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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
FEAR MOB ACTS
IN HART DEATH
Alleged SlayerS Still Held in
Strong Jail as RumorS
Increase.
By United Press


SAN JOSE, Cal, NOV. 21-In-
creasing fear of "vigilante action"
by indignant citizens, aroused by the
brutality of the Brooke L. Hart kid
MAPPING and Staying, led authorities
today to decide to keep the blond
youths alleged slayers in the strong
San Francisco prison Indefinitely.
While search for the body con-
tinued in the muddy bottom and
along the shores of lower San Fran
cisco bay, county peace officers
learned of new threats against
Thomas H. Thurmond, %, and John
w. Holmes, 90. The two men are
said to have admitted killing Hart
after abducting him here Nov. 9.
Information reached the authori-
ties that twenty influential friends
of the socially prominent Hart
family" had formed a committee,
purportedly to insist on immediate
and drastic punishment for the
prisoners.
Angry crowds have threatened the
alleged slayers twice since their ar
rests last week.
A f1ve-day search of the i'm
mediate area Of the bridge brought
no trace of the body. Graphing
hooks brought up from the mud sew
eral concrete blocks and coils of
wire alleged to have been used by
the kidnapers and a shoreline
searchers found a hat which Alex
j. Hart, wealthy father of the vic
tim, positively identified as his sons.
A pillow slip found in the bay was
not the one used to cover the youths
head, authorities said.
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Scores, Awaiting Work
Under New Deal Plan,
Are JubiIant.
BY TRISTAN COFFIN
Times staff Writer

The young and the old drably
clothed laborers. anXiously sWarmed
the employment office on North Me-
ridian street this morning for gov
eminent jobs. There were ruddy,
beardless faces and Wrinkled and
scanned countenances. Names which
had been on the relief rolls during
the hard years of the depression
answered to the call.
These men stood waiting patient
" for the doors to open, quietly
talking among themselves. 1t was
the first time many of them had
experienced the possibility of a job
in years. There was no scuffling as
the men hopefully filed in the office.
But there were smiles and jovial
wisecracks as neighbor recognized
neighbor. Although it was cold early
this morning, most of the men we're
wrapped in sweaters or shabby coats.
The day is a gala occasion. A job
meant a new independence Of spirit
for those who had live through
the benefits Of charity. 1t means
food and warm clothing for winter
that had looked futilely black.
A grizzled man in frayed cloth
ing nudged a Negro standing be-
side him.
L never believed in NRA be-
fore" he said, but now that I've
got a chance to get a job, I'm all
for it."
You feel different about those
speakers that are all the time try
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simple method of paying farmers
not to raise so much cotton.
Pork prices have been among
the slowest to respond. So last
summer the government bought
up thousands of young pigs and
slaughtered them for the unem-
ployed, thus feeding the hungry
and reducing the future supply of
pork in one move.
More than $50,0000O0 worth of
young pigs are to be bought this
winter with the same object.
The wheat limitation plan,
whereby the government pays the
farmer to raise less wheat, aims
at the same thing-to reduce the
amount of wheat so that what is
left will rise in price. Govern
ment buying of forty or fifty mil
lion bushels for hunger relief has
double object: First, to relieve
hunger; second, to reduce sur
pluSeS and create a tendency to a
price rise
The policy of lending farmers
so cents a bushel on their corn
tends to raise corn prices to that
level, for corn on which you can
borrow so cents is worth so cents,
especially since if prices do not
rise to that level later when your
loan is due, the government (tax-
payer stands good for the diff
ference.
THE principle of reducing pro-
l. duction to control prices is
seen again in the oil code. Interior
Secretary Harold Ickes already has
announced that oil men must pro-
duce as much Oil as the govern
ment thinks right, no more.
That jc fn T0rncorUo national 70
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
U. S.-RUSSIA
DEBT SNARLS
TO Be united
Final Agreement on Soviet
Obligations Is Seen in
Two Days.
LITVINoFF TO DEPART
RooSeveIt'S Aids Work With
Speed to Remove
Last Obstacles.
BIZ United Press

