Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1931 — Page 1

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CHILD HIKER DIES AS AUTO SPEEDSAWAY Tragedy Swoops on Family, Trudging Back to Old Home Welcome. MOTHER BADLY INJURED Sister Is Hurt; Mystery Surrounds Order to Leave City. ‘Some one,” still driving an auto today, killed a child and dangerously injured the child’s mother, as they tried to hitch-hike their way home out of poverty Sunday./ ‘ Someone” in Indianapolis sent the child and her mother into death’s path on U. S. Road 40 nearTerre Haute. The dead child is Ruth Haines, 12. She was killed by a hit-and-run motorist Sunday evening near Terre Haute, while hitch-hiking with her mother, Mrs. Edna McDaniels, 1 North Jefferson street, and her sister, Madonna, 8, to her grandparents in Marshall, 111. Mother Badly Injured Mrs. McDaniel suffered a skull fracture and was taken to a Terre Haute hospital. Her condition is dangerous. Madonna suffered slight injuries and was treated in a. hospital at Brazil. According to neighbors and the landlady at the North Jefferson avenue address in this city, a woman came to the McDaniels’ home Friday and gave her twenty-four hours to leave the city with her children. The neighbors declare the woman was from “the juvenile court.” But Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler investigated the report today and declared it groundless. Ordered to Leave Neighbors say Mrs. McDaniels and her two children left early on Sunday morning, saying they were going to the home of her father, John Shonk, Marshall, HI. “The children carried roller skates with them to skate along the highway," one neighbor said. The accident occurred at the crest of a viaduct on the National road near Terre Haute. Ruth and Madonna were roller skating. The mother was walking. A car traveling at high speed plunged into the family group as it dipped over the hill creast and continued on its way without stopping. Passing motorists rushed the injured to hospitals. A broken neck resulted in the death o? the eldest child. Letter Tells Story Identification w r as established through a letter in the mother’s purse, which said the father of the girls would be released from the Illinois state prison soon and would return to Terre Haute. Mrs. MfcDanields had remarried. Workers of the Family Welfare Society in this city have been paying the rent and aiding the family since October, 1930. Investigators said they had not visited the North Jefferson street home for some time. They said they paid the family’s rent for May and requested the landlady, Mrs. R. D. Giddens, to inform Mrs. McDaniel to obtain clothing for her children at the society’s headquarters. “She never came for the clothing,” said a society worker. Failed to Ask Help Mrs. McDaniels mentioned several times that she desired to return to the home of her father in Illinois, and we told her that whenever she was ready, to come to us and we would provide here with transportation. It would not have been necessary for her to .hitch-hike,” the worker added. Efforts to learn the Identity of the "someone” who ordered Mrs. McDaniels to leave town within “twenty-four hours” proved fruitless today. In the meantime, state police and Terre Haute officers are searching for the motorist who drove death down upon the family group and then sped ruthlessly away. TWO PERISH - IN FLAMES Cripple Sits Helpless as Wife and Daughter Meet Death. By United Press PHOENIXVILLE, Pa., May 4. Morris Lang, who sat helpless in his home, both legs amputated, while his wife and daughter were fatally burned in the next room, was suffering from shock today. Mrs. Lang, 51, and the daughter, Annetta, 22, died in the hospital a few hours after admittance. The fire was caused by the explosion of gasoline they were using in a washing machine. Lang, carried from the house by firemen, is in a serious condition. BUSINESS REVIVAL SEEN Secretary of Labor Doak Declares Upward Trend Started. By United Press NEW YORK, May 4.—Secretary of Labor Doak, in an address here today, declared that the bottom of the business depression has been reached “and that an upward movement has started.” This analysis of the business situation, Doak said, “is justified by information gathered by the labor department." and particularly by increasing activity in the ' nation’s manufacturing establishments. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 45 10 a. m 61 7a. m..... 47 li a. m 65 Ba. m..... 55 12 (noon).. 67 9 a. m,.... 58

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Fire Away! By United Press OBERLIN, 0., May 4.—C. ed smokers at Oberlin collet, wont have to "snub the. faces” for faculty members for a while, at least. Members the faculty have approved “discreet” smoking temporarily. They did so over the objections of an insurance company, which claimed that coed smoking would increase fire hazards.

