Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1936 — Page 3

FEB. 22, 1930

FLOOD MENACE RECALLS HAVOC WROUGHT IN 'l3

White River and Creek Leap Banks, Bringing City Death, Misery. (Continued From Page One) a stunned Indianapolis hastily sought safety from the floods. On March 26, the Sun reported four bodies floating in the swirling waters that had invaded West Indianapolis . . . 10,000 homeless . . communication cut off from the West Side . . . 10,000 trapped in their homes if ihe Morris-st levee Liroke . . . $2,500,000 property damage. Blizzard Adds to Mystery Added to the suffering was a blizzard which struck Indianapolis and forced the temperature down to abnormal lows. All available relief resources were gathered to care for the refugees. A committee of leading citizens appealed for a SIOO,OOO reconstruction fund. President Woodrow Wilson telegraphed Gov. Samuel Ralston, “I deeply sympathize with the people of your state in the terrible disaster that has come upon you. Can the Federal government assist you in any way?” Overworked police made valiant efforts to save the injured, stop looting and halt profiteers who took advantage of the threatened food famine. Dead Estimated at 20 As in every disaster caused by the rebellion of nature, disease made its way into the flooded West Side districts and physicians labored to maintain sanitation and prevent the rise of pneumonia. The Sun said that rescue workers were so intent upon saving the living that no attempt was made to recover the bodies seen floating in flooded areas. The dead were estimated as approximately 20. No complete check was ever announced, because many recluses lived in shanties on the banks of White River and it was impossible to determine whether any were drowned or had fled. Flood Waters Recede The flood had begun to subside on March 27, and by April 7 the city had returned to a semblance of normal. A demand was made that improvement be made to prevent another disastrous flood. Today, Indianapolis is well protected from flood dangers by strengthened levees along White River. All along the path of the alwaythreatening White and Wabash Rivers in Indiana precautions have been taken against serious floods taking huge property and human tolls. Rains May Cause Trouble The Weather Bureau does n3t anticipate floods this spring, but nature, never tamed and always unpredictable, may send flood waters rushing into the lowlands, Mr. Armin gton admits. There is danger of floods every spring after bitterly cold winters which Jam the rivers with ice. If a sudden warm spell and heavy rains follow a cold snap and deep snowfall early in March there probably will be floods. But, thanks to the march of science, there is little likelihood any floods could be as devastating as those in the never-to-be-forgotten year of 1913.

FARLEY OPENS F. D. R. CAMPAIGN IN MISSOURI Democratic Chairman Vigorously Defends Federal Spending. By T'nitcd Press ST. LOUIS. Feb. 22.—James A. Farley, Democratic National Committee chairman, rallied Missouri party forces today for a vigorous campaign to re-elect President Roosevelt. From a mass meeting of Democrats last night in which he assailed the American Liberty League and “special interests,” Farley went to Jefferson City. Mo., to address a meeting of young Democrats today. He defended Roosevelt spending as a policy “successful to a degree unparalleled in the history of American economics.” and said that “this is the first time, within my memory at least, when an Administration has been called on to defend itself for restoring prosperity and putting money in the pockets of the people.” i CITY WOMAN SLUGGED Negro Footpads Beat Her, Flee Without Purse. Mrs. Anna Webb. 44, of 2136 Talbot -av, reported to police today that she was assaulted by two young Negroes last night near her home when she refused to give them her purse. One of them knocked her down before they fled without the purse. OFFICIAL WEATHER _____United States Weather Bureau ___ Sunrise 6:2* | Sunset 5:29 TEMPERATURES —Feb. 22, 1933 7 a. m 33 1 p. m 33 —Today—--6 a. ra 23 9 a. m 22 7 a. m 24 10 a. m 24 * a. m 2S BAROMETER 7 a. ra 30.33 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m.. .00 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 3.35 Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.74 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex. Clear 30.02 40 Bismarck, N. D Cloudy 29 92 8 Boston Cloudy 30 06 16 Chicago Clear 30.38 12 Cincinnati Snow 30 36 22 Denver Clear 29 82 44 Dodge City, Kas Clear 30.02 30 Helena Mont Cloudy 29 82 8 Jacksonville. Fla Clear 30 26 40 Kansas City, Mo Cloudy 30 22 18 Little Rock, Ark. ... Clear 30 30 30 Los Angelea Cloudy 30.06 56 Miami. Fla PtCldv 30.20 52 Minneapolis Cloudy 30 24 —4 Mobile. Ala Clear 30.34 36 New Orleana Clear 30 34 40 New York Clear 30 12 14 Okla. City. Okla Clear 30 12 34 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 30 16 14 Pittsburgh Clear 30 26 8 Portland, Ore Rain 29 46 48 San Antonio, Tex. ...Clear 30 24 42 Ban Francisco PtCldy 29.92 54 St. Louis Cloudy 30 32 24 Tampa. Fla. .... Clear 30 22 48 WMQiogtoo. £>. C, ...Clear 30.22 id

