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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23

/ EDITORS NOTE-This rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he pIeases,
when he pleases. In search Of odd stories
about this and that.
TAXCO. Mexico, April 23-My
= 8 pesos a day for room and
meals also gives me a private
garden. with banana trees and
many flowers. and sit out there in
the sun nearly all day. with my eyes
shut, thinking about how much I
like Mexico, and remembering lit
tie incidents.
TN Mexico City the other day 1
\ was leaning with my back
against the City Postoffice, getting
my shoes shiped. 1t takes exactly
half an hour to get your shoes
shincd in Mexico That's all right,
for you see lot while you're wait
| ing.
Traffic is heavy at that corner.
Hundreds of autos and buses and
motorcycles, and bicycles. too. And
people carrying stuff in baskets on
their heads.
Suddenly, in the middle of the
street amidst all the traffic, I saw
four soldiers, marching.
Two, guns in hand, marched on
either side OF a third soldier He
had no gun, no coat, no tie, no pack
or insignia. His shirt was undone at
the neck. He had vague look on
his face.
Behind him marched an officer,
all shined up. and he was carrying
gun, too. They marched on down
the street out of sight.
Later I asked a Mexican what it
was. He said the soldier had done
something. and maybe it was some
thing little and they were Just TAX
ing him to trial. or maybe it was
something big and he was on his
way to be shot.
LIVERY evening, on my walk
IL up the Plaza. I stop in little
old store, which is about as big as
an apartment bathroom. 1t is run
by tiny, wrinkled, sweet old Mexi-
can woman in black dress,
| stop there on the excuse of buy
ing some matches, but I really stop
just so I can say "Buenos tardes"
to her, and then "Cerillos, please"
because I don't know the Spanish
word for please, but do know that
''cerillos' are those awful little wax
matches you see down here.
She takes box from the shelf
and smiles as she hands them to
me. and says "cinco centavos" and I
give her a 20-centavos copper coin,
and she gives me three copper
nickels, says, "Gracias, senior" and
l go on out. It's sort of ritual.
r CREATED such a sensation in
4 the postoffice the other day that
I must boast about it. L had bought
big batch of assorted stamps lin
Spanish. too,) and in change for a
20-peso note the woman clerk gave
me back five pesos too much.
Being little slow on my Mexican
money, I took it aside and counted
it to make sure, then went back and
gave her back the five-peso note.
The line at the window all. stared
at me.
One Mexican, who knew a few
words of English, sort of gasped, AN
honest mani"
The clerk was pleased
I swelled up inside at being the
center of such queue of adnira-
ton, until an American woman in
line. whom I had never seen before,
said: What did you do that for,
you fool?"
Later l was telling O. Mexican
friend about it. and he said 1 saved
the woman clerk exactly two days
wages by giving it back.
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QUARREL"
BY HARRIETT SCOTT oLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
1 light my little heart-fire lamp,
And spread the silver, polished
bright.
On every pale green dish I stamp
My wish that you return tonight.
I put rose fragrance in my hair
And watch the walk expectantly.
Tonight ! feel you may not care
To hurry home to love, and me.
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He that diligently seeketh good
procureth favour: but he that
seeketh mischief, 1t shall come to
him.-Proverbs 1927.
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SEES AMERICAN LABOR

AS SULLEN
BY Joseph Urban, Bloomington
The posture of American labor
today is decidedly sullen. In a
period Of stress, when millions of
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Our
Town
By
ANTON SCHERRER


