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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
PROSPERITY CLINIC
HEARINGS ARE ENDED
Briefs Expected From Many
Invited to Testify.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 24.--The
senate finance committee today vot-
ed to discontinue hearings in its
prosperity clinic" designed to find
ways and means of ending the de-
preston.
The committee expected to receive
briefs from those Invited to testify
who have not yet appeared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
Scientific Plan Used in World
War Can Hell p in Job Scheme

"Our greatest primary task is to
put people to work.
ut can be accomplished in part
by direct recruiting by the gov
eminent itself, treating the task
as we would treat the emergency
of a war, but at the same time
through the employment accom-
plishing greatly needed projects to
stimulate and reOrganiZe the use
of our great national resources"
President Roosevelt, inaugural
address, March 4.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

Wireless Expert Seth Traces Mystery Calls to Rings Lair

: looking for some summer properties.
But how come you're all filled up?
This looks like a quiet section"
The clerk dropped his voice, al
| though they we're alone.
1T used to be" he whispered.
But now it's full of strangers.
Better clear out, friend, while you're
able to-
RS drove along the coast until
he came to a mansion, high on a
bluff overlooking the sea. He recog-
nized it as the former home of the
! lato Oscar Hammerstein, Broadway
impresSario.
Near it he heard the humming
of giant generators, and saw the
aerial over which QRM was broad
casting. 1t was cleverly hidden
among the trees, supported by thir-
ty-foot poles.
The roads were alive with trucks
carrying barrels and cases of bottles
and Rs hurried away to avoid be-
ing stopped and questioned.
He managed to have a break
down" in front of a farmers house,
and from him he learned how the
rum kingdom had captured the vi
cinity.
"THAT radio station keeps in
Il touch with six big schooners
and about forty launches" the
farmer said. L know all about it;
the boss was friend of my daugh-
ter until I chased him away.
THE old Hammerstein house is a
regular fortress. They've got ma
chine-gunS rifles and tear gas bombs
enough for an army. They have
their own dock, a few miles from
here; they call it Number Six
The hotel down the road is
theirs; about forty of their en-
ployeS sleep there.
They store their liquor in a big
cave. Mighty dangerous around here
for stranger"
Romantic though it sounded, R-9
had enough evidence to warrant a
raid.
He left the farmer and drove to
Newark, where, by telephone, he adj
vised his superior of the situation.
Delay occurred while red tape
was cut, and then the prohibition
authorities began gathering evidence
against the syndicate One after
noon in October Rs led a squad of
men to the radio station. while
scores Of other federal agents rushed
the manSion-fortreSS and the hotel.
TINE raid took them by surprise
Il although it was learned later
the syndicate had spies in the coast
guard, prohibition and police service
to protect this fortress on the fringe
of New York harbor.
A man sat at the key of the wire
less set. R-8 recognized him at once
as Malcolmn McMasters, a former
ships operator.
Step aside, McMasters," R-8 said
Let me use that transmitter.
McMasterS was forced aside. R-e
sat down at the key and tapped out
a message in the syndicate's own
code:
'Cadex withdrawn. Proceed tc
shore at once and land cargoes."
McMaSters laughed.
"They won't fall for that" he
said. They known my 'touch'-the
way I send. You'll just scare them
off"
I'll give them a pretty good imi-
tation," R-8 responded. 1--WE been
listening to you long time myself
Obeying instructions, several
launches ran ashore into traps set
by federal agents. The big rum
ships, however, refused to come in
side the twelve-mile limit and evad-
ed capture.
T'hirty-five prisoners were taken;
liquor valued at thousands of dollars
was seized.
And that night station QRM
signed off for the last time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

