Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1934 — Page 3

AUG. 11, 1931

FORMER VALET TO BARNUM IS DEAD IN CITY Late Manager of Claypool Barber Shop Resident Here 40 Years. James M. Thomas 73 of 45 Schiller street, died last night at his home of an illness contracted nine weeks ago Mr. Thomas formerly was valet for P. T. Barnum, circus owner. Bom In Elmvra. N. Y. Mr Thomas was raised by an uncle in Baltimore who later took him to Scio. N Y , and taught him to rid? as a Jockey. An accident ended his turf career and he became a barber, and then valet for the circus owner. After the death of Mr. Barnum. Mr Thomas married and settled in Indianapolis forty years ago, later becoming manager of the Clavpool barber shop. Since the opening of the Harrison. Mr. Thomas has been in the barber shop there. He was a member of the Eagles lodge and the Red Men's lodge. Mr. Thomas is survived bv the widow and two sons, Willis O. Thomas and Melvin Thomas, all of Indianapolis Funeral arrangement have not been completed, but services will be held Monday under the direction of the Rev. D F. Ehlman. Bunal will be in Memorial Park. Woman 80 Is Dead Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon in the Milton Christian church for Mrs. Elizabeth L. Manlove. 88. of 923 East Fortysecond street, who died Thursday in Milton, where she had been visiting. Mrs. Manlove lived in Milton from 1876 until the death of her husband eleven years ago when she. moved here to live with her son. Edd .A. Manlove. She was a member of the Milton Christian church more than fifty years. Survivors are two sons, Fdd A. Manlove, Indianapolis, and Harry R. Manlove. Milton: a daughter, Mrs. O. S. Murphy. Chicago; five brothers. Thomas Logan, St. Louis; Edd Ixigan. DeSoto, Mo.; Will Logan. Walter Logan and John Logan, all of Paris, 111, and two sisters, Mrs. John W. Marson, Cambridge City, and Mrs. Dennis Hoenig, Paris, 111. Miller Rites Set I*a<d rites will be held at 1:30 today in the residence of William A. Miller, 67. of 1960 Bellefontaine street, who died Wednesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill Mr. Miller was a millwright for the NordvkeMarmon Companv Survivor* ’-e two brothers. Thomas F Miller, with whom he had made his home for twrntv. jrars, and John D. Miller, Butler.; Mo. Hazelwood Rites Monday Oranderson Hazelwood. 65. of <VS Olin avenue, died yc*u*rdav at hr home following an illness of seve-a* years. A native of Kentucky. I*' Hazelwood had lived in Ind'anan-' - seventeen years. He was a memb~: of the Baptist church. Funeral services will be at 10 M inday in th" ho"*”' of a ; riauch er Mrs. Ruddick, 411 Kc’eh•m street. Burial will be in M**-| mnrial Park. Mr. Hazelwood is survived by the widow and nine children. Stephen Shcwalter Is Dead Stephen Douglas Showalter. 73. died last night at the home of his son. Gordon Showalter. 507 Guil- j ford street. Funeral arrangements have not been completed PARACHUTE JUMPER HAS NARROW ESCAPE! Ohio Daredevil’s Quick Thinking Averts Tragedy. P<t VmiU 'I Press CINCINNATI. Aug. 11.—Ralph (Cowboyi Lnpcre. parachute jumper, narrowly escaped death at Hugh Watson airport when his reserve: chute became tangled in the reg-1 ular one on which he had depended, I.apere managed to fold the reserve chute under his arm in time to al- j low the regular one to open partial- i lv 500 feet above the ground. He had dropped 2.000 feet before! pulling the ripcord. He received a sprained ankle and scratches. CIVIL WAR VETERAN SWIMS LAKE AT 88 Later Adds to Laurels With Record Catch of Fish. P>i t mte4 Press MT. VERNON. 0.. Aug. IJ—T. S. Titkin. spry at 88. can do almast anything around the water. On his birthday, this July, he swam across a pool at a local lake. Now comes word from Cedar Lake. Ind.. where: he has been visiting, that in an hour and a half of angling he landed thirty-two fish, all more than 14 inches long Which is one ev- j cry three minutes. Mr. Pitkin is a Civil war veteran. P. 'ON SPIDER HAS DEATH DEALING MASTER Idaho Welcomes Discovery of Mortal Enemy to Dread Insect. Ay United Perss BURIEY. Idaho. Aug. H'The black "widow" spider, whose bite m’ans death to man or boast, has a master. News of another spider that likes' te make meals of the insect that has terrorized this community for *orr.e time was received with joy. The savior, almost as ugly as its victim, has two eyes, ten legs, two front feelers, and its coat is yellow, with a brown strip down the back. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: North wind. 15 miles an hour; ] temperature, 72; barometric pressure. 30 05 at sea level: general conditions, overcast: ceiling, estimated 800 feet; visibility, twelve miles. Nova Scotia Archbishop Dead Ay I mil’ 4 Pou HALIFAX. Aug. 11. The Most Rev. Clarendon Lamb Worrell. 81. archbishop of Nova Scotia and primate of the Church of England of Canada, died her last night.

