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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28

Reduction of sentence and sub
Stitution of Jail for the penal farm
has been made after formal find
ing in court by Juvenile Judge John
F. Geckler, it was learned today.
Monday. Paul Hurley. 3S, Lafay-
cite basketball referee, was fined 81
and costs and sentenced to ninety
days at the penal farm for contrib
uting TO the delinquency of a Is
year-old boy.
Commitments were made out thus
by Judge Geckler after the guilty
finding in juvenile court. These
commitments have been destroyed
and new ones signed by the judge.
The new papers reduce the ninety
day sentence to sixty days and per-
NIT Hurley to serve the sentence at
the Marion county jail instead of at
the penal farm.
Judge Geckler defended the sem
tence change today with the expla-
nation that he felt a Sixty-day SEN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28

Protest meetings continued today
in five sectors, but with diminishing
attendance at several. The large
ballroom of the Raleigh hotel con-
tanned fewer than fifty complain
ants when the small business mems
meeting opened today.
Mrs. Dewson, appearing at an
other session, charged that sweat
shop manufacturers were evading
codes to such an extent as to
threaten seriously the whole success
of NRA.
Testifying as representative OF
the National Consumers League, she
listed a series of racketeering
methods whereby business men
thwart the purposes of the codes
under which they operated.
Restaurants are consciously
guilty, even charging their wait
resses sometimes for the use Of the
company pencil" she said.
Mrs. Dawson said codes had re-
duced wages of some Pennsylvania
SIX mill WORKERS from SAO W o40 d
week. Similar conditions prevail in
hosiery. casket and other factories,
she said.
She charged that many industries
had uused the stretch out or
speed up" system to evade the code
labor provisions, while others had
classified even their S18 per week
workers as executives" Many in
dustries, she said, hire learners
and then discharge them when the
time comes for paying full salaries.
Other tricks of the trade, she said,
include setting back time clocks,
ordering holidays without pay, and
wage deductions for all manner OF
petty reasons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
KILLED FATHER,
POLICE ASSERT
Yorktown Honor Student
ColfeSSeS Staying,
Cops Claim.
81 United Press


MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 28.-James
Marvin Gleason, 81, former honor
student at Yorktown high school
and winner of De Paw university
rector scholarship, has confessed
Staying his father, Lloyd c. Gleason,
40, yorktown meat market proprie-
tor, Delaware county authorities said
today.
Officials said the youth admitted
killing his father after the elder
Gleason had dared the boy to take
| a bottle of liquor away from him.
The father had been intoxicated
several days, the confession said.
The body was found in the base
ment' of Gleason's store late Monday
afternoon. He had been shot and
beaten and one foot was burned.
After arguing over possession of
the liquor, young Gleason is said to
have confessed stunning his father
with a piece of steel taken from
a meat block and then firing three
times into his head.
The foot was burned when Glea-
son attempted to destroy the body
in furnace in the basement of
the store, authorities said.
Il thought I would save the fam
lily some expense by cremating it"
they quoted young Gleason as say
ing.
Unable to force the body into the
furnace, Gleason closed the valve
on an ice machine in the basement
expecting it to explode ana destroy
all evidence of the Staying, authori-
ties said he told them.
Relatives said the youth had been
unusually brilliant in high school
and had declined the De PAW
scholarship. His health had been
failing for two years and physicians
had warned the parents that they
should not be harsh in their treat
ment of him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
WARM WEATHER
DUE TOMORROW
City Expected to Bask in
Temperatures Ranging
in FortieS.

Going from one extreme to an
other, Indianapolis today had
shaken the grip of the Arctic
weather of the last several days
and was expected to bask in abnor-
mally high temperatures tomorrow.
The rise in temperature was eX-
pected to be accompanied by light
snow tonight, turning to rain to-
morrow, when the mercury prob
ably will climb into the forties. &C
cording to j. H. Arlington, local
meteorologist.
The rain-and-Warmer weather
was expected to bring out overshoes
and galoShes, as the heavy snow
which fell Sunday turns to sluSh.
Temperature at Z today was 7
above zero, IL degrees higher than
at the same hour yesterday. Low
est point touched by the mercury
in the last twenty-four hours was
5 above at 3, and a. m. today.
Yesterdays high point was IT
at p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
$1,000 FIRE WRECKS
DRY GOODS STORE
Interior of Establishment
Totally DESTROYED.

