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1,183,267 JOBS NICE BUSINESS, SAYSHOPKINS Al Smith’s Jibes Answered in Figures by Civil Works Chief. ‘GRUDGE NURSING’ HIT Slash in Coal and Freight Rates Made to Aid Relief Work. By I nitrr] Press WASHINGTON, Dec. I.— Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administra tor, replied to criticism of the unemployment aid program by Alfred E. Smith this afternoon by announcing that on Nov. 25 a total of 1.183.267 jobless had found work in forty-four states under the civil works setup. These re-employment figures, Mr. Hopkins said, represented the first week of activity of the civil works administration. Mr. Hopkins said his figures were taken from reports compiled Nov. 25 and added he believed the total of all states today probably would reach 2,000.000. Referring to Mr. Smith's criticism, Mr. Hopkins said. "If putting 4.000.000 men to work puts me in the grapefruit business, Id be delighted to be in it.” At the same time. Mr. Hopkins announced that anthracite and bituminous coal operators and the nation's railroads had agreed to a substantial reduction in the cost of their services and products for relief purposes. Coal Prices Cut The coal operators, he said, have agreed to furnish coal for the unemployed through the federal surplus relief corporation at substantial price reductions. Anthracite operators have agreed to a reduction of 70 cents a ton, Mr. Hopkins announced, and the bituminous operators to a reduction of 10 per cent from the NRA code price. The reductions are effective today. The railroad agreement provides for the movement at reduced freignt rates for surplus commodities transported for the relief corporation. Freight Rates Reduced The eastern lines have agreed to a reduction of 25 per cent on all merchandise other than coal and coke and a reduction of 20 per cent for coal and coke, with a minimum charge of sls per car for road haul service. The western and southeastern roads, subject to federal land grant or bond-air reductions, already have agreed to cuts of from 35 to 40 per cent below commercial rates under these laws. The reductions, Mr. Hopkins said, will result in large savings in transportation costs while the coal price reduction will make just that much more available for the purchase of fuel this winter. About 8.000,000 tons of bituminous and 2.000.000 tons of anthracite coal have been estimated as the requirements of the corporation. It will be distributed through local relief administrations. •Nourishing Grudge' Tickets will be issued to the needy specifying the time, grade and size of coal to be delivered and coal dealers have been asked through the National Retail Coal Association to deliver the coal at delivery cost. A stinging rebuke to Mr. Rmtih also came from Harold L. Ickes, public works administrator, who accused Mr. Smith of “nourishing a grudge as a result of disappointed ambitions.” "All I can say in reply is that it is impossible to satisfy any man who is nourishing a grudge as the result of disappointed ambitions." Mr. Ickes said. "Mr. Smith is permitting his resentment against the administration to run away with his judgment.” Mr Ickes refernj both to Mr. Smith's recent statement criticising President Rosevelt s monetary policies and to an attack today in the New Outlook magazine on ’he public works program. U. S. NEEDS DICTATOR. SAYS ENGLISH EDITOR Mussolini Intelligent. Hitler Is Not. He Adds. The United States needs a dictatorship for about six months, said R. D Blumenfeld. famed editor of the London Daily Express, before a Town Hall audience at English's today. In discussing the dictators in Italy and Germany, Mr. Blumenfeld dwelt at length on the intelligence of Mussolini and the unintelligence of Hitler. “The next war,” he said, "will be fought by gas and poison and when that happens civilization is done for.” Times Index Page BLACK HAWK 31 Bridge 29 Broun 22 Classified 29. 30 Comics 31 Crossword Puzzle 32 Curious World 'I j Editorial 22 Financial 23 Food Pages 24. 25 Hickman—Theaters 28 H inting 6 Radio 29 Sports 26, 27 Woman's Pages 18, 19