Alton (111.) Youth, 8 Feet 4 Inches Tall, Thinks It Time He Stopped Growing

BY CULLEN J. SMITH United Presi Stiff Correspondent A LTON, 111., Feb. 22.—Robert Wadlow, youthful giant, today celebrated his eighteenth birthday by marking up a gain in heighth of two and a half inches in one year, and observed shyly: “It's about time I stopped growing.” He now soars to a height of 8 feet 4 inches, weighs 390 pounds, and gets around in size 35 shoes. Physicians who have studied his startling growth believe he may continue to grow until he is 22 or 23, possibly attaining a height of 9 feet. Robert smiles easily and talks boyishly in a soft, husky voice. He peers a trifle self-consciously through gold-rimmed spectacles. His great height bothers him a little in moving about and he has to stoop to avoid brushing his head against electric light fixtures and door tbps. use ALTHOUGH generally goodnatured Robert bristles when any one mentions him as a possible circus attraction or alludes to the quantity of food he consumes. "How much I eat or what I eat is nobody's business but my own,” he said earnestly. ‘‘That’s the way I feel about it, and it makes me sore every time anybody talks abou f it. “And as far as circuses are concerned, I wouldn’t join one if it was the last thing on earth I could do. There are too many people to stretch their necks at me now. That’s why I don’t like big cities like Chicago and St. Louis.” Regarding circus “tall men” Robert said he’s seen some pretty tall ones, but had never seen one why could “top” him. “They look pretty sick when I stand up—even when they wear high-heeled boots and cowboy hats,” he said, giantly. n n ROBERT’S ambition is to be a lawyer. When he graduated from high school last month he immediately enrolled in a pre-law course in Shurtleff College at Alton and hopes to enter Washington Universitry in St. Louis. At Shurtleff he occasionally plays basketball, but he thinks it a “pretty easy game.” Spreading his huge hands expressively he remarked, “I just stand down at the basket and when somebody throws me the ball I drop it in.” Robert’s growth is attributed to over-activity of the pitutary gland, a small gland at the base of the brain. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wadlow, who are normal in size, have refused to allow an operation. They believe it would be dangerous. tt n u ROBERT has four younger brothers and sisters—all of normal size. They are: Helen, 16; Betty, 11; Eugene, 13, and Harold Jr., 3. He has no girl friend right now, explaining “there’s a lot better things I can do with money than to spend it on girls.” In spare moments he likes to tinker with cameras—his principal hobby. He thinks airplanes are “mighty fine,” and takes trips in them quite frequently. He has no ambitions of being an aviator, however, and becoming a prizefighter is “absolutely out.” grueTessay contest TO COMMENCE MONDAY H. S. Pupils to Be Eligible For Cash Prizee An essay contest, sponsored by the Gruen Watch Cos., is to open for high school pupils Monday. The Stanley Jewelry Cos., 113 W. Washington-st, is to supply entry blanks. The contest’s subject is “The Importance of Time.” The competition closes March 15, although open to every one, only high school pupils are eligible for cash awards. G. 0. P. GROUP MEETS Franklin College President Gives Washington Day Address. Hoosier Republicans, Inc., celebrated Washington's birthday with a luncheon at the Columbia Club today, with Dr. William Gear Spencer. Franklin College president, as speaker. His subject was “Washington and the Constitution.’”

