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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
WORLD-TOUR PLANE
IS SOLD FOR 500

Pride Of Detroit Purchased at
Sheriff's Sale to Satisfy Judgment.
DETROIT, April 21.-The historic
plane Pride of Detroit" in which
Edward Schlee and William Brock
made their flight from Detroit to
Toxic, was sold at a sheriff's sale
Monday for S700
The purchaser was Floyd NJ.
Phinney. The sale was to satisfy
a S7,140 judgment against Andrew
c. and Edward Schlee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
FRANCE SENDS HUGE
GOLD LOAD TO u. S,
S3,50O,OO0 Bullion Shipment to Re-
duce Bank Reserves.
By United Press

duce Bank Reserves.
By United Press
NEW YORK, April PA gold
movement from Paris to the United
States was indicated today when a
consignment of $3.500oO0 was dis
patched from the French capital to
Lazard Freres on the steamship
Paris.
1t was the first large gold ship
ment from Paris to New York in
the last few years and is considered
to be the first move in reducing the
vast gold reserves of the Bank of
France, which many European ex-
perts have blamed in part for the
continental economic situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
Child Fatally Burned

BENGAL, Ind, April 2o.-Burns
suffered when his clothing caught
fire while he was playing near a
bonfire proved fatal to Ralph Bass.
c. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Bass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
BACK HOME AGAIN

stolen automobiles found by police be-
long to:
Buick tudor F1dan 2ol-742 Ohio. found
- fTent eS SCI Davidson street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
"a = -
.AS TIE r
LONG DISTANCE
T z AIN
IN THE WORLD
-. OVER THE ONLY
WATER LEVEL ROUTE

World championship long-dis-
lance speed :. with the match.
less COMFORT of the only
Water Level Route to the East.
That's what New York Central
Lines Southwestern Limited
and Knickerbocker offer you.
The de luxe Southwestern
Limited now offers travellers
the comfort of the new Pri-
cate Bedrooms, at a cost of
only $1,000 for railroad and
Pullman tickets (single occu-
pancy), Indianapolis to New
York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
BIZ United Press

DOVER, Eng, April 21.-Alfonso
XIII arrived here from France at
4:40 p. m. today, accompanied by
the duke Of Miranda and by Jose
Maria Quinones De Leon, former
ambassador to France.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
KING MAY COME HERE
Alfonso to be Invited to Attend
500 Mile Speedway Race.

Karl A. Bickel, president of the
United Press Association, has been
asked to extend to Alfonso XIII,
exiled king of Spain, an invitation
to attend the international 500-mile
automobile race here May 80, it was
announced today.
Speedway officials hoped King Al
fonSo's enthusiasm for automobiles
and racing would cause him to &C
cept. Bickel met the Spanish king
while on world tour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21

, Other FnVorite Trains
1I:30 o.m.
Fifth Avenue Special
Ar, New York $50 am.
900 pm
Hudson River Express
Ar. New York s:o2 pm.
Io:55 pm.
The Missourion
AZ. re" foFk Ar. Boston
o;So pm 9;As pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27

and walked out Of the pen in which he
was being held. This has happened be-
fore. Escapes have occurred in circum-
stances of similar laxity on past occa-
sions. In police stations, as well as in
the court and in prisons also, safe
guards against escape have been weak
ened and persons accused Of crime and
misconduct have vanished. Some of
them have never been recaptured. In
one case, in this CITY,. q highly i'm
portant prisoner, wanted in other cities
as well as held here for Q grave crime,
got away through some mysterious
means. Bribery was suspected, but
never clearly proved. However, it might
have been a case of poorly managed
lock. Yesterdays Police Court escape
was fortunately soon followed by the
rscapture of the fugitive. But that
does not lessen the gravity Of the Of
Tense committed by some one RESPONSE
BILE for the safekeeping of prisoners in
the failure to secure the cell door. The
hope is that some system Of checking,
and even double checking, will be
adopted to insure that the door lockers
actually lock the doors when they close
them upon persons held for trial or
awaiting transfer to jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
u. S. Contract Holders
Hit PaytOW Orkers

