Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1933 — Page 15

Second Section

It Seems to Me

Bv Hcywood Broun

rASHINGTON, Dec. 19 —ls I W have my way this is the last column of mine which will appear under a Washington date line for rome little time. I hate to confess defeat, taut the pace of the capital is too much for me. In New York I have found it possible to keep up with the hounds. Naturally, I have not been in the forefront of the cavalcade for. 10. these many years, but other riders are indulgent and say in low and tactful voice. Here comes Old Man Broun, don't ride him down.” In a sense I should welcome a chance to browse about down here because the standards of senility are so much more indulgent than those prevailing in New’ York. For instance. I have seen constant references in the newspapers to the “young liberals” in the administration. Some of these gentlemen have long, white beards, but in a land where every supreme court justice lives to 90 before he can be pried off the bench anything less than 70 is considered adolescent. Quite often I have read about Hex ford G. Tugwell, and in every case he was described as a youthcollegian filled with sophomoric inclinations to tear down all existing institutions. Today I met him and, naturally, my first question was, “Where are the bombs?” and immediately after that, “How old are you, Mr. Assistant Secretary?” tt an HE said he was 42. I will admit that he could pass for less, but even if he heaped on a year or so this member of the Brain Trust is not by any accurate definition a fledgling. At 40 I was distinctly suspicious that perhaps I xvas not as young as I used to be. At 41 this vague foreboding became a certainty. The next year I bought myself a pair of slippers and a quilted dressing gown. before the age of 40 Napoleon nad triumphed at Austerlitz. At a less advanced period Shelley Was dead and Hannibal had crossed the Alps with elephants. Rexford G. Tugwell is 42. He is not a young man. At any rate, he knows his wav about. .Again, according to the placard I have seen in public places, the charge runs, ‘Wanted for Socialism,” and so when I was ushered into the office of the assistant secretary of agriculture I extended my hand and exclaimed, “Hello. Comrade! Yours for the revolution.” I then sang a few bars of the interna tionale. Dr. Tugw’ell seemed puzzled and inquired, “Have you got an appointment?” Even when I gave him a little of the secret ritual he failed to tumble. The newspapers have made a grave mistake about him. He isn't a Socialist, nor has he ever been a party member. tt tt tt FIORELLO LA GUARDIA, only recently chosen as our mayor, is flaming red if set down beside the brigadier of the Brain Trust. I have no intention of insulting an extremely intelligent and personable young man, but if I ever saw a liberal Rexford G. Tugwell is that person. Indeed. I would describe him as Walter Lippmann steel structure added. Mr. Tugwell Is sincere, earnest and he isn't fooling, but he is not of the martyr mold. There isn't a trace of the fanatic about him. After all, here is a middip-aged man who existed and prospered upon the faculty of Columbia university for several years without any jam whatsoever. I have no intention of imputing to him any lack of courage. For the thing which he believes Tugwell will fight hard. But the major part of his economic philosophy is by no means a swat in the eye for the world as it now stands. The particular bill which bears his name merely extends an accepted practice into a new’ field. The securities bill already has nicked into the ancient concept that the buyer must beware. Under the new deal it is established that the motto ought to run. “ Let the seller beware.” I'm terribly sorry that I can not supplly the Latin equivalent. a a tt THE major purposes of the Tugwell bill are so reasonable that it is difficult to understand the position of the opposition. As things stand now there exist severe restrictions as to what may be said on the label of a nostrum. Nobody can put out sugar and water and label it as a cure for Bright's disease But he may in many states advertise it as a cure, without let or hindrance. In most communities the claims which are put into newspaper display go far beyond the limits of the label. I am not at all sure that candor in advertising necessarily will be costly either to publications, manufacturers or agencies. It never has been my privilege to write any copy concerning myself, although my employers have at times indulged in paid statements which certainly failed to convince me. Only the other day I saw one which, as I remember, said. "The one and only Broun.” If I had prepared that copy I would have finished the sentence, and I wculd have chosen some large and effective type for the “thank heaven!” Suppose a cigaret company followed this formula: “The Goofus cigaret has nothing in particular which may not be found in the products of many of its rivals. Its price is the same as that of other standard brands. There is no special trick by which it is prepared. As far as we can ascertain, the longest distance anybody ever walked to get a Goofus was sixtyseven yards. This is no whirlwind. All we assert is that the Goofus is a pretty good cigaret. Why not smoke it?" I suppose the question will arise, “Who on earth would think of buying a cigaret presented in this way?” . , The answer L< easy. I would. 1333. by Tbe Zudml

