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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
Reserred for the Truly CreatiUe

ARDNER never saw Dizzy Dean ana lne aoe
ripbthander of the Cardinals in all proDapiIiV
never read line of the American author Hns
took phrase here and there from pan payerS %
yborn be was associated, gave little closer SCuuy
n bic Ed Walsh the spitba king OF the WiVe 9oN
and then mixed his notes with that propneUlc tnls
called inspiration. And then ne set upon 'ii'
page a man called Elmer. -, ..,.o,. r,,o
have talked endlessly with baseoau writers, VIZ ~
ought TO know about the works Oh ring NaCuidiIS
80, an we're admirers But there we're certain res
o3tions "It's swell stuff" the general VerolcN
bt OF course it's little exaggerated. MoaeIn Dase-
hall isn't like that. There actually Couldn't De SUCH
a mug Elmer A ,.,,o,, lard
These reports were accurate enough. Wnen La u,
ner umned his famous character no Such pela Sn
existed The dust there ana the IIloiSUult 4o %
eti''Ou 49, Tnt there was need for the breath OF
life II has been given to man to make lhageS III
the same manner in which he himself was IaSn ~
toned OF course, this is not Wlthln Cte Pu~ ~,
,, r-1,o miracle is reserved only for the truly
creative artist And that is a phrase WHICH, Ousii'
to be used sparngly.
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K|SER TRIAL TO
START OCT. Is
Second Official of Defunct
Bank to Answer Charge
of ENLIGHTENMENT.

The second trial of embezzlement
charges growing out of the failure
of the Meyer-Kiser bank, that of
Julian j. Kiser, has been set for Oct.
IS, it was announced today by
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker.
Mr.. Kiser was president of
the bank. Two other officers, Sol
S. Meyer and Ferdinand S. Meyer
also are awaiting trial
Late yesterday, Melville S. Cohn,
convicted vice-president of the de-
funct bank, was released on $4,000
bond to await determination of his
appeal He had been sentenced
earlier in the day to serve two to
fourteen years in Indiana state
prison, had been fined $1,000 and
diSfranchidSe for two years.
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Gust as Robert Edwards is alleged
to have said to police that the
girl fell overheard and hurt her
head on the side of the boat.
A jury required five hours to
find him guilty.
It is said that Charles Evans
Hughes, then New York's Cover
nor, considered a communication of
sentence because most of the evil
dence was circumStantial. But
Chester Gillette went to the cleo
trio chair, and later unofficial
word came from his spiritual adj
visers in Auburn prison that mo
legal mistake was made
y
NEARLY twenty years after
~ the closing of that case,
Theodore Dresser wrote his famed
American Tragedy" Actually,
though, it seems that the first
sordid pattern for his novel was
partly traced in the unsolved
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SCIENCE REJ0ICES AS
TINY GOLD NUGGET IS
RECLAIMED FROM SEA

