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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17

THIS soon found an outlet
l. when the revived Irish free
dom movement-under the guild
ance of Arthur Griffith and 9TH
erS-culminated in the bloody
Easter Week instruction of 1916.
At that time, Professor De
Valera was engaged at National
university in research work in
quarternion analysis, a powerful
space calculcuS.
But he never finished it, When
the call came, he dropped his
mathematical instruments and
note pads and went forth to fight
for the new Irish Republic" just
proclaimed by the leaders of the
Sim Fem party.
The Sim Fem party was mere
ly another movement in Ireland's
long struggle for liberty from it's
English kings and landlords. The
history of 700 years is dotted with
such moves.
In Gaelic, Sim Fem means
yourselves Alone"
Griffith crystallized this move
ment with his newspaper, which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
UTILITY Racket HIT
VlnCenneS Mayor Asks Law
Revision or Repeal.

Indiana is in the clutches of
an organized band of utility
racketeers," Mayor Joseph w. kim
nell of Vincennes, declares in a
letter to Indiana mayors, urging
that only those candidates for the
legislature who will vote to revise or
repeal the Shively- Spencer law re-
ceive support for nomination. The
law created the public service COM
mission.
This is not a political question"
the Kimmell letter continues. It
care not what the politics of a men,
Der Of the legislature is so long as
he is free from entangling alliances
with the utilities and disposed to
give the people a square DEAL
Kimmen reminds the mayors that
at the organization meeting of the
Municipal Rights League of Indiana.
held Feb. 26 in Martinsville. it was
understood that the city officials
represented would disregard politics
in their efforts to elect state
senators and representatives OPP
posing the Shitely-Spencer law.
Final date for candidacy filings is
April 2.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17


LONDON, March 1.-THE Troy that millions
of high school students laboriouSy have located
the map of Asia Minor may not be the Troy of
Homer, after all.
commonly accepted to be Troy fits the Specifica-
tons Of the historic city The mound of Hissarlik
was excavated by Heinrich Schemann in 1870,
and ruins of nine successive cities were found on
the site The sixth of these cities built about
1900 B. c. and destroyed some three centuries later
is the one known the Trojan war city.
Homeric scholars disturbed by the revival
of doubts long dormant that Hssarlik is the scene
of Troy, reports the British journal Antiquity.
The latest declaration that the site of Troy
still must be sought is by French scholar, M.
Vellay Greek ships that sailed to Asia Minor
Tor the siege of Troy must have been drawn up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
Peace Pact Delayed

~ tNttC0 FfCSS
SHANGHAI. March 17.-Eforts
to establish a complete truce be-
tween Chinese and japanese forces
in the Shanghai area were delayed
and confused today, after sub
mission of a three-point program
to the Marking and Toxic govern
mentS.
Marking was annoyed by alter
alton Of the original program when
it was submitted to Toxic. The
Japanese position was not de-
termined. Minister Mamoru Shige-
mitSu said "telegraphic obstruction"
delayed expression of his govern
ment's attitude.
A meeting scheduled between
Shigemltsu and Quo Tai-Chi, of the
Chinese foreign Office, was post
poned awaiting the japanese reply.
The two representatives had met
with Sir Miles LampSon, British
minister, and drawn I'D draft
program of the following three
points which were submitted to
Marking and Toxic
CnineSe troops were TO hold their
present position, not advancing to
the international settlement; Jap
anese troops were to be withdrawn
within the settlement providing
that few be left outside the. boun-
diaries, due to their large number,
until they could be placed inside; a
joint commission with neutral OBJ
servers was to certify the With
drawal, with the present Chinese
positions west of Shanghai to be
construed as withdrawal from their
original placements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
MOP SQUADS READY
Police to Make Cage Meet
Dry as Possible

indianapolis will be cas- dry as
possible" Friday and Saturday
during the state high school basket
ball tournament, Chief Mike Nor
rissey declared today.
He said he had given orders to all
officers to watch hotels, suspected
Speakeasies and other places where
high school boys and girls might
congregate.
Two squads of twenty officers
each will be on duty at the Butler
university f1eldhouse where the tour
nament will be held. The day squad
will be headed by Captain Edward
Helm and the night squad by
Major Herbert Fletcher. All radio
cars will operate Friday and Satur-
day on Neutrality-suspicious. schedule.
Morrissey announced that buses
and taxis will be routed to the
f1eldhouse north on Meridian street,
to Thirty eighth, west to Capitol
avenue, north to Forty-sixth, west
to Sunset avenue, which has been
designated for one-way traffic
during the two days.
Parking will be prohibited on
Forty-ninth street from Capitol to
Sunset avenues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17

