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The Washington times., 1932-04-25
HEALTH
MEET TOPIC

With special emphasis on nu-
triton as a factor in dental
health, the District of Columbia
Dental Society will open its
Child Health Week" tomorrow
night at Central High School.
Awards will be made for the
winning posters in contest
sponsored by the society.
DR.. E. V. McCollum, Of Johns
Hopkins University. will speak on
the subject, Nutrition and Its
Relation to Child and Adult
Health" DR.. Wallace SecCombe,
dean of the University of Toronto,
Canada. also will speak.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
Norfolk Trio Cruising
For Baby Contact

NORFOLK, Va. April 20
T.N.SO.-A mysterious hide-and-
seek game played off the Virginia
Coast by the yacht Maroon
formed the newest hope today
for success of negotiators seeking
recovery of the kidnapped Lind
bergh baby.
Movements of the craft init
mated that John Hughes Curtis,
chief of the negotiators, and his
associates, are seeking contact
with the men they believe have
the Lindbergh baby.
The Maroon has been at the
disposal of Curtis since Thurs
day.
She carried as passengers
Edwin B. Bruc. retired banker
of Elmira. N. Y. now an i'm
portant member of the nego-
tiating group, and Capt. Kenneth
Whiting, commandant of the
Norfolk naval base.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
TARIFF ON OIL
AND COPPER
APPROVED
Senate Votes to Retain the
House Tax of | Cent on
Imported "Gas"

Senate protectionists today
scored their first victory in the
fight to write new tariff i'm
ports in the tax bill when the
Senate Finance Committee
voted for tariff on both cop
per and oil.
BY a vote of 10 to 8, the COM
mittee agreed to a tariff imposi-
ton on imported copper, The
proposed tax is 5 cents a pound
but this may be changed.
The committee also voted to
keep the House tariff on oil in
the bill. This would impose
tax of l cent per gallon on i'm
ported gasoline and fuel oil.
BY a vote of eight to ten lum-
Der tariffs were barred from the
measure. The committee also
voted 9 to 8 to retain the 81
ton tariff on imported coal as
passed by the House.
A proposal to increase tariff
rates on imports from countries
whose currency was deprecated
was defeated by 10 to 8.
Democratic Senators Connally
of Texas and Gore of Oklahoma
joined with the Republicans III
voting for tariff on oil and coal.
Connally also voted for a copper
import tax. A committee mem
Der predicted no more tariff
duties would be included in the
committee bill.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
TAX, NOT BQNuS
CALLED NEED

Business is drifting in fog of
political uncertainty; only the pas
sage of a tax cut act and avoid
ance of unwise experiments will
serve to lift the fog, James A.
Emery, representing the National
Association of Manufacturers, told
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee today in opposing immedi-
ate payment of the war veterans
bonus.
He said enlarging the currency
would do no good, because, he
claimed. there is in circulation
now one-fifth more currency than
during the boom period, while one
fourth less business is being trans
acted.
George D. Evans, of Philadel-
phia. saying he represented the
100000 other unemployed" pre-
sented a plan to put all the I'M
employed on Government payrolls
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
Spring Is Here, Also
Tall Fishing Yarns

WILDWOOD, N. j., April Is q.
N.SO Spring is here.
Capt. Frank Favora. of the
smack Grace F., out of Glocester,
Mass. said today he caught fish
wearing a rubber band around it..
He said probably the mackerel,
when young, stuck its head
through the band while exploring
the mud at a rivers bottom, and
that the band expanded as the
fish grew.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
Women Voters Open
COncL1Ue in Detroit

