Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1934 — Page 5

MARCH 8, 1934

GOLD IS STOLEN UNDER EYES OF SECRET SERVICE Treasury Officials Irked and Baffled: $75 Loot of Bold Robbers. By i hit-d Pros, WASHINGTON. March B—The sort of person who delights in tweaking a policemans nose and sitting in an electric chair with the juice turned on to see if it works had succeeded in giving the United States service the jitters today. Net only did this devil-may-care person give the secret service the jitters, but also he gave the officers the knotty problem by discovering who stole a dozen scrapiron gold bricks and $75 in real gold coins right from under their very eyes. As for the loss to the treasury, nobody was much worried about that. With several billion dollars in gold in the vaults, the $75 in coins' and gold-plated bricks won't be missed. But officials from TreasurySecretary Henry Morgonthau down, were seriously perturbed and angry, too. over the affront to the zealous-ly-guarded reputation of the secret service and th° apparent carelessness that enabled the incident to! occur. Stolen From Showcase For the gold was stolen out of a 1 showcase in the treasury corridor on the main floor. Only a few hun- : dred feet away is the office of Wil-! liam H. Morgan, chief of the se- j rret service, and in the building are; hundreds of secret service men on guard and supposed to be protecting | the government gold stores from theft. If the secret service could not keep a sneak thief from breaking into the s display case and taking a trifling i amount of gold, how could it be expected to ward against more serious ' crimes, was a question which treas- ; ury department officers new they would have to answer. The whole situation was unprecedented. It was the first time the treasury department ever had been ! robbed. On top of that, the gold bricks were imitation ones, merely i covered with a film of gold. Guards Face Shakeup And finally gold no longer circules I as coinage in the United States and j what the thief would do with it I once he got it puzzled officials as much as the crime itself. Neither Secretary Morganthau nor other officials were inclined to take the robbery lightly. Mr. Morganthau inspected the scene of the theft personally and immediately ordered that the guard system which for years had functioned without a flaw be tightened. It was expected the present staff would be reorganized and that new guards might be added, at least temporarily. lest someone makes a try for the $20,000,000 in gold stored in the sub-basement vaults. SUPPORT TARIFF BILL. CORDELL HULL PLEADS Xcnpartisan Backing Is Asked by Secretary of State. By United I‘rtns WASHINGTON, March B.—Secre- j tary of State Cordell Hull pleaded ! today for nonpartisan support of I the administration’s reciprocal tariff! bill, which he said offered "the only 1 feasible means of restoration of foreign trade.”

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Bust of Bishop Joseph Chartrand Completed by Indianapolis Sculptor

Posthumous Work Becomes Possible Through Gift From Anonymous City Donor: Photo Is Model. A sculptor's genius, held idle for 1 a while because of his subject's innate modesty, has been turned to modeling the bust of the beloved Bishop Joseph Chartrand of the Indianapolis diocese. The bust, modeled in clay, by E. H. Daniels, Indianapolis, is receiving its plaster cast at D. Gasparri & Son, Eleventh street and Ashland avenue, and shortly will be on its way to Germany to be cast in bronze. Within three months the completed cast will return to Indianap- ! olis. The benign modesty of Mr. Daniels' model, who refused in life to permit the hands of a sculptor to mould him, is rivalled by that ol the man who came to Mr. Daniels | and commissioned him to do Bishop Chartrand's bust. “He prefers to be anonymous. It has not been decided where the bronze bust will be placed. Not more than four casts off of the one mould will be permitted," Mr. Daniels said "I'd only seen Bishop Chartrand once when he lived. At that time, i I tried to persuade him to permit ‘ me to make his head or bust. He almost was persuaded. You know he never had many photos taken. "My clay model was made from a ten-year-old picture and I ati tempted to portray the great CathoI lie leader of Indianapolis as he was ! ten years ago,” said Mr. Daniels. Priests close to Bishop Chartrand aided the sculptor in breathing life and character into the embryonic i statuaw*. They advised him on each contour as the clay shaped itself. Mr. Daniels has made statues of Colonel Richard Lieber, George Marott. George Schreiber, who built the Scottish Rite cathedral; Robert Lang McKinley, Masonic leader of , Paris. 111.: J. Edwin Kopp, Indianapolis architect. Commander Edward Ellsberg, United States navy and well-known author; Captain William Patterson of the Coldstream guards, British army. His work has been confined almost entirely to portrait work. He has a studio in the Marott, 45 East Twenty-Seventh street. MRS. ROSS GIVES UP TWO PARTY POSITIONS Director of Mint Latest to Bow to Wishes of President. Ry United Press WASHINGTON, March B.—The parade of Democratic party resignations inspired by the Administration's stand for a divorce of political and governmental functions continued today with Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, one-time Governor of Wyoming as the latest recruit. Mrs. Ross resigned as Democratic national committeewoman from Wyoming, and vice-chairman of the national committee. Mrs. Ross is director of the mint and explained that she was resigning to avoid "even the appearance of conflicting interests.” Her act followed by twenty-four hours a similar step taken by Arthur Mullen. Nebraska committeeman now engaged in legal practice here and was the fifth credited to the President's policy.