To the Editor OF The Star:
The Government has called for bids
to raze three squares between Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Constitution avenue
and Ninth and Tenth streets northwest,
known as squares $50, 381 and 1872, for
the $10.00O.000 Department Of Justice
Building, receiving III bids, of which
are local. The lowest bid, $12,7 $50,
comes from . Chicago company, and
the highest bid, $85, 1000, Is from q
local man. The law requires an eight
hour day, am told, but does not re-
quirei the contractor to pay . living
wage.
I understand they are paying rs and
80 cents an hour for work. on the
Center Market razing for the Archives
Building. It seems unfair for our rich
Government to allow such low wages
to be paid, even by contractors, for
men, but they foster such action by
giving the contract to the lowest re-
sponsible bidder, as required by another
laundering law. Compare Congress-
mems $10,000-a-year salary for often
only three months alleged work" with
the stipend these poor creatures earn,
and temporary job at that, and you
will not be surprised at the increase
in crime, and this on an alleged
Justice" Department. and this GER
tainly is rank injustice.
@. T. McCONVEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
America and Customs Union.

Secretary Stimson Is turning the
State Department X-rays on the pro-
posed Austro- German customs union.
Students Of the proposition, be 1t noted
in passing, are not yet confronted by
an accomplished fact. The two high
contracting parties announce that q
year of pre-readjustment of their re-
spective tariffs to the contemplated
free trade reciprocity will be neces-
sary before it can come into effect.
Secondly, the arrangement, as now
planned, is to be for three years only.
The United States Government, less
interested than Europe in the po-
htical implications Of the AuStro-Ger-
man scheme, is concerned primarily
with its purely commercial aspect.
We have a MISREPRESENTATION tariff
treaty with Germany. A similar con-
yention with Austria remains un-
validated because Vienna has not rati-
fed it. Secretary Stimson intends to
assure himself that nothing in the
projected customs Zweibund prejudices
the rights guaranteed us under the
treaty with Germany. On the face Of
things, as far as the world has been
permitted TO know them. there is no
indication that these rights are in the
remotest jeopardy. II the deal results
in enhancing prosperity in Germany
and Austria, America stands only to
Safn IN those markets through re-
sultant increase in their consuming ca
pacity,
II Austria sells automobiles, agricul-
tural machinery, textiles or whatnot u
Germany, and the Germans admit then
duty-free, then, ipso facto, American
automobiles, agricultural machinery anc
textiles would cross the Reich's customs
borders on precisely the same terms
Identical conditions would prevail with
respect to our exports TO Austria, pro-
yided, as Is probable, we eventual!
come 10 a most characterization agree.
ment with the emacisted remains o.
the Hapsburg empire that now consti
! tute the Austrian state. The import
| of either German or Austrian good
| into the United States are not affected
one way or the other. by the proposes
customs union.
] At the Geneva Economic Conference
OF 1927, in which this country was abb.
represented by . delegation headed b.
Or. Julius Klein, the United State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27

Secretary Stimson is now looking with
eagle eyes.
President Hoover's trip to Porto Rice
recalls that one of Washington's native
Sons-Col. Bailey K. Ashford, Medical
Corps, U. 8. Alas done as much for
that fair island as any one now living
having reduced its death rate by 90 pei
cent. In "Our Times" Mark Sullivan
heads chapter on Ashford, "A Hero OF
Medicine" ranking him with Gorgas
and Walter Reed. Ordered to Porto
Rico for duty with American troops
during the Spanish American War
Ashford determined the cause Of the
anemia that afflicted the agricultural
classes in Porto Rico, later proclaimed
as "hookworm." Col. Ashford's work
was of the greatest Importance not only
to Porto Rico, but to the United States
1t led to the discovery Of the hookworm
disease in the Southern States, and
formed the basis for extensive cam
paigns successfully carried out. Ash
ford received his doctor of medicine and
doctor of science degrees from George
town University. Having retired from
the Army, he now heads the School of
Tropical Medicine under the auspices
Of Columbia University, at San Juan,
where he has built home.
u \
Here's something that Mussolini
really ought to look into, too. The
American macaroni and spaghetti in
dustry is growing by leaps and bounds
Not only is the annual volume now
more than soc, 1000 900 pounds, but GER
tain European countries are actually
importing macaroni from this country
in preference to the Italian article
This is hitting FaSciSm in vital spot.
Macaroni and spaghetti are being pro-
duced in this country out of species
of wheat called durum, the basic
product being semolina. The durum
wheats are Spring varieties, grown
principally in the Dakotas and Mon
tana. On from five to six million
acres farmers have been producing
so, 100000 to 100,000,00O bushels an
nually. Durum has only been grown
in the United States during the past
80 years, having been introduced from
Southern Russia and the Mediter-
ranean region. The milling of durum
is concentrated around Minneapolis
and Duluth.
An eminent New York architect, re-
Gently a visitor to Washington, was
asked his opinion of the magnificent
and mammoth new Department of
Commerce Building. "a beautiful. but
disquieting, example of the growth Of
bureaucracy in our Government" he
said.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
West Point Land Need
Upheld Against Fish

