Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1934 — Page 11

JAN. 1, 1931.

EARLY FREEDOM MAY BE HANDED TO PHILIPPINES Rumble of Far Eastern War Drums May Influence U. S. Action. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripp-H<iard Foreirn Editor WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—The everincreasing rumble of war drums in the far east, portending a conflict fraught with peril to the well-nigh helpless United States, so far as that region is concerned, may bring early freedom to the Philippines. Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate and head of the new independence mission to Washington, is now consulting, by cable, with Manila with a view to presenting to President Roosevelt the precise demands of the islanders. These probably will be ready next week. They are almost certain to include a request for early and complete independence—that is to say, within three years—and a new trade deal between the United States and the islands. President Quezon will present his case at the direct request of President Roosevelt. The President is known to be uneasy over the situation in the Orient, and while congress has seemed little inclined to revise the existing independence act, or to pass anew one, it would probably do so if asked by the White House. Japan Can Take Islands As matters stand, the Philippines could be taken by Japan—to mention the islands’ most powerful neighbor—within forty-eight hours. High naval officers admit that, under the Washington treaty, the archipelago can not be defended. In the event the islands were captured by a foreign power, public opinion at home and abroad would force the United States to recapture them. To do so would require a navy twice the size of the present fleet. All our warships could not be removed from the Atlantic. Lines of communication across the Pacific would have to be protected. And as warships lose from 6 to 10 per cent of their effectivenass for every 1,000 miles they steam away from base, another 30 per cent in efficiency would have to be deducted from that portion of the fleet which finally reached Far Eastern w'aters. I The Philippines, it is argued, thus constitute a grave hazard to America’s national defease without her being able to do much, if anything, about it. War Talk Rampant Meantime war talk continues in world chancelleries. China is ablaze with civil war, too weak to prevent new invasions. Japan is biting away great chunks of territory north of the great wall, apparently annexing them to her puppet state of Manchoukuo. The highest officials of Moscow are openly charging Japan with intentions of provoking a conflict with the Soviet Union. Important administration officials here feel that this might not be a bad time for democracy to make good its promise of Philippine independence. Under an international guarantee, they observe, the islands should be at least as safe as they are now. In any event, it is argued, once independence is granted and the international guarantee enters into effect, the position of the United States, in this Far Eatsern outpost, would be improved. If this country felt obliged to take up the cudgel for the islands anyhow’, at least it would not be alone in the field. The Quezon mission to Washington. therefore, may succeed beyond expectations. Asa Democrat, President Roosevelt might be expected to honor the Democratic platform pledge, while as a former assistant navy secretary he know's to the last rivet the technical difficulties of defending the islands under existing conditions. NAVY AIR CHIEF SENDS GREETINGS TO FORCE Asks ‘Continued Co-Operation’ for Increasing ‘Capacity.’ By Vniti and Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 1. —RearAdmiral Ernest J. King, chief of naval aeronautics, today sent New Year's greetings to personnel of the navy an- force, in which he asked continued eo-operation for “increasing the capacity of naval aviation for the good of the country and the navy.’’ ?OUR MEN ARE HELD One Suffers from Bullet Wound: Face Vagrancy Charges. Four men are under arrest, one with a bullet wound in his hip. following a police raid Saturday afternoon on a house at 426 East Merrill street. The wounded man is Everett Wainscott, 48, of the Merrill street address. Also held are his son. Bernard Wainscott, who is believed to have shot him: John Taylor, 37 Falmer street, and William Frederick, who lives at the Wainscott home. All are charged with vagrancy.

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“I lost my temper. . . . She told stories about me.” After hours of grilling this was the excuse police said Mary Kavala, 13, gave for strangling to death her 8-year-old chum, Josephine Waropay, whose body was found under porch steps at fashionable Hastings-on-Hud-son, N. Y. Hiding her tears with her hands, the Kavala girl is escorted by a detective after confessing the crime at white Plains, MONON IS SUED IN BANKRUPTCY Friendly Action Taken to Conserve Assets of Railroad. Plans to put the Monon railroad through a friendly bankruptcy suit and conserve assets without a receiver have been made public by William L. Taylor, Indianapolis division counsel for the road. Suit was brought Saturday before Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson at Chicago, w r ho authorized the present management to continue. President H R. Kurrie of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville railroad, proper title for the popularly known Monono, explained that failure to borrow Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds caused the road to face default on a $515,000 bond interest payment today.

