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The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
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contract before her gaudy Christmas
tree.
BY Signor Galvani, maitre d'hotel,
who purchased a giant tree for his
hotel and then went home and
tossed out Of a window an eight
inch tree that his lonely wife had
prepared in high spirits.
BY Jenny Lynn, a successful Lon
don movie actress, who received a
tree from humble lover and who
broke that affair selhshly before the
tree.
The epilog shows what happened
to these characters before the next
Christmas.
Christmas Tree" is published by
the Bobbs-Merrill Company and
sells for $3.50.
THIS department has just re-
Il ceived a copy Of THE New
Deal, a Socialist Analysis" by Nor
man Thomas.
In discussing President Roosevelt's
new deal, Mr.. Thomas writes: ut
seems to be bold, even radical,
program to those who have grown
accustomed to stupidity, misrepre-
sentation and plain dishonesty dur
ing the Hoover, Coolidge and Hard
ing terms.
1T is a distinct improvement in
this sense, but it should be judged
in the light what needs to be done,
and not by comparison with Hoo
ver's stupidity"
Mr.. Thomas then proceeds to ana
lyze the new deal in that light.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
) new LAWS
EFFECTIVE IN
STATE JAN. |
Sixth to Start on ian. IS;
Pension, Registration
Acts Included.

Five new laws. passed by the 1888
legislature, will become effective
with the New Year and a sixth on
Jan. Is.
Those taking effect Monday are.
Establishing old age pensions with
SIS monthly and $50 annual maxi
mum.
Classifying cities and standardiz-
ing officials salaries.
Setting salaries Of county officials.
Extending for two-year period
the 1882 salary reduction act.
Nineteen Cities Lose Status
Ousting Of E. J. Barker, Repub-
ican, as secretary Of the state board
Of agriculture.
The voter registration law will be-
come effective Jan. Is.
Under provisions of the old age
pensions act, the state and county
share in pension payments to in
digents over 10, who do not own
property valued at more than
$1,000
Nineteen cities will be reduced to
the status of towns under the re-
classification act and mayors in
stead of boards will be empowered
to appoint all nonelective officials.
Townsend Succeeds Barker
Both salaries and fees will be
greatly reduced under provisions of
the county salary measure. Delin-
quent tax collection fees will be 3
per cent for the county treasurer.
Mr.. Barker is to be succeeded as
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture by Lieutenant Governor M.
Clifford Townsend, who as COM
missioner of agriculture receives a
$4,000 annual salary.
Registration of voters will start
Jan. IS and continue to the twenty
ninth day preceding primary cleo
tions. 1t will be resumed May Is
and continue to the twenty-ninth
day before the general elections.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
90, 1893

highway linking Kuyuan and Dolon
Nor. and are building an airdrome
near Heiho. from which they are
patrolling the southern fringe Of
inner Mongolia. it was asserted.
So serious was the Chahsr situa-
ton regarded that Sung Cheh-
Yuan, governor Of the province. de-
cided to come to Peiping from Kali
gan to consult War Minister Ho
Ying- Ching.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
RABBI TARSHISH WILL
SPEAK TO ROTARIANS
Strength and Weakne,5 of q. S..
Is Luncheon Topic.

Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, Columbus,
O., will be the principal speaker on
the Rotary Club past presidents
day program to be observed with q
luncheon in the Claypool Tuesday
noon. Rabbi Tarshish, a we'll ll-known
radio orator, will speak on The
Strength and Weakness of Amer
ica." Attendance prizes will be
awarded at the meeting and two
new members will be introduced.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

