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The Washington times., 1934-03-10
SALES
SHOW GAIN
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Federal Reserve Board Gives
Out Encouraging Statement
of Business Upturn

Department store sales both
for February and for the first
two months of 1884 showed
noteworthy gains over the
same period last year, indicat-
ing important gains in retail
business, the Federal Reserve
board announced today.
For February, sales for the
country were 16 per cent higher
than a year ago, while for the
January-February period the gain
was II per cent. The statement
was based on figures from SOB
stores in 258 leading cities of the
United States.
Increases ranged from 6 per
cent in the New York Federal Re-
serve district to SO per cent in the
Dallas district for February. In
the first two months of the year
sales gained 8 per cent in the New
York district, which showed the
smallest increase, while the maxi
mum was 81 per cent in the
Atlanta and Dallas districts.
Preliminary figures, the board
said, indicated that, as is usual
at this season, there was little
change in department stores sales
in February as compared with
January.
Accurate Barometer
Department stores sales are re-
garded by experts as a fairly ac-
curate indication of all retail dis
tribution. It was considered i'm
portant that instead of the gains
being confined to the agricultural
districts, as had been the trend
in the later months of 1888, the
industrial sections of the country,
including Cleveland, Chicago and
st. Louis, showed material up
ward tendencies.
The Boston, New York and
Philadelphia districts were lag
ging well behind the gains for
the rest of the country.
Gains by Federal Reserve dis
tricts for February, as compared
with the same month last year,
were given as follows:
Boston. 8 per cent; New York, 6
per cent: Philadelphia, 8 per
cent; Cleveland, 20 per cent;
Richmond, II per cent; Atlanta,
81 per cent; Chicago, 80 per
cent; st. Louis, "a per cent: Min
neapolis, 18 per cent; Kansas
City, 81 per cent.
Preliminary figures, the board
said, indicated that, as is usual
at this season. there was little
change in department stores
sales in February as compared
with January. The Reserve
Boards index, which makes al
lowance both for the number Of
business days and for usual sea-
sonal changes, was 70 in Febru-
ary, on the basis of the 1928
1925 average as 100, compared
with SO in January and SO in
December.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
White Cross Sale
Has ROOSEVELT o. X.

President Roosevelt has indorsed
the pre- Easter sale of White
Cross seals, the money to be used
in aiding underprivileged chill
dren, Paul H. King, vice presi-
dent Of the international Society
for Crippled Children, said today.
Mr.. King received letter from
the President commencing the
movement and wishing it success.
The sale here will be held dur
ing the week Of March 26 and is
sponsored by the Association for
Crippled Children and Disabled
adults, with the cooperation Of
the District Of Columbia Con-
greSs OF Parents and Teachers.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
WILL
ATTEMPT To
B|NDVOTE
Leaders to Attempt to Send
Measure to Conference
Without Debate

Settlement Of the Federal
pay cut issue at a White
House conference next week
appeared possible today as
Administration leaders in the
House revealed a new plan
for disposing of the inde-
pendent office supply bill.
Charging that Republicans
shave got this thing into politics
now" they have laid plans to
force q triangular conference be-
tween the President and House
and Senate conferees in an
eleventh.hour effort to avoid q
disastrous wrangle on the floor.
Caucus Monday
Their first move will be made
Monday at 4 o'clock when House
Democrats will hold a second
caucus. The purpose Of this, Ma
jority Floor Leader Joseph w.
Byrns D.) of Tennessee admits,
is to bind Democrats to vote for
D rule which will send the supply
bill to conference, without letting
it come up for a record vote on
the floor.
II they are successful at the
caucus in binding their members
to such a vote, Chairman James
p. Buchanan (D0 of Texas will
call his Appropriations Committee
together Tuesday morning and re-
port the bill out without recon-
mendation promptly at noon.
To Go to Conference
Democrats then, whipped into
line by Mondays caucus, will Or
der the measure sent to conference
and a White House meeting will
be arranged!
Only by such procedure, Demo-
cratic leaders believe. can the con-
troversial supply bill escape q
Presidential veto.
The entire situation will be re-
viewed by the Democratic steering
committee, meantime, at a meet
ing called by Representative Rob
ert Prosser, CD Of Ohio, for late
today.
Although Representative Pros
ser said the meeting was not called
specifically for discussion Of the
supply bill, it is expected that 1t
will be brought up.
Today the House was occupied
with consideration of the Bank
head cotton bill.
Battle Looms
The pay cut and veterans
benefit bill promises a stormy
scene when it reaches the floor
Tuesday, with the House clearly
divided into two camps. Holding
out for full pay restoration and
o substantial pension base fo1
Spanish War veterans will be the
entire Republican bloc and many
Democrats.
Seeking a compromise on Sen
ate amendments, with provision
for only 10 per cent pay restora'
ton will be die-hard Administers
ton Democrats.
Only one thing is Sure-at least
10 per cent of Federal salaries
will be restored, S per cent i'm
mediately and an additional 5 per
cent .IlllV
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
POLICE CHARGE.
RELIEF WASTE

