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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Toll maintenance department of Indiana
Bell Telephone company.
The Lady from the MarOtf three
children).
Mr.. and Mrs. P. z. Merrill.
Mrs. Eddie Meyer lace bowler Of Bowcs
Seal Fast Team.
Continental Bank Man.
Transit Department. Indiana National
bank tboy and a girI).
North Illinois Cigar Man.
Medical Attendants. U. S. Veterans hos
pitaI.
Mrs. Out East.
Roy E.. Steele Ladies Bowling League
tPritehett alleys.
Mr.. and Mrs. North Chester.
Don't Use NY Name.
Mrs. Charter Member.
Mrs. r. B.. Out North.
Mrs. North Delaware.
In Memory Of Dorothy Heller Farber.
Mrs. North Pennsylvania street.
Employees Of Indianapolis Times tteu
children.
Indianapolis Star Bowling League
(Pritchett aIlevsl.
W. W. Club.
Z. ". p. Club.
L. c.. on Central avenue.
' From Holloway Street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
CLOTHES FoR HIS BROTHERS AND SISTER; YOU can HELP THE

it's folk like that who will make
it possible for the needy Of the
city to be cared for.
Individuals, clubs, lodges, fra
ternities and sororities, just call
Riley 5551 on how to Clothe-a-
Child and you'll be given a Gee
Whiz' or his sister to care for at
Yuletide.
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TINE donors list up-to-date
Il totals fifty : one children
clothed.
The list is as follows:
indianapolis Bowling League, Pritcheti
alleys 1.-TWO boysl.
Girls Of the Bertha Ballard home.
Mrs. B. G.. B.
sigma Tau Phi fraternity.
0ptlmist Club Member Friend Of thu
Boyl.
A West Georgia Group.
knight KIub.
Operators Of Lincoln office, Indiana Bel
Telephone Company tseven child mi.
Mrs. Alfred ~Eddingaeid and Mrs. Bruc'
Strickland, office employees Of Lincoln ex
change.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Storms Doomed
BIZ United Press

By tinted Press
CHICAGO, Dec. ga thou
sand years from now hurri-
canes, tornadoes and severe
billiards will be unknown. DR..
r. E. Wilson. former Mesa
chusetts Institute Of TecLnol-
ogy professor, believes.
Explaining his theory to the
Chicago Chemists Club. DR..
Wilson declared violent weather
changes gradually are disap-
pearing, due TO constant dimin-
ishing of the polar ice caps and
erosion of mountains.
This just is the end Of the
glacial era" said DR.. Wilson.
"Unless there is a new erup-
ton of mountain ridges, we
al expect the polar ice caps to
melt away. There will be less
cloudiness, fewer atmospheric
changes, and a greater chance
for the earth to absorb the
suns heat"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Cal Riley 5551-or aCrite-dnd ask for the CIothe
a Child editor of The Indianapolis Times.
He wHl give you the name of q needy school child be-
tWeen 6 and IL gears old.
Each child has been checked for need By the Christ
mas Clearing House and the social service department of
the public schools. Community Fund relief agencies are
providing the names of aUorthy children.
The Times gipes you the name If the child. You
clothe the youngster-thats your Christmas, that's the
chids Christmas, and that is our Christmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Out of the Kentucky mountains
came Gee Whiz' and his fam
lily to the BIG CITY-Indian-
apolis.
They'd. been told that wealth,
good jobs, plenty of food far from
the menu of fat pork and beans
was in store for them.
That was ten years ago. The
city gave his Dad a job up to three
years ago. Gee Whiz" and his
brothers and sisters knew what
real "larnln" was for the first
time in the city schools.
Then his father was thrown out
of work. His sister was struck by
a motor car and sent to the city
hospital. Bad luck tracked them
like a dog tracks a bone.
And now they're back where
they started except for scenery.
They're eating fat pork and beans
again. The "larnin'" isn't easy,
what with missing days at school
because of poor clothing.
That's Gee Whiz story. He
doesn't want clothing for himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
CHURCHMEN FOR
FIvE-DAY WEEK
Councils Approval Given
Old Age Pensions.

