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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
POOR Of CITY
TO GET FREE
FOOD, CLOTHES
Clubs, Charitable Bodies, to
Distribute Baskets for
Christmas.
1900 FAMILIES LISTED
Clearing House in Appeal
for Help in Avoiding
Duplication.

The cupboard for Indianapolis
poor won't be bare Christmas morn.
For survey today of clubs, fra
ternal organizations, charitable in
situations, and civic bodies of In
dianapolis showed that approx
mately 800 Chr. stmas baskets will
be distributed to those without pro-
vender on the birthday Of the
Christ child.
The Christmas Clearing House, 10
Monument place, reported 1,500
names of families already listed for
basket distribution. The list is ex-
pected to reach the 1000 mark by
early next week.
Urged to Send Lists
All organizations of the city are
urged to send in lists of families
to be cared for to prevent duplica-
ton.
Zone family got nine Christmas
baskets last year from various Or
CARNATIONS and individuals. This
duplication can be avoided If all
families are referred to us to see if
they are being cared for by another
organization" said Miss Winifred
Brown, secretary of the committee
in charge of the Office on the Circle.
The clearing house telephone is
Riley 1859.
The approximate wholesale cost
Of each. basket to be distributed is
81 with retail values nearing So.
The Indianapolis fire department
will be the largest donor of baskets
with nearly 1000 parcels of food to
be distributed.
Deliver Clothing Also
Clothing and other necessities
also will be purveyed by the fire
men Christmas day.
Organizations and clubs and the
number of baskets to be delivered to
homes at Yuletide are:
Masonic, Murat and Scottish Rite,
SEQ; Salvation army, 500: Volun-
teers of America, 400; Wheeler City
Mission, 100; Catholic Community
Center, 200; Elks Club, 200; Marion
County Good Government Club,
200.
It is estimated that $1,000 per-
sons will eat Christmas dinners
provided by citizens and charitable
bodies of the city.
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newcomers to the news field, Bickel
points out. Religion and science,
while they always have offered &C.
casional news of interest, have in
recent years only become matters
Of absorbing popular interest.
In the last two years, he believes,
there has been perceptible decline
in interest in both crime and scan
dial news-largely due to Colonel
Lindbergh's flight, which drove them
from front pages for weeks and thus
tended to destroy the public appetite
for them.
The great interest in financial
news is an important change, Sickel
finds, citing that for days last fall
it dominated all newspapers.
Interest in foreign news is grow
ing rapidly. The United Press, Bick-
ell points out, "is bringing to the
United States from Europe each
day four times as much cable news
as we carried during the great wal"
The Latin-American news supply
is five times as large as it was five
years ago, he adds.
The six greatest news events Of
1920, Bickel says, were the 1nau-
guration Of President Hoover; the
concordat between the Vatican and
Italy; the murder Of seven gang
sters in Chicago on st. Valentines
day, because it established a high
light in crime; the transatlantic
fight Of the Yellow Bird; the for
mutation of the Young reparation
plan, and the Graf Zeppelin world
fight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
killer AWAITS
MENTAL TEST
Insanity Plea Offered in
Double Murder.

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 20.-A sanity
commission will be appointed by
Judge L. A. Guthrie of Delaware
circuit court to examine James
Wood, sc, Kentucky nlountaineer,
who pleaded not guilty to charges
of numbering George and Elizabeth
Heath because of insanity.
Three physicians will examine
Wood and will report their findings
to the court.
Clarence Benadum, defense coun-
sci, said dispositions would be taken
at Albany, KY, Woods home town.
in an effort to prove Wood insane.
A change of venue from Delaware
county is unlikely, as Judge Guthrie
has told defense counsel that if
necessary to get an impartial jury,
veniremen would be called from an
adjoining county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
SCHOOLS CLOSE
FOR HOLIDAYS
All City Pupils to Resume
Glasses Jan. 8.

