Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1932 — Page 1

AMELIA SEES OCEAN PLANE SERVICE SOON Atlantic Conqueror Predicts Regular Lines Will Be Put in Operation. HONORED IN LONDON She Plans No More Flights Over Sea, Except on a Commercial Route. BY W. G. QI'ISENBERRY I nilfd l*rr Stiff t'orrfioondfnt LONDON, May 12. Regular trans-Atlantic service in the near future with big flying boats, which will be safe in the air and on the water, was predicted today by Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman to fly the Atlantic alone. Miss Earhart, responding to a toast at a luncheon of the Institute of Journalists, announced she was not planning another transA lantic flight similar to the one just completed, but hoped to fly the Atlantic again when regular service i* established. Miss Earhart, seated between Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon and Sir John Simon. British foreign secretary, was praised warmly by Mellon for her courage. Responding modestly to a toast, she said: • My flight adds nothing to aviation. It merely is a personal justification. I am not planning another like it. It would take four years to sell the Idea to my husband again. ‘ I am convinced that we shall see regular trans-Atlantic flying in our time, and I hope to be able to make some such regular trip. •This service will be conducted with bur ships, equally at home on the water and in the air.’ Referring to her flight, she said: -It was much different from what 1 expected. Flying through rain and clouds, and never quite sure of where I was, provided a thrilling experience in instrument flying, with my whole attention concentrated in the cockpit itself." After American Ambassador Andrew Mellon had spoken, R. D. Blumenfeld, managing director of the London Express, as past president of the institute and the first man to welcome Miss Earhart to British soil," proposed a toast "to j the distinguished young flier." The toast was drunk enthusiasttically. and the guests broke into •for she's a jolly good fellow." Nations Drawn Closer Sir John Simon, in introducing Mellon, remarked: * We havt been watching the difficulties of the United States with deep kindred feeling. The United States never has been closer to the United Kingdom than at this moment. Miss Earhart has just proved it is only 13 hours and 30 minutes between the two countries." The guests laughed when Guy Innes. vice-chairman, rising to propose a toast to R. E. Loveless, today's chairman, incidentally proposed one to George Palmer Putnam, Miss Earhart's husband, who "represents the highest type of 100 per cent American husbandhood." Miss Earhart, Joined heartily in drinking the toast. Miss Earhart, wearing clothing borrowed from an Irish woman at 1 Londonderry and from members of Ambassador Mellon's official household. early today went on the first of several shopping trips planned here before her trip to Rome. Amelia Goes Shopping Miss Earhart rushed out shopping with Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, daughter of Ambassador Mellon, aoon after breakfast, and greatlyrefreshed a.’ter a good night's sleep. She was taken to a large AngloAmerican department store, and made numerous purchases to substitute for her borrowed clothing. Miss Earhart said her plans would depend on answers to several cables she sent to the United States this morning. The Rome flight will take her to the congress of the trans-At lant ic fliers, the first woman to fly the ocean alone, the second person to j make the solo flight, the new 1 women's record holder for straight line distance flying, and the holder | of the speed record across the Atlantic. The slim, blond social worker from Boston, who turned flier after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s, trans-Atlantic solo flight five years' to a day before she made the trip, was saddened by the death of two who greeted her at Londonderry. Putnam Is Best Cook They were a photographer and his pilot, killed in the same fog-blank-eted storm through which the woman flier flew as a passenger to London, where she was greeted at Hanworth airdrome by Ambassador Mellon in a downpour of rain. The men killed were Victor Bar-' ton. staff photographer of the London Daily Sketch, and Irwin Napier j Clarke, an Australian. Then the woman flier gave a detailed account of her own flight in which she left Newfoundland with j ■ 25 per cent fuel margin of safetv. The flight, she said, was not a greit test of endurance, ‘as people stay up all night dancing, and there was no reason to be any more tired in my case." REPORTS silver theft Mrs. Butler Says Loot in Week-End Robbery Valued at 5125. Theft of silverware and clothing valued at $125 from her home during the week-end. was reported to police today by Mrs. George Butter, 1002 East Fifty-eighth street.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 10

