Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1932 — Page 9

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E. M. Dclaficld Here is the August choice of The Book League of America. E. M. Delafleld has written a novel by the name of “A Good Man’s Love.” It is publisher by Harper and Brothers. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN TO be constantly pursued by a biographer must be something of a strain. That is what Governor Roosevelt had to endure when Earl Looker decided to write his biography. Looker established a personal contact with the Governor which lasted eighteen months and during this time he ate and slept at the executive mansion, in the Governor’s home at Hyde Park, swam with him at Warm Springs, Georgia, and trailed him when he was engaged in his official duties. This continual association has enabled Earl Looker to present the first intimate picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt. More interested in the man than the political character or public official, Looke*- has drawn a warm, human portrait of Governor Roosevelt as a man, husband, father and friend in his book, “This Man Roosevelt,” which Brewer, Warren and Putnam has published. a a a Dr. Hans Carossa, author of “A Childhood” which has already been given a place among the German classics, has written a companion volume in “Boyhood and Youth.” In this book Dr. Carossa carries on the story of the boy through the nine years spent at a Catholic school in the historic and picturesque German town of Landschut. Written in the first person, as was “A Childhood,” it is a very Subtle and faithful description of the transmutation of the emotions which change a boy into a youth. “Boyhood and Youth” has been published by Brewer, Warren and Putnam. a a a Jan Welzl tells in “Thirty Years in the Golden North” < $2.50) how he boarded a whaler off the coast of Siberia, in order to work his way up to the Arctic ocean, how he took with him his two reindeer, and how the captain deposited them on the Arctic island of Welzl’s choice to await their master’s return. At the end of the whaling trip Welzl disembarked on the island and the ship sailed away. He writes: “I had become a Polar Robinson Crusoe, r sat down and stared out to sea for a long time, until the vessel had disappeared. And when I stood up, feeling forlorn and lonesome, I suddenly saw that under the cliffs, on a scrubby stretch of tundra, my reindeer were making straight for me. They galloped up, and it was plain to see how pleased they were; their eyes sparkled and they put their fore feet on my shoulders. I was moved almost to tears.” . a a a CHARLIE CHAPLIN, as an author, is so painstaking and meticulous that the book which he started a year ago, is still only half finished, and his next motion picture production will have to wait until the book is completed. The first half of the book, comprising about 25.000 words, has just been submitted by Chaplin to Miss Willa Roberts, managing editor of the Woman's Home Companion, which will publish it in serial form. “The book is not exactly an autobiography.” Miss Roberts stated today. “but is a summary of the high lights of Chaplin's career. It is very well written, although the author insists that he is an ’unlettered man.’ “Personally I find his literary style delightful, and I think he can have a real future as a writer if he wants to do so.”

BANDITS POUNCE ON PHARMACY: GET $l5O Filling Station Also Is Robbed by Gunmen Who Take $45. Pharmacy at Forty-ninth street and College avenue, and a filling station at Traders Point were held up Thursday night and early today by bandits, who obtained $195. In the holdup of the filling station today. Elmer Glidwell, proprietor, was bound by four men. Nine gallons of gasoline and a quantity of cigarets were taken after Glidwell was robbed of $45, he reported. Thursday night, Fisher’s pharmacy, 4850 College avenue, was entered by two bandits who forced the manager, Max Webb, 826 East Forty-ninth street, to give them the contents of cash registers, amounting to $l5O. Two clerks and three customers in the store were herded into a rear room during the robbery. They told police they were not searched by the bandits. COPS HUNT •SAMSON’ Negro Is Held for Investigation in “Strong Man” Burglary. Robert Watson, Negro, is held on a vagrancy charge today while detectivoa seek evidence in a ’ strong man" burglary case. Jot Beckett, Negro. 934 West Eleventh street, says the front door of his heme was broken with such force that plastering on the wall nearby was shattered.

