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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
BY RICHARD D. M'MILLAN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

PARIS, Nov. 26.-Nationalist
members of the French chamber Of
deputies took the initiative today in
opposing payment of any descrip-
ton" on the war debt to the United
States.
Deputy Louis Marin moved to ia
BILE motion proposing that the
chamber refuse payment of any de-
scription, including the suggested
payment to the Bank of Interna-
tional Settlements.
The government was not expected
to oppose the motion, and to per-
NIT immediate debate. If the cham
Der makes its own decision, Premier
Edouard Herriot will escape the risk
of defeat of his own government.
The government, however, await
ed the British decision on the Dec.
IS debt payment before deciding on
the French attitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
TOO MUCH TURKEY, Z
SO RANCHER MAPS:
SLEEP COSTS S91, 900
Money Belt Left on Table
for More Comfort Gone
in Morning.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. ga. A. (Jack
Drummond, Tulsa (Okla) rancher,
told police today that when he ate
so much turkey Thanksgiving that
he had to remove his money belt
and take a nap, someone stole the
belt and $4,000 it contained.
Drummond reported his loss to
the manager of the Sherman Hotel,
where the money belt disappeared.
He said the belt was stolen between
Thursday evening and Friday morn
ing.
Police questioned Drummond and
expressed a belief he may have been
swindled.
Officers at first doubted Drum
mond'S story that he had $91 900 in
cash in the money belt. He was
indignant
They telephoned Elmo Thompson,
president of the Exchange Ma
tional bank at Tulsa and learned
that Drummond left there three
weeks ago with at least $37,500 on
his person.
Nap Costs Him $4,000
Drummond said he registered at
the hotel at 7 a. m. Thursday.
That evening I went to res
taurant and ate so much turkey
that when got to my room that
night 1 had to take off my money
belt, which I always wore" the
rancher said.
II laid this out on a little stand
used for suitcaSes and went to sleep.
When woke up the belt and money
were gone"
Authorities at Tulsa telegraphed,
in answer to queries, that Drum
mond owns a 35,000-acre ranch in
Usage county; that he paid $4,000
for the ranch; that he is married
and has an 11-year-old daughter,
and that it is we'll known in his
county that he frequently carries
large sums of money.
The rancher told police he left
Oklahoma with the intention Of
making "a big deal" in Pittsburgh
He said he obtained $4,000 from
the Kansas City Fidelity Trust and
Savings bank en- route and made
stops in st. Louis and Cleveland.
SwindIing Is Hintcd
Police suspected that because it
was known that Drummond often
carried much money and because
he had done so much travelling he
might have been Swindled instead
of robbed. They suggested this to
him.
IF that mob got the money, for
get it," he answered, for I'll get
it back better than you will"
Questioned further, he recalled
that throughout his trip several
men had reappeared in his vicinity
with such regularity that it was
possible they were following him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
Britain Optimistic That Delay
Will Be Granted on Payment

The announcements by the two
cabinet ministers confirmed the
growing impression that postpone
'ment would be fought for with
characteristic British doggedneSs.
The government will attempt to
convince the United States that
economic world recovery hangs in
the balance.
There was nothing in the remarks
of either spokesman to indicate that
President Hoover's war debt note
dampened in the slightest the of
fetal conviction that the United
States will concede postponement.
On the contrary, the government
grasped the opportunity to present
new and detailed case for post
ponement, to be contained in a note
to Washington, expected to be dis
patched Monday or Tuesday.
This new note was expected to
be Britain's trump card in the war
debts negotiations.
Members of the cabinet were ex-
pected to gather at the prime min
ister's country residence, Chequers,
over the weekend for discussion of
debts Foreign Secretary Sir John
Simon returned today from Geneva.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
BY w. G. QUISENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Nov. 26-Postponement
of British debt payments to the
United States, and an exchange of
views on the world economic situa-
ton, are necessary to save the
world from economic Madness" &C.
cording to British government Of
f1cials.
The British government still con-
siders postponement of the debts
due Dec. Is possible, if the two ma
lions will have "a real meeting to-
gether-if each side can put itself
in the shoes of the other" Prime
Minister j. Ramsay Macdonald said.
I'VE hope the United States will
agree to, poStponement of the war
debt payments" Macdonald said, in
the first official reference to the
present stage of the debts question
I'VE asked that the date of pay
ment be postponed while there is
opportunity for an exchange of
views on the general situation .
while war debts are legal obligations
they are tantamount to economic
madness"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
PORKERS STAGE BRISK
RALLY AT CITY YARDS
Prices Move Up Is to IS Cents in
Strong Buying Wave.

