Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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ROOSEVELT NOT SURE TO WIN HOSIERS' VOTE Indiana, Holding Power to Put Candidate Across, Studies Situation. BY BEN STERN CHICAGO, June 25. Optimistic managers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who were telling the world that Indiana's thirty delegate votes will be found in their candidate's lap, today had another thought coming. Indiana holds the key to the presidential nomination situation and the leaders of Hoosier democracy here so enjoy the feeling of power that they are not going to relinquish it in exchange for blandishments. This they indicated clearly this morning, as they awaited arrival of Frank McHale of Logansport, chairman of the delegation. But if it's a bandwagon, Indiana, following custom, will be there. Those cn the spot, who have been stalling James A. Farley of New York, Roosevelt manager and his cohorts, are Thomas D. Taggart, national committeeman; R. Earl Peters, state chairman; Paul V. McNutt, Governor nominee; Richard Werncke, Terre Haute “bass” and member of the now all-important rules committee, and Perry McCart of Paoli, resolutions committee member. Conference Is Slated When McHale arrives here, a conference will be held and all discoveries made by the others will be discussed and strategy decided upon. If McNutt, Peters and Taggart have their way, the thirty votes will be divided among all candidates on the first ballot, they indicated today, although a majority lean toward Roosevelt. Werneke declared openly that he would vote against abrogation of the century-old two-thirds rule required for nomination. “I told Farley that although I was opposed to the two-thirds rule in principle, I felt that it was unsportsmanlike to propose its abrogation at this time. Too Late to Change “His candidate, Roosevelt, knew of this rule and could have asked the national committee in January to remove this obstacle to his nomination. This is too late a date to take the step, ia my opinion,” The Indiana delegation will be asked to back its rules committee member in his stand when the question is taken to the floor. Hoos'er leaders also expressed themselves as being friendly to Jouett Shouse in his fight against Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana for the permanent chairmanship. It is known that Taggart informed Farley as to this when the matter was broached to him over the telephone before coming to Chicago and the national committeeman has not changed his opinion. See Roosevelt Slump General tenor of conversation here is that the movement to “stop Roosevelt” has gained ground and the state leaders feel that they do not want to be caught on the end of a limb when the break comes, it was intimated plainly. Although three districts instructed their delegates to vote for Roosevelt, a resolution was adopted at the caucus of the delegates in Indianapolis Tuesday to come here uninstructed. Mayor Frank Griese of Evansville was the only one to oppose this move, and was voted down speedily. Fights for Repeal The submissionists will encounter a stumbling block in Perry McCart when it comes to the question of repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the part which Indiana played in the prohibition fight featuring the Republican convention here two weeks ago may be re-enacted, with McCart playing the role then assumed by Henry Marshall, Lafayette publishes-. “I shall insist upon the plank we adopted in Tuesday's convention,” he said. This pronouncement was in favor of repeal and not resubmission. Official caucus of the delegation has been set for 8:30 Sunday night, when all questions will be discussed. WIN EXTRADITION FIGHT City to return Man Wanted Here in Alleged Embezzlement. George Black, former city resident, will be returned from Seattle, Wash., to face a charge of alleged embezzlement of SIO,OOO from Mrs. Doris G. Smalley, according to word received today by Prosecutor Herbert Wilson. Detective William Miller, in the Washington city for the extradition fight, wired Wilson Friday that the federal circuit court of appeals in San Francisco, Cal., had ordered Black returned to Indianapolis. Negro Held at Bootlegger Leaping from his auto as it was forced to the curb by police at 1700 Vandeman avenue Friday night, William Trabue, Negro. 1866 South Keystone avenue, was arrested on charges of transporting liquor and operating blind tiger, after a search of the car disclosed thirty-one quarts of home brew, according to police.

Big Hearted By United Prcit SIOUX CITY, la., June 25. —The $75,000 that customers owed James Hennum and his wife, operators of a general store at Sloan, twenty miles from here, has been wiped off the books. Hennum sent letters to all his customers canceling the debts, which ranged from a few cents to as much as SI,OOO. The Hennums said they had prospered running the store, and their neighbors were hard pressed. “We meant just what we said,” Hennum explained. “Everything is canceled. We have plenty to live on. If the folks want to give their money let them give it to the church or the needy.”

East Side Takes Its Rest and Exercise at Ellenberger ParE

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Upper—The busy swimming pool at Ellenberger park when the temperature is around 90 degrees. Lower Left—The bridge of sighs in Ellenberger. The sighs are from lovers at evening or home-going swimmers in the daytime. Lower Right—View of the tennis courts and baseball diamond at Ellenberger.

