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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
PRANK, GANG
VICTIM SAYS
Practical Joke, Police Told
in Shooting Case.

"Just a prank of practical jokers''
was the explanation given police to-
day for the reported shooting of an
unknown man Wednesday night in
the 1900 block, South Illinois street.
And according to the story he told
at headquarters today Clifford
Perry, 20, of 1923 East Raymond
street, was the victim.
At the time of the shooting, police
were told that two occupants of an
automobile lifted a man from the
street and placed him in an auto.
The story of witnesses partially was
Substantiated when a mans cap was
found. Later investigation by police
failed to solve the supposed crime.
Il was the man picked up from
the street" Perry explained today.
"A couple of my friends told me
to meet them at a vacant house in
the 1900 block, South Illinois street,
that night. I went there, but Just
as 1 reached the front door some
body took a shot at me-" Perry ex-
planned.
Il turned and ran into the street,
where an automobile struck me-" he
said.
He explained that the driver car
ried him to the office of a physi-
clan, where treatment was given for
bruises.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
VETERAN CITY
DOCTOR DEAD
Nj. C. Leeth Served Here for
Forty Years.

DR.. M. G. Leeth, practicing ply
sician in West Indianapolis for forty
years, died Thursday afternoon in
his home, 1860 Reisner street. He
was stricken with cerebral hemor-
rhage in the morning while driving
downtown from the Blaine Avenue
M. E. church with his son, Herman
B. Leeth.
Born in Arkadelphia, Ala, he at
tended the University of Tennessee,
Rush Medical college, University of
Chicago, and Berlin university.
He had offices at 1926 Howard
street. He left his general practice
in 1909 to become vice president
and medical adviser of the Public
Savings Life Insurance Company
He returned to his practice during
the World war.
Besides being a member of the
Blaine Avenue church, he belonged
to twenty-four fraternal organiza-
tons. including the Masons, Red
men. Odd Fellows and Knights of
PythiaS.
Funeral services Monday morning
in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary
will be followed by burial in Crown
Hill cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25

declared on June 20, 1881, and then
to sit down with the nations which
are our debtors and work out an
agreement of the same sort and
kind which those nations entered
into with the German government
at Lausanne on July s, last.
If this were done and quickly an
nounced to the world, the clouds of
depression would lift with a swift
ness which would be surprising in
deed. Every American citizen would
benefit, whether on his farm, in his
shop, in his factory, on his rail-
road, or in his public utility corpora
ton.
The notion that there is some
thing about this matter which is
of peculiar advantage or concern
to international bankers is ridicu-
lous. The advantage and concern
are for the American people as a
whole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
BANDITS TORTURE AND
ROB AGED BROTHERS
Pair Subjected to Medieval Terror
izing by Gang; $1,2S5 Is Loot.

IdlI OAuJCObSu W NAS~'"A
izing by Gang; S1,2S5 Is Loot.
By United Press
ELLSWORTH, Wis, Nov. Is
Two elderly bachelor brothers re-
covered sufficiently today to help the
sheriff seek four bandits who sub
iected them to medieval tortures
in successful attempt to obtain
their boarded savings.
Frank and John GuiSer, both
more than so, we're in their Sc
cluded farm house, ten miles from
here. when the four bandits en-
tered
"Where is the money!" demanded
the robbers. We'll bump you off
you're old enough to die, any
way"
The brothers persisted in refusing
to reveal their cache of bonds and
cash.
The bandits tied John and beat
him on the head with hammer.
They kicked him in the face, but
still he kept his lips closed. They
did the same thing to Frank. The
brothers were adamant.
The extortionists then heated a
poker and applied it to Frank, scar
ing his flesh. He gasped the infor-
nation the robbers wanted; they
took 81, $50 in Liberty bonds and $l35
in cash, tied the brothers together
and escaped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
chamberlain SPENDS
S1,211 IN JUDGE RACE
Total Expense of National Party in
County Campaign Is S2O6.

