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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
PATRICK QUITS
HIS STATE POST
Resignation of Lutz' Chief
Deputy Announced by
Attorney-G General.

The resignation of Herbert j.
Patrick, First Deputy Attorney Cen
eral, effective Saturday, Dec. Is, was
announced today by Atty. Gen.
Philip Lutz Jr., who said that Mr..
Patrick was resigning to enter pri-
vate practice with the law firm of
McHale & Douglas, 902 Chamber of
Commerce Building.
Mr.. Patrick has been a member OF
Mr.. Lutz' staff since the latter took
office Jan. l, 1888. He has had
charge of public utility work for the
Attorney General and has served as
legal counsel to the Public Service
Commission, for which Senator
Elect Sherman Minton was public
counsel.
Mr.. Patrick's work also has in
cluded most of the Federal Court
practice in which the state was in
terested, including suits designed to
test the constitutionality of the In
diana Alcoholic Beverage Act, which
has been attacked vainly on several
occasions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
FAMED INDIANA
BANKER is DEAD
Rome C. Stephenson, For
me National President,
SuCumDS.
By Times Special

By Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 5-The
entire city of South Bend today
mourned the death of Rome G.
Steph ION, long a civic leader and
former president of the American
Bankers Association.
Mr.. Stephenson, who was 90 years
old, died last night of heart disease.
He had been liz more than a year.
For 20 years he was president of the
st. Joseph Loan and Trust Co. here,
and at the time of his death was
vice-preSident of the st. Joseph
County Savings Bank.
Born in Wabash, he was educated
in schools there in preparation for
the study of law ~ Rochester. He
was admitted to the bar and began
practice as the junior member OF
the firm of Holman & Stephenson.
He also entered the banking busl-
ness in Rochester. eventually aban-
doning his law practice in favor CT
his financial work.
In 1904 he entered politics as a
State Senator representing Fulton
and Wabash counties, and served for
four years. Already a power in the
financial business of the state, he
came to South Bend at the end of
his legislative term and was chosen
president Of the Indiana Bankers
Association.
He later was elected vice-presi-
dent of the national body and in
1882 was selected to head it. Be-
cause the country at that time was
afflicted with the depression. his
words on economics and national
money matters we're of considerable
Importance.
Mr.. Stephenson was married to
Miss Ella Maxwell. Upper Sandusky,
o. She died in 1880. A year later
he was married to Miss Mary Stu
art, South Bend, who nursed his
first wife in her illness.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day afternoon at his home with
burial Saturday at Upper San
dusky, o.
terrain Church, the Masonic Lodge.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias. Indiana Coun-
try Club, Rotary Club. Knife and
Folk Club and the Chamber of
Commerce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
WARMER WEATHER
FORECAST FOR CITY
Lowest Temperature to Be
rs Tonight.

indianapolis shivered this after
noon in temperature just slightly
above freezing, but it basked in an
ticipation OF tomorrow.
Then, according to j. H. Arming-
ton, Federal meteorologist, sunny
skies will bring warmer weather.
That warmer Weather is not due to-
night, however. Mr.. Arlington made
that very plain when he included in
his forecast the notation that tenn
peratures would not fall lower than
Is degrees during the night.
1t was 80 at 1890 today, a rise OF
9 degrees from the temperature at 6
this morning.
The warmer weather due tomor-
row will not last more than So hours
in all probability, according to Mr.
Arlington.
The weather map of the country
as a whole presented a picture of
great contrasts. Snow was reported
in the northern border states. Texas
had unduly high temperatures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

