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cal impossibility and proposition
fraught with peril, in the opinion
of the experts.
Lean, shreWd Professor Jerome
Hall of Columbia university, noted
for his research in criminal law,
asserts: Improvement must come
in the local circles. The work
can not be done by the federal
government.
1--WE need officials experienced in
a community. The roots of local
institutions are so deep it is i'm
possible to uproot them. To be
blunt, the ineficiency of enforce
ment must be remedied locally.
Putting the enforcement pat
tern into new Silhouettes, Profess
sor Hall recommends some
changes. His first move would be
to remodel local police forces so
that they coincide with metro
politan areas.
A former Chicago district at
torney himself, Professor Hall
says:
In Chicago, for example, you
have what the sociologistS call a
metropolitan area-a collection of
communities with common inter
lists, divided by the persistence of
legal and historical accidents in
creating artificial geographical
boundaries for cities and counties.
And there you find the city police
and just outside the city numer-
Gus suburbs in which gangsters
operate, and you find Set-up in
which criminals can go from one
state to another in a very short
time.
There are, it is true, arguments
for a federal police force. We
built our whole system of law en-
fOrcement around states and
counties, which are purely acct
dental divisions. And in every big
city you have union between
racketeerS and politicians.
Look at it this way: When you
examine crimes you find two kinds
of cases. First, the ordinary cases.
Now. what inks the masses is not
the thousands who get away with
crime. but the individual spec
tacular criminals like the Lind
bergh kidnapers. i,
"Convictions in spectacular cases
II fI,a
public. Capone's conviction was
an emotional necessity. Such cases
create dramatic issue. The pub
lie says Get that guy' but for
gets about the 100000 other crimi-
nails whose misdeedS don't at
tract wide attention. No one but
the local police can deal with
those others, the regular run of
crimes"
LIE wonders if the biretta of
IL l. dignif1ed success that now
crowns the federal forces would
stay there if federal duties were
Widened to include all offenses.
THE very fact that the govern
ment confines itself now to a
small area in the crime picture
he says, lis possibly the reason it
is so superior, The everyday job
should be left to a reform of the
whole local enforcement ma
chinery.
Moreover, there are indications
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19

drawings and paintings that I
painStakingly made from the time
I was about 2 years old, even when
they were placed, as one was, on the
front door of the house.
The ceiling of my bedroom was
a wonderful sight" he unused. Il
painted on it the sun, moon and
stars. Scenery decorated the walls;
I shall never forget one corner,
where, with much labor, I painted
a woodland scene.
ST had so much trouble with the
paint There's little wonder at that
I borrowed it from q carriage
shop near our home-a little pot
of this color and that. I didn't
know just how to mix oils with it,
but 1 knew that that was what it
needed. So I tried any number of
original oils-kerosene, turpentine,
lard-even butter.
In that one corner I painted a
steep, green bank, with trees grow
ing at the top. Perched in the trees
were two cockatoos - white one
and a red one. The green paint re-
presenting the grass wouldn't dry.
Every day when I went in to in
spect it, it had run down to the
floor in little rivulets it looked like
the marks that puttermiIk makes
when it runs down the sides Of a
glass container.
Paint Wouldn't Dry
Carefully I would push it back
into place-the next time I looked
it would be just the same. I should
have been very discouraged, if it
had not been for my mother. I re-
member that she encouraged me
about it-she told me that it gave
the scene a very realistic effect
that to her it looked like Spanish
moss"
The home in Greenfield has been
torn down; the wooden bed on the
sides of which Mr.. VaWter's first
crude drawings were made with the
point of a pin has disappeared. And
the artist who has placed on can
vas some of the most famous repro
auctions of picturesque Brown
county scenery-Whose work hes
been displayed in various art gal
lerieS-who was selected to do some
of the original illustrations. for
James Whitcomb Riley's poems
molTns that. loss.
For twenty-five years Mr.. Vawter
has maintained a studio in Brown
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
ATTORNEY INJURED
IN AUTO COLLISION
Lawyer Taken to Hospital
for Treatment.

