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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
HOOVER RELIEF
IDEAS BLASTED
IN Senate QUIZ
Social Workers, Labor and
Church Leaders Unite in
Federal Aid Plea.
MISERY is WIDESPREAD
Wage Farmers Bear Brunt
of Depression, Probe
Group Told.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The
plea of federal workers fer federal
help to relieve restitution was or
record today along with that of So
cial workers. Twenty witnesses have
been heard by the senate manufac-
turers committee in its study of the
La Toilette and CoStjgan relief bills
and al have advocated federal re-
lief.
Speaking for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, Edward F. Nc
Grady said to the committee, IF
the employers of labor will not pay
decent wages, then we insist that a
large share OF their profits be taken
by taxation and given to impover-
ished workers through relief agen-
cieS."
McGrady pointed out that wages
and salaries were between eighteen
and twenty billion dollars less in
1881 than in 1929 and that this loss
in purchasing power has been far
greater than that from any other
cause.
Wage-Earners Heavy Losers
Actual deposits in banks that
failed up to Sept. 80, 1881, totaled
only $500, 100000" said McGrady
'or less than one-seventh of the
amount lost by wage-earners alone
leaving salaries out of the picture
Business failures for the same
period involved only $750,0OO,OOO.
IF the United States lost all its
foreign trade, which was $780,
100000 in 1929, it would be less than
half the loss from the wage decline.
This loss has had blighting eff
feet on factories, mines, railroads,
farms, and has reduced business
activity throughout it's entire
mechanism"
Catholic charity workers added
their pleas to those of Jewish and
Protestant workers for federal re-
lief at the closing session before the
New Year holiday. Hearings will
be resumed next Monday.
Change Their Views
A majority of those testifying so
far have said they favor federal aid
only as last resort and have OPP
posed it until this time.
Allen T. Burns, director of the
Association of Community Chests
and Councils, upon which Mr.. Hoo
yer depended to stimulate private
and local public charity so that fed
eral aid would not he required, has
told the committee that these funds
are insufficient.
The final witness Wednesday was
Herbert Benjamin, national secretry
of the Unemployment Council of the
United States, and leader of the re-
cent hunger march.
In a long prepared statement he
advocated immediate payment of
$50 to each unemployed worker and
$50 for each dependent, extensive
public works, unemployment insur-
arce and ether measures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
CITIES THREATEN
AUTO TAG BOYCOTT

Purchase of automobile license
plates by municipal and county
governments, as provided under a
1881 statute, appeared doubtful to-
day unless Secretary If State Frank
Mayr Jr. brings suit to force pay
ment.
No large local governmental unit
has bought plates as yet, and many
are declaring that they do not in
tend to do so.
State police are under the sec
rotary of state, but SO far Mayr
has offered no indication that he
viii order them to make arrests in
such cases.
James Carpenter, chief Of the
license division. declared today that
no decision had been reached as
to what course to pursue. He cited
an opinion from Attorney General
James M. Ogden which exempts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31

Brown and Governor Harry G..
Leslie.
In the interim, since the bid re-
ception, Ralph Simpson, assistant
state highway director, and Thomas
L. Harold, purchasing agent, have
been busy drafting data designed to
show why Standard should get the
business, despite its failure to meet
the low price.
This data includes maps showing
the numerous Standard filling Sta
tions throughout the state. 1t is
contended that this company can
make the necessary prompt deliv-
cries better than the others.
Standard bid was AZ cents below
the prevailing market price. while
the Indian company was 4.76 cents
below the market price.
The Indian oil and grease buSi-
ness is Estimated at about $l00. 1000.
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fire equipment, police cars and am
balances from such payment.
Meanwhile, Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan announced he is going to
buy but one pair Of plates. These
will be for his car, which is city
owned and operated for municipal
business.
Should Indianapolis live up to
the law it would mean a s4,444 plate
purchase. But the mayor said the
reason was not that the city doesn't
want to obey the law, but the city
hasn't the money at this time.
Mayor Roswell johnson CT Gary
however, openly has declared wal
on the new statute. He stated Gary
win not buy any plates and viii
fight constitutionality of the Law
through the courts, II Mayr brings
suit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
Prosecutor Undecided on
Second Trial of Alleged
Child Slayer.

