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HARLEM ‘GOD'S' INCOME SOURCE DEEP MYSTERY Father Divine Spends Thousands Weekly; Even U. S. Is Baffled. (Continued From Pane One) a small bill," he related. "The bank teller Invariably checks the number and examines the bill with utmost care to make certain it is not counterfeit." No collections ever are taken at Father Divine's meetings. All donations that come by mail, "Brother Lamb,” said, are promptly returned. But there is another side to the story. A Metropolitan Life Insurance man, testifying before a committee that had been appointed in Newark to investigate the inexplicable little Negro in December, 1933. asserted that many a follower had turned in his insurance policy for cash. Still another witness testified that "you automatically became an angel when you turn over everything and advance it to the kingdom.” "Angels” are the disciples who live in the kingdoms. They usually drop their mortal names and take on such titles as "Faithful Mary,” "Faith Grace,” "Satisfied Love," "True Love," "Bouquet,” and "Peaceful.” "They assume the names that best express the nature," Brother Lamb explained. "Where was Father Divine born?” he was asked. "Born?” the secretary asked querulously. "No one knows when or where.” Father Divine himself will reveal nothing of his life prior to 15 years ago when he settled in Sayville, L. I. It is believed he was born George Baker on an island off the coast of Georgia, about 1892. Kingdoms Are Extended He first operated an employment bureau at Sayville. Then he began to evangelize a following of Negroes and whites. Soon as many as 2000 visitors a day flocked to hear his "message.” Within the last few years he has extended his “kingdoms” to all parts of the country, including Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Jose and Long Beach, Cal.; Colorado Springs. Colo.; Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati, O. His followers accept what the Newark investigating committee reported to the district attorney as "certain social, biological and economic fallacies.” including: They will live everlastingly on earth; they need have no worry about the vicissitudes of old age and sexual relationship in married life is unnecessary. In connection with the latter, many husbands and wives, who wish to "live in Christ,” have given up their homes and taken up residence in Father Divine’s kingdoms. But they occupy different dormitories. For their home and board they pay $2 a week. Merchants Invite Trade The scope of the Rev. Divine’s (his calling card refers to him as "Reverend”) influence has been recognized by many Harlem merchants. As an example, placards such as these appear in many windows: "Peace—slips made to order.” "Peace—come and dine. Restaurant run in Fathers spirit and mind.” "Peace—six rooms to rent. Hot water.” Politicians, too. have realized the value of an entente cordiale with Father Divine, who has organized his Harlem flock into a powerful bloc of voters. He has threatened to use this bloc if "corruption and vice and sin” is not eradicated in New York City. There is a reminder of civic duty on the dais of "Heaven No 1” auditorium. Standing next to a placard proclaiming that "Father Divine is the dean of the universe," is a sign reading: "22nd Assembly District. Register and vote.” Nazi Kidnaping Irks Czecks PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, April 30.—A protest to Germany against the kidnaping of Joseph Lampersberger, anti-Nazi refugee, across the border into Germany was considered likely today.

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The official Black Horse Troop escort and color guard of Culver Military Academy will be sent to Indianapolis by Gen. L. R. Gignilliat, head of the academy, and Col. Robert Rossow, commandant, to take part in the parade of contestants in the Olympic equestrian trials. The Culver delegation, with the Eleventh Infantry Band from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, will ap-

