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STIMSON BACK;
SEES NEW ERA
OF GOOD WILL
U. S. Secretary Optimistic
Over Franco-German
Conciliation.
'7
IN EUROPE SINCE JUNE
Declares Spirit and Policy
of Moratorium Highly
Appreciated Abroad.
By United Pr:t
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Secretary
of State Henry L. Stimson arrived
on the Leviathan today with a pre
diction of anew era of political
peace and good-will in the world.
He was particularly pleased, he
said, with the “friendly and con-
ciliatory spirit’’
between Euro
pean countries,
especially be
tween France
and Germany.
Germany, he said,
“has received a
new spi rit of
courage and con
fidence.”
Stimson has
been abroad since
.June, and has
talked with the
foreign ministers
of France, Ger-
many, England and Italy.
"My trip fulfilled my highest ex
pectation,’* he said. "It supplied
me with education and information
which wiy be of great value to me
In my future work in Washington.”
The secretary, asked about the
present financial situation in
Europe, issued the following state
ment:
Chance for Appraisal
"The month which has elapsed
since the close of the seven-power
conference in London has given us
a chance to begin to appraise the
results of that conference and of
the various meetings which pre
ceded and have followed it.
"From the information which har
come to me, I believe that Germany
has received anew spirit of courage
and confidence. The result of the
recent plebiscite in Prussia, the fact
that the day when the German
banks reopened, the deposits ex
ceeded the withdrawals, together
with many other similar indications,
all point to more hopeful conditions
and spirit.
"Even more encouraging have
been the meetings of the French
and German ministers and the
friendly and conciliatory spirit in
which Prime Minister Laval and
Chancellor Bruening have begun to
discuss the vital political questions
which divide their countries.
"The same is true of the meetings
held between the ministers of Ger
many and Britain and of Germany
and Italy. Such informal meetings
constitute the most effective meth
od of approaching and discussing
these political problems, and until
they are thus approached in such
spirit, any thorough economic re
habilitation of central Europe is
almost impossible.
Foundation of Peace
"I think there is pow good rea
son to believe that these European
statesmen, taking advantage of the
respite granted by Mr. Hoover’s
moratorium as well as the recom
mendations of the London confer
ence, are beginning gradually to
lay the foundations of political
good-will, upon which a lasting
structure of peace and economic
prosperity finally can be rested.
"It was very evident in each of
the countries I visited that the
spirit and policy of the President’s
moratorium was highly appreciated
and Vas proving helpful in many
directions.”
Stimson was accompanied by his
wife.
Also on the Leviathan was Gen
eral John J. Pershing, who has been
in Europe five months in connec
tion with the work of the battle
monument commission, of which he
is chairman.—
SUGAR FEEDS CANCER,
DOCTOR TELLS SOCIETY
ratients Advised Against Sweets,
Starch. Physician States.
By United Press
BUFFALO, Sept. 3.—The life
span of a cancer patient depends
on the amount of sugar in his blood.
Dr. Gladys E. Woodward of the
University of Pennsylvania told the
American Chemical Society in ses
sion here.
"Cancer cells feed on sugar.” Dr.
Woodward said, "and we find pa
tients with little sugar in the blood
respond more readily to treatment
that patients in which the sugar
content is high.
"We can not say that sugar causes
cancer, but many authorities be
lieve a large amount of sugar in
the blood makes a person more sus
ceptible to the disease.
"We tell our patients to eat very
little food containing sugar and
starches. Cancer patients who fol
low these directions live consider
ably longer than these who do not.”
WIN RACE WITH DEATH
Indian Child Raced to Hospital,
Bean Taken From Throat.
By United Press
DENVER. Sept. 3.—An automo
bile race, with the life of a 4-year
old Navajo Indian boy at stake,
was won when surgeons here re
moved a bean from the child's
bronchial tube.
Known only as Hoska. the boy
swallowed the bean on the Indian
reservation at Shiprock, N. M.
Doctors there said his only chance
for life was at Denver, where deli
cate surgical instruments were
available.
