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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
WIFE OF KIDNAP
SUSPECT URGES
HIM TO Give UP
Alleged Leader of Kansas
City Woman'S AbduCtorS,
in Canada, Belief.
ByUnited Press

~ LNitcd Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 26.-
Complete solution of the KIDNAPPING
of Kansas City's leading business
woman, Ars. Neil Quinlan Don
nelly, rests with an attractive,
middle-aged nurse, police believed
today.
Mrs. Ethel Depew, wife of Mar
shall Depew, alleged leader of the
daring gang of abductors, will be
returned here from Gloomsburg,
Pa, where she was arrested shortly
after her husband left there. He is
believed hiding across the Canadian
border from Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. Depew admitted she served
as nurse to Mrs. Donnelly's nus
band a year ago. Police believe
she supplied kidnapers with m
formation regarding the Donnelly
family and household to make pos
sible the plot.
Three other members of-the gang
already are IN jail here. Lacy
Browning and Paul Scheidt, Kan
sas farmers. admitted they were to
receive $4,000 of the $4,000 ransom
money for supplying a house where
the abductors could hold Mrs.
Donnelly.
Charley Mele. hotel clerk and
convicted bootlegger, was identified
by Mrs. Donnelly as one of the two
men who stood guard over her for
the thirty-six hours she was held
before her release.
Il think I will be able to get my
husband to surrender, if We only
can find him." Mrs. Depew told
officers I'm not going to fight
extradition back to Missouri as I
want to face this thing and get it
over with. I am innocent"
Mrs. Donnelly, millionaire man.
unfacturer of house dresses and
aprons, was released unframed al
though the kidna pers had
threatened to blind her if her hus-
band refused to pay the $4,000 they
demanded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
HOOVER CRITICISMS
LAND MAN IN JAIL

mony. He was born in Iowa of
English parents. I'm a lawyer and
Hoover's been an employe of the
British government for twenty
years.
What the President had better
do is get jobs for some of the fell
lows out of work"
An elderly man, whose name was
not obtained, joined Stewart and
Schroeder, and the latter repeated
his accusations, Stewart told the
court.
There's an organization in this
country that will get Hoover yet,
Schroeder was alleged to have said.
Asked in court today whether he
was a Communist, Schroeder replied
I'm a Democrat"
Stewart said he called officers
after Schroeder continued to crit
icise the President and his admin
istration.
But didn't get that Christmas
dinner, Schroeder told Cameron.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
City Judge Orders Mental
Test for Fault
Democrat

Berating President Hoover cost
Otto c. Schroeder, 40, Long Lake,
Mich, Christmas dinner Friday
and today he was committed to the
city hospital psychopathic ward for
observation by Municipal Judge
Clifton r. Cameron.
c. w. Stewart. 1911 East Thirty
eighth street. was looking for a
fourth man to whom he could give
a dinner Friday.
He told the judge he met
Schroeder in front of downtown
bank, where the latter was gazing
at a picture of the President and
his cabinet.
Il don't think Hoover's a citizen
of ,she United States" Schroeder
said. according to Stewards tasti-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
HUGE sum PAID
BACK IN TAXES
Four Firms Refunds Are
More Than Million.
By United Press

BY CHitcG PTeSS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The
government is paying back to tax
payers $65,000,000 in tax refunds for
the 1881 fiscal year. The treasury
department sent to congress today
the list of refunds as required by
law The total refunds for 1881
were approximately half those for
1880, which totaled $126,000,000.
The Prairie Pipe Line Company.
Independence, Kan, received the
largest refund, $1,784,000 A subsi-
diary, the Prairie Oil and Gas Com
pany, received an additional $751;
600. The Illinois Central railroad
collected $1,158,675 and the United
Verde Copper Company of Arizona,
$1,047, 399 They were the only re-
funds over $1,OOO,0OO although there
were several over the half million
dollar mark.
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
Mellon received refund on his
personal income tax of S86,938.
John D. Rockefeller collected
refund of $31,324 and John D.
Rockefeller Jr., $1,804.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
KIRBY PACE TO
SPEAK At CLUB
Editor, Lecturer to Address
Group Here. Ian. 4.

