Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1934 — Page 1

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CHINA FIGURES IN U. S.-JAPAN WAR RUMORS Nation Being Sponsored by America, Tokio Now Believes. SOVIET UNION THREAT Russia Also Believed Out to Stop Nippon's Asiatic Expansion. This I* the third of five articles on Japan, fir.n of several series which are being written by William Philip Simms, famed Scripps-Howard foreign editor, while on a world tour for The Times. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor (Copyright. 1934. by NEA Service. Inc TOKIO, March 31—Here is solved the riddle of why Japan expects eventual war with the United States. To Americans, this has always been a profound mystery. They have not been able to see where the just aims of the two countries clashed at any point. Their trade and other legitimate interests are complementary, not competitive. Yet two hemispheres continue as full of war talk as the atmosphere above Vesuvius is of sparks. Especially does one hear such talk in Japan. Why? The answer is: China. Japan believes th United States is out to checkmate her; to sponsor China into becoming a great, modern nation; to stand behind China while that country thwarts the creation of a Japanese empire on the Asiatic mainland. Way down in their hearts the Japanese believe expansion for them is a matter of national life or death. Like other peoples, they sincerely do not want war. Rut they are prepared to fight any power, or any combination of powers, that stands in the way. Two Nations Bar Way They have fought four wars in recent times —two against China, one against Russia, and one against Germany—in pursuit of this policy. And they will fight another and another if necessary to carry it to fulfillment. The odds against them are a secondary consideration. Japan sees two countries in her way. One is Russia. The other is the United States. Britain and France —the other two major Pacific powers—she does not fear. She might handily come to terms with them on partition of China were it not for the Soviet Union and America. That is why world chancelleries keep on harping on war between Japan and Russia and Japan and the United States. Japan has very definitely embarked upon a policy calculated to make her supreme in eastern Asia and the western Pacific. This may sound like a pre-war dream, but realists admit the world has reverted to pre-war conditions. The postwar peace machinery has broken down. Time to Strike Is Near Unless she breaks out of her own little islands, Japan reasons, while the world in general and China in particular are chaotic, she must be content to remain there forever — eventually, perhaps, becoming a vassal of her colossal neighbor across the China sea. While the justice of this may not be self-evident, the logic of it is all on her side. Also the law of selfpreservation. Partition of China among the great powers would save Japan. Also the creation of a number of • independent” Chinese states, each under its own ruler. Or. finally, a combination of these eventualities. Acordingly. some such process is under way. Japan lias nibbled off Korea. Manchuria, and Jehol. She has “demilitarized" all North China, from the Great Wall to Peiping and Tientsin. She can foreclose on this territory whenever she feels like running up her flag. She is pushing westward into inner Mongolia and nobody can tell when and where she will stop. Tightens Her Hold Meanwhile, Nanking and Tokio are said to have come to an understanding. A lot is going on under the surface. In a word. Japan seems slowly but surely tightening her hold on the neighboring mainland. But. looking ahead. Japan sees Russia and the United States blocking her road. Russia is there because Japanese aggression is rapidly pushing her back from the Pacific, bottling up Siberia. Why Japan suspects the United States, however, is quite another story. The notion is all over Japan that the Uhited States is sitting up nights trying to undermine her—and this expression is that of one of the most intelligent and widely traveled Japanese I know, not mine. A whole succession of things was pointed out to me. proving to the Japanese way of thinking, that such is indeed the case. Point Out l’. S. • Menaces’’ First we annexed Hawaii and built one of the worlds greatest naval bases there. Next we took the Philippines—"a pistol pointed at Japan's head.” I was told. Then we built the Panama canal so our entire navy could be concentrated overnight in the Pacific. After the Russo-Japanese war. the accusation proceeds, an American <E. H. Harrimani attempted to buy the South Manchuria railway. Later, in 1909, Secretary of State Knox proposed the neutralization of Manchuria. Both at these moves, in Japanese eyes, were suspected, their object being to prevent Nippon gaining a real footwork on the continent.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy and colder tonight with lowest temperature near freezing; tomorrow partly cloudy with probably showers by afternoon or night.

