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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

"A young lieutenant, just out OF
West Point, was assigned to
southwestern post commanded by
a hardboiled old Indian fighter.
He was the type of officer who
marked new mans laundry by
shooting hole through his suit
case.
THE young lieutenant, however,
liked the looks of his new boss,
and told him so.
Il am sure, captain, that we
shall cooperate splendidly,' he
said.
"Humph,' grunted the captain,
well cooperate splendidly all
right, if you do the cooperating"
NNE important problem absorb
" ing Harry Hopkins federal
emergency relief is the fact that
large numbers of workers are
spurning employment because of a
continued dole from the govern
ment.
To what extent this prevails is
impossible to estimate. But there
have been recent significant indi-
cations.
One is the fact that last month
after over one year and two
months of the new deal-there
were more people on relief rolls
than when Roosevelt came into
office.
Another indication became evil
dent in Pocatello, idaho, recently
where a call was given for 300
workers in the beet sugar fields.
Only six turned up. The others
were on federal relief rolls.
Wedding out deserving families
from the undeserving is going to
be a superhuman task.
TINE battleship New Mexico had
l. just finished her target prac-
tice in the Caribbean. Recently
remodeled, manned by a crew
which never had worked together,
she had been on four months
shake-down cruise to get her
green crew functioning efficiently.
Shaking down a raw, green crew
is no cinch, but Captain Weaver,
the commanding officer, had done
beautiful job. Not only was
morale perfect, but the New
Mexico had established a new
worlds record.
Shooting at a target of only 100
yards at distance of twelve
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
Trust Fund COLLdpSeS

MIR. DEMPSEY is one of many creduous unforI
4V1 fortunates who believe without question that
a trust fund would provide income for
ever. He invested in trust funds when he was young
and lived to learn that trust fund is better than
its component securities Disappointed in his trusts
and with other investments treating him better
after his retirement he took to the road Even when
he paused in Reno to prize fight club and in
New York to promote the fight between Max Baer
and Max Schmeling last year. 1t is, incidentally his
business policy in such undertakings, to dig up a
sucker to underwrite the production COSTS 1t is a
remarkable fact that suckers never learn.
Through practice and serious application, the
stammering yokel of 1918 has become very capable
Chamber of Commerce and Lions Club orator and
usually delivers at least such address in city
in which he is appearing referee by way of pub
licity for the show. They receive him well, invite
him home and welcome him back on his return en-
gagementS, because he has never ceased to be him
self
The first time he saw Primo Camera he said he
couldn't miss that chin with his left and he hasn't
changed his mind. He thinks he can knock Primo
out with one punch
Copyright 1884 by Unite Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
FIRE DESTROYS
WOODEN SPAN
Seventy-fifth Street Bridge
Burns; PyromaniaC
Is Suspected.

The f1re-charred remains of the
Seventy fifth street bridge, a relic
of horse drawn carriages and rugged
individualism, sank into the waters
of Williams creek last night, end
ing more than sixty years of ex-
iStence.
A fire, believed to have been of
incendiary origin, quickly destroyed
the tinder-dry wooden structure. A
city engine company responded to
the alarm, but the entire bridge was
in flames by the time it arrived.
An unknown person called the
sheriffs office to report that in his
opinion the bridge had been set on
fire. A parked automobile had been
seen near the bridge entrance late
at night. State police closed
Seventy-ffth street to traffic.
The bridge had been favorite
subject for artists and photog-
rapherS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
SURVEY SHOWS
Home SHORTAGE
Days of Further Reduced
Rents Past, Committee
Concludes,

There is a shortage in all mod
ern better class rental single resi-
dence" properties here and the days
of further reduced rentals are
passed"
These conclusions were reached
by the property management divis-
ion of the indianapolis Real Estate
board in a report made public yes
terday after an exhaustive survey
by a special subcommittee headed
by Frank Thomas of the Union
Trust Company'S real estate depart
ment.
The survey also showed that
apartments had been nearly 100 per
cent filled during the winter months
and were not experiencing high
spring vacancies, and that owners
Of the poorer class of residential
properties we're making repairs and
finding tenants.
Those who served with Mr.
Thomas on the subcommittee, whose
work verified a survey by the In
dianapolis Water Company in April,
were Berkley w. Duck, Robert Ker-
shaw and d. T. Nicoson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
JUDGE ORDERS JOB
FOR PRISONER WHO
ESCAPES JAIL TERM

