Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1938 — Page 3

oldup Series and Halloween Pranks Keep Police on Run Loot of Burglars and Bandits Put -at $300; Two

Liquor Stores Held Up; Window Smashed In Lutheran Church.

Holdup men and burglars escaped with more than $300 in a series of |

crimes overnight while pre-Halloween pranksters continued to damage property in all sections of the city, police reported today. Two liquor store holdups netted between $70 and $75, police said. Joe Bogue, 35, operator of a liquor store at 2908 E. 10th St., said a “customer”

drew a gun and took $50. Richard Roberts, 17, clerk in a store at 3218 E. Michigan St., reported an armed bandit escaped with $20.

Burglars who entered a-tavern in the 600 block in N. Illinois St. last night through a rear window were reported to have obtained $123 in cash, $28 worth of cigarets and an undetermined amount of whisky. Harold V. Day, 39, of 301 E. North St., reported he was abducted and robbed of $35 in cash and-a $65 watch by two men who offered him a ride home. He said the men approached him near the City Hall and coaxed him into their car. They drove southeast of the City where they pulled him out of the car, beat him and robbed him, he. told police. Strater Hendrickson, night attendant at a motor inn on S. Meridian St., said he was held up and robbed of $16.85 by an armed bandit.

Jewelry Taken From Home Arthur Crawford, 45, of 728 Darnell St, told police he was pulled from his car and stabbed by an assailant at Paca St. and Indiana Ave.

NAVAL ARMORY UNIT DEDICATED

Symbolizes New Philosophy Of Government, WPA Head Says.

Dedicatlon ceremonies for the new $500,000 Naval Armory at 30th St. and White River were held this afternoon, marking completion of the largest WPA building project in Indiana. The main address was given by John K. Jennings, State WPA administrator, who also made formal presentation of the new Armory to Adj. Gen. Elmer F. Straub, who in turn presented it to Capt. O. F. Heslar, commander of the Third Naval Area, Ninth Naval District. $We have come to dedicate, and

we shall remain to admire,” Mr. Jennings said. “My privilege on this occasion is a dual one. I am grateful that our State of Indiana was granted permission to erect one of the few naval armories that have been built in the United States by the Works Progress Administration. “I am also proud to have the honor of representing the Federal Government through this program and of delivering this completed structure to those who represent our great Hoosier state this afternon.”

last night. He was tredted at City Hospital. Uva Bangledis, 3644 E. Washing- - ton St., reported the theft of $202 . worth of jewelry from her home. Herbert Grimes, 46, and Frahklin| J. Frye, 29, of North Vernon, and Lucille Stanfield, 18, of Elizabethton,

‘attending the teachers’ convention here, told police that clothing valued at $38.75 was stolen from their

parked car in the 3000 block on W. Washington St. last night.

James Prescott, 20-year-old park-

ing attendant, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail on a charge of embezzling $15 in Muncipal Court today after he prevously had told detectives that he — had been held up. The youth, who gave police a downtown hotel address, retracted the story that hold-up men had taken the money, Detective Avery

‘New Regime of Thinking’

Mr. Jennings also pointed out that the symbolism of the Armory was more arresting to him than its physical reality. “It symbolizes a new philosophy of government,” he said. “It repre-

sents a new regime of thinking under which America is moving to-

ay.” The dedication ceremony began

with a luncheon, with members of the Citizens’ Dedication Committee officiating. Louis J. Borinstein, former president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, presided. “There must be a strong underlying organization of reserves for the navy if the navy is to function properly when the emergency comes,” Mr. Borinstein said. “To provide this underlying resJervoir of strength, the U. S. Navy has set up throughout the country a series of naval districts. Indiana is part of the Ninth Naval District, with headquarters in Great Lakes, Ill. It is chiefly the function of these districts to procure and train thousands of men to provide the needed and essential reserve strength. Indianapolis is headquarters for the Indiana Area of the Ninth Naval District, and this armory is the headquarters for the area.

