Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1932 — Page 2

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HUNGER RELIEF VOTE IS UP IN SENATETODAY Labor Makes Ringing Plea for Millions in Need of Food. BY RUTII FINNEY Times Staff Corresoondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The senate expects to begin voting today on the question of federal hunger relief. A warning that “there will be no end to federal relief,” if unemployed aid is voted now was given the senate by Senator Simeon D. Fess (Rep., O.). Fess, Republican national chairman, made the first administration speech against the La Follette-Cos-tigan $375,000,000 bill as the project and several substitute proposals neared vote. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis (Dem., 111.) introduced anew substitute plan, to provide a $500,000,000 fund for merchants and manufacturers to permit sales of produce on longterm credits. Fess said federal relief was not proper “at best until it is quite obvious that there is no other way.” Time Not Here, He Says “I do not think the stage has been reached where starvation will set in unless the government takes a hand,” he said. It will do so with an impressive memorial from organized labor before it, asking that it take steps at once to cure “this uncivilized, inhuman condition, reflected in the fact that millions of children are suffering from hunger and cold, men and women are hungry, cold, and undernourished.” One hundred six international presidents of the American Federation of Labor presented the memorial late Tuesday to President Hoover, to Vice-President Curtis, and to Speaker Garner. Curtis and Garner expressed their sympathy with the purpose of the federation, and promised to present it to their legislative bodies. Indorse Relief Bill The labor chiefs not only asked for federal relief, but specifically indorsed the La Follette-Costigan bill which both Democratic and Republican members of the senate are seeking to displace with substittue measures. “Adequate relief can not be and Is not being supplied,” said labor’s memorial. “The entire resources of the nation must be brought into action and must be utilized to meet and deal adequately with this emergency. Those who are hungry can not draw the fine line of distinction between relief supplied by local and state agencies and relief supplied by the federal government. “They know that every community is a part of our national life and as such all are a part of the nation’s family. This fact was recognized during the great w r ar emergency ... it is upon this basis that we appeal to the congress of the United States for an immediate appropriation to meet the demands of the existing economic situation. Appeal for Hungry Millions “We make this appeal in behalf of the hungry, suffering men, women and children whose plight is directly traceable to unemployment . . . the billions of dollars which congress has provided to aid banks, corporations and business institutions will stand out in sharp, deprecating contrast If congress fails promptly to help the needy and hungry. “The huge sums thus appropriated to aid capital can not and will not feed and clothe hungry people. Human values and human needs should be given first, rather than secondary, consideration.” The memorial also asked legislation to increase work opportunities, establish the five-day week, and adopt, the anti-injunction bill pending in the senate. UTILITY RATE CUT IS REPORTED PREPARED Culhbertson Believed Ready to Announce Findings Friday. Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson’s solution of the high rate problem of water and electric utilities in Indianapolis is expected to be laid before members of the public service commission this week, it was learned at the statehouse today. Cuthbertson is said to be writing orders cutting the rates, as petitioned by the city administration and South Side Civic clubs. But just how great the reductions will be could not be learned. Orders will be directed to the Indianapolis Water Company and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and his special utility rate reduction committees were to confer this afternoon. Tire committees have held several conferences with utility representatives without satisfactory results thus far. COLE TO DISTRIBUTE AWARDS IN CONTEST Union City Pupil, First in State. Will Be Given sls Prize. Georga O. Cole, state superintendent of public instruction, today was to distribute checks to fourteen pupils in state schools competing in the annual national safety essay contest. A total of $6,500 is awarded to pupils in the nation. First prize of sls and a gold medal will be awarded to Miss Ruth G. Glint, Union City, and second prize of $lO and a silver medal will go to Lawrence Carden, Gary pupil. Eleven third prizes, consisting of (5 and a bronze medal, also will be distributed. Teachers receiving honorable mention in the national “lesson in safety” contest are Miss Opal D. French of Gary and Miss Maime Mack of Elwood. Financial Status Good By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Feb. 10.—Surplus and undivided profits of the Mutual Building and Loan Association total approximately $20,000, it was revealed by a report presented at the annual meeting. H. A. Payne was re-elected president and A. A. Blizzard, secretary,

