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The Washington times., 1934-02-17

TODAY our celebrated retired Fifth Avenue jeVeIer,
whose anonymity must be protected for obvious
reasons travels further and fascinating
ground than he has yet done in his series of articles
This is the third and final inStaNnent.
Beginning with the fabulous and fantastic career Of
Lucky Baldwin, that adventurous spirit whose cOec
tOn dispersed three ago. the author takes his
readers behind the with society and chorus girls
and establishes how these fair ladies acQureand retain
their priceless baubIe&
He also gives q fresh and authentic appraisal Of
J. J. Hill, the Empire Builders gem collection There
ans added Hfslike portraits Of such famous Jewell
fzncis1s Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani and Mrs.
Jesse LivsrmOrs, No. 2, Of the IOfest PARK Avenue
set: Hilda Ferguson and Hope Hampton BruatOur. of
the frst-nght Broadway crowd, and finally eccentric
old "Frsddie Pepper. the Philadelphia ni!HOnairs
An these people were noted for their diamonds,
pearls smsraids rubfSS-bue the anthOr will tell yon
facts about them that new. exclusive.
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ally, the Princess apparently gets her taste for
jewelry from her mother Mrs. Franklyn Hutton
an interesting commentary on the laws of
blood relationship.
One might classify the radiant and celebrated
Hope Hampton 40 on the borderlins Of society
and tie UtGeA @nOA Gh@ WaRtMlaa Of both q0AlkfS.
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the modern market once in two hundred
and fifty years. In world history its like
hasn't appeared a dozen times.
Many columns could be devoted to
Baldwin 8 other exploits, including his
importation into the United States Of a
Japanese vaudeville troupe, which Gre
ated a sensation and added materially
to his prosperity. A listing of all his
jewels would fill page.
Thus ends the glittering saga Of
Lucky Baldwin" Let us, as if seated in
H. G. Wells's ''Time Machine" rush for
ward through the years and see whether
the obsession for precious stones, of
-u.A.SaL L. Ann;ll:nraA nrynnaonalore
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has diminished with the decades. Let US particu-
larly examine the jewel-studded careers of GER
tain modern beauties who are constantly popping
up ON the front pages, either because they have
The Washington times., 1934-02-17
A GIRL
WHO LIKES
NECKLACES

lifetime, when he wasn't ~
making money hand over fist,
to acquiring such collection?
Let us examine briefly Bald
wins background:
Hisbiographer, G. B. Glass As
cock, describes him as "The @..|...ssl
man who was never licked"
Which would appear to be an
understatement.
Born in 1928 of a long line of
farmers, Elias had two boyhood
ambitions-to own horse and
gun. He attained his object by driving
herd of hogs to market successfully, much
to his fathers pleasure.
At sixteen he was an expert in horseflesh.
Having saved $500, he eloped to Michigan with
Sarah Ann Unruh. He was farmer, thresher,
horse-trader. Lucky" moved restlessly west
ward, opening grocery stores Saloons hotels, SELL
A few Of these ventures were disastrous:
But Lucky" had an inspiration He would
build canal freighters. He did. (The Illinois
Canal was just being completely From the
boats he sold grain. Success
BY this time the gold rush was on. Baldwin
moved West, now attacked by Indians, now sell
ing horses. In California he bought and sold
hotels. He was always the speculator. Califor-
mia was his Wall Street, for better or worse
usually better.
He early abandoned his efforts to become
miner, getting more kick and profit out of specu-
lating in-everything. But always the vision of
gittering diamonds danced before his eyes. The
deaths of the second and third of his three chill
dren, daughter and son, saddened, embittered
him. Partly as result of this he and his wife
were divorced.
Lucky continued to prosper BY 1857 he
was very rich man. Wanderlust gripped him.
He went to India, pioneer of the period in big
game hunting. It was in that sun-baked, tabled
land that his eye fell upon the great ruby that
was 10 Be the shOwpiece Of his collection
This w. he 0uRt Of gem 6Ant htm% OssN On
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Helen got all three Of her wishes.
She married Aaron Benesch,
wealthy Baltimore department store
owner, forty years her senior. But
somehow Helen's marriages didn't
seem to stay put. She was divorced
from Benesch, remarked Rice; then
when that didn't click got divorced
from him and married William Dur
yea, with whom she resided ten days.
So much for the stage beauties
who gather them diamonds while
they may. Let's inspect the society
angle of the same passion. The name
of Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani
will instantly be recalled. This little
heiresS to a huge slice of the Wool.
worth fortune owns among other
trifles--a $l,O00,O 900 pearl necklace.
She bought it, just like that, last
Summer in Paris.
It's seventeen inches long and is
surprisingly small, considering its
cost. But the pearls are perfectly
matched. The assembling of the
pearls was titanic task. Incident
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TROUBLE IN UNIFORM