After negotiating its first year On
wobbly and immature legs, the
liquor law now stands on the auction
block of public opinion and awaits
virtual execution at the 1885 session
of the General Assembly.
Beer and whisky dealers are busy
trying to draft new set of regula-
lions beneficial to their interests
State authorities have studied the
results of their own law and those
OF other states, and legislators are
framing their own conception of
what the new law should include.
Leaders Have Recommendation
Leaders in the liquor revision
movement, including State Senator
Jacob Weiss of Marion County. who
directed most of the work in franz
ing the present law, have several
major recommendations.
The Legislature will be asked TO
provide for an entirely new
regulatory and enforcement setup
and cut taxes as much as 300 per
cent in certain cases.
Under tentative plans the major
change will be legalization of by
the drink liquor sales. But i'm
portant as that feature may be. most
OF the efforts of those aiding in the
formation of the bill will be directed
toward setting up a regulatory
system.
Fry Post to Be Abolished
The excise dictatorship, now held
by Paul P. Fry, Linton, probably
will be abolished. 1t is planned to
place administration of the new law
in the hands of commission.
similar to the plan practiced by
other states.
Whether the commission will be
non-partisan, bipartisan or solely
an administration controlled group
is a matter which the Governors
committee on liquor legislation has
yet to decide.
gin, etc., will be reduced from the
present 25-cents-a-p pint to so cents
gallon or $3.50 a case.
Present high taxes have brought
the loudest protests from both man
ufacturers and drinkers. The pro-
posed lower rate is designed to
bring about marked reduction in
liquor costs and eliminate boot
leggerS completely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

of the plane and its three oc-
cupants yesterday afternoon.
Rain squalls impeded the
search, drenching the seamen
clinging to rigging far above the
decks seeking signs of Capt. T. P.
Ulm and his two companions,
George Littlejohn and Leon Shilling.
Nothing Sighted at Noon
Early this afternoon the ship COM
manders notified the Pearl Harbor
headquarters that nothing had been
sighted in the nightlong search.
They were hopeful OF success, how
ever, with the taking off of sea-
planes and Army amphibians from
Pearl Harbor.
Back in Honolulu there was bus
Ting activity at the airport. Lieut..
E. Wayne Todd, commandment of the
fleet air base, had 20 planes taking
off. They renewed at 8 a. m. Q2:30
indianapolis time) the search that
darkness had forced them to aban-
don last night
The powerful searchlights at
Pearl Harbor, Schofield Barracks
and Fort Shafter swept the skies
with pencils of light all night in
the hope that Ulm might see them.
Ordered to Keep Up Search
He was believed to have been al
most within sight of his goal on a
Californian Honolulu flight when
he lost his bearings.
An hour later, its gasoline sup
ply exhausted, the Stella Australis
dropped into the sea and the planes
last radio message was a plaintive
Come and get u.s."
From estimates provided by the
liner President Coolidge and shore
stations, the naval searchers dotted
a spot on the ocean map where
they believed the plane had dropped,
drew circle around it, and sent
their ships to the area with instruc-
tions to remain until the fliers are
found or all hope is abandoned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
.ELWOOD is GUILTY.;
GETS | TO 10 YEARS
Slayer of Friend Convicted
of ManSIauqhter.

Cyril Elwood ST., slayer of Joseph
Calvert, his friend, after a drinking
party in West Side cafe, today was
found guilty of involuntary man
slaughter by a jury before Special
Judge Andrew Jacobs.
The verdict was opened shortly
after 8. 1t was reached at 2:30 this
morning after the jury had deliber-
ated for four and one-half hours
Elwood, who is SO and lives at 58th-
st and Tibbs-av, was sentenced to
serve one to ten years in the Indiana
State Prison, Michigan City
The bullet which killed Calvert
was fired wildly at the cafe after one
of the proprietors there had beaten
and elected Calvert, according to
witnesses at the trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

Albert M. Rounder, IS, chief of
the studio fire department, overcome
by smoke, died later. None of the
injured was reported seriously hurt
Firemen stopped the blaze before
it reached the first of a cluster of
sound stages anfl the administration
building. The fire was confined to
the back of the lot, covering some
forty acres of sets, smaller build
t1gs and brush lands.
Studio officials could not i'm
mediately appraise the damage, but
it was estimated unofficially at be-
tween 100000 and $500,000
The fire, of unknown origin, ragged
spectacularly for more than two
hours, sending up flames that we're
seen in Pasadena, 18 miles away.
Albert Rounder, studio fire chief,
who died in the Warner Brothers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

the fourth and most important re-
port to the senate of its Six-year in
quiry into power publicity and prop
uganda, struck at the holding COM
pany system.
The other attack came from Sen
ator Gerald P. Nye (R., N d. who
said he was referring data on alleged
monopolistic practices in the natural
gas field to the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee.
The commission charged utilities
launched a nationwide campaign
against Municipal and Federal own
ership.
The reference to holding COM
panies was the first made by the
commission and caused belief that
later reports will recommend strict
Federal regulation.
Should Senator Nye's proposal be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