By Times Special
WILKINSON. Ind, Dec. 81
With the new year near, a farm
mother, tired and worn, looks for
ward to another twelve months
which may mean she will have to
sit in courtroom again for weeks
listening to accusations before a
jury that she is the poison slayer
Of her daughters.
She is Mrs. Carrie Simmons, 48,
Wilkinson, whose sensational trial
on murder charge this fall re-
suited in a jury disagreement after
deliberations of more than two days
and nights.
Ben Scifres, Boone county prose-
cutor. who, with Roy Adney, Leba-
non attorney, laid the states case
before jury of farmers, today adj
mitted no decision had been
reached on whether she will be re-
tried.
Doubly Accused
The state tried Mrs. Simmons
for the alleged strychnine murder
June 81 of her youngest daughter,
Alice Jean, 10. Still on the books of
the Lebanon court is this charge
and the allegation that he daughter,
Virginia, IA, met her death in the
same manner during family re-
union at Memorial park at Leba-
non.
Mrs. Simmons, broken in spirit
and physical resistance, after being
in jail since June and enduring
ordeals of the trial which opened
late in September and lasted more
than five weeks, returned to her
farm home after the jury failed to
agree.
Scifres, however, is expected to
reach a decision in the retrial
matter within few weeks. He said
today he had no announcements to
make "for publication"
Still Under Bond
Feeling in Boone county ran high
after the trial, which cost more
than $4,000. Taxpayers are reported
to be vigorously opposed to re-
opening of the case at such an ex-
pense with the possibility Mrs.
Simmons again might be returned
to her home by jury unable to
agree.
Mrs. Simmons now is under bond
pending further action by the state.
The bond was raised by her family
among friends in Hancock county
when it was learned the jury could
not agree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
The Poor Fish
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81
Spencer, a veteran in govern
ment service, must wait until
spring before moving into his
terrazzo marble apartment at
the new department of COM
merce building.
Spencer is a sturgeon, and
has been with the government
for more than twenty years,
swimming idly about in his
modest quarters at the bureau
of fisheries. The new aquarium
in the $17,5OO,OOO Commerce
building is air-cooled, with
warm and cold water, marble
floors and other luxurious trap
pings, but the department,
which will go to work Monday
in its new building, decided to
get along without fish for
few months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
ACTION IN SIMMONS
CASE is IN DOUBT
Still Spinning
81 United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Dec. 31.-Mahatma
Gandhi may forsake the spin
ming wheel for the bicycle dur
ing the new year. 1t was re-
vealed here that the Mahatma
ordered specially designed
push bike" of the all-weather
type when he visited England.
The bicycle was shipped from
Coventry to Gandhi's Indian
headquarters recently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
SENDS HUGE VOUCHER
Government to Pay Half Cost of
$1,000. 900 Evansville Bridge.

Largest federal aid voucher ever
sent the federal bureau of roads
by the Indiana highway depart
ment, was dispatched to Washing
ton today by Director John J.
Brown.
It is for $726,438.96, for work
completed on the Evansville bridge.
The federal government is to pay
one-half the total cost of more
than 100000. Largest previous
federal aid voucher was for $155,001,
Brown said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31

prominent OIL
Gals of the Vet
Grams of Foreign
Wars, sponsors Of
the talk on pay
ment in full of
adjusted compen-
sation certificates.
George =. Reese,
Marion coun t y
V. F. w. council
commander, and
other officers of
the veterans or
ganization W i'll
meet P a t m a n
Saturday morn
ing. James E. Van
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zandt, national Junior vice-com-
mander, will accompany Patman to
this city.
Reception committee includes
Edward G. Schaub, past state COM
mander; Reese, Charles r. Michael,
department senior vice commander;
William w. Walker, department adj
jutant; E. A. Fox, Seventh district
commander; Leo Scharffin, member
of the v. F. w, and w. H. Green of
the Disabled American Veterans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
SEEKS POLICE PENSION
Patrolman's Widow Sues Board for
Damages and $40 a Month.