JURY RESUMES BUS BILL QUIZ Four Witnesses Called in Alleged Plot Probe. Four witnesses testified today before the county grand jury, with resumption of the probe into alleged conspiracy and fraud that is supposed to have surrounded passage of House Bill 6 by the 1931 Indiana legislature. Those who testified were Leland K. Fishback, secretary of the senate; Bert C. Morgan, Republican and exprohibition director; Bert Myers, lobbyist for the Big Faur railroad, and Ralph Young, bus inspector for the public srevice commission. The jury is sifting charges that the bill, placing control of busses and trucks with the service commission, was passed during the last hours of the assembly session by persons who struck out the provision that municipalities control busses and trucks.

BAN FOKKER PLANES Complete Tests to Be Made by U. S. Experts. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 4.—The department of commerce announced that all Fokker tri-motored transport planes manufactured during 1929 had been prohibited from transporting passengers until complete tests of their reliability can be made. This order was effective last Saturday. It was in this type plane that Knute Rockne and seven others were killed. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young said that the department has been conducting an investigation since the accident and that the order was the result of that inquiry. Four transport lines were said to be affected by the ruling. They are Transcontinental Air Transport, Western Air Express, American Airways and Pan-American.

LAST m RUSH ON Police Maintain Order at Treasurer’s Office. Clicking adding machines and rushing employes in the county treasurer’s office marked today as the final date for paying spring tax installments. Two lines of late taxpayers paraded continuously past the teller's windows this morning in an effort to pay taxes before 4 this afternoon. All taxes not paid by this hour will become delinquent, County Treasurer Clyde E. Robnison said. Persons mailing checks for taxes will have their names entered as paid today providing the letter mailed to the treasurer’s office is postmarked prior to midnight tonight. Robinson declared. Police were necessary to maintain order in the courthouse halls as the “last minute” rush proceeded. Several women who had stood in line for several hours fainted. The lines extended practically the entire length of the courthouse. SLEEPS WITH CHICKENS Chicago Man Faces Vagrancy Trial After Nocturnal “Disaster.” To sleep in a chicken house spells disaster for dreamers. James Landay of Chicago learned this as he faced a vagrancy charge after he was discovered asleep in the chicken house of Marion Hamerstick, R. R. 1, Box 334, today.

JAPANESE AVIATOR STARTS HOP TO U.S.

By United Pres TOKIO, Japan, May 4.—SeijiYoshihara, j-outhful Japanese aviator, was en route today on a twenty-stop flight to the United States, bearing a message of “the highest regard of Japan” to President Hoover. Gulping a drink of sake from the Meiji shrine, the 27-year-old flier stepped into his plane at 10 a. m. and departed from Haneda airport on the first stage of his flight. He was due at Kumasaki late this afternoon. Yoshihara, flying a Junkers “Junior” all-metal plane, similar to the one in which he made a 6,800-mile flight from Berlin to Tokio last year, planned to fly via the Aleutian islands and Alaska to San Francisco. The plans, which has a cruising speed of about ninety miles ai. hour, will get him to the United States late this month, the flier said. Weather condition* were ideal when he started. The plane is an amphibian, which will be converted into a land plane at SaL Francisco.