ing to the station, copying down its
seemingly meaningless test signals
-"V-V-V-QRM" over and over
again.
THE only difference" an operator
told the supervisor in communica-
tons, sis that he changes the num-
Der of VS."
R-8, before going to the vicinity
of the station, and possibly thereby
giving a warning, determined to
wait until the station actually be-
gan to send messages.
Experiment showed that the sta
ton actually was using a low wave
length. outside the broadcast band,
but that the transmitter was tuned
SO broadly that the wave spread
over several bands.
One of the operators at COM
munications was listening to the
test calls, mechanically jotting down
the VS. as they droned in his ears.
Twelve VS., one V, fourteen VS.,
four VS., one V, twenty VS., fourteen
VS., fifteen VS., nineteen VS., nine
VS., twenty-four VS." read a section
R-8 happened to notice.
The varying number of test letter
groups set him to thinking.
do they group them that way
all the time?" he asked.
The operator nodded.
For the last hour that's the way
it's been coming in. They must be
using an automatic transmitter
That would account for the cycle"
wait a minute!"
+
d. was busy with pencil and
IN paper. Suddenly he smiled.
Would you believe it," he said to
the supervisor, they've been send
ing messages all the time!"
He showed the astonished opera
tors the solution. Each group of
VS., ending with the signature
"QRM," was a letter The number
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
500 Clothing Theft Reported

Theft of clothing valued at 500
was reported today to police by
Clarence Marshall, operator of a
cleaning establishment at 513 East
Thirty-ninth street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
THREE ARE ARRESTED
ON VAGRANCY COUNTS
Robbery Attempts Charged; Two
Women Are Struck.

Three men reported to have
struck two women early today in
alleged robbery attempts in the 100
and 200 blocks Liberty street are
under arrest.
Leslie Brandt, 81, of 2517 East
Ninth street, is charged with va
grancy and transporting liquor. Va
grancy charges are faced by Roy
Devine. IS, Of 1893 Hillside avenue,
and Clarence Grimes, 25, Of 1925
Ewing street.
In an automobile occupied by The
men, police reported finding two
gallons of alcohol and quart OF
whisky.
The victims of the attacks, nei-
Their Of whom was hurt seriously,
were Miss June Runnelson, 141
North Liberty street, and Miss Helen
Clark, 225 North Liberty street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
Former CITY Resident Dies

Word has been received here by
Mrs. Belle c. Hanson and Mrs.
Elizabeth Ramsey of the death OF
their brother, Dr. John G. Walker,
former resident of Indianapolis, IN
his home at Los Angeles. Cal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
POLAND FEARS
HITLER COUP
IN CORRIDOR
PadereWSki Alarmed Over
Germany'S Designs on
Disputed Strip.
PRUSSIANISM is PERIL
Spirit of Frederick the Great
Walks Again, Says
Pianist.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMNIS
Soripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Fate
must have brought the great Ig-
mace Jan Paderewski, illustrious
Polish pianist, back to Washington
this particularly historic week, for
even while he was a guest in the
national capital the Poland of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24


which he first
was premier, and
of which Wood
row Wilson was
a creator, again
stood in danger.
While the ro-
mantle fl g ure
was a White
House guest of
President Roose-
welt, Wilson's
first pol iticaI
successor, Presi-
dent Won Hin
denburg of Ger
manV and the
Nazi chancellor,
Adolf Hi t Ter,
We're IL 6 h nrilnn o.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
WOMAN DOCTORS TREES
Feminine Firm Executive Passes
Test In Connecticut.

BIZ United Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn, March "a
Mrs. Philip Hansling Jr., of Hart
ford, who gets more thrills out OF
saving a tree than from scoring a
grand slam in contract, has become
Connecticut's first certified woman
tree surgeon.
Mrs. Hansling, who is secretary
of a tree firm at Hartford, passed
the examination given by the Con-
necticut Agricultural Experiment
Station with a better average than
most men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
Army of Workers Should Be
Enlisted With View
to Fitness.

This is the first of series of five
articles on how Science can help in
picking the right men for jobs in the
proposed federal battle against unem-
ployment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

Another best seller in fiction has
been contributed by Bernard
Shaw in Adventures Of the Black
Girl 1t is best described as a
commentary on Christianity and
religious sects by Brentano's who
lists it as a best seller. 1t is pub
lished by Dodd, Mead e. Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
Beer in Old Days Little
Stronger, Surrey ShOws

the walOp Why the old beer
to b is
conversation together.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
BY LOU WEDENIER

is the last Of series stories uper-men
skilled investigators,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
C. R. WALSH DIES
Resident of City Since Childhood
to Be Buried Monday.

