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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
PROTEST SOVIET ACTION

Protest meeting and special
prayer regarding religious persecu-
ton in Soviet Russia will be held
at the Knesses Israel synagog, 1923
South Meridian street, at p. m.
Friday with Rabbi Benjamin Cohen
presiding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
URGE EARLY PLANTING
OF TREES AND SHRUBS
Highway officials Asks Cooperation
of District superintendent.

District engineers and superin-
tendents of the state highway de-
partment we're advised today to
urge early highway planting Of trees
and shrubs by A. H. Hinkle, main
tenance superintendent Of the state
highway department.
This will solve the problem Of
quicker growth and likewise have
the planting out of the way prior to
the heavy spring work on highways,
Hinkle pointed out.
AS rule when planting programs
are contemplated the various wom-
ems clubs leading in this work take
such matters before the district en-
gineer, according to highway Off
Gals. In the past some excellent
planting programs were seriously
interfered with because they were
launched too late, they said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
FORM CIVIC LEAGUE
Union Street Group to Aid
Community Interests.

Incorporation Of the Union Street
Civic League to promote COM
munity interests of the neighbor-
hood, was announced today by
Louis r. Byran, chairman.
Meetings will be held the first
Monday of each month at 731 South
Meridian street. Philip Kraft is
treasurer and Sol Solomon secre-
tary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
STAGE STOLEN PARTY
Burglars, Believed Boys Plumber
Store of Confectionery.

Burglars, believed to have been
boys, entered Harris Epstein con-
fectionery at 1912 Southeastern
avenue Thursday night, held an "ice
cream party at a table and then
departed with s25 worth of candy,
cigaretS and cash.
Three dishes on a table testified
to the sweet teeth" of the burglars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
ALAS! POOR DEMPSEY
It Seems Shakespearean Wisdom
of Tunney Beat Jack.

PHILADELPHIA, March T.-Wil-
liam Shakespeare was in Gene Tun-
ney's corner at the Sesqui- Centen-
NAL Stadium here three years ago
when Tunney won the heavyweight
crown from Jack Dempsey.
Tunney's knowledge Of human ma
ture, acquired through intensive
study of the Bard of Avon" en-
abled him to divine Dempsey's
thoughts and reactions, and this
equipment provided what was nee
essary to win the championship, ac-
cording to Sir Archibald Flower,
Shakespearean actor, who spoke to
Temple university students.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07

learned the trade of smithy, but
succeeded, principally by his own
efforts, in completing a secondary
school education, later attending the
University of Vienna.
In the course of a students trip
to Leipsic in the same year Mas
aryk met an American girl, Miss
Charlotte Garrigue, whom he later
married. His wife died May 1S,
1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07

A LEGGED to have used his
L n 17-year-old wife to decoy
holdup victims, George Ryan, IS,
was tried today before Criminal
Judge James A. Collins, and re-
ceived a ten-year sentence at the
Indiana state prison on conviction
of robbery and grand larceny.
Terming Ryan's case lone Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
Age a Peril?

By intted Press
CHICAGO, March IAN
oYersupply of old men in the
world constitutes a grave social
problem because ways in which
they can be useful are dimin-
ishing, Professor Paul Douglas,
University Of Chicago econo-
mist, told twenty experts in his
field at a conference today.
Science, which constantly
wins battles with death, just
as constantly develops a me-
chanical state of society in
which old men are Superfu-
ouS,' the economist said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
WARNS OF TARIFF HIKE

BIZ United Press
LONDON, March IA warning
that European nations are planning
to increase their tariffs was given
today by Sir Percival Perry, presid-
ing at the first ordinary general
meeting of shareholders of the Ford
Motors Company, Ltd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
DIR. COOK SERVING
OIL FRAUD TERM,
ORDERED PAROLED
Fair Enough
Ru United Pres

Bp tHfte0 Press
NEW YORK. March T.
Mary and Margaret Gibbs, Is,
the Siamese twins, may be
one fare to some companies,
but they are individuals" to the
White Star line. They required
two tickets for trip to Eu-
rope, although they sought one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
RosenwaIds Leave for Cairo