By United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-Science
at last has tapped the $4,000 ,OOO,-
900 100000 (three quadrllIlon)
treasure in pure gold, not to men
ton untold wealth in silver.
radium platinum and other pre-
cious metals known to exist in the
waters of the seven seas.
Announcement that a nugget,
part gold and part silver, no big
ger than the head of pin, had
been extracted from seawater was
made before the local section OF
the American Chemical Society by
Willard H. Dow of the Ethyl-Dow
Chemical Company.
Mr.. Dow pointed out that the
cost of extracting the treasure
still was too prohibitive to be be
feasible commercially. He said 1t
cost about ten times the present
market price of gold.
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venient for Chester Gillette, but
finally he promised her marriage
and a trip in the Adirondack
mountains.
Billy" write ecstatically that
she might die with joy on seeing
him again. She said, too, that she
had made a wedding dreSs-a blue
one. They met and began a trip
which took them to South Bay on
Big Moose lake.
They went out in a boat that
afternoon. He put in a tennis rae
quet and some of his clothes in
suitcase. Next day they found
the boat overturned and the girls
body in the lake, and two days
later Gillette was arrested at an
other resort.
At his trial for murder it was
commended that he must have
struck her with the tennis rae
quet, thrown her into the water,
and struck her with an oar when
she came to the surface. He said
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notes-provided they will lend the
money to finance new building
construction.
Jesse was careful to explain
that the plan is merely to com
plement" the activities of the
FILA.
Rescue" is the proper word.
The plain fact of the matter is
that the FHAs efforts to slim
ulate construction are encounter
ing extremely rough going, and
the administration, worried about
the paucity of results, is trying to
grease the ways.
This fact is not known, even
by most people within the admin
istration. And the reason for
their ignorance lies in the flood
of propaganda which has poured
out upon the public by a galaxy
of experts" In this the hous-
ing administrat r is unexcelled.
1--WE have some really hot-shot
publicity men," explained one of
his assistant supervisors. They
have good newspaper contacts
and get our stuff into print with
out it appearing that we are be-
hind it. And we have some good
real estate men who know their
business"
TINE stampede of real estate
i men, architects, engineers,
lawyers, college professors, clerks
and typists began deluging the
the FILA to the tune of total OF
10000 from the first day of its
birth. OF these 10000 cleared
through Emil Hurja and the DEM
ocratic national committee-which
may be one reason why Jimmy
Moffett has had such difficult
shedding.
No outfit Of the entire New
Deal has been more chaotic in
handling its personnel. Appoint
ments are made for thirty to
sixty-day periods. There is con-
slant hiring and firing. Those
who do get in have to put on full
political pressure-a congressman,
a senator or at least a national
committeeman.
Moffett, himself, is known in
Democratic circles as thorough
~ good egg" He lives on a yacht
in the Potomac, has one Of the
best cooks in the capital. is always
at home to friends, is a charming,
likeable host.
Every one loves Jimmy.
Unfortunately, however, this
does not make him good housing
administrator. AS a high-up ex-
ecutive of Standard Oil. Jimmy
came to the capital with a repu-
tation as a big business man. But
his critics assert that Jimmys
chief claim to that reputation lay
in the fact that he had inherited
his fathers large block Of Stand
ard Oil stock.
tCopvright 1884 BY United Feature
SvrGicata Inc
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ing claiming the right to be crooked in certain Sc
lected matters is paraphrasng the song in which the
husband wrote to his absent wife. Il have been, to
all intents and purposes true to you my dear in a
manner of speaking"
have done some ghosting, too.
For two years was the ghost of Babe Ruth and
another time on a special OCCASION 1 was the ghost
of hell-hre preacher from Fl. Worth, who came to
New York to clean up Broadway. He was a worse
faker than the Babe when you consider that he was
putting himself away, as the saying goes for a
vicar of God on earth and critic of the morals of
other people.
But my own experience was nothing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

mystery of the murder of Mary
Cecilia Rogers, in 1912.
She was a New York girl, and
a beauty, and she sold cigars in
downtown shop. Tongues
wagged about her friendly man
ner with gentlemen of the town.
Two women said they believed she
was in trouble.
Anyway, Mary Rogers left one
Sunday morning, saying she'd
spend the day with an aunt over
on the Jersey shore. Her body
was found in the river three days
later, the face suffused with blood,
the throat marked by strong
hands. A middle-aged, Wealthy
admirer named Crommelin in
Cured suspicion, but was cleared.
A man named Payne, her &C
knowledged f1ance, diverted at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

LJALA my oN-IIV4 11771H =
No author could ask for more.
It is the supreme triumph TO build
out of your own head some clearly
defined character and then to find
the man not only walking the eartn
but bestriding the headlines. In
college 1 was told that that after
Goethe wrote The Sorrows OF
Werther" suicide became popular
in Germany and young men miued
about killing themselves all over
the place. Naturally. Goethe must
have felt very much complimented.
These young men had read his
book and taken it to heart. But
imitation is not the sincerest form
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tention for a while by commit
ting suicide over her grave.
There was a Welter of conflict
ing evidence and opinion. Some
of her clothing was found on
shore. There were some who had
seen a man and a girl in a boat.
There was talk of an affair with
a naval officer, who didn't want
to marry her.
The case was never cleared, but
Edgar Allan Poe, who himself had
bought cigars from Mary, made
a story of it. In mastery re-
construction in which all the evil
dence was fitted together, he
titled his tale THE Mystery of
Marie Roget"
Had it occurred to him, he
might have called it Early Ameri-
can Tragedy"
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cost of each days production.
They argue that lower costs and
lower prices will mean greater
volume of production and pre-
sumably greater profits.
President Roosevelt gave the
first hint that wage adjustments
on an annual basis were being
considered in his Sunday night
speech to the country.
He followed this by pointing out
at his press conference that a
man earning $40 day sometimes
earns as little as $3.50 in a year,
because Of enforced idleness.
TINE same day the new Indus
l. trial Recovery Board disclosed
that it will ask all industries to
write into their codes provisions
guaranteeing a minimum annual
income to lowest paid workers.
Average yearly earnings in 1888
were as low as $500 in some in
dustries, according to figures COM
piled by the census bureau in its
biennial census of manufactures.
The bureau Jumps all workers in
an industry together and gives
the total number and the total
amount earned. Averages secured
from these figures do not differ
entiate between skilled and I'M
skilled workern, between youths
and adults, or between men and
women. In each industry the aver
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
XXTnKEs- BARRE, Pa, Oct.

