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The Washington times., 1933-03-31
DRUG
BANKRUPT

NEW YORK, March 81 Q.N.S)
Louis K. Liggett and Company,
operating a chain of $50 retail
drug stores in IS States, today
filed voluntary bankruptcy
petition in the Federal district
court for the southeastern district
of New York.
The company is controlled by
United Drug which in turn is a
subsidiary of Drug, Inc.
The petition was filed in &C.
cordance with a reSolutio o n
adopted yesterday by the board
of directors. It declared that the
corporation is unable to pay its
debts in full.
A statement issued by the com.
pany said:
''Liggett Company, like all
retail businesses, has suffered
serious declines in volume for
the past three years due to
the loss in public income. This
has been reflected in its sales
to the extent that its volume
is more than 30 per cent below
the sales volume of 1929.
"The management has done
everything i'm its power to re-
duce expenses and to cope with
this progressive loss in volume
and consequent loss Of earn
ings. The salaries Of manage.
ment and employees have been
successfully reduced to a point
beyond which further reduc.
tiOnS cannot be made"
The Washington times., 1933-03-31

WORLDS CHAMPION bowler,
who was shot by a gunman in
front of his Long Island, N. Y,
home. Falcaro is in a critical
condition. Photo by Inte1na-
tional News Photographic Ser
vice.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
ACTION WAITED.
IN NMORGAN QUIZ

Broad inquiry into the entire
structure Of private banking
loomed today as the result of
the controversy between Ferdinand
Pecora, special investigator for
the Senate Banking and Cur
rency Committee, and the bank
ing house of j. P. Morgan 3
Company.
Rebuffed in the efforts of
Pecora to obtain information
from the great international
banking house, the committee is
awaiting action by the Senate
empowering it to extend its stock
market inquiry into the realm Of
private financierS.
Action of the committee fol-
lowed a report by Pecora. who
said the New York banking house
had declined to answer seven Of a
list of % questions and had
summarily declined to discuss one
question.
At the same time John w.
Davis, counsel for the house Of
Morgan, issued a statement from
New York intimating the bank
ing firm was eager to cooperate
with the Senate committee in its
investigation.
Senator Fletcher (D0 Of Flor
ida, chairman of the Senate COM
mittee, expressed the belief it
would be unnecessary to subpoena
the records of the Morgan Com.
pany, but members intimated
that Morgan might be called be-
fore their body for questioning.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
BODY FOUND BESIDE CANAL
A. R. Martin Believed
Suicide; Motive
Unknown

The theory of suicide was ad-
vanced by police and Acting Coro-
ner A. Magruder Macdonald today
in the case Of a man identified
as A. R. Martin, 1900 block G
st. N. W., whose body was found
last night on the banks of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
A .25 caliber automatic pistol
was near the body, and there was
a bullet wound in the head.
Detective Sergt. Harry K. Will
son, head of the homicide squad,
cited facts which he said con-
firmed the suicide theory.
He said a bullet hole sur
rounded by blood was in the
wall beside which Martins body
was found.
To Quiz Brother
The distance of this hole above
the ground indicated the man
apparently sat down by the wall
d11u S11OV 4AIAA10C4S "4AoOAA oNAAS
Wilson today was to interview
Martins brother, William, audi
tor at a local hotel, who is said
to be the dead mans only rela-
tive here.
His Taxi Nearby
Another indication Of what
police say strengthens the suicide
theory was the discovery of Mar
tins taxicab, the motor running,
a short distance from where the
body was found.
On the front seat of the taxi
cab was found a box of pistol
bullets of the same caliber as
the gun, with a number of the
shells, corresponding to the num-
ber in the clip Of the gun, miss
ing.
It was first believed that Mar
tin might have been slain when
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
RELIEF GRANTS
To STATES GET
COLDSUPPORT
Rainey, Byrns, Others Dislike
Wagner $500, 600, 900 P'an,
But Will Back u