After battling through three ses-
sionS Thursday when unemploy-
ment insurance, old age pensions
and child labor abolition received
backing, the quadrenniel convention
of the Federal Council of Churches
at the SEVERN today settled down
to consideration of less spectacular
matters in the closing sessions.
Race relations, cooperation
among Protestant sects and devel-
opment of music in the church were
brought before the convention in
today's opening session.
Progress in the fight against
lynching was traced by Bishop
George G. Clement of the African
M. E. Zion church, chairman OF
the race relations commission.
At a night ession Thursday, with
fifty of the $50 delegates present, the
council adopted an emasculated birth
control resolution, after the original
statement of the committee on re-
vised social ideals had been debated
sharply on the floor of the con-
vention at both morning and after
noon sessions.
A resolution in support of pro-
hibition, introduced Wednesday by
Bishop James Cannon Jr., advo-
cate of the eighteenth amendment,
was adopted without debate in the
dying moments of the afternoon
session Thursday. Only objections
raised by the clergymen we're that
the statement was not strong
enough.
The council also gave a guarded
recognition to divorce. Members de-
clared that divorce or separation
may be preferable to the enforced
Turn to Page 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Gee whiz, it's cold. Can I
warm my hands a little before I
talk to your"
And that's the way we first met
the Gee Whiz" boy. He came to
The Times Cloths a Child depart
ment to tell of the need of his
brothers and sisters.
He came blowing breath on his
hands to warm them. He came
asking aid for his brothers and
sisters and not for himself.
But his tattered trousers stood
out like headlights on a locomo-
tive. His toes we're where the
leather of his shoes should have
been. His sweater was an island
of holes where cloth should have
been.
Gee whizl you got typewriters
up here. I never saw one work
before" he exclaimed.
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THE typewriter was worked for
i him. It was worked long
enough to take down this story:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
CONFESSION is CLAIMED
Bank Bandit Suspect, Brothers, Are
Returned to ShelbyviIIe.

