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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06

Rules Federal Employees
Ineligible to Receive
War Compensation.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga sharp
blow at "repeaters" on the federal
pay roll has been struck by the SEN
ate, which voted late Thursday to
forbid government employees whose
salaries are more than $4,000 year
from receiving compensation as dis
abled wartime officers.
The vote was on an amendment
TO the Independent officers ap-
preparation bill, sponsored by Sen
ator Reed (Rep., Pa, who called
attention to "a very shocking and
Scandalous condition" In the vet
Grams bureau.
Reed read, from partial list of
employees Of the bureau, names of
numerous emergency war officers
who were retired by the bureau on
three-fourth pay, and then were
hired as civilian employees at size
able salaries. ~
Similar Cases Cited
He pointed out that the manifest
object Of the retirement provision
was to provide for such wartime
officers as were disabled and unable
to work at all. Instead, he said,
these officers in many cases are re-
ceiving both retirement pay and
attractive salaries from the govern
ment as well.
He named specifically william
Wolf Smith, general counsel Of the
veterans bureau, who he said re-
ceives a salary of $4,000 a year, at
the same time drawing $187.5o a
month compensation for disability
incurred in war time. Reed brought
out that Smith served two months
in the quartermaster corps in
Washington, and thereafter was
rated 80 per cent disabled.
Reed read from the records a
number Of similar cases, in which
the officers named saw no overseas
duty, but we're drawing disability
play plus their veterans bureau
salaries.
Asks Compensation Gut
Among them was DR.. Wilfred
Ernest Chambers of Missouri,
drawing $500 year as a veterans
bureau employee, and at the same
time receiving $206.25 a month re-
tirement pay.
Reed pointed out that Ills
amendment would not apply when
and If such retired officers ceased
to hold government positions, but
only while they did so.
simultaneously General Frank r.
Hines, veterans bureau director,
was before the senate finance COM
mittee urging a SO per cent reduc-
ton in disability allowance for vet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06

Eysee limited that may elected
not choose run his friends spite indifference
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06

Avoid 80 far as possible the places where
Flu germs are most likely to be spread:
over crowded cars and public meeting
places; oVerf1eated, stuffy rooms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06
VAST BUILDING
PROGRAM UNDER
WAY IN ITALY
Public Works Projects Are
Most Extensive Since
Roman Empire.
This is the fourth articles Of webb
Miiier's series on Fsscism and italy.
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press stan Correspondent


ROME, Feb. s.-The Fascist
government is carrying out the
most gigantic system of public
works ever executed by any coun-
try in short space Of time under
the direct impulsion Of Mussolini.
Italy has not witnessed public
building on such a grandoise scale
since the days Of the Roman en-
pire.
At every turn the traveller sees
evidences Of this veritable regen-
Grafton of the nations equipment
and physical resources.
Vast Projects Included
They comprise vast projects Of
land reclamation. drainage, modern
roads, identification Of railways,
schools, great hydro-electric plants
power lines, modernization and ex-
tension of ports, cheap houses for
workers, stadiums. post and tele-
graph offices, widening of streets
and boulevard construction, railway
stations, monumental government
buildings, new railways and many
other forms Of construction.
The Forum Mussolini, an immense
athletic installation in Rome, de-
signed as a memorial to Mussolini,
perhaps is the most spectacular Of
the construction work. Italy hopes
to hold the 1886 Olympic games
here.
When completed the Forum Mus
solini will be the finest athletic field
in the world.
$4,000 Men Employed
It will include two stadiums-one
built entirely of marble designed as
the most magnificent since the time
of the Roman emperors and another
built into the side of hill to hold
10000 persons-said to be the
worlds largest stadium.
An unusual feature will be the
erection of the largest marble mon
olith ever quarTied eight feet
square and sixty feet high and
Weighing 2so tons-as an enduring
monument to Mussolini.
Probably the most important
works of the regime are the land
reclamation and drainage schemes
throughout Italy upon which $4,000
men are working and which viii
add millions of acres Of tillable area
to Italy's restricted agricultural
land.
Power Being Developed
Some of the finest automobile
roads in Europe now are found in
Italy. The five-year program which
comprised 3,700 miles of new con-
struction, reconstruction and repair
is about half finished.
Since the beginning Of the Fas-
clSt regime about two and one-half
billion has been spent on railway
construction.
Nowhere in Europe has the use of
hydro-electric power developed so
much as In Italy.
In Naples the Podesta, duke Of
Bovine, took me to see some of the
works which physically have trans
formed Naples. A tunnel under the
hill now connects the east and west
sides of the city. The impressive
waterfront boulevard Is being ex-
tended.
New Schools Built
Instead Of slums the Santa Lucia
quarter Is credit to Naples. Fiji
teen new schools have been built.
Milan Is working on a monument
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06
Business Man Dies

