Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1932 — Page 9
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ALL SCHOOLS IN CITY FULL, SAYS STETSON _J Increase in Attendance to Bring Overcrowding Crisis, He Warns. BUILDING NEED IS CITED ‘Missing Chance of Years to Act While Prices Are at Bottom.’ Indianapolis’ public schools, both grade schools and high schools, are crowded to capacity. Any increase in attendance would bring an overcrowding crisis, school officials revealed today. Only by a complex reorganization was an overcrowded dilemma avoided at the mid-year term. The condition was relieved somew’hat by the use of forty-one port- j able buildings in the elementary | division, and thirteen portables in the high school division. ‘ When the depression lifts,” said Superintendent Paul C. Stetson today, “and Indianapolis resumes its normal growth, the school system will have to be enlarged. Prices Low Now “Indianapolis is behind in Its school building program. Right now we are missing the chance of years. Prices are so low that now is the time we should be building for the future. “We would be putting men to! work and we would be saving the taxpayers thousands of dollars.”. “The only way to build schools, however,” said A. B. Good, business director of the schools, “is on the pay-as-you-go system, and not on boiTowed funds. Bond issues won’t help, because the interest piles up and costs taxpayers more in the long run.” High Schools Full All six Indianapolis high schools are full, but are not overcrowded, said Milo Stuart, assistant superintendent, in charge of secondary education. “Shortridge is crow'ded,” said Stuart, “Broad Ripple is crowded, Mrnual is full, so is Washington, and Crispus Attucks and Technical. “Indianapolis will not need too much in the high school division in the next ten years, however. We could put a wing addition to Broad Ripple, and I think perhaps one of Washington. “We probably will have to enlarge all the way around, but not to an extent that is terrifying. “Our present minimum age limit is 16. It had been 14. “In the last fifteen years, pressure for a prolonged education period, has been growing, and a ‘high school education’ now seems to be the general standard. “Boys and girls going out for jots have found that' ‘high school graduates’ are preferred. So, gradually, we have been reaching our peak in attendance. “In five years we will have all the pupils w r e ever will have in the high schools, except, of course, for the city’s normal growth. “When we get, say 90 per cent, of the available children in the high schools, we are at the limit. A school system designed for that would be ideal. Not an Inch of Slack “Right now T ANARUS, however, there is not one inch of slack in the entire sys- ; tern. We are using seven portable j buildings at Tech, two at Broad | Ripple, two at Washington, and j two at Crispus Attucks. Those i portables help solve the congestion.” The elementary system, with many ancient buildings and equipment in dilapidated condition, is the division which needs the help of a building program most, school officials declare. “Any increase of enrollment in the elementary schools will give us a lot of trouble,” said Stetson. “The grade schools are filled to capacity. We can’t accommodate any more.” ARMS PARLEY RENEWED Fifty-Seven Nations Represented at Geneva Conference. GENEVA, Feb. 4.—The world arms conference held its second plenary session today for purposes of final organization. The credentials committee was advised fifty-seven countries were represented. Many delegates were absent and the diplomatic tribunes and press gallery were nearly empty.
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TAX SALE WILL SMASH RECORD Real Estate Will Go on Auction Block Monday. Greatest amount of real estate ever placed on Marion county’s auction block will be offered for sale Monday at the courthouse, at prices covering delinquent taxes. County Treasurer Timothy B. Sexton will attempt to sell properties, on which a total of $600,000 delinquent taxes is due. No properties will be sold for current taxes, assessed in 1931 and payable this year. Redemption of property by the owner will be more difficult than last year, because a special 1931 act, which limited amount of each sale to delinquent taxes only, has expired. To redeem the property this year the original owner must pay a 10 per cent penalty, if redeemed six months from date of sale. This penalty increases to 15 per cent, if redeemed in six months or less than a year, and to 25 per cent, if redeemed a year afterward. Prospects for the county selling much of the property appear limited, according to Sexton. As yet, no buyers have inquired at the treasurer’s office. Final opportunity for county property owners to save real estate from the auction block will be given Saturday afternoon when the treasurer’s office will remain open until 4. ettingerliamed as PRIMARY VOTE HEAD Chief Deputy Clerk Placed in Charge of Machinery. First preparations for the primary election, May 3, were announced today with appointment of Charles F. Ettinger, chief deputy clerk, as director of all election machinery under jurisdiction of the clerk’s office. : * The appointment was made by | Clerk Glenn B. Ralston. Democrats will control election | machinery in the county for the first time in sixteen years. Majority I faction of the board of county comi missioners will nar**' 331 precinct ! supervisors. The board of election commissioners, whose salaries have been slashed from $1,500 to $325 each, will include two Democrats and one Rcpumican. County councilmen also cut $15,000 from the primary election ap- ! propriation.