mortal collection over in the State
Library, is the guardian of two
Rogers Groups. They come about
as near sounding a nostalgia note
as anything in town.
Fifty years ago Chats how old we
are) every Indianapolis home with
a window had brown stained
plaster-cast piece of sculpture de-
plotting, as a rule, some homely
scene or contemporary event. II
was referred to as 1.-The Rogers
Group
A house with two windows
had two Rogers Groups. To house
the entire Rogers collection would
have required house with 81 bay
windows. No indianapolis home
ever attained that distinction, but
some came mighty close to it.
A bay window was necessary be-
cause every Rogers Group, unlike
most modern work, had its back
finish as smoothly as the front and
it needed room to point out the
fact A window, too, was the
best way of showing off the piece
| to the paSSer-by in the street.
CCULPTOR JOHN ROGERS, the
- man responsible for the bay
building boom, was born in Salem
r. ass, in 1929. He was a machinist
a craftsman and surveyor, but
modelling in clay was his hobby
Saving pennies was another.
When he was 20 he had saved
up enough to get him to Italy. He
arrived in Rome with curly brown
beard and took a few lessons from
a British sculptor named Spence
who also put him wise to a newly
discovered process for making plas-
ter casts.
Mr.. Rogers, Yankee that he was,
didn't breathe a word of it to any
body.
Back in America, he got a job in
the Chicago city surveyors office.
The Civil War was brewing. The
United States Sanitary Commission,
ancestor of William Fortunes Red
Cross, held fairs all over the coun-
try to raise money.
For the Chicago Sanitary Fair Mr..
Rogers donated his first group,
Checkers" two figures bending over
a draughtsboard, one laughing, one
glum, giving pretty good idea of
how the game was going. 1t was
the hit of the fair.
MISS VENN would give her right
Ava arm to have this piece. AS
1t is, she has to be content with
School Days" n87D, which is also
full of glad and glum figures. Her
other item is RIP Van Wrinkle at
Home" and it shows the unmistak-
able features of Joseph Jefferson,
which ought to give you some idea
of how old Mr.. Jefferson was the
last time he played in indianapolis.
Mr.. Rogers caught the drift of
things right away after his Chicago
success. In New York he showed
his next number, 1.-THE Slave Mar
ket" (another collectors itenD, and
it almost tripped him. No dealer
would handle it because of the
Southern sentiment in the city
Mr.. Rogers did the next best thing
and dismissed the dealers. He en-
gagged a colored boy to push cart
and peddle the casts from door to
door at<$l0 apiece.
Pretty soon he had the whole
country covered. He did a land
office business.
Fact is, he was about so years
ahead of the Fuller Brush man.
Editions ran anywhere from $4,000
to 100000 and nearly all we're sold in
the indianapolis territory. That's
the way it appeared to a boy at the
time. Anyway, with what we know
of indianapolis housewives and the
state of their attics, we'll bet that
Miss Venn hasn't got the only
Rogers Groups around here.
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from
Indiana
ERNIE PYLE

EDITORS NoTE-This rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he pleases,
when be pleasss. in search of odd stories
about this and that.
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The HooSier Forum

disapproue Of a0hat yom say-and sOiU defend
to the death your right to sag H.-Voltaire.
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WPA CLEANUP

HARRY L. HOPKINS adroitly has shifted the
= spotlight of wPA scandal to the West Coast,
where ne has discharged Democrat as state ad-
ministrator for alegedly collecting funds for po-
Evening star., 1936-06-08
ONE HELD IN FIRE
|NSAN FRANCISCO
3 of 7 Victims Unidentified.
w. P. A. Instructor Is
Quizzed by Police.
~ the Associated Press.

" the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8.-Police
held one man today while they in
veStigated the possibility of incen-
diarism in hotel fire that resulted
in seven deaths and injuries to 80
persons.
Raymond Searles, a roomer at the
hotel, was taken into custody after his
story of turning in the alarm early
yesterday was challenged by Ed Flynn,
a special patrolman. Flynn said he
was the one who turned in the alarm.
Three of the victims of the fire
in the four story frame structure were
unidentified.
Rev. F. c. Clark, 56, Cheyenne,
Wyo., died in the flames after push
ing his wife through a window into
the arms of f1remen. Mrs. Clara Ro-
land, 60, seamstreSs, ignored shouts
urging her to wait until firemen ar
rived and leaped three stories to her
death.
Two other victims were tentatively
identified as Jose Carmona, 81, q
laborer, and Fred Seller, 80, itinerant
rug cleaner.
Police Inspector George Engler
said Searles, W. P. A. vocational in
structor at a boys club, appeared to
have an unusual interest in fires. The
Evening star., 1936-06-08
the staff. commander in chief, United

