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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

The director as well as one Of
the authors of Radio Racket, "
now on the variety bin at the
Lyric, is Jack MCGEE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

MOTION PICTURES
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

Our Daily Bread for Our Cor
porate Humanity" will be the IL
a. m. theme of Canon Robert Alex
ander of All Saints cathedral. Epis-
copaI The Mems Club will meet at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

cation will attend a vesper service
at the Northwood Christian church
with the Rev. S. B. Harry of the
Meridian Heights Presbyterian
church.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
POLICE TO CLASSIFY
| CRIMINALS FACES
| WITH NEW CHARTS
Identification Plan Based on
Physiognomy Will Be
Tried Here.
GLASSFORD TO ENLIST
HELP OF ART EXPERTS
Students Of Facial characteristics
to Draft Guides for Officers
in Fighting Crime.

Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, SUI
perintendent of police, disclosed today
ne Is planning to develop a new sys-
tenn OF identification in criminal inves-
tigation based on the science Of phsiog-
nomy
Fingerprints are all right in estab-
fishing the identity of person, accord
ing to Gen. Glassford, but he believes
there Is place in police work for new
type Of Identification that will stimulate
keener observation on the part Of in
vestigators and at the same time aid
them in tracking suspect.
Charts to Be Made.
The plan contemplates the creation
of a series of charts, containing
sketches of fundamental facial char
acteristics, properly classified. In one
group would be placed the types with
round heads, in another types with
elleptical heads, and in a third types
with long heads and high foreheads.
Eyes, noses and chins also would be
classified according to type.
Artists regarded as experts on ply
siognomical features will be called on
to prepare the pictures. Charts con-
tanning the sketches will be distributed
throughout the Police Department with
the hope that the pictures will inspire
policemen to make closer observation Of
persons for whom they are looking.
Witnesses In various cases, Gen. Glass
ford believes, also viii find the sketches
helpful in furnishing police with de-
scriptions.
"Sniper" Picture Aided.
Gen. Glassford's plan is the out
growth of an idea he conceived several
weeks ago of having an artist make
a composite portrait of washington's
mysterious "sniper" bandit, based on
descriptions furnished by witnesses.
An artist already has been engaged
to make the portrait, and details for
the undertaking viii be completed at
conference this afternoon between
Gen. Glassford and the portrait painter.
Gen. Glassford himself Is an artist, and
is firmly convinced that art can be
successfully applied to the identifica-
ton phases of criminal investigation.
At any rate, he intends to experiment.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
MORE DATA SOUGHT
ON DISTRICT RELIEF
Subcommittee Probably to
Include Proposal for
100000 Diversion.

While the subcommittee drafting the
District appropriation bill probably will
include in it the recommendation made
by President Hoover and the Budget
Bureau to use for District relief pur-
tended for the new Municipal Center
poses 100000 from the $1,000 900 In
tended for the new Municipal Center
project, members stil are seeking fur
ther information on this subject.
They have asked for information in
writing regarding the condition Of the
Community Chest, and how that money
raised by private subscription has been
and is being spent. They have asked
for written information regarding un-
employment and distress in Washington
and are seeking the best information
available on the cost of administration
Of relief funds. Representative Holiday
of Illinois, member of the subcommit-
tee. said this cost seemed to him to be
rather high.
The subcommittee is not continuing
its hearing today because members are
making a personal inspection of GER
tain streets and other public works in
connection with District appropriations
The report, with detailed informa-
ton on these questions when made by
the District officials and the executives
Of the relief agencies, will be made q
part of the hearings on the District
appropriation bill. The subcommittee
expects to call in Elwood Street, in
charge of the Community Chest, for a
statement.
Whatever action is taken on the
$500, 900 relief contribution from the
public funds, will be carried with other
District items in the District appropria-
ton bill which probably will be report
ed next week.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
WEST COAST TREES
ARRIVE IN CAPITAL
Washington States Floral
Contribution to Be Planted
in Parks Here.