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These are exciting days at the Dafoe Hospital in Callander, Ont., for the Dionne quintuplets are aniicipating two big events in their already thrill-packed lives—their beut as heroines in a novel, and their first appearance as leading ladies in a feature moving picture film—both to appear under the title of “The Country Doctor.” The novel is to appear in this newspaper as a serial story.

THE versatile Dionne Quintuplets stepped into anew role today—as heroines of a popular novel—with the announcement that quintuplets are the leading characters in “The Country Doctor,” newspaper serial story to be printed in The Times in daily installments, beginning Monday, Feb. 24. Around these ever-popular babies has been WTitten a thrilling story of the far north, of a country doctor’s battles for life and limb amid dread epidemics, of a dashing young flier who dared a blizzard to save little lives, and won love as well. This story, based on the scenario of “The Country Doctor.” the quintuplets’ first full-length movie starring venture, just completed by Twentieth Century-Fox,

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Hoffman to Ask Condon to Return From Panama Educator to Be Requested to Answer Puzzling Questions; State Witness Also May Be Grilled.

(Continued From Page One) cutor, Anthony M. Hauck, and Hauptmann’s chief attorney, C. Lloyd Fisher. Mr. Hauck refused to be a party, publicly, to action that might reflect on state witnesses, but he promised to make no objection to steps the Governor might take. Persons close to the smiling young G vemor said he probably would write to “Jafsie” that his return was necessary for a realization of justice. Plans Arouse Interest Immediate interest centered on what the Governor planned for Millard Whited, former resident of the Sourland Mountains who testified at Hauptmann's trial'that he saw the Bronx carpenter twice in the vicinity of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s Hopewell estate. Whited’s testimony underwent a terrific battering from defense attorneys during the trial. The defense attack on him was so successful that Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, summing up evidence for the jury, o i not even mention Whited, Gov. Hoffman and Mr. Fisher, it was learned, agreed at last night’s conference that he should be questioned again, outside the restrictions of courtroom procedure. The Governor denied that he had ordered state police to execute the plan, but did not deny that he might do so. A third witness who provided damning testimony against Hauptman, 88-year-old Amandus Hochmuth, also may be cross-examined. Mr. Hochmuth was another Sourland Mountain resident who said he saw Hauptman near the Lindbergh estate. He said he saw Hauptman in a motor car near Hopewell at approximately the time of the kidnaping and that he had a ladder in the car. The state contended that the baby was removed from its nursery window by way of a ladder. Testimony Assailed. Mr. Hochmuth's testimony was assailed several months ago on the ground that he was so blind that he could not have seen the details to which he testified. Gov. Hoffman. Mr. Hauck and Mr. Fisher discussed his testimony with that of Mr. Whited. None of the three would admit more than that. Gov. Hoffman asked Mr. Hauck to I join him and Mr. Fisher in a request to Dr. Condon to return to Trenton.

Quins Become Movie Actresses

is entirely fiction. Its incidents and characters are entirely imaginary. But with the phenomenal babies as a centerpoint, the authors have written a story that, in addition to being an absorbing yarn in itself, gives you much of the color and romance of the country in which the quins were really born. * # a THE new serial is illustrated with still photos from the just-completed movie production of the same story, and with new and unpublished pictures of the quintuplets themselves as they appear in their first starring movie. While fictional in detail, “Tb 2 Country Doctor" presents a true and vivid picture of life on the fringes of civilization in the

Robert Wadlow with his father.

