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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-01
WIFE SLAYER
TRIES TO END
LIFE IN CELL
Mitchell Veteran May Be
Carried to Electric
Chair Tonight.
CLEMENCY IS DENIED
Execution at Midnight Not
to Be Postponed, Off,
Gals Say.

Harley Edwards, Mitchell World
war veteran, may be carried to
the electric chair tonight, weak
from the loss of blood in suicide
attemtpu early today in the state
prison at Michigan City.
Edwards, scheduled to be electro
cuted minute after midnight to-
night for the murder Of his wife, is
in a critical condition in the state
prison from loss of blood after
slashing both his wrists with a
shard of glass from his eyeglasse.
He was discovered by a prison
guard shortly after 2 a. m. today,
threshing about in his prison cell,
as blood welled from his wrist
wounds. He was given blood
TRANSMISSION in the prison hospital
Wayne Coy, Governor Paul V.
McNutt's secretary in charge of
penal affairs, announced today after
being informed of the suicide at
tempt, that the electrocutlon would
proceed as scheduled.
sentence 10 De OdIIICu OuI
Prison officials said the execution
would be carried out, regardless OF
Edwards condition, unless Governor
McNutt intervenes because OF his
weakened condition.
A last minute plea for executive
clemency failed yesterday when
Governor McNutt refused to COM
mute the sentence to life imprison-
ment.
1T is the law" the Governor said.
Il find there has been no miscar-
riage of justice"
Edwards was convicted on charges
of first degree murder in Jackson
circuit court in February. 1888.
It was on the night of July %,
1882, that Edwards returned to the
home of his estranged wife Lillian
at Mitchell. He started to abuse
her when his step-son, Clarence
Head, 10, interviewed.
Pleaded for Stepfather
Edwards shot his wife through
The Washington times., 1934-10-17
Safe for Visitors

France Should Take Lesson from America
With France in the throes of cabinet crisis over the
failure Of her authorities to safeguard King Alexander
Serbia from assassination Americans can reflect with
satisfaction that distinguished visitors here always have
been efficiently guarded by Secret Service and police
In recent years have been hosts to Queen Marie of
Rumania, Ramsay Macdonald the King and Queen of
Siam, Foreign Minister Litvino of Russia, General
BaIoo 1nnumerabe japanese and Chinese dignitaries
Some OF these have had bitter political enemies at
home and among their former countrymen living in
America.
Yet there has been no attempt at violence against any
of them.
Protection has been adequate.
There has not even been "unpleasantness'- least
none worth mentioning
This is fine tribute to the Washington police arno1s
oer since most OF our guests visit here And it is an
ADDED proof OF the efficiency of the Federal men,
There may be something also, in the fact that most
racial groups live here in complete amty leavA their
Old World quarrels in the Old World.
That is the place to leave them
America may not be safe for Americans but il has hor
safe for foreigners, thus far. "'0A
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T human Side of theNews = ByEdwin G. Hill

