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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
WET BLOC ACTS
TO FORCE VOTE ON RUM

prohibitionists are preparing for
this test, their senate colleagues are
looking expectantly to the Bingham
4 per cent beer bin, which is before
the manufacturers committee.
The subcommittee which recent
ly concluded extended hearings on
this measure is expected to report
it favorably to the whole committee
Monday or Tuesday.
Whether it will get the indorse-
ment Of the full committee remains
to be seen, but it is conceded a good
chance. That would throw the issue
into the senate.
Both house and senate are pre-
ponderantIy dry. and no change in
the law wiz come at this session.
But anti-prohibitionists are using
their handy levers in both house
and senate to force a record vote so
they may make their fight to the
people.
There has been no record vote on
prohibition since enactment Of the
Jones "fve-and-ten" law, three
years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
IA Chinese PLANES DESTROYED In
SPECTACULAR JAPANESE ATTACK:
ALLIES PROTEST TROOP LANDING
General Tolls
Sixty Hours,
h Rest
BY DEMAREE C. BESS
United Press staff Correspondent
(Copyright. 1892. bv United Pressl


A T UYEDA'S
a HEADQUARTERS, sHANG-
Hal, Feb. 26.-Almost dropping
from exhaustion, Japanese officers
directing the offensive against
Shanghai pushed on toward their
objective today, meeting Chinese
resistance with grim determina-
ton.
The heavy attack conducted
Thursday swept the Shanghai
battle front beyond this peaceful
countryside, where Lieutenant
General Kenkichi Uyeda and his
staff officers have kept ito their
posts without sleep for more than
sixty hours.
[ met the Japanese commander
as he returned on horseback from
a tour of inspection along the
fighting lines. Tired and drawn,
he still sat erect on his saddle
as he greeted me with a faint
smile.
Our position is satisfactory"
he said briefly, summing up in
four words the opinion of Japan's
high command in Shanghai.
General Uyeda declined to dis
cusS the expected arrival of REIN
forcements from Japan, but, from
preparations going on around us,
it was obvious that a renewed
drive against the Chinese was
planned.
CTREAMS of heavy army trucks,
~ loaded with supplies and
ammunitions, passed us in an un-
broken line. They we're headed
northward toward the Tazang
section of the battle front.
Uyeda's staff officers main
tanned their calm despite heavy
strain placed on them since ia
pans massed forces were hurled
against defending Chinese breast
works. :
The officers moved about quick
ly, attending to never-ending de-
tails. Some caught short maps
when there was a 1ull in the bat
ties progress.
Outside. exhausted infantry
men, relieved at the front, threw
themselves on the ground and
dropped instantly to sleep. They
did not even bother to remove
their equipment.
Other soldiers set fire to big
groves of bamboo trees where
Chinese snipers had conducted
sporadic warface against them
throughout the night.
Nearby, a few captured Chinese
coolies were at work under guard,
repairing six tanks rendered use
less during the fighting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26

Ordered in Custody of
Parents Until Juvenile
Court Charge Is Filed.
DRUG EVIDENCE HEARD
Jurisdiction Battle Seen;
Sheaffer, Who Set Bond,
Is Out of City.