Dr. Condon has indicated repeatedly since he went to Panama five weeks ago that he intends to stay there indefinitely, probably until after the week of March 30 when Hauptmann is scheduled to be executed. Asked to Examine Whited The Governor also asked Mr. Hauck to undertake a re-examina-tion of Mr. Whited’s testimony. It was understood that Mr. Hauck tentatively consented to the plan, but insisted that Gov. Hoffman conduct the actual interrogation. State police reported to Gov. Hoffman yesterday that all the evidence in their possession indicated that Hauptmann was guilty and that they were unable to find trace of accomplices. Carpenter Held in West By United Press SANTA ANA, Cal., Feb. 22. Alexander Witten, slender German carpenter, who admitted entering this country illegally in 1929, today was held for Federal authorities while investigators tried to unravel reports he had “certain information” about Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby. Although Witten denied any knowledge of Hauptmann or the Lindbergh kidnaping, his fingerprints and records were sent to Washington in an effort to trace his movements since he entered this country three years before the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnaped at Hopewell, N. J. Witten, mild-mannered, slightly built and resembling Hauptmann somewhat in appearance, was taken in custody when an unnamed informant told police he believed Witten was a man named by a “Rev. Mr. Burns” in an article in Real Detective Story Magazine last month as having “important information about Bruno Hauptmann.” Interrupted Court Trial A Rev. Vincent G. Burns was recalled as a New Jersey pastor who interrupted the Hauptmann murder trial on its last day, shouting, “I have a confession by the man who committed this crime.” Later he told reporters he had talked with a man who resembled Hauptmann, and he believed the Bronx carpenter innocent of the kidnaping. The informant who reported Witten to police, said he noticed his resemblance to a picture in the detective article.

northland, and it is in addition a beautiful tribute to all country doctors, as well as to the neverfailing charm of the movable quintuplets. Into a situation complicated by hatreds and intrigues, as well as by a stormy love affair, come suddenly the quintuplets, and the way in which their unexpected appearance straightens everything out makes a thrilling tale. The story is full of characters just as lovable as the ones in the real affair at Callander, and no one will want to miss a single chapter of this stirring saga starring the most famous and most-beloved babies in the world. a a a WHILE the quintuplet scenes in the moving picture version of “The Country Doctor,”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ENACTMENT OF SUBSTITUTE AAA REPORTED NEAR

Measure Passed by House Goes to Senate for Action There. (Continued From Page One) from intense production crops to soil-conserving crops this year under the new program. Last year, under the AAA, 34,000,000 acres were withheld from production. Conference to Be Called As soon as the new program is enacted into law Mr. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace will call a conference of landgrant college experts, extension service officials and soil-conserva-tion experts to work out a detailed administrative program. President Roosevelt, meanwhile, is expected to send a tax program to Congress to raise $500,000,000 a year to replace processing taxes knocked out when the Surpreme Court held the AAA unconstitutional six weeks ago. The recommendations are expected next week. The temporary two-year soil con-* servation program, to be replaced in 1938 by 48 state “Little AAA’s,” was jammed through both houses despite strong opposition in the Senate from those who doubted its constitutionality and in the House by representatives of dairying districts. Amended Nine Times In the House nine amendments vastly broadening the powers of the Secretary of Agriculture and exceeding those granted under the AAA in some instances were passed in a hectic last-day session. A score of other amendments were rejected. Most important House amendment was one designed to afford “Consumer protection” and materially broadening the operating base of the bill. This amendment, rejected in the Senate, requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish, at as rapid a rate as he deems practicable, a pre-war parity income for farmers, without discouraging production to a point below the normal domestic human consumption in the years 1920 to 1929. The amendment setting up a ratio between purchasing power of farm and other incomes carried New Deal adjustment policies into new fields. The similar amendment offered in the Senate by Senator Robert F. Wagner (D., N. Y.) was opposed by Senator William E. Borah (R., Ida.), who said it would “delegate to the Secretary of Agriculture power to adjust income in the United States.” Differences in Bills The Senate-approved bill listed rivers and harbors projects under soil conservation provisions. The House bill did not. The House bill contained, but the Senate did not, a provision making $2,000,000 available from the 1935 relief funds for a wind erosion control program in the “dust storm area” of the Southwest. On the broad principle of soil conservation through Federal subsidy to farmers who co-operate with Federal suggestions both houses were in substantial agreement. The provision for a permanent program providing Federal aid to states placing little AAAs into effect was retained in both bills. Both bills authorize Federal, expenditures to create and expand foreign and domestic markets for use of agricultural surpluses, but limit the amount that may be spent under the act to $500,000,000 a year. The AAA spent approximately $1,000,000,000 in 1935. Jones Thinks It Constitutional Chairman Marvin Jones (D.,Tex.) of the House Agriculture Committee, who directed committee work on the bill and sponsored it on the floor, said he believed it constitutional and “the best that could be done” in view T of the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing the AAA. Both bills were drawn as amendments to the 1935 Soil Erosion Act. Dairy interests sought unsuccessfully to amend the bill to withhold aid from farmers who use land withdrawn from cultivation for grazing livstock. After the House rejected an amendment by Rep. Clifford R. Hope (Kan.), ranking Republican on the Agriculture Committee, to limi* subsidies to a maximum of S2OOO a year for any individual, Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.) introduced a resolution requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Congress names of farmers receiving S2OOO or more a year in benefits.

