Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1932 — Page 1

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INCOME TAX BILL READY FOR HOUSE Leslie Expected to Veto Measure If Passage Is Voted. ADVANCE RELIEF STEPS Proposal to Take Fees From Marion County Treasurer Likely to Pass. An income tax bill, providing a 3 per cent corporation ievy and rates of 1 to 4 per cent on personal incomes, was ready for final action by the house of representatives today. Should the measure pass, which appeared likely, it will be the second defiance ol Governor Harry G. Leslie nurled by house members within twenty-four hours. Five bills in line with the session’s tax relief program were advanced toward passage in the house and two major bills conflicting with provisions of the general salary reduction measure were killed. Battle was precipitated on the floor when tlie Rowley senat'e bill making appointment of county agricultural agents optional with counties, was reported out of committee. It's provisions were branded by Representative E. Curtis White iDcm.) of Indianapolis as "tearing down the government." arns Against Mistakes ‘ This session is meeting under a peculiar circumstance of hysteria, and this bill is an example of the fact that it is going to take years to rectify some of the mistakes of this session," he said. Bv a vote of 50 to 41 the house moved to postpone the bill indefinitely. The senate bill taking, aw r ay fees from the Marion county treasurer appeared certain of passage by the house when the measure was reported on favorably by the fees and salaries committee. Under the bill, thousands of dollars formerly pocketed by the official for collection of delinquent taxes will revert t,o the county general fund for defraying of government costs. Kill Salary Cut Another important bill moved forward in the lower house is the senate measure which would make deposits in building and loan associations negotiable.’ providing an avenue for liquidation of frozen assets bv stockholders. Two bills providing for 25 per cent salarv reductions for supreme, appellate and county court judges and prosecutors were killed because their provisions conflict with the general salary cuts measure reduction of between 15 and 20 per cent. Teacher tenure law. as it applies to fourth class cities, towns and rural districts, was repealed by the senate. The bill now awaits passage by the house. Ne.idl Fights Tenure Repeal Senator Alonzo H. Lindley 'Rep.h Kingman, who introduced the bill, fought vigorously for its passage and secured 28 votes. There w'ere 15 votes against the bill. As originally drafted the bill provided for complete repeal of the 1927 law. which requires that teachers can only be removed from their position for "due cause" after a fiveyear probationary period. Amendments left first, second and third class with tenure. Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep.l, Whiting, led the opposition to passage. He pointed out that if tenure is good in the cities it is also good for the town and country. liCslie Defied Again He declared that the tenure law was passed to protect teachers against trustees who would otherwise 'hire and fire at will.” The house Tuesday afternoon passed the senate bill limiting property tax levies to a $1.50 total, with not more than 15 cents for the state. Both this bill and the income tax were promised a veto by Leslie in his second message to the special session. The house passed the budget limitation bill 79 to 13. TRIO SEEK LEGION POST Tut Names Forward for Job as Manager of Monthly. Three members of the American Legion are seeking the post of general manager of the American Legion monthly, it was learned today. James F. Barton of Ft. Dodge, la., national adjutant; Clarence A. Jackson of Newcastle, a member of th? board of publication, and Richard Byrd of North Carolina, who now is traveling with Henry L. Stevens, national commander, have begun to advance their names for the post left vacant by the recent death of Robert F. Smith in Estes Park, Cal. Barton has held his past of adjutant several years. His position makes him executive officer in charge of the legion's national headquarters. Byrd, who is not to be confused with Commander Richard E. Byrd of exploring fame, has been active la the legion since its inception.

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Poor Guess A thief in a garden at Michigan "treet and White river, property of Holland Rhodes, knows his corn but not his pumpkins. Rhodes told police that fifteen dozen ears of corn, now in its prime, were stolen Tuesday night, but poor judgment was used in taking five pumpkins. worthless before frost.

