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The Washington times., 1931-04-20
GIRL PULLS BOY
OFF TRACKS

An 11-year-old girl is the heroine
at Bowie. Nd, today and a 2
year-old boy is under stringent
parental guard following the in
fant's narrow escape from death
yesterday incident to his wander.
lust and attraction for railroad
tracks.
Handy Cowan, young son of
John Cowan, strolled from his
domicile yesterday and termin-
ated his afternoon walk on the
railroad tracks.
Ruth Quinn, daughter of w. j.
Quinn, an engineer of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, knew that two
trains were due to arrive at $50
p. m, and seeing the infant
crawling over the tracks, ran to
the assistance of the boy and
pulled him from out of the zone
of danger.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
MRS. THOMPSON
GETS AL|MONY

Mrs. Virginia c. Thompson
wife of Donald D. Thompson
wealthy apartment owner, who re.
sides at 2600 Thirty.first st. N. W,
has been awarded $500 monthly
maintenance by Justice James M.
Proctor under a consent decree in
her limited divorce action.
Through Attorney Frank Nesbit,
Mrs. Thompson asserted that she
was compelled to work fer II liv.
ing, although her husband lived
lavishly, with two automobiles, an
airplane and a speedboat at his
disposal. She charged him with
cruelty and failure to provide, and
said he drank to excess.
Mr.. Thompson must also pay
$500 in counsel fees to his wife's
attorney.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
LEAGUE CAUCUS
ON NARCOTICS
DUE MAY e
Seventy Nations Are Invited
to Take Part in Sessions
at Geneva; Scope Extended
BY A. E. BLANCO
Director. Anti-Opium Informa-
tion Bureau, Geneva.

kAUn DuEChuS OClCNds
GENEVA, April 20.-The League
Of Nations has convened con-
ference on limitation of manu-
facture of narcotics which is to
meet on May 27.
Originally restricted to manu-
featuring and producing coun.
tries and to the discussion Of
the limitation of only a few Of
the derivatives of opium, the
conference is not only no longer
restricted to manufacturing and
producing countries, but some 10
countries have been invited.
Scope Is Extended
They have been invited to dis
cuss the limitation of manufac-
ture of all and not just few of
the derivatives of opium and the
coca leaf as well as the subse-
quent control.
The conference will find itself
in the presence of two distinct
methods of solution of the prob
lem Of overmanufacture of drugs.
Ore will follow the line of
quotas, or the closed market,
which vieU is held by the materi-
ally interested governments.
Open Market Favored
The other line is the open mar
ket, approved by all consuming
and communicating countries.
The success of the conference
will depend upon the determine
ton of consuming countries to
see that there is no pandering to
the vested interests that their
delegates reach Geneva with in
structions to support only a
scheme which is based upon the
principle of the open market,
free competition, ALLEGATION Of
right of manufacture to be based
upon legitimate orders received;
protection of the legitimate con-
sL1ner against price raising and
provision for the invariable de-
structich or confiscated narcotics,
or At lesst Gheir retention for
Government use only.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
TAv COLLECTIONS BETTER

Only 325 pieces of property
were sold for unpaid taxes in
Montgomery county this year as
compared with 375 in 1880. This
is garded by Montgomery
county officials and bankers as
a favorable sign in the county's
advance into a better economic
condition over a year ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
Romeo Killer Suspect L
Nervous as Prosecutor
ASSaiIS Him.
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
limited Press staff CorrespOndent

HARRISBURG, w. Va, Dec. 10.
Harry F. Powers, on trial for the
killing of Mrs. Dorothy Lemke,
Northboro CMass) widow, stopped
chewing his gum and listened in
tently today when the prosecution
started its final argument.
Powers, flushing under the scath-
ing words of Prosecutor Win E. Nor
riS, sat motionless. His hands rest
ed on his knees.
This crime" Morris told the jury,
twas the most Sordid and melan-
choly murder this community ever
has known. This is no ordinary
criminal. He was actuated by greed"
This man either is guilty of muir
der in the first degree or he should
go free" Morris shouted.
Powers nodded his head solemnly
in agreement.
Morris referred to the two char
acterS as the men who might have
committed the Rogers" and
Johnson utterly mythical"
Assistant Prosecutor w. G..
Stather took up the story of
Powers journey to Northboro, where
he ''lured Dorothy Lemke away on
promise of marriage"
'He then started with her the
trip that will end eventually in his
going through the doors of the
Moundsville penitentiary and to the
gallows," Stather said.
Powers here began nervous tap
ping of his right foot on the floor,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
T oDGEs, business offices,

