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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
NEVER STUDIED
ECONOMICS SAYS
R. E. CLEMENTS
Ex-SeCretary of Townsend
Plan Is GriIIed by Com
mittee Counsel.
INSIDE STORY SOUGHT
First Witness in Inquiry, He
Recalls Original Meeting
With Doctor.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 26.
Robert E. Clements, re-
signed national secretary and
business brains" of the
Townsend Old-Age Pension
organization, told a congress
sional committee today that
he had never made any "funda-
mental study of economics"
in connection with the 5000
a-month pension plan.
DO you know the difference be-
tween economy and political econ
my?" asked Committe Counsel James
R. Sullivan.
Il don't know that I do" Mr..
Clements replied.
The resigned secretary was the
first witness at a politically signifi-
cant investigation into old-age pen
sion movements designed to reveal
the inside story" of the Townsend
and other plans
Leaning forward on the committee
table and clasping and unclasping
his hands as he testified, Mr.. Glenn
entS said that he had made a de-
tailed study of the Townsend plan
and of opinions of economists and
other authorities.
He added that he had read trea-
tiSeS on the ability of the nation to
produce and consume, but admitted
that he had never studied any
textbooks on economics or taxa
ton before the Townsend plans
conception.
He had followed statistics and
government reports closely and had
made "a diligent search" for data
on transaction taxes, he said, but
only after the plans inception. He
said he never attended college.
Recalls Meeting With Townsend
DR.. Francis E. Townsend first APP
preached him about the plan in Oc-
tober and November, 1888.
Il was in the real estate business
at Long Beach," he said MY father
was then practically retired.
1T was in an Office about half the
size of this room. 1t was about Is
by rs feet"
He said Townsend had been "in"
on a Midway City real estate VEN
ture in which he participated but
said they were not associated in
1888.
There was much talk and ban
dying about of the idea of old-age
pensions between himself and DR..
Townsend between the fall of 1888
and January, 1894, when the plan
was incorporated, he said.
Real Estate Deals Stressed
The committee laid considerable
emphasis on Mr.. Clements real es-
tate dealings before he entered the
Townsend movement, and when ne
first filed an income tax return.
Asked If he received $500 or ST.
100000 in connection with his Mid
city real estate ventures near Long
Beach, Mr. Clements said he didn't
know exactly but it was more than
$500.
1t was brought out that DR.. Town
send, who was interested in the Mid
city development, had been relieved
as assistant medical examiner of
Long Beach in 1888, before the plan
was organized.
The Western region of OARP was
started about June, 1885, the Cen
trail Region, Chicago, July, 1895;
Eastern New York, July, 1885, and
Southern, Washington, July /, 1885.
Mr.. Clements denied Mr.. Sullivans
inference that the organizations
books, prior to July /, 1885, were an
unintelligible mess"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
TRAFFIC LAW DRIVE
is TO OPEN MONDAY
VioIators to Get Courtesy
Tags During Week End.

The new drive on traffic law vio-
ls4tors is to begin Monday morning,
Chief Morrissey announced today.
Until that time motorists, whether
residents of this county or not, will
receive courtesy stickers" asking
them to cooperate with the police
department. No fines will be levied
until the new "fix-proof tickets are
passed out to resident violators Mon
day morning, Chief Morrissey said.
Out-of county violators-even aft
Ell the Monday deadline-are to be
given no-fine tickets on first and
second offenSes. Arrests are to be
made on third violations.
StickerS are given only for minor
offenses. Speeders are subject to ar
rest under the state law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
VERA DENIED ASSAULT
ATTEMPT, JURY TOLD
Story of Witness Throws Murder
Courtroom in Uproar.

BIZ tHifCd Press
NEW YORK, March 26-Vera
Stretz, pretty blond art student, adj
mitted the night she killed her lover
DR.. Fritz Gebhardt. that he had not
attempted to assault her, a prose-
cution witness testified today. 1t
was the most damaging testimony
yet introduced at Miss Stretz' muir
der trial
The MISUNDERSTANDING at the base
OF the self-defense plea planned for
Miss Stretz-caused an uproar in
the courtroom and led her counsel
Samuel Leibowitz, famous attorney,
&c demand a mistrial
The motion was denied by Judge
Cornelius Collins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
FARMER, Wife
DIE IN WRECK
AT GREENFIELD
Light Truck Is Struck by
Fast Pennsylvania Pas
Senger Train.
VEHICLE Is DEMOLISHED
Victims Bodies Are Thrown
From Cab by Impact
of Collision.
Times Special

