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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
big BUSINESS
CAUSED CRASH,
SAYS TRAYL0R
Shut Eyes to Inevitable,
Banker Tells Senate
Planning Group.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ire
sponsibility for depression in the
United States was assigned today
by Melvin G. Traylor, Chicago
banker, partly to conditions arising
from the World war, and partly to
the policies of American industrial
lists, government officials and the
federal reserve board.
He said industrialists had before
them in boom years facts which in
Dictated the trend toward depressed
conditions. 1.-THE danger signals
were obvious by 1922 he said.
1.-The degree of intelligence eXer-
cised by u.s." Traylor told the sem
ate economic planning committee,
docs not entitle us to very much
credit as wise men," He said few
government or industrial leaders
made obvious the concern which
they felt.
ut is perfectly obvious now" he
continued, and some felt so at che
time, that the federal reserve policy
of 1927 was, to say the least, unfor-
tunate. Interest rates should have
been raised stiffly. They we're re-
duced.
Lost Through Lending
Commercial banks in the main
were conducted Soundly with regard
to market speculation. The effect Of
this SoundneSs was lost by lending
money by large corporations in the
call money market. No other mar
ket ever had been financed as much
by industrial credit"
He said call money conditions in
the United States and other fac
tors attracted about $3,00O,000,0 900
from abroad. This, combined with
the lending policy of corporations
with large cash assets, combined to
take from the management OF
American banks the ability to reg
ulate the supply of credit"
Traylor said he believed invest
ment houses more than any others
of the banking fraternity disre-
garded the signs of danger"
MARY of their promotions we're
ill-advised," he continued, land they
we're due largely to the appetite
of the American investor"
TrayIor is Doubtful
Chairman Robert M. La Toilette
asked Traylor whether a national
economic planning council could
remedy conditions. Traylor was
doubtful. He thought individual
industries could do much within
themselves toward "Stabilizing out
put and labor"
I'm retrospect, the foreign f1nanc-
ing policies of the pre-depression
period were not we'll advised in
many instances" Traylor said. "Our
foreign credit policy was perhaps
too liberal from 1925 to 1927"
But in fairness to our lenders
abroad, it must be said that fol-
lowing approval of the so-called
Dawes plan, and the funding of war
debts owed the United States, most
of the world felt that beginning
Of permanent settlement was on
the way. American investors felt
there was no better way to serve
American industry and agriculture
than to follow the course they did
The real cause of world economic
disorder Traylor said, was de-
struction of 100000, 100000 of capt.
tai during the war"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

n
TN the lower row of pictures are
4 Qeft to right:
Kenneth Earl and James Lewis
Reddrick, Woodside kindergarten,
$3.50 Southeastern avenue. Life'S
big grin for them, as the picture
tells the story.
Mildred and Margaret Bayless,
Irvington kindergarten, 10 john
son avenue. They're the way
out-east representatives of this
group.
Creighton and William Kimler,
Fairview kindergarten, 4153
Boulevard place. This is just al
informal at-home pose.
Bobby and Billie McNaughton,
Broad Ripple kindergarten, 6255
College avenue. They're sitting
quietly here, but on Christmas
morning do you think they'll be
placid?
Jack and James Durham, Holli-
day kindergarten, 1716 Union
street. You get three guesses as
to what causes their pensive mood
during this holiday season.
Mary Jean and Myra Jane
Briggs, Fall Greek kindergarten,
903 West Thirtieth street. Don't
you like those hair ribbons?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
DR.. KING TO BE SPEAKER
State Health Head to Address Ses-
sion in Minnesota.

Address on results of the White
House child welfare conference and
the Indiana health plan will be
made Monday by DR.. William F.
King, director of the state health
board, at st. Paul, MINI, at a con-
vention Of public health officers.
Plans for the coming convention
OF the Indiana branch of the Amer
lean Waterworks Association were
to be outlined today at the Cham
Der OF Commerce at meeting at
tended by King and Lewis Finch.
president OF the Indiana group, and
chief engineer of the state health
board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
City Dealers
VIII Sell Ton
of MiStletOe

How many kisses in a ton of mis-
tletoe? That's a problem for some
unemployed mathematician.
indianapolis dealers estimate
from previous sales that probably a
ton of this holiday trimming will be
utilized during the Christmas
season
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
COMEDY TO BE GIVEN
Roland Smith to Have Leading Part
in EpwOrth League Affair

