Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1933 — Page 11

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

WASHINGTON. Dec. 18—The mob spirit is not unknown in the political affairs of Washington. And, speaking of mobs, I would like to quote briefly from the brave words of an obscure circuit Judge In Missouri. “It wasn't,” said Judge J. V. Gatty, “a desire to administer justice or prevent a recurrence of Warner’s crime which sent the mob against the jail. It was hate —the same passion which engenders any murder. When you And the real leaders you will find men of not much higher moral standard than the man they murdered. If you had been there that night I doubt that you could have picked twelve men from the mob who would have had the courage to convict and hang Warner as members of a Jury in a court of justice. Their action was murder in its most despicable form and an assault on the institutions you pay for and charge to administer justice. Women are no safer in St. Joseph today by reason of that murder. But, of course, J. V. Gatty is only hick judge down in the sticks and not a member of the nouveau rabble. mm* STILL, we were talking about Washington and politics. A posse is forming. Congressmen are crawling out from the cracks, and they want a lynching. They carry clippings. Patriotic publishers have supplied them with the ammunition. The locks of Samson have been shorn, and the Philistines are ready with their ropes. To put it more bluntly, the rumor is about that the days of General Hugh S. Johnson are numbered. And this time I think rumor is right. ’Way back in the autumn of 1933 General Johnson was my hero. He isn’t now. Things moye rapidly under the new deal. The general has made many economic and political mistakes. Although he learned rapidly, he could not quite keep up with the trend of the times. He began with the curious notion that such words as “non-union” or “unorganized” Were synonymous for “stalwart” and “independent.” And so his picture of the American labor situation was always a little muddled. But his constitutional difficulties cut even deeper. General Johnson is the best ballyhoo man Washington has ever known. Without him there would be no NRA. And if he remains much longer the same thing is true. He is a man of phrases and not a man of action. man IN the beginning it was necessary to. arouse the country. First come the bagpipes and then the fighters. Hugh S. Johnson had the ability to arouse everybody to action except himself. He could crack down in a speech and fail when it came to reduce the principle to the definite language of a code. He is, as the old saying goes, the sort of gladiator who tends to leave his fight in the gymnasium. Alw r ays General Johnson saw the world of affairs through the eyes of the artist. One of the master rough-and-tumble phrase makers of our time, he became a bit confused as to what he had said and what he had done. America thought of him as the tough guy of the legends. But in reality he was never Paul Bunyan. He was John. For him the task always would be the preparation of the way. As between him and the rabble I'm all for Hugh S. Johnson —a grand fellow. But he’s just about as milch an administrator as I am. Still, if he drops out this side of the promised land he wall be in good company. He can reach out and shake hands with Moses. Hugh and Moses were like that —swell starters, but not the boys to finish up the job. The vision of both was a bit beyond their reach. Once in a conference a big industrialist sat and made no comment, but whenever anything was said about wages or hours he did not like he would shake his head violently. After this had happened two or three times the general turned to him and said. “If you keep on shaking that, head of yours you'll And pretty soon that it will be twisted off.”

NOBODY has ever expressed the present situation of big business more neatly. But Johnson could only say it. He was inhibited against performance. I don't mind a little irony now and then, but it seems to me that this world in which we live produces it in excessive quantities. Perhaps nothing is more fantastic than the prevalent picture of General Hugh S. Johnson. I did my small part in contributing to it. He looked like Captain Flagg, and how was I to know’ that here was another indecisive Hamlet in disguise? In fact, he fooled everybody, with one exception. General Johnson couldn't fool himself. He always knew that at bottom he was a bluff. Just the same, it was a magnificent pose. One night in a New York ring I saw Frank Moran fighting Bob Martin, the A. E. F. champion. Moran was all through, and Martin was one of the finest-looking fighters I have ever seen. For eight rounds the veteran scared the life out of him by drawing back his right hand and pretending that he was about to cut loose. He never did, because there was nothing to cut. This has been the technique of the general. And now it looks as if he were about to go down under the attack of Puritans and politicians and publishers who have quit the Queensberry rules to get at him I wonder if before the bell rings he couldn't take just one sock. (Copyright, IMS, by The Tunes)