1tmeS Special
GREENFIELD, Ind, March 20
Lee Justice, 81, Greenfield farmer,
and his wife, Mrs. Grace Justice,
SO, practical nurse, were killed in
stantly today when their light truck
was struck by the Spirit of st.
Louis, crack Pennsylvania railroad
train, here.
The truck was demolished and
pieces strewn down the tracks for
rs yards after it was struck at
State-st on the west side of the
Hancock County Courthouse.
The Justices had been living on q
farm four miles east of Greenfield
and were moving into the city today
Deputy sheriffs said they believed
Mr.. Justice disregarded the cleo
trio flasher at the crossing The
bodies were thrown from the truck
by the impact of the west-bouno
train.
Train Whistled, Police Told
This crossing has taken an annual
toll of lives. The train proceeded
under it's own power to Indian
apolis. The Justices are survived
by two children
Mr.. Justice formerly was an auto
salesman and was member of a
well-known Greenfield family. The
survivors were two children of Mrs
Justice by a former marriage, Mrs
Lucille Lockridge, who lives on the
farm, and Dale Robson.
The train whistled before it
reached the crossing and stopped
after the accident, witnesses told
police Mrs. Justices body was &C
feet from the crossing and Mr.. JUS
tice's 40 feet.
The bodies were taken to the F.
r. Lyman Funeral Home here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
FILES SUIT AGAINST
STATE FINANCIAL ACT
Investor Asks $4,000 Damages, Says
Law Unconstitutional.

Investor Asks $4,000 Damages, Says
Law Unconstitutional.
Constitutionality of the Indiana
Financial Institutions Act was at
tackled in a suit filed in Circuit
Court today by Mrs. Elizabeth d.
Ermstor against the State Finan-
cial Institutions department and it's
indianapolis agent, Carl A. Ploch.
Mrs. Ermston charged in her
suit that the department took and
converted IA shares of Plymouth
Savings and Loan Association stock
valued at $1400. She asks $4,000
damages.
The association is under liquida-
ton by the department, and James
D. Ermston. Indianapolis attorney
and husband of Mrs. Ermston, said
it was his theory that the depart
ment had no authority to interfere
with contracts between depositors
and the association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
ROOSEVELT TRIES LUCK
AT FISHING NEAR HAITI

Moves Southwark i'm Atlantic;
Uncle Gets Prize Catch So Far.
By United Press
MIAMI, Fla, March 26.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt moved farther
southwark in the Atlantic today
seeking new fishing grounds in the
vicinity of the northern coast of
Haiti.
Aboard the new presidential yacht
Potomac, he ordered his little flo
tilla to get under way after "a
hours in the neighborhood of
Great Inagua Island, which lies
between Haiti and the eastern tip
of Cuba.
Two dispatches received at tenn
porary White House executive Of
fees in the Miami Biltmore Hotel
indicated that SO far the luck at
fishing has been only fair. with Mr..
Roosevelt's uncle, Frederic Delano,
sharing the prize catch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
Boy, II, Falls to Death in
Attempt to Escape Jail

He had fashioned a crude rope of
bedding and clothing. 1t broke as he
started the descent. His crushed
body was found by passers-by.
Johnny admitted taking $40 from
a photographers shop at Cushing
last Saturday. Monday he was TAX
en- to the Jail at Saltwater to await
removal to training school. He was
placed in the women's ward and al
lowed access to the iailers quarters.
Yesterday before daylight he ia
shioned rope, tied one end inside
the jailer's room and climbed over
the window sill. He fell four stories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
Prober Back From Cuba

By United Press
MIAMI, Fla, March 26.-Robert
w. Hicks, Lindbergh case investi-
gator for Gov. Harold G. Hoffman
planned to return to New Jersey
today, bearing a claim that a letter
seeking ransom money disposal in
Cuba in 1882 was written by the
late Isidor Fisch. Hicks arrive
here from Havana last night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
Happy Returns