House Chiefs Confident of Controlling Rebels

Majority Leaders Certain of Strength to Crush All Sniping. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—Majority leaders of the house faced the coming session of congress today certain of full party strength which would overwhelm all sniping efforts of the minority. Only the silver and tax issues worried the leaders as each train and plane brought back the full membership of 435 for the first session under the Norris lame duck amendment. Minority Leader Bertrand H. Snell and his chief lieutenant, Representative Allen T. Treadway tßep., Mass.), indicated that the minority of 114 would not attempt any concerted stand during the session. Mr. Snell, in a statement, said that Republicans would “go along with the President in any recovery legislation where the proposition seems i fair.” Realizing that the Republicans' 11932 platform was repudiated comi pletely in the election last Novem- ■ her. the house minority faces the significant session in realization that it provides a period in which only individual utterances will count. So varied were the Republican attitudes that M Treadway, ranking minority member of the house ways and means committee, agreed that ! next November's elections would depend in their result wholly on the personal appeal of the individual candidate and the candidate’s personal reaction to phases of the recovery program. The house majority with 313 Democrats lined up, is certain, according to Speaker Henry Rainey and Majority Leader Joseph W. | Bvrns, to remain solidly behind any | proposals of the President. To insure such concerted action Mr. Byrns and Mr. Rainey plan to | change the rule by which hitherto 1 145 members have been able to bring

3,000 EAGERLY AWAIT OLD AGE PENSIONS HERE Checks May be Available in Spring; Probers Start Work. They will open the door with quivering and gnarled fingers. Voices tremulous with age will answer questions. Eyes faded with years will watch anxiously, trying to detect the reaction of the questioner. Three thousand old people of Marion county await eagerly the action of investigators employed by the county, in the first action taken on the old age pension law’, passed by the last Indiana legislature. Their applications have been made out for many months, and arcon record at the county auditor’s office. Many of these old people have become impatient with waiting, unable to understand why the money they expect has not been paid. Wait for New Year “They can’t understand that the law’ w’as passed after the budget was accepted, and that we have had to wait for the new year before we could begin investigation of their cases,” Charles A. Grossart, county auditor, explained, in commenting on the applications. “One old man has written me at least fifteen letters, asking for an advance on the pension which he expects to receive. Another has visited me, finding it hard to believe that he is ineligible for the pension. “He has a small piece of property, but nothing with which to pay taxes on it. He has no income. Yet the law says that if he owns as much as SI,OOO worth of property he may not receive a pension. There was nothing I could do to reassure him. I just told him to fill out an application, and the investigators would act on it.” Investigators Start Four investigators are to start tomorrow morning to checking status of pension applicants. They will file a report with the auditor, which will be considered by the commissioners. Applicants must be 70 and have lived in the county for fifteen years, at no time during which time may they have been absent for a period of three years. They may not be an inmate of an institution. Pensions w'ill not exceed sls a month. Appropriation of $90,000 has been made for pension payments. Backed by Eagles Lodge The Indiana law w T as passed through the efforts of the Indiana old age pension commission of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which Otto P. Deluse is chairman. It is similar to other laws passed through the efforts of the lodge in other states. In Indiana, each county must conform to the pension law, while in some states the counties may or may not conform. One-half of the appropriation will be returned to the county by the state. Payment of the pensions w’ill be made through mail by check. The first checks will be mailed probably early in May.

up a bill, to force majority action on such proposals. Silver remonetization action, favored by Mr. Rainey, was the subject of conferences among returning members today. Mr. Rainey, however, has warned house silver proponents that while he favors remonetization action, the support of the administration must be forthcoming if it is to receive favorable action. In addition differences between house ways and means subcommittee members and Henry Morgenthau, acting secretary of treasury, over proposals for closing tax law loopholes by which the wealthy evade tax payments is bound to cause debate. Mr. Morgenthau has held that the subcommittte’s proposals to save $275,000,000 would save only half that much, and w’ould hurt business in its effort to move upward from the depression. DIES IN HOTEL ROOM Heart Disease Fatal to City Man, 54, Son of Proprietor. Challie Swiggett, 54. son of Thomas Swiggett, proprietor of the Roxy hotel, 320*2 East Washington street, died suddenly in his room at the hotel early today of heart disease, according to the police.