the staff, commander In chief, United
States Fleet.
Comdr. Oscar G. Badger, U. s. NJ,
executive officer of Bancroft Hall for
three years, was relieved yesterday by
Comdr. w. s. Delaney, U. S. N, and
reported on the Indianapolis, where
he was assigned. Comdr. Delaney has
been on duty at the academy.
Lieut.. A. D. Clark, U. s. NJ, aide to
Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers,
superintendent of the academy, will
take command of the presidential
yacht Potomac on Thursday. He will
be relieved by Lieut.. q. g. Basil N.
Rittenhouse, u. S. N.
Comdr. G. A. Rood, executive officer
Of the Department of Marine Engineer
ing, has been assigned to the cruiser
Salt Lake City. He will be relieved
by Comdr. D. c. Goodwin, U. S. NJ,
who has been on duty in the depart
ment.
Comdr. John H. Brown, U. S. N,
director of foot ball and graduate
manager Of athletics in the Depart
ment Of Physical Training. has been
assigned as executive officer of the
cruiser Milwaukee. He will report for
his new duties the last of July. His
duties at the academy will be taken
over by Lieut.. Comdr A. G. McFall
U. S. NJ, commander of the Aviation
Squadron at the academy.
Comdr. Monroe Kelly, executive OFF,
Ger in the Department of Electrical
Engineering. has been assigned to the
transport Nitro. He will be relieved
by Comdr. w. L. Vanderkloot, U. S. NJ,
who comes from command of Destroyer
Division IL, Battle Force.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
BR|TA|NDEFAU[TS
ON DEBT TO j. S.
Reason for Inability to Pay
No Less Valid Now, Note
to Hull Says.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Great Britain defaulted today on It's
semi-annual war debt installment to
the United States.
In doing so, it advised this Govern
ment that inability to pay was due 70
reasons mo less valid now" than when
it first suspended payments in 1884.
Formal notice that Britain did not
intend to pay the $66S, ,474,o71 Install
ment falling due on June Is was con-
tanned in a note transmitted to Sec
retary Hull by Sir Ronald Lindsay,
the British Ambassador.
Eleven other nations are generally
expected to follow q similar course.
Secretary Hull only few days ago
said he had received no indication
that any of the debtor nations except
Finland intended to pay. Finland,
which owes one Of the smallest
amounts, is the only country which
has not defaulted.
OF the sum due from Britain, $685.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

670,765 represents the regular June IS
installment Of principal and interest,
and the remainder the amount pre-
viously due and unpaid.
In suspending payment June 4,
1884. the British government ex-
planned this was due to economic con-
ditions prevailing at that time in
England, combined with the fact
reparation payments from Germany
had been halted.
An American note transmitted May
% to Britain and other war debtor
nations reminded them in routine
manner Of the payments due June IS.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
DEWEY TACKLES11
'RACKETS |NPRObE
Spurs Inquiry in New York
After Conviction of
Luciano.
DWn n ETrN

