Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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G. 0, P. GLEE IS HIGH WHEN WALKER DUITS Mayor’s Resignation Will Turn State to Hoover, Claim Leaders. BV RAY TUCKER Time* Stall Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Declaring that it insured victory in New York in the presidential campaign, national Republican leaders today rejoiced at the dilemma which Mayor Walker's sudden resignation has created for Governor Franklin D. Rosevelt, Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall. Without pretending to predict the alignments which may result from the mayor’s denunciation of the Democratic presidential nominee, G. O. P. spokesmen professed to believe it would lead to wholesale revenge against the Roosevelt-Garner ticket in the metropolis. They minimized suggestions that Walker's quitting under fire, and repeated rebuffs from Roosevelt during the removal hearings would strengthen the latter throughout the country. The resentment of Walker’s friends and admirers, added to the bitterness against the national ticket, said to be felt by Smith’s followers, will give Hoover the Empire state’s forty-seven electoral votes, and help him in winning New England’s forty-one. In the opinion of Republican strategists. Wait Effect on Smith If Walker seeks vindication at the j polls, and if Tammany supports him, the G. O. P. will be encouraged further in its hope of sweeping the northeastern states. The effect of the unexpected developments on Smith anxiously is awaited. It is recalled that Walker and Tammany stuck to him to the end at the Chicago convention, and the j hope is that his gratitude to them for this course will lead him to support Walker as against Roosevelt. In his statement explaining his resignation, the mayor said he had acted on the advice of “the most I loyal and distinguished Democrats in the country.” The capital is chiefly interested in learning the identity of these “most loyal and distinguished Democrats.” Consulted Big Party Men Among those Walker is said to have consulted before quitting are John F. Curry, Tammany chieftain, and John H. McCooey, Democratic leader in Brooklyn. In an editorial written by William R. Hearst the mayor was advised to take the step he did. Now. the politicians would like to know whether Smith gave the same sort of advice. Strangely enough, Walker's resignation turns the office over to Joseph V. McKee, president of the board of aldermen and a staunch Roosevelt supporter. When Curry forced each New York delegate to toe the mark by a roll call vote at Chicago, McKee voted for Roosevelt as against Smith. It generally was believed Curry resorted to this strategy so as to make it impossible for McKee to be elected at the end of Walker’s unfinished term. May Be Help to Roosevelt No man opposing such a popular idol as Smith, it is asserted, can be elected mayor of New York. Smith's stand also may be affected if Walker and Tammany decide to oppose Lieutenant-Governor Herbert Lehmann in his effort to obtain the gubernatorial nomination. Asa friend of Roosevelt, Lelunann may find Walker and Curry against him, provided Tammany sides with the resigned mayor to the finish. But Lehman also is Smith’s close friend. Some national politicians believe that Smith may dig deeper into his political hole rather than take sides in such a feud. It generally is felt that the circumstances of Walker’s quitting may help Roosevelt around the country. NOISELESS. SMOKELESS CANNON PERFECTED Italian Engineers Announce Test of Artillery Succcess. By United Brest NAPLES. Italy, Sept. 3.—A “silent cannon” which emits no smoke or flame may become an innovation in the Italian artillery. The cannon was perfected by two Neopolitan engineers, Guglielmo De Luce and Ferruccio Guerra, former artillery officers. Official trials of the gun were in the Ansaldo shipyards at Pussouli, where a government delegate was present. Others who witnessed the trial said the gun was entirely successful. The device used in the experiments is a drum attached to the mouth of the gun. There is only a slight noise when the piece is fired.