The surgeon at the reservation
bundled the boy and his mother,
who is known as Bam, into a ma
chine, 411 d raced to Denver, ,
Full Lenaed Wlr Service of
the United Press Association
Girl Pilots
Holdup Car
in Kidnaping
Motorist Is Forced to Go
With Bandit Trio to
Store Robbery.
A gangster “queen” at the wheel
of his automobile, Harold Barnett,
25, of 71 South Sherman drive, was
an unwilling accomplice in a rural
holdup Wednesday night.
As he left the home of Walter
Olinger, 2606 East Washington
street, where he had been a dinner
guest, he drove east to Sherman
drive, where a traffic light halted
him.
A figure slipped from the side
walk to his car, asked the way to
Chester avenue, and, before Bar
nett could reply, was inside, with a
gun against the driver’s ribs.
From the shadows, the girl and
another man came to join their
companion. The girl drove, Bar
nett sat beside her, and in the rear
seat the two gunmen held guns in
Barnett’s back.
The route lay through Morris
town to Fountaintown, where the
car pulled up in front of a general
store. Barnett, under guard, watched
one of the men enter and hold up
Charles E. Murray, owner, from
whom SBO was taken.
Barnett was ordered to drive back
to the city. The bandits chose a
winding trail, to elude traps set by
police and deputy sheriffs informed
of the robbery. At East and New
York streets the trio got out and
waved Barnett on.
He returned to Olinger’s home
and called police.
Stimson
ERRING HUSBANDS
‘SAVED’ BY WIVES
BY SHELDON KEY
A forgiving wife is the best law
yer that a runaway husband can
have when he appears before the
judge in Marion county criminal
court.
"Go back home, hunt for some
jobs and care for those hungry chil
dren.”
This was the only penalty im
posed today on three wife deserters
brought before Judge Frank P.
Baker.
A grim and tragic screen of no
jobs, worry, discouragement seemed
to overshadow the criminal charges
lodged against the family heads.
Three sad-faced mothers pleaded
that the court show mercy.
One father stood with a baby in
his arms and wove his story for the
judge.
He hadn't worked for a year—the
strain was too great—and he went
iTHEY TELL MF.i
BY BEN STERN
‘‘VTO more shall the Democrats
In monopolize the picnics and
rallies,” declared Hoosier Republic
ans and away they go.
Monday the Irvington Republic
ans watermeloned, today the Eighth
district workers meet at Tell City
to hear Senator Jim Watson; and
while this is going on the Tenth
district leaders confer at New
castle regarding a monster rally
Sept. 18.
Up in the second district and par
ticularly at Logansport plans are
underway for a get-together Sept.
19 with Watson and Robinson as
the principal speakers.
The Newcastle program is quite
ambitious. It is planned for Con
gressman James R. Hooper of Bat
tle Creek. Mich., to keynote and
Senators Watson and Arthur R.
Carries City's Colors Through Skies
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As official as the city hall, this
Fairchild six-place cabin airplane
will represent Indianapolis in the
skies in the future.- It is the gift
of Norman A. Perry, owner of the
Indianajpolis baseball club.
Barnett
The Indianapolis Times
POOR FARM IS
WITHOUT BEDS
FOR WINTER
Aged, Infirm May Have to
Sleep on Bare Floors
of Hallways.
COUNTY HEADS IN SPLIT
Council, Commission Are
in Disagreemerft Over
Necessary Steps.
Scores of helpless, aged depend
ents at the Marion county poor farm
may be forced to sleep in narrow,
crowded hallways and on cold, bar
ren floors again this winter unless
county councilmen and commis
sioners settle a disagreement which
loomed today.
Commissioners propose to solve
the overcrowded infirmary problem
by erecting a temporary dormitory
for 150 inmates.
Several councilmen, it is known,
are opposing a bond issue of $23,-
000 for this purpose, charging that
such a temporary structure would
not be fireproof nor satisfactory.
Remodeling Is Urged
Cortez Blue, councilman, declared
he wanted the commissioners to
spend half of this amount on re
modeling an abandoned four-story
brick building at the infirmary.
Commissioner George Snider de
clared that “one councilman has
requested that v;e remodel the old
building, but we can’t do that, be
cause it would not provide room for
more than fifty inmates.”
Original plans for the dormitory
have been changed since the state
fire marshal objected on grounds
“that they would be fire hazard.”