NEW YORK, June R.-Eleven
major rackets, most of them affect
ing industry in New York, are be-
ing Investigated by Thomas e.
Dewey, special prosecutor whose
anti-vice crusade resulted in the
conviction of Charles Oucky) Luci-
ano and eight others on compul-
sory-prostitution charges, it was
learned today
"Most of these are industrial
rackets in which business is being
victimized by gangsters," spokes-
man close to Dewey said.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June g. 8.-Attorneys for
Charles Lucky" Luciano, fighting
against possible life sentence, planned
today to appeal from the jury verdict
which convicted him on 81 counts of
a vice indictment.
Luciano's legal advisers indicated
they would attack the constitutionality
of the new consolidated indictment law
under which their client and eight
others we're found guilty as the op-
orators of a $4,000, 0,000-a-year COM
pulsory prostitution syndicate
The four-week trial, in which the
State relied on number of prostitutes
and madams to build its case, was the
hrst conducted under the law.
Defense counsel were expected to
attack the measure as an eX post facto
law and the indictments on the ground
that they included several accusations
charging a series of crimes, some of
which were unconnected in character
Each of the nine defendants was
convicted on all counts in the indict-
ment and could receive a term of Is
years on each count when sentence is
imposed by Supreme Court Justice
Philip J. McCook on June 18.
The nine defendants. facing maxi
mum prison terms of 1855 years, will
be sentenced June 18.
The verdict, reached after all-night
dellberation, virtually eliminated the
big shots" Of the vice racket, accord
ing to the charges of Special Prose-
cutor Thomas E. Dewey.
IL convicted Luciano, the alleged
leader OF organized vice: David Be-
tnlo, second in command, Thomas
Pennochio, the treasurer; Abraham
Wahrman, contact man; James Fred
erico, general manager of the COM
bine: Benny Spiller, financial backer
Of the ring; Jesse Jacobs, bondsman
to the group; Meyer Berkman, ia
cobs' subordinate, and Ralph Liguori.
It spelled the end of luck for the
East Side youth who testified that his
worst faults had been selling mar
cotics when youth, taking and
making bets at the race tracks, and
sometimes carrying a gun or two ito
shoot pheasants in July"
The end of that luck came in the
sunny hours Of early morning.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
NAVAL ACADEMY
OFFICERS SHIFTED
Changes Affect Command of
Postgraduate School and
Two Departments.
BY the Associated Press.

by the hSSOClaLeQ treSS.
ANNAPOLIS, June 8.-Changes in
command of the Navy Postgraduate
School and two departments of the
Naval Academy resulted from the an
nual shifting of officers on duty at
the two institutions.
Capt. John H. Newton, u S. N,
head of the Postgraduate School, is
now in command of Destroyer Squad
ron No. 3, Scouting Force. Capt.
George v. Stewart, U. S. N, has taken
his place as head of the school.
Capt. Ray Spear Is. c., supply
officer of the Naval Academy. will
leave on July for new duties in the
shore establishments Office of the Navy
Department He will be relieved by
Capt. Walter D. Sharp Is. c., who
comes from the staff, commander,
Base Force.
Capt. H. K. Hewitt, U. S. NJ, was
relieved as head of the department
of mathematics at the academy sew
eral months ago to take command
of the cruiser Indianapolis, now an
chored of the academy His place
as department head will be filled by
Comdr. W. w. Smith, U. S. NJ, from
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Organ

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-06-08

Every day you let your
teeth go the greater
your dental bill will be.
Let me attend to them
at once. Ny prices are
positively the lowest q
reliable dentist can
charge.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

Continued From First Page.)
minor bruises caused by her close
confinement.
Third precinct police said Barbara
gave conflicting explanations of how
she became wedged in the organ. First,
they said, she told them several COL
ored men, who had been chasing her,
put her there. Later, she declared she
didn't know how she became confined
IN such an unusual place, police said.
The top of the pipe, it was stated
Is not far above the level of the organ,
making it easy for any one to climb in.
Barbara's mother, Mrs. Vivien E.
Wallace, legal stenographer, said she
understood the girl had climbed IL
the organ to hide from a colored man
who had been pursuing her. When she
was unable to pull herself to the top
of the pipe later, Barbara removed
her underclothing and tried to fash
ion rope with which to lasso some
thing above and pull herself out.
Barbara's removal almost conceded
with Sunday morning services at the
colored church, located at 1918 M
street. John Simns, colored sexton
Of the church, called police while the
building was empty, officers said, and
she was taken out shortly before
services were scheduled to begin.
Mrs. Wallace asserted Barbara had
gone to meet her Girl Scout leader
early Saturday morning on a corner
in the neighborhood when some COL
ored men started chasing her." She
ran for several blocks through streets
and alleys and thence into the church,
her mother said. She entered the
church through the cellar door, ac-
cording to police.
The first indication she was in the
organ came when Sinms, who lives at
1903 Caroline street, heard tapping at
10 pm. Saturday.
Policemen H. w, Rector and ]. L.
Pumphrey, third precinct, searched the
church and organ to no avail Saturday
night. Sinms called again yesterday;
the same officers returned and Barbara
was discovered. Simns said he had
seen an arm projecting from the top
Of a windpipe
Barbara, who, according to her
mother, is leader in the Girl Scout
organization and president of her Sun
day school class, was treated at Emer.
gency Hospital. Later, she was taken
home.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

