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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
COLOMBIA TO TAKE
DISPUTE TO LEAGUE
Covenant to Be Invoked
Against Peru.
BIZ United Press

By Htted Press
GENEVA, Feb. II. - Colombia
definitely decided today to invoke
the League of Nations covenant
against Peru, with which it has
been involved in dispute over the
tiny river port of Leticia.
1t was expected that Colombia
would appeal to the league under
Articles XIV of the covenant. in
voked for settlement of the Man
churisn dispute between Japan and
China.
The article provides that the
league council investigate a dispute
between members, and publish the
facts and recommendations for set
Element.
Leticia is recognized as Colon
bian territory under a treaty regis
tered with the league.
The council discussed the Leticia
dispute recently at Perus sugges-
ton, but the report of the Leticia
and Gran Chaco committee was in
terpreted as giving Colombia the
right to expel Peruvians from Lett
cha and preserve order in Colombian
territory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
CUT IN SCHOOL
ACE DEFEATED
Attendance of Pupils Until
Is Retained; InStaIIment
Buying StirS Storm.

Two bills pertaining to schools
and one to inStallment plan buying
precipitated fireworks in the house
Of representatives today.
One of the bills would have per-
mitted children to quit school on
completion of eighth grade work,
regardless of age, on request of
parent or guardian. Present law re-
quires attendance until Is.
Proponents argued that to COM
pei 4 child to remain in school
against his will is waste of time.
Those opposing the bill asserted its
passage would lower educational
standards. The bill was killed.
The second school bill would abol-
ish the mandatory sliding wage
scale for teachers and fix $500 a
year as minimum salary. This
measure was advanced to second
reading. Under the present law a
teacher with five Or more years
experience must be paid a minimum
salary of 81 .o40 a year.
Inc lnStaIlment plan buying bill,
killed when a motion to strike out
the enacting clause prevailed, would
have given buyers an equity in
goods bought on conditional sales
contracts.
Speaking for the measure, Rep
resentative Fred S. Galloway Dem,
Indianspolis) charged racketeering
methods in some of installment plan
buying in Indiana. He asserted trat
if a buyer had paid $500 on a $3.50
bill, the seller, on non-payment in
full, could seize all the merchan-
disc and resell it as new.
The house also killed a bill pro-
viding for split session of the
general assembly, permitting a thir-
ty-day SESSION; recess of the same
length, and final thirty-one-day
period, during which no bills could
be introduced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
TO BURN
HUEYS HOME Fooled
PrOwIer Routed by Gunfire;
Garage Is Fired.
81 United Press

~ mica Press
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 17.-An at
tempt to burn the home of Senator
Huey P Long, and possibly take the
lives of the senator and his family
was frustrated today by a night
Waterman. who chased a prowler
from the home with gunflre.
The prowler escaped under a
tusillade of shots fired by the
neighborhood Waterman. who failed
to discover the fire which had been
started in the Long garage
Mrs. Long was aroused by some
smoke coming from the gasoline
sprinkied garage and called the
senator. They were unable to dis
cover the source of the fire until the
blaze burned the wires leading to
the horn of the automobile, caus-
ing it to sound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
VISIT WITH MUSSOLINI
IS PLANNED BY HITLER
German Chancellor to Make Trip
to Italy After Election.
By njted Press


LONDON, Feb. 17-Adolf Hitler,
German chancellor and leader Of
German fascism, plans to visit
Benito Mussolini, Fascist premier
of Italy, after the German elections
March 5, it was learned today from
a reliable source here.
1t would be the first meeting be-
tween Hitler and II Duce.
The meeting, it was understood,
would be designed as an impressive
demonstration Of 1talo-German
friendship and the ideals common
between Italian fascism and the ma
tional socialism of Hitlers nazi
party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Guard Over Roosevelt Doubled as Train
Speeds North; Informal Daus Ended

the attempt to assassinate him as
a past incident, to be forgotten ex-
cept for his great interest in the
condition of the injured.
But secret service men and ad-
visors made it clear that The Presi-
dent-elect would be allowed to take
no chances and that safeguards I'M
usual even for a President would
surround him constantly
Crowds which gathered to cheer
the incoming President at every stop
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
Senate Quiz Reveals Vast
Profits to Insult Brokers