Possibility that the council will
not approve the bond issue Sept. 8
was forecast by Blue, who declared:
“We do not agree with the commis
sioners’ plans.”
Fire Wall Is Talked
To prevent hazards, commission
ers now plan to build a fire wall
between the new’, wooden dormitory
and other infirmary buildings.
Commissioners John E. Shearer,
minority board member, also favors
the council’s proposal to “save
money by remodeling the old brick
building.”
“Those walls are strong and by
using Chamber of Commerce “made
work” men, the county best can pro
vide for its inmates this winter.
Plans for the new dormitory al
ready have been submitted by
Donald Graham, architect. They
await approval of the state fire
marshal.
away, Baltimore, Washington, else
where he wandered.
The others told similar stories.
Finally, the judge decreed, "Go
home ,men, you are victims of ‘hard
times.* ”
And three wives w-ent away hap
pily—their prayers answered.
Being the father of five children
also was lucky for Edward Sulli
van, charged with vehicle taking.
“You, too, can thank your wife
for saving you from prison,” the
court ruled.
Sullivan was fined $25 aand sen
tenced to six months in jail, the
sentence was suspended. He was
charged with stealing an automo
bile and wrecking it while under
the influence of liquor.
“Pay back the $Bl damages of
that wreck and go home and care
for these five children,” the court
ordered.
Robinson and Governor Harry G.
Leslie to follow.
u a a
Meeting there today is also ex
pected to settle the new and
Tenth district’s chairmanship prob
lem.
As in many other districts be
cause of the reappoKtionment there
are two district chairmen. Ray
mond S. Springer of Connersville,
heading the old Sixth, and Carl
Wilson of Muncie, steering the old
Eighth.
Present plans call for an attend
ance of between 500 and 600 at this
rally with an informal get-together
and speaking in Memorial park in
the afternoon and a dinner at
night.
The Tell City meeting today is
expected to feel out sentiment in
the new Eighth which is predomi
nately Democratic.
Standing beside the plane, left
to right, are M. Charles Hack,
assistant airport superintendent;
Major Charles E. Cox Jr., super
intendent and pilot of the plane;
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1931
THE MACHINE AGE MARCHES ON!
And City Police’s Proud Steeds Know It, Too
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Here comes the mounties! This
familiar scene (upper left photo)
may be ancient history soon.
You’ve seen these horses and men
at the head of hundreds of pa
rades and just about any place
there were crowds in recent years.
ITALY ACCORD
HINDERS K, OF C.
Pact May Force Order to
Merge With Fascists.
By United Press
ROME, Sept. 3.—The work of the
Knights of Columbus in Rome in
in its present form appeared doomed
today as a result of the terms of
the new accord between the Holy
See and the Fascist government.
The Knights of Columbus entered
Italy for the purpose of developing
physical recreation, at the invita
tion of Pope Benedict XV. Since
the World war they have built six
playgrounds, costing upward of
$1,000,000.
The dilemma forces them either
to merge with Fascist youth’s orga
nizations like the Balilla or Avan
guardisti, in which they would be
subject to the rules of Fascism, or
become a purely religious body and
discontinue athletics.
The Knights of Columbus always
maintained a non-political attitude,
avoiding any activity which might
be construed as mingling with the
internal affairs of the country, of
ficers pointed out. The new accord
will prevent such a course, they said.
POOL REVENUE ~56,846
More Than Half-Million Used City
Swimming Resorts.
More than half-million Indian
apolis men, women and children
splashed their way to coolness and
pleasure this summer in the city’s
five park pools and two White river
beaches.
Figures issued today by the city
recreation department revealed that
549,279 persons had patronized the
swimming centers. They brought
the city a revenue of $6,846.90.
Pools and playgrounds were closed
Tuesday.
Edward M. Johnson, assistant su
perintendent; Gene Haynes, air
port director, and Herbert O.
Fisher, Chamber of Commerce
aeronautics director.
But police officials are prepar
ing to- sell the horses and put
their riders on motorcycles. Left
to right, patrolman William
Thomas, riding Rex; Sergeant An
thony Sweerey, riding Brownie,
and patrolman Williams Cravens,
on Babe.
