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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
AII-Night ReveIers Watch
Execution of French
Man About Town.
BY RICHARD d. MCMILLAN
United Press staff Corresnonhent

PARIS, Dec. Is. - Georges
Gauchet, 20, millionaires son, who
became a drug addict and murdered
a jeweler, died on a guillotine out
side Sane prison this morning, be-
fore a large crowd gathered in the
fog for a glimpse of the execution.
Gauchet went to his death silent
ly and without aid. His head
dropped into the guillotine basket
as the chimes of a nearby church
struck 7.
The curious witnesses of the ex-
ecution included men and women
in evening dress from cabaretS, gar
cons, messenger boys, and laborers,
who paused for a few minutes on
their way to work.
First Since Revolution
Gauchet was said to have been
the first member of high French
society guillotined since the French
revolution. The execution was the
second in Paris this year and the
third in France.
A good-looking man about town.
Gauchet had a large fortune with
which to amuse himself. He passed
most of his nights in the cabarets
Of Montmarte and met a. beautiful
woman who, police believed induced
him to take drugs and helped him
squander his money.
The boy was reduced to poverty
and his friends refused to advance
him more money. Police said he
was under the influence of drugs
When he tried to rob a jewelers. shop
in the busy avenue Mozart, in the
heart of the fashionable residen-
tial quarter of Passy.
Attacks With Hammer
He attacked the ieweler with a
hammer and then killed him with
a revolver.
THE verdict is just Gauchet
said when he was sentenced to die.
"Guillotine me as soon as possible. )"
The French legal code provides
that the guillotine be set UP outside
the prison so that the public may
witness the executing. Gauchet
was given the customary cigar and
glass of rum before he was taken
from the prison. The execution was
completed in two minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
TOYS SURROUND VICTIM
OF SLEEPING SICKNESS

Lad SAUNDERS on, UnmindfuI Of
Yule Tree in Hospital Room.
By United Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 26.-Toys
that would delight the heart of any
8year-old today surrounded the bed
of little Joe Higgins in General
hospital, but Joe, a sleeping sick
ness victim, was unmindful of their
presence and the only ones who
could enjoy them are his relatives
and his nurses.
Joe slept throughout Friday and
today began his siXty-eighth day of
Inconsistencies. The lighted Christ
mas tree in his room cast red and
green lights over his white-sheeted
bed
The only cheerful note of the day
was the report of doctors that Joe
is in better physical condition now
than at any time since he entered
the hospital, Oct. IT. The pfysi-
clans report praised nurses who
tenderly have cared for him that he
might not become bedsore or his
muscles become cramped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Cops Robbed
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. %
Remember the case of the dog
that bit the representative of
the dog pound? Well, they
robbed the clerks drawer
Christmas day in a police sta
ton here.
The station clerk keeps pris-
oners personal valuables in
the drawer, and in this case it
contained about $137. What
was the clerks embarrassment
to open the drawer and find it
empty as old Mother Hub
bard's cupboard.
Headquarters detectives, less
f1ustered today than those Of
the Second precinct, are trying
to find the enterprising sneak
thief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
ST. LOUIS BECOMES
RADI0L0GY CENTER
New s1,22O,OOO Center Draws World
Wide Interest.

81 United Press
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 26.-Doctors
throughout the world will come
here for radiology information, due
TO the $1,22O,000 new structure re-
GENTLY erected here for study of this
branch of medical science.
The Edward Mallinckrodt Insti-
tute OF Radiology, an eight-story
building, is the only institution of
its kind in the world. 1t contains
special equipment valued at 100000
and will be operated under a $780,
600 endowment.
DR.. Sherwood Moore, who directed
erection and equipment of the
building, pointed out the new
building, with its radiology and *
raw equipment, located in the midst
of the famous Barnes hospital
group, will allow movement of pa
tents into the institution for dag
nesis at the rate Of 10000 a year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
CLOTHE-A-CHILD
LETTER TYPICAL
OF GOOD DONE
Father Who's Seen Better
Days Grateful to Gen.
erouS GiVers.