Miss Vera Wood, II, girl bandit
suspect, was released from jail to-
day by Juvenile Judge John F.
Geckler.
Order for the release of the
Shortridge high school sophomore
was issued by Geckler following a
hearing this morning, attended by
the girls parents, Mr.. ard Mrs.
Henry Wood, and a physician.
Geckler placed the girl in custody
Of her parents and ordered her to
remain at home until delinquency
charges are filed against her in
juvenile court.
Meanwhile efforts were renewed
to find the source the liquor or drug
given Miss Wood as city and county
authorities and police pushed a
drive to halt the drinking and sale
of liquor to high school pupils.
Issue Warnings
Warnings were issued by Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan, Chief Mike
Morrissey and judges in county and
city courts that no leniency will be
shown bootleggers selling liquor to
teen age boys and girls.
Evidence mat Miss Wood was
under the influence of a drug when
she held up eleven persons with a
toy pistol in a robbery tour Tuesday
night, was given Geckler in a re-
port by DR.. Jane Ketcham, who
examined the girl on Geckler's or
ders.
At a hearing Wednesday before
Municipal Judge William H. Sheaf-
fer, on charges of auto banditry and
robbery, Miss Wood was ordered
held in Jail under bond pending an
other hearing March 4 before
Sheaffer.
Tells of Drinking Liquor
Geckler said the order for the
girls release was given because she
is a minor.
AT the hearing this morning, Miss
Wood told Geckler she drank liquor
provided by a boy friend before she
staged the alleged robberies.
Evidence which may involve Joe
H~ottenrock, 80. of Ravenswood, taxi
driver, as the man who furnished
the liquor, was given by Miss Woods
brother Cornett, according to Mrs.
Leona Frankfort, juvenile court in
vestigator.
According to the brother, a man
who visited the Wood home the
night of the robbery was introduced
to the family as Mr.. Hottenrock,"
Mrs. Frankfort said.
Hottenrock is being held by de-
~tectives on a vagrancy charge I'M
der high bond.
Dispute on Jurisdiction
Sheaffer, in Lebanon today, was
a witness in a civil suit and could not
be reached for statement on Geek
ler's order for release of the girl.
Sheaffer had ordered Miss Wood
held in Jail under bond, and had
issued orders for an examination
of the girl at city hospital psyche
pathic ward.
In her report to GeckIer, DR..
Ketcham said she found indications
that Miss Wood was the victim of
effects of a drug while staging the
alleged robberies.
Geckler, ordering the release, said
he believed the girl was under in
f1uence of a liquor or a drug when
she is alleged to have staged the
robberies.
He ordered Mrs. Frankfort to
question Miss Wood at her home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
RASKOB IS REBUKED
Can't Speak for Hoover on
Prohibition, Says Hurley.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Secre-
tary of War Patrick j. Hurley to-
day issued a statement saying that
Chairman John J. Raskob of the
Democratic national committee was
in much better position to speak re-
garding the money spent SANDER
ing and misrepresenting'' the Presi-
dent, than regarding his prohibition
views.
The secretary took exception to
remarks reported to have been made
by RaSkob in an address in New
York Thursday night. Raskob was
quoted as telling a meeting of the
New York Democratic Club that he
was informed on good authority
that President Hoover would run for
reelection on a prohibition refer
endum platform if the Republicans
should adopt one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Con-
gress today completed action on the
G. ass-Steagall bill to aid business
with new federal reserve credit, and
sent the completed measure to the
White House for President Herbert
Hoover's signature.
The house acted within twenty
minutes after it convened at noon.
The conference report was sent
promptly to the senate, where it
required only a two-minute explain
alton by one of its authors, Sena-
tor Carter Glass (Dem., Va.).
There being no objection, the de-
cision in favor of the conference
report was unanimous.
No one aside from Glass even
discussed the. bill in the senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
GARNER SLABS BACK
Hoover Aids Should Work,
Not Talk, Jahncke Told.
BIZ Times Specfal

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Speaker
John H. Garner today said Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover ought to keep
his assistant secretaries here at
work, instead of letting them run
around the country on government
salaries and expenses, making
speeches"
He was commenting on the
speech made by Assistant Secretary
of Navy Ernest Jahncke in Ohio
Thursday night, saying President
Hoover has furnished so much lead
ership that the Democrats are
dizzy"
Since Mr.. Hoover has been
President, he has led us into the
greatest depression the world ever
has KNOWN" Garner said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
ENJOYS. Join in Requesting
That Foreigners Lives
Be Safeguarded.
EVACUATION is PLANNED
Aliens Will Leave Shanghai
If Danger Increases,
ConSuIs Agree.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Plans
for evacuation of Shanghai in the
event of IAN extreme emergency
have been worked out by repre-
sentativeS of the western powers
there, it was learned today at the
state department.
At the same time, it was learned
that American Ambassador w.
Cameron Forbes at Toxic has joined
with. Great Britain, France and
Italy, through their ENJOYS, in max
ing representations to the foreign
Office on two points:
/. That Japanese forces shall not
again be landed in the international
settlement.
2. That japanese warships in
Shanghai shall be withdrawn to
points where fire directed at them
will not menace lives and properties
of neutrals.
The evacuation plan was worked
out by the municipal council, repre-
senting the general foreign popula-
ton, and the French consul-gen-
eral, representing the French con-
cession, which is separate from the
other neutral properties.
If an emergency arises, a meeting
of the foreign consulS will be held
to determine whether the evacua-
ton is necessary and desirable.
THE neutral nations interested in
the settlement repeatedly protested
against the japanese using the in
ternational settlement as a base of
military operations against China,
but as far as is known, today's pro-
test is the first against Japan land
ing troops in the international
settlement, which she had a right
to do, being a member of the con-
cession there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
CLIPS WOMAN'S HAIR
Victim 0%verpoWered and
Head Shorn.
By United Press

