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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-17

The local Falls City Hi-Bru team again
failed in its attempt to outscore the Falls
City five of Louisville in a match at Lou
iSvihe Eesierossy oos a oSSo' the hensuck
won a match between the two teams here
two week sage. In yesterdays series Jack
Hunt led the scoring for the Hi-Brus with
a 643, while Charley Cray boosted the
locals chances with a 6l8. For the win
ming Colonies. Hsrfel had GIT and Cast
a 607.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
PLOT TO MURDER
HITLER CHARGED
Anti-Semitic Weekly De-
scribes "JeWish Ritual
Murder"'in in Editorial.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. s-
BERLIN, May "details OF a
Jewish plot to murder Adolf Hitler
appeared yesterday in an ofticially-
countenanced special edition of the
anti-Semitic weekly, The Stormer.
Twelve pages were devoted to dis
cussion of Jewish ritual murder" cli-
NAKED with the allegation that world
Jewry is planning "the biggest, most
gruesome ritual murder against Hitler
and his followers ever witnessed by
the world"
Asserting that Gear Nicholas was
victim of a similar plot, the paper
said "The Aryans of the world, the
pick of humanity, are to be annihi-
lated.
That is the wish of all Jewdom
and it has been resolved by the jew
ish Kahal Gewish Secret World Gov
ernment)."
AS chief evidence of the asserted
plot, the Stormer cited what was pre-
sented as a Jewish New Year post
card, dated 1888, which was repro
duced showing a sacrificial rooster,
swastika marked and bearing a pic
ture of the head Of Hitter.
This demonic wish," the paper
said in referring to the plan, shall
never reach fulfillment. The Jewish
problem is nearing solution"
Then it gave instructions for rem
dering the Jewish pest" impotent on
a worldwide scale. Anti-Semitic
propaganda and tireles agitation were
advocated
ACTS of violence" were warned
against in the proposed campaign.
They would be ineffective, the paper
said.
The paper has circulation Of
about $4,000, but 10000 copies were
printed in the current edition. It
is published by Julius Streicher, Nazi
chieftain for Franconia. It lays claim
to being the greatest anti-Semitic
newspaper in the world"
Evening star., 1934-05-04
THREATS TERR|FY
RObLES FAMILY
KidnaperS Won't Meet Own
Terms, Cries Grandmother
of Stolen Baby.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TUCSON, Ariz., May 4.-Threats of
death hung over two members of the
Robles family today for failure to pay
the $4,000 ransom they have been
trying to give kidnapers for the last
three days.
Revealing a hitherto undiscloSed
threat of the ransom note delivered to
Fernando Robles, few hours after
his daughter June was kidnapped April
rs, the grandmother of the 6-year-old
girl said death was decreed for both
Fernando and his little girl unless
the Sic, 900 was paid.
She expressed conviction the kid
naping was the work of persons in
Tucson, where she believes June Is
held.
MY son each night makes the trips
those people ask him to. The money
waits. What can we do?"
Ransom Note Instructions.
While the contents of the original
ransom note never have been publicly
disclosed, authoritative sources said it
demanded that the girls father drive
along lonely road until certain sig
mails we're received, when he was to
toss the money out and continue with
out stopping.
IF only we could have kept the
silence at first" Mrs. Robles said, as
tears dimmed her eyes. 1T was ter
rible, though, when the note said they
must have $4,000 between o'clock
and 8 o'clock that night they took
June. How could we get that much
money with the banks closed?
Uncle Denies Rumors.
From Carlos G.. Robles, uncle of the
victim, came a denial of rumors that
Alphonso Aguirre, chauffeur for Ber-
nabe Robles on a search for the girl
last week end in Sonora, Mexico. was
acting as an Intermediary between
the family and the kidnapers.
Mr.. Aguirre is an acquaintance OF
ours but that is ALL" said Carlos who
is assistant Pima County attorney.
''Mr. Aguirre is not an intermediary
and will not be-"
AL authorities remained out of the
investigation while the family awaited
word from the kidnapers, even though
the three-day period in which the
family expected some signal from the
abductors had passed. Official inves-
tigation was stopped at the family's
request to allow unhampered negotia-
tions for June's return.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
R. F. c. DISBURSEMENTS
TOTAL $5,139,43O,378
81, ,344, ,O64 ,e92 Given to Other
Federal Agencies and for
Destitution Relief.