Full r,pined Wire Serrir© of the United Pres* Association

CAPITALISM IS ATTACKED AS REIGN OF RUIN System Must Be Saved From Itself, Asserts I. U. Law Professor. LAUDS RECOVERY DRIVE Social Control Is Urged by Hugh E. Willis at Society Session. By l nit ft Brett BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 19. Breaking up of the present concentration of wealth in the United States and saving capitalism from itself by social control and planning is constitutional and is the desired objective of the present recovery program, in the opinion of Professor Hugh E. Willis of the Indiana university school of law. Addressing the Phi Beta Kappa society here last night. Professor Willis expressed his belief that most of the features of the Roosevelt program grow logically and articulately out of former precedents of the United States supreme court, but that there are a few features of the program which would have to be declared unconstitutional unless the supreme court overruled about six of its prior decisions. “Capitalism has not merely changed its own nature, but has created an economic order that is unworkable,” the speaker said. “The chief result of capitalism has been the concentration of 90 per cent of our wealth in the hands of 10 per cent of our people and 65 per cent of our wealth in the hands of 2 per cent of our people. Underconsumption Is Problem “This is causing a permanent problem of underconsumption which is not only the cause of our present depression but bids fair, if unchanged, to cause one depression after ‘ another until both our economic order and capitalism destroyed. j “Who has been to blame for this situation? It can not be emphasized too strongly that what has come to pass has been the result of capitalism itself rather than the result of social control. “While capitalism, has been subjected to some social control so as to delimit its liberty, on the whole it has either been left uncontrolled or has received protection from social control against other social forces. Left to itself capitalism has showm that it is vicious and impossible. More Wealth for Consumers “What is the solution for the problem? Either capitalism must be allowed to ruin itself and some other system be substituted for it, or it must be saved from itself. All of the tendencies in the capitalistic system are in the direction of causing further problems rather than solving them. “Hence, if capitalism is to be saved, as undoubtedly the majority of the people of the United States desire, it must be through the activity of the government. “The most essential part of the Roosevelt plan of social control is the balancing in the United States of purchasing and producing power by giving the producing class less and the consuming class more of the wealth of the country’. This, of course, means the breaking up of the present concentration of wealth in the United States. New Taxation Likely “Up to the present time, it has undertaken to do this by increasing the purchasing power of the debtor class, the wage-earning class, the creditor class so far as they are depositors in banks, and the ow’ners of securities and other parts of the consuming class w r ho are the buyers of the products of public utilities or sellers of agricultural commodities. “It has not as yet undertaken to break up the concentration of wealth by a capital levy or by new and radical forms of graduated income taxes and inheritance taxes, but there are indications that newforms of taxation will soon be a part of the Roosevelt program. “Are all of the features of the comprehensive Roosevelt program constitutional? Granting there is a possibility they may accomplish the economic result which they are undertaking to accomplish, will it be legal and constitutional for the Roosevelt administration to go ahead with its program? Supreme Court Sanetion Needed “To uphold the program, the supreme court will have to find: “(1> That the doctrine of a dual form of government has not been violated by the legislation as to the weight of the dollar, the gold clauses, legal tender notes, gold hoarding, bank holiday, the securities act, the Tennessee valley authority, farm loan act. home owners' act. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the national recovery act and agricultural administration act.” “(2> It will have to find that our doctrine of separation of powers, which is involved in practically every one of the features of the Roosevelt program, also is not violated. “<3> It will have to find that the constitutional guarantees • against social control are not violated by the legislation as to the gold clause, legal tender notes, gold hoarding, securities act. Tennessee valley authority. farm loan act. home owners' act. Reconstruction Finance Corporation. the national recovery’ act. and the agricultural administration act.” Professor Willis’ address followed the initiation banquet for the following Indiana university seniors who became members of the organization last night: Rossaline Barker. Hudson: Frances Blank, Valley Mills; Samuel Brown, Peru; Fairy Burnau. Frankfort; Ray Dauer, Gary; Marion Fidlar. Vincennes; Charles Kinzer. Eva Belie Rifle, Windfall; James? Rust. Columbus; Edward ScKrkder. Kokomo; Edith Strain, Crawfordsville; Richard Thompson. Indianapolis;- Mary Todd, Bloomington,

