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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
Kids, Here's Your Big Chance The Times
Offers Real Prizes in Roller Polo Meet

BASKETBALL, boxing, pingpong,
- and jigsaws, clear the track,
for the roller polo kids are comlng
With the professionals going great
guns on the indoor Kinks this win
ter, roller pc o has taken on new
lease of life, to become one Of the
most popular sports in Indiana.
On every vacant lot, the kids are
emulating their elders. Though the
puck may be only battered can or
a solid piece of bone, and the ground
so rough that the lads have to dis
card their skates, they're going after
the game with vim and vigor.
Now just to give these future
greats a chance, The Times today
announced its first annual Junior
Roller Polo Tourney.
Every boy in the city who has not
passed his 18th birthday anniversary
and does not tip the scale at more
than 100 pounds is eligible to par
ticipate.
All that's needed is to get together
five boys in any neighborhood and
start practicing for the eliminations
and finals If you can, line up eight
boys, for you'll need some subs when
the going gets hot.
You'll have about ten days to prac-
tice. First set of examinations will
be played on the Tomlinson hall
rink on Saturday, March 4. with the
remainder of the prelims and the
finals week later at the same place.
Much of the equipment will be
furnished, but We'll tell you about
that later.
Two sets of prizes thatll gladden.
the hearts of any group Of boys will
be given. And therell be other in
ducements for the winners, which
now are being arranged.
So get busy now in your neigh
borhood and line up your teams.
Complete rules and everything else
you need to know will be printed in
The Times in the next few days.
Watch The Times for informa-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

corner and SO mortgaged the city
to meet it."
Il n
NAPTAIN H. D. w. RILEY,
~ government en- ginee in
charge of the Muscle Shoals
plant, also issued a note of warn
ing that there would be no great
employment, even if the whole
project was carried out.
I'VE are using only fifty men
on construction of No. dam
now" he said and at the peak
point of construction not more
than 200 will be used.
If the whole Roosevelt project
goes through we will not need
more than l 800 or 1900 men, and
there are more unemployed than
that in this section right now"
According to an unemployment
census made recently, there are
approximately 1900 unemployed
in the three cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

Il was all set to fly to the coast
this. week. I wasn't going to say a
word, but to just run out. l have
done it before, and was all fed up
But my friend, Lou Holtz, pleaded
with me. He said it would look bad
We argued all night. Finally I
agreed to make this farewell broad
cast.
All they wanted was the name of
Jolson, and nothing else. wanted
to do great things on the radio. I
wanted to dramatic THE Jazz
Singer There's nothing more beau
tiful than that. But they wanted me
just to sing songs.
L wanted to dramatic incidents
in my life-the early Winter Gar
den days, my courtship and other
things. 1t would make grand radio
material But they wouldn't let me.
I offered them jokes. They edited
them and said they weren't funny.
I paid j. F. Medbury and Julian
Tanner each a thousand dollars in
advance. But they didn't like them.
They had me so every time I did
come to a punch line it went blah.
I'm only a human being. What
more could I do?
I'm in love with my wife, Ruby
Keller. I've got more money than
I'll ever spend. Why should I let
some money come between us? I'm
going out to the coast, and then I'll
take a trip around the world with
RubV"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