7 ODGES, business offices,
IL groups Of employees, frater-
mites, sororities, can join the
Clothe-a Child movement.
Organize a Clothe-a-Child COM
mittee. Name a treasurer to COL
lect funds for your boy or your
girl. Name a visiting committee
to go into the home and shop
ping committee to clothe your
child.
Any one, anywhere, with the
memory of his or her own child
hood can join.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
cLoT1EAcHLD FoR CHRISTMAS

New donors to the campaign,
bringing the total list of pledges
to ONE HUNDRED children,
follow:
Happy Couple (took another RirD.
Beams Bowling alleys. ISL North HI
nOis street. John n. and William Beam.
proprietors (tOok another bov and girD.
Two Fl. BENJAMIN Harrison Santas
(boy and crib
Employees Of American Legion Monthly.
129 East Market street (boy and EirD.
Just Wants to Help.
Mrs. North Meridian Street.
Delta Delta Delta sorority. ButIer
university.
Downstairs Store of L. s. Ayres zd-
vertising department.
Pressroom Of Times (another child.
Lives on Rural street.
Circle Tower Bunch.
Alpha Gamma sorority.
indianapolis Round Table.
Great Guy "a bow and a girll.
Delta Tau Delta. Of Butler university
We're the One Hundredth Cboy and
GRID.
Donors list on Page IL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
FREE THIRD SUSPECT
Police Without CIews in
Bertram Car Death.

With release of a third suspect,
police were without clews today in
the investigation of the death of
Ms. Nettie Bertram, go, sorority
house maid.
Unless new clews are forthcoming,
identity of the hit-and-run killer
who struck the woman, then tossed
her body into thicket seven days
ago, may remain unknown.
Detective Chief Fred Simon said
today detectives have no informa-
ton on which to work.
Mrs. Bertram disappeared as she
walked in an alley near her home,
210l North New Jersey street, eight
days ago. Her body, presumably dis
posed of by the hit-run murderer,
was found near Fhirty-fifth street
and Wallace avenue the following
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
Temporary Relief, in Addition to One-Year
Moratorium, Must Be Granted,
President Tells Congress.
ASKS FOR REVIVAL OF COMMISSION
Cancellation Is Not Mentioned, but Message
Is Seen as Pointing Toward Reduc-
ton of Obligations.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-President Hoover today
congress open the for revision of the debts
owing the United States.
He urged the house and the senate to face the obvious
that view of world conditions temporary relief must
be granted in addition to the recent oneyear moratorium
These debts have an estimated value of nine billion
dollars.
Congress was asked to revive the World war foreign
debt commission with authority into the problems and
report. Congress would have the final approval.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
PEACE PLAN IS
ACCEPTED BY
JAPAN, CHINA
League of Nations Formula
to End Fighting Adopted
Unanimously.
ONE RESERVATION MADE
Nippon Agrees to Withdraw
Troops; Retains Right
to Crush Bandits
By United Press

By United Press
PARIS, Dec. 10.-The League of
Nations formula for hating the
conflict in Manchuria was adopted
unanimously by the council in its
final plenary session today, both
China and Japan voting for the
resolution.
A few moments after the
adoption, however, a semi. official
telegram was handed to the secre-
tariat, reporting that the japanese
were advancing on Chinchow.
The resolution provides that the
japanese withdraw their troops
within the treaty zone, as speedily
as possible, that both sides agree to
refrain from starting further fight
ing, and that a neutral commission
of five be appointed to investigate
the situation.
Ends Weeks of Work
The league, after weary weeks of
effort to find formula that both
sides would accept, in the face of
their conflicting demands, finally
achieved a compromise which, it is
hoped, will halt further conflict and
enable peaceful negotiations to be
started for settlement Of the dis
pute.
Japan's demands that the Chinese
withdraw south of the great wall
into China proper, that Marshal
Chang Hsueh-Liang be definitely
discarded as ruler of Marchuria,
that neutral" zone be created
and that Japanese forces be per-
mitted to go outside the treaty zone
if necessary, to suppress bandits"
were not touched on in the resolu-
ton.
To Protect Lines
Japan presented a verbal reserva-
tion on the bandit" problem. In
accepting the draft resolution, Ken
.lichi Yoshizawa, japanese delegate,
said:
Regarding Paragraph 2 of the
draft resolution regarding further
fighting) I am happy to accept it
on behalf of Japan, on the under
standing that the paragraph is not
intended to preclude japanese forces
from taking such action as may be
rendered necessary to provide di-
rectly for protection of Japanese
lives and property in various parts
of Manchuria."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10

