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I-]. M. Delafield
When Harpers publishes a novel
by E. M. Delafield, it is certain to
jump on publication date into the
best selling fiction class. This is
true with “The Provincial Lady
In London.” Here is humor that
Is humor and the lady observes a
great deal in London.
ana
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
SOME years ago a book flashed off
the press, called something like
“Letters of A Selfmade Man to his
Son” and if I recall correctly it
was a greatly read book.
Now comes McCready Huston
with the aid of O. Soglow, artist,
and Robert M. Mcßride & Cos.,
publishers, and they have given
every American mother, father, son
and daughter a book to read.
Huston of Hoosier soil has named
his latest attack upon domestic
blues and the depression, “The Fam
ily Meal Ticket” or "The Letters of
a Modern Father.'” This record of
the many assaults upon dad's poc
ketbook sells for $2.
Huston’s humor and observations
are both essentially Main Street end
crowded back of a grin or a chuckle
is something that is more than sa
tire. It is realism.
Here you will meet the family
meal ticket—John P. Grosk, presi
dent and general manager of the
Empire Brick Company (technicall)
as Grosk when he started to com
pile the letters had “put the cases
in storage, as the program of build
ing backed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation has been such
a success that I am compelled to
shut down my brick plant.”
B B B
'T'HESE on the Mr. Grosk’s bread
line includes the ever traveling
and worrying Mrs. Grosk and the
children, Sheridan. Eloise and others
when they grew up and married the
bread line was increased at certain
times of the year at the Grosk
home.
One of the beauties of this book
is that Grosk in writing his children,
regardless of the temperature of his
own feelings always closed his let
ter as “Your Affectionate Father.”
I noticed that Huston was able
to paint accurately the real charac
ter of all members of the family
because Grosk honestly and human
ly appraised each member of his
household whether under his roof,
or traveling or going to school.
In one of the letters to one of his
sons, the “Affectionate Father”
writes—“ There’s nothing to be done
about Charlie, for as he is a foot
ball coach he can’t work in the sum
mer without violating the union
rules.”
st n st
IN one letter to “My Dear Son,”
Grosk w*.tes —"Your sister Phyl
lis —the one in school in New York—
and your sister Gracie, in Maryland,
are giving me a good year. I’d be
willing to play Phyllis straight across
the board. She is certain to marry
within six months after gradua
tion. And Gracie is a safe bet to
show, although her teeth will have
to go back a fraction of an inch
before there will be any odds.”
Once again to his “dear son,”
Grosk writes—“l see by your recent
letter you are threatened with a
breakdown and your doctor advises
you to give up active work and go
to Southern California. I don’t
mind you having a breakdown; we
let your sister Eloise have one and
your brother Sheridan had two but
he only got a trip with one of them.
We have always followed the plan
of being impartial with our chil
dren, so if you want to take your
breakdown now it is all right.”
But he found fault with his son’s
program of having a breakdown only
once when he wrote—“l object, how
ever, to the way you are deceiving
your doctor. Why did you let him
get the impression you had any ac
tive work to give up?"
I think you will find “The Family
Meal Ticket” nearly priceless. It
is a gem of observations of a very
modern father.
s> st a
What are they reading in New
York? Brentano’s lists the follow
ing as the best sellers in fiction—
" Ann Vickers” by Sinclair Lewis;
“One More Spring," by Robert Na
than: "Pageant,” by G. B. Lancas
ter. “Hardy Perennial,” by Helen
Hull; “Jenny Wren,” by E. H. Young
and. “Provincial Ladv in London,”
by E. M. Delafield.
it st a
In regarding a letter concerning
the “New Odyssey”-i take it for
granted that the writer is concerned
with "The Odyssey of Homer,” as
translated into English prose by T.
E. Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia.) it
was published in November, 1932. by
Oxford university press.