DETROIT. April IS GN.SD.
Status of women under the law
and in industry. labor legislation,
and child labor will be discussed
before the tenth convention of the
NationS: League of Women Voters
opening today.
Miss Belle Sherwin, of Cleve-
land, president of the organiza-
ton, will head more than 900 dele
gates from "A States.
The league fosters yearround
activities to stimulate interest of
women in exercising their ballot
rights.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25

day by the economy committee,
includes;
Reduction of II per cent in
ambunts paid to Government
workers in salaries over $1,000, to
save $67,000,000, PRESIDENT
furlough plan to be presented as
an alternative
Cuts from $4,000 to $4,000 in
salaries of Shipping Board, Farm
Board. and Board Of Mediation
members, with members of Can
adam Boundary Commissions cut
$4,000 to $4,000. General pay
cut for one year only.
Forced retirement of superan-
nuated employees, to save So
900 900.
Reduction in travelling and per
diem allowances, with maximum
limit of Sc day. Limits sub
sistence of railway mail clerks to
So day and cuts vehicle allow
ance of rural mail carriers from
4 to cents mile. Abolishes
Saturday half,holiday.
NO overtime ray
Denies extra pay for overtime
or night work, limits total of
combined Government and re-
tired pay of military officers
working in civilian offices of
Government to $4,000 a year.
Estimated saving $11,000,0O0 a
year.
If Government workers are dis
missed, axe shall first fall on
married women if both husband
and wife are employed in Gov
eminent.
Automatic prom tions sus-
pended for one year.
Postmaster General may shift
mail carriers and clerks from one
position to another.
Pay cut to end if prices rise
to 1925 levels.
Not over Is per cent of an
preparation for department NAV
be shifted between bureaus as
needed.
EVC"VAOh una CuG
President and Federal judges
authorized to cut own salaries.
Transfers cost of Philippine
Scouts to islands with AUTHORIZE
ton for President to disband
body. Saving estimated at S.
100000.
Progressive reduction of annual
$8,500,000 grant to States for
vocational education proposed
after next year. First cut being
to $1,5O0,000.
Limitations on printing and
paper cost of Government to save
$5,OOO,OOO.
Discontinues Army, Navy.
Panama transport service if saw
ing can be effected by use of
private lines. Possible saving
$1.000000 a year.
U. S. Shipping Board cut from
seven to four. one to represent
Atlantic, one Gulf, one Pacific,
and one Great Lakes regions.
Limits expenditures in board to
save $2,500,000.
Charges Are Serious
Cost of Government documents
increased 80 per cent. Base fee
for patents fixed at $25 Com
merce Department foreign trade
division, Bureau of Mines, and
Bureau of Standards authorized
to charge for services.
Fish hatcheries to be trans
ferred to States wanting them.
Same with agricultural expert
nsnt stations.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
SPEAKS TO CONVERTS

The Rev. Joseph V. Buckley,
pastor of St. Francis Xavier
Church, will speak on The Devo-
tional Life of the Church before
the converts league of the Cath
olic Daughters of America Thurs
day at 8:l5 p. m. at COL E St.
N. w. The Rev. Francis K. Cava-
nagh and Miss Mary c. Boland
will also speak.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
NeU York Seniors
See Hoover Elected

NEW YORK, April Is GN.SD.
1t costs student an average of
81 to entertain a girl for an
evening.
Herbert Hoover will be the next
President.
Mussolini is the worlds out
standing figure.
This was the consensus in a
poll taken by seniors at New
York University.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
JdpS ReneW Rebel
Drive in Manchuri1

MUKDEN, April IS GN.SO =.
Japanese army headquarters to-
day launched a new drive against
rebel activities in Kirin Province
led by Gen. Wang Teh-Lin. The
division of japanese troops being
replaced in the ChinchoW area
was ordered to proceed to Kirin,
while Japanese forces already
there were made ready for a
concerted attack upon the insur-
gents,
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
Spectator Is Dead
Of JGUeLin Wound

PAS SAIC, N. j.. April Is
1N.SD Victim of an odd ath-
letic field accident. Edward ALI
man, IT, was dead here today.
He suffered fracture of the
skull when he was struck by a
iavelin during a practice meet.
Altman was a spectator and a
wild throw felled him.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
POliceman's Victim,
To ADDear at Trial

