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The Washington times., 1935-04-02
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FAILS To FIND
RENO THRILLS

RENO, New, April 2 G.N.S0.
Reno's gay diversions-and "the
biggest little city in the world"
takes its slogan seriously-today
had failed to bring more than a
slight smile to the pretty lips OF
Barbara Hutton Mdivani.
The blonde 22-year-old heiress
10 the Woolworth millions on her
first night out in Reno, with a
company Of friends tasted the
fare Of a downtown Reno cafe
land looked upon the floor show.
Just the corners of the lovely
Barbara's mouth crinkled into a
shadow Of a smile.
Still in Love
One Of the members of her
party which included among
others her stepmother, Mrs.
Franklin Hutton, no stranger to
Reno; her local attorney, George
B. Thatcher, and his associate,
William WOODBURY., said:
'The princess still loves
Alexis"
She referred to the short but
Stalwart Georgian, Prince Alexis
Mdivani, from whom the princess
viii be divorced after a six
weeks stay in Nevada. The
friend was asked:
'Then why is she getting a
0ivorce?'
"She has suffered"
"HOw?"
Mentally"
And the conversation ended.
The princess herself said prac-
tically nothing in the cafe, nod
ding only occasionally to remarks
. addressed to her by her COM
panions. She said even less dur
ing the day at the Thatcher es-
tate on the Truckee River where
she is established comfortably in
o 25-room house stated by a ST.
lent squad of servants.
At her temporary place of abode
the Princess adhered to her re-
ticence concerning the press. A
reporter, with legal looking brief
case which seemed to deceive two
husky male guards, was met by
maid who was undeceived. He
was greeted with:
whoever you are the Princess
will not see you"
She was persuaded to submit
written question for the Princess
consideration and brought back
the one word, no"
The Washington times., 1935-04-02
Too Much Latitude
In Degrees

To the Editor Of The Times:
My sincere congratulations to
the California woman who pro-
tested against Secretary Perkins
being honored by the University
of California and given an hon.
orary degree,
This thing of colleges and uni
versities handing out degrees is
uncalled for and should be
stopped. No person who does
not accomplish the required
The Washington times., 1935-04-02
1t Also Depends
On the Neighbor

To the Editor Of The Times:
If instead Of all this war talk
the world would talk peace and
think peace, how much better off
we would be.
We see every day results of the
last war, and certainly no person
in his right mind wants a repiti-
ton of the horror of war, killing
and manning the youth OF the
land, plunging us into debt.
The last war was the under
lying cause Of the depression and
all our troubles.
The world could be a friendly
place If we would only learn to
love our neighbors.
A FRIEND.
The Washington times., 1935-04-02

To the Editor Of The Times:
In answer to "Disgusted Elk
Soldiers" statement in your col
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
Celebrates Innovation of
Expanded Space, Mod
ern Equipment.

The Indiana National Bank today
formally opened its expanded quar-
tiers at Washington and Pennsyl-
vania -sts and Virginia-av.
Additional space of 80 by 102
feet, on three floors, will be gained
as a result of the expansion. 1t is OF
particular help to the transit de-
partment, numbering rs people,
which previously had been cramped
into much smaller quarters.
Clerks in this department in the
old location had been so pressed for
space that at times a clerk would
find himself ready to write in the
ledger of the man next to him.
Arthur V. Brown, bank president,
does not believe there is any secret
involved in the episode.
The querulous are seeking to learn
how the local bank can expand its
facilities in an era when bankers
generally are with one hand point
ing to the declining yields on invest
ments and with the other scarily di-
recting attention to the rising tide
of deposits seeking employment.
Brown Is Optimistic
To explode the theory that there
is any secret attached to it, Mr..
Brown declared the time will arrive
again when business will demand
more money. Consequently, he be-
lieves the bank is looking to the fu-
ture in going through with its ex-
pansion at this time.
The proudest possession in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05

