Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1934 — Page 3

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CITY PLANS TO RENDER TRIBUTE TO TARKINGTON Committees in Charge of Celebration Named by Mayor. Personnel of committees to have charge of the city's tribute to Booth Tarkington as one of the outstanding playwrights of the United States was announced today by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. . Heading the general committee in charge of the presentation of Mr. Tarkintgon's play. "Seventeen." Feb. 24 at the Murat is Evans Woollen. Booth Jameson. Mr. Tarkington's nephew and prototype of one of Mr. Tarkington's characters in "Seventeen.” will take one of the leading roles. Plans for a "Tarkington Night" originated among a group comprised of Dr. John R. Newcomb. Mrs. Kurt Pantzer, Mrs. R. V. Van Camp, Wallace O. Lee, Walter B. Plaff, Miss Sara Lauter, Charles P. Dyer and Harold Tharpe. Personnel of committees: General Committee Evans Woollen, chairman; Governor Paul V McNutt. D L. Chamber* Mr and Mrs Howard Marmon, Rabbi and Mrs fVuerlfrht, Georae Ade. Mr and Mrs George Ball. Muncle. Mr and Mrs Arthur V Brown. Mrs. R. P Van Camp Dr. Frank Wicks. Senator and Mrs. Frederick Van Nuvs. Senator and Mrs Arthur Robinson. Mr and Mrs. Louis Borlnstein. Mr and Mrs. Warren Fairbanks. Mr and Mrs Talcott Powell, Mr and Mrs James Stuart. Mr and Mrs. Walter Greenough. Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Reillev. Mr and Mrs. Mortimer Furscott, Mr and Mrs J. A Goodman. Mr and Mrs. Wallace O Lee. Dr. Carleton McCullough. Mr. and Mrs. O A. Efroymson. Mr. and Mrs Ixrov J Reach. Mr. and Mrs. George J Marot- Mr and Mrs Frank C. Dailey. Dr. A F We- er.bacher Mr and Mrs Russell Fojtsine. Mr. and Mrs William H. Coburn. Mrs Ovid Butler Jameson. Mr. and Mrs Perry Lesh, Mr. and Mrs. Garvin Brown. Mr and Mrs. Bowman Elder, Elmer Stout Louis Lathrop Jacob L. Mueller, Mr and Mrs J S Holliday. J. K. Lilly. Mr and Mrs. Fred Ayres. Hugh McK. Landot;. Mr and Mrs William H. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Born. Mrs. Frank B Fowler Mrs Samuel H. Fletcher. Dr Robert Milliken. Christopher Coleman. Mrs Theodore Griffith. Mrs. R. O Alexander Miss Cerene Ohr. Miss Bertha Lemma Mr. and Mrs Hilton V. Brown. A1 Feenev Mr. and Mrs George O'Connor. Mr and Mrs. Thomas D. Sneerin. Monsignor Maurice O’Connor. Mrs Samuel Lewis Shank. Mr and Mrs L Ert Slack. Mr and Mrs. Charles W. Jewitt. John W. Reception Committee —Mrs. Russell Fortune. chairman; Mr and Mrs. James Fessler Mr and Mrs Irving Fauvre Mr and Mrs. Frederick Appel. Mr. and Mrs R Hartley Sherwood. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Noyes. Mr and Mrs. Leo RapS a port. Mr and Mrs Benjamin D. Hits. !r and Mrs. Bowman Elder, Mrs. John Brandon. Mr and Mrs Donald Jameson, Mr and Mr- Frederick T. Holliday. Mr. and Mrs Edgar Gorrell. Mr. and Mrs. G M Williams Louis Lathrop. Mr and Mrs. Ralph Lemrke. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roemler. Governor and Mrs Paul V. McNutt. Miss Lucy Taggart. Mr. and Mrs. W Richardson Sinclair. Mr. and Mrs. Garvin M Brown Mr. and Mrs. Charles Latham. Mr and Mrs W. M Tavlor. Mr. and Mrs Malott White, Mr and Mrs. George M. Bailev. Mr. add Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus. Mr and Mrs Herbert M. Woollen. Mr. and Mrs. Elias C. Atkins. Mr and Mrs Ray Elder Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fairbanks. Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Graham. Mrs. Hortense Rauh Burpee, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Miller, Judge and Mrs Russell Ryan. Box Committee—Mrs. Perry Lesh. chairman. Mrs. Sylvester Johnson. Mrs. Paul V McNutt. Mr and Mrs Walter Marmon. Mr and Mrs Meredith Nicholson Jr.. Mr. and Mrs. George Parrv. Mr. and Mrs Roy Rhaneberger. Mr. and Mrs Earl B Barnes. Mr and Mrs Norman Perry. Mr. and Mrs. William Ball Muncie: Mr. and Mrs Frank B Shields Meyer Block. Miss Rosamond Van Camp Mr and Mrs Charles Harvey Bradley. Mr. and Mrs Ray Adams. Mrs. L. C Bovd. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wolf. Judge and Mrs. Smilev Chambers. Dr. A. F Weverhacher. Mr and Mrs. Fred Bates Johnson. Mrs. Robert C. Winslow. Mr. and Mrs William Rowland Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Baur. Jacob Mueller Mrs. Kurt F Pantzer. chairman: Mrs. R P Van Camp. Miss Sarah Lauter. Charles Dyer. Walter Pfaff. Hershell M. Tebav Dr John Rav Newcomb. Harold Tharp. Hale Mac Keen. Wallace O. Lee. Sidney Sullivan. Garvin M Brown. Ticket Committee —Mrs. William H. Coburn. chairman: Mrs. Edward L McKee. Mrs. Pauline Moon Hauelsen. Mrs. Harry Murphy. Mrs. Lafayette Page. Mrs. Hugh McOibhev. Mrs Samuel D. Miller. Misses Eldena and Sarah Lauter. Mrs. Clifford Arrick. Mrs. Henry C. Atkins. Mrs. Frank Stalnaker. Mrs J. S. Holliday. Mrs. Paul White. Miss Jane Oravdon. Mrs Joseph J Daniels. Mrs. J. A. Goodman. Mrs. Phil Watson. Mrs. Herman C. Wolff. Mrs. Roy Adams. Mrs. Guv Wainwrlght. Mrs. Wallace O. Lee. Mrs William Hershell. Program Committee Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, chairman. Mrs. Lafavette Page, Mrs Carl H. Lieber. Mrs. Evans Woollen. Mrs W O. Bates. Mrs. Elsa Pantzer Haerle. Mrs T Harvey Cox. Mrs. Harold Tharp. Miss Emma Clavpool. Harrv O Chamberlin. James Duane Dungan Ira A Minnick. Donaldson Trone Charles M Brvan. Bon Aspv, Genre* W. Leach. J F Fehsenfeld. Walter L Shirlev Harrv Woodbury. W C. Mabee. M D Merit t. Miss Louise Ford. Miss Nathalie Coffin. I E. Woodard and Mrs. William R. Higgins. INSURANCE ~cbr PROFITS Stale Life Reports Total Surplus of $1.743.8.12. Annual statement of the State Life Insurance Company shows a profit of over $430,000 for 1933. it was announced today. According to the statement this figure increases the total surplus from $1,312,308 as of Dec. 31. 1932, to $1,743,832 as of Dec. 31. 1933.

