Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1934 — Page 4

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‘I'LL STICK TO harry: says MARY KINDER Pierpont’s Sweetheart Is Freed for Lack of Evidence. Mary Kinder, who toured the country with members of the D;l----linger “terror mob" for more than four months, beat the rap" in criminal court yesterday. And today, enjoying the freedom which Judge Frank P. Baker gave her. she announced that she still is true to her lover, Harry Pierpont, acknowledged leader of the gang, awaiting trial for the murder of a sheriff in Lima, O. The woman whose exploits became almost as notorious as those of John Dillinger. Charles Makley, Pierpont and other members of the gang of escaped Indiana convicts, received the press in a drab little duplex house, hemmed in by ugly factory buildings, at 930 Daly street. With the same composure which she had shown when captured with the gang in Tucson, Ariz. Mary refused to be photographed, but consented to answer questions. ‘Stay Away From Lima’ When Judge Baker set her free yesterday after announcing that evidence presented by the state was insufficient to convict her on charges of aiding the gang to escape from state prison, he said, looking straight at Mary: "If you're smart, you'll stay away from those persons with whom you’ve been associating. If you're dumb, you'll hop over to Lima, O. j If you don't stay away from those men you'll spend a long time in jail.” Today. Mrs. Kinder remembered clearly the judge's words. But twisting her mouth into a characteristic enigmatic smile, she said, laconically: "I'm going to stick to Harry. He’s a swell fellow." Plans Not Complete She declined to make a more direct answer, adding that she intended to spend a few weeks at j home, visiting with her family and resting. "After that I can’t say,” she said.! “My plans are not very extensive.” j Members of the woman's family,: including her sister, Mrs. Margaret! Behrens, and her mother, Mrs.' Viola Patterson, joined Mary in j praise of Captain Mat Leach of the, state police. "I wish you’d say for me" said; Mrs. Kinder, "that Captain Matt Leach and Gene Ryan of the state! police are fine fellows and I appreciate their treatment of me.*' V. QF F. W. POST TO HOLD CARD PARTY Irvington Group to Sponsor Event on Saturday Night. Irvington post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will sponsor a card party at 8:30 Saturday night in the Sherman Inn, Sherman drive and East New York street. The event is open to the public. Committee members are Leslie Ashby. Hugh Meyers. William Neese, H. R. Crooke, Harold Eastman and their wives.

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Dr. Clyde Fisher "Our Place in the Milky Way Galaxy" will be the subject of an address by Dr. Clyde Fisher, American Museum of Natural History astronomy curator, at Caleb Mills hall tomorrow night, under auspices of the Indianapolis Town Hall series. Dr. Fisher, who is Amateur Astronomers’ Association president, will discuss the solar system and its place in the galaxy which now is believed to be a lens-shaped, spiral assemblage of stars, the size and rotation of the galaxy, and the location of its center . The speaker will be introduced by Emsley Johnson of the Indianapolis Amateur Astronomers’ Association. CWA MEN NOT TD LOSE PAY Earnings Missed Because of Bad Weather May Be Made Up. Employes of federal civil works projects in Marion county, as well as in the state, will not lose earnings because of layoffs due to the last freezing and inclement weather. Today the state civil works administration, 217 North Senate avenue. sent a bulletin to all county administrators ordering them to permit CWA workers to make up the lost time. Under original CWA rules workers were permitted to make up lost time within twenty days. Reduction of working hours from thirty to twenty-four in urban areas and fifteen in rural districts rescinded this regulation. The permission has been restored beginning the pay roll week of Feb. 16. Maximum working hours remain at twenty-four and sl2 a week, except in the making up of lost time. Pedestrian Hurt by Car Pete Bogras, 50, of 431 North Illinois street, was struck by an automobile driven by Harry M. Davis, 29, of 1114 Broadway, while crossing the street at Illinois and Market streets last night. Mr. Bogras suffered injuries to his arm and leg.

