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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
Loses Life Five Minutes
After He Is Laid Off
From Work.

Less than five minutes after he
was laid off from work because of
the banking situation, Charles Raj
ferty Jr., %, living near Thirtieth
street and Layman avenue, was
killed instantly today when truck
he was driving was struck by a
traction car at Twenty-ffth street
and Arlington avenue.
Two persons were hurt, neither
seriously, when the interurban was
derailed, the front section drop
ping into a ditch along the right
Of way.
Driving truck belonging to the
Koehler Bros. grocery, Thirtyfourth
street and Arlington avenue, where
he was employed, Rafferty, was en-
route home after being informed
of temporary loss of his job.
The impact demolished the truck,
crushing Rafferty, in the wreckage.
William StandiSh of Muncie, mo-
torman, incurred a laCerated hand
from flying glass, and Miss Ethel
DESMOND. 401 North Illinois street, a
passenger, was bruised when
knocked to the floor of the inter
urban. Her injuries were not Sc
riOuS.
Rafferty,, whose father is employed
at the Lyman Brothers picture COM
pany, 81 Monument circle, had been
given permission to use the truck
for a short time during the morn
ing. He had been employed at the
store about three years.
Roy Moppin of Muncie, conductor,
and William Madelin of Indian
apolis, another passenger on the
car, were not hurt. The traction
car was inbound on the Newcastle
MI11pip line
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06

Uncle Sam in conducting their
affairs.
MR.. HOOVER" still was on
WI the job as far as the Lin
coin was concerned, as A S.
Hoover, assistant manager of the
hotel, was forced to hear wit
ticisms on his name as customers
pointed out a placard at the
desk.
Despite money conditions. the
Soldiers and Sailors monument
had its best Sunday OF the
month yesterday when it noisted
sixty-one persons for Sl005. to
the monuments top to obtain a
birdseye view of the city
NO one so far today" said A.
NJ King, assistant cashier.
The possibility of scrip" or the
use of clearing house certificates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06

for money was met by restaurant
men and stores with,
It's all right with us. Just any
thing so things can carry on
Things will clear up now"
The shopper stayed abed today.
Protective measures against shop
lifting we're taken by one store
through the introduction of a lar
ger number Of floor walkers, but
they had little work.
Churches of the city reported
fair collections" at Sunday servi-
ces.
Guarding cash reserves and
adopting "watchful waiting"
policy is as true of the clerks as
of the men who hire them, be-
cause Monday became Change
Day" instead of Exchange day"
in the downtown area.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
Woodin Maps Scrip Plan
to Cover Whole Nation

Under the proclamation issued
late Sunday night by President
Roosevelt, I have unlimited powers, -
Woodin said. These powers are
the salvation of the proclamation"
Woodin pointed out that federal
supervision of clearing house Ger
tif1cates and other mediums Of eX-
change by local communities would
make the issuance legal. He pointed
out that certificates issued in 1907
were without authority and there
fore illegal. The secretary expressed
a belief that scrip or clearing house
certificates issued in one city would
be acceptable in others.
Asked if postal savings accounts
could be drawn on, Woodin smil-
ingly replied:
of course they will"
He said that the treasury would
continue to cash government checks
and make change
Woodin said he hoped to have
more complete details and possibly
formal rules and regulations adopt
ed to present at p. m. today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
BANKS PONDER
SCRIP SYSTEM
Issuance Might Be Made
Against Funds Already
Deposited.