RINGNECK PHEASANTS FIND FREEDOM IN HOOSIER MEADOWS

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Seventy-five young ringneck pheasants, carefully reared In the Jasper-Pulaski game preserve of the state conservation department, were liberated Thursday on the grounds of the Capital City Gun Club at Raymond street and Belmont avenue. Merrill G. Christie, club treasurer, is shown pulling back the board that means freedom for the

Daughter Dons Mme. Curie’s Somber Garb to Carry On for 'Greatest Woman’

BY MORRIS GILBERT NEA Service Staff Writer. PARIS. Aug. 9. —The mantle of the late Marie Curie, greatest woman of her time, rests today upon a pair of slight, girlish shoulders, those of her daughter Irene. She stood in a corridor of the radium institute, visibly shaken by the recent ordeal of her mother's death. In front of her was the plain, oak-finished office where Mme. Curie did her paper-work. To the right was the unpretentious laboratory, crowded with curious apparatus for weighing atoms and other complex tasks, where Mme. Curie spent so many hours so many years. Mme. Irene Curie-Joliot was dressed in austere black. Blit so was her mother —always. The somber dress was as much a symbol of loyalty and veneration for her mother's genius as of grief at her departure. Mme. Curie-Joliot’s small head rose from the simple neckline of her dress with cameo-like paleness and a youthful poise that inevitably recalled the paintings of Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She locked a pre-Ra-phaelite pries' ~ss dedicated to the r"w and cryrtic mysteries of bioi hemical science. a a a ]UTME. JC ICT ?R1 her husiXi b id - peeved their wo: h as re r* • ' ' C . I.: ic. Cure ' left ;:■? talking to her huse nc’. "Only a few nic 'ths ago,” he said, "We were able to bring to Mme. Curie a discovery of considerable interest. We had great luck in finding out how to produce radio-activity artificially in certain other elements after observing that a number of elements became radio-active by bombardment with the alpha particles from radium." This work in the study of transformation of the atoms of matter is particularly important to medicine. It means simply that, following the Joliots’ discoveries, radium should soon be producable artificially and at a cost greatly less than heretofore. The benefit to njankind is incalculable. a a tt M. JOLIOT went on to explain that much work at the Curie institute now is aimed at the physical problems of how to use radium, especially for healing. "At present,” he said, "radium may embody certain dangers when used for curative purposes. We think we are on the track of minimizing these dangers, perhaps ending them. "The radium particles which are injected into human bodies for the purpose of destroying unhealthy tissue are at present what we call heavy.’ That is, they are so vigorous that they may continue to attack healthy tissues after having performed their work of destroying the unhealthy. "If science can learn to control these particles so that they will do their work and then stop, great progress will have been accomplished. So w'e are trying to perfect what we call ‘light’ radium particles, which can be injected. will do their work and then will die before they can attack healthy flesh.”

