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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
H0USEbREAKER
BEATS WOMAN
ASsaiIant FIeeS in Darkness
After Cutting Victims
Face Severely.

Miss Edith Evans, 38. was beaten
on the face early today by a bur-
glar who had invaded her top-foor
apartment at 1886 N. Alabama st
Police believe the burglar inflicted
the severe cuts on Miss Evans face
with f1ashight. He escaped after
the attack.
Miss Evans, who is an advertising
copy writer at the William H. Block
Co. department store, awakened at
and saw man in the semi darkness
of her room. She screamed and the
man beat her. A f1aShlight found
near her bed, police believe, was the
weapon used.
The man fed downstairs through
a door leading to summer porch
and thence outside. Paul S. Eberts
who occupies the apartment under
that of Miss Evans, said he heard
the scream and saw a man in flight
through the yard.
He described him as being about
S feet tall, heavily built, and wear
ing dark clothing and a dark cap.
Police took Miss Evans, who lives
with her mother, to Methodist Hos
pital, where she was put under
opiates to prevent nervous pros
tration.
This assailant is believed to be
the same who has been invading
North Side homes. Less than two
hours after Miss Evans was beaten
Mrs. Berg King, 1854 Central-av
was awakened by noise downstairs
in her home. Thinking the noise
had been made by a dog, she called
to the animal. Some one ran out OF
the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17

his alphabet has only one sound,
Watson translated the passage:
I go to Mr.. Rye's store. I like
Mr.. Rye's bright store. I buy four
nice cold pies. Mike goes to Mr..
Rye's fine store, too. Mike likes
pie. like cold pies tonight"
~ ~ e
THE "a" of the standard alpha
- bet has 60 different sounds,
Watson explained.
A teacher himself for IS years.
he contends a teacher should fit
the work to the needs of every
pupil.
Thomas Edison was called
fool and an ignoramus by his
teacher" he explained. He left
school. If he hadn't-and if he
had received the equivalent of our
present high school physics
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
Hope for Peaceful Solution
Grows; France More
ConciIiatory.
RECEIVE GERMAN NOTE
Berlin Still Pressing for
Consideration of Fuehrer'S
Treaty Proposal.
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE
United Press Gable Editor

Europe made definite prog
ress today toward working
it's way out of a difficult inter-
national situation that for a
time seemed to threaten war.
Much remained to be done, but
Germany, France, Belgium, Britain
and Italy at least had arranged to
negotiate. France still insisted that
the League Council go on record
by adopting resolution declaring
that Germany had violated the
Locarno and Versailles Treaties, but
agreed to discuss matters with her
at the council table on an equal
basis.
After preliminary jockeying, Ger
many today agreed to sit with the
council on that basis.
France More ConciIiatory
The French attitude was definite
ly more conciliatory than it had
been and there was much less talk
from the French side of insisting
on the withdrawal of every last
man from the Rhineland.
Best-informed opinion predicted
the council would pass the resolu-
ton calling Germany a treaty VIOLA
tor, to placate France ard Belgium.
The way would then be clear for
calmer discussion of what should be
done about it. The general belief
was that Hitler would pull back most
OF the troops, leaving merely a few
as symbol of Germany's SOW
ereignty.
The Locarno powers then could
consider Hitler's proposals, which
are of wide scope and would provide.
in effect, for Is years of peace be-
tween France and Germany and per.
hapS in all Europe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
NEW NAVAL TREATY
is NEAR COMPLETION
U. s., Britain, France May
Sign in Few Days.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Sig-
nature of the London naval agree
ment among the United States
Great Britain and France is ex-
pected within the next few days, ii
was learned today in official cir
Giles.
Delegates in London now are
putting the finishing touches on
the escape clauses" which will free
the signatories of their Obligations
if non-treaty powers begin build
ing type of ships banned among
the signers.
American officials concede that
the new treaty will be a skinny
substitute for the voluminous, de-
tailed Washington agreement which
it replaces. But they consider it
preferable to nothing. 1t may
furnish, they reason, a slight base
on which more conclusive agree
ments may be built if and when
international tension is relaxed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17

