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The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-19

ment-backed short term loans for
home refrnishing.
Deane's idea is for the govern
ment to underwrite small home
renovation in much the same way
that General Motors finances
the purchases of one of its cars
SO much down, and the rest by
the month.
Horace Russell, q soft-spoken
Atlanta lawyer, and veteran in
Washington, helped create the
Home owners Loan Corporation
and did the legal work on the
home repair program.
1t was a new Housing Brain
Trust"
president ROOSEVELT has
Il given secret orders to jim
Farley and the other national
Democratic political managers to
do nothing to injure the re-elec-
ton chances of Senator Bob La
Toilette. q. The administration
will not indorse him, but, on the
other hand. neither will it do any
thing for the Democrat who takes
the field against him. . The
Progressives, led by Norris and
Borah. are planning to take the
stump in Wisconsin for their
youthful and highly esteemed COL
league . Tucked away in an
inside corner in the left-wingish
monthly publication, Common
Sense, is the following item: The
White House, Washington, D. G.
I am afraid I have never seen
your magazine before but I was
quite interested in reading it. I
shall certainly give it to the Presi-
dent. Eleanor Roosevelt"
The issue carrying this note has
as its leading article a severe at
tack on the NRA by John T.
Flynn. The paper is edited by
former Senator Hiram Bingham's
radical-minded son. Alfred.
Thomas jefferson Coolidge Sd.
newly appointed undersecretary
of treasury. is a great-great-
grandson of the fourth President
of the United States. His mother
was Randolph OF Virginia, his
grandfather a President of the
Sante Fe Railroad. later President
Mckinley. ambassador to France.
=. Young Coolidge. playing left
end for Harvard in the 1914 game
that opened the Yale bowl.
scooped up a Yale tumble almost
on Harvard'S goal line and ran
ninety-eight yards for a touch
down. A housing survey Just
completed by the PWA in twelve
major cities disclosed that of 105.-
746 dwellings examined. 1915
were built more than forty years
ago. and only 1853 had been
erected in the last four years.
(Copyright. 1884 bv United Feature
SynGlcatA Incl
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Mrs. Fife has engaged the
Womers Department Club on North
Meridian street for the scene of her
review.
AS the Theater Guild has booked
Mary of Scotland and the orig
inal cast into English's next fall
Mrs. Fife's talk takes on new i'm
portance.
The public is invited
Monday night at 8 at 2306 North
Pennsylvania street, Mrs. Fife will
present her Portmanteau Players in
their initial performances.
Admission is by invitation. Three
one-act plays will be presented.
DROAD RIPPLES Civic Theater
ID will make it's debut tonight at
913 Rivera drive. This afternoon
from to 4, an art tea will open the
theater's activities. All exhibits at
the tea will be by local artists.
1Onlgnt at o.5U Two One-aCU plays,
one in the costumes Of the seven
teenth century, will be presented by
the Theater Players. The other,
comedy, will be presented by the
transformers, a Well-known local
dramatic organization, under the
direction of Robert Malloy.
1t will be the policy of the theater
to present a stock show each week
for three performances.
The basement of the theater is
being made into recreation room.
Virgo de Leon, artist, will conduct
classes during the summer months
for Broad Ripple children who are
interested in art.
The art staff of the theater is
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Last week all this came to
head in a conversation between
Czechoslovakian Minister Veverka
and Billy Phillips, undersecretary
of state. Phillips had inferred
that Czechoslovakia had been
reluctant regarding its debts.
You have on file three letters
from me-" replied Veverka, all
asking when you will be ready to
discuss debts. I have in my files
only one letter from you. 1t said
you were not yet ready.
Three times we have said We
were anxious to talk debts and
twice you did not even bother to
reply"
IT HAS been pretty we'll broad
i cast that Cotton Ed" Smith,
South Cardinals walrus-mus-
tachioed chairman of the senate
agriculture committee. is opposed
to Professor Rex Tugwell as un-
dersecretary of agriculture.
But what has not been broad
cast are Tugwell's views on Cot
ton Ed"
At a press conference in the ag-
ricultural department, Secretary
Wallace was asked what he though
about Smith.
Il must ask to be excused from
answering" replied Wallace with
a shy smile.
There is no use asking me that
question" broke in Tugwell, who
was sitting by his side. My
answer couldn't be printed any
way"
THIS is going to be sad news
l. DR.. "Eat-and-ten" Writ. A.
new creation of the Brain Trust
has just been born.
1t is the Presidents home re-
pair and construction program.
However, the good doctor can
rest peacefully on at least one
point. There is only one profess
Sor in the group.
The three principal formulators
Of the plan are Winfield Reifler,
erudite young chairman of the
governments central statistical
board; Albert L. Deane, president
of the General Motors Holding
Corporation, and Horace NJ. Rus
SELL chief counsel of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation.
Reifler is the Brain Trust "sus-
pect." He came direct from the
Amherst campus to government
service. beginning as a research
expert for the federal reserve
board. His contribution 70 the
home repair plan is a scheme for
long term first mortgages, backed
by government guarantees. They
are expected to start a new crop
Of low priced American nomeS.
Albert Deane, long associated
with General Motors, was loaned
to Roosevelt because of his ex-
perience in credit finance. He
worked out the nlan of rovern-
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ton from the capture of Dillinger
and his confederates than any
other of the fugitives who now
roam the country with the dread
price on their heads dead or
alive" which means that they
can have neither rest nor peace
until society's score is settled.
Settlement of these scores de-
pends not only on the vigilance
and bravery of police officers. 1t
depends on the support of every
citizen. Chief Justice Hughes
himself recently said;
The roots of the evils which
beset the detection and punish
ment of crime strike deep into
the social soil. The primary need
is a robust civic sentiment, donlin-
ated by sense Of justice. -"
(TIIE ENnA
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
-By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON May history finally written
w will evaporation of debts nothing
due to politics and postponement
The blame lies both political parties
ended 1882
debts But that particular time
embarrassing Mr. Hooves reelection chances and they
postponed.
instament Dec, Is 1882 This time the
called the department
elected posponement
lime at the o PreSident-elect
he said until after March
renewed This time there
War naturally place
conference dis
poStponement DeoCS
until currency stabilized
posponeent the value OF oeOCS
diminished European populations habit of thinking
paid found more
ffc1tt TO h1ckt he
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CHrLS nnd RnttLeS