BONUS ‘ARMY’ ORDERED OUT OF JOHNSTOWN Mayor Takes Action After Maryland Governor Frowns On New Camp Plan. Hu t nitrd Pr+nn JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. Aug. 3. Mayor Eddie McCloskev announced today that the bonus army would disband and leave Johnstown Thursday morning. His announcement came after he had conferred with Doak Carter, in command of the bonus forces here; R. B. Ellison, national contact officer, and Edward Atwel, chief of staff. The officers of the B. E. F. went into conference to talk the befuddled situation over. McCloskey said Governor Gifford Pinchot would send trucks here Thursday, to move veterans and their families to the state line, and the camp would be abandoned. Forty-Eight Camps Planned "We are going to the camp this afternoon and tell the army just w'hat’s w'hat in a gentlemanly way,” McCloskey said. Tuesday, after Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland had refused Commander Walter Waters permission to establish a bonus camp at Waterbury, Md„ Waters ordered the bonus army here to disband, then reversed the order. Later. Waters announced that he planned a bonus camp for each of the forty-eight states. He envisioned these state camps as centers of militant state organizations. entering directly into the political campaign to carry on their fight for payment of the veterans’ bonus. He advised the bonuseers to return to their respective states, presumably to form the nucleus of the proposed camps. Epidemic Is Feared “Women and children in Camp McCloskey v are going to die," the mayor shouted at the army commanders. "They are in, a hollow. It’s raining. It’s terrible.” McClaskey said he feared an epidemic. Conditions at the camp today were described by camp authorities as "terrible.” It was raining, and many were without shelter of any kind. At least one thousand were standing under trees, trying to keep dry. Mud was ankle deep. One woman was trying to keep a 6-months-old baby dry in a makeshift shelter of tree boughs. Sends Aid to Camp Oil I iiited Premi WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.—Commander Walter W. Waters of the bonus expeditionary force announced today that he had sent two of his lieutenants to Johnstown, Pa., carrying orders for the dispersal of the veterans encamped there. Rout Maryland Group * Si/ t nitrd Perm t WATERBURY. Md„ Aug. 3.—The thirty-five men and women of the bonus army who came here with high hopes of establishing a permanent woodland home were ordered today by state police to leave their camp before 6 p. m. The officers arrived at the camp with gasoline and other supplies to help the colony to the state line. Hourly Temperatures B a. m 70 io a. m 75 7a. m 71 li a . m 77 8a - m 71 12 moon).. 77 9 • m 73 Ip. m 79

War Can’t Be Abolished, Mussolini Tells World BY EDWARD B. STOKER I nllfd Press Staff Correspondent (Coovrieht. 1932. br United Press! ROME. Aug. 3.—War apparently can not be abolished and Fascism does not stand for pacifism. Premier Benito Mussolini declares in a frank and astounding article to be published Thursday in the Popio DTtalia at Milan, and later in all Italian newspapers. When considering the future development of mankind, the premier writes. ‘ Fascism does not believe in the possibility or utility of perpetual peace.” Facism. he said, "casts aside pacifism, which implies renouncement of struggle. Only war brings human energies to their full force, placing the seal of nobility on people who have the courage to face it.” The article, signed by Mussolini and entitled "Political and Social Doctrine.” disapproves of doctrinnaire attempts to create an atmosphere of world peace. “Such organizations are useful in certain situations," he said, "but vanish before the wind of a tempest in people's hearts.” Mussolini belittles democracy. Fascism,' he writes, "denies that governments can be organized by periodical consultations with the masses. •"Democracy is a regime without a king, but with countless kings who often are more tyrannical than any single tyrant.”

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1932

OUST HORNSBY AS LEADER OF CHICAGO CUBS Out of Organized Ball After 18 Years in National League. NAME CHARLEY GRIMM Veteran First Baseman to Take Over Reigns as New Manager. S>/ Vuited Per ** PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3. —After nearly eighteen years in the National League, Rogers Hornsby, one of the greatest batsmen of all time, today was out of organized baseball —dismissed as manager of the Chicago Cubs. In his place as Cubs’ manager was Charley Grimm, veteran first baseman, who has served as field captain under Hornsby and his predecessor, Joe McCarthy. President William Veeck announced Hornsby’s outright release as manager and player Tuesday night “for the best interests of the team” after a long conference between them behind closed doors on the team's arrival here from Brooklyn, where they iost three out of four games. Hornsby's contract does not expire until Dec. 31. 1932, and President Veeck announced that he would be paid in full. Grimm was given an increase in salary, and will continue to play first base along with his managerial duties. Surprised at Release During his checkered career, in which he rose to a position of the highest paid player in the National League and second only to Babe Ruth. Hornsby has played with four teams, managed three of them and j been transferred in three of base- | ball's most astounding deals. Hornsby’s salary was said to be $40,000 ' a year. His dismissal by the Cubs Tuesi day night came with the same dramatic suddenness which character- ; ized his transfer from the New i York Giants to the Boston Braves ! in January, 1928, for two obscure players. At that time it also was an- ! nounced that Hornsby was disposed of “for the best interests of the team.” Before departing for Chicago today to adjust his personal affairs ; preparatory to returning to his farm | at Anglum, Mo., to spend the rest of the year, Hornsby expressed surprise at his release. Dissension Is Denied he said, "it certainly was a surprise. I won't deny that. I thought we were doing pretty well under the circumstances. "Mr. Veeck and I parted the best of friends, however, and there's no ill feeling.’’ There appeared little basis for rumors that dissension existed in 1 the Cubs' ranks and led to Horns- ; by's downfall. "The best way to clear that matj ter up is to talk to the players themselves,” said Hornsby. In most quarters it generally was ! accepted that Veeck and other Cub officials believed that Hornsby had ; failed as a manager, and had not realized the best result with the material. Hornsby's dismissal is believed to have been hastened by a recent interview with a New York newspaper in which he characterized (Turn to Page Five) NAMED BANK CHIEF Arthur V. Brown Appointed Indiana National Head. Arthur V. Brown, president oi the Union Trust Company, today was appointed acting president of the Indiana National bank by the board of directors. He will serve until recovery of Frank B. Stalnaker. president, who has been ill for some time. Brown is one of the bank's largest 1 stockholders and has been a director several years.

