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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-27

lima" Dinner At Eight" 1.-THE
Power and the Glory" "Three-
Cornered Moon" eff I Had a
Million" Night Flight" Gabriel
Over the White House." Peg O.
My Hart" "Counsellor-at
Saturdays Millions" Zoo in
Budapest" 1.-The Strangers Re-
turn" Smoky" mo Greater
Glory" and 1.-THE Last Patrol"
This department recommended
favorably and in some instances
raved over twenty-Six of these
pictures. Several on the list have
not been publicly presented in
this city.
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1O,O41,997 ITALIANS
SUPPORT MUSSOLINI
Voters Cast Ballots for
Fascist Nominees.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
ROME, March 27.-Italian voters.
turning out in great numbers to
register their support of Premier
Benito Mussolini, elected Sunday
a chamber of deputies whose main
function will be to arrange it's own
death.
Official returns announced today
showed that 1926 per cent of all
registered voters went to the polls
to vote for the sole chamber ticket
presented-four hundred men nomi-
mated by the Fascist grand council
from one thousand names presented
by the Fascist considerations rep
resenting every form of national
activity.
Complete returns were as follows:
Registered Voters-10,433,535.
Actual Voters-10,041, 1897 1854 per
cent?.
For the Ticket-10,025,513.
Against-15,265.
Void-1,219.
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1t Seems TO Ne
By
Heywood Broun

r AM going away for vacation Of two weeks. 1t
j. may be said, What do you mean-vacation?"
Possibly it will be urged against that recent
columns from certain southern resort seemed to
indicate that I had thrown myself wholly into a
spirit of recreation. Although columnists are read
rather more than they deserve to be, their hard lot
is not fully appreciated One of these slaves of the
deadlne may seem to be engrossed in frivolity, but
he still remains a worker. At some period IN the
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do you mean. Mr.. B., by fddling while Rome burns?"
Now l am against any uncontrolled confagration,
and 1 will admit that fddling is an offensive ges-
ture. Accordingly, this vacation will leave my
violin at home, along with the typewriter.
I am quite conscious of the fact that am TAX
ing two weeks leave oil absence from singularly
cockeyed world. Yesterday afternoon I was startled
when prominent cubman approached me and said:
THE revolution has begun. It's coming in on the
ticker. What do you know about it?"
In the evening papers I checked up and found
that James H. Rand Jr. Harvard. 1909. had
vealed the dastardly plot as communicated to him
by Dr. Writ. an educator in the Gary school system
According to the news reports Mr. Rand, shortly
after quitting college, devised method of fumigat-
ing banks. But not enough believe, in the light
Of lated developments.
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CaperS-
Mad as O.. HOmbeck
Chief of Far Eastern Affairs Bureau of State De-
partment Hands Out Wrong Book


XXTASHNGTON, Stanley Hornbek
w chief of the division
ment that sometimes
newspaper wrote to the
States the recognize
choukuo State Secretary Cord Hull nntay
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some sort of civil honor such the English bestow
The nearest thing to an award to a Journalist for
THIS KIND OF service to the state is the Pulitzer
prize which is all right in its restricted way but a
private affair nevertheless and not a state rec
ignition.
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evening he must pull himself
together, let character prevail
and resolve to set down thou
sand words of a sort for the
publication which employs him.
This vacation which l have
mentioned will be just that. I'm
not going to take a typewriter
with me, pencil or any paper.
1t is not my intention to write
a novel, a play or short story.
TrdUeling IncOgnitO
VXTHEN I returned from the
w deep South 1 was some
what Mortified to find that 1
was an object of public condem-
nation of clients. The general
tenor of the letters was. What
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-27

Shakespearean Actor Dead
LONDON, March 27.-Hubert
Carter, IS, eminent British Shake
Sperean actor, died today. Death
occurred after a nervous breakdown
at a nursing home.
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THE MONUMENTS OF LITERATURE
EN- Tore A7oay LfeS HybocriSies With Scat1iug Pen

articles the worlds greatest literature
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ously, st gave you the wrong


