Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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CAROS STACKED FOR M'NUTT AT PARTY CAUCUS Democratic Group Places Governorship at Top of Nominations. BY BEN STERN Time* Man Writer FRENCH LICK. Ind. May 28 The cards were shuffled, cut and dealt at the meeting of the Democratic state committee here today to make Paul V. McNutt of Bloomington the party nominee for Governor of Indiana with as little opposition a.~. pc stble. This feat was ac mpiished by adoption of a resolution setting the orcl of r.o o mat the governorship will come first at the state' convention. This reverses the usual procedure under which the nomination for United States senator came first. Under the new arran ernent, the nominaitons will be made in the following order: Governor, United States senator, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, lieutenant-governor, judges of the supreme court, Third and Fifth districts. Judges of the appellate court, First and Second divisions, attorney-general anc reporter of the supreme court. Can Pick Own Ticket The arrangement is such that if the McNutt forces win the victory for the gubernatorial nomination, they can go down the line and pick their own ticket. Resolution under which the lineup was made was introduced by Alex Pursley of Hartford City, Fifth district chairman. Plea for harmony was made by Wiliam J. Mooney of Indianapolis, Twelfth district chairman, who dc- j dared he was ‘ready to go down i the line with the Peters forces."! Two weeks ago Mooney voted against re-election of R. Earl Peters of Ft. Wayne as state chairman. Prank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, whose opposition to Peters has resulted in a disposition to defeat him for renomination for the state office, went into a huddle with Frank ' McHale of Logansport. president oi the state McNutt-for-Govcrnor Club, and Bowman Elder of Indianapolis, I national treasurer of the American Legion. They were joined by William O’Neill, state securities commissioner, and a Mayr adherent. Pleaded for Harmony Although none of the conferees ! w*ould talk after their session, it was intimated that Mayr pleaded so harmony and practically was told J he must get rid of Grover Garrot,! chief of the state police; James! Carpenter, head of the state automobile license bureau, and Robert Codd, deputy secretary of state, be- | fore the opposition would "talk turkey.” Democratic editors, meeting here for their summer session today, and party managers present, turned their attention to the presidential situation, as a drive was being staged in caucus rooms to pledge ; the Indiana delegation of thirty to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Proponents of the pledge plan, j however, received a setback when j they were told by Thomas D. Tag- ! gart. national committeeman, and ! Peters, that the Indiana delegationl was going to be "footloose and faneyfree.” Party scouts and workers making reports declared that indications from over the state were to the effect that the New York Governor’s boom had come to a halt and that party opinion was leaning toward Newton D. Baker of Cleveland. secretary of war in the Wilson administration. LafToon to Be Speaker The Baker sentiment went into the upgrade as a result of the heat being turned loose on Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York by the Seabury commission, which is intensifying the Hoosier distrust of New York politics, they reported. A play for Roosevelt support is expected to be made tonight by Governor Ruby LaiToon of Kentucky, who will be the principal speaker at the editorial dinner here. Anti-Roosevelt men were viewing his visit with suspicion because of Lafloon’s outspokenness in behalf of the New Yorker. The name of Tom McConnell of Fowler, Second district chairman, and former state commander of the American Legion, was being advanced for Mayr’g pest, but his legion connections were said by many to be a drawback. Much talk was being heard regarding advisability of nominating Clifford Townsend of Grant county, representative of the state farm bureau, for Lieutenant-Governor, to win agricultural support; and Peters and McNutt men desirous of rewarding the loyalty of Philip Lutz , Jr. of Boonville, old First district chairman, were advancing him for the attorney-general post. Committee Is Named The editors in their business session appointed Dale J. Crittenberger of Anderson. Scott Chambers of Newcastle, and Bernard McCann of Lawrenceburg as members of a resolution comm.ttee. Wray Fleming, editor of the Michigan City Dispatch and first vice-pres ’.dent of the editorial association. was appointed to have charge of the publicity for the Democratic state committee in the corrirg can:pa gn. SEEKS STATE OFFICE .Miss Schmitt Asks for Post in Department of Women. Miss Esther M. Schmitt, local attorney, was named in The Timer Friday as an applicant for the Democratic post on the state industrial board to be vacated June 1 by Horace G. Yergin, Newcastle. Miss Schmitt explains that her letter of application to Governor Harry G. Leslie is for a possible vacancy in the department of women and childero of the state Industrial board and not a board membership. She is a Republican, she said. Foot Killed in Hunger Clashes By United Press BERLIN, May 38.—Four persons have been killed and at least a score j wounded in clashes between hunger j marchers and police in the Rhineland, it was revealed today. j