Her Love Spurned, Girl Artist Leaps to Death By United Preaa CHICAGO. May 23.—Two schoolmates today identified as Ethel Salhanick, 21. taiented artist, the pajama-clad young woman who leaped to death from the twenty-fifth floor of the Stevens hotel, and told of the secret love that drove her to despair. She had yearned, they said, for David Mandelbaum. honor student and athlete at Northwestern university, a childhood sweetheart whose interest waned when he entered college. Miss Salhanick's closest friend. Miss Sadie Kirschner, made the identification after learning that in the girl suicide's effects at the hotel where she had registered under an assumed name, was a copy of "The Sor.g of Songs " It had been borrowed from Miss Kirschner last night, before Miss Salhanick went to the hotel. Two lines of the refrain read: "Song of songs, song of memory and broken melody of love and life. "Nevermore to me can that melody fill the heart with the joy once we knew." Also in the hotel room was a copy of Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." An arrow marked one line: "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." Miss Kirschner told reluctantly of the romance that started when Mandelbaum and Miss Salhanick met in Von HumboMt grade school, flowered while they attended Tuley high school, and was interrupted at graduation. She said that Mandelbaum immersed himself in studies when he won a scholarship to Northwestern. They met occasionally at parties, but Miss Salhanick was compelled to study art at night. Mandelbaum apparently did not know that romance still lingered with her.

SPEED TRIALS SLATED TODAY Drivers Take to Tracks at 2 for Qualifying. Qualification trails for the annual 500-mile race at the speedway next Monday were to be continued at the mammoth speed track this afternoon from 2 until 7:02, and it was expected that perhaps half a dozen drivers would attempt to qualify their machines. Twenty-one machines were qualified for the race during Saturday's trials, while more than 30.000 person's looked on. Only two cars were qualified Sunday. The “pole" position in the front row will be held Memorial day by Lou Moore, slender Californian, vfho piloted his rear-drive Boyle Valve around the bricks at a speed of 117.363 miles an hour. Billy Arnold, who drove his car 116.290 miles an hour, and Bryan Saulpaugh, who traveled 114.369 miles an hour, will hold the other two positions in the front row. Several mishaps occurred over the week-end as drivers whirled around the track at high speeds, but only one was of a near-serious nature. That happened early Sunday when Fred Merzney cracked up in his Coleman four-wheel drive special. The car was demolished and was withdrawn from the race. Merzney was unhurt. RACE~FEUD FLARES UP Negro Fireman, Fifth Victim, Killed in Mississippi. By United Preaa NATCHEZ. Miss.. May 23.—The feud between white and Negro railroad firemen has flared again here with the slaying of the fifth victim. William Hardy. 38, Negro fireman, was shot to death on a downtown street here Sunday. Four other Negro firemen have been ambushed and slain sines March 15. Three of these victims were shot in their locomotive cabs by persons riding in motorcars along roads parallel to the tracks.

LORD INCHCAPE DIES ON YACHT World Shipping Magnate 111 Several Days. B;i I nitf'l Frr** MONTE CARLO. France, May 23. —Lord Inchcape. one of the richest men in the world and a powerful shipping magnate, died today aboard his yacht, the Rover, off Monte Carlo after an illness of several days. He was 79 years old. The career of Lord Inchcape is another story of a rise from poverty to great wealth. Born at Arbroath. Scotland. Sept. 11. 1852. of poor parents, he was earning about two shillings a week at the age of 14. At 79. he headed the peninsular and Orient line, one of the largest in the world, estimated at a valuation of 50.000.000 pounds. He was also concerned in banks, railways, coal, investment companies. silk, tea, and the merchant shipping business. His enterprises embraced the whole of the eastern hemisphere. At the age of 20. he went to London as a junior clerk in the firm of MacKinon, MacKenzei & Cos., merchant shippers. Soon afterward he was sent to India. Within fifteen years he was the foremost business man in India and before he was 40, was elected a member of the viceroy's council. He returned to England and became a financial power, besides sitting on the council of India at Whitehall. Successive British governments have sought his advice on India and aid on financial matters. He was married in 1883 to Jane Patterson, a girl from his home town in Scotland. They had one son. Viscount Glenapp, and three surviving daughters. The fourth daughter, the Hon. Elsie MacKav. better known as Peppy Wvndham, the film actress, provided Lord and Lady Inchcape with the greatest blow of their lives. On March 13. 1928. she set out from Cranwell airdrome with Capt. W. O. R. Hinchcliffe, pilot, on an attempt to fly the Atlantic. They never were beard of again.

