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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
CALL MOSCOW ENVOY

British Ambassador Summoned 10
London for Conference.
By United Press
LONDON, March 30.-The British
foreign office today confirmed that
it has instructed Sir Esmond Ovey,
British ambassador to Moscow, to
come to England for a consultation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
.PICKPOCKET GETS $50
Operates at Conservation of Bishop
Elmer Ritter Here.

A pickpocket capitalized on the
huge crowd attending the conSecra-
ton of the Most Reverend Elmer
Joseph Ritter as bishop of HippuS
and auxiliary bishop of indianapolis
at SIS. Peter and Paul cathedral.
John BeyerStoefer, 1884 South
Laclede avenue, reported to police
he was robbed of a black leather
billfold containing S34 in currency
and S2.75 in change.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
Bank Bandits Get $4,000

By United Press
KNOX CITY, Tex, March 30.-A
gang of robbers who overpowered
night Waterman j. H. Finley and
held him prisoner while they robbed
the Citizens State bank here es-
capped today with $4,000 in cash
and currency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
ERROR IS CORRECTED

United Press Mistake Lists Wrong
Man in Bank Case.
Due to an error of the United
Press story in The Times Wednes-
day stated that c. A. Avery of
Martinsville had been given a
prison sentence in bank case The
story should have read E. L. AT@y,
as c. A. Avery had no connection
with the case. G. A. Avery is the
operator of an insurance firm in
MartinsYilie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
j. p. Morgan e Co. Under
Senate PrObers' Scrutinu
Famous Banking House Questions Authority of Group
for Investment Business INQUIRY.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press STAFF Corresnondent

WASHINGTON March 30-The internationally famous
banking house of j. Morgan Co. today came under the
scrutiny OF the senate stock market investigating commit
tee After report from it's counsel that the Morgan firm
had questioned the committees authority to INQUIRE into
certain phases of Morgan investment banking the committee
authorized drafting of to make it's authority
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
Paul Fry Is Excise Director in Name Only;
McNutt Deplores Talk of LOCALIZED
Political Racket
IMPORTERS TO GET RICH PLUMS
Governor Defends District Monopolies,
Declaring They Were Decided on
to Prevent Brew Wars.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times STAFF Writer

Frank McIale, Logansport Governor Paul " McNutts
No henchman is the real beer car of Indiana despite
the fact that Paul Fry state purchasing agent holds the title
of excise director.
This admitted by McNutt today when he decried
the idea that there danger Of the beer permit business
velopng into "egazed political racket"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30

Petition bearing 700 names urg-
ing reduction in fees of municipal
golf courses will be presented to the
city park board and Mayor Regi-
nald H. Sullivan. it was announced
today by j. Allen Dawson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
Palpitating Parsons
One Is Welded, Another Ties the Knot, and a
Third Is Fooled by the Bride

THE spectacle Negro madly running for home
oandhng knife and looking apprehenslvely his
the sequel early wedding
prospective escaped
from
comedydrama in three
Mnkan Chldress appeared at
police
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
FRANCE LIKELY TO PAY
SOON ON WAR DEBT

Be in Washington in June.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 30.-The
administration, it was learned to-
day, has found reason to believe
that Frances defaulted war debt
installment OF s19,O00,OO0 will be
paid soon.
At the same time it was learned
that diplomats planning the world
economic conference are discuss
ing transfer of its meeting place
from London TO Washington.
June l is being mentioned as
tentative date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
You u See NE on Front
Page, Boast Before Death
Torch Car Victims Deed Is Blamed on Dependency
Over III Health and Domestic Trouble

You'll and the the first
declaration Denver
before his chrred body
woods the Hardin mile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
WHISKY BILL is PASSED
House Speeds Through Measure to
Lift Medicinal Restrictions.

