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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
Heron Director Named
to Judge Chicago Art
Wilbur Peat Will Serve on
Jury for Thirty-Eighth
Exhibit,

Wilbur Peat, John Heron Art
Institute director, will 60 to Chi
cago to serve as a member of the
jury which meets there Jan. II and
Is to select painting for the thirty
eighth annual exhibition by Chi
cago artists, held in the Art Insti-
tute of Chicago during February.
Recently given to the local art
institute by Mrs. James w. Fesler
is set of German biographies of
individual artists, including such
painters as Giotto, Botticelli, Mem
ling, VelaSquez, Ruben and Durer.
The books list every known work
Of each artist.
Purchased for the Institutes
permanent collection from the
Julius F. Pratt fund is a small
Gandara head of Buddha, dating
from the first to the fourth CEN
turtles A. D. This is the first pur-
chase Of the museum in the field
Of East Indian sculpture. A portrait
of John c. Johansen by his wife,
Jean McLane. has been loaned to
the institute for exhibition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

However he believes there is little
prospect at this session for passage
Of a measure obligating the federal
government to contribute to state
old-age pension systems already
established.
Representative Henry Ellenbogen
Dem., Pa is author of legislation
creating an "old-age security COM
mission" consisting of seven mem
bers of the house to be appointed
by the Speaker The commission
would report to congress within six
months on the following points:
/. The operation and extent of
old-age assistance systems now in
operation in various states.
2. Feasibility of establishing a
system of old-age contributory pen
sions for persons 65 years and over
under Jurisdiction of the federal
government.
8. The actuarial problems in
volved in the Inauguration of con-
tributory old-age pension system.
4. The amount of contributions
and the cost required for a contrib
utory system for the payment of
pensions, beginning at IS and at 10
years of age, at amounts ranging
from $25 to $50 monthly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
"A MORE PROJECTS
APPROVED BY CWA
State Total Is Now 4,261;
Wages $181,493

Twenty-four additional projects
have been approved by the state
civil works administration. two of
them in Marion county. The prof.
ects are designed to employ 422
men with wage total of $87 ,28S
and materials cost of $685..
Marion county projects are repair
of Crooked Greek school, employing
four men with wages at $50 and
materials at $40, and the repair Of
the two portable school buildings
at 1910 North West street, employ
ing ten men with wages of $1,872
and materials at $3.50.
The projects added today boost
the total approved by the state au-
thority to 4,261 with wages at
S181 ,493.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
u. S. TO STUDY
LINDY'S INCOME
TAX RETURNS
Herbert Hoover Jr., Others
Face Quiz in Air Mail
Probe.

DU LNiitU FftSS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Income
tax returns of Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover Jr., and
other national figures, came under
the scrutiny of Senatae investigators
today.
Investigator A. G. Patterson re-
vealed the returns had been OBJ
tanned from the treasury in con-
nection with the Black airmail COM
mittee's inquiry into the income tax
of all persons, including Postmaster
General Walter Brown, who handled
air mail contracts for the govern
ment or who we're connected in any
way with air transport companies.
I'VE want to find out how much
these people made. and what re-
turns went to the government" Mr..
Patterson said. I'VE are not trying
to single out anyone, and we're not
conducting an income tax investiga-
ton. But the returns may throw
light on the committees investiga-
ton Of the airmail contracts"
Returns of William P. McCrack-
en- Jr., airline counsel; w. Irving
Glover, former assistant postmas-
ter-general; David K. Bruce, SON.
in-law Of Andrew Mellon, former
treasury secretary, and Richard K
Mellon also are being investigated
Investigator Patterson said.
The airmail committees scrutiny
OF the tax returns conceded with a
treasury drive for collection of back
taxes which revealed to have re-
suited in the receipt of $5O,0OO,O 900
Colonel Lindbergh has been re-
vealed as the recipient of stocks in
airline firms, and young Hoover
was connected with a western air line
which received government con-
tracts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