STAUNTON. Va, April 25.-
Julian Ramsey has recovered suf-
ficiently from his injuries to be
able to attend the trial here to-
morrow of Policeman j. M. Wine.
charged with assault with intent
to kill Ramsey during an alterca-
ton in Waynesboro. March 81. A
preliminary hearing will be held
before Justices Powell J. Charlton,
j. S. Grasty, jr., and P. V. Coffey.
at p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25

as a result
of the high
price of al
cohol t h a t
President Won
H n denburg
h a S decreed
a drastic cut
on the mo-
noply r a t e
from 16 to 10
marks a gal
lon of alcohol
from $3.50
to 50 ,38)
The abSti-
hence of the
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
Alfonso and Cousin
Off For Rome TOddu

PARIS, April IS G.N.SD For
mer King Alfonso of Spain and
his cousin. the Duke of Miranda
planned to leave Fontainebleau to
day for a three-week visit to
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
TO End His Puin.'
Couple Die bu Gas

NEW YORK, April IS QN.SD.
Mrs. Harriet Quinn, IS, and her
husband, Joseph, so, we're dead to-
day. Mrs. Quinn turned on the
gas in their Brooklyn home. In
a note she explained she decided
on her act to save Joseph from
suffering.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25

Pennsylvania,
a n d former
a m b a Ssador
to Japan, has
been chosen
to follow Ben
jamin Frank
lin, Thomas
jefferson. DR..
Fra n c is X.
Dercum a n d
other famous
men as presl-
dent of the
A m iC a n
Philosophical
Society. The
society, found
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
Young Lamont Urges
Trade With Russia

MOSCOW. April Is GN.SO.
American business men are
harming no one but themselves
in maintaining their present
curb on trade with Russia, &C
The Washington times., 1932-04-25

c or ng to
Robert P. La
mont, jr., son
of the Amerl-
can Secretary
of Commerce.
Young La
m on t. inter
viewed follow
ing S u b mis-
sion of a re-
port of his
survey of the
Soviet cattle
industry. adj
V o c a ted in
creased trade
LIZ
The Washington times., 1932-04-25

lin in 1927, held its three-day
annual general meeting in its
hall on independence Square
last week.
A feature, in addition to the
reading and discussion of scien-
tific papers, was the election
of % distinguished American
and five outstanding foreign
scientists to membership
The Washington times., 1932-04-25

Germans has WI
reached a degree which would
characterize it as a consumers
strike if It were not observed
that the consumption of for
eign wines as we'll as snug
gled and bootleg alcohol mas
risen to abnormal proportions.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
Germany Teetotaling,
Alcohol Tax Cut

BERLIN, April 25.-The dan
ger that Germans might turn
teetotalers has become so acute
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Morris Philosophical
Society Head

PHILADELPHIA, April %.
Roland S. Morris, professor of
international law, University Of
The Washington times., 1932-04-25

United States and Russia for
the mutual benefit of the two
nations.
The Washington times., 1932-04-25
SIasheS Listed
In Economy Program

The $2OO,OOO,OOO economy pro-
gram presented to the House to-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
Hourly Temperatures
Legs Diamonds Girl Gets Icy
Welcome as Burlesque Queen

the girls posed themselves seduc-
lively and a male voice doomed
out as if from nowhere: "Prezzen-
ting =. Kiki Roberts!"
EVERYBODY leaned forward.
IL Men stopped putting pipes,
cigars and cigaretS.
A great silver curtain high on
the stage parted and there stood
Legs Diamonds girl friend, all
tricked out in enough wearing ap-
parel to take care of the Misses
Diane Cardy, Sylvia Sherry and
Pauline De Wore in their next
eight numbers.
A young man with slick hair
sang, Lady of the Evening"
The audience didn't go so far
as to boo Miss Roberts, being inn
pressed by her reputation as well
as her beauty. But when it be-
came apparent that Kiki had
only a couple of mild tap dances
TO offer, the boys who paid their
dollars to see action seemed just
a trihe offended.
After Miss Roberts had executed
her few honest steps and retired
to her dressing room, high in the
rafters oackstage. she outlined her
hopes and ambitions to an inter
viewer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
NAB Tech PUPIL
IN APOLLO RAID
Cops Claim Confession in
HoIdup Attempt.