81 United Press
WASHINGTON, March 30.-The
Celler-Copeland medicinal liquor
liberalization bill, which passed the
senate in fast time Wednesday, was
approved by the house today with
only nominal opposition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-30
B00ED BY REDS
Communists Are Routed by Police
in Scottish Town.
BIZ United Press
DET r CuTTT

By United Press
BELLSHILL. LanarkShire, Scot
land, March 30.-CommunistS, boo
ing, singing the Internationally
and waving red flags, tried to break
through a police Gordon when the
prince of Wales arrived in this min
ing town today on his inspection
tour of unemployment conditions.
Police reinforcements routed them.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
MELLON NAMED
IN TAX SUIT

Suit for $22o,OOO,OOO against
three former officials of the Gov
ernment: Andrew w. Mellon, for
mer Secretary of the Treasury;
David H. Blair, former Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, and
Alexander Gregg, former solicitor
of the bueau, was entered in Dis
trict Supreme Court today by
David o. Olson, a former special
employe of the Senate Banking
Committee.
Olson brought his suit in the
public interest and charged that
Mellon, Blair and Gregg "con-
nived" with foreign steamship
lines in evading income taxes.
Instead of collecting $1,000,000
in such income taxes the suit
contends, the actions Of the for
mer officials placed the Govern
ment in a position where the
Government had to refund some
100000 to the alien lines. The
figure OF 100000 was arrived
at under the double indemnity
clause of an old law on the
subject.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
EMPLOYEES HAIL
SENATE'S ACT

Federal employees organiza-
tions are much pleased by the
elimination of Section 6 of the
District appropriations bill, re-
moved by the Senate yesterday
with little publicity. It was said
today by representative of the
Federal employees that striking out
this section prevents any posi-
bility of breaking down classitl-
cation standards in the District
employ.
E. Claude Babcock, chairman Of
the education committee of the
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees, expressed par
ticular qualification at the elimi-
nation of this provision on the
part of his organization. Al
though successful efforts had been
made by the National Federation
of Federal Employees to eliminate
an even more Objectionable pro-
vision in the bill, the section
was considered generally unsatis-
factory.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

Government bonds to the detri-
ment Of private enterprise.
AGAINST HIGH TAX
81 believe in income taxes
but l am against the high rates.
President Coolidge was
elected after recommending this
reduction Of rates on income
taxes.
"The manufacturers sales
tax will enable us to make the
proper reductions in income
tax"
NTH conferred with Demo.
cratic Senators following the
hearing. He planned to leave
tonight for New York and to
return Friday for the inaugura.
tion of President-elect Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
"The basic fac. in the pres
1T condition is a decrease in
the national income, due to
decrease in production. This
in turn has arisen from the
lack of distributed and SuS-
tanned purchasing power" Mary
Van KIeeck, director of indus
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
STORY Of LOANS
BROUGHT OUT
BY SENATE
Upper House VoetS to Con-
tinue Stock Market Inquiry
at Coming Session

The story of the flotation of
two loans totalling $16,500,000
for the State of Minas Geraes,
Brazil, by the National City
Banks affiliate, the National
City Company, was placed in the
Senate's stock market investiga-
ton record today as the inquiry
I1eared its end.
A resolution authorizing the
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee to continue its stock
market investigation until the
close of the first session of the
Seventy-third Congress was ap-
proved today by the Senate.
r. M. Byrnes Testifies
The Minas Geraes loan story
was told by Ronald M. Byrnes, a
former vice president and super
visor of foreign loans for the
company who retired in 1881.
The loans were in two issues,
now in default, for $8,500,000 in
1927 and for $8,0O0.000 in 1929,
the testimony developed. They
were sold at $97.50 and at $85
respectively and are now quoted
at about 20.
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for
the committee, developed that
D. C. Baldwin, a research worker
in the company's foreign depart
ment, seven months prior to flo
tation of the $8,500,00 loan, ad-
vised P. w. Hynson, manager Of
the company's Washington Cd.
c. office, of at least one in
stance when the State of MinaS
GeraeS had been unable to meet
its debt obligations prior to 1928.
At the same time Baldwin asked
for an inquiry by the washington
office.
Profit About Per Cent
Pecora asked the witness if he
subsequently learned of any actual
default of loans by the state Of
MinaS Geraes. ByrneS did not
want to answer specifically until
he had looked into the company
files to refresh his memory.
Byrnes approved the flotation
of the Minas Geraes issues. The
bonds were acquired at net cost
of $97.167(CQ) and sold at $97 so,
giving the company spread or
profit of about 4 per cent. Pecora
developed tina tthe National City
Company floated another Minas
Geraes issue of $4,000, 900 Septern-
Der Is, 1929, acquiring these Sc
curitieS at $82.33 and marketing
them at slightly over $S7. In this
issue Byrnes said KiSsel, Kinicutt
& Co. and the j. Henry Schroeder
Banking Corporation were aSSo-
ciated with the National City
Company.
Pecora asked Byrnes about the
"internal Improvements which
officials of the company testified
they had expected President
Lequia, of Peru, to carry out when
in 1927 and 1923 they approved
$90,000,000 in Peru securities.
Byrnes said Lequia's administra-
ton embraced a marked improve
ment in Peru. Pecora asked if it
were not during Lequia'S admins
tfation that company officials and
foreign securities experts wrote
memoranda advising against the
Peru loans. The witness agreed
this was true, but said he never
saw a letter to this effect written
by the then vice president and
foreign representative of the Ma
tional City Bank, j. H. Durrell.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
WALSH IS NAMED
OFFICIALLY BY
ROOSEVELT
Montanan to Be the Attorney
General; Labor, Commerce
Remain to Be Filled

