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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06

girls passed, one was very fat. Two
men in overcoats, well-dressed,
stopped beside our fire.
Can we use your fire for hot
water? We want to shave" go
ahead" said Buell., we're leaving"
We separated. The couple had
carfare into Los Angeles. I hitched
rides into the heart of the CITY, I
settled down on a bench in PERISH
ing Square, trying to orient my
self geographically and mentally.
I watched groups of men, all
apparently homeless, argue about
religion. I saw people streaming
by on late afternoon shopping
tours and my old dependency
grew within me.
Suddenly I sat erect on the
bench. I did not want to believe
what my body told me.
was lousy.
I felt the vermin crawling on
my body, under my clean clothes.
I hurried away. Old men and
women on the benches eyed me
curiously.
could have yelled my discov-
cry to passersby-
Lousy, lousy o God, I'm
lousy"
I remembered what 1 had been
told on the road. when you hit
L. A, make the Midnight Mission.
They give you a bed and clean
your clothes" made for it.
4 S I walked through the door
IA I saw a large group of men
listening to man on the plat
form. God cleanses,' I heard
him say.
A White-haired man rested soft
fingers on a swollen stomach. I'm
sorry" he said, II can't put you
up, the main Office is closed for
the day"
protested and pleaded. He
shook his head. IT can't do any,
thing" he grunted, looking out
the window to dismiss me.
tried the Union Mission, few
doors away on Main street. I
waited in front of it for half an
hour before an old man, with a
thin-lipped mouth, opened the
lock.
I asked him if I could get bed.
BE here for services at ~
could I come little later?"
"You have to be here at 7 if
you want bed"
do you mean that services are
compulsory before receive
charity?"
We'll, we have a lot of fellows
to bed, and if you're late you might
not get a bed"
Il can't come an hour later?"
BE here when services start.
He closed the door behind him.
I'll sleep in the gutter first" I
thought as walked away.
For two hours 1 stood on cor
ners and walked up and down
Main street, from Sixth street to
the Plaza, where Mexicans sat in
the small park
BurleSque houses, with ballyhoo
men yelling limited obscenities.
Restaurants shrieked through
paper signs that meals were 10
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
MANCHURIAN
ISSUE Up AS
LEAGUE Meets
Japanese Blame Chinese
Propaganda for Bad
Situation.
ARMS PLANS HEARD
Special Assembly Is Begun
at Geneva; Far East
Big Problem.
BY HARRY FLORY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

GENEVA, Dec. 6.-Chinese propa-
ganda and the attitude of the league
of nations were held chiefly re-
sponsible for the difficult far east
ern situation today by Japanese
delegates Yusokes Matsuoka when
the special league assembly began
consideration of the Manchurian
question.
Before the assembly convened, the
five powers seeking to bring Ger
many back to the disarmament
conference heard an American pro-
posal that the German demand for
arms equality and the French plea
for security be postponed for three
years, during which time a per-
manent disarmament commission
would study the problems. Berlin
dispatches said this plan was not
acceptable to Germany.
Norman H. Davis also suggested
on behalf of the United States that
! preliminary treaty gonig as Iar
as possible toward disarmament be
signed Immediately.
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ter. Since then we've been to
Seattle and never have missed
meal We got SO much clothes
that we've given a lot away.
"THE train crews are swell, Red,
Il Why, last night at Oakland
there was a whole mob of hoboes
and the bull was tryin' to keep
them off the train. The conduc-
tor sees the wife and me and says:
Come with mel" He put us in
the box car and closed the door.
Before he did, he slipped Rhoda
SO cents and apologized for not
having any more
I asked them if they had seen
many other women on the road.
Yeah, we saw a coupla of fam
lilies with kids and everything. But
the worst one we saw was an old
guy and his wife; he looked like
banker and she had white hair
and a white face. They were in
the same gondola we were in.
They stood up because the floor
was dirty. They didn't mix with
the rest of us, but stood, up staring
at the scenery. You could see
they had been somebody"
"She was SO nice looking"
added Rhoda, "it was sad"
For a day we rode through Cali
fornia's scenery. At $50 next
morning a circle of light spread
over our bodies.
Get out, all of you," an officer
ordered.
jumped to the ground. Buell.
and Rhoda followed. Buell. ex-
planned he was visiting an uncle
in Long Beach.
was on the way to see my step
daughter in Glendale, 1 said. My
clothes impressed the officer. Two
sleepy-eyed kids followed us out.
Where you going?" the bull
asked one of them.
New York." he mumbled,
that's my home"
"And you?"
Buffalo"
why didn't you take the North
ern route?" the little bull snapped.
TOO cold"
"Too cold, huh, too cold? So
you wanted to bum around in our
climate? Come on with me; I
think I'll put both of you On the
rock pile"
DUEL, Rhoda and I walked in
ID the opposite direction. A
switchman told us we were in
Burbank, a suburb of Los Angeles.
He directed us to a jungle.
While Rhoda boiled coffee, Buell.
and I called on three stores,
quarter of a mile from the jungle,
and "nickled up" In each we Of
fered f1ve-cent piece as our only
cash and asked for food. We came
back With six eggs, four pounds
of potatoes, and loaf of bread.
We prepared to leave the jungleS
at 10 in the morning. For hours
we sat around drinking coffee,
shaving, washing up. Rhoda
changed to a green flannel overall
outfit.
A young man and girl in pants
a cap pulled over her ears, walked
by us. Fifteen minutes later two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06