when even the most conservative
men in the community we're con-
vinced that nothing could stop
the growth of the city-that the
three cities soon would be the nu-
cleus of great industrial center.
That was when 10000 workers
we're on the government pay rolls
erecting the buildings that soon
would be Wilson dam, Nitrate
Plants One and Two and the
emergency steam plant.
That was during and right after
the war and wages were high.
Money was everywhere and no
one was more lavish with it than
the government.
The government-or some one
thought there would not be
enough housing IN the three cities
to take care of the workers. So
two complete villages, having
total of 1876 dwellings, we're built.
They are there vet. About half
a dozen are occupied by engineer
and ordnance department work.
ers. The remainder are crumbling.
TN addition, they built LOO tenn
i porary dwellings which now
are falling into ruin.
In this village were installed 165
miles of sewer and water piping,
685 miles of electric wiring, a
complete water supply system, an
ice plant and a twenty-five acre
reservoir.
Of course, as the government
was building all this, real estate
operators, profiting from the Flor
ida boom, were buying up all out
lying land and converting it into
subdivisions. Offices were opened
all over the United States and
lots we're sold at boom prices.
The three cities were not to be
outdone. They began paving their
streets, remodeling their water
and sewage systems, beautifying
their holdings-all by raising the
tax levy.
And then the bottom dropped
out.
The whole project was war;
time measure and the Muscle
Shoals plant was built for the eX-
elusive use of producing explosives.
The nitrate plant was completed
almost exactly on Armistice day,
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and by the time it was ready for
continuous operation there was no
more need for explosives.
So the powers that be at
tempted to turn this mammoth
project into some use in the
manufacture of fertilizer. But be-
fore anything could be done, the
whole project became a political
issue. And thus it has been ever
since.
TINE Wilson Dam and power
Ahouse was built for the exclu-
sive Servicing of the nitrate plant;
when the nitrate plant is running
at full blast it consumes all the
primary electric power the dam
can provide.
The fact further complexities
matters, for, as many pointed out,
it was useless to talk of Wilson
Dam in any other light than that
VI a PAL u Ul1C ll1O1 dOC H4dlAU.
But this and many other ques-
tons remained unsolved as con-
gress battled over the project, and
the expensive government build
ings, the elaborate subdivisions.
the vast improvements, rotted
away
Now that President Elect Roose-
welt has promised a definite re-
birth for the Muscle Shoals prof.
ect, a feeling of fear toward
duplication of such a debacle is
felt by officials of the three cities,
Florence, Sheffield and Tuscum-
bia, that border on the project.
They are worried that with all
this national publicity, there will
come hordes of unemployed, I'M
scrupulous real estate promoters,
stock statesmen and all the fol-
lowers of a boom. And with con-
ditions as they are, their biggest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

N c. Elting, president of the
First National bank of Florence,
has no desire to see another boom
in Muscle Shoals.
1--WE certainly do not want boom
conditions here" he said.
What we do want is slow.
steady and sound growth. We
want balance among our indus
tries.
The future of this section is
assured, and it is too important to
retard with chaotic boom condi-
tions. I am convinced that Flor
ence will some day be one of the
great industrial centers of the
south.
We have made progress in spite
of, the depression. And it is for
this reason that I don't want to
see boom conditions, with unem-
ployment, sensational increases in
values and INSCRIPTIONS promo
ton, come to Muscle Shoals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
GRAIN DEALERS ELECT
Rochester Man Named President at
Annual Convention.
BIZ United Press

LAFAYETTE. Ind, Feb. %
J. ]. Werner, Rochester, was elected
president of the Farmers Grain
Dealers Association of Indiana at
the eighteenth annual convention
here late Tuesday.
The convention passed resolu-
tons favoring regulation of motor
trucks, protective tariffs on black
strap molasses, fats. oils ana
starches, and immediate action on
the st. Lawrence waterway project.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
HISTORIAN TO LECTURE
Philip Guedalla to Speak at Town
Hall on Friday.