Viles testified. Halloween ‘Pranks’

Some of the most serious “pranks” reported included: A’ window broken out of the St. ‘Mathews Lutheran Evangelical --Church at 264 N. Oxford St. by prowlers who entered the church and turned a piano upside down. A washing machine and porch furniture valued at $67 stolen from a porch in the 2000 block of N. Talbot St. : A plate glass window shot out in a house in the 500 block in Park a erly damaged by boys in the 5000 block in Central Ave. Refuse on porches in the 2000 block in North Pennsylvania St.

Earl G. Rogers, 1419 W. Pruitt St., manager of the B. & B. Bottling Co. reported that $99 worth of beer in cases had been stolen from trucks parked in the company garage overnight. Burglars entered by breaking a padlock, he said.

AUTO PRODUCTION AT NEW 1938 HIGH

DETROIT, Oct. 29 (U.P.).—Automobile and truck production spurted this week to another new high for the year, trade publications reported today. The week’s output was estimated by automobile industries at 70,000, compared with about 61,000 last week and. 91,000 in 1937s corresponding period. Total October production was estimated by automotive industries at 230,000, which would surpass the highest previous monthly figure of 1938. The increased output this week was attributed to accelerated production at Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth.

SENTENCED IN 3 DAYS - RALAMAZOO, Mich.,, Oct. 29— (U. P.)—One of the speédiest convictions in a major crime in Michigan history occurred today when Circuit Judge George V. Weimer sentenced 17-year-old Willie Moore, a negro, to life imprisonment for the murder Wednesday of Mrs. Josie Zeedyke, aged widow.

Praises New Equipment “This building will provide neces-

sary and adequate facilities for the training of Indiana’s portion of the naval reserve forces. sign is executed with that end in view. Within its walls will be found every device and every convenience for clearly and thoroughly instructing naval reservists in their duties on land and aboard ship in the event of an emergency.”

Its whole de-

Following Mr. Jennings’ address,

a plaque bearing the names of State and WPA officials was unveiled. Guests then began a tour of the building with Naval reservists as guides.

Conclusion of the ceremonies was

to be held tonight with a dance on the drill floor.

NEW TRUCK PLANT BEGINS OPERATION

DETROIT, Oct. 29 (U.P.).—Pro-

duction was under way today at the new Dodge truck factory, said to be the most modern plant for the exclusive manufacture of commercial cars and trucks.

Completion of the plant marked

the first step in Chrysler Corp.'s six million dollar truck manufacturing and sales program.

K. T. Keller, corporation president, inspected and “0. K:'d” the first truck off the assembly line. The plant covers 49 acres and has

a normal production capacity of 700

vehicles a day.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record County Deaths [Arrests ...... 20 (To Date) Speeding .... 1 3938 ...e0ees 94

Reckless 1937 cass sen32Y Driving [EEX N ]

City Deaths Running Prefer(To Date) ential Street.

1938 ees vse 56 1937 77| Running Red

Drunken Driving ..... 4

Others ...... 11

Accidents .... 23 Injured ...... 8 Dead sssses 0

ED. MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records ars County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.)

. cPherson, 26, of 3116 Gracejana Ave; Jean Ann Davis, 18, of 906 irfiel ve. : WwW. Klug. 25, Terre Haute; ie K. Budd. %s. Indishapol S. Charles Heaney, 21, of 518 N. Alabama 8t.. Dorothy M. Whalen, 22, of 336 E.

Veo Sintellay. 21, of 412 E. Market

8t.; Lucille Darr, 20, of 1112 N. Bosart N

i . of 512 E, New York Ww. N. Kendel, 5. ° : 34 E gilo SE : ore Hornaday. 21, © rig a Mary Raiherine George, 18, of 1248 W. New Yor! . : . Long. 31, of 1326 N. Alabama su Mary Elizabeth Fuller, 24, of 644 arren Ave 27. St. Louis: ' Mildred NY a oie i.