The Indianapolis Times

U. S. ‘SHERLOCKS’ WAR ON CRIME

Scotland Yard Decried as Model for United States Police

King Canute failed to turn back the tide, but not so Uncle Sam s detectives. The crime wave mounted and higher. Local police tvere unable to make* headwav. 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 ttie second. BY LIONEL HOUSER Times Special Writer, PANOPLIED in funereal black, the splendid myth of Scotland Yard goes to its grave. Squeezed in the vise of realistic observation, the myth of the Yard's'omnipotence peters out like a > fat scarlet balloon collapsing into a wrinkled blob of rubber. Much has been said recently about an American Scotland about a nationalized police force, with the inspiration that .should this eventuate if. would be patterned on the Yard. And with the- further implication that even the best of American federal investigative forces is a band of goggle-eyed moppets compared to the hawks of Britain. It is necessary', therefore, to consider a few facts. Item 1: In 1931 Scotland Yard had only four cases outside the city of London, in 1932 no such cases and, thus far in 1933, only two. Item 2: The qualifications for admission to the Scotland Yard force do not demand more than a grammar school education and stress brawn and stability ahead of other things. Item 3: Scotland Yard is the popular name for the police force of the city of London, and that force has no jurisdiction outside of the city unless specifically asked to step in by the local chief constable. Item 4: The private memorandum of the man who is possibly America's top administrative investigator says, “The present organization (of Scotland Yard) is obsolete and unsatisfactory,” and cites the report of the home secretary of Great Britain for May, 1933, in which the latter says “a far more scientific and elaborate police machine has become necessary.” Item 5: The identification bureau of Scotland Yard owns 500,000 fingerprint files. The identification bureau of the division of investigation of the United States department of justice has 4,000,000. Item 6: The criminal investigation division (the storied C. I. D. of Scotland Yard) numbers approximately 1,000 men, whose area is London. The man power of the United States division of investigation (suggested nucleus of a nationalized police) numbers 350 and blankets America, Item 7: A candidate for the C. I. D. must have tramped a city beat in uniform for at least one year. Item 8: There is no homicide bureau in Scotland Yard because murders are too rare in England to keep it busy. 8 an DOING a smart bang-up job of preserving law in London City, Scotland Yard is no national police force and offers no patterns for America. “Scotland Yard.” snorts Attor-ney-General Homer S. Cummings, “is not a detective force and does not have jurisdiction throughout England or the British Isles.” The relinquishing of local responsibiliy for crime and the yoking of that burden on the federal shoulders —creation of a national police force—is a practi-

Pictures Drawn on Bed and Walls in Childhood —They

BY HELEN LINDSAY Times Staff Writer They were original oil paintings by Will Vawter, celebrated Indiana artist. They can not be duplicated and their value today can not be estimated, even by the artist himself. Yet. he would rather have them than any paintings he ever has done. They were the first paintings Mr. Vawter ever did, and they decorated the walls, ceiling and furniture in his childhood home in Greenfield. “I sometimes lie awake at night

NEW FLOWER FIRM WILL OPEN TONIGHT Wholesale Company Will Give Entertainment. Indiana Flower Growers. Inc., 309 North Capitol avenue, will hold a formal opening tonight, followed by an entertainment program for guests at the Washington. All florists and their friends in the state have been invited to attend by William F. Mahoney, secretary of the new wholesale flower and supply company. Joseph H. Hill, Richmond, is president, and Len Eder, Indianapolis, vice-presi-dent, STATE RELIEF OFFICE MOVES TO NEW SITE All Poor Projects to Be Handled at 215 North Senate Avenue. William H. Book, director of the Governor's commission on unemployment relief, announces that the headquarters for all poor relief work, including the CWA, henceforth will be in the Swain-Meyer building at 215 North Senate avenue. The new headquarters opened today after paid-work employes spent the week-end moving files and furniture from the old headquarters in‘the. statehouse. Mr. Book said that the program had become too vast to be carried on in the space allotted to the commission in the Governor s office.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933