From the New York Sun.
There is surprise among informed men
at the declaration made by Representa-
tive Hamilton Fish before the House
Military Affairs Committee in oppoSi-
ton to the bill to buy 15,135 acres
needed for the military reservation at
West Point. mo one" he said holds
the Military Academy in higher esteem
than l." Anybody reading ever the
manner in which Mr.. Fish Tor some
time has been opposing the authorities
at West Point would be inclined to quote
the lines of Kemble:.
Perhaps 1t was right to dissemble your
love,
But-why did you kick me down stairs?"
Ever since the breach of foot ball re-
lationS between Annapolis and West
Point Mr.. Fish has done everything in
his power to compel the Military Acad-
envy to accept terms for restoration of
these contests. He has not hesitated to
go over the head OF the superintendent
of the Military Academy; he FaS even
visited the President of the United
States. In 1929 he did introduce a bill
for purchase of the additional acreage
now desired by the school at West Point.
At that time it was supposed he was
making amends for the way in which
he had wounded the feelings If cadets
and their officers. Now, however, at the
very last minute, he opposes a project
accepted by the Senate, indorsed by the
President and director of the budget and
favorably reported by the Military Al
fairs Committee. He refuses to acquieSce
in it unless certain river-front property
badly needed for aviation training pur-
poses is left out Of the purchase.
The river-front strip, he says, in
cludeS estates which pay large taxes to
the village of Highland Falls. And he
adds: West Point does not need it at
this time, although the War Department
insists it is required for an aviation
field. Certainly there is no need for an
aviation field which Is so pressing that
we should ruin the principal source of
Income of Highland Falls
There Is one thing that would do far
more to impair the prosperity of High
land Falls-removal of the academy to
some other place. Pressure for such
removal would become exceedingly
strong in Congress If the notion became
current throughout the Nation that
Highland Falls, the Congressman of
the district and other influential persons
were allowing local interest to cramp the
usefulness of West Point. Furthermore,
the War Department is conceivably a
better authority than Mr.. Fish on what
facilities Sfor aviation training are
needed there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
Arkansas Sufferers
Are S"One-CrOppers''
From the Houston Post-Dispatch.

From the Houston Post-Dispatch.
An investigator returning from a sur
vey of conditions in Arkansas reports
that in some of the sections visited
there was not sign of a garden ever
having existed on the places of some
of those the Red Cross is feeding.
Which is another way of saving that
these particular drought sufferers were
one-croppers.
If complete check-up of those who
are being fed in the rural districts of
Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma could
be made, it probably would be found
that most Of them have been neglecting
to produce much of their own living on
their places. They have remained adj
dicted to the staple crop of cotton,
growing perhaps few other field crops
on a small scale, but neglecting grow
ing Of vegetables. production of their
meat requirements and giving little or
no attention to poultry.
It is nothing uncommon for a tenant
farmer in the South not to have q COW,
hog or a chicken on the place and to
have no vegetable garden. Those who
advocate the COW, the sow and the hen
on the farm are sometimes ridiculed,
but 1t stands to reason that the farmer
who produces a large share of what he
and his family eat is better prepared
to meet the viciSsitudeS that come to
the markets for the staple field crops
than is the farmer who depends for his
living on what ne can get for Q few
staple crops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27

