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Second Section
PARLEY STIRS
NEW HOPE OF
ARMS SLASH
France Believed Ready to
Join Other Powers in
Armament Cut.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripoj-Howard Foreltn Editor
WASHINGTON, April 27.—A
truce, perhaps even reduction and
limitation of armaments, is in sight
as a result of negotiations here.
France, it is stated authoritative
ly, is prepared to go along with the
rest of the powers at Geneva in the
matter of disarmament if the
United States and other key coun
tries will co-operate to make the
world's peace machinery effective.
France, former Premier Edouard
Herriot is understood to have in
formed President Roosevelt, clings
to the thesis of security before dis
armament. Under the French plan,
such security would depend upon
two things:
First, a general agreement, imple
menting the Kellogg pact outlawing
war and providing for consultation.
* Second, anew understanding in
volving only the European states.
Upholds Kellogg Pact
The United States, it is said, is
prepared to subscribe to the first
principle.
According to the Herriot plan
submitted at Geneva, all principal
powers, including the United States,
would be expected to adhere to the
four principles regarded as already
implied in the Kellogg pact. These
are:
1. Any war undertaken in viola
tion of the Kellogg pact is a matter
of interest to all powers and shall
be regarded as a breach of the ob
ligations assumed toward each one
of them.
2. In the event of a breach, or
threat of breach, of the Kellogg
pact, the powers shall consult with
a view.to appealing to public opin
ion and agreeing to steps to be
taken.
3. Any breach of the pact involves
prohibition of economic or financial
relations with the aggressor nation,
and measures shall be taken to make
that prohibition effective.
4. Any situation brought about in
consequence of the breach of an
international obligation shall not be
recognized.
Compromise Is Needed
The intent of these four principles
is to make it possible for the League
of Nations to function in Europe
without danger of clashing with
non-European powers like the Unit
ed States.
The plan as applied to Europe
would broaden the scope of the Lo
carno treaties and provide definite
aid to a country declared to be the
victim of aggression.
Prime Minister MacDonald has
submitted another plan of disarma
ment, and Premier Mussolini, of
Italy, a third. The problem now is
to work out a compromise pattern
which will permit of at least a be
ginning of disarmament.
MASONIC LODGE TO
GIVE MINSTREL SHOW
Production to Be Given at Murat
by Monument Lodge.
A minstrel show' and dance,
sponsored by Monument lodge, No.
657, F. & A. M., will be presented
Friday and Saturday nights at 8:15
in the Murat theater.
Eph Levin, past master of the
lodge, has been directing rehearsals.
More than one hundred persons will
take part in the show'.
Following the Saturday night per
formance, a ball will be given in the
Egyptian ballroom of the Murat for
members of the cast and persons at
tending either performance. Danc
ing will begin at 10.
Proceeds from the performance
will be turned over to the Masonic
home at Franklin for the purpose of
installing sound apparatus for the
home's moving picture equipment.
TWO CHARGED WITH
PASSING FAKE MONEY
Bound to Grand Jury bv Commis
sioner; Bonds Set at 53.000.
Two men were bound over to the
federal grand jury Wednesday on
charges of possession and passing
bogus 25 and 50-cent pieces. They
are Douglas B. Hall, 39. of 1200
South State avenue, and Oscar
(Red* Smith, 37, living on the Na
tional road, west of Indianapolis.
Secret service operatives arrested
both men in bed at their homes.
The fake money is alleged to have
been received by suspects in a liquor
deal.
Fae W. Patrick. United States
commissioner, fixed bends at $3,000
each.
955 ARE ENLISTED HERE
County's Forest Army Quota Is 90;
Office to Keep Open.
Nine hundred fifty-five Marion
county young men have enlisted in
the state's reforestation army, ac
cording to figures announced today
at the headquarters in Tomlinson
hall. The lists are being checked
by officials, who asserted some of
the number will not be able to qual
ify for the w’ork.
The county quota is 980, The of
fice for enlistment will be open an
other week.
RENAMED BUDGET HEAD
Dr. William A. Schullenberger Again
Holds Church Post.
Re-election of Dr.' William A.
Shullenberger, Central Christian
church pastor, as budget and pro
motional relationships commission
chairman of the Disciples of Christ
was announced today after an an
nual meeting of the commission at
the Severin.
Other officers are Roy E. Hum.
Lincoln, Neb, vice chairman; Gra
ham Frank. Dallas. Tex., secretary:
Miss Daisy A. Flook, St. Louis Mo.,
associate secretary, and J. H. Nance,
of Dallas, treasurer. i
Full Leaned Wlr# Service of
the United Preaa Anaoclatlon
Wife of Rudy Vallee Is
Sued as Home Wrecker
VJtrj ■
Mrs. Fay W r ebb Vallee in two fetching poses.