RACKETEERS INVADE CITY New Sob Act Good for Many Dollars in Day’s Time

(Till* is the flr*t of a aeries bout “stf-mmors”—bit shot beggars—ln Indianapolis. and efforts ol authorities to smash their rackets.) “'T'HE stemmers” have arrived A in Indianapolis. They are young and old, men and women, both poorly and well dressed and with a song and dance act that%would put most salesmen to shame They appeal to your sympathy, and then sell you on the idea they must have from $1 to SSO. Your money is gone anu they are, too,

after another sucke; or two contributes their railroad or bus fare or pays their auto expenses. “Stemmers,” or stem-artists, are not nickel and dime professional beggars. a u u THEY are the racketeers who have a definite, well-outlined plan to part their victim and his money. One dollar is small fry

to them. From $5 up is their demand. They prey on residents of every city in the country in these days

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WINS SPELLING BEE Mrs. Rose Bower Downs Foe on ‘Mnemonic.’ Spelling “mnemonic” as easily as though she had learned it when she learned to spell “cat,” Mrs. Rose Bower, 534 North Sheffield avenue, Tuesday night regained the championship in the Sherman-Emerson

Civic League spelling bee, which she held three years ago. The old-fash-ioned spelldown, held in school No. 62. started with fifty-five in line. Facing them was Frank Brubeck, a former school teacher, who gave the contestants the words to spell. Placing second in the bee was

Mrs. Bower

Joseph R. Seal, 122'North Bosart avenue. He failed only on “mnemonic.” Mrs. Bower received a $5 gold piece for her victory. Seal was awarded a’ half ton of coal. Elizabeth Rochford, 11 years old, a sixth grade pupil at Sacred Heart parochial school, was the last of the children to be spelled down. She awirded $2.50 by the Rev. Charles Duffey, pastor of the Little Flower church. Veteran Publisher 111 By Times Special BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Feb. 10.— Will B. Maddock, publisher of the Bloomfield News for forty-two years, is in a serious condition as a result of an attack of heart disease.

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By BEN STERN WERE out to give R. Earl Peters a good scare when the state committee reorganizes in May, even if we don’t defeat him for re-election as state chairman.” declared a prominent New Eighth district Democrat recently. Many are out to “give Peters a good scare” and the fright may turn out fatal if claims of Grover Garrett, chief of the state police and old Ninth district chairman, are realized. Garrett and James Carpenter, auto license head and old Sixth chairman, are leading the fight against Peters as a result of breakup of the South Bend coalition, because of the fight between Mayor Riley Hinkle and Rudy Ackerman and Chester Montgomery. A one-armed paper hanger in fly time can’t equal Garrett and Carpenter for industry. Their vendetta against Peters is not merely political, but is personal —for to perpetuate themselves as chairmen and in their lucrative state positions, they either must defeat the chairman and the men he is pitting against them, or be vanquished. k tt Both are confident that when the new Eighth is reorganized from the old First district, Phil Lutz Jr. of Boonville, present chairman, will be a memory. They plan to defeat him with L. N. Savage of Rockport, twice a contender, or Mayor George T. Wagner of Jasper. “Then Vagner will .vote for Pe-

of depression. They reap a harvest by driving a wedge into the sympathies of those who try to realize the plight of the poor. Indianapolis police continually are on the lookout for the stemmer. Charity agencies have banded their forces to break his game. But sometimes both police and charity agencies are victims. A prominent Indianapolis business man is the latest victim of a stemmer who is known throughout the nation as a faint artist. His racket is to faint and he dot.? it perfectly. tt n T TE spots his victim on Washington street or another busy downtown thoroughfare. He picks the man who looks “money.” He’ll spend an hour or two tracking the victim to his office. And then the game starts. The Indianapolis man, whom we’ll call Randolph to save him further embarrassment, stepped to the front of his office one day to be accosted by a young man, whose drawn face and unkempt clothes, portrayed misery. Randolph asked him to relate his plight. And here’s the story as related by the victim: “The fellow leaned on the counter and tears came to his eyes. He said he hadn’t eaten for days and he wasn’t a regular bum, but he wanted ‘just enough’ help to keep him from dying from starvation and cold. tt u “T CALLED a relief agency. They offered to send someone over, and I said I’d call them back. As I turned to the young fellow he collapsed on the floor. He had fainted. “I ’rushed to the phone again. The agency again offered to send someone over, but when the young man recovered I decided to take care of him myself. I felt it was no job for a relief agency.” On recommendation of the agency, however, Randolph sent the young man to the Travelers’ Aid Society the following day. The fainter no longer was poorly dressed. He had anew suit and plenty of money—Randolph’s sympathy money—in his pocket. At the aid agency desk he paused, smiled, showed the roll of bills and walked out. tt tt tt • HALF an hour later, the agency received a telegram from an eastern police chief to be on the

