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The Washington times., 1932-09-19
FEWER MARRY,
MORE CO BACK
To FARMS

Present conditions have notably
influenced the location and mar
ttal trends of the American peo-
pie, while recent figures showed
q pronounced decrease in H.
hteracy as compared with 10
years ago, the Commerce Depart
ment revealed today.
Marriages for 1881 showed a
pronounced decrease while there
was a strong back-to-the-farm
movement. The birth rate has
been decidedly down.
Farm Population Up
Farm population increased ap-
proximately $4,000 in 1881 to a
total of 31,260,000. This was ex-
elusive of the movement of city
dwellers to small tracts near
cities which were not considered
as regular farms.
OF the total increase in farm
population, 207, 900 we're accounted
for by exodus from cities. The
remainder was aScribed to the
excess of births over deaths
While the national birth rate is
lower, this is true only of the
urban areas.
Marriage Drop Cited
Reports received by the Census
Bureau for 1881 showed there
were 1,060,095 marriages per-
formed in the United States dur
ing the year, or a decrease of
81 per cent from 1890. In 1880
there was a decline of 8.4 per
cent from 1929.
The bureau said:
"Only 4.3 per cent of the
population over 10 years of age
was reported as illiterate in
1880. Forty years previously
this figure was 1873 per cent.
An illiterate is defined as any
person over 10 years of age
who is unable to read or write
in any language. In 1880
there were 4,2S3,75S illiterates,
Of whom only 45O,538 were
under FL years of age"
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
Intersection Lights
Ordered Installed

installation Of traffic lights at
the intersections of Edmonston
Road with the Defense Highway
and of Defense Highway with
Beech Avenue has been author
lied by the board of town com.
missioners Of Bladensburg. w. r.
Beattie, chairman of the board.
said today.
The town speed limit was
raised at the same meeting from
10 to 25 miles an hour to con.
form with the State motor We
hicle laws, eBattie said.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
EUiCtiOn COnfrOntS
Blind Workshop

Unless 500 is. received today
the Harriet Tubman Home for
the Colored Blind will be forced
to leave its headquarters in the
1400 block of Eleventh Street
Northwest. The home through its
laundry, shoemaking and canning
departments has been partly self,
supporting.
Donors to the institution have
included Secretary Stimson, DR..
Alain Leroy Locke, Supreme Court
Justice Charles E. Hughes, Mrs.
Mary Robert Rinehart and DR..
Carter G. Woodson.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
YOUTH STABBED
To DEATH

In a three.cornered fight last
night, Cyrus Shipper, 26, colored,
of the 1900 block Of Twelfth st.
N. W.. wa stabbed to death.
Before he received his fatal
wound. police said, he stabbed
John C. Given, 26, colored, of the
1900 block of Valley st. N. W.,
in the abdomen.
Given's brother, Walter, "a, of
Cedar Court N. W., who also en-.
gagged in the fight, police said,
hit Shipper on the head with a
brick. Police are hunting for
Walter Given. John is at Freed
mans Hospital.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
Iceland Benefit

A card party for the benefit
Of the endowment fund of st.
Barnabas Church, Iceland, Md,
will be held in the parish hall
on Saturday afternoon.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19

difference win be merely that
those handling the liquor will
cease to be bOotIesgers and
become legalized traders"
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
Policeman SprGins
Lea Chasing Burglar

Policeman Donald B. Plant, Of
the Fourth precinct, sprained his
right leg and hip last night while
climbing over fence chasing a
suspected robber in the rear Of a
house in the 1000 block Of D st.
S. w.
He had gone to the scene with
two other policemen in a scout
car.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19

Don't look for For Rent" signs
consult the vacancies advertised daily
IN the Rental Columns of the ClasNi-
fled Section
The Washington times., 1932-09-19

NORTH BEACH POLLS
Registration polls will be open
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. tomorrow
at North Beach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
LIFE BET ON SHOT; FAILS
Miracle SaUeS Man Lost i'm Jungle

