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The Washington times., 1934-06-18

in the event no children were
born Of the marriage.
Extravsgance Alleged
The Journal quoted a close
friend Of the Gillespie family q
saying:
young Astor became more
and more sullen. He dined
with the Gillespies only twice,
once in New York and once
in Newport. He alarmed the
family by most extravagant
plans to buy two new houses,
motor cars and q yacht. He
bought four motor cars in two
weeks.
"He did not have enough
money to carry out all Of his
plans without . deficit at the
end Of the year. The Gillespie
prOteStations and appeals for
. simpler life went unheeded."
Finally, the Journal said, Mr.
AStor asked Miss Gillespie to meet
him at his hotel. alone. The frienC
was quoted as saying:
'The GilIespies objected to
her going alone and finally com.
promised by agreeing to allow
the meeting to take place in the
lobby.
mo LOVERS QUARREL"
"There was NO sO-caIIed 'lOv.
ers' quarrel AstOr waved his
hands, stuck his hands in his
pockets, and said . lot Of ter.
rible things
Among them, the Journal said
was the charge that Mrs. Gillespie
had made purchases in a depart
ment store and told the clerk:
"Charge them to MIR. Astor. He
will pay for them after the
marriage
The truth Is, the friend declared
"that Mrs. Gillespie had never
done such q thing"
And after an exchange OF cor
respondence and the now.famoUs
apology. - ~
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Tombstone Falls,
Kills BOu, 3, at Play

CHICAGO, June 18.-James
McKeown, 3, is dead from a skull
fracture received when newly
cemented headstone on grave
in a cemetery toppled off and
struck him. The child went to the
cemetery with his parents to place
flowers on the grave of a relative.
He was playing near another
grave when the accident occurred.
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Will ROGERS
Says:

HOLLYWOOD, June 1S.-See
where one strike is ended. No
body won anything but you
always word the agreement In
such way that 1t looks like
both sides gained something.
China (by far the smartest
nation in the wOrId) has .
word that I don't know how
in the world we live without IL.
It's called "face," saving face.
We have 1t just rs much aS
China does, and call it by q
hundred other things, but it
all gets back to the same thing
''face." 'How can I do nothing
and still make IL look like I
done something"
Congress would have I'D.
iOurned Saturday night and the
country would have arose Mon
day morning in the happle
and most optimistic mood but
each Congressman tried 10 get
his pet bill through, 80 he
would 20 home and save "f9ce."
Copyright. 1884, by MeNaught
Syndicate. Inc.l
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Price-FiriHlg Laid
To RUUOn PGrLey

NEW YORK, June 18 QNSO.
The Federal Trade Commissions
investigation into allegations that
10 corporations banded together
to fix prices in the rayon indus
try, today revealed that a new
price list was issued two days
after executives Of the companies
met in a secret meeting october
81, 1881.
Questioned by Edward s. Smith,
the commissions attorney, Rufus
w. Scott, president Of the Trbile
Chatillon Corporation, admitted
issuance Of the new list imnne-
diately after the meeting, but de.
MED any prtcefixing. Il
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CUBAN STRIFE
RENEWED;;I4 n
ARE SLAIN
Four Women Die; Three Thugs
Killed, Three Jailed; Parade
! of 10000 Fired Upon

HAVANA, June 18 U.N.s).-
More deaths today among the &C
victims in the hospitals Of the
machine gun attack by TerroriStE
on Havana's great ABC parade
brought the mortality to IA.
Four Of the dead were womer
and as large a percentage of the
wounded, many of whom hac
come from the provinces for the
holiday and to show their loyalty
70 the Mendieta government.
In Giant Parade
Women were especially numer
bus in the block where the at
tackerS struck. Part Of a parade
OF $4,000 persons, the greatest
political demonstration Havana
has seen since the beginning of
the present regime, they were
standing in the beautiful Malecor
Parkway which borders the blue
waters Of the bay, awaiting the
signal to start, when the rat-a-tat-
tat Of machine gun fire broke out.
A small red sedan had cut II
from q side street and was run
ming along the line Of march
helching bullets into the helpless
crowd Of men and women from
two machine guns.
Man Dragged From Car
Risking almost certain death
Che men Of the ABC threw them
selves in front Of the sedan in
such numbers that they forced it
10 stop.
They emptied their revolvers
into 1t, killing three Of the occu.
pants and wounding the fourth.
Then in their blind rage they
soaked the car with its own gaso-
lire and fired it.
/ Police arriving extinguished the
blaze in time to drag forth one Of
the occupants still living. He and
his companions were identified as
former members Of the ABC and
now supporting former President
Crau.
THOSE in the front and those
Tar in the rear Of the mile long
parade had no idea what had
happened and at the signal to
start marching, paraded cheer
fully through Havana in cele'
Oration Of President Mendieta's
miraculous escape from a bomb
Friday.
Woman Is Slain
But near the prado the parade
was fired upon from another
Knaall automombile. Anothe1 II
woman was killed and two men
were wounded IN this second at
tack.
A police car stopped the auto
mobile with the fleeing assasSi1s,
The two men in it were arrested
and hurried away from the wrath
of the crowd. They also were
identified as followers Of former
president Grau. the, police said.
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Pastor Gets Degree
! After 38-YeQr Wnit