Circuit Judge Harry o. Chamber
Inns unsuccessful race for re-elec-
ton cost him $1,211, according to
the expense statement he has filed
with Glenn B. Ralston, county clerk.
His statement listed a $3.50 con-
tribution t. the Republican county
committee and a $235 contribution
to the Republican Union, an organ
ization opposed to the county COM
mittee.
Total expense of the National
party was $2O6, according to the
county committees statement. I'm
paid bills are listed at $6035.
Other expense accounts on file
are:
William Clauer successful candidate for
county, treasurer, $500; Dow W. Vorhies, re-
elected commissioner from the Third dis
ator- Sis. and LLOYD Claybombe. Re-
$40.
Candidates and political organi-
cations have until Dec. to file ex-
penSe statements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
BODY OF SLAIN
WIFE IN WELL,
INFANT AT SIDE
Former Boarder at Home
Arrested in GreWSome
Ohio Mystery.

BIZ United Press
WEST UNION, O., Nov. 25.-A
tangle of facts was laid in orderly
pattern here today by authorities,
who sought to dispel mystery sur
rounding the last days Of Mrs. Josie
Haws, and to learn the story of her
death.
The woman's body was found in
well near her northern Adams
county home. A bullet hole was in
the head, string around the neck.
The skeleton of an infant was found
with the body.
Sheriff Harry Ccie started with
the disappearance of Mrs. Haws
from her home last June %, learned
she was the mother of six children,
then. following arrest Of Virgil Yam
kie, %, revealed facts uncovered as
he pressed mis- investigation.
Disappearance Left Secret
Yankie formerly was a boarder ut
the Haws home.
Mike Haws, the husband, had not
reported his wife'S disappearance,
saying she had left before and he
had expected her to return.
Annie Haws, daughter of the
slain woman, was found at the
home of Yankie and his father at
Yellow Bud, Ross county, where
the arrest was made.
Mrs. Haws had been sought on a
warrant charging her with con-
tributing to the delinquency of An
ME.
Yankie once was arrested on a
robbery charge, but grand jury
dismissed his case.
Haws identified the body.
Murder, Says Coroner
Coroner M. L. Purdin believed
Mrs. Haws was murdered.
The body was found by hunter.
Sheriff Cole had no clew to iden-
tity of the infant which apparently
met death with Mrs. Haws.
Both Yankie and the girl Annie,
were under close questioning to-
day, as authorities attempted to fill
in details of the strange story and
bring forth some explanation of the
ffGss they had discovered.
The bodies were found Thursday.
Yankie was arrested today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
DRUNKEN MANS PET
PARROT RESISTS COPS

Abusive Language, Assault on Of
ficers and Mayhem Among Charges.
By United Press
HAMPSTEAD, L. L, Nov 25.-
Harry Williamson's pet parrot, &C
compapying him to the police sta
ton when he was arrested on a
charge of drunkenness, laid himself
open to the following charges:
Using foul and abusive language
resisting an officer. assault on an
officer, public obscenity and may
hem.
The bird, perched on Harrys
shoulder, swore at the officers,
shouted inprecations, bit three po-
licemen, and finally was quoted only
by being showed into a private CELL
made out of a wooden box.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
BUSINESS RECOVERY
OBSTACLES ARE LISTED

Lavish Government Spending, High
Taxes. and War Debt Uncertainty
By United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-The Corn
Belt Dailies, farm publications
stated today in their regular sum-
mary of the agricultural situation
that three obstacles stand in the
way of business advancement and
recovery from the depression.
These three obstacles, the sum-
mary stated, are lavish government
spending and consequent high taxes
uncertainty regarding war debts
and out-of-line wage scales.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
BUTLER VISIONS
PROSPERITY IN
DEBT DECISION
Payments for War Called
Handicap in Lifting
Depression.
Continued From Page One)

