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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29

The little old lady said today
that Jimmy was the best son
possible" until two years ago when
he lost job and could find no
other. He tramped streets and
hustled for new work at first, but
rebuffs sagged his shoulders and
he came to spending days idling
at home or down at the corner"
Two weeks ago he brought home
a little box, full of bits of jewelry.
Mrs. Craver found it.
Jaw, a fellow gave it to me"
James explained,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
MERCURY FALLING,
SNOW is PREDICTED
Temperature May Drop to
81 by Tonight.

Gently descending temperatures
visited indianapolis today and may
go as low as "a tonight, with a posi-
bility of light rain this afternoon
changing TO snow before morning,
the Weather Bureau reported today.
Temperatures over the entire
state, ranging now from 25 in the
northwest section to about 40 along
the Ohio River, will drop gently, but
there is no indication of a severe or
sudden cold wave.
The temperatures of the last few
days have been decidedly above the
average for this area this time of
the year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
WAR DEPARTMENT LOBBYING
SCANDAL Barred IN CAPITAL
House Probers Report Bristles With Charges;
Shocked Officials Order Full Exposure,
Stringent Action.
TWO HIGH ARMY OFFICERS INVOLVED
Committee Refuses to Name Suspects; Grand
Jury May Make Study; Maj. Gen. Foulois
Is Attacked by Board
By Times Special


WASHINGTON, Dec ga War Department scandal
affecting the national defense shook official Washington to-
day. George Dern Secretary of War and Federal Grand
Jury indicated they would press for full exposure and srn
gent action
The final report of the House Military Affairs Committee
submitted Congress after eight months painstakng
investigation into department procurement methods fairly
brsted with broad charges against lobbying activities of
contract negotiators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29

sured police. "He comes of honest
stock"
The cops scoffed.
But last night Mrs. Craver
walked into the same station, red
eyed but with calm triumph.
With her was James.
Il want to pay up to make good
with my mother" the man told
the sergeant.
Policemen on duty took up a
collection to send Mrs. Craver
home in a taxicab after she had
kissed her boy through the bars
Of a cell,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-Mrs. Della
~ Craver cried today with sobs
that shook her frail body for
hours and said she was happy be-
cause her son is in Jail and she
put him there.
Mrs. Craver is 81 years OLD. Her
hair is gray, her hands are red
and calloused. Those hands fed
and sheltered her and her son
through lean years after her hus-
band died 16 years ago. The boy,
was IA then. He's 30 now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
3 Die in
CityAuto
Accidents
County Traffic Fatality Is
Boosted to 1876
by Deaths,

The Marion County traffic fatal
ity toll today mounted to the ap-
palling total of 1876, with the death
in City Hospital of Edward Mullal-
ly, IS, of 407 E. Ohio-st.
Mr. Mutually was the third victim
of traffic accidents to die in twenty
four hours.
He was struck by cab last night
in front of 131 N. Noble-st and re-
ceived a fatal fractured skull. j
Malcolm Policy, 2O1 N. New Jersey
st. driver of the cab, said Mr.. Null
lally walked into its path.
Mrs. Martha J. Sullivan, IS. of
1884 N. Illinois-st, died at 6.15 last
night in City Hospital to be the
bath victim. She walked into the
path of and was struck by the side
of an auto at Pennsylvania and
Washington after a felloW-pe-
destrian tried vainly to stop her
from starting to cross the street.
Struck by Auto
Walter Lauer, 90, of 1856 N. Ban
croft-st, driver Of the car, was not
held.
Herbert Parsons, 40, of 1859
Broadway, died at 5;45 yesterday
afternoon, to be the 133rd victim. He
died in an ambulance taking him to
City Hospital from College-av and
20th-st, where he was struck by an
auto driven by John George Jr., %,
of 324 E. 36th-st. Witnesses told
police that the driver made every
effort to avoid the accident.
Mrs. Sullivan was born near
Washington and had lived in In
dianapolis for the last As years. She
was a member of the McGuffey Club
and is survived by Mrs. Maude Har-
die. Indianapolis, a daughter. Serv-
ices have not been arranged.
Born in indianapolis
Mr.. Mutually was born and reared
in indianapolis. He was foundry
superintendent, having been con-
nected with several of the leading
1OunOTleS OF the Guy. ne was ulAbl4
recently a member of ST. Patrick's
parish, lately having become men,
Der of Holy Cross parish.
He is survived by sister, Miss
Margaret Mutually. brothers John
Matthew and Harold, all Of Indian
apolis. and James of Dayton, o.
M. j. Scheid, 46, was injured yes
terday when he was knocked down
oy an auto at New Jersey-st and
Massachusetts-av He lives at 1880
N. New Jersey-st and was taken to
City Hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
2-MONTHS-OLD BABY
FOUND DEAD IN BED

