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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
MOCKERY is OFFER OF
RESPECTABLE CITIZENS

BY H. H.
With compassion mingled with
contempt, I listened to Judge Fred
G.. Bale at the Y. M. c. A. meeting.
He is representative of millions of
our more respectable church mem
bers.
He is disguised with the way the
profit system has cursed our homes
and all that is sacred in our lives;
but he is not sick enough of it to
give it up. Like the dog in the Bible,
he goes back to that which made
him sick.
Openly he condemned our profit
system, but he would not abolish it
by voting for social justice. He be-
lieves that if all of the American
people, in some mysterious way,
suddenly became saints, all would
be fine.
If he could climb the Utopian
ladder by taking just one step and
landing on the top round, he would
be satisfied; but he SHES off from
the first, second and third rounds
which are gained by honest voting.
He doesn't like the devils meat,
but he wishes to save his broth. Let
me tell him that he can't have the
devils broth without his meat. He
wishes others to give up their racket,
but he wishes to keep his own. He
and his kind still believe that some
of their grandchildren will become
John D. Rockefeller.
Intellectually he knows that
money is the root of all evil, but he
does not have enough faith in the
Bible to vote accordingly.
What shame that such respec-
table citizens have nothing better to
offer us than the mockery of prohi-
bition. How pitiful is their anguish
of heart and soul, their shallow
thinking prejudice and Hypocrisy!
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Daily Thought

Even as I have seen, they that
plow iniquity, and SOW wickedness
reap the same.-Job, IV:VIII.
THO see and listen to the wicked
i is already the beginning OF
WickedneSS.-Co nfucius.
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Capital Capers
by DAVID DIETZ.

p EP HAM FISH of New York has just been
~ decorated by the Cuban Government with
the order of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
From the island republic filter interesting
stories of Hams reception in Havana his arrival
on plane from Miami, his jokes, his banquet by
President Mendieta
Ham impressed the Cubans by his noncha-
liant air. He appeared at the presidential dinner
IN Havana wearing a soft white shirt When
President Mendieta placed the azure ribbon of
the decoration around Hams neck he was
forced to stand on tip-toe. Awed by their
American visitors dignified manner, Cubans re-
ferred to him as Senator Fish"
The Chief of Protocol who met him at the
plane found that he spoke good Spanish How
ever, they converSed together in English
Senator" said the Chief of Protocol, you
like our city?"
"Okay," replied Senator Fish.
NOTE-Of significance is the fact that the
grandfather of Rep. Ham Fish, when Secretary
of State in 1861 showed much sympathy with
the revolutionary cause sponsored by Carlos
Manuel de Cespedes in Cuba. The decoration is
named after that CeSpedes.
nIPLOMAT1C failure in Washington NAV
- have serious consequences. Yesterday. Ma
sano Hanihara, former Japanese Ambassador to
the United States, died in Toxic. Friends said
ne oleo OF broken heart because of non-Suc-
cess in his diplomatic mission here.
Hanihara is widely recalled in the Captal as
a charming and suave envoy, whose courtesy
caused him to be nicknamed the Lord Chester
held OF JAPAN. He was Ambassador here at the
time Congress passed the immigration law which
excluded japanese from the United States.
note which Hanihara sent to Secretary of
State Charles Evans Hughes mentioning grave
consequences" resulted in a congressional furore
Following this misunderstanding the envoy re-
turned to Japan He insisted that he had never
intended any uncomplimetary meaning in his
message.
MRS. LAWRENCE TOWNSHIPS morning
4V1 muSicales the most select and frequently
the most musical affairs of the Washington So
clal season. opened the other morning at the
Mayflower Hotel, with eclat and diplomatic ap-
plause.
Gilt chairs creaked as fashionably plump
women sat down to hear a concert by Metro
politan Opera stars. There were the usual
hustle and hustle some excellent music, some
beautiful furs, much kissing and a great
many compliments for Mrs Townsend.
Mrs. Roosevelt intended to be present but
failed to arrive owing to the death the pre-
ceding night of her friend, Mrs. Mary RumSey.
Diplomats appeared in droves.
Axel Leonard Astrom, Minister of Finland.
bowed and smiled like Metropolitan star as
4I4eLOS dGuldteQ MN on the 1dCI IIldC FIJI
land paid her December war debt installment
to the United States. Any one might have sup
posed that Astrom had personally reached in
his pocket for the money
Rubio Vivot, the Argentine Beau Brummel,
was present, and not wearing riding breeches.
When Rubio appears sans riding breeches it is
as # Senator Copeland of New York failed TO
wear his daily red carnation.
Plump Arthur Bradley Campbell, son Of the
Marchioness of Huntley. appeared with lorgnet.
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milestone around the neck of the
people, while we permit a shutdown
on production and distribution of
| real wealth.
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Teachers of Louisiana stand to be appointed
by Huey Longs henchmen, under new state
law, unless the Federal Government succeeds
in sending the henchmen to Jail for tax
evasion.
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Thawing weather is reported in Little
America, and the shacks are in danger of
breaking down as though they were part of
a slum clearance project
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24

