Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1932 — Page 5

AUG. 31, 1932

SOCIAL ORDER IS ATTACKED RY CHURCH GROUP # Massing of Wealth in Hands of Few Assailed by Federal Council. By ( nited Press NEW YORK. Aug. 31.-The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America today made a sweeping attack on the present social order. The attack, denouncing the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, was contained in the council’s annual Labor Sunday message. The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America is one of the largest of the Protestant bodies, representing many thousand churches. ‘Religious prophets always have denounced the cross inequality between the incomes on the one hand of those who toil in factory, mine, farm and office and of those, on the other hand, who by inheritance, or privilege of ownership, or speculative investment derive an income not earned by actual service,” the message said. “Inequality is a peril to the rich because it tempts them to a narrowing of their sympathies and a false scale of values. “It is a cur3e to the poor because it means misery for underpaid, irregularly employed workers, crowded in unsanitary tenements, shacks, or company houses, exposed to the constant fear of sickness unprovided for and of old age insecure. “Our economic resources, our progress in invention and the arts, our social inheritance now' should make possible a worthy standard of living for all if the organization of production and distribution were directed toward that end. “The concentration of wealth carries with it a dangerous concentration of power. It leads to conflict and violence. To suppress the symptoms of this inherent conflict while leaving the fundamental causes of it untouched is neither sound statesmanship nor Christian good will.” NAB YOUTH AS BANDIT AFTER 2-MILE CHASE Chicagoan Alleged to Have Grabbed Coin From Motorman. After a chase of two miles, police today arrested a youth who says he is John Mitchell, 20, Chicago, accused of obtaining $3.25 when he grabbed the money changer carried by C. C. Hinshaw r , 506 South Holmes avrnue, East Michigan street car conductor. Hinshaw stopped the car before the youth could escape, and, with the motorman, Dallas Misner, 5207 Chslsea road, engaged in a tussle with him. The bandit finally escaped by smashing a door. The robber boarded the car at East Michigan street and Beville avenue and the changer w r as seized w'hen the car reached Euclid avenue. Radio Patrolmen Tony De Barr and Richard Fogarty chased Mitchell to Butler avenue and Washington street, where he was followed into a pharmacy. He w-as captured due to his inability to find a rear door. The stolen money, thirteen quarters, was found in the return coin slot of a pay telephone. Mitchell, who is held on a vagrancy charge, was identified as the bandit by Hinshaw and Misner. PROSPERITY VISIONED New York Store Will Purchase Huge Stock of Goods. NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Arnold, Constable & Cos. one of New York’s great stores, today announced that $3,000,000 worth of merchandise would be purchased immediately and that a 25 per cent increase over the regular budget at this season would be ordered. At a directors’ meeting, Isaac Liberman, president of the company announced that a careful survey of the business situation shows the time is exceptionally favorable for large purchases, because of low price levels. ANTS STOP TRAIN BY' •JINIMING’ SIGNAL BOX Break Currrnt, Causing Red Traffic Light to Stay Red. R v Tn i trd Press MARSHALL. Tex., Aug. 31.—Ants, common red ants, stopped traffic on the Louisiana division of the Texas & Pacific Railroad for a time, much to the annoyance of everybody. Passenger train No. 24, eastbound, encountered a red light near Scottsville and halted. Trainmen were unable to find the cause. Train No. 26 had the same trouble. An investigation revealed that ants had w-orked into the signal box and formed the contact. Many ants had been electrocuted, breaking the current and causing the signal to remain red.

' Need 100,000 Volunteers to Sew for U. S. Poor

Cloth From Farm Board Cotton Must Be Made Clothes by Red Cross. BY HERBERT LITTLE Tlmfi Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The same devoted, volunteer work by women that supplied the World war army of 4.000.000 men with socks, bandages and surgical dressings was revived today by the Red Cross to clothe more than 8.000,000 destitute men, women and children this winter. One hundred thousand women, who can sew, are needed to cut out and make garments from the cloth which has been produced by the Red Cross from a half-million bales of farm board cotton, voted by congress for relief. Women are urged to telephone or Frite their offers of service to the

Smooth Man By Time* Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Suave Warren Delano Robbins. White House social arbiter. arrived in New York from a cruise to Iceland, and hastened back to his job of managing President Hoovers parties. In Manhattan, Warren created a real stir. He impressed ship news reporters to such an extent that they wrote stories about “Undersecretary of State Robbins.” When they went to his suite on the He de France the reporters were introduced according to their seniority. “Oh, I do hope you won't be formal!” plsr.ided Arbiter Robbins. He shook hands graciously all around, but declined to make political statements. The next day he appeared at ♦he White House wearing alligator skin shoes.