Serious injuries were sustained by
Chester L. Zechiel, 5420 North Illi-
nois street, Indianapolis attorney,
when his car was in collision with
another car last night at Meridian
and Forty-ninth streets.
The other car was driven by Miss
Betty Vanderbilt, IT, of 1886 North
Meridian street. Mr.. Zechiel sus-
tanned decorations. fracture Of one
shoulder, and other injuries. He
was taken to st. Vincent's hospital,
where his condition was reported
not critical.
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with it. 1t was only a small canvas,
but I sold it for $3.50 A short time
later I was again painting on Jake's
farm, and he came sauntering up.
Heard you sold the picture he
said. I confirmed the gossip. Heard
you got $3.50 for it Jake added. I
admitted that too. Jake looked
puzzled. Then ne scratched his
head in wonderment. well, that
beats ALI he suffered, with string
of real Brown county profanity. I'd
have sold them the real COW for
$751;"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
new FLOWER FIRM
WILL OPEN TONIGHT
Wholesale Company Will
Give Entertainment.

Indiana Flower Growers, Inc, 300
North Capitol avenue, will hold a
formal opening tonight, followed by
an entertainment program for
guests at the Washington.
All florists and their friends in
the state have been invited to at
tend by William F. Mahoney. Sec
rotary of the new wholesale flower
and supply company. Joseph H.
Hill, Richmond, is president, and
Len Elder, indianapolis, -presi-
dent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
FAIRVIEW CIVIC CLUB
WILL HEAR ATTORNEY
Track Elevation Problems to Be
Discussed Today.

Lawrence w. Horning. attorney,
will address the members of the
Butler-Fairview Civic Association
today at the Fairview Presby-
terrain church, Forty-sixth street
and Kenwood avenue, on track ele-
vation problems.
Nominating committees TO elect
officers for 1894 will present two
tickets headed by DR.. Edward
Haines Kistler for president and the
other presenting Judge Joseph Mil
neF fer the same Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
STATE RELIEF OFFICE
MOVES TO NEW SITE
All Poor Projects to Be Handled al
215 North Senate Avenue.

William H. Book, director of the
Governors commission on unem-
ployment relief, announces that the
headquarters for all poor relief work,
including the CWA, henceforth Will
be in the Swain-Meyer building at
215 North Senate avenue.
The new headquarters opened to-
day after patchwork employees spent
the weekend moving files and fur
niture from. the old headquarters
in the, statehouse. Mr.. Book said
that the program had become too
vast to be carried on in the space
allotted ito the commission in the
Governors Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
Pictures Dupn Bed and Walls in Childhood They
Are Priceless to Will Vawter; but Gone Beyond Recall

and think of them, and I break into
a cold sweat" Mr.. Vawter admitted
recently, reminiscing in the art
gallery at Lieber's, where he was
exhibiting the paintings he finished
during the past year.
Mother Never ScOlded
my mother truly was a wonder
full and understanding person. 1t
must have been pretty awful to
have a young son who insisted on
scratching pictures on the vanished
surface of the bed with a pin. but
she never scolded. She admired the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
BY HELEN LINDSAY
Times staff Writer

They were original oil paintings
by Will Vawter. celebrated Indiana
artist. They can not be duplicated
and their value today can not be
estimated. even by the artist him.
self. Yet, he would rather have
them than any paintings he ever
has done.
They were the first paintings Mr..
Vawter ever did, and they decorated
the walls, ceiling and furniture in
his childhood home in Greenfield.
L sometimes lie awake at night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
CITY, MADE SAWS ON
BYRD ANTARCTIC SHIP
E. c. Atkins G. Co. Makes Tools for
Polar Ship.

Indianapolis-made saws and other
tools are on their way TO the Ant
aractic with Admiral Richard E.
Byrd, it was announced today by
officials Of the E. c. Atkins g. Co.
In reply to telegram from Ad-
miral Byrd, the company has
shipped six circular saws and two
circular crosScut saws Of special
specifications to Wellington, New
Zealand, for the expedition.
The expedition already carried a
supply of other types of tools manu-
lfactured by the local company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
Turf Stock Value Sinks

BIZ Jnlted PTfs8
CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-The value Of
a share of capital stock in the
American Turf Association has been
reduced from SIS TO $3.50 after a
meeting of the directors here yes
terday. The American Turf ASso-
citation controls horse racing at
Churchill Downs and Latonia, in
Kentucky. and Washington Park
and Lincoln Fields in Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
BY LIONEL HOUSER
Times Special Writer.