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 175

Washboard Blues —It’s a Song of Need

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RICHARD B. MELLON IS TAKEN BY DEATH Famed Industrial Leader Dies at Pittsburgh. By United Press PITTSBURGH. Dec. I.—Richard B. Mellon. 75. died at his home here today from pneumonia. He was a younger brother of Andrew’ W. Mellon, former secretary of the treasury. Mr. Mellon took little interest in politics, unlike Andrew W., but his prominence in the nation's industrial life w’as equal to that of his brother. He held directorships in hundreds of corporations, including the Aluminum Company of America, the Gulf Oil Corporation, the Union Trust of Pittsburgh, and the Mellon National bank. POWER CHIEF DEFIES MAYOR. KEEPS OFFICE Kendallville Officer Vaults Over Partition. Goes to Work. By United Pres* KENDALLVILLE. Ind.. Dec. I. Charles Davis retained his oipce as city superintendent of light and water today ip defiance of Mayor William C. Auman. The mayor declared the position vacant last night and keys to the office were confiscated by Police Chief Orrie Sawyer. Davis retaliated by vaulting over a low partition bordering the office. The superintendent said fie would not resign and would keep the office until removed by the city council. Members of the council w’ere re-ported-tv> favor Davis. ELEVATION COMMITTEE MEETING IS CHANGED Civic Qlub Group Convenes Tonight at 1102 Prospect Street. Meeting place of the track elevation committee of the South Side Civic Clubs, for tonight at 8. has been changed, it was announced today by waiter C. Rothermel, president of the club's central committee. Hitherto held at 1214 Prospect street, the meeting tonight will be held at Rottler's cafeteria. 1102 Prospect street. MRS. BROWN. NOTED LECTURER. IS INJURED Suffers Dislocation and Bruises in Fall Down Stairs. Mrs. Demarchus Brown. 251 South Audubon road, prominent club lecturer, today is in Methodist hospital recovering from injuries received in a fall down stairs at her home last night. Her right shoulder was dislocated and she suffered painful body bruises. j

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Is There a Santa Claus?

Night stalks *in the city. •' • ■ > : Weary laundry workers trudge-home. One .with .stooped shoulders shuffles listlessly on Wyoming street. • She’s washed a city : s duds and now gOes home to wash again, so that her four boys, John. James, Jack and Joe. may have clean clothes for the morrow's school day. John, James, Jack and Joe! Her rosary! The beads she counts in toil,' sacrifice. No husband to help! A paralyzed mother to keep in medicines, dainties, with the washing money. John, James, Jack and Joe! Sort of a musical ring in it, with somber tones beneath, of youth that doesn't quite understand why schoolmates sometimes look askance at their patched clothing, fraying pants. a a a a a a BUT they're more than mere names, for they're Clothe-a-Child bays waiting for someone to join The Indianapolis Times campaign and clothe them-for Christmas. “John! I don't know w’hat shirt you’re going to wear tomorrow to school,” and the Mother of Four raises her head in a mutter from her w’ashboard. “James, you’ll have to get those old hose of Grandma’s out for toCall Riley 5551—0 r write —and ask for the Clothe-a-Child editor of The Indianapolis Times. He will give you the name of a needy school child between the ages of 5 and 12 years. Each child has been checked for need by the social service department of the Indianapolis public schools and Christmas Clearing House. Community Fund relief agencies are providing the names of worthy children to be clothed. , • , The Times gives you the name of the child. You clothe the youngster—that's your Christmas, that’s the child $ Christmas, and that’s our Christmas.

morrow.. Jack. I’ll fix that shoe with paper so the w r et won’t come through. Joe!" and she calls loudly to her youngest. The sleepy boy nods. ■ • ■ Joey-boy, '.she pats his head, “you stay home with Grandma tomorrow until I get those trousers fixed.”

The scrub-board takes up its sing-song, "Rub : a-bub-dub.” First a pair of stockings—John’s, then James' ragged underwear, and now the soap rubs through the hole of jack's shirt, and then Joe's old sweater meets mother hands, shaped by the— John, James. Jack and Joe! And they wait, the four of them with hundreds of other boys and girls in need, for Hoosier hearts to open to warm them on the day of Him. •' • * , a RELIEF agencies of the Community Fund furnish the names of needy children. The Community fund agencies can not hope to make a special gift at Christmas time and make their funds spread over an entire year. Clubs, lodges, sororities, fraternities. employes of firms, and lonely men and women or those not so lonely are wanted to give John, James, Jack and Joe pride and comfort of cold and jibes. Call the Clothe-a-Child editor of The Times. Riley 5551, to get your boy or girl. The first list of donors follows; Prfliel Bell. Illinois and Market, three children. White Castle Svstem. four bors and trree ctrls. Senator and Mrs. Jacob Weiss, boy and cirl. Cynthia, (irl. A Good-hearted Lady. xirL Mrs. East-side, twin boys. A Lecturer, boy. STROKE CAUSES" DEATH City Man Found Dead in Garage by Daughter. Ham- Yorger, 62. of 139 South Elder street, was found dead in Lis garage this morning by his daughter, Mrs. Grace Byard. with whom he was living. Death was due to a stroke of apoplexy, it w’as reported. Mr. Yorger was for many years a machine shop foreman, but had retired due to ill health.