By times Special
FRANKLIN, Ind, Feb. civilian
A. Carpenter, II. business man, is
dead. He had been a tailor here
fifty years, having retired only a
short time ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06
MARRIAGE OF FRENCH
PRESIDENT is HINTED
DOumergue to Wed at End of Tern

Doumergue to Wed at End Of Term
in June, Paris Hears.
By United Press
PARIS. Feb. 6.--There is q very
persistent story around Paris that
President CASTOR Doumergue,
Frances 68-year-old bachelor chief
executive, is awaiting only the end
Of his Seven-year term next June
to take to himself wife. prominent
in French society.
So far M. Doumergue has not de-
MED the marriage rumors, nor has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06

Grams during the time they are re-
ceiving hospital treatment.
Hines Indicated that there was a
tendency on the part Of veterans
to remain In hospitals longer than
necessary. and that this reduction
would provide an incentive to set
well
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06
New Schools Built

Instead of sluIns the Santa Lucia
quarter is credit to Naples. Fiji
teen new schools have been built.
Milan Is working on a monument
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06
Asks Compensation Cut
Don't Endure Slipping
FALSE TEETH

Do your false teeth drop or slip
when you talk. eat, laugh or sneeze
Don't be annoyed and embarrassed a
minute longer. Fasteeth, a new pow
der to sprinkle on your plates, holds
teeth firm. Gives fine feeling of secur-
ity and comfort. No gummy. gooey.
today at ,SRcc&a or any other drug
observation-disclosures
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-06

he denied that he will be can
didate again for reelection to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

4ObAY.
Meeting, Brookland Citizens Asso-
clatlon, Masonic Temple, pm.
Meeting, Ka1orama Citizens Associa-
ton, John Quincy Adams School. Nine
teenth and California streets, 8 pm.
Meeting, Burroughs Citizens Associa-
ton, Burroughs School, Eighteenth and
Monroe streets northeast. 8 pm.
Meeting. Dupont Circle Citizens AS
ISOLATION, Mayfiower Hotel, 4:45 pm.
Meeting. Piney Branch Citizens As
ISOLATION, Hamline NJ E. Church, 8 pm.
Meeting. Stanton Park Citizens AS
ISOLATION, Peabody School, Fifth and C
streets northeast, 8 pm.
Card party, benefit Spiritual Science
Church, 16 Fourth street northeast,
$50 pm.
FUTURE.
Rehearsal, Rubinstein Club, Willard
Hotel, tomorrow, IL am.
Luncheon, Buy-in- washington Com
mittee, Willard Hotel, tomorrow, 1890
pm.
Luncheon, Washington Association of
Credit Men, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow,
1880 pm.
Luncheon, Washington Round Table,
University Club, tomorrow, 1880 pan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09
POLICE BRUTALITY
TRIAL POSTPONED
w. T. Burroughs, Policeman
Defendant, Is Too III to
Attend Trial.

