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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
FIGHT Is LOOMING
ON PRIMARY BILL
Secret Voting Clause in Repeal Measure Is Opposed
Referendum Up for Debate in Senate.

prohibition referendum, to
and local school attendance officers
for debate the senate today being placed on divided com
mttee reports O
Although the primary bill majority report for
mttee O
The Niblack bill providing
November will minority committee for
age but may be amended put the questions election
ballot n 1882 ~
Prolonged debate the attempt and local at
tendance officers scheduled the oaoy way before adj
ournment at minority committee report adoption OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
Hourly Temperatures

Three shots blazed out and the po-
liceman fell dead. Leaping from
the car the slayer brandished q re-
volver and threatened Chief Crull:
"One move and I'll kill your
The gunman fled into nearby
woods. In session when The re-
port reached them, city council
offered $500 reward for arrest of
the murderer, and a posse of fifty
men was formed by American Le-
gion members. Three state police
men Joined the hunt and blood
hounds were put on the trail.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Thompson
captured Brown this morning
Browns father, William Brown, SIS,
said his son left home Monday to
go to Cincinnati.
The car driven by the slayer was
stolen here Tuesday from A. N. Pat
terson, 1920 College avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
Stimson Gets Letter
81 united Press

BY ONtttu russ
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The
state department has received from
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. a letter
bearing upon his asserted part in
the criticism of Premier Mussolini
OF Italy which led to the court
martial of Major General Smedley
d. Butler United States marine
corps.
The letter was forwarded by
Vanderbilt from Tucson. Ariz.
where he now is, to Secretary OF
state Henry L. Stimson. 1t reached
the state department Tuesday. The
department has refused to reveal
its contents.
General Butler and his counsel
Major Henry Leonard, had a long
interview about the pending pro-
ceedings in the privacy of the
Metropolitan Club here today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

FASHION is an accepted style
Il "a style accepted by a con-
siderable number of people" says
Amos Parrish, whose articles on
What's in Fashion," will appear
daily exclusively in this news
paper, starting next Monday,
Feb. 9.
THE public taste and the ac-
ceptance of preferred styles is
the bAqis of fashion.
Fashion trends move slowly,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
BUTLER STORY
IS TRUE, SAYS
VANDERBILT
Charge Against MusSoIini
Upheld in Letter to
Friend in West.
CITES HIS VISIT IN 1926
Writer Admits, for First
Time, He Is Source of
Information.
By LEICESTER WAGNER
tCopYright. 1891. BY United Pressl

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4-'Sure,
the story is true" Cornelius Wander
bilt Jr. said in a letter received to-
day regarding the Butler Mussolini
incident.
The former publisher. writing a
close friend in Los Angeles, said
that a visit he had with Premier
Benito Mussolini in 1925 formed the
basis for assertions made by Major
General Smedley D. Butler, for
which the latter is to stand court
martial.
Vanderbilt, for the first time, dis
closed himself as the source Of Cen
eral Buffers information to the
effect that Mussolini's automobile
killed a child and moved on with
out stopping.
Recipient Shows Letter
The letter from the young author
and former newspaperman, who
now is in Phoenix, was exhibited eX-
clusively to the United Press cores
pondent by the recipient. The latter
40 ~ MAAlIA VI AlfbblOAlcll III OAlAAlAIAACLs
No reference was made to the re-
mark attributed to Mussolini by
Butler, and for which the United
States government subsequently
apologized:
What is one life in the affairs of
the state?"
There were extenuating circum-
stances of the asserted accident,
which ACQUIRED, the letter said, while
Vanderbilt was in the car with
Mussolini.
One of these was that the dying
child was cared for by occupants of
an official car accompanying that of
the premier, the letter said.
Told Under Secrecy Seal
The incident, now almost five
years old, had been related by Van
derbilt to Butler at meeting of
lecture bureau heads and under
seal Of secrecy, the former publisher
said,
Direct quotations from the let
ter, which was written at Phoenix
on Sunday, we're forbidden. for the
time being by the friend to whom
the communication was addressed,
except for the phrase with which
the epistle opened:
Sure, the story is true.
1t asserted that Vanderbilt had
,alled upon Mussolini in Rome in
1925, when, in June and July, he
made q tour of continental Europe
and interviewed Stain, Pilsudski,
Clemenceau, Doumergue, Poincare,
Joifre, Foch. Pershing. King AL
fonso. Lloyd George, Baldwin, Trot-
ski, the former kaiser and MuSsolini.
Interview Is Admitted
The Italian government at first
denied that the premier ever had
met Vanderbilt or had taken any
American as guest on motor
tour. but subsequently amended the
assertion by saying that Mussolini
had granted Vanderbilt a brief in
10 view.
SuDstantiating his assertion that
he had interviewed Mussolini. de-
spite the original denial, Wander
bilt wrote his Los Angeles friend
that he had in his possession a
letter from II Duce, thanking him
for the interview and the pleasant
publicity consequent upon it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
RELIEF FUND CROWS
Red Cross Aid Total Passes
$4,000 Mark.