ously, ct gave you the wrong
book"
Note-Puf1ng innumerable Gig
arets, stamping up and down his
office, DR.. Hornbeck shows concern
over the apparent rapprochement
of American and Japanese policy
in the far east. He fought vigor-
ously for the Chinese point of view
under Secretary Stimson. nov sees
his efforts threatened with immi-
nent failure.
DRESIDENT STENIO VIM
- CENT of Haiti-a charming,
affable ruler who serves 25-year-
old Haitian rum to visitors, and
is in the midst of a political row
at hone-is following the general
policy of Tets see what I can get
in Washington"
Vincent sails today from Port
au-Prince en- route here to
vrangle a refunding loan from
President Roosevelt and get rid
of the American financial mis-
sion in Haiti.
Most bets are against Vincent's
chances, but he's bringing his
clever minister of finance, M. Lu-
Glen HILBERT, and some persuasive
arguments. President Roosevelt
will give him a dinner at any rate.
There is considerable opposition
in Haiti to Vincent's cabinet Of
fcer+Dantes Bellegarde, former
minister to Washington, who re-
signed his post here because of
his country's acceptance of the
American financial administrator,
is prominent in the group fight
ing the Vincent policies.
Note An interesting coinci-
dence is the fact that DR.. Orestes
Ferrara, former Cuban ambassa-
NO4 W w oS2444ASCOlls 10 d 1e1lOW
passenger of President Vincent
aboard the S. S. Haiti.
Il
DIPLOMATS are wondering If
- the new rubber plants just
placed in the diplomatic anteroom
at the state department have any
special meaning.
ENJOYS who meet in the historic
chamber always ogle one another
and try to ferret out secret mean
ings from each others presence.
Those who pass outside the door
invariably rubber" at the be-
spatted gentry inside.
They're merely for decorative
purposes" insist state department
officials, when quizzed about the
plants.
But diplomats (some of them, at
any rate) insist on regarding the
plants as a subtle or mysterious
jest on the part of open-minded,
unsuspecting Secretary Hull.
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Note - An interesting coinci-
dence is the fact that DR.. Orestes
Ferrara, former Cuban ambassa-
dor to Washington, is a fellow
passenger of President Vincent
aboard the S. S. Haiti.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
TOLL IN TYPHOON
REPORTED AT 200
More Than Thirty Known Dead
as Red Cross Hears of
New Fatalities.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCldttu EiCSS'
MANILA. P. L, November 1.-TWO
hundred persons were reported killed
in the town of Mauban by Thurs
day's typhoon in an unconflrmed re-
mort to the American Red Cross here
today.
More than 80 others were known
to be dead in scattered points
throughout southeastern Luzon Island,
ON which Manila is situated.
The report was telegraphed from
Tavabas Province by Genaro Ong,
ped cross representative for the
nrov;nce to DR.. Tirso Abad at head
quarters of the Philippine chapter
here A later message from the prov
ince said, "Other towns sunereo
heavy damage .ro.
which we're dispatched by horses, ap,
narently because the roads were oiocked
hv washouts resulting from torrentlai
rains accompanying the typhoon.
Charles H. Foster, executive secre-
tarv of the Red Cross here, pointed
ont the Mauban report lacked con-
firmation and may have been exag-
gerated.
A party of 80 Red Cross and other
relief workers headed by Maj. George
C. Dunham, health adviser to Gov.
Gen. Frank Murphy, sailed this AFTER
noon on the cutter Banahaw Tor the
southeastern sector of the island where
the storm caused the greatest damage.
Mauban, where the 200 were reported
killed. is tropical pueblo built In
deep ravines and masses OF lava al
the foot of Majayjay Range.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
P. P.W.A.:HALTSCASH
TO NEW ORLEANS
Will Study Effect of Longs
Laws Before ReIeas-
ing Funds.
pvth.Associs+.5 pr.ss

