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ployed heads of families which he
and Representative F. H. La
Guardia (Rep., N. ", introduced
toward the close of the last session.
This proposal was drawn and in
dorSed by representatives of rail-
way labor unions.
Regarding the achievement of the
purposes of the new DEAL" Cost
gan said today:
To move successfully in that di-
rection, further and wiser legislation
safeguarding the hungry against the
extremitieS of our fourth winter of
panic should be enacted; work for
the unemployed, which infinitely is
better than anything except imme-
dately necessary and, should be pro-
vided; farm and industrial prices
should be lifted to juSter levels by
increasing our markets at home and
abroad, and purchasing power
should be assisted through credit
extended to consumers, where pur-
chasing power resides, but where
credit is usually accidental and
often wholly neglected
The paramount problems before
congress, in his opinion, are those
which faced the last session, in
tensif1ed by the failure of the Hoo
yer administration to deal adequate
ly with the emergencv.
They are issues with which econo-
mistS are most familiar, transferred
regretably late to the field of gov
eminent, he said.
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Mother Sees Victory Near
in Battle to Regain
Her Boys.

Grasping partial victory in her
fight to win custody of her two sons
Mrs. Maxine Clampitt, 901 North
New Jersey street, today locked for
ward to her second appearance in
court next Saturday in the hope OF
having her sons with her again.
superior Judge Joseph r. Will
liams, after an all-day hearing Sat-
urday, continued the custody case
for week, but ruled that officials
of the board of Children's Guard
ian home must permit Mrs. Clam
pitt to see her children in the in
term.
The boys are Max, 8, and Rex, IL
who have been in the home since
February. Mrs. Clampitt charged
that the boys were taken from her
care as they left classroomS of school
2 ten months ago.
Since then, the mother said, she
has not been permitted to see her
boys and that no court hearing was
held when the boys were taken to
the institution.
Declaring they wished Ito GO
home with mother" the two lads
nibbled at candy which their mother
gave them as the hearing was held
Saturday.
Mrs. Clampitt. whom authorities
charge "disturbs' the boys. was de-
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tensively. PossesSorS of machine
guns are known and it is becoming
increasingly difficult to obtain new
ones.
While there still are one-way
rides and gangster still are shot
down ION the spot" the killings
usually are outgrowths of strife be-
tween minor gangsters battling over
what little revenue is left in the
beer and alcohol traffic, vice and
gambling.
n
"NTUSCLING IN on labor union
1V1. funds promised to be a rich
paying variant, but police, the
secret Six" and other agencies
have fought the labor racketeers
successfully.
A recent raid on an extensively
furnished Office suite on North
Lasalle street, in the heart of the
financial district, resulted in the
arrests of ten gang leaders, includ-
ing stalwart young Murray Hum
shries, nominal successor to Capone
as front men" for the syndicate.
A survey of the gang hierarchy
follows:
Al Capone. serving. ten years in
Atlanta federal penitf hillary.
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PINCHOT TO ASK
BAN FOR DAVIS
Denial of Seat Because of
Lottery Suit to Be Urged.