DANOPLIED in funeral black,
l. the splendid myth of Scotland
Yard goes, to its grave.
Squeezed in the wise of realistic
observation, the myth of the
Yards romnipotence peters out like
a fat scarlet balloon collapsing
into a wrinkled blob of rubber.
Much has been said recently
about an American Scotland
Yard, about a nationalized police
force, with the implication that
should this eventUate il. would be
patterned on the Yard. And with
the further implication that. even
the best Of American federal in
vestigative forces is a band of
goggle-eyed mOppets compared to
the hawks of Britain. It is neceS-
sary, therefore, to consider few
facts.
Item l: In 1881 Scotland Yard
had only four cases outside the
city of London, in 1882 no such
cases and, thus far in 1888, only
two.
Item 2: The qualifications for
admission to the Scotland Yard
force do not demand more than
grammar school education and
stress Drawn and stability ahead
of other things.
Item 3: Scotland Yard is the
popular name for the police force
of the city of London, and that
force has no jurisdiction outside
of the city unless specifically
asked to step in by the local chief
constable.
Item 4: The private memoran-
dunn Of the man who is possibly
Americas top administrative in
Vestigator says, The present Or
ganization (of Scotland Yard is
obsolete and unsatisfactory" and
cites the report of the home Sec
rotary Of Great Britain for May,
1888, in which the latter says "a
far more scientific and elaborate
police machine has become neceS-
sary."
H. Item 5: The Identification bu-
reau of Scotland Yard owns $780,
900 fingerprint files. The -identi-
fication bureau of the division of
investigation Of the United States
department of justice has 4,000,-
900.
Item g. The criminal investiga-
ton division (the stored G. I. D.
of Scotland Yard) numbers ap-
proXimately 1000 men, whose area
is London. The man power Of the
United States division of investi-
cation suggested nucleus of a ma
tionalized police numbers $50 and
blankets America.
Item 7: A candidate for the
G. I. D. must have tramped a city
beat in uniform for at least one
year.
Item 8: There is no homicide
bureau in Scotland Yard because
murders are too rare in England
to keep it busy.
nOING a smart bang-up job of
Opreserving law in London City,
Scotland Yard is no national po-
lice force and offers no pat
terms for America.
Scotland Yard snorts Attor-
ney-General Homer S. Cummings,
sis not a detective force and does
not have jurisdiction throughout
England or the British Isles"
The relinquishing of local re-
sponsibiliy for crime and the
yoking of that burden on the fed
eral Standardization of a
national police force-is a practi-
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county, where he does much Of his
work. He probably was the first
artist to build a studio in Brown
county, after T. L. Steele. Now
there is a large colony of artists
there, and the natives of the COM
munity have become accustomed to
the sight Of eaSels, paint brushes
and palettes in every picturesque
and colorful spot in the hills and
valleys.
Art AS Native Saw 1t
"They were puzzled about it at
first" Mr.. Vawter explained. when
I began to paint down there, one
of the natives told me that I was
the second artist he had seen at
work. In his own way, he gave
description of the other-I recog-
nized the artist as Adolph Schultz
Il seed him Sittin' under his big
umbrella, Mr.. Vawter said, initial
ing the native. Ills great gray head
wagged in imitation of his rural
friend, and he mimicked the nasal
twang Of the native Hoosier with
elaborate perfection. He had a
board in his hand, and another in
front of him In one hand he had
little bunch of sticks; he would
look off at the trees, and then hit
the board in front of him with the
sticks. I just didn't know what to
think of it, Mr.. Vawter-they al
ways add an s. to my name, as if
there we're two of mel tell you, it
looked plumb foolish to me-
According to Mr.. Vawter, the ma
tive folk still don't understand their
artist friends. I'VE still look plumb
foolish to them" he admitted.
They don't understand us; they
just tolerate u.s."
Explaining this point Of view, he
said:
Il painted a scene near an old
farmer friends house a few years
ago. He has a poor little rocky
farm, a ramshackle house, and a
very poor COW.
$3.50 Picture Of S35 Cow
Il was painting a scene where a
little stream flowed along, and
sketched in the figure of the COW,
which was grazing nearby Jake,
my farmer friend, was interested.
He wandered down to the spot every
day, pretending to be helpful. He
swore at the COW to stand still, and
watched carefully as I progressed
with the painting.
i finished it, and had good luck
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA
WINS BENEFIT TROPHY
Sorority to Receive Cup Today for
Christmas Charity Work.

Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
yesterday won the third annual
Christmas Cheer campaign spon-
sored by the Butler University Col
legian, student paper. The cam
paign, which is for the benefit of
INDECENT Indianapolis families, has
been in progress since Dec. l.
Miss Virginia Foster, president of
Kappa Kappa Gamma, will be pre-
sented with the c. B. Dyer trophy
today.
Pi Beta Phi and Delta Delta won
second and third places, respective
~. in the contest. Other organiza-
tons making large contributions
were Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta
Gamma. Alpha Omicron Pi, Butler
Independent Association, Sigma NJ
and Delta Zeta.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
filters PRAISE
ANNE'S SKILL
AS NAVIGATOR
Aviation World Amazed at
Rapid but UnaSSuming
Rise to Fame.
BALLYHOO IS LACKING
Takes No Spectacular Solo
Tops: Trained Under
Husband.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-The avia-
ton world marveled today at the
unassuming but meteoric rise of
Anne Lindbergh into the front rank
of women fliers.
Mrs. Lindbergh has achieved skill
as a pilot. navigator and radio
operator. capable of taking part in
flights that made aviation history.
with so little attendant ballyhoo
that her ability was mnoticed when
the names of women f1iers we're
mentioned
Mrs. Lindberghs flying achieve
ments, however. differ from these of
Amelia Earhart of America. Amy
Johnson of England. and Maryse
HilSz of France. in that she always
has accompanied her husband and
never engaged in the more spec
tacular solo flights.
Her responsibilities on Lind
bergh'S flights, however. have been
such that only q veteran aviatrix
could meet
All her training has been under
the direction of Colonel Lindbergh,
and began before they were mar
ried when the young aviator, en-
gagged in a goodwill flight after his
famous nonstop flight to Paris,
visited Mexico City.
/ Colonel TirNGharOlO fonIr
dor Morrow's daughter on several
flights, on one of which they
cracked up on landing, due to bro.
ken gear.
After their marriage, Mrs. Lind
! bergh accompanied her husband on
| several flights across the continent,
one of them a record breaking hop
from west to east. completed a few
months before the birth of their
first son. Already she was acting
as co-pilot on their flights
Studied Navigation
When Colonel Lindbergh planned
vacation trip to the Orient, she
took up the study of navigation and
radio telegraphy. and proved her.
self superior to her husband in the
! latter.
1t was Anne Lindbergh's messages
from the plane that kept the world
informed of their progress while
they flew over the Canadian north
west territory, and over the desc
late Beringksea.
This summers trip was even more
ambitious than the Pacific fight,
but Mrs. Lindbergh handled her
duties like veteran. The trip was
over 10000 air miles in five months
farther than around the world at
! the equator, and almost twice as far
as the distance Travelled by Wiley
Post in his record solo hop around
the world.
Always on Course
1t led them over mountainous
terrain in Greenland never before
spanned, and into little African
ports where the arrival of a sea-
plane - particularly that of the
Lindberghs-WaS occasion enough
for a civic celebration.
The flight over the South Atlantic
was in itself major achievement.
Guided by Mrs. Lindbergh's naviga-
ton, the plane never once left it's
/ course.
Miss Johnson has to her credit
solo flights from England to Aus
tralia, to Cape Town, to Toxic, and
flight with her husband across the
Atlantic. Miss Earhart crossed the
Atlantic by air twice, the second
/ time alone.
She holds the women's nonstop
distance record, and the autogiro
altitude record. But Mrs. Lind
bergh's flying since her marriage,
while not of the spectacular kind,
entities her to rank with the fore
most women f1iers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
u. S. 'SHERLOCKS WAR ON CRIME
Scotland Yard Decied as Model for United States Police

King Canute failed to turn back the
tide. but not so Uncle Sans detectives.
The crime wave mounted higher and
higher. Local police were unable to
make headway. Then the federal men
took a hand. They have succeeded
where others failed. Some Of their cases
and methods are described in series
Of articles OF which this is the second.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
SH0PLIFTER RECEIVES
THIRTY-DAY SENTENCE
Stole for Children, Accused Says;
Judge Not Impressed.

A shoplifter's plea that he stole
for his children from a downtown
store failed to win him leniency
yesterday in municipal court three.
Cyril F. DesJean, 40, of 4464
Guilford avenue, told Judge Dewey
Myers everything went blank when
I looked at those things and thought
Of my children. However, testi-
mony was that none of the $40
worth of articles taken were for
children.
Warning that shoplifters may ex-
pect no mercy in his court, Judge
Myers fined DesJean IS and costs
and sentenced him thirty days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
CORPS PROGRAM SET
Patriotic Societies Will Meet for
Gift Exchange.