BEER MAY SAVE
W. VA.CHURCH
Many of Congregation Get
Work in Glass Plants:
Sale Halted.
B;i Time a Special
CHARLESTON. W. Va„ April 27.
—Return of beer may save the At
kinson Methodist Episcopal church
of this city.
Sale of the church property to
meet its financial obligations w r as
halted Wednesday by an injunction
granted in circuit court.
Former Mayor W. W. Wertz, rep
resenting the congregation, pleaded
that resumption es work in the Lib
by-Owens-Ford and Owens-Illinois
Glass company works here, with the
return of beer, would give employ
ment to many members of the
church and thus probably enable it
to pay off its notes.
The Owens-Illinois plant has in
creased its force to 6,000 workers
and announces that 1.000 more will
be hired if repeal comes".
RELIEF GROUPS TO
MAP MILK CAMPAIGN
Plans to Help Children to Be
Outlined.
Representatives of social agencies
will meet soon to formulate their
part in a campaign for supplying
milk to needy families in which
there are tubercular or under
nourished children, it was an
nounced today by Mayor Reginald
H. Sullivan
Decision to hold the meeting was
reached at a conference attended
by the mayor's advisory board,
headed by A. Kiefer Mayer, and Dr.
Herman G. Morgan, city health
board secretary.
School nurses reported this week
that many children in school are
undernourished, mostly those of
families who are on township trus
tees' relief lists.
City employes are sponsoring a
"skipa hole" golf tournament to be
held Tuesday on the Pleasant Run
course, proceeds to be used as an
| emergency milk fund, insuring a
! supply until social agencies can
j function.
DAIRY SURVEY PLANNED
National Leaders to Pay a Visit
Here on Monday.
Thomas Stitts of Washington,
head of the co-operatiive marketing
I division of the federal farm board,
and B. B. Derrick of Washington,
head of the co-operative marketing
in the central states, will visit In
j dianapolis Monday to make a study
of dairy conditions and milk prices
j in the city.
The visit was arranged after J.
; D. Littleton, president and general
! manager of the Indianapolis Dairy
! Producers' Council.
FILLS PUERTO RICO' JOB
Florida Publisher to Be Named
Governor by Roosevelt.
! By t utted Press
Washington. April 27.—Presi
dent Roosevelt will send the name
of Robert Gore to the senate for
i confirmation as Governor of Puerto
Rico, it was learned authoritatively
today.
Gore is a Florida newspaper pub
lisher and ditides his time between
Fort Lauderdale. Fla., and Chicago.
.
COUNTY TAX AID QUITS
Josephine Reardon Resigns as As
sistant Inheritance Collector.
Miss Josephine Reardon. Spink-
Arms assistant county inheritance
j tax collecter for the last ten years,
today tendered her resignation, ef
fective immediately, to state offi
cials. Miss Reardon had served
throughout the entire term of Sam
uel Montgomery, inheritance tax
appraiser, who was ousted by the
McNutt administration.
Jim Watson to Speak
James E Watson, former United
States senator, speaks at a banquet
of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber
of Commerce at 7 Tuesday night
when the organization will be pre
i sented with its charter.
The Indianapolis Times
Crooner’s Mate Is Painted
as Siren: SIOO,OOO
Balm Asked.
R>i Times Special
NEW YORK. April 27.—Portray
ing Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee. wife of
Rudy Vallee of crooning fame, as
a siren w’ho enticed her husband
away, Mrs. Kathleen Leon, singer,
Wednesday filed suit in supreme
court asking SIOO,OOO for alienation
of Garfield Leons affections.
By offers of money and otherwise,
Mrs. Vallee induced Leon to leave
his wife and go with her to Santa
Monica, Cal., early this year, says
the complaint.
Mrs. Vallee, given twenty days to
file an answ'er, says she will fight
to the last ditch. She now is in
Santa Monica.
Counsel for Vallee announced a
month ago that the crooner and his
wife had "reached the parting of
the ways.”
DECATUR LOSES FIRST
STEP IN BOUNDARY WAR
Motion to Strike Out Perry Petition
Is Ruled Out,
Decatur township residents lost
the first step in a fight with Perry
tow'nship over a boundary line at a
hearing before county commission
ers Wednesday.
Commissioners overruled motion
of Decatur,, officials to strike out
a petition filed by Perry officials.
Perry township residents seek to
get commissioners to change the line
in its favor, but Decatur officials
argue the commissioners have no
jurisdiction in the boundary dispute
that has raged for two years.