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Soldiers of Battery D, One hundred fiftieth artillery, observe the effect of the artillery’s heavy fire at Camp Coeewedon, France. Picture submitted by William Bulmer, Indianapolis.

Presented above are the second pictures chosen from those submitted for The Indianapolis Times war picture contest. More are being accepted and The Times will pay for suitable photos. This is important: Pictures submitted must be of Indiana troops, taken either overseas, at home or in training camp. It wil be useless to submit general war scenes of unidentified troops. To insure return, each picture must have on the back the name and address of the sender and to have a chance of acceptance, the persons or scenes shown by the pictures must be identified. Several pictures will.be used each day and $1 will be paid for each one used. Best of the day will draw $2 and best of the week $lO. Look through your scrapbooks and souvenir collections and see if you can find photographs which answer requirements. Remember they must be of Indiana troops and be good enough to reproduce properly. Mail them to the War Pictures Editor.

LIFE SENTENCE FOR MINISTER IS UPHELD Pastor Acuused of Slaying Wife Loses Appeal. By Vnitnl Prrxx OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 2.—The state court of appeals today upheld the life sentence given S. A. Berrie, Muskogee minister convicted in 1932 of poisoning his wife so he might marry his girl-secretary, Ida Bess Bright, 17. Judges Thomas Edwards and James S. Davenport concurred in the opinion, and Judge Will Chappell dissented. LEADERS SEEK AID OF YOUNG REPUBLICANS Meeting May Be Called for Them March 10, Is Instruction. Young Republican voters will receive special attention from the G. O. P. state committee this year and a meeting may be called for March 10, it was announced by Chairman Don B. Irwin. Decision to call the young voters together was made by the committee meeting at the Claypool yesterday. The tentative date is the same as that of the meeting here of the Republican Editorial Association. AERO CLUB DISCUSSES 50-HOUR REQUIREMENT Arranges Debate on Subject for the Next Meeting. The fifty-four flying requirement of the commerce department for a pilot's license was discussed at a meeting of the Indianapolis Aero

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Capering in captured German caps and blouses are Kenny Simms, Howard Wright and Russ Lamkin of Battery A, One hundred fiftieth field artillery. This picture was taken when they were stationed with the army of occupation at the foot of Cheateau on the Rhine river near Bad Nenenhar, Germany. Picture submitted by Mr. Simms.

American doughboys making a sight-seeing tour of frivolous Paris while on leave. Note the well-brushed uniforms. Picture submitted by I. S. Thorpe, Indianapolis, who stands third from left in overseas cap.

Club last night in the Lincoln. A debate on the fifty-hour requirement will be held at the next meet-

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U. S. PROPOSES 102 WARSHIPS, 2.800 PLANES Echoes of War Talk Turn Congress’ Thoughts to New Arms. By United Pro s WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Echoes or war talk beyond the Atlantic and the Pacific today found the United States arming on land and sea. The Hoover administration sought international agreements all around to limit armaments, but with much less success than was hoped for. France and Italy refused to come i into the London naval conference ; agreement. Japan may refuse to accept her secondary position after : 1935. Congress now is busy authorizing | additions to the armed forces. The ; house has approved construction of 102 warships and senate action is j not far off. The construction, of course, is within limits of the London naval treaty. A proposal sponsored by the house ; military committee would permit President Roosevelt to increase the army air service by 1,000 planes, 400 officers and 6,200 men. If adopted, and the Vinson bill for 1,800 additional naval planes is passed by the senate, the United States would have a combined air force of approximately 5,400 ships, or the largest in the world. France is credited with 3,000 planes, and Russia with 1,400. Insular Needs Stressed Originating with the general staff, the army’s 1,000-plane program is based in part on the country’s insular needs. The United States has insular responsibilities in the Atlantic, but none requiring any individual aerial defense, and when army generals talk about fighting planes and insular possessions, they are talking about the Pacific and thinking about Japan. The hous£ merchant marine committee has directed preparation of a bill to permit the President to seize every merchant vessel of American registry in an emergency. It is expected to receive favorable consideration. The President now is limited to seizure of only such vessels as have been constructed with the assistance of a government subsidy. There is nothing unusual or warlike in bringing all American registry vessels within the President’s reach. The merchant vessels of foreign powers, notably Great Britain, are subject to admiralty orders. Vessels Are Replacements The number, speed and equipment of these British merchant ships were among the major factors in the 1930 London naval conference and the abortive Geneva naval conference of 1927. These British ships are constructed with reinforced decks capable of mounting six-inch gun armaments. Against these speedy, potential war vessels and their six-inch guns, the United States desired to arm herself with eight-inch gun cruisers. The cruiser dispute wrecked the Geneva conference and upset London. The naval bill which passeed the house and awaits senate action is an authorization, not an appropriation, for construction which would cost from $475,000,000 to $570,000,000. It embraces six cruisers, sixty-five destroyers, thirty submarines, one airplane carrier and 1,184 airplanes to equip craft now under construction.. The surface vessels are all replacements—new and better fighting machines for obsolete models. berlTn police shoot FOUR RED PRISONERS Tried “Escape in the Woods,” Is Explanation. By United Press BERLIN, Feb. 2.—Police reported today they were forced to shoot four Communist prisoners “for attempting to escape in the woods.” The Communists were en route to Potsdam to testify at the trial of Ernst Thaelman, charged with directing illegal Communist activities.