the deer that 1 saw, and found me.
He took me to his hut and nursed
me until I got back my strength"
EOARD and Walsh, both chem
Il lists, were employed at mine
in Oroya, Peru, and when they were
laid off in October, 1881, they de-
cided to prospect for gold in the
Paute region of Ecuador.
They set out through the jungle
to reach Monzon, their base.
For many days they travelled up
the Huallaga river, only to discov-
er their maps we're inaccurate, and
were leading them deeper into wild
erness.
Finally, their canoe was smashed
against a rock. They took to the
jungle with such equipment as they
could carry.
Food was scarce. Walsh weak
ened rapidly. On July 90 they had
been seven days without food.
Walsh was near collapse.
Foard shot a small bird and gave
1t to Walsh. When he returned,
Walsh was on the ground, in de-
lirium.
DRAMATICALLY, he worked over
Il him, Rugged him; tried to
bring his mind back to reason.
But it was no use," he said
Solemnly, "he died in a few minutes.
1 remained at the clearing two days,
and Scraped out a shallow grave
with my knife. In it 1 buried my
friend. then set out through the
jungle"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
JOHN D. COMES
TO SISTERS AID
Mrs. Mccormick Seriously
Ill; Given Income.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Edith Rookie
Teller Mccormick. daughter of John
D. Rockefeller, and once one of the
worlds richest women, lay serious
ly i'll today in her Drake hotel
apartment.
Members of her family and init
mate friends led her to believe her
affliction was a bronchial ailment.
But it authoritatively was learned
that her relapse was caused by re-
currence of malady for which she
underwent an operation two years
ago.
The sudden relapse came as a
pathetic setback in the determined
fight Mrs. Mccormick had been
making to win back her health and
q portion of her dissipated for
tune.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., her
brother, was in Chicago recently,
and, it is reported, shouldered the
burden of his sisters business af-
fairs.
He is said to have established a
fund to allow her an income of a
little more than 81 900 a day.
Mrs. Mccormick recently sold
$18,O00,000 worth of securities at a
sacrifice, so investors would not lose
their homes, but her plan will not
be possible under the new arrange
ment, it was learned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

THE purchasing syndicate,
Il which included insult and
twenty-six others, planned to
make the most magnificent golf
course in the country. Armour
Italian villa was to be the club
house, with 100000 locker house
as an annex.
A fine golf course was laid out,
but never used, and it is predicted
here that it never will be.
And so the glory that was In
sull's, leaving this little city sad
der and poorer, for scores of its
citizens and farmers hereabout in
vested their money in the enter
priSes Of the owner of Hawthorn
farm, only to see it swept away
in the crash that laid the vast
insult structure low.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

~ DHftfu PfeSS
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Starved
IN facing almost certain death,
lost and alone, in the UNEMPLOYED
Ecuadoran jungle, young Amer
lean fired his last boarded bullet.
So weak from hunger he hardly
could stand, his only hope for food
was the small bird at which he dis
patched the bullet.
For days-he could not remer-
Der how many-he had saved that
last cartridge, afraid to attempt to
kill one Of the tiny birds, the only
game, for fear it would be wasted.
But now, he had shetland
missedl
He sank to the ground, weeping.
1t seemed the end.
An hour passed and there was a
slight rustic in the jungle. He
looked up.
A large, fat deer was standing
only eight feet away.
If he hadn't fired that last cart
ridge, here was food for many days
to come.
THUS, part of story Of adven-
Il ture and hardship unparal-
leled since the days when European
Adventures starved and died in the
American wilderness, was unfolded
today against the prosaic back
ground of New York skyscrapers and
subWayS.
1t was told by Harold Foard, 90,
of Bramwell, w. Va, who came
home Monday on the Grace liner
Santa Clara.
In the jungle Foard nearly lost
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Fright Kills Aged Man;
Daughters Sutton Held
Coroner. Orders Sweetheart
Held After Probing Sud-
den Death.

Love affair of his daughter with a
father of three children led to the
death of fright Monday night of
Robert Brake, rs, of 1924 College
avenue.
Benjamin H. RhynearSon, "a, one
of the principals in the love affair,
is held today on four charges, upon
order of DR.. John A. Salb, deputy
coroner.
During a quarrel at the Brake
home. Rhynearson is said to have
threatened Brake, who ran to the
home of neighbor, where he fell
dead. Dr. Salb said an attack of
heart disease was the immediate
cause of death, and that fright had
brought the attack.
Charges of vagrancy, resisting ar
rest, disorderly conduct and drunk
ennesS are faced by Rhynearson.
On Oct. 10, 1881, Brakes daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ida Bayne, 35. who lives at
the College avenue address, was
fined 81 and sentenced to thirty
days in jail after being convicted in
juvenile court of contributing to
neglect of RhynearsonS children.
Sentence was withheld upon con-
dition that she cease aSSociating
with Rhynearson, but when arrest
ed he gave the College avenue adj
dress as his.
A few months previously, in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Ex-KIan Leader Taken to
Court After 3-Day Wait
in Jail.