Le of Cincinnati: Thel-

d F. Curry. 38. ma Mae Coleman, 39, of 1039 Rittenhouse 8, Muncie; Myrtle McCarty St

' ~TBugene Lynch, 3 . hton, 30, of 39 E. . Sughion P is, 22, Bridgeport: Roramond E.

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BIRTHS

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Alonzo, Mabel Blanford, at Coleman.

Girls Basil, Helen Tickett, at Methodist. Harry, Caroline Bunker, at Methodist. Hazel Lucas, at Methodist. 1evieve Haynes, at Methodist, oel Shaw, at Methodist. at City.

, Minnie Barnes, John, Ruth Nichtlinger, at City. Rudolph, Leona Newton, at City. Richard, Marie Roudebush, at Coleman. ceo Ee Frances McHugh, at St. Vin-. Emil, Edith Schmitt, 4314 E. 21st St. Glen, Charlotte Oldham, 548 8. Vine St.

DEATHS "Sallie Austin, 20, at City, intestinal obstruction. . Fuzens Maugh, 42, at City, lobar pneu-

onia. Katherine Sanders, 62, at 408 N. New Jersey, chronic myocarditis. Anna Elizabeth Crain, 56, at 651 E. 24th, acute cardiac dilatation. Sarah Frances Gudgel, 73, at 804 W. 42d, carcinoma. oer Hart, 49, at Murat, coronary ocJoseph Stillwell Wilson, 70, at 142 N. Delaware, brain tumor. : Ralph Summers, 2 months, at City, gastro enteritis. Eugene Wallace Cruzan, 10 mo., at 2138 . New Jersey, influenza

abscess. George B. Athey, 70, at 822 N. Hamilton, carcinoma. Ruth Jackson, -32, at 340 Douglas, pul-

monary tuberculosis

Jerry Curry, 2 months, at Riley, bronchopneumonia.

BUILDING UP IN MONTH WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.).—

Labor Secretary Perkins reported today that the value of residential building permits in September was 55 per cent higher than in the sa month of 1937,

Carl Vonnegut, 36, at Methodist, lung|

arriving for a Danielle Darrieux pr

| |than an hour, committing himself

What are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor doing these days? Well, for one thing theyre going to the movies just like other folk. The Duke, cigar in hand and smiling, is pictured with his lady,

emiere at a Paris theater.

VIEW VANNUYS, LUDLOW AS ‘IN’

G. 0. P. Expected to Re-elect Halleck, Given Chance in 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th.

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be able to carry all the Democratic candidates in with him. A question mark in the Congressional races seems to be the amount of dissatisfaction among the farmers, Although the Townsend Old-Age Pension clubs have indorsed all but one of the G. O. P. Congressional candidates, their support is said to embarrass some of the Republicans. Only in the Fifth District are the Townsendites expected to be much of a factor. : : Low prices, and dissatisfaction over the new Federal farm program are having some effect in rural disricts. The most optimistic Democratic claim is that the party is approximately 10 per cent stronger now than it was two years ago. . This probably is true in industrial sections, but is not the case particularly in the rural areas of northern counties. : G. O. P. Confident of Halleck Although Democratic State Headquarters is not willing to concede that Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, the Republican Congressman from the Second District will be succuessful in his campaign for re-elec-tion, the Republicans are confident of his success. This district was gerrymandered several years ago by Republicans, and always has been a G. O. P. stronghold. The Democratic candidate, Homer Stonebraker, Logansport, is not a forceful speaker but has a large personal following. Democratic candidates in the remaining districts seem almost certain of re-election. They are Rep. William T. Schulte First District; George M. Beamer, Third District; Rep. Arthur H. Greenwood, Seventh District; Rep. John William Boenhe Jr., Eighth District; Rep. Eugene B. Crowe, Ninth District. M. Elliot Belshaw, First District, is the only G. O. P. Congressional candidate who has not been indorsed by the Townsend Old-Age Pension clubs. Recent gambling scandals in Floyd County, in the Eigth District, and Clark County, in the Ninth District, are expected to have little effect on the Congressional races. What effect the investigation of alleged relief irregularities in Kokomo in the Fifth District will have is problematical. Democrats say the whole thing is too general and vague now to do them any harm.