DUT, Say, folks, give the boy
~ and the girl between the ages
Of 10 and II chance. Every one
seems to want children between
s and 10 years.
Remember, when you, too, were
in your first long pants or long
dress and you felt nobody loved
you?" Remember? And you know,
too, that at that age you can get
chilled to the bone Just as the
younger ones can.
But if you just must have
younger children, LADS and lasses
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
MAPS KILLERS PLEA
Young SIayer'S Counsel to
File Death Appeal.
By United Press

81 CHtteG Press
ROCKFORD, Ill, Dec. lob. j.
Knight. attorney for 17-year-old
Russell McWilliams, who faces
death in the electric chair for kill
ing street car motorman in a
holdup, today was preparing an
appeal of the youths case to the
Illinois supreme court.
Granted thirty-day stay of exc
cution last Monday by Governor L.
L. Emmerson, young McWilliams,
lanky blue-eyed youth who claims
he was intoxicated when he shot
William Sayles last August, is in
the peintentiary at Joliet.
His mother, who moved from
Rockford to Joliet last week to be
near her son when it appeared ne
would be executed early Friday, re-
NAMED at the prison, pending the
supreme court decision.
McWilliams pleaded guilty to the
Staying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
BANK QUIZ APPROVED
Senate Passes Resolution
for Foreign Bond Probe.
detailed story Page 1, Section 2

Detailed Story Page /, Section
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The
senate today passed by unanimous
consent and without debate the
Johnson resolution authorizing an
investigation of international bank
in gin the United States.
The senate finance committee is
authorized to make the investiga-
ton into thesale in this country of
foreign securities aggregating be-
tween $15,OOO,OOO,0OO. and $17,OOO,-
600, 1000.
1t is expected that such bankers
as Thomas w. Lamont of j. P.
Morgan & Co., Otto Kahn and
others famous in the world of
finance will be summoned to testi-
fly as to their manner OF doing
business and their profits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10

Need of 1881 is greater than in
1890. You know how much greater
that need is! You know that there
are homes in the city where
patches and holes in clothing of
children are subjects OF prayer!
Each of the ONE HUNDRED
children pledged to be clothed to
date has been checked for worthi-
ness and need by the Christmas
clearing house, relief agencies Of
the Community Fund. and the So
cial service department of the In
dianapoliS public schools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10

between and 10, we've got them
and lots of them.
All you need do is call the
Child editor of The
Times and ask for a name.
You go into the child's home.
You actually see that child and
his or her needs. You shop for
and with that child. You take
him into your heart. You warm
your own heart and his, too, by
giving him bodily warmth in the
''norther" weather to come.
It's your Christmas tree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
NOBEL PEACE
PRIZE GIVEN
Jane ADDAMS
Nicholas Murray Butler TO
Share Award With Hull
House Leader.
By United Press


NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-The IA
nous daughter of Quaker miller,
and an infant prodigy who became
the storm center of political, edu-
cational and pacifist movements in
America, shared the worlds high
est honor today for their contribu-
ton to world peace.
Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House,
Chicago, received word that the
Nobel peace prize for 1881 had been
divided between herself and Presi-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Co
lumbia university, while she lay in
a hospital bed in Baltimore.
She will devote her share of the
award, amounting to about $4,000,
to the activities of the Women'S In
ternational League for Peace, of
which she has ben president for
years.
The 71-year-old social worker was
admitted to Johns Hopkins hospi-
tai Wednesday, probably to undergo
an operation.
Pleased With Award
Miss Adams was pleased, she said,
with the award, and said her work
with the peace league probably was
responsible for the high distinction
given her by the Nobel committee of
the Norwegian parliament.
President Butler, in New York, re-
garded the award as a most dis
tinguiShed honor, as great as it
is unexpected"
my qualification" he said, "can
be explained best, perhaps. by my
high regard for others who have re-
ceived the honor in the past, in
Guiding many of my friends, as Eliu
Root, Theodore Roosevelt, Frank B.
Kellogg, Aristide BRAND, Austen
Chamberlain and Others"
The financial proceeds of the
award are derived from a trust fund
of 100000 left by the inventor of
dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel. Prizes
equivalent to that awarded for peace
efforts are given annually to leaders
in the fields of physics, chemistry.
medicine and literature.
Famed World Over
Jane Adams life work in the
slumS has brought Sociologists,
statesmen, philosophers, and philan-
thropistS from all over the world to
her Hull House workshop.
Nicholas Murray Buffers peace
efforts and educational and political
theories have brought the worlds
politicians, rulers, educators, and re-
formers to his MorningSide Heights
residence, or have admitted him to
their most important conferences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
ONE HUNDRED!
w Clothing for O