TO BE Buried Monday.
Following an illness of two
months, Clarence r. Walsh, 50, we'll
driller and a resident of Indian
apolis since a child, died Thursday
in his home. 5000 Miller street.
Funeral services will be held at
10 Monday in the William D. Bean
blossom funeral. home, 1921 West
Ray street. Burial will be in Floral
Park cemetery. Mr.. Walsh was q
member Of the Modern Woodmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

In answer to a question. I am
informed that the late John Gals
worthy finished new novel before
he died 1t mas the significant title
of "One More River" and will first
appear as a magazine serial. 1t is
based upon the old hymn. There's
one more river to cross, one more
river. and that's the River Jordan. 4"
1t is q companion to Maid in Wait
ing" and Towering Wilderness"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

In riding the buses going to and
from work, the book I see most in
the hands of others is Ann Wick
erS." by Sinclair Lewis. And I have
seen three copies of Alice in Won
derland" in the past few days. l
often see people reading the Bible
as they go to work
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

Above:
Agent R-S's
triangulation.
Left: The
old mansion.
Below: Agents
with its hidden
radio and
firearms just
after the raid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

What are they reading in non
fiction? Brentano's reports the fol-
lowing" British Agent" by Bruce
Lockhart; United States in World
Affairs by walter Lippman; Phil
osophy of Solitude" by John CoWper
Powys: Upton Sinclair Presents
william Fox: The Way OF Escape
by Philip Gibbs, and "A World
Passed by by Marvin Lowenthal.
And that is pretty heavy reading.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24

Max Miller, who wrote Il Cover
the Waterfront" has a new one to
his credit. 1t is He Went Away
for Awhile" and is published by
button. And the experiences re-
cited in this newspaperman'S latest
are his own
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24

put the code authority in charge of
the life and death of unions of col
lective bargaining, and of the wage
agreements arrived at thereby.
Fifth, the proposed code would
permit boys over 16 to work in the
construction industry, whereas labor
demands that 18 years be the age
limit.
Sixth, labor holds that separate
code should be drafted for the build
ing construction industry. Only
through such procedure can justice
be done to the skilled workers who
make up approximately 80 per cent
of those employed in this highly i'm
portant industry.
Labor will support the recovery
act to the limit, but support for the
recovery act does not mean support
for every Objectionable proposal ad-
vanced in its name. If the powerful
forces gathered here have come with
proposal which workers cannot and
should not support, then they need
not accuse labor of blocking the ad-
ministration. What labor is seeking
to block is abuse of the recovery act
and it will carry that opposition to
the VprV last anpaa1
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
TIPS HELD PART
OF WATERS PAY

New York City (ILNS)-The New
Yory City NRA Compliance Boarc
has ruled that restaurant and dining
room owners may include the tips
given by the public as part of the
prescribed minimum wage under the
presidents e-emplyoment agree.
ment, but on condition that any de-
ficiency between the aggregate OF
tips and the minimum wage shall be
paid by the employers at the end OF
the week.
This decision overturns rulings
made in Washington Immediately
after the Blue Eagle was launched
1t will affect about 5000 restaurants
cafes and public dining rooms in New
York, most of which have claimed
that the minimum wage provision OF
the blanket code, without inclusion OF
tips was "ruinous" to them.
This decision is expected to be i'm
mediately followed by local compli.
ance boards in other cities and towns
unless it is overturned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
Hosiery Workers Call On
Nation to Support NRA
Declare Act Has Benefited Labor and Urge All Unions
to Vigorously Fight Attacks on Law

Philadelphia (ILNS)-Close to co.
900 hosiery workers throughout the
United States, ranked under the
banner of the American Federation of
Hosiery Workers, are chalking up
substantial gains under NRA.
They cited it's effects in speeding
up industry, spreading buying power
and winning for them increased
wages and decreased hours, in reso-
luton passed by the national execu-
tive board of the federation at a
three-day meeting at national head
quarters here.
The resolution declared that the re-
covery act has had generally bene-
fetal effects in the hosiery industry,
painted out that an organized attack
is now being made on the act and
called upon all hosiery workers and
the public to rally to the support of
the act and protest against any tam
pering with it's provisions or weaken
ing of it's administration. The reso-
luton further called upon labor to
undertake a campaign of education
to win support for the act, and to
strengthen and make more effective
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
Mira VIOLATION
Brings Strike of Car Dis
mantlers

