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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
PERIL OF FLOOD
RISES IN STATE
Snow in North, Rains. in
South Reported.

Temperatures rose in Indiana to-
day while the northern part of the
state dug out from a snowstorrn and
the southern section battled rising
waters.
The Indianapolis weather bureau
announced the cold snap is over and
temperatures will stand about 80 to-
night. The lowest here in twenty
four hours was 25. Northern Indi-
ana, blanketed in three to six inches
of snow, had mercury readings
near 20.
Traction service was resumed and
northern roads were open today.
after snow plowS and unemployed
cleaned the heavy snow for twenty
four hours.
Flood warnings were issued
throughout southern Indiana. as the
Ohio and Wabash rivers became a
continual threat after they had
passed flood stages. Families along
the Ohio near Jeffersonville were
warned to be ready to move on
short notice.
Many southern roads were flood
ed, the highway department re-
ported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
BANDIT
FORGOT HIS ORDER
Fry Two and Then Stick
EN- Up Waitress Is
Told by Robber.

If a bandit who left two ham,
burger sandwiches, being cooked for
him, in a restaurant at 402 Massa-
chusetts avenue early today will
come back and get them, Mrs. Mil
dred Dennis, 81, waitress will have
them ready.
In truth, Mrs. Dennis thought
first of these sandwiches when she
stared into the muzzle of a revolver
at 2 a. m. today while alone in the
restaurant.
THE bandit came in and ordered
two hamburgers. When I went to
fry them he told me to reach
she said.
Il looked around into the bar
rel of gun, and the bandit told
me to stand still until he'd gone y
well. don't you want these
hamburgers?" Mrs. Denis asked him.
Il don't see any reason to let them
burn"
The bandit did not answer. He
opened the cash register and took
S12. warning Mrs. Dennis second
time to stay where you are"
Whether from the effects of the
holdup or the waste of two ham
burgers, Mrs. Dennis did not know,
but she found it hard to sleep today
I'D like to meet the bandit
again." she said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
Resident of New York for
101 Years Had Held
High Offices.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-John r.
Voorhis, 1O2, former sachem Of
Tammany hall, died today.
He had retired recently as presi-
dent of the board of elections, a
post he had held since 1918.
Born in Pompton Lakes, N. j.,
Voorhis has been a resident of New
York City for 101 years.
He had rounded out a full life.
He saw the city of 100000 grow
into the great metropolis of today,
and he himself became the oracle
of Democratic politics.
OutIived His Time
He died at his home on Green
wich street where for more than
sixty years he had resided. In that
time the once fashionable residen-
tial district had been converted into
the now Bohemian Greenwich will
age.
Voorhis had felt he had almost
outlived his time. Last July q
when reporters called on him for
his annual birthday interview he
turned to them and said:
Il said the last one would be the
last. I have had too many BIRTH
days. Let the others have BIRTH
days, I have had enough. 1t is all
in the makers hands; we must let
things take their course
Fought Against Tammany
Sixty-seven years ago he became
Democratic leader of the Ninth
ward and in 1871 turned anti Tam
many during the Tweed exposures.
His first political appointment came
in 1873 as excise commissioner.
He fought Tammany bitterly for
twenty years, his organization be-
coming known as ''Voorhis Democ-
racy." Then in 1889 some of his CO.
leaders wanted split ticket of Re-
publicans and Voorhis Democrats.
His differences with Tammany
were patched up and he assembled
the Tammany ladder until he be-
came grand sachem. Constitution
ally, a grand sachem may serve only
one year. But in tribute to Voorhis
each time elections for the grand
sachem came around, each sachem
voted for himself, thereby prevent
ing majority and Voorhis auto
matically continued in Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
DiSagreeS With Hoover
By United Press


ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5.-Failure to
institute economy measures neces-
sary to balance the budget of the
federal government-not boarding
Of moneys what really is pre-
venting business recovery, according
to Jay Morrison, Seattle, president
of the saving bank division of the
American Bankers Association.
Commenting on President Hoo
ver's plea for Americans to restore
boarded funds to circulation, Nor
rison today said the effects of
boarding had been exaggerated
greatly.
1.-THE banks have no God-given
right to deposits" he declared.
More than 1900 of them failed in
the country last year, tying up more
than s2,O00,0O0,00O. If the people
want to hoard, however foolish the
desire, it's their own business. After
all, the thing is to keep the people
from going broke.
II think the President is wrong when
he says every dollar boarded means
the destruction Of $40 in credit. One
dollar can not be, and never has
been, the basis for SO credit"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
SPEAKS ON HAWAII
Vagabond Poet Appears on
Town Hall Program.