garet, 9, and Esther, 7. back to

garet. 9, and Esther, 7, back to
school.
The present school system has
taken intelligent students and
turned them into morons," he said.
They cripple the possible geniuses
until they come from school as
just other members of a mob.
II am merely trying to make the
American people think of the i'm
provements necessary in our edu-
cational system" Watson ex-
planned. He brought out a bulky
loose-leaf notebook containing the
lessons he has given his daughters
since January. One simple read
ing lesson read:
~ go tn Mr.. Ry's stor. Y
lyk Mr.. Rvs bryt stor. Y by for nys
kold pyz. Myk gos tn Mr.. Ry's
fyn stor TIL. Myk lyks by. Y lyk
kold pyz tunyt."
Explaining that each letter In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
HITLER AGREES
TO JOIN LEAGUE
COUNCIL SESSION
Litvinoff of Russia Flags
Nazi Action as London
Debate Opens.
HITS 'SABER-RATTLING'
Soviet Ready to Participate
in Any Action, Says
Foreign Commissar.
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

LONDON, March 1.-THE
League Council, advised by
Germany that she accepts an
invitation to attend the dis
cussions, began debate in a
public session late today on
the F'ranco-Belgian resolution
declaring Germany a violator
of the Locarno and Versailles
treaties.
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign
commissar, opened the debate by
declaring Russia is ready to par
ticipate in all measures the council
recommends for the aid of France
and Belgium, in view of Germany's
reocupation of the Rhineland.
Litvinoff accused Germany of
brutal infringement on inter-
national treaties and saber rafting"
He contended the council ought
to give France and Belgium the
greatest possible satisfaction.
Won Hoesch Declines
Germany's acceptance of the in
vitation to attend the councils
session was contained in kilograms
to the council and to Capt. Anthony
Eden, British foreign secretary. The
telegram to Eden expressed Ger
many's desire for discussion by the
Locarno powers of Adolf Hitlers
peace proposals.
Stanley Bruce of Australia an
nounced that DR.. Leopold Won
Hoesch, German ambassador, had
been invited to attend as an OBJ
server. Hoesch replied that he
could not do so today, as he lacked
instructions from Berlin.
Berlin's message to the council
said Joachim Won Ribbentrop, am
ssador-at-large, would represent
Germany before the council. He will
NC accompanied NY LII. <a1O1 CCl1G
Dieckhoff, head of the Anglo
American division of the foreign
Office.
Belgian Wins His Point
The telegram from DR.. Konstan-
tin Won Neurath, German foreign
minister, to Joseph A. Avenol, secre-
tary general of the League, said:
81 confirm with thanks receipt of
your telegram of March Is and have
the honor to announce that Ambas-
sador Won Ribbentrop will represent
the German government at the
League council during examination
of the question brought forward by
the French and Belgian govern
ments. He will be at your disposition
in London Thursday morning."
Bruce suggested that in view of
the German governments note, dis
cussion of the Franco Belgian reso-
luton be suspended temporarily.
Paul van iceland of Belgian OBJ
jected and won his point on a ma
jority vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
SHAMROCKS ARE
IN ORDER TODAY
Green Is Stylish, Too, as
Erin's Sons, Daughters
Honor St. Patrick.

Green and shamrock for st. Pat
rick and the gay sons and daugh-
tiers of Erin is in order today.
st. Patrick who, legends say, per-
suaded the Irish snakes to fling
themselves into the sea, died March
II, 461 A. D. Some claim there was
no night for IL days after the
mournful event.
Not a native of Ireland, st. Pat
rick was whisked from his native
heath in southwestern Britain by
Irish raiders when he was 16.
He went to France after he
dreamed the Irish called to him
I'VE pray thee, Holy youth, to come
and walk again amongst us as be-
FORE"
Dance to Be Tonight
Dancing and speaking were to
constitute the principal official
forms of celebrating st. Patrick's
Day here.
The county organization of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians is to
hold it's annual dance tonight at
the Indiana roof ballroom, along
with program honoring the men,
DRY of Ireland's patron saint.
officials of the American Legion
are to mark the seventeenth ami
versary of the founding of the vet
Grams organization with a speech
by National Commander Ray
Murphy, tonight at 1890, from
radio station WIZ of the NBC net
work.
Posts to Hold Parties
Legion posts here are to hold
parties in commemoration of both
Founders Day and ST. Patrick.
HAYWARD Barcus Post SIS is to en-
terrain at party and dance at
the Hoosier Athletic Club, starting
at 8. Madden Nottingham Post 340
is to stage dance in the v. F. OF
w. Hall, 210 E. Ohio-st. Wilfred
Bradshaw, Municipal Court judge,
is to speak.
The Emerson and police legion
posts have arranged a party in the
Emerson Posts headquarters at lab
E. Ohio-st at which Walter Myers,
former Speaker of the Indiana
House of Representatives, is to talk.
A ST. Patrick's day luncheon and
card party was held by the Parent
Teacher Association of School 80 in
the Food Craft shop in the Gen.
fury Building. Mrs. E. F. Trimpe
was in charge, and was assisted by
Mrs. Frank Treat, Mrs. Thomas Sell
mier and Mrs. Jack Thurston.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
Book Review