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birds, while Edgar Krapf (left), secretary, and Norman Palmer look on. The pheasants, first of a series of shipments which will be released on the 6,000-acre preserve surrounding the club grounds, were bewildered at first by their new-found liberty, but soon drifted off into the oat stubble and in five minutes all had disappeared.

M. JOLIOT is young, slender, handsome, black-h aired, dark-eyed. He has all the simplicity and ardor of a worker trained in the Curie school. He paid high tribute to American and British science for their discoveries and collaboration in radium research. “Work here and in other laboratories throughout the world has already brought down the price of radium enormously,” M. Joliot said. "Today radium is principally found, in the Belgian Congo. Rough deposits are transported to a Belgian village called Oolens, where the process of extracting the pure element occurs in a laboratory. “When Mme. Currie got her first gramme, through the generosity of America's women, it cost $50,000. There were only four ounces of it known in the world. Today at Oolens alone, there are certainly 100 grammes, and perhaps as much as 200 grammes, while there has been a w r ide distribution elsewhere. And it is much cheaper.” The price is rigorously controlled by the Belgian producers, M. Joliot explained, so that it will always diminish, not rise, in value.

M'NUTT TO INSPECT 6 GUARD REGIMENTS 'ovrrnsr to Spend Two Days at It. Knox, Ivy. Ihi 7 mu s N/* rial Fl'. KNOil, Kv„ Aug. 11.—Governor Paul V. McNutt is expected to rrrive here by plane tomorrow to observe the routine training activities of the Indiana National Guard tomorrow and Monday, AdjutantGeneral Elmer F. Straub has announced. Six complete regiments of the Indiana guard, including infantry, artillery, medical troops and engineers, also aviation and special troops will stand inspection this week-end, General Straub said. CHICAGOAN LOSES LEG IN AUTO ACCIDENT Motorcycle Sideswipes Car Near Flackville. Ernest Tastier, 26, Chicago, was in critical condition in city hospital after amputation of his left leg last night following an accident two miles north of Flackville on U. S. Road 52 when his motorcycle sideswiped an automobile. Harry Dubin, 23. also of Chicago, who was riding with Tastier, received minor injuries to the left leg. None in the car was hurt. NEW CENTRAL AVENUE STREET CARS ARRIVE Six of Fifteen Trollies to Go Into Service Monday. Six of the fifteen new street cars ordered for use on Central avenue have arrived in Indianapolis and will be placed in service Monday, James P. Tretton. Indianapolis Railways general manager, announced today. Remainder of the order is expected to arrive before Sept. 1. Mr. Tretton said, and will be placed in service as quickly as they arrive.

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THE Joliots, terribly busy arranging their mother’s many papers, have hardly considered the question of how they will carry on financially. ‘‘From a scientific point of view,” M. Joliot said, ‘‘aid is essential to us. It gives a certain independence, allows us to buy laboratory equipment and to get technical assistance.” He explained that the new work in producing “light” radium particles required larger space than was available at the institute and so they are building a big labora-tory-shed outside Paris at Arcueil, with American funds. Speaking very simply, he expressed his own and Mme. Joliot’s deep gratitude “for all the wonderful encouragement to Mme. Curie which has come from America, and for the American enthusiasm which has done so much to benefit mankind in radium research.” The Joliots live in a modest flat near Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris. They have two children, Helene, 6 years old, and Pierre, who is 2 and named for his eminent grandfather.