terest in the various insult organ
izations was not revealed to the
public.
He explained it was not customary
to make such reve lations, but he
said that in the future be believed
such relationships should be known
to the investing public.
Ferdinand Pecora, committee
counsel, loosed barrage of ques-
tons about the Halsey, Stusrt& Co.
radio programs in which the "Old
Counsellor" broadcast weekly from
early in 1928 TO July, 1892. One of
Old Counsellors" radio speeches
introduced by Pecora was how a
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Resubmission Resolution Adopted by Senate
to Be Passed Overwhelmingly By
Lower Branch
Al LEGISLATURES NOW IN SESSION
Eighteenth Amendment May Be Well on Its
Way Out of Federal Constitution
By Mid Summer.
By Mid Summer.
BY WALKER STONE
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-THE fight to repeal the
eighteenth amendment next Monday will out of Wash
ington and into the capitals of the fortyeght states.
is oregOne conclusion that the house Monday will
overwhelmingly the resubmson resolution which went
through the senate Thursday by vote of SO to %.
Speaker John n Garner and Floor Leader Henry T.
Raney have summoned house Democrats to caucus this
afternoon which they intend to bind all members carry
out the pary platform pledge and vote for resbmisson
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
FILM CENSORSHIP DIES
Charge OF viii Hays Interest 1.
Made in House.

Bill for censorship of motion pic
lures was killed by the house of rep
resentatives today, after it had been
charged that Will H. Hays, movie
car, was interested in the measure.
The charge was made by Repre-
sentative Robert j. Mohlman Dem.
Lafayette). chairman of the Judi
ciary A committee, which reported
the bill out for Indefinite postpone
ment. after Representative Fabius
Gwin DeDm.. Shoals. author Of
the measure, had demanded a re-
port.
Gwin vehemently denied Hays had
any connection with the measure
and said he never heard of any such
link until Thursday night. The bill
was introduced Jan. II. and had
slumbered since in committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
BY FREDERICK A. STORM,
United Press staff Correspondent

ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL
EN- ROUTE TO NEW YORK, Feb.
1.-THE six ballets fired at Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in Miami Wednes-
day VIII WELD an influence over
every public appearance of the
President-elect for months to come.
it became evident today as his train
carried him to New York.
Mr.. Roosevelt sought to dismiss
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were not allowed to cluster around
Mr.. Roosevelt's car. Gus Gennerich,
personal bodyguard, and an aug
mented force of secret service men
stood close by Mr.. Roosevelt. except
when the train was in motion.
1t was made known that Mr.
Roosevelt opposed making any
change in plans for his Inauguration
in Washington, but it was evident
that some Of those around him
hoped the outdoor ceremonies would
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
MORE WORK NEEDED
ON STATE BEER BILL
Public Policy Committee Continues
Study of Draft.

ISAhs VI DAAAAs
Senate committee on public policy
has not completed its report on the
administration beer control bill, Sen
ator Fred A. Egan Dem. Gary,
chairman, announced today
Egan said at least one more meet
ing of the committee is necessary to
iron out proposed amendments be-
fore reporting the bill to the senate.
mutations point to the committees
report being made Saturday fore
noon, Egan said.
No amendments thus far adopted
by the committee materially change
the bills provisions as approved by
the lower house, except that amount
of license fees have been reduced in
nearly every instance.
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By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. I7.-Paper
profits in insult securities aggregat-
ing about $4,000 we're shown
today in the senate stock market
investigation TO have accumulated
for Halsey, Stuart and Co., invest
ment bankers, who distributed mill
lions of dollars worth of debentures
to the public.
Transactions back and forth be-
tween insult holdings companies and
the investment bankers accounted
largely for the profits.
H. L. Stuart. president of the
banking house. told the committee
that his organizations security in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
GARAGE HEAD CHOSEN
LOgansport Man Named Superinten-
dent Of Highway Unit.