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City Board to Mediate Truck War Regional Labor Group in Parley Today Seeks Settlement. An attempt to adjust the differences between the Kibler Trucking Company and its employes will be made at a conference today at the offices of the regional labor board, according to George T. Watson, secretary of the board. Representatives of Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ union charged yesterday that the company had failed to live up to the terms of the agreement signed several days ago. Harry Peats, business agent of the union, said the Kibler company had agreed to re-employ ninety strikers, but that only thirty-two had received jobs so far. OHIO FUGITIVE SHOT, JAILED Neal Bowman and Pal Held After Gun Battle in Kentucky. By United Press SOMERSET. Ky., March 31.—Neal Bowman, Ohio's No. 1 criminal fugitive, was in the county jail here today dangerously wounded in a fight with local peace officers. Bowman and a companion, Stanley Mercer, were captured as they stopped at a gasoline station. Their car. police said, had been stolen in Mississippi but carried Ohio license plates. Bowman, who escaped from the Lima hospital for criminal insane last Christmas day and had been the object of Ohio's most intense manhunt in years, was shot in the neck and shoulder. Mercer was wounded in the cheek. Authorities here were awaiting word from Ohio in regard to return of the fugitive to that state. It was believed he would not fight extradition. but there was a possibility that he may be wanted on a federal charge, local officials said. SCHWAB SALARY IS $250,000 A YEAR Fox Chief Gets the Same, Trade Board Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—The federal trade commission which has been delving into the high salaries paid business men. bankers and other figures in the American scene today revealed another report on better paid executives. The highest paid men on the list made public today were Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of Bethlehelm Steel Company, and W. R. Sheehan, vice-president of the Fox Film Corporation. Each received $250,000 annually. The salary figures, reported at the behest of a senate resolution introduced by Senator Edward P. Costigan (Dcm., Colo.), were as of September. 1933. The only other executive whose salary crossed the $200,000 figure was G. F. Kelly, president of Anaconda Copper Mining Company, who drew $208,402. Detective Slays Gunman Bn i nitrd Press CHICAGO. March 31.—Detective Edward Lynn shot and killed an unidentified gunman today during a robbery in a west side drug store. A woman bystander was critically wounded. One of the policeman's bullets were believed to have pierced the outlaw's hand and struck Miss Nell Sbarbaro. 32.

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NOONE’S SELECTIONS FOR TODAY Day’s Best—Risky Miss, Best Longshot—Whisking. Best Parlay—Just Remember and Scimitar.

At Tropical Park — One Best—Don't Blush. 1. Papyrograph, Billie's Orphan, Screen. 2. Mareve Polisher, Battling Knight. 3. Don’t Blush. Quorum. Drusus. 4. My Selection. Westy's Duke, Whizzaway. 5. Big Beau. Sun Apollo, Sabula. 6. Spanish Way, Bright Bubble, One Chance. 7. Fairly Wild. Kiltamond, Sky Haven. 8. Just Remember, Fair Crest, Bun D. At Houston — One Best—Trombone. 1. Ft. Worth. Morio, More Anon. 2. Princess Carolyn, Phantasime. Black Stockings. 3. Whisking, Line Rider, Jack Ceilings. 4. Clang, Chance View, Jessie D. M. 5. Trombone. Beckoned, Up. 6. Gas World, Teralice, Rip Van Winkle. 7. Scimitar, Anita Ormont, Nell Kuhlman.