ELLEN BROWNING SCRIPPS IS CLAIMED BY DEATH

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By TJnitcd Prrts LA JOLLA, Cal., Aug. 3.—Ellen Browning Scripps, half-sister of the late Edward W. Scripps. founder of the Scripps league of newspapers and a life-long partner in his enterprises, died at her home here early today. - , Miss Scripps had been seriously ill for more than a week, suffering from ailments ascribed to her advanced age. She was 95 years old. Death came at 2:55 o’clock today. Miss Scripps’ nephew, Robert P Scripps, editorial director of the Scripps-How r a:d newspapers was nearby.

AUTO CRASH FATAL Lebanon Man Dies Here of Injuries. Fatal injuries were suffered today by Byron R. Rayl, 34, Lebanon. Ind., in an automobile collision at Twen-ty-fifth street and Central avenue, the fifty-fourth traffic fatality in

Marion county since Jan. 1. Automobile driven by Ryal was struck by one driven bv Horace Oglesby. 28. of 3603 Wash-

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ington boulevard. Ryal's car was turned over. Oglesby said he was driving about thirty miles an hour. He was not held. Serious injuries were incurred by Mrs. Indiana Smith. 54, R. R. 3. Box 278, when she walked against the side of an automobile in the 100 block North Delaware street. Her skull is believed fractured. She incurred cuts on the forehead and loss of several teeth. Finnis Hart, 51, of 1050 Blaine avenue, driver, was absolved of blame by William P. Smith, husband of the victim. Injuries to the head and left ankle were received by Mrs. Dovie Mills, 48. of 1319 Collins street, when she was struck Tuesday night by the car of a hit-and-run driver while she was standing in a safety zone at Twelfth and West streets. Her condition is reported not serious. EARL KLINCK HURT Injured in Crash on Way to Receive Sentence. Earl Klinck, former bodyguard of D. C. Stephenson when the latter was the Indiana Klan leader, was injured today in an automobile accident near Brazil. He incurred a fractured collar bone. x . The accident occurred while he was en route to Indianapolis to receive a one-to-three year sentence for attesting a false affidavit. The sentencing was postponed until Thursday. Klinck. en route from Evansville, has decided to surrender after a four-year court battle. The supreme court, which once upheld the Marion county criminal court conviction. recently denied a rehearing. Klinck issued the false affidavit to bring a federal grand jury investigation on two Indiana editors at the height of the political corruption investigation. W. H. Hardy. Evansville attorney, who was with Klinck, incurred minor bruises.

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j Also present were Dr. W. A. ! Sheriff, her personal physician, and | servants, w'ho had served her for many years. | Miss Scripps had been ill for more ! than a year, and her advanced years had limited her activity. She had been semi-conscious since last Saturday, and her family and friends knew that the end was near. No Public Funeral Services Captain W. C. Crandall, her business manager for many years, an- ! nounced that no public funeral services wo - M be held, and that the j time of the private services w 7 ould not be announced. Ellen Browning Scripps was born in South Moulton St., London, Oct. 13, 1836. eight months before Victoria became queen. | Her mother died when she was 6, and a year later, with her father, James Mogg Scripps, and the other members of the family, she sailed for Boston on the bark Frances Burr. v It was a slow trip across the Atlantic, and the country to wffiich | the family came after a voyage of forty-four days W'as still in its pioneer era. By rail, by Erie canal and by ox- ; carts the family traveled from Boston to Rushville, 111., the girl grew up. "Mothered” E. W. Scripps Her father married Julia Osborn, w r ho was to become the mother of E. W. Scripps, who was born when Ellen was 18. She mothered the boy. and in those early days firmly established the close relationship that was to (Turn to Page Five) Clothing Stolen From Auto A leather suitcase containing clothing valued at more than SIOO was taken from the automobile of E. T. Fearson. Springfield, 111., while it was parked on Capitol avenue near Market street, he reported to police.