Spencer, N. c. (ILNS)-Gross vic.
lation of the MIRA sent the entire
burning" force employed here by the
M. S. Kaplin Company of Chicago out
on strike.
The workers who are engaged ir
dismantling obsolete freight cars, de.
ciared that the company demands 9
third more work from them at nc
increase in wages.
Before the company's illegal de-
mands, the workers were cutting un-
der frames off the cars with acete-
lene torches. The workers themselves
furnished the acetylene and oxygen
They were cutting the steel into five
foot lengths.
Under the new system installed by
the company, the workers were re-
quired to cut the steel into four foot
lengths, and still had to furnish the
acetylene and oxygen used. The work
ers declared that the new system
forced them to work IL hours to turn
out the work they formerly did in
hours, at no increase in pay. They
were paid on a piece rate. Moreover,
the increased amount of acetylene and
oxygen necessary made severe inroads
into their wages, they said
Despite the Blue Eagle displayed on
the company's windows, the workers
said, the company refused to pay the
minimum wages required under the
NRA, and refused not only to arbi-
trate, but even to discuss the situa-
tion with the strikers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
RAILROADS URGED
TO BUY LITERALLY

Chicago (ILNS)--Speaking before
the Railway Business Association,
Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-ordi-
nator of transportation, urged rail-
roads to adopt more liberal buying
policy to relieve unemployment in the
heavy industries.
"In saying this | do not mean that
the railroads should borrow money,
even on liberal terms, for what they
do not need" he said. They have a
crushing load of debt as it is, and
it could be of no real and lasting help
to the general situation for them to
go deeper into debt, unless they can
thereby increase or protect their
earning power, either by improving
their service and attracting more
traffic or by lowering their expense of
operation or by preserving their prop
erty from deterioration"
Eastman said the federal govern
ment is ready to help railroad pur-
chases by providing funds on liberal
terms, where such loans can be rea-
sonably secured.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
MUSICIANS
Fight Elimination of Can
ned Music" Radio

Washington, d. G. ILNS)-Vigor-
Gus protest against the resolution
adopted by the National Association
of Broadcasters, urging elimination of
the canned music" regulation requir-
ing the announcement of electrical
transcriptions on the radio as such,
has been made to the federal radio
commission by the American Fedora
tion of Musicians.
Charging that the producers and
the broadcasters are openly combin-
ing to put one over on the public, y
the federation asked the commission
to retain it's present regulation intact.
Unemployment in musicians ranks
would be increased if the commits
sion accepts the broadcasters' recon-
mendation, it was contended.
At present electrical transcriptions
must be announced before each broad
cast to distinguish them from Give
talent" programs. The broad casters
have asked the commission to allow
such transcribed programs, made
especially for broadcasting, to be an
nounced merely as a production of
the concern making such transcript
ton"
The musicians petition was signed
by Joseph N. Weber, president of the
federation, and Gen. Samuel T. An
sell, it's counsel.
Criticizing severely the canned
music" era, the musicians petition
stated that "what music machines
with some help from the broadcast.
ers, have done to the American mu.
sician, is not a pretty picture
Radio and canned music" it con.
tinued, played their part ''in making
this an age of substitution in which
sham serves for the genuine here
there and nearly everywhere"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
Workers Charge Coercion
By Weirton Steel Company
Afdavs from Workers Filed By President Green With
National Labor Board Say Company Officials Seek
to Compel Them to Join Company Union.