A little aftermath of Christmas
and little happiness for the New
Year came bundled up in a letter
today to the CIothe-a-Child editor
of The Times.
We're going to call the letter the
Unknown Child You Clothed"
For the children in the letter are
boys and girls made warm and hap
py these tough days by Clothe-a-
Child folk in the 1881 campaign Of
dressing $50 children.
They may be your boy or girl.
We're not saying who, for they're
happy at time when happiness is
at premium.
Remnant Of Prosperity
The man, father of the children.
writes the letter on stationary of
affluent years. The letterhead
carries his name and address and
alongside that name and address of
John Doe, ...... street" are the
throbbing words, "A remnant of
good times"
Here's the letter. It's to all
Clothe-a-Child men and women.
Editor Times-You are the cause
of a Merry Christmas to my chill
dren, my wife and myself. If you
could but see how proud and
happy they are, you sure would be
happy and glad. While this is
the hardest Christmas I have ever
put in I don't know of one 1 ap-
preciated as much as I have this
one. I want to thank you from
the bottom of my heart and wish
you a Happy New Year and hope
you live to be a thousand years
old, if you are the cause of spread
ing Christmas cheer every Christ
mas as you have this one.
Yours respectfully.
And what the Remnant OF Good
Times" wishes you Child
pledges for the new years to come,
The Times also wishes you.
Total May Increase
The campaign to clothe the city's
unfortunate children closed with $50
children dressed. But odd cash
contributions at the last minute, on
Christmas eve. may bring the total
to 355 children.
Approximately $270 in cash was
received by The Times, in addition
to the pledges to clothe children.
Crews of Times employees spent
Christmas eve digging into that cash
balance to clothe children.
Each cash donor will receive the
name of the child he clothed if he
desires that name.
Letters of children and parents re-
questing clothing and not receiving
aid will be turned over to relief
agencies of the Community Fund for
help in the New Year
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
ROBOT TURNS HUMAN
UNDER KNIFE STAB
"Antomaton's" Shadow Boxing Ends
as Soda Clerk Yields Knife.


as Soda Clerk Yields Knife.
81 United Press
NEW YORK. Dec. 26.-Joseph
Daily, mechanical man" who stalks
rigidly about Times Square without
so much as batting an eye, forgot
his role very quickly Friday night
when a person in the crowd stabbed
him in the thigh.
Throngs who had been following
DAILY, unable quite to make up
their minds whether he was an
automaton or a human being. saw
him writhe in pain and comfort his
usually frozen" features.
DAILY, to attract a crowd. had been
shadow boxing" jerkily as he
walked down the street, and his fist
barely had missed the nose of a
young man. The man, thinking he
was being attacked, drew knife
and stabbed the "automaton."
The injury was not serious. DAILY
charged William Corbin, an unem-
ployed soda clerk, was his attacker.
Corbin was charged with felonious
assault.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
MILLIONAIRE KILLER
DIES ON GUILLOTINE
Baby Dozen!

BY bNtted FfeSS
MIAMI, Fla, Dec, ga
restless child opened a pet
cock to a gasoline tank and
caused the forced landing at
sea of an airplane carrying six
persons, it was revealed here
today.
The baby opened the pet
cock, Eddie Stafford, pilot ex-
planned, thus permitting the
fuel normally pumped from
the main tanks to the motor
to be dumped into the sea.
Stafford with a plane char
tered by five passengers. includ-
ing two children, was flying
from Nassau to Miami. The
forced landing was near An
dros island, which possibly
averted tragedy. All were re-
turned to Nassau in safety a
few hours after the landing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
AIRPORT IS INSPECTED
BY SOVIET VISITORS
Russians Seeking New Ideas for
Own Government.

