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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
DRAKE ESTATE
HOAxER HELD
Illinois Man Is Ordered De-
ported by British
Authorities.
Iniicd Prcss

By HttCd Press
LONDON, Few. 4.-The home of
flee issued a deportation order today
against Oscar M. Hartzell of Mon
mouth. Ill, on charges of swindling
hundreds of credulous Americans
who believe they were entitled to a
share in the much publicized Drake
estate.
According to records at the United
States cOnsulate-ge general, Hartzell
came to England in 1923 from Iowa,
repeatedly to check up on an agent
to whom he had given funds to
press his own claims for a share in
the estate.
Hartzell was said to have decided,
after finding the entire Drake affair
to be a fraud, that he could make
money for himself by staying here
and investigating the claims" of
other Americans.
Hartzell was lodged in Brixton
prison today after years of efforts
by American officials to break up
his system through which he alleg-
edly collected thousands of dollars
from Americans, particularly middle
weStrenerS, through Offering to rep
resent them in their claims to the
estate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
He'll Win
That Is, If RooSeveIt's
Fish Stories Equal
His Other.

BIZ IHifed Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb 4.
- Have you great Haitian
shrink bird in your home? No?
Well, neither has any one else.
If you don't believe it, ask Presi-
dent-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who enjoys a
joke, told today how he made the
front pages twelve years ago by
relating to a youthful New York
reporter the hair-raising story of
combing the dark and dank
Haitian jungles for the elusive
shrink bird.
The last specimen, he said, had
been seen flying in a southerly
direction IN the year 1910. He
told the reporter he went to find
the grandchildren, or maybe the
great grandchildren of that bird.
1--WE came upon him." the Pres
ident-elect said to the reporter.
There was the whirring Of wings.
I fired and missed. My, but he
was a big fellow. AS big as an
eagle. My companion blazed away
and hit. We went to find the
great shrink bird.
But 10, When we came upon
his carcass he had shrunk to the
size of a chicken. And before we
could get him into the pot to
cook him. believe it or not, he
was a dainty morsel, the size of
a humming bird.
And that" Mr.. Roosevelt adj
ded, made page one"
This story was told in connec-
ton with his plans for his ten
day deep-sea fishing trip, so look
out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
Chinese GeneraIiSSimo Says
Invasion viii Be Fought
Bitterly.
BY HERBERT r. EKERS
United Press staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1888. BY United Press
PEIPING, Feb. 4.-Marshal Chang
Hsueh-Liang, young commander-in-
chief of China'S armies in the
northern area, sternly warned Japan
today that his forces, numbering
upward of 100000 men, were mob
ilized and ready to defend Jehol
province against the next japanese
advance.
In an interview with the United
Press, the generalissimo declared
that if Japan renewed the Jehol
offensive, as threatened, 1T will be
impossible to predict where the
hostilities will end
I'VE are ready to fight" the mar
shall said. we hope the offensive
will not come-but it appears to
be developing.
If they invade Jehol, it will
mean the most serious warfare yet
to come in this fighting. Our men
are better equipped and We are
ordered to resist any attempted ad-
vance. We are ready"
Chang has been in the sound OF
s-'.ell fire almost all hisSife, beinO
of ca Marshal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
BOB ZUPPKE is HERE
200 Illinois Alumni to Hear Famed
Grid Coach Tonight.

Two hundred alumni of the Uni
versity of Illinois with their wives
and friends will hear Robert c.
Zuppke. Illinois football coach, and
see sound picture, The Illini
Trail" tonight at the Columbia
Club.
An informal dinner will be given
Zuppke at $50. w. R. Spurlock is
president Of the indianapolis Illini
club. George (Potsy) Clark will in
troduce Zuppke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
HITLER OWES
POST TO BLUFF
BY iron MAN
Won SchIeiCher Blocked
Won Papen From Power
in Comic Opera Plot.
By United Press