N lLhES-B Pa, oct. g..
w The gripping drama that
is swiftly being written here,
chapter by chapter. in the muir
der trial Of Robert Edwards, is
not the first real-life American
Tragedy"
Because of its many parallels
to the soul-searching story by
Theodore Dresser, il constantly is
being identified with the novel.
However, that novel was based on
an actual case which occurred
nearly three decades ago, and
through which ran even more
threads of sinister similarity to
the desperate dilemma Of dapper
young Edwards.
And prior to that, by more
than half a century, an almost
identical mystery inspired the pen
Of Edgar Allan Poel
Robert Edwards is accused of
the Staying of Freda McKechnie,
a cast-of sweetheart who was ex-
pecting his child. The prosecu-
ton has said that he had tired
Of Freda and wanted to marry
a college girl, Margaret Grain. But
Freda did not know of this, and
was happy because she had been
promised marriage.
She and Robert made a rendez-
vOus at Harvey's lake and went
swimming in the rain. But Rob-
ert, it is charged went into the
water with a blackjack concealed
in his hand, and struck the girl
and held her under until she was
dead.
TWENTY-EIGHT years ago,
Il such scene was being en-
acted. From the front pages of
newspapers throughout the ma
ton, attention was centered on
the murder trial of Chester Gill
lette. Like Robert Edwards, he
was young and handsome.
Gillette had been employed as a
foreman in the collar factory of a
wealthy relative in Cortland, N.
Y. He had glanced more than
once at a pretty girl in his de-
partment, Grace Brown, whom
whom everybody called Billy"
One day he found and returned to
her a little opal ring she had
worn. So they talked and became
friends, then lovers.
After a time he discovered that
the name of Gillette was sesame
to the better homes of the town
Of Cortland. He began to meet
quite a different class of girls.
He became ashamed of his in
fatuation for Billy" Brown, the
factory mand, especially since he
had won, or thought he had won,
the love of a cultured girl whose
parents we're well-to-do.
THEN Billy" came to him in
Il shame and said she was to be
a mother. That was very incon-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
DR.. WICKS Is SPEAKER
All Souls Unitarian Pastor to
Address Rotary Club.

DR.. F. S. c. Wicks, All Souls Uni
tartan church pastor, will speak on
Some European Impression" at a
Rotary Club luncheon, Tuesday in
the Claypool. DR.. Wicks recently
returned from a European tour. His
appearance is sponsored by the
clubs public affairs committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
BOY STRUCK BY AUTO
Young Cyclists Condition Reported
Critical at Hospital.

The condition of Antonio Cor
jan, 9, of 2615 West Walnut street,
who was struck by an automobile
yesterday as he was riding his BIZ
cycle in the TOO block. North Holmes
avenue, was reported today at city
hospital as critical. The care was
driven by Jake Niece, 1853 Gen.
tennial street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP
By Ruth Finney

XXTAsHINGTON, Oct 6The NRAs first major reform its
w SHALL be
rather than hourly weekly ba with approval from
we'll workers today.
purchasing
their views reflected accurately business
opportunity hourly rates reducing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
FINDS CHILDREN AIDED
BY NUTRITION CAMP
Physician Extols Benefits to Tuber-
culoSis Association.

