with the fight. Quackentush is said to have engaged in an altercation with Fred Warman, 2756 Jvorth Denny street. COLE WILL' BE ON AIR State Instruction Head on Program Sponsored by P.-T. A. George c. Cole, state superintendent of public instruction, will give one of a series of broadcasts sponsored by the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers over WKBF at 2 Monday. He will speak on “Opportunities for School Support."

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Th? Ambassador will offer tomorrow for a four days’ engagement a twin feature program in "Above the Clouds," starring Robert Armstrong and Dorothy Wilson, and "The Big Executive." with Ricardo Cortez and Richard Bennett, a story of a powerful executive who controlled high finance, but who had no power over women. A large Paramount cast supports the stars. "Above the Clouds" is an aviation story of a news-reel camera man who risks life and love for his company. Robert Armstrong is cast as the ace camera man, who steals news ns from friends and takes the C iit. Wl; 1 he attempts the stunt on a clc’.-e friend he is discovered and r ied to his boss. Armstrong ot .-marts his friend and causes the unfortunate fellow to lose his own job. A girl enters the picture and exposes the shady practices of the ace camera man. doing so to defend her victimized lover. A daring scene takes place aboard a dirigible which cracks up in midair. In addition to she two features will be a comedy cartoon. Hunter Incurs Wounds Hillary Cofer. 37. Negro. 2610 James street, was wounded in the side, neck and head by an accidental discharge of a shotgun carried by William Reed. Negro. 2730 James street, while the two were hunting yesterday, police were told. Cofer was treated at city hospital. Kokomo Industrialist Dies By Ttmr special KOKOMO. Nov. 18.—Heart disease yesterday caused the death of Albert V. Conradt, 65, Kokomo industrial, financial and civic leader, who had extensive interests in Indianapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Louisville.

Original of Tarkington’s ‘Penrod’ Lives in N. Y.; He’s Middle-Aged Now and a Politician, Too

Some of Booth in Famed Character, He Says, In ‘Defense.’ BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The stable storeroom where Penrod Schofield presented the big, long, ugly faced, horr’ble. black ole snake to Verman, where he and Sam Williams plotted the ’nishiation of George Bassett with a rixual, Is a downtown New York law office now. There in the flesh Ls Penrod. He is middle-aged now, a good deal more grave than when he, in the life, and Booth Tarkington were boys together in Indianapolis, and his name is Keyes Winter, former Republican leader of the Fifteenth assembly district. Reluctantly today he acknowledged the identity, amended it by adding that he thought there was some of Tarkington himself in Penrod and some of Tarkingtons two nephews, and then he took a characteristically Penrodian satisfaction in pricking the soap bubble idea that machine politics is nurtured by anything but patronage. “Had Great # Imagination” “Booth always had a great imagination,” he said—the ruddy-faced, sandy-haired man, with the wide eyes and quizzical smile, going back across the years to boyhood and Indianapolis. “When he got around to writing those stories he touched them up. They weren't all true. “Now he, and not I, was the one who used to like to sit down in the coal bin and write about strange adventure.” Adventure Right Here Indianapolis, itself, then was popping with adventure; the young Tarkington mind, if it had realized it, would not have had to stray further than the Keyes Winter backyard. “Now, listen, Verman. Listen! I fixed up this good ole snake just for you. I’m goin’ to give her to you.”) Those immortals, Herman and Verman, derived from no particular prototype, Mr. Winter thinks. “Quite a few of us had sort of a retainer or two,” he explained. “For a long time I had one called Black Diamond. He was two-headed.” Augments It Reluctantly Reluctantly, Mr. Winter augmented this. He preferred to speak of district leaders’ patronage. “His head went up like this, and then about half-way back it took a anew start and bumped like this. Like two mountain ranges.” Mr. Tarkington was older than Mr. Winter. But they lived on the same street, and Mr. Winter recalled that the rich sources of amusement for the present generation of rapscallions were denied them in quiettoned Indianapolis. Life was simpler then. \ . . “ ‘What did you put in the medicine?’ Sam insisted. And probably it was just as well that, though Mrs. Schofield could see her son, the distance was too great for her to hear him. ‘Oh, nothin’, Penrod replied. Nothin’ but a little good ole mud.’ ” They're Still Pals The old cameraderie of Mr. Tarkington and Mr. Winter has stayed robust through the years. Each summer they got together at the Tarkington home in Maine. The winters Mr. Tarkington spends in the Indianapolis that he never could be prevailed upon to forsake. Mr. Winter, long and prominently a New Yorker, likes now to stir up a mixture as unpalatable for machine politicians as Penrod liked to stir the mud cure-all.