American industry says it's willing to play
ball with President Roosevelt. but the business
men should remember that strikes are part
Of the game.
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Report of increased dividends this year is a
big relief to all, except those who are on relief
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Liberal Viewpoint
Y DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

Modern Fiction" BY Dorothy Brewster
and Angus Burrell. Columbia University
Press S2.75.
"Thorstein Veblen and His America"
BY Joseph Dorfman. The Viking Press
S3.75.
Literature and Dialectical Material
ISM" BY John Strachey. Covici Freide. 81.
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The Message Center

Times readers are invited to cypress
their vietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 toords or LeSs.I
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Wholy diSapprove of achat you sag and o0M
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItaire
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NOTE-Of significance is the fact that the
grandfather of Rep. Ham Fish, when Secretary
of State in 1868, showed much sympathy with
the revolutionary cause sponsored by Carlos
Manuel de Cespedes in Cuba. The decoration is
named after that CeSpedes
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
BOY
GETS A CHANCE

DELPHIA, Dec. 10
G.N.SO I'm all the wide land no
happier child existed today than
Walter Fox, eight-year-old son of
a Philadelphia truck driver.
Through the benevolence of
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the
boy, crippled by infantile paralysis,
will soon have his chance to be
cured.
Beside the bed in which he has
lain for two years was check for
$1,000, bestowed upon Walter by
the First Lady to be used to send
him to the Warm Springs (Ga)
hospital.
The check was conferred upon
Mrs. Roosevelt last night before
banquet gathering of 1000
guests here. The money represents
the Gimbel Award, given annually
to the "country's outstanding
woman of the year." During the
same ceremony Mrs. Mary Louise
Curtis Box was given the $1,000
award as the woman who had
done most for Philadelphia in
1894.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
Will Rogers
Says:

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Dec.
ia fine old friend, and one
of the last of the great cowmen,
died in Fl. Worth, Texas, w. r.
WaggOner. One of the two big.
geSt ranches in the U. S., his
had oil all over it, and it made
him sore every time they found
q new we'll, for he said it was
always on the best grass land,
and just spoiled it for that
many cattle.
He would rather lose a dollar
on a cow than make a thousand
on an oil well. He loved good
horses, and had the best in
Texas. There will never be any
class Of people in our country
that can replace the old west
ern cOwman, for common sense,
ShrewdneSS, humOr, and fine
citizenship. The Three d lost
q real boss.
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D. {, WILL LOSE
OPENING CAME
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Before
the joint session of the National
and American Leagues adjourned
here today, a change in routine Of
years standing was made, effective
in 1886, which will mean the Presi-
dents of the United States will not
signify the opening of the season
by throwing out the first ball in
the customary game at Washing
ton, day ahead of the opening in
other cities.
1t was decided at today's closing
session that year after next a new
system of season openings will
find the Eastern clubs starting in
Western cities.
The joint session adjourned at
the motion of President Tom
Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox.
The vital issues to be settled re-
mained exactly where they were
before the owners got together and
filled the air with cigar smoke
and oratory.
Radio broadcaSting will remain
as it was, matter of local option
with the several clubs. Chicago
will continue to keep the fans in
formed of the doings of the clubs
via the ether waves.
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Cotton Head Quits,
DOrr Takes Post