"T~HATS how I got into fighting. Guys would
l. leave hold of my curls and give them yank
and away we would go. I couldn't cut them off be-
they are important in my business, but they
kept me in battles all the time. Sometimes down
in the pressrOOm would fight for hour and
half. The circulation manager would give the
winner bottle of soda. The loser got a drink of
water.
Il drawed $4,000 one fight and got $3.50 myself.
That was the most I ever got
Nov lay there while and relax and 1 will take
you around town, like Dempsey said Any time
Dempsey comes to town take charge of him and
any time he tells me to take care Of some friend
I take care of them"
never have met any quite like my interest,"
ing new friend Shifty Logan, the retired newsboy,
retired pugst and retired fireman. He has been in
attendance all day ana he doesn't, won't take money
or present and he wants no return favors. Jack
Dempsey has been his idol ever since July 4 1919,
when Dempsey knocked out Jess Willard in Toledo
and any certified friend of Mr.. Dempsey finds that
Shifty Logan is his to command.
Copyright, 1884. by Feature Syndicate. Inc)
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-19
Slain in Rodeo Riot
By United Press

b nlted PTees
LA RESOLANA. Mexico, Nav 49,
Five persons were dead today after
riots at rodeo, started when in
toxicated men, inspired by the wild
west atmosphere, began shooting
pistols into the air.
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zen's call it, of corn Stlmulant.
The other was a slab of gin.
NO fooling," Mr.. Logan said,
setting down his parcels. L
thought you was dead the way
you didn't answer. I brought you
a couple of slabs. When Jack
Dempsey was through here the
other day he told me % look you
up and take care of you while
you're in Memphis
Mr.. Logan was rolling up his
sleeves.
Lay over here and leave me
rub some life into you. The old
champ said for me to pick you
up and take good care of you as
long as you are in town. Any
thing YOU want to do. anywhere
D1NVhnTW
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STATE LUTHERANS TO
MEET HERE MONDAY

Brotherhood to Receive Thirty New
Congregations.
Thirty new congregations will be
received into the Lutheran Brother
hood Of the Indiana Synod which
will convene Monday at st. Marks
Lutheran church for the annual
convention.
Fred J. Niemeyer Of Christ Lu-
theran church, Ft. Wayne. and Will
bur Milhous of Bethany Lutheran
church, Indianapolis, will speak at
the convention. Delegates from all
parts Of Indiana and Kentucky are
expected for the event.
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HJeemC bM.
By
Haywood BROUN

rs this eag?" asked the syndicate manager in
rather high dudgeon In order TO meet his lofty
challenge elevated my eyebrows and replied stead
fastly. rs what gag7"
Our readers" he clucidated. have been led to
expect that b. now YOU would be half way to Cal
hornia. The coast. the middle west and the south,
I viii admit patient enough about your pro-
lected trip, but local clients restive. Irwin Cobb
used 70 tell story which goes something this this
I know I interrupted, he still does, and 1t ends
up Go on Negro git hung or words to that effect
I see said the syndicate manager that you
catch the drift Of my remarks. Either you are 60
ing to leave New York on a tour through the coun-
try or you arc not. It can well be summed up in
the vulgar expression '--
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fair Enough
bG
WESTBRO0K pEdLER

