Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1934 — Page 6

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STORY OF JOHN DILLINGER'S BOYHOOD IS TOLD BY THESE PHOTOS

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Bombing in Chinese War Is Newsreel Feature

Times - Universal Picture , Shows Revolutionary Force Rout. Graphic action pictures taken aboard a National army bombing plane as ifr attacks revolutionary forces in revolt in Fukien Province, China, and scenes of the infantry battling along the frontier, are to be seen in the current issue of The Times-Universal Newsreel. Graham McNamee, noted radio announcer and the screen’s talking reporter, describes this and the other events in the reel. Flying over the front lines, the Universal newsreel cameraman obtained scenes of the fighting during the hottest moments of the battle. The revolutionary forces, composed of Communists opposed to the central government at Nanking, are showered with shot and shell and suffer many casualties. Other important news events included in the current issue are scenes at Clatskanie, Ore., where four are killed in an avalanche; the new outbreak of a feud that results in a pitched battle at Marshall, Ark.; views of a steamer driven high on a beach by a terrific storm at Astoria, Ore.; Indians working in the largest all-Indian CCC camp in the United States; skaters on the Lincoln memorial pool at Washington, D. C.; a novel ear judges coni test in Paris. France; Mrs. Alice | Bridges setting anew United States I record for the 200-meter backstroke : at Miami, Fla.; Mussolini honoring farmers at the dedication of the , City of Littoria as an Italian prov- ! ince; an unusual snow festival at ' Innsbruck, Austria; two women pilots ending their 237-hour endurance hop at Miami, Fla., and scenes in New York City as the Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs clash in the fastest game of the year.

SIXTEEN JOIN CITY ENGINEERS’ SOCIETY —— ■■■■ New Members Admitted at Luncheon Meeting. Sixteen persons were admitted to membership in the Indianapolis Engineering Society at a luncheon meeting in the Board of Trade building yesterday. The new memj bers are B. H. Benckart, Herbert Bloemker, Edward M. Davis, Harry L. Hodges, Neal Jerome, John O. Kain, J. W. Martin, Claude C. Maj son. P. E. Middleton, C. W. Moore, 1 R. B. Moore, Marshall L. OberholtI zer. E. N. Rogers, F. H. Ryan, Bruce • Short and M. E. Wood. I J. R. Monaghan, president, pro- | posed general meetings of the so- ! ciety, which would be held the last ' Tuesday night of each month, immediately following the monthly directors’ meeting. Relationship of engineers to CWA projects now being undertaken in Indiana was outlined briefly by Mr. Monaghan. j

Upper—the old grocery, operated by John Dillinger Sr. in Indianapolis, while John was a small boy. John Jr. is seated in the wagon. Center, left —Young Dillinger is the lad right in the second row. The other children are members of his family. Center, right—The Dillinger family at one of thc-ir

GRGSSART STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION County Auditor Is Reported Slightly Better. Condition of Charles A. Grossart. Marion county auditor, ill at his home with threatened pneumonia and heart trouble, still is critical, although slightly improved, it was reported today. Mr. Grossart was ordered to rest several weeks ago, because of* a week heart, but refused.

LIKENS EUROPE TO ANOLD MAN Upton Close Says Continent Has Too Much Past and No Future. “Europe today is like a senile old man—too much past and no future.” That was the statement of Upton Close, newspaperman and an authority on Asia, made before a Town Hall audience at English’s this noon. He maintained it made no difference to the future of America what Europe does as “we are not going to get messed up with her again.” “As England enters into secret negotiations with Japan, that is vastly more important on our future than our negotiations with England or Japan,” he said. He declared that “our front door now is the Pacific and not the Atlantic” and that events to come very soon around that front door will shape the future destiny of this nation. Mr. Close asserted that President Roosevelt was elected “because he fooled the people by not telling them what he would do.” “The President is telling you now what is going on in this country,” he said, and predicted that the people are going to be divided cn the question of going the entire way with him. He stated that the President, for diplomatic reason, can not tell us what is going on in the Pacific, but he will by April of this year, or in 1936 when treaties expire.