BUILDING PAY CUT REFUSED BY m MEN Profit Grab Is Charged to Employers by City Labor Leaders. MOVE CALLED LOCKOUT Contracts Made Under Old Wage Scale, Assertion of Craftsmen. Contending that the Associated Construction Employers have accepted contracts on bids based on the existing wage scale, and proposed a 20 per cent reauction means that amount of increased profit for contractors, the Marion Count;, Building Trades Council executive committee today refused to accep the wage cut. The committee also charged as sociation members “locked out” the craftsmen when they came to won. Friday without attempting to negotiate the reduction with the union business agents. More than 50 per cent of the union men are affected by the “lockout,” Courtney E. Hammond, painters’ business agent and president of the council, declared. He added that business construction contracts approximating $5,000,000 are involved. Large Buildings Included Included in these contracts are the new Indiana Bell Telephone Company building, a Riley hospital addition, the grand stand at the state fairground and a men’s dormitory at the Central State Hospital for the Insane. Union officials declared the construction employers’ group is anew organization, having as members only one-half of the construction contractors, and this organization is attempting to set aside the regular method by which wage scales have been negotiated in the past. "It has been the custom for the craftsmen, such as plumbers, painters, carpenters, etc., to negotiate the wage scales, with the master contractors, and this system as a rule has worked out favorably,” declared Charles W. Kern, former school commissioner and building trades council representative. Attempts Group Cuts "Now, some of these contractors are attempting, through this new organization, to make us take group reductions. "But they have made no attempt to negotiate with the union business agents. They have adopted a ‘take it or leave it’ attitude, to which we will not agree.” Many contractors have not asked for the reduction and the craftsmen are at work on those jobs, they declared. Meeting of the council today was the regular business session, but it was devoted to discussion of the proposed reduction. Conciliator Is Present Harry Dynes, conciliator for the United States department of labor, was present at the meeting, but had no proposal to make, it was announced. Meeting of carpenters’ local, No. 75, tonight will be devoted to discussion of the situation, C. Hedge, financial secretary, announced. It was understood the carpenters will refuse to accept the reduction. RADIO BAN DENIED Commission Refuses Plea to Bar Lottery Ads. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 4.—The federal radio commission today denied the application of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association for a general order to prevent broadcasting of radio programs involving advertising of lotteries or schemes of chance. Train Kills Man By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 4. James Lockridge, 63, was killed instantly here when struck by a Nickel Plate freight train.

Yoshihara .bore messages of good wishes from statesmen of the United States, Soviet Russia, Canada and Japan. President Hoover expressed the hope that he would have good fortune on the flight, which, if successful, will be the first between Japan and America.

Reno Divorce Mill Grinds at Dizzy Speed

T> ENO, Nev., May 4.—The Reno divorce colony, pausing briefly over Sunday, plunged today into the second whirlwind phase of Nevada's new marital-legal routine, with eighty-four divorces scheduled to be granted before nightfall. Society matrons in costly furs mingled with plainer dressed free-dom-seeking wives as the hour approached for the start of the “tenminute hearings” under the new six-week divorce law. Even by crowding the calendar with eighty-four cases, County Clerk "Boss” T emer was unable to find room f all the 189 suits filed Saturday, when the law became es-

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SENTIMENT ON DRY LAW IS KIRKLAND JURY ISSUE

Attorneys Stress Stand on Prohibition in Quizzing Candidates, By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., May 4.—Selection of a jury to try Virgil Kirkland, Gary athlete, on charges of murdering Arlene Draves, was interrupted today by a quarrel over qualification of prohibitionists to sit as jurymen. Kirkland's attorneys drew the opposition of the state by attempting to challenge for cause two veniremen who admitted they were drys. William Huckleburg, farmer, said

Leave the Jail By United Press CHICAGO, May 4.—Police Chief J. Z. Miller of Glenview Village declared today he never again will trust a steam fitter and a welder together—not even in his “breakproof” jail. Floyd Wright, welder, and Raymond Wright, steamfitter, were the names given by two men whom Miller arrested on burglary charges and placed in the jail from which he boasted nobody could escape. He left the prisoners unguarded over night, and returned to find that Frank and Raymond literally had taken the jail apart. Cell doors were off their hinges, locks broken and twisted and the place in general disorder. The Wright brothers had •left.