By United Press
BERLIN, Feb. Adolf Hitler.
Fascist leader, owes his appointment
as chancellor of Germany to
bluff by former Chancelor-Gen
eral Kurt Won Scnleicher, the United
Press learned today.
General Won schleicher, who re-
signed last Saturday, denied the
widely published story that he had
planned a coup d'etat last Monday
for the purpose of establishing a
military dictatorship.
However, in his denial Won Schlei-
cher omitted the real tale. and the
dramatic events were related by
one of his confedcrateS.
Following Won Schleicher's resig-
nation, President Paul Won linden
burg planned to name Franz Won
Papen as chancellor in nation
alistic cabinet.
Bluff Causes Much Talk
Won Schleicher, however. con-
vinced that an overwhelming ma
lOrity of the people were hostile to
Won Papen, and his appointment
might arouse resentment in the
army, summoned a few close friends.
including military men and high
civilian members Of the govrrn-
ment, to a secret conference at q
private Berlin residence.
They agreed. it was authorita-
lively said, deliberately to circulate
false rumors not only of Won Schlei-
chers purported military coup. but
to disseminate a report that he
intended to arrest Won Papen and
others even more famous, includ-
ing Won Hindenburg's son. Colonel
Oscar Won Hindenburg, if Won Pa
pen were named chancellor.
According to Won SchIeicher's
confederate, no actual preparations
for a "putsch' of that sort. or the
arrest of prominent personages
ever seriously was undertaken.
Successful, They Claim
He said that the entire scheme
merely consisted of circulating ru-
mors for the purpose of bringing
pressure on the Nationalist in Won
HindenbWg's encourage to refrain
from appointing Won Papen.
The perpetrators of the conspir-
acy put up their bluff, and now
claim their comic opera" plot has
been most successful, from their
point Of view.
Apprehension grew among high
political leaders not in on the
scheme, they said, and hurried
conference was held Sunday night,
including Won Papen, Hitler and DR..
Alfred Hugenberg, head of the Ma
tionalist party. The meeting culmi-
mated in the abandonment of Won
Papen's candidacy for the chancel-
lorship. it was claimed, and Hit
lers appointment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04

not release any from the treasury
The crash came on Black Friday
Oct. 4. 1869. Gold went up to 145
to $50 to 100. Then the government
started selling. Hundreds of firms
we're ruined that black day, thou
sands of individuals.
Jay Gould and his teammate, Jim
Fisk, though their conspiracy had
collapsed, were not ruined. Gould
repudiated his brokers, refused to
paw for purchases made in his name,
was given legal sanction by the cor
rupt Boss Tweed municipal govern
ment and escaped with new for
tune.
A ND America was to have an
N other panic, even worse, before
imitation had finished its work. On
Sept. 10, 1873, Jay Cooke, chief war
time money lender to the govern
ment, failed in Philadelphia, drag
cling thousands of business men
with him.
Thirty seven banks suspended the
next day. The New York Stock Ex-
change suspended trading for ten
days.
widespread unemployment added
to the general distress" writes Rob-
ert Irving Warshow in 1.-The Story
of Wall Street" Gradually, how
ever, as the subsequent def1ation
corrected the financial balance, the
fury spent itself.
1T took more than five years,
however, for the country to recu-
perate completely, and only after
dragging itself through this period
Of misfortune and misery did the
aiIing industrial and financial or
gans Of the country at last COM
pletely resume their normal func-
tons"
Many a citizen will be surprise to
know that the 1862 greenbacks are
still in circulation. Following re-
sumption of gold payments in 1879,
the government reissued the bills
as fast as they came in.
A fund of $150,OO0,OO0 of gold was
SeG up W pay WIlO6FGL pfeSeIll6u OIIe
Of the bills and demanded gold. The
reserve fund is still ready. Look
in your pocket. The bills with the
red seals are greenbacks.
There are $293,884,718 of them
outstanding in the publics hands,
including 19,883,OO 50 bills.
Next-Sparling will discuss infia-
ton in Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
LAWYERS LASH
BARS PROPOSAL
Appointment of Judges Is
UnWiSe, City Society
SAYS FIat!Y.