FIVE INJURED IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS

Man Most Seriously Hurt Is Held on Blind Tiger Charge. Five persons were injured in automobile accidents Friday afternoon and night. William Reid, 63, of 532 Cole street, the most seriously hurt, is held on charges of blind tiger, transporting liquor and reckless driving. His automobile collided in the 1100 block West Washington street with a truck driven by Lewis Zaring, 4030 West Washington street. Severed An Artery Police said Reid threw a gallon jug of whisky from his car. He suffered severing of an artery in his left arm and cuts on the face. Charles Baker, Morristown, incurred cuts and bruises in an accident which rasulted in death of two mules. His automobile struck the mules at a point on road 52 one mile west of the county line. One of the animals was killed outright and one other, with a broken leg, was shot by deputy sheriffs. The animals were owned by Walter Kraft, R. R. 10, Box 158. They strayed from a field to the road with another mule and a horse. Head and chest injuries were incurred by Marion Arvin, 27, of 1143 Reisner street, when his automobile was in collision with the car of a hit-and-run driver at Fall Creek boulevard and Delaware street. License for the other car is held by William Holland, Carmel, Ind. Walks Into Auto Pliny Cox, 40, Carmel, a milk wagon driver, suffered a cut on the face and shoulder injuries, when he walked against the side of an automobile driven by Donald Bell, 22, of Greenfield, in the 1400 block East Washington street. Cuts on the face were suffered by Mrs. Ralph Herner, 36, of 2708 Napoleon street, when a car driven by her husband, Ralph, 40, collided with one driven by George Nichols, 1129 Holly avenue, at North and Blake streets. VETERANS ELECT YOUNG Named President of County Chapter of Rainbow Division. Herman W. Young was elected ! president of the Marion county chapter, Rainbow Division Veterans’ Association, at a dinner Friday night in the Washington. Other officers are: Audley S. Dunham, vice-president; Norman H. Shortridge, secretary, and H. E. Cook, treasurer.

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June 25.—Despite the bitter factionalism existing among Democrats as a result of the “halt Roosevelt” fight, there is a feeling of victory in the air. Probably intoxicated with this sentiment, any delegate, on the least provocation, will halt to tell the world that “any Democrat can beat Hoover.” So prevalent is this opinion that Hoover will be defeated that a passenger in the Monon smoker yesterday told a yarn worth passing on as illustrative of the general point of view that the President can't do the nation any good. Between puffs on a nondepression sized cigar, this passenger told how a small boy had been plaguing his father for weeks with demands for a toy train. Finally, a few days following the Republican convention adoption of the straddle plank on liquor, the parent, after the boy made his plea for the train, said: “Well, son, I’ll promise you that if Hoover is re-elected I'll buy you the Monon to play with." When they are not discussing the perplexing question of whether Roosevelt has been stopped, Indiana delegates naturally turn to the topic of their Hoosier Republican friends. One of the points of interest relates t$ how close Governor Harry

The Mustard! The morning mop waltzed its soapy self over the restaurant floor on Washington street. Breakfasters had gone. The early dinner crowd straggled in. They skidded on the soapy floor. Two waitresses gossiped. “She thinks she’s the mustard . . . horse radash, I’d say,” were the comments as they jealously eyed another feminine worker. The mop swished near the girl who’s ears should have burned. She was cleaning off the table utensils. She balanced them on a tray and started toward the kitchen. “Bam” and her feet uplifted on the soapy floor. The tray fell. The gossipers were aghast. She was the “mustard” for she sat on the soapy floor amid an array of broken mustard and horse-radish jars.

‘JEKYLL-HYDE’ ROLE CLOSED U. S. Corrects Mistake and Bondi Becomes Bondi. For eight years Nicolo Bondi, 49, of 713 South East street, lived as Bondi, the American citizen, but all his characteristics were those of Nick Benedetto. This Jekyll-Hyde role was ended today by correction of Bondi’s naturalization papers in the county clerk’s office. The mistake, that legally bestowed Benedetto’s hair, eyes, age and children on Bondi in 1924, did not hamper Bondi’s citizenship rights. Anew certificate of citizenship was issued today by Edward J. Kennedy, of the naturalization bureau, Cincinnati, O. By mistake. Bondi’s old certificate had been written on back of Benedetto’s application for citizenship. Thus, in legal description, Bondi had brown eyes, instead of dark, and was fifteen years younger. Both Bondi and Benedetto had been subjects of Victor Emanuel of Italy and had three children so that court authorities did not find the error until a week ago.

