Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1933 — Page 11

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GRIM REALITY SPURS NAVAL BUILDING PUN Arms Parley Failure Makes National Defense of Vital Interest. U. S. FLEET UNDER RATIO Japanese Budget Provides for Record Military Expenditures. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srrippu-Howard Foreign Kditor . WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—Behind Secretary Swanson's demand for a navy second to none, observers here today discerned anew American policy based on grim realities and of vast import to the world at large. Briefly stated, this policy is for the United States to stick to its own front yard as nearly as possible, reduce its political obligations across the seas to the minimum, co-operate wherever it can to promote world peace, but to keep its powder dry. The breakdown of the world disarmament conference at Geneva, the collapse of the world peace machinery. and the naval programs of Japan and Great Britain designed to give these powers full treaty strength by 1936, are given as the chief reasons for the change of policy. The Philippine Islands may be granted independence in the near future as part of the new deal. Again, at Montevideo, secretary of state Hull is expected to restate the Monroe doctrine definitely to remove the implication that the United States intends to play lone policeman to protect the entire hemisphere down to Cape Horn. Weak Link In Claim Manuel Quezon, president, of the Philippine senate, will arrive in Washington this week at the head of anew independence delegation. Mr. Quezon objects to the present Hawes-Cutting act granting independence in ten years. The bill becomes void unless accepted by Jan. 17 and there is little hope of that. Not only are many leaders in Congress in favor of turning the islands loose almost immediately, but the President is believed to share the view that they constitute a weak link in the chain of our national defense and should be given a new' status at an early date. Senator Borah stated today that he would favor almost any bill in order to get ride of the islands. His general view is that we should retain no territories outside continental United States except where they are important to the national defense. Part of New Scheme The President's recent order bringing the Pacific fleet back into the Atlantic next spring is seen as part of the new scheme. Secretary Wanson’s demand for a treaty navy in his annual report to the President was considered inevitable. As he Himself pointed out, the American fleet is far behind the 5-5-3 ratio Assigned to Britain. America and Japan, and there are only two ways by which the disparity could be remedied. One is for Britain and Japan to disarm down to the American status; the other is for America to build up to Japan and Britain. As the former scheme has already proved a failure, the latter has become necessary', Japan Passes Budget Japan has passed its 1933-34 budget providing for the biggest peace-time military appropriations in her history, It calls for the expenditure of 935.000,000 yen, or $467,000,000 at par of exchangp. Os this the navy gets $244,000,000. more than half. This is all the more significant when it is recalled that the national w’ealth of Japan is only $50,000,000,000. a per capita wealth of only $865 as compared with the per capita wealth of $2,700 in this country. In 1928 the per capita income of the United States was $687. or about $3,000 per family. In 1928 more than 90 per cent of Japanese families had an income of less than S6OO a year. Japan, therefore, is obviously straining herself to the breaking point in an effort to build up her army and navy', while her w r ar party, now in the saddlp, has publicly served notice that she will not abide by the existing naval ratio after 1935.

WHAT! NO DRAMA? SO EXIT FOR SALLY RAND Fan Dancer Walks Out of Film Studio Result of Small Spoken Part. By / nitfrl Pr rrt HOLLYWOOD. Cal.. Dec. s—Sally Rand, fan dancer of the Chicago's A Century of Progress, walked out of a motion picture studio here because the movie role assigned to her did not permit her to display her abilities as a dramatic actress, it was announced today. Paramount officials said that she had left in a tyiff when she learned that the dancing role in which she had been cast carried only a few spoken lines. Officials intimated that It would be impossible to enlarge her part. FOX HUNT IS SLATED Farmers Seek Animals Destroying Poultry and Pigs. By Time* Special HUNTINGTON. Dec. s—Lancaster nd Royk Creek township farmers will meet here this week to organize a fox hunt, combining busineaa with pleasure. Numerous foxes have been attacking poultry and young pigs. More than two thousand sportsment from northern Indiana are expected to take part in the hunt.