r Ma - ■ -a X - ; RIGHT HAYD J. IR.FI TFiiml ; !3. , R i;i„ FF R F(,||„ ~ * , :a! impossibility and a proposition -MY f-i rac >’ c ° ul f not survive beyo Taught with peril, in the opinon | * reach of the^human^voice. Hall of Columbia university, noted |j ■'? pours out suggestic isserts: “Improvement must come §j powers and duties of the feder n the local circles. The work jl| are benic constantly w. . nstijtutions are so deep it is im- | For instance.* on the MX'h fl< neat must be remedied locally. i’ V §§ JBf S°tment°'of justice in Washit ern into new silhouettes, Proses- §Bjk;A* ' 1 & 'wßjflljßp going forward looking .to enfor or Hall recommends some- A;; ment of the new federal securit •hanges. His first move would be ''|jg||pjt act that goes into effect N iS lice e forS Une We 8 /" | ?ace of cimipUon'a’nd^lavv 11 vie milt our whole system of law en- • J i HB? f / • jj essentially a orcement around states and. jk Js mor for local officials to slice :ounties. which are purely acci- *-r ~ i, v--..- l of their communities, is being lental divisions. And in every big Vl'vlr "i ii 1 * mw -ith imrHiv anv nt

ca! impossibility and a proposition fraught with peril, in the opinon of the experts. Lean, shrewd Professor Jerome Rail of Columbia university, noted for his research in criminal law, asserts: “Improvement must come in the local circles. The work can not be done by the federal government. “We need officials experienced in a community. The roots of local institutions are so deep it is impossible to uproot them. To be blunt, the inefficiency of enforcement must be remedied locally. Putting the enforcement pattern into new silhouettes, Professor Hall recommends some changes. His first move would be to remodel local police forces so that they coincide with metropolitan areas. A former Chicago district attorney himself, Professor Hall says: “In Chicago, for example, you have what the sociologists call a metropolitan area—a collection of communities with common interists, divided by the persistence of legal and historical accidents in creating artificial geographical boundaries for cities and counties. And there you find the city police and just outside the city numerous suburbs in which gangsters operate, and you find a set-up in which criminals can go from one state to another in a very short time. “There are, it is true, arguments for a federal police force. We built our whole system of law enforcement around states and counties, which are purely accidental divisions. And in every big city you have a union between racketeers and politicians. “Look at it this way: When you examine crimes you find two kinds of cases. First, the ordinary cases. Now. what irks the masses is not the thousands who get away with crime, but the individual spectacular criminals like the Lindbergh kidnapers. , “Convictions in spectacular cases are an emotional necessity for the public. Capone’s conviction was an emotional necessity. Such cases create a dramatic issue. The public says “Get that guy!” but forgets about the 100,000 other criminals whose misdeeds don’t attract wide attention. No one but the local police can deal with those others, the regular run of crimes.” 8 8 a HE wonders if the biretta of dignified success that now crowns the federal forces would stay there if federal duties were widened to include all offenses. “The very fact that the government confines itself now to a small area in the crime picture." he says, “is possibly the reason it is so superior. The everyday job should be left to a reform of the whole local enforcement machinery. “Morover, there are indications

Are Priceless to Will Vawter , but Gone Beyond Recall

and think of them, and I break into a cold sweat,” Mr. Vawter admitted recently, reminiscing in the art gallery at Lieber’s, where he was exhibiting the paintings he finished during the past year. Mother Never Scolded “My mother truly was a wonderful and understanding person. It must have been pretty awful to ! have a young son who insisted on scratching pictures on the varnished surface of the bed with a pin, but she never scolded. She admired the

KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA WINS BENEFIT TROPHY Sorority to Receive Cup Today for Christinas Charity Work. Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority yesterday won the third annual Christmas Cheer campaign sponsored by the Butler University Collegian, student paper. The campaign, which is for the benefit of indigent Indanapolis families, has been in progress since Dec. 1. Miss Virginia Fosler, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, will be presented with the C. B. Dyer trophy today. Pi Beta Phi and Delta Delta won second and third places, respectively, in the contest. Other organizations making large contributions were Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Gamma, Alpha Omicron Pi. Butler Independent Association, Sigma Nu and Delta Zeta. FAIRVIEW CIVIC CLUB WILL HEAR ATTORNEY Track Elevation Problems to Be Discussed Today. Lawrence W. Homing, attorney, will address the members of the Butler-Fairview Civic Association today at the Fairview Presbyterian church. Forty-sixth street and Kenwood avenue, on track elevation problems. Nominating committees to elect officers for 1934 will present two tickets headed by Dr. Fdward Haines Kistler for president and the ■ other presenting Judge Joseph Milner for the same office-.