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The posthumous bust of Bishop Joseph Chartrand and the Indianapolis sculptor, E. H. Daniels. The photo was taken one week before the bust's completion. It is complete except for the bishopric cross.

Rescue Squad Answers 444 Calls for Aid in ’33 Organized Dec. 19, 1932 Unit, Equipped For All Tasks, Has Proved Worth, Says Voschell. A WIFE walked into a garage and saw her husband stretched unconscious on the floor. Deadly carbon monoxide gas apparently had claimed another life. She dragged the inert form into the open and called for help. Police arrived, then a doctor. He bent over the limp figure and made a hasty examination.

“Too late, I’m afraid,’ he said gravely. "There might be a chance with an inhalator.” A siren howled, brakes screeched and the tense ring of watchers around the body divided to admit lour men. Two of them carried what appeared to be a small trunk. Deftly, expertly they prepared the apparatus. They attached a mask to the face of the stricken man and precious oxygen dilated his poisoned lungs. Five minutes, ten minutes passed. A spot of color appeared in the gray cheeks. The rescue squad of the Indianapolis fire department had saved another life. The fire department rescue j squad was placed in service Dec. i 19. 1932. In 1933. the men made 444 runs. Sixteen calls in one twenty-four-hour shift last month is the record for one day. A po-lice-type radio on the truck enables the men to dash from one accident to another without returning to headquarters. n a a CHIEF HARRY E. VOSHELL considers the squad a distinct asset to the department. “The men have important duties besides the regular first aid and rescue work.” said Chief Voshell. "For instance, they are invaluable in fire-fighting work where there is dense smoke. They can don the gas masks and take a hose into places where unprotected men could not exist.” Captain George Townsend and Lieutenant Harry Van Pelt command the two squads that alternate on the twenty-four-hour shifts. At any minute of the day or night the little bell that means a “go” may ring its summons of mercy. Maybe it’s a baby scald ed by an overturned pot of coffee. It may be a cutting scrape or a car that has skidded into Fall creek. In the last instance there’s a good chance that the inhalator will be called into service to resuscitate some unfortunate trapped under water. "If we get there quickly enough we might bring them around,” said one of the men. "We’ll sure try as long as there’s hope.” a a u ATTEMPTED suicide cases are apt to be a problem. Often the subject resists first aid efforts and strong arm methods may be necessary. But when the struggle is over and the patient is out of danger and has had time to ponder the saying, “When you die you're a long time dead.” despair and anger usually turn to gratitude. Strangely enough, according to the men on the squad, an intoxicated person never tries to commit suicide. “At least that’s our experience,” declared one. "Maybe doctors or psychologists do not agree.” The rescue squad truck was remodeled especially for the job. The body is full of compartments designed to hold hundreds of pieces of equipment. It is hard to imagine a situation for which the men are not prepared. nun T k HERE are two fifteen-ton jacks for lifting heavy wreckage. There are rubber gloves tested to 10,000 volts for handling live wires. Grappling hooks for dragging rivers. Acetylene torches to cut through bars and gratings. A life net. ropes and rope-ladders. Hay forks and crowbars. Life guns for shooting lines to people on burning buildings. These are a few of the life-saving devices. Occasionally a bit of humor enlivens the long shift. Once by