Collections of Federal income
tax in Indiana this year for the
period from Jan. / to March Is
show net gain of $2,818, 058.24
over the period from Jan. to
March 81 last year, Will H.
Smith, internal revenue collec-
tor. said today.
This. he said, represents q
gain of approximately IS per
cent over last year, considering
that the reported period this
year is six days short of the re-
ported period of last year.
Mr. Smith said that there
were $4,000 returns filed for last
years period as against $4,000
for this years, and he pre-
dicted the returns filed for the
entire year 1886 will go we'll
over 100000, as against only
$4,000 for last year.
Collections for the January
March period this year have
been $7142, 563.71. Last year
they were $4,324, 505.47, Mr.
Smith said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26

BIZ United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY. March 20
The death of 1l-year-o Johnny
Baker in an attempt to escape from
the Payne County Jail at Saltwater
brought threats today of search
ing investigation into methods of
handling juvenile delinquentS
Mrs. Mabel Bassett, state commits
sioner of charities and corrections,
said she was going to have a talk
with the sheriff and judge of Payne
County.
Johnny plunged four stories to
death on the pavement yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26

DILOXI, Miss. March 2e.-If ever
ID I lose my job as rowing re-
porter, I'll be in fine practice to be
a travelling salesman For l know
the back roads, the jerk-water no.
tells and the cracker-box vernacular
of two-thirds of the states in the
Union.
1t is my job to travel around over
the country for The Indian
apolis Times. covering something
specific part of the time-such as
IVA, the Dionne Quintuplets, the
Florida Canal, or Maj. Doves hour;
but most of the time just writing
about anything interesting l bump
into-such as an engineer who plays
tunes on his locomotive whistle, or
a tobacco auction, or a Broadway
newsboy.
In the past year I have covered
some $4,000 miles by auto, train, air.
plane and boat, but mostly by auto
I live in hotels (both good and bad)
in private homes, and stop with
friends once in while. When I'm
not on trip, I live in Washington.
There are only few rowing re-
porters in the world. 1t is a queer
job My friends think it is an easy
job. They think it's just vacation.
They think I'm getting paid just
for seeing the world. My poor, sim
pie friends.
They don't know what it is to
drive and dig up information all
Gay long, and then work till mid
night writing it. One story day
sounds easy as falling off log.
Try it sometime.
DUT there are good sides to this
~ job, too. You see lot of fas-
cinating things. And you learn
so much. In the last year I have
learned more about American his
tory than 16 years of schooling ever
taught me. Learned it from hear
ing people talk, and from reading
books about the new places I Wis
tied.
AS rowing reporter 1 have
learned that the mountaineers OF
eastern Tennessee are the purest
Anglo-Saxon strain in America
and tremendously sharp and capa
BILE; that in Nova Scotia they say
good night" as greeting, just as
we say good evening"; that Texas
is the only state with the power
to divide itself into smaller states
if it wants to; that tourists with IL
linois license tags are the widest
drivers on the roads: that in New
Orleans masking of the face is al
lowed by law one day year, on
Turn to Page Sixteen)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
SHOWERS PREDICTED
BY WEATHER BUREAU
Rain Due Tonight and Tomorrow
Here, Is Indication.

A sort of preview April shower is
scheduled to arrive here tonight,
and may stop over until tomorrow
the Weather Bureau predicted
today. The thermometer is ex-
pected to go up this evening, and
then take short dip tomorrow.
The mercury made steady climb
throughout the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
GLOVE PLANT STRIKE
ENTERS SECOND DAY
25 Women Hold indianapolis Firms
Factory Idle Again.

~ CnftPd PFfSS
COSHOCTON, O., March 20
Twenty five striking women, armed
with clubs, today held the Indianap-
oils Glove Co. plant idle for the
second day in their dispute over a
20 per cent wage reduction.
Non-strikers marched TO the plant
at Z a. m. to return to their jobs
but made no attempt to break the
picket lines as they had threatened.
Fifty miners and bod carriers,
members of sympathetic unions.
stood behind the women in their
picket line. They were ready to
support the girls If the 100 nom
strikers attempted to force their
way into the factory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
STOCK TRADING LIGHT
General Motors Climbs to New High
Since 1929.