House Haunted by Spy, Mati Hari, Is for Sale

By Vnitrd Prex* PARIS. Aug. 3.—The mysteriously haunted house, once the property of Mata Hari, executed in Vincennes sixteen years ago, is for sale here. The house is located near the Seine rivei; in Neuilly and while it has been the frequent cause of many trips from the French capital by tourists, no definite offers have been made as yet for it. The architecture is old English. some of the windows being curiously of churchly glass while one is made of heavy wrought iron.

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SHOT-RIDDLED BODIES PROBED Two Slain Men Found on Road 31 Identified. I'll Timex Special SEYMOUR, Ind.. Aug. 3.—With identification of two men whose bul-let-riddled bodies were found on Road 31, five miles southeast of here, authorities today appeared no closer to determining how the men were slain. The murders apparently were committed with machine guns G. J. Hutchinson identified one of the men as his brother-in-law. Fred Sturgill, 26, of Louisville, and said that the other man was Vernon Samuelson, 40, of Hampshire, 111., who recently lived with Sturgill. Louisville detectives w T ho came here said the men w r ere nos known as members of any gangs in their city. Due to the fact that neither of the bodies bore indications of being throw-n from an automobile, it is believed the men were killed elsewhere, and transported to the roadside. Samuelson’s mother, Mrs. Lydia Samuelson. is said to live with a daughter, Pearl, in Hampshire. Bodies of both men will be sent to Louisville. Both men were clad in overalls when their bodies were found by two boys walking along the road. WET SPELL AT END Near-Normal Temperatures Are Predicted. m During the forty- eight-hour period ended at 7 this morning, rainfall in Indianapolis was only .53 of an inch less than the total fall for all of July, according to J. H. Armington, local weather bureau chief. The fall for the forty-eight hours was 2.33 inches and for July, 2.86. The wet period is ended, Armington said, and temperatures near the normal of 76 will prevail tonight and Thursday.

Its only occupant at present is an aged Russian, w-ho cares for the property and does not live in the main part of the housf. Mata Hari w'as a beautiful Oriental woman who danced delightfully for her guests. She is said to have wormed secrets from men and sent many to their deaths unwittingly. She, herself, was finally executed as a spy and her shadow is said to cast itself on the walls of different rooi-s at night, moving stealthily along the corridors. There *are many secret passages and hidden entrances and exits to the house.

LESLIE SENDS MILITIA TO DIXIE BEE BATTLE SCENE; PICKETS BESIEGE WORKERS Bullet Duel Renewed, After Conflict in Which One Was Killed and Several Wounded. FEDERAL INTERVENTION REFUSED Investing- Force, Hundreds Strong, Shoots From Thickets and Trapped Men Return Fire. Indiana national guard troops were ordered to Indiana’s battle-torn mine zone shortly after noon today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Rushed in trucks, the troops will go to Terre Haute to establish guard in the region of the Dixie Bee mine, where outbursts of battle have resulted in one death and several persons injured. The pickets maintained their forces at the mine, where more than sixty miners were besieged.