BIZ Jntted Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-A So
Wet American agreement which
would expunge the past and enable
both countries to inaugurate their
renewed diplomatic relationship with
a clean slate may be reached Thurs
day.
Complete, final settlement of Rus
sia's debt to the United States,
American private claims against the
Soviets for confscated property and
Moscow's counter-claims for Ameri-
cas- 1913 military expedition to
Archangel, would be included in
the significant agreement if nego-
tiations CommiSSar Maxim Litvinoft
is conducting under high pressure
with the state and treasury depart
mentS are successful.
Though not yet within reach, this
historic accord is in sight, the
United Press was informed reliably,
and both governments are hopeful
that the perplexing financial issues
between them may be adjusted
within a week of last Thursdays
resumption of diplomatic relations.
Seek to Erase Obstacles
Mr.. Litvinoff and the American
negotiators, Ambassador Designate
William Bullitt, William Phillips,
undersecretary of state, and Henry
Morgenthau Jr, acting secretary of
the treasury, are using the utmost
ingenuity in a determined effort to
come to terms on the sole remain
ing obstacles of the past which
might impede Russo-American har-
mOny.
The commisSar intends to go to
New York Thursday noon to attend
a banquet at which Senator Borah
is to speak the same evening Mr..
Litvinoff plans to sail Saturday on
the lie de France or Conte di
Savoia, probably the former. If a
few more days were needed to per-
feet the accord on debts and claims,
the commissar doubtless would post
pone his departure, but he is eager
to return to Europe and confer with
the new Soviet ambassador to the
United States. Alexander Troyan-
ovsky, in Paris, Berlin or Moscow
before the envoy proceeds to Wash
ington.
That Mr. Litvinoff decided to re-
main in this country for at least a
week after President Roosevelt'S de-
parture from Washington was due
entirely to the project of browning
recognition with a financial settle
ment.
Discussion of trade and credits
has been subordinated wholly to
the debtS-and- claims negotiations.
The latter have eclipsed all other
problems between both countries.
The joint Roosevelt Litvinoff
statement, issued Friday, fore
Swallowed this development.
United Press inquiries in high
administration quarters revealed
that Mr. Litvinoff and the United
States government are evolving a
concrete formula, by which they
propose to untangle the Soviet
American debts-and-claims knot
within two or three days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
PRICE CONTROL is SOUGHT
Ne7c Deal Barrage Aimed at 1926 Money Le1els

Under the rigid gold standard, the
~ price of gold and the value of
money in gold was fixed, one ounce
OF gold being worth S2O.67. Under
President RoOsevelt's new gold policy.
the government is given the power to
vary, at will the number of dollars il
will give for each ounce of gold.
Through the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, newly mined gold is
bought at the governments price. The
r. F. c. also can buy and sell gold
abroad, thus influencing the foreign
market value of American money.
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might not care for himself, he had
in mind a girl who was trusting
in him.
Taking only a moment in which
to measure the stranger, Bob went
into action. His opponent was
nearly six feet tall, and straight as
an arrow. He had slender, strong
body, and huge shoulders the
shoulders of man who kept in
good physical condition, wrestler
or fighter.
Bob didn't pause to temporize. He
could find out what the man was
after-later
He leaped, striking up the re-
volver.
THE stranger did not fire. Bob
Il had counted on that the
other must have known that a shot
would bring many witnesses. The
gun, knocked from his hand, flew
harmlessly across the lawn.
The force of Bob's attack carried
him and his enemy over on to the
turf. His opponents heel caught,
and they went down.
Bob, for a moment, was on top.
From the corners of his eyes he saw
another figure sinking toward them
across the grass. Although he moved
swiftly, he apparently was taking
precautions against being seen by
paSsersby. In his appraised hand
Bob caught the flash Of long
bladed knife.
He knew he was in a fight to the
death.
He rammed his right fist to the
jaw of his recumbent opponent, but
not before the man beneath him
had claSped his throat in grip OF
iron.
Bob drove his knee into the mid
riff of his antagonist, and, using
every ounce of strength, rolled onto
his side, bringing the other above,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
BY WILLIS THORNTON
Times Special Writer