BY LOWELL NUSBAUM
PRINCE, Charlie, Old Alec and their seven mates in the stable main
tained for mounts of the Indianapolis mounted police pranced just
a little less gayly today.
Joe, proucsest of the proud, arched his neck just a little less proudly.
Prince seemed less interested in nosing around pockets of visitors,
sniffing for the expected lump of sugar.
The reason? Well, if you should ask John Messersmith, in charge
of the stable, he probably would tell you it is because his beloved
charges have sensed that city officials, hard-pressed for means of
economizing, are considering abolishing the mounted police division.
The ten thoroughbreds in the
police stables, the last horses
owned by the city, cost about
$3,600 a year to maintain.
Because officials feel that in this
motorized age these horses have
lost their usefulness in police
work, they must go to join their
former pals of the fire depart
ment, to pull milk wagons and
perform other plebeian tasks.
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FOR some years, safety board
members say, tne horses have
of little use except to head
parades, and in quelling riots.
Now, with parades composed
almost entirely of automobiles,
horses are too slow to head them.
And modern tear gas bombs
are just as effective in riots, and
far less expensive, officers say.
Unless the city is able to cancel
a lease on the old Anheuser-Busch
stables on East Ohio street,
signed six years ago, the ten
prancing chargers will be granted
a reprieve until next February,
when the lease expires.
Some hope remains for a fa
vored few horses. Police Chief
Mike Morrissey hopes to farm
them out to a riding academy
willing to board. them for their
use. Police would be permitted
to use them on special occasions.
The remainder probably will be
appraised and sold.
Horses first were used by the
police department about thirty
years ago, when policemen cover
ing outlying districts were
mounted.
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RIDING of districts, now cov
ered by radio car squads, was
abandoned during the first Shank
administration. Since then the
horses have been used by the
traffic squad.
About ten years ago there were
twenty-one horses in the police
stable. Later eleven wer sold.
All ten of* the high spirited po
lice horses are pets, most of them
following their riders, when they
dismount, like amiable dogs.
Bud, one of the seven thorough
breds purchased in Kentucky a
few* years ago. has a few circus
tricks, one of them being to kneel
to permit his rider to mount or
dismount.
Babe and Joe, stabled side by
side, are highly jealous of each
other, raising a rumpus if one is
petted or given a lump of sugar
and the other ignored.
Old Alec. 14 years old, is the
veteran of the stables, having been
owned by the city ten years.
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CHARLIE, Major and Prince
were sired by Rex Peavine,
a famous Kentucky saddlehorse
and one of the best bred horses
of the Kentucky Bluegrass region.
Brownie. a 6-year-old, was sired
by Peter Volo, famous Kentucky
race horse, and is a grandson of
the famous Peter the Great.
Bud will follow his master
around on the street, that is, un
less the dismounting occurs some-
Upper Right—John Messen
heimer, veteran superintendent of
the police stable, beams on one
of his beloved charges.
Lower Left—Patrolman Cravens
guides Babe in a favorite stunt.
Lower Center—Miss Esther
Riddle, R. R. 7, treats Brownie to
where in the vicinity of Monu
ment Circle.
Then, if Bud suddenly disap
pears, his rider can usually find
him in front of English’s theater
where he knows he can beg lumps
of sugar from owners of market
baskets waiting to board busses.
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TOE and Charlie practically
** share honors as the proudest
horses on the force. Both arch
their necks and prance, especially
when leading a parade.
"They really strut, all of them,
when there is a band in the pa
rade,” said Messersmith.
"Say, those horses have a right
to strut. They have headed pa
rades for General Pershing, Mar
shal Joffre, Presidents Wilson and
Hoover, Queen Marie, A1 Smith
and other notables, and also head
ed the funeral cortege of Tom
Marshall.”
Messersmith has worked with
horses forty-three years, and has
had charge of the police stables
eleven years.
Drowning Victim Buried
By Times Special *
COLUMBUS, Ind., Sept. 3.—The
body of Moody C. Morton, 35, Co
lumbus Negro, w T ho was drowned at
Pittsburgh, Pa„ Sunday, was brought
here for funeral services and burial
today. Morton was employed by
the Ohio River Transport Company
and was drowned after he fell from
a boat while at work.