NEW YORK, March 26-The
stock market gained fractions TO
more than a point today but trad
ing continued light. Motor shares
led the early recovery as General
Motors pushed into a new high since
1929 and then yielded leadership TO
the railroads. Several issues made
new highs. Utilities mostly were
quiet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
MINTON RAPS HEARST
IN SENATE ADDRESS
HOOsier Attacks Publishers Suit
Against Lobby PrObers.
Bu United Press

~A0ohhos A<OOOJ hOONhos
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 26. -
Senator Sherman Minton Cd, Ind.)
bitterly criticised William Ran
dolph Hearst today in a Senate
speech.
Senator Minton, member of
the Senate Lobby Committee with
which Mr. Hearst has been in con-
troversy, attacked the publisher for
his legal action designed to pre-
vent the committee from examin-
ing or making public kilograms
sent by the publisher The commit
tee had subpenaed the elegrams
in connection with its inquiry into
lobbying.
He is the greatest enemy of the
freedom of the press in this coun-
try" the Senator said of Hearst.
He prostitutes the freedom of the
press for his own interests"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
3 OF FAMILY KILLED
BY GAS HEATER FUMES
Fourth in Serious Condition In
Warren (O.) Hospital.


Warren (O.) Hospital.
By United Press
WARREN, o.. March 26.-Three
members of Warren family were
dead today and fourth was in a
hospital in critical condition from
monoxide gas fumes, believed to
have come from a gas hot water
heater.
The dead: Samuel Carter, so;
his wife, Hannah, SO, and his moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Forest, SO.
A high flame left burning under a
hot water tank was believed to have
filled the house with fumes. Fresh
air seeping through a window saved
Dorothy May Carter II, from inn
mediate death. She is in serious
condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
YOUTH KIDNAPS BRIDE,
Is FREED ON ST BAIL
Blushing Bridegroom Announce
Marriage When Arraigned.
By United Press
NEW. YOPK

BY United Press
NEW YORK, March 26.--Jacob
Smith, 81, won the lowest bail on
record in a kidnapping case yester-
day-$l. Mrs. Antoinette Wildman
accused him of kidnapping her IS
year-old niece. Dorothea Wildman.
Magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino adj
journed hearing to May l and set
the unique bail when Smith, blush
ing, introduced his victim" as Mrs.
Jacob Smith. They hadn't intended
to tell the brides aunt, they said,
until Mrs. Smith became l6 on Sat
urdgy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
By United Press

By United Press
TOKYO. March pa band of
Russian soldiers attacked a de-
tachment OF japanese and Man.
chukuoan army surveyors near
Hunchun. ManchukIo. yesterday,
the war Office announced today.
Three japanese officers and six
soldiers, and one Manchukuoan Of
ficer and three soldiers were wound
ed, it was said
According TO the war office YER
sion, the Japanese Manchukuoans
retired to prevent a further clash.
put the Russians followed. The
war Office said that the Russians
fred first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26

By tinted Press
VALPARAISO. Ind. March 26.-
Approximately $4,000 damage was
caused today by fire which de-
stroyed the building occupied BY the
Krudup & Benton Hardware Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
ARMIES IN ETHIOPIA
PREPARE FOR BATTLE

SelaSsie Expected to Lead His
Forces in Stand at Lake.
By United Press
ASMARA, March 26.-Italian and
Ethiopian armies prepared today for
a last great battle in the Lake
Ashangi district before the rains i'm
mobilize them until next fall.
Italian reports are that Emperor
Halle Selassie is gathering an army
OF 10000 warriors which he intends
to lead himself in hope for victory.
1t is likely the battle will take
place on the lake shores.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
JAPANESE SOLDIERS
KILLED NEAR BORDER
Each Nation BIameS Other
for Incident.

By United Press
MOSCOW, March 26.-An unde-
termined number of Japanese SOL
diers were killed and wounded in
two clashes in Russian territory on
the -Manchukuoan from
tier. an official dispatch from Kha-
barovsk, Siberia, asserted today.
Seven japanese soldiers crossed
the frontier yesterday morning
near Hunchun, Manchukuo, South
west of Vladivostok, Siberia, the
dispatch said, and fired on Russian
frontier guards. The japanese were
forced to retreat after half-hour
skirmish, leaving two dead, the dis
patch said. Later, the dispatch
continued, so japanese with ma
chine guns returned, but retreated
after a fight of several hours.
Russian Ambassador Constantine
Yurenev at Tokyo was instructed
to protest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
15-OUNcE BABY DIES
'Tiniest Infant Born Feb. 5, Fails
to Survive.