The second alarm fire, originating
in the basement, today destroyed
the interior of the Barskin dry goods
store, 1851 Oliver avenue, with an
estimated loss of $1,000.
The fire was discovered by Revin
BaSkin, one of the stores officials,
when he started to the basement to
learn the source of smoke coming
through the floor. He found the
entire basement blazing.
The stores stock of goods. esti-
mated to be worth $4,000. practically
was destroyed. Loss to the TWO
story brick building was estimated
at about $4,000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28

(This Is the second of series of seven
stories on the alleged mis-msnagement
of the estates of insane veterans of
the Marion Ind) national home and
hospital. The series will trace the al
legged loss of thousands of dollars of
veterans money through alleged bad
investments.
Throughout the series the names Ut
veterans will, due to their mental all
ments and for protection of their
families, be kept incognito and alluded
to only under the guardianship case
numbers of the Grant circuit court.
The indianapolis Times distinctly
wishes 1t understood that none of the
seven stories. appearing in The Times
daily, deals with acts of the present
First National bank in Marion or the
present Marion National Bank of
MariOnl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
Lists Reveal Investments Not Made, Yet
Estate Of Mentally Afflicted Marion
Ex-Soldier Loses Value
S311 CLOTHES FORM GOING-AWAY GARB
But While John Was in Poland, y. S. Road
Map Costing IS Cents and Flag Worth
25 Cents Was Purchased for Him.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer

MARION Ind Feb. 28-Eyes that see nothing oveier
than tree framed in window of closed insane ward for
World war veterans the Marion National home not
know that their had purpOrted securities estate
ranging from $4,000 cash to $4,000.
He who can only the leaves Of that tree does
not know that cash balance shown the Grant county
guardianship records Nov. 10, 1888 was $1,369.26
He does not know that a suit for S19475 is pending
against Howard W. Hooper, receiver for the Grant Trust
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
Sky Is the Limit for
Veterans, But Not From
RObinsOn'S Own Pocket
BY WALKER STONE
Times STAFF Writer

VXTASHINGTON. Feb. %. -
w Senator Arthur R. Robinson
Yesterday drew the line on how
far he was willing to 60 in raising
the ante for the veterans Of our
wars. Thy sky is his limit, he
demonstrated - so long as it
means no money out of his own
pocket.
For two days, individual sena-
tors had loaded down the indie
pendent offices appropriations bill,
hiking the benefits of veterans
S6O.0OO.OO0 for Spanish war veter-
ans, 100000 for the widows Of
Spanish veterans, 100000 for
World war veterans, 100000
more to throw open the doors of
veterans hospitals. and 100000
more to increase World war
emergency officers retirement
pay.
Senator Robinson voted for all
these amendments. Occasionally
he arose to spice the debate with
his particular brand of anti
Roosevelt vitriol, and reiterate his
championship Of all veterans of all
wars.
All amendments were adopted
except one-cash payment of the
bonus. Senator Robinson voted
for that, too. So did Frederick
Van Mugs, Indiana's Democratic
senator, whose campaign promise
on the bonus has more than once
caused him to cross with the adj
miniStration.
nEMOCR ATT c leaders an
~ nounced h a President
Roosevelt would veto the indie
pendent offices bill for the simple
reason that there was not enough
money in the treasury.
At this point, Senator William
E. Borah, progressive Republican
from Idaho, got the floor. He
spoke of the amendment approved
by the senate last week-Senator
Robinson had voted for it, too
adding $2OO,OO0,O00 to the federal
budget by restoring the Is per
cent pay cut of all government
employees.
These benefits to the veterans
will be costly, Senator Borah said,
the national budget is unbalanced.
But there was way to obtain a
part of the money needed for the
veterans.
Senators and congressman, now
receiving $500 year, could, for
the sake of the veterans, Mr..
Borah said, continue for a while
to live on that amount and wait
until balance is restored to the
national budget before returning
to the old basis of $4,000 a year.
The money thus saved could be
used to compensate the veterans.
4
CENATOR BORAH sent to the
- desk an amendment continu-
ing the Is per cent pay cut on all
salaries in excess of $4,000 a year.
Let us go to the President with
clean hands," said Mr.. Borah.
The clerk called the roll About
two thirds of the way down the
roll he shouted the name of mfr.
Robinson of Indiana"
NO." answered Mr.. Robinson of
Indiana.
And he slid farther down in his
seat.
A few more names down the
roll, and then came vote of
Aye from Senator Van NuyS.
Senator Borah's amendment was
passed, forty-five senators Gn-
Guiding Van Nuys) voting that
$4,000 is enough salary in a pinch,
and thirty-nine senators Gnclud-
ing Robinson voting that the
salary be raised back to $4,000.
Senator and Mrs. Van Nuys,
while in Washington, live at the
Wardman Park, a middle class
apartment hotel.
Senator and Mrs. Robinson live
at the Mayflower, Washington's
SWankieSt hosiery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28