Latest Innovations in Car Comfort Scheduled at Exhibition. Comfort, control and crankshaft, wheelbase and free wheeling will be glorified in the Manufacturers’ building at the fairground when the twenty-first annual Indianapolis auto show opens Saturday. A short course in automotive engineering is promised by E. G. Henry, show manager. “Devices demonstrating many of the current innovations in motor cars are being forwarded here frijeu, the Chicago show which closed last Saturday,” he said today. “With no other major exhibits conflicting in dates with the Indianapolis show, visitors are due to see a rare assortment of improvements set up to give a cross section of their operation. Every salesman on duty at the show will be a public instructor in mechanical engineering.” As well as automobiles with innumerable new devices designed to add to the conjfort and convenience of the motorist, a great many accessories will be on exhibit. Insurance and finance companies also have taken space. The manufacturers' building will be ready for the arrangement of exhibits Friday, Henry announced. Practically all the floor space has been contracted for, he said. Doctors Cancel 7,000 Debts By United Press SEMINOLE, Okla., Feb. 10.—The way to get rid of debts is tc cancel them, two Seminole physicians believed. So Dr. M. M. Turlington wiped off 3,000 accounts and Dr. K. P. Hampton similarly treated 4,000, the lot aggregating some $20,000.

ters, although he first will give the chairman a good scare,” declared the informant. That sounds all right, but the following is the real dope, according to other well-informed party leaders: Dubois county will seek to put Wagner over; Spencer county will be boosting Savage, and along will come Perpr county with a favorite son for district chairman in Ernest Weatherholt, county treasurer, who has not been given much attention up to now. * tt tt There are ten counties in the district, with two votes each. Eleven votes will elect the district chairman. Vanderburg probably will want to play ball, so one vote will go to Savage and the other to Wagner. With four candidates, including Lutz, in the field, there may be a .deadlock. Then will come the trading. Lutz is the McNutt man in the district and those friendly to the law school dean’s candidacy may decide that they might as well support Lutz. On the other hand, Wagner or Weatherholt may, by then, be pledged 'to McNutt, so Lutz can be dropped and one of the two others substituted. Being for McNutt necessarily means supporting Peters, because the pair are Siamese twins, politically, at preset. The rest is easy to dope out.

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lookout for a young stemmer, who fit the description of the faint artist who departed thirty minutes before. He traveled to the next stem on Randolph’s money, wore the suit Randolph gave him, his ap-