BY the Associated Press.
Disbursements of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation up to April
80 totaled $5,139, ,430,378, including
$1,344 4,064, ,992 disbursed to other Gov
ernment agencies and for destitution
relief.
Advances on loans to banks, rail-
roads and other organizations totaled
s3.795 1870, 1886. of which 1882, 1928 .921
has been repaid, the corporations
latest report shows.
Loans authorized by the corporation,
exclusive of the Government allot-
ments, have been 274,645, ,284, Of
which $437,635,070 was Cancelled or
withdrawn.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Water in Arkansas
Rice Area Declared
Safe for 81 Years
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May A.
DR.. George c. Branner says Ar
kansas rice-produoing area has
sufficient water supply for at least
"a years, If not indefinitely.
Rice farmers Of the area have
sought to obtain Federal loans on
their lands, but the Federal Land
Bank of st. Louis has declined to
grant them on the grounds that
the water supply was In danger
of exhaustion.
Officials believe the State
geologist's report will be of as
siStance in having the ban on
loans lifted in the area.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Named Passenger Agent.

John Callahan, a native of Wash
ington, has been appointed district
passenger agent for the Seaboard Air
Line Railway here. The appointment
became effective May /. Callahan
comes here from Sarasota, Fla.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
PLAN FIELD MEETING
Audubon Society Will Observe
Birds at Towpath, Md.

DITuS at 1UWPdtu, Hu'
The third outing of the annual field
meetings of the Audubon Society Of
the District of Columbia will take
place tomorrow, when the bird OBJ
servers will go to the Towpath, Md,
to study the ways Of the birds during
the migration season.
The society's members will take
the Cabin John car and assemble at
Sycamore Island Station. They will
then walk down hill, cross the bridge
and walk up the towpath.
Children will be permitted to join
the expedition if accompanied by an
adult.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
Diseraceful Condition
Streets Would Shame a Village

Streets Would Shame village
The condition Of Washngtons streets result Of recent
snowfalls Is DIsGRACEFUL.
Apparently effort has been made to confront the prob
created by the The result has been scores OF acc
dents and general discomfort to citizens.
Little or no attempt removal made after the
storm of last week Subsequent urres consequently fell on
streets sidewalks already piled high with snow and ce
Yesterday with snow falling automobile was safe on
any street in the city.
Someone is to blame for this That is either in
the District Building Capitol Hill
If AN ENGPLoYE OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAS
NEGLECTED HIS RESPONSIBILITIES OR FAILED TO
USE EVERY EFFORT IN REMOVING THE SNOW THE
DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS SHOULD TAKE PROMPT
ACTION AGAINST HIM.
IF CONGRESS HAS FAILED TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY
FUNDS WHICH COULD BE USED IN THE SITUATION
THE MOST VIGOROUS REPRESENTATIONS SHOULD BE
MADE AT THE CAPITOL TO HAVE SUCH FUNDS PRO-
vIDED.
The smallest village in the country would not leave its
streets in the condition Of Washington horoughfares for days
after snow fall.
There might explanation Of the condition had the
snowfall Of last week been Of really serious proportions But
not and impossible that any government Of
cial would attempt to justify the very evident neglect Of
the peoples necessities.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
Regulators Repudiated
In La Belle France

The French have constitutional reluctance to part with
money.
Frugality has been their traditional virtue.
Tax collection among the French has always been sort
OF painful major operation and bill collectors have been re-
garded hated enemies
Anyone who has travelled in France for any length of time
knows that Americans considered crazy wasres whose
table eavngs would make ample meals for franclovng
French householders
Naturally therefore, the Senators and Deputies who hero
lcaly tore up Uncle Sans debt bill regarded
defenders of Frances national honor.
Songs OF praise sung for the gentlemen who took time
off from their ebulien pastime of hurting insults and ink
wells each other to preserve the sacedness the national
pocketbook.
But how the mighty have fallen!
The French who like other misers apt to be little
silly about money matters awakening the that
persons who defended them against Americas terrible desire
to have bills paid were lining their own pockets.
Pariamens self taken split of the debt swag runs
into hundreds of millions of francs.
France repudiaed her debt to the United States only
pay almost as much to grating French politicians
" It's national scandal.
There is and lamentaton through the land.
revolution breaks the sacred pockebook has
been violated.
The repudiators have been repudiated
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