A Technical high school pupil,
who played hockey" from school, was
arrested as a bandit suspect today
after two gunner attempted to rob
employees of the Apollo theater an
hour earlier, but lost their nerve
and fled.
The suspect is Fred Betting, II, OF
720 Grove street. The robbery at
tempt failed when the bandits fec
from fright, after binding two the
alter employees in seats in the movie
house. Chester E. Walker, q, OF
1913 Fletcher avenue, brother of the
second alleged bandit, was arrested
on a vagrancy charge.
Betting, according to police, was
identified as one of the alleged gun
men by Robert Collins, theater por-
ter, and n of the victims of the
robbery attempt. The other alleged
gunman is said to have fled the city,
according to police.
Betting confessed the robbery at
tempt, police said, but denied he
escaped from the scene in a stolen
automobile.
Four men were in the theate1
when the gunner came in through
the front door. They were M. B
Bare, R. R. IL, Box 245, Indianapolis
and E. v. Brown, 221 East Mich
gan street, telephone repair men
and two Negro janitors, Donnie Og-
burn, 1911 North West street, and
Collins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

She is undeniably pretty and
somehow has an atmosphere of
dignity about her, marred only by
her manner of speech which is
a trife east SideiSh.
IT KNOW all about this" she
Il said, waving significantly to-
ward the stage where a Jewish
comedian and an Irish comedian
were exchanging ribaldry worthy
Of the combined efforts of Rabe-
lais, Frank Harris and Lady Chat
terly's man friend.
But I want to grab up about
$4,000 while I've got the chance,
so I can finance an act of my
own. They've been giving me
screen tests, and maybe they'll
sign me to do my life story in
pictures. It'll be all about Jack,
and all that sort Of thing, but !
don't mind"
She started her personal ap-
pearances'' several weeks ago, be-
ginning at $4,000 a week, she said.
and dropping a bit week by week
until she reached ~burlesque, where
she is drawing $4,000 weekly on a
contract for three weeks.
what I want most Of ALL" she
concluded, "and I think I'll get it,
is to get a chance at the movies.
You watch my smokeB
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
BY H. L SMITH
ygrft.S pre~s star CorreSnoudenf

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Marion
~ CKiki) Roberts, who danced
in Ziegfeld's Follies before she be-
came the sweetheart of the gang
ster, Jack Diamond, returned to
Broadway Monday night with
plenty of fanfare and little effect.
Even though her name stood in
three-foot letters on the marquee
outside Billy Minsky'S burlesque
house-letters almost as big as
those which spelled BILLY Min
sky"-Kiki didn't put her act
across as might have been ex-
pected. She had on too many
clothes.
Miss Roberts couldn't for ex-
ample, compete with Miss Beverly
Darlington, Sidelle Mansfield,
Julia Yep, Camille Blair and Babe
Oates, in attracting huzzahs from
the male audience.
These young ladies came out and
did their dances in excessive
stages of undress. The ladies'
Of the chorus ensemble" in fact,
didn't seem TO have much more
than a small-sized layette to go
around.
Then the trumpets set UP a
blast, the lights dimmed a bit,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
IT'S A CRAZY Yarn
Blow to Elbow Cause of
Crash, SAYS Cab Driver.