money with which to pay us debts
owed from abroad.
When we cease to loan, they must
cease to pay. The whole situation
is one which reflects grievously up
on our practical capacity and our
business sense.
While this strangulation of the
worlds agriculture, industry. and
trade has been going on. our ma
tlonal annual earning power has
diminished from some $4,000, O0O.-
OO0 IN 1929 to some $37, 900 OO0. 900
at present, or more than so per cent.
While We have been insisting on
payments from abroad to be applied
through our budget in reduction of
taxation, our annual income tax
collections have diminished by some
four times the amount of the an
nual debt payments.
Reflects on Business Sense
In other words, the acceptance of
these debt payments has been a
burden and not blessing, loss.
not gain. If we got rid of them.
trade would revive and the farmer
the wage Garner, the industriaIist,
and the transportation company
again would be able to earn liveli-
hood.
These would all have income
from which to pay income taxes.
and the gain to the American PEG
pie would be so enormous that sac
rlf1ce OF the annual debt payments
would be something quite negligi-
BILE.
Bungled From Start
1t is not necessary now to go
over the whole question again, but
1t was bungled from the start by
our government. We promptly
should have accepted the principles
OF the Balfour note of 1922.
The attitude which we have been
taking for ten years is in fiat con-
tradiction to the declarations made
on the floor of congress, when au-
thorlty was given to our govern
ment to make the advances to for
elgn governments which are the
basis of these debts.
AS Lord Snowden said the other
day in London, the sums advanced
by the United States government to
the allies, which constitute the debts
to America, we're, in fact, Americas
contribution to the cost of the war
she had declared on Germany.
There is no use in going back over
that ground now. The economic
and financial questions which have
grown out of these payments are far
too pressing for us to waste time
now in discussing. It is right and
proper that we should press upon
the debtor nations genuine disar-
mament and thereby strengthen the
cause of peace and relieve the tax
payers in every land, but we can not
wait for the accomplishment of
that.
In the interests of our own farm
ers, wage earnerS and industrial
lists, we need to act at once.
In view of the opinion so volublv
expressed at Washington by SO
many members of the national leg
islature, it is clear that probably
the most practical plan to relieve
the American people is to extend
for six months more the moratorium
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
DEFENDS PROPOSITION
TO END SENTENCE WITH
And Teachers Told Good English
Same as in Shakespeare's Day.

And Teachers Told Good English
Same as in Shakespeare's Day.
By United Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov 25.-
Charles A. Lloyd, Asheville, N. c.,
told the annual convention of the
National Council of Teachers of
English here today that contrary to
popular belief, a proposition isn't
a bad word to end a sentence with.
THAT belief he said, lis just one
of the many decisions concerning
good English Others he cited in
Guided:
THAT it is bad English to begin
a sentence with and or but
"That good English never changes,
that it is the same today as it was
in Shakespeare day."
1.-The harm in these decisions lies
not entirely in the ideas them
selves" Lloyd said, but in the no.
ton they give students that COR
rect English necessarily is very UNI
natural"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
EXPENSE OF COUNTY
ELECTIONS SLASHED
Primary and General Voting Costs
$4,000 Less Than in 1880.

Cost of primary and general cleo
tons this year was $4,000 less
than in 1880, despite the largest
vote ever cast in the county, Glenn
B. Ralston, county clerk and cleo
ton commissioner, reports.
Extra election officials were
necessary to serve the large number
of voters, 10000 more than visited
the polls two years ago.
The fall election cost $39, $40,
which was $1,O73 more than the
county council appropriated. Dras-
tic cuts were made by the council
in employees pay and printing
costs.
Ralston stated arrangements are
being made to store voting
machines in fireproof quarters. AS
a safeguard against loss of equip
ment, county commissioners have
erected a burglar proof storeroom at
the county yards. Several hundred
dollars worth of election equip
ment disappeared between the 1896
and 1882 elections.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25

He appealed to the Chinese and
Japanese to help the league find
an equitable solution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
Cartoonist Will Speak

John Edward Bockewitz, Redpath
bureau cartocnist, will be the prin-
cipal attraction of the Y. M. c. A
Big Meeting" to be held Sunday
afternoon at 3 at Keiths theater
Music viii be provided by the Fire
mems band, directed by j. A. Moore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
BlCENTENNIAL ENDED.
WITH WREATH LAYING
Celebration Goes on Record as One
OF Longest in History.

81 United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-The
George Washington bicentennial
celebration takes its place in history
as one of the longest celebrations
on record.
1t began on Feb. %, the 200th an
niversary of Washingtons birth. 1t
ended Thanksgiving day when Of
ficials Of the commission which
directed the observance laid a
wreath at the base of the Washing
ton monument mere.
More than 100000 local bicenten-
NAL committees were formed and
1000 communities here and abroad
Joined in the observance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25

Steel constructed,
with rubber tired
disc wheels. A real
toy for any boy or
girl.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22
Armed Revolution
BreWS in Germany