Kirby Page, magazine editor and
lecturer, will speak on The Dis
armament Conference and the
World Economic Situation" at a
luncheon of the Indiana Council Of
International Relations Jan. 4 at
the Columbia Club. it was an
nounced today.
He also will attend informal din
ner of members Of the council in
the Sphinx Arms, Page will speak on
current happenings and their rela-
ton to the peace movement. The
talk at the Columbia Club will be
open to the public.
In charge of arrangements for
the lecture is DR.. James A. Wood
burn, president of the councils
executive board. Sponsors include
E. T. Albertson. Bishop Edgar Blake,
Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Mrs. A. T..
Coate, l. G. Dawes. Rabbi M. M Feuer-
ncht, the Rev. George A. Franz, the Rev.
Father Francis GaVisk. Professor j. j.
Haramy, DR.. Amos S. Hershey, Louis
Rowland, DR.. Frederick Kerschner, DR.. G.
Bromley Oman, DR.. Tobert Reavis the
Rev. w. A. Shullenberger, Rabbi Milton
Steinberg, ). z. Thornton and the Rev.
Frank S. c. wicks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
NATIONS RELIEF
NEEDS WILL Be
TOLD CONGRESS
Senate to Begin Hearings
on La Toilette Costigan
Bills Monday.

BIZ Scripps-H oicdrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Several
of the country'S foremost admins
traitors of relief to the unemployed
have been asked to testify at the
hearings which will begin Monday
before the senate committee on
manufacturers, on the Costigan and
La Follette~bil for direct relief.
The two measures have many
points of similarity and agree in
principle, although differing in de-
tails. Both embody the policy OF
making federal funds applicable TO
state or county agencies of relief,
when such aid is requested by local
governments in accordance with
prescribed requirements.
In the Costigan bill, the prin-
ciple of federal aid as now used
in financing public highways is en-
ployed, to encourage local govern
ments to match a portion OF the
governments funds with appropria-
tons of their own.
The La Toilette measure would
make $3.50, 900 available at once;
the Costigan act would appropriate
1925, 100000 for the balance of the
present fiscal year and S25O,000,000
for the next.
Among those asked to appear are
Jacob Billikopf, director of the
Federation of Jewish Charities, of
Philadelphia; Walter West, secretary
of the American Association of So
cial Workers, of New York City;
William Hodson of the New York
Social Welfare Council of New
York City; Paul Kellogg, editor of
the Survey, and Ralph Hurlin of
the Russell Sage Foundation.
The hearings are expected to
throw accurate light on the ability
or inability of private relief to meet
the demands of the coming winter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
NICK ALEXANDER DIES
Kahn EmpIoye Had Resided in City
Twenty-Five Years.

Nick Alexander, So, a native Of
Asia Minor, died early today at
his residence, 973 North West street.
after an illness of two months. He
was a resident of indianapolis 25
years.
Funeral services will be held at 2
Monday afternoon at the Greek Or
thodox church, 231 North West
street.
Mr.. Alexander was an employee Of
the Kahn Tailoring Company for
several years.
Survivors are his mother, Mrs,
Elizabeth Alexander; a sister, Mrs.
ANGELA Paris, and brother, Harry
Alexander.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
FORMER CITY MAN
DIES IN PITTSBURGH
". P. Shooter, Brother of Local
Woman, Succunbs; Burial Here.

". P. Shooter, Brother of Local
Woman, Succumbs; Burial Here.
Word has been received by Mrs.
John Cade, 1898 Broadway, of the
death of her brother, w. P. Shooter
of Pittsburgh, formerly buyer in
the mems furnishing department of
Pettis Dry Goods Company.
Mr.. Shooter died Friday in Pitts
burgh, where he was merchandise
manager in the downstairs store of
Gimbel Brothers.
Funeral services will be held on
Monday at $3.50 in F1anner & Bu-
chanan mortuary, with burial in
Crown Hill cemetery.
Mr.. Shooter is survived by the
widow, three children, his parents
and a sister in Kansas City. Mo.
He was a member of the Pentalpha
lodge of Nasons and Scottish Rite
of Boston, Mass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
CONFIDENT
u. S. WILL RECOVER