After putting his audience in "a
deck chair frame of mind, Don
Blandlng, author and poet, took
them to Hawaii at English's this
morning as part of the Town Hall
series.
The poet read some of his own
verse that he wrote while he was on
his vagabond tour of Hawaii some
years ago.
He said that the climate in the
island is that which California ad-
vertises."
In speaking of the present unde-
sirable publicity that the islands
were receiving he said that reports
are greatly exaggerated"
Banding read his poems, Chill
dren" and Leaves for the Roof of
My Grass House."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
RETIRED RAIL COUNSEL
IN PRIVATE PRACTICE
John B. Cockrum, Nickel Plate We
eran, in New Office.

Although retired by the Nickel
Plate and Lake Erie & Western
railroads after forty years of service
as legal counsel, John B. Cockrum,
prominent Indianapolis attorney,
has entered the private practice of
law at his Offices, $50 Consolidated
building.
Cockrum, IA, was retired and
made advisory counsel for the rail-
road, but insisted that the work
would not occupy his time suf-
f1ciently, and so has entered private
practice.
Cockrum was born in Oakland
City and attended the Cincinnati
law school. He was a claSsmate of
the late William Howard Taft.
He started his practice in Boon
vile, came to Indianapolis in 1899,
became deputy United States dis
trict attorney and then entered the
service of the Lake Erie g. West
ern. He has been prominent in
Republican politics for many years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
SITE FOR JUVENILE
HOME CONSIDERED

County commissioners announced
today they were considering, but
have not decided upon plans for &C
curing a new detention home at a
cost of 100000. 1t is to be large
enough to house juvenile court.
Commissioners conferred with
county councilmen Thursday re-
earding purchase and remodeling of
an apartment building at 806 East
North street.
Frank F. Woolling, agent for the
owner, Jean Deupree, met with COM
miSSioners late Thursday.
The property en- be acquired for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05

S27, 500, commissioners said. Plans
call for expenditure Of $4,000 in the
remodeling program.
Ample space for outdoor and in
door recreation would be provided.
The three-story structure would ac-
mommodate seventy-five boys and
girls. and future so per cent ex-
pansion would be possible.
Commissioners cor enplate a
f1reproof building. the announced.
A yard IS fee ty 153 feet, which
juvenile au .orities say the deten-
ton home needs, is connected with
the property.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED
Scout Leaders Plan Celebration of
Orders Founding.

Twenty-second anniversary of the
founding Of the Boy Scouts of
America was observed Thursday in
indianapolis and central Indiana.
Luncheon was held by the local
executive board at the Chamber of
Commerce. over which Edward A.
Kahn. council president, presided.
Plans we're discussed for observance
of national Boy Scout week next
week.
indianapolis boys will not observe
formally the national week until
spring vacation of schools. Several
trocus, however, will present spe-
cia1progranis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
REPORT BARES
U. s. BOARDING
OF MILLIONS
Nations Business Leaders
Called to Aid Hoover in
New Campaign.
HUNT STACKER DOLLARS
Relief for Bank Tension
Help for Trade Is Aim
of President.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-Need o.
President Hoover's new anti-hoard-
ing campaign was indicated today
by the latest federal reserve reports.
estimating that hoaring of money
has resumed again, after a brief let
down.
Figures indicated that as much as
S42,000,000 may have been hidden
under mattresses and in safe deposit
boxes in the week ended Feb. 3, &C
coring to federal reserve officials.
Arrangements for an aggressive
opening of the Presidents national
campaign to enlist the average citi-
zenS in a patriotic war against ST.
300,O00,000 hidden Stacker dollars"
were being made today.
President Hoover is preparing to
address the anti-hoarding confer
ence at the White House at 10 q. m.
Saturday. Charles G. Dawes. presi-
dent OF the reconstruction finance
corporation, also will hurl his explo-
slye oratory at the conference.
NOtables to Attend
Heads of more than forty ma
tional organizations covering everv
walk of life will be present. Through
their respective organizations they
cover large percentage of the
earning population of the country.
All directors of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation will be
present, as the purpose Of this con-
ference is to enlist the average
man in the same objective the cor
poration has.
The corporation is to lend
from its $4,000 100000 resources to
ease credit thwarted banks and
other institutions. The average
man is asked to produce any
Stacker dollars" he has hidden
and deposit them in sound banks
or conservative investments, to help
build up the working funds of the
country.
The latest federal reserve report
shows that $1,055, 100000 has been
added to the money in circulation
in the last year, including $40, 00O, 900
last week.
Huge Sum HOarded
The week previous, money in cir
culation dropped $24,0O0,OOO indi-
eating a slowing down of boarding.
Officials only can guess at the
amount actually boarded. Bank
figures show the money "in circula
tion," that is, in the hands of the
public.
They figure the legitimate needs
of business for money are possibly
Is per cent less now than a year
ago, yet there is more than $1,000
100000 additional money in the
hands of the public.
Hence the increase must be
boarded, they argue. President
Hoover estimates the boarded money
at $1,3O0,OO000O. Some federal re-
serve officials put it at nearer
S2,O0O,OO0,00.
One destructive effect of the
boarding wave has been to force
many banks to hoard cash, thus
further knotting the money situa-
ton.
With depositors in jump frame
of mind, bankers are in constant
fear Of runs which may wreck them.
no matter how sound they may be
intrinsically.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
HEADS INSURANCE UNION
W. E. Clark, Fl. Wayne, Elected by
Indiana Mutual Group.