Infant Fed at l d. M; Coroner
Opens Inquiry.
Mrs. Lucille Mains awakened at
l a. m. and fed her wo-monthS- old
son Robert. At 7:45 today she
awakened to find him dead in his
bed. Their home is at 926 Coffey-
st. Coroner William Arbuckle took
charge of the case.
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Times Index
William Kern Opens Law Office

william Kern opens Law OHlce
William c. Kern, brother of John
w. Kern, Mayor elect, announced
yesterday he had opened a law Of
flee in 524 Insurance Building. He
is secretary of the Indianapolis Bar
Assn. and has been named a deputy
prosecutor in Juvenile Court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
SOCIAL LAWS
PLACED FIRST
BY ROOSEVELT
Message to Stress Plight of
Forgotten Man, Is
Indication.
lCopyright laa4. By United pressl

(CppyIlgnL 1884 BY united FreSSJ
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt is drafting legis-
lative program to dedicate this ses-
sion of Congress to the forgotten
man"
One week from today he will pre-
sent his program in general terms.
AS the legislative schedule is re-
vealed in detail it will propose a
definite program of social security
for the individual
Mr.. Roosevelt defines his security
objective as embracing:
l. Proper housing.
2. Productive employment for all
able to work.
3. Protection against misfortune
through social insurance.
June Speech Recalled
1t is a long time program. IN
employment and old-age pensions
probably will be the first realization
of 1t. A readjustment of the popu-
lation by abandonment of millions
of agricultural acres and the mi
grafton of hundreds of thousands of
families to new rural homes would
be necessary to achieve the new liv-
ing standards sought by the New
Deal.
The program was outlined by Mr..
Roosevelt in message to Congress
on June of this year suggesting
what he would ask of the new Con-
gress converting next week.
Among our objectives I place the
security of the men, women and
children of the nation first" Mr..
Roosevelt wrote. This security for
the individual and for the family
concerns itself primarily with three
factors.
Decent Homes Necessary
People want decent homes to
live in; they want to locate them
where they can engage in produc-
tive work, and they want some safe
guard against misfortune which can
not be wholly eliminated in this
man-made world.
In pursuing this policy we are
working toward the ultimate objec-
tive of making it possible for Ameri-
can families to live as Americans
should.
I'VE can not fail to act when nun
dreds of thousands of families live
where there is no reasonable pros
pect of living in the years to come.
This is especially a national prob
lem"
Many millions of persons can not
be eliminated from relief rolls, Mr..
Roosevelt believes, unless there is a
national policy for the use If land
and water resources. In p. posing
the abandonment of many mil
lions" of acres of uneconomic farm
land, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
The rate of speed that we can
uSefully employ in this attack on
impossible social and economic con-
ditions must be determined by
bUsiness-like procedure. When the
next Congress convenes I hope to be
able to present to it a carefully
considered national plan covering
the development and the human
use of our natural resources of
land and water over a long period
of years"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
STOCKS RENEW
UPWARD TREND
Market Adds Fractions to
Full Point to Gains of
Yesterday.
BuInitcd Press

81 Hifcd Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Stocks
added fractions to a point to their
yesterdays gains at an active open
ing today. American Can made a
new high since 1881 on the first
sale-6OO shares at 114s4 up e.
Steel common jumped q to 1875 on
5000 shares and other leaders moved
forward.
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st. JOseph's Card Party Set

Mrs. Raymond Fleetwood and Mrs.
Joseph Clemen will be in charge of a
card party at 2;30 Monday in ST..
Joseph's Hall, GIT E. North-st. Moth
ers of the parish will assist in prepa-
rationS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
Lindberyh and Wife VIII
Testify ct Murder Trial
Colonel State Officials Visit Ndnap Scene; Curtis Offer
to Testify to Be Refused, Is Belief

REMINGTON N. 29-Names
in the search for the kidnapped of Col Charles Inegh
boldly the
trial Of Bruno Hauptmann opening Wednesday.
First Col Lndbergh himself his wife
whose first born murdered; Betty gave
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
Six Tax LGWs Approved
by McNutt Study Board
Action on Proposals to Slash 100000 From Property
Taxes Is Deferred Until Wednesday.