When graduation exercises are
held at the University Of PennSyl-
vania next WEDNESDAY, the Rev.
francis ]. LukenS, Of Washington
will be among those receiving the
degree Of bachelor Of artS-just
50 years after the rest Of his
class. Mr.. LukenS was q member
of the class Of 1896, but was
forced TO leave college about two
months before graduation. Re
Gently university officials ruled he
was eligible to receive his degree.
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Youth Goes on Trial
In Police SHOOTING

CARLYLE, Ill, June 1S U.N.SO
With his father, mother, and
sister in attendance, Thomas A.
Davis, jr, 1s. Of Pittsburgh. Pa,
charged with assault with intent
to kill and robbery with a gun,
was scheduled to go on trial in
Circuit Court here this afternoon.
The charges against MIR. Davis
grew out Of the wounding of
Deputy Sheriff j. H. Donnewald
last September "a when the Off
Ger sought to question the youth
about an automobile.
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Ickes' College Plea
UrQeS 'NeIU Order

BOSTON, June 1S I.N.SO
Declaring that the nations col
.lege graduates do not "want to
be sent into the battle with a
bedtime story in their ears"
Secretary Of Interior IckeS ex-
horted Tufts. College men here
today to build a new social order,
abolishing child labor and long
work hours for women, and pro.
viding for better working and
living conditions for the masses.
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SET.
To FINISH UP
TONIGHT
Possibility of Delay BY Recess
Still HoVers; Rail Labor
Act Seen Killed
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

BY WILLIAM M hUICdANSON
After Administrator leaders
spent the morning endeavoring to
remove obstacles to adjournment,
the Seventy-third Congress con-
vened again at noon today with
prospects Of quitting within a few
hours.
Immediately after the House
convened, it rushed through q
resolution calling for adjournment
Of Congress at the close Of the
present legislative day. The legiS'
lative day may be extended, how"
ever, by daily receSseS.
Bulkley Yields
A distinct "break" came when
Senator Robert j. Bulkley CD Of
Ohio, who forced the weekend
recess, Withdrew a motion in the
Senate to consider a bill modifying
various sections Of the Glass
banking act. He announced he
took this step to laid the effort
for adjournment"
Administration leaders immed1-
ately called up the conference
report on the 2;400 million dollar
deficiency appropriation bill. the
House "killed time," waiting for
the Senate to complete the Presi-
dents program.
II took a vote of the Senate to
call up the deficiency bill. Senae
tor LaFollette (R) Of Wisconsin
objected and pleaded with the
Senate to defeat the motion so
that he could get action on the
new railway labor act-N
i. Labor Bill Killed
The vote to take up the appro-
priation bill was Al to 80.
For awhile IT. appeared that the
Democrats might again bolt Sena-
tor Robinson's leadership, but II
was sustained through the aid OF
Republican votes. The vote virtu'
ally killed the labor act. 49,.
Senator Robinson, battling to
regain his command Of the Dem.
ocratic ranks, held a series OF
conferences with party leaders
during the morning, and he per-
suaded Senator Bulkley to aban-
don his fight. t-. WIN.
Senator McNary of Oregon, the
Republican leader, conferred with
Senator Robinson, too.
MCNary Doubtful
He expressed doubt Congress
could end its tasks today.
Both Houses are still able to
take receSSeS each day.
Senator Robinson announced
that the Senate would act on the
conference report on the Frazier.
Lemke farm moratorium bill.
Senator Long CD Of Louisiana,
who had charge Of the bill oh"
tanned it's passage in the House
Saturday only to have the Senate
send it to conference to act on q
short House amendment.
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Session on Liquor
Control Under Wau

