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HUNDREDS SEE BISHOP’S BODY BORNE TO BIER Long Lines of Mourners Witness Solemn Procession. HIGH OFFICIALS HERE Funeral for the Most Rev. Joseph Chartranc! to Be Tomorrow. To the mournful chant of the "Miserere,” from the fiftieth psalm, the body of Bishop Joseph Chartrand was borne from the rectory, 1347 North Meridian street, into the cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul at 8 a. m. today. Several hundred students from the Cathedral grade school and the Cathedral high school formed a guard of honor along the half block from the rectory to the cathedral. The procession, led by a crossbparer. flanked by two acolytes, carrying long candles. passed through a crowd estimated at more than a thousand people. The Schola Cantorum of the cathedral, led by Humbert Pagani, walked before the plain, black casket chanting the solemn dirge for the dead. The Most Rev. Joseph Elmer Ritter. administrator of the diocese, in white mitre and gray and silver vestments, walked behind the casket with his deacon and sub-deacon, wearing the same gray requiem vestments. ' ‘ Prayer Vigil Starts at 8 Sisters of Charity in their blue habits with stiffly starched, white headdresses bowed their heads in sorrow as the body of the great prelate w r as carried into the church where a pontifical requiem high mass was sung by Bishop Ritter. Others officiating at the requiem mass today were the Rev. J. B. Tieman, arch priest; the Rev. George Dunn, deacon; the Rev. Henry Hermann, sub-deacon and the Rev. James Hickey, master of ceremonies. The Rt. Rev. Joseph E. Hamill P. A., chancellor of the diocese. was in the Sanctuary As priests and parishioners of the Indianapolis diocese prepared for a long vigil of prayer in the cathedral beginning at 8 p. m. tonight and continuing until 5 a. m. Wednesday morning, the city prepared to act as host to 600 visiting prelates and priests from all parts of the country here to attend the funeral at 10 a m. tomorrow. Apostolic Delegate Here The body of Bishop Chartrand will lie in state in the cathedral while members of the Knights of Columbus, led by the Rev. August Fussenegger will start the long vigil of prayer tonight. Each hour following until 5 a. m. a succession of priests will ascend to the pulpit and lead in prayers for the dead until the first of the morning masses is offered. Members of the Daughters of Isabella will be among the many groups in the church, who will assemble to pray for the dead bishop tonight. Members of the St. Agnes parochial school alumni association will assemble at the cathedral at 8 p. m. tonight for "an hour of adoration" in memory of Bishop Chartrand. Archbishop Amlelo Giovanni Cicognani, apostolic delegate to the United States from the Vatican, and Archbishop John McNicholas, Cincinnati. were to arrive in Indianapolis late this afternoon. Bishop James H. Ryan, rector of the Catholic university at Washington, arrived this morning. Five Prelates Selected The apostolic delegate will celebrate the pontifical requiem high mass for Bishop Chartrand. and Archbishop McNicholas will deliver the funeral sermon. At the cathedral the visit of the apostolic delegate was regarded as a signal honor and a personal tribute to the late Bishop Chartrand. The five prelates who will administer the final absolutions at the bier of Bishop Chartrand were announced as Archbishop Cicognani. the Most Rev. John F. Noll D. D., bishop of Ft. Wayne; the Most Rev. Emmanuel B Ledvina D. D.. bishop of Corpus Christi; the Most Rev. Alphonse J. Smith D. D.. bishop of Nashville, Tenn., and Bishop Ritter. Pallbearers at the funeral will be Clarence Sweeney. Walter Shields. W. L. O'Connor. Clayton Potts. Dr. Alan L. Sparks and Dr. John A Spalding. Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia sent the following telegram: ‘ Your esteemed telegram has just been received bearing the sad news of Bishop Chartrand s death, which is a great shock to me. Please accept for yourself, the other members of the Indianapolis clergy and its laitv my heartfelt sympathy in so great a loss I regret my inability to attend the funeral much as I would like to do so." Among the hundred* of telegrams and cablegrams which have poured into the cathedral since the death of the prelate was one from Martin H. Carmodv, supreihe knight of the Knights of Columbus, expressing grief at the death of Bishop Chartrand. BUSINESS RECESSION BELIEVED FINISHED Department of Commerce Sees Better Conditions Due. Bv I nitsd rrc*n WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. The department of commerce said todav weekly business indicators suggest that the business recession which has been in progress since July may have come to an end during November,

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LINDBERGHS FLYING OVER ORINOCO RIVER ON HOMEWARD TRIP

By I nitril Prra, NEW YORK. Dec. 12.—At 11:30 a m. i Indianapolis timet Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh advised the Pan-American Airways here that they were flying over the mouth of the Orinoco river in Venezuela. The weather was described byLindbergh as eight-tenths overcast." with visibility ‘‘unlimited.” Rain squalls were being encountered.