By CHtteG PfeSS
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Dec. o.
Roland Leisure, %, Knightstown,
and his younger brother Tyrus, were
returned to Shelbyville from Ham
mond today to face charges of rob-
bling the Gwynneville bank.
Sheriff Elisha Crosby announced
upon his arrival with the prisoners
that Roland had confessed partici-
patton in the holdup, but refused to
name his accomplices.
Edward Radermacher and Henry
Sanders, Hammond, arrested with
Leisure were left at Hammond for
further questioning. They were said
to have convinced authorities they
did not take part in the robbery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Importance a grown woman would
place on the occasions in later years.
MY parents separated when I
was g." she said today. MY mother
took my brother and me for a short
while. I was too young to remem-
Der much about it. Then I was
adopted-and never saw my mother
again.
Robert later was taken to live
with his father, Louis Brooks, and
in 1916, father, brother and sister
were reunited in Noblesville at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Silvey,
who had adopted the girl.
Father Died in 1918
In 1913 the father died. The
mother, Mrs. Matte Brooks, took
Robert to live with her in Cincin-
natl and there the trail ends.
II heard indirectly that my
mother had remarked. I don't
know her name and I have no way
of finding it. Whether my brother
is with her, I don't know" Mrs.
Crousore said.
Slowly through the years, she has
pieced together a loosely woven
story of her brothers history. In
gathering it, she mas been aided by
David Lydy of indianapolis, a friend
of her fathers and for a number of
years the custodian Of the boy.
One Letter From Brother
'Mr. Lydy received a letter from
my brother five or six years ago,
but it contained no clew except that
he was with my mother in North
Bend, o." she said. "At that time
she had not remarked"
Il don't even know how my
brother looks. All I have is this"
"a small snapshot of a wistful, 7
year-old boy contained in the tiny
locket.
Mrs. Crousore ended her four
teen-year stay with the SilveY fam
lily two years ago and since has
been employed in Indianapolis. On
July 16 of this year she was mar
ried to William Crousore in Ko-
komo. Her husband is employed
there and Mrs. Crousore works here
as a nurse in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ross T. Ewert, 1884 North
Delaware street.
"All through the years I have
hoped and prayed that some day
would meet my mother and my
brother and would have a family
again." she said, smiling bravely
Probably I'll be disappointed again
this year.
But it would be a wonderful
Christmas present to find them
again."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
u. 5. FIRM FOR
DEBT PAYMENT
ON DATE DUE
StimSon Note Tells France
and Britain That Delay
Will Not Be Given.
ARMS CUT IS URGED
Full Examination of Whole
Problem Is Promised
by Secretary.
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The net
result today of the United States
notes to Great Britain and France
was that, while the two debtors
have Americas promise of later
relief, they still are expected to
pay $125, 000, 900 on Dec. Is.
Britain was invited to submit its
own method If payment. London
reports indicated, however, that she
had decided to pay in gold.
Secretary of State Henry L. Slim
son, in his note to London, prom
ised a "close examination" of the
whole debt problem. But he warned
that this offer did not imply a will
lingness to cancel the debt. He
again suggested that disarmament
would help Europe's debt case.
The note to France was handed
to Ambassador Paul Clauden Thurs
day night. Its publication was de-
layed until it has had time to reach
Paris. Save for answers to special
points raised by the French, it is
understood to follow the general
lines of the reply to London.
StimsOn Note Is Frank
Stimson'S note to Great Britain,
while authoritatively interpreted as
a hands across the sea" gesture
designed to appease British public
opinion and obliterate the picture
Of Uncle Shylock," contained some
frank phrases. Replying to argu-
ments made by the last British note,
it.:
1. Denied that the war loans were
all spent for shot and shell. Much
of the money was spent for goods
cotton, tobacco and food-and a
part of this was sold by the Dor
rowing governments, Stimson con-
tended. Hence he could not admit
that the loans had been wholly "un-
productive"
2. Denied that the United States
endorsed the Lausanne PREPARATIONS
agreement, and quoted a British
treasury statement to support his
assertion.
8. Recalled that Americas gold
supply in 1924, when debt payments
began, and now, were almost iden-
teal in size, thus seeking to prove
that war debt transfers had not
gorged the United States treasury
with gold.
Points to u. S. Buying
4. Replied to Britain'S arguments
that payments were difficult because
the United States would not buy
sufficient goods abroad. Stimson as
serted that gold had flowed east
ward across the Atlantic through
other channels than trade.
Between 1924 and 1880, he said,
American tourists spent $4,000, OO0,-
900 in Europe and immigrants here
RENTED $1,495, 600, 900 to their
homes, in comparison with $1,673,-
100000 paid on war debts.
5. Declared that the debt pay
ments have been a minor item" in
international money movements and
said the British note "overempha-
sized" the Importance of war debts
on world economy.
In short, Stimson's note was a
succinct presentation of the reasons
why the United States feels that
debt cancellation is not justified.
After putting himself on record,
Stimson adopted a softer tone.
He said he felt confident that
the congress will be willing to con-
slider any reasonable suggestions
made by your government" as to
methods of making the Dec. Is pay
ment as easy as possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
France Will Pay
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press staf Corresponden

UHIIoW IItSs sFdH OOIItsUOHUtHE
BIZ United Press
PARIS, Dec. 9.-The French gov
eminent has decided definitely to
pay its Dec. Is annuity to Washing
ton, provided parliament approves,
it was indicated by questions and
answers today at the conclusion of
Premier Edouard Herriot's appear
ance before the finance and foreign
affairs commissions of the chamber
of deputies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Death Toll Mounts
BU United Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-The sharp
winds of winters first cold wave
took toll in human suffering today
&C temperatures chung close to the
zero mark or below.
From the Rockies to the Atlantic
coast, and from the Arctic to the
Gulf of Mexico, cold weather ruled.
Death and suffering increased, espe-
cially among destitute unemployed.
In Chicago six deaths were re-
ported. 4.
The cold was most severe in Min
nesota and the Dakotas. Hibbing,
Mimi, had % below zero. Duluth,
Superior and Miles City, Mont, had
% below. Devils Lake, N. D., had
a reading of 20 below, and Willis
ton, N. D., 18 below zero.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
GAS PISTOL TAKES
GREETER'S FINGERS
Chicago'S Welcoming Hand
Is Minus Digit.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. City Greeter
George Cav, who recently discon-
tinued the use of his spotless white
automobile for welcoming visitors
because the visitors felt too conspic-
uous, suffered a further loss today.
Cav was greeting some personal
guests several weeks ago at his
home He was showing a gas pistol
when it exploded in his right hand.
The Swedish Covenant hospital
announced that the index finer of
Gaw's right hand was being ampu-
tated-the same finger that has
pointed out the sights to all visit
ing notables for several years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Fines and Prison Terms
Giuen Eagles Chiefs for
Lottery Law Violation
Bright Spots
BY United Press

