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skipper that he would stow away
again at the earliest opportunity.
A second attempt to reach
America ended before his trip &C
tually began. When officers dis
covered his hiding place, he leaped
overheard, swan to the pilings of
the dock, and chung there for eight
hours before he was hauled
ashore.
PERSISTENCE had its reward,
l. however, on his third attempt.
He stole a landing card, reached
the United States safely, and went
ashore to work, for a time, in a
New Jersey dye plant.
Hauptmann made friends in the
German-Speaking colony of New
York, and a few years after his
arrival met, wooed, and married
Anna Schoeffler, waitress in a
Bronx bakery.
He appeared to work steadily
at his carpenters trade until the
depression came. From March,
1892, until his arrest he had not
been employed for more than
lew days at a time.
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FLETCHER BANK CASE
GETS VENUE CHANGE
Hamilton Court to Decide if Credi-
tor May See Books.

Hamilton County Circuit Court
will decide whether or not Horace
Winnings, a CT editor of the defunct
Fletcher Amer can Bank, is entitled
to see the boz ks of the bank, STU
perior Judge Joseph A. Williams an
nounced today.
Judge Williams granted a change
of venue on the request of attor-
neys for former directors of the de-
funct bank. The attorneys re-
quested the change of venue after
Judge Williams last week stated
that in his opinion the books should
be thrown open to Mr.. Winnings and
other creditors.
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the Senate Agricultural Commit

the Senate Agricultural Commit
tee.
What do you think of our mar
keting and distributing system?"
asked Senator Frazier of North
Dakota.
That is very important ques-
tion," replied the cautious Prof.
Tugwell, and we have not suffi-
Gent information.
Tugwell'S more fortnight col
leagues, however, have been busy
getting the information and have
the promise of Rep. Lindsay War
rem of North Carolina to push
congressional investigation. If it
goes through, it may be more i'm
portant than the question of acre
age control
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EIEnouDh
BY
WESTBROOK PEGLER

CENATOR GERALD P. NYE'S committee has done
- very fine work in exposing the profits which
the munitions manufacturers derive from the war
business Let it be hoped. however, that the young
statesman from North Dakota will not go of on
wrong slant about this time and strive for foolish
extremes. Senator Nye the risk of creating
honest resentment in the mines of many substantial
patriots who Will be with him heart and soul as long
he confines his purpose to the souless and heart
less corporations which manufacture shells, guns,
bayonets, tanks and explosives
These are sinister objects. The horse is not. The
horse may be used to haul artillery where automo-
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project with view to an early
start.
1t is estimated the canal would
cost $722 100000. The building of
it would take care of a large num-
Der Of unemployed, Mr. Vinson
said, many of them in this country
manufacturing tools, machinery
and materials.
But for the Panama Canal the
United States would now face the
virtual necessity of maintaining
two huge fleetS-One to balance
the European Warships in the At
lantic, and another to Offset that
of Japan in the Pacific. Yet a
landslide, or the destruction of a
lock at Panama might bottle up
the present fleet in one ocean or
the other for fatal length of
time.
THE Nicaraguan canal, it is
= said, would put Uncle Sans
eggs in two baskets, instead of one,
and would pay for itself CONNER
cially
Strengthening of the defensive
triangle in the Pacific, whose points
are Panama, the Aleutian Islands
and Hawaii is also under consid-
Grafton.
On the foreign policy side, the
State Department is studying leg
islation designed not merely for
the maintenance of our neutrality,
but to avoid as many dangers as
possible growing out of that neu-
trality.
Lloyd Georges "War Memoirs"
is quoted in this regard. The
country which is determined at all
costs to remain neutral" he said,
must be prepared to pocket its
pride and put up with repeated
irritations and arrangements by
the belligerents on both sides"
And, once the difficulties become
too great, it is left with the choice
of treating the infringement as
an act of war.
Here, it is said, is the founda-
ton Of Americas present posi-
ton. She intends to formulate
peace policies giving war a wide
berth, but to be sufficiently strong
to discourage those who might be
tempted to disregard even the
curtailed rights which she retains.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY
By Dre10 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21Andrew Mellon appears
w another
Not that the multi millionaire Pttsbugher seeking will
relish, the prospective
he to several
million dollars Treasury Department seeking to collect from
him in back penalties lodging
pending before the Board
1t will
plans successful the onem alpowerfu Treasury
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(Copyright. 1884. BY United Pre-