Strong Buying Wave.
Hogs staged brisk upSwing at
the city yards this morning, most
classes up Is cents with few
lightweights 20 to Is cents above
Fridays average. The bulk, 100 to
300 pounds, sold for $345 TO $3.50.
Early top held at $3.50. Receipts
we're estimated at $4,000. Holdovers
were SO.
Cattle were nominal on receipts
of so. Vealers were steady at $3.50
down. Calf receipts were 200.
Little change was noted in the
sheep market on the small supply
here, numbering only 200. Eve
and wether lambs were Salable up
to S625.
AT Chicago scattered early sales
and bids we're steady to, weak with
Fridays average. For $50 to ITO
Founders price of $3.50 was estab-
lished; $685. bid for 270 to 28O
pound weights. Receipts were 5000.
including 1000 direct. Holdovers
were 1000. Cattle receipts were
800; calves, 200;p the market hold
ing strong. Sheep receipts were
1000 with prices firm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
Bright Spots
Nv United Press

Production of fifteen pictures
will get under way soon at studios
of Metro oldwyn-Mayer, accord
ing to comment in film circles.
Pioneer Gold Mines Company
doubled its dividend from II to "a
cents a share annually by declara-
ton at Toronto of quarterly pay
ment of 6 cents a share.
Iron foundry operations in
creased ass per cent in October
over September and steel foundry
operations rose Is per cent, &C
cord to University of Pennsylvania.
Wabash Railway Company in
October earned net operating in
come of SAG, 460. against $310,980
deficit in October, 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
CHARLES G. CARR
CLAIMED BY DEATH

and Washington American League
clubs.
Afterward, he formed the partner
ship of Bradley & Carr, sporting
goods dealers, at Cleveland, O., and
later established the c. G. Carr
Sporting Goods Company here. His
factory is at 1919 Cornell avenue.
He was oorn in Gainesville, Pa,
and was graduated from Lehigh
university
Surviving are the three daughters,
Miss Lally Mary Carr, Miss Eliza
beth Carr and Miss Mary Jane
Carr.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
HoW the Market
Opened
BY ELMER C. Waller
united Press Financial Editor

United Press Financial Editor
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-The firm
er tone in evidence near the close on
the Stock Exchange Friday carried
over into today's trading and open
ing prices were fractionally higher.
Steel common led the recovery. It
opened at 1875. up % and then i'm
proved on that price. Railroad
shares met buying from shorts who
feared sharp rise, in car loadings.
Consolidated Gas spurted X to 57a4
to head the utilities.
American Telephone rose nearly
point to 1855 at the outset, while
Western Union eased fraction to
28Ss. Telephone continued to rise
in the early trading.
Atchison rose to Al, up IL, in the
railroads where smaller gains were
noted in Southern Pacific, New
York Central, and Pennsylvania.
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therefore" the note goes on "is that
for any suggested study of inter-
governmental financial obligations
as now existing, some such agency
as 1 have referred to should be
created to consider this question in
dividually with each government as
heretofore.
The President is prepared to rec
ommend to congress that it consti-
tute an agency to examine the
whole subject
Thus, despite the incoming Presi-
dents categorically stated objec-
ton to such procedure, the outgo-
ing President persists in going
ahead with his own program.
AS congress alone has the power
to change the war debts situation
an iota, President Hoover intends
to ask congress to act accordingly.
Calmly ignoring the views of his
successor, Hoover, in effect, invites
the debtor nations to file their
briefs with this government, plainly
stating their reasons for asking re-
vision.
Meanwhile, the Stimson notes,
sympathetic, but firm, strongly sug-
gest the December installments
should be met.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
DROPS Jury
QUIZ IN RAID
T|POFF WAR
Wilson Criticises Sheaffer,
but Says Probe Will
Not Be Made.
TERRORISM, IS CHARGED
Judge Goes Through Stormy
Sessions With Goett
and Ettinqer.
Although criticising Municipal