M'NUTT DENIES HE ASPIRES TO SEATINSENATE Tells Ft. Wayne Audience ‘Whispering Campaign’ Has No Basis. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY. * Times Staff Writer Claiming that there is a “whispering campaign" going on to the effect that he will back a candidate for the United States senate who. if elected, will resign in two years and give him the post, Governor Paul V. McNutt went to Ft. Wayne last night to “stop it." Ft. Wayne was chosen for his declaration of policy, including the "hands off" plan of primary campaign, because it is the home town of R. Earl Peters, former Democratic state chairman and leading senatorial candidate at the present time. These reports of the McNutt plan for taking the senatorship are said to have originated in the Peters’ group, if not from the candidate himself. lie Announces Stand So at the fourth district rally last night, the Governor announced the following stand for the senate race: "Several days ago, in a political speech at Batesville, I stated: ‘I am not now, have not been, and shall not be a candidate lor the Democratic nomination of United States senator from Indiana.’ I trust that statement is cleat—that there will be no further wh.sperings among certain groups that I will be a candidate. "Tonight I desire to clarify further my position in regard to this nomination. Some o' those now in the race are my close personal and political friends. Other good friends are expected to enter the race before the convention gathers. "These men, each of them, understand clearly that I am not committed to the candidacy of any one of them. That policy of keeping "hands off” I shall continue. I have firm faith in the ability of the duly elected delegates to select a candidate who can win next November. He Gives His Word "I give you my word now that I shall campaign as vigorously in 1934 for the success of the candidates named by the convention as I did in 1932 for the candidates named then. Asa loyal Democrat I could do no less. "Efforts to make it appear that this or that candidate will be the candidate of the state administration are without foundation. They are the product of the imagination of those who might hope to gain support from the large group of loyal Democrats who would rightfully oppose the handpicking of a nominee by any one within the party. Such tactics can not be successful." Mr. Peters was on hand and was roundly applauded by the crowd. Peters’ Man Ousted Peters and anti-Peters, McNutt and anti-McNutt, feeling was running high due to the ousting by the state administration of C. J. Sterling from the automobile license distribution post at Ft. Wayne. He was a Peters man. Pleas Greenlee, McNutt patronage secretary, attended the Fourth district organization meeting during the afternoon and pleaded for a "loyal and militant" machine. Virgil M. Simmons, Fourth district chairman and state conservation commissioner, presided. Last of the district meetings, attended by the state chairman and secretary and after which the Governor speaks, will be held at La Porte March 2.2

EMPLOYE OF STATE ' HELPS BAKER FIND HORSE AND WAGON

Orris R. Hooper, who has charge of candidate registration in the secretary of state's office, had an opportuiity yesterday to a good turn in an old-fashioned manner. He was driving his car in the 1800 block on North Talbot street when a man approached wth a basket of bakery goods slung over his arm. "Say.’’ he said, “Will you help me out?” Mr. Hooper thought that he wanted him to buy some bakery wares and was about to decline, when the stranger said: "I want you to help me find my horse.” Mr. Hooper consented and the man climbed into the car and began a tour of the neighborhood. They found both horse and bakery wagon in one of the nearby streets.

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‘Life of Our Lord’ Shows Dickens’ Power—Erskine Famous Author Declares. Work Reveals Greatest Literary Genius Ever Shown.