FIRE LOSS IS SII,OOO Empty Buildings, Garage Burned in Week-End Blazes. Two fires Sunday night destroyed property worth about SII,OOO, records of the fire department showed today. Several empty buildings owned by th3 Gem Coal Company, at Roosevelt avenue and Lewis street, burned with SB,OOO loss. Fire in the garage of the Acme-Evans Company flour mills, Washington and Geisendorf streets, damaged several trucks $2,500. Mother, Carrying Baby, Injured Carrying her 8-months-old baby, Mrs. Grace Tooley, 22, of 143 Douglas street, tripped in a catch basin at 143 Doyle avenue, and fell, injurying her legs, Sunday. The baby was not hurt.

j fective, and he docketed eighty-four more for Tuesday and the remain- ! der for Wednesday. Not all the prospective suits were ) filed Saturday, however, and it was I expected that Wednesday also would ! be another eighty-four-case day be- ; cause of filings today. One-fourth of the suits filed Saturday were by men, leading Clerk I Beemer to predict anew and un-looked-for source of popularity for ; the six-weeks law. Business men I found It difficult to leave their affairs for three months, as required by the old law, but many now find time for a “Reno cure” £f half that length, Beemer said.

Above, the new North Side Methodist church, Meridian and Thirty-eighth streets, to be dedicated next Sunday; left, the old -tincture on the site where the Ncrth Side congregation has met ~ince 1843; right, the Rev. Warden W. Wiant, pastor. Overshadowing the steepled, frame structure at Illinois and Thirty-eighth street, where the North Side Methodist Episcopal congregation has worshiped since 1343, anew and magnificent stone structure has arisen, to be dedicated with impressive ceremonies next Sunday. Dwarfed in comparison with the Gothic edifice of which it is the parent, the steepled church is not to feel the wreckers’ crowbars. The congregation, meeting there Sunday for the last service, has decreed that Sunday school classes, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire and church societies will continue to use the earlier structure.

in response to questioning that he favored enforcement of the prohibition laws. ’ v “Would you believe a person who drinks as readily as one who doesn’t?” he was asked. “I don’t think I would,” he replied. Loreen King, Valparaiso night watchman, gave similar responses. The defense attempted to have both excused for cause, having in mind that Arlene Draves died at a

JOBLESS, LED BY REDS, TO DEFY LESLIE, COPS

Folice activities against a gathering of unemployed, led by Cummunist organizers, began early today with arrests of three men and confiscation of two trucks which brought 125 “hunger marchers” here from outsate points. The chief meeting of the protestants against unemployment conditions in Indiana is scheduled for 4 this afternoon. Leaders of the throng say they will convene on the statehouse lawn, while police declare they will carry out wishes of Governor Harry G. Leslie that the meeting be held elsewhere. The Governor suggested Camp Sullivan. Luesse Is Jailed Again When he refused to obey a police command to “move along and quit blocking streets” in front of the Odd Fellow hall, 536% Indiana avenue, Theodore Luesse, secretary of the Unemployed Council here, was arrested again on a vagrancy charge and held in lieu of $5,000 bend, which he expected to post later today. Shortly afterward Napoleon Johnson, 61, of Terre Haute, and Lazo Rabraca of Gary of the “hunger marchers” brigade, were arrested on vagrancy charges and for violation of a city ordinance prohibiting carrying of banners in city streets without permit. The trucks they were driving were held by police and towed into a garage. Invoked Few Times Few arrests have been made for violation of the city ordinance, police officials said this morning. They could recall haring invoked the law in February against several women, sympathizers with Luesse’s cause, and of its having been used for arrests several years ago during a barber’s strike. The “hunger marchers” set out from outstate points Saturday and

Disgruntled married folk from all over the world made up the crowds that filled the town’s two courtrooms today, the roll call including residents of Honolulu, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, Norway, England, Canada and France. New j York led the states with sixty-feur, cases. California was second with thirty-three. Mrs. Jeanne De Rousse Kampmann, Philadelphia society figure, was among the first scheduled to appear today. She charged that Robert Kampmann insisted upon taking hi* children by a former marriage along on his second honeymoon.