Characters, intended to represent
her. was seduced by the monk.
The prince, once on Of the great
mobiles of the Russian empire, in al
most monoSyllabic replies to the
questions of Sir Patrick Hastings,
counsel for his wife, told tie story
of the assassination.
He said after Rasputin had been
given poisoned cakes and wine, he
shot him once with a revolver he
obtained from Grand Duke Dimitri
Pavlovich. Then Puriskeyitch, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
u. S. CENSORSHIP OF
PRESS IS HINTED NEAR

Proposed communications Bill
Flayed by Republican Senator.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator
Thomas D. Schal rep, Mimi
charged today that newspapers ARE
about to have themselves censored
through the proposed federal COM
munications commission bill.
Under such a commission" he
contended. every press dispatch
and every cable message can be CEN
sored by the administration.
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Dramatic Tale of Rasputin s Killing
Told bu Man Who Helped in Staying

third of the conspirators, shot him
three times.
In the end" Hastings asked, did
you do anything to kill him?"
Yes" the prince replied. Il did
it with a loaded stick"
Sir William Jowitt, for the de-
Tense, in croSs-examination, sug-
gested that the witness, in a
paroxysm of rage, had battered
Rasputin's dead body.
He died after I had done that,
the prince replied calmly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28

By United Press
LONDON, F eb. 2S.-The dramatic
story of the death of Rasputin,
lecherous mad monk" Of Russia,
was told to a breathless, packed
courtroom today by the man who
helped kill him.
Prince Felix YouSsoupoff of Rus
STA testified in the suit of mis- wife
against the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
Company. charging that she was
libeled in a film in which one of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
SOVIET GUARDS FIRE
ON JAPANESE PLANE
ManChoukuo Scene of Two
Attacks, Says Toxic.

Dr. 2 WIttU FTtSS
TOXIC, Feb. 26.-The foreign Of
flee said today it had received word
from the Kwantung army, in Man
choukuo, that Soviet Russian SOL
diers fired on a Japanese airplane
Feb. II and Feb. %. 1t was assert
ed that the plane did not leave
Manchoukuoan territory, though it
flew near the Russian frontier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
KIDNAPERS HOLD PRIZE
DOG FOR $500 RANSOM
Chicago Gangs Expand Into New
Field of Abduction.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. %. - Chicago
kidnapers expanded into new fields
today and abducted prize buA
terrier which they are holding for
$500 ransom.
The canine victim of the latest
kidnap plot is Kid Boots Ace, 18-
months-old winner of first prize in
his class at the Western Boston
Terrier Club annual show here. His
owner, Louis RudginSky, Boston, re-
ported theft of the dog and receipt
of the ransom demand, to Chicago
police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
POLICE CAP TAIN CALMS
FRIGHTENED HOUSEWIFE
CWA Snow Shoveler Threatened
Her. She Tells Officer.