After half
lation Gov Paul McNuts
until Wednesday consideration
from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
CITY STUDENT GIVEN
HARVARD SCHOLARSHIP

Sheldon Sommers IS Awarded High
Honor.
A John Harvard scholarship, one
OF the highest undergraduate
honors, has been awarded Sheldon
Sommers. indianapolis student.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
B. Sommers, Cold Spring Road.
young Sommers led his class in
scholarship during, his freshman
year. He was graduated from Park
School in 1893.
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In the Air
Weather conditions at 9 a. M:
Northwest wind, six miles an hour
temperature, So; barometric pres
sure at sea level, 5000; overcast
with slight fog; ceiling, 400 feet;
one mile.
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has been held at WaldmOhr, II
was learned, despite a state
ment by WaldmOhr police
hat she had been indicted
I'd imprisoned at another
place which they refused tC
name.
The charge against Miss Sitteil
is publicly insulting both Hitler
and a customs guard who examined
her luggage"
Court officials at Franknthal in
formed the United Press that Miss
SittelI said: Hitler is of Jewish
decent" and that it is with max
ing this statement that she is
charged.
Inquiry Is Ordered
American Consul Gen. Douglas
jenkins took charge of the case in
Miss SitteH's interests today. He
instituted an investigation and ef-
fected touch with the competnt Ger
man officials in Berlin. He also in
structed the American Consulate
at Frankfort to follow the case.
GendarmeS at Waldmohr, near the
Saar frontier, admitted they had
arrested Miss SitteH because she
made insulting remarks about the
reichsfeuhrer" adolf Hitler.
They refused to specify the charges
against her or to reveal what she
did or under what circumstances.
Steele Case Recalled
The circumstances we're similar
to those in the case of Miss Isobel
Lillian Steele of Hollywood. Cal,
who has just arrived in the United
States after months Of imprison-
ment.
In Miss SteeIe's case it was weeks
before American authorities even
learned she was held. and months
before they obtained her release on
charges of espionage" never for
INFLATED and never explained.
News of Miss Sittell's arrest came
dramatically in an unsigned tele-
gram yesterday to the American
University Women's Club Of Paris,
where she had been guest.
Prevent trunks going steamer
Miss Sitteu arrested frontier" it
said.
Embassy Aid Sought
Miss Sitten had booked passage
on the liner Washington, sailing
for New York TO-DAY.
officials of the club appealed to
the American Embassy at Paris, and
news of the arrest was sent also to
consular authorities at Berlin, who
knew nothing of Miss Sittell's i'm
prisonment.
Miss Sittell was employed IN New
York in the law offices OF DAVIS,
Polk. Wardwen, Gardiner and Reed,
of which John w. Davis, former
Democratic candidate for president
and former ambassador to Great
Britain. is a member. She was en-
gagged in translating documents
from the French. She is equally
master Of English, French and Ger
man.
Looking Up Parents
Several weeks ago Miss Sltteu re-
signed and sailed for France. She
said she was going to seek her par
ents. who lived in Lorraine but
moved into German territory when
Alsace and Lorraine we're given back
to France after the World War.
After a brief visit in Paris, Miss
SitteH went to Germany. She tolc
friends she did not know where her
parents were but hoped to find
them.
Next came the mysterious tele-
gram. officials Of the University
Women's Club tried vainly to trace
Miss sitteH by telephone to French
and German frontier posts.
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TODAYS WEATHER
Hourly Temperatures

Hourly Temperatures
6 a. M. -. 81 8 a. M. -. SO
a. M. -. 81 9 a. m.... SO
Tomorrow's sunrise, 1907 a. M.
sunset, 4:29 p. m.
Mondays sunrise, TOT a. M; sun
set, 4:29 p. m.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
HI. RUST NAMED
CHEST DRIVE HEAD
Appointment in Keeping
With Plans for Year
Round Organization.