TWO SERVICES AT SUNRISE TO | MARK EASTER Morning Ceremonies Will Be Held at Circle and Ft. Harrison. CHILDREN WILL SING Groups From Eleven City Churches Will Meet at Monument. (Easter Church Music on Pages 8 and 9) Choruses singing Eastertide songs in city churches, sermons by pastors, and two sunrise services, one on the Circle monument steps and another at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, will feature the 1934 Easter services tomorrow in Indianapolis. Beginning at 6:30 a. m„ on the north steps of the monument, children from eleven city churches will sing under the direction of Mrs. James M. Ogden, founder of the choir. At 7:45 a. m. an elaborate Easter service will be held at Ft. Harrison. Forming Living Cross One thousand soldiers, 200 Knights Templar in full uniform and 200 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ auxiliary, will aid in the rites. A living cross will be formed by the enlisted men and other organizations. Planes from the national guard will form a sky cross overhead. The Rev. F. R. Davies will give a prayer and scripture reading Dr. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul’s cathedral, will deliver the sermon. WFBM will broadcast the rites. Good Friday Observed It is estimated that 35,000 persons worshiped Good Friday in services at English’s theater, B. F. Keith’s ; theater and at downtown churches. Stock market wires were closed while other wires in some cases halted their business for several minutes revery. Stores were crowded today and yesterday with last-minute Easter shoppers. Egg-hunts, special dinners at city and county institutions, were to be other features of Easter Sunday.

NEGRO WIELDS CLOCK AS COP ASKS TIME; 30 DAYS. SAYS JUDGE

Time was the big element in the arrest of two Negroes charged with fighting on Indiana avenue early today. “What time is t?" Detective Fred Holt asked his partner. Detective Claude White as they patrolled the street. Just then an alarm clock alleged to have been wielded by Charles Castlcman, Negro, 750 Indiana avenue, felled Vern Austin. Negro, 1604 Sheldon street, as the men staged a fight directly in front of the detectivese. “Thirty days each.” said Judge Dewey Myers in municipal court. “That's time enough, isn't it?” In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West northwest wind, ten miles an hour; temperature, 48; barometric pressure. 29.98 at sea level; general conditions, overcast, lower scattered clouds, hazy; ceiling, estimated 7.000 feet; visibility, two and one-half miles. Thieves Steal Hams Hams valued at S4O were stolen from the meat market owned by James Taylor at Twenty-sixth street and Northwestern avenue last night or early today, it was reported to the police.

8. The Trainer, Forceful, Campa gna. At Hot Springs — One Best—Our Justice 1. Aida Marie, Purple, Little V. 2. Toltec, Deemster, Josephine D. 3. Black Comet, Bank Shot. Col. Cloister. 4. Our Justice, Lynx Eye, Paul T. 5. Chief Geronimo, Grecian King, Arson. 6. Saxon Lady, Judge Direnzo, Harky. 7. Pacheco, Lady Messenger, Morocco. 8. Chipola, Young Bill, Marabou. At Arlington Downs — One Best—Risky Miss. 1. Dunny Boy, Pan Toy, Racketeer. 2. Victorium, Altmark. Manya. 3. Risky Miss. Aunt Flor, Flickamaru. 4. Morsun, Captain Red. Good Scout. 5. Flying Sailor. Rubio. Trinchera. 6. Grattan, Longus, The Break. 7. Thistle Fvrn, Polyp, Peace Junior. 8. Rizla, Dessner, Flo M. ♦