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HIDDEN MOTIVE IS CHARGED IN HONORKjLUNG Defense Counsel Questions Deb’s Reason for Hiring Own Attorney. MOTHER HIT BY LOVER Slapping Incident Admitted by Rose Allen at Murder Trial. BY PAUL COMLY FRENCH United Press Staff Correspondent NORRISTOWN, Pa., Feb. 4. Asserting that there was a hidden motive behind “her unnatural position against ner brother,” the defense recalled beautiful Rose Allen, 19-year-old debutante, for further cross-examination when the trial of her brother, Edward H. B. Allen, charged with the "honor murder” of her suitor, Francis A. Donaldson 111, convened today. Judge Howard G. Knight consented to Rose’s recall so she might be questioned on her reasons for engaging her own attorney, which defense attorney William T. Connor contended indicated a “hidden interest” behind her testimony. Connor immediately objected when Knight limited the questioning. “We have received a communication bearing on this case which we wish to discuss at the bar. It is about Rose, and important,” Connor said. The judge and opposing counsel | then went into a conference beside I the bench out of earshot of the I jury and spectators. Bearing Is Regal The conference broke up. Judge Knight nodded to Rose, who was sitting inside the inclosure. She walked forward and sat down in the witness chair. She was dressed, as Wednesday, in black. Her bearing was regal and she was serene. As Rose crossed over to the witness chair she passed close to her brother, touched his shoulder, said: “Hello, Eddie.” He smiled and replied: “Hello, Rose.” For the time since the trial began Monday, the name of Rose’s j mother, who died last spring, came ; into the proceedings to add to what i is expected to be the defense plea—j that Edward killed Francis to vindicate the honor of the proud Allen family, long established in Philadelphia’s exclusive society. Slapped Her Mother Under the pounding of defense attorney Connor she admitted her dead lover had slapped her mother’s face and that her mother had resented it. “Do you know Leighton P. Stradly Jr.?” Connor demanded. “I know him, but not well,” she answered. “Did you tell him that Francis | Donaldson insulted your mother?” “No, I didn’t say Francis insulted her. I said Francis slapped mother and she resented it.” Stradly is a Philadelphia society man. Her testimony was interrupted by Horace Allen, white-haired and bent father of Eddie and Rose, who j was seized with a violent and susj tained fit of coughing. He was as- ! sisted from the courtroom by | friends. Seized by Coughing He began coughing when Helga ; Lundgren, the Allen maid, described | having heard Albert C. Lucas, Donaldson's friend, say to the elder Allen: “Are you going to treat your daughter, Rose, like a daughter, or like you have been?” Rose, to all appearances, did not see her father leave. Eddie watched him being led out, a nervous, worried look on his face. In an anteroom the father was given a stimulant and after a few minutes returned to the courtroom. The courtroom was crowded with members of Philadelphia’s exclusive society. Outside in the corridors a crowd of several hundred awaited admittance, attracted by reports that some time during the day Horace Allen would appear to accuse the dead Donaldson of betraying his daughter. Robbery Guilt Denied By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 4.—A plea | of not guilty was entered by Ira Barton, former Blackford county ; sheriff, when he was arraigned in j Jay circuit court here Wednesday charged with conspiracy to rob the j State bank of Dunkirk. His trial | has been set for Monday.