Protest against a plan Of the In
dianapoliS Bar Association for non
partisan appointment Of county
judges by the Governor was regis
tered by 200 lawyers at a mass meet
ing in circuit court Friday night.
Copy of a resolution adopted by
the Law Society of indianapolis,
with only one dissenting vote, will
be sent all members of the state leg
iSlature.
James Bingham, attorney, presid-
ed at the mass meeting which was
attended by Law Society and Indi-
annapolis Bar Association members.
A measure, adopted by the bar
association Wednesday, urges en-
actment Of a law which would set
up judicial council in the county.
The council Of seven or nine
members would be named by the
Indiana supreme court, the circuit
court judge, an dtWenty-one past
presidents of the indianapolis Bar
Association.
Under the plan, the council would
nominate not less than two candi-
dates for all judgeships, not desig-
mated in the constitution, leaving
appointment to the Governor.
The new plan neither is wise nor
calculated to remedy the evil sup
posed to exist by it's authors" the
Law Society resolution states.
Bar Association members contend
the new plan would take judgeships
out Of politics, but professors claim
this would not be accomplished.
Such legislation, the protest reso-
luton sets forth, would be to close
the door of opportunity against in
dependent, individual candidates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
MT. VESUvIUS
IS IN ACTION
Countryside Terror Stricken
by Explosions Deep
Within Mountain.
BIZ Tniied Press

BB United Press
NAPLES, Italy, Feb. MT. Vesu-
vius, fiery ancient volcano, after
slumbering two years, has resumed
intense activity.
Deep rumblings and earth shocks
caused panic Friday among the
people of the countryside and near
by villages.
Hundreds of quakes had been reg
istered since early Thursday. Pro-
fessor Alessandro Malladra, director
of the Vesuvius observatory, an
nounced. The most severe came at
$50 p. m. today, shaking the OBJ
servatory for fifteen seconds.
1t was felt in nearby towns of
Tore Del Greco, ResiIa and Por-
tici
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
PROVIDE NEEDY FUNDS
Margaret Butler Snow Foundation
Money to Be Used.

Funds from the Margaret Butler
Snow foundation, now being used to
combat tuberculosis, will be placed
in a general fund to supply medical
aid to needy families, it was de-
ci1ed Friday at meeting of the
bosrd of health.
The boards action was acceptance
of the report of special committee
appointed two weeks ago to study
ways of furnishing medical care to
depreSSion-S stricken families.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
AWARDS ARE RESUMED

The Art Association Of Indianapo-
lis again will award scholarships TO
high school graduates of Indiana, it
was announced today.
The association discontinued
awarding scholarships three. years
ago, but due to the large nuI Ever Of
requests from teachers and stKE II
awards have been resumed. EssI0N
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
FIGHTER Is KILLED
BY BIT OF SPONGE
Etrangles 10 Death During Charity
- Bout In Canada.

81 nitC3 Press
: KINGSVILLE Ont, Feb. Am
amateur boxer, Tony Dragon, %,
Fighting in a charity bout here,
strangled 10 death on piece of
his sponge mouthpiece, knocked
down his throat, coroners had de-
Cided after an autopsy.
Coroner H. c. Hills said there
were no injuries to the boxers
head. and that he did not suffer
heart attack. as it was believed
at first.
Dragon collapsed in the third
round of his bout, and died with
la a few minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
NEW ELEVATOR BOUGHT
State Highway Commissions Provide
Statehouse Annex improvements.

While marking time, pending
Governor Paul V. McNutt's reor-
ganization plans, state highway
commissioners this week made one
accomplishment.
They decided to buy a new ele-
vator for the statehouse annex. The
old one has broken down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
200, 900 Men Modified TO
Keep JehOL, Japan Warned

Lin, erstwhile bandit chieftain who
conquered Manchuria and then
Peiping, and turned it over to his
son when he was assassinated while
retreating to his old capital at Muk
den, in 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
MILLIONS LOST BY INITIATION
Lesson of Resolution Ignored by Leaders in 1876
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ats a hlrhlight history Of imitation.
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BY EARL Sparkling
Times stan Writer

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
Divorces Actor Second Time

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4.-Segunda
Yriondo Lederer, member of veal
thy Barcelona, Spain, family, Fri
day, for the second time, was di-
vorced from Otto Lederer, actor.
She was divorced from Lederer in
July, 1929, but reconciliation was
effected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
AUDIT SHOWS SHORTAGE
Accounts of Former Bank Cashier,
Who Killed Self, Checked.