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Paul Fry LIMITS OUTSIDE ADSJFOR BEER Excise Director Rules Signs Must Not Name Any Certain Brand. One of the first steps to prevent brewery domination of retail beer parlors was taken yesterday when Paul P. Fry. state excise director, ordered brewers to refrain from giving retailers outdoor advertising signs. The new regulation goes farther and forbids retailers from displaying outdoor signs advertising any certain brand of beer or liquors. Retailers, however, may display signs on the inside of their places provided they are the property of the retailer. The inside signs must not exceed twenty-two by twentyeight inches in dimension. License Revocation Penalty The excise director held that the retailer must show that he did not purchase the signs below their actual cost. Mr. Fry gave beer retailers ten days to comply with their regulations. Revocation of license is the penalty for failure to obey the regulations. Court Action Hinted ‘’The action we are taking is similar to that in Michigan, New York, New Jersey, lowa and other states,” said Mr. Fry. Possibility that the ruling would be taken to the courts by brewers as well as sign companies was seen by observers. Frank W. Young, president of the Allied Neon Sign Manufacturing Company, said today that he as well as ether sign companies may carry Mr. Fry’s ruling to the courts on the theory that it is restraint of trade. He charged the ruling unfair and said it would throw men out of work. HOLY SATURDAY RITE IS OBSERVED IN ROME Pomp and Solemnity Mark Church Services in Italian Capital. By United Press ROME, March 31.—The long Roman Catholic church ceremony in observance of Holy Saturday was carried out with pomp and solemnity today at St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran and other principal Rome churches. The famous relics of St. Peter's and St. John Lateran were exposed for devotion. Tourists, mostly Americans. British and Germans, filled the city because of the holy year and the prospect of a benediction which the pope, reviving a tradition interrupted in 1870, will bestow from the main loggia of St. Peter’s facade tomorrow. TILMAN SETS RECORD Cracks Middle States Mark in 150Y’ard Backstroke Event. Ned Tilman, of the Hoosier Athletic Club, today was middle states champion in the 150-yard backstroke race, following a recordbreaking performance in the Indianapolis Athletic Club pool last night. Tilman, swimming on a fourevent program, made the distance in 1:46.8. Joe Swallow, of the I. A. C., established the previous mark of 1.51.3 last summer. Lewis, of the Huntington Y. M. C. A., won the boys' 50-yard handicap; Betty Graber, of the Antlers, copped the women's 100-yard handicap; and Benham. I. A. C., took the handicap diving event. Relief Corps Will Meet Major Robert Anderson Woman's Relief Corps will meet at 1:30 at Ft. Friendly, 512 North Illinois street. Anew conductor will be elected. Mrs. Evelyn Kosaveach will preside. Play Structure Scheduled Volney Hampton wil ldiscuss the play, "Alien Corn.” by Sidney Howard, at 8 Monday night at the Indiana university extension division, 122 East Michigan street. Negro Reports Robbery David Ballard. Negro, of 826 North West street, reported to police that $l5O and two bank shares valued at $lO each had been stolen from his home. Radio Stolen From Home A radio valued at S2O was stolen from the home of Charles Wagner, 1716 North Meridian street, by thieves who entered his apartment by a side window. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 51 8 a. m 50 7 a. m 52 9 49

ARMY FLIER DIES IN MAIL PLANECRASH Lieutenant Plunges to Death in Heavy Rainstorm; Mail Saved. TEVAN TWELFTH VICTIM Crash ‘Terrific/ Witness Says; Aviator Seeking Emergency Field. By United Press DEWITT, la., March 31.—Thurman A. Wood, army flier, crashed to death last night with a heavy load of mail on a farm four miles northeast of Dewitt. Lieutenant Wood’s death was the first since the army resumed air mail service following a period of suspension ordered by President Roosevelt because of eleven previous fatalities. A heavy rainstorm, of which the flier had not been warned, was blamed for the crash. Although Lieutenant Wood was bound westward from Chicago to Omaha, the plane was found to be headed eastward with its nose plunged four feet into the ground. The twentythree mail sacks, weighing 500 pounds, were scattered. Lieutenant Wood had turned off his ignition switch before the crash and there had been no fire. Flier Made Good Time Coroner L. D. Riggert of Clinton, who investigated the accident, ordered the flier’s body taken to Clinton, seventeen miles from the scene of the crash. Riggert believed that Lieutenant Wood had turned back eastward on his course, seeking an emergency landing field. The pilot left Chicago at 7:15 p. m. and made good time along his course until he struck the rainstorm near Clinton. When he passed over the farm of Leonard McGuire, near the scene of the crash, he was flying low. McGuire was the first to reach the wreckage on the farm of William Mommsen. He described the crash as terrific, saying he heard the sound of the plane striking the ground from his farm. Mail Is Rushed Through Volunteers collected the mail sacks and drove them to Davenport, twenty miles away, where another army plane took over Lieutenant Wood’s flight. Lieutenant Wood was on his course and in territory in which there were landing fields within every fifty miles. Lieutenant Wood had flown the Chicago-Omaha route ever since the army took over the mail flights. His home was in San Antonio, Tex., and he was graduated in the 1931 class at Kelly Field. Tex. Weather maps supplied to the army fliers last night reported a 4,000-foot ceiling and fine visibility over Lieutenant Wood’s course. He was flying a small A-12 type attack plane. His death was the first in the central army division. Guards were placed over the wreckage pending the arrival of investigators. $2,000,000 RAIL ORDER IS AWARDED BY ERIE Road Plans Extensive Maintenance and Renewal Program. By United Press CLEVELAND. March 31.—Orders for nearly $2,000,000 worth of rails and track fastenings have been awarded by the Erie railroad as part of a maintenance and renewal program, it was announced today. The announcement said that orders call for fabrication of 32,000 gross tons of rails and 12.000 tons of spikes, plates, bolts and other accessories, necessary in track laying.

