Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1935 — Page 3

MARCH 11, 1935

SETTLEMENT OF WAR DEBTS LINKED WITH ARMS HOLIDAY IN MIDWESTERNS' SCHEME Levinson, Kellogg Pact Author, Writes New Plan for Accepting 60 Per Cent Payment by Allies. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripp.-Hsvard Farei*n Editor WASHINGTON, March 11.—A startling new plan to settle the war debts to the United States for six billion dollars, or 60 per cent of the sum borrowed, has been put up to he Administration by a committee ol distinguished middlewesterners.

The plan would credit the Allies with the §2,700,000,000 already paid, and permit them to clean the .'late by paying §3,300,000,000 in 12 annual instalments of §275,000,000 each. Britain and other debtors have served notice they will pay nothing unless and until Uncle Sam takes the initiative with anew plan. Installments would be due every June 15. No interest would be rharmed if payment were made on time. Otherwise interest, at 5 per rent, would run from the date of each delinquency. The settlement would be contingent upon an arms holiday. The plan’s sponsors contend that in the 12 years covered by the settlement the United States would benefit to an amount about equal to the total debt due this country. Administration Is Silent On the other hand, the Allies and Germany— whose reparations payments to the Allies would be included in the plan—would only have to find about 15 cents on the dollar of the colossal mter-AUied debt total of 30 billions demanded at the time of the June. 1931. moratorium. The Administration maintains a puzzling silence on the whole subject of war debts, the above solution included. The problem, however. ls causing concern. High officials are aware that unless some satisfactory formula is soon found, the deots will have to be charged off to profit and loss. Tlie plan, sponsored by a group of Chicagoans, ls the work of Salmon O. Levinson, internationally known counselor and father of the so-called Kellogg Pact. Author No Dreamer Mr. Levinson's life-work has been the reorganizaUon of big industries and railroads. He reorganized Westmghouse. the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway and other great American businesses. His approach to the war debts problem, therefore, was not ’hat of a dreamer, but of a hard-boiled business man. Two of the cardinal assumptions of the plan arc-: 1. That the World War and the two post-war panics have so shrunk the wealth, so stagnated the business. so burdened the budgets, and so crippled the paying power of the nations that anew, comprehensive and mutually advantageous readjustment of the war legacies is made necessary m the common interest. 2. ’That the United States—being Ihe only clear creditor among the nations, and having expended 38 billion dollars exclusive of our loans i:nd credits to the Allies* in the war. without asking or receiving any compensation therefor at the peace table—has the right and faces the duty to make these proposals and demands in the name of justice, stability, suffering humanity, and world peace." German Payment Soon Due If the adjustment were to be made effective next June 15, this would be just at the close of tif£ three years of grace given Germany under the 10 per cent Lausanne conditibnal settlement between the Allies and Germany cf 1932. There would be owing to the Allies from Germany, under the Lausanne settlement. 800 million dollars. Payment of that sum by Germany would discharge all the Allied claims for reparations against her. Thus would reduce the sum needed to be raised by the Allies for payments to the United States to $2 500.000.000. or about 200 millions a year for 12 years—as against the previous debt settlements which c. lied for similar annual installments for 62 years. Th Levinson plan calls for a lump rum or joint settlement. The AHies wt.’dd determine their respective percentages of payment among themselves relieving the United Spates of the burden and delay of protracted negotiations with a dozen or more nations. Similar Plan for Germany The United States, according to the plan, would accept on the same per cent basis a settlement with Germany on account of Army of Occupation costs and the Mixed CT.-ims Commission. Six:, per cent of the $250,000,000 Army of Occupation costs would erme to 150 millions. Less 68 millions cash paid, the amount to be paid would be 82 millions. Sinvlarlv fignred. the balance due on Mixed Claims Commissions settlements would be 84 millions. The total amount of German settlement with the United States, over the 12 rears, would be 166 millions, or slightly less than 14 millions a year The fnter-Allied debts—that ls. debts owing by the European Allies among themselves such as from France to Britain. Italy to France and so forth—would, according to the plan, all be cancelled.