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, November IL
Senator Huey P. Longs "utopian"
legislation was weighed in the balance
today by the Public Works Admins
tration in Washington and was ruled
against by the A. Schultz national
cigar store chain
The P. w. A announced that
81 500 900 ready to be delivered to
the Sewerage and Water Board of the
city of New Orleans as a public i'm
provement loan would be held up
pending a study by its legal depart
ment of legislation passed at Senator
Longs special legislative session, which
closed yesterday.
Fred Metzler. manager of the
Schultz concern, said three of the four
Schultz stores in New Orleans would
be closed, releasing 10 employees be-
cause of chain store tax legislation
passed by the first extraordinary ses-
sion of 1884. The fourth Schultz
store will continue in operation, Metz
Ter said. because OF profits in the liquor
business.
Huey Is Blamed.
Metzler declared "Huey Long is re-
sponsible" for closing out the three
stores
Sewerage and water board officials
made public a telegram received by
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley from the
legal department of the P. W. A. an
nouncing that:
Are suspending setting definite
date (for transfer of the money! un-
til copies of legislation present ses-
sion received and examined for pos
sible enactments relating to city of
New Orleans and sewerage and water
board"
The message was received in re-
Sponse to a telegram dispatched to
Washington by Mayor Walmsley in
forming the P W. A. that 1900 900
in sewerage and water board bonds
were ready to be delivered in ex-
change for the money and asking the
Government agency when the trans
fer would be made
Investigating Board.
1t was reported the P. w. A. was
interested particularly in House bill
So of the special session, which makes
it possible for Senator Longs political
machine to seize control of the sewer
age and water board from the admin
istration of Walmsley.
Legislative reorganization of the
board permits removal of 10 of the
present 13 members. giving of the
members over to appointment by the
"KingfiSh" administration headed by
Long and Gov. o. K. Allen.
The P. w. A. contemplated making
a loan of $1,800,000 to the city by
purchasing the bonds and adding a
grant of $750,000. The program held
employment for 1000 men for 1S
months and some of the projects were
20 be started in January.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
.|MPASSE LOOMING
IN NAVAL PAR[EY
Japan's Delegates Ordered
to Reject Compromise
Urged by Britain.
By theASsociated Press.

BY theAssociated Press.
LONDON. November 17.-Rejection
by Japan of British compromises on
the all-important question Of naval
equality threatened today to deadlock
the tri-power naval conferences tighter
than ever.
1t was authoritatively learned that
the Japanese government had in
structed its delegates to reject the Eng
lish suggestions that Japan be granted
naval equality in name but not in fact
This would bring the negotiations,
undertaken by the United States,
Japan and Great Britain for the pur-
pose of reducing naval ornaments, to
an impasse again.
Concessions Hoped For.
The Toxic reply was not expected
to be given to the British until next
week, however, and hope was expressed
in official circles that Japan would
make some concessions from her de-
mands for outright equality.
The British indicated they also
hoped that the United States might
be willing to recede somewhat from
its insistence that the present 5-5-3
ratio be maintained.
The delay in the receipt of instruc-
tions by Ambassador Tsuneo Mat
sudaira and Vice Admiral Osoroku
Yamamoto, the japanese delegates,
had aroused British hopes that Japan
would accede to the compromise Sug-
gestions. This would have left the
United States, represented by Norman
H. Davis and Rear Admiral William H.
STANDBY. aligned against England and
Japan in insisting on a renewal of the
basis of the London and Washington
treaties, which expire in 1886.
The great sea powers fear ruinous
naval armaments competition II they
cannot agree on some plan for lin
itation.
King Makes Plea.
Meanwhile King George himself
took cognizance of the deadlock in the
naval talks and, in an address read
for him to the House of Lords and
Commons, expressed the earnest
hope" that the conversations may
be attended with success in order
that the world may be spared evil
and unrestricted competition in naval
armamentS
One other possibility which, it was
said, might be discussed was that the
United States, Great Britain. France
and Italy might continue the Wash
ington treaty, without Japan. The
French. however, would oppose this,
it was indicated.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
FIRE IN AUTO CRASH
TAKES SEVEN LIVES
Girl Is Sole Survivor of Disaster
on William Penn Highway
Near Altoona, Pa.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALTOONA, Pa, November 17.-Sole
survivor of an automobile crash in
which seven persons burned to death,
a 2l-year-old girl is in a serious con-
dition in local hospital.
She is Miss Dorothy Rudy of State
College. thrown clear as two machines
bearing the seven others collided on
the William Penn Highway. rolled
over and burst into flames last night.
The dead are:
Emmanuel Perkin of Allentown,
University of Pittsburgh law student.
James Saniel, 25, Of Pittsburgh, an
attorney.
Hyman Graver, 26, also a Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh law student
Irwin M. Musser, about IS, of State
College.
Mrs. Irwin M. Musser, also about
IS, of State College.
Ruth Jackson, about %, of North
Girard, near Philadelphia, State Col
lege student.
Elinor Webster, 20. also of North
Girard, also a student.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Italy Em0lIs Ne,u.B0rn Babes
fOr'Crucial Y ears

