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JOBS NATION’S NEED, WARNING OF ROOSEVELT President Launches Second Year With Plea for NRA Support. MAKES LONGEST SPEECH Shorter Hours, Higher Pay !s Urged: Denies Trend Toward Fascism. By t nitrd Prr., WASHINGTON. March s.—President Roosevelt today launched a new recovery drive before thousands in Constitution hall who cheered his demand for more jobs and applauded his assurance that the country is heading neither toward Communism nor Fascism. Mr. Roosevelt spoke before 5.000 representatives of code authorities. He asked industry further to shorten hours of labor and to increase hourly wage scales. The treasury, he said, can not forever carry the unemployment burden. With that plea was a summons to the people to impose fair practices upon the "selfish few." When the President concluded his address to the main meeting, he visited an overflow meeting of code authorities in the other end of the large Constitution hall and greeted them with these words: Longest Speech in Year "Mv friends. I am glad to greet you here. I think you are going to have an extremely interesting week. "Incidentally, I am going to let you in on a. secret. The speech that I have just made is the longest one in the whole of the past year. "However, it was for a worthy cause and I meant every word I said. I believe we will go forward with the prograss already made under the NRA. These meetings will do more to put us back where we belong than any other thing of which I know." In his main speech. Mr. Roosevelt promised summary government action against so-called chiselers. Through his speech, the longest in a year, ran a thread of optimism and assurance. The recovery test, he said, is succeeding. Launches Second Year With this plea today to delegates of code authorities whose industrial and commercial plants employ 90 per cent of American labor, Mr. Roosevelt strode confidently into the second year of his administration. "Think back a year ago," he told his audience. "You know where the banks stood at that time. You know where your own business stood." "And if the banks come along, my friends, we will have the three great plements of American life working together—agriculture, industry* and the banks. Then we cant be stopped." As the President moved to the overflow meetin, Donald R. Richberg. general NRA rounsel. told ihe code authority delegates that NRA is the alternative to dictatorship. Urges ( redd Expansion Eight months of hurried and admittedly experimental codification of industry preceded the administration's move today for revision of the greatest industrial experiment. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Richberg clung to the Democratic idea. They challenged critics who foresee fascism or communism developing from the social and political seeds sown by the new* deal. Tiie President departed from his text only to emphasize the responsibilities of the banks. His pointed and questioning language—"and if the banks come along"—was composed at the last moment. Those words added to a plea for industrial reform and more efficient self government an unmistakable demand that the banks provide for industry and business the credit which is vital to recovery. Seats in both auditoriums were filled long before the President left the White House four blocks from the assembly awaiting him. Music and flags provided a cay background for Mr. Roosevelt's solemn warning that the country's need is jobs, jobs and more jobs. Introduced by Johnson Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson spoke six words to open the momentous NRA conference. "The President of the United States." said Mr. Johnson. Mr. Roosevelt arose. The second year of the new deal had begun. Flashlights boomed. Movie cameras clicked and the 5.000 representatives of code authorities applauded. A moment previously they had repeated the Lord's prayer in unison as led by the Rev. Ze Barney Phillips. chaplain of the senate, who said the benediction. The red coated army band had entertained the audience for an hour with semi-classical selections, and finally a vociferous rendition of "Who's Afraid of the Big. Bad Wolf?” All members of the audience had seats. Guards allowed none to stand in the rear of the vast hall. MRS. ROOSEVELT ON TRIP TO PUERTO RICO Presidents YVife Starts on Air-Rail Island Tour. Pv Vnitrd Pr, ~ EN ROUTE PUERTO RICO. March s.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt left Washington at 3:45 . m. today on a rail-and-air trip to get fc first-hand view of the island possessions of the United States in the Caribbean.

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(Written by Charles Dickens for IDs Young Children)

T T EAR what our Lord Jesus Christ taught to His 11 Disciples and to us, and what, v’e should remember every day of our lives, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and v'ifh all our mind, and with all our said, and with all our strength; to Jove our 'neighbours as ourselves , to do vnto other people as ire would, have them do unto vs and to be charitable and, gentle to all. There is no other commandment, our Lord. Jesus Christ said, greater than these .