Philip Guedalla, English historian,
will discuss South America in lee
ture in the Indianapolis Town Hall
series Friday morning in English's.
A lawyer in London until 1923,
Guedalla's first book was yelling
ton, which was followed by his lat
est publication. Argentine Tango"
about South America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
DEBTS SHOWED
OFF STAGE BY
Peril OF War
Threats of Conflict Seen
as Greatest Bar to
Economic Recovery.
FLAMES ACROSS WORLD
Situation Grows Critical in
Far East, Europe and
South America.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINIMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-In a
world apparently lettering on the
brink OF another major conflict.
mere war debt reduction. or even
cancellation, would no more bring
world economic recovery than
bucket of water would put out fire
in a house.
Such is the increasing convic-
ton Of leaders here of both the
incoming and outgoing admins
trationS and the writer under
stands, this view was presented by
President Elect Roosevelt to the
British ambassador Sir Ronald
Lindsay, and the French ambas-
sador Paul S%audel
In fact, it Is believed. the men,
acing situations developing in the
far east and in Europe formed
the basis of the war debt discus
sions in New York, holding an
equal, if not the dominant place
in the Lindsay Claudel
conferences.
War Craze Spreads
Officials here do not conceal
their alarm over the war fever which
seems to be spreading over Europe.
Asia, and South America, in total
disregard of the Kellogg pact. the
League of Nations and solemnly
signed treaties.
Japan is seen as on the point Of
beginning major offensive against
China, which, unless the other
powers put a Gordon around it, cas-
lily might spread around the world.
Army officers here claim she can
not whip China into submission
without declaring war, blockading
Chinese ports and occupying her
principal cities. And that almost
certainly would set the whole Far
East ablaZe.
Rumors of only slightly less alarm
ing nature are coming from Europe.
War threats are flying thick and
fast across that ancient battle
ground. causing genuine anxiety
here-not to mention the two wars
already in progress in South Ameri-
ca between four republics and
threatening to drag in more.
Debts Offer No Solution
These things, and not war debts,
incoming and outgoing administra-
ton leaders insist, are paralyzing
world recovery. Unless world con-
fidence can be restored, they are
daily more convinced, through re-
moving the growing fear of another
bloody upheaval, neither war debt
revision nor any other purely eco
nomic remedy can amount to any,
thing more than a shot in the
arm" The good effect, if any, would
not be lasting.
Senator Borah and other progress
sives on Capitol Hill, as well as con-
servatiVeS, share this view and
without congress there can be no
war debt revision. Revision, they
say, can be of benefit only if other
major world ills are cured, or at
least genuinely ameliorated, at the
same time.
In addition to revision of the
debts there must be world appease-
ment, world reduction, and linita-
ton of ornaments and a curbing Of
the rampant economic nationalism
now strangling world commerce by
means of prohibitive tariffs, depre-
ciated currencies, and other deadly
practices.
Without the close cooperation Of
America, Britain, France and the
other principal powers, it is adj
mitted widely, this program is i'm
/ nOccil11a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
M'NUTT TO GIVE TALK
Governor Will Be Speaker at An
nual Community Fund Dinner.

What indianapolis Owes the
Community Fund will be the topic
of an address by Governor Paul V.
McNutt at the thirteenth annual
dinner of the Community Fund at
$50 Thursday in the Claypool
Honorary members will be chosen
in recognition of outstanding serv-
ice to public welfare.
Arthur V. Brown, president, said
reservations have been made for 400
persons. He will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
FARM FARLEY SLATED
Annual Functional Conference Is
Expected TO Draw 1900.

Third annual social and educa-
tional conference Of the Indiana
Farm Bureau, scheduled al the
SEVERN Monday and Tuesday. is ex-
pected TO be attended by 1900 men
and women from various sections of
the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

temporarily delayed favorable re-
port o nthe st. Lawrence water
ways treaty signed by the United
States and Canada.
A partial vote Of the committee
showed 10 for to against. but
seven members remained to be
polled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

Turner's hall. 1t
will be under the
direction of Karl
l.. Friedrichs.
George Crumbo
will act as mas
ter of ceremonies.
Leading roles will
be playe d by
George Benedick,
Robert Hoefgan,
Jose phi Ian 6,
Laurence Smith,
James A. Watson
and William F.
Wolf.
SoloiSts on the
program will be
Charley A t he V.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
PRETTY BLOND HELPS
IN LUNCH CAR H0l0UP
Accompanies Bandit as He Takes
Loot at Point of Gun.

