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The Washington times., 1935-11-06
GANG INVASION
FEARED BY
BROADWAY

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 U.N.s).
Broadway night club habitues
stayed at home in great numbers
early today as the fear grew that
the current outbreak Of gang war
fare might spread to the white
light sector.
This fear was based chiefly on
the discovery Monday night Of
the crushed and bullet-ridden
body of Charles (Chink) Sher-
man, one of Broadway's best
known figures, in a shallow, lime
filled grave near Monticello, N. Y.
Well.KnOwn Figure
Sherman, part owner Of one Of
the Rialto's biggest hot spots, is
believed to have been slain IN
the same underworld upheaval
that resulted in the murder OF
his mortal enemy, Arthur Dutch
Schultz) Flegenheimer and nu-
merouS other well known metro
politan racketeers in recent weeks.
It was thought probable that
Sherman's slayers might invade
the night club belt in search OF
his associates and begin shooting
wherever they found them.
Extra police were posted near
the various resorts to guard
against this contingency last
night, but no known underworld
characters put in an appearance.
Meantime, the police were
awaiting Identification Of the
body of a man found in Knauth
Mil Pond, near Spring Valley,
N. Y, only 26 miles from Month
cello.
Detectives expressed little doubt
that the victim, who had been
beaten to death, would be identi-
fled as a gang figure, but rldi-
culed the contention he might
turn out to be "Bo" Weinberg,
missing Schultz lieutenant.
May Be Sniper
The police were frankly at a
loss to place the blame for Sher-
mans death, though one theory is
that survivors Of the Schultz
gang have embarked on sniping
campaign to wipe out the East
Side gang, Of which Sherman,
quondam Detroit Purple gangster,
was a member.
In addition to Sherman, accord
ing to the police. the East Side
gang consisted of Charles Lucky"
Luciano, Bugs Siegel, Louis
Buchalter, Jake Shapiro and
Johnny Torrfo,
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DO You Remember!
(AnSiDers to Questions on

(AnSDerS to Questions on
page 81
Bacon qualified as the
worlds champion fOrgetter
when he lost his wife on
their honeymoon, forgetting
her name and what hotel
they had registered at.
Mrs. StOll revealed the
story of her kidnapping for
the first time from the wit
ness stand.
ThurstOn, famous magi-
clan, was critically Ill after
q cerebral hemOrrhage.
Collision was pilot Of .
transport plane that crashed
mysteriously, killing all on
board.
A diplomatic incid n t
threatened after murder Of
Nava, an italian, by Com
munists in Mexico City.
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Tenders Are Asked
For Treasury Bills
International News Service

International News Service
Tenders for two new series OF
Treasury bills amounting to $780,
100000 were asked by SECRETARY
Morgenthau today. The issues,
for $50, ,000,0 each, will mature
March 16 and August IL, 1886.
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her ex-husband, George Barnes.
ace cameraman, while. Adrienne
Ames, the beauteous brunette
star, was accompanied by her for
rner husband, Bruce Cabot, the
actor.
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1889 Lanier Pl. N. W., was drowned
in a suicide jump. A hat and
coat bearing his initials were
found on the Virginia bank Of the
river. He has not been seen since
Monday noon. Mrs. Merillat told
police her husband suffered heavy
financial losses in the past two
years,
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
Just Friends Now

WOOD G.N.sJ.-E.
husbands are stylish in Hollywood.
At q movie premiere, Joan Blon.
dell, the actress, was escorted by
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
Violin Made of Matches

BERLIN G.NS0.-A violin
made from the ends of burned
matches has been completed by
Hans Hundt, a young Dusseldorf
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-28
Todays Science
by DAVID DIETZ-