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WALKER FATE NOW IN HANDS OF ROOSEVELT N. Y. Mayor Denies Seabury Charges; 27,000 Words in Statement. REMOVAL IS FOUGHT Governor Between Two Fires in Deciding on Demand for Ouster. By United Press ALBANY, N. Y., July 29.—The fate of the dapper, playboy mayor of America's largest city and the political destiny, possibly, of the Democratic presidential candidate were entangled today in a 27,000word document studied by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The document was Mayor James J. Walker’s spirited denial of every charge made against him by Samuel Seabury, counsel for the committee which investigated Tammany Hall’s New York City government. The answer was more than a denial; it was a counter-charge that the whole investigation was inspired by the Republican party “to divert public attention from those responsible for the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the country.” Tammany Backs Roosevelt Roosevelt must decide whether to remove Walker from office as asked, and thus face the prospect of losing the vote of Walker’s friends in the election in a pivotal state, or dismiss the charges and risk allegations by Republicans in the south and west that he is a Tammany tool. Regardless of what Roosevelt’s decision may be, he appears assured of Tammy Hall’s support. The organization Thursday night in New York adopted a resolution indorsing him for President; the allied organization dominated by John H. McCooey in Brooklyn did likewise. The action apparently freed Roosevelt from any restraint that might be induced by the threat of a Tammany reprisal. Guilt Denied by Mayor The mayor in his reply specifically denied he was guilty of these offenses charged by Seabury: That he violated the city charter by accepting Reliance Bronze and Steel Corporation bonds. That he owned any Interstate Trust Company stock. It had been alleged that 300 shares of this stdck had been purchased by his associates and used in connection with a franchise deal. That he helped promote a franchise for the Equitable Bus Company in return for financial “gratuities” such as a letter of credit for a trip to Europe. That he promoted taxicab legislation in return for gifts of securities from brokerage firms interested in such legislation. That he did wrong in accepting from his friend, Paul Block, a $246,000 share in the profits of a joint stock account, or that Block expected anything in return. That he w'as responsible for the $900,000 stock and bank accounts of Russell T. Sherwood, who he said acted as agent for many, but was not his financial agent. Answers Fifteen Charges Walker cited law to the effect that most of the fifteen charges made by Seabury concerned the mayor’s previous term in office, and, therefore, could not legally be made the basis of the present action. However, he answered every charge in detail. Those charges were that Walker had received almost a million dollars in gifts during five years on a salary of about $150,000Walker admitted gifts or sharing in joint trading accounts amounting to almost $300,000. Some $245,000 of *this was received from the Paul Block account. Testimony was that Walker and Block were old friends, that Block’s young son wondered if Walker could live on his salary, and that Block, as the result, opened the account. Walker said that under the law he was liable for any losses by the account. Therefore, he argued, he was entitled to his share of the profits. The city, Walker said, had nothing Block needed.

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MOTORS HUM TAPS AT LAST RITES FOR FRED DUESENBERG

CITY MAN RESCUED IN FISHING BOAT BLAST Samuel Beck, Contractor, Unhurt in Atlantic City Mishap. Samuel Beck, 2546 North New Jersey street, Indianapolis building contractor, was rescued with five other men, late Tuesday at Atlantic City when the fishing boat on which they were passengers, caught fire, after explosion of a gas tank. Beck, his wife, and son Benjamin, are spending a vacation with relatives near Atlantic City. They are planning to return here Aug. 12. They left Indianapolis Monday. Beck was not hurt, but Captain Ezra R. Mathis and William R. Irvine, both of Margate, N. J., and William Chess of Pittsburgh, were burned. The other passengers rescued were Jacob Jupperman of Absecon, N. J., and Martin Green of Atlantic City.

WINS KIDNAP TRIAL Farm Hand Is Acquitted in Nell Donnelly Case. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 29. A jury in criminal court today found Paul Scheldt, Kansas City dairy hand, not guilty of participation in the abduction last December of Mrs. Nell .Donnelly, millionaire garment maker. Mrs. Donnelly was kept at Scheidts’ home near Bonner Springs, Kam, while a captive of the kidnapers. senUto~statefarm Two Parole Violators Sentenced on Drunk Charge. Two men, on probation from previous violations, were sentenced to the state farm today in municipal court, when they again appeared on charges of drunkenness. Frank Hanlon, 1831 Brokside avenue, who in 1929 was arrested under the name of Elbert Shingler, was recognized by court attaches. Judge Clifton revoke dhis parole and sentenced him to begin serving the previous forty-day. farm sentence. Fred Debruler, 45, giving his address as 245 North Delaware street, was sentenced by Cameron to complete thirty-seven days of a previous forty-day sentence, when it was learned he riled to report to probation officers.