Congress Attempting to Recapture Lost Powers Move Follows Protests Legislative Has Surrendered Too Many Prerogatives to Executive Body. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 31. —An effort by congress to recapture some powers that have escaped in the rush of emergency legislation developed today in a move to bring additional treasury department appointments, particularly in the operation of the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, under senate scrutiny.

The senate finance committee, presenting the $330,000,000 tax bill for debate beginning Monday, rewrote house provisions so that twelve important treasury posts could be filled only with the senate’s approval. The movement is related both to protests that congress has surrendered too many prerogatives, and to attacks which have been made in the past on the “brain trust” personnel and on individual treasury appointments. As the tax bill passed the house it provided for the appointment by the secretary of treasury of ten assistants to handle the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, which was created for a period of at least two years to operate in foreign exchange in order to prevent violent fluctuations in the American dollar. The senate finance committee changed this section in two respects. It reduced the number of assistants from ten to five, and inserted a provision shifting the appointive power to the President, “with the advice and consent of the senate.” The jobs would pay not more than SIO,OOO per year. The tax bill as it came from the house created in the treasury -department the office of general coun-

Greece Asks Turkey to Free Insull International Law Cited: Fugitive Refuses to Go Ashore. By United Press ATHENS. March 31. Foreign Minister Demetroio Maximos today cabled the Turkish government at Angora, demanding release under international law of the Greek steamship Maiotis. which has Samuel Insull aboard as passenger. Turkish authorities have held the ship since Thursday, seeking a way to extradite Insull to answer charges of fraud in the United States. Mr. Maximos’s demand was made upon representation of George Pop, chief counsel here for the Chicago utilities man. Attorney Pop also engaged the Istanbul law solicitors, Katras, Savas & Stergio, to represent Insull there. Mr. Pop cabled the master of the Maiotis to refuse to surrender Insull if police demanded him. and to ask for indemnities for the Maiotis’s detention, which he holds to be without warrant in international law. Mr. Pop ordered the master of the Maiotis to offer armed resistance if necessary to prevent Insull’s seizure. Police Are Balked By United Press ISTANBUL, Turkey. March 31. Police asked Samuel Insull to go ashore for questioning today. Insull refused bluntly, and police left his chartered steamship Maiotis, to get new instructions from the government at Angora. Insull remained under guard. Police planned, if possible, to hand Insull over to American Ambassador Robert P. Skinner, at his request. They were nonplussed when the aged utilities man. his back to the wall, refused their request to go ashore shortly before noon today. Though he, and the Maiotis’ master were under technical arrest, the position was a delicate one. The ship flies the Greek flag and police seemed somewhat afraid that there might be a violation of international law if they forced Insull to go ashore under arrest.