Middle Aged Get ‘New Deal’ in Federal Jobs

Limit Is Raised to Give Work to Applicants Over 40. Persons of middle age are to receive a "new deal” in applying for jobs under the civil service commission it was learned today. Due to the difficulty of older persons in finding employment, regulations recently passed by the commission are to give special consideration to applicants between the ages of forty and fifty-three. In the examinations for positions j of stenographers and typists soon to be held, no applications will be considered from persons under forty. The closing date on these two classifications is Nov. 30. The salaries range from 51.260 to $1,620 a year. The aeg limit on the positions of teachers of home economics in senior and junior high schools has been extended to fifty-three years. These positions pay salaries ranging from $1,620 to $2,000. The closing date for applications is Dec. 1. The minimum age limit for teachers in junior high schools formerly was thirty. This has been raised, however, to forty in orde rto accomo. date more persons of middle age.

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2TSGDR Trror BY BRUCE CAJTON A RED-HEADED Irish sailor jumped ship in a sun-baked Mexican town late in the eighteenth century, married a darkhaired senorita, and then sailed away a few years later. He left her with a red-headed son and memories of a roistering husband who sang Gaelic love songs beneath Latin windows and fought perversely with his fists instead of with knives. And in 1810 this son—whose name, John O'Brien, had been changed to Juan Obrigon—sought to better the family fortunes by attaching himself to the train of a Spanish inspector-general and making a trip by mule-back from the tip of Lower California to the town of Monterey, in what is now the state of California. The story of all this is told in “The Juorney of the Flame,” by Antonio de Fierro Blanco, who got it from Juan Obrigon’s lips when this red-haired Mexican, celebrating his 102d birthday, told the tale of his life. It has been translated by Walter de Steiguer, and whether it be chiefly fact or chiefly fiction, it is a vastly interesting book. Its picture of the proud and violent life of the Californias in 1800 is unforgettable. If you amounted to anything you wore two knives and never hesitated to use them. The more you hated a man, the more polite you were to him. You knew that the only food which gave strength was bull’s flesh, the tougher the better. Juan Obrigon himself was quite a lad, and his trip was a great one. He rode a mule that chewed tobacco; he routed hostile Indians by setting the grass on fire. He was nicknamed “The Flame.” He found pearls in the eye-sockets of fossil skeletons in a snake-haunted cave. The book is as entertaining and as slyly humorous as anything you are likely to read in a long time. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, it sells for $3.

RESTRICTIONS END ON FOUR HIGHWAYS Roads 10, 56, 61 and 130 Fully Opened. Traffic restrictions on four state roads were lifted and one detour abolished this week, it was announced by state highway commission officials today. One new detour was placed on Road 136. east from the junction with Road 43, four miles over good gravel. Motorists are asked to drive carefully over new pavement on Road 43 south of Cloverdale where new shoulders are being constructed. Detours lifted were on Road 10, east fro mthe Illinois line; Road 12, east of Michigan City; Road 56, between Road 61 and Jasper, and Road 130, between Valparaiso and Wheeler. Erosion has destroyed 20.000.000 acres of farm land in the United States alone.

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Newsreel Shows Many Exciting World Events

Rebellion in Cuba; Plane Crashes; Football Game, Are Seen. First pictures of the bloody rebellion in Cuba in which the ABC forces attempted to wrest the reins of government from President Grau San Martin, are to be seen in the current issue of The Times-Uni-versal Newsreel. Graham McNamee, noted radio announcer and the screen’s Talking Reporter, vividly describes this and the other important events in the reel. Atares Fortress, rebel stronghold, is seen being subjected to heavy fire by the government’s troops, who later seize it and capture many prisoners. An unusual scene shows a court-martial in session, trying several rebels who may have death sentences imposed on them. Other outstanding news events reported by McNamee include thrilling scenes in New York City as Columbia defeated the Navy 14 to 7, in one of the season’s most surprising football upsets; views at Arlington cemetery as President Roosevelt lays a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier on Armistice day; views in Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn, N. Y., showing how seven persons were killed in airplane crashes; amazing scenes in Rome, Italy, as 5,240 are married in a mass ceremony; unusual views at West Point, Neb., where 70,000 see a national husking bee; anew sub-cloud car that is lowered from a blimp for observation purposes being tested at Langley Field. Va„ and A1 Smith expressing his pleasure at the repeal of the eighteenth amendment while the first huge shipment of gin is transported in America under government supervision. NEW LEADER HONORED BY FUNERAL DIRECTORS Dinner Given for Bert S. Gadd, Head of National Association. Bert S. Gadd, recently elected president of the National Association of Funeral Directors, was honored at a dinner held last night by S the Marion county association in I the Marott. More than 175 persons ! attended. Guests included Harry J. j Gilligan. Cincinnati, national secl retary, and H. A. Flynn, Chesterton. state president.