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Photo shows John W. Dillinger (center), father of the gang leader, with Attorney Joseph Ryan of Indianapolis deft) and Chief Bailiff Eli Kerserich of Lake county criminal court (right), as the father iel't the jail at Crown Point after offering to aid his son who is under an indictment charging murder of an East Chicago policeman during a bank robbery.

3 INSANE CONVICTS ESCAPE UNDER FINE One Killer Among Men at Large. By United Pros SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Feb. 2.—Police of Springfield and Central Missouri today sought three insane convicts, one a life-termer for murder, who escaped last night under gunfire of guards from the department of justice medical center here. Four men escaped, but George J. Standish, 32, committed for grand larceny, was captured near the institution by a hospital guard. The men removed bolts from a metal screen on a second-floor window and used a volley-ball net to slide to the ground. Gunfire of a tower guard as they fled into the darkness was ineffectual. U. S. FOOD BILL TO BE SPEAKER’S TOPIC Former State Official to Talk Before Scientech Club. The evolution of the proposed food and drug bill, which first was the ‘‘Tugwell bill,” later the “Dr. Copeland bill,” and now the “committee bill” will be discussed by I. L. Miller, at the meeting of the Scientech Club Monday, at the Columbia Club. Mr. Miller formerly was in charge of food and drug work for the state.

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PRIMITIVE TYPE PYRAMID FOUNO IN MAYAN CITY Mexican Archeologists Rare Example of Early Art. By Science Service MEXICO CITY. Feb. 2. Mexican government archeologists hav# been compelled to begin excavations and restorations in the Mayan city of Acanceh, not far from Merida, Yucatan in order to save from imminent ruin valuable works of art done in stucco molding. In so doing, they have just uncovered a beautiful little pyramid strikingly like the primitive Mayan pyramid excavated by archeologists of the Carnegie Institution of Washington farther south, in Uaxactun, Guatemala. This find may be another proof that Mayan culture came to Yucatan far easier than was until recently believed. Acanceh is a name meaning snake-deer, or wise-deer, however one may wish to interpret tha Mayan meaning. It is a modern Indian town built among the pyramids, terraces and ruined temples that formed the official section of the ancient city where priests, rulers and rich people lived. There was a wall around this part. The common people lived outside, and did not have their palm-thatched houses on that precious ground as they do today. They have let their ancient buildings go to ruin since Spanish conquest times, although belatedly the governments have been taken care of them. Now, a small stuccoed pyramid, half buried under earth, has been excavated for repair. Four stairways lead to the top, one on each side. Human masks of deities in stucco, more than six feet across, adorn either side of each stairway near the top. making in all eight of these gigantic faces. The corners of the pyramid are rounded, and in many other ways the structure resembles that very primitive Mayan one dug up in Uaxactun, New Suit Taken From Car Anew suit valued at S2B was stolen from the car of Edward Anderson, 3721 Carrollton avenue, while it was parked at Vermont and Pennsylvania streets last night, Mr. Anderson told police.