Berlin, June 22.-(ReThe Com
munist newspaper Rote Fahne said
Wednesday Adolf Hitler's National
Socialist Lesions were ordered to re-
port armed to their headquarters
within "a hours. Meanwhile the
new German cabinet faced an appar-
emily inevitable showdown between
Hitler and the state governments OF
the Reich.
Blood flowed Tuesday night
throughout Germany as the Nazis,
Communists and police fought 1t out
in many cities with guns and blud-
geons. One Nazi was shot and killed
in Berlin and a young Nazi opponent
was stabbed to death in Essen.
Dozens were gravely injured in the
series of riots. In Oppeln one Nazi
was reported dying as a result Of a
Communist attack.
The cabinet Wednesday struggled
with the problem of keeping the peace
between Hitler's irate demand that
his legions be permitted to wear their
uniforms, in spite Of the police Of the
states, and the insistence Of the state
governments that the constitution Of
the Reich gives them the power to put
down all movements they decide to be
threatening.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22
100000 ATTENDING
RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL
rs Nations Are Represented in
Vast Throng at Euchar-
istic Congress

Dublin, June 22.-PeDublin be-
came a cathedral of heroic size We'd
nesday for the formal opening of the
3lst international Eucharistic Con-
gress.
Out Of the half million or more
people from Is nations who are here
for the great religious jubilation. only
2,4O0 could get into the procathedral
as first-hand witnesses of the color
full opening spectacle.
Loudspeakers carried the words
and the songs, If not the color, to
hundreds of thousands of others
massed in the streets outside.
The procession was led by Bishop
Heylen of Namur, the president of
the permanent congress committee.
He was followed by Archbishop
Byrne of Dublin, sponsor of this con-
gress. by Cardinal Lauri, the papal
legate, and then by the 10 other card
inals and their suites.
Archbishop Byrne, as sponsor of
the congress. was the first speaker
on the opening program. followed by
Bishop Heylen and the cardinal le-
gate.
Thursday at 1880 a. m, solemn
high pontifical mass will be cele-
brated in the procathedral, and an
other Thursday morning at II
o'clock.
During the day Thursday there will
be sectional meetings of the various
nationalities attending the congress.
At 8 p. m. Thursday there will be
gigantic mass meeting of men in
Phoenix park at which the cardinal
legate will preside.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22
Homes COnfiScated
Say Taxpayer Chiefs

Fargo, N. D., June 22.-(P)-De-
claring many North Dakota homes, in
both country and city, are in actual
danger Of confiscation by the state
because of growing delinquency in
meeting tax payments, G. F. Lamb,
president of the North Dakota Tax
payers association, and L. B. Hanna
Of Fargo, former governor. appealed
to a Fargo audience Tuesday night
to support all four of the initiated
measures proposed by the state as
ISOLATION to lower taxes.
This situation is critical, far more
serious than a great many people of
our state realize. as is evidenced by
the opposition which has been set up
against some of these measures by
the educators" said Lamb.
Already hundreds of homes, in
fact thousands, have been sacrificed
to high costs of government in this
state. The facts the state taxpayers
association have assembled, dealing
with mortgage foreclosures and de-
linquent tax losses are Startling
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22
LOuisianans Search
Swamps for Bandits

Monroe, La, June 22.-(P)-Two
bank bandits were hunted through
the Bayou swamps southwest OF here
Wednesday after running gun bat
tie in which deputy sheriff was kill
ed. four possemen were wounded and
young woman companion OF the
robbers was shot down and captured.
The bandits robbed the Franklin
State Bank and Trust company
branch at Baskin Tuesday and escap-
ed with more than 81 900. only to bog
down In Bayou mud. Officers caught
up with the two.
The deputy sheriff was shot dead.
A few moments later the woman
companion Of the bandits was
dropped with q bullet in the hip. The
men abandoned her and reiterated in
to the swamp. Four Of the posse re-
ceived flesh wounds.
The woman refused to identify her
self or her companions.
The posse had surrounded the BAN
dts place Of concealment and Their
capture was believed imminent.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22
INF ASSIGNED LOVE
SCENES DESCRIBED
BY NURSE ON STAND
Tells How Aimee's Husband
Wooed and Won Her;
Promised Marriage

