Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1934 — Page 3

MARCH 21, 1934.

ROOSEVELT IN STRUGGLE TO 1 SIDETRACK SILVER ISSUE IN PRESENT CONGRESS SESSION President's Views Unchanged Since January Monetary Message Despite House Action to Contrary. Slltff. hating itampfdnl thr hnair of rrprrtontatim. will h marh in the new during the neat few week*, particularly when It become* an issue on the senate floor. The t'nlted Pres* has prepared several stories outlining the hopes and strategv of all parties concerned In the dispute that are designed to make a complicated but paramount question readily understandable. Here is the first of the series. # BY LYLE C. WILSON I/nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 21.—The administration struggled today to sidetrack the silver issue at this session of congress. Opposition by President Roosevelt was successful in persuading Speaker Henry T. Rainey to hold up a house vote on the Fiesinger silver remonetization bill. But the administration attitude did not prevent the distinctly silver-minded hodse from rallying to pass the Dies silver measure by more than a two-thirds vote.

This bill which now goes to the senate authorizes acceptance of foreign silver at a 10 to 25 per cent premium in exchange for American farm surpluses. Silver thus accepted would be used as backing for additional currency. In contrast to the house action. Mr. Roosevelt’s silver plans appear unchanged since his monetary message to congress in January. He recalled then that he had issued Dec. 21 a proclamation for coinage of newly mined silver and an increase in treasury reserves of silver bullion. This proclamation conformed with the London conference silver agreement signed by sixty-six nations including all principal silver producing and silver using countries. Mr. Roosevelt is convinced the London conference agreement, if made effective by necessary ratifications will lead to “a marked increase in the use and value of silver.” He considers the London agreement a step toward international monetary agreement which is his ultimate objective. President’s Message Definite But Mr. Roosevelt does not intend to be stampeded into any new silver programs. His monetary message was definite in that respect, as follows: "Governments can well, as they have in the past, employ silver as a basis for currency, and I look for a greatly increased use. I am, however, withholding any recommendations to congress looking to further extension of the monetary use of silver because I believe that we should gain more knowledge of the results of the London agreement and our own monetary measures.” The London agreement, if and when ratified, will pledge all nations for four years to refrain from melting or debasing silver coins, provide for replacement of small value paper currency with silver, and forbid further legislation depreciating the world value of silver. Silver producers would agree to absorb specified quantities of their domestic production and countries possessing large silver hoards would be restricted in the quantities they might sell. Postponement Move Alleged Ratification by all signatories isj to be effective April 1. but. failing j that, it may be continued in effect by such signatories as have ratified. | All silver producers except Peru have ratified or taken steps to that ; end. Canada and Mexico have begun j but have not completed ratification. Pending developments under this agreement the administration hopes to stalemate the silver issue. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, iDem., Mont.>, bitterly complains that Professor James Harvey Rogers, administration monetary adviser, is being sent to China largely to postpone the silver showdown. Mr. Rogers will leave this week to study the effect of silver j prices on Chinese-American trade. Six weeks is the minimum for the round trip and two months in China, would not be excessive. Mr. Rogers probably will be back by the fourth of July. Perhaps Mr. Wheeler is right.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: H Zidell 1439 Grand avenue St. Paul, Minn, Chevrolet sedan. B 435-773. from Neu Jersey and Washington streets. Jones and Malev. 2421 East Washington street I'eSoto coupe, from Tenth and La Salle streets Corriden-Harding Chevrolet Company, 635 Virginia avenue. Chevrolet coupe. M--543. from in front of 635 Virginia avenue Henrv Langsankamp. 1910 North Pennsylvania street. Oldsniobile coupe. 40-001. from Capitol avenue and Market streets. Ruth LeLanslade. 2828 Meredith avenue Chrysler sedan. 92-107. from in front of 2828 Meredith avenue Ross Owen. 1044 Reisner street. Chevrolet coach, from Sixteenth street and College avenue. Roscoe Jenkins. Orleans. Ind.. Buick aedan. 130-815 from Orleans. Ind.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to _ . , S P Strauser. 19 North Onentat street. Ford coupe, found at 506 West Vermont street. _ j Charles R Foutch. Sullivan Ind . Dodge coupe, found at 6780 East Washington street. Amos Kelso. R R 5. Ford coupe, found In front of 422 East Louisiana street, stripped of tire Betty A Torrence. 523 Massachusetts avenue. Ford roadster, found in 500 block on Massachusetts avenue. K P Roberts 39 Gladstone apartments. 4713 East Washington street. Dodge sedan. ; found at Liberty. Ind. PATRIOTS WILL MEET National Group to Hear Addresses at Ft. Friendly Tonight. Speaker tonight at a meeting of the National Federated Patriotic Societies allied with the Grand Army of the Republic at Ft. Friendly, 512 North Illinois street, will be Clark F. Yengling, Bay Village. 0.. commander-in-chief of the Sons of Union Veterans. The Rev. Frank C. Huston. Knightstown. national president of the federated societies, will speak. Frank Shellhouse will preside. Address at Y. M. C. A. Listed “Religion and the Unrealized Possibilities of Life.” will be the subject of an address by the Rev. Joseph A. Mears, First United Presbyterian church pastor, before the j Y. M. C. A. Young Men's Discussion' Club at 7 toqight.