BY' DR. JOHN ERSKINE Author and Educator WHEN I first read this manuscript, I was looking in it for a good deal of Charles Dickens. I expected to find the incomparable story-teller, the passionate student of social problems, the indignant and generous-heart-ed reformer, even perhaps the master of the comic spirit. I was looking for one of those transpositions which are in the mood of modern art, and which Dickens could have given us, nad he so chosen. The elders who try to make the Bible intelligible to young children usually do write down the story, leave out a good deal of it, and change the tone. If Dickens chose a different course, it must have been for a well considered reason. In 1849 he was at the height of his powers, master of his literary techniques. He also was as disillusioned with life as it was in his nature to be. He had had his fill of success and of criticism, and the success, quite as much as the hardships of his early years, had brought to him all the sophistication he was likely to acquire. By 1849 his admirers knew that the church, or organized religion of any kind, would play but a small part—a strangely small part—in his stories. The English landscape is studded with churches, but in the pages of Dickens no class of men are rarer than priests and ministers. To remind ourselves further of what Dickens meant to the reading world when he wrote this account of Jesus for his children, we have but to recall that he had already published the Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist. Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son. He had made his lecture tour in America in 1842, and had written the American Notes. In all these books the religious spirit had shown itself, if at all, rasher exclusively in philanthropic attitude, the general brotherly love and in the affectionate pictures of Christmas celebrations in country and in city homes. Washington Irving had discovered the charm of the Christmas ritual by English hearthsides, and Dickens carried on and enriched the theme, stressing the good humor, the good cheer, the plum pudding, and the ale. Like most other readers I adore these scenes in his novels, but I would not confuse them with the expresson of more spiritual values, such as must certainly be included in even a practical religon. Some of those more spiritual values Dickens had dramatized emotonally in The Christmas Carol, 1843. one WITH these thoughts and expectations I began to read this manuscript. To my surprise there seemed to be in it nothing of Dickens. It was simply a compilation from the four Gospels, setting the events in the proper order, and reducing them to simple terms. That was my first impression, and for a moment, I confess, it left me disappointed. But i started to read again, and realized suddenly that the manuscript was a remarkable tour de force, and that it illustrated the intellectual powers of Dickens better, perhaps, than anything I’d even seen. In 1868, approximately twenty years after the story was written, the youngest child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, went to Australia, and in a remarkable letter of farewell, quoted the Forster’s Life, the novelist refers to this manuscript. “I put a New Testament among your other books for the very same reason, and with the very same hopes, that made me write an easy account of it for you, when you were a little child ... As your brothers have gone away, one by one, I have written to each such words as I am now writing to you, and have entreated them all to guide themselves by this Book, putting aside the interpretations and inventions of men.” This last sentence, I think, indicates the spirit in which he wished his children to hear the story—the spirit u'hich he feared the public might misunderstand. He wished the Gospels read for themselves, free from the interpretations and inventions of men. Apparently he undertook to do for his children what the newspapers would call a rewrite job. The skill with which he did the rewriting indicates, I think, what a masterly journalist and editor he was. * You will notice, for example,

that though the Gospel story is here made, as he intended, easier for children, the values of the original text have not been disturbed. The tone is the same, the doctrine is imparted with practically the- original emphasis, the incidents are kept faithfully in the relative proportions of the original text. I know no more remarkable instance of rewriting to scale. a o a 'T''HE difficulty of the feat will be clear if you try it yourself, or if you listen to any sincere Sunday school teacher attempting to convey a section of the Bible story in her own words. The success of the feat can easily be tested by referring to the Gospels after you have read Dickeps’ account. I think you will agree with me that at no point will you have to revise an impression, or readjust a mood. The fidelity to the original masterpiece is astounding. Here are literary genius and intellectual integrity. In this manuscript I find a good deal of Dickens the actor, and of Dickens the dramatist. If you compare the Gospel original with the version for the children, you will notice that Dickens has adopted certain mannerisms of the biblical style—the use, for example, of connectives between sentences. He suggests to the ear some of that extraordinary word music with which the English Bible casts a spell. Os course, he himself had a quite different style, but a true dramatist, an imaginative actor, can put on manners not his own. It is illuminating to compare the fragments of dialogue which he seems to quote. Often the quotations are much simplified, or even entirely recast, yet they sound like the original and to all intents and purposes they are the original. If we look for it, we can find here Dickens’ passion for social justice and his brooding over the inequalities of life. Though not at first apparent, his humanitarianism is tucked away in passing comments and explanations. To this extent, at least, he approves of the interpretations of men. Speaking of one of the Parables, for example, he offers a merciful excuse for human error. x "Our Savior meant to teach by this that people who have done good all their lives long will go to heaven after they are dead. But that people wTio have been wicked, and who are truly sorry for it however late in their lives, and pray God to forgive them, will be forgiven and go to heaven, too." At the end of the manuscript there is a brief summary of the Acts of the Apostles, and a charming little sermon on the spirit of Christianity. That paragraph, and the prayers for his children’s use which conclule the manuscript, are precious, tender things which do honor to the noble man who wrote them.