and Is cents. Girls in cheap,
bright garments walked by. Wo-
men BARRIERS lounged in doorways,
eyes appraising passersby. Pitch
men in stores extolled monkey ex-
tract that revitalized men.
1 slept in a park beside the
Southern Pacific tracks far north
on the street.
VXTHEN I awoke the sun was
w high. I brushed my clothes
and walked toward the tracks. 1
had not gone far when I saw
seven or eight men under a via
duct that ran over the tracks.
A fat fellow with black curls
escaping from a gray cap sat on a
bindle drinking coffee from a large
battered can.
I took the battered coffee can
he offered me.
When you drink this, Blonde,
I'd duck away from here" he said.
THE bulls come around here about
this time to pick up buns"
He had hardly spoken when two
tall men in dark suits walked
from behind a concrete pillar end
said: Hello, boys"
Its the law" whispered one.
We were piled into a touring
car and whirled to the Hall of
Justice. When I was asked my
name, address, age, I gave it, me-
chanically. My pockets we're
emptied and 1 was sent to a
tank"
looked around the large tank.
Men were sprawled on three
decked beds; the springs were sin
gle pieces of tin. 1 selected a bot
tom bunk and stretched out, using
my overcoat for a pillow.
The Negroes kept to one corner.
A blunt-headed Russian made
speech denouncing the police.
A T 5 o'clock the door was
IA opened and we crowded into
the corridor on our way to the
dining room. North Carolina,
tall mountain boy, headed home
after six years on the coast, was
right behind me. We had enjoyed
talking to each other.
Bowls of stew and kidney beans
were piled on the table Bread
and tin cups of coffee added to
the meal. I was the busiest man
at the table.
The food was extremely good. 1
ate three plates of stew and three
plates Of beans.
At 8 o'clock our names were
called. After waiting an hour in
small room was brought out be-
fore the judge, a youngish man.
How do you plead?"
Guilty" 1 said, following advice
had been given earlier n the
day.
Thirty days, % suspended"
asked to be let free that night
so I could leave town. The judge
nodded his head and turned to the
clerk. Make that an S. S."
Late that night on the edge of
the Southern Pacific Railroad
yards 1 lay on newspapers waiting
for a freight bound east.
Next: The end of the road.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Girls Head Program

Fife Williams and Mary Barber,
playing a piano duet on two pianos,
will head the program Of the Lei
sure Hour club at Crispus Attacks
high school Friday.
And remember that sizzling song,
'M-o-o-d I-n-d-i-g-o?" The Mood
Indigo trio will be there.
Other numbers will be Mrs. Ruth
Nichols, dramatic reader; Dolly
Price and Doris Smith, dancers,
and the Graystone orchestra. Frank
Brown will lead community singing.
Ritter held an organization meet
ing today at American Settlement.
Second organization meeting will
be held at 7:30 tonight in Grace NJ.
E. church, 405 North Grant avenue.
Ritter will discuss the Leisure
Hour movement before the Speed
way Civic League Wednesday night
in Speedway school.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Girls Vie With Boys in
Times Airplane Contest

"Air Mail" made by Universal and
directed by John Ford, is a romantic
and adventurous tale of mail pilots
who risk their lives daily in line of
duty.
Several days remain before the
contest closes, but contestants should
get their planes in right away. They
should be left at the Apollo theater
with the makers name on tag tied
securely to the model, and the ma
ker'S address, as well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Radio Stars Booked