"THE LIFE OF OUR LORD" Written by Charles Dickens

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AN EDITORIAL TWO thousand years ago the world was troubled as it is today. Humanity was restless. Barbarians were challenging the strength ot Rome. Civilization was dragging itself out of a great economic depression. Imperial Rome, without realizing it. was entering upon blazing days of splendor—but it was the splendor of autumn. Her justice was breaking down and autocracy was replacing it. Her cities were filled with teeming and filthy slums. A dangerous underworld was growing up about the gladiatorial shows. Flaws were opening in her credit and monetary systems. Special privileges was ruthlessly riding over the rights of the common man. The industrial system, based wholly on slavery, was beginning to rreak. The long shadows of the Dark Ages were not far away, as history counts time. Then there was bom in one of the most insignificant provinces of that great empire a Child who, as he grew to manhood, changed the whole path of civilization. He gave the tired, old world something upon which it could fasten its hopes. Those of all faiths have found His simple, straightforward, honest philosophy a place of refuge. Wc believe that in these confused days people may renew their courage by turning once more to His eternal verities. Newspapers are often criticised for some of the things to which they devote space. We do not agree with those criticisms. It is the duty of a newspaper not to paint a picture, but merely to hold up the mirror to contemporary affairs. If the reflection is sometimes unpleasant that is not the mirror's affair. Today The Times devotes its most prominent space to the first chapter of “The Life of Our Lord,” written by the master pen of the beloved Charles Dickens. It offers this greatest of newspaper stories to its readers in all humility because it is one of the most important in contemporary life and with the hope that the public may gain the same inspiration from it as have we, the members of the staff, who were privileged to read it in advance.

$1,000,000 Building Plans Announced by Block’s City Labor to Be Used in Construction of New Eight-Story Structure and Remodeling of Present Site. Indianapolis labor will be used exclusively in the construction of the new William H. Block Company eight-story structure, to be located west of the present site on Market and Illinois street, it was learned today.

Construction will begin immediately. • An effort will be made to award , all contracts to Indianapolis or Indiana companies and all materials, insofar as it is possible, will be purchased within the borders of the state,” Rudolph C. Block announced. The old building will be remodeled ; completely to correspond with the modern architectural design of the new building. More than $1,000,000 will be expended. The new structure, designed by Vonnegut. Bohen & Mueller, architects, will be of white terracotta with a black granite base. An arcade will extend the length of the Illinois street area. It will combine glass, bronze, marble and unusual lighting effects in display windows. The arcade will have two entrances on Illinois street and one on Market street. A stairway at each end of the arcade will lead directly to the downstairs store, so that breakfast may be served before the store is opened. Three entrances will lead from the arcade to the store. Soft beige and silver, illuminated by pillars of light, will feature the first-view of the interior. Each of the east entrances will lead into aisles that form boulevards of light. Latest design escalators, four feet wide, will facilitate vertical traffic. They have a capacity of 8.000 persons an hour. The first floor and downstairs floor of the new store will be air-cooled. Features of the new store will be

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a classic modern tearoom with intimate little alcoves around the wall. Little shops, exclusive in themselves, will dot the main floor. On the new mezzanine floor will be an enlarged beauty salon, a lending library, a mailing station, an optical salon and a writing room for shoppers. The second floor, devoted to women’s apparel, will follow the idea of the little shops

$500,000 —That’s Cost of*‘Terror Mob’ to Indiana

JOHN DILLINGER and his ‘•terror mob” have cost the citizens of Indiana more than half a million dollars, conservatively estimated, a survey by The Times revealed today. Considering only the latest escapades of the gang in a series of w'ild forays of robbery and murder in a score of states, it was conceded by state, county and city police officials today that the “terror mob" has been a costly experiment in crime. During the four months period in which the gang was at large before being captured by Tucson (Ariz.) police, four banks at Greencastle. East Chicago, South Bend and Ft. Wayne were robbed. Police laid the robberies, totaling more than $200,000 to the gang.

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for His Children in 1849 and Kept as a Precious Family Secret for 85 Years + + Note to Readers: The reason why Charles Pickens refused to permit publication of “The Life of Our Lord’’ in his lifetime was that he did not care to throw open to the public this intimate personal opening of his heart to his children, with the possibility of attack and defense of his religious convictions. In a letter to a clergyman, he said:. “There can not be many men, I believe, who have a more humble veneration for the New Testament, or a more profound conviction of its all-sufficiency than I have . . . My observation of life induces me to hold in unspeakable dread and horror these unseemly squabbles about the Tetters’ which drive the ‘Spirit’ out of hundreds of thousands.” In view of Dickens’ expressed desire, we urge readers of The Times to respect his wishes and to read this beautiful and touching story, not with an attitude of criticism for omissions or interpretations, but with an understanding that here is a Victorian father telling the eternal story out of love for his children when they were very young.