were photographed under the personal supervision of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the quintuplets’ physician since their birth, the film story is in no manner a novelization of Dr. Dafoe’s life or, for that matter, the real lives of the quintuplets. Producers and authors both stress the point that the entire work is based entirely on an imaginary plot and story. For the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Darryl F. Zanuck, brilliant young Hollywood executive, has been in charge of the production. The film was directed by Henry King, with Nunally Johnson acting as associate producer. The screen play was written by Sonya Levien. based on a story by Charles Blake.

Text of Roosevelt’s Washington Day Talk

By United Press PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 22—The text of President Roosevelt’s Temple University speech today: “I have just had bestowed upon me a twofold honor. I am honored in having been made an alumnus of Temple University; and I am honored in having had conferred upon me for the first time the degree of doctor of jurisprudence. “It is a happy coincidence that we should meet together to pay our respects to the cause o feducation on the birthday of the father of this nation. In his wise and kindly way George Washington deeply appreciated the importance of education. in a republic and the responsibility of the government to promote it. Let this simple statement stand by itself without the proof of quotation. I say this lest, if I quoted excerpts from the somewhat voluminous writings and messages of the first President of the United States, some captious critic might search the Library of Congress to prove by other quotations that George Washington w r as in favor of just the opposite! Therefore, on this anniversary of his birth I propose to break a century-old precedent. I shall not quote from George Washington on his birthday. STRESSES LAST 50 YEARS “More than this, and breaking precedent once more, I do not intend to commence any sentence with these words—‘lf George Washington had been alive today’ or ‘lf Thomas Jefferson had been alive today’ or ‘lf Alexander Hamilton had been alive today’ or ‘lf Abraham Lincoln had been alive today—beyond peradventure of doubt he would have opposed—or, perhaps, favored—etc., etc.’ “Suffice it, therefore, to say what President Washington pointed out on many occasions and in many practical ways that a broad and cosmopolitan education in every stratum of society is a necessary factor in any free nation governed through a democratic system. Strides toward this fundamental objective were great in the two or three earlier generations of the republic, but you and I well realize that the greatest development of general education has occurred in the past half century. “As literacy increases people become aware of the fact that government and society form essentially a co-operative relationship among citizens and the selected representatives of those citizens. “When we speak of modern progress it seems to me that we place altogether too much emphasis upon progress in material things—in invention, in industrial development, in growth of national wealth. MILLION SEEK DEGREES “But progress in the things of the mind has been even more striking in these past 50 years. In my childhood a high school education was an exceptional opportunity for an American boy or girl; a college education was possible only to an exceedingly small minority. Professional schools had hardly come into existence. Since 1900, while the nation’s population has increased by about 70 per cent, the enrollment in all branches of institutions of higher learning has increased about 400 per cent. “At the beginning of this century the total enrollment in our colleges and universities was just one student short of 168,000. “I think it is too bad they did not get that other one student —if only to round out the number and ease the way for future statisticians. “Today well over a million students are seeking degrees in crur colleges and universities and more than 700,000 are enrolled in extension courses and summer schools. I think that we of Temple University—l am exercising my right now to speak as an alumnus—can take special pride in the part that our institution here has taken in this growth. This institution has carried in practice the basic ideal of its great founder, the late Dr. Russell H. Conwell. “He believed that every young person should be given a chance to obtain a good education and he founded Temple University to meet the needs of those who might not be able to afford a college education elsewhere. He believed that education should respond to community needs and fit itself into the many-sided and complex life that modern conditions have imposed upon us.