Acts" with the score by Virgil
Thompson.
All the great lights of art,
drama and music were there, to
go into ecstasies or into fits of
profanity, as they watched a
Negro cast in bizarre settings of
colored cellophane sing, dance
and act.
The program read: Prelude
A narrative of prepare for
saints. Act 1.-Avila: st. Therese
half indoors and half out of
doors. Act. I1.-Might be
mountains if it were not BARGE
Iona. Act III.-Barcelona: st.
Ignatius and one of two literally.
Act. IV-The saints and sisters
reassembled and re-enacting
why they went away to stay"
And those who remained for the
third act heard passages such as
this set to music:
pigeons on the grass alas,
pigeons on the grass alas. Short
longer grass, short longer longer
shorter yellow grass. Pigeons
large pigeons on the shorter
longer yellow grass. Alas pigeons
on the grass. If they were not
pigeons what we're they? If they
were not pigeons on the grass
alas what were they?"
Carl Van Vechten wrote a
preface to the opera published
by Random House in which he
said: 1T becomes more and
more evident to me that if ap-
probation of the text of Miss
Stein is not instructive with
person, he never acquires it."
To which the average person
says "Amen" and waits for Miss
Stein in the hope that she will
do some explaining. For in her
deep, pleasing voice she can and
does use real King James Eng
lish in discussing the questions
of the day.
She will not be here as a
public exhibit. having turned
down offers for commercial lee
lures, saying: There is not
enough money in the world to
persuade me to stand up before
herd of curious people who are
interested in my personality
rather than my work."
Gertrude Stein may be as she
says herself, "a brother of
Shakespeare" AS the few say,
she may be a genius. AS the
many say. she may be a faddist,
If anything this reporter would
put her down as the Albert
Einstein and Dizzy Dean of
literature.
Copyright, 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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A dark, plump woman Of so,
whose masculine features are
attenuated by a decidedly man.
nish haircut, is due soon to
step off a transatlantic liner
in New York and to receive
columns of notices from the
press and the magazines.
She brings a message which
will be greeted with laughter,
praise, scorn, interest and dis
dain, all depending on the per-
son who receives it.
At any event, while she is
spending a month lecturing to
small university groups from
New York to Minneapolis, there
will be no end to the argument
about Gertrude stein. This will
not be new to her. However,
the country will be new be-
cause Miss Stein has not been
here for 30 years.
Born in Allegheny, Pa. she
was educated for medicine at
Johns Hopkins. She turned to
literature and, after a course
in Harvard, settled down in
Paris, and let loose upon a be-
wildered world her cryptic
poems, essays and novels.
What the cubists and ultra"
moderns would do to art Miss
Stein would do to literature.
She has rebelled at the dogma
that language is unchanging,
that it is something of an exact
science like mathematics.
She refuses in her writings to
be bound by the rules OF gram
mar, or the accepted usage.
She uses words for their sound
and not for their meaning, in
such a manner as this passage
from her book, Tender But
tons:
enthusiastically hurting a
clouded yellow bud and saucer,
enthusiastically so is the bite in
the ribbon"
Gibberish and nonsense we
may call it and yet more than
a few of our writer's and critics
say it is genius.
They say, too, that they I'M
derstand what she is about when
she expresses herself in this
manner in an interview:
I'm so busy with my essays
on grammar. You never know
where things will lead you. I
started with verbs and preposi-
tions and now I'm working on
the sentence. It's great fun.
II make up a sentence and
then analyze it to see if it really
Is a sentence and what I can
take out of it without destroy
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for Philips mother just as it was
beginning for her little son. She
died pressing her plying hand
upon his twisted foot. He lived
with the consciousness of that
foot spreading like a sickness
through the fabric of his spirit.
To the friends who tried to
cheer him, to the doctor who
tried to cure him, a club foot was
a common enough affliction, to
be borne with fortitude and for
gotten in the press OF larger
problems.
Surely, with his intelligence,
Philip should be able to forget a
handicap which strangers ceased
to notice an hour after meeting
him.
But Philip could not, would
not forget. The drag of it was
a vague horror at first, then a
frantic hatred-then a vicious
habit which completely bound
him.
Thud. . .thud. thud.
Gr-r-r. gr.rr-r-r. gr-r-r-r.
Haltingly, hideously, Philips
twisted foot hobbies across the
screen-just the foot, all the rest
OF the fine body obscured, as all
the rest nf his fine shirt was be-
ing obscured by that one, twisted
thought.
After each thud comes that
mangled chord which haunts
you for days, symbol of limplng
flesh and limping soul.
Presently the trail becomes so
tragic that you can hardly bear
to follow it. Mildred, the wait
ress, has the face Of a fish, and
blood to match. -,
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