It was not thought this book
would bs in heavy demand, but n
reached 10.000 copies by Christmas
Now anew trade edition has been
published and sells for $3.50. An
swer to another question—
Yes, I will be glad to loan the
book but it is precious to me. It is
hard reading.
lull L*-a*e<J Wire Service of
tlie United I’rese Asoelatlon
EDITOR SLAYS
CONSTABLE TO
BALK ARREST
Officer Shot Down on Lawn
of Mansion as He Tries
to Serve Warrant.
CLIMAX OF BITTER WAR
Oregon Publisher Rushed to
Jail; Wife Also Held
in Cell.
BY THOMAS R. CURRAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
MEDFORD, Ore., March 17.
Lllewellyn Alba Banks, one-time
millionaire and crusading ncwspapei
editor, Thursday shot and killed
Constable George Prescott when the
officer attempted to serve a warrant!
for his arrest.
The warrant was based on a
grand jury indictment voted
Wednesday night, charging conspir
acy in the alleged theft of election
ballots.
“My husband had been trying to
establish justice,” said Mrs. Banks,
herself jailed as a material witness.
“He has been guilty of nothing ex
cept fighting the gang.”
Promised to Kill Invaders
Prescott’s death on the lawn of
the luxurious Banks mansion was a
grim fulfillment of a promise the
publisher made in an editorial.
Banks announced he would shoot
and kill any one invading his home
with the announced intention of
serving warrants.
He surrendered to state police on
first-degree murder charges. He was
led past the gray-haired constable’s
lifeless body and taken thirty miles
to Grant’s Pass, where he was
jailed. Authorities feared attempts
of his followers to rescue him as
much as they did that attempts
might be made to lynch him.
The publisher, a short, white-haired,
dynamic individual, claims direct
descent from John and Priscilla
Alden, noted Pilgrim couple. Asa
spectacular and wealthy grower and
marketeer of fruits, he was widely
known in New York and Boston
market centers, and in the Oregon
and California orchard districts.
In her bare city jail cell, Mrs.
Banks told the United Press her
husband was defending his rights in
shooting Prescott. She said she was
at his side when he fired.
Persecution Is Charged
“You know the persecution he has
been going through in this town,”
she said in an exclusive interview'.
“He had been trying to establish
justice.
“There has been no law' or order
here for many months.”
Bank’s fortune apparently de
clined as he grew in pow'er. His
paper, the Medford Daily News, was
bid in by the former owner Wednes
day at a mortgage foreclosure sale.
Other foreclosures against his richly
furnished mansion and mortgaged
properties were pending.
Banks long had been at bitter odds
with District Attorney George Cod
ding. Circuit Judge Harry D. Norton,
the Southern Oregon Bar Associa
tion and civic leaders, whom he
charged with a “breakdow'n of law'
and order.”
Gave Warning, Says Editor
BY LLEWELLYN A. BANKS
(CoDvricht. 1933. bv The Times)
COUNTY JAIL, GRANTS PASS.
Ore., March 17.—1 shot Constable
George Frescott in defense of my
home.
Poor George. I am sorry for j
him, but under the circumstances
I could not have acted differently
and I would do the same thing
again if anyone attempted to force
his way into my home, as I have
repeatedly warned them by letters
and statements.
Prescott came to the door. Mrs.
Banks put the chain on the door
and opened it. He tried to force it.
She tried to hold him out.
I warned him to keep away.
I had written letters to Police
Chief McCredie and Captain Lee
Brown of the state police, saying I
had done no wrong and would not
submit to arrest. I warned them
there would be bloodshed if they i
tried to arrest me, but Prescott
tried to break his way in.
So I shot, in defense of my home, j
Dean Coulter to Speak
“Poisonous Plants of Indiana” j
will be discussed by Dean Stanley j
Coulter of De Pauw university at j
a meeting of the Nature Study Club
at 7:45 Saturday night in Cropsey I
auditorium at the main library. j
St Patrick Day Message
Sent U. S. by De Valera
Eamon Ce Valera, president and minister for external affeirs of the Irish Free
state, outlined in the following article, written exnrerslv .or the United Press
on St. Patricks day. his hopes and plans for the future of his nation.