Contributions totaling $3,O96.5O
today brought the Red Cross fund
for relief of starving persons in the
drought-stricken areas of the nation
to $3O,78O.5l.
The largest single contribution re-
corded today was that of $500 made
by the Employees Mutual Benefit
Association of the Real Silk hosiery
mills.
Other large contributions includ-
ed $3.50 from Mrs. James w. Fes-
Ter and 500 each from Elmer w.
Stout and Henry w. Bennett.
Indianapolis goal in the cam
paign is $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
SENATE BILL ASSAILED
Measure for Health Officer to b.
Opposed by Civic Federation.

Assailed as superf1uous and costly
legislation, senate bill No. 90. pro-
viding for the appointment of city
health officer with authority to name
as many assistant workers as he
sees fit, will be opposed vigorously
by the North Side Federation of
Civic Clubs. The federation, con-
tending enactment of the bill would
cause huge increase in taxation,
will demand indefinite postpone
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

Police found the shell extractor
of one of the rifles linked with the
trigger of the other and the guns
pointed toward the car door.
Mrs. Patten, who rushed to city
hospital. said she was not aware her
husband had the guns in the car.
She was broken with grief after his
death and was unable to talk, even
to close friends, who accompanied
her.
Patten lived at 1921 North Merid-
ian street. In addition to the widow
he is survived by a son living in
New York.
The bullet passed through Pat
tens head and narrowly missed
Wales and Morton Gould, who were
in the company offices Both men
had been joking with Patten about
his birthday few minutes before
the shooting, they said
Patten was a member Of the In
dianapolis Athletic and Country
clubs and the Kokomo Country
Club. He was a pilot in the war,
having been taught to fly by Lind
coin Beachey, famous ace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

TN 1923 the silhouette began to
Il change from the straight line,
the perfectly pencil-straight sill
houette. There was the slightly
nodded effect at the waistiine.
I'm 1924 and 1925 more of a
reaction took place. Pleats we're
introduced in the skirt, breaking
the perfectly straight lies.
'sT'he trend toward more ferni-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
Horror Past Imaqination

bH CHtLGU FfeS8
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
Feb. 4.-First eyewitness accounts
Of the terror and destruction
wrought by an earthquake on North
island were obtained from survivors
at Hastings today.
THE horror and confusion were
unbelievable" one eyewitness said.
1.-THE business area was demolished.
Buildings on Hastings main street
collapsed like a pack of cards.
The whole town was under a
cloud of dust and fog. Many streets
were obliterated.
1.-The entire staff of the Grand
hotel was buried alive. Half the
population was injured. Every one
was dazed, while the dead and in
jured Uttered the streets. Terrified
survivors rushed from the ruins of
the town and camped in the open
fields"
cat least twenty-six persons were
known dead at Hastings. including
twelve buried in the collapse Of a
store. Rescuers attempted to save
sixteen women imprisoned in the
ruins of a drapery shop and five
others were trapped IN a demolished
apartment.
1.-The injured were treated at
emergency first aid stations, erected
in public parks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
NeUer Too Big