CHICAGO, June 18 U.N.SO.
The first national conference on
liquor control following repeal Of
the Eighteenth Amendment was
to open here today with dele
gates from 23 States in attend
ance. Problems Of .administra-
ton and enforcement, State and
Federal labelling regulations, con-
fIcting interpretations Of State
laws, and uniformity and COOP
GRAFTON between States in en-
forcing liquor laws are to be
threShed out,
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louisiana Reports
! 6 Hurricane Deaths

NEW ORLEANS, La, June 1S
NIN.S0.-Six persons lay dead
today in the path Of q hurricane
that ripped out Of the Gulf Of
Mexico and cut swath Of de-
Struction through middle Louisi-
ana and Mississippi Saturday
and Sunday, and it was feared
the death toll would mount as
communication was gradually re-
established. Damage to property
was estimated at 10 millions.
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Ex-ActOr to Teach
/ Catholic u. Class

: The Rev. Walter Plimmer, for
mer actor, will arrive here soon
to teach at Catholic University.
Father Plimmer, who was only
recently ordained a priest Of the
roman Catholic Church, is now
in Brooklyn, N. Y. on a brief
vacation. He spent eight years
on Broadway before entering a
seminary in Baltimore, where he
was ordained. During the years
on the stage, Father Plimmer ap.
peared in musical comedy as well
as dramatic productions, Vaude-
vile, pictures and radio.
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CCC Workers Enroll
At Alexandria office

Applications for enrolment
into the CCC by war veterans are
being received by F. clinton
knight, at the Alexandria Post
office building. The members Of
the CCC are under military regu'
lations, and the enrolment is for
q period Of six months.
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Tom Mason, Editor,
HumOrist, Dies dt 81

GLEN RIDGE, N. j.. June 18
UN.SJ.-Thomas l.. Mason, 81,
for many years editor Of Life and
one Of the country's outstanding
humorists, died at his home here
today after an illness Of six
months.
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THIEVES GET SAT

Cigars and cigarettes valued at
Sal were stolen by a thief who
broke into a Great Atlantic and
Pacific Company store in the 1000
block Of North Capitol Street dur
ing the weekend.
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BROTHER SEES
TWO SISTERS
DIE IN CRASH,
Traction Car Crashes Into
Teachers Auto at Grade
Crossing.
PAIR KILLED INSTANTLY
Kin in Machine Following;
Attempted to Beat
Trolley, Is View.
PAIR KILLED INSTANTLY

Their brother looking on with
anguished eyes, unable to aid them,
two sisters were killed instantly
early today by an Indiana Railroad
traction car at a grade crossing
near the Marion county
line.
The dead are Miss Wilma Wheat
craft, A, and Miss Pauline Wheat
craft, IL.
The automobile in which the sist-
ers were riding, according to V. V.
Slater, 2633 Stanley avenue, opera
tor of the traction car, was halted
near the grade crossing and then
was started again, apparently with
the intention of beating the APP
preaching interurban.
Slater said the auto was started
again with the traction car about
100 yards away. In car immed-
lately behind the one containing the
sisters was Leland Wheatcraft,
their brother.
The bodies were taken to the j.
c. Wilson funeral home at Green
wood.
The Misses Wheatcraft were
school teachers, one having taught
at Shelbyville for a number of
years and the other at Centralia,
III.
They had been visiting relatives
at the family home near Green
wood, over the Easter weekend, and
had gone to Greenwood to obtain
food for breakfast.
The Misses VIII e ter a # were
daughters of pioneer residents of
Johnson county.
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TWO SERVICES
At SUNRISE TO
MARK EASTER
Morning Ceremonies Will Be
Held at Circle and
Fl. Harrison.
CHILDREN WILL SING
Groups From Eleven City
Churches Will Meet at
Monument.