Roland Smith will have the lead
ing part in Marrying Off Father, >"
a two-act comedy to be given Tues
day by the Merritt Place Epworth
League in the auditorium of the
Methodist nurses home, Eighteenth
street and Capitol avenue.
Others in the cast are: Marie
Harris, Irma Long, Mabelle Halter,
Fred Harris and Glenn Reynolds.
Ruth Thompson is directing the
play and Gertrude Reynolds is in
charge of ticket sale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
TWO ATTEMPT SUICIDE

Man Slabs Himself in Lung;
Another Swallows Poison Draught.
Dependent over domestic affairs,
Ora johnson, 43, of 9o2 Broadway.
Thursday attempted to commit
suicide by stabbing himself in the
right lung with a knife. His con-
dition is serious, city hospital at
tacheS said.
Because he was tired of every
thing" Walter Jackson, 81, of POSI-
Park avenue, taxi driver, swallowed
a quantity of poison today. His con-
dition is critical.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
DAIRYMEN NAME HEAD
George Palmer, South Bend, Slated
to Assume Presidency.

George Palmer, South Bend dairy
man, was named to succeed George
Fosdick of Charlottesville, as pres
ident Of the Indiana Manufacturers
Of Dairy Products at the final
session of the convention at the
Lincoln, Thursday.
L. D. Trent of Huntingburg was
named treasurer, and Ralph w.
Bales of Indianapolis was reelected
executive secretary. Directors named
are Mr.. Fosdick, M. B. Morgan of
Lafayette, o. F. Slagle of Indianapo-
lis, j. c. Scharf of New Albany, Don
Spugnardi of Indianapolis, E. T.
Moore Of Muncie, and Ed Nance of
Brazil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
HOLD HEARING ON GEMS
Trustees Seek to Recover Jewelers.
Alleged Hidden Assets.

Hearing on petition of trustees in
bankruptcy to recover jewels val
ued at $500, for secretion of which
Leo Roos, former Anderson jeweler,
is serving five-year term in Leav-
enworth federal prison, was resumed
by Carl Wilde, federal bankruptcy
referee today.
Attorneys for the trustees. in their
attempt to recover the gems, have
questioned Emil Roos, son of the
man convicted here recently. The
son, jeweler in Muncie, was on the
witness stand today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

MistIetoe serves many decorative
purposes, but its most popular posi-
ton in the holiday scheme is SuS-
pension from some strategic door,
way or chandelier where pretty
maidens may be caught unaware.
Mistletoe is sold by the pound. It
takes just sprig overhead to invite
a stolen kiss. A thousand pounds of
miStletoe hanging over thousands of
doorwayS mean how many thousand
kisses?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

Most of us are not so we'll in
formed on Wellington and we
generally label him as the man who
whipped Napoleon at Waterloo.
Philip Guedalla in his book, well
ington," shows that Wellington was
quite a fighting man. This book is
the December choice of the Literary
Guild. Published by Harpers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
CAST HEADS ROAD MEN
Warsaw Man Is Reelected to
Presidency of State Group.

Continued public construction
work as means of relieving unem-
ployment was Endorsed in a reso-
luton adopted Thursday at the
closing session of the Indiana
highway constructors convention at
the Claypool.
Officers reelected we're: E. A.
Cast, Warsaw, president; Edgar
Trayiol, Evansville, vice-president;
Fred Cunningham, Indianapolis,
secretary, and W. M. Holland, In
dianapolis, executive secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Church Used as Cloak
by Woman in SzeindIe

tributed S.; Glen Byrd and
Frank Hoffacker, 50. each.
Hoffacker, a restaurant pro-
prietor, said he wasn't much i'm
pressed with the idea but when
the woman asked: You GER
tainly appreciate the trade given
you by the Methodist people,
don't you?" he weakened.
Marley, a grocer, fell when
the woman said:
Il haven't seen you in church
lately"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
Bus Line Permit Sought

Permission to operate a bus line
on State Road "a between Danville,
Ill, and Indianapolis, via Craw-
louisville, was sought today by the
Swallow Coach Lines, Inc, in q
petition fled with the public service
commission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
GRADUATE NURSES MEET
Dinner Held by Fletcher Santa
rum Association at Hotel.