six miles to the ocean. On the southern coast of Cuba, Santiago is 540 miles southeast of Havana. It has a population of about 140,000. At the mouth of the harbor, near old Morro castle, Captain Richmond P. Hobson sank the
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1932
JAPAN IS THIRD IN SEA POWER
Valor of Nippon Stands Test of Centuries
This is the second of six timely stories on Japan of today, and the island empire’s amazingly rapid rise from a primitive land to a first-class world power in the short span of 70-odd rears. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer (Copyright, 1932. fcv NEA Service) \ POWERFUL modern army lengthens its shadows across China, backing up its demand for foreign trade with machine guns and artillery. The long-nosed guns of the world’s third greatest navy echo, in tones like thunder, the same demand from Shanghai’s harbor. Militaristic Japan is on the march in Asia again. At the front, its guns speak. Back on the island empire its idle factories wait. Many means have been suggested for curing the depression that is world-wide. Japan, however, has its own peculiar method. Vast China’s economic boycott against Japan is going to be broken, or else— And that is why the Japanese are in China today. Japan’s modem army came into being soon after Commodore Perry of the United States navy had forced the medieval hermit empire to open its doors to world trade about seventy-five years ago. Its modem navy was born at about the same time. But behind each lies a most colorful story—a story that goes back to the dim centuries before the Christian era. B B B IN those primitive days, and in the days that followed up to seventy-five years ago, Japan grew the hardiest fighting men that the world ever produced. They were trained from the cradle on, their meat was unhulled rice, their motto was “Live and die with sword in hand.” They were the samurai, professoinal warroirs. In the early days cf cross-bow and keen-edged sword, approximately one-fourth of the able bodied men constituted the nation’s army. Service was for a defined period, during which all taxes were remitted. With the advent of the eighth century, the conscription list increased. Every stalwart man was caused to bear arms; every weakling was shamed as a mere breadwinner. In the twelfth century, the whole nation came under the sway of the military organizations. Rich feudal chiefs gathered soldiers around them to protect their feifs —and help them collect taxes from their subjects. B b u IN those ancient days, the principal weapon was the bow and arrow. Japan even had its William Tell; its histories record that BRITAIN'S LOST SUB ISLOCATED M-2 Rests Near German U-Boat in Channel. By United Press PORTLAND, England, Feb. 4. Divers studied plans for raising the submarine M-2 today, discovered in the wreck-strewn Dead Man’s bay, lying alongside a German U-boat sunk during the World war. The M-2 had been missing since Jan. 26. Rescue vessels had worked over the area where she was found many times, but the sweeps had brought up only submarine signal flags. The cause of the disaster had not been determined nor had divers learned how many of the sixty men aboard the submarine when she dived for the last time still were inside. The M-2 was found about 5.8 miles off Portland bill, where divers had inspected 'four wrecks within a radius of a quarter of a mile twen-ty-four hours after the submarine disappeared. An official announcement said the submarine was located at 6:10 p. m. Wednesday. It was last heard from officially at 10 a. m. Jan. 26. The M-2 was lying in 108 feet of water. Father and Son Sentenced By Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., Feb. 4. Pleading guilty to stealing com, Jake Neal, 39, and his son, Arthur, 17, Newcastle, were sentenced to terms of one to five years each in Rush circuit court here. They were caught taking corn from the farm of Willard Colter near Milroy.
Merrimac in an endeavor to block the Spanish fleet in 1898. The Spanish flotilla tried to slip out to sea, but was overwhelmed by the American fleet under Admiral Sampson and the entire fleet captured or destroyed in the engagement.