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1932

Airplanes Scatter Flowers Over Grave; Notables Pay Tribute. Drone of motors will sound taps this afternoon oyer the grave of Fred S. Duesenberg, in whose ears tne sweetest sound of all during his life was the rhythmic beat, of a carefully tuned racing engine. Living in a world of motors, it was fitting that the requiem at the final resting place of an internationally known automotive designer should be sounded by the product he had done so much to improve. Flowers scattered in Crown Hill cemetery by a squadron of airplanes from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, as they fell on the grave, also dropped their petals on the bowed heads of a gathering which included scores of prominent men from the field to which the renowned engineer had devoted his life. They came from all points of the compass to pay final tribute to a man they recognized as a master of his profession—a comrade—and a sportsman. Friends of early days and last hours were gathered at the grave. F. L. Maytag, president of the Maytag Corporation, Newton, la., who worked side by side with Mr. Duesenberg years ago in the perfection of mechanical appliances, was there, with E. L. Cord, president of the Cord Corporation, parent company of Duesenberg, Inc., of which Mr. Duesenberg was vice-president. E. V. Rickenbacker, driver of the first Duesenberg racing car to place in the Indianapolis 500-mile race, and Peter DePaolo, who piloted a Duesenberg racer to a track record as the peak of a sparkling career, were there. Arthur Scaife, president of the Society of Automotive Engineers, represented the organization in which Mr. Duesenberg took a prominent part. Others from the motor world included L. B. Manning, president of the Stihson Aircraft Corporation, Detroit; Ray Day. president of the Ray Day Piston Company: E. H. Parkhurst, Columbia Axle Company, Chicago; Ralnh Teetor, Perfect Circle Piston Ring Company; Fred Young, of the Young Radiator Company, Racine, and officers and executives of Duesenberg, Inc. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Edward Haines Kistler, pastor of Fairview Presbyterian chu;xh. Mr. Duesenberg died last Tuesday in a Johnstown (Pa.) hospital of injuries incurred in an automobile accident several weeks ago.

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CITY JOBLESS JOIN IN SELF HELPEFFORT Unemployed Ask Work in Exchange for Food to Help the Needy. COMMISSARY IS OPENED First Local Unit Is Formed in Unselfish Attempt to Relieve Distress. Feeding 100 families Thursday, the first Indianapolis unit of the unemployed council, national organization with headquarters at South Bend, today was perfecting plans to aid more victims of unemployment. The unit has opened commissary at Warren and Oliver avenues, and is composed of residents of the Fourteenth ward, where an open meeting will be held tonight. William Getzel cf South Bend, president of the national council, who has spent the last few days here, aiding in completing t organization of the unit, today gave an outline of the council’s program. The council, formed Dec. 4, 1931, is incorporated under the laws of Indiana. It is nonpolitical and committed to support of the constitutional form of government of the United States, and is without religious prejudice. Work for Donations Committees, three members in each one, solicit aid, and members collect donations while together, so that an effective check of their work is kept. “Food, clothing, fuel and shelter” summarizes aims of the organization. Wherever possible the council urges exchange of work for donations. All members work for the group, as distinct from “every man for himself.” Getzel said any kind of labor will be performed for a donor, and one of the features of this plan is working on farms in exchange for food. Similarly, work will be done for bakeries, wholesale grocers and dairies. In South Bend, he said, 100 gallons of milk is supplied by dairies daily to each of the tfen units in that city. Officers Are Chosen Co-operation with all governmental units, applications of Christian principles to the social and economic order, and educational work along relief lines are among aims of the organization. Units are found in all wards of cities and it is planned to establish several here. Officers of the first local unit are Edward Henry, chairman; Warren Pippin, vice-chairman; Charles B. Reinbold, recording secretary; Theo Murray, financial secretary, and Robert Griffin, treasurer. To facilitate its work the unit has a phone, Belmont 0545, and the officers announce that all calls offering donations will bring prompt response. Trucks to carry produce especially are needed. Named to G. O. P. Post By United Press NEW YORK, - July 29.—Senator Felix Hebert of Rhode Island will be Republican eastern campaign manager, it was announced today by Everett Sanders, campaign manager.

