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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24

BESIDE an overturned, burn
ID ing automobile on a lonely
road. near West Newton. Dec.
%. 1881. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Steinbruegge, l434 Lee street, lay
unconscious.
From the scene of the accident
came the howls and cries Of a
dog which attracted farmers liv-
ing nearly mile away. who res
cued the couple from the car.
The dog was Mai. German po-
lice dog, who stood by the car Of
her master and mistress and sent
the call for aid.
Today. Mai is the winner Of an
honorable mention award Of the
National Anti Vivisection Society
of Chicago for heroic and in
telligent" service.
MAI is jealous Of any other
1V1 pets, and an outsider needs
passport to enter the house or
yard Mrs. Steinbruegge said.
My husband and I did not
realize the full significance of
Mails life-saving deed until we
had regained consciousness, and
obtained medical aid after the
accident"
Mrs. Steinbruegge said the dog
is registered in the American
Kennel Club which accepts only
pedigreed dogs of four genera
tons.
The way we named Mazi is
interesting" she said. Her father
is Zillo, international champion,
owned by the German police
force, and he has aided in appre-
hending 234 criminals.
Her mother is Marstiss. an
other famed German police dog.
We took the first two letters of
the parents names to name
Ma 81 "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24

secretary OF the interior in the
cabinet OF Warren 9. Harding
sending Fall TO prison.
The attorney. oil man. banker
and western good fellow had re-
fused to testify against his old
friend. Harry T. Sinclair. soda clerk,
who became one OF the most dar-
ing o. the millionaire oil operators
in the middle west fields
Blackmer was fined 100000 for
contempt Of court. He fed TO
France.
Sends Money for Fine
The government conhscated $780,
600 Of his property. levied a fine OF
100000 then took away his pass
port. making travel in Europe most
incOnvenient
The French government refused
10 send the oil man back 10 TINS
country for trial. after q court hear
ing i'm which the millionaire sat III
courtroom beside two manacled
bandits.
Blackmer has been in France
since. banned from all American
social affairs in which ofhcal
washington was represented. But
active in other social life about the
French capital.
His life. however, has not been one
nj the happiness and freedom 10
,,.birt, l,n was accustomed.
So today. IL became known
through an announcement by Black
mcrs chief counsel. George Gordon
Battle. that the oil man sought an
end TO his exile.
Securities covering the amount
OF Mr.. Blackmer's fine have been
turned over 10 the United States
marshars office in Washington, he
said. This was confirmed in Wash
ington.
Continental Company
Il think this action will permit
Mr.. Blackmer to return to America
freely I can not discuss possible
DEVELOPMENTS in other cases pending
against him in this country.
Blackmer was one Of the organ
izers OF the Continental Trading
Company. a group whose activities
brought about another sensational
corporation battle-the fight Of the
Rockefeller interests to GUST Colonel
Robert Wright Stewart, former head
Of the Standard OIL Company OF
Indiana
Government evidence during the
oil lease trials was intended 10 show
that the trading company was
formed 10 buy oil from the men who
leased the Teapot Dome oil field
from the government. and resell to
corporations which they represented
as individuals
The profit OF the trading company
in the middle man deal. the govern
ment claimed. was split between the
individuals. and a fund used for
political influence "
Compromises TO BE Sought
Some OF this fund. il was claimed
indirectly found its way into the
little black bag" which helped send
Albert B. Fall 70 prison for accept
ing bride. He has just COM
pleted that prison term. E H
Doheny. the oil man accused OF
bribing Fall. was acquitted
II his 100000 fine is marked of
the books. Blackmer then may pro-
coed TO settle e federal court in
dictment in Denver. charging con-
spiracy TO violate the income tax
laws. and government penalties i'm
posed for slleged failure OF h1
estate TO make proper income tax
returns. This latter may be CON-
promised at SAB 100000
His friends believe all charges viii
be compromised. They believe his
flight to France was the result Of
an attempt TO shield some unknown
person. for they never doubted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24
STILLMAN HOME BURNS
Loss in Blaze at FifTS Mansion
Estimated at $500 900.

