Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1934 — Page 4

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EMPLOYMENT HIGHEST SINCE SUMMER OF'3l Government Offices Report New Gains in Industry and Banking. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 28. A rise in factory employment and pay roils to the highest level since the summer of 1931 on an adjusted seasonal basis and new gains in industry' and banking were reported by government agencies today. Higher employment, pay rolls and Industrial activity during February were reported by the federal reserve board. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced a halfbillion dollar increase in insured bank deposits since Jan. 1. Business activity in February, the reserve board reported, rose to 81 per cent of the 1923-25 average from 78 per cent in January and 69 per cent in February, 1533. March Gain Unreportcd The reserve board survey did not include further gains in activity during March reported by private agencies. “Factory employment and pay rolls,” the reserve board said, “increased substantially between the middle of January and the middle of February to a higher level, on a seasonally adjusted basis, than at any other time since the summer of 1931. Working forces on railroads also showed an increase. “At automobile factories there was a large increase in the number of employed to approximately the level prevailing four years ago. Substantial increases were reported also for the textile, clothing, shoes and tobacco industries.” Insured Bank Deposits Up “Value of construction contracts awarded as reported by the F. W. Dodge Corporation,” the reserve survey continued, “showed a decline In February, followed by an increase in the first half ol March.” Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, reported that insured bank deposits increased in the first two months of this year by $449,559,099 to a total of $15,512,744,137. The number of insured accounts rose 2,068,229 in January and February to a total of 54,814.249. Largest increases by states in the number of banks participating in the insurance fund were Wisconsin, 156; Texas, 133; Pennsylvania, 66; Ohio, 62; New York, 55; Kansas, 53; Missouri, 49; Nebraska, 45; lowa, 44; Illinois, 38; Indiana, 34. and Michigan, 30. BERT ESSEX_TO SPEAK Latino Americano Club to Hear Noted City Traveler. Bert Essex, Indianapolis world traveler, will be the speaker for the meeting of the Club Latino Americano at 8:15 tonight at Cropsey auditorium in the city library. Mr. Essex, who has visited fiftyseven countries in his travels, will lecture in English on South America and Africa. Members of high school Spanish classes especially are invited.

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COMMITTEE BUSY ON PLANS FOR MALE CHORUS FESTIVAL, MAY 12

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jviemoers or the Indiana Male Chorus Festival committee are Mrs. Olive M. Grimsley, Bluff ton; Claude E. Palmer, Muncie; Miss May Dorsey, Newcastle; Harold E. Winslow, Indianapolis; Miss Carolyn G. Townsend, Martinsville; Lowell M. Tilson, Terre Haute, and Miss Lorle Krull, Indianapolis. Prcf. Edward B. Birge, Indiana university, chairman, and Will F. Wise, Indianapolis, are not shown.

66 GAIN I. U. ROLL OFHONOR Sixteen Postgraduates and Fifty Undergraduates Are Honored. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 28. —Fifty undergraduates and sixteen postgraduates made the Indiana university honor roll during the first semester of the current school year, John W. Cravens, registrar, said today. Ora E. Rumple, Terre Haute, was one of two postgraduate students who carried nineteen hours of work and received all A’s. The honor roll included: Freshmen Ruth Armstrong, Springville; Harriet. Bachman, Syracuse; Margaret Hershey, Churubusco; Isabel Hogue, Vincennes; Eleanor Jones, Shelbyville; Daniel Sherwood, Bedford; Thelma Ward, Sheridan; Frances Worrell, Orleans, and Joseph Dec, Gary. Sophomores Sarah Goodman, East Chicago; Frances Peek, Waldron. Juniors—Herbert Small, Walton, and John Hargrave, North Judson. Seniors—Rossaline Barker. Hudson; Samuel Brown, Peru; Flo Fippen, Atlanta; Edward Schrader, Kokomo. Postgraduates—William Arbuckle, Rockville; Benjamin Johnson, Petersburg; Ralph McCoy, Williams; Donald Tursman, Valparaiso; Louis Watson, Vincennes; Herbert Bredemeier, Ft. Wayne.

Plans for the first annual Indiana Male Chorus Festival, in Cadle Tabernacle, May 12, are being made by the festival committee of the In -and - About School Music Club. More than four hundred men will participate in the festival, Edward B. Birge, Indiana university, committee chairman, announces. Ralph W. Wright, Indianapolis public school music supervisor and president of the club, has been re-elected to head the organization. Will H. Bryant, Terre Haute, again is treasurer and Miss May Dorsey, Newcastle, will become vice-president next fall to succeed Miss Ada Bicking, Indianapolis, who will become a member of the executive committee.