The senate's $500, ,000,00 relief
bill, which embarks the Federal
Government on a new policy OF
aiding the needy, was received
coldly by House Democratic lead
ers today.
Nevertheless, prompt consider
alton was promised, with lndl'
cations that the measure will be
approved substantially as it passed
the Senate by IS to II vote yes
terday.
The bill abandons the Hoover
policy of loaning money to states
and cities for relief purposes ana
makes direct Federal grants Tor
this purpose.
Hearing Due Monday
Speaker Rainey and Representa-
tive Byrns Of Tennessee, Demo
cratic leader, would prefer to lend
money to States for relief work,
but are supporting the bill.
The measure will be sent to COM
mittee for a hearing next Mon
day, ByrnS said, with action de-
pendent upon that Of the ways
and Means Committee.
Before the measure passed the
Senate, the close followers OF Tor.
mer President Hoover attacked
the measure vigorously. Senator
Fess (R.) Of Ohio predicted the
new policy would open a new
pathway through which Federal
funds would flow out endlessly:
The measure, sponsored by
Senators Wagner CD Of New
York, Costigan CD Of Colorado,
and La Toilette (R0 Of Wiscon-
sin, is said to be satisfactory to
the White House.
$3.50 Program
It represents victory for those
who have battled for direct Fed
eral aid for relief purposes for the
past two years.
The $3.50 principle on which
Federal aid to States is given for
highway and other purposes is in
voked in the new measure.
A Federal relief administration
is set up, and the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation is charged
with the duty of borrowing $780,
000, 900 for relief work.
The relief administration Is
given broad powers to make in
vestigations to determine the need
for Federal aid.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
Lack of Fund Kills
All COnden1nOtiOIlS

The District Commissioners to.
day ordered Corporation Counsel
William w. Bride to reconsider
all pending condemnation pro.
ceedings with 4 view of curtail-
ing or eliminating them, in view
of the reduction in funds avail.
able for this purpose.
The commissioners also ordered
that condemnation proceedings
for the widening Of Foxhan Read
Northwest, be indefinitely -,ost-
poned as it will be impossible to
carry out this work during tho
coming fiscal year because Of the
reduced District budget.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
CHICAGO MAYOR
To BE NASH.

CHICAGO, March 81 G.N.SO-
Local Democratic leaders today
expressed the opinion that Pat
rick A. Nash, official party leader
here, will be the choice Of the
city council to serve out the un-
expired mayoralty term of the
late Anton j. Cermak. The term
runs to April, 1885.
The Illinois house Of repreSen-
tatives at Springfield late yester-
day granted the city council au-
thority to choose a successor,
either from the council ranks or
from the outside, to fill the Ger
max vacancy. The bill grants
full mayoral powers to Mayor
Cermak'S successor.
Acting Mayor Frank Corr an
nounced that he is not a candi-
date to fill out the full unexpired
term. Election of the new mayor
is expected to be held after the
new city council is installed late
next week.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
RAIL ORDERS LOW

Railroads in the United States
ordered only 1,780 tons Of rails
in March, against $500 a year
ago, the current Railway Age re-
ports.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
.BANkRUPTS' ADD
HAS OPPOSITION.

Proposals to extend the bank.
ruptcy jurisdiction of the Federal
Government to municipalities and
other political subdivisions OF
States is opposed in special com
mittee report submitted today to
the board of directors Of the U
S. Chamber of Commerce.
The committee recommends:
"NO action should be taken
that destroys or impairs the
integrity of municipal Obliga-
tiOnS.
"WhiIe recognizing the acute
financial situation facing
number of municipalities, due
in part to unusual conditions
in business and in part to
governmental extravaganza, the
committee believes that, under
present conditions, defaults can
be averted by economy and
efficiency in local governments.
"That any proposal to allow
a municipality to obtain a NOR
atOrium, either under Federal
or State laws, is unSOund in
principle, would increase tax
delinquencies and encourage
municipal defaults.
"That it is unnecessary and
undesirable, even if cOnstitu-
tiOnal, to extend the bank
ruptcy jurisdiction of the Fed
eral Government to political
subdivisions Of the States.
"That the matter of dealing
with local governments in
actual or prospective default
upon their obligations should
be left to constructive action Of
the States"
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
SELECTION
SYSTEM IS
ATTACKED
Negroes Lawyers Have Made
Out Prima Facie Case of
Bias, Court Rules