TINE universe as we know it today may be only
l. two or three billion years DID, astronomical re-
searches so far in 1885 indicate. maximum age
for the universe is between five and 10 billion years.
Only Sir James Jeans cngs to the idea that the uni
verse is trillionS of years old.
DR.. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard
College Observatory. marshals these facts in his
mary Of ASTRONOMICAL progress for the year
These estimates grow out of the theory of the
expanding universe and depend upon calculations
OF how long it took the universe starting its expan-
sion from central point, to reach its present dis
tribution. That in turn depends upon the rate of
expansion.
TINE Harvard astronomers have calculated an age
OF about flve billion years for the universe The
Mt Wilson astronomers make it little Younger
Now, says Prof Shapley, Sir Arthur Eddington the
famous British astronomer, gets value for the rate
OF expansion which so per cent larger than the Mt
wilson figure and double the Harvard estimate
the long time scale has suffered still more bv
the calculations and arguments presented during the
past year and the students of this subject with the
exception OF Sir James Jeans agree that the expan-
sion OF the universe the age the earth the char
acterstcs OF double stars the nature of the clusters
In the Milky Way, and the character of the arms in
spiral nebuae all favor the short time scale
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Times Books

IF you feel that Fascist dictatorship is just one
i of those things that coudnt possibly to
pass in America, Sinclair Lewis has a savagely de-
risive answer for you.
He has put it in book. satrically entitled
at Can't Happen Here" and this book tells how
dictatorship overcame the republic IN the 1886 pres
dental election. doubleday, Doran, s2.50)
Mr.. Lewis dictator is Senator Berzelius Wndrip,
who seems to be modelled roughly after the late
Huey Long.
Windrip noses out Franklin Roosevelt for the
Democratic Presidential nomination. He promises
$4,000 year to every American calls for govern
ment ownership of banks and utilities demands a
better break for laborer and farmer and is trium-
phantly elected.
TNHEN he gets busy. He has organized uni
Il formed marching clubs known as the Minute
Men.
When Congress refuses to pass law giving the
President dictatorial powers, the Minute Men throw
Congress into jail and all power passes to President
Wndrp.
Mr.. Lewis makes Vermont newspaper editor
his hero, and tells the whole story from the view
point Of the old-fashioned liberal And his moral
is that there is quite enough prejudice, selfishness
and brutality in America to create dictatorship.
All need is little bad luck
hope everybody reads 1t Can't Happen Here"
(By Bruce Catton)
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN.

A FTER spending II 2 years in the Arctic and
n living for about nine years of that time an
exclusive diet of meat, the Explorer StefanSson
given complete physical examination, in 1926 He
found that an exclusive meat diet worked as we'll
when he inactive when he active and in
hot weather in cold.
After an exclusive meat diet lasting II months
two Arctic explorers living in New York given
similar study In their also serious changes
were found. The blood pressure not disturbed;
in fact, in man it lowered. The had
leSening of physical or mental vigor.
Recently StefanSSon examined again. after
lapse of nine years to find out whether there had
been changes in his body a result of the meat diet
on which he had lived so long. He is SIS years
old and has aged very little.
TIE has been in excellent general health since he
lived on an exclusive meat diet He has worked
rather strenuouSly and has led sedentary life yet
he does not suffer from any disturbance of his blood
chemistry Of his digestion. He reports that he has
no headaches but occasionally some colds.
His blood pressure. although he is SIS years old is
100 Systolc and so daStolic which is considered the
normal blood pressure for person aged anywhere
from 81 to As.
meat diet is essentially high protein diet
There has been a tendency for people to be afraid of
proteinS-a tendency utterly without sense, since
protens the building materials Of tissues A large
supply of proteins is found in animal products
and in dairy products
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Uplifting Begins at Home

THE policy has been a noble one-in the tradition
Il OF Slmon-pure od-faShioned Southern democra-
cy. 1t has been conducted by a dependable GENTLE
man of the old school, stately, intelligent kindly,
honorable, and yet so frm-a rarity in these whirl-
ing days-that it is hard to suggest that in the cir
stances, there might have been better choice than
Cordell Hull In many ways there couldn't be
But in these hard-bitten days we needed a
realis with the trading eye of an eagle thorough
knowledge and practical experience of world-eco-
Monies, and with no such yen to upift Europe as
to forget that uplfting-ke charity-begins at home
We had two outstanding Democratic world
figures who answered that description - Bernard
Baruch and Owen Young
Baruch was said to be "too luminous a figure j"
owen Young was "a business man"
The result has been true to these reasons. We
got neither luminosity nor business
On the economic side, our foreign policy is
failure.
Copyright 1885 by Unite Feature Syndicate Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-28
In The Money
by ERNIE PYLE