In keeping with plans to make the
Community Chest Campaign Commit
tee a year-round organization. Clar-
ence Phelps Dodge, president of the
Chest, yesterday announced appoint
ment Of H. L. Rust, jr.. treasurer of
the H l. Rust Co. as campaign
chairman for the ensuing year. Mr..
Rust has accepted and will start or
ganization OF his Campaign Commit
tee Immediately.
The new campaign chairman has
been associated with the Community
Chest ever since its organization here
and has taken part in every campaign.
Most Of his time has been served With
the Metropolitan Unit, OF which he
was successfully regional and unit
chairman. holding the latter position
for two years.
Mr.. Rust was vice chairman OF the
Campaign Committee last year and
for the past two years has been sec
retary Of the Chest He is also a
member Of the boards OF the EpiS-
copal Eve, Ear and Throat Hospital
and the Y. M. c. A. and is direc-
tor of the Washington Title Co. and
the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co.
THE Community Chest is fortunate
in obtaining the services Of Mr.. Rust
as campaign chairman President
Dodge said. His wide participation
in civic affairs and his interest in
welfare work and the Community
Chest make him an ideal choice for
the task that confronts us this year.
BY starting preparations for our CAM
paign at this early date. We hope to
organize the city more thoroughly
than ever before and to operate our
campaign more economically, If pos
sible. We also hope to be able to
meet the needs that are SO evident
and which so evidently have not been
met this year.
with the acceptance of Mr.. Rust
OF the campaign craftsmanship and
the formation of our new Executive
Committee, feel We have made de-
cided step toward an organization
that will be able to adequately present
the needs of the city to the COM
munity at large and will make for the
success of our next campaign. There
is much work to be done and time Is
necessary to properly accomplish it.
This early start will give us the re-
uuired time and will enable us to be
ready for any problems that may
arise"
Evening star., 1934-03-25
CATHOLICS TO HOLD
TERCENTENARY FETE
300th Anniversary of Landing in
Maryland to Be Observed
Here Tonight.