HERMAN LOHMANN FUNERAL ON FRIDAY

Old Residents of City and County Succumb to Illness. Funeral services for Herman Lohmann, 74, president and treasurer of the Central States Canning Company, will be held at his home, 4382 Madison avenue, at 1 Friday, and at the Immanuel Reformed church, Prospect and New Jersey streets, at 2. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Lohmann, a resident of this city for fifty-six years, died Tuesday at his home. He came to Indianapolis from Germany when he w'as 18. For many years he operated greenhouses near his home and owned a stand on the city market. He retired from gardening and marketing activities to devote his time to the canning business. Mr. Lohmann was married fortyeight years ago to Miss Margaret Kronemeier, who died in September, 1931. He was a member of the German Gardeners’ Society and the Growers’ Association. Herman Kubitz, 77, also a native of Germany, will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery Thursday following services at 2:30 in St. Peter's Evangelical church, Eleventh and Tecumseh streets. Mr. Kubitz, a local resident fortyeight years, died Tuesday. He had been employed at the Atlas Engine works here. Knights of Columbus will attend as a body at prayer services at 8 Thursday night for Thoihas J. Gannon, 40, at the home, east of Indianapolis on the National road. Mr. Gannon died Tuesday after having been ill four years. He transferred to the Indianapolis council, K. of C. in 1919 after having served in the World war. Services will be held at 8:15 Friday morning at the home and at 9 in Our Lady of Lourdes church, with burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Susie Logan, 74, will be conducted at the W. H. Richardson Company funeral parlors, 1801 North Meridian street, at 2 Thursday with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Logan, a Marion county resident all her life, died of paralysis Tuesday in city hospital. She lived at 768 Massachusetts avenue. MISSIONARIES SAFE i Relatives of City Residents Removed From Nanking. Fears of Indianapolis residents for the safety of relatives in Chinese missions at Nanking were allayed today when the state department at Washington, announced removal of the missionaries to Peiping. Misisonaries, relatives of local residents, taken from the danger zone are: Miss A. Bucher, former Irvington resident; Mr. C. H. Plopper, brother of Clayton W. Plopper, United Christian Missionary Society treasurer; Mrs. Plopper and Mr. J. H. McCallum and three children, formerly of this city. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. C. Smythe and one child of Gary and Miss C. Carl of Peru also were removed from Nanking. No word has been received from Mrs. Wilmot D. Boone, sister of W. H. Burgess, 133 Downey avenue. Mrs. Boone is stationed in the Presbyterian mission at Shanghai. WORKS BOARD MOVES TO WIDEN SIXTEENTH Adopts Resolutions for Project from Illinois to Northwestern. Two resolutions for paving and widening Sixteenth street from Illinois street to Captiol avenue, and from Capitol to Northwestern avenues, were adopted by the works board today. Estimated cost of the first section is $19,123, and that of the second, $54,446. The last obstacle to widening the block between Illinois street and Capitol avenue was removed with issuance today of checks in payment for property at the northwest corner of Illinois and Sixteenth streets. Inability of the city and owners of the property to reach a price agreement delayed the project last fall when the section of Sixteenth street between Delaware and Illinoise streets was widened and paved.

petite appeased by meals the victim bought him. This winter in Indianapolis has been anything but profitable to the stemmers. The weather has been so warm they have not had the “cold weather” foundation to their pleas.

BANDIT SUSPECTS HELD Two Youths to Be Ouizzed by Cops on Theater L.obberies. Two youths suspected of robbing the Fountain Square and Granada theaters Sunday, were held today on vagrancy charges and were to be questioned by detectives. Their names were withheld. While a police emergency squad was investigating the robbery of the Fountain Square theater, the bandits appeared across the street a few minutes later at the Granada theater, held up the cashier and escaped with nearly $500., TAX HEARING IS SCENEOF ROW Beckett, Payne at Odds on Best Procedure. Indiana tax survey committee’s first public hearing resulted in an attendance of less than twenty and wound up at noon today in a verbal battle between Senator Joe Rand Beckett and Gavin L. Payne, investment broker. Payne wanted to talk about the problem of spreading governmental costs and Beckett, who is secretary of the committee, wanted to stick to the subject o£ governmental economy. Beckett is staking his political future on that idea of cutting goveernmental costs, and is one of the organizers and executive secretary of the Indiana Association for Tax Justice. Purpose of this organization is to keep the tax burden where it now rests. Thwarted at the outset by a ruling of Senator J. Clyde Hoffman, chairman, that the meeting was to stick to economy talk, Payne was given a chance to express his ideas at the close. He then launched a tirade on Beckett’s plan to keep from finding new revenue Beckett objected, and the battle proceeded until the meeting was adjourned. Mrs. Walter Greenough presented the League of Women Voters’ tax survey and recommendations. Harry Miesse was on hand to represent his taxpayers’ association and Lewis Taylor for the Indiana farm bureau. TRUSTS’ FOE TO IpEAK Carl D. Thompson Will Be Heard at Roberts Park Church Tonight. Contrasting rates charged by publicly and privately owned utilities will be brought out by Carl D. Thompson, executive secretary of the Public Ownership League of America, talking on “What Price Power,” at 8 tonight in the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal church, Vermont and Delaware streets. Thompson is editor of Public Ownership, publication devoted to public utility problems and social progress. His talk will be the fourth of a series being presented by the League for Industrial Democracy in twenty-eight cities.