BY EAMON DE VALERA.
(CODvrieht. 1933. bv United Press)
DUBLIN. March 17.—0n behalf of the Irish people, I desire once
more to send hearty greetings for St. Patrick's day to our kindred and
all our friends in the United States.
We, in Ireland, are watching with
intense interest and sympathy the
efforts of the American people to
end the depression from which they,
in common with the rest of the
world, are suffering.
We earnestly pray that those ef
forts will be crowned with success.
Ireland perhaps is suffering less
from economic evils of the time
than any of the great industrial
countries: but here, too. the task of
remedying these evils becomes the
chief preoccupation of the people.
We are endeavoring to establish
an order of things which will pro
vide a means of securing livelihood
for all our citizens, banish unem
ployment. and save the homes oi
Ireland from the miseries which un
employment brings in its train.
We hope, with God’s help, to build
up a civilization which will be a
source of happiness to our people
at jiome and a pride to all those
The Indianapolis Times
PLOT OF ‘HUMAN BOMB’ THWARTED
Detective's Blackjack Averts Terrific Blast at Police Station
This is the second of a series of six stories of adventures of supermen of
the law—skilled investigators. scientific detectives and courageous officers—in
their conflict with crime. Lou Wedemar is the author of the series ' Get the
Evidence," which appeared in The Times.
BY I.OU WEDEMAR
Times Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES, March 17— A single man, suspected at first of being
a foreign agent, held an entire city, terrified, at bay.
Chief of Police Sebastian, at his desk in Los Angeles headquarters,
was going over reports of a serious fire. Scores had been injured in the
old St. George hotel, and the city hospital, adjoining headquarters, was
mt M A
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Paul Shoup
The visitant moved his right hand. It was dyed crimson, even to
the long, pointed fingernails.
As the chief watched the man lifted a piece of cloth that covered
the front of the box. Through a small pane of glass the chief saw the
man’s left hand, also stained crimson.
A strand of wire was wound
around the fingers and wrist.
“If I pull out m> '■'and,” said
the hooded man, “t. : wire will
release £ detonator. That will
light a fuse. So don’t try to take
the box away from me.”
CLAIRE SNIVELY, the chief’s
secretary, entered the office
just then.
“What’s up?” he asked.
The chief turned his head to
hide a wink.
“This man wants to talk with
Mr. Shoup,” he said. “Telephone
him to come down here at once.”
“O. K.,” said Mr. Snively. “What
does he want him for?”
The masked man eased himself
into a chair, holding the box on
his lap.
“I want him to sign a paper
promising to give railroad workers
a fair deal,” he said. “And I
am going to sit here until he
agrees—or until we all die to
gether.’”
Snively sat down at a telephone.
“Connect me with Mr. Paul
Shoup.” he said.
By this time uniformed men
were peering in the door and word
had spread that a madman had
usurped control of police head
quarters.
The telephone operator, hear
ing Snively’s order, said: ..
“Shall I give you a dead line?”
“Right,” said Snively. “Hello!
Is Mr. Shoup there? Ah, Mr.
Shoup, this is Chief Sebastian's
office at police headquarters. A
gentleman is waiting here to see
you. Will you come down at once?
Thank you.”
He replaced the receiver.
“Mr. Shoup will be here in fif
teen minutes,” he old the chief.
“Fine,” said the visitor. “I’ll
wait.”
u B B
THE terrorist leaned back and
crossed his legs. The watch
ing police viewed every movement
TWO WOMEN INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Driver Arrested After Collision at
Thirtieth and Delaware.
Two women were injured, one
seriously, and a driver was arrested
by police as result of collision of
two automobiles early today at
Thirtieth and Delaware streets.