AMERICAN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR PUTS ONE ON G. BERNARD SHAW

By United Press DETROIT, March 28.—George Bernard Shaw, the English author and wit, came out second in a battle of wits with an American autograph hunter, Kenneth R. MacDonald, it was revealed last night. Mr. MacDonald, strictly an amateur, rebelled at purchasing Mr. Shaw’s autograph at a dollar per letter, reportedly the only way to get it. His polite request asking for an autograph went without acknowledgment. 1 Mr. MacDonald’s annoyance fathered a scheme. He informed Mr. Shaw by letter that he was organizing a company to sell digestion pills. He assumed it would be all right to use Mr. Shaw’s name in connection with the sale, Mr. MacDonald wrote, adding that unless he received other instructions he would do so. Soon after MacDonald received the “other instructions.” A white card, written in England, was delivered to Mr. MacDonald here. “If you attempt to use my name in the manner proposed I shall certainly take every legal step in my power to restrain you,” the card read, in part. Most important to Mr. MacDonald, however, was the scrawled signature: “Faithfully, “G. BERNARD SHAW.”

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GRAIN WHISKY BILUIFFERED Van Nuys Measure Designed to Increase Market for Wheat. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 28.—A bill to prohibit manufacture of whisky from ingredients other than Amer-ican-grown grain was introduced in congress yesterday by Senator Frederick Van Nuys (Dem., Ind.). The bill also requires that only American-grown grain oe (Used in manufacture of neutral spirits that go into blended or imitation whisky. It likewise requires that the labels on gin state specifically whether the gin was distilled from grain or from some other basic ingredient, so that purchasers might be able to indulge whatever preference they might have for grain spirits. If the bill becomes law, according to Senator Van Nuys, it w’ill increase consumption of American-,grown grain by about seven million bushels annually. Vast quantities of spirits distilled from black-strap molasses have flooded the liquor market since repeal of the amendment, and the Van Nuys bill is designed to grain a competitive advantage over molasses. Alcohol can be manufactured from molasses at about half the cost of grain alcohol. A mass meeting to protest invasion of molasses into distilled spirits markets, which prior to prohibition were reservd for grain, was held last month at Terre Haute. Representatives of farm bureaus in grain-growing states and spokesmen for workers who lost their jobs because of the closing of grain alcohol plants attended the Terre Haute meeting. Ship Starts Rescuq Trip By United Press MOSCOW, March 28. —The icebreaker Krassin is proceeding to Alaska via the Panama canal, to aid in the rescue of ninety-one persons stranded on ice off the Siberian coast, it was announced today.

'BEST-DRESSED WOMAN'S SON FACESGALLQWS Andrew Donaldson Kirwan Charged With Murder on High Seas. By United Press NEW YORK, March 28.—Glittering Jean Nash, who has betrayed her preference for the role of mother to that of the “best dressed woman in Europe” by her devotion to her son, sat in frowning silence today as the federal government began its attempt to send the young man to the gallows for murder on the high seas . Andrew Donaldson Kirwan, 2f3, who was born to Mrs. Nash, now Mme. Paul Dubonnet, wife of a wealthy French vintner, when she was only 15 years old, is charged with the fatal stabbing of Gilliam Sessoms, 52, aboard the liner President Garfield. United States Attorney Martin Conboy told the jury in his opening address he would seek to prove that Kirwan stabbed Sessoms during a drinking bout over a fancied slight to his religion. Conboy Relates Incident Mr. Conooy related that Kirwan, Sessoms and assistant purser W. S. Frost were drinking gin in the defendant’s cabin when they began speculating about what they would do when the vessel reached New York. Someone suggested going to church. According to Mr. Conboy, the discussiori continued something in this manner: Kirwan: “I’m a Catholic. I’ll take you to my church.” Sessoms: “I’m a thirty-second degree Mason. I won’t go to a Catholic church.” Kirwan: “Well, I’m broad-minded, I’ll go to your church.” Defendant Became Enraged The defendant, became enraged, ! Mr. Conboy said, when Sessoms I countered that he “wouldn’t want to ! be found in a Catholic church,” and J snatched a long-bladed hunting knife from a wardrobe trunk. “He walked toward Sessoms in a manner indicating his intention of inflicting bodily harm,” the prosecutor continued. “Frost attempted to grapple with him and was gashed on the upper and lower lip as they grappled. “Frost called to Sessoms for assistance. In the ensuing- melee, Sessoms was slashed across the wrist and stabbed in the abdomen. Placed in irons by the ship’s officers, Kirwan attempted to cut himself on glassware which he had shattered with his manacles.” Sessoms’ Wounds Fatal Sessoms died three days later, the night the ship docked in New York. Mme. Dubonnet persisted in remaining by the side of her son despite repeated demands by the marshal that she sit elsewhere at the counsel table. She patted his hand reassuringly, but she herself could not avoid betraying her concern as she nervously rolled her handkerchief in moist palms. The trial was adjourned until today after Joseph D. Milensky, a department of justice agent, described the condition of both Kirwan’s and Sessom’s cabins as he found them w'hen the liner docked here. tradeTbqard to meet Organization Governors to Study C. of C. Report. The board of governors of the Indianapolis Board of Trade will hold the monthly meeting at 6 Monday night in the Board of Trade building. A referendum of the report of the special committee of the’United States Chamber of Commerce will be considered.