Thwarted in his attempt to
make society support him" Will
liam E. Dippons, Indianapolis, was
given suspended sentence in
federal court Saturday by Judge
Robert c. Baltzell.
Dippons was arrested March %
after ripping open several mail
pouches at the Illinois street pos
tai station and destroying about
forty letters. Admitting the
deed, Dippons said that he was
unable to obtain work and felt
that he would make society
keep him."
Judge Baltzell suspended six
months jail term today after Civ
ing Captain Adolph Kruse, federal
probation officer, instructions to
secure a job for Dippons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

lean heavily on armament corpo-
rations, which consequently can
influence government policies. Re-
cent disclosures of large profits OF
the aviation trust" in its sales to
the government may be traceable
to the fact that the military serv-
ices want to encourage private in
dustry to be ready for war use.
Secrets of military and naval
science are made available to pri-
vate corporations. Any time we
go to war, our troops are likely to
be killed by weapons invented and
manufactured in the United
States.
That happened, according to
George SeIdes in his Iron, Blood
and Profits" when our marines
fought Sandino's rebels in Mica
ragua.
The munitions industry of the
United States exports almost as
much as that of France, but not
half as much as that Of Great
Britain.
It is confined in quadrangle
between Boston, Chicago, st.
Louis and Baltimore, and to the
twelve states of Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, New
York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan and Illinois. The chief
munitions state is Connecticut.
TT consists of many large COM
1peting firms, dealings in both
ornaments and warships.
About forty companies are now
in the business of rifles, machine
guns, small arms and ammunition,
but thousands of American firms
made war materials for the allies
and this government in the last
war, when the War Department
made about 1000 900 contracts and
spent six billion dollars for arms
and ammunition.
The war department says there
are now 10000 plants which could
be used to make munitions in an
emergency.
The $620,000,000 E. DUPONT de
Nemours firm is the unrivaled big
maker of explosives and smokeleSS
powder. 1t controls the Reming-
ton Arms Company, which pro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

Senators from the twelve NUM-
tions states have usually voted 100
per cent for big navy bills and
large military appropriations and
against all attempts to reduce
military or naval expenditures.
Tie-ups between the merchants
of death" and f1ag-Waving patri-
otto societies have sometimes been
demonstrated.
The National Security League
was shown to have financial sup
port from T. Coleman du Pont,
the powder magnate; Henry G.
Prick, armor plate; j. P. Morgan,
allied war contracts; John D.
Rockefeller, oil, and the Guggen-
helm copper kings.
The chairman of the American
Defense Society was head of a
company which made chemicals
for warfare.
livery ONE remembers the
IL Shearer case. Shearer,
violent patriot" appeared at the
Geneva conference as a propa-
gandist, vehemently anti-British
and closely associated with our
naval delegation. He was de-
scribed in the Geneva press as
"the Man Who Wrecked the Con-
ference"
His employers we're revealed
when Shearer, who had received
$4,000 from the Bethlehem, New
port News and American Brown
Boveri shipbuilding interests, sued
them for $685. 900 more, Shearer
is still lobbying in Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

War profteering is a gruesome
memory.
The United States Steel Corpo-
ration earned $180OO0,000 in three
pre-war years and 1921 100000 of
net profit in 1916-17-18, profit
reaching about SO per cent.
Bethlehem's 1915 income of
$25,OO0,O00 rose to $62,0O0,O00 in
1916 and it's gross earnings in
1918 were 488 millions.
DU POINTS sales of powder
~ rose from 2,265,OOO pounds in
1914 to 399,OOO,OOO in 1918 and a
postwar congress learned that we
had paid about 40 cents a pound
for powder whose estimated pro-
duction cost was SO cents.
The copper industry held the
government up for profits which
ranged from Sc to 300 per cent of
the capital stock of individual
companies.
But how about peacetime? In
1914 Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels reported that an armor plate
trust" was dividing the world
into non-competitive spheres and
holding up prices. He told how,
years earlier, Bethlehem had sold
armor plate to Russia at $249
ton and to this government at
$616.
SeIdes says various government
estimates gave average prewar
cost of armor plate per ton at
$24714, whereas the average price
that came from the taxpayers
pocket was $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DreuO Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASHINGTON, May administration circles buzz
w Walker step out as
emergency council vacation
publicity although personally of the abest
the Dealers Walker however will not
Washington those the he is destined
responsibilities member of the White
quite But it
Walker his personal
a confidential assistant
earliest devoted
has aduos insisted keeping in the background He has
President literally
running the emergency council
many things bstering which
quick the charge failure
O1OurpOc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