1imtb opttiai
THE law of supply and demand
u may have been amended, but
It hasn't been repealed.
That's why many people feel
that mere juggling with the value
of the dollar will not give abso-
Lutte control over prices. Econ
omists, like DR.. o. M. w. Sprauge,
brain trust colleague of Professor
George Warren, feel that the re-
lationships of gold and currency
and credit, and supply and de-
mand and price, are much too in
volved to permit simple and
mathematical control of prices.
1t is agreed by almost all that
reducing the gold value of money
will tend to increase prices, but
how much, how permanently and
how soon-nobody can answer
these questions accurately.
The price Of gold has already
been put up from POST to $33.15
an ounce on Nov. 10. That is with
in SO of the figure of $3617 which
Professor Warren is supposed to
have set as the level that would
bring back 1926 prices. Yet prices
have risen but little since the
gold-buying plan was begun.
In fact, the value of gold itself
varies according to its own sup
ply and demand. There is whole
school of economists who believe
that gold is dear today simply be-
cause the war generated a load OF
debt faster than the gold mines
could produce gold to cover it.
But the administration itself
seems to feel that other levers
must be pulled to get prices back
to that magic level Of 1926.
In fact, a few were pulled even
back in the rugged Individuals"
days of Hoover and 1882. Don't
forget that Hoover'S late farm
board bought million bales of
cotton and $50 10000, 900 bushels of
wheat in vain effort to raise
prices.
THE Roosevelt regime is trying
Il ing it again. But it is max
ing determined effort; it is in
stalling more levers, and it has
announced that it will pull them
all, if necessary.
For instance, if the gold price
dickering doesn't bring action
pretty soon other means of
cheapening the dollar lie at the
Presidents hand.
He can go farther than any one
has gone. before with the policy
of having the federal reserve
board buy up government bonds.
That puts the boards money in
the market in place of such bonds
as it buys there, and tends to
make money and credit cheaper.
In 1882 a billion dollars worth
were bought in the same way
without conspicuous success.
But President Roosevelt can
buy three billions if he wishes.
That might have an effect.
If both these things fail, new
metallic base, including both sill
yer and gold for paper money,
might be adopted. Either bimet-
alism, coinage of both silver and
gold at fixed ratio, or Professor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
STREET CAR DERAILED
IN TRAFFIC CRASH
MotoriSt Suffers Injuries,
Faces Charges.

A Northwestern street car was de-
rallied yesterday afternoon at Twen-
ty-Seventh and Annette streets when
1t was struck by an auto driven by
Jobra Waters, Negro, SIS, of Isl West
Twenty-SiXth street.
Waters suffered cuts and bruises
and was taken to the city hospital
He was arrested on charges of fail
ure to have a drivers license and
failure to have certificate of title
TO the car.
Front truck Of the street car were
forced of the rails. Several per-
sons we're aboard the car at the time
of the accident. They were not in
jured.
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Warren's "symmetallism," might
be tried.
The latter is plan for coinage
of an alloy of both gold and sill
yer.
Last of all, the President can,
everything else failing, simply is
sue $3000,000,000 in greenbacks
that is, paper money which is
money because the government
says it is, and not because it has
any metallic or other backing.
That would almost certainly make
money cheaper.
Those are the money remedies.
But it is clear that the President
himself feels the price problem
must be attacked by direct means
also.
Most of the other new deal
measures are aimed at readjust-
ing the relationship between sup
ply and demand, in the expecta-
ton that prices then will read
just themselves.
=
TOR instance, what is the whole
Il NRA program, looked at from
this point of view, but gigantic
effort to increase demand? Wages
for 100000 people who drew no
wages year ago. Minimum
wages for workers who formerly
got a pittance. A boon for those
workers, yes. But also part of
a great plan to increase demand.
On the other hand, observe the
desperate efforts being made to
decrease supply. The farm relief
bill aims to reduce the cotton
crop by 3,oOOO 900 bales, by the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21

THE President ROOsevclt gold policy is
raise prices of commodities. 1t is intended to work i'll
way; BY raising number of dollars paid
gold government making each of those
dollars gold will buy Saying
the thing, differently would MORE of these
less-vauabIe dollars buy given quantity of
modify than before the price gold arbitrarily raised
And raising price gold government hopes
the all other commodities. When
late prices dollars dollars prices
a little OF you a managed currency"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
KAWMONE REPORTS ON
AID TO JOBLESS GIRLS
Help Given More Than 100, States
Superintendent.