FLOWER POT HURLING DIVA BECOMES CITIZEN Naturalization Papers Are Taken Out by Singer in Chicago. By United Perm CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Mme. Ada Paggi, the opera star of flower pot hurling fame, has become an American citizen. The diminutive singer from Italy took out her final naturalization papers, but refused to discuss her prowess as a practical critic of radio music. She achieved national attention when she accurately tossed a flower pot through the window of a neighbors who was enjoying band music via the radio at 5 a. m. in 1930. The window' was smashed, the radio was ruined and the diva was unrepentent. WOMEN TO FIGHT FOR RIGHTS AT GENEVA Equal Nationality Sought in Code; Alice Paul Leads Battle. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The long struggle on the part of women to secure equal nationality in the first international law code ever written will be resumed in Geneva, in September, with an American woman leading the fight. Alice Paul, a leader in earlier suffrage battles, represents the In-ter-American Commission of Women at Geneva, and will fight this fall, as she has for two years, against embodiment in international statutes of discriminations based on sex. This new battle takes place before the assembly of the League of Nations, which will consider adoption of the nationality convention written at The Hague in 1930. Forty nations signed the convention, the United Sates alone refusing to do so, on account of its provisions affecting women. If ten favorable votes are cast in the assembly, the convention will become international law. LINER GOES TO GRAVE Ship That Carried Wilson to France Is Doomed. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—A vessel that made American history today was on its way to the graveyard of ships. Towed by navy tugs, the George Washington, liner on which President Wilson twice went to the peace conferences, was started Monday for Solomon’s island, in Chesapeake bay. The Washington was built in 1908 and once was the flagship of the North German Lloyd line. She was taken over by the government for a transport during the World war. UNEARTH INDIAN RELIC Ancient Hammer, Carved Out of Rock, Is Discovered. By United Press LAMAR, Colo, Aug. 31.—Diggers, excavating for a well, unearthed a splendid Indian relic. The workmen, assisting C. G. Bennett at the digging, had reached a depth of seventeen feet when they struck an Indian hammer. The weapon, carved out of rock, weighed about two pounds.

Work for City Teachers Begins Thursday Morning

Annual 2-Day Meeting of Instructors Will Start Term. School for 60,000 Indianapolis children will not begin until Tuesday, but their 2,000 teachers start the nine-month grind Thursday morning. Indianapolis school teachers will meet at Shortridge high school at 9

Red Cross chairman of their communities. Vice-Chairman James L. Feiser of the Red Cross, announces the volunteer effort Tuesday night, disclosed that 8,000,000 people were reported in need of clothing in 2.000 communities. Questionnaires were sent out by the 3,600 Red Cross chapters. Fifteen million persons have been given flour, and most of them will need clothing, it was said. The greatest need is among children. these responses said. The need for shirts and underwear for men comes next, and women's dresses rank third. And even these new efforts, Feiser warned, will not provide heavy clothing for the rigors of a hard winter. “We need the immediate help of a hundred thousand women,” he said. “We know there are thousands of the loyal and patriotic women who gave so many hours of their time in the Red Cross sewing rooms of 1917 and 1918, who will return to help, now,”

FAKE GOINS TOO CLEVER; 3 GET i HEAVYJERMS Brothers Are Given From 3 to 7-Year Sentences in U. S. Pen. Skill of three brothers in making counterfeit half dollars, which too closely resembled real coins, was rewarded with heavy prison sentences by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzcll Tuesday. The three were William H. Fay and Clifton A. Fay, Dowagiac, Mich., and Claude Fay, Niles, Mich., who were arrested several weeks ago at Crawfordsville in possession of 155 of the bogus coins. Baltzell, after commenting on the cleverness of the bogus coins, sentenced William to seven years in Leavenworth penitentiary and Clifton to five years. Claude, a younger brother, was given a three-year suspended sentence. Win Court's Sympathy • Robert Sloan, 822 South State avenue, and William H. Cox, also charged with making counterfeit half dollars, but of poorer quality and more easily detected, were given lesser sentences, five and two years, respectively. Lawrence Sussick, Evansville, charged with attacking a government informer after a liquor raid, was sentenced to serve eighteen months on a liquor charge. Sympathy of the court won temporary freedom without bond for two Clinton liquor law violators. They were Antone Wainor, whose wife was killed in an automobile accident near Clinton Monday night, and John Naujakies, whose wife was injured seriously in the same accident. They had been held in jail here because of inability to provide bond. 100 Are Arraigned Other Indianapolis defendants sentenced included: John Jackson, Negro, four months, and Raymond Francis Clark, 1509 Shepard avenue, stealing letters containing checks, three years. Fines assessed by Baltzell on the more than 100 prisoners arraigned totaled $3,200, while sentence* totaled more than* fifty-one years. A number of those pleading guilty will be sentenced later. More than 150 persons indicted by the federal grand jury a week ago will be arraigned Thursday. CLEVELAND FIREMEN INSIST ON UNIFORMS Vote Turns Down Suggestion That They Merely W ear Overalls. By United Press CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 31.—Why be a fireman if you can't wear a blue uniform with a lot of brass buttons? This was the question which Cleveland firemen asked, in effect, when they voted 7 to 2 in favor of retaining their uniforms. Safety Director Merrick had suggested that the uniforms be disregarded for coveralls and civilian clothes. He pointed out that firefighters didn’t wear their uniforms to fires anyway. Besides, he said, it costs the city $26,000 a year to maintain a tailor shop for the firemen. STEALS WEEK’S FOOD OF GOOD SAMARITAN Leaves. Car to Save Children; Returns to Find He’s Robbed. By United Press LYNN,, Mass., Aug. 31.—While William Dasset played the good Samaritan in saving three children from serious injury a thief stole his week’s supply of groceries. Dassett saw an empty parked automobile start to coast down hill. Abandoning his own machine Dassett leaped aboard the running board of the runaway car and stopped it before it could injure three youngsters playing in the street. When he returned to his own automobile he found that the groceries, w'hich had been lying on the seat, had been stolen.