the move to start military training
from the cradle days. did not state
whether parents would be compelled
to submit their children to immediate
government supervision, but it was
indicated the vast majority were ex-
pected to cooperate.
Until the child is able to take light
exercise, the governments supervision
will be merely of a hygienic nature.
After this, however, the boys will be
developed physically along scientific
lines.
The child at 6 will become one of
the Sons of Wolf" which has more
intensive physical training, including
elementary military practice.
At the age of 8, all males are re-
quired to enter the "Ballilla Hikers." /"
At IL they become Ballilla Musketeers,
and carry small rifles. Later training
involves machine gun and artillery
practice and at 81 they become SOL
diers of the nation
Evening star., 1934-11-17
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, November 1.-THE pros
pect of Blackshirts in swaddling
clothes greeted Italy today.
A new and far-reaching government
order enrolls the man-child in the
ranks of Premier Mussolini's Ballilla
organization from the time of birth.
The premonition of the drum beats
and bugle calls thus is injected into
the rattle shaking of Italy's bambini,
while the press warns of "a crucial
year" approaching for Europe.
Coincident with the announcement
that the newborn babies will be en-
rolled in the Blackshirt military
organizations. II Duce's newspaper,
Popolo d'Italia said tension on the
continent is becoming grave.
1T is necessary to be ;srong to meet
and dominate all events" the news
paper said.
The announcement which indicated
Evening star., 1934-11-17
MISSING WITNESS
IN ARMY INQUIRY
TELLS Of LOBBYING
Speicher, Found in New
York, Reflects on Off,
ciaIs in Charges.
GARNETT ASKS JUSTICE
UNIT TO CHECK REPORT
Former Representative of Tire
Company Was Sought to Tes-
tify on War Contracts.

Frank Speicher. whose disappear
ance on the eve Of a grand jury IN
yestipation of alleged War Depart
ment contract irregularities, resulting
in a Nationwide search for him by
the Department of Justice, has come
forward with what was described to-
day as a sensational" story of lobby
ing intrigue.
Speicher, formerly representative
here of a leak-proof tire concern
was located in New York City several
weeks ago by Justice agents, to whom
he is said to have made long state
ment in connection with Army con-
tract negotiations.
This statement, reported to involve
q number of prominent officlals-ln-
cluding a high Army offlcer-Was
turned over to United States Attorney
Leslie C. Garnett, who conducted the
grand jury inquiry last year.
Garnett Asks Check.
Garnett, it was learned today, has
asked the Department of Justice to
check the accuracy of number OF
Speicher's allegations that refecC on
oficialdom
While the original grand jury pro-
ceeding ended with no indictments, a
report was sent to President Roose-
welt and Secretary of War Dern con-
demning lobbying conditions at the
War Department and recommending
a house cleaning in Army contract
circles.
The grand jury was called to in
uuire into activities of Joseph Sill
verman and his associates" Silver
man. a dealer in surplus Army sup
plies, was not heard by the grand
jury, but q long line of prominent
officials and business men testified
Among these we're Assistant Secretary
of War Harry Woodring, Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, chief of staff; Lieut. Col.
Joseph I. McMullen of the judge
advocate generals Office of the Army;
Ralph T. O'Neil, former national
commander of the American Legion,
and number of motor company
executives.
Sought as Witness.
Speicher was sought as a witness
after he had negotiated with Army
officials for a contract specifying
leak-proof tires for the automobiles
and trucks to be purchased under
the Army motorization program. When
a deputy marshal went to his apart
ment in a local hotel to serve him
with grand jury summons, it was
found he had checked out, leaving
no forwarding address
An intensive hunt was launched
In an effort to locate the missing
witness before adjournment of the
grand jury, but he was not found
until months later.
Meanwhile, all records of the grand
jury were turned over to the Rogers
Subcommittee of the House Military
Affairs Committee, which is conducting
an investigation of Army contracts
The subcommittee has continued its
inquiry through agents during the
Summer and is preparing to meet
again shortly, it was said at the
Capitol.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
NOEL FOR UNITY
IN NUMBERS FIGHT.
Bar Association Head Backs
Garnett-W0L Joins Anti.
Racket Battle.