By United Press
PINE VILLAGE, Ind, Feb. "A
state banking department audit of
the defunct Bank of Pine Village
has revealed a shortage of approx
imately $1,000 in the accounts of S.
S. Jacobs, former cashier, it was
reported here today.
Jacobs committed suicide at his
home here Jan. Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
DESP0NDENT, YOUNG
CONTRACTOR ENDS LIFE
City Man Compliments Wife on
Lunch, Then Puts Bullet Into Heart.

City Man compliments WIfe on
Lunch, Then Puts Bullet Into Heart.
After compImenting his wife on
the excellence of a lunch, Roy
Steckelmeyer, 30, of 1874 South Lyons
avenue, contractor, went to a bed
room in his home and shot himself
through the heart, Friday afternoon.
DR.. John Salb, deputy coroner,
said he learned that Steckelmeyer
had been respondent because of
financial affairs.
Mrs. Steckelmeyer said her hus-
band gave no sign of his impending
act. After he left the table, he went
to the bedroom, she said, and closed
the door, without speaking to her.
"Quick Action" is what many per-
sons call Times Want Ads. They
cost less than those in any other
paper in the CITY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04

intense excitement OF Friday,
Sept. "a, 1863. From a drawing inf
Harper's Weekly.
meant to the federal government
after the Civil war: THE govern
ment was forced to sell bonds for
deprecated greenbackS, but to main
tain its credit it had to pay the in
terest and ultimately the principal
of these bonds in gold.
Supplies for the army were paid
for in deprecated greenbacks, but
these greenbacks had to be ultimate
ly redeemed in gold. 1t has been es-
timated that the use Of the green
backs increased the expense of the
Civil war by nearly 5000 100000"
What does initiation mean to the
rich man? Back in the COS and 70'S
some of them got richer. Long be-
fore the poor man knew his paper
dollar was becoming more valuable,
the rich were out accommodating
greenbacks toward the day when the
government would redeem them in
gold. Many American fortunes were
founded in those years leading up
to 1879 and redemption.
APPRECIATED money and the
~ chance of reaping unearned
profits from the less shrewd resulted
in all the phenomena noted by Web
ster and Ramsay a century earlier.
Everybody made ventures" writes
Medberry. Gold was the favorite
with the ladies' Clergymen affected
mining stocks and petroleum. Law
yers had a penchant for Erie. Solid
merchants, preferring their custom
airy staples, sold cotton and corn for
future delivery or bought copper and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
DEATH WREATH STOLEN
Thief Runs OFF With Mourning
Flowers at Hammond.

BIZ JHitCd Press
/. : HAMMOND, Ind, Feb. As the
body of Mrs. Thomas O'Toole lay
in casket, a thief stole the mourn
ing wreath from the door Of the
home.
A sister-in-law heard steps on the
porch at a. m. Opening the front
door. she discovered the wreath was
gone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-04
Fraternity TO Meet

Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will
meet at Tuesday night at the
theneum.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
BRITISH DEBT
DEBATELOOMS

One of the greatest Senate de-
bates of all time was promised
today after Senator David A.
Reed accepted the challenge of
Senator Carter Glass for a dis.
cussion of the propriety of seal
ing down the foreign debts.
The position of both is clear
cut. Reed, brilliant and conserva-
tive Pennsylvania Republican, a
World War veteran, demands pay
ment or default of war debt in,
stalments due today.
Glass, fiery, acid-tongued Vir-
ginia Democrat, favors downward
revision of the debts.
The two will clash whenever
president Roosevelt sends to Con-
gress any proposal to revise debts
downward.
The prospects are for defeat
of any debt slashing proposal Of
fered by the Administration. Sen
ators Borah (RD of Idaho and
Johnson (RD of California are
bluntly opposed to any revision.
Crystallized back of them is a
vigorous opposition to even re-
garding partial payment of any
instalment by any nation as re-
moving the stigma of the word
default"
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
ReUGrd for Slayer
Contested in Court

The final chapter in the muir
der of Sergt. Charles R. Nc
Clary. of the Alexandria Police,
by Kid Lilly in 1880, will be
written in the Alexandria Cor
poration Court this month when
the court is called upon to de-
termine who will be the re-
cipient of the $1,000 reward Of
fered for the arrest and convic-
ton of Lilly.
There are two claimants, one a
colored woman living in Colum-
bus, Ohio, and the three Colum-
bus policemen who actually ar
rested Lilly.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
UPWARD TREND
|N|NDUSTRY