By LHfitd FFfSs
OAKLAND, Cal, March 26. -
Nancy Lee Vogt, who weighed Is
ounces at birth Feb. 5, died last
night at Peralta Hospital, apparent
ly from malfunction of vital organs
and anemia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-26
Vagabond
from
Indiana
ERNIE PYLE

EDITORS NoTE-This rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he pIeases,
when he pleases, in search of odd stories
about this and that.
Evening star., 1936-09-24
ROCKEFELLER SEES
DONATIONS HIS DUTY
Replies to Democratic Critics Of
Contributions to Maine
G. o, P,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 24.-John
D. Rockefeller, jr., was on record to-
day as believing 1t Is q right and duty
Of citizens to make such contributions
as they wish toward the legitimate
expenses Of the political party in
whose principles and leadership we
have faith"
He replied to Democratic criticisms
Of Rockefeller contributions to the
Maine Republican campaign in a
statement issued last night on behalf
of himself, his wife and his son John.
Rockefeller emphasized in the state
ment that his s3-year-old father, John
D. Rockefeller, sr, had made no con-
tribution.
Saying I'VE have all our lives been
members of the party to which we
contributed" Rockefeller asserted that
he. his wife and son have resided in
Maine part of each year and I'VE are
intensely interested in the State and
all that concerns its welfare"
The statement said the Rockefellers
believed political parties were the best
agencies for submitting to the voters
'such information and argument .
needed for correct decisions on pub
lie issues" and that eve know no
method Of meeting the eosts ef gather
Evening star., 1936-09-24
98 MILLION STILL
0UT|NGOLDNOTE
Partially Repudiated Cur
rency Comes In at Rate
of $500, 900 Weekly.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Three years after the New Deal
ordered owners of gold certificates to
turn over their holdings to Federal
Reserve Banks, the Treasury today
listed s98,905, ,429 of them as still in
circulation.
Officials said this figure was not
entirely accurate, however, because
some Of the certificates undoubtedly
are lost or destroyed or held In for
eign countries.
They still are being turned in at the
rate of about 100000 a week, they
said, adding that in many cases they
are withheld unintentionally.
In some instances, the administrator
or executor of an estate may discover
a safe or vault containing gold GER
tificates. Sometimes the holders
themselves either are unaware of the
ban or have forgotten they hold the
certificates. In other instances, the
notes turn up in business transac-
tions and are forwarded to the banks
Those who withhold gold certifi-
Gates are subject to a penalty twice
the value of the notes. but on at
tempt is made to exact this when
it is clear that failure to turn in the
certificates was untltentional.
Some cases, however, involve per-
sons who knowingly withhold them
In one instance, a vault containing
several thousand dollars of this cur
rency was discovered during an in
come tax proceeding.
Numerous anonymous tips come to
the Treasury and these are investi-
gated by the Secret Service.
Evening star., 1936-09-24
u. of NJ. Students
Rally to Defense
Of One in FracaS
Petition Is Circulated
Asking Discipline
Be WHhheld.
BY the Associated Press.

COLLEGE PARK, Md, September
24-University of Maryland sopho-
mores rallied to the defense of a
fellow classman today by circulating
petition asking that he not be dis
ciplined for participation in a sopho-
more-freshman fracas that ended the
rule Of the second-year students.
University authorities had named
no students in formal statement
that concluded with the assertion it
had not been determined whether
disciplinary action against any would
be necessary.
A report swept the campus, how
ever, that Arthur Greenfield of
Yonkers, N. Y, transfer student
from Lehigh College, faced possible
charges of unnecessary roughness and
the petition was circulated in his
defense.
More than 900 students signed the
petition in the first hour it was cir
culated. The signers asserted they
felt Greenfield was not to blame for
the roughness of the soph-frosh
struggle.
DR.. Byrd called sophomore class
officers into a conference yesterday
and issuance of the statement fol-
lowed. It said:
"A group of sophomores and fresh
men apparently had decided differences
of opinion about relationships be-
tween the two classes. What started
out as matter of fun, according to
all indications, developed for a few
minutes into a not-unusual freshman
sophomore fracas.
LAS result, officers and other mem
bers of the sophomore class met in
conference and decided to discontinue
all activities that have to do with
attempts to force compliance on the
part of freshmen with so-called. sopho-
more-freshman rules.
whether or not disciplinary action
will be necessary in connection with
some Of the students has not yet been
determined"