Homer S. Cummings, United States Attorney-General

that the federal strength has reached its capacity now. For ten years Fiorello La Guardia. backed by Newton D. Baker, tried to get congress to pass the ‘anti-fence’ law so that the federal government would have to prosecute receivers of stolen property in interstate traffic. “It was quashed because Attorney - General Mitchell, with Hoover's backing, announced that the government enforcement agencies were at capacity now and could not take on any further burdens.” You are in a boat on the Hudson river. You see a man stand on the Jersey shore and with a high-powered rifle kill a man on the New York shore. In what state was that murder committed ? Very properly you say: “In New York, because that’s where the bullet took effect.” New York must then extradite the murderer from New Jersey. But a man can be extradited only when he is a fugitive, when he has committed a crime in a state and has fled from it. In this case the criminal is no fugitive from justice, because he never was

drawings and paintings that I j painstakingly made from the time I was about 2 years old, even when they were placed, as one was, on the front door of the house. “The ceiling of my bedroom was a wonderful sight.” he mused. “I painted on it the sun, moon and stars. Scenery decorated the walls; I shall never forget one corner, w’here, with much labor, I painted a woodland scene. “I had so much trouble with the pafnt. There’s little wonder at that —I borrowed it from a carriage shop near our home—a little pot of this color and that. I didn't j know just how to mix oils with it,' but I knew that that was what it needed. So I tried any number of original oils—kerosene, turpentine, lard—even butter. “In that one corner I painted a steep, green bank, with trees growing at the top. Perched in the trees were two cockatoos —a white one and a red one. The green paint representing the grass wouldn't dry. Every day when I went in to inspect it, it had run down to the floor in little rivulets it looked like the marks that buttermilk makes when it runs down the sides of a glass container. Paint Wouldn’t Dry “Carefully I would push it back into place—the next time I looked it would be just the same. I should have been very discouraged, if it had not been for my mother. I remember that she encouraged me about it—she told me that it gave the scene a. very realistic effect—that to her it looked like Spanish moss.” The home in Greenfield has been torn down; the wooden bed on the sides of which Mr. Vawter's first crude drawings were made with the ' point of a pin has disappeared. And the artist who has placed on canvas some of the most famous reproductions of picturesque Brown county scenery—whose work hes been displayed in various art galleries —who was selected to do some of the original illustrations for James Whitcomb Riley’s poems—mourns that loss. For twenty-five years Mr; VSwter has maintained a studio in Brown

in New York He can not be extradited to New York since he did not flee from it. To remedy that weakness Professor Hall recommends the making of extradition treaties among the separate states. The difficulty of extraditing witnesses from one state to another (which is apple pie for federal offeers), which now constitutes one of the great stacles to efficient local enforcement, can also be overcome .by such treaties, as pointed out by the American Law institute in its new proposed penal code. Frowning on the idea of a national police force, AttorneyGeneral Cummings whacks his desk and says. "Rather should we stress thorough and whole-heart-ed co-operation between federal and state authorities, “Manifestly, local government has proved in many ways quite incapable of meeting present emergencies. But centralization of power has been looked upon with distrust not only since the days of the thirteen colonies, but from time immemorial. It was an ancient Greek who said that democ-