Flvf-Yr Arms Holiday All the forgoing adjustments ai . settlements mould be conditioned c i the general and reciprocal accep- - ance of a drastic program of disarmament, as nearly universal as possible, and to consist of two cam: 1- A complete holiday subject to completions, etc . under listing disarmament treaties! tn p > tws of armament contraction for five year*, 2 Preerewlve. equitable and proportional reduction of armaments during the five-year holiday so :hat at the end cf the holiday period the total reduct on would be substantially 50 per i ent of present levels. The money savings to be effected

by these two processes of disarmament are estimated to be: HnlidaT savin* for the l mtrd States far earh of the Die year* I 300,000,000 j 50 per rent redaction per year for the Cnited States after five-year holiday .. ............ $50,000,000 Holiday savin* for Europe for earh of the Ore years 1.300,000.000 Savinas on SO per rent reduction per year for Europe after the holiday . *50,000,000 Balanced Budget Forecast The annual benefits to our budget through these payments by the Allies, Germany and armaments holiday savings, it is claimed, would total 589 millions. Summarized, the foregoing benefits to the United States for the 12 years would be $3,300,000,000 cash payments from the Allies; $166,000,000 from Germany, and $3,250,000,000 joint total in armament savings —a total of 3,716,000.000. This, with the $2,820,090,000 already received from the Allies and Germany, makes a grand total of $9,536,000,000, or practically the total sum lent. The billions it is estimated the settlement would be worth to world tranquility, trade impetus, securities enhancement, currency stabilization, restored confidence, goodwill, and so forth, would be so much velvet. The payments and savings under this settlement, Mr. Levinson asserts, would enable the government to balance its budget by 1937. PRISONER IS FOUND SLAIN IN JAIL CELL Two Bull Pen Inmates Are Grilled at Wabash. By United Press WABASH. Ind.. March 11.—Grand jury investigation t*.day was expected to follow the doath of Howard iPete) Holcomb. 29. whose battered body was found in the bullpen of the Wabash County Jail. His skull was fractured, his chest had been crushed, and there were finger marks on his throat. Robert Finkenbiner. 29. and Charles Moore. 27, other occupants of the bullpen, were placed in separate cells pending the investigation. Holcomb, arrested frequently on intoxication charges, had been awaiting transfer to the state penal farm to begin serving a 90-day sen- ! tence. Finkenbiner had been arrested on .in assault and battery charge after .v dance hall fight. Moore was being held for commitment to the Central State Hospital. He was adjudged insane last week after attempting to steal an automobile. PROGRAMS ARRANGED FOR RELIEF WORKERS Vaudeville. Boxing Bouts to Be Held at Tomlinson Hall. A program of vaudeville numbers and boxing bouts has been arranged by the Marion County Emergency Recreation Bureau for the community entertainment program at Tomlinson Hall at 7:30 tomorrow night. i Other activities arranged for this week by the bureau are dances at 8 tonight at Municipal Gardens and at the Garfield Park Community House; a program of games at 8 Wednesday in Room 1630. the Washington: a social entertainment at 7:30 Thursday in the Brightwood Y. M- C. A-; a dance at the Mayer Chapel at 7:30 Friday, and a social entertainment at 7:30 Saturday in the Y. W. C. A. BASKETBALL BILL IS WITHDRAWN BY AUTHOR Similar Measure to Be Offered at Special Session, He Says. The Woodard bill designed to prevent the playing of more than two games on any one day of the state basketball tournament today was withdrawn from further legislative consideration. The measure had passed the House and was in the hands of the Senate education committee. In withdrawing the bill. Rep. Carl Woodard <D.. Michigan City) announced that he intended to offer a similar bill at the proposed special session. FEDERAL POSTS * OPEN Civil Service Examinations for Three Jobs Are Announced. Open competitive examinations for three Federal positions were announced today by Frank J. Boatman. local Civil Service Board secretary. They are assistant naval architect, assistant mineral economist. and typewriter repairman. Further details may be obtained frem iic. Boatman. 421 Federal Building. WHITLOCK IS ELECTED Haughville Townsend Club Holds Election of Officers. The elec'ion of W. W. Whitlock as president ot the Haughville; Townsend Club was announced to- ; day. H? succeeds Eldon Tilson. New members of the advisory board include E L. Jordan, Oliver Duncan. ! Walter Svendsen. L. R. Euliss. i Frank Houser. Jacob Harlan. Monna j Whitlock. Mrs. H. E. Haywood and ' Mrs. E. A. Norris.