THREATENS TO QUIT PROBE

LORDSBURG, N. M,, Oct. 29 (U. P.).—Rep. John J. Dempsey (D. N. M.) threatened today to resign. as a member of the House Committee on Un-American activities if it does not cease its “character assassinations.” :

OFFICIAL WEATHER

meee United States Weather Bureau cm

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Sunrise ...... 6:11 | Sunset TEMPERATURE =—0ct. 29, 1937—

isiceis 4:47

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1.. Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER . Indiana—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; not so cool in southwest sand oles in extreme northwest portion tonight.

Illinois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler in extreme north and vicinity of Springfield tomorow. Lower Michigan—Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler in extreme west and extreme north portions tonight. Ohio—Cloudy followed by rain in south portion late tonight or tomorrow; slightly colder in northwest portion tonight and in north portion tomorrow. Kentucky—Cloudy, probably occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; colder in west portion tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.

9 [brain over the left eye. 8

Weather, Bar. Temp.| ...Clear 30.14 46

ENDURANCE FLIERS NEARLY WEEK IN AIR

LOS ANGELES, Oct.29 (U. P.)— A small monoplane with two sleepy pilots droned through slow circles today, after nearly a week in the air.

Pilots Harley Long and Clyde Schleiper hoped to break not only the light plane endurance record of 130 hours and 10 minutes but to try for the unlimited record of 654 hours. The plane took off at 10:25 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) last Sunday.

NINE KILLED IN AUTO AGGIDENTS

State Death Toll Is Believed Highest for One Day in Recent Months.

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N. Delaware St., and Warren Heisterkamp, 14, of 419 E. 23d St., were reported in a fair condition in Methodist Hospital, after they were struck by autos last night. The Fuller boy suffered a brain concussion. He was struck by a car in the 2000 block on N. Delaware St. The Heisterkamp boy was injured at Central Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd. William Johnson, 54, 2216 Pleasant St., was given a suspended sentence on a drunkenness charge in municipal Court today after his car allegedly collided with an inbound passenger train at the Pennsylvania Railroad Crossing at Bethel St. early today. Charges of driving while drunk and disregarding a railroad signal were dismissed. Johnson escaped from the crash uninjured.

Scottsburg Woman Killed, 2 Companions Hurt

SEYMOUR, Oct. 29 (U. P.).—Miss Nellie Anderson, 23, of Scottsburg, was Killed and two companions were injured slightly when their auto plowed into an enbankment along a road near Tampico yesterday,

Reported Fall From Car

Proves Fatal

COVINGTON, Ind. Oct. 29 (U. P.) —Mrs. Luther Holmes of Lafayette was injured fatally early today in. an unusual auto accident. She is believed to have fallen from the car driven by her- husband west of here, She was 55.

1 Killed, 1 Badly Hurt

In Three-Car Crash

PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 29 (U. P.). —Ralph Doty, 21, of this city, was killed and Bob Mangas is in serious condition in the Jay County Hospital as the result of a three-car

accident here last night. Mr. Doty and Mrs. Mangas were passengers in a truck driven by Art Whitacre of Portland. ‘The Whitacre machine ran into the rear: of a parked truck belonging to Oscar Meyers of Ottawa, O. The impact threw Mr. Doty out of the truck and into the windshield of an oncoming car driven by Thomas Cross of Portland, Mr. Cross and his wife and baby who were riding with him, were uninjured. » Hospital attendants said this morning that Mr. Mangas was suffering from a concussion of the

Girl Dies as Car Leaves Road, Hits Tree

LA PORTE, Oct. 29 (U. P.)— Katherine Wheatbrook, 16, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Redding .of neadr La Porte, was injured : fatally today when an automobile in which she was riding with Roger Parkhouse left U. S. Route 20 north of here and struck a tree. She died in ga Michigan City hospital, becoming the 24th fatality of the year in La Porte County. . Parkhouse suffered - a - fractured skull. Watherine’s sister, Margaret, 17, and LeRoy Kitchenmaster, 23; were injured seriously. They are in La Porte hospitals.