Walter Cook and Lloyd Scott,
Jack and Walt to you, will show
those present at the Garfield Park
Community house Wednesday night
what rubes really are. The two
WKBF comedy artists will stage
their country act.
Also on the program will be Rus
sell Berg, staff artists of The Times,
who will give chalf talk; and Clar-
ence Harding, schoolboy guitar
player.
j. F. Kaylor will explain an edu-
cational movie furnished by the
state department of conservation,
and pupils of Olive Killer will play
a number of violin solos. George
Whiteman will lead community
songs, accompanied by Mrs. ]. D.
Barnett.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Play to Be Given

Students of dramatic art at the
Arthur Jordan conservatory will
give a play Friday at School "a, at
1410 Wade street. Billie Lemen will
be master of ceremonies.
In the cast will be Betty Marie
Starr, Winifred Mutschler, Noble
Pearcy, Florence Evans, jeanne
Matix, Ruth Clore, Avery Hudson,
Margaret Ellen Wilson, Margery
Rose, Bobby La Porte, Marion Ros-
enzweig, jeanne Mikels, Bryant Gill
lespie, Jimmie Meenan, Jeanelle
Ray, Julia Esther Evans and Myrna
10 Gavin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Discuss Spelling Bee

Members of the committee in
charge of the city-wide spelling bee
to be held under auspices of the
Leisure Hour clubs met today with
Miss Flora E. Drake, chairman, to
decide on rules and name judges.
Preliminaries in the mammoth
cnotest will open the week of Dec.
II Finals will be held in January.
With twenty meetings being held
this week, a>record number, Dwight
Ritter, director of the Leisure Hour
clubs, Gil Majestic building, pre-
dicted today that attendance for
the week would reach $500, which
also will be new high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
GymnaStS to Perform

The upside-down angle of life
will be given spectators at the
Christian park Leisure Hour club
Friday in the Christian park COM
munity house, when tumblers from
the North American Gymnastic
union stage an act.
In addition, Billy Steinmetz will
prove that the hand is quicker than
the eye in a magic performance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Bank Loot
Is S825; Pair Hunted

Mrs. Thurston was so frightened
by her experience that she was near
collapse and could offer little de-
scription of the bandits. She was
alone in, the bank when it was
robbed.
Her husband was in a nearby gro
Gerry store.
The bandits we're traced a mile
north Of town, where they aban-
doned an automobile they had
stolen from Mrs. Gladys Watts,
Knightstown, and took another car
owned by Earl Nugent, farmer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
LEISURE HOUR
CLUB TO HEAR
ONE-ACT PLAYS
Program Is Scheduled at
School IL by Little
Theater Cast.
PLAN SPELLING BEES
PreIiminarieS in City-Wide
Contest Will Start
Dec. IL.

Tonight
PrOspeet-Sherman Drive Club, Sher-
man drive and Earhart street.
DEC.
Brookside Park Community house.
Garfield Park Community house.
Rhodius Park Community house.
J. T. V. Hill Community center.
DEC. 9
School 10 at 5ss South West street.
School - at 1900 South Illinois street.
School 80, Kelly and Boyd streets.
School s6, Sixteenth street and Mar
tindale.
Crispus Attacks high school.
School is at 1902 West Market street.
Ben Dayis.
Fl. Wayne and Walnut Club. GYM
nasium of Central Christian church.
Fletcher Place Community center.
Fletcher and Virginia avenue.
Oak Hill, Compton's hall, s2O1 Winter
avenue.
Hawthorne Social service house, s44O
West Ohio street.
Margaret Christian Park Community
house.
THE Man Without Head" rem
iniScent of washington Irving's
Headless Horseman, will be one of
three one-act plays to be given at
the Leisure Hour Club at School II,
West and McCarty streets, by the
Broadway Little Theater players of
the Broadway M. E. church Friday.
Other short dramas will be
Apartments to Let" and "A Famous
Name"
Members of the casts will be r.
l.. Oberreich, Harry Thomas, jas
sic Keller, George E. Hoagland Jr.,
Martha Davis, Mary Frances Hoag-
land, Marjorie Brownlee, John
ThurSton and Harold WEIGH.
Mrs. H. H. Wright will lead COM
munity singing, with Miss Ethel
Bryan at the piano.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
SEEK FARLEY FOR CITY
National Music Teachers TO Be
Asked to Convene Here.