IF Christmas trees could talk and
a give impressions of what hap
pened before them, I wonder what
they would say.
Lady Eleanor Smith, noted author
of Flamenco" and "Ballerina," had
the same curiosity and she began
a searching inquiry to discover the
answer.
The result is Christmas Tree, "
her latest novel, which is as much
Of a novelty in construction as it
is searching character study Of
men and women who buy Christ
mas trees of various sizes for diff
ferent reasons.
The construction is similar to that
used in the stage version of Grand
Hotel" and Dinner at Eight" The
first chaper is devoted TO Miss
Heath, head of the Christmas tree
department in swanky department
store in London.
Among the many people to whom
she sold Christmas trees were seven
characters in search Of a Christmas
tree" and the reader is concerned
in the following chapters Of what
happened in the lives of the pur-
chasers while the trees were lighted
for the celebration.
NTEARY with fatigue from the
w holiday rush, Miss Heath re-
turns to her two-room apartment
and tells her roommate of seven
people she remembered who pur-
chased Christmas trees.
She had noted certain character
istics in all of the seven purchasers.
Then Miss Heath remarks to her
roommate that she would like to
know what really happens to those
trees.
This is recited in the prologue
and in the next seven chapters the
reader accompanies the Christmas
trees into seven different places and
Christmas and the trees have a
different meaning to every pur-
chaser.
Lady Smith excells in her char
acter portraits as every character
actually steps out as a full-grown
person capable of living in our
world. That is one test of realistic
writing.
THE trees were purchased as fol-
Il lows:
BY the FenwickS, a young mar
ried couple without funds, but with
a great love for each other and
their three children. Here was a
real Christmas. There was no sham
but a genuine appreciation of the
tree and its meaning.
BY Fraulein Haussermann, a
teacher in London girls school
who had a lonely Christmas with
her small tree. in her one room
Here is a beautiful and touching
picture of lonesomeness. 1t is about
perfect.
By Lord Penrath who bought a
costly tree and sent it not to his
wife. but to a hospital where his
latest affair was recovering from an
operation. The contrast between the
false front put up by Lord Penrath
before his selfish and quarreling
wife and his real self shown at the
hospital bed, is one of the out
standing points in the story.
BY Mr.. Brodie, a selfish, cruel and
egotistical millionaire who bought
Christmas tree and sent it to a
hospital for children after his sec
retary had called him a selfish pig.
By Madame Lenosova, a has-been
actress Of the stage, who made one
final gesture to get a Hollywood
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
PACKING HEAD DENIES
RAINEYS MIRA CHARGE
Monopoly Impossible, Profits Not
Exhorbitant, He Says.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Speak-
er Henry T. Rainey's demands for
government operation of the pack
ing industry because of its alleged
failure to cooperate in the recovery
program were challenged today by
William Whitfield Woods, president
of the Institute of American Meat
Packers.
The very nature and perishability
of meat make any monopoly i'm
possible said Mr.. Woods. There
are more than 1900 meat packing
establishments all in active COM
petition every day. There are no
exhorbitant profits in the packing
industry.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
UNEMPLOYED IN FRANCE
is SET AT 100000
Increasing Numbers Go on Relief
Rolls, Report Shows.

PARIS, Dec. 29-France's unem-
ployed number approximately 1,5OO,-
600, it was indicated today when the
ministry of labor's final announce
ment for the year showed 303, ,921
men and women receiving national
or municipal unemployment allow
ances. This was an increase of 32,-
065 over last year and 1886 over
last week.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-29
SEEK MORE
LAND, CHINESE CLAIM
Mikado's Forces Declared Active in
Chahar Province.

Chahar Province.
By United Press
PEIPING. China, Dec. 29.-Jap-
anese forces in Chahar province,
apparently intending to annex ad-
ditional territory, claimed by China,
to Manchoukuo, are inaugurating a
program Of systematic control,
Chinese authorities announced to-
day.
Soldiers in the japanese expedi-
tionary force are constructing a
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
.NAJORHONORED
. LEAVING POST

Major j. g. Teicher, an ex.
amier Of the Civil Service Com
mission, retired today after so
years Of Government service. On
behalf Of his associates in the
commission, President Thomas e.
Campbell presented to Major
Teicher a travelling case at cere,
monies today at the Commission.
Teicher previously had served
10 years IS the Commissions Dis.
trict manager at Denver. He en-.
tered the Federal service las q
copyist in the Interior Depart
ment. During the World War he
served as major in the quarter
master corps
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
BANKING
BILL To- PASS
IN FEW DAYS
Amendment Satisfies Long,
Who Is Ready to Aid in
Enacting Measure

Emerging safely from the furi-
Gus controversy which threatened
it, the Glass banking reform bill
moved rapidly today toward final
Senate approval. -
The big fight over the bill ended
when the Senate Overwhelmingly
Endorsed a compromise amend
ment limiting branch banking by
national banks to those States
which permit this form Of bank
ing by State institutions.
Opposition Removed
Senator Long CD Of Louisiana,
leader Of the filibuster which
paralyed the national upper house
for more than q week, declared
he would "go' along" with pro-
ponents Of the bill. He said:
Most Of the opposition in
my State has been removed by
this amendment"
Long emerged victorious in his
furious battle with the Demo-
cratic leadership Of the Senate,
forcing Senator Carter Glass.
author of the bill, to accept a
far more drastic limitation Of
branch banking than the Virginia
statesman had planned to ap-
prove by way Of compromise.
Glass was skeptical Of Longs
newly preferred aid.
Senator Robinson Of Arkansas
the Democratic leader, predicted
Senate passage Of the bill by
Wednesday night. His optimism
was shared by Senator Watson
Of Indiana, the Republican leader
Thomas Relents
Relenting somewhat in his an
nounced intention to conduct q
new oneman filibuster, Senator
Thomas CD of Oklahoma ad
mitted that he entertained nc
hope Of blocking passage single
handed. He said:
II shall move to strike out
the section authorizing branch
banking. Although I regard
the compromise proposal as far
less harmful than the original
provision, iE would permit big
banking interests 70 lobby their
way through 80. State legiSla-
lures which so far have refused
to authorize branch banking"
Thomas planned to offer an
amendment giving President elect
Roosevelt power TO appoint an en-
tirely new personnel Of Federal
Reserve Board members, with the
Secretary Of the Treasury re-
tanned as an ex-officio member.
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
RIOTS
BRING CLIMAX
IN IRELAND
BaIIoting Begins Tomorrow;
Results to Be Known
Early Wednesday