By CHtted Press
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. %. -
Governor Pinchot will give Senator
James j. Davis a clear certificate
Of election, but will send memo
randum to Washington urging the
senate to deny him a seat because
of his alleged implication in the So
called Moose lottery, the United
Press learned on high authority
today.
Instead of certificate of doubt,
as was issued in the case of Will
liam S. Ware, the Governor intends
to give Davis credentials which will
admit his valid election.
That letter will accompany the
certificate is certain, friends of the
Governor said. They pointed out
that Pinchot repeatedly has stated
that Davis never will be allowed
to take his seat for the full term"
and said this indicated the Cover
nor intended to follow through his
program.
In some quarters it was said that
Pinchot, said to be planning TO run
for the senate in 1884 against SEN
ator David Reed, would seek the
seat of Davis for the 1883 year
term at a special election.
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for instance, the soubrette would
MARBLE You're Not the Only Peb-
bic on the Beach" to offset the ex-
cess tragedy.
An attractive soubrette could do
a lot to get the men to east
Lynne" which was pre- eminently
a ladies play.
Between the second and third
tire low comedian and dancer
would clog, terminating with a
jump over two barrels, and be-
tween the third and fourth act
Mr.. Maher himself would kid with
the audience, singing parodies
and setting forth the other attrac-
tons planned for the week.
II would say, for instance:
Ladies and gentlemen, our COM
pany will offer at tomorrow's mat
1nee, Saved From the Sea-" the
melodrama made popular by Lin
coin ]. Carter of Chicago, who has
just let loose of it.
The prices will be 10, 20 and 80
cents, children $1.2O a dozen. Sat-
urday matinee, "Thorns and Or
ange Blossoms all red-headed
ladies without escorts will be adj
mitted free"
A company would play eleven
different shows in each town,
since the same audience came
back every time, in whole or in
small part, so the rep actor had
to be good study.
At one period of the existence
OF the Phil Maher Comedy Com
pany, there were fifty-four plays
on tap, mostly written by Jolly
Phil himself.
DENVER was keen on Iurid
IL melodramas-dress suit PLAYS
and good home plays without any
swearing in it was more in nv
line" he recounted as he con-
tinued to gaze on a street which
never had thrilled to the Holden
Brothers production of "The
Ten-Ton Door," a sensationallv
successful extravaganza where a
brick wall fell on the villain at
every performance.
still there was a call for 'em,
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Ralph Capone, his brother, serv-
ing three years in Mcneil island
prison, Washington.
Jack Guzik, former syndicate
business manager" serving five
years in Leavenworth. penitentiary
frankie Lake and Terry Druggan
former big brewers OF speskeasy
beer, both in Leavenworth.
George Bugs Moran, back in
the cleaning and dyeing business
julius kaufman, back in the
wholesale produce business.
Ted Newberry. new head of the
egg Gamblers union.
Joe Salts, retired and living in
exclusive Beverly Hills.
Vincent Gebardi machine Gun
Jack McGurn), living on a quiet
street in suburban Oak Park. Po-
lice say he makes a little as a
muscle man.
Frank CThe Enforcer) Nitti, vain
ly trying to make a little profit
out of dog race tracks and gambling.
The big three" of the syndicate
now-Murray HUMPHREYS, Dinny
Cooney and Hymie Levine-keep a
semblance of the old organization
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BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN
United Press Stan Correspondent

CHICAGO, Nov. 22-Public opin-
~ ion, the depression, and the
agencies of law have decimated
Chicago gangs and .emptied their
war chests.
Nowhere do you find more gam
bling and whining about how hard
the times are than when a group
Of gang trigger men, bombers, mus
Gle men, or gambling and vice col
lectors get together.
The shadow of extinction .creeps
over their once rich dominion. Many
Of the big names are in peniten-
tiaries. Indictments overhang 9TH
ers, who thus far have escaped the
law.
From a gangSter who once wore
different suit every day in the
week and rode in an expensive linn
CUISINE, the United Press got this
lugubrious picture of gangdom to-
day.
The racket is shot, don't care
what end Of it you're in. I haven't
seen a century note $1,000 in so long
We forgot what one looks like. In
the old days always had a pock-
esfM Of grands $4,000.
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Fights for Custody of
Sons; Wins First Tilt