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i Following is the first of three stories based on the cultural imprint old world customs have made on the community life of Indianapolis. Others will appear this week.) BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Times Staff Writer GLAMOROUS customs and enduring cultures have been contributed to Indianapolis, hailed as the “crossroads of a nation,” by peoples of all nations. English, German. Swiss. Poles. Russians. Greeks. Macedonians and Italians meet and mingle here in the melting pot of industry and commerce. Living quietly for the most part in a vast and hurrying city, they still observe many quaint and beautiful customs of their native lands. Festive days are marked by gay costumes and lively dances. Newcomers bear witness to the religious freedom of their adopted country by worshiping in the solemn. colorful ritual of the churches of their nativity. A census taken in 1930 reveals that the foreign born populations was 14,740, embracing some fifty nationalities. German life has so entwined itself in the soul of the city that it is definitely a fundamental part of community culture. Courageous. sturdy Germans came to this country in numbers shortly after the revolution. Countless tales of pathos and

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BY LOT WEDEMAR (Copyright. 1933. By The Tunes) EDITOR S NOTE: The narrative, “Black Hawk,” a thrilling story of life in Indiana. Is purely fiction and its leading characters exist only in the author's imagination. BUM SYNOPSIS Black Hawk, whose sign is a winged death head, demands evacuation of centra! Indiana. He has bombed the postoffice from an airplane. He has threatened the President He has attempted to blow up union station and one of his agents or Whisperers, kills himself whep thwarted. Robert Martyne. wealthy Indianapolis major of the military intelligence in the U. S. Army revert a. has been assigned to the cas*r. He is in lore with Ava Breen. Indianapolis society girl, who is betrothed to Lionel St. George, wealthy scientist, at her fathers insistence. Following the attack on the terminal. Bob and Police Lieutenant Quinnstin spend the night in the Claypool. Although the room is securely locked. Quinnstin is killed by a hatchet man In a hollow of the hatchet handle is a message from Black Hawk threatening to blow Indianapolis off the map unless every resident moves out. The Black Hawk indicates that he. toe. loves Ava Breen. An air patrol is formed to guard the citv A personal ad appears in newspapers, saving. 'Freedom s Torch Leads the Wav." Bob and Ava. on their way downtown, are kidnaped They are forced down a m- hole and find themselves in a tunn-' B ■ --ft ses Black Hawk's demand for surrr id; ~ Black Hawk turns on the water, washing them into White River.

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1. These merry gentlemen were 2. Program for one of the first mans hope to revive the old spirit the guests at a lobster dinner concerts ever given in Indianapo- of comradeship over steins of beer, given by “the orator of Pogue s Us 4 . The late John P. Frenzel, an Run to the rhumies of the Maennerchor” in the free drinking days 3 - The old drinking room at the outstanding leader in the progress of 1916. Maenngrchor, in which the Ger- of the Maennerchor.

hope could be told of the little bands as they settled and built up towns. For theirs was the solid instinct to settle and put their roots deep into a community. Aside from this grim pioneering spirit, the German culture, giving birth to such immortal names as Nietzche, Goethe, Wagner and Beethoven, is one of philosophy and beauty. When opera, symphony and chorus w'ere at a halcyon height in Indianapolis in those gay days before the city had emerged into a civilization of iron and machines. the Germans were the leaders of song. Old residents will remember joyfully the rollicking and friendly days of the beer gardens, the Lyra, the Liederkranz and the Maennerchor. B B U THE Germans here today have their panacea for a society grown ill of itself. “Give us back the beer garden, where the little

Bob and Ava are saved by a youth fishing from a flat boat. Mr. Breen disappears. Bob and Ava are lured into the Monument by Black Hawk. Bob stages a battle. CHAPTER TWELVE (Continued) In the half-light he could make out nothing about his antagonists, except that they were active and agile as cats, and apparently wrestlers more than boxers. As they fought he heard Ava’s voiiie in a cut-off scream, and the clang of an elevator door. One of Bob's assailants produced a knife, and Bob saw it just in time, ready to plunge into his chest. He leaped aside, stumbled, and felt himself rapidly descending. He had fallen through an open dor in the elevator shaft! CHAPTER THIRTEEN AS Bob felt himself falling, cold fear clutched his heart. Hundreds of feet above the ground, the chances of his living in a fall down the elevator shaft of the Monument were not worth considering. His battle tft block the domination of Black Hawk over central Indiana would fail, and Ava would be given into the power of a man she could not love. But. almost as soon as it began, Bob's fall was blocked. He landed.