COURTROOM, DECATUR,
Ala, March 81 (I.N.S.).-Cir-
cult Judge James E. Horton to-
day held that the defense in the
ScOttsbOrO criminal l assault
trial had made out q prima
facie case of racial diScrimina-
tion in the operation Of the Ala
bama selective jury system in
Morgan county.
DECATUR, Ala, March 81
U.N.SO-The secret jury roll of
Morgan county, containing several
thousand names, lay open in court
today as the defense in the Scots
boro assault trial pressed its at
tack on the selective jury system
of Alabama on the ground that it
draws the color line.
The thick red volume, usually
held in the confidential custody
of the jury board. gave up its
names as the attorneys for Hay
wood Patterson. first Of the seven
Scottsboro negroes to face retrial
for allegedly assaulting two white
women, sought to quaSh the venire
of 100 drawn from the 1888 jury
roll.
The defense charged racial
prejudice.
May Summon All
Judge James E. Horton, who
admitted the jury roll over objec-
ton of the State, said he would
confine questioning on the list
to the number of those identi-
fled by race. The defense had
launched into proof by members
Of the jury board and others that
each of the persons in the book
was white.
Samuel S. Leibowitz, the New
York attorney heading the de-
tense, offered to call to the
stand every citizen on the jury
list not known personally to one
Of the officials called.
Reports of impending Com
munist demonstrations persisted
today, but could not be verified.
The authorities, however, pro-
fessed to know nothing Of these
plans, and the town remained
outwardly quiet, although there
was noticeable an increased ten.
sity about the court house, which
is protected by national guards
men.
No Rush For Seats
This Tennessee River CON-
munity continued to show, at
least externally, a tolerant atti-
tude toward the trial, and there
was no great rush to get into
the court house, admittance to
which is limited to those able
to obtain seats-some 800.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
Sanders Under Knife
At Hilltop HOSDit1L

Everett Sanders, chairman Of
the Republican National Com
mittee, is at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital doing as well
as can be expected" following a
gall bladder operation. He was
operated on yesterday and is ex-
pected will be confined for several
weeks.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
Clean Up, Paint Up
Month Starts MUU I

The period from May to 26
was designated as Home Improve
ment and Work Creation Month
in a proclamation issued today by
the District Commissioners. The
city heads urged local residents
to have done during this time all
painting, cleaning up and other
home improvements, if possible,
in order to beautify the city and
create work,
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
Those JOkers Would
PLau Their Franks

Pranksters in Montrose Park
sprung new one on John Q.
Public last night when they
interchanged signs on the park
comfort station. The exchange
was discovered by Park Police
man William E. Freeman, but the
culpritS ESCAPED.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31

Harvey Burdette, boatman, said
he heard what may have been
two shots fired around 10 p. m.
An autopsy will be held today
to determine if the wound was
self inflicted.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
District Relief
Sneakers Tonic

An address on the relief prob
lens of the District and what is
being done to meet them will be
delivered by John F. Victory as
feature of the Sixteenth Street
Highlands Citizens Association
meeting in Brightwood School at
s p. m. Monday.
The Washington times., 1933-03-31
MEXICAN SUGAR PLANT

A modern sugar refinery with
capacity for 10000 kiloS daily is
being established by a Mexican
company headed by Alfredo B.
Duarte in Merida, capital Of
Yucatan state. Plant will be in
service within next two months,
management stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
SOUTHPORT LODGES
TO INSTALL HEADS
F. & A. NJ, Eastern Star
Session Tomorrow.

Otto o. Gustin will succeed Elmer
E. Houze as worshipful master of
Southport lodge, No 270, F. & A. NJ,
at a public installation of officers
for 1884, in the Southport Masonic
temple tomorrow night. The meet
ing will open at with the installa-
ton scheduled for 1870.
Mr.. Houze will act as chief INSTALL
ing officer with Past Master Basil
L. Poe as marshal Beside Mr.. Gus
tin, those to be installed are William
G. Hartman, senior warden; John
A. Whalen, junior warden; Otis O..
Burnett, secretary, and Leonard O.
McAlpin, treasurer.
Southport chapter, Order of East
ern Star, to be installed at the same
time with Mrs. Harry Bernloehr,
outgoing worthy matron presiding,
include Miss Velma Snider, worthy
matron; Terrell Stevens, worthy
patron; Mrs. Ruth Harrell, associate
matron; Charles Askin, associate
patron; Mrs. Vivian Schmaltz, con-
ductress; Miss Pearl Snider, asso-
ciate conductreSs; Miss India Stubbs,
secretary, and Miss Marion Lock
wood, secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
Airy Santas
AviatorS Hell p Widow and
Nine Children.
By United Press