Trial of the first of the so-called po-
lice third-degree cases, scheduled to
begin today, was postponed until next
Monday by Justice James M. Proctor,
due to illness Of one of the defendants,
Policeman william T. Burroughs OF No.
precinct.
Justice Proctor summoned Burroughs
physician, DR.. S. L. Battles, for per-
sonal report on the policeman's condi-
ton. Dr. Battles left the operating room
at Sibley Hospital to inform the court
that Burroughs Is suffering from acute
tonSilitis." The physician said his pa
tient is "in no condition to appear for
two or three days"
Burroughs was named jointly with
Precinct Detective James A. Mostyn
and Policemen William r. Latin and
William c. Grooms, all of No. precinct
in the case of James Henry Harker,
chief Government witness IN the nrSt
of the brutality charges.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
told the cc2rt it was 'manifestly' i'm
possible to begin the trial without the
presence of Burroughs. and suggested
that the case go over for one week IN
order TO be sure of the defendants ap-
pearance." James A. O'Shea, counsel
for Mostyn, Latin and Grooms, and
J. Frank Kelly, attorney for Burroughs,
concurred in the plan.
Rover, with John M. Keith, Justice
agent who directed the Government
sensational third-degree inquiry ap-
peared in the crowded court room, pre-
pared to launch the trial Immediately:
After Rover and O'Shea had advised
the court they were ready to proceed,
Kelly announced his clients absence,
due to illness. Justice Proctor inquired
as to Burroughs exact ccnoltlon, put
no authentic information was avail
able, so the physician was sent lot;
The proceedings were SUSPENDED until
DR.. Battles arrived.
There were rumors af1oat that Bur-
roughs will seek a severance from the
other defendants in the trial. The ru-
| mors are thought to have arisen from
the fact that Burroughs has failed To
place his case in the hands OF the at
torney representing the other co-detend-
ants. 1t is understood the Government
would oppose a separate trial Tor Bur
roughs.
| and a number of persons were turned
away at the doors by deputy marshals.
! Prominent among those in the court
room were Capt. E. w. Holmes, COM
mander of the first precinct, who car
! ried under his arm the large record
book containing notations regarding
Harker's arrest last August on suspi-
cion of burglary. Holmes is one Of
the key" witnesses.
Harker, a baker, claims that the -four
policemen beat him with rubber hose
and with their fists at the first pre-
cinct station house on August %, in an
effort to extort confession Of bur-
glary. The policemen were indicted
for felonious and simple assaults by the
october grand jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09

n AIMED by crew Of modern
HU bluejackets, odd IronSides, y
wv still the pride and inspiration
4 of the American Navy, was
boarded" today by hundreds
of visitors at the dock of the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
Sole survivor OF Americas first
armada, the warriors prov and stern
boldly proclaim that the U. S. frigate
Constitution salutes it's thirty first
commander, Herbert Hoover, as un-
daunted as when it sailed before the
first, George Washington.
No cannon forced "Old 1ronSideS" to
dock, to dream there in the lazy waters
of the Potomac of the scars of its AZ
victories. The frigate rests as result
of a curtailed expenditures move re-
Gently announced by Secretary of the
Navy Adams. Engagements to visit
other cities have been Cancelled for
the present, at least.
Visitors Come in Crowds.
Today Comdr Louis j. CULVER trod
the decks where once it's fighting COM
manders made undying history and
praciouSly receives the thousands of
visitors who come in a steady stream.
For the pride he takes in the historic
frigate. he might have been its COM
mander when the Constitution ruled
the waves in the most glorious days of
the American Navy.
The 7 naval officers and crew of 81
men of the present-day Constitution
are using the same methods and are
living under the same conditions as
their predecessors. All day yesterday,
after the ships arrival here, 1892 per-
sons trod her decks, bristling with guns,
and today the stream of visitors was
scarcely less. They peered at the side
from which Lieut.. Stephen Decatur
showed off in 1903 toward the harbor
of Tripoli to recapture and destroy the
United States frigate Philadelphia, held
by pirates, in one of the most daring
ventures in naval history.
They gazed in awe upon the two
decks lined with guns and marveled at
the business-like fashion with which
"Old IronsideS'' went its way.
Mast Scars 1877 Feet.
At the first sight of the Constitution,
with its tall masts and high sides, the
visitor is struck by the size of the
frigate. It's tallest mast scars 1877
feet. But then that first impression of
formidableness gives way to a feeling
of reverence.
Comdr. CULVER, who brought the
gallant ship to Washington on its voy-
age along the Eastern Coast. has that
feeling, too, and always VIII have 1t,
he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09
YOUTH SERIOUSLY HURT
IN AUTO COLLISION
Six Others Suffer Minor Injuries
When Taxi and Car
Overturn.