HANDSOMEST COP IN NEW YORK PREPARES TO BE DONE IN OIL

By United Press NEW YORK, March 31.—New York’s most uncomfortable cop today squared his shoulders and faced immortality. Voted the city’s handsomest policeman by a jury of feminine artists, Bernard Harry Jeppson prepared to be led to a model’s chair. Hix six feet one and a half inches in full uniform, he will be done in oils and ceremoniously rung in the forum galleries of Rockefeller center. He went through the trial nobly, confronting Garguerite Zorach Concetta Scaravaglione, Anne Rrockman and Isabel Bishop with blushing defiance while standing at attention. The artists had picked him from a lineup and handed him the summons. But then he broke down and said: “I have a wife and 3-year-old daughter. What will they think about all this? Maybe they won’t let me come home.” He planned to keep out of sigh until "this blows over.” Eastern Star to Give Play Past Matrons and Patrons Association of Marion County, Order of Eastern Star, will present the “Crown and Cross” before Brookside chapter Tuesday night in Brookside Masonic temple. The same group will present the same ceremony Thursday night for Acton chapter.

sel and six assistant general counsel who would co-ordinate activities of legal units in treasury branches and units. These postions carry a salary not to exceed SIO,OOO. The senate committee approved the reorganization, but shifted the appointing power of the assistants from the secretary of treasury to the President, again with the provision that the selections must be passed upon by the senate. Senate attacks upon Earle Bailie, brought from New York as assistant secretary of treasury by Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., were recalled in the discussions which preceded the senate committee's action. It was suggested that if the secretary —not only Mr. Morgenthau, but any one who might succeed him—were given a free hand there might develop situations in which the senate would be unable to intervene unless it were given confirmation power. It was felt also that operations of the stabilization fund would be more open to criticism in the senate if appointment of its executive officers was hidden in mystery and removed from the open forum of senate debate.

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BUSINESS PEAK HIT BY EASTER BUYING SPURT Retail Stores Report Best Spring Levels in Three Years as Activity Reaches Highest Point in 6 Months. FURTHER GAINS ARE PREDICTED Roosevelt’s Estimates Exceeded as Increased Purchasing Power Forces Industry to Speed Up Work. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—Brisk Easter buying in the country’s leading stores was believed today to have carried business activity to the best levels in six months and close to that of the relatively active 1931 spring season. Preliminary reports to administration and banking leaders indicated that business has continued its greater than seasonal advance with prospects of further important gains soon. Increased purchasing power from increased employment and wages as marked by rising bank deposits and confidence

SISTERS KILLED IN CAR WRECK Brother Sees Two Women Meet Death as Trolley Rams Auto. Their brother looking on with anguished eyes, unable to aid them, two sisters were killed instantly early today by an Indiana Railroad traction car at a grade crossing near the Johnson-Marion county line. The dead are Miss Wilma Wheatcraft, 44, and Miss Pauline Wheatcraft, 41. They resided on a farm near the counties line. The automobile in which the sisters were riding, according to V. V. Slater, 2633 Stanley avenue, operator of the traction car, was halted near the grade crossing and then was started again, apparently with the intention of beating the approaching interurban. Slater said the auto was started again with the traction car about 100 yards away. In a car immediately behind the one containing the sisters was Leland Wheatcraft, their brother. The bodies were taken to the J. C. Wilson funeral home at Greenwood. VIGO BUILDING UNSAFE: PATIENTS MUST MOVE Feeney Condemns 75-Year-Old Infirmary as Fire Trap. All patients of the Vigo county infirmary were ordered removed within the next ninety days after the buildings had been condemned yesterday as a fire hazard by A1 G. Feeney, director of public safety. Orders to remove the patients were sent to Vigo county officials, including the county council, county commissioners and the auditor. Intended to house only 100 patients, the infirmary now quarters more than 235, Mr. Feeney said. The 75-year-old building is located northeast of Terre Haute. BOOK PRICE DECREASE DISCLOSED IN BIDDING State Acts Wednesday on 35 Proposals for Finishing Texts. Reduction in prices for reading, writing and arithmetic text books was shown in bids received by the state board of public instruction, it was announced today by Floyd McMurray, superintendent. The bids, thirty-five in number, are being tabulated and will be acted on at 9:30 Wednesday. INJURED DRIVER HELD City Man Arrested After Car Hits Safety Guard. Joseph Cannon, 35, 42 West Eleventh street, suffered a fractured nose and was arrested charged with reckless driving when an automobile he was operating struck a safety zone at Michigan street and Arsenal avenue. Gene Johnson, 36, same address, a passenger, received lacerations of the head. He also was arrested charged with vagrancy. Both men were treated at city hospital. Eastern Star to Meet Irvington chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will hold a stated meeting at 8 Monday at Irvington Masonic temple. Mrs. Martha Zoercher will give “The History of the Labyrinth.” Eastern Star Chapter to Meet Ritual of 1870" will be exemplified for Brownsburg chapter, Order of Eastern Star, by the Past Matrons and Patrons Association of Marion county Monday night in Brownsburg Masonic temple. Dean of Music Critics Dead By United Press BOSTON, March 31.—Henry Taylor Parker, 66, dean of American dramatic and music critics, is dead after a week's illness with pneumonia. He had served the Boston Transcript more than forty years. L