Exorbitant prices have been
paid for food and clothing by the
relief agencies of Washington,
two policemen, who have been in
charge of relief for their respec-
tive precincts, charged today.
Delegated by Major Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent of police,
to publicize outstanding condi-
tions of slowness in providing re-
lief to emergency cases, the po-
licemen stated that an average
of 100 per cent waste prevailed
in purchases by relief organiza-
tion.
Policeman John O'Connell, Of
the Fifth precinct, states that
relief organizations pay SITS for
a pair of children's shoes. He
stated that he has been buying
shoes for between 20 and SO cents
a pair. The shoes, he claims, are
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
King Boris Visions NRA's
Success as Bulwark
Of World Peace

danger OH the American program
tells KnicEerbockr the first
he granted newspaper In the twenty
fourth will Gomez" Knickebocker tells
Bulgarian monarch is closely tooDng eDenS in the United
States the belief that there w lead toa more stGo
lied WorldD
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
BY H. R. KNICKERBOCKER
International News Service Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1884, by International News Serv
ReprOductiOn I'm whole part fOrbidden)

tReprOductiOn in whOleOr partfO
SOFIA March 10 (IN.S)-To a workingman in America
the NRA today shorter hours higher wages
employment
To King of Bulgaria the NRA today that
may after all be avoided in Europe.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Oqden Mills Sees
u. S. Turning Corner

CHICAGO, March 10, UN.SO-
Business conditions not only in
the United States but throughout
the world are improving.
That was the declaration today
Of Odgen Mills, of New York, Sec
retary of the Treasury under PreSi-
dent Hoover. Mr.. Mills said:
"RetaiI sales are picking up
and public expenditures are
helping that pickup. Conditions
alI over the world are improving
because public confidence ID Inn
HregangS~
The Washington times., 1934-03-10

Here in Bulgaria the sovereign,
King Boris III. puts President
Roosevelt's plan at the head of
the list Of his reasons why war
will not come to Europe.
Hs considers d tna -atgOneastl
The Washington times., 1934-03-10

hope for peace, and the most
promising guarantee against revo-
luton. Here in this remote part
of Europe. 1000 miles from the
United States. the American
-(Gaahinnad On ,Ngse Z. ~ u
The Washington times., 1934-03-10

The prince said he was leaving
the liner at Rome.
The liner, which sailed from
New York yesterday, after Miss
Claire and Prince Frederick had
dashed aboard at the last minute,
called here for short time before
starting overseas to Mediterra-
mean ports.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

K UTH hits home He knocked the ball of the park
with crutch You may be reading baseball account
Of that description most any day The crippled Swat
King hopping leg left Cleveland last night and head
ed for Chicago where the White Sox officials
ing for his presence, dead or alive"
New York Yankee at the White Sox park with
the Babe absent isn't worth nickel at the gate He is the
big magnet the Chicago American League plant and his
appearance there usually the occasion for rushing business
the turnsties White Sox fans won't accept subs
tute it must be Ruth.
It's a safe forecast that Bambino will be at the
SOx park grnnng at the customers either from
the Yankee bench prOpped up front box IN the
grandsand with bum leg resting the wall He is the
stmulaor crowds cities that have taend ball clubs
and is the money from home at the box office
OrHER players may fill us shoes in the
- paths other sugg Of his power has appeared capable OF d
meets His crowd appeal is the greatest any star
re nil of t tfv ba~o bee lifted ont Of the red ink time
y comes b 1I t Bst 10 their parks He has part-
ana n AGAIN y IN me corgo have been smashed and as he
slides down hill on the out as an active player pase all cup
what might the big fellow had not been on hand during
the dark days the depression
ZOE BoYNToN whom the late Tex Richard the pzeght promoter
public
character although lot Of people would like to know him better mas
ana 5m a e sf for nne so years. snare Oh the money ~ spent 0 SS
square cen bt % foE in s5o GOO GOO without losing nennv The
% N B and NAV not be- far from correct although like
ckd under whom he spent five years Joe became as noncaat with
dsty the height Of the golden He handled some tremendous
Tunney-Dmpsey Chicago with
of
crossed
ordinary principals be
$4,000 100000.
DOYNTON is back with the big top and became treasurer
ID ling Brosa Bailey death of
through
yellow
pedde pasboards rapidly will Indian
apolis on
difference between fight crowd?
with
is the
in
patron
m
Richard
through with the boys at Soldiers Field Chicago They all wanted
a
keeping Richard this
the
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the
the entire
blow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Coach Thorn Whips
Milwaukee Rival
HooSier Tutor UncorkS New
Set of Lessons.