V. S„ SOVIET IN OEBTDEADLOCK Hope of Agreement Dimmed After Conference in Washington. { Bp United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Hope ; for successful negotiation of a So- | viet-American debt settlement les- | sened today after a gloomy conferj ence between Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. It was believed the conferees had reached a stumbling block. R. Walton Moore, assistant secretar yof state, made the only official : comment. "We shall know within a few days whether there is any prospect of an agreement.” It was thought possible that a stiff American atitude against suggested concessions on the debt, | which amounts to about $500,000,000, 1 may have run up against equal stubbornness on the part of Russia. If no agreement results, substantial expansion of Soviet-American trade is imperilled due to the operation of the Johnson act, which prohibits credit to any nation considered in default on her debts. 5 KILLED IN CRASH OF AUTO AND TRAIN Locomotive Derailed: Dead Were Motorists. | By United Press VERMONTVILLE, Mich., Aug. 11. —Five persons were killed, one an unidentified man riding the blind baggage, when an automobile was pushed into the path of a Michigan Central passenger train last night. The locomotive and coaches were derailed and the engine rolled into a ditch. The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Dale McClintock. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cook. The unidentified man. None of the train passengers were injured, but the engineer and fireman of the train suffered cuts and bruises. The automobile had stopped for the railroad crossing when another car struck it from behind, j forcing it across the track in front of the oncoming train. VON STAHREMBERG TO CONFER WITH IL DUCE Austrian Leader .Arrives in Rome for Parley. ! Bp United Press ROME. Aug. 11.—Vice-Chancellor Prince Von Stahremberg arrived by airplane today, and will be received by Premier Benito Mussolini in audience, either today or Monday. Aviatrix Breaks Own Record Bp United Press ISTRES AIRPORT. France, Aug. 11.—Helene Boucher, France's foremost woman aviator, today cracked her own speed record setting anew mark of 438.8 kilometers <272.49 miles) an hour for one kilometer j. 621 of a mile),

INFLATION TINT SHADES SILVER MOVE BY U. S. Currency Will Be Issued Against Free Bullion to Full Value. By United Fret* WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. A slightly more inflationary cast was placed on the treasury's new silver plans by a clarification of what currency is to be issued against the metal. Currency will be issued against free silver bullion now held in the treasury up to the full legal value of $1.29 an ounce. Against silver stocks acquired by nationalization currency equal to the purchase price of 50.01 cents will be issued, for the present. Since the treasury now holds, it was revealed, 62,000.000 ounces of silver unpledged as the backing of any bills, this means that $80,000,000 in silver certificates are being printed and will be put into circulation immediately. Cost Only 546.900.000 However, these 62.000,000 ounces, the treasury reported, cost only $46,900.000 to acquire. The difference between the face value of the certificates and the cost of the silver is to be reported daily in the treasury statement as “seigniorage.” It has previously been supposed that the treasury would print certificates against this silver only to the amount of its cost. The present plan doubles the amount of the bills being printed. As regards the newly nationalized silver the new’ treasury statement did not reveal anything further. The plan to issue currency against it at the rate of 50.01 cents was what had been expected. For the approximately 200.000,000 ounces expected to be turned in to the treasury this would amount to an expansion of currency of only about $100,000,000, which like the $80,000,000 in bills now being printed, is but a trival fraction of the total amount of money in circulation. Later Expansion Possible The possibility of further currency expansion lies in the prospect that the treasury may at a later date expand its silver certificate issue to the full limit of $1.29 per ounce required by law. Even this would not bulk very large so far as the nationalized stocks are concerned. However, should the treasury set about an aggressive policy of acquiring on the world markets enough silver to bring its stocks up to the 3-1 ratio with gold which has been set as the legal goal, the expansion would be considerable. It was emphasized, in this connection, that no hint has been given by the treasury that it was planning a wholesale program of silver purchases in order to build its silver stocks to the legal ratio overnight. The difference between the cost of nationalized silver and its monetary value of $1.29 will also be reported by the treasury under the “seigniorage” item. The treasury declared in its announcement that while “seignoirage” was now appearing in its statement for the first time as a separate item, it had always been shown in the treasury receipt account. “Since the beginning of the govment,” said the statement, “the treasury has received a total of $387,000,000 in seignoirage, which hitherto had been included in the daily statement under the item ‘other miscellaneous.’ ”

HOUSING ACTION IS UNCERTAIN Hoke Awaits Orders From U. S. on Project; Act in Effect. Local action on the national housing act, which went into effect yesterday, is uncertain, Fred Hoke, national emergency council director for Indiana, said today. Mr. Hoke said that he had received no information or instructions from Washington regarding establishment of offices here to carry out the purposes of the act. “We hope to get under way here by Aug. 15, but I have yet to hear from Washington for specific instructions,” Mr. Hoke said. Mr. Hoke indicated he would be in charge of the national housing act only temporarily. He did not know who would take over the state directorship of the national emergency council when his resignation goes into effect Sept. 1. Dies From Fall In Brewery By United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 11—Injuries suffered by Albert J. Lindschmidt, 33. when he fell from a platform while working in the F. W. Cook brewery here caused his death in a hospital.