Rain probable tonight and tomorrow, with rising temperature.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933

Hoover, Angered, Fires New Blast at Gov. Rolph

Former President Strikes Back After Reminder of ‘Bonus Army.’ By United Press ‘ SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 1 Former President Herbert Hoover and Governor James Rolph Jr. were embroiled today in heated controversy over the San Jose lynchings and the dispatch of army troops against the bonus army in Washington. Hoover broke his long silence on public affairs by affixing his signature to a group statement which criticised Rolph's “laudatory” attitude in the lynchings of two kid-nap-slayers last Sunday. The statement intimated that Rolph could have prevented the mob action by dispatching state troops. It also considered the Governor's laudation of the lynching as a "humiliation and shame" to the state and asked the world to believe that most California citizens repudiated both the mob action and the Governor's approval. "If troops had been called out hundreds of innocent citizens might have been mowed down,” Rolph replied. "There was no shooting such as that which occurred near the White House during the bonus march trouble. Had I sent out troops there might have been considerable shooting and right near the vicinity of Mr, Hoover's home.” ”*he Hoover

TOUHY PAL HANGS SELF IN JAIL CELL Willie Sharkey, Freed in Hamm Case, Suicide. By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. I.—Willie Sharkey, one of the four Chicago gangsters acquitted here this week on charges of kidnaping William Hamm Jr., hanged himself in his jail cell today. The jailer found the body when he made his morning round to notify prisoners to be ready for breakfast. The announcement, made shortly after 7 a. m., said Sharkey had hanged himself between 5 and 6:30 a. m. The rotund gangster hanged himself with his necktie from the top rung of the cell where he had been held prisoner four months. He was to have been removed shortly to Chicago to stand trial on charges of kidnaping John Factor. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 38 10 a. m 46 7a. m 38 11 a. m 46 Ba. m 39 12 (nooni.. 48 9 a. m 42 1 p. m 48

residence is in Palo Alto, several miles from San Jose. Reference to the Hoover administration's part in the army evictions "Os the bonus army nettled the former president. The Governor was “grossly ignorant of the facts” in the bonus army incidents, the angered Hoover retorted in a public statement. “Not a single shot was fired, not a single person was injured by the troops called out in Washington in response to the appeal of the local authorities.” Hoover said. “The troops ended the bloodshed which was in progress through conflicts between rioters and the police. “The issue here is plain and not to be obscured by such misstatements. The Governor has been advocating lynch law.” Rolph had the last word to date when he issued a denial that he had advocated “lynch law.”

‘Old World’ in Our Own Backyard

OLD world habits and customs have left an indelible imprint on the cultural life of Indianapolis. Termed the "crossroads of the nation.” Indianapolis truly has been a melting pot for the peoples of all nations, English, Germans. Swiss. Poles. Russians. Greeks. Macedonians and Italians. Many bear witness to the religious freedom guaranteed by their adopted country, worshiping in

LIQUOR SALE ‘BY DRINK’ IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND CLUBS OF STATE PROPOSED

SKIDS GREASED FOR GREENLEE, INSIDERS’ SAY Split With McNutt Looms Over State Party Post, Is Hint. Approval of United States Senator Frederick Van Nuys is all that stands between the appointment of Keith L. Johns as secretary of the Democratic state committee, it was reported today. Mr. Johns is a former Marion newspaper man and now is a state department official. He is said to have been decided upon for the post by Governor Paul V. McNutt and Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, new state Democratic chairman. While the Governor and Dr. McCulloch are in Washington this week-end paying a SIO,OOO installment on the state organization's debt to the national committee, they are expected to ask Senator Van Nuys what he thinks of the Johns appointment. Political observers agree that if the senatorial o. k. is placed on Mr. Johns, his appointment will be made and Pleas Greenlee, the McNutt patronage chief, will be given a slap very detrimental to Mr. Greenlee's political prestige. Penham Is Greenlee Choice For Mr. Greenlee has picked James Penman, Brazil, for the state committee post. Democratic leaders who profess to be .closely in touch with the state political situation, see the beginning of the end of Mr. Greenlee as the Governor's first secretary, if Mr. Johns is chosen over Mr. Penman. There have been repeated reports that Mr. Greenlee would be "kicked upstairs” to a better paying state government post. The basis of this report is the charge that Mr. Greenlee has offended too many old line Democrats through tactless handling of his patronage powers. However, it was denied today in authoritative quarters that the skids are being greased for Mr. Greenlee and that Wayne Coy, second secretary, will • be elevated a step in the McNutt official family. Johns In Tax Office Nevertheless, it is agreed that if Mr. Johns, or, in fact, any one but Mr. Penman, is chosen committee secretary, it will be a distinct affront to Mr. Greenlee and a definite indication his prestige is waning. Mr. Johns has been doing publicity work for the state income tax department and enjoys the administration favor for this reason as well as for other qualifications to which his backers point. He was chairman of the Fifth district Young Men’s Democratic Club during the last campaign. Mr. Penman is Clay county Democratic chairman.