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The answer as to why college life is so popular may be found in this picture of 12 Butler University co-eds who are competing for the honor of being queen of the Butler relays, March 23, at the fieldhouse. The girls and the organizations they represent are Sue Scollard, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Irene Mascoe, Kappa Delta; Vet'na Pickerel, Butler Independent Association; Mavilla Rainey, Pi Beta Phi; Rosemary Ford, Zeta Tau Alpha; Edna Cabalzer, Delta Zeta; Frances Messick, Alpha Omicron Pi; Irma Smith, Trianon; Jane Kennessy, Kappa Alpha Theta; Lorilla Horne. Alpha Chi Omega; Helen Louise Healy, Delta Delta Delta, and Helen Hicks. Delta Gamma.

Two Officers at Fort , Ordered to Philippines Capt. Robal A. Johnson to Sail From New York May 14: Lieut. William Northam Leaves April 26. Capt. Robal A. Johnson, who has been stationed with the 11th Infantry at Ft. Benjamin Harrison since 1928. has received orders to sail from New York for the Philippines May 14. He is now in temporary command of the regiment’s provisional battalion on duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps at Ft. Knox, Ky.

Second Lieut. William F. Northam, also with the 11th Infantry, has been ordered to sail for Honolulu April 26. Lieut. Northam. whose home is in Columbia City was ! graduated from West Point last June. Second Lieut Elvin F. Burger, assistant post adjutant, has been made aid to Brig. Gen. W. K. Naylor. commandant at the fort. His former place will be taken by Lieut. Paul R. Walter, 19th Field Artillery. Jack Boles, son of Maj. J. K. Boles, commander of the 19th Field Artillery, has received an appointment to West Point. Harless Parmelee, a Purdue University student and the son of Capt. Clyde D. Parmelee, executive of the same regiment, has been appointed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Capt. Laurence H. Corbaly of the 152nd Infantry, Indiana National j Guard, has asked for leave of absence in order to accept a position with the Department of Interior at Lake Ozark. Mo. He w r ill be succeeded as assistant plans and training officer of the regiment by Lieut. Fred C. Dyer, present personnel adjutant. The 151st Infantry will be represented in the Randolph Hearst musketry team match by Company |A. Shelbyville. Capt. John D. Friday is company commander and I the musketry team is composed of Corp. Marvin S. Frogge, Privates Samuel C. Frogge, Walter G. Mohr, Howard G. Gaines and Ronald E. McDonald. Batery A. 139th Field Artillery, is now being reorganized at Franklin. Two new second lieutenants will be appointed and more than 50 new men have enlisted. Cept. Dwight Heath. Franklin College mathematics professor, will remain as battery commander. BETA THETA PI WILL STAGE STATE DANCE College Fraternity Members, Alumni to Meet Saturday. Beta Theta Pi Fraternity will hold its annual state dance Saturday night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Members of the five undergraduate chapters in the state and of the Indianapolis Alumni Club are sponsoring the event. Richard E. Ray is dance chairman. BUTLER STUDENT NEAR DEATH AFTER ACCIDENT Carl Truemper. City Youth, Hurt in Motorcycle Crash. Rtf T'nitrd Prrgg RUSHVILLE. Ind., March li.— Carl Truemper. 21. Indianapolis, a student at Butler University, was in a critical condition at th hospital here today with injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. Physicians held little hope for his recovery. Truemper WTecked his motorcycle when he swerved to avoid hitting a dog. He suffered a fractured skull and broken collar bone. A companion. Robert Hobbs, IndianapJis, suffered minor cuts and bruises 4 DOCTORS TO SPEAK City Medical Society. Methodist Staff to Meet. Drs. Raymond C. Beeler, James O. Ritchey, Ralph L. Lochry and J. A. McDonald will be the speakers at the joint meeting Tuesday night in the Methodist Hospital nurses' home of the Indianapolis Medical Society and the Methodist Hospital Staff Society.