Indianapolis had five Christmas
visitors from Moscow, Russia. at the
municipal airport Friday.
They are members Of the aviation
commission named by the Russian
government to inspect the major
airportS of the United States and
take new ideas back to the Soviet
government.
Only one of the five members
could speak English. They were
shown the airport by Charles E.
Cox Jr., superintendent. Cox said
they expressed, through their inter
prefer, their satisfaction with the
indianapolis field.
Members of the commission are:
Harry AngelosSn, L. P. Cershevich,
and Mr.. Slim, chairman; Mr.. Da-
vidoff and Mr.. Michailovsky.
They visited Columbus co. air.
port later in the day. They will
embark from New York in a few
days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
kidnapping Suspects Held

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 90
Four Men held here are suspected
of having committed several thefts
and holdups and at least one kid
mapping, the victim of the last
named offense having been Edgar
Lunn, Bedford. The prisoners are
Orville Baxter, 20, Terre Haute:
John Collier, Al. Paris, H.; Earl
Elkins, %, and Melvin Elkins, II,
brothers, Bedford.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Wood Cutting Aids Needy
Rn Timrs Snecinl

HUNTINGBURG, Ind, Dec. 26.-
A community wood cutting project
is providing aid for the needy here.
Conrad HoffhauS and F. H. Poetker
have donated timber which is cut
as cordwood and sold, the money
being used to pay wood cutters, who
receive credit on the basis of Is
cents an hour in food and other
supplies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
NOT SENATOR ROBINSON
New Legion Posts Head Given
Incorrectly by The Times.

Arthur v. Robinson, 1865 North
LaSalle street, is the new COM
mander of East indianapolis post,
No. 13, American Legion. He is not
the Indiana junior senator as was
reported enormously in The Times
Thursday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Economy Observed

By Times Special
COLUMBUS. Ind, Dec. 26.-The
Bartholomew county council is con-
sistent in its economy program.
After refusing to allow appropria-
tons for county farm agent, club
agent, courthouse matron and
deputy clerks, the council refused
to allow $40 as salary Of its mem
bers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Sheriff's Mother Dies
By Times Special

By I tmeS Np6ctdt
NASHVILLE, Ind, Dec. 26.-Mrs.
Lettie Weddle. 70, mother of Sheriff
Fremont Weddle of Brown county,
is dead. She leaves her husband,
william ]. Weddle, and five children,
Mrs. Susan Maxwell, Miami, Fla;
Ray, indianapolis; Lon, Nashville:
George, Trafalgar, and Vern We'd
61e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Plan Program for Orphans

REGULATIONS. songs and tableau
will make up the Christmas pro-
gram Of the General Protestant
Orphans home, 1404 South state
street, at Sunday. Music will be
furnished by Miss Margaret Rasch-
bacher and Mrs. Walter E. NendeI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
LOG Home Yields relic

VINCENNES. Ind, Dec. pa
wood peg on which is written in
faded ink, Part of the first house
built in Vincennes, Ind" is on dis
play here. The peg was taken from
an old log house RACED on the farm
of Eva Adams near Monroe City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Richmond Woman Dies

By Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. 26.-Mrs.
Mary Mann, daughter of e. G. Hill,
internationally known as an origi-
nator and grower of roses, is dead.
She leaves her husband, Earl Mann,
treasurer of the Hill Floral Products
Company; two sons and daughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
Circles Globe With $40

q JHNtU I7TtNS
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Hal K.
Northam, Northwestern university
graduate who started west in June,
1880, with $40 in his pockets and a
determination to work his way
around the world, returned yester-
day from the east, his ambition re-
allied. and just 81 poorer than when
he left.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
CALLS DIVORCE HOLIDAY

Salt Lake City Judge Declares
Moratorium for Season.
By United Press
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 26.-
Judge Roger McDonough's weekly
divorce matinee" has been discon-
tinued during the Christmas season.
The Salt Lake jurist has declared
a Divorce Moratorium.
"The season seems appropriate for
forgetting all matters that tend to
increase human suffering and men,
tai worry" he observed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
SANTA GIVES WINGS
Chamberlin Presented With New
Lockheed-v Vega AirpIane.
By United Press

By United Press
DETROIT, Dec. 26. - Clarence
Chamberlin, plotting his Christmas
present, Lockheed-Vega mono
plane powered by a Packard-Diesel
engine left here yesterday afternoon
for Pittsburgh.
Chamberlin said the plane was
a present from the New York real
estate company by which he is en-
ployed.
The plane originally was built for
Vance Breese, who planned fight
over the Pacific in it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26