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Confession Solves Qucmy Murders

Knew City When It Was ‘Wide Place in the Road’

William Schooley, Almost as Old as Indianapolis, Recalls Old Days. From the time Indianapolis was eight years old, William C. Schooley, , 1126 Villa avenue, has watched the city grow. Schooley, 92, Friday, finishea celebrating his own anniversary to begin observing the 100th birthday \ today of Indianapolis. Born in a frame house on the | present site of the statehouse, ' Schooley has seen the city change | from a straggling “wide place in the road” to its present size. Schooley remembers how, after he had been left an orphan at 6 and had gone to live with his cousin two miles south of New Augusta, he used to haul wood to an inn at Illinois and Washington streets. “That is the place we call the Claypool now,” Schooley said. “I used to help my uncle cut timber,” he said. “That was the reason I never got to go to school much. We had only three months of classes, anyway. “The state fair? It's a great thing. I remember it was the big event of the year when we all got in uncle's two-horse wagon and drove to the fair. It was at Camp Sullivan then. We stayed all day and never spent more than a dollarr” Whisky was the chief drink, Schooley said. “But we didn’t have any liquor problem. People drank, but they didn't keep it up until they got drunk. It just didn’t go, that’s all,” he said.

PENNSYLVANIA AGAIN IS ASKING FEDERAL RELIEF 1,250,000 of State’s Citizens Are Destitute, R. F. C. Members Told. Bi / United Press P.y Scripps-Howard yewapaper < ’'irntec WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—With 1,250.000 of her citizens destitute. Pennsylvania again has laid her claim to federal aid before the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The board took under advisement the request for reconsideration of the state's relief application. Pennsylvania applied a second time for relief funds after Pinchot's original request for a maximum loan of $45,000,000, with an immediate advance of $10,000,000, was rejected on the ground that the state had not exhausted all efforts to raise funds within the state. COMMISSION GRANTS POWER RATE CUTS Eight Small Towns Get Slashes; Rule on Truck Line. Orders granting reductions for residential patrons of the Traction, Light and Power Company in eight small towns have been issued by the public service commission. The towns and total annual slashes are: Oaklandon, $584.09; Springport, $176; Oakville, $326; Shirley, $591; Windfall City, $951.87; Mount Comfort, $81; Mechanicsburg. sllß, and Willow Branch, $160.80. The commission also ordered the Turner Brothers Truck Line, operating between Indianapolis and Labanon, to cease running over the route because it does not have a certificate from the commisson. Complaint was brought by the Hurst Company, which has the certificate to use the route.

A double murder that has been an Ohio mystery for fifteen months was cleared with the confession of Loren Truesdale, 23 (left) who admitted to Lima police that he killed his brother, Earl 20 (top center), and Thelma Woods, 17 (right), in May, 1931 ’and threw their bodies in an abandoned quarry. Loren said that he was jealous of his brother and that he killed the girl to silence her. The trio had driven to the quarry after a dance. Loren had not been suspected of the murders until a few days ago when Detective Bernard Roney (center below) started questioning him.

Bolts Knives Physicians at the city hospital gasped with apiazement Friday afternoon when they returned to an operating room to find that a patient whom they had left strapped to the table had fled. A nearby open window afforded the only means of exit from the room except for the door through which the doctors had left. Later police returned the patient to the hospital. Again strapping him to the table, the doctors completed their operation, without taking further chances. Walter Fleming, 35, of 314 East St. Clair street, was the patient;. Arrested for drunkenness, he was sent to the hospital for treatment of ah injured hand. His landlady, Mrs. Irene Stewart, called police when Fleming returned to the house.

I. U. CUTS EXPENSES 8 to 25 Per Cent Salary Slashes Ordered at University. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 3. Faculty salary reductions ranging from 8 to 25 per cent, to effect the major part of a $270,000 budget reduction, were ordered by the board of trustees of Indiana university.

Ohio’s Vote to Hoover, Pledge of P. O. Chief

Walter F. Brown Takes It on Self to Gather in Electoral Ballots. BY NED BROOKS Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. —Post-master-General Walter F. Brown personally has pledged himself to deliver Ohio’s twenty-six electoral votes to President Herbert Hoover ’n the November election, it was learned today. While retaining his leading role in the national strategy of the Republican campaign, Brown will concentrate on the task of winning his own state, regarded by leaders of both parties as one of the national election battlegrounds.

