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MAN WHO KNEW STAVISKY TALE SILENT FOREVER Judge Prince Dead Because He Learned ‘Too Much’ About Frauds. The Ihnn.ind-irrnf mrlndrinu of “L Affair. StavUkr," mrbrd a climax in the murder of Judge Albert Prince, became he "knen too much.” Tbi* xtartling bv-produrt of the Staibkj fraud It related in the following article, ninth in the I'nited Pre* aerie*. BY SAMUEL DASHIELL AND THOMAS C OPE. I'nited Prey* Staff Correapondrnt*. • Copyright, 1934 by United Press! PARIS. May 2.—There was no hero to flag down the Riviera Express in time to save Judge Albert Prince, who was tied to the rails near the city of Dijon, and so Judge Prince died—“because he knew too much about the Stavisky affair. Albert Prince was a substitutejudge in Paris whose path, unfortunately for himself, crossed that of Serge Alexandre Stavisky, master crook of France. When he became dangerous to the safety of the po-litico-criminal gang he was “liquidated.” and the rapidity of events with which this was done may be emphasized by a brief chronology. Early in February, after the Stavisky exposure had aroused the nation. Judge Prince was accused by Public Prosecutor Georges Pressard, brother-in-law of former Premier Camille Chautemps, of causing the delay in the Stavisky trial. Angered, Prince asked for time to consult his records. Cut Short With Phrase " Pressard cut him short with a single phrase—“ Monsieur, you lack reflexes!” Prince stumbled out of the office and went home to search for the document that would clear his name. He found it—a letter from one of his court superiors, ordering him to drop the financial inquiry into the Stavisky fraud of 1926. He slipped the letter into his pocket and said calmly to his wife: “If I have no reflexes, at least I have proof of my innocence.” This proof, it would seem, involved “higher-ups.” On Feb. 13. Judge Prince took his valuable letter to M. Lescouve, presiding over the inquiry board, and announced his intention of having it photographed before turning it over to the inquiry as an exhibit. He made a second appointment for Feb. 17, and promised a “complete record" on that day. He began writing a voluminous report. “I shall triumph.” he told Prosecutor Pressard proudly. On Feb. 16. Prince saw his report would be too long to complete by the following day. He arranged for a postponement of its presentation until Feb 21—and promised to name the guilty magistrates. And the Last Day— On Feb 20. one day before he was to deliver his fateful documents, he died under the wheels of the Riviera Express. The murder was accomplished with such precision of detail that to this day the police have been baffled. Prince had received a “fake” telephone call announcing that his mother, in Dijon, was critically ill and must have an immediate operation. He put his reports in a brief case—to have something on which to work during the four-hour ride to Dijon—and was seen at the Dijon station at 4 p. m.. where "a tall man” met him. He was found to have been registered at a nearby hotel and to have sent a telegram to his wife, telling of his safe arrival. Then he and his brief case vanished. Trackwalkers found his body—and an empty brief case. The report was gone. Tomorrow—The Galmot poisoning. APRIL CUSTOMS SECOND HIGHEST IN 50 YEARS Receipts Are 5222.462 Compared With $12,807 a Year Ago. Collections of $222,462.62 in April were second best in the more than fiftv years existence of the Indianapolis office of the United States customs bureau. Largest collection in history was during one month in 1929. April collections of last year were only $12,807.58. the report of Wray E. Fleming, customs collector, reveals. The April collection was comprised of $15,552.60 on general merchandise. $147,092.25 on withdrawal of merchandise from government warehouses, 51.049.69 on merchandise imported into Indiana by mail and $58,768.08 from internal revenue payments. HOMEOPATHIC DOCTORS OPEN MEETING HERE Indiana Organization Will Elect Officers Tomorrow. Sixty-eighth annual convention of Indiana homeopathic physicians opened today at the Columbia Club. The session will be continued tomorrow. when officers will be elected. Annual banquet will be held tonight. with Dr. Lester Seimon. Cleveland, as the principal speaker. Among the many talks scheduled for this afternoon will be addresses by physicians from Michigan and Illinois. m. e7leaders seek OUSTER FOR CANNON Bishop Announces He Will Fight Move to Retire Him. fly United Prttt JACKSON. Miss.. May 2—Suspension of the rules to force immediate action on the move to superannuate Bishop James R Cannon Jr., was considered today by leaders of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, assembled here in quadrennial conference. The episcopacy committee was reported to have voted 42 to 28 last night to retire Bishop Cannon. Bishop Cannon has announced that he will oppose the move to retire him. A close decision and a hard fight on the conference floor were believed in prospect.