Alumni association of the DR.. w.
B. Fletcher Sanitarium training
school for nurses held its annual
dinner Thursday night at Sphinx
Arms hotel
Speakers were DR.. Urbana Sphinx,
superintendent of the school; Miss
Mary T. Walsh, deirsctor of the In
diana state board of examination
and registration of nurses, and Mrs.
Othniel Hitch, a graduate.
Twenty-four persons we're present,
representing classes back to 1905.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
By Times Special

DLUFFTON, Ind, Dec. IL
- Mrs. M. Brown has come
and gone and several residents
of Bluffton are poorer as a re-
suit of her visit.
Stating she was soliciting adj
vertisements for a paper to be
published for the Methodist La
dies Aid society, the woman OBJ
tanned So from Henry Gehrett,
coal dealer; Art Costello con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
WOMAN ON RAMPAGE
Charged With Drunkenness, Vag-
rancy and Carrying Weapons.

Staging a battle in chill parlor
at $50 Massachusetts, avenue, Thurs
day night, an unidentified woman
had customers and taxi drivers flee
ing for safety when police arrived.
She refused to tell police her
name and when placed in the squad
car a butcher knife dropped from
under her coat.
Slated as Mary Doe" she is
charged with drunkenness, carrying
concealed weapons and vagrancy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
SHOT WHILE HUNTING
WiIbert White Wounded in Foot as
Friends Gun Is Discharged.

Friends Gun Is Discharged.
Shot in the foot when a gun in
the hands of a companion was dis
charged accidentally, Wilbert White,
%, of 1852 North La Sale street,
was recovering at his home today.
White was shot by Ellsworth Gar
rett, II, of 2126 North oxford street,
while the two were hunting near
Laurel, Ind. Garrett said he was
attempting to unload rife when
it was discharged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
New Haven Bank Closes

New Haven State bank, an insti-
tuition with assets of 1852 900. closed
its doors today, according to officials
of the state banking department.
H. H. Grub is president, and C. j.
Linden is cashier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
OWEN is TAKEN HOME
Police Lieutenant Is Recovering
From Auto Crash Injuries.

From Auto Crash Injuries.
Recovering from injuries received
in an automobile crash Sunday
night, Lieutenant Frank Owen, head
Of the police accident prevention
department, was taken to his home
from the city hospital late Thurs
day.
Owen sustained three broken ribs,
leg cuts and bruises. The accident
occurred at Sixteenth street and
Broadway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
ARRANGE BENEFIT PARTY

Proceeds to Be Used for Relief of
Unemployed City Freshmen.
Benefit card party will be given
Tuesday night, Dec. % at Tomlinson
hall by members of Indianapolis
Printing Pressmen'S Union No. IT..
Proceeds will be used for the relief
Of unemployed pressmen.
Admission tickets may be obtained
by calling DR.. 3409 or Oh. 6348.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

After looking through The Stag
At Eve" it should not be difficult to
understand why Farrar and Rine-
hart chose the picture they did for
the 1882 Stag At Eve" calendar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11

Bernard Sobel is now resting after
having gotten his book, 'Burleycue,"
off to a good start and having
launched The Follies in Washing
ton.
Many Broadway celebrities have
had a night club named after them,
but so far as we know, no celebrity
has had night club named after
his book. The club in question is
to be called "Burleycue," after Mr..
Sobel's famous book.
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
GANGLAND SPY
PUT ON SPOT

CHICAGO, March 81 GN.SO.
Max Tender, put on the spot"
last night by two assassins, was
widely known in the underworlds
of New York and Chicago as
gangland spy, police informer,
counterfeiter and chieftain of
narcotic peddling ring, police re-
vealed today.
Two gangsters, who had been
lying in wait for Tender, alias
Max Williams, ran up to him as
he was buying a newspaper and
shot him dead. Theater crowds
witnessed the Staying and saw
the killers flee.
Tender was known as the man
to whom "Scarface Al' Capone
had granted the concession for
selling narcotics in the Chicago
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The Washington times., 1931-03-31
12-CT. COTTON
WR|GLEY AIM