Governor Paul " McNutt today
announced appointment Of Ralph <.
Sines of Logansport as superinten-
dent of the state highway depart
ment garage here, succeeding Stan
ley Stokes Salary for the post is
s2626 a year.
McNutt also appointed Glenn
Smith of Terre Haute, secretary Of
the Indiana Firmen's Association.
as state fire marshal under Al
Feeney. director Of the new state
safety department.
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No doubt a few of the more
rabid Democrats will be ex-
cused from the caucus, but
with 100 wet Republicans al
ready in line, the necessary
two-thirds vote is assured.
The eighteenth amendment will be
we'll on its way out of the Constitu-
ton by midsummer, if the band
wagon sentiment which swept
through the senate Thursday, md
which Will sweep through the house
Saturday spreads out over the coun-
try.
Al Assemblies in Session
In forty-one of the states the
legislatures now are in session, and
in two more they are schedule to
meet soon.
Drafting of measures setting up
the machinery for conventions to
ratify repeal already has been
started in many of the forty-one
legislatures. These measures can
be acted upon as soon, after the
house votes Monday. as the state
department certifles the repeal res
olution and transmits copies to the
various legislatures.
Meanwhile, in the five states
where the legislatures are not
scheduled to meet this year, agita-
ton for special sessions is starting.
Three Obstacles Faced
Three practical obstacles are in
the way of immediate effective &C
ton in the states:
l. The convention method of rati-
f1cation Is unfamiliar. 1t has not
been used since the ratification of
the federal Constitution by the
original thirteen colonies. All of
the existing twenty-one amend
ments we're ratified by legislatures.
,. The rural domination of the
legislatures, which gives to the drys
a greater proportionate representa-
ton. Each legislature has the pow
er to determine the qualifications
of delegates to the states ratifica-
ton convention. This Setup will en-
able the drys in each state to
Jockey for advantage in the distri-
button of delegates, giving a great
or voice to the dry areas,
3. The expense of holding conven-
tons must be borne by state treas
uries which, in most instances, are
lin the red This will give to the
drys in some of the state legislatures
a forceful argument against calling
conventions. Failure of a state to
hold a convention has the same legal
effect as refusal Of convention to
ratify.
Drys Are Surprised
The convention system OF ratii-
cation contemplates the election of
delegates chosen solely on that is
sue. At the convention, these dele
gates have only one function. to
vote for or against ratification,
The convention system was favored
by the vets, who were afraid OF
the influence eXerted over legisla-
lures by organized drys.
Anti prohibition organizations with
headquarters in Washington, sur
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
STATE WOMAN, 100, DIES
Miss Julia Wright Taken at Home
Near Valparaiso.
ByUtitcd Press

~ ftttfu fftSs
VALPARAISO. Ind. Feb. IT,
Miss Julia Wright, 100, died at her
home seven miles north of
Valparaiso. She was born in New
York in 1898.
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"PREkIERE"

from. Magazine PoRe
with Gerstenfield's state Of
mind.
He had been kept waiting at
the door, and when Celeste re-
turned with her polite refusal
he pushed in past her. breath
ing heavily and impatiently.
Celeste recoiled to keep him
from walking right through her.
The girl was not alarmed.
She lived in perpetual worship
of Hollywood celebrities. They
were, in Celeste's eyes, all gods
and goddesseS, and all slightly
mad.
"Where is She?" demanded
Gerstenfield. standing with
lowered head in the center of
the hall.
Gerstenfield and Leni
Celeste shrank from the stab
bing flash of crimson in his
eyes. His face was flushed.
This was unusual, as were the
tinv beads of perspiration on
his turbulent forehead.
"She-She's upstairs" breath
cd Celeste. trembling.
Gerstenfield marched up the
stairs completely ignoring c.
Ieste, His. back said very
plainly that no servant dare
ston him. Celeste shrugged.
After all, perhaps her mistress
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A Novel Of Hollywood Romance