G. Leslie came to copping the G. O. P. vice-presidential nomination. Credit for stopping Leslie was given to Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush by one of the conferees to the amazement of the others in the huddle. How come? they asked. And the answering is an interesting commentary on practical politics. tt M Governor Leslie was host to the governors’ conference here last year and made valuable contacts. If he had attended the conference in Richmond, Va., early in May of this year, he could have renewed friendships and impinged himself on the minds of his fellow governors (as only he can), so that they might have gravitated toward him naturally at the national convention. These friendships, together with the alliances entered into through the fight for the dry law repeal plank, might have put over Leslie. But he did not attend the Governor’s conference. Why? Because of Ed Bush, whose reported threats that he would issue a call for a special session if Leslie left the state, kept the Governor close to the fireside. So, by this reasoning, Bush beat Leslie for the vice-presidential nomination. Or are all of yt wrong?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

This Is th third of a series of art layouts on ‘'Where to spend your park vacation in Indianapolis.” “T7' AST side, west side, all around the town” you'll find the devotees of water wings, hold your nose when you dive, and exponents of the dog-paddle coming into their own. And it’s Ellenberger park, Just off Ritter avenue, that east side swimmers call their own ballwick. High upon a hill the Ellenberger pool is monarch of all the landscape it surveys. It is the meeting place of the neighborhood. Lying at its feet, below the hill, are the tennis courts, ball diamonds, and picnic grounds. Shade trees for picnics and just plain or fancy methods of taking life easy on a hot day are bounteous in Ellenberger. A playground furnishes amusement for the toddlers. It’s a park for all ages and all amusements.

TRACTION BOND ISSUE APPROVED Harmony Marks Session of Public Service Body. For the first time in many months, entire harmony prevailed at the Friday afternoon conference of public service commissioners and all orders were approved without a dissenting vote. The reason was that only three of the five commissioners were present and all were of the same political faith—G. O. P. Chairman John W. McCardle presided and Commissioners Howell Ellis and Frank Singleton cast the “yea” votes. Those absent were Commissioners Jere West and Harry K. Cuthbertson, both Democrats. Cuthbertson is the stormy petrel of the usual weekly sessions, but, despite opposition, has succeeded in getting across about the only rate reductions that have accrued to Indianapolis utility patrons. Among approvals voted by commisioners Friday was for a $7,977,650 securities issue for the Indianapolis Railways, Inc., these to be used to replace some $15,000,000 of securities of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, from whom the new company purchased the street car properties here. The new securities issue will include $6,278,000 worth of 5 per cent second mortgage bonds, $650,000 worth of prefered stock and 104,965 shares of no-par common stock at $lO a share. First mortgage bonds, not to exceed 75 per cent of all betterments, are to be issued later by the company to finance a $9,000,000 rehabiitation program, first $1,000,000 of which is to be expended by Nov. 1, according to Charles W. Chase, company president. TROUBLES MOUNT FOR BEER BREWER SUSPECT Awaiting Trial, Man Is Seized on Rum Sale Charge. Trouble cofnes in whoesale lots for William E. Duncan, 425 East Maryland street. Arrested several days ago in a raid by police and federal dry agents, in which only one quart of home brew was confiscated, Duncan’s case was postponed in municipal court to permit testing of the beer. While testing the beer, dry agents took advantage of the wait to arrange delivery of five gallons of alcohol by Duncah, arresting Duncan and Raymond J. Walsh, 713 Chadwick street, when the two delivered the liquor, agents said. Asa result, blind tiger charges in municap court were dismissed Thursday afternoon and Duncan was held to the federal grand jury on liquor transportation and sale charges and the car used for the delivery was seized. Walsh was held on transportation charges. MAN STABBED IN FIGHT Three Filipinos Held for Attack After Rooming House Row. Serious stab wounds were reecived Friday night by Howard Munn, 21, of 1230 West Thirty-fifth street, employed at a rooming house at 1203 North Illinois street, in a fight with three Filipinos. Munn said he found one of the Filipinos in the company of a girl roomer at at the Illinois street address' and chased him from the house. The Filipinos are Oscar Castollo, 30, of 119 West Walnut street, and Henry Herminakaldo, 710 North Illinois street, charged with assault and batterjq and Emil Carbonell, 710 North Illinois street, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Munn faces an assault and battery charge. Munn. with wounds in his back and right leg, is in city hospital. CATHOLIC PASTOR DIES The Rev. Joseph A. Foelhuis Victim of Heart Disease. The Rev. Joseph A. Poelhuis died of heart disease in the Hotel Lincoln Thursday. He was founder of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church. He served ten years as its pastor. Funeral services will be held at 10 Monday morning in St. Joseph’s Hill, with burial there. Mr. Poelhuis was born in Evansville July 18, 1883, and was ordained at St. Meinrad’s seminary May 22, 1907,

Budget Committee Goes Cruising on State's ‘ 'Navy 9

ANEW use has been found for Indiana’s naval militia. It is going to take members of the state budget committee on a* cruise this week-end. The budgeteers have been invited by Adjutant-General Paul Tombaugh to board the “good ship Hawk” at the Michigan City pier today and take a trip across Lake Michigan to Muskegon, Mich.