XXTHEN soldiers Of the village of marched
w August 1914 Bruno Richard Haupmann A. and
calling
and fought unscathed through the
the
Something
Petzod
be embarking campaign of terrorism
March, 1919 until 1928 disappeared
Atlantic life
police
the window Of living the home of good burgher the
Benbruch mmed stole 300
silver watch the striking
bemoaned of his
than the Burgomeister Schierach
On the following night the pair burgarzed the home
Eddar Scheumann leather stealing 200
quantity of postage and another watch and chain.
third robbery Rackez which they bar
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POLICE GROUP ELECTS
John Volderauer Named Trustee of
Retirement Club.

The indianapolis Police Depart
ment Retirement Club elected to its
board of trustees Patrolman John
Volderauer today. He succeeds De-
tective Sergeant Arthur Fields. The
retirement club is voluntary or
ganization of 507 members of the
department. 1t is not connected
with the Police Pension Fund.
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IRVINGT0N SCOUTS WIN
ADVANCEMENT TITLE

Troop 9 Noses Out Troop 81 in City
Contest.
Having won the city-wide 1884 adj
vancement contest, Irvington Meth
odiSt Episcopal Church Boy Scout
Troop 9 today was in possession OF
large gilded shield and an auto
graphed baseball awarded by the
council honor committee at a
meeting last night.
The victorious unit, under Scout
master Howard Wilcox, accumulated
465 points, defeating Troop 81 by
only 80 points. Awards were made
by Scout Executive F. o. Belzer
upon completion of the 12-month
tabulationS.
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entrance to a house which was
robbed of 400 marks and a third
watch and chain, was traced to
their hands.
Hauptmanns fourth eScapade
of the month was to hold up two
women who were pushing baby
carriages filled with food on the
road between Wiesa and NebeI-
schultz. PetZold, on that occasion,
waggled a revolver at the women
-Hauptmanns revolver it was
afterward shown-and took from
them a quantity of foodstuffs and
several food cards such as we're
being issued to German families
at that time.
XXTHEN the women refused to
W stop, the police related,
Hauptmann urged Petzold to
shoot, and waste no more time"
We're radicals" the ex-soldiers
shouted at the two females, and
we're ready to shoot"
The frightened women ran
away from their baby-less baby
carriages, and the two youths di-
vided their booty in the woods.
The police lost no time in trac-
ing down the pair, and they were
arrested on March &c, 1919, in
Kamenz. While they were being
transferred to- a safer Jail at
Bautzen, in the following month,
Hauptmann escaped from the
prison van, only to be caught
again by the Kamenz police.
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~ WILL HOLD BOYS
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
Party Will Include Story, Play and
Carol Singing.

Y. NJ c. A. boys groups will be
entertained with Christmas party
at 7 tonight in the Y. NJ. c. A. audi
torium The program includes a
Christmas story by Give Mcguire;
a play presented by R. C. Afford
and Junior Y. NJ. c. A. members,
and Christmas carols sung by the
group.
The party is in charge of v. D.
Parker, R. C. Afford and I. N.
Logan, boys work secretaries.
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SawmiII Injuries Fatal.

GREENCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 21.-
Injuries suffered when he was
caught in machinery at his saw
mill near New Maysville were fatal
TO Fred Kendall 80. Mr.. Kendall's
right arm was severed and the
other broken. 4
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AUTO INJURY FATAL
TO FORMER BUILDER
Augustus MCGrath Struck
Boarding Trolley.