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Feb. %
GN.SO.-P President-elect Roose-
velt this afternoon made formal
announcement that Senator
Thomas j. Walsh of Montana
was to be his Attorney General.
With the official designation Of
Walsh the Roosevelt cabinet is
eight-tenths completed. Only the
Secretaries of Labor and Com
merce remain to be formally
named.
Famous for Probe
Senator Walsh is one of the
veterans of the Senate. He came
into national renown as proSecu-
tor of the Senate investigation of
the Teapot Dome oil leases which
developed the scandals Of the
Harding administration.
He also is well known as a
constitutional law authority of
high order. He is assistant
Democratic leader of the Senate.
At present, the 73-year-old At
torney GeneraLto-be is honey
incoming. A widower since 1917;
he married Sonora Nina Perez
Chaumont de Truffin, attractive
Cuban matron, last Saturday in
Havana.
Walsh is a Catholic.
| rrI,o f;noJ onoo,,ooayoaY,tc ~ ho
made are Daniel c.. Roper, of
South Carolina, as Secretary Of
Commerce, and Miss Frances
Perkins, as Secretary of Labor.
Meanwhile President-elect Roose-
velt kept in close touch with
the limping progress of the dying
Seventy-second Congress.
Upon the outcome of legislative
achievement in the next four days
will depend in large measure the
new Chief EXecutiv e'S recon-
mended program to a special SeS
sion of the new Congress in mid
April.
Embargo Bill Studied
A delicate problem has been
raised also by the action of Great
Britain in placing temporary
embargo on the shipment of arms
to the Far East. France, 1t was
understood, is prepared to follow
suit, provided the United States
steps into line.
A measure is now pending be.
fore Congress to give the Presi.
dent power to authorize such an
embargo.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
D. {. FUND BILL,
NAVY MEASURE
Up TODAY
Senate Tries for Speed as End
of Session NearS; Passes
Bankruptcy Change

In the face of a Swiftly-ap,
preaching adjournment, the Sen.
ate today resumed consideration
of two remaining appropriation
bills after passing a precedent
shattering bankruptcy reform act
which would permit a scaling
,own On individual, farm and
railro r, debts.
The bankruptcy act would per,
nit l<ividuals or groups of farm
ers to effect compromise with
their creditors for settlement OF
all outstanding d,bts.
it would authorize Gquida,
ton of debts rather than the
present system Of diScharging
debts through bankruptcy. 1t
passed the Senate A to 8.
Chance to ReOrganiZe
This emergency measure car
ries a section giving insolvent
railroads a chance to reorganiZe,
recapitalize. consolidate, or merge,
provided the plan meets with
the approval of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
1t would permit the carriers to
reduce their capitalization and
scale down their debts. The rail
roads would be authorized spe,
officially to modify the rights of
creditors" or of security-holders,
if necessary, to achieve a solid
financial basis.
The bill previously passed the
House in somewhat different
form. The railroad provision was
included by the Senate, after
.ttf debate, by a vote of AZ
to Is.
House Provision Out
Individuals or groups of farm.
crs could scale down their debts
If majority of their creditors
approv Il the settlement. Indi.
vidrale ould propose their own
settlements. subject only to this
condition and approval by the
bankruptcy court.
A House provision, authorizing
settlements without the approval
of a majority of the creditors, was
left out of the Senate bill.
Immediately after passing it,
the Senate sent the measure to
conference with the House.
Moratorium Sidetracked
The Hull-Walcott bill, proposing
a tWo-year moratorium on the
foreclosure of mortgages on
homes valued at less than $4,000,
or on farm lands, was sidetracked.
This bill would authorize the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora,
ton to use $500,000,000 in pre-,
venting such foreclosures for a
two-year period by advancing
loans to meet interest payments;
$100,000,000 would be given joint
stock land banks for a like pur-
pose.
d. c. Bill Up
The two appropriation bills
pending were the District of Co.
lumbia, with $35,000,O00, and the
Navy Department bill. with $685..
100000. Leaders hoped to pass
both today.
Then conference reports on five
appropriation bills must be finally
approved before Congress COM
pletes it's task of providing funds
for operating the Government in
the next fiscal year.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
BERLIN QUELLS
RED UPRISING