Debarkation will be Sunday night. Bunks will be provided aboard the boat. The budget committee is charged with curbing governmental expenditures by trimming costs wherever possible. Members are Senators Thurman A. Gottschalk and Byron Huff and Representatives Sam Farrell and H. Curtis Bennett. O. F. Heslar is commander of thg Hawk, and the naval militia costs the state $20,000 a year under the present budget. Recently Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota was offered a similar ship by the federal government, but declined on the grounds that just now Minnesota was in no need .• of a “navy” and was spending more than it could afford for its “army,” the national guard.

Lives of Tech Pupils Periled; iWorkmen at School Discover

AIMEE’S MATE SCORES IN CASE Court Adjourned as Pretty Nurse Collapses. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 25.—Myrtle Hazel Joan St. Pierre cringed, sobbed and collapsed in hysterics. It was rotund David L. Hutton’s day in court. His attorneys, defending him from Mrs. St. Pierre’s $200,000 heart-balm suit, inferentially charged the pretty nurse: Tried three years ago to “frame” Aimee Semple McPherson, evan-gelist-wife of Hutton. Had participated in other alleged extortion plots. And had been intimate with other men. This brought Friday’s court session to a sudden end, while two spectators fainted from excitement, and youthful Superior Judge Lester Roth sent the jury from the room while he sternly lectured Mrs. St. Pierre and attorneys for both sides. More drama is expected Monday when the pretty young nurse, who claims she was betrayed and cheated by the corpulent chorister, resumes the stand. “Didn’t you say ‘if we can get that Aimee Semple McPherson out here in a compromising position, we can frame here for plenty of dough?” a defense attorney asked the nurse. “I am the one who is being framed, I am the one!” came Mrs. St. Pierre’s response. Wounded Hitch-Hiker Held After giving conflicting versions of how he received a wound in the knee, Albert Murphy, 21, of Wenona, 111., a hitch-hiker, was arrested Friday night by police on a charge of vagrancy pending investigation. Murphy was arrested after he hobbled into an east side restaurant where he requested the proprietor to help him dress the wound.

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Rotting Joists Are Found as Rebuilding Task Is Started. Lives of hundreds of Arsenal Technical high school pupils have been in peril daily for the last several years, it was revealed today by school officials. The danger was learned first by workmen engaged in rebuilding the old three-story arsenal building at the school, who discovered that dry rot had attacked joists supporting the heavy roof of the sixty-seven-year-old building. School officials marveled that the roof had not collapsed before, pointing out that a heavy snow last winter might have resulted In the 125-ton slate roof falling on pupils. Damage Is at Ends Principal damage to the joists was on the ends, where they are supported in the walls. The rotting away is believed to have been caused by water from roof leaks before the new slate roof was placed on the building several years ago. The condition of the joists was not discovered at that time. Ends of most of the joists on the north wall are so rotten that the wood can be pinched away and crumbled by a person’s fingers. School officials have ordered the joists reinforced with steel and concrete at an additional cost of S6OO. Work on the building was started the day after school was closed and is progressing rapidly. When completed, the building will add the equivalent of nine classrooms to the school. Offices to Be Moved In the past, the first floor was occupied by the print shop, now in another building, and the library. Second and third floors housed classrooms and'a book store, while the basement, with low ceilings, was. used as a bicycle check room and R. O. T. C. room. This fall administrative offices of the school will be moved to the Arsenal building, first floor, from the main building, giving five class rooms in the main building.

NONUNION MINE OPERATION NEAR Owners Indicate Action After Pay Parley Fails. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 25. Opening of Indiana coal mines on a nonunion basis was foreseen with rejection of a proposed new $4 wage scale by delegates to a convention of District 11, U. M. W. A. The two-day meeting of Indiana miners’ delegates ended Friday, after the unfavorable vote on the new scale suggested by operators and approved tentatively by the miners’ scale committee. Harvey Cartwright, commissioner of the Indiana Coal Operators’ Association, had indicated that failure of the miners to accept the scale probably would end efforts of operators to negotiate. “Our alternative will be to operate without the United Miner Workers.” he said. The convention ratified action of President Abe Vales that strip miners continue to work under the old scale of $6.10 a day basic wage.