WAsH1INGToN, Oct. 28.-1n my annual check
w up to see if the Bureau of Engraving and
FrlnClng Is getting away with any of the money it
makes ran into appalling thing
In the last six weeks, the bureau has printed
ana delivered, for the Christmas rush 218 million
revenue stamps to be put bottles of blended
whisky
Each stamp represents one bottle That makes
nearly two bottles of liquor for every man. woman
and child in the United States just for the holiday
period If your two bottles are gone before New
year year Eve you might speak to some of those chill
oren, who shouldn't be drinking blends anyway
And the man in charge of all this quor-stamp
printing, Director Alvin William Hall of the bureau
mas never had drink in his life He doesn't mind
other people drinking, in fact he'd sort of like TO
take drink himself once in while, thinks maybe
it'd make him feel better but he has gone so long
now he just hates to break his record.
MIR. HALL has been in office II wears He is
4V1 youngish, gray-haired man. very easy and
pleasant, who talks like a human being He is
proud, IN modest way, about the shape the bureau
is in, and I've never heard any one say he hasn't
done good job
The bureau in case you don't already know is
the place where every piece of paper money and
every postage stamp in the United States is made
Inc bureau makes more stamps than anything
else. They're printing nearly IA billions this year
And yet Mr.. Hall has to send up to the postoffice
to get stamps for his own mail. When I was there,
he had been waiting since o'clock for messenger
to bring stamps from the postoffice
Ninety per cent Of the bureaus work is replace
ment. In other words, money keeps wearing out so
they bring it back and grind it up, and print new
bills in its place.
THE bureau gets its paper from a Massachusetts,
Il firm which has been supplying the government
with its money-paper for so years. The paper is
three -fourths linen and one-fourth cotton
Our paper money is the strongest in the world
they say but i. doesn't last as long as it used to-
The auto is to blame. We travel around more than
we once did, and hence handle our money more
and gas station men with greasy hands roll it around
m their pockets.
It's pretty hard for employees to get away with
money at the bureau. There is such perfect check
up system that if sheet of bills disappears, they
know about it within few minutes. And they know
what section it disappeared from too Then they
lock the whole section up and start looking
But once in while somebody does get clear
away with some The last time in March, 1888.
when they mad lot of temporary employees. They've
since got some of the money back, through regular
spending channels but they never have got the guy
who took it. They're still looking, though
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be construed as an act of a neu-
trail.
So the State Department oblig-
ingly let the proposal die.
Immediately Germany hoWled
in protest and said that the United
States was throwing It's lot in
with the allied cause. President
Wilson did his best to explain the
dilemma by quoting international
laW-but he might as we'll have
saved his breath.
The fact remained that because
we failed to act before the war,
nothing we could do after the
war began. would satisfy either
side and therefore placed the
United States in hopelessly en-
barrassing position
We simply couldn't be neutral,
no matter which way we turned.
THOSE who argue against any
L embargo action before the
actual outbreak of nostilities, de-
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tions. Ethiopia perhaps can not.
And the common cry is that it is
unfair to withhold arms from
both nations, for this lends indi-
rect support to the strong nation,
to the detriment of the weak.
=
CURELY this argument is so old
~ as to not need destroying again.
Yet perhaps it should be done
once more. We did nothing about
the control of the shipment of
AIMS at the beginning of the
World War.
Those munitions which were sold
went mostly to the allies-for they
had the ships and they had the
necessary control of the seas.
This anomaly soon appeared so
obvious that Congress moved to
embargo such shipments. Prompt
ly the allies protested. They said
that this would be a most I'M
friendly act-certainly it could not
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cline to face realities. Any hon.
est neutrality action taken by
any nation, is bound to benefit
the strong.
But in the two and a half
years prior to our entry into the
World War, we carefully kidded
ourselves that we were being neu-
trail, by selling to- every one.
Actually we were not selling to
every one, because one side had
neither the ships nor the control
of the sea to enable it to buy.
Therefore We were, in reality SELL
ing only the other side-and
eventually the investment grew so
large, CO pied with the fear
psychosif worked so cunningly by
the SAN side to which we were
selling, nat we plunged in to
save what we could from the
wreckage.
TOmorrow-HOw War Can Come.
Copyright. 1885, by the Telegraph Press
Harrisburg. Pa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-28
Controversy Sometimes Fun