National Music Teachers AsSocia-
ton 1888 convention will be sought
for Indianapolis, it was decided at
a meeting held at the SEVERN Mon
DAY by group of leaders in must
cal activities.
The 1881 convention will be held
Dec. "a te 80 at Washington. At
tending the meeting Monday were
Professor f. B. Birge. Indiana uni
VerSity, Max Krcne Arthur Jordan con-
Servatory. Ferdinand Schaefer. Indianapo-
Us symphony orchestra director Ralph
W. Wright. city schools music director;
Joseph J. GRIPPE Indianapolis convention
bureau assistant manager and Harry H
Schmidt Of the bureau stan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
SEAL BOOTH is OPENED
Miss Dorothy White in Charge of
Stand at L. S. Ayres.

First of numerous booths to be
used in sale of Christmas seals
which provide money for combat
ting tuberculosis is open on the
street floor of L. S. Ayres & Co. and
others will be started soon in addi-
tional downtown stores, building
lobbieS, hotels, theaters and clubs.
Miss Dorothy White, Is North
Audubon road, is in charge of the
booth in the Ayres store. She is
being assisted by:
Mrs. Alexander Johnson, Mrs Laura
Magenheimer, Mrs M. j. Mulvehill, Mrs
Mrs. Charles H. Smith, Mrs. Frank Wilson
and Mrs. Frank E. Gaines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
ByUnitcd Press

BIZ United Press
GWYNNEVILLE, Ind, Dec. g.
A former convict was hunted today
as one of two men who stole s825
from the Gwynneyille bank after
holding up Mrs. w. P. Thurston,
wife of the cashier.
Shelby county officials would not
reveal the name of the suspect, but
said they were positive they knew
his identity as well as that Of the
second bandit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
G. O. P. CLUB ELECTS
Edward j. Hecker Sr. Named Presi-
dent Of IrvingtOn Group.

The Irvington Republican Club
named Edward ]. Hecker ST.. presi-
dent at the annual election of Of
hcers Monday night.
Alfred Hogston, state fire mar
shall, was elected vice president;
Arthur F. Eickhoff, second vice
president; Stanton Phillips, secre-
tary, and Merrill Woods, treasurer.
The officers viii be installed Jan. 3.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Service Veterans 10 Meet

ANDERSON. Ind. Dec. 6.-Father
Charles coughlin Of Royal Oaks,
Mich, viii be one of the speakers
here Thursday at the opening Of
the national convention of the
United Service Veterans of Amer
lea. w. o. Jones, Muncie, is ma
tional commander.
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nv TERRY pONOGHITE

BY TERRY PONOGHUE
Copyright. 1882. by the New York World
Telegram Corporation)
EVEN as staggered along
u market street in San Fran
cisco, in fresh, clean clothes, my
confidence began to wane. After
all, I had been assured there were
no more jobs for we'll dressed men
than there were for buns.
The glamour of Los Angeles, the
gilded, long had been with me. So
it was no sudden resolve that led
me again to the south bound
railroad tracks. I kept reassuring
myself that my best chances
would be found while my clothes
still held their nap, yet as I
crawled into a pile of straw in the
interior of box car I felt more
and more the need of this reas-
Surance.
The sunlight awoke me in the
morning.
Beside me, mite of man,
wispy mustache on a childlike
yellow face, crawled into life from
beneath a ragged green quilt. In
the bar of sun I could see he was
blind.
What is it, dad?" I asked.
MY bundle" he Squeaked, his
hands threshing the papers about.
1t was right in front of him. I
put it in his hands. He opened it
and took out dry butt of rye
bread. His teeth worried into it.
-Four men still were curled up
under blankets. One very young
boy was buried beneath a pile of
paper. Only his feet were visible.
An old bindle stiff opened up
his bag and took out bread and
salami. He ate in silence. Three
men, sitting together, began talk
ing loudly.
"Weil jungle up in San Luis
Obispo," the smallest said, land
maybe We can rustic up another
bottle" Another replied:
THAT drunk yesterday cost me
three bucks. I've got only $3.50
left, so we better buy some food
first.
What the hell" one of them
said, We'll bum the chuck"
IN the center of the box car on
Il a mattress Of waste paper, two
forms were outlined beneath a
gray blanket and a blue quilt.
Piled up near the two heads we're
two handbags and paper shop
ping bag, out of which projected
the handle of an aluminium pot.
Gradually two thin arms found
their way out of the blankets and
stretched out into a V and stopped.
The left hand closed into a small
fist and struck the head of the
other sleeper.
Buell." said petulant girls
voice, wake up!"
She sat up. Tousled black hair
was brushed back from long, mar
row black eyes. A straight, Slight
ly longish nose wrinkled as she
yawned She was about 25. Her
pajamaS we're overalls.
Buell. sat up. He was about my
own age and a little too hand
some.
The girl reached into the shop
ping bag and extracted a paper
bundle. From that she took two
sandwiches.
She hardly had bitten into Lers
when Buell. remarked that her
face needed washing. The girls
eyes clouded and she threw the
sandwich against the wall.
The day passed pleasantly, Buell.
and his wife made up. I asked
them how they got by on the road.
The girl proudly told how good
Buell. was at ''nickeling up" in
stores.
I'VE left Oklahoma five months
ago, and left our boy with my sis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06
Scouts to PLAY