By United Press
LOSANTVILLE, Ind, Feb. 90
A Jack the Clipper" was sought
here today, following an attack on
Mrs. Wilbur T. johnson, As, in
which the assailant overpowered
her, cut her hair, and fled with the
locks. Mrs. johnson, who tainted
when the man seized her at her
home, was not otherwise molested.
Police said the hair was cut with
a dull instrument, probably a knife.
Mrs. Johnson, wife of a garage
owner, was alone at the house
when the man knocked and en-
tered when she opened the door.
She said he appeared to be about 35.
Mrs. johnson, still unconscious,
was found on the floor of the home
by her son an hour and a half
after the attack.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Mammoth Fleet Swoops Over Hangchow
Aviation Port; Three Craft Shot Down
in Sensational Sky Battle.
SLOW PROGRESS MADE ON LAND
Invaders Gain Little in Savage Conflict at
Tazang; Offensive on Huge Scale
Is Believed Near.
BY HERBERT r. EKINS
United Press staff Correspondent
lCnnurinht 1920 hv limited Pressl

SHANGHAI, Feb. 26-Japaneses sent a powerful armada
of bombing planes against the Chinese air forces at Hang
chow today, and claimed to have destroyed fourteen enemy
planes, while infantry and artillery battered away at the
Chinese line between Tazang and Kiangwan.
The Nipponese bombing fleet numbered twenty-five, in
Guiding heavy, comparatively slow moving bombers and
their fleet convoy of lead-spitting pursuit and battle planes.
1t was a bombing fleet to rival many seen in action dur
ing the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
UTILITIES FIGHT MAPPED
BY MAYORS OF STATE

volland of Columbus, vice-2resi-
dent; Mayor Thomas Cooksey of
Charlottesville, treasurer, and Ralph
Louden, Martinsville, city treasurer,
secretary.
Volland climaxed his address with
a proposal for legislation confls-
eating utilities for municipal own
ership.
Mayor John McCarty of Washing
ton described success of the Wash
ington municipally-owned light
company. pointing out that the util-
ity placed $4,000 in the city's treas
ury last year. He predicted there
would be no privately-owned util-
tiles in twenty-five years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26

specialists summoned TO his bed
side have tried every available
remedy for pneumonia without
aavail.
Adrenalin and strychnin had nc
effect. N'Gi will not permit his
temperature to be taken.
They have taken his pulse and
his respiration count, but there is
no medical data to tell them
whether it is normal or not.
THE oxygen chamber is a struc-
4 ture of canvas erected on a
steel frame. 1t almost filed N'Gi's
cage.
A generator with connecting
tubes pumps fresh air of the cor
rect temperature into the chamber,
giving the gorilla the benefit of
exactly the right conditions if he
is to shake Off the disease which
Is threatening his life.
1t vas necessary to move N'Gi
frequently as the chamber was
erected. DR.. William M. Mann,
director Of the ZOO, was up all night
and the attendants who came down
from New York with the oxygen
apparatus had had little sleep.
They worked quickly and quietly,
speaking softly as If in the presence
of q human being who was gravely
i'll.
A N attendant who leaned over tc
IA stroke N'Gi's head found his
shoulders entwined with the 60
rilla's long arms arms that q
healthy gorilla might use to crush
the life out of a man.
N'Gi chung to him as an ailine
child might hug his parent or hold
a hand in his hour of pain.
Again, N'Gi pronounced Engee
with a soft cd reached over and
pulled a blanket about his SILVER
ing body. The gorilla weighed lie
pounds before his illness and now
weighs only about 80. His father
weighed $50 pounds and was shot
when N'Gi was captured.
No gorilla ever has been brought
TO maturity in captivity. N'Gi is
only 6 years old, with the strength
of a grown man, and DR.. Mann had
great hopes for him. There are
only seven other gorillas in the
United States. The Washington zoo
has one of the others, a mountain
or upland gorilla, in the next cage
to NGi, on the other side from
Jo-Jo, the chimpanzee.
TO-JO raj not a particular friend
u of N'Gi. In fact, he was jealous
of him.
The chimpanzee was a pal of DR..
Mann's before N'Gi arrived and
when DR.. Mann took up the baby
gorilla to pet him, Jo-Jo leaped at
DR.. Mann's throat.
Since then he has quoted down,
but still bore a grudge until N'Gi
became so i'll. Now he watches
sympathtically the fight to save his
neighbor.
The gorilla is considered the most
delicate con, itutionally of the great
apes. Chimpanzees have been born
in the western hemisphere, have
thrived and have responded to med
ical treatment.
Gorillas, brought from Africa, in
variably have succumbed to the
cold. N'Gi may be the first to break
the rule. His friends hope so,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Science Battles TO
SAGE Gorilla From
Pneumonia Death