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band played at night and the folks gathered around to talk much and drink little,” they say reminiscently. As far back as 1854, Adolf Schellschmidt (father of the present cello teacher), Edw'ard Longerich, Gottfried Recker and Nicholas Jose came here from Eupen in western Prussia. Music w'as a source of pleasure and companionship for them, so they started the Maennerchor. They sang folk songs and lieder songs and gave entertainments and theatricals on Sunday nights for friends. The Maennerchor developed into powerful musical organization of w’hich John P. Frenzel became the leader. Plays and concerts were given at the old Concordia hall on East Washington street and at the old Turners hall, Market and Ohio streets. The society became noted for its brilliant masked balls. Mr. Frenzel had the interests of the Maennerchor so much at heart that when he died recently, He left it a bequest of SIO,OOO. In its stately old building at 501

half on his-feet, on the flat roof of an elevator stopped at the floor below! He stumbled, and fell flat, but his descent was ended. The only re- ; maining problem, he found, when he ; had picked himself up and learned he had no broken bones, was to get out of the shaft. That was easier decided than accomplished. He heard the whirr of machinery, and knew r that Black Haw'k and his men were descending in another car. He w r as left alone in the skyscraper, and Ava probably was being carried off as hostage. Bob did not know the workings of Black Hawk's mind, however. A few moments later he managed to crawl up the elevator cable to the door through which he had fallen, and w’as safe on the balcony floor. He walked down two flights and ! the open elevator door attracted his attention, and he stepped inside after carefully making sure it was not another dead-drop. It w’as the car on w’hich he had landed. Then he pressed a button, and the car ! speedily brought him to the ground floor. When the elevator door slid open, Bob paused before stepping out into ithe light. His precaution was un-

North Illinois street, the Maennerchor is carrying on in much the same spirit in which it was initiated. B B B CLOSELY allied with the Turners, the old city band was organized in the 60's by Henry Hahn, Reinhold Mueller and Mr. Schellschmidt. It played for Governor Morton’s campaign and escorted 100 army companies to Camp Morton from the Union station during the stirring days of the Civil w’ar. The Chicago fire strangely enough, resulted in the organization of the first orchestra here. It was started to raise money for the Chicago sufferers and played in the old Washington hall, where the Indiana theater now is located. one Sunday night a week after the conflagration. Directed by Bernard Vogt, it w’as such a success that it played every Sunday night and incorporated as the Philharmonic Society of Indianapolis. The members played standard overtures and opera selections and at one time accompanied Wilhelmj, world

necessary. He heard, first of all, Ava's cry: “Bob! It it you?” BUB SHE came running to meet him and threw’ her arms around him. All the hairbreadth escapes of the last few’ hours were forgotten for the moment. Then, duty asserting itself. Bob drew himself away. “Where is he? What happened?” “He brought me down here and left me. He said I was to be his agent and learn from him everything about your secrets. Then he rushed out.” Then came the sound of banging on the door and Bob hurried to admit Sergeant Browm. “Black Hawk was here a minute ago!” Bob told him. “We just put a cordon around the whole Circle. If he’s still there, he'll never get away alive!” “He has several men with him, and tonight he’s dressed as an old man.” Ava put in. “And he let you both go?” demanded Brown incredulously,. “He thinks he has me in his power 1 and that I will work with him,” Ava ; replied. “ Bob got away by jumping down an elevator shaft!” “Only part way, Brown,” Bob explained, smiling—despite the se(Turn to Page Nineteen)