NEW YORK STATE’S MILK LAW IS UPHELD IN LONG-AWAITED DECISION BY SUPREME COURT: FIRST DECISION ON PRICE-CONTROL LAWS

By United Pre*t WASHINGTON, March s.—The United States supreme court today upheld the validity of the New York state milk law in a long-awaited decision widely considered as indicating a favorable attitude by the court on federal recovery legislation. Federal laws were not involved directly in the case, but the New York ease was so closely along the lines of tests of administration recovery laws that government lawyers believed it indicated the court would approve the federal legislation in cases soon to come before it. This was the supreme court's first decision on an emergency law involving principles of price control.

PRISON AWAITS CROUCH Dillinger Gangster to Be Removed From Jail This Week Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner revealed today that he will move Hilton Crouch, Dillinger gangster who nearly succeeded in escaping from the Marion county jail last week, to the state prison.

In the Massachusetts avenue bank robbery in Indianapolis, in the latter part of September, Dillinger, Hilton Crouch and others are alleged to have gotten away with more than $25,000. The sheriff of Pima county (Arizona) was angered because it cost the county SIOO a day, he claimed, to keep the “terror mob” in jail there. But today It was pointed out that it has cost Indiana more than $25,000 to keep these criminals in the jails from which they have escaped, with comparative ease. Dillinger and the nine other desperadoes who escaped with him from the state penitentiary at Michigan City all had served an average of six years for various crimes, according to state police.

OGOD. who has made everything, and is so kind and merciful to everything He has made, icho tries to be good and to deserve it; God bless my dear Papa and Mamma, Brothers and Sisters and all my Relations arid Friends. Make me a good little child, and let me never be naughty and tell a lie, which is a mean and shameful thing. Make me kind to my Nurses and servants, and to all beggars and poor people, and let me never be cruel to any dumb creatures, for if I am cruel in anything, even to a poor little fly, God. who is so good, will never love me. And pray God to bless and preserve vs all, this night, and for evermore, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMIJK.

CHAPTER THE FIRST My Dear Children. I AM very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know about Him. No one ever lived, who was so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for all people who did wrong, or were in any way ill or miserable, as He was. And as He is now in Heaven, where we hope to go, and all to meet each other after we are dead, and there be happy always together, you never can think what a good place Heaven is, without knowing who He was and what He did. He was born, a long, long time ago—nearly Two Thousand years ago—at a place called Bethlehem. His father and mother liven in a City called Nazareth, but they were forced, by business, to travel to Bethlehem. His father’s name was Joseph, and his mother’s name was Mary. And the town being very full of people, also brought there by business, there was no room for Joseph and Mary in the Inn or in any house; so they went into a Stable to lodge, and in this stable Jesus Christ was born. There was no cradle or anything of that kind there, so Mary laid her pretty little boy in what is called the Manger, which is the place the horses eat out of. And there He fell asleep. While He was asleep, some Shepherds who were watching sheep in the Fields saw an Angel from God, all light and beautiful, come moving over the grass towards them. At first they were afraid and fell down and hid their faces. But it said, “There is a Child born today in the City of Bethlehem near here, who will grow up to be so good that God will love Him as His own son, and He will teach Men to iove one another, and not to quarrel and hurt one another; and His name will be Jesus Christ; and people will put that name in their prayers, because they will know God loves it, and will know that they should love it, too.” And then the Angel told the Shepherds to go to that Stable, and look at that little Child in the Manger, which they did; and they kneeled down by it in its sleep, and said, “God bless this Child!” nun NOW the great place of all that country was Jerusalem—just as London is the great place in England—and at Jerusalem the King lived, whose name was King Herod. Some wise men came one day, from a country a long way off in the East, and said to the King, "We have seen a Star in the Sky. which teaches us to know that a Child is born in Bethlehem who will live to be a Man whom all people will luve.” "When King Herod heard this, he was jealous, for he was a wicked man. But he pretended not to be, and said to the wise men, "Whereabouts is this Child?" v And the wise men said. “We don’t know. But we think the Star will show us; for the Star has been moving on before us, all the way here, and is now standing still in the sky.” Then Herod asked them to see if the Star would show them where the Child lived, and ordered them, if they found the Child, to come back to him. So they went out, and the Star went on, over their heads a little way before them, until it stopped over the house where the Child was. This was very wonderful, but God ordered it to be so. o tt u WHEN the star stopped, the wise men went in, and saw the Child with Mary, His Mother. They loved Him very much, and gave Him some presents. Then they went away. But they did not go back to King Herod; for they thought he was jealous, though he had not said so. So they went, away, by night, back into their own country. And an angel came, and told Joseph and Mary to take the Child into a country called Egypt, or Herod would kill Him. So they escaped, too, in the night—the father, the Mother, and the Child—and arrived there safely. But when this cruel Herod found that the wise men did not come back to him, and he could not, therefore, find out where this Child, Jesus Christ, lived, he called his soldiers and captains to him, and told them to go and kill all the children in his dominions that were not more than two years old. The w'icked men did so. The mothers of the Children ran up and down the streets with them in their arms, trying to save them, and hide them in caves and cellars, but it was of no use. The soldiers with their swords killed all the children they could find. This dreadful murder was called the Murder of the Innocents. Because the little children were so innocent. King Herod hoped that Jesus Christ was one of them. But He was not, as you know, for He had escaped safely into Egypt. And he lived there, with His father and Mother, until Bad King Herod died. (Copyright for North and South America. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.; all rights reserved.) (Continued Tomorrow)