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UNITED STATES STILL EXPECTS DEBT PAYMENT France Attributes Default to Lausanne and Moratorium. CONDITIONS UNCHANGED Washington Contends Allies Morally and Legally Bound to Pay. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Howard Foreien Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Despite the sweeping results of every European war-debtor nation, with the scintillating exception of Finland, the United States still officially expects payment on a basis of capacity to pay. Neither the Hoover moratorium of 1931 nor the 1932 agreement at Lausanne virtually to cancel German reparations provided the United States would do the same for the allies, has any bearing on the case, it was indicated here today, notwithstanding the position taken by France and her followers. France, in refusing any payment on account whatever, declared she has never “contemplated the unilateral violation” of her war debt agreement with the United States, but “judged the decisions which were taken on both sides in 1931 and 1932 had modified conditions.” Position Never Modified The United States, it was officially pointed out here, never had modified its position whether France had in mind the Hoover moratorium or the pact of Lausanne. The excuse that Germany is no longer making reparation payments to the allies, therefore, Is not regarded by the Roosevelt administration as valid. Even should the allies never pay another cent it is held that they are still morally and legally bound to do so, insofar as their individual capacity permits. The proposition of some of the European debtors not to make any further payments unless Germany, in turn, pays them, is widely regarded here as tantamount to repudiation. For Germany obviously never intends to resume reparations. She holds she has already been stripped by the allies, the latter "to the contrary notwithstanding. Shorn of Territory Germany contends that her colonies alone, even according to British estimates, were worth $25,000,000,000. In addition, she was shorn of 12 per cent of her home territory, her navy and merchant marine, the rights and interests of her private citizens in public utility undertakings and concessions in Russia. Morocco, China and elsewhere, and so on. In addition she made payments amounting to billions of dollars in money and kind, most of which money she borrowed in the United States. The allies, it is observed, may make out a good case for debt reduction, or even cancellation, as a measure of world recovery. But, it is remarked, to refuse payment on the grounds that Germany has not paid sufficiently is not a valid argument. Few members of congress have any illusions with regard to the future of the $11,000,000,000 war debt. Most of them frankly admit they don't expect the debtors to pay. But some of the ranking members of the senate foreign relations comi mittee to whom this writer talked are as uncompromising as ever. Rather than accept a few paltry cents on the dollar, they hold, defaulters can repudiate and take the consequences in loss of credit, prestige and national honor.

COAL MINES IN TWO COUNTIES ARE CLOSED 1.300 Vandorburg and Warrick Employes Out. By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Dec. 18—Vanderburg and Warrick counties coal mines closed today after thirty days’ operation under a temporary pact signed Nov. 23 by operators and union miners pending an adjustment of a wage scale by the NRA bituminous coal labor board. Local operators assert they can not compete with western Kentucky fields under the present code scale. Closing of the mines will put about 1.300 men back on the unemployed list.

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U. S. ‘SHERLOCKS’ WAR ON CRIME