Her, She Tells Officer.
A frightened female voice on the
telephone startled Captain John
Mullin out of a reverie at police
headquarters yesterday,
There's CWA worker at my
door," said the. woman. He says
it's compulsory that I hire him to
clear the snow off my sidewalk. He
threatened to call the police unless
I hire him to do the work.
Captain Mullins explained to the
woman that the police would not
compel her to hire any one as long
as she cleared the sidewalk. He sug-
gested that the person who repre-
sented himself as a CWA worker
probably was a high pressure
salesman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
AUSTRIAN TROOPS
AWAIT NAzI REVOLT
Demonstration Threatened;
Citizens Tense.
By United Press

By United Press
VIENNA, Austria, Feb. 28.-Aus-
tria waited tensely today for q
threatened demonstration by Nazis,
but it had not materialized by mid
afternoon.
Troops and police were on guard
everywhere in the country after the
Nazis had announced they would
turn out in display of their
strength after the expiration at
noon of an "ultimatum" to the
government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
ROOSEVELT CHARTS
NEW $95O,OOO,OOO
i. s. RELIEF DRIVE
Comprehensive Program to Replace CWA
Will Be Launched in Spring, Con-
tinue for One Year.
RURAL AREAS TO BE BENEFITED
Public Works Program to Continue in Cities
and Towns; Stranded Populations
Nav Be Transplanted.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-A and comprehensive
program to meet the unemployment situation and to replace
the CWA will be launched this spring to continue Tor year,
President Roosevelt announced today.
The program will be based largely on the experience OF
the past nine months which has shown that unemployment
problems must be faced than 'front.' 1t was
pointed out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28

He, Case 1860 in the Grant
county guardianship reports,
does not know this:
That with full compensation for
total disability his funds grew TO
s18. 8.s9 as of June %, 1929.
That all reports filed by his guar
dian. the Grant Trust, from Dec
%. 1921. to June %, 1929, in the cir
cult court show no investment, only
cash.
And yet on Oct. 18, 1926, a petit
tiion to invest was approved by the
then Circuit Judge J. Frank Charles
for securities totaling $14,70O-
If the securities were purchased
transferred or were not bought, the
court records show no further data.
If the securities were held, then
interest is due upon them.
Records Show This:
Then on Sept. 80, 1880, at the
request of Marshall Williams, trust
officer then of the Grant Trust, later
in charge of trusts for the old
First National of Marion, requests
of Circuit Judge o. D. Clawson for
the purchase of a new group of Sc
curities:
Cosmopolitan Building bonds, Z
per cent, maturity January, 1888,
$1,000.
Marion Home Realty Company,
mortgage loan, 6 per cent, No
vember, 1880, $4,000.
Five Thousand East End ave-
nue. bonds, per cent, $1,000.
c., B. & @. railroad, 4 per cent,
$4,000.
other bonds and a mortgage
loan. $1,875.
Judge ClawSon approved a petit
ton to purchase these securities.
But, according to the ledger OF
the Grant Trust in a probe made
by the veterans bureau in July,
1888. the Cosmopolitan bonds were
bought three and one-half years
before the request for the right to
buy, or on March 80. 1927.
Placed to Veterans Account
The $4,000 realty investment &C
tually was made July Is, 1928, Tor
the former service man, but does
not show on the assignment books
of the county recorder as being
placed in his estate until Sept. %,
1890.
Explanation given to attorneys
for the veterans bureau as to this
transaction and others of similar
nature throughout the total of fifty
four cases in litigation against the
Grant Trust is Mr.. Williams state
ment to save abStracting costs and
difficulties in case the trust closed. y
He gave this answer when asked
why mortgage notes originally made
to the Grant Trust we're placed in
the trusts of veterans without as
signment of the mortgage until al
most two years after the property
was bought for the account of the
veteran.
Realty Appraisal High
The five thousand East End ave-
nue. bonds of $1,000 were purchased
without a court order on Aug. IS.
1928, for the account of Case 1860
and the first order to buy shows on
Sept. 80. 1880.
John Campbell. attorney for the
First National bank in Marion in
filing the suits against the Grant
Trust at the behest of the veterans
bureau OF indianapolis. alleges that
the $4,000 loan is a loss of so cents
on the dollar.
The loan is on the property
of the Butler Music Company in
Marion and carried an appraisal Of
$4,000 at the time of the petition
to invest in 1880.
Various unbiased appraisers. how
ever, declare that the property as
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
Popular Band Leader Here

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Gene
Rodemich, AZ, widely known band
leader and master of ceremonies,
died of pneumonia in the Medical
Arts hospital today after an illness
of four days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
Democratic Leader Sentenced

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. %. -
John Lazia, prominent Democratic
politician, today was sentenced to
serve year in Jail and pay a fine
of $500. He was convicted of
failure to make income tax return
reports in 1929 and 1890.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
Self inflicted Wounds Fatal
By United Press

BIZ Jnlttu PftSS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 28.-
Self-inflicted shotgun wounds caused
the death here today of Floyd Rice,
20. He shot himself yesterday while
respondent over failure to find
employment, relatives said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
U. S. ENVOY PRESENTS
CREDENTIALS IN CUBA
Jefferson Gallery Calls Upon Pres
ident Mendieta.