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’LAYS ‘CARE’ OF COURT RECORDS Niblack Assails Failure to Preserve Papers. In a letter today to Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, John L. Niblack, an attorney, declares records of the municipal courts and the old police court which preceded them are in "a deplorable condition.” Niblack recalls that Cameron made an effort about one year ago to preserve the records, and offers his aid to the court in the matter with the suggestion that the Indianapolis Bar Association take action. The attorney says he had occasion to use records of a case filed in 1926 and in the ensuing search found some court records on the third floor of the police station piled with mops and brooms in a small room. Others were found in a sub-base-ment room at city hall, back of a boiler. He says a state board of accounts attache informed him that a janitor burned a box of old affidavits. assuming they were rubbish. "There is no system or order by which any one could find a case in those records.” Niblack asserts. DEMAND UTILITY CUT Civic Clubs Pass Resolution After Sharp Debate. Demand for reduction in rates of all public utilities is contained in a resolut ; on adopted Friday night by the Federation of Community Civic clubs after two hours debate. Bickering began with demand of J. Ed Burk that his South Side Civic clubs be given credit for lowering water rates. Paul C. Wetter, former municipal judge, replied that the committee "had beer, hoodwinked and got a raw deal.” Oscar F. Smith denounced the public service commission for lock-; ing out the federation delegates. 1 John F. White said the federation’ should have lilcd its own petition if! it wanted to be heard. Solution lies in the power given municipalities to condemn and buy utilities. President E. O. Snethen as- j serted. CONDUCTOR TO RETIRE Edward Boteler to Finish 43 Years of Service Tuesday. Edward M. Boteler, 111 East Sixteenth street, Big Four railroad conductor, will be retired from sendee Tuesday, after forty-three years with the company. Boteler has been a resident of Indianapolis for the last forty-three years.

Motor Routes to Speedway TlYsf Thirtieth Street Traffic on Memorial Day Will Be One-Way West Bound From 4 .4. M. to 1 P. A/.; East Bound, From 1 P. M. to 6 P. M.

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Automobile, bus, and taxicab routes to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are shown in this diagram, arranged today by Captain Lewis Johnson, police traffic head. One-way traffic for race bound motorists will be maintained from 4 . e to 1 p. m. Monday on

"Can’t We Talk It Over?” Is the theme song at Indiana Central college these May days with the sporting offer made by the college’s dean of men, Earl Stoneburner. The collegians built a mound with the school’s name lettered in rocks on the campus. The dean then offered "A free wedding license to the first couple that became engaged while talk-

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Await Speedway Classic as Vacationers Romp Into Country. The pay check was cashed today. Picnic hampers w*ere packed. Busses, trains and interurbans were boarded for trips to "Grandma’s house.” Pre-race crowds tumbled into the city. And the city’s Memorial day week-end vacation began. Dances until the early hours on Sunday morning were scheduled by clubs and hails. Theaters beckoned to Speedway visitors and city vacationers. Sunday eight cemeteries of the city will hold memorial services for the war dead. List Cemetery Rites The cemeteries and the time scheduled for the rites follow: Shi'.o cemetery, 10 a. m.; Ft. Benjamin Harrison, 10 a. m.; Round Hill, 2 p. m.; Memorial Park, 2p. m.; Floral Park, 2:30 p. m.; Anderson, 2:30 p. m.; Concordia, 3 p. m.; Meridian street bridge, 4 p. m. All city, county and federal offices and buildings will close today and remain closed through Monday. The general delivery window of the postofflee will remain open from 8 a. m. to noon Memorial day. The holiday window at the main office will be open for stamp sales and parcel post. No carrier deliveries will be made. All special delivery and perishable parcels will be delivered. Special week-end rater r or excursionists have been offered on railways, busses and interurbans for Memorial “week-enders.” Many early race visitors attended the final qualification trials at the Speedway today. Highways and rail and bust stations were crowded with race-goers expecting to spend the day before the race at the homes of city friends. Plan Double-Header Amusement parks planned special programs Sunday and Memorial day. A double-header, one afternoon and one night game, is scheduled with Louisville at the ball park of the Indians Monday. City parks expected their largest crowds of the season Sunday and Monday. Tennis courts and golf

Speedway road (West Sixteenth street), and West Thirtieth street to Georgetown road. Motorist leaving the race will be routed one way over the Speedway road and Thirtieth street from 1 to 6 p. m. Route for busses and taxicabs follows: West on WaPiington street to

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ing it over on the mound, and to the first couple this leap year a free cleric, too.” So in the top photo you see the co-eds and their "eds” talking it over on the mound while in the lower photo is a view of the "matrimonial mound.” Witnesses to the authenticity of an engagement perfected on the mound are as necessary as they are at the wedding.