became a sort of Irish bible. AS
the movement grew, an Irish
army known as the Irish volun-
teers was organized. In 1913, Boy
Scouts were likewise organized.
britain, harried by the grow
- ing discomfort in Ireland,
suddenly found itself plunged
into the World war in 1914. Soon
the rebellious Irish sought, and
received, aid from the Germans.
Sir Roger Easement, fervent pa
triot, was captured and executed
by a firing squad after a German
submarine had landed him on the
Irish coast.
A German ship the Aud, was
sunk with cargo of arms for the
Irish revolutionistS.
The break finally brought about
open warfare between the Irish
insurgents and the British author
tiles on Easter Monday, 1916.
A great Sim Fem parade was
to be held in Dublin that day.
In some way the word got around
that the British had ordered the
arrest of the leaders of the Sim
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
French Scholar Takes Sharp Issue
ON Historical Location GiTen Troy

on the Hellespont, NJ. Velay emphatically argues.
But this could not have been done at the shore
near Hssarlik, because there is not room for the
camp and the maneuverS
Dsagreeing with this view, in Antiquity, Miss
Winifred Lamb British archeologist declares that
M. Vellay demands geographical accuracy from a
poet whose very identity is obscure. The niad has
its roots in the folk memory of the dark ages she
points cut, and often was pruned before it grew
to its final form
Although she diSmisses NJ. VelIays geographical
argument as not strong enough to wreck HiSsar-
hk's reputation for being the scene of Troy, Miss
Lamb states that the important region around
Hissarlik is too little known and should be ex-
plore0 further
Tt is possible, she points out, that some other
ruins that might claim to be Troy still Turk beneath
UNEMPLOYED mounds of the region.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
Irish Fi1ebruud Dropped His Books to Shoulder
BY MILTON BRONNER
Eurnnean Manarer- NEA serrire


DUBLIN, March 17.-This st.
II Patrick's day finds a mod
ern hero in Ireland whose fame
bids fair to 60 down in history
with that of Erin's patron saint.
He is Eamonn de Valera, mod
ern Ireland's outstanding figure,
who just has climaXed sixteen
years of fighting the British
with both ballots and bullets-by
his victory at the polls, which
makes him the new president of
the Irish Free State.
There is, probably, more fight
ing to come-political or other
wise. To De Valera, his cleo
ton as president of the British
controlled Irish Free State is but
another step toward consumma-
tion Of his aim: A free and in
dependent republic of Ireland.
He says so. Some Sim Fein
members doubt him.
In personal appearance, he
makes no commanding figure
such as one might expect in the
leader of a great cause. He is
lean and awkward, his lantern
jawed face is lined and pinched.
He is not yet so years old, but
he is the human symbol today
of Ireland's 7OO-year fight to
break the bonds of British rule.
IT'S life has had all the drama
II and suspense of a movie
thriller.
He has fought and sweated be-
hind Irish guns in a bloody revo-
luton in Dublin's streets. He has
been captured by the British and
sentenced to death by firing
squad.
He has been hunted in the re-
mote hills of Ireland as an out
law, shielded and hidden by Irish
patriots in their cabins.
He has escaped from an English
jail in drama as colorful as any
grand opera ploty in which a sing
ing Irish gardener sang directions
to him in Gaelic and pretty Irish
girls entertained the warders with
their charms until he could make
his getaway.
He might have walked right out
of the pages of one of Rafael
Sabatini'S blood-and- thunder now
els. But he had his prosaic start
as young college professor whose
hobby was higher mathematics Of
the most abstruse kind-and
whose consuming passion was
politics.
Singularly enough, the new
president of the Irish Free State
was born in New York City, in an
old house that is said to have
stood on the site of the present
Chrysler building. The date was
Oct. IA, 1882.
His father was a Spaniard, said
to have been a political refugee
from Europe, and from him the
boy obtained his Spanish name, de
Valera pronounced: devil-era).
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
SCALPERS IN CLOVER
Basketball Tourney DucatS
Find Ready Buyers.