banks to cope with mortgage fore
closures.
He has proposed a system of home
discount banks to ease the burdens
of mortgaged home owners. Con-
gress is rushing these measul eS.
Leaders in both parties, subordinat-
ing ordinary politics, are co-operat-
ing. There is a general conviction
in congress, regardless of party, that
the administrations recovery nea-
sures must be supported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
D. S. HOPES DWTNDLE FOR COLLECTION OF WAR DEBTS
Life of Elephant SaUed
by Portland Mayor as
Beast Goes on Rampage
No Go, officer
ENI-niicd Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. ga
young Washington woman has
learned by experience that it
pays to know foreign Ian
guage.
Stopped by a traffic officer
after she had passed a red
light, she listened in blank
silence While he lectured her at
length, then responded in per-
feet finishing school French:
Je ne comprends pas I'm
mot.
The disguised policeman re-
piled:
All, you'le just another of
them oreigners," and let her
go, after pointing repeatedly at
a red light and saying. slowly
and distinctly: Red, no go;
red, no CO."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
DIESEL TO BE STOPPED
Oil Burning Truck Has Shattered
All Continuous Run Records.

Engine of the Cummins Diesel
truck was to be stopped at the In
dianapolis Motor Speedway this
afternoon at the completion of
fourteen days of continuous run
ming.
At 10 today, the truck passed the
14,425-mile mark at an average
speed of 43.44 miles On hour. At
this afternoon the truck will have
gone approximately 1850 miles.
The marks break all existing non
stop records.
Jay Chambers was at the wheel
of the vehicle in the last hours OF
the run, and c. L. Cummins, in
ventor and builder, had returned
today from Columbus, Ind, his
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Cure for Depression Means
Bitter Doses to Make
World Well Again.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-This
troubled old world shuffles into a
new year with woes aplenty but with
confidence, so far as Washington is
concerned, that if certain bitter
doses are taken bravely, the patient
will recover the more quickly and
live to enjoy robust health again.
Above all, Washington now would
impress on the country that critical
illness requires courageous and not
always pleasant treatment. That, it
is now felt here, must be realized
thoroughly. For months, early in
the depression, the administration
sought cure by the magic formula
of repeating to the country that all
would be we'll in sixty days. Now it
is convinced that the country will
recover, but not by sitting down to
wait for something to turn up.
Summing up the official view here.
America is not bankrupt, but on
the contrary has the same huge
natural resources, the same business
enterprise and ingenuity, and the
same sturdy aggressive people it
had three years ago.
Cites Pregnant Facts
But affairs are disjointed tempo
rarily and the following facts must
be clearly seen as obstacles to he
met:
All values have been slashed.
Commodity prices are down to 1918
levels, some things, such as wheat
being 20 per cent below.
Total wage OUTLAWS are estimated
to have declined at least As per cent
below July 1929
Business activity has declined
probably 40 per cent from the 1929
peak.
Dividends are off at least one
third.
Exports. on value basis, are 40
per cent below last year.
Foreign buying power has been
shattered. Germany has been
lettering on the edge of bank
ruptcy; England, Japan and several
other countries have been forced off
the gold standard; they no longer
are good customers
Normally Cut OFF
Facing this situation, President
Hoover has attempted such remedies
as he can devise to help along the
natural processes Of recovery.
DomeStically his major recommen-
dation is for the $4,000 100000 recon-
struction finance corporation.
1t would supply credit to rail-
roads, banks and various industries
which are cut off from normal
sources of working funds, He has
proposed adding 100000, 900 to the
capital of the federal farm land
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
MANY GIFTS SENT
TO INJURED ATHLETE
Friends at Tech Remember TayIor.
Hurt on Gridiron.


Friends of Tommy Taylor, Tech
nical high school football player,
injured in the Tech-Manual game,
Oct. %, came, bearing gifts, .
Friday.
Tommy, who is suffering from
two broken vertebrate, received
friends all day long. Gifts included
books and flowers
Christmas eve, members of the
Tech Concert Club sang Christmas
carols and presented him with a
small Christmas tree decorated
with tinsel and lights.
Tommy is much improved, follow
ing his day of Christmas greetings,
according to Miss Wilma Shaull,
his private nurse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
CAR HURLED SEVERAL
YARDS BY FREIGHT
Cuts and Bruises Only Injuries in
Crossing Crash.