~~ " PV ■ , . . ■ 'n i - youth’s allegiance with- secrets, is believed in ° U Even 1852, a power- •' P an WoUlcl he capable of putting ful warrior named Masatoki — into the field two reserve diviwith bow and arrow— “made 5383 j sions for each peace-time divisuccessful shots in twenty hours, ! sion—or fifty-one divisions in all. or more than four a minute.” En- , s b b b durance contests are nothing new * * W rp H E emperor is the supreme to addition, there was the \ the army, and sword. A single-edged weapon, \ likewise of the navy, wickedly curved, delicately bal- \ The naval history of these island
s certain Tametoto shot an arrow through his brother’s helmet to recall the youth’s allegiance without injuring him. Even as late as 1852, a powerful warrior named Masatoki — with bow and arrow— “made 5383 successful shots in twenty hours, or more than four a minute.” Endurance contests are nothing new in Nippon! In addition, there was the sword. A single-edged weapon, wickedly curved, delicately balanced, beautifully ornamented. Professional swordsmen toured the country, challenging other experts to public combat. The samurai carried two swords —a long one for combat and a short one for cutting off an enemy’s head after he had been dispatched. Such heads they took to the silken tent of their commander after the battle to be counted. The commander, it seems, kept the books. These knights of Old Japan wore armor of iron and leather, inlaid with gold and silver. B B PRIOR to the fifteenth century, a battle resembled a gigantic fencing match. It was opened with a human sacrifice, usually a prisoner or a condemned criminal. Nobody advanced until notice of attack was given with a singing arrow. These early warriors had an ultra-courteous way about them. A man marched out, singled out a foe and addressed him personally, proclaiming his name and titles to his particular enemy and often adding his father’s records. Then the two went to it—like hundreds of others were doing around him. Hara-kiri—honorable suicide—arose among these professional soldiers. No Japanese was sentenced to death; he was merely sentenced to commit suicide. He did so by falling upon his sword and disemboweling himself. A friend stood by with a short sword to cut off his head as soon as the stomach was gashed. The justice of such an order was never questioned. Often, hara-kiri was committed as a voluntary protest against OTie unjust ruling. These men never hesitated to die for a cause. Are their descendants equally willing to die for a modern cause? B B B A FEW years before Commodore Perry forced the opening up of Japan, the governor of Nagasaki reached the conclusion that his country would invite a dire fate if it remained oblivious of the world’s military progress. he obtained from the Dutch—who still traded intermittently—a few small arms and field guns. He began training a company of men at Yedo. Officials threw him into prison. When the American fleet came in 1853, the officials decided the imprisoned governor of Nagasaki had been right, and soon began the importation of guns and rifles and cannon from Europe. n tt DATES now tell the story: 1862—The shoguns adopted a military system like that of the rest of the world, and organized three divisions of 13,600 men.
It is a far cry from the ancient Japanese warrior, sketched at the left, to Japan’s modern army and navy today. Above, r part of the high seas fleet; belo\ an army bomber loading it; death-dealing cargo. 1873—Imperial decree by th emperor substituted ccnscriptic; for system of hereditary militarism. 1877—The new' army stood its first test—quelling a revolution. 1883—Period of compulsory active and reserve service was extended tw’elve years. 1888—Seven divisions now in the field, with guns. 1895—Victorious in war with China, Japan’s German-trained infantry being armed with singleloader Murata rifles. 1900—A Japanese force goes to Pieping to help quell the Boxer revolution and there sees at firsthand methods of European armies. Complete reorganization of Japan’s army follows. 1904—Victorions in war with Russia. 1910 —Annexation of Korea by Japan. 1915—Kiaochow captured from Germans. The rest needs no comment here. BUB IN Japan now, all males of from 17 to 40 are liable for military service. About 600,000 attain military age each year. After medical examination, they are divided into five main classes, according to degree of military fitness. As the annual quota is about 100,000. those in the highest class usually are more than sufficient. The term of service is months, with 51-3 years in the
SECRECY ON UTILITY DATA IS ASSAILED