Bootleggers, chiselers, jack
hustlers, and others who dance in
the city to the tune of jingling
cash are in clover.
It's state basketball tourney
week and wherever the office" is
given in poolrooms in the city you'll
find the scalper
Want a ticket for the basket
ball tourney" he asks. six bucks!
That's all. Better buy now, buddy.
Prices go up as tickets are sold"
Official price of season tickets is
So each)
The "scalper-for-a-week" brings
out a stack of thirty season passes.
Good seats, too. See where they
are" he argues, as he turns the
back of the season tickets and shows
the very row in which the "scalpee"
will sit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
DR.. WEBB SEEKS POST
Announces Candidacy for Demo-
cratic Coroner Nomination.

DR.. John w. Webb. 955 Campbell
avenue, has announced for the
Democratic nomination for county
coroner.
He is native Of the county, hav-
ing been born and reared on a
farm in Lawrence township now
occupied by the Boy Scout reserva=
ton. Following graduation from
Castleton high school, he studied
Medicine in Chicago and New York
and began general practice here in
1905.
He Is married and is father of a
daughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17

Fem, the Gaelic League and the
National Volunteers.
1t has been claimed since that
this alleged order was a forgery
work of propaganda to inflame
the Irish. But, regardless of that,
it had its effect.
THE Irish already armed, de-
i cided to fight. At noon on
Easter Monday, the Irish republic
formally was proclaimed from
the base of Nelson's pillar in
Dublin, and while this was being
done insurgent forces took pos
session of several strategic posi-
tons in the city.
General Padraic Pearse took
over the poStof1ce after short
battle; railway stations were
seized and the rebels also occu-
pied many other points.
When the call came, Professor
De Valera abandoned his re-
search work in quaternion analy-
sis and took command Of revo-
lutionary unit.
He was given the "Ringsend"
section on Mount street to hold
with his battalion. For five days,
his force of 200 Irish volunteers
withstood the entire force of two
divisions of the British army
which had marched, with artil-
lery, on Dublin from KingStown.
De Valera proved himself some
what of a strategist. On the sec
ond or third day, his riflemen
found their aim on the British
positions blocked by building
that stood in the way. De Valera
ran up the Irish revolutionary
flag on this building.
TINE British, believing it to be
l. Irish revolutionary headquar-
tiers, conveniently removed the
building with their artillery. Then
the Irish sharpshooters resumed
where they had left off.
On the fifth day, General Pearse
Ito prevent further slaughter of
Dublin citizens and in the hope of
saving the lives of our followers,
now surrounded and hopelessly
outnumbered' -ordered his Irish
men to surrender.
De Valera gave up his little
command and was taken prisoner,
along with the rest of the lead
ers. On April 80 he was SEN
fenced to death.
He heard his fate calmly and
prepared to die before a British
firing squad, as had been the case
with SO many other revolutionary
leaders.
But Eamonn de Valera was not
destined to die then. Fate, always
mysterious and inscrutable, had
another destiny in store for him.
Instead of becoming merely an
other nameless martyr to the
revolution, he was destined to be-
come the greatest living hero OF
the Irish in the years to come.
NEXT: A singing gardener. a
pretty maid and a captive De Va
lera outwit guards of England's
famous prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
Gold No Temptation to
Vendor of Shan1rocks


PHILADELPHIA March 17Heres St Patricks day story
and the neros might well
he actually hides it behind anonymity
The hero appeared at Gladys Thonpkins
with huge bunch Of Shamrocks his
apiece Mrs Thompkns buy change and
only $50 gold piece
you take
the vendor offered Sine did.
After waiting o. valued
at about 50, she called police
after the detective
back TO the door Here's your change lady had
getting the gold piece changed" he explained
The detective showed establishment
Thompkins
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17

kneed? She came down from
Canada to enter a diving con-
test back east. And she was
so knock-kneed that the crowd
laughed the first time she
walked out on the spring
board.
Norma took advantage of
this and put on her act for
each successive dive, appear
ing more awkward than neces-
sary-until she left the spring.
board. Then she was the last
word in grace.
A film producer happened to
4 be present, was attracted by
her showmanship and decided
to give her a chance in a pic
ture he was about to start.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
T. B. REPORTS REQUIRED
Compliance With State Law Would
Check Spread. Morgan Asserts.