Appearing in criminal court to-
day before Judge Thomas E. Garvin
after a three-day wait in Jail fol-
lowing his surrender Friday, Earl
Klinck, former bodyguard to D. C.
Stephenson, eX-Klan leader, was
sentenced one to three years in In
diana state prison and fined 500.
He was convicted four years ago
for atteSting a false affidavit.
Ruling FORGETTING Klinck's $4,000
bond was revoked.
Klinck surrendered Friday after
Garvin had ordered his bond for
feited when he failed to appear
Wednesday for sentencing.
Klinck was questioned by Pros
ecutor Herbert E. Wilson about
activities of Claude M. Worley,
former police chief, who now is
serving a six-year federal prison
sentence.
Revealed No Information
Wilson said Klinck did not re-
veal any new information on Wor-
ley'S activities that brought his for
tune to attention of federal author
tiles. Worley often was a guest at
Stephenson's home while the
former was criminal court inveSti-
gator several years ago.
During his appearance in court
Klinck was jovial, laughing and
talking with reporters and court
attaches.
"Everything's all right and I have
nothing to worry about" he laughed
This is politics-and you can't win
all the time"
He said he had been flat on his
back" in Jail because of a spine in
jury received in an automobile &C
cident near Brazil.
Accompanied by Lawyer
Klinck was accompanied in court
by his attorney, Howard B. Phil
lips.
In 1928, Klinck was found guilty
in criminal court of taking part in
preparation of the false affidavit di-
rected at Boyd Gurley, editor of The
Times, and the late Thomas Adams
Of Vincennes, who took leading parts
in investigation of political corrup-
ton arising from Ku-Klux Khan
rule in Indiana.
Testimony of William Rogers, In
dianapoliS, during an investigation
conducted before Senator James
Reed, was refuted by the affidavit
Purportedly signed by Rogers, the
affidavit alleged that Rogers story
was false and that he had been paid
to testify.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

adjacent homes of caretakers and
farmers.
Then came a swimming pool,
sunken gardens, flower beds, aisles
of stately evergreens, and bird
sanctuaries, with three artificial
lagoons, stocked with goldfish, on
Which swans preened.
Mrs. insult was great lover Of
birds and to please her insult
created two sanctuaries, stocked
with fruit trees and berry bushes
to feed the feathered residents,
through which he scattered scores
OF bird houses and around which
he placed guards.
Martens, bluebirds, wrens, war;
blers, and robins came here by the
thousands, but today sparrows,
crews and bluejayS hold sway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
FRANTIC HUNT
IS BEGUN FOR
NEW REVENUE
State Bankruptcy Is Seen
in Passage of Tax
Limitation Law.
COMMITTEE AT WORK
Income Levy Measure Is
Approved by House; Now
Up to Senate.

Republican senate leaders, realiz-
ing today that their failure to re-
call the $3.50 property tax hmita-
ton bill puts the state in danger
of bankruptcy, took steps toward
seeking new revenues.
Upon motion of Senator Alonzo
H. Lindley Rep0, Kingman, one
of the hackers of the $3.50 bill, a
bipartisan committee of four Sena-
tors was appointed to consider ways
and means of augmenting govern
mental funds to meet necessary
budgets.
The tax limit measure automati-
cally became a law last midnight,
when Governor Harry Leslie neither
signed nor vetoed it.
Lindley suggested that the COM
mittee draft gross income or gross
sales tax bills" but scope of his
motion was expanded by Senator
G. Oliver Holmes Rep), Gary, to
cover the entire taxation field.
Income Bill Passed
The house already has passed an
income tax measure, taxing both
personal and corporate incomes. The
bill now awaits senate action and
likely will be referred to the special
committee.
Members of the committee, ap-
pointed by Lieutenant Governor
n Az
derSon Ketchum and j. Francis
Lochard, Democrats, and Lindley
and j. Clyde Hoffman, Republicans.
Half hour was consumed by the
senators in listening to Senator
Lee j. Hartzell, Republican floor
leader, present a resolution prais-
ing the senate for its conduct to
date and urging that it not ad-
journ until the house had acted on
its bills.
Blamed on People
Attempt of Representative John
F. White Oem), Indianapolis, to
bring about adjournment of the
legislature Friday, failed when
opponents gathered enough votes
to drown out the voices of the
hackers of the early adjournment.
The session officially ends at mid
night Monday.
IF the people had any sense, we
would not be here" Representative
Miles j. Furnas (Rep), Winchester,
stated.
Did you ever see a legislature
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
COP NAMED ASSAILANT
BY MAN ON DEATH BED
Wounded Doctor SuccumbS to In
juries; Policeman Is Held.