even the symbol comforts me
and makes me better.
Often I have seen it happen
ing. In shabby little churches
in the wilderness, in old mis-
sions along Father Serra's trail,
broken-hearted souls kneeling
before some shrine, coming
away comforted.
Poor, crumbling bits of plas.
ter, those images often are,
with the gold scaling from their
fading robes. Heather images,
the Puritans would have called
them. And many a non-Catho-
lie would turn contemptuouSly
from such superstition"
I am not a Catholic, either.
But I am wondering-iS it just
superstition? Or does that bit
of plaster serve as a real bridge
between a bewildered soul and,
the Source of its Life?
Perhaps, if we were wiser, we
might not need bridges-but
how many Of us are wise? #
our hearts could always be brave
and tender and true-but hearts
are such wayward things! And
often, when we most wish to
use them for affairs, they are
rowdy round-ups for all that is
Shoddy and mean.
Yet always there is beauty.
Somebody's gesture toward the
truth-somebody's hunger made
manifest in a carving, painting,
a strip of embroidery or a lovely
bit of glass. Even a we'll
ploughed field, a well-baked
loaf-these also may be tributes
and prayers before which the
heart may kneel and come away
strengthened.
Two little angels guard my
boy for me-reach beyond the
agony of his loss toward that
greater understanding and
courage which I, in myself, can
not achieve.
Silly-superstitious-to think
that they may help to bridge
the gap? Perhaps. But what
does the bridge matter if we
stumble across it to God?
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
PERFUME

forgotten what the genuine
article was like. Your buck
wheat is so blended" with white
flour that you can't taste the
buckwheat. Your perfume is
so blended" with mysterious
chemicals, that you can't know
whether you smell like violets
or cabbages. Your food is so
disguised with sauces that you
don't know whether you're eat
ing filet of sole or French
pastry.
AS for jewels s-a gal who goes
to. a party glittering with
blended" diamonds and pearls
from the five-and-ten can bowl
the men over quite as effec-
lively as the woman who is
wearing a priceless set Of
emeralds.
Blended" titles, too, seem
to cut just as much of a dash
on Park Avenue and Broadway
as they do out in Hollywood;
and a offended" prince is re-
ceived and fused over by the
women, where a genuine a.
carat American wouldn't be
noticed.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
The Human Side of the News
Still Five Million Slaves-More Bigger Wars
Bv EdWin C.. Hill

rose to the highwater mark Of
the ages. The Harvard scien-
fists, looking at the history Of
war with a cold and dispassion-
ate idea, express the grim
opinion that war does not tend
to disappear with the progress
of civilization. They 60 even
further and say that all the
commendable hopes that war
will disappear in the near
future are based on nothing
more substantial than hope and
a belief in miracles. In fact,
they assume, from the record
Of the past few thousand
years, that future wars, fierceY
than have ever been fought
before, can be avoided only by
a miracle.
Simple Gospel
Far from declining. wars in
crease in number and intensity
as nations expand and grow
rich, and the worst explosion
since the dawn Of history took
place in our own time. As
Mr.. Arthur Nee recently wrote
in the British publication, my
Magazine" time has brought
us marching into a world
almost beyond the dreams Of
yesterday. We have come into
an astounding age, into a world
in which a man can find no
peace, no leisure, no thinking
time.
There was a time when poll
tics was the noble business Of
lifting up mankind. But poll
tics has become commercialized.
sunk in a mire of Selfishness.
Throughout the world there is
discomfort, the greatest danger
confronting mankind. Every.
where age-old institutions are
breaking up. Dictator after
dictator arrives on the scene
and crusheS liberalism.
In the heart of millions there
is terror that there may fan
upon humanity a thing I'M
Speakable. The millions Of
young people, eager, delightful
unheeding, may see death rain
ing on them from the skies.
There are men in the world
who are looking forward to it.
and preparing for it. There is
a spirit in the world that 10
biding it's time.
One thing alone can stop
wars and preserve the futurs !,
from this blight, and that is |
iberalism-the spread Of good |
will among men and their neigh !
bors, regardless of the languages !
they speak. We must hate no. |
body, have charity, and think !
no evil, and be ready to share
the world with all.
1t is a simple gospel, 1000
years old, but as true today as
the day it was spoken from the
Mount. There is only one
question in life that demands
an answer; are men to toll for~
ever, building UP destruction.
to be destroyed in the end by
the things they have made? !
Copyright, 1894, King Features |
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
Welfare of the Nation
The Senate Acts