I , $400,000,000 TO SCHOOLS “I shall watch with the keenest interest the working out of the plan recently adopted by Temple for carrying even further into practical application this guiding ideal. I refer to the plan for forming an organization to be known as the ‘Associates of Temple University,’ and to be composed of representatives of the various commercial, industrial, financial and professional interests of the community outside the university’s walls. “As I understand it, this organization will be far more than a mere advisory body, set up to meet on special and infrequent occasions and to draft recommendations of a general character. The ‘Associates of Temple University’ will be an integral and organic pact of the university’s structure; the individual associates will have clearly defined duties and responsibilities, which they will carry out according ro a definite routine, and their purpose will be to serve as the ‘eyes and ears’ of the university throughout the community, constantly alert to the changing social and economic needs, and continuously interpreting these needs to the university. DUTY OF GOVERNMENT “I am proud to be the head of a government that has sought t<J make a substantial contribution to the cause of education, even in a period of economic distress. Through the various agencies, the government is helping educational institutions to add to their present equipment. Since 1933 the government has made, through the various governmental agencies of the administration, allotments to local communities for schools, colleges,

and library buildings amounting to more than $400,000,000. "We are also providing through the Works Progress Administration educational courses for thousands of groups of adults wherever there are competent unemployed teachers; and through the National Youth Administration funds for part time employment to help deserving young people to earn their way through accredited colleges and universities in all parts of the United States. “We have rightly taken the position that in spite of the fact that economic adversity through these years might impose upon the youth of the country distressing and unavoidable burdens, the government owed it to the future of the nation to see that these burdens should not include the denial of educational opportunities for those who were willing and ready to use them to advantage. “Educational progress in the past generation has #ven to this country a population more literate, more cultured, in the best sense of the word, and more aware of the complexities of modern civilized life than ever before in our history. And while the methods of spreading education are new, the lessons of education are eternal. The books may be new but the truth is old. “The qualities of a true education remain what they were when Washington insisted upon its importance. “First among these qualities is a sense of fair play among men. KEEP SOURCES PURE “As education grows men come to recognize their essential dependence one upon the other. There is revealed to them the true nature of society and of government, which, in a large measure, culminates in the art of human co-operation. “The second great attribute of education is peculiarly appropriate to a great democracy. It is a sense of equality among men when they are dealing with the things of the mind.* Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature and the 'wonders of science are and should be open to all, |* “Finally, a true education depends upon freedom in the pursuit of truth. No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. Genuine education is present only when the springs from which knowledge comes are pure. It is this belief in the freedom of mind, written into our fundamental law and observed in our every day dealings with the problems of life, that distinguishes us as a nation. “In our ability to keep pure the sources of knowledge—in our mind’s freedom to winnow the chaff from the good grain—in the even temper and in the calmness of our every day relationships—in our willingness to face the details of fact and the needs of temporary emergencies—in all of these lie our future and our children’s future. “ ‘On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies.’ ”