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 G.N.SO.
George A. Sloan resigned as presi.
dent of the Cotton Textile Insti.
tute. effective at the end of the
year, the Institute announced to-
day. Mr.. Sloan will be succeeded
by Goldthwaite H. Dorr, Mr..
Dorr has been counsel for the
institute since it's organization in
1922.
Explaining Mr.. Sloan's resigna.
tion, the institute said he had
been carrying a double load" as
chairman of the code authority
of the cotton textile industry and
head of the institute.
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NURSE WEAkENS POISON DEFENSE
Big Business
To Spend
Billion

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 Q.N.S).
The nations great corporations
will spend billion dollars next
year in long-delayed capital i'm
provements to speed recovery, Fed
eral Housing Administrator James
A. Moffett announced today.
The housing administrator as
serted the United States Steel Cor
poration would spend 1000, 900
for requirements and moderniza-
ton, treble the amount in 1884.
The automobile industry, exclu-
sive of Henry Ford, he said, would
spend $50,000,000 and Mr.. Ford
himself $20,OOO,000.
Mr.. Moffett announced that
American Telephone and Tele-
graph had decided to spend $780,
000, 900 for repairs and betterments
and the Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey had set aside between
SGT, 10000 and $73,OOO,O00.
Mr.. Moffett said five million
new homes are needed by the
Nation,
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.NRS.ROOSEVE[T
GOESSHOPP|NG

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 G.N.SO.
Americas First Lady came home
today to do her Christmas shop.
ping.
Arriving by train from Philadel-
phia, Mrs. Roosevelt went at once
to the Roosevelt town house, re-
manned a few moments only and
then left for the exposition of ar.
ticles made by the blind under au.
spices of the New York State Com.
mission for the Blind. She said:
81 expect to do most of my
Christmas shopping here in New
York on this trip and probably
will find a number of my gifts
in the exposition of work done
by the blind"
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2 AMERICANS
SLAIN BY
CHINESE
Bodies of Missionary and Wife
Tossed in Ditch BY Bandits;
Fate of Infant in Doubt

SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 GN.S0.
The brutal murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. John C. Stam,, of Paterson,
N. j., members of the China In
land Mission, by Chinese Com
munist bandits was revealed TO-
day, when their bodies were
found by the roadside few miles
from the scene of their kidnap-
ing.
The fate of their infant daugh-
ter, Helen, seized with them at
China Inland Mission headquar.
ters at Tsingteh, Southern AMI
wei Province, was not known.
The bodies, apparently flung
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8 FACE COURT
IN T|CKETFAKE

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 G.N.SD.
Three men faced arraignment to-
day in connection with the seiz-
ure of 100000 spurious lottery
tickets for "The Quebec Hospital
Fund National Sweepstakes. un-
der the auspices of the Catholic
Big Sisters" Investigation showed
that neither the hospital nor the
sisters organization was con-
nected with a lottery.
Police said similar tickets had
been sent all over the country.
Watching the air express receiv-
ing office they saw a man send
a suspicious package. They fol-
lowed him to a loft building on
the West Side, where they found
the 100000 tickets and arrested
three men.
The men were listed as Charles
Fee, Sc, Jersey City; Abner Fine,
so, and George Shayne, "a, both
of New York.
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TRAPS
TOGATHER
EVIDENCE
Mrs. Jones UnfoIds Bizarre
Tale of Tainted Food,
"DoCtored" Medicine
Rx Times staff Correspondent


FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Dec.
ia letter that pleaded II want
to live good, pure life" was read
into the court records today,
bringing the name of Mrs. Ellen
McMullin, attractive Richmond
woman, into the Bell trial for the
first time.
Spectators who filled the court
room suddenly came to life as the
letter was introduced during the
testimony of Viola Jones, nurse,
who said she found it in the coat
pocket of Deacon Edward c. Bell,
church and civic leader, who is on
trial charged with attempting to
poison his wife.
Justifies Action
Nurse Jones attended Mrs. Bell
during e long illness that the
State contends was brought about
by frequent doses of poison
placed in the sick woman's food
and medicine by her husband.
The letter is the States reply
to the oft-repeated assertion Of
Mrs. McMullin, before the trial,
that she was a mere" acquaint-
ance of the accused furniture
company executive.
AS the jury listened with keen
attention, the nurse, dressed in
sombre black, defended her action
in going through Deacon Bells
pockets. She said:
'I felt I was justified in do
ing what I did. hoped the
letter might contain some ref
erence to the poison, and I
would do anything to save the
life of my patient"
Signed by Woman
The nurse read the letter
twice. It was addressed to e.
c. Bell, at the Bell Furniture
Company, and was dated Septem-
ber IL. It read, according to
her testimony:
81 am writing as a true con-
fessiOn and asking forgiveness.
You can show this letter to
the person with you. I done
it because of the financial Situ-
alton. l want to lead a good,
pure life. (Signed) Mrs. Ella
McMullin."
Mrs. McMullin has been sum-
moned as a witness by the State,
despite her plea of knowing
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2 Knocked Out In Cafe
ByGarliC Fumes