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party where the Celebrants consumed liberal quantities of wine and gin. Judge Grant Crumpacker decided to hear arguments this afternoon before deciding the point. Including the three dropped today, a total of sixty-five veniremen have been excused for cause, fiftysix by the defense and nine by the state. In addition, the defense has used four peremptory challenges and the state two.

arrived in Indianapolis Sunday afternoon, proceeding to the Indiana avenue address, where they heard speeches by Miles Morton, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; Luesse, and Matt Ross, Communist organizer here. About twenty of the “hunger marchers,” said to have been the Marion delegation, left this morning after telling police they did not know 7 “this was going to be a Red meeting.” We’re not Reds.” A committee was to visit the Goveernor at 4 this afternoon to present demands for a special legislative session to appropriate a fund

WAGE CUT WARNING VOICED BY SCRIPPS

“Reduce wages and you kill the goose that lays the golden egg” was the warning to Indiana, sounded by Robert P. Scripps, editorial director of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, when he visited Indianapolis today. “Maintenance of the wage scale, repeal of the Hawley-Smoot tariff, and repeal of the present prohibition | laws will aid American business in 1 its return to normal,’ ’he declared. “Cut wages and you cut consumption and thus you hamstring the very source of this nation’s recovery.” Scripps pointed out that passage of the Hawley-Smoot tariff has caused foreign nations to raise retaliatory tariff walls against American products. “The tariff law has led many American manufacturers to locate : plants in foreign countries. This : does this nation no good. It may L make a profit for the manufacturer,

Evelyn Lowe Berrill, granddaughter of the late George F. Baker, and one of the heirs to his vast estate, sought freedom from Edward Liv- 1 ingston Burrill Jr., on charges of j extreme cruelty. Mrs. Florence M. Peabody, New York society figure, appeared with ten minutes of testimony charging an unhappy married life with Charley L. Peabody. Mrs. Katherin Stone Hoyt charged I Richard F. Hoyt, chairman of the; board of Curtiss-Wright Aviation Corporation, with extreme cruelty, i Mrs. Florence Rice Smith, New York actress and daughter of Grantland Rice, was on the first day docket, st ig Sidney# faith.

HOOVER CALLS ON BUSINESS MEN TO FORCE STATESMEN TO DISARM WORLD POWERS Taxation Wrung- From People to Support Armies Is Greatest Hindrance to Economic Progress, He Tells International C. of C. ‘BILLIONS ARE WASTED EVERY YEAR* Vast Armaments Are Causing Political Instability, President Asserts; Points to Coming Conference. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 4.—President Hoover today called upon world business men to force statesmen to disarm. The greatest hindrance to economic progress, he told the International Chamber of Commerce in a speech, is taxation wrung from the people so that governments may spend five billion dollars a year supporting their armies. Pointing his remarks to the general disarmament conference to be held next February, the chief executive delivered what may be regarded as his most vigorous international message since entering the White House.

GUNSHOT KILLS POUCE CHIEF South Bend Official Found Dying in Home, By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 4 Samuel J Lenon, South Bend police chief, died shortly after 11 a. m. today of a bullet wound in the head. The coroner has not yet announced an official finding of suicide. It is reported the officer had been worried over ill health and that domestic difficulties existed. He had arranged for a lengthy leave from his duties. Mrs. Lenon found the chief, in his night clothes, lying across his bed shortly before 7 o’clock. A .32caliber automatic pistol was beside him. He was appointed to the force March 1, 1926, and advanced rapidly. Mayor W. R. Hinkle placed him at the head of the -department on Jan. 6, 1930.Previous to joining the department, he was Dostmaster at Culver, Ind.

to pay $25 cash monthly to unemployed, and to force counties to pay utility bills and rent for all unemployed. The Governor was not in his office this morning, but his aides said he would be there to receive the committee this afternoon. Superintendent Frank C. Caylor of the buildings and grounds at the statehouse sent a circular letter to all department heads warning them to tell their employes that the Governor want sthem to remain in their offices and at their desks during the statehouse demonstration, if there is one.