Crossing Crash.
Three persons narrowly escaped
death today when their car was
hurled several yards by freight
train at the Morris street crossing
of the Belt railroad.
Frank Simpson, %, of Orleans,
Ind, sustained arm cuts, and his
wife, Phyllis, IS, and Mrs. A. j.
Gardner. So, of Campbellsburg, were
shaken.
Simpson claimed there was no
warning signal of the trains ap-
proach, although other witnesses
claimed the signal lights we're fash
ing.
The car was hurled from the
track by the b & o. train and
barely missed the shanty of B. F.
Uhl, Bridgeport, indianapolis Street
Railway Company f1agman.
H. O. Newton, SO North Mount
street, was conductor. and Patrick
Brooks, 240O West Washington
street, engineer of the train.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Shortage Probe Planned
~ Times Special

y 0F'UfWN
MARION, Ind, Dec. 26.-Mayor
Jack Edwards announces an investi-
cation will be made to determine
what became of 81 1886 missing from
funds of the city water department.
Everett McAtee, former chief clerk
OF the department, was acquitted
this week of embezzling the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
StnIen Watch Fnnnd

FRANKLIN, Ind, Dec. Is. A
watch stolen from the home of
Isaac T. Bice here Nov. 16, was
found in a pile of leaves in a gut
ter by Mrs George Dillow. The
watch was presented to Bice thirty
years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
8 DIE IN INDIAN REVOLT

Fifty Others Are Wounded as
Troops Clash With 500 Red Shirts
81 United Press
PESHAWAR, India. Dec. 90
Eight persons were killed and fifty
others, including the superintendent
of police. we're wounded today when
soldiers fired on a crowd of 500 red
shirts" followers of Abdul Ghaffir
Khan. head of the anti-British
movement among frontier tribes
men.
The red shirts" had gathered
outside the Kohat cantonment.
When they refused to disperSe, po-
lice charged, welding long bamboo
sticks. The crowd drove the police
back and the military then opened
FIRE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
OFFICE TANGLE LOOMS
Two Prosecutors May Share Some
Posts; Law Not Clarified.

In the absence of a decision by the
supreme court on the validity of the
1929 prosecutors election law, it ap-
peared today several Offices of prose-
cutting attorneys throughout the state
will be shared by two men after
Jan. l.
The law provided incumbents in
thirteen circuits should remain in
Office an extra year in order that
all prosecutors in the state would
be elected in 1882 election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
THIEVES DISAPPOINTED
Break Irto Autos, but Find Loot
Hardly Worth Effort.

AAdI NY ~ VI III LAIUI o
Meager gains rewarded automo-
bile looters Friday night, according
to reports to police today.
Mrs. Melissa K. Polk, 5276 Pleas
ant Run boulevard, informed Off
GERS an umbrella and clothes, val
ued at S25, was stolen from her car.
Other thcfts were reported by Ira
j. Baker, 1923 Burgess avenue, and
Carl Sonimer, 1882 Pleasant street.
Baker said thieves smashed a WIN
dow in his car to steal a SCI over
coat and Sommer said clothing val
uel at SO was taken from his car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26

The state highway commission
has awarded contract % the
Midwest Construction Company,
Flint, Mich, for paving 1875 miles on
Road 81 between Petersburg and
Washington. The contract price
was sl99.491.91.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Cripple Kills Self

b. Times Special
ENGLISH, Ind, Dec. 26.-Desti-
tute and with his wife i'll, B. F.
Linthicum, SIS, wickliffe, a crippled
painter and paper hanger, died on
Main street here after swallowing
poison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Young Athlete Killed

JEFFERsONvILLE, Ind, Dec. 26.
--Hollie Doughty, II, star basketball
player of the Silver Creek township
high school, died in a hospital here
as result of injuries suffered in
an automobile accident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Admitted of Shaving

ENGLISH, Ind. Dec. 26.-A
Crawford circuit court jury acquitted
Gardner Hawkins, 35, TobinSport,
KY, of the Staying of Roy Little in
Perry county July 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Diplomacy Hats Tusko's
Foray, After Police
Decree Death.
BY HERBERT LUNDY
United Press stan Correspondent

