Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1931 — Page 2

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HOOVER DEBT HOLIDAY PLAN STIRS NEW WORLD HOPE

SPEEDY ACTION IS NECESSARY, SAYS STIMSON International Parley Would Serve as Check on Success, He Thinks. APPROVED IN ENGLAND President Determined That Politics Will Not Play Part in Plan. (Continued from Page 1) announcing to the world one of the jnost striking international actions of the United States since entering the World war. “Purpose of this action is to give Jthe forthcoming year to the economic recovery of the world and to help free the recuperative forces already in motion in the United States from retarding influences abroad.” President Hoover emphatically declared he still is opposed to cancellation of the war debts. Bank Run Starts Action Only the gravest dangers in Germany would have promoted President Hoover to take this step, for until recently the administration ■was averse to discussing the situation at all. But a run on the German Reichsbank since June 1 has drained gold out so rapidly as to cause the gravest concern. Furthermore, the Bruenlng government barely was clinging or, Serving as a thin partition between •the allied world and the rapidly growing nationalist or Fascist group which was threatening to seize the government on a. platform of war debt repudiation. MORE ' While Stimson at the state department was emphasizing that Mr. Hoover’s remedy depended for its Success upon speedy application, it was being revealed at the White House that the President inaugurated his project June 5, five days after the beginning of the Reichs- 1 bank run. Helped by Cabinet Officers Financial advisers, cabinet officers and diplomats have co-operated with Mr. Hoover in the last fortnight in bringing the project to the stage reached Saturday evening, when the president startled the world with moratorium pronouncement. Stimson, Secretary of Treasury Mellon, and Under-Secretary Mills met with Mr. Hoover at the White House on June 5. The official version of development of the project as related today, indicates Mr. Hoover at that time suggested to these three that the plan as announced Saturday apparently would be necessary. His suggestion was identical, it was said today, with the formal announcement issued by the White House. The President continued his daily conferences on his mid-western speaking tour. The White House long distance phone bill went up and up and up. President Hoover was getting in touch with congressional leaders throughout the Country to obtain in advance their sanction to a program which Ultimately must be passed on by Congress. Time Is Important Time was the important element and it was considered impossible to delay remedial measures until December, when congress next will be In session. While absent in the midwest, Mr. Hoover kept in touch by telephone conversation with White House aids. . Mr. Hoover was pictured today as determined from the beginning that any action taken must be on a nonpoiitical and nonpartisan basis. For that reason, as soon as he received information corroborating his view of the situation, he began conferences with Democratic leaders. The President considers their reportedly tmanimous acceptance of his proposal as a patriotic attitude. The President is said to be very j much gratified by the response he lias received, and especially by tne effect the proposal is said to have had on commodity markets, all of which are said to show returning confidence. f- ■ - AIR HONEYMOONERS DIE Newlyweds Killed as TMane Hits Tree Top. Nose Dives. By United Press PELHAM MANOR, N. Y.. June 22. —An airplane crash took the liv#s of Myron F. Hutchinson, eastern "Sales manager of the Stinson Airplane Company of Detroit, and his bride, Sunday while they were on an aerial honeymoon. The couple was bound from Boston to Roosevelt field when the jplane, apparently out of control, hit a tree top and nose-dived into the ground. HOOVER GETS HUGE PIE Also Receives Invitation to Attend Michigan Cherry Festival. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 22.—President Hoover received today a huge pie and an invitation to attend the •Traverse City cMich.) cherry festival. July 15, 16, 17. Both were presented to him at the White House by Miss Maxine Weaver. 17-year-old Traverse City high school girl who came here by air for that purpose. Mr. Hoover •accepted the pie, but took the Invitation under advisement. Mine Gas Kills Boy By United Press WASHINGTON, Ind., June 22Black damp in a coal mine near There in which Courtlad Drew, 10, was playing, ended the boy’s life. 'He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Joe Drew. Evansville Boy Drowns - By United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., June 22. TOrowning claimed the life of Bobby McNeely, 8, Evansville, while the ilamily was bathing at Cypress feeach, on the Ohio river. The body was recovered.