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some mistake, the squad was sent to an address where they found a man running about rather scantily clad. He didn’t seem happy to see them. "I didn’t call the fire department,” he screamed. "I called the police. Some blankety-blank tsole my pants.” HUGE A RMYBOMBERS GO INTO MAIL SERVICE Test Set for Craft Capable of Carrying Ton Load. Ry United Press WASHINGTON. March B.—The army air corps operations office announced today it was placing a number of new Martin bombing planes capable of transporting approximately pounds of air mail in service cn the air mail routes where the heaviest loads are carried. The air corps has forty-six of these bombers under construction and they are being delivered at the rate of two a week. Decision to use the big bombing planes in the air mail service followed a personal inspection of army air mail routes by Brig.-General Oscar Westover, chief of army air mail operations. PUBLISHER PUTNAM’S SON WEDS IN FLORIDA Young Couple Spends Honeymoon With Bridegroom’s Mother. By United Press FT. PIERCE, Fla., March B. David Binney Putnam, son of George Palmer Putnam, the New York publisher, and his bride, the former Nilla Shiles, were honeymooning here today at the home of Mrs. Frank Upton, mother of young Putnam. The two were married here Monday at the Baptist parsonage by the Rev. G. H. Moore. A group of friends attended. The bride is the daughter of a Lafayette (Ga.) physician. Frank Upton, step-father of young Putnam, is president of the St. Lucie county bank i Ft. Pierce. Young Putnam's father married Amelia Earhart, famous aviatrix, in 1931 after a divorce from his first wife in 1928.

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M’NUTT’S FIRST PARDON GIVEN LIFEJERMER Sullivan Farmer Held Not Guilty of Double Killing. First pardon ever granted by Governor Paul V. McNutt, was received today by Otis Turner. 60. Sullivan county farmer, serving a life sentence for murder at Indiana state prison. Turner has been imprisoned since May, 1933. for the killing of Andy Reedy and his son, Oral Reedy, farmer neighbors. The murders later were confessed to by Frank Vanderpool, who now is serving a life sentence at the prison. Action of the Sullivan county au-

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thorities and the bar association there to correct the sentence and free Turner caused the state clemency board to investigate. It was j upon their findings that Turner was 1 not guilty that the Governor acted ! he said. "This pardon is in line with the I rule of my administration that no | outright pardon will be granted un- | less there has been a conviction by ' mistake." Governor McNutt declared. WAR TALK DISCOUNTED | Strife Between Japan and U. S. Bunk, Says Publisher. ; By United Press NEW ORLEANS. March B.—Sam Sheba, publisher of the Japan Times, today stated that all talk of war between Japan and the United States was “hooey, bunk and hot ! air.” ! "Japan is rapidly becoming Amer--1 icanized,” Mr. Sheba said. "We are adopting the ways of your country because we have found they are the 1 best ways.”

CUPID POPULAR IN INDIANAPOLIS c ew Women in City Remain Unwed, Uncle Sam's Figures Show. By Times Special WASHINGTON, March B—lndianapolis is a fine place for a single girl to find a husband. That is not a civic slogan. It is a conclusion to be reached from figures gathered by Uncle Sam and brought to light here today. They show that while the number of women in Indianapolis over j the age of 15 is greather than that j of the men. fewer of them remain 1 unwed. Os the city's female population over 15, given as 145.009, only 33.653 are single. There are. on the 1 other hand, 36,545 unmarried men

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in the city out of 134.027 in the same category. Which makes it look, sure enough, like Venus is smiling on Indianapolis' women.

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