By United Press
HAVANA, Feb. 28.-Jefferson
Gallery, new United States am
bassador, presented his credentials
to President Carlos Mendieta to-
day. He was accompanied by nine
members of the embassy staff to
the palace, where a battalion of
troops saluted him and band
played the Cuban and American
national anthems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
TRAFFIC HEAD IMPROVES
Captain Lewis johnson Recovering
After Operation.

Condition of Captain Lewis john
son, police traffic department direc-
tor, who yesterday underwent an
operation at st. Vincent's hospital,
today was reported to be improved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
Charges NRA Mwarted
bY Business Rdcketeers
Democratic National Committeeman Alleges Industries
Scheme to EVade Codes.
By United Press

adopted racketeerlng
methods thwart NRA efforts increase workers income Mrs
the Democratic
forum assembled here
to revision OF the code
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
RAINEY FAILS G. 0.P.
FOR AIR INEFFICIENCY

Army Corps Not Properly Equipped
for War, He Charges.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28-Speaker
Henry T. Rainey charged today that
as a result of the inefficiencies
and neglect of three Republican
administrations" the army air corps
was not properly equipped for eff
ficient action in time of war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-28
KERN ADDRESS LISTED
BY STATE DEMOCRATS
Mayoral Candidate to Recall Party
History Friday.

History of the Democratic
Party" will be discussed by Superior
Judge John w. Kern, candidate for
the Democratic mayoralty nominal
ton, Friday night. He will speak
before the Council of Indiana
Democrats in the Washington.
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nS Urls PRFno,,

on PORTLAND RI A bS'+OSSSsIsN'I
uurlhg April. oniy Ia n
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-08
VIM. v. HAMLIN,
ACE l0l, dies IN
PENNSYLVANIA
Union Soldier Survived
Wife, Resident Of Hen
jacksonville

BREVARD. May 7.-(SpeciaD
Pennsylvania county's oldest cit
izen, William w. Hamlin, aged
one hundred and one, died Sunday
night after an illness brought on
by age of several years duration.
A son of the late Jimmie and
Phoebe Hamlin, "Uncle Bill' was
born and reared within mile of
his present home. His wife, who
was before her marriage. Miss
Elizabeth Barnett of Henderson
vile, has been dead for over 20
years. "Uncle Bill' has since made
his home with his son, Ben w.
Hamlin, near Brevard.
Although reared in the south
land, Mr.. Hamlin cast his lot
with the Union army in the War
Between the States and saw four
years of service with the Federal
forces. He later returned to his
home here and reared family of
eight children, six of whom still
survive. They are:
Will Hamlin of Oregon, Ben w.
Hamlin of Brevard, Jones Hamlin
of Covington, KY, Fred HamEn
of Toccoa, Ga, Mrs. Fair Turner
of Brevard, and Mrs. Alice Bishop
Of Cedar Mountain.
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was stated.

was stated.
Provision will be made for the
student to reduce even these low
expenses by a system of self-help
which will be worked out and put
into operation when the college
opens early in September. Stu
dents who desire to work will have
the opportunity. A large farm is
to be conducted in connection
with the operation of the college,
and this will afford various prof.
ects on which students may work,
"In this connection said the
president, at is expected that the
plan of self-help now being OPP
Grated so successfully in Berea
college in Kentucky and in the
Berry schools in Georgia will be
adapted to the situation at Bre-
ward college and followed on all
extensive scale. In this way it is
hoped that students will be able
in the near future to reduce
greatly the charges for room and
board"
Although under the control OF
the Western North Carolina con-
ference of the Methodist Episco1'
pal church, South, Brevard col
lege will not be a sectarian lnstl'