MAYOR’S BEST PAL IS HIS ‘DOWNFALL’

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan is f ceen here P* aTin * with Mike, his faithful Collie, before the accident M*. over the week-end in which Mike, aßr "■** while romping, caused the mayor to fall, spraining his ankle se-

Wearing Brace, Sullivan Adds Crutches After Romp With Dog. Mike, the big, handsome Collie of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, today was lonesome. For Mike missed the usual pleasant walk with his master, who. wearing unaccustomed crutches, had to forgo the customary early morning jaunt before beginning the arduous duties attached to being mayor of Indianapolis. And in his bewilderment. Mike probably was unaware that he was the innocent cause of his master being forced to walk with crutches until a badly sprained ankle heals. Steps Into Hole Happy in the knowledge that within a few weeks he would be able to remove the painful steel brace he has been forced to wear since his spine was injured in an airplane accident nine months ago, Mayor Sullivan, with his father, Thomas L. Sullivan, mayor of Indianapolis forty-one years ago, and Mike, Saturday afternoon took a stroll along Eagle creek. Mike, in a playful mood, picked up sticks and carried them to his master, demanding mutely that they be thrown for him to retrieve. The mayor stepped backward into a hole in the rough creek bank and fell, doubling his leg under him. Spine Not Injured In pain from the injured ankle, which he feared was broken, and anxious lest his spine had been injured again, undoing six months treatment while wearing the heavy brace, the mayor was helped into a car by his father and rushed home. There he was attended by Dr. Thomas L. Sullivan, his brother, and Dr. Lacey L. Shuler, bone specialist. Dr. Sullivan today said X-ray photographs revealed no further injury to the spine. He said the sprained ankle will require Mayor Sullivan to walk with crutches for probably two weeks. Then he may be able to remove the brace. Despite his injury, Mayor Sullivan Sunday afternoon participated in dedication of the new Christian park community house. He expected to visit his office at the city hall as usual today. PIONEER PAGEANT SET Postponed Event to Be Held Next Sunday at Christian Park. Pioneer pageant will be presented ext Sunday afternoon at 4 at Christian park, it was announced today after rain delayed the presentation Sunday. Three hundred children will take part in the affair commemorating purchase of the ground 100 years ago by the relatives of Mrs. Edna Christian, who wrote the pageant. The new community house at the park was dedicated Sunday. Ceremonies were atended by Mrs. Christian and city officials. JOBLESS: GETS $63,000 Unemployed Factory Worker Named Heir of New York Doctor. By United Press ST. CHARLES, 111,, June 22. Delbert Dunham, a factory worker who hasn’t been able to find work for three months, has been notified that he was left $63,000 by Dr. *£. L. Prescott, New York physician, with whom he lived when he was a boy. He will go to New York this week to get the money. Principal Changes Position By United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., June 22. C. R. Young, principal of Greencastle high school, has accepted a similar position at Frankfort. Young organized an orchestra here which won the state title this year. Child Dies of Injuries SOUTHS END, Ind., June 22. Injuries suffered May 26 when he ran side of a moving truck proved ratal to Eugene Loy, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Loy.

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan is reen here playing with Mike, his faithful Collie, before the accident over the week-end in which Mike, while romping, caused the mayor to fall, spraining his ankle severely.

REPORTERS’ PAY BOOSTSJIPHELD Judge Rabb Rules Against County in Suits. Eight former court reporters won a fight for $4,800 salary increases, S6OO each, due them from the county, today when Special Judge A. L. Rabb overruled a demurrer of county commissioners opposing payment. The increases for reporters under the former administration were ordered by judges and refused by commissioners. Salaries were raised from $2,400 to $3,000 each. Contention of reporters that commissioners indirectly approved the increases by sanctioning an appropriation for the purpose was upheld by Judge Rabb in his decision. “Complaint shows the plaintiff’* salary was fixed by the judge and approved by commissioners,” Rabb ruled in circuit court. “The board of commissioners bears responsibility for fixing salaries because of its knowledge and control over the obligations and resources of the county,” the ruling stated in the case of T "la Grayson, a reporter. YALE BACKS EXPLORERS University to Send Party Into Himalayas Next Year. By United Press NEW HAVEN. Conn., June 22. Yale university will sponsor an expedition next year into the Himalayas of India and western Tibet, a region which scientists believe holds greater promise of producing the missing link between man and ape than the northern Asiatic region, where Roy Chapman Andrews has concentrated his search for years. The personnel of the expedition will consist of three men and a woman, Dr. and Mrs. Hellmut De Terra, G. Evelyn Hutchinson and George E. Lewis. ORDER HUGE PIPELINE Foreign Oil Company to Spend 813,650,000 on Project. By United Pres 9 PARIS, June 22.—The Irak Petroleum Company, which combines the American, French and British oil interests in the development and exploitation of the Mosul oil fields, placed orders today for $13,650,000 worth of material required in the building of the great Y-shaped pipeline which is to carry the oil from the Tigris to the Mediterranean. French and British firms benefit mostly from the costly orders placed for building material, with America providing a certain amount of the technical equipment.

