Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1932 — Page 2

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WORLD TRADE IS AT STAKE IN BRITISH EMPIRE PARLEY; LEADERS MEET IN OTTAWA Billions Involved for United States in Epochal Conference; Tariff Will Be Important Issue. BRITAIN HOPES TO REAR BARRIER Canada Holds Trumps at Conclave; MacNider Heads American Staff Which Will Attend Confab. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrinns-Howard Foreien Editor WASHINGTON, July 18.—With a couple of billion dollars' worth of trade at stake, the United States will be represented ably at Ottawa when the British empire economic conference convenes today. Already on the scene is Minister Hanford MacNider. former head of the American Legion. With him is a larg*a legation staff. In addition, he will have Pierre de L. Boal, former chief of the western European division of the state department, who left Washington Thursday for the Canadian capital.

Boal is regarded as an exceptionally capable man. The United States once sold nearly $1,000,000,000 worth of goods annually to Canada, and about as much more to Great Britain. Further large quantities were sold to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, India. Newfoundland and other parts of the British empire. Reek Trade Agreement The avowed purpose of the conference at Ottawa is to weld, in a commercial way, all agricultural and industrial resources of all these countries and conserve this trade, as far as possible, for the empire Itself. With approximately a quarter of the territory, and a quarter of the earths population, the British empire absorbs about one-third of the world's total imports and produces more than a fourth of its exports. The tariff question will be the most important item on the agenda. The idea will so to use the tariff that foreign countries, including the United States, will be shut out of the British empire, after which, through free trade, or preferential duties, British commerce will be kept within the empirp. As the Hawley-Smoot tariff, passed by congress two years ago, aimed to shut out the rest of the world and keep Apierican trade exclusively for Americans, the British claim they have made ample precedent for what they are about to attempt. The Ottawa conference is regraded as one of the most important events of modern times, in its potential effect upon the re-shaping of international trade. World Eyes on Parley Coming as it does in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in international history, when nations are fighting, some of them with their backs to the wall, for enough of the worlds commerce to keep them from collapse, the conference is attracting world-wide attention. The chief problems to be considered, as stated by the sponsors of the parley, are: 1. To devise conditions of intraempire trade such as will Insure the maximum amount of business within the empire itself. 2. To provide a means for standardizing exchange values of the currencies of the various empire countries. 3. To promote the flow of capital within the empire. 4. To determine the conditions of trade as between the empire itself and the rest of the world. That is to say, to apply the various proposals agreed upon at Ottawa to the requirements of international trade and finance as between all countries, both within and (Without the empire. Fire and Crash on Ship Bn t nited Per** MONTREAL. July 18.—Ten hours after a fire had been extinguished in one of her luxurious slons, the Empress of Britain, bearing seven members of the British cabinet and other distinguished guests to the Ottawa economic conference, crashed into the freighter Briarwood, opposite Red island today. Meager reports reaching here said neither vessel was badly damaged. The freighter and the crack passenger liner, backed away from each other and proceeded toward Quebec under their own power. The Empress is due here today. The first broke out in the Empress room during a benefit conceit for the seamen’s orphanage. Stanley Baldwin was presiding.

GIRL IS HURT IN FALL OR JUMP FROM CAR Miss Louise Kendall Injured: Knew Man's First Name Only. Two women were treated at city hospital Sunday for injuries received when they either fell or were thrown from automobiles. Miss Louise Kendall. 27, of 1328 North Illinois street, received head Injuries when she jumped or fell from an automobile at Twentieth street and Northwestern avenue. She told police she had been riding with a man named Paul in a roadster. TTnile Mrs. Oterie Neely, 18. of •54 West Tenth street, was standing on the running board of an automobile at 2369 Northwestern avenue. talking to hoj husband, the driver of the car suddenly drove away. Mrs. Neely fell into the street, receiving brused knees and face cuts. Wife Says Mate “Beat Her Up" With her false t?eth broken and Buffering from numerous bruises, Mrs. Cynthia Prather. 1515 Bates street, mother of three children, asked police Sunday to arrest her husband, Robert Prather. She said he beat her after stabbing her in one leg with a fork. Prather has |iot been found.