Magnificent Performance Given by Arliss in ‘The House of Rothschild,’ a Really Great Picture

GEORGE ARLISS makes his name immortal with his work in “The House of Rothschild.” There is every indication now that the movie academy award for the best male performance of the year will rest between Mr. Arliss and John Barrymore in “Twentieth Century.” As “Rothschild.” Mr. Arliss surpasses his masterful work in “Disraeli.” both on the stage and screen. Mr. Arliss in his newest film has the most difficult role he has ever taken. I probably should say that “The House of Rothschild” gives him his best two roles. He is seen at the beginning of the story in the Jewish section of Frankfort as Mayer Rothschild, patriarch and founder of the great banking house, and later as the eldest son, Nathan, who piloted the family to fame and wealth with his wisdom and understanding of his father's desire not to finance war, but to end war. Two scenes stand out in the first part of the picture which is devoted to Mayer in Frankfort when members of his race were suffering persecution. The first big scene by Mr. Arliss comes when the tax collector arrives to demand his pound of flesh. It is interesting to watch Mayer

INCUMBENTS LEAD IN SOUTH DAKOTA Light Vote Cast in State Primary Election. By United Prrxs PIERRE. S. D., May 2.—Democratic incumbents of state offices and congressional seats appeared to be renominated almost without exception today, with almost oneha sos the state's precincts reported. Governor Tom Berry led Lieu-tenant-Governor H. A. Ustrud for renommation on the Democratic ticket, with a three to one plurality. William C. Allen, Aberdeen farm paper publisher, seemed assured of the Republican nomination for Governor. The vote throughout the state was light. CATHOLICS TO ATTEND ANNIVERSARY EVENT Special Train Planned for Vincennes Program Sunday. A special Pennsylvania train will make the run to Vincennes Sunday in connection with celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Indianapolis diocese of the Catholic church. The train will leave Indianapolis at 7:30 a. m„ arriving at Vincennes at 10:15 a. m. Mass will be held at 11 a. m. at the old cathedral, adjacent to the George Rogers Clark memorial. The return train will start at 6:45 p. m. and arrive at Indianapolis at 9:45 p. m. THEFT SUSPECT HELD Two Shots Fired at Fleeing Man at Marmon Plant. Stopped, as two shots were fired at him. William Harper. 41, of 1433 Silver street, was arested last night. Lee Boles, New Augusta, night watchman at the Marmon Motor Car Company, told police that he fired at Harper after he had seen him breaking into the plant. Boles who was reported carrying materials which were alleged to have been taken from the plant when he was arrested was charged with burglary. Mother’s Program Planned Naomi chapter. Order of Eastern Star, will present a Mother's day program Friday night at the Masonic temple, North and Illinois streets.

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BY HELEN RANNEY Times Special Writer. “A CHILD WENT FORTH,” by Helen Mac Knight Doyle, M. D. Gotham House. In this era of artificial literary styles, of strivings for startling word effects, “A Child Went Forth” would stand out if for no other reason than for its utter simplicity. You feel, as you read, that a highly cultivated person is speaking aloud, not that somebody has laboriously become “an author.” It is not a book that is crusading for a cause. It is an autobiography and no more. But the life of which it is the story has been remarkably full; and Dr. Doyle has the kind of memory which retains the small details that make an unimportant event interesting. Born in the eighteen seventies, Nellie Mac Knight has lived through significant years in the history of the United States. She has lived through great changes in the position of women, and profited by them—had in fact an actual part in making them. The conservative East, the grim prairies, the new, flamboyant West—she knew them all well when they were like three separate countries. And in each she found qualities to love and to admire. Ardent feminists will gnash their teeth over the story of the difficulties of a woman studying medicine in San Francisco in the last century. Dr. Doyle tells it with a quiet humor which, the reader feels, conceals a great deal of the discouragement and struggle that she must have known. As, later, the reticient account of her courtship and marriage permits one only to guess at her great happiness. “A Child Went Forth” is notable chiefly for its delightful descriptions and anecdotes. The farm in northern New York can never be forgotten. The stories of the old west, of the mining towns and of gay San Francisco, will delight amateur historians. It is, perhaps, not a great book; but it is certainly a fine and a readable one—the picture of a rich life and an active mind.

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his wife are at his bedside. The work of Helen Wetley as Gudula Rothschild, wife of Mayer, is outstanding. She presents character work of the finest quality. Arliss, constantly using his wonderfully expressive hands, instructs his sons to establish five banking houses in five great European centers. He urged his sons to live so the time would come that all Jews would walk proudly the face of the earth. Here is a sermon, if that is the right word, on tolerance and humanity that never has been equaled on the screen. n u tt JT'ROM that point, the story jumps over a period of twenty-three years, during which the five banking houses have been established with Nathan as the head of the London office. Mr. Arliss makes Nathan a fine thinking, shrewd, honest, and patriotic banker with tremendous vision. Because of the way Mr. Arliss plays the character, Nathan becomes the central figure of such stormy events as the exile of Napoleon and the years following when the Jews were persecuted in Frankfort because the House of Rothschild forced a combination of bank-