Mrs. Harriet Neidlinger, 31, of
6112 Broadway, was injured inter
nally and is in the city hospital.
The auto in which she was riding,
driven by her husband, overturned
after striking a car driven by Jesse
Watkins, 60, Negro, 2523 Boulevard
place.
Miss Ortha McCav, 19, of Burton
street, waiting at the intersection to
board a bus, was bruised on the legs
and body when struck by Neid
linger's car as it rolled over. Neid
linger was not injured.
Police charged Watkins with fail
ing to stop at a preferential street
and failure to have a drivers’ li
cense.
Research Director to Speak
Paul J. Stokes, research director
of the Indiana Retail Hardware
Dealers’ Association, will speak on
business crises at a luncheon of the
Scientech Club Monday in the Co
lumbia Club.
of our race in other lands. In this
difficult task we bespeak the con
tinued moral support of our friends
in the United States, who so often
in the past have given Ireland ef
fective and generous aid.
Is Mian Lion “teachaireacht acib
hinn athais” I gcoir la fheile pa
draig do chur cuig gaedhil na state
naontoughathe. Ni gadh dhom a
radh lea go mbeimid—ne I neirinn
ag cuimheamh ortha an la san agus
ag guidhe go gcusiridh dia an rath
ortha fein agus ar a dtir.
(Note: The translation of these
Gaelic sentences is: “It gives me
great pleasure on behalf of my fel
low Gaels to send a message to our
Irish friends in the United States un
the feats of St. Patrick. My chief
desire is to assure them on this day
that we pray that God’s blessing
may be with their country.”
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933
crowded to overflowing.
A soft, shuffling step made Chief Sebas
tian swing around in his swivel chair.
A grotesque masked figure stood behind
him—a short, stocky, man carrying a square
red box. He held the box tightly against his
stomach, his left hand stuck into the box
through an aperture cut in one side.
A shoulder strap supported the box like a
portable grind organ.
“Who are you?” demanded the Chief.
“No one will ever know,” responded the
visitor in a monotone.
His voice was muffled by the sheepskin
mask and his eyes stared unmovingly through
green goggles.
‘What are you advertising?”
“Nothing. I want to talk with Paul Shoup,
president of the Pacific Electric railway. You
send for him.”
“What’s in the box?”
“Sixty sticks of dynamite and a quart of
nitroglycerine.”
“I—l don’t believe you.”
with alarm, but the visitor seemed
confident his infernal machine
w r ould explode only when he in
tended.
“Workers,” he said solemnly,
“are not paid enough money.”
Time had been gained, even if
the problem’s eventual solution
was no nearer. The big clock in
the corner ticked on solemnly.
The chief knew he ought to keep
the man talking, but he could
think cl nothing to say. Several
minutes passed in silence.
Then in came Jack Randel, a
mining man from Chihuahua,
Mexico, and a friend of the chief.
“What’s this?”’ he asked. “Real
dynamite?”
“You bet it’s real. If you don’t
believe it, try to take the box away
and find out.”
Randel laughed.
“I know dynamite,” he said,
“and that stuff looks phony. The
color is wrong. Somebody cheated
you.”
“All right, light a stick of it
and see.”
The red hand fumbled at an
opening in the top of the box, and
came out with a stick of the sup
posed dynamite. He kept his other
hand motionless in its wire en
tanglement.
“There’s enough in here to blow
up the entire block.”
B B B
RANDEL took the stick and
coolly t.vsted it. Then, miner
fashion, he lighted the end and
watched it burn. There was no
doubt any longer.
“It’s the real stuff,” he said.
“The man has us in his pow'er.”
At this there was a scurrying for
cover. Hard-boiled policemen, who
had been skeptical, put distance
between them and the chief’s of
fice.
Word was sent to the adjoining
Old War Horses of Democracy
Get Firm Grip on Senate Reins
Dill of Washington Only
Progressive to Get
Major Job.