Federated patriotic societies allied
with the G. A. R. will meet at 8 to-
morrow in Fl. Friendly. 512 North
Illinois street. George H. Chapman
Relief Corps will sponsor the pro-
gram and an exchange Of small
gifts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-19
Baltimore Club win Meet

Indianapolis Baltimore Club Wi
meet tonight at the home OF ~
Cal DuSing, 473 North Walc.
street. ~
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
LEGION
JOIN IN RITES

Memorial Day is a challenge to
patriotic Americans to carry on in
memory of the nations honored
dead, Col. D. John Markey, en-
manding officer, First Infantry,
Maryland National Guard, de-
clared at memorial exercises at
the Silver Spring National Guard
Armory, yesterday.
The exercises were held jointly
by Cissel-Saxon Post, American
Legion; the Service Company
First Infantry, Maryland Ma
tional Guard, and Company K,
115th Infantry, Veterans Asso-
ciation. The opening prayer was
given by the Rev. Ralph D. Smith,
pastor of Woodside M. E. Church,
and the benediction by the Rev.
Thomas A. Calman, pastor of st.
MichaeTs Catholic Church.
A wreath from the American
Legion Auxiliary was laid at the
base of the memorial stone by
Comdr. John j. Geary, of Cissel-
Saxon Post. "Taps" were sounded
and volleys fired by members Of
the service company. Prior to the
memorial services, the company at
tended the Grace Episcopal
Church.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
UNTFOR DUR|G.
IS W|DENED

Search for Ernst Durig, noted
Swiss sculptor, missing since last
Thursday night, has been ex-
tended to other cities.
Washington police, called in by
Nine. Durig Saturday morning,
are unable to offer an explana-
ton for the artists mysterious alb
Sence. Not a single clue to his
whereabouts has been uncovered.
So far the last person to have
seen him is the Haitian Minister,
at whose house Durig was Thurs
day night until about II o'clock.
The envoy says his guest ap-
peared worried and nervous.
Nine. Durig declares this is her
husbands first unexplained alb
sence from home since their mar
riage. She says that he has been
extremely worried and fears that
he may have wandered off and
forgotten his identity.
When he left, about 1920 p. m.
Thursday night, saying he was 60
ing to the Haitian Legation, he
had only a few dollars in his
pocket.
Police in other cities have been
notified and a lookout is being
kept for him.
The Durigs, who have been in
Washington about two years, have
studio apartment in the 1900
block on Connecticut Ave. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
TechnOcracy Club
Schedules Lecture

The Rev. Russell j. Clinchy will
talk on "A New Social Order" be-
fore members of the Technocracy
Study Club Wednesday at 8 p. m,
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
LAW GOVERNING
FIREWORKS
CHANGED
Three Montgomery Precincts
Get New Regulations,
Effective June |

New regulations restricting the
sale and use of fireworks for three
precincts of the Seventh election
district Of Montgomery county
passed at the recent session OF
the Maryland General Assembly,
became effective June l.
In Three Precincts
They concern the First, Second
and Fifth precincts. In the First
precinct the sale, delivery or dis
charge of fire crackers or noise
making explosives which contain
powder or other explosive compo-
sitionS, are prohibited except for
public celebrations and exhibi-
tions, for which permits must 90
obtained from the county commits
sioners. A fine of not more than
$40 is provided for violations.
The Second precinct forbids the
sale of firecrackerS, squibS, rock
cts, or other comustible fire
works, and restricts the use to
July 4. A fine of not more than
$25 is provided for violation of
the regulation.
The First precinct will not bar
the use of SparklerS, torches, boS
fire, fountains, dip sticks, non
poisonous snakes, colored lights
and toy pistols (friction or auto
matic). -..
Fifth Precinct
In the Fifth precinct it is un-
lawful to manufacture, sell or
offer for sale any combustibles ex-
cept when made from stocks or
supplies kept within permanently
constructed buildings. Providing
they are made in the proper places
they may be made or sold be-
tween July l and July 4 of each
year.
If July 4 comes on Sunday,
the sales may be held on July 5.
The fireworks may be set off only
July 2 to July 4, inclusive, unless
the Fourth falls on Sunday.
This repeals the act prohibiting
the sale or manufacture of fire
works, and provides a fine of $25
for violation of the law.