Wars profit incentives to max
ers of war materials are we'll
known. 1t cost $4,000 to kill
each man who died in the World
war.
Even time profits are
enormous. The world has spent
more than ten billion dollars for
arms and munitions since the war.
This country spends $200,000,00O
a year for them.
THE League of Nations tempo
- rary mixed commission found
that armament firms had actively
fomented war ScareS, tried to bride
government officials, disseminated
false reports as to other nations
military and naval programs in
order to stimulate armament buy
ing.
The senate committee - COM
posed of Nye, Pope of Idaho, Bone
of Washington, Barbour of New
Jersey, George of Georgia, Van
denburg of Michigan and Clark of
Missouri-will learn how much of
that applies in the United States.
The state and commerce de-
partmentS both want to know
more about the munitions indus
try. American companies have
furnished war supplies for Bolivia
and Paraguay in the Chaco war
for Colombia and Peru as they
prepare for war over Leticia and
to Japan and ChinaAat times
when this government has been
exerting its best efforts to pre-
serve peace between those coun-
tries.
But no one knows how much
has been shipped off for killing
purposes or what methods Amer
lean high-preSSure statesmen may
have uSed-or whether such coun-
tries have been spurred in the
same way armament firms egged
on England and Germany prior to
1914.
THE committee will spend sew
Il eral weeks in research before
blowing into the books and rec
ords of the industry. Here are
some of the things it will find:
The war and navy departments
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN'


VOU do more than bake bread with yeast, now
i adays In fact yeast has been touted as such
a panacea for human illnesses that you might want
to know actually what this substance really has in it
and what it accompiShes.
AS long ago as 1900 B. c.. yeast was recommended
by the Egyptians for constipation. 1t also men
toned in the writings of most ancient physicians.
However the real qualities of yeast still being
studied in the light of our new knowledge Of chem
istry and nutrition.
only matter of fifteen twenty years. To-
day. we know that yeast is made up of several vita
minis which of particular value in preventing pei
lagra and beriber disease associated with inflam
nation of the nerves
T UNFORTUNATELY, such studies have not been
~ made of the diet of persons living in industrial
and mining communities to make certain that they
actually do receive all the foods they need.
Some physicians in large city in Michigan found
that the diets of workers were mostly BEANS coffee
bread Irish potatoes pork, grocery store cakes and
That kind of diet obviously is deficient in the
vitamins to be found in yeast.
The investigators decided to test the effects of
feeding yeast the children of these workers. and
also feed extra yeast to some vho had complained
of loss of appetite or difficulties in digestion.
1T was found that eghty-four children between the
Il ages of months and ii years gained an average,
of quarter pound week over a tWeve-Week
period as contrasted with seventy-eight children
who did not take yeast and who gained an average
of one eight pound week over the same period
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combatants who provided the occasion for his ap-
pearances The asking price for his services varies
according to the size of the city and the promoters
ability pay but he is still able to collect for him
self, by selling the beated by-product of this old
celebrity from $4,000 to $4,000 week.
He hUstleS in his automobile now which is
cheaper way of going than his old method and stops
in the second best hotel in two rooms. In other
years, Mr.. Dempsey travelled with suite of man
ayers, attendants and other barnacles in Pullman
compartments and drawing rooms, and considered
that his public position required him to rent from
three rooms to halt floor in the most expensive
hotel in town.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
BUTLER CLASS TO HEAR
BACCALAUREATE SUNDAY
The Rev. DIR. w. A. ShuIIenberger
to Deliver Sermon.

The Rev. William A. Shullen-
berger, pastor OF the Central Chris
tan church and member of the
Butler university administration
will preach the baccalaureate SER
mon for this years graduating
class Sunday Afternoon, June IT, in
the fieldhouse.
DR.. Shulenberger, who has a son
in the graduating class, will preach
on WEIGHTS and Gates.''
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

miles, her gunnerS had scored sc
hits out of 60.
And with this accomplishment
the New Mexico sailed for home.
Suddenly came wireless orders
to distribute the crack crew
among the other ships of the fleet.
This meant the loss of some of
the New Mexico's prize gunners,
her best petty officers and the
evaporation of morale.
An officer came into the quar-
tiers of Captain Weaver. Gloom
was written all over his face.
"Have you seen the orders?"
eyes"
What are we going to do?"
Were going to carry them
out" replied Captain Weaver.
Here, take this up to the print
shop and get about fifty copies
Autographed"
He handed his subordinate a
copy of Kiplings famous poem,
"If," which contains the lines:
If you can make one heap of all your
winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and
toss,
And lose, and start again at your be-
ginnings
And never breathe a word about your
loss
After that, when each detected
officer came in, Weaver handed
him a copy of the poem. Inside
of an hour, the battleship, once
reeking with gloom, was function
ing with its former tip-top eff
cheney.
ID REPRESENTATIVE Frank
IN Buck, from Vacaville, CAL,
one of the biggest wine-producing
districts in the state, is rated the
best informed man on wines in
congress. Buck always keeps
supply of excellent samples of the
home product in his Office. :.
For some ten minutes the other
day, as he was bringing to close
his speech on the Presidents
reciprocal tariff bill, Senator
Borah showed an enthralled and
packed senate that he is still the
country's greatest orator. F.. 1t
was the first time in several years
that the shaggy-maned Idahoan
did his stuff" and it was per-
Torrance that will long be re-
membered.
Copyright. 1884, by United Feature
Syndicate. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
MEMORIAL DAY RITES
PLANNED AT BUTLER
The Rev. HOmrighausen Will Be
Principal Speaker Tomorrow.