STATESMANSHIP RELIGION BY HENRY A. WALLACE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE CHAPTER 111 Biblical Farmers THE independent prophets and Jehovah, their God. never did come out definitely on top until they had been made into appropriate dry dust by the passage of time. I am sure if we had been trying to earn a living in one of the walled cities of Judah 620 years before Christ, most of us would have been respectable worshipers of Baal genuinely worried about the subversive tendencies of that fellow Jeremiah who was breaking down confidence and saying things that were bad for business. On the other hand, if in the time of Amos we had been watching sheep in the hill country of Gilead or Judah, most of us would have said, paraphrased into modem vernacular, “Old Amos is sure telling those crooked priests and business men where to get off. If he keeps it up he will stop foreclosures and maybe get us an honest dollar that will remain stable in purchasing power from one generation to the next.”

Os course, Bible English renders Amos’ thoughts in the following words: “Hear this. O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, saying when will the new moon be gone that we may sell com and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea and sell the refuse of the wheat. . . . Snail not the land tremble for this? I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.” Amos was neither an economist nor a politician. He knew nothing of pure food laws or commodity exchange regulation or modern monetary systems. He was a typical farmer disgusted with a commercial civiliation that by deceit robbecJ farmers of their land and freedom. Perhaps there was depression abroad in the land when Amos left his sheep behind him in the hills of Judea to go to Bethel, a leading city and sanctuary of Israel. The first great reformer of history, he strode into Bethel strong in the insight which had come to him as he thought of the wrongs of that day. He gathered his crowd by telling of the disaster which would come to neighboring nations because of their misdeeds. But when he told of the similar misdeeds of Israel and similar disaster, it was more than the professional prophet Amaziah could stand. tt tt tt AMAZIAH immediately complained to King Jeroboam with the age-old plaint of respectable men rudely disturbed by a reformer; said Amaziah concerning Amos, ‘The land is not able to bear all his words.” He assumed Amos was one of the kept prophets of Judah and suggested that he go back home and prophesy there in return for the bread of his own land. Most prophets have been true to their bread, but you can’t tell how they will act in a strange land. It happened Amaziah was wrong and Amos in his wrath denied as though it were an insult that he was a prophet or a son of a prophet. He was simply a farmer and the Lord had come to him as he followed his flock. With wrath redoubled he returned to his task of prophesying disaster for misdeeds committed, Amos, an enraged farmer, seeing the havoc wrought by a commercial civilization, gave expression to the oldest passages of the Bible. It was after Amos that Deuteronomy, Judges, Kings and the rest of the Bible was written. Undoubtedly this indignant farmer, who disdained to be called a prophet but nevertheless felt so deeply that he spoke in the name of the Loid, has had through the ages an extraordinary influence on the fight for social justice. Micah,' another farmer, prophesied shortly after Amos in much the same terms, and he likewise had a supreme disdain for the regular “priests teaching for hire and prophets divining for money” who proclaimed that the Lord was with them and prosperity was just around the corner. Micah was even more disgusted than Amos with the cities of Judah and Israel. He denounced both the priests and the rich, and foretold the calamity that would inevitably come to a people behaving in this fashion. But with all his hatred of the rich and his prophesying of disaster. Micah is credited in the sixth chapter of the book of Micah with one of the most eloquent verses in the Old Testament, “What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” tt tt tt ISAIAH, who came after Amos and lived about the same time as Micah. seems to have been more a city man than a farmer. He came of good family and apparently had easy access to the king. He seems to have been less concerned with the relationship between the poor farmer and the city man than he was with a statesmanlike course for Judah in her relationship to surrounding nations. He was a statesman, and saw the peril to Judah in foreign alliances. Poor little Judah was in imminent danger of being overrun by either Egypt or Assyria, or both, and Isaiah, knowing tjie intense fear of his people, utilized this fear as an opportunity to speak of a greater force than foreign alliances. I can’t help feeling that Isaiah knew some-

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KIDNAP SUSPECT SHOTJNBATTLE Alleged Missouri Slayer Is Slain in Gun Fight With Officer. By United Press LOS ANGELES March 28 Glenn Harmon, 30. suspect In a Carthage (Mo.) kidnaping and slaying, was shot and killed in a crowded case here last night in a gun duel with detective lieutenant A. C. Strom well. The gun battle followed the arrest of Byron Wolff. 19. as a suspect in the kidnap-slaving of Brooks Van Hoose. southwest Missouri capitalist, at Carthage on Jan. 3. Wolff furnished the address of the case where he said his companion likely would be. Lieutenant Stromwell entered alone and approached a table where Harmon was seated with two companions. Rising, Harmon swung with his fists and missed. Lieutenant Stromwell closed in, but in an exchange of blows he was dropped. The suspect whipped out a .44caliber revolver from a shoulder holster and fired point blank at the officer. When his gun jammed, Harmon dashed for the door, but before he could reach it, the detective emptied his own revolver, all the shots taking effect.