fire was a former resident of In
dianapolis and a captain in the In
dianapolis Fire Department.
Captain Rounder came to Indian
apolis as young boy and lived here
until 1926 when he was retired from
the local department after twenty
five years service. At the time of
his retirement he was in charge of
No. II Engine House, 1890 E. Wash
ington-st. He became chief Of the
Warner Brothers-Firs National fire
department shortly after going to
Burbank.
Captain Rounder is survived by
his wife, Mrs Nettie Fancher
Rounder, Burbank, Cal, sister,
Mrs. Frank Owens, 1911 Lawrence
av, University Heights. and a
brother, James Rounder, Moores-
vile.
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dow. They admired, cajoled, with,
Mother, my coats getting out Of
style"
They moved on in sidewalk ar
gument.
Only the nose-print was left and
the supercilious mannequin who
saw all and saw nothing.
Every day by letter and in per-
son The Indianapolis Times in its
Clothe-A-Child campaign sees the
nose-prints of hope for warm
clothing just as you can see it any
day on a downtown street.
Community Fund welfare agen-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

approved, Indiana in general and
indianapolis in particular would be
one Of the principal centers of in
quiry.
According to the brief IN the
MiSsouri-Kansas receivership case
filed today on behalf of Frank P.
Parish. Indiana has been the bat
tleground of the monopolist war
against the independent operator.
The brief expresses approval of
the action of the indianapolis City
Council in repeatedly refusing en-
trance of pipe lines into the city. 1t
points out that Indianapolis can
manufacture her own gas more
cheaply than she can purchase it
from natural gas fnonopolies, &C.
cording to some of the leading citi-
zenS."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
FINDS REFRIGERATOR
AND CAR IN GARAGE;
SANTA is SUSPECTED

So there's no Santa Claus, eh!
Well, last night Arthur c. Moore
drove his car to his home at 97S
East-dr, Woodruff Place, and
found in his garage a windfall in
the form of an unidentified
Willys-Knight sedan.
Among the unexplained features
of the affair are how the parkers
got the car into the locked garage,
the ownership of the car and the
presence in its back seat of a new
electric refrigerator.
John Gardner, 1882 N. Meridian
st, had title to the car, records
show, but the city directory does
not list his name. Police are
looking into the matter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
Nose-Prnt on the Glass Pane-An Appeal Without Words

TLOTHE-A-CHILD gives you
~ the right to go into a child's
home and to clothe that child
for the frigid days that already
have swept their warning in upon
the city.
If you don't want to clothe the
child yourself, then The Times
will do it for you. The average
cost is between IS and s12, de-
pending on the needs Of the child
and the quality and number OF
garments purchased. A check
mailed to The indianapolis Times
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cies, the social service division Of
the Indianapolis Public Schools,
see those nose-prints too. They
can not hope to give a little extra
of warmth at Christmas. Their
funds must stretch through the
365 days of the year when you and
you are attending Speedway races,
vacationing in mountains. Every
day is Christmas to them.
So The Times through It's
the-A-Child campaign seeks to
give you the opportunity at Christ
mas to do that which the welfare
agencies can not hope to do. in
one gala party at Christmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

Hands then pressed their damp
ness on the store pane with the
nose as the boy gave the NAME
quin's warm cap, the muller,
gloves, individual scrutiny.
The mannequin stared in his SUI
perior way out of the show
window and past the boy.
The crowded shopping sidewalk
on Washington street bumped the
boy and then flowed on.
Nose-print moved on, too.
- .
DOYS in warm coats pulled
ID sleek-dressed mothers up to
the mannequins in the show VIM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

will find for you boy OF girl, as
you specify and clothe that boy
or girl for you without you leav-
ing your office or home.
If you're a group In an office you
can band together and clothe a
boy or girl. Select one member
Of your office az treasurer, COM
mittee for shopping, committee
to visit the child's home. Then
call RI-5551. The Times, for your
child.
The first list of Clothe-A Child
donors viii be printed in tomor-
rows Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