courses have been refurbished in readiness for the play days. Memorial rites were held today In Holy Cross cemetery for the soldier dead. 'LEGGEITJY PROXY ‘Bums Ride’ From Friend; There’s Alky in Car. "Bumming a ride” home in a friend’s automobile almost proved costly to William B. Floyd, 826 North New Jersey street. Floyd and Earl Heindenrich were taken before Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner, Friday by federal dry agents on charges of liquor transportation. "Judge, I met Earl downtown and he asked if I wanted to ride home,” Floyd pleaded, adding he knew* nothing of the two gallons of alcohol confiscated by agents in the car. Heidenrich corroborated his story, and dry agents who made the arrest said they believed Floyd w*as telling the truth, but they felt they had no alternative but to take him before the commissioner before releasing him. Patrick dismissed charges against Floyd and held Heidenrich to the federal grand Jury under $1,500 bond. FIVE MAP APPEAL IN RADIO LOTTERY CASE XED Station Group Sentenced for Using Mails in Ticket Sales. By United Press CORPUS CHRISTT, Tex., May 28. —Will Horwitz, Houston theater man, and four co-defendants, today i planned appeal from their con-1 victions in conectlon with the XED Lottery case. T. M. Kennerly, federal Judge, imposed Jail and penitentiary sentences ranging from sixty days to five years, suspended. Horwitz also wos fined $5,000, Prosecutors charged that Horwitz, owner of broadcasting station XED at Reynosa, Mex., conspired with his wife, station announcers and others to use the station in advertising the Tamaulipas state lottery, seling tickets through the United States mails.

Tibbs, north to Cossell road, northwest to Grande avenue, north to West Tenth street, west to Main street In Bpeedway City, and north to the Prest-O-Lite plant. Return trip will be over the same route. Extra duty schedules will be in effect for all police Monday.

Search jungle" FOR EXPLORER Hunt for Fawcett Started in Brazilian Wilds. BY HORACIO FUSONI rnltfd Pre* Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1932, by Culled Press) j PORTO VELHO, Matto Grosso I State, Brazil, May 24.—(8y Indian ■ runner to Diamantino)—Within an ! hour after I have started an Indian off to Diamantino with this message, the Stephan Rattin expedition seeking Colonel P. H. Fawcett, . British explorer, lost in the great i jungle, will have plunged into the 1 heart of the vast, unexplored Brazil(ian interior. We finished our canoes after a week of torture for all except Rattin. i I This man, who has spent fourteen 1 ! years in the Jungle, and is confident! that he saw Colonel Fawcett held i prisoner at an Indian village, has a ! charmed life. Even the hordes of mosquitoes j that swarmed around us day and j night did not bother him. The going was so tough that Dan Fangen, the son of a British rancher, who has lived many years in this section, packed up and went home. He said the risk of going : into the interior was too great. We also are short of other men, i who failed to show up. They are j Paraguayan hunters, familiar with trekking through the jungle. Rattin counted on them for considerable help. This shortage of man power made i the immediate future of the rescue j expedition very doubtful, but Rattin was confident. WALES CHARGES AUTO HURTING BEEF TRADE Mourns Days When Dad Brought Home a Goodly Joint. By United Pres* YEOVIL, England, May 28.—The prince of Wales told ’ fellow' farm- - ers’’ at an agricultural fair here that' | "baby” automobiles are killing beef production and trade. “Youth new takes to the roads on Sundays, and a couple of cutlets for father and mother are substituted ! for a whole joint of beef at the Sunday meal,” the prince said. He mourned the passing of the "good old days” when father brought | home a goodly joint every Saturday ' night. ’AIDS ROOSEVELT CAUSE Costigan Urges Colorado Democrats to Support N. Y. Governor. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 28,-Sen-ator Costigan (Dem., Colo.), today made public a message to the Col- J orado state Democratic convention urging support of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt for President. "It is my judgment,” CosJgan said, "that by all odds the most available Democratic candidate for the presidency who by any stretch of the imagination may be termed ; progressive and to whom our strick'en people have some warrant in now* turning is Franklin Roosevelt.”