Coach Billy Thorn of Indiana uni
versity successfully defended his
worlds junior middleweight wres-
ting belt against Duke Ruppenthal
of Milwaukee last night in the main
bout at the North Illinois street mat
arena. Ruppenthal had a big bag
of tricks, but the popular professor
carried a few lessons up his sleeve
the Milwaukee mauler hadn't yet
learned.
Ruppenthal employed unpopular
tactics throughout the bout, in
Guiding several exchanges of blows
with referee Bud Westfall, and the
capacity .crowd on hand rooted
strongly for the I. U. master.
Thorn copied the first fall in ten
minutes with a slam and body pin.
Ruppenthal taught the coach trick
that wasn't in the books in the sec
ond toss when he dived into Thom'S
midsection from outside the ropes
to take the fail in twelve minutes.
After five minutes Of the third tuS-
sic, the Milwaukee grappler decided
the rope ruse would work again, but
Thorn caught him on the jaw as
he came flying in, to floor him for
the deciding count.
Silent Rattan of Texas threw
Bobby Novak of Columbus in
straight sessions in the tWo-falls-
out-of- three semi Windup. Harry
Burrus, young Anderson grappler,
was defeated in the curtain-raiser by
Stanley West Of Chicago, the fall
coming in twenty minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Local Polo Team
to Play Lexington
Final Practice Tomorrow at
Rolling Ridge.

An Indianapolis polo team COM
posed of players from Rolling Ridge
and the Flamingoes will meet a
Lexington CKyO team in a two
game series here July % and 30
it was announced today.
The local groups final practice
match before the series will be
played tomorrow at Rolling Ridge
field between Rolling Ridge and the
Flamingoes. The starting time is
$3.50.
Jess Andrews Sr. of West Point
is expected to lead the indianapolis
squad against Lexington. Other
prospective team members include
Tom Ruckelshaus, Jess Andrews Jr
S. D. Sutphin, w. Sutphin, Charles
Depuy, Harry George Of Franklin;
George Hayes and Jimmy James.
Six chukker matches with Lex
ington will be held here Saturday
afternoon. July %. and Sunday
afternoon. July %. at the Rolling
Ridge Club field. north of the state
Playground j. Edward Madden ol
Lexington, widely-knowr player, is
head of polo at the Iriquois Hunt
and Polo Club of Lexington and Is
secretary of the club. Games here
will be open to the public, with
parking lots arranged around the
edge of the field.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

"Hyah he come! Hyah he comet"
they exulted. "Gangway ole Dis
covery. Brown boss burn up that
ole stretch"
And when the thoroughbreds had
crossed the finish line, half a dozen
Negro boys dashed across the track
to welcome back the dark brown
son of the English Lancegaye.
"Wha'd he do? Whad he do?"
they shouted the question, chanted
it back and forth until the crowd
caught it up, echoing it back to
them. The official time was posted
2:02 As, only a second off Sun
Beau's track record, although Cav
alcade got away last. Dark boys and
white shouted the figures proudly, as
10000 spectators cheered the we'll
hammered 3-year-old.
Boy, git ready wild dat Sheet!
"Looky old stretch burner nod that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Riviera Club PAGES
City Splash Teams
Undefeated Squad Out
scores Rivals, SO to 7.

The Riviera Club water polo team
plays the Garfield park team to-
night at Riviera at 7 o'clock.
Riviera FASTENERS have not been de-
feated this season and are high
scorers of the American Red Cross
city recreation department league.
The Riviera team has scored 36
points to their opponents 7. The
Longacre, splashers, who are in sec
ond place, have scored 20 points to
7 for their opponents. Ellenberger
has lost only one game but has
been outscored, Is to IA, in five
games played.
John Moore of Riviera has scored
fourteen goals to be high score man
to date. Phil Reisler Of Ellenberger
and Jack Winchell of Longacre both
have scored eleven goals, to tie Tor
second. Water polo fans are look
ing forward to the feature game be-
tween Longacre and Riviera next
Thursday night at Riviera.
Longacre downed Willard park at
Longacre last night, to l, with j.
Winchell scoring three of the win
ner's goals. Standing:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Stable Bows Shout in Gee When Stretch Burner Lets Go