Judgment of 5000 against the po-
lice pension fund board of trustees
is sought in a suit filed in circuit
court by Mrs. Gertrude G. Bruce
widow of Eugene E. Bruce, a police
man.
The complaint sets out that the
trustees failed to pay Mrs. Bruce
money alleged past due her from
the pension fund Her husband was
named to the police force in De-
cember, 1910, and died Aug. q, 1881.
Mrs. Bruce is entitled TO $40 a
month during her lifetime, provided
she does not remarry, the suit con-
tends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
DRY AGENT is PROUD
FATHER; 8-POUND BOY
Bailey Bennett Might Feel Like a
Snifter, but Doesn't.

Snlfter, but Doesn't.
Now, if Bailey Bennett were not a
dry, he might almost be induced to
take drink today.
But, besides being a dry, Bennett
also is in charge of the federal pro-
hibition bureau here during the abb
sence of Charles P. Britt, deputy
prohibition administrator.
Wednesday, Bennett was all smiles.
His right arm was somewhat tired
from repeated pumpings. Tuesday,
Mrs. Bennett presented him with a
baby boy, weight eight pounds.
"You know" said Bennett, I've
got two girls. Maybe you can
guess that I wanted boy"
And it's one of those cases where
a man almost could be tempted into
offering Tailey drink.
But then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
TRIO TO GRAND JURY
Negroes Charged With LoOting
g.

Negroes Charged With LOOting
Drug Store Are Bound Over.
Charged with footing the Park
pharmacy, Twenty-fourth street and
Martindale avenue, Tuesday night
three Negroes today were bound
over to the grand jury on burglary
and grand larceny charges.
Municipal Judge William H
Sheaffer set bonds of Robert Fields
753 Indiana avenue, and Robert
Campbell, 3505 Prospect street, al
$4,000 each. Bond of Forest Helms
Of the Prospect street address was
fixed at $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
EmbezzIement Charged

~ tHcS special
BLUFFTON. Ind, Dec. sl.-Oscar
Iarr, Liberty township, is accused
OF embezzlement by PIiny While,
who charges that he received no
ahare Of proceeds from the sale of
nye hogs he turned over to TAR
for fattening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
SERIES OF LECTURES
SLATED AT CHURCH
Discussions of Vital Topics Spon-
sored by Democracy League.


A series of eight discussion lee
lures on vital topics of the day will
be presented on Wednesday nights,
beginning Jan. 20, at Roberts Park
Methodist Episcopal church, Della
ware and Vermont streets.
A. j. Music will speak on How
America Lives" at the first of the
public meetings sponsored by the
League for Industrial Democracy
Other speakers will be:
Abraham Epstein, who will speak Jan
81 on Social Insurance." Powers Hapgood
on True, and False Industrial Democ-
what Price Power" Feb. 10; Ira A. Reid,
'"The Labor Movement" Feb. II: J.. B;
Matthews, Need for a New Political
Alignment" Feb "a; Karl Borders. THE
Challenge Of Russia" March 2. and Harry
w. Ladder on Building New Society,
March 9.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
MINISTERS TO MEET
Annual Emancipation Celebration
to Be Held Here Friday.

to Be Held Here Friday.
Annual emancipation celebration
fostered by the INSTRUMENTATION
Ministers Alliance will be held at
Mount Paran Baptist church at noon
Friday. The alliance is composed of
twenty-one churches representing
all denominations serving the peo-
pie of Indianapolis
Bishop George Clinton Clement
of Louisville, KY, chairman of the
commission on church and race re-
lations OF the Federal Council of
Churches, will speak. The Rev.
Charles T. H. Watkins is chairman
of the committee in charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
AIR SCHEDULE IS MADE
7. g w. A. Change Afford More
Convenient Travelling.

Schedule changes effective Jan. 2.
to provide more convenient arrival
and departure times. was an
nounced today by TranscontinentaI
& Western Air officials.
Westbound planes win leave IN
dianapolis daily at 3:49 p. m.
reaching st. Louis at 6.O2 p. M, and
Kansas City at 8:23 D. m. the
present Kansas City arrival time
being after 10 p. m.
Eastbound planes viii leave here
daily at 1882 p. M. arriving in
Columbus at 3:03. Pittsburgh at
4:33. Harrisburg at Cos, Phila-
delphia at 7:08 and New York at
7:57 D. m. :
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
PLANS PREPARED FOR
PATHWAYS WELCOME