needed a fierce row to bring her
out of her present haze.
On the top landing, GerSten-
field looked around and decided
upon Leni's door.
Inside his head a great vibra-
ton roared as a mighty dynamo
shakes the very air. Shocks like
electric current kept running
through his breast and up and
down his arms. Behind his eyes
was a queer, hot ache. Strength
and power hummed through
all of his muscles, expanding
and contracting them. Strange
ly, this sensation seemed to be
colored-black, shot through
with tongues of fire.
Leni sat up abruptly in bed.
Her room had been flung open
and Gerstenfield stormed in,
Slamming the door behind him.
His sudden appearance was
a shock-it seemed to Leni as
though an explosion had hurled
him into the privacy of her
silent bed room. Her staring
eyes leaped alive with amaze
ment.
How did you get in here?"
she asked. whats the matter
with you?"
The sight of Gerstenfield
with his whole face twitching-
this marvellous and supreme
dictator-Startled her as II
lightning had struck the house.
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tells me that I must be very
careful not to say anything
against it that I can not prove
in a court of law that it keeps
appearing in my house, or
rather disappearing in my
house. It is always darting
around corners just as I look
up, or behind beams just as I
look down. 1t is this ability on
it's part to be either on the
floor or on the ceiling which
makes me think that it might
possibly not be a beaver. No
beaver that I ever heard Of
(and I have heard of lots of
beavers in my day. could dart
around a beam on the ceiling.
It has, however, certain char
acteristics of a beaver; it is
rather round, and dark, and
seems to have a broad. flat tail,
although I wouldn't swear to
the tail. 1t might be a smaller
animal of the same type follow
ing it. Good night, I hope not.
If there we're two of them
I should be discouragedO But
if it is a beaver, it is a rather
old and lethargic one and one
who ought easily to be caught
up with, except that I have no
desire whatsoever to catch up
with it. Live and let live" is
all I ask.
I first noticed it one day when
I was feeling rather rocky
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my body and the life out Of
my brain for these accurSed
motion pictures. Twenty years
I've sweated blood-and what
does it get me? I take a life
time of experience and focus
it all on you. You're ready to
have the whole world at your
feet. Without me you'd be
nothing-you'd be dirt! You
soak up the last drop of my vi
tality and then run out! No.
you don't! Not on your life!"
She faced him, helplessly
watching his rage mounting
to frenzy. She looked at
his handS-the fingers were
clenching and unclenching like
hooks. Her own face began to
be drained of blood.
II am not responsible because
you are oVerworked," she said,
trying to placate him. "You
talk like you hated me. Prob
ably you're on the verge of a
breakdown"
breakdown, nothing-I'm al
ready broke!" he cried, white
Tipped. "It was bound to come
and I don't give a darn! You
didn't bother to wonder whether
I went to pieces like a broken
bottle, did you. You wanted
a man that looked like a collar
ad! A slick-haired gigolo to
play with and spend your
money. To the devil with Ger
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the whole neighbOrhOOd in to
help.
"We were SO surprised when
we saw our letter in the paper.
1t was nice of you. We were
so thrilled. We didn't give
mother any peace until she
took us to see King Kong
We know now how those huge
beasts looked. Mother says it
was educational"
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her little brother, Gordon, and
their guest, George Philemon
Clark, jr., Of Wilson, N. c.
George told us he is going back
to North Carolina and send us
LOTS of new members. We GER
tainly hope he does.
A club member, Betty Linn,
3038 Georgia Ave. N. w., has
sent us a number Of new mem
bers. They are:
MiIly POlOncky, 1894 Georgia
Ave., age ~.
Freddy POlOnsky, SO34 GeOr-
gia Ave., age 312.
Henry CiarmatOre, 1904
Georgia Ave-, age 9.
Herbert Cohen, 3117 Georgia
Ave-, age 9@.
Theresa Galenger, 31O2 Georgia
Ave-, age 3.
Helen Galenger, S1O2 Georgia
Ave-, age 8.
Betty says this sis the best
club I ever Joined"
Henry Long, 1868 Emerson
st. N. E.:
81 belong to the club and
would like to know if my
brother, Gene Stewart Long,
can Join. He is only four years
old but 1 read the column to
him every day."
Amelia Rembold, 225 K st.
N. E.:
"FOr some time have
wanted to thank you for our
membership cards. They have
been misplaced. Mother be-
lieves they were among some
papers burned in a fire at our
house. We managed to put the
fire out without calling the
fire department but we had
The Washington times., 1933-06-14
By Robert Terry Shannon
By Tuthill
By Clitf Sterrett
BY Mflt Gross
... MORE TOMORROW
By Walt Disney
By Rube Goldberg