Keeping Step With Indianapolis In the last 100 years, Indianapolis has grown from a small town to a great metropolis. The centers of home life have moved farther and farther away from the centers of business and factory life. Broad Ripple, Irvington—once vast, open spaces—are now centers of stores and dwellings—communities of beautiful homes, broad lawns, trees, flowers and fresh air. Regular, efficient street car service through the years has made this development possible. Now, as Indianapolis enters its second century, it finds the new Indianapolis Railways preparing to further aid its civic growth with even finer transportation service. Within the next few years, millions of dollars are to be spent to purchase new’ cars, new trackless trolleys and new busses. The Indianapolis Railways will lead the way to greater civic progress by furnishing Indianapolis with a system of co-ordinated transportation unsurpassed in the nation.

One of the 15 new electrically operates trackless trolley car# to he placed in service about November 1.

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HALT ALLEGED PHONEPIRATING Service Commission Acts in Cicero Case. For the first time since its creation, the public service commission affirmed its right to regulate telephone service outside of municipalities, an order issued Friday demanding alleged pirating of phone patrons be halted in Cicero township, Tipton county. This order is expected to bring to an end the controversy between the Union Telephone Company and the Tipton Telephone Company, operating in that section. The alleged pirating started when Cicero township farmers were denied their petition to receive service from the Tipton company instead of the Union company. The commission refused the order on the grounds that the territory rightfully comes under the permit of the Union company. Tire farmers then built a “cooperative” line and were alleged to have used materials supplied by the Tipton company. One night, according to the complaint, a part-time employe of the Tipton company, aided by farmers, hooked the co-operative line to the Tipton company’s line In the order, the commission pointed out that the statutes, in setting up the body and permitting the issuance of indeterminate permits, did so in order to halt pirating competition.

Brown will follow his customary tactics of directing operations in Ohio from behind the scenes, avoiding the spotlight. Brown’s attempt to repeat Hoover's Ohio victory will take him on frequent trips to the Buckeye state. One is scheduled this week-end; he will visit leaders in Toledo, his home city. Despite Hoover’s 760,000 margin over A1 Smith in 1928, Republican strategists are concerned over his chances for repeating. They are not discounting their reverses in 1930, when six Republican congressmen were deposed, and Democrat candidates won the senatorial and gubernatorial contests. Brown directed the Hoover offensive in Ohio four years ago.