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RABBI WISE PRAISES LUDLOW’SWAR PLAN Move to Conscript Wealth Is Commended. Active support of Rep. Louis Ludlow’s proposed constitutional amendment for a referendum on war and a plan to take the profits out of war have been voiced by the Indiana Council on International Relations and Rabbi Stephen Wise, New York City, outstanding Jewish leader, it was revealed today. In a message backing the Indiana Congressman’s bill, the Indiana Council stated: “The officers and members of the • council communicate to you their high commendations of your resolution.” “I believe there should be a referendum on war when war threatens, i or when the profiteers threaten to ; bring war, and I have long believed [ that we have no right to conscript | men and not to conscript properties. ! I am with you on both things,” I Rabbi Wise wrote. CHINESE EASTERN R. R. GIVEN UP BY RUSSIA Line Tranferred to Manchukuoan Republic for $39,600,000. By United Press TOKIO. March 12.—The Chinese Eastern Railway, for years the source of disputes between Russia and Japan, was transferred to exclusive control of the new Manchukuoan republic at a price of 140.000.000 yen ($39,620,000), an official digest of documents in the transaction revealed today. The sale, culminating many months of negotiation by representatives of the Japanese. Manchukuoan and Soviet Russian governments, was signed yesterday. The sale price was to be paid onethird in cash and the remainder in Japanese and Manchukuoan goods. Payment was to be spread over a period of three years, with Japan guaranteeing Manchukuo would meet her payments. UTILITY TRANSACTION DEFENDED BY INSULL Acted for Interests of Investors, Full?n Magnate Testifies. By United Press CHICAGO. March 11. Samuel Insull squared his shoulders defiantly and defended his financial dealings with crisp answers when he faced cross-examination in Criminal Court today on charges that he embezzled $66,000. The humbled monarch of a bil-lion-dollar util.ty stronghold who claims he is penniless appeared to have a zest for the cross-examina-tion. He denied that he was guilty of criminal conniving when he authorized the lifting of $66,000 from the treasury of Middle West Utilities Company to protect a brokerage account of his brother. Martin. “I insist that I acted for the protection of investors who trusted us with their savings." he said sharply. Shirley Temple Aids Drive Officials of Wayne Post No. 64. American Legion, today announced the receipt of a donation from Shirley Temple, famed child movie star, for the post's Children s Fresh Air School.