DISPATCHES from London report that
~ the British government seriously is con-
sidering action to disbaEd all uniformed po-
litical bodies, such as the Fascist black shirts
organized by Sir Oswald Mosley
England never has been plagued with these
organizations to the extent that continental
countries have been; nevertheless, it is begin
ming to have difficulties with them, and dur
ing the last six months of 1888 no fewer than
twenty-five disturbances in which men wear
ing political uniforms were involved were re-
ported.
AS a general thing it can be said that when
political parties take to organizing their
young men into serni-miltary bodies. dressed
in distinctive uniforms, there is trouble ahead.
These bodies are not designed for use in
harmless parades; they are organized for
fighting, if their directors think it necessary
fighting with their fists with clubs, or with
guns.
There is precious little place for them in a
democracy, and, if the British government
plans to abolish them, the action will be very
easy to understand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
ENCOURAGING ACTION

DROBABLY it is unseemly to exult over
the fact that fellow mortals have had
some atrociously bad luck but we probably
can be forgiven if we remark that the whole
country got a break when the Touhy gang
sterS were convicted in the Factor kidnap-
ing and sentenced to ninety-nine-year terms
in prison.
There is one sure recipe for stamping out
the kidnapping racket. That is to catch the
kidnapers and put them away where they will
not commit any more offenses.
During recent months the authorities have
been giving this recipe a trial, and it has been
working beautifully. That the Touhy gang
was unable to escape in this general round
up is a matter for rejoicing
To be sure, not all kidnapping cases have
been solved, and not all of these most infa-
nous of racketeers have been put behind bars.
But an excellent start has been made
The fact that Chicago gangsters can be
caught, convicted and imprisoned in Chicago
for crime committed in Chicago is, perhaps.
the most encouraging feature Of the whole
business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
FRIDAY. MARcH 2. 1898.
THE WAGNER LABOR BILL

MO more important legislation is before
4 congress that the labor disputes bill
introduced yesterday by Senator Wagner.
The President at the beginning of his ad-
ministration recognized that recovery was
threatened by labor oppression, a threat which
could be me. only by protecting the rights of
labor to bargain collectively with employers.
That was the purpose Of the now-famous Sec
ton IA of the MIRA. Experience has shown
that law TO be inadequate.
AS a further step the President last autumn
created by executive order nationaI labor
board. The board, under the able chairman
ship Of Senator Wagner, has given splendid
service in settling many disputes. The chal-
lenge Of it's authority. its bipartisan rather
than nonpartisan membership and by its in
adequate and temporary organization.
Hence the need for an Independent per-
manent board of clear authority.
The purpose of the Wagner bill is to pro-
vide such board and at the same time to
make effective the now ineffective law by
which congress sought to protect labors
right to collective bargaining.
AS stated in the new bill:
THE tendency Of modern economic life
toward indignation and centralized control
long since has destroyed the balance CT bar
gaining power between the individual employer
and the individual employee. and has rendered
the individual. unorganized worker helpless to
exercise actual liberty of contract, to secure a
Just reward for his services. and to preserve
a decent standard of living, with consequent
detriment to the general welfare and the free
flow of commerce.
Inadequate recognition of the right OF en-
ployes to bargain collectively through repre-
sentatives of their own choosing has Deen one
Of the causes of strikes, lockoutS and similar
manifestations of industrial strife, obstruct-
ing interstate commerce and imperiling the
general welfare"
The general welfare of the nation is in
deed imperiled by the present wholesale
violation of labor's rights and by tht. break
down of machinery intended to settle dis
putes and spread purchasing power
Prompt action by congress on che Wag-
ner bill is imperative.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
A BANKERS TESTIMONY