Citizens Gas Co. That's far too
high and the service is not worth it.
with gas of that btu. content
we can furnish city manufac-
turers, and the city cventu-
ally would probably use $4,000, 1000
cubic feet a day instead of the
100000 now used.
THE bonds could be paid off in
10 years, or at most 1912 years, and
the city would find the franchise
profitable. But if the rates are
higher, the use of gas will be dis
couraged, more people will stop
using it, the rates will go higher
to pay off the revenue bonds, and
so on until the law Of diminishing
returns cracks down full force.
Il might say that if Users doesn't
sell to indianapolis, it will sell some
place else-that's certain. The
hackers positively will not enter a
cat-and-dog fight for the contract
But We'll give bond that we'll do
what we say We'll do and I don't
think the city can get more favor
able terms"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
CIVAN TOSSES
USERS BACK IN
GAS LIMELICHT
Offers to Deliver Natural
Product for 35 Cents
a thousand.

Gas rates in indianapolis should
allow the small user to buy it for
so cents a 1000 cubic feet; the house
holder with a gas heating plant for
so cents; the manufacturer for As
cents"
With this statement, Clinton A.
Givan, attorney, today threw the hat
Of the Users Gas Co. back into the
municipal gas ring. predicting the
while that unless the city can buy
natural gas for 35 cents 1000 cubic
feet it will be unable to meet the
price schedule he quotes.
users Gas Co." he said, stands
ready now to offer the city a con-
tract for natural gas, delivered at
the city gate. at IS cents each 1000
cubic feet. 1t will be of such Brit
ish thermal unit content that it
could be mixed with one-fourth air
and still contain $50 b. t. u. when
it reached the customer.
Seeks 25-Year Contract
users is ready to sign for Is
years with an option for an addi-
tional 10 years. In the contract we
will place a promise never to ap-
pear before any regulatory body to
ask for an increase in price"
When and if the city is ready to
sign, his company will take the citys
engineer and geologist to the gas
fields and let them satisfy them
selves that the Users firm can de-
liver, Mr.. Givan said.
Buying natural gas at IS cents
from us, the city could dilute it so
that the consumer would pay the
rates 1 have quoted for gas VGat
actually would cost the city about
q cents. Distribution costs should
not be more than 7 cents" the at
torney continued.
"Of course, the city shouldn't
think of paying a annual rental of
100000 to the Indianapolis Gas
Co., the distributing portion of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
TRIAL is STARTED IN
H0WDY WILCOX SUIT
100000 Is Sought From
Speedway by Race Driver.

By United Press
FRANKLIN. Ind. June 5.-Trial
of the suit of Howdy Wilcox, In
dianapolis race driver, for 500 900
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
JUNE 5, 1885

damages from the indianapolis
Motor Speedway. opened today in
johnson Circuit Court.
Wilcox charges he was slandered
and his driving reputation injured
because he was refused permission
to start in the 1888 Memorial Day
500-mile race at the Speedway.
Speedway officials disclaim any
intention TO SANDER the driver and
say he was refused permission TO
drive after a physical examination
showed he was physically unfit for
the long grind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05

new quarters is giant vault. This
contraption's inner shell is shielded
by 172 tons of steel and the wall it
self is "a inches thick. The door
which provides entrance to the vault
weighs 80 tons and is 81 inches deep.
Standardized in this door is a copper
plate 7 inches thick; copper is used
because it is impervious to any
torch.
Nesting close to the vault is an
other of the banks proudest posses
sions. 1t is the safe which housed
the banks currency in 1895 when
the Indiana National Bank was de-
stroyed by fire.
This antique. dwarfed by the new
and modern vault, at the time OF
the confagration contained $1,000
900 in gold, placed there by the
gold-minded Volney T. Malott.
Two Air Conditioning Units
Five days later when the safe
could be opened the precious yellow
metal was found to be unframed.
If the fire had melted the gold it
would have cost the bank several
thousand dollars to have the money
recoined. The safes performance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
RADIO SHOP ROBBED
Three Negroes Held Under High
Bond After Burglary.