By United Press
T OS ANGELES, Dec. 26.-Santa
IL Claus rode the wings Of mod
ern transportation yesterday to
gladden. the hearts of widow and
nine children, secluded in the
desert fastness of southern Utah.
1t was the third Christmas that
Mrs. Alta Bonner and her large
brood welcomed Santa Claus from
the skies.
Toys, food and clothing, valued
at $100, were bundled aboard a
Western Air Express plane as the
mothers reward for attending
small emergency landing field five
miles from her home in the bleak,
wind-sWept EScalante desert. Pr
lots George Sherwood and Clar-
ence Robey dropped the gifts in
tiny parachutes as they scared
over the landing field on their
regular Los Angeles Salt Lake City
run.
Mrs. BOner's only income is the
$40 monthly she receives from the
government for tending the field.
Her husband died there three
years ago. Only a dozen other
persons live within a 500-mile ra-
diuS of her desert home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
COUNTY WARDS
ARE WELL FED
Infirmary, SunnySide and
Jail Inmates Get
Fine Dinners.

Pleasant memories remained to-
day for persons in Marion county
institutions of the Christmas day
dinners they had yesterday, when
special menus were provided for the
holiday.
At the county inirmary, there
was chicken, gravy. cranberrieS. slaw.
apricot cobbler. candy and apples.
while roast beef. oyster dressing.
cranberry sauce. plum pudding, fruit
and milk were prepared for patients
at Sunnyside.
AT the jail, the menu consisted Of
baked chicken. giblet dressing, cram
berries, celery, bread, coffee and
apples. At the juvenile detention
home, a special dinner and Christ
mas program was provided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
BRAIN TRUST
RULE PRAISED
BY EDUCATOR
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler
Calls 1t Hope of
Democracy.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Steady
disintegration leading to eventual
destruction" faces the world unless
it learns to subordinate the profit
motive to service, DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president Of Columbia
university, warned in his annual re-
port to the university's trustees.
The educator, condemning the
exploitation of natural resources in
the past generation, pointed, by i'm
pication, to the brain trust" rule
as the hope of democracy, and
praised the administration for
turning Ito those who know for
guidance.
The people everywhere are pre-
ferring the man who will get some
thing done to him who sits mourn
fully and helplessly by saying that
things will be much better shortly"
DR.. Butler said Several ma
tional units have been willing to
overturn the foundations of their
existing forms of government in Or
der to achieve the efficiency OF
which they are in search.
Service Has Five Needs
The American people have not
done that nor are they likely to do
it, but they have by action of their
national legislature greatly in
creased for the time being the
power and authority of the execU-
tive, in the belief that only by so
doing can the colossal problems, ma
tional and international, be
met with any possible degree Of
success"
American public service has but
five simple needs honesty, courage
common sense, knowledge and vision,
the Columbia president said. Nature
alone can provide common sense,
while the character-building forces
will provide the other essentials.
Lawlessness in the United States
DR.. Butler added, is due to the fact
that "our legislatures, state and
federal, are overcrowded with men,
bers of the bar, and our statute
books are filled with all sorts and
kinds of prescriptions and prohibi-
lions to which few, if any, of the
people pay the slightest attention.
Press Has Responsibility
Newspapers, the report continued
have played "a part in the making
of public opinion which is quite I'M
equaled by any other agency or in
strumentality.
What every conductor of news
paper has to bear in mind,' the re-
port said, sis that the repeated daily
blows of his influence may easily
prove stronger and more determin-
ing in the building of mind and
character than those of home or
school or church, or all of them
combined. He has a heavy educa-
tional responsibility to bear"
Stressing the fact that true edu-
cation has declined during the last
generation, the report added that
the lecture system should have
been discarded when the art of
printing was invented"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
Your Health
EYE CONDITION
NOTED TO FIND
STATE OF BODY
Various MaIadies Place
TeIItaIe Signs in
Siqht ORGANS.
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.