ASKS TAX BILL AID FOR FARMS Nye Amendment Includes Equalization Fee. By l nited Pr'aa WASHINGTON, May 23—The problem of farm relief was injected into debate on the billion-dollar revenue bill today when Senator Gerald P. Nye Rep„ N. D.), offered as an amendment to the measure the entire agricultural program sponsored by the three great farm organizations of the country. Nye said his method was the only way in which farm relief could receive the attention it deserved in the legislative jam into which the senate has forced itself. "It is a measure," he said, "which would meet the present emergency in no uncertain terms, and which will cause complete and speedy recovery. "It can not get consideration, however, unless it is attached to the tax bill, and it has a right to attachment because we have opened the bill to tariffs.” The program, sponsored as a separate measure by Chairman McNary of the senate agriculture committee, includes three features designed to obtain for the farmer a production price for his products. The features are the equalization fee, the export debenture plan and an allotment of production intended for the domestic market on a basis of consumption during the previous year. "Earnings of farm people,” Nye explained, "have been whittled away little by little during the last ten or twelve years until equities and surpluses have vanished. The small merchant, along with the farmer, has lost his buying power. And sixty million people are unable to buy what they need." In Austria on Reprieve Mission VIENNA, Austria, May 23.—Ada Wright, mother of two of the Negroes condemned to death in Scottsboro, Ala., was expected here tonight, from Hamburg on a speaking campaign to induce Europeans to intercede for a reprieve.

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LET WORKERS PROFIT, PLEA | OF ROOSEVELT Larger Share in Results of Labor Is Held Business Need. IT WOULD AID BUYING Students Told Nation Must Care for ‘Forgotten Man.’ By United Preat ATLANTA, Ga., May 23.—801d experiments to give the “forgotten man" a larger share of the profits I from his labor, thus increasing his ; buying power, are advocated by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. “The country needs, and unless I am mistaken, the country demands such experimentation,” the Governor told the graduating class of Oglethorpe university here Sunday night. "The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach,” he warned. "It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit |it frankly and try another. But j above all, try something.” The Governor’s address included many references, which while not naming Wall Street, eastern financial interests, and political leaders allied with those leaders, were interpreted as directed toward them. On Thresbhold of Change The country, he said, "is on the threshhold of a fundamental change in economic thought.” "We can not allow our economic life to be controlled,by that small group of men whose chief outlook upon the social welfare is tinctured by the fact that they can make huge profits from the lending of money and the marketing of securities. "Many of those whose primary solicitude is confined to the welfare of what they call capital have failed to read the lessons of the last few years, and have been moved less by calm analysis of the needs of the nation as a whole than by a blind determination to preserve their own special stakes in the economic order. Think More of Consumer “Our basic trouble” in the last few years "was not an insufficiency of capital,” he said, “for we accumulated so much that our great bankers were vying with each other, some of them employing questionable methods in their efforts to lend this capital at home and abroad. So, he said, “in the future we are going to think less about the producer and more about the consumer. We can not make our economic order endure for long unless we can bring about a wiser, more equitable distribution of the national income. “The reward for a day’s work will have to be greater on the average than it has been and the reward to capital, especially capital which is speculative, will have to be' less.”