McNinch of the federal power COM
mission.
Mr.. McNinch expressed grave
doubts of the industry's legal right
to submit a code covering anything
but hours, labor and other work
ing conditions.
The power commission chief par
ticularly attacked the code for not
including holding companies in its
regulation.
Mr. Hunts attack on the industry
for its past record, caused John E.
Zimmerman of the United Gas I'M
provement Company Of Philadelphia,
to rise and angrily demand that it
be stopped. Mr.. Richberg, who was
presiding, refused to interfere, and
Mr.. Hunt concluded, saying in part !:
THE record shows that the mem
bers of the Edison Institute have
demonstrated a personal avarice in
complete disregard of all social con-
siderations.
Mr.. Hunt explained at the start
and at the end that he spoke by
authority of Mr.. Ickes as interior
secretary and public works adminis-
traitor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

The governments gigantic spend
ing program, which is expected to
take more than a billion dollars
out Of the treasury this month for
the first time since the war was
expected to have an important in
fuence on business generally. In
addition to providing for more pay
envelopes the heavy spending was
expected to furnish&a moderate IN
hationary influence on business
with a resultant boosting Of price
levels.
A more seasonal gain in depart
ment store sales in December, and
a II per cent gain over the CORE
spending month Of last year, has
created new orders for the manu-
featuring industry and led to expec-
tationS that January will also show
a gain over a year ago.
Automobile output in the week
ended Jan. amounted to 20,307
units, against 30,775 a year ago and
1896 in the preceding week.
Other heavy" industries have
made better showing. The steel
industry has held most of its un-
seasonal holiday gains. Output
this week was unchanged at 81 per
cent of capacity.
Bituminous coal output last week
also improved, amounting to 1925
900 tons, against 6,443,000 tons in
the preceding week and 6,126,00O
tons year ago Electric power pro-
duction last week was 81 per cent
above year ago, against a gain Of
only 8.8 per cent in the preceding
week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
KEEPING UP WITH THE LATE NEWS OF CONGRESS
Helped by CWA Spending, Business
Enjoys Flying Start for New Year

insurance program, newest recovery
move, was reported in many sec
tons as improving sentiment and
drawing money back to the banks,
although the plan has been il eff
feet less than two weeks.
Principal business indices have
shown a recovery in the first week
Of the new year from the usual
holiday lag in many lines of in
dustry. Although no significant
changes have occurred it was gen.
orally felt that the current year has
opened in far more suspicious
fashion than last.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
4 R1K
a DM'''
~ BRUCE CATION

IF you haven't yet got around to
Il reading "Britain's Master Spy"
it might pay you to get hold of a
copy. The story contains a pretty
fair dose of thrills.
Its central figure is Sidney Reilly,
and the book consists of his own
writings, edited and completed by
his wife. Or perhaps one should
say his widow" For where Reilly
himself is no one seems to know. He
may be alive. hidden in some
Siberian prison; he may be ten
years dead.
Reilly was British secret Serv-
ice agent. assigned to Russia dur
ing the revolutionary period.
After the BolSheviks seized power,
he set to work organizing a coun-
ter-revolution which would over
throw Lenin and get Russia back
into the war on the side of the al
lies.
In Moscow and Petrograd he laid
elaborate plans. A corps of ex-
officers in the imperial army was
organized. The LettiSh guards
about. the Kremlin were to be
bribed Lenin and TrotSki were to
be imprisoned.
Everything was ready-and then,
at the last minute. the plot was ex-
posed and stamped out, and Reilly
had to flee Russia with a price on
his head.
For four or five years thereafter
Reilly travelled about Europe and
America, keeping in touch with
anti-B olShevik circles.
Finally. in 1923 or 1924. he was
induced to make another trip to
Moscow.
There he vanished, and nothing
has been heard of him since. It
generally is supposed that he was
put TO death; Mrs. Reilly is con-
WINGED that he still lives in some
distant prison.
This Story-curiouSly dated. with
its assumption that the Russians
are hiStory'S worst fiends-is Of
Tered by HarperS for S2.75.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
EDISON TRUSTS
POWER COMPANY
CODE ATTACKED
Plan to Further ,DeSpoiP
People, Says Aid of
ICkeS.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia
major conflict within the new deal
was on today, over whether NRA
administrator Hugh Johnson can
approve the power industry code
sponsored by the Edison Electric
Institute.
Interior Secretary Harold L. IckeS,
directly in charge of the govern
ment's vast power business, through
Henry T. Hunt, his general counsel,
has challenged the institute as con-
tanning sinister forces" and its code
as an agency to further deSpoil the
American people through eXorbitant
rates, nefarious financial practices. y
MIRA general counsel Donald Rich
berg, taking partial responsibility
told the code hearing that NRA
strongly pressed the institute to
submit the code.
Judge w. L. Ransom, counsel for
the industry's code committee, said
as code hearings resumed today
that he contemplated no amend
ments or changes to meet the in
terror department objections, or the
protests made by Chairman Frank
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
Administration
IS BACKED BY
VOTE IN HOUSE
Passing of First Supply Bill
Reveals Power of
Roosevelt.
BIZ United Press