CONGRESS BANK SOUGHT BY GUY Realtors Take Steps to Get Home Loan Branch. i Steps to obtain for Indianapolis one of the home loan banks provided for in the home loan bank bill enacted by congress before adjournment Saturday, were being taken today by groups including the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, and Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association. Local realtors and home builders expressed gratification over passage of the bill, for which they worked strenuously, and forecast it will aid in relieving present economic conditions. Praise for the work of Senator James E. Watson and Representative Louis Ludlow in pressing the bill to passage was voiced today by Gavin L. Payne, local realtor and director of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, who took an active part in obtaining enactment of the law. He explained that (he home loan banks, which will be financed partly by the government, will discount loans of other banks and home loan organizations, permitting these organizations to make new home loans, and relieving pressure which associations now are forced to put on borrowers, temporarily embarrassed.

112 REDS POISONED Epidemic of Ptomaine Ends Ohio State Parley. Bn United Press MASSILLON, 0.. July 18.—The state Communist convention was brought to a gloomy end today as 112 of the delegates and visitors lay in hospitals suffering from ptomaine poisoning. They were stricken after luncheon Sunday as the convention swung into its final session. Within a few minutes, the hall was a scene of wild confusion as 200 of the delegates collapsed in pain. Calls were sent out for all physicians and nurses in the district and twentytwo doctors and thirty-five nurses responded. Victims were wrapped in blankets and laid on the city hall lawn until they could be taken to hospitals. An investigation committee of doctors said that the food had been prepared by persons connected .with the convention. They believed it probable that the poisoning was caused by potato salad prepared in a galvanized tub.

HOOSIER FLIER STILL ILL Doctor Will Fly to Aid of McElroy; No Trace of Plane Found. Hu 1 llitffl Prtsr MEXICO CITY. July 18.—Clarence McElroy, Medaryville (Ind.t flier forced down in the jungles and rescued after seventeen days’ wandering, still was too seriously ill to be removed from San Geronimo today. A doctor will fly to San Geronimo Tuesday to help physicians attending the flier. No trace of McElroy's plane or of Roy Gordon, his passenger, who was killed when the plane crashed June 27, could be found by Pan-Ameri-can pilots flying between Mexico City and San Geronimo. RETIRED FIREMAN DIES Funeral Rites to Be Held Tuesday for James H. Horn. James H. Horn. 73, retired Indianapolis fireman, died Saturday in his home at Carmel. He was a member of the Indianapolis fire department twenty-five years. He retired in 1922 because of disability. He was born in Edinburg, coming to Indianapolis fifty-four years ago. He moved to Carmel following his retirement. Funeral services will be held at 2 Tuesday in the Harry Moore undertaking parlor. 2050 East Michigan street. Burial will be in Carmel. HURT CHASING SPEEDER Motor Cop's Arm Broken a* Auto Drives in Front of Cycle. Chase of a speeder Sunday begun at College and Fairfield avenues by motorcycle patrolman Rudolph Price, ended at College avenue and Fiftieth street, when Price was forced to leap from his machine to avoid collision with an automobile leaving the curb. The speeder, traveling at a pace estimated at fifty-five miles an hour, escaped, while Price received a broken left arm in his fall. He remounted his motorcycle and rode to the city hospital. 1

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British government delegates to Ottawa conftyence, shown above, are J. H. Thomas, dominions secretary; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, colonial secretary; Stanley Baldwin, lord president of the council; Neville Chamberlin, chancellor of the exchequer; Walter Runciman, a noted British trade expert,

HOLDING COMPANY CURB IS ADVOCATED

Public Regulation Urged in Report of U. S. Power * Commission. fl/l VtiHrd Fit** WASHINGTON, July 18.—Public regulation of power companies and their operating subsidiaries is “absolutely essential in the public interest," the federal ppwer commission declared today. The conclusion was contained in a summary of the commission's report of the year’s investigation of hydro-electric interests licensed under the federal water power act. The report is to be published soon. The commission recommended additional legislation placing holding companies in the power utility field under rigid government control, with provision for supervision of securities issued to the public. Os the nineteen companies making returns in the investigation, the ten top companies control fortyeight projects under, license to public utilities serving 12,487 communities with a population of more than 42,000,000, the summary showed. The commission pointed out the ramification of control of the holding companies, showing how different groups had overlapping directorships. “The federal power commission, from this study and its administrative experience, is convinced that public control of holding companies in the power utility field is absolutely essential in the public interests.” the summary sid. “In its judgment such control to be adequate would include in its scope the service organizations of the holding companies, with supervision of all contracts between holding companies and their operating companies, and would include regulation of accounts, with requirements providing specifically for the 'filing of financial and other reports on prescribed forms with full publicity.” RATS ARE GIVEN FEAST It's to Encourage ‘Em, So They'll Eat Heartily of Poison to Come. Just as a condemned prisoner I is given a good meal just before the death march, rats living in the city dump near Indiana avenue and Tenth street, today were enjoying fine meats. The banquet is part of the campaign of Oliver feehel, Cedar Rapids ila.) rat exterminator, who has been given a contract by the sanitary board to exterminate rats in the dump. Behel's method is to feed the rats two banquets, to encourage them to eat. followed by a poisoned repast.