T Asst summer Otto Kahn, senior partner in
- Kuhn, Loeb & Co., told the senate in
vestigating committee that he deplored stock
market gambling.
Artificial activities of any kind" we're de-
nounced by the banker; so were any activities
which interfere with the natural flow OF
prices" including both bull pools and bear
pools"
That was last summer. This winter the
senate committee brings out testimony show
ing that stable pool was organized by Kuhn,
Loeb Co., last summer in one of the repeal
issues, and that it netted the pool profit OF
little less than 100000
And this pool, it develops, was in opera
ton at just about the time that Mr. Kahn
publicly was deploring pool operations.
So. as the boys down at the corner cigar
store would say-what?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
A Woman's Viewpoint
nv MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NOTHING, in fact, is quite so
~ fine for the family as a tan
trum staged by mother. 1t clears
the atmosphere like a thunder
shower and usually results in the
most exemplary tribal behavior
for at least a week. And that's
something.
Mothers, you know, usually are
patient, unselhsh and kind. They
SEEM to enjoy suppression and
tyranny practiced toward them.
In a good many households their
very name is synonymous with
martyr"
This being the case the time
will come when father and the
children grow high-handed and
autocratic. Their tendency is to
boss, complain and criticize. When
such a state of affairs exists, the
time is ripe for mother to throw
a lively tantrum, so that things
will become normal once more.
But while she's putting it on, she
must have a good one.
1t is better to stand up and read
the riot act to father and give the
baby an old-fashioned padding.
The outfit will be so flabbergasted
with surprise they'll become an
gelic, because nothing so startles
us as seeing the worm turn or the
meek giving battle. The idea that
a mother never should show anger
is responsible for much disrespect
from her children who do not
fake emotion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02

NEvER strike your child IN
~ anger" MARBLES the chorus
of infant psychology experts.
They advance very profound ar
guments for their side, too.
Yet it seems to me that COM
mon sense advises otherwise. If
you are going to strike a child at
all, the only proper time to do it
is when you are angry. All other
punishment is so calculated and
cold-blooded that it merits the
disapproval of humane indiW-
duals.
Children understand anger and
respect it. They can forgive anger
but they do not soon pardon the
punishment melted out to them
along legal lines - the sort that
sets the hour for execution. This
kind of thing spoils their day for
them, hangs over their heads like
the sword over Damocles, and
then falls upon them long after
the deed for which they are being
chastised has been forgotten.
I am not in favor Of woodshed
whippings by the man Of the
house, but I do believe that oc-
casional angry furries by mother
are eficacious in reforming
naughty infants. But mind you,
mother must be good and mad
when she pounces down upon the
flock. -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
STILL YOUNG IN IDEAS

CENATOR NORRIS OF Nebraska is getting
~ to be a fairly elderly man. But he never
seems to get tired of fighting for sweeping
changes in government, and his newest pro-
gram is one that many younger man. with
long years ahead of him, well might fight
shy Of.
What the senator now proposes is a change
in the Nebraska state government which would
substitute a single body of from twenty to
fifty men for the existing state legislature.
Senator Norris believes that the bi-cameral
legislature is unwieldy and not always re-
sponsive to public opinion; so he would abol-
ish it boldly, install a simpler mechanism in
its place-and, he believes. in that way create
a more efficient and representative state gov
eminent.
How far he will get with this program re-
mains to be seen. Senator Norris has way
of hanging on ike grim death until he gets
what he wants
And his proposal is at least an interesting
one. Will he be able to sell" it TO the people
of Nebraska?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
NO LOVE LOST