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INDEPENDENT IS LEADING CHAINS IN TRADE FIGHT Average Per Capita Yearly Purchases .Amount to $407.52. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 22.—Retail stores in the United States are doing a $50,000,000 business annually, the commerce department announced today on the basis of 1930 figures collected by the census bu-. reau. In addition $3,000,000,000 of retail business is carried on by direct sales by manufacturers and other producers, bringing the total to $53,000,000,000 annually. “The stupendous figure is nearly two-thirds of the unofficially estimated total annual income of the country from all sources and five times the value of the average annual “farm crop,” the department said in its There are 1,549,000 retail stores in' the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia, of 12.6 per 1,000 inhabitants. The average store does an annual business of $32,2 r 7, the census showed. The average per capital purchases at retail amount to $407.52, which indicates that average retail purchases per family are from $1,250 to $2,000 annually. The analysis published today does not show the total of reail trade by chain stores alone, but the chains have a large share of this total outlay. A recent analysis by the commerce department showed, however, that the old independent store still is getting the major portion of the country’s retail business. The report today showed a wide variation in the retail store sales in the several states. They range from a minimum of $172 purchaser per capita in South Carolina to $575 in California and New York. MAN DROWNS AS HE TRIES TO SWIM RIVER Negro Is Unable to Reach Other Side Near Pump Station. Attempt to swim White river near the pumping station of the Indianapolis Water Company today resulted in the drowning of Charles Wilson, Negro, 22, of 1055 Holborn street. Wilson wa sunable to reach the other side and his drowning was witnessed by several boys and fishermen in the vicinity who were unable to reach him. Two dogs, owned by Sylvester Galloway, Negro, 10, of the same address, swam to Wilson as he sank in answer to his cries for aid. The body was recovered by police an hour after the drowning. Wilson is survived by his estranged -wife and three sons. This is the seventh accidental drowning since Jan. 1. KILLERS SENTENCED Two Get Terms of Two to Fourteen Years Each. By Times Special PLYMOUTH, Ind., June 20.—Simon Dyer, 20, and Hargis Saylers, 20, both of North Judson, were each sentenced to two to ten years in the state reformatory In Marshall circuit court here for voluntary manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting on Christmas eve of Paul Scheiman, near North Judson. Dyer was found guilty by a jury. Saylers pleaded guilty. Joseph Whitney, brother-in-law of Saylers, who admitted driving an automobile on the night of the murder, was given a suspended sentence on a charge of accessory after the fact. BLACKMAIL PLOT FAILS Attempt Made to Obtain $15,000 From Otterbein Farmer. By United Press OTTERBEIN, Ind., June 22—An attempt to obtain $15,000 from Frank Mann, wealthy farmer of this vicinity, through blackmail, which later was purportedly abandoned, is under investigation today. Mann was directed in a letter to give the money to Floyd Stillabower, his employe, and Stillabower was to take it to the blackmailers. Stillabower told authorities that he was accosted by four men who instructed him to tell Mann to ignore the demand. Drive Kills Caddy By United Press NEW YORK, June 22.—Harold Marshall, 16, a caddy, was killed when the man for whom he was caddying on the links of the Mayflower Country Club, Staten island, drove a kail which struck Marshall in the back of the head.

Benefactor By United Press EVANSTON, 111., June 22. Chief of Police William O. Freeman, who is a music lover, put a quietus today on ukeleles in Evanston. He ordered his policemen to arrest aU ukelele plunkers at the first plunk after sundown and bring them to jail on charges of disorderly conduct. Chief Freeman explained that anybody guilty of plunking a ukelele automatically was guilty of disorder and that, anyway, he was tired of all the discordant ukelele plunking on Evanston's beaches.