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 26.-
Tusko, biggest of them all, trum-
peted at a firing squad of de-
termined policemen today. his life
saved by Frank Merriwell finish
staged by Mayor George Baker.
The largest elephant in captivity
went BerSerk Christmas day and
started on another of the gigantic
stress which have marked his fifty
two years of life, but today he again
was docile.
He snapped all but one of the
heavy chains which circled his legs,
tore his trunk from the chain which
dashed it to his broken tusks,
knocked a partition down on his
slumbering owners, and pushed q
wall out of the building which
housed him.
He stood triumphantly with a
wicked glitter in his pig-like eyes.
amid the wreckage of his home.
Death Is Ordered
A six-ton, apparently crazed ele-
plant, held in leash by single
chain, appeared bent on destroying
everything in sight. He was virtu-
ally in the center of the east side
Portland business district.
Jack O'Grady and Bayard
CSleepy) Gray, who bought Tusko
for his feed bill after he had been
abandoned at the Oregon state fair,
lost no time in calling police. Chief
Leon jenkins took one look at the
situation and ordered Tusko killed.
Lives and property might be for-
feited if TuSko freed himself of the
last chain.
1t was then, however, that Mayor
Baker entered the drama. Chief
Jenkins telephoned him, ANNOUNCE
ing that a picked rifle squad OF ten
police marksmen was about to dis
patch Tusko. They hesitated only
because they feared spraying lead
near busy street.
Portland takes its pets seriously
and Mayor Baker knows it.
The rif1emen were stayed. And
Tusko caught the spirit of the oc-
casion himself. When he crashed
through the wall, the warm sun
shine Gained his shattered nerves,
on edge from months of close con-
finement and a lack of pachyderm
companionship
Caught in Trap
Apples, carrots and hay were
tossed to him. He devoured them.
He amused himself by tearing large
sections of sheet iron from the
wrecked wall.
Late in the day, with the single
chain still holding out, but with
motorcycle side cars on which sub
machine guns were mounted stand
ing by for an elephant hunt, Tusko
was conquered.
A huge cable loop was hidden
under hay. Tusko stepped into the
trap, and winch mounted on a
truck frightened the bond. Other
legs were trapped then, and Tusko
was forced back into the building.
Mayor Baker planned to propose
an appropriation to build Tusko
roomy, steel fence Enclosure when
the council met today. For Tusko
is figure of Importance in Port
land.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-03
A Letter Of Appreciation
To the Editor of the Northwest

To the Editor of the Northwest
Enterprise:
have been waiting for sometime,
to congratulate you on two things,
particularly:
/. For the steady and persistent
fight which the Northwest Enterprise
is making for our rights as msn and
American citizens. Your attitude
has been uncompromising which is
the only sane attitude ever to take !;
the only attitude that can be taken
with any proper self-respect.
2. For your courageous fight for
decency and purity in the ministry.
men that are morally unclean have
no business in the Christian ministry,
and they should not be tolerated for
a moment. Such a strong, righteous
moral sentiment should be developed
within the church as well as without
it, as to drive such men out, and
keep them out. The last place in
the world for moral lepers to be
found is among men claiming to be
ambassadors for God to a sinful
world. You have done, and may still
do, through your paper, good many
things for the uplift of the race; but
in nothinga mill you render great
er service to it than in. the efforts
that you are making to hold up to
Just Reproduction and to drive out of
our pulpits unworthy men. Keep W
the fight for decency and purity.
CRY aloud spare not, lift up thy
voice like a trumpet" is what the In
spired Record says.
And in the name of the Great
Founder of the Church. | say. the
same to you: Go on in the way
you have been going. Continue tc
cry aloud, and spare not, even those
in the highest places. Your labors
will not be in vain.
(Rev.) FRANCIS J. GRIMKE
Washington, d. c.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-03
Editorials
Ignoble Terms

"NigEer," "Pickanniny," Oar
key" Coon" and the likel How
long arc we to be beleaguered thru
the white press and over the radio
with such oppobrobious terms? The
terms nanny" and "pickanniny"
have been used so long and with such
abandon that they are almost un-
challenged by the supinely, silent
and Intellectual leadership. "Darky"
is applied to us even in the pulpit
by divines who beat the Bible and
expound upon brotherly love in the
same breath. These terms are nei-
Their endearing nor ennobling. They
subtly carry over the idea of derision
and lack of respect. They fit in ex-
actly the same category as 'Dago,"
"Wop," "Bohunk" and "Kike." Do
you hear these terms applied to 1tal-
ians, Bohemians, Greeks and Jews
over the radio or in the pulpit, or
do we read them in the daily papers? ?
All such appellations are cordial
ly resented by colored people even
though they have little recourse. Of
course there are means whereby we
may express our resentment and the
methods are being crystalized daily
in the minds of the great co-frater-
nifty of darker races. We will boy
colt those who insult us, we will not
cooperate with those who do feign
respect for us. We will not be cru
Gifted on the cross of racial hatred
without drawing blood. The signs
of the times are OmlnOuS.