Youth Killed When Auto Plows Into Field

PERU, Ind, Oct. 290: (U. P).— Harold B. Carlen, 23, of Muncie, was killed today when the automobile in which he was riding with Carroll Ertel, also of Muncie, U. S. 24 near here and plower into

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a corn field. Mr. Ertel was injured

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WITH CONGERT

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“ltion to every child who is able fo _|absorb it.” :

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education, the other that we must provide a full and complete educa-

Mayor La Guardia spoke for less

only on three points. They were: “I am advocating retirement of all,

of age. ; “I am advocating elimination of “I am advocating nation-wide se-

lective lists of supervisors. Even after the lecture Mayor La

to definite statement about either politics or education.

asked. Mayor Bars Politics

“I know less about politics than any man in America,” he said as he climbed into the sedan that was to take him to the Union Station. He is to speak in Cleveland and

“possibly” Detroit before he returns to New York. Dr. John L. Davis, Washington

pastor, New York City, gave a humorous address. Mr. Ammerman defeated Gerald

tendent of Parke County schools. Mr. Wyatt was elected by a wide margin over a field of five other candidates for the secretary’s post. The election came after associaation had amended the constitution to change the tenure of office of the secretary from life to a probationary period of three years, with eligibility for re-election every five years thereafter. They also separated the offices of secretary and treasurer, Ammerman Here Since 1911 J. R. Mitchell, principal of the Seymour High School, was Mr. Wyatt’s nearest opponent. Mr. Ammerman, a native of Polk Township, Huntington County, first decided to be a public accountant. "He attended thee old Marion Normal College and was graduated from the department of commerce, receiving his master of accounts degree in 1910. After teaching in the Polk Township schools, he went to Wabash, where he was an instructor in commercial subjects six years. He came to Indianapolis in 1911 adn taught bookkeeping and other commercial subjects at Manual High School. He was named head of the commercial department in 1914 and became vice principal of the school in 1920. He was made principal of Broad Ripple High School in 1923. He received a bachelor of science degree from Ball State Teachers’ College in 1928 and a degree of master of science in education from Butler University in 1933.

+ Business Session Held

The “teachers, in their business session yesterday, eliminated the delegates at large from the list of their delegates to the executive committee. The committee in the futur will contain only one representative from each Congressional district. - Speakers yesterday afternoon included Boake Carter, news commentator and columnist, who spoke inj place of Agnes Macphail, Canada’s first woman member of Parliament; Dr. Thomas Alexander, Columbia University and Dr. Paul Van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium. Mr. Carter praised Premier Cham berlain’s stand on the recent European crisis and declared his action kept the United States out of a European war. He also called for a “common sense attitude” toward world affairs.

Freedom of Speech °

Dr. Alexander reprimanded those teachers concerned only with mere instruction, comma blunders and minor arithmetic methods, rather than society’s fundamentals, Principles of health, religion, honesty and qualities of getting along with people should be taught in the schools, he said. Calling for more real freedom in speech and thought in the community and school, Dr. Alexander said that “there is too much pussyfooting around by teachers,” and that they are “too much afraid for their jobs.” ; Key to the solution of the Fureopean peace problem can be found in a workable system of treating economic problems, Dr. Van Zeeland said.

Denounces Dictators

“The present state. of affairs in Europe is one of confusion,” he said. “Europe missed an excellent opportunity to stabilize peace and its economics during the postwar period. “Limitation of arms or disarmament would be fine if each nation agreed unanimously to a definite

He added that no one can answer the question of whether there will be a war in Europe, and denounced dictatorship forms of government, : Dr. Jesse Adams, deandof education at the University of Kentucky, praised teachers for their progress in learning technique for develop-

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Times Acme Telephoto. From Chicago to the frozen North a chain of amateur radio operators are relaying a message that they hope will reach Henry Walther (below) at King Cove, Aleutian Peninsula, Alaska, to advise him that his mother, Mrs. Alice Walther (above), is approaching death from an incurable ailment in Chicago. If the message does not reach him before the last ship sails in a few days it is feared he will be too late to see his mother alive. (Story, Page One.)