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ACTON GIRL TO SHOW HER SEWING ABILITY

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Adjudged grand champion at the Marion County 4-H Club dress revue yesterday at the Indiana state fairground. Miss Lucille Morris, Acton, will represent, the county in the state 4-H Club dress revue at the Indiana state fair. The revue yesterday was participated in by 187 girls, who displayed garments they made themselves as part of the club work.

C. OF C. ISSUES PLEA IN PUBLIC WORKS DRIVE Members Asked to Support Move to Relieve Large Unemployment. An appeal for support in the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce drive to push appropriations for contemplated public improvements and thus relieve unemployment this winter was .made today in a bulletin issued to Chamber members. The report praised the allocation of public funds and stated that “there are tremendous possibilities for thousands of work hours and the sale of large quantities of mate- j rials by the people of Indiana, enough greatly to relieve unemployment rolls and do so in strict keeping with good business practice and the government plan for unemployment relief.” “We need the interested help and support of every citizen and public official if we are to get the contemplated projects under way in time to be sufficiently helpful this winter,” the bulletin stated. The bulletin asserted that the projects will cost $3,000,000 and employ several hundred men steadily, in addition to off-the-job labor, for one year. The projects approved by the Chamber for pushing are the rehab- J Citation of the sewage disposal plant j With an estimated cost of $420,000; 1 rehabilitation of the garbage disposal plant, $62,000; slum clearance project, proposed addition to the federal building, Flower Mission project for a tuberculosis pavilion. Riley hospital therapeutic pool, and state highway projects on highways leading into the city. CLEVELAND OFFICIALS ARGUE ON TENNIS GARB School Heads Have No Objection to Shirtless Players. By United Press* CLEVELAND. Aug. K —School and city officials of suburban Lakewood and Cleveland Heights are divided on the question of whether or not the two municipalities’ young men should play tennis sans both shirt and undershirt. In both suburbs, school officials said they did not object to boys removing their shirts while playing on school-operated courts. City officials of both places took issue with this policy and decreed that all boys wear shirts on the municipal tennis courts. CAMPAIGNS IN BUGGY Ohio Democrat After Old-Fashioned Vote in Big Way. By United Pres* EAST PALESTINE. 0., Aug. U.— Harry Gosney, Democratic candidate for nomination as sheriff, is campaigning Columbiana county in an old buggy, painted in varied colors, mule-drawn, smothered in Gosney banners.

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ADD SOCIETY NOTES; FIRE LADDIES PAY A CALL ON YE EDITOR

By United Press NEW LONDON, Wis., Aug. 11. —Betty Argot, society editor of the Press-Republican, called the fires tation. Captain Matt Nesbit answered. “This is the Press-Republican,” Miss Garot said, “we want you—” Captain Nesbit hung up—shouted an order. A few seconds later a fire engine roared up to the newspaper office. A fireman rushed into the ' building, shouting “where’s the fire?” Betty looked up and said: “There’s no fire. I wanted you to give me some fire department news.” MODERN -ARSENE LUPIN’ GETS $300,000 IN GEMS French Social Leaders Scurry to Save Valuables. By United Press CANNES. France Aug. 11. A series of robberies by a modern Arsene Lupin sent social leaders and divorcees scurrying to safe deposit vaults today to cache their jewels. In three robberies within a week, the thief has escaped with more than 5.000.000 francs ($300,000) worth of gems. GOOD WILL IS THEME Physical Director to Address Rotary Club. Fred W. Dickens. Y. M. C. A. physical education director and former resident of Santiago, Chile, will speak on "Athletics and International Good Will” before the Rotary Club Tuesday noon in the Claypool. KILLER OF DOLLFUSS

Confessed murderer of Austria's late Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Otto Planetta (shown above in radiophoto) was found guilty by military court and hanged in Vienna.