FOOD PRICES IN CITY DROP U. S. Figures Show Fall of 24 Per Cent in Year. By Times Special WASHINGTON, June 22.—Retail food prices in Indianapolis dropped 3 per cent in the month ending May 15, the bureau of labor statistics reported today. The average decrease for fiftyone cities was slightly less than 2% per cent for the month, and 19 1-3 for the last year. Only one of the fifty-one cities showed an increase during the month. This was Portland, Ore., where retail prices climbed less than 5-10 of 1 per cent. Peoria and Rochester prices fell off 6 per cent. Norfolk, 5, and Atlanta, Dallas, Little Rock, Mobile and New Orleans, 4. For the year ending May 15, however, Indianapolis’ drop in food prices was exceeded by only one city, the figure for Springfield, 111., being 25 per cent and for Indianapolis, 24.

BARE TRANSFER OF UTILITY’S PROFITS

Example of Shifting Is Cited by Federal Trade Branch. By Scripps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 22.—The way in which profits are transferred rapidly from regulated utility companies to unregulated holding companies was explained by officials of the trade commission at what may be its last session before its summer recess. The story of how $200,000 was transferred from Minnesota Power and Light Company to Electric Bond and Share was told in testimony of Leclaire Hoover, chief accountant of the trade commission. The transfer was made by means of Phoenix Utility Company, which like Minnesota Power and Light, was part of the Electric Bond and Share group. Phoenix Utility made a contract with Minnesota Power and Light to do a five million dollar construction job for it. The contract provided that Phoenix should be fully reimbursed for all expenditures for material, labor, construction, machinery, equipment, overhead costs, and sub-contrac-tors’ charges. It guaranteed to advance Phoenix funds for the work. In preparation for the job, men from other electric bond and shore companies were transferred to Phoenix. Sixty-seven per cent of the necessary money was furnished by American Power and Light, an electric bond and share holding company, and 17 per cent was furnished by operating utilities subsidiary to Minnesota Power and Light, When the work was finished, the men employed went back to work for Minnesota Power and Light and other companies in the group. And Phoenix collected a $200,000 “fee” for doing the construction work. INDIAN FIGHTERS FORM War Veterans to Gather; Camp Will Be Organized. Indian war veterans of Indianapolis will meet next Sunday afternoon at the home of James E. Wilson, 625 North Delaware street, to organize a camp to be known as the Indian War Veterans of Indiana. Wilson is temporary chairman of the group. There are thirty-five veterans of the Indian wars in Indiana. Many are expected to be here for the meeting. Hatchery Produces Quail By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., June 22.—Controversy to a popular belief that quail eggs can not be hatched artificially, the Danville electric hatchery is eexhibiting eighteen yo g quail. Only one of nineteen eg t placed in the hatchery failed to produce.

HYDE TO SPEAK THURSDAY TO FARMERS' CLUB Economic Problems to Be Discussed Here by Cabinet Official. Agricultural and economic problems will be discussed by Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, at a joint assembly of the Farmers Club and the Bankers Business Men's Marion county farm tour Thursday. Secretary Hyde will speak at the noon meeting at the dairy farm of Guy McFarland & Son, two miles east and one-half mile south of Southport. Luncheon will be served without charge to members of the Farmers Club and those on the tour. Bankers and business men of Indianapolis and the county have been asked to join on this tour of representative farms in Marion county. The trip is sponsored by the Marion County Bankers’ Association, Marion County Farm Bureau, the agricultural cor/mittee of the Chamber of Commerce and the ruralurban relations committee of the Rotary Club. It will start at 9 a. m. Thursday from the Columbia Club. Reservations may be made with .Clarence Henry, Marion county agricultural agent, or Wililam J. Clark, secretary of the county bankers’ association, at the Belmont State bank. This is Secretary Hyde’s second visit to Indianapolis within a year. He gave the keynote at the Republican state convention here a year ago. Women Left $103,000 Estate PERU, Ind., June 22.—The estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Butt has been appraised at $103,000 for inheritance tax purposes. There are eight heirs —six children and two grandchildren.