Three Negroes were arrested on
vagrancy charges and placed under
high bond in connection with the
burglary early today of SINNERS
Radio Shop, 801 N. Delaware-st.
Those held are Samuel Duncan, 28,
of 500 N. Senate-av, j. D. Brown, "a,
of 430 N. West -st, and James South
ern, %, of 500 N. Senate-av. Five
radios were taken and recovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
BEAUTY CLEARED IN
TRIANGLE Staying
ENDS LIFE IN RIVER

By United Press
LONDON, June 5.-Mrs. Alma
Victoria Rattenbury, beautiful,
black haired song writer acquit-
ted five days ago of the mallet
murder of her wealthy husband,
walked slowly into the River Stour
last night, to drown after stabbing
herself six times.
On the body was found a note
to George Percy Stoner, 10, the
Rattenbury family chauffeur and
her lover, awaiting execution June
Is at Pentonville prison as the
confessed murderer of the hus-
band. Francis Mawson Ratten-
bury, 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
JUVENILE HOME
GROUP CONFERS
WITH GECKLER
Hopes for Council o. K. on
N. New JerSey-St Site;
Judge Opposed.

Possibility Of the acceptance by
the Marion County Council Of the
proposed construction Of a new
Detention home on a site in the
800 block on y. New Jersey-st was
seen today following a meeting yes
terday of a committee with Juvenile
Judge John z. Geckler.
Although two Of the Marion
County commissioners. Dow Vorhies
and Ernest K. Marker. did not
attend the meeting Commissioner
Vorhies today agreed to accept the
proposed site.
During yesterdays meeting Judge
Geccler explained that he desired
no makeshift structure, that he
opposed the use Of the n. New
Jersey site as a combined detention
home and juvenile court, that ne
really desired to see the juvenile
court and detention home built on
the Courthouse lawn, and that any
proposed building should have
ample space for the care Of children
in IS classes.
Judge Geckler said he had heard
that some one had said that he was
particularly interested in one site
because OF the interests Of his rela-
tives in the site.
Denies Financial Interest
Il haven't a financial interest In
any site and I want you to know
that. One thousand dollars doesn't
mean a thing TO me. I've saved a
little. and so money does not mean
anything TO me-" the judge told
repreS entatives Of Community Fund
welfare agencies, Juvenile Court
workers. and members Of the COM
mittee headed by County Commits
sioner John Newhouse. who attend
ed the meeting.
I'm not a candidate for re-elec-
ton, so I don't want monument
for myself" he added.
Russell NeWgent. Juvenile Court
referee. related how it was the de-
sire Of the committee that the new
Detention Home be called merely
Marion. County Juvenile Home,
with the word detention" deleted.
NewhOuse Points to Saving
He pointed out that 70 per cent
OF the cases handled in Juvenile
Court we're adults charged with con-
tributing TO delinquency or child
neglect and suggested the possibility
of the proposed home housing a
semi-court and assembly room where
the cases of children could be tried
If the Judge desired.
Judge Geckler opposed the hold
Ing of hearings of children IN the
proposed Detention Home ana a
separation of the Juvenile Court S
duties.
Mr.. Newhouse said that as a coun-
= commissioner he desired to see
a home constructed at the least cost
to the taxpayers. He said the pro-
posed N. New Jersey-st site could
be built for $4,000 with the net cost
S47.250 after Federal money lad
been obtained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05

in that fire, Mr.. Brown believes, has
earned it a place of distinction.
With the expanded quarters the
more than 200 officers and employees
of the bank are to receive some
benefit from two conditioning
units which have just been in
stalled.
The land on which the addition
stands was purchased about four
years ago from the Ancient Ac-
copied Scottish Rite. Plans for
erecting the annex were inaugurated
in May, 1884.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-05
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
S5-663. from in front of his home. s
H D. Orr. 1915 Kessler-blvd. Buick road
ster. from in front of 2540 w. Michigan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-23