MEMPHIS. Tenn May 19.-At o'clock in the
1V1 morning there came a banging the door
which continued for some time I did not answer.
however, until heard a voice saying, apparently to
the manager of the hotel in the han outside, L
want FREAK. I'm going to bust that door in.
The guy is probably dead in there"
So I got up and opened the door and there stood
Mr. Shifty Logan, retired pugilist bearing gifts.
One gift pint flask or slab the Negro citi-
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(THE END)
ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS W D!TH HlcAM1E UA5TzE

ID EALIzING the controversy
N instead of Mary of Scotland
the
will
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End of q Job


End of Job
"T HAD me Job on the fire department for while.
L I was a pipe man That's the guy that squirts
the nozzle on the fire. For While was the tlller
man on big aerial truck. You know what mean,
the ladder wagon But one day we are going to
some punk little 50 fire somewhere and we come to
turn corner and have got those stern wheels IN
wet street car track. SO I give the wheel a twist
and forgot myself and twist it the wrong way. That
tler-wheel you are supposed to turn just the oppo-
site way to what you would the steering wheel of
car So l pull the wheel the wrong way and we
lump out of the tracks and smash up five auto
mobiles in a row
After a while I resigned from the fire depart
ment. Fireman is a hell Of business, at that You
spend all you time sitting around playing checkers
or reading detective magazines waiting for some
poor Saps house to catch fire got sick Of play
ing checkers and reading detective magazines. We
name was Towser and the other ones name was
Spot and the cats name Kitty
Turn over and leave work your neck
while.
Say, what is this about how they won't leave
kids sell papers the corner any more under this
child labor law? I certainly glad they didn't
have that law when I was kid I was around
when I started selling papers. 1 used to have long
curls like little girl.
My old wasn't doing so good and my moth
er used to bring me downtown by the hand in the
afternoon and put me on my corner. Around 7 she
would come and get me and would have pretzels
in every pocket We used to have saloons all over
the place then and I little I could almost
walk under the swing doors. My long curls made
plainly money. I would walk in and pick me
out the guys that were pretty we'll along and look
sad. Generally they gave quarter for paper I
could do as much as four, five dollars night with
my curls around the saloons. And they always gave
me pretzes.
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VILLAGE is MENACED
BY ELEVATOR BLAZE

st. Louis Crossing, Ind, Is Scene of
$4,000 Fire.
ST. LOUIS CROSSING, Ind, May
19.-Fire which broke out in grain
elevator last night caused damage
estimated at $4,000 and threatened
to wipe out the village.
The blaze was extinguished by
firemen from Columbus after it had
destroyed 1000 bushels of grain and
several adjacent structures.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-19

MISS NORMA FRANCE sends
1Vl word from New York that
she will visit indianapolis next week.
She formerly was contralto soloist
at the Tabernacle Presbyterian
church and a student of Fred
Newall Morris.
The last year she has appeared
with the Chicago Opera Company
in leading roles in Aida" Tristan
and Isolde" and Del Walkure."
She will sing at both services in
the church May 27.
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composed of Elizabeth Leonard,
Bonna Lees and Wilbur Mees.
Dr. Gertrude HinshaW is manager
of the new project and is a men,
Der Of the music staff. Miss Alyce
Adair is the dramatic director of
the theater.
TTERE CONES CHARLIE" a
L three-act comedy by Jay To-
bias, will be presented by the senior
Luther League of the Gethsemane
Lutheran church at Friday night,
May 25, in School 78 auditorium.
Gladys Stevens will appear in the
title role and Fred Vogel will have
one of the leading parts Gaylord
Allen is director.
Others in the cast will be Naomi
Dietz, Fred Reiter, Betty McCloskey,
Palmer McCloskey, Virginia Allen,
Mary Alice Burch and Donald Nc
Closkey.
DONN WATSON will present his
~ advanced violin students in re-
cital next Monday in the Cropsey
auditorium of the central library.
They will be assisted by the Con-
cert Trio.
The program is as follows
"Andante con motto" ID minor Triol
....-... -....-......... Mendelssohn
Presto ID minor Trio ~. Mendelssohn
Concert Trio
in TOhr a mn
cello; Mamona Wilson, Piano.
Margaret Geckler
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
"serenade" ...-.....................Dr Drdla
Edward Gaylord
Spanish Dance ..... ......... Severn
Norma Mueller
"Romanza" ....-............. Wilhelmii
Gypsy Blood ........ .-....... Bronson
Ruth Van Matre
Air Varie No 1 ID minor .... de Beriot
Beatrice Ha ton
Allegro moderate and RecitatIvo GODDARD
from Concerto Romantiaue
Mrs. Octavia Landers
Caprice Viennois .----- Krelsler
Preludium and Allegro Pugnani-Kreisler
Violet Albers
Concert Trio
Accompa anists-Helen Webster Geraldine
Swsrthout Helen Sommers. Mrs Doro-
thy Sunderland, Mrs. Fanetta Hitz Brady.
Ramona Wilson.
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and II o notorious outlaws whose
and descriptions
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Let's not sum up 7 suggested.
and lets avoid vulgarity, for it
seems to me that 2 principle is at
stake. We have banded together
to create a federated nation.
When the first gun was fired on
the battleship Maine there was no
south, no north. no east nor west"
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want to see l will take care of you
Shifty Logan playing Dixie up and down the
right leg.
No" ne said. I never laid up quarter fighting.
I had 267 fights and came out even. was broke
when I started and broke when I finished. But
got nv eyes and never got punched around the
head so much, so I can 60 along.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-19
4 Pednnf for Accuracy