Public and parochial schools, COL
leges and universities of the city
closed today for their annual mid
winter vacations, extending over the
holidays.
Traffic hazards on icy streets were
increased with release Of approx
mately $1,000 school children. Paro-
chial grade and high schools, with
enrollments totaling about $500 pu-
pills, will be closed until Jan. 6. All
public and parochial schools will re-
sumo classes on that date.
With increased enrollments In
higher institutions Of learning in
the city this year the annual exc
dus of college students was larger
than usual.
Students from Teachers college
left for sixty-fve counties in the
state today. Glasses will be resumed
Jan. 6.
More than four hundred students
left Indiana Central college for their
homes in all parts of Indiana Wis
consin and Illinois, and return for
reopening Of school Jan. 2. APP
proximately 1900 students were re-
leased from Butler university, where
classes will be resumed Jan. 6.
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ference, playing beggar my neigh
Dor. Since Russia called our paci-
fist bluff at Geneva by offering to
disarm in earnest ii the others
would, and they all instantly re-
fused to speak to her, even when
Mr.. Kellogg promptly called it
again and was humbugged by the
self defense reservations, our paci-
fists are only crying peace where
there is no peace. Mussolini Is
franker and less alarming.
Q-Do you think that the Kellogg
pact is an effective means Of abol-
ishing war? If so, why, and that
being the case, what useful purpose
will be served by holding the forth
coming five-power naval confer
ence?
Al repeatedly have pointed out
that the kellogg pact is step be-
hind from the covenant OF the
League of Nations, rs 1t allows the
parties to make war In self-defense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
KHAN is LINKED
IN PERU CASE
Mayor Indicted on Bride
Charge.

BIZ Times Special
PERU, Ind, Dec. 20.-Poltics and
Ku-KluX Klanism are believed be-
hind the scene in indictment Of
Mayor Thomas o. Keller of Peru,
Republican, and three other men,
by the Miami county grand jury
this week. Others accused are:
Alden Foote, city councilman; Ray
mond Sturgeon, city light plant
foreman, and Charles S. Loucks
former county road superintendent
1t is pointed out that the prose-
cutting attorney, Paul Lutz, is a
Democrat; that Judge Hurd Hurst
of the Miami circuit court is a Re-
publican, said to have been close to
former Governor Ed jackson, and
that for the first time in thirty-two
years Peru has a Republican adj
ministration.
The Keller administration is
classed as having been elected by
khan support.
Mayor Keller is charged with
taking a bride Of few cents less
than $40 from John Greene, a sales
man for the Brown Electrical In
strument Company of Indianapolis
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as hospital ships during war?
President Hoover seems to for
get how hospital ships were treat
ed during the late war. They will
be treated similarly during the
next one.
Q-Can you see any prospects
of any useful agreement being
reached at the forthcoming FIVE
power naval disarmament confer
ence?
Aft they scrap their battle
ships-in the effectiveness OF
which they no longer believe-it
viii save money.
Q-In.your opinion, If the forth
coming flve-power naval disarna-
ment conference terminates in an
agreement, will this alter materi-
ally the attitude of people toward
war?
A-No. The thing viii be called
q disarmament conference; but it
really VIII b an armament con-
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Western Front" has helped to
discourage future wars?
Al have not read it. If books
could stop war, we should not
have had one for the last thou
sand years.
Q-Do you believe that the pre-
vention of future wars is likely to
be made any surer by Anglo
American cooperation and friend
ship 2
A-Under existing circumstances
it might Just as easily produce a
war as prevent it. The co-opera-
ton of Germany, Austria and
T-key produced the cooperation
Of itain, France and Russia;
and ,e two corporations pro
Guceo /, war. A combination OF
the United States, the British
empire, France and Germany
would make war very risky for
the rest of the world if these pow
ers really Tsre razalza9 1as y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
STOP FIghtig! That's George Bernard Sa7OS Recipe for Peace