The Boy Scout band, directed by
F. o. Belzer, Scout executive, will
give program for the Leisure Hour
club in Brookside community house
Wednesday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-06

Terry Donoghue. educated New YORK.
er. started West in search Of work
without funds. he found himself drawn
into the human iungles of America In
this one of a series Of articles. he tells
OF his impressions Of drifting with an
army Of unemployed.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
PROHIBITION Is
Big TROUBLE OF
BOTH PARTIES
[Continned from FirM Paael

CONTINUED from FirH PAge1
ancy. In the West Virginia primary
he overwhelmed alfalfa Bill" Muir
ray ten to one.
At the same time, two favOrite sons
were receiving the formal pledges of
their home states, and the whole
paddock of dark horses was paraded
again before the eyes of the voters.
In gathering in Ohio, Governor
George White has a delegation whose
ultimate destination no one knows.
Maryland's instructions for Cover
nor Albert G. Ritchie were cOincident
with revived activity for him as sec
Ond choice in many states. There
was a great stir meantime among the
friends of Owen d. Young, Newton
ID. Baker, Harry f. Byrd, and Mel
win A. Traylor, and a split developed
in Illinois, forecasting division of
votes between Roosevelt and TraylOr
on the breakup.
? In actual figures Roosevelt re-
3mains so far ahead that no one else
is in the same class. OF instructed,
pledged and claimed delegates chosen
to date, he has 800; James Hamil-
ton Lewes 5S; White So; Alfred E.
Smith 46; John N. Garner "A; James
A. Reed SO; Murray %; Ritchie 1G.
. On the Republican side, President
Hoover continues to pile up delegate
long after he has passed the
number needed to nominate, but life
as a candidate ia not all roses for
him, at that. The pressure on him
to approve this or that prohibition
plank grows more and more insistent
as the convention date approaches.
Within the week Republican modi-
ficationist3 have swept Ohio's pri-
mary for Senator and Governor; the
American minister to Sweden, John
Morehead, has appeared with State
Department approval before COM
mittee of Congress to advocate the
Swedish system of liquor control,
and a somewhat similar scheme has
been given public approval by Sena-
tor David Reed, of Pennsylvania, a
staIwart of the stalwarts.
There is no indication Mr.. Hoover
is doing anything directly about
this, but some very important party
leaders are working hard at it. At
least some of them have chosen to
make the first approach through the
drys rather than the modification
lists; to see how far the dry Organi-
cations will go, and try. to draft a
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
EFWORTH LEAGUE NEWS

Senior Epworth League Z o'clock.
Leader, Miss Elizabeth Hammond.
These programs mean extra work
for the leader. Your part will be a
hearty response. The Epworth
League benefit begins May 80 and
ends June 4. Pictures and stars are
May 80, Ladies of the Big House"
Sylvia Sidney and Wynne Gibson;
May 81, mo One Man." Carole LOm-
bard, Richardo COrtez and Paul Lu-
cas-; June l and 2. shanghai EX-
press" Marelene Dietrich; June 3
and 4, "Shop Worm" Barbara Stan
wyck. Give Brook and Zasu Pitts.
Regular admission.
The intermediate Epworth League
wishes to thank the Milford ChrOn-
icle Publishing Company, a gener-
Gus public and all who assisted with
1.-The Corner Store" We received
valuable assistance from Miss Kath-
crime Hickman and Clarence Welch.
This Sunday night Charles Hagaman
will lead us in the study of 1.-THE
Old Testament" The orchestra will
meet for the first time this Friday
night at 1880 o'clock. League room.
All instruments of members and
friends are welcome. Remember,
success depends on your loyalty,