250 TOWNSHIPS FACE ABOLITION Tax Costs Out of Lir.e in Smaller Units, Is Survey Finding. Approximately 250 of the state’s 1016 townships would be eliminated under tentative proposals being considered by the joint legislative tax study committee. The committee has before it figures revealing that where the township valuation falls under $1,000,000, the tax rate takes an upward spurt. An example of this is in one township where the property valuation is approximately SIOO,OOO and the tax rate is $4.66 for every SIOO of property. The Federal government’s taking over of thousands of acres of forest land in southern Indiana further will reduce the valuation in many southern Indiana townships, the committee has learned. Although huge sections of land will be taken from the tax rolls in this project, the government gives each township 25 per cent of the gross income from the forest lands. The mandatory township consolidation bill is being drawn by Senators Thurman A. Gottschalk, Berne and Walter Vermillion, Anderson, and Rep. Frank G. Thompson, Bluffton. POLICEMAN MAY LAND SANTA CLAUS BERTH Highway Patrolman Recommended to Succeed James Martin. By United Press SANTA CLAUS, Ind„ April 30. A policeman may be the new Santa Claus of this little village, into which are poured letters from thousands of trusting children every Christmas. County Democratic leaders this afternoon recommended appointment of Oscar Phillips, Rockport, state highway policeman, as postmaster to succeeded James F. Martin. 60, who died Sunday.

pear at the Indiana State Fairground Coliseum at 3 Sunday afternoon. Capt. Edward P. Earle, commander of the band, and Warrant Officer J. Dufresne, band director, will have charge of the band. Tickets are on sale at the English Theater box office and at the Armory. Proceeds from the trials will be used to finance the Olympic team to Germany.

CITY MAN’S KIDNAPER IS GIVEN LIFE TERM Hoosier Jury Chalks Up Second Victory for New Law. By United Press JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind.. April 30.—Indiana’s new anti-kidnaping law had scored its second conviction in Clark County this afternoon after Fred Boone, 28. Covington, Ky., was sentenced to life imprisonment. Boone was found guilty by a Clark Circuit Court jury yesterday on charges of being an accomplice in the recent kidnaping of two Indianapolis truck drivers. The jury deliberated only 10 minutes and Judge George C. Kopp imposed the sentence immediately. SCOTTISH RITE OFFICER ASSUMES NEW DUTIES Fred I: Willis Named Secretary of Indiana Council. Fred I. Willis, Indianapolis Scottish Rite secretary, this afternoon entered upon his new duties as secretary of the Indiana Council of Deliberation to which he was named yesterday by Dr. Gaylard M. Leslie, Ft. Wayne, council commander-in-chief. Mr. Willis succeeds Robert A. Woods, Princeton. Mayor John W. Kern was the principal speaker at the council meeting attended by 150 members of the thirty-third degree. Dr. Leslie delivered a comprehensive report on Scottish Rite activities in Indiana.

GIRL AERIALIST KILLED BY 40-FOOT PLUNGE Broken Strap Sends Performer to Death as Thousands Look On. By tnited Press ST. LOUIS, April 30.—Traditionally, the show' continued, but performers in the annual police circus today mourned the daring and attractive little Aerietta Cornwall, 28-year-old trapeze artist. She plummeted to her death last night before thousands of horrified spectators when a strap on which she was suspended for a spinning act broke. A gasp swept ''the crowd as her body plunged 40 feet to the wooden floor of the ring below. Death came an hour later at City Hospital.

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POLICE TO SPUR TRAFFIC DRIVE Renewed Onslaught Against Reckless Scheduled for This Afternoon. Although only seven traffic violators were arrested in the last 24 hours, Capt. Lewis Johnson, police traffic division head, promised that the safe driving campaign would be spurred this afternoon by motorcycle officers. Fifty-five defendants were convicted in the two Municipal courts. Capt. Johnson said that because of the rain and that many motorcycle officers were on special detail yesterday, the arrests lagged. Motorists who park their autos within the 25-foot space at the curbs of street intersections will be given special attention by police this week, Capt. Johnson said. August Zupan was held to the Marion County grand jury on hitrun charges late yesterday by Municipal Judge Charles Karabell. Zupan was arrested on information supplied by his brother, Joseph Zupan, 749 Haugh-jt, who informed on his brother, 'police say, because August did no 1 : visit Joseph when the latter was ill in the hospital. Bernard Bauers, 33, of 1954 N. Ol-ney-st, was arrested last night on charges of failure to stop after an accident, no certificate of title and improper license plates. Ivan Leo Youpg, 42, of 2331 N. Dearborn-st, was killed Saturday when a car driven by Mr. Bauers, in which he was a passenger, turned over at Massachusetts and Emerson-avs. STAMP CLUB TO MEET Philatelists Will Hear Edgar French at Lockerbie Friday Night. The Indiana Stamp Club will be addressed by H. Edgar French, an authority on Mexican stamps, at 8 Friday night in the Lockerbie. A business meeting will precede the lecture.