BU Ua,itod Press
KHARTOUM, Egypt, March T.
julius Rosenwald, Chicago philan-
thropist, and his bride abandoned
their projected cruise on the Nile,
and have left for Cairo, where they
will remain a. week before proceed
ing to Paris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07

president Of the re-
public-on his 30th
birthday.
Tributes to the
venerable leader,
W no is regarded
more as a father"
than as a chief ex-
ecutive, were paid
in every city and
village, and felici-
tations and memo
rails ure d in
upon him from eV-
cry section of the
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07

t h e gangsters,
who took John
(Dingbat) Ober-
ia and his chauf-
feur-body guard,
Sammy Malaga,
for a ride"
Frank McEr-
lane, Joe Salts,
the O'Donnell
brothers, Scar
face Al Capone's
troops, men who
live by the gun
and under its
menace. all will
be questioned.
OBJ erta, all
around rack
eteer, was shot
to death in his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
TAFT SLIGHTLY BETTER
Pk~-icians Minimize Change, How
ever as Almost Negligible

BIZ Jnitfd Press
WASHINGTON. March THE
condition of William Howard Taft
was slightly improved today. but
physicians emphasized the fact that
day-to-day changes are almost
negligible"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
SnnrL FeUer
BIZ United Press

BIZ UNlTF0 PTGSS
CHICAGO, March THAT
tired, grumpy feeling that
makes business men Snarl at
their Stenographers probably is
"disiocated psyche" a new dis
ease described by DR.. George
B. Lake, editor of Clinical
Medicine and Surgery.
He said it is gradual loss of
mental or emotional balance"
due to the strain of modern
business. Sometimes it Is "vio-
lent temper just short of in
sanity" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
Take Actress Body to Ohio

BU JNited PTeSs
NEW YORK, March THE body
of Christine Norman, actress, who
leaped from a twenty-story window
here, will be- taken to Cincinnati for
burial beside her father, in accord
nee with a request she had made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07

tCrney-G e n e r a ]
Mitchell.
Cook has been
serving a sentence
Of fourteen years
and nine months
following his con-
viction at Fl.
Worth, Tex, on a
charge Of using
the mails to de-
fraud.
DR.. Cook, who
won Sf1Ort-llVed
world acclaim in
1909, when he
claimed to be the
first man ever to
reach the north
pole, has been
nricnf1nr No % Lib
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07

the most terrible ever tried in
criminal court" Collins asserted
the only reason ''he did not sem
tence Ryan to life Imprisonment
Sc the law does not per-
NIT It."
III is being held at the
on home on a delinquency
charge.
Ryan was specifically charged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
FREE DRY LAW VICTIM
NIichigan's Life for Pint" Conviction
Set Aside; New Trial Ordered.

BIZ United Press
LANSING, Mich. March THE
conviction of Mrs. Mae w. Miller,
the first woman to be sentenced for
life term under the Michigan Grim
inal code as a liquor law violator,
was set aside today, by the state
supreme court and a new trial Or
dered
Mrs. Miller originally, was SEN
fenced to serve life, but the term
recently was committed from seven
and one-half to fifteen years by
Governor Green.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
AIimony of $4,000 Asked

AUBURN, Ind, March 6.-Mrs. F..
Foster asks $4,000 alimony in a
divorce suit filed in Dekalb circuit
court here against Charles Foster,
former owner Of a laundry at Gar
rett.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
BLACKSMITH FETED
CzeChosIovakian President
80 Years Old Today.
BIZ United Press

81 UHtteG Press
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March
1.-THE entire CzechosIovakian ma
ton today honored the son of a
coachman-ThomaS G. Masaryk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
YOUTH KILLS MARSHAL
Merrymaker Nabbed, Confesses to
Staying of Wisconsin Official.
BH United Press