Agents Pursue Meager Clews to Solve Urschel Kidnaping

King Canute failed to turn back the tide, but not so Uncle Sam's detectives. The crime wave mounted higher and higher. Local police were unable to make headway. Then the federal men took a hand. They have succeeded where others failed. Some of their cases and methods are described in a series of articles of which this is the first. BY LIONEL HOUSER Times Special Writar A PARASOL of moonlit smoke glowed lobster-red on its underside where the furnace glow stained it. William Jarret, bellydown in crackling grass, turned his head and saw it. Then he saw, too, the little sedan. It slid forward with a grumbling cough of the clutch, jerked back snapped forward again, and from a window a man directed an intent, jeering gaze. “Put your head up again," his voice threaded the darkness, “and we’ll trim It off for you.” William Jarrett flopped sideways in the grass and watched the sedan, with his friend, Charles Urschel, bunched inside with the kidnapers, speed away, dwindling into a star-stippled horizon. Fear gripped William Jarrett as he stumbled back toward Oklahoma City. A voice Inside him proclaimed wretchedly that he never would see Charles Urschel again. He remembered the machine gun the men had held when they had tramped up on the porch and demanded Charlie. It was a patience formidable and exhaustless, a pitiless patience, a constancy vast and endless, that later unwound the threads in the kidnaping of Charles Urschel. It was an enduring patience that bears no resemblance to the methods of the two-visored cadeverous Sherlock Holmes of Baker street, with his rubber-band temper, violin musings and cocaine coddlings. Holmes and the “scientific” detectives who steamed immaculately and vicariously from him in the pages of subsequent detective fiction, as well as the usual every-day police detective, do not share this patience. In the Urschel chronicle reside most of the elements of the new war on the underworld in which anew kind of janissary fights the battle —the federal agent. -He was bugled into the hostilities when the weapons of local and state authorities had shown themselves to be paper shillalahs incapable of dealing a solid blow. Blowing peppery phrases out of their mouths, war crying citizens to “join the battle,” county and state prosecutors and investigators had earned the contempt of the public by their impotent flutterings against racketeers and snatchers from Capone and Kelly. nan THE federal men checked a thousand slender clews, squeaking of guinea keets—that a creaking well and a comically somnolent bull and the interior of a rough shack were what Charles Urschel could remember when, a $200,000 ransom having been paid, he was released near Ardmore and questioned for six hours by special agents of the division of investigators of the United States department of justice. “What else, Mr. Urschel?” asked the federal men. “There was a plane flying over the place every day at 9:45 a. m., and 5:45 p. m.,” Urschel recalled. “I used to wait what I figured was fifteen minutes afterward each time and then asked the fellow guarding me what time it was. He’d laugh and say, ‘What the hell is time to you?’ Then he’d tell me the time. Once I got the blindfold off my eyes and looked out of a knothole and saw a field of corn.” Some of the special agents set to work on that clew. Others tentaciously followed other leads, I even schedules of all airplane

Scores of Women Join Times Bowling School

Three classes in The Indianapolis Times free bowling school are slated for today with hundreds of city women already enthusiastic followers of the sport after Saturday’s schools and free exhibitions over the week-ended. Mrs. Florence D. McCutcheon, world woman's champion bowler, who is giving the instructions, was to hold classes at noon, 3 p. m. and 6 p. m. today at the Pritchett Rec-

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lines. Only two lines had exactly two planes a day. That might or might not have been valuable. One line operated out of Ft. Worth, Texas. Agents spent days crusing Tow In airplanes out of Ft. Worth. They examined hundreds of air charts and maps. They questioned every pilot who touched Ft. Worth. There emerged just one place which the twice-a-day plane could skim over at 9:45 and 5:45. The agents flew over it. Below near a cornfield stood a sleepy-looking bull. Close by was a shack. A mild-mannered traveling salesman drove next day to the farm. Selling his wares, he gossiped with the townsfolk, the farmers. Another stranger, seeking to buy a right nice place of land thereabouts, saw the local real estate man, and. expressing dissatisfaction with several places, muttered wearily that he’d “take one more look—maybe at that Shannon place.” Quiet exuberance flowed when it was discovered that “the Shannon place” was owned by Mrs. Ora L. Shannon, known to be the mother of Katheryn Thorne Kelly, wife of George (MachineGun) Kelly. Two days later, taking Urschel and a posse of Dallas and Ft. Worth detectives, the federal men approqfhed the farm. On it they

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Run to ground by federal detectives, George (“Machine Gun”) Kelly goes to Leavenworth federal penitentiary for life, manacled and under heavy guard, for his part in the Urschel kidnaping case.

found, among others, an escaped convict, Harvey J. Bailey, with S7OO of the ransom money in the pockets of his jeans. Running through the case are other high spots—the payment of a large sum of ransom money to hoaxers, the nine legitimate applicants in Tulsa who wanted to buy the fine farm advertised for $3,500 when the advertisement was no more than a signal to the kidnapers, and the arrangements whereby a go-between, riding on the observation platform of a train, was to watch for three big bonfires at night, hurling the package of money when he spotted third one. nun A PECULIAR, dry ardor animates these investigations of the department of justice, a poker-faced but hot zeal. They typify an entirely new crusade against crime undertaken mostly when federal jurisdiction was obtained by a transparent subterfuge (as in the Capone case), and when prosecution clearly should

reation alleys, Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. Women bowlers who have attended other classes and others with experience along with scores who never have touched a bowling ball, are invited to attend these and other classes this week. Mrs. McCutcheon took time out from her daily instructions to play a series of exhibition matches over the week-end, her high series mark totaling 1.023 and 256 her high single mark. Tuesday at 2 p. m., Mrs.