b. lHfll Fffst
PLEASANTVILLE. n. Y. MAY "A.
The James A. Stillman thirty
ave-room mansion on the Mondanne
estate near here. was a charred
ruins today after vain fight by
$50 volunteers 10 save Il from fire.
The estate Is the property Of Mr.
and Mrs. Fowler Mccormick. She
IS the former Fiji Stillman. Loss
was estimated at $500 900.
Evening star., 1932-10-30

unlike his elder in every feature, and
few pale, grave gentlemen CT the
staff, all in escort on a group of women.
Whispers identify the women: That's
the No wife-that's the first concu-
bine-that's the No. wife's sister. In
Peiping, as elsewhere, persons are
widely misinformed, but it doesn't mat
ter; the women are lovely.
Their gowns are effective combina-
tions of Paris and Shanghai and the
finest silks in the world. The stuff fits
like sheath from chin to ankles and
the sleeves are skin-tight down to the
fingers. A girl could not walk-mucn
less dance-in such a garment, II 1t
were not slit from hem to knee, and
you observe that some Chinese ladies'
have remarkably pretty legs.
They go marvelously jeweled. with
finger rings and thumb rings, eardrops
and bracelets, and jade ornaments that
are the most splendid of their kind.
The price of jade doubled in Peiplng
with the arrival of the Young Marshal
and it has continued to rise.
One does not understand the mysteries
of the Chinese toilet, but these women
are as white as alabaster, with mouths
like scarlet fruit, blue-black hair shaped
to their small round heads. and luStrous
eyes under slanting heavy lids. They
are not bound-foot women, and they
dance with vigor the Western dances,
drink beer from the tail glasses the
Evening star., 1932-10-30

hotel affects. and smoke cigarettes in
thick Jade holders. Passing close. you
hear animated conversation in thin,
birdlike voices. They have the bloom
of fine, frail porcelain, and the appear
ance of figures cunningly inlaid upon
Ming screen They are, as they say,
the Young Marshals women.
Punctual as Jimmy Walker
In Keeping Appointments.
He himself is seen by appointment.
Now and again the naval attache, or
one of the correspondents, or such q
person, will be late for dinner, and the
hostess presently will announce that
Comdr. Cofferdam had an appointment
with the Young MarshaEhel II be late;
we'll Just go, ahead. For the Young
Marshal runs as far behind his appoint
ments as Jimmy Walker when Jimmy
was mayor of New York, and he has
been known to keep q diplomatic din
ner party at which he was the guest OF
honor, staying itself on cocktails and
salted peanuts and ind gnation for two
hcurs-then send regrets.
There is a story Of the American
colonel, a rude soldier, who went to the
Yamen on his courtesy call, arranged
through the proper legation channels.
Having sent In his card he waited is
minutes In a room with one attendant
and q number Of art treasures. He
then demanded his card. got It, re-
Evening star., 1932-10-30
War Chemical Research AbsOrbs
Much of Britain's Budget Saving

LONDON-Although the economy Ak
has been welded right and left to re-
duce the cost Of government in this
country, it has been found necessary
to continue to spend as much as usual
on the secret service and on poison
gas or chemical warfare research.
There is ain annual protest by La
borites on the money expended In these
respects. But even when a Labor gov
eminent was in office no cuts were
sanctioned. It was contended, con-
corning poison gas tests, that while
other nations we're engaged in chemi-
cal warfare research it was necessary
for Great Britain to follow suit, even
though the cost amounts to approxi-
mately $4,000 q week at par.
Tom Shaw, Minister of War In the
last Labor government, stated that In
the course Of . year Is horses. 100
Evening star., 1932-10-30

PARIS.-At q time when there IS
much talk of restoring the entente cor
dale between France and Britain to
its old degree Of cordiality, women here
are asking that French legislators
should take a leaf from the British
statute book so far as they are con-
cerned.
French women have been much in
terested in a recent statement by a
British Judge, Justice McCardie, that
a British wife "is permitted to leave
her husband If she 50 desires; that
she Is a citizen and not a serf" A
judgment just rendered by the Appeal
Court at Chambery, in the east of
France, has served to recall that in this
country wife is a serf and not a
citizen.
Article 214 of the Civil Code i'm
poses upon a married woman the OBJ
legation Of living with her husband.
To compel her to obey the law the
Evening star., 1932-10-30
Move to Raise Freemen's Standard
AS 10000 Flood City of London