A Shiny, stupid. selfish little
beast. without one decent In
stinct-revolting to his 1ntell1-
gence and refinement-yet he
could not forget her.
Why did Philip, the gentle
man, cling to her so? For the
same dark reason that he chung
to the sick consciousness Of
his club foot.
He was in bondage to them
both through his hurt pride.
Human pride must be fed
somehow.
If it can't feed on superiority
it will feed on inferiority. If
it can't achieve a sense OF
Importance through success, 1t
will achieve it through pain
and and failure.
You see it in the embittered
woman who "goes around max
ing a martyr of herself"
Sensitive. orphaned Philip,
growing up in crippled loneli-
ness, unWittingly made a mar
tyr of himself - and Mildred
was the nasty cross to which
he chung.
Fate didn't wish Mildred on
Philip as he thought. She was
the result of his own self-pity,
and he could not shake her off
until he shook off the sickness
of his own pride.
Thud. .thud. . thud...
Gr-r-r-r. .Gr-r-r-r. .Gr-r-r.r. ..
You shudder as you hear that
mangled chord, watch that
dragging foot. You shudder for
yourself as we'll as for Philip.
For, though you will not face
the fact, there is in you, too.
something that drags, something
that mangles all the music OF
life.
Your body may be straight,
but there is a twist in your
spirit-Some secret flaw Of cow
ardice or conceit, hatred or
fear, which holds you IN
bondage.
Long ago, it began with a
small hurt or handicap. Then
it increased, becoming an OBJ
session-finally a habit.
Now, though you're not aware
of it, it's easier, more conven-
lent to cling to that habit than
to fight against it.
So you go on, limping
through life. cursing your
fate Zion GING TO BE
FREE.
YOU CAN BE. ANY TIME
YOU RE WILLING.
Copyright. 1884, BY King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1934-10-17
Ar1iyt'S Model SnccumbS
By Robert BenchIey

She posed and she posed and
she posed, but nobody ever even
threatened to kill her, much less
himself. 1t was the slowest year
for suicides that London had
had since Chelsea became the
Greenwich Village of America.
We are now getting around
slowly to the unpleasant fact
that this girl was not so hot
looking. She thought she was,
and the man at the desk
thought she was fair Chats
the way he phrased it: "she's
fair'D but that was where it
ended.
1 don't know why I'm telling
you all this, except that you
asked me to tell you the story
of the London model who didn't
drive men mad. You don't re-
member that, do you? I sup
pose that next you'll be saying
that you aren't even reading
this.
Well, all fooling aside now!
This girl is actually in London
at this minute and I can prove
it. And do you know who she
is? She is the wife Of a very
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was born in matched hutch,
hutched thatch, in Normandy.
Or Matched thutch.
She was noted for her beauty,
even in those days-wh;ch will
gi re you some idea. Later she
married and settled down in
Lyons and never went to London
at all. So, you will see. we have
started OF with the wrong girl.
She has nothing to do with the
story at all, and I dent know
what + was thinking of.
The girl I mean was born in
Kansas City, but was fatter
than Dorine LaBoeuf as a child.
She was so fat that they de-
SPARED of her life at one time,
but when she got to London
Chow she got to London is an
other story-and a better one)
she Gained down a little and got
a job as an artists model. She
posed for automobile accessories
and moccasins.
Now, everyone knows that an
artists model is quite likely to
drive men mad, and end up as
a dope feind. Il before e, ex-
cept after c. This girl in spite
of her great beauty and collec-
ton of timetables, couldn't even
manage to end up as a dope
fiend. Crhe proof reader caught
1t this time.)
I hope I'm not boring you. -
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The plan at present is
to team Barley and Robinson,
If the latter UU agree, and
send them around the country
urging voters to ballot for DEM
ocrdtic candidates.
They consider the Robinson
Barley team one of the strong
est in the organization.
But before Robinson goes out,
they agree they must tell him
what has been going on in the
United States during his lengthy
sOjOurn in Europe.
1884 The MashinKton Times
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prominent man who offered me
a great deal of money (three
dollars) if I would keep it out
of the papers.
But once a newspaperman.
always a newspaperman, and
a good "story" newspaper jar
gon for "cub") is more i'm
portant than all the money in
the world. That's why news
papermen are so poorly paid.
Copyright. 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nC.)
Articles By Robert BenChIey
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Thursday.
The Washington times., 1934-10-17