FALL FATAL TO CWA EMPLOYE Worker Dies After Plunge From Scaffold; Second Victim Recovering. Injuries’received yesterday when he fell from a scaffold at Tomlinson hall, proved fatal last night to Marquis Hooker, 48, of 520 North Jefferson avenue, a civil works employe. Death occurred at the United States Veterans’ hospital. Officials at the hospital said Levi Austin, 55, of 1203 Beecher street, injured in the same accident, is in serious condition, but has a good chance for recovery. It was announced that the foreman in charge of the CWA project was discharged for failure to take proper precautions for safety of the workers.

SOUTH SIDE COUPLE TO CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schaefer will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sunday at their home, 1017 English avenue, with an open house for friends and neighbors. There will be no invitations. Born in Hessen, Germany, Mr. j Schaefer came to the United 1 States in 1872. Mrs. Schaefer, who was born in Rhinefals, Ger- j many, came *o this country in 1875. •They attended the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. Schaefer’s parents in Germany in 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer have resided on the south side fortyeight years. They have one grandson, Frederick Harrison. MEDICAL STUDENTS TO INSPECT LABORATORIES I. U. Group Will Visit Detroit Drug Company Plant. For the first time in several years, members of the senior class of the | Indiana university school of medi- j cine will be able to accept the' an- i nual invitation so Parke. Davis & | Cos. to visit the laboratories and biological farm at Detroit maintained by the drug company. Fiftyseven members of the class will leave Thursday for a two-day trip. Indianapolis students who wiK leave on the chartered car arranged for the party include Frederic Baer, Adolph Blatt. Wendell Brown, Gladys Hill, Charles Holder, Temple Miller, Frank Oliphant, Modesto Paragas, John Surber. Hugh Thatcher, William Vance, Jeane Waldo, Robert Webster, Joseph West, Abram S. Woodard, Jr., and John Young. ’ Tne class later will visit the plant and experimental farm of the Eli Lilly Company, in Indianapolis. SOVIET SHIP TO MAKE 12,380-MILE RESCUE Krassin Sailing Via Panama to Seek Stranded Party. By L iiitnt Prcyt LENINGRAD. Russia, March 21. The government ice breaker Krassin will leave in a few days on a 12.380-mile voyage via the Panama canal in an effort to rescue eightynine persons stranded on the Arctic ice off the Siberian coast, it was announced today. The Krassin will proceed down and across the Atlantic and up the | Pacific coast of the United States, j Canada and Alaska to the spot off : the northeast Siberian coast on which the party are drifting slowly 1 on the ice. Those stranded are the crew of the icebreaker Cheliuskin, crushed in the ice. and members of the Wrangel island meteorological mis- j sion, which it had taken off after a three-year tour of duty. Women and children attached to the mission were rescued hy airplane recently.

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Way Back in the Happy Days of Long Ago This is the second of a series of pictures of scenes and people depicting “the good old days" in Indianapolis. Others will recall sites and people belonging to the past. The Times will pay readers $1 for each picture accepted to run in this scries.