Augustus McGrath, of GIG Shelby
st, died last night at City Hospital,
where he was taken after being
struck by an automobile at Virginia
and Woodlawn-avs wednesday. His
skull was fractured, his ribs crushed
and his left leg broken in the acct
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DlleS can not go, Dut the morse is
mans best friend even if his price
to the Government in time of war,
may be four times as high as his
value as a junk wagon chunk on
the streets of New York. 1t is not
the horse dealers fault if war comes
and, if the truth were known, he
often says to himself, This hurts
me more than it hurts you" as he
hustles down to the brokers Office
with a Government check for
thousand head to invest the money
in a war baby stock
Senator Nye has been quoted as
saying that, in time of war in order
to eliminate the profit motive entire
ly, he would impose a confiscatory
comes above $4,000. The obvious i'm
other industries and individuals be
and the du Points SOn1ptimeS ont th
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II Seems hM
BY
bROUN

IT has been my custom for several years to print
around this time a Christmas story of my own
called, "A Shepherd" Since I'll not be here for
Christmas week think I might as well do my re-
printing little early and include Of course to every
reader the seasons greetings Here IS the story:
The host Of Heaven and the angel of the Lord
had filled the sky with radiance Now the glory of
God was gone and the shepherds and the sheep stood
under dim starlight. The men we're shaken by the
wonders they had seen and heard and like the ami
mails they huddled close.
Let us now" said the eldest of the shepherds go
even unto Bethlehem, ana this thing which has
come pass, which the Lord hath made known
unto us"
The city Of David lay beyond far, high hill, upon
the crest Of which there danced a star. The men
made haste to be away, but they broke out of the
circle there one called Amos who remained. He
dt;p lie intO no turf chung
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| COVER THE WORLD

By William Philip SimmS

VXTASINGTON Dec 2Sweepng changes Uncle Sans national
w will a
scrappng o limitation Japan
Emperor
approval
the world
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dock and subjected to question
ing and cross examination.
An interesting Side-light on the
trial is the fact that IA of the Is
members of the Tax Appeals
Board are Republican appointees,
a number of them obtaining their
jobs while Uncle Andy" ruled the
Treasury and dominated all ap-
pointments pertaining to revenue
and taxes.
NNE of the age-old traditions
~ of politics is never to say
mo- to any request.
Louis McHenry Howe, the
Presidents Super-political adviser,
has learned, however, that the
rule works two ways. It's equally
unwise to say mo" to any offer.
When the time arrived for the
White House staff to return to
its renovated executive offices,
Harold Ickes' PWA art outfit
asked Howe whether he wouldn't
like to have some PWA relief
paintings for his new sanctum.
Without investigating the mat
ter too carefully, Howe reviewed
in his mind what he had seen of
Government art in the past. The
outstanding examples were
series of steel engravings of past
Presidents struck off by the Bu-
reau of Engraving. The plates
were engraved by the Govern
ments' expert designers as prac-
tice for engraving postage stamps
to fill the empty days before
Postmaster Jim Farley began his
periodic spaSms of new stamp
issues.
Howe Shuddered at the thought
and rejected the offer.
But when the rest of the execu-
tive offices got to the stage of in
terror decorating, Howe found to
his amazement that they had
beautiful oil portraits, landscapes.
water-color street scenes, pastel
industrial pictures.
Where" he grumbled. did all
this come from? Why haven't I
got some for my offlces?"
And. to his diSmay, he learned
that these were selections from
PWA Art Relief, which he had
turned down.
With a rush he put in call for
some for himself, but, alas! it was
too late. The best he could do
was to beg a few ship prints from
the Presidents private collection.
A CONGRESSIONAL investiga-
IA ton which may be almost
as spectacular as the munitions or
banking inquiries is now being
Matched in the Agriculture De-
partment.
1t goes into the basic economic
question of marketing agricultural
commodities, particularly fresh
fruits and vegetables.
Agricultural experts believe they
can reveal dramatic story Of
price manipulation and price goug-
ing of interest to every housewife,
to every farmer. 1t is the story
of the middleman.
For more than a year some of
Henry Wallaces advisers have
been working on this problem. A
bare hint of it was given during
Rex Tugwellis inquisition before
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dug ms CROOK INTO tne tuTI and CHUNG
to it.
Come" cried the eldest of the
shepherds. but Amos shook his head.
They marveled, and one called out,
1t is true. It was an angel. You
heard the tidings. A Savior is bornl"
I heard" said Amos. Il will
abide"
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dent. Mr.. McGrath
was 66.
Mr.. McGrath, the
128th person to die as
a result of a traffic
accident in Marion
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THE MURDER OF BABY 'LINDBERGH
Following is