DU JNllGU FFGSS
MONTICELLO, Wis, March T.
A youthful merrymaker murdered
Marshal Fred Jordan early today,
when the officer tried to prevent
him from flashing a spotlight
through bedroom windows and
awakening the neighborhood with an
automobile horn.
In less than four hours the youth
was captured. He confessed he
shot Jordan and left him to die in
a quiet residential street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
BIDS SUBMITTED ON
HOSPITAL ADDITION
Sanborn Electric Firm Figure of
S39,776 Low for Wiring

The Sanborn Electric Company
was low bidder on electrical wiring
for the new addition to city hospital
when bids were opened today by the
city board of health. It's bid was
$39,776.
The Lampson Tube Company was
low bidder on pneumatic tubes with
a figure of $10,663 for the installa-
ton.
Because only three members of
tn board were present award of
contracts was deferred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
Perpetrator of North Pole
Hoax Anxious for
Another Chance

BW nTe1 PTTRs
WASHINGTON, March 7.-Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, former Arctic
explorer, physician and oil pro-
moter, was ordered paroled from
Leavenworth prison today by At
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
BOOK CENSORSHIP HIT
Petition of Educators Aimed at
Customs Inspectors.

Bu United Press
WASHINGTON, March IA
petition protesting strenuously the
continuance of book censorship by
customs inspectors was to be pre-
Sented to the senate today by Sen
ator Cutting, Republican, New
Mexico. The petition was signed by
more than 500 educators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
POLICE FINES MISSING

Warrant Issued for Missing Magis-
trate, Charging Embezzlement.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, March IA new COM
plexion was given the disappearance
Of James NJ. Feron, Oak Park police
magistrate, today with issuance of
a warrant charging him with en-
bezzling S14,856 in fines. Feron has
been missing since Feb. 27.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
PROWLER IS GREETED
WITH BULLETS; FLEES
Girl Screams as Marauder Enters
Room; Father Uses Revolver.

A prowler who attempted to
enter 1.-The room OF Miss Fannie
'Greeter, 1925 Park avenue. Thurs
day night fed as Miss Greeter's
father fired two shots at him.
Don't move or I'll shoot" the
prowler warned Miss Greeter. She
screamed and fed from the room
and her father sped the mans
flight with revolver shots.
A step ladder had been placed
against the window by the man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-07
QUIZ CANCSTERS
IN Staying Of
RACKET LEADER
Widow of 'Dingbat' 0berta
CooIIy TestifieS at Muir
der Inquest.
By United Press

bE DUfttu PTt5N
CHICAGO, March THE roll of
the rackets was called today by
police seeking a cleW to identify Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