tolerate it, especially If they
ceased plotting to destroy Rus
s'a. But there is no evidnce that
they have any such resolution,
or that they trust one another's
pacifst professions.
Q-Do you think the relations
between Great Britain and the
United States would improve If
the differences reported to exist
between them were investigated
by a committee presided over oy
Lady Astor? Why or why not?
Can you name any one who, in
your opinion, would be more suit
ed to the job than Lady Astor?
Not at all. Until they stop
differing and misunderstanding.
the less they investigate the bet
ter. If an Intermediary is wanted,
Lord Aston is the best man avail
able. Lady Aston can stay at home
and lead the cavalry charges.
Taking the chair Is not In her Lima
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All cobmatants in 1914-18, and in
every other war ever waged, went
to war in self defense.
Q-Is the Nobel peace prize OF
any use. If so, what? If you do
not tink it serves any useful pur-
pose, can you suggest anything TO
take its place?
Amy prize that carries money
with it may be useful if the win
ner spends It well. If thing is
useless, why on earth should I sug-
gest replacement
OFF you were asked to do so,
to whom would you award the Nobel
peace prize for 1928 and why?
Al am not schoolme STR and
Go no believe in prizes. The in
ventor of a really annihilating
method of warfare would be my
choice IL I were forced to pretend
to choose.
Q-would you say that Re-
marques book, "All Quiet On the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
CONGRESSMAN SEEKS
MORE FARM RELIEF
Minnesota Representative Maintains
Taxes Eat LIN Profits

Minnesota Representative Maintains
Taxes Eat Up Profits.
BIZ Scripps-H OtoGrd Ne4ospGper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-More
farm relief is being Sought in this
session of congress by Representa-
tive Conrad G. Selvig of Minnesota,
who has introduced bill to give
500, 900 of federal aid for rural
schools.
He maintains that it is taxes for
schools and roads which keep the
farmer poor, and declares that some
of the federal income tax should go
to provide educational opportunities
for country school children.
The taxes in rural districts have
increased 254 per cent since the
World war, according to Represent
alive Selyig.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
When Heat Ism t

Water, water, everywhere,
and not a drop to drink
George Wicks, IS, Of 961
West Washington street, gave
the classic a new twist.
He had "heat" all about him
and inside him), and was
frozen almost to death Thurs
day night
He was found by police in
his home, alone, without any
fire, in a critical condition
from exposure. About him were
half dozen empty cans of
Canned heat" which he had
been drinking, according to
police records.
In reaching for another can
of the "refreshner Cs," he fell
from the davenport to the floor
and was unable to arise, almost
freezing to death over night.
Neighbors, hearing his groans,
caused police to Investigate. He
was taken to city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
S16PIMS
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. - A
Christmas tree that cost SIG
will gleam in the Willard
Doyle home on Christmas day,
but if he goes into his house
to look at it he will be sent
to jail.
The penalty-to stay away
from home on Christmas-was
pronounced by Judge Heller
after Mrs. Mary Doyle and
their daughter Louise, 10,
testified Doyle beat them for
demonstrating when he paid
SIG for the tree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
THREE GET LIFE TERMS
FOR Staying POLICEMAN
Guilty Pleas Entered in Hammond
Gang Murder Case.

CROWN POINT, Ind, Dec. 90
Three young bandits, members of
gang of six who killed Sergeant
Leo Fox of the Hammond police
force when he, with other officers,
raided the gangs hiding place in a
Hammond partment, were SEN
fenced to life imprisonment today
Judge Martin Smith passed SEN
tence in Lake criminal court here
when they pleaded guilty. Those
sentenced were Steve Davenport,
William Jeski and Benny StoWski.
John Sawa, a fourth member of
the gang, pleaded guilty, but his
sentence was withheld. Peter Au-
gustovich, fifth gang member, was
crippled for life by a bullet fred
during the battle, and Walter
Wajinski, the sixth, was slain in the
exchange Of bullets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
United Press Chief Picks
Ten Most Interesting
Personalities.