Upper left: Penrod, Sam and the good ol’ revolaver. “I can’t pull the trigger. She won’t pull.” Upper right: Keyes Winter. Lower left: ‘“Bing! Bing!’ shouted Sam, levelling his gun at the cage, while Herman and Verman hammered upon it, and Gipsy cursed the boys, the world, and the day he was born.”

PROBE VANDALISM IN DYERS’ DISPUTE Offensive Odor at Store Is Investigated. Police today were investigating reports of an outbreak of vandalism in connection with a suspected cleaners’ racket. A. Poulos, proprietor of the Ohio Cleaners, 45 West Ohio street, reported that after a man stayed on the balcony of the shop yesterday while his clothing was being pressed, a white powder was found on the balcony floor. The powder gave off an offensive odor. Mr. Poulos said iie had been approached recently in regard to joining a cleaners’ and dyers’ society, but had refused. Officers were seeking to determine if there is any connection between the two incidents. The suspect was described as being about 28, 5 feet 6 inches, and weighing 140 pounds. He wore a ragged gray suit and light cap, both very dirty.

Bad Lands Mexican Narcotic Grown Here, Suspect Ciaims. POLICE seized a large quantity of marijuana, a narcotic popular in Mexico, in a raid at the home of Fred Flowers, 27, of 820 South Mount street, last night. Flowers, held on vagrancy charges under high bond, said he had harvested the plant in the bottom lands here, where it- grows wild, for his own use. Police said the narcotic, used in cigaret form, causes rapid and permanent damage to brain cells after a short period of addiction. AIR PRESSURE SHOWN Tudor Hall Science Students Witness Experiments. Experiments in air pressure were to be made at 9:30 this morning at Children's Museum, for members of the general science class of Tudor Hall. Miss Emily Rood, science teacher at the school, was to conduct the class. At 10:30 bird imitations were to be given by Miss Helen Coffey for the general children’s hour, to which all children were invited. Pickpockets Get Purse Ben Masten, 46 North Bosart avenue, was robbed by pickpockets of a purse containing SBO cash and several checks belonging to the Ham ill o n-Harris Company, by which he is employed, he notified police yesterday.

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AUTO ACCIDENTS CAUSE INJURIES TO PERSONS Motorist Is Arrested on Drunkenness Charge After Crash. Four persons incurred injuries in traffic accidents last night and early today. Ed Miller, 31, of 932 Hervey street, suffered a cut lip when his automobile struck a safety zone guard at Arsenal avenue and Michigan street. He was treated at city hospital and taken home. Alvin Burton, 22, of 1318 Colorado street, suffered a scalp wound when the car in which he was riding crashed into a parked car in the 500 block. North Gray street. Morris Henry. 31, of 4502 East Seventeenth street, driver of the car, was arrested on a drunkenness charge and failure to have a driver’s license. Morris Zimmerman, 51, of 614 East Twenty-ninth street, suffered chest injuries in an auto collision at Tenth street and Capitol avenue. He was treated by a physician and went home. Ernest Griffin. Negro, 69. of 2810 Highland place, suffered head lacerations when he was struck by a car driven by Gordan Barker, 37. of 3318 Graceland avenue. Griffin was taken to the city hospital. Negro Slashed in Fight Joseph Bush, 19. Negro, of 327 West Twelfth street, was held on vagrancy charges by police after he reported he was cut on the head during an argument with a stranger at the Hod Carriers’ hall, 442 North Senate avenue, last night. He was treated at city hospital.

News of the Week Crime Tops the List But Banking and Political News Keep the Mad Pace in the Daily Whirl.