BV Times SpUnI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-An the resources of medical science were
w brought into action today in the fight for the life of NGi, the
happy gorilla.
Playful and merry no longer. NGi is near death from pneumonia.
For six years he was in the best Of health and performed willingly
in his cage at National geological park for mis- host of juvenile admirers
children of his own age.
But a few days ago he became i'll. lost his appetite, and now spends
his time lying shivering between burap blankets, betraying no interest
in his surroundings
An oxygen chamber has been erected in his cage. Doctors and
experts IN jungle lore hoVered about. They said it would be a miracle
Il Nc survived, but that they sMl hoped to pull him through the crisis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
DOESN'T NEED HUSBAND.
NOW THAT SHE'S RICH

$12-a-Week Waitress Inherits $780,
600; Gets Divorce.
By United Press
SIOUX CITY, Ia, Feb. 26.-Mrs.
Daisy Steinwinder, 26, a $12 a
week waitress, received the news
that an aunt, Mrs. Daisy Duke,
San Diego, Cal, had willed her
100000, then went into court and
obtained a divorce from Ennis B.
Steinwinder, charging desertion.
Il won't need a husband now
that I have money" she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 26.-
Blaming utilities for the corruption
of legislators through lobbying,
Mayor j. K. Kimmel of Vincennes
was the principal speaker today at
a meeting here of more than
$50 mayors and city officials of $50
Indiana towns.
With the goal of abolishing pr
vate ownership of utilities. dele
gates perfected the organization of
the Municipal Rights League of In
diana, electing George F. Schmidt
Martinsville mayor, president.
Other officers are Mayor II. Carl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
U. S. FLIER OFF TO CHINA

Bert Hall, Lafayette EscadriIIe Ace,
to Command Air Corps.
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.-Bert
Hall, American aviator who for
merly commanded the Chinese army
air corps, said he will sail for China
today TO join that nations war
f1iers.
1t was assumed he would resume
his duties as commander
T. V. Soong, Chinese nationalist
leader, asked him to cave inn
mediately hall was a member of
the original Lafayette Escadrille
during the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
UNIVERSITIES WEATHER
STORM OF DEPRESSION

Faculty, Salaries Still Intact at
Northwestern and Chicago.
~ Times Special
CHICAGO, Feb. &c. Penny
pinching' and radical budget re-
adjustments have enabled the mid
vests two large endowed uni
versities to meet economic depres-
sion and curtailed income with
little hardship, their directors said.
Northwestern university and the
University of Chicago, represent
ing $l5O,000,000 in endowment and
buildings, reported they had avoid
ed reducing salaries and faculties.
More serious problems + pre-
sented by next years budget, how
ever, they admitted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
GOOD GIVEN FOR EVIL
Pastor breaches Funeral Sermon
for Man Who Robbed Him.

By United Press
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Feb. 90
The Rev. Clarence Wilhelm, whose
home was robbed a few weeks ago
by Hobart Wells, %, conducted flu
neral services here for Wells, shot
Tuesday night at Elwood in a trap
laid for chicken thieves.
Alvin Hilton wounded by police
who shot Wells, confessed to Prose-
cutor Emmett Fertig that he, Wells
and Robert Eurick, robbed Will
helms home. They obtained house
hold goods and clothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
ALFALFA BILL VOTED
GREATEST AMERICAN'
Selected by Students From Such
Notables as Ford, Indy, Hoover.