The 300th anniversary Of the land
ing of Catholic Pilgrims in Maryland
Will be celebrated at a patriotic and
religious demonstration tonight under
the auspices of the Curley Club in
Sacred Heart School auditorium.
Sixteenth street and Park road. The
program also will mark the anniver-
sary Of the first mass by Rev. Father
Andrew White.
The principal speakers Will include
MSgr. P. j. Gavan. pastor of the
Shrine Of the Sacred Heart Church;
Rev. Francis J. Kelly. spiritual direc-
tor Of the Curley Club; Representa-
tive David L. Lewis of Maryland and
Miss Mary L. McGee, president of
the club.
The United States Marine Band
under direction of Capt. Tavlor Bran
son. will give a concert. The George
Washington University Glee Club and
the Sacred Heart choir will sing The
musical program will be rounded out
by vocal selections by Bernard T.
Fitzgerald and Mrs. EStelle Hunt
Dean, while an instrumental trio will
play under the direction of Prof.
Ralph Garren.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Heiress to Ask Divorce.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March "a (P.-
Mrs. Anne Cannon Smith, daughter
of Joseph Cannon. millionaire North
Carolina towel manufacturer. was
here today. visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
r. H. Lanier and their son, Allison
Lanier.
She came from Hot Springs. Ark,
where she has established residence
preparatory to asking a divorce from
Brandon Smith, North Carolina real
estate man.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
DOUMERGUEF
RANCE IN PERIL.
Premier Says Country Must
Save Self From Civil
Wars.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. March 24-Premier CASTOR
Doumergue told France tonight that
she must "once again save herself
from financial catastrophe" and the
threat of civil war" that might lead
to foreign invasion.
The elderly statesman told how
bloodShed in street riots February
brought him from retirement to pull
his country out of threatening diSaS-
ter and declared that civil war risks
bringing a yet more horrible thing
foreign invasion"
He was both a public prosecutor
and a fatherly adviser as he spoke 10
the nation through a microphone i'll
the Quai d'OrSay.
Describes Return to Politics.
In crisp. telling words he told how
he thought he had finished with
political life after 40 years of service
in various capacities. but came when
he was called by President Lebrun
and party leaders who said civil war
was about TO break out, that there
was fighting in Paris, that people
were killed February and that there
would be more the next day If I did
not take power"
The late Serge Stavisky, whose Bay
onne pawnshop collapsed. cost invest
ors $4,000, 900, resulted in the over
throw OF two governments before
Doumergue took the helm, and lee
TO a train of bloody riots. suicides
and murder, was not named ia the
address.
The name Of the master swindler.
however, was in Smiling Papa
Doumergue's mind, and in tn,
thoughts Of millions Of listeners, wheI
he said:
The governments task is vast anC
arduous.
1T must first appease overeXcitet
passions, and to do so promptly i
must punish severely the guilty who's,
impudence and immunity have yer!
Justly exasperated the whole Of olL
nation. which is honest, upright ant
sound"
Speedy Justice Needed.
Justice and q moral housecleanin!
must be hastened, and none must b'
spared" he continued.
The atmosphere must be purifie.
so the government can do what j
must do, and there is much tc do"
This work. Doumergue said. haC
moral, financial and political aspects
1t is Indispensable and urgent i
one wishes to save the parhamentar,
regime" he said, for there wa
neither much order nor authority IL
the House
He demanded that the franc an,
French finances be kept sound.
The value of the franc must b
maintained" he asserted. 1T is loy
enough"
The state must fit its standard o
living to its purse, the premier con
tinued, since balancing the bulge
means less spending or more taxes
| and IAN increase in taxation vii
mean accentuating the crisis an,
making more unemployment"
Evening star., 1934-03-25
FESS WARNS BILL
MAY BRING REVOLT.
Holds Cotton Control Would
Interfere With Right to
Ownership.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A Republican warning that compul-
sorry crop control might lead to revolu-
ton. yesterday indicated the strong
opposition facing the Bankhead cotton
bill in the Senate, but administration
leaders remained confident of its ap-
proval.
The warning came from Senator
Fess, Republican. Of Ohio. who said
that while he sympathized with the
purpose of the bill he did not CON
slider it q safe procedure, because 1t
interferred with ''the strongest pas
sion in the human breast, the right of
ownership
Fess led the opposition to the bill
after Senator Banknead, Democrat, OF
Alabama, had opened the drive for its
enactment with frank statement that
it was necessary because the voluntary
acreage reduction plan had failed to
solve the problem of overproduction in
the cotton fields.
Gain Called Motive.
Chairman Smith of the Agriculture
Committee joined Bankhead in plead
ing for the bill. contending its only op-
ponents were the ginning people, the
fertilizer people. the spectators. ct al. ="
Fess opposed the bill as step to-
ward the control of all crops, saying
he was more concerned with the di-
rection OF the step than its length.
while I admit that reduction
might be desirable" he said, If it
cannot be done by cooperation.
have great fear of doing it by COM
pulsion. I am afraid We are enter
ing, under the stress Of emergency
times, a course that is to become per-
manent.
This is the farthest reaching step
We have taken. to deny an individual
citizen the control of his own buSi-
ness. It's going to create combined
opposition. II you couldn't enforce
prohibition. how can you enforce this
plan that is interference with every
foot of land?"
Bankhead was the first speaker on
his bill which would limit the do
mestic cotton crop to 10000, 900 bales
year III OuSIl quota pldIl uilScI
which a tax of so per cent would be
levied against over-quota production
Before receSSing yesterday the Senate
agreed TO a limitation of debate be-
ginning tomorrow to assure vote
on the bill, which already has been
approved by the House. early this
week.
Bankhead said the compulsory plan
was necessary. despite the signing OF
| acreage reduction agreements by go
per cent of the farmers, because every
producer was trying to grow as much
on acres as he formerly produced
on 10.
Precedent Cited.
| Questioned by Senator Borah (Re-
publican) of Idaho, Bankhead agreed
the bill proposed to use the taxing
power to limit production and said in
this regard 1t followed the legal prec-
edent of the oleomargarine law.
Senators McNary (Republican) OF
Oregon and Bailey DemocraU of
North Carolina challenged its conStl-
tutionality, however, and the latter
questioned its comparison with the
oleomargarine law.
Smith told the Senate Bankhead
! had caused QUESTIONABLE to be sent
/ to practically every cotton farmer in
the South" and that IS per cent OF
them favored control law.