HUSBANDS still are to be had. There was
dearth of them on the market for
a while. But the stock of bonds and blends
is going up Men, who have been the answer
to solo prayers ewes since Adams sons felt
lonely on moon-bright nights, want sweet
hearts again.
1t took the 1884 Valentines day to prove it.
The makers of valentines now that their sta
tistics are gathered. are reporting that the
demand for valentines that talked of love
permanent, dyed-in-the-wool, 1914 per cent
pure, guaranteed not to shrink, fade or run
in the wash love-have come as tidal waves
engulfing lonely hearts
1t seems that it wasn't that men didn't
want to get married last year and the year
before. They didn't have money to do it or
time to go counting. Being men, they didn't
know that often little counting was necessary.
In fact, until their heart interests began
to play postoffice this year, women didn't
know that love had weathered the market
crash Some women still don't know it. You
see. there was a greater demand for senti-
mental Ill-be-yours-if-y oull-be-mine verses
than the shops could meet. Nobody dreamed
rhyme.
Yes, love is on the upgrade Ministers are
reporting more marriages. If you don't get
your man it is because you didn't choose
wisely. Of course you must not get an idea
that men are handing out proposals as freely
as they do election candidate tickets or those
cardboard squares that advertise a new 35-
cent eating place. They are in the mood for
love again, that's all.
Every Juliet who has wondered if Romeos
stepsons have rheumatism or athletes foot
because they haven't been climbing her fire
escapes feels better now that she has seen
what the mailman brought
The world is a barren place to women when
love grows stale. Men may concern themselves
with business A woman may try to. But there
comes a moment when some one is playing
the Viennese waltz, lilacs are rain-sWeet in
the late spring night, or the man she used to
love comes back to town with his wife when
she wants to take a paint brush and spread
some glamor somewhere. Not that she would
have the man on blue willow platter now!
But she thinks of what he might have been
if he had married her.
Even a woman who is a great executive
hopes that some particlar man will read about
it in the paper.
We have tried to believe that the world was
a cooperative indvidualzed, pecuniary
ganization which took sentiment for what it
was worth and filled its rag bags regularly.
Now it has been proved that it isn't 1t is
as old-fashioned as your great-grandmothers
first date and as sweet as the tive-for-ap penny
gum drops you bought when you were 7.
The heart pickup is remarkable. One
thing has been proved, though. When poverty
comes in at the door love doesn't come knock
ing Economic increase influences the ro-
mantle output.
You may bid hearts-but dollars are
trumpS
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By Z. c. G., S.
The amy flies the mail!

By I. c. G. S. -,
The amy flies the mail!
The writer is not an army man,
nor an aviator. On the con-
trary, the writer is a most rabid
pacifst.. and common gossip i'm
mediateIy would impeach him as
being antagonistic to everything
connected with the military branch
of this country.
Let us be reasonable. The army
aviators are required to pass the
most rigid Of tests, more so than
the commercial pilots, if I I'M
derstand properly. The army filters
are just as capable in their geo.
graphical bearings as those in the
employ of private business.
The army began the business
of mail delivery upon very short
notice. Their efforts we're OBJ
served jealousy by those inter
ests who prayed that smashups
galore would result so that they
could without trouble appeal to
public opinion to sustain them in
their anguish for lost profits"
Then, too, please do not forget
that the taking over of the mail
was consummated in a time when
the weather was such as to try
the best of men. The fatalities
in the commercial flying in the
last few days gave the army pilots
ability no cause for remorse. But
why make this government VEN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
AN IDOL PASSES

IT isn't likely that the name Of the late
John NIcGraw will find its way into very
many history books. Nevertheless, the mans
career symbolized a whole era in American
life
He came to fame in what you might call
the rowdy era-the old. far-off day when base
ball was q rough tough game. the one great
diversion of the masses. played by lads who
ignored the finer points of behavior. nut who
did know all there was to be known about
throwing. hitting and catching baseballs
That was the day when a game between
two small-town teams was apt 10 break up
in a free-for-an fight at any time the day
when it was smart to subsidize the umpire
If you could get at him. the day when a visit
ing team might expect to have to run Tor the
train through barage of brickbats, If things
went wrong
McGraw, OF course was big Lacquer. re-
moved from such plebeian demonstrations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
A WARNING TO US