Although criticiSing Municipal
Judge William H. Sheaffer'S man
ner of conducting an investigation
in the alleged "tipoff'' of the raid
Monday night of the Showboat
night club, Prosecutor Herbert E.
Wilson today had dropped his pro-
posed grand jury investigation of
the case.
Admitting he does mot want to
step into the probe when the judge
is handling it," Wilson referred to
Sheaffer's alleged third degree
method in questioning witnesses by
asserting the Judge would be on the
safer side if he questioned them in
open court"
Charges of Sheaffer's alleged i'm
proper method of questioning per-
sons suspected of the "tipoff" grew
out of stormy conferences Friday
with Henry o. Goett, city clerk, and
Charles Ettinger, chief deputy coun-
ty clerk
Secret Quiz Reported
Wilson, in Lebanon for trial of
a murder case, stated his decision
to drop the investigation was made
after he returned to the city Friday
night following the police station
caucus.
"Sheaffer has right to ask ques-
tons of any one, but he would be
on the safer side, l believe, if he
called the witnesses to his bench
and questioned thine in open court"
he declared.
Sheaffer was reported as having
secretly questioned woman en-
ploye of County Clerk Glenn
Ralston.
GOett Demands Explanation
The woman. a widow and mother
of three children, visited Goett in
the latter's Office the day following
the raid. The woman charged she
had been accused of the "tipof, "
according to Goett.
In the caucus Friday, Goett de-
manded of Sheaffer an explanation
of Sheaffer's alleged differences
that he, Goett, knew of circun-
stances of the tipoff.
Sheaffer denied the assertion.
Il said nothing of the kind to
the woman or to anybody else," the
Judge asserted, Goett said.
'Overstepping His Bounds
While the caucus was in progress,
Ettinger appeared at the judges
Office, kicking on the door until he
was admitted.
Ettinger also criticised Sheaffer
for his method of questioning the
woman, he said.
"I told the Judge that he was
overstepping his bounds and that
he had no right to subject employees
of the clerks office to the third de-
gree" Ettinger said.
Charge Devices Dismantled
Ettinger's chief source of annoy
ance seemed to be the fact that he
was not asked to attend the meet
ing" Sheaffer said.
The Showboat, popular dine and
dance resort, was raided Tuesday
night and Frank Cantwen, oper-
ator, and Claude Williams, were
arrested.
officers charged the elaborate
gaming equipment was dismantled
before they arrived.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26

Charles c. Carr, SO, Indianapolis
sporting goods store founder and
former manager of the Indianapolis
baseball club, died early today in a
Memphis (Tenn) hospital of heart
disease, according to word received
here. Mr.. Carr was on business
trip.
Word of the death was received by
the three daughters residing at the
home, 4055 Broadway. Mrs. Carr
died about three months ago.
Widely known in baseball circles,
Mr.. Carr won the American ASsocia-
ton pennant for indianapolis in
1908 after rising in sport circles as
first base player for the Cleveland
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The three notes, almost
identical, declined to grant
further postponement of pay
ments, as the Presidents war
debts statement of last
Wednesday foreshadowed.
But some hope of ultimate review
or revision was just as distintly held
out to the debtor nations and a
specific procedure was suggested.
Not only is there reserved to the
congress of the United States the
ultimate decision in respect to the
funding, refunding, or amendment
of these inter governmental obliga-
tions under consideration" the note
to Great Britain observed, but the
congress in the past itself has pro-
vided the machinery in the shape of
the World war foreign debt COM
mission for investigation of the
facts and for making recommended
tons upon which such action might
be taken.
The executive might recommend,
but the facts and evidence were sub
mitted to and the decision made by
the congress, acting through this
machinery"
Tine attitude of the President,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
French Deputies Fight Payment
of Any Part of Debt to u. S.