Even Jess Willard didn't look
too big to Jack Dillon, the
Hoosier Hurricane. But JESS
gracefully lodged the match.
Many other topnotchers didn't
dodge, but they would have
been tickled pink had they
done 50, when they met the
Hurricane coming in, fists fly
ing with triphammer force.
Jack Dillon was marvellous
piece of fighting machinery.
And his career makes a mar
velous story. Read the first
of six installments in the
Pinks this afternoon, and ON
the sports pages in the earlier
editions Thursday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

ninity, more fornfality has been
greater each season. More atten-
ton given to dressmaker details,
to intricate scanning, to fit the
body and to be more decorative.
Women want the new fashions.
And they're getting what they
want. They want more feminine
clothes-and at the same time
more formal clothes for more for
nal occasions-and that's what
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

makes Fashion-the preferences
of the public"
THE Whats in Fashion,
l. articles viii report daily the
leading fashions in apparel and
accessories. in furniture and home
furnishings. The first article viii
tell what's going to be worn this
spring. Watch ana see If Mr..
Parrish isn't right
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
TAX SALES BILL IN
HANDS OF GOVERNOR
House Passes LindIey Measure
Under Rules Susnension.

House Passes Lindley Measure
Under Rules Suspension.
Passed by the house of repre-
sentativeS under suspension of rules.
the Lindley bill prohibiting col
lection of taxes for the current year
at delinquent tax sales, now is in
the hands of Governor Harry G.
Leslie.
Representative Fabius GWin
(Dem., Dubois and Martini, chair
man of house Judiciary A COM
mittee, moved for suspension of the
rules, citing the vital need at this
time for such a bill, and pointing
out that the Governor may not
sign the Weiss house measure
which embraces similar aims, but
Is drawn to live only a year. Vote
for passage was IS to 8.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
OPENS ELEVATOR DOOR,
YOUTHS HEAD SEVERED

Boy, II, Killed Because He Is in Too
Big a Hurry.
81 United Press
CHICAGO. Feb. 4.-James j. Nc
c,ormick, II, was on the second floor
of a Wells street building and in a
hurry to get to the first.
He forced open the doors TO the
elevator shaft to see If an elevator
was coming down.
1t was.
It decapitated him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
List of Injured in New Zea-
land Disaster Is Far Up
in Thousands; Horrors
Beyond Description.
BY A. r. GRACE
United Press Staff Correspondent

AUCKLAND, New Zealand,
Feb, 6 (Thursday).-The ex-
tent Of disaster caused by
Tuesdays earthquake was in
dictated today by the first re-
ports of organized relief
forces which invaded the
ruined cities of the Hawkes.
bay region.
With the death toll in three OF
the stricken cities placed at about
430, and with other regions unre-
ported, a general order was issued
for evacuation of the flourishing
city of Napier, famous resort town
on the eastern coast of North
island.
The evacuation was ordered car
ried out within two days, due to the
breakdown of sewage facilities and
the fear of authorities that an
epidemic would start unless the i'll
habitants leave at once. It was
arranged to evacuate 5000 women
and children Immediately.
Entire Shore of Bay Raised
It was revealed by aviators who
flew over the region that the entire
shore of Hawkes. bay had, been
raised about ten feet by the earth
quake. The harbor floor was lifted
eighteen feet, it was estimated.
The shore in some places was raised
more than ten feet.
The flow of rivers was interrupted
and waters we're backing up in III
land lowlandS. The coast lire
around the bay appeared to have
been twisted violently and thrown
upward.
The latest estimate placed the
dead at Napier alone at 300.
Twenty-six were known dead at
Hastings.
The injured already totaled thou
sands. The open air dressing sta
ton erected at Napier had account
ed for 900 serious injuries.
Fires still were raging at Napier
at p. m. today. Many victims were
moderated.
Seventeen bodies had been recov-
cred from the ruins Of the hospital
and the nurses home. Attendants
worked heroically' to remove pa
tientS before the hospital collapsed.
One patient was undergoing an
operation, which was completed in
the open air.
Race Track Is Shambles
A temporary hospital was estab-
lished on the race course, which
was described as shambles. Here
surgeons worked throughout the
night. performing operations by
candlelight and the glare of auto
mobile headlights. They completed
five successful amputations.
Prisoners were paroled at Ma
pier to assist in rescue work.
Two British cruisers reached the
stricken town and the crews went
dollOlE 41All1COldOCAy W dOolob al
fighting fires and administering to
the injured.
Palmerston, in the southern part
of North Island, was warned to ex-
pect 5000 refugees. An airplane
service was organized for commu-
nication between the earthquake
zone and relief centers.
Meat Works Raced
At Pakipaki, the meat works Of
Borthwick & Sons was RACED, and
four workers were killed.
Recurrert earth shocks added to
the panic of the population and the
difficulties of rescue parties.
The pilot of an airplane who flew
over the earthquake zone said that
magnitude of the disaster could not
be appreciated without being seen.
Hundreds of persons still we're
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
DERVlSH FOILS HANGMAN
Guards Unable to Find Man Who
FIees Gallows Fate.
~ United Press