RU Times Special
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Women
have lost their news appeal, crime
has faded to a secondary position,
sports, politics, finance and aviation
interest more newspaper readers
than any other class of events
these facts, according to Karl A.
Bickel, president of the United
Press Association, are the most i'm
portant surface indications of a
great change in the American
reading public.
Bickel, who as president of one of
the largest worldwide news gather
Ing and distributing organizations is
as closely in touch with what people
want to read as any other man, ex-
presses these views in an interview
with M. K. Wisehart, published In
the January American Magazine.
The changes are we'll illustrated
in a list of the ten most interesting
personalities in the news today.
Picks Ten
Compiled on the basis Of the
amount of newspaper space accorded
them in 1929, they are, according to
Bickel:
/. President Herbert Hoover.
2. King George and the prince of
Wales (listed jointly because, from
the news point of view they can not
be separately.
3. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh.
4. Benito Mussolini.
5. Ramsay Macdonald.
6. David Lloyd George.
7. Henry Ford.
8. Thomas A. Edison.
9. George Bernard Shaw.
10. Owen D. Young.
Not a woman appears on the list
not that many women are not
interesting from the news stand
point, Bickel explained, but because
no one woman ranks as high as any
of those ten men.
Sports Interesting
Sport is not represented, though
next to the question of the relation
between the sexes it is ranked by
Bickel as tn most interesting sin
gle topic.
The pope is omitted because
Bickel as the most interesting sim
ton, not his personality, that makes
him a great figure.
It is interesting to note that John
D. Rockefeller ST., until few years
ago one of the two Or three most
interesting men from the news
standpoint is not on the list.
After sex-still the leading topic
despite the decline in scandal news
the ten most interesting classes
of news, on the basis of 1929. space
in newspapers, are, as compiled by
Bickel:S
Sports, domestic and foreign poll
tics, finance, aviation, disasters, pro-
hibition, crime scandal-mystery, as
distinct from the general question
of the relations between men and
women, radio, religion and science
First Page Ideas
"Once upon a time" Wiseheart
quotes Bickel as saying, "a famous
newspaper publisher who was noted
for his uncanny ability in sensing
what the public wants, made this
remark: Love-crime - mystery
who's got it and how he spends IT'D
these are the best subjects for the
front page Of my newspaper But
today we are living in new age"
Radio and aviation are relative
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
African Trip Planned

BN Times Special
UPLAND, Ind. Dec. 20.-Charle
Blooah, Kru boy of central Africa,
for several years a student at Tay-
lor university, later an assistant
in the department of anthropology
at the University of Chicago, is plan
ming an expedition into central
Africa with another member of the
department in the interests of
linguistic and anthropological study,
Blooah is a graduate Of Garrett
Theological Seminary, Evanston, III.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Student Wins Prize

Ra Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 90
Lewis Jarrard, of Angola, has been
awarded the $40 prize offered to
the Indiana university student sub
hitting the best skit for Campus
Affairs" all-uniyersity vaudeville
given this week. Fireman Save
Our Star Reporter" was Jarrard's
subject. He conducts the humor
column In the Indiana Daily
Student, with Griffith Niblack,
Wheatland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
New Pastor Chosen

RN Times Social
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 20.-The
Rev. r. F. Keicher. Marshall, Mich,
has accepted the rectorship of the
st. Paul Episcopal church here, and
will assume his duties Jan. l. The
Rev. Mr.. Keicher is at present rec
tor of Trinity church at Marshall.
He Is q native of Milwaukee, Wis,
he has been In the ministry for
twenty-tye years.
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She was ap-
pointed by De
Forest O'DelI,
journalistic de-
partnent head.
Miss McDill will
assume her duties
at the beginning
of the new senes-
ter, Feb. 2, and
will be assisted
by Henry Siege
meier, 800 Cen
trail court.
Miss McDilI re-
=
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
MEDICS BATTLE FIRE
City Institution Blaze Smothered
Before ANY Damage Was Done.