MED custody of the boy at hear
ing July Is, 1928, before Frank j.
Lair, former juvenile judge. Later.
she alleged, Lair returned them to
her custody after she complied with
an order to make them a suitable
home.
While in her care under this court
agreement, the boys were taken to
the home by officers who were not
acting under court authority, Mrs.
Clampitt alleges.
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there was my conscience to trouble
me. Always there was that whis-
per to tell me that I had debt
to pay.
Gradually there crept into nv
mind a half-formed resolution to 20
back to prison-to serve the time !
owed"
His second wife, he said, agreed
with him when he told her of his
decision. He owned two tourist
camps and store at Westmoreland
Cal. He was respected neighbor
in the community.
He told others of his crime, and
asked their advice. Perhaps, they
suggested, the government would
give him a pardon. They urged him
to surrender, and promised to in
tercede with the authorities for him.
At the prison, he was refused ad-
mission. The record of his crime
had been lost or destroyed. The
government no longer wanted him.
He was taken to Jail while an in
vestigation was being made, and
later brought here.
Meanwhile, in California. his
friends had kept their word. They
went to Senator Shortridge and
urged him to use his influence for a
pardon.
Monday local authorities were adj
vised that the last paper had been
signed. The debt had been can
celed.
"Everything's all right now" said
Robinson. Il was hit hard by the
depression, but I've got my fare
home. I've got my business there.
My conscience is clear for the first
time since 1893.
And can make it by Thanksgiv-
ing" -
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BLACK VELVET
j.. HEADL|NER OF
OPERA STYLES
Wrap Rich With Ermine or
Fox Plays Star Role in
Fashion Show.
NATIONS WEAR LACE
Brilliant ASsembIage Is
Present for Opening of
Metropolitan.
BY AMOS PARRISH
Times stan Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. z2.-White
dresses, black and-white wraps,
then the Edwardian shades, fus-
chias, dark green's, dark reds, deer
blues of late nineties-but all to-
gether they topped the white ano
black score. Pastels next.
That's the picture we saw at "Si-
mon Boccanegra, which opened the
Metropolitan Grand Opera season
Monday night and forecast the
fashions for the coming winter as
a picture of luxury-but simple
luxury. More beautiful and indi-
vidual fabrics and furs. Fewer
trimmings Fewer flowers.
The black velvet wrap, rich with
white ermine or fox, played the stel-
lar role. Then came fur wraps
and the largest number were err
mine.
Wrap Very Long
But the newest wrap was very
long, all black velvet, totally minus
fur, suavely fitted close at the neck,
with big sleeves reminiscent of
Moyenage.
Fashions newest fur trimmed
wrap was long, too, with fur cape
collar or with fur making sleeves
and part of the bodice. Long wraps
we're the fashion, as rule covering
or almost covering the dress.
Around the knee length came sec
ond. Silver fox trim on white or
black velvet wraps had a new air.
AS usual, strictly formal dresses
held the fashion stage, bare of back
and strapped of shoulder. A few
covered their shoulders, a very few
covered the entire arm with the new
long-sleeved low backed evening
dress, or a dress with long -sleeved
Jacket Skirts looked new and diff
ferent from last year with fullness
starting high.
Individual and beautiful crepes
led all other dress materials But
there were many stunning satins
, and rich velvets and most of the
velvets were black.
Lily Pons Wears Velvet
Lily Pons, Metropolitan soprano,
was one of the audience who spon-
sored black velvet, topping off her
closely fitted costume with a short
white ermine cape .--
Many of society's matrons made
their appearance in lace-in black,
dark blue, dark red. Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt was one of these
in black lace lightly beaded. The
newest note among the dresses was
very pale beige satin cut in classic
simple line. White matelasse, too,
struck note of individuality.
Society carried arl-beaded
handbags, twice as many of them
as the next to score, which was
brocade. Velvet and petit point
followed.
Sandals stepped ahead, with
pumps next, Most shoes in crepe or
satin matched dress or coat or ac-
ceSsories. But silver and gold kid.
out OF the fashion picture for several
seasons, entered again, together
making close to half the total of
shoes.
Half this audience wore gloves
half did not. White was far in the
lead. The favorite jewelry was
bracelets. A few pendants-quite a
view earringS-plenty of clips and
pins worn Singly and in pairs at
back of the dress. Most of the
jewelry was brilliantly Wholesome
with red or green.
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mind. He told how, barefooted,
handcuffed, wearing leg-irons, he
leaped from a moving train near
Coffeyville, Kan. He smashed his
watch, and used the watchsprings to
pick the locks Of his shackles.
In Galveston, Tex, he found a
job. Later he moved to California.
He prespered, married, reared
children. Then his wife died, and
he married again. =
But always, he said today.
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OIlS pduSS VI
| conscience which
had bothered
him all the
| years, and an
nounced he was
ready to pay his
debt to society.
So far in the
past was his
| crime that he
| did not even
know the name
of the town in
which the rob-
berry was COM
mitted. He dio
not recall the
amount he stole.
But his escape
was fresh in his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-22
PROBE CITY SHOOTING
Man Is Believed Wounded on South
Side, Police Report.