bV UUtfen PTesS
MENEMEN. Turkey, Feb. A
wide search for fugitive Dervish
who fled from guards moment be-
fore he was to have been hanged
Tuesday proved vain today as the
bodies of twenty EIGHT other leaders
Of the Mehemen revolt we're re-
moved from the gallows.
The fugitive escaped when his
guards had marched him to within
few yards of the gallows on which
he was to have died. He fed in the
mist of early morning, while he
guards pursued, firing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

Amos Parrish starts in by
clearing away much of. the
mystery about. fashion. He ex-
plains the difference between a
fashion and style. the way in
which fashion trends are checked
and fashions forecast months
ahead.
The first What's in Fashion,"
article viii appear in The Times
Monday. Feb. 9.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
MAN STAYS THREE
Kills Wife, Daughter and
His Brother in-LaW.
81 United Press

81 United Press
SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. Ala
verne Clark, Is, today shot and
killed his estranged wife, their
daughter and his wife's brother. He
then shot himself and was believed
dying.
The dead: Mrs Ellen Clark, Clio
ria Clark, 3, their daughter, and
Jack Anthony Mrs. Clark's brother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
NOTED ARTIST is DEAD
Painter of Famous 81 Bill Succumbs
al Home in East.
By United Press

by UWtI6U FTeSS
WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. a.
John D. Chalfant, IS; the artist who
painted such a realistic picture OF
a ST bill that it was conf1scated by
the government, died at his home
in Ashley today.
Chalfant's dollar bill painting, ex-
hibited n 1888. was sought by a
wealthy westerner for several thou
sand dollars, but the government
conf1scated it on the grounds ii
might be used for counterfeiting
purposes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

The waterfront of the town Of
Napier, New Zealand, where earth
quake, fire and tidal wave COM
bined to Kill numbers of persons
in one Of the most unusual dis
asters in recent history, is shown
at top.
The quake toppled part of the
high cliff into the sea, the town
caught on fire, the water in the
bay receded until the bottom was
visible and then rushed back in
q tidal wave.
The map shows the location and
also the towns of Ginsborne and
Rotorua, where first reports said
heavy losses had been sustained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

missing, while searchers probed
through debris, threatened by the
danger that other shocks would send
damaged edifices crashing down
upon them.
Fires at Napier, fed by oil tanks
and famed by strong winds, still
were out of control today Ships in
the bay reported the town looked
like it might have been leveled by
heavy gun fire. 1t was reported
that many victims were burned to
death as flames swept through the
ruined city.
Many Not Identified
Many bodies were brought to
temporary morgues. 1t was neceS-
sary to bury most of them without
waiting for identification. The ma
jority of the bodies recovered were
those of women and children, re-
ports said.
communications with the district
remained broken and news from the
earthquake zone was received only
by ships wireless and radio-tele-
phone. "a
Pitiful tales of injury and death
as buildings collapsed and wide fis-
sures suddenly opened in the earth
were received here. Churches and
hospitals were not spared. Twelve
persons we're reported killed while
praying in a cathedral.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
Lindbergh Is % Today

By United Press
ENGLEWOOD, N. j.. Feb. A.
Colonel Charles A. Lirdbergh cele-
brated his twenty ninth birthday
today at the home Of his father-
in-.aw. Senator Dwight w. Morrow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

DRINK eight glasses of water
every day TO avoid colds.
Then read how to avert serious
colds and flu, as told by DR.. Morris
rlrhbein, starting Friday in The
Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-03-19
Curiosity