INDIANAPOLIS RAILWAYS Watch Us Make Progress

FEAR MUST BE BANISHED FOR WORLDREVIVAL Arms Cut Must Accompany Any Reduction of War Debts. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor Resources of the United States increased iff value approximately $22,500,000,000 as a result of the recent advance in commodity and security prices, according to the New York World-Telegram. That is exactly double Europe’s total war debts to the United States —even if they were going to be paid in full, which, very decidedly, they are not. This stupendous advance occurred in about three weeks’ time. That is more than a billion dollars every twenty-four hours. In other words, a single day’s advance brought a book gain to the American people equal to more than three whole years of average war debts installments. Farm products alone rose more than a billion dollars. Prices Go Soaring In the three weeks following the July low, wheat rose 10 cents a bushel. Increase, $100,000,000. Cattle gained $1.40 a hundredweight. Increase, $50,000,000. Corn went up 4 cents a bushel. Increase, $120,000,000. The upturn in cotton totaled $120,000,000; oats, $30,000,000; hogs, $91,000,000. And so on all along the line, until American farmers were better off to the tune of a thousand million dollars or four times the 1931-32 war debt installment from Europe, which has not been, and never may be, paid. A relatively small, but genuine, improvement in the world situation would make a gain like that stick. Anything which would cause even a gentle zephyr of world confidence to start blowing and remain constant would do the job. Europe says—" Why doesn’t the United States do something about the war debts? Then times would be better.” War Debts Not Main Factor The war debts are a factor, and a big factor, but not the predominant one. Revision, or even cancellation, by itself, would not be sufficient to bring back good times. Debts alone did not cause the world crisis, and they alone can not cure it. If the stupendous dislocations of capital, labor, populations, and trade due to the World war started the depression, the war’s vicious aftermaths are keeping it going. Some of these are: 1. The world race for armaments and the fear of another war. 2. Reparations and war debts. 3. The Balkanization of Europe. 4. Faulty distribution of gold, collapse of silver, freezing of credit, monetary chaos, and the breakdown of international exchange. 5. The world-wide tariff war and trade strangulation. 6. The isolation of Russia. These troubles dovetail. Cure one and leave the others, and the world eventually would go to smash just the same. Parleys Must Give Results Next fall, in Europe, there is to be a world economic conference. Next fall, also, Europe will demand revision or cancellation of war debts. Next winter, at Geneva, they are going to make another stab at reduction and limitation of armaments. Unless these three moves deliberately are given some sort of correlation —unless these conferences are held, in rapport, one with the others—there is little hope of any lasting benefits from any of them. Until these problems are system-' ically, broadly, and intelligently worked out at a conference, or at a series of inter-related parleys and diplomatic discussions, the same old wall of fear, suspicion, national, and international unrest will continue to block the road to better times. To all this, many believe, the United States holds the key. Europe insists on debt cancellation. The debts, therefore, could be used as a sort of lever to set in motion a program to settle the major problems now holding back the w r orld. THE END

Texas Skies Blue Again; Cotton Price Is Climbing

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Patrick J. Roche Funeral services will be held Monday morning for Patrick J. Roche, 48, of 5665 Broadway, detective sergeant, who died Friday after a long illness. Services will be held at the home at 8:30 and at 9:30 at St. Joan of Arc church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery.

FARMERS FACING PAYOFFjO 1), S, More Than Half Million Must Pay Loans. By Scripps-Howard Newsp. per Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—More than half a million farmers in all parts of the country are preparing now to discharge their direct debts to the federal government. From the government, 507,635 of them have borrowed $64,202,204.50, through the ‘department of agriculture and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. All loans are due Nov. 30. Meanwhile, the government still is collecting on its 1931 feed, seed and fertilizer loans, the repayment to date totaling approximately 60 per cent of the total outlay last year. The agriculture department also is making up its mind about what to do with the 250,000 odd bales of cotton it accepted as collateral for last year’s loans at 8 cents a pound. Agriculture department officials evidently expect all borrowers to be prepared to meet their debts on Nov. 30, and no plans for extensions are under consideration. New loans to farmers will be handled through the agricultural credit corporations, recently designated by the R. F. C., and about to start operation.

FARM BOARD HEAD IS REAL CIGARET EXPERT He Doesn’t Care If They’re ‘Milder’ or ‘Fresher,’ If They Burn. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Most high officials here are particular about what they smoke. Andrew W. Mellon taught Secretary of State Stimson to smoke tiny cigars. But the man who knows more than anybody else here about tobacco is James C. Stone, head of the farm board. He was a Kentucky tobacco commission merchant for years and was founder, president and general manager of the Burley Tobacco Growers’ Co-Operative Association, with 100,000 members and handling $50,000,000 a year. He’ll smoke any kind of a cigaret you happen to have. He buys 15cent brands and doesn’t care much whether they are fresher, milder, kindlier or pronounced best by science. If they burn, that’s all he asks.