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PUPIL STRIKE IS THREATENED AT SOUTHPORT Charge of ‘Politics’ Hurled at Hohlt by Backers of Addington. (Continued From Page One) as basketball coach without informing Ray Scott, present coach, of the move or of his own fate. His third official act was to tender a contract, already signed by Mr. Hohlt, to Mr. Curtis offering him the position of principal. People attending the meeting last night were, in general, confident that Mr. Hohlt’s only intention is to make political capital of the school system. Mrs. Floyd Beghtel, president for four years of the Southport ParentTeacher Association, and also president of the University Heights P.-T. A., announced that the P.-T. A. will fight any disturbance in the personnel of the faculties of any township school. Mrs. Beghtel said that she has arranged for petitions to be circulated throughout the membership. The petitions will ask that he leave the school setup as he found it when he took office Jan. 1. “We’ll Have to Impeach Him’ "If we should get 90 per cent of the voters, and I think we shall, he can’t very well ignore that, can he?” Mrs. Beghtel said. "Os course," she hastened, "if he does, then we’ll simply have to impeach him. We won’t tolerate anything like this in Perry Township, and he may as well know it. "The day is past when a championship team means anything. As a matter of fact, a championship basketball team is a bad thing for players and fellow pupils. It gets them all too wrought up. "Why I was passing through Anderson the night their team won the championship this year and the whistles were blowing and the bells were ringing just as if another Armistice was signed. It’s ridiculous. "We Approve Mr. Addington” "We parents thoroughly approve of Mr. Addington. We like his management of athletics. There were more than 100 out for football this year. Thus, 100 pupils got the benefit of practice, not just one squad on which the coaches concentrated to the exclusion of others. "We like Mr. Addington as a principal. We thoroughly approve of his discipline. The recent unpleasantness (she referred to the expulsion of four pupils on morals charges) is likely to happen more or less frequently in any high school, and it was in no way attributable to Mr. Addington. "The parents of Perry Township will not stand for what every one believe Mr. Hohlt plans to do with the school system, and we are prepared to fight it to the bitter end. We will not have politics in the schools and no politician can force them on us.” No Direct Statement Virtually every one who attended apparently was convinced Mr. Hohlt intends to play politics. There were rumors here and there that as many as 80 teachers will be fired and replaced. No one in the assembly had any direct statement from Mr. Hohlt as to what he actually intends to do, however, and in the absences of the plans of the opposition the group formed an organization and announced its intention of being ready for anything. The first function of the organization, called the Perry Township Civic School Association, will be to distribute ballots to parents of pupils in the eighth grade and high school so that they may vote as to whether to retain Mr. Addington as principal. This vote was in accordance with a reported promise by Mr. Holht that, if Mr. Addington won the vote, he (Mr. Hohlt) would seek to persuade Mr. Curtis to give up his contract, the same contract Mr. Curtis informed The Times he would not sign. Stieriff Otto Ray injected a comic opera note into the meeting by having it attended by two deputies

New Deal .‘Tried to Do Too Much in Too Short a Time,’ Says Harriman Retiring President of U. S. Chamber of Commerce Sums Up Work of Roosevelt Administration in Carefully Prepared Address. By United Press * WASHINGTON. April 30.—The United States Chamber of Commerce today found good ana bad—sound and unsound—side by side in President Roosevelt's recovery program. Conservative, white-haired Henry I. Harriman. outgoing president, summed up thus.the conclusions of the nation's leading industrialists at their twenty-third annual meeting:

