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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-01

Jim Bausch, Olympic hero, has accepted job with
an insurance company. He can take his prospects
over the hurdles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

Before the depression began, the
unemployment insurance system
was strong enough to care for idle
men. 1t met all it's obligations up
until 1880.
At that time, because OF continued
unemployment, the government
loaned the fund large amount of
money Probably much of this will
not be repaid.
AS unemployment mounted to six
millions, other relief means had to
be devised.
Poor relief was the second line of
defense. This is paid out of local
taxes. But this was not enough, so
an intermediary system of relief was
thrown between unemployment in
surance and poor relief.
This was called emergency relief,
and was financed by the national
government.
These three kinds of unemploy-
nent relief are not to be confused.
No German mistakes the dole for
unemployment insurance benefits.
Investigation of need strongly is
emphasized. Unemployment in
surance is from six to twenty weeks.
If at the end of that time man
still is unemployed, he passes to
emergency relief, which is less pei
week. This extends from thirteen
to thirty-eigh weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

When the investigator considers
the man has received emergency re-
life as long as the situation war
rants, but still is unemployed. he
passes to poor relief, which is a still
less amount.
Employers have sharp criticisms
OF the unemployment insurance
system. They say unemployment
does not lend itself to actuarial es-
innate, and they believe the Legal
right to benefits without investiga-
ton is unwise.
They would make the receipt of
unemployment benefits depend upon
need which would be determined by
investigation
Furthermore, they would inject as
much local responsibility as posi-
BILE into all unemployment relief,
insurance or otherwise.
However, they do not believe there
has been inefhciency in administra-
ton of social insurance. That was
striking, in view of the common
American opinion that politics" and
ineff1ciency would be inevitable.
No German believes social insur-
ance can prevent depressions. But
since the famous message of Kaiser
Wilhelm in 1881, Germans have
believed the workingman is entitled
to protection against the inevitable
viciSsitudeS of life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
BETROTHAL OF
WALES limited
Prince Again Is Linked With
Ingrid of Sweden.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Sept. 23.-Europe's
royal matchmakers revived their
whisperings Thursday when the
prince of Wales, worlds most eligi-
ble( bachelor, departed by airplane
for Scandinavia. home of the
worlds most eligible princess.
1t has been two years since rumor
connected the names of Britain's
royal heir and the slender, golden
haired Princess Ingrid, grand
daughter of King Gustav V of
Sweden.
On this occasion. as before, re-
ports of an impending engagement
are almost certain to be denied, but
society circles profess to see unusual
significance in this visit.
For. one thing, it was described as
"a private family visit"
just before leaving, moreover, the
prince spent some time with his
royal parents at Balmoral
Still again, those who observe for
malities point out that it is the
princes first visit to the Swedish
court and, as such, the most ap-
propriate occasion for asking the
hand of 22-year- old Ingrid.
The prince will not reach Stock
holm until about Oct l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
HOOVER HEARS
RAIL PAY PLEA
Protection Demanded by
Million Workers.

By Scrtpps-Hotcard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-Presi.
dent Hoover had before him today
the demand of a million railwa,
workers that the nation protect
them as it protected their employ
ers, who now are demanding 2
deeper wage cut.
The Railway Labor Executives
Association, representing these men
told President Hoover, in effect, that
he should have the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation demand wage
maintenance of railroad manage
ments as a condition of further
financial assistance.
1t was believed that while the
interstate commerce commission
which must give joint approval tc
R. F. c. loans, probably could not
make wage maintenance a condition
of its approval, that the corporation
itself probably has authority tc
do so.
No comment on the demand OF
labor was made at the White
House.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's announced
railroad program says railroad
workers should be paid the high
est possible wages railroads could
afford.
The labor executives statement
said that now, when there are some
hopeful signs that the depression
may have run its course, and when
there is renewed hope of economic
recovery, "the railway employees
find themselves menaced by threat
of further reductions of wages"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

A $1,000 reward for information
as to Justice Crater's whereabouts
was offered by the New York
board of aldermen. Ten thou
sand circulars bearing his pho
tograph were mailed to sheriffs,
police chiefs and American con-
Sulates in every land.
False clews sent detectives hop
ping about the country on wild
goose chases-a barber in North
Dakota had shaved him, he had
been seen in the Adirondacks, he
was a patient in a Virginia sani-
tarium, his body had been found
floating in the water off New Eng
land.
Over long distance telephone
from Montreal came a report to
New York police that seemed hot.
A very calm voice said:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
Billy the Kidder
Famed Outlaw of Old
West Not Slain as Sup
posed, Says RanCher.