Thursday for the opening sessions of the annual two-day teachers’ meetings. Gathering in general meeting in Caleb Mills hall will be teachers in grades 7 to 12, principals, asisstant principals, directors, supervisors, assistant supervisors, and teachers of special subjects. Stetson to Speak Speakers at the general meeting will be Paul C. Stetson, superintendent, and Dr. E. E. Lewis of the Ohio State university department of education. Teachers in the elementary grades will meet under department heads for discussion of art, physical education and music. Milo H. Stuart will address teachers in the newly organized junior high schools at 10 in Caleb Mills hall. Second general session will be held at 11. Teachers in grades 1 to 6 and teachers of special education will hear Stetson and Dr. Lewis. All teachers, principals and assistants will report to their respective buildings for building meetings at 1:30 Thursday. Enrollment Starts Tuesday High school organization will be completed at meetings of high school teachers and principals from 9 to 12 Friday. Enrollment will open at 8:30 Tuesday for elementaj-y pupils, at 8:15 for high school pupils who have enrolled previously, and at 1:30 for high school pupils from the grade schools and other pupils who have not enrolled. Class work will begin under regular schedules Wednesday. Officials and teachers of the schools will attend a reception to be given from 8 to 10 Thursday, Sept. 8, by the Teachers’ Federation iff JoSa Herron £rt institute, __

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Slayer Ruled Too Pretty for Jury Trial

By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 31.- Mrs. Dorothy Poliak, self-made widow, has gone on trial for her life, still protesting her love for the husband she shot to death. So pretty her face, so fashionable her clothes and so trim her ankles, that the prosecution insisted the case be tried without a jury—or with a jury composed only of women. Mrs. Poliak said that rather than be placed at the mercies of twelve women, she would trust to the justice of Judge Harry M. Fisher. While several thousand thrill seekers clamored for entrance to the courtroom Tuesday, Judge Fisher opened the trial with the statement of her attorney, W. W. O'Brien. The latter quoted Joseph, her husband, snouting to his wife: “111 cut your heart out.” Mrs. Poliak then shot him, called police, went to jail, and there spent most of her time manicuring her nails, powdering her nose, and choosing smart ensembles for courtroom wear. Frank Cebulski, saloon keeper, told of quarrels between the Poliaks. “Yes. we fought,” admitted Mrs. Poliak, back in her cell, “but all married couples do. And I still love him more than anything left in life.”

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When and if she is acquitted, she said she would open a beauty shop, with the small fortune left her by Poliak. Ostensibly he was a real estate dealer, but investigation after his death revealed that he had become moderately wealthy as an alcohol wholesaler. Today, in court, she wore the same black and white dress she had made for Poliak’s funeral. Her eyes were downcast and her fingers worked fitfully. After the coroner’s physician concluded describing the fatal wound, May Heck, beautparlor operator, told how Mrs. Poliak ran to her shop the night of the shooting and asked her to "please call a doctor, because I just shot my husband.” Miss Heck asked her why. The answer was, “because he attacked me,” the witness testified. She said Mrs. Poliak was distracted and nearly hysterical, and that she did not object when Miss Heck suggested calling the police instead of a doctor. Police Sergeant Patrick J. Condon testified that he found Mrs. Poliak and her cousin, Victoria Schultz, in the house when he arrived. He said Mrs. Poliak told him she fired because her husband dashed at her with a paring knife in his hand. The officer said he could find no knife. Women predominated in the crowded courtroom. It was indicated that the trial might conclude today.

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THREATEN MILK STRIKE; CALL MEETING HERE Protest Gathering Will Be Held by Producers Sept. 12. With threat of a milk selling strike in all counties adjoining Marion, producers are planning today to hold a protest meeting Sept. 12, at the state fairground as a result of price-cutting by Indianapolis distributors. Organization of producers was effected Tuesday night at Noblesville at a meeting attended by 4CO farmers. Os these, the majority approved a proposition in favor of dumping milk in creeks or feeding it to hogs in preference to selling it at present prices.