Meanwhile, it was learned from
Marseilles that orders were given
to rush overland to England Ship
ments of Indian gold amounting to
S7,500,000, now en- route to the Brit
ish capital
The gold will be taken off steam
ers when it reaches Marseilles from
India, shipped across France by rail
or motor, and transported across
the English channel by fast boat.
British officials we're understood
to have ordered speeding up of the
shipment to support the pound
sterling against the December debt
payment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
WAIT HUNGER MARCHERS
Unemployed Called to Mass Meet
ing to Greet Group Sunday.

indianapolis unemployed today
were summoned by the local unit
of the Workers International Relief
TO attend a mass meeting Sunday
at Tomlinson hall and greet mem-
bers of the hunger march" which
is converging on Washington.
The marcherS will be met at
Eagle creek bridge by delegation
of indianapolis workers and con-
Quoted to the hall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
SEARCH FOR lNCENDIARY
Threat to Set Fire to Negroes Home
Is Carried Out.

Search for an incendiary who
Friday night carried out threat
to set fire to the home of William
Cotton, Negro, GIT West Eleventh
street, is being conducted today by
police and fire officials.
The fire, originating from an
ignited pile of rubbish on the out
side of the home, was extingulshed
with small damage.
After appearing as witness in
a juvenile court case, Cotton re-
ceived several notes from the van
day ordering him out of the neigh
borhood, ne told police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
BOY IS KILLED
IN Dirt SLIDE
Youth, Is, Smothered in
Strip Mine MiShap.

By United Press
SPENCER, Ind, Nov. 26.-Harold
Fiscus, Is, was smothered to death
late Friday when he was caught
in a dirt slide at the John Kiser
strip mine. -Four years ago his
brother was killed in similar
manner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
Won PAPEN MAY BE
RETURNED TO POWER
Won Hindenburg Holds Conference
With Ex-CnancelIor.

By United Press
BERLIN, Nov. 26.-Ex- Chancellor
Franz Won Papen was called into
conference today with President
Paul Won Hindenburg, indicating
that Won Papen might be asked to
succeed himself as head Of the cab
met.
Only the presidents closest adj
visers we're at the conference; Gen.
Kurt Won Schleicher, minister of de-
Tense; Otto Meissner, Won Hinden-
burg's confidential secretary; Col.
Oscar van Hindenburg, the presi-
dents son and personal adjutant.
TIE hope that the new cabinet
might obtain a truce among warning
political factions was not abandoned
in government quarters. 1t was re-
ported thata neutral leader might
undertake the necessary peace over
lures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
In the Air

Weather condition at a. m:
North northeast wind, II miles an
hour; temperature, 81; barometric
pressure. 1880 at sea level: ceiling.
scattered clouds, unlimited; visible
ity. IL miles; field good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
WAGE CUT is VOTED
Chicago Milk Drivers to Take Less
Pay, Permit Lower Prices.

Pay, Permit Lower Prices.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-The prospect
of milk prices dropping from IL 70
9 cents a quart in Chicago doomed
today after members of the milk
wagon drivers union voted to &C
cept a reduction in pay.
A public accountant hired by the
union to count the ballots, an
nounced the union had voted 2,7bS
to 2,153 to accept pay reduction
from S45 to $40 a week.
1t had been understood that if
the drivers accepted the reduction,
dealers would reduce the price TO
consumers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
Replies to France, Britain and Belgium
Indicate Course That Will Be
Followed by President
HOPE is HELD OUT TO DEBTORS
Further Postponement of Payments Is
Refused, in Firm but Sympathetic
Notes Sent by Stimson.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-President Hoover plans to
ask congress toset World foreign debt commission
PresdentEect Roosevelts veto of the project notwh
standing
This made abundanty plain in Secretary of State
Henry L. Stmsons reply to the British French and Belgian
asking reconsideration of the debts made public
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
Foreign Exchange