Accompanied by an attractive
blond woman, a bandit Tuesday
night robbed Ollie Mitchell, oper-
ator of the Coffee Dan lunch car
at All North Pennsylvania street
of more than IS, according to
police.
The couple walked south on
Pennsylvania street after the BAN
dit threatened Mitchell with a gun
and looted a cash register.
Both were described as being
young.
They had visited the place be-
fore, Mitchell said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
FUNERAL is ARRANGED
Mrs. Frances L. Williams Will Be
Paid Last Tribute on Thursday.

Following an illness of two weeks,
Mrs. Frances L. Williams, ST, died
at her home, 831 Eastern avenue,
Tuesday. She was a member Of the
Central Christian church.
Funeral services will be conducted
in the home at 1890 Thursday by
the Rev. William Shullenberger,
pastor of the Central Christian
church. with burial in Memorial
Park cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
Captured On AIky Charge

After pursuit Tuesday night. po-
lice captured Otha Childs, 38. of
21l7 Shriver avenue, and said they
seized an automobile containing five
gallons Of alcohol from which
Childs is alleged to have fed with a
companion as police approached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
BANKING CODE
PASSED, SENT
TO GOVERNOR
Control Is frightened Over
All State Financial
Institutions.
DEPOSITORS PROTECTED
Fiqht for Credit Unions Is
Lost; Mortgage Loans
Are Limited.
DEPoSIT0RS PROTECTED

Indiana's new banking code, af-
fecting all banking institutions n
the state and tightening control, will
become a law today, with signature
Of Governor Paul V. McNutt.
Concluding a lengthy and busy SEES
sion after 6 Tuesday night, the In
diana senated passed, by a vote of
az to the measure which COM
pletely revises banking laws and
creates a new banking commission.
Already having passed the lower
house, the bill needed only senate
approval before being submitted to
the Governor. Senate amendments
were Of slight consequence and we're
agreed upon speedily by both houses
Of the assembly prior to the late adj
journment.
Credit Union Fight Lost,
Senator Jacob Weiss Dem, In
dianapolis), fought for an amend
ment to permit credit unions to
operate under regulations now spe-
Gifted by law, but was voted down.
Weiss declared that credit unions
have stood the severe tests of the
present panic conditions and should
be allowed to continue without hin
drance.
Another amendment, which was
adopted, specifies that loans on
mortgages shall not be more than
IS per cent of all loans made by
banking institution. Diversion of
assets, the authors claim, will re-
suit by limiting forms of securities
and loans.
Aims to Protect DepOsitOrs
Increased protection for depositors,
according to those sponsoring the
measure, will be the chief aim of the
new law. Stringent provisions cover
liability of bank officials, loans to
stockholders and capital stock is
sues.
In its entirety, the law is described
as being a model for other states.
Its provisions we're agreed upon by
survey commission authorized by
the 1881 assembly and appointed by
former Governor Harry G. Leslie.
Two years of study was pursued
by the commission, aided by the ia
cilities of both the American Bank
ers Association and the Indiana
Bankers Association. The public
was represented on the commission,
along with representatives of banks,
trust companies and building and
loan associations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
FORMER SHERIFF HELD
Freed on Bond; $4,000 Deficiency Is
Charged in Accounts.
BIZ ENifcd Press

BIZ INtcd Prcss
SULLIVAN, Ind, Feb. Gives
ley Adams, former sheriff Of SulH-
van county, was free on $4,000 bond
today on charges of failure to turn
$4,000 over to his successor.
Examination by the state board
Of accounts showed the deficiency,
according 70 Rex Bridweu, prescott
ing attorney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
FOOD CAUSES ILLNESS
Woman's Condition Not Caused by
ANYTHING Eaten in City.

illness Of a woman Monday in the
Traction Terminal station from
tainted food did not result from food
partaken there, building officials as
serted today. The woman. who was
en- route to Ohio, became i'll before
arriving at the station and had gone
there for aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

COLLINS IS chairman Of The appro-
priations subcommittee handling
army appropriations and heads
house conferees in the conference
now attempting to reconcile amend
ments added to the army bill by the
two houses of congress.
His statement today indicates he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
J. E. ROBERTSON DIES
Funeral Services for Long time City
Resident Set for Thursday.