More than 100 unemployed girls
have been aided recently at Kaw-
none, according to report made
public yesterday by Mrs Anna Paul
Murphey, superintendent of the
home.
Young women seeking employ
ment are given place to live and
aid is given them in their search
for work through the offices of the
home. Kawmone has been in opera
ton for two years, and is supported
by gifts of money and donations Of
food, clothing, house furnishings
and musical instruments. It is To-
Gated at 2346 Broadway.
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CHAPTER FIVE
NTHEN the unexpected voice ad-

NTHEN the unexpected voice ad-
w dressed him outside the Breen
home. Bob Martyne stood still for
an instant. His thought was -
friend or enemy? Would friend
speak in just that manner?
Bob'S hand went to his hip peck
ct; he realized he was not armed.
Events had moved so quickly the
last few hours that he had had no
time to get weapon.
His gesture, however, brought
swift action from the man who
awaited him. He became, instantly
more than a vague figure.
up with your hands," the I'M
known ordered, stepping from the
shadow.
His revolver. cleaning in the light
of street lamp. was pointed at
Bobs breast.
Bob obeyed, In the flash of an in
slant deciding upon a plan of &C
ton He had no intention whatso-
ever of allowing his adversary to
carry through his attempt at alb
duction or Snurder. Though he
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sources, but also to stimulate a
price rise by reducing supply.
The same thing from another
angle: certain of the cotton tex
tile codes contain the promise
that the manufacturers will not
install new machinery.
That, in the very face of a cam
paign to stimulate capital goods
production, can be nothing but
an effort to hold down the pro-
duction of cotton goods, and
again to tend to raise prices.
All these things failing, it is
clear that the government will
not stop short of direct price fix
ing. The recent government sue
cess in forcing down the price of
steel rails shows it.
Note how the whole banking
system gradually is being tied
together in such way as to
give the government closer con
troll over credit conditions. The
federal reserve system undoubt-
edly will be strengthened greatly
when the rush to get in on de-
post insurance begins. Few
banks will be able to hold off.
The government has become a
stockholder in thousands Of banks.
All this gives it increasing con-
troll over credit, and hence over
prices.
Like the guns of a wartime
barrage, the guns of the New
deal are playing a continual drum
fire on that one objective-to
capture the price levels of 1926
and make everybody so secur
economically that once again, as
in 1925, the death Of a movie
actor will seem important.
THE END
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STATE MEETING OF
NURSES ARRANGED
Address on Mental Tests
to Be Presented.

The Indiana State League of
Nursing Education will hold meet
ing at 2 tomorrow at the city hos
pital nurses home, Miss Beatrice
Gerrin, presiding officer, announced
today. DR.. j. l.. Rosenstein of the
Herman Young foundation, will
speak on Mental Testing in Schools
of Nursing"
The last volcano in the United
States, Mt. Lassen, will not erupt
again, according to scientists; its
last eruption was in 1914.
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FOUNDRY OFFICIAL
DIES; FUNERAL SET
Thomas H. WiIeS Rites to
Be Held Tomorrow.

Last rites for Thomas H. Wiles,
81, foundry superintendent of the
National Malleable and Steel Cast
ings Company, who died Sunday in
Methodist hospital, will be held at
2 tomorrow in Shirley Brothers
west side chapel.
He had been connected with the
castings company since 1891, start
ing as a clerk.
Surviving relatives include a son,
John F Wiles; two daughters, Mrs
Mildred Hanley and Miss Dorothy
Wiles; a sister, Mrs. Grace Clark,
and two grandchildren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
FEDERAL PROCESSING
TAX BLANKS READY
Information Available at Office of
Internal Revenue Collector.

Blanks and information on the
federal processing taxes for hogs and
field corn, can be obtained by calling
or writing viii H. Smith, collector of
internal revenue for Indianapolis.
Hog professors must pay so cents
per hundred weight on Nov 5, 1888,
until Dec. l, when the tax is ST. then
Jan. l, 1884, the tax is $3.50, and on
Feb /, 1884, 50 per hundred weight.
Manufacturers, importers and
wholesalers Of field corn and hog
products must file inventories and
returns.
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NeW Hopes Grip Lines
of City's job Seekers

ing to rile us unemployed, said a
sturdy Negro laborer who had
caught the words. Its only when
you haven't got job that you want
to parade and the like"
The office employees worked bust
ly, filling out forms, pausing now
and then to look at that gray army
waiting patiently. One of them,
looking at the calendar on the wall,
shouted:
Say, do you know that Thanks
giving is coming in couple of
weeks?"
A buzz of conversation broke out
along the line of job hunters. It is
they, after all, who really will know
the benefits of this Thanksgiving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM
OVERD0NE,' GROUP TOLD
NRA Based on That Issue, Says
Speaker in Talk Here.