The troops will be composed of 1,000 men from all units of the national guard in Indiana. The first group was to leave Indianapolis before 1:30. 'We can not permit the mine warfare to continue.” Leslie said. “The troops will remain at the scene until ordeer is restored.” Leslie's order was in response to the pleas of Charles Moss and Ralph Butler of Terrer Haute, who spent the day in his office. They asked for state aid at once. They conferred with Leslie, along with Adjutant-General Paul E. Tombaugh and Henry Marshall of Lafayette, immediately before the order was issued. Twelve Indiana national guard planes were ordered to the mine arsa by Tombaugh. In addition, a mechanics detail, three ambulances and a medical detail were !ordered. Martial law will be declared at the mine as soon as the troops arrive. Warfare Is Renewed B;i L n ited Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 3. Guerrilla warfare raged with new fury in the Dixie Bee mine district, south of Terre Haute, this morning, afteer a lull in the battle in which cne man was killed and several wounded Tuesday. As rifles cracked from thickets and answering volleys came from workers besieged in the mine, a frantic call was sent to Governor Harry G. Leslie for troops. Efforts to obtain federal intervention were futile. Major H. J. Drum, -Ft. Hayes, Columbus, 0., j wired the sheriff that the government would not act until such time as it was shown that the state could not control the situation. Appeals to Jeffrey In another effort to get government help, Sheriff Dreher wired! George Jeffrey. United States district attorney at Indianapolis, citing his contention that violation of the federal injunction against picketing made the government responsible | *or eventualities. A short time after this telegram was dispatched, it was announced, j at Bloomington, 1111., that a hearing on a federal injunction against j interference at the Dixie Bee would be held at Indianapolis next Monday, before Louis Fitzhenry, United States district judge. Wounded Held in Mine Efforts to reach four wounded persons in the mine failed. P. J. Ryan, undertaker; Coroner John O Garrigus and a deputy were turned back by 400 pickets, within a mile of the entrance. Their appeal that they sought only to help the wounded was not heeded. Deputy Sheriff Joe Dreher Jr. and Dutch Hennemkn left the mine at 9:30 a. m. and reported that conditions there are desperate, with picketers apparently determined to j wipe out the entire defending force. He said the defenders w'ere well armed, with plenty of ammunition, but had no food. They had plenty of water. Sheriff Dreher said there was no chance of his force restoring order. All efforts to effect a truce have failed, he said, even upon the offer of the mining officials to cease operations at the Dixie Bee. Trouble Flare? Suddenly The smoldering resentment that has made the western Indiana, coal fields a tinder box for weeks suddenly flared Tuesday at the Dixie Bee mine. While the seventy-five miners imprisoned by pickets were at work in the deep coal shafts, pickets wffio have been on duty at the mine for some time suddenly increased in numbers. Determined to halt work at the mine, the crowd grew menacing. Suddenly shots rang out. Whether the first bullets came from the picketeers or machine-gun armed mine guards could not be determined. There was a scattering outburst of gunfire. Shots flashed from both sides. Six men fell bleeding to the ground. Taylor Keller. 24. Linton, Ind., a picket, was struck. He died a lew W

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hours later in a Sullivan (Ind.) hospital. Two of the wounded were Leonard Colslader, a bystander, from Pimento, Ind., and Grant S. Swan, Jasonville. Just after the first rattle of gunfire, a cloudburst almost blotted out the landscape. Miners and pickets alike withheld their fire, and sought shelter from the heavy rain. Storm Holds Down Toll This was believed by sheriff Joe Dreher Jr. to have held down the toll of dead and injured. But the storm left the mine almost isolated. Ambulances chugging over the muddy roads found the going almost impassable. The one shaky telephone wire that kept the mine in communication with the outside was severed. The writer flew low' over the scene of hostilities in an airplane after today’s outbreak, and found eacTi side thoroughly intrenched in its positions. From the air there was little evidence of the fighting which had broken out on three occasions since 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. All w'as quiet about the mine premises, w'here seventy-five men were reported today to have no food and little w'ater. Lookouts could be seen, however, on the alert to prevent any surprise move by picketers. Use Military System Movements of small groups toward the picket lines, where they appeared to be relieving men who had spent the night there, gave indications of a replacement of troops in a military maneuver. From the plane, however, there were no guns in evidence among the picketers, either those leaving or approaching. Miners, despite their small numbers, held a military advantage, excepting for their lack of food. They had a clear view for several hundred feet on every side, with" their machine guns, and could hold off almost any number of men armed as the picketers were. A siege, such as that which finally forced action by the Governor at the Hoosier mine in Sullivan county two W'eeks ago, apparently was the strategy agreed upon by the union men. There was no indication that either side planned a concerted attack. Miners had made no effort to leave their positions since the first outburst of gunfire late Tuesday. Set Fire to Mine Rif United Press BICKNELL, Ind , Aug. 3.—lncendiarists set fire to the Upply coal mine, operating with eighteen men on a nonunion basis, in the Bicknell field today, and buildings of the company were reported to have been destroyed. Details of the attack were lacking, but there were no reports of personal clashes. JUDGE CAMERON GOES TO FUNERAL OF SISTER Leaves for St. Louis to Attend Rites for Aged Widow. Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron left this afternoon for St. Louis, Mo., to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Virginia Wellman, 82, widow of James N. Wellman. Mrs. Wellman died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Phillip Hale, in Webster Grove, Mo. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon in Quincy, 111., former home of the Wellman family. Tw'o sons. James N Wellman and Harvey C.. and Mrs. Hale, also survive. BREW IS PLENTY NOISY Police Fear Gang Battle at City Hall, but It’s Beer Bottles. Rif Uniti and Pres* TULARE. Cal.. Aug. 3.—A1l the noise of a bona fide holdup came from the city hall; a barrage of crackling reports filled the air. What’s all the shooting for?” queried citizens. Police hurried to the building, to find that the noise was not coming from some gangsters’ revolvers, but resulted from 103 bottles of beer exploding in the 103 degree temperature prevailing that day. The beer had been confiscated in a raid.