v. F. w. Heads to Greet Texas
Legislator Saturday.
Congressman Wright Patman,
principal speaker at the bonus rally
in Tomlinson hall Saturday night,
will be welcomed to Indianapolis by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11

to the medical lore of China as a-back-
ground for their advertising, as they
once turned to the medical lore Of the
red men. One Chinese doctor" wa.
diagnosing and treating diseases by
mail for $35 q month. Test letters
brought claims to cure stomach ulcers,
tuberculosis, crossed eyes, paralysis and
epilepsy.
He operated. his advertising stated.
according to - Chinese system of medi-
cine in vogue for more than 1000
years" the cardinal principle Of which
was that "the cavities of the ears are
the openings TO the liver and kidneys
and the cavities Of the eyes to the i've
principal internal organs" Diagnosis
by this system, the advertiser stated
required an exceptionally Skillful and
well endowed fellow. There are three
ways of diagnosis:
IL. Listening to the voice. This re-
quireS keen ears.
"2. Examination of the face and eyes
and condition Of the skin. This re-
quireS keen eyes.
IS. Feeling the pulse. This REQUIRES
great powers Of concentration"
The advertiser. however, was so su-
perior to the general run of practi-
TONERS Of this school that he could do
all these things by mail.
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OF hot water three times day. It was
guaranteed to be tasteless.
Cure for Eye Diseases.
A doctor" in Madrid, decorated with
the cross of military service for pro-
fessional excellence" advertised "a
marvellous scientific creation that cures
with marvellous rapidity diseases of the
eyes, however serious and chronic,
avoiding surgical operation. All trouble
and pains disappear on the first appli-
cation. Unrivaled for blenorrhagic and
purulent granulations."
His claims were not so far-reaching,
however, as that of the American eye
specialist who sold drops" made of
honey. distilled water, egg yolks and
butter. This marvellous remedy, he adj
verttsed, "had completely restored the
eyesight OF persons 80 years old and
years had seen perfectly after the first
application. Because of such results,
he asserted, it was "a god-send to the
poor class OF people who can't afford
to go to an eye specialists ONCE for
treatment, only to be told that their
cases are hopeless"
A doctor" who spent 5000 q year
IN advertising proclaimed "one OF the
most important and valuable discov-
cries of modern science-a sure cure for
pyorrhea." 1t consisted of a neutral
coal tar oil with some Glove extract
Its basic ingredients" the vendor ad-
vertised. have been proclaimed by the
United States Bureau of Standards to
be three or four times more powerful as
destroyer Of disease germs than phenol
when tested by the methods formulated
by the Government for determining
germicidal effects against pethogenic
organisms" This was news to the
PIrsau of Standards.
Indian Medicine Passing.
The old American Indian medicines, y
it appears from the fraud orders, have
nearly disappeared from the market
Occasionally, however, some such potent
cure-all Is advertised as IAN old medi-
cine used by the Sioux medicine man,
which was IS per cent alcohol, the rest
being sugar and water,
Among the fraud orders issued was
one against the vendor of "a eoncen-
trated food beverage which won the
grand prize and gold medal awarded
as the result of a worldwide contest,
held at Limoges, France, in 1929, the
award being made by the department OF
the interior at Paris" There was, of
course, no such contest and the bever-
age had no food value.
The takers now appear to be turning
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confusion of organs didn't bother the
doctor. He wrote, warning the inspec-
tor against surgery and accepting the
case for his customary fee.
He advertised that he cured persons
abandoned to die with no operation nor
poisonous drugs. but with more than
800 natural remedies, with herbs for
all chronic and nervous diseases and
special herbs for cancers, blood poison
and appendicitis"
Sidelines of Meat Market.
One of the NEST potent remedies sold
through the mails, the post office in
spectorS found, was born $50 years ago
in the laboratory of a great physician
in Northern Westphalia who had given
his secret compound to the family OF
the advertiser" It was q sure cure for
cancer, tumors, goiter, all internal and
external swellings. blood diseases, piles,
boilS, gallStoneS and mastitis."
This doctor" dispenSeS this remedy
as a Sideline from his meat market.
The remedy was made in Germany and
sent to Chicago. 1t was put up in
various forms to be taken, according to
the particular pathological condition
being treated, "at the full moon, the
new moon. or the first and last quarter
phases of the moon
Analysis showed that the medicine
was composed of the powdered leaves
of the wood garlic. a common herb in
North Germany, which had been in
use for years among the German peas
antry for the cure of all sorts of all
ments, especially cancer, although it
had no therapeutic value whatsoever.
Its only legitimate use is as a moth
poison. 1t has been sold extensively in
the United States as a powder for
cleaning metals
necklace, consisting OF Sc yellow
beads, was advertised as a sure goiter
cure, giving a mild and constant gal.
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vanic current during sleep. Even If
this were true. there is no reason to
believe that it would have any effect on
goiter. The Bureau OF Standards tested
the necklace for an electric current as
slight as one-ten- millionth of an am
pere and couldn't find it.
Plant Unknown to Botanists
A member OF the Royal College of
Physicians" announced the discovery OF
"the missing link in the treatment of
tuberculosis which renders the human
blood absolute poison to the T. B. bug"
1t was obtained from the root of the
'unchaloabo, a plant recently discov-
cred in South Africa" It was a sure
cure for tuberculosis, both pulmonary
and surgical, and during the past few
years had cured completely many cases
given up as hopeless by very clever
physicians" Not only does the remedy
contain nothing Of any value in the
treatment Of tuberculosis, but the plant
itself Is unknown to professional bot
aniSts.
Still another mail-orde- doctor ad-
vertised cure for tuberculosis. "the
discovery Of which will be heralded by
the civilized peoples of all parts of the
edILn as tne greatest discovery OF the
age" 1t was guaranteed under the
pure food and drug act The princi-
pal constituent was creosote an old
fashioned palliative remedy for tuber-
culosiS which long since has been
abandoned
Perhaps the greatest fraud uncovered
by the post ONCE inspectors was that
OF the man who was selling bottles of
water-just plain drinking Water-as a
sure cure for high blood pressure, rheu-
matism and constipation. The patients
were warned against taking it in large
quantities-just a teaspoonful in a glass
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OUACK DOCTORS
WARES POPULAR
Post office Department Finds
Cures Claimed for All
Human Ailments.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