FOUR BIG PRIZES IN
GOAT GOLF EVENT
Goats galore will gambol over city
links if the initial rush of entries
in The Times Great Goat Golf
tourney today is any index.
From all sections of the city there
came a concerted stampede to get
in the running for the four hot
prizes hung up by the Smith-Nelson
Golf academy, second floor Board of
j Trade building.
j It’s the biggest links event of the
I year and how the golfers and near
j golfers are flocking to it! They’re
! all out to hand a trimming to their
I club-swinging friends and battle
| their way to the city-wide finals,
i which will be held next month, at
completion of elimination clashes
l on the several courses scattered
about Indianapolis.
There's no red tape to it. All
you do is sock down one dollar to
get the best golf lesson book in the
market, a 75-cent golf ball and a
set of tokens for which you play
! with your opponents.
Then you challenge any one you
wish. If you beat him, you get one
I of his goats for your collection. The
1 golfer who w\gj the most goats on
Second Section
Entered ns Second-Class Matter
at Postaffice, Indianapolis
a lump of sugar, but Brownie
never is satisfied with one lump,
so Miss Riddle has another handy
in the other hand.
Lower Right—Whoa, boy! Babe
rears, our; patrorman Cravens re
fuses to be alarmed. Just a little
pastime in the day of a mountie.
BODY OF SLAIN
WOMAN FOUND
Negro’s Head,ls Crushed:
Police Obtain Clew.
Head bashed in and abdomen
slashed, the body of an unidentified
Negro woman, about 40, semi-clad,
was found by two fishermen short
ly before noon in a sandy road
skirting the east bank of White
river, a quarter mile south of Ray
mond street.
Apparently she had been dead
only a few hours, and attacked
criminally after she was beaten.
Early this afternoon police believed
they had substantial clews both to
her identity and to her slayer.
Not long after the body was found,
an unidentified Negro, who lives
on South Sheffield avenue, said the
woman had kept house for him
three years until Tuesday night
when her ex-husband appeared and
demanded that she go back to him.
Residents of southwest Indian
apolis told police they had seen
the woman in the vicinity of Mc-
Carty and Church streets, and Mc-
Carty street and Capitol avenue sev
eral times, but none knew her
name.
Coroner Fred W. Vehling said
she had been dead about six hours
when Lynn Stillwell, 405 East Min
nesota street, and Otto Miller, 2535
Shelby street, returning from a
fishing expedition along White
river found the body, lying face
upward in the sand.
Arcadia Doctor Dies
By Times Special
ARCADIA, Ind., Sept. 3.—Dr. Fred
Bray, 44, a physician practicing in
northern Hamilton county for the
last fourteen years, is dead at his
home here.
any one course is eligible for the
city finals.
First consignment of goat tourney
envelopes containing the books ancl
balls now is at the A. G. Spalding
store, Circle Tower building, and
golf pros and ticket booths at the
courses will have supplies also. You
also can get them at The Times
office.
The prizes were announced today
and they’re well worth the best
efforts of any Indianapolis golfer.
Here they are. Get out and go
after them:
First in the men’s division, a
beautiful set of six matched and
registered irons.
Second prize for men, a full sls
book of practice sessions at the
Smith-Nelson academy. The in
door school will open Nov. 15 and
the nets will be available at that
time.
First prize for women, a full book
of lessons at the academy, private
instructions to be given by Nelson
and Smith during the winter at the
convenience of the winner.
Second prize to women, a sls
practice session book. ,
CITY COUNCIL
GIVES UP; TAX
LEVYJS SI.OB
Only $8,370 Is Slashed
From Budget in Five
Nights of Toil.
VOTE DOWN WAGE CUTS
‘lt's an Academic Victory,’
Is Caustic Comment
of Tennant.
The mountain labored and gave
birth to a mouse.
After five nights of tedious perusal
of budget items in an effort to pare
the 1932 civil city tax levy, city
councilmen Wednesday night con
tented themselves with a total slash
of $8,370 in the $8,021,616.94 budget.