BANK BANDIT SLAIN Shot to Death in Attempted Holdup in Texas, By United rrens ALTO, Tex., March 5. An attempt to rob the Continental State bank here today failed when one of the bandits was shot and killed the other captured.

Counting time spent in county and city jails and cost of arrests, police officers today computed that confinement of the “terror mobsters” cost more than $50,000. The next great item of expense, according to Herbert E. Wilson, prosecuting attorney of Marion county, comes for trials. W T hile no exact figure could be given for the cost of each member of the Dillinger gang prosecuted, Mr. Wilson thought that $2,000 a man would be a conservative figure. In his costly trip to Tucson to return Dillinger to Crown Point jail, it is estimated that Robert G. Estill, Lake county prosecutor. spent approximately $2,000. Two airplanes were chartered by Mr. Estill. He and his men stayed at the best hotel in Tucson

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Defense Rests Its Case in Trial of Dr. Wynekoop Frail Defendant Falls in Jail Before Court Session and Takes Stand With Side of Face Bruised, By United Prex* CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING. CHICAGO. March s.—The defense rested its case at 11 a. m. today in the trial of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, shortly after the defendant had finished her ordeal on the wit-

ness stand. The frail, bespectacled little old lady, charged with murder in the slaying of her daughter-in-law. Rheta, was placed on the witness stand for brier questioning as the trial neared an end. The side of her face was bruised. She was deathly white and her courage faltered. “I don’t see how I can go through with it,” she told her nurse after she had been badly

and flew out for the prisoner from Chicago. Two chartered planes w'ere used to bring Dillinger to Crown Point. It cost the state police less than $1,300 to bring Pierpont, M&kley and Clark back to Lima, 0., according to A1 Feeney, state safety director. This cost included train fares for five state policemen and a matron for Mary Kinder. Long distance telephone calls in the hunt for the “terror mob” cost more than $2,000, Mr. Feeney revealed. There is no way of estimating the cost of gasoline, wear and tear on state police cars and sundries in the hunt, all paid for by Hoosier taxpayers, but the cost is very large, state police officials conceded.

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DILLINGER BREAK ‘OUTRAGE,’ ROARS FEDERAL OFFICIAL ‘Negligence or Corruption’ at Bottom of Desperado’s Escape, Charges Hoover, Department of Justice Chief. VAN NUYS DEMANDS INVESTIGATION ‘lt’s a Disgrace,’ Cries U. S. Agents’ Leader; Assails Indiana Jail Authorities for Crown Point Episode. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March s.—Escape of John Dillinger, from the Lake county jail Saturday was characterized here today by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the justice department's bureau of investigation, as a “damnable outrage.” “Someone is guilty either of nonfeasance or malfeasance,” charged the federal government’s chief law-enforce-ment officer. “Either negligence or corruption must be at the bottom of this. That is true of nearly all jail breaks. Escape from a good jail is impossible if the jail authorities are both diligent and honest.” Simultaneously, Senator

DILLINGER CELL DOOR WAS OPEN Corridor Opening Also Left Ajar, Lutz Informs * Governor McNutt. In a half hour conference with Governor Paul V. McNutt at the statehouse today, Philip Lutz Jr., attorney-general, revealed that the cell door and the corridor door leading from John Dillinger's cell were open Saturday when the desperado escaped. The new revelations were made bv Mr. Lutz following his investigation of the prison break at Crown Point over the week-end. The at-torney-general stated that he probably would present the evidence to the grand jury when his investigation is completed. Mr..-Lutz told the Governor that Sam gahoon. turnkey at the Crown Point jail, had admitted to Mrs. Lillian Holley, sheriff, and himself that he left the cel land corridor doors open Saturday, in violation of the jail rules. The turnkey, according to Mr. Lutz, declared that this was the first time that he had failed to lock the doors during his employment at the jail. Ernest Blunk. fingerprint pxpert. kidnaped from the jail by Dillinger and forced to ride with Herbert Youngblood. Negro convict, and himself through Illinois roads, also told of the escape, according to Mr. Lutz. Waving his wooden gun at Blunk, Dillinger said, according to Mr. Lutz: “You see how nice the sun is shining today, don't you? Weill, my friend, you’ve got a wife and kids. I'm going to give you a chance to be a living coward or a dead hero. Decide!” Blunk admitted, according to Mr. Lutz, that he told Dillinger not to go to the sheiff's office, "because they have arms down there.”