Possibility of supplying local scrip
for use in place of funds held in
banks under the four-day national
moratorium was being discussed in
banking circles today.
Although awaiting word from
Washington before making definite
announcement, local financiers ex-
planned the various plans which
might be used. The plans of ma
tional and local scrip were being
considered.
Under the plan adopted in New
castle, Ind, last week. banks there
issued certificates of deposit in ST.,
SIS and $40 denominations up to 95
per cent of the funds in depositors'
accounts. The certificates were cir
culated throughout the town and
accepted in lieu of currency by mer-
chants.
For example, depositor with 500
in bank could obtain scrip totaling
$95 in convenient denominations,
with the bank deducting the amount
from his account. Business pro
ceeded as usual under the general
acceptance of the certificates as cur
rency.
Local bankers could not predict
the proportion in which scrip would
be issued here, declaring that the
ratio would have to be determined
by agreement.
Another plan suggested was to &C
cept checks and exchange them in
place of currency. Technicalities
involving determination of validity
of the checks, whether each receiver
would have to indorse them, and
payment of the federal tax on
checks offered difficulties to this
plan.
Previous estimates that nearly
100000 in cash had been cir
culated in indianapolis last week
as employees were paid, caused sew
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conserve their supply of change
were bearing the brunt of the
shopping for silver by other mer-
chants.
The fellow who tried to buy
two packages of cigarets and
gave IS bill for payment forced
cashiers TO resort to safes for
change, or was turned down.
All business was being done on
a cash basis with the exception
of a few companies which re-
ceived checks conditional with
bank payment at a later date.
n
A IL hotels reported statesmen
IA stranded in the city due to
lack of funds. The statesmen
awaited wired orders for money
with which to return to the home
office. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
Congress, Cabinet Members, and Governors
Rally Behind President With Confidence
Growing for Quick Solution.
EMBARGO PLACED ON GOLD EXPORT
Currency Will Be Issued in
Certificate Form; Postal Savings
Business Continues in Capital

The nations banking activities were at a standstl
today.
President Roosevets proclamation forbdding
banking institutions to pay out gold any other form of
currency followed by efforts to provide uniform
emergency medium of circulation
Credit extensions arranged so that business
might be carried on
The treasury announced that gold would be paid
out government checks or gold certificates.
The indianapolis Clearing House is awaiting fur
ther word from Washington before acting emergency
medium of exchange.
State senate passes bill allowing counties to issue
scrip for paying salaries or bills.
Safety deposit boxes available to Tuesday,
by order of Commissioner Luther F. Symons.
special session of congress will convene Thurs
day Leaders drafting emergency bank legislation
to be jammed through, as quickly as possible
The four-day national bank holiday is scheduled to
end at midnight Thursday.
Postal savings division at Washington was doing
business paying Withdrawals and accepting deposits
until we hear differently"
There were no stock or commodity exchange trans
actions.
The British pound sharply in European foreign
exchange trading.
The Chicago Livestock Exchange, market center of
the world for cattle sheep and hogs will close Tuesday
for indefinite period the directors decided today
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BIZ HUed Press
WASHINGTON. March 6.-Secre-
tary Of Treasury Woodin said today
that plans for medium of eX-
change to meet all necessary de-
mands we're being worked out and
would be in operation by Tuesday
The first consideration is to meet
pay rolls" Woodin said.
He explained that progress was
being made to supply scrip or other
forms of emergency currency and
that plan for operation under this
system on a national basis would be
completed by the end of the business
day today.
Woodin said that no federal clear
ing house certificates or scrip would
be issued. That will be matter for
local issuance, he said, but the fed
eral government will supervise it and
provide plan for its operation.
Rules and regulations for differ
ent parts Of the country will be
drafted by the treasury today
Woodin said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06

President Roosevelt, by an
unprecedented midnight proc
lamation, forbade banks to
pay out gold, silver or other
currency.
In effect, an embargo was placed
on export of gold.
Preparations we're made to permit
banks to issue emergency currency
in the form of clearing house certifi-
Gates. These will supplement regu-
lar currency so business can carry
on and people can buy groceries and
other necessities.
Congress was summoned to meet
in extra session at noon Thursday.
1t is hoped emergency legislation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06

He asked Tom whether he
would rather have a belt or sus-
penders with them" Tommy'S
grandmother explained. "Of
course Tom thought the suspend
ers were more manly-he had
seen high school boys wear them.
So he chose suspenders-dark RED
ones, to match the trousers"
Certainly I sent him home to
chang ethe suspenders," Miss Tor
rance said. L explained to him
that gentlemen did not show ther
suSpenders, any more than their
carriers or their underwear. I sug-
gested that he put on his coat. He
only had a heavy lumber jacket
here, so I told him to go right
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06