“I consider it an insult to the public that certain information about the Indianapolis light and water utilities is so ‘highly confidential’ that the public can not know it,” State Senator John L. Niblack said in a, letter today to Public Service Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertscn. He referred to a statement issued following a recent conference of the commission and the Indianapolis citizens’ rate reducing committee. Niblack warned that the public is “in a sullen mood on the utility question,” and condemned hiding of the information as “bad procedure right now.” “I know that Section 33 of the public service commission law gives the commission the right to hold up any and all information, if it sees fit, ‘in th? interest of th? public,’ bus I say it is a silly law,” wrote Niblack. “I, for one, and 99 per cent of the other people in this city, want to know all about our public utilities and why our rates are not cut. “Here are a couple of utilities with ‘public’ monopolies: A public service commission and a public committee headed by a public
SEARCH MOUNTAINS FOR LOST PLANES
By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4.—Storms hampered search today for eight persons who disappeared aboard a Century-Pacific air liner last Friday, and for an army aviator missing since Tuesday. Men on snowshoes and on horses broke trails through the snow’s in the Tehachpi mountains, in desperate efforts to find the air liner, but were rewarded only by frostbite and weariness. The plane’s fate, since it left Bakersfield on the 126-mile flight to Los Angeles, remained hidden. A object, like the
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first reserve and ten years in the second reserve. The full figures are military secrets, but it is believed that, in the event of a first class war, Japan would be capable of putting into the field two reserve divisions for each peace-time division—or fifty-one divisions in all. B B B THE emperor is the supreme commander of the army, and likewise of the navy. The naval history of these island people goes back a long way, too. They suffered by Tartar invasion in the thirteenth century. For centuries, they had their fishing fleets. In the seventeenth century, a astaway English pilot, named illiam Adams, supervised for hem the building of two ships. 3ut in 1636, the government’s policy of isolation brought an diet that - forbade ship building. For the next 200 years, nothing happened. Then came Commodore Perry. HOB THE rest may also be told in dates: 1855—Seamen’s training station opened at Nagasaka, with Dutch instructors. Dock, iron factory and naval school follows. 1857-58—'Two small vessels purchased from the Dutch and one given by Queen Victoria form nucleus of modern Japanese navy. 1866—First steam vessel is built, a small gunboat. 1882—Naval construction program begins with thirty cruisers and twelve torpedo boats. 1895—As result of better training, Japanese defeat superior Chinese naval force. 1904—Japan’s growing fleet crushes Russian fleet as Admiral Togo captures Porth Arthur. 1914 —Twelve battle ships and six tnore building, plus 151 other fighting ships, including fifteen submarines. 1932 —The world’s third greatest naval power, topped only by England and America. BBS Tomorrow— The “why” of Japan’s war machine .. . an island with modern industries that must have foreign raw materials and foreign markets or starve . . . how the flag %>f trade has followed the flag of war across the Orient.
mayor, and all paid by the public. “Yet the ‘public’ can’t be trusted with the facts. All it can do is pay the rates guaranteeing the utilities a 7 per cent return. If they made 7 per cent in 1928, what is the profit now with costs down? “Such procedure is bad just now. People are sick and tired of seeing bills for lights, gas and other commodities go on up, and are ready for public ownership of public utilites. “If I am re-elected, it is my intention to advocate home ownership by the public, with control under local officers.” Lull in Anderson Row By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 4.—lra Davis, ousted as city controller by Mayor Jesse H. Mellett, has withdrawn for the time being from opposition to his successor, Harry R. Baldwin, bringing a temporary lull in a fight between democratic factions in the city administration. However, Davis announces he will continue a fight irt the courts against his dismissal.
, fuselage of a plane, was sighted on a mountain slope sixty miles southeast of Bakersfield, by Earl H. Leif, United Press staff correspondent, flying with Lieutenant J. W. Williams in a navy airplane. A report said the ship had been seen to crash in a grove of trees Friday near Caliente, Keen county. This news had been bottled up by weather conditions. The threat of new storms came as searchers started out on another hunt for Lieutenant Edward D. Hoffman, Crissey field, San Francisco, who vanished in a storm Tuesday in the central California moun- , tains.