TWO ROBBERS TORTURE BOY Bandits Twist City Youth’s Arms in Effort to Find Money. Police today sought two robbers who tortured Alfred 'Hoover, 14, of 1279 Eugene stret, in a vain effort last night to force him to disclose the hiding place of his father's money. The youth's parents. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Hoover, were away from home and the youth was alone when he heard a knock at the door, he told police. Two men at the door asked if his parents were there, and then shoved their way inside, demanding to know w'here the father kept his money. The men apparently knew Mr. Hoover was paid yesterday. After searching the house for some time, the boy said, the men began torturing him by twisting his arms and pinching bum hut left when he convinced them his father carried the money with him. OWNIE BUSH SIGNS TO MANAGE MILLERS Resigns as Reds Pilot; Takes Old A. A. Post. Hi/ 7 imrx Sprcifll CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—Owni’e Bush of Indianapolis today resigned as manager of the Cincinnati Reds and accepted a contract to return to Minneapolis as pilot of the Millers, the team he carried to.the American Association championship in 1932.

‘Write Me as One That Loves His Fellow-Men, ’ Said Abou Ben Adhem

C*HE is a depression baby. O She was born as bears scattered the bulls in the first stock market crash in 1928. Her Dad was ill at the time, and out of a job. He was a carpenter m the $8 to sl2 war days. A city hospital maternity ward was her first playground. Her layette was a charity gift. She teethed on the rickety iron bed that served for her crib and a place to sleep for her parents.

The leftover, discarded clothing of other homes has covered her for five Christmases. For almost four years her father hunted work. He didn't find it. He died hunting it. Pneumonia, caused from exposure, the doctors told her mother. Relief agencies dressed her, for

IF she has been warm, R 4s because of relief agencies of the Community Fund. If she has been cold, it is because the agencies can not hope to keep every child breathing warmth when parents are prideful Her mother is proud. She hates to ask for things.

But she set her heart on one thing and wrote it thus to GlQther a-Child of The Indianapolis Times: "My girl has never had anything but clothing given her. She goes to school for the first time in January. She s rags now. Won't you get her some little something—if it's only a dress. I'd like her to look like other children." January. 1934. is around the corner. A child is to cross a corner in her life. And around other corners, .some mayhaps not so far from your house, are other depression babies—Clothe-a-Child nas many of them—who will go to school in the garb of hand-me-downs, pick-ups and salvage counter coats. They know these frigid days. They’ve felt them since, .birth. Used to it! Yes! Used to being a 'depression baby." But you can lift all for them on this, a happier Christmas. Clothe-a-Child points the way. You can have the name of h child and go into his or her home. You can see the need. You will know the worth of your gift in the smiles it brings. Or if you can't dress the child

NEW YORK. Dec. 12. Not until the repeal of prohibition did I realize how I loved to hate that law and the people who were behind it. and the present moment finds me with almost a week's accumulation of the mast cordial ill-will and no really worthy proposition or group to use it on. The money-changers might do for the period of the emergency until a really first-class substitute comes along, but the money-changers are not quite "varsity” after all. The boys in Wall Street did no worse than they should have been expected to do under the circumstances, considering that larceny is an important ingredient in the human race, and my annoyance at them is tempered or seasoned, or some such word, by my knowledge that they would have been honest if the people had made them be The same objection applies to Tammany, for here again the boys have yielded only to a popular instinct to steal as much as the citizens would let them get away with. I am sure I do not exaggerate the popularity of the larcenous instinct. It may be gauged by the vigilance of one and all to nail down or guard their rights and possessions by legal documents or personal watchfulness. The insurance and mortgage companies deal with more people of all classes than any other agencies and a reading of the contracts by which they do business with their clients will prove that, from long experience with people, they have learned to assume that people will cheat them if they can. I am not sure that they do not. in some cases, beat the people to the punch with little "standard” clauses by means of which they are able to prove, when the showdown comes, that the plaintiff s claim was subject to an obscure exception and that whicji he conceives to

The Indianapolis Times Unsettled, probably light snow tonight and tomorrow, with lowest temperature tonight about 19; rising temperature Wednesday.

