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MORE DEMPSEY TALK

When the sub)ec: yurns to box ing, on the coast, the idea stil is projected that Jack Dempsey would consider a comeback fight for the title.
 They intimate now that Demp- sey specially would be in recep- tive mood for return bout with the new champion Jack Sharkey on the combined theory that CD Dempsey has the well known In- dian sign on the Boston sailor and CD that Sharkey, although a much younger man, also has gone back in his footwork since the night he was knocked out by Dempsey in 1927 at the Yankee Stadium.
 This may or may not be so much chatter, for Dempsey himself has nothing definite to say what ever about any future engagements of a serious character within the ring. Five years out of action can hardly be calculated to make the old mauler any spryer. Most of the boys won't believe he has pugilistic in mind again until they actually see him inside the ropes.
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JUNK OF VETS STILL WORKING;
 HAYNES IS OUT
Vets Suffer Severe Blow Wh en First Stacker
 Joins Casualty List

The jinx that has been riding the American Legion baseball clus throughout the second half is stil working overtime. The latest vic. tim cn the list is Tom Haines leading batter of the League anc one of the best first-basemen ir the organization.
 Haines recently stepped on a nail and suffered a painful enjury in the heel of his left foot. He had about recovered from that wound when yesterday he had a heavy timber fall on his left leg, bruising it severely between the knee and foot.
 He was hardly able to walk this evening. It was not believed he would be able to play for several days at any rate, and 1t was pos sible he wouldn't recover in time to get into the Little Worlds Ser ieS. If he cant play, it will be SNFNlN bAON W OAiN NtOSs VI melt can handle first base with out any trouble, but he is needed at third Haines hitting was factor in the Vets showing in the first half and is needed badly by the club in the coming series.
 Haines is the third star the Vets have lost to old man jinx. Bob has been ruled off by the for the rest of the year. unaided, he pitched the Vets to first half victory. Since he has been out they have had no regular moundsman.
 Ted Keaton, the Vets classy sec- ond sacker, was the next victim of hard luck. In a collision at second about two weeks ago, he an injured knee that has
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JUNCE TO HURL
 AGAINST MOOSE IN GAME TODAY
Elks' Iron Man and Jack Schmitz Slated to Pitch
 This Evening

Ken Junge, the iron man" of the Elks pitching staff upon whom the main burden of heaving has fallen during the current half of the City League schedule, is slated to strut his stuff tonight when the Bills will make a strenuous effort to cinch the bunting. He will be opposed by Jack Schmi.z who Is depended on by the Moose to keep them in the fight.
 Weather conditions at midafter- noon were not favorable nor were the indications propitious for the game. However, it is on the sched- ule and will be played If the rain maker takes a long enough rest from the occupation that has kept him busy most of the summer.
 Last nights game between the Elks and American Legion failed to materialize. Too much rain. It will be played off the first evening that conditions permit if there is no other game scheduled for that occasion.
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.7SPORIAq |SI1ANIiS,| s!-1 1y ALAN 6oMD -
1y ALAN 6oWD

The seasons upheaval in the National League has the baseball critics of the west coast some what befogged
 They sent the New York Giants away from California confident the club was the one to beat. The Pittsburgh Pirates on the other hand, appeared to be just on of the ether seven teams in the race, possible but far from probable contender.
 Consequently, with the Bussa- neers leading the procession clear through July and the Giants, min us John McGraw struggling to keep out of the cellar, some sus- picion exists among the California observers that they were taken in" by the spring developments.
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AND ..C zONERI GO
 IS POSTPONED
Billy Suffers from Clipped Bone Tn One of
 His Elbows

NEW YORK, Aug. Billy Pet folle has been forced to indefin- ftely postpone his scheduled cham
 PionSilip match with Tony Con- koneri, lightweight champion, due 10 a clipped bone in one of his elbows. The scheduled fight was
 hext Monday night. Petrolle first injured the bone Fn his fight with Bat Battalino Pnd it became aggravated yester- Hay while training. Billy holds decision over Tony gained in Chicago before Tony lwon the championship by defeat Ing Al Singer in one round by knock out.
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OLDT|ME B. B. SWATTER HAS
 CONE BEYOND
Dan Brouthers Mighty Slugger, Half a Gen.
 tury Ago, Dies