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Crop Now Bringing 9 Cents a Pound; Means Money in Farm Pockets. BY LEO R. SACK Times SUIT Writer SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 3—Texas skies are blue again, and the folks are singing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” just as if they believed it. Many of them do belieeve it. Nine-cent-a-pound cotton is the chief reason. This is far above the 5-cent cotton of September, 1931, and the 5cent cotton of a few months ago. It means money in the farmers' pockets, reduction of his debts at the bank and at the country store, new shoes for the children, new clothes for mother and, in many instances, anew automobile. Cotton is the money crop oi Texas. Joy and sorrow follow its price movements. Right now it is moving upward, and many Texans think it is going higher. Unlike the eastern industrial centers, wliere continuously increasing unemployment figures belie the high hopes stimulated by rising stock market prices, the increase in cotton is not something to anticipate—it is a reality. The 1932 Texas cotton crop is just 3,826,000 bales, according to the last estimate of the department of agriculture, out of a nation-wide estimated total of 11.306,000. The Texas decrease is 1,344.000 bales from the 1931 crop of 5,270.000 bales, while the nation-wide estimate is 5,612,000 bales less than the 1931 crop of 16.918,000 bales. Insect damage, reduced acreage, lack of money to buy fertilizer, which resulted in lowered yield per acre, and weather conditiQns are contributory causes to the reduced production. Texans believe the Sept. 8 estimate of agriculture will show a still greater decrease. This, they think, will send cotton permanently above the 10-cent mark.

REDS* OFF SCHEDULE Soviet Industrial Plan Is Falling Behind. By United rress MOSCOW, Sept. 3.—The Soviet industrial program is suffering a serious setback. Official figures on industrial production for the last six months disclosed a growth of 19 1 2 per cent, as compared to the same period last year, but the progress was far below the schedule on which the government plans to complete the great five-year plan in four and one-quarter years. The Kremlin had ordered an increase in production of 36 per cent, but the failure to come up to this schedule so far made it virtually certain that the original estimate can not be attained. 200 at Rifle Tourney By United Press FRANKFORT, Ind., Sept. 3. More than 200 entrants were here today for the annual rifle and pistol matches of the Indiana national guard. Firing will continue through Sunday and Monday, under direction of Colonel Basil Middleton.

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LEADER LASHES RULE OF LEGION BY OLIGARCHY National .Committeman Is Bitter in Denunciation of Methods. Charges of improper expenditure of funds and characterization of na--1 tional leaders of the American legion as members of an “oligarchy” were made today in a published report of Raymond J. Kelly of Detroit, national executive committeeman. The report, containing the charges, was approved two weeks i ago on the floor of the Michigan state legion convention and its publication ordered. Kelly, candidate for commander of the legion, announced he will carry the fight to the floor of the [ national convention opening in | Portland, Ore., Sept. 12. I "I have been on the national executive committee only one year, but during that time I have learned some things that would be amazing to the ordinary legionnaire,” Kelly said. Called “Wrecking Crew” ‘T Lave learned that, we have built, at national headquarters, an oligarchy which is all-powerful; which is eminently selfish, which is overbearing and arrogant, and j which has dedicated the legion to j the principle of the divine right of I kings and to the imperialistic maxim—'the king can do no wrong.’ ” Kelly charged leaders of the legion, instead of being a ''construction gang,” have turned into a “wrecking crew.” He attacked the manner in which the organization's national employment commission recently conducted the campaign for jobs for a million men. He said manufacturers were asked to contribute to a $300,000 campaign fund. He charged many paid employes for the fund were not members of the legion. Political Move Assailed “I charge here and now that there are men on the pay roll or connected with the employment campaign who are traveling about the country trying to influence the election of the next national commander.” he said. Attacking the financial system, Kelly said it was impossible to obtain accurate information from national headquarters on finances. “Neither you nor I can understand the ordinary audit or financial standpoint that is produced,” he said. Kelly also alleged national leaders assumed the attitude of ’•Who are yop to make such request?" when he sought information. Taking a stand for immediate payment of adjusted compensation, Kelly asserted department heads of Legion were instructed to vote against the proposal. Kelly also scored directors of the American Legion Monthly because they "voted to the general manager an annual salary of $12,000 and gave him a contract for five years. He referred to James F. Barton, now national adjutant, whose salary in that office was slashed $2,000 a few years ago. Barton was named general manager of the Legion Monthly recently.