will be rushed through before the
modified holiday expires at mid
night Thursday night.
President Roosevelt's proclamation
allows Secretary of Treasury Will
liam H. Woodin within his discre-
ton to permit exceptionally liquid
banks to resume normal operations.
It also permits him to authorize
banks to accept new trust accounts,
in which funds deposited during the
holiday would be subject to with
draWal on demand and without re-
strictions or limitation.
Mr.. Roosevelt acted under power
granted by the wartime trading
with the enemy act.
The United States is not of the
gold standard" said Secretary
Wcodin orally, shortly after the mid
night proclamation was issued.
Confident of Recovery
This is the start Of the real
thing. I think we're on the bottom
and will not go lower. If people
have confidence in the great leader
in the White House, the country will
get out Of these difficulties quite
readily"
Treasury officials sent Woodin
home shortly after midnight to get
few hours sleep while they worked
through the night drafting the de-
tailed regulations for applying this
drastic emergency regime. These
were to be announced as soon as
they were approved.
President Roosevelt regards his
action as protective step to give
the exhausted banking structure a
breathing spell while congress fash
ions emergency legislation to carry
through the crisis.
He is octempting to do three
things:
l. Stop bank runs and the drain
Of gold.
2. Provide emergency money in
the form Of clearing house certifi-
Gates which will enable individuals
to transact their normal business.
Certificates to Be Issued
3. Permit resumption Of actual use
Of regular currency by allowing ex-
ceptionally liquid banks to resume
normal banking after obtaining
special permission, and by also
allowing banks to accept new de-
posts which may be withdrawn on
demand without restrictions.
Under direction Of their respective
federal reserve district authorities.
banks shortly Will begin issuing
clearing house certificates. These
will be in small denominations. It
was explained by officials that bust
ness houses would find it to their
own interests to accept the certif-
Gates the same as regular currency.
Virtual national uniformity In the
certificates will be obtained through
federal reserve supervision, although
the clearing house of each locality
will issue its own emergency money.
Isolated banks not members of
clearing houses will deal with their
own federal reserve officials.
Meantime, house and senate lead
ers began conferences today to draft
legislation and set the machinery for
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It's the Man With the Small Change Who's Popular Today

Light company. today.
Change from car token pur-
chases was being exchanged by
the utility company for currency
and vice versa.
A FEW small stores doing
L "A cash business kept their
doors locked rather than be
drained of their cash.
One key store Of a chain drug
company declared that it could
hold out without change until
mid afternoon, but after that it
must receive a supply of coins or
be forced to do business only in
small amounts.
Bank express companies were
Swamped by requests for coinage.
Companies farsighted enough to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
BY ARCH STEINEL

DROTHER, can you change a
ID five?' This was the city's
newest song in the mile square of
industry today, as merchants and
citizens faced locked bank doors.
Change" became the lip-service
Of store managers and cashiers.
The cash register was wor-
SHIPPED for its nickels and dimes
instead of its dollar bills.
Any bill larger than IS was
looked at askance and unless the
purchaser of the article was known
not be on the endless tramp of 60
ing from store to store in search
of change his request was de-
MED.
The Indianapolis Railways Inc.
literally acted as a mutual bank
Win the Indianapolis Power ana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
ROOSEVELT SPEEDS PLANS
FOR FINANCIAL RECOVERY:
ALL BANKS IN !. s. CLOSE
Congress Will
Get Plan to
Meet Crisis
~ | Hitcd Press

~ L Uttib / ftco
NTASHINGTON, March ga
w three-fold emergency pro-
gram to deal with the economic
and banking crisis was revealed
today by Democratic leaders.
The program was outlined in
general terms as follows:
/. Stop Withdrawals from banks,
already temporarily in effect
through the national bank holiday,
2. Authorize the comptroller of
the currency to compel banks to
impound their good security as
collateral and clearing house GER
tif1cates or scrip.
3. Enactment of legislation that
will insure the return of deposit
to the banks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
Hourly Temperatures
Teacher Bars Suspenders
Lad, II, Learns No Gentleman Will Appear in
Public With 'Galluses' Showing.
BY HELEN LINDSAY

PAIR of red manhood to vearod
4 n Tommy Seton today to school
An hour later home 1921 Lockwood
nue., tears ~
He had learned from Miss Anna
Forty ninth Boulevard
mixed suspenders
TommyS grandfather, BOUGHT q
of corduroy grandson Friday afternoon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Corresnondent

WASHINGTON, March 6.-The entire nation went on
four-day modified bank holiday today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-06
DAVIS TRIAL POSTPONED
Wisdom and Guidance" Needed in
Capital, Is Plea.