famed violinist, at the Park theater. Another German group started the Lyra society with a mixed chorus and an amateur orchestra. The Lyra orchestra developed into a strong symphony organization and gave beautiful concerts before large audiences of German society in the old Mozart hall. The Lyra, under the direction of such men as Emil Wulschner, Bloomenstein and Alexander Ernestinoff, gave comic operas, the Mikado and Ermina. a a a \ S the Lyra disbanded the Athenaeum (or then German House), arose under the guidance of Herman Lieber and William Haueisen. A mixed chorus of twenty-five voices, a sixty-five-piece orchestra, and choral societies were instituted. The German House beer garden became famous for its hospitality. From the working class and small merchants came the Zither, Leiderkranz and Harguari societies. Old members recall how at the end of a long arduous practice, beer flowed freely from a keg as reward. These societies also gave Sunday evening concerts. Droll stories are told centering around the name Mueller, almost as common to the Germans as Smith is to the English. Different Muellers were designated as Staircase Mueller. Watchmaker Mueller and Cheese Mueller. One night at a “commerce” 'stag party) a jovial fellow cried out that he could make the assembly say the same words together. He followed by saying; "Mueller has been arrested.” Immediately the crowd shouted, “Which Mueller?” The first May festival, a gay affair held in connection with the opening of Tomlinson hall in 1886, included the musical services of many Germans. In those days the beer garden, since pushed into oblivion by the speakeasy, was a gathering place for the whole family. The children had miniature mugs from which they drank mild beer. The bands played swinging tunes as the croivd visited and talked over politics, the social life. A beer garden at Noble and Market streets gave summer concerts, where people gathered to amuse themselves on warm nights. Germania park and Kroeckel's garden on South Meridian street were some of the best known. Now that beer has returned, the Germans, sighing for the past, hope for a renaissance of music and song in the city, *—— -'3 (Next—The Macedonians, Rumanians and Hungarians.)

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CONFUSION WIDESPREAD AS NATION AWAITS OFFICIAL PASSING OF PROHIBITION First Year’s Consumption of Hard Liquor Estimated in Neighborhood of 100,000,000 Gallons. NO FOREIGN SHIPMENTS FOR SALE Roosevelt Expected to Issue Proclamation Revoking Emergency Taxes After Repeal Is Effected. By Scripps-Hoirnrtt yrirspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Confusion is widespread as tha nation prepares for prohibition repeal this afternoon. Liquor laden vessels from foreign ports arrive hourly in American ports and freight car loads of spirits in Canada and Mexico await shipment across the frontier, while the importers who ordered it wrangle with government officials for permission to receive and market their consignments.

DRY LAW DOOM QUICKLY SEALED Prohibition Defeat Nearly Sets a Record for Ratification. By United rress WASHINGTON, Dec, s.—Repeal of prohibition, w'hich becomes a reality this afternoon, came within three days of setting a speed record for ratification of amendments to the United States Constitution. A joint resolution to repeal the eighteenth amendment was officially submitted to the states by congress on Feb. 20. Today—just nine months and sixteen days later —Pennsylvania, Ohio and Utah are holding the thirty-fourth, thirtyfive and thirty-sixth ratification conventions. Only the twelfth amendment, adopted in the early days of the republic to change the method of electing the President, w'as ratified more quickly. It was proposed to the states on Dec. 12, 1803, and w'as proclaimed in effect on Sept. 25, 1804. First Absolute Repeal The tw’enty-first, or prohibition repeal, amendment is the first amendment ever adopted absolutely repealing another section of the United States Constitution. All other amendments have modified or added to previous sections. The tw'enty-first amendment repeals the eighteenth amendment in its entirety. 45,549 Persons Die During the prohibition years from 1920 to 1932, 45,549 persons died from alcoholism, the census bureau reported today. The yearly death rate was as follows: Nine hundred in 1920, 1,611 in 1921, 2.467 in 1922, 3,148 in 1923, 3.153 in 1924, 3.694 in 1925, 4.109 in 1C26, 4.372 in 1927 4,627 in 1928, 4,339 in 1929, 4.158 in 1930, 3,926 in 1931 and 3,045 in 1932. Enforcement Kills 254 Prohibition enforcement cost the lives of more than 250 persons during the nearly fourteen years that the eighteenth amendment w r as in effect. Best available compilations, through 1932, showed that seventyninth investigators and officers and 175 civilians were killed in enforcement. SUIT ASKS SETTLEMENT OF POOR RELIEF BILLS Former Perry Township Trustee Files Demand for 54,000. Suit w’as filed yesterday in Marion Circuit court for $4,000 by Albert H. Grisler, former Perry tow’nship trustee, to settle poor relief claims in the tow'nship. Thirty-one merchants are aw'aitj ing payment for provisions and coal issued to the poor, but the tow'nship advisory board has refused to pay the claims which the board has authorized, Mr. Grisler said. Payment of debts due the merchants is a valid tow’nship obligation, he said. ANNUAL VV. C. T. U. INSTITUTE TOMORROW Nina Brigham Branch to Hold Session at President’s Home. Annual institute of the Nina Brigham W. C. T. U. will be held at 2 tomorrow at the home of the president, Mrs. Addie Lancaster, 1235 Brookside avenue. Mrs. L. E. Schultz, county president. will attend and present special music and a report on plans for the year. County directors of departments will present their work. A dinner will be served at 6. The Reverend Ella Kroft will be the principal speaker on the night program. Mrs. Lancaster will preside. WATERS IS RE-ELECTED BY CITY ASTRONOMERS j Amateur Society Names Officers at Annual Election Here. Samuel S. Waters will continue i another year as president of the Indianapolis Amateur Astronomers’ | Association, as result of election held by the club. j Other officers named were: Clark B. Hicks, vice-president; V. E. i Maier, secretary-librarian, and 1 Charles Herman, treasurer,