Funeral services for James E.
Robertson, 70, resident of Indian
apolis for thirty-two years. who
died Tuesday in the Methodist hos
pital will be held at 2:30 Thurs
day in the Johnson g. Montgom-
cry funeral home, 1922 North
Meridian street. Burial will be in
Crown Hill cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
'PEEPING TOM HUNTED
Uses Ladder TO Peer in Second
Story Window Of Home, Police Told.

Search for a peeping Tom was
conducted by police Tuesday night
in the neighborhood near the home
of Mrs. Enola Harris, 525 East Sew
enteenth street.
Mrs. Harris reported that a young
man, using ladder, was looking
into the window of her room on the
second floor. When police arrived
he had DISAPPEARED.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22

Clarence Roembke and Robert H.
Schleicher.
An oriental dance will be pre-
sented by Miss Elizabeth Leone
Jones. a pupil of JAG Broderick.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
Al J0IsOn Quits Radio;
Done Him Wrong, He Says
BY JAMES CANNON
New York World Telegram Radio Editor

NEW YORK Feb 22 Jolson is done with radio The
singer and NBC have agreed cancellation his
it has weeks
I'm making broadcast
I couldn't stand it, They wouldn't
back to radio unless have which forbids
hu
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
POLL DELAYS REPORT

st. Lawrence Treaty Action Held
Up by Absent Senators.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22-The
necessity Of polling senate foreign
relations committee absentees today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
Seen in Plan to
Enlist JObIess in Arn1u

By
WASHINGTON Feb 22nernationa complications
by Representative Ross Collins
enrolling $4,000 unemployed military training camps
is carried f
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
MUNCIE LEADER DIES
Charles F. KoontZ, Banker and
County Council Head, Taken.


MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 22.-Charles
F. Koontz. IS, president of the
Merchants National bank and presi-
dent of the Delaware county coun-
Gil. died at his home northwest of
here Tuesday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-22
SOUTH SIDE TURNER'S
WILL GIVE MINSTREL
Second Annual Frolic to Be Staged
Thursday Night.

Second annual minstrel and frolic
Of the South Side Turner's will be
presented at 8:15 Thursday at
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-02-15

Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams presenting the Her.
bert Schin memorial trophy to Capt Vernon Guymon, USMC command.
ing officer OF the marine fighting plane squadron 1OM. stationed at San
Diego. Calf. which had the highest record for safe flying during the
year. William Schif of New York city, brother of the late Lieut.. Herbert
Schir In whose honor the trophy was given to the navy. is in the center.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-02-15
French Measurement

Ligne Is a French measure of
length equal to 2.26 millimeters, or
0.885 inch.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-02-15
Fighters on Foot

The history of the word 'infan-
try" traces the term back to the
name given to the page of a knight.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-02-15
~Inseparable Qualities

There never was any heart truly
great and generous that was not
also tender and compassionate
South.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-02
MR.. MOLEY'S CAREER

ID AYMOND MOLEY'S career as a high
~ government official was brief enough, but
it certainly was about as spectacular a career
as any member of official Washington ever
enjoyed.
To begin with, it had that faint aura of
mystery which inevitably focuses attention
on a man. Mr.. Moley not only was an as
sistant secretary Of state; he was-or at least
everybody said he was-head of a mysterious
something known as the brain trust"
He was aloof, unapproachable, wrapped in
that odd mantle which descends on those who
can whisper in the ears of the mighty.
And then, to cap it all, there came that
spectacular dash to London during the con-
ference. For a brief time the eyes of the
world were on Mr.. Moley.
Now he is a private citizen again. But
while it lasted Mr.. Moley certainly got a man
sized share of the limelight.