w. E. Clark Of TT. Wayne was
named president of the Indiana
Mutual Insurance Companies IN
ion at a meeting Thursday in the
Claypool. Other officers are Morris
Douglas, vice-president; H. L. Now
lin Of indianapolis, secretary, and
Harry P. Cooper of Indianapolis,
vice-Secretary.
Officers in the women's auxiliary,
which was formed Thursday, are
Mrs. Harry P. Cooper, chairman;
Mrs. D. w. Biddle of Remington,
vice-chairman, and Mrs. Josephine
Goats of indianapolis, secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
Local Mail Carrier Spent
Four Years in Cold
Northwest.

The mad trapper who is the OBJ
ject of an airplane man hunt in
the northwest territory didn't &C
crazy of isolation.
He might as easily have gone in
sane riding a bus in Indianapolis
And unless this same mad trap
per, Albert Johnson, is surrounded
completely by the Royal Northwest
Mounted police, he has a chance tc
live without food supplies or ammu-
milton for years.
Spent Seven Months Alone
These are beliefs of Cecil Geckler
1924 College avenue, mail carrier
who spent four years trapping in
northern Canada.
The crazed trapper is sought after
Staying a Canadian mounted police
man.
Isolation doesn't make trappers
go mad. The character of the trap
per would determine whether he
could retain his sanity after months
VI 0CChlEE Bays
AT one time I was seven months
without seeing any one or anything
except my dogs and the animals
trapped Or killed for food.
II was about 500 miles east Of
Aklavik, where the hunt for John
son is underway. My base was Nut
mountain, ninety miles from the
Canadian National railroad in Sas-
katchewan.
Can Keep Self in Food
THE temperature during the
winter went as low as 68 below
and at IS degrees my thermometer
broke.
THE isolation didn't make me &c
mad I don't get lonesome and
homesick as some men might.
eff the mad trapper's ammuni-
ton runs out and his food sup
plies are gone he still can use
snares and deadfalls to catch his
food.
Rabbits that turn white in win
ter and are brown in summer, elk
bear, and even wolves, can be
trapped by him. He can make a
fire by friction.
That's why don't think he car
be so mad. He seems, according
to press reports, to be able to take
care of himself. A man who hac
lost all mentality would freeze tx
death in two hours in the north
west territory.
Bush, Lakes Afford Shelter
HE must know how to build E
lean-to to shelter himself from the
winds at SO and so below zero. He
must not forget to build fire II
front Of that lean-to- to protect
himself from wolves. Wolves feal
fire.
IF the Mounties don't catch
Johnson before the spring thaw
and he's able to give them the slip
then he could hide for days or
lakes or in brush in that vicinity
without being seen by either white
man or Indian"
Geckler explained that he under
stood the breaking of the code of
the northland was responsible for
the murder of the constable by the
mad trapper.
Mounties Will Get Man
johnson stole furs from the trap
lines of Indians. The mounties went
to arrest him and he killed one con-
stable, with the result he's now be-
ing hunted by posses and planes.
THE law Of the north is that
every trapper's lines shall be invio-
late, whether they're Indian or
white.
I'm the four years I spent in the
northwest 1 never had a fur stolen
from one of my traps. It's an Of
Tense as great as robbing a bank
in this country.
"Will the mounties get their man
this time? OF course they will.
They always do. I'd hate to be in
his snowshoes."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
ASSESSMENTS FOUGHT
Realtor Alleges AppraisaIs Were
Made in HaphaZard Manner.