BY MARSHALL M’NfclL
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Color
and conservatism —an unusual com
bination-mark the new Democratic
bosses of the senate, the chairman
of the committees that do the ac
tual legislative work.
This new crew, numbering more'
than thirty, has taken over the
palatial quarters assigned commit
tee chairmen in the Capitol.
Only one outright Progressive got
a major job. He is Senator Clar
ence Dill of Washington, who will
be chairman of the interstate com
merce committee. Senator Costigan
of Colorado got no chairmanship,
nor was he named on either the
Democratic policy or steering com
mittee. He voted last week against
the new caucus rules.
At the head of all the Democrats
is, of course, Joseph T. Robinson
of Arkansas. He is not only the
majority leader, but also chairman
of the majority conference, the
v*
ffjf
Dill
bilities have caused Pat these last
few months to abandon his most
satisfying pastime, verbal sharp
shooting at the Republicans.
Pat may be lonesome in this new
senate, where there will be no
Smoot to chide, no Watson to spar
with, no Moses to trade bon mots.
The elegant Ashurst of Arizona—
his pals use his first name. Henry
—is the new head of the judiciary
committee. He has a passion for
fine phrases and Shakespearean
quotations.
Carter Glass. Virginia gentleman
who flayed Herbert Hoover and
Ogden Mills in a perfectly gentle
manly way in the last campaign,
has asumed the chairmanship of
the appropriations committee, and
he’s dead set on cutting govern
mental expenses.
doesnt go off. Here s wnat we u
I ‘yen win. Mr. Shoup will bo here
n ' : in a minute or two. ILs
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K 1 3t : iShljl aim human bomb
It |j -1 jBIB S Detective Hosiek drew his
blackjack and crashed it down
m . T-T on t!ir ir “' lskcc i head with all his
i ifißbm The man ssh forward The box
'C., hand came out with nvs .Mil! f,i‘.
' ' fo!t !or ,ho alu 'i. carrying :1m
ffj-- .jfe; .l|r box ' ran for the door.
If * H jSffi As he ran he heard the fuse
N !JL * jF<? -i y pulled it loose
IL * A tl; ** momrn! h ° l ripped and
jSaL, !Han :
The human bomb. pholo- ;
graphed os he waited in police £§|l||§§|jg
headquarters, bv I. f, Spencer,
jail and hospital to remove puson- j|||||B - HMPB
building were advised to adjourn. n
The human bomb, photo
graphed as he waited in police
headquarters, by E. J. Spencer.
jail and hospital to remove prison
ers and patients. Judges in two
municipal courts in the same
building were advised to adjourn.
The evacuation proceeded quick
ly. Vans, ambulances, private
autos and even two trolley cars
were used to empty the institu
tions.
All available emergency and fire
apparatus was ordered to proceed
quietly to the vicinity.
While methods of disarming the
visitor were being considered,
Randel and the chief tried to
learn the mechancs of his infernal
machine. He talked about it
willingly.
“You see, the wire runs to the
hammerlock of an old army rifle.
When I pull on it the hammer will
fall, exploding a cartridge.
“The cartridge will fire a fuse,
which will set off the dynamite.
The fuse is pretty long, so in case
it burns too slowly I put in the
nitroglycerin. The cartridge proba
bly will shoot right into the nitro.”
“Where’d you get the dyna
mite?”
“I borrowed it from the powder
house of a San Bernardino mine.”
“By the way, what’s your
name?”
“Albert Henry Davis.”
In the midst of all this banking
crisis, banking legislation in the
senate will be piloted by Duncan
Fletcher of Florida, 73 years old.
Heretofore, his part in framing
banking laws has not been so
prominent. Glass probably will
continue to dominate the banking
committee.
Grey-haired Senator Morris Shep
pard of Texas whose eighteenth
amendment now is on the ropes,
was selected to head the military
affairs committee. He denied the
report that he was going to order
out the army to enforce the prohi
bition law he helped write.