Votes Dry; Tells Why - Representative Louis Ludlow < below), who voted against the beer bill today in the house, because it "would imperil the Constitution. is doomed in the senate, and would not provide real beer, anyhow.” • Detailed story on Page 2.

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WINONA INN IS RAZEDBY FIRE Loss at Resort Estimated at $25,000. By United Preaa WARSAW, Ind., May 23.—Fire which for a time threatened destruction of the famous Winona Lfkc resort, razed the Winona Inn today, and laid waste cottages immediately surrounding it. Loss was estimated at $25,000. Otto Eby Jr., 12, was overcome by smoke in his cottage residence. Fred Gorman, a neighbor, rescued him. His condition was said not to be serious. The flames originated in the kitchen of the inn, and would have destroyed the entire resort, with loss of around one and one-half million dollars, had there been more than a moderate wind, fire fighting officials said. Fire departments from Plymouth, Goshen, Warsaw, Mentone, Leesburg. Syracuse. Columbia City, and North Manchester, responded to the alarm . The flames were not brought I under control until noon. THOMAS PICKED BY SOCIALISTS New Yorker Again to Head Party’s Ticket. By United Preaa MILWAUKEE. Wis.. May 23. | For the second time, Norman Thomas, distinguished New York economist and former minister, will head the ticket of the Socialist party as presidential candidate in this year's election. Thomas was chosen by the party convention Sunday. His nomina- j tion had been regarded as acer- j tainty. James H. Maurer of Pennsylvania, author of the Pennsylvania workmen's compensation law, was selected as the vice-presidential nominee, when Mrs. Meta Berger, widow of Congressman Victor L. Berger, declined to run. Adoption of the party platform was scheduled for today. Thomas, tall and smiling, accepted the nomination which he previously won in 1928, in an address which ended a fight over the platform which had been Instigated on the convention floor by Heywood Broun, fiery New York columnist. “I would decline to run on a platform that favored confiscation of industry,” Thomas said, trembling with emotion as he spoke. "The world has to choose between catastrophe and Socialism. The time for action is now, rather than after ail the people are dead of starvation.” The only expected argument in adoption of the party platform today was over inclusion of a reference to repeal of the eighteenth amendment. FORTUNE TELLER I DIES Mrs. Amanda Morgan Widely Known for Charitable Acts. Mrs. Armanda Morgan. 79, for years a fortune teller here and known to hundreds as Madam Morgan, was found dead. today at her home, 606 Virginia avenue. Widely known for her charitable activities on the south side for | years, Mrs. Morgan long had been retired. Her body was found early today by Frank Alderman, a roomer. Surviving is an only son, Charles L. Morgan of Detroit.

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Bridge Series Beginning today The Times and NEA present a striking new bridge series, "Contract Bridge as the Experts Play It,” a series of twenty-five hands which have made history in contract championship tournaments. These hands were selected for William E. McKenney, bridge expert for NEA Service clients and himself a champion, by the holders of all the major bridge championships. Names famous to every bridge fan are included in the series. .The first .release, a hand played by P. Hal Sims, captain of the famous Four Horsemen of Bridge, is on Page 5 today.

BANDITS SLAY COP Three Rob Bank of Thousands; Escape in Car. By United Preaa NEWCASTLE. Pa.. May 23. Policeman Clarence Campbell was killed today by one of four bandits who held up and robbed three bank messengers of $23,000. One of the bandits, stationed as a “lookout,” lifted the cover from a cardboard box, took out a sawedoff shotgun, and killed Campbell when he sought to halt the other bandits as they left the lobby of the Mahoning Trust Company, Mahoningtown, Pa. He was shot down “without a chance.” The three bandits entered a car driven by a fourth man and fled. DRIVES AWAY, LEAVING SON DEAD IN DITCH Father Admits He Abandoned Boy When He Fell From Car. By United Preaa GENEVA, 0.. May 23—Discovery of the body of a 3-year-old boy in a roadside ditch led today to the confession, police said, of his father, Howard Morris, 28. that he “drove on” after the boy fell from his automobile. The boy, Howard Jr., was found dead from exposure after his father had reported him missing. Questioned all night, the elder Morris admitted driving on home after the child had toppled from the car, police said. “I stopped after Howard rolled from the machine,” he was quoted. "I thought he was dead, so I drove on.” Hoover Returns to White House WASHINGTON, May 23.—President Hoover returned to the White | House today from a week-end at his Virginia fishing camp. The President breakfasted at the camp and went immediately to his office upon arriving home.