They waded through the pile
of onions with little difficulty,
shedding a tear or two perhaps.
Then they tackled the garlic and
well, have you ever had con-
tact with the real article?
Mr.. Finch shortly spun about
and collapsed. Miss Edwards fol-
lowed suit in short order. The
police report finishes:
"Taken to Casualty HOSpi-
tai. Overcome by garlic fumes.
Treated for exhaustion"
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The lowly onion and its more
odorous pal. garlic, rose to new
heights today. Real recognition
at last! Public enemies Nos. 2
and 8, they might be called. Po-
lice records told the story briefly:
Samuel Finch, jr., 80, part
owner of the superior Foods Com
pany, 1900 block D st. N. E., and
Bessie Edwards, colored kitchen
helper there, were peeling onions
and chopping garlic in the prepa-
ration of chilli last night.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
Uses
Crime Meet In
Stumble
BY international News Service


Some bold racketeer tried to
muscle" in on the National
Crime Conference.
Attorney General Cummings
had invited all the delegates to
the meeting to attend a re-
ceptiOn he and Mrs. Cummings
will hold tonight, only to learn
that someone was trying to sell
tickets to the gathering.
He told the delegates that no
tickets were being sold for the
reception, and that they should
be wary of anyone trying to col
lect admission.
He said rather humOrouSly
that he would put the sleuths
of the Division of Investigation
on the trail of the "chisler."
The reception which will
close the conference will be held
in Pan American Union Hall.
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UNITY.
URGED At
PARLEY
Jury Verdicts BY Majority
Proposed As Conference
NearS End
BY THOMAS F. CULLEN
International News Service