CHICAGO, March 81 GN.SO.
A plan to lift cotton out of it's
present price slump and peg the
price. of the commodity at IL
cents a pound was announced to-
day by William Wrigley, jr.
Wrigley, working through five
southern banks, announced that
all the receipts Of the William
Wrigley Company from the cot
ton producing states will be used
Immediately upon their collection
for the purchase of cotton in the
open market.
He declared the company will
continue to buy cotton so long
as the price remained at IL cents
a pound or below.
The annual receipts Of the
Wrigley company in the cotton
belt are approximately $12,0O0,.
600. That will purchase 100000
bales, or 4 per cent of the nations
visible cotton supply, at the
pegged price of IL cents pound.
In announcing the plan, Wrig-
ley pointed out that if Is other
large firms selling their products
throughout the South will follow
the same procedure, the price of
the entire crop can be, in effect,
guaranteed at a level of IL cents
a pound.
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
Dope Peddler Flees
Jail With Child
Now Sought

SUPERIOR, Wis, March 81
Q.N.SO.-The sheriff'S office to-
day was looking for a 3-year-old
baby who was the cause of the
escape of C. w. Red" Haggerty
from the county jail, where he
was being held on a narcotic
peddling charge.
Haggerty, who police say has
served in Leavenworth for trad
ing in narcotics, took advantage
of a crowded condition in the
jail yesterday by picking up the
child and walking to freedom
with the 3-year-old under his
arm.
The child had been left in
the waiting room by a woman
whose name was not learned
Haggerty was at liberty on
$4,000 bond in st. Paul pending
an appeal on a 10-year sentence
for violation of the narcotic Jaw
when he was arrested Saturday
for possessing $1,000 worth Of
narcotics.
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
LISTENS
To STORY Of
HILL FEUD
Slain Mans Widow on Stand
As Murder Hearing 0pens;I
Defendant Appears Calm

LURAY, Va, March 31.-David
Sours, stolid Blue Ridge noun
taineer, today sat in the court
house of this little mountain
town and heard the widow of
Edward Buracker tell of the feud
that existed between her hus-
bands family and the Sours fam
lily for years before Buracker's
body was found covered with
leaves. and sticks on the noun
tainSide.
Although SOurs is charged with
Staying BuraCker as the outcome
of the feud, he sat cheerfully
through the opening of the trial
and seemed little concerned with
the serious charge he faces.
MOuntaineers On Hand
The town was crowded with
mountain people who came in
from their isolated homes to at
tend the trial. Although trouble
was feared at first, the crowd has
been orderly and no disorder Is
now anticipated.
Mrs. Buracker was the first
witness to take the stand. She
told of a disagreement between
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The Washington times., 1931-03-31

NEW YORK, March 31.-A
regular transatlantic airship serV-
ice between the United States and
Germany will begin in 1888, DR..
Hugo Eckener, German dirigible
veteran, definitely announced be
fore sailing for home today.
Friedrichshafen and New York
will be the terminals of the
dirigible line. There will be a
stub mooring mast located in the
New York area for the embarking
and debarking of passengers and
a hangar base somewhere in the
Chesapeake Bay region:
New Liner to Be First
The first air liner of the service
will be the LZ-129, now building in
Germany, which will measure
100000 cubic feet-the largest
dirigibIe in the world.
It will be 812 feet long, 153
feet in diameter and 145 feet
from the ground-larger even
than either of the two American
naval airShips being constructed
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
NO TAX BOOST,
HOOVER SAYS

Provided the next Congress fol.
lows the budget proposals made
by the Administration, there will
be no increase in taxes, President
Hoover declared today after his
first Cabinet meeting since his
return from the West Indies. He
said:
81 have canvasSed the finan-
cial situation, and can say
that there will be no increase
in taxes if the next Congress
imposes no increases upon the
budget or other expenditure
proposals which the Admins
tratiOn will present. But for
Congress to do this the people
must cooperate to effectively
discourage and postpone cOnsid-
Grafton of the demands of Sec
tiOnal and group interests"
The Washington times., 1931-03-31

PHILADELPHIA, March 81. q.
N.S0.-Overwhelming approval of
the recommendation by visiting
Judge James M. Barnett, of
Perry county, that conviction on
statutory charges carry with it q
liberal application of the lash at
an old-fashioned whipping post,
in addition to a penitentiary
term, was recorded today by a
majority of Philadelphia county
judges.
Girl Case Stirs Judge
In sentencing Guido Battari,
2S, convicted of betraying a Is
year-Old girl, Judge Barnett cx-
pressed regret he was not au-
thOrized by law to add a lash a
day to the penitentiary sentence.
Six Philadelphia County com
mon pleas court judges declared
themselves in favor Of Judge
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
NAVAL AIR HERO
DIES IN AUTO