MO guns we're fired on the
~ battleship Maine IS said
the syndicate manager meticu-
leuslv. You are thinking Of Fl.
Sumter
Il am trying to forget TT.
Sumter" I assured him earnestly.
That issue was decided on the
-fooJ,- oToi,,r n Czo+tyrch,lrcy Wbpf
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Copyright, 1884, by The Timesl
The Washington times., 1934-06-18

THAT pet seems to object to
oilrsliying in the masters house"
could it have been an ele'
phant?"
''No. That.wasn't an elephants
trImpeting."
THAT sounds more like the
name for 1t, blowing through a
big thick horn. Maybe this
hermit has a private zoo here"
"That's an idea. We're get
ting warm" ..
s'It was rather like a bull
stamping it's hoof on hard turf"
jerome thought of the queer
muSky smell that certainly was
not bovine, but said nothing.
They had risen a little after
dawn and were both tired.
Linda looked into the dark bare
bedroom and shook her head.
I'm not going to sleep in there
alone. Something might come
pouncing through the window"
"I'll drag the settee across
the window. If any specimen
in this zoo sticks in its head I'll
whale at it with the oar"
1.-THE settee is too short. You
are going to sleep on that bed
beside me. Like q nice zoo croco-
dile." "
"The trouble is you're not a
crocodiless."
"Then I'll pretend to be one.
It was bad enough last night
when we thought we were up
against nothing worse than ma
tive idiots. That thing that bel
lowed may have been buffalo,
but it sounded like an ogre to
me-"
For. Protection
He said ironically: Might be-
fore last you couldn't bear the
prospect Of having me aboard
the: same big yacht with you,
and now you insist on having me
in the same house. This voyage
is broadening your views"
Eyes, she admitted, "if being
scared to- death is broadening.
II we were wrecked on an ice
berg I'd want the same sleep
ing arrangement, but it wouldn't
be. from q warmer feeling for
you." '.~ -r..
,''No," he admitted. ST quite
The Washington times., 1934-06-18

understand an that. We can
lie there side by side and go
through the full list Of the
others failings-juSt as IT we'd
been married a few years too
= long" ..-.
you're quick to catch an
idea, Jerry. That saves me
any possible baShfulness about
the arrangement. Not that
there's room for it when I'm
waiting for some fresh horror
to be sprung" H.. ,..-'
can right, then" he agreed.
Lets turn in. If anything dis
turbs your Slumber just sock
me in the jaw"
Don't worry. I'll do that
thing. . If it comes from you"
''No fear. I'll be a crocodile
on ice. That romantic Tommy
got us on his yacht, hoping
we'd hit it off with each other.
We would-with axeS!"
She observed coolly, ''It'S diff
ferent on this horrible island
with its varied samples of movie
Shockers. All the way from
little devils to big dinosaurs.
Aboard the yacht felt like
Shrieking if you came near me;
and here I'd shrek to heaven
If you got twenty feet away"
"a good place for a quarrel
some couple to spend a honey
moon," Jerome said.
"If they kept their sanity"
she agreed.
Even if we had a change Of
heart it couldn't get us any.
where. I'm a flat tire financi-
ally, and you've got to marry
rather more than a mere good
provider, or :.
She interrupted. COR join the
Navy and see the world"
"The Navy's due to diSarm.
There's no longer a plutocracy
to make the world safe for.
Still, there are few blighterS
with buried bones. You've got
to find one and pick it with
him."
"Got to get out of here first.
Oh well .. :" she yawned, 'let'S
turn in. That crack about ad-
versity making strange bed-fel-
lows was right, Sir Galahad."
They went into the forbidding
bedroom and stretched out on
the cherries cane-bottomed bed.
If some fortune-teller had told
me anything like this was going
to happen" Linda said as she
rested her cheek bone ON her
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School That Taught
ROOSeDeLtS to Close