joined with the other nations OF the
world in urging the breaking down Of
artificial and arbitrary tariff barriers
that hamper the natural fiow Of trade.
Europe's five thousand miles of eco
nomic barbed wire were particularly In
the conferences mind.
Germany and Austria have taken q
bold, dramatic initiative in converting
theory into practice. They have, so to
speak, called M. Brands bluff about q
United States of Europe" whose fun
damental purpose was to effectuate COM
nonsense fiscal relations in the Old
World. Germany and Austria, in full
exercise of their sovereign rights, have
elected to set Europe q concrete ex-
ample. While foreign Offices lover
there" are busily exploring the POSSIBLE
ity that Berlin and Vienna may have,
by the same token, paved the way to
forbidden Anschluss, the fact cannot be
blinked that 1t has fallen to the lot Of
the Central Powers to set the pace for
European economic peace.
1.-THE waters fine. Come in!" they
say to the rest of tariff-ridden Europe.
If Europe does not come in, it is ex-
tremely likely to subject itself to the
suspicion that its lOngings for customs
understandings are purely platonic.
From this remote transatlantic angle
1t looks as il Berlin and Vienna had
invited Europe to fish or cut bait,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
Clearer-WO rded Laws
Declared Desirable

From the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat.
Although 1t is not likely that GRIM
inal will carefully consider the text of
the law before he murders or steals, it
is reasonable that fair warning should
be given to the world, in language that
the common world will understand, of
what the law intends to do If a certain
line Is passed. To make the warning
fair, so far as possible, the line should
be clear"
That paragraph comes from a dis
senting opinion of Mr.. Justice Holmes,
in which he held that an afrplane was
not a motor vehicle within the mean
ing of those words as used in the Dyer
act. And what a wealth of common
sense there is in that brief lecture to
the boys who write our laws in pom
derous words which fill tones of great
est value to book publishers!
What the venerable jurist is declar-
ing is simply that if the people are to
understand the import of a law they
should be able to fathom it's phraseol-
ogy. There can be no dissenting opinion
on that. But it runs into this fact, de-
plorable or whatever else you may call
1t: Attorneys are men of vast erudition.
They belong among the anointed, like
those who understand Einstein and
those who can write check for a mill
lion dollars and know the bank will
cash it.
Thus prepared they are able to inn
press their clients. A heavy frown, @
bulky bit Of legal language and q
prospective litigant generally becomes
docile. Even a doctor with stetho-
scope and diploma hanging on the
wall has no greater power.
But, seriously, 1t should be said in
Justice to the lawyers that because of
the thin line between right and wrong,
as the law sees such distractions, ordi-
nary vehicles of expression are inade-
quate. Hence, the much maligned legal
terms, which. like the poor, always win
be with US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
Killer Burke in the Tolls.