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PROVIDE ARMS TO FIGHT CRIME. URGES HOOVER Government’s New Policy Is to Outshoot Gangsters. BY KENNETH WATSON Tiraf. Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. . The government s new crime policy, carried out notably in ending the career of John Dillinger, is “not only to outthink but also to outshoot** desperate criminals. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Jus- | tice Department’s Bureau of InI vestigation. stated this policy in commenting today on the efforts of his group of 400 picked young detectives to put down crime. He emphasized the efforts to improve marksmanship of the forco i and to equip it with the same modi ern weapons of offense and defense used by the gangsters themselves. “It is a crime—perhaps it better may be termed a tragedy.” he said, “that so many of the law enforcement officers of the country are not properly armed and equipped with i the latest practical arms and de- : vices such as machine-guns, gas | guns, bullet-proof vests, shields and other law enforcement and protec- | tive equipment." Caught Four a Dav Tire record of his bureau for the ! past year shows heavy penalties against, racketeers and other organized criminals. Last year the bureau located 1,163 fugitives from justice—an average of about four a day, although there was but one federal agent for each 9,000 square miles of territory. Convictions were obtained in 95.5 per cent of the cases handled, ranging from automobile stealing to kidnaping and murder. When gangland turned to kidnapI ing with the approach of repeal, ; Director Hoover and his men, as- ; sisted by Assistant Attorney-Gen-eral Joseph B. Keenan, made such a smashing attack that this form of crime has been almost discarded. Since congress enacted a federal kidnaping law in January, 1932, there have been twenty-nine cases of kidnapmg. Moving swiftly and relentlessly, the department of justice has cleared up all but three. The twenty-six cases resulted in sentences totaling 1,111 years meted out to seventy-one gangsters. Eleven more are in custody awaiting trial. Two of the kidnapers—the men responsible for the brutai slaying of young Brook Hart in San Francisco —were lynched, while three others committed suicide in their cells. Only Three Left Tlie three unsolved cases are the kidnaping of 6-year-old June Rooles in Arizona and the Bremer and Hamm cases in St. Paul. In the latter case two men were tried, but acquitted. Director Hoover says the identity of the men who kidnaped Brewer is known. “It is but a question of time before we capture them,” declared Hoover. Director Hoover does not regard the famous Lindbergh kidnaping as a federal case. It occurred before the law was passed. Strangely enough, although the public came to regard the search for Dillinger as a duty of the department of justice rather than of state or city officers, there was but one federal charge upon which his agents could have prosecuted the Indiana outlaw, Hoover said. “This w’as for stealing the automobile in which his sensational escape from the Crown Point jail was staged. But the people regarded Dillinger’s capture as a duty of the government and we worked unceasingly upon the case for months,” he said. Not “Boy Scouts” That the government is able to i wage such successful and reletnless ! warfare on crime is due primarily jto the exacting requirements for service as a department of justice agent. “Since 1924 the department has insisted that all its special agents either be graduate attorneys or certified public accountants or have done at least three years of investigating work,” Hoover said. Some hostile critics have dubbed Hoover’s organization “Boy Scouts,” because of the educational requirements and exact training courses needed for service. While it is true that 62 per cent of the bureau have had legal training and 21 per cent expert accountants’ qualifications, the background of the agents reveals no mollycoddles. The force includes not only many former Texas Rangers, state troopers, sheriffs and police chiefs, but numbers an amazingly high percentage of college athletes. Five agents have made a name for themselves as wrestlers, five are expert boxers, half a dozen have played professional baseball, six were football coaches and seventeen were on varsity grid teams. Six agents have been basketball coaches and ten were college stars in basketball. Are Expert Markmen The average age of the* federal agents is 36 years. Age requirements for joining the government force are 25 to 35. Perfect physical condition is of course a requisite. Since spring every agent has been required to take a course of trainImg in markmanship and must be able to handle not only a revolver, rifle and shotgun, but understand j the workings of the gangster Tom- ■ my gun” as well.