EAST ORANGE, N. J. Aug. B. Baseball lost another of the im- mortals with the death of Dan Broushers at the age of "A years.
 Brouthers was the nightly slug ger with the Baltimore Orioles half cetnury ago.
 Brouthers claimed that he could have hit farther than Babe Ruth if the ball used nowadays had been in use in the old days.
 Brouthers led the National League four times in batting. In one year he was second to Pop Anson. Pop had an average of .421 and Brou- thers' average that year was .419.
 Brouthers went to the National League in 1881, He played with Detroit, Boston, Brooklyn and Bal timora, ending his diamond career in 1897 with Philadelphia
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HOME TOWN BOY MANAGER

TYLER, Tex, Aug. 3.-Frank Kitchens who succeeded George Sisler as manager of the Tyler club in the Texas League, is a native of this city. He formerly played on other Texas circuit teams before turning to manager ial roles.
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VAUGHAN EXPRESSES CAREY

NEW YORK, Aug. 3. = Floyd Vaughan, youthful shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is one of the best first year players in the Na- tional League, in the opinion of Max Carey, manager of the Dodg- CTS. Carey predicts that Waugh an will develop into the best shortstop in the League.
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prevented him from playing since and probably will keep him out of the playoff series. Ted was tow CT of strength to the defense and was hitting the ball well
 Manager Win Goddard, who re- turned early this week from a five-weeks absence, is wondering if the jinx has been satisfied or where it will strike next.
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GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League

Seattle |; Missions 2. Hollywood 6; Sacramento 3. Portland 4; Los Angeles 5. San Francisco |; Oakland 2.
 National League Pittsburgh 6; Philadelphia II. , Chicago 2; Brooklyn 4 Cincinnati 2; New York 8. St. Louis 3; Boston 4
 American League New York at Detroit, postponed 1n account of rain. Washington 4; Chicago l. Boston 4; St. Louis 6.
 Juneau City League American Legion-Elks, postponed )n account of rain.
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H0RNSBY QUITS AS MANACER;IS
 ALSO RELEASED
Charlie Grimm Will Be Guiding Hand Over
 Chicago Cubs

PHILADELPHIA, Penn, Aug. B. William L. Veeck, President of the CI.:cago Cubs, announces that Rogers Hornsby has resigned as manager and has been released as a player.
 Charlie Grimm will be man. agsr, effective immediately.
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TENNIS BALLS ON ICE

BERLIN, Aug. B. = The Rot Weiss Tennis Club at Grunewald scene of Davis Cup play in Ger many, has adopted the practice at Wimbledon of keeping tennis balls in a refrigerator until they are to be used, since heat reduces their elasticity.
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development of an intersectional polo series, annually or every two years at the most for an Ameri- can championship. In time, they think, the idea might take in the middle west and the southwest, which has produced a number of star players in recent years.
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SLUGGER KAYOED BY BAT

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 3.-Joe Ducky-Wucky) Medwl.k, Houston outfielder who has led the Texas League in hitting most of the sum mer, was knocked unconscious in batting practice when bludgeon slipped from a players hand and struck him squarely on the chin.
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ROSENBLOOM
 WINS MATCH

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 3.-Maxie Rosenbloom, recognized as light heavyweight champion in most quarters, decisioned Joe Barlow, of Boston, in a ten rounder here last night.
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BAINE CONRAD IS ILL

Baine Conrad of Taku Harbor entered St, Anns Hospital late yes terday afternoon for medical treat ment
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TONSILS ARE REMOVED

Charlen Keller, years old, en- tered St. Ann's Hospital yesterday afternoon and this morning under went successful operation for the removal of her tonsils.
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FORDHAM DIAMOND STARS GET TRIAL
 WITH N. Y. GIANTS

NEW YORK, Aug. 3g. - John Tip Tobin CT Jack Fisher one0ot
 BheSe days may be known as ma for league stars who cost only P subway fare" For years Major League mag bates with high priced players, have shaken their heads sadly over Ehe thought that Lou Gehrig Jumped from Columbia University 10 the New York Yankees with 'ao price tag whatever attached. Tobin and Fisher, now receiving b trial with the Giants. made a fimi.ar jump from Fordham Uni kersity.
 In addition to playing baseball, the pair performed on the grid ieon for the Rams. Tobin, at end, Rnd Fisher at quarterback. On bhe diamond Tobin is an out Fielder, and his mate a second baseman.
 Both have come from a Boston suburb and intend to study law 5his winter.
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GOING TO INTERIOR