Between Two Houses

loyalties and greater and counting houses of ance here. Act I is off the press, and Acts to round out the somber chronicle Street but currently of Sing Sing.

The substance of the story is a twice-told tale. It is in the nuances of timing and empnane pa Washington is trying to rea e mind of the SEC and its determined chairman, William O. Douglas. Thus importance is being attached to the fact that, of the 16 pages in the first section of the report, 39 are devoted to the relations between Mr. Whitney and J. P. Morgan & Co.—and these are the final pages. The climax, so to speak, for which the earlier passages prepare the reader. : The last word, in fact, is reserved for J. P. Morgan himself, in a quotaion from his testimony during the SEC hearing on the Whitney affair. Mr. Morgan was asked whether he considere himself obligated, as a member of the New York Stock Exchange, to report to the Exchange upon learning that Mr. Whitney had need to raise “something over a million dollars because of some serious jam,” the exact nature of which he did not know. :

«1 Should Say No”

He was asked whether he would have advised the Exchange if he had know the “full facts” concerning Mr. Whitney's misuse of the Exchange's own funds for the widows of its members. “Well,” he replied, “not if I understood that the Exchange authorities knew them all and understood them; I should not anyhow; no.” On this note the first section of the report ended—a circumstance which has led some to surmise that the SEC means to use stiff language about the great Morgan firm before it gets through. 5 Two members of Morgan & Co. testified, according to the report, “that they had knowledge of Richard Whitney’s misconduct severa: months prior to the events which immediately led to his expulsion,” which facts “they did not report to the appropriate Exchange authorities »

For years Richard Whitney had traded on the fact that his ‘brother’ George was & Morgan partner. While he was bleeding his brother of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and similarly bleeding the. House of Morgan itself, he was obtaining other unsecured loans from friends who were conveniently aware of his brother’s Morgan connection.

Mr. Whitney “was conscious of the

series at English’s. “Life is too short to go around dropping calling cards at homes of people you obviously don’t want to see,” she said. “Other silly rules are

UTILITIES TO SPEND TWO-BILLION FUND

Expansion Plan Expected to - Spur Recovery.

(Editorial, Page 10) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.).—

Administration and utility officials

today saw in the two-billion-dollar private utility expansion program a powerful stimulus to economic recovery, The program, designed to insure ample power resources in event of war, was announced after weeks of discussion between utilities executives and President Roosevelt's National Defense Power Committee. Under the private “pump-priming” plan, the two billion dollars will be spent over a two-year period—almost three times the annual rate of expenditure by the power systems in the last two years. The plan calls for immediate expenditures of 350 million dollars for equipment and construction. The program was expected to: 1. Increase employment, reduce relief rolls and thus improve the Federal budgetary picture. ; 2. Accelerate production in the heavy industries, regarded as vitally necessary to the maintenance of recovery. 3. Reopen capital markets and put to work a large portion of the tremendous hoard of idle funds in bank vaults. 4. Stimulate industry in many sections of the country where power resources now are barely adequate. The National Defense Power Committee assured utility officials that the Government was ready to help them through the Reconstruction Finance Corp. in the interests of na-

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Elsa Maxwell F lays ‘Absurd’ Etiquette in Town Hall Talk

Some rules of etiquette are “rubbish” and “absurd,” Miss Elsa Maxwell, famed society hostess, said today at the second of the Town Hall

about proper moments to remove gloves.” Miss Maxwell is credited with “transforming” the social life of New York City’s “400” from what she said was “staid and dull” to something “real, human, and amusing, not all cluttered up with a lot of rules that don't matter.” She said she was glad to be in Indiana, because it is the home of Cole Porter, the man she loves “most dearly in the world, and his wife doesn’t mind.” 7

Proud of Home

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“When I went to New York, I didn’t want to be a champion partygiver, People just came and had a good time. I make money, but I spend it almost before it is made— on more parties.” : Relating anecdotes of famous people she has known, Miss Maxwell said her most successful party was a barnyard party. One must be “absolutely ruthless and cruel” to give a successful party, she said. “Ask the wrong people together always, but be sure they are able to contribute something to the party.”