IF 80 per cent of the letter writing listeners say,
Il Talk came in well, and I certainly agree with
YOU, 1t is just barely possible that MIR Hoover has
been too strict in avoiding controversial subjects Of
course, I'm just guessing to this haven't caught
the program yet, because it has generally been at
the same time as my two radio favorites-COlonel
Stoopnagle and Budd. STILL il does fair to
that dissent of only per cent must indicate
too great insstence upon attacking the
eating shark. OF course, with that line you do
tread upon few toes. I'll bet that Will Beebe has
already written in to say that sharks don't bite
people.
Now, II Herbert Hoover to discuss Americas
withdrawal from the Olympic games or the case of
Angelo Herndon the European situation I'll wager
that he would receive greater number of fan
letters OF course, of them would be brickbatS,
but commentator must expect that.
have been engaged for a good many years in
about the sort of work that which Mr..
Hoover is doing and hope he will understand the
spirit In which l offer little friendly advice.
a newspaper columnSt shortly after the turn
of the century, at time when Herbert Hoover was
merely a mining engineer. My original notion
to be genial philosopher. I endeavored to make
everybody love And they didn't And so I said
ITO hell with them! I'll really give them to
baW me out"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-28

Oh, the allied propaganda agents
worked with conSumate skill The
man who thought of those two
famous slogans little realized how
we'll they would do their work.
Democracy is a precious word
with Americans. 1t has epito-
mixed a national psychology for
$50 years. The politicians pirate
of it at every opportunity and the
200 per centers trot it out on every
occasion as Sure-f1re rabble
rouser.
1t has made us, through the
years, feel little holy, engendered
the idea that we are the chosen
custodians of the democracy of
the world.
A ND so when the kaiser's
4 Atroops marched into Belgium,
the gold brick that our democracy
was going to collapse if he we're
victorious, was sold to us by the
allies and we bought it, lock, stock
and barrel, never questioning the
salesman.
Thus was created the strange
fear" pSychosis in our national
makeup, that whenever the sound
of marching feet was to be heard
in the world, the fear for our de-
mocracy was to arise.
There was little excuse for sWal-
lowing it then-but that was all
81 years ago. The world has
changed in these two decades.
There is little excuse for it today,
although a national anxiety is
justified.
Americas commercial interests
have become SO intertWined with
the world that whatever happens
elsewhere on the globe, is bound
to affect American industry, and
therefore American social life.
If the time comes again, that
America shall be looked to, her
help courted and her arms re-
quested-this time the slogan will
be Save democracy from Fas-
cism," instead of Save the world
from Kaiser-ism."
And the fear psychosis generat-
ed by the World War-a psychosis
utterly missing from American
life from the day independence
was declared up until 1914-will
rear its head again.
THERE will be those who will
l. counsel reason and caution
and will quote cold facts and point
to logic and they will be damned
as friends of Fascism or Com
munism.
There are signs of it about us
already today-the disaffection bill,
threatening anybody who criticises
Army of Navy policies, with Jail,
which fortunately died with the
passing of the reform Congress
merely to mention just one item.
However, fear" alone will not
be the major factor which will
entangle us again-but rather
our industrial resources and the
part we play in the western
worlds industrial system.
The raw materials utilized by
industry in peace-time are the
same raw materials utilized by
man when he goes to war. And
the finances used to promote
peaceful pursuits are the same
finances used to pay for the wag-
ing of wars.
The business of shipping arms
and munitions internationally is a
reprehensible business. But lately
we have placed too great en-
phasis upon it.
The munitions business is not a
cause of war. 1t never has been.
1t is merely a symptom of war.
Italy can make her own NUM-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-28