— -‘FAIR ENOUGH” By Westbrook Pegler Friends Are All Right —But Hates Are Lots More Fun

LOW TAXES ON LIQUOR URGED BY ROOSEVELT President Takes Determined Stand in War on Bootleggers. LEADERS ARE CHEERED Fight Renewed in Congress to Slash Proposed $2.60 Levy. By t nil/d Pns.i WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—President Roosevelt's stand for liquor taxes low enough to wipe out the bootlegger today gave congressional leaders the incentive they needed to discard the $2.60 whisky levy proposed by the administration's special alcohol control committee. A majority of members of the house ways and means committee and the senate financing committee favor a tax far below that recommended. Reluctance to break with the administration on the issue, however, has been apparent. One group has proposed -continuance of the present sl.lO excise tax until the bootleg industry is exterminated. Now with the President indicating his willingness to have congress tackle the liquor tax problem in its own way, the various anti-bootleg groups favoring taxes of $2 or under were free to exert themselves. The administration’s views on the liquor tax problem were up for con- | sideration today at a joint hearing of Jie senate and house committees on such legislation. Joseph Choate, head of the federal alcohol control administration, and Edward G Lowry, treasury legal expert, were designated to present them. Mr. Lowry, member of the special alcohol control committee, is said to have drafted the committee’s recommendations for a $2.60 levy, tariff bargaining policy on imports and revenue sharing with states which refrain from gallonage taxes. It was reported that Mr. Lowry would propose a $2.20 levy in view of the congressional opposition which has developed to the higher tax.

the last five years, out of the worn garments from other homes. The Red Cross put the neat dresses sewn by volunteer workers on her. It was the nearest she ever came to having a "store dress.” She has never worn a garment purchased by her parents.

yourself then the Times will do it for you, if you send a check. You’ll be given the child's name and address after he or she is clothed. You can go to the child on Christmas eve and say, "Merry Christmas.” Call Riley 5551, Clothe-a-Child editor, for information. Donors, bringing the list to 128 clothed at 8 a. m. today, follow: Seven Plasterers and Four Hodcarriers on Civil Works Job at city hospital. boy. Clothe-a-Child Christmas party, seventh floor of Traction Terminal building, four children. Two Brothers, three children. Thoughtful Mother, two children. Operators. Lincoln office, Indiana Bell Telephone Company, two boys. Cumberland Methodist church, Cumberland. Ind., bov and girl. W. W. Hub. bov. V. E. P. Club. girl. Bring Me A Bov. bov. S. W. Wool worth Cos., JOS West Washington. boy. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Avenue, girl. Emploves of Capital and Standard Paper Company, boy. Tenants of Parkview apartments. No. 1 West Twenty-eighth street, cared for one girl and took another. Fadelv-Birr Motors, Inc., emploves. boy. Falls City Casino. 3547 Fast Washington street, girl. .Alpha Tau chapter of Delta Gamma sororitv. Butler university, girl. Mrs. A., a child. (Other donors on Page One. Second Section.)

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1933

STATE SAVINGS BANK RECORDS MANIPULATED, IS CHARGE MADE TO COURT IN AUDITOR’S REPORT

DIGNITARIES OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ARRIVE FOR FUNERAL

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Dignitaries of the Catholic church started arriving in Indianapolis today for the runeral of Bishop Joseph Chartrand tomorrow morning at the cathedral. Above, left to right, the Rec.

TWO CHARGES FILED AGAINST POLICEMAN Board Sets Trial Date for December 19. Charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and neglect of duty today were filed before the safety board by Chief Mike Morrissey against Patrolman Ermal M. Hamilton and John i Red) Davidson. The charges filed by the chief were based on the death Dec. 5 of Miss Leona Norcus, who drank carbolic acid while she was sitting in Davidson’s automobile. Trial date was set for Dec. 19 by the board. 1,223 MORE TO GET COUNTY RELIEF JOBS Pay Roll of $116,259 Provided in New Civil Works Projects. Jobs for 12.223 more men in Marion county, with wages totaling $116,259, will be provided within a few days as result of approval by the civil works administration of a number of new projects. Most of the-jobs are in street and road work, and flood prevention work.