Los Angeles. June 22.-(R)-Myrtle
Joan st. Pierre. who pictured the hus-
band of Aimee Semple Mcpherson:
Hutton as fiery lover, faced cross
examination Wednesday on the storm
of imprisoned love scenes she told
Tuesday from the witness stand.
Before his marriage to the evange.
list, the 30-year-old nurse testified ir
her 100000 breach of promise sui,
against David Hutton. choir singer
he told her marriage was a handmade
institution that could be ignored a!
times.
"He made violent love to me-" Mis-:
st. Pierre told the Jury, "'You must
be wife to me to prove your love,
he insisted. He held me so tightly. He
smothered me with kisses
In the midst of her story, the nurse
fell from the witness stand in faint
She continued her story IF her rela-
tons with the singer only with thu
aid of smelling salts.
So intimate were the scenes she de
scribed that the court room wa:
cleared of all who did not have a.
immediate interest in the case. Will;
she told of his love, Miss st. >Pierrt
gazed steadily at Hutton. He staree
back fixedly, occasionally swallowing
hard.
He sang love songs to her. the nurs.
testified, swore he could not live with
out her. called her tender names
promised to build a lovely little nest.
and repeatedly asked her to MARI;
him. She accepted, she continued
and wedding date was tentativel,
fixed for March, 1881. The suit Wa:
not filed. however, until after Hut
toms marriage to Mrs. Mcpherson.
Meanwhile, unaware the trial hat
even begun, Mrs. Hutton was confinet
to a sanitarium. She is sufferins
from a nervous breakdown and
strange tropical illness contracted or
her recent tour of Central America
with her husband.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22
Hebron Crowded With
Visiting Church Men

Hebron, N. D.. June 22.-P)-The
international and general conference
of the German Congregational church
opened its four-day convention here
Wednesday. Several thousand per-
sons are expected here. Hundreds are
in attendance at the state and lay
mems conference Of the German Con-
gregational churches which opened
Monday and continued through
Tuesday.
Rev. F.. w. Gross, pastor Of the
German Congregational and Bethany
English Congregational churches OF
Hebron, is in charge Of the sessions.
Delegates and ministers from the
states of New York and Washington
and neighboring states are to attend
the general conference. A city of
1000 population at the last census,
Hebron expected to be taxed over its
capacity in providing for the visitors,
and all available tents were COM
Wandered to care for the guests.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22
CAPITAL Stirred to FeUer
Pitch by Dry La,v Battle
Borah Accuses Secretary
Brown Of Preferring Sa-
loon to Present Law

Washington, June 22.-(P)-A swift
succession of startling developments
around the prohibition question We'd
nesday kept the capital stirred to
fever pitch.
Hardly had politica! Washington
Gained down from Speaker Gamers
unexpected declaration for repeal OF
the 18th amendment Tuesday. when
Senator Borah of Idaho told the sen
ate that Postmaster General Brown
close political adviser to the presi-
dent, had said he preferred return OF
the saloon to present conditions and
that he expected to see it return.
Up to Wednesday morning this
statement had gone unchallenged b.
Brown.
It was Borah's second spectacular
prohibition declaration in as many
days and was the direct outcome OF
his speech to the senate Monday
condemning and rejecting the Repub-
lican platform and all its planks, par
ticularly the resubmiSsion one. In
that speech he said Brown and Sec
rotary Mills were for repeal.
Both denied it. Browns statemen:
of denial revealed private CONVEX
sation he and E. A. Van Valkenburs
Of Philadelphia, had with Borah in
which. he said, both opposed naked
repeal.
This stirred Borah to give his YER
sion of the meeting.
II said in that conversation that
had been for months undertaking to
devise plan by which you could pro-
tect the states which wanted to be
dry, and secondly, by which you coulc
prevent the return Of the American;
saloon. That is precisely what
stated to Mr.. Brown.
II said that I had made progress
with reference to the question OF pro-
tecting the states which wanted to be
dry. but that I had reached the con
clusion that once you legalized the
sale of intoxicating liquors in the
United States, there was no possible
way to prevent return Of the Amer
lean saloon. That is practically word
for word what said.
"Mr. Brown replied: I think yol
are right Once we legalize the sale OF
Intoxicating liquors. I do not see how
you are going to control the method
Of selling them He said: I expect
to see the return of the saloon and
would rather have it than the pres.
emit condition of affairs"
AS for Mills denial that he was for
repeal, Borah quoted letter written
by the cabinet member in 1926. 1r
this Borah said Mills held the eight
zenith amendment an object OF scorr
and contempt" and "a fostering sore
on the body polite"