Miss Florence E. Kunz, who has been outside for some months, is a passenger aboard the Princess Charlotte, enroute to her home in Dawson.
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Railroad officials have been ask ed to supply facilities for the visit of 5O000,OOO people to the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1883.
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Accidental deaths numbering 160, mostly through traffic and swim
 |ying mishaps, headed the list of fauses of deaths among Wisconsin persons between 15 and 19 years
 bid in 1881.
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GOES TO HAYNES

Aboard the Princess Charlotte, in port last night, was Miss Harriet A. Lawrence, for Haines.
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Old papers TOT sale at Empire Office.
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American League

Juneau City League Second Half)
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from the school for doing head
stands during long division and
Lancashire clogs during McGuf-
fey's Reader.
Their parents knew nothing of
this nor, considering the Allen
street code, was there much
danger they would.
The friends were looking for a
booking as actors so they might
go to the old folks and say, Pa
and ma, we quit school to accept
a big offer from Tony Pastor"
Then they would make their re-
spective families rich, and wear
diamond shirt studs.
1t was an anxious time.
IF you ask Lew Fields today
Il why he practiced headstands
during long division, and Joe
Weber why he held on to the
back of his neighbours seat and
clogged with his left foot they
are puzzled that you should ask
such a question
why, it was II is" they ex-
plain.
That's the way we were. It
was in us. Whatever we saw any
body do on the stage we would go
home and practice until we could
do it. Managers of nickel mu-
Seums, beer gardens, saloons, we
would stop in the street and say,
Mister, we are actors. Look
And we would do our stuff in
front of him, so he couldn't get
past until he saw us"
So of course they got in-at the
Chatham Square museum, twelve
to fifteen shows day, Sc a week
for the team.
They did song, dance and al
legged comic dialog, and the rest
of the variety show comprised
trained birds, trained dogs, trained
pigs and an acrobat.
The variety entertainment was
but one feature of the Chatham
Square museum, a choice collec-
ton of bogus freaks and a phre-
nologist making up the other at
fractions.
The phrenologist was the big
money getter. He got money that
the patrons had left in their in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-12
LIBERTY AND NATIONAL
PARTIES ARE MERGED
Concentrated Campaign for Votes in
State Will Be Made.

Liberty party in Indiana and the
National party merged Sunday fol-
lowing a meeting of officials of both
parties in National headquarters,
23l5 East Troy avenue.
Announcement of the conSolida-
/, ton was made by John Inland, ma
tional chairman of the National
party, who said, Principles sof the
two organizations are the same.
Why shouldn't they merge?"
The combination will take the
name of the National party. Candi-
dates of the new party will be:
Ralph E. Green for United States
senator; Ward B. Hiner, governor, Bert
Decker, acknowledgements; Leon j.
Granger, secretary of state; Herman
Kendall, state auditor; Charles L. Baxter.
state treasurer; Mrs. Fidena P. Judd,
superintendent of public instruction;
Walter Reece. attorneys Mabel La
Rue, reporter of the supreme and ap-
pellate courts, and for supreme court
judges, Ben H. Long, third district;
Charles Anderson, fifth district, and Max
Holenberger, first district.
Francis x Walters will be state
chairman. Forrest L. Hackley, state
chairman of the Liberty party, has
been offered the position of national
organizer of the new party.
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Stringent Restrictions Put
Major Relief Burden on
Local Agencies.