The greatest delberative body in the world" the
Senate known did great celebrating the other day
which will rebound greatly to the progress Of the nation
Having before it only such trvales the Great Lakes
st. Lawrence waterway b the august body got down to
real work and considered the plight of Street Southwest
Washington, D. O.
The ninetysx representatives Of forty eight States
many Of them happened to be the floor Of the Senate
at the time decided that poor old Street had been
lected long enough.
SO with burst of energy which displaced any other bust
which might have been pressing for action the
took the plunge and emerged with enactment of bill right
ing Streets wrongs.
It changed the Street to Independence Avenue
Of this vital issue had previously considered
by Senate committee the Senate would have acted
Later of it must be considered by committee
and subsequently by the full membership Of the House.
Then will Street take its place in the and the wisdom
Of the fathers in giving Congress exclusive legislative
troll Of the District will again have been vindicated
The Washington times., 1934-02-09

friend that. She was Mortified.
"You, an intelligent woman,
with such a silly superstition!"
she shrilled. Surely you do
not think those scraps of wood
have any power to pray!"
Silly Superstitution? I won
der. What is prayer, anyway?
Just a reaching of the troubled
heart toward God.
What is God? Where is He?
The wisest of us cannot tell.
But wise or stupid, strong or
weak, this we all know-that
we need something greater than
we, ourselves, can provide, to
sustain us, through the darkness
Of this life.
What Is prayer? Only a
reaching out toward that "some-
thing greater"-a reaching out
toward beauty to offset uglineSs,
toward kindness to offset
cruelty, toward honest and cour-
age to help us endure our own,
and others cowardiceS.
A reaching out! Then why
should not any fine gesture OF
the spirit be a prayer? And, if
my own spirit is not always
strong or serene enough to make
a fine gesture, why should I not
use someone's else?
I do. Whenever I hear Of a
noble thing, or whenever find
a beautiful thing, I try to use it
as a prayer.
So I have put my two little
angels to kneel before my dear
lads picture. Chips of wood?
No, they are more than that. A
reaching toward beauty, q real
prayer, went into them. And,
for me, real prayer comes out
of them.
To you they may be foolish
trifleS. But, to me, they are a
symbol of that gentleness and
purity for which I hunger, but
which ! so seldom achieve. Yet,
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
A New Fire Chief
With a Brilliant Record

In appointing Deputy Chief Engineer Charles Edward
schrom chief engineer of the Fire Department. the District
have acted promptly to fill the vacancy caused
by the death Of the late Chief George s. Watson.
Judging from his record in the department. Chief Schrom
should be worthy Successor
His career in the department. extending
woscore years. tesfies to his courageous intelligent
execution of his duties.
Chief schrom has risen from the ranks and should know
and appreciate the difficulties under which his men are forced
to work.
Without doubt that appreciation will make him a SYM
pathetic and effective leader of the department.
There is and has been for time discontented
element in the Fire Department. How much this dscon-
tent is justified and how much is stirred up by outside ag
tators is problematcal
Despite this element however the department whole
has made remarkable progress.
We look to see that progress continue under the leadership
Of Chief Schrom
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
ONCE-OVERS

It may have been a very lit
tie thing and perhaps others
might have done as much as
they did.
That does not relieve you of
a certain responsibility to re-
ciprocate.
Too often those who have
reached places of prominence
and financial independence for
get those who had some part
in putting them across.
Often you think of those
who helped you and cannot do
as much for themselves. as be-
ing incapable of reaching the
top in any case.
This may or may not be
true.
Just a little assistance at the
right time might have turned
the tide for them as well as it
did for you. -.-
Copyright, 1894. by King Features
syndicate. Lnal
The Washington times., 1934-02-09

still exists a real, bonded pre-
war love which has never been
"cut!"
The era of blending" the
days of counterfeit and
quackery-"The Night Club
Erals gasping it's last. We
are all demanding a New Deal
the Real Thing, for a change!
Copyright 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
Articles by Helen RoUland
appear each Monday, WedneS.
day, and Friday.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09