BY TRISTAM COFFIN Times Staff Writer STARTLING crime news kept pace with banking exposures here and significant international and state political maneuvers during the last week. Indianapolis citizens read in the Times the revelation of a purported plot to bomb the county jail’s gunner cage and free the alleged slayers of police Sergeant Lester Jones. The brother of a suspect and a woman

are being held. The elusive John Dillinger, leader of Indiana’s feared “terror mob,” escaped a combined force of Chicago and Indiana state police by reversing his car and fleeing amid a hail of bullets. Meyer-Kiser bank probings reached a peak for the week yesterday when an audit filed in circuit court charged false swearing to statements by former bank officials. Handsome Paul McNutt, intellectual politician-governor, gained a double victory as his candidate, Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, was named Democratic state chairman following the resignation of dissenting R. Earl Peters, and a poll of state legislators showed that the McNutt grip was still firm. Mr. Peters cleared the political waters by announcing definitely his candidacy for United States senator, backed by politicalgeneral Jim Farley. The resignation of Treasury Secretary William H. Woodin and the appointment of Henry Morgenthau Jr„ New York protege of the President, as acting secretary, placed the monetary policy directly under the wing of the President. Political news reached a stirring climax as the White House announced the official recognition of Soviet Russia following a series of conferences this week between Maxim Litvinoff, nee Finklestein,

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Mrs. Will H. Adams Mrs. Will H. Adams is in charge of preparations for the visit of Miss Mary E. Moore so the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions of New York. Miss Moore will address a combined meeting of Presbyterian men. women and young people at the Second Presbyterian church, Vermont and Pennsylvania streets, tonight. STATE LEGISLATOR IS TAKENBY DEATH South Bend Hotel Manager Is Stricken. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Nov. 18.—Heart attack proved fatal here last night to Charles J. Allardt, state representative and local hotel manager. Mr. Allardt. a Democrat, was serving his second term in the legislature. •

Soviet envoy, and President Roosevelt and Cordell Hull. Europe’s war thunder rumbled faintly as reverberations of the sweeping victory of plumpish Adolf Hitler, zealous German dictator. Thousands of ballots cast out, the Germans voted overwhelmingly to support Herr Hitler’s international policy. What! Again? Alarm at Jail Sounds Falsely Third Time. TJOLICE officials today reminded Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner of th? old fable of the boy shepherd, who cried “wolf” too many times, as a result of another false alarm from the jail, the third in several days. Workmen changing wiring in the jail accidentally set off th? alarm last night, and a small army of police officers surrounded the jail, fearing the long expected jail break had taken place. The alarm button was installed when first plot of five men accused in the slaying of Police Sergeant Lester Jones to escape was bared.

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COURT BATTLE MAY BE WAGED ON SCHOOL TAX Property Owners’ Group of Realty Board Opposes 99-Cent Rate. The property owners’ division of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board may appeal to the courts to reduce the 99-cent tax rate approved for the Indianapolis school city by the state board of tax commissioners. The tax board approved the rate yesterday. It is believed that the board also will approve the civil city's tax rate of $1.31. Drop Reduction Theory Until yesterday, the tax commissioners had considered a 4-cent cut in the school city's rate. “A study of the situation.” according to Gaylord S. Morton, member of the board, resulted in abandonment of the cut.” The realty board’s division had urged that the school city reduce its levy $324,000 by using in the present fiscal year $324,000 that will come to it from the state in July. A. B- Good, school business director, opposed the plan, contending it would work a hardship on the school city during the following year. Sees 51.50 Cut Ignored “I do not know what form the case will take,” said Lawrence G. Holmes, secretary of the realty board, in commenting on possibility of an appeal from the state tax board's approval of the rate. “The decision of the state tax board merely confirms the belief that non? of our tax officials intends to observe the $1.50 tax law in spirit or purpose,” said Mr. Holmes. Mr. Good said the state board’s action would prevent the necessity of the school board shortening the ensuing term or further cuts in salaries. MARTINSVILLE GIRL IS KILLED. TWO INJURED Fifteen on Way to Game When Truck Overturns. By Times Special WASHINGTON. Ind., Nov. 18Miss Catherine Watson, Martinsville high school pupil, was killed, and two boys injured, when a truck carrying pupils here from Martinsville for a basketball game plunged from a dead-end road into a field south of Bicknell yesterday. Maurice Self, truck driver, and Jack Burns, received minor injuries, while twelve other pupils in the truck were shaken and bruised. Miss Watson was pinned beneath the truck when it She was removed shortly before the truck caught fire and died in the hospital here. 2 CENTS ADDED TO BUS FARE AT LOGANSPORT I Commission Grants Increase on Showing of Loss. | The Logansport City Transit Company was authorized to increase its i fares from 5 cents to 7 cents cash or four tickets for 25 cents by the public service commission yesterday. Last August the company was forced to reduce its bus fares from 10 cents to 5 cents, but it showed it had operated at a loss since then. Bowman Elder, Indiana railroad receiver, was authorized to discontinue bus service between Indianapolis and Ingalls. The commission approved a $15,000 bond issue for improving the Ligonier waterworks system.

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