TELEGRAPH FLORISTS TO MEET AT PURDUE City Members will Attend Session Set for March 7. A number of Indianapolis florists will attend a meeting of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association at Purdue university, West Lafayette. to be held March 7. At the meeting, which will be attended by representatives from other Indiana cities, demonstration will show the latest styles in the makeup of corsages, table decorations and Easter novelties. The Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association, with international headquarters in Detroit, is a worldwide institution, enabling persons to “wire” flowers to any part of the world. Injured by Railway Cabte William Neidigh, 70, Martinsville, suffered lacerations of the forehead today when he was struck by a street railway cable which became unfastened as he was walking across the White river bridge at Oliver street. He was sent to city hospital, where his condition was pronounced serious. NASAL CATARRH ...SOOTHING COMFORTING CLEARS HEAD QUIIKLy^BS^*

'OLDEST FLIER'S 1 CAREER MAY BE [ ENDEOBYARMY Inventer of Blind Flying Instruments Faces Court-Martial. By United Pres * FORT SAM HOUSTON, Tex.. ! Mar. I.—A court marti&l jury of ; nine officers today listened to testi- j mony which may end the army ca- 1 reer of Major William C. Ocker, 58- . year-old air corps inventive genius. : The prosecution moved swiftly down its list of forty witnesses called to testify that Major Ocker made i derogatory remarks concerning his j superior. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry j A. Clagett, commandant of nearby Kelly field. If convicted, the inventor of instruments which made blind flying possible would be liable to penalties j I ranging from life imprisonment to ! a reprimand. Major Ocker. the army's oldest | pilot in point of service, pleaded not j guilty to the charges when the trial | opened yesterday. Major C. C. Johnson. Kelly field flight surgeon, who ordered Major : Ocker grounded after finding the j pilot’s eyesight defective, was the first witness. He told the court of Major Ocker’s alleged remarks. According to the army surgeon, Major Ocker said: | “If other pilots on this field, name- j ly such as Colonel Clagett, were | given more than a cursory examina- : tion they, too, would be off uying I status. There was collusion oe- | tween the commanding officer and | you (Major Johnson) relative to ! my examination." The original ipomplaint also | charged that Major Ocker applied an unprintable epithet to his superior, prefixed by the adjective “dumb.” The trial, twice postponed, went forward in a small room on the old medical clinic of the post. Few civilians were present. Presiding over the court-martial was Brigadier-General Charles A. Howland, author of a military history of the World war. Major W. M. Krimball, trial judge advocate, clashed frequently with Charles Anj derson, civilian defense attorney, during cross-examination of Major Johnston. NORTHWOOD SCOUTS TO CELEBRATE TRIUMPH City Championship Awards to Be Presented at Dinner. Celebration of the winning of the recent city-wide Boy Scout champioship by Troop 78 of Northwood Christian church will be held with a dinner tomorrow night at the church. F. O. Belzer, Scout executive, will speak, telling of his trip to the international Boy Scout jamboree last summer In Europe. Championship awards will be given to Glenn Findley, troop scoutmaster, and to members of the troop.

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James W. Fesler Directors and members of the Community Fund last night elected James W. Fesler, Indianapolis attorney, honorary member for 1934 of the organization. The title is conferred yearly on outstanding workers of the fund drive. ENTERS PRIMARY RACE Charles W. Rosemeyer Will Seek Nomination for Constable. Candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Center township constable was announced today by Charles W. Rosemeyer, 1015 Lexington avenue, a resident of the south side thirty-five years. Mr. Rosemeyer was a member of the salvage corps four years, and is a member of the Indiana Democratic Club and the Old Hickory Democratic Club.

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U. S. AID MAY BE SOUGHT IN MILK DISPUTE Agriculture Secretary May Be Asked to Regulate Trade Here. In an efiort to iron out differences in the price and marketing dispute, representatives of the agri- ; cultural adjustment administration will meet again today at the Lincoln with milk producers and distributors. At the session yesterday, numerous milk producers expressed the desire for Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace to step in to regulate the trade in this area. It was explained that with the entrance of the AAA into the field there would be a stricter regulation of the industry with no resultant increase in price to the consumer. Approval of at least 75 per cent of the industry must, be given in order to obtain federal Intercession. The present hearing here was brought about under an emergency order of the AAA in an effort to meet the emergencies that have arisen under the so-called "price war.” Results of the hearing will be taken to Washington and laid before Secretary Wallace. If the gov- ! ernment intervenes here, the entire i industry will be placed under the | supervision of an administrator j Assertijn that the farmer who ! produces the milk receives only 3 j cents out of every 9 cents paid for a quart of milk by the consumer j was made bv John Littleton, presiS dent of the Indianapolis Dairy Producers’ council.