LIE stood today in front of a
IL department store window.
His nose was pressed fiat against
the glass pane. One shoe was
scuffed through to a stocking. He
shifted from foot to foot. He
scrooched his eyes upward look
ing al the boy mannequins in
their warm lumber-j Jackets and
overcoatS.
A mop-cloth sweater, bedraggled
and faded, served as his coat. He
SMILED. One Sweater-arm made
a familiar boyish motion to halt
the cold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
YOUTH, 18 TODAY, IS
GIVEN 1-10-YEAR TERM
Baker Hands Out State RefOrmatory
Sentence for Grand Larceny.
Andrew Jarrett was 10 today

Andrew Jarrett was 18 today.
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker
sentenced him to one to 10 years in
the Indiana Reformatory for grand
larcency and burglary.
He was convicted of having en-
tered a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
freight car and taken mattresses
and other merchandise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
CORN KING CROWNED

SheIbyyiIIe Farmer Retains Title for
State at Exposition.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-Peter j. Lux
of Shelbyville, Ind, today was
crowned Corn King" at the Inter-
national Livestock Exposition, re-
tanning the title for the Hoosief
State.
His samples Of johnson County
white corn were judged above the
entries OF scores Of contestants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
BONUS COMPROMISE
ADVOCATED BY FISH

Congressman Would Pay Veterans
Sums Over Five Year PerNd.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish Jr. (R., N.
" today advanced a compromise
plan for payment of the bonus
whereby veterans would receive one
fifth of the remaining value of their
certificates annually for the next five
years. He suggested that the pay
ment start July l, 1885. He esti-
mated the cost at $440,000,00 a year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

Mrs. Helen ellis will be retu
for action on charges Of viola
The announcement came
simultaneously with declar-
alton by Judge Patrick T.
Stone of the United States
District Court in Madison that
he will insist upon Mrs. ellis
return.
The diminutive widow of the slain
George baby Face Nelson ap-
peared to have escaped charges of
completely in the killing of two De-
partment of Justice officers.
She faces a term of 18 months in
Federal prison under revocation of
her probation.
Melvin H. Purvis, leader of the
Governments death squad" in the
Middle West, held Mrs. ellis in an
unrevealed hiding place today.
hamilton Reported HELD
Reports persisted that another
companion of the slain Nelson,
perhaps John CThree- Finger Ham
Ilton or Avis Karpis, also were I'M
der arrest.
Inspector Clegg refused to COM
ment on the reports.
Mrs. ellis, 94-pound mother of
two children, has steadfastly re-
fused under hours of questioning to
reveal to Purvis any real informa-
ton which might lead the Gov
eminent to other members of the
wrecked Dillinger gang, it was
learned.
Asked whether her information
had brought arrest of the man who
was Nelson's companion in the STAY
ing of the federal officers, Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings said
L will neither affirm nor deny
that"
Inspector H. H. Clegg, asked the
same question in Chicago, heSitated
noticeably before replying:
You are free to assume what you
wish. 1 have no comment
Capture May Be Coup
Capture of either Karpis or Ham
ilton would be one of the major
coupS of the year-old campaign in
which Federal agents and midwest
ern police have slain John Dill
linger. Homer Van Meter. Tommy
Carroll. Nelson and others of the
crew of killers that rallied around a
gang of convictS escaped from the
Indiana State Penitentiary at
Michigan City.
KarpiS is a St Paul gunman ac-
cused OF completely in the kidnapping
of Erward Bremen, st. Paul banker
Hamilton was a leader of the gang
in which police say Dillinger was
only a ruthleSS killer. Reports that
he died several months ago of
wounds received in a brush with
peace officers are discredited by tbs
Federal men.
Government agents maintained a
mystery about every phase OF Mrs
ellis detention. Arrested at 10
p. m. last Friday, she was held until
late yesterday in special detention
cells in the ancient Bankers Build
ing, Chicago headquarters of the De-
partment of Justice.
Quizzed About Activities
While hundreds of Chicago ano
suburban police secured rural ano
urban highways in response to re-
ports she had been sighted, relays OF
Government men questioned heI
about activities of the Dillingel
gang, underworld characters who hio
them. what became of huge amounts
of loot and hideoutS of surviving
members.
Clegg would not deny today that
she vas hustled out of the Bankers
Building in disguise last night, sup
poSedly TO be taken to Madison, Wis.
for commitment on an Is months
reformatory sentence for harbOrine
Dillinger. She broke probation or
that sentence by deserving her two
children TO rejoin her husband.
Mrs. ellis did not surrender.
Clegg said. She was captured anC
apprehended. can not say more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
SAAR REPORT FAILS TO
GUARD u. S. MILLIONS
American Investments Ignored in
League Proposal.