His colleague, long Tom Connally
of Texas, was made chairman of
the committee on- public buildings
and public grounds, and is reported
now drawing up a cornerstone lay
ing speech that will be adaptable to
postoffices or penitentiaries.
There were some surprises. Slim
Key Pittman, for many years the
Democratic also-ran in the race
for president pro-tempore, not only
majority caucus,
the policy com
mittee. and the
legislative com
mittee. Joe’s bel
lowing voice will
rule the Demo
crats.
Next there
comes tall Pat
Harrison. Mississ
ippi’s gift, chair
man of the fin
ance committee.
That potent place
and its responsi-
Chicago Cleaners Rout Rackets
BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO. March 17.—Victory in
their bitter two-year war to drive
gangsters out of the cleaning and ;
dyeing industry in Chicago was an- j
nounced today by r the business men.
“We finally have starved out the
racketeers, although it cost us mil
lions of dollars to do it,” said Max
Becker, treasurer of the newly;
Joe Robinson
Karl Warr explaining the workings of his infernal machine.
WHILE this temporizing con
continued, E. j. Spencer, a
newspaper photographer, took a
picture of him. He did not seem
to mind, but said:
“You better tell Mr. Shoup to
hurry up. I’m getting sort of ner
vous.”
A council was being held in an
adjoining room by three men who
had been in a lot of tight places
together—Detectives Brown and
Hosiek and Snively.
They considered every possible
way of relieving the situation.
One went in and said. “Mr. Shoup
wants you to meet him over on
Broadway,” but “Davis” wouldn’t
be fooled. “I’ll sit right here till
he comes,” he said.
An ammonia gun was suggested,
but the opinion was that this
would result in the box being ex
ploded.
“There’s only one thing to do,”
said Brown. ‘Tve been studying
that infernal machine. I think I
can put out the fuse if the thing
Joe Robinson, of Bellowing
Voice, at Helm of
Party Ship.
will get that job, but also succeed
Borah as chairman of foreign rela
tions.
Dr. Royal S. Copeland of New
York, well known for his radio
health talks and the inevitable red
carnation in his buttonhole, was
given the chairmanship of the rules
committee.
Senator Bulow of South Dakota,
who came here heralded as a
nimble wit and jokester, and who
hasn't lived up to his advance pub
licity, won’t have much chance for
wise-cracking as chairman of the
committee on mines and mining.
“Cotton Ed” Smith will handle
the committee on agriculture and
forestry, and do his best to help the
farmers of the cotton south.
Tennessee’s Senator McKellar is
chairman of the
committee on
postoffice and
post roads, where
patronage is par
amount.
Park Trammell,
who used to sleep
in his office, is
head of the com
mittee on naval
affairs; and he's
a big navy man.
There are
others: Lillard
Ty dings, legisla
tive cavalier from
Maryland, is to be
chairman of the
Ik;,, ’ %M
Harrison
committee on territories . . . Bert
Wheeler, 16-to-l silver advocate
from Montana in the west, Indian
affairs . . . Alben Barkley of Ken
tucky, who keynoted at Chicago,
heads the library committee . . .
New’ York’s Bob Wagner, who w’as
expected to get a better plum, got
only the chairmanship of the com
mittee on patents and copyrights.
formed Progressive Dry Cleaners, an
organization including nearly all the
reputable cleans and dyers in the
city.
Triumph of the shop owners
wipes out the extreme low’ prices for
cleaning and pressing that have
prevailed for many months, but the
owners believe will insure cus
tomer? better work and the safety
Second Section
Entered as Second-Class Mstter
at I’ostoffice, Indlanapolia
doesn't go off. Here's what we'll
They planned their work for
several minutes. Then, casually,
they sauntered into the chief's of
fice.
“Well. Mr. Davis.” said Snively,
“you win. Mr. Shoup will be here
in a minute or two. He's prom
ised to agree to what you want.”