The Rev. Elmer G.. Homrighausen,
pastor of the Carrollton Avenue Re-
formed church, will be the principal
speaker at a special memorial chapel
service honoring Buffers war dead
in the university fleldhouse at 1870
a. m. tomorrow.
AffStudents and faculty members
will attend the service, according to
Dean James w. Putnam, acting
president, who has arranged the
program
The significance of Memorial day
will be the topic of Mr.. Homrig-
hausen's address. A program of
patriotic music will be presented
and the public tribute will be paid
by Dean Putnam to Butler staff
members and students who have
died during the last year. The serv-
ice will be the university contribu-
ton to the nationwide observance
of Memorial day. There will be no
classes on Wednesday.
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Haywood BROUk

4 FEW skeptics said I never would get west of the
4 n Hudson, but when this column appears IN
type I will already be in Toledo, O. CurlouSly
enough the same front page which carried the news
of the big strike there also had smaller story tell
ing of a demonstration in Jerusalem IN winch
number of Communists injured.
I have started to do some work in preparation
for book and it is interesting to be reminded that
Palestine and more particularly CIalHee' aIw"Se
hos heen from the earliest times, the homeland OF
revolutionary doctrine The book 1 am gong 70
write will be called THE Autobiography OF Pontus
PLATE" and inevitably it will deal With famous
radical movement While it is true that the
churches have forgotten most of the economic teach
ings of Jesus, it is also worth
remarking that radicals as well
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
A Man Called Plate.

DART of my interest in the
i book lies in desire to cap
ture. if I can, some portion of the
personality of PLATE, since no IA
NOUS historical figure has ever
been twisted so far out of the
shape of the original as he. Such
phrases as ''the greatest neutral
since Pontius PLATE" do violence
to the essence of the man. He
has been pictured in the general
mind as a well-meaning weakling
who allowed Jesus to die upon
the cross because he feared the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
Times Special Writer

Copyright by
WASHINGTON 28The munitions racket which has left
w blood about to be
the United States
wreckng
war their business of precptatng wars
heavily deals with the and
embargo to aggressive beger
President Roosevelt arreachng international
troll of the arms committee headed by Nye OF
munitions
munitions lobby exports OF
Bethlehem Pon and other
industry
advbtv of government onopolya those phases will
rOhoI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
Stands Collapse, Woman Dies

By United Press
DEPERE, Wis, May pa WON.
an was killed and a man was in
jured when a temporary granc
stand collapsed at a baseball game
here. The victim was Miss Susar
Wander Linden, so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

4dIIulJ 11AOO GAAC oAOOAAObAACJ III
Guiding the baby, the nurse and
all the standard baby appar-
atuS and resume his huStling. 1t
has been only his hustle which
has kept MIN solvent since the
panic broke in 1929, two years
after his retirement. The for
tune which he accumulated in
the era of Tex Rickard would
have vanished by this time if he
had not hustled constantly TO
repleniSh it and protect his in
veStmentS with fresh money.
On his recent trip, in which he
served as referee of wrestling and
boxing shows as often as five
nights a week, he collected more
money for his own painless and
ornamental services than all the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

clamor of the JEWISH rabble. Anothe[ FRANCE
in 1.-THE Procurator of Judea has gone to the ength
of picturing PLATE in his old age as man VINO
had completely forgotten the episode.
But both Philo and Josephus describe MN as
harsh and unbending and after ten years Of service
in Judea, PLATE was stripped OF MS Office BECAUSE
he was too stern in his rule over subject people.
When the PLATE of my book sits down at the age
of IS to write his memoirs he will begin: OF
course knew Jesus. I crucifled Him. ana the
incident will loom so large in the mind OF the OLD
Roman that he will find it impossible to write about
anything else
Even with the perspective of some twenty-five or
thirty years he will still contend that the acC was
his and that he motivated by his answering
devotion to the empire. Rome could aSslnnlate any
religion but the economic implications OF the teach
ings of Jesus would have cost the Roman empire
not only Palestine but the entire East PlaCe nllguC
v-a1 have asserted the correctness of his judgment
He could not kill the religion of Christ but ne
checked the social doctrine. PLATE could anoro 10
say, THE money changers are back IN the Temple
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fair Enough
WESTBRO6K PE6[ER

NEW YORK, May 2S-The remarkable career of
Jack Dempsey, the old boX-car tourist,
tinues prosperously when all but two three others
of the group who made great fortunes in pugilism
broke, unemployed and in demand either
professionally or socially Mr.. Dempsey recently
recently came in off the road to pause in New York
until the arrival of the Dempsey baby AS soon
thereafter as circumstances permit he will load the