DUBLIN, Jan. %. (I,NS0
With at least 100 rioters injured
as q result Of political clashes.
the Irish Free state election
campaign reached its climax to-
day as adherents of both parties
began last minute efforts to gain
victory.
Followers Of both President
Eamonn De Valera, who precipi-
tated the violent campaign by
diSsolving the dali: and former
President William r. Cosgrave
entered the closing hours Of the
political fray full OF -vigor and
determined to win.
Theater Crowds Menaced
parades with torchlights, bands,
many oratorical tornadoeS, fea-
and banners, interSpersed with
tured the lastminute attempts to
capture votes.
About 100 were injured, many
of them seriously, when rioting
broke out between White army
mem ars, supporters Of the Cos
graVI party. and hostile factions.
AS the rioting swept through the
Dublin streets, Inenacing theater
crowds who scurried for shelter,
police charged with swinging
batons, telling many.
Political observers thought that
the balloting, which begins to-
morrow, would show that neither
party can claim q large margin
Of supremacy and that chances
Of victory for most Of the candi'
dates are fairly even.~
Big Rally for De Valera
De Valera will wind up his cam
paign with a triumphant torch
parade signalling his entry into
Dublin. and q crowd Of $4,000
Is expected to turn the occasion
into o giant political rally.
simultaneously, CoSgrave will
duplicate the Dublin scene in
Cork, where q massive demonStra-
ton will be held.
The results Of the vote are ex-
pected to be known early Wednes-
day, and strict precautions are
being taken at all points to pre-
vent disorders. Despite their po.
Itical gulf. both parties have
agreed to "Stand for o Christian
social policy, which is the best
guarantee against Communism"
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
F|NANC|ER HELD
ONFRAUD WRIT

NEW YORK, Jan. % GN.SJ .
Harry e. Armstrong, Is, Of Bed
ford, Va, who described himself
as a corporation president. ap-
peared in the lineup at police
headquarters today on q charge
Of grand larceny made by Jere-
miah Healy, Of Larchmont, N. Y.
Healy's complaint is that on
october, 10, 1929, he gave Arm
strong $4,000 to invest in stock
Of the Bedford-Armstrong Cor
poration, Of Bedford, manufac-
turers Of typewriters, and that he
never received the stock. Police
say there are complaints against
Armstrong involving 100000.
The prisoner said he came to
New York Saturday to talk with
Healy. He admitted receiving
Healy's money, saying that he
passed it on to the corporations
treasury. He said he believed that
the stock was delivered to Healy
and later returned by him.
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
Capone Leads Soft Life In
Jail, Ex-Convict Reveals

friendly, too. But he sort ot
patronized everybody. And prison
is q poor place for one man to
be patronizing to another. This
and his airs and his privileges
have made him rather unpopular
and now he gets a good deal Of
''razzing." He can't take it very
well, either.
FauntS Arouse Ire
They call him Grease Ball"
and "Wop" and "Ma caroni
Bender" and make obscene
cracks about him.
And he will will yell at them:
"Shut up, you muggs. I've
handled more dough than you
and all your families ever saw"
But he adds plenty Of profanity
to it.
No, AL isn't very happy in
there. Still, n"'"""v is.
TomorroU'S .. tDiH describe
some of CGpone's cronieS behind
the bars and further depict his
life. ......
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
LAME DUCK BAN
BECOMES Law