1t is in some of the smaller cities
and towns of the realm where the most
rigid rules regarding the comforting of
freemanships are to be found. The
town of Montgomery, for instance, will
have none on its roll except descendants
of the yalorous ones who defended in
ancient times the castle of Montgom-
cry. oxford uses most circumSpect
eye on all candidates, and Bath, fully
minded to the social position it obtained
in the past by the visitations of political
and literary worthless, is most careful in
its selections. The Cinque Ports are
snobbish enough to require bit OF
Norman blood in the veins of those who
aspire to their freedoms.
In fact. there are any number OF
minor communities in Great Britain
where the role of freemen,. through the
centuries, does not exceed q score OF
individuals.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-10-30

LONDON-With fully 10000 indi-
viduals already enjoying the distinction
of being freemen of the city of London
-freemen of the square mile in the
empire capital known as the financial
core of the British commonwealth of
nations-a committee has been appoint
ed to consider the whole question of the
proper qualifications which should at
tach to such freemanshipS.
There is a danger that the present
prodigal bestowal of this honor will
cause it to be lightly valued. The abil-
ity to pay the equivalent Of SIS plus
the backing of nomination by two in
dividuals who are already freemen cas-
lily clears the way for the conferring OF
such a distinction, it is contended by
many who would like to see merit
deciding factor.
What brought the matter to head
was the application Of recently natu-
rallied Italian barber for membership
Ia the role Of freemen.
Evening star., 1932-10-30

rabbits. 1877 guinea pigs. SO cats, 200
mice and 100 rats were used in expert
ments. Soldiers subjected to gas tests
are given extra leave and extra pay.
No questions or heckling in the
House Of Commons have ever elected
any information as to how the appro-
priation for the secret service, now ap-
proximately 100000 year, is expend-
ed. Ministers are able to avoid max
ing direct answer by stating that it
would not be in the national interest
to say where the funds went, and that
a secret service would no longer be Sc
cret If its secrets were made common
property.
It has been contended that the
amount Great Britain continues to en-
pend under this heading Is far below
that devoted to the same purpose by
certain continental powers
(oopyrisht. 1s37J
Evening star., 1932-10-30

Author of Fix Bayonets" and Red Pants.
~ ElPING-In Peiping they snow
three things to vlsitors-the
Temple of Heaven, with its vast
altar of white marble that has
the blue vault of the sky for its
roof: the Forbidden City, where the
Dragon Emperors lived in walled close
as intricate and perfect as the puzzle
boxes of the Cantonese craftsmen, ana
the Great Wall of China, which Is
wonder Of the world.
If YOU are a very distinguished Wis
itor. indeed, you also are taken to see
Chang Hseuh-Liang, called the Young
Marshal. And whether you see him or
not, YOU hear more about him than OF
any other thing in North China.
A tri-motor transport plane, most
afternoons. swings in slow circles over
the Tartar city. They say that's the
Young Marshal out for breath OF air,
above the dust There are two OF these
planes, anG the accepted belief is that
they stand always in readiness Tor
flight to Monte Carlo, or Moscow, or
Paris in case the Young Marshal has
to leave.
The pilots are two quiet and compe-
tent Americans, seen around the right
little or nothing and pass on no gossip
at all They are reported to live with
their luggage packed and to be paid
fsbulously-and regu'arly-in gold. The
Young Marshals pilots!
You see marching on Morrison street
or Hatamen, and marching extremely
well as to dress and cadence, forma-
tions of young soldiers who are not like
info or,fr
the Haitian barracks and the brigades
south of the city They are tall fellows
of good build, with keen. high-nosed
Manchu faces Their uniforms are
khaki, cut smartly. and their equipment
is new and good, so that they resemble
at a little distance the British line.
These are the Young Marshal's body
guard, who live around him in the
north city. They have never fought
anybody
All Peiping meets at the hotel dances.
Dinner parties come on to them for
the principal business of the evening.
Any Saturday night through the VIM
ter you will see there everybody who
is anybody in the cosmopolitan gumbo
Peiping calls society.
The great ball room adorned with
frescoes of pearly nudity is flooded with
harsh white lighting and crowded TO
the doors. The Russian orchestra per-
forms with loud energy, the blue
gowned Chinese boys patter about with
drinks and cigarette smoke struggles
with the almost visible atmosphere ex-
hailed by heated and perfumed human
ity in the mass.
Conspicuous among the tables there
is certain to be one of which they say
That's the Young Marshals crowd"
He is never present himself. But there
will be the youthful general of his
suite, who went to West Point. exquisite
in . gown Of brocaded silk; the Young
Marshal's brother. brisk. oily chap,
Evening star., 1932-10-30
French Wives Are Serfs, Not Citizens;
Old Statute Still Enforced by Courts