but it furnishes no employment for the people of this nation.” He indorsed the proposal of exGovernor Chase P. Osborne of Michigan that before the nations of the world hold further disarmament conferences the treasury departments of the various nations should meet and agree on an international tariff system. Repeal of the prohibition law i would aid all classes of our citi- j zens but one, he pointed out. “And j that would be the bootlegger,” he j added. BOY PRINCE IMPROVING Mother Is Devoted Nurse in Illness of Young Michael. By United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 4. Crown' Prince Michael, who has been ill of diphtheria, was making normal progress today, with his mother. Princess Helene, remaining at his bedside most of the time. ,The princess has been a devoted nurse to the youth, who was taken from her care and placed in military school when King Carol returned to the throne, but failed in efforts toward a reconciliation with his divorced wife. BOND ISSUE PROPOSED Judgment Fund to Be Studied by City Council Tonight. Ordinance authorizing a $245,000 bond issue to pay court Judgments | against the city since 1928 will be ! introduced at city council meeting j tonight. Judgments on unpaid bills number 118, of which $113,000 judgment held by the Indianapolis Water Company and $74,000 Indianapolis Power and light Company .are the largest. V

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“It is within the power of business men of the world/’ he said, ‘to insist that this problem shall be met with sincerity, courage and constructive action. It is within the power of statesmen to give the world a great asurance for the future and a great moral victory for humanity.” His welcoming speech to the business leaders of many nations was short, but it sounded anew note in discussions about the troubles of the world. The World war started the thing in the first place, Mr. Hoover main - tained. It brought "destruction of life and property, the great tax burdress, and social and political instability.” 5,500,000 Men Under Arms Although the nations have signed the Kellogg-Briand pact promising not to resort tc arms, they have, he added, nearly 5:500:000 men actively under arms and 20,000,000 more in reserve. The figures are an increase of 70 per cent over the pre-war period. The annual cost he estimated at around five billion dollars. “Surely with this understanding.” he said referring to the pact, "the self-defense of nations could be assured with proportionately far less military forces than these. "This vast armament continues not only a burden upon the economic recuperation of the world, but, of even more consequence, the constant threats and fears which arise from it are a serious contribution to all forms of instability, whether social, political or ecncmic.” Points Directly to Conference "International confidence can not be builded upon fear—it must be builded upon good will,” he asserted. “The whole history of the world is filled with chapter after chapter of the failure to secure peace through either competitive arms or intimidation.” Turning directly to the coming arms conference he added: “The very calling of this conference is in itself not only proof of need, but is an emphatic evidence of the progress in the world demand for relief and peace. “Os all the proposals for the economic rehabilitation of the world, I. know of none which compares in necessity or importance with the successful result of that conference.” U. S. Gravely Affected "It .is needless for me to emphasize the high degree of economic interdependence of the world,” said Mr. Hoover. "We require no more emphatic demonstration than the present world-wide depression. Although the United States enjoys a far greater economic independence than any other large country, yet we have been gravely affected by world forces.” "I am not unaware of the difficulties of the disarmament question,” said Mr. Hoover. “No one would suggest that either national defense should be abandoned nor that so great a task as reasonable limitation and reduction of arms can be accomplished over night. “We have made considerable progress in the limitation and reduction of naval arms. We have laid the foundation for still further progress in thg future. Those agreements have contributed greatly to reduce the burden of taxes and to establish confidence and good will among the nations who have been signatory to them.” Stresses U. S. Viewpoint "The United States has a less direct interest in land armament reduction than any of the large nations because our forces already have been demobilized and reduced more than all others,” continued the President. "We have, however, a vast indirect interest in greater assurance of peace, order and the increased prosperity of other nations.” ‘ Endeavor as we must in support of every proposal of international economic co-operation that is just to our respective peoples, yet we must recognize that reduction of this gigantic waste of competition in military establishments is in the ultimate of an importance trancendent over all other forms of such'economic effort.

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