county, where he does much of his, work. He probably was the first | artist to fcuild a studio in Brown county, after TANARUS, L. Steele. Now there is a large colony of artists there, and the natives of the community have become accustomed to the sight of easels, paint brushes and palettes in every picturesque and colorful spot in the hills and . valleys. Art As Native Saw It “They were puzzled about it at first,” Mr. Vawter explained. “When ] I began to paint down there, one j of the natives told me that I was j the second artist he had seen at work. In his own way, he gave a description of the other —I recognized the artist as Adolph Schultz. “I seed him sittin’ under his big umbrella,’ ” Mr. Vawter said, imitating the native. His great gray head wagged in imitation of his rural friend, and he mimicked the nasal twang of the native Hoosier with elaborate perfection. “ 'He had a board in his hand, and another in front of him. In one hand he had a little bunch of sticks; he would look off at the trees, and then hit the board in front of him with the sticks. I just didn't know what to think of it, Mr. Vawter - —they always add an ‘s’ to my name, as if there were two of me—‘l tell you, it looked plumb foolish to me.’ ” According to Mr. Vawter, the native folk still don’t understand their artist friends. “We still look 'plumb foolish’ to them,” he admitted. “They don't understand us; they just tolerate us.” Explaining this point of view, he said: “I painted a scene near an old farmer friend's house a few years ago. He has a poor little rocky farm, a ramshackle house, and a very poor cow. 5250 Picture of $35 Cow “I was painting a scene where a little stream flowed along, and sketched in the figure of the cow, which was grazing nearby. Jake, my farmer friend, was interested. He wandered down to the spot every day; pretending to be helpful. He swore at the'cow to stand still, and watched carefully as I progressed with the painting. • ; “I finished it, and had good luck

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racy could not survive beyond reach of the human voice.” BUB YET. wfiile a torrent of protest pours out against suggestions for a national police army, the powers and duties of the federals are being constantly widened, the hefty brogans of Uncle Sam are tramping farther and farther into territory considered essentially that of the local authorities. For instance, on the sixth floor of the dour gray building on Vermont street that houses the department of justice in Washington, feverish preparations are going forward looking .to enforcement of .the new federal securities act that goes into effect New Year's day. That act delegates to the divi-. sion of investigation and to the federal prosecutors work which ought to be done by the county authorities under “blue sky” laws and their laws on obtaining money under false pretenses. That new federal law. as Frank Parrish, the gray-haired, deliberate chief of the criminal division in the United States attorneygeneral's office, points out, makes the federals assume work the states should be doing. The shadow of dictatorial federal control of law enforcement all over the country approaches closer and closer with increasing evidence of the jittering helplessness of local authorities in the face of corruption and law violations. Racketeering, essentially a tumor for local officials to slice out of their communities, is being attacked now with hardly any other than federal scalpels. The United States division of investigation, having already identified 150 organized rackets preying on legitimate business in Greater New York and its environs, is turning its evidence over to Senator Royal S. Copeland’s committee. Before very long there will be some more federal racketeering indictments—cases essentially for local authorities, but which the federal government must assume by-nr'subterfuge—by the thin excilse that the racketeers engage in “interstate traffic” when they ferry chickens and lettuce over from Jersey or truck them in from Connecticut. A prosecutor who has himself—as in the election fraud cases—investigated what was primarily a local problem, former United States Attorney George Z. Medalie says: “If the federal government were able to do this prodigious job, the net result would be a definite loss of the sense of local responsibility. It is necessary that the exercise of local power shau’d not fall into disuse. Unless a more efficient system is developed than now exists, that (national police) will be the inevitable tendency, with the consequent loss of usefulness and of the ability for self-govern-ment.”

with it. It was only a small canvas, but I sold it for $250. A short time later I was again painting on Jake's farm, and he came sauntering up. “ ‘Heard you sold the picture,’ he said. I confirmed the gossip. ‘Heard you got $250 for it ’ Jake added. I admitted that too. Jake looked puzzled. Then ne scratched his head in wonderment. “ ‘Well, that I beats all!’ he stuttered, with a string of real Brown county profanity. ‘I and have sold them the real cow for s3s!’” ATTORNEY INJURED IN AUTOMLUSIONi Lawyer Taken to Hospital for Treatment. Serious injuries were sustained by Chester L. Zechiel. 5420 North Illinois street, Indianapolis attorney, when his car was in collision with j another car last night at Meridian and Forty-ninth streets. The other car was driven by Miss Betty Vanderbilt, 17, of 5335 North Meridian street. Mr. Zechiel sustained lacerations, fracture of one shouder, and other injuries. He was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital, where his condition was reported not critical. CITY-MADE SAWS ON BYRD ANTARCTIC SHIP E. C. Atkins & Cos. Makes Tools for Polar Ship. Indianapolis-made saws and other tools are on their way to the Antarctic with Admiral Richard E. Byrd, it was announced today by officials of the E. C. Atkins & Cos. In reply to a telegram from Admiral Byrd, the company has shipped six circular saws and two circular crosscut saws of special specifications to Wellington, New Zealand, for the expedition. The expedition already carried a supply of other types of tools manufactured by the local company. J