"T know" =
.s'This matter Is squarely between the three q
Us. II b beyond your right"
'tBut not beyond my might II should give
an order that the girl :"
1.-THE very reason why am here. You need
not trouble about the order. Ah"-with a lord
Iy GESTURE give Kothra to Mehmet Var! II
Not youl Let him bow his thanks to met Not
to you'll"
"And yet--have I not heard that you. tOo
love this russet-haired grip"
ST do"
maybe because Of priests wife's lashing
nagging words Maybe because of fate, and
fate. My Lord. is tough old jade with a secret
she knows how to keep. :"
Maybe" cut in the Grand Khan, because
you, too. are an honorable fool Allah-but you
have my hearts good wishes 10 the innermoSt
chamberI"
He told a servant to fetch Mehmet Var and
20 minutes later, addressed chief and captain
standing before him side by side. tall brisk
and hearty, bit hard in the look, q bit brag-
CART. almost like twin brothers:
Here you are--you two! Honorable fools
both I like you-both! Go back to the
steppe-both The audience is endedi"
They salaamed turned to go; and he called
them back
"A wedding present for Kothra," he said,
drawing an emerald ring from his left thumb
and giving it to Mehmet Var: and, drawing a
ruby ring from his right thumb and giving
it to Ali Hassans "A wedding present for
another girl-Soms day. ="
Il shall never love anotherl" replied the chief
stifny
And shall never love another" he told
Kothra, days later, when he and the captain
enemies no longer, had reached the valley of
the Abdali.
So Winter died, and Spring came again. 1t
came with boisterous winds out of India, and
the SHOWS melting fast and the whistling of
the wild geese flying north, and the steppe a
pageantry Of small motley flowers It came
with a way, as we say in our language for the
open road, for putting the seven plains and
seven hills and seven moors below young mans
foot And one day, for no reason that he
knew of, Ali Hassen went travelling into the
west; and returned week or two later; and
by his side a tall, black-haired girl called
Habeebah-though, presently, he called her:
My wife My dear one!"
And on that day-was 1t not like woman?
-kothra was very much annoyed
Wah!" she said to her husband "are not
men the fickle things?"
And she grew quite angry when Mehmet
Var laughed.
(Copyrght, 1930)
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ready to break this same law yourself. to steal
the grip"
Eyes. Through my own pluck and craft. But
to use your power-why-it would be coward
~. My honor will not permit :"
ITO the devil with your honor!" And when
the captain had insisted that he would not.
could not sully his honor, neither for Kothras
sake nor the Grand Khan's, the latter had cried
impatiently: Fool! Honorable fool! on to
gaol with you-until you become less foolish
and less honorable! In gaol you viii remain
until you change your mind!"
OUCH was the palace servants tale; and, that
Afternoon, Ali Hassan obtained an audience
with the Grand Khan.
II am no town-bred fop," he began. ct
know not how to curtsy and strut and preen
fine feathers. must speak out my blunt mind
as see it,
Meaning" asked the Grand Khan, smiling
wanly, that you will be exceedingly rude 70 me,
your sovereign 1ord?"
mot rude. Truthful"
rs there difference? Very well. BE as
truthful as you please"
There is this matter of myself and Kothra
and Mehmet VAR
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ExpO'b of q, . Famous NomQn Spy During N>n1dH1v

played q part before she met Louise and be-
came Charlotte" her right hand
The Belgian-Dutch frontier, last obstacle be-
fore safety. was q gauntlet to run, protected
by barbed wire, electric cables and searchlights.
besides many German sentries.. Allied spies
bearing reports must that gauntlet and
none was more clever than Alice and Char
lotte. Barbed wire they cut, charged deadly
cables they got over with rubber gloves and
shoes and insulated ladders. or under by pas
sases dug beneath. Alice is said even to have
walked right in the searchlight beams In Hight
clothes, believing herself less conspicuous She
was never shot. She escaped land mines
planted to blow to atoms those trying 70 run
the gauntlet. Sometimes the girls had as .alide
an eccentric but faithful Belgian whom Alice
had got out of prison for border smuggling
TO work for her IS an insurance salesman"
A LMOST anything seemed possible to Alice.
The short. rather slight young French
woman with her magnetic smile brought often
70 Folkestone information Of great value. She
told where German batteries were about Lille
50 accurately that British guns shelled them to
pieces She told where were big German am
munition dumps, which British bombing air.
planes blew up once unwittingly as Demon
stration to doubling Thomas among Alice's
heutenants. She reported 50 accurately how
many and how large trains Of German wounded
passed nightly through Lille that the British
could estimate enemy losses to nicety.
Sho and Charlotte had many real adventures
70 which legend has added many more. Their
life became harder. With many loyal Belgians
In their midst fighting them secretly the Ger
man invaders. built up q counter-espionage
service so hated that its leaders we're marked
Tor death by the Belgians and fed the country
at the armistice. They were aided by Belgian
criminals who thus bought their release and
sometimes by Flemings OF good family like the
betrayer of Miss CaveI, seeking preferment
under the Germans
To outwit such cunning took all the wiles
generally attributed to woman spies. Alice and
Charlotte were repeatedly stopped and searched
Once, when false papers didn't quite go, crude
bribery did. But for the more dangerous Ger
man spy -chasers the two women evolved such
ruses as hiding reports in bar of chocolate
that they ate as they were searched even
ofer1ng the Searcher bite
Once Charlotte carried an important message
written In invisible ink inside a rosary case
Once Alice prepared minute map of the Ger
man arrangements about Lille, which went
through pasted on the lens CT an eyeglassI An
expert penman had done it on translucent paper
with microscopic pen and Invisible ink Chill
dren carried messages for them, escaping en-
tircly unsupported
Did such success turn Alice's head? She be-
came daring to the point of BRAY ado. She car
ried reports openly i'll her handbag, sometimes
mixed with half dozen manufactured passes
in as many different names. Sometimes she
went without any pass She dared the Ger
mans to catch her.
"oh, they are so stupid!' she said to char
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