INDUSTRIES ARE PLACED UNDER S-NRAJCODES Dyer Bill Signed by McNutt; Act Effective Until March 31, 1937. Indiana’s industries were placed under State-NRA today following the signing of the bill introduced by Rep. John Napier Dyer (D., Vincennes). The S-NRA is effective until March 31, 1937, or such earlier time as the national codes are abandoned. A four-member commission will be named by Gov. Paul V. McNutt to supervise the state act. An appropriation of SIO,OOO has been provided to carry out provisions of the measure. A maximum fine of SSOO is provided for violations of the new law. The measure provides that additional state codes may be drawn up if industries desire to become a part of the S-NRA. Book Rental Approved An optional school-book rental system may be established in Hoosier schools under a measure signed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. The bill, introduced in the Senate by Senator Chester K. Watson <D„ Ft. Wayne) provides that texts may be purchased from publishers and rented to pupils at an amount not exceeding 25 per cent of the retail price. A bill providing local school boards with the right to have free textbooks already has been signed by the Governor. Blind Pensions Ready Blind persons, over 20 and who have been residents of Indiana five years or more, may receive annual pensions up to S3OO, under terms of a bill which has been signed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. The amount of the pensions are fixed by the judges of the circuit courts in each county, after recommendations are made by the Board of Industrial Aid. Liquor law revenues are to finance the pensions. Tax Moratorium Signed Delinquent taxpayers are given relief under terms of moratorium bill, which has been signed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. The bill provides that taxes now delinquent may be paid in 16 equal installments over a period of eight years, if the 1934 taxes, payable this year, are paid. Alibi Bill Passed Gov. Paul V. McNutt had under consideration today the bill designed to clamp down on the use of surprise defense alibis in criminal cases. The measure, passed by the Senate Saturday, would require defendants in criminal cases to give notice to the prosecuting attorney concerning the alibi to be offered in an attempt to prove absence from the scene of a crime at the time it was perpetrated. Prosecutors must notify defendants if the state seeks to prove a change in the place or date of the crime. ROANN BANK HOLDUP SUSPECT IS NABBED Jail-Breaker Is Returned From Omaha. Two Indiana state police officers, Lieut. Ray Fisher and Detective Arthur Keller, today were returning Merritt Longbrake, 39, Claypool, Ind., suspected Indiana and Ohio bank robber, to Wabash from Omaha, Neb., where he was arrested yesterday on information supplied by Indiana authorities. Capt. Matt Leach announced *hat Longbrake would be questioned in the SI2OO bank robbery at Roann last month. The Roann bandit distracted the attention of the town by setting fire to a barn at the edge of the community. Longbrake broke from the Bellefontaine (O.) jail in July, 1933, while held as an Ohio bank robber suspect. He is alleged by Omaha detectives to have admitted the Roann holdup. A woman said to be the suspect’s wife is being returned with him. HARMON TROPHY WON BY ENGLISH AVIATOR C. W. Scott Is Selected as 1934 World Champion Flier. By United Preset NEW YORK, March 11.—C. W. Scott, English flier, receives the 1934 international Harmon trophy as the world champion aviator, according to award announcements made here today by the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs. The organization's headquarters are in Paris. Scott and Campbell-Black were first in the London-Melbourne flight. WAGNER TESTIFIES AT LABOR BILL HEARING Senator Backs His Measure to End Industrial Discontent. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 11—Senator Robert F. Wagner iD„ N. Y.), in a lengthy review of American labor conditions today urged enactment of his revised labor disputes bill as a means of curbing “the rising tide of industrial discontent.” Senator Wagner was the first witness as the senate Education and Labor Committee began hearings on the bill which is expected to prove one of the most controversial measures in the present Congress. BISHOP TO PREACH HERE Oklahoma Missionary Episcopal District Head to Speak. The Rt. Rev. Thomas Casady. Oklahoma Missionary Episcopal District Bishop, will be the speaker at the noonday Lenten sevrice at Christ Episcopal Church tomorrow. Bishop Casady’s subject will be “The Heart of the Gospel.” He has been bishop of the Oklahoma district since 1927.

Package Stores Legal Under New Liquor Act Passed by Assembly

Night clubs and roadhouses outside incorporated cities and towns are outlawed under provisions of the state liquor control act ready for Gov. Paul V. McNutt's signature. Establishment of package stores for the sale of liquor also is authorzed, and the triple-license system, designed to prevent permit violation, is retained. Excepting at clubs and hotels meeting statutory qualifications, no alcoholic beverages may be sold lawfully outside cities and incorporated towns, but beer permits may be granted to certain premises in close proximity to unincorporated towns upon certification of 30 taxpayers.