(COntinued from Page One)
will be given sweeping powers to
maintain order.
A raid on Communist head
quarters resulted in the discovery
of forged orders to police and
storm troop commanders, designed
to mislead and disorganize the
law enforcement bodies Of the
Reich.
Socialist as we'll as Communist
newspapers were suppressed. The
executive committee of the Social
ist party issued vigorous state
ment condemning the action.
A prisoner. identified as Marinus
Van Der Luebbe, confessed that
he started the Reichstag fire as
q protest against capitalism. He
said he had been an active Com
munist for many years.
Among those arrested were 10
Communist Reichstag deputies.
Newspapers PadlOcked
Offices of the Socialist news
paper Vorwaerts and of several
Communist trade unions were
padlocked. The entire morning
editions Of Yorwaerts and several
Communist papers were confis-
Gated, rendering publication of op-
position opinion regarding the
fire virtually impossible.
Squads of police ripped Com
munist and Socialist election pos
terS from billboardS.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Alexandria Pair Held
For Investigation

Two men are being held for
investigation by Alexandria police
in connection with an alleged
ticket racket. They gave their
names as Vernon M. Wolfford,
200 block of North Alfred St.,
Alexandria, and Lloyd Cropp, 140O
block of Clifton St. N. E., Wash
ington. They were arrested
yesterday on complaint of Dan
Hollenga and Beverly May, of
Alexandria, after they are said
to have attempted to sell fake
tickets to an American Legion
dance in Washington.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

Leonidoff, it appears. Dragged
to his wife that he had called
on Peaches in her apartment,
which was equipped with steel
door to insure privacy and ex-
clude intruders. Anyhow, that
is what Mrs. Leonidoff Fanny
Todd Mitchell. playwright tes-
titled when she sued him for
divorce in Reno.
Peaches" went to the Mu-
sic Hall to see Leonidoff.
Peaches" was accompanied
by her lawyer at the time. and
oddly enough, by the usual COM
plement of photographers and
reporters.
Fanny Todd Mitchell. by the
way, is back with Leonidoff,
because her Reno divorce is not
so good in New York.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Rites for Mrs. TignOr
Set for Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Helen
Tignor, wife of DR.. w. L. Tignor,
who died Sunday, will be held
tomorrow at 10 a. m, from her
late residence, 921 S st. N. w.
Interment will be in Mount Olivet
Cemetery. Mrs. Tignor was a
native of Washington and for
some time prominent in social
and welfare work here.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

h e re adVo-
Gated a three
point code to
relieve t h e
world from
its present de-
preston: In
t e r national
ism, or "the
consideration
of men rath-
er than ma
tiOnS as units
of a world
wide family:
the removal
of racial ar
rOgance: and
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

a more universal cooperation.
The Socialist leader said:
"Our supreme failure In
bringing the world to its pres
ent spectacle of abject deStitu-
ton in the presence of an
abundance of food is not .
failure to understand, but rather
an ethical or moral failure.
"The present drift is very
clearly a drift toward cataS-
trOphe."
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