is Lndbeh
and e
SIDNEY B. WHPPLE
United STAFF orresn ndent
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County this year, was said to have
stepped from the sidewalk to board
a street car when he was struck by
an automobile driven by Harry
zavela, 50, of 1920 E. Troy-av. Mr..
zavela was not held.
Mr.. McGrath was employed at the
Riverside Park nursery and he for
merly had been a contractor. He
was native of Kentucky, but had
lived in indianapolis the last 20
years. He was a member of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Anna McGrath; three daughters,
Mrs. Anna Shane and Mrs. Arch
Johnson, Indianapolis, and Mrs.
Margaret jolly, Kansas City; a son,
John McGrath, Indianapolis; three
sisters, Miss Katherine McGrath
Chicago; Miss Mary McGrath, Crit
fin, Ga, and Mrs. Nora Hamilton,
Frankfort, Ky; brother, Nicholas
McGrath, Chicago, and six grand
children.
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Il VIII Abide

TINE eldest walked back from the
Il road to the little knoll on which
Amos stood.
You Go not understand me" the
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ARRESTS BRING
DIVORCE PLEA .

Claiming her husband had
been arrested no less than s.
times since July, 1928. on charges
of drunkenness, disorderly conA
duct and assault, Mrs. Marie T.
Miller, first block of K Street
Northwest, filed suit today in DIST
trict Supreme Court for a lim1
tied divorce from Laurence a.
Miller.
Through Attorney Jean M.
Boardman, the wife stated she
was married in September. 1924,
and has two children. AS a re-
suit of her husbands cruel tired It
ment, the wife said, she was
forced to leave him last March,.
She is employed as a waitress at
a salary of ST a week and seeks
the custody Of the childre4l
whom she was forced to place I'm
a local charity home.
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INSULTS TRIAL
ON TOMORROW

CHICAGO, Oct. / G.N.s).
Samuel insult, broken king Of a
crumbled three-billion-dollar utili-
ties empire, and 16 captains Of
finance were prepared to go on
trial tomorrow on a charge of
using the mails to defraud in con-
nection with the collapse Of the
Corporation Securities Company.
On the other side, the United
States Government, virtually bur
led in a maze Of legal documents
and fortified by some 200 wit
nesses, was poised on the eve Of
the most sensational trial in
American financial history.
The Government charges insult
and his associates sold $113,000,-
900 in gold notes and borrowed
10000, 900 from banks at a time
when they knew the company was
bankrupt. Corporation Securities,
organized in 1929 as a last futile
attempt to stop the oncoming
crash, went into Federal receiver
ship April Is, 1882. Debts totalled
$163, 10000 and assets were $780,
900.
If convicted, the defendants face
penalties ranging as high as 1875
years imprisonment and $25, 900
fines.
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GUARDED
AGAINST COUP