T ME modern world has not often seen any,
= thing like the spectacle which Hitlers
Nazis put on in Germany the other day.
More than a million men raised their hands
and swore unquestioning fidelity to Hitler-a
demonstration of loyalty and discipline almost
without parallel
Now, it is easy enough to point out that
Hitler is a product of the postwar turmoil. to
recite the Sickening list of his partys atroci-
ties, and to demonstrate that his program
means trouble for his own people and the rest
of Europe. But to do this is to miss the point
His reception by German youth and this
: amazing display of loyalty to his person, are
symptomatic of a very great change that has
come over mems minds in the last few years.
To understand it. listen to a few of the
( remarks made at this most recent demon
stration. Baldur Won Schirach. chief of the
, Hitler Youth Movement, is speaking. He says:
The will of a single -Hitler-directs
our march The Hitler youth knows it has no
privileges only duties. Days of romantic
dreaming are over. We want young Sparta
, Voluntarily. the whole of young Germany
submits to single law-that of Hitler.
"All of us differ in many ways We ars
equal in one thing-we are all ready to die
for Hitler"
That kind of talk is not listened to by men
who believe that they are masters of their
. own destinies 1t can be applauded only when
there is an almost universal conviction that
. the old ways of self-help. self determination,
and self-reliance are completely done for
German youth in other words, has become
convinced that those great old words. freedom
and democracy. have lost their meaning in
, the modern world. They have stopped be-
Ieving that men can handle their own affairs
properly; henceforth they ask only to be led.
, and they porniSe in advance to 60 blindly
and Wlthout questioning.
How does that affect US. 5000 miles away?
The answer IS clear; it is a challenge and
warning. We still have the blessing of demo-
cratic freedom. 1t is up to us to prove that
i, it still is workable
The world trend is away from it. If we
s can not save tiff we can not show that
. free people can meet and solve the greatest
Of problems without laying aside its freedom
then it is apt to vanish from the earth.
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l achoIIy disopprove of achat YOu sag and q0lu
defend to the death your right to sag it-Vottalre.
Praise for Arn1y Filters

ture a game Of life and death,
with the private interests on the
side line anxiously awaiting an
other score against government
ownership?
Newspapers call attention to the
mothers Of the army filters who
gave their lives in carrying the
mail and note that these mothers
could be pacified the easier were
those lives given in mortal COM
bat over some battlefield. This is
as silly to me as war itself. The
difference, of course, is that in
peace one is not so apt to be be-
medaled and glorified as in time
of war. Big business is aware OF
this psychology and uses the same
when and wherever possible.
The army is good enough to
serve whenever the profits Of the
interests are involved-I mean the
profits. But now, when honest
service to the people is the func-
ton Of the army, the profit grab
bers are standing by ready with
their crocodile tears and funeral
dirgeS.
VIII the people ever wise up to
the system? Nevertheless, put in
a good word for the soldiers of
peace, and that means the army
filters. We have had sufficient
Richthofens and Rickenbackers to
last us for awhile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-02
On Living
nv HAROLD FRENCH

BY HAROLD FRENCH
Life is impromptu in its vast be-
ginning,
There is no calculation in it's term,
Ard ours are hands incredibly un-
firm,
Mutual in their play and never
winning.
The unspoken word is established
past revising;
There is no tragedy touched beyond
betrayal;
Our birthright promises, and We are
enterprising
To find how singularly We may fail.
IIlusioned is the heritage from dy-
ing,
BY fancies sprung in dark-halled
passages,
And there are doubts to dream upon
their buying
While old wine ages.
There is mute genius underneath
the sky
And living, we express it--and deny
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TRAGEDY TO ALL

THE tragic crash of that big passenger
liner in the Utah mountains is a sharp
reminder that not all Of the recent disasters
to army mail planes have been due to tne in
capacity. inexperience, or poor equipment Of
the army fiIers.
1t probably is perfectly true that the civil
ian pilots are more skilled 1t the mall-car-
rying Job than are the army pilots. They're
used to it, they're specially trained for that
sort of work, their planes are better adapted
for it.
But the fact remains that the army fliers
got what probably was the worst bit OF
weather in the last five years to make their
bow as mail pilots.
The weather sent several of them to their
deaths-and it also destroyed a great ship
manned by a civilian crew.