F. Regis Noel, president of the Dis
trict Bar Association and chairman
of the Citizens Committee on Crime,
is swamped with suggestions from
many sources about how to fight the
rackets. One of the suggestions with
which Mr.. Noel agrees has been Of
fered by United States Attorney Gar
nett. It is for effective cooperation
between the press. radio and enforce
ment agencies to prevent public dis
semination, in convenient form, of
the winning numbers" conveniently
totaled. 1t is essential to the numbers
racket that the numbers" be given
circulation by reputable agencies, such
as newspapers. If the publication was
stopped by the newspapers-as The
Star. the Washington Post and the
Washington Herald have done-the
numbers racket would face an imme-
diate obstacle, Mr.. Garnett has said,
and Mr.. Noel believes he Is right.
THE Star is doing a good thing, d"
said Mr.. Noel.
VOL Joins Fight.
Station VOL, which has been broad
casting race results and giving the
total prices on the first three races,
announced today that 1t is discon-
tinuing such broadcasts.
LIE Roy Mark, owner and operator of
Station VOL. issued a statement to-
day saying he willingly joins The
Stars campaign for the elimination
of the numbers racket from Wash
ington.
Until I read these articles in The
Star" Mr.. Mark said. Il had no idea
of the extent of this evil influence
the numbers game. Now that / am
informed of its workings. there will be
no broadcasting of race totals over
VOL. We have program that
originates in New York and this car
ries the race results. just as some
newspapers do. without totaling the
numbers for the benefit of racketeers
That. I understand. is public informa
ton. am with The Star 100 per cent
in its effort to clean up Washington,
especially in this instance. Though
I have not received a letter from
United States Attorney Garnett ask
ing me to suppress the numbers, am
notifying Supt. of Police Brown that
VOL has joined the campaign"
Idleness Partly Blamed.
Mr.. Noel is inclined to attribute part
of the prevailing popularity of the
numbers rackets to unemployment.
He says that several ex-policemen
are now engaged as runners in the
numbers game. They turned to the
numbers game as a ready means for
making money-and big money. They
followed the line of least resistance"
said Mr.. Noel. Had they been en-
ployed in honest labor. on or of the
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Six S0uiet Farmers Must Die
For Sabotaging Cotton Crop

the ground that it was "women's
work"
The condemned men are A. r.
Abdudjaid Ismailov. Sagman Farma-
nov, Makhmud Akhmedov, Sappar
Kasanov, Djumah Bukanov and Ma
maz Uratov. all members of collec-
tive farms
The trials were held on the farms
where witnesses and evidence were
available to the court.
The charges included failure to
weed the cotton. mixing of various
grades of seed, improper irrigation.
planting of corn where cotton should
have been used. falsification of rec
ords. theft Of collective property and
delay In picking the crop.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
GARNER BAGS DEER
BUT MEETS ILL LUCK
Loses Way and Falls From Tree
While Hunting With Rifle Given
Him by Hastings.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
UVALDE. Tex, November 17.-Vice
President John N. Garner returned
from a deer hunt today with a 10
point buck, a sprained knee, numer-
Gus scratches and told a story of
being lost and falling out of a tree
while trying to find camp.
1T was the first time in my life
that have become lost while hunt
ing" said Garner.
"The funny part Of it was that l
was not more than 800 yards from
camp"
Heavy clouds had obscured the sun,
Mr.. Garner said. and he could spot
no landmarks to guide him, so he
climbed tree to get his bearings.
A limb broke and he tumbled 10
feet to the ground.
Garner brought down his deer at
$50 yards, using a rife given him by
Senator Daniel Hastings Of Delaware.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Six Die as Plane
Crashes 20 Miles
From Los Angeles
Pioneer California Flyer,
Wife and Friends
Believed Killed.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November IT,
Five men and woman were killed
today when an airplane crashed in
the San Fernando Valley, north of
here, short distance from the two
major airports of the Los Angeles
area.
This report was telephoned to Los
Angeles from a man who said he saw
the bodies taken from the wreckage.
Another report to the coroners Of
flee said four were dead and one was
believed to be Roy Wilfred Kidd of
Burbank, Calf.
At the home of Kidd it was said
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
BY the Associated Press.

TASHKENT, U. s. S. r., Novem-
ber 17.-Six cotton farmers we're sem
fenced to death and 20 others given
long prison terms today on charges
of neglecting and sabotaging cotton
crops in Uzbekistan.
is holding seven others for trial in
wholesale shaking UP of alleged Ku-
lax influence in the Central Asian
cotton district which the government
declares has hindered work on collec-
tive farms.
The Turkish Mohammedan popu-
lation of Uzbekistan has resisted the
modernization of agriculture The
men have refused to pick cotton on
Evening star., 1934-11-17
81 African Natives
Holding Beer Party
Killed by Lightning
BY the Associated Press.

by lHe hSsOCIdltu FTtss.
CAPE TOWN, Union of South
Africa, November l7.-Sixty -one
natives participating in a beer
drinking party near East London
were instantly killed when light
ming struck the hut in which the
party was held, dispatches reach
ing here said today.
Only three of the 64 natives
who had gathered for the party
survived.