CITY TO FIGHT RULINGON COP Judge Upholds Policeman Ousted in Rum Case. Ruling of Superior Judge William A. Pickens mandating the safety board to reinstate Martin O’Brien as a patrolman will be appealed to the supreme court, city attorneys stated today. The order paves way for four other men, who have been cleared of charges in a federal liquor conspiracy case, to regain places on the force. Happy over the outcome of the trial, O'Brien declared today he was "confident the higher court would not rule against him.” Pickens also ordered that O'Brien receive back pay from September, 1931, date of his suspension as an officer. The total is $3,600. O'Brien and the four officers were convicted in federal court of conspiring to violate the federal prohibition law. The were reversed by the United States circuit court of appeals. Since the officers were removed because of this conviction, Pickens held, in view of the reversal, that they were ousted from the police force without cause. Other removals were: Ralph Lambert, who recently dismissed a suit asking reinstatement; Thomas Gray, whose case was taken under advisement in Hendricks circuit court at Danville, and Floyd Reldenbach and David Curran, who-have suits pending in the Marion circuit court. Patronzie TIMES advertisers! They will APPRECIATE your patronage! And tho Sales Slips may win you money!

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KING OF SIAM AGREES TO END ABSOLUTE RULE Meets Demands of Rebels to Become Constitutional Monarch of Nation. By United Fret* WASHINGTON, June 25. The American legation at Bangkok, Siam, reported to the state department today that King Prajadhipok against whom a revolution broke out Friday, had agreed to surrender his absolute powers and become a constitutional monarch. His decision, the legation said waa greeted with great popular enthusiasm. The rebel movement was accomplished with little bloodshed or disorder. It was led by army and navy officers, and supported by Siamese suffering from economic depression and heavy taxation. The rebels arrested the leading princes of Siam. They sent a gunboat to the seaside resort of Huahin, where the king was resting, to bring the monarch here to make his decision. Criticised Absolute Rule There was no movement to oust the king completely from the throne. He was given the opportunity to continue to rule, but with limited powers. Otherwise, the rebels said, they would establish a republic. Although the rebel proclamation invited the king to continue on the throne which the Chraki dynasty occupied for 150 years, it severely criticised the absolute monarchy. It contrasted the life of the princes with the sufferings of the people. King Prajadhipok has been regarded there and abroad as a “westernized’’ monarch. The uprising was directed principally against the senior army officers and the elders of the government. They have oppased any liberalization of the regime that the king might be expected to suggest. Army Chief Is Shot There was only one act of serious violence. The commander-in-chief of the Siamese army resisted arrest and was shot. Other high army officers were imprisoned with members of the government and the princes. Prince Kambaengbejra, minister of commerce, was the only cabinet officer to escape. Cheering throngs surged through the streets and pledged support to the rebels. The streets of Bangkok were manned with machine guns and tanks, but there appeared little likelihood that any use would be made of the display of military force. Prajadhipok, 38 years ole# a light dark man, whose western ideas included European clothing and golf, ascended to the throne of Siam in 1926, .succeeding his brother Rama VI. Among the titles he assumed wore “defender of the faith” and “possessor of the four and twenty golden umbrellas.” He married the 27-year-old Princess Rambai Barni in 1918. Last year the king and queen visited the United States for an operation for removal of a cataract. City Woman in Siam Revolution In Siam was brought closer to Indianapolis today when it was learned that a former woman resident and her husband may be endangered in the political upheaval. Mrs. Raymond B, Stevens, whose husband is adviser on foreign affairs to King Prajadhipok, is the daughter of Mrs. Rosanna Spink and sister of Dr. Mary A. and Urbana Spink and Mrs. Bernard Cuniff, all of Indianapolis. No great fear is expressed for the safety of the Stevens, and this belief is borne out by press dispatches describing the revolution "as “bloodless.” It has not yet been learned whether the Stevens are imprisoned with members of the royal family. Eye Cut In Auto Collision Carl Magenmaler, 18, of 1550 Bradbury avenue, incurred a cut above the right eye Friday when an automobile in which he was a passenger collided with another car at Olive and Orange streets. Drivers | were Adolph Scheifeld. 21, of 1550 Bradbury avenue, and Noble Shano, i 33, of 303 South State avenue.

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