Attention was called to a state
law requiring reporting of cases of
tuberculosis at a meeting today in
the Lincoln of the Marion County
tuberculosis Associations health
education committee.
DR.. Herman G. Morgan, city
health board secretary, declared
that IF every case of tuberculosis
that we know of were traced back
to the case that caused it, we soon
should stop spread of the disease"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
PAVING PLANS ORDERED
Thirty Seventh Street From Illinois
to Kenwood to Be Surfaced.

The works board has ordered
plans and specifications prepared
for paving Thirty-seventh street
from Illinois street to Kenwood.
The board also has received bids
for removal of eight houses as part
Of the elimination of the jog at
Michigan street and Highland ave-
nue.. Decision on the contract was
delayed until Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
AID SWINDLER TO FARM
Negro Gets Four Months in Poor
Relief Fraud Case.

Anderson w. Hurst, 81, Negro, to-
day was the first person convicted
in Marion county for obtaining poor
relief by fraud, and as a result will
spend four months at the state pc
nal farm. He was fined $40 and
costs, which was suspended.
Sentence was imposed in criminal
court today by Judge Frank P.
Baker.
Hurst, representing that he had
a wife and three children, obtained
food and fuel worth $4a from Mrs.
Hannah Noone, Center township
trustee. His estranged wife, Mrs.
Annie Hurst, 635 East Wabash
street, indirectly caused his arrest
when she consulted authorities in
regard to filing lazy husband
charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
SAVE WOULD-BE SUICIDE
Relative Cut Down w. P. Gardner
in Attempt to Hang Self.

Attempting to commit suicide by
hanging himself in a garage in the
rear of his home Wednesday, Will
liam P. Gardner, 81, of 369 Wood
row avenue, was found by relatives.
He is in a serious condition today
at the home.
Gardeners wife, Elsa, told deputy
sheriffs her husband had been
respondent. She and relative ran
to the garage as Gardner Jumped
from the top of his auto with a
rope, attached to a rafter, around
his neck. Mrs. Gardner cut the
rope, and the two carried Gardner
into the house.
He refused to be taken to a hos
pital,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
LEAGUE PROBE
IN MANCHURIA
Held USELESS
investigation Is Futile, for
Japan Is There to Stay,
Exile Declares.
KOREA'S FATE CITED
Toxic Will Absorb Weaker
Nations, Defy World,
Expert Thinks.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Ar-
rival in China of the League of Ma
tons commission, headed by the
Earl Of Lytton, is viewed by the Jap
anese with a smile up their kimono
sleeves, according to unofficial adj
vices received here.
A Far Eastern authority, now in
Manchuria, who has the confidence
Of both sides of the japanese
quarrel, reports that General HOMO
and those about him are confident
that the commissions investigation
there will not change the situation
an iota.
To all outward appearances, Man
churia and Jehd, part of Inner
Mongolia, have declared their indie
pendence, set up separate state
known as Manchoukuo, and no
longer have any connection with
China.
Any undue shopping behind the
scenes, on the part of the Lytton
commission, it is said, will be re-
sented by the Japanese.
Annexation is Next
Meantime, in Washington, DR..
Syngman Rhee, provisional presi-
cent of Korea in 1919, declared
that Japan is making history re-
peat itself chapter by chapter, and
that an independent" Manchuria
is the last step prior to Japanese
annexation.
Japan, he observed, first spoke of
Korea as a pistol pointed at her
head Then she went to war with
China and an independent" Korea
was one of the results.
Fifteen years later, Korea as an
nexed and "Manchoukuo" will go
the same way, DR.. Syngman
warned, unless Nippon's plans are
blocked.
Japan, the Korean exile stated,
is the old Prussia of the Orient.
If she is allowed to absorb Man.
churia and Inner Mongolia, as she
did Korea. "she will become strong
enough to pursue the same Prus-
sian policy of blood and iron and
defy the entire world, just as she
now is defying the League of Ma
tons"
Burned Queens Body
1t is recalled that tragedy pursued
Korea, after her independence. The
queen was intensely anti-Japanese,
so a mob of Japanese and Koreans
surrounded the palace at Seoul, one
night, forced its way into the
queens presence, murdered her,
wrapped her body in a sheet, satu-
rated 1t with oil and burned it in
the courtyard,
Viscount Miura, japanese minister
to Korea, was implicated. Public in
dignation grew until Toxic was
forced to recall and try him. The
court found he had plotted the
queens death, but could not prove
he actually helped with the crime
itself.
His punishment" was retirement
to private life until Korea was an
nexed whereupon he was promoted
to privy councillor
Whether history is repeating it.
self, it is remarked that after the
Manchurian dictator. Chang Tso-
Lin, began to defy the Japanese in
that region, he was blown up and
killed as his special train was enter
ing Mukden.
The song of Chang Tso-Lin, who
fell heir to the governorship of Man
churia, was deposed by the forces of
General HOMO, now the power be-
hind the throne of dictator" Henry
Phi vi.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
ENDS ENGLISH. WALK0UT
Judge Pickens Dissolves Writ as
Stzca uandS Arc p.id