Breweries Are Limited One brewery permit will be allowed for each 175,000 state population. These permits are issuable ; only to corporations formed under Indiana laws or to individuals and partnerships, all members of which are bona fide residents of the state. Breweries are prohibited from holding direct or indirect interest in beer or liquor retail outlets. Not more than one beer wholesaler license will be granted in counties of 20.000 population, and in other counties the number of wholesalers may not exceed one for each 20.000 population. Beer wholesalers must buy their supplies only from licensed brewers, or importing agents, or port of entry permittees and may sell only to licensed retailers. Small quantities in bottles may be sold to private homes. The present importer system will remain in effect until Nov. 15. After that time, only holders of wholesale permits will be eligible to apply for port of entry permits, which would allow them to import beer from other states. SISOO Fee Is Required The law provides for not less than 10 nor more than 100 such port of entry licenses. A fee of SISOO a year in addition to tne SIOOO wholesaler license is required. Beer retailer licenses are established for establishments selling beer for consumption on the premises where sold. No permits may be granted to aliens, non-resi-dents of the city or town in which the outlet is located, mayors, sheriffs or other public officials charged with enforcement of the law. Persons convicted during the past two years of liquor law violations are ineligible for permits as also are those whose existing permits once have been revoked. Beer retailers need not have liquor licenses. For the sale of beer for consumption off the premises where sold, beer dealers’ permits are established. A beer seller may acquire licenses for both premise and off-the-prem-ise sales. These may be taken out by drug stores, grocery stores, confectioners and proprietors of any store in good repute. Temporary beer sale permits are provided for fairs, athletic events, barbecues or picnics, conventions, auto races, and fees up to SIOOO a day may be charged. Wholesalers Also Limited Licenses for dining cars, boats, etc., are established. Manufacturer and distiller permits. allowing manufacturing of hard liquors and their shipment outside the state and sale within the state to licensed wholesalers, are issuable only to corporations created under Indiana laws qualified to obtain the necessary permits from the Federal government. One liquor wholesalers will be permitted for every 50,000 population and such permits will be limited to bona fide residents of the state. They may sell only to licensed retailers. Licensed liquor retailers also must hold both a beer retailer and wine retailer license. Such permits are intended for the sale of liquor to be consumed on the premises where sold. Liquor dealer permits are to be issued to drug stores licensed by the Indiana Pharmacy Board and to newly created package stores. Wholesalers are to be prohibited from having direct or indirect interest in package stores. Also prohibited from such interest are drug stores and brewers, but liquor wholesalers may maintain one package store in the county of residence. 18 Set as Age Limit Sales of alcoholic beverages to persons under 18 is made a misdemeanor and persons intoxicated in licensed outlets are punishable by fines ranging from $1 to SIOO. Presence of persons under age 18 in public places where liquor is sold is prohibited. Purchase of liquor from bootleggers is made as unlawful as boot-; legging. Advertising the alcoholic content j of beer and ale is prohibited. Enforcement of the law rests upon the state commission and administrator, the attorney general and prosecuting attorneys. The attorney general and prosecuting attorneys and any licensed dealer may bring .otion to restrain violations. Third to Taxing Units One-third of the license fees will go to school taxing units. The balance of the fees will go to cities and incorporated towns for use of the general fund. Sale of liquor on Sundays and Christmas Day from 2 a. m. until 6 the next morning is outlawed. Between 1 a. m. and 6 p. m. on primary election, general election days, beer and liquor sales are unlawful. Daily closing hours are 1 a. m. and outlets must not open befor? 6 a. m. State enforcement Is placed under the control of a salaried, bipartisan, four-member Alcoholic Beverage Commission, which includes an Excise Administrator, all appointed by the Governor for four-year staggered terms at annual salaries not to exceed S6OOO. Members must be at least aged 31, of excellent character and resident voters of the state for 10 pears. Local boards will consist of three members, one a deputy of the state board, one named by. the county commissioners and one by the mayor of the largest city in the county. This board will make recommendai tions to the state commission on applications for retail licenses. Mrs. Stuart Robbed Mrs. Ethel S. Stuart, widow of the ; late Milo H. Stuart, former Technical High School principal, reported to police yesterday the theft of jewelry valued at SIOO from her | home, 4535 Park-av.

RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE HERE Showers Will Benefit Crops in Indiana, Federal Meteorologist Says. The heavy rains which deluged the state and Indianapolis yesterday to the extent of 3.3 inches in Evansville and .72 of an inch in Indianapolis, during the 24 hours ending at 7 today, will continue through tonight. J. H. Armington. Federal meteorologist, said today. Sweeping in from the Gulf of Mexico, the premature April rains were absorbed in the soil warmed by the moderate temperatures and will be beneficial to crops, Mr. Armington said. There is at present a deficiency of rain fall in Indiana. Although there is no flood danger at present, White River is slowly rising and the weather bureau is carefully checking each rise. The rain here possibly will turn to snow and clear tomorrow morning, Mr. Armington predicted. With the snow the temperatures will drop to freezing tomorrow morning. The cold snap probably will be of short duration, Mr. Armington said. NINE MEN'MISSING ON GREAT HIES ICE Six Believed Drowned in Auto Plunge. By United Press CHICAGO, March 11.—Search parties directed by coast guardsmen and an airplane summoned from Escanaba, Mich., scanned the shifting ice packs of two portions of the northern Great Lakes today for nine men lost since yesterday. Searchers believed six of the men dropped through the melting ice of “death’s door passage” in an automobile in which they started across the pack yesterday mornh;g from the Door County, Wisconsin, mainland to Washington Island, in Lake Michigan. Three other men were adrift on a floe approximately a quarter-mile in diameter off the isle-dotted tip of Bayfield County in Lake Superior. Scores of men and boys scouted a wide area of ice in the treacherous passage off Door County before dark halted the search last night but found no trace of the missing men. ARCTIC EXPLORER, ILL MANYJTEARS, IS DEAD Once Offered S4BO for Fatal Dose of Sleeping Potion, By United Press CULLOMPTON, England, March 11.—W. J. A. Grant, famous Arctic explorer who recently offered S4BO to any one who would give him a fatal dose of a sleeping notion, died yesterday. Cape Grant, in Franz j Josef Land off the Russian Arctic ! coast, was named for him. He was! 83. Mr. Grant had been ill for six years. In January, 1934, he gave a “swan dance” for 400 friends in anticipation of death, and went to the Amazon to die. But he returned and, in great pain, made his public offer for a sleeping potion that would kill him.

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MERIT SYSTEM BOARD DEMOTES SERGT.PURCELL Crash of Police Car With Train Results in Punishment. The newly created police merit system board for promotions and demotions, acting with Chief Mike Morrissey, today had reduced William Purcell frem sergeant to firstclass patrolman had suspended patrolman Robert Smith and had repumanded patrolman Fred Staggs. Punitive action was taken Saturday by the board on testimony that j the trio had been in a scout car Feb. 15 that, in defiance of warn- | ing signals, had entered the Belt • Railroad crossing at Kentucky-av J and had hit a train. Reported (o Morrissey After the accident, and because of an argument, the officers, under direction of Sergt. Purcell, arrested Morton Reid. 818 Division-st, conductor of the train, and charged him with having violated an obI scure city ordinance. When The Indianapolis Times the S next day exclusively revealed the details of ihe affair. Chief Morrissey called the men into his office j and received from them a state--1 ment that they had. at the time, | been answering a call of a holdup jjust across the tracks. No Report of Holdup However, Chief Morrissey pointed out at the hearing of the merit i board, there was no report of such j a holdup and the officers included i no such report in their original i statement about the accident. Chief I Morrissey said it was this misstate- * ment that was the basis for the ! punishment. Patrolman Smith was suspended ' for two days. Specific charges | against the officers wore neglect of | duty and conduct unbecoming an | officer. HOSPITALS DIETITIAN TO GO TO ST. LOUIS Mrs. Silkey Given Leave of Absence by I. U. Institutions, Mrs. Gladys Hall Silkey. dietitian for the Indiana University Hospitals, will assume her duties Thursday as adviser in establishing a training course for student dietitians at Firmin Desloge Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital, affiliated with the University of St. Louis. Mrs. Silkey has been granted a year’s leave of absence to conduct this training course. She was selected from a large number of applicants at the recommendation of the executive committee of the American Dietetic Association. BANKING SITUATION IN STATE, NATION LAUDED Indiana Financial Institutions Act Praised by Crawford. “The Indiana financial institutions act is hailed as a sane piece of legislation, carefully devised to protect the bank depositor and the bank shareholder, and some of its safeguarding provisions stand enacted into Federal legislation,” Earl Crawford, Milton. Indiana Bankers’ Association public education committee head, said last night at a union meeting of the Southport Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. Mr. Crawford said that banking in Indiana and in the nation today stands on the surest and safest basis since the country was born, ALLEGED SLAYER OF GIRL, 10, FACES TRIAL 65-Ycar-Old Killer Suspect Gets Sanity Hearing. By United Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 11.—Albert H. Fish, 65, went on trial today for the slaying of 10-year-old Grace Budd. The jury will be asked to decide if Fish, who blandly admits revolting aberrations and practises, knows enough of right and wrong to be sentenced to death as sane-