BY United Press
United States postofice depart
ment postal receipts at fifty cities
totaled $2,840, ass, an increase of
Ill per cent over November, 1881.
Lehigh Portland Cement Com
pany reopens its Fordwick (Va.)
plant after long shutdown.
International Great Northern
railroad reports freight loadings
last week totaled 3,703 cars,
against 3,404 cars in preceding
week. .
j. Edward Jones research de-
partment reports service station
gasoline prices in 162 cities in
creased slightly last week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
INTERNES TO BE NAMED
Twenty Five to Be Chosen for Next
Term at City Hospital.

appointment of internes at city
hospital for the term beginning
June, 1888, will be made tonight at
regular meeting of the board of
health.
approximately ITS applications
will be considered in filling the
twenty-five available interneships,
DR.. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of
the board, said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
ACID TOSSED IN FACE
Indiana Mother Is Victim of
Attack.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
ROANN, Ind, Dec. 9.-Identity of
a man who threw acid in the face
of Mrs. Carmen Krisher at the
home of her parents here was
sought by police today.
Mrs, Krisher said the man stole
up behind her, asked where her
baby wSs, and tossed the acid, after
being told the child was not home.
Physicians fear her face will be
diSfigured permanently. Judge
Sumner Kennel of Huntington re-
Gently refused to grant a divorce
to Mrs. Krisher and her husband.
Since then they have been living
apart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
GOLD ON WAY TO U. S.
5000, 900 Shipment Put Aboard
Liner Bremen by France.
By United Press

DW CVtttW Ttoo
CHERBOUG, France, Dec. 9. -
The first great shipment of French
gold to the United States since the
gold flow started to Europe was put
aboard the liner Bremen today.
1t consisted of fifteen cases,
valued at SO, 1000, 900, consigned by
French banks to American banks. 1t
was made possible by the increased
value of the dollar, which makes it
profitable to use gold for dollar
transactions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Trapped inside the face of an
alarm clock, a spider today waged
a bitter battle against time in the
Barberton (O.) home of Mary
Louise Thompson (right), who
shakes her brown locks in wonder
ment. For eighteen days the spi-
der stubbornly has tried to lash the
hour and minute hands together
with strands of web.
Hour after hour, as the hands
move relentlessly onward, they
break his web. The spider some
how entered the clock face when
very small, and now has grown too
large to escape.
Scientists at the Municipal uni
versity of Akron have taken clock,
spider and all to the university
laboratories for study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
RUSH RESCUE CREWS
TO SHATTERED MINE
Harlan County Shaft Is
Rocked by Explosion.

By United Press
HARLAN, KY, Dec. 9.-An explo-
sion occurred in a mine of the Har-
Ian Fuel Company, at Yancey, KY,
six miles south of here, shortly be-
fore noon today.
George Bryson, safety director of
the Harlan County Coal Operators
Association, and rescue crews, rushed
to the scene from here and other
nearby mining centers.
Details on extent of possible ca
sualties were not Immediately avail
able.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
HINES Is WITNESS ON
VETERANS BENEFITS
Administrator First One Called in
Committee Quiz.
Bv United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. g.
Brigadier- General Frank T. Hines,
administrator of veterans affairs,
appeared before a joint congress-
eional committee today in support
of administration proposals to cur
tail veterans benefits not based on
service disabilities.
A large portion of the annual
$1,000, 000, 900 veterans appropriation
now goes to veterans whose allow
ances are based on nonService dis
ability.
Hines was the first witness heard
as the committee began its search
for possible economies in veterans
appropriations. The room was filled
with representatives of service or
CARNATIONS which oppose any re-
duction of benefits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Reformatory Inmate Injured

Barker SOuehrS, q, Indiana re-
formatory inmate. suffered a
crushed leg today when a manhole
cover fell from a truck he was as
sisting in unloading at the city
barns, 1874 Shelby street, fell. He
was taken to city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

NEE WHIT. 1 got two broth.
" ers and a sister that need
it more" ne said.
But, Gee whiz," he'd no more
than left the Office before opera
tors of Lincoln Office of the In
diana Bell Telephone Company
called and said they wanted eight
children to care for.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
$4,000; F0RGETS!
Hotel Maid Finds Roll; She's Hon
est and Gets $40 Bill.