“That's fine!” responded the
human bomb.
nan
SUDDENLY, with one motion.
Detective Hosiek drew his
blackjack and crashed it down
on the masked head with all his
strength.
The man fell forward. The box
slipped from his lap and his left
hand came out with wires still fas
tened to it. There was the sound
of a shot as the detonator ex
ploded.
Detective Brown moved like a
flash. He plunged his hand
through the glass front of the box,
felt for the fuse and. carrying the
box, ran for the door.
As he ran he heard the fuse
sputtering. He felt for it, found it
and, as he reached the sidewalk,
pulled it loose.
At this moment he tripped and
fell.
In grim determination he cush-
ioned the box with his body.
There was no explosion.
B B B
CHEERS arose as Detective
Brown, his hand bleeding,
arose and removed the dynamite
stick by stick, set the container
of nitro on the curb, and then
smashed the box to pieces.
The visitor, unconscious, was
hurriedly removed to the hospital
and manacled to a cot. When he
regained his senses he murmured:
“So it didn’t explode? The fuse
must have been too long.”
His mask removed, he was rec
ognized as Karl Warr, a former
police prisoner freed of a burglary
charge.
He was a laborer of German de
scent, an expert in handling ex
plosives. He was held for illegal
ly transporting explosives.
Tests proved the infernal ma
chine had been dangerous. A
single stick of the dynamite ex
ploded by police smashed a rock
as big as an automobile.
Next—The Big Sendoff.
SEVERAL CHILDREN ARE
BITTEN BY MAD DOG
Those Not Yet Treated Are Sought
by City Police.
Police today sought names of
several children living in vicinity of
Illinois and Twenty-first streets
who were bitten Wednesday by a
mad dog which later w’as killed.
The children, said to be pupils at
School 32, are warned that Pasteur
treatment is essential if infection is
to be prevented.
Residents in vicinity of the school
also asked police to search for a
second dog reported to have been
bitten by the infected dog.
Three children known to have
been bitten by the animal already
have been treated. They are Billy
Dean. 10, of 133 West Twentieth
street; Earl Wills, 11, of 136 West
Nineteenth street, and Dennis Wild
man, 5, of 2020 North Illinois
street. William Murphy, 59, janitor
at the school, who also was bitten,
was given treatment.
CARE URGED TO BAR
'ATHLETE FOOT’ SPREAD
Absolute Cleanliness Only Way to
Stamp Out Disease, Is Claim.
“Athlete’s foot never comes from
athletics,” Dr. William F. King, state
health director, pointed out today in
a bulletin setting out means for pre
vention of “trichonphyton inter
digitalie.”
Explaining this “ringworm of the
feet,” Dr. King said it is caused by
a microscopic plant or fungus that
lives as a parasite in the layers of
the skin between and beneath the
toes. It also thrives on various
animal products such as leather and
wool. Because of its being thus kept
alive, persons reinfect themselves
with shoes and woolen garments, Dr.
King warned.
He urged that swimming pools,
locker rooms, gymasia and shower
rooms be kept absolutely clean to
prevent spread of the disease. Wear
ing of slippers in such places also
was advised.
of their clothing while “at the
cleaners!”
Hundreds of shops were bombed
and thousands of garments were
ruined by acid in the struggle, one
of the major phases of Chicago’s
w r ar on racketeering in business.
Proprietors who could be intimi
dated paid a heavy percentage to
gaog collectors.
‘DIG BILL’BACK
TO FIGHT FOR
CHICAGO RULE
Thompson Girds for Battle,
With Mayor Situation
in Tangle.
RIVALS FEAR POWER
Both Democrats. G. 0. P.
View Ex-Chieftain as
Formidable Foe.
ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN
I'nited Tress Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO. March 17.—William
Hale (Big Bill) Thompson and !ns
sideshow clowning loomed upon Chi
cago's apolitical horizon today to
aggravate developments arising from
attempts to name a successor to the
late Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
The fact that “Big Bill the Build
er" definitely is trying to regain con
trol while Democrats fight among
themselves was established when the
United Press learned that the
former “cowboy” mayor already has
rented a loop theater and will make
four addresses there during the
inevitable contest for the mayorship.
Democrats, in control of the city
council, already have selected Frank
Corr as acting mayor, but eventually
an election must be held to fill the
Cermak vacancy.
Two Named as Possibilities
Thompson, it was learned, does
not plan to become a candidate
himself. Reliable information said
his candidate probably will be
George F. Harding, former member
of Thompson's cabinet, or Oscar
F. Nelson, Republican floor leader
in the city council.
Rumors traveled fast about the
threatened return of “Thompson
ism.” Politicians, recalling that even
in defeat Thompson polled almost
half a million votes, considered the
rumors seriously, especially when
they learned that “Big Bill” was
reorganizing his old “America First”
party, which always ha.s had more
money than any other Chicago
political organization.
The announcement worried Re
publicans even more than Demo
cratic leaders.
Disintegration of the Republican
party in Illinois began two years
ago. when Thompson was defeated
by Cermak. Last November, Thomp
son’s candidate for Governor, Len
Small, was defeated. Anti-Thomp
son, or “straight-line” Republicans
hoped that these defeats would
cause Thompson to seek political
retirement.
Democratic Lines Broken
Politicians of all parties saw in
Thompson’s maneuvering today a
possible indication that Democratic
leaders who have broken party lines
since Cermak's death may have
promised Thompson their support. It
was recalled that when he was
mayor, Thompson’s method of por
tioning patronage met general ap
proval among aldermen, w'hereas
Cermak later was less discriminate.
Another factor is the admitted
unrest among w'hat is known as the
“Irish” group, which has claimed
the city by tradition and w'hich is
reported as seeing no chance to win
control through a Thompson candi
date.
Added to these w'orries among
“straight-line” Republicans w r as the
knowledge that the Thompson or
ganization can collect more cam
paign funds than other groups.
Thompson’s “America First” organ
i ization numbered several thousand
! contributing members a few years
i ago.
STRICT REGULATION OF
BANKS IS HELD NEED
Institutions in Twilight Zone of
Public Utilities, Says Speaker.
More strict regulation of banks
eventually is inevitable, members of
the Indianapolis Engineering So
ciety were told Thursday at a
round-table discussion by Professor
C. B. Camp, Butler university.
Camp said banks have become in
stitutions so vital to the general
public welfare that they are in the
twilight zone as public utilities,
raher than strictly private enter
prises.
He suggested possibility of adop
tion of the Michigan system of
banking, where savings funds are
separated from other funds and
safeguarded.
W. S. Boyle, another speaker, said
that w'hile the government has the
constitutional right and duty, under
certain circumstances, to establish
banks, that they will continue to
exis as private institutions.
WAIT JUDGE’S RULING
IN SHORT WEIGHT CASE
Grocer Accused in Sale of Marion
County Poor Relief Baskets.
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker
said today he will rule soon in the
case of Herschel M. Zink, 934 East
Thirtieth street, grocer, charged
with giving short weight in sale oh
poor relief baskets for Marion
county.
Baker took the case under ad
visement following trial of Zink on
Thursday. Zink was charged with
not giving full weight on food bas
kets sent to the homes of Charles T.
Gift and R. G. Gray. 2214 Avondale
avenue.
HURT IN 25-FOOT FALL’
Man Plunges Down Elevator Shaft
at Consignment Sales Building.
Fall of twenty-five feet in an
elevator shaft Thursday afternoon
resulted in a fracture of the right
ankle for George Huff, 27, of 2734
North Illinois street. He fell at
the Consignment Sales building,
1030 North Mendian street, where
he is employed.
Several months ago another em
ploye, Larry Kepner, fell in the
shaft, suffering a broken leg and
arm. jt