NAMED REUNION HEAD iC. M. Cannada.v Is Re-Elected Fortville Group President. C. M. Cannaday was re-elected president of the Fortville Reunion Association Sunday at the annual reunion in Brookside park. Others who were chosen for another term of office were: S. B. Prater, vicepresident, and Miss Nellie Wiley, secret ary-treasurer. The speaker, following a basket dinner, was the Rev. Victor B. Hargitt, pastor of Brightwood M. E. j church. Memorial services were held for members who had died since j the 1931 reunion. Approximately 100 attended. BEER SEIZED IN RAIDS Crusade Squad Pounces on House During Wild Party, Cops Report. More than 400 quarts of home brew were reported seized by deputy sheriffs in two week-end raids. At the home of Anna Jackson. 1347 Waldemere avenue, officers said they found 372 quarts of beer. She was arrested on a blind tiger charge. Twelve persons were found in the place, where it had been reported a "wild party” was in progress. Raiding the #Ravenswood dance hall, officers said they found forty quarts of beer. Dearie Miller, 1625 Draper street, proprietor, was arrested on a blind tiger charge. BOY, 8, HIT BY AUTO | Struck as He Alights From Street Car: Stories Conflicting. Alighting from a Shelby street car at Troy avenue, James Snellenberger, 8. whose parents, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Snellenberger, have been camping south of the city, was struck Sunday afternoon by an aui tomobile driven by Carl R. Hooper, 36, of 2718 Barth avenue. Although the boy told police he had been carrying water for street j car employes, the motorman of the car, Milton E. .Smith, 39. of 33 South Warman avenue, said the boy paid ‘his fare. t 1

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Still They Say Fireman Lives Life of Riley

TWO firemen were injured Sunday when, a fire believed to have been started by spontaneous combustion damaged a warehouse of the Shaw-Walker Company, office equipment dealers, at Chesapeake and Osage streets. Those injured were Robert Coker and Earl Goodwin, members of Squad 7, headquarters 'company. They were cut on the hands. Officials said today they w'ere unable to state the amount of loss. Loss of S4OO resulted from a fire in a residence at 2441-2443 Massachusetts avenue, owned by Gregory & Appel. Explosion of t an oil stove started the fire. Three Firmen Killed Bn United Pres* TOLEDO, July 18.—’Three volunteer firemen were killed .and twelve injured here Sunday night when a fire truck overturned after being forcecl off the road by a speeding motorist. The dead are Archie Dennis, 55; Arthur S. Northup, 48, and prville Reynolds, 25. Fifteen Firemen Hurt Bn United Pres* BALTIMORE. July 18.— Fifteen firemen W'ere nurt today in combating a nine-alarm fire that destroyed three Pennsylvania railroad piers, a warehouse, and fifteen freight cars. The property and merchandise loss was estimated between $600,000 and $1,000,000. An area equivalent to three city blocks was burned over. One fireman had a leg crushed by a truck. The others suffered from smoke and burns. Practically all apparatus in the city was called out. GUNMAN HELD AFTER MENACING MOTORISTS Charles Burk Alleged to Have Drawn Pistol After Crash. Charles Burk, 35, of 543 North Hardings street, who is alleged to have flourished an automatic pistol when he made himself the uninvited guest of two motorists for a ride downtown from Sixtieth and Harding streets, is held today on charges of drunkenness, vagrancy and drawing deadly weapons. Police w'ere told by Thomas Sheehan, 1217 Ea*st Vermont street, and Hugh O’Connor, 317 North Arsenal avenue, that after Burks’s car had been wrecked at the point where the ride started Sunday, he drew a pistol and demanded they give him a lift. He is said to have been carrying | an undetermined amount of money in a bag, and announced that he had no intention of being held up.