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Miss Frances Dodge, daughter of the late John F. Dodge, automobile pioneer, wealthiest girl in Detroit and one of the richest in the nation, is shown here as she made her debut in Detroit society. Her “coming out” party was one of the most lavish ever held in the Michigan metropolis. HOUSEKEEPER HELD IN HAMMER SLAYING New’ York Customers Man’s Nude Body Found in Tub, By Times Special NEW YORK, Jan. I.—Jealousy was believed today to have been the motive for the hammer murder of Dougias Sheridan, 68-year-old customer’s man for a brokerage house, whose nude body was found in the bathtub of his Riverside drive apartment. Mrs. Catherine Phelan, 52, his housekeeper for tw’enty-eight years, was booked by police on a charge of homicide after she gave what was described as an unsatisfactory version of her activities Saturday night. She said she found the body in the tub on returning from a movie. Detectives found a blood-stained hammer under a kitchen window in the apartment, apparently the W’eapon with which Sheridan’s head was crushed. Police said the apparent motive for the murder was Mrs. Phelan’s jealousy of her employer’s attentions to a younger woman. New York City is the oldest incorporated city in the United States.

5,000 Hoosiers Faced U. S. Booze Charges

Fines Totaling SBOO,OOO Levied During Years of Prohibition. Approximately 5,000 Hoosiers faced liquor charges in federal court during prohibition, records in the office of Albert C. Sogemier, court clerk, show. The government levied fines and forfeitures amounting to approximately SBOO,OOO during the period. It is anticipated that the number of criminal cases tried in federal court now’ will decrease, for approximately 90 per cent of such cases in the last few years have been for violation of the liquor laws. Immediately preceding repeal, Dec. 5, there was a slow decline in federal enforcement, for only 263 persons faced liquor charges in the 1933 southern Indiana district court as compared w’ith 634 the previous year. Before President Roosevelt, elected

—Your Health—‘SPECS’ SET IN EYE NEVER TO ENDOLD TYPE High Cost and Difficulty of Manipulation Are Disadvantages. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. Although you may have read much about a new’ kind of eyeglasses that are invisible and can be worn under the eyelids, you needn’t fear that your own type of spectacles soon will become oldfashioned. Much can be said for the new’ kind of glasses, both as to appearance and effectiveness, but authorities say they never will replace ordinary spectacles, because they cost more, are more difficult to manipulate, and are less adaptable to ordinary requirements of glasses. A contact eyeglass actually is w’orn under the eyelids, w’ith the rim resting directly on the eyeball. The portion of the eyeglass directly over that part of the eye w’hich sees usually is separated from it by a thin layer of salt solution, especially prepared so that it will not, like water, have an effect on the tissues. Becomes Part of Sight Ordinary eyeglasses one-half inch from the eye simply can not cure every error of refraction, because in higher errors there is distortion at the edge of the correcting lens. The contact eyeglass, which is worn on the eyeball, becomes a definite part of the optical system of the eye and maintains the same correction for every position of the eye. This is an advantage, and most people who wear contact glasses for the first time feel that the general clearness and brightness of objects is an improvement. The contact glass has another advantage in conditions in which the cornea of the eye is distorted, as in the case of conical cornea. These cases are helped much by ordinary glasses, but are helped greatly by contact glasses. Cause Irritation at First Some persons feel that the contact glasses are dangerous to wear, but actual trial has proved that they are safer than ordinary eyeglasses so far as breakage is concerned. In some cases the contact glasses have been worn by persons for many months without any apparent harm to their eyes. However, even where the contact glass is made to fit the eyeball perfectly, there is for a while a good deal of irritation to the eyelids. As the glasses are v/orn for a longer time, this irritation tends to disappear. It is much harder to fit contact glasses to the human eye than to fit ordinary spectacles. They have to be tried again and again, then the wearer has to be taught how to insert them and to remove them, because there is a trick in avoiding air bubbles over that portion of the eye covered by the salt solution. The contact glasses have to be removed and inserted several times daily. Workers on the stage, men indulging in sports of various sorts, and people with whom the question of appearance is paramount, probably will want to wear such glasses rather than spectacles.

on a wet platform, transferred prohibition enforcement to the new division of investigation of the department of justice, there were approximately twenty-five officers in this district, including five special agents, investigating alleged liquor conspiracies. This office w’as eliminated because most of the agents were discharged or switched to other districts. At the present time there are only three regular resident agents on duty in the district, two at Indianapolis and one at Terre Haute.