AT NINE 11ONOINGO!
~ Clothing for one hundred
boys and girls, from families
scared by poverty and unemploy-
ment'S iron, had been pledged to-
day by donors to the Clothe-a-
Child for Christmas plan of The
Indianapolis Times.
One hundred boys and girls
are assured shoes that don't sop
up snow and rain, caps with
woody warmth, gloves that keep
hands from freezing, coats that
bar out gooseflesh.
And on and on goes the cam
paign, for the one hundredth
pledge no sooner was on the
Clothe-a-Child rolls than other
calls for information regarding the
Clothe-a-Child plan kept the
telephone tinkling.
And not until late Christmas
Eve will the movement to clothe
every INDECENT school child close
its books for 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
TWO NEGROES, HELD FOR
Staying, ARE LYNcHED.

w. Virginia Mob Drags Pair from
Jail; Shoots and Hangs Them.
By United Press
LEWISBURG, w. Va, Dec. TO-
Tom Jackson and George Banks,
Negroes charged with the murders
of Constable Joseph Myles and Jack
Brown, were taken from the Green
brier county Jail here today, shot
to death and their bodies hanged
from trees near the city limits.
Myles and Brown were killed two
weeks ago while attempting to quiet
disturbance at q Negro dance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
40 HURT IN COLLAPSE

Rush of Crowd to See Fist Fight
Causes Balcony to Fall.
By United Press
HARAHAN, La, Dec. 10.-Guests
at a wedding celebration, who
rushed to a dance hall balcony to
witness a fist fight, overloaded the
balcony and it collapsed early today,
injuring forty persons. Seventeen
of the more seriously hurt we're
taken to New Orleans hospitals in
ambulanceS.
Several women, with babies in
the arms were in the group.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
TEACHER TENURE LAW
OPPOSED BY TRUSTEES
Reaffirm Stand for Repeal; New
Officers Installed.

heaHlrm otanu IOr hepeaI, new
Officers Installed.
Stand for repeal of the teacher
tenure act was reaffirmed at the
closing session of the Indiana State
Association of Township Trustees
convention today at the Claypool.,
The association also passed reso-
lutionS asking that school hacks
and accessories be exempted from
taxation, and calling on Indiana
trustees to cooperate with existing
poor relief organizations for eff
cient administration.
Officers installed at the closing
session were Thomas S. Mcconnell,
Fowler, president; Harry P. Sims of
Schneider, Lake county, vice-presi-
dent, and Edward Hoffman, Terre
Haute, secretary treasurer, all re-
elected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10