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in the future are credited with boosting sales of many retail stores to the best Easter levels in three years. Activity in nearly all business is exceeding the conservative estimates made months ago by President Roosevelt’s advisers. Even so, administration leaders are pushing the recovery program with no less vigor. New recovery steps include the ambitious program to stimulate the construction industry, the principal laggard of the last twelve months. A plan to promote financing of rehabilitation* and construction of homes is expected in a few weeks. Auto Production Up Automobile production last week reached another new high level for the year at 81,896 units, compared with 25,796 units in the corresponding week last year. It was unofficially estimated that 350,000 men went back to work during March, bringing unemployment to around the 11,000,000 figure, compared with the record high of 13,689,000 reached a year ago this month. Steel ingot production this week was estimated at 48 per cent of capacity, compared with the year’s peak of 49 per cent in the first week of March. Electric power output last week gained over the previous week and was 17.6 per cent above the corresponding week of last year. Coal Output Gains Bituminous coal output rose to 8,657,000 tons from 5,106,000 tons in the corresponding week of last year, while anthracite coal production rose from 998.000 tons to 1,149,000 tons. United States foreign trade during February was at the best levels in three years. Export trade increased from 44 per cent of the 1923-25 average to 49 per cent, partly as a result of the recent depreciation in the foreign exchange value of the dollar which allowed exporters to obtain a better competitive position. PRESIDENT TRIES LUCK AT BARRACUDA FISHING Roosevelt Party Cruising Near Andros Island in Bahamas. By United Prexx MIAMI, Fla., March 31.—President Roosevelt cruised today in the vicinity of Andros island, one of the Bahamas group, trying his luck at fishing for barracuda. The chief executive, enjoying a sea-going vacation aboard Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal, also planned, weather permitting, to go swimming in the warm blue waters. The highlight of the vacation trip came yesterday when he entered the quaint harbor of Nassau to receive a salute of twenty-one guns from the British light cruiser Danae and to be welcomed by Sir Bede Clifford, colonial governor. QUAINT CEREMONY HELD Fireworks Exploded in Sacred Cart at Florence Easter Festival. By United Prrn FLORENCE. Italy, March 31. One of- the most picturesque ceremonies of colorful holy week was observed outside the cathedral today—the explosion of fireworks in the ‘Sacred Cart,” drawn by four white oxen. Thousands of tourists and peasants gathered for the ceremony, which has continued for some six centuries with few interruptions. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 6 Bridge 13 Broun 7 Catholicism in Indaina 3 Classified 11, 12 Comics .". 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Easter in Churches 8, 9 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Hickman—Theaters 7 lippmann 14 Monuments of literature 7 Pegler 7 Radio 11 Sports 10, 11 Sunday Sermon 9 Wallace Series 11 Woman's Pages 4, i