Police today are making an in
vestigation following reports from
two residents of the 1900 block South
Illinois street that they believe a
man was shot Monday night.
Following a shot, it is said a man
who lay on the sidewalk was lifted
into an automobile by two men. one
of whom made some mention of
calling an ambulance. However. the
fallen man was taken away in the
automobile.
A cap was found today on the
sidewalk, the only tangible clew so
far.
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LIFELONG RESIDENT
OF INDIANA is DEAD

Last Rites for Mrs. Ida staIey TO
Be Held Wednesday.
Last rites for Mrs. Ida Staley. 81
VINO died Monday in her home. 91s
North Ewing street, will be held at
II wednesday in Moore & kirk
funeral parlorS, $3.50 North Station
street.
MRS. Staley was resident of In
olana all her life. She was a mem
Der OF Brookside chapter, Order of
Eastern Star.
Burial will be in Washington
Park cemetery. ''
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run mao, SalQ
the co-author of
the direct federal
relief bill.
Costigan has re-
turned to Wash
ington prepared
to cooperate gain
W i t h Senator
Robt. La Toilette
(Rep., Wis.,, in
urging adoption
of their joint
measure, relntro-
duced in amended
form, and to press
Tor action on the
credit and work
bill for unem-
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REPERTOIRE SFOWSFADE AWAY


show, skipping their lines alto
gether and going long on the spe-
cialties, and nobody knew the diff
ference. Repertoire actors had to
be resourceful."
In the travelling repertoire shows
which delighted the pre-movie
generation, he explained, mem
bers of the company did special
ties.
Between the first and second
acts of lachrymore East Lynne y
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An unconditional pardon from
President Herbert Hoover has
opened prison gates for Robinson,
now IS, after he had confessed that.
in 1898, he fed from the guards. who
were taking him to the Leaven-
worth federal penitentiary to serve
a four-year sentence for postofice
robbery.
Last October he returned to the
prison, told of his escape, and Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-22
COST|GAN WILL
PUSH HIS PLAN
FOR new DEAL
Colorado Senator Offers
Striking Definition of
What u. S. Needs.
MUST HELP JOBLESS
Higher Farm and Industrial
Prices Are Viewed as
Necessary.

By Scripps-HoWard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-From
Senator E. P. Costigan Dem,
Colo), whose legislative ear close
ly is attuned to the cry of need
from jobless millions, comes a
striking definition of the new deal"
promised by Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
THE new deal should substitute
the planning of cooperative and
humane government for the plan
lessness of rugged individualism
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-22
CITY WOMAN DEAD:
FUNERAL RITES SET
Mrs. Christina Gedig, SO, Succumbs
to Illness Of Two Years.

Funeral services will be held on
Wednesday for Mrs. Christina &C.
dig, SO, who died Monday in her
home, GOT Lincoln street, afters two
years illness.
Mrs. Gedig was born in Indian
apoliS and lived here all her life,
except for short time spent in
Little Rock, Ark. She was a mem
Der of Sacred Heart Catholic church.
Third Order of st. Francis and of
the Christian Mothers Club of the
church. She was the widow of Jo-
seph Gedig, who died nine years
ago.
Services will be held at GAS in
the home and at 1918 in Sacred
Heart church. Burial will be in st.
Joseph cemetery.
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PARDONED FOR FORGOTTEN CRIME:
CONSCIENCE CLEAR AFTER "a YEARS
By United Press