Wounded Doctor Succumbs to In
juries; Policeman Is Held.
BIZ United Press
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark,
Aug. 9.-James H. Lindsey, a
policeman. was held in Jail with
out bond here today awaiting
formal charge for the alleged fatal
shooting of DR.. Clyde S. Roath,
formerly of South Bend. Ind.
DR.. Roath died of bullet wounds
inflicted Saturday night. Before
he died he accused Lindsey of
shooting him.
He said You killed my brother
and I'm going to kill you I make
this statement knowing I likely
will not recover" He died few
hours later.
DR.. Roath was charged with the
murder OF Luther w. Lindsey, also
a patrolman and brother of the
accused slayer of the doctor. He
was convicted and sentenced to life
Imprisonment. Later the state
supreme court set the sentence
aside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

On the estate is a greenhouse
large enough to care for the needs
of an entire town. Nearby is a
nursery, as large as many COM
mercial nurseries, stocked with
thousands of native and imported
trees and shrubs.
Then, too, the government oper-
ated post office on the estate,
said to be the only postal station
on private farm in the country.
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THE farmer who titled the
Il fields on the vast estate for
merry worked on salaries. To-
day, with the collapse of the IN
sui empire, they farm the broad
acres on shares, to wrest a living
from the soil at depression prices
for their crops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Joy Thief
Big-Hearted PIaybOy,
Who Gave 500 Tips.
Held as EmbezzIer.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-"Mother
IN Macl1ree," with all the stops
pulled out, was a sure method of
night club singers to work a
$1,000 bill from that big hearted
broker" who Wept real tears be-
cause of the beauty of the melody.
George D. Phelan, a sUoutish
bachelor of 80, also had won him
self somewhat of a Broadway
reputation for frequent generous
tips, often as much as 500.
Monday, Playboy Phelan stood
in general sessions court and
pleaded that poverty prevented
him from hiring a lawyer to de-
fend himself against charges of
having robbed Jules Bache & Co.
of more than $695,000.
1t was charged that Phelan, as
a $60-a-week clerk, financed his
night club excursions by develop
ing, in the last thirteen years, an
intricate system Of keeping &C
counts to cover up his thefts
from the brokerage house.
DHELAN was indicted specific
l. ally on a charge of abstract
ing $1,000 from the petty cash
fund on last July 9. He was held
on $4,000 bail on charges of first
degree grand larceny. Bail was
provided by friend.
Bache & Co. customarily kept a
million dollars in petty cash.
Testimony in court was to the
effect that Phelan admitted that
he began taking small sums
from the company funds thirteen
years ago.
These first thefts, he paid back
out of his salary, which never
was more than 500 week, and
by means Of money made in
fortunate speculations.
But the collapse of the stock
market, and som e unlucky
trades, got Phelan in deeper and
deeper, the testimony of mem
Der of the firm and cashier
showed.
Phelan had been working with
authorities for the last few weeks,
retracing the maze of figures,
which he juggled to cover up the
operations.
Phelan's reputation in Broad
ways hot spots" was that of a
big spender.
He would order a basket full of
wine with careless wave Of his
hand, toss huge tips to the Or
chestra, and, when some singer
with a sob in her voice turned
loose on sentimental ballad, he
could be relied upon to shed tears,
and open his wallet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

TWO concrete blocks, an empty
Il iron oil drum and a wooden
cover close a cistern today into
which Donald Woodruff, 5, of $50
Lynn avenue, fell Monday, and was
rescued by his grandfather, Harry
Woodruff.
The cistern, in the yard of a va
cant house at SIT Lynn avenue, was
closed with only the wood cover
when Donald turned his attention
to it.
fitting the cover, the child was
plunged into water up to his chin.
His sister, Thelma, 4, excited by
his screams, closed the cover on the
boy, then ran screaming along the
street, "Donny fell in the cistern."
The grandfather ran to the
cistern and lifted the cover. He and
a pasSerby laid flat on their
stomachs and Donald was pulled
out. Fright was only ill effect he
suffered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
LANCASTERTE
OF WILD PARTIES

testified when recalled to the stand
today after adjournment cut short
his story late Monday.
Clarke, a Miami newspaper man,
was shot to death in a sleeping
porch he occupied with Lancaster
in the Keith-Miller home here last
April 81. Lancaster contends Clarke
committed suicide. The state con-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