Asa result, the levy will remain
at SI.OB in 1932, as submitted to the
council by the city controller. The
$8,370 budget cut does not affect the
levy, but merely reduces the savings
necessary next year to bring the
budget within the amount of money
to be raised by the levy.
“It is an academic victory of five
nights spent in studying the budget,
the victory, however, not being par
ticipated in by the taxpayers,'’ Mau
rice E. Tennant, one of the three
Republican councilmen commented
caustically, after acceptance of the
budget with the $8,370 cut.
Reduce Budget Request
The cut was effected by reducing
the street commissioner’s budget re
quest $8,200, city clerk SSO and works
board $l2O.
The council's action followed two
weeks of study in which proposed
salary slashes and budget reductions
which would have brought the levy
below $1 were studied.
Inability to agree on where salary
slashes should start, opinion being
divided as to whether the cuts
should start with employes receiving
SI,OOO a year or $2,400 a year, pre
vented any action along this line.
The council also voted down dras
tic salary cuts for nine police wom
en, proposed as a means of forcing
resignations and reducing the force
from eighteen to nine.
“If you don’t cut policemen. I am
against hiding behind women’s
skirts,” Councilman Fred C. Gard
ner, who advocated salary cuts for
all city employes above $1,300, com
mented.
Resignations of the nine police
women were sought as result of
statement by Chief Mike Morrissey
that they were not needed. Mor
rissey wished to retain five police
women in juvenile court and :our
police matrons. The police women
can not be dismissed arbitrarily, it
was pointed out.
Will Receive 51,320
I Asa result, fourteen police women
; next year will be paid $1,320 and
1 four matrons will be paid $1,500, as
provided in the budget submitted
by the council.
At present both matrons and po
; lice women are receiving second
| grade policemen’s pay, $2,026 a
! year, the reduction to $1,320 and
j $1,500 having been made by the
controller before the budget was
submitted to the council. Several
councilmen favored restoring police
women’s pay to $2,026, but found
they legally can not increase budget
items submitted to them.
The SI.OB levy is a reduction of
1 cent over the levy for this year,
the reduction having been made be
fore the budget was submitted to
the council by the city controller.
While the budget was cut ap
proximately $545,000 below the bud
get for this year by the controller
and mayor, only 1 cent could be cut
from the levy because of a reduc
tion i n anticipated balance and
miscellaneous receipts next year,
together with a lowered valuation
and increased tax delinquency.
Morgan Motion Fails
1 Gardner was joined by Charles
i c - Morgan in opposing salary cuts
for police women unless male em
ployes were reduced.
A motion by Morgan that budget
cut suggestions of William H. Book.
Chamber of Commerce civic affairs
director, totaling more than SIOO,-
000, be accepted, failed to pass.
Suggestion of Gardner that a
straight 10 per cent cut be made
in all budget items for equipment
and supplies and 5 per cent in sal
aries above $1,200 failed.
“We are not going to get any
place, however, without cutting
wages,” Gardner said.
Arbitrary slashing of the budget
was opposed by Councilman Leo F.
Welch, who commented “it is the
duty of the council to make a
sensible budget on w-hich the city
can operate next year, rather than
to make a grandstand play.”
Council President Ernest C. Rop
key renewed his suggestion of last
year that an efficiency expert be
employed to put the city on a busi
ness-like basis.
“Well Just Be Out”
“Well, if w e spend $20,000 for an
efficiency man and he recommends
a cut of only $5,000 in the budget
next year, then the city will be out
$15,000,” remarked Clarence I.
Wheatley.
The council discussed plans for
making a study of salaries paid by
different departments in an effort
to standardize wages during the
next year.
Official action on the budget and
the SI.OB levy will be taken at the
regular council meeting Monday
night, following a public hearing on
the budget.
The council failed to act Wednes
day night on request of Roy O.
Johnson. Indianapolis Smoke Abate
ment League executive secretary, and-
Mrs. George A. Van Dyke, women’s
clubs representative, for transfer of
one building inspector’s salary to
one for a smoke inspector.
Suicide's Body Recovered
By Timet ispecial
EL WOOD, Ind., Sept. 3— The
body of Ernest Knott*, 46, a drown
ing suicide, who had been missing
since Sunday, has been recovered!