easter Church Music on Pages and 81
Choruses singing Eastertide songs
in city churches, sermons by pastors,
and two sunrise services, one on the
Circle monument steps and another
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, will fea-
ture the 1884 Easter services tomor-
row in indianapolis.
Beginning at $50 a. M, on the
north steps of the monument, chill
dren from eleven city churches will
sing under the direction of Mrs.
James M. Ogden, founder of the
choir.
At 7:45 a. m. an elaborate Easter
service will be held at FIT. Harrison.
Forming Living Cross
One thousand soldiers, 200 Knights
Templar in full uniform and 200
members of the Veterans of For
eign Wars auxiliary, will aid in the
rites.
A living cross will be formed by
the enlisted men and other organ
izations. Planes from the national
guard will form sky cross over
head.
The Rev. F.. R. Davies will give
a prayer and scripture reading.
DR.. Lewis Brown, rector of st.
Paul's cathedral, will deliver the
sermon. WFBM will broadcast the
rites.
Good Friday Observed
1t is estimated that $4,000 persons
worshiped Good Friday in services
at English's theater, B. F. Keith's
theater and at downtown churches.
Stock market wires were closed
while other wires in some cases
halted their business for several
minutes revery.
Stores were crowded today and
yesterday with last-minute Easter
shoppers. Egg-hunts, special din
ners at city and county institutions,
we're to be other features of Easter
Sunday
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money to the states to expend for
public works projects to those shown
to be actually in dire need.
William H. Book, director of the
Governors unemployment relief
commission, warned that works
projects would not be started until
April under the new program. He
said approximately 24,000 would be
put to work in the urban areas I'M
der the plan.
Those now on CWA will be can
vaSsed to determine their actual
need and the neediest given jobs
to aid in the relief of their families
1t is estimated that Marion coun-
tvs quota will be between 5000 and
1000 employed under the new pro-
gram. They viii be taken from the
present CWA pay rolls. With the
close of CWA, Mr.. Book said that
$500 person were employed.
w. A. Hacker, vice. president of
the unemployment commission, was
chairman Of the meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-31
American Farmers Believe
Cabinet Chief Is Not Rad
icaI Enough, Claims
FouIkeS of Michigan.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 81
representative George Foulkes
Dem, Mich) today labeled as
whine" the complaint of DR.. Will
liam A. Writ, Red plot" investi-
CATION instigator, that Agriculture
Secretary Henry A. Wallace had
said the country must decide which
way to 60"
The American farmers, a sub
stantial number of whom I rep
resent, want Secretary Wallace to
go farther" said Mr.. Foulkes.
Their kick is not because he has
been too radical, but rather because
he has not been radical enough"
Mr.. Foulkes, who has been try
ing to bait DR.. Writ into a debate,
said he expected to confer with the
Gary educator when he comes here
next week to testify before a house
investigating committee.
AS for Representative Hamilton
Fish (Rep, N. ", who has charged
that Socialists at heart" fill many
key government positions, Mr..
Foulkes said he was well mean
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FIVE BOYS LED BY
DILLINGER,' F0ILED
IN 100000 HOLDUP

By United Press
NEWCASTLE. Ind, March 81.
"A daring plot by a group of
juvenile bandits who planned to
hold up the First National bank
here today was revealed last night
with the arrest of five boys.
The youthful gang, led by a Is
year-old boy who claimed to be
the John Dillinger" of the group,
expected to steal the 100000
Chrysler automobile pay roll on
deposit.
An 8-year-old boy confessed
that five boys, whose ages ranged
from eight to fifteen years, had
robbed three stores and a school
building here. He said he robbed
a grocery single-handed Thursday
night after three of his COM
panions already had been ar
rested.
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Business Activity Carried to Highest
Levels in Six Months by Spirited
Easter Buying Throughout Country
Retail Stores Report Best
Spring Period; Further
Gains Predicted.

By tHitcd Press
WASHINGTON, March 31-Brisk
Easter buying in the country's lead
ing stores was believed today to
have carried business activity to
the best levels in six months and
close to that of the relatively active
1881 spring season.
Preliminary reports to admins
tration and banking leaders indicat-
ed that business has continued its
greater than seasonal advance with
prospects of further important gains
soon.
Increased purchasing power from
increased employment and wages as
marked by rising bank deposits and
confidence in the future are credited
with boosting sales of many retail
stores to the best Easter levels in
three years.
Activity in nearly all business is
exceeding the conservative estimates
made months ago by President
Roosevelt's advisers. Even so, ad-
ministration leaders are pushing the
recovery program with no less vigor.
New recovery steps include the
ambitious program to stimulate the
construction industry, the principal
laggard of the last twelve months.
A plan to promote financing of re-
Mobilization and construction of
homes is expected in a few weeks.
Auto Production Up
Automobile production last week
reached another new high level for
the year at 1896 units, compared
with 25,796 units in the correspond
ing week last year.
1t was unofficially estimated that
$4,000 men went back to work dur
ing March, bringing unemployment
to around the 100000 figure, COM
pared with the record high of 49,
689, 900 reached year ago this
month.
Steel ingot production this week
was estimated at 48 per cent of
CdlJdO1Oys W1Gll CA1C JCdA D
peak of 40 per cent in the first week
of March. Electric power output
last week gained over the previous
week and was ITO per cent above
the corresponding week of last year.
Coal Output Gains
Bituminous coal output rose to
8657,00 tons from 100000 tons in
the corresponding week of last year,
while anthracite coal production
rose from $4,000 tons to $4,000
tons.
United States foreign trade dur
ing February was at the best levels
in three years. Export trade in
creased from A per cent of the
1923-25 average to 40 per cent, part
ly as a result of the recent deprecia-
ton in the foreign exchange value
of the dollar which allowed export
ers to obtain better competitive
position.
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Integrity of State CWA
Administration Lduded
County Chairman, Works Division Directors Addressed
by FERA Field Officer