yer said. that congress approve the
action by Dec. Is, when the next
debt payments suspended by the
moratorium, normally would be due.
His message also briefly surveyed
the entire foreign horizon.
The message aroused immediate
resistance from Chairman Borah Of
the senate foreign relations COM
mittee Less direct opposition came
from James E. Watson, Republican
leader.
BOrah Is Opposed
Borah said he would not counte-
nance an extension until Europe
sets her own house in order. Wat
son said he favored considering the
one-year moratorium alone.
Il was in favor of the one-year
moratorium" Borah said, solely
for the reason that it would give
Europe opportunity to adjust mat
tiers and get on a more sound eco
nomic basis.
81 am opposed to further extern
sion.
Europe, in my judgment, has
net made any serious attempt to
adjust those things which it is
necessary to adjust to start her eco
nomic recovery.
1.-The next moves and the SUBJ
stantial and drastic moves are with
Europe, not with the United States.
Garner Not in Hurry
I'VE will see what will be done at
the Geneva disarmament conference
next month"
Before the message was received,
Speaker Garner of the house said
that the moratorium could not be
considered there before Dec. Is, the
date when the next payments are
due.
Garner said that Republican
Floor Leader Smell, IN. V agreed
with him.
Garner saw no serious effect in
failure to ratify the proposal before
Dec. Is.
IF mans note comes due to-:
morrow there is no reason why you
should sue him if he doesn't pay"
Garner said.
Majority Leader Watson said:
Watson Gives Views
Il think the one-year moratorium
should be disposed of apart from
such matters renewing the war
debts funding commission. Presi.
dent Hoover seems to have the idea
that it is necessary to put all these
matters together.
L do not foresec any serious op-
position to the one-year program.
The opposition may arise to any
program devised after this morator-
lum expires next July. The opposi-
ton to the world court is main
tanned with even greater vigor than
before"
Representative Rankin Dem.,
Miss, in an attack on the mora
forum, told the house it represents
an attempt by international bankers
ito cancel all foreign debts and sad
die them on the American people"
Approve Banking Probe
The senate unanimously adopted
a resolution by Senator johnson
Rep., CALI, calling for immediate
and full investigation of interna-
tional banking activities in this
country.
The house passed its first measure
OF the new session, resolution per-
hitting alien participants in the
1882 Olympic games to enter the
country without restrictions.
The senate was to resume ballot
ing = an effort to elect a presi-
cent pro tenn. Insurgent opposition
TO Senator Moses IN. H., Repub-
lican incumbent, has made seven
haIlnfs inefacfiua
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10


This request was presented
in a special message on for
eign affairs.
The message did not refer to debt
cancellation, but generally was re-
garded as scaling down the huge
World war debt which hitherto has
been paid by allied nations largely
out of proceeds of reparations col
lected from Germany.
Asks Moratorium Approval
Mr.. Hoover also asked prompt
ratification of the one-year mora
forum, which went into effect last
July.
He urged that no discouragements
be permitted to prevent reasonable
arms limitation at the coming
Geneva disarmament conference,
emphasizing that the burden of
armament is greater than before
the World war.
The senate was reminded that the
world court proposal still is pending
before it, and that for twelve years
every President has urged American
membership as further assurance
against war;
Congressional approval of the
moratorium generally is taken for
granted.
Must Make Adjustments
On the more controversial ques-
ton of further scaling war debts,
Mr.. Hoover said.
CAS- we approach the new year,
it is clear that a number of the
governments indebted to us will be
unable to meet further payments to
us in full, pending recovery in their
economic life. 1t is useless to blind
ourselves to an obvious fact. There
fore, it will be necessary in some
cases to make still further tempo
rary adjustments.
THE congress has shared. with
the executive in the past the con-
sideration of questions arising from
these debts. I am sure that it will
commend itself to the congress that
the legislative branch of the gov
eminent should continue TO share
this responsibility.
Would Revive Commission
$50 we should be in position to
deal with the situation, I recon-
mend the recreation of the World
war foreign debt commission, with
authority to examine such problems
as may arise in connection with
these debts during the present eco
nomic emergency and to report to
the congress its conclusions and
recommendations"
Though not stated in the message,
it was said authoritatively, follow
ing the recent visit of Premier Laval
of France, that he and President
Hoover agreed that if the allied
powers granted Germany repara-
tons relief, President Hoover would
recommend to congress reduction Of
the war debts.
The amount Of reduction there
fore probably would not be deter
mined until after reparations nego-
tiations, now beginning in Europe,
are completed.
Britain Main Beneficiary
AS the administration has based
its debt policy on capacity to pay,
it is probable that instead of a hori-
zontal reduction for all debtors,
Great Britain would obtain a great
er proportionate reduction than
some other nations.
Her financial position has de-
clined, while Farnces has improved
since the original debt settlements
were made.
1t is highly desirable" Mr.. Hoo
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-10
SNOW BLANKETS UTAH
Heavy Downfall Ranges from Nine
Inches to Five Feet.
By United Press

D . 2 Wttb ITFoo
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 10.
Utah lay under a mantle of
white as the seasons most severe
snow storm continued today without
any immediate signs of abating
Airplane travel was halted.
Snow depths ranged from nine in
ches in downtown Sale Lake, to four
and five feet in upland regions.
Primary highways were kept open
with difficulty.
The Salt Lake weather bureau
said the storm area covered all
Utah, a large portion Of Arizona,
western Colorado and western and
northern New Mexico.