Objections to assessments on 146
pieces of real estate were made in
a suit filed Thursday in superior
court four by William Lowe Rice,
Realtor.
The suit seeks to have the assess
ments declared void on basis that
they were made in an unequal and
haphazard manner. Defendants are
Timothy P. Sexton, county treas
urer; Charles A. Gossart, auditor,
and Robert Sloan, county assessor.
The complaint charges that tax
ing officials have failed to list $780,
100000 Of personal property during
the last four years and that this un-
fair taxation is a violation of the
plaintiffs rights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
AWAIT TAX CUT PLANS
Committee Takes First Setps at
Meeting Thursday.

A specific tax reduction program
is expected from the Indiana tax
survey committee at its meeting
next Thursday. it was stated TO-
day by Senator J. Clyde Hoffman,
chairman.
The committee met Thursday at
the L. S. AyreS auditorium, and
took preliminary steps for the pro-
grams completion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
CANADIAN RAIL PAY CUT
$4,000 Employees Take 10 Per Cent
Slash Until Jan. 81, 1888.
By United Press

By United Press
MONTREAL, Feb. 5.-Wage
negotiations between the Canadian
National and Canadian Pacific
Railways and their $4,000 employees
have been settled by an agreement
providing 10 per cent cut effec-
tive from Dec. l, 1881, until Jan.
81, 1888.
Papers were signed Thursday. In
Guided in the employee group agree
ing to the wage cut are locomotive
engineers, firemen, trainmen, con-
ductorS, yard men and telegraphers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05

Four Held on Liquor Charges
Four men face trial today on
liquor charges following arrest
Thursday. They are Harry Colbert,
847 Broadway; John w. Dilley. 400
Spring street; Ralph E. Dickerson
Of 10 North Oriental street, and
James Walker, Negro, 932 PieTson
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
Steals Travelling Bag, Gun

A thief ransacked the home Of
Harry Armstead, 20 South Colo
RADIO street Thursday night, taking
travelling bag worth SIS and re-
volver valued at s45.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
Mine To BE Opened

PRINCETON, Ind, Feb. S.
Preparations are being made at the
Francisco coal mine for resumption
Of operations after an idle period Of
a year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
SCHOOL So DEDICATED
Pupils, Parents, Officials Join in
Program at New Building.

Program at New Building.
Exercises defeating school No.
SO. at keystone avenue and Thir-
ty-1fth street, were held Thursday
night in the presence of pupils,
parents and residents of the COM
munity.
School Commissioner Julian Wet
eel, chairman of the building and
grounds committee, presented the
building. 1t was accepted by SUI
perintendent Paul G. Stetson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
TRAPPER HAS
CHANCE TO ESCAPE.
EX-MUSHER THINKS


Cecil Geckler,
Indianapolis
mail carrier
and former
trapper
IN the
far north,
aOho thinks the
crdzed killer
of q
Northwest
Mounted
policeman
has q
chance
to elude his
DNrSUeTS
for gears.
cAxN0
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-05
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

A MOTHER current novel you
"A should enjoy is Brave New
World by Aldous Huxley Double
day Dorsn). 1t is broad, pungent
satire in which the world of "A. F..
$50" is pictured as Huxley. in a
whimsical mood, has envisioned it.
The "A. p" means After Ford,
for by that date Henry Ford will be
revered. Mass production has
reached the ultimate. The book
opens, in fact. in a factory where
babies are turned out in a much
more systematic fashion than today,
The Washington times., 1932-03-11