(Continusd from Page -
demned in the preceding elec-
ton" s.-.
Abolition Of the lame duck ses
sionS, the Senator declared
should make it practically i'm
possible for any unjustifiable fill
buster to take place.
Defends Filibuster
Pointing out that when the date
Of adjournment is definitely known
and only o few weeks distant, q
group Of Senators can hold UP all
legislation, Norris defended the
filibuSter as q necessity under the
lame duck sessions. He added:
''The danger Of bad legiSIa-
tiOn under such conditions IN
very greatly magnified when We
realize that IL often occurs that
members of Congress who have
been defeated are influenced in
their official acts by the wishes
OF the executive, who has the
power TO reward them by ap-
pointing them to official posi-
tons.
During my services in Con.
gresS I have seen many in
stances where some members Of
the Senate who had been de-
feated for reelection were absO-
lutely subservient to the will Of
the Executive. And I have
seen these same men rewarded
for their conduct by appoint
ment to offices better than the
ones the people had taken
away from them.".
Norris declared that ''to meet
this situation some filibusters
have been INDUCED in by mem
bers of the Senate which. in my
Judgment, were absolutely justi-
fable" At the same time, he
pointed to the harmful effects
Of paralyzing legislation.
May Delay Campaigns
The new amendment will re
move the necessity for members
Of the House to start their reelec.
ton campaigns a short time after
they take their seats, Norris in,
sisted.
It also win insure that in the
event q Presidential election is
thrown into the House Of Repre-.
Sentatives, the new membership
rather than lame duck member.
ship will exercise this important
function.
Special interests waged a long
fight against the amendment, the
Senator asserted, knowing that in
the laSt-minute rush Of a short
session it was possible to jam their
own measures through Congress.
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
PLAN To OFFSET
! DEPRECATED
GURRENCIES
Rates In HaWIey.Smoot Bill
Automatically Cut In Half,
CroWther Declares

Republican leaders Of the
House today were laying the basis
for o long-range Campaign Of
education" to halt drastic down
ward revision Of the. Hawley-
Smoot tariff law. ,
The Republicans, hopelessly in
the minority in the next Con-
gress,, will open a vigorous attack
this week designed to prove the
tariff duties should be revised
upward II at all.
The immediate objective Is the
levying Of compensatory duties
to cure the alleged Ills Of de-
preciated foreign currency.
Because more than 80 nations
have deprecated their currency,
they are able to pay the tariff
duties and still undersell Ameri.
can manufacturers in their own
home market, the Republicans
contend.
Assessed at Foreign Value
Goods imported into this coun.
try are assessed for tariff duties
at the foreign value. Because Of
deprecated currency, hackers Of
the tariff law claim that an ar
ticle that would sell in this
country at 50 is valued in some
instances at under 81 for tariff
purposes.
Representative Crowther (R),
Of New York, known as the
House Republican tariff expert,
claims that rates in the Hawley.
Smoot tariff bill have automati-
cally been reduced on an average
Of as per cent as the result OF
the operation Of cheap foreign
currency. .,..-..-.- -.
The House Republicans viii
hold a conference this week to
devise q plan to halt the influx
of foreign goods. The Demo
craticcontrolled Ways and Means
Committee has granted a hear
ing on q bill introduced by Rep.
resentative Hill CD Of Wash
ington, a tariff protection advo.
cate. 2.L
Through the showing Of manu-.
facturers at this hearing, the
Republicans. expect to gather ma.
terial to. resist any lowering OF
rates.
Since legislation ; to cure the
depreciation currency is not re.
garded as q question Of tariff
policy. they are strongly hopeful
that. some action may be taken.
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
ACT
RET|RES 3,700

The Economy Act, in operation
from July until December, forced
the involuntary retirement of
3,700 Government employees, Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, Admins.
traitor Of Veterans Affairs, said
in a statement issued yesterday.
The retirements were forced by
the enactment Of the retirement
provision of the economy act,
which made necessary their dis
continuance in office after having
reached the age Of 70.
General Hines alSo reported
that in addition to the 1nvolun.
tary retirementS, GALS other Fed
eral employees had voluntarily
separated from the service to
secure pensions.
There are now 30,956 former
Federal employees receiving retire
ment pay, General Hines Said.>
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
Peggy Fish Has Turned
Painter in Abstract

NEW YORK, Jan. 23-Exotic
Peggy Fish had q strange yen
for painting come over her re-
Gently. So she went in for
painting. Now she's looking
for a show girl Job so she can
buy things with which to paint
things.
The yen for painting came
over the erstwhile model while
she was listening to a radio
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
M'FADDEN RAPS
HOOVER AGAIN