TABERNACLE CHOIR TO SING SUNDAY Program Scheduled for Scottish Rite Cathedral. The choir of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church aand its pastor, the Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel, thirtythird degree Mason, will present the program Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Scottish Rite cathedral, North and Illinois streets. The program: Organ—•'Pilgrims’ Ch0ru5”....... .Wagner Paul R. Matthews. 320. Love Song- Salutation” ........ Games Invocation. J. Ambrose Dankel, D.D. Hvmn-"Fairest Lord Jesus. ' Chorus—' Blessed Jei-u '— • • • Dvoras Address. J. Ambrose Dunkel. D.D. _ Quartet —“Before the Lord We Bow pi j, suti Hymn—" The King of Love My Shep-Chc-ruY-' Ring Out Wild Bells” Guonod Benediction. This program of music will be presented by the choir which includes: Mrs. Walter E. Wallace, soprano soloist: Miss Patra M. Kennedy, contralto soloist; Perry M. Rush, tenor soloist; Fred Newell Morris, bass and director; Paul R. Matthews, organist; and a jmixed chorus of fifty .voices.

many outings when John Jr. was a boy. Second from the right, he is seated next to the older sister, who took over the duty of mother to him. Lower—Dillinger posed boyishly, the husky smiling kid that his friends knew before his terror reign in the underworld.

Committee Will Study Unemployment Insurance

Dr. R. Clyde White Elected Chairman of Social Work Group. Dr. R. Clyde White was elected chairman of the committee on social insurance of the Indiana stpte conference of social work Wednesday at the committee’s first meeting in the office of the Indiana university bueau of social research. It was determined to make a study of legislative measures for unemployment insurance. Members of the committee present were Alex E. Gordon, Indianapolis, representing labor: E. R. Blackwood, Indianapolis, insurance. Mrs. Edwin F. Miller, Peru, Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Neal Campbell, Indianapolis, League of Women Voters, and Dr. White, Indiana university.

FESTIVAL OF KINGS IS OBSERVED HERE

The three queens, selected by the kings in the “fete des rois.” old French Christmas season celebration, which was held at the Washington last night. From left to right, Mrs. Jeanne Morlock, baker of the “galette,” in which the gifts were hidden; Mrs. L. R. James, Ft. Harrison, and Mme. Yvonne Chamilovitch, Tudor Hall.

Queens Chosen and Cake and Wine Are Served as of Old. In accordance with an old French custom, the “fete des rois.” or the festival of kings, was*held last night at the meeting of the Alliance Francaise d'lndianapolis, at the Washington. A large flat cake, known among the French peasantry as “La Gaiette des Rois,” and prepared byMrs. Jeanne Morlock. was served with wine, as the climax of the festivity. Hidden within the cake were small doll figures. Roland Lambert received the first prize from the cake, and, as selected Mrs. Morlock as queen for the ceremony. Other kings were Edward A. Petri, who chose Mrs. L. R. James. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, as queen, and Professor Clyde Aidrich, who selected Mme. Yvonne Chamilovitch, Tudor Hall, as queen. Explanation of the fete was given by Mme. Chamilovitch.

Other members of the committee, not present, are Frederick C. Kroger, Anderson, general manager of the Delco-Remy Company, representing business; Superintendent Donald DuShane, Columbus, public schools; C. Oliver Holmes, Gary', legal profession, and William H. Book, Indianapolis, social service. BARBERS DRAFT CODE NBA Schedule Will Not Be .Wade Public Until Approval. Tentative price schedules and workyag hours operative under the NRA were drawn up by the Indianapolis barber shop owners at a mass meeting in Eagles hall, 43 East Vermont street, last night. About 150 shop owners attended. The new schedule will not be made public until it has been approved by code authorities.

The “fete des rois” is the French' celebration of the three mythical kings, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, whose story is older than 1 Christianity. The celebration has taken on a Christian coloring, and the three kings have become identified with the three wise men, who made the pilgrimage to visit the Christ child in Bethlehem. In Germany and Austria, the festival is called “The Day of the Three Kings.” It originally was celebrated by mummers, who dressed as the kings, and went about the countryside, singing, and accepting contributions of cake and wine from the peasants. Later, the custom of baking the cake, or “galette” was adopted, with the three kings being selected as they cut the prizes from the cake. It is celebrated after Christmas since the custom in the Christian churches for many years after the birth of Christ was to celebrate not the birth, but the baptism. It was at one time known as the “celebration of the .pilgrimage”