ALPHONSE CAPONE
wouldn't let me. When 1 ret
through with this, I am going
into the surety business. In
fact, / am in 1t now"
Citizens Of Chicago interested
in Capone's appearance of un-
usual power. should go to the
Art Museum, on Michigan
Boulevard, and look at the equeS-
trian statue of Colleoni by Yer
rocchio, finest equestrian statue
in the world
Colleoni, greatest of Italy's
condottieri. had powerful shoul-
ders like Capone'S, with a neck
and head like his. If Colleoni
and Capone had changed places
in history, Capone might be
riding a bronze horse in Venice
today. and Colleoni, who fought
for and against this city and
that, and finally left his great
fortune to Venice, might be sit
ting now in the Jail on the
West Side.
More about that Jail another
day, perhaps, about the des-
perate men that are divided up
among it's 80 sections, some
under sentence of death, some
waiting for sentence: about
miserable women waiting pa
tiently for an opportunity to
speak to those in jail, old men
that have come to see their
sons. young men and women
bringing a little money to a
father or mother.
The visitors cage would inter
est you. separating the criminal
from his visiting friends by a
plate of bulletproof glass. You
can talk and even whisper to
the prisoner around the edge
of the glass. But you can't
hand him poison, a gun or a
saw.
The Washington times., 1932-03-11


"And," said he, lit would
make those responsible feel bet
ter in case they feared I
wouldn't come back to take the
bond down and to set my
brother free. Callaghan would
not worry. He knows he can
trust me if 1 give him my
word"
Capone went into some detail,
but not for publication, as to
the methods he would adopt to
get information of the baby's
whereabouts and knowledge OF
those that are withholding it
from its mother. His power in
whatever he undertakes is
known to many.
Harry Read. city editor of
THE CHICAGO AMERICAN
and a real newspaper man, who
accompanied the writer to the
Jail, narrated instances in
Capone's career indicating that
Evening star., 1932-12-08
A PATH TAC.Al',.REsAI1D|SE| Ar
49, -Iy ca.i.s.Iy Nv DAWSON
.AKSON,

the hail; then entered gallant and
boyish.
She leaned back her head for him to
kiss her.
I've been to the zoo, of all places"
You're nothing but q kid" He
pinched her cheek. "T'n run away and
dress"
Attempt number one. She must try
again later.
Over dinner she tackled him from a
new angle.
Last night you said something true
that we'd come to the crossroads"
But I took it all back" he gazed
into his plate.
'I know you did. But I've been
thinking; our coming to the crossroads
was all my doing I've made an idiot
Of myself over Dicky. There are people
so rotten, like clothes and leaky boats,
that you can't patch them"
mo one can be wiser for another per
son." He looked up. Il tried to be wise
for you; you tried to be wise for
Dicky."
'Tm the one who's bungled." she
feet"
"No compliments" he checked her.
Crossroads, where you and I are con-
cerned. are fantastic Most Of this
Dicky business was an incident which
we exaggerated. All the same" He
paused. Am I distressing you?"
She mustered q smile.
Not a Bit"
Very well, then. I consider that
your conduct has been fine"
She blinked and gasped.
How do you make that out?"
"Dicky once stood in the same re-
lation to you that do. It would have
been easy for you to have wiped him
from the slate You were too loyal"
But Give" she protested to prevent
him from heaping more Goals Of fire,
"I don't think I have been loyal.
Through sheer cussedness I've let you
down.
He laughed. Suddenly his face went
grave
IF you could have read the blackness
of my jealousyl I've worked myself
into panics. I've imagined treacheries.
He's gone forever now, little Santa;
that's why I can tell you"
Was he asserting that Dicky had gone
forever in order to force her to con-
firm It?
Il visited the 200 today" she fall
tered.
so you've mentioned" Rising he
came behind her. Santa, forgive me
my suspicious I love you. Your first
marriage was blessing in disguise; its
taught me to trust you"
Always trust me-" she reached up,
Evening star., 1932-12-08
Sinus Infection often
Worse than Bad TonsiIs
Latest Discovery Of MedieaI seisncs

II you go to the great Medical
Library on Fifth Avenue, New York,
you will find the latest writings OF
famous doctors. In these reports,
doctor after doctor states that sinus
infection is the MOST dangerous
form of focal infection-worse than
bad teeth or tonsils.
II colds, catarrh, sinus headaches,
stuffy nose, halitosis caused by nasal
mucus or phlegm, or a tendency to
say, What when people talk to
you, indicate that YOU may be sub
ject to sinus infection. take the ad-
vice of Nose and Throat Specialists
get the nasal hygiene habit.
Every day take a little Sinasiptec
and warm water in a nasal douche,