bruised in a fall at the county jail hospital before court began. But she did go on with it, answering weakly the final questions put to her by Prosecutor Charles S. Dougherty as he tied together the loose ends of his case and then excused her from the witness stand. There remained then only final arguments before the jury. Picked especially at the defendant's request to include twelve young men, will be given the case. If they choose, they can find her guilty of first degree murder charges and sentence her to die in the electric chair. It was doubtful, however, whether Mr. Dougherty would press his case to the extent of demanding the death penalty in his closing plea. TRIPLETT, DARING RACE DRIVER, KILLED IN CRASH Two-Time Pacific Coast Champion Loses Life in West. By Times Special EL CENTRO. Cal., March 5. Ernie Triplett, one of America's foremost automobile race drivers, and another driver and mechanic were dead here today as the result of a spectacular four-car smashup during a county fair race yesterday.

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Frederick Van Nuys demanded a thorough investigation into the Dillinger escape. ;We must sift through the evidence speedily and find where the blame belongs," said the senator. “From this long-distance angle it looks as if that thing just could not have occurred." “It is a damnable outrage that the jail authorities didn’t exercise greater care," said Mr. Hoover. “If they had been attending to their .jobs it couldn't have happened. It is deplorable and disgraceful, that when law r enforcement officers capture a desperado, the jail authorities either can't or don't hold him. “Dillinger is a real killer. His being at large endangers the lives of every law enforcement officer in the country—local, state and federal. Orders Aid of Agents *'Of course, I think he will eventually be recaptured. But we don't know how many men he will kill before that is accomplished." Mr. Hoover said that he had telephoned instructions to the agents in charge of the bureau 01 investigation offices in Chicago and Cincinnati to “offer every possible assistance" to state authorities in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, in the recapture of Dillinger. “Capturing a desperado is the toughest job,” said Mr. Hoover. “Keeping him in jail ought to be the easiest job. Men like Dillinger are rats. They should be treated as such. Instead, it seems that the jail authorities in Indiana considered Dillinger a sort of a grand opera star to parade before the movie cameras. “ ‘Whittling .John’ they called him. So he whittled out a wooden pistol and locked the jailers in the jail. It's a disgrace." “We've Learned Lesson Dillinger was a state prisoner, charged with a state crime, Mr. Hoover pointed out.. The fact that the desperado had tw-ice before escaped from prisons should have been sufficient warning of what he would do again when he got the chance, he said. “If he had been a federal prisoner, charged with a federal crime," Mr. Hoover said, “we never would have trusted him to the care of local or state jail authorities. We have learned our lesson on that score." “Our local jails and state prisons need to be overhauled.” Mr. Hoover continued. “The widespread escapes of the last year are inexcusable.” “Every one of the forty-eight states ought to have an able police force. The advantage of a state police force in rase of a jail break is that a state police force can broadcast warnings and block all highways," he continued. Asks Able Police Forces Pennsylvania. Maryland, New York and Oregon, have able state police forces, according to Mr. Hoover. He refused to comment on the quality of the Indiana state police officers, saying he had had but little experience with them. “The only good argument against a state police force," said Mr. Hoover, “is that it is sometimes misused in labor troubles. Os course that should be guarded against.” Hunt Is in Vain By L'nitrd Brens CHICAGO. March s.—The hunt for John Dillinger, jail-breaking public enemy No. 1, centered in Chicago and northern Illinois today. Authorities sought a prearranged hideout where the outlaw was believed to have rejoined former gang members. Chicago police ordered a series of flying raids on the homes of former Indiana convicts who knew Dillinger. Captain John Stege mobilized special squads armed with submachine guns and bullet-proof vests to cover 250 such assignments. Captain Stege and Sergeant Frank (Turn to Page Thirteen) Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 39 10 a. m 4k 7 a. m 40 11 a. m 47 Ba. m 43 12 noon).. 47 9 a. m 47 1 p. m 45