HUNGER BILL FIGHT MARKED BY BITTERNESS Costigan Leads Liberals in Battle to Put Over Relief Measure. SUBSTITUTE IS URGED Conservative Democrats to Support Black Plan for States’ Aid. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Staff Corresoondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The senate fight over federal hunger relief is in its third day with con- ! servatives of both parties, who oppose ,the La Follette-Costigan i bill, maneuvering for political advantage. The center of the maneuvering is the Black, Walsh and Bulklev substitute bill, which liberals have branded “the substance measure.” While Senator Costigan (Deni.. Colo.) was telling the senate, in one of the impressive addresses in I the history of that body, that “the issue involves nothing less than the inalienable right to life, of j American citizens,” conservative i Democrats were whipping the Black i bill, with provision for federal road I building and federal “loans” to j states unable to obtain funds else- ! where, into final shape. It finally w'as submitted with an indorse- : ment from Democratic Floor Leader Robinson. Parties Maneuvering If the administration Republicans vote with the liberals against the Black substitute, then the final decision as to passage or defeat of the hunger bill must be made by conservative Democrats. It is this dei cision the party leaders are trying to avoid. On the other hand, if administration Republicans should throw their support to the “loan” bill, until the defeat of the hunger bill is accomplished, and afterward should oppose it, liberals would be forced to ; choose between no bill at all or the j one the Democratic leadership has | offered. The Black bill authorizes expenditure of $750,000,000, but provides that not more than $250,000,000 of j it shall be spent in the present fiscal i year. State Laws Barriers Half of this sum would be allo- | cated to the states for road building and would be an outright gift. Half would be made available for states asking for it, on statement s by the Governor that funds are needed for relief of citizens, that public and private resources have been exhausted, and that he promises to recommend to his legislature and people eventual repayment of the money. Liberals at once pointed out that nearly three-fourths of the states : are prevented, by their Constitu- ! tions, from borrowing funds for relief of human suffering. “Senators who are pleading state's | rights in their opposition to mv bill are proposing to force the states to abandon their fundamental law in order to receive assistance for their distressed,” said Senator La Follette. “For the Governors to accept money on the terms of the substitute would mean that they must recommend amendment of their state Constitutions.” Long Favors Black BUI Huey Long (Dem., La.) brought the matter to a head, however, when he pointed out that “all the i Governors have to do is to say • they’ll recommend repayment. Then | they’ll get the money and every- ! thing will be all right.” “I for one am not going to help : the Governors perpetrate a fraud on the treasury of the United States,” Senator Wheeler retorted, j “This is nothing but a subterfuge.” Attacking the second proposal in | the Black bill, Blaine (Rep., Wis.) said: “You can build roads till doomsday and not absorb any appreciable number of the unemployed.” He pointed out that very little of the money allotted to road buildink actually w'ould be paid to workers. Costigan Makes Appeal Costigan added a query as to ; what the substitute’s sponsors expect starving women and children to get out of the road-building bill. A striking rebuke to his fellowi Democrats was administered by I Costigan during the course of the debate. “It is remarkable that all the opposition to this humane proposition so far developed on this floor should be on the side of the party supposed to be devoted to the welfare of the common man,” he said. “I trust that before we’re done that j my fellows, instead of giving aid to ! the enemy, will be supporting this i legislation. “This measure is nothing less than I the acid test of true Democracy, true Republicanism and true Americanism. The issue may be postponed I by a reluctant or a timid senate, | but it can not b evaded.” NAB 2 FOR COAL THEFT Railroad Cop Wounds One Negro, Captures His Companion. A railroad detective shot one Negro and captured his companion early today after they are alleged to have stolen coal from the Big Four railroad, near Eighteenth street and Highland place. Alvin Mays. 31, of 324 West Twen-ty-first street, was shot in the right hip and Edward Woodson, 35, of 2152 Boulevard place, was apprehended by J. E. Lindsey, railroad officer. Lindsey told police Mays refused to heed his orders to halt. The Negroes were carrying a bushel of coal from a railroad car when he discovered them, Lindsey said.