BIZ rifcd Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt held the whip hand
over the house today. his leadership
established by vote of 240 to 141
against opponents of the first supply
bill of the present session of con-
greSs.
The test came last night on a
motion to recommit the bill. Later
it was passed without a record vote.
Importance was attached to the re-
suit because Of the narrow five-vote
margin Thursday by which the
Democratic leadership imposed a
gag rule on the membership
The supply bill carried $3.50 900 900
for independent Offices and agencies
of the government. 1t restored 5
per cent of the Is per cent salary
reduction which federal employees
received under the economy bill
enacted at the special session last
spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
M. E. Tracy
Says
TINE original manuscript, to-

TINE original manuscript, to-
l. gether with one of the first
printed copies of The Star Spangled
Banner, has just been sold for
$4,000.
AS such things go that is not
big price, but songs are few that
have gripped the imagination as
this American favorite has, and
original manuscripts are fewer.
Added to that, the circumstances
under which this particular song
was written form an almost perfect
background for its reception and
endurance.
BY no stretch Of the Imagination
can the poem be considered as great
or remarkable, while the music was
borrowed from an old world tune
which had been used as a British
drinking song.
However, the country, as we'll as
the author, were in peculiar dis
tress when The Star Spangled Ban
ner was written, and the mere fact
that the old flag still waved above
an important fort which had been
threatened with capture was suff1-
Gent to thrill both.
BESIDES, it was an errand of
~ mercy which caused Francis
Scott Key to be detained by the
British aboard ship during the at
tack on Baltimore.
A short while previously DR.. Will
hams Beanes had been captured by
the British and, with the advice and
help of President Madison, young
Key had gone to negotiate his re-
lease. The release had been agreed
to, but fearing that their plans
might be divulged the British had
kept Key and his associates under
guard during the assault on FIT
McHenry.
All through the night they heard
the booming of cannon and saw the
flash of shells. When morning
dawned, they waited anXiouSly for
enough light to tell which flag
waved above the ramparts.
When it proved to be their own
Key was so thrilled that he imme-
diately began to pen the words
which not only made him famous,
but which have been adopted as our
national anthem.
DART of the song was written on
l. the back of an old letter aboard
the ship, and it was finished when
Key reached Baltimore.
There he gave the lines to Cap
tain Benjamin Fades of the Twen-
ty-seventh Baltimore regiment, who
had participated in the battle OF
North Point. Selling a copy from
the press, Fades FASTENED to the
| old tavern next to the holiday street
theater, where the actors were &C
customed to assemble. Key had di-
rected Fades to print above the
poem the direction that it was to
be sung to the air "Anacreon in
Heaven"
The verses first were read aloud
by the printer, and then, on being
appealed to by the crowd, Ferdinand
Durang mounted a chair and sang
them for the first time. In a short
period they were familiar through
! out the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
u. S. LAUNCHES
NEW DRIVE FOR
CHEAP LIQUOR
Admits Canadian Flood in
Campaign to End
BootIegging.
BY WALKER STONE
Times staff Writer