BIZ Times Special
T IBERTYVILLE, Ill, Aug. g.
IL Weeds grow where rare
plants bloomed; Sparrows chatter
in forSaken bird SanctuarieS;
blooded herds are gone from
broad fields, and the magnificent
mansion which Samuel insult
reared on his Dream Farm" is
silent and deserted.
Gone are the grandeur and
glamour and lavish luxury of the
baronial estate on which insult
poured out millions before his
utility empire crashed down in
utter ruin.
Just south of this peaceful town,
about thirty-five miles northwest
of Chicago, insult, in 1908, pur-
chased the old Barr farm. 1t was
a good farm, in a state of good
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
=sERTED DREAM FARM DAYS OF GRANDEUR GONE

farms-highly productive soil,
with acre upon acre of dense
woods.
Here the utility giant laid out
Hawthorn farm, which embraced
1890 acres. and here he sum-
moned experts of the landscape
art-architectS, engineers, for
esters, and gardeners, many of
whom had learned their profess
sions in England and Scotland.
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HIGH spiked walls are built
Il Il around the main part of the
vast tract. In the northeast part
OF the estate, insult erected
magnificent home, in Italian
Riviera architecture, costing $125,-
600. A hundred acres was set
aside for the residence and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Famed Defender of Poor
Is on Trial for Murder

After twelve jurymen have been
selected from the panel of 300
persons that was being examined
Monday, the state will charge that
Egan persuaded Tinnin and Doran
to kill the widow.
She is alleged to have carried
$4,000 in life insurance payable
to the public defender on her
death.
Egan, an obscure young police
man, studied law at nights. He was
elected public defender three times.
His fame and influence grew as
his amazing success as a criminal at
torney increased.
Then, abruptly, things changed.
Mrs. Hughes was found dead.
Egan disappeared, to be found
later in sanitarium, emaciated,
weak, apparently suffering from
shock.
Selection of a jury was expected
to require at least three days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
Hourly Temperatures

In its days of glory, the insult
estate carried more than sixty
full-time employees. Now, besides
the farmers, there are six care
takers.
The costly furniture in the
mansion has been sold or taken
away by members of the family
and the house has not been
opened in recent months.
Creditors of insult also have
taken over another ambitious
project on which the utility mag
nate and his friends spent more
than two millions dollars. That
is the Melody Farm Country
Club, near Lake Forest, a prop
erty developed at great cost by j.
Ogden Armour and sold by his
widow to insult and his associates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
NAB KILLER SUSPECT
Greenfield Police Hold Man
for st. Louis Officers.
BIZ Tinted preee

BIZ United Press
GREENFIELD, Ind, Aug. 9. =
st. Louis police are en- route here
TO take into custody James Oten-
welder, q, st. Louis, who has con-
fessed participation i'll theft of an
automobile from a st. Louis sales
agency, in which Eldridge H. King,
salesman, was beaten to death,
Sheriff Frank Stottlemeyer an
nounced today.
The salesman was killed on a
demonstration ride.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
GERMANY SETS
UP DEATH RULE
Political Terrorism Grips
Whole Nation.
BIZ Tnited Press

BIZ Unitcd Press
BERLIN, Aug. 9. - Germany
seethed with political terrorism
rioting and bombing today as the
government issued two severe de-
crees, providing the death penalty
for acts of violence, and establish
ing special summary courts to deal
quickly with offenders.
The decree is so drastic it pro-
vides execution of any person caught
with weapon in his hand in a
crowd where some one has been
killed, even though the holder of
the weapon did not commit the
murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

By Untted Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. g.
Frank j. Egan is on trial for his
life here today, seeming still the
strong, confident superman of
criminal law who won national
fame as public defender of a great
citys underprivileged poor.
Jointly accused with the self
made attorney is Albert Tinnin,
thin-faced ex-ccnvict, who finished
term for the attempted choloro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09

By United Press
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. g. Captain
William N. Lancaster, tall, quiet,
British f1ier, dramatically sketched
his romance with Jessie M. Keith
Miller today from the witness stand
as he fought to free himself of the
charge that he murdered young
Haden Clarke, his rival for her af-
fections.
I'VE suffered lot together" he