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TEN INJURED IN AUTO CRACKUPS OVER WEEK-END One Man Is Seriously Hurt; Failure to Observe Signals Blamed. Ten persons were injured, one seriously, in traffic accidents in the city during the week-end. Four automobile accidents were caused by failure of motorists to observe automatic traffic signals, police said. In an automobile accident at Emerson 'and English avenues early today, J. E. Steel. 52, of 21 North Wallace avenue, an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad, received back injuries and face cuts. Kis car, in which his wife was a passenger, was struck by the automobile of Vinton Woodall, 26, of Cincinnati, who told police he could not see the traffic signal because of the sun. Steel was treated by a physician and taken home. Woodall was arrested on charges of disobeying an automatic traffic signal. Condition of Robert Keith, 65. who was struck by an automobile as he stepped from the emb at Meridian and Sixteenth streets Sunday night, still is regarded as serious by city hospital physicians. Driver Is Not Held Keith, who has been living at the Spink-Arms, incurred head injuries and a broken right leg when he stepped into the path of a car driven by Charles Whited, 559 West Merrill street. Whited was not held. Charges of reckless driving and driving through a traffic signal i were placed against Donald Baxter, 30, of 2959 North Denny street, after his car collided at Tenth street and Broadway with the automobile of Randall Taylor, j 1142 North Tecumseh street. Miss Margaret Bratton, 21, of 1403 Broadway, passenger in Taylor’s car, was cut and bruised when she was hurled* to the in the collision. Mrs. Minnie Burton, 58. of 815 Fairfield avenue, was sent to city hospital suffering a fractured right hip and other injuries after an automobile accident at Carrollton avenue and Forty-sixth street. Her daughter. Mrs. Henry Raber, 39. of the Fairfield avenue address, was driving tjie car. which collided with the automobile of Leland Kline, 18, of 1954 Central avenue. Charged With Intoxication Police investigating an accident at Senate avenue and Washington street were told by witnesses that the car of Joseph D. Connor, 29, of 337 North Addison street, ran past a traffic signal and collided with the car of Glenn Martin, 29, of 110 West North street, who was making a left turn. Martin’s sister-in-law, Miss Gladys Kuntz, 19, of Bedford, and Mrs. Martin were hurled against the windshield, receiving severe lacerations. Connor was charged with drunkenness, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, failure to stop after an accident and violating an automatic traffic signal. Joseph Bejt, 40, of IiHO North Haugh streeet, suffered right arm lacerations when his automobile collided with a parked car in the 3300 block, West Sixteenth street.

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FACES BOOZE TRIAL Raid Yields 71 Quarts of Beer, Cops Charge. Secret room in the, basement of a grocery at 718 North Holmes avenue, operated by Joseph Gerbec, 55. contained seventy-one quarts of beer and a half gallon of wine, according to Sergeant Edwin Kruse, w'ho, with a, squad, raided the place Saturday. Gerbec faces a blind tiger charge. A teaspoonful of alleged liquor was the evidence brought back by Sergeant John Eisenhut and federal agents from the shop of Mike Dumkoff, 560 West Washington street, which was raided Saturday. Officers said they obtained the mite df evidence from what w r as left of a glass, shattered when it w'as thrown to the floor by Gill Subernoff. Dumkoff and Subernoff are held on vagrancy charges. Paul Schlosser, 26. of 124 East New York street, w'ho entered the placed and warned a federal man, mistaken for the proprietor, that “the cops are across the street,” w'as not arrested.

DIVORCE IS GRANTED TO VIRGINIA WILLYS

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American Heiress Is Given Paris Decree From Her Argentine Husband. • BY MARY KNIGHT Hinted Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 18. —The Seine tribunal has issued a decision granting a divorce to Mrs. Virginia Willys de Aguirre, Toledo heiress, and daughter of John N. Willys, former ambassador to Poland, from her Argentine husband, Luis Marcelino de Aguirre, law'yers in the case announced today. The divorce is subject to delay in the final, complete decree to allow the husband an opportunity to contest the suit. He has been living in Paris, but has made no move to do so. The legal attempt at reconciliation, formally required by French