BOND ISSUE FOR SILVER ADVOCATED BY MAROTT

BY GEORGE J. MAROTt The *11.200,000.000 of gold in this wide world, which is hoarded very materially, is crucifying the value of all investments—real estate, bond issues and wages. To remedy this situation I advocate a law for a bond issue of $5,000,000 to purchase silver exclusively at this time Jrom American mines. I realize there is no such wealth cf silver in our mines, but such issue, after first protecting our own mines with a tariff on foreign silver, would bring the world to a standard on the basis we would adopt. No legislation that the government could enforce would bring us out of this terrible depression as would an issue of five billion dollars of bonds at 2 per cent interest, for the buying of Americj* produced sil-

ROUSE DEFEATS 2.75 BEER BILL, 228 T 0169, IN FIRST MODIFICATION ROLL CALL Ballot Forced by Wet Bloc in Effort to Get All Members on Record Before National Political Conventions. MEASURE BIPARTISAN ATTEMPT Proposal Would Have Placed Tax of 3 a Pint on Legal Beverage; Provided Against Saloon’s Return. By United Preaa WASHINGTON, May 23.—The house today defeated the O’Connor-Hull bill to legalize and tax beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohol by weight. The vote was 228 to 169. It was the first record test on prohibition modification sentiment in the house. It was forced by the wet bloc in an attempt to get all members on record before the national political conventions. The decision came on a proposition to discharge the ways and means committee from further consideration of the modification bttl. Anti-prohibitionists forced the issue by obtaining 145 names to a special petition to take the matter out of thef hands of the predominantly “dry” committee, where the measure had been tabled.

The bill would have placed an excise tax of 3 cents a pint on beer. Advocates of the bill estimated a possible

VETERANS MAP BONUS ADVANCE ‘Spy’ Squad Seeks Facts on Train Movements. By United Preta EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., May 23. The "bonus army"—composed of 310 World war veterans en route to Washington from Portland, Ore., to lobby for the soldiers’ bonus—today laid plans for a strategic “advance” in their battle of determination with Baltimore <fc Ohio railroad officials. Retreating Sunday under the threat of being ousted by the national guard—units of which they would have welcomed in 1917 and 1918—the veterans today said they would continue eastward as soon as possible. Sheriff Jerome Munie of St. Clair county, co-operating with twenty railroad detectives and East St. Louis, police had communicated with Governor L. L. Emmerson in preparation for calling upon the national guard to oust the veterans. The veterans are divided into companies and squads of specialists. Included among them is the combination “engineers” and "spy” squad. These men familiar with railroads, dress like railroad employes and gather information about outgoing freights and report to their commander. DO-X NEARS NOME Departs From Spain for British Port. By United Preaa VIGO. Spain, May 23.—The flying boat DO-X departed for Southampton. England, at 10:45 a. m., er. route to its base at Lake Constance, j The ship was due at the English port at 6. It arrived here Sunday night from the Azores. FAMOUS ACTRESS DIES Emilie Melville Star of Decade When Booth Was King. By United Preaa SAN FRANCISCO, May 23. Emilie Melville, a featured actress in 1867 when she ranked with the great Booth and Lotta Crabtree, died in a home for the aged here. Believed to have been 80, she kept even until death the secret of her age. Her farewell appearance was two years ago in “The Royal Family of Broadway.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 46 10 a. m 66 7a. m 50 11 a. Ba. m 59 12 (noon).. 70 : 9 a. m 63 1 p. m 74

ver, to be coined as speedily as possible and delivered to the federal reserve system to loan on a basis of 44 per cent. I suggest the one-fourth per cent to cover operation and budgeting expenses of the government and federal reserve system, which would leave a profit from such loans. The federal reserve system shall loan the coinage of silver to solvent banks, life insurance and building and loan companies, which would give immediate relief from the sacrifice of assets of every kind (except the frozen gold) now going (Hi through the disastrous shortage of money. The federal reserve system, by law. In making such loans, shall be protected by ample security for such (Toni to Page Twelve)