be a withholding of his honest due amounts only to a careless and unfortunate neglect on his part to study the letter of the agreement. It is odd that honesty and friendship, both, are held in such tender, sentimental regard, considering that both are so little patronized and that their opposites have by far the greater appeal. oatt FOR myself, I will say that my hates always occupied my mind much more actively and have given me greater spiritual satisfaction than my friendships. Os friends. I will venture to say that I have had a few but the wish to favor a friend is not as active as the instinct to annoy some person or institution which I detest. I think I would go much farther out of my way to inflict such annoyance under ordinary circumstances than to remind a friend, for no particular reason, that I had been thinking of him and advise him that I was sending him a ham. And my friends. I am sure, are less alert to make me feel good than to make their enemies feel otherwise. I never thought that the Anti-Saloon League, for instance, was inspired by a wish to fill the dry citizens with happiness. On the contrary. it struck me, in my interviews with the boys and girls of the movement and in my reading of their side of the quarrel, that they were in it for the pleasure of hurting and exasperating, even of killing a few people whose ideas and tastes were opposed to their own. Certainly their Bishop Cannon never wasted any of his great energy on loving works and words for his side but devoted himself with a joy and zeal, which I thoroughly understood, to making life as miserable and dangerous as possible for the people who loved to hate him and vice versa.

Finton Walker, formerly of Indianapolis; the Rt. Rev. W. J. Davis; the Most Rev. Bishop James H. Ryan, rector of Catholic university, and the Rev. George E. Dunn, Indianapolis. The first three arrived this morning from

PARAGUAYAN ARMY WINS GREAT VICTORY 8,250 Bolivians Captured in Gran Chaco Area. B;/ Ignited Prrsis ASUNCION. Paraguay, Dec. 12. — Paraguayan forces in a smashing victory in the Gran Chaco area captured 8,000 Bolivian soldiers and 250 officers, it was announced today. President Eusebio Ayala went to the front by airplane to witness the surrender. By r nifed Prn> LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 12. —It was reported today that the government would call up new reserves to reinforce its armies in the Gran Chaco. Reports of disorders here were denied. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 16 10 a. m 21 7a. m.. s ., 17 ,lja. m 21 Ba. m 18 12 (noon).. 23 9 a. m 19 1 p. m 24

Washington and were met at Union station by Father Dunn. Below, a view of the crowd which locked on as the body of Bishop Chartrand was borne this morning from the rectory to the cathedral.

GIRL, TRYING TO AID DYING DOG, IS BITTEN North Side Child Treated for Injuries by Physician. Going to the rescue of a dog struck by an automobile, Mary Joe Gray. 8. of 3332 North Pennsylvania street, was bitten by the animal last night. The dog, its back broken, died a short time later. It was owned by Claude M. McElwaine. 3321 North Pennsylvania street. The child was treated by a physician. Times Index Page Black Hawk 19 Bridge 7 Broun 14 Classified 16-17 Comics • 19 Crossword Puzzle 20 Curious World 19 Editorial t ■ 14 Financial 18 Hickman—Theaters 4 Hunting 4 Lippmann 18 Peeler 1 Radio > 6 Sports 15 State News 5 Woman's Pages 10-11

He was grand and I am going to miss him now—but this appreciation denotes no change of heart on my part and I hope nothing occurs in his attitude to mar a wonderful relationship of thirteen years. 800 BUT. though the prohibitionists deserve great credit for their allaround. frees-tyle cussedness, I would like to insist that we, on our sid° of the question, managed to hold up our end to deserve nothing but the most enthusiastic hatred, too. For every dirty trick that they played us. we played them a dirty trick back and we generally were worthy of all the meanness which they lavished upon us over a period which now seems but a day. I think that Mrs. Ella fßoole. if she is fair about it. would have to admit that I made her as miserable, in my modest but enthusiastic way. as she ever made me. There was a time there, early in the game, when she made me more wretched than I couM then mak hr, but that was the time of my greatest hate and there was pleasure in that. Then, toward the end of prohibition, our side was giving Mrs. Boole a corresponding misery, and she must have felt pretty sore at us. This would square things, wouldn't it? They were much more satisfactory than the money changers or Tammany, because we were not in any way to blame for them and their law. We didn’t bring our grievance on ourselves and consequently there was no sneaking thought that in hating them we were biting ourselves on the arm. Goodby, boys and girls, and worst wishes from yours maliciously. Syndicate. Inc.;