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan, Nov. o.
William Kirby Robinson, whose
conscience prodded him constantly
for thirty-four years, is going home
to California for Thanksgiving
free man.
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away to the next town, but il
times was good the theater would
be crowded just the same.
Next week another show would
come to town and the people
would bite again."
With regard to this amiable
gullibility of the early American,
Paul Scott, grand old man of
repertoire and stock, tells the story
OF Ten Nights in a Barroom" at
Woods Museum in PHILADELPHIA
the day before Christmas, 1882.
This stock company definition
OF stock: A repertoire company
without carfare) played a forty
minute version of the epic in con-
junction with the dime museum
on the upper floor.
n =
NTHEN the crowd had finished
w a round of the museum, a
bell rang as signal to clear the
theater for new customers. Down
would come the curtain, wherever
the plot stood, and on this par
tlcular day of brisk business it
descended twenty-Six times.
The average length of the per-
torrance was eight minutes, and
yet Mr.. Scott swears he could
recognize members of his first au-
dience at the twenty-sixth per-
torrance, still hoping to hear the
end OF the play.
Sunday morning it was up to
the manager to get the different
ones to church, so they could sit
down in the front row and meet
the preacher.
If we had soubrette that was
a Methodist Episcopal, she would
go to the Methodist Episcopal,
and juvenile that. was a Congre-
gationalist he would go there, and
II he was one short, we'll, I re-
member had Jewish fellow in
the company, and of course they
had no such church on Sunday,
so I would send him to fill in as
an Episcopal.
Some actors held by the sa-
loon trade, but I always said it
stood to reason no saloon keeper
was going to send you customers
he wanted them to spend their
money with him.
D EPERTOIRE people con-
IN sidered themselves as part
of the Four Hundred, and in the
company they was pure as if they
was in church. Of course, town
girls didn't count.
The plays were great. too.
There was that line in Fate
Rags are royal raiment when
worn for virtues sake fine,
mouth-fllling lines like that"
That line is from the White
Slave corrected Mr.. Campbell. st
ought to know, my father wrote
it,"
Well said Mrs. Maher, "the
leading lady I had with the
Knickerbocker Stock Company
used to say it in lots of plays. She
loved that line.
"Broadway-pshaw," Jolly Phil
adopted the tone of small town
city editor discussing New York
newspaper men,. Many a Broad
way actor I had to send back from
my company. They couldn't make
the grade"
NEXT-Mr. Liebling will write
of the Silent Movies.
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CAR SKIDS; GIRL HURT

Auto Leaps Curb; 14-Year-OId Child
Suffers Bruises.
Struck by Skidding auto which
leaped the curb at Madison avenue
and McCarty street, Monday, Esther
Koch, IA, of 1929 South Alabama
street, was struck. She suffered body
bruises and was treated at city hos
pital. Isaac Morgan of Chicago,
driver of the car, was not arrested.
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$500 in Purse Lost

Loss Of his purse containing
about $500 while on business down.
town Monday was reported to DO
lice today by Charles johnson. 7Oo
South Meridian street,
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Social Registerite Seeks Divorce

By United Press
RENO, New, Nov. Elizabeth
S. Townsend, who is listed in the
New York social register, has filed
suit for divorce from Eugene L.
Townsend, charging cruelty.
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CHILDREN TO BE FETED
v'Graduates" of Nutrition Camp 10
Be Guests of Optimists Club.

Forty graduates" Of the tubercu-
losis associations nutrition camp for
sick children today were eating
sparingly in order to leave space for
stufing on roast turkey and all the
trimmings"
The forty will be guests of the
indianapolis Optimists Club, which
has arranged. through its boys work
dcommittee. headed by Lee Emmel-
imam, to give big party at the Co
lumbia Club for the group.
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URGES SINGLE RAIL UNIT
Development of One Great system
Is Proposed by Ellis.

Development of a single unit
railway transportation system from
the present competing routes was
urged as the salvation of the roads
by Commissioner Howell Ellis of
the public service commission In
addressing 700 railroad employees at
the SEVERN Monday night.
Coordination of bus and truck
routes to fit into the plan and their
proper regulation by state and
federal commissions, also was urged.
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Ponder on McNutt Successor

VAA NAO4NuII SuCCtSSOr
By United Press
GARY, Ind, Nov ga success
sor to Paul v. McNutt as dean of
the Indiana university law school
will be appointed at the December
meeting of the university trustees,
Ora L. Wildermuth, Gary, mem
Der of that group, said today.
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LEGISLATOR is SUICIDE
Cecil Bachtenkircher Ends Life
With Shotgun in Corn Crib.

With Shotgun in Corn Crib.
By United Press
WINAMAC, Ind, Nov. 22-De-
spondency over a long illness was
held responsible today for the sui
eide of Cecil Bachtenkircher, so,
representative from Fulton and
Pulaski counties in the last legis-
lature.
He killed himself with a shotgun
IN corn crib on his farm near
here Monday.
Bachtenkircher, a Republican,
was defeated for reelection
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An old time
repertory pro-
gram, shown at
the right, reveals
how many roles
the versatile Phil
M a h er might
play during an
evening.
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Mr.. Lebling continues his series on
old-time performers with discussion
of repertoire shows-of the turkey
shows. the melodramas that entertained
America at the turn Of the century.