Both sides claimed a victory
today in the Battle of the
Books, and, by golly, both sides
seemed to have won.
The Safety Board upheld
Chief Morrissey in his refusal
to distribute for Daniel j.
O'Neil, city clerk, the books
containing new Indianapolis
traffic ordinances on the
grounds they contained objec-
tionable advertising.
But Clerk O'Neill reported
that Sheriff Otto Ray and his
deputies have done so well at
stepping into the breach Gre
ated by Chief Mixes refusal to
have any truck with the books
that they probably will have to
go into a second printing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
JOB INSURANCE
PASSES SENATE
BY 37.11 VOTE
Political 0ratory PreCedeS
Action; Adjournment
Tonight Possible.
REBELS CLAIM VICTORY
Home Rulers Say Relief
Clause to Stay in
Welfare Bill.

Political oratory flowing in tor
rents, the Indiana Senate today
passed the amended employment in
surance bill by vote of 81 to IL.
No Democrats dissented and one
Republican, Senator 1. Floyd Gar
rott, Battle Ground, minority floor
leader, joined the majority.
Playing to good house." the
Senators made the occasion a field
day for oratorical denunciation of
President Roosevelt and New Deal
policies and defense of them. All of
the speeches were alike except for
the party line of demarcation.
While the Senate worked circuit
ously toward passage of the job in
surance bill, it was reported home
rulers" had won signal victory in
the difference with Gov McNutt and
state administration leaders over the
controversial township trustee
amendment to the welfare bill.
McNutt Aids Confer
Members of the Senate House
conference committee, Earl CraW-
ford, Gov McNutt's executive Sec
rotary; Virgil (Skits) Simmons and
Frank McHale, advisers to the
Governor, conferred in the exec
utive Offices.
The conference committee had
not reported at noon, but it was
reported in reliable quarters that
the township trustee amendment
probably would stay in"
The amendment, placed in the
welfare bill by Senator Claude Nc
Bride 3D., Jeffersonville) and rep
resenting the "home rule" groups
chief objective, specifically prevents
the State Welfare Board from TAX
ing over the poor relief duties now
handled by township trustees.
May Adjourn Tonight
The amendment was said to have
been Objectionable to state admins
tration leaders, who succeeded
yesterday in the House in obtaining
dissent to it and other Senate
amendments.
If the Mcbride amendment does
not become the subject of a floor
fight in both houses, there is the
strong possibility that the social
security special session may adj
Journ tonight. The time between
now and adjournment would be de-
termined by the mechanics neces-
sary to enroll the acts passed today,
it was said.
Senator Albert Ferris Or, Milton)
started the political fireworks in the
Senate this morning as the upper
house prepared to vote on the job
insurance bill. He assailed what ne
termed government encroachment
on business" as a Federal octopus
reaching into every street and lane
in the nation"
Il cite you three reasons against
enactment of this BILL" Senator
Ferris said. They are unconsti-
tutional, un-American and imprac-
teal. There is not country on the
face of the globe but has tried and
failed with this type of legisla-
ton"
The political oratory keynote was
sounded. however, when Senator E
Curtis White Cd, Indianapolis), a
Turn to Page Three
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
M'NUTT PROPOSED
FOR KEYNOTE POST
Minton Makes Suggestion
to Roosevelt.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Sen-
ator Sherman Minton 3D., Ind to-
day proposed to President Roose-
velt that Gov. Paul V. McNutt of
his state be selected as the key
noter for the Democratic national
convention.
Mr.. McNutt, who was a White
House caller gesterday, was de-
scribed by NJ Minton as the
greatest Governor in the country,
whose record for the New Deal is
without parallel and who is one OF
the best orators in the nation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
Edward, FIandin Confer
By United Press