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WALKER DENIES HE WILL RESIGN JOB UNDER FIRE Eight Witnesses Contradict N. Y. Mayor's Story of Official Conduct. By United Press NEW’ YORK. May 28.—New testimony intended to prove that Mayor James J. Walker's memory is defective, or that he lied about financial transactions in which he had been named by other witnessses, will be offered Tuesday before New York's city-wide investigation committee. Efight witnesses already have contradicted the song-writing mayor's story of his social conduct, of his franchise negotiations, of stock and bond deals, of his relations with a missing accountant, Russell T. Sherwood, of Sherwood's accounts shewing deposits of nearly a million dolllars. Testimony Is Contradicted One of these witnesses testified Friday after the mayor had concluded his testimony. Testimony of seven others who preceded WalV.er had been denied, contradicted in part by the mayor himself. And as the Hofstadter investigation committee, conducting the hearings, adjourned until Tuesday, the mayor denied at city hall that j he intended to resign, or that he intended to ask Walter R. Herrick, park commissioner, to resign. Herrick told the committee Friday that he bought 350 shares of Interstate Trust Company stock, which he thought he was buying for the mayor. Walker's Brother Missing The significance of the stories concerning the Interstate Trust shares lies in the fact that Samuel Seabury, counsel for the committee, has shown that the stock eventually w*as used as collateral for a loan to build up a fund held by backers of the Equitable Coach Company, which sought a bus franchise from the city. Mayor Walker voted for that franchise. Dr. William H. Walker, brother of Mayor Walker, has not been at his! home or office since May 19—the day a witness before the Hofstadter committee testified he paid the docto $2,820 "for medical services"— it w*as revealed today. Representatives of the Seabury committee have tried to locate the) mayor's brother, but have been unable to find a trace of him, it was said. ILLINOIS STAYS WET G. 0. P. Also Adopts Liquor Approval Platform. By United Press SPRINGFIELD. HI., May 28 - Action of the Republican state convention today assured election next November of a wet Governor for Illinois. The convention approved a "dripping wet” plank in its platform similar to one approved some time ago by the Democratic state meeting. After former Governor Len Small, who again is the Republican nominee, spoke in favor of repeal of | the eighteenth amendment, the state search and seizure act, and amendment of the Volstead act to allow light wines and beer, the state convention adopted a platform incorporating all of these points. Delegates to the national convention were instructed to work.for adoption of an identical plank by the party as a whole. PLAN BARRYMORE FILM Ethel Joins Brothers; Three Will Appear in Picture. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. May 28.—Ethel; Barrymore was here today to appear with her brothers, Lionel and John, in a motion picture—the first time the famous trio has been united before a camera.

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Miss Florida Bourbcau WITH $1.20 in her pockets and memories of hobo adventures with her cowpuncher-lover of the old west,Miss Florida Bourbeau, 21, Turners Falls, Mass., graduate of an eastern college, w*as released from the county jail today on bond provided by friends, following trial on a charge of hopping freight trains. Miss Bourbeau and Harry Elliott, 29. the cowpuncher, landed in municipal court at the climax of a romance which began on a ranch near Ft. Stockton, Tex. The couple started out tw*o weeks ago to see the world in box cars. OFFICES TO MOVE Farm Bureau Takes Two Floors in Old Trails. Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., will move seventy-five office employes into the Old Trails building, Washington street and Senate avenue, it was announced today. Entire fifth and sixth floors of the building have been leased by the bureau from the Washtngton-Scn-ate Realty Company and the name of the building is to be changed to the Indiana Farm Bureau building, it was announced. Move from the present quarters in th*2 Lemcke building is to be made Junfc 10. \

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! AMELIA LUSTILY IS CHEERED AT AIRPLANE MEET •Mickey Mouse’ Toy Is Her Special Pet; Has to Get Passport. By United Press BROOKLANDS, England, May 28. j —Amelia Earhart came here today ! to attend a civil air meet, flying in a plane loaned her by a private airman. The plane was piloted by Gordon Selfridge Jr. Neither Miss Earhart nor Selfridge was in flying costume when they arrived. She wore a black straw cloche hat. blue coat and carried a bunch of tiger lilies. Several private planes accompanied her from Heston airdrome. A large crowd cheered lustily for * the girl flier as she was escorted to a control tower by officials of the guild of air pilots and air navigators of the British empire. Prior to leaving Heston, Miss Ear- ! hart appeared carrying a small me- | chanical “Mickey Mouse” toy which ' she exhibited to press correspondents. She was amused greatly by i the toy. and exclaimed over and over, "isn't it delightiul?” She planned to go to France on Thursday to meet her husband, | George Palmer Putnam, who will reach Cherbourg on the liner Olympic. Miss Earhart revealed today that sh had forgottten her passport on her trans-Atlantic flight. She went to the American consulate-general to get anew one. According to consular regulations, officials here J should have consulted Washington, ! as is customary when an American without identification papers applies for a passport. "There is no question of your j identity.” an official told the woman ! flier. She then swore the customary 1 oath of allegiance to the United i States and received her papers. POLICE REPORT TWO CONFESS BURGLARIES Clear Up Cases Here and at Leban. non by Arrests. Detectives announced today they j have obtained statements from two men confessing burglaries here and in Lebanon. Ted Lafever, 25, of 232 North Oriental street, is said to have admitted he and Joseph Wells, 32, of 520 East Market street, motored to Lebanon Wednesday night where Wells smashed the window of a Jewelry store with a hammer and stole foie* watches, a pair of cuff links and a w*hisk broom. Lafever said he waited in the car and sounded the horn to draw attention from the crashing glass. Wells, in a statement credited to him, said he broke into the Paul Ring pharmacy, 501 North Rural street, on Wednesday, and stole a , radio set, two cameras, cigarets and I candy. He sold the loot, the statei ment says.