Enough of thisl Let your Tartar tongue
straighten out its kinks and say what you mean
Or else-your brothers head on a poe!"
The captain had salaamed
"The reason why am here is simple, my
lord. There fs a woman"
There is always a woman. Ah"-the Grand
Khan had smiled reminiscently ironically
"once I, too, made my heart a carpet for narrow,
lisping feet. who is this woman?"
"Kothra is her name. She is captive to Ali
Hassan." And Mehmet Var had told the whole
truth; how unable to fight duel with the
chief, unable to persuade him to give up the
girl, he had meant to see his brother safely
across the border, to return to the steppe, to
carry her on.
"And all this fuss and bother because of o
womanI" the Grand Kahn had commented with
q laugh.
you have been good governor, forgive
you for having left your post without permis-
sion. As for Kothra-she is yours
"But-how ?"
MY personal present to you. I shall give an
order to Ali Hassan."
"Impossiblel She is his captive-by the law
Of the steppe. :"
Il am above the law. Besides. were you not
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OOssStA0c0 E04C
rarely been surpassed" In November. 1927
with fund started by the Echo de Paris, a
statue of her was erected at Lille unveiled by
Marshal Foch. and the United Veterans Asso-
citation of France and Britain feted in London
her chief aide in many adventures, Mile Marie
Leonie van Houtte of Roubaix.
These two women, Louise de Bettignies eSpe-
pecially, were the leading spirits of q heroic
group of French and Belgian men and women
who for nearly two years after the German in
vasion Of August, 1914, always in danger OF
their lives. furnished information of high i'm
portance to the British Army opposite.
Birth and training had prepared her. She
was educated in France, at Oxford and in Italy.
Then, unmarried Though some call her ma
dame) and one Of q family of seven, she de-
bated whether to become a nun or a governeSS.
Her nature had two sides-the mystic and re-
ligious, the active and practical. The active
side won, and she went to Germany. where IN
high PruSsian families she learned to speak
huently q fourth language, meeting prominent
people The German invasion found her, aged
"a, back in Lille, whence she fed as refugee to
England, and there fell in with the British
secret service. They saw at once her Qualifica-
tons and proposed that she return to Lille
as spy.
HER decision showed the courage and viii
behind the attractive face crowned by
luxuriant dark hair. She had hoped to live
with her mother. safe already. behind the
British lines. Aside from risk Of capture and
DEATH she was not the woman to return will
ingly to a country filled with enemy soldiers.
But she consulted her mother and a priest,
then, it is said, the British commander himself,
Sir John French. few days later she had
made the hazardous trip through Holland and
Belgium, through cordons of German guards,
and was back at home in Lille, but not as
Louise de Bettignies Alice Dubois was the nom
de guerre under which she was to fight the
oppressors Of her beloved patrie.
With her own keen mind and admirable sang
froid, aided by British advice and money, she
recruited her secret band for the to be
waged amid the German army just behind
the front. Soon, not in Lille alone but all the
way back to Holland. she had spread nets
that caught the precious information for which
she risked her life.
From headquarters in the Rue dIsly Lille
she could move by the underground railway
she had built across the Channel to England
and back-Several hundred miles journey.
Dressed in worn garments of the lower class, as
seller of cheese or old lace, she moved from
one refuge to another as in game of checkers.
One such place was in the frontier village of
Estaimpuis six yards from the border-line. If
she was stopped, she showed false identity
Geyter, in Mouscron another frontier town,
made so cleverly that the Germans never sus-
pected them.
On the frontier between France and Bel
GUM Marie-Leone van Houtte had already