OYSTER BAY, N. Y, June 1S
(USJ.-The schoolhouse at Cove
Neck, near Sycamore Hill, where
the children Of the late President
Theodore Roosevelt received their
early education is To be closed
soon. Miss Ella Stewart, who
taught the young Roosevelts, has
applied for retirement.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
By Henry c. Rowland

not to pluck the fruit and
flowers" i#
eyes, but now that Teachers
gone, they're shopping q little"
She reused enough to say,
'It looks as II Teachers the
worst bet on this island, Jerry.
The most dangerous brute Of
the lot" 49,.
That's possible too." Jerome
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
Revenue From Beer
Exceeds Estimates

RICHMOND, Va, June 1S.-
Beer revenue received by the
Virginia State tax department
through June 13 totals $472,-
1886, which is more than $42,-
900 In excess Of the estimates for
the period September 4, 1888, to
June 30, 1884.
Excise tax receipts totaled
$68,517.27 for the past month
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arm. ''I'd have reported it to
the police. -"
"And the police to the coro-
ner." Jerome interrupted.
I'm glad you appreciate the
danger, jerry"
Enough to stay awake all
night, for fear that I might
throw my arm over you in my
Sleep
Whatever you do, don't sneak
away, or you'll have on your
/ hands q mad platinum blonde In
stead Of q sore red one"
"I1l stick, so keep still and go
to sleep. .listenl"
There was q rustling Slithering
sound outside the window. 1t
was followed by a muffled rip
pling as II the fingers OF q
hand were being run lightly
down the slanting wooden ia
louSieS.
Linda stifled back a shrek
and clasped Jerome. They lay
breathless and listening. He
gripped the oar-butt and started
to rise.
Night PrOwler
Keep still. -" she whispered.
.':Don't bulge. ..."
The faint sounds SubSided.
Jerome heard the rustic Of some
thing that moved away as If IN
Hight bounds. There came a dis
tant cracking Of the stiff tropic
foliage.
"It's gone" he muttered. "A
deer, probably. Go to sleep.
Everything's going to be all
right"
;"Daddy's here, darling" she
said mockingly. This friendly
deer ran his hand down the shut
ters, then bounced off like q
kangaroo"
"Why not? Kangaroos are
chummy pets and have hands
and bounce"
I'm Australia" !"
Linda relaxed her clasp Of him.
'"There's another idea. This
island may be sort of menag-
erie depot for imported sni-
mals." ...
Something like that. Harm
less ones that can get along
here on their own. This man
may collect them for the cir
Gus market"
Then you don't think it's a
crazy colony?"
"No. His books are the best
guide, and they're all about
natural sciences. Not a medi-
cal volume in the lot, nor any
on mental diseases" .....
"Theh these pranks were done
by monkeyS?" she asked.
Worst Bet
Looks that way. Chimpan-
zees."
"Why those?"
From the tracks I noticed
where I found your shoes
hanging. from a palm-leaf
stem. I took them to be made
by native youngsters who were
romping about, turning cart
wheels and standing on their
hands, I think now they were
the prints of some good sized
apes foot. Probably @ chimp"
;:'And they set the boat
adrift?"
mot exactly. The grapnel
was new bright, galvanized
iron, and they'd love that. The
line was bent to it by an
anchor hitch and they took it
out. The tide was coming
already when I started down
the beach to look for you, and
the trade wind started it,"
$50 the boat was merely
floated off and drifted out"
Linda said disgustedly. "And
a band Of silly apes stole our
clothes and scared us stiff by
whooping from the jungle"
''And humping the old bell
with my Shoe" He reflected
for an instant. zone Of them
must have hung on to the
beam while another climbed
down him and jammed the
shoe on to the bell tongue"
THAT humping, believing
thing was probably a friendly
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shifted his position Q little.
Linda -clutched his arm.
"All the same you .
you stay right where
you are !" she muttered,
and fell asleep. Almost i'm
mediately. Jerome did likewise.
An armistice Of exhaustion had
been tacitly declared.
CTo Be Continued