husband may go to court and ask for
a Judgment enjoining the public
force" meaning the gendarnes, Ito
lend him help and assistance So
that If a wife leaves her home the
husband may have her brought back
between two policemen.
1t had been imagined that article
2l4 had been tacitly allowed to lapse.
That this is net the case is proved by
the decision Of the Chambery Appeal
Court woman of Thonon had left
her husband He asked the court to
compel her return. The court de-
clined stating that 'it is repugnant
to modern ideas to use armed force
against a woman; it would be con-
trary to present-day ethics for gen.
darmes to drag an unwilling wife to
her husbands home!" The husband
appealed, and the higher court decided
that the law must be applied, how
ever repugnant or contrary to ethics.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-10-30

BUDAPEST-This city, for ages a
Christian capital, once more will be-
come a sacred seat of Islam. Two hun
dred and fifty years after the Magyars
drove the Turks out of Hungary the
Moslems are returning to claim Buda-
pest as one of their religious centers.
But this time the followers of the
prophet. instead of pillaging the city
and enslaving its inhabitants as they
did in 1926, are coming peacefully to
establish a great Mahommedan univer-
sity and mosque.
The Mufti of the Budapest Moslems,
Hussein Himli, has just received a mes
sage from Emir Arslan of Syris telling
him that the recent Pan-Islamite Con-
gress in Jerusalem decided to recognize
Buda as a holy place for all Moslems.
The congress voted to erect university
buildings. a mosque and other struc-
lures for Moslem activities.
In recent years more and more Mos
lens have been coming to Budapest.
Chief Of these is an heir of the late
Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey. Many
Evening star., 1932-10-30
Budapest Again to Be Seat of Islam
After Ages as Christian Capital

of the MoSlems here are eXiles from
Turkey under the Republican regime
there.
The new Islamite University will be
built on the Hill of Roses, the most
fashionable residential section in Buda,
the loftier half of the Siamese twin
cities, Buda and Pest. 1t was on the
Hill of Roses that the famous Caliph,
Gul Baba. lived during the Turks con-
quest of Hungary, and the new mosque
will be named after him. The Turks
remained in Buda from 1926 to 1886.
Budapest is the second European city
lately to be made a Moslem center.
The Moslems, mostly from the French
colonies in Morocco and Tunis, lately
have erected a great mosque in Paris,
where they also plan university. That
center is under the direct patronage
of the Sultan of Morocco.
The Emir of Syria will take the
Budapest center under his wing. and
will visit here in the Spring to super
wise the foundation of the work.
(Copyright 1927
Evening star., 1932-10-30

In that final post, the retailer Is also
in the vulnerable position of immediate
contact with the ultimate consumer. He.
therefore, is the first OF the various
business elements to feel the brunt OF
consumer difficulties He suffers the
first impact Of the effects of boarding;
he feels Immediately the effects of any
need for local relief. He has none Of
the sheltered isolation from these poign-
ant problems of the community such
as protects some of the other more de-
tached business element already men,
toned.
Perhaps these circumstances explain
in part the pro,ongation Of the diff
culties of the retailer in any major
crisis For instance in the readjust-
nents during 192022, retailing was the
last element in the business picture to
show definite signs of recovery. 1t
moved forward only after employment.
car loadings. production. stock prices
and wholesaling each had shown
Evening star., 1932-10-30
King George Pays Own Train Fare,
Spending More Than $1,000 Yearly