Slavery is still among the
major evils Of mankind, as the
Literary Digest informs us
through an article by Mr.. P.
w. Wilson. There are today at
least five million human slaves
L the world, far greater than
the number set free by Abraham
Lincoln in this country, and the
great Wilberforce of England.
A hundred years ago Britain
liberated 100000 slaves, paying
twenty million pounds, or a
hundred million dollars, to West
Indian owners. It was in 1862,
in the conflict of war, thai Lin
coins Emancipation Proclama-
tion struck the shackles from
four million negroes and con-
verted them into citizens
But the world moves slowly.
The white man has performed,
pretty much all over the earth.
But in Africa and Asia the
darker races continue to en-
slave each other. There are two
million slaves in Abyssinia, and
slave raiders from the land Of
his Majesty Halle Selassie go
raiding into British territory, de-
stroying villages, Staying the old
and very young, and driving
their manacled captives by the
whip to the markets, where they
are sold like cattle.
Forced Labor
In Liberia, more or less un-
der the protection Of the United
States, there is forced labor
which is merely another name
for abject slavery. In China,
helpless under the rule of ban
dit generals, enSlaved boys and
girls are sold by the million
by parents who can exist only
by sending to the slave mar
kets the bodies Of their own
flesh and blood.
Sometimes one queS 10 ms
whether mankind has learned
much of true value in the
past 10000 years. We used
to conclude from reading our
history books that war was
the great evil of the extreme
past, Of undeveloped humanity,
before civilization began to
make any impress. Our heads
were full of the wars Of Alex
ander and the great Asiatic
despots, Of the conquests of
Rome and of the bloody con-
flictS of the Dark Ages and
the Reformation.
But scientific examination
does not bear out that con-
clusion at all, and it does lead
to the conclusion that the
more civilization we have, the
more wars we have. At least,
that is the assertion made by
sociologistS of Harvard Univer-
Sity. Their figures show that
war was really an insignificant
part of mans activities up to
the seventeenth century, and
that ever since then it has
steadily increased and grown
more horrible.
In the first part of the pres
ent century, the tide Of war
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
Persecution Doesn't Paw
As Hitler Is Learning


The indignation of the world against Dictator Hers per-
secuon of large numbers Of German citizens guilty nothing
than the religious faith Of their fathers and their
beginning to make itself shown in dollars and censor
rather in marks and pfennigs
Germanys favorable trade balance that the Of
what she sells to the rest of the world what she buys
onehrd less in 1888 than in the pr,vous year. The
world bought about $320O00000 less of German goods
Boyco against German goods organized in this country
and elsewhere protests against the Naz attitude toward the
Jews undoubtedly were a factor in the shrinkage.
Persecution doasnt pay.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
One Good Turn

One Good Turn
Have you ever done any
thing for. those who assisted
you in climbing the ladder of
success?
You know that certain people
greatly aided you to success.
Your own efforts were sin
cere and consistent but you
had boosts in many little ways,
so that you cannot say, truth
fully. that you did it all your
self.
Perhaps those who boosted
have not succeeded very we'll
themselves.
You are in a position to re-
turn favors and you should
consider it.
In a way, you have been feel
ing sorry for them but not to
the extent of seeking some way
to repay in any measure what
they did so generously for you.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

And there's beauty! Most of
the feminine beauty you see,
these days, is blended"
It takes the average woman
about half an hour to blend
her complexion before going
out evenings-and another 20
minutes to blend her mouth to
just the right cupid's bow ef-
feet.
When a man gaZeS down
into a pair of soulful orbs, he
doesn't know whether he is
looking at them through dyed
eyelashes or the sort that are
pasted on. When he thrills at
the sight of a head of beauti-
full wavy hair, he doesn't know
whether that wave is "an act
of God" or the work of the
permanent waving machine!
Last but not least, there are
all the blended" brands Of
love that pass for the real
thing, these times-love that is
so "cut" with cupidity and
diluted with egoiSm, Self-in-
tereSt. adventure or vanity that
you don't even get the real
flavor Of a kiss!
OF course, there still ARE a
few real and genuine things
left in the world-such as
Peggy Joyce's diamonds; Mae
VESTS figure, Marie Dressler's
wit and the genius of George
ArliSS.
Yes, and all of us know a
lot of married couples, here
and there, between whom there
The Washington times., 1934-02-09

Prayer-A Bridge We Stumble
Across, To God
Always, day and night, two
little angels kneel before the
picture Of my boy.
They are only bits Of wood
hardly an inch high-crudely
carved-their small robes col
ored with that blue which Mary
wore. Yet something lovely rises
from those tiny. kneeling fig,