After two unsuccessful efforts
to get a hearing in the House on
resolutions impeaching President
Hoover, Representative McFadden
/ (R) Of Pennsylvania today got
the floor on q question Of per
sonal privilege and attacked Mr..
Hoover and his war debt negotia.
tionS.
; He refrained, however. from
making a third Impeachment
move. ,
On each of the earlier occasions
he was cut off by motions to
table the charges, both coming
from the Democratic side Of the
chamber.
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
DRIVE ON CRIME
/ ZONE PLAN AIM
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Continued from Page y
are showing / have NO doubt
we shall clean things up In
short order.
Every suspicious person in
the District win be questioned"
Crime waves come in cycles,
the major believes, and while the
present one is not the most
serious ever felt here, 1t justifies
drastic action at once, he said.
The case Of the suspects in the
payroll killing was presented to
the Grand Jury today.
Indictments Sought
First degree murder indictments
are sought against Albert Cash.
taxicab driver, branded by Major
Brown as the brains Of the
gang; Ernest Blackwell, accused
of plotting the crime with Cash.
and the two colored men who ad'
nitted the actual shooting, Fewell
Workman and Claude Myers.
\ Indictment of Oscar Cash and
Clyde Templeton as accessories Is
sought. the District Attorney said.
Action will also be taken, il
was expected, against George Nc
KiIiley Pittman, colored, whom
police locked up for the murder
Of william Simrns, colored. night
watchman at the Dickey Brothers
Feed Store on Kenilworth Ave.
nue. Northeast.
Pittman was arrested q few
hours after Simn1S was found
In the store yesterday. hacked
with an axe and shot to death
Prisoner Confesses
Taken into custoday as he was
attempting, to board a freight
train for Baltimore. Pittman con
fesSed to the Staying. detectives
said. Money taken. from the store
and Simn1s' revolver were found
on the suspect.
Headquarters detectives, spurre6
by the drive. announced progress
in the search for the thugs who
last week shot and seriously
wounded Arthur A. Berman
Georgia Avenue delicatessen own
er, in an attempted hold-up. NJ
arrests have been made in thi'
case as yet.
other detectives were probint
the robbery of the Palais Roya
warehouse last Friday night, wheI
a watchman was bound anC
gagged and loot estimated at $36I
obtained.
While extra police patroled thu
District, robbers rifled the poo
box at st. Patrick's Church, oh
tanning $6.40. Another church
thief entered the cloak room q
the Foundry Methodist Church
and escaped with q fur coat val
ued ct 1900 - :.-ss --,---- e ~ =. :
The Washington times., 1933-01-23

VCIC1 d1IS1 C1IdC VOH 1lHuo"DuFB
favorable action be taken on
the suggestion that war tro-
phies be returned.
He asked especially that
French veterans should have
the honor of carrying back the
flag Of the Potsdam regiment,
which was found during a bat
tie by a French officer and Is
now in the war museum in
Les InValideS.
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
killing Laid to- Radio
And Lard SnIUu0IerS

Ell PASO, Tex, Jan. 23 U.S0
Smugglers Of lard and radios were
blamed today for the staying Of
CaSimiro NJ. Lopez, Juarez Gus
toms guard, and his civilian aid.
Antonio Salcido, in q gun battle
on the banks Of the Rio GrandO
early today.
The Washington times., 1933-01-23

them rs part Of the history Of
my governments treatment Of
the war debts problem. The
public should know all that
one day. I shall be obliged to
recall my deeds, but not apollo
getically. My opinions will not
need defense. / shall speak OBJ
jectiveIy."
The Washington times., 1933-01-23

piled on the
floor in O
corner Of his
room an 1
said:
''Those are
letters I have
received from
America. ASd
{ h Q t. not
half Of them.
81 began to
receive them
i'm m ediately
after nv gov.
ernment fell.
Some day I
may nnhliSh
The Washington times., 1933-01-23

SA"Ah "oALA" wells 70 make.
! shall be active officially every
day up to late February, when
/ shall be attending q legiSIa-
tive conference in Albany"
To some extent she will carry
her civicS with her. She said:
Il love London. I have spent
much time there as a child and
as . grown girl. But I shall be
observing constantly the British
political scene" p,
The Washington times., 1933-01-23
French Would Restore
Flag to Hindenburg

PARIS, Jan. ga group of
French war veterans today
asked the governments per
mission to send q delegation to
Berlin to restore to President
Won Hindenhurg the banner Of
q battalion in the regiment
The Washington times., 1933-01-23

he once COM
manded.
Henry RoS-
Signol, Secre-
tary Of the
Conf e d e r.
q on of
French For
mer Combat
ants, called
upon Pierre
Cot, Under
Secretary for
Foreign Af-
fairs, asking,
in behalf of
tn e French
nakaRanc fhok
The Washington times., 1933-01-23

Capt. Neville
L q W r e n &c,
London stock
broker, sewers
a decade of
civic work
and ends her
career as vice
chairman Of
t he Repub-
lican S t a t e
m m / ttee.
She said to-
day:
81 feel like
Patti, / have
so many fare