NOtables as Ford, Indy, Hoover.
BIZ United Press
MAGNOLIA, Ark, Feb. 26.-
Governor w. H. alfalfa Bid Muir
ray has been voted the greatest
living American" by students al
Magnolia A.. g. M. college here, a
count of straw votes revealed to-
day.
Henry Ford was second and Al
fred E. Smith third. Others in or
der were Huey P. Long, Charles A.
Lindbergh, viii Rogers, Robert
Montgomery movie actor, and
Herbert Hoover.
Woodrow Wilson was voted the
greatest American of all time
George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln were second and third.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
WARM WEATHER STAYS
Near-Summer Temperatures to Pre-
vail Saturday, Is Forecast.

f~h S"tuAN"JS - AOACN"SSs
Balmy weather which brought
near-summer temperatures to the
city is expected to continue through
Saturday, j. H. Arlington, fore
caster. predicted today.
Similar weather prevailed through
the nation, Arlington said.
Temperatures in the city rose
from the below-freezing mark
Wednesday to the near COS Thurs
day and today.
AT noon the mercury had risen
to SO, q degrees above the nor
NAL for February.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
COED DRESS ASSAILED

Stanford Daily Denounces Tight
Skirts, Bare Legs, Red Lips.
By Times Special
PALO ALTO, Cal, Feb. 26.-The
Stanford University Daily today de-
nounced women students for tight
skirts around broad hips, slips that
show below the skirt, bare legs,
Ioose-woven sweaters and lips that
look as if the owner had taken a
putty knife and applied a can of
red lead"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
ACTRESS GIVEN DIVORCE

Ethel Clayton, of Stage and Screen
Fame, Quits Ian Keith
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.-Ethel
Clayton, stage and screen star, was
granted a divorce today from Ian
Keith, prominent actor.
He was "ungentlemanly and IN
husbandlike." she testified. They
were married in Minneapolis in
February, 1928.
Evening star., 1932-06-19
CoqUHrd Poor Mother

THE cowbird has some admirable points, but
so far as its family life is concerned it is
open to serious criticism 1t is no bird to bur-
den itself with the responsibility of raising q
family. When the question of perpetuating the
species comes up, the cowbird hunts out the
nest of some other bird, preferably smaller than
the cowbird, and the eggs are laid there among
these of the owner Of the nest. When the eggs
hatch, the cowbird nesting is larger than the
offspring of the occupant of the nest. but either
the latter does not care about the deception or
does not notice it and feeds the unlimited
strangers along with her own young.
The ccwbirds redeeming features however,
is its voracious appetite for insects. 1t is to be
found trailing along after the cows in pasture
or Just ahead Of it, feeding the insects stirred
up by the grazing Of the COW. Sometimes q
the bird gets tired of walking if it wants to
view the world from higher elevation, it will
perch on the cows back and ride around bit,
Evening star., 1932-06-19
sunday Magazine by Lu Kimmel

was supposed to be uninhabited. but which IN
reality was peopled by race whose existence
was unknown That, SO far as I can remem-
ber, was all he said but it stuck in my mind
because in some of the old records I had run
across legend that the Incas still inhabited
the upper slopes of the mountains.
Recently I was talking to Mrs. Hugh Pof-
lock- an amateur psychometrist. She was
given a pirate spade and an old rusted ring
bolt which I brought from the island, and
from those relics she deduced many astonlsh-
ing things, although at the time she did not
know to whom they belonged or whence they
came There are people on the island she
said, but no one knows them. They saw you
and they knew where the object Of your search
was"
I am not a superstitious person, and I do
not 60 in for spiritualism. only repeat.
ing what was told
Our expedition met with bad luck, but even
had our luck been better it is doubtful If we
could have succeeded. We had an excellent
clew to 60 upon, but for a small group OF men,
in the limited time had at our disposal.
to attempt to search an island large, as
densely wooded and as inaccessible as Coco6
is farcical.
To do the job properly one should 60 out
to Cocos with a strong, abeboded crew or
gang of workmen who can stand the heat.
With those human factors and with good tools
and blasting apparatus, plus an efficient elec.
trical divining apparatus-if such thing can
be found-I believe that the treasure can be
located.
am planning to 60 back to Cocos, and when
I do I will not give up until 1 have either
found the treasure or convinced myself that
it is humanity impossible to discover it. For,
strange as 1t may seem to many OF you, feel
that the greatest thrill of my life has not
been at the wheel of racing car but on lonely
Cocos Island, digging for pirates buried gold.