Herbert Weiss, 10, of the 800 block of
Sixth street, suffered a possible skull
fracture and six other persons were less
seriously injured when a taxicab and
an automobile collided and overturned
on the Baltimore Boulevard, at Holly
wood. Md. early today
Weiss was brought to Casualty Hospi-
tai in passing car His condition is
undetermined
State Policeman N. G. Faulkenstine
said the taxicab was occupied by five
colored persons. while a woman was rid
ing in the car with Weiss.
All except Weiss escaped with mere
scratches" the officer said The occu-
pants OF the cab and the woman were
moved from the scene before the officer
arrived, and he did not learn their
identity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09

A SMILE flashed across the grave
" face of 13-year -old Edith Riley
"A today for the first time since
a she was taken to Gallinger EoS-
pital last Friday.
Edith'S father and stepmother, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Newman Riley of the
HOO block of Rhode Island avenue, are
facing a grand jury on charges that
they made the child live in closet for
the greater part of four years.
The sign was noticed by nurses and
psychologists who had watched in vain,
since Edith was brought to Gallinger
Hospital Friday afternoon, for some
spark of revival in the childs fixed eyes
and melancholy features.
But in all that time no smile or hint
of animation stirred the face, which
was that of a much older person despite
the fact, psychologists said, that Edith's
mental and physical development was
on par with that of child half her
age of IL years.
They found some encouragement,
however, in Edith's unsmiling &C
ceptance of the friendship proffered by
another patient of the children's
ward-a lively, 7-year-old red-head,
called Russell
Russell brought an offering yester-
day-a small china dog, which was
perpeLually Trying 10 DlLe his own Cdll
This Edith gravely accepted and
placed among her other toys.
Yet the gift, like numerous others
dolls, games, bright trinkets, warm
clothing by a score Of new
friends who called on the young
patient yesterday failed to excite more
than her passing interest.
For the most part, while she was
not partaking of the carefully pre-
pared hospital diet, or sleeping, she
only sat propped in her pillows, look
ing steadily out the window.
Not once, the nurse in charge said,
had she smiled.
Come on now" begged the pho
tographer this morning, smile for
us, Edith"
Edith, willingly enough, had COM
piled with his other requests. She had
posed just so, popped up on her bed
amid her toys, turning her head this
way and that at his request. But she
would not smile. Once she made a
gallant effort, which only twisted one
corner of her mouth.
Then the nurse brought in a new
gift. 1t was doll, as large as Edith
herself, with eyes which closed when
she lay down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09
CARPENTERS PROTEST
NAVY BUILDING PAY
Thirty Workers Complain of Sc.
Cent Cut Under Prevailing
Wage Scale.

A delegation of more than 80 car
penters called at the Labor Depart
ment today with a complaint that con-
tractors erecting the new barracks at
the Naval Air Station at Anacostia paid
them off Saturday at rate of Sc cents
below the prevailing wage scale of
S13712 as recommended recently by
Secretary Doak to the District Commits
sioners.
Secretary Doak is confined to his
home on account of a slight illness and
their complaint was referred to Hugh
L. Kerwin, director of Cancellation.
Kerwin said he would confer with
r. H. Burdette and George Crosby. rep
resenting the District Carpenters Union
Council. and members of the contract
ing firm of Worcham Bros. later today
in an effort to reach an adjustment
The men said they have been at work
for the last two months on the S340 900
barracks building and a $21 900 heat
ing plant building. They said the jobs
will be completed in 80 DAYS. A total
of 40 carpenters are involved in the
dispute
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09