BUDGET-TRIMMING ‘FROLIC’ TO BEGIN

City’s Cutting Party to Get Under Way in Quick Order. “The show'’s about to begin, so don’t shoot the organist.” In other words than those used today by william O. Elder, city controller, the preparation of the city’s 1933 budget is about to begin. Elder's announcement also was an attempt to halt the flood of questions, real and implied, regarding w'hat action w’ill be taken by the city toward reduction of expenses. Herschel M. Tebay, new'ly appointed deputy controller, in whose hands lies much of the work preparing the budget for submission to the city council before Sept. 1, has reported for work. After learning the location of the w'ater cooler and the pencil sharpener in the last two days, he will begin work on the budget today according to Elder. In the meantime, instructions from Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan issued several w'eeks ago still stand. At that time he, notified city department executives to .make up budgets as in the past, and the order was taken as instructions that paring and pruning will take place in committee.

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law, w'as made last April, since w'hen the court has had the case under advisement. The heiress and her mother remained in Paris during the proceedings, living in a quiet hotel near the Arc d’Triumphe. The defendant was understood to have instructed his lawyers to make no defense. Madame De Aguirre consistently has declined to discuss her marital difficulties, but the ground on which the separation was sought was incompatibility of character. The marriage of the Argentine millionaire and the heiress to one of America’s larger fortunes too*, place in London on May 15, 1929, after a rapid courtship on the liner w’hich carried the Toledo girl to London the presentation at fjt. James Court After the marriage, the couple traveled between New York, Buenos Aires, and Tokio. This is Aguirre’s second divorce.

Meanwhile, the strain is beginning to tell on some of the heads of key departments. Charles R. Myers, president of the safety board, whose budget will be submitted to the controller’s department reduced $75 under the 1932 figure, made it clear today that department heads could do nothing in the way of reducing salaries which have been set by city ordinance. STAYS LOYAL IN DEATH Will Directs That Hunt Continue for Long-Lost Brother. /?// United Press CHICAGO, July 18.—For thirty years, Walter Matthiesen, Milwaukee, hunted fruitlessly for his vanished brother, Mathias Christian. May 1 he died at Eagle River, Wis., without having found any clew', but it was revealed, the hunt will go on. His will, filed for probate in Chicago, revealed this paragraph: “I have not heard of my brother for thirty years, but I authorize my executors to continue my search for him. If he is living and can prove his identity. I direct that be given an annuity of $3,600.”

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STATE MAY GET $8,000,000 FOR NEEDY’S RELIEF Way Is Found for Indiana to Borrow - Federal Funds. Indiana may borrow $8,000,000 in federal funds to be used for unemployment relief in needy communities throughout the state this winter. it was announced at the statehouse today. v Despite the constitutional restriction forbidding the stale going into debt, the way was found to make the federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds available here, it was explained. Details were to be worked out later today at a conference of Dr. John H. Hewitt and Governor Harry G. Leslie. Hewitt In Charge For the last year Hewitt, has been in charge of state unemployment relief. He was appointed to the post by Leslie. Plan to make the state borrowing possible was worked out by Hewitt and Fred M. Croxton. field representative of President Hoover's unemployment relief staff. It also will be applied in other states where the Constitution of tha state makes state borrowing impossible. The borrowing plan is this: Federal funds from the reconstruction corporation will be advanced to the state and charged as federal highway aid. Paid After Five Years After a five-year period the amount will be amortized and deductions in thein current federal aid to make up both the principal and interest at 5 per cent. State borrowing will be limited to $2.50 per capita, which will give Indiana approximately $8,000,000. What amount first will be asked ! has not been determined. Hewitt said. He estimated aid will be neces- ! sary in many communities, both industrial and mining, this winter, i Fine crops and the rifjjjig market j prices for livestock have about elim- | inated the more pressing problem of I the agricultural sections, he pointed out. Up to Each Unit . Method of getting the money from the state to the local communities has been set out by Croxton and likely will be adopted in Indiana. It is for each local governmental unit, county, city or town, to borrow money from the state and pay the 5 per cent interest charge. When returned, the money will be used to make up the federal highway aid loss, which 4he state must suffer through repayment of the federal loan. States with no constitutional restriction on debt will borrow directly from the finance corporation and pay the amount, plus the 5 per cent interest, through their tax levy or with general funds.

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