There is a Santa Claus, even
q dog Santa.
Of course, didn't he bundle
these three puppies up in his
pack and take them to good
homes?
Tuesday, when their pictures
appeared in The Times, these
puppies were just Yuletide or
phans at the city pound.
Within a short time after the
issue of The Times had reached
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26

Indianapolis homes scores of per-
sons called at the pound seeking
to adopt the dogs. Many appli-
cants were children.
The first to arrive received the
dogs. They were H. E. Hue, 5158
Carrollton avenue: L. M. Thiesing,
$500 Brentwood avenue, and Mrs.
Mearl Peredaine, 1851 Exeter ave-
nue.
They were delighted with the
dogs" said Ms Elizabeth Conger,
pound superintendent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-08
War-Crazed

New Workers. of the Twenty-Seventh
division saw something Of the mental
havoc wrought by years of enemy &C.
cupation when they liberated village
after village during the closing days
of the war. And they will recognize
this story. It happened while one
of the outfits of the Twenty-seventh
just been taken from the Germans
after four years of occupation. An
American corporal, who had been
through much fighting without
scratch, was killed by stray shell
burst.
The corporal was a fine soldier,
man of French descent who spoke the
language. He had made friends in
the village, was of the Catholic faith.
so it was decided to bury him in the
local church yard.
A French priest was found for the
service. Being very shorthanded, with
only a few Americans in the village
four German prisoners were turned
out to dig the grave and carry the
stretcher. A squad of Australians
acted as guard of honor. The little
procession filed through the village.
the corporal a strange figure, sewed
up in burlap on the stretcher.
The priest was well along in the
service, and the German prisoners
were ready with their spades to throw
in the dirt when an aged peasant
came dumping in. Perhaps he was
dazed after years of hardship and en-
envy domination. The old man peered
into the grave, asked what was going
on. He was told an American sol
der was being buried.
Then he saw the Germans, stand
ing meekly by with their spades. Sud-
denly he went mad. Selling spade.
he made for the Germans. shouting
that they, who lad killed so many.
should be buried. and not this Amer
lean. The service halted while two
stalwart Australians with some diff
Guilty pried the patriarch off the
startled Germans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-08
WORLD
WAR
VAR MS
"Heaven. He'll or Hoboken!"
by Lieut.. Fronk E. Hogcn

Mention Christmas in connection
with the World war and one thinks
first of that historic Christmas day
when British Tommy and German
Fritz crawled out of their trenches and
there in the desolation of No Mans
Land. where the phrase peace on
earth, good will to men" was bitter
mockery, met and fraternized for
little while before going back TO the
grim tasl of killing each other. Or
one may recall the idle promise of
certain well-intended If ill-advised
"peace expedition" TO "get the boys
out of the trenches by Christmas"
But it remained for the American
fighting man TO make a promise, in
which Christmas was concerned,
which was kept. Remember the
phrase, Heaven, He'll or HObOken by
ChristmasI" which became a by-word
in the A. e. f. in 1918? Where did
that saying originate? General Per-
shing has been credited with having
said it first. But then, lot of say
ings have ben credited to the Amer
lean commander in chief which he
never uttered. 1t sounds more like the
boast of a soldier in the ranks than
the prophecy of a general, and here
is one authority for the fact that 1t
did originate there.
The story by j. G. Minard of Pelham,
N. Y, follows: shortly after midnight
on June 2, 1918. l stood at the edge of
Belleau Wood when a battalion of ma
rines who had been relieved emerged.
1 asked the sergeant what the verdict
was and he replied. oh. we have
their number, and it is going to be
Heaven, He'll or Hoboken by Christ
mas This was the first time | had
heard the remark, and the next day ]
embodied it in letter home.
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Definition of a Snob