AUTO SALES STILL SHOW GAIN FOR 1933 November Production Is Down, Is Report. By United Press DETROIT. Dec. 18.—New passenger automobile sales last month were 32 l is per cent under October sales but 120 per cent higher than those of November, 1932, R. L. Polk and Company, survey firm, reported today on the basis of figures from 27 states. November, this year, was the seventh successive month in which sales of new cars exceeded those of the corresponding period in 1932. Total new car sales last month were estimated at 95,000. DOSE OF LYE FATAL Man Takes Poison at Home of Friend, Is Report. Simon Quinn, 46. Negro, died at city hospital last night as result of eating lye. Police were told by Lazatha Franklin, Negro. 923 East Sixteenth street, that Quinn went to her home yesterday and ate the lye. <p

have been the duty of state authorities. “We anticipated being called in,” John Edgar Hoover, director of the division of investigation, said in Washington. “For months we had been bringing our special agents here in small groups and giving them extra training and preparation for this sort of thing.” He pondered a moment, then added, “The two most important elements in solving any kidnaping or extortion case are the cooperation of the family and of the local authorities.” Others reveal that the federal men have had to combat fierce local jealousy in many cases where police resent intrusion of outsiders carrying the implication, as it must, that they themselves have failed. Since the foul kettle of crime began to be emptied as a result of the back-door entry of the federals —more particularly since the passage of the Lindbergh law in 1932—there have been sixteen

McCutcheon will greet women students at the Uptown Recreation alleys, 4169 College avenue. At 5:30 p. m. she will hold her class at the Illinois Recreation alleys, Illinois and Ohio streets and at 8 p. m. at the Indiana Recreation alleys in the Indiana theater building. Wednesday will find Mrs. McCutcheon making an early start with a class at 10 a. m. at the Parkway Recreation alleys, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets. At 2 p. m. Mrs. McCutcheon will instruct at the Uptown Recreation

Congress Will Stage Drive Against Crime

30 Measures Expected to Be Introduced at Next Session. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. —At least thirty measures will be presented at the coming session of congress to put a curb on racketeering and crime. Senator Copeland (Dem., N. Y.) indicated today after a conference with President Roosevelt. The bills, he said, would be part of the "general tightening up” of legislation against crime, which he ;is undertaking. After the confer--1 ence. Senator Copeland represented the President as “greatly interested” in the crime suppression movement. “The is aroused to such a pitch that there is a public demand for tightening up crime provisions in the law and apprehension of criminals,” the senator asserted. He said new legislation would provide extension of the Dyer act to make it a federal offense for interstate shipments of stolen goods i valued at more than $1,000; co-

actual kidnapings and there have been fifteen solutions by the department of justice with some or all criminals jailed in every case. Most mysteries of an intangible nature exist alone because they are sustained in the breasts of their believers and devotees. To pin a halo over the head of the federal agent, to glorify him as a lustrous and mysterious personage would be a mistake, for the special agent of the division of investigation sticks his fingers in his lower vest pockets and no occult powers. Around $3,400 a year is the average sayary of the special agent. He is about 40 years old, has most of his hair, and—mark this —is a member of the bar. All applicants for admission must be graduates of recognized law schools, save for the public accountants used on bank cases. “By gosh, the time we had that night on the Batcheller case in Yonkers!” an agent in the New York police guffawed. “For six weeks we had been waiting and

alleys, 4169 College avenue, and at 3:30 at the Parkway Recreation alleys, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets. Thursday's schedule calls for another noon start with the three afternoon classes to be staged at Pritchett’s Recreation alleys at Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. The other classes of the afternoon will be held at 2 and 4 p. m. Friday will be the last day of the Times free bowling school. The first class will be at 1 p. m., at the

I ordinating of federal police agencies, and revision of the Lindbergh law to make it presumptive evidence of kidnaping after a person has been missing three days. Senator Copeland said he also had discussed progress on the food and drug act. Asked if he meant the “Tugwell” bill, Senator Copeland retorted, “No, I mean the Copeland bill.” FUNERAL TODAY FOR ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Prominent Author Will Be Buried at Broadalbin, X. Y. By United Press BROADALBIN, N. Y„ Dec. 18.— Funeral services for Robert W. Chambers, prominent author, who died in New’ Yoix City Saturday, will be held today at his estate, “Broadalbin House.” Burial will be in the family plot. Chambers, who was 68, wrote many novels during his thirty-year career, including “Cardigan,” “The Firing Line,” “The Common Law” and “The Man TJiey Hanged.”