Continued from Page One)
right to tear down our govern
ment; we should grant the same
privilege to the Russians.
Recognition would aid our
wheat trade.
Communism is not succeed
ing iTf making many converts
and all this talk of Russia
breaking down other govern
ments of the world should not
be given too much credence.
RESTRICT VET FUNDS
teranS compensation
should be restricted to infiEm-
tiles due to war and not be
extended to injuries or all
ments acquired since the war"
Describing the health and
other benefits accruing to the
war time soldiers, Smith added:
Gust because he gets hit
with a taxicab ten years later,
1. don't see why we should
take care of him forever"
Smith proposed that a tax
plan on liquor be drafted by
governors of the States in CO.
operation with the Federal Gov
ernment, declaring:
1--WE don't want everybody
rushing at the liquor tax or it
won't be any good"
Senator Harrison CD of Miss
issippi, asked:
"YOu mean the tax or the
liquor won't be any gOOd?"
Smith snapped:
"The liquor"
This sally brought laughter
from the spectators.
REPEAL LEFT TO STATES
"ActiOn on the repeal amend
ment should be left to the
States and not be interfered
with by Congress.
81 favor State action by con-
ventiOn.
I'm afraid Congress will
amend the Constitution with
out going to the people.
Congress did it when it
harneSSed the new income
taxes on the people.
81 believe the question should
be carried to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
81 would not force the States
to act on the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
WANTS DICTATORSHIP
81 believe in the reOrganiza-
ton of the Federal Govern
ment and of granting extra
ordinary powers to the PreSi-
dent to consolidate BUREAUS.
1 am all out of sympathy with
those deCrying the sO-called
attempt to invoke an executive
dictatorship.
II am not certain the DudgeG
can be balanced and if neceS-
Sary a manufacturers sales tax
should be levied. 1 would ex-
empt food, fuel and clothing
and the necessities of the small
wage worker.
IL would reduce income taxes
and not try to handicap great
estates or industries.
They take the chances. If
they make good the Govern
ment takes the lions share. If
he lOeSes-it's just too bad.
"Our taxation system now is
forcing investors into tax free
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

r o b e y. ia
nous c o m e.
d ia n. W h o
S t e a d fastly
re f u S e S
to join Equity
because he is
opp o sed to
the principle
of t r a d e
unioniSm.
G d t re y
Tearle, preSi.
dent of Eq-
uitv dprla red
he is hopeful
t h a t Robey
ILL
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

over before tomorrow, when his
play, Jolly Roger" is to open.
The meeting strongly favored
callinL out the rest of the cast
in accord with the closed shop
ruling, but the actual decision
will be reached by the Equity
council today.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

valescing rap
idly today af-
ter a minor
operation.
M is S Hep
burn starred
in the Broad
way success,
The w a r
rior' S Hus-
band" and in
the m ov n &
pic t ure "A
Bill of Di-
Vorcement."
After work
on another
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Recognize Russia, Five-Year War Debt
Vacation, Public Works, Smith Plan

trial studies of the Russell
Sage Foundation, told the COM
i1ittee.
She urged recognition of Russia
as an important element in re-
storing employment in the United
States. She said Russia alone
"offers a steadily expanding de-
mand for goods"
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

p e a r S that
S h e is not
doing so bad
ly. in spite
of conditions
a n d things,
for she still
has her Rolls
Royce to roll
around town
in. But she
is consider
in G III n g
L on Leoni-
d off, ballet
m a S t er at
Radio CT t y
Music H a Ii,
fNr UEnO n0n
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
ART EXHIBIT EXTENDED

The exposition of Indian Tribal
Arts will be continued until after
the Inauguration so that visitors
to Washington may have an op-
portunity to view it, it was an.
nounced today by the trustees Of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Robey's Stand Worries
British Actors Equity

LONDON, Feb. Many
members of BritiS h Actors
Equity attended a mass meet
ing at the Drury Lane Theater
to consider the case of George
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
ELKS TO ELECT

The Washington Lodge, No. IS,
B. P. o. Elks, will hold its an
nual election of officers tomor-
row from 8 p. m. to 9 p. m. in
the lodge headquarters, 919 H
st, N w.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
SEWING CLUB SUSPENDS

The evening sewing club of the
Red Cross, which has been max
ing garments for the unemployed
on Friday evenings, has been in
definitely discontinued, it was
announced today.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
MRS. HICKS SUES

RENO, New, Feb. % Q.N.SO.-
A suit for divorce was filed here
today by Louise E. Hicks against
Walter M. Hicks, of Washington.
They were married at AureliuS,
Mich, in 1918. Mrs. Hicks
charges cruelty.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

Katherine Hepburn pic ture in
Hollywood she returned to this
city to be with her parents, DR..
and Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
"Peaches" Considering
Suing Ballet Master

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-
Peaches" Browning is back in
the news. Incidentally, it ap-
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Film Star ConValescing
At Hartford Home

HARTFORD, Conn, Feb. %.
Katherin Hepburn, stage and
screen actress, was reported con-
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Thomas Decries Poverty
In Presence of Plenty

PRINCETON, N. j., Feb. %.
Norman Thomas in an address