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CITIZEN-OWNED' UTILITY PLANTS SHOW PROFIT Municipal Light and Power . Plants in ’32 Made ' $212,542.10, Municipally owned utilities returned a net profit of $212,542.10 to Indiana towns where they operate and thus aided in keeping them from borrowing from working balances in 1932. This fact is set out in a report on town finances for that year made public today by William P. Cosgrove. state examiner. It was prepared in his office by Albert E. Dickens, statistician. One hundred and forty-two civil towns operate ,waterworks, fiftythree electric plants and thirty both water and electric utilities, the report shows. In 1932. these utilities received 51.023.6C7.50 in operating revenues and disbursed 5811.065.40 for operating and maintenance. Expenses Decrease In the total of 423 Indiana towns, the governmental cost for 1932 was $3,461,003.47, the reiiort shows. This was $593,623.52 or 14.6 per cent less than was expended in 1931. Tax receipts were 26.4 per cent less, however, being the lowest since 1922. They decreased 21.4 per cent from the previous year and were $253.006.39 less than disbursements, necessitating inroads on working balances to make up the deficiency in revenue. School functions were maintained in but eighty of the incorporated towns at a cost of $2,101,915. which was a decrease of 21.9 per cent from the previous year. Total for both civil and school purposes was $5,656,918.54. making the cost for the 423 towns about onehalf the Indianapolis civil city expenditures for 1932. Population of the towns is 295,576, and that of Indianapolis, 364,161. Costs Compared Compilers of the data offered this comment: “These relative expenditures illustrate graphically the direct correlation existing between urbanization and governmental costs. With the concentration of a large population into a small area, governmental functions of necessity become complex and multitudinous, and hence public expenditures in large cities are many times as great as if the same population were diffused into small nucleated groups. “That the towns, both civil and school, do not constitute an appreciable factor in the tax burden, may further be understood from the fact that'the total tax receipts of these towns for 1932-33 amounted only to 2.07 per cent of the total taxes levied for all purposes for 1932.”

GIRLS' FEDERATION 10 SEAIOFFICERS Third Christian Church Ceremony Arranged. Candle light installation services will be hedl at 9:30 Sunday morning at the Third Christian church for new officers of the Girls Federation. Mrs. Ruth Book will sing. Officers to be installed are Miss Isabelle Small, president; Mrs. Constance Stuckey, Miss Vera Kepple. Mrs. Elizabeth Thornburg, Miss Hallie Racuglen, vice-presidents; Miss Geneva Roberts, treasurer; Miss Josephine Combs, assistanttreaurer; Miss Ruth Randolph, corresponding secretary; Miss Fr oo i Patton, recording secretary, and Misses Mary Alice Randolph, Olive Magruder, Ruth Shr.be and Pauline Netherland. secretaries. Associate teachers are Mrs. Leila Rothenburger and Mrs. Curtis Hodges. Miss Minnie Lloyd is assistant teacher. Members of the new council of the federation will be entertained by the executive council at a dinner party Friday night at the Silver Cup. SPORTS CENTER BEING DEVELOPED IN EAST Long Ski Jump, Skating Rink Are Under Construction. By L'nitrd Prrus WINSTED, Conn., Jan. 5—A new winter sports center, which will provide one of the finest ski hills in the country, is being developed here, with the first meet tentatively set for early January. A hill four miles from Winsted, and on a main paved highway, has been selected for the ski jump. Backers of the venture say it will be a better test for the expert ski men of this country and Europe than any other jump in the United States. It has a maximum length of 1,138 feet, and it will be possible to jump 260 feet in safety. The width is 50 feet at the top and 100 feet at the bottom, assuring both jumpers and spectators a maximum of safety. The take-off will be 50 feet long. An ingenious device for the storing of snow, so there will be plenty regardless of conditions, has been worked out. The ground directly beneath the take-off has been dug out and the landing slope shored up with boards. Into this recess snow will be dumped and stored. When it is needed on the slide it can be shoveled out. Parking space for 6,000 cars has been provided near the hill, and a skating rink built for those who wish to skate before and after the skiing exhibitions.

DIVORCE BASED UPON MOSAIC CODE UPHELD Decree Granted by Russian Rabbi Valid, Is Ruling. Bn United Prr SALEM, Mass., Jan. s.—The ancient Mosaic code of the orthodox Jewish faith in Russia was considered sufficient under the laws of Massacusetts, Judge Edward B, O'Brien declared, when David Chasman presented it to the court to get a certificate that would make his Russian divorce valid. The Russian divorce decree given his Russian divorce decree given Chasman, had been handed down by the deceased rabbi “Pincus, son of Ben Zion, of the city of Tolaa, in the county of Uma, Russia.”