AKRON, Ohio, March 81 1.N.S)
Lieut.. Charles E. Bauch, U. S. NJ,
a survivor of the Inflated dirigi-
BILE, Shenandoah, died at st.
Thomas Hospital here today from
injuries received in an automobile
crash last night.
Lieut.. T. w. G. Settle, who was
riding with Bauch in the latter's
automobile, was reported recover
ing from slight body injuries.
Lieutenant Bauch, who recently
was assigned here from New Jer-
sey as the first Of the crew to
operate the new Navy dirigible,
The Akron, had just attended a
banquet in his honor.
En- route to his apartment his
machine was forced into a con-
crete tier of an iron bridge. The
body will be taken to Washing
ton, D. c., tomorrow for burial.
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
Z Out of 9 Judges FAVOR
Whippirg Post Penalty

Barnett'S proposal, two took a
definite stand against it, and
seven others were unavailable.
Presiding Judge Harry S. Nc
Dewitt, terming all bandits "coW-
ards at heart" declared they
feared the whipping post far
more than a prison term.
Whipping Bill Pending
Judge Horace Stern, however,
said the lash would prove a poor
means of rebuilding a criminals
mind.
Under the MacDade bill, now
before the State legislature, cel-
tain crimes including statutory
offenses, mayhem, kidnapping, ar
son and the use of machine guns
and bombs by criminals, would
be punishable by specified num-
ber of lashes administered by the
county sheriff.
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
Youth, Blind Since Birth,
MarveLs at Daylight

sunlight. Recently he was able to
see objects which he had known
only through the sense of touch
D. w. Laubach, the boys uncle
described today the joy and be
wilderment of the boy on his
awakening" He said:
''He seemed amazed when he
first saw the hospital and its
attaches. Everything was
strange to him. He wanted to
see everything at once. The
cOlOring of flowers particularly
fascinated him.
1--WE had to proceed carefully,
however, until he had fully re-
covered from the operation, be-
lieved to be the first of its
kind"
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
Rock Creek Rises,
FOrdS Are Closed

Although the four fords in Rock
Creek Park are not impossible,
motorists have been asked to de-
tour as the carburators of their
machines are apt to get flooded.
The recent heavy rains have
swollen Rock Creek so that it is
running between a foot and 18
inches above normal, and recently
number of machines have had
to be pulled out of the fords when
water interfered with the car
buratorS.
The Washington times., 1931-03-31
WRECKS
NICARAGUA
CAPITAL
White House Learns Managua
Razed by Storm, Fire;
Hoover Asks Red Cross Aid

The city Of Managua, in Mica
ragua, has been partially de-
stroyed by an earthquake and fire
has broken out in the ruins, &C
cording to a dispatch received at
the White House today through
the Navy.
Managua is the capital and
largest city in Nicaragua. It is
situated on the shores of Lake
Managua, near the west coast.
Marine Post
The city has been used as head
quarters by the United States Ma
rineS; which have been stationed
in. Nicaragua since 1926. Most of
the Marines have been withdrawn,
but a force was retained there to
train and instruct the Nicaraguan
National Guard.
A special battalion Of American
Army engineers has been main
tained in Nicaragua since 1929 to
survey the route for the proposed
new interoceanic canal across
Nicaragua. The right to build
this canal, together with the right
to establish a naval base in the
Gulf of Fonseca, was acquired by
the United States for $4,000, 900.
Hoover Orders Aid
Both the Navy and State de-
partmentS were endeavoring to
establish communication with
Managua, to obtain details as to
the extent Of the catastrophe.
President Hoover instructed
the Red Cross to extend relief if
it is found to be needed.
NEW YORK, March 81 I.N.S0. ..
Reports of a "severe earthquake"
in Managua, Nicaragua, were re-
ceived by the All-America Cable
Company here today from its Of
flee at San Juan del Sur, Mica
ragua.
The messages stated all wire
less communications and govern
ment telegraph lines between
Managua and San Juan del Sur
had been interrupted.