By United Press
GENEVA, Dec. 5.-The Saar re-
port prepared for submission to an
extraordinary meeting of the coun-
Gil of the League of Nations today
fails to protect the millions of dol
lars of United States investments in
the region, it was disclosed as the
council convened.
The report provides adequate
means for repayment of French gov
ernmental and commercial holdings
in the Saar in the event territory
chooses reunion with Germany, but
it leaves the United States and
other foreign investments at the
mercy of the German transfer re-
strictions, against which the United
States has protested repeatedly to
Berlin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
AIR SQUADRON JOINS IN
HUNT FOR LOST FL[ERS
Navy Presses All Mobile Equipment Into
Sweeping Hunt for Ulm, Shilling and
Littlejohn in Hawaiian Waters.
Sea and Darkness Shroud Fate of Aviators
Forced to Alight After Gas Supply
Dwindles to Nothing


HONOLULU, T. H.. Dec 5.-The United States Navy
centered its needle in haystack search for the missing
plane Stella Ausrais this afternoon within an ocean area
$50 miles northeast of Honolulu.
Twenty ships-mine-sw destroyers submarines
and guard rushed into the selected as
the likely have witnessed the seward plunge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
10 DIVORCES GRANTED
City Couples Parted at Rate of One
Every Eight Minutes.

Nineteen divorces we're granted in
Superior Court today at the rate OF
one every eight minutes. Reno.
New. papers please copy0
Special Judge Russell Mccormick
was sitting in the court. All were
unconteSted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
PAL OF DEAD BANDIT
DRAWS PRISON TERM

Short for Drug Store Holdup.
Clyde Short, 81, convicted yester-
day of participating in a $50 drug
store holdup last February, was SEN
fenced to IS years in Indiana State
Reformatory today by Special Judge
James Ermston in Criminal Court.
SHORT and Malcolm Kountz held
up a drug store at College-av and
59th-st and fed in a stolen car
which was wrecked in Crows Nest.
Kountz was killed trying to escape.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05

In the Air
Weather conditions at a. m:
Northwest wind, Is miles an hour:
barometric pressure, 1880 at sea
level; temperature. 26; general con-
ditions, scattered cloudy. hazy; CELL
ing, unlimited; visibility, four miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
States Liquor LdW, Year
Old Today, Faces Drastic
Revision by Legislators
Administration Leaders Admit Sweeping Shakeup in
Major Clauses Is Inevitable; By-Drink Sale of
Whisky Expected to Be Legalized.

lndanaS liquor
cesSful model legislation old this
The anniversary of
the states drinkers
admitted
repeaists complained that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
City May Be Center of
q. S. Gas Monopoly Quiz
Senator Nye Refers Trust Charges to Congressional
Committee; Holding Companies Attacked
By United Press


WASHINGTON, Dec 5-Two challenges to private utilities
issued this afternoon questioning
ing companies to exist and the other
CATION OF the natural industry The Federal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
Former City Fire Captain
Dies in Film Lot Blaze
100000 Is Estimated Damage as Flames Sweep
Warner Brothers Studios.
By Times Special

BURBANK Cal Dec Fire that menaced plant
of the Warner BrohesFt National Studies
today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
TODAY'S WEATHER
In the Air

Tomorrow's sunrise, $50 a. m:
sunset. 400 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
JOHN HAMILTON IS
HELD BY FEDERAL
AGENTS, IS REPORT
Young Widow of Baby Face Is in Custody
and Reports Are Current Killer
Also Is Under Arrest
CUMMINGS REFUSES 70 MAKE DENIAL
Man May be Alvin Karpis, Observers Claim;
Capture if True, Is One of Major
Coups of Year-Old Campaign.


CHICAGO, Dec 5.--nspector H. II. Clegg of the United
States Department of Justice announced this afternoon that
Mrs. Helen ellis will be returned to Madison Wis. shortly
for action charges Of violating probation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
PAID RECEIPTS MAILED

Municipal Plant Customers Get
Welcome Christmas Present.
By United Press
MARSHALL, Ill, Dec. 5.-Electrio
light users today received their bills
from the municipality owned power
and light plant-but they we're all
marked "Paid-Merry Christmas"