Washington.-William Green, pres.
ident of the American Federation OF
Labor, filed with the National Labor
Board affdavits by employees of the
Weirton Steel Company of Weirton
West Va, declaring that they were
being coerced into voting for a com.
pany union rather for the union affil-
lated with the A. F. of L. at the elec-
tion for collective bargaining repre-
sentatives to be held on December IL.
Union Labor Boycott Threatened
Mr.. Green stated that the en-
ployes were being summoned to the
office of the Weirton concern where
communications claimed to be from
purchasers of the company's products
were read to them, stating that the
customers of the steel company would
refuse to buy their products if the
company deals with union labor.
The affidavits charged that officials
of the Weirton concern said the fol-
lowing purchasers of Weirton prod
ucts have made the boycott threats:
Ford Motor Company, Chevrolet
Motor Company, Pontiac Motor Com
pany, Budd Wheel and Manufacturing
Company, American Can Sompany,
Crown Cork Company, Michigan Steel
Company and Ames Baldwin Shovel
Company.
Electioneering for Company Union
The employees of the company
claimed that connanv officials are
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
FORCED
Acreage Cuts Visioned BY
Wallace

Chicago.-Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace told the Association of Land
Grant Colleges here that the govern
ment may use compulsory measures
to enforce the acreage reduction pro-
gram.
eff selfish, bitter prejudice under
mines the government plan," he said,
"the nation may find it necessary as
matter of self preservation to use
compulsion.
He declared that hog prices now
would be down to 50 hundred were it
not for government support, and
warned farmers that "there is little
hope that prices will not sink to the
So level or lower within IL months"
unless they joined in supporting the
corn-hog reduction program.
Secretary Wallace admitted that
mistakes had been made in admins
tering the acreage reduction program
but added:
millions of people, in spite of the
malcontent, are beginning to get the
feeling of common goal voluntarily
and intelligently approached.
"Our plan is voluntary one, in
contrast to features of other propos-
ed relief plans which contain features
of compulsion. That means of gov
ernmental activity is popular now in
some parts of Europe but we want
none of it here"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24

the regulation of industry in the inter-
ests Of the workers, the legitimate
employers and the community as a
whole"
Attempts by special finishing
plants to avoid teeth of the code for
the hosiery industry as far as wages
and working hours are concerned were
scored by the executive board. These
specialized finishing plants are trying
to push code of their own with
wages lower than those for finishing
in the hosiery code, and with hours
longer.
To kill these "chiseling" activities
Of the finishing plants, the board de-
cided to begin an intensive drive to
organize the finishing plant workers.
Five organizers, it was decided,
will be assigned to North Carolina
to start drive to force labor wages
there up to par with wages earned
by Northern workers. The efforts of
the Reading workers to preserve their
organization and to further it's strug-
gle were endorsed, and the federation
will lend moral and financial support
to the Reading workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24
Green Opposes Building Code;
Cites Six Big Labor Objections
Low WAGE COSTS
FIRM Blue EAGLE

New Orleans (ILNS)-The ready
to-wear clothing plant of Opotowsky
& Sons, operating under the firm
name of the Motor Manufacturing
Company at 5000 Royal ST., has been
ordered to give up the Blue Eagle,
which request was complied with.
Affidavits filed with the local COM
pliance board shows that one girl
worked four full days, nine hours a
day and four hours on Saturday.
forty hours, and received a check for
$1.13 as payment in full. When she
objected to the compensation she was
threatened with arrest and summar-
lily fired.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-11-24

using the long period elapsing be-
tween the date of the agreement and
the election of the collective bargain-
ing representatives to electioneer in
order to win majority for the COM
pany union.
The employees signing the affidavits
are members of the Weirton local un-
ion of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, af-
filiated with the A. F. of L.
Mr.. Green asked the National La
Dor Board to investigate the COM
plants which, he said, indicated de-
fiance of the recovery act and Of the
agreement which Ernest T. Weir,
president of the steel company, made
with the Labor Board last month.
Clarksburg Mill Violates Promise
In another complaint filed with the
Labor Board employees specifically
charged that officials of the Weirton
Company have not kept their promise
made to the Labor Board that they
would take back all the men who
struck at the Clarksburg mill recent
ly. The mill resumed operations
three weeks ago, but only at one-third
capacity.
According to the complaint off
cials of the mill have notified en-
ployes that unless they abandon un-
ion membership they will lose their
jobs and the Clarksburg mill will be
IL