this country strengthens the conten-
ton that gold obligations under the
canal treaty cannot be paid off in
devalued dollars. 1t is the funda-
mental claim of Panama that the
treaty cannot be altered or modified
by one government without consent
of the other.
The Supreme Court held that
American holders Of gold clause bonds
have no remedy because they can dem
onstrate no damage and they are de-
barred from suing in the Court of
Claims. Panama, it is indicated, is
prepared to reply that these limita-
lions do not apply to sovereign gov
eminent to which the United States
owes money. The amount involved is
not considerable. measured by present.
day billion-dollar standards in WASH
ington, but Panama has presented an
undoubtedly delicate legal problem.
The United States Government is
understood to sympathize with Pan
ama's position in principle, but is re-
luctant to establish a precedent that
might affect colossal sums of other
foreign obligations.
Panama and this country are nego-
tiating new pact to replace the 1904
treaty. 1t is planned to incorporate
in it some arrangement dealing with
the question of the gold payment.
While there is something to be said
for the theory that foreigner" should
not be extended gold privileges with
held from American citizens, a coun-
try with consistent record for main
tanning the sanctity Of international
contracts will find it embarrassing, to
say the least. to deny the right
Panama is now claiming. The tick
lish question bobs up to plague us,
too, at time when we are branding
as defaulters European nations which
have repudiated their debt obligations
to the United States Treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELE.

first, he accepts the fact without
murmur. He realizes that vegetable
fiber Is not as tender as skin, and
that though snow piled around his
limbs would mean destruction to them,
over q month, it would be a help to
bush canes. The buds prove 1t.
X \ 4 y
The best pruning of bush roses is
done at this time of the year, during
the last days of February and the
first IA days or so of March.
Be not afraid to WELD the clippers.
The pruning shears help make any
of our popular or not so popular
roses better plants.
Mostly they should be cut back
to half a foot or less.
We have seen them cut clear down
to the ground, only to come back
stronger than ever for the severe
pruning.
This, Of course, only II the roots
are in good condition.
Such pruning is safely practiced
if the plants did well last Summer
and Fall.
If they did not, perhaps it would
be better to handle the shippers with
discretion.
In any event it is best to prune
before the leaf buds begin to swell
clear along the canes. After that
happens something is lost to the
plant If cut back.
The leaf buds at the base are the
strongest, and from them will grow
those first beautiful bronZe-red leaves
SO beloved by all gardeners.
What is more beautiful, after all,
in the marvellous procession of Ma
lures forms than those divinely COL
ored leaves at the tips of lower
branches?
There is here not the overwhelming
beauty Of peonies in bloom. but
something simple. just a bit of leaf,
colored.
Many of us have to train ourselves
to see such Simplicities.
1t is easy enough to comprehend
the studied impudence of such per-
sons and things as aim to startle us.
Surely they achieve their end.
But what of US? We are left in
danger of demanding more and more
of the same, else we fail to see any
thing at all.
What was a novelty, and nothing
more, to begin with, becomes at last
necessity.
In the world of plants this means
that we must test ourselves, now and
then, for adherence to divine sim
plicity.
II huge and snowy bloom Is needed
to make our garden soul thrill, we are
in great danger of overlooking some
Of the finest treats which Nature has
in store for all who love her.
1t was not for nothing that our
early poets wrote about the fringed
gentian. They had their eyes on fun
damentalS, knowing that beauty is
partly in the eye that sees, as well as
in the thing seen.
Shame on us of today, If we put all
our stress on the rose, and not some
on those lovely first leaves, uncurling
a little later, crimson with fire from
the heart of Nature. touched with her
best green.
Prune We must, but, with all our
pruning, let us remember to stoop
down to see the little leaves which
will come soon. They are among
Natures smallest but best garden dis
plays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-23
Hauptmann Verdict Accepted
AS Just by Newspaper World