INTERURBAN HITS CAR; MAN HURT CRITICALLY Injuries May Prove Fatal; Suffers Skull Fracture, Broken Legs. Struck by a traction car when his auto stalled on tracks of the Indianapolis & Southeastern Railway at Southeastern avenue, John Head, R. R. 9, this noon suffered injuries which may result in his death. Head was thrown from the car which was demolished. He sustained a skull fracture and both legs were broken. He was taken to the Methodist hospital. Bert Abernathy, 70, of Rushville was operator of the traction car. July 4th Tour Arrangd A low-priced, all-expense tour from Indianapolis to Chicago for the week-end of July 4 has been arranged by the Pennsylvania railroad, it was announced today. The train wil lleave here at 2:30 a. m <( July 4, returning from Chicago at 11:25 p. m, July 5. Shot Kills Boy By Times Special KNOX, Ind., June 22.—A hunting trip ended fatally when Horace Ryan, 14, accidentally killed his 11-year-old brother Jack with a heavy gauge shotgun. The charge entered the boy’s abdomen and he was dead before medical aid could be obtained.

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Chief inquisitor in the attempts to solve the sensational mystery of the death of Starr Faithfull, 25-year-old New York beauty, is Elvin N. Edwards, above, District Attorney of Nassau county. Through a welter of conflicting evidence involving a score of persnos- he has held determinedly to a theory of murder.

FRENCH LAUNCH HUGENEW SUB Craft Dwarfs Others in World Navies. By United Press CHERBOURG, France, June 22. The most formidable submarine in the world, the Surcouf of the French navy, left Cherbourg naval base today for the high seas for her first tests as the prototype of three huge submarines which dwarf all others in the navies of Great Britain, Italy or the United States. She will make her plunging and speed tests at the Atlantic end of the English channel. The Surcouf really is a submergible cruiser. Its tonnage on the surface is 3,250, but submerged it displaces 4,304 tons, almost as much as many cruisers in minor navies. The greatest of American submarines, the V-4, is dwarfed with its 2,890 tons. Britain’s largest displaces 2,525 tons on the surface. For the next several months, the submarine dreadnought will cruise the seas undergoing thorough tests, for it really is bliilt for study, not for immediate assignment to the high seas fleet. The huge submarines still are in their test stages, and the naval staff in Paris has ordered work on the two other submarine cruisers held up until the results of the tests are known. STATE ROADS ARE OILED Highway Commission Starts DustLaying Campaign. Oiling of several roads to reduce dust was started today by the maintenance department of the state highwa ycommission. State Road 50, Medora to Seymour, has been oiled, and there are several detours along the route. State Road 35 from Salem to Road 50 also has ben oiled, but no detours are necessary. Wednesday the department announced oil of State Road 67 from Mooresville will be started with Road 37 as the detour. Liquor Cache Is Discovered Keys to a liquor cache in a vacant house were found by police Sunday night on Lee Shelton, 1715 West Market street, next door to the cache. Several gallons of whisky and eleven quarts of beer were found. Shelton was arrested on a charge of operating a blind tiger.

JUNE 22,1931

HOLMES ‘SORRY’ FOR CONTEMPT: PAYS sls FINE Judge Weir and Attorney ‘Make Up’; Everything’s Lovely Now. Ira M. Holmes, criminal lawyer, again is in the good graces of Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir after apologmzing to him and paying sls court contempt fine. In a written apology brought into court by James D. Ermston, lawpartner of Holmes, Holmes stated he had not intended to offend the judge Friday when he interruoted the court during the trial of a' divorce case in which Holmes represented the plaintiff. Apology in Record The apology set out that Holmes regretted the incident and “offers this apology and asserts the highest regard for the court.” The apology was entered in the record. Weir reduced the fine from $25 to sls and expressed his friendship for Holmes and commended him. Weir previously had told the attorney either to pay the fine or go to jail. Holmes then said he would serve a jail sentence. Heat Gets Blame Ermston, in a statement to the court, said he believed Holmes’ outburst was caused by “his interest in the case, the delicate situation and the heat.” Holmes was representing Mrs. Francis D. Boyd who obtained a divorce from her husband. Clearence A. Boyd, 2720 North Olney street, after she charged she had served a prison “rap” for him. The attorney interrupted Weir while the judge was making a statement in the case. More than 1,000 Japanese ships have been equipped with radio telegraph equipment.

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