"As I discussed with business men the measures comprising the New Deal I am impressed with the fact that the chief objection is not to the basic principles underlying many of these measures, but to the extremes to which they have been carried. The New Deal has attempted much that is good, but it has tried to do too much in too short a time. "It has forgotten that gradual growth and development is the law of life and that great changes should come through the evolution of human experience.” Mr. Harriman onened the convention with his carefully planned address in the magnificent great hall of the chamber, where the banners of America's discoverers flutter from the beamed ceiling. He outlined for the 2000 delegates the accomplishments and the failures of the New Deal, checking the good against the bad, so that apparently they balanced almost exactly. Other speakers were not so dispassionate. C. B. Ames, chairman of the Texas Cos., said the people were tired of "the bungling effort of Washington bureaucracy to regiment” business. A. O. Dawson, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, indicated his membership dreaded a threatened spread of New Deal policies to his majesty’s government in the north. Other speakers attacked other tangents of the recovery drive Despite his qualms over such measures as the new banking bill, the social securities program and the pending NRA legislation Mr. Harriman was definitely optimistic over business for the first time since election of Mr. Roosevelt. He welcomed widespread criticism of the Administration, he said, as an indication that the depths have been reached —and scaled. EAGLES CONCLUDE MONTH’S ACTIVITIES 28 initiated at Final April Meeting of Lodge. April activities of Indianapolis Eagles aerie were concluded last night at a meeting in the lodge home, 43 W- Vermont-st, during which 28 men were initiated, the final class of three honoring J. Pierce Cummings, former national Eagles trustee. A total of 89 men formed the three classes. The membership campaign was directed by Grover V. Camden. Principal speaker last night was Ernest E. Cloe, Noblesville, secretary of the Eagles state organization. Purse Thief Attacks Woman A Negro boy knocked down Mrs. Margaret E. Gage, operator of a millinery shop at 2706 N. Meridianst, last night at 34th and Rucklests and snatched her purse containing house keys and keys to her shop. in plainclothes. With no exceptions the deportment of persons in attendance was excellent. George A. Hacker, 1536 Powell-av, was elected president of the association. He was elected because he never had been active in party politics and therefore his administration could have no political tinge. K. G. Baker was named secretary and the advisory group is composed of Earl Spiker, Frank Greenwood, Harry Maas, Fred Radcliff, Joseph Hurt, Paul Miller, Harold Williams, Mrs. Beghtel and Marian Haverstick. Mr. Addington did not attend the meeting.

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CRIME CASTLE CACHES PROBED FOR MORE LOOT Additional $40,000 Believed Hidden in Luxurious i Gang Hideout. By United Press 1 WARWICK. R. 1.. April 30 Rhode Island's central "crimlp factory,” where $20,000 in postal; robbery loot, together with frag-l ments of human bones, have been! uncovered, will yield from $30,000 to' $40,000 more of the million-dollar criminal ring’s earnings, Federal authorities said today. Detectives refused to disclose the source of their information, but thi sweating of 23 alleged members of the East's greatest holdup gang was believed to have squeezed information from them as to the disposition of the cash stolen in the $130,000 daylight robbery at Fall River. Mass. The cash is believed to be hidden in the grounds of the fortress-like mansion leased bv Carl Rettich. reputed leader of the gang, now under arrest. The picks and shovels of ERA workers, directed against the concrete sub-cellar of the house and the broad lawn surrounding it, have uncovered $18,096.85. Despite a heavy rain, the workers continued their search for buried treasure, directing their efforts at three speci--1 sic points. Sub-cellars and walls which gave up SBOOO of the registered mail money were to be ripped apart. The walls of a vault in a garage at the I rear of the mansion also were to be ■ torn down on the theory that more of the loot is cached there. I Besides the investigators, only newspapermen and excavators were ! permitted on the grounds. WORK TO BE STARTED Construction of State Police Radio Stations Will Begin Soon. Construction on three fortified radio state police stations at Jasper, Seymour and Columbia City will begin immediately. A1 G. F’eeney, state safety director, announced today. They will be built at a cost of SSOOO each with Federal Emergency Relief Administration labor. The stations are in operation now in temporary quarters.