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The former wife of Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, Mrs. Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, here is shown on one of her rare appearances since her divorce, as she made two young acquaintances at a party for children in Philadelphia.

Thieves Rifle Parked Autos; Get S3OO Loot

Clothing and Accordion Worth $l6O Yielded by Other Cars. Few’ resolutions of reform were taken by local culprits over the week-end, if the list of holiday offenses is any indication. A black sealskin coat valued at S3OO w’as stolen from an automobile belonging to Miss Rosa Rapping, 3720 North Pennsylvania street, late Saturday afternoon as it was parked at Capitol avenue and Sixteenth street. A muskrat coat valued at S2OO belonging to Miss Esther Sullivan, 2415 South Randolph street, w’as stolen from her car parked at the Fall City Casino, after the thief had broken a window of the car. An accordion worth $l6O and an overcoat valued at S4O also was stolen from the same automobile. They were the property of George Mullins, employe of the General Electric Company with offices in the Traction Terminal building. Others who reported thefts from automobiles w’ere Raymond Houevener, 3327 East Michigan street, whose car w’as broken into early this morning at the Falls City Casino, and a woman’s coat worth S4O was stolen, and by Miss Elsie T. Miller, Vincennes, a sealskin coat valued at $75 taken yesterday while her car was parked at Meridian and Fourteenth streets. Two sample cases containing sport equipment valued at SSO were stolen from the automobile of L. G.

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Burdin, 806 North Riley avenue, while it w r as parked at Kentucky avenue and Maryland street. SIX BADLY BURNED IN THEATER BLAZE Eight Others Less Seriously Injured at Mt. Vernon. By Times Special MT. VERNON, N. Y.. Jan. I.—Six persons were in Mt. Vernon hospital today seriously burned in a motion picture theater fire. Eight others were hurt to a lesser degree w’hen 450 spectators rushed for the exits as flames burst from behind the screen of the Plaza motion picture theater. One of the most seriously injured w'as policeman John Bradley, whose efforts were responsible for the safety of a number of the audience.

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BPJ n OE BREAKS mm storm; 7 FEARED LOST Worst Rainstorm in 57 Years Rages Over Los Angcies. By United Pre LOS ANGELES. Jan. I—Tragedy was born in the worst rainstorm in fifty-seven years here today when seven persons were feared drowned. Six persons were reported missing when a frail wooden bridge collapsed over the Los Angeles river, hurling two automobiles into the raging torrent. Two passengers were saved. A seventh person, identified only as Highley, was sw’ept away in a three-foot crest of waters at a street intersection in Montrose, a suburb. A companion said the victim stepped from the curb, ignorant of the flood that raced past his feet. River Floods Ranks The other accident came as the Los Angeles river, normally a dry creek bed, flooded its banks. With more than five inches of rain reported. it was the heaviest downpour in a twenty-four-hour period since the local weather bureau was established in 1877. Mary Ann Farrell, 16. escaped by clinging to a floating timber. “I heard screams for help and I thought I saw two bodies floating away,” she said. Three Others in Car She said three other persons were in the car with her. She identified them as Junior Bryan, Oakdale, Cal.; Wendell Holmes. Burbank, and Inez Carley, 18, Hollywood. Richard Draper of Hollywood was driving the other- machine. He saved himself and identified his missing companions as Virginia Tallman. Los Angeles; Larry McDonald, Inglewood, and a girl whom he only knew as "Shirley.” More than a score of officers searched the w’aters with grappling hooks but the storm hampered their efforts. Beacon lights w'ere taken to the scene to aid searchers. FRENCH HEIRESS DIES Yvonne Delauney-Belleville Killed in Air Crash. By United Press ORLY. Italy, Jan. I.—Yvonne Delauney-Belleville, 30, daughter of a French automobile manufacturer, was instantly killed today w’hen an airplane in which she w'as stunting crashed, sending herself and the pilot to death. Mile. Delauney-Belleville was recently divorced from Baron Andre D’Honincthun. , About 730,000 seeds a year produced by the false flax plant.

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