CURTIS IS MENACED AS HE GOES W.EST

By United Press LAS VEGAS, Nev., July 29. Armed guards protected Vice-Presi-dent Charles Curtis today as he sped toward Los Angeles by rail, after police arrested six persons suspected of being agitators in the crowd that watched him depart. Fearing a possible demonstration as a result of the bonus army disorder in Washington, D. C., federal marshals mounted machine guns on vantage points around the station. A cordon of police surrounded the station as Curtis, en route to open the Olympic games at Los Angeles, arrived here for a brief stop. The officers were armed with tear gas grenades. Hecklers interrupted Curtis when he spoke a few words to the crowd,

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‘Coin ’ Harvey to Be Feted Here; Comes by Air

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Liberty Party’s Candidate for President Will Be Guest of Hiner. Women workers of the Liberty party today were arranging entertainment for William “Coin” H. Harvey, the party’s presidential candidate. Plans include a reception at 10 Saturday morning at Hoosier airport, and another reception at 4 Sunday at the home of Ward B. Hiner, 5351 Washington boulevard, the party’s candidate for Governor. Harvey will fly here, having left his home at Monte Ne, Ark., for his campaign. CALL VETERANS PARLEY United American Group to Meet; Oppose Bonus Recruiting. First of a series of open air meetings sponsored by the National United American Veterans will be staged Saturday night at 8 at Morris and Shelby streets. Edward G. Schaub, commander, will speak. Edward B. Shore will be in charge of the session. Following the bonus army riot in Washington Thursday, Herman H. Hiles, adjutant of the local association, said the organization “has disapproved further recruiting of bonus marches since the session of congress closed.” TUMBLES INJURE PAIR Man, 58, and Girl, 15, Are Hurt in Falls; Receive Treatment. Two persons are being treated today for injuries in falls. Head injuries were incurred by Harry Simpson, 58, when he fell on a stairway at his home, 2355 Ashland avenue. Olive Gilchrist, 15, of 410 Hanson avenue,, received abdominal injuries when she fell from a swing at Indianola park.

praising the engineering feat of the Hoover dam. “Why didn’t you feed some of those ex-soldiers?” shouted a man in the crowd.” “I’ve fed more than you, you dirty coward,” retorted the Vice-Presi-dent, pounding the rail of the observation platform with his fist. He shouted that he had fought for veterans’ legislation through two administrations. • “Come up here and talk like that,” he said. “I’ve worked for the bonus during President Coolidge’s j administration and I forced passage of the bill through the senate this ' term.” The suspected agitators were ar- | rested just as the train left and were lodged in jail.

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DAY AND NIGHT OF TERROR. END LONG CAPITAL SIEGE BY NATION’S BONUS ARMY Evictions Started in Comic Opera Atmosphere; Scene Rapidly Shifts to * One of Grim Tragedy. GAS AND STEEL CLEAR SHACK CITY, Throngs Stampede Before Thundering Rush of Cavalry; Guns and Fire Menace Fleeing Veterans. BY RAY TUCKER Timet Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 29.—The capital’s most tragic day since the World war opened in a spirit of comedy. Until noon it was a combination of opera boufl'e and pathos. But veterans, police and thousands of spectators gazing on the early evacuation of bonus marchers from their hovels at the foot of Capitol Hill saw chiefly the comic side.

By nightfall, cavalry, infantry and tanks were waging war in the shadow of the capitol building. Bullets were whistling through the veterans’ burned encampment. Drawn bayonets and unsheathed swords were driving back the ex-soldiers. Women and children, hysterical and crying were running before a menacing advance of chestnut horses and clouds of tear gas. The flimsy shacks which have housed the “1932 expeditionary force” for two months were going up in flames set by police and troopers. Military Rule in Force One veteran had been killed, one policeman lay dying and scores were being cared for in hospitals as a result of sword and bayonet thrusts, bruises sustained from hoofs of the horses. Virtual martial law fell over the downtown and Anacostia sections of the city. One thousand veterans were homeless, retreating before bayonets and gas bombs toward the city limits. Five thousand comrades, across the river on the Anacostia flats, were listening to inflammatory speeches, listening to advice that they resist the military. Senators were pleading with President Hoover, sitting far away in the guarded White House, to rescind the advance order issued by Secretary of War Hurley. But the troops continued to advance, with Major-General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, directing operations. Throughout the night the citizens of Washington, whose sympathies seemed to turn to the veterans, walked and motored about the area where the “battle of the capital” had been fought. Evicted veterans sprawled on vacant lots and in parks. They cat-called at their khaki-shirted successors and Herbert Hoover. White House Greeted Skirmish lines of cavalrymen and infantrymen patrolled the boundaries of the area they had cleared in six hours of hand-to-hand combat. The White House was another armed camp. There were policemen in front, policemen in back, policemen all around and policemen on the inside. The sun’s earliest rays hardly had pierced the open front and rear ot a half-demolished building housing 120 bonuseers on lower Pennsylvania avenue before several hundred bluecoats appealed, under orders to clear the building. “It’s all right with us, buddy,” sang out a group perched on the roof. Others jeered. Most of them came out peaceably. They kidded the police and the police replied in kind. The police aided sick and crippled down rickety ladders. No Violence, Chief Urges Tall, slim Pelham D. Glassford, who paints pastels when he isn’t bossing the district’s police, insisted on restraint. “Don’t use violence,” he counseled again and again. He got a cheer from veterans and spectators as he rode down the avenue on his motorcycle. By noon only a legless veteran of the Argonne lay on the third floor in a nest of dusty and torn mattresses. Police debated how he could be lowered. Then the first outburst. Veterans