A blow on his crazy bone sent
Charles Angleton, "a, of 315 Bick-
ing street, taxi driver, zig-zagging
down Delaware street today, his cab
crashing into an auto and lamp
post while he stepped into the arms
of the law.
Attempting to dodge a team Of
horses near Washington street, An
gleton said he pulled hard on the
steering wheel. His hand slipped
and his elbow cracked against the
cab door.
Temporarily dazed, Angleton said
he lost control of the cab.
Patrolman Francis Logue, how
ever, said Angleton's cab went
through his intersection, not heed
ing the stop" sign, smashed into
4 car driven by Carl Bretzlaff, 6277
Central avenue, and veered again,
stopping against a steel light post.
Angleton is charged with reckless
driving and failure to heed a traffic
signal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
PROJECTS
To AID JODLESS
States Program Will Give
Work to 10000 Men.

"Jobs for 10000 men and $4,000
900 to spend" was the prosperity
note sounded today by Ralph Sis
son, assistant director of the state
highway department., in announcing
the 1882 program.
Sisson said 5000 men throughout
the state will be given work in
maintenance, which has increased
greatly due to the state taking over
many county roads. An equal num-
Der will be employed in paving
work, which will gain steadily in
the next few weeks if weather per-
mits, he said. Cement is being laid
on a stretch of road between La
fayette and Delphi, Sisson said.
Between twenty-five and thirty
paving contracts in the 1882 pro-
gram have been signed and, with
the approach Of spring, work soon
will be under way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
MAP TRAFFIC PLAN
Taxi Parking in Fire Zones
Urged by MorriSSey.

Permitting parking of taxicabs in
freplug safety zones was the dras-
tic method recommended to the
board of safety today by Police
Chief Mike Morrissey to reduce
cruising of cabs, which, he says,
constitutes an increasingly serious
traffic problem.
During the discussion of the pro-
posal the point was raised as prob
able increase in insurance rates as
a result of fire hazard created by
parking. Morrissey said the plan is
being tried in other cities, and
pointed out that cab drivers would
be required to remain in their taxis
while in the zones and to leave i'm
mediately on approach of fire ap-
paratuS.
Board members took the proposal
under adviSement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
Hero's Death
Is Fate Met
by U. S. Filler
By United Press

By United Press
CHANGHAI, Feb. 23.-The pilot
~ of an airplane shot down Mon
day by japanese was identified to-
day as Robert Short, an American.
Short, attached to a Chinese avn
alton squadron, persisted in the
flaming plane.
The engagement in which his
Boeing plane was snot down oc-
CURED owe Soochow.
Short had engaged Japanese pur-
suit planes in an aerial battle last
ing two and a half minutes.
1t was learned that there also
were two other Americans in the
squadron to which Short belonged.
The aerial battle in which Short
persisted was one of the most spec
tacular of the Shanghai campaign.
1t was the first in which a single
aviator had been pitted against SUI
perior odds.
THREE Japanese scouting planes
were dron1ng over SoochoW,
where a Chinese airdrome is 10
Gated, when the Chinese plane took
the air to meet them.
Shorts plane was shot down from
1000 feet altitude. It crashed to
the ground, a mass of flames.
The Japanese returned safely to
their Shanghai base. Pilot Susumu
Kotani, credited officially with the
victory, was wounded and taken to
the Japanese military hospital at
Hongkew.
Kotani died of his injuries in the
hospital.
When Shorts airplane, which the
Chinese had purchased only a week
ago, crashed, the Japanese, not
knowing Short was an American,
thought they had encountered the
"bravest Chinese" and dipped in Sa-
lutte while the flaming airplane was
plunging to the ground.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
Ballet of
Life
Mile. Thee. HeweS, Noted
Dancer and Teacher, Is
Meningitis Victim.

DEATH'S ballet tiptoed its most
IL original step today, and its
stepping drew the curtain on Mile.
Theo Hewes, famed nationwide
as an originator of ballet dances.
Mile. Hewes. head of the Hewes
College of Fine Arts, New York
and North Illinois streets, died
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
Petite 17-Year- Old Bandit
Is Arrested at Hospital;
Arm Broken in HoIdup.

Flourishing a toy pistol, a petite
17-year-old high school girl early
today held up eleven persons within
an hour and submitted calmly to
arrest at city hospital after the
escapade.
She is Miss Vera Wood, IL, of 3247
Graceland avenue, a brown-eyed,
bobbed-haired Shortridge soph-
omore.
Police held her this morning on
charges of auto banditry and rob-
berry, and her alleged companion,
Joe Hottenrock, 80, of Ravenswood,
was held on vagrancy charge under
high bond.
According to a confession she is
said to have made to police, Miss
Wood, who claimed, IT was drunk"
admitted including three taxi
drivers, three taxi passengers,
occupants of two apartments, an
autoist and bus operator in her
alleged robbery tour.
Wearing a red beret and a black
ensemble and putting cigaretS with
utter indifference, the girl staged
the first holdup on a bus at Twen-
ty-eighth and Meridian streets. An
hour later she was overpowered by
a taxi driver in a frustrated. down.
town robbery.
Girls Arm Broken
The girls arm was broken in a
hand-to-hand fight with Harry
Pattrum, 1928 Bellefontaine street,
the taxi driver, in a hallway of the
Fair building, 40 Jackson place,
where she attempted to stage a sew
enth robbery, police were told.
Apparently u~nconcerned by her
capture, Miss Wood faced her par
ents, MI. and Mrs. Henry D.. Wood,
at headquarters an hour after her
arrest and told police of the rob-
berries, officers said.
She absolved Hottenrock, her al
legged companion in one robbery, OF
any part in the plot.
The girl admitted, according to
police, that she staged the first
holdup at 12:48 a. m. in a Peoples
Motor Coach Company bus in the
5000 block, North Meridian street.
Bus Driver Is Robbed
Lawrence Morris, 80, of 1880
Hovey street, driver, said he halted
the bus as the girl stepped from
the curb and signaled.
After boarding the bus, she
walked to the rear without offering
to pay her fare. Morris drove two
blocks, then stopped to ask the girl
for the fare. he told police.
Drawing a gun from her purse,
the girl glanced to the rear of the
bus and turned to Morris.
Morris handed her $3.16 and six
tokens. The girl leaped from the
bus.
Within ten minutes, the girl
bandit raped IN the door of the
apartment of Mrs. Roy Pape, at 1882
North Illinois street, apartment
No. T..
Weapon Taken Away From Her
Mrs. Pape said she opened the
door partially, but refused to let the
girl enter.
When Mrs. Pape refused her adj
mittance, the girl left, running
down the stairs and into the street,
police were told.
Two minutes later, Miss Wood
knocked on the door of the apart
ment of Walter A. Briening, 2848
North Illinois street, apartment 4.
P. G. Kersey Of $500 Guilford ave-
nue.. visiting Brening, looked closely
at the gun and noticed it was a wa
ter pistol. He suddenly seized Miss
Woods arm and wrestled the
weapon from her.
Thinking it a joke, Kersey hand
ed the weapon back to Miss Wood,
Turn to Page Fourteen)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
CITY WILL FILE LIGHT
CUT PETITION AT ONCE
Appeal for Rehearing to Be Ready
by Wednesday.

The city legal department expects
to file its appeal for rehearing on
the light rate cut petition with the
public service commission by
Wednesday, James E. Deery, city
attorney, said today.
City officials have been rushing
preparation of the rehearing petit
ton. encouraged by Commissioner
Harry K. Cuthbertson's promise
that If the light company figures of
1881 profits, as advertised in their
stock sales prospectus, are correct,
light rates will be reduced.
Cuthbertson last week dismissed
the light rate cut petition on repre-
sentation of the Indianapolis Power
and Light Company that the COM
pany had suffered a drop in revenue
of $294,145 in 1891.
City officials learned of the stock
prospectus figures, showing $122,6 $50
more earnings in the first nine
months Of 1881 than in the entire
year Of 1890, after the dismissal
order had been issued.