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.CLOUDS OF WAR GROW BLACKER OVERSHANGHAI Chinese Forces Are Massed for Desperate Effort to Hurl Back Japanese. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Figfiting beside which all that has taken place thus far will seem child’s play, now threatens the Shanghai front if peace parleys fail, according to a diplomatic source here today. Chinese reinforcements, the writj er authoritatively was given to understand, are being held in readiness to join battle as soon as the new Japanese expeditionary forces show their hand. The announced intention of Admiral Shiosawa, before being replaced by Admiral Nomura, was to clear the vicinity of Shanghai of Chinese troops within a radius of twenty miles. This program, I am informed, will j meet with the utmost resistance on i the part of General Chang FaKwai, leader of the famous “Ironsides” division and ranking field . officer at Shanghai. President Chiang Kai-Shek, at | Loyang, his temporary capital, and 1 minister of war Ho Ying-Ching, who remains at Nanking, are under - 1 stood to have promised the Shanghai defenders whatever reinforcements they may require. The Japanese, therefore, may find themselves confronted, or even flanked, by vast new army units the moment they advance westward from Shanghai and the mouth of the Yangtze. Military results to date, therefore, have netted the Japanese exactly nothing, despite five months of campaigning. Manchuria has been cleared of

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Nickel Trap By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 10.— Anew “phoney” racket has been discovered here. Its perpetrators plug the nickel return slots of pay telephones with paper or cotton. When persons use the phone and fail to get numbers, the wadding stops return of coins. Every few days the racketeers extract the wadding, remove the money and reset the trap.

Chinese regulars, but unless Japan inflicts a decisive defeat upon Chnia proper, her troubles there will reappear. Nobody save the officials concerned know exactly how many effectives Japan has in China today, but probably about 40.000, counting soldiers, sailors and marines. About 25,000 of these are in Manchuria. The rest are mostly at Shanghai. Against these there are no .elling how many Chinese. A military attache here estimated the number at between 20.000 and 30,000. Much higher estimates had been mentioned, he said, but these he believed exaggerated. They are in the offing rather than in action. The Nineteenth route army, an “Ironsides” unit, has borne the brunt of the defense of Shanghai, but these, it is said, have been, or are being relieved by other Cantonese troops. The “ironsides,” in 1930. threatened to cut short the political career of President Chiang Kai-Shek, but apparently are now his staunchest cohorts. “The situation at Shanghai is more perilous today than it ever has been,” Dr. Yuen-Li Liang. ex-Chi-nese diplomat, told the writer today. “The Chinese will defend themselves at any cost. If further troops are needed to hold the Japanese in check, they will be brought up. “The Japanese were very foolish not to accept the good offices of Washington and London. That gave them a chance to call a halt and save their face.”

FEB. 10, 1932

HOOVER'S GOING TO KEEP HANDS IN HISPOCKETS First Lady Will Receive Future Delegations at White House. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—President Hoover has placed a ban on the time-honored custom of White House handshaking because it detracts time and energy from “consideration of matters of the gravest moment to the nation.’ ’ Hereafter Mrs. Hoover will receive the delegations which daily besiege the executive mansion for the privilege pf shaking the President’s hand and posing for photographs with him. The White House in a formal statement said that 160 national organizations would hold conventions in Washington during the next few months. Scores of them already have requested Hoover to receive their members. “The President can not grant these requests because of the extraordinary demands upon his time,” the statement said, but "he will be glad to receive committees representing these organizations during office hours so they may present their conclusions or lay before him such recommendations as their organizations may have adopted.” To show how busy the President is these days, Secretary Theodore Joslin pointed out that he has been holding an average of twenty conferences daily. Joslin also issued these figures on executive office telephone calls: Year Outgoing Incoming 1929 65,301 261,204 1930 77,055 303,220 1931 99.294 317,128