FLIERS PRAISE ANNE’S SKILL AS NAVIGATOR Aviation World Amazed at Rapid but Unassuming Rise to Fame. BALLYHOO IS LACKING Takes No Spectacular Solo Tops: Trained Under Husband. By Cnital Brett NEW YORK. Dec 19.-The aviation world marveled today at the unassuming but meteoric rise of Anne Lindbergh into the front rank of women fliers. Mrs. Lindbergh has achieved skill as a pilot, navigator and radio operator, capable of taking part in flights that made aviation history, with so little attendant ballyhoo that her ability was unnoticed when the names of women fliers were mentioned. Mrs. Lindbergh's flying achievements. however, differ from those of Amelia Earhart of America. Amy Johnson of England, and Maryse Hilsz of France, in that she always has accompanied her husband and never engaged in the more spectacular solo flights. Her responsibilities on Lindbergh's flights, however, have been such that only a veteran aviatrix could meet. All her training has been under i the direction of Colonel Lindbergh, 1 and began before they were marj lied when the young aviator, en- | gaged in a good-will flight after his I famous nonstop flight to Paris, i visited Mexico City. Colonel Lindbergh took Ambassador Morrow's daughter on several flights, on one of which they cracked up on landing, due to broken gear. After their marriage,. Mrs. Lindbergh accompanied her husband on several flights across the continent, one of them a record-breaking hop from west to east, completed a few months before the birth of their i first son. Already she was acting as co-pilot on their flights. Studied Navigation When Colonel Lindbprgh planned a vacation trip to the Orient, she took up the study of navigation and ! radio telegraphy, and proved her- ; self superior to her husband in the latter. It was Anne Lindbergh’s messages from the plane that kept the world informed of their progress while they flew over the Canadian northwest territory, and over the desolate Berin^sea. This summer’s trip was even more ambitious than the Pacific flight, but Mrs. Lindbergh handled her duties like a veteran. The trip was over 30,000 air miles in five months —farther than around the world at the equator, and almost twice as far as the distance traveled by Wiley Post in his record solo hop around the world. Always on Course It led them over mountainous terrain in Greenland never before spanned, and into little African ports where the arrival of a seaplane particularly that of the Lindberghs’—was occasion enough for a civic celebration. The flight over the South Atlantio was in itself a major achievement. Guided by Mrs. Lindbergh’s naviga- ! tion, the plane never once left its ! course. Miss Johnson has to her credit ; solo flights from England to Australia. to Cape Town, to Tokio, and a flight with her husband across the Atlantic. Miss Earhart crossed the Atlantic* by air twice, the second time alone. She holds the women's nonstop distance record, and the autogiro altitude record. But Mrs. Lindberghs flying since her marriage, while not of the spectacular kind, entitles her to rank with the foremast women fliers. SHOPLIFTER RECEIVES , THIRTY-DAY SENTENCE! Stole for Children, Accused Says; Judge Not Impressed. A shoplifter’s plea that he stole for his children from a downtown store failed to win him leniency yesterday in municipal court three. Cyril F. Des Jean, 48. of 4464 Guilford avenue, told Judge Dewey Myers “everything went blank when I looked at those things and thought of my children. “However, testimony was that none of the $5.43 worth of articles taken were for children. Warning that shoplifters may expect no mercy in his court. Judge 1 Myers fined Des Jean $5 and costs I and sentenced him thirty days. CORPS PROGRAM SET Patriotic Societies Will Meet for Gift Exchange. Federated patriotic societies allied with the G- A. R. will meet at 8 tomorrow in Ft. Friendly, 512 North j Illinois street. George H. Chapman j Relief Corps will sponsor the pro- | gram and an exchange of small | gifts. Turf Stock Value Sinks I By United Brent CHICAGO, Dec. 19—The value ot j a share of capital stock in the American Turf Association has been ■ reduced from $25 to $12.50 after a meeting of the directors here yesterday. The American Turf AssoI ciation controls horse racing at Churchill Downs and Latonia, in Kentucky, and Washington Park and Lincoln fields in Chicago. Baltimore Club Will Meet Indianapolis Baltimore Club meet tonight at the home of jCal Dusing, 473 North Waic.j street. •