(By Abbott. Hoppin & Co..
Nov. 20
Evening star., 1932-09-30
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. September
| 3o-Jccea Fomeroy Massachusetts, no
torious life prisoner, who spent all of
his wears since the age of IA behind
prison bars died at the State farm
here last night at the age of 10
! years.
/ Robert G. Sherman, superintendent
of the State farm. announced the death
this morning and said that heart dis
ease was the cause.
Pomeroy was transferred here from
| the State prison in Charlestown, four
years ago. because of declining health
He strongly opposed his transfer to the
more liberal atmosphere of the State
farm because. he said, he did not want
to leave his friends at the prison which
had always been his home.
Saved From GaIlows.
Saved from the gallows because of his
youth, Pomeroy lived to spend more
than 56 years in prison, more than 40
of it in solitary confinement during
which he saw only his guards.
Starting his sentence September l.
1876, it was not until 1917 that he was
permitted to eat in the company of
other prisoners or to attend religious
services and entertainments in the State
prison at Charlestown, Mass.
Penal authorities said that 1t would
be difficult to find a parallel for the
time he spent in "solitnry." Some be-
lieved that he was thus imprisoned
longer than any other man in American
criminal history.
This circumstance overshadowed the
atrocities conceived by the perverted
mind of his boyhood. He was Cnly IA
years old when he was convicted of
numbering a 4-year-old boy and SEN
fenced to be hanged.
But William CASTOR then Governor
of Massachusetts,, was opposed to capital
punishment and refused to sign war
rant for the execution. His successor,
Gov. Alexander H. Rice, commuted the
sentence to life imprisonment at hard
labor.
The hard labor part of the punish
ment did not, however. work out. The
keepers found that Pomeroy managed
to fashion tools for escape from almost
anything upon which he could lay his
hands. He was given only food and
books, but even then managed to con-
trive tools
Saws made from scraps of steel, from
the leg of a cot and from cans; drills
fashioned from screws and pieces OF
scrap metal. files and knives were
products of his ingenuity. With these
he made at least II attempts to escape.
Frustrated by Cat.
His last serious attempt was in 1912,
when he sawed three bars from his
cell, fitted dummies in their places to
cover his activities and, when ready for
the dash. slipped through the hole and
was creeping along the corridor toward
an unsuspecting guard when he aroused
a sleeping cat. The startled feline
yeowled and jumped at him. The guard
found him armed with a dagger and
equipped with a file and three saws.
Pomeroy made frequent efforts to OBJ
tain pardon petitioning Governor after
Governor for executive clemency. But
the only glimpse he had Of the outside
world was in 1929, when he was Whisked
in closed automobile from Charles
town to the State Farm.
On that trip he marveled when he
saw an elevated train. steam shovel
and steam roller; asked. bewilderedly,
whsre the hor-es had gone from the
Evening star., 1932-09-30
SECOND CHEST EVENT
ON RADIO LAST NIGHT
Newbold Noyes Introduces Mrs.
Flora McGill Keefer,
Contralto.

Mrs Flora McGill Keefer popular
contralto. last night inaugurated the
second annual Community Chest pro-
gram. Album of Artists" which is to
be broadcast each Thursday at 7:a5
pm. over Radio Station WMAL. Mrs.
Keefer, who vas introduced by Newbcld
Noyes, Community Chest campaign
chairman. sang group Of requested
tine numbers.
In brief talk before introducing
Mrs. Keefer. Mr. Noyes called attention
to the approaching period which. he
said, would be the mcst critical in the
history of welfare endeavor in the
country.
Calling attention to the fact almost
every one has experienced adversely in
one form or another, Mr.. Noyes eX-
pressed the opinion "adversity makes
one infinitely more sensitive and re-
sponsive to the heavier burdens of
others. He said he believed the Cap
ital and the country would be found
ready to take care of the sick, hun
CRY and homeless during the coming
Winter.
c. c. Cappel manager CT the Wash
ington Symphony Orchestra, was master
Of ceremonies.