While their was an increase
of 4.8 per cent in employment
and lis per cent in payrolls
in manufacturing industries in
May over April, this should not
be interpreted as meaning the
course out of the industrial
crisis of the past few years is
clear, Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins said today.
A portion of the advance in
May should, as was the case in
April, be regarded as recovery
from the precipitate decline in
employment payrolls following
the bank holiday in March, she
said.
Purchasing power, she added, is
still considerably below that
needed to care for cumulative in
crease in production.
Although these gains are sub
stantial and far in excess of the
normal trend at this season of
the year, Miss Perkins pointed
out that the total paid in wages
by manufacturing industries in
May was still only 40 per cent
of the average wage paid during
1926.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
BOY CONFESSES
GIRL : MURDER

PHILADEL HIA, June Is.
Police announced last night the
arrest of the slayer of Rose Nc:
Closkey, pretty, 19-year-old sales
girl.
The slayer made a full confes
sion police said. and early today
still was recounting details Of
the crime to police.
He was identified as Richard
Bach, 20, of Philadelphia, one of
a gang of youths who made a.
practice of hanging around
secluded parts of the park to
prey on spooning couples.
Bach, police said, confessed he
sneaked up behind Miss Nc
Closkey and her sweetheart, Den.
mis- Boyle, 80, while they were
embracing on a bench in Fair
mount Park on the night of
January 5.
He struck the man with a
heavy stone, police said, and
stunned the girl with the handle
of a heavy hunting knife.
Bach intended to attack the
girl, but she put up such strug-
gle that he abandoned his de-
sign and killed her to prevent
an outcry, police said. He cut
her throat with the blade of the
knife as she lay on the ground,
according to his purported con-
feSSion
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
.R D D SEVELT'S 'S
VACAT|ONC GUT
BY CONGRESS
President Forced to Miss His
Sons Graduation as
Result of Delay

The vagaries of a suddenly re-
bellious Congress promised today
to force rearrangement of Presi
dent Roosevelt's plans for a
much.needed vacation.
AS it is the President will have
to forego the pleasure of seeing
his son, Franklin, jr., graduate
from Groton tomorrow.
BY the same token, his sailing
cruise up the New England Coast
must be deferred.
All Set to Leave
Everything is all set for Mr.,
RooSevelt's departure from Wash.
ington-that is, everything but the
adjournment of Congress. If the
legislators come to an agreement
on veterans compensation-w which
will not provoke a White House
veto-he will entrain at once for
Marion, Mass, where James,
his eldest son, will be waiting
with a trim 45-foot sea-going
schooner. The vacation itinerary
calls for leisurely cruise up the
north shore to Campobello, the
Roosevelt island camp just over
the Maine border in Nova Scotia
To Shorten Vacation
If the House accepts the Steiwer,
Cutting amendment liberalizing
the administrations veterans
regulations, Mr.. Roosevelt has
served notice he will veto the
Independent Offices bill to which
it is attached. That automatically
would prolong the session several
days while Congress voted un-
successfully to override the veto
and then reframed the disputed
legislation.
The Roosevelt vacation has not
been abandoned as a result OF
this situation. 1t merely will be
shortened by every day that Con
gress remains here. The Presi-
dent has decided to return tc
Washington on July l regardless
Of when he gets away.
The return trip from Campo
bello will be made aboard the new
1O,000-ton cruiser Indianapolis
the Navy giving the cruiser q
speed test.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
SET
FOR BALBO HOP

ORBETELLO, Italy, June IS
G.N.SD.-Unless there is an un-
foreseen change in the weather
outlook, Italy's formation flight
of "a army seaplanes bound for
Chicago will get under way at
6 a. m. tomorrow. Gen. Italo
Balbo, minister Of air, announced
today.
The planes were taken out of
their hangers today and floated
on a nearby lagoon, while their
pilots fuelled, oiled, provisioned
and checked them, paying partic-
ular attention to the compass and
radio equipment.