If the law is as slow in furnishing as
it has been in catching Fred Burke, the
killer, who was captured yesterday in
Missouri after long hunt, he will sur
vive many of those who have for the
past eight years been searching for him.
Taken at the point of a gun as he lay
in bed in q farm house where he has
been in hiding for several months, he
expressed relief when he found that his
captors were officers and not gangsters
come ito take him for q ride" in re-
venge. He also declared his perfect
willingness to return to Chicago for
trial. The suggestion that he is conf
dent of escaping penalty at the hands
of the law does not arise from any
doubt of his identity, for he has been
positively recognized and indeed he
freely admits that he is the man who
has been sought. 1t is just a reflex Of
the public disbelief in the effectiveness
of judicial procedure in these times.
Many charges are pending against
Burke, in several cities. Detroit. Cad
lilac, Mich; Toledo, Peru, Ind: Jeffer-
son, Wis; Chicago, Louisville, st.
Joseph, Mo-, all want him for murder.
They and other cities also want him for
robberies. In the present situation
Chicago will probably have the call for
the killer, on the score of the so-called
st. Valentine day murders in that city,
the Staying of seven gangSters by ma
chine gun fire in a garage. This has
been definitely accredited to Burke
through the discovery of the weapon
used. which has been traced to his own
ership. Should that charge fail there
are the others that could be pressed
with virtual certainty Of conviction, for,
as in the Staying OF q policeman at St.
Joseph, the killer was positively identi-
fed.
This man Is an abnormality, yet there
Is not the least suggestion Of mania in
his case. He is just q FLOODED
brute, utterly Immoral. ruthless; one of
the most dangerous men, indeed, the
country mas known. A lust Tor slaughter
seems to have marked his course. The
Chicago gang massacre was typical of
this trait. The killing Of the St Joseph
policeman was an instance. In this
Burke has been somewhat less than the
great criminal, such as some Of the
highwaymen Of the past, who never
took life but relied upon their skill and
Wit to effect escape. With Burke the
gun served Is his first aid in any diff
Guilty.
1t is to be hoped that there will be
swift and sure justice In this case. A
protracted trial would be prejudicial to
the public security, while q mistrial or
an acquittal would be a calamity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
Progressive Nominee
Urged for President
10 tbe Fditor Of me star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Ever since the holding Of the Repub-
lican Democratic Progressive Confer
ence, journalists and many newspaper
editors have kept before American
voters the question: Who viii be the
Republican and Democratic nominees
for President in 1882?
This question may seem q far-oh
cry, more than q year in advance Of
the conventions, yet it is front-paged
almost every day in papers all over
our country.
There is no question that the Repub-
lican Democratic = Progressive Confer
ence, its verbal announcements and
committee reports, made and to be
tention, notwithstanding attempts in
some quarters to belittle the confer
ence, its proceedings. its work done
and yet to be done and reported upon
The biparty Progressives do not
favor a third party at this time. but
are willing to wait and see who the
Republican and Democratic nominees
for President will be in 1892. II Presi-
dent Hoover becomes the nominee of
the Republicans in 1882. Alfred E.
Smith should be the Democratic nomi-
nee. II President Hoover is not re-
nominated in 1882. then. II the Re-
publicans are politically wise, they will
nominate William E. Borah or George
w. Norris, or Robert M. La Toilette, or
Smith w. Brookhart, or Hiram W.
Johnson, or Arthur Capper, or John
j. Blaine, or Henrik Shipstead, or
Ernest w. Gibson of Vermont.
Against any one of the above named,
the Democrats, to have a ghost of a
show of electing their nominee for
President in 1882, should nominate
James A. Reed, or Franklin D. Roose-
welt. or Alfred E. Smith, or Gov
Richie, or Royal S. Copeland, or David
I. Walsh, or Robert J. Buckley, or Alben
w. Barley. or Henry r. Ashurst.
The nomination of any one of either
party whom ! have named will be to
return to the Lincoln and Jefferson phi
losophy Of the peoples. the Nations
welfare and honest, good government
for all.
I am Of the political belief the voters
Of these United States realize there is
something deeply wrong in our gov
eminent.
I do not believe any straddle, stand
patter or international banking candi-
date of either party can be, or will be,
elected, II nominated, President Of the
United States In 1882.
w. Z. RYAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
Opinion of Country Divided
In Capital Punishment Drive

hanged there in that period by Federal
authority. In Michigan the impetus
for change has been clearly apparent
in Detroit conditions, eliminating in
the assassination last July of Jerry
Buckley, radio announcer and leader OF
a movement to recall the city's mayor.
As Kansas and Michigan move to join
the majority of the States in the war
on crime, their choice is electrocution.
In IA jurisdictions hanging is approved.
Utah permits shooting. In Nevada .
chair is the end of those whom society
is compelled to destroy for its protec-
ton" \
Support Of capital punishment is
voiced by the Buffalo Evening News,
the Altoona Mirror and the Springfield
(Mass.) Union. while the greater need
Of making punishment swift and GER
tain Is emphasized by the Jackson
Citizen Patriot, the Kalamazoo Gazette
and the Danbury News.
The Topeka Daily Capital sees in the
action Of the Legislature in its State
an accompanying conviction that re-
Vival of the law is mo more than Q
gesture, since juries will not convict to
the death chair" That paper concludes
that murder and all crime have to be
than the death penalty bills in society's
fight against criminality."
In Arizona" observes the Birming-
ham News, "a measure has been passed
by the House Of Representatives chang.
ing the method of execution from hang
ing to aSphyxiation in q gas chamber.
Presumably, the intention is to follow
the example of Nevada, the only State
that now kills with gas. There has
been much criticism of the gas method,
though Nevada officials contend 1t Is the
most humane and the quickest way of
ending an offensive creature that re-
Quired millions Of years to produce.
The desire to change from hanging by
the neck to some other method, evi~
denced in Arizona, comes about perhaps
through revulsion at the execution of q
woman in the prison of that common
wealth last year. That scene was per-
haps as gruesome as restricted American
audiences ever have been called upon
to witness. Small wonder that Arizona
people wish to end that frightful sort
of thingl"