All through the newspaper world the
conviction of Hauptrnann as the MUIR
derer of the Lindbergh baby is &C
copied as Just and as the inevitable
result of the amazing chain Of cir
cumstantial evidence built up by the
authorities.
This conviction, the sentencing, the
eventual execution should convince
even the lawlesS,'' according to the
Buffalo Evening News, that circum-
stantial evidence, properly knit to-
gether, will bring to justice the most
cunning. 1t should make the crimi-
nally inclined less sure of their ability
to evade punishment"
1t is admitted by the Topeka CKans)
Daily Capital that many will wonder
if the verdict was just" because of the
circumStantial evidence, but that
paper concludes it was in accord
ance with the system of American
jurisprudence" The New Orleans
Times-Picayune observes that never
before have We had such a web of
circumstance woven about a defend
ant" and the Allentown CPa.) Morn
ing Call feels that it was 80 strong
and evidently so convincing that the
jury was ready to pronounce the most
serious verdict possible"
THE mass Of such evidence" states
the New York Sun. "overpowered the
alibis presented by the defense. Rea-
Sonable doubt, which every judge in
capital case so carefully explains in
his charge. was swept away. The long
and sometimes weary trial ends with
verdict which most readers who have
followed the volumes of testimony will
approve"
THE defense helped to make the
States case impregnable," in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-23

mountain, and its crater. usually a
rather small vent, opens from its
summit Besides being so much
larger, the moon craters are not on
top of mountains. Rather, they are
surrounded by mountains and high
hills.
The explanation lies partly in the
extreme lightneSs of the moon, COM
pared with the earth. and hence the
difference in the pull of gravity. A
man on the moon could Jump 40 or
so feet without much difficulty. The
pull of gravity there is perhaps less
than one-twenty-fifth what it is on
the earth.
When terrestrial volcano explodes
1t shoots out an enormous amount of
rocks and lava. This is acted upon
by gravity, which soon overcomes the
initial propulsion of the subterranean
explosion which threw it upward. 1t
falls to earth very close to the vent
from which 1t issued. Hence noun
tain is built up surrounding the vent
and the familiar form of the earthly
volcano results.
On the moon the force of gravity
also pulls down the flying debris
eventually. But it gets much farther
away from the vent out of which it
issued. The result is that the heights
are piled up at distances of so to sew
eral hundred miles away-leaving the
great plains which the old astronomers
thought were seas.
X X y X
But DR.. Wright, in his latest report
of the work of the committee, sees
another possible origin for the
mares"
The moon, like the earth, is con-
stantly bombarded by meteors from
outer space. Unlike the earth, it has
no protecting armor of air to break
the force Of the hits" and to burn
most of the missiles to ashes before
they hit the surface.
Occasionally, in spite of this air
cushion, an enormous meteor hits the
earth and buries ITSELF The impact
of the collision is terrific, setting up
earth waves that can be detected from
Siberia to Washington.
But what must be the force of such
OLA AHPuCt VII Illc ullp IOtCCGcu uiOOlls
DR.. Wright calculates that when the
kinetic energy was transformed into
heat it would be sufficient to melt, or
even volatilize, the rocks and set up
actions very similar to those of ter
reStrial volcano. Such an explosion
would produce much the same sort of
mare"
X X x n
To help in the exploration from such
vast distance of the mysterious
mountains and valleys of the moon
the Moon Committee is constructing
a new kind of map of the moon on a
globular surface which, they claim,
will afford a much more accurate rep
resentation of its surface features and
their relations to each other than
has been possible with hat-surfaced
map.
In addition they are learning much
about the nature of the materials
which make UP the moons surface
through studies Of the effect it has on
the sunlight which 1t reflects and
which comes to the earth as moon
light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-23
Panama Asks for Gold.

While reverberations of the Su-
preme Courts decision in the gold
clause cases still echo across Wash
ington, an international incident more
or less related to the issue recently at
stake clamors for consideration Of the
United States Government. It is pro-
voked by the demand Of Panama that
$25O,000 due next week for 1885
rental of the Canal Zone be paid in
gold coin, as specified In the treaty
of 1904, instead of in devalued Amer
lean dollars. If a check representing
New Deal money Is rendered by the
Treasury, it is indicated that Panama
will decline to accept 1t.
The Panaman government took
the same position q year ago and
returned the check offered to it. The
isthmian authorities maintain that
the Supreme Courts ruling that Con-
gress had no right 40 abrogate the
gold clause in public obligations of