pions, that Reign Count and Gallant
Fox there met defeat, and that there
maiden bested Mate, a horse fresh
from outrunning Twenty Grand in
the classic stakes. They, too, are
waiting for Saratoga, and another
chance at the stretch burner"
But the Arlington classic also was
supposed to be a hoodoo to favor
ties, with Gallant Fox the only one
of them to get there first in past
years.
Cavalcade, with s126,s65 to his
credit, probably would have had a
clean sweep this year had mack
Garner urged him second sooner
in the Preakness, in which he was
nosed out by his running mate, High
Quest.
1t takes more than a jinX to trim
a slayer with the powerful hind legs
of Cavalcade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Indian Runner
8-5 FaVOrite
In Arlington
Handicap Event Draws II
Probable Starters: Coe
Horse Lame.
BIZ United Press

BV UHtted Press
CHICAGO, July Old. A. Woods
Indian Runner, who once was so
broken down it was feared he never
would race again, today was ia
vored to win the $4,000 added Ar
lington handicap over the mile and
a quarter route at Arlington Park.
The attendance was expected to
reach $1,000.
Twelve we're named overnight to
go to the post, but several OF this
number are doubtful starters.
Indian Runner, which won the
Arlington Inaugural and the Stars
and Stripes both this year and last,
was quoted at 8-5. The Brook
meade Stables entry of Good
Goods, Time Clock and Inlander,
was second choice at Al. Warren
Wright's Hadagal, third in the Ar
lington classic last Saturday. was
third choice at ST.. The other en-
tries were New Deal, Watch Him,
Marmion, Riskulus, Frank Ormont
and Navanod.
Indian Runner will carry top
weight of 100 pounds. Hadagal will
carry ia, the next heaviest inn
post.
w. R. Goes Ladysman, conquer
or of Equipoise at Belmont Park,
was not entered by Trainer Hugh
Fontaine. Ladysman developed
lameness during the week and had
failed to show any improvement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

haid. He know he give Discovery
anothah beating"
No happier stable boys in amer
lea. To them "Brookmeade Stable"
means more than a nom de course for
Mrs. Sloane's string. 1t means Cav
alcade, and the glory OF feeding
rubbing, bedding and handling a
champion.
Proudly, reverently, they led Cav
alcade away, repeating their eXult-
ant chant, Come on, Saratoga Give
old Discovery anothah dose OF
stretch burning!"
And in the stable Of Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, a sportsman
who knows no defeat, even as his
dauntlesS Discovery continues to
wage a losing fight against the
champion, another group Of stable
boys, less happy. but unyielding still,
also wait for Saratoga.
They remember that the Spa ira
ditionally is the downfall Of cham
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

9:5oIMTrS. Forest feel; Mrs. Glen
Howe (H MIS- U;,.d Robert Ola u Mrs
S3 %insiow VE Ma; F MRS. Fritz Wittof
'1o;oO-Mrs. F. Hampton. Mrs. Ed
Io:05EMrs W. Craig Miss Babs Bar
skin OBJ Mrs. Sam Mantel lBl;. ,.,-,
KEYCB1 Brqsdm9 ;2srs iG G2 26G nal Sd
a ana Dolls fV Country Club, PR Pleasant
Run, (HC) Hillcrest CID Highland.
q Il
MAX BUELL., tournament man
1V1 ager for the Indiana Profess
sional Golfers Association has an
nounced the list of prizes for anna
teurs competing in the state open
to be played over Helfrich course,
Evansville, Aug. and 10.
The prizes, Buell. states, will have
a total retail value of 1887. They
are to be awarded in three different
classes. The low gross shooters will
receive awards ranging from a full
set of nine Bobby Jones irons to a
Jones putter. The latter prize will
go to the player in eighth low gross
position.
There will be eight low net prizes.
The first is a dozen balls and put
ter, and the eighth, one dozen balls.
n
Special prizes will be awarded to
players leading the amateur field at
the end of each nine-hole lap. 1t
will be a Seventy-two-hole tourna-
ment. Golf balls and clubs make up
this prize list.
Il Il
DUEL stated that this is the big
ID gest and best amateur prize list
ever offered an Indiana open tour
nament.
The pros also are in for some rich
pickingS. The Evansville hosts have
$500 purse up, but of course the
real total will depend on how large
the field of contestants is. Most of
the entry fee cash goes into the
purse. The distribution percentage
scale has been determined already,
however, and ranges downward from
25 per cent, the winners share.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