you feel small and humble in spirit, y
he said mo matter how important q
man may be, he feels that he Is stand
ing in the presence of something great
er than he, greater than anything else.
1t embodies all that is fine and inspira-
tional in America"
For the American sailors who COM
prise its present crew, Comdr. Gulliver
has only the highest praise They told
us that the Navy couldn't navigate the
Constitution, but they were wrong"
Comdr CULVER said, as he locked aloft
at the great masts and the thousands
of ropes.
These men could take old IRON
sides out in any sort of weather and
sail her with the best shippers of the
old days" he added with pride.
Crew Loves Frigate.
The members of the crew themselves
have learned to love "Old IronSides''
with that same regard as the stout
hearts which once fought on its sea-
swept decks. They like their jobs and
they know the old frigate from top
to bottom.
Comdr. CULVER showed the way into
the captains cabin, a spacious and
comfortable quarters in the stern of
the gun deck. 1t was time to bring in
VIZ 1AOG LIlc OIlIy Il1COAlOd SAAi
ployed on the vessel to heat his quar-
tiers. and the same employed by his
predecessors in command.
When the chill night winds sweep
over the sea the cabin that housed
Capts. Isaac Hull, William cambridge
and Charles Stewart, is heated by white
hot cannon balls suspended in an iron
covered bucket filed with sand. Two
sailors brought in the hot shot" and
suspended two of the buckets in the
cabin.
The cannon balls are heated in the
galley stove on the gun deck and are
placed in the iron containers with
tongS specially constructed for the
purpose.
Drives Away Chill.
The covered buckets, which are Sus-
pended from the beams overhead are
half filled with sand. Comdr. CULVER
declares that this old method-while
not as satisfactory, of course, as mod
ern naval methods-dispells the chill
and keeps the cabin comfortable for
about 8 hours.
In few minutes after the buckets
were hung in place this morning, the
glow of warmth was easily felt. In the
old days, the commander said, a
warmth of go degrees or a little less
was considered ample
During the days when the Constitu-
ton was winning her proud title OF
"Old Ironsides'' she carried a compile
nlent Of ATS officers and men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09
LEADERS DEDICATE
DUNBAR'S STADIUM
Schools First Athletic Field
Named for Maj. Walker,
Late D. C. Principal.

The Maj. James E. Walker Memo
rial Field was formally dedicated this
afternoon to mark the successful end
OF Dunbar High Schools 15-year strug-
gle for stadium.
Begun at 1870 o'clock with the invo-
cation by Rev. .. F. Rivers, the pro-
gram included the dedication address
by DR.. Luther II. Reichelderfer, chair
man of the board of D. G. Commits
sioners. Rev. F. l. A Bennett, member
of the Board of Education, accepted the
field from the Commissioner on behal1
of the schools
Presentation of a bronze tablet, deSig-
mating the field as memorial to Maj
Walker, was 4 feature of the dediction
w. H. Burrel, representing the James
E. Walker Post CT the American Legion
made the presentation. Garnet G. VII
kinson, first assistant superintendent
in charge of colored schools, accepted
the tablet
Misic by the High School Cadet Band
and games and out-of-door demonstra-
tons completed the program, which
was closed with a benediction by Rev
Mr.. Rivers
Despite the fact that Dunbar High
School was completed and occupied by
It's first students in 1916, the dedica-
etSAA VA VIC dIllltJlC lltlu GOudJ ma hH
the inauguration of its first adequate
recreation field. Delays of various
KINDS, including difficulties in securing
the necessary appropriations and IN
purchasing the needed lands, held UP
completion of the stadium until the
past Summer.
NAL Walker, for whom the field has
oeen named, was one of the organizers
OF and was the first president of the
Public Schools Athletic League in the
coiored schools. In salute to his con-
trloutlon to craftsmanship and physical
development among the colored youth
OF the Capital, the colored division OF
the public school system now awards
annually a gold and silver medal to the
senior and junior high school students
VINO pest eXemplify the character traits
ATTRIBUTED to Mai. Walker and urged by
MN upon young men.
MAJ. walker, whose rank was attained
10 the District of Columbia Nationa
Guaro' was supervising principal OF the
tnuteenth division in the school system
AZ the time CT his death, in April, 1918
ne mad been in the school system since
ms appointment as a teacher at the
stevens School in September, 1894. HI
served on the Mexican border prior tt
the World War and when the majol
CCnnlct involved the United States NJ
ana ms unit were assigned to guard tn'
hUrg brloge, over the Potomac River.
Inc Walker Athletic Field was com
pieIeo at cost of $407 900, 1882 600 O.
Whlcn was for land and $4,000 Of whicf
represented the cost of the equipment