WHAT of Americas destiny?
Woodrow Wilson became President of the United
States in 1913. He in of reform and
recovery
President Roosevelt became President of the United
states in 1888. He too in of reform and
recovery. Wilson called his program the New Freedom
Roosevelt calls his program the New Deal.
Acts of reform passed under the Wilson regime in
Guided the Federal Reserve Act the antitrust law the
income tax law the Federal Trade Commission and good
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-28
The My/jeeA
By
GEN.HUGHSJOHNSOX

XHTASHINGTON, Oct. 28-In his Pittsburgh
w speech the then Democratic candidate archlv
let the country in little secret He was going
to take. in exchange on each Cabinet appointment,
resignation in blank to become effective whenever
the appointee felt difficulty in going along with pol
lcy-presumably the policy stated in the platform
and in the speeches.
Our foreign trade policy has certainly not been
that. If ever this country needed, as Secretary of
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many others. Big business
fought the passage of every
act all down the line with
bitter intensity.
Acts passed under the Roose-
welt regime, so far, include Inc
utilities regulation act, the NRA,
the Wagner Labor Bill. the So
cial Security Act, the Omnibus
Bank Bill, Securities Act and
good many others. Big business
fought the passage of every act
all down the line with bitter in
tenSity.
TN 1914, war broke out in Eu-
Il rope. For two and half years,
Wilson's New Freedom was for
gotten because of what transpired
in Europe and America became
the supply house which under
wrote the war, financially and
commercially.
Eventually, the stake grew so
big that America joined the side
on which she had invested the
most money.
The New Deal acts of 1885 have
been passed-and war looms IN
the horizon of Europe again.
Is this strange parallel going
to run the same deadly course?
1t is both possible and prob
able.
Can the parallel be avoided?
Let us see if we can find an
answer.
TINE United States went into
Il the World War for two main
reaSonS-a strange, unreaSonlng
fear that democracy was about to
fall to pieces, and secondly, be-
cause industry, agriculture and the
bankers, became hopelessly in
volved commercially and financial
ly, trying to make money out of
somebody elses war and kidding
themselves that they could stay
out of it and not get burnt.
The unreasoning fear was subtly
fostered by Allied propaganda.
The British propaganda mill
worked like a well-oiled machine.
1t wasn't until the war had been
going on for at least a year, that
the Germans suddenly realized
what was happening-that a ire
mendously damaging case was be-
ing built up against them in the
United States by master of the
technique of understanding a ma
tional psychology and then play
ing it for all it is worth.
When the Germans promoted a
counter-pr propaganda system - it
was too late. The damage had
been done.
TINE image that Germany was
Il the villain had been plant
ed too firmly in the popular mind
to be eradicated. The national
sympathies had been skilfully
guided to support. if not actively
at least pasSively, the allied cause.
If any one so much as raised his
head to suggest caution and
backed up his argument with cold
logic-he was hoWled down as
friend of the enemy.
If some one mildly remarked
that military preparations were
causing a lot of aimless and use
less graft and confusion. he was
condemned as a national traitor.
If one was so luckleSs as to pos
SeSS a name with a Teutonic sound
to it-he was eyed with hostile
suspicion everywhere he went,
even though he might have been
a descendant from a Revolution
airy family.
This was to be a war to save
demOcracy-a war to end wars"
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graphic idea of the old and the given in the
views of the guns here Calamity Jane" elevated almost
to her limit being prepared fire of the last
shots of the on Armstce Day, 1918 With the old
box trail which gave her right and left swing of only
or degrees, and her clumsy iron-Shod wheels, the
sturdy old gun looks like piece.
Then note the huge sleek 8-nch howitzers, present
PRIDE OF the .. S. cannoneers. The in the fore