Recommendations for sweeping
innovations in crime detection
and prosecution were in prospect
today as the National Crime Con-
ference went into its last session.
After four days of deliberations
during which addresses we're
heard from outstanding authori-
ties on detection, prosecution,
and punishment, the several hun
dred delegates from the 48 States
called here by Attorney General
Cummings to grapple with the
crime problem seemed deter.
mined that their labors would
not be in vain.
Crime Institute Planned
A virtual unanimity of opinion
swept the gathering to support
the Department of Justice in its
efforts to effect and maintain
permanent coordination OF police
on a scale heretofore not at
tempted. That this feeling would
take the form Of a recommends
ton for a national crime institute
seemed assured.
This institute would be charged
with the duty of molding together
in a nation-w wide phalanx against
the underworld, the police OF
States, cities, and Federal Gov
eminent.
State Police Urged
Equally dominant WAS the sen.
timent for the suggestion of each
State to create a dep :artment of
justice similar to the Federal
organization, to have supervision
of the detection and prosecution
Of crimes within it's borders.
It also appeared that the con-
clave would recommend changes
in the jury system which, in
most jurisdictions, requires unan-
imous agreement before verdict
can be returned. Suggestions
were made that this be amended
so that a majority vote would be
sufficient for a finding.
California Plan Cited
Typical of the views of the con.
vention were the remarks of Earl
Warren, district attorney of Oak
land, Calf, who lauded the work
Of the Department of Justice. He
defended the States in their work
with the Federal Department and
asserted that such coordination
was not a surrender of local self.
government.
Mr.. Warren cited the action of
his staff in establishing depart
ment of justice for California and
said:
"The Department Of Justice
was effected, not by transferring
any Of the functions of local
aelf-gOvernment to the State
capital or by the creation of q
new department of government,
but by enlarging the powers of
the Attorney General.
"Where the law breaks down
In any county, it is made the
duty Of the Attorney General
TO assume the functions Of the
district attorney"
URGES U. S. MERGER
AT the same time, however, it
was urged by Bruce Smith, New
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PEACE.T|ME
ARMSPROF|T
FOUNDH|GH
Senate ProberS Hear of Huge
Deals BY Munitions, Other
Firms, Since War.
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service
Enormous wartime profits by
American armament makers, run.
ming as high as 1862 per cent OF
invested capital in one year, were
revealed by the Senate munitions
inquiry today.
The Bethlehem Loading Com
pany, which loaded cartridges
and is subsidiary of Bethlehem
Steel, rolled up the 1862 per cent
profit in 1919.
Other Profits Barred
Other arms and munitions
profits brought out were:
Colts Firearms Company, so
per cent in 1916; 81 per cent
in 1917 and 81 per cent in 1918.
Midvale Steel and Ordnance
Company, 43 per cent in 1917.
Savage Arms Company, IS
per cent in 1917 and 43 per cent
in 1918,
Western Cartridge Company,
49 per cent in 1916; IS in 1917
and 18 in 1918.
Winchester Arms Company,
% per: cent in 1919.
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Com
pany, 40 per cent in 1918; SO in
1919.
New York Shipbuilding Com
pany, Al per cent in 1918; 40
in 1919:
Newport News Shipbuilding
Company, 86 per cent in 1917,
72 in 1918. 10 in 1919, IS in 1920.
American Brass Company, so
per cent in 1916, % in 1917.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
43 per cent in 1917.
Col. c. T. Harris, an aide to Ac.
sistant Secretary Woodring, and
his assistant, Lieut.. E. M. Bran
non, were the witnesses in this
postwar profit probe.
Expenditures Shown
1t developed that about half of
all military expenditures in both
war and peace are spent on
articles other than arms or mum,
tions. Colonel Harris agreed with
Alger Hiss, committee attorney,
that the War Department spent
1852 ,238,000 in 1917, $5,723,369,-
900 in 1918, $9,285, 900 IN 1919,
and $1,109, 500, 900 in 1920. Colonel
Harris called them all war expen.
ditures.
He explained the expenditures
in 1920 after the war ended, as
due to the fact we were still pay
ing obligations incurred during
the war, and in settling contracts.
The increase of wartime expen-
ditures over peace-time expenses
ranged from AZ to l up to 384
to l in different Army depart
mentS.
The high was in the Ordnance
Department, which spent $4,087,-
347, 900 in 19 months of the war,
and only $10,624,OOO in a com.
parative peace time period.
Mr.. Hiss Tells Profits
Mr.. Hiss reported tremendous
wartime profits for other concerns.
He cited the U. S. Steel Com
pany's return of 10 per cent in
1919; % per cent in 1916; IS per
cent in 1917, and 20 per cent in
1918 upon their capitalization. The
same company had adjusted earn
ings of $131,223,0O0 in 1915; $348,-
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) States in Hunt
For n. Y. Widow

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 QN.SO.
A five-state police alarm was
broadcast today for Mrs. Leah
Gatska Durant, 34-year-old widow,
who vanished five days ago after
setting out for Greenwich Village
at 2 a. m. from her home in West
Eighty-eighth Street, several miles
away. When she left her apart
ment, Mrs. Durant wore a $4,000
mink coat. a $4,000 diamond ring
and other expensive jewelry.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
Thieves Get $3.50
In Barber Shop

Thieves broke window in a
barber shop, 100 block Rhode
Island Ave. N. w., early today and
made off with a cash register, cash
and three razors; total value, $167.
Joseph LaJacono, proprietor, re-
ported the loss.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13

If you wish to know the correct
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THIEF GETS $50

A purse containing $50 was
stolen from her home today. Mrs.
Ema Watts, 1900 block C st. N.
E., reported to police. Mrs. Watts
said the purse was stolen from a
table in the kitchen by a thief
The Washington times., 1934-12-13


FROM his hospital cot,
little Walter Fox spoke
directly to the gathering
honoring Mrs. Roosevelt
as "the o ut S t a n d in g
woman of 1884" He is
the little paralysis victim
who will be treated by
DR.. J. Norman Henry,
director of Public Health
in Philadelphia. Mrs.
Roosevelt donated her
award of $1,000 for this
purpose.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13

II you wish to know the correct
time of day or night telephone
THE WASHINGTON TINES,
District 1000.
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weather details on Page 2O
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Fair tonight; tomorrow fair
colder.
MEAN TEMPERATURES