Fire, confined to the south wing
of city hospital building, did little
damage Thursday night. The blaze
originated beneath the floor of the
second floor in a section occupied
almost entirely by internes and
medical students.
Precautionary preparations were
made to move out a few patients
CHARTERED in the wing because Of
crowded conditions Of other wards
were made, but fire was brought
under control before any patients
were removed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
BY HENRY T. RUSSELL
United Press staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1929 in al Countries by United
Press. All Rights Reserved.)
T ONDON, Dec. 20.-George
IL Bernard Shaw's formula for
preventing war is: stop fighting:
That is the only way"
Such was the answer Shaw gave
when asked today as to the best
way to prevent war. The Irish
author replied to questions on the
Forthcoming disarmament confer
ence, the Kellogg pact, the Nobel
prize, Anglo-American relations
and how Lady Aston could influ-
ence them, in the course of an
interview with the United Press
correspondent.
Shaw also offered his opinion of
the Hoover doctrine.
What do you think Of President
Hoover's Armistice day suggestion
that food ships should be treated
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a circulation campaign, which net
ted the Butler Collegian an increase
Of $50 subscribers. She is a fresh
man and a member of the Wom-
ans League, Blesters and Woman's
debating team.
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HOLD TURKEY PARTY
Holy Name Church of Beech Grove
States Event Sunday.


States Event Sunday.
The Holy Name Church Of Beech
Grove will give Christmas Turkey
party, Sunday afternoon and eve
ming, Dec. %, at 2 and 1880, in
the school hall at Seventeenth
avenue and Sherman drive. Supper
will be served by the Altar Society
at $50.
The following committees have
been named:
Charles McDonough, general chair
man; Joe Cosby and Joe Gold, card
chairmen; A. o. Shilling, supper
chairman; Ed. DuX, assisted by
Mrs. Henry Sahm and Mrs. Daniel
T. O'Conner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Train Derailed; Five Die

BV United Press
SAC PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 90
Five persons were killed when a
freight train was derailed near
Turyba station today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
GIRL is APPOINTED
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Butler ColIegian Distribution to Be
Handled by COED.

Byrdena McDill of Lafayette is the
first girl to hold a circulation man
agerShip of the Butler Collegian.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-06-25
SCHOOLS, CHURCHES
 NORTHERN ALASKA
 ARE BEING ERECTED

Tn addition to the schools anc
 churches built these past two years
 by Father Delon, in Seward yseter- day, On the coast of the Boring Sea iat KaShunak and at Hooper Bay similar buildings are to be erected this year at various other points in northern Alaska.
 The freighter Derblay took along I2ll necessary building material for ! chapel and miSSionary'S residence 1 70 be erected this summer on King island picturesque rock rising loUt of the depths of the Bering Sea, directly south of and close to the IRering Straits that separate Alaska from Siberia.
 The w. M. Tupper plying between Seattle and the Kuskokwim river, will, on it's next trip take along two portable chapels, ready-cut in sec tionS, which will be set up one on N"lsO. Island and the other on the upper KuSkCkWim river.
 Another such building is planned G.1d VII be set up on the northern end of Kotzebue peninsula, among Ll:e. Kobuck Eskimos.
 Two more schools and chapels are now in course of erection on the lower Yukon and on the upper Kas- tunak river, south of and one days winter travelling from the old trad Ing site at Andreafsky.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-06-25

It is rumored that the grand jury will complete it's work this week.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-06-25
HAS LARGE TONNAGE

The freighter Depere, of the AL Iaska Steamship Co., is carrying |eight autos for Fairbanks, two for Anchorage and one for Seward. Also five horses for Anchorage and three for Talkeetna; eight cars of 11ess and one car of lumber for An chorage. The Depere will deliver "h tons of petroleum prducts to the Standard Oil Co., here. The freight CT left Ketchikan June 2Oth.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-06-25
WATSON TOMORROW

The s. s. Admiral Watson, of the IF $. s. Co.,, is due in Seward tomor- row and will discharge about 300 tons of freight, including 118 tons of merchandise for Seward three carloads of cement and three cars of empty cans for Anchorage. A large shipment of culvert pipe for GlrdWood and Woodrow are also aboard.