by CnJCeU FTeSS
.NTENTONE, Tex, Sept %. -
4V1 Billy the Kid, famed outlaw
and killer of the old west, still is
alive.
That is the contention of
ranger living near here who has
refused use of his name "for fear
friends of Billy might make it
tough for me-"
His story is that Sheriff Pat
Garrett, credited with Staying the
outlaw, was fond of Billy, and
in his place killed a Mexican.
The kid supposedly was shot to
death in dark room.e 1t is not
certain his body was ever posi-
lively identified.
Billy, now an aged, white
haired man, lives in the hills,
and comes into the settlements
only to play his fiddle at dances,
the rancher said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

appeared just when wholesale
graft charges involving other New
York judges were deing investi-
gated.
Yet, after long inquiry, the at
torney-general's office could find
no connection between the Crater
disappearance and the judicial
probe. The papers that Mara
helped Crater take to his apart
ment were never found.
n
THE driver of the taxicab in
Il which Justice Crater drove
away into oblivion never was
located, despite the best efforts of
New York detectives. The single
theater ticket he purchased that
evening had not been used. Every
clew led to blank wall of
mystery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

ST can't tell you my name be-
cause I don't care to get mixed up
in it, but Judge Crater is now in
Room 761 at this hotel. I am in
the hotel now"
BY the time the caller hung up,
New York police had Montreal
detectives on the phone.
A squad of the latter rushed to
the hotel, loudly raped on the
door of Room 761, forced the oc-
cupants to open it-and greatly
embarrassed young couple on
their honeymoon.
The. joke cost the practical joker
$40 in telephone tolls. He, too,
never was found.
q
D EPORTS that Justice Crater
N had been kidnapped for ran
som or murdered for the $500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
STATE 10Th IN ROADS
Spends Less for Highways Than
Any Other of Neighbors.

Indiana was twentieth in expen-
ditures for state highway construc-
ticn in 1881, according to a tabula-
ton made by the federal bureau of
roads.
The total expenditure for Indiana
was set at s1e,171,371, which is be-
low that of any neighboring state
for the same period. The total for
Illinois was s38,345,977: Ohio, s32,-
465,92l; Michigan. s34,634,7 65, and
Kentucky $22,952,577.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
Building Is Inadequate
DIES ON HEALTH TRIP
Mrs. Lois Knef1er Succumbs in
Tucson, Ariz.

Mrs. Lois Pratt Knef1er. 1914
Golden Hill drive. died Thursday
in Tucson, Ariz., according to word
received by relatives. Mrs. Knef1er,
widow of Ernest Knef1er, left Indi-
annapolis Monday on a trip for her
health.
She was born in indianapolis, and
lived here all her life.
She was widely known for her
interest in civic and music affairs.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
FOUR BOUND TO JURY
ON ROBBERY CHARGES
Accused of Staging HoIdup of S.
Meridian st. Car Man.

Four men were held to the grand
jury on robbery charges today by
Municipal Judge William H. Sheaf-
fer after their arrest by detectives
in connection with the robbery of
Thomas Wilson, 951 West Thirty
fourth street, operator of a South
Meridian street car, Aug. II. 1881.
1t is alleged that Alex Tolson. 81.
of 14l3 Hanson avenue, and Leon
Raymond Britain, Is, of 218 South
Warman avenue, robbed Wilson of
$2693.
Charges of conspiracy were made
against Frank White, AZ, of 1888
Howard street, alleged owner of the
revolver borrowed for use in the
robbery. and Herbert Taylor, 2is
South Warman avenue, who is al
legged TO have obtained a one-fourth
share Of the loot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
FETE STORE EMPLOYEES
Leader Officials Give Winning Sales
Team Dinner.

Sixteen employees of the Leader
store, members of the winning team
in the stores anniversary sales con-
test, were entertained at dinner in
the Washington Thursday night.
A theater party followed the din
ner. Aaron Unger. president, made
brief talg congratulating the
winners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

Another Hoosier author is re-
ceiving more praise because of his
latest novel, The Years of Peace. "
lie Roy Macleod is the author,
and he was born at Anderson,
Ind, and was educated at De
Paw. He started to write when
he became q reporter in Colorado
Springs. Later he founded an
advertising agency in Los Angeles.
Now he is devoting all of his time
to writing. His publisher is the
Century Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
BRENNER'S TO REOPEN
Women's Apparel shop Remodeled
With Four Departments.

With new fixtures and floor Gov
erlng, Brenner's women's and
misses apparel shop, rs East Wash
ingson street. will be reoponed
formally Wednesday night.
The shop has four departments
dresses and coats. millinery, shoes
and hosiery. An economy basement
is operated in connection.
The store front has been remod-
eled in modernistic scheme Of black
and silver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
BURNS ARE FATAL
Coal Oil Stove Explosion
Causes Woman'S Death.

By United Press
RICHMOND. Ind, Sept. %. =
BurnsS suffered in a coal oil ex-
plosion at her home caused the
death of Mrs Ruth E. Crane. 10,
Of Liberty, in Reid Memorial hos
pital here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
WHISKY SEIZED BY COPS
Two Held After Police Find Booze
in Auto.