Barley, Dem.
Ocratic key
nOter, on a
speaking tour
in doubtful
States. AL.
though t h e
same leaders
won't admit
it, there are
about nine or
t e n Sta ties
which might
be claSSed as
doubtful. Con-
sequently. the
Senator may
have a "buSy"
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were Woodrow Wilson, the
League of Nations and Herbert
Hoover. AversiOns he had many,
including prohibition.
Prohibition may have been
entombed in a shallow grave,
but Reed has numerous other
aversions to take its place.
He has rendered some choice
opinions of UariouS NeW Deal
agencies and cldSsed the COL
lege-boy faculty OF government
as "BolShevikS who hare US by
the throat"
In his Constitution Day speech
there rumbled forth from his
throat verbal emanations that
found their resting places in
some New Deal tender spots.
From Missouri comes the re-
port that Reeds Constitution
Day speech was the mounting
of a political babe compared to
the TRADE he expects to launch
before the passage of many
weeks.
He has studied the activities
of New Deal agencies, learned
of their fallacies and has re-
cruited all the epithetical words
contained in Webster's dlctlon-
ary for his forthcoming utter
ance.
New Dealers may well grid
themselves for the Oratorlcal on
Slaught.
With considerable discussion
floating around concerning the
respective ages of men who
framed the Constitution and
those now employed as brain
trusters," it is fact that three
important men in the Federal
Housing Corporation are young.
Frank Watson, of the legal
division, drafted the national
housing act. Ray F. Smythe.
who handles advertising and
copy plans for publication, wrote
in 1881, when 80, a plan for
national recovery and sent it to
Franklin ID. Roosevelt, then gov
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drag of Philip
Carey's Grip
pied foot in
the m ov e
"Of Human
30 n d a g e?"
Foolish ques-
ton. If you
ever heard it,
it would not
b e possible
t o r you to
forget it. For
those W h o
didn't, t h e
S t o r Y is
quickly told.
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hopes to blast
t h e Demo
cratic N e W
D e al Struc-
ture.
He is that
master of sar-
casm, former
Senator Jim
Reed.
In the good
old days they
used to say
tn at silver
haired a n d
Silver-tOngued
Jim had three
hates. They
The Washington times., 1934-10-17

furore in highbrow circles as
the one occasioned last Feb
ruary with the production in
Hartford of Gertrude STEMS
opera, -Four Saints in Three
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ing it. At present I am trying
to do away with nouns. Nouns,
you know, are the bane of the
English language"
I have never known such a
The Washington times., 1934-10-17
Another Survey
The Last, It Is Hoped

Federal employees may well look with both hope and
foreboding on the survey of living costs soon to be
undertaken by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in order to
furnish President Roosevelt with the figures upon which
he will base his decision as to Government salaries during
the first six months of 1885.
ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS WHEN THE BUREAU
HAS MADE THE SURVEYS REQUIRED UNDER THE
VARIOUS ECONOMY ACTS IT HAS BEEN SHOWN
THAT THE COST OF LIVING HAS RISEN BUT IT
HAS NEVER REACHED THE POINT AT WHICH
UNDER THE LAW THE PRESIDENT MIGHT IN
CREASE SALARIES
Consequently the only method by which the obviously
unjust salary cuts could be eliminated has been through
Congressional acton-acton which this year resulted in
the return Of 10 per cent Of the base pay.
These facts naturally do not incline the Federal work
ers to derive any great amount Of encouragement from
the survey which is soon to be undertaken.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE rs ALWAYS THE
HOPE THAT THIS TIME THE FIGURES TO BE
ASSEMBLED WILL, WARRANT THE PRESIDENTS
ORDERING THE IMMEDIATE RETURN OF THE
LAST PER CENT CUT.
That hope is soundy based on the unputed fact that
living costs have risen tremendously in the last few
months due in large to the efforts of the New
Deal to accomplish just that result.
It is impossible that this increase in the cost of living
should not be reflected in the figures which about to
be gathered by DR.. Isador Lubin and his aides.
Whether the figures will when compared with the 1923
base figure action by the President u.s. of course
Cne pTOD1em WHICH WOTT1eS EeQeTa1 WOTkeTS
WITH THE TIME FOR THE SURVEY APPROACH
ING, IT IS WELL ONCE MORE TO CALL ATTEN-
TON TO THE UNFAIRNEss OF THE "CosT- OF
LIVING THEORY OF FIXING WAGES AS WRIT
TEN INTO THE LAW BY CONGRESS.
In order to demonstrate that unfarness and the utter
impracticaby of the plan it functions it is sufficient
only to mention that the figures upon which the wages
for the next sx-monh period will be based will not take
into consideration in the slightest degree the cost of v
ing within that period Those wages will be based on
the cost of living Of prior six month period and not on
the period in which the wages are earned
Should anything else be necessary to discredt the
theory might be pointed out that there has never been
an attempt to determine scientifically whether Federal
salaries were adequate and proper in the base period of
1928.
IT is, HOWEVER, FUTILE TO ATTACK THE
THEORY AT THE PRESENT TIME THE OCCASION
FOR THAT ATTACK WILL COME WITH THE CON-
VENING OF CONGRESS IN JANUARY, AT WHICH
TIME THERE IS EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE
THAT THE COST OF LIVING THEORY WILL BE
THROWN TO THE JUNK HEAP WHERE IT Be
LONGS AND FEDERAL SALARIES RETURNED TO
AT LEAST THEIR NORMAL BASE
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The Greatest Sh00O
On Earth
By Iohn Snure, lr.