Property of the Indianapolis Pow
er and Light plant for taxation pur
poses is the plum sought by each
township.
May 26 w r as set by commissioners
as date for hearing on a Decatur
township petition to dismiss the
case.
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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933
‘FOREST ARMY’
OF 250 GIVEN
MEDICAL TEST
First Contingent to Leave
Marion County Friday
for Camp Knox.
An army of determined youths—
eager for anew sort of conquest—
tramped through the federal build
ing today on their way to the front
line trenches in the war on the de
pression.
In overalls and lumberjackets,
with an occasional threadbare busi
ness suit among them, 250 recruits
of the reforestation army stood be
fore army medical officers to be
tested for their fitness.
Orders have been received to send
1,100 Indiana men to Camp Knox,
Ky„ for training. Five hundred of
the contingent will go from Marion
county, the 250 to entrain Friday.
Will Work in Forests
After two weeks’ training they
will be sent tc work in Indiana
forests in Brow'n, Morgan, Monroe
and Clark counties.
‘‘l tell you I must get in. I’m
as fit as any of them.”
A skinny youngster of 18 w'as
talking. He tugged at the sleeve of
Major J. H. Davidson.
"He was turned down because his
left hand is partly crippled,” David
son explained.
John Camden. 2108 South State
avenue, a 20-year-old truckman out
of work six months, has no parents.
He will send $25 of the S3O a month
he will make to a needy family he
does not even know.
Likely Bunch, Says Colonel
"It's good to get out of Indian
apolis for a while,” he said. “A single
guy can always get along. This
will give the married men a chance.”
Colonel F. W. Phisterer, com
mandant, looked over the "army”
carefully.
“A likely bunch,” he commented.
We’ve examined about fifty so far.
1 Only three were turned down; bad
teeth. They’re a little lighter than
the run of regular army men. about
145 average weight. But they’re
tough.
UNPAID TEACHER
PUTS END TO LIFE
Worried Himself Sick, Says
Widow After Tragedy.
I Bii I nited Press
CHICAGO. April 27. Paul
I Schneider, 44. manual training
teacher in the Chicago public
schools, who had been without pay.
since last July, today shot himself
to death in his home on the west
side.
The story of the tragedy was re
vealed by his wife and three young
daughters in the home on which
taxes are long past due.
i “My husband had been worried
: sick for months,” said Mrs.
; Schneider. "He taught manual
! training at Washburn school, which
| is in one of the city's poorest dis
tricts. He had had no pay since
i last July and it was getting harder
\ and harder to make both ends meet.
He actually was ill with worry.
"This morning he rose early and
went to the basement. A short time
later we heard a shot. I rushed to
the basement and found he had
shot himself with a .38-caliber re
i volver.”
Shortridge R. O. T. C. Gets Inspection
r Will Miilc 1 ” 1 ™
Upper, left to right—Lieutenant-Colonel John E.
Mort, Columbus. 0.. Fifth corps area officer of the
R. O. T. C.; Major W. W. Carr, and Major J. V.
Stark of Indianapolis, of the Indianapolis military
area, and George Buck, principal at Shortridge high
WILSON SHIFTS
DEPUTY POSTS
Municipal Court Reorgan
ized; Brennan to Take
Bradshaw’s Place.
Shifts in assignments of deputy
prosecutors were announced today
by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson in
a reorganization move necessitated
by resignation of Wilfred Bradshaw,
former juvenile court deputy, to be
come judge in municipal court one.
May 1.
Edward J. Brennan, former deputy
in municipal courts at police head
quarters, will be assigned to juven
ile court. James A. Watson, local
attorney, is anew appointee and
will be assigned to criminal division
of municipal courts.
Under the new arrangement, the
post of deputy prosecutor in civil
divisions of municipal courts will be
abolished, Wilson said.
Herbert Stewart and George
Palmer, deputy prosecutors in jus
tice of peace courts, also will han
dle the civil court assignments
Palmer has been serving in civil
municipal court for several weeks.
Watson is a precinct committeeman
of the Sixth precinct of the Eleventh
ward.
INDICTED IN SLAYING
Farmer Accused of Beating Hired
Man to Death.
Bii United Press
LA PORTE, Ind., April 27.
George R. Ball. Noble township
farmer, was under indictment to
day on charges of second degree
murder and manslaughter in con
nection with the death of Zenie
Bender, his hired man.
Ball was arrested April 14, after
Bender was found unconscious in
the barn. The indictments charge
that Bender was beaten to death
and for fifteen months prior to his
death he had failed to receive
proper nourishment or medical at
tention.
school. They inspected the R. O. T. C. unit of Short
ridge. Wednesday,
Below—Lieutenant-Colonel Mort is shown making
a gun inspection of the Shortridge unit.