Improved health and mental con-
dition of children who attended the
Bridgeport nutrition camp Of the
Marion County tuberculosis Asso-
citation was described by DR.. E. o.
Asher, camp physician, at a meet
ing Of the camp committee last
night in the Lincoln.
A committee report stated the cost
of operating the camp for each
child each day was only 70 cents,
which included care Of the children
camp upkeep and staff services.
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muCn less WIG. AumlIIeuIy, any
body who is stupid enough to be-
lieve that such journalistic vermin
could write sufficiently we'll to ex-
press themselves in professional
company deserves no consideration.
I am not thinking of the newspaper
profession or business or whatever
they decided to call it last winter
when the code was up. This kind
OF thing is bad for the profession
or business because it is, in round
numbers. crooked way of doing.
Any calling which decides that it
can be crooked in some things is
bound to have hard time draw
ing the line. ANYBODY or anv call
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II Seems NM
BY
Haywood BROUN

THIS Is the best Of all world series because it has
Il set the seal Of greatness and authenticity upon
the name and fame OF Ring Lardner When the
Tigers and the Cardinals met in the first game. or
to be more precise "clashed in the initial encoun-
ter" I had a somewhat personal sorrow. What
pity" I thought 10 myself. that Ring is dead Just
think Of the wonders he could Work with DIZZY
Dean and Daffy Dean and Schoolboy Rowe ana
Ttlckv Wuckv MedWick" And I expressed to EDWARD
Angey M feeling that destiny had blundered oaoly
IN not arranging TO have Ring in the press oox as
the Deans moved into the box score. But con you
600 " ernlsined Aneley that Lardner invented
DIZZY Dean. Here Is Elmer the Great come 10 NE
Il, ~
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EIEnouh
W'ESTBRO0K PEGLER

CT. LOUIS. Oct 81 hope I not exaggerating
y a little harmless and familiar fooIshness into
issue. but it seems to me that the cheap swindle
which considerable number OF the newspapers per-
petrate the citizens every year at world series
time is just low and dishonest in principle any
other fraud This refers to the practice of bribing
lot of notorious illteraeS who could not spell cat
without using x" to permit the use Of their names
over signed articles which they can not even read.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06

Of flattery l am not THINKING OF IIIeIT o
-',,,o IF accented models. After ALL millions OF
irI5 in America once aped the curls Of Mary PICK
ford and Miss Pickford. while decldeoly aoe-
oIIate actress. never has been quite genius
-rLe tribute now being paid to Ring Lardner
o,1d ra+o as greater than that accorded 10 elIher
Mar or Johann Wolfgang Won Goethe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drea0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, 6-Athough three months
w pumoor already being rushed the of
dapper Moffetts federal housing administration.
of what behind the
program
mortgage preferred capital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
EAGLES AUXILIARY TO
HOLD STATE MEETING
Championship Degree Team to Ini-
tiate Glass of Fifty Here.

A state meeting of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles auxiliary will be
held tomorrow, beginning at 1:30
p. m, at Eagles hall, 43 West YER
mont street. indianapolis Aerie No
I'll, will be hostess to groups from
Richmond, Muncie, Anderson and
Newcastle.
The Anderson prize winning de-
gree team will initiate a class of
fifty candidates. Supper will be
served at with dancing later
Eagles and their wives have been
invited.
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Questions and Answers

Q-What organization Is represented by the
initials I. o. o. F.?
A-Independent Order Of Odd Fellows.
Glow many students are there in theological
schools and seminaries in the United States?
A-Approximately 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-06
LATIN CLUB ELECTS
Geneva Senefield, John Hethering
ton Named at Tech.

Geneva Senefield and John
Hetherington have been elected CO.
consuls of the Technical high
school Latin Club. it was announced
today by Miss Ruth Stone, club
sponsor. Other officers are Lambert
Christie, scriptor; Sam LeMar,
custos; David La Mar, aediles, and
Ruth Collier and John Goddard,
chief aedileS.
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age arrived at is higher than the
annual income of the poorest paid
workers.
Makers of mems shirts and work
clothing averaged $500 a year in
1888. Makers of clay products
averaged $500; of pottery $3.50; of
cigarets, 1922.
Automobile workers averaged
$1,000, and makers of automobile
bodies and parts, 1920. Men max
ing engines, machine tools, tires
and inner tubes and tin ware,
where most of the work is
skilled, averaged around $1,000.
Brookings Institution estimated
in recent study that even in
1929 one family in every five had
less than $1,000 a year to live on;
that two in five had less than ST.
500, and that nearly three
fourths of all the families in the
country had less than $500
year.
n
THE American Federation of
Il Labor charges in its annual
report to the San Francisco con-
vention that minimum wages
fixed by NRA codes are mot high
enough to make possible an i'm
proved standard of living or to
create consumer demand for the
products Of industry"
Higher paid workers have &C
tually suffered wage decreases as
a result Of NRA codes, the fedora
ton charges, and cites the cleo
trical industry where in one plant
average weekly wages of S32 and
$35 were reduced to $40 and $50
by adoption Of a code.
While the President discussed
annual wage guarantees only for
lowest paid workers, officials of
the new NRA are equally inter-
ested in the plight of skilled
workers. George F. Brady,
assistant administrative officer,
estimates that skilled workers
should receive from three to five
times whatever minima are fixed
in each industry.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
TAKOMA ELECTION
DEAD[|NE IS SET
Tomorrow Is Last Day to
Qualify for Liquor Refer
endum September IL.