LONDON, March 1.-THE King
granted an audience of 20 minutes
today to Foreign Minister Pierre
Etienne Flandin of France.
On his return from Buckingham
Palace, Flandin said:
Il have just come from the palace,
where saw the King at 2:3O o. m.
1t was purely a courtesy call. We
did not discuss politics in any way
whatsoever
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
De Valera Speech Spoiled

By united Press
DUBLIN, March 17.-President
canon de Valera's st. Patrick's Day
address to the nation was spoiled
today by a mysterious voice from
some powerful but SO far un-
identified station, which kept in
terrupting.
Hello, comrades" the voice said
you for the last half hour have
been witnessing display of British
imperialism"
The reference apparently was to
a parade of Free State troops in
Dublin.
The voice continued to make
similar Interruptions and Free
State listeners had difficulty hear
ing De Valera's speech.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
BUDGET TAX BILL is
FACED WITH DELAY
Administrative Problems
Slow Action.
BIZ United Press

DV CUltGU PfGSS
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Com-
pick administrative problems threat
ened today to tie up indefinitely
committee action on budget-tax
bill to provide s792, 100000 revenue
asked by President Roosevelt.
The House Ways and Means tax
subcommittee has not yet reached
a decision with Treasury experts, on
how foreign stockholders COULD be
forced to pay increased taxes or
whether banks and insurance COM
panies would be exempt from the
higher corporate surplus taxes.
Subcommittee Chairman Samuel
B. Hill indicated that the hearings
might be delayed until the middle
of the week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
GREEK REVOLUTIONARY
CHIEF SERIOUSLY ILL

EleutheriOs Venizelos, ~, Republican
Leader, Has Grippe.
By United Press
PARIS, March 17.-Eleutherios
Venizelos, exiled Greek republican
leader, was in very serious" con-
dition today after an attack of
grippe, his physician announced.
Venizelos' condition had taken a
sudden turn for the worse, the doc
tor said.
Venizelos is r.. He has been in
exile since the republican revolution
of March, 1885.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
MEYER GIVEN VENUE
CHANGE TO HANCOCK
Switch Granted Despite
Pleas of Five Citizens.

E. E. McFerren, special Criminal
Court judge, today granted a venue
change to Hancock County to Sol
S. Meyer for trial on charges of
bankers embezzlement facing him
as a result of the failure of the
Meyer-KiSer Bank.
Judge McFerren granted the
change over protesting affidavits
from five Marion County citizens
filed by the prosecution and setting
out that it was their belief a fair
trial could be had in Marion County
and that change of venue would
incur great additional expense on
the taxpayers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
A. I. T.HEAD
SAYS PROFITS
REASONABLE
Clifford Snaps Out Defense
of Company at FEC
Hearing.
QUERIES SEEM IRKSOME
Public Relies on Phone Sys-
tenn for Fair Treatment,
Chief Asserts.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Pres-
ident Walter S. Clifford of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., snapped out a declaration at a
Federal Communications Commits
sion hearing today that the $6,0O0,-
100000 concern never attempts tc
make an unreasonable" profit.
Apparently irritated by the
questioning of counsel Samuel Beck
er at a hearing into telephone
rates, Mr.. Clifford leaned forward
in his chair and said explosively
that the public relies for fair treat
ment ION our not being stupid"
Mr.. Clifford, who said his salary
was $206,000, was the leading wit
ness at the New Deals $750,OO0 in
vestigation of the telephone mo-
nopoly and the reasonableness Of
telephone rates.
Pounded With Questions
Mr.. Becker pounded Mr.. Gift.
ford with questions concerning the
history of telephone regulation by
governmental agencies. Mr.. Clifford
finally said that long distance tele.
phone rates never have been reg.
ulated by any Federal or state body
Mr.. Becker then switched to the
status of the Western Electric Co.
a subsidiary of the Bell System
engaged in the manufacture of tele.
phone apparatus. MIR. Becker sale
Western Electric was acquired b,
the telephone company some 81
years ago. He asked why.
THE reason was to have a source
of supply for highly standard equip.
ment and not to have the telephone
industry at the mercy of the manu-.
facturer," Mr.. Clifford retorted.
Wasn't it also to control the
price of equipment"
Smiles Wryly as He Answers
"J5 was to see that the price was
reasonable" Mr.. Clifford said
smiling wryly. IT don't mean we
want ever to boost prices or make
an unreasonable profit"
''You mean that the public relies
on your integrity, etc.?"
mo. The public relies on our not
being stupid"
Mr.. Becker concluded this phase
of the inquiry by observing:
80 the control of prices is en-
tirely in your hands,"
Mr.. Clifford said: eyes, think
So" qualifying his statement with
announcement of the fact that &C
or 80 minority stockholders still are
left in the Western Electric Co.
voting about siX-tenths of / per cent
of it's stock.
For the first time in the memory
of Federal attaches, the commission
used mechanical stenographers tc
take down transcript of the testi-
mony. The machines resembled two
overgrown portable monographs,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
TEMPERATURE RISES
AFTER COLD NIGHT
Cloudy, Warmer Is Bureaus
Prediction.