BIZ Scripps-HoicdFd Newspaper AIlidnct
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12-With
winter approaching and reports of
poverty increasing, the Reconstruct
ton Finance Corporation has laid
down a policy for administering the
$500 100000 federal relief fund,
which places the major burden of
caring for the destitute on local
agencies.
The policy has had the effect of
restricting and delaying use of fed
eral relief funds.
Explanation of the corporations
policy was given today by Fred c.
CroXton, relief administrative ex-
pert of the r. F. c. He said the
board will insist that local efforts
to raise funds be exhausted before
the board will make advances.
Stringency Of the boards rules is
believed to account for the fact that
loans to date slightly are under
Sl8,0O0,000 or less than S per cent
Of the relief fund.
Loans are to be repaid by future
deductions from federal aid to state
highway funds.
The board has adopted these
rules:
Proof must be given that state re-
sources are inadequate.
Where there is a possibility of
bond issues or additional taxation,
even though such steps require revi-
sion Of laws through special legis-
lative sessions, such action must
be taken.
r. F. c. relief activities will be
confined Strictly to assistance to the
destitute, and will not extend into
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-12
MAI. TAYLOR TO
Be BURIED WITH
MILITARY RITES
Funeral for National Guard
Squadron Commander
to Be Held Tuesday.

Military funeral rites will be held
at 10 Tuesday for Major Richard F.
Taylor, Indiana national guard air
squadron commander, who died late
Saturday following an airplane ac-
cident near Clinton.
The body will lie in state at the
Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, IS
West Fall Creek boulevard, until the
services. A military guard of two
members Of the air squadron will
remain by the body until the flu
neral. Burial will be in Crown Hill
cemetery.
The funeral will be attended by
virtually the entire personnel of the
one hundred thirteenth Observation
squadron, as well as by members of
the air corps reserve and by private
and commercial f1iers.
Major Taylor was injured fatally
when his plane crashed in a field
near Clinton Friday while he and
Sergeant David B. Vickery were
making an observation flight over
the coal mine area involved in re-
cent picketing disorders.
Vickery sustained less serious in
jurieS.
The funeral car was accompanied
from Clinton to Indianapolis by an
honor guard of six enlisted men,
accompanied by Lieutenant Paul
hartman. At Danville the cortage
was met and accompanied by a
squadron of three guard planes.
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M'NUTT, VAN NUYS TO
BE ON RADIO HOOKUP
Democratic Nominees Will Open
State Campaign on Sept. rs.

Democratic Nominees Will Open
State Campaign on Sept. rs.
Paul V. McNutt, nominee for Gov
ernor. and Frederick Van Mugs,
nominee for the United States SEN
ate, will speak on a statewide radio
hookup Sept. 26, at p. M, when
the Democratic state campaign will
be opened officially.
Decision on the date and arrange
ment of the program was made at a
meeting of state candidates Sunday
with R. Earl Peters, state chairman,
at the Claypool headquarters.
Peters will introduce each candi-
date over the air and the forty-dve
minutes for speaking will be divided
between McNutt and Van Mugs.
WFBM and stations at TT. Wayne.
Evansville and possibly at Terfe
Haute and Gary will be included in
the hookup, it was announced.
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Hon. Il Customer
Uses Ttvo Fletcher Trust Banks
at the same time