BIZ UntCd Press
NEW YORK. March 6.-The re-
trial of Senator James ]. Davis of
Pennsylvania, charged with federal
lottery law violations, today was
postponed until Monday on the
plea that his wisdom, experience
and guidance were needed in
Washington because of the present
economic crisis
Firemen Break Up Jobless Meeting
GARY, Ind, March 6.-Police
Sunday night stopped passing fire
truck and used its hose to break up
an unemployed council meeting.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Hampden Coming

WALTER HAMPDEN is returning to
w Washington to play at the Ma
tional Theater for three days beginning
Thursday. January 26. in two Of his
greatest successes, "Caponsacchi' and
Hamlet" "Caponsacchi" will be given
the three night and Hamlet" will be
the bill at the Saturday matinee. Mr..
Hampden has played "Caponsacchf'
over 400 times in New York City and
for successful engagements in Eastern
cities. He thus established a world rec
ord for the romantic drama by mod
ern playwright.
Based upon Robert Browning's monu-
mental dramatic poem, The Ring and
the Books and written by Arthur Good
rich and Rose A. Palmer, "CaponSacchi'
deals with celebrated historical mHr-
der trial which took place in Rome in
the seventeenth century. Its chief char
acter Is Caponsacchi. the warrior priest
Of Arezzo who brasely attempted TO save
the beautiful cfild-wife, Pompilia. from
the savage brutality of her husband,
Guido Franceschini. The role Of Ca
ponsacchi, which presents three phases.
those OF mountebank, cavalier and
priest. affords Mr.. Hampden one of the
most varied characterizations
The players Of Mr.. Hampden'S COM
pany have been with him for years.
The principal roles In "Caponsacchi''
are played by Esther Mitchell. who will
be seen as Pompilia; Ernest Rowan as
Guido; whitford Kane as Cont; VIII
liam Sauter as the Pope; Reynolds
Evans as Gherardi:, c. Norman Ham
mond as the Governor; Mabel Moore as
Margherita, and Edwin Cushman as the
Archbishop.
Evening star., 1933-01-15

Winkle," Camille" la Tosca," THE
Henrietta" THE Corsican Brothers,"
The Bells. 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. HYDE"
Jim, the Penman" or Uncle Tom"
1 suggest that Mr. Hopkins. before
he strews more aSphodels on the tomb
of the lost theater, should visit "A
Farewell to Arms as it is presented by
Hollywood He may recall that the
legitimate" drama once tried to visual
ize Mr.. Hemingway's pathetic insolence
about the joys and horrors of sex and
warfare. and that it failed Although
foot-lighted by Laurence Sta!lings, a
shrewd. experienced and conscientious
playwright. it made futile mess of
Mr. Hemingways sordid masterpiece,
limited as it was by the little theater's
little area. But in its screen manifes-
tation it can stretch its arms take deep
breathS and expand itself in a version
comparable to its authors intention.
Here is the theater skillfully perform
ing its functions as honestly as possible,
and If Mr.. Hemingway sulkS in disap-
proval when 1t displaces his tricks with
its own think that he is tempera-
mental.
IF Mr.. Hopkins regrets, as ne says he
does, the departure of artificiality
from the theater he may find conscla-
ton in some of the affected attitudes
OF the cinema. For an example l sub
init to him the last scene in "A Fare
well to Arms" wherein Miss Helen
Hayes expires in the embrace of Mr..
Gary Cooper, to the music of the Lie
Destod," played by distant phonographic
flutes and Fiolas. Mr.. Cooper lifts Miss
Hayes from her deathbed and carries
her to a window overlooking a garden.
and as he does so the hospital sheets
and cerements dissolve into a SYM
phony OF rehearsed and graceful dra-
per1es. Mr.. Hopkins may remember
that when the legitimate" theater
tried to reproduce this tragic scene it
awkwardly dragged the dying nurse
from her chamber, to a Stage-front
rostrum and commanded her to perish
before an unconvinced and unsym-
pathetic public. Under the influence OF
the films spurious mesmerism Mr.. Hop
kins' eyes, ] venture to say, will be so
dimmed with tears that he will not
Kno" whether 1t is art or hoakum.
X X x
MR.. HOPKINS, an understanding inn
presario, should adjust his ancient
traditions to modern circumstances and
realize that the theater is reborn in the
moving and talking pictures. The
cinema has its handicaps, but its ad-
vantages enable it to overcome them
triumphantly. In his essay in the
New Outlook he is like an old bicycler
denounctng the automobile as the end
OF transportation, a Bourbon of the
entrepreneurs refusing to believe in
progress. Since I admire him for his
many virtuous qualities, 1 whisper in
MS ear that the king is dead, and
ask him to join me in shouting Long
Live the Kingp'
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Once a Ga-Ga Girl.

