Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1934 — Page 2

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PEEK AIDS ARE FIRED IN HUGE AAA SHAKEUP All Appointees of Former Administrator Ousted: Bureaus Dropped. Bit T'nitcd Prr*s WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—A major reorganization n moved from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration today every man who had been appointed by ex-Administra-tor George N. Peek. Illinois plowmanufacturer. Eight sections of the administration were eliminated altogether, while into the places of the other Peek appointees went men known to sympathize with the new deal for agriculture, as typified by the theories of Henry Agard Wallace, secretary of agriculture, and Rexford Guy Tugwell, his assistant. The jovial Mr. Peek, conservative by nature and by training, recently was removed as AAA administrator by President Roosevelt and assigned to study foreign trade with the idea of co-ordinating all the federal agencies pertaining to it. Army Officer Resigns Disciples of Mr. Peek to go included: Smith W Brookhart, AAA foreign trade expert. The former senator from lowa is expected to join Mr. Peek in his foreign trade studies. General William I. Westervelt, army officer of the old school, chief of the marketing and processing section, who went back to Chicago and Sears, Roebuck and Company. He left his lucrative mail order house position at Mr. Peek's behest last spring. James D Dole, the Hawaiian pineapple "king,” who abdicated as chief of the food division Oscar Johnston, chief of the finance section and plump cotton planter from Scott, Miss, who said he wanted to devote all his time to the cotton program. New Assistants Named Several lesser lights also were removed. together with about 100 assistants and clerks, in what Chester C. Davis, the new administrator, said was an efficiency move. Mr. Davis closed the food products, fisheries, beverages, foreign trade, special commodities, imports, code analysis and administrative sections, all of -which had been organized byMr. Peek. Administrator Davis appointed Victor A Christgau, H R. Tolley and Alfred D. Stedman as assistant administrators. Mr. Christgau, former representative from Minnesota, will be in charge of the new- commodities division, which will take over the work of the old production and processing and marketing divisions.

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Grand Juror Believes Women Should Serve Mrs. Percy Gordon, First of Sex to Hold Foreman Post, Gives Reasons for Her Views. BY HELEN LINDSAY Timet Staff Writer

Every grand jury should have at least one woman member, thinks Mrs. Percy M. Gordon, 1503 Park avenue. Mrs. Gordon feels that she should know the advantage of a woman grand jury member. She finished one hundred days of service on the Marion county grand jury Saturday, with the distinction of being not only the first grand jury' woman, but the first woman foreman of such a iurv.

"There’s no reason why a woman can t serve on a grand jury,” she said, commenting on her experiences. "Women are interested in the welfare of their community and in the apprehension of criminals. “There is, of course, a certain amount of discomfort to hearing the sordid details of crime, as they are presented in a grand jury chamber investigation, but women in present days are accustomed to reading of gangsters and murderers in their daily newspapers, and they can be shielded no longer from the fact that such things do exist.” "Very Much Interested" One thing has impressed Mrs. Gordon in her grand jury experiences. "I feel that these investigations reveal that the fault of crime can be laid usually to some mistake in home training or home environment," she said. When she was called for grand jury service, in early summer, the courtroom gasped when a motherly, sweet-faced, gray-haired woman appeared before the judge’s bench. Her name had been pulled from a hat in which the names of numbers of taxpayers in Marion county were held. The name "Percy M. Gordon” was believed at first to be that of a man. You don’t want to serve on this grand jury, do you, Mrs. Gordon?” she was asked. “Os course I do,” was the response, “I'm very much interested in it.”

Not as a mark of chivalry, but because she was fitted for the position through years of social service and community work, Mrs. Gordon was elected by masculine members of the grand jury as foreman. She has given from two to three hours a day. for 100 days, to investigations of crimes committed in Marion county. Husband Is Proud The law makes me ineligible for a year to serve again," Mrs. Cordon said. "I’m sorry; it has been a worth-while experience, and I would like to continue the work. I only hope that the next grand jury will have among its members some other woman who will be able to give her time and thought to the investigation of crime." Mrs. Gordon began social service work when she was about 20. She has been a member of various women's clubs in Indianapolis, and at present is an active member of the community welfare department of

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the Woman’s Department Club. She is the wife of George W. Gordon, local architect, who proudly escorted her from the criminal courtroom after she had made the report of the grand jury Saturday to Judge Frank P. Baker. GANGSTER DOWN First 1934 Victim of Gunmen Is Slain in Bedroom. By Vniter) Press CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—Michael Regan, 29, w-as the first Chicago gang victim of 1934, police believed today. He was shot to death by three men who entered his mother-in-law’s home. The three men shot Regan dow-n as he stood in the door of his bedroom. Without a word they turned and ran to a waiting automobile and escaped. SUSPECTS TERROR MOB Civil Works Watchman Tries to Question Armed Trio. Visioning terror mob activities, Russell Thomas, 47, 711 North New Jersey street, civil works watchman at the canal and White river, saw three men, carrying automatic rifles, drive up to the canal last night and speak of “meeting someone." When he attempted to question them they drove away, he reported to police.