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Upper Lest —Here’s a busy street scene in Indianapolis in 1862. The picture, taken from the collection of the Bass Photo Company, shows Washington street, looking east from Meridian street. Center, Left—When Abraham Lincoln's body was on its way to Springfield, 111., for burial, it was brought to Indianapolis, and lay in the statehouse for crowds of Indiana mourners to view the murdered President. The old

DECLARE ALLEGED SLAYER MT INSANE Pappas Case Will Go Before Criminal Court Jury. Vasil Pappas, 50, on trial for his life in connection with the murder of Mrs. Belle Brown, 47, rooming house proprietor, Dec. 24, was declared sane yesterday by two alienists named by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. The case will go before the criminal court jury today following closing arguments of the prosecution and defense attorneys. The alienists, Dr. Murray DeArmond and Dr. E. Rogprs Smith, made an examination of Pappas

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after Seth Ward, defense attorney, asked that the action be taken. Pappas, an Albanian, took the stand yesterday afternoon and was understood only with considerable difficulty. He testified that Mrs. Brown attacked him with a club before he shot her to death after she had refused him permission to cook in his room. Honored by Fraternity Miss Gertrude E. Ford, 4843 Park avenue, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, at the University of Illinois, according to work received here today. Kappa Psi Chapter to Meet Beta Upsilon chapter, Kappa Psi fraternity, will meet at 8 tonight in the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy.

statehouse and the entrance and fence were festooned with flowers and banners, as evidence of the grief of the Hoosier state. The picture was taken April 30, 1865, and is in the Bass collection. Right—Opening programs of Dickson’s Grand Opera House were printed on silk, with fringed edges. The theater, combined with the Grand hotel, stood on the site of Keith’s theater. Previous to this building, the place

STOF*S FOR CIGARETS, SALESMAN FINDS CAR AND PROSPECT GONE

John McGinty, automobile salesman for Jones & Maley, Inc., 2421 East Washington street, today decided that he had tried a little too hard to “sell” a prospect on a car yesterday. After dwelling at length on the good qualities of a car he was demonstrating, Mr. McGinty stopped at Tenth and La Salle streets to buy a package of cigarets. When he returned, the enthusiastic customer, who gave his name as Jay Cox, Lawrence, was gone,' and so was the car. Investigation revealed that no one by that name lives at Lawrence, Mr. McGinty reported to police.

was occupied by a fish and game market, in front of which hung game and poultry The opening bill at the Grand opera house announced Annie Waite, appearing for the “first time in four years” in her rendition of Margaret Elmore in “Love’s Sacrifice.” Tickets ranged in price from $5 for the parquette boxes to 25 cents for gallery admission. The theater opened Sept. 13, 1875.

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subject of a talk by William Baum, industrial engineer, before the BethE 1 Men’s Club tonight.

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SPONSORS SEE! MORE LAND FOR RELIEFGARDENS Owners Urged to Donate Unused Plots Prior to April 1. Appeal for additional offers of ground for the use of the Indianapolis relief gardens has been made by Mrs. Perry O Neal. in charge of the community gardens center. More garden space will be needed this year than was available last year, according to Mrs. O'Neale. In comparison with last year’s gardens, which numbered 7.000, she expects applications for 12.000 garden plots this year. Many of last year's gardeners already have applied for ground, while many new applicants have added their names to the lists, Mrs. O'Neal said. Seed will be distributed by the commission on unompoyment relief April 1. Because of the short time remaining. Mrs. O'Neal is appealing to all owners of ground available for gardens to offer it before that time. Seven thousand pickles, four bushels of potatoes, four bushels of green peppers, and enough vegetable from which 400 quarts were canned for winter use, were raised last year by one man on a plot of ground about 50x150 feet. In addition to this, he was able to raise all the fresh vegetables needed for a family of seven. The average market value of the gardens raised last year under the direction of the garden center amounted to $65 per family. This average is expected to be raised this year, with experience gained from last summer's efforts. Included in the list of persons who have offered space for gardens are the following: Thomas L. Sullivan, Mayor Sullivan's father, who has given eight lots for gardens; G. V. Nelson, eight lots: Y. W. C. A., eight lots; Julian C. Ralston, seven lots; William M. Taylor, five lots; Grafton Johnson. Greenwood, forty-three lots; W. J. Holiday estate, ten acres; George Q. Bruce and Tuttle Bros., ten acres, and the Indianapolis park board, twenty acres. Some of the large tracts offered last year have been offered again this year, including the offer of H. R. Danner. 100 lots in Mars Hill; Indianapolis Water Company, fifteen lots, and Butler university, eighty acres. These big tracts will be divided into plots 50x100 feet, the preparation of 'the plots and the plowing of the ground to be done by CWA labor this year. Persons who had gardens in one of these large tracts last year may have the same garden space this year, if they apply for the space soon enough, Mrs. O'Neal said.