inspector sair Searles hurried to the
Night Club Shamrock fire, in which
four persons died less than a month
ago, and poked through the ruins.
Held as q vagrant, Searles denied
any knowledge of how the fire started
near the first floor entrance of the
hotel. He declared he was on his way
to the hotel when he saw the flames
and turned in the alarm.
The hotel, situated south of Market
at Eleventh and Natoma streets, was
one of the many cheaper lodging
houses erected after the 1906 earth
quake and fire.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

Commission member, as economic
adviser to its committee on agricul-
tural cooperation. He will study
farm buying power, labor and popu-
lation trends and other agricultural
problems, the association said.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Coulter Plans Farm Study.

The National Association of Manu-
fscturers has announced appointment
Of DR.. John Lee Coulter, former Tariff
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-11-19

Iceland Sovereign State
Iceland is sovereign state in all
except its foreign affairs, which are
handled by Denmark.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-11-19
AS WE SEE 1T
Continued from page u

up the moral and religious life of the
campus"
DR.. T. B. Nanny, of the Division of
Humanities, has been named to heAd
a committee and will be assisted, by
DIR. Charles White, chairman of the
Freshman-Sophomore Group, College
of Arts and Sciences, who has been
actively interested in religious work
ever since his student days; Geary
Eppley, newly appointed Director of
Athletics; DIR. Frieda Mcfarland of
the Home Economics College; Pro-
fessor w. B. Kemp and DIR. George d.
Quigley.
In speaking of the work to be done
by the new committee, DIR. Nanny
stated that although not yet in a
position to make any definite recon-
mendations, the committee has al
ready held meeting and feels that
the time is ripe to inaugurate courses
in religion" Foremost in considera-
tion would be course in Compare
tive Religions" handled by the De-
partment of Philosophy, and History
Of Evolution of Religion" to be Civ
en- by the History Department. The
former course was offered several
years ago and met with good re
sponse.
At the same time DR.. Nanny point
Cd out that because the University Of
Maryland is State university grea,
care must be used in selection Of
courses given SO that no i'll feeling
could result from supposed bias pre-
osntation. He said that the Englisi
Department for years had been giving
q course in "Tyhe Old Testament ai
Lltssnture," and that il is one of th'
most popular on the campus.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-11-19
Maryland Crops
Show Increase OF
2 Percent For 1886
Combined Yield Per Acre Will
Be Higher Than Ten
Year Average

The Maryland crop reporting serv-
ice said this week the combined in
dicated yield per acre of all impor-
tant Maryland crops for 1886 was
p per cent above the 10-year aver
age from 1921 to 1880.
The forecast was based on the
November 1 crop survey, said j. A..
Ewing, agricultural statistician, and
Paul L. Warner, junior agricultural
statistician.
The statisticians forecast a larger
crop of corn, light crop of buck
wheat, larger crop of tobacco, a
smaller apple crop, smaller crop
of potatoes and a near-average crop
of sweet potatoes.
Indicated productions for 1886
were as follows:
Corn-17, 100000 bushels, per
cent larger than the 1885 production.
Buckwheat-68,000 bushels, COM
pared with 126,OOO bushels last year.
Tobacco -28 100000 bushels, COM
pared with 26,820,000 pounds in
1885.
Apples, ,810,000 bushels, 25 per
cent shorter than the 1886 crop.
Potatoes-2,9 100000 bushels, per
cent below the 1885 production of
3,135,00O bushels.
Sweet potatoes 100000 bushels,
compared with 1,O24,OOO bushels last
year.
Milk production per cow was
slightly below that of last year. the
report said. In herds kept by crop
reporters the production per cow as
of November l was 1873 pounds.