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working and here came the rendezvous with the kidnapers. We had detectives in all the bushes for blocks around. You couldn't lift a leaf without uncovering a policeman or detective. “Our agents were up on top of a hill looking down on the place. We were hidden behind a shack on the racetrack grounds. All of a sudden, like a bumble bee acoming out, a man tries to get out of the shack. He was an old hobo who was drunk and had geen asleep in there. a a a “ITIELL, you can see that if he VV came down that hill and showed the kidnapers anybody was watching around there we were lost. We pushed him in one door and he came out another. We slushed him and shoved him in and he crawled out the roof. We popped him down and—well, we got him quiet after a while.” The agent can not accept a reward—ever. He has no power to arrest. He is an investigator who must call a detective or deputy marshal to make an arrest. Palpably, he draws an astonishing pleasure from his work, and has a suave tact, o wing-collar-and-silk-hat politeness and a plush diplomacy that would do credit to a charge d'affairs of an embassy. A lawyer, he digs for evidence and knows what good evidence is. Unlike detectives, he does not seek a person but quests the facts that will prove guilt to a jury of twelve laymen. Rarely is he allowed to bed down in any one post longer than a year, never more than three years, so that local politics has a nasty time giving him candy. Anyhow, other cities are usually concerned in a case and it would be impossible for I vim alone to spoil a case save in rare instances. How does his sleuthing go— Sherlock, 1934? His first principle is negative—“ Never from a theory and try to find facts for it.” Given a case, he collects and follows every possible clew and lead. Not one is left unchecked, even though it involve searching (for example) all the records of a corporation for twenty years to find a single handwriting sample. He hunts facts, not a defendant, to give to a jury. Watch him trudging through the east side with a package in his hand, ringing doorbells, unwrapping his package, exhibiting its, con tents. In it he has the face of a dead girl, infcreditily life-like and grisly. It is the face of a girl who has been murdered and thrown into a sewer. Agents, using one of their new scientific weapons (moulage work), have molded a cast of the child’s face and painted it to life with special paints. For weeks he toils through the tenements, unwrapping his hideous handiwork a thousand times. At last a woman stares at It and screams. His search is ended. Questioned, the woman confesses to murdering her own child. That murder was a police case on which federal help was asked. Police practice too often is to smell out a suspect, scoop him up on suspicion and punch, kick or gouge confession out of him. Federal units, with one alleged exception in one case, never have been accused of third-degree methods. “That’s an admission of your own incompetence,” says Mr. Hoover, “When you try to beat a confession out of a suspect you thereby admit you are not yourself in possession of facts that will convict him. A badge is never a license for brutality. We expect our agents to be so superior in intelligence to the criminals they work against that they will be able to guild up complete cases against them without a confession.” In the last fiscal year the division of investigation obtained 95.5 convictions in all cases it undertook. That record never has been matched in all the history of police work.

Fountain Square Recreation alleys; the second at the Parkway Recreation alleys, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets, and the third at 6 p. m., at the Illinois Recreation alleys, Illinois and Ohio streets. Don’t forget, women, here’s a full week of enjoyment and instruction that will cost you nothing. Attend one or more classes. Clip your attendance blank from The Times this week and either mail or bring it with you to tlte alley where you are going to obtain your instruction.

ENGINEERS OF CITY TO PICK DIRECTORS Three Will Be Elected at Annual Meeting. Three new directors will be elected at the annual meeting of the Indianapolis Engineering Society Thursday in the Board of Trade building. Directors retiring are Fred C. Atkinson, Emmett G. Fowler and F. J. Koehne. Hold over members are Daniel B. Luten, J. Ray Monaghan, J. W. Moore, LeGrande Marvin, Ira C. Morgan and H. F. Osier. The directors will elect officers at a meeting Dec. 26 in the Antlers. The new officers will be installed Dec. 28. Mr. Fowler is president and Mr. Luten is secretary. CIVIC ASSOCIATION TO ELECT NEW OFFICERS Butler-Fairview Group Convenes at Fairview Presbyterian. The Butler-Fairview Civic Association will elect officers at 8 tomorrow night in the Fairview Presbyterian church. Candidates for president include the Rev. Edward Haines Kistler and Joseph Milner.