INDIANAPOLIS WON e n golfers
l. who have been taking part in
city tournaments on the "also ran
basis with only an outside chance
of ever winning a prize are going
to have their day Monday.
The occasion is the annual mid
summer eighteen-hole gross arc
handicap tournament of the Indi-
annapolis Womens Golf Association
to be played at Broadmoor course.
According to the advance pairings
drawn up by Mrs. George Stewart,
president, and Mrs. Ben Olsen, Sec
rotary, four of the sixteen women
who qualified for the championship
flight in the city championship will
take part in the Monday event. The
other twelve are not giving the To-
cal association the go by. 1t mere
ly is a case of two big tournaments
on the same day, the pro-amateuress
at Highland, Monday afternoon,
having the elite of local women
golfers interested.
MISS ELIZABETH DUNN, city
1VI and state champion; Ruth
White, Harriet Randall, Mrs. Ben
Parks and others can play thirty-siX
holes of golf in one day. and might be
willing to do so, but there is rul-
ing in the indianapolis association
that demands the presence of prize
winners when the awards are made
When some seventy-fve players fin
ish at Broadmoor, the pro-
amateuress will be under way.
The four city tournament quail
fiers who are listed in the advance
pairings of sixty players at Broad
moor are Miss Virginia Owens OF
South Grove, Mrs. Carl Cutter
Pleasant Run; Mrs. Ben G. Steven
son, Meridian Hills, and Miss 1. G
Kahn, Broadmoor.
The play will get under way at
$3.50 with threesomes teeing off at
ive-minute intervals. Mrs. Stewart
announced that any players who
wish to enter late may do so at the
first tee Monday morning. The
pairings follow:
8:3o-Miss Virginia owens $50 Mrs
Carl Cutter tPR) Mrs. Carl McCaskeN
s.s5-Mrs. / G. Kahn OBJ: Mrs. Der
stevenson CMH; Mrs: E. P. Dean 'ICCl
830-Mrs. Ralph Flood (MH); Mrs
George Stewart (PRl; Miss Rose Saga
iOs s:45-Mrs. Scott 1egge tCl: Mrs. Der
Olsen (H): Miss Josephine Q Brien H.
8:50-Mrs w. H. Bookwalter lHC); Mrs
A E. Baker (R); Mrs. Roy Van HorT
s:55-Mrs. W. H. Bridges HCl Mrs
R. A. staudt (HCl; Mrs. Russell Stone
n0 s:ooLMrs. william Murphy .Ry Mrs
william Hutchinson tHC); Mrs. DALI
e g:o5LMrs. V. Rawlings (PRl: Mrs. M
White and Mrs. M. Morris RI.
Di.tTich :! and Mrs Frank Olive NH ~.
David Lurvey CBl; Mrs. Phil Adler OBJ.
9:2o-Mrs. Charles Bush (sG):- Mrs
H. w. Brown PR; Mrs. C. M. Hether'
i"S S:S5-Mrs. Ben Stone lHC); Mrs. Jacl
Crawford (sG); Mrs. Harry Mountain
s:so-Mrs. Don jenkins CMH' Miss
Helen Levine (SGl: Mrs: Marquette: ~,
9:S5-Mrs. Albert Goldstein lBl; Mrs
A. NJ. Jones tHC); Miss Barbara Bar
9:4O0Mrs. Leo Gardner; Mrs. George
Weaver NH: Mrs. James Murray NH
9:45-Mrs Ralph Showalter (MHl; Mrs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Beech Grove Plans
Fifth Net Tourney

FirSt-rOund matches of the fifth
annual Beech Grove Tennis Club
tournament will begin Saturday
July %, it was announced today
Entries and fees are TO be in by
July q.
Interest is running high this year
and expert competition is expected,
due TO the fact that town officials
Just have completed new courts on
which the meet Will be held.
For the first time in its history
the tennis club will sponsor a junior
division tournament. with the age
limit at Is years. The senior divi-
sion viii include matches in men S
singles and doubles. women's singles
and doubles and mixed doubles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Service Sports Writer

CHICAGO, July 21.-Mrs. Isabel
~ Dodge Sloane was mighty
proud of Cavalcade when that great
colt added the Arlington classic
stakes to his mounting chain-one
that includes the Kentucky, Amer
lean and Detroit derbies. But there
were several owners" who were i'm
measurably more vociferous con-
corning the matter than Mrs.
Sloane.
AS Cavalcade swung into the back
stretch ahead of no horse save his
Stablemate, Good Goods, half a doz-
en- stable boys-oWners every one in
a horse which is giving them re-
flected glory-looked momentarily
sick about the gills. And then, as
the Derby winner began to move
up, the whole group at Arlington
literally exploded in glee.