AS a Bicentennial gift, residents of
the State of Washington have sent to
the City of Washington a shipment of
trees, shrubs and plants, typical of the
Pacific Coast, to be planted in Wash
ington's parks. First Lieut.. F. B. Butler,
assistant director of Public Buildings
and Public Parks. announced today the
shipment has been safely received from
the Garden Club League OF Washington
State.
Officials are dubious as to whether
all the plant life will survive in this
climate, which is different from that of
the Pacific Coast, so donations will be
placed in nursery for observation for
at least year. When the trees, plants
and shrubs become acclimated, the off,
c1als propose to set them out of doors
in a group, leaving this shipment inter-
tact.
The donation was selected in &C
cordance with suggestions made to the
Garden Club League of the State of
Washington by horticulturists of the
Office of Public Buildings and Public
Parks, who sought the plants most
likely to survive in this climate. There
are some is varieties. Most Of the
shipment comprises trees, the majority
OF them evergreens-spruce, pines,
larch, frs and hemlocks. In the de-
ciduous group there are Oregon and
red naples, a red alder and one red
wood.
One OF the unusual varieties Is the
madrone tree, which the botanistS call
the arbutus menziesi, and officials here
said there are none of this type found
in this part of the country.
A sequoia tree, or 10 feet high,
from the Greenbriar Nurseries, Nor
folk, Va, an offspring Of tree brought
around the Horn from California rs
years ago, has reached Washington,
officials said.
They are considering planting this
tree in the White House grounds, If
it meets with approval of the President.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
AID CLUB WILL GIVE
BARTON COLL MEDAL
Greater Capital Committee of Trade
Board to Share Honors at
Testimonial Dinner.

A testimonial dinner in honor of
the Greater National Capital Commit
tee Of the Washington Board Of Trade
and Bruce Barton, New York writer,
will be given Thursday evening, March
81, in the Raleigh Hotel by the WASH
ington Advertising Club.
The club will present q gold medal
to Mr.. Barton in appreciation of the
brochure by him on the National Cap
ital, which was broadcast over the radio
February %. Chairman Capper, of the
Senate District Committee win make
the presentation.
The Greater National Capital Com
mittee will be honored through its
Executive Committee and its members
as individuals for its service in promot-
ting the welfare Of Washington through
advertising.
Those to be feted include A. C. Case.
Robert v. Fleming, George w. Offutt,
Francis G. Addison, jr.; w. w. Everett,
Lloyd B. Wilson, D. L. Moorman, Z. c.
Graham, George Pitt, Merle Thorpe,
Charles w. Morris, Edwin c. Branden-
burg, L. p. McLachlen, Robert ]. Cot
trell and Curtis Hodges
Invited speakers include Senator Cap
per, Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee, Mr.. Case, Mr.. Thorpe
and Mr.. Barton.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
B'NA| BIRTH ENDS
TWO-DAY MEETING
Dickstein, Banquet Speaker,
Lauds Work for Families of
NaturaIized Americans.

The two-day meeting here Of Grand
Lodge, No. S, Independent Order Of
B'nai Birth, closed last night with a
banquet at the Willard Hotel, where
speakers discussed the problems and
history of the Jews in this country
More than 300 persons attended the
dinner.
Representative Samuel Dickstein of
New York, chairman of the House I'M
migration Committee, lauded the efforts
of the B'nai Birth on behalf of the
families of naturalized American citi-
zens barred from the United States by
Interpretation of the immigration laws.
IF the present administration wants
suspension of immigration quotas" he
declared, IT will not intervene even
though 7 am opposed to such suspen-
sion, but I am opposed to separating
the families of American citizens by
barring their mothers, fathers, sons OF
daughters from joining them here"
Mrs. Kahn Is Speaker.
Members of the B'nai Birth were
urged by Representative Florence Kahn
OF California to continue their work Tor
perpetuation of the ideals of the Jewish
faith and to acknowledge their religion
and be proud of it.
A large part Of the unrest now
wracking the various countries of the
world is due to the undermining of
spiritual values, Judge Joseph From
berg Of Charleston, S. c., declared.
I'VE must go back to fundamentals,
to the original concepts of our institu-
tions," he said.
Lewis Unable to Attend.
Other speakers were Rabbi Edward l.
Israel of Baltimore, Simon Hirshman
president of Argo Lodge of the order;
William A. Goodhart, president of the
Grand Lodge; DR.. I. M. Rubinow, Rep
resentative Sol Bloom, director of the
George Washington Bicentennial Com
mission; Simon E. Sobeloff, United
States District Attorney for Maryland;
Maj. Julius Peyser, Julius Refs and
Joseph A. Wilmer, chairman of the
Convention Committee.
Senator j. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois,
who was to have been the principal
speaker, was unable to be present.
All Grand Lodge officers were re-
elected at the business session yester-
day afternoon. They are Mr.. Goodhart,
president; Edwin L. Levy, secretary,
and Mr.. Refs, treasurer.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
IRED BY SKEPTICS,
DR.. WOLTER STAYS IN
Too Weak, Anyway, to Venture
Out After % Days Of Hunger
Strike, He Says.

Weakened by his 23-day hunger
strike, and angered by skeptics, Or.
Frederic F. Wolter announced today
he will restrict himself to his hotel at
Yle Pennsylvania avenue until he has
proyed that he will starve himself 10
death unless given acceptable employ
ment.
The 57-year- old scholar obviously was
somewhat thinner and much weaker
today. puttering about his fourth-n moor
bed room at the Salvation Army HOTEL
where he pays s2.50 week rent.
Only enough for two weeks remains,
DR. Wolter said today, but he hopes TO
have carried his point. one way or the
other, before his meager resources are
spent.
The hunger striker said that the gos-
sip of the other guests, some OF whom
are unfriendly to his undertaking
would expose him should he attempt to
have even morsel Of food smuggled
to him in the hotel.
He said he felt too weak to venture
to the street anyhow, and would remain
in his little hall bed room, but for the
fact that its sole illumination, gas Jet,
is too fitful for reading. He expects to
pursue his studies, as long as his brain
remains clear, in the lobby downstairs.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
WILD DUCKS KILLED
BY POISON GRENADES
Biological Survey Says Phosphor-
us Used Two Years Ago
Polluted Water.

Four rife grenades containing phos-
phorus to make artificial fog, fired at
Fort Humphreys, Va, two years ago
were held responsible today by the As-
riculture Departments Bureau Of Bio
logical Survey for the death OF hun
dreds of ducks in the vicinity OF the
fort within the last 10 days.
An official investigation revealed, &C
eording to bureau officials, that the
grenades were exploded on marshy high
land. Here the poisonous phosphorus
crystals lay exposed in the mud until
an exceptional high tide recently hoated
them OF, polluting the nearby waters
During this high tide thousands OF
ducks came into the marsh for food. A
few DAYS later a fisherman notified
Government officials he had sighted
hundreds of dead ducks on the water
near the fort. Louis A. Blanchard. a
bureau investigator, was sent to the
scene. Examination by Blanchard Is
said to have revealed all OF the oucks
died of PHOSPHORUS poisoning.
Furthermore, Government ofnclals
pointed out today the danger Is mol
vet over, as it is believed ~ will take
several months before the pollution
win be washed from the marsh.
Fort Humphreys officials informed tnt
bureau that no future experiments Wit
grenades are expected to be carried OUT
in that vicinity.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
Tri-COlor Auto Tag
Studied at Parley
Of Traffic Experts
Heaton Submits Designs
for Distinctive Cap
ital Plates.

The proposed new type of tri-colored
automobile tag for the District was dis
cussed at a conference today between
traffic and police officials and Arthur
B. Heaton, prominent architect, who
recently conducted contest for a de-
sign under auspices of the Committee
on Municipal Art of the Washington
Board of Trade.
Several designs were considered, all
Of which bore the L'Enfant shield and
a red, white and blue color scheme. A
detail yet undetermined Is whether the
tag should carry the legend District
of Columbia" THE Nations Capital
or ~. s. Capital City"
Mr.. Heaton conceived the plan to
give the District distinctive automobile
tag. 1t is proposed to use the same
red, white and blue color combination
every year, but change the position OF
the legend from year to year to prevent
continued use of the tag.
The conference was attended by
Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer
Assistant Director NJ O. Eldridge, In
spector E. W. Brown, director of the
Traffic Bureau of the Police Depart
ment; Brig. Cen Pelham D. Glassford
superintendent of police; Fred Seller
engineer of the Traffic Department. and
Mr.. Heaton.
Evening star., 1932-03-22

over and took the knife away from hel
and put my arm around her neck and
stabbed her. After I stabbed her she
got up and walked down the canyon foi
short ways and lay down. I walked
down to where she was and stood on
the bank and cried, and felt very bad
about what had done"
After the murder, Seymour went tc
the home of his brother-in-law, Robert
Gatewood, and washed his clothing. He
told Gatewood of his crime and warned
him he would be killed also If he told
the authorities. Street induced Gate
wood to talk during midnight session
in company with an interpreter.
The uncanny ability of Street In
finding the guilty man has caused wide
comment among the Apaches, accord
ing to reports received here.
In the past it has been the common
remark in such cases: Indian no talk,
white man find out nothing"
One Indian sagely changed this OBJ
servation to:
Indian no talk, white man find out
everything"
FACES LIFE SENTENCE
Evening star., 1932-03-22
Tire Dealers to Meet.

"The Play without Name" will be
shown by F. r. Campbell, Washington
branch manager of the B. F. Goodrich
Rubber Co, at a meeting of the tire,
car and truck dealers In this vicinity
Friday morning at the New Willard. A
luncheon will be given at 1890 pm.
Among the officials who will attend the
gathering are P. j. Kelly, assistant gen.
eral sales manager; G. w. Sawin, dis
trict manager; Guy Gundaker, manager
sales promotion, and H. w. Delzen of
the Akron technical staff.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
FACES LIFE SENTENCE.
Indian Not Expected to Live Long Be-
hind Prison Bars.


GLOBE, Ariz., March % (R.-Mac
Seymour, young Apache cowboy, faces
life imprisonment for the murder of
Miss Henrietta Schmerler, %, Column
bia University research student.
Federal court attaches said his con-
viction by jury last night virtually
means a death sentence All Apache
Indians ever sent to prison in Arizona,
except one, have died after less than
seven years behind the walls.
They said grief over the loss of COM
panionship of the tribesmen and the
freedom of the open country was re-
Sponsible
In croSs-examination the Indian de-
MED his direct testimony that he slew
Miss Scnmerler. He said he acted in
self-defense after she piled him with
liquor, tantalized him and then, in
| anger, attacked him with knife
The student was slain the night of
July l8 while on a trip with Seymour
to an Apache dance. Her body,
stabbed and stoned, was found in a ra-
vine on the White River Reservation
July "a.
Physicians said the girl, who went to
the reservation to obtain material for
thesis on Indian life for a masters
degree from New York University, had
been attacked.
+ The jury was out hours and 20
minutes
Evening star., 1932-03-22
GUILTY PLEA MADE
BY ONE SUSPECT
IN MURDER PLOT
Four Companions of Johnson
Deny Conspiracy to Kill
C. {. Haury.
ALL FIVE BOUND OVER;
BONDS SET AT $4,000
Detective Sergt. Mansfield Is Only
Witness Against Them
at Arraignment.

Arraigned before United States Com
missioner Needham C. Turnage on
charges of conspiracy to murder Charles
e. Haury, supervisor of the Information
al Union of Operative Engineers, Ed
johnson, 3S, of the 900 block of Grant
place, today entered a plea Of guilty.
His four companions in the alleged
plot-George MacSullen, At. accused as
the gunman who attempted to kill other
union officials last May; Burt w. Car
penter Al, 1900 block of Seventeenth
street; Walter Reed, 2e, 200 block of A
street southeast, and his wife, Mrs. Kaye
Reed, IS, of the A street address-all
pleaded not guilty.
All five were ordered held for grand
Jury action by Commissioner Turnage.
who set bonds of $4,000 each.
Detective Sergt. Alex D. Mansfield
was the only witness to testify against
them. HE declared Reed had admitted
the plot in a statement Saturday morn
Iif1g. March 19, and which was con-
Cured in by the others.
According to the statement, as re-
lated by Mansfield, MacSullen met
Reed through the latter's wife early in
March and together they planned to
kill Haury on March IA.
On the morning of the fourteenth.
Mansfield quoted Reed as stating he
and MacSullen got an automobile and
laN in wait in the 4500 block of Con-
necticut avenue to assassinate Haury.
They had the tag numbers of Haury's
car, according to Reed, and followed
an automobile answering the descrip-
ton of Haufy's car for several blocks,
but did not attempt the shooting be-
cause they were not sure it was the
right machine, Reed told Mansfield.
Two days later, after another con-
ference, in which all five participated,
it was planned that the four men
would again go out on Connecticut
avenue and kill Haury. This plot fell
through, however, Reed is said to have
told Mansfield, when they failed to
obtain an automobile. The next day
all were arrested.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
FIND POLICEMAN DIED
BY HITTING PARKED CAR
Coroner's Jurors Decide W. j.
Grissam Was Thrown From
Bicycle.

Park Policeman William J. Grissam,
81, came to his death from injuries re-
ceived when his bicycle collided with a
parked automobile at John Marshall
place and Pennsylvania avenue early
Sunday, coroner's jury decided today
after viewing the bicycle and the auto
mobile.
Grissam was found lying In the
street shortly after o'clock Sunday
morning by Joseph w. Crane, 200 block
of T street northeast. Death at first
was believed to have been caused by
apoplexy or from being struck by a
hit-and-run motorist.
Sergt. Bert Shelton told the coroner's
jury he had investigated Grissams
death and found marks on q coupe,
owned by Glenn r. Stamp. night
watchman for the Ford Motor Co,
which indicated the park policeman
had struck the rear of the automobile
and been thrown over the handlebars.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
TWO MEN INJURED
AS AUTO HITS TREE
Driver and His Companion
Are Hurled From Ma
chine by Impact.

Two men were injured last night
when an automobile in which they were
riding skidded off the roadway at the
Park road entrance to Rock Creek Park
and crashed into a tree.
Edward Killeen, As years old. of $500
Chesapeake street, driver of the car. re-
ceiyed cuts on the forehead left
shoulder, knees and body, while his
companion, William H Loper. az. of the
same address, suffered a fracture of the
left leg.
Hurled From Auto,
Both men were hurled from the ma
chine by the impact and were found
lying in dazed condition by the road
side. Passing motorists carried Killeen
to Emergency Hospital, while Loper,
who was not discovered until several
minutes later, was taken to the same
institution by the Fire Rescue SQUAD.
Killeen told police the lights of an
approaching automobile blinded him
and he lost control Of his car. It
skidded on the wet pavement. careened
of the road and smashed into the tree.
Both men were taken to Georgetown
University Hospital for further atten-
tion after receiving first aid treatment
at Emergency.
Mrs. Helen Panagos, SO years old, OF
122 Massachusetts, avenue, was taken to
Sibley Hospital with fractured rib and
a possible fracture of the right knee
cap last night after she was Struck at
Second street and Massachusetts
avenue by an automobile driven by
Alfred A. Green, 2007 o street,
Woman Felled by Car.
Felled by a car at Thirteenth and ]
streets, Nora O'Donnen, 40, of l743
Church street, received bruises of the
face and knees last night. She was
treated at Emergency Hospital. Police
reported that william C. Bergstrom, 81
New York avenue, was driving The
Evening star., 1932-03-22
CONTRACTS SCHEDULED
FOR BENNING ROAD WORK
Highway to Be Widened and Re-
surfaced From Fifteenth and
H to Anacostia Park.

Contracts for the widening and re-
Surfacing of Benning road from
Fifteenth and H streets northeast to
Anacostia Park will be awarded within
the next few weeks, it was announced
today by Capt. H C. Whitehurst, direc-
tor of highways of the District. The
work, he said, will be completed by
Midsummer.
The road is to be widened to 10 feet.
Grading already has been completed,
and one of the last remaining obstacles
in the path Of the new roadway, the
old Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railway freight depot near Fifteenth
street and Benning road, is now being
razed. A new freight depot, Capt.
Whitehurst said, is to be established
near the District line.
Property for the widening of the road
was condemned and acquired after IA
years of litigation in the courts. The
current District appropriation act car
ried $136,000 for the project.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
DOG THAT GUARDED DEAD WOMAN
GOES TO NEW HOME IN LIMOUSINE
Poodle Adopted While Body of Owner Lies Unclaimed
at Morgue.

The body Of Mrs. Mamie Boden lay
unclaimed at the Morgue today while
the little poodle which guarded her final
hours was taken away to a new home
in limousine.
Pneumonia killed Mrs. Boden, IS years
old, an autosy revealed yesterday. some
three days before the distressed walls
of her poodle drew attention to her i'm
poverished home, at 1887 Four-and-a-
half street southwest, Sunday afternoon.
Her husband was removed to st. Eliza
beths Hospital several months ago.
Mrs. Annie Monberger of 452 o street
southwest, who gave the dog Q tenn
porary holoes turned 1t over to . couple
Evening star., 1932-03-22
1000 QUARTS OF LIQUOR
SEIZED IN POLICE RAIDS
Sergt. Holmes Squad Confiscates
Supply of Contraband in
Unoccupied Houses.

Nearly 1000 quarts Of whisky were
seized by members Of the central vice
squad in two raids led by Sergt. Nelson
o. Holmes on unoccupied houses early
today.
The squad surrounded house on the
300 block Of Chester court shortly be-
fore 8 o'clock after receiving informa-
ton that a bootlegger would attempt to
move large supply Of liquor from
that address.
After waiting more than an hour, the
police entered the residence and seized
3, ,492 quarts.
Members Of the squad raided a vacant
house in the 500 block of Twenty-third
street short time later and seized 406
quarts Of liquor which they found boxed
ard ready for delivery. No arrests were
made In either case.
Evening star., 1932-03-22

who drove up in a limousine with a
chauffeur at the wheel and promised
to give the pet the best of attention.
Mrs. Monberger did not learn the
names Of the couple, but was satisfied
they would take good care of the little
animal when it scrambled into the
woman's lap and seemed quite con-
tented when she wrapped 1t in fold
Of her fur coat.
At least 10 other dog lovers called to
offer the bereaved pet home. includ-
ing an Animal Rescue League worker.
The latter explained that members
CT the league had become interested In
the dog through q news story