TIE elixir Of life, the alchemists
secret potion, the magic ring and the
miracle working necklace still are pop
ular with the American people.
During the past few months the Post
ONCE Department, after investigating
advertisements, has put the vendors OF
many of these out of business, at least
so far as use of the mails is concerned,
by the issuance of fraud orders. But
the mail-order doctor, boundless in his
claims and also in his expressed con-
tempt for the practicing physician, Is a
hydra headed monster, and the legal
sword OF the Government only can
chop of a few heads at time.
The usual procedure is for post
ONCE inspector to write to one of these
advertisers, giving the symptoms OF
some chronic or incurable disease, or
some disease that never existed, Such
as poliomylitis of the liver. When
the remedy is received it is submitted
to the proper Government sclentlhc
laboratory for analysis and tests: to
the Bureau of Standards If it Is a
mechanical contrivance, or to the
Chemical Service of the Department OF
Agriculture or Public Health Service II
the claims regarding the constituents
OF the remedy are in question.
Rarely Fight Back.
Rarely do the mail-order doctors
fight back. 1t is easier to drop out of
business for a time and then reappear
under some other aliaS-se that many
OF the perpetual crop of takers are old
acquaintance of the post Office inSpec-
tors That the business is extremely
profitable Is shown by the vast sums
which, the investigations disclose, are
spent for advertising, usually in maya
zines of the type which circulate among
ignorant people.
Most OF the claims made for the
medicines are ridiculous, but appar-
emily the more sweeping and bold the
assertions the better the market.
A professor" in Atlanta was selling
by mail for SIS two pieces of zinc cut
in the shape of heels. They were ordi-
nary sheet zinc, cut out with his shears
as the orders came in by the timer
across the street from the professors"
Office. The United States Bureau of
Standards found that they had no prop
critics whatsoever not possessed by any
piece of zinc.
Many Cures Claimed.
But the professor" advertised they
were guaranteed to cure "har0ening Of
the arteries, high blood pressure, en-
1argement Of the heart, kidney trouble,
hardening OF the prostate gland, rheu-
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