{ COMEDY can sometimes become tr,x-
some. And Merna Kennedy. for
mer leading woman for Charlie Chaplin
found it an obstacle in her motion
picture highway. This dimpled, red
headed actress, who plays with pat
OBrien in Laughter in He'll" foUnd
hersen, after playinp- n ChapIin's The
Circus, tagged by directors as the ''c-s-
ga" firtatious, comedy screen type. AND
they refused to cast her in any other
parts.
If Merna had been the Worrying
sort she would have fretted herself into
OBLIVION over SSch a situation, but she
snapped her fingers and began to de-
velop what talents were capable of be-
ing utilized In pictures, waiting only till
the day when she could get an opportu-
nifty to do heavy or serious role.
Her ambition, strange to say, was to
play bad women" She wanted thu
antithesis of comedy-the tragic. And
she wanted to prove to directors who
didn't believe IN her that she could
create such a role.
Not until Carl Laemmle. IT,, picked
her to play the campus menace" in
The All American" did she get
chance to indulge her dramatic fancy.
She succeeded so WELL she was placed
under contract and when the filming
of Laughter in He'll came along she
vas cast as the fai+hless wife.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Current Attractions
BETTE DAVIS = SPENCER TRACY
10000 xEAss iNNsiNc SINe-8
ME- ETROPOLfTAN

Babe" Stewart, big-time gambler and
connoisseur of feminine charm, is top
notch throughout Charlie Chase Is on
the list Of added attractions in one of
his highly famous comedies Mr.. Bride"
Other features are Melody Masters"
and the news flashes. Scenes q Mos
cow are being presented in a special
reel.
EARLE-"The Billion Dollar Scandal"
THE program for the current week
at Warner Bros Earle Theater is
headed by The Billion Dollar Scandal"
with Constance Cummings in the fea-
tured role. This film, said to be a
finely conceived and finely directed
melodramatic romance, tells the story
of a gentleman by the name of Partos
who becomes the man of the hour and
the champion of 120,000,000 people
when he exposes plans of a deal
which certain officials and f1nanciers
put over on the Government.
The stage program features Grace
Hayes, radio star and Shubert musical
comedy favorite, who is presented in
Washington through the courtesy of
the National Broadcasting Co. other
acts are Joe Laurie, jr., the pint-siZed
author comedian, and his company Of
comics; Sylvia and Clemence and the
Andrini Brothers in song and dance
offering; Les Cells, two pantomimists
from France and Maxine Doyle, mis-
treSs of ceremonies.
The program is completed by special
short reel subjects, the Graham Nc
Nance News and the Earle orchestral
prelude.
RIALTO-"Laughter in He'll"
THE Rialto Theater this week is pre-
senting the film version of Laugh
ter in He'll" adapted from the best
selling novel of Jim Tully. who did
Circus Parade" "Beggars of Life" and
Page" fame, is the featured player In
the supporting cast, under the direc-
tion of Edward l.. Calm, are Merna
Kennedy Douglas Dumbrille, Gloria
Stuart, Arthur Vinton, Tom Brown and
Berton Churchill. Laughter in He'll
IS an epic of the strife and struggle of
penal life in the chain gangs. Round
ing out the Rialto program are num-
ber of selected screen novelties, plus the
last Universal News with Graham Nc
Nance as the talking reporter.
LOEW'S FOX-"FIesh."
A6ETRO-GOIDWYN-MAYER again
IA brings Wallace Beery to the screen
Cortez and Jean Hersholt, now play
Britton, the maddest and widest act
in the theater today, headline the
vaudeville. Bob Hope, comedian, is pre-
sented as an extra added attraction.
AS Herr Polikai, Beery plays wres-
ting waiter in German beer garden in