One ten-gallon key and gallon
glass jug containing whisky were
found Thursday night when police
stopped the automobile of Samuel
Dove, %, of cambridge, in the 500
block Kentucky avenue.
With Dove was William Cheshire,
80, of Greenfield. Both men were
charged with blind tiger and trans
portation of liquor. Dove also was
charged with failure to have GER
tif1cate of title for his car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer

Copyright. 1892. NEA Service. Inc.)
IN a lifetime which no shadow
Il seems ever to have crossed, Jo-
seph Force Crater had worked his
way upward from a law clerk to
position of honor and trust as a
justice of the supreme court of
New York.
He served in that high office
just four months and then, in
August, 1880, he did this:
Returned Unexpectedly to New
York City from his vacation at
Belgrade Lake, Maine, telling Mrs.
Crater that he had just re-
ceived telephone call relative
to political business.
Spent three days in his cham
bers at the New York county
courthouse and on the last day
was seen tearing up papers and
putting other papers in a brief
case and in four cardboard boxes,
according to his secretary, Joseph
Mara.
Sent Mara to cash two checks
totaling $500, which Mara did.
Took the money and the boxes
of papers and the brief case to his
apartment on Fifth avenue, and
then said he was going up in
Westminster county for a swim"
He never went for the swim: at
$50 p. m. he purchased one the
ter ticket at an agency in Times
Square: an hour later he dined
with friends in a restaurant in
West Forty-f1fth street; when the
meal was finished he stepped into
a taxicab, waved a smiling good
by-and rode away to the Port of
Missing Men.
ONCE that day in early August,
~ 1880, New York police have
conducted the most intensive
search in the history of the de-
partment-and the most futile.
Upward of 100000 has been
spent, will-o-t -wisp clews from
many parts of the United States
and even foreign lands have been
run to earth, every known or
conceivable avnue of possibility
has been explored.
And yet, after two years, the
mystery of Justice Crater today
is as deep as the mystery of the
grave itself.
Equally battling is the mystery
of the motive. Whatever this mo-
tive was, it has never been dis
closed. Of course, there were
countless runors--hints of clande-
slime romances with Broadway
chorus girls. of secret love trysts,
of political scandals.
The latter seemed to be most
likely, for Judge Crater dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
Strawberry Growers to Meet

LAFAYETTE. Ind, Sept. %. -
Spring Mill state park, near
Mitchell, is to be the meeting place
Tor near 1000 strawberry growers
from the several berry producing
counties who will attend the first
annual Southern Indiana Straw
berry day program at 1 o'clock the
afternoon OF Oct. l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

Rome fell Marc Antony did, too, when he saw
Cleopatra. Summer always takes fall to Autumn.
In fact today's the day that summer hits the
vas.
And today's the day that the "frosh" of In
diana Central college due to fall in Lick creek
Freshman and sophomore classes at the school
are shown here in the annual tug-o-war along the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

Justice Crater Entered Taxi and Rode Into Oblvion

This is the second story in a series of
six on the strange cases Of Americas
most famous missing perons. a subject
made timely by the disappearance Of
Colonel Raymond Robins, friend Of
President Hoover
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

banks of Lick creek near the campus
AS the photo was snapped the "frosh" shown
on the left, were on their way water-ward.
And about the only blessing the "freshies" find
in the annual ducking is the fact that it comes on
Friday-today-and there'n be no need of Sat-
urday night bath
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
500 watch Reported Stolen

Theft of a wrist watch valued at
500 was reported to police today
by Mrs. Ida Langsenkamp, 5000
North Meridian street. Apartment
202.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
BY PROFESSOR R. CLYDE WHITE
Written for United Press)

BLOOMINGTON Ind 23soal insurance given political
ana social stability to Germany without which the nation probably
not have survived the period Of Distress
ASSOCIATION German
The workngman
he is injured compensation and
disabled he will weekly of his life
The effect is to the workngman feeling security The
threats OF old age and illness ngated by the
vision has been made for them by =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