Johnson Ready to Try Washington Dollar Feat

(Continued From Page One) was in Washington’s day. Old surveyor’s records were brought out from dutty files, but they disagreed and only added to the confusion. Rep. Bloom cabled London and received a report from the British record office tha tthe Rappahannock in Washington’s day was more than 1300 feet wide. “Imagine Washington throwing anything nearly 500 yards,” Mr. Bloom scoffed. W. B. F. Cole, Fredericksburg commonwealth attorney, protested that if British records were correct, Fredericksburg would have been flooded off the map. “Maybe Johnson or someone else can throw a dollar over the river today, but -they couldn’t do it over the river that ran by the farm in Washington’s day,” Rep. Bloom said. World Series Gallery “And that’s my bet. Washington didn’t do it, any more than he cut down that cherry tree, and no one else can. The bet still is open to any one who can throw a dollar 1300 feet.” Whether Rep. Bloom himself will witness Johnson’s attempt was doubtful, as the S<\iate and House of Representatives, usually in recess on Saturday, meet especially to hear Washington's farewell address read. Johnson was a bit nervous as the crucial hour approached. He has trained to a fine edge by pitching dollars at a barn door on his farm near Germantown, Md., for a week. The eyes of the nation were focused on him as it never was in his long career as a baseball pitcher. His gallery was of World Series proportions. Some One Else’s Dollars The “Big Train” insisted upon just one thing—that someone else furnish the dollars. Besides, he said, he didn’t have a silver dollar. So Rep. Bloom sent him one minted in 1796. It was one of the

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ITALIAN TROOPS REPORTED FIXED TO STORM PEAK

Resumption of Advance on Amba Alagi Ridge Expected Today. By United Press ROME, Feb. 22.—Italian troop* are on two sides of the ridge of Amba Alagi on the northern front in Ethiopia and are ready for the final assault on the 11.188-foot peak, unofficial dispatches from Asmara said today. Units of the Sabauda and Sils divisions of regulars and the January 3 division of Fascist blackshirt militiamen, the dispatches said, occupied the sides of the ridge late yesterday. The advance was suspended for the night, the dispatches said, and it was believed that the Italians might put the flag on the peak sometime today. Before the dispatches arrived officials confirmed that the Italians were advancing. They hinted that the soldiers were approaching the terrible, jagged peak of Mount Alagi and would occupy it soon. Capture of the peak would be a victory strategically more important than any in the war, and sentimentally the most important since the occupation at Aduwa. Army Reduction Hinted By United Press ROME. Feb. 22.—Premier Benito Mussolini has decided to release some 500,000 soldiers from his army of more than 1,000,000, according tor information received today from usually most reliable sources. The men would be sent home by degrees, on indefinite furlough and subject to recall within 24 hours if necessary. Only men now in Italy would be affected. The report was denied officially. At the same time, it was again announced that the Supreme Army Council would meet Monday. Th* meeting w r as called Feb. 8. It was said that the proposed reduction in army strength was du* first to confidence that the European political situation was much more peaceable in atmosphere, secondly that there was but a remote possibility that the League might adopt further effective penalties against Italy for its Ethiopian war. KOKOMO FIRM CHARGED WITH UNFAIR PRACTICE Labor Board Hearing on Union’* Allegations Set for March 5. Unfair labor practice charges are to be heard against the Kokomo Sanitary Pottery Corp. and the A. Welsh Cos., its sales agent, March 5, Robert H. Cowdrill, regional direc- ' tor of the National Labor Relations: Board, announced today. Charges that the corporation has refused since October to bargain with the National Brotherhood of l Operative Potters Local No. 26, have been filed. The union claims that it represents a majority of the employes.

earliest minted, Mr. Bloom said. He said there were no silver dollars when Washington was a boy. Accompanying the dollar was a let— 1 ter: “Walter, there is no one in the world who wishes you more success than I do. After you have warmed up and have two strikes and three balls on the other fellow, use this dollar, because I believe that the eagle on the dollar is in] flight, it might bring you the good luck that millions of people throughout the country are wishing you, and the eagle in its flight might assist in carrying this across the Rappahannock. Wishes Walter Good Luck “Good luck to you, Walter, and whether you are successful or not the next time I see you we will celebrate, because I know that George Washington, who was always a lover of good sport, would wish you the same as I am doing today.” Johnson was undecided whether he would use Rep. Bloom’s dollar on the first attempt. Banker John F. Gouldman Jr. provided 10 silver cartwheels, but said he hoped Wal- • ter wouldn’t waste any of them. * —■ .. ■ ■ '■ ■> r -°5Os