Stepped On
Intruders Invade House,
Look for Liquor in
Hiding Place.
R. V. MARTIN and family, who
moved to 1302 North Tacoma
avenue ' from Gary, Ind., a few
days ago, had uninvited callers
Wednesday night.
Three men who came to the
front door and entered without
being asked, w'ent to a stairway
and lifted a portion of it. Police
said the stairs had been used by a
former tenant as a hiding place
for liquor.
Two of the men were armed,
announced they were police officers,
but displayed no badges w r hen re
quested by Martin.
KILLER’S WOUND FATAL
Dies by Own Hand After Slaying
Man Who Fired Him.
Bii United Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 27.
Wounds received after he had shot
and killed 4. W. Shideler, 58, steel
company foreman, were fatal late
Wednesday to Charles Wassell, 56.
Coroner J. O. Garrigus held 'Was
sel's death accidental. Testimony
showed that the weapon was dis
charged when several men tried to
take it away- from him.
Wassell killed Shideler because
the latter had discharged him as
a blacksmith at the steel plant more
than two years ago.
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MARTIN INSULL
FIGHT RENEWED
Extradition Battle Will Be
Resumed Friday in
Canadian Court.
Bii Times Special
TORONTO, April 27.—The state
of Illinois’ legal battle for extradi
tion of Martin Insull to face charges
of theft and embezzlement will be
renewed Friday.
Edward Bayly, deputy attorney
general of Ontario, is acting for the
state of Illinois.
FINISH ACCIDENT QUIZ
Injuries Incurred by Man Due to
Fall, Detectives Decide.
Injuries incurred by Benjamin
Barckdall, 22, of 621 East Thirteenth
street, who was found Tuesday in
the basement of the Lexington
apartments, 1116 North Capitol ave
nue, were due to a fall, detectives
concluded Wednesday after ques
tioning three persons who were in
an apartment from which Barckdall
disappeared.
For a time a theory that Barck
dall had been pushed from a win
dow was held, but it is believed now
he fell from a window, and crawled
into the basement. Persons who
were with him in the apartment
said he was intoxicated, according
to detectives.
FIGURES BARE
HIGH ELECTRIC
RATEIN CITY
Indianapolis Patrons Pay
More Than Consumers in
Larger Centers.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times Staff Writer
Indianapolis Power and Light
Company, with approval of the pub-
I lie service commission, is charging
residential electric rates in excess of
i tw'elve of the largest cities in the
I United States.
This was disclosed today by a tab
j ulation of residential charges filed
I with the New' York public service
commission. No such comparative
rate figures are on file with the In
diana commission.
For many years the Indiana com
j mission has functioned on figures
| largely supplied by the utility com
! panies.
The “new' deal” has resulted m
| no change yet.
Higher Than Other Cities
I The 80-eent minimum monthly
| charge made by the light, company
here is higher than that of any of
the twelve larger cities, except New
York. There the monthly minimum
is sl. but a fight is on to gain re
duction.
Other cities have the following
' monthly minimum charge:
Chicago. 50 cents: Philadelphia,
! 75 cents; Detroit. 50 cents: Los An
j geles, 60 cents; Cleveland. 75 cents;
| St. Louis. 50 cents; Baltimore, 75
I cents; Pittsburgh, 50 cents; San
; Francisco. 40 cents; Milwaukee, 50
cents, and Buffalo. 75 cents.
Indianapolis residential rates then
are scaled as follows:
First 50 kilowatts, 6.2 cents; next
50 kilowatts, 6 cents; next 100 kilo
watts, 5 cents, and next 200 kilo
watts. 4 cents.
Pay More Here
Consumption for the average
home w'as estimated by state com
' mission engineers at from 40 to 75
kw. monthly.
Using 40 kw. the Indianapolis
resident pays a bill of $2.60. which
is 5 cents more than in New York
and 85 cents more than Buffalo.
Here are the New' York commis
sion figures on 40 kw. for other
cities:
New York City, $2.55; Chicago,
2.42; Philadelphia, $2.40; Detroit,
$1.93; Los Angeles, $1.81; Baltimore,
land. $2; St. Louis, $2.49; Baltimore,
$2.55; Pittsburgh, $2.20; San Fran
cisco, $2.15; Milwaukee, $2.34, and
Buffalo. $1.75.
Robbed of $56 at Lunch
Arthur W. Enoch, 427 North Gray
street, employe of the Western and
Southern Life Insurance Company,
reported to police his pocket was
picked Wednesday of a. billfold con
taining $56 while he was at. lunch
in a downtown restaurant.