Not only is your eye the window
Of your soul, but it is a barometer
for measuring the health of your
body.
BY looking into your eyes, visua-
lizing their interior through the use
of the opttalmoscope, and by meas
uring certain of their reactions, the
physician can tell a great deal about
your body generally.
Not only does the body reflect to
some extent bad conditions of the
eye, but the eye can reflect troubles
elsewhere in the human body.
. Many Ills Indicated
When the doctor notes that your
eyes are clear and bright, he indi-
Gates at once fairly good state of
health. A condition like jaundice
shows itself in yellowness of the
eyeball.
Frequently, trouble in the brain or
in the nervous system may be found
by looking into the back of the eye
with the opthalmoscope.
Certain conditions, such as al
coholism, rheumatism, govt, dia-
betes, and poisoning of the body by
various metallic substances, reveal
themselves in changes back of the
eye.
Eyestrain, due to overuse of the
eye, particularly in bad light, may
reveal itself in dizziness, nausea, or
disturbances of the nervous system.
If you are near-sighted, you will
tend to be stoop Shouldered, because
of bending over to see your work.
Life Span May Be Shown
A person with astigmatism, not
properly corrected by eye glasses,
may twist his whole body to see
properly. One authority insists that
many cases of wryneck are due to
errors of the eye not properly cor
rected.
Recently, a German investigator
insisted that the rapidity of the
onset of cataracts of the eyes in
older people might be taken as an
indication that the rest Of the body
also is aging rapidly To that ex-
tent the condition of the eye may
be taken as a measure of life eX-
pectancy.
Thus the eye, in more senses than
one, is a barometer for measuring
the health of the whole body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
KIDNAPERS PARTAKE OF
PRISON HOLIDAY MEALS
Harvey Bailey and Machine Gun
Kelly Have Chicken and Ham.

bN NttN Eft@S
LEAVENWORTH. Kan. Dec. g.
Chicken. turkey and ham Christ
mas dinners were served the 5000
inmates of the federal and state
prisons near here yesterday.
George Machine Gum Kelly,
Urschel kidnaper who boosted he
would escape before Christmas. ate
a holiday dinner of ham and cram
berry sauce alone in his solitary cell
in the main federal prison.
Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates.
convicted in the same crime. had
the baked chicken served 1900 in
mates of the federal prison annex.
Inmates of the nearby state prison
at Lansing where Bailey led des-
perate escape last Decoration day
ate roast turkey and oyster dress
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
HEART ATTACK FATAL
TO BLANCHE FRIEDRICH
Veteran Character Actress Dies at
Walside Lodge.

DU VIFIItU 7 Tvs
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26.-Funeral
services were to be held here today
for Blanche Friedrich, SIS, veteran
stage and screen character actress,
who died following a heart attack
at a wayside lodge.
The actress and her husband,
Donald Campbell, were en- route to
General Grant National park when
she was stricken. Miss Friedrich was
IN motion pictures since 1927 One
of her outstanding roles was as the
tight-lipped reformer in Sadie
Thompson" one of Gloria Swan
cons starring vehicles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
FIRE TOLL is $4,000

st. Charles Ill) Department Store
Swept by Flames.
By United Press
ST. CHARLES, Ill, Dec. 26.-FTire
fighters from three communities
continued to pour streams of water
into the smoldering ruins of the j.
F. Colson & Co. department store
today where a stubborn fire caused
an estimated 100000 damage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
GOLD PRICE UNCHANGED
No London Figure Quoted; Dollar
Remains at 6O.S9 Cents.

BV HlfCd TrCSS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-The
government held its domestic gold
buying price unchanged at s34.06 an
ounce today with a resumption of
business after the Christmas holi-
Cay.
There was no price established in
London for gold today, because of
the holiday
The dollar remained at 6O.69
cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
BACK HOME AGAIN

stolen automobiles recovered hv police
belong to
Helen Gravey 2is4 North Pennsylvania
street Oakland sedan found in alley near
Talbot avenue and Twenty second street
F. Stshlhut. $50 North Keystone avenue
buick coupe. found at Twenty-first and
keystone avenue
Harvey J. Elam. $3.50 North PENNSYLVANIA
street. Marmon sedan. found on vacant
lot az Columbia avenue and Nine-eeth
John Williams. l725 Afford street. Ford
coupe. found at Fourteenth street and Sen
ate avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
SHOOTS AT PARENTS
OF WIFE,: ARRESTED

Young NOblesville Man Also Planned
Suicide, Note Indicates.
By Uhitcd Press
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec 26.-
Charged with shooting at his wife's
parents with intent to kill, Ernest
Chopper, %, was held in Jail here
today for arraignment Jan. 9.
Police said he fired two shots at
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ogle. The officers
said they found letter at the Crop
per home in which the young man
gave instructions for disposition of
his own body and property, indicat-
Ing he intended to commit suicide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-26
DIES IN AUTO CRASH
Indiana Woman Is Pinned Under
Overturned Auto.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Dec. 26.-Pinned
beneath an automobile which
skidded on gravel and overturned
near Fl. Branch, Miss Viola Stitt.
&c. Haubstadt stenographer. died
yesterday while her mother, Mrs.
Mary Stitt, also injured, was seek
ing aid at a nearby farmhouse.