3.2 Many A Good Story, and the Judge Said ‘Fine.’

CHIVALRY proved costly to James H. McKinlye; 909 College avenue, when he appeared in municipal court J,oday to face charges of intoxication and carrying concealed weapons. McKinley protested he had had only three drinks of 3.2 beer and “met a red-haired man who asked me to take the revolver to a poolroom.” On his way, he told Judge Dewey Myers, he saw an intoxicated woman staggering through traffic on Massachusetts avenue. Bravely, he rescued the woman and led her into a nearby building, and then started to leave. Both McKinley and the woman were arrested, but the woman was freed because she was not in a public place when arrested. McKinley was fined $lO and costs and given a thirty-day jail term on the intoxication charge. Sentence of thirty days and SIOO and costs on the weapon charge was suspended. YEAR BOOK IS HONORED I. U. Publication. Arbutus, Gets High Rating. By United Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Dec. 1 The 1933 Arbutus of Indiana university has been awarded a firstclass honor rating in the annual yearbook contest it was announced here today. Preston Calvert, Michigan City, was editor, and Lamar Rensberger. Goshen, acting editor.

the solemn, colorful ritual of the churches of their nativity. Foremost among these groups who have contributed so much to the cultural life of Indianapolis are the Germans. Particularly have they fostered and cultivated a community interest in music. The Times will tell you about these groups in a series of stories written by Tristram Coffin, staff writer. The first will appear next week, based on the Germanic history of Indianapolis. Watch for it!

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RIPLEY COUNTY MAN IS SELECTED STATE CORN KING FOR 1933

By t nited Press LAFAYETTE Ind.. Dec I.—A. C. Brown, Ripley county farmer, was named 1933 Indiana corn king today by the Indiana Com Growers' Association. Brown won the annual five-acre corn club contest with an official yield of 141.3 bushels an acre. The championship yield was in No. 3 corn, containing 17.5 per cent moisture. Harold Pankop. Dekalb county, with a yield of 139.1 bushels an acre, was runner-up. He is a brother of Herman Pankop. state and national champion in the last two years.

SIO,OOO LOSS IN CITY BLAZE Three North Side Homes Damaged by Fire: Flames Spread. A second-alarm fire starting from sparks on a roof, early last night caused damage estimated at more than SIO,OOO to the home of August Routte, 1835 North Meridian street, and two adjoining houses. Loss at the Routte home was estimated at $5,000, a similar loss being sustained at the home of A. L. Terstegge, 1839 North Meridian street, and about S2OO damage to the home of Dr. W. S. Beck. 1831 North Meridian street. Starting at the Routte residence, the flames spread rapidly, mounting high in the sky and attracting a large group of spectators. Members of the Beck family are in Georgia for the winter. Little damage was caused at seven other fires this morning. Majority of them were roof fires and the loss was negligible. Largest loss was in the rear of the home of J. Jasper, 701 North California street, where the damage was $l5O. LIBERTY FIGHT LOST BY EARLEWYNEKOOP M Am Going to Die,’ Says Ailing Mother. By United Pres* CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Earle Wynekoop failed this afternoon in two attempts to win his freedom from jail on charges of murder in the death of his wife, Rheta. Action in two court proceedings naming the young husband of the beautiful slain musician was postponed by Judges Joseph B. -David and Jay Schiller to allow police further time to investigate the strange case. Earle was taken back to county jail, where his ill mother, Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop, is studying the Bible in preparation for her self-predicted death. “All the medical men in the world can not aid me now,” Dr. Wynekoop told jail doctors. “I know my ow r n case. I have diagnosed it myself and I know there is no recovery. It is a long, slow and tedious illness.” PLAGIARISM CHARGED BY EX-CITY WOMAN Roberta Yates Wins First Round in Paramount Film Suit. By Times Spreittl NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Roberta M. Yates, daughter of Mrs. Carrie M. Yates, of 720 East Fifty-second street, Indianapolis, today won the! first round in a plagiarism suit against Paramount Productions, j Inc., when Justice Bernard Shientag of New York supreme court denied a motion to dismiss her action, and set trial for April. Her suit charges the company! used her story without credit in j producing "Lady's Profession.” Paramount officials sajd they considered Miss Yates’ story, “Emma Cuts Loose.” but insisted their i story was written by Nina Wilcox Putnam. The plaintiff formerly lived in Indianapolis and is the wife of Scott Armstrong, formerly of Kokomo. Florists to Hold Meeting December meeting of the State Florists’ Association of Indiana will be held at 8 Tuesday night in the Smith & Young Company office, 229 West New York street. Preparation for meeting and exhibit of the American Carnation Society, Feb. 8 and 9, will be discussed at the meeting Tuesday, it w’as announced by Edward C. Grande, secretary.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