Judge PlckenS D1SSOlveS Writ as
Stage Hands Are Paid.
After wages of English'S theater
stage hands were paid, Superior
Judge William A. Pickens Wednes-
day dissolved temporary restrain
ing order which prevented enforce
ment Of walkout order against
the theater.
The order, given by the Interna-
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees and Motion Picture
Operators, sought to stop current
showings. After hearing the case
two days, attorneys were directed
by the court to reach a settlement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
PROPERTY TO BE SOLD
$4,000 Worth of Mortgages VIII Be
Foreclosed by Auditor Monday.

Charles A. Grossart, county audi
tor, will foreclose approximately
$4,000 worth of mortgages Monday
and place real estate, given as Sc
curity for loans from the common
school fund. ON the auction block.
The auditor Will sell 300 pieces
of real estate, if not redeemed, To
pay delinquent interest on the loans.
principal loaned and costs. Debtors
may redeem their property before
the auction date. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
Spring Is Here;
Leg Display Is
InfaLHbLe Sign
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Movie Writer

HOLLYWOOD, March IT,
IL Spring is here all right
and we don't need any robins
to tell us. The Hollywood high
school girls again are begin
ming to sit around the school
yard with legs showing well
above the knees, in hope that
some passing director might
notice them. That's sure
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
STARVES
TO AROUSE WORLD

Fearing that he would be con-
sidered insane when news of his
fast became public, DR.. Walter had
himself examined by DR.. Samuel A,
Silk of the staff of st, Elizabeths
hospital.
DR.. Walter was educated at the
University of New Zealand and in
Europe. He began career as a
language instructor. but lost several
positions during the war. He is OF
German birth, but British subject
by naturalization,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Dr.
Frederic F. walter, B. A., M. A. Lift.
D., is starving himself to. death as
a protest against unemployment
conditions.
DR.. Walter has not taken food for
eighteen days, since Feb. %. He is
81 years old and hopes his self-im-
posed fast will call attention to the
plight of men of high scholastic at
tainment who are unable to find
work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
BLACK TRIBE
PRISONER MAY
Be EXPLORER
Big Game Hunter Believes
Briton Found in Jungle Is
Col. H. P. FaWCett.
DISCOVERY IS DESCRIBED
Captive Is White Man Who
Claims Last Companion
Died Year AGO.

stephen Rattin. Swiss big game
hunter and trapper, with fourteen years
experience in the iunEIes Of South
America. Just has returned to civilization
with a sensational report that he had
found Colonel H. P. Fawcett. Fawcett.
a famous explorer. had been lost in the
great jungle" seven years since he
started out TO find lost civilization"
Rattin's story obtained by c. A. Powell,
and signed by Rattin for Powell, follows:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17

sign.
But it takes
more t h a n
legs to get
one in pic
lures t h e S e
days.
Did you
know t h a t
Norma Shear
er got h er
first chance
in pic lures
because S he
was a diver
and knock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17

IT'S mother was an Irish girl,
l. l. lately arrived from the old
country, in whom had been bred
an intense hatred for the English
through many generations. She
deSpiSed the English and from the
outset he was passionately Irish.
When De Valera was about
years old his father died and his
mother returned to Ireland, taking
the child with her. They went
to Bruree in the county of LINER
lex, where De Valera was edu-
Gated in the common schools. He
passed to higher schools and was
educated as a teacher.