Indiana's civil works administra-
ton received praise for its integrity
and the lack of complaints today
when Howard o. Hunter, field rep
reSentative for the federal emer-
agency relief administration, adj
dressed county chairmen and works
division directors today in the as
semoly room of the Claypool.
The civil works administration of
Indiana in integrity of projects, de-
gree of local participation, and the
small number of complaints received
at Washington ranks higher than
any state know of in the Union, .
Mr.. Hunter declared.
With conclusion of CWA work
this month Mr.. Hunter explained
how under FERA, one-half billion
dollars was to be expended to keep
those in actual need of relief on the
employment rolls.
He said the tendency under the
new program of works relief would
be TO de-federalize and give the
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miles northeast of Dewitt.
Lieutenant Woods death was the
first since the army resumed air
mail service following a period of
suspension ordered by President
Roosevelt because of eleven previous
fatalities.
A heavy rainstorm, of which the
f1ier had not been warned, was
blamed for the crash. Although
Lieutenant Wood was bound west
ward from Chicago to Omaha, the
plane was found to be headed east
ward with its nose plunged four
feet into the ground. The twenty
three mail sacks, weighing 500
pounds, were scattered. Lieutenant
Wood had turned off his ignition
switch before the crash and there
had been no fire.
Filler Made Good Time
Coroner L. D. Riggert of Clinton,
who investigated the accident, or
dered the f1ier's body taken to Gin
ton, seventeen miles from the scene
of the crash. Riggert believed that
Lieutenant Wood had turned back
eastward on his course, seeking an
emergency landing field.
The pilot left Chicago at 7:15 p. m.
and made good time along his
course until he struck the rainstorm
near Clinton When he passed over
the farm of Leonard MCGUIRE, near
the scene of the crash, he was flying
low.
Mcclure was the first to reach
the wreckage on the farm of Will
liam Mommsen. He described the
crash as terrific, saying he heard
the sound of the plane striking the
ground from his farm.
Mail Is Rushed Through
Volunteers collected the mail
sacks and drove them to Davenport,
twenty miles away, where another
army plane took over Lieutenant
Woods flight. Lieutenant Wood was
on his course and in territory in
which there were landing fields
within every fifty miles.
Lieutenant Wood had flown the
Chicago Omaha route ever since
the army took over the mail flights.
His home was in San Antonio, Tex,
and he was graduated in the 1881
class at Kelly Field, Tex.
Weather maps supplied to the
army fliers last night reported a
4,000-foot ceiling and fine visibility
over Lieutenant Woods course. He
was flying a small A-12 type attack
plane. His death was the first in
the central army division.
Guards were placed over the
wreckage pending the arrival of in
vestigators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-31
LIMITS OUTSIDE
ADS FOR BEER
Excise Director Rules Signs
Must Not Name Any
Certain Brand.

One of the first steps to prevent
brewery domination of retail beer
parlors was taken yesterday when
Paul P Fry. state excise director.
ordered brewers to refrain from
giving retailers outdoor advertising
signs.
The new regulation goes farther
and forbids retailers from display
ing outdoor signs advertising any
certain brand of beer or liquors.
Retailers, however, may display
signs on the inside of their places
provided they are the property of
the retailer. The inside signs must
not exceed twenty-five by twenty
eight inches in dimension.
The excise director held that the
retailer must show that he did not
purchase the signs below their &C
tual cost.
Mr.. Fry gave beer retailers ten
days to comply with their regula-
lions.
Revocation of license is the pen
atty for failure to obey the regula-
tons
The action we are taking is
similar to that n Michigan, New
York, New Jersey, Iowa and other
states" said Mr.. Fry.
Possibility that the ruling would
be taken to the courts by brewers as
we'll as sign companies was seen by
observers.
Frank w. Young, president of the
Allied Neon Sign Manufacturing
Company, said today that he as we'll
as other sign companies may carry
Mr.. Fry's ruling to the courts on the
theory that it is restraint of trade.
He charged the ruling unfair and
said it would throw men out of
work.