MIA Based on That Issue, Says
Speaker in Talk Here.
THE NRA movement is based on
the acknowledgement that there
has been too much rugged in
dividualism in industry and that
we must have cooperative interrela-
tons"
This was the statement of H. E.
Seeger in an address before the
League of Industrial Democracy
last night at the Y. w. C. A.
Mr.. Seeger said proper correla-
ton and organization of industry
would increas the individuals
standard of living 300 per cent and
require only sixteen hours of work
a week. The discussion was based
on a talk several days ago by Samuel
S. Wyer, Columbus (O) consulting
engineer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
INSTALL NEW BETHEL
Order of Jobs Daughters to In
augurate at MilIersville.

Mrs. Jessie Pruitt, Grand Guard
ian of the order Of Jobs Daughters,
will have charge of the installation
Of Millersville Bethel No. is, U. D.,
at Millersville Masonic temple at
7:30 Friday night.
Mrs. DR.. Harold NJ. Trusler, past
Grand Guardian. will inaugurate the
Bethel. All five Bethels of Indian
apolis will participate. Master
Masons and families are invited
guests.
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house in the block, quite over
whelming the more modest Breen
domicile.
Yet, Bob thought as he rang for
his butler, that the dim light burn
ing in the foyer of his house lacked
somehow the warmth that he aSso-
ciated with the house next door.
Maybe that was because Alva
lived there, and here he lived alone.
But this was no time for reverie.
He found a revolver, and got out a
roadster.
I'm going to stop at the post
Office before I go out to Union Sta
ton" Bob told the policeman at the
curb. will you keep an eye on
the Breen house?"
The policeman nodded agreement,
and Bob drove away, nodding abb
sentmindedly to Wallace o. Lee,
whom he nearly ran down.
He had a little time for mental
reckoning on his way down town.
SO far his unknown enemy I'D
won every engagement. He had
partially wrecked the post Office,
had Knocked at Bob by leaving a
threatening note almost in Alva's
hands, had attacked him and got
away with it, and now he was
threatening to destroy indianapolis
magnificent railroad terminal.
Where would it all er'2 If Black
Hawk had mapped out a campaign
of terrorism, his activities might
continue along the same lines, with
the intention of harassing the gov
eminent until-although it was un-
thinkable - the government agreed
to his demands. It was unthink-
able-but no one knew how many
lives the refusal might cost.
1T would become increasingly hard
Il To convince the public that
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Boy, 8, Is Fatally Hurt
BIZ 7 lines Special

By INNS Npeci1I
GREENSBURG, Nov. 21-Pinned
between a truck and a school bus
as he ran across State road % near
here yesterday, Charles Leinen-
weber, 8, was injured fatally. \
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BY LOU WEDEMAR

EDITORS NOTE-The narrative
Black Hawk" is purely fiction and
its leading characters exist only in
the authors imagination.
= =
SYNOPSIS
Black Hawk. who signs his messages
with a winged deaths head, has threat
ened to destroy all industry in central
Indiana Following an explosion at FIT.
Harrison Robert Martyne. wealthy In
dianapoliS major of military intelligence.
United States army reserve, has been
assigned to investigate the case. The
postoffice is bombed. Ava Breen, an
old friend of Bobs but wooed by Lionel
St George, Indianapolis scientist, re-
ceives a warning from the Black Hawk.
who also announces he will destroy
Union station next. Leaving Ava's
home. Bob is accosted by an armed
man. who SAYS Come with me-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-21
HICKMAN is SPEAKER
The Times Dramatic Editor to
Address Advertising Club.

Members of the Advertising Club
of Indianapolis will hear an address
by Walter D. Hickman. The Times
dramatic critic, on Taking Of the
Grease Paint" at their luncheon
Thursday the ColumbA Club.
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This is the third OF three articles on
Up with Prices" explaining the the
cries and the steps taken by the ad-
ministration to raise commodity prices.