LONDON.-King George may have
the use of a sumptuous royal train
when he travels in the British Isles,
but he pays his fare just as the COM
moner does. 1t is estimated that the
transfer of the court from London to
Balmoral entails the expenditure of
several thousand dollars. In the course
of a year the travelling expenses of
the Queen and himself and their retinue
exceeds $4,000.
The royal train, composed Of nine
coaches, entered upon it's thirtieth year
of service when it recently took the
King and Queen to Balmoral. 1t had
been intended to paint it maroon
color. the color scheme now used by
the London, Midland & Scottish Rail-
way, but the sovereign preferred choco-
Evening star., 1932-10-30


u tary alliance as the cure for the
worlds worst ills is still believed
i by insiders here to be the mas
ter idea of the German govern
ment under the chancellorshlp OF Lieut.
Col. Franz Won Papen.
This idea, proposed by Won Papen
and scotched by French Premier Her
riot at Lausanne. Switzerland. last
June. was at the bottom, the French
say, of the German confidential note y
France in August and is being pushed
right now by open letters of the German
potash magnate. Arnold Rechberg. a
friend of Won Papen'S, in the French
press.
The fact that Herriot not only ie-
nOred the offer. but also told the BRUSH
about it. is considered here to be a
large element in the present German
German nationalists privately accuse
French liberals of betraying condolences.
Herriot, however, not only seems de-
termined to refuse any and all private
converse tions with the Germans elCng
such lines, but is basing his whole
policy on the alternative of close un-
derstanding with the United States and
Great Britain. If there is ever a
Franco-German military alliance. it
will apparently have to be made at a
time when militarists. not liberals, are
In full control OF both countries.
German Argument.
The German argument, as it is under
stood here, is roughly as follows:
A Franco-Germsn alliance on equal
terms would give France and Germany
undisputed sway over Europe. 1t would
solidly bar the way to Communism and
radicahsm 1t would insure peace. 1t
would make France secure. 1t would
leave Germany with free hand
politically to fulfill its manifest destiny
of civilization and leadership in Eastern
Europe France by turning deaf ear,
seems merely to arouse suspicion In
some German minds that French talk
about security is mere pretenSe and
what France really wants is to keep
Germany down forever.
The idea of Franco-German al
Hance is not new. 1t is now possible to
reveal that the late German foreign
minister. Gustav Stresemann. himself
at a secret meeting in somewhat am
biguous circumstances limited at such
an alliance to Herriot in London when
Herriot was premier in 1924.
Herriots answer even then was to go
straightaway to repeat the conversation
to Ramsay Macdonald, prime minister
of Great Britain. for naturally the last
thing Great Britain wants to see is a
Franco-German military alliance.
There followed, nevertheless. a few
years later, private conversations be-
tween certain German and French
military men wherein they even got
down to figures respecting what would
be the relative size of the allied French
and German armies.
Won Papen FavOrs Plan.
Rechberg kept promulgating the idea
in French newspapers at regular inter-
walls, but it was only when Won Paper
took Office that it appeared to enter
the realm of practical politics, at least
on the German side. For Won Paper
was known to favor it. Here, he seems
to have thought, was the key to the
Franco-German problem, and at Lau'
sane he made no secret of his con.
victions, even confiding them while
clad in bathing suit on a beach II
American newspaper men.
Twice, it is said, he approached Her
riot at Lausanne. According to ont
Evening star., 1932-10-30

numbers (more than 1.540.0 .000). or by
the volume of his operations probably
not less than $4,000. 100000 this year. +,
or by the number of persons directly in his
employ (nearly 100000 full-time and
$4,000 part-time employees, the lowly
shopkeeper stands out in the aggregate
as a veritable giant among the mighty
in our commercial life.
1t is not simply in this matter OF
sheer bulk that retailing looms as
major factor in the attacks upon these
current problems of reconstruction. It
occupies an unusually vulnerable posi-
tion in any period Of trial such as this,
because it represents, so to speak, the
last car in the long train of business,
including the raw material extractive,
industries, manufacturing, transporta-
ton. finance, wholesaling, and finally
retailing. And being at the end OF that
train it gets the accumulation OF all the
shocks and bumps.
Then, too, because he happens to be
Evening star., 1932-10-30

definite upward trend The reason, Of
course. is obvious: The timidity and
caution of the consumer has to be over
come by sufficiently convincing signs Of
general uplift before he renews ac-
tivity in the retail market.
And in this connection, as We gauge
the prospects of retail recovery. it Is
important to note the possibility of
the retailer benefitting from certain
definite portents of improvement which
already have begun to develop. Take.
for example. farm prices, which in
many important commodities have been
encouragingly upward since last June
notably in such items as cotton. dairy
and poultry products and pork. If these
improvements are sustained they are
likely to have a direct bearing upon a
very important sector of our retailing
1t is not generally realized that 80
per cent of our entire retail business
is found in small towns of less than
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