Hostelry Owners Make Plea for Open Bars Before Control Board. ASK BAN ON SCREENS Package Distribution Also Urged by Druggists’ Committee. Suggestions for a complete liquor control plan for Indiana were laid before the Governor’s advisory commission today by representatives of the , Indiana Ilotelmen’s Associa- ! tion. I The plan was drafted by Harry | J. Fawcett, manager of the French I Lick Springs hotel, which is owned and operated by Thomas Taggart, ; Democratic national committeeman I for Indiana. It would allow sale of liquor by the drink in bona fide hotels, clubs and restaurants of good repute. Both service and sale liars w’ould be allowed, but no curtains, screens or booths. Mr. Fawcett appeared personally before the commissioaers accompanied by Alfred Thornburgh, president of the Indiana Hotelmen's Association. and Andrew’ C. Weisburg, prominent hotelman from South Bend. No Screens Allowed The plan proposes that license to sell liquor both by the drink and package be granted to hotels of good repute, restaurants where total sales are at least 50 per cent food and clubs where meals are served. All must have been in business at least one year before Dec. 6, under the Fawcett plan. Package sales also w’ould be allowed in grocery and drug stores in business for one year before the repeal date. Service bars would be allowed and drinking also would be permitted at unscreened bars. Booths, curtains and other means of concealment j would not be approved, all drinking j to be done in plain view’. Low Taxes Urged Retail sales by the drink or bottle all must be on a cash basis under I the plan. Wholesalers and jobbers w’ould be unrestricted in regard to amount of sales to legitimate dealers, but they must not, either directly or indirectly, engage' in the retail business. Present beer licenses would be kept. License fees not to exceed those levied before prohibition could be charged, but tax should not be so high as to re-etablish bootlegging, the plan sets out. Violators of the law w’ouid lose their license and another could not be obtained for the same place within a period of at least tw r o years. Sales to minors, habitual drunkards and those unable to pay all w’ould be cause for license revocation. No sales should be made to those of “weak moral character” and disorderly houses. Heavy penalties w’ould be imposed upon bootleggers.' No ‘Drugstore Saloons' The organized restaurant men w’ere to present their views in the matter this afternoon. Representatives of both the wholesale and retail drug trade were heard before the hotel men. The delegation was composed of William H. Mooney Sr.. E. A. Ridgley, Gary; Frank McCullough, secretary of the national association; Al Fritz, secretary of the Indianapolis retailers; Edgar O'Hara of the state druggist licensing board, and G. Barrett Moxley of the national druggist institute. They would retain the present package sales and urged that restrictions be set up to prevent drugstores from becoming disguised saloons. The present law requires that a business must be established three vrars before a prescription whisky permit is procured. Temporary Rules Due Herbert Patrick, deputy attorneygeneral, and Paul Fry. state excise commissioner, sat with the commission. The Rev. John W Cavanaugh, South Bend, former president of Notre Dame. presided as chairman. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr., is commission secretary. Other members are Will H. Thompson, Indianapolis attorney; George O. Dix, Terre Haute attorney, and Alex Gordon, state chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Temporary rules are expected to be ready when the national ban is lifted Tuesday. The commission will continue to draft a permanent code for handling liquor sales. Meetings are all executive sessions from which the press is barred, it was decided today. UNSETTLED. POSSIBLE RAINJS FORECAST Mercury Should Rise Tomorrow, Says Armington. Unsettled weather conditions, with rain possible, was forecast for tonight and tomorrow by the United States weather bureau today. Temperatures tomorrow were expected to rise, climbing probably to the sixties, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist.