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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
MARCH COMES
IN LIKE LAMB
Warm Weather, Rain Hint
Marks Its Advent.
HnurlY Telnneratures

March, the lamb, made its debut
today.
And, without exhibiting any of
the fury which often marks it, the
new month brought above-normal
temperatures and a promise only of
rain.
There is no immediate prospect
of the tame, placid creature turn
ing into a roaring lion, J.. H.
Arlington, weather forecaster, pre-
dicted.
If records of the weather bureau
are any criterion, however, the lamb
may have a surprise in store.
The lowest snowfall in the history
of the weather bureau was recorded
during December, January and
February, according to Arlington.
But March often brings the
heaviest snowfalls of the winter, as
proven in 1906 when 30.4 inches vas
recorded, and in 1896 when 17.8
inches fell.
February's average temperature of
1876 was more than 8 degrees above
normal with January more than 10
degrees above normal and Deem
Der 9 degrees warmer than normal.
In December, 2 inches of snow
fell, constituting the winters total
snowfall.
Rain during the three months,
however, was far above normal,
Arlington said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01

Heavy firing continued to-
night, Japanese batteries in
Hongkew park and at Kiang-
wan Smelling the north station
and the Chinese replying Wig
orously.
At nightfall, the Chinese still held
the contested village of Tazang,
despite the continued Japanese as
Sault.
The blazing ruins in the Chapel
native quarter of the city, on a mile
front, were visible from housetopS
all through the city.
Two depth bombs, or mines, ex-
ploded in the Whangpoo river, in
front of the international settle
ment today, with slight damage to
the Japanese destroyer Obi. They
shook the flagship Izomo of ADJ
miraI K~ichiSaburo Nomura.
The Japanese said the ward room
and some furniture aboard the Obi
was damaged. The flagship was
not damaged, despite the terrific
explosion about 100 yards distant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
League Peace Plan Approved
By United Press

By United Press
TOXIC, March 1.-The League of
Nations plan for a round-table con-
ference of world powers with China
and Japan, to end hoStilities at
Shanghai, is acceptable to Japan,
the foreign office announced to-
day.
Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoz-
hizawa instructed the japanese
delegation at Geneva that the pro-
posal was acceptable and does not
conflict with japanese policy.
The league proposal also was ac-
ceptable to the war Office and the
navy, because it left cessation of
hoStilities to be determined by ne
gotiations at Shanghai, and be-
cause a truce must be established
before provisions of the proposal
will be applicable.
Although the war and navy min
istries accepted the proposal, they
hoped that the present offensive
launched at Shanghai after the
arrival of the Eleventh division
would achieve the japanese aim of
forcing the Chinese back twelve
and one-half miles from the city.
1t was emphasized officially that
the principle of simultaneous with
drawal from Shanghai was not &C
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cepted and not likely to be, because
the japanese do not trust the
Chinese to carry out their promises
until the Japanese have witnessed
the actual Chinese withdrawal.
Japan considered the most i'm
portant point in the league proposal
the provision for a round table con-
ference after withdrawal of troops,
for Japan considers withdrawal of
Chinese forces necessary for a per-
manent solution of the Shanghai
problem.
The four main points of tie
league proposal were:
l. The interested powers will par
ticipate in round table conference
with Japan and China to end
hostilities.
2. The conference will be UNDER
taken on the basis that Japan e
jects any territorial gains at Shang-
hal.
3. The Chinese recognize that the
safety of the international settle
ment and the French concession
must be preserved.
4. The conference will be subject
to conditions made by local author
tiles for cessation of hostilities; for
eign naval and military officials will
render ali possible assistance.
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One morning they found her.
She had just returned from an
other night of frivoIity.
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TAKEN to headquarters, she
Il admitted that she had shot
her mother because her mother
forbade her to attend a party.
She maintained she had no &C
completes and that there was no
other reason.
At her trial the story of her
mad career, which began as that.
of a willful child and reached a
climax in the taking of a human
life by the time she was 16, was
brought out.
Her case gave to the language
of the time the term "jazz-ma-
mac"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
CUNMAN LOOTS
SHOP ON CIRCLE
SCareS Women, Steals $40,
Escapes in Crowd.

In a bold daylight robbery in the
downtown district at noon today a
lone gunman held up two clerks in
the Nancy Hart Candy Shop, Inc,
102 Monument circle, and escaped
through crowds with $40.
Miss Marguerite LESSEE, 81, of 412
North Alabama street, and Mrs.
Alice Fowle, "a, of 1858. North ILL
noiS street, clerks, were forced into
the basement of the store after the
gunman threatened to kill them if
they cried out.
The bandit scooped the contents
of the cash register into his pocket
and walked leisurely into the street
where he mingled with the crowd.
Police were unable to find witnesses
to the escape.
Miss LESSEE said she tried to
scream as the bandit waved the
revolver at her.
THE loudest noise I could make
was a groan," she said.
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The flagship was moored alongside
the Japanese consulate-general.
Meanwhile, the main force of the
Japanese Eleventh division of APP
proximately 10000 men had been
landed from the Yangtze river,
twenty miles above the Woosung
forts. The division prepared to join
the Ninth division and Japanese
marines in a renewed battering at
tack on Chinese defenses in the
Tazang and Chapel sectors.
japanese Ninth division head
quarters claimed the infantry adj
vanced to within about n mile of
Tazang after heavy aerial lombard
ment. The japanese admitted heavy
casualties.
Japanese casualties to date were
announced as follows: Army, 104
killed and 975 wounded; navy, 115
killed and $50 wounded; total dead,
219; total wounded, 1908.
The heavy bombardment of
Chapel, just outside the interna-
tional settlement, rocked office
buildings in the international +
so heavily that many residents
feared an earthquake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
STATE SETUP
Lawyer Urges Constitution
Be Rewritten.

Reorganization of the entire state
governmental structure, through re-
writing or revision of the state con-
stitution, was recommended. by
Claude H. Anderson, attorney, at
the meeting of the Irvington Re-
publican Club Monday night.
In order to eliminate waste. An
derson proposed the Governor be
given full power as law enforcing
officer and have him appoint, sub
ject to legislative confirmation, all
principal state officials.
These, with a superintendent of
benevolent institutions, would form
the Governors cabinet and all APP
pointments would expire with that
of the executive, Anderson sug-
geSted.
Anderson would remodel the leg
islature SO that one representative
would be elected from each con-
g%reSsional district and three at
large, and seven senators to be
elected either at large or from sena-
torial districts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
Martial Law Urged in
Kokomo Hunger Crisis

" IlWCS NUIUI
KOKOMO, Ind. March Soup kitchens manned by Indiana ma
tonal guardsmen and backed by a decree of martial law were proposed
today by Lee j. Noble, Howard county councilman, IS a means of meet
ing a serious situation here in poor relief.
Noble and the other councilnen, Dennis L. Crume and c. A. Clark,
form a committee which Noble says will place the martial law proposal
before Governor Harry G. Leslie unless some other plan is devised
within tn next few days.
Center township, in which Kokomo is located, is facing a serious
situation with a relief cost of $1,000 a day, but other townships of the
county are said to be meeting the relief problem at less expense. To
date Center township has issued poor relief bonds for a total of $l4500O.
Walter Koontz, Center township trustee, attempted to establish a
comnissary recently, but was opposed by Kokomo business men who
finally obtained a court order restraining the trustee from putting his
plan into effect.
1t then was proposed to set up soup kitchens, but this, Noble as
serts, was opposed by popular opinion, a a blot upon the city.
Noble proposes first to confer with officials of welfare organizations
in an attempt to evolve a relief plan. and, if that fails, will place the
martial law proposal before the Governor.
Only one bank remains open in Kokomo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
STRIKE AGAIN
IN 'LEGGER WAR
81 Year Old Man Accused
of Selling Booze to
teen Ace BOYS.

Authorities struck again today at
bootleggers who r selling booze to
teen age Indianapolis boys and girls
with the arrest of William McClaim,
81, of 812 Economy street, on a blind
tiger charge.
Three youths, two of them II and
the third IS, went with officers to-
day to McClain'S home and, &C
cording to police, identified him as
the man who provided them with
booze last Friday.
Among the youths is Chester IN
gersoll, IT, of 932 Bellefontaine
street, whose father, Homer Inger-
soil, died Dec. IS, 1881, when police
entered his home to, investigate
booze sale reports.
Chester was the youth who came
from the basement of his home
carrying jugs when officers were
talking to his father. Mr.. Inger-
soil, seeing the containers carried
by his son, slumped over the kitchen
table and died of heart disease be-
fore medical aid could be obtained.
Said They Found Bottle
Ed Frazer, 18, of 915 Bellefontaine
street, and Joseph Newton, II, of
524 North Alabama street, we're in
volved with Ingersoll in McClain's
arrest today.
Frazer had been held in jail since
Friday, when Municipal Judge Cliff
ton R. Cameron gave him IAN OPP
%portunity to remember where and
how" they obtained liquor. Newton
was held by detectives pending in
vestigation of another charge.
The boys were arrested by patrol
man after the officers said they
found the trio drinking liquor in an
alley near Ingersoll's home.
In court last week, Frazer de-
clared they found the bottle in an
alley"
st don't want to fine you boys or
send you to JAIL" Cameron said.
But I want to know the course of
that liquor"
Ingersoll was released and Frazer,
according to officers, finally decided
to tell them arrangements which
were made for obtaining the booze.
Youth Identify McLain
Armed with John Doe warrants,
charging McLain with operating a
blind tiger and sale of liquor, Ser
geant Wayne Bear and patrolmen
Dolly Gray and Fred Stevens staged
the raid on McClain's house.
After the raid, the officers told
Cameron the youths had identified
McClain as the man with whom ar
engagements had'been made to leave
the liquor in the alley after they
had paid for it.
Cameron released Ingersoil and
Frazer after McClain's arrest.
directing them to appear against the
alleged bootlegger in court Wednes-
day.
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Her father, Joseph Ellingson,
and her brother Earl we're not at
the prison gates to meet her.
Taking $71.62 that she had
earned in the prison mills she
stepped into an automobile with
the matron and left for San Fran
cisco.
There she entered the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Adamich,
where she was to meet her father
and brother.
Per father and her brother will
take her to Washington where
they now live. The father has re-
married.
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DOROTHY'S case focused at
II tention throughout the coun-
try on the more tragic aspects Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01

the postwar development of
the 'flapper."
The girl was the daughter of
Woodworking parents. Her mother
had INDUCED her.
At an aearly age she had fall
len in with over-gay companions.
The exotic atmosphere of the
Chinese restaurants had attracted
her.
Soon she had become a familiar
figure in the group Of young peo-
pie, girls like Dorothy who not
yet had reached II, and sleek
haired youths who gathered to
dance and drink on the fringe of
Chinatown.
The mother and father worked
to clothe and care for the girl.
She lived only for gaiety. They
pleaded with her, but to no avail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
Rudy Shared
BV United Press

By United Press
SANTA MONICA, Cal, March
1.-Two men, succeeding where
four bathing beauties failed,
today obtained service on Rudy
Vallee, radio crooner, in a
S 1000, 900 plagiarism suit.
The bathing girls lolled in
the sun near the Santa Mon
lea home of Chief of Police
C. E. Webb, Vallee's father
in-law, but they failed to spot
the singer.
Then Charles Gordon, one OF
the two men process servers,
caught Vallee as he drove up
in his automobile.
The suit was filed here two
years ago by Roberta Hudson
Mckay, who claimed Vallee pi-
rated her song, "Vagabond
Lover" and made it I'm Just
a Vagabond Lover"
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picture on Page %

picture on Page 81
United Press
DAN FRANCISCO, March l.
~ Dorothy Ellingson, who went
to prison six and one-half years
ago a fiaming-haired butterfly
girl" who had killed her mother,
emerged from San Quentin Mon
day a woman of silence.
She was at liberty in San Fran
cisco today, pleading for the
world to forget about me and
leave me alone"
Dorothy, now %, was met at the
prison gates by reporters and
cameramen. She wore brown
glasses and shielded her face with
the collar of her coat.
"Oh, God!" she cried, cant the
world leave me alone?"
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THE climax came one evening
when Dorothy prepared to
leave for a party. Her mother
forbade her to go. They were
alone in the house. She was de-
faint, the mother was firm. Doro-
thy flew into a rage, picked up a
gun and shot her mother to
death.
She they arrayed herself in her
party clothes and soon was out
in her role as the life of the
party"
Evidence pointed to Dorothy as
having at least knowledge of the
manner Of her mothers death,
and for two days the police
sought her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
BY CARROLL KENWORTHY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 1.-Repa-
rations for damage done to Chinese
life and property will be demanded
by the Chinese government in any
final solution of the Shanghai crisis,
DR.. Hawking Yen, charge d'afaires
of the Chinese legation, told the
United Press today.
DR.. Yen showed great interest in
reports from Geneva that China
and Japan had agreed ''in principle"
to mutual and simultaneous with
drawal of their troops from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
SINCLAIR MAY
HEAD LARGEST
OIL COMPANY
Lifetime Ambition Near as
Stockholders of Three
Firms Meet.
FLIP OF COIN HIS START
Rise Rivals AIger Success,
After Winning Title to
Rich Claim.
FLIP OF COIN HIS START
By United Press

~ ONttLU EtNoo
NEW YORK, March Harry
Ford Sinclair, who broke into the
oil business" with a small stake in
herited from his father, hopes to
realize his life's ambition today-to
head n Of the largest oil compa-
MES in the world.
Sinclair is attempting to merge
his Sinclair Consolidated Oil Cor
poration with Prairie Oil and Gas
Company and Prairie Pipe Line
Company, former Standard Oil
units, into the Consolidated Oil
Corporation, with assets of $542,-
900, 900.
Sinclair stockholders voted ap-
prevail today and officials look for
immediate approval by the other
two groups, Notwithstanding oppo-
sition from a group of Prairie
stockholders.
Consolidation would be effected
by an exchange of stock equivalent
to IA shares each of Prairie Oil and
Gas and Sinclair for each share of
Prairie Pipe line. The Sinclair
meeting was in New York and the
others at Independence, Kan.
Spectacular Operator
Harry Sinclair, present chairman
of Sinclair, and one of the most
spectacular operators in the early
days of the oil industry, is expected
to become chairman of the eXecu-
tive committee of the Consolidated
Oil Corporation.
Businesses of the companies most
ly are Complementary, so that large
economies and more unified opera
ton are anticipated. Sinclair is a
marketer, Prairie Oil is a producer
of crude oil, and Prairie Pipe line
a carrier. Sinclair Consolidated
currently is selling a billion gallons
of gasoline annually, and operates
in forty-fve states and forty for
eign countries.
Through their large holdings of
Pralrl, STOCK, the Rockefeller IN
~terests are expected to become larg-
est stockholders in the new or
ganization, owning nearly 10 per
cent of the stock.
Inherited Drug Store
Sinclair's rise to fame was in the
typical Alger fashion. %Inheriting
his fathers drug store at Indepen-
dence, Kan, he invested the profits
in an oil lease with a partner. A
disagreement led to a toss of a coin
to decide which half the other would
take. Sinclair's was a bonanza, the
other half PRODUCED only busters"
Thus began Sinclair's rise in the
business world, a rise characterized
by willingness to stake all on an
attractive proposition. He rose to
countrywide prominence in 1923
when the first of the sensational
Teapot Dome scandals began to
unfold.
Sinclair came into contempt of
the senate and served seven months
in a Washington Jail.
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APPER' MURDER STORY CLOSES AS GIRL ENDS TERM

1t was on Jan. 10, 1925, that
Dorothy shot her mother, tossed
the smoking pistol to one side,
stepped over the body, and head
ed for the wild party she had
been forbidden to attend.
please forget me-" she said to
Mrs. George Black, the prison
matron, who escorted her to a
temporary refuge in San Francis
co. after her release Monday. Il
studied during these long years. 1
want to live a different life"
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THEY were the first words of
L regret Dorothy EllingSon was
known to have uttered since that
day when she killed her mother
and plunged into the wild night
life of San Francisco's early Jazz
age"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
China to Ask for Preparations

fighting zone. He emphasized, how
ever, that such plan is only the basis
for a truce, and does not solve prob
lens which brought on the crisis or
those which have arisen out of it.
Any final settlement must involve
compensation for "unwarranted de-
struction" of Chinese lives and prop
erty, as well as settlement of the
Manchurian problem, he said.
Japan has created a situation
which involves the governments of
the two nations. 1t is a case be-
tween Japan and China; not lust
between Japan and Shanghai" said
Yen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
WIN FIGHT TO
FORCE HOUSE
LIQUOR VOTE
Wet Bloc Obtains Last of
Signatures Needed for
R%eSubmiSSion Bill.
DRAMA MARKS VICTORY
Crippled, III congressman
Sway Tide; Cheering
GreetS Action.
BU United Press

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The
house wet bloc won today in its
spectacular campaign for a vote on
resubmission of the eighteenth
amendment.
The last of the necessary las sig
natures was added to their petit
ton, which has lain on Speaker
John N. Gamers desk for five days
and automatically the Beck Linthi-
cum bill for modification of the
eighteenth amendment to give the
liquor back to the states will be
brought TO the house on March IA.
Anti = prohibitionists applauded
and cheered when Representative
Joseph j.. Mansfield Dem., Tex, a
cripple, propelled himself in his
wheel chair up to the Speakers desk
and signed the petition.
This touch of drama was the
second Of the day. Representative
Richard P. Freeman (Rep., Comm,
who has been i'll, was escorted to
the desk by two of his colleagues,
Representatives John A. Tilson and
Edward w. Goss, to sign the petit
ton.
March IA Is Date
Under the rules, such measures
brought before the house by petit
ton can be considered only on the
second and fourth Mondays in a
month, and March Ia is the first
day possible.
The petition merely brings the
modified amendment before the
house, technically discharging the
judiciary committee which recently
rejected it. 1t then takes a ma
1ority vote, 218, when every member
is present, for the house actually to
consider the proposition. If this
majority is obtained, the measure
must then remain before the house
until it is disposed of with only a
motion to adjourn having privilege.
When the final signature was
scrawled across the petition, Repre-
sentative Florello H. La Guardia
(Rep., NJ. ", was attacking in a
speech Representative Thomas
Blanton Dem., Tex, an ardent
dry. Blanton just had completed a
speech criticizing the wet bloc"
move.
AS Mansfield signed, Representative
John j. O'Connor (Dem., N. y,
one of the house anti-prohibition
leaders, jumped up in his place and
announced that las names we're on
the petition. This precipitated the
~iubliation of the anti-prohibitionists.
Strength Is Greater
The strength manifested by the
petition signatorie5 represented the
greatest yet marshaled by anti
prohibitionists since prohibition be-
came effective, eleven years ago.
They do not expect actual appro-
val of the Beck-Linthicum proposal
by the house, since this requires a
two-thirds vote, but they were hope
full that they might get a majority
necessary to consider the PROPOSE
ton by the house.
A number of congressman who did
not sign the petition are known to
favor resubmisSion of the amend
ment whenever the issue is raised
directly, as it will be in this a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
WORRIES; HANGS SELF
Waterman Obsessed With Idea
Explosion Wa His Fault.
3y United Press

DU UHtttU FftS6
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, March L.
Mark Shull, 81, night Waterman for
Standard Oil Company bulk sta
ton, committed suicide today by
hanging himself in the company
garage.
A note explained that Shull had
worried over a recent oil burner ex-
plosion at the plant. officials said
no blame had been attached to him
for the explosion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
BY MAJOR GENERAL HANSOl
E. ELY, u. S. A., RETIRED
wright. 1882. by United Press

WASHINGTON, March Peace
does not look quite so assured as it
did Monday night.
The japanese are willing to cease
hostilities if the Chinese Nineteenth
route army withdraws and a neutral
zone is established.
Geneva and the respective gov
ernments are agreed in principle,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-01
Conflict RACES With Greater Violence as
League Hopes for Settlement Are
Spurred by Reception in Toxic.
RAILWAY WRECKED BY AIR BOMBS
Nipponese Rush Reinforcements to Shanghai
Zone; Chinese Cling Grimly to Posi-
tons Despite Savage Onslaught.
BY HERBERT r. EKINS
United Press Staf Correspondent

SHANGHAI, March Japanese airplanes dropped
seventeen bombs on the Markham road railway yards today,
scoring two direct hits and w~recking the Shanghai-Nanking
tracks.
The Japanese have threatened to destroy the lines
leading into Shanghai unless the Chinese cease using them
for rein~forcements, but the time limit had not yet expired.