In the obscurity of a Kansas
City (Mo.) office building a
gray.haired agitator Of no mean
ability is fashioning a bomb OF
verbal dynamite with which he
The Washington times., 1934-10-17

A strange case has just come
to light, involving an artists
model in London, who, to date.
has not been able to drive one
man mad. She hasn't been able
even to drive one man to drink.
The police are working on it
now.
Dorine LaBoeuf was the only
daughter of a poor laboeuf, and
The Washington times., 1934-10-17
It's Miss R0man0ff' Now
Sensible, If You Ask Us

Sensible If You Ask Us
Princess Xenia of Russia daughter of the late Grand
Duke George, lives in the United States where titles of
royalty or nobility are of no advantage So she is
legally changing her name to Miss Xenia Romanoff.
Miss Romanos intelligent decision should be lesson
to those fortunately few Americans who dazzed bv titles
still try to buy wangle them from foreign countries
Plain Mr. and Mrs, Miss is all the title an American
needs.
Imagine Lincoln king Abraham the First
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Are You Limping Through Life?
Thud. . .thud. thud...
Gr-r-r. .gr-r-r. gr-r-r.
Do you remember that hid
eous, monotonous chord of man.
gled music which follows the
The Washington times., 1934-10-17

Gov. Paul M. Pearson, Of the
Virgin Islands, through the In
terror Department, announces
that the famous Blue Beard
Castle, one time pirate hang.
out that was supposed to be re-
opened for the tourist trade on
July II, has finally opened.
At hearings on the Interior
bill of 1884, Pearson, in response
to questioning, said:
"These buildings and grounds
cost more than $4,000"
1t is said that recordings In
the Virgin Islands Show that
the Castle estate 10dS sold for
$3.50, Which. 1Uith the sale OF
small parcels amounting to
$4,000. made the total sale
price $3.50.
Back from Europe will come
Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
majority floor leader of the
Senate. this week to a list of
campaign conflicts of major pro-
portions.
Democratic leaders are plan.
ming to start Senator Alben w.
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ernor of New York. That plan
is identical with the NRA plan
except for the compulsory fea-
lures.
The third young man is ALL
ston D, Calhoun, 30, who, in
1927, helped to frame the orig.
inal District boxing bill which
has been spared around the
House and Senate for six years,
but which now has the approval
of Postmaster General James A.
Farley.
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II D. G, 49, ~ ~ ~ "~ 80 ~o~
j. j. Fitzpatrick. managing editor. ~ T ~ ~~~0A'
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FILLING sTATTON-sell az invoice price.
East on Road 81. CH-56l4
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LADYS SUIT, SIZE 80: MANS SUIT.
SIZE 49, STOUT. HE-2792.
, 1934-12-03
Masons Convene

WACO. Dec .3.-Pi-Noted Ma
O n gathered here Monday for
the opening Of the Texas Grand
Royal Arch chapter session, pre-
sided v e BY Judge j. Lee Yum
walt Of Dallas. grand high priest.
Five general grand officers Of
the United States and one official
from Mexico were present. All at
tended an opening banquet Sunday
nieht.
DISTINGUISHED visitors included
william II. s. O'Hara OF Toledo,
General Grand High Priest OF the
General Grand Chapter Of the
United States: Ray ". Denslow Of
Missouri. General Grand Principal
IT, turner: Willim j. Bray. Grand
Hiph Priest OF the Grand High
Chapter Of Missouri. George C..
Marquis. Grand Scribe Of the
Grand Chapter OF Missouri; Rob
crt A. Woods or Princeton. India
IA. General Grand Master Of the
General Grand Council ROYAL and
Select MaSons: Nelson williams Of
Ohio. Deputy General Master Of
the General Grand Council: Char
les L. Young. Grand Master. Grand
Council OF Colorado and Marcus
"A. Loevv ~ Mexico. ID. IT.