WASHINGTON. Jan 13.-Realiz-
ing that a substantial number Of
drinking Americans are still pa
tronizing bootleggerS, the admins
tration has decided TO find out
whether free competition can be
used effectively TO lower prices and
improve the quality of domestic
Whistles.
Although no definite figure has
been announced by administration
spokesman. it is indicated that the
governments new policy will be pur-
sued until good, potable whisky can
be purchased by the consumer at
about 81 per quartz price believed
low enough to drive out bootleg
competition.
Steps already have been taken to
carry out the first part Of the pro-
gram.
Restriction Removed
Thursdays about face maneuver.
removing all restrictions on the i'm
portation of American-type WHISTLES,
was for the purpose of opening the
American market to twenty mil
lion gallons of aged whisky in
Canadian warehouses. It is hoped
the influx of Canadian whisky will
influence American diStillerS and
rectifiers to improve the quality of
their whisky blends, and will beat
down the price of bottled-in- bond
goods, of which the domestic supply
is less than one million gallons.
AT the same time, and for a
similar purpose, the 10 per cent
limit on beverage alcohol made from
other sources than grains was re-
moved. In the last few weeks the
limited supply of grain alcohol has
been selling at exorbitant prices to
blenders. Most of the supply is in
the middle west. For the next few
weeks large quantities of molasses
alcohol, held on the Atlantic, Pacific
and gulf coasts, will be eligible for
use for blending purposes.
Tariff Revision Possibility
A further measure in contempla-
ton to bring about a more even
balance between supply and demand
is a downward revision of tariff
rates. The Presidents informal in
terdepartmental committee on
liquor has recommended to congress
that, if the one-column policy is
continued. the rate on whisky be
reduced from S. to 50 per gallon,
and in case a tariff bargaining
policy is adopted, the range in rates
be from So to S..
If measures to free competition
fail, the faca is prepared to re-
assert its powers of. rigid control
fix prices arbitrarily and prescribe
strict labelling regulations.
Within the next few weeks, faca
director Choate has announced, dis
tillerS will be asked to turn in a re-
port on costs Of manufacture and
prices. If these figures reveal
profiteering, he said, the faca will
determine what prices are fair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
JOINS REALTY COMPANY
County Delinquent Tax Collector
Accepts New Job.

Lawrence Sexton, Marion county
delinquent tax collector for the last
two years. today became associated
with the Fidelity Trust Company
real estate department
Formerly he was in the real es-
tate, rental, loan and insurance
business. He will continue as Pru-
Dental Savings and Loan Associa-
ton secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
CHURCH ASKS POLICE
TO SPECIAL SERVICE
Mayor and Safety Board Invited by
NJ. Z. Pastor.

Special services in honor of the
Indianapolis police department will
be held at 1880 Sunday night at the
Capitol Avenue NJ. E. church.
In letter to Chief Mike Nor
rlsSey. the pastor. the Rev. E. A.
Clegg, invited all members of the
department to attend. Mayor Regi-
maid H. Sullivan and safety board
members also will be invited. Mr..
Clegg will discuss the book, You
Can't Win" by Jack Black. a re-
formed criminal Mr.. Clegg is the
son Of former police chief at JEFF
ferSonville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
lndiCeS Show Steady
Gains, JubiIant Capital
Officials Say.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Grow-
ing confidence in the business out
look with the turn Of the new year
was reported by administration and
commercial circles today as gov
eminent recovery expenditures ap-
preached their maximum proper
tions.
The governments bank deposit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
tl7s Is Loot of Thief

Leaving no traces of forcible en-
try a thief entered the room of j.
F. Boranham, 2611 East Tenth
street, last night, stealing S17S from
locked trunk, Mr.. Boranham re-
ported to police
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

- The trend today
- is toward Straight
Fights. The Pom
tiac Straight Eight for
1884 will deprecia tie
more slowly, and all
evidence indicates a
higher resale value sat
the end of the road"
just because it is a
Straight Eight. Another
good reason why this
great, new Pontiac is
such a wise investment!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
Hurt in Street Car Fall

Stubbing his toe against the foot
of another passenger. H nry
Whalen, 100 West St. Clair street,
fell on a street car yesterday, suf-
fering a badly bruised shoulder. He
was taken to city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