Sometimes branch customer who makes
a Withdrawal at our Main Office down.
town asks us: "How do you identify
my signature and how do you know I
have balance at the branch which will
cover the check l am cashing?"
The explanation is simple. Duplicate
signature cards of every branch customer
are kept at the Main Office. When
branch customer presents check at the
Main Office, we verify his signature from
a duplicate card. Then we phone the
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Copyright, 1882, by the New York World
Telegram Corporation
XXTEBER, the shachet, occu-
w pied the basement of No.
10 Essex street in 1876, killing
chickens and raising children &C
cording to Divine instructions.
Simon, German Jew, kept a
saloon on the first floor.
Whether Simon was a first or
last name the heroes of this
picturesque do not recollect-the
saloon was known as Simon's place
and Simon was a short, bull
necked fellow, always in his shirt
sleeves, a great talker and really
not bad guy.
When it was almost time for the
shachet, his wife and the senior
progeny to return from synagog
Saturday, Joe Weber, the eleventh
and youngest, would carefully re-
place the featherbeds upon which
he and Lew Schanfleld had been
rehearsing acrobatics.
Joe and Lew-they had exactly
eighteen years, evenly divided be-
tween would sneak through
the family entrance of Simon'S
place and crouch in a far corner
of the little side room reserved for
female customers.
East of the Bowery then was a
predominantly German neighbor-
hood. Polish Jews, like the Weber
and Schanfield families, were a
small minority.
Simon'S customers, workmen
from Fosters flour mills at Essex
and Canal streets, whitened like
clowns, the -four in their chin
whiskerS making the lean ones
look like Uncle Sam, or carpenters
and mechanics with great fore
arms covered with blond hair,
shouted and laughed between
garbs at the free lunch and sWal-
lows Of beer.
IRON gangs working as much
Il as block away would come
delegates bearing long poles,
whence depended twenty or
thirty GROWERS, to be filled at a
nickel pint.
Some of the Dutchmen wore
fierce husSar muStaches and plaid
vests, but most wore SchnurrbartS.
chin whiskers unaccompanied by
mustacheS, just such whiSkers as a
pair of comedians named Weber
and Fields wore years afterward.
Lew and Joe, thin-faced little
kids with great dark eyes,
watched, envying such gusty
vigor, amused by such chopping
of the tongue they spoke them
selves, according to the elegant
tenetS of the Allen street school.
Lew and Joe had been expelled
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branch, over private wire which doesn't
run through the telephone cOmpany's
central, for approval of payment of the
check. In just few seconds after the
customer presents the check downtown,
he has received his money and record
of the transaction is on file at his branch
which may be miles away.
Speed, convenience, quick service all enter
into this routine performance. And all
are achieved without the slightest sacrifice
of the recognized principles of banking
conservatism and safety.
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side pockets, and the police put
the museum out of business.
Weber and Fields obtained
other work, always in museums.
n
IF we could ever get into show
Il without a tatooed man we
figured that would be a success"
Weber relates.
There were three stock lines of
comedy in those days - Irish
dialect, German dialect, and col
ored dialect. Jews were so few
that there was no appreciation of
Jewish dialect, and not one
comedian doing it,
The boys did blackface, mostly.
They also had an act known as
meat"
Ladies and gentlemen" Weber
would announce, your attention is
invited to our difficult achieve
ment Of performing three separate
and distinct featS at one and the
same time-dancing in unison,
keeping in time to the music and
tearing these sheets of paper in
in-trick-a ate design
Something like Joe Cooks forty
years later, one Hawaiian playing
the guitar, another humming, and
another beating time with his foot.
Their entrance for this act was
ALWAYS done with a song thew had
heard somewhere and adopted
who are those fellows with the green
um-ba -rellOws?
Bright new neckties-a glass in their
ewes?
Don't they look spOOney? think they
are lOOney;
Maybe they're young Oscar Well in dis
guise"
''We thought Oscar We'll was
some dude on East Broadway"
Fields explains. But somehow
we thought the song was classy"
n
4 T last, through the failure of
IA another act to appear, they
got chance to play a reputable
theater, Miners BoWery, at $40 a
week for the team.
There was on the bill an act
known as the American Four-a
recognized act which had played
regular theaters for years.
At rehearsal the boys hummed
their theme song for the or
chestra. One of the Americans
stepped up to the east side kids.
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Upon orders from President
Hoover, Ben H. Kerr, above, pos
tai clerk at Gary, Ind, has been
reinstated to his job from which
he was discharged after he had
introduced a resolution before his
local American Legion post in
support of the soldiers bonus.
Kerr was accused of political
activity" but protests by the
American Legion resulted in Hoo
yer ordering his reinstatement.
The case caused quite con-
troversy, the postoffice depart
ment being accused of having
adopted a policy of trying to
"muzzle" all federal employees
whose political views differed
from those of the administration.
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BOLIVIAN FORCE
IS ANNIHILATED,
PARAGUAY SAYS
Whole Regiment Is Wiped
Out, War Department
Tells Nation.
By United Press

By United Press
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Sept. Ia
"Annihilation" of the fourteenth
Bolivian infantry regiment was
claimed by Paraguayan forces to-
day as thousands of troops battled
fiercely for possession of Fl. Be-
queron, scene Of several days fight
ing in the disputed Gran Chaco.
Announcement of the Paraguayan
victory was made soon after mid
night. 1t was cheered by thousands
in the streets.
An earlier communique from the
war department said fighting con-
tinues in the vicinity of Fort Bo-
queron and oLr forces have taken
a number of prisoners"
Public excitement was high.
Crowds paraded, singing the nation
al anthem. Sunday morning. a
two minute period of silence was
observed in honor of Paraguayans
killed in the fighting.