he is supposed to have had with
him at the time of mis- disappear
ance persisted, but they, too, still
lack confirmation.
From time to time bodies
thought to be his have been found
at various places in the United
States, but none could be so iden-
titled.
Justice Crater's dinner compan-
ions on the night he vanished
could offer nothing to clear the
mystery.
They we're William Klein,
Broadway attorney, show girl
named Sally Lou Ritz and Miss
Ritz's parents. They left the
retaurant at about the same time
he drove away in the taxicab.
He seemed in good spirits and
there was nothing to arouse their
suspicious
Another factor. in the case,
which it seems would make Crater
easy to identify, was his unusual
physique. Though he was six feet
tall and weighed 1876 pounds, his
head was so small that he wore 6
size 6Ss hat and, despite his bulk,
he wore a size IA collar.
Further details of his descrip-
ton say he wore tortoise shell
glasses for reading, a yellow gold
Masonic ring. shaped
gold wrist-watch with leather
strap and that he affected colored
shirts. He was Al years old.
JUSTICE CRATER was former
- law associate of United States
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New
York. and had also taught law at
Fordham. He was appointed to the
supreme court bench of New York
by Governor Roosevelt on April s,
1880, on the recommendation of
Senator Wagner and others. The
senator has been unable to pene-
trate the fog of mystery that has
enveloped his longtime friend.
Clinging to the hope that her
husband is still alive, Mrs. Crater
believes he is either temporarily
deranged or is being held captive.
Il know of no reason why he
left me or should have abandoned
his career" she says. Il do not
believe he would have done so
voluntarily and without constraint
If he was of normal mind. Nor do
1 believe he would remain away;
If still alive, save by mental in
trinity or restraint
Police Captain John Ayres, head
of New York's missing persons
bureau, says it is the strangest
case. he has ever experienced in
his fifteen years in that kind of
work.
NEXT; The strange disappearance of
DR.. Charles Brancat. the ex-barber.
who became millionaire. Did he
write those letters and kilograms that
hoated back for weeks after he van
ished--or were they written by his MUIR
derers?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23
Social Insurance Aids Germany
in Postwar Period of Distress

Clyde Of the
research at Indiana university has just
peted social
ancs as carried on Germany following
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

The Poetry Society of South
Carolina has this year awarded its
Sinkler prize to Allen Tate for his
volume, Poems l928-l93l,' which
the Soribners published this spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

Have just received a copy OF Inc
Poetry Contest" a dramatic phan-
tasy in three acts with a prologue
and epilogue in verse by Henry
Bremen, published at st. Meinrad,
Ind. by the Raven have not had
time to get into this but I will IN
very short time. firmly believe
that this man Bremen is a conner
In the field of verse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-23

NEXT; The strange disappearance of
DIR. Charles Brancati. the ex-barber.
who became a millionaire. Did he
write those letters and kilograms that
hoated back for weeks after he van
lshed-or were they written by his MUIR
dererS9
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-01-21
Finest Feelings Last
but One Brief Moment

Each bud flowers but once and each
flower has but it's minute of perfect
beauty; SO in the garden of the soul
each feeling has, as it were, it's flower
ing instant, it's one and only moment
Of expansive grace and radiant king
ship. Each star passes but once in
the night through the meridian over
our heads and shines there but an in
slant; so in the heaven Of the mind
each thought touches it's zenith but
once, and in that moment all it's bril-
lance and all it's greatness eliminate.
Artist, poet, or thinker, if you want
to fix and immortalize your ideas or
your feelings, seize them at the precise
and fleeing moment, for it is their
highest point. Before it you have
vague outlines or dim presentiments
Of them. After it you will only have
weakened "reminiscences or powerless
regret; that moment is the moment of
your ideal.-Ameil's Journal.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-01-21
Exhibit of Murnmies in
Crypt Of Dublin Church

Dublin is perhaps the only city out
side Of Egypt that has it's own num-
mics. They are rather a CHASTITY sight,
but no visit to the city would be COM
plete without a trip to the crypt of st.
Michan's church, where they may be
seen.
Some odd property of the air in the
vault underneath this edifice has pre-
served the bodies of many Of those
who were buried there centuries ago.
You may see them now, for the weight
Of one coffin piled upon another has
caused some of them to break and
arms and legs prOtrude. 1t is strange
indeed to be taken into a dark dun
geOn and to see in the flash of light
held by your escort a hand hanging
out. And it is hand, too, and not
just a network Of bone. For the skin
has been preserved through all the
ages and has taken on the appearance
If leather.
The sexton takes great pride in
showing these remains. Some of them
are lords and some are common folk.
Many of them have been dead five
centuries, which is long time in any
country. The one he is proudest of,
perhaps, is that of a Crusader. You
know he is a Crusader, for he was
buried, as they all were, with the legs
crossed.-New York Evening Post.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-01-21
Early American Missionary

1t seems a far call from a little is
land in the Mediterranean, and from a
very little village on that island to San
Francisco in California, but Soller is a
lovely spot cupped in a valley under
the peak of PUG Mayor. The Soller-
ties are as clean as the Dutch or clean
er, and their houses are spotless.
Their polished tiles and white walls
light up cheerfully as you enter their
ever open doors. It's so sunny and
fine in SOller that no one even dreams
Of closing a door. From Soller visit
the coastal heights Of Miramar, where,
in 1916, the Franciscan mystic, Ray
mond Lull, founded the first school Of
Christian missionaries, whence later
went Fra Junipera Sierra to found the
mission Of San Francisco in California.
Washington Star.