HAVANA, Oct. 0.NS0.
Constitutional guarantees were
suspended in HAVANA and
Oriente provinces today as the
National Cabinet, in IN emer.
gency meeting, acted in swift de-
termination to crush revolution
airy terrorism expected to begin
this morning.
Practically all transportation
was tied up in the capital with
truckmen. taxicab drivers, and
bus operators striking in protest
against higher-priced gasoline
and a proposed increase in the
vehicular tax.
In suspending constitutional
guarantees, the government ex-
planned:
"A state of alarm Of q revO-
lutionary nature exists in
Oriente. The government be.
lieveS that arms have been dis.
tributed for an outbreak Of
major proportions"
Hundreds of American tourists
today faced the prospects of
walking to their hotels and sight
seeing on foot.
The first death came at Nue..
vitas, Camaguey, when soldiers
fired on students demonstrating
in commemoration of Rafael
Trejo, a student Communist
leader, killed at Havana -four
years ago. Disorders also oc.
CURED at Camaguey City, but
no one was hurt.
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somehow, had not been listed on
the published ransom list.
He said, yes, the present indict'
ment against Hauptmann for ex.
tortion will stand unless other
evidence Is found as to other
crimes, or else in case other per
sons are found to be involved"
The District Attorney said re-
ports concerning a board Of three
psychiatrists to examine Haupt-
mann's mental condition on Wed
nesday had been misinterpreted.
"There will be no official
bOard-that cannot be done
without a court order-but psy-
chiatriSts will examine him.
There will be two or three alien
lists representing three sides.
the defense, che State Of New
York and the State Of New Jer-
sey. One Of my representatives
will be DIR. s. Phillip Good
heart"
Incidentally, Colonel -schwarz.
kopf said this morning he knew
nothing of any New Jersey PSYCHE
artist planning to examine Haupt-
mann.
Asked if Colonel Lindbergh will
view Hauptmann again, District
Attorney Foley said:
II don't think so. But If he
does the newspaper men will
not be informed in advance"
His Kin. INTERCEPTED
He declined to answer when
asked If Colonel Lindbergh was
close enough to recognize the
lookout he saw in st. Raymond'S
Cemetery the night the ransom
was paid.
The Hauptmann garage in New
York having been dismantled and
examined bit by bit, the police TO-
day started to tear down Haupt-
mann's apartment in the hope of
finding more ransom money or
clues.
Over in New Jersey, meanwhile,
Arthur Koehler, wood specialist,
continued his experiments in an
attempt to link Hauptmann with
the ladder used in the kidnapping
but-up to noon-had found
nothing Of value.
Colonel, Schwarzkopf said New
jersey was standing by the origi.
nal report Of DR.. Charles H. Nit.
chell, who conducted the autopsy,
that the head injury found on the
Lindbergh baby was due to a blunt
instrument.
He added that the authorities
were checking notebooks belonging
to Hauptmann; that the notations
were being translated from Ger.
man to English. He also indicated
that relatives of the Hauptmanns
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Mueller, would
be Intercepted.
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HE|RESS' NURSE
CALLS MOTHER
NEGLECTFUL
Mrs. Vanderbilt Accused of
Spurning Child for Dancing
And Other Pleasures

NEW YORK, Oct. / uN.SJ.
The battle of Mrs. Gloria Morgan
Vanderbilt to wrest custody Of her
10.year-old daughter, Gloria, from
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, the
child's paternal aunt, shifted to
an open. courtroom today, with
frock-coated attorneys lending dig
nifty to the proceedings.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, attired in black,
heard herself described by the
family nurse as a dancing
mother" who spent her time in
Paris in a continuous round Of
pleasure, to the neglect Of the
baby.
Linked With Prince
The nurse, Mrs. Emma Sulli-
van Keislich, also accused the
mother Of intimacieS with Prince
Hohenlohe, a kinsman Of the
former German Kaiser, during an
interlude at Biarritz.
The nurses story was brought
out, question by question, by Her.
bert c. Smythe, counsel for Mrs.
Laura fitzpatrick Morgan, Mrs.
Vanderbilt's mother, who Is re-
sisting her daughters attempt to
gain custody of Gloria. The
nurse testified:
"Prince HOhenIOhe had .
room at Mrs. Vanderbllt'S villa
ut Biarritz. 1t was on the
same floor as Mrs. Vanderbllt's
room, and frequently saw
him visit her there"
Seen Through Door
Under urging, the nurse said
that Mrs. Morgan had called her
at two o'clock one morning and
together they had peered through
the slightly opened door Of Mrs.
Vanderbilt's room.
The prince and Mrs. Wander.
bilt were together. Scantily clad,
and the nurse said Mrs. Wander
bilt seemed to be crying. She
testified:
II used to see him in her
room nearly every day, in the
morning or early afternoon. He
used to read to her."
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FAULKNER BANK DEPOSIT SLIPS ARE BELIEVED HAUPTMANNE
How to Obtain Loans
Under Housing Act

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Of interest, on easy terms, for repairing or inn
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Would you like to convert your present short
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new, lone-term, per cent, omortized mortgage?
Would you like to obtain such new mortgage
to finance the construction Of q new home?
All of these benefits to property owners ore pro-
vded under facilities being developed by the
Federal Housing Administration. For all lntormo-
ton and help, write your questions to the Housing
stamped, sef-oddressed return envelope to insure
q prompt personal reply. Do NOT telephone or
call in person.