Rut no foreign shipments under the new quotas are being permitted to clear for sale in this country. A whole train-load of wine arrived in New'ark yesterday, while half of the prospective dealers in New York City's metropolitan area are still dickering for licenses from local control boards. The house ways and means committee is in session this morning, taking up the report of a subcommittee w’hich has been considering liquor tax problems for two months. The full committee will spend most of the month deciding what taxes should be recommended to congress early in JanuaryPresident Roosevelt, back at the White House after his vacation in Warm Springs, is expected, soon after repeal is effected, to issue a proclamation revoking the emergency taxes on dividends, capital stock and gasoline. These taxes were enacted by congress to provide $220,000,000 annually to pay interest on and amortize the $3,300,000,000 public works program. High Tax Is Necessary A tax of approximately $2.20 a gallon on hard liquor will be necessary to take the place of the emergency levies, since it is estimated officially that the first year’s consumption will be in the neighborhood of 100,000,000 gallons. The newly-created federal alcohol control administration, of which the President's friend, Joseph H. Choate Jr., is the managing director, can not possibly have its control machinery functioning efficiently by today. Codes have been hurriedly established for the distillers and importers of liquor, but very few of the Faca regulations can be in actual operation by today. This means that those engaged in the liquor trade do not know today under w’hat restrictions they will market their products tomorrow’. Imports Provide Problem In the haste of the last few W’eeks, the government has not had time to prescribe a code for the wholesalers and rectifiers of liquor. A hearing on this code was scheduled to start today. Meanwhile the wholesalers and rectifiers, as W’ell as the distillers and importers, do not know’ w’hat rules they will have to observe in regard to such a simple matter as labeling their goods. One of the most perplexing problems is that of importations. With the coast guard w’atching large fleets of rum runners off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, importers and would-be importers, numbering more than 1,200, are seeking quotas. Permission has been asked to import more than 12,000,000 gallons of liquor and wine, more than a whole year's supply of imports on a preVolstead basis. Old Figures Valuable The best indicator as to what quotas w’ill be allotted to foreign countries is the compilation made by the United States tariff commission of imports from 1910 to 1914 inclusive. For that five-year period, the average annual imports of brandy were 569.542 proof gallons, of which 465,812 came from France. The average for cordials and liqueurs was 541,003 gallons, of which 200,719 came from France, and 135,210 from Italy. The average for gin was 1,028,366, of which 689,822 came from the United Kingdom and 295,500 came from the Netherlands. The average for whisky was 1,368,107 gallons, of which 986,204 came from the United Kingdom and 372,945 from Canada. The average for champagne was 288.293, of which 257,442 came from France. The average for still wines in casks was 5,085,007 gallons, of which 2.416,917 came from Italy and 1,085,168 from Spain. VETERAN, 80, FETED BY LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS T. M. Beggs, Retired Ten Year* Ago, Is Honored at Party. Eightieth birthday of J. M. Beggs, retired engineer, was celebrated by local No. 546, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, with a party last night at Mr. Beggs’ home, 1145 Dawson street. Mr. Beggs, who has lived in Indianapolis all his life, began his career in 1870 on the old I. C. L. railroad as a track walker. He was retired as an engineer by the Big Four in 1923. UTLEY IN AIR SERMON Girl Evangelist to Preaeh at Cadle Tabernacle Again Tonight. “The Wings of Deliverance” was the subject this morning of the message of Uldine Utley, girl evangelist at the broadcast of the Cadle Tabernacle Family Prayer Period over station WKBF at 6:30. Last night, Miss Utley preached on “The Saints of Caesar’s Household.’’ She brings a message tonight on “Six Brothers Minus One."