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, S Cents

annual revenue from this source of $500,000,000. The anti-prohibitionist votes contained 86 Democrats, 82 Republicans and one Farmer-Laborite. Indiana representatives voted as I follows: For the bill, Canfield, ! Crowe. Griswold, Larrabee, Pettengill and Wood. Against the bill, Ludlow. Gillen, Greenwood, Hogg and Purnell. Because of the vacancy occasioned through the death several months ago of Albert Vestal, the Eighth district is without representation, and the Indiana congressional delegation has been reduced to 1 twelve. The measure, presented as a bipartisan effort, contained strict provisions against return of the saloon, and also protected states and com- ; munities which did not desire the J sale of alcoholic beer within their borders. Bottle Sale Provide The beverage would have been sold in bottles and could be consumed outside of the home only In hotels, clubs and regular restaurants. Earlier in the session the BeckLinthicum resolution was defeated :in the house, 227 to 187. That vote, however, was on a proposal to resubmit prohibition to the people, and received the support of several members who ordinarily are dry, but do not oppose a referendum. Before crowded galleries the house preceded the beer vote with a fanfare of debate from prohibitionists and antiprohibitions. As the house met to vote, Representative Blanton <Dem., Tex.) dry leader, sought to block a vote under : the rule by which the measure was brought before the house today. Quarel Over Procedure Blanton, however, was overruled by Speaker Garner. Blanton sov.ght unsuccessfully to incoke a technical parliamentary point of procedure which prohibits | two votes on discharge petitions : dealing with the same subject. Represent Crisp (Dem., Ga., author of the committee discharge i r ule. although a “dry" leader, sided : against Blanton and spoke in favor of the record vote. House members did not seem so keen about the vote today. a quorum call was necessary to bring them to the chamber when the house met shortly after noon, thus delaying the procedure. Representative O’Connor (Dem. N. Y ), co-author of the O’ConnorHull bill, pleaded with drys to vote for his measure “and not be frightened by the Anti-Saloon League." Volstead Act Is Flayed Among the spectators in the galleries was Josephus Daniels, outstanding dry and former navy secretary. 'The vote here would determine how many representatives still support that ‘legislative lie’ the Volstead act,” O’Connor told the house. He also said the issue was one of economy, pointing out a 3 cents a pint tax on 2.75 per cent beer would "enrich the treasury by $500,000,000 annually.” O’Connor pleaded for dry support on the grounds a vote on’his petition would "simply allow my bill to be read to the house and considered by it, on the bill's merits.” O Connor charged that the W. C. T. U. “or similar organizations have swarmed about like locusts,” seeking to intimidate members of the house. He explained his bill prohibited return of the saloon .allowed dry states to remain dry, and predicted that the ♦armer, if 2.75 beer was legal, “would find a market for 150,000,000 bushels of grain annually." “Nullification Is Denied” Representative Beck (Rep., Pa.) leader of the house Republican “wet bloc,” denied that the O'ConnorHull bill constituted ‘ any nullification” of the eighteenth amendment. Crisp, acting chairman of the ways and means committee, which tabled the beer bill, later took the floor as chief opponents of the measure. He said advocates of taxing legalized beer realized “there is no chance of passage.” "They werely want to put the members on record.” he said, “and I do not oppose that.” Representative Britten (Rep.. 111.) obtained one-half a minute to plead for passage cf the bill “to aid the financial condition of the country.”