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came from other encampments. From demolished buildings they picked up bricks, and stormed the thin line of police. Glassford was hit; and his shield was torn off in a melee. A policeman was hurt, perhaps 'itally. In a free-for-all a veteran .from the Chicago stockyards district was shot through the heart and killed by a policeman. Several others were injured seriously- Both sides lost control. Then came the military. Thousands Watch Advance Incredulous and troubled citizens watched cavalry, infantry, artillery, tanks, and hospital cars advance down Pennsylvania avenue. The grim-looking detachment passed the treasury, and came down the avenue toward the capitol, just as government offices closed and poured their thousands of workers into the street. The people who watched said, ‘This is bad. This means trouble.” Down the avenue swung the cavalry and mounted machine gunners. In support were infantrymen. The veterans snatched off their hats as the Stars and Stripes swept by. The soldiers, abandoning military discipline, looked straight into the eyes of the “enemy” on the sidelines. Some grinned, some looked fierce, some sheepish. The older ones acted as if it were all in the day’s routine. The younger ones admitted they had no heart for it. They came sixteen abreast, led by eight officers. The mounted men on the side of the street near the bonus claimants carried cocked, black automatic pistols upright. Those on the other side bore bare swords.

Pistols Are Ready Behind them were mounted machine gunners with their weapons strapped to their saddles. After them came trucks with machine guns filled with clips of cartridges. A machine gunner leaped off his horse, mounted his stubby, black weapon in the middle of the street. An elderly officer rushed up. “Take that away,” he ordered. Derisive shouts and catcalls came from the bonus men: “To hell with Hoover,” “Here's Hoover’s Cossacks.” “What a war!’* “You weren’t old enough to go to France, were you, Buddy?” “Boo.” The cavalry began to clear the area. They drove spectators, reporters and policemen from the sidewalk across the street. They rode into groups of citizens, brandishing, but not belaboring, with their swords. Protests from reporters and residents were met with “get to hell out of here.” Gas Bombs Hurled The doughboys advanced into the mob of bonuseers, hurling their bombs into the throng and upward into the building. In a few-minutes the lot and buildings were cleared, despite leaders’ reminder that “the gas will blow away in a few minutes.” It did. The wind blew the gas, not tol ward the veterans, but across the ; street toward the spectators. With | the gas came a screen of mounted i troopers. They dashed into citizen*!, who I were only too anxious to escape thei scene. Hovels Are Fired The infantry pressed on through the area dotted with shanties. They kept close behind the departing residents, but still found time to set fire to the hovels. A fire engine drove up. and the firemen tried to quench the flames. A fat police sergeant shouted to the fireman in charge: “No! No! Let it burn.” Behind their flaming camp the veterans sought to make a stand, but the cavalry prodded them on! They formed a ring of animal flesh ; and steel. Ragged men and women with a ; mad light in their eyes darted out i from the opposite curb to taunt the ; soldiers. Unprintable slurs were hurled at the troopers. Then the infantry caught up again, and began to hurl bombs. But the veterans, half in fun, half in madness, had framed a program to meet this sort of * attack. Risking burned fingers, they picked up the bombs and threw them back at the army. The troops crossed the river. The cavalrymen spread their lines along the waterfront. There was tear gas and bayonets for veterans who lagged behind. Ambulances and patrols were sent into the camp. The veterans began firing their own huts. A torch was applied to the row of huts occupied by a California contingent. Flames lighted the sky. Deeper in the camp, the evacuation was in full swing. Trucks and passenger cars choked the narrow lanes leading from the camp. The last tune of the bonus armv died out to the crackling of flames ind the laughs of youthful infan- • ymen.