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Former Officials of Institution Accused by; City Accountant of Having Made ‘Deceptive Statements.’ UNTRUE FIGURES GIVEN, IS CLAIM ‘Lack of Usual Business Management’ Marked Dealings, Is Assertion Made to Judge Earl R. Cox. BY JAMES A. CARVIN' Times Staff Writer Former officials of the defunct State Savings and Trust Company were charged today with having made “deceptive statements” to hide the bank's tottering condition six months before it -dosed. . Revelation of the alleged manipulated bank financial statements came with filing of an auditor's report with Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. The audit, made by S. M. Davis, certified public accountant, with offices at 601 Continental Bank building, was pre-

pared at direction of the committee representing depositors of the closed bank. It was explained that although a previous audit had been made at direction of the court and submitted to the Marion county grand jury last spring, the depositors desired a more thorough investigation of circumstances preceding the collapse of the bank, April 25. 1930. Judge Cox said the auditors report would he turned over to Alvah Rucker special investigator for circuit court. Mr. Rucker now is engaged in investigating the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank. He was appointed several months ago by Judge Cox to probe bank receiverships pending in circuit court. Concealed Condition. Is C harge The auditor’s report, covers operations of the State Savings and its subsidiary, the State Property Company, from Feb. 16, 1926, to April 25, 1930. . , Specifically, the bank officials are charged with advancing cash assets to the property company in return for stock and notes which later proved worthless, and concealing the resultant pressed condition of the bank by what is termed "deceptive statements” to the state banking department. Following a detailed account of cash advances to the property company. the auditor's charges of misstatements is prefaced with: • In addition to these disclosures, further acts of the management indicate it was their purpose to continue business actively by deceptive statements.” "Overstatement” Alleged According to the audit, the officials in a called report demanded by the state banking department June 29. 1929, “overstated" value of bonds and securities in the assets by $12,742.90; included under cash due from other banks an erroneous $40,000. and "understated" loans by $434,869.69. The $40,000 item was one of those selected by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson for grand jury investigation. It was said by former officials that the sum represented a certificate of deposit with the Fletcher American National bank. “The certificate of deposit was not the property of the State Savings and Trust Company and never was released to them, nor could it have been released until the property company met its obligation to the Fletcher American National bank and then its release would have been to the property company," the audtior's report declares. “Deception" Is Charged In anotther financial statement, issued Dec. 31. 1929. an item of $29,141.40 was included, "whereas, there were no assets of any nature to support this amount, nor any part of it,” according to the auditor. "This deceptive statement was made to include this amount so that, the actual impairment of capital

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might be covered,” it is alleged in the report. According to the audit, the bank was insolvent in the amount of $21,499.26 in June. 1929, although officials continued to operate the bank and accept deposits from the public. “Further evidence of deception and lack of usual business management,” according to the audit, is shown in the acquisition of common stock of the Libby Realty Company, which owned the Roosevelt building at Illinois and Washington streets. Testified to Transfer In an parlier court hearing, officials testified farms and other assets were transferred in exchange for the common stock, having a book value of $300,000. The transfer resulted in an actual loss to the State Property Company of $110,214.23. and in addition, the bank officials failed to show' a $125,800 outstanding liability against the common stock they acquired, it i charged. It is explained in the audit that the State Property Company was organized Feb. 15, 1926, W'ith directors and officers practically the same as the bank heads. The new company was to “afford a means for the State Savings and Trust Company to meet the requirements of the banking department of Indiana by eliminating certain assets declared by the department as losses,” the audit states. Claim Losses Ran High In the period from Dec. 31, 1925, to Dec. 31, 1930. the property company's operating expense of $643.184.21 exceeded income by $137,872.70. although throughout the time, the bank officials continued to advance cash to the company in exchange for its stock and notes*, the audit showed. In the audit, amounts advanced to the property company are given as: 1926, $125,836.29; 1927, $130,816.89; 1928, $65,000; 1929, SIB,OOO. In each year the cash was advanced, despite operating losses for the previous period, it is charged. • “All losses of the bank were transferred to the property company in exchange for notes and stock, with the notes carried at full face value,” the audit states. Officials’ Names Given The common stock was entered on the bank books at a value of $350,876.96. despite the losses constantly incurred by the company, and later the stock was "written off" by a reduction of the bank's capital stock to $375,000 from $750,000, according to the audit. Officers of the bank were Scott Brewer, president, and James A. Houck, treasurer, at the time the called report was submitted. Directors at that time, according to the audit, were Mr. Brewer, Mr. Hauck. David A. Rothbrook, M. S. Harlow, Linton A. Cox, William A. Pickens. E. Kirk McKinney, Robert J. Aley, James S. Cruse, Edgar Ashby and Clarence C. Wysong. Insporators and directors of the property company were Mr. Brewer, Mr. Ashby, Mr. Hauck, Mr. Pickens, Mr. Aley, Mr. Rothbrook. Louis N. Joseph. Roy Sahm, R. Carl Scott, Pliny H Wolford. Robert S. Stahl, and Eben H. Wolcott, according to the audit.

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