By United Press
CAIRO. Ill, Dec. 9.-While Alice
Reed, 40, Negro maid, was cleaning
a room in a local hotel, $4,000 in
cash fell from a pillow. She turned
it over to Ed Dunn, the proprietor
He notified E. H. Stewart, Toledo.
O., who had placed the money there
for ~safekeeping and had forgotten
it. The main was rewarded with a
$50 bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

By United Press
Fl. WAYNE, Ind. Dec. s.-Don-
aid E. Policy. 2, died today from
injuries received when he slipped
from a log trailer on which he had
attempted to catch a ride.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

The operators, with the aid of
Mrs. Alfred Eddingfield and Mrs.
Bruce Strickland. clerks in the
Office, have gathered together a
fund that's growing hourly to take
care Of children for the third con-
secutive year in the Clothe a
Child movement.
Gee whizl" that's great. And
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
RFC SECRECY BACKED
Senate Committee to Recommend
No Publicity for Transactions.

No Publicity for Transactions.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9,-The SEN
ate committee charged with investi-
eating loans by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation decided today
to recommend to congress on Jan. l
that no publicity be given the
transactions Of the corporation.
1t was indicated on reliable
authority that the committee would
not find fault with administration
of the corporations affairs as dis
closed by records examined to date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Twenty
age was the last
time she saw her
mother.
Sixteen a
ago she spent a
few short hours
in the company of
her brother, Rob-
ert Jesse Brooks.
Ever t h e S e
treasured memo
rieS are obScured
because of dimly-
recorded impress
sions on a child
hood mind which,
at the time, could
not realize the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Christmas Reunion With
Brother, Gone 20 Years,
Is City Woman's Dream
Cherishes Locket Bearing
Baby'S Picture Through
Long Search.
BY JAMEs A. CARVIN.

While snow drifted earthward to-
day, as a messenger of approaching
Christmas, Mrs. William Brooks
Crousore, %, desperately hoped that
this year would bring her the great
est of all Christmas gifts-a re-
union with her family.
Clasping a tiny golden locket, a
relic of baby days, she told of
heart-hungry years during which
she has exhausted every means to
locate her only two living relatives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
JAIL MURDER SUSPECT
Accused City Man Ordered Back
Into Custody by Judge.

James Crawford 446 East Merrill
street, charged with murder, and
who was release don $4,000 bond
after a haheas corpus hearing in
superior court two several weeks
ago, todya was ordered returned to
jail.
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker
announced he was sending Craw-
ford back to jail because of infor-
nation the bond was not proper.
Crawford is charged with killing
Arthur Myrtle Lustig, 446 East
Merrill street, following an alleged
domestic alteration.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-11
Editorial Page
and
Features
DOES 1T PAY?

A LONG SILVER CIGAR against a blue
n background the Akron, worlds
largest dirigible, and pride of the navy's
air forces made an inspiring picture as it
drifted across Imperial Valley this
morning.
One could not help feeling a thrill of
pride at the ingenuity of man who could
produce such a machine and defy the
laws of gravity by keeping it aloft. Over
20 human beings were aboard the airship
and it was difficult to think of them and
their craft without recalling the fate of
their comrades aboard the Inflated Shen-
andoah, which in her day was as inspir-
ing as the Akron is today.
1t looked beautiful and it inspired
pride, but it also prompted the question
why?
The Akron cost several million dollars.
It's life will be at best seven or eight
years. 1t requires a large number OF
men to send it aloft and an equally large
number to bring it down to earth. Con-
stant care is necessary to see that all
parts are not damaged for one weak spot
may cause disaster.
The helium gas with which the Akron
is provided, alone cost $4,000 to pro-
duee.
Graceful as it appeared in its flight
through the air, it also seemed awkward
and cumbersome. What would one small,
fast flying airplane, costing so much less,
be able to do to it? The reader knows
the answer. The vulnerability of the
Akron stuck out like a lighthouse on a
coast.
For the price of a single dirigible a
flock of airplanes could be built and
maintained for long time.
No, while we watched and admired the
Akron, we could not see where it is prac-
tical nor why the government should
build them Not when airplanes are as
efficient and as cheap-relatively speak
ing-as they are.
The dirigible is in class with the bat
tleship Against them the airplane and
the submarine are just too effective.