stenfield who put you up there
with your husky playboy!"
Gerstenfield's loud voice, at
the end, sank and took on a
thin note of penetration. Leni
had backed away from him and
maneuvered a chair between
them.
What do you want me to do
about all this?" she asked in a
chilling voice. "You come here
and insult me beyond all rea-
son. I'm trying to overlook it
because you're out Of your head.
I'm not responsible for your
troubles. MY private life is
my own and I'll live it as I
please. I'm going to ask you
to leave my house"
Gerstenfield'S noStrilS Widened.
The tiny veins in his eyes were
so distended that he saw her,
slim and fragile, through a haze
of red.
With one stride he was upon
her, flinging aside the chair.
took her by the shoulders and
pushed her against wall. One
of his hands came up, hot and
wet, to her cold throat.
She was gasping. Don't
don't do that!"
Gerstenfield picked her up,
one arm around her waist, and
flung her contemptuously upon
her bed.
TO Be CNptinued)
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NV Personal Beaver
By ROBERT BENCHLEY

after a night of moving three
buildings from one place to
another. (They weren't placed
right at all, and so we tore
them down and built them
where they ought to be. That
sort of thing wears a man
DOWN. I was looking at a
strip of bacon with just about
as dirty a look as anyone ever
gave to a strip of bacon, when
glancing up to see if there
might not be something in the
book case that / might like to
eat better, 1 saw this small ami
NAL disappearing behind the
door. Now, have not owned
a small animal since my Scottie
was arrested for melting to riot
in Union Square, and 1 have no
friends who are small enough
to dart behind a door way
down there. So l naturally
looked quickly away again, and
thought nothing more of the
matter, except to pace up and
down the room all day in a
cold sweat.
The next day 1 was weaving
on a tapestry which I am trying
to finish for the museum at
Bayeux, when, on glancing up
at the ceiling to try to think Of
which stitch came next, 1 saw
the same small form whisk be-
hind a beam, with just sug-
gestion of tail protruding be-
hind it. The tail was what
made me say instantly to my
self: "A beaver!" The ceiling
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SNAPPy WISE-CRACKS

where, should I eat my pie with
a fork?
Grandma-Certainly Vernon.
Vernon-You haven't got a
piece of pie around the house
that 1 could practice on, have
you, Gran'ma?
Mother-Oh, Freddie, I
thought we had all agreed to
economize, and here I find you
eating bread with both jam and
butter on it.
Freddie-Why, of course.
Mother; one slice of bread does
for both.
Does he talk sense?"
Sense? I should say not.
His sanest remark would be
too foolish even for the title
of a popular song." =
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I hesitate to mention the
matter here, as I may be mis-
judged, and it really is some
thing which concerns me. and
me alone. Or so my lawyer
says. But I simply have got to
tell some one about my beaver.
It is getting to be more than
just nuisance.
call it a beaver, but that is
really giving it the breaks. That
is ascribing to it some definite
shape and personality, and
these things it definitely has
not got. It hasn't got one single
attribute that I like. All that 1
know about it is (and my lawyer
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was what made me say almost
Immediately afterward: Beaver,
my eye!"
This has gone on now for
several weeks and 1 am frankly
at point where 1 would cry if
anyone pointed finger at me.
asked my lawyer what to do
about it, and he said to say
nothing to anybody, but to lie
low. But you can't have a stray
beaver around the house, on the
floor and on the ceiling, without
telling somebody. But not a
word more will you get out Of
me.
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Neighbor, just returned from
an afternoon of golf-Good
heavens! You don't mean to
say you've been working in the
garden ever since seven o'clock
this morning! I wouldn't think
of doing such a thing.
Victim-I wouldn't either; it
was my wife who thought of it.
"Why, Jimmie" exclaimed a
mother to her 5-year.old hope
full, aren't you ashamed to call
your Auntie a dumb-bell? Go
to her at once and tell her you
are sorry"
"Auntie," said the little man,
I'm awfully sorry you're a
dumb-bell."
Vernon-QNandma. If I was
invited out to dinner some
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vouring her with eyes which,
despite their heat, were utterly
without sparkle.
"You can't get away with It'll"
said Gerstenfield with an un-
natural loudness. "You can't
walk out on me for another
man. I took you from half
starved extra and made you a
star. I worked the heart out Of
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Washington Times
Adventure Club

Do you remember that inter
esting little hero letter" writ
ten by Gloria James Glover,
1888 K st. N. w., we published
a week or so ago?
We had the pleasure of meet
ing Gloria the other day. And
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DI DN'T we
have a nice
t a TX about
our mutual
hero, Frank
lin D. RooSe-
velt? Gloria
and your edi-
tor see eye to
eye on that
subject. How
many of you
agree W / t h
us?
G l o r 1 a
brought with
her, the day
she calle d.