Any additions to the list of resi-
dents of Takoma, D. c., who are to
qualify for the referendum Septenl-
Der IL on the question of granting
liquor licenses to places in the COM
munity must be filed with the cor
poration counsel by the close of busi-
ness tomorrow, officials warned today
Tomorrow was the date set as the
deadline for the registration of names
not found on the tentative registra-
ton list compiled some weeks ago.
Since that time the names Of SO
additional Takoma residents have
been filed with E. Barrett Prettyman
corporation counsel. Also challenges
of four names on the list have oeen
filed. The deadline for filing chal-
lenges is the close of business next
Tuesday.
On Friday and Saturday of next
week the Board of Electors, headed
by Prettyman, will sit in Judgment on
the additions and challenges. When
emergency works employees made q
canvass some time ago about 5000
residents were registered. The sue
ceeding steps are being taken to as
sure accuracy in the list of those
eligible to vote.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
TRIAL DATE SET j. +.
IN COED MURDER
Howard Taylor, Companion,
Protests Innocence in Face
of Speedy indictment.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, August 28.-
Harold Taylor, indicted for the Staying
of Miss Faye New, Howard College
coed, will face trial for the murder
in Circuit Court here September IT,
less than a month after the girl
accompanied him on an automobile
ride from which she did not return
alive.
Murder in the first degree" charged
the grand jury which investigated the
Staying in a one-day session yester-
day. "I am innocent" said Taylor
from his cell in county Jail.
Taylor's indictment came with un-
expected rapidity. The grand jury,
called into special session for the sole
purpose of considering the evidence
gathered by authorities in the girls
Staying, heard 13 witnesses, drew up
the indictment and reported its find
ings in 6 hours.
The indictment, under which Taylor
is held without bond, left unsolved
several angles of the mystery which
authorities have sought in vain to
solve since the girls body was found
by volunteer searcher Wednesday.
One of these, and one of the most
important, is the disposition made of
the knife used by the slayer.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
AIRPORT CONTROL
PLANS PREPARED
Chamber Of Commerce Group
Seeks Recommendations for
U. S. Legislation.

A series of recommendations for
Federal legislation dealing with prob
lens of airport development and con-
troll are being prepared by special
committee of the Aeronautical Cham
Der of Commerce at the request OF
the new Fedral Aviation Commission,
it was announced here today after
q meeting of the special committee
yesterday afternoon.
Lack of adequate airports in the
United States today presents to COM
mercial air transportation handicap
similar to that the lack of paved
highways formerly presented to au-
tcrnobiie traffic, it was said by r. G.
Farrell of Kansas City, member OF
the special group.
Members of the committee are
S:eadham Acker of Birmingham, Ala,
chairman: r. R. Bartel, Fort Wayne,
md; II. R. Bailey of Pittsburgh, Mr..
Farrell, F. William Zelcer, aviation
commissioner of New York; c. w.
Loos,, of New York and George w.
o., Roosevelt Field, N. Y.
Yesterdays meeting was one OF a
seriei of 10 conferences on various
phas IS of civil aeronautics to be held
BY special committees of the aero
naut cal chamber within the next few
weeks to prepare recommendations to
the federal commission.
The commission headed by Clark
HOW'LL, ST., of Atlanta, now is COM
plethig first-hand aviation studies in
the United States and Europe in
prtps ration for extended public hear
inls which will begin next month.