RELIEF GARDEN LIST IN STATE JOUBLED More Than 100,000 Lots to Be Used. Gardens to raise crops for canning and storage for winter relief are more than double the 50,000 total for 1933, according to the report of Professor H. E. Young, state director of relief gardens, to the Governor’s commission on unemployment relief. The increase largely is accounted for, according to the relief gardens director, by the fact that relief gardening is operated this year in many smaller communities and rural areas, where last year it was confined mostly to larger cities. About 1,600 acres now are under preparation for relief gardening, and approximately 800 more acres will be added. 20,000 CIGARETS TAKEN Thieves Loot Truck Parked on Monument Circle. Thieves broke into a MooneyMueller - Ward Company truck parked on Monument circle yesterday afternoon and stole 20,000 cigarets valued at. slls. AMUSEMENTS fcf gb BIG NEW C *l A h VAUDEVILLE |l (J w FEATURES j ll U ISUNA FEUBER’S I “GLAMOUR” if jpAW With CONSTANCE CCTMMINGS—PAUL LiIKASgCPU PHILLIP REED IBMfc—il COMING FRIDAY TO IHE LYRIC EL HARENThe man who sees tomorrow! Tune in radio station WFBM for his broadcasts starting at 10 o'clock every morning. Mail Your Free Radio Question Nfw to El Haren, Care Lyric Theatre, to Be Answered Over Station WFBM.

1 ers to give Nathan control of a huge loan to France, the largest in history at that time. Nathan becomes more powerful than Napoleon when he decides to back the Duke of Wellington. In the scene, before Waterloo, where Nathan faces ruin on the stock exchange because Wellington had met defeat many times at the hands of Napoleon, Mr. Arliss proves his right to the title of the best dramatic actor on the screen today. I’m not forgetting John Barrymore or Charles Laughton, either. It is interesting to watch the magnificent work of Miss West ley as the aged mother of the five Rothschilds when she is present as the brothers decide to back Wellington, a doubtful proposition, so that peace might come to all in Europe. Mr. Arliss catches the nobility of character in such a way that he overshadows the several hundred actors in the cast. urn YES. there is a beautiful romance between Julie Rothschild (Loretta Young) and Captain Fitzroy (Robert Young), aid to the duke of Wellington. Racial differences cause many troubles to the young couple, but tolerance and real love triumph. Both give splendid accounts of themselves. The picture near the end goes technicolor with so much grandeur that my eyes became moist watching the beauty and nobility of them as Nathan is made a baron. Here is a movie that has the right to be considered one of finest pictures ever made. It is a grand compliment to the industry. I saw "The House of Rothschild” at a preview. It opens Friday at Loew’s Palace. Put this one on your MUST shopping list. u u u News of Local Theaters AN event of importance is the presentation of the dramatic club of Cathedral high school next Sunday night at English's. Beginning tomorrow, the Indiana will change its policy by opening its double feature programs on Thursday instead of Friday. Theaters today offer: Vaudeville on the stage and “Glamour” on the screen at the Lyric; “Three on a Honeymoon,” at the Apollo. “We’re Not Dressing,” at the Circle; “Tarzan and His Mate,” at Loew’s Palace, and “Come on, Marines,” and “His Double Life,” at the Indiana.

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GOVERNOR ACTS TO CURR STATE PRISONJSCAPES Night Patrol at Gates One of Four Regulations Put Into Effect. Steps to curb the epidemic of “walkaways” of trusties at the Indiana state prison have been taken by Governor Paul V. McNutt, after a conference with Warden Louis E. Kunkel. Spurred by the increase in escapes and revelation that the prison setup for trusties was such that some were able to get into Michigan City for “dates,” the Governor and Warden Kunkel adopted four regulations they hope will cut down the number of escapes. Effective at once, the Governor said, officers of the institution will be on duty in the yard in front of the prison at both the north gate and main gate of the prison yard. Night patrols will be maintained in the yard and the north gate to the yard will be closed at night. This gate, in the past, always has been left open. The parking of automobiles on the drive in front of the prison will be discontinued as soon as possible, the Governor said. A parking lot for employes of the institution will be constructed west of the garage and a parking lot for visitors will be built east of the prison. In announcing the changes, the Governor reiterated that fleeing of trusties from the prison can not be regarded as “escapes” because the prisoners are not under guard. “These men have been selected as trusties because they have been found to be trustworthy and only in rare instances do they violate the confidence that has been placed in them,” the Governor said. “They are assigned to the various farms where they work, eat and sleep. The farmer, civilian, superintends their work and one of their own men is clerk, keeping track of all the men. At certain seasons of the year, there are as many as fifty men in the barracks on a farm.” The expression, “fits to a TANARUS,” refers to the T-square or rule used by carpenters when exactitude is required.

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