Parents often wonder if it is wise
to answer all their children's ques-
tions.
eff once you begin to answer, the
demands are incessant," says q
mother. when my boy asks where
am going, he is not content with
the answer, II am going to the
dentists! He want to know, ON the
spot, why teeth ache, what they
are made of, how they are pulled,
and whether the dentist has little
boy"
This mother had undoubtedly
tried conscientiously to answer all
the child's questions, and the child
soon found that in questioning he
had a means of holding her atten-
ton. Having asked at first out of
real curiosity to learn, his interest
had degenerated into desire to
keep the center of the state, and
a fertile mind supplied him with
questions-in the answers to some
of which he was. in others of which
he was not, interested.
The mother who attempts to an
swer all of her child's questions
fully is not doing him kindness.
She should wherever possible spur
him on to find out for himself some
part of what he wants to know.
She can often give him hint, or
send him exploring, in the garden
or field it may be, for a clew to
his answer.
The mother who cannot sit down
and explain why some seeds are
winged, and why others are not,
when the child comes in full excite
ment over a bursting milkweed
pod, can send him out to take the
first step by himself, in finding as
many seeds as possible that have
wings.
Often the mother will not know
the answer. Finding it out in COM
pany with the child increases the
sense of comradeship and makes it
habitual. Setting the engrossing
task of finding an aswer to why,
for example, it frosts on clear and
not on cloudy nights, and saving
the report for the dinner hour, will
insure one topic of conversation in
which all the family will be inter-
ested.
A week or so in the country
when the child is four or five will
teach the child more than he could
learn later in the same space Of
time.
His eyes and ears are open, so
eager for information that he
seems to absorb it through his
pores. A child makes notes Of
many things that we might expect
to pass unobserved; as when girl
of three years and four months
stopped singing one day to say,
"Its the tongue that's singing"
The average boy outranks the
average girl in the number of items
with which he is familiar. Girls
do not excel even in information
about household affairs as we have
hitherto been led to believe.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-03-19
FZashtacks
20 Years Ago
Excerpts From The Herald
March l6. 1911

maEcn 10, lSll
DR.. ]. M. McMasters, the well
known physician who has livd in
Sank Centre tor some two score
years, and who during that time
has done many a kindly act, both
in professional way and as a
genial, warm-hearted citizen, cele-
brated recently. The Herald is un-
able to state the exact age of this
earnest disciple of Esculapius, but
feels sure that with each passing
twelve month, that courtly gentle
man grows younger.
Seven hundred Minnesota wo-
men have charged down upon the
state senate with a petition to
grant them the right of suffrage.
The legislature troubles are piling
up thick and fast.
Rumors relative to the proposed
line of railroad from Twin Cities
to Winnipeg, to be built by the
Milwaukee along the route survey
ed last season from Hutchinson
through Sank Centre are again
rife.
The State Highway Commission,
which has $4,000 at it's disposal,
has appropriated $1,000 of that
sum for the roads and bridge fund
of Stearns County.
Matt Nathe is having some in
terror Improvements made in his
clothing store on Main Street this
week.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-03-19

March has a good record thus
far, in this vicinity, for an increase
in the census, as witness the fol-
lowing record of births. On the
third a daughter was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Rudolph Aigner, girl
arrived in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. O'Gara on the sixth,
while Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. White
were cheered by the advent Of a
son on the tenth.
AL Salmon left last week for the
cities. From there he started west
intending to be absent several
weeks.
J. Kruchten arrived in Sank
Centre Saturday afternoon, spent
Sunday in st. Cloud and left for
Norcross Monday afternoon.
Hon. Frank e. Minette came up
from st. Paul Saturday night,
spent Sunday here with his family,
and returned to his legislative la
mors Monday morning.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-03-19

worn back on the head is accented
by the satin bandeau.
At the top to the right Is a satin
model which goes fifty-fifty with
felt in it's construction, the felt
worked in appliqued motifs.
A gracefully draped brim distin-
cuisines the satin shape centered
to the right, it's edge being neatly
bound with straw.
Touches of straw banding en-
nance the other satin hat. the
straw suggesting a tiny one-side
brim.
Entirely fashioned of straw band
ing is the history of the final hat,
the straw banding employed in ex-
actly the same manner as design
ers work the popular betting rib
bon, only the hat of straw is much
newer.
IN ms Uasxarp TIpionN