0Last years ia
G)a@ssSs,a Pontiac ii. va, va:
Economy Straie hit
Eight because its fuel
costs were we'll in line
with those of skies.
To d a US Pom tia c,
thanks to further re-
fin e m e n t S in it's
Straight Eight engine,
gives you more miles
to the gallon by a
generous 10 per cent.
Remarkable economy!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

AIf your present
" car will make the
down payment on
a car of cheaper make,
it will probably make
the down payment on
a big, new Pontiac.
Your mon thly pay
ments, in any case, will
be but a few dollars
more. Why waltz See
and drive the big, new
Pontiac. Get a Straight
Eight for your money!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

The catfish of the African swampS
is the only fish which will swim up
side down; other fish found in that
position are either dead or dying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

The omnibus was designed in
France by Blaise Pascal, who OBJ
tanned a patent from Louis XIV in
1862; Pascal had invented the push
car earlier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
House Committee May
Study Old Age Pension
Commission May Be Created to Probe Feasibility of Fed
eraI Aid for Persons Over s.
By Scripps-Hooord Newspaper Alliance

WASHINGTON, 13.-An
study old applied
will congress- Speaker Henry
indicated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
NEVER FELT BETTER
SAYS PIONEER; DIES
18th Birthday Anniversary Party
Ends in Tragedy.

BIZ United Press
ALBION, Idaho. Jan. 13-Hardly
had he completed saying: Il never
felt better in my life" when John
A. Clark, Albion pioneer, fell dead.
A group of friends had just decided
TO conclude the surprise birthday
party" concentrating Clark's 18th
anniversary when the pioneer COL
lapSed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

~ Here is a car that
" gives you the in
herent smooth
ness, fexibility and luz
ury of Straight Eight
transportation at a
price that compares ia
vorably with the prices
of many cars with less
to offer in cylinders,
performance and size.
The new Pontiac, re-
member, is definitely
in the low-price field!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

- You can get a
tiac Straie h t
Eight at a price that is
very little more than
that of the very cheap
est cars. The smart,
new Fisher bodies are
finerand more spacious.
The improved Straight
Eight engine gives you
greater power and
speed-full "a h. p. and
a top speed of 81 actual
miles an hour!
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
F|REMEN PLAN
BLOOD UNIT IN
ROCKVILLE
AZ Members To Be Ready
When Need for TRANSMISSION
Makes Appearance

Formation of a blood unit i,
now being completed by members
Of the Rockville Volunteer Fire
Department with a view to adding
another valuable service to the
long list that they now offer ia
the residents Of the community.
Every one of the AZ members Of
the department has been typed
so that the proper type blood to
match that Of a patient may be
ascertained at a glance instead OF
having to resort to the long test
ing process. About 80 different
types Of blood are represented in
the group, it was learned,
Need for the service has become
more apparent with the increased
demand for transfusions. Although
the Rockville department made
only eight transfuSions in the 10
months Of its existence, the Ken
sington brigade has made four in
the past 10 days, one of which
was to a resident Of the Rockville
area.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
BRIGADE KEEPS.
HEADQUARTERS

Shortly after members Of the
Sixth Marine Reserve Brigade de-
livered an appeal at the White
House asking Mrs. Roosevelt to
intercede in the threatened expui
sion of the brigade from it's head
quarters at Fifth Street and In
diana Avenue, the District Com
missioners announced that the
order had been postponed for 80
days.
Whether or not the First Lady
intervened is not known, but the
brigade's So officers and 1,136
men are feeling decidedly more
cheerful. Lieut.. Col. Joseph j.
Staley, commandig officer. said
plans for a new building would
be submitted in a few days.
Meanwhile, the police will have
to wait until March 2 before they
can take over the headquarters
for storage purposes.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
Chevy Chase Man
Faces Check Charge

H. Conner Howell, Of the 1900
block Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase,
Nd, will be tried in Rockville
police court, February 13, on a
charge of passing worthless
checks.
Howell was arrested a short
time ago by the Montgomery
county police on a like charge,
and was turned over to the Wash
ington police, as the bad checks
were passed at that time in the
District of Columbia. The second
arrest was made yesterday for
passing three worthless checks in
Montgomery county.