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ISEC Investigating Morgan & Co. Link To Whitney Crash

| Large Portion of Report Given to Relationship

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Knowledge of Impending Disaster.

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The completed script of a drama of great. disloyalty, lately enacted in the drawing rooms - Manhattin, is making its long-awaited appear-.:

II and III are expected next week of Richard Whitney, once of Wall The three together constitute the

report of the Securities & Exchange Commission on the Whitney affair.

advantage which this association gave him,” the report said. And “it was not necessary” for him “to mention his brother or the firm of - J. P. Morgan & Co.” The connec- - tions were universally known in. Wall Street. On last Thanksgiving Day, the distressed and "indulgent George Whitney raised $1,082,000 from Thomas W. Lamont to lend his brother, the latter agreed that his firm should be liquidated—but it was left entirely to him to do the liquidating—and he never got any- - thing done. : “Neither George Whitney nor Thomas W. Lamont assumed any" direct responsibility” for carrying out this ‘liquidation, asid the SEC," though their loan had enabled Riche © ard Whitney “to continue in busi-: ness under circumstances which did: not remove either the possibility of additional misconduct . . . or the danger of an immediate financial collapse of his firm.” 3 And the SEC added: : “In fact, more forthright action in this direction might have resulted in minimizing the losses occa= soned by the firm's failure.”

Deny Legal Obligation °

The commission also emphasized that Messrs. Lamont and George Whitney had knowledge for more than three months before the crash “not only of Richard Whitney's financial difficulties, but of his crime" inal conduct as well. Neither of * them, however, reported their knowledge to officials of the exchange.” ] Both denied they were “obligated

legally or morally to report the

facts,” the report said. j : On the stand, Mr. Lamont was asked: ! “Did you feel that you had any obligation to go to anybody—to any public authorities and acquaint them with the facts.” He replied: 5 “No; because I believed, whether justifiably or not, that the Exchange people had knowledge that Mr. Whitney had been slow in his delive eries to them and they have ade-, quate machinery for checking up all their houses of that kind, and if the" thought had ever occurred to me, I would have dismissed it and said, ‘Well, the Exchange will take care

lof this themselves.’ ”

But, the SEC report asserted: ; “Mr. Lamont’s belief was unjustified . . . Furthermore, there is no evidence in the record that any partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. understood or had reason to believe that the excfange or any of its of«. ficers were aware of Richard White ney’s misappropriation of his cuse tomers’ securities.”

WOMAN INFORMER ASKS PROTECTION

BRUNSWICK, Ga., Oct. 29 (U,’ P.).—Mrs. Carrie Stevens, paroled prisoner, said to have supplied ine formation leading to arrest of four men in the eight-months-old slay- . ing of the Rev. Charles H. Lee, to=: day applied for police protection. Mrs. Stevens sent word from her mother’s home in Macon to Brunse . wick authorities that she gave the information in confidence and “now I expect the officers to keep me from any harm.” Mrs. Stevens’ story of seeing Henry Cofer pay George Cleyborn $150 the night the Rev. Mr. Lee was slain: led to the arrest of the Cofers, Cleye born and Willie Green. : Cleyborn confessed, police said, that the Cofers hired him and Green to kill the rector.

HEROIN SEIZED AT DOCK WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.).—= Chief Treasury Agent Elmer Line coln Irey was advised today that two longshoremen were arrested and 60 ounces of heroin seized on the New York dock of the Italian liner Rex. :

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