Thackerays definition of snob is
classic of its kind. 1t expresses very
neatly the characteristics of that re-
gretable type of person. "A snob is
mat man or woman who are always
pretending, before the world. TO be
something better-especially richer or
more Standardization they are II
IS one who thinks his own position in
life contemplate. and is always yearn-
,ng and striving TO force himself in
re- one above. without the eduration or
characteristics which belong to it one
VINO looks down upon. despises. and
,verrides his interiors. or even equals
f his own standing and is ever ready
q worship. fawn upon. and tiarter
~icn or titled man. not because he Is a
good man. wise man. or Christian
nan; but because he has the luck
be rich or consequential"
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physical condition were such as to dis
qualify them for strenuous service
were given important assignments
Most of them were known to me
and not few who. under the rule of
seniority, were commanders of regi
ments and departments, had lacked
the energy even to train their com
mands or themselves in battle exer
cises. where favorable opportunity had
been offered.
The policy of the War department
from beginning to end seemed to be
to appoint officers to the higher grade.
according TO seniority, with the inten
ton of wedding out the inefficient later
on. This appears to have been the de-
partment's idea of selection and the
result was practically no selection al
all After the appointment Of such
officers it was a slow process to elimi-
nate them.
In the Training Area.
The First division was now well
settled in its training area in the re
gion of GondrecOurt, south of Bar-le-
Due The troops of the division had
already established friendly relations
with the French peasantry and had
quickly adapted themselves to thei.
new mode of life.
As the natural consequence of the
financial condition of the frugal
French provincial, he was wont Ito
profit by the presence of the British
and ourselves, and the open-handed
payday habits of the Americans served
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General PerShinS'S
Story of the A. 3. r.
r.n # by General
Hp's John IL Pershing
by General
John IL. PerShing

One message intercepted by the
French, sent from some wireless sta
ton in Spain to the German general
staff. announced the arrival of several
American vessels at Nantes and of
10000 American soldiers at st. Ma
zaire, and also gave the routes taken
by our transports.
Another, evidently intended for sub
marines, reported the departure of
convoy of transports from New York.
These and similar facts were cabled al
once TO Admiral Sims and to Wash
ington.
Leadership Big Problem.
Probably the most important factor
in building up an aggressive army is
the selection of leaders Without suf
ficient leadership the finest of troops
may suffer defeat by inferior forces
skillfully led.
The following was my recommended
ton to Secretary of War Baker:
"My observation of British and
French armies and most eXacting ardu
Gus service conditions ar the front
fully convince me that only officers in
full mental and physical vigor should
be sent here. Contrary course means
certain inefficiency in our service and
possible later humiliation of officers
concerned. General officers must IN
dergo extreme effort in personal super
a& in rrQnnhnC VnrU
few British or French division COM
manders over forty-five or brigadiers
over forty.
1--WE have too much at stake to risk
inefficiency through mental or physical
defects. Strongly recommend condi
tons be fully considered in making
high appointments and suggest thai
no officer of whatever rank be sent
here for active service who is not
strong and robust in every particular
Officers selected for appointment gen.
eral officer of line should be those
with experience in actively command
ing troops. Officers not fulfilling above
conditions can be usefully employed
at home training troops"
Little Effort at Selection.
These recommendations were not al
together followed AT home. In facr
very little effort seems to have been
made at selection. so that some officers
without ambition or initiative. whose
inefficiency should have been well
known. and others whose age and
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each other with shipping for foodstuffs.
but there was no such thing as pooling
of allied tonnage for general purposes.
However, the discouraging reports
on the situation did make sLch an i'm
preston on the military leaders that
they suggested the possibility of pool
ing all available shipping and accord
ingly recommended a commission TO
consider the question. with especial
reference to the transportation of the
American army.
Spies Get Sailing Dates.
The success of submarine warfare
had been largely dependent upon az
vance knowledge concerning move
ments of vessels. As there was no
doubt that the sailing dates of much
of our shipping reached Germany
through spies. one way to reduce the
danger would be to close such sources
of information.
In the beginning the practice by our
War department of transmitting secret
information was extremely loose. The
data regarding sailing was. of course
sent to my headquarters. but at the
same time. or often before. it was also
given to both French and British mill
tary and naval attaches and missions
in Washington. They immediately
transmitted the information by cable
to their respective governments. with
the result that it usually became al
most common knowledge.
But there were other sources of III
formation possessed by the enemy