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BANK FAILURE INSURANCE IS INAUGURATED - - • Deposits Up to $2,500 Guaranteed in Plan, Effective Today.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Deposits of ninety-seven out of every 100 Americans with bank accounts were insured in full today against failures as the federal government put into operation its elaborate deposit guarantee program. Walter J. Cummings, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, reported to President Roosevelt last night that 13,423 of the country’s banks had been admitted under the plan, which provides insurance for all deposits of $2,500 or less. These accounts make up more than 90 per cent of the $42,000,000,000 now on deposit in American banks. About 1,000 operating banks qither w'ere voluntarily or involuntarily without insurance. Some bankers could not meet the requirements. Others insisted they did not need insurance to safeguard their depositors. Mr. Cummings said that 14,140 banks now are operating on an unrestricted basis, exclusive of some 600 mutual savings banks, many of which also are operating normally. All of the 6,033 federal reserve member banks automatically came under the insurance plan while 7,390 member state and mutual savings banks had been affected. Banks not yet under insurance will be received into the corporation, as rapidly as they can qualify, Mr. Cummings said. Chairman Jesse Jones of the RFC has pledge.d several hundred million dollars of government money to banks needing additional capital to qualify for deposit insurance. More than $700,000,000 already has been authorized. In order to participate in insurance, banks subscribe one-half of one per cent of their insurable deposit liabilities to the deposit insurance corporation. In case a participating bank should fail for any reason, the deposit insurance corporation out of its “pool” will take over the institution and immediately pay off dollar for dollar all deposits up to $2,500.

TWELVE COATS STOLEN Thieves Obtain Loot After Breaking Downtown Store Window. Breaking open a window in the Miller-Wohl Company store, 45 East Washington street, thieves last night | stole twelve women’s fur coats, value of which was not announced. Police were notified of the bur-, glary by a passerby, who noticed the opened window.

SEVENTEEN RETIRED AFTER SERVING TOTAL OF 600 YEARS AT POSTOFFICE

BERLIN ECONOMIST TO JOIN CHICAGO FACULTY Prominent Educator Forced Out of Germany by Nazis. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 2 Dr. Melchoir Palyi, German professor of economics, has been retained by the University of Chicago, it was announced today. Dr. Palyi was forced to vacate several teaching and editorial positions in Germany by the Nazi government. Dr. Palyi will present a course called monetary theory during the winter quarter. During the spring quarter he will teach “European banking systems,” and during the summer will present “business cycles.” In Berlin he acted as economist for ’the Deutschbank. EX-SENATOR REED AND WIFE ENTERTAIN Guests Congratulate Newlyweds at Reception. By Unite Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 2. Former Senator James A. Reed and his bride, the former Mrs. Nell Q. Donnelly, settled down to housekeeping today after a New Year’s day reception attended by hundreds. For more than three hours the couple stood and received congratulations on their marriage here early last month. The guests included prominent attorneys, jurists and Missouri political leaders.

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Seventeen employes were retired from the Indianapolis postoffice on Dec. 31 after many years of service. Adolph Seidensticker, postmaster, in making the announcement of the retirements, stated that the postoffice was overcrowded, but that instead of laying any employes off. that older employes would be retired after thirty years service. The above group has seen the local postoffice grow from a modest service to a $3,550,000 business. All started their careers at the old

postoffice at Market and Pennsylvania streets. Their years of service totals more than 600. Left to Right ‘front row) — Charles A. Sammis, Jeremiah T. Hurlbut, Frank J. Richmann, Miss Hallie Aurelia Joyce, Louis J. Dochez, Christian Rudolph, Harry J. Boaz and George ifeming. Left to Right (second row)— Arthur O. Hiatt, Lewis E. Frazeur, and John E. Clinton, Absent William H. Gerdts, James A. McMath, William C. Barr. Edward Carskadon. Oscar L. Hittle and Thomas C. Kelley.

JAN. 2, 1934

FORMER COUNTY T. B. HOSPITAL 1 CHIEF IS DEAD Dr. H. V. Scarborough Was Superintendent at Sunnyside. Heart disease proved fatal yesterday to Dr H. V. Scarborough. 57, former Marion county tuberculosis hospital superintendent, according to dispatches from Norton. Kan. Dr. Scarborough was noted throughout the middle west as a specialist in tuberculosis treatment. Before coming to the Sunnyside institution here, ne headed the Oakdale Sanitarium, lowa City, la., twenty-three years. He was superintendent at Sunnyside from July 1, 1930, until March, 1933, when he resigned to become director of the Henrietta Brown Memorial Foundation in Lyons, Kan. Cured of a case of tuberculosis at the Oakdale sanatorium as a young man, Dr. Scarborough remained at the institution for study. Later he was named assistant superintendent and in 1911 was named superintendent. Dr. Scarborough is survived by the widow, two daughters, Miss Erma Scarborough, Baltimore, and Miss Dorothy Scarborough. Chicago, and a son, Winston. Sendees will be held in Junction, la. The first American fighting ships were ordinary merchantmen, with spaces cleared for guns.