March smiled again on Indianap-
oils today, after night of sub
normal temperatures that sent many
a suburban sleeper to the shelf for
more blankets.
1t got as low as 20 during the
night, which is pretty low for this
time of the year. But by 1890 this
afternoon it had climbed to 40.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
N. 7. MINIMUM WAGE
LAW BEFORE TRIBUNAL,
Supreme Court Asked to RuIe nm
Validity of Measure.

~ Ontted Press
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The
supreme Court, which condemned a
minimum wage law for the District
OF columbia in 1913 in an historic
opinion, today was asked to rule on
validity of New York State mimi
mum wage law for women and
children in the light of Changed
economic conditions.
The challenge to the New York
law was brought by Joseph TipaIdo.
laundry official, who was indicted
on charges of forging his account
records ito conceal disobedience" tn
the New York law.
Ilpaldo challenged the Indictment
In habeas corpus proceedings on the
ground that the Supreme Court had
condemned wage-fixing legislation
IN It's earlier opinion. The New York
Court OF Appeals upheld this con-
tention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
ASTRONOMERS REPORT
NEW MYSTERY STAR
Super-Nova Expected to Be Visible
to Naked Eye.
By United Press

bV Cntted Press
PASADENA, Cal, March ia
new super-nova, one of astronomy's
brilliant mystery stars" has been
discovered by DR.. Edwin P. Hubble,
director of the Mount Wilson OBJ
servatory, and Glen Moore, his as
sistant, it was learned today.
Only two of the super-nova have
been seen in the last 300 years and
only Is previously had been recorded
in all astronomical history. The
star, a distant sun many times
larger than our own sun, is expected
to flare so bright that it may be
visible to the naked eye.
Discovery of the as yet unnamed
super-nova is scheduled to be an
nounced officially Thursday at
Washington, by the Carnegie In
stitute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
Costly SCOT

What does smoke do to your
laundry bills?
Arch Steinel tells you just
how much it costs you because
Indianapolis chimneys pour out
tons of SCOT each year.
The second article of his
series Is on Page One. Section
Two.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
By United Press

BIZ United Press
JOLIET, Ill, March 17.-Josiah
~ Watson, WPA worker who be-
lieves modern schools breed mo-
rons, taught his two daughters at
home today how to "ryt" with a
3S-letter alphabet he invented.
Watson declares his two star pu-
pills are as "bryt" as more adj
vanced students in public schools,
and refuses to jeopardize their in
telligence by forcing them to min
gle with the mob"
Watsoil'ss high school teaching
career ended shortly after he pro-
posed publicly that parents dis
courage kidnapping by refusing to
pay ransom. He faces a possible
contempt order for defying court
order to send KS daughters. Mar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
KERN VISITS CAPITAL
TO SEEK RAIL FUNDS
Mayor to Investigate WPA
Allotment for Project,

Mayor Kern was to leave this
afternoon for Washington to in
vestigate the possibility of obtain
ing 100000 in Federal funds for
South Side track elevation from
the Works Progress Administration.
The Mayor said he would make a
personal investigation" of regula-
tons governing Federal allotments
for municipal projects. He said he
would confer with WPA officials
and Senators Frederick VanNuys
and Sherman Minton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
FORMER RESIDENT DIES
IN EVANSTON HOSPITAL
Jessie NJ. Sentney, World Traveller,
TO Be Buried at Bloomington.

Miss Jessie M. Sentney, lecturer
and world traveller, died today in
ST. Francis Hospital, Evanston, ILL.,,
as a result of a broken hip received
last summer in the Holy Lands.
Surviving her are a brother, John
R. Sentney, indianapolis, and a
niece, Miss Patricia Ann Sentney,
indianapolis.
Miss Sentney was 40. She was a
native of Bloomington. Ind, where
services and burial are to be held
Thursday. She had lived in In
dienapolis for short time.