RELIEF STARTS FOR TRANSIENT CITYJOBLESS Outstanding Men Have Come From Ranks of Hobo Wanderers. ABILITY LIES DORMANT Records in Bureau Here Show High Education Percentage. This Is the third and last story oa Indianapolis' transient problem. BY WILLIAM 11. M’GAUGHEY Times Staff Writer Denizen of the jungle camo, frequenter of the soup kitchen, habitant of the flop house—what does the future hold for the penniless vagrant who wanders into Indianapolis? Are we to think of the homeless men as “human cattle” to be herded through a blind mechanical system of mass help? Or is it better to class him as a human being with different needs and constructive possibilities? With typical American resourcefulness and showing a determined “will to win.” many men of ability have risen from the ranks of the American hobo to find high places in business, art, theology and literature. In this year of 1933. no longer is the personnel of the transient group composed chiefly of the seasonal laborer, the unfit man and the disappointed worker as theories of sociologists have long maintained. But one theory still holds true—there are numerous men of ability in the transient ranks. But for the most part, the ability lies dormant and unused. Records kept in Indianapolis tell the sorry tale. A cross section of the caliber of the American transient can be obtained at the Central Registration Bureau at 222 East Wabash street, which keeps a record of every homeless man applying for relief in the city. High Education Percentage A surprisingly high educational training is possessed by these men that most of us are accustomed to think of as shiftless, irresponsible bums. In a check of an average month at the bureau (October, 1933), it was found that out of 2,186 men that had applied for relief in that month, 30 per cent of them were grade school graduates and 13 per cent were graduates of high school. Os the number, 67 men were college graduates with a bachelor of arts degree, while only 52 had received no education at all. About 85 per cent of them had held down jobs of responsibility and positions of importance as late as the fall of 1929 and the spring of 1930. Winter Outlook Promising After being exposed to social neglect for more than three years, the outlook for the homeless man is more encouraging this winter than any since 1929. Straws in the wind indicate anew deal for these wandering men and boys. In the last six weeks, the civil works administration has been finding jobs and giving Saturday pay checks to men who have long been* without both. President Roosevelt’s national re-1 covery program and Secretary Harold Ickes public works program is estimated to have given over 4,000.000 additional jobs to the unemployed man in the last six months. Indication of this is shown by statistics at the Central Registration Bureau. The average registration of transients applying for relief at the bureau has fallen from an average of seventy men a day in October to forty-two new registrations daily at the present time. C. C. C. to Continue The civilian conservation camps have taken many wandering boys off the highway and from under the brake rods of freight trains since April. Now, President Roosevelt and Lewis Douglas, budget director, have decided to ask congress for $120,000,000 with which to continue the reforestation army for a third six months’ period from April 1. Jobs for more than 11,000 unemployed ‘“white collar” workers will be provided within the next few days in sixty cities. They will be put to work on an inventory of real property authorized by CWA. Many men in Indianapolis will be freed from charity relief by this measure. This morning the state of Indiana takes the first tangible step toward providing transient relief. Offices were opened at 9 South Senate avenue to register the homeless men. Five State Camps As part of a huge federal program to provide relief for the homeless man, Edward Di Bella. Indiana director of transient relief, will establish five camps in Indiana, one of which will be in Indianapolis, in an effort to take the wandering homeless man off the highways and railroads. Social workers here will attempt to find employent for many of the transients in their own line of work. Others will be taught new occupations so that they can fit in new state and federal projects this winter. The federal government will appropriate millions of dollars every month to the states for help In handling the transient situation. If this program is carried through, this group of four million homeless men will serve history as a phenomena of long depression years and will cease to be a wandering horde of disgruntled and disillusioned men in search of bread and shelter. Rank Re-Opens At Attica ATTICA. Dec. 18.—Licensed as a Class A bank, the Central Bank and Trust Company has opened for business. Sixty per cent of all deposits which had been under restriction was made available to depositors.